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Power-Accumulating Windmill
Discoveries in the Composition of Gums
The Obstruction to the Navigation of Rivers Caused by the Piers of Bridges
Science among the Boys
Can we See our Own Eyes?
Steam Plowing in Texas
Iron Combination Beams for Buildings
Heat in Photography
Glaziers' Diamonds for Millstones
New Jersey Copper
The London Fire-Escape
The Dishonesty of English Traders and Manufacturers
The Dictionary Controversy
An Inventor Sensitive about His Name
The Value and Usefulness of Railroads
The Largest Vacuum Pan in the World
The California Philosopher and His Steel Billiard Ball
Etching on Steel
Trial of Locomotives in South America
An Improvement in Paper Manufacture
"Wanted--A Cotton Gin!"
Polytechnic Association of the American Institute
A Column of Varieties
Feathering Paddle Wheels
Improved Horse Rake
Improved Hay-Making Machine
Presentation of a Gold Snuff-Box to an Inventor
Our Correspondence - April 14, 1860
Novel and Exciting Sport
Howe's Sewing Machine Trial
Childrens' Confidence--How they should be Treated
American Naval Architecture
Weekly Summary of Inventions - April 14, 1860
Foreign News and Markets - April 14, 1860
Patent Claims - April 14, 1860
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New Mode of Converting Reciprocating Rectilinear into Rotary Motion
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Afghanistan: Law of war explained to new Afghan officers
04-07-2002 News Release 02/27
A group of 30 officers from the new Afghan army attended a talk on international humanitarian law given by ICRC delegates on 13 June at the Kabul Military Academy.
The Afghan army, which in five years'time is expected to number some 50,000 men, is being trained by the American and French forces. The French army was this year assigned to train two infantry battalions consisting of 600 men each, and accepted the ICRC's offer of awareness-raising sessions.
This first such event for the new army was organized for the officers of one battalion. (A similar presentation was made in March to a unit of presidential guards being trained by the British forces.) The delegates explained what international humanitarian law (the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols of 1977) is and related the basic rules that soldiers must observe during armed conflict (spare civilians and enemy soldiers who have been wounded or taken prisoner).
The talk had been scheduled to last one and a half hours but ended up taking almost four, such was the interest shown by the participants. Many questions were asked about the ICRC's mandate, the obligations of combatants and officers'responsibility in applying the rules. At the end of the session, one of the officers declared, " We hope we never again have to fight, but if ever we do, we undertake to respect these rules. "
" After 23 years of conflict in Afghanistan and the great suffering endured by the civilian population, it is vital for the new Afghan army to know and respect the rules of war " , said Jean-Pascal Moret, the ICRC's communication coordinator in Kabul. " We hope to organize the same type of presentation for units being trained by the American forces " .

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If you haven't heard of Diono Radian Car Seats yet, let me be the first to introduce you.
Meet Diono (dee-oh-no), formerly known as Sunshine Kids. They changed their name back in September 2011 mainly because Diono was already their universal name, and sales were heating up overseas.
Let me give you a little background first. Diono, FKA Sunshine Kids, has been winning "Most Innovative Product" awards since 1999 when they first designed the world's first, and only, seat-belt tightener. After that, things really took off.
They first introduced the Radian Car Seat back in 2005. It was the first steel-reinforced folding car seat ever designed. They wanted a car seat that was not only durable and safe, but convenient and easy to travel with.
Now, skip ahead a few years and we now have the Diono Radian R-Series convertible car seats, designed to be rear-facing, forward-facing, and a booster seat all in one. They are meant to be the only car seats you will ever need, offering a 10 year lifespan. Imagine, never having to buy another car seat again.
Diono Radian R-Series Car Seats
There are three convertible car seats in this series, the Radian R100, R120, and RXT. All three car seats are very similar in design. They offer the same steel alloy frame with reinforced aluminum side walls and EPS energy-absorbing foam panels. They also offer the same Safestop energy-absorbing harness designed to absorb energy and reduce impact to smaller forward-facing children. The only real difference between these three seats is the weight capacity.
The Diono Radian R100 can be used rear-facing from 5 to 40 pounds, forward-facing and harnessed up to 65 pounds, and then as a booster seat up to 100 pounds.
The Diono Radian R120 and Radian RXT can both be used rear-facing from 5 to 45 pounds, forward-facing and harnessed up to 80 pounds, and then as a booster seat up to 120 pounds. Let me just add that 45 pounds in rear-facing mode is the highest currently on the market. Both also offer infant body support cushions, and a memory foam seat pad.
The Diono Radian RXT goes one step further, offering an adjustable head rest with 12 height adjustments.
The head rest is the only difference between the Diono Radian R120 and the Radian RXT. Well, that and all the new color schemes, including cobalt, plum, and spring.
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Characterization of Fumonisin A-Series by High-Resolution Liquid Chromatography-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry
AbstractFumonisin A-series (FAs) in a reference material of corn sample that was naturally contaminated with fumonisins was characterized using high-resolution liquid chromatography-Orbitrap mass spectrometry (LC-Orbitap MS). Peaks for fumonisin B1 (FB1), fumonisin B2 (FB2), and fumonisin B3 (FB3), in addition to three peaks corresponding to unknown compounds I, II, and III, were detected in the chromatogram for the corn sample. Fragment ion analysis for FB1, FB2, and FB3 showed that while the ions formed at m/z values of 200–800 were similar to those formed by the cleavage of the tricarballylic acids and the hydroxyl groups, the fragmentation patterns at m/z values of 50–200 varied depending on the hydroxyl group locations in the compounds. Fragment ion analysis of compounds I–III revealed structural similarities to FBs, only differing by an additional C2H2O in the unknown compounds. Using these results and by comparing the product ion mass spectra of compound I with fumonisin A1 (FA1) synthesized from FB1 standards, compounds I–III were hypothesized to be N-acetyl analogs of FBs: fumonisins A1 (FA1), A2 (FA2), and A3 (FA3). The method for determining concentrations was validated with FA1, FB1, FB2, and FB3 standards and applied to analyze the reference material. The FB1, FB2, and FB3 analytical levels were within acceptance limits and the amount of FA1 in the material was ~15% of FB1 amount at 4.2 mg/kg. View Full-Text
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Bootstrapping Entrepreneurship: How Technology is Revolutionizing the StartUpCategory: Business & Economics
Published on Mar 10, 2012
Anyone paying attention to the economic impact of the Internet cannot have missed its manifold contributions to prosperity and growth: the rise of new growth industries; more potent models of innovation and marketing; staggering new efficiencies in retailing and other sectors; and the plethora of free Internet services like email, search and social networking, to name just a few. In these economically challenging times, however, the Internet's most significant economic gift to the world is arguably its potential to make the small-and-medium-size business sector a more powerful contributor to innovation, growth and job creation.
Whether searching for financing or sourcing low-cost manufacturing options, virtually every aspect of starting and running a company has changed beyond recognition in recent years. From globally accessible cloud computing services to mobile-to-mobile international phone connections and online sales and advertising platforms, technology-enabled possibilities to connect, outsource and streamline are endless. In addition to improving company performance, these platforms are also increasingly important in finding new clients, accessing international markets, expanding manufacturing capabilities and matching talent pools with job opportunities.
