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The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist
by Frederick P. Brooks
Effective design is at the heart of everything from software development to engineering, to architecture. But what do we really know about the design process? What leads to effective, elegant designs? These new essays by Fred Brooks contain extraordinary insights for designers in every discipline. Brooks pinpoints constants inherent in all design projects and uncovers processes and patterns likely to lead to excellence. Drawing on conversations with dozens of exceptional designers, as well as his own experiences in several design domains, Brooks observes that bold design decisions lead to better outcomes.
Visual Basic 2010 Unleashed, Rough Cuts
by Alessandro Del Sole
This book is a comprehensive, practical reference to modern object-oriented programming with Visual Basic 2010. Written by Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, a long-time leader of the global VB community, this book illuminates the core of the VB language and demonstrates its effective use in a wide variety of programming scenarios. Del Sole covers both Visual Basic 2010 Professional Edition for working developers and the Express Edition for hobbyists, novices, and students; and uses VB 2010 for data access, user interface development, networking, communication, and many other tasks. For those moving from structured languages - including the older Visual Basic 6 - he offers detailed guidance and practical insights on building effective object-oriented code. This is a working draft of a pre-release book. It is available before the published date as part of the Rough Cuts service.
Code in the Cloud: Programming Google AppEngine
by Mark C. Chu-Carroll
Cloud applications are the next big shift in application development: instead of building single-user applications to run on a personal computer, new applications are being built as multi-user services that run in data centers around the world. One of the most exciting new environments for building services in the cloud is Google's AppEngine. AppEngine is a powerful, easy-to-use framework for developing cloud-based services. This book will teach you what you need to make the shift to cloud development using AppEngine.This is a bea book, but you can now get a printed copy of the current version through The Pragmatic Programmers' Beta-on-Paper program.


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A. When needing extra funds for school costs, we always encourage families to utilize the PLUS loan instead of paying with a credit card or a personal loan. PLUS loans have a fixed interest rate and are federally-insured. They also only require a basic credit check, versus the comprehensive credit check required for most other loans (e.g. home, auto, credit cards). If this is definitely not an option, please contact the Financial Aid Office 503.251.5335 to dialog about your situation.
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I enjoy learning about different moral philosophies. Few questions are more important, it seems, than this basic one: what ought we to do?
Every philosophical theory has to start with some conception of what is it about human beings that really matters. Given philosophers' penchant for reason, it is no surprise that so many through the ages take as a starting point the autonomous nature of man and his ability to reason, though I'm not sure I would privilege reason over many other important capacities (if artists created philosophy, our moral framework might start with the human capacity to experience and created beauty, for instance). Others emphasize the capacity for pleasure and pain, and the ancient Greeks still have a lot of relevance with their emphasis on human flourishing, humankind's capacity to experience what they called eudamonia.
But, though interesting, I find all these theories singularly unsatisfying and quite disconnected from true morality. This is because they all fail to really answer the question of why the particular compounds of chemicals known as human beings should matter any more than any other compounds in the universe. If the universe is a random, chaotic place with no intention or purpose, then do our questions or our reasoning have any import? Indeed, in such a universe it is hard to even conceive of what "meaning" actually, well,…means. Our reason lets us reflect on what matters but is not, in my opinion, the wellspring of moral value.
In my mind, the reason anything has value is because it is valued. The reason our questions about what is right and our striving to do what is right have value is because we are valued.
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October 28, 2012
Trenton, NJ – The Christie Administration announced that today that NJ TRANSIT will implement a gradual system-wide shutdown of all bus, rail, light rail and Access Link service, starting at 4:00 p.m. this afternoon and continuing through 2:00 a.m. on Monday morning.
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Train 4678 will be the last train leaving Atlantic City this afternoon. This train will leave Atlantic City at 2:43 p.m. and will arrive in Philadelphia at 4:19 p.m. Train 4679 will be the last train leaving Philadelphia on the Atlantic City Rail Line. This train will depart Philadelphia at 2:39 p.m. and terminate in Absecon at 4:00 p.m. "NJ TRANSIT's top priority is, has been and will continue to be the safety of our customers, our employees and the citizens of the Garden State", said NJ TRANSIT Board Chairman and New Jersey Department of Transportation Commissioner James Simpson. "This prudent and necessary action will enable NJ TRANSIT to further support our state's response to Hurricane Sandy; freeing up resources that may be needed to further facilitate hurricane relief."
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The dining philosophers problem is an instance/refinement of the mutual exclusion problem. The specification of the mutual exclusion problem dictates that when a node is in critical section, no other node in the system can be in the critical section. The dining philosopher relaxes this by taking into account the topology: When a node is in critical section, none of the neighbors of that node can be in critical section. Note that, this does not rule out two nodes to be in critical section simultaneously provided that they are not neighbors.
In the original formulation of the dining philosophers problem by Dijkstra, there are 5 philosophers sitting around a table. Between each philosopher is a fork and, in order to eat a philosopher must hold both of the forks. (The spaghetti is really messy.) The philosophers cycle between 3 states: thinking, hungry, and eating. The dining philosopher protocol should satisfy 1. (safety) if a process is eating neither of its left neighbor or right neighbor can be eating, and 2. (progress) if a process is hungry, eventually it gets to eat.
Dijkstra's formulation is an example of a token-based approach to mutual exclusion. Unlike token-based solutions to mutual exclusion where there is only one token in the system (as only one node is allowed to be in the critical section at any given time), the dining philosophers formulation relaxes the requirement and introduces one token (i.e., fork) per edge. A node that is eating needs to possess all the forks on its side, hence the safety condition is easily satisfied: if a process is eating, neither/none of its neighbors can be eating. The progress condition on the other hand is more trickier to satisfy and we will devote most of our attention on satisfying the progress condition in the below algorithms.
PlusCal modeling of naive dining philosophersHere is a PlusCal algorithm modeling of the dining philosophers problem.
There are N processes from 0..N-1. (You can provide N at model-checking time.) Each process is symmetric, they execute the same code instantiated with their ID. Each process has a variable called state, and loops through selecting 3 actions. From "state=thinking", the process can transition to "hungry". A hungry process first waits till the fork on its right is available and then grabs it. The hungry process then waits till the fork on its left is available and grabs it, and transitions into eating state. An "eating" process can transition to "thinking" by releasing its left and right forks.
OK, let's have the birds and bees talk now. How do we model a system at a suitable abstraction layer? When we are trying to get the basics of the algorithm right, we don't need to model the protocol at a message passing level. Let's get it right at the shared memory model first. Modeling the system at a suitable abstraction layer is an art. Novice users often make the mistake of writing Java-like iterative programs with PlusCal. This makes the code long and also very slow for model checking. After seeing better ways to model systems looking at other PlusCal code examples, novice users gradually learn to write more declarative math-like specifications. I believe this latter mode of thinking also helps improve their system design skills as well (which is what makes me most excited about using/teaching TLA+). I find that once you get the "define" block right, the rest of the PlusCal algorithm practically writes itself. But you may need to make a couple unsuccessful takes before you figure out the most suitable "define" block that leads to a succinct and elegant model.
