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Slightly off-topic...I just planted a lemon tree from seeds last spring-- so far it has a whole 5 leaves and is about 5" tall. I'm glad to hear that somebody has an indoor lemon tree that bears fruit! If you have any tips on how you have cared for your lemon tree, I'd love to hear them!The systems on that site look pretty neat. Might look into those.
I haven't grown anything hydroponically yet, but plan to in the future. Here is a link to a great Australian gardening program that has some fact sheets on hydroponics, including hints for beginners. Maybe one of these will help. Let us know how it goes.http://search.abc.net.au/search/search.cgi?form=simple&num_ranks=20&collection=tv&scope=%2Fgardening%2F&query=hydroponics
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Posted on May 20, 2011
Now that this whole mayor thing has gone through, maybe you'd like to take part in a really significant election.
If, like millions of Americans, you dash straight to this column in the mornings, you may miss the rest of the Newberry's nifty website, and thus have not read about the launch of the Adoption Program.
Now, they knew you'd ask, so no, you don't get to come and pick out a nice book from the collection and take it home. This is like the Adopt-An-Anteater programs at zoos. You don't take the anteater home; your money goes to support the anteaters generally. You are, of course, free to walk up to the enclosure and wave at YOUR anteater when the zoo is open.
What this program does is offer a variety of things to wave at, from quotations at $20 a wave to whole books at $1,000 a wave. They're things particularly representative of the major facets of our uncommon collection: a ledger drawing for the Old West, a dance photograph from the Ann Barzel Collection, literature and history galore and, of course, a lot of our stars: one of our first edition Moby Dicks, our Mozart manuscript, a quotation from our First Folio, etc. If you take advantage of the chance to make a donation to your favorite, you get a nice thank you email and a link to an adoption certificate which features a few more details about what you adopted.
But there's more to it than that. "You know who's adopting what, right?" I asked. "You know how many people are adopting Malcolm X's Pullman employment record?"
"Of course," I was told. I stood back, quietly agog to be in the presence of the Adoption Score-Keeper.
You see what this means: you are, by your donation, not only supporting the Newberry. You're supporting your hero. Whom do you want to see win, say, in the Music category? Claude Debussy, Wolfgang A. Mozart, Bruder Lustig (dancing champagne bottles), or Jacob de Senleches? I am told that the Mozart and Debussy pieces are the most popular adoptees so far, and are running neck and neck. How do you Mozartians feel about being tied with a relative newcomer?
In the quotation arena, we have Shakespeare vying with a quotation from Alice in Wonderland, the immortal "Call me Ishmael", and a dark horse candidate, a bit of testimony from a Baptist who had been caught dancing and whose hearing before the church fathers is preserved among the local history manuscripts at the Newberry. You supporters of the Bard want to see him beat out the competition, right? (I must admit to a soft spot for the Baptist.)
It's the same in the other categories. In manuscripts, will it be Ernest Hemingway or Sherwood Anderson (with Malcolm X and a little-sung Civil War soldier also in the running). Maybe you like the dance photograph in the Images category, but an adoption of the ledger painting is a vote for neat horse pictures everywhere. In books, you'll find Herman Melville entering the lists again, his whale vying with Frederick Douglass and Don Quixote. And there's the map category, and the special Father's Day selections and….
Take a look for yourself and toss a few dollars into the till for your all-time hero. This is a CHICAGO type election, you understand: you may stuff the ballot box with donations until the numbers on your card wear out. I have been promised updates if you'd like to know how the adoption rates are growing. Drop by and vote every day: keep the numbers up for Captain Ahab and dancing champagne bottles.
And, ahem, if you WERE looking for an adoption program where you take home the book, I run a program like that myself in July. I'll have Shakespeares and Melvilles and Don Quixotes, too. And, because it is, as noted, a Smurfish month, by the most peculiar coincidence, someone has dropped off a copy of one of the very books offered for adoption on the Website. Not the First Folio or the first edition of Moby Dick: you'd have heard me holler from where you're sitting. But on Monday this week, someone dropped off a battered copy of that cute little Debussy toy ballet featured in the music section. If you don't spend ALL your money adopting books online, you'll find it in the Collector's section come July (if you're fast enough. It has a lot of fond parents already.)

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Nope, we've got it wrong. Independence wasn't declared July 4, 1776, after all. That happened July 2, when the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt Thomas Jefferson's Declaration.
Nope, we've got it wrong. Independence wasn't declared July 4, 1776, after all. That happened July 2, when the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt Thomas Jefferson's Declaration.
It was given the final OK on the Fourth, though, and that's why we celebrate.
Other interesting events have occurred through the years July 4. In 1862, Lewis Carroll finished "Alice in Wonderland." Buffalo Bill presented his first Wild West Show in North Platte, Neb., in 1883.
France liked us better July 4, 1884, than it does now, for that's when it presented the Statue of Liberty to us. Germany didn't like us a bit (the feeling was mutual) in 1944 when our side let off a 1,100-gun salute on their lines in Normandy to celebrate our birthday.
Ninety-eight years ago on the Fourth, Nathan's of Coney Island, N.Y., held its first annual hot dog eating contest.
Nine years ago on the big day the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower was laid on the site of the World Trade Center.
And if the Boston Bombers had followed their original plan, July 4, 2013, would have marked the day of their attack, but impatience and impetuousness changed things.
The Obama family will celebrate Thursday, for sure, because it's older daughter Malia's birthday. It's also Stephen Foster's, who wrote many songs about America including "My Old Kentucky Home" and "The Swanee River." George M. Cohan, composer of many patriotic ditties, says he "was born on the Fourth of July" in "Yankee Doodle Boy," but it was really the Third.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the same Fourth of July, as did North Carolina's Charles Kuralt, who traveled across America "On the Road" in search of off-the-beaten-track stories. Sen. Jesse Helms died five years ago Thursday.
The most important events for the Fourth of July for most of us, however, are the parades, the firework displays and the big, bang-up cookouts in the backyard.
What's on the menu for that cookout? The top 10 favorite Fourth of July foods are potato salad, lemonade, pasta salad, watermelon, hot dogs, potato chips, flag cake, hamburgers, baked beans and barbecued chicken. We'll add corn on the cob to that list, and perhaps a bucket of homemade ice cream and apple pie to round things out.
But whoa — most of these foods are not truly American. Dogs and burgers are from Germany, chicken from southeast Asia, watermelon from southern Africa, apples from pre-historical Europe, lemonade from Egypt, pasta from, no, not Italy, but China, as is ice cream.
The Western world can lay claim to corn, potatoes and beans, and that tomato slice on your burger, though. Kraft, with a little help from Betty Crocker, gave us the flag cake; what could be more American?
How about a little Fourth of July quiz to test your patriotic IQ?
1. Who wanted the wild turkey to be our national bird? a. George Washington, b. Benjamin Franklin, c. John Adams
2. Who receives credit for stitching the first flag? a. Dolly Madison, b. Molly Pitcher, c. Betsy Ross
3. In what shape were the stars in the first flag arranged? a. circle, b. square, c. triangle
4. Who wrote "The Stars and Stripes Forever?" a. Frances Scott Key, b. Stephen Foster, c. John Philip Sousa?
5. How many places in the United States have "liberty" in their names? a. 15, b. 27, c. 31
6. From which country do most of our flags and fireworks come? a. India, b. China, c. Mexico
7. In which year did the Fourth of July become a national holiday? a. 1785, b. 1865, c. 1941
8. About how many million hot dogs were consumed last year on the Fourth? a. 75, b. 150, c. 200
9. How did the Liberty Bell receive its crack? a. from a musket shell, b. on its first ring, c. hit by lightning
10. Where was the first national capitol located? a. Washington, b. Boston, c. Philadelphia
Answers: 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-c, 5-c, 6-b, 7-c, 8-b, 9-b, 10-c. If you didn't ace this quiz, you weren't paying much attention in your fifth-grade history class.
Happy Fourth of July, anyway.
Page H. Onorato is a retired teacher.


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BALTIMORE, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Celsis International Ltd. announced today that Celsis In Vitro, Inc. ("Celsis IVT") has reached a settlement agreement with XenoTech, LLC, Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd., and Sekisui Medical Co. Ltd. in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Celsis IVT on February 2, 2010.
The lawsuit involved a patent owned by Celsis IVT relating to processes for producing its LiverPool™ products. The LiverPool products are multi-cryopreserved, pooled hepatocyte products used by pharmaceutical companies to evaluate potential drug compounds.
As part of the settlement agreement, XenoTech has agreed to cease manufacturing and selling its CryoXTreme products. Other terms of the settlement agreement are confidential.
"Celsis believes in the fundamental importance of respecting patents and other forms of intellectual property, and we intend to defend the time and energy we have invested in our LiverPool product line and patents," said Jay LeCoque, CEO of Celsis. "I am pleased that this lawsuit has been settled and that CryoXTreme has been removed from the market."