Exactly what kind of capabilities can today's entrepreneurs take advantage of? Consider the following:
By expanding access to capital, crowd financing creates a more dynamic and liquid funding ecosystem for start-ups. Start-ups can't breathe without a steady supply of oxygen in the form of investment capital. In the past, entrepreneurs could turn to their friends and family, their bankers, and/or seek a venture capitalist. Venture capitalists, in particular, constitute a critical link in a long chain of innovation where nascent ideas and technologies morph into market-ready products and services. For starry-eyed entrepreneurs, attracting venture capital is often seen as both a rite of passage and badge of honor validating their work and their viability. But even venture capitalists admit that the current mechanisms are pretty poor at getting money to where it will create the greatest value.[1] "The problem," according to a 2009 report by North Venture Partners, "isn't the number of opportunities investors are presented with, but it is rather the lack of an efficient means of filtering the options." Throughput, not supply, argues the report, is placing unnecessary constraints on today's innovation system. "How do investors find, filter and fund the most promising new opportunities in a deep ocean of possibilities? The truth is they can't," the report concludes.[2]
Now with the rise of collaborative venture funding platforms such as Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, Y Combinator, TechStars and Vencorps, entrepreneurs can not only seek out short-term funding from a broader and more international community online; they can find like-minded collaborators, get access to resources, seek out mentoring and connections, and even win new customers. In other words, community-powered venture capital models can both filter the global wealth of opportunities and channel more intellectual horsepower into making each investment successful. In a typical crowdfunding example, a company looking to raise $100,000 uses an Internet site to invite investors to buy as much as $100 of shares each.[3] This way, the company can raise funds inexpensively, while early investors can buy a stake in an innovative business with limited downside risk. While crowd financing has the potential to run amok of securities laws, federal securities regulators in the U.S. are currently weighing demands to make it easier for fast-growing companies to use social networks such as Kickstarter to raise money by relaxing or even waiving the need to undergo the full panoply of disclosure and other legal requirements required by the securities laws for share issues. The promise is that these more open financing structures will deploy capital more widely and effectively to the swelling universe of start-ups looking for funding. With appropriate regulatory adjustments, crowdfinancing could augment traditional investment capital to provide an enormously powerful engine for job creation, innovation and growth.
Digital utilities and cloud computing make incredibly powerful IT and communications capabilities—the kind only big companies could once afford—accessible to just about everyone. Unlike the previous generations, today's entrepreneurs can buy, off the shelf, practically any computing and communication function they need to run a company, from storage to word processing to free video chat services. Users of Amazon's cloud computing services, for example, pay 10 cents an hour to harness its nearly unlimited computing capacity, allowing anyone to leverage the size and reach of the world's greatest e-commerce engine—from the computer geek testing a new algorithm from her dorm room to a Mumbai-based start-up that wants to roll-out a new call center service without spending all its capital on computers. With each passing day, the list of productivity-enhancing tools gets longer and longer, with apps for everything from file sharing and bookkeeping to salesforce management and customer support. "You can bootstrap a company much more easily," says Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource, an open-source software services start-up that has flourished in this new environment and was recently acquired by Black Duck Software. Polese estimates that her company's expenses for hardware, software, and network bandwidth are as little as one-tenth of what they would have cost five years ago. And it's not just Internet companies that are benefitting from the declining costs of computing and communications. In fact, an estimated 75 percent of the economic value created by the Internet arises from traditional companies that are using Web-based technologies to lower the costs of running their businesses.[4]
Big data mining, online advertising and social networking are creating interactive and highly targeted marketing opportunities for companies, while rendering traditional advertising obsolete. In the offline world of advertising, a publisher or broadcaster gathered particular types of people into something called an audience, and then advertisers purchased ads to reach that audience. Ads in highly coveted publications or broadcasts were very expensive, but the ROI on ad buys was famously illusive. Today, a standard ad targeting company that uses real-time bidding can offer targeted ads based on how users act (behavioral), who they are (demographic), where they live (geographic), and who they seem like online (lookalike), as well as something they call "social proximity." They give advertisers the ability to choose the types of sites on which their ads will run based on parameters like publisher brand equity, contextual relevance to the advertiser and content quality. And though the boundaries of online privacy are routinely being stretched to uncomfortable limits, online marketers can increasingly fuse disparate databases together to build fully fleshed out digital portraits of their existing and potential customers. These highly-targeted, data-driven methods of marketing not only work better than traditional media advertising, they are far more cost effective. A start-up can not only buy an online audience for one-fifth the price of traditional media buys, they can bid on "eyeballs" in real-time across millions of sites without ever having to talk to ad salesman. Expanding product reach into overseas markets has never been easier. With a few clicks, a start-up in Uppsala, Sweden can be marketing solar-powered tablets 10,000 kilometers away in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Savvy marketers can also use the power of social media to engage with customers directly, co-creating their next marketing campaign or getting input on product innovation.
Professional services marketplaces are expanding access to the global talent pool and bringing unprecedented flexibility to today's labour markets. Business process outsourcing is no longer just for big multinationals looking to shed costs. For entrepreneurs, marketplaces like Elance, oDesk, PeoplePerHour and Guru.com provide flexible, on-demand access to talented people and business capabilities for much less than it would cost hire or build internally. The "talent as a service" model is both attractive to employers who can get access to valuable skills on-demand, and to freelancers, who can build reputations as reliable service providers and earn money from the comforts of their homes. Xenios Thrasyvoulou, the founder and CEO of PeoplePerHour, points out that the vast majority of his 70,000 clients are small companies that do not want to hire a full-time accountant or human resources professional but need occasionally to dip into these services.[5] Business owners can browse detailed work samples and customer ratings for thousands of vendors in service categories ranging from accounting to web design. Elance provides built-in software to track works in progress and handle billing, payment, and tax records, while Guru.com allows buyers to put funds in escrow until work is received. ODesk has even negotiated benefits packages for contractors using its site.[6]
Micro-manufacturing and 3D printing bring the power of the global plant floor to start-ups. Until recently, only large companies had the manufacturing muscle to bring physical goods to the mass market. But as the machinery of factory production become available to individuals, anyone with a good idea and some ingenuity can design and sell goods globally without a physical plant or even inventory. Thanks to contract manufacturing in China and affordable 3D printing, virtual micro-factories now make everything from bike components to bespoke furniture in any design you can imagine. A search on Alibaba .com, the largest aggregator of the China's manufacturers, pulls up a long list of suppliers that will manufacture product designs in batches as small as a single unit. Alibaba's IM even translates between Chinese and English in real time, so customers can communicate with suppliers using their native language. With a few key strokes, a clever product designer can set assembly lines in China into motion, and after a few weeks of prototyping they can be in full production, making hundreds, thousands, or more.
As much as contracting manufacturing has changed the game for start-ups, the most revolutionary developments in manufacturing will manifest when 3D printers reach price points attractive to ordinary households—a reality that could see consumers swapping product designs over the Internet and printing out physical copies in the convenience of their living rooms. MakerBot's Thing-o-Matic (the company's most affordable 3D printer) comes close already. Literally a factory for your desktop, this laser printer-sized appliance retails for $1299 and can print just about any 3D shape into plastic (five years ago, you couldn't get anything like this for less than $125,000). From custom chess sets to decorative lampshades, MakerBot enthusiasts seem to have endless imaginations when it comes to dreaming up new uses. Users who like to tinker can share their custom modifications with like-minded "makers" who congregate on Thingiverse.com, a collaboration and discussion platform where users swap product designs by the thousands. True, these makers may be in the vanguard, for now. But momentum is building quickly. Terry Wohlers, who produces an annual in-depth study of the advances in additive manufacturing technologies, estimates 3D printing will grow to become a $5.2 billion industry by 2020, up from $1.3 billion in 2010.[7] Meanwhile the most recent Maker Faire in San Francisco—an event that cater to a growing population of makers and their fans—attracted more than 100,000 engineers, tinkerers, programmers, hackers and general-interest do-it-yourselfers. With local "hackerspaces" and Maker Faires now booming in urban centers around the world, it's only a matter of time before the technology matures to a point where the mainstream market follows.
E-commerce platforms have opened up the world of retail to a global network of smaller producers and a long tail of niche products and services. In the past, large vendors, distributors and product manufacturers dominated retail outlets to consumers. Opportunities to sell products to the masses were limited by the product placement fees demanded by powerful retailers. Today, e-commerce platforms such as eBay, Amazon, etsy and Apple's AppStore enable nearly unlimited opportunities to sell an infinite variety of products to niche audience–from the craftsperson who sells one-of-kind-furnishings from his workshop in depths of the Amazon to the dorm room developer creating location-based photo sharing apps for the iPhone.[8] Take the Apple App Store, for instance. In a few weeks, developers can easily build an application, submit it to the store and immediately find out whether it has any traction. In other words, they can vet the idea in the marketplace, thereby radically reducing their time-to-market. Moreover, they can do so with only a few thousand dollars and, in some cases, they can end up quitting their day jobs.
