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Setting the Space – the series beings by looking at genealogy conferences from the perspective of the planners – those who plan the events, secure the space and manage all the details that many attendees don't get to see. We encourage those who have held genealogy events – from one-day workshops for your local genealogy society to multi-day national events to weigh in with their opinion. Tell us your frustrations, your successes, and what changes are taking place or should take place when it comes to genealogy conferences.
I have organised a number of workshops over the years and have helped in orgainising a National Australian Microbiology conference in my professional life so here are some of my musings on this topic.
There are a number of questions which need to be clarified very early and agreed by everyone as if the planning is done well at the early stages things will more smoothly (never totally smooth but hopefully a few steps away from insanity)
1. Getting enough willing people to do all the background work required without burning out your regular volunteers
2. Determining what the purpose of the conference will be, perhaps as a way of publicising the society to gain new members, or as an educational program for current members, are you going to have it set for one level of experience or a range of different levels of knowledge, are you going to have a theme eg Scottish research or a range of topics,.
3 Is it going to be a one day workshop or more, if more than one will it be Friday to Sunday to allow for employed people to attend? Does the planned time clash with any other similar conference that could decrease attendance?
4. Is the conference meant as a city, State or National conference? This will have a major impact on how early before the conference you should start planning, for a national conference a minimum of 2-3 years before the event.and how you plan to publicise the event.Today using social media is very important for publicity, a web site is essential, Twitter, Facebook, blogs as well as the traditional adverts in the family history magazines, articles etc.
5. How are you going to choose your speakers? Personal recommendation? Try-out tapes?Remember to ask for submissions well ahead of time as your presentations and topics are some of your best adverts for the conference also you need to give your panel time to choose the presentations and time for your presenters to organise the talks, the abstracts and their holidays etc. .
6 What range of speakers are you aiming for? Some well known internationals? They are likely to be booked 18 months plus ahead. What payments will you need for them? Will they be a major drawcard for your conference, will this attract different attendees? Are they willing to give more than one presentation? Are they willing to be available throughout the conference? Do they have some applicable products to sell to the attendees? Is there a possibility that you could do a webinar style presentation where the international doesn't actually have to be physically present at the conference?
Some interstate presenters? Same things apply although their calendars less likely to be booked as far ahead. (Be careful to also not offend your local presenters as you will probably want to work with them again!)
7 Are you just having lectures or some hands-on workshops?
8 How big a venue do you need? If a big one the conference centres tend to be booked a couple of years ahead. A conference centre has a number of advantages, the rooms are closer together which means you don't need as much time between sessions to allow people to move from one lecture to the next, the audio-visual setup tends to be more cohesive which can mean greater cost to hire but does mean less of your people involved in audio visual on the day. You may have a master set-up where presentations can be loaded in a central point and networked to all rooms. You may also have an option to record some presentations (with permission of the presenters of course)
You need to determine who owns the recording and how any money will be split etc. The presenter has put in a lot of work into their presentation so the split has to take this into account. Selling copies of presentations is potentially a way to gain more funds from the conference and a way to allow people to attend more presentations, particularly applicable for conferences where there are concurrent sessions. For an increased fee are you willing to sell the presentations to people who were unable to attend the conference?
9 If a smaller venue is needed perhaps a University/college campus out of study times. There should be reasonable audio-visual equipment available. There may be a greater distance between the lecture theatres. Often universities also have available accommodation at reasonable rates.
10 Regardless of whether you record the presentations for sale you need to make decisions about how many ways you will publish the abstracts. The printed copies are good to use at the conference when you make plans on which presentation you will attend but they can be quite bulky and heavy to take home. Ideally an electronic copy should be available best on a website so you can do some reviews before you leave home. At the conference perhaps provide them on a USB drive (CDs can be an issue with some of the new netbooks that don't have a CD/DVD drive) .
I recently saw the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree who announced an iPad app which gave the program with links to the speakers bios etc.(http://bit.ly/m79LWB) I was very impressed and feel this is a great step forward.
You will need to have a few publication options (with a range of costs) as one method will not suit all.
11 You will also need to make some decisions about whether you have a computer side and non computer side in the lecture theatres as some people find it very distracting having someone typing near them when they are trying to listen (and they may have a hearing impairment) and some presenters don't like it either.
12. What catering are you providing? Hot, cold, sandwiches, a lunch box?
13 What social events are you planning? Any pre- or post conference research trips? Are you doing a social program for non-genealogy addicted partners?
14 No conference survives without trade tables. You need to get the suppliers on board. You have to have a liaison officer to deal with any issues that the trad requires, such as powered tables a separate catering option that provides food prior to the the standard breaks as those breaks will be their selling time. Try to organise morning tea/afternoon tea near the trade tables. The trade tables are also major draws to your conference so you want o use them in your advertising as early as possible.
15 We found that having separate sub-committees worked well with regular meetings of each of the chairs so everyone knew what was happening. We used Dropbox so documents were always available to everyone. We also used Skype for some of our meetings as well as having face to face meetings.
16. Make sure after the conference you debrief, write down what worked , what didn't go so well. Keep a list of suppliers that were good. Make sure you get these notes from each person as everyone will see different points and these need to be documented for the future and the next conference you organise. They are a lot of work but are also a lot of fun.
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My job is to help enterprise customers around the world accelerate their deployment of new versions of our platforms—Windows, Windows Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office. Admittedly, I am a bit of a nerd, so I spend a fair amount of time understanding the technical underpinnings of compatibility challenges, troubleshooting and remediating failing applications, and finding ways to share this technical knowledge with our customers and partners. However, over the years, I have learned that there is more to solving the problem than simply improving our technical knowledge and troubleshooting skills.