For more information about Celsis and its products, visit www.celsis.com.
About Celsis IVT
Celsis IVT is the premier world provider of specialized in vitro products for the study of metabolism, drug-drug interactions and toxicity in drug discovery and development. Since 1990, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies have relied on Baltimore-based Celsis IVT for quality in vitro products for lead optimization. Celsis IVT products deliver faster time to results, enabling more productive and cost-effective research. Celsis IVT's patented LiverPool products, cryo-plateable hepatocytes (the world's largest inventory) and other ADMET research tools are available worldwide. Visit www.celsis.com/ivt for more information.
About Celsis International
Chicago-based Celsis International is a leading global provider of innovative life science products and laboratory services to the pharmaceutical and consumer products industries. Each Celsis division delivers substantial time and cost savings to its customers while ensuring product quality and safety for consumers. Celsis' extensive client base includes leading pharmaceutical and consumer products companies, including all 25 of the top 25 pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Visit www.celsis.com.
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I'd like to welcome the newly elected National Commander of The American Legion, James E. Koutz.
I would also like to welcome the National President of The American Legion Auxiliary, Peggy Thomas. Thank you both for your advocacy for veterans and the enduring support of The American Legion's 2.5 million members.
Before we start, I would like to extend my complements to your Washington staff and to tell you, Commander, what a pleasure it is to work with them.
I would also like to take a moment to recognize those in the audience who traveled here from Maine. If there are any Legion members here from Maine today, would you please raise your hand?
These Committees are charged with oversight of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the VA's budget. And while this has been a busy and frustrating year in many regards, we must look forward to how we can best serve veterans in 2013.
To provide the best care and services, we need to understand how the veteran population is growing, changing and located geographically.
In 2011, we had just over 22 million veterans with 34 million dependents and we had 540,000 survivors of deceased veterans receiving compensation.
I was pleased to see that the VA's budget for 2013 reflected many of these changes. But they must do better outreach to eligible veterans and dependents to make sure they all get the services and compensation they have earned.
The VA 2013, overall budget is $140 billion, an increase from the 2012 request.
And because of the hard work of many individuals in this room, advance appropriations continue to help the VA with long-term planning.
With advance appropriations we ensure sufficient, timely and predictable funding for veterans' health care.
But advance appropriations only works when we work together to pass year-long appropriations bills. Short term continuing resolutions are not helpful for planning purposes and hurt the ability of the VA to provide health care services.
Although Congress may disagree on a lot of things, I hope we can always agree that providing strong appropriations for the VA is a non-partisan effort that must be done each year.
I was troubled by a July report from CBS news that found suicide rates among soldiers is up 80 percent.
Our veterans are returning from war with invisible wounds that need treatment but are discouraged from seeking this care for a variety of reasons. As a nation, we can do better -- we have to get this right.
To The American Legion, I ask for your help on this issue. As you lobby the Committee on Veterans Affairs, I hope you also lobby the Armed Services Committee for early intervention.
Care must begin when the person is on active duty. We must do more to help our veterans go on to live long and productive lives.
One of our efforts has been to make it easier for veterans to get credit for their military training.
Service members are experienced in many career fields that can be as varied:
* as electronics,
* medicine,
* avionics,
* mechanical and
* air traffic control.
These individuals have received first class training and experience, but unfortunately this top notch training rarely leads to a similar civilian career.
More must be done on the state and federal level to ensure that these skills translate into the civilian world.
If a service member can get credit for military training then each State will be better served by capturing this talent and increasing productivity.
With the American Legion's extensive network of state departments, your organization will be critical in working with us to move this issue forward at the state level.
On the federal level, we must also be looking at how we help service members transition back into civilian life. The Department of Defense and the Department of Labor must ensure that their employment and transition assistance programs are providing valuable and practical skills.
We must solve the disability claims problem at the VA. This has been an ongoing problem now for many, many years.
If the current system is not working, we need to be honest with ourselves, admit the failure, and look for new solutions.
If more money and more people have not solved the problem, we should look to other models to find improvements that could be beneficial for the VA.
And it is not enough to process claims faster. We need to have an equal focus on accuracy so our veterans get the correct benefits the first time around and so that the VA doesn't end up doing twice the work because of appeals.
We all must continue to work together to provide our veterans with the quality health care and benefits that they require, and that they have earned.
I thank you all for being here today, and Commander, I look forward to hearing the Views and Estimates of The American Legion.
Source: http://veterans.house.gov/opening-statement/honorable-michael-hmichaud-1


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On Paper: Put This On gives the co-eds of today a firm talking-to when it comes to their on-campus attire. [PTO]
In Practice: Ivy Style comes up with a similarly timed pictorial on fall campus style (or rather, post-prep dropout style). Good stuff. [Ivy Style]
Spray-Tan-Gate: BuzzFeed digs deep on the issue of whether or not Romney has been keeping his bronze visage by spray-tanning. You might not like what they find. [BuzzFeed]
Hay Now: A series of pictures of the candidates making speeches near hay. [Daily Intel]


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Wired reports on a cluster of mini-satellites that will soon be launched into orbit that will assist U.S. special forces personnel during manhunts. "SOCOM is putting eight miniature communications satellites, each about the size of a water jug, on top of the Minotaur rocket that's getting ready to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia. They'll sit more than 300 miles above the earth and provide a new way for the beacons to call back to their masters." When special forces are able to tag their target, the target can be tracked and located through the use of satellites and cell towers, but coverage is poor in many areas of the world. The satellites going up in September will help to fill in some gaps. "This array of configurable 'cubesats' is designed to stay aloft for three years or more. Yes, it will serve as further research project. But 'operators are going to use it,' Richardson promised an industry conference in Tampa last week."


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Windhorst is saying that Green will play. So at least we will have a HEAT killer in the game...
Windhorst is saying that Green will play. So at least we will have a HEAT killer in the game...
every source i have seen says green it out.
Green isn't playing......
Don't expect an easy win at all, they have Dejuan Blair, Boris Diaw, and Tiago Splitter who are going to absolutely kill us in the paint as they did last year.
Oh well maybe was an error...
WindhorstESPN Brian Windhorst
Tony Parker, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili not playing for Spurs tonight at Heat. Coach Pop resting them. (via @JMcDonald_SAEN )
51 minutes ago
So with everyone from the spurs sitting I expect Miami to not care for this game, play like crap and lose. Lol
I almost think its a head game thing from Pop, Heat win its cause everyone was sitting, but if Spurs win it's without anyone.
ray allen is a game time decision, sore/stiff back...unleash the rainman
starters for tonight
allen will play
ugh why is Lewis starting, better put a few more on ice its gunna be one of those games
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I have a fairly typical WAMP development setup on my local machine, but want to get a remote server setup to test-drive my applications and give others' access.
Ideally, I'm looking for access via SSH and the ability to use PHP/MySQL features that are often disabled on typical consumer hosting solutions (e.g. stored procedures/functions). I assume this means that I'll have to get a VPS. If that's the case, which VPS do you recommend? What are the relative benefits/drawbacks of each? I've noticed some include control panel software (cPanel, Plesk) - are these necessary?
I'm on a budget, preferably looking for something under $20 a month, but would stretch to $30 if the value is there. I've noticed Slicehost and Media Temple mentioned here so far. I've also looked at Myhosting.com, which seems to have the lowest pricing.
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Darlene Ross' Thanksgiving memories go back a good 80 years. Or maybe make that
80 good years.
Just imagine.
You awake early Thursday morning to the tang of woodsmoke pervaded by the pungent aroma of turkey. Not just turkey, though. Stuffing. Mashed potatoes - real mashed potatoes. And sweet potatoes too. And cranberry relish and pies. Oh, the pies. Pumpkin, mincemeat, apple, cherry. All flaky and begging for a fork to dig into them.
Such are the Thanksgiving memories of Darlene Ross, 91, who has lived in the area pretty much her whole life, now living south of Superior. She lived at Lake Park until she was five then moved to a farm just across the border in Minnesota. It's there where her earliest Thanksgiving memories reside.
"We always had a family Thanksgiving," said Darlene. And that was a family of nine kids - spanning 20 years - and their parents. "We always had turkey and all the trimmings," Darlene added.
"All the trimmings" could also aptly describe the love her family had for one another. Oh, it was hard work, sure, especially during the Depression. But then they had each other.
On the farm they had their meat - steers and pigs along with dairy cattle. And then there was the garden. Their mammoth cookstove was fueled with oak and ash and kindled with cobs gleaned from the pig lot. It was the cookstove oven where Mother made magic happen.
"It always smelled good when we cooked the turkey and the dressing," reflected Darlene. "I had a good homelife."
