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Squamish sits in the midst of some amazing places to hike. Garibaldi Provincial Park sprawls from Squamish up and beyond Whistler. Tantalus Provincial Park lays across the valley to the west and the beautiful and desolate, by comparison, Callaghan Valley to the north. Add to that the smaller and locally cherished Provincial Parks, Alice Lake, Stawamus Chief, Shannon Falls and Murrin, make Squamish a world class hiking destination.
Alice Lake is a great place for camping swimming, fishing and hiking. Alice Lake Provincial Park is comprised of four lakes. Stump, Fawn and Edith Lake as well as the much larger Alice Lake. There is a nice trail that runs amongst them all. There is a large beach area, a pier and dock along with an astonishing 107 vehicle accessible campsites and 55 of those have electrical hookups. The campsites are open March 15 to October 31. This place is a hive of activity in the summer due to its beautiful setting and convenient location. Alice Lake Provincial Park is located just 10 minutes north of Squamish on the Sea to Sky Highway. Driving from Squamish you will see a huge "Alice Lake Provincial Park" sign on the right side of the highway and the park is almost immediately after the turnoff. Fires are allowed near the beach in the fire rings scattered throughout the park. You can bring your own firewood or buy it at the park. Pets must be on a leash in the park at all times. Bears and cougars frequent the area. Though bears are relatively skittish, cougars are potentially very dangerous, especially with regards to small children or other pets. Though encounters are infrequent, they are possible and you will see signs regarding both cougars and bears at Alice Lake.
Why should you go to Alice Lake Provincial Park?
Alice Lake is an idyllic lake surrounded by lush, green forests and endless snowy mountains beyond. The swimming and fishing are great and the relaxing hiking trails in the park are nice. Picnic tables and BBQ pits dot the park's grassy field adjacent to the lake. It is a wonderful place to easily enjoy the wilderness and lakes around Squamish.
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Black Tusk is a mountain of unbelievable beauty. It possesses the incredible distinction of looking more impossible to climb the closer you get to it. Even when you are close enough to touch its vertical, black and foreboding sides, you wonder in amazement how anyone can ever reach the top. It's vertical on all sides. The barely distinguishable trail skirts its edge along the ledge of a perilous scree slope that runs around its trunk. As you clamour carefully along the trail you come to a chute heading almost straight up. Again, even this close you will wonder, as almost everyone else at this spot, "I don't think this is a safe way to go." Then you pause and look around. Many take a seat at this moment and marvel at the view. Spectacular. Just spectacular. Above the clouds, looking over the impossibly blue Garibaldi Lake, nestled in endless snowy mountains. There is even snow just below you, in the valleys of scree that crumbled from Black Tusk. The scree is black, very black. Contrasted with the snow, clouds, lake and sky, the view is breathtaking. Most people don't continue up the final chute to the top, it's that scary. This is justifiable. It is unquestionably unsafe. Chunky rock holds pull free as you grip them. Above you jet black, jagged rocks tumble and ricochet down on and around you. And the view is so spectacular around you that it's easy to justify turning around. But the final ascent is not really that hard. Keep your head down, three points of contact at all times, slow and steady and you reach the top of the world.
Why should you hike to Black Tusk in Garibaldi Park?
The 360 degree views from the summit of Black Tusk are amazing. You will find several bivouac areas built up from rocks to shield from the wind, making the top of Black Tusk an incredible and certainly feasible place to spend the night. The two main directions to access Black Tusk are from the Rubble Creek trailhead and the Cheakamus Lake trailhead. Both are of comparable distance, yet have very different, though equally great attributes. Rubble Creek takes you past Garibaldi Lake and/or through Taylor Meadows, depending on your route there and back. The Cheakamus Lake trailhead to access Black Tusk starts you hiking 1.5 kilometres through a massive forest of giant trees leading to the Helm Creek campground, where the amazing views open up. For the next few kilometres to Black Tusk you get ever-changing views of this amazing pinnacle of rock.
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Brandywine Falls Provincial Park is a beautiful stop in between Squamish and Whistler. It's about 25 minutes north of Squamish, 11k south of Whistler. The hike from the parking lot to the falls is less than a kilometre and on a wide and flat trail. Most people miss the other viewpoint from above the falls, from the train tracks bridge. To find it is easy. As you walk toward the falls from the parking lot you will have to cross train tracks. Standing at the train tracks look to your right and you will see a bridge that the train tracks cross. Walk over to that to see the falls from above. Amazing! Brandywine Falls drop an amazing 66 metres (216 feet) into the chasm far below that the viewing platform extends over. Another trail extends past this viewing area leading to another, quieter area overlooking Daisy Lake. This area is just a short, minute or two walk from the first viewing area. During the winter months the parking lot gate is locked and buried in snow. The snowplows make room for cars at the edge of the highway making Brandywine Falls open year round. With the deep snow however, you may need snowshoes. Brandywine Falls is popular with cross country skiers and snowshoers in the winter. The Sea to Sky Trail runs through Brandywine Falls Provincial Park and you will immediately see Sea to Sky Trail signs from the parking lot. From the parking lot you cross the covered bridge, turn right and after just a couple hundred metres you will see a Sea to Sky Trail branch off to the left. This trail meanders through the forest and rises up to a plateau with views of Black Tusk and the distant Daisy Lake. Further along, (3 kilometres from the trailhead), you will come to the amazing Bungee Bridge that crosses the Cheakamus River from a dizzying height.
Why should you go to Brandywine Falls Provincial Park?
Brandywine Falls is amazingly beautiful and very easy and quick to hike to. Just a 20 minute pit stop on the drive between Squamish and Whistler allows you to see this amazing falls. Brandywine Falls and Shannon Falls, just south of are both convenient, quick and beautiful stops on the drive from Vancouver to Whistler.
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Brew Lake is beautiful mountain lake in the Callaghan Valley, north of Squamish. Compared to Garibaldi Provincial Park across the valley, the Callaghan Valley is relatively unknown and seldom hiked. Brew Lake lays in a massive alpine valley of enormous erratics scattered around and in the lake. On first seeing it, it looks serene, yet wild and hostile. The lake is surrounded on one side by idyllic tree covered hills and lakeside cliffs and on the other side a brutal looking wasteland of huge boulders sloping up from the lake to the skyline. Hiking into this wasteland of erratics reveals an amazing paradise of small, island forests, cute streams and endless worlds within worlds to explore. You find yourself wandering along like a kid mesmerized at what you will find next. Brew Lake itself doesn't come close in wow factor to the postcard-perfect alpine lakes such as Wedgemount Lake, Joffre Lakes, Cheakamus Lake or Garibaldi Lake, but I does beat these lakes in other aspects. Because Brew Lake is outside of Garibaldi Provincial Park, few people have heard of it. More often than not you will have both the lake and entire valley to yourself. An increasingly rare occurrence elsewhere that gives the place a quiet calm and that strange and satisfying feeling that there are no other humans for quite some distance. You have that exhilarating wilderness feeling that sometimes gets lost on other Whistler area hikes when you start the trail from a parking lot packed with cars. The fact that the Brew Lake trail doesn't have a parking lot or proper trailhead actually makes it more mysterious, adventurous and in some ways more fun...
Why should you hike to Brew Lake?
The Brew Lake trail is a very tough hike with considerable elevation gain of 745 metres in just 5k!. The trail is well off the radar of most hikers, and takes you well out of civilization just minutes after exiting your car. The trail is difficult yet constantly changing. Views, dramatic boulder fields, more views, bizarre forests, more views and a wonderfully remote lake. Though Brew Lake pales in comparison to the previous hikes shown here, it has a wonderful rugged and remote charm about it. Sometimes a place so clearly brutalized by nature gives it some hard to identify beauty. You know it when you see it though, and you see it and feel it at Brew Lake.
