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We update you on the BA Festival of Science and talk to Reidun Twarock, who finds symmetry in viruses and uses maths to understand them.
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We update you on the BA Festival of Science and talk to Reidun Twarock, who finds symmetry in viruses and uses maths to understand them.
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The Industrial Mathematics Internship, a joint program run by The Smith Institute and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), was launched at the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) on the 18th of September 2007.
The Internship is a way for companies and university research groups to promote direct knowledge exchange and develop long-term working relationships through engaging a dedicated postgraduate researcher to work on a specific industrial project over a period of 3 to 6 months.
The Smith Institute manages the Knowledge Transfer Network for Industrial Mathematics (KTN) and hopes that the program will inject fresh energy into UK businesses by bringing cutting-edge techniques to business innovation and by developing long-term working relationships between companies and universities.
Each Internship is a collaboration between a host company, an intern, and a research group within a university. Industrialists can improve existing, or develop new, operations through the impact of mathematical expertise. Universities can grow new industrial collaborations and relationships, whilst interns can gain first-hand experience of the business environment.
A pilot phase of the initiative will run between September 2007 and August 2008 and will establish 6 Internships. Each Internship will last between 3 and 6 months and will be supported by one of the KTN's Technology Translators, who will assist in establishing the projects, building the relationships, exploiting follow-on opportunities and disseminating a final case study through the industrial mathematics community.
Dr Tim Bradshaw, Head of Innovation, Science and Technology at the CBI, said, "The Industrial Mathematics Internships programme is an excellent example of how business and universities can collaborate for mutual benefit — helping businesses become more innovative and successful by making effective use of skills and knowledge developed in universities while at the same time providing extremely valuable experience for postgraduate researchers. The critical component is that researchers will work on finding solutions to real business problems, something for which the Smith Institute already has an excellent reputation."
Further details on Industrial Mathematics Internships can be found on the KTN web site.
If you would like to apply for an Internships or simply discuss a project idea, please contact Dr Claudia Centazzo at the Smith Institute.
You can also visit the blog by Trevor Maynard from Lloyd's Exposure Management.
Find out more about the Smith Institute on Plus, in the article Helping business make a crust and the career interview with Claudia Centazzo.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Another evening, another function, this one sponsored by the More Maths Grads programme. Dr Reidun Twarock, to whom I spoke earlier in the day, gave her talk on viruses and symmetry, possibly the most interactive maths I have seen. Icosahedrons made from cardboard and real footballs were thrown into the audience to help explain her mathematical concepts, and the talk was followed by a brief function in which the More Maths Grads people promoted their activities.
Journeying in this morning, I regretted somewhat the dodgy Yorkshire fish and chips I had the night before. I attended a press conference on studies conducted by the University of Bristol that suggests that not only is there trace evidence of drug usage on nearly every UK bank note in circulation, but that the notes circulate quickly enough throughout the country that no particular area has higher instances of drug use on their notes. Cocaine was found on nearly every note, whilst heroine is found on around 5%. The presence of the drugs is not simply because notes are used in drug-taking activities - even fresh new notes have some contamination because they are contaminated very early on through contact with infected notes. Cocaine is particularly sticky, and so only very brief contact can contaminate a note.
The next press conference was from Professor Terence Cosgrove from Revolymer, who has developed a non-stick chewing gum. More to the point, he was at pains to note that it is not "non-stick" but rather "low-adhesive". He has made the chewing low-adhesive by introducing a patented polymer that has hydrophilic ends, and so will wash off the pavement with water.
I spent the afternoon chatting to Plus editorial board member Chris Budd about all sorts of mathematical issues - mainly that of Euler and the role of maths in the food and drink industry. But we also touched on mathematics communication, period costumes, maths in crime solving and maths in Celtic and African knots and art. You can hear all this on the podcast very shortly.
Unfortunately my time at the BA Festival of Science is coming to an end. I am about to head into York for a session entitled "How maths changed my life" followed by the last train back to London. I certainly look forward to attending the 2008 version in Liverpool.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The evening of day 2 promised to make day 3 of the science festival very long for night-owl science journalists. I attended the Association of British Science Writers reception, which was a great affair - hardly surprising given the £400 bar tab, unlimited wine on top of this and free food. It was great to meet some well-known British science writers from UK newspapers, and observe the drinking habits of others!
My first stop on day 3 of the Science Festival was to speak to Dr Quentin Atkinson, a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading, about his research into the evolution of Indo-European languages. He used statistical modelling techniques borrowed from evolutionary biology to date the age of the Indo-European language family and so test between the two main competing theories of Indo-European origins - that of the Kurgan horsemen and of the Anatolian farming hypotheses.
The modelling involved the use of Bayesian networks and instead of looking at how a gene might have evolved over time, he looked at certain words across the Indo-European languages and found where splits between language groups might have occurred. He looked at 200 words such as "mother", "father" and "rain" across 87 languages and found that the original Indo-European language split around 8700 years ago.
I interviewed Dr Reiden Twarock of York University on the geometric properties of viruses. This is the headline mathematics event of the festival, and tonight is accompanied by a reception sponsored by the More Maths Grads project. Dr Twarock is a thoroughly lovely and engaging lady who is using group theory and geometry to build models of how viruses form. These mathematical tools allow her to zoom in on the mechanisms responsible for virus structure and assembly. The resulting insights can then spark new ideas for the development of new anti-viral drugs. This interview will inform future news and features on Plus.
Throughout the day I chatted to a number of people regarding their posters, including some about optimisation, train timetabling, mathematical modelling of sun-spots and Bayesian modelling of Pacific Island cultural movement. These, again, will all appear as Plus news items.
Lastly I chatted to Dr Anthony Sudbery about all sorts of topics with regard to quantum computing. Parallel worlds, unbreakable codes and entangled particles were just some of topics that I pretended to know about ... .
So, now I'm off to rest my brain and then attend the mathematics function tonight. Watch our podcast and news feed for more information on these above topics over the next few weeks.
Monday, September 10, 2007
The BA Festival of Science is the UK's foremost celebration of science, engineering and technology and its impact on our society. This year the festival has made its way to York, and I (Marc West) am here on behalf of Plus to enjoy the sciencey goodness and bring you the latest news from the world of mathematics.
The festival is not solely based on maths - indeed, talks and events focusing on maths alone are few and far between, and certainly none of the activities on the first 2 days of the conference centred on it. This does not mean, however, that maths has played no part in the talks.
I spoke to former UK Olympian, and now Professor at Liverpool John Moores University, Greg Whyte about his research into the limits of human performance. You will hear this interview when the next edition of the Plus podcast is released. He was tempted into this work in part because of what he called a "ridiculous" piece of work published in the esteemed journal Nature in the 1990s.
This work postulated that come the year 2050, women would be running as quickly as men, and would then power on past and run even quicker, leaving men in their wake. The reasoning behind this statement was fairly simple. If you plotted the speeds of world record runs by females in the 1500 m, and then plotted the same graph for the males, linear regression on both sets of data would result in their trendlines crossing near 2050. This was because the decrease in the women's world record has been comparatively more than the men's.
A view of the data, and a slight amount of lateral thinking spots the mistake. To start with, it is not a surprise that the female world record speed should fall by more than the men's given that females take longer to run the distance. Secondly, linear regression is completely the wrong type of fit for the data. Professor Whyte fitted a polynomial "s" curve, which showed that the period in which the greatest amount of change made to the world record speed was in the 1960s and 70s - he postulated that this was because of drug usage among athletes.
Whyte also performed his modelling on other running distances and on swimming speeds and found that over almost all distances the difference between males and females remained at around 10%.