In a way, the farm insulated them somewhat from the depression. "We always had enough to eat," said Darlene, who helped plant the garden.
School was a mile and a half walk.
"It was good exercise for us. It didn't hurt us a bit," she said.
She went eight grades to country school, finding herself the only eighth grader when she was done. That was when it was time to move on to high school in Sioux Valley.
"We just survived the winter," Darlene remembered of the weather turning from the colors of fall to bare branches against snow.
For entertainment, they went to Spirit Lake Saturday nights. And come Christmastime, there were free movies.
So would she like to go back to the gool ol' days?
"Oh my no," Darlene said. "I would like to go back to my family, of course." I always had good memories of them. They all got along nice."
When Darlene's father passed away at 55, she was only 12 or 13 and a freshman in high school. That took some quick growing up then.
She did fine, though.
After all, there were nine others to help take care of each other.


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Here's a list of local locations for Independence Day celebrations. Happy 4th of July!!!
Sunday, July 4
Independence Day Celebration and Fireworks
Parade Begins at 6:30 p.m.; Will Proceed Through Downtown. It Will Begin on Amos Garrett Boulevard, Turn Right on West Street, Travel Around Church Circle, Down Main Street, Turn Left on Randall Street and Disband Just Past the Market House.
Band Concert Begins at 8 p.m. A Performance by the United States Naval Academy Band Will Take Place at the Susan C. Campbell Park at City Dock.
Fireworks at Approximately 9:15 p.m. to be Launched From a Barge in the Annapolis Harboor.
Sunday, July 4
Inner Harbor and Harborplace. Day-long Musical Events And Activities Noon – Fireworks Begin at 9:30 P.M.
Saturday, July 3
Arbutus Recreation Council Begins12:30 p.m., Ends1 p.m.
Route: Formation area: Tom Day Boulevard Route: Tom Day Boulevard to Carville Avenue to East Drive (Super Fresh parking lot)
Catonsville Celebrations Committee
Begins 3 p.m., Ends 5:30 p.m.
Route: Formation area: Montrose Avenue; Bloomingdale Avenue; Route: Starting at Montrose Avenue and Frederick Road, proceed east on Frederick Road to Bloomsbury Avenue, turn right on Bloomingdale
Dundalk Heritage Parade Committee
Begins 8 a.m., Ends 1 p.m.
Route: Formation area: Logan Village Shopping Center. Route: North on Dundalk Avenue, east on Belcare, north on Liberty Parkway, west on Dunglow Road, west on Dunmanway, north on Shipping Place, east on Shipway, north on Admiral Boulevard, south on Liberty Parkway to Dunmanway
Glyndon Community Association, Inc.
Begins 10 a.m., Ends noon
Route: Formation area: Albright Avenue. Route: Albright Avenue east to Central Avenue, north onto Central to Chatsworth Avenue, west onto Chatsworth to Railroad Avenue, south onto Railroad to Albright Avenue
Hampton Improvement Association
Begins 8:45 a.m., Ends 9 a.m.
Route: Formation: Dead end court Gateshead & Seminary Avenue; start north end of Gateshead Rd., down to St. Francis Road left onto Valley View Drive, quick right in to Hampton Mansion farmhouse grounds
Greater Kingsville Civic Association
Begins 10 a.m., Ends 11 a.m.
Route: Formation area: Kingsville Fire Hall, Bradshaw Road and St. Stephen's Church lot for fire trucks and large vehicles. Route: From Kingsville Volunteer Fire Department grounds, down Bradshaw Road, right on Jerusalem Road, at judges viewing stand to St. Paul's Lutheran Church Street parking lot
Pine Valley/Valleywood Community Association
Begins 10 a.m., Ends 10:45 a.m.
Route: Formation area: Pine Valley Drive and Presway Road; start at Pine Valley Drive and Presway Road-South to Sandee Road left, then left on Rickswood Road into school (Pinewood Elementary) parking lot
Towson Area Fourth of July Parade
Begins 10:30 a.m., Ends 1 p.m.
Route: Formation: Towson University (Burke & Bosley) disperse at Burke & Washington Avenues
Wilson Point Civic Association
Begins 9 a.m., Ends 10:30 a.m.
Route: Formation area: Middle River Volunteer Fire Company and Beech Drive – Route: Right onto Wilson Point Road-Right onto Dogwood Drive, left onto Shore Road, left onto Hazel Drive, left onto Wilson Point Road, to the Middle River Volunteer Fire Company's lot for disbursement. Distance total 1.6 miles
Sunday, July 4
Sudbrook Park, Inc.
Begins 10 a.m., Ends 11 a.m.
Route: Formation area: Triangle at Adana Road, Kingston Road and Windsor Road. Dispersal area: Playground McHenry Road. Route: Parade travels up Adana Road, turns right into Carysbrook Road, turns right onto Olmstead Road, turns left onto McHenry and ends at playground on McHenry Road
Coachford/Springlake Community Association
Begins 10 a.m., Ends 11 a.m.
Route: Formation area: Galewood Circle-Timonium; Route: Galewood Road, right on Tregarone, right on Hartfell, left on Fallsbrook Road, left on Springlake Drive, left into Pot Spring School parking lot
Colonial Village Neighborhood Association
Begins 9:30 a.m., Ends 10:30 a.m.
Route: Formation: Lowell Drive at Deerfield Road/Lowell Drive; Route: east at Plymouth Road, south at Concord Road, west on Concord Ending at Salem Court
Monday, July 5
Hereford Optimist Club
Begins 5:30 p.m., Ends 8 p.m.
Route: Formation area: Hereford SHA lot: beginning at Hereford Shopping Center, start east on Mt. Carmel Road to North onto York Road (Rte 45) end at Hereford High School
Thursday, July 1
Green Spring Valley Hunt Club (Rain Date July 5)
30 Green Spring Valley Road
Saturday, July 3
Baltimore Country Club (Rain Date July 4)
11500 Mays Chapel Road
Catonsville High School (Rain Date July 4)
421 Bloomsbury Avenue
Eastern Yacht Club
918 Seneca Road, The Barge (No Rain Date)
Grange Elementary School (Rain Date July 5)
200 Church Road, Dundalk
Oregon Ridge Park (No Rain Date)
13401 Beaver Dam Road
The Suburban Club (Rain Date July 5)
7600 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore
Woodholme Country Club (Rain Date July 5)
300 Woodholme Avenue
Sunday, July 4
Fullerton Park (Rain Date July 5)
4208 Fullerton Avenue
Loch Raven Academy (Rain Date July 5)
8101 LaSalle Road
Oregon Ridge Park (No Rain Date)
13401 Beaver Dam Road
Monday, July 5
Hereford High School (Rain Date July 6)
17220 York Road, Hereford
Sunday, July 4
Old Fashioned July 4th Celebration
Noon – Fireworks Begin at 9:30 P.M.
Carroll County Farm Museum, 500 S. Center Street, Westminster
Sunday, July 4
An Independence Day Celebration
Noon Til Dusk
Baker Park, Frederick
Sunday, July 4
Independence Day Parade, Carnival, Concert and Fireworks
Parade at 2 p.m., Carnival 6-10 p.m., Concert at 7 p.m., Fireworks at 9:15 p.m. (approximately)
Tydings Park, Havre de Grace
Sunday, July 4
July 4th Festival and Fireworks Columbia Lakefront 5-10 p.m. Fireworks begin at 9:30 p.m. *rain date for fireworks only July 5th


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Final Four lacrosse regional report
Updated 12:38 am, Friday, May 24, 2013
Final Four lacrosse regional report
Several regional lacrosse players are on the rosters of the NCAA Division I teams featured in the Final Four this weekend in Philadelphia. The Final Four begins on Saturday with Cornell playing Duke at 2:30 p.m. (ESPN2) and Syracuse facing Denver at 5 (ESPN2). An update on our regional players with statistics for this season:
Fr. Tony Britton (Darien), D: 11 games, 2 ground balls
Fr. Henry West (Darien), Mf: 9 games, 1-1 faceoffs
Fr. Reed Barbe (Greenwich), Att
Jr. Harley Brown (New Canaan), D: 13 games, 6 starts, 11 ground balls, 13 caused turnovers
So. Aidan Scott (Ridgefield), Att
Sr. Colin Scott (Ridgefield), Att: 17 games, 8 starts, 10 goals, 12 assists, 17 ground balls
Fr. Case Matheis (Darien), Att: 19 games, 13 starts, 27 goals, 21 assists, 18 ground balls
Jr. Charlie Payton (Greenwich), Mf: 5 games, 0 starts, 4 ground balls, 3-6 faceoffs


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The major TV networks still rely on broadcast as their primary venue, even as the Internet lures away a growing portion of the audience that want social interaction, not just passive viewing.
Even the remaining viewers are likely to be multitasking on the couch. Network data shows that more than half its audience interacts with their computers while watching television.
