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1. Re: split-brain between live and backup nodetimfox Feb 5, 2009 9:41 AM (in response to jmesnil)
"jmesnil" wrote:
In the code, I've not seen any heartbeat between the live node and the backup node. L1 will never be informed when it can reach B1 again.
B1 as the original backup never checks connectivity to the original live node L1
There is a heartbeat, like any normal connection,
Also there is a test where we fail the backup server intermittently and then let it come back up: ReconnectWithBackupTest
2. Re: split-brain between live and backup nodetimfox Feb 5, 2009 9:46 AM (in response to jmesnil)
Actually its FailBackupServerTest
3. Re: split-brain between live and backup nodejmesnil Feb 5, 2009 9:59 AM (in response to jmesnil)
"timfox" wrote:
"jmesnil" wrote:
In the code, I've not seen any heartbeat between the live node and the backup node. L1 will never be informed when it can reach B1 again.
B1 as the original backup never checks connectivity to the original live node L1
There is a heartbeat, like any normal connection
yes, bad wording of mine.
I meant that once L1 has been informed that it is no longer connected to B1, it will not be informed when the connection is up again.
I'll write a test case to illustrate this case.
4. Re: split-brain between live and backup nodetimfox Feb 5, 2009 10:02 AM (in response to jmesnil)
If the backup server really has gone down, and is brought back up, it can no longer be the backup server, since it's state is no longer synchronized with the live.
If it's a transitory failure of short enough duration, then we can just add reconnection attempts like any other connection. However while the server is down any replications will be blocked which might cause clients to block and timeout.
5. Re: split-brain between live and backup nodejmesnil Feb 5, 2009 10:05 AM (in response to jmesnil)
that's not the use case I described: the backup server never goes down.
My use case is that the live node server is temporarily offline and a client fails over to the backup server. What happens when the live node is online again and clients connect to it?
6. Re: split-brain between live and backup nodetimfox Feb 5, 2009 10:07 AM (in response to jmesnil)
Yes, we know that split brain can occur, that's why the task exists in the first place!
The task is to prevent duplicate deliveries in a split brain situation, not try and convince me that it can occur, I already know that...;)
7. Re: split-brain between live and backup nodejmesnil Feb 10, 2009 12:45 PM (in response to jmesnil)
Using FailBackupServerTest, I've written a test to reach a split-brain test but it is not working as expected.
It's very similar to FailBackupServerTest except that I failover the session to the backup node before failing all the replication channels of the live node.
The failover is successful but when I create a new session on live node, the code blocks when creating the session:
ClientSessionFactoryInternal sf2 = new ClientSessionFactoryImpl( new TransportConfiguration(InVMConnectorFactory.class.getName()), new TransportConfiguration(InVMConnectorFactory.class.getName(), backupParams)); sf2.setSendWindowSize(32 * 1024); ClientSession session2 = sf2.createSession(false, true, true);
Tim, from what you said today on the logs, you were expecting it to succeed, right?
I let the code as is but when debugging, I saw that the replicating connections on live node are destroyed when the client failover to the backup node.
When the backup is activated, it closes its connection to the live node which in turn destroy the replication connections at the other side of the wire on the live node.
package org.jboss.messaging.tests.integration.cluster.failover; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; import java.util.Set; import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; import junit.framework.TestCase; import org.jboss.messaging.core.client.ClientConsumer; import org.jboss.messaging.core.client.ClientMessage; import org.jboss.messaging.core.client.ClientProducer; import org.jboss.messaging.core.client.ClientSession; import org.jboss.messaging.core.client.impl.ClientSessionFactoryImpl; import org.jboss.messaging.core.client.impl.ClientSessionFactoryInternal; import org.jboss.messaging.core.client.impl.ClientSessionImpl; import org.jboss.messaging.core.config.Configuration; import org.jboss.messaging.core.config.TransportConfiguration; import org.jboss.messaging.core.config.impl.ConfigurationImpl; import org.jboss.messaging.core.exception.MessagingException; import org.jboss.messaging.core.logging.Logger; import org.jboss.messaging.core.remoting.FailureListener; import org.jboss.messaging.core.remoting.RemotingConnection; import org.jboss.messaging.core.remoting.impl.invm.InVMAcceptorFactory; import org.jboss.messaging.core.remoting.impl.invm.InVMConnectorFactory; import org.jboss.messaging.core.remoting.impl.invm.InVMRegistry; import org.jboss.messaging.core.remoting.impl.invm.TransportConstants; import org.jboss.messaging.core.server.Messaging; import org.jboss.messaging.core.server.MessagingService; import org.jboss.messaging.integration.transports.netty.NettyAcceptorFactory; import org.jboss.messaging.integration.transports.netty.NettyConnectorFactory; import org.jboss.messaging.jms.client.JBossTextMessage; import org.jboss.messaging.util.SimpleString; /** * * A FailBackupServerTest * * Make sure live sever continues ok if backup server fails * * @author Tim Fox * * Created 6 Nov 2008 11:27:17 * * */ public class FailLiveServerTest extends TestCase { private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(FailLiveServerTest.class); // Constants ----------------------------------------------------- // Attributes ---------------------------------------------------- private static final SimpleString ADDRESS = new SimpleString("FailLiveServerTest"); private MessagingService liveService; private MessagingService backupService; private final Map<String, Object> backupParams = new HashMap<String, Object>(); // Static -------------------------------------------------------- // Constructors -------------------------------------------------- // Public -------------------------------------------------------- public void testFailBackup() throws Exception { ClientSessionFactoryInternal sf1 = new ClientSessionFactoryImpl(new TransportConfiguration(InVMConnectorFactory.class.getName()), new TransportConfiguration(InVMConnectorFactory.class.getName(), backupParams)); sf1.setSendWindowSize(32 * 1024); ClientSession session1 = sf1.createSession(false, true, true); session1.createQueue(ADDRESS, ADDRESS, null, false, false); ClientProducer producer = session1.createProducer(ADDRESS); final int numMessages = 1000; for (int i = 0; i < numMessages; i++) { ClientMessage message = session1.createClientMessage(JBossTextMessage.TYPE, false, 0, System.currentTimeMillis(), (byte)1); message.putIntProperty(new SimpleString("count"), i); message.getBody().putString("aardvarks"); message.getBody().flip(); producer.send(message); } ClientConsumer consumer1 = session1.createConsumer(ADDRESS); session1.start(); for (int i = 0; i < numMessages; i++) { ClientMessage message = consumer1.receive(1000); assertNotNull(message); assertEquals("aardvarks", message.getBody().getString()); assertEquals(i, message.getProperty(new SimpleString("count"))); if (i == 0) { ///// DIFF WITH FailBackupServerTest ///// log.info("Failing client connection"); assertEquals("invm:0", ((ClientSessionImpl)session1).getConnection().getRemoteAddress()); ((ClientSessionImpl)session1).getConnection().fail(new