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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Maryland had entered Doak Campbell Stadium buoyant and undefeated, believing it had finally amassed enough talent to reverse the weight of a history in which the football program had lost all 11 of its road games to No. 8 Florida State.
Instead, in their last visit here for an Atlantic Coast Conference game, the Terps (4-1, 0-1 ACC) encountered a dispiriting sense of sameness in a 63-0 defeat. Another blowout loss, the school's worst in 20 years. Another starting quarterback knocked from the game. And, this time, a promising season at least momentarily derailed.
Jameis Winston continued his dazzling start as Florida State's quarterback, completing 23 of 32 passes for 393 yards and five touchdowns with no interceptions. He has thrown 17 touchdown passes in five games — a school record for a freshman. It was Maryland's worst defeat since a 70-7 loss to Penn State in 1993 and its first shutdown a 31-0 loss at Virginia in 2008.
"To be honest, when I was on the sideline it kind of felt like I was in a bad dream," said linebacker Cole Farrand (five tackles). "I wouldn't have expected this to happen in the slightest."
The image Maryland fans might remember from the game is that of quarterback C.J. Brown being blasted in the chest and lying on the field before walking unsteadily into the locker room.
Brown, a fifth-year senior off to the best start of his career, was diagnosed with a concussion, and his status for next week's Virginia game was not immediately known.
Brown's injury occurred with Maryland trailing 14-0 in the second quarter. The Terps had punted the first three times they had the ball.
Brown — whose career has included two season-ending injuries — was slammed by defensive tackle Jacobbi McDaniel after delivering a throw. Brown stayed down for several minutes and was examined by trainers before departing.
On the sideline, Maryland coach Randy Edsall pointed to his head, appearing to suggest he believed McDaniel had led with his helmet. Officials didn't throw a flag.
After the game, Edsall declined to comment on the hit.
"I know what I was told by coaches," Edsall said, "but I have not seen it myself on film, and I probably won't have any comment after that because all of these things are in the hands of the conference."
McDaniel said of Brown: "I hope he is all right. When he threw the ball, I just continued to go through the play."
Unable to move the ball effectively, Maryland was in trouble before Brown left and sophomore Caleb Rowe entered the game. But the play seemed to have a jarring effect.
"I just kind of turned around and saw him down on the ground," center Sal Conaboy said. "It was tough to see a friend down on the ground with that."
Rowe, who played capably last season when forced into duty before being sidelined by a knee injury, completed a 19-yard pass on his first play. He finished 9-for-17 for 119 yards.
"On the headset, I kind of heard, 'Caleb, you're up.' So I put on a helmet and I was ready to go," Rowe said. "Coach [Edsall] always preaches about being ready to play, and mentally, I make myself every week ready to play. I was ready to go."
Maryland has an unfortunate history of having quarterbacks knocked from games after questionable hits. In his last visit here two seasons ago, Brown departed after a head-high tackle by linebacker Nigel Bradham that drew a flag. The quarterback was not seriously hurt.
Last season, quarterback Perry Hills was hit from behind after throwing an interception on a play that drew a flag against North Carolina State. He left the game with a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Hills was one of four Maryland quarterbacks to suffer season-ending injuries last year. Maryland had hoped that its stunning run of bad quarterback luck had ended.
On Saturday, it was evident early that the Terps might be in trouble. Maryland, which entered averaging 39.8 points per game, had only 11 first-half rushing yards, making its offense one-dimensional.
"If you can't run the ball, that makes it tough," Edsall said. "That was one of the matchups I was concerned about ... our offensive line against them."
The closest Maryland came to scoring came with the Seminoles ahead 7-0 in the second quarter. The Terps moved to Florida State's 33 before kicker Brad Craddock hit the left upright on a 51-yard field-goal attempt.
Winston, who completed his first five passes, had thrown for 202 yards, and given the Seminoles a 21-0 lead, by halftime on a warm, sunny day in front of an announced 74,909. The crowd included a contingent of red-clad Maryland fans in one of the corner end-zone sections.
Winston entered the game having completed 73.6 percent of his passes this season. The Terps, whose 17 sacks ranked second in the Football Bowl Subdivision after Saturday's game, hoped to counter with pressure.
But Winston proved adept at handling the rush. His highlight-reel play came with Florida State leading 35-0. Winston ducked a high tackle attempt, moved to his right and found tight end Nick O'Leary on a 12-yard touchdown pass. Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher said it was a broken play and that Winston "should have done something else."
Winston said Fisher wore a smirk on the sideline after the touchdown.
"When he has that smirk, he's about to tell me that I did something wrong," Winston said. "But he's also about to tell me, 'Great play, but don't let it happen again.'"
Florida State (5-0, 3-0 ACC) has a bye week before traveling to Clemson (5-0, 3-0) in a game for first place in the Atlantic Division. Maryland next hosts Virginia (2-3, 0-1), the team it has played more than any other in its history.
Rowe said the Terps will need short memories to push past one of their worst days ever.
"Going through summer with these guys, going through all the workouts we had to go to, I know their heart," Rowe said. "It's a tough loss, but it's something we can overcome. We've had experience overcoming things from last year."


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The Energizer Hard Case Tactical Flashlight 2AA features a 70-lumen white LED, along with four additional LEDs including red, blue, green and infrared—a selection of fine lighting choices for incognito map reading or simply an impromptu infiltration disco.
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Jake Peavy, RHP, White Sox (Triple-A Charlotte)
Thursday's stats: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 5 K
The biggest name to move, and the biggest surprise at the trade deadline, the big question about the White Sox acquisition of Jake Peavy revolved around whether or not he'd even pitch again this year. With seven weeks left to go in the season, things are looking more positive than ever after three dominant innings in his first rehab start while getting his fastball up to 93 mph and complementing it with a sharp breaking ball.
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(West Virginia Wesleyan)...6'1'', 195...Clifford Franklin Battles. . .Phi Beta Kappa scholar, triple-threat grid star at West Virginia Wesleyan. . .NFL rushing champ, 1932, 1937. . . All-NFL choice, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937. . . Six-year career rushing - 3,511 yards. . .First to gain over 200 yards in one game, 1933. . .Scored three spectacular TDs in division-clinching win over Giants, 1937 . . .Retired after 1937 season when salary was frozen at $3,000. . .Born May 1, 1910, in Akron, Ohio. . .Died April 28, 1981, at age of 70.
Cliff Battles, a sensational running back from West Virginia Wesleyan College won the National Football League rushing title in 1932 as a rookie with the Boston Braves. The next year the Braves were renamed the Redskins and Battles became the first player ever to rush for more than 200 yards in a game. He accomplished in the feat on October 8, 1933 in a game against the New York Giants as he rushed 16 times for 215 yards, and scored one touchdown.
In 1937 Redskins George Preston Marshall moved his team from Boston to Washington. He brought Battles, the NFL's premier running back, with him and quickly added a sensational rookie passer, Sammy Baugh. It didn't seem out of the question that the Battles-Baugh ground and air threat would make the Redskins championship contenders for years to come. For the 1937 season, Baugh and Battles combined their talents just as everyone had anticipated. On the season's final day, Battles scored three touchdowns to power the Redskins to a 49-14 win over the New York Giants for the Eastern Division title. Against the Chicago Bears a week later, Battles scored the first touchdown in a 28-21 victory that gave the Redskins their first NFL championship.
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Full Name: Clifford Franklin Battles
Birthdate: May 1, 1910
Birthplace: Akron, Ohio
High School: Kenmore (Akron, OH)
Elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame: Unknown
Enshrined into Pro Football Hall of Fame: August 3, 1968
Presenter: Edwards Bennett Williams, President, Redskins
Other Members of Class of 1968: Art Donovan, Elroy Hirsch, Wayne Millner, Marion Motley, Charley Trippi, Alex Wojciechowicz
Pro Career: 6 seasons, 60 games
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The first trailer for Seven Psychopaths has been released, and it left a big smile on my face. It looks like director Martin McDonagh has delivered the same darkly comic verve he brought to In Bruges, and the entire cast looks terrific. I'm particularly impressed that the trailer quickly breaks down all the psychopaths and still squeezes in the brief synopsis: three hapless dog kidnappers steal a pup from a gangster. When you pair a brilliant cast with McDonagh's comic sensibilities, you probably have a great movie in store.