So instead of treating the Internet as the enemy, networks have turned online content and social networking into an important tool for keeping their audience engaged.
"Our viewers happen to be using all these different things in tandem with the broadcast," explains Bill Bradford, Fox's senior vice president of content strategy. "We want to harness that activity and turn our viewers into marketers."
For example, when Fox researchers noticed a high activity of discussion about "Fringe" on Twitter while the show aired, the network decided to involve the talent. In September, it began airing "tweet-peat" episodes during the show (along with airings of "Glee"), where cast and crew members of the shows interacted with fans while the show aired.
Broadcasters also are offering online video feeds to be streamed with their telecasts. A live stream of behind-the-scenes footage for the MTV Video Music Awards, for example, garnered more than 1.7 million unique visitors. By putting that stream on the Web, MTV was able to get their show onto two screens in the living room, not just one.
"Every network is looking for ways to reach their audience on the Web and monetize them," says Philip Nelson, senior VP of strategic development for NewTek, which provides technology for live video content. "Fans want to feel like they're in the inner circle."
Newtek's TriCaster live production system allows for a camera to be set up backstage or on the set of a program and stream additional content to its website. The company did the MTV feed and supplied similar content for VH1 and NBC's Miss Universe pageant. It also worked with "The Hills" to provide live online content from the show's producers that stream during its commercials.
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A compounding company in Augusta, Ga., has recalled syringes of the cancer drug Avastin it supplied over five months to physicians treating vision problems after the Food and Drug Administration received word that five patients who received the compounded medication came down with eye infections that could leave them blind.
The FDA announced the recall Thursday after regulators conducted a preliminary inspection of Clinical Specialties Compounding Pharmacy and found "practices at the site that raise concerns about a lack of sterility assurance."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent the FDA reports it had gathered of five patients sickened with endophthalmitis, an infection within the eyeball, after having received an injection in the eye of Avastin repackaged at CSCP.
A company news release said its products were distributed nationwide between Oct. 19 and March 19.
The recall involves a cancer drug that is used off-label in the treatment of severe (or "wet") macular degeneration, a disorder that gradually causes blindness, starting with a loss of central vision. Though the FDA has not approved the marketing of Avastin for macular degeneration, many physicians use it as an alternative to more expensive therapies approved by the FDA, including ranibizumab (marketed as Lucentis) and aflibercept (marketed as Eylea).


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Arkansas and Louisiana Tech to Play NCAA Softball Doubleheader in Texarkana
The University of Arkansas Lady Razorbacks and the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters will play each other in a NCAA Division I Softball Doubleheader this Saturday October 26th in Texarkana.The first game starts at 1:00 p.m. Saturday at the Arkansas High School Softball Field. Tickets for the doubleheader are only $5 for adults, $2 for students, and kids five and under will be admitted free of charge.
After the game is over, you are invited to stick around and get autographs from your favorite Lady Razorback players.


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The question is, will it drive down the price of devices with multitouch capability?
More specifically, could we see this being applied in a competitor to Microsoft Surface anytime soon?
I don't really see this as a competitor for the microsoft surface.
I'd love for someone to enable the back of my phone for touch, leaving the screen clear of my clumsy heads. Something like this might make it possible
The question is, will it drive down the price of devices with multitouch capability?
More specifically, could we see this being applied in a competitor to Microsoft Surface anytime soon?
Will we see Microsoft Surface in the real world any time soon?
All I've seen are tech demo's and I haven't even seen one of those in a while.
It only had about a 256 touch-point resolution (16x16), but IR sensors were
standard on most Plato terminals back at the U. of Ill. It had a few terminals scattered off campus, as far away as Hawaii, so would have qualified as one of the first nationwide 'network' systems.
Behind the touch grid was a 512x512 plasma display (monochrome) (didn't require refresh!).
The base system supported interactive chat (multi-person as well as two people), email, multi-user forums, per-user 'cookies', program-loadable font
Yes, the Elo CarrollTouch Touchscreens use this technique.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Elo but we have 2 of these screens for primate research.
The technique debuted commercially in the 80s. From Wikipedia:
"The HP-150 from 1983 was one of the world's earliest commercial touchscreen computers. Similar to the PLATO IV system, the touch technology used employed infrared transmitters and receivers mounted around the bezel of its 9" Sony Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), which detected the position of any non-transparent object on the screen."
Have you tried giving the primates an iPad? Just curious?
but we have 2 of these screens for primate research
So who's the other lucky primate?
D'oh! My bad!
Yes this isn't new technology (other than the multi-touch support). IR touch screens have been around at least since the 80's. You could get add-on bezels for the Apple ][. They are used today for industrial settings where the environment is to harsh or dirty for resistive or capacitive sensors.
These are commercially available for schools already. Whiteboard manufacturers are buying this off the shelf to integrate with their existing whiteboard systems; they use IR emitters/sensors and hooks up via USB as a standard USB HID multitouch device.
Schools usually prefer to buy products with a warranty attached. In many cases, it's required.
Yep, the only thing that's "new" is how cheaply they can be made today. Back in the 90s I worked with a 10ft by 40ft optical sensor array, which drove a synthesizer as a big performance-art techno theremin.
It had multitouch, though certain combinations would not fire due to line of sight limitations. It was certainly good enough to amaze our druggy audience
The latest generation of Sony Readers use infrared touchscreens. This method isn't exactly novel, but here it's applied to a much larger screen and is said to be an add-in component, which is still rather cool. Pick your favorite display and you know you can make it multitouch on top of that.
Iirc, a Swedish company Made an attempt at selling mobile phones using this as the sensor system for their touch screen phones. Was back around 2000 or so.
Try 39 years ago, at least. University of Illinois PLATO IV terminals connected to a Control Data mainframe. We used to do our physics and chemistry homework on these things, and I can tell you from personal experience that they worked great.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Platovterm1981.jpg [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) [wikipedia.org]
Posted this comment earlier, but it got deleted somehow, not sure why.
Disclaimer: I'm the guy in the video.
The biggest difference between our approach and prior infrared touchscreen technologies is the use of one-to-many emitter-sensor pairings. Each infrared emitter is detected by all sensors in view, as opposed to using a single sensor for each emitter. Using a single sensor for each emitter limits the touch detection to two perpendicular grids of parallel light beams. Our approach enables us to reliably
> I swear we used to have these at work, 10-15 years ago. They were not multi-touch, but that was likely due to the computer interface (serial) and the perhaps more primitive technology at the time. But I'm pretty sure the sensors were infra-red. As I recall, it wasn't necessarily the most accurate system. So, these guys just improved it a bit, or is this truly "revolutionary"?
They have advanced significantly since then, including multitouch and even interactive objects (think 3D icon-pucks you can place
Err -- my bad, the home-brew ones are not "optical force field" based, as described in the article (similar to original touchscreen technology), they are based on changing with the surface index of refraction when you touch the screen. I suspect the index-of-refraction approach is sensitive to fingerprints, which would be an advantage of capacitive touch or this optical force field.
The "air-canvas" concept is interesting too, and could not be done with either capacitive touch or index-of-refraction.
This is news ? I mean, it's a cute college project and all..... but it's sort of a joke compared to the cutting edge. And the cutting edge is what's NEWs.
This is something i'd expect to see in make mag, or similar.
Also, FYI.. these guys are re-inventing the wheel... so, sadly, it's not even new: http://www.irtouch.com/ [irtouch.com]
No wait -- a roaring lion!
Better: a subordinated debenture.
I mean, if we're going to just go making up shit like "force field" when characterizing a simple grid of eye-beam sensors...
(Hint: where does the "force" come in?)
And yes, the earliest touch-screen technologies were essentially exactly this sort of light-beam interruptor laid near the surface of a CRT. They were soon replaced by surface-acoustical-wave systems and even capacitive feedback through the cathode beam itself.
Yea, I was imagining something like force-feedback via the beams.. now THAT would've been cool / slick.
1981 called... They want their technology back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#Infrared [wikipedia.org]
(and yes, for you xkcd [xkcd.com] fans, I did warn them about Haiti and Japan)
I'm just waiting for them to re-release paper tape, the light pen, drum memory, and the toggle switch programming interface. We could call them cellulose ray, light sabre, wisdom vortex, and direct binary injection respectively.
I'd call it a 'field disruption' interface rather than a 'force field' interface.
They're introducing disruptions in a saturated 2D IR field, which allows for multi-touch as well as point density identification. 'Force field'? Not seeing where the standard 'F' (force) we all know from physics, intersects here unless you define the density of disruption as 'force' (F).
/my take.. work at A&M, but in a separate College
After a few minutes of using it, you're applying a lot of force against your monitor [youtube.com].