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Being "compliant" with a particular platform is a phrase I hear quite a lot. Now, I am not trying to be pedantic here, and I know that in many situations people use this terminology as a shortcut to indicate whether something works. Nevertheless, I have run into a large number of customers in which this language is used in far more absolute ways, as if there is a state of being that is "compliant with ..." for a given platform.
To be compatible with a given platform means that you have:
Because it is impossible to prove that you have no bugs on a particular platform, you have to focus on that final qualifier and what stops you from getting your work done. Whether you are compatible—"compliant"—depends entirely on the work you do. Many applications are compatible with some tasks, but wildly incompatible with others. In fact, you are probably finding compatibility problems with your existing platform all of the time! That does not mean it is not compliant.
Takeaway: Focus on determining whether you can continue to get your work done on the new platform, rather than on achieving some higher level of "compliance" or idealized level of compatibility. As it turns out, just about the only people who can prove that you can get your work done with software on a given platform are the people who do the work. Therefore, your focus is on getting the software to these users as quickly as you can. Everything you do before that is, on some level, merely an investment in cooperation management.
To expand on this theme, compatible can also have subtly different meanings to different parties. To you, as indicated above, it means you can get your work done. However, there is another important party to consider: The folks who make the software. To them, the primary concern is supportability. The software might appear to work fine. It might pass every test that somebody has. Supportability is more than just an appearance of correct behavior, though—it's a financial decision based on risk-management principles. The less software you support, the less your support organization costs you. Since most customers demand at least some support, most independent software vendors (ISVs) try to scope their investments in order to satisfy customers, determining where they can get away with not making the bet that everything will work correctly and putting themselves on the line to fix it when it does not.
So, for third-party software (or even sometimes in-house software), compatible means ISVs decided they can afford the risk of supporting it on a specific platform.
Takeaway: Decide which of your applications require vendor support. For the applications that do, always look for the support statement first: It does not matter whether it works if that version is unsupported. When support does not matter, then you have the choice—and a vote of "no support" does not necessarily mean you will not be able to get your work done.
Most of the customers I speak with have taken a "boil the ocean" approach to app compat. They look to find everything they have, and then place an obstacle on the critical path to deployment by testing and fixing it all. Any failure will delay deployment.
The fact of the matter is that you can almost get away with that on Windows. Some of the most out-of-control inventories of Windows applications have numbered in the tens of thousands of apps. While certainly large enough to fret about, you can eventually finish that project. What about websites? Most "inventories" of places people go on the web number in the tens and sometimes hundreds of millions. What about Office "apps"? The numbers are similar. Finding and testing everything does not only slow you down: For all practical purposes, it makes it impossible to finish the project!
Takeaway: It makes sense to incorporate a risk-balanced approach that incorporates proactive and reactive testing. You should consider carefully which applications would stop you from issuing a single seat in a pilot deployment, and address compatibility in those applications. Once you've done that, you can start deploying pilot seats, and let people discover true compatibility issues (when they are not able to get their work done) using the same mechanisms you use today for your help desk. Your risk is managed because you have already addressed work stoppage, which is prohibitively expensive in the proactive portion of the project, and the data is more practical and of higher quality. Accelerate or slow down based on help-desk capacity. If you ask yourself honestly, "Could I live without this app / document / site for half an hour after I discover a problem while the help desk gets me sorted?" and the answer is yes, then that app should go in the reactive bin.
No, I do not mean that your inventory has failed you. Rather, I mean that Internet Explorer and Office have compatibility built in to them, and that means there are several different "modes" in which the products could be operating.
In the case of Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8 has three different rendering engines, while Internet Explorer 9 has four. This gives you compatibility with websites designed for really old browsers—even all the way back to Internet Explorer 5.5! Since each webpage renders using only one set of rules, it is possible that you will be using an older one when a newer one would work better, or vice versa.
In the case of Office, you have the ability to read and work with documents from all the way back to Office 1997. (If your document were your child, it would be a teenager right now, probably asking to borrow your razor.) Of course, you can convert all of your documents to the latest versions, but there is absolutely nothing forcing you to do so.
Takeaway: It is not enough to just say "It works in Internet Explorer." Rather, you should start to collect an understanding of which rendering engine each of your applications is running in, and consider how you are going to move your platform forward to reduce your dependency on older engines. Not by breaking them now, but instead by putting rules in place that specify that the introduction of new applications shouldn't be based on the older "compatibility" technologies. (Hint: It is going to keep getting harder to find college hires who have practice writing for the Internet Explorer 5.5 implementation of web standards.)
If you are keeping Office documents around for archival purposes, you do not need to convert them. While there are some benefits to document conversion (such as lower disk space utilization) there is also risk that is often not outweighed by the benefits. I wouldn't convert by default; I'd convert as necessary, and otherwise leave things alone and utilize the compatibility features. In short: You should default to having more applications work, and then actively manage new applications and document creation to leverage newer technologies.
It is usually sensible to have a "backstop" technology in place for when something does not work. One of the more common backstops is machine virtualization, in which you keep an instance of, say, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 around to run a Windows XP or Internet Explorer 6 application. Perhaps you keep a virtual copy of Office 2003 around in case there is a complex document. Doing so gives you the opportunity to "get out of jail free" when you hit an obstacle, which is much better than cancelling your deployment. What I do not see as often is the plan to get out from underneath that backstop. In other words, that server becomes the place where old apps go to die, but they end up living on as zombies for years or even decades. There is no plan to get rid of them!
Takeaway: Having a backstop to keep your applications working is helpful, and in some cases critical. Make sure you have a plan for how to make that platform obsolete. Until your backstop is gone, you have not actually finished your deployment.