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There is something magical about starting a hike in a canoe. A childlike sense of adventure and novelty. The hike to Cirque Lake begins with this sense of excitement. Sheltered by mountains Callaghan Lake is eerily calm and mesmerizingly clear. You slip away from the shore in tranquil silence as if floating on air. The other end of this once glacial valley is the trailhead. Hidden in the forest and so little used as to remain invisible until you stumble onto it after repeated aborted attempts to find it. The key to finding it is to aim toward the waterfall in the distance. Cascading almost straight down a couple hundred metres from its starting high up the steep mountains. A perfectly arranged glacier is required to form a cirque lake. A magical combination of size, a certain slope and more unexpectedly, a certain angle away from the sun. In the northern hemisphere, this means the glacier must be on the northeast slope of the mountain, away from the suns rays and the prevailing winds. Thick snow protected in this way grows thicker into glacial ice, then a process of freeze-thaw called nivation, chews at the lower rocks, hollowing out a deep basin. Over a thousand winters you are left with a magnificently circular lake with steep slopes all around. If you arrive at Cirque Lake on a favourably sunny, summer day, you will almost certainly fall silent, gaze in wonder at this spectacular place, and feel in that moment that this place is as perfect as it is possible for a place to be.
Why should you hike to Cirque Lake in Callaghan Lake Park?
Spectacularly beautiful and incredibly remote feeling, this hidden lake is a challenge to get to and a paradise to arrive to. Wonderfully beautiful, untouched wilderness hiking. Endless hiking opportunities beyond Cirque Lake. Trailhead must be reached by canoe, amazing! Challenging trail to Cirque Lake due to its steepness, however the trail is short and should pose no difficultly for a moderately experienced weekend hiker.
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Elfin Lakes is a wonderfully accessible mountain paradise at the southern end of the mighty Garibaldi Park. An amazing destination on its own, Elfin Lakes is also part of a gateway to so much more. The Gargoyles, Little Diamond Head, Opal Cone... There is a wonderful, extremely well equipped hut and campsites as well as a ranger station at the lakes. Staying at the amazing hut costs $15, cash only. You can pay with cash using an envelope drop-box at the trailhead or you can . Which sounds expensive until you see it. It looks more like a ski lodge than a mountain hut. Complete with solar powered lights, heat, propane stoves and room for 33 to sleep. You will find envelopes to pay at the trailhead. Camping away from the hut costs $10. Once again that seem expensive, but the area is very beautiful and popular so park rangers are nearly always around to keep things nice and functional. The Elfin Lakes trail starts out ascending through deep forest, reaching the Red Heather Hut after 5k. This is a small warming hut equipped with a wood stove complete with a stack of wood free to use. Though sleeping here is for emergencies only, the Red Heather Hut is warm and welcoming. The final 6k from this hut to Elfin Lakes takes you along a beautiful ridge with amazing views of snowy mountains all around. The sheer distance of this snowshoeing trail ranks it as difficult. Also, there is a considerable amount of elevation gain and loss along the way and you move through several gradual peaks and valleys...
Why should you hike to Elfin Lakes in Garibaldi Park?
Elfin Lakes is a stunning mountain paradise. Deep forest, lush green meadows, hills, valleys, and mountains all around. The trail is a fairly challenging, and consistently ascending route through this magnificent wilderness near the southern end of Garibaldi Provincial Park. This Diamond Head entrance to Garibaldi Park in Squamish is quite busy, however, even on popular weekends it is nice and serene. The 11 kilometre length to the Elfin Lakes Hut, spreads out the hikers quite a bit and the terrain around the hut offers endless hiking opportunities in a number of directions. What an amazing place, Garibaldi Provincial Park is!
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is the centre and base for much of the hiking in Garibaldi Park. The is located on the amazing, turquoise shores of this massive and mostly undisturbed mountain lake. There are no trails around the perimeter of the lake with the exception of the small section leading to the campsite, so your view of the lake is a sea of unnaturally coloured water ringed by swaths of forest and a magnificent glacier towering in the distance. The water is painfully cold, though plenty of brave hikers swim here as well as camp. The camping area is well laid out and stretches deep into the forest with 50 tent clearings. You can, except for the busiest of days, put your tent out of earshot and sight of others. The trail to Garibaldi Lake from the Rubble Creek trailhead, just off of the Sea to Sky Highway takes about two hours. You gain a fair amount of elevation, 900 metres in just 9k, trailhead to lake. Partway along the trail to Garibaldi Lake the trail forks. Right to Garibaldi Lake and left goes to another beautiful campground, Taylor Meadows. Beyond Taylor Meadows and Garibaldi Lake is the amazing Black Tusk. Black Tusk, Taylor Meadows and Garibaldi Lake can be done in one long 30k dayhike, trailhead to trailhead, but expect to take 8-10 hours. The Garibaldi Lake trailhead is located just 25 minutes north of Squamish. Keep your eye out for the hard to miss highway sign.
Why should you hike to Garibaldi Lake in Garibaldi Park?
is amazingly beautiful with its huge size and unbelievable colour. The trails are beautiful and well signed and laid out in the well organized Garibaldi Provincial Park. The trails are relatively easy and there is quite a lot to see. Black Tusk, Taylor Meadows and Panorama Ridge are all within hiking distance and some of the most amazing hikes around. The only slight downside to Garibaldi Lake is the somewhat uneventful trail to the lake. With the exception of the last 3k before the lake, the trail is deep forest and switchbacks.
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Yahoo reproduced 16 photos that were submitted by readers to a National Geographic contest. Collectively, they are very cool; I recommend checking them out. This one is of dolphins. The person who took it wrote:
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By controlling the relative humidity (RH), the English company TROY – manufacturer of contact lenses – has created an ideal and stable conditions for an optimal level of production, thanks to Munters dehumidification systems.
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SCIENCE ON THE MARCH (Jan, 1952)
Compton gives a nice history of the rise of American science and engineering prowess as well as making some pretty good predictions here.
Some answers to this question seem clear, and others seem very uncertain. It is safe to predict that the 2002 person will be clothed with synthetic textiles which will not fade, shrink or wrinkle and in which the desired creases will stay put. Atomic energy will be in use for special, but not for general, power purposes. Gasoline will be coming more from oil shale than from oil wells, and may be already produced commercially from coal. Cancer may then be as well under control as tuberculosis is now. Television may have proved to be an instrument to perpetuate dictatorship, or to make the democratic process more effective, depending on the trends of control and public concern.
Cancer is certainly not under control, though we do have much better treatments and shale oil is only now starting to take off but he nailed clothes, atomic power and TV.
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By Dr. Karl T. Compton
Chairman of the Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology THE AMERICAN TRADITION of mechanical skill and inventiveness, often called "Yankee Ingenuity," goes far back of the turn of this century. It grew out of the challenge of pioneer life to a people of high native intelligence engaged in forging a new way of life in an environment of rich but undeveloped resources. But our development of scientific knowledge and its useful applications is, despite a few notable predecessors like Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Henry and Thomas Edison, essentially an achievement of the last 50 years.
During the last five years of the preceding century, three epoch-making scientific discoveries had been made in Europe: X rays, radioactivity and electrons. As we shall see, these underlie much of the enormous scientific progress since that time. But first look at some of the general indices of scientific progress.
Fifty years ago the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with which are affiliated practically all the professional scientific groups, had a total membership of about 1900; today this membership has grown to 46,000. The first edition of American Men of Science, in 1906, contained the biographies of 4000 scientists; the latest edition, in 1949, contained 50,000.