Reminds me of the U-Force [wikipedia.org] I got for the original NES - that was over 20 years ago! Still have it in its original box, actually. Maybe in another 25 years it'll be worth something... it certainly wasn't when it came out! It sorta worked for Punch-Out, and not at all for anything else.
I can't remember if the U-Force was what would now be called "multi-touch"... probably not. Didn't RTFA, but at any rate I assume (and would hope) the one in the article works a lot better!
In my local mall, during last christmas holiday, Disney set up an interactive display game to promote their wild-4-disney passes.
It consisted of multiple flat-screen tvs setup in a wall with an IR sensor setup in a field-sweep above the whole display. The point was to "drag" christmas ornaments to decorate the tree.
This is a similar tech with multi-touch.
you can use a webcam for free out of a dumpster and stick it in a light box like everyone else has been doing
cause those have been out for like what 60+ years
you have light on one end, photodetector on the other, there you made a force field here is some juice and a cookie, go play now
Main feature of the HP-150 [wikipedia.org].
A Brief History of Pads, Part 2: Touch me! [x7.fi]: "PLATO was a series of educational computer terminals that originated from the University of Illinois. In the 1960's and 1970's, PLATO contained many features that we take for granted today like e-mail, message boards and online tests. The fourth generation PLATO IV terminal featured a flat (and bright orange) plasma screen that students could touch to answer questions. The touch function was achieved by a series of infrared lights and receptors around
Is Texas in Canada now?
The Canadian government is owned by Texans; so no, Canada is in Texas now. We have our own mini GB, just lacking his likability and intelligence.
I agree it is a strange choice, but the event took place in Canada, so there is at least some Canadian connection.
Seen this a long time ago, at least 10 years ago. It was essentially a frame lined with IR sensors facing each other and tracking your hand movements and turned any flat panel display (such as a plasma TV) into a touchscreen surface. While it didn't do multi-touch, it was essentially the exact same concept
Quick links: There's a good paper [ecologylab.net] describing the process, and a discussion of the electronics [moeller.io] on Jonathan's blog.
One question.... what are the production costs of the electronics if I wanted to build one of these? (I never quite know what people mean when they say "low cost";) Also, are you planning to publish the schematics?
(Ooops. I guess that's two questions....)
As a semi-professional cynic and the guy who tore into the Rice University students [slashdot.org] who's PR dept. claimed they had invented a revolutionary solution to a huge health problem, I had initially thought, as many here have claimed, that this IR-beam touch-screen frame was nothing new. However, I was also trained at one of the the EloGraphics plants (I can't remember where the heck it was now) on how to install and repair those old IR-beam touch screens. I also serviced several other makes of IR-beam touch scree
"... because I don't know what a force field is. That's because I have never watched Star Trek. That's because I am not a geek. Please sleep with me."
I bought a HP monitor about 3 months ago that does this. It's got two IR light plane generators in the top corners, and an IR detector array around the bottom and sides. It's multitouch and works great. And this technology DOES make multitouch cheaper. It was $100 less than the other capacitive multitouch displays in the same size.
I thought shields had to be dropped for phasers?
Hmmm...I don't see how this tech deals with occluded fingertips...
The basic technology to do this has been around for ages. Maybe not the computational power to drive it, but definitely the underlying technology.
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I passed by a West Marine yesterday and bought 50' of silver amsteel 7/64 to make 2 whoopies and some sort of ridgeline (also a whoopie maybe). Also bought 20' of Polyester 1" webbing to use as tree huggers, 4 steel rings in lieu of the SMC rings.
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- The iPod dock, yoga charts and branded scents may come and go, but one item has remained constant in hotel rooms worldwide: the Gideon Bible.
A Bible has become the stape in hotel rooms worlwide
Gideon International, an evangelical ministry run by businessmen, has been giving away its Bibles and New Testaments for a century.
In that time they have distributed nearly 1.5 billion of the tan-colored texts across 180 countries, and translated into 80 languages.
But times change. The world's cities are today a rich mix of cultures and faiths. And hotel chains want to appease their diversified clientele.
Researchers from the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) have found that the availability of religious material in hotel rooms is steadily increasing.
In 1998, 79 percent of the U.S. hotels they surveyed said they carried religious materials in rooms. That figure jumped to 96 percent in 2006. Today it is still at a high of 84 percent.
The chances are the text in the bedside drawer will still be a Bible. But Jessica Soklow, media relations manager at AHLA says that in recent years the range of publications on offer has expanded.
Hotel Preston, one of Provenance Hotel Group's boutique U.S. properties, now offers its guests a "spiritual menu" to choose from.
Sacred texts on offer at the Nashville hotel include the Koran, the Chinese Tao Te Ching, the Hebrew Bible, books on Scientology, as well as the Bible.
The Marriott hotel chain, which is owned by a Mormon family, has for years offered the Book of Mormon in its rooms.
The Nikko hotel chain, owned by a Japanese company but with properties worldwide, only supplies Buddhist literature.
While many hotel chains have a global policy, others leave the decision to individual hotels.
The Firmdale Hotels in London, part of the European Design Hotel chain, provide a Gideon Bible. But the Hope Street Hotel in Liverpool, another Design Hotel, decided against the Gideon in an effort to blend with the local area's religious mix.
"With an Anglican cathedral to our right and a Catholic cathedral to the left, we decided to take a secular approach," explains Mary Colston, the hotel's media manager. (While the Gideons draw from many Christian denominations, Catholics do not participate.)
Only one guest has commented on the absence of the Gideon Bible, says Colston, and she was provided a copy on request.
The Hilton Group also passes the decision to local managers. Thomas Lange, general manager of the Courthouse Doubletree by Hilton, ensures a Gideon Bible is placed in every room.
But staff are on hand to provide materials such as a prayer rug and Koran for Muslim guests. "This is a very common amenity that hotels provide, especially in London," he says. Richard Quest examines the relevance of the Gideon Bible. »
Choice of religious materials may be widening. But Lange doesn't expect the Gideon to lose its dominance anytime soon.
"Sacred texts from the world's religions should be available, but there is a pragmatic economic point that it costs money to disseminate these texts," he says.
And the Gideons, with substantial resources behind them, have taken that initiative.
Gideon International, or Christian Commercial Travelers Association, began the practice of leaving Bibles in hotel rooms in 1908.
At that time, most of the members were traveling salesmen who thought a Bible could serve as a useful counterweight to the solitude and immoral behavior on the road. The first Bible was placed in a hotel in Montana.
"It goes back to the time of the reformation where one of the big ideas of the movement was to make sure that everyone from the highest to the lowest of the society would have a bible in their own language in their own hands," says Dr Edward Adams, senior lecturer of the New Testament at King's College London.
Within 20 years they had distributed one million copies. Today, the Gideons say they deliver 50 million Bibles and New Testaments every year, not only to hotels, but hospitals and doctors' offices, prisons, schools, colleges and universities, and military bases.
The Gideons, a media-shy organization, were unavailable for comment. But hotels report that a Gideon representative will make contact before it opens to offer copies.
At larger hotels, a representative arrives to present one copy to the general manager in a small ceremony, and the rest are passed to the housekeeping department for distribution.
When the Bibles are pinched, or become too worn, a local Gideon group will replace them at no charge.
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Prosecutors have subpoenaed several lawmakers to testify before a secret grand jury considering criminal charges in recent weeks, including Representative John Rogers, the Norwood lawmaker DeLeo defeated to become House speaker in 2009. Rogers's supporters have long suspected that O'Brien helped DeLeo win by giving jobs to people close to legislators backing DeLeo, a charge both men deny.
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Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
Read by: John, a teen at the Copley Teen Room
Graffiti Moon is a brilliant story about the awkward moments and true aspects of teenage love.
Ed is a graffiti artist who goes by the name of Shadow, spraying raw emotions onto the city walls.
Lucy blows glass, crafting her memories into tranperant art.
Lucy wants to find shadow. He is here dream man. Simple enough? No.
Lucy and Ed have actually dated before, which ended with Ed touching her butt and Lucy breaking his nose.
On their last night of senior year, follow them on a misadventure of expression of art, poetry, reality vs.
expectation, and a struggle to accept one's self.
I enjoyed this and laughed for the first time in a long time reading about Ed, his poetic yet mischevious friend,
lucy and her supposedly psychic friend as each chapter shows different aspects of the same amazing night. I couldn't
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Skip to comments.Steve Forbes: A Grotesquerie [ObamaCare, The Markets and Socialism]
Posted on 04/03/2010 4:54:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With an ice-cold disdain for public opinion and an obsession worthy of Lenin, President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi rammed ObamaCare through the House by unprecedented parliamentary trickery, bribery and deceit. The President has thereby poisoned the national political well.
But the health care fight has just begun. Substantive constitutional court challenges are coming. Congressional elections are around the corner, and there's a growing opposition that wants to undo what Obama has just done. The President will discover that, ultimately, the American people's tenacity will overwhelm his--and he will be a failed President. But the cost of his public-be-damned attitude will be immense.