Chris "The App Compat Guy" Jackson is a Principal Consultant and the worldwide lead for application compatibility at Microsoft, specializing in Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office internals. Jackson is a widely recognized expert in the field of application compatibility, creating technical documentation, training, and service offerings used inside and outside of Microsoft and based on years of real-world experience with enterprise customers and independent software vendors. Author or co-author of numerous technical papers and articles, he is also a featured speaker at major industry conferences around the world and publishes a popular blog.


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At a time when holiday giving increases and many people start to think about the less fortunate, the FBI honored a Salt Lake City woman who makes the homeless a personal cause year-round.
Activist Pamela Atkinson received the FBI Director's Community Leadership Award, which is given to people across the country every year by each of the FBI's field offices.
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I've always been interested in evolutionary complexity and for the last seven years or so I've been unable to think of evolution in terms of traditional survival of the fittest on an individual level--at first it just seemed too simple. But through these years of rumination on the subject often provoked by a science story in the news (or on a science-ey show (radio-lab, I'm looking at you--I love you but I'm looking at you)) that approaches evolution through the perspective of survivability of the individual as opposed to survivability of a complex ecosystem of interactive life-ey things and then failing to see obvious conclusions because of this narrow view, I'm nearly unable to conceive of the idea of an 'individual' organism having any meaningful impact on (even short term) evolution.
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Of course the content of that paper is also remarkable and Vincent and Michael do spectacular jobs of interjecting and referring to relevant information as well as questioning things where it's due. The dynamic in this episode is really great.
Then to top it off the second paper about the Brain Microbiome is as amazing as the first paper. During the discussion of this paper one can really feel the excitement and disbelief from the trio as they consider the implications of how this can change our understanding of the brain. I'd like to add that I wasn't at all surprised by the fact that our brain has it's own microbiome (I actually was a little surprised that it wasn't a foregone conclusion).
This episode was truly enlightening and highly entertaining. I was so riveted to the entire thing--I felt like that's what witnessing the moon-landing for the first time must have been like--it's real discovery and really cool.
So thanks TWiM guys and keep up the work. I don't care if you don't produce an episode every week, just get them out occasionally because this is important stuff that people need to know.
Finally: I'd just like to throw this out there: I'm at the point now where when I seriously think of how things evolve, all pieces of a system have to be taken into an account. It's easiest for me to grok if I consider a physical space and all of the life and non-life inside it and then also to consider a significant time-period that must include thousands if not millions of generations of changes and co-dependencies that have developed and curated. I know life has evolved to evolve (I can give a number of examples of that) and I know life has evolved to evolve to evolve (I even have a couple of that) the next level isn't easy to see but I guarantee it's there and it probably recurrses an innumerable amount of times in ways that are both simple and complex and we just have yet to understand.
I'll leave you with this: Despite the appearance of randomness guiding the evolution of the beaks on Darwin's finches I promise that the beaks of those finches have evolved to have high-rates of randomization and likely even environmental influences that either magnify or reduce the amount of randomness that's displayed--after all, evolving a trait that helps them evolve will increase survivability and that's the meaning of life.
Thanks for the great TWiM!
Oscar Prill
Technology Director
Lionsgate Academy
Mark writes:
Hi Vincent et al
I have been listening to TWiM for several weeks after moving to a new job that requires me to undertake a one-hour drive to work. I enjoy the show very much: in fact, I enjoy it so much that I am thinking of setting up a similar podcast this side of the Atlantic.
But this is not the reason I am writing.
I listened to your discussion of the brain microbiome this week. And, even though I note the question mark in your title after the term "brain microbiome", I think you were not skeptical enough.
OK, I admit that the paper presents an internally consistent story. But they don't report trying to grow the bacteria. And, rather than one organism, they would have us believe there is a kitchen sink's worth of microbes in these brains. Remember when we look at most sterile samples, we assume that a mixed growth equals contamination! And alpha-proteobacteria are common contaminants of water supplies, even in the International Space Station! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16364606
But more generally, as Carl Sagan put it, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence! And IMHO the evidence presented here is not compelling enough to overturn over a century of microbiology and histopathology. If these bacteria are really there, would we not have seen them already? If we look at precedents, we could be looking at the next Helicobacter pylori and these authors are going to be Nobel laureates. But I think a more plausible precedent is XMRV or arsenic life, both of which turned out to be nonsense. Go take a look at Ioniddis' paper "Why most published research findings are false" http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
Only time and attempts at independent replication will tell what is going on here. But I am prepared to wager that in ten years time this paper will have been discredited or forgotten.
Keep up the good work!
Professor Mark Pallen
Professor of Microbial Genomics and
Head of the Division of Microbiology and Infection
Warwick Medical School
University of Warwick
Robin writes:
TWiM #58: The brain microbiome
The brain microbiome would have been outright heresy in the latter 1960s when I had medical microbiology in med school. Today's facts are stranger than the wildest imaginable fiction of a bygone era.
Both papers go to show the enormously complex interconnectedness of all things.
The idea of signals transmitted through a network of mycorrhiza suggests a slow intelligence with signals acting over hours or days instead of milliseconds as is the case with neurones. An awareness associated with such an intelligence would have little commonality with what is familiar to us. Even though chemical inputs equivalent to smell and taste, mechanical inputs equivalent to hearing and touch, and light inputs equivalent to vision could affect such a system, they would be so different that it may be impossible to form a concept of such awareness.
It is to be noted that in Eastern traditions, awareness is consciousness with content; appropriately organised complex configurations of matter and energy will manifest awareness just as non-magnetic pieces of iron in a magnetic field will manifest magnetism.
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Eli writes:
Hi Vincent et al!
