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Annie Ross
"Ms. Ross is a master class in how to sing jazz inside out, upside and down......Her sense of time and rhythm will fracture you...." ~ Rex Reed Annie Ross has been an abundant contributor to the art of jazz for over 50 years. Born in the UK, she has been a permanent resident of the USA for many years and a US citizen since 2001. The following are some highlights of what has been a long and illustrious career in jazz: Annie Ross is one of the pioneers of vocalese and the composer of "Twisted", one of the most well known examples of that art, as well as "Farmers Market", quot;Jackie" and many others. A founding member of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, considered the greatest jazz vocal ensemble of all time, her influence is present in all subsequent practitioners of vocalese. "Twisted" has been recorded by a host of vocalists, including some not normally associated with jazz, including Joni Mitchell and Bette Midler. Annie Ross toured in the 50's with the extraordinary Lionel Hampton band that included Art Farmer, Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, and Quincy Jones. Ms. Ross has recorded with James Moody, Kenny Clarke, Milt Jackson, Harry Sweets Edison, the Count Basie band, Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Chet Baker and many more. In this variety of settings, she became known as a great jazz singer, masterful at ballads and up tempos, with the ability to swing hard, improvise and make every lyric meaningful and revealing. As a child, Annie Ross entered a talent show on the radio accompanied by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, which resulted an a six-month contract with MGM. She went to Hollywood at age eight where she appeared in "The Little Rascals" singing a jazz version of "Loch Lomond." At age eleven she appeared as Judy Garland's sister in "Presenting Lily Mars." At age 14 she composed the song "Let's Fly", which was subsequently recorded by Johnny Mercer and Jo Stafford. In Paris in the late 40's, she met up with musicians involved in modern jazz, including James Moody, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Billy Strayhorn, and displayed an unerring ear and savvy sense of harmony, which was much appreciated. At 19, she recorded "Le Vent Vert" with Moody. Back in the U.S. at age 21 she recorded for Savoy, along with Clarke, Milt Jackson and Percy Heath. She worked on 52nd St. with Max Roach, Tommy Potter and George Wallington and subbed for Billie Holiday at the Apollo Theater. The original recordings of "Twisted" and "Farmer's Market" were done in 1952 with Wallington on piano and Art Blakey on drums. Annie Ross has continued to bring the essence of jazz to a broad spectrum of listeners internationally, by touring, through her recordings, conducting workshops, writing, and appearances in film, television and radio. Currently, Annie Ross is living in New York and is still active as a jazz performer, having recently performed in New York, Scotland, and Spain as well as having recorded a new CD, Let Me Sing..
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What is a barrier?
A barrier is an obstacle, structure or fence that prevents movement or restricts access to a potentially dangerous or hazardous area. Barriers can be fixed or temporary dependent on the environment or application.
Why are they important?
Safety in the workplace is paramount and must be at the forefront of every employees mind. Ensuring the environment and the people in it are safe is the responsibility of everyone.
What does it do?
A barriers main function is to prevent accidents and safeguard people. They are also essential in the compliance of health and safety law, regulation and legislation.
Different types
There are many different types of barriers on the market to choose from. They can be categorised into two major types permanently fixed or temporary and easily moved. Whatever the need, a good safety barrier must be visible (often brightly coloured) and give clear instruction.
Temporary barriers include pedestrian barriers, retractable tape tensa barriers, and scissor barriers, plastic work gate barriers, post base, and chain barriers. Temporary barriers are often lightweight and easy to manoeuvre. Temporary barriers are ideal for sectioning off an area that is under maintenance or repair or for crowd control and queue management.
Fixed barriers include traffic barriers, crash and impact barriers, car park barriers and fences. The robust structures are anchored permanently to the concrete or floor with surface fixing bolts, through bolt anchors or chemical anchor bolts.
Barriers are used in a wide range of health, safety and security applications. They provide protection for people in the workplace and everyday life. Some of the most common uses are;
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1. Workshops
- what's on, what's not
- workshop board
- advertising for new workshop organisers
2. Community Action
- bag workshop
- action working group room!
3. Environment & Garden
- autumn planting/gardening
- the compost wins!
- battery disposal
- energy audit
- wiki/sustainability guide
- changing bulbs in the hall
- Bike library/loan/rentals
4. Projects
- Forest offers grants for new and exciting projects - isn't that great?
5. Misc.
- meeting time
1. Workshops
- What's on:
- drama: Tues. 9.30pm
music and words: 8pm Thursday
Sevillian dance 5-6.30pm [I missed the day -- can we find out??]
Spanish: starting again Fri. Sept. 21 at 5pm
Recycled Art: new - Sundays 1-6pm
Cloth bags: starting again Sat. Oct 6 at 2pm
- Not sure about Forest choir?
Action points:
- Danny & Anna to update workshop board
- Salma to make a poster advertising for new workshop organisers
- Jake to make a poster advertising our current workshops (Shannon will get the information to him) and Emilly, Will & Anna will help distribute it outside the Forest
2. Community
- bag workshop will return on Oct. 6th
Action: Shannon will make poster
- Action working group room: for workshops, community meetings, maybe with computers, maybe more. In discussions with Infoseed. Go to the bb and talk about it if you have ideas!
- Penicuik Woodlands: Frank says a housing development is happening and encroaching on the woods. There wouldpotentially be big community support for a tree sit. He says spread the word.
3. Enviro & Gardens
- Wiki/sustainability guide: We have a wiki up and running. It is on Swithun's server. He will post the details. (Action for the Swith!) Now we just need to make the content and maybe one day secure funding to do a big, proper print job of it? Get cracking.
- Battery bag: Swithun will get a new one. We take old batteries to Ikea where they apparently dispose of them properly.
- Autumn planting/gardening
- cuttings workshop - Vijay to talk/sort out with Daniel and Jake
plant identification walk - Vijay, Daniel and Jake to plan
guerilla gardening - contact Jake
Frank trying to regenerate things around Bilston - get in touch if interested
Gardening Day: Shannon will contact Blue and see if there's a day that's good for him (since he knows what's going on out there right now)
Next meeting: We will spend an hour in the garden before we chatter away
- Energy Audit: who will do it for free? Vijay says if we have an environmental policy (which we create after the energy audit is done), we could access green funding... Shannon to contact Carrie, via Bill (apparently she does this kind of thing for charities) Vijay is willing to write an environmental policy once the other stuff is done. Jake and Will will check with Changeworks to see if they have any leads on the audit
- Bike rentals: Graeme will start a thread on what we need to get the bike library up and running again! Jake will get stuff from the bike station - we are very excited!
5. Misc
- We will go back to the regular meeting time of 4pm next month. However, since we are the action group, we will do some action first. Next month: 4-5pm in the garden and then meeting from 5-6pm
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Review: Thursford Christmas Spectacular
PUBLISHED: 09:41 12 November 2012
© Archant Norfolk 2012
If I had to review the Thursford Christmas Spectacular in one word, I'd borrow the adjective from its title: this show is indisputably spectacular. Every single detail is covered: even the 1,500-seat auditorium is like fairyland with masses of twinkling lights.
Carousel horses hang from the ceiling next to gigantic baubles, cascading rainbow chandeliers and a real, 100-year-old merry-go-round.
Putting the "variety" in "variety show", this year's tour de force involves an ensemble of more than 120 performers and features an astonishing 80 pieces of music – there's snow, doves, monkeys stepping out of spaceships, balloons, a can-can fit for Moulin Rouge, Unchained Melody played on bagpipes, luminous drummers, juggling, comedy… it'd be easier to list the performance genres that aren't spanned at Thursford.
