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Your analysis is more subtle than Harford's, but I wouldn't call your theorem a contradiction, since it appears to be true! You have uncovered a nice tension in what looks like a complex n person, m institution, coordination game between the all eggs in one basket/trial by error strategy. Very interesting.
Another long post: PDF here (but lacking some last minute changes) for anyone who prefers it. There is a contradiction at the heart of Adapt, the new book by the Financial Times' Undercover Economist, Tim Harford, and once the contradiction is unpicked, the rest of the book unfortunately unrave...
I agree with Plainsight. Gladwell says his point is that
"When you are fighting a high-stakes, high-risk battle, like the civil rights battle, the issue is whether you can convince and motivate people to risk their likelihoods by acting in a disciplined and intelligent way against a formidable and dangerous opponent. Communicating with them is five percent of the problem.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/ask/2010/09/malcolm-gladwell-twitter-social-media.html#ixzz11rwUAfbX"
The point is that more information doesn't lead to more commitment, the type of commitment may be dangerous.
Malcolm Gladwell gets as close as he can to saying "The revolution will not be Twittered" in this week's New Yorker, condemning social media's ability to enact real cultural change with an argument he sums up early in the piece: The evangelists
Joel, the rule I prescribed is a filtering rule designed to avoid type 1 errors, misidentifying a good prospect when it is bad.
There are a number of reasons to discount the value of talking with existing franchisees, and it certainly doesn't deserve to be one of the top 3 due diligence tips.
Many people will simply use the opportunity to confirm their beliefs instead of testing them. Indeed that is what due diligence is all about - looking for information that could, would, or tend to disconfirm your initial beliefs.
(As far as I aware, I don't have any detailed thoughts about brokers/consultants - but I probably will have something after my review of Lesley Curran's radio piece, on Segerto and Caruso's blog talk radio.)
@Todd, see my comments to Perry Shoom. And read the wikipedia article on confirmation bias.
(Pictured; The Webster Missile Lobber) Cleveland, Ohio--- Canadian franchise attorney, Michael Webster, (a writer for the franchise-bashing website, BlueMauMau) launched an almost blistering attack on a post about researching a franchise, that Cleveland, Ohio franchise consultant Joel Lib...
There is an ever growing awareness that disclosure laws are largely ineffective.
Having read your paper, I would recommend that you listen to the fraud tactics in "Weapons of Fraud" by Anthony Pratkanis. I think that you will find his examples on telemarketing fraud very insightful.
by Jeff Sovern Yesterday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published my op-ed, Consumer Bureau is Just the First Step, which reports on the tactics one predatory lender used to persuade borrowers to enter into loans that were not in their best interest. Here it is: Now that Congress has voted to cre...
What do you make, then, of the failure of hospitals to allegedly not follow these simple rules regarding the use of catheters?
I first heard this saying a few years back from Joe McCannon of the Institute for Health Improvement, who was campaign manager for an amazing effort by this non-profit to reduce the number of preventable deaths in U.S. Hospitals. It was called the 100,000 Lives Campaign, which according to most ...
I think that I would look at Scott Plous's piece on the Cold War as being a perceptual dilemma as good example of the time of indeterminacy you are looking for - I don't find the Quine claim very compelling.
Plous showed that with actual data from the US/USSR decision makers that each systematically framed the problem, or guessed about the other side's preference rankings, in different ways that allowed them to evaluate the evidence of each their and the other's propensity for a first strike in entirely different ways. Very interesting stuff.
Let me tell you a story you may have heard before. The Positivists held that if any claim was false -- any meaningful claim-- then there must be some observations that might be made that would prove, to anyone who understood the claim, that it was false. Quine taught us that this is wrong. It...
Jay Goltz had a good take on this today.
Small business lending is a big issue. Many have noted the decline in lending during the recession and a number of policy efforts to stimulate lending to small businesses have been suggested or implemented. But it is unclear if a lack of credit is the primary reason for the decline in lending...
One of the problems with this is that because the federal/state governments are out of cash, they are going to be heavily scrutinizing any attempts to pass of employees as independent contractors.
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One of the most important trends of the last few decades is the growing use of contingent workers. This is a structural shift towards employer use of contractors, freelancers, part-timers, etc. instead of hiring full-time, permanent employees. While hard data on this shift is not available, mos...
Yes, we are bad decision makers when we allow inconsequential information to frame our thoughts.
But, if we wanted out of this trap what should we do?
As those of you who read this blog may recall, I sometimes post reminders that we "know" with more than just our minds and brains. Conflict does not just happen between brains. (See my post We think with more than just our minds: Conflict reaches clear down to our toes.) Here's another article w...
Why do you think that much can be explained by models of physics which have no actors that learn anything and react accordingly?
A couple of years ago I was reading Schelling's Micromotives and Macrobehavior, and was struck by his description of the phase mismatch in the marriage market. I wondered (out loud here, using sloppy terminology) whether market price signals couldn't be understood as a mechanism for ameliorating...
Co-opetition is an excellent book, full of interesting ways to see how to create/claim value in a distribution chain.
It is informed by game theory but not what one would call an application of the mathematics of game theory.
A blurb on the jacket to Information Rules by Shapiro and Varian leads me to the website for this book by Nalebluff and Brandenburger: Q. How does someone put this idea of CO-OPETITION into practice? A. The key is looking at business as a "game." Once you do, you can much more easily spot both t...

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Monday, December 24, 2012
Of Mayans and Morons
As practically everyone knows, a few days ago was the supposed "Mayan doomsday", and yet nothing happened. I had waited years upon years for that day to pass. I've heard about it since I was little but took it seriously around middle school. I was watching some TV show where someone was preaching that we had "only 12 years left", and honestly that didn't settle right with me. I was relieved to actually take the time and research Mayan culture to find out there was no apocalypse prediction at all. Just an end to some long-count calendar.
As the days got closer, I used that fact to calm folks down or just get them to be rational. There was some idiot at work who thought it was all going to end when the planets aligned at 11 a.m. (they didn't) that day... Even if the planets aligned at any time, it sounds very voodoo-like for it to do anything meaningful. The worst thing is what? An eclipse? And don't get me started on those people who thought a huge asteroid/planet would crash right into Earth.
I guess we can blame ourselves for all these predictions. Humans have been very interested in the end of the world since the start our own worlds. The earliest known "prediction" was in ancient Rome. Romans had thought that magical eagles had revealed some mystical number to the legendary founder Romulus, and that it would be destroyed in its 120th year. When nothing happened, they made another prediction 245 years later in 389 BC.
Christianity has spawned some of the biggest and numerous predictions in our history. It also produced one of the earliest in the 1st century. They believed (including Paul the Apostle) that Jesus would come back in one generation of his passing. In the year 1000, many Christians thought this would be yet another end of the world. Wrong again.
