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Wesley College, 10
Farmingdale State, 5
Farmingdale, NY - The Farmingdale State men's lacrosse team fell to 3-5 this afternoon with a loss against visiting Wesley College (5-3) in Farmingdale, NY. Wesley sophomore midfielder Kenny Glaveskas (Pasadena, MD/Northeast) scored three goals to lead the team in the 10-5 victory.
Sophomore goalie Jim McCleaft (Brookhaven, PA/Sun Valley) finished with five saves over the first two periods for Wesley, while senior goalie Anthony Edwards (Baltimore, MD/Catonsville) finished the final two periods with three saves.
Rams sophomore goalie Chris Hardgrove (Farmingdale, NY/Farmingdale) finished with 13 saves. Junior midfielder Ryan LaFlare (Lindenhurst, NY/Lindenhurst) led the attack with three goals and one assist.
Farmingdale State now travels to Hackettstown, NJ to face Centenary College on Thursday, March 30th for a Knickerbocker Lacrosse Conference game at 3:30pm.

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CORTLANDT, N.Y. -- New York State Police from the Corltandt barracks arrested three suspects for allegedly being in possession of a stolen vehicle on Saturday, Jan. 11, police officials said.
Cassandra Fischer, 21, of Dix Hills, N.Y., Ryan Woods, 21, of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Shannon Mclain, 21, of, Wappingers Falls were in a vehicle when it was pulled over for speeding on Route 9 in Cortlandt. The car in question had been reported stolen to the Suffolk County Police on Friday, Jan. 10, according to State Police.
In addition, Fischer and Woods were charged with false impersonation when they allegedly provided fake names and dates of birth in an attempt to avoid outstanding warrants for their arrest, State Police said.
All three were arraigned and Fischer and Woods were remanded to Westchester County Jail. Mclain was released on her own recognizance, according to State Police.
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July 02. 2014 9:34PM
UNH- Manchester looks to move into Pandora building
New Hampshire Union Leader
A company owned by inventor Dean Kamen plans to buy a Millyard building currently housing the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, which in turn would lease additional space at Kamen's Pandora building down the street.
University System of New Hampshire trustees have approved both moves as well as up to $8 million in funds to build out the space for classrooms and for other student uses. Students could move into the new Pandora space next year.
The deal, if inked, would provide 17,000 more square feet of space to the university with an option for another 20,000 square feet. The amount of parking also would more than double, according to the university.
Interim Dean Michael Hickey on Wednesday called the move "maybe a final opportunity to consolidate our campus" near one of the city's most visible intersections at Granite and Commercial streets.
A potential snag for the deal is the city holds a right of first offer on the UNH property, meaning it is first in line to buy the building if it chooses. An aldermanic committee the week of July 21 is expected to discuss a request to waive that right to allow the sale to proceed.
Mayor Ted Gatsas said a UNH building sale would bring more than $50,000 in tax revenues yearly.
"The good point of this deal is we get that very good mill back on the tax roll," Gatsas said.
Downtown Alderman Pat Long, who heads the committee that will discuss the waiver issue, said the aldermen only learned of the proposal several days ago. Personally, he said, "I don't believe the city should buy it and sit on it."A Kamen spokesman at his company, DEKA Research & Development Corp. at 340 Commercial St., didn't immediately respond to phone and e-mail inquiries Wednesday.
"My understanding is DEKA needs room to expand its corporate headquarters," Hickey said. "This building is adjacent to their headquarter facility and they are very much in need of expanding their business."
The university negotiated a long-term lease with an initial seven-year period and renewal options.
The lease will cost the university $1.6 million a year, including rent it already pays for space there. The university building carries an appraised value of $3.47 million, Hickey said.
"These numbers are subject to final negotiations," he said.
The city lists its assessed value at $3.76 million.
He said the university has about 65,000 square feet of built-out space at 400 Commercial St. and another 30,000 square feet it now rents at Pandora on the first and second floors, for a total of 95,000 square feet.
The deal would consolidate the campus at Pandora with 112,000 square feet by occupying the first five floors. The sixth floor is reserved for future university use.
"We need more welcoming spaces, so our students, who are largely commuter students ... have a comfortable place to study and wait for classes and have a bit to eat before their classes," Hickey said.UNH at Manchester has the full-time equivalent of 800 students and expects to grow by 200 over the next four years, Hickey said.
The Cotton restaurant, which is part of the 400 Commercial St. property, "has a long-term lease that would not be affected," Hickey said.


