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Best of Show
Everything about this car hit us like a sunbeam to the eye or a lightning strike on a jet-black night. It was crawling through the fairgrounds at the Car Craft Summer Nationals, vibrating the ground like a bowling-ball hailstorm. It had the unmistakable thunder of a big Hemi stroker on a loose converter twisting the bolognas on the inside of each corner. The rollcage had a thick shell like polished candy, the color on the mags was a mix of cold lead and circus glitter, and as we approached, the noise became a sensation. We were looking for a car to name Best of Show, and Robert Warden had just finished building it.
Being a Mopar guy, Robert always wanted a Hemi, and he wanted it to be in the right kind of car. Like a Mopar Super Stock 330. "I wanted the car to be personal and my own, so I decided to build a Super Stock clone—that way, I wouldn't be destroying an original car," Robert says. "In 2004, a good buddy informed me that he had a car he intended to build into a Hemi clone but ended up with a '63 Max Wedge car instead. So the rust-free '64 330 ended up in my hands."
Robert's original plan was to build a race car he could drive on the street, but when the economy collapsed in 2008, he decided to use it as a street machine instead. "When the economy recovers, I am going to drag race it," he says.
In high school, Robert was inspired by an auto-shop instructor who was a Buick guy with a couple of GSXs when everyone else in the world was driving Chevys. It was the underdog reputation of BOP and Mopar that first got Robert into Chryslers. "There were only two guys in the entire school that had Mopars, and we would try to outrun everyone else," Robert says. "[Since then] I always wanted a red '64 with a Hemi, and I finally got my wish."
When Robert got the car, it was a rolling shell rescued from the Nevada desert. Even though it looked perfect, Robert had it media-blasted to bare metal and was happy to find it hadn't been hit and had very little filler. The body was then sent to a frame shop to check for straightness before it was ready to go. For the next eight years, Robert slowly gathered parts and information to build an accurate Super Stock clone. Because this was to be raced in the NHRA, Robert added a firewall between the passenger compartment and the trunk to make it legal with a relocated battery. He also made some subtle changes to the body. The hoodscoop came from a guy named Scott Harms, who was building them out of aluminum in Peru . Since they were custom parts anyway, Robert ordered his 1-inch taller than the stock Super Stock scoop. A year later, a perfect reproduction made from hand-beaten aluminum arrived in a crate. The hoodscoop is one of the two made before that deal dried up. The aluminum front bumper was also handmade by out of "five or six" different pieces and welded together by Phil Rasmussen. Phil also made the original-looking bumper brackets and reworked the passenger-side shock tower to allow the Hemi head to be pulled with the engine in the car. Again, like the factory. If you look closely, you can see that the reverse lights were deleted, there is no outside driver mirror, no antenna hole, one windshield wiper, and two headlights instead of four, all to mimic the Super Stock 330. To make this car personal, Robert built a huge Hemi stroker that has no original or reproduction parts. "The thermostat housing is correct, but that is about it," Robert says. Then he added the Auto Meters, shifter, and 'cage to make the car both easy to drag race and NHRA-legal in 2013. For eight years, Robert chipped away, sometimes putting it away when he couldn't work on it and otherwise assembling it one piece at a time, all to get his dream car perfect.
Tech Notes
Who: Robert J. Warden
What: 1964 Dodge 330
Where: Blaine, MN
Engine: The Elephant is a stroked 426 that started as one of the first World Products Hemi blocks (No. 003) punched to 4.310 inches .The rotator is from K1 with a 4.150-inch stroke crank, H-beam rods, and a set of Diamond forged pistons for 484 ci. The aluminum heads are from Stage V and were five-axis ported by Travis Knowlton at Thunderheads in Bethel, MN. The A&A reproduction cross-ram has a pair of reproduction Holley 770-cfm carburetors. Using an MSD Pro Billet distributor, 6AL box, and a Comp Cams solid roller with 0.672 lift and 274/278 degrees of duration at 0.050, the engine—assembled by Bruce Crandall at Total Engine in Bloomington, MN—made 705 hp at 6,400 and 610 lb-ft at 5,700 rpm.
Transmission: The trans is a reverse-manual 727 TorqueFlite from Darrin Rumble with a 3,500-rpm Dynamic converter and Cheetah SCS shifter.
Rearend: The pumpkin is a DTS Dana 60 with a 4.56:1 gear and a Detroit Locker with 35-spline Strange axles and chromoly 1350 U-joints.
Wheels: The front wheels are unknown vintage 15×4-inch magnesium five-spokes. The center was painted with Eastwood Aluma Blast out of a can, and the hoops were milled slightly, then left in their natural state. The result is a fantastic look we couldn't catch in the photos. Originally, Robert wanted to run a '50s-style Plymouth rim in the rear, because that is what they used on the dragstrip in the '60s. Because of the size of the rear discs, Robert used 15×8 Wheel Vintiques 69 Series Chrysler Police Wheels instead. He powdercoated them satin-black to complete the look. The front tires are Moroso Drag Special 7.10x15s, and the rears are 295/65R15 Mickey Thompson Drag Radials.
Exhaust: Under the hood are 21⁄8–21⁄4 stepped headers from TTI with a 3.5-inch flange. The exhaust is TIG-welded and hand-fabbed from 3.5-inch pipe through a set of Flowmasters reworked to accept the larger tubes.
Suspension: In the rear, the car uses Mopar Super Stock springs moved inboard 3 inches with a pinion snubber and QA1 single-adjustable shocks. The front suspension is stock with QA1 shocks.
Brakes: The front brakes are Aerospace 10.25-inch discs with four-piston calipers. The rears are 11.375-inch discs with four-piston calipers, also from Aerospace Components.
Paint and Body: The car was stripped down and sent to the frame shop to ensure everything was straight. Then the car went to a media blaster, where Robert was pleased to find no rust and only a bit of filler. The eight-point chromoly 'cage was built and certified to 8.50s, then the car went to the body shop for prep and paint. The '06 Chrysler Viper Red was applied by Bob Zupan and RZ Auto Works in Maplewood, MN.
Interior: Gary Ball from Indiana supplied the interior components, and they were installed by Robert after the car was painted. Aside from the Auto Meter gauges and shifter, the interior of the car was restored to resemble a factory 330 Super Stock race car.
