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UNITED 93, director Paul Greengrass's meticulous reconstruction of the events surrounding the crash--the result of a heroic struggle between the passengers and hijackers--of the fourth plane to be hijacked on September 11, 2001, is a landmark in filmmaking. Greengrass has chosen the most politically and emotionally charged source material available to an artist in the early 21st century, and shaped it into a psychologically draining, terrifyingly real, and technically brilliant film. Like his first feature-length work, BLOODY SUNDAY, UNITED 93 doesn't follow a traditional cinematic narrative structure; via hand-held cameras, grainy DV stock, and frenetic editing, it instead presents a visceral (at times sickening) in-the-moment documentary-style experience that maximizes the film's unavoidable air of tension and dread without being crassly manipulative. Yet for all of its precision and craft, UNITED 93 still depicts one of the most terrifying ordeals the United States has ever had to face--and that it was released less than five years after those events took place plays an undeniably enormous role in how the film is received. It is impossible to watch UNITED 93 and not be profoundly moved, whether that emotion is fear, sadness, anxiety, or pure rage. And it is an emotional catharsis far removed from what is the filmmaker's delicate hand and deft touch. Greengrass, though, is quite fearless in his depiction of the chaos of the day--the President is frustratingly missing; the FAC, NORAD, and local air-traffic control centers are shown in a disoriented panic; and the terrorists are brutal and remorseless--and, to his credit, he avoids soft-pedaling any political agenda and doesn't blindly canonize the flight's passengers. Rather, their heroism is treated as the product of a logical decision made by ordinary men and women who found themselves in the most extraordinary and illogical of situations. And that, ultimately, is where the power of UNITED 93 lies.
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"[A] movie experience that's undeniably agonizing -- but also unexpectedly bracing....The movie is tightly built, but Greengrass is patient, letting events unfold at the pace of reality." -- Grade: A-
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Python for Data Analysis is concerned with the nuts and bolts of manipulating, processing, cleaning, and crunching data in Python. It is also a practical, modern introduction to scientific computing in Python, tailored for data-intensive applications. This is a book about the parts of the Python language and libraries you'll need to effectively solve a broad set of data analysis problems. This book is not an exposition on analytical methods using Python as the implementation language.
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Outdated and poorly written
By Tank
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This book is severely outdated, contains numerous errors and it is poorly written. Doesn't seem like the author, Wes, did such a good job on it.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Too many mistakes
By Sean W
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The book started OK with good content and lines of codes. However, when close to the end, the book is filled with mistakes. The problem is that later chapters cover complicated topics and even small coding mistakes can waste tons of readers' time.
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Good topic, but lack of effort
By Pycoon
from Toronto, Ontario
About Me Designer, Maker
The topics in the book cover many aspects of using Python for data analysis and it's a good book for people to start with if having no prior knowledge of Python. However, the author appeared not putting enough efforts to go just one step further into each topic and there are many mistakes in the book. I would recommend the book to those who want to understand the power of python for data analysis but definitely not those who want to make themselves profession of data mining.
Great read for pythonic Data Analysis
By KS
from SF, CA
About Me Designer, Developer, Maker
Good read for pythonic data analysis. It is a little light on some of the stats- but you can supplement with Think Stats fairly easily. Loses a star for being a little light information wise... but I suppose you can fit absolutely everything into a single book...
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Excellent book to learn Pandas
By Tiberiu
from Bucharest, Romania
I bought the book because I wanted to learn how I could use Pandas module for Finance. It is an excellent book for programmers that want to learn data handling with Pandas. As regarding quant analysis, it has only one chapter covering this subject. I recommand the book for quants that already have some basic or intermediate knowledge of Python but want to learn more about data wrangling. The book offers examples from different domains. I also found examples of applied Python in finance that I could not find in other books. The book is focused on Pandas module, although you can find examples regarding Numpy and Matplolib modules.
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Real Start to Data Analysis with Python
By Geoff the Numbers Guy
from Silicon Valley, CA
I use R for my work and have been interested in learning Python to take my career in a slightly different direction. So I already know about data analysis, just not how to do it in Python. One of the beautiful things about Python (like R) is the wealth of libraries where other people have solved common problems and all you need do is make use of their solutions. In the case of Python, it is especially Pandas that turns it into a good tool for data analysis. And true to the title, the author does a great job of giving you the information you need to set up a Python environment with Pandas and associated packages in place so that instead of writing code to do data analysis, you can get straight to the analysis part.One of the best things about this book is the clues it gives to getting your tools working. The one weak point, from my perspective, is the occasional digression into how you would do something in regular Python and why Pandas is better. If Pandas is better, and it's free, why would you want to know about an inferior approach?If you know about programming and data analysis, but want to apply your skills using Python, this is a good book to get started.