Even a "reformer" like Martin Luther produced his own theory. He thought that the Earth's end would occur no later than 1600. Or maybe he's off by 400+ years?
Probably the most prolific goofbals were a group known as the Bible Student Movement. They made not 1, not 2, but 9 major end of the world predictions! Not a credible bunch of guys in my opinion.
For as intelligent as the human species claims to be, we've believed some dumb stuff over the course of our history. As children we're told that a magical man in red pajamas delivers toys to every house in the world. Men have gone on epic quests to find a magical "fountain of youth". And there was a time where people thought unicorns, dragons, leprechauns, pixies, mermaids, and yetis were real.
The only failed prediction with credible basis was the Y2K scare. The idea of all of our computers going crazy and uncontrollable was a scary thought. But I doubt even in 2000 that human civilization would be destroyed because of it.
So rest easy Earth. You're 4.54 billion years old, and you've got many to go. But billions of years from now, the Sun will turn into a red giant, and you won't be the beautiful blue sphere anymore. If we manage to stay around that long (doubtful), lets hope we are smart enough to avoid the end of the world by finding a new one.
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adam, i laughed to myself when i read this. it may be one of my favorite posts. although i do like a lot of posts you do. :)
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading about the people who were actually preparing for Dooms Day. Stocking up on weapons, canned goods etc for the zombies. They are gonna be eatin' lots of tuna sandwichs now.
ReplyDeleteI don't bother with these predictions. I think we should just live each day to the fullest and enjoy life while we're here. Even if the world was ending, we couldn't do anything about it, so why worry? Just live. Merry Christmas!
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National and international developments in higher education and the resultant pressure on universities to demonstrate excellence, including excellence in research, had a far-reaching effect on faculties of education who had traditionally focused more on excellence in teaching than on research. In South Africa, as part of transformation policies after 1994, the South African government made a deliberate effort to restructure the higher education landscape, resulting in a number of enforced mergers between universities and teacher education colleges. These complex contextual issues had a profound effect on research development in education faculties. This paper focuses on a transformative approach to research development initiatives in a South African faculty of education over a period of three to four years.
Document Title: | Research in a South African faculty of education: A transformative approach |
Journal: | Perspective in Education |
Volume: | 30 |
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Document Type: | Journal Article (Peer Reviewed) |
Subject Area: | Research |
Country: | South Africa |
Keywords: | Research, Research and Development R&D, Peer Review, Publication, Leadership |
Date Added: | 30 November 2012 |


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Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Access Control Server Aug 25 2004 04:45PM Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team (psirt cisco com) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Access Control Server Revision 1.1 Last Updated 2004 August 25 1630 UTC (GMT) For Public Release 2004 August 25 1600 UTC (GMT) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents ======== Summary Affected Products Details Impact Software Versions and Fixes Obtaining Fixed Software Workarounds Exploitation and Public Announcements Status of This Notice: FINAL Distribution Revision History Cisco Security Procedures - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ======= Cisco Secure Access Control Server for Windows (ACS Windows) and Cisco Secure Access Control Server Solution Engine (ACS Solution Engine) provide authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services to network devices such as a network access server, Cisco PIX and a router. This advisory documents multiple Denial of Service (DoS) and authentication related vulnerabilities for the ACS Windows and the ACS Solution Engine servers. The vulnerabilities are documented as these Cisco bug IDs: * CSCeb60017 * CSCec66913 * CSCec90317 * CSCed81716 * CSCef05950 This advisory will be posted at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20040825-acs.shtml. Affected Products ================= Vulnerable Products * Versions 3.2(3) and earlier are vulnerable to CSCef05950 and CSCed81716. * Version 3.2(2) build 15 is vulnerable to CSCeb60017. * Version 3.2 is vulnerable to CSCec90317 and CSCec66913. * CSCed81716 is only applicable to the ACS Solution Engine. Successfully authenticate to your ACS box to determine your software revision. After you perform the authentication, the first screen displays the current ACS version in this format-CiscoSecure ACS Release 3.2(3) Build 11. ACS versions may also be displayed as 003.002(003.011), where "011" is the build number referenced on the ACS graphical user interface (GUI). Products Confirmed Not Vulnerable Cisco Secure ACS for UNIX is not affected by these vulnerabilities. No other Cisco products are currently known to be affected by these vulnerabilities. Details ======= The Cisco Secure ACS products provide a centralized identity networking solution and simplified user management experience across all Cisco devices and security management applications. The products help to ensure enforcement of assigned policies-they allow network administrators to control who can log into the network, per user privileges in the network, security auditing and billing information, and command level access controls. * CSCeb60017 and CSCec66913 -- Cisco Secure ACS provides a Web-based management interface, termed CSAdmin, which listens on TCP port 2002. When flooded with TCP connections the ACS Windows and ACS Solution Engine stops responding to any new TCP connections destined for port 2002. Additionally, services on the ACS that process authentication related requests may become unstable and stop responding, which hampers the ability for ACS to process any authentication related requests. A reboot of the device is required to restore these services. * CSCec90317 -- Cisco Secure ACS, when configured for Light Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) RADIUS Proxy, forwards LEAP authentication requests to a secondary RADIUS server. The ACS device with LEAP RADIUS proxy configured may crash when LEAP authentication requests are being processed. A reboot is required to bring the device back to an operational state. * CSCed81716 -- Cisco Secure ACS can communicate with external databases and authenticate users against those databases. One of the external databases that ACS supports is Novell Directory Services (NDS). If an anonymous bind in NDS is allowed, and if the ACS Solution Engine is authenticating NDS users with NDS as the external database and not Generic LDAP, then users are able to authenticate with blank passwords against that NDS database. However, wrong passwords and incorrect usernames are properly rejected. * CSCef05950 -- Once a user successfully authenticates to the ACS GUI on TCP port 2002, a separate TCP connection is created between the browser and ACS administration Web service, with a random destination port. If an attacker spoofs the IP address of the user computer, and accesses the ACS GUI on this random port, then the attacker may be able to connect to the ACS GUI, bypassing authentication. Authentication to the ACS server may also be bypassed if the attacker is behind the same PAT device as that of the ACS user and accesses the ACS GUI on this random port. Impact ====== * CSCeb60017, CSCec66913, and CSCec90317 -- These vulnerabilities may cause a crash impacting the availability of services on the ACS devices. Until the device is rebooted a DoS is the