In my modeling I use a shortcut to model the forks between two process. There are N forks, so I model the forks using an array of size N. The left fork of a philosopher is the fork that resides at the array index given by the ID of that philosopher. The right fork of a philosopher is the fork at index=ID+1 (modulo N). I say that a fork is available for grabs if the fork's value is set to N. When a process grabs its left fork or right fork, the fork's value is assigned to be equal to the ID of that process, so we denote that the fork is not available anymore. (Note that "self" refers to the ID of the process.)
When we model-check our algorithm, TLA+ complains and alerts us to a deadlock. Below is the deadlock trace provided by TLA+. You can see that all process are blocked at label "E:" where each one of them is waiting to grab its left fork. You can click on each step in the trace to see the program state at that step, and see how the final deadlock state is reached as a result. The problem turns out to be this: all the processes first grabbed their right fork, and when they try to grab their left fork, they can't because those forks have been grabbed by their respective right neighbors as a right fork.
Modeling dining philosophers with a distinguished philosopherAs a general principle in conflict resolution, it is necessary to break the symmetry. As long as each philosopher looks exactly like the others, the problem is hopeless, the processes run into a deadly embrace. So let's differentiate process 0 as being lefty: while all philosophers grab their right fork first, process 0 tries to grab its left fork first and its right fork later. This bit of asymmetry breaks the cyclic dependency for the availability of the forks. We changed only the second action of the program as below. When transitioning from hungry to eating, we introduced an if branch. If the process ID is 0, the process grabs left fork first instead of grabbing its right fork first.
When we model check this code, we find that since the symmetry is broken, the deadlock is avoided. However, TLA+ still complains about starvation. The "NoStarvation" predicate asserts that it is always the case that if a process is hungry, eventually that process gets to eat. In other words, no process starves. When we ask TLA+ to check NoStarvation in the temporal properties, TLA+ produces the following long counterexample. Inspecting the loop from state 19 to state 28, you see that process 2 can get to eat again and again while process 1 and 0 remains at the "hungry" state and starve. This counterexample is possible with a weak-fair scheduler. The scheduler chooses process 1 to execute every so often, but only when its left fork is unavailable so its left-fork grab action is disabled. (A strongly-fair scheduler would solve this deadlock, because process 1 will get chosen to execute the left-fork-grab action when the guard of the left-fork-grab is enabled. You can tell TLA+ to use strong-fairness by typing "fair+ process" in the PlusCal code. Also you would need to replace the either or construct with an "if else if else if else" construct, so TLA+ scheduler cannot get away with choosing to execute an inactive "or branch".)
The way to solve this problem under weak fairness is to introduce a flag to reduce the priority of a process once it eats, so that a hungry neighbor will have higher priority and can get to eat. We are going to look at such a solution in the next blog post on TLA+: the hygienic philosophers algorithm.
LogisticsNaive Dining Philosophers model in TLA+
Dining Philosophers with a distinguished process model in TLA+
Related LinksUsing TLA+ for teaching distributed systems
My experience with using TLA+ in distributed systems class
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ANAHEIM -- Angels hitting coach Don Baylor fractured his right femur while catching the ceremonial first pitch from Vladimir Guerrero prior to Opening Day on Monday and is set to undergo surgery on Tuesday.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Don right now," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Obviously it's [a freak accident], and we'll just see how it turns out. He's obviously in a lot of pain."
Baylor is a survivor of multiple myeloma, a cancer he acquired in 2003 that attacks plasma cells in the bone marrow. A fractured femur can take up to six months to heal.
Baylor, in his first season on Scioscia's coaching staff, was in a catcher's crouched position when Guerrero's slightly low-and-wide throw forced him to transfer most of his weight to the right side of his body. The 64-year-old tried to get up but couldn't walk off the field without the assistance of the Angels' training staff and was promptly taken to UCI Medical Center.
"Groove's a really tough guy," second baseman Howie Kendrick said of the former Angels MVP. "Any time you see him struggle like that, you know it's got to be pretty bad."
The Angels didn't didn't have a timeline for Baylor's recovery as of Monday night. Assistant hitting coach Dave Hansen is expected to take over his duties in the interim.


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I met Antonio Torres and his 11- and 12-year-old daughters in a small interview room here at the paper Friday morning.
Mr. Torres had come to tell a story of fighting drug addiction, losing his children to foster care, becoming homeless and working tirelessly to get his girls back.
In May, after a five-year fight, and after doing everything the court said he needed to do, he was granted custody. But now he is holed up with them in a one-room apartment at the Albion Hotel on Main Street, facing eviction.
As Mr. Torres told his story, his daughters added commentary, touching on their experiences at the Albion � the woman who has long conversations with her cat, the unknown persons who urinate in the community bathroom sink and the constant fire alarms.
Antonio knows that his daughters shouldn�t be at the Albion, not just because children are not allowed, but because, he said, the hotel is a harbor for drug addicts, sex offenders and the lot.
But after he tried to find an affordable apartment in the city that allows children, he said, someone turned a blind eye and allowed him into the Albion. Now that his living situation is known, he said, he has to go.
�What can I do?� he asked. �I am dealing with rejections left and right.�
The girls seem aware of the many rejections. When asked what they wanted for themselves, they responded with sheepish smiles and bewildered shrugs, as if the tap to children�s enormous dreaming capacity has not yet been turned on in their young lives.
After gaining custody of his children, Mr. Torres said, he moved back here from New York to be closer to family members. But because he had left a shelter in New York, the Department of Transitional Assistance said it couldn�t help him directly.
Instead, he was referred to Friendly House, and later to the Interfaith Hospitality Network. He said he left Interfaith, because it constantly moved him and his daughters among the agency�s shelters in Central Massachusetts.
The constant movement made it impossible for him to gain the traction to make a real go at bringing stability to their lives, he said.
That was when he took the little savings he had to rent the apartment at the Albion for $600 a month. He is now working with Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance to find another suitable and affordable apartment.
Maybe he should have stayed with Interfaith Network instead of making the move to the Albion.
But if Mr. Torres lacks the practicality that an invested mother would have brought to the family, he doesn�t appear to lack the grit and determination to right the wrongs he has done in his life.
His r�sum�, among numerous documents he brought with him, shows that since the birth of his children, and throughout his fight to reclaim them, he has maintained steady employment, including seven years as a security officer and supervisor for two security companies.
And even as he drifts from place to place, he has lined up temporary, on-call jobs with a call center, with the DCU Center, and with the Salvation Army.
I don�t know if Mr. Torres� story is any different from any of the many homeless families in this city, different from the couple with a child I saw that same morning on the sidewalk, next to the entrance to the building housing the Department of Transitional Assistance at 340 Main St.
They were standing amid a bundle of suitcases, as if they were about to embark on a trip, but more likely they were just another family trying to find shelter in a city that has no more room in the inn.
Perhaps this couple had a more compelling story to tell, but I didn�t ask. My cup was running over.