In 1901 in an old barn in Schenectady, the General Electric Company established the first modern industrial-research laboratory. Its staff consisted of Dr. Willis R. Whitney and one assistant. Today there are some 2800 industrial-research laboratories, with aggregate staffs of at least 70,000.
I have been unable to locate any estimate of the national expenditure for research in the United States at the beginning of the century. The amount was probably too small to induce any agency to go to the trouble of assembling\the figures. In 1920 it was about $60,000,000. In 1930 it was $166,000,000; in 1940, $355,000,000; at present, certainly over $2,000,000,000.
What are some of the influences which have contributed to this remarkable increase in America's, scientific activity? Basically, it is part and parcel of the similar worldwide trend. Every investigator who starts out to study one problem finds a half dozen new ones. Every scientist who publishes the results of his research stimulates critical and constructive thinking about his subject by thousands of fellow scientists all over the world, and many of them make his work as their starting point for new discoveries. Every development of a new scientific instrument or method opens the way for its application in new areas by the entire scientific fraternity. Thus scientific activity proceeds in compounded geometric progression. But there have been several stimulating influences which have been particularly effective in the progress of science in America during the past 50 years.
The first of these influences was the departure from almost total dependence on the old European universities for post-graduate training in research. When I did my postgraduate work in Princeton University in 1910-1913, I was one of the first substantial group of ambitious young scientists who sought their higher education in America, instead of going for it to Germany, England or France. To be sure, most of our professors had themselves been trained in, or imported from, Europe. But from about that date it became increasingly possible to secure in this country a quality of postgraduate education and indoctrination into the spirit and methods of research which was on a par with what had previously been available only to those few who had been able to seek them in Europe. A second influence was the stimulus provided by the exigencies of war. We were then faced with the necessity of mobilizing every resource to meet and overpower a highly skillful and technically competent adversary. Scientists and engineers were mobilized in teams and their abilities were extended to the limit to develop methods for handling chemical warfare, control of Artillery fire, the submarine menace, air combat, communications, new explosives and new materials for war production.
To do these things, every resource of science and technology was drawn upon and further developed. The results were so strikingly important that, for the first time in our history, the public became convinced that science was a resource worth exploiting for the national welfare as well as for the intellectual joy of discovery. The result was a significant increase in the prestige of science, and its financial support by government, industry and educational institutions. By and large, it can be stated that the great development of American chemical industry dates from the World War I period.
This type of stimulation of systematic group attack on technological problems was even more pronounced during World War II, with complete mobilization of the nation's scientific resources under the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the military departments. Guided missiles, radar, bombsights and fire-control instruments, penicillin and hundreds of other developments culminating in the atomic bomb, are too freshly in mind to need comment. But the result of these successes is reflected in the great postwar movement to amplify still further the development of science and its applications for defense, industrial, agricultural and medical research. Recent evidences of this trend are the formation of the National Science Foundation and the doubling of the military appropriations for research and development. Other evidence is found in the strong support which many industrial corporations are now giving to scientific research and the training of research workers in our educational institutions.
One further important influence is the support given by the great foundations to the development of science through the education of outstanding young scientists. No small part of America's progress in aviation is due to the opportunities created by the Guggenheim laboratories for aeronautical engineering at a selected group of universities and engineering schools. The Guggenheim fellowships and research grants from the Carnegie Corporation and others have been very helpful. Most significant of all was the establishment in the early 1920s by the Rockefeller Foundation of a great program of postgraduate fellowships, on a nationwide scale, in the physical, biological and medical sciences. This kind of program was undertaken for the purpose of building up the strength of the country in pure science, since World War I had interrupted the normal educational program and had diverted many scientists from their fundamental scientific fields into the work of practical applications. One proof of the effectiveness of this fellowship program is the very large proportion of the present heads of research organizations and university science departments, as well as the predominant leadership in World War II scientific work, supplied by former holders of these National Research Fellowships financed by Rockefeller.
With this background of the general progress of scientific activity during the past half century, especially in the United States, and of some of the contributing factors, we pass to the more specific consideration of major achievements. Whole libraries could be written, and have been written, on this subject. The story is told of a distinguished physicist of Oxford University whose large study is lined on all four walls with scientific books from floor to ceiling. A lady visitor, on being shown his study exclaimed, "Professor, how do you ever find time to read all these books?" He replied, "Madam, I don't read them. I write them." How can I hope to do justice to this subject in my few remaining remarks?
In August 1912, Popular Mechanics polled nearly a thousand scientists from all over the world to select The Seven Wonders of the Modern World. In the order of votes cast, these were selected as wireless telegraphy, telephone, airplane, radium, antiseptics and antitoxins, spectrum analysis and X ray. In 40 years' retrospect, we can applaud the insight which then led to these selections, for much of scientific progress since those days has been by amplification of these scientific wonders.
Take, for example, the wireless telegraph and the telephone. Whereas in 1912 we could send dot-dash messages by wireless. we can now send voice conversation and pictures. In other words, we now have radio and television. By further development of wireless we now have radar, by which we can locate otherwise-unseen objects, do blind navigation, measure the distance to the ionosphere or the moon and do many other things. Similarly, the telephone of today is a far more powerful and flexible instrument than was the telephone of 1912. These developments have come principally from the tremendous advances in the art mathematical computers and countless other devices. Today I should group all such things together in a modern wonder of the world—electronics.
Similar is the story of radium. For 50 years after the discovery of radioactivity, its interest was purely scientific, except for a few practical uses like cancer therapy and luminous watch dials. It was the phenomenon whose study threw the most light on the inner constitution of atoms, just as spectrum analysis and X rays gave us our knowledge of their outer structure. But studies of radioactive substances led scientists to try various methods of prodding into the innermost secrets of the nuclei of atoms, and for this purpose were devised the various types of atom-smashing machines— high-voltage generators, cyclotrons, linear accelerators, betatrons and synchrotrons. With these it was found possible at will to realize the old dream of the alchemists: To transform atoms into different types of atoms. This has been the most fundamental scientific discovery of our generation.
But, out of this work with radioactivity, and guided by Einstein's deduction from his famous theory of relativity that mass and energy were equivalent and interchangeable (if only means to effect the interchange could be found), came the atom bomb and the prospect of atomic power. Once the clue to the release of atomic energy through nuclear fission was given by the observations of Hahn and Strassman in 1939, the developments came with dazzling speed. Knowledge of this German discovery was brought to the United States promptly by the Danish scientist, Niels Bohr. Within a month after the original discovery, it had been verified and extended in several laboratories in this country and in at least three European countries. Within a year, more than a hundred scientific papers had been published on the subject, and there had been conferences on nuclear fission in Washington and, we are told, in Moscow. A few months later some possible military applications had been envisaged, secrecy was clamped down, thousands of Allied scientists were mobilized on the project, and on August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped to devastate Hiroshima and bring the war to a speedy end in the Pacific.
Now our Atomic Energy Commission supervises the greatest scientific and engineering project of all time, and the governments of all nations of any significance have similar agencies, in some proportion to their means. Undoubtedly, we have as yet only a glimmering of the potentialities of this new science of nucleonics. Certainly, as of this date, atomic energy must be accorded a high place among the modern wonders of the world.