I was listening to the TWIM episode #55: In the copper room, about bringing down hospital infections.
You mentioned two things as being the main problem. The first one was high occupancy rate.
Quote from the episode:
"The second and this is probably the most important reason, is that you can't tell that things are dirty - from a microbial perspective. And we don't routinely survey the area to ask what is the microbial load"
I am thinking, what if the bacterias could somehow be made visible. It would be real cool if material could be engineered to change color to show if there is a high level of bacterias and other pathogens, to alert that a surface needs to be cleaned. It doesn't necessarily need to be visible to the naked eye, but just if some special lights got shined on it. I have no idea if it will be possible, I just liked the thought.
As you say, the main problem about hospital infections, is that the problem is invisible. And if things are invisible to our eyes, it is harder to shine mental light on it, because we don't directly get reminded about it on a daily basis. Hereby my wish for "bug luminol" is passed on.
Joe writes:
Hi guys
I really enjoyed the discussion of PULs on the most recent episode of TWIM. I had a minor correction with respect to the discussion of the connection between diet and IBD. During the discussion, one of you talked about a progression from ulcerative colitis to Crohn's disease. In fact – these diseases, although categorized as inflammatory bowel diseases, have fairly different (albeit poorly understood) etiologies. UC is generally restricted to the colon while CD can be localized anywhere between the mouth and anus. Also, IBD patients generally have one or the other – but not both. They don't really progress from one to the other in any individual patient.
Keep up the great discussions of the wonderful world of bacteria and human health.
Joseph McPhee Ph.D.
Michael G. DeGroote Post-Doctoral Fellow
Coombes Laboratory
McMaster University, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
Dave writes:
Most interesting talks on copper in disease transmission reduction environments. How about silver?
I possess several pairs of army socks (literally), a percentage of the fibers (3%? 12%?) woven into which are microcoated (or embedded, or something) with silver. The purpose is suppression of undesirable (potentially mission-defeating) microbes.
I believe they are effective. I believe there is some literature on the efficacy of silver, and rationale for its selection over copper. I think I've seen some ventures at explaining the mechanism, but I don't have the stuff in my head and can't go looking. Worth observing that they seem to enable wearing socks for more than one day without getting stinky.
Interesting aside: I went looking for army socks after hearing an ER doc describe managing the pain of 36 hours on his feet by wearing wool army socks. His belief was that the wool provided a sufficient secondary cushion to dampen the impact of walking all day on concrete floors (which have no give, relative to asphalt or whatever). My feet have plagued me with easily acquired aching, so I went looking. The socks, combined with placebo action, seemed to provide noteworthy reduction of discomfort. As to heat objections, which seem culturally common among us, he reported year-round use without problem. I found them entirely comfortable, probably downright insulating, when worn in Fresno summers under boots, and certainly no worse than conventional or lightweight socks, so I ratify his year-round prescription, since they're pleasantly warm in winter too. (pause for breath) Not itchy either, in this formulation, to the contrary of old complaints about wool.
Anyway, recently I went to the military/police gear store for more socks. I was disappointed not to find the familiar thick wool, but did decide to try the new blends. Some were thinner wool blends, and others blend cotton with synthetics such as lycra, I guess. I sprung for some, and was so pleased with the (quite inexpensive, relative to Walmart work socks) performance of the silver blended ones that I went back for more. This model is near knee-high, so has the benefits (for those to whom it matters) of compression as well, potentially reducing edema and whatnot.
Anyway, whatever. Much enjoy the show(s), encountered on internet radio Science360 (which you might mention sometime). Hope you find the bit on silver vs. copper interesting. Maybe it suggests a further look along the table of elements.
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Michael Schmidt's enthusiasm and passion for all science is always wonderful to listen to. Hearing him discuss his own work was even more of a treat. Congrats to him and his collaborators on their great work telling a fantastic and relevant story!
- Tim
Bernadeta writes:
Dear TwiM podcasters,
Thanks for another great episode! Each TwiM/P/V episode you do brings me so much inspiration and I wait impatiently for another one to come. Usually, though after each episode I have more questions than answers, which I think is great because that what science is based on, like Feynman said: science is expanding frontier of ignorance the more we know the more there is to answer.
Regarding the last episode, I always find these phage-bacteria arms races very fascinating; they are a perfect example of how evolution can work in short period of time.
On last episode it was mentioned that CRISPR/Cas system takes up DNA randomly irrespectively of whether that would come from a "helpful" or a "bad" phage. If the process is random then would it also take up DNA that was acquired through transformation or transduction?
Can Cas somehow distinguish if it's a phage DNA or not?
Is it maybe specific for some kind of base modification like hydroxymethylcytosine that are found often in phage DNA, or does DNA sequence has to be of certain size, or maybe the DNA has to be either linear or circular (but if circular then why the phage induced resistance islands do not get accidentally incorporated into the CRISPR locus)?
Can one do a BLAST search to find if the spacer sequences in CRISPR locus are exclusively from phages or sequences from other sources are also present? I know that it would probably be of no use to incorporate random sequences into the system but then I presume that there has to be a mechanisms for distinguishing where the DNA comes from?
Andy Camilli writes:
As far as we know, the capture system is random. The phage CRISPR/Cas even occasionally captures a piece of its own genome, which is a big mistake, because it will then degrade its own DNA! What we find in these instances, is that points mutations have arisen, either in the spacer or in the target in the phage genome, that abrogate hybridization of the crRNA and thus degradation is prevented. Presumably, these mutations are selected for rather quickly.
-Dr. Camilli
Charlotte writes:
Re: ASM Discussion - I wonder how much journal's biases against publishing negative results contributes to misconduct.