For the entrepreneur, a breadbasket of Web-enabled capabilities as rich as the one described above is wonderfully empowering. Suddenly the small can become very large, very quickly with superefficient business models that allow entrepreneurs to design, develop and deliver their products around the world with a fraction of the resources that would have been required just a decade ago. A study by Dr. Robert Hendershott, a professor at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, found that the availability of open source tools, cloud computing, and the rise of virtual office infrastructure has driven the cost of launching an Internet venture down from $5,000,000 in 1997, to $500,000 in 2002, to $50,000 in 2008.[9] Another recent study by McKinsey corroborates the work of Professor Hendershott, finding that at least one-third of SMEs make extensive use of web technologies, and those that do have benefited tremendously, using new Internet-based services to perform the functions that entire departments once performed for large corporations.[10]
And yet, too much of the analysis of technology's impact on entrepreneurship focuses on a simplistic analysis of the declining costs of starting and growing an enterprise. True, the huge decline in computing and telecommunications costs—perhaps best symbolized by the rise of "cloud computing" —has clearly reduced many firms' need for capital and thereby made it easier to start and grow them. But the innovative use technology yields several other advantages as well, including facilitating experimentation, increasing flexibility in the face of changing economic circumstances, enabling internationalization, and, perhaps most important, boosting productivity and competitiveness. Moreover, all of these benefits accrue to traditional companies and not just those that define themselves as Internet pure-plays. The implication is that a successful, modern firm today is technology-intensive by definition, regardless of the sector they operate in.
[1] Paul Kedrosky, "Right-sizing the U.S. Venture Capital Industry", Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (June 10, 2009).
[2] North Venture Partners, "Breaking Through The Broken: The Transparent Guide to Overcoming Inefficiencies in Early Stage Venture Capital," (Oakland: North Venture Partners, January, 2009).
[3] In this sense, the model is often likened to Barack Obama's now infamous political fundraising campaign in 2008, where hundreds of thousands of small donations contributed online outweighed the traditional reliance of campaigners on receiving big money donations from wealthy donors.
[4] James Manyika, Charles Roxburgh, "The great transformer: The impact of the Internet on economic growth and prosperity."(McKinsey Global Institute, October 2011).
[5] Initially founded in London, the PeoplePerHour network now has about 250,000 active users, of whom 180,000 are freelancers and 70,000 are clients.
[6] In July 2011, some 250,000 companies paid 1.3 million registered freelancers on oDesk for over 1.8 million hours of work, up from half that amount a year earlier.
[7] Terry Wohlers, Wohlers Report 2011: Annual Worldwide Progress Report, Wohlers Associates, 2011.
[8] See, for example: Arte com Ciencia, a project to stimulate the creative economy in Brazil http://www.artecomciencia-ipti.blogspot.com/
[9] Claire Cain Miller, "Do Web Entrepreneurs Still Need Venture Capitalists?" New York Times (May 14, 2009).
[10] Matthieu Pélissié du Rausas et al. Internet Matters: The Net's Sweeping Impact on Growth, Jobs, and Prosperity (McKinsey Global Institute, 2011).
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Rolljet Auto Take-up Reel
Designed for unattended printing.
For unattended printing and an extra-long drying time for printers, German manufacturer Basys has unveiled its RollJet 3003 take-up reel. With a top speed of 1 m/min, the RollJet winds up the printed graphics synchronous to the printing process, while leaving it enough time to dry.
RollJet's roller screws into the printer's frame and works independently of the printer itself. The system comprises the aluminum roller mounted onto the frame, a tension roller located in the "loop" of the printed media, and a contact-free optical loop sensor located on the floor that ensures the loop of printed media does not hit the floor. Once the roller is filled with printed media, it can be removed for further processing (such as cutting and laminating).
In addition, the roller has side plates to ensure a straight wind-up of printed graphics. The RollJet also offers optional cone adapters to allow take-up onto 2- or 3-in. cardboard cores.
The RollJet is currently available for the Roland VP-printer series and the Hewlett-Packard T- and Z-series of printers. MSRP: $1165.


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Vidor softball team is undefeated in District 20-4A
Published 3:27 pm, Thursday, March 27, 2014
There isn't a lot of unnecessary chatter at a Vidor softball practice.
During Wednesday's shortened session, members of the varsity team stepped up one after another to field ground balls from head coach Darin Fletcher. With the exception of the bat hitting the ball, and a few brief instructions from coach, there weren't many sounds that reverberated from Lady Pirate Field.
Not a single complaint about the cool temperature or rain, no talk about school work or boyfriends and certainly no talk about the team's stellar season.
"This team is a relaxed group," said Fletcher, who is in his fourth year at the helm of the Lady Pirates' program. "They have a quiet confidence about themselves. They go out there and take it one pitch and one game at a time."
That quiet confidence has produced a season worthy of chatter.
Heading into Friday night's contest at Ozen, Vidor is 21-4 overall, ranked No. 2 in the latest coaches poll for Class 4A and sits atop the District 20-4A standings with a perfect 8-0 record.
"We went 10-4 in district last year and played well against LC-M and Nederland," said Fletcher, whose team defeated LC-M last Friday and Nederland on Tuesday. "With the players we had coming back, I knew that we could compete for a district championship."
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NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The first week of tolls at the Downtown and Midtown tunnels continues, and many small businesses say the tolls will hurt their bottom line.
The Sunflower Florist in Norfolk will load up for Valentine's Day two weeks after the tolls will have been in place. Last year they made 75 deliveries to Portsmouth for the holiday. This year, those trips across the Elizabeth River will be more expensive.
"I feel like we're being taxed to death," said owner Rosemary Causey. "You gotta do what you got to do to get them out, so we'll probably make 10 or 15 trips Valentine's Day."
But the rest of the year, Causey will have to cut back.
"Right now we go twice a day, but when the toll comes into effect, we're going to cut it down to like 1:00 in the afternoon, one time a day because it adds up," Causey told WAVY.com nearly a week before tolls began.
Taxi driver Aru Mong said in his business, sometimes you make enough money to make your lease and some days you don't. And the new tolls will have a noticeable effect on his daily life.
"So, the little money you make, if you're going [through the tunnel] twice, or three times, you're going to end up paying the money out of your lease," Mong said.
The ride from the airport to Portsmouth is about $30. Now Mong will charge customers for the toll through the tunnels, but he'll eat the cost of the toll on his trip back.
"It's annoying, but am I going to sit in the house because of the toll? I'm not going to sit in the house. I got to be economic, survival," he said.
At Changes Hair Styling and City Spa, owner Norma Dorey will pay back customers who come to her salon through the tunnels.
"As a small business, I think it's going to hurt me more if I don't try to help buffer those costs a little bit," Dorey said. "With the presentation of their ID, showing that they're residents of Portsmouth or Suffolk, we will give them a credit of that day on their service."
Dorey has no idea how much it will cost her, but she thinks it's worth it.
"We're going to try to make that a little less painful, so that's what we can do in our small way," she said.
Dorey told WAVY.com she hopes other area businesses will follow suit and help out everyone affected by the tunnel tolls.


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Derby #368: Football! closed for voting at noon today. One of these designs will go on sale as our First Place selection on Friday - the rest could be selected by our Editors to print or just go down in near-miss history. Click on each picture below to see that entry's page, with a fuller view of the design. The final nine, in no particular order...
Come back tonight at midnight to see (and, of course, buy) our first-place winner. Then do the same thing Saturday and Sunday morning. Please? Thanks for Derbying!
it is so cute.like it!!!
As a(n) (American) Football fan, I'm a little disappointed in all the fantasy football designs… on the other hand my football hating husband would probably be in for "Meh" or "Tailgating" easily. LOL
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On this day back in 1954 the Washington Senators played a black ballplayer for the first time. His name was Carlos Paula and he was from Havana, Cuba. The 6'3″ 26 year-old Paula was a right-handed hitter and started in left field for the Senators seven years after Jackie Robinson made his Major League debut. Only the Yankees in 1955, the Phillies in 1957, the Tigers in 1958 and the Red Sox in 1959 broke the color-line later than did the Senators/Twins franchise.
