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Hotfix 1 for Dell Client Manager 2.2 updates OMCI to version 7.5 A02. OMCI is a set of drivers and binaries that allows DCM to manage supported Dell computers.
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Question on small base die
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post #17, 23, 24 .....great info thanks, as "they" answered the question on whether you should use a small base for you AR platform or semi auto.
Talking about "conventional wisdom" that isn't: Insinuating that all folks who happen to have AR's that don't feed conventional FL sized reloads well are stupid and can't set sizer dies correctly is flat uncalled for. Once you set the die to cam-over as per most instruction sheets....which is about as hard as buttering bread, tell me, what magic do you have to make bases smaller, so they will chamber without a hammer.
I had one guy on another forum say to grind off your shell plate a little. That's a great idea....then you can bump the shoulder back even further, when a conventional sizer, cammed over, usually bumps it back too much already. Your gauges say you're bumping too much? ...get a small-base and back it out a hair.
Then there's the magazine writer "gurus" who insist small-based sizers work the brass too much. Think a .001 or .002" squeeze at the base is worse than bumping the shoulder back .005" when its not necessary? Sure it is. Besides, the havoc the AR action does to brass will make it unusable long before squeezing the base will.
If I am not given the luxury luxury of disagreeing? I will take it. The small base die does not size the base of the case, again and again! The shell holder has a deck height, the deck height on my shell holders is .125", the shell holder prevents the die from reaching the head of the case. Meaning the base of the case is not sized, that leaves the rest of the case above .125. Added to the .125 is the radius at the opening of the die. Then there is the not knowing, not knowing WHAT! The reloader should know/ be able to understand the dimensions of the case, the reloader should understand minimum length, full length sized, go-gage length etc., etc..
Then there is: "get a small-base and back it out a hair" sure, purchase another die, I suggest learning to use the die he has before spending money on something he may not need. I just received feed back on a rifle, I delivered it with a new box of Remington ammo, rather than assume anyone understands why I will explain, the new ammo was minimum length, not shorter, not longer, the new ammo was equal in length to full length sized. Point? If in the future reloaded ammo will not chamber I will instruct the proud owner to to learn to operate a press or quit reloading.
What ever rifle is being discussed on this thread has had new/factory ammo fired in it, the new/factory ammo chambered and fired, What happened? When the case snapped back, jumped back or recovered did it stick to the chamber and snap it back also? How did the chamber get smaller.
Then there is the: "usually bumps it back too much already". With the bragging you are heaping on post numbers 17, 23 and 24 and the wonders of the small base die???? I have to ask, if grinding the shell holder increases the ability of the die to shorten the case from the head of the case to its shoulder, why would he need a small base die? Rational, the case has tapered sides, the case is round, a round case with tapered sides is a cone, shorten the cone the varying diameters of the case are reduced when compared with the chamber, just an opinion but I am wondering if the small base die's function is understood. I size/form cases for short chambers, if the 'minimum length/full length sized' concept was understood the reloader could size cases for short chambers, when forming cases for short chambers I have 12 options between minimum length (.000) and a –.012" short chamber, meaning the chamber is .012" shorter than a minimum length case. Meaning if the case was fired in a go-gage length chamber the difference in length between the case and chamber would be .013", in my opinion that is too much case travel, I am the fan of cutting down on all that case travel.
It is never necessary to grind the bottom of the die, it is never necessary to grind the top of the shell holder. Redding competition shell holders are never necessary , nice but not necessary. Think about it, $40.00 to replace $6.00 shell holders. 5 sets of 4 shell holders @ $40.00 X 5 shell holders sets = $200.00, then there will be the argument, a reloader only needs one set when sizing cases for the chamber that needs the use of the Redding shell holder, again, the reloader needs to become more proficient with the press, die and shell holder set-up.
Then there is that part about full length sizing to minimum length without a clue or a way to determine if the case was full length sized to minimum length before lowering the ram, it is possible the case whipped the press, or if the press whipped the case. Knowing if my press sized the case before lowering the ram is saves me time in effort, knowing the case will chamber before I lower the ram if a technique I believe a reloader should master before ordering a small base die. Then there is full length sizing, if the reloader knew the length of the chamber they could make a determination, is full length sizing necessary?
I have small base dies, again, I have RCBS BAR dies, my favorite die is the forming/trim die.
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Hi there
found out through Lisa about you...
I LOVE comediennes...they are SO much more funny than males, especially impromptu...but i digress...
Brett Butler, Paula Poundstone, Whoopi Goldberg, Sarah Silverman...now YOU!!!
I'm jealous, send ME something you've done...
grew up watchin the fab t birds is that wacth ya talkin bout
Holy smokes...I just read a bio of your work and I am totally impressed! WOW! (I loved the Little River Band in the 80's, fyi).
I had no idea I was talking to a celeb. Can you link me to what you feel is your best stand-up routine? I would love to watch it.
I apologize for getting a little carried away in my comments on the hunting thing but sometimes these freaks for nature just go too far and it riles my passions beyond control.
I can have the rant removed if need be. Again, I'm sorry.
Sure thing -- thank you for the support.
Thanks for "fannin" me too !


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BRISBANE defender Joel Patfull has endorsed coach Michael Voss after the Lions shock win over Essendon.
Out of contract at the end of the season, Voss's tenure at the club was being questioned recently after the Lions succumbed to their fifth loss.
But Patfull threw his support behind Voss, attributing much of the credit from Saturday's 10-point win at Etihad Stadium to the triple premiership coach's preparation.
"From our point of view Vossy is doing a great job and we're all 100 per cent behind him and support him," the reigning best and fairest winner told SEN1116 this morning.