Other events that I have seen include a performance by children's science author Nick Arnold, and a talk hosted by Professor Robert Winston about his life. I was intrigued to know he dabbled with the idea of becoming a theatre director after university. He was passionate in his arguments that IVF has now been priced far too highly by private companies making a large profit. His current research is looking into genetically manipulating large animals so that their organs can be used in humans.
I am now off to enjoy one of the many parties and functions that the "press badge" gets you in to!
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Future Male Model
Perhaps I'm totally biased... but I just think this is the most gorgeous kid in the universe. I love him to itsy bitsy bits... he's just so cute and huggable. And doesn't the funniest things, like randomly hang out by the kitchen sink posing like he's in GQ.
And then he runs back into the living room to watch Thomas just as soon as I get the flash working ... figures!
I still think he's adorable and gorgeous when he's staring vacantly. Male models do that a lot, so it's good he's got that part down too. :)
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Going to the Farmer's Market is one of my favorite things to do. I am very fortunate because I live about an hour away from Dallas, Texas, where there is a huge Farmer's Market that has every seasonal fruit and vegetable you could ever want.
Local growers bring out their very best produce and your job is to pick from the best in the D/FW metroplex. I love the assortment and being able to talk to sellers that have first-hand knowledge of how the food has been grown. It is quite easy to locate the organic stalls that sell produce free from pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, genetic modification, sewage sludge, and ionizing radiation. They are usually marked with large signs denoting that their bounty has all been grown using organic practices.
When I go to the Farmer's Market, I typically come home with a carload of fresh fruits and vegetables that will be turned into a variety of new and original recipes likes jams, casseroles, pies, and crockpot meals.
For this post, I chose to make an organic savory pie composed of fresh food straight from local growers. The combination of ingredients has a straight from the garden taste that is fresh and flavorful.
This savory pie smelled absolutely delicious as it was being prepared. Sautéing some of the ingredients took the flavors to the next level and made the overall taste of the pie out of this world. It is a hearty meal that can be prepared ahead of time and refrigerated until ready to bake and serve.
If you are vegetarian or vegan, you can easily make this recipe by subbing out the eggs, butter, cream, and cheese for vegan friendly versions. It should also be noted that this pie is low carb as well as organic and will also meet the dietary needs of someone who is diabetic.
I hope you enjoy my recipe!
😃 Jennifer
2 cups cooked and shredded organic spaghetti squash
4 tablespoons unsalted organic butter divided plus extra for coating the pie dish
1 cup shredded organic cheddar jack cheese
1 cup organic heavy cream
4 large organic eggs
1/4 cup diced organic shallot
1/3 cup chopped organic tomato
1/2 cup chopped organic green bell pepper
1 tablespoon roasted and minced organic garlic
1 tablespoon diced organic fresh basil
2 teaspoons organic compliant* salt divided
1/2 teaspoon black pepper divided
* "Unfortunately, there isn't an organic certification for salt in the United States. The USDA classifies salt as a mineral—not a living thing with carbon compounds. … The good news is that every SaltWorks [brand] salt is all-natural, which complies with organic standards, so they can be deemed "organic compliant."
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Cut squash in half and remove the seeds.
2. Place spaghetti squash halves on a baking sheet with insides facing up. Bake for 45 minutes.
3. Use a fork to scrape the insides of the squash and remove the strands.
4. Add 2 tablespoons of melted butter plus 1 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper to the squash. Stir to combine.
Press mixture into a 9 inch pie dish that has been coated with butter. Make sure you press squash mixture up the sides as well.
5. On the stovetop, heat a large frying pan on medium high heat. Add two tablespoons of butter and melt. Add shallots, tomatoes, and green bell peppers. Sauté until the shallots are lightly golden and ingredients are tender.
6. In a large bowl, add eggs and beat with a whisk. Add cream, cheese, garlic, basil, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper. Whisk again.
7. Add in sautéed ingredients and whisk to incorporate. Pour filling into spaghetti squash "crust".
8. Place pie dish on a baking sheet and place on the middle shelf in the oven. Bake for 50 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Slice and enjoy!


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Saturday's Sacramento Kennel Club show benefited from the two preceding shows held by the Northern California Terrier Association on Thursday and Friday. This year's Terrier entry had 376 Terriers present & competing and it was the Smooth Fox Terrier, CH Slyfox Sneaks A Peek, who won Thursday's all Terrier event, taking home Saturday's top prize.
Challenging for the BIS were the English Setter, CH Set'R Ridge's Exclusively Gold, the Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen, CH Soletrader Donald Duck, the Portuguese Water Dog, CH Aviators Luck Be A Lady, the Maltese, CH Richelieu's Sugar Rush, the Keeshond, CH Windrift's Dance To The Music, and the Bouvier des Flandres, CH Avalon Frontier Sleepnlady Webber. Adam and handler Eddie Boyes have been steadily marching up the rankings . We suspect this weekend will put him close to a top ten ranking.


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AmandaWAYT? necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 131 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
WAYT? (WhoAreYouToday)
I'm an eternal optimist, super enthusiastic and LOVE leading/guiding/teaching/inspiring as many people as I can get to in a single day! I come from the corporate world of recruiting where I helped individuals find jobs as well as companies looking to hire. The division of the company I worked for shut down a week ago and I'm now in the same place as a lot of my previous clients. I've decided to take my strengths and passion to the next level in creating - WAYT? (Who are you Today). My website http://www.whoareyoutoday.com has very little content and isn't even remotely close to what I'd like to project to the world, however, I was reluctant to put up one of those "under construction" pages. I've been on our local news (http://www.11alive.com/video/defaul…x#/11Alive) and done several presentations/speaking engagements. I'm looking to make this much more than a small business in Atlanta. I'm very decisive and know what I like so I'm quick to set goals, accomplish them, and move on.
Logo/identity needs to appeal to the masses. Our target audience is individual consumers as well as large organizations needing our help/services. Men and Women, ages 18 - 60. Our business is centered around personal and professional growth, so whether you're looking to re-create your resume and learn how to interview for your ideal job OR you run a Fortune 100 company and are looking to improve morale/company culture, etc. I'm not looking for just a logo, but instead a "brand" that is appealing online, in print and on apparel.
I don't want something stuffy and stale. While this is a professional services firm, we still need to project enthusiasm around helping our clients achieve their goals as well as give them a feeling of trust that we're the right firm to take their career or company to the next level. (I see blue, orange, purple, white, some black) When I see gold or silver I think of cold, or expensive. I don't want to come across as unapproachable, out of reach, or more of the same like my competitors. My initial thoughts are - simple is better. The newest trend seems to be all lower case letters with rounded edge fonts, but I'm open to ideas. When I did a very elementary sketch, I thought of a speaking bubble with "wayt?" in the middle. The identity of my company needs to be fresh, timeless, and appeal to the masses. It also needs to be transferrable for web, print, media, etc.
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Ireland now has the worst household unemployment statistics in Europe according to a new report.
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has confirmed that the proportion of households without a working adult in Ireland is the highest out of 31 European countries.
One in five Irish households includes an unemployed adult, more than double the Euro zone average.
The ESRI found that in 2010, 22 per cent of households in Ireland were jobless compared to the Euro zone average of just over 10 per cent.
A jobless household is defined as one in which its adult(s) spend less than one-fifth of their available time in employment.
The Irish Times reports that in 2007, before the Celtic Tiger collapsed, Ireland also had the highest proportion of jobless households in the zone.
Spain and Greece have greater unemployment rates but the percentage of households without a working adult stood at 10 per cent and 7.5 per cent respectively in 2010.
The ESRI report remarks that Ireland had an unusually high percentage of jobless households even when the economy and employment levels were growing strongly.
The report states: "Even during the boom years of the early 2000s, the rate of joblessness at household level was very high by European standards."