Good book with examples and features
By Anish Chapagain
from Kathmandu, Nepal
About Me Developer
Book is great resource for Python lover and also for Data analysis. Tips, Graphs and Code were really helpful to visualize and interpret.
Good reference to deal with tabular data
By Fábio Fortkamp
from Florianópolis, Brazil
About Me Master's Student
This book solved a practical problem for me. I needed a way to process a hundred text files (with tens of thousands of lines each) containing experimental data (I am a student in a Master of Engineering program in Brazil) and I wanted to use Python, since I was familiar with it. After some research, I discovered a library names pandas and this book, which was written by its main developer. Disclosure: I've got the book through the O'Reilly Reader Review Program.The book is not only about pandas, though. The title was correctly chosen: the authors covers various excellent tools in using Python to analyze tabular data. For example, I had used the numerical library NumPy before, and the chapter on it is one of the best introductions I've seen. The book also has chapters on matplotlib (a package to produce 2D plots) and on iPython (an enhanced shell), and you can use them as independent references on these subjects.I like two main things about this book. The libraries covered are very object-oriented, and the author explains carefully the concepts behind each class, like the differences between a Figure and an Axes object in matplotlib. I also like how detailed the examples are --- the author presents a new command, and then discuss each option. In particular, McKinney emphasizes how to extract data from a table: by row, by column, filtering by values etc.The main problem I had was the lack of figures and diagrams. Like I said, the concepts are well written, but I missed a figure to more easily understand, for instance, the merging of two databases, or the relationship between a Series and a DataFrame (the main data types of pandas).This is a minor problem. After I read the book, I started to write my own scripts, and I found myself constantly referring to it and the information I needed was usually easy to find. If you have to deal with tabular data of any sort, doing operations on them, extracting information and creating plots and charts, this book is a very nice companion to have.
GREAT book.
By MCP
from Napa, CA
About Me Getting Started, Just Learning
The book is very well written and organized.
(6 of 6 customers found this review helpful)
Great for jump starting data analysis
By Sarah Bird
from California
My favorite thing about this book is the second chapter "Introductory Examples," which is the only chapter I read cover-to-cover.I know my way around Python but did not know any pandas, numpy or matplotlib and needed to. The introductory chapter did a great job of running through a whole bunch of uses without getting stuck in the details so I could get a flavor of what I could do and how. I then have dipped into the other chapters when trying to find out about specific things.A very useful book that covers a lot of ground.
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Right on the fact about selling a sorted 164, right that I need to post separately and right that I owe you some wrench time on the Maratona.
Thanks, JP
As i said last week to you, here we go again, another 164 nicely sorted and you are selling it! Gonna owe me big time on the Maratona project as I am sure I will do the same for you on the Montreal. You may want to post this sale on a separate post as some prospective buyers may not notice you have this for sale on this post. And stop looking at the alfas' for sale section....i will ask Alfisto Steve if he can have you banned from that side of alfabb for at least the next year or so....hehe!
|Last set of pix....
|More pix.....
Selling the 164B I just bought in December
Tried to decide if I should start a new post or continue this one...there were a lot of folks that commented, so opted for here.....
Unfortunately, I need to put up for sale my 164B that I just bought in December. While having my Montreal engine looked over by Richard Jemison, he found cracks on the plug thread side of the combustion chamber for each cylinder. Apparently, this is a common problem with Montreal engines ..just one that I had not budgeted for in the rebuild. The proceeds from the sale of the 164 will help pay those additional costs.
Since I bought the 164 in mid-December from Steves friend, Gene, who was the original owner, I have done the following work:
1. Replaced timing belt and tensioner
2. Replaced both cam seals (one was leaking oil badly)
3. Plugs, plug wires, cap/rotor
4. Flushed all fluids and replaced (oil, transmission, coolant)
5. Replaced main serpentine belt (and newer tensioner from a parts car....more on this later), alternator belt and power steering belt
6. Installed new coolant temperature sensor and installed manual switch as backup in case the low speed fan resistor fails. It is working fine, just liked the backup. Electric fan comes on when it is supposed to...car runs at right temperature
1. Had resonator pulled as it had rusted through and a new straight pipe section welded in great sound
2. Cleaned and adjusted brakes...pads were recently changed when I bought it
3. Rotated tires....still good tread left on all four
Air Conditioning:
1. Car was supposedly converted to R-134a...when compressor failed I saw it was not...
2. Put in a good R134a compressor from my parts car
3. Installed new filter/drier
4. Installed R-134a suction/discharge hoses
5. Installed new cross flow condenser
6. The car is quite cool....better than when it was from the factory
1. All switches, buttons work....electric release for fuel door and trunk, central locking, sunroof, etc.
2. Had to sew up two seams on the seats...no tears, just seam thread came undone. Seats are fine, a little fading on the rear headrests.