This year's show has cost more than £3 million to stage and it's easy to see why.
The stage is as long as a railway platform and the show played out on it races along like a high-speed locomotive – not a second of performance time is wasted, I can only imagine the blurred scenes of swift costume changes in the dressing rooms.
Throughout, Thursford stalwart Phil Kelsall is a star turn on a vintage Wurlitzer which, Vincent Price-style, rises and sinks into the floor – at one point, gigantic screens illustrate just how dexterous Mr Kelsall is as his hands and feet skitter across the instrument's keyboard and pedals.
Paul Adams is a warm, engaging and genuinely funny host, although there's no need to warm up the crowd for the acts that follow him – the atmosphere inside the theatre is incredible, like a crowd-sourced cure for the winter blues.
Picking out highlights in a fast-paced, jam-packed show such as this is difficult, but I'll try.
I loved the shrieking can-can dancers, the songs performed by the superb choir from within the audience, the ABBA Barbershop routine, the jazz band, the Golden Jubilee tribute ending with a red, white and blue-clad choir, the excerpts from Swan Lake, the carol medley and speeding through Christmas to a rendition of Auld Lang Syne in the finale.
Production values are West-End-Disneyland standard, costumes are superb, choreography is brilliant, performers are fantastic, lighting is spectacular – if I had one criticism it'd be directed towards myself for not having visited before.
Quite one of the most unique nights out I've ever had and the very best way to inject Christmas spirit into even the most reluctant Scrooge, I can't recommend the Thursford Christmas Spectacular highly enough. If you've not been, put it on your bucket list.
Better still, book tickets immediately.
t Thursford Christmas Spectacular, Thursford Collection, Thursford, near Fakenham, November 9-December 23, 2pm/7pm, £36-£29 (Sat/Sunday shows in December £2 extra per seat), 01328 878477, www.thursford.com
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Many women who plan homebirths feel the need to consider the question, "Do I need 'shadow care?'" What exactly is shadow care, and when might you need it, want it, or not?
I take shadow care to mean accepting obstetric oversight, planning to birth at home, but not telling the care provider about plans to birth at home. I distinguish this from concurrent care which means that both woman and care provider are engaged in an open, consensual, and honest relationship. For those of us who have planned homebirths while maintaining some sort of relationship to a medical care provider, the best situation is to have concurrent care. However, it would be naive of me to suggest that all women will be able to enjoy this relationship. Most OBs will not or cannot back up homebirth midwives. So I recommend entering into this 'care triangle' very carefully and cautiously.
Here are a list of situations that have prompted women to seek shadow care:
- Desire for medicinal-grade pharmaceutical therapies/treatments for things like low progesterone, insulin-resistance, blood pressure issues, etc.
- Desire for viability ultrasounds in the 1st trimester; desire for the 20 week ultrasound; desire for a biophysical profile late in pregnancy
- Desire to be treated like human beings when hospital transfer is necessary during or after birth
- Desire for continuous care if/when transfer from homebirth care to hospital (obstetric) care becomes necessary
- Desire for a 'contingency plan' for if/when labor presents unexpected variables
WHEN YOU MIGHT REJECT SHADOW CARE (or someone who suggests it for you)
- If your midwife suggests shadow care, you must must must get to the bottom of this request
- If you suspect that your midwife is 'using' your shadow care as her backup care – that's why midwives should carry insurance; if you can't get to the bottom of this issue, find a different provider
- If you are experiencing unwanted or unnecessary pressure from friends, family, other care providers that are unsubstantiated
WHEN YOU MIDWIFE or DOCTOR ABANDONS YOU
- It is unethical for a care provider to abandon you for any reason in your final month of pregnancy – speak up!
- Investigate your options as thoroughly as possible in the time you have remaining in your pregnancy
- Distance yourself from the care provider (and his/her network) for the duration of your pregnancy & post-partum period – don't invite them into that special time!
- Consider filing a complaint – to the hospital, to the local board of doctors, to the local board of midwives, whatever is most relevant
- Make sure other families in your sphere of influence know about your experience
I welcome your input on this post via comments. Please understand that I am not a medical doctor or someone who is in a position to offer medical advice. I'm offering advice as a mother who has had to deal the BS mentioned in this article or know other women who have been dealt with unethically as a 'patient.'


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Women who have migraines more likely to have non-dangerous brain lesions
The bad news? Women who have migraines are more likely to have small brain lesions. The good news? The tiny damaged areas do not seem to have any affect on a person's cognitive ability.
Researchers discovered that women who reported migraines showed a higher likelihood of having more bright spots, indicating a lesion, on their magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans compared to men and women with no history of the headaches.
"The fact that there is no evidence of cognitive loss among these women is good news," Linda Porter, pain health science policy adviser in the Office of the Director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), said in a press release. "We've known for a while that women with migraine tend to have these brain changes as seen on MRI. This nine-year study is the first of its kind to provide long-term follow-up looking for associated risk."
About 15 percent of the world's population suffers from migraines, according to the study authors.
The NINDS in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health funded the study, but the research was carried out with Dutch patients. In 2000, 295 men and women who had migraines and 140 age and sex-matched counterparts without migraines (the control group) were enrolled in the "Cerebral Abnormalities in Migraine, an Epidemiological Risk Analysis," or CAMERA-1 study. The study showed that people who had migraines were more likely to see more changes on their MRIs, which led researchers to believe that migraines over time could have a negative effect.
In the follow up study called CAMERA-2, the researchers caught up with 286 subjects from the first study nine years later to see how their migraines or lack thereof had affected their brains. They looked on the subjects' MRI scan for changes in the white matter (one of the substances of the central nervous system that makes up the brain), brain stem, and cerebellum that appeared on the scans as bright spots known as hyperintensities. They also asked about how often the subjects had migraines and other health issues that can have an impact on the brain, including high blood pressure, diabetes and smoking.
Overall, women with migraines were almost twice as likely to have changes in the volume of widespread white matter. Seventy seven percent of women with migraines had more lesions, compared to only 60 percent in the control group. The men showed no differences. Still, the increase was relatively small and "likely clinically insignificant."
There was also no correlation between the number of migraine attacks and new brain lesions. This means that migraines may not cause brain lesions but may be the result of a continuous action that occurs in people who have migraines in general.
Brain function tests revealed that there were no recognizable differences between the people who had migraines and those who didn't.
"An important message from the study is that there seems no need for more aggressive treatment or prevention of attacks," study author Dr.Mark C. Kruit, a neuroradiologist from Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands, said in a press release.
The researchers pointed out the the increase if lesions could also be in part due to aging, hypertension or diabetes. They said small blood vessel changes could be the culprit behind migraines. They also added that there may be longer-term effects, so they said changing other risk factors may be a smart move. Those risks include obesity, smoking, hypertension, high cholesterol, physical inactivity and avoiding high-dose combined oral contraceptives in women older than 35 years and in those with untreated or poorly-controlled vascular risk factors.
"I think it's good news," Dr. Deborah I. Friedman, a neurologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, told WebMD.
Friedman, who wrote an accompanying editorial, added that she didn't think the brain lesions were cause for concern.
"Yes, there was progression of the lesions. On the other hand, the overall burden of the lesions is really small. It doesn't even come close to what we get concerned about with dementia and stroke risk," Friedman said.
The study was published in JAMA on Nov. 14.