Trunk: The Super Stock Mopar battery came from Antique Auto Battery, and the trunk was painted to exactly match the original SS cars.
Thanks to: Dennis Klaff.


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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2008--Amazon.com has launched "Frustration-Free Packaging," a new initiative designed to make it easier for customers to liberate products from their packages. Amazon is focusing first on two kinds of items: those enclosed in hard plastic cases known as "clamshells" and those secured with plastic-coated wire ties, commonly used in toy packaging.
Frustration-Free Packaging is being launched in the U.S. with 19 bestselling products from leading manufacturers including Fisher-Price, Mattel, Microsoft and electronics manufacturer Transcend. The product is exactly the same - Amazon has just streamlined the packaging. The project will expand across Amazon's international sites beginning in 2009.
"I think we've all experienced the frustration that sometimes occurs when you try to get a new toy or electronics product out of its package," said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. "It will take many years, but our vision is to offer our entire catalog of products in Frustration-Free Packaging. We'd like to thank Fisher-Price, Mattel, Microsoft and Transcend for working with us in this effort - we truly appreciate it."
In addition to making packages easier to open, a major goal of the Frustration-Free Packaging initiative is to be more environmentally friendly by using less packaging material.
One of the first products to launch with Frustration-Free Packaging is the Fisher-Price Imaginext Adventures Pirate Ship, which is now delivered in an easy-to-open, recyclable cardboard box. The new packaging eliminates 36 inches of plastic-coated wire ties, 1,576.5 square inches of printed corrugated package inserts and 36.1 square inches of printed folding carton materials. Also eliminated are 175.25 square inches of PVC blisters, 3.5 square inches of ABS molded styrene and two molded plastic fasteners.
Small items, such as memory cards, are also good candidates for Frustration-Free Packaging. Typically encased in oversized plastic clamshells to deter shoplifting, memory cards are then placed inside larger cardboard boxes for shipment to customers. Working with Transcend, Amazon has eliminated the hard-to-open clamshell and the need for an additional box. Instead, the cards will now ship inside recyclable cardboard envelopes which use less material. Amazon is working to shrink the envelope size even further.
Customers can order select items from Fisher-Price, Mattel, Microsoft and Transcend in the new Frustration-Free Packaging for immediate delivery. The current collection of Frustration-Free products can be seen by going to www.amazon.com/packaging.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as books, movies, music & games, digital downloads, electronics & computers, home & garden, toys, kids & baby, grocery, apparel, shoes & jewelry, health & beauty, sports & outdoors, and tools, auto & industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), and Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and the Joyo Amazon websites at www.joyo.cn and www.amazon.cn.
As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, significant amount of indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, and subsequent filings.


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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has recently said the country's indigenous languages could go into extinction in no distant future if urgent steps are not taken to preserve them.
In the 2017 Annual Round Table on Cultural Orientation, the Minister said that "there is a remarkable decline in the usage of our indigenous languages by our children and youth; many of them cannot read or write in their mother tongue." He said concrete measures must be taken to preserve indigenous languages, including the need for parents to ensure that their children are taught their indigenous languages.
Nigeria is a country where more than 500 languages coexist, although English is the official language, as it facilitates the cultural and linguistic unity of the country. As far as local languages are concerned, the major languages spoken in Nigeria represent three major families of languages of Afric: the majority are Niger-Congo languages, such as Igbo or Yoruba; Kanuri, spoken in the northeast is part of the Nilo-Saharan family; and Hausa is an Afroasiatic language.


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Study Comparing the Safety and Effectiveness of Magnetic Resonance Guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) and External Beam Radiation (EBRT) for Treatment of Metastatic Bone Tumors and Multiple Myeloma
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01091883
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 24, 2010
Last Update Posted : March 13, 2019
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|Condition or disease
|Bone Cancer Bone Metastases Pain
|Device: Exablate treatment Radiation: Radiation
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Bone is the third most common organ involved by metastatic disease behind lung and liver [6]. In breast cancer, bone is the second most common site of metastatic spread, and 90% of patients dying of breast cancer have bone metastasis. Breast and prostate cancer metastasize to bone most frequently, which reflects the high incidence of both these tumors, as well as their prolonged clinical courses. Post-cancer survival has increased with improvement in early detection and treatments. As a consequence, the number of patients developing metastatic bone disease during their lifetime has also increased.
Current treatments for patients with bone metastases are primarily palliative and include localized therapies (radiation and surgery), systemic therapies (chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, radiopharmaceutical, and bisphosphonates although the primary goal of the use of these therapies are often to address the disease itself), and analgesics (opioids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). Recently, radiofrequency ablation has been tested as a treatment option for bone metastases [8]. Currently, an off label use of Cryoablation techniques are being tested as another alternative for bone Mets palliation. The main goals of these treatments are improvement of quality of life and functional level. These goals can be further described:
- Pain relief
- Preservation and restoration of function
- Local tumor control
- Skeletal stabilization
Treatment with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is the standard of care for patients with localized bone pain, and results in the palliation of pain for many of these patients. Twenty to 30% of patients treated with radiation therapy do not experience pain relief [9-13]. Re-treatment rates are generally reported in the range of 10-25%. Many patients with relapsed pain or poor response to initial radiation may be lost to follow up or may not be referred back to oncologists for consideration of re-radiation. In addition to relapse and re-treatment, there is an increased risk of pathologic fracture in the peri-radiation period. The fracture rate reported in radiation studies is generally in the range of 1% to 8%. The hyperemic response weakens the adjacent bone and increases the risk of spontaneous fracture. Furthermore, patients who have recurrent pain at a site previously irradiated may not be eligible for further radiation therapy secondary to limitations in normal tissue tolerance. Hesitation on the part of physicians to use a larger dose may be related to increased long-term toxicity. Larger radiation dose produces a greater risk of complications such as fibrosis of normal soft tissue, which can cause a decrement in the quality of life in cases of life expectancy longer than 6 months. There may also be a greater incidence of acute side effects of nausea and vomiting if the treatment field includes the stomach. The percent of patients experiencing vomiting following EBRT ranges from about 5% to 30%.
