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Stoltz Industries, Inc.
5932 S.W. 43rd St, Ft.Lauderdale, FL 33314-3605
Phone: (954) 792-3270 • Fax: (954) 584-5413
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Is the pipe in the 7 thru 18 inch keel roller stainless?
A: No. It is aluminum. The pipe is suspended in the mold when it is filled and the polyurethane completely encases it, inside and out, sealing out the water. They also do not have the separate bushings that can come out of the rubber rollers.
Q: Are they affected by salt water, oil or grease?
A: No. In fact you should use marine grease on the shaft mainly to keep the shaft from rusting. If you can get stainless shafts, great.
Q: My old rocker rollers had bushings in them. Do yours need them?
A: No. The polyurethane is strong enough by itself. Just use some grease when installing.
Q: Do you sell the shafts and brackets?
A: No. We are polyurethane molders.
Q: Do you make custom parts?
A: Yes, but there is a mold service charge. Cost varies with the size of the order.
Q: I cant find one of your rollers, can I order direct?
A: We will try to help you locate them or special order them through one of our retailers.
Q: Where are your rollers made?
A: In Ft .Lauderdale, Florida U.S.A.
Q: Does sunlight affect them?
A: Sunlight does cause them to darken but this is only a cosmetic change to the surface. It does not affect their durability.
Q: How long have you been in business?
A: George Stoltz started making polyurethane horseshoes in 1976. But even though they worked great, the blacksmiths were reluctant to try anything new. We had a boat with keel rollers and we tried replacing the worn out rubber rollers with polyurethane ones and the rest is history.
Q: I have an "insert name" trailer, what rollers do I need?
A: There are way too many makes and models of trailers for us to know what fits what. They also change frequently. To help you figure out which one of our rollers you need we need to know the following: width, diameter, and size of shaft. Dont try to measure the hole size in the roller, measure the shaft on the trailer.
Q: My old rocker roller has ribs or tread on them. Yours are smooth. Why?
A: The tread on the rubber rollers serves no purpose. They are strictly cosmetic. They are more difficult to remove from our molds and we have more rejects with those. So we have to charge more for the ones with tread.
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Keira Knightley Blows Her Top Off for Chanel
Does Keira Knightley know how to sell perfume, or what?
The Pirates of the Caribbean actress spices up her new ad for Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle perfume by doffing her top and barely protecting her modesty with a strategically placed pair of suspenders.
We have no idea what this has to do with perfume, but we smell a hit.
Let us know in the comments section: What do you think of Keira Knightley's Chanel ad?

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I've just figured out that I'm a guy who needs two or three columns to communicate my big ideas, or at least argue them out.
In my last column, I proposed rebuilding computing devices and the Internet from the ground up to create a new, more secure, default authenticated Internet to replace our wholly insecure, default anonymous, current Internet. As expected, dozens of readers completely disagreed with me.
[ RogerGrimes's column is now a blog! Get the latest IT security news from the Security Adviser blog. ]
Several told me that "the Internet needs to be free!" What exactly does that mean? Is it free for you today? If you're not paying access fees, you either live in one of those cool cities where the Internet is free, you're stealing access from a neighbor, or you're just not paying Mom the money you owe her.
I assume that "free" in this case must mean "free from The Man!" Free from governmental regulation. Free to do anything you want, however you want.
My solution doesn't get rid of your "free" Internet; you're free to stay on the current version as long as you like. I'm just saying that if you want a more secure version, we can do a lot better. And I'm betting that if we build a truly secure Internet, the business world will move to that more secure version and pay more for the privilege. When most business moves to the more secure version, any Web site hoping to make more money will need to move to the more secure version, too. They can create two versions of their site: one for the free Internet, another for the safer channel.
Several readers said my idea was too expensive to implement. That's a fair statement. However, it's my contention that the better question is: What's the cost of not doing anything?
All sorts of services, including those that are mission-critical and basic to society, are going online: banking, purchasing goods, billing and payment systems, reservation systems, travel planning, paying taxes, ordering city services, buying concert tickets, voting, VoIP, and so on. It's a predictable pattern. First, it starts as a new whiz-bang convenience, but pretty soon you'll be charged to do things offline. Eventually, the only option for some tasks will be online communication — you won't be able to visit a brick-and-mortar store, and there won't be 1-800 numbers to call or mailing addresses to write to. Your only option will be online commerce. Soon, a lot of our world will solely be available online. Tell me if I'm wrong.
So our commerce infrastructure will move online, but our transport pipes will still be the same old technology with the same crappy problems that we have today. Will we ever get authenticated ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) to put down man-in-the-middle attacks? Will we ever be able to stop DDoS attacks? Will we ever be able to trust our e-mail? Will spam or phishing ever go away?
Online crime is high value and extremely low risk. We catch only the idiots and the perpetually greedy. Since we aren't nabbing the vast majority of online criminals, the problem is bound to get worse.
So do the math. Our world is going online; it's a wave that can't be stopped. The current Internet is overrun by criminals and malware. One-third of the population had their identity stolen last year alone. One-fourth of all PCs connected to the Internet are infected by remote control bots. Hundreds of thousand of Web sites are infected by malware. Spam accounts for more e-mail than legitimate messages. Anti-virus scanning accuracy is at an all-time low. There is almost no hope that any of the current defensive measures will be able to make the problem better. It's not a pretty equation.
I'm fairly certain that our Internet a decade from now will be one where default anonymity is gone, or at least relegated to a less secure twin. Businesses will flock to the new, more secure version, as will their business partners. Your grandmother and less computer-savvy folks will pay more to be "safe." In the end, we will all be on a more secure Internet — it's just a question of whether we do it in a planned, methodical manner or the haphazard, reactive way we do most computer things.
If my vision is off track, what is the alternative?


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MI5 is battling "astonishing" levels of cyber-attacks on UK industry, the intelligence agency's chief has said.
In his first public speech for two years, Jonathan Evans warned internet "vulnerabilities" were being exploited by criminals as well as states.
The attacks were a threat to the integrity of information, he added.
Mr Evans also warned the London 2012 Olympics was an "attractive target" for terrorist groups, but said security preparations were well under way. ...


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It's Friday night and your wallet is empty. You're broke but you don't know what to do. No worries, you don't have to sit home bored without anything to do because Apple has come to rescue you! Starting every Thursday, the iTunes store will put up a movie to rent for just 99 cents. This is going to be a weekly deal. Every Thursday through Monday, the movie will be available for the low price of 99 cents and once you rent it, you still have the typical 30 days to watch it.
This could really give a boost to iTunes rentals because at 99 cents, people might be more inclined to give it a try. While it's only one select movie per week, it's something to do on the weekend if you're a little low on cash or you're simply bored. Apple's selection this week is a movie from Paramount Pictures titled The Hours. It came out back in 2002, so it appears as though the deal each week won't be for something more recent. They do provide a link to view the trailer and the plot summary though, so that helps give you an idea if the movie is something you'll like. Either way, whether you like it or not, it's just 99 cents so you won't feel like you've lost money.
Sounds like a great move by Apple…
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In the wake of a massive recall of beef products from Canada's XL Foods plant in Alberta, concerns have been raised about an apparent decision by USDA to significantly scale back its foreign country food-safety auditing program.