The figures show Ireland with the highest rate of jobless households in the zone in 2007, according to the Eurostat data the report uses. Only Bulgaria had a higher rate of the 27 EU member states in 2007/
The report says that between 2004 and 2007 when Ireland enjoyed very low unemployment and rapid jobs growth, the share of the State's households defined as jobless recorded a double-digit increase to reach 15 per cent of the total when the average across the euro zone in 2007 was just below 10 per cent.
The report added: "Welfare reforms to encourage work were introduced in a number of European countries, such as the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands in the 1990s and Germany in the 2000s.
"Such reforms were not given the same emphasis in Ireland. The Irish welfare system is defined by its complexity, with a diverse range of different benefits available to working-age adults.
"While the payment rates are quite similar, each scheme has its own set of rules regarding the assessment of means, tapering arrangements and earnings disregards.
"In 2004, 70 per cent of those in jobless households were at-risk-of-poverty. This had fallen to 34 per cent by 2010. This change over time appears to be entirely due to an increase in the generosity of social welfare payments relative to the poverty income threshold."
The report also notes that one in 25 people in Ireland was classified as 'working poor' in 2010, unchanged on 2007 and 2004. The definition of poor in this context includes those whose household incomes are lower that 60 per cent of the median.
The report concludes: "The working poor are not a particularly disadvantaged group because many are self employed or have a third-level qualification. The largest share of the working poor, at 44 per cent of the total, was self-employed."


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Noted musicians Drake and Chris Brown threw down at WIP, a club in New York, earlier this week. We, as everyone else does, have Drake's back. Everyone had questions: To what extent did Brown taunt Drake about Rihanna-related matters? How did Drake respond? And what, oh what, was Meek Mill's role in all of this?
We can't answer any of that. But we can tell you that Tony Parker was caught in the crossfire:
NBA superstar Tony Parker says he suffered a serious eye injury during the Chris Brown vs. Drake bottle-tossing mega-brawl.
Parker was inside club W.i.P in NYC Wednesday night when the bottle and the fists began to fly.
Parker continued, "The cornea has been touched. I can't do anything for seven days. But I was lucky. The injury won't prevent me from competing in the Olympics in any way."
No, Tony, you were lucky to spend a few minutes in the company of Drake. Everything else is gravy.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Chad Billingsley pitched two scoreless innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Chicago White Sox 6-4 Monday.
Billingsley, likely to be the Dodgers' No. 2 starter behind Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw, gave up only a single to Alexei Ramirez.
Dodgers star Andre Ethier hit a double in his first at-bat of the spring against Philip Humber.
Led by prospect Scott Van Slyke's two-run homer, the Dodgers scored five times in the sixth off White Sox prospect Nestor Molina, acquired in the offseason trade that sent closer Sergio Santos to Toronto. Van Slyke is the son of former major leaguer Andy Van Slyke.
Ramirez had two hits and drove in a run.
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(AOL Autos) -- Chrysler and General Motors announced this week that they would shrink their dealer base in the U.S.
Chrysler will close 789 dealers. General Motors announced the closing of 1,100 dealers.
Chrysler will close 789 dealers, leaving them with approximately 2400 stores in the U.S. General Motors announced the closing of 1,100 dealers and hopes to be at a size of 3,600 dealers at the end of 2010.
While Chrysler dealers will be "forced out" by June 9, GM is positioning for a smoother closing of its stores, with each shutting down when it runs out of inventory.
Unlike Chrysler's announcement, GM's list of closing dealers will not be made public, leaving that decision to each dealer.
What happens to my GM or Chrysler vehicle warranty?
Your warranty is valid through its term, regardless of where you bought your vehicle. In March, President Obama announced that the U.S. government would provide the backing for Chrysler and GM vehicle warranties under the "Warrantee Commitment Program."
Can I take my vehicle for service and warranty work to another (surviving) dealer?
Yes, but make sure it's a certified dealer. If you're going to take your Chrysler, Jeep or Dodge vehicle in for warranty work, you can do so at a closing dealership until June 9. After that time, Chrysler will no longer pay those dealers for warranty work. GM vehicles will receive service and warranty work at closing dealers until they shut down.
Will there be good deals on these vehicles?
The Chrysler dealerships to close will have about 44,000 units on hand, or roughly what Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge sell across the country every 2-3 weeks (using April's sales numbers as a guide).
There will be deals, but be warned that if those 44,000 aren't sold before June 9, Chrysler will work to redistribute them to other dealers. Whether the best deals will be had before or after June 9 is likely negligible; if you're interested in a Chrysler, Jeep or Dodge product, you will save a lot of money on a new purchase right now.
One important factor to keep in mind is that approximately 10% of those remaining units are 2008 vehicles. Be careful the car you're looking at hasn't been sitting on the lot inactive for too long; cars actually do "rot."
GM's dealer announcement is a different story, since the company isn't releasing the names of the closing dealers. Dealers who chose to disclose their shutdown may provide better deals. AOL Autos: Why do cars rot on the lot?
How many people and jobs are affected by closing dealers?
The impact on communities will be significant. Since dealers typically employ about 50 people and contract with a handful of suppliers (consider the business that sells paper or office furniture to each dealer), there will be impact within the community.
Some economists, however, believe that the impact will be less than expected, since dealers typically have a high turnover rate and technician jobs were in a short supply already. But, the related aspects of dealer closings are certain: think of the little league baseball teams and charities that receive funding from do-gooding dealers.
Even real estate is affected; car dealerships usually set the market for commercial real estate in smaller communities. When those go empty, the entire city feels the pain. AOL Autos: Pressure to buy American
Why were these dealers chosen?
Both Chrysler and GM have expressed interest to shrink their dealer base. Company officials cite various data points related to choosing these dealers, but the main one is performance.
GM said that the average dealer of the 1,100 affected only sold 35 cars in all of 2008. Chrysler cites similar numbers, with half their closing dealerships selling less than 100. But, even after these reductions by Chrysler and GM, they still have more dealers than other manufacturers.
Using April 2009's sales data as a proxy, Toyota has approximately 95 dealers per 1 point of market share in the U.S., while Chrysler has 256 and GM will have 172 (at the end of 2010). This means that, effectively, Toyota is able to sell more vehicles per dealership. AOL Autos: Fate of the GM brands
Can dealers do anything about this?
Typically, dealers would have protection under state franchise laws against such events. However, in Chrysler's case, those franchise laws are not applicable since the company declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Chrysler dealers can (and likely will) protest the process by which they were chosen (sales volume, number of brands in the store, the area in which the dealership operated). But after June 9, the selected Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge dealers will have to take down their signs.
GM dealers will likely organize their own group, but details of that are unclear at this time. AOL Autos: Are extended warranties worth it?
Even after cuts, do the big three still have too many U.S. dealers?
Some companies need fewer dealers to sell the same amount of cars:
Chrysler LLC
Number of dealers: 2411
Market share: 9.4
Dealers per 1 pt. market share: 256
Ford Motor Co.
Number of dealers: 3723
Market share: 15.7
Dealers per 1 pt. market share: 237
General Motors
Number of dealers: 3600
Market share: 20.9
Dealers per 1 pt. market share: 172 AOL Autos: Six cars to save the big three
Honda Motor Co.
Number of dealers: 1304
Market share: 12.4
Dealers per 1 pt. market share: 105
Toyota Motor Corp.
Number of dealers: 1470
Market share: 15.4
Dealers per 1 pt. market share: 95
Market data shown reflective of April 2009, courtesy of Autodata. Chrysler dealer total is effective June 9; GM dealer total is estimate for end of 2010.
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I came upon this photo of James & Damey Ross and thought I would share. It is pixellated and I hope I can get a better copy in the future. I have an e-mail sent to the person who made it available on FamilySearch.
I have written a bit more on James & Damey at this link. I even added this photo to that post. I find it interesting how much resemblance exists between Damey and their daughter Fanny.
