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1963 Willys Wagon Project - Dr. VernPosted in News on June 21, 2014
Plans. What was that saying about them? Something about the best- laid plans of mice and men often go astray. Yeah, I can relate to that. The original expression dates back several hundred years, from the pen of Scottish poet Robert Burns. When it comes to Scottish poetry, I'm more solidly in the Ewan McTeagle camp, but nevertheless, it's a lovely sentiment.
(Editor to Dr. Vern, Editor to Dr. Vern, do you read me?) Sorry, this is a magazine about Jeeps, not the Scottish poetry review. It's just sometimes those pesky plans have a mind of their own. Lesson du jour: The latest project on my '63 Willys wagon.
When it comes to projects, there's plenty to do. Looking around, the seats really need to be reupholstered. The existing covers aren't original, so it's not like I'm preserving anything historic. They're brittle and ragged, with shards of 70s vinyl just waiting to dig into my tender skin anytime I wear my Daisy Dukes.
Likewise, the weatherstrip around the Willys Wagon doors and windows has seen better days. Despite the scientifically proven benefits of fresh air, it would be nice to keep the weather on the outside of the vehicle where it belongs. Good seals might also help calm the nonstop rattlefest of driving a rig that is 50-plus years old.
"That's cheaper than a…foo-foo cup of coffee"
I even worked up a healthy dose of motivation to get going. And then in typical fashion, I rested until the feeling passed. Got quite comfy, too, and instead picked something I thought would be simple.
A previous owner of the Willys Wagon had installed one of those spotlights with a control handle that extends inside the vehicle. If you've ever run from the police, this is the type of spotlight tracking you while the officer barks, "Face down on the ground, hands behind your back!" (Editor's note: Not always true, as the nicer cops just tell me to stand still.)
These spotlights are great fun and all, but I don't really need one. Furthermore, the internal gears were stripped, so the light wouldn't swivel when twisting the control handle. Judging by the installation workmanship, a small thermonuclear device was used for breaching the sheetmetal. However, I have no way to prove this as I don't have a Geiger counter. So here I was with a broken spotlight I didn't really need, but I couldn't easily get rid of it because it would leave a jagged hole next to the windshield. My easiest option would be to fix the spotlight.
It's fun projects like these that make it worth getting out of bed each afternoon. With a decent home workshop at my disposal, I knew I'd be up to the challenge of fabricating a replacement gear. Because it rotated at very low speed, it didn't have to be perfect. I've got a metal lathe and am not afraid to use it. Remember the saying, "if your only tool is a hammer, then all problems look like nails"? Well, if you own a metal lathe, every answer is round and threaded. But wait, there's more since I'd recently picked up a small milling machine and have been teaching myself to use it.
I've done all sorts of interesting projects and saved lots of money in the process, too. I've turned brake drums and rotors. I've trued a warped Powr-Lok differential carrier. Heck, I've even turned and splined a set of custom axle shafts. I've never made a gear before, but it was time to grind a custom cutter and send metal chips flying. With just a little tinkering on my end (on the work piece that is, not literally my own end), I'd be able to save yet another piece of antique equipment.
While disassembling the spotlight and cleaning up the 50-year-old grease, I wondered if I could find any details online. With plenty of technical documents online for old Jeeps, I hoped I might find something for another item of similar vintage. I was not disappointed, at least at first. There it was, front and center on my screen, a wonderfully illustrated parts list for this old spotlight. Curious about this old document, I poked around to find the company was still in business. Imagine my surprise! (Editor's note: Okay, I'm doing just that. Let me know when I can stop.)
Not only was the outfit still making spotlights, they even had a parts department. That must be only for newer models, right? After all, my local Jeep dealership doesn't have anything for my '63 Willys wagon. Lo and behold, that little gear was smiling at me online. To add insult to injury, it was less than five dollars. That's cheaper than a large foo-foo coffee. Why, for a monthly pledge of less than that, I can support a very worthwhile charity that helps keep at-risk teens from becoming magazine editors.
What was I to do? I already had a piece of brass chucked up in the lathe. The challenge was gone. What if life was always this easy? You'd never build any character, which is a code word all parents use with their kids when trying to justify something unpleasant.
This was a tough call as I was ready to play. I've invested a lot of time and money for the ability to occasionally save five bucks. Then I remembered some advice my Dad gave me years ago. Okay, technically it wasn't advice. Rather, it was something he'd mutter while looking at boarding school brochures: "Son, don't be an idiot." Add to basket…click. Thanks, Dad.


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Can praying improve your reasoning? I once questioned a student about his suspicious behavior during a logic examination. He confessed that he was praying for the correct answer. I felt this was cheating. Even if God did not give him the answer, the student was soliciting the answer from Someone Else.
– Dartmouth philosopher Roy Sorensen, in A Brief History of the Paradox, 2003
This gave me a chuckle. It sounds more like an excuse to me, I mean, who prays for the right answer, huh? .... exactly!
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Praying for the Correct answer in a Logic examination?? That is just poetic. The purest example of dogmatic irony.
If his praying did'nt work he should have used one of these :
I used to pray for snow days, or fire drills, or anything to get me out of this test (especially algebra). I never prayed for answers. I just didn't think God would know algebra any better than me I guess.
If I had thought about it at all, I probably would have thought algebra was of Satan anyway. Just because of the torture. BTW this was 1967 and I have and have passed on a math disablity. I was always told I was just lazy and stupid by teachers.
cheating?? lmao this is amazing. As someone who cant possibly believe in god, I dont have that luxury....so maybe it is cheating. Not that he will get an answer anyway. lol
Asking "GOD" for something u don't deserve and did nothing to earn it.. how can that be moral !? haha
On a test in school, if student multiple guesses it and gets "lucky" and says "god did it" is stupid to say the least and the mind set to accept that as real, is beyond me. Oh well... BUT I don't want someone that builds airplanes, performing surgery or anything technical and life dependent, praying how to build, operate or assemble any machinery that needs very exact answers, or to guess or pray for the specifications of a airplane, skyscraper or how to perform heart surgery.
- If god is your co-pilot let him fly the plane.
Just recently a friend of mine, beautiful girl only 25, needs to have heart surgery for something that killed her mother at 27. Leading up to her operation, on Facebook, she made some statements about how she knows she'll be safe because Jesus is "by her side" and is pre-thanking Jesus and pals. So many comments and prayers, to all the deities, saints, and even a few others of a new age type....NOT ONE (till me) said thanx to all the scientists, biologist, medical people and all the researchers, that allow the technology to allow her to live longer...Jesus never designed a pace-maker.
