text: Photo Gallery Pictures: X PRIZE Contest Seeks Improved Oil Spill Cleanup Ten teams deployed new skimmer designs in the $1.4 million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE. Will the contest yield better protection for shores and seas? PUBLISHED Fri Oct 07 06:01:00 EDT 2011 0 1 / 13 A Watery Test Bed In a saltwater tank on the coast of Sandy Hook Bay in New Jersey, a contest has been under way over the past 12 weeks born out of the anger, frustration, and helplessness so many people shared amid last year's BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.(Related: "Winners Announced in Oil Spill Cleanup X CHALLENGE")Ten finalist teams, chosen from more than 300 applicants, are competing in a $1.4 million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE to prove there is a better way to clean up oil spills than the dated and ineffective technology deployed to capture the crude that gushed from the Macondo well for 87 days. Beginning in July and continuing through last week, five U.S. competitors, two each from Norway and Finland, and one from the Netherlands took turns deploying pumps, skimmers, and booms in new shapes, sizes, and configurations.Although just across the water from Lower Manhattan, the contest has been out of public view, cloistered on the U.S. government's one-of-a-kind Ohmsett marine spill test facility on a high-security military base, Naval Weapons Station Earle in Leonardo, New Jersey (map). But next week, the winners and the results will be announced.The top teams will take home a $1 million first-place, a $300,000 second-place, and a $100,000 third-place prize, sponsored by X PRIZE donor Wendy Schmidt, president of the energy and natural resources-focused Schmidt Family Foundation and wife of Google chief executive Eric Schmidt. But those involved in the contest hope to produce more than victors. They want ready-to-be-commercialized systems to emerge from the competition, with a goal of cleaning up oil spills at least three times better than technology on the market today."This competition provides a very quick forum for rapid sea change in the degree to which these systems can perform," said Cristin Dorgelo, vice president of prize operations for the X PRIZE. "We acknowledge there has been innovation moving forward in the industry, but certainly greater change was possible more quickly, and we're hoping this competition becomes a platform for that, and we've already seen that demonstrated in our tests."This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more, visit The Great Energy Challenge. Photograph courtesy X Prize Foundation Coat of Shame A boom offered no protection for this brown pelican on Queen Bess Island in Louisiana as oil washed ashore in the weeks following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service documented that more than 900 of these birds were harmed by the Gulf oil spill, in just one example of the wildlife impact.(Related: Gulf Spill Photos: 9 Animal Victims-Plus 2 Survivors)The U.S. government concluded that only 3 percent of the 4.9 million barrels (206 million gallons/780 million liters) spilled in the Deepwater Horizon disaster was retrieved by skimmers. Just as in the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska 21 years earlier, where only 14 percent of the oil was recovered by cleanup crews, it was left to nature to fight most of the oil.(Related Quiz: How Much Do You Know About the Gulf Oil Spill?)(Related: "Nature Fighting Back Against Gulf Oil Spill")In the summer of 2010, before the final cap was secured on the Macondo well, the X PRIZE Foundation announced it would launch a contest for "innovative, rapidly deployable, and highly efficient methods of capturing crude oil from the ocean surface."How big is the technology improvement the X PRIZE is seeking to spur? Typical industry oil skimmers suck in a mix of oil and water at a maximum capacity of about 900 gallons (3,400 liters) per minute when tested at the Ohmsett facility. But to capture an Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE prize, a team has to demonstrate capability to skim at a rate of at least 2,500 gallons (9,500 liters) per minute, with no more than 30 percent water in the mix.(Related: Gulf Oil Spill: One Year Later) Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic "V" in a Bid for Victory Norway's Team NOFI deploys its "Current Buster" technology, a flexible V-shaped surface boom during its test run at Ohmsett. The oil is corralled down to the end of the V, where a separator removes it from water.The team had to demonstrate its own flexibility, as its test runs were interrupted in late August by Hurricane Irene. The site was evacuated, then closed for five days due to a power outage, while the team and contest officials decamped to Red Bank, New Jersey, six miles inland.One of the contest judges, Peter Velez, global emergency response manager for Shell*, said the scramble injected realism into the contest. "This is essentially similar to what we have to do with offshore operations in the Gulf," he said. "When you work on oil spill response, you have to bring innovation in facing adversity." In addition to Wendy Schmidt's sponsorship, Shell is a supporting partner of the competition, providing the oil used in the testing and just under $1.4 million used to pay the U.S. government for use of Ohmsett. In addition to Velez, the other seven contest judges include current and retired government oil spill officials, and spill response experts from industry and the environmental community. For the oil cleanup challenge, X PRIZE officials faced a quandary: How to stage a fair contest on a level playing field, while testing the technology in real-world conditions.Releasing oil in the environment was out of the question. There was the possibility of dispatching contestants to clean up a real oil spill, should one occur. But besides being unpredictable, it would have been impossible to repeat the same weather and sea conditions for all 10 teams.The X PRIZE officials opted to use the 2.6-million gallon (10-million liter) tank at Ohmsett, the the largest saltwater wave tank in North America and the only facility in the world designed for full-scale oil spill response research and training in controlled conditions. Twenty-four countries and numerous private companies have conducted oil spill cleanup testing there.*Shell is sponsor of National Geographic's Great Energy Challenge initiative. National Geographic maintains autonomy over content. Photograph courtesy X Prize Foundation The Carrying Power of the Sea Members of Finland's Team OilWhale guide their high-speed recovery system, which was built to be contained within a barge-like module pulled alongside or pushed in front of a vessel, or incorporated directly into a ship.Team leader Markku Järvinen first developed the technology after watching the low recovery rate after an oil spill in the Gulf of Finland outside of Helsinki in the winter of 2003. His idea was to use the water as a carrier for the oil. While the moving ship takes in surface oil by a ramp, the oil floats on top of the collected water. The water is then released into the ocean by opening gates in the hull bottom, leaving the oil in the reservoir.For each X PRIZE challenge run, 27,000 gallons (102,206 liters) of oil product was poured on the surface of the water in the 11-foot- (3.4-meter)-deep tank, creating a slick about 1 inch (2.5 centimeters deep). (It surprised test officials how the oil would collect on one side of the tank on a breezy day, and the test procedures included an effort to smooth out the oil as evenly as possible to ensure consistency from team to team.)It is the largest volume of oil ever poured into the 65-by-666-foot (20-by-203-meter) Ohmsett tank at one time. That's significant, because Ohmsett has a longer than 40-year history of testing oil spill cleanup technology since it was originally built in the 1970s by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Government agencies and private companies have tested booms, the effectiveness of in situ burning of oil, and oil clean-up in ice conditions in the huge tank. There are plans to test sensor technology later this year for identifying oil leaks underwater.Ohmsett was closed for a time in the late 1980s, but reopened again by order of Congress after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. It is funded by a levy on the oil industry, and is now operated by the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE). Although the facility has kept its name, it dropped its original acronym, the Oil and Hazardous Materials Simulated Environmental Test Tank. It now boasts a wider mission, as a staging area for renewable energy technologies like wave energy, as well as oil-spill clean-up. Photograph courtesy X Prize Foundation When Oil Meets Water Blue water appears beneath the swirls of oil as Team Crucial, of Gretna, Louisiana, tests its cleanup technology. Crucial manufactures an absorbent coating material that can be applied to the company's drum or disc surface skimmers; the team aimed to boost these devices' oil recovery rate by up to 500 percent.Half of the 10 finalists in the X PRIZE competition, like Crucial, are already known in the oil recovery industry. During the Gulf oil spill, Crucial provided equipment for cleaning oil from wildlife.Each of the ten X PRIZE finalist teams had a ten-day window at the Ohmsett facility, including time to set up, a "play day" to do test runs to optimize their systems, and several days for official test runs-three in calm water and three in wave conditions.Ohmsett's computer-controlled wave generator allowed the test to be run in identical choppy sea conditions for each team. Movable bridges suspended over the tank simulate the decks of clean-up vessels. For the X PRIZE test, they glide over the tank at a speed as fast as 4 knots (the equivalent of 4.6 miles per hour/7.4 kilometers per hour on land.) On one of the bridges, the teams would connect their systems to a 10-inch flange that connected to oil collection