Hit the jump to watch the trailer. The film stars Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Tom Waits, Gabourey Sidibe, Abbie Cornish, and Olga Kurylenko. Seven Psychopaths opens on October 12th.
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From Oscar-winning writer and director Martin McDonagh comes a star-studded, blood-drenched, black comedy. Marty (Colin Farrell) is a struggling writer who dreams of finishing his screenplay Seven Psychopaths. All he needs is a little focus and inspiration.
Billy (Sam Rockwell) is Marty's best friend, an unemployed actor and part time dog thief, who wants to help Marty by any means necessary.
Hans (Christopher Walken) is Billy's partner in crime. A religious man with a violent past. Charlie is the psychopathetic gangster whose beloved dog, Billy and Hans have just stolen. Charlie's unpredictable, extremely violent and wouldn't think twice about killing anyone or anything associated with the theft. Marty is going to get all the focus and inspiration he needs, just as long as he lives to tell the tale.


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There's a very fine Jesuit priest who is a professor at Georgetown University, Fr. James Schall. In a recent column, he said this: "Tell me who you honor and I will tell you what you are."
The reason for the question is the appalling decision by Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute to have HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as the speaker at their commencement. The president of Georgetown has stated that this platform is being given to the Secretary because of her "long and distinguished record of public service".
Yes, you read that right. An allegedly Catholic university, giving a platform of honor to the current Administration's point person to advance its anti-life agenda.
Let's review some of the highlights of Secretary Sebelius' "long and distinguished record", for those at Georgetown who don't have access to the Internet:
Georgetown loves to boast about how it is a university "in the Jesuit tradition". At the heart of the Jesuit charism is the Spiritual Exercises of their founder, St. Ignatius Loyola. During the second week of the Exercises, those who are on the retreat receive a meditation on the Two Standards. This is a powerful expression of the very meaning of Christian discipleship.
The meditation asks bluntly — whose standard or flag will we follow, Christ's or Satan's?
Satan's standard, of course, is the one that the world finds most attractive, because it superficially appeals to our fallen human nature. It offers us the desire for worldly possessions, power, honor, and a false view of freedom that is a disguise for immorality. In the end, though, it leads only to destruction.
Christ's standard, on the other hand, is the one that the world finds unattractive, because it appeals to values that are exemplified by Our Lord himself, whom the world rejected. It offers us humility, poverty, sacrifice, and authentic freedom that involves willing adherence to God's will. And in the end it leads to glory.
So here's the question for the Georgetown administration — which standard have you chosen? As Fr. Schall said, "Tell me who you honor and I will tell you what you are."
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Demotion to Fifth Rank
When Feng Jin Yuan returned to the manor, he saw Jin Zhen from far away, standing at the entrance and repeatedly looking for him. For a while, he felt a little moved. He had taken in so many wives and concubines. Just counting the head wives of the Feng family, there had been four, and there was even a pair of even-ranking head wives now. But at this sort of time, the one to stand at the entrance to wait for him was Jin Zhen, who had been raised from a servant.
Feng Jin Yuan got out of his carriage, and Jin Zhen immediately went up to receive him. He reached for Jin Zhen's shoulder and gently patted it twice, saying in a heavy voice: "Let's go in to speak." Letting go, he grabbed Jin Zhen's small hand and pulled her into the manor.
Jin Zhen was a little worried and wanted to ask a few things; however, she felt that Feng Jin Yuan's expression was very bad. This made her too scared to dare ask, but she still had to remind him: "Elder madam became infuriated because of eldest young miss' matter. When this concubine came out, she was still crying and screaming. I don't know how she is now."
Feng Jin Yuan held her hand even tighter, his brow becoming covered in sweat.
Before the two reached the entrance, they heard the matriarch loudly scream: "Burn all of her things! Don't leave a single thing behind. It's disgusting to look at!"
Feng Jin Yuan paused for a moment then quickly entered. Just as he stepped past the sill, a cane went flying straight at him. Immediately following this, the matriarch angrily cursed: "You still have the face to come back! If it was not for you indulging that girl time and time again, could she possibly have caused this disaster for the Feng family? Would she have been able to harm her younger sister time and time again? The one the Feng family must rely on is A-Heng. It's absolutely not Feng Chen Yu. Do you understand this or not?"
Once this was said, nobody expected that Xiang Rong, who never liked speaking, would suddenly sneer then say: "Grandmother's thoughts sure have changed quickly. If it was like this from the beginning, how great would that have been. Second sister would not have suffered so many hardships."
The always cautious An shi did not stop her, using her silence to agree with her daughter's opinion.
Feng Jin Yuan, however, became unhappy. "What hardships did she suffer?" When these words were spoken, his jaws were firmly clenched. Everyone could clearly see that this father hated his second daughter to the extreme limit.
If this was said earlier, Feng Jin Yuan's attitude would have received praise. At least Fen Dai and Han shi would definitely be on the same side as him; however, this time was different. Not only did Fen Dai not agree with him, she even quietly said: "Third sister is right."
"What did you say?" Feng Jin Yuan practically thought that he had misheard.
But, very quickly, Han shi, An shi and the Cheng shi sisters, and even Jin Zhen, began to launch an offensive. Especially Han shi, who held her own belly and said: "Eldest young miss not examining herself is whatever, yet she was sent to the Xiang Palace to lose face. If she alone dies, that's not a problem; however, it absolutely must not implicate others!"
Feng Jin Yuan's face turned green with anger. He pointed at the people in the room and asked: "Indeed, something has happened, but Chen Yu has been sentenced to be executed by being cut at the waist. Why do none of you feel a trace of grief? She is your family!"
His words did not receive any response. Although the matriarch no longer cried, her expression did not improve. Feng Yu Heng had frightened her, and she had no place to vent. She could only vent it all on Chen Yu.
After a long time, so long that Feng Jin Yuan believed that nobody would speak, he suddenly heard Xiang Rong speak coldly once more: "It serves her right!"
These words gave voice to what everyone had been thinking, but Xiang Rong and An shi were feeling outraged for the injustice that Feng Yu Heng had suffered. The others were worrying about their own affairs. Feng Chen Yu courting death was something that they could watch for fun, but if it became related to their own survival, then her death was something that she deserved.
Feng Jin Yuan felt a cold aura exuding from his body. Had this family's hearts finally begun to lean toward Feng Yu Heng? He was extremely angry and pointed at Han shi, asking: "Exactly how many benefits did that girl promise you? And you," He looked at Fen Dai: "Do you truly understand who is the master of the Feng family?"
Han shi lacked courage and did not dare speak. Seeing her father become angry, Fen Dai lowered her head and did not speak. At this time, Cheng Jun Man spoke up: "Husband, don't blame the women and children. It's not that county princess promised them any benefits, it's that eldest young miss promised too many bad things. At this sort of time, shouldn't husband think about how to get through this difficult time? Or perhaps you should wonder why you are complaining entirely about county princess, when it was the Feng family that raised that sort of shameful daughter? This matter is completely unrelated to county princess."
The matriarch also thought this way and asked Feng Jin Yuan: "For this matter, what has the palace said?"
Only then did Feng Jin Yuan regain his senses. Only then did he realize that it was the palace's attitude that mattered in this pursuit of responsibility, but… "I was completely unable to meet his Majesty."
Cheng Jun Mei asked: "Did husband not go, or did his Majesty not see you?"
Feng Jin Yuan replied: "His Majesty did not see me."
The entire family fell silent and began to formulate guesses. What sort of disaster would befall the Feng family this time.
Outside the hall, housekeeper He Zhong hurriedly ran inside with a face full of panic. Even his voice was trembling: "Elder madam, master, the palace has sent people with a decree."
Feng Jin Yuan felt a "boom" sound near his ear, and his body leaned sideways, nearly causing him to fall. Jin Zhen supported him from the side, but she did not have much strength, and her hand began to shake too.
The matriarch had Cheng Jun Man help her up from the ground. Everyone helped each other out to the front yard. Feng Jin Yuan looked and saw that Zhang Yuan had personally come to announce this decree.