It bothers me (exactly the same- only different, lol) when people say when you create something (art and music in my case), it's not you that creates it, "god gave you that" or "does it through you", They say "your so blessed to be able to do that". Fuck that. I worked damn hard, practicing 3-10 hours almost daily since I was 10, plus gigs, learning music theory and more styles of music than most people can name.
You wouldn't believe the stuff they believe!!!- They're like the Red Queen that has to believe 100 impossible things before breakfast-
No hoping/wishing/praying you guess correctly because you didn't study the night before is not cheating.
Asking an imaginary friend for answers is not even thought of as sane, unless you call it religion.
If your imaginary friend's name is Herbert or Henryetta - nut house for you...but if your imaginary friends name is Jesus or Mohamed...or the saints, jinns, and any of the whole panoply of sprites, imps, angels, and more other creatures of make believe listed in "holy" books...that's OK?
Sorry to ramble on. off, and around thread- lol
hi I am a free thinker but what u say somehow sounds like he is cheating ,,,
let then do,he was like doing it ,on luck like heads or tails,,bye

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Humiliating girlhood
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So, there's a bit of a tradition of veteran MLB relief pitchers making their rookie counterparts do embarrassing and unpleasant things. The NYTimes reports the latest update: "A hazing ritual that has gone on for years seems to have reached a new level of absurdity at major league ballparks: rookie relievers are being forced to wear schoolgirl backpacks — gaudy in color, utterly unmanly — to transport gear."
"Unmanly"! "Painful"! "Torment"! "Flamboyant"! "Amusing"! "Humiliating"! And — take a deep breath — "pink"!
They've spelled it out for me: there's nothing more humiliating than being a girl. It's a trope that's entirely undisguised, and actually entirely unoriginal.
There is a bit of girl inside everyone. Regardless of your age or gender, she's there. She's the part of you that's strong, feisty, vulnerable, compassionate, and resilient. She might be at the surface but more often she's been repressed — like a voice silenced, like tears held in. Take a page from Eve Ensler's book and EMBRACE YOUR INNER GIRL. If we've all been told to suppress her, imagine the vast power she might wield if released. She's anything but a humiliation.
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You know, I'm sure there's a little bit of little girl in all of us, but I'm pretty sure guys can be "strong, feisty, vulnerable, compassionate, and resilient". Those are traits that can cross both little genders.


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Aussies have managed to finish in second place 6 times at Augusta. However, prior to Scott Adams being victorious in 2013, no Australian had won the Master's Golf Tournament.
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Christos H. Papadimitriou
C. Lester Hogan Professor of EECS Computer Science Division University of California at Berkeley Soda Hall 689 EECS Department Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A. (510) 642-1559 christos@cs,berkeley,edu
I studied in Athens Polytechnic (BS in EE 1972) and Princeton (MS in EE, 1974 and PhD in EECS, 1976).
Since then, I have taught at Harvard, MIT, Athens Polytechnic, Stanford, and UCSD. I came to Berkeley in January 1996 (but I was here also in 1978 as a Miller fellow).
I am interested in the theory of algorithms and complexity, and its applications to databases, optimization, AI, the Internet, game theory, and evolution.
I am a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering.
NEW! INDEPENDENCE a novel, 2017
I have written these books
· Elements of the theory of computation (Prentice-Hall 1982, with Harry Lewis, second edition September 1997 ) Click here for typos in the second edition, here for postscript.
· Combinatorial optimization: algorithms and complexity (Prentice-Hall 1982, with Ken Steiglitz; second edition by Dover, 1998)
· The theory of database concurrency control (CS Press 1988)
· Computational Complexity (Addison Wesley, 1994)
· Algorithms with Sanjoy Dasgupta and Umesh Vazirani, McGraw-Hill 2006. Note: until recently, we had here the pdf of an early version of this book, for the convenience of the students. Unfortunately, our publisher demanded that we delete it. Advice to authors: (a) make sure you keep the copyright, and (b) do not publish with McGraw Hill.
· I have also written a novel entitled Turing, published in 2003 by MIT Press, and a book of essays in Greek Isovia stous hacker?
· …and a graphic novel Logicomix, written with Apostolos Doxiadis and illustrated by Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna. It has already appeared in Greek, Dutch, English (by Bloomsbury UK and USA), and more than two dozen other languages. (Btw, related to these last entries, here is a talk I gave on the relationship between story-telling and programming.)
...and the novel Independence translated by Nina Bouri to Greek as Ανεξαρτησία (εκδ. Πατάκη, Νοε. 2012), see here (and click at the bottom of that document for reviews in the Greek press), and here and here for two interviews about it.
I am not teaching this semester.
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Monday and Thursday 5-6pm.
I am a great fan of Rachel Corrie.
And I support the Electronic Frontier Foundation
And if you are interested in Greek politics (and fluent in Greek…), here are my thoughts about the crisis.
2012 was the year of Alan Turing's centenary! Here is a piece I wrote.
some publications:
computing equilibria
· Computing a Nash equilibrium is PPAD-complete, with Costis Daskalakis and Paul Goldberg, to appear in SIAM J. on Computing. And here is a paper on this that we recently wrote for CACM.
· A PTAS for Nash equilibria in anonymous games with Costis Daskalakis. The idea is to discretize the probabilities. This is for games with two strategies, in a later paper we handle any finite number of strategies per player.
· On the complexity of pure equilibria, with Alex Fabrikant and Kunal Talwar, explores the complexity of finding pure Nash equilibria in congestion games and similar games, pointing out that many of these problems are PLS-complete (that is, as hard to find as any object whose existence is guranteed by a potential function argument). A polynomial algorithm for the symmetric case leads to efficient combinatorial algorithms for computing Nash equilibria in non-atomic congestion games.
· Computing equilibria in multiplayer games with Tim Roughgarden. Algorithmic results for the special case of symmetric and other succinctly representable games: correlated equilibria can be found in polynomial time for a broad class that includes all previously known cases..
· Computing correlated equilibria in multiplayer games. correlated equilibria (a well-studied generalization of the Nash equilibrium due to Aumann) can be computed in polynomial time in essentially all kinds of multiplayer games studied in the literature: congestion, graphic, symmetric, local effect, facility location, scheduling, etc.