result. * CSCed81716 -- This vulnerability may allow unauthorized users to access AAA clients without an effective password (using blank passwords) if the bind to the NDS database is anonymous. * CSCef05950 -- This vulnerability may allow unauthenticated users to gain access to the ACS Administration GUI. Software Versions and Fixes =========================== +----------------------------------------+ | DDTs Bug | Fixed Versions | Platform | | ID | | | |------------+----------------+----------| | CSCeb60017 | | ACS | | | 003.002 | Windows | | | (002.020) or | and ACS | | | later | Solution | | | | Engine | |------------+----------------+----------| | CSCec66913 | | ACS | | | 003.002 | Windows | | | (002.020) or | and ACS | | | later | Solution | | | | Engine | |------------+----------------+----------| | CSCec90317 | | ACS | | | 003.002 | Windows | | | (002.005) or | and ACS | | | later | Solution | | | | Engine | |------------+----------------+----------| | CSCed81716 | | ACS | | | 003.002 | Solution | | | (003.011) or | Engine | | | later | only | | | | | |------------+----------------+----------| | | There are | | | | patches | | | | available to | | | | address this | | | CSCef05950 | vulnerability. | ACS | | | See the | Windows | | | Customers with | and ACS | | | Service | Solution | | | Contracts | Engine | | | section below | | | | for details on | | | | the location | | | | of these | | | | patches. | | +----------------------------------------+ Upgrade procedures can be found as indicated: * ACS Windows 3.3: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps2086/prod_installation_ guide09186a0080238b18.html#wp998991 * ACS Windows 3.2: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps2086/prod_installation_ guide09186a0080184928.html#wp9472 * ACS Solution Engine: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps5338/products_user_guid e_chapter09186a0080204d45.html#wp911224 Obtaining Fixed Software ======================== Customers with Service Contracts Customers with contracts should obtain upgraded software through their regular update channels. For most customers, this means that upgrades should be obtained through the Cisco Product Upgrade Tool at: http://www.cisco.com/upgrade. Alternatively, Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) can be contacted to get code upgrades for CSCeb60017, CSCec66913, CSCec90317, and CSCed81716. TAC contacts are: * +1 800 553 2447 (toll free from within North America) * +1 408 526 7209 (toll call from anywhere in the world) * e-mail: tac (at) cisco (dot) com [email concealed] To address CSCef05950, download the patch for your respective versions from: Public Location: ACS Windows: http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/cs-acs-win Registered Users: ACS Windows: http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/cs-acs-win?psrtdcat20e2 ACS Solution Engine: http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/acs-soleng-3des?psrtdcat20e2 Customers using Third-party Support Organizations Customers whose Cisco products are provided or maintained through prior or existing agreement with third-party support organizations such as Cisco Partners, authorized resellers, or service providers should contact that support organization for assistance with the upgrade, which should be free of charge. Customers without Service Contracts Customers who purchase direct from Cisco but who do not hold a Cisco service contract and customers who purchase through third-party vendors but are unsuccessful at obtaining fixed software through their point of sale should get their upgrades by contacting the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC). TAC contacts are as follows. * +1 800 553 2447 (toll free from within North America) * +1 408 526 7209 (toll call from anywhere in the world) * e-mail: tac (at) cisco (dot) com [email concealed] Please have your product serial number available and give the URL of this notice as evidence of your entitlement to a free upgrade. Free upgrades for non-contract customers must be requested through the TAC. Please do not contact either "psirt (at) cisco (dot) com [email concealed]" or "security-alert (at) cisco (dot) com [email concealed]" for software upgrades. Workarounds =========== * Configure an IP address filter on ACS Windows and ACS Solution Engine to limit the exposure of these vulnerabilities. From within the ACS GUI, browse to Administration Control > Access Policy to limit access to only the machines that need to administer the ACS remotely. * Apply access control lists (ACLs) on routers, switches and firewalls that filter traffic to the ACS so that traffic is only allowed from stations that need to remotely administer the box. Refer to http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/tacl.html for examples on how to apply ACLs on Cisco routers. * As a best practice, use HTTPS to limit access to the Cisco ACS GUI. Issues detailed in CSCef05950 still exist when you use HTTP instead of HTTPS to access the Cisco ACS GUI. Refer to http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/acs_soft/csacs4nt /acs32/user02/a.htm#wp89030 for information on how to set up an access policy on the Cisco ACS. Exploitation and Public Announcements ===================================== The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability described in this advisory. Status of This Notice: FINAL ============================ THIS ADVISORY IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS AND DOES NOT IMPLY ANY KIND OF GUARANTEE OR WARRANTY. YOUR USE OF THE INFORMATION ON THE ADVISORY OR MATERIALS LINKED FROM THE ADVISORY IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. CISCO RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE OR UPDATE THIS NOTICE AT ANY TIME. Distribution ============ This advisory will be posted on Cisco's worldwide website at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20040825-acs.shtml. In addition to worldwide web posting, a text version of this notice is clear-signed with the Cisco PSIRT PGP key and is posted to the following e-mail and Usenet news recipients. * cust-security-announce (at) cisco (dot) com [email concealed] * first-teams (at) first (dot) org [email concealed] (includes CERT/CC) * bugtraq (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed] * vulnwatch (at) vulnwatch (dot) org [email concealed] * cisco (at) spot.colorado (dot) edu [email concealed] * cisco-nsp (at) puck.nether (dot) net [email concealed] * full-disclosure (at) lists.netsys (dot) com [email concealed] * comp.dcom.sys.cisco (at) newsgate.cisco (dot) com [email concealed] Future updates of this advisory, if any, will be placed on Cisco's worldwide website, but may or may not be actively announced on mailing lists or newsgroups. Users concerned about this problem are encouraged to check the above URL for any updates. 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Looks very picturesque. My trip today consisted of northern forests, a moose, some deer and a hawk. I think White River is a little less sophisticated than Myrtle Beach :) Significantly cooler too.
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China to build a high-speed railway between Mecca and Medina
- Filed under: China, Islam, Saudi Arabia
- Date: Feb 11,2009 | 04:05 PM
China to build Mecca rail system
China has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to build a new railway system linking the main sites of the annual Muslim pilgrimage, the Hajj.
The new railway will connect the city of Mecca with the pilgrim destinations of Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah.
Saudi Arabia also plans to build a high-speed rail link to take pilgrims from Mecca to Medina, Islam's two holiest cities, in 30 minutes.
The journey time by road can take anywhere between four and five hours.
Millions of Islamic faithful descend on Mecca during the annual mass pilgrimage.
The new network in Saudi Arabia is expected to be ready within three years, with one section of the line due to be completed in time for the 2010 Hajj, officials said.
The contract, worth almost $1.8bn (£1.24bn), was awarded to the China Railway Company and a French firm.