In fact, the beef recall, which has become the largest in Canadian history, was initially triggered when FSIS border inspectors in Montana discovered E. coli O157:H7 in multiple samples of the XL Foods beef being shipped into the United States and notified the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
According to an analysis conducted by Food Safety News, between 2001 and 2008 FSIS inspectors audited an average of 26.4 countries a year. In the wake of a 15% cut to its foreign food-safety program budget, from 2009 to 2012 the number of audits dropped to an average of only 9.8 countries a year. Only 6 countries were audited in 2010 and only 3 in 2011: Australia, New Zealand and Poland.
An audit is currently slated for Canada, although FSIS officials have stated that it is not related to the beef recall.
Meanwhile, FSIS has not posted reports for the countries that were audited in 2010, nor named which countries were audited in 2011 and 2012, nor identified individual plant audits. According to Food Safety News, the agency stated that those reports were still under review, although earlier this week, FSIS did post several draft foreign country audit reports.
"This is more of a document approach," one former FSIS official told Food Safety News. "It doesn't make sense to keep going back to the countries that don't have problems."
The decrease in both frequency and intensity of inspections of foreign meat and food product exporters aligns with the trend in domestic inspections: More responsibility for food safety being shifted to the company, with federal oversight of HACCP plans and in-plant intervention systems replacing the direct physical presence of inspectors on the lines.
A risk-based response
To a certain extent, that evolution makes sense. With meat and poultry inspection, USDA's food-safety challenge is microbial contamination, not animal diseases or physical lesions that could be observed and tagged by someone watching carcasses file by.
But with imported foods, "document" oversight is not enough. It is crucial that foreign plants be certified as "equivalent to" U.S. facilities, but beyond that, on-site inspections need to be conducted regularly. Even with the best U.S. plants, federal inspectors are there on a daily basis, and periodic—as well as occasional surprise—audits are simply part of the program.
Of course, food safety is a serious matter, with tens of thousands of Americans suffering food-related illnesses every year. Whether the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's estimated 128,000 annual hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths a year is accurate or not, the cost of dealing with food-borne illnesses runs into the tens—maybe hundreds—of billions of dollars a year.
This situation with the apparent reduction in the frequency and intensity of foreign food processor-exporters underlines the danger of across-the-board budget cuts. While politicians and the public can certainly argue over the politics of deficit reduction and budget balancing, there are certain essential activities that USDA and other agencies must continue to conduct.
And when it comes to the safety of imported foods, there are simply no private-sector options available to assume government's oversight role. Either inspections—especially in-plant visitations in foreign countries—are fully funded, or they don't happen at all.
A debate over the overall size and scope of government is a useful tool to keep federal agencies focused on their primary missions. But with health and safety, government efforts cannot be compromised simply because some people object to footing the bill.
In the end, even as we assess government's proper role and reach, it's critical to remember that there is discretionary spending and there are essential programs. Even as we surgically reduce the former, we need to aggressively maintain the latter.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dan Murphy, a veteran food-industry journalist and commentator.


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BABSON PARK, Fla. – In their second meeting in as many days, the Saint Leo baseball team could not repeat its comeback win over Webber International University from Wednesday night as the Lions fell 19-5 to the Warriors as SLU traveled to Webber's campus in the middle of the State of Florida.
In their final road contest of 2009, the Lions saw the Webber bats blister their pitching as the hosts racked up 20 hits in what was the final game of the season for the Warriors.
After the Lions posted a 1-0 lead in the top of the second, Webber plated three in the bottom of the frame, two in the next two innings and then dropped a seven-run fifth inning to put the game away.
Senior MJ Wilson was the main difference-maker as he blasted two homers in the game, went 3-for-5 and posted six RBI.
Although the Lions only managed five hits and faced five Webber pitchers, Jonathan Duncan managed to posted three RBI on the evening.
The Lions will take over a week's rest before the return to Thomas B. Southard Stadium for their final Sunshine State Conference series of 2009. Saint Leo will face Florida Tech in a three-game set beginning on Saturday with a doubleheader. First pitch is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.


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That could be a PR dictum, and if it becomes so, then Birmingham musician and promoter Chris Mapp should take the credit.
He has just announced that there will be no Harmonic Festival in 2012. This is the excellent showcase of bands both home-grown and from afar that Chris first masterminded along with fellow Birmingham musician Percy Pursglove in early 2010 and then again at about this time last year.
"What?" we might have cried. "You're kidding me! This is a poor show, Chris. I had such a fab time at the mac last year, with superb performances by Food and the Mike Fletcher Quartet and Percy in duo with Hans Koller, and that sucker for punishment Steve Tromans playing solo for hours on end, heard only by headphone wearing wanderers… What the hell am I going to do now to cure the autumn blues? And it's all your fault…"
But Chris had already worked out how to counter our disappointment and turn our pouty mouths into thankful grins.
He produced the puppy!
To give it its full name it is Snarky Puppy, a seven-piece band from Texas who the Harmonic twins (for that is how we think of them) came across at The Band On The Wall in Manchester earlier this year. You can get a taste of their funky accessibility, courtesy of YouTube, here:
I don't think they will have a string section with them, and whether they usually play in the round, who knows… They sound mighty tasty, though. Love that mini-Moog sound which somehow reminds me of both Robert Glasper and The Isley Brothers. Lovely spacious stuff that really builds, and lush horns too. And the good news is Chris and Percy are bringing them to Birmingham next month in the first of what the Harmonics hope will be fairly regular one-off gigs in the months ahead.
Snarky Puppy will be at The Hare And Hounds in Kings Heath on Thursday 8 November. Tickets are £12 and are available here.
Oh, and having let us stroke and coo over the puppy, Chris also offers us the hope that the Harmonic Festival will be "back with a bang in 2013". Lucky for some, then!
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Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Komma, Chandrasekhar R Author's Email Address email@example.com URN etd-1118103-115616 Title Identification of Morphological Characteristics in St. Augustinegrass and Zoyisagrass Cultivars during Establishment and Growing under Shade and Sun Degree Master of Science (M.S.) Department Horticulture Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title James Mc Crimmon Committee Co-Chair Paul Wilson Committee Co-Chair Edward W. Bush Committee Member Jeff S. Kuehny Committee Member Keywords
- sun and shade study
- nutrient analysis
- turfgrass
- st. augustinegrass
- zoysiagrass
- visual quality
- growth parameters
Date of Defense 2003-10-14 Availability unrestricted AbstractShade is one of the most important factors affecting turfgrass growth for home lawns. It affects both shoot and root growth and the overall quality of the turf stand. A study was initiated to investigate the effects of shade on growth and quality of St. Augustinegrass ("Bitterblue", "Delmar", "Floratam", "Palmetto", "Raleigh", "Seville", and"TR-610") and two cultivars of zoysiagrass ("Empire" and "Empress") were planted in both the shade and sun to study the effects on growth and quality. Quality measurements were taken for color, texture, density, uniformity, and overall quality on a monthly basis. Growth parameters were taken for internode length , stolon width, leaf width, and leaf length during initial, middle, and final stages of the study period.
"TR-610" was the best cultivar under shade for its outstanding quality in color, density, uniformity, and overall quality. "Delmar", "Palmetto", and "Raleigh" performed relatively better in shade compared to other cultivars. "Empire" and "Empress" zoysiagrasses had good quality until the middle of the study period but quality decreased toward the end of the study. The quality of "Empire" was relatively better compared to "Empress" at the end of the study period. "Bitterblue" and "Floratam" did not perform well in the shade.