I look forward to sharing this photo with Grandpa. He knew his grandparents pretty well and only lived blocks from them in Paul, Minidoka, Idaho. After his mother passed away, he lived with them through the winter of 1925-26. He speaks fondly of them.


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Posted Nov 13, 2000
By Steve Jones
Up to Part 3 already! I never quite thought this series would grow beyond two articles, but after
quite a bit of feedback, here we are. Most of the feedback involved getting the log space percentage
or amount used out of the total database size. I also got quite a few suggestions, but none of them
worked as I would like. Especially since the idea is to automate this process. I am going to look at
a few of the suggestions and why they do not work that well and then present a way to actually automate
the process of gathering the log and database space and presenting them the same way that Enterprise
Manager presents them in a front end GUI. If you are interested in the other articles,
Part 1 deals with getting the users in a database and Part 2 gathers the total size of
each database automatically.
I had a couple of suggestions for getting the log space sent to me by colleagues. And a request. If you
use Enterprise Manager and click on the name of your database, in the right hand pane you get a summary
of what the SQL team in Redmond considers to be important information. In the SQL 2000 Enterprise Manager
you get a slightly different summary. I guess they are incorporating feedback into the tools (at least
I hope they are and its not just different preferences from different developers). What I would hope (since
this is an HTML page) is that we could build MyEM and get what each of us considers important.
Enough daydreaming and wishing, under the Space Allocated tab (SQL 7) or at the bottom of the
display (SQL 2000) there is a data space item which shows a nice bar graph of the total and used
spaces of your database split into data and log sections. It's nice, color coded, and concise, all things that
I like to see in tools that present information. If I could get this bargraph delivered to me everyday in
email from every database, then I would be thrilled. Or if I could click on the Databases item in EM
and get the information for all databases I might even use that (Redmond SQL Team, hint, hint). So to keep
this article short, let's fire up the database maintenance plan and select the "Get daily email of database
space" option and we're done.
Well, if it were that simple, I'd be writing less and you would probably not be reading this. There is
no option in the maintenance plan. One day...(sigh)
So can we duplicate this? You bet! and I am about to show you how. The method I present will actually
use one of the suggestions that was sent to me, though it is not as simple as the sender thought.
What were the suggestions? There were three of them that I received along with numerous requests
asking how to get the data. The three were:
When I received these suggestions, the second thing I did (after a quick "why didn't I think of that?") was
to try sp_spaceused out on my SQL Server. I have a database called DBA and when I ran this from
that database I got:
database_name database_size unallocated space
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reserved data index_size unused
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DBCC SQLPERF( LOGSPACE) accounts for a portion of the data. When you run this little query, you will
get some data that looks like the following:
Database Name Log Size (MB) Log Space Used (%) Status
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Northwind 0.9921875 38.23819 0
pubs 0.484375 82.963707 0
msdb 1.7421875 41.171524 0
tempdb 0.7421875 50.376492 0
model 0.7421875 72.631577 0
master 1.2421875 48.034592 0
Neither of these suggestions gives the desired result, but together they present the information that
we need to build a solution. So now I will describe the solution that I put together to automatically
gather this information from the server.
Gatering the information from these two commands proves to be difficult at best. There are a few problems
with getting this data directly as I did with sp_helpdb. DBCC commands do not produce result
sets. Instead they print information messages to the standard output device as an asynchronous stream or
return them as messages to a calling program. Since I am trying to keep this within T-SQL as simple as
possible, we have to "trick" T-SQL into getting these results into a table. To do this, we will modify
our EXEC command slightly as follows:
CREATE TABLE #logspace (
DBName varchar( 100),
LogSize float,
PrcntUsed float,
status int
INSERT INTO #logspace
EXEC ('DBCC sqlperf( logspace)')
process the data
select * from #logspace
Cleanup - drop the temp table
drop table #logspace
What about the database space usage? There is a bit of a problem here and I am struggling with the
solution. sp_spaceused presents a problem. To get this to report on space used by the database
we need to leave the parameters out. This stored procedure, however, then returns two result sets for
the database. With two different numbers of columns!!! With parameters, it returns one, but then you only get
the usage for the object you specify. So I could then get the space for all objects and add them up, right?
Well, this tends to violate my simple concept for solutions. Also, for this database I have two data
files and sp_spaceused only reported on them both as a single database. Not a big deal, but if these are on two separate
physical devices, then I may want to know how close each is to getting full.
The alternative? Use an undocumented (read this as unsupported) DBCC call to get the usage by each of the
files. This DBCC call is actually made by the Enterprise Manager GUI when building the display. It also
works in SQL Server 7 and SQL Server 2000. However, it is unsupported and if you were to upgrade to SQL Server 2001,
I would hate for all your information gathering to break in a single day.
As much as I hate to do it, I do not have a good solution at this time and so will work with the undocumented
DBCC command. I am making this comprimise since my hunch is that this is the procedure that is being
used by Enterprise Manager to generate the bar graph. It is definitely being called, so there is at least
a chance that I am correct.
Now that I have decided to use an undocumented, unsupported query, how does this help us? Well, the
data that is being returned by DBCC SHOWFILESTATS is the following:
Fileid FileGroup TotalExtents UsedExtents Name FileName
----------- ----------- ------------ ----------- ------------- --------------------------------
1 1 80 38 DBA_Pri C:\MSSQL7\data\DBA_Pri_Data.MDF
3 1 1600 515 DBA_Data C:\MSSQL7\data\DBA_Data.NDF
NOTE: This is my opinion only. It is based on testing and experience,
but is an opinion only. Use this information with caution and at your own risk.
This appears to show only the data space information, so no log information for this database is
being displayed. I did create two data files for this database and the file names match my creation
script. Here are my thoughts on the definitions:
Now that I have decoded this output (at least to my satisfaction), how do I use it? Well, first we get
the data in the same way as we did for the log information.
CREATE TABLE #dataspace
( FileID int,
FileGrp int,
TotExt int,
UsdExt int,
LFileNm varchar( 100),
PFileNm varchar( 100)
insert #dataspace
exec( 'dbcc showfilestats')
select * from #dataspace
drop table #dataspace
insert #dataspace
exec( 'use master dbcc showfilestats')
Calculating a size in MB based on extents, is fairly easy. Here is the calculation:
kb total = extents * 32
MB total = kb total / 512
Well, at least total solution for getting the space distribution in your database. So how do we put
this together? First the objects:
The stored procedure performs the work by runnung DBCC SQLPERF( LOGSPACE) and storing this information
in a temp table and inserting it into the permanent table. Once this is complete, I use a cursor to
loop through the database names and run DBCC SHOWFILESTATS in each database.
Now you have a way to gather the database size and log size of all databases on your server automatically. You
can use SQLAgent to schedule this process and store the information or build a stored procedure and
check on space usage whenever you want. So, is this how Microsoft gets the information in Enterprise
Manager? Well, partially. Both of these queries are run along with quite a few others when you click on the
database name in Enterprise Manager. Since the information is returned from a few sources, I cannot be
sure where they actually pull the information for the GUI. Most of the queries that are being run, however,
are unsupported officially, so I would hesitate to use any of them. That being said, I chose to use one
of them because I could not get the information in any supported way that I know of and I think the DBCC
command is more likely to become supported in the future as opposed to a query of the system tables. USE THIS
TECHNIQUE AT YOUR OWN RISK, since it it an unsupported comamnd.
As always, please send me your feedback along with suggestions for other information that is you would like
to see me gather from the server. In the next article, I will take a step back and describe how to actually manage
this glut of information that I am gathering.
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In the midst of a dreadful MLS malaise, the Crew needed some good news. With Mexican league leaders Santos Laguna coming to town for a CONCACAF Champions League tilt, more than first place in Group B was at stake. With a victory, the Crew could take the first step toward a much-needed mental recovery from their poor league form. Another loss…one shuddered at the thought.
