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March 20, 2016, 6:47 pm
Luke Babbitt started and scored 14 points on 4-of-9 shooting (1-of-2 from deep, 5-of-5 from the line) with eight rebounds in 29 minutes on Sunday against the Clippers.
Babbitt now has three productive games in his last five and now Anthony Davis' injury has opened up a lot of minutes. This line could become a familiar sight and if this can help you pick him up. The Pelicans have a nice schedule and they could increasingly turn to guys like Babbitt to carry them down the stretch. He should be owned in all 12-team formats.
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May 26, 2020, 10:07 pmKawhi LeonardSF, Los Angeles Clippers
On Tuesday afternoon, AmicoHoops reported (via Twitter) that an unidentified NBA GM told them the league has seriously discussed resuming the current NBA season on Wednesday, July 22.
Nothing has been officially announced, by any means, and this is the first we've heard of specific target date(s) from anyone. It's looking like the continuation of the season will occur in Orlando at Walt Disney World at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex, which has accommodations for at least some of what the NBA has planned for a resuming activity. As we have relayed numerous times recently, the next week or two seem to be a likely window for some decisions from Adam Silver and Co. at the NBA league office to start to come down. Stay tuned, hoops fans.
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May 26, 2020, 8:47 pmDamian LillardPG, Portland Trail Blazers
Damian Lillard announced on Tuesday evening that, in the event of a continuation of the NBA season, he would not be participating if the Blazers are scheduled to play 'meaningless games' with no shot at making the playoffs.
"If we come back and they're just like, 'We're adding a few games to finish the regular season,' and they're throwing us out there for meaningless games and we don't have a true opportunity to get into the playoffs, I'm going to be with my team because I'm a part of the team. But I'm not going to be participating," Lillard told Yahoo! Sports on Tuesday morning. It's hard to blame him, as it is quite easy to see the potential situation from his point of view. There have been countless scenarios tossed around by the league office during the pandemic period, but nothing is set in stone so far. Lillard, for his part, is only interested in returning to action if there exists a legitimate shot for his Blazers to reach the NBA Finals. Fair enough.
Source: Yahoo! Sports
May 26, 2020, 8:34 pmJoel EmbiidC, Philadelphia Sixers
The Sixers, who have their practice facility located in nearby Camden, NJ, will allow voluntary player workouts at the facility beginning on Wednesday, raising the number of NBA teams who have been able to do so to 22.
The Celtics, Knicks, Bulls, Pistons, Wizards, Mavericks, Spurs and Warriors are the final teams remaining who are unable to return to their practice facilities. The NBA seems to be inching ever so close to, at the very least, announcing a plan for a continuation of the current season. This next week or two should be very eventful on that front.
Source: Marc Stein on Twitter
May 26, 2020, 8:26 pmClint CapelaC, Atlanta Hawks
Hawks GM Travis Schlenk indicated on Tuesday that Clint Capela (right heel, plantar fasciitis) could very well play in the event of an NBA restart.
"Clint [Capela] says he's feeling better, and there's a possibility that we can get him back on the court," Schlenk said in a phone interview with ESPN. "Practicing and playing five games would be valuable to us." Capela has yet to see the floor for the Hawks since he was acquired at the deadline from the Rockets, and one would have to surmise that he would be under a heavy minutes restriction if the league resumes and if the Hawks deem him healthy enough to give it a go. Still two big "ifs," but this is obviously positive news for the Hawks and potentially for fantasy owners who have managed to stash Capela in an injury slot this long.
Source: ESPN.com
May 26, 2020, 8:17 pmMohamed BambaC, Orlando Magic
Magic center Mo Bamba said on Tuesday that he's spent the quarantine period bulking up, self-proclaiming that he's put on close to 30 pounds of muscle.
Bamba said of his time off, ""I've worked my tail off during this quarantine. This is going to sound weird, but I put on probably about 28 pounds since quarantine (started)." He laughed and added that only about 2.5 percent of the weight he's put on is body fat. Bamba, along with many other NBA players, "can't wait to get back out there and work" which is a great sign for the Magic and their fans. Jonathan Isaac is becoming more and more of a potential option for the team when/if the season is resumed as the days pass, so his presence would limit Bamba's chances on the offensive end of the floor. The team has yet to decide whether or not they want to play Isaac at all the rest of the season, regardless of the rumblings about a restart from the league office. However, this bulk-up on Bamba's part is nonetheless pretty impressive and is certainly noteworthy.
Source: NBA.com
May 25, 2020, 3:16 pmTerry RozierPG, Charlotte Hornets
The Hornets are the latest team to re-open their facilities, with the Novant Health Training Center set to open up on Tuesday.
With this, there are only eight teams left to open their practice courts back up, though nobody has been able to engage in any sort of team work yet. Individual workouts are better than no workouts, however, and the league appears to be getting its ducks in a row in terms of returning to play. There's still no firm timelines but things do appear to be heading in the right direction.
Source: Charlotte Hornets
May 25, 2020, 3:13 pmJon LeuerPF, Milwaukee Bucks
Jon Leuer has announced his retirement from basketball.
Injuries completely destroyed Leuer's career, as he played in a combined 49 games over the previous two seasons with zero appearances in the 2019-20 campaign. Leuer's high point came with the Suns, where he averaged 8.5 points to go with 5.6 rebounds, 0.6 steals, 0.4 blocks and a 38.2 mark from deep. His eight-year career comes to an end, with Leuer saying that his body simply won't let him play at a high level anymore.
Source: Jon Leuer on Instagram
May 24, 2020, 9:20 pmKyrie IrvingPG, Brooklyn Nets
Following Governor Andrew Cuomo's greenlight from earlier on Sunday, the Nets will reopen their practice facilities on Tuesday.
The team will open its doors to voluntary player workouts. The team's statement went on to elaborate that they would strictly follow NBA and infectious disease expert protocols as they resume activities. It's another small step in the right direction as the NBA continues its climb towards trying to play actual games.
Source: Malika Andrews on Twitter
May 24, 2020, 8:03 pmKemba WalkerPG, Boston Celtics
Kemba Walker feels that his left knee hampered him earlier this year because of all of the basketball he's played over the course of his career.
The knee pain has been a constant this season, and Walker has missed eight games due to the injury overall. He should be fully recovered for when the season does resume at this point, and if he is able to get enough practice reps in he'll be able to avoid any restrictions whenever the league-wide shutdown is lifted.
Source: The Athletic
May 24, 2020, 7:56 pmAnte ZizicPF, Cleveland Cavaliers
If Ante Zizic chooses to leave the NBA when he hits free agency this offseason, he could draw interest from Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Zizic had a lot of success in 2016-17 when he was last in the Euro League with Darussafaka, averaging 9 points and 6.7 rebounds in under 21 minutes per game. In comparison, he's been an afterthought for the Cavs this season, only averaging 10 minutes per game. Moreover, the Cavs declined to pick up his player option for next season, and they already have plenty of options for the frontcourt between Kevin Love, Larry Nance Jr., and possibly DeAndre Drummond (player option). Maccabi will have to see how much salary flexibility they have this offseason as ticket sales are likely to take a hit in Israel next year.