· The complexity of games on highly regular graphs (with Costas Daskalakis) finding a pure equilibrium on a game played on a d-dimensional grid is NEXP-complete, unless d = 1, in which case it is in P.
· Deng Xiaotie, C. H. Papadimitriou, Muli Safra On the Complexity of Equilibria., STOC 02 Approximability and communication complexity results related to price equilibrium computations when the goods are indivisible.
algorithmic game theory
· C. H. Papadimitriou Algorithms, Games, and the Internet presented at STOC/ICALP 2001. A survey of algorithmic problems related to Game Theory and the Internet.
· E. Koutsoupias, C. H. Papadimitriou ``Worst-case equilibria,'' STACS 99. What is the price of anarchy in Internet routing? Computing equilibria in multiplayer games
· A complexity lower bound for a mechanism design problem, with Yaron Singer and Michael Schapira.
· .Revisiting the price of anarchy in selfish routing: What if the routers are selfish, not the flows? With Greg Valiant. The price of anarchy becomes unbounded. But in a model in which routers charge prices, the price of anarchy is one, that is, prices achieve the social optimum in routing.
· J. Feigenbaum, C. H. Papadimitriou, S. Shenker Sharing the cost of multicast transactions STOC 2000. A problem in the interface between networking, economics, and complexity, where insights in the efficiency (or lack thereof) in distributed computation affect the landscape of possible solutions in the problem of pricing multicasts.
· J. Feigenbaum, C. H. Papadimitriou, R. Sami, S. Shenker A BGP-based Mechanism for Lowest-cost Routing The Vickrey (or VCG) mechanism can be implemented without considerable overhead for Internet routing; initial experiments show that overpayments would be rather small (PODC 2002).
· Alex Fabrikant, Ankur Luthra, Elitza Maneva, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Scott Shenker On a Network Creation Game, PODC 2003. The power of anarchy when nodes contribute costly links and are mindful of distances to other nodes.
· A mixability theory of sex in evolution, with Adi Livnat, Jonathan Dushoff, and Marcus Feldman, PNAS, December 2008. There had been no satisfactory explanation of the advantages of sex in evolution, and yet sex is almost ubiquitous among species despite its huge costs. Here we propose a novel explanation: Using standard models, we establish that, rather astonishingly, evolution of sexual species does not result in maximization of fitness, but in improvement of another important measure which we call mixability: The ability of a genetic variant to function adequately in the presence of a wide variety of genetic partners.
· In a follow-up article we also point out that mixability lies at the root of modularity and the genetic hierarchy (without it there are no genes, families of genes, etc.)
· C. H. Papadimitriou and M. Sideri On the evolution of easy instances , reports experiments in which the genetic algorithm creates easy instances of the TSP. A possible connection to proteins is discussed.
· P. Crescenzi, D. Goldman, C. H. Papadimitriou, A. Piccolboni, M. Yannakakis ``On the complexity of protein folding'' NP-completeness of the two-dimensional H-P model. Preliminary version appeared in STOC 98, full version in J. of Comp. Biology.
· R. Desper et al. Inferring tree models for oncogenesis from comparative genome hybridization data to appear J. of Computational Biology. First in a series of papers applying a specialized (and combinatorial) learning algorithm to the problem of detecting the genetic mechanisms of cancer development.
· C. H. Papadimitriou, J. Tsitsiklis ``The complexity of optimum queuing network control,'' a natural optimization problem proved EXP-complete. To appear in Math. OR.
· C. H. Papadimitriou, Santosh Vempala On the Approximability of the Traveling Salesman Problem Our latest lower bounds for approximation ratios for the TSP (220/219, 117/116 for the symmetric case). Corrected results differ (one is slightly better, the other slightly worse) from those in the extended abstract in STOC 2000.
· M. Grigni, V. Mirelli, C. H. Papadimitriou, ``On the Difficulty of Designing Good Classifiers,'' a surprisingly strong (and simple to prove) lower bound on designing good linear classifiers. SIAM J. Comp.
· Z. Chen, M. Grigni, C. H. Papadimitriou ``Planar map graphs,'' an interesting variant of planarity motivated by topological reasoning on the plane. Preliminary version appeared in STOC 98.
· E. Dantsin et al. A deterministic (2k/k+1)n algorithm for k-SAT based on local search
multiobjective optimization
· C. H. Papadimitriou, M. Yannakakis The complexity of tradeoffs, and optimal access of web sources FOCS 2000. A complexity-theoretic treatment of multiobjective optimization. Approximate Pareto curves of small size exist for all such problems, but can be constructed efficiently only under certain subtle conditions. Also, an application to database query optimization , a paper in PODS 2001.
· C. H. Papadimitriou and E. Servan-Schreiber The origins of the deadline: Optimizing communication in organizations (presented at a workshop on Complexity in Economic Games in Aix-en-Provence, 1999, and will appear in an edited book on complexity in economics). In a model in which information must travel fast within an organization, but information transmission entails "interruption costs," familiar organizational behaviors such as weekly meetings, monthly reports, and periodic deadlines seem to emerge as optimal strategies
· C. H. Papadimitriou ``Computational aspects of organization theory'' a survey of work on this topic which I presented at the 1996 European Symposium on Algorithms in Barcelona, Spain (published by Springer LNCS).
internet and sensornets
· R. M. Karp, E. Koutsoupias, C. H. Papadimitriou, S. Shenker Algorithmic problems in congestion control FOCS 2000. "Of which problem is TCP/IP congestion control the solution?"
· Alex Fabrikant, Elias Koutsoupias, C. H.Papadimitriou Heuristically Optimized Trade-offs A simple model explains the power laws in degree sequences in the Internet graph. Are powerlaws the manifestation of complex multicriterion optimization? See also for an explanation of the mysterious power law in the eigenvalues of the Internet graph (it is a corollary of the degree power law...)
· Geographic Routing without Location Information with Ananth Rao, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, MOBICOM 2003.
· M. Mihail, C. H. Papadimitriou, A. Saberi On Certain Connectivity Properties of the Internet Topology, FOCS 2003: Sparse scale-free graphs have good expansion properties, and random sparse graphs have low VCG overpayment.
database theory
· J. M. Hellerstein, E. Koutsoupias, C. H. Papadimitriou ``Towards a theory of indexability,'' the characterization problem of database query workloads which can be indexed effectively. Preliminary version appeared in PODS 97.
