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Lynn Council Chambers, 3 City Hall Sq., Lynn, MA.
MassDOT joined the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) in announcing results of The 37Billion Mile Data Challenge, a competition that inspired the region's data community to delve into a vast new set of anonymous vehicle-use data and to produce innovative visualizations, applications, and insights on the Commonwealth's transportation system. The results will inform policy and help the Commonwealth build a more efficient and sustainable transportation system.
The winning entries ranged from "MassEMIT," a tool that allows users to compare factors such as carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and fuel use by community, to a transportation infographic that informs the public on the true costs of driving. All of the entries can be viewed on the event website, www.37billionmilechallenge.org
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The MassDOT Aeronautics Division announced plans to build or renovate general aviation airport administrative facilities in 15 communities during the next five years, including four airports targeted for construction in 2015.
The 15 general aviation airports were chosen as part of a comprehensive, statewide Airport Administration Building Master Plan that identified projects based upon several factors including public safety needs and the amount of activity at the airport. Each new airport administrative facility will be designed and built according to a flexible prototype design that considers local needs. "Our airport economic impact study identified nearly $12 billion in economic activity and more than 124,000 jobs traced to aviation in the Commonwealth," said MassDOT Secretary and CEO Richard A. Davey. "That extraordinary success requires continued strategic investment to ensure these airports continue to serve as economic drivers and gateways for business and tourism." "The Statewide Airport System Plan review found a significant need to improve administration facilities at general aviation airports, with some airports lacking any facilities and many others working in aging buildings in need of repair," said MassDOT Aeronautics Administrator Christopher Willenborg. "These new or renovated facilities will be state-of-the-art, accessible, environmentally sustainable, and better serve our customers."
The four airport projects currently in design and expected to begin construction in 2015, with estimated costs, include:
Each project is state-funded with a required 5% local match. Project construction is expected to take approximately nine months.
An additional 11 airports are scheduled for construction or renovation in 2016 through 2019. Six airports scheduled for construction of new administrative facilities include Chatham, Gardner, Harriman-and-West in North Adams, Orange, Plymouth, Taunton, and Walter J. Koladza Airport in Great Barrington.
Four airports scheduled for renovation of existing facilities include Pittsfield, Lawrence, Marlboro, and Turners Falls in Montague.
MassDOT Highway Administrator Frank DePaola and Fall River Mayor William Flanagan this week unveiled plans for a Waterfront District Kiosk, to be constructed as part of the Route 79/Braga Bridge Improvements Project, that will welcome and connect residents and visitors to the City and its rich culture.
A state investment of $500,000 funds a multi-use kiosk and surrounding plaza that will feature visitor maps and information, bicycle racks, seating created from salvaged granite blocks, ornamental lighting and fences, decorative pavement, tree plantings and ground cover, and spaces for public art.
"Included in the design is a Welcome to Fall River sign and the Improvements Project is helping redefine what that means," said Highway Administrator DePaola. "We are welcoming visitors to a revitalized, modern, connected waterfront city that is open for new development."
The City will be responsible for maintenance once complete, as well as funding lighted signs and supplemental lighting for the kiosk and plaza. In the months ahead, the team hopes to engage local waterfront stakeholders to participate in the maintenance and funding of cultural elements related to the City's waterfront history.
The development of the kiosk concept has been and will continue to be a collaborative process between MassDOT, the City of Fall River and the design build team; Barletta Heavy/O&G Joint Venture. Construction on the kiosk is expected to begin next year, in the late spring/summer of 2015.
MassDOT is proud each year to support an opportunity for more than 1,200 Massachusetts high school students to explore construction industry professions and get hands-on training at the 12th Annual Massachusetts Construction Career Days held Wednesday and Thursday, April 30th and May 1st at the New England Laborers' Training Academy in Hopkinton.
This popular event helps meet the needs of both high school students who are making career decisions and the construction industry facing a workforce shortage. Students learn that whether they are interested in math, carpentry, mechanics or engineering, the construction industry offers challenging, rewarding and well paid professions.
Construction Career Days exhibitors include construction and related companies, MassDOT, vendors, equipment dealers, labor unions, apprentice programs, universities and colleges, and engineers among others. Each donates time, equipment, and in some cases operators to ensure students a hands-on experience. During all activities students are supervised, coached and mentored by qualified and experienced industry professionals.
Students have the opportunity to discuss careers, learn about apprenticeship opportunities, compete in engineering and construction challenges; operate backhoes, excavators, jackhammers, pavers, rollers, and other equipment; join in concrete finishing, welding, cutting, burning, and electrical work; build a tool box or lay a brick wall.
Learn more about Massachusetts Construction Career Days by visiting: www.engineers.org/massccd


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Price comparator post - Manually-optimized searches for relevant resultsNew Cube Memory 4GB Micro SD with Adapter, for $5.99 + $5 shippingProduct: 1x Cube Memory CU-SDMC-4096-B 4GB Micro SD with Adapter
in for 333333
I wouldn't mind 4gB for my Blackberry...
I wonder if this would work with my Sansa e260.
the usual, will it work with the sansa?
Has anyone in the world ever heard of Cube Memory? =| Weird brand. How does woot find these thingss?
the one on the right says HC, but the one you get isn't right? because that wouldn't work with my phone...
hate to pay twice because of the shipping.
does it work with nintendo wii? 4 gig will give a lot of space for the new guitar hero game.
I bought the 2GB packs last time woot had it.
Bought 3 of these a few months back - of the 2GB variety. Not bad - Decent price - and comes with the adapter.
Doodaddy wrote:I wouldn't mind 4gB for my Blackberry...
Will this work for Blackberry, the one they sell in the place where I bought my blackberry was 55.00 and it was sandisk, i'd hate to buy it and it not work! please help!
It will work on a Sansa IF you have a v.2 OR rockbox a v.1.
Sansa firmware on the v.1 can't read over 2g, but rockbox can.
Anyone know if this will work in an M3 Perfect or M3 Real?
Great price! Does this work with a mini SD, too? That's what my phone takes.
IAreIsMe wrote:the usual, will it work with the sansa?
If you have installed Rockbox, yes.
If you still have the factory firmware, no.
(assuming you have the Woot sansas, which all seem to be pre 2.0 firmware)
in for 2
Standard 60X speed
Ok, you are getting better with the specs.
But MB/sec read and write would be nice. Or KB
You think i can give them 25 cents and ask them to mail it in an envelope? :P
In for 3, hoping it'll work in my Xacti mini camcorder....any advice?
I can certainly use them elsewhere, but would like them for movies on a trip..
Yes this will work with a Sansa E2XX player. I have a 4giger in my e250 running rockbox.
Ive got about four of these micro cards, does anyone know of a jewel case / storage solution for multiple micro sd cards?
Also, anyone know if it's possible to span a wmv file across multiple fat32 partitions across multiple storage devices so one could play HD on xbox 360, conversely M$ please add NTFS support for our portable devices.
So this will work with the G1 right? I mean it takes any microSD card so this should work correct?
jessiebyrd004 wrote:Has anyone in the world ever heard of Cube Memory? =|
It's Dane Elec. I've heard of them. Nothing bad, so I assume they're legit, but they always struck me as more lower end (i.e., not quite as established or reputable as Sandisk).
That being said, I'm in for 3.
Nice - In for 3.
y2jepp wrote:I bought the 2GB packs last time woot had it. YES.. it works for my sansa e280 and 260... which I also got off woot.
Yeah but once you hit the 4GB barrier it is considered High Capacity and I don't know if this requires a firmware, software or hardware upgrade.
PeterHellmuth wrote:You think i can give them 25 cents and ask them to mail it in an envelope? :P
Yes, as long as when you buy that 52" LCD you send them $167.59 to ship that.
