text:
Welcome to Ultimate Subaru Message Board, my lurker friend!
|Welcome to Ultimate Subaru Message Board, an unparalleled Subaru community full of the greatest Subaru gurus and modders on the planet! We offer technical information and discussion about all things Subaru, the best and most popular all wheel drive vehicles ever created.
We offer all this information for free to everyone, even lurkers like you! All we ask in return is that you sign up and give back some of what you get out - without our awesome registered users none of this would be possible! Plus, you get way more great stuff as a member! Lurk to lose, participate to WIN*!
* The joy of participation and being generally awesome constitutes winning
** Not an actual guarantee, but seriously, you probably won't regret it!
Serving the Subaru Community since May 18th, 1998!
ER27TT Engine Color Scheme HELP!
Posted 10 October 2005 - 09:35 PM
I am working on putting my ER27 back together and I trying to come up with a really cool color scheme to use under the hood. Both of the turbos will be visible unlike normal stock turbo placement. I want to cover every thing that may discolor or become corroded from the nuts and bolts to the throttle body weather it be even polished aluminum block and then clear coated I dont care.
I have access to just about any method of coloring every part under the hood; paint high/low temp, Powdercoating high and low temp also super high gloss and mirror effect. Some of my powdercoats also have very similar looks of chrome. I will be using CARBONFIBER as well but how I will use it I cannot disclose right now sorry:brow:
I would appricate it if I could get A LOT of good help here. I have my own ideas but I always love the ideas put forth by my subaru family.
Go ahead and post some pictures of; colors, finished engines, anything you like I dont care. The more the marrier!
Thanks Everyone!
Posted 10 October 2005 - 09:57 PM
Posted 10 October 2005 - 10:19 PM
Posted 10 October 2005 - 10:27 PM
engine bay one collor(blue, white, black
motor. blue whit or black..
then i would do the turbos in pollished aluminum and the intake (maf side) in the same or carbin fiber....
dont use to many collors or it will look realy buiss and will suck.
on mine im doing mine (engine compartment in dark grey,, motor will be white...
Posted 10 October 2005 - 11:19 PM
i would keep it simple nothing looks better then a very classy engine bay. not a ricer engine bay..
keep it simple, and clean, I'd say clean up the whole bay body color. Then paint the block another color, and then just clean up everything else with either flat black (makes for a really clean look, IMHO) or silver/metallic/chrome...
Posted 10 October 2005 - 11:54 PM
Keep them coming!
Posted 11 October 2005 - 12:21 AM
Posted 11 October 2005 - 12:32 AM
You know, it probably doesn't make a significant difference, but painting or coating the engine in any way will reduce heat dissipation. In light of that, I would advise against doing anything with at least the block and the heads. The cam towers, rocker covers, and any accessories should be okay to paint though.
good point, and on a TT ER27, this might be crucial!
Posted 11 October 2005 - 09:05 AM
Looking back I wish the whole thing was just done with the quality silver engine paint. Really don't matter much to me now; its all coverd in dirt and oil.
Posted 11 October 2005 - 09:28 AM
Posted 11 October 2005 - 09:51 AM
Here is what I did with my JDM before sticking it in last year, it's still holding up just fine and looks almost as good as what it did then, except better now that it has been intercooled etc..
I like that alot! very clean!
Posted 11 October 2005 - 12:16 PM
Keep EM COMING! Doesnt have to be just a subaru engine. (<-- dare I say this:-\ )
Posted 11 October 2005 - 12:33 PM
I painted everything before putting it together, masking off anything I didn't want painted..hose connections, electrical connections, gasket surfaces etc. It also matches good with my aluminum ceramic painted turbo and down-pipe. But yea some people like it, some people don't, just depends on what your going for. I went for kinda dark and simple, will show less oil leak messes once it starts leaking oil..and we all know it has to eventually.
Posted 11 October 2005 - 01:22 PM
Posted 11 October 2005 - 01:31 PM
Edit: here is a fairly new picture I found on my computer, only a few things have been modified since then (intake shielded off and a few other things like being in the car).
Posted 11 October 2005 - 08:07 PM
Keep 'em coming!
Posted 11 October 2005 - 09:18 PM
Posted 12 October 2005 - 08:30 PM
Valve covers (two color), top intake, pulleys (no-timing-cover conversion), intake manifold, fuel filter holder, waterpump pipe, maybe fuel rail and dog bone. And depending on how the machine shop cleaned them: oil pan, front corner splash/skid guard things, and cam towers. I have teaser pics, but nothing is assembled and not all colored. VERY VERY VERY time-consuming...
I would powdercoat if I could.
Posted 13 October 2005 - 12:29 AM
Posted 14 October 2005 - 04:52 PM
Powdercoating tools... that's why I can't do it. My painting tools are a set of rattle cans!
Powdercoating is not much worse then painting as long as you have all the right tools to do it. Once you aquire the tools you will never paint again... as long as you can heat up the parts above 400 deg without melting them.
Posted 15 October 2005 - 01:03 AM
Keep em flowing
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users


text:
NBC News
Jeff Barillaro, aka Soldier Hard, is an Iraq War veteran who has put his hip-hop talents to work. Barillaro sings gritty songs he hopes will raise awareness of PTSD and suicide.
A hip-hop song beseeching battle buddies to be on watch for suicidal signals among their peers is being used — informally for now — within the Army as a prevention tool to help the branch stem an ongoing suicide crisis.
"Red Flags," penned and recorded by former Army tank gunner Jeff Barillaro, was created as an urgent call for current troops as well as Iraq and Afghanistan veterans not to ignore or miss the sometimes-subtle yet often-obvious behavioral changes known to precede many suicides, Barillaro said.
"We've seen the red flags but we were blind to them," said Barillaro, an Iraq War veteran who performs under the stage name Soldier Hard. Many of his songs and videos draw on his own raw experiences with a diagnosis of severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Through the end of March, the Army reported 81 apparent suicides this year among active-duty, Army Reserve and National Guard troops — one death every 26.7 hours. (Some cases remain under investigation). The fatal pace has increased slightly. During 2012, the Army reported 324 suicides within those groups — one death every 27 hours, according to the Pentagon. The latest estimate from the Department of Veterans Affairs showed that 22 veterans commit suicide daily.
The Army — the branch most significantly impacted by suicides — has implemented an array of anti-suicide initiatives, but an Army Reserve adviser in Connecticut sees such a potent message in Barillaro's lyrics, he believes the song can save lives.
"I want to share his music with anyone willing ,to listen. I think anyone can relate to 'Red Flags,' " said Army 1st Sgt. Steve Kreider, who is based at an Army Reserve Center in Middletown, Conn. "It strikes a chord that this is something we really need to keep an eye open for. There are warning signs we have to recognize not only in other people but in ourselves — I'm being reclusive or I'm drinking too much — these are all signs that something is going on in your life that could be detrimental down the road."
'Maybe we can stop it'
Kreider has shared "Red Flags" with some of his soldiers in Connecticut — and "for everyone of them, it's had a positive impact," he said. Meanwhile, another Army veteran recently played the song for soldiers at Fort Knox, Ky., Kreider said.
Moreover, Kreider has now shared the video "with a lot of different higher-ranking people. I'm sure that they're looking at it closely to see if this is something that would fit the mold of what the military can utilize as a tool," he said.
"And if not, word of mouth is a powerful took itself," he added. "It's close to going viral."
Since the song's video was released April 17 on YouTube, it has received nearly 17,000 views. The lyrics are rooted in two actual suicides that stuck hard with Barillaro as he researched the topic by clicking through a blur of military obituaries.
The first verse details a well-decorated Iraq War veteran who, once he shed his uniform and medals, lost his pride yet gained anger while grappling with PSTD, a traumatic brain injury, alcoholism and isolation before clutching a gun and scrawling a farewell note: "I'm better off dead." In verse two, an active-duty soldier is devastated by survivor guilt after the combat loss of a close friend. He ultimately hanged himself in his bedroom. (Two soldiers pictured in the video are living service members who allowed their images to be used.)
Iraq War veteran and hip-hop artist Jeff "Soldier Hard" Barillaro discovered that sharing his experience with PTSD in music helped him and other veterans deal with the effects of the condition. Barillaro talks to MSNBC's Alex Witt.
"He was a hard charger but now he's just ate up," Soldier Hard sings of the second man.
"'Ate up' – that's a military term for being all messed up, for not being a good soldier anymore. This guy used to be good but after he came back, he just shut down," Barillaro said. "That's a red flag. But we didn't see that.
"Real topics. People can relate to these. I decided to turn their stories into a song," he added. "A lot of these guys, they're showing signs before they actually do it. I decided I had to do something. Maybe we can stop it."
- Soldier Hard's hip-hop lyrics reveal PTSD's rough edges
- Some wounded vets thrive on 'Alive Day,' others wear black
- One inch: Death in combat hinges on the tiniest margins