Marx Would Be Impressed
Socialists believe that the way to paradise is for governments to own "the means of production." Thus, decades ago even democratic countries such as France and Britain nationalized considerable swathes of their economies to achieve "social justice." That didn't work so well; therefore, since the days of Margaret Thatcher there have been wave after wave of privatizations in Europe and around the world.
Today's neosocialists are smarter than their ancestors.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
The greatest miscalculation was that these idiots actually thought they could make America a socialist state overnight.
I have been saying this same thing since before Obama won the election. I said then, that if he were to win the White House, the Democrats would over-reach and push through every Socialist wet dream they've had for the last 40 years, which would result in an unprecedented level of OPPOSITION from the general, patriotic public.
Like children suddenly unleashed with Dad's credit card, they've run totally amok, and have created a backlash like nothing ever witnessed in this country. And that backlash is gaining steam, even though the full effects of Obamacare are only barely perceptible at present. When the pain of their destructive health care "reforms" comes to pass, the anger in the country will explode.
If the Democrats are simply voted out, en masse, they should consider themselves lucky. In earlier, saner times, there would have been mass hangings for such unbridled treason.
There was no master plan. They just threw it all into the healthcare bill—including a whole lot of really sinister stuff having nothing to do with healthcare—and rammed it through.
I read a couple of articles about a few of the more outrageous things in the bill but I didn't save them.
It will all start coming out. But healthcare will be unworkable from the get-go. Not to mention the total job-killing qualities, which we're just now hearing about.
I think Forbes got it about right.
With respect to the adoption of Euro-socialism, (the Marxists are always wrong on so many points) the US did not transform itself over time from a feudal state. We might be tempted to say that such a system succeeds in more homogenous societies, but does it really? Been to Europe? Seen the work ethic and optimism of the average European? I would argue they still live in serfdom, but don't know it.
Yes, they did. Just like a bunch of stoned teenagers running amok with Daddy's credit card. I doubt if a single Democrat who voted for this monstrosity even knew what was in it.
They're off the hook, and in a state of total abandon. They have no idea which way the train is going -- they just know that uncle BO is gonna take care of them when they get there. Screw The People.
What they have done will open the floodgates on every manner of destructive government intrusion into private industry and individuals' lives and affairs. The rending of the well-established fabric of our country will upturn the social order in countless ways, and will lead to something that finally sparks a backlash of sufficient force from The People to STOP THE MADNESS.
Unfortunately, for Democrats, that will possibly mean citizens arrest, and forcible removal from office, with justice meted out in various ways, from so-called "frontier justice", to civilized trials and convictions.
It all sounds a bit like science fiction, or maybe an apocalyptic horror novel, but I'm afraid that was yesterday's reality.
Great comment. It will be interesting to watch, although I wish I didn't have to be part of the whole mess. *sigh*
Steve Forbes nails it!
The question is, do we have the stones needed to hold them accountable? Or will we simply do as we're told, roll over, and accept some form of martial law as handed down from upon high?
It's pretty clear to me that our Constitution is not only being ignored, but openly and brazenly urinated upon. There's a very good term that describes these actions, one that I haven't seen on this site lately; treason.
>>one that I haven't seen on this site lately; treason.<<
My apologies. That word WAS used in a previous post. I'm glad that someone with sand finally got around to using it in its proper context.
Because that's EXACTLY what's going on...
This so-called "intellectual" President and his fellow "progressives" in Congress and the Senate either do not understand the lessons of history, or they willfully ignore them.
Any Democrats who truly want to help those in need in the society should heed the lesson on Constitutional principle explained to Congressman Davy Crockett by one of his constituents. That constituent was upset that Crockett had voted for a bill to help some families in Georgetown whose homes had been destroyed by fire.
As Crockett related the story (Told in "Not Yours to Give" - the full story available at Foundation for Economic Education web site):
Crockett: "Several years ago I was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol with some other members of Congress, when our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and drove over as fast as we could. In spite of all that could be done, many houses were burned and many families made houseless, and, besides, some of them had lost all but the clothes they had on. The weather was very cold, and when I saw so many women and children suffering, I felt that something ought to be done for them. The next morning a bill was introduced appropriating $20,000 for their relief. We put aside all other business and rushed it through as soon as it could be done.
Crockett: . . . . "The next summer, when it began to be time to think about the election, I concluded I would take a scout around among the boys of my district. I had no opposition there, but, as the election was some time off, I did not know what might turn up. When riding one day in a part of my district in which I was more of a stranger than any other, I saw a man in a field plowing and coming toward the road, I gauged my gait so that we should meet as he came to the fence. As he came up, I spoke to the man. He replied politely, but, as I thought, rather coldly.
"I began: 'Well, friend, I am one of those unfortunate beings called candidates, and - '
"'Yes, I know you; you are Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before, and voted for you the last time you were elected. I suppose you are out electioneering now, but you had better not waste your time or mine. I shall not vote for you again''
"This was a sockdolager .. I begged him to tell me what was the matter.
"'Well, Colonel, it is hardly worth-while to waste time or words upon it. I do not see how it can be mended, but you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it. In either case you are not the man to represent me. But I beg your pardon for expressing it in that way. I did not intend to avail myself of the privilege of the constituent to speak plainly to a candidate for the purpose of insulting or wounding you. I intend by it only to say that your understanding of the Constitution is very different from mine; and I will say to you what, but for my rudeness, I should not have said, that I believe you to be honest....But an understanding of the Constitution different from mine I cannot overlook, because the Constitution, to be worth anything, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the more honest he is.'
" 'I admit the truth of all you say, but there must be some mistake about it, for I do not remember that I gave any vote last winter upon any constitutional question'
,,'No, Colonel, there is no mistake. Though I live here in the backwoods and seldom go from home, I take the papers from Washington and read very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My papers say that last winter you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by a fire in Georgetown. Is that true?'
"'Well, my friend; I may as well own up. You have got me there. But certainly nobody will complain that a great and rich country like ours should give the insignificant sum of $20,000 to relieve its suffering women and children, particularly with a full and overflowing Treasury, and I am sure, if you had been there, you would have done just as I did.'
"'It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing to do with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be intrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in this country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this county as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week's pay, it would have made over $13,000.00. There are plenty of wealthy men in and around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life. The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports to be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.
"'So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you.''
"I tell you I felt streaked. I saw if I should have opposition, and this man should go to talking, he would set others to talking, and in that district I was a gone fawn-skin. I could not answer him, and the fact is, I was so fully convinced that he was right, I did not want to. But I must satisfy him, and I said to him-
"Well, my, friend, you hit the nail upon the head when you said I had not sense enough to understand the Constitution. I intended to be guided by it, and thought I had studied it fully. I have heard many speeches in Congress about the powers of Congress, but what you have said here at your plow has got more hard, sound sense in it than all the fine speeches I ever heard. If I had ever taken the view of it that you have, I would have put my head into the fire before I would have given that vote; and if you will forgive me and vote for me again, if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law I wish I may be shot'
Later, Crockett was called to vote on another bill. Let him relate that story also:
Crockett: "One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:
"Mr. Speaker - I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.
"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."
He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and, of course, was lost.
If this principle was in effect in the days of the Congressman from Tennessee (Crockett), then the principle remains unchanged. It is the tyrannical "redistributionist" theory which is different.
Excellent piece from Steve Forbes.
Great post! Really enjoyed the story.
In order to answer that question, I'm going to pose another.
Put yourself back in April, 2008. That's two years ago. Really get a sense of that time frame. We were in the presidential primary season, and George Bush was still our president.
Keeping your mind in that time frame, think of all of the egregious and despicable things we've witnessed since Obama came to office. Here's the question: from that viewpoint, can you believe that we have seen all that we have in the last 24 months?
You would have thought it preposterous if anyone had predicted all that we've witnessed, just 24 months ago.
Now, cast forward another 12 months. Given all that we've seen in the last two years, and especially in the last 12 months, is there any doubt that we're going to see events transpire in this country that would seem mind-boggling today?
Now consider this: the wretched actions of the political elites in Washington have elicited a citizen response that is nearly unprecedented in this nation's history. That response has grown larger, as the threat to our way of life has become more evident. I expect that response to grow in direct proportion to the assaults against our liberties.
The little tyrants are shredding our Constitution and attempting to institute a European-style Socialism in place of it. The more damage they inflict on the people, the greater the response from the people will be.
We never expected to see such unrelenting and overt treasons committed by our own government, and we never imagined we'd see millions of ordinary people stand up in such overwhelming defiance, but we've seen both. I predict that both are going to increase, and that the people will demand their "pound of flesh" for the destruction which has been done to our nation.