Carlos Paula was acquired by the Washington Senators prior to the 1954 season from Paris, Texas of the class "B" Big State league. Paula spent most of the 1954 season in class "A" Charlotte before being called up by the Senators late in the season. In his first big league game, Paula started in left field in the first game of a double-header at Griffith Stadium against the Philadelphia Athletics and struck out in his first at bat but finished the game 2 for 5 (double and a single) with 2 RBI's and helped his team to an 8-1 win. Paula played in 115 games for the Washington Senators in 1955 and hit .299 with 6 home runs and had 45 RBI's while stealing 2 bases. Carlos got off to a slow start in 1956 and with Jim Lemon having a breakout year and the addition of rookie center fielder Whitey Herzog, there was no room for the struggling Paula in the Senators' outfield and after 33 games the Senators sent him to the minors and Paula never again played in a big league game. Paula spent 1957-1960 in the minors playing for various organizations before ending his career in Mexico in 1960. One of his minor league stops was with the Minneapolis Millers in 1957 where he played in 104 games. Carlos Paula passed away on April 25, 1983 in Miami, Florida at the age of 55.
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NBA's Top 5 WingmenOctober 26, 2012
The most versatile players on the hardwood are the wingmen.
A wingman should possess the skills to score, rebound and pass the ball, but should also be talented enough to play multiple positions if needed. That's what makes these guys such valuable assets to a team.
We caught up with NBA on TNT Analysts Reggie Miller and Steve Smith to talk about the best wingmen in the game right now and what makes them so good.
Check out the video to see who they mention in their top five, and let us know if anyone else should be added!


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What does sibylline mean?
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Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word sibylline.
Princeton's WordNet
divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical(adj)
resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
"the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline(adj)
having a secret or hidden meaning
"cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther
Of or pertaining to a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
Webster Dictionary
pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls
Origin: [L. sibyllinus.]
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The numerical value of sibylline in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
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The numerical value of sibylline in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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My RockI'm dealing with a lot right now.
My work has been draining me. Pulling me in too many directions. Keeping me from focusing on what is most important. Making me feel like I really don't know what I'm doing....
Then you call me. You ask me how I am, and want a genuine answer, not the standard, "I'm fine." I vent, and rant. You listen and offer assurances that I am really not incompetent. You make me laugh. I need to laugh. Laughter makes the insecurities fade away, if only for a moment.
I know you'll be home tonight, but still. I miss you.
I'm glad my job doesnt stress me out but it does stress my wife out... it must be hard living with a guy you only spend evenings and afternoons with...
well we could be together more often but see I sleep at day, she at night... we are on two entirely different frames of day....
I wish some one would call me and make me laugh.
Work does take a lot of our time and energy. I once had a manager who used always tell me before I went home to give her all the office matters I had in my mind...
Beautiful! I know that you know you are blessed.
Sorry to hear your work has been so draining ...I know the feeling, it sucks big time. But you're soooo lucky to have such a man by your side! And he can even make you laugh, that's more than enough! :)
When I saw the group, was hoping it was for me... but the title can't be the faerie... hahaha. Making you laugh... even if it wasn't me... even when your avi is scary... even whenever and whatever happens...
I know, sweets. Probably because faerie missed ya and well, I didn't know what was going on until I've asked you. We were both crazy busy. But this is nice... to let it out. Writing about anything does help.
And I really believe the Bird misses faerie and only a 'chicken' to actually admit writing about it. x p
Oh wow! How many feathers were plucked out today and have you come bare to faerie?
Uhmmm... *glues feathers back*
*pours more glue!!!*
You know that scene from Home Alone where Harry (Joe Pesci) got covered with feathers from the fan? I laugh every single time I watch that. With tears even!
Kinda like you now... *turns fan on*
This is sooo much funnn...!!!
Let's change that phrase, BirdyMan. I do that a lot, y'know... aim to please... not a good thing to possess. *shakes faeriehead*
We aim to serve others in their best interests... how's that?
Bahaha! *whack*
I don't mean to ignore ourselves. Serving others only come after the 'me' part is ready.
Ya sure about that?
I'm sooo bad I'm making you doubt you... hahaha... *whack*
Of course she'll be pleased! She likes to be hijacked. ;P
Well this is an abundant supply already right here!
Somehow made me think of cows... *whack*
You said fodder! *whack* They're also feeds. *whack*
You have no friggin idea! The land of the prairies... see faerie run around like Laura from Little House on the Prairie... grrr...
Often times! Remember my blog pics?
Wonderful. So nice to read of a strong, supportive relationship. You are blessed.
Nice to have someone like that...
aaaahhhh so sweet


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In Memory of
Grace Jenkins Roberson Edmondson
October 19, 1923 - October 3, 2012
Grace Jenkins Roberson Edmondson, 88, died Wednesday, October 3, 2012 in Charlotte.
The funeral service will be held Sunday at 2:00 PM at the Robersonville First United Methodist Church; burial will follow at Martin Memorial Gardens.
Mrs Edmondson was a homemaker and a member of the First United Methodist Church.
She was born in Martin County on October 19, 1923. She is survived by sons Stuart Edmondson and wife Dawn of Charlotte, Glen Edmondson of West Melbourne Florida, and Joe Paul Edmondson of Scottsboro Alabama, daughters Mary Nell Harrop and husband Alan of Henderson and Susan Draughon of Nags Head, 9 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
The family will receive friends Saturday from 5:30-7:30 PM at Biggs Funeral Home in Robersonville.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church in Robersonville.
Saturday, October 06, 2012 | 05:30pm - 07:30pm
Biggs Funeral Home
701 South Main St, Robersonville, NC 27871 | (252) 792-4301
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The Taiwanese news animation shop responsible for the animated Tiger Woods car crash video and other "news-in-motion" gems has been slowly reinventing the news wheel and there's no end in sight. Next Media Animation – a 300-person shop run by Hong Kong transplant Ben Wong and specialising in cute and quirky animations of breaking news events – is set to conquer the internet.
But wait! A local English-lanuage newspaper in Taiwan recently took the animation house to task for stretching the line between truth and fantasy.
"[Next Media Animation] has become famous — or should that be infamous? — across the world for its often quasi-fictional depictions of big news events," the China Post said in an unsigned
It then slammed Asian media mogul Jimmy Lai's animated operation for following Yankee TV comedian Stephen Colbert's "truthiness" dictum that "truth is what we want to believe" and not
necessarily the truth.
"In that respect, many of [Lai's] videos are nothing more than than truthiness a la Taiwanese."
Was the China Post saying that Jimmy Lai lies?
Lai, a suspender-sporting and savvy media man, was born in communist China and raised in British-controlled Hong Kong. He now splits his time between China-controlled Hong Kong and free and colourful Taipei. Inside China proper, he is 'persona non grata' due to his political views, and he cannot even visit his old hometown to pay filial piety respect to his ancestors there. He would be stopped at the border. No free-thinkers allowed.
Lai's news-in-motion animation mantra? Filling in gaps in the news for people around the world. His modus operandi: short, quirky animated news stories using CG "art" to depict the latest headlines.
Sometimes you have to use your imagination, sometimes you don't.
Lai's news animation business took off when the New York Times wrote about of the infamous Tiger Woods car crash video, helping it become a viral internet sensation.
Sometimes cultural gaps come into play, according to Mark Simon at Next Media. When an animation of Sandra Bullock was commissioned by an American TV network, Bullock ended up more like Korean-American pro golfer Michelle Wie than the Hollywood star.
Artistic licence? Sure. One animation explaining a spat between Yankie late-night TV hosts began quietly, before the celebrities morph into superheroes who begin beating each other with chairs.
Simon has a good way to explain the mother ship: "We are the History Channel on speed!"
Some call this Maybe Journalism – "a best guess at the news as it might well have been, rendered as a video game and built on a bed of pure surmise", as Noam Cohen at the New York Times put it.
Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing just can't seem to get enough of this stuff, blogging in her signature gushing manner: "If only this news org would offer an entire 24-hour channel of this stuff! I don't care that I can't understand the dialogue in Chinese – all I need to know is in that sweet, sweet CGI."
The NMA videos now come online with English subtitles, tapped in by Western expats in Taipei.
