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Personal computing, cloud computing and mobile computing have increasingly made users to store their personal data in personal computers, Internet based cloud services and mobile devices. The kind of personal data varies from normal text files to a varied range of media data like pictures (JPEG, GIF, etc.), music files (mp3, wav, etc.), movie files (wmv, mp4, etc.), data file (.doc, .ppt, .pdf etc.) and non-file formats like vcard (format for contact card), vcal (format for calendar entry) which has contacts and Calendar information. As the data gets more and more distributed, it become the more important to keep the data in sync among the various computing entities.Various protocols(SyncML, MTP, REST etc.) have evolved to keep the user data in sync among the entities.
These various protocols work over different kinds of transports (like Bluetooth, USB, IP etc.). So it is no more enough that a particular mobile device supports only a single protocol to keep the user data in sync. It also so happens that two different protocols are also used to synchronize the same kind of data (for example, SyncML and REST API can be used to synchronize Calendar data). The choice of the protocol to use largely depends on the kind of target service from where the data is fetched. Also, the device UI has to provide a coherent view to the end-user without having to expose the internal protocols being used to keep the user data in sync. In order to handle the various synchronization protocols, it is important to have a framework that dynamically chooses the protocol to use for a particular sync session and also provide various kinds of platform based services to the sync session. The Buteo Synchronization Framework tries to create a unified architecture for any kind of synchronization protocol and also enables application developers to create a unified user interface to merge all the synchronization services in the device (here the device can be a PC, mobile device or any other computing device).
The Buteo SyncFW does not provide any synchronization capabilities by itself. It is only the plug-ins and the corresponding protocol stacks that provide the synchronization capabilities.
Note: The name Buteo is the Latin name for a Hawk (more from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buteo)
Following diagram shows the end-user usecases for Buteo Sync solution.
The high level end-application use-cases are taking into consideration while creating the architecture
The main usecases are to allow a 3'rd party synchronization application developer to create synchronization services and deploy to the framework and to provide various other features like deploy/undeploy synchronization plug-ins, develop storage plug-ins for already existing synchronization services etc.
Following diagram depicts some more usecases of the framework
The Buteo Synchronization framework architecture is created taking into consideration the extensibility and scalability of the solution for current and future use cases. Effort is made to make use of the existing components as mush as possible.
A plug-in based architecture is the logical choice to satisfy the requirement of the ability to deploy/undeploy sync services in the device. The plug-in manager forms the core concept of the Buteo SyncFW. Even though the component is named as plug-in manager, the component does not perform any handling of the plug-ins itself. It is the sync daemon that performs the actual functionality of loading/unloading of the plugins. These plugins could also be called as sync agents, since they handle the sync sessions by using the corresponding sync protocols.
In the synchronization world, typically, there are two kinds of sync services - one that acts as a client and initiates a sync towards a sync server; the typical scenario is where a device sync's PIM data with an online service (like Ovi.com) and another that acts as a sync server that accepts incoming sync requests or one which has to have a persistent connection towards a sync service. In order to satisfy these two kinds of modes, two kinds of plug-ins are designed. One is a Client Plugin and another is a Server Plugin. A client plugin is loaded on demand either by a GUI application or through a scheduled sync session and is unloaded once is sync is completed. On the other hand, a server plugin is always loaded for accepting incoming sync requests and is never unloaded. In terms of interface methods, the only difference between these plugins would be a "listen" method, which the server plug-in would have. The client/server role decision is made at the time of writing of the plugin and is defined the plugin configuration file. Since the Buteo SyncFW is a generic architecture for MeeGo platform, which is not just targetted for mobile devices, the server functionality could as well be used for a netbook kind of usecase, where the sync service in the netbook acts as a server and the Buteo SyncFW acts as a client.
Another plugin that is defined is the storage plugin. Typically every sync service would involve synchronization of different kinds of user data, the formats of which are profoundly different. A sync protocol like OMA DS SyncML would be able to synchronize different kinds of data with different formats, which would mean that the framework should be able to handle synchronization of these different kinds of data formats. The concept of "Storage Plugin" is created to cater to this kind of usecases. Backend storage is defined as a component in the platform that holds the user personal data. Some examples are Contacts, Calendar, SMS, MMS, music files, audio files, photos etc. Storage plug-in would be loaded along with the corresponding client or server plug-in. The decision of which storage plug-in to load is made based on the profile information of the deployed service and also the protocol request for the storage. More information about a profile is described in the following sections. This kind of plug-in based mechanism for storage provides a scalable architecture where it is possible to provide many storage plug-ins for the same kind of backend storage. The following figure describes the context of the plugins and the plugin manager.
The main functionality of storage plug-in would be to obtain the raw data in the protocol message and perform a transformation of the data to the format suitable for the backend storage in the device. For example a SyncML message would provide the Contact information in the form of a vcard, while the storage in the device could be in the form of a SQLite database with an API layer. In this case, the storage plug-in would obtain the vcard from the protocol, use the API layer over the Contacts database and store the vcard entry to the database. A reverse mechanism would be used to retrieve the vcard from the storage and return it to the target sync entity.
Apart from the implementation interfaces, a plugin should also have a configuration file that defines the properties of the plugin, like, whether the plug-in should be visible or hidden to the user, the storage plugins that client/server plugin should use, the target service address, like the ovi sync URL etc. The plugin configuration file has only static information, which is read by the synchronization daemon and used accordingly. The configuration file could also provide extensions, which could specifically be used by the plug-in, but not the framework.
Profile Management is quite important both from managing the deployed plug-ins as well as holds the information to be displayed to the end-user. From the end-user point of view, a profile is defined as something that provides information about the synchronization service that the user has synchronized with. A profile has only dynamic information that is created using the plug-in configuration and other information that is generated after a sync has been initiated. For example, if the user has synchronized his data with Ovi.com, then a profile entry would be created with information like the databases the sync session was initiated, time of sync, sync status etc. A profile is also used to display the sync status in a user-friendly manner in a GUI application.
The profile information is stored persistently, so that it could be used across sync sessions and also be available for any GUI application to query the sync status. The profile is the only object that moves across all the synchronization entities (daemon, GUI's etc.). Some of the properties of a profile can be modified by the user and some properties are only modifiable by the framework. Some of the identified properties of a profile manager are as under:
Another important component of Buteo SyncFW is the synchronization scheduler. The Scheduler is responsible for scheduling synchronization sessions and also for handling parallel synchronizations. It has a queue mechanism to queue the incoming sync requests. The periodic scheduling of the Sync sessions is handled by using an alarm kind of functionality. The frequency is set by the end-user through a well-known GUI interface. The frequency is defined as a repeat event like everyday, a particular day every week, the hour setting etc. This event is converted to an alarm event and the alarm is triggered whenever the timer expired.