Space permits only mention of several other significant wonders. I have chosen to enlarge on those above, in order to illustrate the way in which such things come about. Equally interesting stories could be told about modern scientific wonders in other fields. I think of plastics and synthetic textile fibers; of antibiotics like penicillin, streptomycin, aureomycin and the others of this fast-growing group; of the sulfa drugs and others which fool a germ or virus into feeding on them to its destruction; of the discoveries in genetics which have led to the breeding of agricultural products of greater yield, food value and resistance to disease; of the role of enzymes in life processes; of the regulation of the endocrine glands by chemical agents (hormones) like insulin and cortisone; of our knowledge of the internal constitution of the stars and of the atomic fuel which keeps them hot; of the identification of new fundamental constituents of matter such as neutrons, positrons, mesons and photons; of the widening use of radioactive isotopes to study and control a great variety of scientific and industrial and medical phenomena; of catalysts and chemical-engineering techniques which permit mass production of essential chemicals.
If one were to evaluate new developments in terms of their impact on our ways of living rather than on the elegance and fundamental character of scientific discovery, then other wonders should be added to the list. The modern automobile—about which the Encyclopedia Britannica says: "Until 1909-1912 the automotive industry was in general chiefly concerned with developing a product that at least would operate"—has revolutionized our pattern of living and doing business outside of the home. Within the home, probably any housewife would say that the modern ways of preserving, packaging and distributing food have similarly revolutionized the feeding of the family.
All of these things, and more, are products of scientific research within the span of the 50 years during which Popular Mechanics has played its useful role of spreading information and creating interest and ambition in those things which are so significant in this rapidly expanding technological age. Many of these things are only the early stages of still more significant developments in the future.
What will these future developments be? If we could reverse our sights from 50 years of past achievement to the next 50 years of scientific progress, what would we see in the year 2002?
Some answers to this question seem clear, and others seem very uncertain. It is safe to predict that the 2002 person will be clothed with synthetic textiles which will not fade, shrink or wrinkle and in which the desired creases will stay put. Atomic energy will be in use for special, but not for general, power purposes. Gasoline will be coming more from oil shale than from oil wells, and may be already produced commercially from coal. Cancer may then be as well under control as tuberculosis is now. Television may have proved to be an instrument to perpetuate dictatorship, or to make the democratic process more effective, depending on the trends of control and public concern. But let me close with mention of one great threat which hovers over the uncertain future.
Certain to be critical, sooner or later, is the problem of overpopulation in a world of limited and diminishing natural resources. The conquest of disease, the elimination of famine, the hoped-for abolition of war all result in increasing the population and the demands for production of food and goods. Can technological progress in production and in discovery of substitutes for exhaustible natural resources keep ahead of these increasing demands? On the answer to this question, or, alternatively, to some intelligently applied social control of population growth, depends the fate of civilization on this planet.
Thus far technology has done pretty well in the race. Improved agricultural production and distribution now support a vastly larger world population than could have been fed by the techniques of a century ago. But without rapidly continued progress both in food production and in the arts of living together in crowded communities, population increase may have forced on our citizen of 2002 the beginnings of some terrific social upheavals.
Let me describe just one of several directions in which science may help us to keep ahead of overpopulation disaster. I refer to cultivation of the sea for food; not by stocking it with little fish, but by far more fundamental chemical and biological methods. Why should ways not be found to "farm the sea" with the same scientific skill with which we farm the land?
The bases of all sea life are the algae, vegetable organisms which provide the food for the small fish. The fish population is limited by the amount of this algae food, which in turn appears to be limited by the amount of nitrate salts in sea water illuminated by the sun. Hence one project for increasing the supply of fish is by fertilizing the sea with nitrates. This may produce useful results in restricted sea areas, but the sea is very big, and perhaps this proposal is too gigantic to be practical.
Another approach, which can probably be made practical, is to grow algae in transparent pipes or channels through which sea water is slowly pumped. These channels may cover any area exposed to the sun, and nitrates or other enriching chemicals may be added to the circulating sea water. The algae would be of strains specially selected to produce fats or proteins which can be extracted and processed.
What the economics of this type of farming may prove to be remains to be discovered as the method is developed and tested. All that can be said now is that sooner or later something radically new must be developed in the food-production line to keep ahead of population growth, and this scheme seems worth working on. In any case it illustrates the sort of new and unexpected technological development which may be stimulated by the problems of living 50 or more years hence.
Whether we look backward or forward, or examine the present situation we see that it is the continual concern with things yet to come which is the inspiration and motive power of the scientist.


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Wedding Face Socks - Groom Socks - Face on Socks - Novelty Socks - Custom Printed Socks - Fashion Socks - Stocking Stuffer
Wedding Face Socks - Groom Socks - Face on Socks - Novelty Socks - Custom Printed Socks - Fashion Socks - Stocking Stuffer
These socks will have the face scattered all over. Please make sure the photo that you choose has good lighting and shows the entire face & hair.
Our custom printed photo socks are the perfect gift for any occasion. You can add any face on socks.
They make the perfect gift for anyone! These socks are perfect for any holiday, special occasion or just a funny gift. PLEASE CONTACT US WITH ANY QUESTIONS> THANK YOU
Upload a clear photo and we'll cut around their face and add them to socks.
Please send us your image as an attachment in an Etsy conversation, we will contact you if there are any questions regarding the photos. You can put 1-2 faces on each pair of socks . If you have additional faces that you would like to include on the socks please send us a custom request for this.
Please make sure we can clearly see the face you want on the socks, please make sure the head or face is not cut off on the picture. In addition, tell us on your order notes if you don't wish us to use a certain face in the photo. Please make sure the photos are a close up picture and please do not upload blurry or pixelated photos. Make sure the lighting is good in the photo and the photo isn't a dark photo.Natural lighting coming onto the face is always best. The better the quality of your photo the better your socks will turn out.
It takes us 3-5 days to make the socks. Please send us a message if you need the socks sooner, we can try to accommodate rush orders, depending on the time of the year. During holidays the turn around time to make the socks can be 10-15 days.
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Virtualization Security Is Not an Oxymoron
An overwhelming majority of organizations have adopted virtualized servers and those numbers are on the rise. While the business benefits of virtualization are clear - increased performance and stability and decreased hardware costs, floor space, and management oversight - the virtualized world makes your organization vulnerable to a wide array of new cybersecurity threats. Are you willing to bet your organization's IT infrastructure on your ability to combat these hazards?
The IT security and virtualization experts at Kasperky Lab have created this resource to help you learn:
- How to enjoy the advantages of virtualization while avoiding the security risks;
- When you should introduce cybersecurity into your virtualization installation process (Hint: the earlier the better);
- The benefits of an agentless security solution and how to sell it internally.


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Instructor: Shirley Paden
Class Length: 11 Hours
4:30 to 7:40 pm on Friday, October 10 and 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday, October 11
Overall Skill Category: Intermediate
Class Description: In this class students learn to custom-make their own sweater patterns. They will work through organizing the components involved in constructing four different types of garments and two different types of necklines.
Pre Class Assignment:
Download and read complete class description.
Select a sweater silhouette and plan a design, then sketch the planned garment. Next, select the stitch pattern and the yarn. When that is done, knit one or two swatches.
Note: Swatches should be approximately 8"x 8" in order to achieve a more accurate garment knitting gauge.
Print Handout for calculating yardage
Bring to Class: Tape measure, 2 pencils with erasers, writing paper, calculator, sketch of sweater, swatch, swatch calculations, and yarn ball bands.


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Louet Worsted Wt. Cream Wool--great for dyeing 1700 yds
Adriafil Leaf nylon papertape yarn; white 20+ balls
Worsted Wt. burgundy 100% alpaca yarn; 1100 yds
Starting at horribly ridiculous prices I might add.