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PLEASE NOTE : out SW is tested on REGULAR DEVICES only, we do not guarantee it could work or work differently on Jailbroken devices or such, despite the SW is "plain and simple" done with as much respect as possible of iOS we don't know what could happen "if you mess with your iOS" we really can't test those situations.
Despite I can understand some people can have some reasons for not updating the iOS or use a Jailbroken device we can't really guarantee that anything is going to work if you happen to be in one of those situations.
NOTE ABOUT "why only 3rd gen devices" : the reason is very simple, our "framework" is based on the Neon engine, actually it IS the Neon engine ( plus other things ) for this reason there is use of shaders and other stuff not really present in older HW or older OpenGL versions. As all Llamasoft ( new gen ) games are based on the Neon engine this is our "minimal HW supported". In short, if it does not support OpenGLES 2.0 it won't work.
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At the 21 mile (34 km) mark, things start to get a bit dicey for high-altitude balloons. The atmospheric air pressure is so low that the gas within the balloon expands. Causing this to happen.
Images: Kostas Tamateas via Kosmas's Facebook Page.
The image was taken as part of the SlaRos project, Greece's first suborbital photography mission.
The balloon burst above the Thessalian Plain of northern Greece. Mount Olympus can be seen beneath the clouds at the top left. And to the immediate left of the balloon, or what's left of it anyway, is the Aegean Sea.
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After blowing up at an altitude of 111,296 feet, the capsule fell to the Earth. It was retrieved intact and will be re-used for a future launch.
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This column shows link as provided by the "Information URL" when editing the node/domains. Set this by going to Configure -> Edit Node/Domain
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This Domain represent a remote LAN. A SysOrb satellite has been installed behind the firewall in the LAN. The SysOrb Satellite is basically a reduced-featured SysOrb Server and is used to monitor remote LAN's and is especially usefull if you want to do IP polling and SNMP monitoring in a remote LAN. So SysOrb can perform Netchecks(e.g ping,Http) behind the firewall and still all configuration and setup is done from the Master SysOrb server.
The satellite can also be used for creating multiple netchecks checks (from varous locations). Notice that we perform a http check on www.evalesco.com from the BusinessHouse location but we also do the same check in the domain "Example WWW check" which comes from the master server which is not located in BusinessHouse.
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Klondike's calebratory edition of this blues master's retrospective live work serves to amaze and educate as Bloomfield had done with his seminal 1975 solo album If You Love These Blues, Play'em As You Please.
For fluency and versatility, look no further as the blessing of B.B. King, Otis Spann and Muddy Waters ultimately confirms.
The legendary concert held at New York's Bottom Line on March 31st,1974, broadcast on WNYU-FM, conveys the majesty of Bloomfield's phenomenal ability whilst also paying homage to friends Al Kooper, Roger Troy, John Hammond, George Raines and Barry Goldberg.
Disc 1
1. Band Introduction
2. Don't You Lie To Me
3. Linda Lou
4. Sweet Little Angel
5. Unchain My Heart
6. Inside Information
7. Tryin' To Find The Door
8. Glamour Girl
Disc 2
1. Heartbreak
2. Imagination
3. Let Them Talk
4. Trouble Ahead Of Me
5. If I Get Started All Over Again


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They were dressed in their best, little girls in spotless white ruffled pinafores and boys in freshly pressed dress shirts buttoned to the collar. It was September 1, 2004, the start of school, a cause for celebration throughout Russia.
When the first shots were fired, 11-year-old Zarina Albegava mistook them for fireworks. She is 21 now, but still has trouble talking about what happened next.
"I don't want to remember," she says.
Albegava, her sister Zalina, nine, and around 1,200 others were taken hostage during a back to school celebration in Beslan, in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. Two days later around 330 of them were dead, more than half of them children. Zalina was one of the dead.
It was the worst terrorist attack Russia had ever seen, a gruesome footnote to the two wars that Chechnya fought for independence in the 1990s. Even after Russia finally subjugated the Muslim republic in 2000 and installed a loyal warlord to control it, the conflict continued in the form of an Islamist insurgency whose fighters have staged suicide bombings as far afield as Moscow for years. Beslan is considered one of the conflict's greatest travesties against the innocent. But a decade later the world has moved on. Residents of this little North Caucasus town have not, partly because important questions remain unanswered: How many terrorists escaped? What caused the explosion that lead to the storming of the school?
It was this sense of loss and longing for answers that attracted documentary photographer Diana Markosian to Beslan. Of Armenian heritage, Markosian, who is 25, often confronts the lingering effects of loss in her work, especially childhood losses. Markosian lost her own father and country, in a way, at seven when her mother moved her and her brother from Russia to Santa Barbara, and their father remained in Moscow. They never talked about her father after that and it was 15 years before she saw him again. When a Beslan survivor told her about the split of his life into "before" and "after" she understood.
"When I was separated from my dad, that's exactly what happened, I had this experience of being torn apart from the life I had always known," she tells TIME.
Having spent her early childhood in Armenia and Russia, Markosian also understood the significance of September 1. She still has the yellow and green Bambi backpack her father gave her for her first day of second grade. She hadn't seen him in weeks, but he was there for the first day of school, holding hands with her mother and brother as they all walked to school.
As a young journalist in Moscow, Markosian passed through Beslan regularly en route to Chechnya. Sometimes she stopped at the school. It served as a monument to the siege, a battle-scarred structure filled with uncapped water bottles the children probably needed desperately during captivity. The hostages were corralled in an airless gym booby-trapped with explosives. For most, there was no water or food after the first day. On the second day the Chechen-speaking captors demanded Russia begin to remove its troops from Chechnya. On the third day there was an explosion and Russian forces stormed the building. In the ensuing firefight only one of 30 or so terrorists was captured alive, later sentenced to life imprisonment.
The shadow of Beslan followed Markosian until she decided to revisit the tragedy through her work. She arrived, she says, looking for the remains, "the direct aftermath of the event."
She found children's drawings.
They showed her what she couldn't capture in photos, drawings of their dead fathers. The men were the first to be killed. Around 20 were shot execution style in a room where Russian literature was once taught. The corpses of fathers who had come to celebrate their children's first day of school were thrown out the window and left to rot in the sun.
"I wanted this body of work to be collaboration," says Markosian. "This is their story, their experience, and I wanted them to take part in it."
Markosian had been resisting the constraints of traditional photojournalism, the distance between subject and photographer. The brutal, simple pictures made by the children in the tragedy's aftermath combined with her own images allowed her to bridge the gap. Images of barely clothed men, women and children holding bottled water remain as unchanged as the rooms they inhabit in Markosian's photographs, rooms decorated with bullet holes and peeling paint. On a picture of a sixth grade class she has the survivors write messages to their deceased classmates.
The children, now young adults, journeyed with her back to the school, sometimes for the first time since the tragedy. In silence, with their eyes shut, they remembered. Then they shared those memories with Markosian: the window through which their mother was shot, the spot next to them where their sister died, the classroom where they studied.
Markosian captures the survivors' visual discomfort at being trapped in a place they have never been able to escape through portraits taken in the school. Other shots show the artifacts the dead left behind, a new shoe, a bloodied undershirt, a child's untouched bedroom. For Beslan time has not provided resolution.
"The idea that time heals does not hold true for these families," says Markosian. "Time heals? No, it doesn't."
Diana Markosian is a photographer based in Chechnya. Her previous photo essay, also published on TIME LightBox, Inventing My Father will be exhibited at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland in January 2015. See more of her work on her website.
Katya Cengel is a freelance writer. Follow her on Twitter @kcengel.


