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OLYMPIA, Wash./ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Washington state legislature met on Thursday in special session to consider measures to ensure Boeing Co builds its newest jet, the 777X, in the Seattle area.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee, a Democrat, called the session to seek roughly $8 billion in tax breaks, a streamlined permitting process for Boeing and $10 billion in funding for transportation improvements.
For the Seattle area to win the coveted work, Boeing's machinist union also is being asked to approve a long-term labor contract with concessions on pensions and healthcare. Union members are due to vote on the proposal by next Wednesday.
The 777X program would secure thousands of jobs for the state, keep it at the forefront of aircraft technology and trigger construction of 1.5 million square feet of new facilities in the Puget Sound area. It is viewed as crucial to the Seattle area, which is competing with nonunionized workers in southern U.S. states where wages are lower.
"Assembly of that airplane will be the lynchpin of economic growth for the state of Washington for decades to come," Inslee said, speaking before the Washington state House Finance Committee on Thursday.
It remained unclear exactly how much Boeing's decision about where to build the jet really hinges on the labor deal and the state incentives.
The 777X is Boeing's latest jet program, and could be the last major new plane by Boeing for the next 15 years. It is expected to enter service in 2020.
The jet will be built using a metal fuselage similar to the current 777, one of Boeing's best-selling planes, and will add a large new carbon-composite wing and new engines. More than 100 orders for the jet are expected later this month at the Dubai Airshow.
In a letter to Inslee sent on Thursday, the senior vice president of Boeing's government operations, Tim Keating, listed tax incentives and the transportation infrastructure package, along with a labor agreement, as elements "that will ensure our lasting competitiveness in Washington state."
The letter went on to commend the governor for working to "achieve the results that are necessary" to locate 777X production in Washington state.
"That doesn't mean it's a deal-breaker," said Ken Herbert, an aerospace analyst at Canaccord Genuity Inc in San Francisco.
Boeing clearly wants to lock in the labor concessions but might be more flexible on the legislative proposals, Herbert said.
The Chicago-based planemaker has also considered putting the 777X at its South Carolina assembly plant, where it makes some 787 Dreamliners, according to industry sources.
Putting the 777X there was seen by many industry experts as more financially sound for the long haul. But the labor proposal shows determination to control costs and avert strike risk with the 777X in Washington.
Boeing also is under pressure to avoid the technical problems and delays that plagued the Dreamliner, which arrived three years late after production was outsourced around the world.
"It would almost certainly have been more disruptive to move a larger component of the (777X) operations to South Carolina," said Russell Solomon, an analyst at Moody's Investors Service in New York.
So far, investors are not concerned about the tilt toward building the jet in Washington.
Boeing stock is near record highs, and has not fallen significantly since the provisional proposals were announced on Tuesday. The shares were down 0.6 percent at $132.24 on Thursday afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange.
"Investors care about stability, visibility, profitability and risk in the assembly of aircraft," said Rob Stallard, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets. "If the location of final assembly impacts these factors, then they probably care."
The provisional labor agreement with the machinists' union was announced on Tuesday. The eight-year contract includes $10,000 signing bonuses and enhanced pensions for older workers who opt to retire, but would halt further additions to current workers' pensions and set up a different retirement plan funded by the company, the union said.
Inslee's plan includes extending commercial airplane tax incentives until 2040 and widens other exemptions.
Democrats control the legislature's lower house, and Republicans control the Senate. Sentiment in both chambers leans toward passing Boeing-related tax incentives.
But Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom, a conservative Democrat, cautioned it could take weeks to pass a transportation revenue package that would likely rely on a gasoline tax increase.
It was not immediately clear whether Boeing views swift passage of a transportation package as a prerequisite to locating 777X production in Washington state and building 1.5 million square feet of new facilities in the Puget Sound area.
"It's not do-or-die to get the transportation package done immediately," Tom said.
Reporting by Jonathan Kaminsky in Olympia, Wash.; editing by Eric M. Johnson, W Simon, Matthew Lewis and Andrew Hay


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I have this friend who has something like 600 cousins, and not in the 'OH-EM-GEE he has like sixty-eleven hundred cousins, squee!' way, either. He actually has 600ish cousiny-relations who all live within a reasonable proximity to one another, but more significantly, they all know each other. They know which ones are lawyers and which ones are accountants and who is in construction and how many are pregnant and they never want for anything.