One punter put NMA's genius this way: "This is, by far, the greatest act of journalism in human history. I wish they made one for the Hindenburg disaster."
Meanwhile, the unsigned editorial in the China Post wondered out loud "where the line between news reporting and gossipy sensationalism should be drawn." Opining that NMA's videos "frequently stray close to, if not beyond, the boundaries of good taste," the newspaper pointedly attacked Lai's team for making a 33-second AV (animated video) of notorious UK murderer Stephen Griffith that depicted his murder of a young woman "in graphic detail."
"West Yorkshire police were openly critical of Next's dubious opportunism," the China Post said of the Griffith gore, adding that a spokesman for the Yorkshire police said: "This video is in extremely poor taste, totally insensitive to the families, and we have asked that it be removed immediately."
Take that, Jimmy Lai!
*EyeSee Main picture is from the excellent send-up of Gordon Brown's allegedly violent temper.


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Back in the old days, runners, the people who grabbed orders and ran them into the pits where trades were executed, were called the "wheels on the bus," and speed was of paramount importance. Today that responsibility falls to the software, hardware and network infrastructure that connects traders around the world with the exchanges. And as electronic trading matures, trade execution times are measured not in seconds, but in milliseconds. In this new electronic trading environment, the need for speed is still there, but it is increasingly a given as independent software vendors (ISV), brokers, futures commission merchants and other technology providers battle to create and market superior technology and traders search for new ways to establish or keep their edge.
In the new world of electronic trading, traders operate with increasing precision and more technical prowess than ever thought possible, never mind affordable. Tools that were previously available only to the select few have become cost effective for smaller shops, sophisticated individuals and retail traders who are entering the market in ever greater numbers. The institutional trader's long-held technological lead might be evaporating, prompting their search for the next new edge.
We call it the new arms race and it is revolutionizing the ways we trade.
"If you want to talk about futures intraday, you are talking about a zero-sum game. If you are going to win, someone else has to lose," says Bruce DeVault, president of Quantevo Corporation, a creator of customized algorithmic trading solutions. "It behooves you to deploy your own technologies to try to gain some sort of competitive edge. That is a cycle that market pressures tend to perpetuate."
The need to execute trades as soon as a signal was confirmed led to the integration of data, charting, analysis and trade execution on a single screen. That blurred the lines between data providers, ISVs, brokerage firms and futures commission merchants.
"Those things were fragmented," says Salomon Sredni, CEO and president of TradeStation Securities. "In the recent past, we have seen those things come together," he says. In this increasingly competitive environment, Sredni says traders need to understand why and how they trade, and what drives their decisions. "Speed alone, while very important, that's not enough to make you money," he says. "We believe in a rules-based methodology." The TradeStation platform is an end-to-end solution that allows users to create automated trading strategies and include testing tools and customizable analytics.
Interactive Brokers (IB) is another company that offers end-to-end trading solutions, including the brokerage services. In doing so, Steve Sanders, IB's senior vice president, says the company saves money and development time, while offering their customers an integrated set of technology tools. "You get a more seamless solution going to just one firm and it's cheaper," he says. Sanders has noticed another trend, though. An increasing number of developers are writing trading applications to work with IB's application program interfaces (API), leveraging IB's technology and multiple exchange connectivity but layering on their own trading interfaces. Such orders now account for at least 10% of order flow. "They can build an excel spreadsheet or a C++ program or a Java program or Visual Basic program," he says.
Patrick Kenny, managing director and officer of Patsystems North America, has noticed the same trend. "As the sophistication of traders increases, they are coming up with their own front ends, or own algorithms, and not using the standard front ends that are out there. They write to our API, but that is just to route the orders to the exchanges," he says, adding that the big push is towards the sophistication of algorithmic and spread trading. "We created something called the MEL – the multi-exchange legger that would allow you to create it yourself. Now it is done automatically for you," he says. The ability to automatically spread trade is an important recent advancement, but even that is increasingly commonplace, he says.
Joe Guinan is the president and CEO of Advantage Futures, a clearing firm and futures commission merchant. He says Advantage has opted not to compete in the front-end arena, but maintains, monitors and supports the software its clients use. "If you have a vanilla front end, that's not competitive anymore. Because of exchange convergence, there are fewer exchange specific APIs that technology developers needed to create, lowering a significant barrier to entry," he says, and the same holds true for clients developing algorithmic or 'black box' systems. "In January 2006, I didn't have one black-box program going through our firm. Now we have a couple dozen." While the increase has been dramatic, Guinan says point-and-click traders can still trade, but it requires they be clever and creative and recognize that they are trading against automated systems.
Trading solutions are comprised of multiple layers of technology and each layer slows your trade execution. At the root is market data, which originates at the exchange and is packaged and distributed to the subscribers of the data services. Traders then use that data to drive charting and analysis tools and execute trades. Each order then travels through the hardware and software to the brokerage, then the exchange and finally to the clearinghouse. Each step in that process requires time and processing power. And it has to be stable. One advancement benefiting electronic traders is called server side technology, also known as low latency solutions, which serve to increase the speed and reliability of delivering orders to the exchange.
"You have to take into consideration the entire order submission process," says Raymond Deux, president and CEO of NinjaTrader LLC. One typical weakness for retail traders when trading from a home computer or a laptop is their internet connection. "If you are waiting for the right conditions to exit the market, and you are getting close, and your connection suddenly tanks, you're up a creek. You cannot close your position. However, if your trade parameters are uploaded to a server at the broker or a web hosting company, a crash at home won't leave you stranded."
Low latency solutions typically include trading applications hosted on professional grade servers near the exchange and connections via advanced telecommunications solutions. Traders then connect to the hosted application via remote access software. As that technology comes down in price, and the hosted solutions become commodified, smaller professional trading shops and individual traders, who previously could not bear the cost of maintaining that technology, are able to cost justify them.
Another important but evolutionary concept affecting trade settlement times is straight through processing (STP), which IBM defines as "the end-to-end automation of the pre-trade to post-trade settlement process." In a straight through processing environment, investment managers, broker/dealers, clearing agencies, global custodians and sub-custodians seamlessly share information streamlining the entire trade process.
A trader's job is to identify opportunities to make money and snatch them before another trader does, and the idea that technology can serve that purpose is one of the primary appeals of automated trading applications. Rules-based or program trading applications are widely available as do-it-yourself kits and as prepackaged closed systems that execute trades based on technical levels or market fundamentals. Algorithmic trading systems, although much hyped, remain less common for individual traders because they are intended to minimize the market impact of large trades.
"Some of these funds are getting so big that they have to find interesting ways to execute some of these orders," says John Karvelas, VanKar Trading's president, brokerage and trading. "The flip side is the guy trading active systems, and he is coming up with creative ways to reduce slippage," Karvelas says, adding for retail and individual traders, synthetic order types, executed on server side applications, are proliferating. By automating your exit strategy and placing it on a server, a trader would get price updates and react more quickly reducing the risk of having it on the desktop computer.
"What that means is that a trader can submit two orders," Deux says. "Let's say a stop-loss order and a profit-target order are bracketing an open position. Those orders are submitted OCO, meaning if one of those orders is filled or cancelled, the other one is automatically filled or cancelled on their behalf." That technology is now available from some ISVs on the server side, and others offer it as an application on local client computer as a kind of trading rule. "The difference is, if the ISV provides it at the server level, and your internet goes down, the logic is still in place," he says. "So the more stuff you remove from the client to the server, the lower the exposure risk the trader has."
And it isn't just that you're protected from outages. "Having a stop and target as OCO at the broker rather than being managed from your own trading computer gives you a critical speed advantage. That lets you consider having stops and targets closer together — targeting faster, smaller trades — without as much of the concern they both may execute in a fast market, leaving you in a reversed position," DeVault says.
This year there have been several high profile 'failures' of risk management systems; one in which the systems were actively gamed by an insider, and another in which the risk management system was actually turned off. Both were large scale and high-profile debacles that raised risk management not only as a feature/function, but as selling point for service providers.
At Advantage, Guinan says there are several risk management systems in place. At the most basic level, he says there is a control on the maximum order and position size and there is real-time staff monitoring, but they also have four full-time staff dedicated to monitoring their systems.