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Forum topic by scott_v | posted 11-03-2009 05:00 PM | 8042 views | 0 times favorited | 14 replies |
I'm looking for input from folks that use dados to attach face frames to cabinets. What technique do you use? Basically, I'm looking for construction details on how you do it. I'm new to cabinet making and like the idea of using dado's to guarantee alignment. Thanks |
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#1 posted 11-03-2009 05:06 PM |
Last one I built, I tried biscuts and glue. Worked OK. -- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the Universe's finest custom rolling pins. |
#2 posted 11-03-2009 05:45 PM |
Scott, I use biscuits and glue like Lew for my cabinets and bookcases. Biscuits do not add a lot of strength to the assembly but their main purpose is to ensure alignment. -- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine |
#3 posted 11-03-2009 05:50 PM |
Biscuits and Glue. I use the continuos groove around the box edge, then it makes no difference on biscuit alignment. They always line up. -- Methods are many,Principles are few.Methods change often,Principles never do. |
#4 posted 11-03-2009 06:20 PM |
Hey Scott -- http://artisticwoodstudio.com Custom furniture |
#5 posted 11-03-2009 07:41 PM |
I'm looking for best practices on dadoing face frames to cabinets and so far I've only gotten inputs on biscuit joinery. Is anyone out there using the dado method? |
#6 posted 11-03-2009 07:55 PM |
hey scott i think the main reason no one has givin you any input on it is cuz no one uses dado's to connect face frames but if i were to try doing this i would have to do my home work to make sure the dado's were centered and then on any areas where my top and bottom rails met the sides of my carcasses i would imagine the easiest way to do that would be with a good sharp chisel. hope this helps -- I buy tools so i can make more money,so ican buy more tools so I can work more, to make more money, so I can buy more tool, so I can work more |
#7 posted 11-03-2009 08:07 PM |
I use the Sommerfeld Offset Tongue & Groove System. The bit set had a few problems with dimensions when he first introduced it, but I believe it's been corrected in his China-made house-branded stuff. Woodline USA has a set on Amazon for about $40 + free shipping .. .. that's about a third of Sommerfeld's price, and they tend to have pretty good stuff. The thing I do like about this system is that there is almost NO setup time. Drop in the tongue cutter .. adjust for the amount of offset you desire for this session .. rout away. The two bits are ground in such a way that you simply remove one cutter & drop in the other without any adjustment .. .. which is nice because you'll be swapping them back & forth quite a bit. All in all, it's a VERY convenient & efficient method .. AND it is about foolproof. -- - dabbling in sarcasm is foolish … if you're not proficient at it, you end up looking stupid … ... ... |
#8 posted 11-03-2009 08:58 PM |
I must be confused, again, or I'm having another dyslexic moment (a yes I am dyslexic). Are you asking about adding dados to the cabinet or to the face frame? I would think that you would want the face frame flush with the edge of the cabinet a dado certainly wouldn't do that. A dado would leave a bit of stock sticking out around the edge of the face frame. (?) -- Chunk's Workshop pictures: http://spadfest.rcspads.com/thumbnails.php?album=135 |
#9 posted 11-03-2009 09:25 PM |
Actually dadoes can be used when making kitchen cabinets to join the face frame to the carcass. The reason you leave a gap between cabinets is that if there are any imperfections on the wall and you need to adjust the cabinet to make sure it is square with the others you will have some play by having the side wall of each cabinet 1/8" inside the face frames. You join the cabinets with screws by their frames and then fix them to the wall by using shims and screws |
#10 posted 11-03-2009 10:00 PM |
Contractor grade cabinets are typically a hardwood face frame grooved to fit laminated particle board sides. The grooves are typically in the stiles only, 1/4" offset from the edge of the face frame (face frame is 1/2" larger than box width). Top and bottom of the box butt into the rails, affixed by glue and brads/staples. So, the sides of the box project out to slot into the grooves. The groove is wide enough to accommodate the entire width of the side boards, usually 1/2" in such a cabinet. Groove construction is hardly necessary when you have others ways of connecting the face frame, but it works well with particle board whereas bisquits and brads aren't practical. -- jay, www.allaboutastro.com |
#11 posted 11-04-2009 05:06 PM |
I used dadoes on my recent kitchen cabinet rebuild for exactly the reason you stated. As Jay stated, only on the stiles. I set up my router table to cut the dadoes with an under-sized 1/2" bit to accomodate the 1/2 ply I used for the carcass. I inset the cut 1/8", as Jerrys stated, for the same reason, I already knew my wall were not exactly square. I wanted raised panels on the end panels so I inset the dado 3/4" to account for the width of the stock I was using for the raised panels. I only cut the dado 1/4" deep, but still made two passes to get there. I wasn't completely comfortable going the full 1/4" in one pass. Took me more time, but I sure felt safer with small cuts. I used some 90 degree jigs I built in all the corners to hold square, glued it up and used bar clamps to hold it all together while the glue dried. Worked perfect and ended up dead square. While installing the cabinets…......well that's when I discovered how far out my floors were. Shimms to the rescue! -- Sawdust looks better in the garage than cars, explain that to your wife! |
#12 posted 11-04-2009 05:37 PM |
Dado face frames sound like an excercise in unnecessary complication to me but if you are set up to manage such part tracking I guess its doable. I have heard of people building cabinets this way but their systems were managed with CNC production and elaborate parts manufacturing equipment. I suppose if you aren't doing very many cabinets and care to spend the extra time developing the method to insure reliable fitting including any misc. parts interior of a finish box, side panels, cutting optimization of sheet goods, drawer side panels lengths, drawer yoke lenghts (if used) then…go for it. However this method wouldn't work well for built-in style cabinet fronts where a single front is to be added to a long bank of contiguouos cabinets, which would further complicate the method. |
#13 posted 11-04-2009 06:00 PM |
I have done this when refacing existing cabinets. Stock cabinets from China or other countries I have found use this type of joinery for face frames. To stay within existing parameters I just replace face frames using the dado method. I don't like doing it but I do think it is stronger. I just suggest measuring extremely accurately and carefully planning out your project. You should have no problem. When we build cabinets from ground up, we use a hybrid frameless/face frame technique I have tweated here and there. Just my 2 cents. -- . |
#14 posted 11-04-2009 09:44 PM |
For a standard cabinet with face frame, it's actually not hard to rip a couple of grooves in the stiles to accomodate the cabinet sides. A good table saw makes easy work of that, and it seems faster to me than bisquits. I also think it would be much more stable. Likewise, if stock for the box is 1/2", bisquits aren't really practical. -- jay, www.allaboutastro.com |
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Jorg Heymans wrote: > Recently there were 2 requests on the users list about accessing the > current pipeline structure. <snip/> > Having this extra metadata would allow for components that > can produce > different output depending on how they are used in a pipeline > (but this > probably breaks a few cocoon design rules right?). It certainly creates the _potential_ for components to be horribly tangled up with the pipelines that contain them. <snip/> > Thoughts? Is this difficult to implement? A 2.2 feature perhaps? I don't know about the use cases presented on the user list, but I know another use case is for debugging and maintenance people to have direct access _from a Cocoon-produced resource_ to the pieces of the pipeline that produced it. In this scenario the final output contains a bunch of hyperlinks to the resources (content, transforms, stylesheets, etc) which can be used to get quick access to edit one of these sources. As an experiment I implemented this for some pipelines using XML processing instructions. Each pipeline component adds a PI to the SAX stream to identify itself (a signature), and at the end a transformer can convert them into HTML <link> elements or similar. NB this is totally different to (the inverse of) the use of PIs embedded into a source XML file to specify an XSL transformation. It wasn't very convenient to add each PI at each stage, but it seemed to me that the pipeline processor could certainly maintain this metadata more easily, and make it available to components when needed. Perhaps a special pipeline processor could keep track of the pipeline, and use a special transformer which is "pipeline aware" ("InsertPipelineMetadataTransformer") to insert this metadata into the pipeline only when needed. Cheers Con | |
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How to make wedding program fans. When I first heard about this type of program I have to admit I thought it sounded a bit of a faff, but at the time I had visions of those folded fans that used to make as a child!