"The way he's going about it the last few weeks has been great.
"A lot of how we performed on the weekend was to do with how Vossy went about it and got us ready for the game."
Patfull said the Lions, outscored in first quarters in Melbourne 11.11 (77) to 1.8 (14), were keen to make a fast start against the Bombers.
"Our first quarters down in Melbourne so far have been really poor," he said.
"It was a bit of a focus the first quarter in particular the first eight minutes just to really get out there and have a crack and sort of get the game on our terms rather than waiting for the game to come to us."
The rejuvenated Lions' next assignment is against Carlton on Saturday night at the Gabba.
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Thomas Robinson has been getting extra run with the rash of Blazers injuries up front — including All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge — but now he is joining their ranks.
Robinson suffered a left patella strain during the first half of Portland's win in Denver Tuesday night, reports Chris Haynes at CSNNW.com. He is listed as is day-to-day. He is officially a game-time decision for when the Blazers take on the Nets Wednesday night.
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Army Corps of Engineers determines no significant impact to the environment by removing Boardman dams
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:11:54 GMT —
Plans for the removal of more Boardman River dams are moving forward tonight after the release of a new study that suggests there won't be any significant environmental impacts.
The Army Corps of Engineers has released their latest project report regarding the removal of the Boardman and Sabin Dams, and modification of the Union Street Dam.
The dams are failing, and the county received orders from the Department of Environmental Quality to remove them in December 2012. It will eventually become a public safety issue, but for now theyâ??ve drawn down the ponds to lessen the pressure against the dams â?? which greatly reduces the potential for them to burst.
Putting the dams in altered the ecosystem â?? the dams created ponds, warming the water â?? and now the concern is to get the ecosystem back to normal.
While the Army Corps of Engineers claim the changes will cause a shift from cool to cold water fish habitat and increase the wetland area, they say this is a return to the river's natural state and will not have any significant adverse impact to the environment.
After a public comment meeting, the Corps will take the publicâ??s input and put together another assessment/report and complete the determination on whether or not there is or is not any significant impacts. If no significant impacts are found, the project becomes eligible for ten million dollars in federal funding.
â??It deals not only with the impact on wildlife, fish habitat, it deals with economic impact, it deals with social impacts - it tries to look at everything that is surrounding the removal of these dams and what impact it might have,â?? said Dave Benda, the Grand Traverse County Administrator.
Officials say a different approach is being taken to remove the remaining two dams, so flooding - as was an issue with the Brown Bridge Dam removal - is not a concern.
The hope is to accomplish everything within the next few years. The goal is to remove the dams in 2016 and have the entire project completed in 2017.
The meeting for public comment is being held at the Civic Center on August 7 from 5-8pm.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, you can submit an e-mail on the Army Corps of Engineers website or call the Grand Traverse County Governmental Center.


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Moxey issues transfer warning
Chief executive Jez Moxey insists it is now or never with regards to Wolves' current transfer targets.
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Chief executive Jez Moxey insists it is now or never with regards to Wolves' current transfer targets.
Manager Mick McCarthy has been frustrated in his attempts to lure defenders Roger Johnson and Matt Mills to Molineux.
Birmingham are holding out for a fee in the region of £10million for Johnson while Reading want anything over £3million for Mills.
But Moxey has warned that if clubs cannot make up their mind whether to sell then he is ready to pull out of any deals and look elsewhere for potential new signings.
"We have got feelers out to a number of clubs - so we either start getting serious now or we move on," he said.
Decision time
"We are now telling clubs to make a decision.
"We need to get things done and what we're saying is 'if you don't want to do business, we'll forget it and move on'."
Moxey is delighted to have completed the signing of Tottenham midfielder Jamie O'Hara and Swansea goalkeeper Dorus de Vries but he is eager to secure more reinforcements.
"We've done one deal for a high-class midfield player who, from the vibe we're getting within the game, will be regarded as a very astute piece of business.
"We're also delighted to have signed a quality goalkeeper who will provide the right competition (for Wayne Hennessey).
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I'm making a closed book cake and at the same time I would like to add a pair
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I have only made eye glasses once a few months ago. But how I did it was to use gum paste and create two eye glass fronts exactly the same, and then a left and a right ear pieces. Let them dry completely flat. For the lenses I made them out of gelatin prepared like you would do for making butterfly wings.
Once everything was dry I adhered them together with royal icing colored the same as the gum paste. However, use as little as possible around the gelatin or it may warp.
Below is a picture of the cake I made the glasses for. HTH
My daughter helped me to make glasses for a cake. She used foil and shaped it into glasses and I covered the foil with black fondant.


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SEC charges Nadel with fraud, diverting funds
It's official. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged (missing since Jan. 14) Sarasota money manager Art Nadel, 76, with fraud in connection with six hedge funds for which he acted as the principal investment advisor. According to the SEC's complaint, Nadel provided false and misleading information for dissemination to investors about the funds' historical returns and falsely overstated the value of investments in the funds by approximately $300-million. (Photo courtesy of Sarasota Herald-Tribune.)
So begins the SEC's news release about Nadel, who apparently fled Sarasota, his family and a bunch of upset investors last week. Here's the latest report from the hometown newspaper, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Along with Nadel, other entities are named in the SEC complaint, including: two investment management companies he controls, Scoop Capital, LLC and Scoop Management, lnc. The fraud concerns six hedge funds: Scoop Real Estate, L.P, Valhalla Investment Partners, L.P., Victory IRA Fund, Ltd, Victory Fund, Ltd, Viking IRA Fund, LLC, and Viking Fund, LLC; and two other investment management companies -- Valhalla Management, Inc. and Viking Management.