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Getting hired in the fire service as a paid firefighter is not the easiest task however, by following a few simple rules of thumb anybody with the mental drive can succeed and eventually go on to a long, safe career in the fire service. There are so many careers available, why the fire service? Well the fire service has been utilized by communities since the beginning on time. When there is any kind of emergency, the fire service and its personnel has always been there to help. Everyone is born into this world and most of do not know what we want to do career wise but, there are a few people across the American nation that feel that we were born part of this great career. Although we have a passion for saving lives, no fire department is just going to let you walk on and let you start working on driving a twenty thousand pound fire engine or allow you to throw a ladder against a burning building to save a child and its favorite stuffed animal from the burning building. This career keeps its high reputation by hiring quality people that have expertise in their field. If you are just getting out of high school and are over the age of 18, you are eligible to take different tests for fire departments all over the country. This career allows applications from men and women over the age of 18 to take a written exam which will allow them to, if they pass, get an oral interview with that department. The fire service has smaller fire departments that require the applicant to have different certifications and degrees to apply.
Larger fire service departments that are hiring have minimum requirements but, the fire departments that are slightly smaller generally require you to obtain a state certified fire academy and degree from a college or paramedic license. These certifications will allow you to apply to more fire service departments than if you didn't have them. These qualifications make you more attractive to get hired because that means the hiring fire department won't have to teach you certain things which will save them money. Applying to a volunteer fire department is a great way to get fire related experience which is one of the three key areas that hiring fire departments are looking for. Quality skills and certifications can greatly increase your chances of getting hired in the fire service. Although most television shows and movies show firefighters saving lives and pulling babies out of burning buildings, the truth is most of the work a firefighter does is not as glorified and it's the small things that the fire departments do that make the fire service such a great service career. Men and women trying to get hired should be going to a school that offers a fire technology degree and fire academy that will show them the basics and the lifestyle that working firefighters are exposed to on a daily basis.
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Currently to specify the location of the bitmap, the full path to the bitmap (including version of the containing plugin) is required. We hope to simplify this so that only the plugin-id is needed to find the splash bitmap, see [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=173103 bug 173103].
Currently to specify the location of the bitmap, the full path to the bitmap (including version of the containing plugin) is required. We hope to simplify this so that only the plugin-id is needed to find the splash bitmap, see [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=173103 bug 173103].
Revision as of 18:57, 9 February 2007
The Eclipse launchers have been rewritten for 3.3 M5. This page describes the new layout of the launcher and startup code.
See the Equinox Launcher Plan page for the initial proposal for this work.
The launcher executable, eclipse.exe, has been broken into 2 pieces: the executable, and a shared library (eg: eclipse_1006.dll). The executable lives in the root of the eclipse install. The shared library is in a platform specific fragment, org.eclise.equinox.launcher.[config], in the plugins directory.
Moving the majority of the launcher code into a shared library that lives in a fragment means that that portion of the launch code can now be updated from an update site. Also, when starting from java, the shared library can be loaded via JNI in order to display the splash screen.
There is no longer a startup.jar in the root of eclipse. This code has been moved to a plugin org.eclipse.equinox.launcher in the plugins directory. Eclipse can still be started directly with java using, for example:
java -jar plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.0.v20070208a.jar
It is also possible to copy to copy this bundle into the root and name it startup.jar. In this case it would be possible to start with java -jar startup.jar.
Finding a VM, Using JNI Invocation or Executing Java
It turns out that writing a JNI launcher for multiple vms on multiple platforms is easier said than done. JNI launching does not currently work on all platforms for all vms. Because of this, the launcher can start the Java Virtual Machine either in process through the JNI Invocation API, or in a seperate process by execing the java launcher. Which method is used depends on how the vm was found.
On most platforms, we use JNI launching unless a -vm argument was given that points directly to a java executable.
More specifically, a virtual machine and launch method is chosen as follows:
No -vm specified
When no -vm is specified, the launcher looks for a virtual machine first in a jre directory in the root of eclipse and then on the search path. If java is found in either location, then we look for a jvm shared library (jvm.dll on window, libjvm.so on *nix platforms) relative to that java executable.
- If a jvm shared library is found we load it and use the JNI invocation api to start the vm.
- If no jvm shared library is found, we exec the java launcher to start the vm in a new process.
-vm specified on command line or in eclipse.ini
Eclipse can be started with "-vm <location>" to indicate a virtual machine to use. There are several possibilities for the value of <location>:
- java.exe/javaw.exe: <location> is a path to a java launcher. We exec that java launcher to start the vm in a new process.
- jvm.dll or libjvm.so: <location> is a path to a jvm shared library. We attempt to load that library and use the JNI Invocation API to start the vm in the current process.
- directory: <location> is a directory. We look in that directory for a java launcher or the jvm shared library. If we find the jvm shared library, we use JNI invocation. If we find a launcher, we attempt to find a jvm library in known locations relative to the launcher. If we find one, we use JNI invocation. If no jvm library is found, we exec java in a new process.
- gtk.linux.ppc, gtk.linux.x86_64, and motif.aix.ppc: Getting JNI to work on these platforms has been problematic for older vms. For these platforms, we exec java unless the -vm argument directly specifies a jvm shared library. Or, if the -vm argument specifies a directory in which no java executable was found but a jvm shared library was found.
- MacOSX: On the mac we are always launching via the JNI invocation API. We use "/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/JavaVM" as the jvm library. When a -vm argument is given, we parse it for the version of java to specify to JavaVM.
Command line arguments
There are several new arguments that can be specified to the eclipse launcher:
- -library <path/to/eclipse shared lib>. This indicates the path to the eclipse shared library to use. By default, the launcher looks in the plugins directory for the matching org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.[config] fragment with the highest version. The shared library is found in that fragment.
- -startup <path/to/launcher.jar>. This indicates the path to the launcher jar. By default, the launcher looks in the plugins directory for the org.eclipse.equinox.launcher bundle with the highest version and uses it. If this bundle is not found, then the launcher will revert to old behaviour and look for startup.jar in the root.
- -showsplash <path/to/splash.bmp>. If the splash.bmp is specified to the launcher, then the splash screen can be displayed before the java vm is even started. If no splash screen is specified, then once java is started, the Main class will find the splash.bmp as before and call back to the launcher to display it.
- -suppressErrors. If this is specified, then the launcher will no display a message box with errors if a problem was encountered. This allows the launcher to be used in unattended tests without blocking on an error.
Splash Screen
The splash screen can now contain SWT widgets. For M5, the progress bar and text on the splash screen (including the build id) are done using SWT. The launcher itself only displays a static bitmap.
Getting an early splash screen
The launcher can display the splash screen before even starting the java virtual machine. This requires that 1) the vm is started using JNI invocation, and 2) the location of the splash bitmap is specified to the launcher (usually in the eclipse.ini file).
Currently to specify the location of the bitmap, the full path to the bitmap (including version of the containing plugin) is required. We hope to simplify this so that only the plugin-id is needed to find the splash bitmap, see bug 173103.
No Splash On Motif
Due to bug 171093 we have been forced to temporarily disable the splash screen on motif.


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Kenny Meisalas said in a phone interview that "things with the family have been very smooth, no problems." He said things are proceeding normally, and he doesn't expect any challenges to the will.
Fulton County Probate Court Judge Pinkie T. Toomer in Atlanta on Wednesday approved the will. It revealed the late superstar left all her assets to her only child, 19-year-old Bobbi Kristina. Her sister-in-law and manager, Pat Houston, was named as the administrator of the estate.
Meisalas declined to talk about Houston's assets or possible debts.
Since her death, Houston's albums have been top sellers. This week, she has four albums in the top 20 positions on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart, including her "Greatest Hits," which sits at No. 2 and sold 112,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.


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Albertsons Ground Beef Recall
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Alberstons is recalling a number of ground beef products sold at stores in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, due to risk of E. coli contamination. No illnesses have been reported.
The grocery chain, owned by Supervalu Inc., said the move follows an expanded recall by XL Foods Inc. for ground beef products imported from Canada.
The recall includes 1 lb. fresh ground beef patties, 1 lb. fresh ground beef chub, and 3 lb. fresh ground beef chub, all with the Albertsons store label. The products were sold between Sept. 3 and Sept. 21 in all Albertsons stores in Washington and Oregon, as well as three stores in Northern Idaho: Coeur d'Alene, Hayden and Lewiston.
Customers should return any of the recalled products for a refund or replacement.


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TUSCALOOSA | Six Tuscaloosa County agencies and the University of Alabama on Thursday received more than $300,000 in grants to help prevent child abuse and neglect in West Alabama.
TUSCALOOSA | Six Tuscaloosa County agencies and the University of Alabama on Thursday received more than $300,000 in grants to help prevent child abuse and neglect in West Alabama.
The funds are distributed yearly by the Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention.
This year, the grant total is about $100,000 more than in 2012, said Greg Smith, deputy director of the department.
All of the agencies have received funding before and are doing their part in serving their communities, Smith said.
"We've had a working relationship (with the agencies) for a long time," Smith said.
Working to prevent child abuse and neglect is a group effort, said Dianne Ambrose, program and executive assistant for Child Abuse Prevention Services.
"We are a community team, to help enrich the lives of the children and help them meet their full potential because the children are our future," she said.
As part of the grant, United Cerebral Palsy of West Alabama will get $27,000 for its Hearts Respite program, which helps parents of children with special needs get free time to refresh and relax.
Tuscaloosa's One Place will receive $109,000 for its "No Place Like Home" program. That program helps parents in need with housing or employment while teaching them parenting skills.
The Tuscaloosa Family Resource Center will get $25,000 for its Second Step program, which teaches children life skills at local schools.
The Parenting Assistance Line will receive $23,800, for its program in answering parenting questions statewide. The assistance line has even received callers from other states or Canada.
The Baby TALK program will receive $38,500, which it will use to distribute books and parenting information to parents of infants and young children.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of West Alabama will get $30,000 to aid in partnering children with adult role models and making a difference in their lives.
"Without the Children's Trust Fund, our job would be so difficult," said Zelda Lavender, director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of West Alabama.
The University of Alabama will also receive $92,400 for its work to evaluate the county's programs as part of the grant process.
"These programs are going to make a difference in the lives of children," said Teresa Costanzo, executive director of Tuscaloosa's One Place. "Prevention is the only way we are going to stop the vicious cycle of child abuse and neglect."
Although the funding will go a long way, the funding level has decreased significantly in recent years and agencies have been cut, Costanzo said during a ceremony on Thursday.
In 2008, the same grant funding was $600,000 and went to nine area agencies. In 2007, the grant total was $649,000.
"We've got to turn this around and be advocates and spokesmen for the Children's Trust Fund, because we need these funds in the community," Costanzo said.
State Sen. Gerald Allen, R- Cottondale, who was present for Thursday's grant ceremony, said that funding has been tight since 2008 because of the downturn in the economy. Still, he said funding for programs for children and the elderly should remain a top priority.
"It's always on my mind, that if we can't take care of our children and our seniors, we've lost our focus on what this is all about," Allen said. "As we try to find ways to trim the fat, we will look at ways to fund your programs in other ways."
State Rep. John Merrill, R-Tuscaloosa, and chairman of the board for the Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention, said children in the community are a primary concern.
"You have our commitment from the Tuscaloosa County legislative delegation that we will maintain where we are and try to find other funding sources," he said.
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- "Matches a Yellow Socket."
- Sell Price: 1g
Perfect Quick Sun Crystal is a result of the Jewelcrafting ability [Gem Perfection], when attempting to craft a Quick Sun Crystal.
[Quick Sun Crystal] requires 350 Jewelcrafting skill, and requires a Simple Grinder.
- Reagents required
- 1x 16px [Sun Crystal]
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Gem Perfection is an ability learned from the N [70] Gem Perfection quest, and causes attempts to craft particular socketable gem types (Northrend uncommon gems) to result in an improved ('perfect') version of that type of gem.