One of the main properties of a sync protocol is to provide data consistency. Even though the backend datastores may provide data consistency through database ACID properties simultaneous synchronization sessions might result in inconsistent results in the end-user data. For example, if sync session1 adds 10 data elements, and a simultaneous sync session2 might result in the addition of the same set of data from a different source, resulting in duplication of data. The framework provides a functionality, wherein simultaneous sync requests that access the same backend datastore are queued and are executed in the first-in-first-out order. In the above example, the two sync sessions are queued and are executed one-after-the-other. More details on how this is achieved is explained in the low-level design.
Accounts&SSO (http://wiki.meego.com/Single_sign-on) is a component in MeeGo platform that provides a one-stop shop for the end-users to configure online accounts. Examples of online acconts are Ovi, Google etc. Most of the online services have Single Sign On enabled which enables the user to enter the credentials only once and be able to access all the services (like Ovi Music, Ovi Sync, Ovi Sharing etc.) without having to re-enter the credentials again and again. The Accounts&SSO component on the device is the counterpart of the online service accounts management. This subsystem also stores the user credentials in a secure location which is not readable by a non-root user. Since the Buteo SyncFW supports synchronization of user data with online services, it needs to be integrated to the Accounts&SSO subsystem to fetch the SSO token and provide it to the online sync service.
The Accounts&SSO subsystem provides a pluggable interface to hook-in a new online account service. The pluggable component uses a XML file definition similar to Buteo FW. The Buteo SyncFW uses the account identifier defined in the accounts XML definition to link the sync plug-in with the corresponding account. The plug-in developer is also given the option to not use to the Accounts&SSO subsystem, but rather provide the credentials in the service XML.
The synchronization daemon is the only always running process in the sync framework. It provides the functionality of loading/unloading the plug-ins, sending d-bus signals, handle profile management (like creating profiles, deleting them etc.) integration with Accounts, hooking up with the hardware layer to register for interested signals (like bluetooth availability, USB and network connectivity etc). The daemon would also load the server plug-ins which would allow external devices to connect to the sync service in the device and perform synchronization. Following is the component context diagram of synchronization daemon depicting the various components that it interacts with. The synchronization daemon is the central component in the framework and is responsible for managing the various states of the framework.
In the above figure, the boxes in blue represent the Buteo SyncFW components and the boxes in yellow represent the components in MeeGo. The framework provides handlers for each of the external component services that it uses. The main functionality of the daemon is:
Following is the state machine diagram of the framework, of which the daemon forms the central component Following are the various states and activities that occur in the synchronization framework:
As part of the framework, the solution provides an API for 3'rd party developers to create plug-ins for the MeeGo platform. The framework provides two kinds of APIs:
For most of the synchronization services, it is important to initiate the sync on the availability of the underlying transport. For example, when the device is connected to a PC via USB, when bluetooth is switched on in the device, on the availability of the network (wifi/GPRS/3G..) etc. In order to support these usecases, the framework hooks into the hardware notifications services in the device, like Context Framework, Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) etc. The Context Framework provides context aware information like Bluetooth availability, network availability etc. The USB connectivity is obtained using HAL. Whenever these events happen, the hardware hookup adapter notifies the daemon to take the appropriate action. The daemon checks all the plugin profiles that have registered to be invoked whenever a particular transport is available and loads those plugins. Once loaded, the plug-ins check if the transport suits their requirements, perform their work and exit, after which they are unloaded by the daemon. There could be some server plugins that are always loaded as long as the underlying transport is available.
The device state based sync is mainly related to handling of the scenarios where sync cannot continue because of low-device-resource conditions. Examples of low resource conditions are less disk space, low memory, low-battery level etc. The framework makes use of Context framework to fetch information related to some of the device state variables, like battery level, but for other conditions like disk space, low memory the native Linux methods should be used. Details are available in the low-level design chapter. Note that if the sync is initiated from the UI, most of these checks should be done in the UI itself to avoid round-trip checks by the engine. This is a performance improvement measure
Another important feature of any sync solution is to initiate sync whenever the user changes any of his/her personal data. The general term for this is change based sync. There could be two methodologies used to support this kind of feature:
1.If the backend datastores have the ability to send notification signals whenever the database is modified. But it cannot be expected that each datastore supports the notification mechanism. This leads to the next possible option 2.The synchronization daemon polls the various databases at periodic intervals of time to know if some changes have been done to the data- stores. If this methodology is chosen, the timing of the interval becomes quite important. In this methodology, the sync cannot be real-time, since if:
the change in the datastore happens at t0, and the periodic datastore check interval is at t1, then the sync would occur only after every n*t1, where n is the periodicity of the sync
This is a reasonable limitation, since the user might not expect a real-time sync operation. One of the possibilities to implement this functionality is to provide a plug-in that would be loaded in a periodic interval and which would be able to check the backend datastores for any changes. The scheduling functionality of the sync can be used to periodically load this plugin. This design avoids the sync framework to directly access the backend datastores.
Most of the synchronization protocols support a feature called "fast sync" [Ref: TBD] wherein the consecutive sync's after the first sync only synchronize the changes from the previous synchronization. The changes include the data that was added/modified/deleted. The protocol implementations make use of the backend datastores capability to return the list of added/modified and deleted items. Though most of the datastores are able to provide information related to added and modified items, they do not keep track of the deleted items and purge them for good. In such cases, handling the list of deleted items becomes the job of the synchronization service.
Since this is a feature that is required by most of the storage plug-ins, the framework could as well provide an interface which the storage plug-ins would implement and store a list of deleted items. Couple of mechanisms exists to keep track of the deleted items:
Apart from a profile being created whenever the user enables the account or synchronizes with a target device, at some points of time, it could also be deleted by the user. Any profile specific data in the sync framework could be handled by the framework itself, but most of the times, the protocol stacks and the plugins also maintain the corresponding profile specific data. For example, the SyncML stack maintains the anchor information and the id mappings, which have to be purged when the corresponding profile is deleted. The SyncFW cannot directly delete this information from the protocol stack, since the data is protocol specific. A good solution to handle this case is to provide a plug-in interace method (say "cleanup"), which every plug-in has to implement to cleanup the plug-in and stack specific data. In order to invoke this method, whenever the user performs a "delete" operation, the plug-in is loaded and the "cleanup" method is invoked. This is a clean approach to handle the plug-in specific operations and shows the strength of the extendability of the plug-in method.