· C. H. Papadimitriou, M. Sideri ``On the Floyd-Warshall algorithm for logic programs,'' shows that the Floyd-Warshall algorithm is essentially unique, J. of Logic Programming.
· J. Kleinberg, C. H. Papadimitriou, P. Raghavan Two papers on a novel approach to data mining. Preliminary version of one appeared in STOC 98, the other in the J. of Knowledge Discovery and Datamining.
· C. H. Papadimitriou, M. Yannakakis ``On the complexity of database queries,'' Proceedings of the 1997 PODS, full version in JCSS.
· C. H. Papadimitriou, P. Raghavan, H. Tamaki, S. Vempala ``Latent semantic indexing: A probabilistic analysis,'' analyzes an information retrieval technique related to principle components analysis. Preliminary version appeared in PODS 98. Full version in the JCSS special issue.
· J. Kleinberg, C. H. Papadimitriou, P. Raghavan On the value of private information TARK 2001. Privacy concerns for on-line information give rise to algorithmic problems related to the computation of an individual's fair royalty for the use of private information
· R. M. Karp, C. H. Papadimitriou, S. Shenker A Simple Algorithm for Finding Frequent Elements in Streams and Bags
· C. H. Papadimitriou ``Database metatheory: asking the big queries'' a look at database theory, and CS theory in general, from the point of view of the philosophy/history of science (a one-time experiment), for PODS 95; reprinted in SIGACT News,, Spring 1996.
· C. H. Papadimitriou ``Extroverted complexity theory'' a short survey and apologia of work that applies complexity concepts, results, and techniques to fields outside CS. Appeared in SIGACT News,, Spring 1997.
· C. H. Papadimitriou ``NP-completeness: A retrospective,'' appeared in ICALP 97 (published by Springer LNCS).
· C. H. Papadimitriou MythematiCS: In Praise of Storytelling in the teaching of CS and Math Inroads (SIGCSE Bulletin), based in a talk that I gave at the International conference on CS Education ITICSE July 2 2003, in Thessaloniki, Greece.


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Don't just wander the exhibit hall at Club Industry East. Make the most of the trade show with careful planning and a buying strategy.
You always remember your first time.
Hayward Gulledge remembers his. Like most first-timers, he floundered around clumsily, not really knowing what he was doing. Eventually, however, he gained experience, and now he's a pro at working trade shows. (Yes, trade shows. What did you think?)
"The first trade show [my partner and I] went to, we just sort of walked around aimlessly, just sort of overwhelmed," recalls Gulledge, who co-owns American Athletic Club in Myrtle Beach, S.C., with Tim Conner. "But, we've been doing this for almost 20 years, so…we now sit down and come up with 10 or 12 things that we hope to accomplish by attending the trade show, to make certain that the trip pays for itself."
Eastern Philosophy
This is sound strategy for anyone planning to attend a trade show, such as Club Industry East (June 18 to 20 at the Jacob K. Javits Center, New York City). Before heading to Club Industry East — or any trade show, for that matter — you should always ask yourself: Why am I taking time out of my busy schedule to go to this event?
Once you know the answer, set objectives, as Gulledge and his partner do. Review the show materials and visit the show's Web site (clubindustryshow.com, in the case of Club Industry East), paying careful attention to the exhibitor list, seminars and events. The idea is to determine how you can accomplish your goals for the show. For example, when John Cooley, owner/manager of Final Results in Gilbertsville, Pa., goes to a show for the seminars, he plans his schedule around the topics that he wants to hit, such as retention or sales.
If you're going to the show in search of equipment, your preparation should focus on finding out what will be on display in the exhibit hall. "The [manufacturers'] reps are certainly out there calling on you, so I would ask, 'Do you have anything new planned? What are you going to be showing…?'" suggests Jefferson Davis, owner/president of Competitive Edge, an exhibit consulting, marketing and training firm in Charlotte, N.C.
And don't just talk to reps before the show. Talk to your employees. "If I were the owner of a fitness facility, I'd want to take a look around my facility and ask my staff…, 'What do you see happening in our club in terms of equipment, in terms of service, in terms of issues, that is costing us time, money or frustration?'" Davis says. "And I would go to the show looking for solutions to those issues."
In addition to turning to staff for pre-show input, decide which employees will accompany you to the event — and what their responsibilities will be once you arrive.
Cooley brings most of his 35-person staff to New York for Club Industry East — an easy trip, since his club is in Pennsylvania. He sees this as a chance for staff bonding. His group walks the show floor, grabs lunch and explores some of the local sites.
Not that it's all fun and games. For instance, when Final Results is shopping for new equipment, Cooley's fitness staff will try out all the available pieces and report their findings back to him. Their opinions ultimately influence his buying decision.
Besides sending out employees to look for equipment at the show, you can send them to seminars to improve their job skills. Sessions can benefit all club employees, from front-desk staff to general managers, as long as they enter the seminars with the right frame of mind.
In Session
Don't just stumble into a session in the hopes of learning something, advises Davis. "I would suggest writing a list of two or three or four questions that you would like to see answered in the session," he says.
If the presenter doesn't answer these questions, bring them up during the Q&A portion. (Most sessions will leave time for questions and answers at the end.) If there isn't a Q&A period, approach the presenter after the session and ask your questions. That way you'll leave the session with the insight you sought.
Gulledge is a big believer in educational sessions at trade shows — a conviction that can be tiring.
"I go to the trade shows primarily for the education," he explains. "We take three or four of our sales members each time, and we take three to four seminars a day. So it's a very, very full day. That alone with walking the trade show floor and trying to squeeze in lunch, it's really exhausting."
For that reason, planning your breaks is almost as important as planning your work. "I recommend not more than three hours on the exhibit floor at any time," Davis says, "and I would try to have at least a 15-minute break in the middle of that where I could grab a drink of water or get outside and breathe the air."
Attendees can avoid the "fatigue factor" (as Davis calls it) by maximizing their time on the show floor. Davis recommends that you look over the exhibitor list and separate the companies into three categories: must see, should see and will see if time permits. Then take the exhibitor list and map, and circle the locations of the must-see companies. This will allow you to hit your top companies in an efficient manner, row by row.
Another efficiency tip: Make appointments with key exhibitors. Traffic can get heavy, and exhibitors are looking for serious prospects and buyers. By setting up a meeting, you let companies know that you mean business.