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The price of oil rebounded slightly to above $87 a barrel on Wednesday after an explosion injured 10 people on a bus in Tel Aviv, a development that has the potential to seriously complicate diplomatic efforts to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Islamic militant group Hamas.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for January delivery was up 68 cents to $87.42 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Tuesday, the contract fell $2.53 to finish at $86.75 on signs that a deal between the two warring sides might be close.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other world diplomats were shuttling between Jerusalem, the West Bank and Cairo, trying to piece together a truce that would satisfy the two foes after a week of fighting.
Those efforts could be imperiled by an explosion on a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel's second-largest city, which injured 10 people.
Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix in Switzerland said the lack of a cease-fire which seemed nearer on Tuesday means the market "needs to reconsider having some geopolitical premium for the long weekend."
U.S. markets will be closed Thursday and close early on Friday because of Thanksgiving.
The possibility of a disruption in oil supplies when violence in the Middle East spikes often translates into higher crude prices, but ample inventories of crude and refined products as well as the European Union's delay in approving more bailout funds for Greece have kept a lid on prices.
Analysts at CME Group say they expect this week's inventory data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration to show "another build in crude oil supplies in the range of 750,000 to 1.0 million barrels."
Brent crude, which is used to price international varieties of oil, was up $1.02 to $110.85 a barrel in London.
Other energy futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange:
— Heating oil rose 3.2 cents to $3.0803 a gallon.
— Wholesale gasoline added 2.15 cents to $2.7099 per gallon.
— Natural gas fell 3.9 cents to $3.793 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.


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How can I stream WGBH Radio on my iPhone or iPod touch?
Currently, the iPhone and iPod touch are the only mobile devices that support WGBH Radio streaming.
Listen to WGBH on your iPhone or iPod touch with the Public Radio Tuner™ application, which can be downloaded for free from the iTunes App Store. The Public Radio Tuner will allow you to conveniently stream WGBH 89.7, All-Classical WGBH, A Celtic Sojourn, and WCAI, The Cape and Islands Radio.
And All-Classical WGBH Radio and A Celtic Sojourn on WGBH Radio are two new, dedicated applications for streaming just those radio services, which also are available for free from the iTunes App Store.


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Three who gave to NH: Lamprey, Marshall, Mitchell ... R.I.P.EDITORIAL
April 21. 2018 3:51PM
New Hampshire is a small state, with a relatively small population. So how is it that we are blessed with so many people who put service to others so high on their priority lists?
The state lost three such individuals in the last fortnight. Stewart Lamprey of Meredith, Ken Marshall of Concord, and Cheryl Mitchell of Manchester, each in their own way, added value to the Granite State.
It's hard to measure who was better known. Lamprey was a successful Realtor, but he also served as a citizen legislator and in the administration of Gov. Walter Peterson.
Lamprey had the singular distinction of being elected to consecutive terms as speaker of the New Hampshire House and president of the state Senate. This came after serving his country in the U.S. Army in World War II.
Ken Marshall was a quiet, passionate advocate for New Hampshire agriculture - no small task in a state that regularly brings in bushel harvests of rocks from our thin topsoil. Ken was born in a farmhouse and was a farmer himself as well as the administrator of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation, a tough job he carried out with dexterity and a good attitude.
In retirement, he served two terms in the New Hampshire House, on the Environment and Agriculture Committee, of course.
Cheryl Mitchell, like so many in Manchester, was shocked by the murder of young police officer Michael Briggs. She got over the shock and got down to the business of helping to improve her neighborhood. Hers was one of the first Neighborhood Watch efforts. She was involved in the Weed and Seed neighborhood improvement effort as well.
As the city's deputy director of health, Anna Thomas, remembered last week, Cheryl said, "That's it; I'm not going to let people take over my neighborhood."
These three people enriched their New Hampshire "neighborhoods" in many ways.
New Hampshire is thankful.


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The PCA9546A is a quad bidirectional translating switch
controlled via the I2C bus. The SCL/SDA upstream pair fans out to four
downstream pairs, or channels. Any individual SCn/SDn channel or combination of channels can be
selected, determined by the contents of the programmable control register.
An active-low reset (RESET) input allows the PCA9546A to recover
from a situation in which one of the downstream I2C buses is stuck in a
low state. Pulling RESET low resets the I2C state
machine and causes all the channels to be deselected, as does the internal power-on reset
The pass gates of the switches are constructed such that the VCC
pin can be used to limit the maximum high voltage, which will be passed by the PCA9546A. This
allows the use of different bus voltages on each pair, so that 1.8-V, 2.5-V, or 3.3-V parts can
communicate with 5-V parts without any additional protection. External pull-up resistors pull the
bus up to the desired voltage level for each channel. All I/O pins are 5.5-V tolerant.


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Paul Rodriguez Blasts Eva Longoria, Rosie Perez for 'Mean-Spirited' Attacks
Comedian Paul Rodriguez is not joking.
The man who made his mark in Hollywood finding humor in just about everything is – in a deadly serious way -- hitting back at fellow Latino celebrities Eva Longoria and Rosie Perez for their recent biting jabs at Mitt Romney.
"When it gets personal, like they did, it goes below the belt," he said.
Rodriguez is featured in a new Latino-targeted ad for Romney, whom he is supporting after what he says is disappointment over President Obama. Rodriguez says he'd been a lifelong Democrat and voted for Obama in 2008.
Longoria drew fire Thursday from Romney supporters for her retweet of a lewd message about Romney.
The actress, a co-chair for Obama's campaign, retweeted a tweet that read: "I have no idea why any woman/minority can vote for Romney. You have to be stupid to vote for such a racist/misogynistic tw*t."
She later deleted the retweet and apologized. That came days after Rosie Perez, the actress, who has been very active in supporting Obama, appeared in a YouTube video mocking Romney.
I've served my country. I'm not some someone who's lying around my Hollywood pool and thinking about how I can get some publicity.
In an interview with Fox News Latino hours after Longoria's Twitter controversy, Rodriguez said that while Longoria and Perez have a right to support any presidential candidate, they do not have a right to "strike below the belt and be mean-spirited" in attacking Romney.
"If I said mean-spirited things about President Obama I'd be called a racist, a bigot," Rodriguez said.
He says Perez and Longoria are part of the rich Hollywood elite, and that it is hypocritical of them to blast Romney as an out-of-touch rich man.
"Rosie Perez is not poor," he said. "They're a lot richer than I am."
"They don't know the issues, they don't know anything about foreign policy," he said. "I've been to Afghanistan, I've served my country. I'm not some someone who's lying around my Hollywood pool and thinking about how I can get some publicity."
Trevor Neilson, Longoria's political advisor, had little to say about Rodriguez's comments.
"Eva loves Paul Rodriguez very much. She has worked with him, and respects his political views and opinions," he said. "Paul is obviously well educated and respected, and Eva supports anyone who is involved in their civic duty."
Last year, Rodriguez appeared in a movie, "Without Men," that starred Longoria and Christian Slater, that was about "women living in a remote Latin American town who are forced to pick up the pieces and remake their world when the town's men are forcibly recruited by communist guerrillas," according to IMDB.
"She's a beautiful woman," he says. "I've known her for many years. She's enthusiastic about her man [Obama]. She's sincere about her enthusiasm. I would just ask my fellow Latino celebrities to respect my enthusiasm for my candidate."
Efforts to get a comment from the Obama campaign were not successful.
In Perez's video, backed by a super PAC-powered campaign tied to the Jewish Council for Education and Research and the American Bridge 21st Century, the actress takes shots at Romney's comment at a private fundraiser earlier this year in which he said that attracting more voters might be easier if he were Latino.
Perez laughs at the comment, then says: "Think of all of our Hispanic-American presidents. From Jorge Washington to Jorge Bush. And who can forget Presidente Jimmy Smits" referring to the character President Santos on the show "The West Wing."
"What if you were just a little bit gay, Mitt," Perez says. "Think of all the advantages that would provide."
She adds: "Unfortunately for you Mitt, you were cursed with the hard-knock life of growing up as the son of a wealthy governor and auto executive."
Rodriguez appears in a new ad, released Thursday, in which he says that Romney would be better than Obama at handling the economy -- which, he says, will benefit Latinos.
Rodriguez, who was born in Mexico to farmer parents and raised in East Los Angeles, says he became frustrated by Obama when minnows were classified an endangered species, prompting water supply crucial to many farmers to be cut off in the San Joaquin Vallen in California. Rodriguez became active in the cause, saying crops were dying and farmers were struggling as a result.
The comic says that pleas by him, political leaders and farmers in the area were ignored by the Obama administration.
He says he met with Romney this year, and that the candidate assured him he would address the problem facing the farmers.