Louet Worsted Wt. Cream Wool--great for dyeing 1700 yds
Adriafil Leaf nylon papertape yarn; white 20+ balls
Worsted Wt. burgundy 100% alpaca yarn; 1100 yds
Starting at horribly ridiculous prices I might add.
Posted by teresa at 6/29/2004 09:38:00 PM 0 comments
I'm broke, so I may be destashing soon on Ebay. I'll put a notice here if I'm selling any yummy yarns. I'm still laying low for a little while blog-wise.
"Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage." --Anais Nin
Posted by teresa at 6/29/2004 04:19:00 PM 0 comments
Try Fly Guy (thanks, Susan!). Outer space is particularly interesting.
Posted by teresa at 6/25/2004 12:50:00 PM 0 comments
Sadie was just fine when I picked her up at the vet. She has about six stitches in her leg and a couple in her chin. She wasn't even groggy...just noisy and wanted to go home. The vet said she barked all afternoon wanting out of her cage so they had to put her outside in the little fenced yard. She's a demanding little critter. What Sadie wants, Sadie gets. It takes poor Pickles a day and a half to recover from being put to sleep. One of her liver enzymes is elevated though and we're going to have a repeat bloodtest for that. Yesterday's bill: $251. Cha-ching. There went my wool money.
I spent last night taking photos of my work to submit for the TACA shows in the fall. I hope they turn out okay because the autofocus on my big camera is broken...let's hope I still have 20/20 vision, eh? They're slides, so there's nothing like a giant, out-of-focus hat on the wall. Sadie barked at me from the porch the entire time I was working (she cannot be left unattended inside because she is A Destroyer). And yet, I love her--my problem baby.
I am still really upset about my brother, but I'm working through it...and it's really helping to exercise. Hubby and I have been going to the gym BEFORE work (which is almost unheard of in my anti-morning world) and I am already addicted to that morning zing it gives me. I'm actually showing up at my job on time, too, which is getting me looks of befuddlement.
Thank God it's Friday--that's all I gotta say.
Posted by teresa at 6/25/2004 07:42:00 AM 0 comments
I am ready for this week to end. Sadie is having minor surgery today to remove some terribly ugly growths on her leg and chin...she is Miss Moley...the older she gets the more skin tags, moles and growths she gets. The growth on her leg, which looked like a little midget brain (ew!) will have to be sent to the lab and analyzed. Poor baby! She will be coddled like the little princess she is when I pick her up after work.
Today we get a red chair. I took advantage of a no finance charge for a year deal and got a chair for our living room. I never used to like red things, but I've suddenly become quite fond of the color. I don't know why. Maybe I'm in touch with my anger these days...
...which brings me to the fight I had yesterday with my older, and only, brother. His blood sugar has been skyrocketing over 300 and he hasn't been doing anything about it. I read him the riot act, which made him none too happy. His wife is dangerously obese (and has major health problems as a result) so in an email I sent to his WORK address detailing the dangers of diabetes, I said "I know X doesn't take care of herself, but you don't have to go down that path..." Well, little did I know, she has access to, and READS, his work email. The subject line was "hello bro!" Would you read an email that was obviously meant as a personal message?
Anyway, she is never going to speak to me again and my brother is livid because I upset her so badly. He left an angry message on my work voice mail and when I called him back I just let it all fly, which has caused a rift that may never be repaired. He is an absolute slave to his wife, who does need more care and help than most (which is ok), but I also see that the marriage ONLY revolves around her and her needs and never anything pertaining to HIM. That upsets me and makes me angry--so I told him all that. And I probably lost a brother in the process. So, I've been really upset over all this crap. I did sent an apologetic email to them both and related to X that I do NOT care about appearances, but I am concerned about her health--and its impact on my brother. And that's true. I don't care if she weighs 3,000 pounds or even a metric TON--as long as my brother has a good life with her, then so what?
Sigh. Going back on bloggie vacation (yeah, right).
Posted by teresa at 6/24/2004 10:26:00 AM 0 comments
Rooney, a.k.a. "Secret Agent Eyebooger," says I should take a little break from blogging. Be back in a few days. Don't do anything important while I'm gone! :-P
Posted by teresa at 6/21/2004 09:35:00 AM 0 comments
I still need to do a lot to have a professional display, but I can only do a bit at a time. There's so much cost involved in doing fairs! My mom built the shelving system from scratch! My husband made the cool bag display that has curly copper pipe...click for full views.
Posted by teresa at 6/16/2004 08:14:00 PM 0 comments
Not only did I go to the gym with nervous pearlescent beads of sweat on my brow (the pearlescence comes from my high fat content)...I actually exercised. Friday I did the stationary bike for a few minutes and walked out like a proud high plains cowboy. It made me feel so good I went back on Saturday and stepped upon the dreaded eliptical trainer.
Stepping onto an impressive new piece of equipment holds such potential for embarrassment --and it was with a great deal of trepidation that I stepped onto this one. I started moving and thought "uh oh, I'm not going to make it for very long on this contraption..." But the very thought of stepping back off within five minutes was tempered with the frightful vision of the entire gym bursting into hysterical laughter so raucous that they'd all have to grab their crotches to keep from peeing in their pants.
So I stayed on the evil thing. And my butt ached. And I started um, breathing hard. I think my heart even pumped a little. And I stayed on for 20 minutes--quite respectable for slob of my stature. I worked hard for 15 minutes and tried not to pass out at a slower pace for 5 more minutes. Pathetic, I know, but I was terribly proud of myself. I had "worked out." I dejunked my trunk and maybe even some big veins down around my creaky knees.
We celebrated by going to the pool, getting sunburned and rearranging the living room. Life is good.
Posted by teresa at 6/14/2004 08:55:00 AM 0 comments
I don't wanna. I am scheduled to exercise after work. With my husband. I'm going to have to get off my ass and move around for the sake of keeping everything moveable. I used to exercise a lot. Then I dis-acquired a taste for the whole sweaty thing unless it produced a fibery thing to look at and touch. I got lazy. I started looking like a blob of cottage cheese thrown into the cheapest of plastic bags. I gained 30 pounds. I lost 30 pounds. I gained 30 pounds. I am really going to make it to the gym today because I promised. Out loud-so I couldn't get out of it-because I know I would have. I know I'll feel better afterward but I got out of The Habit. I am an all or nothing person. I either do The Habit or I don't do The Habit or I am actively quitting The Habit with Drama. Moderation is for extremists. Oh, I'm already sore. It'll be okay-peas are good for you.
Posted by teresa at 6/11/2004 04:40:00 PM 0 comments
Hey you arty-farty types out there...do any of you have any experience selling through local or regional galleries and if so, what has been your experience?
There's a new fine craft gallery opening in our area and I'm thinking about giving them a call. It's a 65-35 commission split, which according to what I've been able to find out, is a pretty sweet deal for the artist.
Anyway, share your wisdom!
Posted by teresa at 6/11/2004 10:41:00 AM 0 comments
Just crap. One of my favorites...gone too soon.
Goodbye Dear Ray Charles.
Posted by teresa at 6/10/2004 04:10:00 PM 0 comments
that eating six giant-sized California strawberries would give me gas for two days?
Anyway. Blogging is slow this week. I am slow this week. I have my performance review for work today. Oh. Boy.
I need to exercise. I need to drink more water--hell, ANY water. I AM going to the Y after work today...we recently rejoined. Flub-glurble...I didn't always hate to exercise. Maybe I can knit while I bike...maybe I won't have strawberry-induced gas by then...maybe I should shut up and quit talking about fruity farting.
Posted by teresa at 6/10/2004 09:29:00 AM 0 comments
Sometimes you just run out of titles... I'm still in "whooped" condition so my promised photos haven't made the blog, but they will--I swear on a stack of stinky Junebugs...