"Exhibitors are getting more savvy and realizing that the best attendees will have objectives and set appointments," Davis says.
If you really want to get an exhibitors' attention, come prepared. "Rather than allowing the exhibitor to start talking and take you where he or she wants to go, walk into the exhibit and state your agenda," Davis offers.
In other words, when you enter the booth, state your name, your club and your objective (e.g., "I'm interested in treadmills"), then request to speak to someone who can help you. Don't just walk into a booth and stare at a piece of equipment or start working out on it. These actions don't set the stage for a meaningful dialogue. At best, you'll prompt booth staff to ask, "Can I help you?" or "Do you have any questions?"
Sweating the Details
Once you start a conversation with an exhibitor, keep track of important details. "Have a notepad and make notes in front of the exhibitor," Davis suggests. For a high-tech look, carry around a microcassette recorder and tape your thoughts for later review.
While most of your meetings will probably occur on the show floor, you don't need to limit your activities to the convention hall. Gulledge, who claims that he does most of his buying at shows, points out that noise and traffic can sometimes make discussions difficult on the floor. So he prefers to take the conversations outside.
This may seem unconventional (pun intended), but Gulledge likes that trade shows allow operators to meet with vendors in a neutral setting. You can have dinner with your rep and the rep's superiors and really get to know them. This is a much more comfortable setting than inviting a vendor to your club or going to the vendor's facility, according to Gulledge.
Taking time to sit down with vendors is important, but a trade show shouldn't consist of nonstop meetings. Davis likens a trade show to an "adventure." Get out and explore.
"Don't plan your entire agenda," Davis says. "Leave yourself time to just browse and take things in. You never know what's going to grab you. Don't schedule yourself so tight that you're running from must-see to must-see, and you're missing all of the cool exhibitors that are all over the place."
Cooley makes sure that he walks the entire floor at least once, if not twice. Gulledge also cruises the hall several times.
"If something catches my eye at a trade show that is not on our agenda, I would then reach out and ask if [the vendor] wanted to meet for a drink, or meet for a cup of coffee or dinner, what not," he says.
Network News
If nothing new leaps out at you on the show floor, ask other attendees their opinions about interesting products and services. Maybe they have noticed something that you haven't.
"I do a lot of networking," Gulledge says. "I've been in the business so long, I simply ask my peers, 'Hey, what's new and exciting?', rather than get the sales pitch from every single booth. Who's got time for that?"
Checking out the products and services on display is advisable for any attendee — even club operators who aren't at the show to buy. You never know when you may make a spontaneous purchase. For example, Cooley once went to a show in Reno with no intention of investing in new product, and he wound up leaving with a whole line of strength equipment. Why? The vendor made an attractive offer, Cooley answers. Besides, installations are good for business.
"We like giving our members new equipment all the time," Cooley says.
Like Gulledge, Cooley typically does all of his buying at trade shows. In fact, over the years, Cooley has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on equipment at shows. And when he doesn't buy at a trade show, he buys because of something he saw at one — such as when he placed an order last winter for a product that caught his attention at Club Industry East 2000, held in Boston.
Best Buys
This isn't to suggest that Cooley is eager to throw money away at trade shows. He prefers buying at shows because the exhibit environment allows operators to compare equipment. You can walk from booth to booth until you find what you like best.
Another plus: You can get bargains at trade shows, Cooley points out. Exhibitors often offer show specials, and they may even sell floor pieces at a reduced price to save the cost of shipping the products back home.
Still, not every club operator is going to a trade show to save a buck. Gulledge believes in building relationships, not shopping for bargains. And trade shows are a great place for operators and vendors to work together toward a mutual benefit.
"I more or less build a relationship with certain vendors," Gulledge says. "As long as they are taking care of me, I'll stay with that vendor."
Naturally, some club owners may argue that show bargains justify the expense of the trip. Gulledge sees things differently. Trying out products, meeting with vendors, networking with peers and furthering education all make trade shows worthwhile.
"Anyone that doesn't go to trade shows, in my opinion, in this business is really doing themselves a disservice," Gulledge maintains. "It allows you to sit down and talk about the things going on in your industry with people who face the same things you face every day.
"I've never gone to a trade show that when I got back, I thought, 'Well, that show didn't pay for itself.'"
Club Industry East Special Events
Free Panel Discussion: "Giving Members What They Want: Now and in the Future," June 18, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Career Connection: June 18-20, booth 855, exhibit hall hours
Club Studio: June 18-20, booth 455, 45-minute group exercise sessions during exhibit hall hours
Internet Café: June 18-20, booth 231, exhibit hall hours
Welcome Reception: June 18, 5-6 p.m.
Early Morning Aerobics: June 19-20, 7-7:45 a.m. New York Marriott Marquis
Free Firefighter Fitness Seminars: June 19, "The Fire Service Joint Labor/Management Wellness Fitness Initiative," 9-10:30 a.m., and "Fitness in the Fire Station," 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Keynote Address: June 19, 10:30-11:30 a.m., "Remaining Relevant" by former mayor of New York City, Edward I. Koch
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Changing the top case will also give you a new trackpad. Depending on the replacement case, you can also use backlit keyboards.
Use a coin to turn the battery locking screw 90 degrees clockwise.
Lift the battery out of the computer.
Remove the four Phillips screws from the memory door.
Slide the memory door away from the memory compartment.
Do you actually need to remove any of the screws on the underneath if you're just replacing a PRAM battery, or a hard drive? Aren't those only required if you're taking the whole logic board out?
Turn the computer 90 degrees clockwise so that the hinge faces you.
Remove the bottom 5 mm Phillips screw on either side of the hinge (two total).
Turn the computer over and open the display.
Remove the 4.2 mm 1/16" H 1.5 hex screws in either corner, next to the display (a T6 Torx driver will also do the job nicely).
Grasp the back corners of the upper case and pull up, disengaging hidden tabs on the sides. Do not pull the upper case off yet; you still need to free tabs in the front of the case.
I've opened the G4 four times. The official Apple way outlined above is vastly superior to the paper clip method. When you lower the screen side of the deck, a little bit of pressure toward you will easily release the clips. Definitely begin with the back (screen side) of the deck where you just remove the two T-6 screws.
Pry up the left side of the upper case slightly with your hand and wedge a spudger into the seam between the upper case and lower case.
Leave the tool in place applying pressure to the upper case for the next step.