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Sneak peeks for Fox's new Fall 2012 scripted series
Fox has lined up some big names for its new Fall 2012-13 series, including Kevin Bacon, Mindy Kaling, Becki Newton, Scott Foley and Kevin Williamson. Below you'll find photos, trailers and episode descriptions of the network's five new series. I also say how long I'll give each show to capture my interest. How many episodes will you watch? For Fox's fall schedule, click Fox announces Fall 2012 TV schedule. Curt Wagner, RedEye's Show Patrol
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|Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
Improving Your Ability to Estimateby dws (Chancellor)
|on Feb 12, 2005 at 07:03 UTC ( #430374=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
As software developers, we have a reputation as a group for making pretty lousy estimates. Part of that rap is unfair; many times the requirements that we're asked to provide estimates for are vague, and change as the work progresses. But a large part of that reputation is true. We make lousy estimates, and we don't seem to get much better as we go. One problem is that the feedback loop between the estimate and the achievement is often quite long. When you don't begin working on a task until weeks or months after you estimate that work, the original mental context has been lost, making it difficult to use feedback to learn.
Here's a way you can begin to shorten that feedback loop right now, and put yourself on the track to becoming a better estimator. All you need is a stack of 3x5 cards and something to write on them with.
It works like this: Keep a few 3x5 cards in your pocket. Before you begin a task, pull out a card and jot down a short description of the task on the front of the card. Short is good--you only need enough to recognize the task or jog your memory later. (My latest card is titled simply "sendarticle.cgi?article=". The one I'm working on now is "PM: estimating w/ cards")
Next, take a moment to think through what "done" means for the task, and what you need to do to get there. Now estimate how many hours it will take you to complete the task, and jot that down along with a confidence indicator (e.g., "Est: 0:30 H", "Est: 14 L"). Or you can go with a confidence range or a risk indicator. Your call.
If getting to this point with a card takes more than a minute, it's a clue that you need to break the task into smaller pieces. Rip up the card, break up the task, and do a new card for each. One of the secrets to better estimating is admitting when you've bitten off more than you can chew, and then backing off to take smaller bites.
As you start the task, turn the card over and note the date and start time. If you break off from the task, note the time. And so on until you're done. The back of my most recent card looks like
When you're done, total up the time and write an "Actual:" number below the estimate on the front of the card. I'd estimated 1:30 for the card above. It took 2:15, which I blame in part on the dog, who kept wandering in to my study with his squeaky toy. (Lesson learned: close study door or pad estimate with play time.)
Now, while memory is still fresh, take time to reflect on what happened. If your estimate and actual matches, great. More likely, you've earned an opportunity to improve. So think: What happened? What parts did you forget to estimate? What went harder or easier than you first thought? What could you remember to consider the next time you're estimating a task like this one? What about your environment interfered with your work, and how can you either change that or account for it in your next estimates? File the card away. If you keep a journal, jot down some thoughts.
After doing this practice for a few weeks you may notice improvement, and you may notice patterns, which can be fodder for improvement. One of my patterns is a consistent understimation for how long it will take to write a page of complex HTML and get it looking halfway decent. Taking my gut guestimate and doubling it works out about right.
We use this practice at work for iteration planning and tracking, though we use 4x6 cards and tack them up on boards. After doing the practice for a few months and seeing how it improved my estimates, I adopted it for use on home projects, using smaller cards that I can carry around in my pocket. Now, if I have have a sudden inspiration, there's always a place to jot it down.
It's a simple practice. Give it a try.
(I thought it would take 30 minutes to write this post and proof it. According to the card, it's been an hour. I've been understimating writing tasks lately...)
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April 5, 1:24 p.m.: *Updated with Lookouts' roster*
The Dodgers' Class-A affiliates announced their 25-man rosters today.
The Great Lakes Loons, the Dodgers' Low-A affiliate out of the Midwest League, ended up with eight players who were drafted in the first 10 rounds in the Dodgers' 2010 draft, including five Baseball America Top 30 prospects. The biggest catch -- 2010 first-rounder Zach Lee.
The Loons also snagged Leon Landry, who I think could end up being one of the biggest steals of the 2010 draft.
The Rancho Cucomonga Quakes, the Dodgers' High-A affiliate out of the California League, ended up with six Baseball America Top 30 prospects. The biggest catch -- 2008 18th-rounder Allen Webster.
Something that jumps out to me about the Quakes' roster is Tony Delmonico. Granted, it is a press release, but he's listed as an infielder. He was drafted as a 2B/SS but was immediately targeted by Logan White to make the move to catcher. He hasn't been great behind the plate physically, but the has smarts to be a catcher. We'll see what happens.
Overall, there's a lot more potential on the Loons' roster, but there are some gems on the Quakes' roster. Without further ado, here are the rosters. The numbers in parenthesis are the players' ranks from my Top 30.
Great Lakes (Low-A)
Catcher (2)
Steve Domecus, Michael Pericht
Infield (6)
Jesse Bosnik, Blake Dean, Casio Grider, Chris Henderson, Bryant Hernandez, Christian Lara
Outfield (4)
Nick Akins (29), Jonathan Garcia (12), Leon Landry (9), Roman Pena
Pitchers (13)
Logan Bawcom, Robert Boothe, Pete Budkevics, Raul Burgos, Ryan Christenson, Derek Cone, Garrett Gould (13), Zach Lee (4), Bret Montgomery, Red Patterson, Timothy Sexton, Brant Stickel, Shawn Tolleson
Rancho Cucamonga (High-A)
Catcher (2)
Gorman Erickson, J.T. Wise (26)
Infield (6)
Joe Becker, Tony Delmonico (30), Travis Denker, Austin Gallagher, Jake Lemmerman (18), Rafael Ynoa
Outfield (4)
Nick Buss, Ramon Jean, Angelo Songco (22), Blake Smith (15)
Pitchers (13)
Steven Ames, Matt Magill (11), Ethan Martin (14), Scott Nestor, Jordan Roberts, Jon Michael Redding, Felix Romero, Steve Smith, Andrew Suiter, Luis Vasquez, Allen Webster (6), Josh Walter, Greg Wilborn (sleeper)
Some guys who missed both teams include James Baldwin, Joc Pederson and Ralston Cash. It appears all will start in Rookie Ball, as none of them are ready for anything above Class-A.
The Lookouts and Isotopes are expected to release their Opening Day rosters later this week.
Albuquerque (Triple-A)
Catcher (3)
J.D. Closser, Keyter Collado (DL), Damaso Espino
Infield (5)
Juan Castro, Dee Gordon (2), John Lindsey, Russ Mitchell, Justin Sellers
Outfield (4)
Jamie Hoffmann, Trent Oeltjen, Trayvon Robinson (3), Jerry Sands (1)
Pitchers (13)
Roman Colon, Scott Elbert (19), John Ely, Dana Eveland, Jon Huber, Randy Keisler, Jon Link, Carlos Monasterios, Tim Redding, Travis Schlichting, Ramon Troncoso, Merkin Valdez, Oscar Villarreal
Chattanooga (Double-A)
Alex Garabedian, Jessie Mier, Matt Wallach
Pedro Baez, Ivan Ochoa, Wilberto Ortiz, Jaime Pedroza, Corey Smith
Brad Coon, Elian Herrera, Kyle Russell (27), Alfredo Silverio, Scott Van Slyke
Michael Antonini, Rubby De La Rosa (5), Nathan Eovaldi (28), Javy Guerra, Steven Jackson, Josh Lindblom (24), Aaron Miller (8), Justin Miller, Joey Newby, David Pfeiffer, Stuart Pomeranz, Will Savage, Javier Solano (25), Cole St. Clair, Josh Wall, Chris Withrow (10)