The framework provides a d-bus API [Developer API] that the client applications can use to interact with the synchronization daemon. This works out as long as the just use simple d-bus API methods like "startSync", "stopSync" etc., but for complex API methods like "fetchProfile", "getSyncLogs" the UI clients have to unmarshall the complex d-bus message, parse the message and then take an appropriate action. The more then number of clients towards the framework, the more code replication there is. In order to avoid this, it makes more sense to provide a synchronization framework client library, which the applications can use to interact with the framework. The framework would be responsible for performing the task of un-marshalling the d-bus message, parsing the message and then signal the UI component to fetch the result. More detailed information is provided in further sections.
Following is the system context diagram
Interface Name | Interface Type | Description |
libcontextprovider | Dynamic link library | The library that provides the context properties |
libaccounts | Dynamic link library | The Accounts&SSO library that provides the functionality of accounts registration |
libdbus | Dynamic link library | The d-bus library that is used to use as well as provide the d-bus interface for the framework |
libombservice | Dynamic link library | The Ovi Notification Engine library that provides the Ovi notification functionality for push-type sync support |
libbluetooth | d-bus | The BlueZ d-bus API is used to get notifications about availability of bluetooth |
Interface Name | Interface Type | Description |
libpluginmanager | Dynamic link library | The library that provides the plugin functionality of the framework. This API also has a XML interface definition that has the configuration for the plugin. This interface is both for the synchronization plug-ins as well as the storage plug-ins. |
libsyncfwclient | Dynamic link library | This is the client side helper library that provides a DLL based API for synchronization clients (typically UI applications). This is apart from the d-bus API provided by the framework |
Framework d-bus API | d-bus | A d-bus API for applications to interact with the synchronization daemon. An application using this API will have to understand d-bus and unmarshall and parse the d-bus messages itself. |
libombservice | Dynamic link library | The Ovi Notification Engine library that provides the Ovi notification functionality for push-type sync support |
Profile XML API | XML file | A plug-in could be deployed to the framework with a default profile XML file. The format of the profile XML file also forms as part of the API |


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The inter-team matches begin! As always, the first years are surprised at how ruthlessly this challenge is organized. Despite the mental strain, the regular team members progress to the next round.
The Metropolitan Matches have ended and calm has returned to Seigaku, but a new storm starts brewing! Ryoma provokes a trio of bullies from the basketball team, and Tezuka is challenged by a student who appears unexpectedly on the scene!
Ryoma is cornered by Akutsu. But he accepts this challenge head on and releases his newfound power. Each player steps closer to the next level without giving an inch, all the while throwing out his most powerful moves.
Evolving with each and every play, Ryoma holds his own, and the game is even! Coach Banda of the Yamabuki Jr. High team hands Akutsu a secret strategy. With a game he cannot lose, Akutsu makes his move.
Ryoma brings out his best shots to challenge Akutsu's raw power. In spite of the spectators' worries, the violent battle continues to rage. Will Ryoma find the strength within to help him defeat his most challenging enemy?
Provoked by Ryoma's taunts, Akutsu begins to take their match seriously and unleash his true strength. Akutsu's power and speed amaze the crowd, while Ryoma counters with his special shots….
Finally Ryoma's match starts with Akutsu from Yamabuki Junior High. With all the trouble Ryoma encountered with Akutsu a few days ago, everyone is worried for his safety!
Sengoku counters Momoshiro's signature dunk smash and the match slowly starts shifting in his favor. Momoshiro perseveres but his left foot starts to spasm due to the intensity of the match.
Kikumaru and Oishi start their doubles match against Yamabuki Junior High's Higashikata and Minami. Oishi confronts the same pair that he was unable to beat in last year's match. And finally Momoshiro's match with Sengoku starts!
The second half of the Metropolitan Matches begins! Fudomine Junior High plays badly due to circumstances beyond their control and forfeits. Ginka Junior High also forfeits and Seigaku advances to the next match to play Yamabuki Junior High!
Ryoma and Fuji's match continues on with ferocity and the rest of the inter-team match up starts! Tezuka counters Momoshiro's smashes easily. Kaido's snake threatens to overpower Kawamura, and Oishi tests Kikumaru's stamina.
Inter-team practices are held before the Metropolitan Matches, and Ryoma and Fuji face off, each bringing out his most formidable moves to topple.
Before Seigaku's tennis practice starts, a rival player from Yamabuki is seen on campus asking around for Ryoma and causing trouble. Meanwhile, Inui has some very special training planned.
It's Ryoma's day off, but Nanjiro tricks him into giving tennis lessons to Sakuno and Tomoka!
Shusuke Fuji is up against the St. Rudolph mastermind Mizuki, but he isn't his usual cheerful self. Will Fuji be able to fend off Mizuki's data-driven tennis?
Ryoma sees the secret behind Yuta's most powerful move and tells him to stop using it, as it will hurt him eventually. Ryoma then unveils his new move, the "Drive B."
Ryoma Echizen's turn is finally up, and he faces Fuji's younger brother Yuta, who will stop at nothing to surpass his older brother.
Kikumaru brilliantly revives his strength and breaks out his acrobatic moves, and the grueling doubles match with St. Rudolph goes into a tiebreak. Will Eiji be able to hold out to the end?
Oishi and Kikumaru try the Australian Formation to gain the upper hand over the St. Rudolph pair. But when Kikumaru's energy starts to fade, their game is in jeopardy!
Next up is Seigaku's "golden pair," Kikumaru and Oishi, and the two find themselves facing some tough challengers. Ryoma notices that their opponent Akazawa's hits make the ball a blur—could this be the secret to their surprising success?
The intense doubles match goes long, and Kaido finds that his snake is ineffective against the St. Rudolph duo. The pressure pushes Kaido to the brink and a new move is unleashed.
Momo and Kaido are assigned to play doubles by Coach in the next match, but their stormy rivalry just might get in the way—or could it work to their advantage?
It's the day of the Metropolitan Tournament and Ryoma oversleeps, forcing his teammates to find a substitute for registration—Horio in a team jersey! Will the imposter be found out?
Ryoma accidentally packs his cat Kalpin's favorite toy in his tennis bag, and the cat follows him to school. When Ryoma finds out his cat is wandering around campus, the search is on to find Kalpin!
Shuichiro Oishi watches Tezuka and Ryoma play their game, worried that Tezuka may injure his already weakened arm.


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Obsoleting Barbie
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2012 04:16 AM by Tex.)
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Obsoleting Barbie
"""Prices of Mattel Inc (MAT.O) toys like Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars have gone up as the company tries to compensate for increasing costs for materials like resin and rising wages in China. more here """
However lets look at obsoleting Mattel and manufacturing firms altogether.... this idea is bigger than rising wages it redefines distribution resources and some heres what i mean good humans do yourselves and idea mashup and birth me a new idea virus. """""File-sharing site The Pirate Bay caused an Internet stir last week when it introduced a new content category called "Physibles," essentially designed to allow people to pass one another physical objects for download. The term refers to data files that are actually able to become physical objects via 3D printing technology. Before long, The Pirate Bay said in a blog post, "you will print the spare parts for your vehicles." """ |
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RE: Obsoleting Barbie
Fucking Awesome.