Source: Euro Hoops

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I am extremely upset right now. I am conflicted right now with a bout of "justice will be served" and a "Jack Rudy" type mentality swirling in my mind. This is not only getting too commonplace, but this senseless violence has now crept into my baseball life with the blunt force of a hammer to the back of the head. I was on my way back from the grocery store late last night and saw the St. Petersburg Police vehicle with its light filling the night as it sprinted down 4th Street at breakneck speed.
It wasn't until I got home and turned on the local cable news program that I learned that another officer was down in the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida. Instantly I was hoping it was not either officer Lopez, or my ex-college roommate Lt. Wyatt. Instantly my heart sunk thinking another family would have to go through the unbearable pain. I prayed to every identifiable deity I could think of wanting a positive outcome after already seeing two other SPPD officers fall this year. But this one struck me deep to my center core.
This one became so personal it outraged me, angered me to the point of wanting to go out and search for the culprit myself. Saddened me to the core because this sleepy hamlet is not the kind of town you would associate with violence, much less an act upon a law enforcement officer. I had just attended a charity golf tournament that very morning at the Feather Sound Golf & Country Club to help the families of two other SPPD victims of violence. But this one. This one senseless act has me almost ready to go Charles Bronson on someone.
I am sorry if I offend anyone today with this post, but I got to vent. I got to let this go, I got to get the emotion out before it eats me alive. We lost another valuable member of our Tampa Bay Rays extended baseball family last night. It wasn't until this morning that I knew it was the same baseball savvy officer who has laughed, joked and even been at our side for so many Tampa Bay Rays games down near the Right Field Bullpen area.
I can not remember a single game day that I did not see officer David Crawford, even in street clothes attending a game down in that region of Tropicana Field. One instance really comes to mind right now. Someone had hijacked my ticket out of my back pocket while waiting to get into the Trop., and Crawford was outside patrolling before the doors opened. He noticed I was in the ticket line to get a replacement ticket for the game and immediately got word out on his radio that my ticket was gone. It was personal, it was the right thing to do, it was totally what he did for his baseball friends.
But he was more than a baseball friend to me. Through the years talking to this 25 year veteran of the SPPD we spoke about so much besides baseball. My uncle, Harold Smith had been Chief of Police in St. Petersburg and we talked about his early photo in the Police station's main hall with him on his motorcycle taken in the 40's. I met his wife when he came to a game off duty dressed in an old Rays shirt almost blending into the crowd. But he could never blend totally.
For he was the guy you remembered after the first encounter. Whether it was one the job, or outside the ballpark his huge personality and heart just grabbed at you. He also had a good baseball mind. Keen to the little nuances of the game and eager to strike up a baseball-related conversation. I can not remember how many games started with me chatting with Crawford during BP or even him catching my eye as I walked down the Trop stairs to my seat. I knew I was in my baseball home when I saw him.
It has not even been 12 hours yet and I still find myself so emotional about this senseless act. I have busted a few cherished items, pounded a baseball against a concrete wall until it has almost gone misshapen, I have not slept a wink. This one was personal to me. Cut me to the core, and will hurt for a long time.
The 2011 games will not be the same for me. Sure the excitement and the action will go on around me, but I will gaze back towards the Rays back Bullpen "Clubhouse" area waiting for Crawford to appear. But this time, his laugh and large personality will not appear, and that saddens me to the core.
Late last night (Tuesday) the St. Petersburg Police had a young 16 year old come in with his parents to the Police Station. After several attempts of pre-fabing a story, the youth finally confessed to the crime. 16 years old and his life is over. He had just turned 16, so he might have never gotten a drivers license or even finished school. Now he will be charged with First degree Murder and because of his youth arrests mostly with property crimes, he might be tried as an adult and spend the rest of his life inside a prison.
I am sorry, but nothing, not even the action of being stopped and questioned by a police officer is reason to pull a firearm and fire upon them. This was a kid that was not a hardened criminal or a habitual violent offender. Now agreat baseball loving fan, a friend, father and husband will forever be gone from our gaze.
Senseless doesn't begin to describe it. I am not a huge god-fearing man, but I thank the Lord for the quick resolution and the action of closure, but I am still angry that David Crawford will no long joke, laugh and stand a post in the RF corner. I hope he gets front row seat to the ballgames in heaven…he deserves it!
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I am so sorry Cliff. It just breaks my heart when I hear of police officers losing their lives in the line of duty.
Rest in peace officer Crawford. My condolences to you and his family and friends.
Thank you for that sentiment.
You would have liked this guy. Full of life and one of those people who messed with you, but you knew it was because he liked you. Not imposing as an officer, but a defender of what was right.
I remember once a bunch of Yankee fans were dissing a few women at a game and they got increasingly stupid when the girl'd boyfriend would go for food,beverage, etc.
Finally when he was gone one time, Crawford came over and reminded the guys they could be escorted out and lose the privildge of watching the game.
Suddenly the idots comments went silent for the rest of the night. That is the honorable guy I am going to miss the most.
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Very sorry to read this, both because another shooting always gets me mad and because the officer who lost his life was someone you knew. Condolences to his family and his baseball family.
During the day I have contacted some people within that baseball circle and each and everyone of us saw Crawford at the Rays recent Fan Fest. He was a familiar sight at Tropicana Field, and a tremendous loss of a great person.
Some people might not know that Crawford was great at family situations, always had a friendly ear and made those situation less stressful.
This city one again on its knees less than a month after the first slaying of 2 fellow SPPD officers.
Rays Renegade
Your story brought tears to my eyes. I did not have the honor of meeting officer Crawford, but I still remember the kindness extended to me by a SP officer when I was on crutches with a broken leg during the 08 playoffs and the general niceness of all the officers that surround the trop before and after games.
Your story brought tears to my eyes. I did not have the honor of meeting officer Crawford, but I still remember the kindness extended to me by a SP officer when I was on crutches with a broken leg during the 08 playoffs and the general niceness of all the officers that surround the trop before and after games. So sad that all the money raised at fanfest will now have to be spit between not two, but 3 families and the heartache continues.
Oh Cliff, I am tearing up just reading this, it was so sad and senseless. I am so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to Officer Crawford's family and friends. You have written a beautiful tribute for your friend. He sounds like he was a wonderful, giving person full of good humor and that the world is a sadder place for his loss.
I just got done watching the news conference with Chief Harmon, and you can see that this is a huge blow to a police force that is already shaken. The Tampa Bay community has now seen 5 officers killed in the line of duty in about a year.
This community needs to stand proud and tall for those in uniform right now. Becuase this happen within a block of the Trop, where Crawford loved to be is…….mind numbing.
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He was one of those " good ones" we speak of sometimes when remembering people in our lives. I always got a kick out of him during the Red Sox and Yankee series when the tempoers and actions got a bit heated. He always stayed under control, and the other side came to their senses. That is a special breed of person who will wait for the eye of the storm to pass like that..
There is already some second guessing being done here locally, but this can not be second guessed….they definitely broke the mold after him.
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Man that's a shame. There really is a problem out there when 16 year olds are roaming the streets with guns. I know it happens, but something has to change.
Wow Cliff,
I knew he looked familiar..even though I am living in Atlanta now, I read the on line newspapers from Tampa/St Pete, and when I saw officer Crawford's picture, I got the chills..not only because of what happened, but because I thought I knew him..and now I know from where. I saw him a lot when I was working the charter flights and we did the security screening at the loading docks/Rays parking area..I am speechless……
A lot of people did not register from the first photo shown since it had David with a bunch of hair.