I got something very cool in the mail yesterday...my commemorative knit kit from the American Red Cross! I'm so excited. The yarn is so soft and it came with the original 1942 instructions to make a pair of serviceman's socks. Cool...another picture I will be posting.
I did digital video filming in a cave this morning for work. I'm not kidding. But I'm too tired to tell you about it. I had to go shower and come back to work after we got done around lunchtime. Marketing is such a do-it-all field. I guess it made for a more interesting Tuesday morning than usual.
Well, like I told my co-worker yesterday, I've got one brain cell left and it's riding around on a squeaky unicycle. I'll check in later...hopefully with some pictures. Happy Tuesday, all!
Posted by teresa at 6/08/2004 02:32:00 PM 0 comments
We had beautiful weather for the arts and crafts fair this weekend. Sales were not great, but I had lots of people, including a woman who used to have two shops and judged crafts, tell me I needed to be in a better venue--and that I am severely underpricing my work. I got lots of ego-boosting, but also a lot of "what the hell?" looks from folks who were buying deely-bobbers and airplanes made out of Co*ke cans...so I think I might have outgrown the fair a bit...my pricepoints are too high for that particular fair at this point.
But I don't regret it...I got lots of important contacts for better venues and good feedback. I made my fees back plus a little wad to help pay for the fairs in the fall which are juried very selectively. You gotta start somewhere.
I could go on, but I'm too tired to even think. I will post a couple of pics tonight.Thanks for all the wonderful support and good wishes. It really makes a difference! Happy Monday.
Posted by teresa at 6/07/2004 10:48:00 AM 0 comments
|I'll be at the Lenoir City Arts and Crafts Festival this weekend in booth GG, so come see if you are in the area!
Posted by teresa at 6/03/2004 12:03:00 PM 0 comments
And that is a very accurate picture of how I'm feeling. Floob-garble...as in mush-brained. That's ok. This weekend will go okay and hopefully people will buy some stuff. I still vascillate day-to-day on what to do about school.
I feel like I left the impression that I was deciding between being a part-time artist or a full-time artist, but that's not really the case. The decision is between a) working full-time, doing internship and taking classes (and having no time for art for nearly a year), or b) working full-time, quitting school and spending more time with my art (but giving up a possible career change).
I think I have to be around people part of the time, so I will always work for the man (at least part-time). I would go Van Gogh-mad if I were left to my own devices in a studio full-time. There's also the consideration that I am the insurance carrier in the family. Hubby works for a small company that offers no benefits.
You would think I could just wait a year to resume my artistic endeavors, but I when I think about the possibility, it's like a child is being ripped from my bosom. And I'm not being dramatic...it feels that bad. I have so many ideas and I'm just getting started.
Bah! Bah! Bah! No wonder artists go nuts and chop off their ears. Okay no more whining...and probably no more blogging until after the weekend is over. I'll check in then. Have a wonderful rest of the week and weekend everyone. Thanks again for all the supportive comments--they were very much appreciated. *smooch!*
Posted by teresa at 6/03/2004 08:03:00 AM 0 comments
I need some toothpicks to keep my eyes open. I am really tired today. My wrists ache--no they hurt. Last night I had to file my fingertips to remove super-glue from them. I have to start picking and choosing what will be finished for the show rather than trying to finish everything... Doing a fair is neat, but it's exhausting. I wish I could skip the week prior because I'm either working my fingers to the bone (like this time) or pacing the floor nervously chewing my cuticles and feeling nauseous. Whatever.
Thanks y'all for all the supportive comments. My gut continues to churn about the whole thing and will eventually give me the right answer. Hope you're all having a great Wednesday...
Can you sleep with your eyes open?
Posted by teresa at 6/02/2004 08:13:00 AM 0 comments
I know I'm always whining about various things, but really life is good...it's just that I have some heavy decisions to make...like the one I'm afraid to even type out here...
...like I'm thinking about quitting school and working more with my dolls and felt. Throw away hundreds of hours of study? Ruin my chances of being a social worker/therapist? Give up my "noble" quest to lift up someone in the same way someone else uplifted me?
Dolls and felt may sound silly to someone else, but the draw of this art-making is unmistakable. And I have hundreds of ideas that are going undeveloped because there is no time to develop them.
When I was a kid I knew I wanted to write. I decided that in the fourth grade when, in thanks for a baby shower gift, my teacher gave me a note that said she "wanted to read one of my books one day." I STILL have that note. Have I written a book? No, not yet, but I love words and I always will. I'm not a great writer, but there's a place for words in my life and I hope I will always grow as a determined wordsmith.
The other things I have always loved--art and music. From day one. No question--it came with the original hardware. Finding a little niche that I'm fairly good at is absolutely intoxicating and it keeps tugging at me like a spoiled child with a sucker stuck in her hair. "Pay attention to ME! ME! ME!"
So, be something new? Or be what you were meant to be from the beginning?
I am on the cusp, the verge, of doing something really, a) crazy, or b) right.
Ugh, where's my Magic 8 Ball?
Posted by teresa at 6/01/2004 07:43:00 AM 0 comments
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Monster Hunter catapults the unwary into a dangerous world where fantastic beasts vie for dominance and the only rule is 'hunt or be hunted'. Players can embark on solo missions or take up weapons with three other giant killers via network play in this visually exotic action RPG. Assigned expeditions, ranging from defeating specific monsters, protecting a village, or acquiring precious items, guide your characters hand as you plan their future development.
In a world populated with savage monsters the greatest heroes are those brave enough to defend their people. Monster Hunters can claim great rewards and kudos for their sacrifice - for as long as they live, of course!
Capcom's gritty game enables players to design their own hero to take up the mantle of Monster Hunter. The range of character options, when combined with the choice of weapons and armour employed, makes for an almost limitless variety of ways to progress. Even greater scope is offered thanks to the option to fashion your own equipment from the materials you collect.
The online multiplayer game opens up unique quests and enemies that will prove a challenge for the most drilled Monster Hunter team. Work together to set lethal traps for the most dangerous monsters or distract a titanic beast as a team-mate steals one of its precious eggs.
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WASHINGTON, U.S. - After facing intense criticism over his failure to take bold measures on election meddling for nearly two years now - the U.S. President Donald Trump has now dealt with the issue that continues to be at the heart of his persistent legal woes.
On Wednesday, Trump signed a sweeping executive order imposing sanctions on any foreign individual or nation that authorizes, directs or sponsors an operation to interfere in U.S. elections.
However, Trump's order immediately caused anger amongst many lawmakers, who argued that the order falls short and gives Trump a lot of wiggle room.
However, stressing on how the new order showed that Trump was prioritizing American election security - Trump's national security adviser John Bolton and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats presented the new order to reporters on Wednesday.
Bolton said, "This is intended to be a very broad effort to prevent foreign manipulation of the political process."
He added, "We felt it was important to demonstrate the president has taken command of this issue, that it's something he cares deeply about - that the integrity of our elections and our constitutional process are a high priority to him."
Trump's executive order also came weeks after Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned of "pervasive messaging campaign: by Russia to try to weaken and divide the United States" before Americans go to the polls in November.
Speaking alongside Bolton on Wednesday, Coats warned that foreign election meddling could possibly take place before November's vote.
He further warned that signs of Russian interference were visible, though not on the scale of the 2016 presidential election.
The National Intelligence head further highlighted potential meddling from China, Iran and North Korea.
However, some senators argued that Trump's executive order - which comes less than two months before the 2018 midterm elections - could blunt momentum for a legislation being sought by the Congress over punishing Russia.