rogram fans work really well when your wedding is in a hot climate, last summer I was at a wedding where the bride had chosen this program and they looked lovely. However only the women used them, the men passed them to their partners or just placed them on the side. So the lesson from that is - do you need to make one for everyone? Think about whether the men will appreciate this type of fan, you may be better off having a fan for the women and a plain card - same design for the men but less work!


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written Jamb UTME exams, these are the cut-
off marks for the various tertiary institutions
across the country.
=> University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT: 200
and above for Dentistry,Pharmacy,
Engineering (except Civil & Environmental
Engineering), Management Sciences,Medicine,
Nursing and Social Sciences; 180 and above
for others are invited to a Screening Exercise
First Choice and Second Choice.
=> Nnamdi Azikiwe University, NAU/UNIZIK:
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History )and Education 200 for others
=> Federal University of Technology Owerri,
FUTO: 180 First and Second Choice.
=> University of Ibadan UI: 200 First and
Second Choice Most preferred
=> University of Lagos Unilag: 200 all courses,
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=> University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN: 200
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=> Obafemi Awolowo University OAU: 200
[First Choice].
> Nnamdi Azikiwe University,NAU/ UNIZIK:
180 Arts (except Departments of English &
History) and Education and 200 for others;
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=> University of Ilorin, Unilorin: 200
=> University of Ado- Ekiti: 200
=> University of Benin, UNIBEN 200; first
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=> Ahmadu Bello University (ABU),Zaria: 180
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Social Science, Law and Administration; first
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=> Federal University of Technology, Akure
FUTA: 200; first and second choice
=> University of Uyo, Uniuyo: 180;first choice
=> University of Calabar Unical:180 for some
courses and 200for others
=> University of Agriculture, Abeokuta UNAAB
– 180
=> University of Jos UNIJOS: 180;first and
second choice
=> Lagos State University LASU:200; first and
second choice
=> Niger Delta University NDU: 180;first
choice only
=> TAI Solarin University of Education TASUED:
180 first choice only and change of course
=> Federal University of Technology (FUT),
Minna: (i) 220 for School of Engineering and
Engineering Technology and Environmental
Technology (ii) 200 for School of Environmental
Technology and School of Science and Science
Education (iii) 190 for School of Agriculture
and Agricultural Technology and School of
Science and Science Education.
=> Federal University Dutsin-Ma,Katsi na:
180; first choice only
=> Federal University Oye-Ekiti:180; first and
second choice => Federal University of
Wukari,Taraba State: 180 in theSciences and
190 in the hmanities and Social Sciences; first
and second choice.
=> Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State:
180; first and second choice. => Ebonyi State
University EBSU:180; first and second choice
=> Osun State University (UNIOSUN): 180 for
Agriculture,Edu cation and Arts (Humanities
and Culture) and 200 for the rest; First and
second choice.
=> Federal University of Petroleum Resources,
Effurun: 180; first and second choice
=> Michael Okpara University of Agriculture,
Umudike; 180; first and second choice. =>
Anambra State University; 180;first and
second choice.
=> Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma: 180; first
choice only
=> Kwara State University KWASU:200; first
and second choice and changing of courses.
=> Afe Babalola University (ABUAD): No
official cut-off mark.
=> Benson Idahosa University: No official cut-
off mark.
=> Bells University of Technology,Ota: No cut-
off mark, as long as you chose or wish to
change course.
=> Kaduna State University, KASU: 180 UTME
cutoff (first choice only)
=> Imo State University IMSU: now Evan
Enwerem University EEU : 180
=> Enugu State University of Science Tech –
=> Adekunle Ajasin University: 200
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Technology,RSUS T:180 (1st choice only)
=> Delta State University, Abraka,DELSU: 180
=> Abia State University, Uturu,ABSUU: 180
=> University of Maiduguri, UniMaid: 180
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Polytechnics and Colleges of Education
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preferred, more preferred or preferred
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The overall objective of this research plan has been to define the mechanisms responsible for repair and regeneration of alcohol-injured livers. After demonstrating that chronic consumption of alcohol inhibited proliferation of mature hepatocytes, we began to investigate whether liver progenitors were responsible for regenerating livers with alcohol-induced damage. During the last funding period we discovered that the Hedgehog (Hh) pathway regulates the fate of adult liver progenitors, and showed that this pathway is dramatically induced during alcoholic liver disease (ALD). Although Hh signaling was known to play critical roles in embryonic tissue construction, certain types of adult tissue remodeling, and tumor metastasis, it had not been implicated in adult liver repair until our work. Further efforts focused on delineating the pathobiological relevance of Hh pathway activation during ALD. We proved that Hh pathway activation causes liver epithelial progenitors to undergo epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and demonstrated that mice with an overly-active Hh pathway develop excessive liver fibrosis when their livers are injured. Our most recent preliminary data identify a novel mechanism for Hh pathway inhibition by demonstrating that Tweak/Fn14 signaling (which is known to promote expansion of epithelial-type liver progenitors) antagonizes the EMT-promoting actions of the Hh pathway and permits mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET) in progenitors. Therefore, this competing renewal application will evaluate the HYPOTHESIS that the Hh pathway and Tweak/Fn14 differentially regulate the fate of liver progenitors, and hence the outcomes of ALD.
Our Specific Aims are to 1) determine if dysregulated Hh signaling increases EMT and inhibits MET to promote fibrogeneic repair of ALD, 2) determine if Tweak/Fn14 inhibit EMT and promote non-fibrogenic repair of ALD by inhibiting Hh activity, and 3) determine if treatments that improve ALD decrease EMT and enhance MET because they inhibit Hh pathway activity and/or increase Tweak/Fn14 signaling. The results will clarify the relative significance of EMT/MET, and some of the mechanisms that regulate these processes, in controlling the divergent outcomes of ALD. This, in turn, might identify novel genetic susceptibility factors for alcohol-related cirrhosis, new biomarkers for ALD progression, and novel therapeutic targets for this common liver disease.