tanks.The test was designed to give the teams a 400-foot (122-meter) test field in which to collect the oil. They could move the "vessels" at whatever speed made the most sense for their systems, from 1 to 4 knots. There were plenty of adjustments along the way."We've seen that with a number of our teams, when they run into mechanical problems, they tend to be very quick on their feet with reconfiguration," says Dorgelo. "We saw a team ran into problems with one of their components and ended up within a half-hour building around it, and then seeing some pretty amazing performance numbers. We really like to see scrappy teams that think of creative solutions." Photograph courtesy X Prize Foundation Getting in the Groove Four rows of giant grooved discs attack the test oil slick in the system developed by Team Elastec/American Marine of Carmi, Illinois, and Cocoa, Florida.Elastec is a known company in the oil spill response world; its own Hydro-Fire® Boom was used in the Gulf spill for the controlled burns that actually eliminated more oil from the water oil than skimmers. But the grooved disc skimmers Elastec has entered into the X CHALLENGE have a diameter four or five times larger than the disc or drum skimmers that are standard equipment in oil spill response.Seeking to ramp up performance with a new size and configuration is typical of how many competitors excel in X PRIZE competitions, says Dorgelo. The same was true, she said, in the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE last year, where the engineers from Lynchburg, Virginia, who designed a 102.5 mile-per-gallon (44-kilometer-per-liter) vehicle that relied on ultralight materials and aerodynamics."There was no secret sauce to an efficient car, but rather known pieces of cars were assembled in a different way," she said. "We think while the breakthrough in the performance may be radical, the actual sub-components and systems are just being assembled in a unique and creative way."Donald Toenshoff Jr., executive vice president of the Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC), who is one of eight oil spill experts serving as contest judges, agrees: "What you're seeing in many cases is very much an evolutionary change rather than a revolutionary change."MSRC, an oil-industry-funded nonprofit set up after the Exxon Valdez spill to serve as a rapid response force, could become a future purchaser of equipment proven during the X PRIZE competition. Toenshoff says there is likely not one "silver bullet" technology. "The key is to have enough tools in the toolkit so that went you are faced with a certain situation, or type oil, you can then go to the right tool," he says."I've been intrigued by this whole process," he adds. "You still at the end of the day need to overcome physics-gravity and adhesion and viscosity, all those various components. But I've seen some interesting deployments some things that may work quite well in certain circumstances." Photograph courtesy X Prize Foundation Tarred With A Different Brush Finland's Team Lamor, which has been in the oil response business since 1982, tackled the oil with a patented "oleophilic" brush technology-literally, a brush that has an affinity for oil.Testing followed a familiar pattern for each of the teams. A judge, standing on one of the bridges, would throw a green flag to signal the testing start. The bridges would move down the tank at a speed selected by the team, anywhere from 1 to 4 knots. The test ended when the judge threw the red flag, signaling either that the team had reached the end of the test run or that the tanks were already full-signaling a stellar recovery rate. Asked if the X PRIZE anticipated it would see recovery rates high enough to fill the tanks, Dorgelo said, "We certainly hoped we would."After the test run, the PRIZE officials gave the teams a signal to vacate the bridges, and Ohmsett engineers gathered data and collect samples to be tested at the on-site laboratory. This "most important part" of the process, in Dorgelo's words, requires gathering a significant amount of information on temperature, concentration, even tensile characteristics-how much force it takes to separate the oil from water. With all of the data gathering, the turnaround time between tests was about two hours. Photograph courtesy X Prize Foundation High-Speed Separation Team Voraxial developed a high "g" force continuous flow machine designed to separate large volumes of fluids based on their different densities. Its trademarked Voraxial impeller produces a vortex in which the heavier fluid-water-is meant to be drawn to the outside, while the lighter fluid-oil-is drawn to the center."There's no technology on the market that can skim and separate under water, and that's where our advantage is," says Laura Di Bella, who is vice president of marketing and investor relations for the family company based in Ford Lauderdale, Florida.Her father and team member, Alberto Di Bella, had a long history of working in the aerospace industry, and was founder and president of a company that worked on the gyroscope housing for the Hubble Space Telescope, on gear shift systems, and in beryllium manufacturing. For her father, now 81, to watch the X PRIZE testing of the oil spill technology he worked on was "a sweet experience," says Laura. "Essentially, it's the culmination of the American dream for him, a Sicilian immigrant who came here with no money and without the language to work his way up into being a well-recognized manufacturer," she says. "We want to see him succeed one last time, but it goes beyond that. We believe in the technology, and our work on it is a gift we're giving back to him for the gift he's given us." Photograph by Marianne Lavelle, National Geographic The Art of Cleanup Members of Team Vor-Tek chat behind their EEL, or Emergency Extraction Line, a series of joined horizontal modules designed to float out from a support vessel or oil platform in a setup known as a "weir" boom, meant to alter water flow. A pipeline running through the modules is joined to a high‐power pump that draws oil and water through intakes to be fed into a separator on the vessel or platform.Describing themselves as "environmentally conscious artists and entrepreneurs," the members of Vor-Tek, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, have no background in the oil business. Team leader Ashley Day came from the scrap metal business, where he had worked on technology to improve the recycling and had applied it to work on plastics pollution in the Pacific Ocean. His partner, Fred Giovannitti, is a tatoo artist known for his work on celebrities.Like another one of the U.S. teams, Pacific Petroleum Recovery, or PPR, (not pictured in this gallery), they applied technology they knew from other fields. (PPR's team members came to call their system an "oil-slurping, fish-sucking, pickle-pumping machine.")"That's very standard for X PRIZE, those unusual players organizing around a challenge," says Dorgelo. "While the prize certainly is an incentive, they are in it for the mission as much as the money. The money certainly attracts public attention but the great thing is they walk away with the value of testing, which is in a sense more valuable than the prize purse, and they walk away with exposure for these new brands they are trying to get built." Photograph courtesy X Prize Foundation Inflexible in the Oil Battle Team Koseq, from Puttershoek in The Netherlands, invented their rigid sweeping arm, called the Victory Oil Sweeper, more than 30 years ago in cooperation with the Dutch Coast Guard.The two forward-angled inflexible floating arms channel surface oil into a skimmer mounted between them; they envision that it could be pushed in front of a small vessel or pulled alongside a larger one. The angle of the arms can be adjusted to sweep wide or to fit through narrow waterways. After the Gulf oil spill, Shell sought ways to stimulate a significant change in oil spill cleanup recovery, "not just a tweaking of what was available," Velez said. "We spend a lot of time on the prevention of any spill," said Velez. "We still need to have any equipment to be ready for response." Shell saw the X PRIZE, he said, as an "excellent process to essentially look for a step change in oil spill response equipment that is available."(Related "Pictures: Four New Offshore Drilling Frontiers")But Velez says that whatever team captures the top prize will not be the only winner. All 10 of the finalist teams will now have real-world data on their systems that will be publicly available to oil companies, oil spill response organizations, and nations around the world that have to be ready to grapple with oil spills."It's like test-driving ten different cars," he says. "We are doing a test drive of ten different systems. Each team that gets a week in that tank--all that data is going to be publicly available for the customers like ourselves who are looking for the best equipment." Photograph courtesy X Prize Foundation Trawling to Clean The Water Norway's Team OilShaver sought to apply team members' knowledge of trawl technologies for fisheries to oil spill response. The device has a pair of parallel floating pontoons with a neoprene/polyester "floor" running lengthwise between them. It is designed to sit at a 45-degree angle from the side of a moving vessel and "shave" the oil from the water surface. A weighted slit along the floor bottom allows the water to escape, while the oil is pumped onto the storage vessel. Photograph courtesy X Prize Foundation A Patron for Protection Oil cleanup X CHALLENGE sponsor Wendy Schmidt (pictured above) donned the required hard hat and life jacket to get up on deck and see some of the competition first-hand this summer.Dorgelo remembers how quickly Schmidt stepped forward with an offer to sponsor this competition after X PRIZE reached out to its trustees and donors last year while oil was still gushing from the Macondo well. Typically, it takes more than a year to develop an X PRIZE contest, Dorgelo says. But the Foundation's