But the moment I heard the name I knew instantly. I know he did a lot of the off duty security both at the airport during the 2008 celebration.
It is one of those moments in life you want to question the CReator, or possibly have a few four-letter words with him.
In the end, it was a tragedy that I wish I could turn back time and prevent, but I do not possess such a grand tool.
Rays Renegade
When I was this kid's age, we fought with our hands, not weapons. Even in my teens, kid's squared off and fought the honorable way.
But as times changed, so did the means of battling for one's honor and pride. I have only branished a weapon for security and to fight for my country….any other reason is just opening the prospect for disaster.
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Advanced JavaScript IIIby Howard Feldman
Magic Mutating with Your MouseWhen creating a form, you may at times wish to have different types of input fields depending on some secondary condition. For example, suppose you are writing a search interface for a library. If someone searches by author, you might have a standard text box. To search by book type (hardcover or softcover, say) you could produce a drop-down list and to search within the books themselves, a large text box. Try it here and it should be clear: Search for:
The JavaScript to achieve this consists of a callback function, which is triggered whenever the search field selector changes value:
The form is laid out like so:
// Copies attributes from one node (src) to another (dest). Modify this to suit
// your needs. For example, you may not want to retain the value when a new
// node is generated.
function CopyAttributes(src, dest)
var i;
dest.id = src.id;
dest.name = src.name;
// Performs the mutation on the node with id given by the argument searchbox.
// opt specifies the type of mutation to make.
function UpdateSearchField(opt, searchbox)
var inputbox = document.getElementById(searchbox);
// Based on search type, choose which element to create and
// set its attributes accordingly.
if (opt == 'content') { // make a textarea
var el = document.createElement("TEXTAREA");
CopyAttributes(inputbox, el);
el.cols = 40;
el.rows = 4;
else if (opt == 'author') { // make a standard text box
var el = document.createElement("INPUT");
CopyAttributes(inputbox, el);
el.type = 'text';
el.size = 20;
else if (opt == 'binding') { // make a drop-down list
var el = document.createElement("SELECT");
CopyAttributes(inputbox, el);
el.size = 1;
// str stores the text for the drop-down selector. Different
// drop-down lists could be provided by simply switching in
// different arrays for str.
var i;
var str = new Array('Hardcover', 'Paperback', 'Magazine');
for (i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
var opt = document.createElement("OPTION");
opt.setAttribute('value', str[i]);
if (inputbox.value == str[i]) // check for selected item
opt.setAttribute('selected', 'selected');
// Use the DOM function replaceChild to put in the newly created
// node.
inputbox.parentNode.replaceChild(el, inputbox);
<form action="" omsubmit="return false;">
Search for:
<select name="searchtype" omchange="UpdateSearchField(this.value, 'searchbox');">
<option value="author" selected="selected">Author</option>
<option value="binding">Binding</option>
<option value="content">Content</option>
<input id="searchbox" type="text" value="" name="searchbox" size="20" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go!" />
The technique is actually quite simple. What happens is that whenever the user changes the value of searchtype (by making a selection from the drop-down list), the onchange attribute calls our JavaScript function,
It is assumed the reader has some familiarity with HTML DOM. If not, refer to the official documentation here.
UpdateSearchField, passing in the field that was just selected as well as the id of the search box on the form. This function builds a new piece of HTML and replaces the existing search box with the new one. Effectively, we are rewriting part of the web page on the fly!
UpdateSearchField first looks at the field that was selected and then creates a new DOM Element node of the appropriate type. Normally, you would probably want to pass the node type as an argument, or look it up in a table, but for simplicity we just base it on the search field value that was passed in. Now
createElement requires some explanation. This function creates a new empty node in the DOM tree of the specified document (document, the current document, in this case). So, for example, creating a new INPUT node would be equivalent to instantiating the HTML
<INPUT></INPUT>. Note that while associated with the document, it is not yet actually attached anywhere. Think of it as being stored somewhere offscreen, out of the browser window, allowing us to build and modify it as necessary before bringing it into existence by attaching it somewhere in the current document.
We then proceed to copy over some or all of the attributes from the input box (whose id was passed in as an argument—this is the node we will eventually replace with our new node) to our new node, using the helper function
CopyAttributes. You may need to change this to suit your needs. For example you may want to copy the object class or copy over the object value. After copying, attributes specific to the type of node are set.
In the case of the
SELECT element, we need to do a bit more work, to create the
OPTIONs for it. This is done in a loop, in much the same way as how the other elements are created, using
createElement and
createTextNode. The latter works just like the former, except instead of creating an HTML tag, it creates a DOM Node containing plain text. This is the text that goes in between the
OPTION tags in the HTML. The options are then inserted or attached in between the
SELECT tags one at a time using the DOM function
appendChild. This process can be better understood by watching what happens step-by-step in the
for loop.
|Loop Iteration
|HTML generated
<SELECT> <OPTION value="HardCover">HardCover</OPTION> </SELECT>
<SELECT> <OPTION value="HardCover">HardCover</OPTION> <OPTION value="Paperback">Paperback</OPTION> </SELECT>
<SELECT> <OPTION value="HardCover">HardCover</OPTION> <OPTION value="Paperback">Paperback</OPTION> <OPTION value="Magazine">Magazine</OPTION> </SELECT>
Lastly, now that our new searchbox node is built, we need to instantiate it by attaching it somewhere on the existing page. We also need to delete the current search box. Conveniently, the function
replaceChild does just what we need, replacing the existing node (and all of its children, if any) with the new one we have created. Thus the new HTML we have created replaces the HTML block represented by id searchbox. This completes the effect.
This trick is of course not limited to INPUT boxes on search forms, you can in fact mutate ANY element into ANY other element triggered by some event on the page. With a little imagination, many interesting and impressive effects could be achieved using this technique.
Dynamic Tables
It is often desirable in a user interface to have the user input data into a variable number of rows. For example, when filling out an order form, the customer will fill in one item per row. With JavaScript, we no longer have to worry if we put enough space for the order though—let the user add and delete rows as needed! This is demonstrated immediately below, by taking the previous example one step further.
To add rows to the end, simply use the Append Row button. To delete a row, click the red X, which will appear at the end of the row you want to delete. You cannot delete when there is only one row left. Also note the Total and Grand Total fields are updated whenever you enter a quantity and price or delete an item from the list. So, how does this all work? We begin by creating an initial table with HTML. It is important that we start with (at least) one row.