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Xie, Guanhua; Karaca, Gamze; Swiderska-Syn, Marzena et al. (2013) Cross-talk between Notch and Hedgehog regulates hepatic stellate cell fate in mice. Hepatology 58:1801-13 |
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Coming or Going?
Daniel Diaz 9/13/2005 5:46:50 AM
Looks like Osgoode station, train traveling southbound so the train is coming(entering). Either way another EXCELLENT subway shot!!!! #309600Luigi Di Serio 9/13/2005 6:55:56 AM
Not Osgoode... close though. The dome shape tunnel is only between like a half dozen station in Toronto. #1831742Laura Clay-Ballard 9/13/2005 8:26:22 AM
I can't tell which way it is going..could be either! LOLBlah 9/13/2005 9:51:21 AM
I like the colour of the tiled walls. :)AND the picture itself is cool. Despite the lack of humanity in it.. But, that's your style, I know, I know... #1832398
Luigi Di Serio 9/13/2005 10:20:10 AM
My always critical fiancee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Being SINCERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #1832507Blah 9/13/2005 10:30:40 AM
Critical? I was being complimentary! I like the photo, sugar pie.And you Better Photo Regulars need to RELAX WITH THE EXCLAMATION POINTS!!! #1832538
Luigi Di Serio 9/13/2005 10:37:37 AM
We await for you to upload your photos so we can go EXCLAMATION POINT crazy on you... if your photos are worthy of course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #1832562Blah 9/13/2005 11:26:41 AM
lolI mean:
Kevin Burns 9/13/2005 7:29:21 PM
Super detail amd motion!! The lighting is super! #1834322Luigi Di Serio 9/14/2005 7:01:25 AM
Thanks Kevin... Daniel is right it is coming and it is the station before Osgoode (St. Patrick) #1835896Donna Roberts 9/16/2005 11:49:44 PM
WOW Luigi - this is an amazing capture.Kerby Pfrangle 9/19/2005 7:26:59 AM
LugiLike the detail and motion in the train.
Excellent lighting and I am not sure if it going or coming?
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Jill Flynn 9/20/2005 1:47:38 PM
This is a great shot! #1860335Cora Miller 9/29/2005 9:20:53 PM
Excellent shot utilizing the contrast between motion of the train and the stationary tunnel and platform. I didn't have a clue which way it was going though before you gave us the answer. :) #1901146KHAWLA Haddad 10/15/2005 9:12:19 AM
Wonderful shot Luigi such great in camrea effect I love it well don!!!Chris Macer 10/21/2005 7:46:22 AM
Congrats on the finalist, Luigi! #1977318Luigi Di Serio 10/21/2005 8:39:14 AM
Thanks everyone! Thanks Chris #1977775Blah 10/21/2005 9:58:35 AM
Congratulations!! #1978228Terry L. Ellis 10/21/2005 1:01:08 PM
Congratulations, Luigi, on this terrific finalist! #1979210Stephen Zacker 10/21/2005 4:27:35 PM
This is cool. Congratulations #1980573Wilson Low 10/21/2005 8:34:01 PM
Take a bow, WOW fantastic shot u have here! congrats. nice fast movement coupled with clear background! ;-) love itThe Judges at BetterPhoto.com 10/22/2005 12:18:12 PM
Good motion study. #1984636Luigi Di Serio 10/22/2005 2:20:22 PM
Thanks everyone!!! #1985058Jill Odice 10/22/2005 6:49:16 PM
I don't know which way it's going, but it's fast! Great shot and congrats Luigi! #1985933Mary Timman 10/22/2005 7:14:59 PM
One great image. Congratulations and well deserved. #1986049Kerby Pfrangle 10/22/2005 10:17:08 PM
Congratulations Luigi. Best of luck in the final round. Excellent job.Kerby #1986476
Ermanno Radice 10/23/2005 1:43:53 AM
Congratulations Luigi and best of luck in the final round!! #1986771KHAWLA Haddad 10/23/2005 7:53:07 AM
Congratulations on your Finalist, Luigi!
sure we be seeing this one again reall sooon wonderful work !!!!!!!!1 #1987719
Daniel Diaz 10/23/2005 10:44:50 AM
Big congrats on this well deserved win little cuz, don't worry I will k*ll someone soon LOL!!!! #1988263Jason W. Romero 10/23/2005 10:55:57 AM
Congratulations on this winner. #1988313Mata Patan 10/23/2005 11:19:01 AM
Auguri Luigi!!!!Terry L. Ellis 10/23/2005 11:52:17 AM
Luigi...congratulations on this wonderful second place win!!! #1988562Jenny Bosmans 10/23/2005 11:58:22 AM
Congratulations on this beautiful Winner, Luigi! :) #1988609Ermanno Radice 10/23/2005 12:10:29 PM
Many congratulations on your well deserved second place win, Luigi!!! #1988674KHAWLA Haddad 10/23/2005 1:11:25 PM
CONGRATULATIONS On wonderful second place Winner!!!! #1988964Sylvia Rossler 10/23/2005 1:36:37 PM
Congratulations Luigi !!!!! #1989085Jill M. Flusemann 10/23/2005 2:43:02 PM
Congratulations - awesome image! #1989255Jill Flynn 10/23/2005 3:21:27 PM
Congratulations on your win Luigi! Way to go!!!!!!! #1989381Mary Timman 10/23/2005 6:00:15 PM
Super work. Congratulations. #1989818Chris Macer 10/23/2005 6:49:13 PM
Congrats on your win, Luigi! #1989914Luigi Di Serio 10/24/2005 7:10:53 AM
OMG I WON?!?! I have all these wonderful photgraphers commenting on my photo, I can't believe this, thanks so much to all your inspirational people on BP. #1992100Rui Oliveira 10/24/2005 12:41:12 PM
Love the picture! I could never tell whether it is coming or going, but as trains travel by the left (just another english habit), I'd say it is arriving at the station. Congratulations, Luigi #1993567Cathy M. Gromball 10/24/2005 4:59:59 PM
Congratulations, Luigi!Cathy :) #1994669
Robert J. Wilkie 10/25/2005 6:36:54 AM
Great pic. Train is moving too fast to be leaving the station so it must be inbound. Is this St Patrick?Congrats #1996457
Donna W. Neal 10/25/2005 7:03:08 AM
WOW, congratulations Looks like you would have blown over taking this amazing winner Luigi #1996614Luigi Di Serio 10/25/2005 7:20:17 AM
Thank You Rui, Cathy, Robert and Donna! Yes Robert it is St. Patrick! #1996706Kaye Burazin 10/26/2005 3:33:06 PM
bravo Luigi, take a well deserved bow, this is excellent!!! over the top cool!!! #2001841Stephanie Laird 10/27/2005 6:34:13 AM