leadership felt that urgently tackling the issues raised by the Gulf spill was deeply aligned with its mission.Since its founding in 1996, the X PRIZE Foundation has been staging competitions designed to prompt research collaborations to tackle urgent world challenges in energy and environment, education, life sciences, and space and ocean exploration. Its informal motto is "revolution through competition."In the X Prize world, the oil cleanup contest is a "challenge," one of a class of smaller awards designed to solve a well-defined technical problem that has no clear path to a solution or is perceived as difficult.That certainly has been the case in oil spill cleanup, where there hasn't been enough of a market-based push to spur innovation. "We are looking at an old operating system: last century's energy infrastructure coupled with an inadequate and out-of-date understanding of the human relationship with natural resources," Schmidt wrote in an essay at the time the contest was announced in July 2010, just after the BP well had been stopped with a temporary cap. "We need Version 2.0. The sooner the better."Schmidt said that sponsoring the competition "is the most constructive response I can have to the psychic anguish-in addition to the personal losses-so many people have experienced as the Gulf Oil Spill crisis has gone on."In addition to the prize purse, Schmidt donated an additional $1.4 million to support the X PRIZE Foundation's operations from the launch through the awards ceremony. Photograph courtesy X Prize Foundation The Changing Face of Oil To make sure that the naturally clear refined oil product used in the X CHALLENGE (left two jars) is visible during the testing, it was dyed a hot pink color before it was poured into the tank. But after it had been in the tank for a period of time-exposed to wind, generated waves, and sun-it took on a dark molasses hue.(Related Photos: Gulf Oil Spill Pictures: Oiled Beaches Time Line)One of the only things that is certain about oil that is spilled in the sea is that it will change. Once it is hit by sun and affected by weather, it will become thicker and more viscous. Oil that is churned in waves will emulsify, and may take on an orange hue. After time the oil congeals into tar balls. Both dispersants and the simple impact of traveling up through 5,000 feet (1,524 meters) of water changed the characteristics of the crude from the Gulf oil spill.(Related Interactive Map: Oiled Gulf Beaches During & After and "Why Did Huge Oil Plumes Form After the Gulf Spill?")"One of our enemies" in fighting the Gulf spill last year was the changing characteristic of the oil, recalls Edwin Levine, scientific support coordinator for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Levine, who is based not far from Ohmsett in New York City, has long worked on oil spill cleanup research, so he came to witness part of the X PRIZE competition.In order to provide consistency in the spill competition, the X PRIZE chose to use a refined oil product called HydroCal 300, which is frequently used in field experiments. Its reaction in the weathering process can be relied upon to be repeatable from one test to another, and it does not have the strong fumes that some types of oil, including crude, would have, which might have necessitated that the contestants and officials use breathing apparatus.But the best oil for a competition is not necessarily the next oil that will foul the sea. While Levine voices support for the X CHALLENGE contest, he cautions that the winning it won't be the last word in oil spill cleanup. "For a heavier oil spill or lighter oil spill, it may or may not be the right solution," he says. "It depends on the sea state or the temperature or the oil. So whatever comes out of here as the best is only the best for this situation."(Related: Awards for Change: How Prizes Can Help Us Achieve Energy Goals and Live Chat: Scotland's Chief Scientific Adviser Anne Glover, on Why She Wants to Give You $16 Million) Photograph by Marianne Lavelle, National Geographic Related Stories U.S. Demand for Premium Gas Is Going Up. Why? Canadian Wildfire Threatens Key U.S. Oil Artery BP Oil Spill Trashed More Shoreline Than Scientists Thought


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I'm familiar with X86[-64] architecture & assembly. I want to start develop for an ARM processor. But unlike desktop processors, I don't have an actual ARM processor. I think I need an ARM simulator.
http://www.armtutorial.com/ say
An ARM assembly compiler will be required, the most accessible is the ARMulator.
I thought of downloading Armulator but found from http://forums.arm.com/index.php?showtopic=13744 that
Its not sold seperately. But you can download an eval of RVDS - which includes RVISS/ARMulator
I've downloaded & installed RVDS but It looks very complex. I'm unable to figure out what do I need to do to write ARM assembly & run it.
- I want to write in assembly not in C/C++. I don't have an ARM processor. What is a good simulator?
- Can any one please mention in short. How to write assembly & assemble & simulate using RVDS. Please be clear?
- Are there any other alternative ways. I can't afford buying any kind of boards.
I always learn from books rather than tutorials. I'm following these two books:
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vehicle transmissions - Search Results
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1 Predicted Scuffing Risk to Spur and Helical Gears in Commercial Vehicle Transmissions (November/December 2012)
AGMA925A03 scuffing risk predictions for a series of spur and helical gear sets of transmissions used in commercial vehicles ranging from SAE Class 3 through Class 8.
2 Development of Conical Involute Gears (Beveloids) for Vehicle Transmissions (November/December 2005)
Conical involute gears (beveloids) are used in transmissions with intersecting or skewed axes and for backlash-free transmissions with parallel axes.
3 Light Weight Assembled Gears - A Green Design Solution (May 2013)
It is widely recognized that the reduction of CO2 requires consistent light-weight design of the entire vehicle. Likewise, the trend towards electric cars requires light-weight design to compensate for the additional weight of battery systems. The need for weight reduction is also present regarding vehicle transmissions. Besides the design of the gearbox housing, rotating masses such as gear wheels and shafts have a significant impact on fuel consumption. The current technology shows little potential of gear weight reduction due to the trade-off between mass optimization and the manufacturing process. Gears are usually forged followed or not by teeth cutting operation.
4 Dynamic Loads in Parallel Shaft Transmissions Part 1 (March/April 1990)
Recently, there has been increased interest in the dynamic effects in gear systems. This interest is stimulated by demands for stronger, higher speed, improved performance, and longer-lived systems. This in turn had stimulated numerous research efforts directed toward understanding gear dynamic phenomena. However, many aspects of gear dynamics are still not satisfactorily understood.
5 Dynamic Loads in Parallel Shaft Transmissions - Part 2 (May/June 1990)
Solutions to the governing equations of a spur gear transmission model, developed in a previous article are presented. Factors affecting the dynamic load are identified. It is found that the dynamic load increases with operating speed up to a system natural frequency. At operating speeds beyond the natural frequency the dynamic load decreases dramatically. Also, it is found that the transmitted load and shaft inertia have little effect upon the total dynamic load. Damping and friction decrease the dynamic load. Finally, tooth stiffness has a significant effect upon dynamic loadings the higher the stiffness, the lower the dynamic loading. Also, the higher the stiffness, the higher the rotating speed required for peak dynamic response.
6 How to Minimize Power Losses in Transmissions, Axles and Steering Systems (September 2012)
By increasing the number of gears and the transmission-ratio spread, the engine will run with better fuel efficiency and without loss of driving dynamics. Transmission efficiency itself can be improved by: using fuelefficient transmission oil; optimizing the lubrication systems and pumps; improving shifting strategies and optimizing gearings; and optimizing bearings and seals/gaskets.
7 Trends in Automobile Transmissions (July/August 2006)
With all the work in transmission development these days, the demand for automobile transmission gears should remain strong for several years, but suppliers will have to be as flexible as possible to keep up with the changes.
8 New Transmissions Drive Automotive Gear Industry (July/August 2006)
News from the major automakers and transmission suppliers.
9 The Efficiency Experts (September/October 2010)
Bradley University and Winzeler Gear collaborate on the design and development of an urban light vehicle.
10 The Relationship of Measured Gear Noise to Measured Gear Transmission Errors (January/February 1988)
Vehicle gear noise testing is a complex and often misunderstood subject. Gear noise is really a system problem.(1) most gearing used for power transmission is enclosed in a housing and, therefore, little or no audible sound is actually heard from the gear pair.(2) The vibrations created by the gears are amplified by resonances of structural elements. This amplification occurs when the speed of the gear set is such that the meshing frequency or a multiply of it is equal to a natural frequency of the system in which the gears are mounted.
11 Wind Turbine Market Leads Hansen Transmissions to India (June 2007)
When Belgium-based Hansen Transmissions was under the ownership of Invensys plc in the late 1990s, the parent company was dropping not-so-subtle hints that the industrial gearbox manufacturer was not part of its long-term plans. Yet Hansens CEO Ivan Brems never dreamed that, less than a decade later, he would be working for an Indian company.
