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If a gadget breaks, gets lost or is stolen, it makes sense to replace it. But deciding whether to abandon an older, still-working device for a newer, shinier one can be a soul-sucking dilemma. Succumb to the temptation to upgrade too early and too often, and you can find yourself getting a piece of technology that is only marginally different from the old version, as well as a hefty credit card bill and the feeling that you played right into the hands of a corporation's marketing department.
So what's the best way to decide when to upgrade?
The first thing I try to keep in mind is that these jumps become more satisfying the longer you take to make them. "Meaningful changes in gadget technology tend to happen every three to four years," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Gartner, a technology research company.
When laptops became thin and light in 2008, it became easier for people to carry them all day, Mr. Gartenberg pointed out. And when notebook screens went ultra-high-resolution last year, it allowed people to fit more apps on the screen at once. Cellphones that work on 3G and 4G networks made it practical to download photos and videos on the go.
Despite how often you buy new gadgets, remember that satisfaction from a purchase comes with getting an appropriate amount of mileage from your gear. You can do that by working out a new gadget's true cost over the number of hours you are likely to use it. In my experience, this has made frequent, high-dollar purchases of gadgets I use all the time seem relatively logical and even practical. Likewise, frequent upgrades to my rarely used television and digital single-lens reflex camera would make little sense.
Let's see how this perspective works when it comes to a few everyday devices.
SMARTPHONES If you use your smartphone only to check e-mail on the train, you could be perfectly fine upgrading it every three years. But if you use it nearly every waking moment, it makes sense to upgrade every 20 months — or even annually.
Let's do the math. In the United States, many carriers are willing to pay for most of the cost of a handset when a customer signs up for a two-year contract, or extends it every 20 months. And the cost of a subsidized handset like an iPhone 5 or a Samsung Galaxy S III, which start at about $200, is trivial compared to the cost of the wireless service plan, which can easily top $2,000 over the length of the contract. That means about 10 percent of your total outlay is for hardware. Since you're paying so much no matter what phone you have, it makes sense to upgrade as soon as you're eligible for a full subsidy.
By the same logic, it does not make much sense to jump at a carrier's offer of an older phone that is cheap or free just to save a few dollars.
Power users should consider upgrading handsets every year. Since carriers like AT&T will offer only a half-subsidy after a year, a smartphone that costs $200 fully subsidized can end up costing around twice as much. That may seem daunting. But since I use my phone more than most people use laptops, the cost to upgrade my 32-gigabyte iPhone every year is less than 10 cents an hour based on 16-hour days, on top of the 15 cents an hour I spend on service. I can live with that. I imagine I'm dropping a quarter into a jar every hour to have the best handset, every year.
A caveat: Every carrier has its own rules on fees for upgrading early. Call your carrier and ask how much it would cost to switch to a new phone. As a rule of thumb, you shouldn't be paying more than twice what someone else is paying for a fully subsidized phone.
Lastly, because there's a huge market for used phones with no contract commitment, you can sell your older smartphone on eBay, sometimes nearly twice what you paid for it under subsidy, offsetting the cost of a new handset.
TABLETS Tablets are odd gadgets that are great for reading and watching movies. But I recommend not upgrading them too often, for several reasons.
First, they've stayed largely the same. Arnold Kim, founder of the Apple-gossip site MacRumors, says each new model of the iPad "hasn't been so dramatically different from the one before, and the first iPad remains a very good device."
Then consider that a full-size tablet like an iPad or an 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD costs nearly as much as a nice phone or a cheap laptop, at around $300 to $500 and up. And since most tablets don't have the portability of a smartphone or the utility of a laptop, I find that most people who have all three gadgets use tablets the least.
Let's break down the cost again: If you're using a $500 iPad for three hours a week, and you keep it for three years before upgrading, it works out to a little over a dollar an hour. That number makes me a little nervous. I don't feel like dropping a dollar into a jar every hour I use an iPad, considering I can get most of the same things done on other devices.
LAPTOPS If you're one of the millions of people who work in front of a computer all day, and you pay for that machine, you may find it easy to justify the cost of a new one every three years. A $1,500 computer used roughly every working day over three years ends up costing about a quarter an hour.
But there's a catch: Though computers still get much better every couple of years, they are built on mature technologies. A standard computer is good enough for most people and has been for quite some time. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who has their work hampered first and foremost by the speed at which their machine runs, rather than the number of Facebook and YouTube procrastination sessions they engage in.
Computers also allow you to upgrade their components instead of replacing the entire thing. They are often held back by the speed of their hard drives, which are still designed much like record players, around spinning platters and moving arms. These can be replaced by solid-state drives that are all electronic and very snappy. Computer users who run into delays after they open many browser tabs or programs might try upgrading the memory (RAM) in their computers to 4 or 8 gigabytes, which can cost less than $100. It's worth investing in these minor improvements to extend an older machine's life to four years.
FINAL ADVICE No one has ever regretted waiting as long as they can to upgrade their technology. We're a nation of shoppers, tempted to buy the best at every turn. But I've found that the best way to avoid a premature upgrade is to remember what you might be giving up: a trip to a tropical getaway, a new suit or perhaps a down payment on a new bed that will help you sleep better. That kind of context makes it easier to pause and realize the grandest truth with upgrades: If it isn't broken, stolen or lost, maybe you don't need a new one just yet.


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IBUPROFEN LYSINE (eye BYOO proe fen LAHY seen) is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It is used to close a heart defect called patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in a baby who was born early.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?
They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
bleeding problems
heart problems
kidney disease
liver disease
stomach problems
an unusual reaction to ibuprofen, other NSAIDs, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives
pregnant or trying to get pregnant
How should I use this medicine?
This medicine is for infusion into a vein. It is given by a health care provider in a hospital.
This drug is specifically for use in newborns.
Overdosage: If you think you have taken too much of this medicine contact a poison control center or emergency room at once.
NOTE: This medicine is only for you. Do not share this medicine with others.
What if I miss a dose?
This does not apply.
What may interact with this medicine?
aspirin and aspirin-like medicines
certain antibiotics
medicines that treat or prevent blood clots like warfarin
NSAIDs, medicines for pain and inflammation, like ibuprofen or naproxen
steroid medicines like prednisone or cortisone
This list may not describe all possible interactions. Give your health care provider a list of all the medicines, herbs, non-prescription drugs, or dietary supplements you use. Also tell them if you smoke, drink alcohol, or use illegal drugs. Some items may interact with your medicine.
What should I watch for while using this medicine?
Your baby's condition will be watched closely while this treatment is given. Your baby will also receive regular blood tests and exams. Talk with your doctor or health care professional if you have any concerns.
What side effects may I notice from receiving this medicine?
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue
change in amount or color of urine
redness, blistering, peeling or loosening of the skin, including inside the mouth
trouble breathing
unusual bleeding, bruising
yellowing of eyes, skin
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
feeding problems
skin irritation where injected
This list may not describe all possible side effects. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Where should I keep my medicine?
This drug is only given in a hospital and will not be stored at home.
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The Echo stroller by Chicco is a light weight and compact stroller that combines comfort for the child and functionality for the parents. It is a very practical option and available in 6 attractive colors. An embroidered seat pad, European wheel styling, and colored rear tubes combine to make this stroller pop! The rigid, padded backrest can be fully reclined with one hand and adjusted to 4 different positions, and the leg rest can be adjusted to two positions to ensure a comfortable ride. A stylish canopy with a zip off rear flap helps to provide protection from the elements. The structure is light weight and ultra-compact, and the carry handle makes it practical and easy for life on the go!


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After reading several articles about the latest Food and Drug Administration boondoggle, I have come to the conclusion that we deserve what we get.
I arrived at this conclusion, because apparently no one knows the difference between farming and food anymore. The FDA is chartered to regulate our food and drugs and a host of other "nanny state" programs but it is not chartered to regulate agriculture, only the products of agriculture — food.