The six funds appear to have total assets of less than $1-million, the S.E.C. said in a civil lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Tampa. To investors, the funds were presented with assets of more than $300-million.
According to the SEC's 13-page legal complaint, at the same time he was deceiving investors, Nadel maintained secret bank accounts which only he controlled, in the names of at least two of the hedge funds. He recently transferred $1.25-million from the Viking IRA Fund and Valhalla Investment Partners to one of
the secret accounts, alleges SEC senior trial counsel Scott Masel in the complaint.
-- Robert Trigaux, Times Business Columnist


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No one is ammune to the flu. From Hollywood, where Golden Globe winners Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Lawrence were still feeling the effects, to New York, where the epidemic went to war with an anchor.
Fox 5's Rosanna Scotto was the ultimate trouper yesterday. The Good Day New York co-anchor showed up for work despite clearly in a "flu fog."
Scotto, who was congested and weakened, told her on-air partner Dave Price that she already had a flu shot.
"It isn't doing it. You've got an IV of tea," Price said.
Scotto said she rested all weekend in an effort to give it the "college try." However, seeing her struggle to deliver the news, while spreading germs to others, Price encouraged Scotto to leave early.
He was going to ask New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley, a guest in the 8 a.m. hour, if Scotto was healthy enough to stay.
"You need to promise us, if he says you should go home, you go home and get better," Price said.
Farley concurred with Price's assessment, "I think you should take another day. I think you should go home."
The end of the segment, was the end of Scotto's broadcast day.
"We appreciate you coming in [for] a house call," Price told Farley.
Scotto remained on the sidelines this morning.
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He's not named after the college in Jersey
-- Inside the Third Reich: played Nazi architect Albert Speer. (He'd play a Nazi again years later in the HBO movie Fatherland.)
-- Blade Runner: chilled audiences as Roy (photo left), the evil replicant in perhaps the most underrated sci-fi movie of all time. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. "
-- Ladyhawke: suddenly a hero now as Capt. Navarre in a medieval movie that also features Matthew Broderick and Michelle Pfeiffer.
So compelling were his roles as Nazis that I always assumed he was German. He's Dutch in fact. Allegedly, he was the person Anne Rice had in mind for her vampire Lestat in her book Interview with the Vampire. (He actually did appear in two other vampire movies -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Salem's Lot).
Hauer continues to crank out the movies these days -- he has four titles in post-production this year alone. Makes you wonder if he's not really a replicant afterall.


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Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has for now avoided the nightmare of losing a key aide and arguably the government's most powerful string-puller, now that Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa has dodged criminal charges over a shady land deal.
But opposition parties and critics alike say the case is far from over, with Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers indicating they aren't ready to back off.
"Although prosecutors couldn't find enough to find (Ozawa) guilty, his innocence hasn't been determined," LDP policy chief Shigeru Ishiba told reporters Wednesday.
Pointing out that three of Ozawa's former secretaries have been arrested for cooking the books of Ozawa's funds management organization, Ishiba hinted the opposition will go after the government hard during the current Diet session.
"Suspicions and doubts still linger," he said.
Allegations against Ozawa center on the source of ¥400 million used to make a land purchase in Tokyo in October 2004. Ozawa insisted the money came from his own pocket, but statements by construction firm officials suspected of providing the money have said otherwise.
While Ozawa previously stayed mum over the case, citing the ongoing investigation, he broke his silence in January, declaring that prosecutors were conducting an "unacceptable" investigation and that he would fight to prove his innocence.
Ozawa isn't out of the woods yet.
"Thursday's decision means prosecutors couldn't establish their case, but it doesn't prove Ozawa is innocent," said Nihon University political scientist Tomoaki Iwai. The case reached an unsatisfactory conclusion, Iwai said, especially given the vigor investigators initially showed in pursuing the allegations.
But Iwai, who specializes in political funding issues, said more is likely to emerge regarding Ozawa's questionable land purchase because the statute of limitations on some allegations, including tax evasion, is still years away.
Prosecutors will probably keep looking for any signs of misconduct, he said.
With the burden off his shoulders for the moment, Ozawa is expected to come out swinging in the Diet session to advance his key policies, including granting suffrage to foreign permanent residents of Japan in local-level elections.
With an eye to wooing voters, the DPJ will also likely go forward with Ozawa's pet project of reforming the Diet, submitting bills aimed at reining in bureaucrats and giving more power to lawmakers.
But the DPJ and the LDP agreed to hold sessions in mid-February focused on political funds transactions. These will take up the issue not only of Ozawa, but that of dubious donations to Hatoyama's political funds management body by the prime minister's megarich mother. Experts say the LDP will be turning its accusations up a notch during the sessions.
Nihon University's Iwai said matters may come to a head around May, when the Diet nears the end of the session and preparations for the Upper House election get under way.
"If opinion polls suggest Ozawa's presence has a negative effect on the party, he may be forced to resign," Iwai said.
Even now, all is not quiet in the ranks of the DPJ. Some members are expressing concern over keeping Ozawa on as the party's secretary general.
The most vocal of the critics is land minister Seiji Maehara, who told reporters Tuesday that DPJ needs to "display some self-cleansing capabilities" in the face of repeated scandals.
"It is important for those with responsibility to make their own decisions," Maehara said.
Despite stressing that he favors Ozawa keeping his seat at this point, Maehara hinted that won't be the case if there are more damaging revelations.
Senior DPJ lawmaker Kozo Watanabe also threw down a marker, telling reporters public opinion is what counts most and Ozawa may have a moral responsibility to to the right thing.