Patsystems has created a product, Risk Informer, that Kenny says has become extremely popular. The product aggregates and calculates margin requirements in real time and manages risk for exchange-traded derivatives, equities, foreign exchange and contract for differences using standard margin methodologies.
Considering the number of computers executing trades on autopilot, risk management may be more important than latency. "It's not just important to the firms; it's got to be important to the firm's vendors," says Rod Giffen, head of sales and support for CQG. "We've focused on a pre-trade risk management tool that supports very strong requirement."
IB's risk management system uses real- time margining to control risk, rather than the more typical end-of-day calculations. "When you have to wait until the end of the day, a lot of damage can be done," Sanders says. "Our real time margining computes every minute and liquidates if you get into trouble. It protects our customers and us from bad things happening."
As much as trading has changed just in the past five years, the migration from trading pits to computer screens has been evolutionary, as most of the trades have taken place between human beings, albeit through technological processes. But the real trading revolution is going to be trading between computers; and the data, analysis, charting and execution programs that seem so advanced today will soon be replaced by automated systems and other currently unimaginable technologies.
"The ISVs that remain strictly a human-trader interface-based execution system are probably going to disappear," in the next two years, Giffen says, and from the firm's perspective, it won't make sense to support multiple vendor relationships. Increasingly he sees firms maintaining relationships with fewer providers, even while technology firms create customized interfaces to those trade routing systems.
To make the best technology and broker decisions, DeVault says you should first define the edge you think you can exploit, the time frame you will use to make your trading decisions and the kinds of analysis you need to do. "There are brokers who cater to extremely short-term trading and they do that by having a lot of investment in execution speed. There are other brokers that cater to people who trade small accounts and want to exploit extraordinary amounts of leverage." But it's up to you to decide. "Once you have determined what edge you are trying to exploit, only then can you pick an appropriate broker and trading solution," he says.


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More than 2,700 exhibitors from more than 50 countries are planning to show their products in Cologne, Germany, for the "Internationale Eisenwarenmesse" -- or International Hardware Fair.
The tradeshow, which will take place March 4 to 7, is divided into four product categories: Tools; Industrial Supply; Fasteners & Fixings, Fittings; and Home Improvement. Attendees will find the latest product innovations and will be educated about new product trends and launches, according to show organizers.
New-generation products will include tool trolleys with optimized drawers and modified wheels and measurement instruments with laser rangefinders for more convenient operation. Other innovations include Allen key holders with a new clamping device that ensures that unused keys cannot fall out. One of the show's highlights will be a radial tile cutting machine for large-format tiles with foldaway base frame and integrated wheels, saving storage. A wide range of new-generation cutting tools for floor coverings will be on display.
Retailers will also find new ideas for effective "Point of Sales" solutions, ranging form simple displays and modular systems to large shop-in-shop solutions.


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Guitar Chord Charts & Scale Grids
Chord Charts
Guitar chord charts are one of many ways to visually show how to play (fret) guitar chords. It is a 'grid' of the fretboard with dots showing you where to place your fingers. Charts can also be called frames or grids or boxes. The path uses these (and scale grids as well), but favor tab and reading in the end. These are also right-handed oriented. Left-handers will have to do a bit of re-visualization (flip it).
The chord name will appear above the chart:
We will more commonly see chord charts oriented vertically, rather than horizontally (like above), especially in songbooks. Learn to interpret both horizontal & vertical grids. Ultimately, once we know a chord, you don't need a picture of it, yet, sometimes the type of voicing for a particular chord in a song can be helpful when shown in a grid (typically at the beginning of a tune – there can be modified voicings, which are good to know).
We will sometimes see the fingerings inside the dots, or along the bottom of the strings, or myriad other variations of shapes and/or numbers.
Since chord charts are dominantly right handed, they are provide a challenge to left handed players [gotta flip it around], unless a given source provides a left handed version.
Chord & fretboard charts are very helpful in learning how things look visually on the guitar. We do recommend you print some blank grids, & map stuff out. These are 6 x 6 for either orientation.
Scale Grids
Scale grids show us scale patterns on a fretboard. They are a great way to get to know our fretboard & get functional in all key centers, quickly. Like chord charts, they are intended to be a learning tool which is ultimately transcended (move into higher/deeper modes of mind/body).
Here is a scale grid:
Here is one way we realize this grid into tablature, into playing…
In the tab, we start on the lowest root, play to the highest tone in the pattern, descend to the lowest, then return to the root.
3 Tones Per String
The dotted lines included in the grid are other unison locations for tones. In this instance, the tones on the other side of the dotted lines show us where 7, 3, & 6 are located higher on the board [up a string]. Playing these tones here [rather than closer to the nut] create the opportunity to play the scale as 3-tones-per-string, rather than having a string with only 2 tones. Here's the tab for 3 tones per string…just starting from the lowest and playing to the highest…


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I'm typing at you through shades because I lost my glasses while swimming in a lake today.
A few random bits before getting down to business.
It turns out Canada is about to rectify the slip of having let Japan beat them to the McLaren DVD set -- in a big way. Not three, four, five or six, but SEVEN DVDs. The NFB is going to be releasing The Master's Edition DVD set sometime in early 2005. This is going to be way better than the Japanese set. (The Japanese aren't very good with extras.)
I had a chance to watch the first episode of Soul Taker the other day, and was duly impressed. I had no idea Shinbo Akiyuki had managed to go this far with his style already. I mentioned his work in Yu Yu Hakusho in a previous post, and it was great to see that he has continued to develop his style. The first episode was fantastic. I get the impression the later episodes get a little watered down, which is only natural; he only storyboarded the first ep. The first ep was enough. At least here's a guy who's doing something moody and stylish and original on TV and it's not just another rip-off of Evangelion. I was actually disappointed to find out there was a story to the first episode upon further viewings. I so loved the bewildering randomness and colorfulness of it all that hits you on that first viewing.
As promised, here's a rough translation of that Newtype interview with Masaaki Yuasa, Koji Morimoto and Shin'ichiro Watanabe. Many thanks to Manuloz! Anyone else?
Morimoto: We'd been thinking of doing Mind Game at Studio 4C for a while when I saw Cat Soup, and I knew right then and there that Yuasa was the only man for the job. It was like a marriage made in heaven. (laughs)
Yuasa: My reaction was: Are you sure you want ME to do it?? Hey, so long as you're sure, I'll do it. But just don't come crying to me afterwards! (laughs) The original manga has a really improvised feel to it, like someone just wrote it in one sitting without thinking it out ahead of time. I wanted to transfer that feeling into the movie. To keep the images really loose and unpredictable, almost slapdash. Like I just decided to throw in some live action here, some CG there, without any thought, just for kicks. (laughs) That's what I hope the movie feels like when you're watching it, sort of unfinished, improvised, like a brainstorm in progress.
Morimoto: Rough drawings can have a lot more charm, but it's hard to make them work in a film. On the other hand, if you worry too much about how a drawing will look on the screen, it comes out looking too clean, without any life, without zip. It's hard to find the right balance between the two.
Watanabe: Just because you go and draw a half-assed picture doesn't mean it'll look "rough" on the screen. (laughs) You really have to calculate every line to get that rough feeling right.
Morimoto: The tension was palpable over in Yuasa's section. The two of us were next door working on Animatrix, and it looked like they were having so much fun over there. (laughs)
Watanabe: What with all these bizarre pictures they had pasted up all over the walls, it was like, what the heck kind of a movie are they making over there?! (laughs) I read the manga and it was great. But I thought, it would be such a shame to put just your everyday ordinary movie music for a manga like this! That would ruin it! (laughs) But nobody seemed to know who to get to do the music, so I sort of elected myself to the post of Music Producer. (laughs)
Yuasa: It's funny, I only heard about that much later. (laughs) One day they say to me, "Oh yeah, by the way, Watanabe's taking care of the music." "He is!?" (laughs) I had a certain idea of what I wanted, but I just didn't know who to turn to...