MessagingException(MessagingException.NOT_CONNECTED, "simulated failure b/w client and live node")); assertEquals("must have failed over on backup node", "invm:1", ((ClientSessionImpl)session1).getConnection().getRemoteAddress()); ///// END OF DIFF WITH FailBackupServerTest ///// // Fail all the replicating connections - this simulates the backup server crashing Set<RemotingConnection> conns = liveService.getServer().getRemotingService().getConnections(); for (RemotingConnection conn : conns) { log.info("Failing replicating connection"); assertEquals("invm:1", conn.getReplicatingConnection().getRemoteAddress()); System.out.println(conn.getReplicatingConnection().getID()); conn.getReplicatingConnection().fail(new MessagingException(MessagingException.NOT_CONNECTED, "simulated failure b/w live and backup node")); } } message.acknowledge(); } assertEquals("invm:1", ((ClientSessionImpl)session1).getConnection().getRemoteAddress()); ClientMessage message = consumer1.receive(1000); assertNull(message); // Send some more for (int i = 0; i < numMessages; i++) { message = session1.createClientMessage(JBossTextMessage.TYPE, false, 0, System.currentTimeMillis(), (byte)1); message.putIntProperty(new SimpleString("count"), i); message.getBody().putString("aardvarks"); message.getBody().flip(); producer.send(message); } for (int i = 0; i < numMessages; i++) { message = consumer1.receive(1000); assertNotNull(message); assertEquals("aardvarks", message.getBody().getString()); assertEquals(i, message.getProperty(new SimpleString("count"))); message.acknowledge(); } message = consumer1.receive(1000); assertNull(message); // create another client session factory ClientSessionFactoryInternal sf2 = new ClientSessionFactoryImpl(new TransportConfiguration(InVMConnectorFactory.class.getName()), new TransportConfiguration(InVMConnectorFactory.class.getName(), backupParams)); sf2.setSendWindowSize(32 * 1024); ClientSession session2 = sf2.createSession(false, true, true); assertEquals("invm:0", ((ClientSessionImpl)session2).getConnection().getRemoteAddress()); session1.close(); session2.close(); } // Package protected --------------------------------------------- // Protected ----------------------------------------------------- @Override protected void setUp() throws Exception { Configuration backupConf = new ConfigurationImpl(); backupConf.setSecurityEnabled(false); backupParams.put(TransportConstants.SERVER_ID_PROP_NAME, 1); backupConf.getAcceptorConfigurations() .add(new TransportConfiguration(InVMAcceptorFactory.class.getName(), backupParams)); backupConf.setBackup(true); backupService = Messaging.newNullStorageMessagingService(backupConf); backupService.start(); Configuration liveConf = new ConfigurationImpl(); liveConf.setSecurityEnabled(false); liveConf.getAcceptorConfigurations() .add(new TransportConfiguration(InVMAcceptorFactory.class.getName())); Map<String, TransportConfiguration> connectors = new HashMap<String, TransportConfiguration>(); TransportConfiguration backupTC = new TransportConfiguration(InVMConnectorFactory.class.getName(), backupParams, "backup-connector"); connectors.put(backupTC.getName(), backupTC); liveConf.setConnectorConfigurations(connectors); liveConf.setBackupConnectorName(backupTC.getName()); liveService = Messaging.newNullStorageMessagingService(liveConf); liveService.start(); } @Override protected void tearDown() throws Exception { backupService.stop(); liveService.stop(); assertEquals(0, InVMRegistry.instance.size()); } // Private ------------------------------------------------------- // Inner classes ------------------------------------------------- }
8. Re: split-brain between live and backup nodetimfox Feb 10, 2009 12:55 PM (in response to jmesnil)
When those replicating connections are closed, the handler in RemotingConnectionImpl:
private class ReplicatingConnectionFailureListener implements FailureListener { public boolean connectionFailed(final MessagingException me) { synchronized (RemotingConnectionImpl.this) { for (Channel channel : channels.values()) { channel.replicatingChannelDead(); } } return true; } }
Should be called.
This tells the live channels there is no more replicating channel and they should continue without replicating.
Is this being called?
If not, then that's where you need to debug
9. Re: split-brain between live and backup nodetimfox Feb 10, 2009 1:16 PM (in response to jmesnil)
In MessagingServerImpl:
private static class NoCacheConnectionLifeCycleListener implements ConnectionLifeCycleListener { private RemotingConnection conn; public void connectionCreated(final Connection connection) { } public void connectionDestroyed(final Object connectionID) { if (conn != null) { conn.destroy(); } } public void connectionException(final Object connectionID, final MessagingException me) { if (conn != null) { conn.fail(me); } } }
You can see that when the connection is destroyed (closed as opposed to failed) then the failure handler won't be called, so the channel never knows its replicating channel is dead.
10. Re: split-brain between live and backup nodejmesnil Feb 11, 2009 9:35 AM (in response to jmesnil)
from #jbossmessaging channel http://www.antwerkz.com/javabot/javabot/home/3/%23jbossmessaging/2/11/1/02/0/2009/:
[14:33] jbossfox: i solved the problem [14:33] jbossfox: jmesnil: it's a combination of a few things [14:33] jbossfox: jmesnil: firstly - the issue i explained on the forums [14:33] jbossfox: jmesnil: when the client fails over [14:33] jbossfox: jmesnil: this results in the backup server closing the replicating connection from the live server [14:34] jbossfox: jmesnil: but this closure forces a ConectionDestroyed, not ConectionException [14:34] jbossfox: jmesnil: in NoCacheConnectionLifeCycleListener [14:34] jbossfox: jmesnil: so the replicating channel is never set to null [14:34] jbossfox: jmesnil: basically like i explained on the forums [14:34] jbossfox: jmesnil: but on top of that [14:35] jbossfox: jmesnil: there was a bug where the replicatingconnection wasn't being set to null [14:35] jbossfox: jmesnil: only the replicating channel [14:35] jbossfox: jmesnil: so subsequent createsession attempts would attempt to replicate still [14:35] jbossfox: jmesnil: and hang [14:35] jmesnil: jbossfox: ah, ok, that's where the replicating channel was coming from [14:35] jbossfox: jmesnil: yeah it was creating a new connection to the backup [14:35] jbossfox: jmesnil: and then... [14:36] jbossfox: jmesnil: a further bug [14:36] jbossfox: jmesnil: where the server still thinks it has a backup [14:36] jbossfox: jmesnil: even after the replicating connection fails [14:36] jbossfox: jmesnil: so when getreplicatingconnection is called it creates a new one [14:36] jbossfox: jmesnil: so i set backupconnectorFactory to null in this case [14:36] jbossfox: jmesnil: then..... [14:37] jbossfox: jmesnil: there is a further interesting quirk [14:37] jbossfox: jmesnil: if backupconnectorfactory is not null then when getreplicatingconnection is called it will create a new connection [14:37] jbossfox: jmesnil: so it was basically just creating a new backup connection to the backup [14:37] jbossfox: jmesnil: and then.... [14:38] jbossfox: jmesnil: when you create a new consumer on the live, you've got to remember the old server side consumer from before client failove is still there! [14:38] jbossfox: jmesnil: so any messages will be round robin'd between them
11. Re: split-brain between live and backup nodejmesnil Feb 12, 2009 10:20 AM (in response to jmesnil)
moving forward...