A palliative treatment for painful bone metastases that is non-invasive, without long-term toxicity and having minimal complications would be a useful tool for treating physicians and also a beneficial option for patients suffering from painful bone metastases. Results of preliminary studies indicate that ExAblate treatment of painful bone metastases may be a beneficial treatment option [14, 15]. The ExAblate system is a non-invasive thermal ablation device used in the coagulation of various types of soft tissue. The ExAblate system has the potential to achieve the first three of the four previously mentioned goals in the treatment of bone tumors; namely pain relief, preservation and restoration of functional levels and local tumor control [11].
This study will compare the safety and effectiveness of MR Guided Focused Ultrasound and External Beam Radiation for treatment of metastatic bone tumors or multiple myeloma.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|60 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Participant)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Phase IIIA Study Comparing the Safety and Effectiveness of MR Guided Focused Ultrasound and External Beam Radiation for Treatment of Metastatic Bone Tumors and Multiple Myeloma
|Study Start Date :
|May 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|January 2019
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|March 2019
Experimental: Exablate treatment
Exablate 2000
Device: Exablate treatment
MR Guided Focused Ultrasound
Active Comparator: Radiation
External Beam Radiation
Radiation: Radiation
External Beam Radiation
- Safety of treatment [ Time Frame: 6 months ]Incidence and severity of adverse events associated with the ExAblate MRgFUS bone system used in the palliation of pain due to metastatic bone tumors or multiple myeloma to that of EBRT
- NRS score [ Time Frame: 6 months ]Effect of treatment with MRgFUS ExAblate Bone System (BS) of painful bone tumors or multiple myeloma
- Pain Medication dose and quantity [ Time Frame: 6 months ]Decrease in analgesics/opiate
- Quality of Life score [ Time Frame: 6 months ]Improved quality of life (measured by questionnaires)
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Men and women age 18 years and older.
- Able and willing to give consent and to attend all study visits
- Patients with bone metastasis or primary bone lesion identifiable by imaging techniques.
- Worst NRS Pain Score of ≥ 4 from the tumor to be treated.
- Targeted tumor(s) are accessible to both ExAblate and EBRT (ExAblate accessible lesions are located in ribs, extremities (excluding joints), pelvis, shoulders and in the posterior aspects of the following spinal vertebra: Lumbar vertebra (L3 - L5), Sacral vertebra (S1 - S5), please see ExAblate "Information for Prescribers".
- Targeted tumor(s) area is smaller than 100cm2.
- Tumor(s) clearly visible by non-contrast MRI.
- No radiation therapy to the treated lesion during one month prior to enrollment.
- Radiation therapy is not contraindicated
- Bisphosphonate, chemo or hormone therapy intake should remain stable throughout follow up duration.
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients who either
- Need pre-treatment surgical stabilization of the affected bony structure OR
- prior surgical stabilization of tumor site
- Targeted tumor is in a vertebra body or in the posterior aspects of the cervical part of the vertebral column.
- Targeted tumor is in the skull.
- Patients on anti-coagulation therapy or with an underlying uncontrolled bleeding disorder.
- Patients with life expectancy < 6-Months.
Patients with unstable cardiac status including:
- Unstable angina pectoris on medication.
- Patients with documented myocardial infarction within last 40 days to protocol entry.
- Congestive heart failure NYHA Class IV
- Severe hypertension (diastolic BP > 100 on medication).
- Patients with standard contraindications for MR imaging such as non-MRI compatible implanted ferromagnetic objects/devices.
- Known intolerance or allergies to MRI contrast agent (e.g. Gadolinium or Magnevist)
- KPS score of below 60
- Severe cerebro-vascular disease (multiple CVA or CVA within 6 months)
- Individuals who are not able or willing to tolerate the required prolonged stationary position during treatment (approximately 2 hrs.)
- Target tumor is less then 1cm from spinal cord, skin, or hollow viscera.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01091883
|Taipei Medical University Hospital
|Taipei city, Taipei, Taiwan, 11031
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|March 24, 2010 Key Record Dates
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|March 13, 2019
|Last Verified:
|March 2019
Bone cancer
Bone Metastases
pain palliation
breast cancer
lung cancer
prostate cancer
cancer related pain
Neoplasm Metastasis
Multiple Myeloma
Bone Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Plasma Cell
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Hemostatic Disorders
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Blood Protein Disorders
Hematologic Diseases
Hemorrhagic Disorders
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Neoplastic Processes
Pathologic Processes
Neoplasms by Site
Bone Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Neoplasms, Bone Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective Tissue
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First of all, let me apologise for the lack of updates over the past few months, things have been rather insane here lately to say the least. Back in October, whilst still battling through a mountain of bugs, I decided it would be a good idea for us to enter DE into next year's IGF. Up until this point Jack and I had been mostly fixing up the game to get it looking and functioning as it did in our Orange Box engine alpha, and although we were through the worst of it, I had yet to do any polish and hadn't even begun the process of stripping out all of the portal 2 content, not to mention that we didn't even have a functional UI!
With the IGF submission deadline just under a month away, I stocked up on food and barricaded myself into my apartment and put myself on permanent crunch in order to get something presentable for the IGF submission deadline. Over the course of the next few weeks I probably slept a total of 10 hours and had Hammer's interface permanently burned into my retinas, but the overall result was worth it; By the time we submitted our first IGF build I'd managed to strip out every piece of unwanted content, reducing the game from over 10gb down to a mere 1.5gb, implement the new VO's and soundtrack and polished up a good portion of the game. In the meantime Jack had finished off most of the last remaining big bugs and rebuilt the UI with all the functionality I needed. Within the course of a few weeks we went from a rather shabby, barely functioning, pre-alpha build to something that was starting to look like an actual game again.
It was a proud moment to see the game finally taking shape. Since the first IGF submission I've been continuing to work like crazy, bug fixing and polishing and uploading updates, in order for the IGF judges (and eventually everyone else) to get the best experience possible. The result of all this hard work came to a head when we finally reached beta last week, meaning we are now feature complete, content complete and had no more alpha bugs remaining! I'm really pleased with how the game has turned out and I just wanted to show some screens from the Beta build to celebrate and as a thank you to everyone who has been patiently following DE!
Hitting beta also means that we have more of solid idea for when we'll be able to release DE, and although we still can't give a specific date just yet, we are in talks with Valve about launching around the end of Jan/early Feb – So not long now!