Fukashi Horie, a professor emeritus at Keio University in Tokyo, said that if the murmuring within the DPJ grows, Ozawa's days may be numbered.
With over 70 percent of the public saying in media polls that they disapprove of Ozawa remaining on the job, Horie said the final judgment on the case will likely be made by the voters instead of prosecutors or Diet members.
"The DPJ won the general election in August thanks to unaffiliated voters," he said, but added that recent scandals have already done damage, despite Ozawa avoiding indictment.
"It's questionable whether they can win the majority" in the Upper House considering recent polls and the influence of the Ozawa case, Horie said.


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I figured I draw flack from some:
I don't know what loads, I don't know who if any were "limp wristing". I doubt Glock owners limp wrist more the others.
I just looked at the guns as they were being fired. Maybe all Glock shooters were using bad loads, maybe all M&P shooters were using factory ammo.
I highly doubt it.
I know by watching 26 shooters, all but two of us using semis, the Glocks had more failures of one sort or other then the M&Ps. Rattlie old colts didn't seem to have many problems. High Price comp guns did.
Granted it was just one match, I'll keep watching throughout the season and see if the trend continues.
Like I said, I don't own Glocks or M&P's, I'm primary a revolver shooter so I have no dog in the fight, just my observations. None of which would get me to switch from my revolvers.
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In 1997, Frankie Bones was living in Queens, NY, and while he was flipping thru an issue of Lowrider Magazine, he caught the Lowrider bug. Since then, this now-Army Combat Veteran Sergeant has built dozens of award winning show bikes. "It makes it that much more fun to do what you love to do when your family backs you up," Frankie says. For his newest project, a 1968 Schwinn Stingray, which he named "Blue Crush," Frankie called upon the experts in the Lowrider bike circuit. "I put together an A-team for the bike's build," he explains. Frankie contacted John Twitty of the Kandy Shop, Danny Pechal of JustDeezines, Mike Spears of Spears Custom Cruisers, Darin Hagerdorn, A&R Plating, Henry Resendez of Henry's Customs, Marvin Shiviran of Artist Technicians, Mike Linville of Toyshop Customs, Danny Morales, Eddy Picado of Eddy's Hand Engraving, Speedy of Speedy's Metal Finishing, and Tyler Chandler of TC Designs to help with the build.
The bike was kept a secret during its three-year build time in the hopes of it making the trip from its current location in Poconos, PA, to the Lowrider Magazine's Super Show in Las Vegas, NV. Frankie was hoping to compete for the Lowrider "Bike of the Year" title this year, but the Army had other plans. "Unfortunately, I'm being sent overseas again real soon, so I no longer have the chance to compete for Bike of the Year." We at Lowrider Magazine know that Frankie will be competing again as soon as he can and this sacrifice is only a fraction of what our servicemen and women do for our country on a regular basis. We salute you for your service, Frankie, and we would like to wish you and the rest of our men and women who are overseas a quick and safe return home!


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In Part 1 of this series I briefly attempted to explore how both believers (biblical theists) and nonbelievers (atheists or skeptical nontheists) attempt to explain how some people come to believe in God's existence. I stated that thoughtful believers ground their beliefs in God in both rational and nonrational (not to be confused with irrational) considerations. However, unbelievers typically attempt to explain belief in God's existence in terms of nonrational or irrational factors (see Part 1).
In this second installment I will briefly explore how believers and unbelievers attempt to explain why some people reject belief in God. In Part 3 of this series I will then offer some suggestions on how these two sets of beliefs about God can be appropriately evaluated.
Unbelievers on Unbelief
Thoughtful unbelievers usually attempt to ground their unbelief in the view that clear and convincing evidence for God's existence is blatantly lacking. Unbelievers think that the realities found in life and in the world are best explained in terms of purely natural events and factors. Many unbelievers are also doubtful about, or completely dismissal of, God's existence based upon the perceived problem of evil (evil is viewed as being inconsistent with the biblical God's attributes of omnipotence and omnibenevolence). These same people who reject belief in God usually also view the miraculous stories of the Bible as reflecting myth, legend, and superstition. In summary, unbelievers find an alleged insufficiency of evidence for God and they believe that the God of biblical theism seems incompatible with life's experiences (namely pain, suffering, and evil).
Believers on Unbelief
Reflective believers usually assert that the rejection of belief in God on the part of unbelievers is rooted in nonrational and even irrational factors. From a biblical viewpoint, unbelief flows from human pride, autonomy, and a desire to dodge one's moral responsibility before their Creator. Unbelievers are then viewed as first rejecting God for nonrational reasons and then (often without being conscious of it) pursuing alleged rational factors to excuse their autonomous unbelief. Believers ultimately attempt to explain unbelief in terms of human sin and rebellion. In summary, unbelievers allegedly set their will against God based on moral and spiritual considerations, and then go looking for rational considerations to justify (at least in their mind) their unbelief.
Philosopher Ronald H. Nash has stated that there is a difference between "arguments" on one hand and "persuasion" on the other. It's interesting that believers and unbelievers often view each other as affirming their beliefs based largely upon nonrational factors (usually fear or pride).
For more on the question of God's existence see my two books, A World of Difference: Putting Christian Truth Claims to the Worldview Test (Baker, 2007), and Without a Doubt: Answering the 20 Toughest Faith Questions (Baker, 2004).
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It seems that we as scrapbookers like to be on the lookout for a new technique or idea to add to a layout, so I thought that I would start a weekly article called "Layout Deconstructed" where I will break down the details of a layout. This will hopefully help you notice some subtle (or maybe not so subtle) techniques you could apply to your own layouts.
So, let's get started with the week 1 layout: Snow.