Although Zhang Yuan was a eunuch, he was the Emperor's personal eunuch. He was extremely spoiled, and he would not be easily convinced to act as a messenger. Although this was not his first time coming to the Feng manor to announce an imperial decree, the last time was to send Feng Yu Heng the Hou Yi bow. What would he be doing this time?
Feng Jin Yuan stepped forward to receive him, "Eunuch Zhang, what sort of imperial decree would have you come personally?"
Zhang Yuan glanced at Feng Jin Yuan, and his expression became ugly. After looking around the group, his expression became even uglier.
"Why do I not see county princess?"
Feng Jin Yuan was stunned then said: "She might be at her own manor. Does eunuch need for her to be here to receive the decree?"
Zhang Yuan waved his hand, "There's no need for that. It's just that the chef at the palace made a roast duck. The skin is very crispy and fragrant. Right before coming out, his Majesty specifically instructed me to bring some to county princess. Since county princess is not at the Feng manor, I will have someone send it to the county princess' manor." Saying this, he raised his hand, and the two eunuchs behind him that were carrying food boxes immediately turned to leave the manor, going next door.
Feng Jin Yuan wanted to say that this Zhang Yuan should not have come for the sole purpose of sending Feng Yu Heng some duck, right?
It was very clear that his thoughts were too optimistic. Immediately following this, he saw Zhang Yuan unfurl the imperial decree and loudly say: "Feng Jin Yuan to receive the imperial decree."
All of the members of the Feng family kneeled on the ground, and the announcement of the imperial decree came: "Prime minister Feng Jin Yuan was not strict in raising his daughter. Disrespecting the imperial family and ruining the imperial family's reputation, a punishment must be handed down. But We have noticed the work that county princess Ji An has done for the country, thus the Feng family shall be spared the punishment of death. Feng Jin Yuan will be demoted to standard fifth rank official and will no longer be permitted to attend morning court sessions. That shall be the case."
Once this was said, the matriarch fell to the ground, and Cheng Jun Man caught her. Her expression showed that this was not unexpected. This sort of outcome was not an exaggeration for Feng Jin Yuan.
Zhang Yuan saw that Feng Jin Yuan was still kneeling there without any reaction, thus he extended the imperial decree forward: "Official Feng, receive the imperial decree!"
He had been changed from a prime minister to a middle-ranking official, and he had been demoted from standard first rank to standard fifth rank. Feng Jin Yuan's mind and heart were a mess. He practically extended his arms to receive the imperial decree without thinking.
Zhang Yuan added: "You have not yet given your thanks."
He bowed in a kowtow and said: "Thank his Majesty for his imperial grace."
The matriarch began wailing once more, gradually changing from a weak cry to a loud one. This caused Zhang Yuan to frown.
Feng Jin Yuan was already in a bad mood. With the matriarch crying like this, his mind became even more of a mess, and he could not help but shout: "Stop crying!"
He had never spoken like this to the matriarch. Now that he suddenly said this, the matriarch was given a fright. Her cries became stuck in her throat and could neither go up or down. This caused her to begin coughing.
When she finally finished coughing, she heard Zhang Yuan say: "Elder madam, do not rush to cry. There is another thing that we must remind Official Feng." He coldly looked at Feng Jin Yuan then looked around at everyone in the Feng manor. Without any haste or laziness, he said: "This residence was conferred by his Majesty to the standard first rank prime minister. Presently, lord Feng has been demoted to a standard fifth rank official. This place, you naturally will not be able to continue living in. Of course, his Majesty is still sympathetic with lord Feng, specifically sending someone to the Southwest side of the capital to find a new residence to confer you. The Feng family has five days to move out."
"This…" Feng Jin Yuan was stunned, "Move out? This residence was conferred by his Majesty!"
Zhang Yuan rolled his eyes, "Lord Feng, did you not understand what was just said? The residence was indeed conferred by his Majesty, but his Majesty conferred it to the prime minister. Right now, you are no longer the prime minister. Naturally, it must be taken back. But if the Feng family insists on not moving out, his Majesty said that if the Feng family wishes to continue living here, 8000 taels of silver must be sent to the governor's office each month as rent. To rent it for half a year, lord Feng must send 48 thousand taels to the governor's office."
Feng Jin Yuan wiped away some sweat. 8000 taels for one month. This was not a small amount. Even if the Feng family was at its peak, if it was not for the Chen family's support, it would be quite difficult for them to bring out this much money. Now, the manor no longer had any money. Where would he go to find 48 thousand taels?
The matriarch had already stood up with Cheng Jun Man's support. Upon hearing this large number, she nearly fainted. She began to negotiate with Zhang Yuan: "Can it not be a little lower?"
Zhang Yuan said to the matriarch: "If you wish to discuss the price, it cannot be done with me. Please go into the palace to discuss it with his Majesty. But…" He paused then said: "His Majesty also had another imperial decree, but this one is for the elder madam. Elder madam's body is weak, so there is no need to kneel. We will just speak like this, and you can just listen while standing. Since elder madam was formerly the mother of the court's prime minister, his Majesty conferred you with the title of first rank noble lady. Now that your son is just a fifth rank official without the ability to attend court, your title of noble lady will also be taken back."
The matriarch was completely numb. The repeated attacks caused her mind to become dazed. Without having any chance to think about giving thanks, she just asked Feng Jin Yuan: "In the end, will we need to move out or not?"
Feng Jin Yuan was thinking of something and was not in the mood to speak with her. Cheng Jun Man gently sighed and said: "We will need to move out. Presently, there are no funds left. Even if we became a merchant family, how long could we sustain it for? This residence will be lost sooner or later."
Zhang Yuan nodded, "Madam is correct." He then said to Feng Jin Yuan: "If lord Feng does not have any objections, on the fourth day, oh, that would be the second day after the manor's eldest young miss is executed. At that time, I will come again to the manor to ask lord Feng to return the manor's deed. That way, we can return to report to his Majesty."
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Fossils From The Sun is Ray Hare, who isn't too prolific as FFTS but definitely gets his kicks playing in Century Plants with Rambutan/Tape Drifter Eric Hardiman, Twilight Of The Century with Hardiman & Rise Set Twilight (aka Michael T. & Linda Aubrey Bullock), or Burnt Hills. So, the guy's obviously got some experience, and his newest disc on Tape Drift will drown your sorrows in a heaving pile of guitar'd FX.
Forever Came Today is a stripped down jam record with Hare grabbing his axe(s) 'n' pedals and just fuckin goin to town. Nothing fancy, no bells & whistles, just a man summoning dusty magik. This is some classic shit, caked in crust and buzz, buried in a coffin and recorded 6 feet under. These are songs that'll both tear your heart out and then kick back a few beers with you.
The pieces here are way more developed & intricate than anything on the Zomes record, but I still get a strong sense of brotherhood between them. They're gritty & muffled, they both start with a looped groove but where Zomes let that be the main event, Hare lets it grow and progress into something more elaborate, tweaking it each go-round, never meandering too far from home but always laying it down straight from the soul.
I love everything about this record. The gorgeous distortion, the brilliant simplicity, the off the charts chill factor, the layers of dreary melodies, the background scuzz & endless solos, the fact that Hare had the gravitas to sit down and make a straight faced guitar album and have it just fucking blow everything else out of the water. Seriously, you can't fuck with the electric guitar. Clearly it's all you need to make some badass dark & stormy creep dreams of beauty. A round of applause for Fossils From The Sun.


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How I spent my weekend. Cutting 10.5 inch squares for scrappy backgrounds., a photo by aviva_hadas on Flickr.
I guess Bonnie Hunter gets the credit for this idea... (I've been cutting these off & on for a while, I did not cut all of these this past weekend, though I did probably cut 200 or so this past weekend.)
Draped over the back of the chair are pieces for a friend who is going to make a cat charm quilt.
I've done 2 of those & many of these cats are in 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 of my I SPY quilts/UFO's so I can easily share.
I am generating scraps too - which is good because I had Jackie at Caton Village Quilt Works cut strips for my "unifying" pieces for an out rageous scrap project that is fermenting in ye olde brain.