The test SplitBrainTest.testDemonstrateSplitBrain shows how to reach a split-brain tests where the same messages are consumed by 2 different consumers.
To prevent this split-brain to occur where live node remains active once the backup node has been activated, the strategy would be:
when the live node lose its replicating connection
- this can be because the backup node has been activated or crashed or the network is cut b/w the live and backup node
- to check if the live node is isolated or not, it sends a messages to other nodes
- if it reaches the quorum, it stays alive
- else, it has been cut from both the backup and the other cluster nodes, it kills itself => the backup is the only active node
However, this won't solve the split-brain which may occur when the network is cut between the live & backup nodes but the live node remains connected to other cluster nodes.
In that case, the live node will reach the quorum and remain active while the backup node has also been activated.
What is the required quorum?
The simplest solution is to have a majority of members; the members being:
- the live node
- the backup node
- the other live nodes of the cluster
Given the special relation between the backup and the live node, the live node should pay special attention to a response from the backup:
- if the backup does not reply => the network is still cut between the live and backup node or the backup node is crashed
- if it replied => the network failure was transient. In that case, the backup response should include a "active" boolean
- if the backup node is active, the live node should kill itself
- else, the live node can continue to live (and perhaps it can also reopen its replicating connection to the backup)
If there are no other nodes in the cluster, we can't apply this strategy.
Another thing worth mentioning: the live & backup should be on the same LAN while the other cluster nodes may be on a WAN.
To sum up, I need to think about it more...


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Previously, the most commonly used methods for watercooling were the normal PVC hoses - now Alphacool is offering another method for designing a watercooling system. The HardTube variant brings more organization into the system, which leaves a lasting structural impression.
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Fruited Dutch Baby
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes6 servings
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- 3/4 cup 2% milk
- 1-1/2 cups sliced fresh strawberries
- 2 medium firm bananas, sliced
- Whipped cream, optional
- 1/4 cup sweetened shredded coconut, toasted
- Place butter in a 9-in. pie plate. Place in a 400° oven for 5 minutes or until melted. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar and salt. Stir in eggs and milk until smooth. Pour into prepared pie plate. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
- In a large bowl, combine strawberries and bananas. Using a slotted spoon, place fruit in center of pancake. Top with whipped cream if desired. Sprinkle with coconut. Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts1 piece: 203 calories, 7g fat (4g saturated fat), 114mg cholesterol, 170mg sodium, 30g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 2g fiber), 7g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1/2 starch, 1 fat, 1/2 fruit.
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I cooked this on the BBQ today in my 9" cast iron frying pan. Despite how difficult it is to control the temperature (it was around 500 F most of the cook time) it turned out really well, was done at about the 11 minute mark.It is more "eggy" than other baked pancake recipes I've tried. Best eaten fresh.
Sep 21, 2014
Made this for breakfast this morning. It was absolutely wonderful. Thanks for the recipe. Definitely will be making this again.
Jun 13, 2013
I tried this recipe today and I was surprised how quick and easy it was to make. I actually made mine in a toaster oven since it's the start of the summer and I didn't want to heat the house with the regular oven. I intended to set the timer to 20 min. and "forget it" but that was a slight mistake. Good thing I returned to the kitchen 18 min. into baking because the pancake rose to the top of my toaster oven and started to burn the top edges. My husband didn't mind though since he said it gave it a nice home-made look;) I topped my pancake with sliced kiwis and peaches. I then sprinkled it with powdered sugar. I almost looked too pretty to eat. It was a really good breakfast, not too sweet. I plan on adding this to my Father's Day brunch menu since my dad's diabetic and shouldn't eat too much sweets. I think one pie plate is good for about 3 people if it's the only thing you're going to eat for breakfast.
May 1, 2011
Fruited Dutch Baby was a fun surprise for breakfast this morning! The recipe was easy to follow and quick to make with ingredients that are kitchen staples. It's versatile in that it can be made with any fruits, or even savory toppings. This is definitely a keeper!


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Dennis Shasha is a professor of Computer Science at New York University. His latest puzzle book Puzzles for Programmers and Pros outlined some general approaches to programmatic puzzle solving. This column challenges you to find the solutions to the puzzles that lie at the core of some cool tough applications. He solicits your help in identifying such cool apps.
Long-time Dr. Dobb's readers may remember "Dr. Ecco's Omniheurist Corner" where Professor Dennis Shasha posed puzzles that required computer solutions. Dennis is returning to Dr. Dobb's, but with a new twist on puzzles. The idea is to take inspiration from the challenging apps that readers have faced and to turn those into puzzles.
If you have written an application that required extensive use of heuristics (because no algorithm would solve it) or that is otherwise algorithmically interesting, please send mail to Dennis at [email protected]. Put "Tough Apps" in the subject line. If Dennis likes it, he will contact you. Then he will try to understand what you've done and create a puzzle explaining the algorithmic core. You will write a little blurb about yourself and the problem if you want.
An empty hotel room represents a lost opportunity to the hotel owner. The marginal cost of cleaning a room is minimal compared to the fixed cost of the personnel, rent, and so on. So, the hotel has every interest in filling all its rooms.
Clever travellers and entrepreneurs can take advantage of this by waiting until the last minute to buy cheap rooms. Of course, they run the risk that they may not sleep anywhere. The result is a game. Let's work up to the game in stages. It will lead us to strange and amoral places, I promise.
Warm-Up 1: Suppose you have the only hotel in town. You have three rooms free for tonight. You know from history that there will be one visitor who is willing to spend $300 per night, another at $200 per night, and one at $100 per night. We'll abbreviate this demand profile to 1 @ $300, 1 @ $200, 1 @ $100. If you have to give the same price to all comers, what should you set your price to be?