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St Elizabeth men found with fake JPS IDs, firearm
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — Men suspected of using fake identification cards to facilitate criminal activities fled from the police leaving behind a firearm, false ID cards, other accoutrements and a motor car, in Junction, South East St Elizabeth on Thursday.
A police source said a patrol was on duty in the Dunder Hill area of Junction on Thursday afternoon when men who triggered suspicion were seen at a house.
On the approach of the police, the men fled. The police searched the premises and found two ID cards in the name of the Jamaica Public Service Company which have since been confirmed as fake, a Browning 9mm pistol with 14 live rounds, helmets and vests usually associated with JPS contractors.
The police suspect that a Toyota Corolla motorcar commonly referred to as 'kingfish' which was also found on the premises may have been rented.
The police source told the Observer that the incident served as further evidence that residents needed to be "extremely careful" in regards to those who approach claiming to be representatives of various agencies.
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If these walls could talk: the Jefferson Street ice house
It's been several weeks since the last entry in our series of "virtual" visits to various buildings in Culver, though we're still in the general downtown area. We've traveled east on Jefferson Street to its end at the shore of Lake Maxinkuckee (not bothering, though, to cross the railroad tracks just west of the shoreline) and now we're just about done with the street entirely.
If you headed to today's location nowadays, you'd be standing on Culver Cove property; but for several decades in the early 20th century, its most notable use was as part of the Medbourn ice house.
The story of the ice industry in Culver has been told a number of times in a variety of venues, but it remains one of the more fascinating aspects of our history here. That's partly because we're so far removed from the lack of electricity -- and hence convenient refrigeration -- which had made ice harvesting necessary for hundreds of years prior. It's also because Culver made a name for itself around the state and even the Midwest for its production of "pure Maxinkuckee ice," to the tune of literally millions of tons of ice per season, an endeavor which also provided an important source of income to local farmers and laborers during what would otherwise have been a pretty stagnant time of year in terms of money making.
The ice industry had its start in the 19th century and hit Culver by 1882, when Indianapolis businessman Sterling Holt opened an ice house on the west shore of the lake, just north of the outlet, with Sam Medbourn as manager.
A cover story headline in the Marmont Herald (the precursor to the Culver Citizen, in the days when Culver was still Marmont) declared, "Ice for Millions…Over Four Hundred Car Loads Cut Thus Far this Season (and not half of the ice houses filled yet…an industry that is a God-send to the laboring men in the winter)." The article noted some $15,000 per year was left in Culver due to the ice industry, a might hefty sum in 1895.
There were two major ice harvesting operations on the south end of town prior to the opening of Samuel Medbourn's ice business, the Lake Maxinkuckee Ice Company, on Jefferson Street. As our own frequent contributor, Rev. Dr. John Houghton unearthed in his 1976 Citizen article on the ice industry, Medbourn's great innovation to the ice business lay in the channel available to him underneath the railroad tracks around what would today be the southern end of the Culver Cove building.
That's because movement of ice blocks from the ice "field" on the lake, to the storage buildings on the other side of the tracks had to be halted each time a train came through. Utilizing the under-track channel at the Jefferson Street site meant work could continue unabated, regardless of rail traffic.
Medbourn, who had started his career in frozen water in the Holt operation, opened his house circa 1903 on Jefferson Street. It would soon become Culver's sole commercial ice operation, and it's certainly the one most present-day Culverites who remember the ice industry remember at all.
Elizabeth Davis, in last week's Citizen, recalled what surely was a not-unfamiliar story to many in the area: that of her father feeding the livestock before sunrise on their farm near Burr Oak and trudging, in the dark, to the ice house to spend the day working. Payment -- which on a few occasions was rendered in gold, according to Citizen accounts and the recollections of late Culver fire chief David Burns -- facilitated Mr. Zechiel's purchasing a few groceries before walking back to Burr Oak that evening, sharing his purchases with his family, and tending the stock before bed.
The Medbourn ice house typically employed around 300 men each winter, and according to Burns, work often continued through the night.
Those with a penchant for history often find themselves impressed with the ingenuity of our ancestors, faced with challenging tasks minus the technological advances of the present age. Workers at the Medbourn house, said Burns, utilized calcium carbide, or acetylene lights combined with reflective sheets of steel, to facilitate ongoing work through the dark hours of night, on the large ice field offshore from Jefferson Street.
The Maxinkuckee Ice Co., in fact, had stores bearing its name in both Logansport and Mishawaka, at least, out of which were sold "pure Maxinkuckee ice." Davis Burns' wife Judi's website at www.maxinkuckee.history.pasttracker.com, in fact, includes a photo of the Logansport store, as well as mention that a movie was shot in 1927 of ice harvesting at the Medbourn house, which was shown in Culver, Logansport, and elsewhere. Uncovering that film would be a momentous find for students of Culver history!
Horses were employed to "score" the ice, which had to be at least nine inches thick, into a checkerboard pattern. Large blocks were then harvested and placed in the water-bourne channel under the tracks. Workmen moved these, by conveyer belt, either into train cars or into one of several actual ice "houses,' long, rectangular buildings in which layers of ice were stored, separated by a layer of marsh hay.
Marsh hay, it should be noted, has different qualities than regular hay, and as early as 1898, the Maxinkuckee Ice Company owned mucky land on today's State Road 10, between the still-existant Houghton Lake (today part of the Nature Conservency) and the now-drained Manatau Lake nearby, solely for the purpose of harvesting marsh hay for the ice industry.
Ice by the traincar load was shipped out daily from the Medbourn house. As an indication of the sheer volume of ice production, a 1906 article noted that a standing order existed for 50 train carloads per day of the cold stuff at the Medbourn house! That doesn't include, of course, the ice stored for local use and sales, which filled multiple houses and remained viable throughout the hot summers, a fact which might surprise modern folk unfamiliar with the physics of the industry. In fact, Culver was reported to have run out of stored ice by August more than once, rather than the ice ever actually melting.
Ice, for the uninitiated, was primarily used for ice boxes, precursors to today's refrigerators, in which large blocks of ice were stored in the top compartment and meat, milk, and the like in the lower compartment. Runoff from the ice was saved in a pan underneath for various uses.
Ice, like milk itself, was delivered daily by ice wagons -- horse drawn at first and motorized later -- and residents who remember those days recall the ice man as something of an artisan, capable of wielding the ice pick to break off just the size requested of each household (by way of a placard in the window, if not verbal communication).
It should be noted that smaller, private ice houses proliferated on the lake during this period, such as the Miller Dairy house on the south side of Culver, where the dairy and grocery operation conducted its own small harvest and stored it in a private ice house.
Your editor is fond of pointing out that, at least from approximately 1880 until 1937, ice was harvested by the ton on Lake Maxinkuckee, which gives an indication of the consistency of winters here (though admittedly the 1921 harvest was hampered by the mild winter, though not entirely subverted). The 1935 harvest was hampered, in fact, by the harshness of the winter: the ice, according to Burns, was 32 inches thick and virtually impossible to cut through with a saw!
The year 1940 saw the final harvest of natural ice from Lake Maxinkuckee, ending a more than 50-year era. Electricity had hit Culver long before, though it wasn't until the massive addition of electrical lines to rural areas as part of the Depression-era WPA endeavors, and the gradual spread of electircal refrigeration across the board, that the demise of the ice harvesting industry was no longer avoidable. The Medbourn company, in the 1920s and early 1930s, tried through a series of advertisements in Culver and other newspapers to point out the high cost of electrical refrigeration to the consumer, and the benefits of natural ice as well, but eventually the inevitable occurred.
A March, 1943 signaled the final death knell for Culver's "ice age," when the Medbourn ice house burned to the ground at an estimated $5,000 loss.
The old ice house property largely sat unused for several decades after, for a time part of the Farm Bureau Co-Op's holdings. Butting up against the land, at its western border, was the old junkyard owned by Julius Pura -- there may well be generations of junk lying under the nicely manicured grass there -- but the land itself really only saw major alteration around 1989, when work began on the Culver Cove.
Many will remember the swampy quality of the area, and rumor has it some effort went into accommodating the instability of the ground through various means, to make it palpable for building the Cove there.


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They're gonna take the use the event as a front to get ideas...
Like what? Hack all the Window's XP boxes attached to an ISP, and install Ubuntu on them instead?
How the hell is this modded Flaimbait?! They did it under a non AC name and the poster just after this one said the same thing only posed as a question and was modded +4 Insightful.
Aside from the housekeeping, it's a coder's prerogative to add to their own library.
Ideas are cheap, it's execution that matters: http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html [paulgraham.com]
I can assure that these organizations are rife with ideas, bringing the ideas "to market" is the problem.
They're gonna take the use the event as a front to get ideas...
Who fucking cares?
If they're good ideas, and they enable people to act quickly and efficiently in times of crisis, who cares about attribution?