How and when and where a farmer applies water, compost or other materials to his crop really does not come under the FDA charter. We have another government agency for that called the USDA. We really have no shortage of agencies for anything today, but to micro-manage farming practices is really over the top, especially when it is to be administered by an agency that is apparently clueless about farming all together. I am not saying the USDA knows any more about farming, but they are probably not clueless — but their regulations concerning almonds makes one wonder, since raw almonds are sold as food, what is the USDA doing regulating a FOOD product?
Our food is dispensed by retailers, who in this age get their products at the end of a distribution chain mostly. The start of the distribution chain, is the corporate or independent buyers of our food products. So with this in mind, when something is sold and bought as food and is about to enter the "food chain" I would assume that those two parties have some responsibility to assure it is a safe food product before it enters the national "food chain." Not only those two parties, but the regional distribution center for the large chain stores that deliver to the local retailer, have an even more important role monitoring food safety, since food is easily contaminated unless it is prepared/shipped in a sealed container, like the pills we all take.
In conclusion, I think trying to manage/audit a few hundred buyers/regional "distribution" centers for possible pathogens entering our food supply is possibly a more appropriate venue for the FDA in its quest for food safety and, as always, the burden resides with the farmer to produce a safe and acceptable product, despite the vagaries of mother nature, and the various attempts by our Congress and other elected/appointed officials to tell each and everyone of us how and when to get up in the morning, among other well-meaning programs, which they always seem to know best, or think they do, in all matters, except minding their own business, which apparently they have no time for.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop, 620-560 BC
They must find it difficult — those who have taken authority as the truth, rather truth as authority.
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Interview: JOLIE and Service-Oriented Computing Explained
During Akademy 2008, we sat down with Fabrizio Montesi who's working on JOLIE integration in KDE (and Plasma in particular). He explained the mechanics of the technology and what it can do for KDE. Read on for the interview.
Hi Fabrizio! Can you introduce yourself?
Hi! My name is Fabrizio Montesi, I'm Italian and I work as a computer professional. Recently I have founded (together with my colleague Claudio Guidi), italianaSoftware s.r.l., a company that centers its business around service-oriented software solutions made with JOLIE.
At Akademy you gave a talk about JOLIE, the technology you are working on. Can you explain the purpose of JOLIE?
Well, JOLIE is a programming language for service-oriented computing. It is mostly about communication between applications. Usually, applications have communication mechanisms within themselves - in Qt this is done with the signal-slot mechanism. What it does is essentially this: suppose you have a button, and you click it. That button then tells a part of the application to start doing "its thing", e.g. display an image. Simple.
Now, you might want to have something happen in another applicaton if you hit that button; that's covered in the software world as well, e.g. on Linux/UNIX by DCOP and D-Bus, on Windows by DCOM. The problem is that these technologies are pretty specific and each one has its own set of limitations (among which the most prominent is that some don't work over networks). JOLIE tries to overcome all these limitations and offer a very simple solution for doing what should indeed be simple: "just send this message to that application in that computer".
So JOLIE is like a network-enabled D-Bus?
Well, no, it's more than that. D-Bus is a framework designed to enable application integration in the desktop. JOLIE is a fully-fledged programming language for managing service-oriented architectures and technologies. With JOLIE, you can write flexible service "orchestrators" and compose other services, independently of their technology, in order to gain sophisticated functionality.
Now that sounds interesting, "orchestrators" and composition of services, but what does it mean?
Let me explain this by giving an example. Say that you want to write an application which allows you to buy stuff at stores. You already have services for accessing your bank and said stores, but you lack the application that actually composes these services to make the money transfer and make the store order for you. Then you write an "orchestrator" to combine the services, which would coordinate the services in order to do what you wanted. Note that a JOLIE orchestrator is very easy to write and can make use of any store and bank service that are based on a technology supported by JOLIE (like, for instance, Web Services, REST, and so on).
Which is what JOLIE is all about - a generic programming language for programming any kind of service or service-oriented architecture, independent of the underlying protocols (JOLIE abstracts the communication away, e.g. D-Bus apps can communicate with a SOAP-based service through JOLIE). And of course, this is incredibly easy to use. In most other languages you'd find it is very hard to write service-oriented code, but JOLIE is all about services. Of course it also provides the normal flow control functions (like the if-else, if-then, while, for, foreach statements), and it adds some specific and powerful tools to handle distributed workflows. The latter help in compensating for network lag and help the programmer to handle complex asynchronous communications. And finally, JOLIE is very safe while doing this, due to the academic work being done.
So people can quickly write orchestrators to let any number of services work together in any way they want. Now you mentioned academic work, can you tell us a bit more about that? This is actually a research project, right?
Yes, it is. Writing distributed apps is very difficult to get right. JOLIE is based on SOCK, a process algebra for service-oriented computing, so you can make mathematical proofs on JOLIE applications. For example, we are currently developing a tool for checking distributed systems for possible deadlocks. Another advantage is that you can be sure your application does what it is supposed to do if something goes wrong in some part of your distributed workflow.
Let me give an example of that last point as well. Say, in the previous example, you're ready to order the bank to transfer the money and receive the store receipt. You want this to go fast, so you do two things at once: start the money transaction and wait for the store receipt. Say that the waiting-for-receipt activity receives an error. In that case, the money transaction must be cancelled: you don't want to lose your money for a product that will not be sent to you, right? But you don't want to cancel it at some unknown point. You want to ensure nothing happened to your money at all. So you add a little "revert when an error comes in" thing to the money transaction code. Now, in case of an error from the store, JOLIE will guarantee three things:
All this is based on lots of mathematical work to ensure and prove that this works properly. This is a good example of how SOCK is useful in our development process. When we face a very complicated and general problem, we can first build a mathematical framework for solving that problem in SOCK.
After developing the whole theoretical framework and proving that it works, we transfer the results into JOLIE.
Interesting. So this is an implementation of sound, theoretical work. But why in KDE?
Well, I wanted to bring the benefits of service-oriented computing to desktop users. There are many services out there on the web and in user computers (every D-Bus-enabled application can indeed be seen as a service), but they don't communicate with each other. JOLIE can help with this. There are a few commercial frameworks which do comparable things, but nothing free, nor very good and complete. Now for this to work, I needed to find an organization which would be interested to work on it. I needed a real, open community to work with, so Vista and Mac OS X were off the list... Vista wouldn't have been very good from a technological standpoint either. I further needed the community to be flexible, interested and pro-active.
I was following the evolution of open desktop technologies since a long time. KDE has some amazing, cutting-edge technology, and you don't write that kind of stuff without many open discussions. And from reading the blogs I was convinced this community works great, is open and flexible, exactly what I was looking for. For me, GNOME seemed much less flexible, both in terms of people and technology. More importantly, KDE showed with the KDE4 series that the project is not afraid to take a step towards innovation, regardless of the hardships that you can meet along the way.
And with Plasma, I was sold: it felt like a natural choice. JOLIE is based upon a philosophy which emphasizes generic solutions over specific ones in order to create something as flexible and powerful as possible. The same applies to Plasma, and as i've seen in KDE development, it is the vibe you see in pretty much all of KDE.
OK, so you decide to work with us. How did that go?
Well, I sent an email to Aaron Seigo and he answered back enthusiastically. He happened to have been thinking on very similar topics, but he bumped into the issues JOLIE is built to solve - it's hard to write, compose and communicate with services. On top of that, there are a lot of different communication mechanisms currently used by services all around the world: how to be able to use all of them? These issues are far from trivial, so Aaron was happy to work with us to take advantage of JOLIE. He invited me to come to Tokamak, the Plasma meeting, which I and Claudio did. There we (JOLIE and Plasma teams) found that we clearly had matching ideas. JOLIE and Plasma looked like the perfect match to offer users a flexible and powerful service-oriented experience. So we started a twofold collaboration, aimed to unite the pragmatic world of KDE and the academic world from which JOLIE comes.
Cool. And now you're at Akademy... How did you end up here, and what do you think about it?