subset: commoncrawl


text:
WASHINGTON – As the nation moved closer to a government shutdown Tuesday, the political protagonists traded blame Sunday over whose fault it will be if federal employees are furloughed and some federal services are closed.
The Republican-controlled House was in recess Sunday after voting overnight to keep the government funded through Dec. 15, but delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Democratic-controlled Senate remained in weekend recess, refusing to come back until its scheduled return at 2 p.m. Monday. President Barack Obama remained out of sight Sunday.
Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., predicted that when the Senate returns on Monday afternoon it will reject the House's plan and then send the budget – minus a delay in the health care law or any other add-ons – back to the House.
"It's going to be rejected again and we're going to face the prospect of shutting down, again," Durbin said on CBS's "Face the Nation."
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, accused the Senate of trying to milk the shutdown clock – which tolls at midnight Monday – by not taking up the House measure until Monday. That would give Congress only 10 hours to avert a shutdown.
"If the Senate stalls until Monday afternoon instead of working today, it would be an act of breathtaking arrogance by the Senate Democratic leadership," Boehner said in a written statement. "They will be deliberately bringing the nation to the brink of a government shutdown for the sake of raising taxes on seniors' pacemakers and children's hearing aids and plowing ahead with the train wreck that is the president's health care law."
The Sauk Valley's legislators in Washington didn't necessarily agree on how to get there, but after Friday's Senate vote, both Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-East Moline, and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Channahon, on Sunday reinforced the need to avert a shutdown.
While Bustos has supported implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Kinzinger has said he wants to repeal Obamacare but is unwilling to defund the health care reform and shut down the government in the process.
Bustos, in no uncertain terms, said she believed the Senate bill should have been embraced.
"It's sad day for our country that some in Washington seem determined to force a shutdown of the government just to get their way," Bustos stated in a news release. "Reasonable lawmakers of both parties, governors across the country, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce along with hundreds of other business organizations, support the Senate-passed bill that would avert a harmful government shutdown. We had an opportunity to send that bill to the president last night, but radical ideology won the day."
Bustos said that a deal is doable if partisanship and ideology are put aside.
"I was elected, in part, because people back home in Illinois are sick and tired of politicians that opt to play games instead of governing. We should be able to work through our differences together and find a common sense, reasonable solution to avoid a shutdown."
Kinzinger voiced his concerns on his Twitter page Sunday: "Early this morning, the House acted to delay Obamacare and avert a government shutdown. The #SenateMustAct now to keep the government funded," he tweeted. "Americans don't want Obamacare and don't want a government shutdown. The #SenateMustAct."
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who has spearheaded efforts to force a showdown over the health care law, blamed Reid for being stubborn and refusing to compromise.
"So far Majority Leader Harry Reid has essentially told the House of Representatives and the American people, 'go jump in a lake,'" Cruz said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "He said, 'I'm not willing to compromise; I'm not willing to even talk.' His position is 100 percent of Obamacare must be funded in all instances, and other than that, he's going to shut the government down."
About 2 dozen House members gathered on the steps outside a closed Senate chamber Sunday to draw attention to the Senate's absence.
"The Senate not being here, Harry Reid is off on his own somewhere, is all the evidence you need to know they want to shut down the government," said Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark. "I personally believe that Sen. Reid and the president, for political purposes, want to shut down the government."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., insisted Sunday that his party isn't angling for a shutdown.
"Americans do not want a government shutdown and they do not want Obamacare," McConnell said.
Democrats maintained that a shutdown is part of the Republican strategy. Former President Bill Clinton, appearing on ABC's "This Week," accused House Republicans and the tea party of trying to dictate "over the Senate, over House Democrats, over the speaker of the House of (their) own party and over the president." He urged Obama to stand firm.
"They're mad because they don't want to negotiate. It seems almost spiteful," said Clinton, who was president during government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996. "There's nothing to negotiate with. He shouldn't delay the health care bill. It's the law. And we're opening the enrollment on Oct. 1."
How Congress got here:
— The Senate passed a measure Friday to keep the government running through Nov. 15. It got no Republican support.
— The House Sunday voted to keep the government open through Dec. 15, with its plan to delay the health care law, permanently kill a tax on medical devices that would help finance the law after that, and added a "conscience clause" to the health care law allowing employers to deny women contraception coverage.
— The House and Senate were both in recess Sunday.
When the Senate returns Monday, Reid plans to try to "table," or basically kill, the House plan. That would need 51 votes, which should be easy to get in the Senate, where Democrats control 54 seats.
If as expected the measure is tabled, the budget bill would go back to the House without the changes it approved Sunday – "clean," in legislative terms. The House would then be pressured to reconsider the Senate plan. If the House agreed before midnight, the government would stay open. If not, parts of the government would shut down.
"I am willing to work with anyone to improve the Affordable Care Act, but changes to the health care law should be debated through an open legislative process, not through a hostage-taking stunt," said Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., suggested the House and Senate appoint a conference committee with an "equal number of Republicans and Democrats" to work out their differences.
"You could appoint one today; they could meet tomorrow and hash out the differences," Paul said on "Face the Nation."
The chances of that happening in today's harshly partisan atmosphere on Capitol Hill are slim.
The number of conference reports, written agreements on legislation negotiated between selected House and Senate members, has dropped from 257 during the 1973-1975 Congress to just 10 during the 2011-2013 Congress.
–Sauk Valley Media contributed to this report.


text: On a recent trip to Platte County, which includes part of Kansas City, along with cities such as Parkville, Riverside, Platte City and Weston, my eyes were opened to a variety of opportunities I didn't know existed in the Show-Me State. So, what is there to do in Platte County? Well … For starters, Platte County is home to a …Read More »


text:
Creamy Potato Salad with Parseley Recipe
4.5 2
VERIFIED BY Taste of Home Test Kitchen
Popular Videos
- 4 small red potatoes, halved
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 3 tablespoons sour cream
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
- 1/4 teaspoon prepared horseradish
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- Dash celery seed
- 1 green onion, finely chopped
- 1 bacon strip, cooked and crumbled
- Place potatoes in a small saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook for 15-20 minutes or until tender. Drain.
- When potatoes are cool enough to handle, cut into cubes. Place in a small serving bowl. In another bowl, combine the mayonnaise, sour cream, parsley, horseradish, salt and celery seed; spoon over potatoes. Add onion and bacon; toss gently to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving. Yield: 2 servings.
Originally published as Creamy Potato Salad in Cooking for 2 Summer 2007, p46
Reviews forCreamy Potato Salad with Parseley
My Review
Click stars to rate
Any changes to your rating or review will appear where you originally posted your review


text:
LISLE – As part of an ongoing commitment to support education and community service, the Lisle Lions Dollars for Scholars recently awarded two $500 scholarships to graduating high school seniors.
The following outstanding candidates received this year's scholarships: Christine Young and Joshua Haseltine, both from the Lisle High School.
In addition, $50 cash awards were given to eighth-grade graduates Destany Hahn and Kyle Belina of the Lisle Junior High School, and Nicole Farolan and Kazi Bagdady of St. Joan of Arc School.
Lions Club scholarships and awards are made possible through the Dollars for Scholars program, July 4th donations and annual Christmas tree sales.