Fantastic Luigi! Wonderful, excellent image! Congratulations! Well deserved! #2003640Scott Borger 10/27/2005 9:46:48 PM
I love it. You must have used fairly small aperature with all that light. Feel free to critique my work. #2006360Vladimiro Vagnetti 11/27/2005 3:00:46 PM
congratulazioni Luigi!! #2127436Keith L. Clayton 12/23/2005 1:31:38 PM
Super piece of work! #2218375Dennis Flanagan 3/23/2006 10:25:00 PM
I can see why this was a winner. Wonderful photo. #2569115Joyce ONeil 5/1/2006 5:21:55 PM
Coming, going... either way - exceptional image! With the great color contrast and the sense of motion equals a very sucessful photo!! #2713842Melissa G. Meiselman 5/2/2006 11:55:28 AM
Incredible image and congratualations on your win. #2716995Carlo Cascone 5/15/2006 11:36:23 AM
I think it doesn't matter if the train is going in or out the gallery!!! The picture gives a strong emotion!Sharrie Thomas 7/26/2006 12:06:26 PM
This is Terrific!!! Great SHOT! #3085137Filip Spek 12/26/2006 2:37:24 PM
Great pic! I love all of shots in which motion is 'catched' by a camera. And I thinh it's coming, not going away, isn't it? #3742060Filip Spek 12/28/2006 12:57:07 PM
Congratulations Luigi! That's really good photo! And pleas tell me if it's going or coming ;) #3748463RC Fritz 1/6/2007 3:59:06 PM
Excellent motion, Luigi. Congrats on your WIN!! #3789411Vladan D. Djordjevic 1/26/2007 12:03:37 PM
Fantastic image. Love the composition, color, lines, textures! Congratulations on this wonderful Winner!!!#3875754
Remi Trepanier 1/28/2007 2:29:39 PM
Awesome motion shot Luigi!!! #3883618john dunne 2/19/2007 11:52:29 AM
Ace shot. insprired me to take one like it. mine didnt work lol #3965252Luigi Di Serio 2/20/2007 9:46:21 AM
Thanks so much everyone. Keep cracking John you'll get it... a lot of it is luck lol #3968581Cassie L. Woodlee 3/16/2007 3:25:27 PM
WOW this is an AWESOME capture Luigi, and big Congrats !! #4062066Joerg Schlagheck 9/6/2007 11:48:04 AM
Hey Luigi! Of course it is entering the tunnel, unless you turned it inside out. It's an excellent capture, despite what Blah had to say! #4755901Lisa J. Boulden 10/6/2007 8:05:01 AM
Awesome winner here, Luigi!!!S. Velickovski 10/12/2007 10:22:58 AM
This is very creative!, Luigi, wounderful image,Congratulations!JO ANN CLEVELAND 11/5/2007 1:31:51 PM
Fantastic! Congrats on this unique image, tell the fiancee that the only way to express emotion in our comments is to use the exclamation point!!!! lolAgain, super congrats ~
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Nemil B. Chabebe 1/17/2008 10:32:29 PM
Exiting or entering who knows, I know it was right for you to enter this one in the contest, see you got a winner, congratulations it is a great photo. #5356273Corné Arts 3/17/2008 10:15:19 AM
Congrats on this great shot. A friend of my shot an approaching train and stopped the shutter when it was close. You could see right in the cockpit. Very nice too. Well done! and thanks for your comment on my panorama with the houses in Marken. best wishes from holland! #5653448Kaz Sommers 4/20/2008 12:10:17 PM
Congratulations it's brilliant!kurt Anderson 5/5/2008 6:20:57 PM
Love this shot, shows stillness and motion. Great job, and congrats! #5888070Max Aureli 9/25/2008 12:51:47 PM
Great image in here Luigi. Great motion and excellent sharp texture and details. Light is perfect!Allen Hughes 10/2/2008 9:57:28 AM
Excellent shot. A well deserved win, Luigi. And the train is coming out of the tunnel. #6543856Luigi Di Serio 10/2/2008 9:59:16 AM
Thanks Allen... Yeah I can't remember if it was coming or going, but I think you are right, because why would I let the train go without boarding it?! lol #6543864Lori Carlson 11/22/2008 7:43:49 AM
Your awarded gold button goes quite well with the bold gold strip in your shot, don't cha think!?! :0) Congratulations, Luigi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Patti Coblentz 5/21/2009 6:31:33 PM
Superb!!Mitch Spence 6/13/2010 11:13:51 AM
Terrific image, Luigi. I love it. #8692101Merna L. Nobile 6/11/2011 7:47:56 AM
Hello Luigi: What a powerful capture! I really admire your style; all of your images have an appearance of uniqueness Merna #9455250Mike F. Anderson 3/20/2016 12:34:19 PM
Congratulations on your winner Luigi! Very well executed and presented. #11449401Subway in Toronto, Canada. Do you think it is entering or exiting the tunnel?
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We had our family reunion on Saturday and it was wonderful to see everyone and I did get a few answers from my Aunt and Great Aunt, with the results of the answers to come later. I also was entrusted with some more treasures to scan and catalog, which is always exciting. Until I get the huge box of stuff home and look at another stack of pictures, some labeled, some total mysteries, and... phew. This is going to take a while. I have some funny things that I've found that I thought you'd like too. One has to do with Uncle Dow again, but I need more time to get that all scanned. The one I have for you today is a picture with an inscription from my Grandpa G on the back. Here's the picture and the inscription, with transcription below:
Ed Boles was a cousin of my grandmother (your great-grandmother) G. He was a hobo who would come to our house occasionally to see Grandma G who lived with us. He was intelligent, well-travelled, well dressed, and adverse to hard work. He lived by his wits.
A cousin at the reunion told me that Grandpa told a story about how Ed would buy bars of soap, cut them up into smaller pieces, wrap the pieces in tin foil, then sell them as spot remover until he was run out of town. The story makes me think of Harold Hill, which makes me like cousin Ed. I don't know what happened to cousin Ed. Ancestry.com tells me he was born in 1872, but I don't have information about his death, and I don't know what the story with the sign is - is this a photo studio or a real train or what?? Any guesses?