Widgets "R" Us Order Form
|Grand Total:
<form action="" method="post">

Catalog #
Unit Price

<input id="catno_1" name="catno_1" tabindex="1" type="text" value="" />
<input id="descr_1" name="descr_1" type="text" value="" />
<input id="quant_1" name="quant_1" type="text" value="" omkeyup="UpdateTotals('catalog');" />
<input id="price_1" name="price_1" type="text" value="" omkeyup="UpdateTotals('catalog');" />
<input id="total_1" name="total_1" type="text" value="" disabled="disabled" />

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Append Row" omclick="AppendRow('catalog'); return false;"/>

Grand Total:
<input id="total" name="total" type="text" value="" disabled="disabled" />
This is just a standard HTML table surrounded by a form, with input tags in each cell where the user can input data. Note that the name and id of each input tag, as well as the id of the delete button, are a string followed by
// Reads the quantity and price columns in the form and computes the
// totals and grand total, filling these in.
function UpdateTotals(table_id)
var numrows = document.getElementById(table_id).rows.length - 1; // don't count the header row!
var i, totalcost = 0.00;
for (i = 1; i <= numrows; i++) {
// Compute total for each row
var q = parseInt(document.getElementById('quant_' + i).value);
var price = parseFloat(document.getElementById('price_' + i).value);
var cost;
if (!q || !price)
cost = 0.00;
cost = q * price;
var total = document.getElementById('total_' + i);
total.value = '$' + cost;
totalcost = totalcost + cost; // Keep running grand total
var total = document.getElementById('total');
total.value = '$' + totalcost;
// Appends a row to the given table, at the bottom of the table.
function AppendRow(table_id)
var row = document.getElementById(table_id).rows.item(1); // 1st row
var newid = row.parentNode.rows.length; // Since this includes the header row, we don't need to add one
var newrow = row.cloneNode(true);
rowrenumber(newrow, newid);
row.parentNode.appendChild(newrow); // Attach to table
// Clear out data from new row.
var curnode = document.getElementById('catno_' + newid);
curnode.value = "";
curnode.tabIndex = newid;
curnode = document.getElementById('descr_' + newid);
curnode.value = "";
curnode = document.getElementById('quant_' + newid);
curnode.value = "";
curnode = document.getElementById('price_' + newid);
curnode.value = "";
curnode = document.getElementById('total_' + newid);
curnode.value = "";
curnode = document.getElementById('delete_' + newid);
curnode.innerHTML = "X";
curnode = document.getElementById('delete_1'); // Really only need this when newid = 2
curnode.innerHTML = "X";
Again, the only argument is the id of the table we are appending to. We begin by getting a handle to the first tr of the table in the DOM tree in the variable row and then checking its parent node to get the total number of rows in the table. Then we use the DOM function
cloneNode to make a new copy of the row. The argument to this function indicates we want to include all children as well, so we get the whole row copied and not just an empty tr node. A helper function,
rowrenumber, is used to change all the id tags to correspond to the new row number (which is the number of input rows in the form, plus one). The DOM function
appendChild is then used to attach the new row to the table. Lastly, the input fields are all blanked out since they were copied over from the first row—we don't want to copy the data, just the structure. An X is placed in the delete column of row 1, as well as the new row, in case it was not there before (it is replaced by a blank space when there is only one row, so the user will not try to delete in this case). Let's have a brief look at the function ro renumber the the ids:
// Given a tr node and row number (newid),
this iterates over the row in the // DOM tree, changing the id attribute to refer to the new row number. function rowrenumber(newrow, newid) { var curnode = newrow.firstChild; // td node while (curnode) { var curitem = curnode.firstChild; // input node (or whatever) while (curitem) { if (curitem.id) { // replace row number in id var idx = 0; var spl = curitem.id.split('_'); var baseid = spl[0]; curitem.id = baseid + '_' + newid; if (curitem.name) curitem.name = baseid + '_' + newid; if (baseid == 'catno') curitem.tabIndex = newid; } curitem = curitem.nextSibling; } curnode = curnode.nextSibling; } }
This function traverses the DOM tree starting from the tr node passed in inThe final piece of the form is the delete row function:
newrow. It does a two-level depth-first traversal of the tree, looking for any node with a non-empty id field. We only go two levels deep (i.e., two nested
forloops) because we know in our table this is where the ids are. The first level in are the td tags, and the second level down are the input tags where all our ids of interest are. Since we took special care to make all our ids of the form {type}_{rownumber}, we can take advantage of this now and use the Javascript
splitfunction on the string to break it up, and replace the old row number with the new one. We update the name field at the same time, if it exists, as well as tabIndex for the first column.
// Give a node within a row of the table (one level down from the td node),
// this deletes that row, renumbers the other rows accordingly, updates
// the Grand Total, and hides the delete button if there is only one row
// left.
function DeleteRow(el)
var row = el.parentNode.parentNode; // tr node
var rownum = row.rowIndex; // row to delete
var tbody = row.parentNode; // tbody node
var numrows = tbody.rows.length - 1; // don't count header row!
if (numrows == 1) // can't delete when only one row left
return false;
var node = row;
var newid = -1;
// Loop through tr nodes and renumber - only rows numbered
// higher than the row we just deleted need renumbering.
row = tbody.firstChild;
while (row) {
if (row.tagName == 'TR') {
if (newid >= rownum)
rowrenumber(row, newid);
row = row.nextSibling;
if (numrows == 2) { // 2 rows before deleting - only 1 left now, so 'hide' delete button
var delbutton = document.getElementById('delete_1');
delbutton.innerHTML = ' ';
UpdateTotals(tbody.parentNode.id); // Grand Total may change after a delete, so update it
In the HTML, this function is called from the span tag passing this as an argument. Hence coming in to the function,
el is a pointer to the span tag that was clicked, and we must go up two levels in the DOM tree to reach the tr node. We could also have just passed in
this.parentNode.parentNode as the argument, instead. First we make sure there are at least two rows since we do not allow deleting when only one row remains. Then we proceed to remove the row node using the DOM function
removeChild. Note that it is called as a method of the parent tbody node.
Next we loop through the tree for the table stopping at each tr node. The rows after the one we deleted, if any, now need to be renumbered since their row number has decreased by one (for example, deleting row four means row five becomes row four, row six bcomes row five, and so on, while rows one, two, and three remain unchanged). To do this we use our handy
rowrenumber function that we have already discussed above. Then we stop and check if there is only one row left (i.e., two before the deletion). If so, we hide the delete button on row one by replacing the X with a space so the user will not try to click it (but if he manages to somehow, nothing will happen anyways since we check for this case above). Lastly, deleting a row means the Grand Total will probably change, unless the row was blank, so we call
UpdateTotals to ensure the math remains consistent.
This is probably the most complex example we have seen so far, but is really quite simple when you break it down into its component parts. This example makes extensive use of DOM functions and the DOM tree, and hopefully gives a taste of the power at your disposal permitting dynamic manipulation of the HTML page. As an exercise, try adding another column with an Insert Row button on each row, which inserts a blank row before the row on which the button was clicked. Hint: you should be able to do this by making only minor modifications to the
AppendRow function.
Elusive Text
In this final example, again using DOM, we examine a simple method for providing temporary text in an input field, which disappears when the field is not completely empty. This could be used to save space, for example, by putting the field headings directly in the input box instead of to the left or above. Here is a working example of what we mean:
Enter Login Name
Enter PasswordThe HTML to create this sample login page is as follows:
 <form action="" method="post"> <input type="text" name="login" value="" omkeyup="UpdateHelpText(this);" ommouseup="UpdateHelpText(this);" />
 Enter Login Name
 <input type="password" name="password" value="" omkeyup="UpdateHelpText(this);" ommouseup="UpdateHelpText(this);" />
 Enter Password
 <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Login" omclick="return false;" /> </form>
We begin by defining a CSS style for our floating text. Absolute positioning is used to allow the text to sit on top of other elements on the page (the input box in this case). Similarly z-index is set high to ensure the text appears on top and not behind other elements. overflow is set to hidden, as we do not want scroll bars ever appearing around the text. If it should not fit into its alotted space it will just be truncated.