As the clocked ticked up toward 90:00, the game had all the hallmarks of the Crew's recent frustrations. They possessed the ball and created myriad chances, but a bad touch here, a near miss there, and a stretch of shooting that threatened innocent bystanders more than the Santos goal left the Crew staring down the barrel of a frustrating scoreless draw.
But in the 87th minute, Peruvian Andres Mendoza found the ball on his left foot and the Crew found themselves with a much needed victory. Given the Crew's recent run of form, it may have been one of the most important goals of the season.
"It was an important goal, but we played well as a team today," said Mendoza through an interpreter. "What is more important is that we carry this confidence forward to our game on Saturday."
Yes, Saturday is the next test. But first, a look back at the crucial victory over Santos, plus some miscellaneous goofiness that was missing from the depressing Sounders Notebook.
The Crew's goal was the result of a lucky bounce and a perfect strike. Jason Garey collected a long pass from Andy Iro on the left side of the field, then attacked toward the center of the field. He played the ball to Mendoza near the top of the arc, who then looked to get the ball back to Garey as Garey ran into the box. Mendoza's pass was broken up, but the ball bounced back to him. He brought it down onto his left foot, and if there's one thing Andres Mendoza loves, it's the ball on his left foot. He's the Mirrored Manu. He's the Peruvian Preki. Most importantly, he's a guy who can pick his spot and finish. Mendoza calmly struck a low 23-yard shot into the side netting.
"Iro played a good ball out of the back and I was able to get a good touch on it," Garey said. "Andres and I tried to play a 1-2. I played it in to him, but when he tried to play it to me, it got blocked. The ball bounced around and he turned and hit a great shot."
Garey raised his hands in triumph before the ball even got to the goal.
"I was running in for a rebound in case the keeper saved it," he said, "but I saw the angle the keeper took and I thought, 'That's in. We're out of here.'"
"Garey made the play," Mendoza said. "The ball rebounded to me and I turned and took the shot. I felt the cramp as I shot, but the ball went in."
With the cramp, Mendoza fell to the turf. He was mobbed by teammates, including Brian Carroll, who lifted Mendoza's cramping leg in an effort to unknot the contacting muscles.
"The cramping-up-and-having-your-teammates-stretch-you-out goal celebration wasn't the greatest celebration, but we'll take it," Carroll deadpanned.
When asked about his leg cramp goal celebration, Mendoza laughed.
"Nah, nah, nah" he said. "They make a joke."
After taking the lead, the Crew put on a clinic in killing the game. Part of killing the game is taking the ball to the corner flag, and the Crew did this so successfully that they pinned the ball in the right channel for a continuous three minutes and five seconds. And that's not counting the lead up to getting the ball in the channel. That's right, once in the right channel, it took over three minutes for Santos to regain possession and advance the ball past their 18 yard box. In that time, the Crew trio of Steven Lenhart, Jason Garey, and Emmanuel Ekpo won four throw-ins, a corner kick, and a free kick, all while holding the ball up in the corner.
"That's part of the game," said Crew coach Robert Warzycha. "Sometimes you have to do that, especially playing against a good team. Stevie went on the field, and with Ekpo and Garey over there, they did a very good job killing the time."
Jason Garey summed up the game's final minutes thusly: "Andres scored a great goal, then we held the ball in the corner for about six minutes, and then we got in a fight. All in all, it was a good night."
Oh yeah, the fight. The term "fight" is an overstatement, but we'll let Garey explain the late-game skirmish that broke out in the corner.
"We were keeping the ball in the corner, and they were getting pissed off," he said. "Manu did one of his little shakes, and the guy just came up and pushed him. I couldn't let him push Manu like that, so I got into his face and shoved him a little bit. Then he cursed me out in Spanish, but I told him I couldn't understand what he was saying so it didn't bother me none, which I think made him angrier, but whatever."
Goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum has been entrusted with the Crew's tournament runs, and he has not disappointed. In seven U.S. Open Cup and CONCACAF Champions League starts, the Hebrew Hammer has collected four shutouts and allowed only three goals.
Against Santos, the Crew committed none of the lapses that led to Seattle's cavalcade of goals over the weekend. The way Gruenebaum sees it, if there are no lapses to punish, his job becomes simple. He only had to make two saves on the night.
"It's pretty easy when you don't have to do much," Gruenebaum said. "We defended in such an organized manner that it makes my job really easy. I don't feel like I had to do much tonight, but that's good. I'll take that every time."
Given the Crew's league funk and the heavy locker room from Saturday, a win over the Mexican leaders was exactly what the team needed. It also vaulted the Crew to the top of Group B with four of the six match days in the books.
"They left their heart on the field today," said Warzycha. "We played against a very good team, a team that likes to pass the ball and move off the ball. I think we did a very good job. I think it was a matter of understanding each other and working for each other. We made some tackles today, and like I said the guys left their hearts on the field. If you do that, you are going to be rewarded with something."
In the last Notebook, I had some fun with Brian Carroll's uncharacteristic on-the-record f-bomb. I figured if mild-mannered Brian Carroll is going to drop an f-bomb into reporters' voice recorders, that's noteworthy. It's certainly out of the ordinary for him, so I considered it a message sent. For that reason, I wanted to check in with him after the Santos victory. Carroll sees the match as a step in the right direction, but only the first step in the right direction.
"That's what we're looking for," he said of the 1-0 win. "We got good effort and energy from the entire group tonight, and it's a building block for this weekend at New England. Now we need to do it again. It's good to bounce back and get a result like that, but now we need to keep it going."
On another note, it was also nice that the Crew turned the tables on Santos, who scored a stoppage time winner to defeat the Crew 1-0 in Torreon, Mexico. It was a heart-breaking and controversial loss. This time around, the Crew broke the scoreless tie in the 87th minute, giving Santos a taste of their own medicine.
"When it got late and it was 0-0, you can't help but think back," Gruenebaum said. "It was good to be on the other end of it this time."
Carroll agreed.
"There's always satisfaction in beating a team that has gotten you," he said.
Every Crew fan knows that Frankie Hejduk loves his flying two-footed tackles. We've been watching them for eight seasons in Columbus and even longer with the U.S. National Team. Even though we've seen a million of them, we still wince in anticipation of the inevitable compound tibia fracture, and then exhale when he somehow comes up with the ball more often than not.
With that in mind, Fox Soccer Channel's Brian Dunseth offered this bit of commentary during Tuesday's broadcast:
"Of every player that leaves their feet and does a two-footed, like, scissor tackle, Frankie is by far the best I have ever seen at continually getting the ball. You think every time that he is going to get a straight red card for the tackle, but then he ends up winning the ball cleanly."
Of course, Dunny said this after Frankie got the ball, the man, and a yellow card, but the larger point still stands. The Flying Frankie Tackle is still one of soccer's great unexplained mysteries and has become part of the Hey-Dude legend.
As mentioned in the Seattle Notebook, Brian Carroll's baby held off as instructed, so the fantasy draft went off without a hitch. Even better, William Hesmer's mother came up to see the Crew in D.C. that Saturday night, and she brought an evening's worth of Parker's Barbeque from Hesmer's hometown of Wilson, North Carolina. The guys took the barbeque bounty home with them and feasted upon it during the draft.
"The food was delicious, the beer was delicious, and I can't be happier with my team," Hesmer said of the draft.
From what I can gather, the highlight of week one was Andy Gruenebaum's meltdown in the Los Angeles airport. Jason Garey, who lost to Gruenebaum in week one, explains:
"Gruenebaum had a good week. The 120 hours that he put in during the last two weeks paid off. He was also way too intense. You should have seen him in the airport, going crazy because Chris Johnson hadn't scored a touchdown in the first ten minutes of the Titans game. Then he was freaking out and complaining because his phone wasn't updating, and everyone was telling him to relax. He's so uptight. He needs to relax a little, and maybe broaden his horizons in life."