Yes, my birthday was yesterday. I had jury duty. My number was 214 - number 213 was the last juror selected.
& I want to make some mini-stars & the scraps will owrk for that project as well.
More about the pile = 80 of them are missing already - those will be for my brown & cat "winter" quilt. The cats are in bare trees & you can see snow = winter.
Once upon a time ago, I wanted to make seasonal quilts. Autumn stalled out seriously. Spring = 100% done, Summer was donated to charity.
Back to the pile: some are duplicated (or more - if I was cutting "the rest" of the fabric) most are singles - the print wasn't big enough to get more that one 10.5 inch square out of it. There are pillow panels & other too large for my I SPY projects pieces - or just larger scenes, so that you can see more than just the cannon/cannon ball on that pirate print.
Meanwhile, I still have some yardage that I bought to be a back, so how well/quickly I will use this pile is up for speculation.
(Do you see a red starta - I have a red/ufo that I really want to get back to - especially after seeing that strata.)


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People occasionally ask questions of the form, "Why does language/API/etc allow/forbid/not implement feature X?" What is the policy, if any, for such questions?
Sometimes these are rants in disguise, a way of writing, "Lanugage/API/etc annoys me because it allows/forbids/doesn't implement feature X" in the form of a question. Obviously, these should be closed as non-constructive and likely deleted.
Other questions are genuine inquiries, people looking for actual information. Some of these questions work well within SO; they do so because the reasoning for it is something that is known or well-understood. In these cases, the answer is either fairly obvious to someone in the field or the subject of publicly available information that experts in the field know.
For example, if someone asks why Lua doesn't allow constructs like "value++", it can be explained. The reasoning behind the way Lua forbids expressions from changing the value of local variables is well understood and has been explained via documentation from the language's creator. Many Lua experts would be able to answer such a question, even though they were not directly involved in the language's creation.
My concern comes from questions which are clearly not rants, but the actual answers for which are not widely known. By that, I mean that the only people who actually know the reasoning why feature X is allowed/forbidden/not implemented are the people who were responsible for developing the specification/implementation itself. Only the owners of the language/API/etc actually know the reason why they made certain decisions.
What this often leads to is a form of popularity contest. People offer varying opinions about why the feature is the way it is. Some of them are well-reasoned and some are not. The concern is that the answers will ultimately be speculative; as such, people will either vote for the argument they feel is stronger or the opinion they agree with.
That's a lot like a poll question, is it not?
Now, it would be easy to just say that such questions should be closed. Except... sometimes the actual authority(ies) in question are here on this site. Howard Hinnant is a member of the C++ standards committee and has, on a couple of occasions, provided insight into the reasoning behind certain C++ standards committee decisions. If we simply shut down such questions, we wouldn't be able to get his insight on them.
At the same time, if an authoritative source is not forthcoming, then it becomes a free-for-all of everyone posting their own belief about why the language/API/etc is the way it is.
Is this a problem or concern? Do we need to decide on some form of policy? How do we balance the needs of keeping the site clean with allowing authorities to participate and bring their unique insight into Stack Overflow?
As an example, consider this question*. Many people can post reasoning, and quite justified reasoning. But unless you were actually on the standards committee, then there's no way to know whether any particular reasoning is the actual reasoning they used.
* I didn't post this solely because of this question; I've been thinking about this for a few weeks now. This question was more of the straw that broke the camel's back.


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Humphrey's Peak is the highest point in Arizona at 12,633 ft. It's been on my must-do list for a while now. A couple months ago, I started chatting with Matt on Twitter about hiking Humphrey's Peak in June. My only worry was that I have not been at high elevation in a long time. The last time I spent any real time above 10,000 ft was hiking the Mount Rose Summit (10,776 ft) in Tahoe in 2010. Prior to that, my last experience above 10,000 ft was in Peru all the way back in 1998. I've never really had trouble with elevation, but things change over the years so I needed to see how my body would react at elevation and I wanted to do it before making a run on Humphrey's Peak.
My buddy Bryan does a lot of bike races (he was the reason I was in Prescott for the Whiskey Off-Road). A few weeks ago he asked me, kinda of last minute, if I wanted to go camping with him for another bike race. The race was a popular 104-mile relay called the Barn Burner. The Barn Burner Mountain Bike Race covers a 26-mile loop that weaves in and out of the Kendrick Mountain Wilderness area, home of Kendrick Peak. Kendrick Peak tops out at 10,418 ft and is part of the same volcanic San Francisco Mountain Range as Humphrey's. It would be a perfect warm-up for hiking Humphrey's Peak so I packed up some gear and set to drive out to Flagstaff.
That day I had some work that needed to get done before I could get on the road so I got a later start than I wanted. I didn't leave the house until close to noon. By the time I was on the freeway headed north, it was already pretty hot and weekend traffic headed out of town was getting thick. To make matters worse, there was an accident reported on the freeway about 10 miles ahead and all of us were stuck in a slow crawl up a long grade out of the valley.
That's when the truck stalled.
I spent the next hour or so with the hood up on the side of the freeway as vehicles crawled by trying to figure out why the truck would have stalled. I was certain my weekend was ruined and I'd be headed back in to town in a tow truck. I had managed to get it started once or twice only to have it die on me again seconds later. Eventually I got it started again and it was done stalling…probably water in the fuel line, but at least it was running again and I was headed north to the wilderness.
A few hours later I was at camp at the C&C Ranch with nearly 4,000 other people in what was probably the dirtiest, dustiest piece of land in Arizona. There were signs on the way in describing how the land had been destroyed by overgrazing and the soil was loose and devoid of nutrients. The soil was so soft and dry that it would billow up in front of your vehicle like water as if you were driving through a shallow pond.
Crazy amounts of dust along with the crowded nature of the camp area convinced me to hike up above the flat into the trees with my hammock and camp above the chaos. Before it got dark I wandered up to the tree line and found a good spot to hang camp, then walked back down to be "sociable" and have dinner with the race crew.
After a nice dinner and a cold beer, I headed up to my hammock and snuggled in for the night. More and more I find myself enjoying this style of camping. The temps got down to about 40 degrees that night and I slept like a baby. I'm getting used to using a top-quilt and keeping warm with an insulated sleeping pad.
Early the next morning, I shuffled down off the hill and back to my truck to make some camp coffee (thanks to Coffee Brewers). My plan was to wait until the bike race got going before heading to the trailhead. The road I would take to the Kendrick Peak trailhead is the same road being used for a portion of the bike race and I didn't want to be in the way, or creating unnecessary dust for the riders. I headed out about 8:30 and was near the trailhead by 9am. The first wave of bikers had made their way around and I couldn't drive all the way to the trailhead without impeding the race so I parked off the road a half-mile or so down from the trailhead parking lot and hiked up.
The parking lot is well kept and big enough for nearly 20 cars. It also has some posted trail and wilderness information as well as a permanent bathroom. The trail wasn't crowded but there were several cars in the lot and a couple of groups getting on the trail about the same time as myself.
I really love hiking in Northern Arizona. The pine forests with thick green grasses and ferns remind me of a slightly drier version of the Pacific Northwest. The trail is well maintained and easy to follow. Though the 4-mile hike to the top is a continuous incline, it's not terribly aggressive making the hike fairly moderate. Hiking up the mountain, the trail weaves though Ponderosa Pine, Aspen, Oak, Fir, and Spruce trees and is home to Mexican spotted owls, mule deer, elk and black bear. I didn't get to see any real wildlife while I was up on the mountain, but the scenery was amazing even with large sections of the forest along the foothills still recovering from the 15,000 acre Pumpkin Fire back in 2000.
Most of the trail zig-zags through the forest, but occasionally opens up to offer views to the to the south as well as casual glimpses of Humphrey's Peak to the east. I kept a solid pace marching up the switch-backs, passing many of the hikers who were already on the trail. Surprisingly, many of the hikers seemed to be in the over-fifty set. With the exception of a young woman running the trail and two other women hiking together, I think I was the youngest hiker on the mountain. When I reached the grassy saddle there were a couple of groups of day-hikers resting on fallen logs enjoying a mid-morning snack. Smack in the middle of the saddle, surrounded by tall pines and green grass is the old, historic fire lookout cabin.