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12th May 2013, 07:09 AM | #411 |
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ahh yes those stupid designers again have been outwitted by an amateur with a big mouth, zero experience in designing digital video circuits and lots of handwaving. 50c is nothing, its completely within the parameters of... well... everything, WELL within the parameters. Even the cheapest capacitors are rated at 85C and anything that has to deal with real heat is rated for 125C. active parts, will vary, but 50C is not hot, even a low noise device like the ESS is rated for 70C ambient. your comment about the designers not caring how the wires are routed is pretty rich coming from someone who fills his contraptions with flying wires and doesnt seem to take any care about the return path, or ground plane, EMI, RFI, anything, has no test gear and only considers that there is a problem if there is audible noise.
given its a picture, easily saved, how about you put your money where your mouth is and take a frame (digital, or if you prefer, analogue photo, you will need a tripod) before and after, it should be very easy to see the difference and very easy to perform a difference calculation to show only the difference. but you wont do that.. Last edited by qusp; 12th May 2013 at 07:32 AM. |
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So maybe starting high and going low, despite potential penalties in that, maybe the advantages outweigh the disadvantages? I have an open mind on that. Cheers, Joe
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12th May 2013, 07:30 AM | #413 |
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The only problem with this going low (dividing frequency) is introducing jitter/skew. The higher the frequency of an oscillator, the better jitter figures. But using a divider with it`s own skew (added jitter) it may cancel the benefit of a better oscillator. This it may be a big dilemma... But, it seems that there are out there some good dividers too.
In this particular case here is about using a good clock/oscillator/frequency for ESS9018, and a little bit more added jitter to the divided (synchronized) frequency which goes to clock the MediaTek chip... I still wonder why it is noticeable an improvement in both picture and sound when only changing the standard/original resonator for MediaTek with a standard oscillator... And it still be improvements when clocking the same chip with a jittery frequency coming from a divider... It may be all this anyway better than the original clocking by resonator? Experimenting is the way to find a better compromise. As I said in earlier post, I could register improvements by only using quite common parameters devices in dividing 108Mhz (standard oscillator) with an modest quality divider. It looks like using better components, the improvements are guaranteed... Keep working. Last edited by Coris; 12th May 2013 at 07:46 AM. |
12th May 2013, 08:03 AM | #414 |
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This is what I have got from the divider in this experiment...
12th May 2013, 08:14 AM | #415 |
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One approach is use the divided clock as an enable with all flops running on the main clock . Skew will still be introduced with a typical clock tree, but there are several recipes to minimize or at least make the skew deterministic.
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I agree, but this is when one design/build the clock circuitry using quite discrete components. As usually one (simplest/minimalistic way) use integrated (monoblock) dividers, where is it not to have accesses to individual flip-flops...
I think it may work very well with good quality components, which can offer lowest possible skew. Those are in few ps range. In this case, is the ESS9018 which it get the best clock, and this it is a main goal at least... |
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I found also that multichannel stage it work very well at 108Mhz clocking. The clock signal it is transmitted to the second DAC by the mean of some differential circuitry and line. All those devices involved in this clock transmission it support well this quite high clock frequency.
I was not before into the multichannels part of the player, and this stage it is not yet modified. Making some measurements, I can see that here the output offset difference between every single channel is quite big and with +/- levels just by chance (but in the mV range anyway). As I expected and expressed long time ago, this variation (in production process), explain why they chosen an AC coupling. It is interesting that on (measured) FL/FR channels there is an +/-DC offset before the caps, but after those caps there still exist an equal 2mV positive offset on both those channels. Another thing, the offset control for the I/V stages is independent of the rest of the system. While on the main board this is 1,650v, on multichannels board it is 1,000v. All the I/V resistors have identical value here. The clock frequency of 108Mhz for the DAC it make the multichannels stage (in this case FR/FL) sounds quite good without any modification... But with a little bit lower dynamic, not so wide and detailed soundstage, while a very high fidelity... |
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Sorry for say that, but I couldn't ever read something about a real contribution form this poster. Only expressed criticism for all and everything other come with in this forum...
From my part I choose to just ignore his interventions. |
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Well Coris,
I think we should give more credit to the engineers who create these devices that we buy. The OPPO-105 is a technical tour de force. The Panasonic plasma TV that I bought last year just astounds me with the images from Blu-ray. Of course, these items are built to a price point, and consumers demand products at very low prices. It is this price pressure which produces the constraints that you have been studying in these products. For those with the inclination, it also provides an opportunity to improve things |
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The Iron Fence is a new type of block added to IndustrialCraft². It can serve as a normal fence, but its primary function is to replace ladders.
Iron Fences can be stacked on top of one another, and if a player approaches the resulting pole while holding the Crouch button, he will quickly slide down the pole, much faster than down a ladder, but still not fast enough to receive fall damage upon touching the ground. Furthermore, if powered by a Magnetizer, the Iron Fence can serve as a type of elevator, quickly propelling upwards any players who approach it, up to 20 tiles away from a Magnetizer. Note that the player must be wearing metal boots.
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Sony has announced the upcoming release of the VAIO NW series PC notebooks. The new VAIO NW series is only 1.2-inch thick, making it a direct competitor against thin laptops such as the Macbook Air.
The new VAIO NW series notebook computer features a quick web access button so you can get online without fully loading up your PC. It is also designed with unique tactile features such as a subtle textured surface applied across the cover and inside, and has an HDMI output for easy HD entertainment. Its environmental credentials are hard to miss with a one-touch "DISPLAY OFF" button and compliancy to the stringent ENERGY STAR 5.0 standard.
Gallery and more details after the break.
We only spoke about it a week ago and now LG has officially announced their latest flagship – the LG Arena KM900 at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. I know some have been asking us when exactly the Arena will be available in the UK, we can now confirm that it will arrive very shortly next month! Meanwhile, we've got an official demo video of the new and very exciting 3D cube user interface (UI) for you to see right after the break.
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Hope you're having a good morning so far. If you're a Google Android T-Mobile G1 user, then you're about to have an even better morning! Not long ago, we showed you a video of multitouch on the G1, well now it could about to become reality for your G1. Because Gizmodo has over the weekend released an excellent guide on how you can (hack) enable multi touch web browsing on the G1, it doesn't appear to be a difficult process and everything you need for this quick DIY will be available at the Gizmodo link below. Oh and by the way, it is free, just because I hate it when people try to exploit these guides and make it into one page websites charging people loads for it.
[via Gizmodo]
The default web browser that powers the T-Mobile G1 isn't a poorly designed browser. As you will know the G1's touchscreen has some highly competitive features and makes navigating web-pages almost as smooth and as easy as with the iPhone Safari browser.
However, this hasn't stopped Opera from barging in. Following on word that Opera was working to port their proxy-server-assisted Opera Mini browser to the Android platform, the folks have now finally launched their browser alternative through the Android Market. Opera Mini 4.2 beta for Android is now available for download and brings with it the usual fare – proxy-server parsed web surfing, skinning, bookmark sync, full-page view, and more.
Opera Mini 4.2 beta on the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 is everything you'd expect from Opera's reputation for being a lean, mean web-parsing machine. Web pages load nice and fast. Web pages are processed through Opera's proxy servers, so that page-rendering times are limited only by Opera's super-fast servers. The proxy-servers push fully-rendered web-pages faster than any mobile browser tied to a handset's CPU.
If you don't mind it being still in beta and want to try it out on your G1, click on the Opera source link below to download it now…