"TR-610" showed shade tolerance by performing similarly in both shade and sun for all the growth parameters. "Bitterblue" had poor shade tolerance compared to the other cultivars. It had longer internodes, thicker stolons, and wider leaf blades in shade during the study period. "Floratam" was relatively better compared to "Bitterblue". Reduced internode length, optimum stolon and leaf width, and increased leaf lengths were identified as the shade tolerant characters.
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The repetition rate and carrier-envelope phase offset frequencies of a turnkey, all-fiber-based continuum generator were phase locked to a hydrogen maser. The frequency of the hydrogen maser was calibrated with a highly stable cesium atomic clock, and therefore a fully phase-locked optical frequency comb with well-defined absolute frequencies was obtained. In contrast with the commonly used Ti:sapphire-laser-based systems, we have accomplished a fully turnkey system with no user-adjustable parts. To evaluate the performance of this novel system, we performed absolute frequency measurements in the telecommunications region and at 1064 nm and compared them with our traditional Ti:sapphire-based comb.
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Sapphire, which is en route to Southampton now, faced interruptions during a nearly four-month refurbishment in the Fincantieri shipyard in Palermo, Italy, when workers participated in a national strike action.
The ship is expected to arrive in Southampton on Monday -- when it was originally scheduled to depart for Venice -- and will leave on a shortened cruise a week later (Monday, 2 April). During the weeklong stay in the U.K., the ship "will need to be loaded with provisions, and items such as furniture need to be loaded and installed," company spokesman Carl Catterall told Cruise Critic.
A 23-night inaugural cruise, which was scheduled to visit Mediterranean ports in Spain, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Gibraltar and Portugal, has now been shortened to 16 nights. The line has not made clear what stops the revised itinerary includes, saying only, "We have tried to keep as much of the original cruise as possible and minimise the disruption."
Catterall said all passengers on the disrupted cruise have been contacted, and offered either a pro-rated refund for the missed portion of the cruise, alternative accommodation on another cruise, or the option to cancel and receive a full refund.
The makeover included the addition of 46 balconies to cabins on Deck 8, new restaurants and a "View From the Top" outdoor cinema. Also, cabins have been updated, several public areas have been redesigned, and the line is introducing iPads and onboard Wi-Fi connectivity.
--Jamey Bergman, Web Content Producer, U.K.


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Klipsch's 2014 season offers variety, venue updates
By Dawn Pearson
Music fans of all genres have a lot to look forward to this summer at Klipsch Music Center, and they can thank themselves for the upgrades and famous artists performing in the open arena in Noblesville.
Country band Rascal Flatts kicks off the summer concert series, which includes acts from country to rock to rap to '70s groups.
"The country genre continues to become more popular and make no mistake about it, this is not your grandfather's country music," said Andrew Newport, General Manager for North American Concerts and Live Nation.
Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Lady Antebellum, Zac Brown Band, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert and Keith Urban will all make stops through this summer, too.
Fans have new country artists to look forward to as well as camping in Klipsch's campground.
"We're thrilled to be hosting two nights of Luke Bryan on Aug. 29 and 30 and will open our on-site campground," Newport said. "We're also very excited to host Dierks Bently who is headlining Klipsch for the first time on Sept. 27."
Classic rock also will be alive and rolling in Noblesville this summer.
"A bittersweet date for us this summer is with Motley Crue with Alice Cooper. While we love hosting these guys, we understand that this is their final tour," he said. "So if you've ever wanted to see them, this could be your last chance to rock out with them."
Jimmy Buffett travels with one the world's most "enviable tailgate parties," and Journey will appear with Steve Miller Band and Tower of Power – one of those shows where everyone will sing along every word to every song.
"KISS & Def Leppard will be stopping by on Aug. 22, and if you haven't seen either of these bands before, you need to," Newport said.
There are many new artists performing for the first time as well.
"We love seeing artists that are relatively new to the scene and this year will showcase One Republic, Kings of Leon, Fall Out Boy, Wiz Khalifa and the Goo Goo Dolls," according to Newport. "Fall Out Boy is a Warped Tour alumni which will visit Indy on July 3. We always enjoyed seeing shots of our venue on Warped Roadies show that airs on FUSE TV."
And it wouldn't be summer without Klipsch's staple, multi-night performer Dave Matthews Band. They will be visiting at the end of June.
"We'll be camping for two nights of DMB," he said.
Whereas the band has toured with opening acts historically, this year the shows will be an evening with Dave Matthews Band.
"We're hearing that in addition to the band's normal sets, there may also be some acoustic songs as well," he said. "We are excited to see what changes the band will make to their live show this year."
Newport credits the music lovers for their support.
"We're fortunate enough to book some incredible artists every season and should thank the fans for coming out year after year. It's because of the fans that we're able to continue to bring many of the industry's hottest acts to Indiana," he said. "We can't wait to open the doors to se so many familiar faces and hopefully some new ones as well."
Klipsch upgrades and changes
Cell service
Over the off-season, there have been some extensive upgrades made to the venue's cellular network and coverage. The upgrades will be rolled out in phases starting early in the season.
Focus on service
There will be a new bar in the venue's south plaza. Management is experimenting with a new program as well that provides guests the opportunity to purchase a table for individual shows.
More options
The amphitheatre will be rolling out some new products this year. Additionally, Live Nation teamed up with Hugh Acheson to develop a vegetarian rice bowl option that will be available this year. It will also be continuing to serve locally grown produce and meat from responsibly raised animals.
Summer schedule
Klipsch Music Center is at 12880 E. 146th St. in Noblesville; 776-8120
May 17-Rascal Flatts, Sheryl Crow, Gloriana
June 7-Tim Mcgraw, Kip Moore, Cassadee Pope
June 13-Backstreet Boys, Avril Lavigne
June 19-Brad Paisley, Leah Turner, Charlie Worsham
June 20-Dave Matthews Band
June 21-Dave Matthews Band
June 26-Jimmy Buffett
June 28-Journey, Steve Miller Band, Tower Of Power
July 3-Vans Warped Tour
July 5-Motley Crue, Alice Cooper
July 9-Fall Out Boy, Paramore, New Politics
July 13-Zac Brown Band
July 19-Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival: Avenged Sevenfold, Korn
July 24-Lady Antebellum, Billy Currington, Joe Nichols
Aug. 2-Keith Urban, Jerrod Niemann, Brett Eldredge
Aug. 3-Onerepublic, The Script
Aug. 14-Under The Influence Of Music Tour: Wiz Khalifa, Young Jeezy, Tyga, Rich Homie Quan, Sage The Gemini, Mack Wilds, Iamsu! And DJ Drama
Aug. 10-Chicago, Reo Speedwagon
Aug. 16-Miranda Lambert, Justin Moore, Thomas Rhett, Jukebox Mafia
Aug. 22-Kiss, Def Leppard
Aug. 23-Kings Of Leon, Young The Giant, Kongos
Aug. 26-Goo Goo Dolls,Daughtry, Plain White T's
Aug. 29 and 30-Luke Bryan, Lee Brice, Cole Swindell


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The Final Enemy
|TSR Product Code
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|3 - 5
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|Dave J. Browne with Don Turnbull
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|Linked modules
The Final Enemy is an adventure module for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) fantasy roleplaying game written by Dave Browne with Don Turnbull[1] set in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting.