My friend has 600+ people who would, at a moment's notice, lend him their expertise, their support and their good lobster pot. There is a difference between expecting others to do things for you and simply knowing there are those out there who will, and I believe that difference is called Having a Village.
I do not have 600 cousins. I have one living biological cousin and I haven't seen her since her sister died in 1996. I guarantee you I won't ever see her again, either. I have three, maybe four (I'm not entirely sure) step-cousins, but I don't know so much as their full names. I don't even know the full names of any of my grandparents save my father's father.
What I do have is one big brother and the most amazingly magical motley assortment of people who I've picked up along the way, people I can turn to when I need it - no matter what it happens to be. I know which ones understand me when I'm breaking, and I know which ones are willing to play mom or sister, and I know which ones to call upon on a Thursday night when I'm trying to write the most important document of my life thus far. I know they will answer, and I know they will charge for the guns with me if I ask it of them.
It's not ever going to be the same as having a bona fide family; I'll always feel like I'm imposing, like I'm not showing enough gratitude, like I'm not giving enough back. I'll forever wonder why my Six Hundred doesn't ride back the way my parents, my church and every person I ever tried to love did, but it isn't mine to reason why, I guess.
It is mine to charge forward, wildy. It is mine to do and die. There is a difference between living up to someone else's expectations and simply wanting to become the person everyone who loves you believes you can be, and I believe that difference is called Being Part of a Village.
With ::knuckles of respect:: to Lord Tennyson for, like, all of it.

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Opensuse 11.1 thru. 11.4 64 bit works fine. SLED 11 also is fine. Gnome seems to be the most compatible gui, but with 11.4 KDE 4.x is also excellent.
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I installed 8.10 and it was a flawless 35 minute install except that wireless did not work.
Then I booted it with the dell recovery iso. The install takes a good while and seems to hang at the 'removing unused packages' but your patience will be rewarded. You'll have wireless afterwards, and a very clean factory-type install of Hardy. You can download the iso here:
Sound does not work out of the box but everything else does… after running 490 updates, sound and everything else, including headphones seems to work great!
Everything works out of the box, without any modification. Reported problems on Ethernet and wireless are obsolete due to fixes in the Kernel.
Opensuse 11.1 thru. 11.4 64 bit works fine. SLED 11 also is fine. Gnome seems to be the most compatible gui, but with 11.4 KDE 4.x is also excellent.
Hi Vostro A860,
I think this series is not good, I got a lot of problem since the first time i delivered it. 2 years of using this product, I changed RAM, Cooler fan, Battery. Hum… many problems.
I bought a Vostro A860 because it was $399 and it works very well with linux both Opensuse 11.1, 11.2 and SLED version 11. My only complaint is I think the screensaver may cause system lockups with SLED 11 and KDE wireless does not work, GNOME works fine.
I have met the same problem. I tried ubuntu 8.04,centos 5.3 with madwifi.When I was using madwifi,it can find the AP,but can not connect successfully.I didn't try other distrubutions.I aslo hopes to find a solution. email@example.com
I use Arch Linux 2009.8 iso image and everything works well, but I did not try wifi and have problem with hdd Load_Cycle_Count, but everything can be set up…I strongly recomend Ubuntu Linux because this iz Ubuntu laptop! :D
I installed debian lennny/squeeze on the notebook.
All h/w works.
Wifi needs some setup.
Let me tell you how.
1. ath5k wouldn't work
2. you need to use older drivers - I used latest madwifi-hal-testing or so.
3. Madwifi-hal wouldnt compile with m-a.
4. I gave up 'the debian way' and just unzipped it into /usr/src/modules and I did 'make && make install'.
5. After you have ath_pci make sure you unload ath5k and re-load ath_pci.
6. You should now have ath0 device.
issue 'ifconfig ath0 up' command
7. To scan the network I use wifi-radar or 'wicd-clint –no-tray' or wicd-curses.
PS. I don't know if it is important but I disabled bluetooth in BIOS and I also disabled 'wifi hotkey'. So now bios turns my wifi card on upon start and I can't (or I don't need to turn it on/off using Fn+F11 (the button where the antenna mark is).