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* Qtel to own more than 90 pct of Wataniya after tender-source
* KIA tenders entire 23.5 pct stake -source * Qtel had bid $2.2 bln for remaining 47.5 pct stake * Announcement of tender details expected Sunday By Dinesh Nair and Matt Smith
DUBAI, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Qatar Telecom (Qtel) isset to control more than 90 percent of Kuwait's Wataniya
after the Gulf state's sovereign wealth fund tenderedits entire stake in the unit, two sources familiar with thesituation said on Saturday.
Qtel, which operates in 16 countries across the Middle East,Africa and Asia, offered $2.2 billion in August for the 47.5percent of Wataniya it does not already own.
The tender offer expired on October 4.
Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), one of the world'slargest sovereign wealth funds with about $300 billion inassets, is currently the second biggest shareholder in Wataniya,with a stake of 23.5 percent.
"The KIA has decided to tender its full stake. Qtel will ownmore than 90 percent of Wataniya after the offer and the shareswill continue to be listed on the Kuwait bourse," a source said,speaking on condition of anonymity as the matter is not public.
KIA and Qtel were not immediately available for commentoutside business hours on Saturday.
A statement to the Kuwait bourse was expected on Sundaygiving details on the percentage of shares tendered, the firstsource said.
Qtel bought its controlling Wataniya stake in 2007 but isseeking full control to capitalise on the telco's weak shareprice and attractive growth prospects in emerging markets suchas Algeria and Tunisia.
KIA also holds 23.5 percent stakes in Kuwait's largesttelecoms operator Zain and unlisted Viva.
In 2010, when United Arab Emirates telecom company Etisalat
bid around $12 billion to take control of Zain, thefund was not willing to sell its holding, a banking source toldReuters in August. Etisalat eventually pulled its bid.
"KIA is a financial investor before anything else. It lookedat the merits of the offer based on price and decided to take acall which it thought appropriate," the first source said.
"That does not mean they are a seller for their other telcostakes. Everything comes with a price and sophisticatedinvestors know that well."
A Wataniya deal would complete a busy few months for Qtel,which completed a $1.9 billion rights issue in May and agreed inJune to double its stake in Iraq's No. 2 telecoms operator,Asiacell, to 60 percent for $1.47 billion.
The settlement for the tender is expected to be completed bythe end of October, the source said.
(Additional reporting by Sylvia Westall in Kuwait; Editing byCatherine Evans)
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All eyes will be on Strikers' Boyce during crucial BBL match
ADELAIDE Strikers leg spinner Cameron Boyce has a golden opportunity to further impress the Australian selectors in a crucial BBL clash against the Scorchers at Adelaide Oval tonight.
The Queenslander picked up 3-17 against the Hurricanes last Saturday night, including the prized wickets of Ricky Ponting, Tim Paine and Travis Birt.
Australia's selectors are keeping an eye on the 23-year-old Bulls player as they consider taking a third spinner on the coming tour of India.
Despite Pakistani Saeed Ajmal being unavailable, Adelaide will go into the match, where the winner will earn a home semi-final, with four spinners in its 13-man squad.
As well as Boyce, coach Darren Berry has named skipper Johan Botha, returning Test spinner Nathan Lyon and veteran Brad Young.
The Strikers could lose to Perth and still finish fourth provided the Brisbane Heat beats Hobart on Saturday.
Berry said despite opener Phil Hughes being away with the Australian one-day squad, the last-start win over the Hurricanes had given the players a healthy dose of confidence.
"We're coming off a great win and it was a clinical performance from the group, so we take a lot of confidence into Thursday night," Berry said.
"Polly (Hughes) is obviously a loss, but we have always known he had national duties to return to."
The Strikers have brought youngster Travis Head into the squad to replace injured batsman James Smith.
Key Perth batsman Shaun Marsh, the third-leading run scorer in the Big Bash with 249, said he was fully recovered from a minor hamstring strain he suffered last month.
He did cop a nasty blow to his thumb last week against the Hurricanes, but said he would play through the pain tonight.


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Model Miranda Kerr and her Actor husband Orlando Bloom were seen taking a stroll around New York City with their son Flynn, 2, yesterday (July 4). On Flynn, Miranda recently told Entertainment Tonight that Flynn is already singing the entire alphabet and counting to 15' Miranda also added that she will expand her family 'Someday, [but] not right now'.
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The Kardashian/Jenner Family Celebrate the Fourth of July
Reality Television Star Kris Jenner was seen playing with grandson Mason ,3, in Malibu, CA yesterday (July 4). Mason's mother and father, Kourtney and Scott, were also seen with the sweet duo. Kourtney was carrying 11-month old daughter Penelope. Kris's other daughters, Kendall, 17, and Kiley, 15, were seen frolicking on the beach while Kiley's boyfriend Jayden Smith, nearly 15, waited on the balcony.
After the day's festivities, Kylie tweeted "Couldn't be more thankful for the people around me x."
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Legally Blonde Actress Reese Witherspoon was seen with her husband Jim Toth and their adorable 9-moth old son Tennessee in Malibu, CA yesterday (July 4). Reese is also mom to Ava, 13, and Deacon, 9, with ex-husband Actor Ryan Phillippe.


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These were actually recipes that I had clipped to my refrigerator door, it is pretty normal for me to scribble ingredients on one side of a note card and instructions and notes on the back things like "rise, punch, rise" or "add veg" come up often, they make sense at the time. I know that my notes are peculiar, not only do I look at them a few weeks later and have no idea what I was saying I can't always read my own writing. A few days ago I was looking for my bbq sauce recipe and started poking around my blog to find it when my adult attention deficit disorder started acting up and I started reading my favorite entries and realized a couple of things1. I am kind of a dork
2. I like my blog
So I am going to catch you all up a little...
I lost a library book (I know bad) the worst part the cost of this particular book $120.00! I BEGGED for some dispensation but no luck there.
I finally got around to getting the cat (the one that hates me) fixed... this is what Miss Lu's room looked like once I finally got her into the carrier
I had two interim GMs at work each of them a little... Maybe it is best that I don't finish that thought.
I have still been playing in the kitchen and taking pictures so I have some stuff ready to go. I have just been... well spent. Some days I can't even bring myself to hit the "like" button on facebook let alone write an entire post on my blog.


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BEIJING, July 26 (Reuters) - The World Bank on Tuesday urged China to step up efforts to fight chronic diseases, the main cause of death in the country, warning of rising health expenditure and an economic slowdown if rapid action is not taken.
Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) -- such as lung cancer, stroke, heart disease and diabetes -- account for over 80 percent of all deaths in the world's most populous nation, the World Bank said in a report on non-communicable diseases in China.
The report warned that "a reduced ratio of healthy workers to sicker, older dependents will certainly increase the odds of a future economic slowdown and pose a significant social challenge" in the world's second-largest economy.
"The issue that should concern all of us is with the growing epidemic of non-communicable diseases, that will imply more people using expensive and costly hospital care for long periods of time," said Patricio Marquez, a World Bank lead health specialist and co-author of the report at a news conference in Beijing.
"The key issue facing society as a whole is how to control the escalation of healthcare costs," he said. "One could say that if unchecked, this would make the current reforms unsustainable."
China launched a $125 billion healthcare reform plan in 2009 to try and extend health insurance and basic health care to all of its people.
Out-of-pocket payments, which represent 37 percent of total health expenditure, will continue to rise, said Shiyong Wang, a World Bank senior health specialist and co-author of the report.