The form is a standard form with hooks to a function
UpdateHelpText when a key is pressed and released, or the mouse is released, in the input area. This function, as we shall see, serves to hide or show the text depending on whether the input area is empty. Thus, whenever we start typing in an input box, the floating text will vanish. When we completely delete its contents, it will magically reappear. We call this function just after the form, to initialize the text and correctly position it within the form.
Following each input tag is a div tag containing the floating text itself, making use of the helptext CSS class we created above. Note that because we set the z-index high so the text floats on top, we have a problem in that clicking on the text selects the text instead of moving the cursor to the input area, which in all likelihood is what the user wants. To correct this little problem, we call a function
ChangeFocus when the mouse is clicked on the help text. Let's look at the two JavaScript functions now.
// Look for previous INPUT tag and move cursor there.
function ChangeFocus(el)
while (el.tagName != 'INPUT')
el = el.previousSibling;
// Turn on or off help text depending on content of INPUT field.
function UpdateHelpText(el)
var label = el;
while (label.tagName != 'DIV')
label = label.nextSibling;
if (el.value == '') { // Field is empty; show text
label.style.left = getElementAbsPosX(el) + 'px';
label.style.top = (getElementAbsPosY(el) - 7) + 'px';
label.style.visibility = 'visible';
else { // Field is not empty; hide text
if (label)
label.style.visibility = 'hidden';
ChangeFocus is quite simple. It simply starts at the current node (the div tag) and goes backwards in the DOM tree until the first input tag it finds. Calling
focus on the input tag sends the text cursor there, as if the user had clicked directly in the input area. The result is that now clicking on the floating text is effectively the same as clicking directly in the input area. Note we could have used ids to link the div tag to its corresponsing input tag - for example give the input tag id login and the div tag id login_label, allowing us to easily get from one node to the other given its id—but instead we are using our knowledge of the structure of this HTML page to find the node. If we used ids, no knowledge or assumptions about the page structure would be necessary, so it is probably a better approach for general application.
UpdateHelpText finds the div tag starting from the input tag in exactly the same way. If the input field contains text the floating text is hidden using the visibility CSS property. Otherwise this property is set to visible to make the text appear. The text is also positioned just inside the input field every time this function is called. Thus if you change your browser text size or magnification, for example, just clicking in the input box or pressing a key should re-locate the text back to its proper position, if not already there. The positioning functions getElementAbsPosX and getElementAbsPosY simply get the position in absolute pixels of the input element so the floating text can be placed correctly. For their source and a discussion on how they work, please see the first article in this series.
Howard Feldman is a research scientist at the Chemical Computing Group in Montreal, Quebec.


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Monday was the 69th anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands, which was led by the Canadians in the Second World War.
After the war, the Netherlands wanted to say Thank You to Canada for its war service, and it gave the country, and Ottawa in particular, tulip bulbs. Ottawa adopted the tulip as its official flower.
In 1953, Ottawa started the Tulip Festival, and this year, it runs from May the 9th to the 19th, with fireworks, musical shows, Cirque de Liberation, and the International Pavilion.
The festival claims to be the world's largest tulip festival. There are over one million tulips planted all over the city, and there are over 500,000 visitors each year. It is quite a show!
This year, the festival will honour artist Silvia Pecota. She will be in attendance May 9th, 17th & 18th from 2 pm to 4 pm at Queen Juliana Park (by Dow's Lake – a man-made lake in the center of the city) and you will be able to view some of the photos she took of the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan (2001-2014).
She is presently working on an art book that incorporates her poetry. It covers the War of 1812 (Bicentennial), WWI (Centennial) and the Closure of the Afghan Mission (2014).
For more information, visit her website at www.silviapecota.com.
To read about Canada's role in the liberation of the Netherland, go to http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/second-world-war/canada-netherlands
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I'm am still looking over the spec, but…
In Section 6 "Rendering Quality and Antialiasing":
What the heck are you thinking!?!?
On first glance, the requirements laid out in 3b require the use of multi-sampling. This, of course, produces different behaviour than what OpenVG 1.0 defined as proper (which I suspect is why you ammended it), and goes against the substantial freedom in the 1.0 spec on how to implement anti-alaising.
The big problem though is that as the spec is written, multi-sampling will not be sufficient to comply with the requirements and correct behaviour has still not been defined!
Consider for a moment the following scenario:
Grey background (color: 0x808080FF). 2 blue squares right next to each other (one on the left, one on the right) - anti-aliasing on. One big red rectangle covering the bottom half of both of the quares. The boundry between the each of the 2 squares covers 1/2 pixel. Draw order:
- Left square (src_ovr blending)
- Rectangle (additive blending)
- Right square (src blending)
If drawn under VG 1.0/1.0.1, the boundry pixel is :
- 50% is covered blue (0x0000FFFF), 50% remains white - colow: 0x4040C0FF
- red channel is saturated: 0xFF40C0FF
- 0x0000FFFF is blended onto 0xFF40C0FF producing roughly 0x8020E0FF
i.e. we get the little seem that this spec means to eliminate…
In multisampling,
we'd end up with half the pixel being 0x4040C0FFcolor, and the other half being 0x0000FFFF color. The displayed color would thus be: 0x2020E0FF
In VG 1.1, two things can happen, none of which make any sense:
- left square drawn (100% contirbution). Color is 0x0000FFFF
- rect blended: Color is 0xFF00FFFF
- right rect no contribution.
- left square drawn (0% contribution). Color is thus still white
- rect is blended: Color is now 0xFF0000FF
- right square drawn (100% contribution). Color: 0x0000FFFF
So, depending on which order which way the spec means, the pixel is either blue or magenta, and in all cases a different color than VG 1.0 (0x8020E0FF), and that of using multi-sampling (0x2020E0FF).
In short:
My recommendation is leave well enough alone and do not ammend that particular section of the spec and leave it the way it was. This way not only attempts to force multi-sample buffers on embedded applications (unsuccessfully due to the small differences), but also a makes a hole in the spec.
Ammendment #1:
Also consider if the lines are not exactly the same (say the low order bit is different). The behaviour according to the new spec falls back to what OpenVG 1.0.1 did, while a multisample approach would still produce almost the same result as if the lines were the same… so many problems with this…
Simple example (2 blue abutting blocks which each cover 1/2 of the boundry pixel):
Under OpenVG 1.1 - The boundry pixel would STILL have the partially transparent seem since the geometry was not exact.
Under multi-sampling - there would be no seem as it's close enough to fully covered.
Ammendment #2 - Section 16.1.2:
"It is anticipated that a wide variety of antialiasing approaches will be used in the
Didn't this spec just enforce multi-sampling? How is another method allowed? Or was section 6 only meant to apply to surfaces with multi-sampling?
Ammendment #3:
I see this was done so as to support Adobe… sigh
So why not just support the Adobe way when multisampling is present and leave anti-alaising alone when it isn't? We're talking about embedded devices here and what your asking for is pretty much impossible without multisampling as the various geometries that need to be re-combined could be megabytes of data away from each other. It would require every single command to be buffered until swapbuffers is called, then do a search for this scenario, to handle this correctly (infact even the multisample approach needs to do this in the case covered by Ammendment #1).