Watanabe: Yuasa-san had made a sort of compilation tape of songs to give a sense of what he wanted... and man, it was just all over the place! (laughs) From one scene to the next you'd jump from one song to something wildly different. Really not the sort of thing a normal person would request. (laughs) So I thought the only person for the job was the almighty Seiichi Yamamoto, the king of the alternative music scene. He'd done just about every sort of music imaginable. And his music has just the sort of rough-edged feeling that would fit the film. Plus they're both from Osaka! (laughs)
Morimoto: The music was perfect, it was just amazing. You know, my kids were watching the film the other day, and my wife turned it off at a certain point. It was the sex scene. She was pissed. "What the hell are you showing our kids!?" (laughs)
Yuasa: Aw, it's not that bad. (laughs)
Watanabe: That's an incredible scene.
Morimoto: I was amazed you'd reveal so much about yourself on the screen like that: "So this is the kind of sex Yuasa-san has!" (laughs)
Yuasa: No, trust me, I haven't revealed anything. (laughs) I'm much more... (pauses)
Watanabe: Not like that. (laughs)
Yuasa: I'm hoping the film is good entertainment, that's all... If people leave the theater feeling they had a good time, then I'll be satisfied. With a little luck maybe they'll see the world a little differently afterwards, but basically it's good, old-fashioned entertainment to appeal to the whole family. (all three burst out laughing)
Watanabe: I wonder... (laughs)
First of all, thank you so very much for the Mind Game translation offers and for running such an exhaustive informative site.
On we go…
> Anyone else?
How about the interview and column pages in the official site's special section?


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Most recent shiny: (method: random encounter)
Closing votes for CCAT stuff and we are starting over.
So, I am going to start opening votes for a tier. Vote for one:
Once this ends, TM0verlord will take over and I will continue to update the third post. Please bold your vote.
I love UU. It is a fun tier and Kingdra just rapes.
RU, except for Gengar and Frossy literally all of my favorite mons are RU or lower so take my biased vote.
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I vote Overused because it's what I know. Not opposed to whatever wins, and I just watch and vote (when I can be aassed to) anyway.
Voting OU
I play OU the most and feel I'd be able to contribute best that way.
So Keldeo is getting suspected. What do you guys think?
UBERS Wanna see how that would go. Anyway, how many times do I have too win a TEG tester before ranking up?
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National Dex Completed 2/13/2014, at 12:12 A.M., with 212:16 Game Time, and thanks to my friends who traded me over 200 times that week
Oh and the deadline will be set for three days from now. Happy voting
and may the odds be ever in your vote
I vote OU. I'm more well-versed in that tier than the others.
I have claimed Volcarona!
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I vote Ou, probably the easiest for me to help with. And I think it would be best since most battles are done ou
I vote UU: I can't see anything more to "learn" in OU which doesn't cover old ground.
My vote goes to RU.
All of us(maybe not Azulart, lol) should mainly know about the OU metagame, so wynaut delve into the lower tiers? Even though we have OU experienced and make a great team, we should learn more about the other tiers besides OU.
And I totally want to make team based on Gallade :]
I would have said UU, but Froslass and Victini are suspects, lolz
Second vote goes to NU
I thought I was going to lose this one
Despite stealth rock and sandstorm,Articuno still managed to hold its own ^ ^
Also includes a Kricketot KO!
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I posted this before saying bye to Minedreigon and how I beat Yellow/Haka 3-0 and then lost to him on his other team 1-0. Then the post disappeared. I used the same team, my sand team, but he switched to a rain team to some other kind of team.
But anyway, I did beat Yellow but I can't just leave my role of N00B Of TEG that easily. The battles were haxy in my favor. Therefore, as someone has to do it, I will still be the one and only N00B Of TEG. I would do battle reflections but since the post disappeared frankly I don't want to have to rewrite them, sorry. I did read correctly that they are optional right?
Anyway I'm going to go beat up teams with a sand team. A sand team that has a useful flygon on it and can trash pokemon from Latias to Infernape. Now that I'm done my challenge maybe I can switch to Garchomp lol, those things beat me up but it doesn't have U-Turn... That sucks.
Well I rambled there. See ya guys.
This was a dominating battle lol Alakazam at one HP held it's own for so long too haha! Slight misplay at the beginning because I thought that Carracosta was running a shell smash set, and it Toxic'd my Vaporeon, but I like this team too. http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/oucurrent-45142710
Also, what is CCAT and what exactly are we voting for? I understand we are starting over and all, but I was just wondering. Don't want to vote for a tier until I know what's going on xD
EDIT: I have to post this battle as well, http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/oucurrent-45146843 because the guy was calling me a p***y because he couldn't beat out a standard Vaporeon set and that I suck because I had to "stall" and was "getting lucky". The only part I agree with him on is the "lucky" part because paralysis didn't really affect me as often as it could have.
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I vote OU; the only Poke I use competitively from OU is probably Haxorus, and this way we can include Pokes from lower tiers (unless the whole team has to be from one tier? If that's the case, I say UU).
I want to ask you guys a question: what do you want out of this CCAT? Do you want to make a team to help younger/newer battlers have a solid team to start off with or a team that takes great skill and prediction to pull off, but has great surprise value? These can produce two totally different teams and can even influence the tier. Just keep this in mind throughout the process.
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Never mind guys, I actually looked down the first page and found my answer xD personally, I say RU or UU, as those tiers have many interesting ideas and many of the pokemon in these tiers can hold their own even in OU. I am also tired of seeing the same 3-4 Pokemon on almost every OU team on PS.
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Meh anyways I don't think we should go with a team that requires a lot of skill/prediction just so everyone can use it well. IT should have a good amount of suprise though just to keep things interesting
UU is always fun too but a lots changing
in OU we can pretty much count keldeo banned. That will make some pokes more viable again
vote: OU
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Design and simulation of a broadband antenna for satellite communication
Tutor / director / evaluadorPouhè, David
Tipo de documentoProyecto/Trabajo final de carrera
Condiciones de accesoAcceso abierto
The purpose of this research is to design an antenna suitable for satellite communications. This antenna will be a patch antenna to take advantage of its size, weight and price characteristics. As innovation, a coupled patch will be added, taking as reference the research in [8] and [9]. Those two papers will be, however, only a starting point, since our requirements are completely different. The antenna design will have three phases, in which the objectives will be progressively fulfilled. The first phase will consist in taking the idea seen in [8] and [9] and adapt it to our working band. In the second phase circular polarization will be achieved. And finally, in the third phase we will end the antenna design with the gain and radiation diagram. The text is divided in five chapters. The first one introduces the patch antennas and the satellite communications from a general point of view. The second chapter explains the patch antenna theory needed to understand the research done, beginning with physical characteristics and finishing with antenna arrays theory. The third chapter introduces and explains the parameters that will be simulated while designing the antenna, that we will use to decide whether the results are good or bad. The fourth chapter has the antenna research, using all the ideas exposed in the previous chapters. Finally, the fifth chapter summarizes all the work done. There are three appendixes. The first one introduces an alternative antenna design with different purposes from the main research. The second appendix shows the hardware and software used during the simulations. And the third one explains the coordinate system used along the work to represent the results. Satellite communications and patch antennas are introduced below.
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Health care for America now
I went to [Washington,] D.C. last week and met with my congressman and senators to express the need for real health care reform and it was real productive.
Congressman Jim Cooper of the 5th district and my representative said he is in full support of President Obama and the plan for real health care reform to include the public option.
I also spoke with chief of staff to Sen. Lamar Alexander and a staffer of Sen. Bob Corker and found them open to the discussion of health care reform. Their positions are different from that of my Congressman but there is room for some common ground.
I told the stories of patients and friends who have been crushed by the burden of health care cost. I tried to show how vulnerable the middle class is to financial devastation when a health care crisis develops in their lives. I shared the stories of a friend of mine who had a traumatic brain injury and is now facing bills that are leading his family to financial ruins and how his health coverage and prescription cost are so expensive that he may loose everything he has worked for his entire life. His family will suffer all because our health care system is broken.
We can't miss this opportunity as citizens to get involved in shaping the health care reform debate. I am optimistic that a plan that includes choice, access and coverage for all will come out of the house and am hopeful that the senate can achieve the same.