Well, Aaron and Kevin Ottens invited me to send a talk proposal for Akademy, which I did. I must say Akademy is very interesting, though also very tiring. You find so many great people to speak with here, and I actually did that for the whole time. I've never had so many well informed questions before, too... before and after the presentation! Actually, I think the majority of questions I had during all the presentations I ever gave were asked at Akademy. Of course, this is because there are so many knowledgeable, interested developers here. Many people here will (or already have) actually put some of these ideas to work, so they have questions about it. Getting so much relevant feedback in an academic conference would be unusual: it is more difficult to reach technological collaboration between many different and separated projects. So this has been really great, i've gathered many ideas and issues i'm going to take with me, think about, and work on. And i've left something to think about for others, too.
From what I understood, there is already some code?
Yes, that's true. We are already writing a Plasma::Service layer which acts as a bridge to MetaService (a JOLIE orchestrator) on the JOLIE side. This means you can access all services supported by JOLIE in Plasma. You would have to write an orchestrator to compose services, like in the previous e-commerce example. But as you can read in my blog, there are some cool code examples. One of them is Vision, a tool which can distribute presentations real-time over several computers. That way several people can view the presentation on their screens synchronized with one another. This even works in a peer-to-peer way, where each of the PC's can distribute it even further. Look in my blog for a screencast!
Something else, not available already but we're working on, is exporting data engines from one system to another. So, for example, the "Time" engine on one computer can be queried as a JOLIE system from a remote PC.
Do you have any concluding words for the KDE community?
Yes. i'd like to thank (and praise) the KDE community for its openness. I felt at ease from the start, met enthusiasm and innovative ideas, and discovered that the people behind the project are friendly, open-minded and a lot of fun to pass your time with.
During these months I have seen that the KDE project is truly innovation-driven. Open-source and community openness are what make this possible, and KDE is showing that it is capable of handling all this (with the KDE e.V., the meetings, and so on). Keep rocking!
Thank you for the interview!
Thank you for interviewing me. And who knows... see you at next Akademy!
Good interview, thanks.
By Dave Null at Sun, 2008/09/07 - 5:00am
great job and interview
i haven't look a lot about jolie, but it seems really a good project. And btw.. from the eye of another italian see that sometimes something come out from this country it's really good :)
By Marco at Sun, 2008/09/07 - 5:00am
Share Nepomuk Data
Can i Share (anonymized) nepomuk data with the community ???
that would be great !
By Sahreo at Sun, 2008/09/07 - 5:00am
Re: Share Nepomuk Data
Once we've got the Plasma<->JOLIE architecture set up, each desktop will be able to expose services and other desktop will be able to interact with those services. So, I'd say yes. =)
By Fabrizio Montesi at Sun, 2008/09/07 - 5:00am
Good Interview
I'd heard about JOLIE, Plasma integration and the distributed slideshow demo, but I didn't grasp what it was all about (lots of buzzwords, very little explanation). This interview has straightened that out, so now I'm pretty excited about the possibilities of using and integrating it myself :)
"So, for example, the "Time" engine on one computer can be queried as a JOLIE system from a remote PC." - I think you may have been spending too much time around Plasma. Distributed clocks!
By Chris Warburton at Sun, 2008/09/07 - 5:00am
i think SOAP...
...is dead in the water!
By Flavio at Sun, 2008/09/07 - 5:00am
How does this all compare to BPEL or WS-CDL?
By panzi at Sun, 2008/09/07 - 5:00am
Re: BPEL/WS-CDL
JOLIE allows for service orchestration, as BPEL does. The main differences are:
WS-CDL is about choreography, i.e. the description of the behaviour of an entire service-oriented architecture (not just one service, as orchestration does). We're developing a theoretical framework for choreography, equipped with safety properties and projection. With projection, one can first describe the global behaviour (like "Client sends to Bank the TransferMoney message") with our choreography language and ask the projection algorithm to produce the real orchestrator applications (Bank and Client) that will follow that behaviour.
Once that research about choreography is completed, we'll have another programming language and that will be comparable to WS-CDL. The fact that JOLIE is based on our theoretical work implies that we will be able to project on JOLIE programs, i.e. we will be able to generate JOLIE programs automatically from a global behaviour description.
By Fabrizio Montesi at Sun, 2008/09/07 - 5:00am
Why another programming language?
@JOLIE developers
I think I understand the problem that JOLIE is trying to tackle, but I don't understand why it is necessary to make another programming language instead of just producing a library/framework for an existing one? Why is JOLIE so special? Also how does JOLIE fit in relation to existing languages? Is it something which you would embed inside a more general language/program?
By Simon Edwards at Sun, 2008/09/07 - 5:00am
Re: Why another programming language?
Good (and big :-)) questions!
> Why a language and not a library?
Two main factors: ease of use and virtualization.
Service-oriented architecture defines a new programming paradigm, one in which your main actions are making communications and compose data. Advancing to more complex service-oriented applications, you would want to make various communications concurrent, or you'd be in a situation where more than one possible message could reach you at any moment (non deterministic input communication).
The fact that JOLIE is a language gives us two powerful advantages.
Finally, perhaps the most important thing is that we saw how service-oriented computing is defining a new paradigm. A new paradigm requires a new language, much like it's been done for the object-oriented one. This is because applying new paradigms to languages oriented to other ones can result in big headaches and in the end doesn't produce the full power that the paradigm could offer.
> How does JOLIE related to other languages?
- make a JOLIE JavaService library: this is like defining a library for other languages. You make a .jar containing one or more classes that extends the jolie.runtime.JavaService class. JOLIE will be able to load these classes and make them available as services to the JOLIE programmer. This process is very straightforward (you just extend JavaService and you're pretty done). Using the Java Native Interface, you could use this to bridge JOLIE to other language;
- implement one of JOLIE protocols in another language and then communicate with JOLIE over sockets/file/memory/whatever supported by both. You can use any one of it, but if you're interested in performance you'd opt for SODEP, a fast and efficient binary protocol. This is the path we followed for integrating JOLIE with Plasma.
No matter what choice you make, the JOLIE program that's gonna use your thing doesn't care and won't need to change if you change idea in the future. This is, for JOLIE, a "communication detail" that you just need to configure in the program preamble.
> Is it something which you would embed inside a more general language/program?
JOLIE has a lot of places to fit in, and if you're speaking of service-oriented architectures it's most likely the language that has the most general "view", because its basic element is a "service".
By Fabrizio Montesi at Mon, 2008/09/08 - 5:00am
Do you think there is a market for (open source+Desktop) service-oriented software solutions? Could you describe a typical customer of yours?
By testerus at Sun, 2008/09/07 - 5:00am
Re: italianaSoftware
> Do you think there is a market for (open source+Desktop) service-oriented software solutions?
JOLIE has lowered the time needed for implementing a distributed system, but we still have to build user interfaces for these systems. We have made libraries and frameworks to help us, but having a desktop powered by a truly service-oriented technology is what could make a very big difference in this (UI integration with service-oriented applications). I think the JOLIE+Plasma experience will show the benefits of the approach.
> Could you describe a typical customer of yours?
By Fabrizio Montesi at Mon, 2008/09/08 - 5:00am
CORBA improved?
Much of the features of JOLIE remember me of CORBA (language -> IDL, independience of technology...), that more or less standard (at least implemented by several parties) very fat piece of middleware.
Running away from that we got to more technology specific but at least much smaller and faster DCOP and then DBUS.
I would like to know how JOLIE is better than CORBA (I am sure that it is)
By Jordi Polo at Mon, 2008/09/08 - 5:00am
Re: CORBA improved?
We're currently working on a couple features we want (strong message typing, automatic service crash recovery), but we've already come a long way. Expect detailed information on the new JOLIE website that we're preparing (will be published this fall).
By Fabrizio Montesi at Mon, 2008/09/08 - 5:00am
I'm just kind of worried about the security side of things. I wouldn't want my desktop to be saturated with Windows-RPC-like functionality :)
Would that technology be opt-in? (for example, used only on some non-default plasmoids which I would use if I thought were useful) (or any other kind of reassurance, really :P)
By Ioannis Gyftos at Mon, 2008/09/08 - 5:00am
Re: Security?
> Would that technology be opt-in?
About security, implementing authentication methods in JOLIE is trivial and we're building the support for automatic encryption. Moreover, _you_ (the user) will be able to select what you'd want to be exposed and what not.
By Fabrizio Montesi at Mon, 2008/09/08 - 5:00am
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3 out of 4 tests passed.