The legislation in Congress is seeking to impose harsher and more direct penalties on Russia for any future election meddling.
Both Coats and Bolton argued that Trump's executive order was not aimed at short-circuiting congressional action.
Coats said in response to the criticism that the order will help ensure the administration is "doing every possible thing we can" to prevent and assess election meddling.
He added, "And if we see something has happened, then there's going to be an automatic response to that."
Meanwhile, some lawmakers said that despite being a good first step by the President, the move falls short of what's needed and could give Trump too much wiggle room.
In a statement, Sen Mark Warner, D-Va., the top Democrat on the Senate investigation into Russia, said, "The executive order inevitably leaves the President broad discretion to decide whether to impose tough sanctions against those who attack our democracy is insufficient."
He dded, "If we are going to actually deter Russia and others from interfering in our elections in the future, we need to spell out strong, clear consequences, without ambiguity."
Meanwhile, Trump's critics pointed out that his decision contradicted an opinion he has long held over election meddling and comes even though the U.S President has kept up his attacks deriding the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
Assess and punish
Bolton pointed out that the sanctions would be imposed for direct actions including hacking into election systems, and also for distribution of propaganda and disinformation.
Further, Coats explained that the executive order puts a process for the U.S. intelligence community and other law enforcement officials in place - to carry out an investigation and evaluate possible election meddling.
According to the order, the Director of National Intelligence will conduct regular assessments of possible election interference.
Further, after each election, the intelligence community will have 45 days to investigate whether there was an attempt at interference.
This will be followed by a Justice Department review.
Coats said explaining the process that "if there is a consensus that a foreign country or other entity tried to meddle in the election, automatic sanctions would be triggered."


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text: In message <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes: >I've been working on the Hifn crypto driver recently and have noticed >something startling: in a kernel with pseudo-device crypto and options >FAST_IPSEC, after the system has been running for a short while, all >crypto requests fail. How many device contexts are you allocating? If (dim) memory serves, the driver knows only about the lowest-common-denominator. I beleive the Soekris cards have external SRAM which could, in principle, be used for additional contexts; but the driver doesn't support that. I know that at one point I exhausted the hardware-supported contexts, when talking to hundedrs of IPsec peers. That was using my own private mutant kernel (before I committed my port of Fast-IPSec), so I guess it's possilbe that fallback to software crypto never worked, or (less likely) got broken when other people reworked the OCF APIs. >This causes ssh to not work (since openssl uses /dev/crypto if present) >and it causes IPsec to not work, since encryption of every packet fails. > >So, it seems like the RNG now works, but nothing else does. Has anyone >else had better luck with this driver? I'm using two different 7955 >cards.


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I have 11m and 13m Edge 2012, my crappy elbow can handle the bar pressure on the 11m, but I know that on the 13m I would not be able to do more than 2 days riding 3-4 hours each day before the tendonitis come back.
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Staff members
Name: David Ekholm
Connection: Founder
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Website: jalbum.net
Profile: davidekholm.jalbum.net
More info: "I started making jAlbum after coming home from a ski trip with friends and didn't find any good software for making web albums. That was in 2002. The years since then have been the most exciting in my life, but a lot of work too. (I wouldn't mind another ski trip...) Luckily jAlbum has the best community in the world to help. /David"
Name: Anders Callertun
Connection: Web developer
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Website: jalbum.net
Profile: anca.jalbum.net
More info: "I have seen the development of jAlbum since the first beta version back in 2002. I also like photography. But maybe more the technical part of taking photos, than the artistic. Trying out a new lens on the SLR is great. /Anders"
Name: László Molnár
Connection: Designer, Skin developer: Chameleon, Turtle, Compact, Happenings, Slider, Sports, TopLeague
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Website: lazaworx.com
Profile: laza.jalbum.net
More info: "I started my career as electric engineer and freelancer programmer but then I switched to graphics and ad industry. Now I'm getting fed up with the ads and trying to move back to programming and web-design. My hobbies are jAlbum :) , photography, travel, cooking, running. I started making Chameleon in 2005, when after I've tried several album software finally found jAlbum."
Name: Dor
Connection: Friendly Frog
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Website: jalbum.net
Profile: dor.jalbum.net
More info: "I'm originally a pet hand doll David used to have as a child. I was invited to welcome people to the site and to show them around. I wish you a pleasant stay. /Dor"
Name: Jeff Tucker
Connection: Skin developer: Gromit, Matrix, MatrixSlide
Location: Barkhamsted, Connecticut, USA
Website: jgromit.com
Profile: jefftucker.jalbum.net
More info: "After a career as a computer jockey/attorney, I retired at the ripe old age of 46, and have been traveling the world ever since. After struggling to put together web pages to share my travel photos, I stumbled into jAlbum, and never left!"
Name: Jim Berry
Connection: Forum supporter, Skin developer: Vertical Slide
Location: Busselton, Australia
Website: www.jimberry.org
Profile: jimberry.jalbum.net
More info: "I started my working life as a compositor (printing), changed in 1970 to programming mainframe computers, retiring in 2000.
Started sailboarding in 1980 until my trusty old Windsurfer began to disintegrate from too much UV after 18 years. Now trying to master the art of kitesurfing, but might have to go back to windsurfing if I can't crack the code pretty soon."
Name: Robert Marshall
Connection: Skin developer: Notables
Location: Cheshire, England
Website: robm.jalbum.net
Profile: robm.jalbum.net
More info: "I'm not a programmer, my background is in electronic engineering, and I don't "know" Java, but thanks to the ease of use of jAlbum and the support of the community I've been amazed at how much one can do with this program. In my case I wanted to be able to build a photo gallery that not only looked like it was part of a web site but was also fully integrated into it, rather than being an "add on". I also wanted to use CSS positioning instead of tables and frames and came up with the Notables skin. I also wrote a tool for creating a javascript based random slide show and total image count (handy for a count of images across multiple projects)."
Skin developers
Name: Dhinakaran Annamalai
Connection: Skin developer: FotoPlayer
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Website: fotoplayer.com
Profile: dhina.jalbum.net
More info: "Career: Tech Consultant. Hobbies include: music, web design, browsing (heavy internet user!) I love classic movies! Just like everyone else, visited jAlbum site when I wanted to create an album for myself and the more I spent time on it, the more I liked it and inspired by the way the templates can be customized. Guess what? Started creating my own skins and to be frank it's the users community behind my continuous effort on my skin development. jAlbum Forum: great place to hang out :) Good luck with your new skin! /Dhina"
Name: Kay Agahd
Connection: Skin developer: PositionMap, LightFlow
Location: Berlin, Germany
Website: agahd.free.fr/JAlbum/PositionMap
Profile: kaya.jalbum.net
More info: "I like to discover beautiful landscapes, to make photos of them and even after years to remember where I shot my photos for being able to turn back there. For creating online photo albums I use jAlbum since its early days. For my purposes I've created the skin "PositionMap" which is becoming more and more feature rich thanks to many ideas from jAlbum's great community."
Name: Mike Sozanski
Connection: Skin developer: Flex, Fotorama, Gridster, ImageFlow, jGallery, LightBoxes, NoteBook, Pages, Photopia, Polaroid, Solo
Location: San Francisco, USA
Website: macosxsupport.com
Profile: drmikey.jalbum.net
More info: "By day I am a Veterinarian but at other times I am a Mac Consultant, Web Designer, photographer and now a jAlbum Skin developer. I am interested in AJAX and I really like incorporating different javascript libraries into jAlbum. I hope I can actually learn how to do more scripting in jAlbum so I can expand my skins. I enjoy running, swimming, playing music and I am a single parent to two teenage girls. Oh, did I say I love Macs? ( since 1984)."