Built around 1911, the old log cabin is still in pretty good shape. It was originally built as a shelter for the men working the fire lookout at the summit of Kendrick Peak. It still has a functional door and glass windows. Inside, the cabin is kept up with an old spring bunk bed, desk and storage chest with some emergency gear. On the desk, along with other miscellaneous items, is a small notebook used as a trail sign-in book.
The trail splits at the saddle. To the west you head up a rocky, narrow trail to the summit and the fire lookout building and can continue west along the ridgeline on the Pumpkin Trail. To the northeast the Bull Basin Trail can take you down the north side of the mountain where it connects back to the Pumpkin Trail. Having done this shorter trail, I would like to go back soon and hike the Pumpkin trail, hammock at the meadow next to the cabin, and then hike back down the Bull Basin Trail.
I left the cabin and headed up to the summit, so far feeling minimal effects from the elevation. The hike from the saddle to the summit is less than half a mile and, though rocky, is not difficult. At the top, the fire lookout dominates the peak. In fact, you can see the massive fire lookout building from quite a distance (I was able to see it from camp that morning). I've been to several fire lookouts in Arizona and this one is different than any of the others I've seen.
The first thing that makes this fire lookout unique in Arizona is that it is the only lookout post that does NOT have vehicular access. The volunteers that work this post have to backpack the 4 miles in with all the gear and supplies on their backs. There is a very small helipad near the structure for emergency extractions. I hiked around the back of the structure and across to the helipad where several hikers were stretched out on the warm concrete like lizards soaking up the morning sun. I pulled an apple out of my pack and soaked up the view from the peak while I ate my snack.
After a short rest, I noticed that most of the hikers had left. So I secured my pack and walked up to the lookout building to meet the guy working there and have a chat. It turns out that many of the Arizona fire lookouts are manned entirely by volunteers, most of which have no affiliation with the Forest Service. I also discovered that they are typically in need of more volunteers on a regular basis. The guy I was talking to, Ken, said he lives in Phoenix and comes up to man this post for about 5 weekends out of the summer. He works a regular 9-5 during the week and uses this as his Summer getaway. Where do I sign up??!! I asked a few questions and managed to collect some contact information for the guy who manages the schedule for the volunteers. I plan to call and get my name on the list.
The lookout building itself has a propane stove and fridge, solar power, a bathroom, two double beds, a hammock and 360 degree views from one of the highest peaks in Arizona. Sounds like the perfect Summer cabin to me!
I thanked Ken for the information and headed back down. The total hike for me was nearly 9-miles round-trip because I parked further away from the trailhead. The hike is typically about 7.5-8 miles RT with an elevation gain of nearly 3,000 ft. The total trip took me about 3 hours. All in all, I never really felt any issues with the elevation even at the solid pace I was keeping. Humphrey's, here I come!
Side note: My phone battery has not been working properly lately so I have no track map. I also had some technical difficulties with my DSLR right before reaching the saddle so I don't have any pictures of the fire lookout. Guess this just means I really need to hike this one again!


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Am I the only one seeing the potential of an implicitly statically typed Python-like-language that runs at practically the same speed as C++? Is it that being ahead of the time makes you completely misunderstood, even by pretty smart hackers? I remember developing something quite like Wikipedia many years ago, and being unable to convince anyone of why this would be a good idea.. Of course that doesn't mean my compiler is a good idea (I wish), but I'm sure not going to give up as easily this time.
So, once again, I'd like to ask for more participation. Many open source users don't realize, I think, how open source projects, especially new ones, thrive on user feedback. Programming is debugging, and there's nothing more satisfying than fixing particular problems users encounter. Sure, I could find most bugs myself, but I don't want to end up in a nut house, and at some point there has to be some kind of community process. Patches are very useful too, even simple ones, as they often trigger more patches by me. Extension module support, for example, started out as a simple proof-of-concept patch sent in by a user.
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Report: Google Creating 'X Phone' to Battle iPhone
Ratcheting up its rivalry with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Google is reportedly designing a new sophisticated handset line to be released next year that is known internally as the "X phone."
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According to The Wall Street Journal, Google is hoping the new marquee phone will bolster Motorola's market share by competing better against devices like Apple's iPhone.
However, Google, which acquired Motorola earlier this year for $12.5 billion, has suffered a number of hiccups tied to manufacturing and supply-chain management, causing the company to rethink some of its initial plans, the paper said. Problems also include trying to use a bendable screen and more stress-resistant materials like ceramics.
The moves come as Motorola has seen its slice of the smartphone market tumble dramatically under heavy pressure from the likes of Apple and Samsung, which has enjoyed success of late with its Galaxy S III devices. Motorola made up less than 3% of the Android phone shipments in the third quarter.
Eventually, Motorola is expected to develop an "X" tablet in addition to the new smartphone line, the Journal reported.
Shares of Google trimmed their losses on the report, ending the day down 0.93% at $715.63. For the year, Google has gained about 10%, underperforming the broader markets.
Apple also enjoyed a late-day bid, closing at $519.33, down 0.46% on the session.


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The CIA and the Intellectuals
Once there was a Communist rally in Union Square. The police came to break it up and soon the officers had begun to use their clubs. One protester objected that he was not a Communist but an anti-Communist. "I don't care what kind of Communist you are," the officer replied and continued to beat him.
I don't recall just when in the 1950s I began to suspect that the CIA together with the State Department, the Ford Foundation, and similar institutions had turned anti-Stalinism into a flourishing sub-profession for a number of former radicals and other left-wing intellectuals who were then and are still my friends in New York. No doubt the evidence was all around me well before I began to piece it together or before it popped into my head, as such discoveries do, that organized anti-Communism had become as much an industry within New York's intellectual life as Communism itself had been a decade or so earlier, and that it involved many of the same personnel. An important difference, however, was that the new enterprise was far more luxuriously financed than its predecessor had been, involving branch operations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, together with subsidized publications in all these places, to say nothing of conferences and seminars on such a scale and in so many countries and with so much air travel to and fro that even the Ford Foundation, which was ostensibly paying for much of this activity, could hardly be assumed to be paying for it all.
THAT NO VISIBLE government agency was involved, except now and then the State Department, suggested that there had to be an invisible one. The invisible agency that we all began to hear about in the early Fifties was the CIA. The conclusion was, or should have been, obvious, but for those who, like myself, were not let in on the secret there was little more we could do than speculate, often irritably, when the spokesmen for American democracy departed each spring for Paris, Bombay, or Tokyo.
What most irritated us, beside the fact that we were not invited, was that the government seemed to be running an underground gravy train whose first-class compartments were not always occupied by first-class passengers: the CIA and the Ford Foundation, among other agencies, had set up and were financing an apparatus of intellectuals selected for their correct cold-war positions, as an alternative to what one might call a free intellectual market where ideology was presumed to count for less than individual talent and achievement, and where doubts about established orthodoxies were taken to be the beginning of all inquiry. In the recent controversy over the CIA's involvement with the intellectuals, this point seems not to have been made: that it was not a matter of buying off and subverting individual writers and scholars, but of setting up an arbitrary and factitious system of values by which academic personnel were advanced, magazine editors appointed, and scholars subsidized and published,…
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An iPod is essentially a mobile media device created by Apple Inc. Early versions of iPods handled only audio files but later versions included support for video playback. Accessories such as the iTalk Voice Recorder can be added to older iPods to enable them to record audio.
In the fall of 2008, Apple introduced the iPod Touch, which is almost identical to the iPhone but lacks the following features:
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- built in microphone
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Kristen Connolly was sure she wasn't going to get the gig in "The Cabin In the Woods." And she didn't – at first. But she discovered that Hollywood has a knack for surprise endings, and ended up both the film's leading lady and a star on the rise.
As the genre-tweaking horror film heads to Blu-Ray, Connolly tells how she lost, and then got, the job, recalls scary and silly days on the set and reveals how her Hollywood career continues to heat up.
Did you realize while you were making the film the impact that it would later have?
No. I think we all knew it was really something special. I think we were all like, 'Really? Are they going to let us all do that?' But I didn't know that it would be so well received and that so many people would love it so much. So, that was really exciting and it just felt good to have something that you loved so much be so welcomed.