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Nice to see dot is up again :)
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Which of Julianne Hough's 'Footloose' Premiere Looks Is Your Favorite?
The actress wears three different getups while promoting her upcoming film
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We know she loves the Frye boots she wore while filming Footloose, but it seems Julianne Hough is having a lot of fun with the accompanying red carpet fashion, too! While promoting the remake, which hits theaters Friday, the star has worn a variety of stylish looks that totally make us lose our blues.
For the Los Angeles premiere and after-party last week, Hough chose a flirty red shorts outfit by Tibi, paired with Ruthie Davis pumps. Days later, while promoting the film in Nashville — where she's spent time on her country music career — the dancer chose a glimmering Monique Lhuillier dress, keeping her accessories simple. Then for Wednesday night's New York premiere, Hough dared to bare her legs in a sleek Rachel Zoe Collection tuxedo dress and black pumps. We think Hough looked haute for all three events, but want to know what you think. Tell us: Which Footloose premiere look is your favorite?


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At a CSI event this morning, the organisation Trialogue, that monitors CSI spending for the last 20 years, presented a summary of their findings contained in the 20th edition of Business In Society Handbook. Gift of the Givers was selected both by corporates and NGO's as the number one NPO in South Africa.


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Just in case y'all haven't heard... WE WON THE $20,000 GRANT FOR THE ORPHANS IN DRC!!!! From the bottom of my heart- thank you to everyone of you who voted, reposted, begged for votes, and advocated on our behalf. The children in DRC will benefit so much from your hard work. I truly do have the best blog readers/ Facebook friends a girl could ask for. As it came down to the wire watching the vote come in, I was chatting it up with my Congo mamas and I swear I felt like we were up for an Academy Award! We hooped and hollered and typed all kinds of exclamation marks in celebration when midnight rolled around and the votes were tallied!
The winner of the Congolese goodies giveaway for voting and spreading the word (and boy did she ever spread the word!) is MEGANLELA! Thanks, Megan (no- not me you sillies!) for your tireless effort on behalf of the orphans in DRC. You rock, girl!
And now that this is all over, I am completely exhausted. I'm too tired to put together a coherent thought to blog about anything else, even though I have a million ideas rolling around in my head. See ya' tomorrow after some sleep hopefully!
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'Scorpion': Katherine McPhee Reveals It's The Best New Show Of The Season
'Scorpion' premiered to huge ratings with its series debut on Sept. 22, but is it a hit that'll stick? Star Katherine McPhee tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY why it's the best new drama of the season!
Katherine McPhee takes on her most serious role yet the CBS drama Scorpion, playing a single mother who becomes involved with a computer tech company full of genius outcasts, and finds that her son has a special gift.
'Scorpion': Katherine McPhee On Why It's The Best Drama Of The New Season
"There is a nice element to this show — it's a high-action drama, but it's actually quite funny," Katherine McPhee tells HollywoodLife.com about her new series, Scorpion, which follows a group of hyper-smart social outcasts who work for a computer company, based off of a true story.
"I always liked things based in reality and the main character of our show is a real person, his name is Walter O'Brien," the actress adds. "You get to look at this real company he created, and today, it's a company that has geniuses working for the company and they work for the government and work with lots of lots of top CEOs and corporations."
The pilot showed the beginning of the company, and the series will continue to show what the successful high-tech brand has become.
"I also love top secret things that we don't necessarily know about. So people who watch the show can be interested in things that really do happen," Katherine explains.
Do Not Expect Katherine McPhee To Sing & Dance On 'Scorpion'
The former American Idol contestant previously starred on Smash, but even though she's known for her killer pipes, don't expect Katherine to sing. Her character, Paige Dineen, is much more serious than her usual casting, but she does stick out from the rest of the cast.
"My character's not a genius," Katherine says. "I think it's probably one of the first characters that I've had a little bit more of a difficult time relating to her just because I don't have a kid and I'm not a single mother."
Although she's the only non-genius, she finds an unusual bond with the geeks over her son.
"She has a little 8-year-old boy that's challenged so she's kind of working really hard to support him and to connect with him and she doesn't really connect with him," she tells HollywoodLife.com. "Walter O'Brien comes to the rescue and kind of informs me that my child is maybe not so much a special needs child, but maybe a real eccentric genius. So they all suddenly become this outlet to my son and connection to my son that I haven't been able to have with him, until I could understand him."
And as for her own real-life talents, "I may not be dancing and singing on screen, but I'll keep dancing and singing off camera!"
HollywoodLifers, are you hooked on Scorpion? Let us know if you're going to keep watching Katherine McPhee's new series this fall!
— Elizabeth Wagmeister


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Remember that show that aired on TV called "The Muppet Show"? Well there was a character that didn't say too much but he was getting increasingly popular with pop culture. Today this red haired puppet is seen printed on shirts, posters, stickers, and even magnets. Of course I will tell you who it is that I am talking about, and who it is your going to get a lesson on. I will be showing you "how to draw Animal from the Muppets step by step". There really isn't too much information on Animal except he is the drummer and belongs to a band named "Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem". His speech is very muffled and sounds more like a series of shouting words that is only understood by Animal and Kermit. There is however a few words that he will say sometimes like "beat drums!" and "wo-man!". I think he is an epic character from the show and over the years he has become what you call a wild animal. I have a shirt that has him on the front and it reads "born to be wild". He has three tones of music that you her the most coming from his drum set; loud, louder, and loudest which usually means your hearing is pretty much damaged permanently. The voice and puppet talent for Animal came from the very popular Frank Oz. He stated that the character of Animal was categorized in three words; sex, food, drums, sleep, and pain. I don't watch the Muppet Show now, but my mother used to put it on for me when I was like six years old. I think you guys will like this lesson on "how to draw Animal from The Muppets step by step". I have to leave once again but there is still two more tutorials coming your way. I used a reference picture to draw Animal out and I made sure that I chose the most active pose I could find on him. Okay gang, peace out and happy drawing!
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In its first competition of the spring season, the Harvard coed sailing team went 5-8 to take fourth at the Sharpe Trophy Regatta at home this weekend. The Crimson posted a 4-3 record to advance past the opening round, before going 1-5 in the final-four round robin stages.
"Bern and I were pleased that the team got better in each race," head coach Michael O'Connor said. "We lost some close race to very strong teams. We are young, but enthusiastic about our future. Today was a good building block for us."
O'Connor called on six sailors this weekend. Junior Isabel Ruane, sophomores Brian Drumm, Michael Drumm and Gram Slattery, as well as freshmen Jacob Bradt and Sydney Karnovsky represented the Crimson.
On the first day of the regatta, Harvard defeated Boston College, Roger Williams, Tufts and Vermont. The Crimson took first and second in each of its wins and claimed the top spot in a loss to MIT. At 4-3, the Crimson advanced to day two in fourth place behind Brown, MIT and Yale, who were tied for first with records of 6-1.
Harvard fell in its first three races of the final-four on Sunday, before picking up a win over MIT. A 1-5 showing on the final afternoon of the regatta kept the Crimson in fourth place. Brown claimed five races to emerge as the Sharpe Trophy winner with an 11-2 record. Yale (10-3), MIT (8-5) and Harvard (5-8) completed the final-four standings.
Harvard returns to the water March 16-17. The women will compete in the 24th Women's Interconference at St. Mary's and the coed team will vie for the 66th Truxtun Umstead Trophy at Navy.


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The Lake County School Board in Tavares, Florida that is considering eliminating all non-curricular clubs from the middle school to prevent the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance club took public testimony about the issue on Monday, with predictably bad arguments from the busybodies.
Two health care professionals who addressed the board quoted a study from the American College of Pediatricians.
"Declaring and validating a student's same sex attraction during adolescent years is premature and harmful," said Carol Moore.
Two "health care professionals"? Why not be specific? Two nurses, or even doctors, would have no more insight into adolescent sexuality than a garbageman or a plumber. And the American College of Pediatricians sounds very authoritative, but it's actually the right wing alternative to the much older and more authoritative American Academy of Pediatricians. The ACP split off in 2002 because the AAP supported marriage equality. So this is an appeal to entirely irrelevant authority.