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Pan-fried sea bass with citrus-dressed broccoli
A restaurant-quality fish supper, ready in just half an hour
Nutrition and extra info
- Gluten-free
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal528
- fat39g
- saturates6g
- carbs10g
- sugars9g
- fibre4g
- protein36g
- salt2.97g
- 2 sea bass fillets, about 140g each (see tips, below)
- 1 small head of broccoli
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- 1 orange
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- 6 tbsp olive oil
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- 4 tbsp small capers
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- 6 anchovies, roughly chopped
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- 1 lemon
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Before you start cooking, get everything prepared. Trim each sea bass fillet so they are both the same shape, then score the skin, cutting into the flesh slightly, 5 or 6 times at about 1cm intervals. Set aside.
Segment the orange – slice off the top and bottom, then cut away the skin and pith. Cut away each segment, then squeeze out the juice from the rest of the orange into a bowl. Cut the broccoli into medium-size florets.
To make the warm broccoli salad, cook the florets in a pan of boiling salted water for 1 min until just cooked. While the broccoli is cooking, put a frying pan on to heat. As soon as the broccoli is cooked, drain it, then tip straight into the hot frying pan to 'scorch' out all the moisture.
Turn off the heat, then scatter the orange segments over the broccoli. Toss for a few moments just to heat through, then tip into a bowl and dress with the orange juice and 2 tbsp olive oil. Season with pepper and a small sprinkling of sea salt, then set aside.
Wipe out the pan. Season the fish with a little salt and pepper just before cooking. Heat the frying pan until very hot, then add 2 tbsp oil. Lay the fish fillets in the pan, skin-side down. As soon as it goes in, press each fillet down with your fingers or a fish slice to stop it from curling up.
Reduce the heat to medium, then leave the fish to cook for 3-4 mins, undisturbed, until you can see that the flesh has cooked two-thirds of the way up and the skin is crisp and brown.
Flip the fillets over, then fry on the flesh side for about 2 mins until just done, basting the skin with the oil in the pan as it cooks. Leave to rest on a warm plate, skin-side up, and baste with the hot oil and juices from the pan.
Pour 2 tbsp olive oil into the pan and place it back on a high heat. Scatter in the capers and anchovies, then cook until they start to crisp. Grate over the lemon zest and squeeze in the juice of ½ the lemon. If there isn't enough juices in the pan to drizzle over both plates, add a splash more oil. You are now ready to plate up.
Recipe Tip
ScalesAs the crisp skin is an important part of this finished dish, you need to make sure that the fish has been scaled properly before cooking as fish scales are tough and inedible. Ask your fishmonger to scale the fish for you and, when you get the fish home, wipe the skin with a piece of kitchen paper to get rid of any stray scales that may be clinging on.
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Wild sea bassI use wild sea bass in my restaurants and, to ensure that it's sustainable, I use only line-caught. Wild sea bass fillets are a lot larger than the farmed ones you get in supermarkets, so if you are using farmed, the fillets will weigh about 100g once trimmed. They won't need to be pan-fried for as long, so take 1 min off the cooking time.
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SaltWith this recipe, watch how much salt you use – anchovies and capers are very salty so the broccoli and fish will need only a small sprinkling.
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Bruins Fall to Beavers, 26-19
Oct. 31, 2009
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) -Jacquizz Rodgers had 112 yards rushing, 96 yards receiving and a touchdown pass, his brother James Rodgers ran for the winning score, and Oregon State had to scramble for a 26-19 win over UCLA on Saturday.
Kevin Prince completed 22 of 34 passes for 323 yards and two touchdowns, and rallied the Bruins back from a 19-3 fourth-quarter deficit, but UCLA (3-4, 0-5 Pac-10) fell for the fifth straight week to match its worst-ever start in conference play. Rosario Nelson had six catches for 152 yards and a touchdown for the Bruins.
UCLA tied the game at 19 after Prince threw for two touchdowns and two two-point conversions, but the Beavers marched down the field for a 70-yard drive that James Rodgers capped with a 17-yard run on a fly sweep for the go-ahead touchdown.
That left Prince and the Bruins with 44 seconds and only one timeout to make a final drive, but time ran out after a completion to Taylor Embree at the Beaver 27.
Sean Canfield was 25 of 34 for 305 yards for the Beavers (5-3, 3-2), who beat the Bruins at in Corvallis for the first time since 1999. James Rodgers had 106 yards receiving. With the Rodgers brothers carrying most of the load, Oregon State moved the ball well on offense, but had comparatively little to show for it, settling for four Justin Kahut field goals when drives stalled.
The Beavers' lone first half touchdown came with a direct snap to Jacquizz Rodgers in the wildcat formation. The tailback put his head down and dashed right, then straightened up to connect with Brady Camp for a wide-open, 14-yard TD pass. Added to three Kahut field goals, this gave Oregon State a 16-0 halftime lead.
Oregon State lost another scoring chance in the third after failing to convert on third down at the UCLA 25. The Beavers lined up for a field goal and holder Taylor Kavanaugh picked up the ball and started to run for a first down, but the play clock had run out. The penalty pushed the Beavers back five yards and Kahut was short on a 47-yard field goal try.
Oregon State started the fourth quarter with the ball and drove down to the UCLA 14, where they stalled again. The Beavers had to settle for another Kahut field goal, putting them up by 16 but leaving the door open for the Bruins, who immediately accepted the invitation.
First, Prince hit Nelson for a 58-yard touchdown pass and again for a two point conversation.
After a defense stop, the Bruins were forced to punt, but got another chance when the Beavers were called for having 12 men on the field during the kick return. Given new life, Prince connected with Nelson again for a 45-yard reception that set up a 7-yard score to Embree. The Bruins were successful on the two-point conversion to tie up the score with 2:06 left.
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Type A standards are basic safety standards covering basic concepts, design principles and general aspects that can be applied to all machinery.
Example of a Type A standard:
- EN ISO 12100 - General principles for design
Type B standards are generic safety standards covering safety aspects or one type of safeguard that can be used across a wide range of machinery. However, there are two types of B standards, Type B1 standards for particular safety aspects and Type B2 standards for safeguards.
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- EN ISO 13849-1/-2 - Safety-related parts of control systems
- EN ISO 13855 - Positioning of safeguards
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- EN 574 - Two-hand control devices and
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LogoWatch Kraft Foods has announced the result of a three-month competition to name its new cream-cheese-adulterated Vegemite, and has decided it's a really bright idea to brand the spread "Vegemite iSnack2.0".
The man responsible for the outrage is West Australian web designer Dean Robbins. The 27-year-old saw off over 48,000 rival suggestions, including "2ritemite", "Ruddymite" and "Wow Chow", to emerge triumphant.
He told the Sydney Morning Herald: ''It's been difficult to contain my excitement - I actually leapt out of my chair when I heard the news. To think that I could go down in Australia's history is overwhelming."
He added: "It was all a bit tongue-in-cheek, really. The 'i' phenomenon and web 2.0 have been recent revolutions and I thought the new Vegemite name could do the same."
Kraft Foods' Simon Talbot cranked up the whalesong and weighed in with: "The name Vegemite iSnack2.0 was chosen based on its personal call to action, relevance to snacking and clear identification of a new and different Vegemite to the original. We believe these three components completely encapsulate the new brand."
It remains to be seen what effect the new moniker has on sales of iSnack2.0. Kraft reckons it's offloaded 2.8 million jars of the stuff since it went on sale in July - an initiative prompted by consumer calls for "a product that did not require mixing with butter and was easier to spread". ®
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The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Veterans Affairs has declared the Year 2013 as the year in which Canadians honour the 26,000 Canadians who served in the Korean War, with more than 1,550 casualties, including 561 who dead.