Gruenebaum did not deny it. "It was a meltdown," he said. "Let's call it what it was. But I think the reason that I have been so successful as a fantasy football owner is because I care that much. If you put that much heart and emotion into your team, you should win. Here's what I do. I sit around all NFL offseason watching reruns on the NFL Network. I re-watch every single game to prepare."
"He watches every second of the NFL combine," Garey added.
"Yeah, even Mr. Irrelevant (the last player drafted), I have his stats," Gruenebaum. "I'm just a fan. I'm just a guy who is in love with football. I chose the wrong sport. I should have been a kicker."
"Your leg isn't strong enough," Garey reminded him.
"True," Gruenebaum conceded. "But what if I changed my past and worked out more and injected protein and stuff?"
Uh, moving on, Gruenebaum tasted defeat in week two courtesy of league leader Danny O'Rourke. In a league muddled with 1-1 teams, O'Rourke's team is the lone 2-0 team, while Frankie Hejduk's team lost to Hesmer's team in a week two tie-breaker to be the lone 0-2 team.
O'Rourke was happy with his victory over Gruenebaum.
"My guys had a strong performance and his guys didn't show," O'Rourke said. "It was like 115 to 86. My guys coasted to victory."
"He had a good win," Gruenebaum conceded.
"He raised the white flag during the 4:00 games," O'Rourke said. "He knew it was over."
"Listen," Gruenebaum said, "Danny is clearly someone to be reckoned with, but he is also the biggest tool I have ever met."
O'Rourke smiled, turned to me, and proudly said, "You can quote that."
Consider it done. And in our final fantasy football note, it appears that rookie Dave Lagow, the Crew's head athletic trainer, hit a major bump in the road in week two. Just one week after stunning league commissioner Brian Carroll, Lagow's team delivered a performance ripe for the mocking.
"Lagow's team barely scored 50 points," Garey said. "I think we are going to give out the Lagow Award whenever anyone's team has an absolute shocker."
"I think you should get $5," Gruenebaum said. "Shouldn't you get $5 for being that bad?"
"No," Garey responded. "You should pay $5. This isn't a charity. This is capitalism."
"True," Gruenebaum said. "He should be fined. In an 8-team league, every team should be stacked enough to get close to 100 points, but he only had like 53. It's embarrassing."
Gruenebaum explained the problems associated with Hejduk's 0-2 start and Lagow's award-winning shocker.
"If the Chargers are bad, Frankie will lose, and if the Patriots are bad, Lagow will lose," he said. "I love the Chiefs, but I don't have a single Chief on my team. That's because I'm smart."
After a watching a Tribe game one night, I saw an extended promo for SportsTime Ohio's "Par 3 Shootout" program, in which 16 local celebrities compete against each other on the par 3 holes at various gold courses. Imagine my surprise when I saw Crew president Mark McCullers swinging away in the promo, which mainly featured Indians and Browns related personalities.
SportsTime Ohio had called the Crew office seeking a Crew player, but being in season, the players weren't available on the morning of the shoot. PR director Dave Stephany then mentioned to STO that McCullers was a golfer, and STO said that the president and GM would fit the bill as a Columbus Crew representative.
"So Dave asked me," McCullers said. "I was like, 'Damn straight! I'll do that!' Plus, it's great publicity for us. I had my Crew stuff on and they did some interviews asking about the team and what's going on. We'll see how much of the interview makes the air, but it was great to get the Crew on SportsTime Ohio."
The contest starts with 16 competitors hacking away in four separate qualifying rounds. The winners of the four qualifiers will meet in the championship round. McCullers was part of the fourth qualifying round, which took place at Cumberland Trail in Pataskala. He squared off against former Buckeye hoopster and current radio analyst Ron Stokes, Mount Union head football coach Larry Kehres, and a Columbus Blue Jackets player that I am blanking on from the promo. (Of all the other contestants in that foursome, I am blanking on the Blue Jacket? Something is wrong with my brain.)
EDITOR NOTE: Derek Dorsett was the Blue Jackets player included in the Par 3 Shootout
The Cumberland Trail qualifier will debut on SportsTime Ohio on Sunday, October 3, at 10:00pm. It will also re-air on October 6 at 8:00pm and October 7 at 6:00pm.
After the dismal Seattle game, I caught up with McCullers in the tunnel while looking for some non-depressing news. Seeing as the lone bright spot from that game was the crowd of 17,144, I thought I would see how the ticket selling business was coming along.
"This weekend, we passed our gross ticket revenue from 2009," McCullers said. "That makes five years in a row, and we still have two league games left. Ticket revenue will be up probably about 7-8% depending on our last two home games."
While armchair analysts love to dissect the announced attendance numbers, it is in some ways a fruitless exercise. The announced attendance includes all tickets distributed, whether paid for or given away for promotional purposes. In the Crew's case, the announced attendance has held steady over the past few years while paid attendance and ticket revenue have continued to grow.
"You have to have a long term perspective on it," McCullers saud. "You have to condition the market and you have to offer value. If there's scads of free tickets out there or if tickets are five bucks, that's what you are telling the market you are worth. We're worth more than that, so we have been clamping down on free tickets over the years. That's why our announced attendance hasn't changed that much, because that is the count of tickets distributed. The announced attendance has been in the same range, but what we have been successful in doing is squeezing that margin between paid attendance and tickets distributed. And I think we offer a good value. I think fans are finding that a night at a Crew game is worth their money. And we've got promotions like the 'Crew and More' packs, where you can get tickets to the zoo and other events, and we've got four packs with the food included, so it's still economical to come to a Crew game. We're sensitive to that. Our tickets remain among the most affordable in Major League Soccer."
McCullers is excited about the club's financial prospects going forward, thanks in part to a pair of recent hires.
"We've got a new Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, Mike Malo, who started in April, and he's been a great fit. It took me 18 months to fill that position, but I was determined to hold out for the right person, and I think Mike was worth the wait. He's a Gahanna native who spent ten years with the Arizona Diamondbacks and was the Director of Marketing with the Philadelphia Eagles before he came here. And we have a new VP of Corporate Sales who attended his first game tonight. Chris Previte was with the Cleveland Indians for 18 years and has a lot of great contacts. I am really excited about the senior team, and we need to push it to the next level."
McCullers' view of the next level involves season tickets. Lots and lots of season tickets.
"We've had five years of steady growth, but we need to increase our season ticket base," he said. "Our season tickets have been flat. We've got to get people more emotional about the Crew. People come to games and have a good time, but we need to get them to feel that emotion and passion that we see in the Nordecke, and that we see in our season ticket holders throughout Crew Stadium."
This year, the Crew has rotated tuna casserole into the press box dinner schedule. A few times I have walked into the press box only to be greeted by a pan of that repulsive glop, thereby working games on an empty stomach, thus making me stupider than usual.
I have tried to rally a campaign against the tuna casserole. I have urged Shawn Mitchell and Craig Merz to join me in writing about how much we hate tuna casserole, bombarding the Crew with a tidal wave of public shame that would force them to drop it from the menu.
The true professionals declined to join my anti-tuna crusade. Shawn said, "The last thing anybody wants to read about is some sportswriters complaining about their free dinner."
"A ha!" I countered in desperation. "It's not technically a free dinner if you don't eat it!"
My logical Hail Mary landed incomplete. It turns out that we would then be complaining about the free dinner that we turned up our noses at. Good point.
So I guess I will suffer in silence, except to pass along the fact that I am allergic to dolphin meat and I hope that this will somehow get PETA involved on my behalf. I definitely saw a blowhole on Chris DeVille's plate. I'm no marine biologist, but I'm pretty sure that tuna fish don't have blowholes. Just sayin'.