Quote:"All my problems are meaningless, All my pictures have fallen. All my problems are meaningless, And that dont make em go away." Quote:"Is", "is." "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. |
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RE: Obsoleting Barbie
Pretty amazing but i think a lot of this will depend on the cost of the printers coming down (not sure how many people have £15,000 sitting about) also the cost of the materials used will be a major factor
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2012 12:21 PM by 1871.)
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RE: Obsoleting Barbie
And where will the raw material ingredients for the 3d printers and what they print will come from/ Or the processes used in their extraction?
quote; No Man Is An Island SOCIALISM WON'T be got by evolution but by intelligent design, though it would be nice to think there wasan easier way. The political shortcuts turned out tobe circular, but some people never give up hope thattechnology might open up some fast track to thePromised Land. Of course there has been huge technological progress,but behind each screaming wave-front of optimism trailsthe long, Doppler-shifted whine of hindsight. For all thesmart phones and sushi bars we're still slaves chained tothe day job, compared to whom the playboys and girls of the Neolithic seem to have enjoyed great diet and health,endless holidays and free art classes. The plough and the printing press were keytechnological developments in two of the most essentialhuman activities of all, production of material goodsand distribution of information. The whole trajectory of capitalism has been towards the ef fi ciency and economy of scale of mass production and distribution, together withtheir correlates, state-imposed mass ideologies. When thehorrors of Nazism and Soviet Communism turned peopleoff 'mass' concepts, and rising af inluence meant people couldn't be fobbed off with production-line uniformity, anew cult of the individual was born.At first this 'lifestyle' capitalism was little more than amarketing scam. We could 'individually' commute to ourindividual replica jobs, eat our individual replica food inour individual replica residential boxes, while watchingmass-entertainment on our individual idiot-boxes.Advertisers called us princely consumers and we boughtthe fllattery along with the products. The more we acquireda bit of individual 'class', the more we forgot the collective power of class consciousness. The more the notion of individualism was fostered, the more sheep-like we became. We didn't mature into a society of individuals, wefractured into an atomised mass, our former commonality too vulgar to preserve. Technology is embedding the illusion Under Sovietrule dissidents were forced to resort to self-publishingtheir own material, a dif fi cult and risky business knownas samizdat, or self-made . The desktop publishing andinternet revolutions have given us all the technologyfor this kind of independent self-expression. But peopleforget we are all products of society and therefore not sovery different, so the upshot of all this self-publishing,blogging, Facebook and supposedlyinteractive Web 2.0 is that we have endedup with in fi nite versions of uniformity.Homogenous variety, samizdat become same-as-that .If we don't see the illusion it's because we don't have the attention-span to lookat the big picture but only into a mirror.Instead of opening the doors to in fi nity we are mostly using the internet to create a narcissistic bubblearound ourselves, a self-promoting solipsism which closes out everyfact or idea which contradictsour own world-view. And theadvertisers are slavering to makeit more so. People [/b]now get differentresults for the same Google searchdue to 'personality' fillters they don'teven know about (New Scientist ,23 July). Each person's information environment is determined not onlyby their own conscious likes and dislikes but also by automated trackers deciding what is good for them .Astoundingly, a similar thing could happen in the worldof production, with the development of individual 3Dprinting, now being called by some the second IndustrialRevolution. When the Socialist Standard first reportedon this (August 2005) it was at an early stage, able toturn out fragile trinkets. Now it is possible to 'print' sophisticated equipment using composite materials withcomplex circuitry. The first 3D-printed Unmanned AerialVehicle has just been successfully fl own (New Scientist ,30 July) and enthusiasts predict that in the future robots will walk out of printers, fully functional with batteriesincluded.If they were only foreseeing a revolution in new researchand development at the lab-bench, the optimists could well be right. The lag between plan and prototype iscertain to decrease by at least an order of magnitude.But no, they are talking about nothing less than the'democratisation' of production, just as the digerati talkedabout the democratisation of knowledge through theinternet. Even supposing 3D printers one day become ascheap as computers, this is still to confuse democracy, where people act together, with the cult of the individual, where people act alone en masse.While the new parochialism of the internet involves huge waste of heat and storage in order to deliver in fi nitelyslight variations of the same thing, so each person under the l l l u s i on of personal choicemay end up printing separately what they could have produced collectively. This would be like boiling a single serving of rice inseparate pots, one grain at a time. Capitalism is quitecapable of this sort of stupidity if there's money in it.If the rich can afford to print whatever they want, itfollows that whatever mass-production still remainsmust exist only to cater for the poor, with all the qualityand variety that implies. The poverty gap could thenbecome unimaginably wide. In response to this, the poormajority might use the technology, with 'hacked' designsto get round regulations, to print their own guns andammunition. The most significant aspect of 3D printers is that theycan 'print' themselves. They can't print food or organiccompounds though, or things larger than themselves.If 3D printing is the second industrial revolution, thennanotechnology is potentially the third. Eric Drexler isfamous for his inspirational writing about the possibilitiesof nanotech, but even he overlooked the obvious politicalimplication of a means of production that can reproduceitself. Not only would it abolish material scarcity (whichhas already effectively been done) but also any possible arti ficial barrier to individual abundance (which certainlyhas not). What worker would consent to slavery whenthey had the means to provide all their material needsthrough a domestic replicating device, which itself couldbe infinitely replicated? Capitalism would collapse,practically overnight.No need to get too excited though. Nobody has comeclose to creating a self-replicating nanodevice, and like nuclear fusion it mayremain permanently years away. Even if it could be done, such a replicator couldrun away with itself and convert theentire Earth into 'grey goo'. Even if it weremade safe, the ruling class would haveevery reason to ensure that the technology was never developed. Even if they couldn'tsuppress it, material abundance does notimply socialist consciousness any morethan knowledge implies wisdom. It's nouse to live as a king in an empty palace.One way or another, socialists have still got work to do. http://www.scribd.com/doc/63815104/Socia...ember-2011 |
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RE: Obsoleting Barbie
Question: How exactley would ou be able to create a barbie, or any other 3D object, using this print out? How do Physibles work?