Probably not since a stamp costs 42¢
will this work with the LG CU500?
Shouldn't have bought those 2GB Kingstons! In for 3 'cause it never hurts to have 'em around.
"Anyone know if this will work in an M3 Perfect or M3 Real? "
Yes on the M3Real.
Has anyone ever heard about Cube Memory. Quality? Reliability? China made?
ordered 3 of the 2 giggers awhile back, they do work in the blackberries. we're all loaded here.
anyone know if this works with nintendo ds?
It's about time... Been waiting to upgrade my 2GB card in my enV 2... Thanks woot!!!
However, if you install RockBox you can read from HCSD. But you can't yet write directly using USB. You can use USB and put your files on the Sansa, then boot RockBox and move the files to the HCSD. Or connect the HCSD to your computer.
mechanicsc wrote:If you have installed Rockbox, yes.
If you still have the factory firmware, no.
(assuming you have the Woot sansas, which all seem to be pre 2.0 firmware)
I'm old, so humor me, but what is Rockbox? Is it freeware? Any link?
Also, I have a respiffied e250 (or whatever the 2gb Sansa is that Woot sells). How do I install Rockbox on it?
It'll work with a sansa. I have a 4Gig for it.
RotsiserMho wrote:Anyone know if this will work in an M3 Perfect or M3 Real?
Yes this should work with an M3 Perfect/Real. I have one and am currently using a 4GB SDHC in it.
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Multi-State Group to Protect Sea Waters
New York, NY —
Five states, including New York and New Jersey, have formed a working group to protect the waters between Montauk and the Chesapeake. Governors Paterson and Corzine inked a pledge today to cooperate on issues like conservation and fisheries. Governor Corzine says the new multi-state group will speed the way for new offshore energy projects.
New Jersey fully expects to have 3,000 megawatts of wind power by 2020.
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Excerpted with permission from Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is About Help not Hype (Portfolio/Penguin) © 2013 by Jay Baer.
You know that expression "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime?" Well, the same is true for marketing: If you sell something, you make a customer today; if you help someone, you make a customer for life. I call this Youtility. Not "utility," because a utility is a faceless commodity. Youtility is marketing upside down. Instead of marketing that's needed by companies, Youtility is marketing that's wanted by customers. Youtility is massively useful information, provided for free, that creates long-term trust and kinship between your company and your customers.
The difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters now make all the difference.
The beauty of useful marketing is that it isn't just for larger companies. Smaller companies and just one man can create useful marketing. I'd like to share the story of Taxi Mike and how he used the power of low-tech Youtility to make a difference in his business.
Banff, Alberta, is a ski town. Nestled in the soaring Canadian Rockies, it glistens with bars, restaurants, and tourists galore. There are, of course, many, many taxi drivers in Banff, but there's one taxi driver who absolutely understands the power of Youtility. That's Taxi Mike (who also does web design and computer repair).
Four times per year Taxi Mike puts together the Taxi Mike Dining Guide: Where to Eat in Banff. If you're a local or a frequent visitor, you might think to visit the TaxiMike.com website. But for tourists, your encounter with Taxi Mike will likely be via a very simple, 8.5-by-11-inch piece of bright yellow paper, printed on both sides.
Taxi Mike updates his guide every quarter with his latest recommendations for best sports bar, hottest nightclub, best place for cheap drinks, and more than a dozen other categories. Taxi Mike makes a few hundred copies, folds them into thirds like a rack brochure, and delivers them to every restaurant, hotel, bar, or tourist establishment in the area. You'll see them on counters all around Banff, and if you don't see one in a particular place, just ask. They have them behind the bar, guaranteed. Proprietors want to hand them out because Mike's information is accurate, and just about every place is listed in Taxi Mike's guide somewhere.
He categorizes. He sorts. He recommends. Taxi Mike is a one-man Yelp, but he's not a social network: He's just a guy. And he puts it all together for nearly free – he inserts just a few ads each edition. The "Where to Eat Guide" is such a hit that Taxi Mike even has groupies, and signs autographs for passengers on occasion.
At the end of a night in Banff, when you've been to six or eight of these places and you think, "Wow, I really should get a cab home," are you going to walk out on the corner and just raise your hand? No. You're going to reach into your pocket and see the crumpled up, bright-yellow piece of paper that has the map of downtown you've been looking at all night and see "Taxi Mike: 760-1052."
What Taxi Mike created is Youtility: marketing that's wanted by his customers. Taxi Mike's Dining Guide to Banff is massively useful information, provided for free, that creates long-term trust and kinship. Can you recreate this model with your customers? Absolutely.Report Typo/Error
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Skype, the Internet-based calling service, began its own secret program, Project Chess, to explore the legal and technical issues in making Skype calls readily available to intelligence agencies and law enforcement officials, according to people briefed on the program who asked not to be named to avoid trouble with the intelligence agencies.
Project Chess, which has never been previously disclosed, was small, limited to fewer than a dozen people inside Skype, and was developed as the company had sometimes contentious talks with the government over legal issues, said one of the people briefed on the project. The project began about five years ago, before most of the company was sold by its parent, eBay, to outside investors in 2009. Microsoft acquired Skype in an $8.5 billion deal that was completed in October 2011.
This is an outrage
Because my conversations include delicious and confidential Margarita and Pulled Pork recipes.
I knew it wasn't because you actually thought it wasn't happening already anyway.
I'm sure it's either happening or the NSA is working on methods for computers to parse thru voice chatter for patterns that allude to terrorism.
I'm certain my conversations score low on the loon-o-meter algorithm.
Did you see that your comrade, Snowden, is on a spy tour in Moscow and then on to Cuba? How do you feel about that? (reply in a happy face to thwart the NSA watching you)
Serves you well for feeding the town idiot
Skype is still no GOOGLE!
Don't get me wrong. They're all evil peeping bastards bent on only one goal – MONEY! Money at any cost. Not just Skype and Google but Facebook, Twitter, etc. — all of them.
And in case you never heard it: "Money is the root of all Evil" …which anyone over the age of 10 also knows is power! (Now you know why Washington is in such desperate need of it.)
What's that again Bobo? Rich=corrupt? Are you really so surprised when you also realize that rich is also often evil? (I'm not at all religious so if you can come up with a better word than evil then please suggest it.)
What I want to know is how anyone can be so stupid as to trust these money grubbing bastards. Did you happen to miss the fact that Skype is now owned by "M$"?! (At least it's no Apple.) And how many times does Facebook/Twitter have to kick you in the nuts by abusing your info before you quit? And do we really want to get into the whole banking system and their abuses when there are better CREDIT UNIONS?!
Seems to me we need to look at ourselves a little before we start complaining about what we allow!
I'm not at all religious so if you can come up with a better word than evil then please suggest it.
It mixes the Medici's need to dominate with the filthy lucre that they used (along with assassins) to do it with.
Saying that "money is the root of all evil" is as inaccurate as saying that "love is the root of all evil." The saying is "the love of money is the root of all evil."
Rich or poor, its nice to have money.
Skype is Microsoft. The same people that make Office, Windows, the X-Box, etc.
I'm pretty sure that once all the info comes out exposing these companies we will see that it is just silicon valley suckling at the government's teat.
And the info will come out.
It always does.
Despite the dallas types who obfuscate real issues with immature ramblings usually heard in the halls of middle school.
I pulled Skype off of all my computers when they were bought by Microsoft.
Not such a dumb move o my part after was it? 🙂
You were spied anyway. Or did you not read what Uncle brought us?
>>>I pulled Skype off of all my computers when they were bought by Microsoft.
Not such a dumb move o my part after was it? <<
but are you using an open source os?? are you using encrypted communications?
I think the most hilarious part of his comments was trying to say that MS is worse than e-bay who was the owner of Skype when he used it.