Plot summary[edit]
The Final Enemy is an underwater quest to penetrate the lair of a species of fish-like monstrous humanoids called sahuagin.[2] After identifying the evil creatures, which have massed in force and viciously organized as a threat to the village of Saltmarsh, the player characters have the opportunity to thwart the creatures' plans and ensure the safety of the little town.
Publication history[edit]
The Final Enemy was written by Dave J. Browne with Don Turnbull, with art by Keith Parkinson, and was published by TSR in 1983 as a forty-eight page booklet with an outer folder.[2] It was designed and developed in the United Kingdom, and was intended for characters of 3rd–5th level.[3] The module was the third and final module in the Saltmarsh series,[2] presenting the climactic events in an underwater campaign of three related adventures set in the town of Saltmarsh which began in The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh and continuned in Danger at Dunwater. [4]
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- ^ Underwater Series at acaeum. Retrieved on November 27, 2008.
- ^ a b c Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. pp. 115–116. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
- ^ Greyhawk Modules Locations Index at canonfire!. Retrieved on November 27, 2008.
- ^ Review at RPGnet. Retrieved on November 27, 2008.
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I wanted to create a vertical-stripe hat pattern using different colors and textures, but I didn't want to carry the colors across the back of the knitting. So, to remedy this I worked out this technique of the knitting the separate panels and knitting them together as you go. The technique used to attach the panels as you work creates a kind of homspun look, which I love. The beauty of this hat is that it appears trickier than it is, and there is no seaming at the end. You will get oohs and ahhs from everyone with the unusual, textured hat.


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Miners in South Africa are returning to work at the Marikana platinum complex, which was the scene of violent protests in which 44 people died.
Striking miners reached an agreement with owners Lonmin on Tuesday. It will see their salaries rise by up to 22%.
Lonmin is hoping to recover some of the big losses it incurred during the six-week stoppage.
An investigation is under way into the deaths of the miners, 34 of whom were shot by police.
The strikes have spread to other mines in South Africa, one of the world's biggest producers of precious metals.
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On Monday, President Jacob Zuma said the disruption had cost the industry $548m (£337m) in lost output.
On Wednesday, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters near a mine owned by Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world's largest platinum producer.
Amplats had re-opened its mines on Tuesday after they were closed last week.
Last week, the government announced it would clamp down on the protests.
The Marikana miners had been demanding a monthly salary of 12,500 rand ($1,513; £935) – they currently earn between 4,000 and 5,000 rand.
As well as a pay rise of 11-22%, they will get a one-off payment of 2,000 rand to help cover the weeks of not being paid while they were on strike.
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I guess it makes sense that Kobo sells well in Canada. There is always a nationalistic fiber in people that plays a part. I guess Sony sells better in Japan and Apple sells better in the United States, see my point?
Yes and no. Despite RIM being Canadian, I have really no interest in swapping my Windows Phone for a Blackberry, or my Surface for a Playbook. It's still got to be a good product and/or service.
And Kobo's marketing doesn't wrap the flag around the product, so I'm not even sure how many purchasers here even know the company is based in Toronto (and, of those, how many also know it's now owned by Rakuten).
Now the Glo is one of the best readers out there so that alone is good reason for good sales. At this point I wonder how well the Glo will do in the US.
I think the Glo is significant in that the hype is all about front-lit readers, and the Kobo Glo is the only one being offered to Canadian retailers (at least by a major player). The Kindle Paperwhite is absent from the Canadian market (as has every other new Kindle, at launch, from Canada for years now). Nooks aren't on the market here. Sony doesn't have a front-lit e-reader. Etc.
Though undeniably, Kobo's early success can be largely attributed to the market strength of Chapters/Indigo.
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Taneesh, who has appeared as child artiste in many films, made his entry into the Telugu film industry as hero with Nachavule. His second film Ride was also a moderate hit at the Box Office. From then onwards, the success eluded this young chap. His films like Yem Pilo Yem Pillado and Kodipunju bumped at the Box Office. His latest film Mem Vayasuku Vahcham, however, made a mark again. Now, he is back with the movie Chanakyudu.
Story: Swapna's (Ishita Datta) parents are killed by her maternal cousins to grab their property. So she lives away from her relatives. However, she wants to marry a right person from their joint family. Finally, her search ends with Chanakya (Taneesh), belonging to their family. But Chanakya always tries to get rid of her. Why he avoids her? What happens to Swapna's love? Will she be able to win his heart? Answers to all these questions have to be seen on the silver screen.
Performance: Taneesh has shown improvement in his acting in this film. He looks good in action scenes, but fails to impress in romantic sequences. Ishita Datta has filled the glamour slot well. The director has given more scope to her role in the film too. Other artists have done justice to their roles. Though there are five villains in the film, the director has not cared to give any prominence to anyone of them.
Technical: The movie has poor production values. Neither the camera work nor the editing is worth mentioning. The director appears to have not gone for digital intermediate (DI) work for the film. Rahul and Vengi's music has failed to impress the audiences. Only two songs like 'Naa Cheliya Navvu...' and 'Naa Swasalona...' are good - Both in music and choreography. The background score in re-recording is poor.
The director has chosen an old subject which had appeared many times on the Telugu screen earlier. He has penned a tight screenplay and given a novel movement to the subject. Audiences are pushed into the dilemma whether the story runs in present mode or in flashback as the director himself does not have the clarity on it. Somehow, it's clarified in the climax. Despite several murders, there is no enquiry of police and only at one place we can find the entry of police.
Remarks: If you are a fan of Taneesh, watch the movie, otherwise you can skip it.
Producer: Thiriveedhi Santosh, Gottiganti Ramachandra
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Cast: Taneesh, Ishita Dutta, Kota Srinivasan Rao, Chandra Mohan, Ali, Subbaraju, Jhansi
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Lawyer of Anthony Karbo, former NPP Youth Organiser, Mr. Egbert Faibille Jnr, has described the invitation by the police of his client [Karbo] as "much ado about nothing."
According to Mr. Faibille Jnr, "we are looking at a situation where Mr. Karbo has been cautioned on the basis of section 207 of the criminal and other offences Act, Act 29 of 1960, which reads 'a person, who in a public place or at a public meeting uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or by which a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned, commits a misdemeanour."
"So this tape assuming that it even exists; or its Mr. Karbo's voice, was it recorded in his room or within [the] confines of a room, such that it is not a public place? So that if you bring charges against him, will it stand?"
Lawyer Faibille Jnr added, "there is a certain burden on the Police or prosecution if they indeed want to go on that way."
The Police CID has however given notice that it has not brought any charges against the former National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Anthony Karbo.
Mr. Karbo was on Thursday invited by the Police to give a caution statement on comments he is alleged to have made to the effect that he was planning to get mercenaries from Libya, Liberia and other African countries to cause confusion at polling centres during the December general elections.
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A few weeks ago, Anthony Karbo, was alleged to have been captured on tape plotting with goons to employ the services of mercenaries from Liberia, Libya and other neighbouring countries to create confusion in the coming December elections.
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Modeling embedded systems - Part 4: If prototypes aren't possible
Editor's Note: In Part 4 in a series of tutorials on modeling tools, Shelley Gretlein of National Instruments considers those situations when traditional hardware prototyping is not possible and how modeling can be a viable option.
Sometimes you must model - you simply can't prototype or iterate on your design. Consider a project when perhaps the embedded system doesn't exist – when you are designing for hardware that is not yet complete or ready, such as the latest chip where you are designing to specifications instead of silicon. This is a great example where modeling, simulation, emulation and later prototyping is a valuable approach.