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Pirates beat A's, end losing streak
Pittsburgh 5, Oakland 0
On a night of ugly weather in Pittsburgh, Francisco Liriano's pitching was a thing of beauty, and worth staying up late to see.
The lefty had six strikeouts over seven shutout innings as the Pirates stopped a four-game losing streak with a 5-0 victory over the Oakland A's on Wednesday night.
Severe storms in western Pennsylvania caused a rain delay of almost three hours while dark clouds hung over PNC Park. The game didn't get started until nearly 10 p.m., and it ended shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday.
Pedro Alvarez continued his hot hitting for Pittsburgh, going 2-for-4 with a two-run double that raised his RBI total to 60.
Jose Tabata, Russell Martin and Andrew McCutchen chipped in with an RBI each to support Liriano (9-3), who allowed four hits and just one walk.
Relievers Justin Wilson and Jeanmar Gomez pitched one scoreless inning apiece.
Liriano, coming off a complete-game victory at Chicago last week, has now won his last four starts.
Oakland starter Tommy Milone (8-8) got knocked around early and lasted just 2 2/3 innings, giving up three runs and seven hits.


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Who We Are
Outdoor Venture Group, LLC (OVG) designs, builds and operates Aerial Forest Parks. Established in 2008, OVG was inspired by adventure parks located in Switzerland and the desire to create an outdoor experience that connects people with the great outdoors. Today we are committed to promoting active enjoyment of the outdoors through the development of Aerial Forest Parks and Rope Courses. A place where you can appreciate nature while engaging in activities that are fun, challenging, build confidence, and are good for your health.
About the Aerial Forest Park Model
The Aerial Forest Park (AFP) is a new concept in the U.S., but in Europe (France, Switzerland, England, Austria, and Germany) it has become a very popular experience for outdoor enthusiasts of all ages. Families, friends and individuals are involved in healthy outdoor activities, building strength, endurance, and confidence. They provide an opportunity for everyone to enjoy the outdoors and the beauty of nature. These parks contain courses made of small platforms constructed at various levels in the trees. The platforms are connected by different types of bridges (that represent obstacles) and participants, using safety harnesses, maneuver from platform to platform. The parks operate with virtually no negative environmental impact and the trees (our most important assets) are well cared for and protected. "We maintain the forest. A healthy forest is good for our business and nature," Outdoor Venture Marketing & Communications Director Anthony Wellman said. "Our message is really all about people getting out in the outdoors, recreating in the outdoors, playing and getting in the fresh air."
Ecotourism: Ropes Course Parks as Sustainable Travel Destinations
Ecotourism focuses on responsible travel, personal growth, and environmental sustainability. It places great importance on environmental awareness, respect for nature, and empowerment of local people, corporate responsibility, creating positive experiences, whilst aiming to provide financial benefits for both businesses and local communities. All of these goals and outcomes make a ropes course park a very eco-friendly and sustainable business.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1972?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13481916#comment-13481916 ] Shawn Heisey commented on SOLR-1972: ------------------------------------ Originally I was worried about it being too large, because I didn't see anything defining the size. Now, knowing that it's only 1024, I consider it to be way too small. I was using 16384 for the old patch, I was actually hoping to make it a bit larger than that. > Need additional query stats in admin interface - median, 95th and 99th percentile > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SOLR-1972 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1972 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 1.4 > Reporter: Shawn Heisey > Priority: Minor > Attachments: elyograg-1972-3.2.patch, elyograg-1972-3.2.patch, elyograg-1972-trunk.patch, elyograg-1972-trunk.patch, SOLR-1972-branch3x-url_pattern.patch, SOLR-1972-branch4x.patch, SOLR-1972-branch4x.patch, SOLR-1972_metrics.patch, SOLR-1972.patch, SOLR-1972.patch, SOLR-1972.patch, SOLR-1972.patch, SOLR-1972-url_pattern.patch > > > I would like to see more detailed query statistics from the admin GUI. This is what you can get now: > requests : 809 > errors : 0 > timeouts : 0 > totalTime : 70053 > avgTimePerRequest : 86.59209 > avgRequestsPerSecond : 0.8148785 > I'd like to see more data on the time per request - median, 95th percentile, 99th percentile, and any other statistical function that makes sense to include. In my environment, the first bunch of queries after startup tend to take several seconds each. I find that the average value tends to be useless until it has several thousand queries under its belt and the caches are thoroughly warmed. The statistical functions I have mentioned would quickly eliminate the influence of those initial slow queries. > The system will have to store individual data about each query. I don't know if this is something Solr does already. It would be nice to have a configurable count of how many of the most recent data points are kept, to control the amount of memory the feature uses. The default value could be something like 1024 or 4096. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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The Home of Harvard Men's and Women's Hockey
Facility Information:
- Men's and women's hockey coaches' offices
- Men's and women's varsity locker rooms
- Two additional locker rooms
- C. Kevin Landry Room
- Boynton Lounge
- Tim Barakett Room
- 204 ft. X 87 ft. skating rink
- Relocated elevator access to the east side of the building (rear entrance)
- Seating Capacity: 3,095
The Bright-Landry Hockey Center
65 North Harvard Street
Boston, MA 02163
While hockey at Harvard began in 1898 at Franklin Park in Boston, the Crimson has called the Alexander H. Bright Hockey Center home since 1979 and saw its facility renamed to The Bright-Landry Hockey Center in the fall of 2013.
The 2014-15 season opened in grand style on November 1, as the renovations to Bright-Landry Hockey Center were on display to the general public for the first time. A new 20,000-square-foot addition is located between the current hockey facility and the Albert H. Gordon Track. Upgraded spectator amenities include new concession, souvenir, and hospitality areas plus additional family friendly restrooms. Additional enhancements to the Hockey Center include new team locker rooms for the men's and women's ice hockey programs, sports medicine and workout facilities, coach's offices, and a facility operations center.
The most recent renovations are just the latest in a long line if upgrades Bright-Landry has seen over the years. As technology has improved over the last few decades, so has The Bright-Landry Hockey Center. In 2008, it became the first arena in ECAC Hockey to feature a video scoreboard. The four-screened Daktronics display hangs over center ice to provide fans with video and instant replays.
The Bright Hockey Center was dedicated on November 19, 1979, when the Crimson hosted the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team in Cambridge. More than 3,000 spectators turned out for the opening of Harvard's third new athletic facility in three years.
From 1956 to 1978, Harvard played its hockey games at the Donald C. Watson Rink, a facility loved by hockey players for its good, hard ice but cursed by many spectators for its cold temperatures. Harvard made plans for expansion of facilities in the early 1970s with a brand new ice rink to be constructed at Soldiers Field. Costs soared, however, and the project had to be revised. The new rink, estimated to cost somewhere around $5 million, would not be built after all. Watson would instead be renovated.
While Harvard's men's and women's teams played out of local rinks in 1978-79, the "renovation" of Watson Rink took place. The concrete walls of Watson's sides were knocked down and the new borders extended 10 feet in each direction. The wooden ceiling of Watson remained, but a new roof topped it.