This could really use a diagram to show exactly how the clip is structured. I didn't realize the clip was between the front of the case and the back support it attaches to, and it needs to be pried off that back support. (Evil Apple design - would it really hurt to have a screw underneath?). Overall these guides are fantastic! I just replaced a hard drive, and it worked great. And I LOVE the screw guide at the back - brilliant idea!
Apple official disassembly guide suggests instead to lift the upper case from the back up to 45 degrees. Then while lowering it back gently wiggle the upper case and it does disengage the latches. No tools required, no risk of bending the case.
This method worked perfectly for me. Lift at 45 degree angle and wiggle as slowly lower and it popped right off.
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Place enough pressure on the upper case to allow you to slide a tool just within the seam between upper case and lower case as shown in the picture. A dentist's hook, push pin, or similar tool will work.
Delicately slip the tip of your tool behind the silver metal latch and pull it forward while pulling up on the case. This may take some effort.
Alternatively, you can free the clasp with a small flathead screwdriver through the CD slot. The clasp is 1-3/16 in (3cm) from the left side of the slot. Use the screwdriver to lift out (or press back) the felt lining; then use the screwdriver to pull the clasp (shiny metal) forward to free it from the catch behind it (dull metal).
"Forward" (step 10) means toward the front. I was not able to release the latch this way. However, I did eventually release all three latches at once by very slightly lifting the rear of the cover and pressing the cover back toward the screen.
It is not necessary to remove the trackpad and keyboard cables (steps 12, 13, and 14) to replace the hard drive.
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"Forward" (step 10) means toward the front. I was not able to release the latch this way. However, I did eveIt is not necessary to remove the trackpad and keyboard cables (steps 12, 13, and 14) to replace the hard drive.
I find it useful to use a big rubber band to hold the keyboard up--put it around the keyboard and display.
I've done several of these before, but today it was a bear to accomplish. I finally did it by inserting a dental pick through the optical slot and pulling forward to release the clip. In case it will help someone else, pictures of the clip are at Devil Clip.
Lift the back of the case up and work your fingers along the sides, freeing the case as you go. Once you have freed the sides, you may need to rock the case up and down to free the front of the upper case.
Rotate the upper case up and toward the screen, so that the upper case rests against it.
Remove the orange tape securing the trackpad ribbon to the logic board.
Disconnect the trackpad ribbon from the logic board.
1) With your fingernails, grasp the locking bar on either side and pull up a small amount (about 1/16" or 2 mm).
2) After disengaging the locking bar, slide the cable out of the connector.
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Be very careful! The clasps holding the black strip are extremely fragile and can snap very easily.
In fact it is possible to get to your hard drive and replace it without having to detach this ribbon at all and I would advise that if all you are doing is replacing your hard drive then skip this step.
Yes, the note about skipping this step should be up there, front and center. I followed this step and broke the bit of plastic. Now it's re-fastened with a piece of electrical tape, but I am annoyed because it was totally unnecessary to do that. How do we edit the front page to at least say "OPTIONAL" for this step?
There should be a note on this to say this step is OPTIONAL. I followed instructions as written, broke the little plastic piece, and have taped it back together with electrical tape. But after replacing the hard drive, I see it was totally unnecessary to take this step. It's a high risk step, people should be warned.
the diagram is a bit confusing, and the text is a bit confusing for non english speakers. when it said pull up a small amount, i thought you have to try and lift it from the motherboard. all you have to do is move the black plastic bit towards the screen with your fingernails and the broad thing plastic keyboard cable comes off.
Loosen the keyboard ribbon clamp by pushing the thin black piece toward the screen, using the tips of your fingers.
Slide the grey keyboard ribbon out of the loosened connector.
Remove the upper case from the computer.
Watch this step carefully! The release mechanism pushes back slightly, parallel with the surface of the logic board. You may want to gently use a sparger rather than your thumbs if you have big fingers. This is a very delicate connector. Work one side slightly then the other. The good news is that it does not offer any resistance.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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(12 July, 2012: Updated with a few comments on recent US efforts to ban synthetic drugs.)
When a carpenter turns to chemistry to pay the rent, you can be certain innovation has been democratized. As told by Jeanne Whalen in The Wall Street Journal, chemo-entrepreneur David Llewellyn found it an easy transition to begin making recreational drugs when his construction business tanked. Llewellyn specializes in making "legal high" drugs for sale in Europe, always ready to move onto the next compound when authorities ban whatever he has been selling. And he intends to keep operating that way: "Everything we sell is legal. I don't want to go to jail for 14 years." This story has interesting implications for anyone interested in the future of synthetic biology, and in particular those who feel that regulating access to tools, skills, and materials will lead to a safer world. But I will get to that later.
Welcome to the real world, Neo. And to the spotlight.
Mr. Llewellyn looks to academic literature for inspiration for the next drug, and the WSJ named Purdue chemist David Nichols' papers as the source of several such drugs. The WSJ article led Nichols to pen an essay for the 6 January issue of Nature entitled "Legal highs: the dark side of medicinal chemistry". He writes: "Although some of my results have been, shall we say, abused, one cannot know where research ultimately will lead. I strive to find positive things, and when my research is used for negative ends it upsets me." The essay constitutes a bit of soul searching, with an unspoken conclusion that he is doing the best he can to try to make the world a better place. Here is NPR's version of a subsequent AP story on Professor Nichols.
Underlying the Professor's discomfort is that simple fact that science, as a method and as information, is value neutral. By this I mean that regardless of what prompted a particular line of research (which might, in fact, be motivated by particular values), the resulting information is neither good nor bad. It is just information. That said, obviously that information will be used by humans for both good and bad ends. This is about as close as I can get to a statement of fundamental human nature. Humans will do good things and they will do bad things -- just as we always have -- with "good" and "bad" of course being highly contingent definitions.
The world we live in is dirty, full of disease and despair, and some people have no problem contributing to the mess. It is very easy to sometimes forget this when working within a university. But Science (with a capital "S", please) is just another human institution, inhabiting that same dirty world. Anyone who does anything that hurts another person in today's world is likely using some bit of science or technology invented by somebody who was attempting to improve the world. Pointing a finger at Professor Nichols as the source of information used to manufacture drugs that cause harm is like pointing a finger at whomever invented the screwdriver as the source of suicide bombers, or like pointing a finger at Isaac Newton as the source of ballistic missiles. Academic publishing makes it easy to trace Professor Nichols by his research, and thus to point a finger at him, but that completely misses the point and is a distraction.
