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Givat Shmuel, Israel – September 17, 2009 – Cimatron Limited (Nasdaq: CIMT), a leading provider of integrated CAD/CAM solutions for mold, tool and die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete parts, released details of new enhancements for electrode design and manufacturing available in CimatronE 9.0.
CimatronE offers a host of applicative tools and applications to allow mold makers to work faster and design more sophisticated, advanced molds accurately. CimatronE's solution for electrode design and manufacturing was praised by CIMdata as one of the most advanced available.
In Version 9.0 of CimatronE, electrode makers will find it easier to quickly reproduce identical electrodes as well as accelerate the design of similar electrodes. When two different electrodes have the same design process, CimatronE allows users to copy the design process on the spot and adapt it to the new electrode. An additional new feature simplifies the design of a second electrode that mirrors the first in one simple step.
CimatronE version 9.0 includes a host of enhancements that make last minute changes easier and less disruptive. Any changes made to the mold, which might affect the electrode, are recognized and reported immediately, to allow swift and safe implementation of changes.
Interference Check Analysis makes sure that there are no collisions between the electrode and the mold itself. This allows electrode makers to use automated design tools to create many electrodes quickly and apply changes with complete confidence.
In version 9.0, the burning conditions for the electrode (spark gap and orbiting), as defined in the electrode application, are automatically transferred to the NC programmer and the new CMM application. This feature allows the NC programmer to ensure the necessary modifications are made before electrode manufacturing and use take place.
CimatronE 9.0 also introduces a CMM application which includes special functions for measuring of electrodes. The CMM application automatically compensates for spark gap and orbiting, as well as the electrode rough offset, when applicable, making sure that the geometry of the electrode was manufactured correctly considering burning conditions.
About Cimatron
With over 25 years of experience and more than 40,000 installations worldwide, Cimatron is a leading provider of integrated, CAD/CAM solutions for mold, tool and die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete parts. Cimatron is committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions that streamline manufacturing cycles, enable collaboration with outside vendors, and ultimately shorten product delivery time.
The Cimatron product line includes the CimatronE and GibbsCAM brands with solutions for mold design, die design, electrodes design, 2.5 to 5 axes milling, wire EDM, turn, Mill-turn, rotary milling, multi-task machining, and tombstone machining. Cimatron's subsidiaries and extensive distribution network serve and support customers in the automotive, aerospace, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries in over 40 countries worldwide.
Cimatron is publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol CIMT. For more information, please visit the company web site at: http://www.cimatron.com/
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It's March, and Spring is nearly here! Yay! Here at Blue Mountain, the spring, or vernal, equinox happens on Friday, March 20 at 6:45 PM. We are so ready. The equinox marks the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above the Earth's equator – from south to north. The equinox is the day of the year when light and dark are equal and balanced. (It's said that on this day you can balance an egg on its end.)
Spring is a time of hope and renewal. Nature is always dealing with adversity, yet continually renews itself in spring. Even after the coldest, frostiest, most challenging winter, spring arrives. That gives us all a reason to be optimistic.
Part of renewal is letting go of what you don't need. Maybe you've been storing things you don't use, that other people desperately need. But spring cleaning isn't just about getting rid of the clutter. It's about making room for new things in your life, things that uplift your spirit, like taking a class, tending a garden, and entertaining friends.
Spring is a great time to renew old friendships that have been hibernating over the winter. Blue Mountain has many friendship and encouragement cards designed to put you back in touch and uplift someone's spirit. On March 17th, we honor St. Patrick who brought Christianity to the Emerald Isles. We've designed a beautiful new card with an adorable Border Collie puppy, featuring a dulcimer playing an Irish classic. Afterall, everyone is a little bit Irish on St. Patrick's Day!
We wanted to offer our friends and fans a beautiful Spring-inspired download for your desktop background, your phone background, or even your Facebook cover image.
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They were there from 8 a.m. until about 4 p.m., and that attendance pattern was for six days a week. That schedule applied when children went to school in �the good ol� days�. But we�re a little ahead of our story.
During early Colonial America, children had little time for the their own amusements. Their playthings usually consisted of items found around the house. Most parents couldn�t afford toys, and did they didn�t have the leisure to make any for their children.
The few affluent parents might import dolls and tea sets for their daughters. Parents were farmers or small shop owners, which meant even though dollhouses could be made, parents had little time to engage in such activity.
In spite of those conditions, children found ways to have fun. They took the rings off old storage barrels to roll them and used a stick to keep them rolling. They also used string to produce �cats� cradle� and pebbles to play hopscotch. Hide and seek was another popular kids� game during this period.
When we talk about the Colonial period, we�re referring to a time span that began with the earliest European settlers and lasted until independence was declared.
In New England, at least, one of the first issues to be decided upon, once a small community was settled, was either the construction of a meeting house or the establishment of a school. School laws in some of the colonies were passed as early as 1647. Inherent in the law were provisions for an elementary school in a town that had fifty families. With 100 families in a town, the law stipulated that the town must have a secondary school. The earliest of the latter schools were called Latin grammar schools.
The schools were not free. Not all parents could afford the charges, and their children would then be home-schooled.
The earliest schools were usually one room with a single teacher in charge, the first of the one-room schoolhouses associated with this period. Therefore, when a town became big enough, a �one-roomer� was built.
Books and paper were scarce. A little later, a book called �The New England Primer,� published between 1690 and 1800, and the Bible were usually the only books in the school room. Learning was mostly by rote. Following the �Primer,� �McGuffey�s Readers� also were used.
Hornbooks were used early on. The hornbook was a piece of paper with the alphabet, numbers and a prayer on it. The paper was attached to a piece of wood covered with a see-through piece of a cow�s horn.
Girls� and boys� curricula in those early schools provided different subjects. Boys were taught to read and write and do arithmetic. Girls studied what we now call home economics, which included sewing, knitting and cooking.
For years during the 1970s and 1980s, Alton Aldrich, director of Harvard H. Ellis Technical School in Danielson, traveled the state giving interesting presentations called �The Little Red Schoolhouse.� He would carry a miniature schoolhouse the size of a medium cardboard box. When the roof of the little school was removed, the artifacts inside, many of which are mentioned above, would be explained. It was a most worthy educational program.
Historically Speaking, which appears Sundays, presents short historical stories written by Richard Curland of the Norwich Historical Society in cooperation with society president Bill Champagne. Call the society at (860) 886-1776.


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When passing through this morning I heard station staff, possibly passenger assistance, on a close call hit of 459.275, which pairs up with 453.225. It was on a tone of 123.0. Has anyone else heard this or is there anyone close enough to hear it.
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ScotRail staff still use 453.900 / 110.9.
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Relative air humidity is a term used to describe the amount of water vapour in the air. Relative air humidity is the ratio of the water vapour's partial pressure to the saturated vapour pressure at a given temperature. Relative air humidity is expressed as a percentage.
Relative air humidity is calculated as follows:
Pwater vapour
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pwater vapour is the partial pressure of the water vapour in the air, while
pwater is the saturated vapour pressure of water at the same temperature as the air.
The air humidity in a given range is used when designing the capacity of ventilation and cooling systems. This ensures not only that air is adequately dehumidified, but also avoids the formation of condensate on the cooling surfaces.The following h,x diagram shows humid air at 1,013 mbar. It can be used to determine the absolute water content in humid air (x), relative air humidity (%), temperature (oC) and enthalpy (h).


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Abused and isolated as a child, homeless during her determined efforts to graduate from college, Shawna Machado saw her fortunes take a dramatic turn Thursday on the set of nationally televised entertainer Steve Harvey's show in Chicago.
That's where the 40-year-old -- and still homeless -- social worker learned during a taping that she will get a free ride to pursue her master's degree at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee campus.