Solution to Warm-Up 1: $200 -- you get $400 and leave one room empty. A recurrent theme in this puzzle is that charging the same price to everyone in the service of fairness results in empty hotel rooms and roomless travellers.
Suppose there are two hotels next to one another of the same quality and the demand is twice that before, i.e. 2 @ $300, 2 @ $200, 2 @ $100. Now if your hotel sets the price at $200, the other hotel can set the price at, say, $180 and get three guests out of the four. You get only $200.
Warm-Up 2: If you don't know how much the other hotel will charge, then what can you guarantee to obtain?
Solution to Warm-Up 2: If your hotel charges $133 and the other charges more, then you will fill your three rooms and get $399. On the other hand, if the other hotel also charges less but more than $100, then you will get only $133. So, if you charge $100, you will guarantee an income of $300. If the other hotel reasons the same way, then there will be six rooms for six travellers, each costing $100 per night. Note how much better this is for consumers.
Warm-Up 3: The hotel owners approach an agent to set room prices for both of them. They agree to give the agent a portion of any extra profit they would make beyond the $300 they can already get.
Solution: If the agent sets prices at $200 per room instead of $100, then each hotel's profits will increase to $400 (less the agent's commission) while leaving two travelers without rooms. This is why a single agent (whether online or not) can be as bad for consumers as a hotel monopoly.
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1. Suppose you have the only hotel in town and it has six rooms. The general problem is, given a demand profile and a certain number of rooms, try to find the price per room that will maximize hotel profits if you control all the rooms in a town. If the demand profile is x @ $300, y @ $200, and z @ $100, for which positive values of x, y, and z would you set the price for your six rooms at $300, for which positive values would you set the price at $200, and for which at $100?
2. If you control all the rooms in town, is there ever any profit-maximization reason to charge $250, given the above demand profile? Why or why not?
3. Suppose there are two virtually identical hotels on the same block each having three rooms, but you control the rooms of only one and the demand profile is again x @ $300, y @ $200, and z @ $100. For which x, y, and z values would you charge $200 to guarantee as much revenue as possible? For which x, y, z would you charge $300?
4. Staying in the two hotel scenario, for which x, y, z would you charge something strictly between $200 and $300 in your hotel (assuming you don't know what the other hotel charges)? What if you did know the other hotel's prices and customers would always compare prices before taking a room?
5. Loyalty programs and other perks may direct customers your way. Suppose that your perks program can convince all travelers to come to your hotel first. Each traveler will take a room in your hotel if you charge what he or she is willing to pay. As usual, there are six travelers altogether, where x travelers will be willing to pay $300, y @ $200, and z @ $100. How should you set your prices as a function of x, y, and z? How should your competitor set prices?
6. As you can see, the pricing power of the hotel owner depends as much on consumer behavior (whether consumers compare prices) as on monopoly power, either gained directly or through an agent. Do you see any general pattern?


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Taiwan Video Club
Lana Lin's work, on display at Gasworks in London, confronts us with a number of topics: translation, identity, cultural production, and familial reflection. In doing so, her films seek to destabilize our assured hold on what we imagine we understand. In Taiwan Video Club (1999), Lin presents a Taiwanese subculture that records, trades, and holds dear, video recordings of miniseries that are shown daily on television. As we watch a participant in this practice explain her life with her collection of recordings, Lin cuts in clips and sound from the series, providing insight to a specific time and place, not to mention a specific medium which dominated it. As we come to understand this unit of Taiwanese pop-culture, Lin engages in a running commentary of sorts, provided through visual metaphors and homonyms.
Recording from TV to VHS could be seen as an apt analogy for the process of translation and cultural production that Lin seeks to examine. The final "product" in each case is a copy of the original, inevitably tinged by the process. As anyone who has spent time battling with VHS can tell you, no copy is ever pristine; there remain in the copy the battle scars of mediation: warped sound and image, deterioration of picture, the familiar markings of "CUE", "STILL", and "CH-3" all mark the material as part of a process and mode of production unique to video. The lens of Taiwan Video Club operates as a check on the lens of the viewer. Though we come to understand a great deal about this world of VHS-naughts, and Taiwanese daytime television, Lin maintains a field of formal intervention never lets us settle on any one interpretation of what we see.
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For me, the tragedy of 9/11 cannot be separated from the baseball that eventually helped ease the grief. The few moments of distraction it provided during a time when nothing else really made sense cannot be overstated. For a bonafide baseball nerd like myself, the game is always the best medicine.
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Despite opening the season with six straight losses, the New York Giants (2-6) remarkably are still in the playoff hunt heading into their bye week.
The Giants won their second straight game Sunday with a 15-7 decision over the Eagles in Philadelphia. Things only got better after the game when Detroit staged a furious last-minute rally to knock off the division-leading Dallas Cowboys (4-4).
The math is simple: New York is two games behind with eight to play. It's not the best position and the chances that the Giants will make the playoffs are not good unless they run the table.
"We won our last couple of games, which is a great thing. Are we back?" safety Antrel Rolle asked Monday, and then answered, "We'll be back once we reach that postseason. That's when I'll say that we're back. Right now we're grinding. We're grinding, we're fighting extremely hard and, you know, being 0-6, like I said several times before, can do a lot of things to you. I've had to dig extremely deep, had to be so mentally tough to overcome it because I've never been in that stage in my life either.
"Right now, as a team, we're grinding. We're grinding and we're pushing ahead and more importantly we're staying together."
The Giants still have a chance because they have corrected some of the errors that led to their worst start since coming out of the gate with a franchise-worst nine straight losses in 1976.
In the past two games, Eli Manning and the offense have not turned over the ball. The defense, which has improved since getting middle linebacker Jon Beason in a trade with Carolina, has not allowed a point. The only major mistakes have been by special teams that gave up a punt return for a touchdown against Minnesota — the third one this season — and handed the Eagles a recovery for a TD late in the fourth quarter with a bad snap on a punt. The only turnover in the past two games was a lost fumble on a punt return.
If they can avoid the turnovers, get the offense a little more in gear and continue to play good defense, the Giants will be competitive.
The problem is the Giants have not been a good team in the second half of the season in recent years, and the schedule is tough even with five home games, including three straight out of the bye — Oakland (3-4), Green Bay (5-2) and Dallas. They also have games with the Chargers (4-3), Lions (5-3), Seahawks (6-1 heading into Monday night) and two with Robert Griffin III and the Redskins (2-5).