text:
Of course there's an element of "the country with the largest army wins" (for a given definition of win), but the idea that these systems are stupid enough to shoot down missiles that aren't going to hit targets is laughable.
Israel's defense system has a simple solution. It's programmed with a map showing which areas are populated, and which expendable. On detecting an incoming rocket*, it estimates the impact site and only fires an interceptor if it is heading for somewhere populated.
*The ones Israel is being showered with at the moment are numerous, but very cheap and simple - barely even guided, just enough to hit the right city, sometimes.
Right but its not as if those older less accurate weapons are not accurate enough to resulted in an estimated impact zone that is not "expendable". At the end of the day you have to have more interceptors than I have missiles. I can barrage you with cheap munitions that are designed to just rain down over a general area, like you know a city, with just some basic magnetic guidance to keep it on a strait course. Sure maybe these things don't fly fast enough and have no hope of evading your interceptors; but they do consume them. Once your out of expensive weapons I can bring out my good ones to use on your high value targets.
I would honestly be more worried about conflict escalation ladder here. If an enemy launches 10K small missiles that have the potential to kill 100K citizens, the US might escalate the conflict and fight back by launching 50 nuclear warheads which would kill 50M enemy citizens, and so on and so forth, until nobody's left to tell the tale.
That's what nukes were developed for. Make the destruction so bad no one would dare attack us and those who do will be glowing in the end.
"What they were developed for" != "what they got used for". Initially nukes were used to actually level Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and Nazi Germany was in the crosshairs but they didn't last through the development cycle). Later came the whole MAD thing, semi-accidentally.
Both history and technology usage are funny like that, mostly not according to any original plan.
That's what nukes were developed for. Make the destruction so bad no one would dare attack us and those who do will be glowing in the end.
That's what Death Stars are developed for. Make the destruction so bad no one would dare oppose us and those who do will be motes of dust in the end.
At the end of the day you have to have more interceptors than I have missiles.
Not if my interceptors are laser or other energy weapon based. Think Missile Command (loved that game at the time...) Sure we may be a ways away from that now, or I should say as far as the *public* knows we may be a ways away from that, but we'll get there...
I can barrage you with cheap munitions that are designed to just rain down over a general area, like you know a city, with just some basic magnetic guidance to keep it on a strait course.
Once your out of expensive weapons I can bring out my good ones to use on your high value targets.
Okay, this is how this scenario really works:
Assuming you have enough "cheap" munitions in a coordinated attack designed to overwhelm interception defenses, the attacker would require several strongpoints with lots of weapons (no way you could ransomly distribute that level of coordinated attack with enough munitions to overwhelm defenses).
The defender would have a firing solution on every strongpoint in seconds, and would lob off artillery and/or their own rockets and/or air strikes. Your coordinated attack designed to overwhelm defenses is cut-short by a conventional counterstrike before it has the time to do so.
The reason they build desenses like these to handle a cerain number of projectiles is because coordinated attackers make for easy targets. You typically see rebels taking pot-shots in smaller numbers where they can quickly disappear, and enemies in the next country over have known-quantities of ballistic missiles.
Assuming you have enough "cheap" munitions in a coordinated attack designed to overwhelm interception defenses, the attacker would require several strongpoints with lots of weapons (no way you could ransomly distribute that level of coordinated attack with enough munitions to overwhelm defenses).
Yeah that's what the Navy thought when in their asymmetrical war games and the entire carrier group was (virtual) sunk.
Assuming the enemy cannot possibly be coordinated enough to launch an attack without being concentrated in one convenient spot for counter-attack is the kind of arrogance that is going to get a lot of people killed in the early days of the next war.
Remember, too, there's a difference between overwhelming a defense systems ability to track and down targets, and overwhelming its ability to stay supplied with ammo.
The rebels take pot-shots in small numbers because they only have a small amount of material and never want to risk over-exposure or the chance of a decisive conflict (that's not what guerrilla warfare is about). However guerrilla tactics can display extremely high levels of coordination, and if adopted by a military force that can afford ballistic missiles then they could also afford to use overwhelming numbers of smaller portable weapons.
You act as if the Navy learned nothing from that. They learned plenty, operational plans changed, engagement tactics have changed and how to react to small vessels has changed.
As has been pointed many times on Slashdot, the Navy's plan for Iran is to sit outside the gulf in the Arabian sea where those small vessels can't reach. They then use air-power to wipe out all those vessels, docks and marinas that could be used before they move any ship back into the gulf.
Everyone likes to run around and say the Navy is a bunch of idiots and they ignored the problem by refloating the group and restarting the war game. The point is that what they could learn from those tactics had been learned and that there wouldn't have been value in continuing the war game on the same rules or declaring the games over while they were spending the money on the games. In other words they learned what they could then continued to learn more about different things. Now there are morons on the DOD that want to build Littoral combat ships but from what I understand they are in the extreme minority. Most of the Navy's leadership understands that the value in a navy is in the carrier grouping and it's air power, not the combat vessels. The future of the navy is to dramatically scale down the number of personal on board with automation and potentially even bring about carriers that carry massive numbers of drones along with carrier groupings armed with rail guns and other offensive weapons that allow even further stand off power.
A ballistic missile is not cheap. It may sound reasonable to say they can "barrage you with cheap munitions" but there really is no such thing. Sure, you can save some money by not putting a nuclear warhead on it, but the missile is still going to be the most expensive part of it.
Your asterisked issue is the whole point.
Set a missile to appear that it will land someplace harmless, and once it's over land, alter it's course. Costal cities are probably safe, but anything too far inland is will make a nice target, save the costal shots for the end of the barrage.
The author has a point. Although it's only damage mitigation, rather than prevention at that point, a mainland missile defense system would probably be a good backup.
Set a missile to appear that it will land someplace harmless, and once it's over land, alter it's course.
Then it's not a cheap, mass produced expendable missile anymore.
It's less cheap, but it can still be fairly cheap.
Alt, you could have a bunch of cheap mass produced missiles that appear like the nicer missiles until the nicer missiles change directions and the cheap missiles don't. Increase the design cost a few bucks with placing weights at the right spots to give it a sufficiently similar flight profile until guidance systems turn on, maybe some cheap electronics to appear like it's running telemetry systems (not bother with the processing/nav bits, just radar pulses
I remember reading a possibly apocryphal tale about different attitudes to deploying decoys on nuclear missiles in the Cold War; supposedly the US military went to a great deal of trouble building decoys that looked like nuclear warheads, whereas the British saved a lot of money by making the warheads look like decoys.
Make your smart missiles look like dumb missiles until they're too close to engage, and the job is done.
Set a missile to appear that it will land someplace harmless, and once it's over land, alter it's course. Costal cities are probably safe, but anything too far inland is will make a nice target, save the costal shots for the end of the barrage.
I'd argue the reverse there. Any missile with enough range to hit inland cities is not going to be that cheap.
Missiles with that capability are expensive and heavy.
It's also been shown that Israel's defense system would not scale well to large countries, such as the United States. It's a start, but still a long way from a solution.
So then make sure they will hit targets.
You can save money by only making every Nth have a warhead instead of a brick. So long as the mass is the same the interceptor system cannot tell them apart.
Indeed. This is an incredibly stupid article and the implication that this is some inherit law of math is outrageous... Somehow the missile defense installations have a fixed amount of resources but the enemy doesn't? Come on!
One of the most basic rules of warfare is this: a strategy if a winner if it costs them more than it costs you. A missile defense is still a valuable tool if interceptors cost less than what they're intercepting regardless of whether or not what they're intercepting would do any damage because the enemy still had to build the thing. And from the same perspective if an enemy is going to build a missile why not just put a ton of TNT on it and point it in the general direction of a city? Even without guidance (which would add meaningful cost, unlike the TNT) a city is a big enough target that it presents a credible threat anyways and so needs to be intercepted.
Arg, this is just ridiculous!
Of course there's an element of "the country with the largest army wins" (for a given definition of win), but the idea that these systems are stupid enough to shoot down missiles that aren't going to hit targets is laughable.
Not at all. The "will it hit it's target" question is not one that can be easily answered in enough cases that the math does not matter. All I have to do is get close and I look like enough of a threat to draw a response. It's possible that defensive systems could collect enough information (flight profile, radar signature, exhaust temp) from a possible threat to make guess on whether or not it's worth shooting at, but that's a losing game in the end. All the adversary has to do is make his crowd pleasers
Wrong. There are two types of missile to defend against: guided and ballistic.
Of those, the only one you need to ask "will it hit its target", ie, where its even a question, is ballistic. And in the case of ballistic, it's an easy to solve question. The ballistic arc is nearly 100% predictable; it's basic physics, trivial physics. Your comments about Flight profile, radar signature, etc, all are meaningless. If you can get close enough to be a threat, you are a threat, and thus will be intercepted. There is
Exactly: this applies to any military engagement, no matter what the technology. See, for example, Napoleon and Hitler's invasions of Russia.
Quantity has a quality all of its own.
That's not math, that's known as attrition.
Stop. You are making sense.
"That's not math, that's known as attrition."
Um, yeah. Attrition is math. Simple addition and subtraction, but it's still math.
Here's a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpkTHyfr0pM [youtube.com]
(seriously, watch the series. It's pretty amazing)
And I expect that a highly numerate society would understand the probabilities well enough not to wage open war against a numerically superior adversary.
Hence the "global economy" that we have today.
The point holds, though. Interceptors are highly sophisticated devices - they need to exactly hit a small target in three dimensions, while both interceptor and target are moving at great velocity. Your basic attack missile, on the other hand, can be as simple as a garage-made rocket with a chunk of fertilizer on the end. For every interceptor one side makes, even a comparatively low-tech and poorly-funded attacker could build many missiles.
No the point is that attrition works, but the writer stupidly called it "math" when it is no such thing.
The interceptor math is a solved problem, easy enough to do on the back of a napkin.
The only problems have been designing/engineering a system to sufficient tolerance to carry it out, but that isnt math either.
Target ID is already an inherent part of the design.
And if such a tactic were used, it would be readily/quickly seen, and rather than waste anti-missle interceptors, we would just find the enemy "ch
addendum: this reminds me of people inherently misunderstanding the system in question. a question i come across commonly of "why doesnt the radar pick up all the birds, and trees, and dust, and
In the case of AEGIS and related defenses, the goal is not necessarily to be able to absorb/defend against anything and everything that the enemy throws against you. The goal is to survive long enough to turn the attacking launch site into a glass parking lot (or a steaming hole in the water) before they can destroy your offensive assets. In the mentioned case of Iran, I expect the goal would be to absorb one or two 'provocative' attacks. If there was full out attack, though, I'm pretty sure they would not have the opportunity to launch all the missiles...
Why so many of these stupid questions on
Aegis was state of the art, the best SAM system yet devised, but it had one major weakness: Tico carried only ninety-six SM-2 surface-to-air missiles; there were one hundred forty incoming Kingfish. The computer had not been programmed to think about that.
If you can stop a significant fraction of the missiles, that still gives you a massive reduction in total damage, provided of course your enemy doesn't have so many weapons even a few percentage points can wipe out everything. And besides, it still gives an advantage even in that case: if you need to fire all your missiles, and you need to fire some of them later on, that means the defending country has time to retaliate (so you can't rely on first strike-advantage), plus all their missiles will still hit,
Ever since the advent of anti-ship missiles, a big part of naval surface warfare tactics has been managing to get enough anti-ship missiles on target at the same time to overwhelm the target ships' defenses, so this is pretty much "Duh!"
Also, AEGIS is a 1970s naval air defense technology for protecting against anti-ship missiles and aircraft. It's only recently had an ABM capability added. It is true, as I understand it from public sources, that the VLS systems most often used with AEGIS are difficult at best to resupply at sea and pretty much is never done.
After the defense systems of a naval vessel get overwhelmed and it goes down in flames, the country that owns that vessel stomps big-time on the attacker.
War isn't a "No loss evan" scenario
imagine Nut Korea shoots off 43 Rong Dong missles, 16 Ding Dong noisemakers, and is fuelling six nukes. the Rong Dongs will get halfway to nowhere and hit the water. the Ding Dongs spark and arc and in the end do nothing. the nukes would be the real threat after the radars clear on the Aegis cruisers.
if you get a look at any weapon, it will have definite characteristics that are generally repeated with every shot. it is moderately well known that repeatable data can be programmed for recall, and since t
'Think about it â" could we someday see a scenario where American forces at sea with a fixed amount of defensive countermeasures facing an enemy with large numbers of cruise and ballistic weapons that have the potential to simply overwhelm them?
This is the Cold War scenario with a couple of string substitutions: s/land/sea/g and s/artillery/missiles/g. The US spent over 40 years developing strategies to counter that scenario. Rest assured, they have a smart answer, or rather several of them. I believe
War Games got it right.
This was the premise of the first naval battle in Clancy's Red Storm Rising. TFA is neither original nor insightful. Even armchair strategists understand the concept of attrition.
I've always thought several thousand simple, relatively stupid, cheap "cruise missiles" could pretty easily defeat a carrier battle group. When I say "cruise missiles" I'm talking about pilot-less drones that are really small air craft (could even be built of wood) with a warhead aboard. You wouldn't even need them to be completely autonomous, though a auto-pilot would probably be a good idea. You'd need a satellite up-link to control them (and to diminish the possibility of someone jamming your control
In the recent example of Israel and it's alleged shield, the success depending on the ability to acquire a threat quickly, access the target, and make a judgement to destroy or ignore. Based on information in the media, a enemy who could launch a hundred missile quickly from diverse location could overwhelm the system, take it out if locations were known, and then be free to attack targets. A country like Iran cou
This kind of crap is why I hardly read slashdot anymore, after 15 years of daily reading and tens of thousands of comments...
Could a potential adversary fire off older weapons that are not as accurate, causing a defensive response that exhausts all available missile interceptors so more advanced weapons with better accuracy can deliver the crushing blow?
Sure! That could happen... if our missile defense systems are designed by morons.
Otherwise, no, that wouldn't happen, because a defensive system will be p
What are the alternatives? I cannot find any comparable tech blogs that aren't dumbed down. Slashdot was never that great, but the SNR was better than average in the early days.
The enemy would need to have a massive ICBM missile force. That is not very feasible. How many of our enemies have a budget for that? I don't think even China has that kind of money
Since the 1960s until the present day, missile defense has been a hot topic
TRANSLATION: We've been trying to get it to work for 50 fucking years but we can't seem to get two object moving faster than bullets to collide.
That's the real problem. They can barely even shoot down those first cheap missiles. They can't compensate for evasive action at all. It's been nonsense for the last fifty years and will be for the next fifty years.
A cost of 100-1 is perfectly acceptable if you just need to win a arms race with the Irans/North Koreas of the world.
Attacks as described in TFS are called saturation attacks. Since the advent of the guided missile, this has always been a big headache for naval designers. Early missile-equipped ships had 2-4 radar directors, each capable of guiding one missile to its target. Navies wanted more, but there are constraints (financial, weight, systems complexity) to the number of directors you can add.
The US Navy was the first to develop a partial solution in the shape of NTU ('New Threat Upgrade'), a system where one director could guide several missiles. This meant that the weakest link was now the missile launchers: even the biggest ships has only two twin-arm mechanical launchers so they were limited to a couple of missile launches per minute.
The whole point of AEGIS was to provide a ship with enough defensive capability to defeat saturation attacks by the biggest threat on the planet: the Russian naval airforce.
This meant using a phased-array radar that could track hundreds of targets, directors derived from NTU that could guide up to 18 missiles at once, and a vertical launch system that can fire more than 30 missiles/minute.
In the end, it becomes a financial problem. A Ticonderoga-class cruiser has 128 missiles on board, that's easily $120M in missile inventory. AEGIS isn't cheap either.
As missiles become cheaper, the calculation changes. The recent Israeli successes with missile defence using missiles that cost $100k instead of $1M shows that Defence departments are well aware of this.
Still, anyone contemplating an attack on US Navy vessels usually has to contend not with one ship, but with a battle group of several of the best-defended ships on the planet, plus potentially an aircraft carrier that carries more firepower than most of the world's air forces.
Yes, of course it is possible. Here is why it is not likely and a poor argument against missile defense.
(1) Witness Iron Dome in Israel. Combining human intervention with advanced software, Iron Dome does not attempt to take every missile. Instead the system is designed to identify and destroy only those that are a threat to people. It was very effective. Older inaccurate missiles that are not on target will be ignored.
(2) Old missiles fielded by poor countries (see NK) are poorly maintained and are more likely then not to simply not fire.
(3) Poor countries with large number of missiles are going to have awful command and control. They aren't going to be able to launch a coordinated attack.
(4) Older missiles have bad range. Who cares if NK fires a bunch of scuds, what will they hit? They can barely build a handful of long ranged stuff, and that doesn't appear to be changing.
(5) Richer countries like China aren't looking for a strategy that wipes the enemy out via surprise. They want a credible deterrent, which is best achieved by a limited number of advanced, hidden, city busters.
Plenty of people have already pointed out the idiocy in the details of TFA's argument, so I won't go into that. The core assumption underlying the whole thing is wrong too: wars are not fought with missiles any more. The nations that can afford enough missiles to pose any kind of threat at all to each other are the wealthy, highly populated ones. All the wealthy, populous nations are economically interdependent now, and always will be. Economically interdependent nations don't wage war on each other. All wars for the foreseeable future will be started by second- or third-world rogue states using terrorism and guerrilla tactics, and ended by first-world superpowers using espionage, tactical bombing, and drone strikes.
Nobody capable of launching ICBM's at us could conceivably ever want to. There is nobody we'll ever need to launch ICBM's at ourselves.
Usage: fortune -P [] -a [xsz] [Q: [file]] [rKe9] -v6[+] dataspec ... inputdir