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|Market Snapshot:
Week Chg
Week %Chg
S&P 500 Index
Dow Jones Industrials
NASDAQ Composite
Value Line Arithmetic Index
Minor Cycle* (Short-term trend lasting days to a few weeks) Positive
Intermediate Cycle* (Medium trend lasting weeks to several months) Positive
Major Cycle* (Long-term trend lasting several months to years) Positive
* Cycle status is based on S&P 500.
In the wake of a catastrophic bear market which saw the S&P 500 lose nearly 58% of its value following a high in October 2007, a new bull market was begun March 6, 2009. Since then that same S&P 500 has rallied a little over 142% through last Friday's close, which was a new all-time high in the S&P with coincident strength to new highs in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Value Line index. The NASDAQ Composite index also made a new high for the move since 2009, but has yet to exceed its March 2000 all-time high (5132.52).
Given recent market strength, some prognosticators have begun suggesting the stock market has entered into a new, secular bull market that could persist for years to come. Could be. Maybe it really is different this time. Maybe all that oil shale and natural gas production will result in a modern day gold rush that will propel the stock market and the economy dramatically higher with a coincident decline in unemployment and federal debt. Sure would be nice to see the United States less dependent on unfriendly others for its energy needs. But this is where that annoying old conundrum kicks in -- again. That's the one where we distinguish between what we "Know" and what we "Think" and where the what we 'Hope" part is left to those more adept with Ouija boards.
What we currently "Know" about the long-term stature of this market is that it is into its 50th month. That's mature for any bull trend, historically. There have been exceptions such as the last leg of the Super Bull begun in 1974 that lasted from December 1994 until March 2000. If the current phase similarly played out, this rally might only be four years into a six year move. Or not. That's fodder for the talking heads.
Market Overview – What We Know:
- Major indexes rallied to new highs last week and best levels since March 2009. Only NASDAQ Composite has yet to better its 2000 peak.
- All cycles are positive, but short-term volatility has moved back into zone of vulnerability.
- Market volume increased nearly 3% compared to previous week.
- After re-asserting short-term positive flavor, S&P 500 must decline below lower edge of 10-Day Price Channel (1567.36 through Monday) to suggest near-term negative. Intermediate trend remains positive until lower edge of 10-Week Price Channel (1526.66 through May 10).
- Daily and Weekly MAAD rallied to best levels since March 2009 last week, but neither indicator is anywhere near 2007 highs while having recovered only about 50% of decline since then.
- CPFL on both Daily and Weekly cycles reached new short to intermediate-term high last Friday. Indicator is nowhere near major resistance high made week of February 25, 2011 and has only retraced about 50% of its long-term decline, despite net strength since December 2011.
- In spite of new highs in S&P 500 and S&P Emini last week, CV was barely able to eke out new high in S&P and did not confirm new high on upside in Emini.
What is relevant is that from March 2009 until May 2011 ALL of our key indicators were in synch on the upside with pricing. But following the pullback in the spring of 2011 and the resumption of the Major Cycle uptrend NONE of those same indicators has been able to exceed its 2011 highs. That divergence is exceptional. In the 50-plus years of data we have collected for the Most Actives Advance/Decline Line (MAAD), we have NEVER seen such a large exception between pricing and MAAD. Yes, it's true MAAD recently rallied to its best levels since March 2009 on both the Daily and Weekly Cycles, but neither series has gotten anywhere near its 2007 bull market highs, let alone the all-time MAAD highs reached prior to the 2000 market peak. Cumulative Volume (CV) and our Call/Put Dollar Value Flow Line (CPFL) have been reflecting similar long-term discrepancies.