Richard Yeh, a healthcare analyst with Citigroup in Hong Kong, said the rising healthcare costs will have broader implications for the Chinese government, which is aiming to reduce the economy's dependence on export earnings.
"Part of the reason that people don't want to spend is because the healthcare system is not taking care of the entire healthcare bill for the people," he said.
"If there's no strong national healthcare supporting system, people will continue to have a high savings rate. That will definitely ... hold up national consumption."
The World Bank report said China's "healthcare system is not responding effectively" to tackle non-communicable diseases, which is why the country's deaths from those diseases are higher than other leading G20 countries.
For example, China's mortality rate for strokes is four to six times higher than that in Japan and the United States.
A rapidly ageing population and more sedentary lifestyles, with bad diets and lack of exercise, were also factors contributing to the increasing rates of the diseases, the report said.
The World Bank report said that the economic benefit of reducing cardiovascular diseases by one percent per year from 2010-2040 could generate more than $10.7 trillion, equivalent to 68 percent of China's real GDP in 2010.
The World Bank estimates that without action, China will lose $550 billion in national income between 2005 and 2015 due to heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
Fifty percent of the risk factors of non-communicable diseases can be prevented by the adoption of certain measures, which would cost the Chinese government $220 per capita per year, Marquez said.
One way was to increase taxes on tobacco to create "an economic disincentive for people to smoke", he said.
Excise taxes on cigarettes in China are less than 30 percent, far lower than Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, where they hover around 65-80 percent, he said.
China has the world's largest number of smokers, with more than 300 million smokers. It is also the world's largest cigarette producer and has embarked on years of half-hearted campaigns to stub out the habit in some cities.
China's health ministry said it will ban smoking at all indoor public venues from May. .
Restricting access to alcohol, introducing taxes on unhealthy food and cutting salt in food would also prevent non-communicable diseases, the report said. (Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee; Editing by Sugita Katyal)


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OIC. Well, then, wouldn't he be in first grade, not kindergarten? Just wondering.
He was a "young" 5 when school started. His birthday is in May. School started in August. We had just completed a 1500 mile move where his life was turned completely upside down. He didn't know his address or his phone number. He was still confused about what state he lived in due to the move. Daddy was also spending less time at home (he used to work from home) and this had a BIG impact on the children.
After consulting the Public School and a teacher there, she said that he didn't sound ready for Kindergarten nor was he obligated to start yet.
So he's had a late start on "officially" schooling, but really we started working with the kids at age 3. He's ahead in some areas and a bit behind in others. I am confident it will all work out in time.
Huh. I would never have described a child with a May birthday as being "young." I say this as someone with two children born in May
Yes, it will all work out eventually.
I don't see a need to keep a portfolio for a kindergarten aged child. I might keep a few samples of things for posterity, but nothing so official as a portfolio.


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Why We Use Honing
A gear manufacturer describes the advantages it realizes by sizing and finishing bores through automated honing.
At our company, we use honing as an alternative to other hole machining processes for a variety of practical reasons, but also for one important philosophical reason. Forest City Gear has a philosophy for acquiring and retaining business called "Excellence without Exception." It boils down to always giving the customer a higher level of quality than what the print or the customer's instructions specify. Obviously, we want to do this without adding much cost or time to the job, and on bore-type gears, we have found automated honing to be a good, economical way to give the customer tighter control of bore size, roundness, straightness and finish. The customer notices the difference in a smoother, quieter, more efficient drive. Unless we stumble in some other aspect of the job, we will have a repeat customer. Other processes might deliver these same advantages, but the trick is to add this value without adding cost for the end user.
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Gear TypesForest City Gear's principle products are fine- and medium- pitch custom gears such as internal, spline, sprocket, helical, spur and worm gears. Part runs range from one to several hundred thousand. Maximum OD is 20 inches on most parts, except for worms (5 inches) and worm gears (16 inches). Typical materials include 12L14, 1215, 4140, 8620, 9310 and various stainless grades as well as aluminum, bronze, brass, Inconel, Hastelloy, titanium, plastics, wood fiber and powder metal.
About 30 percent of our work is aerospace-related, 5 to 10 percent is medical, 5 percent is military, and the remainder is industrial or instrument work. We have made parts for Boeing, Airbus, Cessna and Beechcraft as well as the space shuttle, the space station, Martian rover vehicles and the Abrams tank. We produce gears for several motorcycles and race cars, as well as one of the few bait-casting reels made in the U.S. Many of these applications demand high process capability where honing gives us critical advantages in control and consistency. In addition, we invest aggressively in training and the latest technologies to make our shop one of the most modern in the world.
Why Honing?We have used honing since the inception of our business. We have tried hard turning, but we had difficulty controlling quality, especially for microfinishes. Another process, ID grinding, is good for gears with larger bores (greater than 0.75 inch) and low L:D ratios (0.5:1), but our range of work includes smaller diameters and relatively deep bores. In addition, ID grinding at L:D of 5:1 or more can cause deflection in the spindle, exacerbating taper issues. Honing, on the other hand, removes material faster than grinding as soon as you reach an L:D of 2:1. We still outsource parts for ID grinding, such as those with blind holes where counterbores leave no relief for honing tools.
For our own shop, however, we found that precision ID grinding machines are more expensive than an equally capable hone. The crucial point is that accuracy for the grinder is dependent on the machine's positioning capability while accuracy is mostly tooling-dependent with a hone. Periodic checks, calibration and refurbishing are needed to ensure positioning tolerances stay tight on a grinder. By contrast, honing tools are simple and rigid. When they wear, you replace them. And unlike a grinding wheel on the end of an arbor, the honing tool isn't subject to bending forces. The tradeoff is that any given honing tool is suitable for only a very limited range of diameters, so you need to have more tools in stock than you would grinding wheels.
Two other points are worth noting about ID grinding and hard turning. If a part comes off a hone just a little too small, you can re-run it. This is more difficult with ID grinding. Also, neither process can produce honing's characteristic crosshatch pattern on the bore surface. This is a desirable feature for maintaining an oil film for rotating gears.
The Impact Of Process ControlWhen working to high Cpk requirements, the high resolution of the tool feed system and consistent nature of the process give honing a real advantage in targeting and holding a dimensional sweet spot. This is critical because higher Cpk means the band of variability around your target values has to be reduced. For rule-of-thumb purposes, when the target is 1.33 Cpk, we shoot for about 60 percent of the print tolerance. At 1.67 Cpk, the target is 40 percent of tolerance. Thus a tolerance of 0.0005 on bore size shrinks to 0.0003 or less when Six Sigma quality requirements are imposed. Holemaking processes such as boring, drilling and reaming are capable of holding good tolerances, but when a high Cpk requirement is imposed, honing has the advantage in control and consistency. With automated honing, we can easily control tolerances to 50 millionths of an inch. In fact, we have run capability studies in which we've hit double-digit Cpk levels when honing for bore size.
Producing A Bore-Type GearOne of our core products, pump gears, start as flat, washer-type blanks made on a screw machine. These gears operate in a small precision housing, so any perpendicularity error in a shaft-mounted gear causes wobble, loss of efficiency, noise, increased friction and possible leakage. An adage of gear making is that a gear can be no more accurate than the blank from which you start. On a bore-type gear, this means starting with parallel faces and a perpendicular, round bore that has parallel walls and no taper or belling. Our minimum standard is 0.0005 inch for parallelism and perpendicularity, and we work to tighter tolerances as gear quality dictates.