A Baptist minister voiced his opposition as well. "A club of that nature, those activities would be a gateway for other groups to follow, groups not having anything to do with our education of our students," Pastor Ken Scrubs. "We believe our school campuses should maintain a focus on academic prowess and not become a center of social expression."
So I'm sure he's opposed to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at the local high school, right? Yeah, I didn't think so. But if they don't get rid of that club, which is clearly non-curricular, then they're breaking the law.
School Board chairwoman Kyleen Fischer and members Bill Mathias and Debbie Stivender in previous discussions spoke in favor of a rule banning clubs not tied to school courses in middle and high schools. Board members Tod Howard and Rosanne Brandeburg have expressed support for a measure banning such clubs only in middle schools.
On Monday, Howard and Mathias stressed that their decisions are about creating a policy and not based on the gay-straight group. Howard said he does not agree or disagree with the gay-straight group, while Brandeburg said she has not seen bullying on campuses.
Oh yes, of course! It's purely coincidental that this desire to get rid of all non-curricular clubs just happened to appear the moment someone tries to form a GSA club. And it's sheer serendipity that people showed up to preach about the evils of the GSA club at a school board meeting to discuss that policy. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other!


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DESIGN AND USE OF A BIOMIMETIC TACTILE MICROVIBRATION SENSOR WITH HUMAN-‐LIKE SENSITIVITY AND ITS APPLICATION IN TEXTURE DISCRIMINATION USING BAYESIAN EXPLORATION by Jeremy A. Fishel A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Jeremy A. Fishel
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|The cutaneous sensing of microvibrations in human fingertips plays a central role in the detection of slip-related and dynamic information critical for tool usage, reflexive grip control, and the perception of microtextures. This is made possible by the Pacinian corpuscle, a small sensory receptor in subcutaneous tissues that is capable of detecting vibrations up to 1000Hz in frequency. These receptors are sensitive to vibrations less than a micrometer in amplitude at frequencies around their maximal sensitivity of 250Hz. Artificial systems seeking to provide human-like dexterity and perception would benefit from similar sensory capabilities. ❧ In this dissertation, a novel tactile sensor capable of robustly sensing vibrations with a bandwidth and sensitivity that exceeds human performance is presented. The device, known as the BioTac, has a biomimetic structure that consists of a rigid bone-like core covered with an elastomeric skin. The space between the skin and core is filled with an incompressible low-viscosity liquid that is in contact with a pressure transducer. Vibrations that originate on the surface of the skin are transmitted as sound waves through the liquid and are readily sensed by the transducer. The incompressible liquid conducts these acoustic signals with little attenuation, permitting the transducer to be located in a protected region inside the core of the device, where it is less likely to get damaged. The addition of a biologically inspired fingerprint-like pattern on the surface of the skin was found to enhance vibrations sensed by the BioTac. The BioTac exceeded human capabilities in sensitivity thresholds to applied sinusoidal vibrations and impacts from small spheres. ❧ Biologically inspired strategies to use this tactile information for a texture discrimination task were developed. A specialized robot was built to make sliding movements similar to those humans make when exploring textures. The BioTac was slid over a total of 117 different textured surfaces collected from art supply, fabric and hardware stores. Signal processing methods were developed to extract properties modeled after the descriptive language that humans use when describing textures (rough/smooth, sticky/slippery, coarse/fine). Different sliding exploratory movements (defined by a combination of contact force and sliding velocity) were found to be optimal for discriminating each of these properties. All 117 textures were tested repeatedly with these three exploratory movements to collect a database of prior experience similar to human memory. A novel process of intelligently selecting exploratory movements was developed to guide the discrimination task when presented with an unknown texture. When exploring a texture, the Bayesian exploration algorithm selects the optimal movement to make and the property to measure based on previous experience to disambiguate the most-probable candidates. The combination of biomimetic hardware and software achieved performance that matched (and even surpassed) human capabilities in discriminating and identifying textures.
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There is nothing superior to anything topping off on corn tortilla chips and an astonishing salsa. In any case, what about topping off on extremely incredible corn tortilla chips that you make yourself? You will have a hard time believing how much preferable they taste over the ones you purchase, bundled in plastic sacks, in your nearby store.
New. Crunchy. What's more, the flavor! You can't eat only one. In addition, you'll appreciate making these superbly seasoned tortilla chips yourself.
Disregard that they are seared. In all honesty, they measure of time they remain in the fryer is less swelling than if you somehow happened to cook a few eggs in spread!
What you'll require:
- 24 white, blue or yellow corn tortillas
- 2 quarts of sunflower or safflower oil
- ocean salt to taste
- electric fryer or profound fryer
First activity is to stack your tortillas into a couple of heaps (6 each will do it). With a decent, sharp blade, cut each stack into 8 equivalent wedges. For bigger chips, cut into 6 equivalent wedges. Spread out your recently cut tortilla wedges on some paper towels.
Empty oil into your electric fryer, profound fryer or a profound, overwhelming pot. Ensure you pour the oil to a profundity of 4 to 5 inches. The oil ought to likewise not come up more than most of the way up the side of your searing compartment.
At the point when the temperature enrolls somewhere in the range of 375 and 400 degrees F on a profound fat thermometer, begin including your tortilla wedges - one bunch at once. Fry for 1 moment. Blend a few times.
Try not to do what I did the first run through, and swarm your corn tortilla chips. They get too wet that way. Give them a bit of breathing room. Fry your chips just until they look fresh, however not dark colored.
With an opened spoon, move your chips to paper towels and season with salt. For a variety, sprinkle with your preferred prepared salt like Spike or Dash.
Keep browning the chips until you have spent the majority of your tortilla wedges. Ensure you check the temperature each time before you put another clump in. On the off chance that the temperature isn't hot enough, you'll never have decent firm, crisp tasting tortilla chips.
It's extraordinary on the off chance that you can serve them warm, yet on the off chance that not, they will keep going for multi day or two.
I've discovered a decent method to display your hand crafted chips is to make them with various types of corn tortillas (yellow, blue, and so forth.) Everyone that eats them will value the time and exertion (which isn't much, yet your visitors don't need to realize that!) you put into them and will appreciate the taste considerably more. Have some good times!


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Obama: Some compromise but limits on tax cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are signaling they're open to some compromise on a taxes and spending to prevent more financial pain in the new year, but the two sides are digging in on raising taxes for wealthier Americans. Obama said Friday that his re-election gave him a mandate to pursue that position because "the majority of Americans agree with my approach." Boehner is still insisting that raising tax rates as Obama wants "will destroy jobs in America."
The political maneuvering about the so-called fiscal cliff sets up a confrontation to see whether the White House or the House blinks first. The outcome will affect tens of millions of Americans, given that the tax hikes and budgets cuts set to kick in Jan. 1 could spike unemployment and bring on a new recession.
The presidential contest is now over, but another campaign has just begun.
The White House made its pitch directly to the public, shipping around a video by email and telling Americans that "this debate can either stay trapped in Washington or you can make sure your friends and neighbors participate."
Obama invited the top four leaders of Congress to the White House next week for talks, right before he departs on a trip to Asia.
All sides are seeking to leave themselves room to maneuver. Despite the talk of possible compromise, both sides are taking a hard line.
Obama never expressly said that tax rates on top earners must return to the higher levels of the Bill Clinton era, leading to speculation that he was willing to soften the core position of his re-election campaign to get a grand debt deal with Republicans.
"I'm not wedded to every detail of my plan. I'm open to compromise," he said.
But his spokesman, Jay Carney, seemed to slam that door. He said Obama would veto any extension Congress might approve of tax cuts on household incomes above $250,000.
Obama's remarks were choreographed so that a diverse-looking group of Americans stood behind him and dozens more were invited to pack the East Room. In the weeks ahead, he plans to pull in the public as a way to pressure Congress.
"I am not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. I'm not going to do that," said Obama.
He said voters plainly agreed with his approach that both tax increases and spending cuts are needed to trim the national debt.
"Our job now is to get a majority in Congress to reflect the will of the American people," Obama said.