12 Grinding Gears for Racing Transmissions (September/October 2009)
When you push 850 horsepower and 9,000 rpm through a racing transmission, you better hope it stands up. Transmission cases and gears strewn all over the racetrack do nothing to enhance your standing, nor that of your transmission supplier.
13 Optimism in Wind Abounds (January/February 2009)
Big gears and wind turbines go together like bees and honey, peas and carrots, bread and butter andwell, you get the idea. Wind isnt just big right now, its huge. The wind industry means tremendous things for the energy dependent world we live in and especially big things for gear manufacturers and other beleaguered American industries.


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The Real Housewives Of New Jersey Preview: Field Day Disaster
May 19, 2012 01:00 PM by Megan Thompson
It's an all new The Real Housewives Of New Jersey tomorrow night on Bravo. Last week's pool party ended on a bad note, with Teresa Giudice fighting with her little brother – again! This week the whole gang gathers at Jacqueline's house for a good old fashioned field day. Can everyone check their Jersey drama at the door? Keep reading for a sneak peek of Sunday's new RHONJ episode.
This week it's the blue team versus the read team in the battle to win field day. All the women have been acting like little girls, so why not participate in a great school-age activity. Jacqueline hopes that some of the fun games, along with an aggressive tug-of-war will be good for the entire group. Does she know these women? Let's take a look at the RHONJ version of the Olympics:
Wow, it seems like everyone is getting along at the field day. Will all the good times last? Um, hell no! These are the NJ housewives.
The ladies question Teresa's parenting skills and that doesn't go over very well. No one should mess with this mama bear. Then Teresa tells Jacqueline that she would rather be at the Jersey Shore than being at her house. Well, Teresa probably does do a mean Jersey Turnpike on the dance floor. But anyways, let's just say the party takes a nosedive and the cattiness begins! Maybe the ladies should skip the tug-of-war and go straight for the boxing ring.
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Seth Meyers to Replace Jimmy Fallon on Late Night!
Seth Meyers will be replacing Jimmy Fallon on Late Night!
Seth, head writer for Saturday Night Live and host of the Weekend Update segment, will become the 4th host of the 12:30 NBC show when Jimmy replaces Jay Leno on The Tonight Show.
Lorne Michaels, executive producer of SNL and others, has been named the new executive producer for Late Night, too! Seth joked, "I only have to work for Lorne for five more years before I pay him back for the time I totalled his car."
He added, "12:30 has long been incredible real estate. I hope I can do it justice."
No word yet on whether Late Night will get a format change with the new host, but Seth would like to mix things up with his improv, sketch, and stand-up comedy backgrounds, maybe "a two-shot with talented and funny people."
Ryan Seacrest had a positive reaction to the news, asking Seth to bring his SNL "Really!?!" segment along.
Since the show's inception in 1982, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy and now Seth have been the only hosts of the Late Night show.


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Lovely, and a great quote.
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Thanks so much Mary, Ally, Phil & catspaws!
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Last week, I had the great privilege to attend the annual conference of the Texas Library Association. TLA is the largest state-level library association in the country. With more than 300 exhibitors, this conference rivals the size and quality of the American Library Association's annual conference. This is a librarian's best chance to network with colleagues, meet authors, find out about new books and other library related products and services, and obtain continuing education in our field.
One of the new products I learned about at TLA is a new genre of fiction that was launched through the self-publishing industry; it is called "new adult" fiction. For reasons unknown to me, the phrase "young adult" in libraries generally refers to teenagers. "New adult" is now the phrase for those who are twenty-something or maybe as young as 18-19. They have aged out of reading the books where the heroine is 16 years old and dealing with a post-apocalyptic fantasy world. However, they are not really wanting to read the books about middle-aged women whose marriage is falling apart and whose children are going astray. The regency mysteries do not appeal to them either as the "new adult" in those stories is generally in a sheltered world of a benevolent older relative or becomes a governess for the children of a widower.
The characters in this new genre are people in college, trying to figure out why the world treats them as if they should have their life planned for the next 10 years and be organized and moving forward. What most of them find is they are just trying to make it to class or work each day, figure out why they seem to have a job instead of being on a career path and do not really feel like an adult in the way they think of their parents as adults. I was able to get my hands on some of the books in this genre and will be adding them to our collection and looking for more if they prove to be popular.
If you have not noticed, repair work has begun on the Community Center. This means the Friends of the Library First Saturday Breakfast should be able to restart by June or maybe even May. Keep an eye on our sign on the east side of the library building as well as this column for the start date. I will also post it on various Facebook pages, also, including the Van Alstyne Chamber of Commerce Page.
Teen Council has two events coming in May. Their 11th annual Art Contest in memory of Colson Owens is May 9 at 5 p.m. The contest is open to all middle school and high school students (including home school students) in Van Alstyne, Howe, Melissa, and Anna. An entry and registration form must be submitted to your art teacher or the library by 6 p.m. on May 6 along with a $3 entry fee. Prizes will be award in each age division, and professional judges will provide a personal critique of submitted work on request. The art will be on display May 7 - 8 during the library's business hours.
May 30 is Teen Council's Anime Convention. Watch this column for more details as plans develop.
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It's 8 pm. You are exhausted. You haven't had a home cooked meal in months. You haven't gotten more than 5 hours sleep in weeks. Your to do list hasn't dwindled all day. The gym? Dinner? Who's kidding whom? You've still got 4 hours of work ahead of you.
If we are being honest, your work conditions aren't much better than a 12 year old in Bangladesh; assuming you aren't sleeping on the floor. The big difference, between you and the 12 year old making the running shoes you never have the energy to use, is that no one is protesting your working conditions.
Such is the life of a modern knowledge worker.
A logical question arises anytime I step back and look at the corporate and billable hour landscape my clients work in or create. Why do people do it?
Because they don't know any better.
As I wrote a few weeks ago, people are great at masking burnout, fatigue and stress, unless of course it serves them to wear it as a badge of honor. Either way when we hide behind burnout or show it off, we are not living fully and we aren't living with purpose. That means we aren't engaged and we aren't productive as shown by the Towers Watson 2012 Global Workforce Study. That means our employer isn't growing or creating jobs. Burnout isn't just personal, it's an economic matter.
But why do we have this skewed relationship with overwork and undernourishment? We are operating under one of two myths.
Myth #1 Burnout Is Weakness
Just as Brene Brown, in her book Daring Greatly, debunks the myth that vulnerability is weakness, I feel so compelled to argue the same about burnout. It is widely accepted that fatigue, stress and burnout are not something you talk about in the workplace and if you do, you are weak.
In law firms, everyone is working 60+ hours a week. In April, all accountants are working 16-hour days. As you approach product launch, it's all-hands on deck.
As we falter under the weight of it all, when we want to raise our hand and scream "uncle", we look around and watch everyone else with their head down, toiling away.
Then we think, "who am I to complain or protest?"
We believe if we speak up, everyone else doing exactly what we are doing will look down upon us. We hear their replies before we ever speak:
"What makes you so special?"
"If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen."
"Maybe you aren't cut out for this kind of work."
We begin to believe the problem is us, not them. So we work harder. We burnout.
As the saying goes, it's not about working harder, it's about working smarter. How smart are you on your 12th hour of work? Would you want to get on a flight with a pilot who had as little sleep as you? How would you like to undergo surgery with a surgeon who was working as many as hours and taking care of himself as poorly as the average stressed out worker?
Yeah, I didn't think so.
Working smarter means more than finding a new productivity hack. Working smarter means taking regular breaks (every 90 minutes is ideal). Working smarter means eating real food, not processed junk. Working smarter means getting 8-hours sleep and daily exercise. Working smarter means setting boundaries.
Burnout is not a sign of weakness, it's the result of a de-humanizing work environment and following the herd. Be smart and break the pattern.
Myth #2 Burnout Is Cool
On the flip side, burnout can be used by some as an "I'm cooler and more important than you" tool. Hang out at the coffee machine and see how often you hear:
"I'm crazy busy. I can't believe how much I have to do. I don't know how I'll get it all done."
"I've got so much to do, I don't know where to begin."
"I'm going to have to pull an all-nighter."
Do you think this person is cool? No, I don't either. Yet I've said these things, and if you've ever worked a day in your life, you probably have as well.