Peter writes:
Hi TWiM team
I hope you were able to see the Google tribute to Julius Richard Petri:
Not sure about the streaking technique shown in the doodle though.
Jim writes:
Dr R:
This is old on uTube, but new to me. Can I suggest it as a listener's pick. Surely a similar dance be created from all the fields your podcasts represent!
I heard about the dance from class 129 by Dr. Gerald Cizadlo. His engaging manner is somewhat like yours and just this year he began offering an online version of this class, Bio 3020.
Smithfield, VA
Jim writes:
Hi Y'all,
Dr Schmidt, on TWIM 35, after the 2012 ASM conference, you mentioned use of the Quartzy networking cards at many poster sessions. Did you see the cards used this year, were they more prevalent (3,300 used last year), and were poster sessions as plentiful as last year? Have the cards stimulated any competitors?
Jim Vandiver
Smithfield, VA
PS: TWIM 56 at the ASM was awesome, just awesome! It's like listening in on a discussion between Einstein, Edison and Feynman.
Peter writes:
Dear TWiM team
I see that the Oregon Senate approved a bill establishing brewer's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae as Oregon's official state microbe.
I can understand the popularity of brewers yeast, what other microbes do you think could be chosen as official state microbes?
I think food and drink related microbes would be favoured by most people so various species of Lactobacillus may be popular.
On that subject I see that there is a paper on microbiological profiles of ŞALGAM, the Turkish lactic acid fermented turnip and black carrot drink:
It is a popular drink in Turkey but rather an acquired taste for those unfamiliar with it.
Jacob writes:
Hi all,
My Dad sent me this article after I sent him a link to your episode on biospeleology.
It's about biofilm sheets in underwater caves under the Australian desert that glitter in the torchlight due to calcite crystals that are formed in the biofilm.
Jim writes:
Here's a link to a Maker site that discusses how to do a 3D print of your brain.
Smithfield, VA


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I NEVER understood why it wasn't offered in .45 LC. Not strong enough ? ? ?
Until I read this.
Its early double-action mechanism proved to be both intricate and delicate, and thus prone to breakage.[2] The design had a reputation for failure. Typically, this would reduce the revolver to single-action fire only. Because of the intricate design and difficulty of repair, gunsmiths disliked working on them.[2] Gun Digest referred to it as "the worst double-action trigger mechanism ever made".[3]
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Snap caps can be cheap insurance. I wouldn't dry fire anything short of function checks, ever.
is it ok to dry fire my 92 fs?
Snap caps can be cheap insurance. I wouldn't dry fire anything short of function checks, ever.
As Growler pointed out snap-caps are cheap insurance. I always use them as I had a bad experience with a Colt Commander about 25 years ago. I was actually at the armorer's shack at the range and the armorer was a former US Army armorer and had tuned some weapons for Camp Perry competition. I tried the trigger job with an empty chamber and the next thing I know, the end of the firing pin is coming out of the barrel. Fortunately he had spares and made me a rudimentary snap cap with the primer pushed out and a piece of leather inserted. He then put a 230 gr. FMJ in the empty case. Never had the problem after that.
The instruction manual on page 19 says to use a fired case or dummy cartridge to cushion the fall of the firing pin and eliminate the chance of firing pin breakage.
When I was checking out a Ruger LCP for my wife at a popular sporting goods store today I asked how the trigger was and the saleman said "you can dryfire any semiautomatic handgun". Evidently that isn't the case.
Yep I asked the guy at my local range if he had some 9mm snapcaps while I was there the other day...and he says "We're out but you don't need them anyways."
I said "Well the manual on my PX4 says don't dry fire them without snap caps or something.."
And he says "Yeah right. I've dry fired every pistol I own probably ten thousand times."
I just said "Yeahhhhh...okay" and walked off. And here I go ordering some 9mm snap caps on ebay.
I was wondering about this too. I watched a few youtube videos with differing opinions on the matter. I know to field strip the XD's you have to pull the trigger to release the slide. The Springfield rep in one of the videos sort of blows the issue off saying you HAVE to do this to take the slide off. I have yet to purchase my firearm but the last thing I want to do is mess it up or harm the performance by doing something stupid after I plunk the cash down on it. Would you guys put one of the dummies in the chamber before slide release? Don't mean to thread highjack.
I would say snap caps for 15 bucks is a cheap insurance policy.
You have to dryfire my MKII to disassemble it too but, I don't dryfire it again and again and again at least not without an empty shell.
I know I'm new to guns and all, but it was explained to me that an OCCASIONAL dry fire is not a bad thing, just don't sit in your room and wail on the trigger a few hundred times or so. If you are cleaning it or checking out the slide etc... and it dry fires, it's not going to hurt anything. But if you do it repeatedly it can and does cause problems later on down the line in the life of the firearm.
So, don't sweat a single dry fire, use snap caps or dummies for practice firing.
I called and spoke to Springfield and they said to use snap caps - do not practice trigger pull by dry firing.
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I bought a new tomcat model 3032 in inox a couple yers ago. I suppose I put around 300 rounds or so into the gun. I had started dry firing it at home with 2 different types of snap caps I bought. I must of shot it at least 400 times or so andwas one day going to take it out to the range. I decided to prep gun up so that it would not be over lubricated etc. I unexpectedly noticed that the firing pin was broken. Since i Only had access to firearm I was shocked. I called beretta and explained everything that I had done to dry fire etc. The offered to send me free of charge a firing pin kit, but I thought that since the gun was practically new and I treated it fairly, that they should repairit. The stated to sen in firearm and would look it over and make judgment call. I shipped gun back to factory and before u know it I got gun back with new firing pin and no charges. I am however leary about dry firing this gun since the incident. So there u have it for my type of beretta. Wish u luck
I look at it this way......