The Veterans Affairs site, called the The Land of the Morning Calm – Canadians in Korea 1950-1953 says that it "presents Korean War history and archival footage, interviews with Canadian Veterans of the Korean War and a comprehensive history calendar using an interactive format in either HTML or Adobe Flash formats.
Presented in broadcast style, complete with news anchor and video footage, this feature delivers a multimedia-rich experience for Canadians of all ages, especially youth, to better know and be thankful for the sacrifices of our Canadian men and women in uniform".
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Imagine seeing and talking with a highly trained physician specialist who just happens to be miles away from where you are. Now imagine having that distant specialist direct the diagnostic study or treatment you need. That's telemedicine.
Picture a doctor in your rural community being able to consult, in real time, with a medical specialist or subspecialist at a major medical center while both of them simultaneously listen to your heartbeat … or work together to provide life-saving treatment for a stroke. That's telemedicine, too.
Using sophisticated teleconferencing technology along with a range of specialized peripherals – digital devices that can help assess a patient's condition remotely – telemedicine makes it possible to share clinical capabilities between one location and another, no matter how far apart they are located.
As a result the physician specialists at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, the Peninsula's most comprehensive medical facility, can reach out to other areas of the state to extend access to care and help local physicians improve patient outcomes.
Ten important benefits of telemedicine
- People in rural communities can take advantage of care from Riverside Regional Medical Center specialists, many of them with nationally recognized patient outcomes without traveling to the facility
- Physicians who traditionally rotate to different care sites can interact with their patients more frequently
- Highly personalized patient care
- Can be less intimidating than a traditional doctor's visit for small children
- Provides an option for patients with mobility issues
- Post-operative follow up care closer to home
- Earlier interventions can save lives and reduce disabilities
- More convenient management of chronic conditions
- Enhances community alliances and collaboration with other care providers
- Offers secure (HIPAA compliant) communications
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Well Dunn is an organization launched in honor of Emily Dunn – to support the ambitions of new professionals interested in the music entertainment business.
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual four-day music festival created and produced by Superfly Presents and AC Entertainment, held at Great Stage Park on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee.
While traveling to exotic ports on a luxury cruise liner, you and 2,800 of your new best friends will share unforgettable shows from 25+ of the top bands in the live music scene.
Located in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, Outside Lands is a music, food, wine, beer, and art festival produced by Superfly Presents, Another Planet Entertainment, and Starr Hill Presents.


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If the only use for an acetylene torch in a farm shop is to cut steel or iron bars, tubing or pipe, that torch is underused. Used correctly, a torch is a precision tool with multiple uses.
It might sound odd to call a torch a "precision" tool, but that's the best way to describe its use as a bearing cutter. The process looks unsophisticated and a bit frightening to bystanders, but it has the potential to quickly remove a bearing without damaging its shaft or housing.
To start, remove all flammable debris from the area and make sure a water supply or fire extinguisher is handy—just in case.
Put on tinted glasses or a face shield to allow careful monitoring of the cutting process. Heat the edge of the inner or outer bearing race until it's cherry red. Trigger the oxygen valve to start cutting; notice that as liquified metal blows away, the cooler and therefore darker surface of the shaft or bearing housing is revealed.
With patience and a steady hand, it's easy to melt and cut the bearing's races without nicking the shaft or housing.
Also, if a large drill bit is unavailable, a torch is also a fast way to create large-diameter holes in metal. Mark the center of the desired hole and hold the torch tip above that mark until the metal under the cutting tip is reddish-yellow. Trip the oxygen trigger and gently work the jet of flame in a tight spiral from the initial hole to create a 1" or larger hole.
Holes larger than 1" in diameter can be made more round and smooth-edged by using a large nut, a spare bearing lock collar or other large donut-shaped object to serve as both a way to keep the torch's heat confined and as a template to outline the hole being cut.
Cutting or melting metal is only part of an acetylene torch's repertoire. The ability to apply intense heat quickly can work magic when removing wheels, gears and pulleys that are frozen to shafts.
It's helpful to use a gear or wheel puller during the removal process. The puller applies tension to the wheel, gear or pulley while the torch's heat expands the hub and releases its grip on the shaft.
If a wheel puller isn't available, use a pry bar, crowbar or some other tool to pry against the hub while heat is applied.
No matter how tension is applied to the hub, set the torch's flame "hot" to heat the hub. The goal is to heat and expand the hub while the shaft stays cool.
Hubs on tapered shafts, especially if kept under tension with a wheel puller, often release with a literal "bang" or "pop" long before the torch brings a glow to the hub's surface. Hubs on straight shafts are often more stubborn and can require the hub to reach cherry-red color before things begin moving.
It's well known that torches can supply sufficient heat to allow steel bars and straps to be bent in circles and strange shapes. It's less well known that careful application of moderate heat can magically straighten subtly bent metal bars, tubes or even sheet metal without the use of physical force.
The technique is called "flame straightening," "heat straightening" or "offsetting," and it is closer to being art than science.
The theory is to apply heat to the outside (convex) curve of a bent piece of metal until it's dull red. Expanding the metal in one small location while keeping surrounding metal cool creates stress that literally bends the metal ("offset" the metal) before your eyes—without touching it with a hammer or tool.
The tricks are not overheating the metal and knowing how far to allow the piece to bend beyond straight so that it is "true" when the metal cools.
Old-school blacksmiths were artists with acetylene torches who could flame-straighten metal to within fractions of an inch. They knew that cutting metal is just a small part of what an acetylene torch offers anyone who isn't afraid to apply heat in the proper quantity and right location.
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Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement
Alan Draper
The relationship between organized labor and the civil rights movement proceeded along two tracks. At work, the two groups were adversaries, as civil rights groups criticized employment discrimination by the unions. But in politics, they allied. Unions and civil rights organizations partnered to support liberal legislation and to oppose conservative southern Democrats, who were as militant in opposing unions as they were fervent in supporting white supremacy.
At work, unions dithered in their efforts to root out employment discrimination. Their initial enthusiasm for Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed employment discrimination, waned the more the new law violated foundational union practices by infringing on the principle of seniority, emphasizing the rights of the individual over the group, and inserting the courts into the workplace. The two souls of postwar liberalism— labor solidarity represented by unions and racial justice represented by the civil rights movement—were in conflict at work.
Although the unions and civil rights activists were adversaries over employment discrimination, they united in trying to register southern blacks to vote. Black enfranchisement would end the South's exceptionalism and the veto it exercised over liberal legislation in Congress. But the two souls of liberalism that were at odds over the meaning of fairness at work would also diverge at the ballot box. As white workers began to defect from the Democratic Party, the political coalition of black and white workers that union leaders had hoped to build was undermined from below. The divergence between the two souls of liberalism in the 1960s—economic justice represented by unions and racial justice represented by civil rights—helps explain the resurgence of conservatism that followed.