How did the project come to you and how did you react when you first read the script?
This is kind of freaky actually: the first casting director that they had working on this thing, I don't think he liked me at all. He kind of like was, like, 'Eh,' and he gave me lots of notes, like, 'Your hair is wrong. Your outfit is wrong.' And after I left I was like, 'Well, that was a waste of time. He's never going to hire me,' and he didn't. Then there was a new casting director who I guess went through all of our old tapes – and I think Chris Hemsworth had the same thing, where he was never submitted – and so she asked me to go in again, and I was like, 'Are you kidding? Again with this movie?' My agents said, 'No, no – It's different people.'
So I put myself on tape at my agents office and from there I got a call that they wanted me to come out to L.A. and meet with Joss [Whedon] and Drew [Goddard]. So I flew out there and I read with Fran [Kranz] – up until then I had all fake scripts. Like, I had no idea what the movie was actually about, and so it was kind of crazy. I was kind of like, 'I'm flying out to L.A. and doing this thing and I don't even know what this movie is about.' They were like, 'No, no – It's the main girl. She's awesome.' I was like, 'Alright, fine.' I got there and Joss and Drew were just so cool, and Fran was great and we hit it off right away and it was a really fun day. I remember leaving and thinking, 'You know what, even if I don't get this job, that was a great experience and it was great to meet these people and to have a fun time in an audition,' which almost never happens.
Then I got a call on the way to the airport that they were offering me the role, and only then did I get to actually read the script. I was like, 'Holy s***, this is fantastic!' It's so different from anything. I'd never read anything like that in my life. Yeah, and at that point I was like, 'I have to do this movie. It's so cool.'
It's a great deconstruction of the horror genre. Are you into the genre?
I'm sort of in between. There's some stuff that I love. I love being scared, but I don't like some of the torture stuff. I find that really, I can't watch it. So one of the things that I was so excited about with this movie is that it's not torture porn, and they were very aware of that and I think what they wanted is to create, and what they did create is a movie that's actually got the sort of thrill of being in a movie theater with other people and being scared and then laughing, almost, as soon as the scare's over, that it's fun. It's not meant to just disturb you. It's kind of communal and it's fun and it's exciting. I wasn't a total horror buff, but I do like scary movies. Drew gave us a whole bunch to watch. There were ton of movies that they gave us, and it was a ball.
Did you ever feel genuinely freaked out on the set, a sequence you did maybe where you felt some real fear?
Yeah. There were times when we were actually outside and it was really late at night, like three or four in the morning. They had all of these different zombies, like in all different directions and they were kind of far away. And they didn't even show all of this in the movie, but they had footage of all of them approaching us, and that was pretty eerie, because you actually were outside and it was pretty quiet apart from the set and you could just sort of make out this figure, like a person from far away.
What's the flipside of that: the silliest day where you guys couldn't stop breaking up?
It was in the basement. The basement was the worst. We couldn't get through that Latin, when I was reading the journal – somebody would start laughing. I mean, there were so many takes where we just couldn't get through it, and we shot that scene over three days and it was all night shoots. So we were totally loopy, and Fran had somehow snuck a camera onto the set and we looked over and it was just sitting there and people were losing their minds, trying not to laugh.
Because the film was so warmly received, have you felt an uptick in your agents getting more phone calls for you and offers coming in?
I was very lucky in that I was already going into another job. I'm shooting a series down in Baltimore called 'House of Cards.' David Fincher is the director and executive producer and Kevin Spacey is the lead and Robin Wright. It's about DC and politics. It's based on the British mini-series from the early '90's and it's for Netflix – It's their original programming. I had gotten the job about a month probably before the 'Cabin' press tour started. So I was very lucky to be able to go right into another job. As soon as the film opened I was already heading to Baltimore to do preproduction on this, so I've been very busy here, and I'm crossing fingers that I continue to be.
Can you talk about what you're playing on that show?
I play the assistant to a congressman, who's played by Corey Stoll. He's got sort of a drug and alcohol problem and I'm his assistant, but also his girlfriend.
Do you have another scary movie coming up?
I do. It's called 'The Bay.' It comes out November 4th. It could not be more different from 'Cabin,' but the similarity, I guess, is that I'm not allowed to talk about it. And to make it even more certain that I couldn't talk about it, they only let me read the scenes that I'm in, so I haven't even read the entire script, but I do know that it's more like 'Paranormal Activity' in that it's feels very pedestrian. It feels very naturalistic, and then these sort of extraordinary, scary things happen…Barry Levinson's the director, and it was really kind of low-key. I mean, we shot the whole thing…I think I worked maybe five or six days over two weeks, and it was really kind of wonderful.
What's the most scared you've ever been, whether something was really going on or you were just doing it to yourself in your head?
Oh, man, I had a really weird experience with my mom. We were on vacation and I became convinced that the doorman was going to kill us. He was really creepy and I thought that he was going to come into our room and kill us in the middle of the night. She was like, 'You are out of your mind – I don't know what's going on,' but I was positive that it was going to happen, and I think that I just had PMS or something. But I was terrified.


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Binary marble adding machineWay back when I built my Marble Machine one , I incorporated a few logic-like elements in it, including several divide by two mechanisms, as well as a complicated and slightly unreliable divide by 6 mechanism.
It had occurred to me that perhaps with an insane amount of perseverance, it might be possible to build a whole computer that runs on marbles. But my second marble machine was much less based on logic - it was more about just making lots of cool noises.
But then I had an idea as to how the divide by two mechanisms from my first marble machine could be cascaded together to function as a sort of adder register or counter. Once I had that idea, I knew I had to try it. A few months later, I spent a couple of days in my workshop and built this binary marble adding machine.
The core of the invention is a modification of the divide by two flipflop to retain the marble that falls off the right side and keep it until the flipflop is flipped to the left by the next marble. The retention of this extra marble allows the state of the marble accumulator to be dumped. The adder would just as well add without it, but the number would have to be read off by the position of the rockers, rather than have the device dump the count out. Really, if such an adder were integrated into a hypothetical marble computer, reading out the result as a series of marbles would be an essential element.
If a another marble is dropped onto the top rocker, the marble will be deflected to the left because the top tip of the rocker is pointing to the right. This in turn rocks the rocker to the left, releasing the stored marble on its right side. The marble that rocked the top rocker to the left falls through the hole in the piece just above the next lower rocker and flips the rocker to the right. The marble is retained, as it is prevented from falling out by that rocker.
The photo was taken before I added a few extra pieces of wood to help guide the marbles. These were necessary because sometimes a marble would bounce off at an odd angle and become ejected from the machine, resulting in a computational error.
Also tricky was getting the rockers to consistently work. I spent a lot of time figuring out
what dimensions to make them so that they would work, even if two marbles arrive
onto the rocker right on top of each other. I knew it was physically possible to build
such a rocker, because the Lego rockers I built into the original
Lego marble machine just
happened to have this property.
The trick turned out to be to make peak of the rocker, which deflects the
marbles, short enough, and the rocker shallow enough. That way, if a marble arrives before
the rocker has had a chance to flip, the previous marble, which is still on the rocker, will
help to deflect the next marble onto the other side, even if the rocker has not yet flipped.
Another challenge was a mechanism to capture the output of the machine. I wanted the result to gather at the bottom of the machine. But during computation, the machine also needs to dump marbles whenever 1's turn in to zeros.
My solution was to make a result slider that is normally open so that marbles can flow out of the machine. But when the result is to be dumped, this slider is slid closed. A mechanism on the back of the machine then also forces all the toggles to flip left, which dumps out all the stored marbles onto theresult lever.
Note how the marbles must fall through a hole first before arriving at the output slider. This is very important, as these holes ensure the marbles are positioned correctly for the output. Otherwise, with some of the marbles falling down at high speed, it is likely that they would bounce out of the result hole.
At right, the back of the reset mechanism. At the bottom right is a screw which is part of the output slider. When the output slider is slid all the way to the left (or right as seen from the back), the screw pushes the reset beam over. The reset beam moves in a parallelogram motion using two pieces of coat hanger wire links (one of which can be seen). A spring is attached to one of these to pull the reset beam back.