One example is at National Instruments (NI) where they were designing for unreleased hardware. The embedded team needed to move a significant amount of their core product designs to a new MPU+FPGA+I/O architecture before the integrated silicon was on the market. They saw the value of this new technology early through confidential interactions with the silicon vendor. This early access allowed them to plan for the new technology upgrade in our embedded system. The engineers worked closely with the vendor throughout the entire process – an important point in such situations.
Throughout these discussions, the vendor did an excellent job of setting up a development platform for the NI embedded team to use as an emulation of what the final architecture would look like – including a fixed personality FPGA that would represent or behave like the final FPGA fabric in the eventual design.
This development platform (Figure 21) was a valuable board used for early prototyping, design, and test. However, it was certainly not an exact stand-in for the final product. There were several subtle and a few substantial differences. These discrepancies were well documented by the vendor so there were no surprises, but the engineers needed to optimize for and understand the substantial differences as they were developing, so there was still a bit of work to do.
Figure 21 - Example of a silicon prototype board (courtesy of LogicBricks) versus a final hardware design (NI CompactRIO courtesy of National Instruments).
The most important shortcoming of the development board was the fact that instead of a single, high-performance FPGA fabric like the final design, the engineers at NI were designing to a system with multiple FPGAs. The communication delay between silicon caused a significant performance degradation. The development board couldn't replicate an entire system running at 40 MHz, but could only reach 10MHz, making it unusable for timing and testing accurate application performance. This is a good example where all models, even physical emulation platforms, aren't 100% accurate, but if you understand the shortcomings, they are still very useful.
To compensate for the shortcomings of the model, the team chose to include a software-based design in the development. They first found off-the-shelf boards that had similar CPU characteristics in terms of performance and architectures (multicore ARM designs that were close to the final design) and that provided performance comparable to the final product. This hybrid design approach provided a closer system in terms of floating point performance.
To accommodate the FPGA design aspects, the team designed a software-based environment on the real-time CPU that allowed the deployment of FPGA code to a real-time target and have it behave similarly, in terms of timing, to the final FPGA fabric that would then be cross-referenced with the slower, more accurate FPGA combination board from the vendor.
It's important to note that the team chose not to simulate the entire hardware platform using cycle- or even instruction-accurate simulation tools. They deemed "stand-in" hardware platforms with sufficiently similar characteristics as "good enough" and the most efficient approach for development. The team was confident in this approach because they knew once real silicon materialized, the final implementation could leverage the early design and full test frameworks as developed on the hardware stand-ins.
If you find yourself in a similar situation, designing for a target that isn't in the market yet, you can approach your design in a similar fashion.
- Work closely with your vendor to understand what features and capabilities the future platform will have and to understand the differences in performance and hardware architecture
- Select an existing, off-the-shelf, similar platform for early design and development
- Once you run into the performance or feature limitations of that existing platform (the areas where the new design will differ and add more value) then select a surrogate hardware and software emulation platform for designing to those new, unreleased capabilities. This step requires additional software work to create the simulated or emulated environment.
Even with these well-planned steps there will be differences and there will be additional development once you get your final hardware device. But if you focus on proper design techniques and clear abstraction boundaries, you can protect large portions of your algorithms and focus on optimizing timing and specific I/O features once you get your first prototypes up and running.
Related to the silicon being unreleased, perhaps you can't prototype because of the size or cost of the project. If you are creating a new control system for a new light rail system, for example, you can't work on the prototypes until late in the game – and you certainly don't want to experiment on the real thing. These are situations where software models can be very helpful.
But aren't All Models Wrong?
"All models are wrong, some are just useful" is a phrase generally attributed to statistician George Box. Whether you are new to modeling or have been designing embedded systems for decades, this warning pertains to us all. No matter how carefully or completely you might model a system, the model will always be less than the reality that is modeled.
You may remember when Boeing's 787 Dreamliner was introduced. This aerospace innovation was one of the most exciting technology introductions in modern times. The mid-sized, twin-engine jet airliner developed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes is comprised of 50% composite (carbon fiber), 20% aluminum, 15% titanium, 10% steel, and 5% other materials but in terms of volume, the aircraft is 80% composite. Each 787 contains approximately 35 tons of carbon fiber reinforced plastic.
What does this have to do with modeling? Paolo Feraboli, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School's Automobili Lamborghini Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory ("Is the carbon fiber 787 dreamliner safe enough to fly?"), was extensively involved in the Dreamliner design and had this to say about modeling the 787: "Unlike homogeneous metals, multi-layered composites are very difficult to simulate accurately on a computer. We don't currently have the knowledge and the computational power to do a prediction based on purely mathematical models." Thus new, innovative materials require modeling AND prototyping in order to be designed and tested.
Figure 22 - Boeing's 787 Dreamliner was so innovative in terms of material, the embedded designers needed to model AND prototype to truly understand the behavior of the design.
This doesn't mean models are useless. If done well, you can use models to help in all of the situations covered in this series. You just don't want to use only models for your embedded system design.
From the examples, you understand how useful models are and then we tell you they are all wrong – what are you to do? You embrace another useful quote from author Jim Collins, embrace "the genius of the and". You must model your system AND combine it with the 'real world'. Often the best way to combine your theories and requirements with the real world is to create a prototype.
This approach – modeling, simulation, and prototyping - is also critical in complex mechatronics systems such as robotics. Fred Nikgohar, CEO of Robodynamics, points out the value of the real world. Since building robots is about managing a multi-disciplinary project, it involves not just software but mechanics, electronics, and integration: "Integration is often the after-thought in building robots. It is that final step in the design process where all the disciplines come together and create a robot greater than the sum of its engineered parts. It is also the step where things that worked in isolation often fail. And worse, troubleshooting becomes enormously more difficult because if the robot doesn't behave as planned, you have to troubleshoot throughout the engineered chain…".
He points out the challenge in robotics is a lot of ideas that never come to fruition. "The real world is… very real! Wires come loose, mechanical parts bend, even firmware uploads fail sometimes. By sheer necessity to create robot engineering efficiencies, we have developed testing plans, troubleshooting plans, and even simulation runs to make things go further and smoother. But nothing has been more valuable than the actual experience of building robots." This applies to all of our embedded system design. Nothing is more valuable than experiencing your design with real-world constraints and real-world situations. You must model and prototype to perfect your design.


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The APS Apker Award is given annually for outstanding research by an undergraduate. Finalists are chosen in two categories: from institutions that award PhD degrees, and from institutions not awarding the PhD. The finalists meet with the selection committee for a day of interviews, which this year took place on September 11 at SLAC. The committee then recommends recipients in each of the two categories to the APS Executive Board.
|Shown here are six of the seven finalists. They are (l to r): Hugh Churchill (Oberlin), Matthew Pellicione (RPI), Inna Vishik (Stanford), Benjamin Heidenreich (Amherst), Huanqian Loh (MIT), and Timothy Cronin (Swarthmore). The seventh finalist, Stephanie Moyerman of Harvey Mudd, was in Europe on a fellowship, and was prevented from returning to the US by the conditions of the grant. The committee conducted her interview via teleconference from London. The recipients of the 2006 Apker Award will be reported in the next issue of APS News.