3. Carpet is somewhat faded and a stain in the rear center hump
4. All power windows work, both power mirrors work
The overall good:
1. Starts easily
2. Idles smoothly
3. Accelerates very well, engine runs well to redline, averaging 18 mpg city with spirited driving
4. AC is cool
5. Brakes are solid (this is a base model and does not have ABS, it does have an airbag)
6. No leaks
The overall not-so-good:
1. The roof and right side B/C pillar paint is oxidized and faded. The car sat for the last year and the right side bore the brunt of the southern exposure. I have tried a lot of things to remove the oxidation....it needs a re-spray.
2. There is a bit of crazing on the hood as well. That small part needs a re-spray. Rest of paint is nice .had an estimate of $1800 to get this work and the roofline work fixed and painted
3. Some mechanic, before me, changed the main serpentine belt tensioner. That mechanic used the wrong thread bolts to hold on the tensioner (he used more coarse bolts than he should have)....all that to say, I had to rethread the holes in the block and do some heavy duty anchoring with washers to get the tensioner to hold. It looks wrong, yet is absolutely correct in how it holds tension on the serpentine belt. No slipping. The work I had to do is a good argument for not having a non-Alfa mechanic work on your car
While I have a lot more dollars and time in it, I am only asking $2,000 considering driving car back to new owner, paint and that 164s don't get the resale they should.
I have attached a lot of pictures, showing the good and bad. Just washed and waxed it .it shines well.
If you are interested in this wonderful 164, please send me a PM.
Sadly selling,
|Alfisto Steve
|164 sold and Verde sale pending.
|Reliability directly correlates to preventative maintenance. Most Americans treat their cars like toasters.
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Wow tyler, you have a low opinion of Alfas. They do not breakdown more than any late 80's car would. They are more dependable than most sports cars of that era. And I believe Genes is a good one, I would like it myself if I could.
Have you driven a lot of miles in Alfas? It doesn't seem like it.
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Tyler's experience seems more like Fiat than Alfa. I ... knock on wood ... have never been stranded by an Alfa. I have by a Fiat, but not Alfa. Heck I even bought an Alfa sight unseen once and drove it from Maine to Texas and back to Alabama and used it as a daily driver. But I think HMA has heard that story before.
Yeah, that's about right. I had a nice (looking) X1/9 when I was 20. Left me stranded maybe 4 times in a year. Ended up selling it. If I can find a good X1/9 that won't let me down, that would be cool. But not as cool as a good Milano, Alfetta, GTV6 or Spider. Not much of a Fiat guy anymore.
Originally Posted by HeavyMetalAlfa View Post
Wow tyler, you have a low opinion of Alfas...Have you driven a lot of miles in Alfas? It doesn't seem like it.
Interim update on the 164.....deal is done and I pick it up this upcoming Monday. Have all my materials for servicing and ready to get it on the road.
Will post pix when I get it home.
Cannot wait to be behind the wheel of a 164 again....been a year to the day I sold my 164L and it seems much longer than that!
Wow tyler, you have a low opinion of Alfas. They do not breakdown more than any late 80's car would. They are more dependable than most sports cars of that era. And I believe Genes is a good one, I would like it myself if I could.
Have you driven a lot of miles in Alfas? It doesn't seem like it.
Good luck with the sale.
Also, Jalopnik linked this ad to their home page. Someone asking whether or not they should buy it. I'd say it's a matter of spontaneity and balls and fun. Otherwise you wouldn't consider buying an Alfa Romeo. Italian cars are about the love of driving and having enough balls to say "You know, I'd rather not drive a cliche on wheels, so I'm going to grow an imagination and get something special". Yes, depending on the Milano, you're not going to do much driving. It's gonna break down. It's not a probability, it's a fact. Water is wet and your Alfa Romeo will break down. If you have the garage space, an AlfaBB account, enough money to keep the car going and the resources to track down the parts you need, then do it. Don't ask questions, just throw your money at the person selling the car and have an adventure. ---Tyler.
|Is it necessary to skip 2nd to drive the Verde, that is say, from Blacksburg to south central PA? Do you know the mileage Steve? Thanks
|Alfisto Steve
John hope you enjoy the new used 164. I hear it is a 5-speed, too. I thought it was but couldn't remember for sure. Gene and his wife are nice people.
Now let's hear it from a Verde buyer next.