Kind regards,
Im happy with the notebook.
wireless is not a problem in vostro a860. if your wireless is not working even if you make all the config, try to check your QMI device if it is inserted perfectly.
see that at the back of your laptop.just remove only the cover with the 2 screws, then check.
good luck.
The wireless button of vostroA860 could only give me bluetooth! On and off. I installed kubuntu 8.10 without success on wireless. I uninstalled and loaded windows thinking it could work but that didn't. I then installed kubuntu 8.10 and upgraded to 9.10 but still couldn't get it to pick the wireless. Checked the system/networks and clicked to enable the atheros drivers but no wireless even after typing in all necessary connection details for the wlan. how do I get this thing to give me wireless and not bluetooth!
A very good notebook. I've bought it with Ubuntu pre-installed. Then I installed on it Mandriva 2009 - worked greatly and now I use on this model Zenwalk 5.2 - everything works.
Zenwalk shows better performance then Mandriva and Ubuntu. Slackware 12.2 also works great, but Zenwalk is easier to tune up
Does anyone know why it says "If you want to dual boot a system with Windows, you will want to install using a standard Ubuntu 8.04.1 DVD." on the Dell website?
If you want to dual boot, do not use the Dell Recovery .iso because it will completely wipe the hard drive when it installs. You can use the latest Ubuntu 9.04, follow the instructions for a side-by-side installation during the easy 7 step set-up and I promise you you can not only dual boot but you will be so totally happy with the Ubuntu side of the partition that you may never need or want to boot into Windows. Everything works in 9.04 – I've done a thorough testing of this machine in 9.04.
Works out of the box list: wireless, sound, headphones, ethernet, video. Install system from cd. Run updates. I did zero hacking to make this machine work. Did not even open a terminal window.
See my own guide on it here: http://febaen.blogspot.com/2008/12/installing-ubuntu-on-dell-vostro-a860.html
The WiFi issue was annoying to find, but once I found it it worked perfectly.
I'm hoping to find a solution to the wireless issue. If anyone knows a fix, please post it. Thanks!


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Next week, "educators nationwide will have first-row access to Common Core State Standards (CCSS) experts during Pearson's Common Core Virtual Conference. The four-day conference, available free of charge, will include a range of virtual panels, presentations and interactive demonstrations for teachers, administrators, and parents from key authors and architects of the new principles."
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I've received medical treatment for depression for approximately 10 years. Recently, single therapies haven't done the trick, so my doctor augmented my antidepressant with Abilify. Due to side effects, I went off that, and he prescribed lithium. I always associated lithium with bipolar disorder, which I don't have. Is lithium an approved therapy to augment an antidepressant? What other add-on therapies are possible?
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Dear Emily,
Your question is a good one. It is an irony that although lithium is not FDA approved as an augmentation strategy for treating depression, there is probably more evidence supporting the efficacy of lithium in this regard than for any other strategy, except for perhaps some of the newer anti-psychotics like Abilify (generic aripiprazole), which you tried. The primary reasons for this paradox are historical and financial. The studies showing benefit for lithium as an augmenting agent were done years ago, before people thought much about getting FDA approval for complex pharmacological strategies such as augmentation. And lithium has been available in generic form for years, so there was no financial incentive for pharmaceutical investment to do the big studies needed to obtain FDA approval.
You are quite right that lithium is primarily known for its use in bipolar disorder, where it has been shown to be quite effective in treating manias and moderately effective in preventing/treating depression and in keeping people's moods stable over long periods. But it also has been known for years to rapidly convert antidepressant nonresponders to responders and to do so at doses lower than are required for optimal treatment in bipolar disorder. No one knows for sure how it works as an augmenting agent, but many scientists suspect that its effects may trace to an ability to increase activity of the neurotransmitter serotonin.
In general people who respond to lithium when added to an antidepressant do so within a couple of weeks, rather than the four to six weeks that are often required for response to standard antidepressant agents. This means that if you have been taking lithium at a reasonable dose for more than two to three weeks and you have not seen an improvement it is unlikely that it will benefit you.