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about two essential items for any clay studio: plaster and plastic
storage bins. Plaster is used in the ceramic process for many things:
for molds, as throwing bats and for reclaiming clay, to name a few. The
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pieces of pots or sculptures that didn't work out in one project for
just the right future project. Thanks to Karen and Carol for submitting
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I recycle clay slop on a plaster bat, it seems that I always have more
clay than what the bat can hold. So I bought a plastic tub (the kind
that fits under the bed, see above image) and poured plaster directly into the bottom
half of the tub. Once the plaster has dried out, I can pour the clay
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attended a class given by Lana Wilson and have been using her method
for using plastic pails for keeping your clay projects in workable
condition until completion ever since. It has saved me many times
including returning leather to workable when necessary. Take any good
sealing plastic container like Rubbermaid and put plaster in the bottom
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At this point it would be a good idea to hit the sides or lift slightly
and drop to release the bubbles. Put the top back on and let it set up.
This container will always have some moisture in it and the moisture
can be increased by putting in a cup or two of water onto the hardened
plaster. Always keep the top on to retain the moisture. Pieces can be
made and left in the box until needed then applied to your current
work. Lana called it a "keeper box" and she couldn't have named it
better. I now have a few of them in different sizes. I have made pieces
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**TOMORROW at Breakfast** With Adam Forty from the The Royal Signals Museum, we'll hear about AA Milne's wartime experience, why his writing took a very different course compared to J.R.R. Tolkien's ...
What do Winnie-the-Pooh, The Lord of the Rings and Military Intelligence have in common?
World War One Signals Officer's A A Milne and J R R Tolkien -
A new display at the Royal Signals Museum, Blandford, Dorset.
On 1st August a new display opened at the Royal Signals Museum illustrating the fascinating stories of Signal Officer's Lieutenant A A Milne, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and 2nd Lieutenant J R R Tolkien, 11th Lancashire Fusiliers.
In the early summer of 1916, after Signals Training Lt A A Milne and 2nd Lt J R R Tolkien, were ordered to France, just before the start of the Somme Offensive. On arrival both were rapidly deployed and quickly experienced the horrors of trench warfare and the unspoken bravery of the British Tommy. They spent their time laying and repairing communications "line" and providing visual signalling for their Regiments and Battalion. Before the year had ended both contracted trench fever and were sent back to England to recover.
Discover their stories and the impact that these events had on their lives, their writing and the characters in their books.
THE GREEN BOOK - The only one on display in the World and never seen on display before.
After his recovery A A Milne was selected to command one of four companies at the Signalling School in Portsmouth. But before long his literary skills were recognised and he was commissioned by the Military Intelligence Branch MI7b – Propaganda. He remained there throughout the rest of the war writing positive stories of British heroism and adverse stories about the "Hun Corpse Factories". Milne was one of many famous literary figures who worked for MI7b, which included Irish Poet, Patrick MacGill, Cecil Street, Roger Pocock and F D Grierson.
In 1919 after the armistice the authors from MI7b met in London, one final time. They decided to write a short magazine this would be known as The Green Book.
Shortly after this all documentation from MI7B was ordered to be destroyed. Almost 100 years later over 150 documents were discovered in a welsh loft by Mr Jeremy Arter, great nephew of Capt James Lloyd, one of the authors of the Green Book. In the documents was an original copy of the book itself, thought to be one of only two left in existence – the other copy held by an American Library.
Museum Business Manger commented; " It is a real honour and privilege to display the sole surviving accessible copy of this book, with all its proven provenance. This will be the first time it has ever been on public display - not just in the UK but as far as we know – worldwide. The connection with Milne and these other authors from almost 100 years ago, is almost tangible."
Mr Arter goes on to explain the Green Book itself.
"The Green Book was a valedictory in-house magazine probably printed in no more than 20 copies, for each of the people who probably had a farewell dinner at one of the London clubs. In it they vent their spleen and humour at the war and at each other … It's a priceless document. Great Uncle Jim broke every rule in the book to preserve it."
In a series of poems, Milne, and the other authors contributed poems in a variety of classic styles. Milne imagines how "some earlier propagandists" might have approached having to "lie" about the "atrocities" of the war.
Capt William Shakespeare of a Cyclist Battalion
In M.I.7.b
Who loves to lie with me
About atrocities
And Hun Corpse Factories
Come hither, come hither, come hither
Here shall he see
No enemy,
But sit all day and blether.
Capt James Lloyd had particular responsibility at MI7b for "Tales of the VC" – articles illustrating the heroism of the British Tommy and our allies, all of whom showed heroism above and beyond the call of duty. We will publish more information on these at a later date.
Also in the exhibition, Find out how Edward the Bear, teddy of Christopher Robin, found his new name after a visit to London Zoo. Canadian military vet Lt Harry Colebourn bought a bear cub for $20 on the platform of Ontario Station. He called her "Winnie" after his hometown of Winnipeg - how then did Winnie end up in London Zoo?
LIEUTENANT J R R TOLKIEN LORD OF THE RINGS and SAMWISE GAMGEE
Did Tolkien's experience in the trenches, evoke the dark menace of Lord of the Rings and how did an Army Surgeon help to create one of his major characters?
After "joining up" 2nd Lt J R R Tolkien was sent for officer training in Staffordshire and specialist signal training in Otley, Yorkshire. He married in March 1916 and in June was ordered to France. "Junior officers were being killed off, a dozen a minute. Parting from my wife then ... it was like a death", he said.
He landed in Calais on 6 June 1916, joining the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers at Rubempré, north of Amiens, on 28 June.
On 1 July 1916, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, his friend Rob Gilson led his men over the top at Beaumont Hamel. He and his sergeant-major were killed in the same shell burst. During the battle more than five hundred of the Cambridgeshire's were killed or wounded. The 11th Lancashire Fusiliers lost 267 men in a fortnight in July, and on 21st July Tolkien was promoted to Battalion Signals Officer, and probably to acting full lieutenant.
Later that year he caught trench fever, an illness carried by lice, and was sent back to England. During his convalescence, he began writing down the stories and mythology of Middle-earth, which would form the basis for The Silmarillion.
"An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience," Tolkien acknowledged.
In the foreword to the second edition of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote, "By 1918, all but one of my close friends were dead." The reader cannot help but notice that the Dead Marshes of Mordor is eerily reminiscent of World War I's Western Front and its utter devastation of life.
Tolkien's characters also show signs of inspiration from his wartime experiences. Samwise Gamgee, thought to be named after a Doctor who treated him when ill, is thought to represent the stoic Tommy. ... See MoreSee Less


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Chef Robert McGrath Hosting New PBS Show
James Beard Award-winning chef Robert McGrath of North Scottsdale's Renegade Canteen has just been named the host of a new television show on Eight, Arizona's PBS channel.
Check, Please! will be a half-hour restaurant review program featuring three different regular Arizonans' takes on a different local restaurant.
"All we ask is that you are passionate about your favorite restaurant," says McGrath of the guest reviewers, who will not be professional food critics.
"My job as host is not to offer an opinion but to share culinary insights and explain cooking techniques or dishes based on my years of experience in the restaurant industry."
A TV franchise that started in Chicago in 2001 and has editions in other major cities, Check, Please! will feature Maricopa County restaurants in its first 13 episodes, and there are plans to extend it beyond the Valley in future seasons. Taping begins October 27 and the first episode will premiere on January 5, 2011.
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LOUDON, N.H. – Brad Keselowski turned a lap of 135.922 mph to set a track record and win the pole at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Keselowski led a fast Friday on the track as nine drivers topped the previous track record held by Ryan Newman, who went 135.232 in 2011.