We've still got a lot to do in the meantime; the next step for us is to get DE up and running on Steam which should be happening quite soon and then do a bunch of more thorough testing on different machines. I also want to work on an official launch trailer so you can see it in action since it really does look better in motion I think! In other news, Jessica Curry has released an excerpt of the remastered soundtrack on our official website, click here to take a listen!
If you want to keep up to date with events as they happen, you can follow me, Dan and jack on Twitter!
Fingers crossed for Dear Esther & IGF! 😀
Oh and don't forget to vote for us in IndieDB's Indie Of The Year nominations!
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ICS/SCADA experts say open-source network security monitoring software is a simple and cheap way to catch hackers targeting plant operations. Operators at Natanz nuclear facility in Iran might well have caught Stuxnet before it spread and sabotaged operations at the plant if they had been watching the wires for anomalous network traffic, a pair of ICS/SCADA experts say.
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Russian researchers have found vulnerabilities in industrial control systems that they say grant full control of systems running energy, chemical and transportation systems. The vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers who over the last year probed popular and high-end ICS and SCADA systems used to control everything from home solar panel installations to critical national infrastructure.
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Annual threat report from Dell Security shows not only a significant surge in the number of attacks on retail credit card systems, but industrial SCADA systems as well, which are much more likely to go unreported.
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The useful integration of video with industrial control systems has been a reality for a few years, but a burst of applications and installations is on the horizon. Cheaper bandwidth, wide availability of Internet protocol (IP) cameras, and greater familiarity with industrial Ethernet networks seem to be driving user interest.
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AdvancedHMI base package is a free software used to build HMIs that display information residing in a PLC. You will find it to be one of the fastest platforms to build an HMI with. The software takes advantage of the Visual Basic .NET development environment so effort is focused on the core software and not reinventing a development environment.
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Aficionados of world music will have only one question when they visit the Phoenix Musical Instrument Museum – "How can I move in?"
The best you'll be able to do is get a two-day pass, or several if need be, so that you can luxuriate in this masterful display of the world's musical traditions.
The tagline of the museum—"The World's Only Global Musical Instrument Museum" is not hyperbole. This is a thorough and fascinating assemblage of musical artifacts from across the globe and from every culture.
One sign puts it well—"If not for music, the soul would have no language."
Walking from one continental gallery to another, your eyes delight on the craftsmanship of instruments-- some jeweled and some made of junk--but all capable of soul-lilting songs in keeping with local traditions.
Here is a clip of Paraguy's Recycled Orchestra, whose instruments you can see on display and who also made their North American debut at the museum.
There are more than 15,000 instruments and associated costumes and other cultural artifacts that speak to the importance of music in each culture.
You could spend a decade or more traveling the globe to find all of these instruments and catalog these musical traditions. Or you can don your headsets at Phoenix' Musical Instrument Museum and soak up the successful efforts of the museum's curators to do it for you.
From so many to choose from—here are two more video snippets suggesting the range of the museum.
Indian Music---
Greek Bouzouki---
If there is a problem with this museum it is that there is SO MUCH to take in it is overwhelming—audio and visual fighting for your apt attention.
Luckily the spacious surrounds and even delicious cafeteria food allow you a means to take a break and then get right back to it. Music lovers will not want to dawdle long, even though the lobby affords a piano for impromptu concerts as yet another way to take a break.
Since you are in the Southwest it probably makes sense to make sure that you don't miss out on the demonstrations of Native American music to get a sense of place.
The headset technology of this museum is top-notch. You don't have to fumble with buttons and such on an audio guide. Rather, the exhibits sense that you are there and begin playing the appropriate audio as you are viewing the exhibit. Some exhibits have a few recordings, in others there are up to five that rotate.
There are also concerts and special exhibits in the museum at all times. While we were there we saw "Women Who Rock", including memorabilia ranging from The Supremes to Madonna and more. The permanent displays also pay homage to the instruments played by world-renowned musicians—whether it's the Steinway piano on which John Lennon composed "Imagine" or one of the drums so famously played at the opening of the 2008 Olympics.
If you love music or if you are student of world culture you cannot miss this museum. While there are many things to do in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area, this stands out as one that is worth the price of a plane ticket alone. Put it on the proverbial "bucket list".
Musical Instrument Museum of Phoenix, Arizona
4725 East Mayo Boulevard
Phoenix, Arizona 85050
For more information call the Museum of Musical Instrument's website (www.mim.org) or call 480 478 6000.
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We are huge fans of Stephen Hunter. Steve is of course the novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning former film critic of the Washington Post. Of Steve, Glenn Reynolds concisely holds: "Love him, and his books."
Today is the official publication date of Steve's new Bob Lee Swagger thriller, The Third Bullet. Based on an advance copy, Richard Fernandez has already posted an astute appreciation of the novel. Steve has graciously accepted our invitation to bring his new book to the attention of our readers from the perspective of the author himself. He writes:
The Third Bullet came from a brilliant idea. In fact it was so brilliant, I doubted I had it, because I'm not that smart. But nobody else was in the room at the time.
Anyhow, it wasn't the idea to turn Bob Lee Swagger loose on the JFK assassination, although that was a pretty good one.
It wasn't the breakthrough that enabled me to figure out a brand new Who, How and Why to the assassination–explanations that actually made some sense–although if you don't mind me saying so, that was outstanding work.
It wasn't that my theory of the secret ballistics of the event turned out to be identical to one created separately by one of America's leading ballisticians, who is an expert on 6.5 mm projectiles. Pretty damn great, but no, that wasn't it.
It was something that overarched and enabled these things. It was this idea: let's return the assassination to the real world. After all, tragically enough, that's where it took place, and we feel its melancholy weight to this day.
Up till now, the two churches of assassination true belief seem to belong not in the real world at all. They belong in crazyland.
The mega-theories, offered by everyone from Mark Lane to Oliver Stone to something currently calling itself the "assassination community" are mostly wacko. They're eye-rollers, that turn on Oswald doubles, three separate shooters (triangulation, don't you know), the Military-Industrial Complex, the Boy Scouts of America and Sears, Roebuck, all working in perfect syncopation. Some of them are so vast it seems that more people are inside the conspiracy than outside it. And, naturally, they skew lefty, finding convenient bogeymen to blame like Big Oil, Big Defense, Big Intelligence and Big Money. (In fact the left's quick domination of the JFK assassination narrative is one of the great agitprop triumphs of the century.)