Because approximately half of all patients do not respond adequately to the first antidepressant they try, you would think that we'd have a multitude of studies to guide us as clinicians regarding what to do next. But in fact, we know remarkably little about this hugely important issue.
The best data we have come from a large (and in psychiatry circles famous) study called the STAR*D trial. This study started about 4,000 people on a widely used selective serotonin antidepressant called citalopram and then tried everyone who failed this medication on all sorts of different treatments, one after another. The findings were unexpected. Basically, a variety of medication approaches were equally effective in people who had failed a first antidepressant and it didn't appear to matter much which approach any given patient was assigned to. What did emerge clearly from the study was that the more medication regimens a person failed the less likely he or she was to eventually respond to any type of pharmacological treatment.
So the take-home message from the data we have currently available is that if the addition of lithium to your antidepressant doesn't resolve your depression you have a number of options, all of which are about equally likely to work. In general these strategies boil down to one of two options: you can switch to a new antidepressant or you can add something to the antidepressant you are on.
As I said above, at this point the evidence is probably strongest for using atypical antipsychotics to augment antidepressants, although interestingly this wasn't one of the options explored in the large STAR*D trial. In terms of what else can be added, it increasingly appears that every class of psychiatric medication can be used to augment antidepressants, with no clear guidance available in terms of which class is likely to be best for any given individual. Depending on what type of side effects made the Abilify intolerable for you, it is possible that one of the other atypical antipsychotics might be of benefit to you. Lithium is well supported by studies. Slightly less well supported is the thyroid hormone liothyronine (often called T3 for short). Studies suggest that adding an additional antidepressant to the one you are already taking may be effective, as may be the addition of a psychostimulant such as d-amphetamine or methylphenidate (popularly known by the brand name Ritalin).
So although this may all seem confusing, the good news is that many options exist for helping you "jump start" your response to the antidepressant you are currently taking.
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Social Media – Security Risks? It Depends Where You Happen to be Sitting
No doubt the eruption of social media applications, networks and tools has caused a significant ground disturbance; some would say it's been a series of category nine earthquakes. I recently had the pleasure of reviewing the results of a Cisco commissioned survey provided to 500 information technology security professionals in the US, Germany, Japan, China, and India concerning social media and personal devices conducted by InsightExpress.
Do take the time to review these results, and in doing so I think you will share my realization, that with everything new there are unintended and unforeseen security issues, both real and perceived. These issues appear to be at the root of the substantial consternation amongst the participating information technology security professionals. Indeed, this multidimensional capability called social media is in fact permeating the hermetically sealed secure environments of our businesses, or so it would seem. It is time to get out the plow, hitch up the horses and hoe a few rows in order to plant the seeds to grow healthy and sustainable security practices and capabilities surrounding these concerns.
So let's dig into the issues that are making the respondents twitch. "Our employees are using unsupported applications on their laptops." Is that you making the comment? Or are they thinking of you when they responded? Are "unsupported" social media applications used at the office? Is it you? How about peer-to-peer (P2P) software and networks, is it a necessity of your business for you to be connected and sharing work content? Or perhaps you are using an externally hosted and maintained service (aka cloud); especially given the large number of respondents who indicated they had employee clientele doing just this. But I believe a bit more context needs to be evolved to fully understand the issue(s) or we may find ourselves making "much ado about nothing" (with a tip of the hat to The Bard).
What does this mean? It means the "consumerization of IT" has arrived. It means companies need to know who, what, where, when and how their employees are accessing their employer's environment. It also means one needs to have an understanding of the device(s) being used to access their infrastructures. With just over half of employers conducting their own assessments and studies to determine what types of devices employees are using, is it fair to assume those who don't measure don't know? Or could those that don't assess be the truly fortunate ones whose user clientele only use what is issued, because you and your colleagues understand why the policies exist.
I urge all to assess. It is important to know not only what devices, networks, and applications are being used, but also to understand why they are being used. It is very infrequent an employee will purposefully use a new tool or capability with the purpose of putting their employer/employment at risk. Your understanding can only come from collaborative dialog. An assessment effort will provide a crystalline view into what may be your opaque situation. With this, you are well positioned to create your messaging and roadmap to the future to ensure your data is safe and remains safe.