I've spent the last 7 years living and working in what the UN classifies as a Least Developed Country. I've read through the specific challenges being presented to hackers at these events and, truth be told, I'd be hard pressed to come up with a better list.
There are shortcomings, to be sure. One of the biggest is that communications is one of the first things to s
See http://github.com/RHoK/ [github.com]
I don't know what the other teams did, but the team I was on intended to release under this license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/nasa1.3.php [opensource.org]
(I helped plan this event)
The code you write is your own. We encourage people to license their code under an OSI approved license.
that none of these people can claim copyright on your work.. or any patents...
Jeeze! First three comments... effectively saying, "Don't feed the bears"
At a RHoK Hackathon, benevolently-inclined hackers will listen to a keynote speech presenting the challenges we are facing. Then they'll churn out some of the most important open source code on the planet
Emphasis mine. I'd love to see someone try to close-source this stuff with the major players. Let's see a four-way fight between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and the US Government. Popcorn anyone.
Who cares if they're using this awesome idea to make money after they help millions of people?
Just because someone is going to make money off of it doesn't mean it's suddenly an evil idea.
No, the problem is they could conceivably stop you from using it [slashdot.org]... Making money is not the issue...
Random Hacks of Kindness
Is it licensed under the GPL? BSD? Apache?
Who cares...?
A voice of reason, thankfully.
"The very first Crisis Camp bar camp was held in Washington, D.C. in May 2009. During one of the opening sessions of the camp an industry panel spoke, and clearly stated that some issues of global importance take precedence over competitive business concerns."
- RHoK.Org
I was centrally involved in the Haiti earthquake relief effort. One interesting open source app we, the State Department, the UN, Red Cross, US Marines, and others used was called Ushahidi, which is a crowd-sourced news & mapping tool. Within hours of the quake the good people at Ushahidi had set up an instance to track reports and direct relief efforts at http://haiti.ushahidi.com./ [haiti.ushahidi.com]
You could watch, real-time, as reports funneled into the map of people texting from inside collapsed buildings requesting evac, and see first-responders picking up on them. Once Digicel, Haiti's cellphone company, started pushing official messages about which shortcode to text help requests to, and also to distribute the locations of medical help, food, water, etc., then it really picked up steam.
It was the first time we had all seen anything like it. The Marines told us they were using it almost like a trouble-ticket system to route their emergency teams because it was the only actionable information they could get.
NY Times:
...an important force behind this upheaval is a small Kenyan-born organization called Ushahidi, which has become a hero of the Haitian and Chilean earthquakes and which may have something larger to tell us about the future of humanitarianism, innovation and the nature of what we label as truth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/weekinreview/14giridharadas.html [nytimes.com]
Both Sahana and Ushahidi are Free and Open Source projects, and like any non-profit org are always in desperate need of qualified helpers. Join the mailing lists, introduce yourself & explain what programming or other help you can bring, and I'm sure they'll point you to a list of 1000 waiting tickets in a bug tracker somewhere! It's a lot more productive use of your hobby time organizing resources & solving puzzles for real instead of sinking it into a video game
2010 Summer of Code ideas link
oh yeah, and of course there is OpenStreetMap & co.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ [openstreetmap.org]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Earthquake_map_resources [openstreetmap.org]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake/Maps_and_data [openstreetmap.org]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2010_Yushu_earthquake [openstreetmap.org]
I thought it was called Mosaic.
I most heartily approve.
And I hope there are many interesting results, other than buncha nerdy half-assed bullshit software projects. There are a lot more out there in life in need and want.
Build a better water pump. Build a better wiring harness. Things people in need can use.
And for god's sake, stop wasting your good brains cooking up another social network bullshit. You young people can do way way better than that.
And I hope there are many interesting results, other than buncha nerdy half-assed bullshit software projects. There are a lot more out there in life in need and want. Build a better water pump. Build a better wiring harness. Things people in need can use.
Like this pump [nytimes.com]?
Here's an excerpt:
For 15 years, Kevin Costner has been overseeing the construction of oil separation machines to prepare for the possibility of another disaster of the magnitude of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.
Disturbed by the effects of the Valdez spill in Alaska, Mr. Costner bought the nascent technology from the government in 1995 and put $24 million of his own money into developing it for the private sector.
Kevin saw the Exxon Valdez spill, and as a fisherman and an environmentalist, it just stuck in his craw, the fact that we didn't have separation technology, said John Houghtaling, Mr. Costner's lawyer and business partner as chief executive with Ocean Therapy Solutions, which developed the technology.
On Wednesday, BP's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, said that the company had approved six of Ocean Therapy's 32 machines for testing. All boast centrifuge processing technology giant vacuum-like machines that suck oil from water, separate the oil, store it in a tanker and send the water, 99.9 percent purified, back into the gulf.
The technology was available for use 10 years ago, Mr. Houghtaling said. "These machines have been very robust, but nobody's been interested in them until now," he added.
He said that the largest four machines have the capability of separating 210,000 gallons of oil from water a day, 200 gallons a minute.
Sounds like the quintessential hacker.
And for god's sake, stop wasting your good brains cooking up another social network bullshit. You young people can do way way better than that.
Kostner's efforts are the product of fifteen years work and $24 spare cash. And on a somewhat related note, the special submarines [independent.co.uk] that James Cameron wants to contribute, those were financed courtesy of the movie studios. The point here is that it's hard to avoid the fact that the alternative (working on some possibly useless social networking thing) looks a lot more attractive. And do-able.
Nice hack. And that's $24 large, as in millions. Heals the world, and somebody makes money out of it - win/win.
other than buncha nerdy half-assed bullshit software projects. There are a lot more out there in life in need and want.
That's the idea. Check out this list of problem definitions: http://www.rhok.org/problem-definitions/full-list/ [rhok.org] - these aren't pie-in-the-sky ideas that we came up with, these are real needs as described by real crisis responders.
Google, Microsoft, NASA, The World Bank, and Yahoo! are unlikely partners...
Not at all, especially if you believe in the Illuminati-Bilderberg-FakeMoonLanding-YahooGoogleSoftMonopoly Conspiracy Theory. What's perplexing is why they left out the Rand Corporation, the Mafia and the CIA/NSA/FBI/JPL/DEA/EPA/NRA/FDA (AKA the TLA [wikipedia.org] Group).
Ha ha ha!
Yes, corruption doesn't exist, especially if you laugh at it and include genuine bits of silliness nobody really thinks is true in your broad stroke accusations.
Do you feel content once more?
Good for you. The world, however, doesn't share your delusion of fluffy happy safety from people who want make sure you work all of your good hours in some idiotic slave job while you let your mind and spirit atrophy, while of course, preventing you from ever sharing in any of the real power which IS highly co
850 million people in India do not have any bank a/c [rediff.com]
Are you interested in starting a no-frills net-bank in India.
I came, I saw, I deleted all your files.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th Dec 2005 17:07 UTC
Intel's chairman chided plans by rival AMD and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build a $100 laptop for the developing world. At a press conference in Sri Lanka on Friday, Craig Barrett said that potential computer users would scoff at the computer's lack of features. Barrett also said the device isn't worthy of being called a laptop. "I think a more realistic title should be 'the $100 gadget'," he mused. "The problem is that gadgets have not been successful."
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At the SEMA Show two years ago, Miller Electric's John Schwartz was happily telling everyone about the new TIG welder that was going to be released. This year's SEMA Show, Schwartz was beaming beside the big brother of the original Diversion TIG welder.
The Diversion 180 has all the features of the original plus some extras. Schwartz explained; "Many of our customers are long time Miller consumers and they've grown up with the foot control. The Diversion 165 only had the hand control, so we felt it would be good to offer the optional foot control with the new machine."
The biggest deal about the new welder, is that it is simple. It packs more punch than the Diversion 165, draws less power and is easy to use.
"The Diversion 180 also operates on 230 or 115 volt circuits. It's much lighter than transformer type welders. Weighing in at about 50 pounds, you can haul it where ever you go," stated Schwartz.
Features of the Diversion 180 Welder:
- Uses household 110 or 220 volt, single phase input power.
- Fingertip amperage adjustment built into the handle of the torch for better control of weld amperage.
- Only 50 pounds. Can be easily moved around the garage, trailer or even to the track.
- Able to fully adjust the output through the full amperage range.
Schwartz explained that the new machine "uses a simple interface where you simply select the material thickness with the push of a button and the welder is set to the amperage that you need."
As far as performance goes, Schwartz said that the Diversion 180 "is very consistent, more efficient and has more stable arc qualities. You get the same arc every time."
Put Miller Electric quality and add a low amperage draw of less than 30 amps that you can run off of 110 or 220 current, and you have the Diversion 180.
For more information on the Diversion line of welders or the Diversion 180, visit Miller Electric's website at www.millerwelds.com