The forward motion of all firing pins is designed to stop when the forward end of the firing pin strikes the primer, or case of the cartridge. There are springs, and/or mechanical "stops" built in to prevent the firing pin from going too far forward or backward. If there is no case to stop the forward motion of the firing pin, the firing pin must be stopped by a mechanical "stop". Repeated impacts on that "stop", by the firing pin, will eventually damage the firing pin, or the mechanical "stop". Rimfires especially should not be dry-fired. The head space on a rimfire has but a few thousandths tolerance, and few rimfire firing pins are can be dry-fired without impacting the breech face, and forcing metal to encroach into the chamber. Here's a pic of a Browning Buckmark breech face that was dry-fired with snap caps, or any type of dry-fire protective device. The damage can be repaired, but it didn't have to occur in the first place. The Ruger Mk series was designed to be dry-fired, but a snap cap wouldn't be out of line, in my simple opinion.
Put an empty case in the chamber. This will keep the firing pin in place.
I won't dry fire either, I'd rather spend the money on ammo and just shoot the heck out of it at the range.


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We are now in a mode of completing the core of ASL (defined to be roughly the libraries which make of the property model and layout libraries as well as anything which is complete enough to warrant inclusion).
To that end, we are reviewing all of the libraries and for each one determining:
- Is it used and/or useful and worth being completed. If not it will either be removed all together or partitioned into the platform libraries for later consideration.
- What is necessary to complete the space to create a completed body of work.
We are working to restructure the documentation to include the "final" set of libraries and to flesh out the documentation, test cases, and in some cases, the code.
- every file where we shadow the std functions should go ahead and move the std function into the adobe namespace.
Non-Mutating Algorithms
Order Selection Networks - Rework pin, min, max, median_3, median_5, select_ith_n
Review chapter from book (4)
For each provide a comparison based, const, and non-const versions.
Go to how many elements?
Definitions: select_ith_n: return the ith element in non-descending order out of n elements.
The network is minimal in the worst case if it does the minimum number of comparisons in the worst case and minimal in the average case if it does the minimum number of comparisons on average.
The selection network is stable if the retuned element is selected out of n elements stably soreted in non-decending order (we do not do sorting).
A selection network from partially ordered inputs is a selection network where a certain partial ordering of the elements is already determined.
[We need to develop a naming convention for paritial ordering.]
Question - do we provide sorting networks?
Replace bound_if() with partition_point()
Write a proper partition() (ordering and for forward iterator), partition_point_n(), and is_partitioned.
Make cautionary note about wrapped standard algorithms.
non_strict_order_partition(range, element, strict_weak_ordering) arranges it so that elements are not greater followed by elements which are not less.
Pull count_min/max_element. Replace with two passes - max_element(), count().
Binary searches
Write a better binary_search which returns lower_bound() if exists else last.
Write an adaptor for is_in_sorted_range - set_member?
find_first_of_set() - becomes find_if with adaptor.
We should try to adapt binary search algorithms such as upper bound and lower bound to work on sets and multisets.
Finding and Counting
- (done) rename find_not_equal to find_not.
Extending find() - also provide find_not() and count_if_not() and count_not(). exists, none, all?
Check what other adobe/STL algorithms take unary predicates (partition_not?).
Versions of find and count need to take a binary predicate - see find_match().
And find_n(), count_n() for all versions.
Versions of for_each for_each_value() - rename of for_each_position() for_each_value_n() for_each_n()
Sorting Group is_sorted sorted() rename to sorted_run()
mismatch() gets grouped with equal() and search() Add mismatch_n().
Look at reduce accumulate and related functions - do we keepr reduce_balanced()?
Mutating Algorithms
-- copy family
Try to simply use the name copy() for copy_bound() - etc.
Add bounded forms of other functions, i.e. swap_ranges.
Also applies to find and count
copy I I 0 copy_b I I F F copy_n I n O copy_b I I O n copy_b I n F F copy_b I F F
I I n F F
--- tranform_if replaces filter by splitting the function object.
Also add _if forms for other functions.
Also have copy_if and copy_if_not (as replacement of remove). --- Explore iota and fit more into the copy notation.
With a value for increment - ---
It looks like remove_runs and mutate_runs are not used - remove them.
Add a reverse group and add reverse_until.
Remove the pair return from rotate and simply return m'
Check to see which intrinsics (like multiply returning long result) are in C99


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well these are very time consuming, but here is where I am at so far.I will post pics of progress, as it happens.
well these are very time consuming, but here is where I am at so far.I will post pics of progress, as it happens.
this is looking amazing so far. nice work man. as a metal worker for a living, i can see that you're puting a lot of time and effort into this. what sort of metal are you using???
Great look so far bud, be interesting to see these built up...
Thank you for the compliments.And jim, I use sheet metal for all my creations.
that's so awesome i don't even have words for it.
(i have a serious metal obsession with my suit)
that's going to be a beautiful things if i do say so myself, as i am a sheet metal worker specifically. keep us posted man. this is looking like it's going to be awesome. what are you using to keep it together?? ie, welding, solder, ect???
Great job Wickedbeard, you know i'm a fan of your work.
Great job! But what will you do about the seams?
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wow. dude is there anything you can't do? amazing work so far!
those are amazing :thumbup
There is more to come, I promise.Gotta earn some money for right now, then when free time shows it's face I will be doing some more on these.Stay tuned.lol
And thanks a million for all the kind words.
ok I started on the left top.This is where I am so far.still have a lot to do, but I figured I would post some shots.I also have been fooling with the templates to do away with a lot of small parts and possibly be able to make more of these.
so here we go,
As I said these are still in the rough stage, so be gentle.lol
Lookin pretty cool brother!