Alternatively, you could of course move to a draconian solution and lock down and restrict access to the Internet, social media tools, applications and services, and in so doing signal the participation of such should be made on a device with no connectivity to your business. It may also signal to your future employee prospect that you are not yet advancing into the new business model. If that's you, how's that working for you? I wasn't surprised to read that those with a highly restricted environment still faced employees using unsupported devices and methods. From my optic it appears this is analogous to when the ground is saturated and more water arrives, the employee, like the water, will find an available route to connect and engage, even if it isn't the employer's preferred route. And of course when this happens, a mop is needed in both instances to clean up the ensuing mess. Even though it may feel like you are living under the constant threat of a flood, perhaps with a bit of investment the risk of damage can be mitigated and greatly reduced.
I don't advocate draconian restrictions. In my own instance I am permitted to use unsupported applications and devices. I am also governed by a clear and concise "code of business conduct" and "information handling policy." In addition, I don't have to divine the expectations of my employer; they are shared with me regularly, and they evolve with equal regularity. For example, I know that I shouldn't copy my internal email to my web-based account, even if it is more convenient to have a copy accessible from my personal laptop (and I know that my personal laptop is an inappropriate device, as it isn't configured and provisioned with the security applications that my employer implements. If I choose an application poorly, I am fully accountable and responsible should the application wreak havoc.
While not an advocate of a total lock down, I do submit that certain data sets absolutely require restricted access, and this means your environment and your employer's environment must be equally secured. I think it is totally appropriate to have sterile lab environments where no electronic devices are allowed — and to implement and enforce such an environment requires the occupants to understand that excluding technology is for the following reasons: A, B, C, D, … With such articulation and demonstration, you raise the level of understanding that your employees will not only comply with your desired restrictions surrounding the data, but also they will actually know when they may be putting their employer at risk and by extension their employment at risk.
The policies are there to guide the employees in their engagements, but policies without teeth are feckless and will be ignored. In my instance, those policies governing my behavior have teeth. Do yours? Make sure they do, and more importantly, make sure you can articulate the why the policy exists. From my seat, good policy adherence requires an investment in a robust and omnipresent education and awareness regime. This is not a topic relegated to your employee's first day of work and never revisited.
In sum, the perspective of the information technology security professional is that social media evolution carries new risks that need to be understood by those implementing technology, those using the technology, and those leveraging the technology. A great way to drive that understanding is to look at the multiple sides to social media and reduce the tendency to become myopic. The practitioner is usually found in the marketing or communications departments and the audience, those with whom we wish to engage in conversation and collaboration are both the internal clientele and the customers. The importance and understanding of these risks are often shaded by where you sit. The solution to these can be addressed and mitigated via continual communication, awareness and education.
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Digital Crunch (James), thanks for your comments, very much appreciated. You hit the salient point – the need to have all engaged in building, delivering and sharing the why."" This will, imo, take a big chunk out of the inadvertent & good intentioned errors. Thanks again for taking the time to both read and comment.All the best,Christopher"
Employees will find a way around anything put in place. I would venture to say that the search for this type of knowledge is more dangerous than simply educating and reviewing expectations. ie: oh, I didn't know I can tunnel anything I want over SSH via port 443 and you can't stop it, or even see it… how interesting… I see more and more that it's a CYA game instead of a true security policy designed to actually protect and educate – and like you said, it's all in the education of why.The more people are treated as objects, to be controlled, instead of partners to share profit with, the more they will resent everything. This isn't 1950, and people don't desire to slave away for 40 years under Draconian"" regime day in and day out. The generations now simply do not have that mindset. Like you said though, if they have a reason, an explanation, they are far more likely to willingly comply!"


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2010-2011 (Freshman): 100-yard freestyle: 16th at HYP (47.35)... 12th vs. Penn/Dartmouth (48.92)... 8th vs. Navy (54.87)... 50-yard freestyle: 19th at HYP (21.82)... 6th vs. Cornell (22.39)... 7th vs. Navy (24.93).