I'm hoping as a registered nurse to see the future of health care improved so that patients are treated as people and not commodities. We as a nation have the opportunity to say that we value life not only in the womb but through out the span of ones life. We can do this, and should do this now, as it is long overdue.
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At least that's what my boss tells me. I'm not even sure which pharmaceutical co. it is.
He just calls them "The Company".
We're trying a low-cost method we learned from the military.
We already knew that drowning cures diabetes(cancer & hiccups, too), and we want to see if simulation could be as effective. We're waterboarding diabetics.
Thanks for another good point that the government does a lot of R&D just look at NASA.
I hope the waterboarding thing works out. Just hope your using US water!!
Michael Jackson died from heart failure!! Don't we all die of heart failure??
Maybe, technically. But I still say Farrah died from anal failure.
Government to decide best treatments for ailments
I thought the government wouldn't decide medical treatment, Another bait-and-switch.
well, otherwise the insurance companies determine it so that they don't have to pay.
"By: house_of_pain on 6/30/09 at 11:08
At least that's what my boss tells me. I'm not even sure which pharmaceutical co. it is.
He just calls them "The Company".
That's the CIA, not Japan. (...don't tell anyone...)
"By: house_of_pain on 6/30/09 at 11:26
We're trying a low-cost method we learned from the military.
We already knew that drowning cures diabetes(cancer & hiccups, too), and we want to see if simulation could be as effective. We're waterboarding diabetics."
Shouldn't you be "sugar" watering them ?
So, Blanket, count any medical beans today?
panda: the chair is against the wall. John has a big moustache.
...and a 1911 under his coat...
There's "beans" and "has beans"...
Do you have the item?
yep, counted LOTS of them earlier.
It is fitting that today's deadline for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq's cities coincides with a meeting in Baghdad to auction off some of the country's largest oil fields to companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and British Petroleum. It is a reminder of the real motives for the 2003 invasion and in whose interests over one million Iraqis and 4,634 American and other Western troops have been killed. The Iraq war was, and continues to be, an imperialist war waged by the American ruling elite for control of oil and geo-strategic advantage.
The cucumber has left the salad!
Swarm, swarm!
Blanket, the World Socialist Web Site? Really?
no worse than Rush. try looking at the message instead of the messenger.
is it factually incorrect?
Yes, it is. What do you propose Iraq do with it's oil? Eat it?
oh, Dragon.
Finally, an intelligent suggestion.
Let them eat oil !
They're gonna need some "oil" dressing...
We're never gonna make 300 posts at this pace, people.
well, we could talk about Rush saying that Obama did a "black handshake" with Chavez.
By: house_of_pain on 6/30/09 at 12:25
Do you have the item?
You mean the 1911 ?
Was it that handshake with all the extra moves?
That would be cool.
I think I'll call an ambulance, and go to the emergency room just for kicks.
And say ''Doc it hurts every time I do this''
Here's what every decision the Obama makes comes down to: can we use it to take away from the haves and give it to the have-nots...
The problem with such a system is that eventually with less and less incentive to do so the haves will stop producing... it's as simple as that.
America survives on the excesses of our market system based on a work / reward model. Kick it in the nuts hard enough for long enough government ends up hurting itself... for every dollar which government government assumes a charitable responsibility that's one less dollar for a direct charity. Then government uses it's dollars with populist political interests in mind and with substantially more bureaucratic overhead. This is a negative net benefit to the needy but a substantiall boost in power to the government and bureaucracy... thus government grows and grows even as the economy stalls and is unable to sustain it.
By: BenDover on 6/30/09 at 1:30
Here's what every decision the Obama makes comes down to: can we use it to take away from the haves and give it to the have-nots...
Yeah. That's his agenda every day when he gets up.
How silly.
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state's long-running Senate race.
Knew it was coming, Blanket. Another clown in the Senate. Think anyone will notice?
Well, no different than actors (Reagan and Arnie).
nazi, lot of difference, Franken is nuts.
Ronnie had alzheimers.
yeah, when he was 103 yrs. old.
Arnie has 10 more years until the roids, completely shrink his brain and other parts.
he had alzheimers while he was in office. and just because al is an a-hole doesn't mean the 'roids are eating out his brain. LOL!
"One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance."
Reagan didn't get Alzheimer's until well after he was out of office, which makes him a liar (Iran-Contra) among other things.
No wonder he's the poster boy for Conservatives.
nazi, Carrot top is a shoo-in for aide-de-campy.
gdiafante, Reagan might have misremembered on Iran-Contra, but hey everybody is forgetful now and again. Give a brother a break.
"misremembered?" is that really a word?
Franken intends to be sworn in, with a satellite dish on his head.
It's a word for George W Bush and his followers, not so much for the intelligent, though.
Roger Clemens, aka ''The Rocket'' is a genius, of course its a word.
i guess it's a word if steroids have eaten your brain.


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I am beginning a series of posts/articles, which relate to creativity in business, a subject I have barely touched upon yet.
Many businesses these days pay lip service to innovation, without truly understanding that ALL innovation is driven by creativity and that the creative process has it own set of anti rules, parameters and processes which don't fit into corporate rules, boxes and traditional ways of thinking.
We spend more of our lives working, either for ourselves if we have our own business or for someone else if we are employed, than we spend doing anything else. Which ever applies to you, I have a couple of questions –
- Do you consciously use creativity or creative thinking in your day-to-day working life?
- Do you think it is a general creative 'bent' that you have or are you more aware that you have and use your own 'creative genius' in your working life.
Now if you are not an 'artist per se' or you don't work in a 'creative' type of business you may well be saying something like "what creative genius" what!!….
Didn't anyone tell you before that you have one? Well I'm here to let you know – if there was ever any doubt about it, that you do. And the scariest thing about that, is owning up to the fact that you might be really good at something. Why is that?
Pretty simple really, if I am truly good at something then that might lead me to…….see full article
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When are they gonna throw Dr. Doom in some of these new Marvel movies ? He was a great villain in the comics.
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Think Fox (or who ever it is) still has the rights to Fantastic four so they still have hold of Doom aswell.
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I fear the character may be licenced to only appear with the Fantastic Four.
The FF movie screwed up his origin story, it changed it totally from what it was in Marvel Comics.
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It all started with Vanessa De Vargas's emerald green campaign dresser in Lonny magazine. And then the bloggers were off. I was infected with campaign fever from the start, so I studied the RAST Ikea hacks and cherry picked the bits that I liked most, and here are my results! I'd first like to acknowledge the hackers that came before me: I used the Campaign drawer handles from LittleGreenNotebook and the corner brackets on Design Manifest.
But before I got started, I had a conversation with my friend that went a little something like this:
Me: I really want to DIY myself some green campaign drawers, but I just feel like EVERYONE has them.
Marisa: Nobody has them, I've never met anyone that has them. Have you?
Me: Well no.
Marisa: You don't actually know anyone with campaign drawers then.
Me: No, I guess I don't. But it feels like I do.
Sometimes the lines between real life and the internet are blurred, does anyone else feel this way? Here's how I made my own DIY Campaign Dresser with a very simple Ikea hack that in my opinion, makes these Rast drawers undetectably Ikea.
What You'll Need:
- 2 Ikea RAST 3 Drawer Chests
- 1 quart high gloss paint – I used Behr Herbal Tea
- 6 Campaign handles from Ansaldi & Sons
- 6 packets of corner brackets (they come 4/set), Hardware World
- paint brush
- wood filler
- sand paper
- drill
- optional: hot glue
Step 1: Buy Ikea RAST drawers
Step 2: Choose paint color
Step 3: Fill in handle holes & paint
Step 4. Assemble drawers
Step 5. Install handles
Measure the center of the drawer and then drill the handle pulls in. Measure twice, drill once.
Note: it's difficult to get these centered… mine are slightly off but I don't think anyone can notice
Step 6. Add brackets
The final step is to attach the corner brackets, then slide the drawers into place!
I drilled mine in with the small screws that came with the brackets BUT I would recommend skipping the screws and hot glueing them instead, because when I open and close the drawers the screws rub against each other, making it difficult to close the drawers all the way. One day, I'd like to remove the screws and re-attach them with hot glue, but… it's been a year and I have not gotten around to it. Save yourself the trouble.