"They told me something was going to happen toward the end" of the show, says Machado. "But this was huge. I never expected it."
Machado, voted USF Sarasota-Manatee's "Most Outstanding Graduate" when she received her degree in psychology last May, will have $30,000 in tuition covered by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County and the university.
"We're thrilled for Shawna," said regional chancellor Dr. Arthur Guilford. "She's a very hardworking, very bright student who was dealt a very hard life. I think her homelessness resonated with everyone, along with the fact that she wants to make a difference in people's lives."
Jane Rose, the university's dean of arts and sciences, was in the studio Thursday to make the surprise announcement.
"I don't look at what we're doing as a gift," Rose says. "I see it as an investment in the future of our community. Shawna has true leadership ability."
A November broadcast date has been set for this episode of Steve Harvey's show, which airs locally at 5 p.m. on CW44. Machado, who graduated with a 3.55 grade point average, was invited to share her extraordinary perseverance with Harvey's 1.7 million viewers.
'A ticket out of poverty'
While attending college, Machado slept on Siesta Key Beach, inside her Hyundai Elantra, beneath a tent, and at a rotating circle of friends' homes.
She made connections through Wi-Fi hookups at Starbucks and often showered at a campus restroom.
Machado kept the itinerate lifestyle to herself because "I didn't want anyone to treat me differently."
Maintaining a clean and orderly facade, she joined the Social Justice Initiative, the Psychology Club and Guardian ad Litem as a volunteer. On Nov. 15, she will receive the Florida Commission on the Status of Women's Florida Achievement Award.
Ironically, Machado attributes much of her poise to dysfunctional parenting. She says they were "grooming me to be their ticket out of poverty. I was supposed to marry rich."
"I always had to smile. I had to stand up straight and show good posture. I had to sit with my hands on my lap and be very proper. I had to talk correctly and enunciate all my words," recalls Machado. "Mom told me people were born evil and you had to breed that out of life. It sounds very cultish, but this is all I knew."
Born in Massachusetts, Machado was the youngest of five, all of whom moved out of the alcoholic household as soon as they could. Her late mother worked retail sales; her stepfather was a machinist. The couple changed jobs every year in a cross-country journey that would take them to California through Texas. Machado says she was 5 the first time she spent any time in outdoor sunlight.
She dropped out of school at 16 while working three jobs. She ran a 4 a.m. newspaper delivery route seven days a week. She was a babysitter for two hours after school, Monday through Friday, as well as Friday and Saturday nights. She worked at Taco Bell on Saturdays and Sundays. She made A's in school.
"I was lucky to get four, five hours of sleep," she says.
Spending time with the family of a 17-year-old boyfriend gave her the incentive to leave. She watched them eat together at the dinner table, exchange hugs, discuss the news, personal and otherwise.
"My mother would sleep all day and work the night shift. I cooked for my stepfather," Machado recalls. "I was not allowed to eat when he ate."
She would marry her boyfriend, with whom she spent 17 years, and the couple moved to Bradenton. The marriage collapsed into domestic abuse and left her with a fractured skull.
Machado would earn her GED and an associate's degree at an online college. Student loans would saddle her with $40,000 in debt, which she is attempting to pay off. Her work-history r�sum� is eclectic, from dog grooming to managing a doctor's office.
Steering her ship
Hoping to steer her own ship, Machado applied at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee and began classes in June 2010.
During the preceding Memorial Day weekend, though, the physician laid her off. By September, she was homeless.
Machado says she dropped literally hundreds of applications at companies and businesses from Tampa to Fort Myers. By December, Machado had a job at a domestic violence shelter in Bradenton, working largely with children ages 7 to 12.
"I think I got more out of it than they did," she says. "I could relate to them, and I knew most of those kids would go back into an abusive environment.
"But the one constant for a kid is school, and that's what I kept telling them -- don't worry about your mom, don't worry about your dad, you've got school, and that's what's important.
"College isn't for everybody, but there's something for anybody," she says. "I want them to find that one positive thing about themselves that they can build on."
Now a case manager with the Safe Children Coalition, Machado says she hopes a master's degree will allow her to "help change the education system. Right now, we've got government policing teachers, and it isn't working."
She has a half-dozen friends on whom she can rely for lodging, yet still spends much of her time in the car. "Sometimes it's just easier that way, to have my own space," she says. "I don't like to stay more than two weeks because I don't want to wear out my welcome."
She will be honored at USFSM's annual scholarship fundraising brunch on Sunday. University organizers also are planning to hold a Steve Harvey show "Watch Party" when Machado's segment airs.
Homelesswoman realizes a dream
Abused and isolated as a child, homeless during her determined efforts to graduate from college, Shawna Machado saw her fortunes take a dramatic turn Thursday on the set of nationally televised entertainer Steve Harvey's show in Chicago.


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corduroy, a cut filling-pile fabric with lengthwise ridges, or wales, that may vary from fine (pinwale) to wide. Extra filling yarns float over a number of warp yarns that form either a plain-weave or twill-weave ground. After the fabric is woven the floating yarns are cut, and the pile is brushed and singed to produce a clear cord effect. Originally a cotton fabric, it may also be made of synthetic fibers such as rayon, polyester, or acrylic. It is used in the manufacture of trousers, coats, and slip covers.
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Race Car Chassis Jinx Prevention Hints - When Things Suddenly Go Wrong
13 Racing Jinxes That Can Be Prevented
It's a bit past mid-season, your racing effort has been fairly successful and you need to have some decent finishes to round out the year. What you don't need are problems that come up and ruin a whole race for you. If you have been racing for any length of time, you will have experienced a problem that comes seemingly out of nowhere and bites you in the tail, usually at the worst possible moment. Most racing jinxes come from lack of maintenance or failure to recognize a potential problem.
Here's a list of some of the areas where things can go wrong to cost you a good run or even a race win. We will also provide some hints on how you might avoid some of these problems. The top 13 racing jinxes are:
1. Tire Preparation
A team has prepared its car exactly the way it needs to, the setup is perfect, the engine has been gone over and tuned to the day's conditions, the crew is on top of all of the many maintenance items. The only thing different is that the usual tire specialist was not able to attend this race and the crew recruits a guy who "knows all about" tires.
He is allowed to select, air up, label, and position the tires for mounting on the car. No one watches over this guy and no one checks up on him to see if he indeed knows what to do.
Everything goes well with the selection and setting the air pressures, the only problem is that he places the tires backwards from the usual procedure and the crew then proceeds to mount up the tires. The left-side tires go on the right side of the car and the right-side tires go on the left side of the car. This results in air pressures and sizes that are reversed. The tires were labeled correctly but the writing is too small to see easily. So, no one catches the mistake until after the race. Needless to say, the car ran like crap.
"Can't happen" you say? This can and did happen. I have heard similar stories around the pits, so don't think it can't happen to you. Tire selection and inflation is one of the most important parts of the chassis setup. Make sure your tire guy knows what he/she is doing. If you're not sure of their expertise, check everything they do until you are confident in their ability.
Stagger changes can also be a problem. Again, all seems perfectly fine, the driver in practice likes the setup and you are in the top three with your lap times. You bolt on a new set of race tires and go out to compete. Somewhere along about lap 20-40 the car goes tight or loose. Needless to say, you don't finish very well that night.
After the race, you measure the stagger and find out the rear stagger either closed up or grew beyond what works at your track. At some racetracks, we can get away with this better than at others. I worked with a team that won a race and the rear stagger closed up to 3/8 inch from the normal 1 3/4 inch. The driver said he couldn't feel the difference.
At another track, if the stagger changes more than 1/4 inch, the car will not handle. That's tough to deal with. The solution, as much as is possible in this situation, is to get to know the particular tire you race with. Each brand and product number of tire has its own characteristics for growth related to your car and the track you are running on. The choice in new tire sizes must be made by knowing how much the tires on each side of the car will grow.