Quote:"All my problems are meaningless, All my pictures have fallen. All my problems are meaningless, And that dont make em go away." Quote:"Is", "is." "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. |
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RE: Obsoleting Barbie
(02-01-2012 11:35 AM)1871 Wrote: And where will the raw material ingredients for the 3d printers and what they print will come from/ Or the processes used in their extraction? thats some deep wisdom! reminds me of an adbusters article.... |
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RE: Obsoleting Barbie
(02-02-2012 05:56 AM)YaelTheGreat Wrote: Question: How exactley would ou be able to create a barbie, or any other 3D object, using this print out? How do Physibles work? 1865 Question: How exactly will the cotton be picked if we dont have slaves, How exactly will we send video messages with a fax machine thingy? All good question at one point in time Yael but your brain is not concerned with content, just a new context and birth me some solutions. Heres a possibility on How Physibles might work? |
(This post was last modified: 02-02-2012 02:01 PM by 1871.)
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RE: Obsoleting Barbie
I can see how the ability to create facsimiles by machine will cut down travel time, make things easier, etc. It seems vague as yet. But obsolete slavery? Cleefs comment still stands.
How does this 'obsolete' slavery? I take your point re: the production lines.It could be said that putting people out of work obsoletes (wage) slavery by replacing it with slavery without wages so there is a technology for the richest - ie: for a rich class who can afford the technology. In Africa the mobile phone revolutionised peoples lives for the better, but worldwide poverty hasn't been eliminated. I am definitely not rejecting the idea that technology has and will improve things but I am questioning the idea that its technology that necessarily improves things - it could equally be said that it is technology that has ruined things - just remember the environmental damage, or that our seas are full of waste plastic - I also have a deep unease that GM/altered crops are a disaster in waiting - I hope it isn't true but I think that there's so much evidence of the damage that technology has created. I am wondering if the belief in the technology being the solution to the planets problems is necessarily true - I'm not advocating anti technology - but that post industrial revolutions where technologies improved leaps and bounds also saw massive conflict, world wars and environmental destruction. Why is it necessarily that new technologies are a panacea and not merely a different (new?) way of dressing up the old system? |
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Thank you Yeal and 1871 and all good humans contributing to this post, can we find common ground in this FANTASTICALLY written below article by Seth Godin.
Start; The forever recession (and the coming revolution) There are actually two recessions: The first is the cyclical one, the one that inevitably comes and then inevitably goes. There's plenty of evidence that intervention can shorten it, and also indications that overdoing a response to it is a waste or even harmful. The other recession, though, the one with the loss of "good factory jobs" and systemic unemployment--I fear that this recession is here forever. Why do we believe that jobs where we are paid really good money to do work that can be systemized, written in a manual and/or exported are going to come back ever? The internet has squeezed inefficiencies out of many systems, and the ability to move work around, coordinate activity and digitize data all combine to eliminate a wide swath of the jobs the industrial age created. There's a race to the bottom, one where communities fight to suspend labor and environmental rules in order to become the world's cheapest supplier. The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win... Factories were at the center of the industrial age. Buildings where workers came together to efficiently craft cars, pottery, insurance policies and organ transplants--these are job-centric activities, places where local inefficiencies are trumped by the gains from mass production and interchangeable parts. If local labor costs the industrialist more, he has to pay it, because what choice does he have? No longer. If it can be systemized, it will be. If the pressured middleman can find a cheaper source, she will. If the unaffiliated consumer can save a nickel by clicking over here or over there, then that's what's going to happen. It was the inefficiency caused by geography that permitted local workers to earn a better wage, and it was the inefficiency of imperfect communication that allowed companies to charge higher prices. The industrial age, the one that started with the industrial revolution, is fading away. It is no longer the growth engine of the economy and it seems absurd to imagine that great pay for replaceable work is on the horizon. This represents a significant discontinuity, a life-changing disappointment for hard-working people who are hoping for stability but are unlikely to get it. It's a recession, the recession of a hundred years of the growth of the industrial complex. I'm not a pessimist, though, because the new revolution, the revolution of connection, creates all sorts of new productivity and new opportunities. Not for repetitive factory work, though, not for the sort of thing ADP measures. Most of the wealth created by this revolution doesn't look like a job, not a full time one anyway. When everyone has a laptop and connection to the world, then everyone owns a factory. Instead of coming together physically, we have the ability to come together virtually, to earn attention, to connect labor and resources, to deliver value. Stressful? Of course it is. No one is trained in how to do this, in how to initiate, to visualize, to solve interesting problems and then deliver. Some see the new work as a hodgepodge of little projects, a pale imitation of a 'real' job. Others realize that this is a platform for a kind of art, a far more level playing field in which owning a factory isn't a birthright for a tiny minority but something that hundreds of millions of people have the chance to do. Gears are going to be shifted regardless. In one direction is lowered expectations and plenty of burger flipping... in the other is a race to the top, in which individuals who are awaiting instructions begin to give them instead. The future feels a lot more like marketing--it's impromptu, it's based on innovation and inspiration, and it involves connections between and among people--and a lot less like factory work, in which you do what you did yesterday, but faster and cheaper. This means we may need to change our expectations, change our training and change how we engage with the future. Still, it's better than fighting for a status quo that is no longer. The good news is clear: every forever recession is followed by a lifetime of growth from the next thing... Job creation is a false idol. The future is about gigs and assets and art and an ever-shifting series of partnerships and projects. It will change the fabric of our society along the way. No one is demanding that we like the change, but the sooner we see it and set out to become an irreplaceable linchpin, the faster the pain will fade, as we get down to the work that needs to be (and now can be) done. This revolution is at least as big as the last one, and the last one changed everything End. |
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(02-02-2012 01:54 PM)1871 Wrote: it could equally be said that it is technology that has ruined things - just remember the environmental damage, or that our seas are full of waste plastic - I also have a deep unease that GM/altered crops are a disaster in waiting - I hope it isn't true but I think that there's so much evidence of the damage that technology has created. disaster in waiting? more like disaster now. just google "Gmos super weeds" that shit alone will end industrial agriculture as we know it. as we speak, they are developing a new generating of transgenic crops to be resistant to 2-4-D (agent orange), as a last ditch effort against these massive weeds, even though there is massive evidence of birth defects w/ that herbicide (didn't they learn their lesson? the herbicide tolerant genes will just transfer over to the weeds within a few generations). then theres the scientific evidence ( that wasn't funded by big ag) of the health issues.... allergic reactions, mineral uptake blockages, organ failure, sterility, etc, etc.... ( trust me i could go off on this subject, one of my specialties, should probably start a thread bout it sometime) yeah, every tech has its pros and cons, im not anti technology but some cons outweigh the pros so heavily that i begin to question the sanity of those who control the application. the genetic pollution of GMOs will be around longer than even our nuclear waste..... its amazing how many people of scientific backgrounds are in complete denial about this, and react quite irrationally and emotionally when asked pretty simple questions about this tech.... there is a lot of corruption ( by big ag) of the scientific institutions, peer review magazines, NPR, etc on this subject. |
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Quote: taif Shit! !!! No I didnt know that !! This sounds like your area of knowledge taif dhia - yes you should put up a thread about it. I never heard of that before - what knowledge I have on the issue is limited to factory farming and Monsanto. Though I think we would derail this thread by talking about GMO's I think the assumption that technology is always an advancement usually leaves out any kind of social or political analysis of whether in reality it doesnt keep the disaster going but in another way. The 3D printer seems to have specific applications. The guy ioperating the machine here was actually printed from resin from one of the machines himself; Tex - Seth Godins idea doesnt stand up. Film-makers for instance can produce work on the computer but monetisation out of it isnt widespread on the internet - people still rely on cinema and television is (still) either corporate or centrally(Govt.) owned and regulated. Some uses obviously the internet has created (in creation of ideas, marketting,etc )but in his article there is that 'sink or swim' philosophy Ive heard before - coupled with vagueries that leave it to conjecture. The recent SOPA debacle is istructive in this. Massive entertainment corporations with closed shop practices and monopolies on distribution and exhibition fight to protect billion dollar profits fight to protect their market. Why do you think this is? |
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"""""people will soon be able to download files of physical objects and print them out at home. Although being able to print out a new mug or toothbrush at home sounds magical, I said that there would surely be copyright problems that occur as a result of this technology's going mainstream.