Laboratory-Adept Entrepreneurs: Just Trying to Pay the Rent
For his own part in this story, David Llewellyn is self-cast as a bit of a underdog trying to make an interesting living while keeping just this side of today's definition of "good". From Ms. Whalen's WSJ article:
Mr. Llewellyn is part of a wave of laboratory-adept European entrepreneurs who see gold in the gray zone between legal and illegal drugs. They pose a stiff challenge for European law-enforcement, which is struggling to keep up with all the new concoctions. Last year, 24 new "psychoactive substances" were identified in Europe, almost double the number reported in 2008, according to the Lisbon-based European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, or EMCDDA.
As he scurries to stay ahead of the law, authorities have put speed bumps, not roadblocks, in his path. Mr. Llewellyn says Belgian customs officials recently raided one of his storehouses and seized his chemicals, threatening to use environmental laws to shut him down. And he says he may have to move one of his production labs from the Netherlands because authorities there are planning to outlaw the use of certain lab equipment without a professional license.
...Other than that, however, Mr. Llewellyn's business is cruising along largely unimpeded. He and eight employees make drugs in a pair of "underground" labs--one in Holland and a new, $190,000 lab in Scotland.
If you are inclined to believe that it should be easy to solve problems through regulation or licensing, the very existence of Mr. Llewellyn's operation might give you pause. If the Belgian authorities threaten to shut him down with environmental laws, it isn't going to be that hard to get them to go away because so many other "legitimate" businesses somehow manage to comply with those same environmental laws even while using the same raw materials -- and the "legitimate" companies are probably managing this with much lower profit margins. Or perhaps governments could attempt to impose license restrictions on anyone using a particular material or laboratory instrument, but then of course they would be imposing those costs on all such users, "legitimate" or otherwise. Finally, you might hope to directly stop Mr. Llewellyn from making or selling his wares. And then you would fail outright, because there are so many potential compounds of interest that the regulations would have to restrict making anything that might someday be found to possibly cause harm to humans. And that would shut down the entire chemical industry, and thus the entire economy.
(Update: Wired is reporting that a ban on certain synthetic drugs signed into law by President Obama in June of 2012 has already been made obsolete -- within a few weeks -- by new compounds not covered by the law. Senator Charles Schummer called the law "the final nail in the coffin for the legal sale of bath salts." Not so much, I guess.)
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Mr. Llewellyn describes Nopaine, a chemical derivative of Ritalin, as "every bit as good as cocaine. You can freebase it. You can snort it like crack."
Whatever one thinks of Mr. Llewellyn's product guarantees, or of his marketing copy, he might be right. Nopaine might be as "good" as cocaine. Or it might, as is the concern of Professor Nichols, cause death, liver cancer, or other long-term damage. But Mr. Llewellyn can make it to market with a synthetic compound created in his "underground lab" without having to find out whether it is good or bad.
Whether you like it or not, innovation of this sort is here to stay. It may be hard these days to buy a chemistry set for your kid that is in any way interesting, but it is demonstrably easy to incorporate and get one's mitts on enough information and raw materials to synthesize compounds new to science. And even if this becomes hard in any particular country, the general problem of widely accessible information and infrastructure is here to stay.
Many of the "legal highs" evidently come from China, as must some of the raw materials used by Mr. Llewellyn and his ilk. Ms. Whalen's earlier article "Designer Drugs Baffle Europe", from July of 2010, notes that in China "lax control of chemicals makes it easier for manufacturers to obtain the raw ingredients." Her later article suggests that China is attempting to control the manufacture and sale of some new compounds, but I am not sure I have much confidence in that effort. If it becomes too annoying (and it will never be more than annoying for those interested in making and selling drugs) to operate in China, or somewhere in Eastern Europe, they will pick up and move elsewhere. And they will still have access to international markets wherever they go. Our policy may be to fight them, to chase them away, but we will never fully prevail.
Which brings us back to definitions of "good" and "bad". "Bad" Mr. Llewellyn isn't acting alone; he has "bad" customers. Their aggregate demand supports the market. (Oh, and wait a moment -- what Mr. Llewellyn is doing is actually legal, so therefore it is "good"?) Unless governments somehow come up with a way to keep people from imbibing "bad" substances, defined as "bad" on any given day, the demand for those substances isn't going away.
Chemistry Today, Biology Tomorrow
There was a time when synthetic chemistry was not so easy. And then some time passed, and now today we can order novel psychoactive drugs over the Internet. Or make them ourselves.
Today it is hard to build a genetic circuit that does exactly what you want. Synthetic biology is in its infancy. Yet it is already possible to outfit a lab in your garage (at least in the US) that is sufficient to do all kinds of interesting things. And if you don't have room in your garage, then you can stroll down to the corner DNA hackspace. (Update: Genspace's Dan Grushkin wrote in to observe that I have unintentionally juxtaposed drug production and Genspace in an unfortunate way, which was of course not my intent at all. Note that I did this to myself, too, as one of the former examples was my own garage lab.) Access to tools doesn't make molecular biology easy, but it does give you the opportunity to learn, and perhaps to innovate.
And thus people will innovate with biological tools and information just as they have with everything else. That innovation will be "good", and it will be "bad". Regulation will not be a panacea for biological technologies, and will not necessarily make the world a safer place, just as regulation fails in the case of chemistry. As I argued last month in Garage Innovation in The Scientist, restriction of access will always produce perverse incentives when there is an "attempt to control tools and skills in the context of a market in which consumers are willing to pay prices that support use of those tools and skills".
I am reminded of my experience last year at a warm-up meeting for the 2011 Review Conference for the Biological Weapons Convention. At one point in the discussion, one delegate asserted that "garage or DIYBio is only a problem in the US. In our country it is illegal to do such things."
I wonder if this delegate knows whether or not a chemo-entrepreneur has an "underground lab" next door?


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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:32 am
Post subject: No 85-90 increment on my main, couple others
So with all my uploaded data now processed, I went back to see how it looked. For some reason the increments of my main's 85-90 journey are not registered, nor are they for a couple others I know who hit 90 in the first few days.
I was copying files out every few hours to try to increment the people who hit 90 early. For instance, I have 8 files for the 25th, 10 for the 26th, 10 for the 27th, and 8 for the 28th. Yet my main (click my profile to the left, main is Averiy) simply shows 85 on (or before) the 25th, and 90 on the 28th. Nothing in between.