We say these things to let off steam, but also because it makes us feel important. "Someone must think so highly of me that they gave me all the work. I must be indispensable."
Here's the thing, if your boss really cared about you and your well-being, he or she would want to make sure you had a reasonable (as opposed to a super-human) workload so you don't burnout. Ouch right?
Unreasonable hours, demands and workloads fueled on free pizza and sodas may (or may not) lead to more getting done. For sure, overwork and short deadlines will lead to mistakes and lost productivity. Whether its coding errors, or missing $100,000 mistake in a contract, burnout is not cool and it's expensive.
It's A Matter Of Personal Responsibility And Strategy
I want to be clear that there is no one to blame here. Not the employee, not the employer. We are all operating within a culture that abhors weakness and celebrates hard work. Combine these values with the speed of technology, and you have a recipe for burnout.
There will always be deadlines, emergencies and urgency to get to market before our competitors. So how do we bust the myths, be authentic to our physical and mental needs and still get the job done?
It comes down to personal responsibility. We each need to take responsibility for our own needs – employees and managers alike. Easier said than done for sure, but that is where strategy is key. Should you run into push back when you take a mental health day, or go for a walk during your afternoon brain fog, remember this – well-being is a strategic tool for company and personal growth. How so? When we are alert, focused and happy we are engaged. And according to Towers Watson, companies with the most engaged workforce increased operating income by 19% and earnings per share by 28%.[1]
Our well-being matters. It matters for our health, for our relationships and for our jobs. Well-being is not about fluff. It's about personal and professional results.
What do you think? Have you taken personal responsibility for your well-being? What are some strategies you've used when your well-being seems to conflict with a deadline? Let us know in the comments below.
[1] Gauber. J and Lowman D. Closing The Engagement Gap: How Great Companies Unlock Employee Potential For Superior Results, Portfolio Hardcover 2008.
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State budget hurts cities
Every government budget also is a political document, so it's no surprise that the budget signed by Gov. Tom Corbett partially addresses what the public has identified to pollsters as his biggest failure: education funding.
The budget includes $316 million in new education funding, although almost half of that money is to cover the state's share of the exponentially rising cost of school employees' pensions, which the Legislature has failed to reform. So, taxpayers won't see that money in local tax reductions or programs. And another $100 million is for programs favored by the administration rather than general funding
And the budget defies the clear wishes of the public in that it does not include a fair tax on gas extraction and evades yet again the conversion of the state booze monopoly into a capitalist, market-based enterprise.
The most marketable part of the budget is that it does not include a state-level tax increase, although the failure to reform the pension systems guarantees a host of local tax increases.
Meanwhile, the budget marks a continuation of the state government's withdrawal from helping struggling city governments, including those in Scranton and several other communities in Northeast Pennsylvania.
Not only does this budget do nothing to correct basic local governance problems, such as needlessly expensive local services due to redundancy, it further diminishes programs that cities have been using to help maintain infrastructure and development.
The budget eliminates $32.4 million for the state Department of Community and Economic Development. That means real dollar reductions statewide in the Main Street and Elm Street programs that foster redevelopment, and funds for job training and equipment tied to those projects.
Overall, due to the governors' and legislators' political need to avoid state-level tax increases in a gubernatorial and legislative election year, the budget does not address a substantial deficit that had been projected to be about $700 million. That, in effect, shows that the budget truly is incomplete. Unless tax revenues suddenly, unexpectedly and dramatically increase in coming months, the Legislature and the next governor — whether Mr. Corbett or Democrat Tom Wolf — likely will have to deal with the fiscal reality next year, when an election is not impending.
Whereas all budgets are political documents, this one remains curious because it doesn't really resolve even political problems, much less the pressing issues affecting Pennsylvania's cities.
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now we are trying make a new single server (on Cent OS 5.5) which can work as a internal and as well as external mail server,
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The birth control patch is a thin, beige, 13/4-inch (41/2-centimeter) square patch that sticks to the skin. It releases hormones through the skin into the bloodstream to prevent pregnancy. Hormones are chemical substances that control the functioning of the body's organs.
The combination of the hormones progesterone and estrogen in the patch prevents ovulation (the release of an egg from the ovaries during a girl's monthly cycle). If an egg isn't released, a girl can't get pregnant because there's nothing for a guy's sperm to fertilize.
The hormones in the patch also thicken the mucus produced in the cervix, making it difficult for sperm to enter and reach any eggs that may have been released. The hormones can also sometimes affect the lining of the uterus so that if the egg is fertilized it will have a hard time attaching to the wall of the uterus.
Like other birth control methods that use hormones, such as the birth control pill or ring, a girl uses the birth control patch based on her monthly menstrual cycle. She puts on the patch on the first day of her menstrual cycle or the first Sunday after her menstrual cycle begins. She will change the patch on her skin once a week for 3 weeks in a row. (The patch should be applied to one of four areas: the abdomen, buttocks, upper arm, or upper torso — except for the breasts.) On the fourth week, no patch is worn, and a girl's period should start during this time.
It's important to apply a new patch on the same day every week to ensure that it keeps working effectively. For example, a girl who applies her first patch on a Monday should always apply her patches on a Monday. When it's time to change the patch, pull the old one off first, before applying a new patch. Place the new patch on a different area from the old patch (but still on one of the four recommended areas listed above) to avoid skin irritation. Don't apply the patch to skin that is red, irritated, or cut.
For the first 7 days on the patch, use an additional form of contraception as well to prevent pregnancy.
If you forget to apply a new patch on the right day, or if the patch becomes loose and falls off, read the instructions that come in the package or call your doctor. If this happens you may need to use a backup method of birth control (such as condoms) or stop having sex for a while to protect against pregnancy. Also, if you stop using the patch for any reason, you will need to begin using another method of birth control, usually after 24 hours of removing your last patch.
It's OK to participate in normal activities like swimming and exercise while wearing the patch. You can also get it wet in the shower or in the bath. However, the patch should not be moved or removed until the week is up (pulling the patch off to reposition or move it may cause it to lose some of its stickiness and it might fall off easily). Don't try to decorate the patch, change the size of a patch by trimming it, or try to attach it with tape. Talk to your doctor if the patch falls off.
The patch should not be applied over makeup, creams, lotions, powder, or other skin products as these may prevent it from sticking well. (Skin products may also affect how hormones are absorbed by the skin.)
Ongoing studies suggest the birth control patch is as effective as the birth control pill. That means that about 8 out of 100 couples will have an unintended pregnancy during the first year of use. Of course, the chance of getting pregnant depends on whether you use the patch correctly. Delaying or missing a weekly application or removing a patch too early reduces its effectiveness and increases the chance a girl will become pregnant.
For girls who weigh more than 198 pounds (90 kilograms), the contraceptive patch may be less effective in preventing pregnancy.
In general, how well each type of birth control method works depends on a lot of things. These include whether a person has any health conditions or is taking any medications that might interfere with the patch. How effective the patch is at preventing pregnancy also depends on whether the method chosen is convenient — and whether the person remembers to use it correctly all the time.
The birth control patch does not protect against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Couples having sex must always use condoms along with the birth control patch to protect against STDs.
Abstinence (the decision to not have sex) is the only method that always prevents pregnancy and STDs.
The birth control patch is a safe and effective method of birth control. Most young women who use the patch have no side effects. Smoking cigarettes while using the patch can increase a girl's risk of certain side effects, which is why health professionals advise women who use the patch not to smoke.
The side effects that some women have while using the patch are similar to those experienced with the birth control pill. These may include:
Other possible side effects seen in patch users include:
Many of these side effects are mild and tend to disappear after 2 or 3 months.
The birth control patch may be a good choice for sexually active young women who weigh less than 198 pounds (90 kilograms) and find it difficult to remember to take a pill every day or who have difficulty swallowing pills.
Not all women can — or should — use the birth control patch. In some cases, medical or other conditions make the use of the patch less effective or more risky. For example, it is not recommended for women who have had blood clots, severe high blood pressure, certain types of cancers, certain types of migraine headaches, or diabetes with certain problems. It's recommended that girls who have had unexplained vaginal bleeding (bleeding that is not during their periods) or who suspect they may be pregnant should talk to their doctors, discontinue using the patch, and use another form of birth control in the meantime.