Paper Selection. At first this may appear to be a random mix of paper and not something that you would choose to put together. I think that it works well together because I choose paper with different patterns: stripes, small dots and a graphic pattern. The different patterns compliment each other and cause the eye to move around the page in a triangular motion which allows the viewer to look at all of the pictures. The papers have the same color of blue in each of them, which brings continuity to the page.
Photo Layout. Here I chose to slightly overlap the photos in the layout and which created a collage effect. I like how the eye can easily move from one picture to the next because the pictures simply flow into one another.
The Title. I decided to use a fairly large title that overlapped some of the pictures. The blue on the letters is the same blue that is in the paper. This helped to give the layout a uniform look. I created a subtitle by writing on the backside of one of the patterned papers. This is a great way to insure that the colors will match.
Special Touches. I added a little blue paint around the edges of each of the photos. I thought that this helped convey the cold feeling of snow and was also a little messy just like snow.
This layout was very simple and could easily be scraplifted in no time. Hope that you will be able to pick up something you want to try on your next layout!


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Language to recall four state lawmakers has been approved against two and rejected against the other two.
The Oakland County Election Commission approved recall language Monday against Reps. Jim Townsend, D-Royal Oak, and Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, and rejected recall language against Rep. Vicki Barnett, D-Farmington Hills, and state Sen. Vincent Gregory, D-Southfield.
Democrats say the recall efforts are politically motivated.
"It is ridiculous that during a time we all need to focus on growing our economy and getting people back to work, the Republican Party has decided to focus on political gamesmanship," said Frank Houston, chairman of the Oakland County Democratic Party.
"Apparently the Republican Party in Oakland County believes that democracy should be used for recalling elected representatives who stand up for kids, seniors and working families," Houston said. "There is obviously a disconnect between the Republican Party's priorities and those of us who live in Oakland County who are struggling to make ends meet."
Houston said the Democratic Party will vigorously oppose the recall efforts launched against Brown and Townsend.
The rejected recall language against Gregory and Barnett said the two lawmakers voted against legislation that eliminated the Michigan Business Tax and that broadened the authority of state-appointed emergency managers. The business tax legislation was part of a broader tax overhaul approved earlier this year by the Legislature.
But similar language was approved on the recall petitions for Brown and Townsend.
Brown said in a statement: "I will say it again -- I heard overwhelmingly from the people who I represent that they did not want our schools and our students to pay for a tax break for corporate special interests. I stand by my decision to vote against the massive corporate tax break that came at the expense of our kids' education. The people who I'm fighting for every day can rest assured that I plan to appeal the action taken today by the county board of elections."
In order for a recall election to be held, petitioners have to gather valid signatures of 25 percent of the people who voted for governor in the district in the last election for governor.
Few recall efforts make it to the ballot either because enough valid signatures aren't filed or because petitioners rarely follow up on the signature gathering.


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2006 Year in Review
Product is to an auto maker's success what location is to the real estate industry.
Unfortunately, for the second year in a row, product took a back seat to management as the top story at DaimlerChrysler AG.
And like most compelling stories, it was fueled by elements of greed and ambition as Chrysler Group, hoping against hope, allowed its inventory to skyrocket despite warning signs of a softening market.
Chrysler launched a company-record 10 new products during 2006. They included the Chrysler Sebring midsize sedan and a wildly popular redesigned Jeep Wrangler lineup that featured the 4-door Wrangler Unlimited with optional modular roof.
But the auto maker's desperate approach to production – described as "over-optimistic" by DaimlerChrysler Chairman Dieter Zetsche – led to Chrysler's full-year loss of $1.4 billion.
Meanwhile, on the strength of key product introductions such as the redesigned Mercedes E-Class sedan and the R-Class cross/utility vehicle – which brought incremental sales that boosted the brand's U.S. light-truck totals by nearly 68% – the Mercedes Car Group was $1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) in the black.
Overall, DC posted a full-year operating profit of €5.5 billion ($7.2 billion), up 6.6% from 2005.
And in a move that heralded the prospect of future success, DC opened a plant in Beijing where it planned to build E-Class, C-Class and Chrysler 300C sedans in cooperation with Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Company (BAIC).
Exhibiting the confidence that comes with renewal, Zetsche took the reins of leadership from Juergen Schrempp on Jan. 1 and promptly put his own stamp on the auto maker's organization chart. Barely three weeks into his tenure, Zetsche introduced a new management model that consolidated and integrated the auto maker's administrative operations, eliminating the need for separate operations to support various functions such as finance and human resources.
It also afforded more direct reporting channels and eliminated 6,000 jobs in Germany.
Zetsche followed this up two months later by splintering the Commercial Vehicles Division into the Truck Group, composed of the dominant truck business unit and another dubbed "Van, Bus and Other."
Similarly, product development responsibility was consolidated with the Mercedes Car Group to form "Group Research and Mercedes Car Group Development," from which all units within DC would derive benefits.
"We are convinced that the New Management Model will help us to become better and faster at transforming DaimlerChrysler's potential into compelling products," Zetsche said.
In addition, corporate headquarters were shifted to Stuttgart-Unterturkheim from Stuttgart-Mohringen.
The auto maker expected the restructuring effort, in its entirety, would reduce its expenses by €1.5 billion ($2 billion) annually.
Showing still more prudence in March, DC announced that its Smart minicar brand would discontinue production of the 4-passenger Forfour. Instead, Smart would focus its efforts on developing the market for its next-generation 2-passenger Fortwo, due out in 2007.