Named after former Harvard hockey player Alec Bright '19, the Bright Hockey Center seats 3,095 people, up more than 800 from Watson's old capacity. There is additional space for some 500 standees. Long-time Harvard coach Bill Cleary chose to lengthen the playing surface by five feet to emphasize the skating game he favored. The skating surface is now 204 feet by 87 feet.
The Bright ice has been more than friendly to Crimson skaters through the years. During one stretch from 1985-87, the Harvard men put together a home-ice winning streak of 29 games. Since Bright opened, the Crimson boasts an impressive home record of 299-146-35 for a .623 winning percentage entering the 2014-15 season, including unbeaten marks in 1985-86, 1988-89 and 1993-94.
Four locker rooms exist beneath the stands, one each for the men's varsity, women's varsity, club and opposing teams. These carpeted rooms are supplemented by rooms for officials, coaches and equipment storage.
In the arena proper, the walls paint a pictoral history of the more than 100 years of the Crimson's proud hockey tradition. In addition to photos of each Harvard team dating back to the inception of both the men's and women's programs, the renovations that took place between 2013-14 provided an opportunity for Harvard to showcase its lengthy and historic history on the ice. Wall murals run from floor to ceiling along the expanded concourse, giving fans a history lesson on the history of Harvard hockey, including former home rinks, awards, Olympians, professional players and coaching recods. A trophy case proudly displaying Tournament trophies is integrated into the Boynton Lounge. Hanging from the ceiling at the west end of the arena is perhaps the most prominent statement in the entire building: side-by side banners commemorating the men's 1989 NCAA national championship and the women's AWCHA national championship in 1999.
Other reminders include banners that hang from the rafters depicting Harvard insignias and the banners representing the success that both the men's and women's hockey programs have enjoyed over the years: the ECAC titles; the Beanpot crowns, the NCAA tournament appearances. Hanging alongside the National Championship banners is one with a Crimson "4" - the retired number of former Crimson skater, hockey coach, and Director of Athletics Bill Cleary, which was retired in 2001 and is the only number - of any of Harvard's 42 varsity sports - ever to be taken out of circulation.
The Crimson's varsity locker rooms were renovated in summer 2007. Custom-crafted Canadian maple lockers; new ceiling, lighting and plumbing fixtures; carpeting; rubber flooring and new audio and video technologies are some of the improved features of the new locker rooms.
Several other improvements have been made at Bright in recent seasons, including installation
of a new, energy-efficient lighting system prior to the 2013-14 season. A new public address and sound system was installed in 2003. New dasher boards, seamless GlassFlex and protective end netting were added a year earlier.
Facility Hours:
Open seasonally November-March
Recreation page with weekly general skate times (posted weekly on Thursdays)


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COP19 in Warsaw, Poland, runs from November 11-22, 2013. As part of our involvement in COP19, Damian Ryan our Senior Policy Manager, is providing news and analysis as well as live tweeting. Today Damian reports from the second day of COP19's second week, where The Climate Group co-launched a guide to corporate engagement on climate policy.
Damian writes:
The role of business in tackling climate change has been a headline issue for many at this year's UN Climate Conference in Warsaw.
Members of the business community (or 'BINGO's – Business & Industry NGOs – in UN-speak) have of course been active observers of the UNFCCC process since the very first COP in 1995. This year, however, the profile of business has been notably higher and not always for the right reasons.
On the positive side, Poland as host country and COP President has actively sought to engage businesses in the formal process. Given that the private sector owns most of the relevant low carbon technology, as well as the capital and skills needed for addressing climate change, such engagement is both sensible and pragmatic.
Business representatives were therefore present at the important pre-COP mini-ministerial meeting in October and will also participant in a number of high-level segments this week. In addition, a flurry of business summits have been held in Warsaw over the last ten days, extolling the leadership opportunities and roles that business can play in decarbonizing economies.
The Polish government's progressive attitude towards business generally has been soured for many however, by its decision to also co-host the World Coal Summit over the past two days here in Warsaw. Had this occurred at any other time of the year, the government could perhaps have been excused given the central role that coal plays in Poland's current energy system.
But the decision to run the summit in parallel with the COP has been described by some observers as "diplomatically naïve". It also offers few benefits for the wider business community; simply reinforcing the view among environmental groups, other observers and the public that 'business' is some monolithic, fossil fuel body bent on maintaining the status quo.
In addition to this rather short-sighted approach to diplomatic risk management, the Polish government has also sought to cover its costs for hosting the event by allowing corporate sponsorship.
Some might argue that in this age of austerity such an approach represents sound financial management on the part of the government. There may well be some merit in this argument.
But COPs are intergovernmental processes, not sports events. A domestic analogy to demonstrate the inappropriateness of this corporate sponsorship would be if Tesco sponsored the next sitting of the British Parliament or Walmart did the same for the next US Congress.
The whiff of privileged access and closed door deals for corporates simply erodes the credibility of not only the UN process but the legitimacy of the business community as well.
Given the tremendous low carbon technologies, goods, services and financing instruments being developed by large corporates, SMEs and entrepreneurial starts-up, such a broad brush portrayal and perception of business damages the opportunity narrative that smart businesses have to tell and which is so desperately needed in the UNFCCC process.
It was timely therefore that today saw the official launch of a new report, Responsible Corporate Engagement on Climate Policy, at the Caring for Climate Summit hosted by the UN Global Compact (UNGC) in Warsaw.
Graphic from the report showing the post-2015 business engagement architecture on climate policy (click it to share on Twitter):
Written by a coalition consisting of the UNGC, WRI, CDP, Ceres, WWF and The Climate Group, the report sets out five core elements that define a responsible corporate policy engagement strategy (Legitimacy, Opportunity, Consistency, Accountability and Transparency) and three basic actions that corporates need to take to implement such as a strategy (Identify, Align and Report).
The report sets a best-practice floor, not a ceiling, for responsible policy lobbying by businesses. At a time when public reputation of the corporate world is under intense scrutiny by regulators, the media and the public (and not just within the climate sphere), this report deserves the attention of corporate leaders.
In Warsaw, the business community has a huge amount to offer the negotiation process. Indeed, it is the constituency upon which any final deal will ultimately depend on for its successful implementation. To make this happen however, business needs to ensure it is firmly out in the open and not engaging in the shadows. Anything less is a loss not just to the process, but a disservice to businesses themselves.
Related news:
New guide launched to help companies to report their climate policy positions
COP19: Hurricane Haiyan puts 'loss and damage' front and center
Days before COP19 in Warsaw begins, read our overview
COP19 begins in Warsaw: "A new universal climate agreement is within our reach" - Christiana Figueres
COP19: Pressure is on from scientists and energy experts in wake of Philippines typhoon


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Utilizzare questa guida per sostituire la piastra dell'antenna che funge da supporto dell'antenna e del disco rigido.
Posizionare i pollici negli incavi nel coperchio inferiore.