As for GTV6s, I owned an 86 plus two more a 83 parts car I scrapped and an 85 with the 83's engine. I just flipped it and sold it along with the rear sheet metal I cut off the 83 to fix it. Sold 86 on ebay years ago with the 85's engine and 87 Milano heads in it. Musical GTV6s.
Sold my 87 Milano Gold same weekend I sold the 85 GTV6. Sold them the two guys from NC who came up together to get them and drive them back. They had a third bud in a Suburban drive them up and haul the sheetmetal back for the GTV6.
I am sure Gene's Verde will find a good home, too.
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Day Five of the Asia Tour and the Arsenal party rolls into China.
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A recent study at Harvard, published in the journal Science, found that mechanical factors play a significant role in tissue development. Learning these factors that contribute to the natural formation of tissues will not only improve our understanding of tissues, it will also improve our ability to engineer tissues in the future and improve our ability to discern developmental problems.
The walls lining the intestines are not smooth. They are covered with many tiny, finger-like protrusions, or villi, yielding a high surface area for high nutrient absorption. These villi are present in many different animals including humans, chickens, and mice. This study follows the chick's gut from earlier embryonic stages through the gut formation.
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Hello Laser Presents STUFF
Your good friends from Hello Laser present STUFF. What's STUFF? It's a bunch of stuff. Sketches. Some music. Magic. A pony, if you're lucky, and the pony's funny. All the other stuff is funny. Pony's gotta be too. Pony or not, it's gonna be pretty great.


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Uplifting and professional, this inspiring piece starts building with lite bells and guitar. 0:17 seconds in a lite rhythmic guitar starts driving the build to a pause at 0:31 with the full ensemble bring energy to the piece at 0:33. Great for presentations, background, video montages, and much more.
Includes "Stinger".
A version of this track was used in the video "Digital Glass". If you like the audio on Digital Glass write me an e-mail so I can send you the audio file that is edited for Digital Glass along with the FX for the file. You will have to buy both the video and "Inspirational Corporate" first. Thank you.
Videohive Projects Using My Music
Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by.
I live in Salt Lake City UT USA and have been producing music for about 10 years now. Its my life's passion and I'm very grateful to be able to make money with it.
A little shameless vanity: My music has been played on ABC, MTV, TLC, HBO, TNT, OWN and other networks, as well as used by hundreds of corporations, commercials and trailers.
VideoHive Artists! Your free to use any of my tracks, just let me know and I'll paste a link to the video you use it in.
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I finally finished my Ruffkin gauntlets and LOVE the way they came out, BUT the left gaunt at the wrist is tight. I was thinking of cutting the seam of my jumpsuit and inserting a zipper close to the wrist to make it less bulky because it is doubled over now and tucked in my glove.
I would love to hear from anyone that has had a similar gaunt situation and how you fixed it. I haven't added any velcro yet, so closure ideas would be helpful. I'll post pics of the gauntlets next week.
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Sure, 2012 saw its share of innovation and technological breakthroughs. But not every technology or product lives up to the hype they generate when they're first announced. Here are 10 technologies that fell short of expectations in 2012.
[The year in tech: biggest fails, flops, and faux pas and Relive YouTube's biggest videos of 2012 in one handy video]
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Please Pass the Chocolate
Ah, I didn't win the lottery. So sad, I had such wonderful plans.
In this week's happiest of news, we learn that people who eat chocolate more weigh less. Who know? Yes, I went out and got me some chocolate, per the New York Times suggestion.
Dr. Golomb's study, published in Archives of Internal Medicine and financed by the National Institutes of Health, involved roughly 1,000 adults. The researchers looked at data on how often they exercised, the amount and type of calories they ate — including a breakdown of the types of dietary fat they consumed — and how their health and weight related to their chocolate intake. On average, the subjects were middle-aged, exercised about three times a week and ate chocolate about twice a week. There was no breakdown of the kinds of chocolate they ate, whether dark, milk or white.
The people who ate chocolate the most frequently, despite eating more calories and exercising no differently from those who ate the least chocolate, tended to have lower B.M.I.'s. There was a difference of roughly five to seven pounds between subjects who ate five servings of chocolate a week and those who ate none, Dr. Golomb said.
So nice to read something positive. I'm still recovering from the sadness of learning that diet soda is bad for your heart (are there no guiltless pleasures?) and that red meat is also on the no-no list.
Off to eat my chocolate....


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The geeky license plates continue to pop up as those who are not afraid to proclaim their nerdiness on their car. Here are the latest and greatest. Send any entries you might have to email@example.com.