Spatial Segregation and Neighborhoods
Carl Nightingale
During the 1890s, the word segregation became the preferred term for the practice of coercing different groups of people, especially those designated by race, to live in separate and unequal urban residential neighborhoods. In the southern states of the United States, segregationists imported the word—originally used in the British colonies of Asia—to describe Jim Crow laws, and, in 1910, whites in Baltimore passed a "segregation ordinance" mandating separate black and white urban neighborhoods. Copy-cat legislation sprang up in cities across the South and the Midwest. But in 1917, a multiracial team of lawyers from the fledgling National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) mounted a successful legal challenge to these ordinances in the U.S. Supreme Court—even as urban segregation laws were adopted in other places in the world, most notably in South Africa. The collapse of the movement for legislated racial segregation in the United States occurred just as African Americans began migrating in large numbers into cities in all regions of the United States, resulting in waves of anti-black mob violence. Segregationists were forced to rely on nonstatutory or formally nonracial techniques. In Chicago, an alliance of urban reformers and real estate professionals invented alternatives to explicitly racist segregation laws. The practices they promoted nationwide created one of the most successful forms of urban racial segregation in world history, rivaling and finally outliving South African apartheid. Understanding how this system came into being and how it persists today requires understanding both how the Chicago segregationists were connected to counterparts elsewhere in the world and how they adapted practices of city-splitting to suit the peculiarities of racial politics in the United States.


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Kube 4000 (Plug-In) Energizer Kit
A 2.3 joule output, 110v electric fence energizer used for medium length fences. Plug in the energizer at an outlet and carry the pulse to the fence via the supplied insulated cable.
Kit Includes:
- Kube 4000 (2.3 joule, for dry/sandy conditions) energizer
- 5 light fence tester
- 6 ft ground rod & clamp
- 100 ft insulated wire
California Residents: Proposition 65 Information
Common Uses
- 3 stored joules
- 2.3 released joules
- 1.9 output joules in moist soils
- 1.24 output joules in dry soils
- Requires 6 ft. of ground rod in the ground
- 4.5 watts drawn per hour
- 48 pulses per minute
- 6' cord
- 2 prong plug
- Simple. No fancy "bells and whistles."
- Modular. Very easy to repair.
Should power... *
- 3 miles of 3 strand cattle fence.
- 1 mile of 5-7 strand sheep fence.
- 15 rolls of 164' sheep/goat nets and 7 rolls of 164' PoultryNet.
* All distances are dependent on amount of grass/weed load on the fence.
How to Use
To use light tester WITHOUT ground probeFor Fence:
- Touch the top of the tester to the electrified fence you wish to test.
- Push the button (if applicable).
- The tester will light up according to the voltage at that location on the fence.
- Turn off energizer.
- Disconnect ground wire and fence wire from energizer.
- Turn on energizer.
- Touch the top of the tester onto the top of the fence terminal on the energizer.
- Push the button (if applicable).
- The tester should light up to 6000 volts or more.
To use light tester WITH ground probeFor Fence:
- Insert the probe of the tester into the soil.
- Remove your hand from the metal portion of the probe (to avoid a shock).
- To get a voltage reading, touch the metal clip (on the top of the tester) to the electrified fence you wish to test.
- The tester will light up according to the voltage at that location on the fence.
- Remove the tester from the fence and the probe from the soil. Do not remove the probe by pulling the insulated wire.
- Turn off energizer.
- Disconnect ground wire and fence wire from energizer.
- Turn on energizer.
- Touch probe from tester to ground terminal on energizer (be sure to hold onto the insulated wire and not the metal probe!)
- At same time touch the fence hook on tester to fence terminal on energizer.
- The tester should light up to 6000 volts or more.
- Connect insulated cable (stripped back 1 - 2" on ends) to the fence terminal on energizer, run the cable to the fence line and connect.
- Then run a second length of cable from the ground terminal (with ends stripped again) on the energizer to the ground rod.
- Secure to ground rod with a clamp.
- Plug into outlet and test fence. Unit indicator light should flash and a tic-tac sound will be heard. If the indicator light doesn't flash, then the unit should be serviced.
To Reduce Risk & Liability
- Never place your head or upper spine near an electrified wire. Accidental head or neck contact can occur when pushing a voltage probe into the soil. Be careful when doing so to avoid head-to-wire contact!
- Never attempt to step over or climb through an energized fence of any kind.
- Never encourage anyone to touch an electric fence.
- Test the energizer first.
- Turn off energizer.
- Disconnect ground wire and the fence wire.
- Turn energizer back on.
- With fence tester, put the ground probe (or clamp) to the ground terminal on the energizer and the metal loop (or positive clamp) at the top of the tester to the fence/positive terminal. The reading you get tells you how well the energizer is working without any other variables. If there is a very low voltage (under 4000v) or no voltage, then the energizer may have a problem. If the voltage is high (greater than 4000v) then the trouble lies with your fence. Most energizers put out between 5000v and 8000v when there is no load (i.e. no fence hooked up).
If the energizer is faulty and it is a 110 volt plug-in unit…
- Check that the 110v outlet is "live" by using a plug-in drill or test light.
- If the test light works and the energizer does not, call Premier.
If the fence is at fault, then you must find the fault(s) and fix them.
If you have a Fault Finder you can simply touch the fence with the Fault Finder at various points along the electric fence(s). The Fault Finder will tell you at each point which direction to go in to locate the problem. Move in that direction testing as you go and you will arrive at the problem.
If you lack a Fault Finder…
- Walk or drive along the fence looking for any point in which the energized wires touch the soil, a steel post or a steel wire. On HT wire fences, check the wires at braces to see if they are touching a hot wire. On netting, look for a hot wire touching the metal stake at the bottom of the plastic posts. Also look for damaged insulators.
- If the fence can be separated into several parts (by switches or by disconnecting parts of it), you can locate the problem by beginning at the far end and then progressively turn off or disconnect the sections of fence. When the voltage on the remaining fence rises sharply, you've located the section(s) that's causing the problems.
- The alternative to (2.) is to begin at the fencer and progressively turn on sections of the fence. When the voltage suddenly drops you can assume that the problem is in the section most recently connected.
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Low cost 5-light wireless tester to measure approximate fence voltage. Used to determine if your energizer/charger is working properly.$15.00
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Dough H from New York
Easy to install can't wait to add another fence.
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Update: the upgrade is now scheduled for Sunday, May 24th.
The new version of WordPress is out, and we'll be upgrading these blogs soon. The new version looks very different inside; Matt Mullenweg introduces it like this: "we've listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that's just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version." Here's the official video to introduce it:
You can read a detailed list of changes here, but you'll notice features subtly sprinkled throughout the new interface:
- The new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top
- QuickPress
- Comment threading
- The ability to reply to comments from your dashboard
If you would like to view some great tutorials on how to get around in the new version, check out Neil Hokanson's work available here: http://nhokanson.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/wordpress-27-tutorials/


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Moved by the horrors in Newtown, Connecticut, our hometown, my sister launched Music for Newtown. She works for Republic Records who is sponsoring the online auction which will take place March 25 – 27, 2013.
After December 14, Beth, like so many who called Newtown home, felt drawn, and returned to Newtown. She talked to the First Selectman's specially organized committee, the administrators of the United Way of Western Connecticut, as well as the superintendent's office and Newtown Social Services to determine where needs exist.
There was an incredible, immediate outpouring from people wanting to help, but the needs continue. Many of the affected families are out of work and struggling financially. Resources are needed for ongoing counseling services and eventually for building or rebuilding, depending upon what is decided for the future of Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The United Way of Western Connecticut has waived their administration fee so that all of the proceeds from the auction will benefit Newtown needs through the Sandy Hook School Support Fund. Beth has been pulling together resources and the music industry is rallying for the cause.