Girls who are interested in learning more about the possible health benefits and risks of different types of birth control, including the patch, should talk to a doctor or other health professional.
A doctor or a nurse practitioner must prescribe the patch. He or she will ask questions about health and family medical history, and may also do a complete physical exam, including a blood pressure measurement and a pelvic exam. If recommending the patch, the doctor or nurse practitioner will write a prescription and provide instructions on how to use it.
Those who start using the patch may be asked to return within a few months for a blood pressure measurement and to ensure that there are no problems. After that, a doctor may recommend routine exams once or twice a year or as needed.
The patch usually costs between $15 and $50 a month, although health and family planning clinics (such as Planned Parenthood) might sell them for less. In addition, the birth control patch and doctor's visits are covered by many health insurance plans.
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Yeah, that's sort of how I meant it. It's an insult that's been turned into a badge of honour by the group it's referring to. And who can deny the awesome writing that is the early stories of "B@stard Operator From Hell"?Bas wrote: TommyCarlier wrote: Ddewbofh (how do you pronounce that?), I agree. The term "geek" usually has a negative connotation, when uttered by non-geeks.Where I live (and possibly where you live) we have a term for that sort of word. "Geuzen"-name, or a name that is first meant as an insult, but then adopted by the group of people it is meant to apply to, and subsequently turned into a name of pride.I guess it's sort of similar to '(I need to watch my language)' for certain black people, or 'freak' in certain alternative subcultures.
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Amelie Mauresmo
Amelie Mauresmo has replaced Nicolas Escude as France's Fed Cup by BNP Paribas captain, the French Tennis Federation announced on Thursday.
"It is with great pride that I have been chosen as Fed Cup captain unanimously by the players and by the Federation, who have responded positively to the wish of the players," said Mauresmo. "Today, the French team is experiencing some difficult moments. It is a very exciting challenge, difficult, certainly, but a great adventure is ahead of us. I hope I can bring an enormous amount to this French team."
The former world No. 1 made her Fed Cup debut in 1998 and went on to play 21 ties over an 11-year period. She is France's leading Fed Cup singles player with a 30-9 win-loss record and was instrumental in France's title-winning campaign of 2003, winning all eight of her singles rubbers that year.
"I imagine my captaincy will feature a consistent presence at the tournaments. In order to have cohesion within the group, it is important to often spend time together all throughout the season when we are able to see the player's development," she continued. "But I don't have a magic wand. The idea is to have a medium term and long term project. In my mind the project is long term."
Mauresmo won 25 singles titles in her career, including two Grand Slams, and held the world No. 1 spot for a total of 39 weeks. She defeated Justine Henin in the final of the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2006 and also reached the 1999 Australian Open final, where she lost to Martina Hingis.
The 33-year-old also represented France in two Olympic Games, losing in the first round in Sydney in 2000, but winning a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Mauresmo's last Fed Cup tie in 2009 came in Escude's first year as captain. He held the position for four years, during which time France were relegated to World Group II for the first time in their history.
Mauresmo's maiden tie as captain will be the World Group II first round against Germany in February 2013.
"It is out of the question to begin, already resigned to being beaten," explained Mauresmo. "If we do our best, we will have a good chance of defeating the Germans, who are a formidable team in World Group II. We hope to be back in the World Group within the next two seasons."
"I am a happy president," revealed FFT president Jean Gachassin. "A few weeks ago, Arnaud Clement was named Davis Cup captain. Today it is Amelie Mauresmo who has agreed to be the new Fed Cup captain. Amelie has been a great champion and she is also a person with both human and sporting values. Above all she has the Fed Cup spirit which for me is something very important. She knows how to defend the French jersey."
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I can't get adb to recognize my device (ViewSonic ViewPad 7).
On my device under Settings/Applications/Development/ "USB debugging" is checked.
When I plug in my USB cable I see two ongoing items in the task bar: "USB debugging connected" and "USB connected".
However if I then go into my Mac' (Mac OS X 10.6.6) Terminal.app I can't find the device.
$ adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
$ adb version
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.26
Anyone have any idea what else I can try?
For a little more background it seems that the same version of adb on an older Macbook running OS 10.6.5 IS able to detect my device. Both versions of adb are 1.0.26.


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It is hard to imagine that people can be awarded prizes for saying opposite things, harder still to picture them sharing the prize for it. Yet that is exactly what has happened in economics this year.
The 2013 Nobel Prize for economics has been jointly awarded to three peopleEugene F Fama, Lars Peter Hansen (both of University of Chicago), and Robert J Shiller (of Yale University)for their empirical analysis of asset prices. Fama and Shiller are known for their financial market theory, while Hansen made his name developing econometric tools that have been widely used in studying asset prices, among other things. This split is in keeping with the recent trend of jointly honouring theoretical and empirical contributions to the field.
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the study of asset prices is particularly important. Everybody agrees that the crisis was exacerbated by the complexity of the assets being traded. Even now, nobody knows how to accurately price a collateralised debt obligation (CDO) or a mortgage-backed security (MBS). Even though they generate relatively high returns, the markets for these products are a fraction of the size they once were, because nobody trusts their valuations any more. Forecasting their prices is a fools game.
Yet simpler assets like stocks and bonds continue to be traded widely, and in large volumes. Some of this is due to confidence: investors have more faith in how stocks and bonds should be priced, and in forecasts. This faith comes from extensive researchin a large measure based on the works of this years laureates.
Eugene Fama is mainly known as the proponent of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), which asserts that since markets are efficient, there is no investment strategy that is guaranteed to make money via short-term trading.
In particular, the EMH says that since anybody can become an investor, financial markets are fully (and fiercely) competitive. In such a market, everybody brings their information to be priced in, and so todays opening price of a stock reflects all information up to today. And so, todays price changes must reflect only todays news, which is inherently unpredictable. Stock prices therefore follow a random walk, which cannot be forecasted in the short term.
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Samara Weaving attends the world premiere of Mystery Road on opening night of the Sydney Film Festival. Photo: Getty
The Sydney Film Festival got off to an introspective start with the screening of the Aboriginal film, Mystery Road.
The low-budget flick delved into the racial tension, crime and broken family relationships in an outback Queensland town - and climaxed in a spaghetti western-style shoot-out, much to the crowd's delight.
Director Ivan Sen told the auditorium: "We're all really pumped to get some people to see this film ... My last film, I had one actor who had acted before. It was nice to shoot something where I didn't have to call people's lines."
Sydney film festival intern Stephanie Langridge wearing Sydney festival flag dress. Photo: Edwina Pickles
Lead actor Aaron Pedersen put the film's success down to higher forces; his mantra on set had been: "Don't worry, the ancestors'll take care of it, brother."
Samara Weaving, who starred in the film alongside uncle Hugo, shimmered on the red carpet, while it was Stephanie Langridge who won most dedicated moviegoer award with her gown made of a Sydney Film Festival flag. "I've been interning with the Sydney Film Festival," she told the Diary, "and they came to me and said 'how much of a spectacle would you like to make at the red carpet?"'
But it was the evening's sponsors who inadvertently raised the biggest laugh of the night. An earnest speech by Audi's general manager of marketing Kevin Goult had the crowd wondering whether he might just be the best deadpan comedian to hit the State Theatre in the 60-year history of the festival.


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There have been a few comments that the mask doesn't look like the promo picture, but the fact is the pictures of the mask on my web site are of the Production Master of the mask. For those that don't know, the Production Master is the first production mask off the line that is used for Justin and I to approve for the rest of the run. Once approved, that becomes the template for the entire run. Hence the pictures on the our site and those used for promotion are the same exact masks as the ones being shipped. It's not like I have a one off Picture Mask to fool people with, it's the same mask. The lighting is different, since it was professionally lit and the hair is styled, but it is the same exact mask, and by the way, it's NOT Photoshopped!
And yes I'm over sensitive about this mask, because it has been two years of hell to make this happen, everything from contracts, to law suites, to material shortages, to production, to camel hair, to hang tags, to photos, to licensing labeling, to approvals . . . . . . . . . . You name it, it happened.