Ruotare il coperchio inferiore in senso antiorario finché il puntino bianco dipinto su di esso non è allineato con il cerchio in rilievo sul case esterno.
I accidentally broke the little things that hold the cover to the case. Is there a cheap replacement to the cover? Those clips are held onto it very weakly.
I think it depends, I have seen some that are very difficult to open and some super easy. But I see them everyday. I wish there was a tool that fit in the holes.
When seating the bottom RAM chip you may have to apply a little extra side force to get it to seat properly. I put in the new RAM and just got a beeping sound upon starting. I then put the old RAM back in and got the same result.
Here is the solution I found on the Apple discussion board.
"Take a small flat head screwdriver and after you put the memory in slot 0, put the screwdriver between the top of the mac mini and the memory then turn the screwdriver a little to exert pressure on the memory into the slot. Do it on both sides of the memory."
This worked for me.
I remember this when I was changing my memory ... I realized (after opening) that more you push, more force it take to open the cover. As you push down you force the cover "to rub" the casing and possibly other things inside. If you "lightly" hold the cover it comes right off ... Remember: less is more! :-)
Have fun!
Inclinare il Mac mini abbastanza da sganciare il coperchio inferiore dal case esterno.
Rimuovere coperchio inferiore e conservarlo altrove.
I have a late 2012 Mac mini, but it must be an earlier version than this late 2012 Mac mini in this description, because removing the hard drive is much more complicated than described here. Please see this YouTube video if you have trouble removing your hard drive with these directions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvmuQIZP... There is a longer process you've got to go through. It can be done, it just takes much longer. (3-4 hours for me)
This applied to me as well. The iFixit article was good and lots of helpful information in the comments but my mini was different and required more dismantling. The video sandyfacebook posted was very helpful in taking me the rest of the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvmuQIZP...
My HDD replacement procedure took 2 jours of research, one night sleeping on it and 30 minutes to perform…
Rimuovere le due viti Torx T6 da 11,3 mm che fissano la ventola alla scheda logica, in prossimità della piastra dell'antenna.
Remove a third screw at the opposite end of the fan near the DRAM
Not necessary to remove that screw at that point to get the fan out. It is only a post at that point.
Remove it in step 14.
The fan has in fact, 3 screws that need to be removed before you can lift it out.
That screw is a post at that point. I removed it at step 14.
I can't, for the life of me, get the left screw out of the cowling. Had to pull both out together. Now having a very hard time getting the cowling back in to replace the fan.
I can't remove the left screw to separate the fan to the cooler. Impossible to put back the fan and the cooler.
Sollevare la linguetta della ventola più vicina alla memoria RAM più vicina al distanziatore fissato al case esterno.
Same for me, couldn't get it to move without feeling it was going to break so I just removed the screw.
Ditto re: standoff screw
Better to remove the 3rd bolt here, making it easier to remove the fan. It needs to be removed anyway in step 14.
Sollevare la ventola dal Mac mini affinché sia possibile accedere al connettore.
Tirare con attenzione i cavi della ventola verso l'alto, per sollevare il connettore dal connettore femmina sulla scheda logica.
Rimuovere la ventola.
You actually don't need to disconnect the fan. You can just let it hang on the side while working. I accidentally killed my connector trying to pry it loose. It's being held together now by some tape, after spending hours trying to reconnect it and figuring out pin outs.
Did it just as Nick suggested, hang the assembly to the side.
Agreed. It is much better to leave the fan connected. The only thing you actually need to disconnect is the hard drive.
ablack3 -
Absolutely. just dangle it.
110% agreed: you don't have to remove the fan. Those wires are delicate, as is the connector. Just move it off to the side. Do the same for the antenna plate. The fewer connectors you touch, the fewer things you break!
These instructions are used as a prerequisite for many other repairs where the fan simply has to be removed in order to continue. (For example, fan replacement.) I would not recommend leaving the fan dangling from the board during a repair, as that's a hazard all by itself. If you insist on leaving the fan connected, secure it to the chassis with some masking tape to make it a little less dangerous.
Be careful to LIFT UP on the fan connector cable. Using a spudger tool helps here. I mistakenly thought that the connector would slide off the logic board and tried to remove the connector this way. I ended up lifting the connector off of the logic board, thus ruining my logic board and requiring a $350 logic board replacement at the genius bar. The second time I did a HD/SSD replacement, everything worked fine.
Yeah, I did the same thing by following someone elses "shortcut". Now I am going to shell out 289 for quad core i5 board, and a new fan BTW. . . . . . Oh well never a dull moment :) and it gets an upgrade as well!
That's probably the must tricky part of the replacement. I did the same thing, i just pull on my cables and the connector stays on the board. Tried many times to switch cables into but any order i try is not the good one.
The avoid this, now, when i want to pull out my fan, i just use a plate screwdriver and lift up the connector. That's work perfectly.
I screwed it too... Not reading carefully enough, I accidentally removed the whole socket from the board. This happened with the IR connector too. When re-assembling the parts, the socket wouldn't stick to the board, now I know why. I don't want to buy a new logic board, because I can't afford one, so I'm trying to find someone to solder it. Seems hard to find someone able to repair logic boards these days. Hope I'll be successful, otherwise this is an expensive upgrade to my mac...
Don't remove it with your fingers, use a tool for that. And underneath the wires!
Followed all the instructions, everything went well, but now my mini fan won't turn off. It starts as soon as I boot up. I've tried every fan control software out there, and nothing works; the fan just constantly runs. I was very careful when I disconnected/reconnected the fan cable, and it looks fine. What else can I do?
The problem is most likely a disconnected or damaged temperature sensor, I had this problem when reassembling a 2007 Mac mini. It can't read the temperature, so assumes the worst and sets the fan to maximum.
For heavens sake please DON'T remove the fan. It's really really hard to reconnect it properly. And besides that you don't have to remove the Logic Board for just changing the HDD.
It's very easy to reconnect if you know how. Position the connector over the socket as shown in the photo, and press it down. As long as it's not upside-down or anything, you're done in 5 seconds.
Does anyone know how to solve the full RPM fan issue? My computer guy couldn't solve with fan control software
I removed the fan and everything worked fine, but it's good to know that it's a "push-down" connector, took me some time to relize that, all I needed to do was to press down the connector over the pins, see the picture for more details.
The direction you " gently pull" to remove the connector is all important. You have to pull upwards, vertically away from the board. If you pull more downwards parallel to the board, you may end up wrecking the connector by pulling the wires out of it as I did. Fortunately the socket was okay so it was just a case of buying a $10 replacement fan (complete with new connector).
DAGNABBIT! Broke it! Now I have a fan blowing on the open case while it's operating. What can I use as a shield for dust but still allow for airflow?
OMG, please change this instruction to NOT remove the fan. What a nightmare trying to reseat it.
You need to position it over the socket as shown and press straight down. If it takes you more than 5-10 seconds, something's wrong.
really wish i would have seen these comments before I ripped out the fan from the logic board.