The move – part of a €1 billion ($1.25 billion) restructuring initiative aimed at jump-starting the brand – marked a significant turning point in its 8-year money-losing history. A distribution deal also was struck with Roger Penske's UnitedAuto Group Inc. that would realize, in 2008, the long-awaited U.S. arrival of Smart.
However, in contrast to the European and Canadian markets, where Smart achieved moderate and huge success, respectively, diesel-powered Smarts would not be immediately available in the U.S.
Meanwhile, at the Paris auto show, Smart unveiled plans to market a test fleet of 200 electric cars.
"We have deliberately decided not just to pursue a single technology," said Smart President Ulrich Walker. "Smart is working on developments in many directions – from hybrid and micro-hybrid drives to gas or electric drives."
And while Smart expanded west, Chrysler's volume brand – Dodge – moved east with an aggressive foray into the European market. Dodge sold nearly 18,000 units of its Caliber C-car, which accounted for nearly 9% of Chrysler's total sales outside North America.
Only the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Chrysler's minivans, with 39,208 and 35,716, respectively, recorded more sales.
The Caliber didn't fare too badly within the North American market, either. Chrysler sold more than 92,000 units of its Neon replacement model.
And with launches of its Jeep platform-mates, the Compass in May and Patriot in December, production at the auto maker's assembly plant in Belvidere, IL, saw its schedule grow to three shifts from one, while its payroll swelled to more than 3,600 from 1,500.
These vehicles also generated buzz as the first to benefit from the auto maker's new 4-cyl. World Engine, developed in conjunction with Hyundai Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. In addition, the Compass and Patriot were the first Jeeps based on a front-wheel-drive platform, although top trim levels were available all-wheel-drive systems.
And thanks to modifications such as a heavy-duty cooling system and high-mounted rear-differential vent, Patriot could be had with the brand's rugged Trail-Rated badge.
As Chrysler ramped up production at Belvidere, it maintained steady assembly at its plants in Warren, MI, and Newark, DE – home to the Dodge Ram pickup and fullsize Durango SUV. Occasionally, the auto maker even scheduled overtime shifts.
The same was true at its Jefferson Avenue plant in Detroit, site of Jeep Grand Cherokee and Commander production.
Meanwhile, gasoline prices were on the rise. The national average price-per-gallon of regular-grade gas inched toward $3.
By June, Chrysler was flinching as it launched marketing campaigns that stressed fuel-saving technologies such as its multi-displacement system, which turned its trademark Hemi V-8 into a fuel-stingy 4-cyl. mill during optimum conditions – such as highway cruising.
But its fleet of C-cars and their genuine 4-cyl. engines were not in showrooms, and customers turned away in search of fuel economy.
Chrysler responded with a renewed marketing push, touting its technology by casting Zetsche as "Dr. Z." – a fatherly, German answer-man – in TV commercials and Internet ads.
"The use of Dieter Zetsche personifies there is a little bit of Dr. Z in every DaimlerChrysler vehicle," said Joe Eberhardt, Chrysler Group executive vice president-global sales, marketing and service.
Instead, Eberhardt became a lightning rod for dealers' ire as the auto maker continued to keep its plants busy, cramming showrooms with inventory – so much that it spilled over into the countryside.
Airport terminals and shopping mall lots became repositories for a stash of vehicles kept secret by Chrysler until uncovered by Ward's in October. This so-called "sales bank" consisted of unsold vehicles that were being held in anticipation of dealer orders.
At its peak, the total reached 100,000 units.
This bleak situation contributed to a sudden third-quarter production cut of 90,000 vehicles and a 135,000-unit reduction for the entire second half of the year. A contrite Zetsche vowed greater vigilance over Chrysler's operations, but CEO Tom LaSorda seemed to override his boss.
"I'm responsible for what's going on at the Chrysler Group," LaSorda said. "I take full responsibility."
Fallout from the miscue led DC CFO Bodo Uebber to say this when asked by a journalist whether Chrysler might be sold: "We don't exclude anything here. We will do our analysis. Second, we will talk about measures. And third, we will draw our conclusions."
Frantic to squelch the resulting uproar, DC issued this statement in response to "speculation" about a potential sale of Chrysler: "DaimlerChrysler reaffirms its previous statements made to the media that there are no plans to sell Chrysler Group. During today's third-quarter earnings analyst/media conference call, the company appropriately chose not to add to the speculation regarding this topic. However, the resulting coverage and comments made it clear that this 'not-for-sale' statement needed to be reaffirmed."
Through December, there was no more buzz about the topic. But there were still anxious moments.
Because of Durango sales were lagging and gas prices loomed over its Chrysler platform-mate, the Aspen, speculation swirled about the future of Chrysler's Newark plant. And Eberhardt was ousted, with LaSorda assuming personal responsibility for dealer relations.
The CEO embarked on a frenetic cross-country blitz to repair relationships, all the while promising Chrysler's shadow inventory would fade away. And by late December, it had dwindled to fewer than 10,000 vehicles.
Against this backdrop, Mercedes again provided the bright spots for DC by looking forward, and back.
In acknowledgement of its past, DC cut the ribbon on the Mercedes-Benz Museum, located beside the auto maker's parent plant in Stuttgart-Unterturkheim, in the shadow of the site where Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach developed their high-speed gasoline engine –birthplace of the world's auto industry.
At opening, the museum featured more than 1,450 exhibits, which included 150 vehicles.
And the tri-star brand also looked ahead in 2006 with the unveiling of its Bluetec aftertreatment technology for diesel engines. Launched in the fall, the '07 Mercedes-Benz E320 Bluetec featured a 210-hp, 3.0L V-6 direct-injection turbodiesel engine that reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by combining exhaust gas recirculation with components such as an oxidizing catalytic converter and a particulate filter.