And I'll tell you truth, Justin and I didn't make this mask for the hardcore MM.NET Members or collectors, no offense, I love you guys, but we made it for the poor Joe Myers Fan that goes into a Halloween Store and can only buy what has been on the shelves 25 years, and doesn't know that they can spend $300 for an accurate mask in the independent UNLICENSED market or even if they did know, they can't afford it anyway! As Justin has said in numerous interviews, It was intended for the masses and available to the "hardcore fans" as an option.
It's not like I showed you this picture:
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So when you compare it, compare it to what is available to other Halloween masks that are legitimately licensed to the public, not to masks you can get from independents starting at $300. That being said, we think our mask can hold up to a $300 mask, but that wasn't the goal.
Also, let me give you a quick update on the status of the orders. I have 1,000 units coming in at the end of July. Once they arrive, I need to inventory them (count) and ship them out, than the remaining masks will show up around the second week of August, I need to inventory them as well and than those will ship, so PLEASE hold your horses, you will get the masks. Sending me emails everyday or calling me prevents us from getting them out faster and keep in mind, it's not like I wanted to ship these masks late, I'm going nuts to get them out as well, but all of the milling factories for camel hair dried up and it took us a while to find other sources and we REFUSE to ship the masks without the camel hair on them. You might be mad about the fact that the masks are a bit late, but you would be a hell of a lot madder if we shipped the masks with synthetic black fur hair!
And, to all of you that have offered your condolences to my family as a result of the recent death of my father, thank you so much from the bottom of my broken heart. I miss my father more than I can express in words and I appreciate the support and kind words from you guys. I won't forget it.


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Where to see discounted movies:
"Million Dollar Arm"
It's new at the Crest Cinema. Also there: "The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D," "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," "Rio 2" and "Divergent" ($3-$4.50).
"Million Dollar Arm" and "Blended"
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They're new at the Admiral Theater in West Seattle. Also there: "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" ($6).
"Venus in Fur"
It's new at the Varsity Theatre. Also there: "Deliver Us from Evil" and "Earth to Echo." All seats on Tuesday are $7.
"Begin Again"
It's new at the Big Picture Seattle. The 3:45 p.m. show Saturday-Sunday and the 6 p.m. show Monday, Tuesday and Thursday are $10.
"Roman Holiday" and "Pulp Fiction"
They're new at the Central Cinema in Seattle. All shows $6-$8.
"300: Rise of an Empire"
It plays at the Tin Theater in Burien this week. All shows $8.
"The Other Woman"
It continues at the East Valley 13 in Renton. Also there: "Rio 2," "Divergent," "Non-Stop," "Mr. Peabody & Sherman," "Lone Survivor," "Transcendence," "Need for Speed," "Ride Along," "The Lego Movie" and "RoboCop" ($3.50).
"Million Dollar Arm" and "Blended"
They're new at the Gateway in Federal Way.Also there: "The Amazing Spider-Man 3D," "The Other Woman," "Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D," "Heaven is for Real," "Rio 2 3D," "Divergent," "Mr. Peabody & Sherman" and "The Lego Movie" ($2, all seats on Tuesdays $1).
"Iron Man 3"
It opens the "Redmond Summer Movie Series" on Friday. Movie starts at dusk, Redmond City Hall, 15670 85th St., Redmond; free.
It kicks off the "Everett Cinema Under the Stars" series on Friday. Movie starts at dusk, Camp Patterson field, Thornton A. Sullivan Park, 11405 Silver Lake Road, Everett; free.
"The Help" and "The Black Stallion"
They open the "CinemaGig Outdoors" series. "The Help" plays on Friday at Donkey Creek Park, 8714 N. Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor, and "The Black Stallion" on Saturday at Skansie Brothers Park, 3207 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor; free.
"The Royal Tenenbaums"
It's the opening film in the "Fremont Outdoor Movies" series on Saturday. Movie at dusk, Fremont Studios, 3501 Phinney Ave. N., Seattle; $5.
"Thor: The Dark World"
It opens the "Carillon Point Outdoor Movie Nights" series on Saturday. Movie at dusk, Carillon Point plaza, 4100 Carillon Point, Kirkland; $5 donation.
It shows in the "Bellevue Summer Outdoor Movies in the Park" series on Tuesday. Movie at dusk, Bellevue Downtown Park, 10201 N.E. Fourth St., Bellevue; free.
It plays in the "Kidsummer Movie Festival" at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Ark Lodge Cinemas, 4816 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle; $3.
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
It screens in the "Movies at Marymoor Park" series on Wednesday. Movie at dusk, Marymoor Park, 6046 W. Lake Sammamish Parkway N.E., Redmond; $5 preferred seating.
"The Lego Movie"
It opens the "Renton Family Fun & Films" series on Wednesday. Movie at dusk, Gene Coulon Memorial Park, 1201 Lake Washington Blvd., Renton; free.
"The Lego Movie"
It shows this week in the "Outdoor Movies at Magnuson Park" series on Thursday. Movie at dusk, Magnuson Park, athletic fields, 7400 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle; $5.
"Despicable Me 2"
It screens in the "Moonlight Cinema" series on Thursday. Movie at dusk, Redhook Ale Brewery, 14300 N.E. 145th St., Woodinville; $5 (21 and over only).
"Saving Mr. Banks"
It plays in the "Movies in the Park" series on Thursday. Movie at dusk, Willis Tucker Park, 6705 Puget Park Drive, Snohomish; free.


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February 13th, 2013 - Added 2 more restaurants. I think I have a template, now I have to get
the database going.
February 7th, 2013 - Working on site
January 5th, 2013 - Happy new year folks. Taking a new direction with jatbar. No more ratings, just the food we eat. If we post it, we liked it. Food won't be limited to bay area anymore, hoping to expand on anything food related. Site will be evolving in the next coming weeks/months.
The archive for the old jatbar stuff needs work. Trying to convert the database to static content. All pictures and reviews are safe and will be browsable. They will be hosted at oldjatbar.com


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1) logic riddles (I think the hard part here is often more coming up with the right idea to look at it in the first place and the logical thinking afterwards isn't overly difficult)
2) formal logic (or pure logical thinking?) --> The neighbor has a cat, that cat likes mice, the third neighbor eats mice, what can the wife of the neighbor who doesn't like cats, but has three mice, one of those mice is 7 and the product of the ages of the mice is 42, whereas their sum is xyz do so the cat only eats the youngest mouse (blabla you get the idea lol)
Is SQL similar to this 'formal logic' stuff? I looked at a few of the SQL problems in this forum and it seems to me that this is the main thing one needs to have for SQL - would you agree?
P.S.: Yes, I'm a bit crazy and possibly to curious, I know!;)
I have found in teaching SQL that the greatest difficulty is in changing one's thinking from procedural (one row at a time) to thinking in terms of sets. Once you can start thinking about data as interrelated sets, SQL becomes fairly easy to use.


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- Sierra LeoneClothingFunding via Association for Rural Development (ARD)
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Neisakuru G...Sierra LeoneRetailFunding via Association for Rural Development (ARD)
Slmb I Group
SLMB has never got a loan from SMT before. They heard of SMT from colleagues in other schools who have benefited greatly from SMT's services. They decided to form a group and send in an application to SMT requesting a loan after hearing these other success stories. With the loan, some of the staff members will start a small business and those who are already run small businesses will invest the loan into their business. Some of the staff members will be using the loan to buy pieces of furniture, others to pay either for their children in their education or pay for themselves to pursue further studies. Others will use their loan in home building projects.
Government salaries are usually quite small for teachers, thus making teaching an unattractive profession for many whose primary motivator is money. Many choose other jobs over teaching because of the small salary, thus starving the field of qualified personnel to teach the children. The few who remain in the classroom have to find other ways of making ends meet. The vast majority of them engage in either business or agriculture or they provide extra tutorial classes for the children (though this is a practice the government is trying to stop). Needless to say, loans from SMT are a great help to the teachers in order to boost their businesses or invest it in something productive. Many want to go to school but could not afford the cost. Some will want to buy pieces of furniture, but their monthly salary is not enough to let them do so. With a loan, they will be able to meet some of these needs. And with their monthly salaries, they can repay easily via a payroll deduction type of system.