Rimuovere la vite T6 da 3,5 mm che fissa la mascherina al dissipatore.
in Step 6 — Cowling ; " Remove the single 3.5 mm T6 Torx screw securing the cowling to the heat sink", does it mean that it is the same T6 Torx screw for the cowling and the heat sink ?
In fact at the end, I mess this T6 Torx screw !
Sollevare la mascherina dall'estremità più vicina alla piastra dell'antenna.
Ruotare la mascherina fuori dal case esterno e rimuoverla dal Mac mini.
Look very closely at how this is set. Take a photo. Because when I put mine back together it took 45 minutes just to get the fan and this cowling to fit in place next to each other.
The cowling has a notch close to the midpoint of the flange that goes under the outer case, which slides onto a standoff screw attached to the logic board. I used a Sharpie marker to put one "alignment mark" on the inner edge of the outer case. I put another alignment mark from the midpoint of the cowling notch out onto the visible part of the cowling. This made it much easer to reassemble, especially since my standoff post provided a tight fit, which, when I did this the first time, felt like "it doesn't fit . . . again?" It also helped to insert the end of the cowling closest to the heat sink first, which acted as a "fulcrum" for the cowling to "click" onto the standoff post.
I am working on a late 2012 Mac Mini (A1347) and there are two T6 screws on the cowling. On towards the WIFI as indicated, and another towards the back by the SD card slot.
Rimuovere le viti seguenti, che fissano la piastra dell'antenna al Mac mini:
Due viti Torx T8 da 6,6 mm
Due viti Torx T8 da 5 mm o viti esagonali da 2 mm (vanno bene entrambi i cacciaviti)
in fase di montaggio:
When reassembling this aerial plate, it may take a very strong force to align the side lips with the screw bays. The circular edge on the body is meant to slot into the plate by less than 1mm. I followed the rule of thumb, which is, if it takes an unusual force, stop and think it out to avoid a disaster! Then, I hit on using a paper clip to get around this problem. Make a paper clip L-shaped to loop through a hole close to the edge of the plate, where the slotting is not deep enough. Gently lifting the paper clip, slide and push the aerial plate in place. This worked like a charm without using a strong force.
Worked like a charm, saved my day!!!
David -
@Al Dente's approach worked for me, but at first I didn't understand what he meant. Basically the antenna mesh has a tongue and grove relationship with the mac mini shell; it is hard to see, but along the curved edge has a concave grove which needs to be widened. You can widen this concave grove with a paper clip and then it will fit perfectly.
My only real problem in the whole process was putting back the antenna plate. Couldn't get both side screws to align. Ended up leaving one out but might try the paper clip trick now
I had a similar experience, but when I realized the two 5.0mm T8 Torx screws were 2 of a set of 3 that also served to hold the cover on, I wasn't comfortable with only securing the cover with 2.
DO NOT BRUTE FORCE the reinstallation of the plate. In my case, the top lip of the antenna plate has a notch which aligns with the edge of the opening was preventing the perfect fit. All I did in my case was use the spudger to pry open the notch a little more to give me a little bit extra space so that edge of the aluminum enclosure fits into that notch on the top of the antenna plate. Hope that helps. :)
I did this too. Worked like a charm.
ablack3 -
Thanks for the tip: I did the same thing and it worked like a charm
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I was installing an SSD in my mini and when I got to this step, an issue came up. The two 6.6mm screws on the antenna plate screw into one side of, and secure, the hard drive. The problem was the SSD was thinner than the original hard drive, so when I tried to reassemble, the hard drive sat too low for the screws to reach it.
Here's how I got around the problem. I loosely attached the antenna plate to the hard drive, leaving plenty of wiggle room between the plate and the drive. I also left the two stand off screws on the logic board off to give me more wiggle room there.
With the SSD attached to the antenna plate, I carefully connected and stowed the Bluetooth cable. Using the antenna plate as a handle, I was able to guide the SSD into the hard drive mount. Once in place, I tightened the 6.6mm screws more, which raised the SSD to the proper level.
After insuring that the screws all lined up, I installed and tightened the logic board, then the other antenna plate screws.
I was able to achieve the same result with an slim SSD disk by simply turning the computer around with the access hole down so that gravity would pull the SSD towards the antenna plate.
Mikael -
I attached the SSD to the antenna plate FIRST. Then I connected the RF and the HD connectors during the antenna plate installation.
After trying these suggestions with a thinner SSD and couldn't get anywhere I used a bent paper clip, L-shaped, to act as a hook. One end I was able to simply hook under the drive and pull it up to install that ends screw loosely. The opposite end I inserted the paper clip through the antenna grate, again pulled up on the drive, installed the screw and carefully pulled the paper clip out.
The "engineering tolerances" are definitely tight for the AirPort antenna plate. I would recommend trying to replace it as soon as it's removed for the first time, in order to work out the (precise) alignment of it.
Nothing I tried (including the suggestions here) seemed to help me during reassembly. No matter what I tried, I couldn't get the holes for the two 5.0mm T8 screws to line up. Eventually, I had to resort to CAREFULLY and SLIGHTLY re-bending the curved edge of the antenna plate.
REATTACHING grate - al dente's trick helped me.
The tiny perforations on the grate rest ON TOP of the lip of the case, while the remainder of the grate slides UNDER the lip. It is very hard to see - I used a magnifying glass.
To get it into place, create a tiny hook on the end of a paperclip. Moving along the edge of the grate, lift a perforation with the hook to help it slip into place. Keep moving along the edge until entire grate is shifted into place.
I had several 2-terminal connectors that went to what appeared to be temperature sensors on several components including the hard disk and optical drive. I accidentally pulled the wires out of one of these connectors. Lucky for me, they came out clean and I was able to just re-insert them into the connector
As everyone else has noted during re-assembly, seating the antenna plate is tricky. For me, what ended up working was to attach the hard drive screws first. After this, with just a little wiggling of the plate, the 2 5mm screw holes lined up perfectly.
Aligning the drive holes with the ones on the antenna grate was easy – just take the pointy end of the spudger. Also, for getting the circular part of the grate set correctly, I had to bend down the outermost part a tiny little bit and then used curved tweezers to lift the grate once it was near its final position to get it slide in the last millimeter. Frustrating at first, but it worked after a few tries.
Has anyone had any trouble getting the two 5.0mm screws back in place? I can't seem to get them in, as they just keep on turning. I thought the thread may have been damaged but I then removed the plate and could screw them in position okay. It seems the depth of the plate is causing the screws to not go down far enough. I've had to leave these off at the moment (obviously not great as this means the bottom cover is loose. Any ideas?
I had the same problem but only on one of the two screws. Then I realized there's a little tiny "o-ring" underneath which is acting like a nut. I lost one of them in the process of upgrading. If I could find out where to buy a new one I would!
@lyleberman Where are these O-rings? Under what? :)
I figured I'd wasted the thread on the screws here, and was about to buy new ones at an absurd cost, but this is exactly what's happening to me! I've currently 'secured' the antenna plate at the sides with duct tape. But this leaves the machine's lid loose.