Practice is the time to evaluate the tire growth situation. The tires on both sides will grow due to elevated temperatures and the increased pressures that go along with a hotter tire. The right sides will gain more temperature and pressure than the left sides and therefore the sizes on the right side should grow more. How much is dependent on many factors, some of which are: a) having the correct stagger to begin with, b) having a balanced setup, or not, c) using dry air or nitrogen, d) the structure of the tire as well as the particular production batch, e) and believe it or not, how hard you run the car.
That last one is one to watch. If your driver has practiced at a speed that is somewhat slower than race speeds, not only will the setup feel different between the different speeds, the tire sizes will change differently. To see true pressure/temperature gains, simulate race speeds-in other words, get after it in practice. If you have noticed, the top drivers never pussy-foot around the track.
2. A Hung Suspension Spring
This is very simple and straight forward. When you jack up the car, the spring has an opportunity to hang in the lower control arm, in the case of a big spring car, or hang in the shock with a coilover car. This can happen in any type of race car from a Stock class Bomber to a sophisticated Formula car and even in the Cup series.
If this happens, it will change your weight distribution dramatically. There are several ways to help prevent this from happening. First and foremost is to limit the suspension travel in droop from where the wheel is at ride height.
If you have installed a chain or cable between the frame and lower control arm, when you jack up the car, the spring won't have the chance to hang on the seat. Some teams use ring spacers between the spring and the seat on a coilover. These can shift and end up between the seat and the spring causing a substantial difference in ride height at that corner
With a big spring design, the spring can rotate to where the open end of the coil spring will not be at the proper place within the lower control arm spring pocket. This will affect ride height and the weight distribution causing the handling to go south on you.
3. Bad Locker Springs (And Other Rearend Maladies)
I have seen many teams chase their setups all season long when the real problem had more to do with maintenance. With a Detroit Locker-type of differential, the springs that do the job of locking both axles up upon acceleration can and do get weak as time goes on.
Excess heat in the rearend will accelerate the process of these springs going "bad." When they do lose their tension, the axle that the bad spring is supposed to lock up will not. This leaves you with a car that drives off one rear tire and exit performance will definitely suffer.
Specialty rear differentials sometimes use aluminum gearsets to help distribute the forces between the rear wheels. These need to be inspected and possibly replaced as often as necessary to insure that there will not be a failure. Consult the manufacturer to obtain a proper maintenance schedule for your product.
The solution might be to use a rearend cooler if you race for more than 35 or 40 laps. Break apart the rearend and check the tension on the springs often to prevent a failure. The manufacturer can tell you the designed rate of these springs and how often to replace them.
4.Ignition Wire Problems
On initial installation, many teams will wire the ignition so that the leads from the box to the distributor will be crossed. On some models of ignition boxes and distributors, similar color wires are not intended to be mated. This is not a racing problem because you will never get the motor to fire properly anyway.
Follow the instructions on both the distributor and ignition box so that the proper wires will be joined. Additional problems may arise from the way you connect the wires. Always use heavy-duty quality connections to reduce the chance they will break from all of the vibration that race cars produce. Solder the connections and use heat shrink on all joints. A little time and effort spent here can save a loss of ignition down the track.
5. Belt Alignment Problems-Pulleys
How many times have you seen or heard of a team experiencing loss of oil pressure or cooling due to a broken or thrown engine belt. Most of these occurrences can be traced right back to a misalignment in the pulley system. The belts always seem to come off during the race and not in practice when it could be easily fixed. Why is that?
It doesn't take much of a bend in a belt to cause it to de-pulley and come off. The solution is to inspect the alignment of the belts on all pulleys on the engine. Use a straight edge and lay it against one pulley to see how that one lines up to other pulleys. Don't necessarily trust your eyes because often the problem lies out of your eyesight.
6.Broken Throttle Parts
Loss of throttle is a common cause of a race car loosing power abruptly. The throttle shaft can shear off, the connecting bolt can break or loosen or the linkage can just fatigue and break somewhere between the gas pedal and the carburetor. This is another area where we seldom do proper inspection and don't discover there is a problem until we have a failure.
Breakage is not an acceptable way to schedule maintenance. Each moving part in the car needs to be inspected often. Put this item on your maintenance sheet and make sure someone goes over every part of the throttle linkage system.
Properly attached and adjusted pedal stops can help prevent stress on the throttle linkage and carburetor shaft. It's not a good idea to use the carb throttle stop as a pedal stop. An overzealous driver can apply way too much pedal pressure and twist the shaft off. Take time to adjust the linkage so that you will be applying full throttle (butterflies wide open with maximum pedal throw), but not stretching and stressing the linkage.
7. Shocks Bottoming Out Or Over Extended
A radically errant setup can often be traced to a mechanical binding problem. Often, we find that a shock is either bottoming out from excess travel or hanging in rebound from too short a useable travel due to improper mounting.
Once you have finished building your car and have established the ride heights, measure how far each shock's shaft extends into the shock body. If you know the length of travel of the shock, you can subtract and know how much rebound, or compression, travel you will have available.
Problem areas are with the left rear in rebound, the right rear in compression, and the right and left front in compression. On entry, the right front compresses which then causes the LR to go into rebound. If the LR shock becomes fully extended, then a lot of load will be transferred off the LR corner and you will loose grip in that tire making the car loose in.
If the RF shock becomes fully compressed, that corner will be effectively locked up stiff and the RF tire will lose grip. Coming off the corner, the RR corner will experience a lot of travel and the shock will compress up to four inches depending on the setup. Make sure you have enough shock travel available so that there is no chance that the shock will bottom out.
8. Suspension Binding
Another source of mechanical binding lies in the use of sliders in some cars. The various designs of coilover eliminators and big spring sliders need constant maintenance. Follow the manufacturer's recommendations and inspect these units often. They will bind up and stick if not properly maintained, especially on dirt cars.
With all race cars, and especially the dirt cars, we need to break down and inspect all moving parts in the chassis on a schedule that makes sense. When we wash the car after a race, the water tends to collect in the various parts that handle chassis movement. A good car can slowly go to bad without proper maintenance.
The parts we are talking about include the upper and lower control arm pivots and ball joints, the wheel bearings, the rear trailing arm connecting links, steering components, throttle linkages, sway bar links, and all other connecting points that may corrode or seize from lack of lubrication.
Most race teams that ignore this important task will experience a car that slowly fails to respond to chassis setup changes. This is a clue that maybe you need to look at beginning a maintenance schedule ASAP.
9. Broken Shock Mounts
The mounts that hold your shocks on the car take a lot of abuse in all forms of circle track racing, especially with the coilover types of suspension designs. One of the worst failures you will encounter is a broken shock mount. This can't be fixed during a race.
The way the shock mount is attached to the car can be an indication of trouble. Each mount should be strong enough and supported adequately so that the loads the mount will experience will be distributed without stressing the joints.
Regular inspection of the metal around the mounts can often show the start of a crack or stressed area so that we can re-weld or replace the mount. This exercise can greatly reduce the chance that you will lose a shock mount during a race.
10. Loose Bolts
The suspension parts endure a lot of force from braking to acceleration. The control arms at the front and the ends of the rear links can become loose as the bolts are pushed and stretched lap after lap. If these loosen during a race, the car will become un-driveable.
If your car is doing strange things, one of the first and easiest things to check is for a loose bolt in the suspension system. Even if the joint is fairly tight, but not real tight, it can slip and result in a rearend that is out of alignment, a serious problem nonetheless.