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Money couldn't buy him love, but it could buy him an Aston Martin.
A 1964 Aston Martin DB5 originally owned by former Beatle Paul McCartney sold Wednesday at an auction in London at the hammer price of $496,613. The hammer price is what an auctioned item sells for before any fees or commissions.
According to RM Auctions, the Canadian company that held the auction, McCartney ordered the car during the summer of 1964 and owned it for six years. In that time, the Beatle is believed to have put some 40,000 miles on the car, and a 1967 Time magazine profile said "Bachelor Paul" "is a movie addict, loves 'the look of London,' and tools around town in a spiffy blue Aston Martin DB5."
Photos: Sir Paul McCartney's Aston Martin DB5
The DB5 was the first Aston Martin that McCartney purchased and was ordered in the Sierra blue paint you see here. He bought this DB5 with options such as chrome wire wheels, a Motorola radio and a Philips record player. RM says McCartney also ordered the stitching on the leather interior to include musical note patterns, though this upholstery has since been replaced.
The DB5 is perhaps Aston Martin's most iconic sports car, its presence in numerous "James Bond" films (including "Skyfall," which opens next week) only furthering the mystique of the model. It's powered by a 280-horsepower inline six-cylinder engine featuring three SU carburetors, and a five-speed manual transmission routes power to the rear wheels.
This wasn't the only notable sale at RM's London auction. Several Ferraris were up for sale, with the most attention going to the ... deep breath ... 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta "Tour de France" by Carrozzeria Scaglietti. The car, of which only 36 were made, sold at the hammer price of $3.2 million. It's powered by a 247-horsepower V-12 engine with triple Weber carburetors.
A personal favorite of Highway 1 was also sold at RM's auction. A rare 1988 Porsche 959 "Komfort" sold for $444,000. This all-wheel-drive supercar has a composite body, twin turbochargers and produces 450 horsepower, and this particular model has just a sneeze over 400 miles.
Photos: Sir Paul McCartney's Aston Martin DB5
The star of the show, however, failed to sell. A highly prized 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL alloy-bodied Gullwing hit a high bid of $3,876,000, just short of its reserve price. Only 29 such models are known to exist, and it is powered by a 215- horsepower, fuel-injected, inline six-cylinder engine.
Although these prices may seem high, RM saw even greater success at the Pebble Beach auction in August. There, the auction house sold an ultra-rare 1968 Ford GT at a hammer price of $10.7 million.
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McCormick Tribune Campus Center
The complex by Rem Koolhaas forms a new nexus for the academic and residential corridors of IIT's Main Campus.
The McCormick Tribune Campus Center is located at the historic 120-acre (50-hectare) campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago.
The campus, designed by Mies van der Rohe who became the head of IIT's architecture program in 1938, after the closure of the Bauhaus, is bordered by an expressway and divided in half by the elevated trains.
Rather than disguising the elevated railway Koolhaas encircles it as it crosses the top of the building.
The railway has a huge impact on IIT's character: to proclaim a new beginning we enclosed the section above the campus centre in an acoustically isolating stainless steel tube, releasing the potential of the land surrounding it and creating a crucial part of IIT's image.
The new Campus Center includes two primary components: A 10,690 square meter, one-story building, sheathed in metal and glass, and a 161 meter (530 feet) long stainless steel tube that sits directly above the building's roof, significantly muffling the noise and vibration generated by passing trains.
The one-story building serves a wide variety of student activity functions that include a welcome center, coffee bar, auditorium and meeting rooms, university bookstore, post office, convenience store, and computer room. The building is entered through a 20 foot tall glass portrait of Mies.
The interior layout was inspired by pre-existing footpaths, that criss-crossed under the train tracks, formed by students walking back and forth between residence halls and classroom buildings on the IIT Main Campus during the past 70 years.
The diagonal walkways are paved with shiny aluminum tiles, the walls are layers of transparent and translucent panels.
A long glass wall in the Welcome Center displays the portraits of several IIT founders.
A lower level computer room, with a 93-foot-long lighted shelf, is painted a bright red.
|How to inhabit a given territory with only half the population that animated it in the 1970s? To us the conundrum implies a building that is able to (re)urbanise the largest possible area with the least amount of (built) substance. Illinois Institute of Technology's situation is exacerbated by the no-man's-land either side of the elevated railway.
The physical heart of the campus is our project. By not stacking activities, but by positioning each programmatic particle as part of a dense mosaic, our building contains the urban condition itself.
To capture the sum of the student flows, the web of lines that connect the eastern and western campus destinations are organised through the campus centre to differentiate activities into streets, plazas and urban islands. Without fragmenting the overall building, each part is articulated according to its specific needs and positioned to create neighbourhoods (24-hour, commercial, entertainment, academic, utilitarian), parks and other urban elements in miniature.
The main federating element is the roof, a continuous concrete slab that shields the centre from the noise of the elevated railway while unifying the heterogeneity below.
|/Rem Koolhaas
|Chicago, Illinois
|Holabird & Root
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Wilton school project beginsKATHLEEN BAGLIO HUMPHREYS
Union Leader Correspondent
July 01. 2014 8:01PM
WILTON — On Monday, heavy machinery started to demolish a section of the 1950 wing of the Florence Rideout Elementary School as part of the first phase of the $8.25 million elementary school construction and renovation project.
The main office, music room and corridor space will become nine classrooms with a target completion date of February 2015.
The main challenge is how to build and renovate while also providing classroom space for students in Wilton during construction and in Lyndeborough during renovations.
When completed in September 2016, Wilton and Lyndeborough will share the elementary school in Wilton to educate students in grades 1-5 at Florence Rideout Elementary. Prekindergarten and kindergarten will be provided at Lyndeborough Central.
"The consolidated elementary school project is going exceedingly well. I have been very pleased with the progress made thus far. Members of Hutter Construction and their subcontractors have been very professional," said Principal Tim O'Connell.
"The site looks like a disaster zone. However, the subcontractors doing the demolition are very skilled and are diligent about recycling and not damaging any components that will be repurposed. I have enjoyed watching their progress; getting rid of the old to make way for the new," added O'Connell.
The final plan calls for major changes at the Florence Rideout Elementary School in Wilton. The 1950s wing will be demolished and a new state-of-the-art building constructed while renovating the 1895 wing, including the gymnasium.
In Lyndeborough, multiple classrooms will be renovated to kindergarten state standards, and the SAU 63 staff will relocate there, saving taxpayers $30,000 a year in office rental costs.
"Things are on schedule and progressing as expected," said School Board member Harry Dailey.
Lyndeborough has about 70 students in grades K-5 with only one classroom per grade. Wilton has at least two classrooms per grade with 212 students.
The towns share a cooperative middle and high school but were financially responsible for the elementary school located within their town borders until voters changed that in March 2014 to allow the elementary schools to be consolidated.
"Now that we are a fully consolidated district and all school expenses will be shared by both towns according to the formula," said School Board Chairman Geoff Brock.