About 60 percent of voters said in exit polls Tuesday that taxes should increase, either for everyone or those making over $250,000. Left unsaid by Obama was that even more voters opposed raising taxes to help cut the deficit.
The scheduled year-end changes include a series of expiring tax cuts that were approved in the George W. Bush administration. The other half of the problem is a set of punitive across-the-board spending cuts, looming only because partisan panel of lawmakers failed to reach a debt deal.
Put together, they could mean the loss of roughly 3 million jobs.
Since the election, Boehner and Obama have both responded to the reality that they need each other – though their rhetoric is a bit testy.
"This is his opportunity to lead," Boehner said of Obama, not long before the president said: "All we need is action from the House."
Obama said the uncertainty now spooking investors and employers will be shrunk if Congress extends – quickly – the tax cuts for all those except the most-well off. The Senate has passed such a bill. The House showed no interest on Friday in Obama's idea.
Compromise has become mandatory if the two leaders are to avoid economic harm and the anger of a public sick of government dysfunction.
Obama says he is willing to talk about changes to Medicare and Medicaid, earning him the ire of the left. Boehner says he will accept raising tax revenue and not just slashing spending, although he insists it must be done by reworking the tax code, not raising rates. The framework, at least, is there for a broad deal on taxes.
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Q: My pond was almost completely covered in algae earlier this month. With the advice of a local store, I treated my pond with an algaecide. Needless to say I suffered a terrible loss! What killed all of my fish? – Marie of Florida
A: More then likely your fish loss was due to oxygen depletion. It is very rare that an EPA registered "Aquatic Approved" chemical will cause a fish kill.
What causes oxygen depletion?
After a chemical application, algae and aquatic vegetation start to die and begin to decompose. The decomposition process requires great amounts of oxygen and can sometimes, like in Marie's case, be harmful to fish. The chance of oxygen depletion is much greater when a pond is not maintained on a regular basis or when water temperatures are at their warmest such as the dog days of Summer. The warmer the water, the less oxygen it can retain.
How to treat your pond and keep your fish safe:
We recommend that you treat your pond in sections. The generally rule of the thumb is to split your treatment in to 3 parts or thirds. Treat 1/3 of your pond starting from shoreline working your way towards the middle. Allowing 5-7 days between treatments will greatly reduce, if not completely eliminate the chance of fish kill.
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Design of bushing arrangements
The factors that are most important to consider when selecting the material and surface finish of the counter surface on which the bushing slides are the load conditions such as load, angle of oscillation, type of movement, and environmental influences.
Where there is a risk of corrosion, the counter face should be sufficiently resistant. Corrosion scars in the counter surface and for example abrasive particulate contamination as a by-product of corrosion increase the surface roughness accelerate wear. In this cases, the use of stainless steel or a surface treatment such as hard chromium, nickel plating or electrolytic oxidation should be considered.
This page provides bushing type specific recommendations on the following design considerations, as far as applicable:
- shaft and housing tolerances
- shaft roughness and hardness
- material and surface finish of counter surfaces
- design of associated components
- sealing solutions
|Shaft tolerance
|e7 to e8
|Housing tolerance
|Shaft roughness
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|Shaft hardness
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|Shaft tolerance
|f7 to f8
|Housing tolerance
|Shaft roughness
|Ra: 0,2 to 0,8 µm
|Shaft hardness
|200 to 300 HB
|Shaft tolerance
|e7 to f8
|Housing tolerance
|Shaft roughness
|Ra: 0,4 to 0,8 µm
|Shaft hardness
|150 to 400 HB
|Shaft tolerances
Metric PTFE composite bushings (table 1):
Metric POM composite bushings: h8 (table 2)
Inch PTFE composite bushings (table 3)
Inch POM composite bushings (table 4)
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Metric PTFE composite bushings (table 1):
Metric POM composite bushings: H7 (table 2)
Inch PTFE composite bushings (table 3)
Inch POM composite bushings (table 4)
|Shaft roughness
PTFE composite bushings: Ra ≤ 0,4 µm; Rz ≤ 3,0 µm
POM composite bushings: Ra ≤ 0,8 µm; Rz ≤ 6,0 µm
|Shaft hardness
PTFE composite bushings: 300 to 600 HB
POM composite bushings: 150 to 600 HB
Material and surface finish of counter surfaces
For PTFE composite and POM composite plain bearing arrangements, soft carbon steels with a ground surface are usually adequate for the counter surface.
For more demanding applications, SKF recommends hardened counter surfaces. These should have a surface hardness of at least 500 HB (50 HRC). Alternatively, hard chromium, nickel plating or some other form of surface treatment can be considered. In all cases Ra should not be greater than 0,3 μm (Rz ≤ 2 μm). The better the surface finish, the better the running and wear properties.
Design of associated components
To prevent the sliding surface from becoming stepped, the counter surface should always be wider than the actual bushing width – particularly where axial displacement of the shaft relative to the housing may occur as a result of axial expansion.
To facilitate mounting, shaft ends and housing bores should have a lead-in chamfer with an angle of 10 to 15° (fig. 1). These chamfers make it easier to press the bushings into the housing bore and to insert the shaft into the bushing bore, without the risk of damaging the sliding surface.
The housing shoulders intended to locate the bushing axially should have a bore diameter that is equal to or greater than d + 0,8 mm.
When PTFE composite bushings operate without a lubricant it is especially important to accurately align all bearing positions. If misalignment between the positions cannot be avoided, take steps during the design stage to prevent inadmissibly high edge stresses from occurring. For example, the housing bore seating can be relieved on both sides, or a wider bushing can be used so that it extends beyond the housing bore seating on both sides (fig. 2).
In case of misalignment have to be compensated for and the operating conditions permit the use of POM composite, then the bushings of this material should be chosen. The covering layer of this material can be machined to a minimum degree after the bushing has been mounted in a housing bore.
For shafts that need radial support and axial location, flanged bushings or a combination of a bushing and a thrust washer (Design of thrust washer arrangements) can be applied (fig. 3) depending on the magnitude of the axial load. Flanged bushings or thrust washers are advantageous even if axial loads are light and a surface is not adequate to accommodate the thrust, either because the material or its finish is unsuitable. Note that the counter surface should completely cover the sliding surface of the flange of a flanged bushing. For bearing arrangements where flanged bushings are used, the transition from housing bore to abutment should be chamfered so that it does not contact the bushing where it meets the flange (fig. 4).
Sealing solutions
Seals can significantly influence the service life of composite bushings. When selecting seals, consider especially the design and the available space. The justifiable expense should also be taken into consideration since, for example, composite plain bushings can tolerate embedded contaminant particles especially in their POM composite layer and are thus relatively insensitive to contamination. They generally require no special protection against normal airborne dirt.
If, however, the bushing position is subjected to heavier contamination it should be sealed from the outside and protected against the ingress of contaminants. Simple and efficient sealing can be obtained if adjacent components can also serve as seals (fig. 5).
Radial shaft seals with a low cross sectional height, for example G design radial shaft seals as used for needle roller bearings, can provide adequate protection for composite plain bearings in most cases (fig. 6). If the demands placed on the sealing arrangement are high, it may be necessary to resort to special seals of rubber, plastic or similar materials, for example SKF wiper seals (fig. 7).
In highly contaminated environments, particularly where sand or clay is present, rubber or plastic seals tend to have a very short service life. Under these conditions, a good sealing solution can be achieved by regular relubrication.
|Shaft tolerance
|h8 to h9
|Housing tolerance
|Shaft roughness
|Ra ≤ 0,8 µm
|Shaft hardness
|100 to 300 HB
|Shaft tolerances
|Housing tolerance
|Shaft roughness
Ra: 0,2 to 0,4 µm
|Shaft hardness
Material and surface finish of counter surfaces
SKF generally recommends using hardened counter surfaces for filament wound bushings.
Profiles having sharp edges, for example high Rr values, result in heavy wear even if the Ra values are within the recommended range. Although greater surface roughness might be acceptable for oscillating movement, heavy wear occurs when the bushings rotate or perform linear movements.