If you find a loose, or "not-so-tight" bolt in your suspension system, think about realigning the car as soon as possible and definitely before the next outing. Educate your team members to this so that they can make the team aware when they are "nut and bolting" the car. Merely tightening the bolt does not necessarily fix the problem
11. Bent Axle Tubes
Rear wheel alignment is so important to how the car will perform that we should be aware when things might go south in that department. Incidents happen in the course of racing and testing that could cause the rearend axle tubes to become bent.
The bend could be in any direction to affect toe, camber, or both. A set of rear wheels that are toed either in or out excessively can cause the rearend to lose grip all of the way around the track. Sometimes the cause can go unnoticed.
Common causes are a brush with the wall or contact with another car. When either of these happens, make sure to check the toe and camber at the rear wheels. We often concentrate on front wheel toe and camber settings and forget that rear wheel geometry is just as important.
12. Plumbing Problems
How you plumb your car for cooling the water or oil can be a problem. There are some common misconceptions about these two that can cause overheating and/or engine failure. Here are a couple of common mistakes teams make.
When plumbing your water lines, remember to install a proper sized pulley on the water pump so that the speed will not be too slow or fast. It is a general rule of thumb to match the pump pulley size to the crank pulley size.
You might also need to install a restrictor in the radiator at the point where the water enters the motor at the nipple. There are several sizes available to regulate the flow rate to more efficiently allow the water to cool.
In plumbing a dry sump system, always place the filter where it will be the last thing the oil passes through before entering the motor. If not, lots of unpleasant things can happen. New oil coolers often have slag and other pieces left inside that come loose and flow into the motor if not filtered out. Placing the filter before the cooler could be a problem.
Flow the oil through the radiator oil cooler into the bottom and out the top. This pushes any air that may be trapped in the unit out to prevent cavitations. Use hose ends that are the free-flow design, where the bend is made with tubing and not an abrupt 90-degree turn drilled into a solid aluminum block.
13. Poor Geometry
Last and definitely not the least of our racing jinxes is poor geometry in the chassis. This can be anything from improper moment center location to camber, caster, anti-dive or pro-dive, alignment, and steering system geometry problems. I can't tell you how many times a team has chased its otherwise great setup only to discover that the culprit was a geometry problem.
The most significant geometry problems are: a) excess toe-in or toe-out of the front or rear wheels, b) rearend misalignment, c) excess bumpsteer at the front end, d) roll steer at the rear end, e) excess Ackermann or reverse Ackermann steering effect, f) wrong caster and/or camber settings, and g) improperly designed moment center location that affects the front dynamics as well as the camber change characteristics.
In today's racing, a team must be aware of the geometry issues in its car. Gone are the days when we left it up to the car builder to decide what is right. While it's true that many top car builders are up to speed with all of the technological advances we have experienced over the past 10 years, it's imperative that we absolutely know where our car stands on geometry issues
I can tell you with few exceptions that the winning teams in this day and age know their car inside and out. They apply the technology and develop their own car aside from what everyone else is doing. Above all, they do not follow the leader.
If any of these examples spur you and your team to action and helps you to avoid a costly jinx, then we have done our job. We can always learn from the experiences of others and that is exactly where these stories and examples come from. All of these mistakes have happened in the past and will happen again. Jinxes don't come out of thin air, but rather from our lack of knowledge and attention to detail. That makes them avoidable.


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We don't usually think of chemicals as having shapes. But from the simple V of a water molecule to the intricate folds of a protein, the shape of a chemical compound plays a critical role in how it reacts with other molecules. For example, many drugs work by binding to specific receptors in cells, a process that depends on a precise match between the shape of the drug molecule and of the receptor.
The shape of a molecule is determined by the interactions of the electrons in its constituent atoms, ultimately at the level of quantum physics. In the simple case of water, the physics causes the two hydrogen atoms to bond to oxygen at a 105° angle. Proteins, however, can contain thousands of atoms arranged in a helix that twists and turns into complex shapes.
As in so many other fields, the immense power of computers to complete in seconds. computations that would take human beings lifetimes has revolutionized chemistry, giving rise to the collaboration of chemistry, physics, mathematics and computer science known as computational chemistry. Pharmaceutical research, for example, used to be a hit-or-miss process testing thousands of chemicals for pharmacological effects, with far more misses than hits. Now researchers are more likely to figure out what sort of molecule they need, set out to design it, and then figure out a way to synthesize it.
For large molecules–and proteins and other biologically active molecules that are often very large–this becomes a daunting computational task. Fortunately, it is one that lends itself well to the efficiencies of parallel computing. Most of this work used to be carried out on supercomputers or custom-designed clusters of workstations and servers. More recently, the work is moving to massively multi-core graphics processing units, such as NVIDIA's Tesla.
The results of this can be very impressive. TeraChem, from PetaChem LLC is a quantum chemistry software package optimized for GPUs. Running analyses of several molecules on a workstation with four Tesla GPUs, TeraChem performed 8 to 50 times faster than the widely used General Atomic and Molecular Structure System (GAMESS) software running on a cluster of 256 quad core CPUs. A quad Tesla workstation is hardly your garden variety desktop—the 240-core Tesla C1060s go for about $1,300 apiece—but the setup outperformed far more expensive and complex hardware.
Harvard chemist Alán Aspuru-Guzic is a convert to GPU computing. His quantum chemistry research group analyses molecultes using electron correlation. This approach requires solutions to Schrödinger equations, differential equations that describe changes in the state of the system over time. An exact solution to a Schrödinger equation requires knowing all possible quantum states at the same time, a complicated version of the famous mind experiment of Schrödinger's cat, which may be alive, dead, or both inside a sealed box. That's a problem that can only be solved on a quantum computer, a device that unfortunately exists only in computer science labs, and there only in a primitive and not very usable state. Eventually, quantum computers will be available to computational chemists. But, says Aspuru-Guzik, "it will take a decade, maybe two decades. It's hard to predict."
Lacking quantum computers, researchers have to settle for close approximations to the exact solutions, but even these require tremendous computational effort. "In the meantime we have the GPU," says Aspuru-Guzik. "The GPU is a very attractive alternative because it is cheap. It's the future of computing."
Aspuru-Guzik's toolkit includes Q-Chem 3.1, a commercial quantum chemistry program, and CUBLAS, a high-powered linear algebra system based on CUDA, NVIDIA's technology for general computing on GPUs. They found that using GPUs to assist in the multiplication of large matrices, another job ideally suited to parallel processing, sped the task by a factor of 13 over the use of the CPU alone. Most of us, of course, will never try to figure out the interactions of electrons in a molecule, nor will we have any use for a quantum computer. But the result of this work is important to all of us because it means better understanding of basic chemical processes and ultimately such things as faster development of new drugs. You can even get involved through a Stanford University project called Folding@home. that uses idle time on thousands of computers to compute protein folding. And if your computer has a modern GPU, you'll become part of the parallel revolution.
This post is an entry in The World Isn't Flat, It's Parallel series running on nTersect, focused on the GPU's importance and the future of parallel processing. Today, GPUs can operate faster and more cost-efficiently than CPUs in a range of increasingly important sectors, such as medicine, national security, natural resources and emergency services. For more information on GPUs and their applications, keep your eyes on The World Isn't Flat, It's Parallel.


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Crowe's walk-off single caps encouraging finale
Outfielder notches winning hit in ninth after Bedard allows tying homer
HOUSTON -- The Astros executed about as perfectly as they could on offense Wednesday afternoon without the benefit of bashing home runs all over Minute Maid Park.
They did the little things. They didn't run into outs on the bases -- which has been a problem -- they had some productive outs and they came through with runners in scoring position. In the end, they did just enough to overcome another blown save by the bullpen.
The ninth inning was a perfect illustration of fundamentals, as Jose Altuve bunted Jonathan Villar into scoring position and then watched him score the winning run on an RBI single by Trevor Crowe that gave the Astros a 6-5 win over the Twins.
"That's winning baseball," Astros manager Bo Porter said.