My employer at the time wanted his multi-national development and deployment team to use it…
That point is kinda moot when you gave being owned by MS as the excuse to dump it. I bet you have a paypal account too.
That one I stopped using before being owned by e-bay. One of the class action suit against paypal was reason enough for me to leave. Being bought by e-bay only made its practices worse.
but are you using an open source os?? are you using encrypted communications?
That would be telling…
I'm pretty sure that a casual automated scan of what is being transmitted by machine would detect encryption and that all encrypted files are automatically being warehoused.
With the multiplicity of laws now on the books if they need somebody with a key to cough if up they can most likely get you for something even if it's nothing more than breaking a terms of service on a web site such as this. That is now a felony so you cough it up or go to prison.
Of course the NSA would most likely deny that but then we have video of high ranking NSA officials telling blatant lies.
Don't do anything on the 'Net you couldn't tell your Mom about !!!


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OK, so starting from the beginning. I bought an SPT boost gauge, had the wiring harness connected an working but that gauge never worked right(got it replaced, broke the replacement trying to fix it, yea Im a dumb a$$). Anyways, bought a defi red racer boost gauge instead. Took the SPT harness out and connected the Defu harness to the clock with wire taps.
Defi gauge / clock harness
red(power) - blue & red stripe
black(ground) - black & yellow stripe
white(illum) - yellow & blue strip
orange(ign) - yellow & red strip
Originally had the white and orange reversed and that's when the problem started. Now my radio, dome lights, ignition light(red ring) will not turn on and my clock will show the driver and passenger seat belt lights, but not the temp and trip gas milage. The doors will also not lock with the remote or drivers door lock all(turning the lock twice). I can only lock the drivers door with the key and all doors from the button on the door panel.
Im now going to just connect the gauge with fuse taps, but the **** has already it the fan and I'm feakin out over here.
I also checked the door lock and audio fuses(engine bay and under dash, all of those look ok.


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Project DescriptionLake Union Float Home
Location Description:
The Float Home is situated on Lake Union, and inhabits what was one of the last unoccupied slips.
The Seattle Houseboat and Float Home community is unique: the residents share access and live in close proximity to one another, yet there is a community diversity that is unrivaled. Some of this stems from the fact that the community was not developed at any one time, while some can be attributed to the immensity of style that adorns these homes (you don't see a ton of fabric architecture here).
The location challenge is creating a home that has some sense of the history of place. The existing homes do little to set parameters, giving unlimited freedom, but a freedom that must be melded, not exploited.
As with all Float Homes, spatial limitation provides an opportunity for creative solutions.
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The original intent of the client was to 'fit in' with some of the surrounding neighbors by mimicking the craftsman style that is most prominent (though by no means exclusive). After walking the locks, however, it was decided that the craftsman style had been imposed on the wharf. A more natural reference to the past would be to emulate the marina warehouses that have adorned the docks for centuries with little change in appearance. These large, box-like structures dominate the Seattle waterfront and reflect the utilitarian roots of Seattle and men like: Doc Maynard and Arthur Denny an Ivar Haglund.
The 'wharf aesthetic' drove the exterior detailing to an industrial end, and the owner-contractor dubbed his home 'The Floating Cannery' by the end of the project. The exterior cages, including one around the roof access spiral stair, reinforce the warehouse approach. The vertical banding is reminiscent of crates that are loaded on to barges in the port, while the preengineered panels add warmth to the exterior
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The straightforward ideals of the home called for a simple layout. The lower floor was kept open by keeping all solid structure on the exterior walls. The stair that connects the lower floor to the upper is a centrally supported with a single wide flange and allows sight lines to remain intact. The whole level connects to the exterior by way of glass overhead doors.
The upper level is a personal retreat, private from the adjacent homes through the use of small punch windows, with large expansive views out toward the water. The scale of the home allows for additional spaces such as a laundry room and guest suite.
The roof deck is accessible from a ground floor spiral stair, as well as a ships ladder from the master deck. This space is a nice outdoor retreat with beautiful views back toward the city.
The simple forms created by the exterior shape melded well with the modern lifestyle. The main floors were finished in a polished concrete which house radiant floor heat. The materials on the main floor were chosen to reflect the urban location. Mill finish steel was used for the structure and the stairs, Glue Lam floor joists with 2x6 Hem Fir wood decking was used for the floors. This mix of industrial warehouse and urban loft gives the house a distinctive feel of richness.


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Actions speak louder than words
Much has happened since the beginning of the year in the policy sphere of the small business sector.
An important decision was taken in the way the government is set up to augment its focus on small businesses – the backbone of our economy. The creation of a specific ministry dedicated to such a vital organ of our economy underscores this government's belief that it will leave no stone unturned to be in a better position to work for their benefit.
Our economy is small business-led. Suffice to say that we have more than 65,000 micro enterprises employing less than nine workers and another 1,500 small businesses having between 10 and 50 employees; this out of a total of about 67,500 enterprises in Malta and Gozo.
Having a dedicated ministry to better focus on the needs of these micro and small businesses is a significant strategic decision, a decision that will continue to focus all our attention on local enterprises' competitiveness over the long term.
The choices and subsequent decisions we take in the medium term will all impinge on the direction we shall take in the longer term. We need to create an environment in which entrepreneurs can come forward with new ideas and set up new companies.
The government's intervention needs to encourage and facilitate a healthy competitive environment by eliminating unnecessary hurdles for our resilient enterprises that are built on sound business principles. It must limit bureaucracy and administrative burdens to the absolute minimum necessary and government-induced costs for permitting and the like must be kept to the barest minimum.
Another role for the government is to facilitate by incentivising investment in particular sectors or technologies deemed to be of economic importance but are lagging behind.
The decision taken by the government for the setting up of the one-stop shop that was aptly named Business First is another milestone and a clear message in favour of businesses. It was set up to offer all business-related services, under one roof, to all kinds of enterprise at any stage of their business, including the self-employed.
It is thus with both surprise and dismay that I note what the Leader of the Opposition said a few days ago. Joseph Muscat showed that he is either not aware of the setting up of Business First or, if he is, then he was deceitful enough to mask his awareness by stating an untruth.
But how come someone who allegedly has the interest of businesses at heart is not aware that Business First is fully operational? Why did Dr Muscat deceive his audience on this?
I believe small businesses expect the Leader of the Opposition to remain abreast of such crucial developments. Wrong or deceitful information, as excessive bureaucracy, costs time and money.
Business First opened its doors to the public in January and operates from Guardamangia under the aegis of Malta Enterprise.
The Business First team is able to give advice and assist in the finalisation of administrative procedures on more than 50 services (such as: VAT registration, trade licensing, environmental permitting, registration for social security numbers and company registration) that relate to 20 government departments and entities. In the majority of cases these services shall be concluded within 10 working days. This means there is no more running around for entrepreneurs and self-employed to set up shop, no more going to and fro between departments and other entities to pay bills and, above all, no more time wasted getting the right information about regulations, laws, incentives and schemes.
Since its opening, 850 businessmen made use of it and have expressed great satisfaction at the level of service offered. It will save them money. It will make their life much easier.
It is also worth mentioning that government investment in the small business sector does not stop at the Ministry for Small Business. The University of Malta, Malta Enterprise, the Malta College for Arts, Science and Technology and the Malta Council for Science and Technology are all significant players that support this backbone of our economy by ensuring that our labour market is equipped with the highest level of skills and stimulating our entrepreneurs with innovative and cutting-edge ideas for business spin-offs.
Investments made by the entities mentioned above enhance further research and development and give life to projects such as the life-sciences park, SmartCity and Corporate Village. They are all significant parts of the all-embracing long-term vision to make Malta and our businesses more competitive.