Name: Olivier Biot
Connection: Contributor to the ExhibitPlus skin
Location: Belgium
Website: shutterfreak.net
More info: "http://shutterfreak.net/node/2"
Name: Frank Schürer
Connection: German translator
Location: Plauen, Saxony, Germany
More info: "In 2002 I had to find a way to organize about 1000 photos on a CD for easy presentation. I found jAlbum was a great program that could offer a range of flexibility that is not limited to some predefined templates. At that time the Help of jAlbum was only in English language and I thought it would be great when German speaking people, who aren't fluent in English could use this free program and create their own photo albums easily. So I translated the help files to German and later the jAlbum texts as well when a new update came out. My hobbies and my profession include developing software in C/C++, Java or Delphi and occasionally creating web pages."
Name: Linda Zhao
Connection: Chinese website-translator
Location: Finland
Profile: lindaz.jalbum.net
More info: "I like traveling, photographing and blogging!"
Name: Han van de Graaf
Connection: Dutch website-translator
Location: Finland
Website: www.hanvandegraaf.nl
Profile: hanvandegraaf.jalbum.net
More info: "Enjoying my retirement, living in 'the middle of nowhere' in Savonlinna - Finland, taking (nature) pictures, webdesign and webdevelopment."
Name: Laurean Tudor
Connection: Romanian translator. Now communication software tester
Location: Dortmund, Germany
Profile: laurean.jalbum.net
More info: "I was born in Romania, where I used to teach English and French and later photography. Now I live in Germany and test telecommunication software. After a long vacation (almost 20 years :-) I've started again to take pictures. Nature and mostly people are my inspiration."
Name: Marcelo Guedes
Connection: Portuguese of Brazil translator
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
More info: "My name is Marcelo, I live in São Paulo/Brazil, I have advanced training in Business Administration and Accounting.
I dedicate good portion of my time available to deepen my knowledge in computers, and eventually I participate in fun fishing with my friends.
As do I have dual citizenship (Brazilian and Portuguese), I'm planning on making a travel to get to know several countries in Europe, and enjoy taking great photos of the places I visit.
So anticipating this trip, I needed to find a software that would meet my needs, and I had the great pleasure of discovering the sensational jAlbum software."
Name: Jevgenijs Belanins
Connection: Latvian translator
Location: Riga, Latvia
Website: belanins.jevgenijs.info
Profile: finderos47.jalbum.net
More info: "Also known as finderos47. IT Specialists, Workstations/Servers Administrator, Remote Support."
Name: Hrant Ohanyan
Connection: Armenian translator
Location: Yerevan, Armenia
Website: www.haysoft.org
Profile: hrant.jalbum.net
Name: Guilherme Cerqueira de Souza
Connection: Portuguese translator
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Profile: guilherme.jalbum.net
More info: "I started translating jAlbum back in 2003 when I was looking for a software to publish the pics of my exchange year in Germany. jAlbum was by far the best tool I found, and what's best, for free! So, as everybody knows, the more people help, the better it gets!"
Name: Tero Kinnunen
Connection: Finnish translator
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Name: Marcel Daems
Connection: Dutch Translator
Location: London, UK
Website: www.marceldaems.com
More info: "Recently moved to London UK from Antwerp Belgium, and having worked for print- and packaging companies I want to try it on myself as a freelancer in web design & translation beside my so called daytime job in London. I got to try jAlbum in 2006. After playing with version 7.1 again I rolled into doing translations for the Dutch version."
Name: Ning Zhou
Connection: Simplified Chinese translator
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Name: Peter Bachraty
Connection: Slovak translator
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Name: Carsten Lützen
Connection: Danish co-translator
Location: Denmark
Website: www.esplin.dk
More info: "I attend at Midtfyns Gymnasium until this summer where I graduate. In my spare time I'm a freelance web developer. I play the drums, so if you want to find me www.trommeslageren.dk would be a good place to start. I think that is all…"
Name: Pentti Stenman
Connection: Finnish website translator
Location: Porvoo, Finland
Website: www.penan.net
Profile: pena1.jalbum.net
More info: "After retiring from my job of textbook editor (science, math, IT ...) a few years ago, I love to hike and bike in Lapland and elesewhere with or without a camera. In my spare time I enjoy building houses for me and my wife and used jAlbum to show pictures of the second big project, our villa by the lakeside. I have used various skins and also translated Turtle into Finnish. Most of my albums are on my own site."
Thanks to
László Molnár for doing a great job designing the jalbum.net site.
Maxmind for providing IP Geolocation for the web site.
Mortbay and now Eclipse for providing the excellent embeddable "Jetty" http server that enables local file sharing.
Pat Niemeyer for providing expression evaluation with his wonderful BeanShell.
Drew Noakes for providing the EXIF extraction code.
Magnus Östergren for making the cute frog mascot.
JCraft for providing the JSch component needed for sftp.
Joost den Boer for providing sftp support for jAlbum.
Enterprise Distributed Technologies for their superior edtFTPj FTP component.
Eric Albert for making BrowserLauncher.
Marco Schmidt (firstname.lastname@example.com) for providing code for extracting image sizes.
Sun Microsystems for making Java, the write once run anywhere dream come true.


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EL CAJON, CALIF. (Sept. 11, 8 a.m. ET) — Custom blow molder and injection molder DaMar Plastics Inc. is investing more than $500,000 for equipment and infrastructure in a new location.
DaMar placed a June order with a domestic supplier for a complete system to fill blow molded bottles of one to three liters with commercial chemicals. The system including conveyor lines should be operational in January, said Sal Acampora, vice president of sales for DaMar.
Currently, DaMar blow molds the containers and, for filling, ships them to a Los Angeles area firm.
For additional capacity, DaMar began operating another dual-head blow molding machine in January. The unit was ordered in 2011 from Changshengda Machinery (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd. and can blow mold up to four containers at a time.
The former Sterling Extruder Corp. manufactured DaMar's initial dual-head blow molding machine, the first of its kind in the San Diego market, according to Acampora. Rocheleau Tool & Die Co. Inc. made DaMar's single-head blow molding machine.
For the three blow molding machines, the shot sizes range from 5 grams to 10 pounds and enable DaMar to produce a variety of plastic jars and bottles.
DaMar added the blow molding process in 2006.
In July, DaMar moved about 11 miles to a leased expandable 55,000-square-foot facility in El Cajon from an owned 38,000-square-foot plant in San Diego.
DaMar has cleanroom capability for medical devices.
DaMar has complete tool room capabilities including computer numerical control machining equipment and makes its molds in-house.
David Kabbai, president, said an aggressive development program and DaMar's blow molding and bottle filling capabilities will result in higher production throughput.
DaMar was established in 1967 and sold to Kabbai and his sister, Michelle Kabbai, in 1986. The El Cajon plant is the family business's fourth location, each increasingly larger.
Medical, chemical, commercial, industrial and military are DaMar's principal end markets.
In 2006, DaMar began using a customer-owned station for filling small containers for proprietary applications. "That was the catalysis for us to go to blow molding and bottle fulfillment," Acampora said.
DaMar operates 12 Toshiba injection molding machines — 10 hydraulics and two electrics — of 85-720 tons.
DaMar employs 35-50 including mold makers in five-day around-the-clock operations and projects 2012 sales of $3.5 million, up from last year's $3 million. "We want to continue to grow," he said.
In David Kabbai's 2005 business decision, DaMar shut down its ATI division, which injection molded proprietary handlebar grips for various kinds of bicycles. Competitors in China undercut that business, Acampora said.