Chrysler benefited from Mercedes' diesel advancements by announcing it would launch a diesel-powered Grand Cherokee in 2007 that featured the E320's base engine, without the Bluetec aftertreament.
But in the one-step-forward-two-steps-back manner that seemed to dog Chrysler all year, the auto maker also pulled the plug on another diesel offering – its first – the Liberty CRD. It featured a 2.8L I-4 from Italy-based VM Motori SpA in Italy.
Chrysler also stopped production of its 500-hp Dodge Ram SRT-10, the world's fastest production pickup and decided against building production versions of two highly regarded concept vehicles: the Chrysler Firepower supercar and Jeep Gladiator pickup.


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Solar rebate program extended for a year
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission approved a settlement agreement Friday that will allow a popular solar-panel-rebate program to continue for another year.
The agreement was worked out between Xcel Energy and solar-panel installers.
It allows the rebate program to accept another 60 megawatts of solar power, paying out up to $97.3 million in rebates.
The agreement calls for paying the rebates over a 10-year period rather than up front.
It also calls for the program to gradually phase itself out, which is expected to take about a year.
Money comes from a 2 percent surcharge that power suppliers are allowed to charge under Amendment 37, the 2004 ballot question that required them to get a percentage of their electricity from renewable sources.


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Carl Zimmer has a useful summary of the recent Nature paper that links global warming with frog extinctions. Brian Schmidt comments:
I was curious about the fact that none of the climate-focused bloggers on my blog roll had written on the subject. Then it occurred to me – they're climatologists, not biologists, so they decided not to write about something outside of their expertise.
Pat Michaels wasn't bothered by this. In fact, he reckons that he's demolished the paper:
I have to say that this was the easiest shoot-down in some time,
because, in my humble opinion, it was the worst paper that Nature
has published on global warming. Hot rumor: investigative
journalists are on the scent that Nature and Science are skewing
their reviews. Stay tuned.
Hmmm, OK, here's the meat of his criticism:
Figure 1 is taken from the Pounds et al. manuscript. It shows the distribution of amphibian populations as a function of daily average maximum and minimum temperatures. It also shows the original range of the chytrid fungus.
Pounds et al. cite climate data from Columbia and Venezuela showing a decline in daily maximum temperature of 0.6ËC between the 1941-70 average and the 1981-90 average and a rise in daily minimum of 1.0ËC for the same period.
We have imposed these changes upon the Pounds et al. data in Figure 1. The number of new populations possibly effected by chytrid infestations as a result of the decrease in daily maximum temperature is two and it is four for the increase in daily minimum. There are 50 populations, meaning that 12% more of the populations are subject to chytrid infection.
Unfortunately, Michaels has made some serious errors.
- Michaels has "imposed" the changes in the temperature range on the graph by increasing the range of temperatures where the fungus thrives. This is obviously wrong.
- Pounds' figure does not show the distribution of amphibian populations at all. Oddly enough, the researchers did not set up a weather station at each location where frogs had been observed. The graph shows how daily minimum and maximum changes with altitude. The dots are weather stations, not amphibian populations.
- Even if he was correct on points one and two Michaels' conclusion about the percentages of populations affected does not follow. He assumes that the only way that a population could be affected is if the daily minimum or maximum falls into the pink band when it did not do so before. But this ignores the fact that each day the temperature varies between the minimum and the maximum. The correct question to ask, is what percentage of the time does the population spend in the pink band? This is related to the fraction of the interval from a filled circle (daily minimum) to the corresponding open circle (daily maximum). This fraction has increased for all populations below 3000 metres of elevation, so it is possible that a much higher percentage than the 12% that Michaels calculated could be affected
Of course, the errors in Michaels' criticism have not stopped the usual folks from touting it as debunking the study: for example, Steve Milloy in this Fox News article.
In previous posts about Michaels I showed how he
- authored a paper one that "disproved" global warming by deliberately removing almost one-third of the satellite data from his analysis
- co-operated with Ross McKitrick on another paper that managed to "prove" that global warming wasn't happening by mixing up degrees with radians
- constructed a bogus measure of energy efficiency
- lied about Hansen's predictions on global warming.


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Mellanox's Waldman Spurns Silicon Valley
Eyal Waldman, the Israeli army major who built Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (MLNX) into the best-performing stock on the nation's benchmark equity index, is determined to stay independent while peers sell out.
Unlike startups bought by Silicon Valley tech giants, Waldman is confident his 13-year-old company, which makes chips that help connect servers, can be an acquirer, even after disappointing investors for the first time with a fourth-quarter forecast that missed analysts' estimates. While the stock lost more than half its gains, it's still up 111 percent this year, the best on the Tel Aviv's TA-25 Index.
"We definitely think we can grow faster than other companies we work alongside," Chief Executive Officer Waldman, 52, said in a Nov. 5 interview in Tel Aviv. "As long as we can grow faster than we could being part of a larger company, it's better for our shareholders that we stay independent."
Waldman will soon face increasing competition from one of his customers and former employer, Intel Corp. (INTC) Mellanox sank to a four-month low last week on concern the world's largest maker of chips is gaining ground on its InfiniBand technology. Becoming an acquirer would set the CEO apart in Israel's high- technology industry.