This is the vision of this government, to allow the entrepreneurship community make its enterprise a factual and realistic success.
Through its various schemes, the government is helping business people to augment their profits, provide more employment and strengthen the Maltese economy. No wonder and no coincidence that we have one of the lowest rates of unemployment in Europe. It is due, in no small measure, to this government's entrepreneurial zest and policies.
Dr Azzopardi is Minister for Fair Competition, Small Business and Consumers.
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- Sometimes the issue is with the DHCP server on the AP-manager interface. Delete a controller from the WCS, then go into the controller and add a secondary DHCP address on the AP-manager interface. Save and reboot. Re-add the controller to the WCS .
- Reset the controller back to the factory default settings.
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BalanceEvery driver has felt the effects of an out-of-balance tire. The entire car shakes and shimmies, and the steering wheel almost vibrates out of your hands. Now, just imagine what takes place inside an unbalanced engine. Instead of turning at a leisurely 600 rpm like a tire, the crank may be spinning at over 6,000 rpm. At these engine speeds, the pistons, rods, and crankshaft all become incredibly heavy; a piston whose weight is measured in ounces can exert thousands of pounds of force when it changes direction at TDC. A minor imbalance on a crankshaft counterweight is magnified many times by the centrifugal force of the spinning assembly. A single ounce of metal (28 grams) has a dynamic weight of over 700 pounds when it's placed on a rapidly turning crankshaft counterweight. This is why balancing is a vital part of engine blueprinting.Balancing a tire is a breeze compared to balancing an engine. A tire rotates in one plane; an engine has a crankshaft that is turning, pistons that are moving up and down, and connecting rods that are doing a little of both. This helter-skelter motion produces some very strange vibrations. The number and arrangement of the cylinders also has a tremendous impact on engine balance. A conventional V-8 engine with cylinder banks spread 90 degrees is a beautiful solution to many balancing problems. Yet if you lop off two cylinders to make a 90-degree V-6—as several automakers have recently done—you have an engine that is a disaster from the standpoint of balancing. To keep such an engine from shaking itself apart, the engineers devise all sorts of ingenious solutions, including offset crankpins, super-soft engine mounts, and special balancing techniques.There are some engine designs that can never be perfectly balanced, no matter how much time, money, and equipment you devote to the project This is why some automobile and motorcycle manufacturers use complex counterbalancing shafts on inline fours when smoothness is an important consideration. Rearrange those four cylinders into a "V" with the proper angle between the cylinder banks, however, and the reciprocating assembly can be balanced much more easily. You don't have to understand the detailed physics behind these effects to appreciate that some motors will always have a reputation as "shakers," while others, with a different number or configuration of cylinders, can be silky smooth.Rotating and Reciprocating WeightFor balancing purposes, the parts of the crankshaft assembly are divided into two categories: Rotating weight and reciprocating weight. The crankshaft spins, so it is obviously part of the rotating mass. So are the components that spin with it, like the rod bearings. The pistons, rings, and wrist pins, on the other hand, move up and down, so they are part of the reciprocating weight. The connecting rods are a mixed case: the small end reciprocates, while the big end rotates. When an engine is balanced, all the components that are part of the reciprocating weight are matched so that none of the piston/ rod assemblies is heavier than the others. In a well-balanced engine, the weight of one piston is always offset by the weight of another piston moving in the opposite direction.Before balancing the rotating components, a machinist must first compute the bobweight. The bobweight is the mass on a single rod journal. It takes into account the weight of the piston, pin, piston locks, rings, the reciprocating and rotating parts of the rod, and the rod bearings.When calculating the bobweight for a conventional V-8 engine, the formula used by most machinists calls for adding 50 percent of the total reciprocating weight to the bobweight.The ringer in all bobweight calculations is the weight of the oil on the components. If you dip a piston and rod assembly into a can of oil and then weigh it, the oil will add between two and ten grams to the total weight. 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Gavin wins gold for Olympic typography
June 23, 2012 by Grace Franklin · Leave a Comment
A Glasgow student has been awarded the special Jury Prize in
a prestigious international graphic design competition.
Gavin McGregor, who is studying Creative Industries at Cardonald College, won the award at Conquerer Typographic Games, a competition open to qualified and student graphic designers across the globe.
The competition was inspired by the 2012 London Olympic Games, and entrants had to create a typographical poster with a sports theme using the phrase, 'It's not what you win, but how you conquer it'.
Commenting on Gavin's win, his lecturer, Vici Greenlees, said: "All designs were displayed on the Conqueror website and the public were able to vote for their favourites. The top 50 posters were then judged by a team of seven international designers, headed by world famous typographer Jean François Porchez.
"Gavin was one of several students who entered the competition and I'm ecstatic that we have a winner."
Jean Francis Portez is a world renowned typographer who has created typefonts for clients such as car makers Peugeot, French newspaper Le Monde, and singer Beyonce Knowles.
Gavin's work will be displayed in leading visual communications magazine, Creative Review, along with the other winners.
Castle cheer for Rally Champions
October 18, 2010 by localnews · Leave a Comment
by Lynsay Keough. Photos by Lynsay Keough and www.rally-photo.com
Finland's Juho Hanninen produced a champion's drive to see off the opposition and win the 2010 RACMSA Rally of Scotland. 2009 IRC champion Peugeot's Kris Meeke, lost time with a puncture and lost the brakes when a rock tore out a hydraulic pipe leaving a gaping hole in the car frame. But he laughed off the damage at the finishing line telling LOCAL NEWS: 'Ach, it's just a piece of bodywork! It's still the best rally in the championship!' Despite this setback, Kris held on to third place in his last outing for the team, as he joins Mini for the 2011 World Rally Championships.
In the end Hanninen's winning margin was just 25.5 secs over the 200km timed stages that ran from Friday 15 October at Scone Palace to the Sunday 17 ceremonial finishing line at Stirling Castle. The Rally of Scotland win comes after cementing his 2010 IRC championship title.
Last year's Rally of Scotland winner, Skoda's Guy Wilks, showed some amazing driving skills through the Loch Ard stages to claim the "Colin McRae IRC Flat Out Trophy". Colin's father Jimmy was among the judges.
Recently crowned Scottish Rally Champion , David Bogie from Dumfries, finished 4th overall, after starting the Sunday stages back in 11th place. The top five places went to;
1) Juho Hanninen/ Mikko Markkula (FIN) – Skoda Fabia S2000 2hrs 01m 07.4s
2) Andreas Mikkelsen/ Ola Fleure (NOR) – Ford Fiesta S2000 +25.5s
3) Kris Meeke/ Phil Pugh (GBR) – Peugeot 207 S2000 +3m 24.2s
4) David Bogie/ Kevin Rae (GBR) – Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 1X, +12m 01.3s
5) Karl Kruuda/ Martin Jarveoja (EST) – Suzuki Swift + 14m 07.6s
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September 21, 2010 by localnews · Leave a Comment
People are revving up for the British round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge which comes to the stunning countryside of Perthshire and Stirlingshire from Friday 15 to Sunday 17 October.
Factory supported crews from manufactuers including Skoda, Peugeot, Proton, Subaru and Ford will be represented and Guy Wilks (Skoda), Kris Meeke (Peugeot), as well as of course Lanark's own Alister McRae (Proton), will be the faces to look out for at the Friday night start at Scone Palace for the 2010 RAC Motor Sports Association (MSA) Rally of Scotland.
There then follows two days of high speed drama through the Scottish countryside in competitive, timed, stages, before the ceremonial finish at Stirling Castle on the Sunday afternoon.
Within the rally itself there will also be the "Two Wheel Drive Cup" class.
To encourage the rally drivers of the future and to promote general interest in the sport, admission for children is FREE! All tickets can be purchased through the official www.rallyofscotland.com website or the hotline 0844 847 2488. The event will be broadcast by Eurosport to 59 countries.