Thats pretty awesome lookin man!
That is one of the coolest things I have ever seen, genuinely impressive work
A few questions...
1. Are you using tin snips to cut with?
2. What are you using to keep the seams together?
3. Are you going to make more of these?
awesome work!
1.I use titanium scissors.
2.Goop is and always will be my adhesive of choice.
3.Yes,more than likely.
Goop? that stuff you use to fix old sneakers?
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Ok no huge progress, but I pretty much have both tops done.now I have to start on the clamshells,flamethrower, and the right side piece.
Here are some updated pics.Of course things will look a lot better once the missile, calc, dental expander,ect are on it.
very nice!
Wow, I'm impressed! This is one COOL project.
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Fans see them sprinting onto the football field and tending to a fallen player. They're seen roaming sidelines, dugouts and benches - stretching student-athletes and diagnosing injuries.
On the surface, that's what sports medicine staffs are identified with but much like some of the issues they have to tackle; it can go much deeper than that.
The University of Tennessee sports medicine department with the Tennessee Athletic Trainers' Society hosted a conference on Friday at Neyland Stadium that focused on the mental healthcare of student-athletes.
The purpose of the event was to bring out some of the hidden issues facing sports medicine staffs when dealing with the mental health of student-athletes as well as show professionals the resources that are available to them.
The conference featured presentations by UT's director of sports medicine Jason McVeigh, head team physician Dr. Chris Klenck, and Team Enhance/Team Excel coordinator Kristen Martin and focused on some of the unseen of issues that can have an effect on student-athletes.
"Athletics carries a level of mental health so you need to support your student-athletes," said McVeigh. "We're trying to raise some awareness that there are real issues out there that need to be addressed."
It is that kind of awareness that made Team Enhance and Team Excel a necessity.
Martin, a licensed clinical social worker, heads the teams. Both initiatives are dedicated to the mental, physical, and emotional health of Tennessee's student-athletes. Team Enhance is geared towards women's athletics while Team Excel structured towards men's athletics. They begin communicating with student-athletes when they first arrive in Knoxville.
"We usually educate all of our freshmen about the services we have available," said Martin. "A lot of times I will go to teams individually to talk about the resources we have and the benefits of the services that we have. Our coaches will do the same thing.
"We just try to educate everyone involved so that everyone is aware including the student athletes so that if something does come up they know they have someone to talk to."
With Friday's conference, that education was directed at athletic trainers and sports medicine personnel that have close relationships with student-athletes.
Sometimes not as noticeable as a broken bone or ligament tear, mental health diagnosis takes close observation and constant management.
"It takes a lot of getting to know your student-athletes on a regular basis," said McVeigh. "In our profession we're interacting with them a lot. I think the more we're around them, I think the more we're going to be able pick up on behavior changes. Getting to know your student-athletes is probably one of the biggest things that can make you identify when an issue is subtle or a big issue."


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I've said it before and I'll say it again. Someone really needs to invent baby-sized pants. I know, I'm a dreamer. It's not likely to happen in our lifetime, kinda like flying cars and books on tape. Until then, we'll just have to make due with these stylish and practical leg warmers.
BabyLegs official site
Tell us about BabyLegs! Durable? Holds up to the wash? Keeps the little one warm?
How do I buy multiple of these and pay only one shipping cost?
bradkoettel wrote:How do I buy multiple of these and pay only one shipping cost?
Everything you purchase in one day is $5 flat shipping for the day. Click the $5 All You Can Ship "Learn More" link at the top right of your woot page.
Look Marge! Maggie lost her baby legs!
Any "experienced" users out there? These sound like a great idea.
However, babies' ankles are tiny, while their thighs are huge (no offense Thunder Thighs).
These "legs" appear to be one consistent diameter. I'm concerned about the elastic digging into those beautiful baby legs.
nadh wrote:Any "experienced" users out there? These sound like a great idea.
However, babies' ankles are tiny, while their thighs are huge (no offense Thunder Thighs).
These "legs" appear to be one consistent diameter. I'm concerned about the elastic digging into those beautiful baby legs.
They are fairly consistant the whole way down when laying them flat. However, the "top" seems to have a bit move give than the "bottom". You can easily tell them apart by both the width of the elastic, and the Baby Legs emblem that goes by the ankle.
My middle child was chunky (in 18 mth clothes when he was 9 mths old), and we used these. I did try to make sure that I had them pulled up closer to the hip/thigh crease, then with my youngest, but they did work.
They were great for when he was a bit gassy, and didn't want an elastic wasteband on. Or when you were unsure of what the weather was going to do (espeically down south). You could put them on in the morning and take them off as the day warms up.
these are cute but i'm not in love with any of the prints.. nothing really jumps out at me and says "buy me!!" I guess that's good for my wallet, lol
I wonder if my tween would be interested in these as arm warmers? Sort of hand less gloves?
It's beyond me. I'm a child of the 70s/80s, so you can imagine what kind of warped fashion sense I have.
We have a couple pairs of these and they are great. They keep my little boys legs warm, prevented rug burns on his knees and kept his socks on (when I put them over his socks)! Anything that keeps this kids socks on are great in my book!
The elastic also held up to weekly washings for 4 months straight.
Those of you with Thunder Thigh babies, take heart! These will fit your child too! I was dubious as to the size and stretch claims, because I was paying retail price and didn't want my child to outgrow these within 2 months!
When I got them, I put them on my arms, all the way over my biceps. (Before you think this is a HUGE deal, I'm just a normal sized 5'3" woman, my pythons cannot compete with the Hulkster!) I was satisfied that they would fit, thankfully. My 100th percentile weight (35 pounds) & height (38" tall) 2 year-old son fits his BabyLegs perfectly still, and I purchased them when he was 6 months old! They have quite a bit of give, and only leave the same amount of skin-pression that athletic socks leave on us.