Individual pieces of copper wire are used to catch the pins of the sliders. This allows for some adjustments to be made. There are wooden blocks just below the copper wire catches and pins. These are to provide additional support for the pins (nails) on which the toggles are able to pivot. The plywood I used is only about 6 mm thick, so I couldn't rely on it to always hold the pins straight.
You can see an online simulation of the machine
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Moggers on the streets of Dath - Zen's alts
Someone whispered me saying "You look positively evil in that set, it's cool" or something along those lines. As I scanned around to see who had said that, they flew away.
"Thanks!" I said, "But I didn't get to see your mog, can you come back?"
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Satellite image taken on April 19, 2013 of the West Fertilizer Plant after an explosion occurred on April 17.
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Satellite images of West, Texas, before and after the Fertilizer Plant explosion. The image on the left was taken on Jan. 30, 2012, and the image on the right was taken on April 19, 2013.
Mandy Williams goes home for the first time since a massive explosion forced her and other residents of West, Texas to evacuate.
The satellite images above provided by DigitalGlobe show the destructive force of the fertilizer plant explosion that rocked the small town of West, Texas, with the force of a magnitude-2.1 earthquake last Wednesday evening.
The pictures show the debris field that surrounds West Fertilizer Co., the remains of the two tanks which held highly pressurized anhydrous ammonia, the 50-unit apartment building west of the plant with its walls torn off, the damaged West Intermediate School at the lower left corner of the images, and many of the damaged homes.
West has only about 2,700 residents, but the affected area is in a densely populated neighborhood.
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Getting your '60s and early '70s Chevelle audio system into the modern tech era may sound a bit strange, but what if you were able to do it without the modern head unit look?
Now you can, with help from Custom Autosound Manufacturing. CAM specializes in nostalgic stereos and other audio components that don't compromise your car's dash, styling, or classic looks.
CAM's latest unit, the USA-630 radio with 240 watts of power, not only controls a 10-disc CD changer but also has two built-in leads from the back: one for an iPod and one USB port for a flash drive device. The classic-looking stereo has large OE-style push-buttons and a display that shows the song, artist, and album title during playback of MP3/WMA files. The 18-inch leads are also long enough to route to the glove box so you can keep your iPod and flash drive out of sight and away from sunlight.
Since it's not uncommon for older muscle cars to have gone through many less-than-desirable audio swaps, CAM has also been addressing the speaker locations. CAM now offers a variety of options to get rid of those nasty-looking door speakers we were all guilty of at one time or another, as is the case with the former owner of our '67 Chevelle.
For the front speakers, some may prefer the kick panel speaker option, especially if the stock ones needed replacing anyway. Simply upgrading the existing dash speaker with a 140-watt Dual Voice Coil Speaker, as we did, can really help improve the sound.
CAM also offers deck speakers, including hidden speakers that can be placed underneath the seat. In our case we learned that we already had nice JBL 6x9s on the decklid, and since the installation was clean we went ahead and decided to leave them in place at this time.
The Chevelle radio installation went really smooth with the aid of Greg Ames from CAM's headquarters in Fullerton, California. Actually, the hardest part was removing some of the oddly placed machine screws and nuts on the top of the dash that were holding the ancient dash speaker in place. This was also a great time to replace the worn-out stock radio bezel with a new one from True Connections, a company that deals only in Chevelle and El Camino replacement parts.
If you have any experience installing a radio, then you'll completely appreciate how the new USA-630 radios come complete with all the wiring, fuses, cords, and plugs ready to go, making it a simple swap for anyone who can handle basic electrical connections.
After the installation we instantly noticed a huge improvement in sound quality, as we now had way more watts to power the rear deck and dash speakers. The controls on the USA-630 head unit are easy to use, and the buttons allow you to navigate your music selections. Now you can be cool and tell your kids to bring along their iPods or flash drives when they come with you for a ride.
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By: Sayre Quevedo
During the beginning of my freshman year, the carbonated citrus drink Orangina was big on campus. When I had extra change to spare, I would schlep across the school quad to the vending machines and grab one. Then one day, Orangina and sodas disappeared from vending machines at my San Francisco public high school in compliance with a state law banning the sale of soft drinks in high schools during the school day.
Now, a new California law aims to promote even healthier drinking habits by making water more accessible to students throughout the state. SB1413 requires schools to provide access to free fresh water in cafeterias by July 1st, 2011.
Some schools have gone as far as installing full-blown hydration stations, allowing students to fill reusable bottles (preferably not plastic) with filtered water. Other schools are making due with water fountains. And then there are schools that plan to utilize an opt out provision that allows schools to claim financial hardship. Many critics call the provision an unnecessary loophole that will adversely affect students' health.
My school, Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco (SOTA), is going the route of relying on water fountains to comply with the new law. But rumors of lead-laden pipes and germ-covered spouts keep many of my fellow students from actually using the fountains. Instead, a lot of my friends tend to drink minimal amounts of water, taking sips from the fountain only when absolutely necessary or buying bottled water or energy drinks from the vending machines.
This month, I put water fountains across San Francisco Unified School District to the test with the help of Darleen Franklin, a researcher in San Francisco State University's biology department. She examined the bacterial content of fountain water in three district schools. Our reporting also looks into the water supply at Oakland Unified School District. For more than six years, the East Bay Academy for Young Scientists at UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science has enlisted students to test mineral content in samples from water fountains across that district, where they've reported lead levels above EPA standards.
Check out the slide show to find out the results of our water tests, and to learn more about the challenges of getting students and schools to make water a priority.
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Remember back in 1984, when people were using Word to compose their e-mail messages that were sent around to colleagues and friends? We'll chances are people will keep doing that in 2014 as well.
We've made the decision to continue to use Word for creating e-mail messages because we believe it's the best e-mail authoring experience around, with rich tools that our Word customers have enjoyed for over 25 years. Our customers enjoy using a familiar and powerful tool for creating e-mail, just as they do for creating documents.
How do you want your e-mail experience to look like in the next five years? If you think Microsoft is on the right track, take no action. If you think they should switch to modern standards, send a tweet asking Microsoft to improve standards support and make sure you include fixoutlook.org in your tweet.
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Berkman searching for answers at plate in 15th season
Slugger confident he can help Rangers, but unsure if he can reach All-Star levels
ARLINGTON -- Is he still capable of greatness? That's the question Lance Berkman occasionally asks himself.
"That's part of what makes this game interesting," he said.
Berkman is 37 years old and hitting .167 in his first eight games in June. His power numbers are down, too. Solutions have been elusive.
"Just missing pitches," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "That's all. He'll get back on track."
As if to emphasize the point, he added: "Never doubt Berkman."
That's what the track record says. In his 15th season, Berkman has constructed a career resume that includes a .948 OPS, which is higher than that of both Hank Aaron and Willie Mays.
Still, these last few weeks have been a struggle. He's hitting .242 since May 1, with just three home runs in 128 at-bats.
"I know I can compete at a certain level," he said. "I think the thing you wonder about is not whether I'm done or not, but can I be as good as I have been in the past? I think I can, but it's one of those things that if there's anyone wondering, that's where it comes in. Can I play at an All-Star level again? I don't know. Can I be reasonably competitive and help this team win? Absolutely."
Cal Ripken once said that the annoying thing about baseball is that when a young player goes into a slump, people wonder if he's done.
"And when you're an older player and go into a slump, people wonder if you're done," Berkman said. "There's this little period of time, a few years, when those questions aren't asked."
Berkman has always been one of those guys capable of diagnosing his problems, typically by feel.
This time, though, he feels good. He hasn't found a glaring problem in looking at video of his swings.
"That's the thing that's a bit perplexing about this year," he said. "I have an idea what I'm doing, but it's hard to see anything on the video. Most of the swings look pretty good.
"I'm really not swinging at very many bad pitches. That's the other thing I look at when I'm not going good. How much am I going outside the strike zone? I really haven't. I'm still walking a reasonable amount.
"I feel like the swings I'm taking are on good pitches to hit. I'm either fouling 'em off or swinging through 'em. I'm not really on the ball as consistently as I'd like to be."