No, but seriously, my only real reason for bringing this up is because, unlike me, Crew technical director Brian Bliss has a way of cutting to the heart of the matter in just a few pointed words. Bliss walked into the press box, looking for some dinner. He became visibly perplexed and astonished when he peeked into the pan.
"Tuna casserole?" Bliss barked at Dave Stephany. "What's next— quiche?"
Bliss then scooped up a serving spoon full of the casserole and dumped back into the pan, concluding, "I would rather eat a skunk's (butt) than tuna casserole right now."
That was easily the quote of the night. Unless the Crew take it as a menu suggestion.
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If you love the Colorado outdoors (and even if you don't), stop complaining about the snow
If you're on social media, you've surely seen the incessant complaining.
If you've somehow missed it, you're lucky. But if that's the case, we're here with the Cliff's Notes: "There's snow! In Colorado! In April! Snow! Isn't it spring? The sidewalks are icy! The streets are dangerous! OMG THERE'S SNOW!"
All that hyperbole is true — this snowstorm has rocked Denver, the mountains and beyond. But what's hard to understand is all the surprise, not to mention all the negativity.


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New York, N.Y. (November 12, 2013) — City Pass, the company that packages deeply discounted admission to the top attractions in major North American destinations, has an extra treat for holiday travelers. The annual Winter Special dramatically lengthens each CityPASS® ticket booklet's traditional nine-day validity period.
Beginning Dec. 15, 2013, visitors purchasing or activating previously purchased CityPASS ticket booklets for New York City, Boston, Houston, Philadelphia or Seattle will have up to 75 days (until Feb. 28, 2014) to redeem the included attraction tickets (one use per individual ticket). Typically, once the first admission ticket in a booklet is redeemed, CityPASS holders have nine days in which to use the remaining attraction tickets. Winter Special, however, waives the nine-day rule, extending the usage period considerably.
In addition to having more time to enjoy leading attractions, travelers with CityPASS ticket booklets will continue to save up to 50 percent off the cost of purchasing the included attraction tickets separately. CityPASS ticket booklets also save time, allowing users to bypass most main-entrance ticket lines.
While visitors have always found CityPASS ticket booklets to be a great deal, the expanded Winter Special usage period also makes the pass attractive to locals who may be hosting friends or family members over the holidays — not to mention looking for ways to entertain the kids over winter break. The Winter Special concept encourages sightseers, both out-of-towners and regional visitors alike, to take their time and explore a city at a leisurely pace.
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Colnago Master 55th Anniversary
9 comments:
A very interesting choice for an anniversary bike. Ernesto Colnago always liked the Arabesque with its fancy lugs. His detractors claim their design was borrowed from Rauler.ReplyDelete
In the past Colnago has made a few very eloborate frame-sets combining Arabesque lugs with shaped tubes and glitzy paintwork. These were marketed under the name "Regal", among others.
George Hollenberg MD
And the price will be........?ReplyDelete
Not sure what the Arabesque lugs have to do with this 55th Aniversary bike. The lugs on this frame are the "Art Deco" lugs first used on the MasterPiù, and nothing to do with the lugs designed by Raul Gozzi. Lovely bike. Now we just need a modern day ICS to polish up some gold plated 11-speed Super Record parts and this bike will be a classic for the ages!!!ReplyDelete
These lugs are elaborate although they are more similar to the Master than the Arabesque lugs.ReplyDelete
ICS is no longer in business-Mr. Granzotto now makes stethoscopes, however, if you can afford to go the full "glitz route", I can recommend another company that does not only gold over aluminum plating, but gold over carbon fiber gilding. These two processes will get you a real glitz queen.
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 3:15 PM
What's with the steel fork? It's got carbon everything else. Why bow to tradition there?ReplyDelete
Anonymous: the frame is steelReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2010 at 10:28 AM
The lugs look the exactly the same as the ones on my old 94 Master Olympic Decor. I tried to sell that bike 10 years ago - no one was interested even at a few hundred pounds sterling. Glad I had to keep it now.ReplyDelete
- Danny hellinckxJune 30, 2012 at 10:50 AM
I am Danny. Bought One of the 99 pieces and everywhere I ride, I got Great comments on it! They even recognize me after a year! Also Johan Museeuw told me never to sel it as its value is not tangible. Great bike, I still have the original blue One also, already for 12 years! Not for sale! Never...


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We've seen "Nowhere Boy" and her series of photographs of famous men crying. We've read about her controversial relationship with her much younger husband Aaron Johnson. We've even heard about her short erotica piece featuring a man masturbating in the desert.
But to get a more complete picture of "Fifty Shades of Grey" director Sam Taylor-Johnson's filmmaking style and aesthetic -- and how she might handle the E.L. James material -- there are few pieces that offer more insight than a 2008 short she directed titled "Love You More."
The 15-minute movie, which was nominated for the short-film Palme D'Or when it premiered at Cannes in 2008, is the collaboration of Taylor-Johnson and Mirage Entertainment, the company run by the late Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack.
Written by the playwright and screenwriter Patrick Marber ("Closer"), the film is an adaptation of his short story "Peter Shelley" and centers on two teenagers in 1978-era London who connect over the release of the Buzzcocks single "Love You More."
The film, which can be seen here (sensitive viewers, note that it contains graphic content), illustrates Taylor-Johnson's ease with sexually explicit material and proves her to be adept at romance.
"Love You More" was the only short Mirage made during its existence and it was commissioned as an experiment of sorts by Minghella to prove that visual artist Taylor-Johnson had filmmaking chops too.
According to the short film's producer, Caroline Harvey, who at the time served as the company's head of development in London, Mirage had optioned the British novel "Story of You" by Julie Myerson for Taylor-Johnson but at the time the filmmaker had only art films to her name.
Soon Taylor-Johnson was collaborating with Marber and casting Andrea Riseborough and Harry Treadaway as the two high school students.
"There's an erotic element to some of Sam's art work and she really responded to Patrick's material," said Harvey, reached by phone in London. "It was a sweet, self-contained story that seems sort of perfect for her and for short-film making."
According to Harvey, once the film hit Cannes, it went on to screen at more than 250 film festivals, winning a nomination from BAFTA and a British Independent Film Award. The producer says she still gets calls about it from festivals wanting to screen it or from producers interested in adding it to short compilations.
"She worked very closely with the actors [on "Love You More"] and it was a difficult thing the actors did — with the sex scene in there. She developed a very close relationship with them and it was a really lovely experience," said Harvey.
Taylor-Johnson and Harvey remained close after "Love You More," with Taylor-Johnson donating some of her Palme D'Or prize money to Harvey's directorial debut, the short "Emily," which recently debuted at the Palm Springs International ShortFest and stars Felicity Jones, also rumored for the "Fifty Shades" lead of Anastasia Steele. (You can check out the trailer for "Emily" here.)
Needless to say, Harvey thinks Taylor-Johnson is an ideal candidate to tackle the E.L. James novel.
"She's an inspired choice for 'Fifty Shades,'" she said. "I'm excited they chose a woman and she's particularly sound for it. She'll make a great film."


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Last night when I got home, I passed the marshmallow test and saved $1,630.
This is the delayed gratification study in which kids would be left alone with a sweet treat and told that they could have it if they wanted — but that if they waited until the supervising adult returned, they could have two.
My marshmallow test was calling customer service.
While going through my mail, I called the companies responsible for the three largest subscription-based services that my family uses. We always want to save money, but we are especially in need of tightening the belt right now as we deal with some unforeseen costs.