[The wild world of wearable computers and 2012's 25 geekiest 25th anniversaries]
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We are pleased to announce that this year, for the first time, all of our streaming tournament coverage for BlizzCon will be available in both high-resolution and low-resolution formats, and you can choose whichever fits your available bandwidth. The BlizzCon website will host one stream featuring StarCraft and Warcraft III events and another dedicated to World of Warcraft. As in previous years, all of this streaming tournament coverage will be provided free of charge. Be sure to tune in to find out which teams and players are the best in the world by visiting the BlizzCon site on August 21 and 22.
To clarify, the tournament coverage streams are free, but to watch panels, see new announcements as they are made, or receive the in-game pet, you will need to order the Pay Per View Internet stream.
Alienware is providing one more chance at a pair of tickets to BlizzCon 2009. Visit their site to register for a chance to win, and to check out their back-to-school specials on gaming hardware. No purchase is necessary to enter.
Be sure to check out the rules and conditions for details on the sweepstakes, and register before July 31.
The brackets for the Warcraft III and World of Warcraft Arena tournaments at BlizzCon are now live. These brackets show the starting matches and also provide some information about the contestants who will be competing in this year's BlizzCon tournaments. Each participant qualified based on their outstanding performance at their respective regional final. We will be updating these brackets during BlizzCon, so make sure to check back to see the latest tournament results and replays.
Please note that the StarCraft Invitational information will be updated as we near Blizzcon.
Check out the brackets here: Warcraft III, World of Warcraft Arena Tournament.
SteelSeries has just unveiled the first of a new line of StarCraft II gaming surfaces featuring original artwork from the game. Developed to meet the requirements of pro gamers, these pads boast a high-quality cloth surface optimized for precision laser and optical mouse tracking. Check them out at Steelseries.com.


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Michael Dobbs is a former Washington Post foreign correspondent who covered the collapse of Communism, and has just completed a trilogy of books about the Cold War. His latest book, Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman from World War to Cold War, looks at the origins of the longest ideological conflict in American history. Earlier books examined the peak of the Cold War during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, (One Minute to Midnight), and the grand finale between 1980 and 1991 (Down with Big Brother). This seminar will discuss lessons from the Cold War for contemporary U.S. foreign policy, and the switch from the successful Cold War strategy of "containment" to preventive military action in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.


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I don't think such an animal exists.
I was talking with my brother over the holidays and he said he was looking at a cheeta that was in .40 S&W, I told him they only came in .380 auto, and that he must have been mistaken. Did I tell him wrong? He said it had the tip up barrel and everything that makes it a cheeta. I have only ever sween the .380 version. any help would be appreciated. thanks.
I don't think such an animal exists.
Your brother is wrong The Cheetah comes in .380 and .32 (and .22 if you get the comp one, Model 87), but none in .40 cal. Also, there's only one model of the Cheetah that has a tip up barrel, I think the 88, whichever it is, its a .22 cal. Tip-up barrels don't make a Cheetah. Maybe Bobcat/Tomcat.
No, there is a 380 cal Cheetah with a tip up barrel - it is the Beretta Cheetah 86. The tip up 32s and 22s are Tomcats and Bobcats - not Cheetahs (there is a 22 version of the Cheetah, but not with a tip up barrel)
I almost bought one new about 2-2.5 years ago - but when I was checking out, I noticed something wrong with the gun and passed. Then, I tried to find one here in TX new for some time, but finally gave up.
Then, 3 months ago, I came across a new one at the Reliant guns how in Houston. I thought about it a long time, but I was saving my cash for my P90, and I really didn't want it that bad anymore. A bad experience with a Beretta Vertec in early, early 2005 slowly turned me off of Berettas (I used to be a huge Beretta fanatic).
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Without a doubt, the classic reprint of the year:
Doug Wildey's Rio: The Complete Saga
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Doug Wildey was an acclaimed Comic book and comic strip artist, as well as a noted animator. Very much in the school of Milton Caniff and Alex Toth, Wildey was an artist's artist, a storyteller of the highest order, and worked in many genres—westerns and war stories being some of his most memorable. As an animator he created and designed the groundbreaking Johnny Quest series in 1964, which inspired a generation of cartoonists with it's memorable characters, thrilling, breakneck pace, and innovative designs.
In 1987 Wildey began one of his most personal works, the story of an aging cowboy and gunfighter, as well as special agent for the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant. Wildey created stories full of human drama and historical accuracy rarely seem before or since in the comic book western. This volume collects the entire Rio saga in one handsome collection, including the final, unfinished and unpublished Rio story.
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Box Tops Earn Jefferson Elem. $3,000
RIGBY, Idaho - Jefferson Elementary School in Rigby is No. 1 in eastern Idaho for box top collections and No. 11 in the state.