The pump gear blanks are double-disc ground for face parallelism and width. Then they are rebored on an automated lathe to requalify the perpendicularity. We intentionally leave some stock in the bore because we control final ID size and finish on a hone.
Pump gear blanks are usually stack-hobbed, grouped on an arbor in quantities based on the diameter of the bore and the face width of the part. Lack of good parallelism and perpendicularity can introduce lead error when cutting the gear, or force a reduction in the number of blanks on the arbor, eroding production efficiency.
Pump gears often have a standard keyway or a blind-hole keyway that must align with a tooth. When we cut that keyway, it throws up a tiny burr, and honing for final size allows us to clean up that burr, too. This is where honing really shines—it allows us to control final size down to a few microns. This kind of control is a real advantage when working to high Cpk requirements.
When To HoneDepending on the requirements for specific gears, we hone gear bores at various points in the manufacturing process with three different systems from honing equipment supplier Sunnen. Parts are typically honed after hobbing, but blanks for extremely tight-tolerance gears might be honed both before and after hobbing. Fixturing on the hones allows some degree of control and correction of perpendicularity, should we need that. If parts are heat treated, they are honed afterward to correct for the slight shrinkage in bore size. And if there is a plating operation, removing a little plating from the bore with a hone is easier than masking the part for plating.
We use CBN and aluminum oxide honing tools on these machines in several different configurations, depending on whether the bore is blind, keyed, etc. We get a tool life of about 250,000 parts, depending on the material, while typically removing 0.0020 to 0.0030 inch of stock at cycle times of 15 seconds. The hones can achieve a 16 microinch or better finish. Our newest system is a fully automated Sunnen SV-1005 vertical machine with a rotary table and automated part handling. Using Sunnen's "Krossgrinding" tools, this machine can control hole size to accuracies of 0.25 micron with minimal variability. The machine can even make corrections that are not intuitive for an operator. Control features such as "correct for bore shape" allow the operator to select a "problem" bore image—"barrel" or "taper," for example—and the machine will automatically correct the part.
No matter what the part print specifies, all
customers want quieter drives, smoother operation, greater efficiency
and longer life. We strive to give customers a product that is
noticeably better than one they would get from a competitor working to
the same spec. Honing is one way we add this value without adding
significant cost.
Excellence Without Exception
This is the term we use to describe our formula for giving customers good experiences in every interaction with Forest City Gear. Here are a few key ways we implement that formula:
Invest in new equipment. We say we have the most modern gear making shop in the world, and we invest heavily to support that claim. We want to have the very latest technology so we can do things our competitors cannot. New equipment is arguably more productive and helps reduce lead times and costs. It is often more accurate, too. We invest 25 to 40 percent of our gross sales annually in new equipment, depending on our yearly performance, and we remain profitable. Aggressive technology investments also enable us to expand our range and give us unique capabilities, making us a preferred vendor in some niche markets.
Study other shops. We visit gear shops around the world and always bring back at least one good idea for implementation. I have been to shops in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Taiwan, New Zealand, China and Japan, to name a few. Most shop owners are proud to show you their operations. Our door is always open to competitors. We have actively courted U.S. gear makers to visit our shop and view our P&L statement, customer list and operations. We have had almost no takers, which is worrisome for our industry.
Train. We budget $100,000 to $200,000 per year for training a staff of 42, and this amount is spread across all employees. About 50 percent of our staff has completed AGMA basic courses, and our goal is to have everyone AGMA-certified. We want all our employees to understand our products and technology and be able to communicate intelligently with customers, even if just taking a phone message. We are very active in AGMA—our general manager once served as co-chairman of the education council.
Improve. "Continuous improvement" is as old as man. It is the thread that binds all the components of "Excellence without Exception." It takes more than good price, quality and delivery to distinguish a manufacturer these days. We achieved AS-9100 certification about two years ago. Our quality rep is past chairman of the AGMA Statistical Council and a member of the Small Business and Educational Council. Lean manufacturing is our next goal. Though scrap in our shop is miniscule, we still see potential for cost savings and leadtime reductions.
About the author: Fred Young is president of Forest City Gear in Roscoe, Illinois.


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Published on Monday, December 12, 2011 by CEPR Blog
Not long after I first came to Washington 20 years ago I was at a conference dealing with Social Security privatization. One of the panelists used a number for the administrative costs of private accounts that was far lower than the numbers I had seen in the literature. After the panel, I asked one of the other panelists about her best estimate of the administrative costs of private accounts. She said that this depended on whether I was interested in advocacy or policy.
I was somewhat taken aback by her response, but after a moment I told her that I was interested in accuracy. I have always felt that this is the best approach to policy questions.
Accuracy has not featured prominently in Washington budget debates in recent decades. There is an enormous amount of misunderstanding about the deficit, much of it deliberately promoted by politicians. We hear endless tales of out-of-control government spending and chronic deficits. This is nonsense as the data clearly show, but unfortunately both parties have an interest in promoting the deceptions.
There is a chart that I routinely use in presentations on the economy. It shows that the deficit was relatively small compared to GDP in the years prior to the economic collapse in 2008. The deficit in 2007 was just 1.2 percent of GDP, a level that we can sustain precisely forever. With deficits of this size, the ratio of debt to GDP is not rising, which means that there is no issue of debt sustainability.
However that changes beginning in 2008 as shown clearly in the chart. The deficit jumps to 3.2 percent of GDP in fiscal of 2008 and then soars to 10.0 percent of GDP in fiscal 2009. The Republicans have used these numbers to blame the deficits on President Obama. However this ignores the inconvenient fact that the jump in the deficit preceded his taking office. (Remember these are fiscal years that begin on October 1 of the prior year. That means fiscal 2009 was almost one-third over the day that President Obama entered the White House.)
While President Obama's stimulus did increase the deficit by about 2 percentage points of GDP from its baseline level (while also creating around 2-3 million jobs) the main cause for the jump in the deficit was the economic downturn that followed from the collapse of the housing bubble. It was not wild spending that gave us big deficits the last three years; it was the economic wreckage that followed from the collapse of the housing bubble.
When the economy tanked, it sent tax collections plummeting. Similarly, the government began to pay out more money for unemployment benefits, food stamps and other transfer payments that automatically rise when the economy goes into a recession and people lose their jobs. In addition, the Obama administration also had its stimulus package to try to counteract the downturn, which increased the deficit by roughly 2 percent of GDP in both 2009 and 2010. These are the reasons that deficits always swell during a downturn, but the jump was especially large in the last few years because this downturn has been so much worse than past recessions.
It is easy to show that the story of deficits driven by out of control spending has no basis in reality, but it is also possible to show that Democrats' preferred tale of the deficit is also at odds with reality. Many Democrats and their allies are fond of charts like the one below showing actual and projected deficits from 2009 to 2019, and attributing the deficits to various causes.
There are several aspects to this chart that are worth noting. First, starting the chart in 2009 can lead audiences to believe that large deficits had been an ongoing problem, rather than something that began with the recession. Second, the chart shows the deficit in nominal dollars rather than as shares of GDP. This is deceptive since GDP is projected to be nearly 60 percent higher at the end of the period in 2019 than it was in 2009. This means that measured as a share of GDP, the $1.2 trillion projected deficit shown for 2019 is only a bit more than half as large as the $1.4 trillion deficit that the country saw in 2009.
The deficit projected for 2019 is a bit more than 5.0 percent of GDP. That is a level that cannot be sustained indefinitely, but it is quite different from the deficits hovering near 10 percent of GDP that we have seen in the last three years.