This theory struck oil this week when the Pirate Bay, a notorious peer-to-peer file-sharing Web site that is a source of free copyrighted music and movies, said it was creating a new download section on its site that would enable people to freely take files a 3-D printer can recreate into physical things. In a blog post, the Pirate Bay Web site declared its entrance into a new copyright battle thusly: "We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles." Physibles? O.K. But what makes the declaration by the Pirate Bay different from other copyright issues is that some of the objects people upload to the site — and others then download — might not actually break copyright laws. In my November column, titled "The 3-D Printing Free-for-All," I spoke with Michael Weinberg, a senior staff lawyer with Public Knowledge, a Washington digital advocacy group, who explained that copyright law did not always apply to recreating physical objects. Mr. Weinberg said that because of old copyright rules, recreating an object that is considered "useful" is not actually a copyright violation. "If an object is purely aesthetic it will be protected by copyright, but if the object does something, it is not the kind of thing that can be protected," he said in the interview. A useful object may be patentable, but we are talking about copyrighted plans. Of course the Pirate Bay isn't the first Web site to offer the ability to download files that can print objects. Web sites like Thingiverse, a free online site that offers schematics of more than 15,000 objects, have been around for some time. The announcement by the Pirate Bay will bring this issue a lot more scrutiny and, I dare say, heated talk. As a result, we could be on the verge of a new series of legal battles centered on people who download 3-D files. """""""""""" |
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Deer Contraceptives – It's All About the Math
Hilltop Conservancy Treasurer Theresa Trapp pens Letter to the Editor regarding county deer hunt.
Essex County's 2013 deer hunt has come to a close, once again removing many of this over-abundant species from our reservations (Hilltop – 61, South Mountain – 43). Contrary to naysayers, deer have not become extinct because of the program, and there are small signs that our nature preserves are beginning to recover from decades of browse damage.
Contraceptives are sometimes proposed as an alternative to hunting. However, we need to acknowledge that non-lethal methods to control deer populations would involve significant investment of taxpayer dollars, particularly immuno-contraception (e.g., GonaCon).
Each GonaCon inoculation costs more than $1,000 per dose (including locating, immobilizing, inoculating and collaring). In addition, each doe requires at least 3 doses over her lifetime to render her infertile – driving the real unit costs above $3,000 per deer. This compares to about $600 per deer for the County's current sharpshooting program. Claiming that "GonaCon only costs $10 per dose" is like saying the County's program only costs $3 per deer because one can buy a 5-count box of shotgun slugs online for $15 – hardly a complete picture.
As a species, deer have a high reproductive rate (each doe will bear on average 1.75 fawns per year over her 10+ year lifespan). That, coupled with their low mortality rate in our area (10% including old age, disease, injury / accident, and no large predators) means that an uncontrolled herd can double in size within 4 years. And research shows that immuno-contraceptives do not always "take" – even after a full series of injections approximately 10% of inoculated does will still remain fertile and become pregnant. If the overall fertility rate of an immunized herd exceeds its mortality rate, then it will continue to increase in size.
Lastly, the above calculations do not include the fact that GonaCon cannot be administered to deer less than 1 year old ….. and yet 30% of female fawns become pregnant and bear on average 1 fawn each. Even assuming that an immuno-contraception program is able to locate and treat every single adult female in a target area – and subsequently follow through with year-over-year re-capture and re-dosing of each of those does – the program will not be successful at reducing the deer population. In a real-world situation, the number of female deer that need to be inoculated would continue to increase, driving the costs of the program ever higher.
Using the Hilltop to illustrate: over 4 years of sharpshooting, the County has removed 380 deer from the reservation. Assuming a 50% gender mix and applying a unit cost of $3,000+, a Hilltop-specific immuno-contraception program would have cost taxpayers almost $600,000 to date, and would still not have reduced the overall number of deer in the park.
No wonder the County is reluctant …..
Theresa Trapp, Treasurer
Hilltop Conservancy, Inc.
Adam Kraemer
12:47 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
This well written article makes a very compelling argument in support of the county deer control program. I am absolutely convinced the county is doing the right thing in this regard.
Laraine Barach
12:47 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
Misleading indeed--contraception can be very effect-- on public County land culling
Is safer than near our homes- Culling is expensive --Add into the cost of additional
Salaries for police and Insurace transporting carcasses--tax dollars pay for butchering as well -the cost is not just $600 per deer-Culling is a business clearly for profit
marilynn english
12:47 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
How much money does the Hilltop Conservancy get from the County?
It is apparent Teresa received her information from the County Executive as it is full of misstatements and erroneous information. The killing has cost us more than $1 million;
inoculation would have cost less, been more effective and less traumatic on the residents; we are even buying the bullets for the killers and giving them three hot meals a day compliments of Eight Hills Caterers. What I really question is how Teresa and her group and the County Executive could condone using guns in neighborhoods especially in light of the massacre in Connecticut and the public sentiment against them by NJ residents.
I asked Joe D and he refused to answer, what answer do you have Teresa?
Research the Simazine and Roundup sprayed twice a year on every County road.
Where are the reflector lights promised since 2008? Finally let me ask why the County can't afford a light on Gould and Mountain in North Caldwell and why residents in some areas now have to resort to no hunting and no trespassing signs in their yards.