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Traditional thinking on automated manual transmissions has it that AMTs are the great equalizers – bridgers of skill gaps between the best and the worst drivers in the fleet. While that's still true, AMTs now bring even more to the fuel-economy table, offering fuel savings in their own right beyond what even the most professionally driven manual transmission could accomplish.
Volvo Trucks broke a barrier of sorts when it introduced the downspeeding concept with its XE13 powertrain package in the fall of 2011. With axle ratios of 2.64:1, a 0.78:1 overdrive transmission and an engine cranking out 1,750 pounds-feet of torque, XE13 offered highway cruise speeds of 65 mph at an engine rpm of just 1,150. The powertrain package was aimed at fleets whose trucks spend the vast majority of their time in top gear.
Cruising at 1,150 rpm has obvious fuel economy advantages, but such a drivetrain would be difficult to manage effectively with a manual transmission – especially for inexperienced drivers. Volvo's I-Shift, along with the relatively high torque output, was the key enabler.
The transmission takes the driver out of the gear-choice loop, letting the technology and system programming manage the shifting tasks.
All the driver has to do is accept that it works and leave it alone.
Sister company Mack followed with its SuperEconodyne drivetrain using the mDrive AMT. Daimler Trucks North America just launched production of its Detroit DT12 AMT in an optimized powertrain with Detroit engine and axle and some fuel-saving features such as skip-shifting and eCoast.
Earlier this year, Eaton and Cummins got into the act with a bit of a different twist. The two companies announced they are collaborating on a new fuel-saving powertrain package that lends itself exclusively to an automated domain.
The Eaton Fuller Advantage Series, a small-ratio-step overdrive automated transmission, will be mated to Cummins' ISX15 with SmartTorque2 ratings.
The small-step ratio is in the top two gears only to optimize fuel economy at highway speed and while up- and down-shifting on small highway grades.
This small step between the top two gears, and between fourth and fifth gear as well in low range, would trip drivers up and make the transmission difficult to drive. But because it's automated, drivers won't have to deal with the uneven cadence between the gears.
Looking for the best possible gear train efficiency, "Eaton chose ratios that meshed really well with the fuel economy sweet spot of the ISX," says Shane Groaner, manager of product planning for Eaton's NAFTA region.
"This transmission was designed specifically for the ISX's fuel and power curves, but to get there we used some uncommon gear ratios which would have been awkward for the driver. It would be like climbing stairs that weren't all the same height.
"The engine and transmission, on the other hand, don't care. Automation opens up a lot of doors to play games with gear ratios."
With the downspeeding concept and the new approach Eaton and Cummins are taking, we are seeing movement away from just adding shift actuators to manual transmissions.
We are now seeing engine and transmission combinations optimized for fuel efficiency, regardless of driver skill or preconceptions.
Harmony in motion
In the early days of AMTs, it was a bit like the blind leading the blind. The transmission and the engine were sending data back and forth, but because of technical limitations of the day, neither unit had a truly complete picture of what the truck was doing.
That's no longer the case.
Roy Horton, Mack's powertrain product marketing manager, says seamless communication between the engine and the transmission has improved performance dramatically.
"Our mDrive uses sensors and real-time communication with six other vehicle ECUs in addition to its own internal sensors to know when, what gear, and how quickly to make a shift," he says.
"It's always trying to match engine torque output to road conditions and driver demand, all the while maintaining the most efficient operation of the engine at any moment in time – while maintaining Mack's unique engine performance signature."
While there is now a great deal of information going back and forth between the engine and the transmission, the engine and the transmission share three key pieces of information, says Kelly Schmitz, Cummins' director for customer engineering, Global On-Highway.
"The transmission and the engine both estimate the vehicle load and the grade of the road. We used to do that independently, but with the two sharing that data, we're able to get a much more accurate assessment of the situation."
The key, of course, is matching the gear ratio to operating conditions in order to keep the engine in or as close to the fuel economy sweet spot as possible.
Ed Saxman, Volvo's product marketing manager, calls it harmony.
"It's like the way the Bee Gees sing together," Saxman says. "Their voices are different, but each knows intuitively what the others will sing and the magic just happens. The communication channels between the two components are vast and wide open within the Volvo architecture. There are no secrets, and that's the key to successful integration between the engine and the transmission."
It's that in-depth and intimate communication that gets the best out of the engine-transmission combination, and sometimes it's almost a matter of a hair's breadth of difference in engine speed.
Brad Williamson, manager of engine and component marketing for Daimler Trucks North America, says it's all about the engine's fuel mapping and the transmission's shifting strategies.
"For example, if the recommended engine speed at a set cruise speed is 1,325, that is what a good driver would run at. But if the computers sensed a headwind or a slight grade, or maybe a heavier than optimum load, it might decide that 1,360 is the best engine speed, and it'll run there," he says. "It's more of a knowledge thing than a mechanical thing."
Williamson points to other advantages offered by AMTs that manuals (and their drivers) can't deliver consistently.
"Good drivers will skip-shift when they are thinking about it. Our DT12 will do it every time the opportunity presents itself," he says. "The AMTs don't have to think about it, or remember to do it. And automated transmissions never get tired or have bad days. They just always do the right thing."
With improvements in data acquisition and data sharing, automated manual transmissions are only going to get better.
The next step in the evolution will have to be human acceptance of the need to change.
One of the biggest improvements to come along in recent years is the downspeeding concept and the really low ratio drive axles.
But a lot of operators are reluctant to go there. There's tons of baggage to be shed about lugging engines and 100-mph axles. That's where the fuel savings lie.
Low axle ratio ratios coupled with low engine speed and gobs of carefully managed torque is the future of fuel economy.
All we have to do as owners and operators of trucks is get over the "I want what I had before" syndrome.
Automatic vs. automated: What's inside
The terms automatic and automated are often – but erroneously – used interchangeably. Automatic transmissions and automated manual transmissions are completely different critters. The most fundamental difference is that the automatic transmission uses a torque convertor rather than a typical two-plate manually activated clutch. But that's only the beginning.
The key difference between a manual and an automatic transmission is that automatic transmissions use the same set of gears to produce all of the different gear ratios. It's a planetary gearset that makes this possible.
Rather than a traditional gearshift as in the case of a manual transmission, the ratios in the planetary gears change, driven through a series of clutches that force the planetary ratios to change.
This effectively becomes the "gear shift," but because the input shaft passes through a hydraulic torque convertor, the engine does not have to decelerate during a gear change. The engine turns a turbine inside the torque convertor housing at the front of the transmission (where the clutch is on a manual transmission). The torque is transmitted through the planetary gears to the output shaft, which drives the wheels.
The gear ratios are determined by the number of teeth on the gears inside the planetary gears, and which of those gears is actually engaged.
Automatics used in heavy-truck applications typically have five or six forward speeds, and one reverse speed.
The ratios vary from something like a first gear of 3.1:1 in an on-highway transmission to a final drive of 0.65:1.
In the case of the Allison Highway Series transmission, direct is fourth gear, and fifth and sixth gears are overdrive of varying ratios.
Automated manual transmissions are, as the name implies, a standard manual gearbox with electrical or pneumatic servos that automatically (under electronic control) execute the gear changes and manage the clutch. Beyond the electronic control and the actuation of the gear changes, the automated manual isn't much different from its fully manual, driver-controlled brothers.
The manual transmission engages and disengages different sets of gears on two countershafts linked to the output shaft to create various gear ratios.
Generally, North American heavy-duty manuals have 8, 9, 10, 13, 15, or 18 gear ratios (four or five gears with a two-speed range splitter as well as hi-lo splitter in some cases) plus a two- or three-range reverse gear.
The gear steps are more or less equally spaced (usually 25% to 35%) to improve the predictability of a gear change for the driver.
Multi-speed manuals such as the 13- and 18-speed models have close gear steps to permit better matching of engine speed to road speed. These range from first-gear ratios of between 12:1 or 14:1 up to direct 1:1 final drive or overdrive ratios of 0.73:1 to 0.84:1.
European models use a 12-speed platform (four gears with a three-range splitter) and closer steps, but the low gears and the final drive ratios are similar to their North American counterparts.
Allison's TC10 TS
The new kid on the block from Allison is a combination of automatic and twin-countershaft manual design. The TC10 Tractor Series transmission uses a torque converter for engine coupling rather than a clutch, but also uses a twin countershaft gearbox with 10 forward speeds (5 speed main with two-speed planetary range shifter) and two reverse speeds.
It's targeted toward regional applications were there's lots of shifting going on, says Steve Spurlin, executive director of application engineering and vehicle integration for Allison Transmission.
"The ranges between the gears are closer than most full manual transmissions so we can get closer to the optimum output of the engine while maintaining performance," he says. "We use load-based shift schedules and full communications protocols with the engine along the J1939 data bus."
The TC10 offers full power shifting, just like an automatic, so the engine and the turbocharger don't have to spool down between shifts and sacrifice engine and vehicle momentum.
Allison says in three-week, side-by-side, in-fleet comparisons between the TC10 and AMTs and manual transmissions, they saw a 5% improvement in fuel economy.


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As more and more people leave the "Church" of Scientology, more information is coming out about the inner workings of the church. Alex Klein at Buzzfeed interviews a bunch of them who left as a result of what they allege is a real estate scam run by the organization:
When Bert Schippers forked over hundreds of thousands of dollars to help build an Ideal Org in downtown Seattle, he thought he was helping save the world. "I thought I was in the best religion on the planet," he says. But as he gave more and more from 2001 to 2008, the new cathedral's doors remained locked shut: to people, but not to money. Schippers, who had joined the church in 1986 and spent more than a million dollars on donations and courses, started asking questions about what, exactly, he was paying for; church leaders barred him, his wife, and his friends from setting foot inside.
"We gave that money because we wanted our local church to have its own building," says Schippers, who runs a circuit-board company with his wife. "But when I found out the church had changed the original teachings of L. Ron Hubbard to make so much money… I felt absolute, complete, total betrayal." Nonprofits often tell you that a donation can change your life, as well as its recipient's. For Schippers, losing so much for so little was a disturbing wake-up call. "It was around then I realized, I was in a fucking cult." He pauses, can't quite find the words. "It's…a mindfuck. Just a total mindfuck."…
It's no secret that Scientology is pay-to-play; the prices for its services and teachings, from books to audits to seminars, seem to know no ceiling. But this moneymaker is different: The building drives ask for straight-up cash donations of fixed amounts — many times larger than traditional Scientology buy-ins — and, according to former executives, go straight to the central church's kitty. For years, those who've long questioned Scientology's legitimacy mocked the religion's sci-fi-tinged teachings, called Hubbard a fraud, and lampooned those gullible enough to be taken in by its feel-good myths.But that didn't work. Why? All religions have their Xenus, multi-armed elephants, or magic babies, their morally ambiguous prophets, their tall tales and scandals. They even ask for millions of dollars from the faithful.
But the defectors who claim to have been bilked say this scheme is different, manipulating local parishes for the sake of central church finances. And once you talk to them, the stereotypes start to fade. These donors weren't brainwashed weirdos. They were more average joes than creepy cultists — searching, like the rest of us, for a pew, a community, a how-to guide for life. They're not familiar with corporate intrigue or mass donation drives.
The whole thing is worth reading. Klein did a great job on it, for which he will undoubtedly be rewarded by being investigated by private detectives and who knows what else, as past critics of the "church" have.