The walk-off win was Houston's fourth this season and first since it beat the A's on July 23. Villar, the rookie shortstop who was benched Tuesday because he unsuccessfully tried to stretch a single to a double early in the game, scored the winning run in that game, too.
Porter stuck him at the top of the lineup Wednesday after pulling him in the third inning Tuesday, and he was rewarded by Villar going 2-for-5 with a run scored.
"I went over and gave him a hug and told him, 'I'm very proud of you,'" Porter said. "That's maturity in less than 24 hours. A lot of guys would hang their head and say, 'Poor ole me, I got taken out of the game.' He didn't handle it that way at all. I said last night I really felt he was going to handle it the right way, and he came out today and literally showed he handled it the right way. He took ownership of it and told me it would never happen again."
The first five hitters in the Astros' lineup -- Villar, Altuve, Crowe, Brett Wallace and Chris Carter -- each had two hits, going a combined 10-for-21 with six runs scored. Crowe extended his hitting streak to six games and is 7-for-18 since he was called back up on Sunday.
"Baseball is a game of momentum, and you have to stay after it every single day, because one bad day and things are working against you," Crowe said. "I owe a lot of credit to Bo. When I got here, I was in a good rhythm, and he put me right in the lineup. And I feel like I'm still in that rhythm."
Jordan Lyles gave the Astros his third consecutive quality start by allowing three runs and four hits in 6 1/3 innings. The only damage the Twins managed against the 22-year-old came on a three-run homer by Alex Presley in the third inning that tied the game. It was a 13-pitch at-bat.
"You're just trying to make the next pitch go over the plate," Lyles said. "He's pretty much seen everything you have up to that point, so hopefully he rolls over it or pops it up, but he put a good swing on it and put the ball on the barrel."
Crowe's RBI single in the fourth put the Astros ahead, 4-3, and Brandon Barnes drove in his second run of the game with a fifth-inning sacrifice fly that made 5-3. With his bullpen needing some rest, Porter gave the ball to Erik Bedard to try to get the final eight outs.
"We were really shorthanded in the bullpen today," Porter said. "We knew we had him down there [and] that he could extend all the way to 85, 90 pitches. When we went to him, we knew we were going to him for the duration at that point, unless the game went extra innings."
Bedard allowed a run in the eighth and then suffered the Astros' 27th blown save of the season when Ryan Doumit led off the ninth with a homer to tie the game. He wound up pitching the final 2 2/3 innings for his fourth win.
But the Astros, who got a three-run homer from Barnes in the ninth inning Tuesday to force extra innings, rallied in the ninth against Brian Duensing (6-2). Villar singled to right and went to second on a perfect bunt by Altuve. Crowe then played the role of hero.
"If we want to be a very good team going forward in the future, those are the type of at-bats we've got to have," Crowe said. "We have to battle all 27 outs. We don't have those guys up and down our lineup who are going to hit 30 home runs. I think some guys may develop into that, but right now, we have to keep the line moving."
The Astros jumped on Twins starter Liam Hendriks in the first inning, scoring three times while taking advantage of three hits and a costly error by shortstop Pedro Florimon. Wallace and Marc Krauss had RBI hits, and Barnes gave Houston a 3-0 lead with a sac fly.
"You get those scoring opportunities and you're able to have productive at-bats," Porter said. "I felt like throughout the whole lineup, we did that well today."
Hendriks allowed five runs (three earned) and eight hits in 4 1/3 innings.
"Today was just embarrassing," he said. "I got behind guys. I left balls up. Once I was ahead, I was fine. I just wasn't ahead very often, and they made me pay for it."


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I live in Lincoln, Illinois. I have now for nearly 8
years and look forward to this being my home for
a long time. However, I have always enjoyed visits
to Florida. Who doesn't? One of those locations
was a beach front on the gulf named St. Pete's (or
St. Petersburg).
When I am there, I am only a visitor. I am in
some ways an alien. St. Pete's is not my home.
In I Peter, the Apostle will remind hurting,
persecuted followers of Jesus Christ that this
world is not their home either. They are to live as
aliens here on Earth knowing their real home is in
heaven. Really? Aliens?
Many of you will remember the 1990s TV series
"The X-Files" that was about government dealings
with aliens and claimed to expose a sinister
"Master plan" - a grand conspiracy between
aliens and government agencies to eventually set
up Earth as an alien colony. (Way cool!)
Hollywood has made billions off movies of the
notion of secret alien plans at work in human
Several TV shows now waste a lot of time
contemplating that aliens have left ancient secret
messages in various records of prehistoric cultures.
The business of aliens is lucrative to say the
And of course, there are thousands of examples
of alien conspiracy theories that claim to
uncover the meaning of human existence in
secretive hidden plots: plots by aliens, plots by
freemasons, plots by huge financial companies,
revelations made in star signs, or messages telling
us that we must prepare for the awakening of
galactic consciousness at a date written in crop
What a load of junk. One might be tempted to
dismiss all this and conclude that it is simply an
example of people rejecting God. When they start
believing in nothing, they end up believing in
True, but actually, all these alien enthusiasts
point out a simple fact: people want to know
there is something greater and bigger beyond this
planet. There has to be something more to life
than what we see around us. The Apostle Peter
couldn't agree more.
Seeing the desperate searching in other people
should remind us Christians about the precious
truth that we already know. Of course there is
more after this life...Jesus told us there was.
you want to know secret government conspiracies about secret alien
visitors, then you can read about them online on any one of a
websites. If you want to know the details of the "Xfiles" master
plan, then you can watch it on endless reruns on television. But if
you want to know the REAL master plan, God's master plan, the one
revealed in and by Jesus Christ, then we need to turn to the Holy
As Christians, we are described as "aliens and
strangers" in this world (1 Peter 2:11). In other
words, just like the old gospel singers used to sing,
"This world is not my home. I'm just a passing
"Live long and prosper!"
We will be in the book of I Peter for most of the
summer. Through this study we will see how Peter
encourages believers who face suffering and persecution to keep a
heavenly perspective. In his
day, the world was doing all it could to stop Christianity.
If you think about it, his culture sounds a lot
like what we are going through now and what is
about to get even more intense. How then are we
to live in a world that is growing in hatred and hostility for
Christianity? Peter is about to help us with that question.
June 8- Hope for Discouraged People
1 Peter 1:1-12
June 15- Choosing to Live Differently
1 Peter 1:13-2:3
June 22- Remember Who You Are
1 Peter 2:4-10
June 29- Overcoming Selfishness
1 Peter 2:11-25
[Ron Otto, Preaching Minister
Lincoln Christian Church]
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Equinox [NEW YORK] announced that Niki Leondakis, formerly CEO of Two Roads Hospitality, will join the company as Chief Executive Officer of Equinox Fitness Clubs. Leondakis brings more than 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry, including twenty years with Kimpton Hotels where she was President and Chief Operating Officer. In 2012, she was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Commune Hotels. Most recently, she served as Chief Executive Officer, Hotels and Resorts of Two Roads Hospitality.
IOMAXIS [WASHINGTON] announced that Bob Burleson has been promoted to serve as the company's CEO. Burleson, who formerly served as CFO, replaces Dennis Kelly, who will remain involved with the company's leadership in his position as Chairman of IOMAXIS' board of advisers. Before joining IOMAXIS as its CFO, Burleson served as the CFO of Majestic Asset Trust/Paragon Systems. Previously, he also served as the CFO for CyberEvent LLC. Additionally, he has served in leadership roles at companies including Software Process Technologies Inc., Sotera Defense Solutions, Tech Team Government Solutions and American Type Culture Collection. In addition to his responsibilities at IOMAXIS, Burleson is on the boards of directors for Trevigen Inc.