But inevitably they fail the laugh test. They take place in a world where it is possible that within the government a conspiracy with so many moving parts and so much personnel can operate in absolute perfection. I was in the army for two years, and believe me I know that nothing the government has ever done can be called "perfect." First law of reality: everything is always messed up. Someone forgets something, someone orders the wrong documents, someone is POed at someone from a slight at a party two decades ago and misleads him so he's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ask the paratroopers who landed in flooded fields on D-Day, except you can't because they drowned.
But not only would such an enterprise be perfect, according to the mega theories, it would remain shielded in silence for half a century. The greatest secret of all time, the Enigma Machine in World War II, remained secret for about 20 years. Someone blabbed. Second law of reality: someone always blabs. Someone is not given enough secret credit, someone's career didn't turn out the way he expected, someone enjoys the secret power of treason, someone has the self-control of an alcoholic, someone is prone to flattery: it all adds up to one thing. In the end, someone talks. It's always the same. It's human nature.
Yet on the other side the narrative championed by the Warren Commission and its adherants, like Gerald Posner and Vincent Bugliosi, is equally dispiriting and unconvincing. Of course it lacks weight and gravitas, and it is painful to consider that one of the most beloved men in American history was felled by a loser creep who wanted to impress the editor of The Daily Worker. The vast distance between the squalor and cupidity of the one and the grace and majesty (and potential) of the other seems so out of proportion that the mind struggles to accommodate it.
Still, most people seem to have made peace with the report and gotten on with their lives. I was one such until I looked at it carefully. I learned quickly that the Commission did a pretty lousy job. I learned quickly that it was particularly slack on the issue of the rifle.
The whole lone-gunman scenario turns on a single improbability: that a classic screw-up like Lee Harvey Oswald, who was a disaster at everything he ever tried and was not even employable at stoop-labor wages, was able to hit a 4 by 4 target moving at 11 miles an hour ahead and deviating to the left 265 feet away through a telescopic scope which, according to the FBI itself in the Warren Commission Report, could not be zeroed. In other words as a practical matter, that rifle could not be made to shoot where it was aimed.
That's the technical context; consider the emotional: the man has been visible to police or counter-sniper gunfire for somewhere between 8 and 11 seconds so he's getting very nervous; then, he's had to reacquire his sight picture through the limited vision of that dinky 3/4 of an inch scope after recoil and a laborious recock of a stiff bolt action and now he has to shoot when the target is farthest, and is moving fastest. Likely?
Consider the third bullet itself. Engineered in the nineteenth century primarily to kill heavily clad enemy soldiers in mountain combat by virtue of heavy sectional density, length and an extra-thick jacket, it somehow magically explodes so totally that no trace of it has ever been found. Likely?
Then Oswald, the most hunted man in history, doesn't flee; he goes home to retoeive a revolver he could have had with him in the first place! Likely?
So my idea was as follows: Let's take the hard data of the Warren Commission and make certain that Oswald is always where they said he was. In other words, let's not deny the Warren Report but accept it, and try and find out if there could have been a conspiracy in its shadows, its arroyos, its alleyways. And if there could, let's put him in it but make it a small, extremely professional conspiracy, run by people who are the best in the world at this sort of thing. But even then, let's not envision an ideal, a perfection, a masterpiece. And let's pass on the lefty smarm.


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How To Make A Quick And Easy Puff Pastry Dough Recipes
Savory Goat Ricotta Cheese Puffs
There are guests coming tomorrow, and as usual I had no clue about what to make. I scoured my pantry and found a bag of macadamia nuts, just waiting to be used. I made walnut pesto yesterday, and I didn't feel like making another pasta and pesto dish. As they say, variety is the spice of life.
I think appetizers are perfect for dinner parties; they allow people to nibble without interrupting the flow of conversation. I often make some sort of mini puff pastry, and I thought a macadamia pesto would be the perfect filling. However, a traditional pesto would be too thin on its own, so I added some homemade crème fraîche and some goat ricotta cheese. As you may have noticed, I'm a huge fan of goat ricotta cheese, and I get it whenever it's available at the local creamery.
Today, I made the pesto and the dough, tested out and baked a couple of puffs in the oven for tasting. The smell was intoxicating, and it was really difficult to snap a couple of photos before everyone descended upon them.
You can freeze both the pesto and the dough. If you often have last minute guests as we do, it's easy to pop them out of the freezer and bake them. Your guests will love them, and you'll be a rockstar without much effort!
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Camembert Stuffed Fig Puffs
I went into the garden today and I noticed we had a huge crop of Black Mission figs. I think I gathered probably two full baskets. We had some last minute guests come over this afternoon, and I decided to put the figs I just picked to good use. Since they were coming over for tea, I thought that bite size appetizers would be in order. I stuffed the figs with camembert and some thyme from the garden. I then rested each fig on a bed of puff pastry and baked them in the oven.
A lot of my cooking is my own improvisation. If you know what flavors combinations work well together, it's easy to come up with new recipes when you're in a pinch. Figs stuffed with camembert is a classic combination, and really, what doesn't puff pastry go with?
Unfortunately, I didn't have any ready-made puff pastry, so I had to make some myself. The result isn't as beautiful as Julia's from Mélanger, but it also didn't take six hours to make! I have to give a special shout out to Julia for taking the effort to make pâte feuilletée at home.
I think our guests enjoyed the little bite-sized fig appetizers. You could make a similar dish with many other fruits, so experiment and have fun!
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Lawyers rail at police response to Turkey protests
Jurists demonstrate against government's alleged rough treatment of dozens of their colleagues during a Tuesday rally
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Thousands of black-robed Turkish lawyers stormed out of their courthouses Wednesday, shouting about the rough treatment police dished out to their colleagues amid Turkey's biggest anti-government protests in years.
The rallies by clapping, chanting jurists added a new twist to the nearly two weeks of protests that started in Istanbul and spread to dozens of other Turkish cities. The protests have shaped up as the biggest test yet in the 10-year rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted government.
Police and protesters mostly retrenched Wednesday after fierce overnight clashes in Istanbul's Taksim Square — a hiatus before Erdogan was to host talks with some protesters later in the day.