I'd love to hear more about this, so I can get rid of my ghetto solution!
Same issue with that antenna plate - take a look at it from the side and you will see the incredibly tight gap which the lip of the case needs to slot into. I assumed it simply butted up against the case, but no.
I used a big paper clip as suggested here, putting in one screw and then lifting through the perforations while applying a little pressure to the plate. Turned out there was one point misaligned and after a few tries it popped back in.
The thickness of your hard drive or SSD plays a part here, I think. With a thicker SSD (Crucial M4) in the upper slot I found the antenna plate very hard to re-install. After replacing this with a Samsung Evo 850 it was much easier, I think because the lower drive has more room to breathe. With the thinner SSD I didn't have to remove the power supply, either – a major plus.
For those having trouble reinstalling the Aerial Plate, it is probably a matter of alignment. The recessed edge of the plate slides all the way up under the lip edge of the case. I used my iFixit bent tweezers spread and inserted through a couple holes to lightly pull up on the grate while pushing on the flat edge. No hard force was required. It just snapped right in. You'll know when it is home because it will be a snug fit to the edge of the case inside the arc of the opening.
I would also add that during the reassembly process, make sure the drive stays firmly seated in the grommets. There's a tendency for it to come out or partially out. I kept nudging on it to make sure it was fully seated. Then the antenna screws line up nicely. Some of the problems I read about getting the screws in I suspect arise form the hard drive not being fully seated.
Hilariously, I was trying all the tricks, with the paper clip, and putting the drive screws in first, nothing working for me to get the case screw holes aligned. I ended up saying "one screw might just have to do it", so I put the first case screw in, then I tried putting the second one in from an angle into the misaligned hole, and screwing it in, and that caused the plate to pop into place!
What finally helped me was to check things one at a time. To check the tongue-and-groove fit, I installed the antenna plate by itself, with the hard drive removed. I used a spudger to pry open the groove on the antenna plate, since I had closed it a bit by forcing things. After the antenna plate was going in by itself, I focussed on the hard drive. At first, I was pre-attaching the hard drive to the antenna plate, but this makes it hard to see if the hard drive is going in as far as it should. Getting the two protruding screws on the hard drive into their holes is tricky (I found turning the Mini upside down to use gravity helped), but for me it was some wires at the side of the hard drive space that were getting under the drive and making it sit up high that was the problem. Once I got the hard drive in, and then the antenna plate, I could get the last two screws which hold the drive to the plate to catch by turning the Mini upside down and tapping it on top to bring the hard drive close to the plate.
So, what they mean by the "paper clip" trick is that you need to lift away the round edge where the wire runs, to be a little further away from the plate. Then it will fit without forcing it.
In order to put back correctly the 2 Torx T8 6,6 mm in the hard drive through the airport grid, I used a pick (to play guitar) to lift up the hard drive in order for the 2 screws to reach the hard drive holes.
I inserted the pick in the little space left between the mother board and the hard drive. Then, by leaning the pick against the motherboard, it lifted up the hard drive against the grid. Then it was super-easy.
Hope it might help…
Sollevare delicatamente la piastra dell'antenna dall'estremità più vicina alla memoria RAM.
Estrarre con attenzione la piastra dell'antenna dalla montatura rotonda nel case esterno.
The top curved part of the antenna plate has a thin lip on the bottom edge, but is very flexible. During reassembly when sliding the antenna plate back into position, if the 4 holes do not exactly line up, then try bending that lip downward a bit and the antenna plate should then line up perfectly.
Actually, curved edge of antenna has a groove into which an edge of aluminium body should slide in. In my case a vary slight lift by putting tip of tweezers into one of the antenna top holes made a good help - antenna popped into correct position.
Thank you! Helped me in my 2012 mini.
Mediante la punta di uno spudger, scollegare con attenzione il connettore dell'antenna dal rispettivo connettore femmina sulla scheda AirPort/Bluetooth.
steps 10 11 13 14 15 16 not necessary …
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 17 only needed to change hard drive …
You were right.
yep worked for me too
Worked for me too.
ablack3 -
Absolutely correct. Thanks. The wide-head screws holding in the antenna plate may be used on the upper side of the HD (SSD in my case) to help hold the side of the HD that slips under the case -up- so the two side mounting screws in the drive may be seated properly in the case. This is easier to do than to describe. (Others have noted this, as well and I followed the advice.)
This, agreed. Do as Radioman says. Far less complicated and I had everything apart and back together within 10 minutes.
That s why it is easier to leave it on the logic board at all times
There is no need to remove it.
Carefully let it follow the logic board assembly when you take that it out completely in the nex steps.
Agreed. I just rotated the antenna plate out of the way.
I skipped steps 10 and 11 but had to do the rest to get the drive out. My system had a second drive so that may be why the logic board had to be removed to have enough room to get the drive out past the DIMM sockets.
On the Late 2012 model the antenna connector is hidden under the case, so unlike as indicated in step 10 you can not see the connector and definitely not remove it until the Logic Board has been eased out an inch. Note how the cable makes a loop under the case as it is removed. Remember to reconnect the same way with the loop and connected before the logic board is pushed in all the way.
The antenna connector is underneath a black flap. I just lifted the flap slightly with a spudger and used my fingers to disconnect.
If your machine came with a 7mm drive and you are replacing with a 7mm drive you do not need to move the logic board. I installed an Intel 335 240GB drive which is a 9.5mm drive and to get that drive in I did need to bump the logic board out to clear the memory slot brackets. I did not need to remote any other wires or connections as the logic board only needs to move maybe an 1/8" to get the drive to clear the memory bracket.
When removing the wifi antenna make sure you use a plastic spudger and lever up underneath the wire. I used a metal screwdriver and levered up from the side opposite the wire and ripped the pico-ITX connector right off the board! Fortunately I only use my mini via Ethernet, but now I have no choice!
Did you actually break it? It pops out easily and can actually be plugged back in easily too with tweezers or small needle nose pliers. I did the same thing with no permanent damage.
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January 12, 2015
Steener -
I have a late 2012 Mac mini, but it must be an earlier version than this late 2012 Mac mini in this description, because removing the hard drive is much more complicated than described here. Please see this YouTube video if you have trouble removing your hard drive with these directions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvmuQIZP... There is a longer process you've got to go through. It can be done, it just takes much longer. (3-4 hours for me)
I think sandyfacebook is speaking about the mini server with the second drive this guide is about replacing the primary drive.
BTW, I agree with radioman: it MUCH safer if you do not need to remove the logic board to replace the HD. Just stop after step 12 and pull the drive out. The trouble starts when you try to put it back in because gravity is working against you: the drive has to hang in its slots about 1 cm above the top casing, which is on your table. The trick is to flip the mini up onto its front edge and after a couple of tries the buttons on the HD will engage their sockets.
Rimuovere l'antenna dal Mac mini.
There's no real need to disconnect the antenna. You can just lay the grill gently on its side and leave it connected.
That is true if you do not need to remove the logic board (i.e. you are only replacing the drive in the original slot position).