Flash-memory producer Anobit Technologies Ltd. of Herzlia Pituach was bought by Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. for an undisclosed amount on Jan. 10. Oridion Systems Ltd. (COV), a maker of medical-safety devices, agreed to a $295 million takeover by Dublin-based Covidien Plc on April 5. RadVision Ltd., a Tel Aviv maker of video-conferencing systems, was sold on June 6 for $128 million to Avaya Holdings Corp. of Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
Information Storage
With 148 deals totaling $5.9 billion in 2012, Israeli companies are the third-most popular takeover targets in the Middle East and Africa after Egypt and South Africa, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Mergers are increasing as initial public offerings remain dormant. Caesar Stone Sdot Yam Ltd. (CSTE), a maker of stone products, was the only Israeli company to go public this year, with an $73.3 million initial share sale in New York.
Israel, whose population of 7.8 million is similar in size to Switzerland's, is home to more startup companies per capita than the U.S. and has 54 companies traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market, the most of any country outside the U.S. after China.
Mellanox New York-listed shares rose the most this year in the Bloomberg index of the most-traded Israeli companies listed in the U.S. and ranked 10th among the 379 shares in the Nasdaq Computer Index (IXK), with a 113 percent rally, on surging demand from suppliers of information storage and data systems.
Paring a Rally
Sales for Mellanox, based in Yokneam Elit, a town southeast of Haifa in northern Israel, have exceeded analysts' estimates every quarter since its 2007 IPO, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The company, 8.9 percent owned by Redwood City, California-based Oracle Corp. (ORCL), has benefited from demand for InfiniBand, which is used to transfer and store data in high-end computing and data centers.
That success is facing its biggest challenge yet as investors speculate Santa Clara, California-based Intel is close to selling a competing product.
Mellanox shares pared their 283 percent surge this year through Sept. 6 after its fourth-quarter revenue outlook of $145 million to $150 million was below the $156.6 million estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
While Intel currently buys InfiniBand chips from Mellanox, in 2015 the U.S. company plans to start supplying its own 100 gigabit per-second devices, according to Clal Finance Batucha Brokerage Ltd.
'Industry Gorilla'
Intel agreed in January to buy QLogic Corp.'s InfiniBand business for $125 million. Three months later the company said that it will spend $140 million to acquire Cray Inc. (CRAY)'s technology to connect server chips.
"The challenge of Mellanox will be to be able to leverage its dominant position in the high performance connectivity market and compete with an industry gorilla like Intel," Jonathan Kreizman, an analyst at Clal in Tel Aviv, said in a telephone interview on Nov. 11.
Waldman says he's undeterred by Intel's market penetration as Mellanox has a product customers prefer.
"We are better at execution," Waldman said by phone from Sunnyvale, California on Dec. 6. "It will be a challenge for Intel to take some of the design wins."
Mellanox's name comes from combining Xerox -- an adviser told Waldman that many company names, like Xerox, don't have a meaning -- the word millennium, because the company was founded in 1999, and Ella for his ex-wife, to whom he attributes much of his success.
'Fastest Switch'
Spending on cloud services, which let users store data and software on servers that can be accessed anywhere, will reach $100 billion in 2016, up from about $40 billion this year, Framingham, Massachusetts-based data research firm IDC said in its August report.
"Mellanox right now has the fastest switch," said Louis Navellier, the chief investment officer of Navellier & Associates Inc. in a Nov. 19 interview. "Everyone wants to be in the cloud, so everyone wants the Mellanox switch because everyone wants the fastest server time," said Navellier, whose West Palm Beach, Florida, firm manages $3.5 billion, including shares of the Israeli company.
Sales for the three months ended September more than doubled to $156.5 million, beating the $153 million mean estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Net income surged 10-fold for the quarter to $48.4 million, the company said Oct. 17. Revenue is expected to grow 21 percent next year according to the mean estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Scuba Diver
Waldman, a kite boarder and scuba diver, started in Israel's high tech industry before he finished his masters' degree in electrical engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. "My mother still thinks I am a failure because I don't have a Ph.D.," he said. He owns a 3.8 percent stake in Mellanox valued at about $111 million.
He spent 18 months as a sub-contractor at Haifa-based Elbit Systems Ltd. (ELST), then three years at Intel before he left to start his first company, Galileo Technology Ltd. The company was acquired by Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL) for $2.2 billion in January 2001, two years after Waldman left because of disagreements with his partners.
"I felt that Galileo should do acquisitions and the chief executive and chief financial officer decided that wasn't the right thing," Waldman said.
Cash Reserves
Mellanox went public on Feb. 7, 2007 issuing 6 million shares at $17, raising $102 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The company acquired Voltaire Ltd., an Israeli maker of switches for $179 million in November 2010.
Waldman said in an interview in July that he intends to use reserves "mainly for mergers and acquisitions." At the end of the third quarter the company had $398 million in cash and equivalents, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
A multi-tasker who once spent a night at a command center directing Israeli troops while instructing Galileo's U.S. team on a conference call, Waldman said he runs the 1,300-employee company as a startup.
"Eyal is the kind of person you want to be in a small boat with," co-founder Ron Ashuri, who is currently the company's vice president of engineering, said in a phone interview on Oct. 10.
Porsche 911
There are parts of the job Waldman doesn't enjoy, like getting onto a plane alone, he said during an Oct. 11 interview in his 15th floor apartment in Tel Aviv's Ramat Aviv Gimmel neighborhood. "I don't like to do presentations and I don't like giving feedback."
He pampers himself with a Porsche 911 turbo convertible and Range Rover parked at his U.S. home, and a BMW 330i convertible and second Range Rover garaged in Israel.
The threat of Intel could also be an opportunity for Mellanox because it shows how important the technology has become for the data industry, according to DS Securities & Investments.
"Even if Mellanox will be faced with new competition, chances are that the whole market will grow," Eran Jacoby, the head of research at DS Securities in Tel Aviv, said in a telephone interview on Oct. 10. "Mellanox will also stand to benefit from this growth."
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