Protesters say the prime minister is becoming increasingly authoritarian and is trying to force his deep religious views on all Turks, a charge that Erdogan and his allies strongly deny.
In Ankara and Istanbul, thousands of lawyers railed against the alleged rough treatment of dozens of their colleagues, who police briefly detained in Istanbul on the sidelines of Tuesday's unrest.
Sema Aksoy, the deputy head of the Ankara lawyer's association, said the lawyers were handcuffed and pulled over the ground. She called the police action an affront to Turkey's judicial system.
"Lawyers can't be dragged on the ground!" the demonstrating lawyers shouted in rhythm as they marched out of an Istanbul courthouse. Riot police stood off to the side, shields at the ready.
Turkey's Human Rights Foundation said the Istanbul Public Prosecutor's office had launched an investigation into allegations of excessive use of police force during the protests.
The foundation said 620 people, including a one-year-old baby, were injured during the police crackdown early Wednesday. Police detained some 70 people during the incidents. Prior to this, activists reported that 5,000 people had been injured or seriously affected by the tear gas and four people have died from the protests.
The government, meanwhile, pressed ahead with uncertain efforts to defuse the protests.
President Abdullah Gul, seen by many as a more moderate voice than Erdogan, said the government could not tolerate more of the unrest that has disrupted daily life in Istanbul and beyond. He promised, however, that authorities would listen to protesters' grievances.
"I am hopeful that we will surmount this through democratic maturity," Gul told reporters. "If they have objections, we need to hear them, enter into a dialogue. It is our duty to lend them an ear."
It was unclear exactly who would be taking part in the meeting Wednesday afternoon at the offices of Erdogan's Justice and Development party in Ankara — and whether the meeting will be able to broker an end to the protests.
Activists had doubts about the talks' legitimacy. Only an actor and a singer — with unclear connections to the protesters — had agreed to take part, and some leaders of civil society groups, including Greenpeace, had said they would not participate because of an "environment of violence" in Turkey.
The activist group Taksim Solidarity, which includes academics and architects who oppose the redevelopment plan at nearby Gezi Park, said its members hadn't been invited to the meeting with Erdogan and predicted it would yield no results.
"As police violence continues mercilessly … these meetings will in no way lead to a solution," the group said in a statement.
The group reiterated its demands, saying Gezi should remain a public park, senior officials behind the police excesses should be fired and all detained protesters should be released.
After Tuesday's violence, traffic returned to Taksim Square with taxis, trucks and pedestrians back on the streets. At one point, some police were seen kicking a soccer ball on the square. Riot police stood off to the side, near a new barricade of wrecked cars and construction material that activists erected before dawn to prevent police from firing tear gas into the square's still occupied Gezi Park.
Hundreds of protesters remained camped out in Gezi Park, clearing up after a night of trying to fend off tear gas, followed by an early morning storm that blew down tents and soaked bedding.
On Tuesday, riot police firing water cannons and tear gas clashed all day and night with pockets of protesters throwing stones and setting off fireworks. The pitched battles didn't simmer down until just before dawn.
Erdogan has insisted the protests and occupations, which he says are hurting Turkey's image and economy, must end immediately and are being organized by extremists and terrorists.
The protests are drawing expressions of concern from abroad.
Germany's government was "following the news from Turkey with great preoccupation, especially the images of yesterday's police action," Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said Wednesday. "Now de-escalation is needed. Only an open dialogue can contribute to easing the situation."
The protests erupted May 31 after a violent police crackdown on a peaceful sit-in by activists objecting to a development project replacing Gezi Park with a replica Ottoman-era barracks. They then spread to 78 cities across the country and have attracted tens of thousands of people each night.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A taste of cow's milk during the first two weeks of life may protect a child from later developing an allergy to the milk's protein, a new study suggests.
Cow's milk protein allergy is the most common and most dangerous among the family of dairy allergies and intolerances, with reactions including rash, respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms, even shock or death.
The finding that giving cow's milk very early in life might boost tolerance came as a surprise to lead researcher Dr. Yitzhak Katz of Tel Aviv University in Israel. He and his colleagues simply set out to improve on current estimates of the number of children with the allergy, and to determine how often it is accompanied by an allergy to soy. "We weren't even looking for a risk factor," he told Reuters Health.
Of 13,000 infants studied, the team found that 66 (0.5 percent) tested positive for the milk allergy — far fewer than would be expected based on previous population estimates of 1 to 3 percent, they note in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
The researchers also found no link between cow's milk and soy allergies, despite some earlier estimates that up to 1 in 3 children with the first allergy also suffered from the second.
"Soy is a reasonable feeding alternative for children with cow's milk allergy," noted Katz.
But what his team found next most intrigued him. Infants who were first fed cow's milk at the age of 15 days or more had 19 times the risk of developing cow's milk allergy relative to those exposed earlier — during the first two weeks of life.
Due to common difficulties in digesting the sugar content of cow's milk, some pediatricians have discouraged its introduction until a certain age, Dr. Kari Nadeau of Stanford University in California, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.
Now, it seems there might also be benefits to an earlier start. "It's nice to know that if you do give small amounts of cow's milk to children at an early age," Nadeau said, "it could help prevent their immune system from later viewing this milk protein as a foreign substance and reacting unnaturally to it."
Nadeau noted that further research is needed to pinpoint the most optimal "window of opportunity" and to see how well the exposed babies do as they grow older.
She also cautioned that early feeding of cow's milk is no guarantee that a child won't get the allergy. "At any point in time, if a child starts developing a rash or vomiting to a food," she said, "they should always get checked out by an allergist."
Katz added that the findings should not be interpreted as discouraging breastfeeding. Rather, he recommends simply complementing it with cow's milk early on.
"Let Dad enjoy some midnight infant bonding," he said, "while he delivers a dose or two of cow's milk protein."
SOURCE: link.reuters.com/zuv24m Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, online June 11, 2010.


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Wis. DNR seeks input on new deer surveys
March 22, 2013 at 07:15 AM
The Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources is asking deer hunters to fill out two new surveys.
One survey focuses on hunters' perceptions of local herds, asking whether hunters believe the herd in local management units has grown or shrunk and whether the DNR issues the proper number of permits for each unit.