"We haven't done nothing yet," said cornerback Terrell Thomas, who made his biggest stride returning from two ACL surgeries by playing every down against Philadelphia. "We're 2-6. It feels great to have two wins. There are smiles around here and everyone is confident. This team has a makeup to make a run. We've been in this position before and we are better when our backs are against the wall."
Coach Tom Coughlin plans to self-scout his team over the bye week and he expects running back Andre Brown, who broke a leg in the preseason, to be ready to return from injured reserve after the bye.
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Defensive end Justin Tuck said the key for the second half will be to continue doing what they have done the past two weeks.
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AT&T: 25 Solar Mobile Charging Stations to Debut in NYC This Summer (press release)June 18, 2013 No Comments
25 Solar Mobile Charging Stations to Debut in Outdoor Venues Throughout New York City This Summer
June 18, 2013 (Brooklyn, NY) – As part of an ongoing effort to keep New Yorkers connected, AT&T and Mayor Michael Bloomberg today unveiled AT&T Street Charge. This pilot initiative provides free solar mobile charging stations in locations across all five boroughs where the public can charge their phones, tablets and other mobile devices.
AT&T Street Charge is a direct outgrowth of Superstorm Sandy when AT&T powered the City's distribution centers with commercial generators and pop-up cellular service. New Yorkers who had lost power for days or longer flocked to the centers seeking a charge and a way to communicate to the outside world. AT&T teamed up with solar technology company Goal Zero and Brooklyn-based design firm Pensa to develop the initiative and bring it to local residents.
Between now and the end of summer, AT&T will deploy approximately 25 AT&T Street Charge solar mobile charging units across the five boroughs. Along with the two solar mobile charging units now live at Fort Greene Park, charging units are also available this week at Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier I, Governor's Island, and Pier 1 at Riverside Park and Union Square Park.
"Thanks to AT&T, more New Yorkers will have improved connectivity and access to the wireless technology that has become such an important part of our daily lives," said Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. "After Hurricane Sandy, I asked our private sector partners to step up and help improve the resiliency of New York City. AT&T is doing just that, and we're grateful for their efforts."
"We are always looking for new and meaningful ways to improve the daily lives of New Yorkers through greater accessibility to mobile technology,"
said Marissa Shorenstein, New York State President, AT&T. "Twoyears ago, we debuted free Wi-Fi in 26 locations across New York City Parks and last year became one of the first major carriers to offer underground cellular service on 36 subway platforms. Solar mobile charging is a natural next step in AT&T's efforts to provide innovative services for New Yorkers that empower them to lead more sustainable lives.
"At NYC Parks, we're always looking for ways to get New Yorkers and visitors into the great outdoors to relax and re-charge, and this gives it a whole new meaning," said NYC Parks Commissioner Veronica M. White. "New Yorkers enjoy some of the best parks in the country, and now, thanks to this collaboration with AT&T, Pensa and Goal Zero, they'll be able to power up their phones for free using solar power."
Visitors will find AT&T Street Charge this summer in all five boroughs:
- Riverside Park, Pier I (launches 6/18)
- Union Square Park, North Plaza (launches 6/19)
- Rumsey Playfield, Central Park Summerstage
- Hudson River Park Pier 59
- Randall's Island
- Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier I (launches 6/18)
- Fort Greene Park (launches 6/18)
- Coney Island
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- The Dumbo Arts Festival
- The Brooklyn Book Festival
- Rockaway Beach
- Clearview Golf Course
- Socrates Sculpture Park
- Orchard Beach
Staten Island:
- Governor's Island (launches 6/18)
- La Tourette Golf Course
- Staten Island Zoo
The public can learn where to find AT&T Street Charge by visiting www.att.com/attstreetcharge and on Twitter @attnyc #attstreetcharge.
The solar powered mobile charging stations complement Wi-Fi in the Parks, an ongoing joint initiative between AT&T, the City of New York and the New York Parks Department offering free Wi-Fi access to New Yorkers – regardless of provider. Today marks the launch of two additional Wi-Fi enabled park sites, Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 5 and Foley Square. As of today, 28 New York City parks locations across the five boroughs now have free AT&T Wi-Fi as part of this initiative.
"Internet access for all is the foundation of a digital city, and AT&T's technology partnership brings us another vital step closer to realizing New York City's innovative potential," said Rachel Haot, Chief Digital Officer. "Through the expansion of WiFi and the introduction of solar-powered mobile charging stations in more public spaces, we are helping to provide ubiquitous connectivity to New Yorkers everywhere. We appreciate AT&T's support in helping us to achieve another milestone in Mayor Bloomberg's Digital Roadmap for New York City."
"Today's announcement continues our goal to transform New York City's parks into hubs for connectivity for both New Yorkers and visitors," said Citywide Chief Information & Innovation Officer Rahul N. Merchant. "Whether providing a quick charge on-the-go or access to power during outages, we're helping customers stay connected while enjoying New York City's incredible public space."
The solar mobile charging units work day or night, in sun or shade. During the day, three monocrystaline solar panels collect the sun's energy to charge up powerful internal batteries. This enables AT&T Street Charge to power up phones, tablets, and other devices quickly – even when the sun isn't shining.
Joe Atkin, President and CEO of Goal Zero said that "Nearly half of all Americans own a smartphone and the amount of time we spend on handheld devices has increased dramatically. All too often, we hear the dreaded low-battery beep and it happens at the most inconvenient times. Street Charge will fix that."
Mark Prommel, Creative Director of Pensa noted that "We created Street Charge with community and public spaces in mind. It provides an elegant, durable and powerful off the grid charging solution. Our design pays homage to the beauty of clean, renewable solar power with its solar petals extended toward the sun."
Developing sustainable solutions has long been a priority for AT&T. The company works with a variety of partners to engineer innovative answers to help address environmental and social challenges and this year CR Magazine named AT&T the top corporate citizen in America.
For a full list of dates and locations of each AT&T Street Charge unit, visit www.att.com/attstreetcharge or follow us on Twitter @ATTNYC #attstreetcharge


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Donaldson Aerospace & Defense has agreed to supply inlet barrier filters (IBFs) for three AgustaWestland AW109 SPs in operation with Helicopters New Zealand (HNZ). The helicopters provide 24-hour transfers of marine pilots for iron-ore freighters that work along Australia's northwestern coast. According to HNZ technical director Pierre Lavoie, the AW09s fly in hot, salt-laden areas around the company's base at Karratha in western Australia. The IBFs are also certified for the AW109 E and S variants.


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"There's no other way for me to work than the way I do, because our whole system demands tremendous concentration. Therefore if you're really concentrating, you show very little emotion at all. I think as soon as a person breaks his concentration as an athlete he loses his effectiveness."