International Motorsport Chief Executive Andrew Coe commented: "The scene is set for a quite fantastic event in one of the most stunning locations any form of top-class motor sport could wish to visit. It's an event that Scotland should be justifiably proud of and also one which many other major events in the world of rallying and sport, generally, will view with great envy."
Prince commends Sustainable Glasgow
September 6, 2010 by localnews · Leave a Comment
Story by Grace Franklin Photographs by Stuart Maxwell
The Duke of Rothesay started it in Glasgow yesterday.
Aiming to encourage people to START to do what they can to make better use of natural resources and protect the environment, Prince Charles is making a whistle-stop tour of the UK in a train fuelled by recycled cooking oil, to visit good examples of what is being done already.
START – is a co-operative of partners who have all started down the eco friendly line.
The initiative was launched in Glasgow with the Duke going walk-about among the stands in Glasgow Central Station.
After being welcomed by Lord Provost Bob Winter, he chatted with people in the crowd and made Nancy Gray's day. From Shettleston, the 74-year-old is an avowed Royalist. 'I just love the Royal Family,' said the retired tailoress. But when
Prince Charles shook her hand and said he hoped he was not interrupting her day, she went all aflutter. Literally shaking with excitement, Nancy told the LOCAL NEWS: 'I came here specially to see him.' She followed the Royal entourage around all the stalls which highlighted what could be done to START looking after the planet better.
Price Charles – who is correctly addressed as the Duke of Rothesay when he is in Scotland – first dropped off a pair of his old green cord trousers into the Oxfam clothes recycling point.
Waitrose showed off their new trolley which can be borrowed by customers from their Byres Road shop, starting this week. It is fitted to the customer's bicycle and enables them to pedal home with a big amount of shopping.
Cube Housing Association was able to illustrate their new district heating scheme on the Wyndford Estate in Maryhill. The cost effective system delivers low-carbon energy and reduces carbon emissions in a whole neighbourhood.
Virgin Money had a wish tree to get people to promise to do something – and they'll come back to you in a month's time to see if you've done it for the planet.
B & Q staff showed the Prince how they make peat free compost. 'He was really interested in what we're doing,' said Douglas Szafranek.
Husband and wife team Alan and Hazel Tomkins were delighted to be presented with their award for sustainable business for their restaurants which include Gamba, Urban and Dining Room in Glasgow. The first such award from the START group, the company has worked to train staff in food safety, minimising waste and maximising on local produce. Said Alan Tomkins: 'It is very special to have been recognised for this.'
Four young apprentices from City Building's Queenslie training centre in Glasgow, explained to the Prince how they are building two different models of sustainable houses to test what works best. Said Laura Twigg (18): 'He was interested in the fact that we used tyres as one of the building materials.' Michael Connelly (17) commented: 'It was a great honour to meet Prince Charles. I never would have imagined I'd meet a member of the Royal family one day.' Naveed Mohammed (19) admits he's been bragging about meeting the Prince since he knew he'd been selected for the START event. And Brian Docherty (17) found the Prince asked a lot of questions about the pipe layout in the sustainable houses.
Glasgow City Council had a large number of stands in their exhibition. Most noticeable was a Peugeot electric seven seater vehicle which came from Allied Vehicles in Possilpark and is one of the fleet of electric vehicles the city has purchased. Said Allied Vehicles managing director Paul Nelson: 'The Prince was very interested in the project. Glasgow city has purchased 10 of these seven seaters and 30 smaller vehicles – called Peugeot Partners – from us.'
Quietly in the background, Richard Bellingham, Senior Research Fellow on energy Policy at the University of Strathclyde's Fraser of Allander Institute, was pleased that a report produced by the Institute had brought together so many of the organisations in Glasgow which are STARTing to implement sustainability procedures. 'By drawing in the right partners, the benefits will be real for the city and more likely to be supported and therefore, stronger,' he said.
At the end of the tour, Jane Wood, Chief Executive of Scottish Business in the Community said that Scotland – home of the Enlightenment – should be proud of leading the way in carbon reduction and sustainability as instanced by the work shown on the stands the Duke of Rothesay had toured. She was wearing an eye-catching outfit designed by Joey Dee of Edinburgh and using 75% recycled materials.
Before Prince Charles boarded his train to go to Edinburgh where a similar exhibition was to be visited, he told the assembled crowd: 'START is all about what each one of us can do for the benefit of our children and our children's children. It can be really simple to make better use of natural resources. Each of the major sponsors of START have their own message because they know their own customers best. Through these initiatives we are leading by example and showing what can be done to make that first step to sustainability.'
He added: 'Glasgow is good at working together. This will take the city forward to develop the brand Sustainable Glasgow.'


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Mozart Violin Concertos, Marianne Thorsen, Trondheimsolistene, 2L 2L38 SACD (two discs, one single layer SACD and a stereo CD)
This SACD arrived unannounced in my mail box the other day. I had ordered another SACD directly from a label named simply 2L. This was an unknown Norwegian label to me, and being the adventurous soul that I am in regards to new and/or unusual SACD material, I ordered a disc hoping that I would not be disappointed. Needless to say, that choral/orchestral recording was stunning.
So, I was pleasantly surprised to see this new recording, a disc of Mozart Violin concertos in my happy hands. Now, I already owned another SACD of Mozart Violin concertos featuring uber violinist Julia Fischer with Yakov Kreizberg and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra on Pentatone. I am not one who dwells on long dead virtuosos, preferring to look at the current crop of new and upcoming players. Well, I have for many years become tired of the numerous classical "stars" that burst on the scene, dripping with amazing technical skills but nary a drop of musicality in their bodies …or worse, musical skills that may likely take decades to develop (I am thinking of an Asian piano player with the same first and last name that records for the yellow Teutonic label). Julia Fischer on Pentatone is NOT one of those types, nor is the soloist on this new 2L recording.
Ms. Thorsen, like Miss Fischer, is a consummate musician, playing with a musical depth that is breath taking. What I find so impressive about these players is that they are obviously prodigiously talented yet never once does their prodigious virtuosity get in the way of the music. Once again, this reviewer will not compare Ms. Thorsen's playing to numerous other renditions, as I like to focus on the here and now. I suspect that most people would find little to fault with what we are offered here. I will say no more about Julia Ficher's playing, as I will submit a different review of one of Miss Fischer's new Pentatone recordings at a later date.
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This recording was made with PDA microphones, Millennia Media amplifiers and SPHYNX2 converters to a PYRAMIX workstation, all within the DXD domain. Digital eXtreme Definition is a professional audio format that brings "analogue" qualities in 32 bit floating point at 352.8 kHz. With DXD we preserve 11.2896 Mbit/s (4 times the data of DSD). This leaves headroom for editing and balancing before quantizing to DSD. Super Audio CD is the carrier that brings the pure quality to the domestic audience.
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YANGON – Myanmar's long-silenced opposition on Sunday reappointed Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as party leader at a landmark maiden congress as it eyes victory in elections due in 2015.
The former political prisoner was unanimously selected as chairwoman by her National League for Democracy's 120-member Central Committee, a party source said.
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Recipe: Melissa Clark's Perfect Tomato Sandwich
A Perfect Tomato Sandwich
Of all the seasonal produce that I wax poetic about in these pages, nothing gives me goose bumps like a ripe summer tomato.
Meaty and succulent, its velvety flesh enclosing a fragrant jelly of golden seeds and dripping with sweet pink juice, a summer tomato is everything its cold-weather counterparts isn't, including cheap and abundant.
In August, farmer stands are rich with them, laid out on tables like a resplendent mosaic in shades of red and orange, yellow and gold, even purple, black and green. Stunning to look at, better to eat.