You can leave the antenna plate attached and remove the logic board if you're careful while removing the motherboard.
You might find the two silver screws (along the edge of the grill) will not attach. That's because the hard drive was installed a millimeter or two in the wrong place (or maybe the new hard drive has screw holes offset, in the wrong place). This happened to me. Rather than take it apart (again), I'll just secure the two screws that go into the tabs. No question this will keep things secure enough (just a question if I'll suffer noise or rattle). Extra screws are fun :-)
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when opening my 2011 mac mini, I noticed removing the fan and the cowling is unnecessary to access the antenna plate
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TAMPA, Florida -- Fred Turner's ex-wife, who's among his closest family, says he was a reserved, quiet guy who used to live in Clearwater, and she can't imagine anyone wanting to hurt him.
She told 10 News off-camera she hopes someone will come forward with information leading to the 47-year-old's killer.
On Saturday, Turner was in Tampa for unknown reasons and driving back to Orlando, where he's lived for the last five years and worked as a housekeeping director.
As he neared 50th Street and Columbus Drive, near an entrance ramp to I-4, Turner called police to alert them that a driver had flashed a handgun and was following him.
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"I don't know why anyone would do that. I mean, he was a nice guy. I don't see him having any enemies," said a neighbor of Turner's in Orlando, who wanted to remain anonymous. "He stayed to himself. He was a quiet guy. I just can't believe that someone would just openly, randomly shoot him on I-4. That's horrible."
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Cathedral of Santa María in Vitoria
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A guided visit through the restoration work in Santa María Cathedral.
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A guided visit through the restoration work in Santa María Cathedral.
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Statue of the writer Ken Follett next to the cathedral.
There are places in the world full of magic that are capable of inspiring famous bestsellers. Would you like to know one? Don't miss Santa María Cathedral, the great symbol of Vitoria, located in the north of Spain. You will discover a cathedral that has served as a muse to the writer Ken Follett for his new work. It is a marvel of Gothic architecture that can be visited in a very special way. Would you like to know how? Carry on reading.
"Nowhere in the world can you see anything like this," said Ken Follet after a number of visits to the Cathedral of Álava (in the Basque Country). What led to his fascination? The fact is that since 2000 the cathedral dedicated to Santa María has been undergoing a process of restoration to which the whole world has been invited. Why? Because this cathedral has hung the sign "Open for Restoration Work" outside its entrance and organises guided visits in which you can witness at first hand how architects and archaeologists are recovering the original colours and the magnificent 18th-century baroque sacristy or completing the funerary crypt.
This original and unique visit around the interior of the cathedral was what amazed Ken Follett and led him to write the continuation of his bestseller "The Pillars of the Earth". The result is his latest novel, "World Without End", which as the author admits has been inspired byVitoria Cathedral. So if you decide to discover this cathedral, you will see a statue of the Welsh writer (the only one in the world) standing next to it as a symbol of thanks.
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It is clear that all eyes have turned to this cathedral since its novel restoration process was undertaken. It has been the location for events as notable as a performance by Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint Marc, with songs from the film "Les Choristes" ("The Chorus") in the magnificent portico. The building has also been the location for theatrical performances or talks by literary personalities such as Paulo Coelho, Arturo Pérez Reverte and José Saramago. So it is no surprise that the restoration work has received a special Europa Nostra award from the European Union for conservation of the cultural heritage.
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Lists of the most dangerous cities don't actually tell us anything about those cities
This week, CQ Press released its annual City Crime Rankings, which purports to identify the most dangerous cities in America. Though the rankings received plenty of attention, especially in the cities that top the list—Flint, Michigan; Camden, New Jersey; and Detroit this year—they're misleading, unfairly damaging and unworthy of any attention at all.
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The American Society of Criminology calls them "invalid, damaging, and irresponsible…City crime rankings make no one safer, but they can harm the cities they tarnish and divert attention from the individual and community characteristics that elevate crime in all cities." Last year, the U.S. Conference of Mayors denounced the publication as "a premeditated statistical mugging of America's cities."
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Comparing crime within cities is vastly more useful than comparing crime between cities, Rosenfeld adds. Data on crime patterns within a city's boundaries help police and public officials decide where to concentrate resources, "but whether a person lives in Billings, Montana, or Baltimore, Maryland, tells you nothing," he says.
The rankings also fail to account for the different configurations of American cities, what criminologists call the denominator problem. For instance, St. Louis, which topped the list in 2010, has much of its crime concentrated in inner-city neighborhoods, as do cities like Indianapolis, Louisville, and Memphis. But these cities have either annexed or merged with many surrounding, safer communities and are physically several times larger than the city of St. Louis; as a result they have significantly diluted crime rates within their city borders. Camden, New Jersey, which took second place last year as well, fell to the 225th most dangerous in 2010 when metro areas were considered.
The publisher takes information from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, repackages it and sells the volume, largely to libraries, for $75. Morgan Quitno, a small publisher in Lawrence, Kansas, launched the rankings in 1995; CQ Press, which publishes Congressional Quarterly, bought Morgan Quitno in 2007 and retained the crime rankings as a product.
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Mark Cuban won't deal Dirk Nowitzki or quit on Mavericks
- Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says he will not trade Dirk Nowitzki
- Cuban says team is improving despite struggles and changes are to come
- Mavericks entered Saturday 3-13 through past 16 games%2C 14-23 overall
Mark Cuban does not like to lose. But he doesn't like to quit, either.
The Dallas Mavericks owner took a stand for the future of his slumping team before Saturday night's home game against the Memphis Grizzlies. He said he refuses to give up on the season despite a 14-23 record that includes a 3-13 stretch entering Saturday.
And he said star forward Dirk Nowitzki isn't going anywhere.
"I told Dirk we're not trading him," Cuban told news reporters, via The Dallas Morning News. "He was happy. I made it clear to him that if I have to go through this, he has to go through it with me."
Dallas responded Saturday night, wiping the floor with the exhausted Grizzlies in a 104-83 rout.
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But Cuban acknowledges a lot is wrong with the Mavericks. Injuries, particularly Nowitzki's missing 27 games, have crippled the Mavericks' playoff hopes two years after winning the franchise's lone championship.
"There's a 100% chance that we're going to look to do something," Cuban said.
Newcomer shooting guard O.J. Mayo carried the Mavericks with hot scoring early in the season, but his play has tailed off. Another newcomer, point guard Darren Collison, has been off and on since being pegged to replace Jason Kidd after a failed run at Deron Williams.
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Nowitzki still is getting his feet back under him after the extended time off because of a knee injury. His playing time is back up to previous standards, though, and he has averaged 17.0 points a game in his past five.
Forward Shawn Marion, who joins Nowitzki as the lone holdovers from the 2011 postseason roster, also has played better lately after dealing with early-season injuries.
"We are making progress and getting better," Cuban said. "No one in the locker room has given up, that I can tell. And if I find anybody that's given up on this season, I'll kick them to the curb faster than I can lift a boot. Because that's just not the way we do it."