For a parent of young students, chances are the cereal aisle at the grocery store is a frequent destination.
The tiny box tops on the corners of cereal boxes have helped schools across the county earn more than $475 million since 1996.
Jefferson Elementary is one of those schools. This year it decided to turn collecting box tops into a schoolwide competition.
"Competition seems to be the spark that ignites results," said office secretary Shannon Sessions.
Since the start of the school year, students were encouraged to collect box tops from home, neighbors and relatives.
Each week, they turn them in to their teachers. A competition wall was created to rank the classrooms by the number of box tops collected.
Sessions created the competition this year.
"For the year to date, we have over 31,000 box tops that we've collected for this school year," said Sessions.
After cutting, clipping and checking each one to make sure it hasn't expired, school staff sometimes worked weekends to stack them in sets of 50 and send them to box tops headquarters.
Each box top is worth 10 cents. Jefferson Elementary has earned $3,198.38, surpassing last year by more than $1,200.
"We are actually using the money we've collected to put in playground equipment across the street, which will be [the location of] our new school next school year; it was very, very spirited competition this year; it was exciting to see the kids they were very excited this year. They were the ones that helped build that playground, and now they get to play on it. So the fruits of their labor," said Sessions.
Mrs. Thompson's class won this year. Her students collected 1,671 box tops and were treated to a pizza party.


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Views are virtual tables. That means they should be updatable, just as "real" or base tables are. In fact, view updatability isn't just desirable, it's crucial, for practical reasons as well as theoretical ones. But view updating has always been a controversial topic. Ever since the relational model first appeared, there has been widespread skepticism as to whether (in general) view updating is even possible.
In stark contrast to this conventional wisdom, this book shows how views, just like base tables, can always be updated (so long as the updates don't violate any integrity constraints). More generally, it shows how updating always ought to work, regardless of whether the target is a base table or a view. The proposed scheme is 100% consistent with the relational model, but rather different from the way updating works in SQL products today.
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Anyone with a professional interest in the relational model, relational technology, or database systems in general can benefit from this book.
C.J. Date has a stature that is unique within the database industry. C.J. is a prolific writer, and is well-known for his best-selling textbook: An Introduction to Database Systems (Addison Wesley). C.J. is an exceptionally clear-thinking writer who can lay out principles and theory in a way easily understood by his audience.
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This is yet another book from C.J. Date on the relational theory. This time, C.J. takes you on the journey of View updates. The topic is controversial as this is not that obvious whether it is possible to perform view updates or not. C.J. approaches the topic from the relational theory point of view. That means, you will not find any SQL here. Some time ago while I was reading SQL and Relational Theory I claimed that Tutorial D language introduced by C.J. was an unnecessary element. In here, however, I think it serves it's purpose very well. Thanks to the specifics of Tutorial D, topics are easier to track by reader.When it comes to the style of the book it's rather academic one. It means you will find here rather formal language, quite a lot of definitions and mathematically ascetic way of describing concepts presented in the book. I'd suggest this book to people who are experienced with relational theory (it's too tough for beginners) and for SQL experts who are looking for relational based explanation of problems that are currently not solved in SQL based databases.I think this book is worth reading but you should be warned it is not an easy and pleasant read. It's rather demanding position in the field of database. However, if you are ready for that, go for it. Do not hesitate.
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Provost & Vice-President: Academic
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WATERLOO Deborah MacLatchy, vice-president: academic and provost for Wilfrid Laurier University, has been named one of Canadas Most Powerful Women for 2012 in a Top 100 list compiled by the Womens Executive Network (WXN).
MacLatchy was honoured in the category for public-sector leaders. Nominees are assessed on four criteria: management role, vision and leadership, financial performance, and community service.
"Deb is an inspiring leader and a wonderful colleague," said Max Blouw, president and vice-chancellor of Laurier. "She leads by example, and her commitment to student, staff and faculty success and excellence is exemplary. I value her contributions enormously."
This is the 10th year WXN has held the Canadas Most Powerful Women event, which honours corporate directors and executives, entrepreneurs, and trailblazers. Past winners include Laurier alumnus Heather Munroe-Blum, president and vice-chancellor of McGill University, and Ginny Dybenko, former dean of the Laurier School of Business & Economics.
Im honoured to be part of a list that includes so many accomplished Canadian women, and especially to have been nominated by my colleagues at Laurier, said MacLatchy.
As vice-president: academic and provost, MacLatchy oversees the strategic and operational management of the academic functions of the university, including the management of Lauriers seven faculties and the Brantford campus, their departments and programs, as well as the library network. Her portfolio also includes services designed to support teaching and learning such as Teaching Support Services, student recruitment, the Registrars Office, international programming and computing services.