Fifty-one year old Brema S. K. is the deputy head teacher at SLMB. He was born in Masoko, on the outskirts of Magburaka town. He is married with four children. Two of his children are in primary school and the other two have already finished their schooling. Brema will use his loan in the construction of a home. He plans to buy bundles of corrugated iron zinc for roofing, nails and bricks for a strong foundation. In Magburaka, where he will make these purchases, a bundle of corrugated iron zinc will cost him Le 210,000, a box of nails Le 18,000 and each brick will cost him Le 500.
Additional Information
About Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT)Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT) is Kiva's oldest field partner in Sierra Leone. SMT began operations in 2002 as a microcredit program of the NGO Child Fund Sierra Leone under a USAID program to assist the reintegration of ex combatants back into their communities. Today, SMT offers group, agricultural, individual and salary loans to micro-entrepreneurs through six branches and one sub-branch in rural, urban, and peri-urban areas. By providing small loans and other financial services, SMT empowers poor clients to generate more income to help their families, improve their wellbeing, and create a more vibrant private small-business sector in Sierra Leone.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 12 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Nov 21, 2008
- Listed
- Dec 7, 2008
- Currency Exchange Loss:
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We all know that pc is trying to trade for a forward and a D man. so lets have some fun, pick a pair you think ( realsistic on the market players ) that would get us back on even terms with pittsburg , You get to pick one pair only, not multiples.
Ill start with Jagr and Streit, both would be killers on the pp and jagr would fit on any of the top 3 lines. Streit i think can get it going also.
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At the beginning of February we were able to sneak down to Phoenix to visit Colin's parents and soak up some heat…and I'm just getting around to pulling the photos off my camera now. It seems to take about a month to get around to posting while I'm working full time.
Colin had a quick business stop in San Fransisco on the way to Phoenix so I got Ron and Elise all to myself for 2 days.
On Thursday morning I got up at 4am to catch my 6:30am flight to Phoenix. The winds were behind us the whole way so we touched down in Phoenix 30 minutes early…unfortunately there wasn't a gate ready until our scheduled arrival so we had to sit out on the tarmac for half an hour!
Ron and Elise were waiting for me right at the security exit and had been there since my plane had landed 30 minutes earlier. From the airport we stopped by the biggest grocery store I've ever seen – some of the highlights? A cheese market with tasting area(looked like a pub inside the store), a chocolate fountain counter, jewelry store and 3 aisles of small kitchen appliances. We spent the afternoon lounging by the community pool and eating all the treats we'd picked up at the store and in the evening we went down to the Scottsdale Art Walk – an artsy outdoor market in old Scottsdale. It was a cool (for Phoenix) evening so there weren't many people out but we enjoyed chatting with the vendors, checking out the jewelry and window shopping in the arts district nearby.
On the Friday, Elise and I visited the craft store and worked on our new crafts.
Colin arrived Friday night and on Saturday we went to the Musical Instrument Museum. The main exhibit is sorted by geographical region and includes multiple instruments from almost every country in the world. You wear a headset that detects your location and as you approach each booth, your headset starts playing the audio for that booth's video. There is also an exhibit on specific artists, a room where you can play all different instruments and a window into their workshop where they restore items from their collection. If you are anywhere near Phoenix, I would highly recommend checking out this museum!
On Sunday we watched the start of the Superbowl and then headed to the airport. Men were lined up outside chili's too to catch the end of the game. Our flight time was getting a little close and I was worried the rush once the game ended would make us late so we took a chance and headed through security before the game ended. Our gamble was too late, the game was over by the time we got through security.
Our late night arrival in Calgary was a little rough for getting to work the next morning but I'm very glad we went. It's been a challenge to adjust to our new lifestyle – going from traveling to multiple countries in a month for a whole year to staying home for 4 months in a row!


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Five things I noticed while watching the Seattle Seahawks during their 24-0 defeat to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 2:
The goal-line defense remains strong. Seattle ranks fifth in touchdown percentage allowed when opponents have goal-to-go situations. Safety Earl Thomas stood out more than once when the Seahawks turned over the ball on downs after Pittsburgh had first-and-goal from the 1. He's just so fast and explosive. Not many players Thomas' size could have brought down Rashard Mendenhall so decisively at the goal line on that fourth-down play.
The unbalanced lines seem gimmicky. The Seahawks face personnel challenges with tight end John Carlson on injured reserve and fullback Michael Robinson sidelined indefinitely. They have reacted by occasionally using unbalanced lines. This doesn't seem to accomplish much. Tight end Zach Miller lined up at left tackle on third-and-9 from deep in Seattle territory. He did a good job chopping down Steelers linebacker James Harrison, but running back Marshawn Lynch went nowhere anyway. The Seahawks have yet to target Miller as a receiver on third down this season.
Special-teams coverage is a concern. Antonio Brown's 41-yard punt return late in the first quarter came to mind. Richard Sherman slipped, Kam Chancellor lost sideline containment, Justin Forsett got blocked and Clint Gresham missed before linebacker K.J. Wright tracked down Brown near midfield. Wright will be starting at linebacker this week, possibly affecting his special-teams reps. Coverage units are a concern against Arizona's Patrick Peterson and, possibly, LaRod Stephens-Howling.
It was time on Aaron Curry. The lineup change from Wright to Curry for Week 3 seems appropriate after watching this game more closely. The interception Curry dropped allowed the Steelers to sustain a touchdown drive for a 14-0 lead. The Steelers scored that touchdown when Curry rushed toward the line of scrimmage and ran right into pulling guard Ramon Foster, who cleared the way for Isaac Redman to find the end zone. Chancellor and linebacker Matt McCoy missed Redman, with Chancellor overrunning him. None of it happens if Curry makes what should have been a routine interception.
Tarvaris Jackson must do more. The Seahawks' quarterback has too often faced pressure quickly. He needs to better maximize opportunities when he does have time. A third-and-9 play midway through the second quarter comes to mind. With Miller helping in protection, Jackson had plenty of time. When he finally did throw, he missed Ben Obomanu high for what should have been a 20-yard gain to the Pittsburgh 32. Obomanu should have caught the ball anyway, but a more accurate throw delivered earlier would have helped. Jackson has completed none of his five pass attempts this season when the ball traveled more than 20 yards downfield. He's had receivers open, too.
I'll generally post these earlier in the week. The Monday night game in East Rutherford, N.J., threw off the usual schedule this time.


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Weighed in this morning, and I've finally passed the 170 barrier . I swear I was at 170-173 for two weeks! Only 5 or so more to go.
Weighed in this morning, and I've finally passed the 170 barrier . I swear I was at 170-173 for two weeks! Only 5 or so more to go.
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good for you. keep it up you will get there. I just got back out on my bike now I just need to start watching what it is i eat. college has ruined me. I prefer fast food burgers to almost anything out there.
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I don't eat out anymore, at least when I can help it. (Specifically, when I'm out with family members and they just have to have Wendy's, or similar..) I don't drink pop (or soda) anymore, I don't snack on things like chips, candy bars, yada yada yada..
I've found a way to cook healthier food that actually does taste great. I eat a lot of fish, veggies, and everything your mother told you to eat as a child. Also, when I don't bike, I try to walk or run for an hour a day. It's on the treadmill, which I loathe, but it helps with the cardio, making the biking much better.
I should consider myself lucky though, the weight has been coming off steadily without any plateaus of serious length. I use myfitnesspal on my phone to keep track of my exercises and *everything* I ingest. I've been following it (calorie wise, there isn't much you can do about the carbs, sugars, sodium, ect.. if you exercise a lot, I suppose it thinks you are only constricting calories and not using anything taken in during the day.) Weight can come off easy if you follow a good plan, and stick to it. All it takes is time.
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That's great. I love to bike and excersise but eating has been an issue for me. Gotta get that under control.


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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Fire investigators in Portland say the production of hash oil likely caused a house fire that left one man with burns.
The injured man was taken to a local hospital burn center. One firefighter suffered a puncture wound to a knee while searching the home for possible victims Thursday. He was treated and released.
Smoke and flames greeted fire crews when they arrived at the southeast Portland home.
Fire Lt. Rich Chatman says fire investigators and Portland police drug investigators surveyed the home's basement and determined that hash oil was being produced. Chatman says investigators believe the hash oil production was directly related to the cause of the fire.


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