The tale from this chart is that the Bush administration's tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the real culprits in the deficit story. While there are plenty of grounds for criticizing tax cuts that favored the wealthy and wars that we did need not to fight, the reality is that we would not be facing large deficits had it not been for the economic downturn caused by the collapse of the housing bubble. It is arguable that the deficits in the Bush years were larger than would have been desired (certainly the money could have been better directed), but the outsized deficits are directly attributable to the downturn. Furthermore, had it not been for the downturn, even if all the Bush tax cuts were left in place throughout the decade, the debt to GDP ratio would have increased only modestly over the decade.
In short, the real story of the deficit is the story of the economy, which is the problem of letting a housing bubble grow unchecked. The housing bubble was largely kept out of policy debates prior to the downturn, with the then-modest deficits getting far more attention in the media.
Remarkably, even after the collapse of the housing bubble has both wrecked the economy and led to large deficits, there is still little interest in the media in the underlying imbalances that led to the bubble. At the top of this list would be the over-valued dollar that led to large trade deficits. These trade deficits created a gap in demand that was filled by the stock bubble in the 90s and the housing bubble in the last decade.
But that discussion makes both the Clinton administration Democrats and the Bush administration Republicans look bad. As a result, we tend to get a lot more advocacy than accuracy in our policy debates about federal deficits and debt.
Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer and the more recently published Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of The Bubble Economy. He also has a blog, "Beat the Press," where he discusses the media's coverage of economic issues.


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Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. "The King", as he is nicknamed, is most well known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races (ten of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone. (A 1972 rule change eliminated races under 250 miles (400 km) in length, reducing the schedule to 30 races.) Petty is widely considered one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time and is one of the most respected figures in motorsports as a whole. He also collected a record number of poles (127) and over 700 top-ten finishes in his 1,185 starts, including 513 consecutive starts from 1971–1989.
Petty is a second generation driver. His father, Lee Petty, won the first Daytona 500 in 1959 and was also a 3 time NASCAR champion. Richard's son, Kyle Petty, is also a well-known NASCAR driver. Richard's grandson, Adam Petty, was killed in an accident at New Hampshire International Speedway on May 12, 2000, five weeks after the death of Lee. Meanwhile, Adam's brother Austin works on day-to-day operations of the Victory Junction Gang Camp, a Hole in the Wall Gang camp established by the Pettys after Adam's death. Petty married his wife Lynda in 1958 and they have four children – Kyle Petty, Sharon Petty Farlow, Lisa Petty Luck and Rebecca Petty Moffit – and 12 grandchildren. The family still resides in Petty's home town of Level Cross, North Carolina and operates Richard Petty Motorsports. The Richard Petty Museum is in nearby Randleman, North Carolina. Since January 7, 2008, Petty Enterprises has been the newest resident of Race City, U.S.A., moving their race team into the vacated Yates Racing 115,000-square-foot (10,700 m2) facility in Mooresville, N.C. Throughout Petty's career, but especially during his prime, Petty was known to stand for hours – backed against a fence, signing autographs to everyone who asked.
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Review: 7 Improvements for Web Designers
Adobe just released the Adobe Photoshop CS6, and I must to say, it feels like I'm in web designer's heaven. They have done serious improvements that will just blow your mind. Here we'll focus on the great stuff for web designers, ranking the top 7 improvements (including a lot of features) that will just make your life easier.
After so many years, I agree with Jesus Diaz when he says that "For the first time in many years, this one is a must-have update", not only because of the cool features, but also because now it's focused in the really important stuff, the things that helps you to get the job done, improved the tools that you use most and that's pretty much what matters in the end.
The great thing here is not the features update. I mean, we love new features, but the key point is how those updates affects our workflow. And boy, Adobe has made things much easier for us this time, making Photoshop an even better tool to get things done faster and faster.
Let's take a look at it.
#1 – Performance – Thanks to new Photoshop CS6 graphics engine
This is the very first thing you'll notice when you first open and use Photoshop CS6. I don't have a really powerful computer (Intel i3, win7), but it's kind of frustrating when I have to wait a few seconds just to create a new file. Now it's just there, when the canvas show up, just hit CTRL + N. Though there are a few beta problems (like things not loading), it's way better than CS5 in here.
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With the new graphics engine, Mercury, everything you do will be really, really, really faster. I just can't describe how amazing it is to hit "liquify" and the whole document is just there, waiting for the craziest things you want to do in real time.
Filters, zooming, cropping, brushes, save for web… Everything is surprisingly faster, no "pixilation" or "rendering", just hit and it's there.
Long story short: You'll save a lot of time and headache because you just don't need to wait to see things working.
#2 – Web Design features for image editing – Better tools, new features
When I was a Fireworks-guy, around 5-7 years ago I used to say that Photoshop wouldn't be good for Web Design since it was too focused in photo editing. Just like that, I didn't trust in an editor that works with millimeters instead of pixels.
Of course it was long before Photoshop CS6. Now it has so many cool features that you can use for websites and web design-related photos that it's just impossible to say a word against it.
Now you can rotate stuff while cropping, and it has a lot of other guides to help you, like golden spiral (which I just loved). Ok, it all was there before, but the crazy thing is that now the "selector" stands centered while the whole to-be-cropped image moves in the background. It just feels much better this way!
Blur gallery – Including Tilt Shift & Bokeh
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Many developers like to use fancy effects for featured images and post images. Actions help a lot on this, but you just can't beat a built-in filter.
Now, with Photoshop CS6, if you like Tilt Shift, Bokeh and a few other effects you can use them with one click. And again you'll be amazed how real-time this thing is.
RAW Import
A lot has been said about this one. RAW formats store pretty much anything about your images and with this improvement Photoshop CS6 can deal a lot better with them, including easy brightness / contrast corrections, color corrections, selective colors, complete curves control and much more.
Image correction tools
Pretty much anything you find under Image > Adjustments has gone better. Curves, Levels, Shadows / Highlights, Brightness / Contrast. So again with one click you get a much better result and corrections.
#3 – Shortcuts – Photoshop CS6 has much better visual feedback
Everything you do now you have much better visual feedback.
If you move a layer you have a box telling you how much pixels you moved. If you want to change the size of an element, you'll see the new dimensions while you drag it. Feel like rotating? Ok, you'll get how much degrees you changed from the original point as you move your pointer.
It looks like those "title" attributes for HTML element, Photoshop CS6 made it really easy to understand what is going on.
Another thing was pretty annoying to me was the lack of feedback when you changed the brush size via shortcuts. I used to hold ALT + right click + drag the mouse up / down, right / left to change the brush settings but I always had to use the common right click to check if they were what I wanted.
Now just while you're changing the settings you'll see the new diameter, hardness and opacity.
Last but not least, the well known layer search.
It's a really cool feature if you are the organized type. You can just search by layer name, effect, mode, attributes, and color.
Also layer selection has been improved and it's easier to do things like duplicate multiple layers or groups with CTRL + J (instead of right click > Duplicate layers), change multiple layers styles and so on.
#4 – CSS3 like stuff – Photoshop CS6 "Paragraph styles" and crazy borders
And now it comes the really golden stuff for front-end developers.
With Photoshop CS6 we have what they called "Paragraph styles". And that works pretty much like CSS selectors. So, the designer can set different styles, like h1, p, h2, and if by change the client asks to change the "Main title color" you just go in the paragraph styles box and edit it, it'll automatically apply to every element with this style.
Also, the front-end guy's life will be way easier since he'll just have to get all those styles and translate them to CSS (ok, it's NOT just like that, but it'll save a lot of time anyway).