MacLatchy is also responsible for a majority share of the university budget, and will participate in the Integrated Planning and Resource Management process that will position Laurier to meet the challenges and opportunities of its second century.
In addition to her management role at Laurier, MacLatchy has dedicated a large portion of her time to teaching, supporting her graduate students, and conducting her own research, which is primarily focused on the effects of contaminants on aquatic ecosystems.
MacLatchy received her PhD in 1991 from the University of Manitoba. In 2007, she was appointed the dean of science at Laurier, making her the first female dean of the universitys Faculty of Science, and one of the youngest deans at Laurier. In 2009, she was named to her current role.
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Want extra comments for this week's Fluff Friday??
We would love to see and share on our blog how you organize your diapers… Please, stop by our Photo Submission Form and send us a photo of how you organize and store your diapers…
If we choose your photo to be posted, you will get FIVE EXTRA ENTRIES to the giveaway!! For the rest of the participants, you would still get TWO EXTRA ENTRIES for taking the time to submit!!
To participate, photos must be received by January 27th at 8pm EST. I will notify the participants how many entries they get after the 27th!
What are you waiting for?? Go ahead and send us your photo(s)!!!!!!!!!!!
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I store them in brown bins from target 🙂
ooh! we're always happy for extra chances to win! Thanks!
Hi! I submitted a photo, but I'm not sure it went through since my computer froze in the middle, so sorry for the double submissions if you get it.
Sara: Photo Received!!
A Psych Mommy: You got mail!
Yay! I'm going to submit my photo tonight.
Any file size/image size specifications for the photos? Just making sure – since I can always make a picture smaller prior to submitting them.
Kelly: Im not sure if there is a file size limit as I didnt create the form myself, but if you want to, you can reduce it to 1 mb if is bigger than that. Or if you want it in pixels, it could be around 1200 pixels wide.
Will it tell you your photo loaded and was sumited or will it just go back to that screen? I just don't want to di it again if you already have it.
Angela: After you submit it, it will say: Photo submitted successfully!
If anybody is having problems with the form, just email me the pictures to: 3littleflowers at gmail dot com.
It is not safe to write a full email address online (that is how you get junk mail), so have in mind to put @ instead of the word at and an actual dot instead of the word… Everything goes together, of course.
I sent in 2 photos of the old dresser we were given that we painted, put new hardware on, and use as a dresser/changing table for my daughter. Now that I only have 1 child in diapers (yay!), I only use the middle drawer for diapers. The others are all used for clothing, socks, and shoes.
P.S. I should mention that one of the reasons I love the drawer system is because older kids (ages 3, 4 and 5 around here) can help me with stuffing and putting diapers away– and if the drawer is left a little messier than Mama would have it (!), it doesn't matter because we shut it up tight so nobody can see! 😉
i just took pics of my new stash this morning…i'll have to send a picture along 🙂
My daughter is due March 19, but I have a stash of about two dozen diapers and almost 60 wipes ready. I'm just using two plastic bins that fit nicely underneath the changing table. It's a pretty simple system, but I don't think I need anything more complicated. It has been helpful to follow this blog to learn about what other mamas do. 🙂
I always want more comments! And while I work on getting the shelves and bins organized enough to take a picture (the last load dried on a lazy day and just ended up stacked on top of the changing pad!), I'll take my extra entry for making this comment! Thanks so much!
I am excited to dig out my camera and see if I can get a decent picture of my changing table diaper stash.
Thank you for the e-mail add. I was able to summit it that way:)
I submitted mine but i do think it went through so i will email it to you as well, I apologize if you get it twice.
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The pouches appear to be packed with cardboard! What exactly do I want to pack these babies with?
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The pouches appear to be packed with cardboard! What exactly do I want to pack these babies with?
Simple as that, just get some of that sheet foam and cut it out to fit the pouch, you may need a few layers depending on the thickness. I don't know for sure, but I believe they had a battery in at least one of the hip pouches for the chest lights, they probably filled the rest with sheet foam or cotton batting (I find the sheets hold the square shape better).
Thanks JFJ, I saw your pics in the other thread and asked myself, "What the eff did he pad that with?" I have some foam that I'm going to pad my bucket with, the stuff is pretty cheap.
What are the size of your thigh pouches? I keep getting different numbers.
i used sheet foam in my thigh pouches and one of the hip pouches. the other hip pouch is where my amp lives. my chest display battery lives in one of the belt ammo pouches.
Normally I keep mine padded with the wallets and other crap my members unload onto me before troops ;)
wallets and crap wow that is so much better than trophy hands. I gotta try that
I did'ent like how the foam looked in mine (looked too block-like), so I used polyester batting like you would find in pillows and I was VERY happy with that. You can get it at most any fabric store super cheap.