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Tomato sandwiches and I go way back. I've always had a fondness for them ever since I read Harriet the Spy in 3rd grade. Unlike Harriet, who likes hers on soft white bread, I like mine on toast to give it some crunch (and stave off the soggy factor). The toast, along with the tomatoes, is the only constant element in what is an ever-changing sandwich. I vary the fat (there has to be fat to bring out the flavor of the tomato), swap up the seasonings (salt, pepper, garlic, smoked paprika), and add in whatever little savory extras I've got on hand.
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Serves 1
2 slices crusty bread with a dense crumb
1 or 2 ripe tomatoes, depending upon how big the tomatoes are, how hungry you are, and how large your bread slices are
At least 1 tablespoon good butter
Flaky sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1. Toast the bread until crunchy and golden. While it's toasting, slice the tomatoes, taking out the brown core.
2. As soon as the toast is ready, spread it thickly with the butter. And I mean thickly, using at least a tablespoon and probably a lot more. I use about a tablespoon and a half, but then again my bread slices are on the commodious side. If the butter isn't salted, sprinkle a little salt on top, then top with the tomatoes. You can overlap them or not, depending on how thickly you've sliced them.
3. Sprinkle the tomatoes with salt and grind on some fresh black pepper. Eat with your hands. A knife and fork here diminishes the tactile pleasure.
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- Don't use ciabatta or the tomato jelly will fall through those characteristic holes. And you want all that good stuff in your mouth.
- Other than that you can use any bread that you like, and I've probably used every type of bread under the New York City sun, including challah (sweet and eggy), cinnamon raisin, seeded rye, pumpernickel, and every kind of whole grain imaginable. My favorite is a slightly sour rye loaf without seeds that I get from Balthazar Bakery.
- If there is fresh ricotta in the house, I use it in place of the butter, dolloping it on the warm bread in thick, lush spoonfuls.
- If your tomatoes are one the flabby side, flavor wise, you can add a squirt of lemon juice, but don't overdo it.
- I make a cherry tomato version of this when they are the only kind of tomatoes I have on hand. The trick is to halve them, and then place them, cut side down, on the bread so they don't roll off.
A Dish By Another Name
- For Pan con Tomate - I wrote about this a few years ago in my New York Times column and it's still a favorite: toast bread, rub with a cut garlic half. Drizzle with good olive oil, add tomato slices, more oil (be generous here), and a generous sprinkling of flaky sea salt. This is one to eat over the sink.
- For Tomato, Avocado, and Mayo - Toast bread, rub with a cut garlic half. Spread with mayonnaise, layer with avocado and tomato, drizzle with lemon juice and good salt and lots of black pepper. Butter or olive oil can stand in for the mayo.
- For Tomato, Onion, and Butter - Toast dark, grainy bread, spread liberally with good, flavorful butter. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Layer with tomato and thinly sliced sweet onion or slivers of scallion. Decorate with chives if you have them.
- For Tomato, Anchovy, Olive Oil - Add anchovy fillets to the Pan con Tomate.
- For Tomato, Prosciutto and Butter - Toast a halved baguette. Spread thickly with butter, add tomatoes, salt, pepper, prosciutto, and basil.


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Fair trade coffee buzz gaining momentum
Date: 07-Aug-02
Country: PERU
Author: Missy Ryan
"There's a certain type of consumer who's ready to pay extra if they know that what they're paying is going to the producer and helping him improve his living conditions," said Simon Pare, head of responsible products for the French branch of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations (FLO) International.
Non-governmental organization FLO, the world's largest fair trade certifier, puts a "fair trade" label on products like coffee, bananas and rice consumed in 17 countries after it determines producers comply with conditions such as a "decent wage" for farmers, workers' rights to unionize, safety and environmental standards and shunning of child labor.
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But while fair trade coffee sales have leaped in the last five years, they are still a drop in the bucket compared to sales of giant coffee producers like Kraft Foods Inc., Nestle and Sara Lee. Pare said fair trade coffee only accounted for around 0.8 percent of world sales.
But just how big a premium must socially minded consumers pay? According to Martin Meteyard, chairman of British fair trade coffee trader Cafe Direct, fair trade coffee is about 25 percent dearer than regular brands of java in supermarkets.
U.K coffee chain Costa, owned by British leisure group Whitbread Plc, charges only around 10 pence ($0.02) more for a fair trade cappuccino, and U.S.-owned Starbucks absorbs the hike entirely.
Fair trade advocates say one of their chief concerns is making sure farmers get their due pay. And they say the fair trade label ensures they do - with FLO's minimum price of $1.26 a pound, farmers pocket around $0.90-$1.00.
According to Easson, farmers who get market price for their coffee end up with only $0.18-$0.25 a pound.
Their production costs, meanwhile, are $0.50-$0.80 a pound, prompting some farmers to let their beans rot on the bush or to abandon farms for work in big cities.
"That price gives us a better lifestyle and more income. We can send our kids to school, see a doctor, pay for medicine," said Alfredo Rumaldo, part of a small coffee producers' association in El Salvador. Rumaldo says that fair trade is small coffee farmers' only hope for the future.
FLO says sales of the fair trade products it certifies benefit 800,000 families in 39 countries. Those sales increased to 45.5 million tonnes in 2001 from 26.0 million in 1997.
While industry advocates are not aiming to take over the coffee market, they say fair trade, popular in Europe, has made big strides in places like the United States and Mexico. In rich Switzerland fair trade bananas make up 20 percent of the banana market.
"With fair trade coffee at 1 percent (of market share), Nestle isn't going to sit up and say 'Oh damn, I'm going to lose my market,' but when we get to 5 percent, it puts issues on the agenda," Pare said.


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Today is the feast of St. Gianna Beretta Molla. I have a special devotion to St. Gianna and so I thought it appropriate to post the origins of that devotion today.
Almost seven years ago, our first daughter, Therese Joy, was diagnosed in utero with a fatal neural tube defect called anencephaly. In the days and weeks following Therese's diagnosis, I literally survived on the prayers of hundreds of friends. Some of these friends I have never met, and others I have had the pleasure of meeting after the birth and death of my daughter. One such woman mailed me a relic of then Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla. This woman wrote me a letter, promised to pray fervently for our intentions, asked me to read St. Gianna's book, and to wear the relic.
I don't wear jewlrey (other than my wedding ring), and this relic was huge! Yet after reading Gianna's book, I felt very drawn to her life, and could very much relate to the suffering she must have felt during her last pregnancy. I drew great strength from her story, and began to pray for her intercession. I wore the relic daily for the remainder of my pregnancy. I even wore it during my labor and delivery of Therese.
After the birth and death of Therese I prayed fervently for the gift of another baby to love, and this time to keep. All the suffering of my pregnancy, all the pains of labor, were so worth it to hold Therese in my arms–even for just a few hours. I wanted to do it all again, and this time to have a baby to take home.
As the weeks and months passed, my grief over losing Therese grew deeper, and my prayers for a child grew more and more desperate. Each cycle brought about new feelings of hopelessness and sadness. I was consumed with doubt that we would ever have another baby, let alone a healthy baby. I grew more and more depressed. I felt sorry for myself, angry at God that my daugther had died, and frustrated that it was taking so long to be blessed with another baby. I felt like I had done everything God asked of me, I even gave him my only daugther. I never once asked God to heal Therese, because I felt very strongly that this was not His will. And yet there I was, feeling totally abandomed and alone.
I was self-consumed and full of anxiety. I cried almost every day. I felt totally helpless. Friends announced their pregnancies to me, and every time it was like a knife in my heart. Why were so many women blessed with multiple healthy children, and yet my baby died and I wasn't getting pregnant! I then felt guilty for not rejoicing in their news. What a terrible friend I was! It was a vicious cycle.