Before Yale: Four varsity letters from The Pingry School... Led the team as captain senior year... Three-time All American... Member of multiple NJ state champion relays... National AP Scholar.
Personal: Member of Trumbull College... Intending to major in math or physics... Father, Marcus ran cross country at UC Berkeley… Mother, Jean, went to Barnard... Has four siblings: Cassius, Nora, Leland, and Annette... Cassius currently enrolled at William and Mary.
Why Yale: "Yale was the only school that combined rigorous academics, competitive athletics, and a lively social atmosphere in the college experience."


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A change is as good as a holiday
If you'd been watching, you'd have seen the background texture, colour, intensity, and brightness, and the header text and the picture of Nico and Diotima change about every 30 seconds for the last four hours as I struggled to get everything bedded in. Sorry about that.
I think we're more or less stable now, but do please let me know if anything isn't working for you.
Next up, Ionia Sanction gets its very own page tab, and I remember when it was only a few lines of text on my PC. How the time flies.
11 comments:
- Taymalin said...
It looks great Gary. I can't wait to read the book :)
- November 7, 2011 at 10:56 PM
Looks good here - The Ionian touch.
Good luck today (tomorrow) with the launch. Although I don't suppose you need luck to drink a glass of champagne:-)
Now I need to track down a copy
- November 8, 2011 at 7:07 AM
- Meghan said...
Looks good!
- November 8, 2011 at 8:10 AM
- Gary Corby said...
Thank you all!
- November 8, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- pierre l said...
Amazon.com says my two copies are on their way. Hopefully they won't take too long to reach England.
I loved The Pericles Commission, so I am sure I will love The Iona Sanction too. Congratulations.
- November 9, 2011 at 3:00 AM
- Gary Corby said...
Hi Pierre,
Yes, it's release day!
What does an author do on release day? The answer is, nothing much. It's all out of my hands now and, I hope, soon in yours.
- November 9, 2011 at 6:52 AM
- Janet Reid said...
Great new look for the blog!
I hope you're celebrating your pub day by patting yourself on the back for a job well done! Great reviews! Happy readers!
I'm so glad I found you!
- November 9, 2011 at 2:07 PM
- Gary Corby said...
I'm rather chuffed that you found me, too.
Thanks for everything, Janet!
- November 9, 2011 at 2:39 PM
- Bernadette said...
Congratulations on launching book 2 Gary and do let us know when it's released here in Oz
- November 13, 2011 at 10:49 AM
- Gary Corby said...
Hi Bernadette. Jan 3 is the official release date for Australia. I saw the PR announcement just yesterday.
- November 13, 2011 at 11:14 AM
- Bernadette said...
Thanks Gary, have put that one on the reading calendar
- November 13, 2011 at 3:03 PM


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Rookie1 wrote:MrLuck87 wrote:
Whatever. I'm wasting my time posting on this forum. The reviews here are less reliable than Gamespot's to be honest.
By Felisha!
The great thing is I won 75 bucks tonight! Spend your money on stupid bull(puckey because this is a clean forum)
It's actually hilarious to me watching....
Moderator Edit: We don't need long flame posts. Lets try to play nice and remember video games are just a fun hobby.


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I am trying to use a ColorFunction with Opacity in ContourPlot. Here's my code:
data = RandomVariate[BinormalDistribution[.75], 10];
d = SmoothKernelDistribution[data];
cf[z_] := {Opacity[z], Red};
sc1 = ContourPlot[
Evaluate@PDF[d, {x, y}], {x, -3, 3}, {y, -3, 3},
PlotRange -> All, PlotPoints -> 50, ColorFunction -> cf,
ColorFunctionScaling -> True]
And here's what it produces:
How can the ugly mesh be avoided? I am using Mathematica 8.0.1 in OS X.


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Traditional thinking holds that aerodynamics are only important to the NASCAR Cup guys because they are going so fast. For tight bullrings, which are typical for Saturday-night racing, where the speeds are slower, aero just isn't as important. And when it comes to dirt track racing, unless you're in a Sprint Car with a giant wing on top, slapping a spoiler on the back is about all you can do.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, aerodynamics play a larger role on how your race car behaves the faster you are going, but even on tight, low-speed racetracks taking advantage of a few aero tricks can help you gain an advantage on the competition. When NASCAR Sprint Cup teams regularly spend entire days at a wind tunnel trying to determine the best way to shape the top of the front fenders, you'd better believe that there are things you can do on your dirt car where the rules are much less restrictive when it comes to the things you can do to the body.