Jimmie Johnson joined Keselowski on the front row for Sunday's race, but Johnson flunked inspection because both sides of the front of his No. 48 Chevrolet were too low. He'll start in the rear, in the 43rd spot.
Kurt Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Kyle Busch now follow Keselowski, while Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne, and Jeff Burton all topped Newman's record.
Keselowski, the 2012 series champion, has yet to win a race this season and needs a big weekend if he wants to defend his title in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Harvick keeps Bud, to drive No. 4: Kevin Harvick will take his Budweiser sponsorship with him when he moves to Stewart-Haas Racing next season.
Harvick will drive the No. 4 Chevrolet for SHR. Budweiser will serve as primary sponsor for 20 races as well as the Budweiser Duel during Speedweeks at Daytona International Speedway. Budweiser will serve as a major associate sponsor for the remaining races on the Sprint Cup Series schedule.
Harvick has 21 Cup wins, 96 top-fives and 198 top-10 finishes in his career. He drives the No. 29 for Richard Childress Racing and is fourth in the point standings this season.
Harvick made the decision last year to leave the RCR team that hired him in 1999. He's made the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship the last three seasons.
Franchitti on pole for first Toronto IndyCar race: Dario Franchitti, fresh off his first podium finish of the year, carried that momentum into Toronto with a pole-winning run for the first of two races at Exhibition Place.
The four-time IndyCar Series champion was flawless in three rounds of Friday qualifying to coast to the top starting spot at Toronto, 1.75-mile street track where Franchitti has three career victories. It's his fifth pole at Toronto and third on the season.
But his Target Chip Ganassi Racing team had to hustle all afternoon to repair damage to his No. 10 Honda incurred during a crashed in morning practice.
"I made it difficult this morning – I made a mistake in turn five there, took the right side off the car," he said. "The guys had to work and repair the car. I was able to keep finding a little bit every lap. Felt really good about that."
Franchitti heads into this weekend's races – IndyCar will run both today and Sunday – ranked a disappointing 11th in the IndyCar standings. He's not won a race since last year's Indianapolis 500, and his third-place finish Sunday at Pocono was his first podium of the year.
He's not written off his season, though.
"I've never looked at it that way. Whether I was first, or at one point this year I was last in the championship, so never say never," Franchitti said. "Until it's mathematically impossible, you just keep fighting every week. We've put ourselves in a bit of a hole, but we'll see if we can dig our way out."
Sebastien Bourdais was second in his first appearance in the Fast Six this year. His previous best qualifying effort was seventh, and this is his first front row start since joining Dragon Racing before the 2012 season.
The 2004 winner at Toronto, Bourdais has had a miserable season and has yet to finish a race higher than 11th. He said Dragon recently discovered a way to address the understeer on his car and it showed Friday.
"We were definitely starting to wonder if we could turn the boat around a little bit," he said. "Definitely feels like this weekend we did. Finally I can feel like I'm doing something behind the wheel rather than going along for the ride.
"When you've been deep in the hole, finally you seem to be able to see some light, it feels really good. Pretty excited for the boys. It's been a lot of work, just like everybody else, but when you don't have the results, it's twice as hard."
Will Power barely advanced out of the first two rounds of qualifying and wound up third for Saturday's 85-lap race.
Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan was fourth and was followed by James Jakes, whose previous best start at Toronto was 23rd, was fifth and followed by last week's winner Scott Dixon.
Toronto native James Hinchcliffe failed to advance out of the first round, and Andretti Autosport teammates Ryan Hunter-Reay and Marco Andretti didn't make it out of the second round. E.J. Viso also failed to advance out of the first round, marking the first race through 11 events this year an Andretti driver didn't make it to the Fast Six.
Both Hunter-Reay and Andretti were plagued by Takuma Sato bringing the second session to an early end by crashing into a tire barrier.
Sato, coincidentally, ran into Hunter-Reay on Sunday on pit road – ending both drivers' race.
"It's frustrating," Hunter-Reay said. "I'd like to thank Sato for knocking us out of the session again."
Today will mark the debut of standing starts for IndyCar, which has been met with mixed reaction from the drivers. Many of the veterans haven't done a standing start in 15 or more years, while some of the younger drivers have more experience in other series. IndyCar will not use standing starts for Sunday's race.
"It's been since 1993 that I have done a standing start. Right now, I'll say I'm not a big fan," said Kanaan. "IndyCar for me, it's always been about rolling starts. We're talking about tradition."
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This article was published 17/6/2014 (1162 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
There's nothing unusual, in movies and TV series with a military theme, about a storyline involving a top-secret mission.
What makes the new made-for-cable drama The Last Ship a bit different, however, is that the men and women carrying out the mission are not in on the secret.
In The Last Ship, which premières Sunday at 8 p.m. on Space, the crew of the U.S. navy warship USS Nathan James thinks it's on a routine weapons-testing assignment in remote northern waters. After four months at sea, however, it becomes obvious that everyone on board, from the captain on down, has been deceived.
And the truth the crew is forced to confront is more terrifying than any military-conflict scenario that could be imagined.
The title of the series offers a clue as to what's going on -- this ship might, in fact, be the last operational vessel on Earth, because the USS Nathan James was actually sent to the high Arctic in order to isolate it from a global pandemic that has been ravaging the planet during the four months the ship has been away.
Only a small fraction of the Earth's population is left alive. And the duo of scientists offered passage on the ship to conduct some odd form of bird-related research during the naval destroyer's mission are actually the only two people with a shot at saving what remains of humanity.
It is, as such sci-fi-flavoured dramas are, a rather far-fetched yarn, but The Last Ship does a better-than-average job of creating an intriguing story filled with believable, relatable characters.
Central to the narrative are Capt. Tom Chandler (Eric Dane), who is justifiably outraged at having been kept in the dark about the mission's real purpose, and Dr. Rachel Scott (Rhona Mitra), the scientist tasked with finding a cure for the fast-spreading virus before it's too late.
Chandler and his crew have been in radio-silence mode for the past four months, and after their last test missile is fired and it's time to head for home, the captain impatiently orders the scientists to wrap up their specimen-gathering and get back on the ship.
Scott, stubborn and argumentative, insists she needs more time, but Chandler is determined to reunite his crew members with their loved ones back home. But just when he thinks he's got the destroyer headed in the right direction, he receives a cryptic message denying permission to return to U.S. waters.
And after Russian helicopter squad makes an out-of-the-blue attack on the Nathan James, making veiled references to seeking possession of "the cure," Chandler demands answers, and the ones he gets are not at all comforting. The home to which he was hoping to return his crew no longer exists. Most of the U.S. population -- including the president, vice-president and most of the U.S. Congress -- is dead, along with more than 80 per cent of the rest of the planet's residents.
The hour-long series première -- which, by the way, counts Michael Bay (Armageddon, Transformers) as an executive producer -- seamlessly blends science-minded storytelling with big, flashy action sequences, creating a foundation for a series with pretty decent escapist-fun potential.
It'll be interesting to see if there's a significant drop-off in special-effects and big-blowout action content in subsequent episodes, given the diminished budgets that ongoing-series episodes have in comparison to the flashy pilots that introduce them.
But the characters, as introduced in the opener, seem sufficiently interesting, and the fast-escalating global crisis certainly provides a backdrop against which a compelling race-against-time story can unfold.