One of my favorite uses for these now is to help bridge the summer and fall season weather, where it's in the 50's in the AM when I send him to school, but then it gets into the 70's by lunchtime. I throw the BabyLegs on under his Woot! purchased XXS youth athletic shorts, and he's a happy camper. I do find that on his more active days, that these will slouch like the 80's legwarmers, since he can't be bothered to pull them up.
I'm in for a couple more pair, because this is half the price I paid from the manufacturer, and there's something intrinsically adorable about a kid wearing these! We'll get the sports prints, but if the Woot! buyer can get the Firetruck design next time, I guarantee they'll be the first one to sell out. Get the matching socks too, there's something about a baby in matchy-matchy that makes you want to cuddlesquish them. (In a good way, of course!)
I bought a pair in the past, but they wouldn't stay up on my baby with her own pair of thunder thighs (or her lean sister) without rolling down to her ankles after about 20 minutes of crawling. I've always heard good reviews about them though, maybe I'm using mine wrong?
I have/had four pairs for my younger son and LOVED them. My favorite pair was a fuzzy textured one that was soft as they could be, and also didn't leave any elastic marks on the thighs after taking them off. My kid's on the small size, if that helps. He's now exactly a month away from three and weighs right under 30 pounds.
They are also great if you know a kid going through medical treatment to cover up an arm (or both) to keep them from fussing with IV's, ports, etc.
How are they sized? I want some for a newborn.
These are great for babies crawling to protect their knees or when it's cold out to put on with a onesie around the house for easy diaper changes (so their legs will still be warm which changing their bottom). These are very popular and this is a good price. They are usually $12 a pair though the Baby Legs site has frequent sales.
I had a big baby & have a big toddler now. He was 30 lbs at 12 months and is 42 lbs now at 2 and wears a size 5T. These were a bit tight on his thighs when he was a baby (I just pulled them up to the crease at the very top of his leg so they weren't digging in his thighs and he didn't seem to mind that at all).
They definitely wouldn't fit him now but he's definitely not the average sized baby. If you have a chunky baby, I'd take measurements and see how they compare. If you have an average sized baby or even a slim baby, these should be just fine size wise.
Debbie Sweeny wrote:How are they sized? I want some for a newborn.
These are a one size item. You can just bunch them up to make them work for a newborn. It should work out with out problem.
LOVE LOVE LOVE These!! Regular retail price is ridiculous, so we just wait for deals like this. We have like a dozen of these, and have used them for the past 3 yrs. Kid #2 now wears them too, and both kids are sharing. The elastic is enough to keep 'em on my kid's legs, who're scrawny lil' guys. Oldest kid is 3, and he's wearing his blue striped babylegs today.
The best use of them is under regular clothing:
* Easy access to diapers on the smaller kids
* They won't ride up like pants do on the bigger kids.
* They won't let drafts up the pant legs.
* The elastic is different up top than down at the bottom, and squeeze tightly, but not enough to be uncomfortable...my kid complains about the slightest scratchy tag on the back of his shirt...not once did he complain about the tightness of his babyleg...although he will pull them off if he is getting to warm, running around like he does. If he gets warm...
* He can always scrunch them down to his shins if he gets too warm.
Mark me down as pining for Manny-Legs.
ssand23 wrote:These are a one size item. You can just bunch them up to make them work for a newborn. It should work out with out problem.
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Decisions made at the farm and processing level make a difference.When discussing going green, I am not referring to pasture-based dairies or profit. Rather, I'm looking at the processing side of producing and distributing milk. Recently, a friend mentioned she purchased milk in bags. An interesting concept, but I have always preferred to purchase my milk in a carton or jug. But, I finally decided to purchase this bagged milk.
The half-gallon bags are in milk crates in the dairy case. And just to the right of these is the same milk packaged in plastic jugs. The biggest difference I noticed was the price: $1.64 for the half-gallon bagged milk, and $2.09 for the plastic half-gallon jug. Same processor, same volume of milk, but nearly a 50 cent price swing!
But, how was I going to pour milk from a plastic bag? Plastic pitchers hung on a rack next to the dairy cooler for those who did not already have this reusable pitcher. Grab a free pitcher, toss the bag of milk in a plastic bag for easier transport, and I was set.
When I got home, I read the bag's details. Using the milk bag reduces the volume in landfills by 95 percent over other containers. There is also a reduction of 75% in package weight with the bags. So, while the bag may look a bit odd in my refrigerator, it is the same top quality milk, at a reduced price, and is environmentally-friendly. And, the company offers a 5 cent Milk Moola donation to local schools with each bag purchased.
If the producer and processor each make a commitment to reduce the environmental impact, then the dairy industry is doing its share to promote a greener, healthier planet.
On the producer side, our first 2012 webinar, "Milk's shrinking carbon footprint" shared details about how producers can reduce carbon footprint at the feeding level. Yesterday's webinar will be archived for viewing this week at www.hoards.com/webinars.


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Hugh Jackman doing some fishing in Australia.
Kendall Jenner and Harry Styles are skiing together in Mammoth. And by skiing I mean biding their time until check in at the hotel.
Jessica Alba and her family minus one daughter.
James Marsden spends time with his youngest child.
A first time appearance for Jamie Chung. That can't be right.
I know Josh Duhamel is in the photos a lot. I feel like I'm raising Axl at this point.
Jonah Hill minus his tight pants wearing girlfriend who apparently was mortified and had no idea when she left the house.
Julianne Hough has looked much more pleasant recently.
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