text:
Office for Mac 2011 SP1 calendar won't sync with Apple MobileMe
Microsoft gripes at Cupertino
Microsoft has taken a swipe at Apple for making changes to its MobileMe service, which effectively blocks Office for Mac 2011 users from synchronising their Outlook calendars with their iPhones and iPads.
"I want to share more detail on a particular limitation that Apple is introducing with their new version of MobileMe," wrote Microsoft's Pat Fox in a blog post yesterday.
"MobileMe will no longer sync with MacOS Sync Services as of May 5th (or now if you have already moved your account to the new version of MobileMe calendar). As a result, Outlook 2011 SP1 calendars that sync with Sync Services on the Mac, will NOT be synced with MobileMe calendars."
Redmond plans to ship its first service pack for Office for Mac 2011 next week.
Many users of the software have requested that Microsoft adds a feature to Office to help sync their Outlook email calendars with Apple's iPhones and iPads.
But Apple's decision to tweak its MobileMe product has upset Microsoft wonks.
"So what does this mean?" wrote Fox. "If you sync your iPhone or iPad calendars with Sync Services (ie via iTunes over a cable), your mobile device calendars WILL be synced with Outlook 2011 SP1.
"If you sync your iPhone or iPad calendars with MobileMe, they will NOT be synced to your Outlook 2011 SP1 calendar, because of the broken link between MobileMe and Sync Services. Hopefully Apple's changes will not impact very many of you."
Other features loaded into SP1 include Outlook support for Exchange based server-side rules, an Outlook Redirect button, an Outlook Resend button, Outlook edit of existing messages, and Solver integration support in Excel. ®
Sponsored: Minds Mastering Machines - Call for papers now open