It's a good start, but The Last Ship still needs to prove over the span of several weeks that it's worthy of a summer-viewing investment. And it's no secret that a quick spiral toward extinction remains a possibility.
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CONWAY, S.C. (CBS/AP) A student died Friday after stabbing a police officer at Carolina Forest High School near Myrtle Beach just as school was starting, authorities said.
Several media outlets said the officer shot the student.
Police and school officials declined to comment on whether shots were fired.
The 16-year-old boy asked to speak with the officer at Carolina Forest High School in Conway, S.C., then pulled a knife after the two went into an office, Horry County schools spokeswoman Teal Britton said.
The student and the officer fought briefly and both were taken to Conway Medical Center.
The student died about three hours later at the hospital, while the officer was treated in the emergency room and was in good condition, hospital spokeswoman Julie Rajotte said.
No students saw the altercation, and school went on as scheduled, Britton said. But a number of parents came to the school and took their children out for the day.
Student Amber Lukowski told WBTW-TV that the fight happened not far from her classroom.
"We all thought there was a gunman on campus. We kept hearing stuff outside and we thought there was someone in our hall," she told the TV station. "One of the girls in my class was terrified and had to go hide under the teacher's desk."
The school has seen violence before. In June 2006, 18-year-old student Natalia Holmes was fatally stabbed 15 times by her estranged boyfriend in the parking lot. Edwin Brown pleaded guilty to murder and is serving a life sentence.
The school, about 10 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach, has about 2,000 students, according to its Web site.


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The Bear Market: A Little Perspective
The month of March marks the three-year anniversary of the bursting of the stock market bubble (NASDAQ was 5048.62 then; it's about 1315 now). Wall Street historians are fond of saying that bubbles cast long shadows and, as we enter the fourth year of a bear market, the end is still not in sight. The great equity culture of the '90s, with a new investor class taking ownership stakes to finance innovation, entrepreneurship, and fast economic growth, is in shambles. In its place is a volatile market dominated by professional traders. Individuals are outta there -- and even loath to open their unremittingly grim mutual fund and 401(k) statements.
No one knows how long this is going to continue. The last major bear market went from 1966 to 1982. The one before that went from 1929 to the beginning of World War II. We do know that there is plenty of overcapacity remaining in the telecom, airline, automotive, and financial services sectors; that share valuations are not cheap; that new accounting and corporate government rules are just beginning to be implemented; and that jitters over war and terrorism are making everyone risk-averse.
What we often overlook is that the productivity revolution, which began in the '90s, continues, helping companies to rebuild their profit margins. We also forget that a second, younger demographic bulge, almost as big as the baby boom, is moving through the economy. These 20- and 30-somethings appear to be, if anything, even more equity-oriented than their parents and may be ready to take over from their burned-out older investors. Finally, we forget that many information technologies have short three-year life cycles. The last time Corporate America binged on technology was in 1999 in the runup to Y2K. Tech is getting creaky and needs to be replaced.
Given the economic and military uncertainties the U.S. faces, only a fool would be optimistic at this moment. But it would also be cock-eyed to believe that this pessimism will persist forever.


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June's top 10 XpertHR FAQs for UK employers feature a number of questions on dealing with employees who are pregnant or on maternity leave during a redundancy exercise. The perplexing question of notice pay for employees who have been absent on sick leave is also covered.
And with changes to the legislation on whistleblowing being brought into force on 25 June, under the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, some HR professionals were looking to remind themselves about the basics on public interest disclosures.
- What is a public interest disclosure?
- Where an employee who has exhausted all entitlement to sick pay is to be dismissed on grounds of ill health will he or she be entitled to any payment throughout his or her notice period?
- Where a redundancy will take effect before a woman goes on maternity leave is she entitled to preferential treatment with regard to being offered suitable alternative employment?
- Should employers allow employees to use e-cigarettes in the workplace?
- If a pregnant employee is made redundant before commencing maternity leave can her employer pay her statutory maternity pay in one lump sum?
- Will the courts always enforce restrictive covenants?
- If an employer dismisses a pregnant employee as redundant is she still entitled to receive maternity pay?
- Where an annual pay rise coincides with an employee's maternity leave will this affect her maternity pay?
- Can the transferee change the contracts of the incoming employees following a TUPE transfer, to harmonise them with those of its existing employees?
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To begin with I bought Raidentech's advertised Exceed-RC G2 V.2 on sale. I should have realized they were trying to get rid of them but the reviews were good. I paid a total of 189 dollars with shipping, software perks and crash kit. This sounds like a god deal, huh? I received the RC charged the battery and turned everything on as directed by accompanying literature. The RC did not work the way it was suppose to. I sent a message to Raidentech's support department within 5 days. They sent back a message 15 days later after I prodded them explaining I had to call their support department. When I did, it was 30 days past the time I bought, hence making the warranty invalid. They would not send me an RMA to fix their product; an obvious blunder on part but I quickly pointed out to them that I had contacted them within that thirty days initially and also pointed out that as stated by their literature every RC is tested at the plant to ensure quality and that the RC is in good working condition. That was an obvious lie. I went to a hobby store in Tucson and one of their folks helped me narrow the problem. It was a faulty "Brushed speed controller" which had to be ordered from Raidentech. I attempted to do so but Raidentech has discontinued that particular part, which appears in an accompanying parts manual. They have given that particular part number to a completely different par for the helicopter and despite my best efforts the part can not be located anywhere. The helicopter has not so much as turned the rotor system or actuated servos and I am out 189 dollars.
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Britney Spears Will Kinda Dance "Until The World Ends"
Let's just call it "Slave 4 U 2011," okay? Britney Spears' apocalyptic video for "Until the World Ends" has arrived and it has almost the exact same vibe as her video for the 2001 hit — gorgeous and sweaty people in ripped fishnets grind on each other in a warehouse, with Britney leading the charge, only this time, chaos is ensuing outside. Oh, and these days, Britney's a little older, her abs aren't exposed, and she dances primarily with her hands rather than her whole body. Whatever. I am a diehard Britney fan and this is one of my favorite tracks on the album because it reminds me of going to raves in San Francisco in the late-'90s. This video gives me a mad craving for orange juice. Win!


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A soft, light bread that is an ideal accompaniment to any dish.
Prep time: 20 minutes, plus 1 1/2 hours for rising.
Baking time: 20 to 25 minutes.
Ingredients for 6 small loaves:
• 2 Tbsp (30g) fresh yeast
• 2 1/2 Tbsp (30 g) sugar
• 8 1/2 oz (250 mL) beer
• 2 1/2 cups (300 g) all-purpose flour
• 1 2/3 cups (200 g) rye flour
• 1 egg
• 1 2/3 oz (50m L) extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 1/2 tsp (15g) salt
For the glaze:
• 3 1/3 oz (100 mL) beer
• 2 oz (30 g) rye flour
• 1 tsp salt
1. Put the crumbled yeast and the sugar in a bowl. Steadily pour in the beer and mix with a wooden spoon until the mixture is well-blended.
2. In a large bowl, sift the two flours together and make a well in the center. In the center of the well, add the egg, the oil, the salt, and the yeast and beer mixture. Mix and knead well. The dough will be very sticky—if necessary add a little all-purpose flour.
3. Grease the dough with oil and let rise for half an hour in a bowl covered with plastic wrap. Then punch it down with a closed fist and continue to let it rise for another 20 minutes.
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