(Texas)...Thomas Wade Landry. . .Noted for impassive, sideline demeanor. . . Perfected flex defense, multiple offense, revived shotgun (spread) offense. . .29-year tenure with one team tied NFL record. . .Career record: 270-178-6. . .270 wins third most ever. . .Had 20 straight winning seasons, five NFC titles, two Super Bowl wins. . . Defensive back, punter with Yankees (AAFC), Giants (NFL), 1949-1955. . .Born September 11, 1924, in Mission, Texas . . .Died February 12, 2000, at age of 75.
Tom Landry was selected as the head coach when the Dallas Cowboys started their first National Football League season in 1960. He remained in that capacity for 29 seasons until new ownership opted for new field leadership after the 1988 campaign.
At the time of his retirement, only George Halas, who coached the Chicago Bears for 40 years, surpassed his 29-year tenure with one club. It took Landry a few years to develop his young club into contender status but, once he did, the Cowboys enjoyed exceptional success for more than two decades.
The Cowboys under Landry had their first winning season and their first NFL Eastern Conference championship in 1966. They didn't fall below .500 again until 1986. During that period, Landry's teams had 20 straight winning seasons, 13 divisional championship, five NFC titles and victories in Super Bowls VI and XII. The Cowboys also played in Super Bowls V, X and XIII.
His regular season career record is 250-162-6 and his record counting playoffs is 270-178-6. Only Halas and Don Shula top his 270 career wins. Landry gained a reputation as a great technical innovator, as well as an inspirational leader. He introduced the "flex defense" and "multiple offense" in the 1960s. In the 1970s, he restructured the "shotgun" or "spread" offense and, in the 1980s, he embraced and helped develop the "situation substitution" concept of handling his player talent.
Landry was an excellent player in the pros. He was a defensive back, punter and kick returner with the 1949 New York Yankees in the All-America Football Conference and with the New York Giants in the NFL between 1950 and 1955. He recorded 32 career interceptions and had a 40.9-yard punting average. He served the Giants as a player-coach in 1954 and 1955 before becoming a full-time defensive coach from 1956 to 1959.


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Tom Brackett has not had the perfect childhood. His mother began acting strangely after the birth of his sister Beverly and his Dad is distant, although not uncaring. One day he is whisked away from his parents without warning or explanation and is sent to live with his grandmother. Eventually we learn that his mother has a serious mental illness and his father is alcohol addicted.
Now Tom has created the perfect world for himself, despite all odds; he has a good job, a supportive wife, two kids, a mini-van, and even a golden retriever. But then, one day, something overcomes him to commit a sudden and terrifying act of violence that changes everything.
This is a compassionate look at the life and mind of someone trying hard to control his own life while struggling with mental illness. It is beautifully rendered and unflinching. Mental illness is handled much better now-a-days than say 50 years ago, but still needs more honest exposure, understanding, and open conversation. This book delivers a glimpse into a personal journey (albeit fictional) that is brutal, but not without hope. In what is actually more of an extended short story, Colford provides one view into the complexities of mental health, and it is just that. He doesn't give any advice or definitive answers or happy endings, and for that I applaud him.
In researching this Canadian author, on his blog, I ran across his idea of what a good read should look like, and I wholeheartedly agree:
"…an engaging story told with verve and imagination and a sensitivity to language. I want to be pulled into the lives of characters I care about. I want to turn the pages because I have to find out what happens next. But I don't want to be comforted or coddled. I want to be surprised, maybe even shocked, and definitely thrown off balance. If the writer can challenge me by shattering my expectations while also bringing the story to a satisfying conclusion, so much the better."


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March 25, 2014
Book review - Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts
Eli Landon has escaped conviction of the murder of his estranged wife but no-one else is in the frame and suspicion lingers. He may have to face a civil suit brought by her family who are still looking for answers. He retreats to his grandmother's home at Whiskey Beach where a group of concerned locals help him find new love as he unravels a historical mystery which holds the key to his present travails. Nora Roberts can craft a fine tale with red herrings and a varied cast of well drawn supporting characters. Wendy
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The Checkmate A1500 was a workstation in a similar style to the A2000, however it was based on the A500. It was available as a complete unit or as an expansion kit for your exisiting A500 or A500+. The Checkmate A1500 actually helped prompt the release of the official A1500 from Commodore which was a special release of the A2000 for the UK market. The unit consists of a solid steel case which opens like a drawer, with all the mouse and joystick ports accessible from the front. The external keyboard is actually the original A500 or A500+ housed in a sturdy external keyboard case. The side expansion slot of the A500 is still assessible from the left hand side of the unit. The front of the case has three faceplates although there is very little room to actually mount anything behind them, but the rear contains two DB25 sized backplates which are useful for installing external SCSI connectors. Care should be taken when opening the case, not to put stress on the floppy drive as this can cause it to bend slightly meaning it won't align correctly with the floppy faceplate. An estimated 400 machines were sold.
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As Bob Corker ambled down from the Senate chamber last week, he wore a knowing smile: Immigration reform wasn't going to squeak through the Senate – it was going to pass big.
On that Monday, an amendment co-authored by Senator Corker, a Tennessee Republican, and Sen. John Hoeven (R) of North Dakota passed a procedural hurdle that signaled that more than a dozen Republicans and several previously shaky conservative Democrats would be there in the end, giving the bill the sweeping, bipartisan backing its authors hoped would power the immigration debate forward in the reluctant House of Representatives.
Leaning in to a crush of reporters, the affable Corker was midway through a riff on the amendment when, apropos of nothing, he paused.
"I've enjoyed the work I've done over the last two weeks on this bill more than anything I've done in the United States Senate," he said with a grin. "I think it's important work, I'm glad to have been involved in it, and certainly gratified by the vote."
Rare sentiments, says Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, for a member of a legislative body wracked by gridlock. "Elation is not a common emotion in the United States Senate these days," he says.
But Corker, a construction entrepreneur and a former mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn., draws an electric joy from the pursuit of the deal, and if he has anything to say anything about it, the immigration pact won't be the only major accord Congress strikes before this term is out.
While Washington's dysfunction almost led him to quit the Senate after one term in 2012, Corker's dogged effort to broker compromises on a handful of major issues bespeaks a senator who is arguably the body's happiest warrior, plunging into issues from Benghazi to the budget with aplomb.
"He's passionate, he cares, he's trying to figure out how to get to yes," says Sen. Max Baucus (D) of Montana, a six-term lawmaker famous for infuriating his fellow Democrats in his search for bipartisan solutions. "He reminds me of some of the greats who have been up here with us."