I plan to pad mine the same way I pad my bikerscout. I went and bought some cheap tupperware. I cut one end open. I then shove the tupperware into the pouch. It gives the pouch shape and it is still usable. You can find the cheap tupperware at any Dollar store, Walmart or K-Mart type store for around $2. Try it it works great.
My side pouches I used old mayionase containers. Can't remeber the brand but the shape of the container is almost perfect and they are still useable as pockets. My thigh pouches I am using foam at the moment but I am looking for something else as the foam holds to much heat. I start to have sweat run down my leg some times.... might try a open celled foam or the batting.
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Re: Mathematica graphs in WORD
On 11/4/05 5:20 PM, in article d3d8fq$98b$1 at smc.vnet.net, "tsokos at acs.gr"
<tsokos at acs.gr> wrote:
> I have a very elementary question to
> which I would appreciate help from
> someone. I use Mathematica 5.0 for the
> Macintosh (OSX). How do you copy a graph
> from Mathematica into a WORD document so
> that when you print it the graph is
> smooth rather jagged?
On OS X I Export graphs as TIFF images normally with ImageResolution->300 or
higher and import them into Word.
Something else you may like to try is to "export" your graph as a PDF image.
I copied this displayfunction from a posting to mathgroup a few months ago.
DisplayFunction -> (Display["!epstopdf -f
-o=/Users/mikeh/Desktop/filename.pdf", #1, "EPS", ImageSize -> 288] &)
It is not as simple as just including the display function because you need
to include the programs such as epstopdf in your path. The original post had
all the instructions and it worked perfectly to produce PDF image which
could then be imported. Unfortunately I just searched the Mathgroup archive
(keyword epstopdf) but couldn't find the posting. If you have the time it is
worth finding.
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Demon carb help
Hey guys. I could use some help here on my 6-71 blown small block I just finished. It has two boost referenced Demon 650BC carbs on it. It is extremely lean at idle even with all the mixture screws out 2.5 turns. I test drove it and it wants to stall when I pull up to a traffic light, then it recovers from 500rpm back to 1100rpm where it idles. It's a good thing I have a loose converter as I am having to drive it with two feet! I got it back home and covered the idle air bleeds and the rpm increases and smooths right out. When I uncover them the engine rocks and has a random misfire. Tapping the accelerator pumps also smooths things out so I know she is real lean on the idle circuit. When I accelerate it bogs then takes off hard from 1/3 throttle up. So the main circuit is close. The pump shot is also correct because if I wing the throttle is reponds RIGHT NOW.
Any help on the idle circuit?
You can take some small diameter wire (like bell wire) and temporarily place it in the idle air bleeds to partially restrict them and go for a test ride. If it improves it is an indication your idle jet is too small. You will then need to determine what size the idle jet (IFR) is in the metering block and enlarge it. Be careful. A small increase in diameter makes a big difference in the amount of fuel it will pass. Go up .002 at a time and test. When you get it close you can fine tune with the idle air bleed size if the are removable.
A wide band O2 meter takes the guess work out of this process.
I tore everything down and check for a vacuum leak. I put the 1" plastic spacers on the formica counter top and they rocked. BINGO! Sanded them flat top and bottom. Next, took the throttle plates off and noticed a different gasket on each carb. One was correct, one was a Holley for two corner idle! Fixed. Cleaned all orifices and found one of the boost referenced power valve fitting had NO flow. Fixed.
Set the idle screws out 2 turns this time and fired it up. HUGE difference and it idled cold just fine. But now it smells rich. I set all four throttle screws at .020" of the transfer slot but it idled at 1500RPM. I am shooting for 1000-1100. Backed the screws down equally and now it has a 500rpm blower roll I do not want. Tried leaning the idle screws all the way to one turn out and it runs great EXCEPT the roll, and in gear it is even worse and undriveable.
Now what?
I thought about what the engine was doing and why it was rich/lean/rich/lean ect. Woke up at 3:30am with the solution! Couldn't start car because of the neighbors so had lots of coffee.
Here's what I did:
Fixed! Posting this so I can help the next guy that does an internet search. Here's what I did:
Started off with the idle screws out 1 1/2 turns, had a 500rpm blower surge when engine is hot.
Ended up with idle screws at 1/2 turn each, and closed primary throttle blades 1/4 turn. OPENED secondary throttle blades 1/4 turn.
Engine now idles at 1200rpm with maybe a 50rpm surge or less. No smoke, no miss. Drop it into gear and it idles smoothly at 1100rpm.
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