At just about the lowest point in my grief–and my life–my spiritual director called me out on being self-consumed with my own problems. He challenged me to start thinking of other people and how I could, even in my own grief, serve other women. He assured me that I was not going to get out of my funk and depression if I kept thinking about myself.
Right around this same time, I heard the sad news that one of the couples we knew at the law school had just had their adoption fall through. Kristen worked at the law school library, and her husband attended the school with me and my husband. Kristen always greeted me with a big smile when I walked into the library. She and her husband had been struggling with infertilty for years, and doing so in strong Catholic circles where pregnancies are announced on a very regular basis.
The news of their failed adoption hit me very hard. I suddenly felt this intense sadness for someone other than myself. I remembered Kristen, who didn't know me very well, crying when she heard the news of our daugther's illness. It was the week after Therese's diagnosis, and Kristen approached me after Mass with tears in her eyes as she told me how sorry she was about Therese. She promised to pray, and I knew she would. That moment in the past was suddenly clear as day, and I found myself crying tears of sorrow for her. I thought, she must feel like me, empty, lost, confused, and hurt. I began to pray for her immediately, and I helped to organize a spiritual bouquet for her. The roses we gave her lived for weeks, and I later discovered that she was very moved by the gesture.
Kristen responded to their failed adoption with a novena to St. Gianna. She asked for a baby girl, who she planned to name Gianna. Very shortly thereafter, in miraculous fashion, she received a call that a baby girl had been born and that they were chosen to be the adoptive parents.
I never remember feeling such joy at the birth of a friend's baby. Kristen's suffering had been so great, and it was a great blessing to know she had a beautiful baby girl to love and cherish. Ever since the death of Therese, I had to run and hide from the babies of friends and family. Each new child seemed to remind me so poignently of my own loss and suffering. But Kristen's Gianna was an answer to my prayers, and every time I saw her I was reminded that God was indeed good, and that sometimes he does say yes to the intentions of our hearts.
Soon afterwards, Kristen informed me of her novena to St. Gianna, and she challenged me to pray the same novena, asking for a healthy baby girl who I would name Gianna. While it took me almost two months to feel ready for another novena, I eventually did as she advised. The next month, I discovered I was pregnant, and nine months later we met our own baby Gianna. And in typical Divine fashion, then Blessed Gianna was canonized just weeks after our Gianna's birth. It was a joyous time indeed!
The life of a new baby brought great healing to my very broken heart. While the pain and sadness of losing Therese will always remain a part of who I am, much of the bitterness, anger, and fear disappeared when I heard our Gianna's first cry. Gianna is always a reminder to me that life's greatest joys are indeed accompanied by deep suffering. She reminds me daily of the sweetness of life, and that even amidst suffering, God hears our cries and answers our prayers.
You can read Kristen's story here, and do check out her beautiful blog. She is an amazing writer, and just a beautiful person. When I came across her blog I cried tears of joy as I read about her Gianna. Through the intercession of St. Gianna, we both have beautiful young girls to love. May God Bless you all today on this great feast!


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The telephone rang this week, and when the reporter answered with his name, the voice on the other end of the line responded with, ''McEnroe,'' followed by a slight pause and then, ''Patrick McEnroe.''
It is a distinction that Patrick McEnroe has been making as long as he has been involved in tennis, and it is a distinction well worth making. On court, his older brother John was a temperamental, net-rushing natural who won seven Grand Slam singles titles, while Patrick was a self-contained ground stroker whose best result was a run to the Australian Open semifinals.
Seldom have two siblings in the same sport seemed more different, and seldom have two disparate siblings followed such similarly high-profile career paths. John preceded Patrick at Stanford University, on the professional tour, in the television commentary booth and, most recently, in the Davis Cup captain's chair.
At times, it has been difficult to grasp why a young, free-thinking man as able as Patrick McEnroe would want to keep thrusting himself into his famous brother's shadow. But he has done it with forethought and most of the consequences in mind, and he did it again in December when he aggressively and successfully pursued the Davis Cup captaincy that John McEnroe had handed back with a whimper, a whine and little remorse.Continue reading the main story
And now it appears that Patrick McEnroe has found a tennis niche in which he has every chance of outshining his brother. With his people skills, work ethic, downsized ego and longer attention span, Patrick could be twice the captain John was.
''I think he's better equipped to be a captain than John,'' said Todd Martin, the leading player on the American team that Patrick McEnroe will lead against the Swiss here in a first-round series that begins Friday.
In the draw announced today, Martin plays the talented 19-year-old Roger Federer in Friday's opening singles match before Jan-Michael Gambill faces Michel Kratochvil. On Saturday, Gambill and Justin Gimelstob are expected to play the doubles for the United States.
In other first-round matches, Ecuador plays at Australia, France at Belgium, Morocco at Brazil, Romania at Germany, Spain at the Netherlands, Russia at Slovakia and the Czech Republic at Sweden. The eight World Group winners advance to the quarterfinals on April 6-8.
Martin, continuing his assessment of the skills each McEnroe brings to tennis and the Davis Cup, said: ''They have followed the same path, but they've done everything along those paths in starkly different fashion. And I think Patrick's diligence and his savvy -- almost business savvy but really more life savvy -- will provide him with greater success in the long run off the court.''
Which brother ends up the greater success is, of course, insignificant in the grand scheme, but the parlor-game comparisons are inevitable. Patrick McEnroe understands that.
''Certainly when it came to being captain, that's something that's a huge honor,'' McEnroe said. ''The fact my brother did it makes it more of a story, so to speak, but it was always something I thought about even before my brother was captain. I've always been inspired by it, and I love being part of a team. Obviously, I look up to my brother and all he's done, but at the same time I tried to do my own thing, despite the fact that I've done the same things.''
It is difficult to imagine Patrick doing what John did: talking up the meaning of the largely ceremonial captaincy, lobbying for the post and then bailing out after little more than a year, citing disenchantment with the Davis Cup format, the lack of influence he had on matches and the continuing lack of commitment from stars like Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Michael Chang.
''There's a stress level that was new to me,'' John said in a conference call on Thursday. ''Maybe Patrick is better equipped to handle it. Maybe he's a little mellower than I am.''
Patrick's expectations from the stars are lower and his view of the post more realistic.
He was hired to win but, more important, to build a sense of commitment to Davis Cup among the emerging generation of Americans. These players will never match what Sampras, Agassi, Jim Courier, Chang and Martin have collectively accomplished, but they might do better than many observers expect.
It was with that constructive goal in mind that Patrick chose to bypass more experienced American journeymen and select 18-year-old Andy Roddick to his first four-man team. Roddick, the world junior champion last year, will not play singles on Day 1 against the Swiss and Federer, their own, much more established teenage phenom. But according to Captain McEnroe, Roddick should be playing soon.Continue reading the main story


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Microscopic modelling of merging at unsignalised intersections and its application to freeway merging
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin's tenure on Rocky Top is off to a smooth start.
Jonathan Crompton threw five touchdown passes Saturday, leading the Volunteers to a 63-7 rout of Football Bowl Subdivision newcomers Western Kentucky and their largest margin of victory in nine years.
"This is the way that we expect to play," Kiffin said. "We have high expectations here. I just talked to them about understanding that was one game and it's over. We've got to find a way to play better next week."
In its first two drives, Tennessee looked as if it hadn't learned much under Kiffin, the youngest active coach in the division. Crompton threw a pass over the middle that was easily tipped by Thomas Majors and intercepted by Jamal Forrest, and Montario Hardesty fumbled after a hard hit.
The Vols settled down after the first quarter, and Hardesty carried for 18 and 22 yards to help set up a 2-yard touchdown run by freshman Bryce Brown early in the second quarter.