Maya Kaimal Fine Indian Foods [RHINEBECK, N.Y.] announced the appointment of Meena R. Mansharamani as Chief Executive Officer. Mansharamani was most recently Managing Director of Materne North America. Mansharamani also worked for PepsiCo where she was Senior Vice President, Innovation and Insights at Pepsi-Cola North America from 2005-2008.
Perdue Farms [SALISBURY, Md.] announced the promotion of Randy Day to chief executive officer of Perdue Farms. Day has served as chief operating officer since May 2016. He will also serve on the company's board of directors. Prior to being named chief operating officer in 2016, Day served as president of Perdue Foods since February 2015. He joined Perdue Farms in 1980 and has held various positions of increasing responsibility in Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the National Chicken Council.
InMoment [SALT LAKE CITY] has appointed Andrew Joiner as the company's new chief executive officer. John Sperry, InMoment founder and CEO, will continue his work with the company as chairman of InMoment's board of directors. Prior to joining InMoment, Joiner served as worldwide head of the HP Software's customer experience business. Before that, he led the high-growth business unit within HP Autonomy. Joiner was acquired into Autonomy via ZANTAZ in 2006, having served as founder and CEO of Singlecast Technologies.
Grinnell Mutual [GRINNELL, IOWA] Jeff Menary has been named the next President and Chief Executive Officer of Grinnell Mutual. He will replace Larry Jansen upon retirement in December. Since July of 2014, Menary has served as the company's Executive Vice President of Line Operations. During Menary's 37-year career at Grinnell Mutual, he has served in a variety of roles. He joined the company as a marketing representative and has worked as a marketing and reinsurance manager of the Iowa-Wisconsin region; director of Underwriting and Production; assistant vice president of Commercial Lines; vice president of Underwriting and Production; and vice president of Reinsurance.
Teton Waters Ranch (TWR) [DENVER] announced that Walt Freese will join the company as Chief Executive Officer. Jeff Russell, who founded the company in Teton Valley, Idaho in 2009, will continue in his role as founder. Walt joins Teton Waters Ranch from the Sterling Rice Group where he served as President and CEO since 2015. Throughout his career, Walt has a strong track record of building both entrepreneurial start-ups and multinational corporations including Ben & Jerry's, Stonyfield Farm, and Celestial Seasonings.
XTuit Pharmaceuticals Inc. [WALTHAM, Mass.] announced the appointment of Deborah Dunsire as president and chief executive officer. She also joins the company's board of directors. She has proven leadership in developing and building the commercial success of innovative oncology drugs, as she formerly served for eight years as president and chief executive officer of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which became Takeda Oncology, and prior to that led the Novartis North American Oncology Business for more than ten years. Prior to joining XTuit, Dunsire was Chief Executive Officer of FORUM Pharmaceuticals (previously EnVivo Pharmaceuticals).
Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. [HILLIARD, Ohio] (NYSE: WMS) announced that Joseph A. Chlapaty has communicated to the Board of Directors his intention to retire as the Company's President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board by the end of calendar year 2017.
Helix BioPharma Corp. [TORONTO, ON] (TSX: HBP) announced that Sven Rohmann, CEO and Chairman of the Company, will be stepping down from his position as Chief Executive Officer of Helix BioPharma Corp., in order to focus his activities on chairing the board and to act as strategic advisor to the Company. Stepping into the role of Chief Executive Officer will be Heman Chao. Chao has been Chief Scientific Officer of the Company since December 2008, and will remain Chief Scientific Officer, as well as assuming the position of Chief Executive Officer. Previously Chao was President of Sensium Technologies Inc., between November 2004 and April 2008, when it was amalgamated into the Company. Chao was previously Vice President of Technology and later Vice President of Research for the Company, between June 2002 to 2004. Between 1999 and June 2002, he was Manager of Sensium Technologies Inc. Prior to joining the Company, he was a research fellow in the federally funded Protein Engineering Network of Centres of Excellence coordinating multi-center research.
Softvision, LLC [ATLANTA] has appointed Andres Angelani as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Softvision, Angelani worked at Globant, which he joined in 2004 and most recently served as the Chief Solutions Officer. Before becoming Chief Solutions Officer, Angelani served as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Globant's gaming studio, leading business on the West Coast, as well as Vice President of Engineering and Director of Global Presales Consulting from the U.K.
Sigstr [INDIANAPOLIS] announced former Salesforce Marketing Cloud chief product officer Bryan Wade is joining Sigstr as chief executive officer. Sigstr's founder Dan Hanrahan will remain with the company as President and shift his focus to leading strategic partnerships and enterprise relationships for the company. With 12 years of marketing SaaS experience, Wade joins Sigstr from Salesforce Marketing Cloud where he served as chief product officer.
The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) [NEW YORK] has appointed Scott McDonald as its President and Chief Operating Officer. McDonald has held senior research positions at leading global media companies, including Time Inc., Time Warner, and Conde Nast.
Milestone Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. [Montreal] announced the appointment of Joseph G. Oliveto as President and Chief Executive Officer. Philippe Douville who founded the company and served as CEO, will now assume the newly created position of Chief Scientific Officer. Prior to joining Milestone, Oliveto served as President and CEO of Chelsea Therapeutics. Oliveto also served as CEO of Galleon Pharmaceuticals and Executive in Residence at Pappas Ventures. He began his career at Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., where he served for 18 years in a number of progressively senior positions across several operating areas.
Monarch Medical Technologies [CHARLOTTE, N.C.] announced that Linda Beneze has joined the company as its new chief executive officer. Prior to her tenure at Medical Technology Products, she was the President & General Manager of the Specialty Division at Teleflex, Inc. and has also held executive positions at healthcare companies including KIKA Clinical Solutions, PHT, Inc., Phase Forward, Inc., and C.R. Bard.
VeriClouds [Seattle, WA] has appointed Steve Tout as the Chief Executive Officer. Tout was previously on the Board of Advisors of VeriClouds, effective October, 2016. Tout began his career in 2000 at AT&T Wireless as a developer and directory services administrator and progressively accepted more challenging roles and opportunities. He most recently served as a Director of cyber security & privacy at PwC.
The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. [LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.] (NASDAQ: HAIN) announced Gary W. Tickle has been named Chief Executive Officer, Hain Celestial North America. Gary was previously Chief Operating Officer, Hain Celestial United States having joined the Company in September 2016 after over 20 years in positions of increasing responsibility at Nestlé Group, most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé Infant Nutrition North America.
Article One Partners (AOP) [WILLISTON, VT] announced that former President Peter Vanderheyden has been promoted to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Article One, Vanderheyden spent over six years as the Vice President and Managing Director at LexisNexis (a Division of RELX Group), in the Global IP Solutions business. With over thirty years in business leadership, including five with AOP, Vanderheyden has proven his ability to run successful customer-focused organizations.
Taxpayers Against Fraud (TAF) [WASHINGTON] and the TAF Education Fund announced that Robert Patten has been named Chief Executive Officer of TAF and the TAF Education Fund. Patten comes to TAF after serving for nine years as Managing Attorney in the Medicaid Fraud Division of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. Patten also served for the last eight years as the co-chair of the Global Case Committee of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units.
CoreLogic® [IRVINE, Calif.] (NYSE: CLGX) announced that Frank Martell has been named President & Chief Executive Officer and appointed to the Board of Directors. Martell succeeds Anand Nallathambi, the Company's former President & Chief Executive Officer, who passed away. Martell joined the Company as Chief Financial Officer in 2011 and became Chief Operating Officer in 2014. Prior to joining CoreLogic, Martell served as the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Western Institutional Review Board, and before that Chief Financial Officer of Advantage Sales and Marketing and Information Services Group, Inc. From 1996 to 2006 Martell held various leadership positions at ACNielsen Corporation including Vice President & Treasurer, Chief Operating Officer and President of Asia Pacific & Emerging Markets, Executive Vice President of the Marketing Information Group, and Chief Operating Officer of ACNielsen and President Europe, Middle East & Africa.
Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI) [EMERYVILLE, Calif.] announced chief executive officer Igor Khandros, is stepping down as part of the Company's ongoing leadership succession planning. Berkeley Lights has named Eric D. Hobbs, the Company's current senior vice president of Operations and Consumables, as CEO and appointed him a member of the board. Khandros will remain on the board of directors and actively lead the Company's strategic partnerships and initiatives. Hobbs joined Berkeley Lights in 2013 and has served in several management roles, most recently as senior vice president, Operations and Consumables.
Kite Pharma, Inc. [SANTA MONICA, Calif.] (NASDAQ: KITE) announced that Richard L. Wang will be Chief Executive Officer of Fosun Kite Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Wang has extensive experience in the biopharmaceutical industry including US and China based leadership roles at Procter & Gamble, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Cellular Biomedicine Group. Previously, Wang was Senior Site Leader and Head of Operations for GlaxoSmithKline research and development in Shanghai.
TiTANplatform Corporation [SANTA MONICA, Calif.] announced Adrian Sexton as Chief Executive Officer to lead expansion of its operations in the United States. Sexton has headed digital creative and business at three media companies: Endemol Shine Group, Participant Media and Lionsgate Entertainment. Sexton was most recently COO & Interim President of Endemol Shine Beyond. He managed Participant Media's expansion into global digital media and launched the TakePart social action network, while also serving on the M&A and Social Action committees. Sexton co-founded two media strategy agencies, TAG Strategic and New Medici. He was Chief Developer Officer at Bain Capital Ventures' and is a Strategic Advisor to Next Generation Esports and Managing Partner at BANKABL.
Altify [DUBLIN, IRELAND and SAN FRANCISCO, CA] announced the appointment of Anthony Reynolds as chief executive officer as the company's previous leader, Donal Daly, shifts to become executive chairman. Prior to joining Altify, Reynolds was executive vice president operations and chief customer officer at Anaplan. He also held a number of general management, operations and sales related roles as a former senior vice president and chief operating officer of SAP.
Brightline [MIAMI] announced that Dave Howard has joined Brightline's leadership team as Chief Executive Officer. Howard has served in the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, in expanding responsibilities with the New York Mets for more than 20 years, and as President of MSG Sports.
TideSmart Global LLC [FALMOUTH, Maine] announced that Aaron Carpenter, the former Vice President of Global Marketing for The North Face and Vice President of Marketing, Licensing, and Online Sales for Signature by Levi Strauss & Co. Jeans, will lead the newly-formed TideSmart West as President/CEO. Carpenter most recently served as the CEO of ACV Consulting. He was also the Chief Customer Officer and co-founder of HubNami.
BLUE Software [CHICAGO] announced the promotion of Ali Moosani to CEO, he joined BLUE as president in July of 2016. Before joining BLUE Software, Moosani was senior vice president of global sales and commercial operations for 1WorldSync. Before 1WorldSync, Moosani held executive-level positions at Excellis Consulting Corp., VeriSign and Accenture.
Time Manufacturing [WACO, Texas] announced the retirement of Charles Wiley and the appointment of Curt S. Howell as new CEO. Howell joins Time from BigTex Trailers, prior to his work at BigTex, Curt spent 30 years in the automotive and light industrial industries.
FundingShield [NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.] announced that its Chairman Ike Suri would be taking the role of CEO, partnering with the firm's President, Adam Chaudhary to execute the firm's growth strategy.
HealthPartners [BLOOMINGTON, Minn.] announced President and CEO Mary Brainerd will retire on June 1. Executive Vice President Andrea Walsh has been named her successor. Walsh has been with the HealthPartners organization since 1994 in various leadership roles including Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President & Corporate Counsel, Public & Legal Affairs.
Hammond Lumber Company [BELGRADE, Maine] announced the appointment of Mike Hammond as president and CEO. The vice president for the past 20 years, Mike is following a natural succession as did his father, Don Hammond, the previous president since 1997 who will become vice president.
Ascent Aerospace, LLC [MACOMB, Mich.] has appointed Michael Mahfet as Chief Executive Officer. This role will be in addition to his current capacity as President of the company's newly expanded Ascent Integration & Automation Group. Michael has been leading Ascent Aerospace's Integration & Automation business group for the last six months and previously was Group Vice President and Head of Account Management, ABB Americas. Michael brings over 20 years of experience leading organizations across multiple disciplines at Chrysler, GE and ABB.
CFLD International [SAN FRANCISCO] announced Michael L. Sanford (Mike Sanford) as Chief Executive Officer of its United States business division, CFLD (US) Inc. Sanford served as Executive Vice President at Kilroy Realty Corporation, as well as held other key positions at Lowe Enterprises, Equity Office Properties, and Spieker Properties. Sanford is currently the Vice Chairman of the Building Owners and Managers Association, San Francisco Foundation, a Board Member of NAIOP Silicon Valley and a council member of Urban Land Institute.
Gemini Rosemont Realty, LLC [SANTA FE, N.M.] has announced Don Henry, currently Chief Operating Officer and Chief Investment Officer for Gemini Rosemont, has been named Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Michael E. Mahony, who will be taking on the newly-created position of President and Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to joining Gemini Rosemont in 2013, Henry served as Chief Real Estate Officer for Wells Real Estate Funds in Atlanta.
KNOW Bio, LLC [DURHAM, N.C.] announced the debut of PhotonMD, Inc., their new medical device business to be led by Nicholas Medendorp, Jr, who serves as President and Chief Executive Officer. He has more than 19 years of experience in the technology development industry and has served in a broad range of functions, including electro-optics, product development, manufacturing and marketing. Most recently, Medendorp served as Vice President, Medical Devices at Novan, Inc. Previously, Nick served as Vice President of Research and Development and Vice President of Operations at Cree, Inc.
Nielsen-Massey [WAUKEGAN, Ill.] has named Kirk Trofholz Chief Executive Officer. Trofholz joins the company from Dawn Food Products, where he was previously President, US Bakery Products. Prior to that he served as President and CEO of Barilla North America. Trofholz began his career at Procter & Gamble where he spent more than two decades.
American International Group [NEW YORK] (NYSE: AIG) announced that Peter D. Hancock, President and Chief Executive Officer, has informed the Board of Directors of his intention to resign. As part of the transition plan, Hancock will remain as CEO until a successor has been named.
Accurate Home Care, LLC (AHC) [OTSEGO, MN] Generation Growth Capital Fund II, LP, announced that Richard "Rick" Bourne has been appointed President & CEO of the company. Bourne brings a long and distinguished track record to AHC. He most recently was President & CEO of Home Health United. Prior to that, he was President of Spectrum Medical, Inc.
Siva Power [SANTA CLARA, Calif.] has hired Bruce Sohn to lead the company as CEO. Sohn previously was the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors for Siva Power and he replaces Brad Mattson in the leadership role, while Mattson now serves as Executive Chairman of the Board.
Carmichael Lynch [MINNEAPOLIS] announced that President Marcus Fischer will be named CEO. Fischer rejoined Carmichael Lynch as president in 2013. Prior to rejoining Carmichael Lynch, Fischer spent four years at the helm of digital firm Space150. He also spent time at One and All, Fallon, and a previous stint at Carmichael Lynch.


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The Central Connecticut women's track and field teams are set to compete at the Northeast Conference Indoor Championships on Saturday, Feb. 9 at Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, MD. Competition is set to begin at 9 a.m. Saturday and continue through Sunday.
Last season, the Blue Devils placed sixth in NEC competition, preceded by Monmouth, LIU Brooklyn, Sacred Heart, St. Francis (PA) and Wagner.