text:
"3D printing could make intellectual property laws impossible or impractical to enforce."
That won't stop the old boys from trying, like they are doing it with music and movies.
"You wouldn't download a car!"
"Fuck you! I would if I could!"
Seriously though, something's got to give here and soon. If we ever hit the point where most products can be reproduced essentially for free there is going to be a massive and thorough push to lock down the internet in ways the RIAA and MIAA can only dream of. Remember, those media companies are bit players in the grand scheme of things. The amount of money going into the IP protection lobby will sky rocket the day you can download the plans for a BMW off pirate bay.
If we ever hit the point where most products can be reproduced essentially for free
No worries, the more complex the product the more complex the printer will need to be and the less efficient doing it on a small scale will be. We could all produce many things at home now but we don't. In part, it is more efficient to produce things in mass quantities. Then there is the up front cost. In part it is the complexity of producing certain components. There is a reason IC plants are so expensive; you can't print a chip without a lot complex machinery, a specific environment, etc. So, even if somebody comes up with a printer that can print a laptop it will have a large up front cost, require maintenance, and not be cheaper than paying a company that specializes in making laptops for many decades to come.
> the more complex the product the more complex the printer will need to be and the less efficient doing it on a small scale will be
There's some truth to that. I don't think you're going to have many individuals building a BMW (or even a Nissan Sentra) at home. A few hobbyists, maybe, not on a large scale.
But what is GOING to happen
What if I can go into a custom tailor's shop and have a suit made while I go have lunch? Just the way I want it, at a reasonable price, and without waiting for days.
THIS is the future. We live in exciting times.
On a side note, BMW is increasing its use of 3d printers to print out parts due to complexity or ticks that can be done with 3d printers. In the 3d market manufactures is one of the fastest growing categories.
http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21584447-digital-manufacturing-there-lot-hype-around-3d-printing-it-fast [economist.com]
Yeah, the whole point is that everyone becomes a manufacturer.
The problem with this is that it will never be 'free' or close to free. Printing has never been cheap. And that was just ink and paper.
Why does everyone think that printing in plastic/metal at a usable structural level isn't going to be orders of magnitude more expensive that buying something wholesale, for at least a generation? Like how it took almost 20 years for laser printers to become common at home.
Saying that BMW is printing out parts is stretching what they are actually doing. They are printing out tools, jigs, and fixtures that are used in the assembly process. If they used a block of wood to spread the force out of a jack during assembly, you wouldn't say that the manufacturer was making wooden parts.
BMWâ(TM)s assembly-line workers design and print custom tools to make it easier to hold and position parts. 3D-printed plastic moulds and dies are also being printed to help set up and trial new production lines. Some of these printed parts are even used as temporary stand-ins for broken steel tools, which can take weeks to replace.
What if I can go into a custom tailor's shop and have a suit made while I go have lunch? Just the way I want it, at a reasonable price, and without waiting for days.
I take it you've never spent any time in Asia before.
Not worried. We have always found ways around the obstruction of information. We get better at it and they waste more effort with little success.
You can already download the plans for a car, and buy the parts (or manufacture them yourself if you have the appropriate equipment)...
The reason people buy cars is because the skills, equipment and resources required to build a car outweigh the cost of buying one.
If it became cheaper to build a car, then i would expect the prices of ready-built cars to drop accordingly. Only if they try to keep the prices artificially high will people resort to building their own at home.
My car has little plastic thingies which spray water on the headlights. Due to snow and ice, they are broken. Replacement parts at the dealer cost $110 each (for a part which can't contain more than $1 worth of plastic).
I'd love to download and print replacements.
My car has little plastic thingies which spray water on the headlights. Due to snow and ice, they are broken. Replacement parts at the dealer cost $110 each (for a part which can't contain more than $1 worth of plastic).
I'd love to download and print replacements.
It may be $1 worth of plastic, but if this specific part fails on, say 0.3% of the cars that use that it, you are looking at a nationwide market of a few hundred units per year. The injection mold for that part cost $15K. Restarting a production
If it became cheaper to build a car, then i would expect the prices of ready-built cars to drop accordingly.
It will almost certainly never be cheaper to print your own than to buy one made by Ford or Toyota. The materials alone would cost more than the car in the quantities you could buy them in. Volume discounts when you are talking millions of units a year are enormous. The per-unit production cost to a big auto company for a comparable vehicle is going to be far, far lower than any one off, even if there is no profit motive attached. (Disclosure: I am an accountant)
Unless you are talking about luxury cars, they aren't priced "artificially high". Even the most profitable auto makers (Porsche, Toyota, etc) only have profit margins in the high single digits. They make money by selling a LOT of vehicles but they don't generally make all that much on each one. A few luxury makes make a lot of money per vehicle (Ferrari, etc) but they don't and can't sell all that many at the price points they charge.
In theory, it could be circumvented by reverse engineering the BMW. So why not by taking the entire car apart. Catalog the parts. Scan the parts. Up load the parts. Print the parts. Rebuild the parts into the car. This takes a huge amount of raw materials to print with, effort, and experience. However, since this car is owned by the entity that scanned the parts, etc. It's like taking pictures of a car now. It that illegal? Is it illegal for me to post a picture of my car online? Is it illegal
For bits, yes. For atoms, it's been much easier, because of the resources needed to duplicate intellectual property that is embodied in actual matter. But with 3D printing, atoms are becoming more like bits.
Pretty much this.
"Future sales will be of designs and not products". Yeah, sure. They'll willingly change their market model just like the MAFIAA did. Remember 10 years ago when everyone "knew" they'll change from content providers to advertisers for independent artists?
Boy, did we have a laugh.
Why does anyone think an industry would rather change their venue to adapt to changing technology than trying to buy legislation to protect their hackney business?
can i print clothes or shoes for my kids on a 3d printer?
can i print a working tablet?
how about a charging cable for my iphone?
or new toilet paper?
can i print clothes or shoes for my kids on a 3d printer?
Not yet. However, there was a company that would take your measurements and it would cut all the pieces of cloth needed to build you a suit. All that was needed was a seamstress or tailor to sew the suit together. I could foresee cottage industries where custom clothes are built while you wait.
can i print a working tablet?
No, not yet. But you will be able to build yourself a custom tablet cover to protect your shiny new iPad
how about a charging cable for my iphone?
Not yet, but soon.
or new toilet paper?
Why? because you're
clothing could theoretically be possible, if you dont mind synthetic fiber.
Connect a melting tank with a multiport extrusion nozzel with very fine aperatures, to a CNC knitting machine.
Many heavy duty work utility garments, like aprons, are already made from recycled PET plastic by spinning it into a fiber. Currently, the major obstacle on this front is the artificially inflated price of these devices. Computing tech is cheap these days. (look at BeagleBone and RPi), and thread handling machines are also c
You can't do much now, but you couldn't do much with a computer in 1970 either, besides, well, calculate things
If you extrapolate just a little bit, and look at what is going on with nanomaterials, printing all those things is indeed possible from raw materials.
A more interesting question that will have to be dealt with first is when people come up with ways to manipulate either organic molecules in a procedural fashion with tabletop equipment, or perhaps, more interesting and related, processes for manipul
the hype seems to be that you can download a design of anything and print it at home instead of going to the store
even star trek with its replicators and idiotic no money economy skipped the part of the raw materials for the replicators having to be made somehow. sure you can replicate anything, but you need an expensive machine and the right raw materials
sure you can replicate anything, but you need an expensive machine and the right raw materials
Star Trek canon is pretty sparse about "right raw materials", but the consensus seems to be that replication feedstock is some kind of bulk inert matter. (I don't understand why they don't just skip that and just directly use the energy equivalent).
However "expensive" isn't guaranteed. You'd just need one replicator and a feedstock source to replicate every other replicator you'd ever want... so only the first wo
If you extrapolate just a little bit...
You lost me.
http://xkcd.com/605/ [xkcd.com]
can i print clothes or shoes for my kids on a 3d printer?
For years cheap knock-offs of designer clothes and footwear have been available at a fraction of the "real thing" prices. 3D-printing does not introduce the problem — it only makes it worse. Worse for the people, who design stuff.
Some new way of rewarding them would have to be created, or else the designers will have to switch professions...
For years cheap knock-offs of designer clothes and footwear have been available at a fraction of the "real thing" prices.
And you know what? GOOD designers are still THRIVING despite having no IP laws protecting them...
People buy knock offs to 'look' cool, and when they can afford the Prada bag...they tend to buy it.
this will HELP people who design things by making them better and faster at it. If not, then they go out of business...which is sort what business is about no?
Only when the "Real thing" prices are massively inflated related to the production costs...
It's possible to get generic high quality clothes for considerably less than the cost of designer clothes, and possible to get low quality clothes for even less still.
Designer clothes, assuming they are high quality, should not be significantly more expensive than unbranded clothes manufactured to a similar quality level.
And not to mention what's economically and quality-wise feasible. Bits are easy, my digital bits are perfect copies and cost $0 (not including the cost of the hardware, but I'd need the hardware to store and run/play it anyway). I suspect a lot of the time the question would be "yeah, you could do that but it's cheaper to buy one that came off a barge from China". Imagine printing your own books on your home ink printer. Yes, you could do it but if you really want it on dead tree it'll be cheaper to buy it
Probably not, but you can print out a copyright toy of Wolverine for your kid.
Well, yes and no. Current copies are relatively expensive. I could photocopy the latest bestseller but it would be cheaper to just by the book. So we use copiers because we want a article from a library journal – copying the key parts by hand is time consuming – and time is money.
If you notice there is more pirating of e-books then paper books – the cost of making copies is lower.
So, back to 3d printers which are not cheap to run. You want to find classes of objects that have a high value
warhammer figurines
Bad example as these were the target of lawsuits already
'Everything will change when you can make anything. Future sales may be of designs and not products.'
ok, so still a long time from now then.
Actually, I believe that changes will occur much faster than most people are anticipating. This has the potential, and I believe will, be completely disruptive technology.
All the cheap plastic parts that cost $.04 to make, that HomeDepot sells for $9.99, that you can 3D print for $.25 each and have them be better. Yeah, those.
There is still time to do this, not that I'd be a fan.
No. There isn't. The cat's already out of the bag on this one. 3D printers can be built by any DIY-er with a handful of tools, some simple circuitry, and parts you can pick up at your local hardware store.
Print me a Lawyerbot! (c:
Sue me, baby, I can make a million of them!
Before Xerox rating agencies would charge investment banks for copies of their data. But once Xerox copying machines came out, the rating agencies feared that they would only have one customer and investment banks would just make copies of the data and pass it around.
The problem with that assumption was that it would be good enough for banks. But that type of data needs to be up to date to be effective, can't pass around 10 year old files, or even 6 month old - someone could suddenly become a bad investmen
I think, if it was that big of an expense, that the rating agencies were gouging, that the major banks would simply have combined together and chartered their own rating agency.
There's a slight technical problem with starting a new ratings agency. One of the laws passed after the great depression, was that the banks could only purchase securities which had a certain rating. The law mentioned that the rating had to come from one of the top three rating agencies. So while the law didn't specify which rating agency, it created a chicken and egg problem for any upstart rating agency to breaking into the top three.
Patent law specifically allows people to "make their own" based on the patented design. You aren't allowed to produce the items for sale or distribution, but you are allowed to make one for yourself.
This is where patent law and 3D printers are really going to collide, because 3D printing makes it easy to make your own.
One might be able to argue that the model used to do the printing is "distributing the design", but it's not illegal to distribute a patented design, only to produce the designed items for sale.
I expect someone will try to extend copyright law to cover CAD models used to drive the printers, but I also expect that attempt to fail because copyright isn't allowed to cover a list of facts, only a creative work.
hmm? copyright law already covers files. that includes cad files, stl files and whatever.
but the functionality for most items is easy to copy into a new cad design and only one guy needs to do it.
I expect someone will try to extend copyright law to cover CAD models used to drive the printers, but I also expect that attempt to fail because copyright isn't allowed to cover a list of facts, only a creative work.
That'd be a real mindblower: Patenting a design and copyrighting the patent. So as to prevent copying the design allowing another to replicate the product. Not that weirder legal gymnastics haven't been attempted and sometimes successfully performed.
Bzzzt! Not true
http://www.bpmlegal.com/patqa.html#1 [bpmlegal.com]
Even when home manufacturing will become affordable (at this point 3D printing is only good for fragile plastic toys and CNCs cost a fortune), mass production will still be much cheaper. The result will be the opposite of the prediction: designs will worth less because of piracy, but manufactured goods will still sell because they will cost less.
"With scanners able turn objects into printable files and peer-to-peer file sharing sites able to distribute product schematics, 3D printing could make intellectual property laws impossible or impractical to enforce. At the Inside 3D Printing Conference in San Jose this week, industry experts compared the rise of 3D printing to digital music and Napster. Private equity consultant Peer Munck noted that once users start sharing CAD files with product designs, manufacturers may be forced to find legal and legislative avenues to prevent infringement. But, he also pointed out that it's nearly impossible to keep consumers from printing whatever they want in the privacy of their homes. IP attorney John Hornick said, 'Everything will change when you can make anything. Future sales may be of designs and not products.'"
Let's see if we can do tongue-in-cheek test of this statement by replacing "make" and "print" with "brew", and "peer-to-peer file sharing service" with "US postal service"
"With people able to write down brewing recipes and US postal service able to distribute those recipes, home brewing could make intellectual property laws impossible or impractical to enforce. At the Inside brewing Conference in San Jose this week, industry experts compared the rise of home brewing to digital music and Napster. Private equity consultant Peer Munck noted that once users start sharing recipes with brewing procedures, industrial brewers may be forced to find legal and legislative avenues to prevent infringement. But, he also pointed out that it's nearly impossible to keep consumers from brewing whatever they want in the privacy of their homes. IP attorney John Hornick said, 'Everything will change when you can brew anything. Future sales may be of recipes and not alcohol.'"
Unless alcohol sales US are suffering terribly from the advent of home brewing, the statement of this lawyer is a bag full of sh*t aimed at creating legislature that will only benefit IP lawyers.
Unless alcohol sales US are suffering terribly from the advent of home brewing, the statement of this lawyer is a bag full of sh*t aimed at creating legislature that will only benefit IP lawyers.
I agree with you, and I don't really think that brewing beer at home will ever really threaten the industry. After all, you want a cold beer now, not next month . . . Also, I don't need another hobby and I'm lazy.
However, (some, many?) states actually do have some fairly strict (and odd) laws governing brewing beer at home. Alabama and Mississippi lifted their total bans on the practice just this year. California lets you brew 100 gallons per house, 200 if more than one 21+ year old lives there. You can take it to contests but not sell it. A license is not required. In Iowa, you can bottle beer and remove it from the home to give away, but not charge for it. Actual brewing is not specifically allowed. In Kentucky, you can't give it away or sell it, but you can take it to a bar for a beer judging competition. In New York, you can maybe make beer at home, but certainly not sell it. Possession of homemade beer is not specifically prohibited as an illicit substance. It's a pretty bizarre and tangled web of laws.
When the manufacture of goods becomes a matter of popping someone's design in a scanner, sharing it over the web, and then letting others print it at home, IP will become even more critical to business than it is today. Businesses will not simply limply waggle their hands in the air and moan in impotent, melodramatic depression if piracy of physical goods becomes possible. They will lobby. Hard.
You think the eternal extension of copyright is bad with just the entertainment industry behind it? You haven'
Designs, like MP3s, are digital data which is by nature infinitely reproducible. You can only build an industry on selling designs if you introduce legally sanctioned mechanisms of artificial scarcity. Which means a bunch of lawyers will get together calling themselves the Design Industry Association of America. They will argue for a tax on raw plastic, to be paid to them; and will sue anyone they think might have a 3D printer stashed away in the attic. Of course they won't actually have any connection with real designers any more than the Recording Industry Association of America has any connection with real musicians, but that doesn't matter because as everyone knows it's the lawyers who get to keep all the money. They are, after all, the only people (apart from bankers) who actually add value in this economy.
Cynical? Moi?
Take a look at the patents. And take a look at the stuff around you. How much of the stuff around you is patented and amenable to being 3d printed? And what fraction do you believe you could put together cheaper and more conveniently?
Let's take a look at a stapler. $5 from Amazon. I'm sure it was patented at one time. Let's pretend it still is. Even with the best 3-d printing today, using million dollar machines, you're not going to be able to make a good one. So let's assume the machines get good enough and cheap enough you could make a stapler at home. How about the staples? Ok fine, let's assume you can make those too.
You want to go through the trouble of making the parts and assembling? Oh, you've got a cheap machine that can make it from multiple materials and even does some of the post processing?
Congratulations. It's 2050 and you've made a stapler that could be bought for $5 in 2013 from Amazon. And now Amazon has it for $1 because they own a better machine that runs 24/7 and buys more varieties of materials at lower cost. And the patent ran out decades ago.
Next up, a microwave oven. Or car tire. Or tv remote.
3D printing is going to be a problem for only a very few items. Not the vast majority of stuff you use or is patented. Economies of scale will make even those items impractical to knock off. It'll be decades before it becomes even a miniscule problem. Why are we getting in a tizzy now worrying about it?
I think in the eyes of the founders when they created the patent office, the idea that one man owned the product of his labor was never to be infringed. Rather, it was to prevent companies from stealing ideas, and providing them so that they competed against the inventor', and allowing the inventor to profit from his effort. It was realized back then that you could not prevent a man from copying a plow (first US patent ever) that he observed in use or by reading the patent by his own effort.
Similarly, I do
The first patent wasn't an object that could be copied. It was a technology. A process that could have been kept secret.
http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2001/01-33.jsp [uspto.gov]
Laws have to change as technology makes them obsolete. That's not to say that people who have an interest in living in the past won't kick, scream and bribe their congress critters, but eventually they'll lose.
From Heinlein's Life-Line;
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in
I doubt that home 3D printers will ever be a serious danger for regular products. A user might print a case for his iPhone or something like that, but even the most simplistically functional objects tend to be far beyond what a home 3D printer can do. Even when a 3D printer can compete, it's often more expensive then the same product done regularly somewhere in China and shipped over here.
I think the copyright with 3D printings won't be with the big manufacturers, but within the realm of the hacker/maker cr
Yes, but what patented objects can be just scanned in and printed? I can't really thing of any significant ones. An iPhone? A pharmaceutical? Could they print a Teddy bear? And that's not patented. And if you could (at all), could you do it at a reasonable price? One has to think that the manufacturer's cost of making it will always by X/4 or so.
At least, that's what happened with copyright laws as a result of ubiquitous A/V recording...
They will have no recourse, since it is the product designers and developers who own the IP. If they share it with the consumer directly, too bad manufacturer, you've become obsolete.
See: the copyright wars
This keeps coming up on Slashdot, and it's mostly a non-issue. The only reason it's an issue now is that hobbyist 3D printers are so crappy that they're used mostly to produce copies of game and movie related decorative items.
If you use one to make a dashboard knob for a '57 Chevy, there's no IP issue. Design patents are only for 14 years. You can't copyright a functional part, and most functional parts aren't original enough for a utility patent. There's a robust third-party auto parts industry because of this.
When 3D printing in metal really gets going, it's going to be a Joe Sixpack thing. The same people who own welders will own 3D printers. If you do not presently own at least one power tool, you will probably not have a 3D printer.
"If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?" -- Garrison Keillor


text:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Cyber Monday might not be the biggest online-shopping day of the year, but the rise of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is reshaping how consumers are finding deals to fill out their holiday-gift lists
As an outgrowth of the traditional Black Friday start to the holiday-shopping season, Cyber Monday has been taken up by online retailers to promote their offerings and extend consumers' attention beyond the initial first weekend of post-Thanksgiving discounts. It's become a barometer for how e-commerce is shaping up during the year's busiest business season for merchants and consumers, with as much as $1.5 billion in online sales expected from the day. Read more about what's expected from Cyber Monday sales.
According to initial reports from analysts and researchers, this year's Cyber Monday is likely to benefit from solid online sales coming from Black Friday, with revenue generated from mobile devices being the key driver of growth — as consumers become more comfortable shopping via their smartphones and tablets.
Shawn Milne, who covers several large e-commerce firms for Janney Capital Markets, said that early reports show "the U.S. online holiday-shopping season is off to a strong and slightly better than expected start," with mobile usage spurring much of the activity.
Milne cited statistics from ChannelAdvisor that said mobile shopping made up 32% of all online spending over the Black Friday weekend, adding that "we would expect a big push from Amazon on Cyber Monday, including aggressive pricing on key holiday items."
Raymond James analyst Aaron Kessler referred to data from IBM Digital Analytics Benchmarking that said Apple Inc.'s AAPL, +0.71% iPad was responsible for 10% of all mobile traffic over the weekend, while the iPhone accounted for 8.7% of mobile traffic and devices running Google Inc.'s GOOG, +1.24% Android operating system claimed 5.5% of all mobile traffic since Thanksgiving.
EBay Inc. EBAY, -0.08% itself touted the strength in its holiday-weekend business, saying that the volume of deals it transacted over mobile devices on Black Friday rose 153% compared with a year ago, and that its PayPal business reported a 193% increase in global payment volume over same day in 2011.
As Cyber Monday progressed, Amazon.com Inc.'s AMZN, +0.70% stock rose slightly, to $241. Online auctioneer and payments firm eBay EBAY, -0.08% saw its shares climb 2.7% to $50.31. Apple's shares rose 2% to $583.60, but Google was down $4 at $663.
Baird analyst Colin Sebastian said it should come as little surprise that Amazon and eBay would benefit the most from increased usage of mobile devices, "since their mobile apps tend to be among the most popular and can be used to compare prices easily." Read more about Amazon and its Subscribe & Save plans for online shoppers.
Sebastian said initial data shows the highest-growth categories for online sales include digital content, toys, packaged consumer goods, videogame consoles and consumer electronics. "The number of transactions is higher, as consumers continue to look for the best deals," he added.
Many retailers are being more aggressive with matching prices found elsewhere, "which not only drives average-selling prices lower, but we believe also helped drive more consumers online," according to Sebastian.


text: While I was watching this smile inducer, I tried to think of another First Lady who would do a thing like this and the only one I could think of (modern) might be Betty Ford 'cause I don't think she gave a crap. The end is just perfect. Don't forget to watch tonight! Via.


text:
PAHR (Preserving the American Historical Record Act) proposed to increase federal support for state and local archival records held by government agencies, historical societies, libraries, and related organizations. This initiative would establish a program of formula-based grants to states for re-grants and statewide services to support preservations and use of historical records. The program, to be administered by the National Archives, will provide a total of $50 million per year nationwide. Each state would receive a portion of these funds for redistribution to organizations within its borders. This program would be in addition to the existing national grants program within the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
How can you help?
Contact your Representative in Congress and urge them to sign on as an original sponsor of PAHR. Write a few sentences telling him or her how PAHR would help his or her constituents — you! (Tell them how vital it is to have records preserved and available to the public.) Also, spread the word about this action alert!
Time is critical. Deadline for action is Saturday, May 10.
Faxing your Representative is the preferred method of communication. The Humanities Advocacy Network maintains a website with all of the contact information for legislators.
Further information about PAHR, including the bill, background information, and the amount of funding for each state can be found here...