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Sometimes it seems like the wingnuts have a competition going to see which one can come up with the most hyperbolic and inane result of same-sex marriage. One person says it will destroy marriage so the next one says it will destroy America and the next one ups the ante to destroying civilization itself. Here's Mat Staver, the dean of Liberty University Law School, with his entry in the sweepstakes:
Staver: Basically marriage will be completely destroyed, families will be destroyed, children will be hurt by this and freedom of speech and freedom of religion, including in the pulpit itself, will absolutely be bulldozed over. This would open a floodgate of unimaginable proportions. That's why with those kinds of consequences to have five of the nine justices ultimately have this kind of power in their hands, that's not how this court and this country was established, to have five individuals to be able to have that kind of catastrophic, social reengineering power in their hands, that's just not something that was envisioned by the founders.
Parshall: Absolutely right. God hasn't given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind so we need to be in prayer, but I also think we need to be preparing our hearts as well Mat that if in fact the Supreme Court decides to trample underfoot the truth of God's word, we as a church are going have to decide what we're going to do. Mat, you know I'm going to appeal to your pastor's heart, that means that every single pastor who is called to hold out the word of life is going to have to decide whether or not he is going to sidestep certain passages for fear of some sort of response from the government.Staver: This is the thing that revolutions literally are made of. This would be more devastating to our freedom, to our religious freedom, to the rights of pastors and their duty to be able to speak and to Christians around the country, then anything that the revolutionaries during the American Revolution even dreamed of facing. This would be the thing that revolutions are made of. This could split the country right in two. This could cause another civil war. I'm not talking about just people protesting in the streets, this could be that level because what would ultimately happen is a direct collision would immediately happen with pastors, with churches, with Christians, with Christian ministries, with other businesses, it would be an avalanche that would go across the country.
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria! Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.


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The Stone Roses reunion, however, sits outside the realms of regular reunion shows . Following an acrimonious split, it's been 16 years since the original line-up of vocalist Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Gary "Mani" Mounfield, and drummer Alan "Reni" Wren shared a stage. With each member taken up with solo projects, other bands or ventures outside of music altogether, bassist Mani called reunion rumours "totally fantasy island". It seemed like it was never going to happen.
But it did. Though big bucks obviously exchanged hands, this was always going to be about more than just the money. There was unfinished (monkey) business to attend to. Laying down the soundtrack for a generation with their eponymous début album, The Stone Roses took years to put out so-so follow up The Second Coming. From then on in it was a slow slide towards destruction with near misses (such as their heartbreaking headline Glastonbury show pull-out caused, by Squire breaking a collarbone while mountain biking) punctuating the run-up to the band's inevitable implosion. The band that invented "baggy" and rejuvenated jangly indie pop never got their just deserts.
It was with genuine jubilation then, not cynicism, that fans welcomed the news of a reunion in October 2011.
Saturday's second Heaton Park homecoming show (30/06/2012) was a triumph, silencing any naysayers and showing a band perfectly at ease with their "legendary" status. If the first night had been methodical and careful, the second saw the band enjoying themselves, playing loose with extended jams and Ian Brown prowling the stage; the King Monkey had reclaimed his throne.
Kicking things off with their traditional slow-building blinder I Wanna Be Adored, The Stone Roses powered through a set of fan favourites which included their first album in its entirety.
Though every song was rapturously received, highlights came in somewhat unexpected places. Fans sang at their loudest during first album track Made Of Stone and The Second Coming single Ten Story Love Song. A well lubricated crowd of all ages was in good, friendly spirits (a rarity in enormo-shows like these), bobbing with baggy swagger to the grooves of Fools Gold, with Squire, Reni and Mani regularly jamming segues between each song.
Though banter was kept to a minimum, Brown kept an eye on a lively crowd, commanding the swarming pit to "pick each other up if you go down", and flying into an anti-royal diatribe before first album favourite Elizabeth My Dear.
Ending the only way an epic Stone Roses set could with an extended I Am The Resurrection, fans cheered a united, hugging band at the close as fireworks blasted overhead and Bob Marley's Redemption Song blared out of the PA. A fitting end; after years of fighting and will-they-wont-they reunion rumours, the band have risen phoenix like, redeemed, proving their enduring relevance and position as one of the finest bands to ever hail from British shores.
The set remained identical to Friday night's opener, and also carried over onto Sunday's show, likely in order to help director Shane Meadow as he prepares to edit together a commemorative DVD of the weekend. Hit the Spotify playlist below to hear the Saturday night set-list in full:
Earlier in the day saw fellow Manc hero Liam Gallagher declare The Stone Roses "the best band in the world" as he lead his post-Oasis project Beady Eye onstage for the main headline slot. Carrying Gallagher's trademark swagger throughout, a genial crowd paid most attention when the band tore through a handful of Oasis classics including Rock 'n' Roll Star and Morning Glory.
Beady Eye were preceded by Professor Green, whose dubstep-tinged rapping was at odds with the rest of the line-up. Despite a short barrage from hecklers, Professor Green eventually won over the crowds with hits including I Need You Tonight and Just Be Good To Green which saw a surprise appearance from Lily Allen.
The Wailers managed to bring out the sun during what was a heavily overcast day. Though few remaining members of the original Bob Marley-era line-up remain, they enjoyed mass sing alongs to One Love and I Shot The Sheriff.
Hollie Cook, daughter of Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook, kicked off the day with a reggae/punk fused set welcomed by a crowd already fired up by a 16 year wait.


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One by one, soldiers just arriving in Baghdad were taken into a room and questioned by their commanding officers. "All questions led up to the big question," explains former Army Spc. Josh Stieber. "If someone were to pull out a weapon in a marketplace full of unarmed civilians, would you open fire on that person, even if you knew you would hurt a lot of innocent people in the process?"
It was a trick question. "Not only did you have to say yes, but you had to say yes without hesitating," explains Stieber. "In refusing to go along with the crowd, it was not irregular for somebody to get beat up," he adds. "They'll take you in a room, close the door and knock you around if they didn't like your answer," says former Army Spc. Ray Corcoles, who deployed with Stieber.
According to these former soldiers, this was a typical moment of training for Bravo Company 2-16 (2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment), the ground unit involved in the infamous "Collateral Murder" video, which captured global headlines when it was released in April by WikiLeaks, the online clearinghouse for anonymous leaks. (In late July WikiLeaks dropped another bombshell with its release of more than 90,000 secret US military documents from the war in Afghanistan, including detailed reports on Pakistani collusion with the insurgents—who have successfully used heat-seeking missiles against allied forces—US assassination teams, widespread civilian casualties from US attacks and staggering Afghan government incompetence and corruption.)
The graphic video from Baghdad shows a July 2007 attack in which US forces, firing from helicopter gunships, wounded two children and killed more than a dozen Iraqis, including two Reuters employees and the father of those children. The video quickly became an international symbol of the brutality and callousness of the US military in Iraq. What the world did not see is the months of training that led up to the incident, in which soldiers were taught to respond to threats with a barrage of fire—a "wall of steel," in Army parlance—even if it put civilians at risk.
Now three former soldiers from this unit have come forward to make the case that the incident is not a matter of a few bad-apple soldiers but rather just one example of US military protocol in the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, where excessive acts of violence often stem from the chain of command. This comes at a time when the top brass in Afghanistan are speaking openly of relaxing the rules of engagement. After Gen. Stanley McChrystal's recent ouster for publicly criticizing the Obama administration, his successor, Gen. David Petraeus, has asserted that military protocol in Afghanistan should be adjusted because of "concerns" about "the application of our rules of engagement," a move that critics fear will cause civilian deaths to skyrocket.


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Guess it was a good day in the Carter household, although now that I think about it, most days are probably pretty good in that household. I think the sheets are made of gold. Nonetheless, if you'll excuse me, I have to go throw out all my various iterations of the Blueprint.
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