When I told them that I was looking to cut costs immediately, the first company's customer service representative looked at my account and found a way to cut one service and upgrade another to reduce my monthly bill from about $103 to about $39 on a promotional offer lasting 12 months. Then he explicitly told me to call back in 12 months — "to tell us to keep earning your business." Over those 12 months, I'll save about $770. Read more…


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Mars watchers have a bit of a mystery on their hands. An astronomy buff captured this photo of the red planet, with what looks like a growth emerging from the sphere. So is it a towering cloud? Or just a trick of the light?
Amateur astronomer Wayne Jaeschke has taken many pictures of the night sky, but when he took this photo of Mars, he knew it was something unusual. He posted the photo on the site Cloudy Nights, explaining that sources had suggested it was a high-altitude water-ice cloud over Mars' Acidalia region.
The Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University has also been observing the curious cloudy spot using the Thermal Emission Imaging System on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. There are still a number of theories as to the origin of the cloud — it could be debris from a meteor impact, a towering weather system, or perhaps just a trick of the light. You can see Jaeschke's animation of the anomaly to get a better sense of what they're looking at.
Whatever it is, the anomaly is shrinking. In the meantime, professional and amateur astronomers are working in tandem to figure out just what's going on out there on Mars.
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Intravenous ajmaline challenge is used to identify patients with Brugada syndrome if the diagnostic type I ECG pattern is not overt in the basal ECG. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic yield, safety and side effects of intravenous ajmaline challenge in 236 consecutive patients with syncope of unknown origin, family history of SCD, idiopathic VF or suspicious basal ECG.
Methods: In 236 patients (mean age 43 +/- 23 years, 139 males) suspicious of Brugada syndrome intravenous ajmaline was infused with a maximal dose of 1mg/kg body weight within 5-10 minutes under continuous ECG monitoring following the recommendation of the Brugada consensus conference. Criteria for termination of the test were appearance of the diagnostic type I ECG pattern of Brugada syndrome and furthermore an increase of the QRS duration of more than 30%, high degree AV-block or the development of ventricular premature beats or tachycardia. In 66% of the cases the test was performed due to a syncope of unknown origin, in 14% due to abnormal basal ECG, in 8% because of a family history of sudden cardiac death or Brugada syndrome, in 9% due to palpitations and nsVT and in 3% because of aborted sudden cardiac death.
Results: In 42 patients (17%) ajmaline challenge was positive with development of a diagnostic type I ECG. In the remaining 194 patients the test was negative. In 64% of the patients the test was stopped at the maximal ajmaline dose, in 10% prematurely due to increase of the QRS duration and in 9% due the premature ventricular contractions. In one patient non-sustained polymorphic VT were observed, which did not need further medical treatment.
Conclusions: Ajmaline challenge can safely be performed under continuous monitoring during drug application. The risk of serious side effects using this protocol is very low (0.4%). However, due to the potential risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmias ajmaline challenge should only be performed in the clinical setting.


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Over One Third of Children's Toys and Products Contain Chemicals that are Linked to Learning and Developmental Disabilities
Over One Third of Children's Toys and Products Contain Chemicals that are Linked to Learning and Developmental DisabilitiesWe all like buying toys for our kids. We usually have several in the toy chest even before the baby is born. Shortly after birth little boys are often presented with footballs and miniature hockey sticks; little girls with what we hope will be their favorite dolls; and both get the teddy bears and rubber duckies.
But before you go out on a shopping spree, you should have more information on which toys are actually safe. We're not talking about the usual safety concerns – small parts in a baby's mouth, we're talking about chemicals.
We already know that rubber duckies, or any toy made of vinyl, may well contain phthalates or other chemicals you really don't want your baby to ingest. But phthalates aren't the only toxic chemicals you have to worry about.
In fact, according to the Michigan Network for Children's Environmental Health, over one third of children's toys and products contain chemicals that are linked to learning and developmental disabilities.
How's that for a scary statistic?
To help handle the problem and make sure parents are informed about which toys are safe and which aren't, Senator Roger Kahn of Michigan is drafting legislation designed to "to protect your kids from toxic chemicals found in their most popular toys."
Says Senator Kahn, "I don't want them to get poisoned from cadmium or zinc or arsenic or anything."
If you're in Michigan, you're in luck. You have a Senator that recognizes the problem and cares enough to do something about it.
At Naturepedic, we protect children by making crib mattresses that have been independently tested and certified so we, and you, can be sure our products don't emit any harmful chemical fumes your baby might breathe while spending 15 or so hours in the crib everyday.
But it doesn't stop with the crib. Toys are a very big concern.
Find out more about the chemicals in toys on the Michigan Network for Children's Environmental Health. There is also information in our blog Unsafe Toys 2010: What Toys To Avoid this Holiday Season, and What to Buy that you may find useful.
If you would like information on specific toys and children's products, check out HealthyStuff.org's very helpful list. It categorizes products with 'None,' 'Low,' 'Medium,' and 'High' levels of concern.
You can also find a list of websites with safe and fun toys on the Toys page of Debra's List.
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I've been making a lot of whole grain breads lately but I really felt the need for something completely opposite and not quite as healthy. We were going to have some chicken burgers for dinner one night last week and they wouldn't have really worked on slices of 100% whole grain bread so some Challah rolls were needed.
This formula is based on one of Peter Reinhart's with a few modifications and ended up making some great rolls.
Separate the egg yolks in a separate bowl. Add the yeast to the water and stir briefly. Next add the egg yolks, salt and oil and stir until thoroughly mixed. Now add the flour and mix on low for 4 minutes and medium for another 2 minutes until you have a nice soft dough.
Take the dough out of your mixer and form it into a ball and place in a well oiled bowl or dough rising bucket. Knead the dough by hand inside the bowl for a minute and then immediately place the dough in the refrigerator overnight for up to 2 days.
When ready to bake, take the dough out of the refrigerator and let it come to room temperature for about 1 – 1.5 hours.
Next gently deflate the dough and form into rolls and place on cookie sheet with parchment paper. Cover with a moist towel or plastic wrap sprayed with cooking spray. Let it sit at room temperature for about 1 hour or more until the rolls have almost doubled in size and pass the poke test.
Around 30 minutes before ready to bake the rolls, pre-heat your oven to 450 degrees and prepare your oven for steam as well. I use a heavy-duty pan in the bottom shelf of my oven and pour 1 cup of boiling water in right before placing the rolls in the oven.
Right before you are ready to bake the rolls prepare an egg wash and paint your rolls and sprinkle on poppy seeds or your seed of choice.
Bake the rolls at 450 degrees for the first 5 minutes and lower the oven to 425 degrees until they are nice and brown. These should take about 25 minutes to cook thoroughly. When done let them cool on wire rack for at least half an hour before digging in if you can wait that long.
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We are re-branding our client and want your creative/professional input. The old logo has been replaced with an amazing logo and we now need the website to go with it. Winner will have opportunity for long term work on project.
We are also interviewing designers for the launch of our national site in 2009, so even if you don't win, we may contact you for additional work through our design company. We just chose a winner in our print contest..check here for design ideas: http://99designs.com/contests/9357
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Glenburgie 8 Year Old 2007 vintage Speyside single malt Scotch whiskey. Single cask bottled 2015 by Hunter Laing & Co. for the Hepburn's Choice series. 348 bottles.
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Glenburgie Distillery was originally established west of Forres in Scotland's Speyside whiskey region as Kilnflat Distillery by John Paul in 1829. Equipped with two pot stills until 1958 when two Lomond stills were installed and two differing malt whiskies were produced, Glenburgie from the pot stills and Glencraig from the Lomond stills. The Lomond stills were removed in 1981 and replaced with two pot stills. Glenburgie is now producing malt whiskey from six pot stills primarily for Chivas blends. Whilst very little is released in official bottlings it is available from some independent bottlers including Gordon & MacPhail.


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