"I think it's more because I'm old and I'm struggling for consistency with my approach," he said. "As you get older, the body feels different on a daily basis. Some days, you show up, and you feel really strong. There are other days you show up, and it's just not there. You just don't feel it.
"As a consequence, it's difficult to maintain the consistency with your mechanics that you need to have to be successful. Not that it's impossible. As an example, let's say you come out for a couple of days, and you're not feeling as strong. Then you may try to generate some more bat speed with your body. That's a bad thing to do.
"You get into a habit of doing that, and it's hard to break. It's one of those things you have to be conscious of and fight through it."
His team is going through some of the same things. First baseman Mitch Moreland and second baseman Ian Kinsler are on the disabled list. So are starting pitchers Matt Harrison and Alexi Ogando.
Now a team that looked almost invincible for about six weeks has lost nine of 15 and seen a 5 1/2-game lead in the American League West slip away. The Rangers began Tuesday with a one-game lead on the A's after spending two days in second place over the weekend.
"Nobody sits around and says, `Time out, let the Texas Rangers get healthy,'" Berkman said. "You go out there with what you've got and do the best you can. This organization has to be pleased with the way we've weathered some of these storms. Heck, we're still in first place, and we've been playing with about half our team for a long time. When we start to get guys back, it's just going to help us.
"When you have a challenge like this one and you come through it and you're successful, it helps you from a confidence standpoint. Mentally, you get a lot tougher. It also brings a team together and can really galvanize you as you head into the postseason if you're fortunate enough to make it."


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John Gets a Little Bit Too Racy With Video Gaming–and We're Not Talking Grand Theft Auto
Digital Daily's John Paczkowski makes a few obvious double entendres after being faced with a new gaming controller that looks a little suspect in his roundup of announcements in the video gaming industry during its annual E3 conference.
Here at AllThingsD.com, we try to pretend gaming devices do not look naughty.
John also posts on Google's growing D.C. lobbying clout, this time related to wireless radio spectrum allocations by the FCC, and an internal slapdown over a bad analyst call at JP Morgan about predictions of an Apple iPhone nano.
His daily video on all this can be found here, or you can watch it below.


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Obviously this is quite different from typical puzzle contests:
- The puzzles are hard, and you have the whole week to solve them.
- Three of the puzzles are optimizers, the points you get for them are based on how good your solutions are.
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Easy, trayless removal and insertion of dual 2.5in SATA hard drives from single 3.5in bay
Product ID: HSB220SAT25B
- Holds up to two SATA drives in a single 3.5" bay
- Trayless design: drives are not mounted into separate trays/enclosures
- Includes a plastic protective film for the bottom side of hard drive
- Aluminum construction
- 50,000+ insertion rating
- Power/Activity LED for each drive
- Support for SATA revision I/II/III (1.5/3.0/6.0 Gbps)
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This 3.5in SATA hard drive hot-swap bay allows you to install two 2.5in SATA hard drives (HDD) or solid state drives (SSD) in an available/unused 3.5in floppy drive bay.
Featuring a convenient "no mounting required /easy eject" feature (like a tape cartridge or floppy disk), the hard drive hot swap bay doesn't require that the drives be installed in a tray - making it the ideal solution for quick and easy drive removals and insertions as part of a system building process, or integration into rackmount systems or industrial environments.
To maximize performance and utilize the full speed potential of your SATA III hard drives, this HDD Backplane supports SATA III for transfer speeds up to 6 Gbps when paired with a compatible controller.
Also a perfect addition for operating system image deployment and any task that requires being able to quickly access large volumes of data on the fly, the hot swap bay provides everything you need to expedite important projects while maintaining a reliable storage solution.
With support for SATA HDD speeds up to 6.0 Gbps, this backplane is fully compatible with RAID installations to ensure maximum performance and versatility for enhanced storage applications.
- IT environments where you just need to quickly insert/replace removable hard drives/solid state drives
- Imaging - For System Builders or configuring new systems - Use Hot Swap Bay in master system to copy Windows OS quickly to blank hard drive as part of system building process
- Ideal for RAID applications (with RAID supported SATA controller)
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- Maximize performance, with file transfer speeds up to 6Gbps when paired with SATA III HDD and controller
- Quickly and easily install or remove HDD/SSD without having to open the chassis with the innovative trayless design
- Aluminum construction and 50,000+ insertion rating ensures longevity from both the HDD/SSD and bay
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|Warranty Information
|2 Years
|Compatible Drive Types
|Drive Size
|Front Door Key Lock
|Number of Drives
|Hot Swap Capability
|Max Drive Capacity
|Tested up to 500GB per drive
|Type and Rate
|SATA III (6 Gbps)
|Connector Type(s)
|2 - SATA (7 pin, Data) Receptacle
|2 - SATA Power (15 pin) Receptacle
|2 - SP4 (4 pin, Small Drive Power) Male
|Drive Connectors
|2 - SATA (7 pin, Data) Receptacle
|2 - SATA Power (15 pin) Receptacle
|Host Connectors
|2 - SATA (7 pin, Data) Plug
|2 - SATA Power (15 pin) Plug
|OS Compatibility
|OS independent; No software or drivers required
|LED Indicators
|1 - Power/Drive Activity
|Physical Characteristics
|Max Drive Height
|0.4 in [9.5 mm]
|Product Height
|0.9 in [2.4 cm]
|Product Length
|5.3 in [13.4 cm]
|Product Width
|4 in [10.2 cm]
|Weight of Product
|10.1 oz [286 g]
|Packaging Information
|Package Height
|2.1 in [54 mm]
|Package Length
|6.7 in [17.1 cm]
|Package Width
|5 in [12.6 cm]
|Shipping (Package) Weight
|17 oz [481 g]
|What's in the Box
|Included in Package
|1 - dual SATA hot-swap bay
|2 - LP4 to SATA and LED adapter cable
|1 - 15-pin SATA power and LED Y cable
|2 - 7-pin SATA data cable
|2 - hard drive protector film
|1 - screw kit
|1 - instruction manual
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When you troubleshoot issues with a hard drive rack, there are some quick tests that you can complete to rule out potential problems. You can test to make sure that the following components are working correctly and are not the source of the issue:
- SATA and SAS cables
- Hard drives
- Hard drive rack
To test your setup components, try the following:
- Use the cables, hard drives, and hard drive rack in another setup to see if the problem is with the components or the setup.
- Use a different cable, hard drive, and hard drive rack in your setup to see if the problem persists. Ideally, you should test a component that you know works in another setup.
When you test the hard drive and hard drive rack, it is recommended that you do the following:
- To check Disk Management, press the Windows key + R, type diskmgmt.msc, and press Enter. Check to see if your hard drive is listed.
- If the hard drive is listed with unallocated space, it needs to be formatted. Right-click unallocated and click New Simple Volume. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the reformatting.
Note: Formatting a hard drive erases all of the data on it. Make sure that you back up all of your data before you reformat the hard drive.
- If the hard drive is listed as healthy but does not have a drive letter assigned to it, for example, C:, right-click healthy and click Change Drive Letter and Paths. Click Add, assign a drive letter, and click OK.
Note: A formatted hard drive will not show up in Computer or My Computer until it has a drive letter assigned to it.
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Yes, this mobile rack does support hot-swapping of SATA drives. To use this feature, it is required that the SATA port is set to Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) mode and hot-swapping is enabled. On most motherboards, this is performed within the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) or the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). If you are using a SATA controller card, consult the motherboard manufacturer's technical documentation for the correct steps to accomplish this.
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(5 stars) Now i can easily swap my SSDs.
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As budgets tighten across the country, cities and towns increasingly are loathe to pay for graffiti clean up, as are local merchants. Check this story for a dose of Christmas spirt. Just as the local business district gears up for a big weekend of shopping, here come a bunch of idiots to make the place look extra uninviting. But your opportunity lies in this great quote: "This goes back to us being strongly in favor of cameras," Sedwick said. How much does it cost to clean up graffiti? How much does the camera system cost? Where does one cancel the other out? This insurance company sees the trade-off as being solidly in its favor. If you make the pitch to your local city/town council, logic says they'll see the trade-off as a positive one, too.
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