To find out more we spent an afternoon in the race shops of Kyle Strickler Motorsports. Strickler is one of the most successful Dirt Modified drivers in the country when it comes to the IMCA/UMP style cars. In fact, Stricker is so successful he's one of the few IMCA/UMP Dirt Modified drivers in the country who is doing it as a full-time job. And his results speak for themselves: When we spoke with Stickler it was still barely mid-season and he'd already won 22 events across the country.
Besides winning races, Strickler also earns his keep building and setting up cars, as well as consulting for other racers who want to improve their performance on dirt. His latest venture is High Side Bodies & Fabrication, a company that—you guessed it—sells race car bodies for Dirt Modified cars. Strickler builds bodies designed to take full advantage of aerodynamics based on his years of racing, as well as wind tunnel testing with Dirt Late Models.
Strickler agreed to share with us many of the aero tricks he incorporates into his bodies. Some are the basics, but still useful, while others are only suitable for specific situations, but again, still useful. Depending on your rule book, you may be able to use all the tips or just a few, but any and all should help keep your race car planted to the track so that you can make more use of the available horsepower.
01. How you position your hood depends a lot on whether you will be able to run a rear spoiler. If you are running a rear spoiler, consider the roof a directional device. Make the roof so that it is slightly convex (rounded so that its highest point is in the center and sloping down on both ends) if you can get away with it. This helps guide air coming off the roof onto the rear spoiler. If, however, you aren't running a rear spoiler then the roof becomes a downforce device. Make the roof as long and as wide as possible and put as much rake into it as possible. Do this by making the rear of the roof as high as allowed by the rules and the front as low as possible, but still high enough that you can get into and out of the window opening safely. Moving the roof forward and back helps move the downforce forward and back on the chassis. Generally, Strickler says he likes to move the roof forward until it starts to block his view of the flagstand from the driver seat.
02. Notice how the right-side door panel is cambered out approximately 15 degrees. This way when the car rolls over on the right side through the turns the door panel is vertical, helping increase side force. If the door panel is vertical when the car is sitting at ride height, when it is rolling through the turn the bottom edge of the panel will be inboard the top edge—which actually funnels air underneath the car. You also want to make sure you run a skirt along the bottom of the door panel that is set so it nearly touches the track surface when the car is going through the turns. This helps seal off what becomes the leading edge of the car to keep air from getting underneath the car.
03. The right-side sail panel should also be considered an extension of the door panel and rear quarter. Make it follow the same line as the door panel as long as possible. That means you have to make the curve to join the sail panel to the roof fairly sharp and as high as you can get it.
04. Strickler follows the same train of thought with the lower portion of the A-pillar on the right side as he does the sail panel. Again, it might not be much, but anything you can do to help generate side force as the car slides through the turns will help plant the right-side tires.
05. The purpose of a rear spoiler is obvious, so we won't bore you with a discussion on how one works. One interesting difference from the norm is that Strickler never runs any braces on the front of the spoiler if he can help it. Remember, as the car slides through the turns on a dirt track, air travels along the length of the rear spoiler as much as it travels over it. Any brace on the front of the spoiler disturbs the air moving down the spoiler, reducing how effectively the spoiler can produce downforce for the rest of its length. If the spoiler does need bracing, Strickler recommends using horizontal straps that provide minimal obstruction to air moving laterally along the spoiler.
Matters of Balance
When we talked to Strickler, before he would even begin talking about aerodynamics he stressed the need for maintaining proper balance. "Sometimes it is possible to overload either the front or the rear of the car when it comes to aerodynamic downforce, depending on what the rules allow," Strickler explains. "If you cannot get the grip between the tires and the track balanced from front to rear, you can be better off by backing off on the downforce generated to get the car back into balance so that you aren't always too loose or too tight. It can be tough to give it up sometimes, but I've seen how it can make you faster."