The other survey asks broader questions, including how the DNR should implement recommendations Texas researcher James Kroll offered last summer to improve the hunt and how to fight chronic wasting disease.
The surveys will be available online as well as at a number of public meetings to discuss the 2013 deer hunt and Kroll's recommendations over the coming months.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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So, I recently got into a juicing craze after winning this Panasonic Slow Juicer
(Model: MJ- L500) from Panasonic Malaysia
This slow juicer is priced at RM 899.00 and is able to produce high quality nutrient juice with its low speed grinding system (the screw rotates slowly and nutrients are not destroyed by friction heat) This way, the nutrition and enzyme in its original form are well preserved. There is no heat and no oxidation during the juicing process.
The slow juicer is able to keep juice longer without separation.
The photo below speaks for itself.
One thing that I absolutely love about this Panasonic MJ- L500 Slow Juicer is that the residue comes out effortlessly on the left side of the slow juicer (externally) and unlike some other juicers, it is clogged up inside the machine.
Fresh juice that is fine and smooth comes out from the right side and the "pipe" area comes with a knob to control the flow of the juices. I find this very useful to avoid overflowing and messiness.
This slow juicer is also able to produce smoothies besides the usual juicing.
But I have not tried on that function yet.
More details on the Panasonic Slow Juicer
(Model: MJ- L500) here
Recipes here
Mom and I have been discussing on the types of juices we can make every other day.
I have been studying and compiling on "what fruits goes well with what fruits" and here's my compilation list to share with you for those who are also into juicing.
Juicing with greens, seeds and not just fruits.
Discover more healthy eating infographics here
Besides juicing, you can also stay hydrated with the following thirst quenching method- fruits infused water
You can combine lime/lemon, ginger, mint leaves, cucumber
Soak them overnight and keep it in the fridge.
Tutorial video here
Happy Juicing and experimenting!


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Apple iPad Mini Smart Cover Review/
Nearly two years ago, Apple first introduced the Smart Cover it developed alongside the iPad 2 calling it a magical cover. The Smart Cover went on to be Apple's official protective accessory for the iPad 3rd and 4th generation, and now a new mini-me version was designed for the iPad mini. The new iPad mini Smart Cover is a shrunken down replica of the original we reviewed way back when with all of the standard features you'd expect out of the trifolding cover, however, what Apple didn't shrink was the price. The question is, will a mini Smart Cover be worth $39 this time around? We instigate it all in our in-depth review down below!


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This page is intended primarily for policy makers, journalists and others who attend or report on international meetings about climate change. Hopefully though, it is also useful to anyone who wants better understanding of what goes on at these meetings, and what is at stake from their results.
For each meeting you will find Greenpeace position statements and other relevant documents, and often first hand accounts from our delegations.
More information: UNFCCC meetings page
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Metamaterials: Critique and Alternatives
Metamaterials: Critique and Alternatives
ISBN: 978-0-470-42386-8 February 2009 220 Pages
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In a book that will generate both support and controversy, one of the world's foremost authorities on periodic structures addresses several of the current fashions in antenna design—most specifically, the popular subject of double negative metamaterials. Professor Munk provides a comprehensive theoretical electromagnetic investigation of the issues and concludes that many of the phenomena claimed by researchers may be impossible. While denying the existence of negative refraction, the author provides convincing alternative explanations for some of the experimental examples in the literature.
Although the debate on this subject is just beginning, Professor Munk has received support by various numerical simulations, winning him the encouragement of numerous experts in the field. The issues that are raised here have not been addressed thoroughly by the metamaterials community, and this book will serve as a catalyst for much healthy debate and discussion.
Metamaterials: Critique and Alternatives is destined to become a classic resource for graduate students and researchers in electromagnetics, antenna theory, materials research, and chemistry.
Table of contents
Chapter 1: Why Periodic Structures Cannot Synthesize Negative Indices of Refraction.
1.1 Introduction.
1.2 What Currently is Assumed about Veselago's Medium.
1.3. Fantastic Designs Could be Realized if Veselago's Material Existed.
1.4. How Veselago's Medium is Envisioned to be Synthesized Using Periodic Structures.
1.5. How Does A Periodic Structure Refract.
1.6. On the Field Surrounding an Infinite Periodic Structure of Arbitrary Wire Elements Located in One or More Arrays.
1.7. On Increasing "Evanescent" Waves: a Fatal Misconception.
1.8 Preliminary Conclusion: Synthesizing Veselago's Medium by a Periodic Structure Is Not Feasible.
1.9. On Transmission Line Dispersion: Backward Traveling Waves.
1.10. Regarding Veselago's Conclusion: are There Deficiencies?
1.11. Conclusions.
1.12. Common Misconceptions.
Chapter 2: On Cloaks and Reactive Radomes.
2.1. Cloaks.
2.2. Reactive Radomes.
2.3. Common Misconceptions.
2.4. Concluding Remarks.
Chapter 3: Absorbers with Windows: Absorb at Some Frequencies While Transparent at Others. also Rasorbers.
3.1. Introduction.
3.2. Statement of the Problem.
3.3. Concept.
3.4. Conceptual Designs.
3.5. Extension to Arbitrary Polarization.
3.6. The High Frequency Band.
3.7. Complete Conceptual Rasorber Design.
3.8. Practical Designs.
3.9. Other applications of traps: multiband arrays.
Chapter 4: On Designing Absorbers for Oblique Angle of Incidence.
4.1. Lagarkov's and Classical Designs.
4.2. The Salisbury Screen.
4.3. Scan Compensation.
4.4. Frequency Compensation.
4.5. The Circuit Analog Absorbers.
4.6. Other Designs: Comparison and Discussion.
4.7. Conclusion.
Chapter 5. The Titan Antenna: An Alternative to Magnetic Ground Planes.
5.1. Introduction.
5.2. Layout of the Antenna.
5.3. On Double-Band Matching in General.
5.4. Matching of the Sleeve Elements.
5.5. Further Matching: The Main Distribution Network.
5.6. The Balun.
5.7. The Radiation Pattern.
5.8. Something that Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Usually Is!
5.9. Efficiency Measurements.
5.10. A Common Misconception.
5.11. We Put the magnetic Ground Plane to Rest!
5.12. Conclusions.
Chapter 6: Summary and Concluding Remarks.