10:44 am on Sunday, February 17, 2013
What about the use of PZP? Here is a quote from the Animal Welfare Institute:
The published results demonstrate that PZP is highly effective in inhibiting fertility, reversible, safe to use in pregnant animals, has no significant short- or long-term health effects, and does not pass through the food chain - all important criteria for an effective and acceptable fertility control agent. Furthermore, the ability to deliver PZP remotely without capturing and tagging animals makes PZP an easy-to-use and humane immunocontraceptive agent.
Essex Hiker
12:18 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2013
Wow -- I guess Rutgers University must be in on this grand conspiracy as well?
Trying to somehow equate a few days of deer hunting with the Newtown massacre trivializes that terrible tragedy and disrespects its victims -- for shame.
Andrea Lieberman
10:17 am on Saturday, February 23, 2013
Hilltop Conservancy Treasurer Theresa Trapp (Deer Contraceptives: It's All About the Math posted on Feb. 14) omits key facts when claiming that the annual killing of deer at Hilltop and in South Mountain Reservation is somehow more effective than non-lethal approaches.
First, there is established science: the white-tail's breeding ecology. Deer, especially previously non-hunted populations, respond to hunting pressure with higher fecundity. Hunting stimulates breeding by increasing carrying capacity. Fewer competitors results in more food for surviving females, earlier pregnancies, better neonatal health, and larger litters. Non-hunted sites show no increase in breeding.
By Ms. Trapp's own admission: "... and yet 30% of female fawns become pregnant and bear on average 1 fawn each," hunting stimulates, and certainly has not reduced, breeding. The county's deer shoots ensure perpetual killing, divisiveness, and taxpayer expense. Throughout the state, so-called "controlled hunts" -- initially advertised as "five-year" events -- are going into their 18th year. Ms. Trapp ignores this only to warn, ominously, that it is a single-dose contraceptive that will require repeated attention.
Andrea Lieberman
10:17 am on Saturday, February 23, 2013
DiVincenzo stated that shooting South Mountain/Eagle Rock/Hilltop deer in 2011 "was accomplished at a total cost of $130,223.04, or $744.13 per deer. That cost included bait corn and butchering. The remainder was spent on staff and Sheriff's Department overtime, electronic message boards, food for the hunters, and an aerial infrared census." The alleged ecological benefits obtained at such a high cost of suffering and public treasure are indeed "small."
The purpose of any bona fide and humane deer program should be a reduction in deer breeding rates. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, GonaCon, which Ms. Trapp opposes, obtains up to an "80 percent" success rate in reducing breeding rates. That is 80 percent more effective than any hunting program.
Multiple studies show that baiting causes forest degeneration by concentrating deer, who continue to feed on natural browse in the area, and increases predation on ground nesting birds by attracting coyotes, opossums, raccoons and rodents.
Bait contains invasive and exotic seeds that are deposited in the area by birds, animals, or wind, threatening the integrity of a forest community. Baiting encourages illegal activity and poaching, and increases auto/deer collisions as deer cross roads to reach food. Ironically, baiting improves reproduction in deer.
Baiting increases risk for multiple diseases in deer and other wildlife."
Andrea Lieberman
10:17 am on Saturday, February 23, 2013
The Division of Fish and Wildlife has allowed massive baiting for recreational deer hunting since 1998. In 1998-1999, hunters distributed one million pounds of food for deer throughout New Jersey. Since then, the percentage of hunters who bait has increased significantly.
Secondly, contraceptives are mired in politics. Like most products, contraceptives require broader use to bring costs down. Merely gaining contraceptive trials meets hostility from gun and archery manufacturers and most hunting agencies partnered with same. Recently, certain conservation groups have partnered with the gun trade. Such groups mimic the trade's manufactured objections.
The gun lobby opposes contraceptives for deer and in fact declared non-lethal methods "a declaration of war on sportsmen." It has actually sued to prevent contraceptive trials in Indiana.
Susan Russell, Wildlife Policy Specialist, Animal Protection League of New Jersey
Essex Hiker
9:29 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Again with the grand conspiracy ...... where does it end? Maybe it goes all the way up to President Obama??!!
The scientific community are all consistent -- in the absence of predators, white-tailed deer numbers need to be controlled to remain in balance with their habitat. Anti-hunters never admit that there are other animals in the forest, and that those species are dying off because of their single-minded focus on Bambi. And they also seem to forget what the rest of us learned in middle school -- that prey species (including herbivores like deer) do not manage their own numbers, and that predators are needed to keep ecological balance. This concept is illustrated by the ecological food pyramid for each biome type -- including temperate deciduous forest (ours). It's sad that such basic biological principles are completely absent from anti-hunting screeds -- maybe due to their inconvenience?
2:06 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
You have made an astute observation. Deer are not native to Kenya, where Obama was born. Therefore, President Obama hates Deer and implemented the hunt! It makes perfect sense ;)
gregory l. mitchell
8:45 am on Saturday, March 30, 2013
Talk to any policeman from any of The Caldwells,Essex Fells,Verona and Cedar Grove as they ride all through the aforementioned boroughs at night.Since the development of The Hilltop and now the county hunts the last several years,deer are now noticed in greater numbers than ever before.Obviously this makes sense,the deer will now head out to our yards for protection and that is exactly what they are doing.Let's stop trying to manage wildlife and let nature take it's course. Respectfully, Gregory L.Mitchell-West Caldwell


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SERVING THE PEOPLE OF HUNTLEY SINCE 1960 W\^t "254: untkp fuxm^iht HUNTLEY, ILLINOIS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1994 - VOLUME 34, NUMBER 22 USPS 580-360 Eagle Watches Over Huntley Photos Courtesy of Shirley Dhamer & Jim Schwartz Art Bentz, Jerry Camardelle and Walt Marcyniuk of Heavy Commercial Contractors placed the finishing touch on top of the new gazebo in Huntley's Town Square last Friday afternoon. The copper-tooled eagle- in-flight was crafted by D. G. Murphy of Barrington and donated by The Prime Group. Huntlian Participates In Summer Safety Program Huntley Takes Loss In First Game Of 1994 Season Robert Hight, Jr. of Huntley was a team leader for 96 students who spent 7 weeks this summer performing community service at sites across Eastern Massachusetts. The projects, organized through the National Civilian Community Corp/Boston University "Summer of Safety" program, ranged from substance abuse education to renovation of historical landmarks. "Summer of Safety" brings 15 leam leaders and youths aged 14-17 together for a summer of "friends, fun and getting things done." Living on a military base in Ft. Devens, MA, participanu, called corps members, engage not only in community service projects, but also in educational classes, sporting and recreational activities. Hight, a 1994 college graduate and a 1990 graduate of Crystal Lake South H.S., supervised a team of 10 corps members as they set up a violence prevention program at the South Boston Boys and Girls Club. Hight is the son of Robert and Mary Ann Hight of Huntley. HFPD Passes