Also we have a few improvements for shapes.
There are merging options and crazy borders styles, dotter and dashed. Also there are more fill options for borders like gradients. You just have to select the shape and press "P" or select the path tool and you'll easily change all of this stuff.
#5 Layer styles improved – Again, pretty much similar to CSS
Now you can apply layer styles to the whole group and it'll propagate to its children, pretty much as it works on CSS. Where you add stuff to the container and all children can inherit properties like colors and shadows.
#6 Content-aware move – A.k.a Photoshop CS6 wizardry
It's just impossible to say how amazing this feature is. You can just remove stuff, move stuff, change the source (if the content aware didn't work as you expected because the element next to what you wanted to remove isn't a pattern).
Well, I'll leave you with this crazy video showing how it works. Hold your jaws.
#7 Video – Ditch windows movie maker now
I just didn't see too much people talking about this. Besides it deserves a great respect in my opinion.
Photoshop has now cool features for quick video editing, which makes it a perfect alternative to Windows Movie maker and similars.
It can work pretty well if you want to edit homemade videos or your own marketing stuff. It's simple and it works, that's all that I know.
Actually it can import and edit pretty well videos, use video groups, add every element that you see in the usual panel, add transitions to elements… Well, it's much powerful than ever!
BONUS: #8 – "One more thing"… A few general improvements
As a wise guy used to say "One more thing…".
A few interface options
Now you can choose between 4 interface colors. You can change it under "Edit > Preferences > Interface".
The one I liked most is the default (2nd from left to right), what about you?
TAB now does what it meant to do.. sometimes
If you are renaming layers and press tab you won't see the whole window rearranging panels. You'll be lead to the next one and you can rename it too until the end or if you press "Enter".
Better anti-aliasing for imported objects
If you import elements a lot you'll see minor updates in the overall look of the imported element.
Shapes merging, cropping and so on
Now shapes can be combined, substracted, united per intersection, substracted per intersection. Before the best thing you could do was to convert them to bitmap and pray to God so the client won't ask for changes.
Don't know if I mentioned it before but it stills beta. I've got myself a few bugs, but it's just amazing how it's better. I wish I could buy my copy right now, how about you?


text: phil_m 4,431 Posted August 31, 2013 I took some time today to record a few samples of the infamous 2 & 4 posiitons from the Variax and compared them to the real thing. The real thing in this case is a 2012 American Standard Strat with Fat 50s pickups. I recorded these going through my pedalboard into my Deluxe Reverb Reissue (using a Cannabis Rex speaker in case anyone cares). I used a Sennheiser E609 along with an MXL ribbon mic. Those are going into my UX2, and I'm using the Modern preamp on both mics with the compressor in the chain just to prevent clipping. The only effect I have on in my pedalboard is a clean boost going into the amp. The reverb is from the amp. I'm not going to say which is which at this point. On each clip I start in position 4 (neck and middle) and then go to position 2 (middle and bridge). I tried to play pretty the same thing in both clips, but they are a little different. Quack1.mp3 Quack2.mp3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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To some people, the opening of the Apple Store in Sydney this week has been a momentous occasion – worthy of camping out for hours, if not days. Reading about the chaos created by the event, I can't help but think about how this has happened. How has one business managed to build a religion around the world, complete with high priest (Steve Jobs), festivals (Macworld Expo), millions of followers ( see Macheads movie) and temples (check this out).
The multi-million dollar Catholic-run-Australian-government-subsidised World Youth Day could do with a few lessons from Cupertino, California on how to build hype for a church event.
So what is it about Apple that makes it so lovable to so many?
There's been plenty of column inches spent celebrating Apple, so I'll keep my view brief:
Harnessing technology, focusing on user experience.
For all the patents Apple holds, almost all of them involve combining available, existing technology. From the iPod to the iMac to the iPhone, almost all of the parts come off-the-shelf – sure there's a tweak here or a new part there, but inevitably when an analyst pulls out a screwdriver to work out how much money Apple is making on a new gadget, they discover a whole bunch of stuff that already exists in lots of other gadgets.
They don't invent ingredients they just spend time coming up with new recipes they think will suit their audiences tastes…
There's a great old video that compares Apple's approach to communication with Microsoft's. In the video, Apple's beautiful, simple, uncluttered 5GB iPod box has Microsoft's Style Guide applied to it.
Apple, with their head-office in image-conscious California, knows that simplicity and elegance sells.
In my experience of Apple products, if you want to work out how to do something, it's straightforward. Some of the bestselling electronic devices in homes – toasters and TV's – involve one button and you get something out of it. It's the same with Apple products – you turn it on and something exciting is going to happen.
So how does this elegance and simplicity apply to the new Apple Store in Sydney? Well, they've used elements anyone could have used in a shop – glass, tiles, assistants…
And yet the user experience is dramatically different to any other store in Australia: exceptional design, plenty of staff, in this case free internet and even complimentary training and tech support from Apple's 'Geniuses'…
So Apple's spent $15 million on the shop which probably represents at least $5 million in 'unnecessary' innovation. Well, if the store can generate anything like the $4,032/square foot in annual sales of it's big NY brother, it's probably money well spent.


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The famous "superconductor monorail" was a wonderful visual demonstration of what superconductors do to magnets. At first, magnets are repelled by the superconductor. As the temperature drops, a superconducting material unceremoniously kicks magnetic fields out of its territory. If a magnet is forced close to a superconductor, though, it gets 'stuck' there, and so can be forced to stay in one place. This is known as 'flux pinning.' We know what it looks like from the outside. The magnet hovers over the superconductor at a fixed distance, staying there even as the superconductor is moved around. In the case of the monorail, give it a push and it speeds around the track.
But what does that look like inside the superconductor? Scientists have found magnetic flux line 'avalanches' happening inside superconductors.
Here's the famous superconducting monorail, in case you haven't seen it:
What does this look like from the inside? Scientists have actually gotten to know what 'flux pinning' does to the inside of a superconductor, and taken pictures of how it looks. The secret to flux pinning is the fact that, with a perfect superconductor, it wouldn't happen. Magnetic flux lines shouldn't be able to penetrate the superconductor at all. A magnet should simply be repelled until its field and the superconductor have nothing to do with each other. But every superconductor has flaws. Those flaws allow the flux lines to penetrate. The 'flux' lines are tiny breaks or imperfections in the superconductor. Since the flux lines are surrounded by more perfect parts, the magnet doesn't wobble around, and is locked in place. But as the breaks happen, they precipitate more tiny breaks, like a slowly spreading cracks in a pane of glass.
Scientists have been photographing thin films of superconductors as they are exposed to magnetic fields, and have been able to capture not only the breaks themselves, but the process as they evolve. Inside of a superconductor in which the flux lines form a 'Christmas tree' formation the breaks slowly climb and spread out from each other through the the superconductor, looking like branches spreading out from a central trunk.
A more dynamic model of flux lines is the avalanche. Scientists have observed 'flux avalanches,' as the magnetic flux lines breaks through the superconductor in massive spreading waves. This is more a shattering of glass than a slow growing crack. As the magnetic field is forced close, flux lines penetrate through the superconductor suddenly, in large groups. Eventually the overall formation forms a 'path' for the magnetic field from one side of the superconductor to the other. Outside, it looks like order is imposed on the system, with the chaotically levitating magnet being 'fixed' in place. Inside, massive and disorganized breaks rip through the supposed perfection of the superconductor. There's always something going on beneath the surface.
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