As an example, Strickler points to a weekend racing at County Line Raceway in North Carolina. County Line allows its Modified classes to run an 8-inch tall rear spoiler. After struggling through the hot laps session to find the right balance for the car, Strickler says he eventually realized the tall spoiler was simply too much for the Modified chassis given the racetrack and conditions. At the last minute his crew bolted up a smaller 5-inch spoiler and proceeded to set the track record.
The moral here? Easy: When it comes to racing the only thing that matters is how quickly you can get around the track. Take advantage of everything you can—aero, chassis, engine, you name it—but if anything gets in the way of lowering your lap times, ditch it like a bad habit.
Yes, there is such a thing as aerodynamics for dirt cars. here's how to take advantage of it.
Aerodynamics play a larger role on how your race car behaves the faster you are going, but even on tight, low-speed racetracks taking advantage of a few aero tricks can help you gain an advantage on the competition.


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Fisher Funds buys Tower for $79m with help from new shareholder TSB
Fisher Funds, co-founded by Carmel Fisher (pictured), has extended its reach in the funds management business, buying Tower Investments for $79 million in a deal backed by new shareholder TSB Bank.
The deal will grow Fisher Funds' funds under management to more than $5 billion from its existing $1.4 billion, following on from its acquisition of the KiwiSaver portfolios of First NZ Capital, Huljich Wealth Management and the New Zealand Association of Credit Unions over the past three years, the company says in a statement.
Taranaki-based TSB is supporting the purchase for an unspecified amount and will take 26 percent of the fund manager and get board representation.
"Tower's decision to sell its funds management business has created the opportunity for Fisher Funds to attain scale that will provide efficiencies in the management of clients' funds, while still allowing for the high quality personalised services that we are known for," managing director Carmel Fisher says.
"We anticipate that there will be synergies to be gained from the amalgamation of back office services and benefits of scale to be achieved from key suppliers which in time will flow through to investors in the form of a wider range of services and even more competitive fees," she says.
The acquisition comes as the government reviews the default KiwiSaver schemes, including Tower, with officials keen on aligning fund managers' incentives with long-term returns for investors. TSB's involvement in the acquisition echoes KiwiBank's purchase of Gareth Morgan Investments last year.
Tower has been looking to sell its investment business since it completed a strategic review last year as a means to provide value for shareholders, and comes after November's sale of its medical insurance unit to ASX-listed Nib.
Tower's scaling back of its business comes as cornerstone shareholder Guinness Peat Group liquidates its portfolio.
"The focus for Tower going forward will be on growing our traditional core insurance business through offering superior products backed by market leading customer services," managing director Rob Flannagan says in a separate statement.
All Tower Investments staff, including chief executive Sam Stubbs, will transfer to Fisher Funds.
Fisher Funds has the right to use the Tower brand of 12 months from settlement, scheduled for April 2, and will manage Tower's internal funds for five years.


text: NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks fell Friday, denting weekly gains, after a Republican proposal to avert the fiscal cliff did not find support, reducing hopes for a budget deal before 2012 closes. "It will lead to a recession if we go off the cliff," said Hugh Johnson, chairman of Hugh Johnson Advisors LLC. "It's for real." Gaining 0.4% on the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.18% lost 120.88 points, or 0.9%, to 13,190.84. The S&P 500 index SPX, -0.11% declined 13.54 points, or 0.9%, to 1,430.15, leaving it up 1.2% from the week-ago close. Rising 1.7% for the week, the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.47% lost 29.38 points, or 1%, to 3,021.


text: No folks, despite that extended rear end, we're told this tester caught by the spy peepers at UK's InfoMotori isn't the BMW X6 but actually is the 2010 BMW V5 out for some early testing. According to BMW's game plans revealed a few months ago, the V5's supposedly a sort of a mix between a Touring and an MPV, with awd variants. Although the unevenly shaped four-door may end up being called the 5 series coupe — especially seeing as it'll get the same engine lineup as the 5 series and the X5 — for the time being fans of Bayerische Motoren Werke are calling it the V5, so we guess we'll roll with them on it. [via InfoMotori]