To fully exploit the potential service life of the bushing it may be necessary to optimise the counter surface. The best results have been obtained with polished, hard chromium plated as well as with nitrided surfaces.
Whether an adequate service life can be obtained if the condition of the counter surface is outside the recommendations has to be checked from case to case.
For additional information, contact the SKF application engineering service.
Sealing solutions
Filament wound bushings have only a limited capacity to accommodate solid particles embedded into the filament wound material. Therefore, seals can significantly increase their service life when the bushings are to be used in highly contaminated environments. Contaminants otherwise damage the strands of the sliding surface layer and the continuing destruction of the structure of the sliding layer would result in rapid increase in wear. SKF recommends using SKF wiper seals, which allow the same sliding velocities as the filament wound bushings, to protect the sliding surface against the ingress of abrasive contaminants (fig. 7). Radial shaft seals or Radial shaft seals with a low cross sectional height can also provide suitable sealing solutions.


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extern void foo(struct foo *f,
Bool check_device,
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But a calls often end up like this:
foo(mystruct, TRUE, 0, FALSE);
Or, even worse, the function call could be:
foo(mystruct, !dev->invalid, 0, list_is_first_entry(dev->list));
The above is virtually unreadable and to understand it one needs to look at the function definition and the caller at the same time. The simple use of a temporary variable can do wonders here:
Bool check_device = !dev->invalid;
Bool emulate_pointer = list_is_first_entry(dev->list));
foo(mystruct, check_device, 0, emulate_pointer);
It adds a few lines of code (though I suspect the compiler will mostly reduce the output anyway) but it improves readability. Especially in the cases where the source field name is vastly different to the implied effect. In the second example, it's immediately obvious that pointer emulation should happen for the first entry.


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There will be at least two mixed double teams tomorrow. Eric and I with Resa and Bianca.
Beating a dead horse Tom. I asked the same thing probably a month ago.
Legacy league at 6:00!!!
Also the most buy-in around. Bianca and I won't be able to make the mixed dubs this week, maybe next.
Resa and I won't be there either. It's my Mom's birthday and have to go to a cookout. Anyone want to play Sat morning before it gets too hot?


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Few people in Sacramento care much about broader reform of California's governing process. Fewer still want to pursue improvements in the state's popular initiative process; even the good government organizations avoid the topic like the plague.
Mike Gatto is an exception. A young, little-known assemblyman from Burbank, Gatto has offered a series of thoughtful constitutional amendments that seek to remake the initiative process, and the larger governing process. You can argue with the particulars of these proposals -- I have my problems with many of the provisions -- but you must give Gatto this. He is virtually alone in offering proposals that are big enough to address the state's big structural problems.
Unfortunately, Gatto's efforts have received little attention -- and thus haven't gone anywhere. He's trying again, albeit with a hearing on July 3, when Californians may be thinking about barbecues and fireworks. The subject of the hearing is a thoughtful Gatto constitutional amendment to -- of all things -- make it harder to add amendments to the constitution.
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That's a proper focus for bills -- since California's derive from the fact that its constitution is a massive mess, so full of contradictory provisions that it's impossible to follow. (A core problem is that, while the constitution requires a balanced budget, many other provisions of the measure, applied together, make a balanced budget practically impossible).
Gatto's legislation won't reverse this, but it promises to slow us down as we attempt to do more harm. First, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 10 would require that a ballot initiative amending the constitution win 55 percent of the vote -- rather than just 50 percent -- to be enacted. The second would attempt to slow down amendments by putting in place what is known as a geographic distribution requirement. Such rules, used in some other states and countries, require that initiative sponsors -- in the case of Gatto's legislation -- collect a certain number of signatures in different parts of a state or country, instead of in just a few population centers. (An overwhelming majority of California's signatures come from Southern California's urban counties).
On these particulars, your blogger's own view is that Gatto is half right. Requiring more than simply 50 percent approval to change the constitution -- particularly when California elections are such low-turnout affairs -- makes a ton of sense. There are other ways to do the same thing -- perhaps by requiring a constitutional amendment to win a majority in two consecutive elections, rather than just one. This could breathe life and deliberation and thought into the amendment process.
But the distribution requirement of Gatto's legislation, while well-intentioned, is problematic. It would be good to get signatures from all parts of the state. Unfortunately, signature collection does not constitute real deliberation and engagement -- so the benefits of distribution requirements are minor. And the costs can be huge. Complying with distribution requirements can raise the costs of signature gathering campaigns significantly -- in California, the difference could easily run to $1 million or more. That's a problem because the process is already so expensive that only the richest people and interests can use it. This will merely limit access.
Gatto would be wise to think even bigger. Instead of adopting a more costly distribution requirement, why not try to build some sort of deliberative process that would slow down amendments -- by bringing public debate into the process across the state -- without adding to the costs? Citizens' juries could be convened to look at initiatives. Or a council similar to that proposed by the Think Long Committee for California could vet constitutional amendments for the ballot. Or some sort of on-line petition process might be used. There are ways to bring more people into the conversation about constitutional amendments, while reducing costs.
Even this critical note validates Gatto's approach. By offering big approaches and tackling difficult parts of the governing process, the Burbank lawmaker is expanding the conversation, and our thinking, about what reform requires.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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Ashley Greene Gossip
Ashley Greene gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
The Other Jonas's Virginity
The Jonas brother who isn't Nick (or the third who doesn't count) talked about his penis size in a Reddit AMA and no one cared. What people do seem to care about is what Joe said about losing his virginity to Ashley Greene Full Story
Are they offering refunds?
Crowdfunding for movies with established stars attached – it's all a bit confusing isn't it? Like, why would I give money to James Franco? (Read Sarah's thoughts on it here). Not that I'm telling anyone how to spend their money, but $40 for a T-shirt from a movie that hasn't even been made? Non-profit and charity fundraisers must be weeping. Full Story
MET Marchesa HAHAHAHAHAHA: Ashley Greene
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HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA You know who else wore Marchesa? Heidi Klum. HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA Full Story
Ryan Phillippe is banging Ashley Greene?
You know that old Hollywood math where two B-list dating equals one A-list couple? Well if Ashley Greene and Ryan Phillippe are really together, they're the opposite of that. Full disclosure, I'm not a math professor, but it seems like a self-evident scientific fact that Ashley + Ryan = Desperate - Talent + A**hole to the power of "ew, no. Full Story
Perfect Best Friends
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Lindsay Lohan somehow talked someone into giving her a ticket to the AMFAR event last night New York in advance of NY Fashion Week. Can't believe she was allowed in wearing that f-cking weave. How is this considered acceptable hair? Anyway, Ashley Greene was also at the event and in some of these photos it sort of kind of looks like they may have been hanging out -- at least that's how the Daily Mail Full Story
Twilight's two future Oscar winners
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Don't be ridiculous. This is not about Anna Kendrick and Kristen Stewart -- why would you think that? The title tells you everything you need to know. Obviously the title refers to Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz. Last month Lutz declared during a magazine interview that he would win an Oscar one day. Full Story
Ashley Greene is still working hard
And her publicist too. Fresh off the underwhelming performance of her movie Apparition - the reviews for it are now at 2% on Rotten Tomatoes - a curious new item about Ashley Greene has appeared on today's Page Six Full Story
Ashley Greene still isn't Kristen Stewart
About a week before US Weekly exposed the Kristen Stewart-Rupert Sanders affair, a brilliantly hilarious item appeared in Page Six about how Ashley Greene was taking over Stewart as the go-to girl from Twilight. Click here for a refresher. Somehow the Post's writer managed to get through the article without choking on Greene's publicist. Full Story
The As IF of the summer
Need some comic relief this Monday morning? You can thank Ashley Greene for it. This item appeared in the NY Post yesterday. I've decided to include the entire article for maximum amusement: Greene is really about to be the color of money.For the past four years, "Twilight" siren Kristen Stewart needed a garlic necklace of her own to avoid the immense amount of press requests and fashion houses longing to pin her face to their hot campaigns. Full Story
Met Gala Thinnification: Ashley Greene
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She's wearing white Donna Karan. Basically a wedding dress. You've seen it a thousand times. What's new here, or new-ish, at least since last year's Met Gala, is Ashley Greene's thinnification. Ashley Greene was always fit. She had a great body. Slim but strong and seemingly healthy.Somewhere along the way though, as they do in Hollywood, someone must have told her she was "too athletic", and "not delicate enough". Full Story
Twilight's last Vancouver
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Reshoots happening for Twilight 5 this week in Vancouver. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Michael Sheen, and Ashley Greene arrived last night. They start today and are scheduled to be done before the end of the week. Stewart's supposed to appear on The Tonight Show on Friday and then begins junketing for Snow White And The Huntsman. Full Story


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With the holiday season officially upon us, I thought I'd share some of my favorite gifts for the garden enthusiasts on your list. In the gift guide in our current issue, we included a few lovely, sustainable gifts gardeners are sure to love. I rounded up a few other favorites. Here you go!