6.1 Background.
6.2 The Features of Veselago's Material.
6.3 What Can a Periodic Structure Actually Simulate?
6.4 Did Veselago Choose the Wrong Branch Cut?
6.5 Could we Ever Have a Negative Index of Refraction?
6.6 Could Veselago Have Avoided the Wrong Solution?
6.7 So What Came Out Of It?
6.8 Is Publishing the Ultimate Goal in Scientific Research?
6.9 What Excites a Scientist?
6.10 How Far Have We Gone in Our Self-Deception?
6.11 But Didn't Anyone Suspect Anything?
6.12 How Realistic Are Small Arrays?
Appendix A: The Paper Rejected in 2003.
A.1. Comments Written in 2007 Concerning My Rejected Paper Submitted in 2003.
A.2. The Paper Rejected in 2003.
Appendix B. A Cavity-Type Broadband Antenna with a Steerable Cardioid Pattern.
B.1. Introduction.
B.2. Design 1.
B.3. Design 2.
B.4. Development of Design 2b.
B.5. Conclusion.
Appendix C: How to Measure the Characteristic Impedance and Attenuation of a Cable.
C.1. Background.
C.2 Input Connector Effect.
C.3. Do the Formulas Hold in the Smith Charts?
C.4. How to Measure the Cable Loss.
Appendix D: Can Negative Refraction be Observed Using a Wedge of Lossy Material?
D.1. Introduction.
D.2. Refraction for Planar Slabs.
D.3. Wedge Shaped Dielectric.
D.4. Asymmetric Aperture Distributions in General.
D.5. Conclusion.


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I know that one can retrieve
PlotRange of a plot by using
but that won't work on
Histogram. Here an example:
data = {-1.2056, -1.46192, -1.30053, -2.52879, -0.99636, -1.73904, -1.164,
-1.83398,-0.97505, -0.503256, -0.63802, -0.785963, -0.711821, -0.820439, -1.8699,
-3.9659, -1.4456, -1.67021, -1.42009, -2.5644, -1.45002, -1.27806, -1.66529,
-1.67073, -3.31102, -3.38638};
Histogram[%, PlotRange -> Automatic];
AbsoluteOptions[%, PlotRange]
When running the code I get the following message.
PlotRange::prng: Value of option PlotRange -> {{All,All},{-4.,0.}} is not All,
Full, Automatic, a positive machine number, or an appropriate list of range
specifications. >>
As I understood the documentation,
PlotRange need to be of a certain format (e.g. two numbers) and
{{All,All},{-4.,0.}} apparently does not fit to that format, for which reason Mathematica won't give me back the
PlotRange of my histogram.
Does anybody know how I can get the
PlotRange of a
Histogram anyway? By the way: In the first place, it will only make sense to get hold of the second value of
PlotRange (in my example:
{-4.,0.}) since one can calculate the first one for instance through
{0, Length[data]}.
Many thanks!


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Determining Where Your Waistline Fits within Your Figure
Women often are said to be either short-waisted or long-waisted. To figure out where your waist falls within your overall physique — your "waistedness" — follow these simple steps:
Measure the distance between your armpit and your waist.
Measure the distance between your waist and the bottom of your bum.
Compare the measurements.
If the two measurements aren't equal, you're either short- or long-waisted: If the first measurement is shorter, you're short-waisted. If the second measurement is shorter, you're long-waisted.
The right fashion for short-waisted women
Maintaining balance is one important key to flattering your figure and dressing for your body type. If you're short-waisted, you're going to look out of balance with a top half that appears smaller than your bottom half. Finding ways to make your top half look proportionate to your bottom half, by making your waist appear longer, helps you achieve balance.
Try a top with vertical lines. These lines give the illusion that your top half is longer than it is. The stripes can be as subtle as a pinstripe blouse — anything that keeps the eye moving up and down right over your waist works.
Wear tops that you can leave untucked. This is another way of hiding where your waist actually is.
A deep V-neck draws the focus upwards and away from your waist (this is a little tip that works for everyone — not just short-waisted women).A short-waisted (left) and a long-waisted (right) woman.
Avoid dresses with a waistband. If you do need a belt, choose a narrow one that's in the same color as your outfit to minimize the attention to the waist area.
If you wear prints, limit it to your top and make sure your top ends by your hips. This hides your true waistline, and the break between the pattern and the solid bottom make your waist seem longer than it really is.
What you don't want to do is draw attention directly to your middle, like the left-hand model in the following illustration. The wide belt at the waist accentuates the short waist, making the top half look out of proportion with the bottom half. The tunic top, on the other hand, elongates the waistline and makes the body look balanced.
Fitting fashion for long-waisted women
The problem that long-waisted women have is that their body type makes their legs seem shorter. If you're a long-waisted woman, you need to use your clothes to add length to your bottom half:
Choose dresses that have an A-line or an empire waist. These styles make your waist appear higher than it is, thus making your legs appear longer too.
Choose shirts that cover your waist. The short, stomach-baring shirts are a problem for long-waisted women. When these types of shirts were the trend, it became difficult for long-waisted women to find tops that didn't look like they'd shrunk in the dryer. (By the way, anyone over the age of 12 should avoid this trend at all costs. No adult women should ever wear stomach-bearing tops. And, no, it doesn't matter if you spend every day at the gym!)
Choose pants that are at your natural waistline or a bit above. You definitely want to avoid hip huggers because they make your legs look even shorter.
Never feel as though you're not "in" if you aren't wearing what are supposedly the current trends. Even the fashion industry makes mistakes. You don't have to follow its lead! Not all trends work with all body types, and you don't want to be a fashion victim. Better to stick with your own style and wear clothes that flatter you.
Opt for short jackets. The bolero style, for example, can be very elegant on a long-waisted woman.
Wear heels. They add length to your legs.
To heighten the effect of longer legs, make sure your shoes match your bottom. If you're wearing a skirt or dress, matching hosiery also adds to that effect, as does a wide belt that matches the color of your bottom.
Whatever you do, avoid styles and cuts that make your legs look shorter. Low-waisted jeans with a shorter top only accentuate your long waist, cut you in the middle, and make your legs look shorter. High-waisted pants, on the other hand, will elongate your legs, and raise the appearance of your natural.


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