Bobby Rainey fumbled on the Hilltoppers' next play, and LaMarcus Thompson recovered for Tennessee. Crompton connected with Luke Stocker on his first of two TD catches to make it 14-0 only 7 seconds later.
"We played one quarter of decent football, and then I think for the next three quarters were physically dominated," Western Kentucky coach Dave Elson said.
Tennessee's defense looked every bit the stalwart it was in 2008, while the offense found the composure it was missing in last year's 5-7 season. Running backs broke through the line of scrimmage, wide receivers ran sound routes and Crompton threw accurately.
"We really just tried to get our personality as a team on film. We wanted to be physical but smart. The game we just played is part of our resume, and we want to build that resume and send it out to our opponents," Vols safety Eric Berry said.
The receiving corps hardly looked depleted by injuries, with Stocker, Marsalis Teague, Quintin Hancock and Brandon Warren each catching scoring strikes.
Crompton, who was pulled with 12:26 left in the game, finished 21 of 28 with two picks, and his five TD passes was one more than his output last season. Hardesty finished with 160 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries, and Brown had 104 yards rushing and a touchdown on 11 attempts.
The Hilltoppers couldn't capitalize on the early turnovers and had minus-21 yards after their first 19 plays. Tennessee finished with 657 yards compared to Western Kentucky's 83.
Rainey had the Hilltoppers' only score on a 19-yard run with 2:41 in the third quarter that made it 35-7.
The win was the Vols' easiest since a 70-3 victory over Louisiana-Monroe in 2000. Their 380 yards rushing were the most since 2004.
The Vols were also joined by former Vols and current Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, who before the game announced a $1 million gift for a new athletic training center.
Though the attendance in the 100,011-capacity Neyland Stadium only reached 98,761, the fans turned out in droves as Kiffin and the Vols made the traditional "Vol Walk" from their buses to the stadium before the game.
"I really had to make sure that I did not go up and down today, because that's what I talked about with our team a long time last night _ dealing with the emotions of a wonderful scene like the Vol Walk, a wonderful event like running through the 'T' and playing in front of 100,000 people," Kiffin said.


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Since we moved to California, our cat Merton has taken to lying on thresholds. His favorite one is the doorway between our media room and our screened-in porch. Whether we are watching a movie or having supper enjoying a view of trees, Merton will be right there with half his long body inside and the other half outside.This behavior has got us thinking about thresholds.We could give Merton a nickname, we realized. He could be "Sufi cat," since Sufis are those who stand on the threshold … [Read more...]
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Whether you are doing a "staycation" this year in your backyard or going on a trip to a distant place, you can turn your journey into a pilgrimage with a few simple spiritual practices. Below are some we have used. For more, we invite you to sign up for our e-course "Transformative Travel: The Art of Finding Meaning on the Road with Phil Cousineau" at SpiritualityandPractice.com.The first day of our pilgrimage to the Holy Land a few years ago, our camera broke. Standing on the Mount of … [Read more...]
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Variety is the spice of life. We've been taught that by our consumer culture since we were very young. Think of all the movies in which immigrants experience for the first time the incredible diversity of brands in a supermarket. Our stores are stuffed with variations on the same things. All this feeds our need to constantly seek new foods, clothing styles, appliances, technological toys, and other objects of our desires.We are also programmed by our culture to look down upon the … [Read more...]
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i have a gap when closing my pocket door...when i turn the adjusting bolt it doesnt raise or lower the door....what am i doing wrong
If you are talking about the nut on the roller hardware, that is for locking the bolt in place, check to see if the bolt itself is turning.
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Location: Natural Products Utilization ResearchTitle: Comparison of three chromatographic techniques for the detection of mitragynine and other indole and oxindole alkaloids in mitragyna speciosa (Kratom) plants Author
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Citation: Wang, M., Carrell, E., Ali, Z., Avonto, C., Parcher, J., Khan, I. 2014. Comparison of three chromatographic techniques for the detection of mitragynine and other indole and oxindole alkaloids in mitragyna speciosa (Kratom) plants. Journal of Separation Science. 37(12):1411-1418. Interpretive Summary: The research was carried out in an attempt to provide new analytical methods for the determination the principal psychoactive components, viz., mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, of the herbal plant M. speciosa, also known as kratom. The results showed that the technique of supercritical fluid chromatography was superior to the other chromatographic techniques. The results show clearly that any chromatographic technique for the quantitative analysis of mitragynine and other indole alkaloids must address the issue of interference by diastereoisomers of the alkaloids such as speciogynine, mitraciliatine, and speciociliatine.
Technical Abstract: Leaves of the Southeast Asian plant Mitragyna speciosa (kratom) are used to suppress pain and mitigate opioid withdrawal syndromes. The potential threat of abuse and ready availability of this uncontrolled psychoactive plant material in the U.S. have led to the need for improved analytical techniques for the detection of the major, active components of this plant, viz., mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine. Three independent chromatographic methods coupled with two detection systems, GC/MS, SFC/DAD, and HPLC/MS/DAD, were compared for the analysis of mitragynine and other indole and oxindole alkaloids in speciosa plant extracts. The indole alkaloids included two sets of diastereoisomers, viz., i) paynantheine and 3-isopaynantheine, and ii) mitragynine, speciogynine, and speciociliatine. In addition, two oxindole alkaloid diastereoisomers, viz., corynoxine and corynoxine B, were also studied. It was determined that the resolution and sensitivity of the HPLC and SFC methods were further enhanced by the addition of ammonium acetate to the eluent. This is in contrast to the more common use of an acidic additive for liquid eluents. The HPLC and SFC methods successfully resolved the major components, mitragynine, paynantheine, speciogynine and speciociliatine, with slightly different elution orders. The GC method used in this study was less satisfactory because it was unable to resolve the diastereoisomers, mitragynine and speciociliatine. This separation was difficult by gas chromatography with a liquid stationary phase because these diastereoisomers differ only in the orientation of an interior hydrogen. The observed lack of resolution of the indole alkaloid diastereoisomers coupled with the likeness of the MS and MS2 spectra, calls into question proposed GC methods for the analysis of mitragynine based on solely GC/MS separation and identification.


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storage space other than a healthy brain.
I freaked out my grade 4 teacher when I asked why we are alive. "Is
it just so that we can have kids, then they have kids, then they
have kids?" Her mouth dropped open. I learned what 'nonplussed'
looked like that day, but I can only remember her answer as being
unsatisfying. So I've been spending my life trying to find some
answers. So far the search has has shown me that the search itself
may be the best answer for me.
I like to talk to people on buses. I've become very social over the
years. Not sure I know how that happened, but I like it.
Mind, I've done some normal things too. Like work in a profession
from which I've retired and raised a couple of decent kids. I can
usually pass for normal.
I never, ever, play mahjong online. Would I lie to you?
I visit with my grandkids, cook easy, healthy food that I make in big batches to freeze, go to lectures, skeptics in the pub, and ride a bike.


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i second thatOriginally posted by thechickencow
That video is awesome!!
This is a discussion on Now I Know Why within the Comparison: WRX vs World forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; Originally posted by thechickencow That video is awesome!! i second that...
i second thatOriginally posted by thechickencow
That video is awesome!!
Meanwhile, no one mentioned that Burns is now driving a 206.
We're just too broken up to talk about that.
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isnt subaru getting tommy mackinen to replace burns?
Tommi's been retired in like the past 2-3 races for various reasons...so far Petter Solberg is keeping Subaru in the points race but so far it's all Peugeot...
To quote Unreal Tournament..."TOTAL DOMINATION!"
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Well Solberg had his share of problems as well....at some point he was driving a 2WD car for almost an entire stage. And actually Makinen has more points than Solberg.