The Volunteer State's junior senator seems intent on generating plenty of positive momentum all by himself, taking on enough issues to stuff an ordinary member's schedule for an entire career.
On the same day the Senate approved the immigration bill, Corker unveiled sweeping legislation with kindred spirit Sen. Mark Warner (D) of Virginia to wind down the government-sponsored housing goliaths, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That bill, which would fundamentally reshape the American mortgage industry, has a bipartisan posse of six co-sponsors on the Senate Banking Committee.
Just before the final immigration vote, Corker broke away from the Capitol for lunch with a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers led by Senator Baucus and Rep. Dave Camp (R) of Michigan to talk about another mega-goal: a comprehensive rewrite of the nation's tax code.
In previous weeks, he's been among Republican senators who met with Obama administration officials to lay the groundwork for negotiations to head off another calamitous showdown over the federal debt ceiling this fall. (He delivered his own 200-plus-page plan that would have cut the deficit by $4.5 trillion over the next decade, including $1 trillion in new tax revenue and a revamp of Medicare, to congressional leaders in the aftermath of the 2012 election.)
And as the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Corker and chairman Bob Menendez (D) of New Jersey are trying to reassert some congressional power in the foreign policy realm. Corker will soon travel overseas to investigate pressing American foreign policy issues, but the details of that trip are being withheld for security reasons.
"The executive branch has taken foreign policy totally over; Congress plays almost no role," Corker says. "And, candidly, people in Congress like it that way because foreign policy issues don't play so well back home sometimes and you're never held accountable for the decisions that are made."
Turning up at the right time
Whether judged by his workload over the past fortnight or in previous legislative successes such as playing a key role in shaping the bailout of America's auto companies or crafting a chunk of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill with Senator Warner, Corker has been able to cram so much onto his plate by, well, cramming.
Leaning on habits of study and research that helped him build two construction companies into a $20 million fortune (Corker donates the entirety of his Senate salary to the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga), his days are stuffed with briefings "nonstop," he says.
As a junior member, Corker discovered, the only way to break through the Hill's often-stultifying seniority system and get a seat at the table on pressing problems is to bring more intellectual and policy firepower than everybody else and hope for the best.
When a senator does not have a top committee post, "the only other way to really be involved is to know more than anybody else about a given topic," he says. "You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a difference."
His approach hasn't gone unrecognized.
Warner, another executive-minded lawmaker (he was governor of Virginia) with a business background, sought out Corker after admiring how the Tennessean assiduously worked on the auto bailout, including opening direct lines of communication with auto executives. The two sat together at President Obama's first inauguration and have been fast friends ever since.
Warner attributes Corker's successes to a chief advantage that those with private-sector backgrounds have over colleagues who are steeped in politics.
"In politics, you can have a whole successful career where you simply point out what's wrong with the other guy," Warner says. "In business, no matter how good you are at criticizing the competition, if you didn't put out a good product, you didn't sell something, ultimately, you'd go out of business."
It's not only junior lawmakers who have taken a shine to Corker.
It wasn't an accident that Corker (or Senator Hoeven, for that matter) were in the mix on immigration, an issue on which neither has any background, says Professor Baker. The two senators are among a handful of conservatives that Democratic Senate leaders see as practical, fair-minded partners who carry enough weight in their own conference to make other Republicans take notice.
The trust of Democratic leaders like Sen. Charles Schumer (D) of New York, with whom Corker worked on the immigration compromise, is doubly impressive considering that Corker has served as member of his own party's Senate leadership team since 2011.
"He's a conservative," Baker says, "but you don't have to be a moderate to be a dealmaker. In fact, being a moderate may lessen your value.... Bob Corker is not always 'gettable' [to vote for a bill]. So when he gets drawn into something, people are more apt to notice."
"It turns out in the strange, exotic world of the Senate there are people who are identified as dealmakers even though they may have reliably ideological votes," says Baker. "They are people who turn up at the right time."
A grown man's time
When Corker was the only freshman Republican senator in the Democratic wave of 2006, the timing hardly seemed auspicious. He quietly took a seat on the Banking Committee, where he thought his private-sector background would be put to good use. When Democrats obtained a Senate supermajority in the 2008 election, it looked as if nearly all Republicans, much less junior first-term members, would be on the outside looking in for the foreseeable future.
Corker flourished working on the panel's response to the banking crisis and on other issues, but the Washington gridlock that momentarily had been broken by crisis and the unitary control of Congress eventually resumed.
Two years away from his 2012 reelection, Corker says he very nearly decided to pack up and go home. Bitter partisanship and gridlock were making the guy with all the briefing books miserable.
"If your focus in life is on being productive," says Corker, "when things are not happening ... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?' "
In the end, he decided, there was only one way the Senate could go: up.
"I think we have talent in the Senate that is oriented toward solving problems. I think we have more of that than people acknowledge," he says. "And second, I would say just the fact that it's been so bad for so long, at some point, people hit the floor and there's momentum in another direction."
So far, it seems, he's been right.
"I do think the immigration bill we just passed, and the way that has occurred, can help show that complex issues can be dealt with and that people can do it with a high degree of trust," says Corker. "Right now, there's more momentum in a positive direction than I've seen in several years in the Senate."


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Programming by dictation?
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ie. you speak out the code, and someone else across the room types it in
Anyone tried this?
Obviously the person taking the dictation would need to be a coder too, so you didn't have to explain everything and go into tedious detail (not 'open bracket, new line...' but more like 'create a new class called myParser that takes three arguments, first one is...').
I thought of it because sometimes I'm too easily distracted at my computer. Surrounded by buttons, instant gratification a click away, the world at my fingertips. To get stuff done, I want to get away, write my code on paper. But that would mean losing access to necessary resources, and necessitate tedious typing-up later on. The solution? Dictate.
- no chance to check reddit, stackexchange, gmail, etc.
- code while you pace the room, lie down, play billiards, whatever
- train your brain to think more abstractedly (have to visualize things if you can't just see the screen)
- skip the tedious details (closing brackets etc.)