1. Sky Planter: These upside-down Boskke Sky Planters will indulge your gardening friends' green thumbs throughout winter, and they're made of 100 percent recycled plastic. The Sky Planter's reservoir feeds water to plants slowly, making them easy to maintain. Boskke offers a list of top plants that thrive in the planters if you'd like to accompany your gift with a baby plant.
Boskke, $25.
2. Organic Sprouts Growing Kit: A gift for gardeners and foodies alike, this indoor organic salad-growing kit from Bambeco will grow a variety of greens for cooking and salads all winter. It comes with organic seeds, a glass growing jar with netting and a reusable recyclable lunch bag. Bambeco, $24.
3. "Nature Preserve" Photograph Print: Bring your gardening friends' love of nature into their home with this lovely print by eco-artist Peter L. Johnson. Johnson's photographs aim to provide an intimate view of nature's beauty that showcases our fragile relationship with the Earth. Limited edition, printed on archival fine art rag paper and signed by the artist. Moss Envy, $34.
4. The Seed Pot Maker: This unique gift combines a love of gardening and environmentalism by allowing gardeners to create pots for seeds and seedlings out of old newspaper. The newspaper planters are biodegradable, so they can be planted directly into the ground when spring arrives. Uncommon Goods, $17.
5. Tomorrow's Garden by Stephen Orr: When it comes to gardening, you can never have enough help. This beautiful book will inspire friends as they create a sustainable garden that works with nature. With detailed case studies, stunning photographs and an appendix or resources and information, this inspirational book helps gardeners achieve their best. Natural Home & Garden, $25.
6. Greg Brown Seed Savers Exchange Benefit CD: Every year, down-home musician Greg Brown and Friends performs at the legendary summer benefit concert for Seed Savers Exchange, the largest non-governmental seed bank in the U.S. Purchase this disk recorded from one of the concerts, and 100 percent of the proceeds goes to benefit this vital seed-saving group. Seed Savers Exchange, $15.
7. Organic Cotton/Hemp Garden Apron: This handmade organic cotton and hemp gardening half-apron includes five pockets for garden tools and seed packets. Available in three prints. SoulRole at Etsy, $45.
8. Fossil Air Plant Set: Several million years ago, crustaceans got trapped in tide pools, leaving behind petrified spiral forms. Viva Terra pairs each authentic fossil (no two are alike) with a tiny easy-care tillandsia plant, grown in the U.S. Viva Terra, $35 for two.
9. Adopt a School Garden: Help your gardening friends inspire a new generation by donating to the school garden program through the National Gardening Association. You can make a general donation, or purchase a specific growing kit for the school of your choice. National Gardening Association, any amount.
10. Herb Jars with Caddy: These stoneware jars are so adorable! Each is labeled with an herb name and illustration--includes thyme, rosemary, sage, dill, oregano and parsley--and is capped with a natural cork stopper. Bambeco, $31.
11. One bonus idea? A gift subscription to Natural Home & Garden! OK, OK, it's shameless self-promotion, but we're planning tons of fabulous garden content in the coming year, and we'd love to share it with your gardening friends! Natural Home & Garden, $15.


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VirtenSys PCIe cloud switch arrives
Are PCIe SANs in prospect?
Virtensys has delivered pre-production units of its server I/O virtualising VMX5000 switch to potential server and storage OEM partners. Its use enables the sharing of I/O adapters and storage among connected servers using PCIe connections.
The idea is to use PCIe cabling and extend a server's PCIe bus outside the server to a switch used by many servers. Server storage (direct-attach storage or DAS) is attached to the switch for shared use instead of to each server for its individual use. I/O adapters such as Ethernet NICS and Fibre Channel HBAs are also attached to the switch for shared use.
Sharing of devices in this way is, VirtenSys claims, a way to increase device utilisation, lower device counts, reduce electricity needs and lower both capital and operating expense (Capex and Opex).
Virtensys argues that use of its switch can reduce rack and blade server management costs by more than 60 per cent, power and cooling costs by up to 30 per cent and equipment costs by as much as 50 per cent. It also claims that its technology enables networking resources to be dynamically allocated on demand as connected servers talk to virtual I/O adapters and DAS rather than physical adapters and storage. The switch product supports both physical and virtualised servers and comes either with (VMX-500 LSR) or without (VMX-5000 LS) RAIDed SAS and SATA hard disk drives, known as virtual DAS.
Timed for release just before VMware's Cannes VMworld show, the company says its virtual I/O is a natural fit with VMware's Virtual Data Center Operating System. VMware VP for infrastructure alliances, Shekar Ayyar, said: "We are... working with VirtenSys in an engineering collaboration to explore integration and optimisation options for our respective products. VirtenSys solutions support VMware's vision of self-managing, self-healing virtual datacenter environments."
The VMX-5000 switch can also be used in XenServer and Hyper-V environments. Its use is completely transparent, Virtensys says, to a server's operating system, and the product can be slotted in to a server infrastructure with no change at all required to the server's software. In an ominous threat to volume sales of I/O adapters VirtenSys says the number of I/O components in a server infrastructure can be reduced by up to 90 per cent.
VMX-5000 switches attach directly to multiple physical servers and support Intel and Neterion 10GE NICs and QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs. This device and interface portfolio should be expanded and both SAS and SATA I/O adapter support should be ready in a few weeks. There is a faint prospect here that storage array manufacturers could, if they are using X86/PCIe-based controllers, extend their PCIe bus to the switch and so help produce a complete PCIe 'cloud' embracing servers, networking interfaces, and shared storage.
What that could mean for iSCSI and Fibre Channel is death by PCIe. What we are talking about here is, in effect, a PCIe SAN (Storage Area Network). Such products are already emerging.
What Dell, IBM, HP could do with this technology is easy to see. For example we might envisage an HP BladeSystem with PrioLiant servers, ProCurve switches and EVA storage all linked across a PCIe cloud. Within this cloud there would be no Fibre Channel or iSCSI and LAN connectivity would occur at the PCIe cloud edge.
On the Dell front we could also see the emergence of Dell server and Dell storage PCIe cloud lego building blocks (rendering the InfiniBand links between servers and Xsigo switch and the switch itself redundant), as we can with IBM.
The VMX switch is available in rack-mount and blade server form factors with production units ready in six to nine months from VirtenSys' OEM partners. These partners will be able to offer rack-mount and blade server products at lower cost, both Capex and Opex, to customers looking to save cost and electricity.
If the technology works then it's feasible that it will become just another part of the industry standard commodity server infrastructure building block set. ®
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If you've been looking to be a beta tester for the place-shifting video software/hardware Slingbox, it looks like now's the time. Sling Media is consolidating its beta programs and is looking for a few good test pilots. Here's how Slingbox vice president Jeremy Toeman put it:
"So, if you like the Slingbox and want to get your hands a bit dirty with us on upcoming beta programs, sign up now. As you'll notice in the application, it is open to virtually anyone regardless of race, creed, sex, or operating system. We will use this as an ongoing program, and will pull people from the pool as needed. So you could hear from us next week, next month, or next year, depending on our needs at the time. For those of you who signed up to the Mac beta program, you might want to consider signing up here as well. There won't be any crossover, but it could get you slotted in for some future stuff."
If you think you have what it takes, Jeremy invites you to sign up here.
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