text:
Loading product details ...
Reviews (0)
Need Help?
Product Description:
One of the most economical under seat bags. The drop-door design allows for easy accessibility, and the entire bag is lined with the vinyl scrim for durability. A 3-point suspension secures the bag to your bike. Lifetime guarantee. Weight: 3oz
Your Help Is Here
Shop with confidence knowing your team of Fit Experts is waiting to answer all your questions. You can always find your perfect product and your perfect fit. Your Road Runner Sports Fit Experts will make sure you get exactly what you want and have tons of fun in the process! Give us a call, chat, or email!
Call 800-743-3206 to
You May Also Like


text:
MOS Forecasts
Current 48hr Forecast Map
Forecast models postprocessors generate MOS (Model Output Statistics) which are statistically derived surface conditions for particular cities. Two types of plots include forecast surface conditions from the NAM model as well as maximum temperature predictions from the GFS out to 7 days. There are MOS based meteograms which give a graphical representation of the weather conditions for the next 60 hours for individual cities. The NAM plots are updated once every 12 hours at around 12:15 EST. The GFS plots are updated once a day at around 8 AM EST.
More Information on Plots
More Information on Meteograms
Return to Unisys Main Page


text:
UMW News Bureau
University of Montana Western's Alan Weltzien recently published an article about Thomas Savage, a novelist who wrote about and from Dillon, Mont. Pick up the latest Montana, the Magazine of Western History, to see Weltzien's article.
In the article, O. Alan Weltzien, professor of English at the University of Montana Western, explores the life and work of Savage. Savage is a critically praised author who grew up in southwest Montana and the Lemhi valley of Idaho. Savage wrote 13 books, seven of which were set the area of his childhood home of Dillon, Mont.
"Savage received great reviews on his work but his novels never sold widely," Weltzien said. "Despite that lack of commercial success, he is by far the best writer from this corner of Montana."


text:
Crews battle pair of wild fires Saturday
September 6, 2012
Almost 400 combined acres charred near Fishtrap Lake, south of Turnbull
By JOHN McCALLUM
A pair of wild land fires occupied southwest Spokane County emergency officials last Saturday, both igniting at about the same time but miles apart.
Around 3 p.m. a fire broke out about two miles west of Fishtrap Road and the Sprague Highway, forcing the evacuation of Fishtrap Lake Resort nearby. According to a report from KREM-TV about 60 people were forced to leave the resort.
Lincoln County Fire District 1 Fire Chief Scott Clemenson said close to 300 acres were scorched near Fishtrap, virtually about one mile south of Interstate 90. The fire was mostly in mixed grasses, brush and some timber, but one structure was threatened and eventually saved.
Clemenson said units from Whitman County, Lincoln County, the Department of Natural Resources and Spokane County Fire District 3 were onsite battling the blaze, along with one attacks from a helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft. It was the fifth fire in that vicinity this summer.
"It's been a little bit of a crazy fire season in that area," Clemenson said.
The second fire erupted about the same time near Luke Road, south of the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge and forced the closure of a segment of Cheney-Plaza Road. According to a press release from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service the fire started on private land and spread quickly northeast onto the refuge.
Spokane County Fire District 3 Chief Bruce Holloway said the Cheney-based district had crews onsite at both fires, but had initial attack responsibility on the Luke Road fire until it burned onto federal land, at which point the management responsibility fell to the Department of Natural Resources. Windy conditions Saturday made firefighting efforts dicey until enough resources arrived and were put into position, both on the ground and in the air.
"It went from 30 to 70 (acres) in a heartbeat almost," Holloway said.
Overall the district deployed 10 attack engines, five tenders, 11 mutual aid attack (brush) engines and one mutual aid tender manned by 30-35 firefighters on the Luke Road fire. Holloway said a call did go out requesting an attack bulldozer, but that was recalled.
According to a DNR news release the Luke Road fire consumed less than 100 acres and was essentially contained by Saturday night, with additional firefighting resources arriving late and helping fire lines ahead of expected windy conditions Sunday. The fire did not grow in size on Sunday.
"We were greatly concerned as the fire was rapidly spreading on Saturday," Fish and Wildlife assistant zone fire management officer Doug Fredricks said in the release. "But now that it has been stopped, we can see positive effects. The refuge sits in a fire ecosystem and in the long run the Luke Road fire has helped us maintain the ecosystem that has been here for thousands of years."
Clemenson said a small fire flared up near Fishtrap Monday, but was contained to about an acre. Crews were still onsite Monday night mopping up at the larger fire.
While the cause of the Luke Road fire was unknown at press time, Clemenson said the Fishtrap blaze was caused by people target shooting in the area, something that didn't cease as winds whipped flames and smoke around.
"We even had to ask people to stop shooting while we were fighting the fire," Clemenson said.
Despite some cooling temperatures and the approach of fall, Clemenson said the area is still tinder dry, and asked that people be cautious of this fact, especially while hunting.
"Be careful where you aim at," he added. "It only takes a spark."
John McCallum can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
By Shuli Ren
Criteo S.A.'s (CRTO) re-targeting clicks perform a similar function to Google's (GOOG) search clicks, but are cheaper. As Google hikes its click pricing next year, demand for Criteo will rise, says Stifel Research analysts Jordan Rohan, Michael Purcell, and Alex Chavdaroff:
Google's expansion of paid Product Listing Ads ("free" clicks before late 2012) and de facto price increase via Enhanced Campaigns on tablet clicks are increasing marketing costs for eCommerce players. As a result, many marketers are allocating a higher percentage of budgets to sources of lower priced, response-driven clicks, including display re-targeting, where CRTO is the global
In addition, geographically, Criteo has more room to expand:
Criteo receives over half its revenue from the EMEA region. Over time, we expect the Americas (25% of Rev ex-TAC) and APAC (20%) to eclipse the already solid growth out of Europe.
We have increased our near-term opex assumptions for 2014 due to increased investments in new geographies, including Russia and China.
The broker has a $45 price target. Shares in Criteo last traded at $33.6.


text:
Sixth in a series
It's difficult to assess Taj Gibson's future with the Chicago Bulls without including dollars and cents.
Last summer, the Bulls passed on matching Omer Asik's three-year, $25 million offer sheet from Houston. A few months later, they signed Gibson to an extension worth $33 million over four seasons.
Of course, Gibson's new deal didn't include a luxury tax grabbing $15 million in the third year, as Asik's offer sheet did. So calling the two contracts essentially even in yearly salary is not accurate.
But the question still remains -- did the Bulls keep the right player?
That's a difficult one to answer now, because Gibson was basically re-signed to be Carlos Boozer's replacement in another year or so. How well Gibson will do in that role is tough to pin down.
Even with all the injuries that struck the Bulls this season, Gibson started just five games. In those, he averaged an impressive 16.0 points, 11.8 rebounds and shot 60 percent from the field.
Overall, last season, he averaged 8.0 points and 5.3 rebounds, while averaging 22.4 minutes. At the end of the year, he missed 17 games with a twice-sprained left knee and wasn't 100 percent during the playoffs (6.3 points, 3.0 rebounds).
Gibson, who turns 28 in June, started 70 games as a rookie, filling in after Tyrus Thomas broke his arm. In the last three seasons, Gibson started just 24 games and he figures to spend at least one more year backing up Boozer.
So did the Bulls make the right call in extending Gibson? They may have overpaid slightly, but as Asik's experience showed, sometimes it's smart to avoid the risk of a player hitting free agency, restricted or not.
Gibson's talents are obvious when he's on the court. He joins Joakim Noah to give the Bulls a second big man who can block shots and effectively switch onto smaller players. During the Miami series, coach Tom Thibodeau often had Gibson guard Ray Allen so the Bulls could keep two big men on the floor.
Offensively, Gibson has shown flashes of successful post moves, and his outside jumper becomes more accurate with increased attempts.
One thing Gibson needs to work on -- and he admits it -- is referee relations. He complains too much and many referees appear to have a short fuse with him, as evidenced by his quick technical and ensuing ejection in Game 2 of the Miami series.
Overall, Gibson's extension seems to be a smart gamble. But until he becomes their full-time starter at power forward, the answer will be unclear.
Next man up: Marco Belinelli


text:
THE former wife of a navy captain accused of fraudulently claiming about $38,000 in marital allowances from the federal government while being separated has defended her ex-husband.
Captain Stefan King, an Iraq veteran and commanding officer of HMAS Albatross at Nowra, is accused of having several love affairs while falsely claiming entitlements for being stationed away from his wife.
The prosecution argues Captain King had emotionally and sexually separated from his wife and was not entitled to the money.
But his former wife, fellow navy Captain Jacqueline King, told a court martial in Canberra on Monday her former husband continued calling their Jerrabomberra house his home while they were separated.
And, she said, they continued to jointly pay the mortgage and share financial commitments tied to their shared lives.
Captain Stefan King is pleading not guilty to 19 charges of fraudulently claiming about $38,000 in allowances to which he was not entitled because he was allegedly no longer in a proper relationship with his wife.
Dozens of pages of emails sent between Captain King and his former lover, dating back to 2008, have been tendered to the court.
But Captain Jacqueline King told the hearing she believed her ex-husband was not the type of officer who would take ''one dollar'' to which he was not entitled. ''Absolutely not; it's not in his DNA,'' she said.
The case will rest on whether the couple remained married, but technically separated, while they continued to live together at the Jerrabomberra house for more than a year before their divorce, as the defence has argued.
If their marriage had collapsed, as the prosecution argued, then Captain Stefan King claiming allowances available to married couples separated by navy work would have been fraudulent.
Captain King became eligible for the allowances in January 2010, the court has heard, but on April 28 that year the couple had a conversation about ending their marriage.
''He knew I was unhappy,'' Captain Jacqueline King told the court.
''He was unhappy. He felt the unhappiness was such that we should consider no longer continuing our marriage.''
The couple stopped sharing a marital bed that night, she said.
In an affidavit signed on May 17 2011, Captain Stefan King said he had believed the marriage had been over from April 27, 2010.
The prosecution argues he was not eligible for entitlements for this period, and claimed them fraudulently.
But Captain Jacqueline King was adamant that the pair sleeping in separate beds did not mean they were no longer married.
The defence has argued the marriage was over only when the couple's divorce was finalised, and therefore no fraud occurred.
While Captain Stefan King was stationed away from homehe continued to come home on weekends, the court heard.
The trial continues.