- the typist gets to shadow a more experienced programmer and learn how they work
- the typist can provide assistance/suggestions
- external pressure of typist expecting instructions, urging you to stay focussed
- might be too hard
- might not work any better
- rather inefficient use of assisting programmer
- need to find/pay someone to do this
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A St. Patrick's Day Treehouse Wedding at the Mohicans in Glenmont, Ohio
Sara Graca (29 and a photographer) and David Cooper (28 and in technical support) first realized they had feelings for each other on St. Patrick's Day. Since that's when their crush began, it was only fitting that they get married on St. Patrick's Day too. With five guests in attendance, they exchanged meaningful words, rings and a kiss (no music, songs, decor or fanfare) in front of the Little Red Treehouse in Glenmont, Ohio. "It looks like a small chapel floating in a tree," Sara says. Their colors were blue and green (their favorites), evident in everything from David's tie to Sara's nail polish, shawl and bouquet. They moved the reception to a quaint cabin on the same property, where a whimsical, woodsy theme came through in the rustic tablescape decor, and Irish elements were incorporated through their signature drink (a Dublin Mule) and their organic, local meal (prepared by Sara). Their festive cake was a combo of black forest for Sara's German heritage and green and white on the outside for David's Irish heritage. Rather than a dance, there was trivia and a showing of "Game of Thrones," two things that helped bring the couple together. "Everything was personal to us, from the day we chose to get married to the details we included in our day," Sara says. They didn't follow trends or give in to pressure when things weren't done the traditional way. Her advice to other couples is to do what's comfortable to you. "It's you and your significant other's wedding. It should be about celebrating the love you share, the joining of your lives and nothing else." —Chrissy Sorenson
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Giuseppe 'Bepi' Colombo: Grandfather of the fly-by
Professor Giuseppe 'Bepi' Colombo was a mathematician and engineer of astonishing imagination. His bald head and grey moustache of later years were a familiar sight in the corridors of both ESA and NASA.
Giuseppe Colombo was born in 1920 in Padua, Italy, where he attended primary and secondary schools. After graduating from the University of Pisa in Mathematics in 1944, he returned to Padua where he worked as Assistant, and then Associate Professor, of Theoretical Mechanics at the University.
In 1955, he became Full Professor of Applied Mechanics at the Faculty of Engineering and in 1970 he was invited to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to participate in a conference on NASA's Mariner 10 Venus/Mercury mission. Earlier in that year he had noted that the period of the spacecraft's orbit, after it flew past Mercury, would be very close to twice the rotational period of the planet itself. He suggested that a second encounter with Mercury could be achieved.
An analytical study conducted by JPL confirmed Colombo's suggestion. The study showed that by careful choice of the Mercury fly-by point, the planet's gravity could help the spacecraft return to Mercury six months later. Almost everything known until now about the planet Mercury comes from Mariner 10's orbits during 1974-75, which were inspired by Colombo's calculations.
In the same year as those Mercury flybys, Colombo invented the concept of using of a long tether to support a spacecraft from an orbiting platform. Together with a colleague, Mario Grossi, he approached NASA and the Italian Space Agency with the idea, which developed into the Tethered Satellite System (TSS). The TSS was launched in 1992 aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-46, and again in 1996 on STS-75.
As one of the initiators of ESA's mission to Comet Halley, he suggested the name Giotto, but died in 1984 before that project was accomplished. At the University of Padua, his work continues in the Centro Interdipartimentale Studi ed Attività Spaziali 'G. Colombo' (CISAS).
To commemorate this great scientist, ESA has named its Mercury mission BepiColombo. It also awards a 'Colombo fellowship' each year to a European scientist working in the field of astronautics. In addition, asteroid number 10387 was named in his honour.


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African Champs coming to Tunisia
By ITU Admin on 14/11/07 at 12:00 am
Earlier this year, Tunisia became the seventh and most recent African nation to join the International Triathlon Union as a National Federation and the country has the honor of hosting the 2008 African Triathlon Championships from March 8th to 9th. Last week, ITUs Director of Event Development Gergely Markus completed a successful site visit to Yasmine Hammamet in preparation for a successful event. Accompanied by Eugene Kraus, one of the most experienced International Technical Officials and hosted by Abdelbacet Abdouli, President of the Tunisian Triathlon Association and Sahla Feki Makni, Event Director, the team walked through the proposed bike and run course and the transition area and inspected the possible locations of the swim course. They also discussed other event matters including potential sponsors, media coverage and local participation.
Im confident Yasmine Hammamet can host world class triathlon events due to the dedication of the local team, the location of the competition and the venue setup, said Markus.
With the combined expertise and knowledge of Kraus and Markus, they took the opportunity to run a short event development workshop for the key technical staff and officials of the event. The seminar focused on the actual event venue and course and helped the local team understand the importance of the African Championships. A comprehensive Technical Officials workshop including theoretical and practical sessions will be held in February 2008.
Yasmine Hammamet is Tunisias newest resort. Situated just south of Tunis, it is made up of predominantly four and five star luxury hotels. Built around a 740-berth marina, it recreates the style of many elegant resorts around the Mediterranean.
The town overlooks the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Hammamet, and is at the beginning of the Cap Bon peninsula, which is only 140km (84 miles) from Sicily (Italy). Inland it is all rolling vineyards and agricultural land. The Gulf of Hammamet has some of the best beaches in Mediterranean Sea. It has lovely stretches, interspersed with private hotel beaches. Plenty of sports facilities are available including windsurfing, water-skiing, jet-skiing, golf, and diving. The beaches are shallow and clean, perfect for a wide selection of water-sports.
The first African Championships were staged in 1993 and had 300 competitors and the elite race was won by Hanele Steyn and Conrad Stoltz both from South Africa.
Click here for more information on the 2008 African Championships
Click here for results from past African Triathlon Championships
Click here for more information on the African Triathlon Union
Find more details about this event - 2008 Yasmine Hammamet ATU Triathlon African Championships


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E-cig store in Les Sables, France
On February 22, Rhizome held This is the ENDD, a one-day forum on the e-cigarette. A version of this article was given by the author as a PowerPoint lecture. Video of the talk can be seen here.
Last fall, I spent a month in Arles, a small town in southern France, which has a population of 50,000. This being France, a large number of the residents smoke, and the town has three cafés-tabacs, where you can buy cigarettes. It also sports two different e-cigarette stores, both on the same street, the main drag in the town. It's clear that the stores are not there to sell the cigarettes, but rather, to showcase them.
I presume both these stores will not exist in five years (that may be a generous estimate). Whether or not e-cigarettes replace real cigarettes, as many e-cig providers claim, the needs that the vape stores answer will change as our relationships with these objects shift. They are designed for a particular moment in the history of the e-cigarette, when it's still a little out of the ordinary, when we're still not totally sure what to do with it, how to normalize it, and whether or not it's actually here to stay. There is an immediacy, a consistency, to our associations with smoking and cigarettes (good and bad, the Humphrey Bogarts and the health threats); trading them in for an electronic object is a mental leap that's hard to ignore. These stores exist to help consumers make the leap.


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