Final Budget, Discusses Personnel, Salaries President Gow called the July 21,1994 regular meeting to order at 7pm in the board room of the Huntley Fire Protection District. Present were President Gow, Secretary Williams, Trustees Allen and Graf, Attomey Militello and Fire Chief Veath. Absent was Treasurer Homuth. President Gow announced that the first otder of business would be the public hearing for the Final Budget and Appropriation Ordinance for the Huntley Fire Protection District for the fiscal year beginning May 1,1994 and ending April 30,1995 as required by law. Minutes of this hearing are set out as a separate recording. He then resumed the regular meeting and called for approval of the following minutes: June 23,1994 regular meeting: President Gow asked that on page 3 the name Beescow be changed lo Beeskow and that the fu-st name of Dennis be added for the record. Thereafter, a motion was made by Secretary Williams, seconded by Trustee Allen, to approve the minules as amended. Roll noted all ayes and the motion carried. April 27, 1994: There being no additions nor corrections, a motion was made by President Gow, seconded by Truslee Graf, lo approve the minutes as presenied and roll noted all ayes and the motion carried. July 14, 1994: There being no additions nor corrections, a motion was made by Truslee Graf, seconded by Secretary Williams, to approve these minutes also, roll noted all ayes and the motion carried. In the absence of Treasurer Homuth, President Gow presented the treasurer's reports, noting general fire money market, $115,898.32; general fue checking, $16,054.26; building fund, $216,605.00; impact/plan review fund, $17,583.84. Next, the president asked for Secretary Williams' report of which he stated he had nothing to report this month. The bill list was before the trustees for review. Questions were raised regarding Ace Hardware, which bill was reviewed and President Gow asked about finequency of the Brown Storage bill which will be billed quarterly. There¬ after there being no more questions, a motion was made by Trustee Allen, seconded by President Gow, to approve the payment of bills as presenied, roll noted all ayes and the motion carried. At this point. President Gow asked that the board go into executive session for pending litigation. He then made this motion, seconded by Truslee Allen, roll noted all ayes and so was held at 7:20i)m. Thereafter, Truslee Graf made a motion lo come out of same at 8:05pm, seconded by Truslee Allen, roll noted all ayes and the continued on page 5 By Joyce Liput Huntley High School's football leam faced Ashton/ Franklin Center, their first ' opponents of the 1994 season, Saturday, Aug. 27. Huntley held them to a close game throughout mosl of the fust half of the game. Unfortunately, the opposition scored two quick touchdowns in the last few minutes of the , fust half Huntley's only touchdown took place early in the fourth quarter, when Scott Sttang recovered a fumble in the end zone to give Hunlley 6 points. The final score was 46-6. 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Title | The Huntley Farmside |
Date | 1994-09-01 |
Month | 09 |
Day | 01 |
Year | 1994 |
Volume | 34 |
Issue | 22 |
Decade | 1990-1999 |
Creator | The Huntley Farmside |
Coverage | Huntley, Illinois, United States |
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Dec29-12, 12:13 AM | #1 |
Baking the perfect cake
Hello all,
I know this is a slightly unusual post but I'm trying to help my wife, Anna, bake the perfect cake. I suspect like many would be bakers, Anna has been thwarted by inconsistent temperature within her cakes so that either the outside is perfectly cooked and the inside a touch raw or vice versa. Result, a very frustrated baker. Anna recently watched a cooking series that demonstrated baking the perfect potato by inserting metal skewers into the potato and therefore cooking the inside from the conductive nature of metal. What we're now wondering is if we could apply the same idea to baking a cake by inserting skewers at specific points to allow a even internal temperature. However, without lots of trial and error what we don't know right the position to place the skewers in the cake. Our rough assumptions is that closer to the center of the cake the more concentrated the skewers need to be. We thought that there may be a more precise way to judge the position of the skewers using physics. Random I know but any help will be most appreciated! Thanks in advance, David and Anna |
Dec29-12, 01:17 AM | #2 |
You could start here:
http://www.cookinglight.com/cooking-...0412000067467/ Its not physics but it seems that people can do it without physics and without probes so maybe changing the way you do it will work better. |
Dec29-12, 01:19 AM | #3 |
The physical size of a cake is much larger than the physical size of a potato. Maybe the skewers will be able to conduct enough heat into the middle of the potato, but they will be problematic with a cake. Most of the heat that is being conducted along the skewers will be released closer to the surface of the cake because of its larger size. So they might help a little, but probably not much. But there are ways of analyzing the unsteady state heat conduction problem involved in heating a food item from the outside to the inside in an oven. See Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot for a discussion of heating turkeys of various sizes. Of course, the simple answer is to bake the cake at a lower temperature for a longer amount of time.
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Baking the perfect cake
How about using a ring pan? They solve exactly the problem that you've described, by opening up the entire center for heat transfer.
Dec29-12, 02:23 AM | #5 |
DS, here is what I would try first. Set the oven temperature about 25 deg higher that the recipe calls for, and every 25% of the cooking time, open the oven and turn the cake pan 90 degrees. Most ovens are not really trustworthy in back-to-front or side-to-side temperatures. Then as the cake starts to look like it is ready, test it with a wooden toothpick. If the toothpick comes out looking wet, the cake needs some more time. If the toothpick comes out looking slightly damp, take out the cake and cover it with foil. If the toothpick comes out dry, you have overcooked and may have to deal with dry cake.
Dec29-12, 02:23 AM | #6 |
Let's start by first assuming that the perfect cake is spherical and frictionless...
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Dec29-12, 03:16 AM | #7 |
The skewers that you are describing are called "flower nails" in the cake baking business.
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The first thing to do is make sure your oven temperature is correct buy an oven thermometer
Jan22-13, 01:37 PM | #11 |
Microwaves get into a cake a lot faster than conducted heat. Any way of precooking on the defrost microwave cycle or cooking on combined microwave-convection?
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A more common problem is that by the time the cake is cooked throughout, its base has burnt. In any case, it is more a problem of oven temperature than anything. You could try using a wider baking tin, so the mixture is wider and thinner, making it easier to get good overall results. Once you can get your immediate problem sorted out, if perfection continues to elude, you might experiment with a sheet of wire mesh placed on the shelf above/below the cake, to shield that side of the cake from excessive heat due to poor oven design concentrating the heat at the top/bottom of the oven. Some cake mixtures would be more difficult to cook evenly. Maybe divide the mixture among paper cups and always make cup cakes? They can't help but turn out well. |
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Do you know the tale of the king who couldn't play the jaw's harp and the queen who couldn't bake spice nuts?
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