text:
Special Editions
- 305 Likes
- 85,998 Views
Model(s):Charlotte Rose, Dani Mathers, Danielle Trixie, Traci Denee
Uploaded: November 4, 2013
Description:It's Mash-Up Monday, and this time around, we're bringing you the best in hot and steamy showers. Cybergirl Dani Mathers gets it started in a striped bra and panties, and platinum-blonde Danielle Trixie is a real turn-on in a sheer bodysuit. All-time favorite Traci Denee is picture-perfect in a pair of thigh-highs and panties, and angel-faced Amateur Charlotte Rose could win a wet T-shirt contest with her eyes closed. You've got a dirty mind, and these girls clean up very, very nicely – so sit back, relax and take in the best of sexy showers, only for you, and only from Playboy.


text:
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
I would also stop comparing the gifts between the grandparents. Ask both sets to run by each gift before they give it, and veto ones you aren't comfortable with. Me, I always ask my parents and ils to get the more expensive gifts.
My parents dealt with a similar issue while I was growing up, with my dad's parents being very wealthy while my mom's parents were just trying to get by. I honestly don't remember being more excited by one set of gifts than another. However, my dad's parents agreed to contribute to college funds and offered to anonymously pay for a week of the camp of our choice every summer. To them seeing us having a lot of fun and getting to make our own decision about it was worth more than getting credit for it.I know your parents wouldn't be interested in contributing to college funds, but would they be interested in help paying for an experience for the kids, whether or not they could be there?
"Something they want, something they need, something to wear, and something to read."
Page created in 0.197 seconds with 18 queries.


text:
Blackburn manager Michael Appleton on Ruben Rochina's departure
Blackburn boss Michael Appleton has revealed the reasons behind Ruben Rochina's loan move to Real Zaragoza.
Last Updated: 01/02/13 7:08pm
The promising 21-year-old attacker sealed a shock deadline day switch to La Liga having been told by the Rovers boss that he was not guaranteed a starting role.
Appleton told the club's website: "The lad knocked on my door yesterday afternoon and said he wanted to leave.
"For as much as you want to try and keep players at the football club, maybe he was frustrated that he thought he might not get regular football or didn't think he was going to start every game, which no player has a right to.
"At the end of the day, when you have a player knocking on your door saying he wants to leave the football club, I'm in a position now as the manager of the football club I want players who want to play for Blackburn Rovers.
"If there are any players in the squad who don't want to play then they know where my door is always open."
Rochina arrived at Ewood Park from Barcelona B in January of 2011 on a four-year contract.
Meanwhile, Rovers will be without forward Josh King for up to eight weeks after scans revealed further damage to his hamstring.


text:
- BUY TICKETS ONLINE or CALL 612.332.5299
- DINNER RESERVATIONS or CALL 612.332.1010
Music Calendar
- This event has passed.
Dave Holland Prism
Modern Jazz Supergroup
- Date:
- Saturday, Sep 28, 2013
- Time:
- 9:00pm
- Cost:
- $30
Dave Holland: Prism Media
- Website:
- daveholland.com/
- Youtube:
About Dave Holland: Prism
Read the preview of Dave Holland: Prism by Britt Robson in the Star Tribune!
Now in his 5th decade of performing, Dave Holland is one of the grand masters of modern jazz, and his bass playing and composing is without equal. From his early days with Miles Davis to his Grammy Award-winning big band recordings (2002 and 2005), Holland has consistently changed the game at every turn.
Holland's new project, Prism, features the ingenious keyboardist Craig Taborn, a Golden Valley MN native who has been one of the top talents on the New York modern jazz scene for twenty years. Prism also features the stunning Eric Harland on drums, who has been seen with Charles Lloyd, the SFJazz Collective, and many others; and Kevin Eubanks, a brilliant guitarist who is resurfacing after a 15-year run leading the Tonight Show Band. Combining the celebrated virtuosity of Taborn on electric and acoustic pianos and the soulful scorch of Eubanks in the front line with Harland's matchless finesse and expressiveness, this decidedly plugged-in quartet is an explosive outlet for Holland at his unbridled best.
Dave Holland was a student at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, playing gigs at night, when Miles Davis heard him at Ronnie Scott's nightclub. Miles hired him to be a part of his quintet, and Holland left immediately for New York. Dave was the bass player on Davis' influential electric recordings: In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew and the sublime Filles de Kilimanjaro. After leaving the Miles group, Holland moved on to a number of projects, working with artists like Anthony Braxton and Sam Rivers. His debut recording as a leader, Conference of the Birds, was released in 1972.
Solo, and in collaboration, Holland became a dominant voice in the 1970s – partnering with Rivers, and working with folk and rock musicians such as Bonnie Raitt and John Hartford, and even had a passing encounter with Jimi Hendrix. He formed his first working quintet in 1983, and released Jumpin' In, and continued to develop other varied and fruitful relationships with artists such as Anthony Braxton, Stan Getz, Cassandra Wilson, Jack DeJohnette, Chick Corea, Joe Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Betty Carter, Pat Metheny, Kenny Wheeler, Bill Frisell, Roy Haynes and Herbie Hancock over the course of his career.
What Other People Have Been Saying...
"… an exuberant, rock-inflected affair filled with vivid and visceral music." – Ottawa Citizen, review of Prism's premiere performance, June 24 2012
"Holland's sense of swing is unexcelled. Additionally, Holland is possibly the most accomplished pure jazz composer among bassists" –All Music


text:
Read the original article in The Oregonian here.
Across Oregon's university network, this year's freshmen have just completed the first week of classes. And thousands of parents have spent a week feeling disoriented because there's one less kid at home.
It's a big adjustment for everyone.
Laurie C. Kelley, associate vice president of university relations at the University of Portland (and a veteran of the process, having sent several of her own kids off to college), has advice for parents feeling left behind -- and for kids striking out on their own.
The top mistake parents make? Trying to solve all their kids' problems, long distance. "You do want to be needed, but you're not giving them the sense they can do it" if you step in the minute an issue crops up, Kelley says. And your stepping in may keep them from connecting with the campus resources they need.
Encourage independence. Remember, your child's college education is only partly about classroom time. An equally valuable education comes as she learns how to navigate a large, complex system (the university) on her own. That will help prepare your student for later life tasks, such as fitting into a workplace, finding an apartment, buying a car.
Kelley's advice for parents:
- Don't call and text daily (or several times daily). Wait for your students to reach out. In most cases, they are making new friends and establishing a new routine. If they're unhappy, chances are you'll hear about it.
- If your child calls and is super-stressed, hating a roommate or wanting to come home, etc. don't try to solve it. Be supportive and let him know you have confidence he'll figure things out. An hour after getting that frantic call, you'll still be worrying but your child will probably be fine.
- If your best friend's kid is checking in all the time, but you aren't hearing from your child, it's OK. Everyone adjusts differently. Be patient.
- Think back to when you went to college. Kelley says her college days were in the era of long-distance phone calls -- you might have talked to your folks once a week. Or you got a letter from home. Let your child figure things out for herself, the way you had to figure things out for yourself.
OK, so you're not calling or texting. What to do with your time?
If you've got younger children at home, they'll be in transition, too. Make sure to give them their space if they need it, or extra attention if they need that.
And focus on yourself. "Let yourself bloom with your newfound time," Kelley suggests. Go back to things you loved doing before you had kids, take up a new hobby, renew friendships.
Although it's natural to be sad that childhood is officially over, you're never done being a parent, she says. "Your life expands so much with them when they're adults. You can look forward to that and not just be sad."
What should kids know? Kelley urges students not to rely on parents to problem-solve. Ask the people on campus who are there to help, such as your resident adviser or hall director at the dorm. See the financial aid office for help with money, and the campus health center for your medical needs. Crowd-source solutions among your new friends.
Michele Toppe, dean of student life at Portland State University, says she and the director of counseling talk about "the W curve" as they prepare students and families. Any big transition, such as starting college, has many highs and lows back to back, making your emotional path resemble a capital W.
There's comfort in knowing the path will be jagged, Toppe says. "When there's a valley, there's a peak around the corner." Don't worry that you're so up and down; it's typical.
Toppe encourages students to get involved in campus life, in whatever way suits them. Some like big gatherings and clubs, while others prefer smaller groups or one-on-one relationships. "Comb the activity schedule, connect with peers in class, check out student organizations," she advises. "Just dive in."
Second, students should seek out mentors, whether faculty, staff, peers or people in the community. "We learn a lot from watching others who are doing things well," Toppe says.
Third, take care with your finances. Students who suddenly have autonomy with finances for the first time can overreach, especially with credit. One suggestion: Track everything you spend during your first month so you don't go overboard without realizing it. Then use that first, careful month as a template for your spending.
Finally, she passes along a tip she's heard from many students. "Have one set time each week to connect with parents, to Skype or call or whatever," she says. "It helps parents not call too much and interrupt too much."
Although it seems hard right now -- for parents and students -- this period of adjustment will end. Before you know it, students will be home for Thanksgiving or over winter break.
That brings up another tough transition.
"Prepare for your kid to be different," Kelley warns parents. Your son may show up with a beard, or your daughter may have a nose ring. Be ready to discuss what house rules are reasonable now that your child is living elsewhere as an adult most of the time.