Central posted two individual event championships at the 2012 NEC indoor competition, one in the one mile run and one in the distance medley relay. The distance medley relay event was topped by a team consisting of juniors Elizabeth Eberhardt and Shavonne Dash as well as former seniors Alasia Griebel and Amanda Asaro. Griebel, a current CCSU assistant coach, also topped the one mile run event.
Last year's pair of individual championships were the first for CCSU since 2003.
So far this season, the Blue Devils have broken four CCSU indoor records and claimed two NEC weekly awards. Sophomore Ronea Saunders, who enjoyed a standout freshman season, has picked up where she left off, claiming the NEC Field Athlete of the Week award twice this season as well as broken her own CCSU indoor record in the high jump with 1.78 meters (5' 10").
Junior Krizstina Dearborn broke two CCSU records of her own in both the 3,000 and 5,000 meter run events posting times of 10:08.33 and 17:29.59, respectively. Junior Shelby Tuttle shattered the CCSU record in the 60 meter hurdles in her first meet as a Blue Devil on Jan. 5, she then set the record again with a time of 8.91 on Jan. 12.
For a complete schedule of events, click here. Also, fans can follow the championship action live on Twitter @NECtrack and via the NEC Championships live results page.
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Manchester City vs Chelsea - 9th Feb'19
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Ebonite unveils new branding campaign at international bowl expo
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. – Since 1905, the Ebonite brand has delivered dependable value to bowlers of all skill levels. The company's dedication to products 'Made in America' that grow the sport by supporting its players, bowling centers, pro shops and bowler education continues to shape its business practices today. Today, with renewed focus on the future of Ebonite and the sport, Ebonite announced a new branding initiative at International Bowl Expo in Las Vegas.
"When you think of iconic American brands that have shaped their industries, such as Craftsman or Chevrolet, you not only associate yourself with their products, but also the emotion their brands evoke. The Ebonite brand is no different," said Ed Gallagher, brand manager. "When you think about bowling and how you started in the sport, you probably think of your dad, friend or coach who truly supported you and the improvement of your game. You probably even remember the first ball you ever owned or the first 300 game you ever bowled. Chances are Ebonite is a part of many bowlers' history and, with our new branding initiative, we can continue to influence these and other players in the future."
A major component of the company's brand relaunch is the focus surrounding the growth of the sport through bowler education and coaching.
"We know Ebonite bowlers are passing the sport on and moving it forward," said Gallagher. "From another spectrum, hundreds of dedicated coaches are out there growing the game with every lesson, every clinic, every piece of advice they impart on their students. Our brand will be the support system for these bowlers and coaches who give life to the phrase 'Bowl It Forward.'"
A multi-layered, comprehensive coaching program developed with renowned coaches Mark Baker, Mike Shady, Dino Castillo and others as well as Ebonite pro staff members will form the basis of the consumer, bowling center and pro shop level marketing activities. New product releases from Ebonite will continue to be developed around dependable performance at a value.
The updated logo of the brand is reminiscent of the "e" logo used by the company in the early years, relating the company's history to the future of Ebonite. It also serves as a differentiator between the Ebonite brand and the corporate entity of Ebonite International, Inc.
"Ebonite bowlers are in the bowling centers, enjoying the competition, exercise, camaraderie and time with family. They seek out lessons, they're socially connected and they're loyal to brands that stand by their promises. We're proud to be their brand in their bag," added Gallagher.
About Ebonite
Ebonite, founded in 1905, is a leading bowling manufacturer based in Hopkinsville, Ky. The brand includes balls, bags and accessories distributed nationally and internationally to retail through bowling pro shops. Ebonite leads the industry in bowling coaching initiatives through camps, instructional videos and bowler education. Connect with the brand online at www.ebonite.com or @EboniteBowling and #bowlitforward on Twitter.


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Daddy Twofoot
|Daddy Twofoot
|Daddy Twofoot in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)
|Biographical Information
|Bagshot Row, Hobbiton
|Physical Description
|Images of Daddy Twofoot
- "That's a dark bad place, if half the tales be true."
- ― Daddy Twofoot on the Old Forest[1]
Daddy Twofoot was a Hobbit of the Shire in the late Third Age.
[edit] History
Daddy Twofoot lived in a hole on Bagshot Row in Hobbiton, right next door to Hamfast Gamgee and his family. He was a regular at the Ivy Bush Inn, where he was one particular evening in T.A. 3001, when Hamfast Gamgee entertained his fellow patrons with his knowledge of Bag End and "Mad Baggins". During the conversation, Daddy showed some disdain for Bucklanders, considering them peculiar strangers.[1]
[edit] Portrayal in adaptations
1981: The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series):
- Daddy Twofoot is voiced by Leonard Fenton. He is present in the Ivy Bush before Bilbo's Birthday Party.[2]
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring:
- Daddy Twofoot's place at the conversation (which is moved to the Green Dragon) is taken over by Sam.[3] A Decipher Card of Daddy Twofoot identifies him as one of the Hobbits seen in the preceding scene, Concerning Hobbits.[4]
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game):
- Daddy Twofoot lives at Number Two, Bagshot Row, and can be seen sitting outside the Green Dragon. No actor is specified for the part.[5]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Long-expected Party"
- ↑ Michael Bakewell, Brian Sibley (eds.), The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series), "A Long Expected Party"
- ↑ Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh (eds.), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition), "At the Green Dragon"
- ↑ Decipher Inc., The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game, 13U 144, Daddy Twofoot; Next-door Neighbor
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game), "The Shire"


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German car maker Daimler AG's luxury brand division Mercedes-Benz has been found guilty of manipulating prices for after-sales services in China, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing authorities in Jiangsu province.
An array of industries, from milk powder makers to tech firms, have been coming under the spotlight in recent years as China intensifies its efforts to bring companies into compliance with a 2008 anti-monopoly law.
That legislation allows the country's anti-trust regulator, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), to impose fines of up to 10 percent of a company's Chinese revenues for the previous year.
Read MoreHow firms learn to live with China antitrust raids
The auto industry has been under particular scrutiny, with a wave of investigations in the world's biggest auto market prompting car makers such as Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen AG's Audi, and BMW to slash prices on spare parts in recent weeks.
The Jiangsu Province Price Bureau, which launched its investigation last month, found evidence of anti-competitive practices after raiding Mercedes-Benz dealerships in the eastern coastal province as well as an office in neighboring Shanghai, Xinhua said in its report on Sunday.
On Aug. 5, Mercedes-Benz said it was assisting the authorities in their investigation. A spokesman for the German brand was not immediately available to comment on the Xinhua report.
Read MoreEuropean companies slam Chinese antitrust probes
"It is a typical case of a vertical monopoly in which the car maker uses its leading position to control the prices of its spare parts, repair and maintenance services in downstream markets," Zhou Gao, chief of the anti-trust investigation at the Jiangsu bureau, told Xinhua.
The Xinhua report did not mention possible penalties. It said replacing all the spare parts in a Mercedes-Benz C-Class could be 12 times more expensive than buying a new vehicle, citing a report from the China Automotive Maintenance and Repair Trade Association.
Early this month the NDRC said it would punish Audi and Fiat SpA's Chrysler for monopoly practices. Chinese media reported last week that Audi would be fined around 250 million yuan ($40.7 million).
Read MoreChina regulator says Microsoft should not obstruct anti-trustprobe
Industry experts say automakers have too much leverage over car dealers and auto part suppliers in China, enabling them to control prices, considered as a violation of the country's anti-trust laws.
China's government has in the past few years stepped up its enforcement of the anti-monopoly law, slapping several multinational companies, including Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. and Danone SA, with fines.
The government is conducting an anti-monopoly probe into U.S. tech giant Microsoft, and regulators also recently said U.S. chip maker Qualcomm had a monopoly.