A couple more examples: First, my friend who I leveled with. Everything he did, I did, and we leveled within (at most, toward the end) an hour of each other. His name is Fellaxe, on Earthen Ring (
). If you look, same deal. 85 prior to the 25th, 90 on the 28th, nothing in between. Two more examples are Murlen (
) and Lamisa (
), two hunters in my guild who hit 90 very early. Same deal with them.
A contra-example would be a monk in my guild, Hisae (
), who RAF leveled his toon to 80, and then leveled naturally from there. His history shows him at 82 on the 25th, and his leveling progression is quite visible from there, with 2 or 3 entries for each level over the next three days.
I'm really kinda disappointed that my history doesn't look like Hisae's, despite being taken during the same time, by the same person.
Any ideas why this would be so?
I still have my saved files. Would re-uploading and allowing them to be re-processed possibly "fill in the blanks?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:28 am
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Could it be possible that somebody else on your realm managed to get in a submission before you, which happened to contain those characters? Seems the most likely explanation I can think of.
Unfortunately re-uploading does not fix things, I'm in the same boat, as I sent Rollie one of my own files for testing the site upgrades, and as a result, my main has 85-90 with nothing in between, even though I carefully saved up different files for every step (the one I sent Rollie was a later one, oops).
- I uploaded all my files in order later on, but as you can see, once it's been seen at 90, that's that
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Yeah, I think the site here was up for a few hours before I started uploading, so perhaps it was one of those "auto-upload on logout" people that beat me to it. Pretty disappointed.
It's still really weird that someone managed to catch me, but not that other guy who is incremented.
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:19 pm
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I've never understood why a character will get multiple entries in their history without changing level or guild, but it shows up several times for Hisae. It looks like he has two entries at each level 85-90. Two per level isn't nearly as bad as some others I've seen in the past. Mostly I'm curious, does anyone know, what causes that?
If we were counting votes, I would also like to see data uploaded later fill in gaps in character history. I suspect that wouldn't be an easy change, and the last thing Rollie needs right now is a major feature request. So really, I'm just making conversation about it, but that's what forums are for, right?
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 6:07 pm
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Balgair: One other possible explanation is the cross realm system as there are 3 characters in a guild on Stormrage that I also have characters in that have very new last seen dates even though my files from that time period are still on my hard drive, not even in the queue yet. Cross realm feature could easily explain why only some characters that were online simultaneously were seen. They could even have been fairly close to each other, but if some were moused over or targeted and others not, that would do it, I think.
Fett: I have not had time to check enough characters, but maybe the doubling is somehow related to being pandaren and/or monk? Both are new things, maybe they are registering twice for some coding related reason? Could you look up other pandaren monks you know?
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:42 pm
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The only other Pandaren Monk I checked didn't have it, but was low level. However, this isn't a new thing. Check out this character:
That was the worst example I could find. I didn't even bother to count how many level six entries that character had. The first two make sense; unguilded to guilded. However, for the next couple dozen or so, the character doesn't change levels or guilds. Those entries are all from 2007.
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Fett, I have only taken a look at about a dozen more characters who shown the "doubling" so my sample is still too small... but so far, all the cases I have seen are either very new... or in characters that were played during early March - June, 2007. Very many of the old characters also show signs of the player taking very long breaks and spending a significant amount of time on specific level(s). With such limited "study" all this could be a coincidence... or a pattern.
Amberlyssa, also of the Old Guard is one such example:
The part that troubles me is that the new characters affected don't share anything obvious in common, except being new. And it isn't anything systematic, because it doesn't affect all characters.
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The first thing you notice about the Merino Jersey is just how soft the 100% merino fabric is. It's seriously high quality merino, that's for sure, with a very fine fibre. The cut and fit are intended to be casual and relaxed, and there's a classic four button neckline to give a polo shirt-esque feel. Perforations are included in the form of a different knit at the sides to add to riding comfort with extra ventilation, and you get a simple button down pocket at the rear for your necessaries.
It was an incredibly comfortable top to wear, with the softness and temperature maintenance qualities that go along with good merino. It wicked moisture well enough for me to not feel sweaty, whilst keeping me at a steady temperature even in changeable conditions. That said, the fabric is not the lightest weave of merino, and as such was slightly on the warm side, although would be fine for spring and autumn use and low speed cruising in high temperatures. Being quite so soft (and expensive), I also feared for its safety as far as pulling and plucking went The neckline is nice in concept, but tended to stay shut even when unbuttoned, meaning less ventilation at the neck. At speed it did flap open, but didn't really stay that way. This also meant the top looked a bit odd off the bike, as it stayed shut with quite a high neckline. Still, it's a good looking top and can happily be worn with jeans or capris on or off the bike. The fit is casually loose rather than performance neat. One other tiny niggle was the pocket. I understand the thinking behind the button fastening, but I was decidedly hesitant about putting anything valuable or important into it. Even if it had one more button in the middle of the flap I'd have been happier that my keys or phone weren't going to end up hitting the deck at a junction somewhere.
£125 is a lot of money for a merino top, especially when there are a few companies, such as Icebreaker and Vulpine offering similar high quality garments for a lot less, but it DOES have that Rapha kudos (albeit without the logo- subtly going for just the iconic cream sleeve band) and it IS incredibly high quality merino that will last and last if you treat it right, so ultimately, it's down to personal preference. I think personally I'd find it hard to justify paying £125 with the slight niggles I had.
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Make and model: Rapha Women's Merino Jersey
Size tested: Medium grey
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Made for women for city riding. For on and off the bike wear.
Merino is always ideal for urban duties.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
100% merino wool
Four button collar
2 button rear pocket
Knitted ventilation panels at sides
Machine washable at 30
Available in sizes XXS-XL
Some of the softest merino (think cashmere softness) I've ever encountered and really well made.
Maintained a steady temperature and was comfortable to wear.
If cared for correctly, merino should last for years, with no odour problems due to its natural anti-microbial qualities. This fabric is so incredibly soft though that it could be prone to snagging from velcro etc.
Very comfortable, both in fit and fabric. And also in body temperature when using.
Just too expensive for what it is when other similar high quality products are available at a cheaper price.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Performed very well, although I'd have liked it to have a different type of neckline for real on/off bike potential.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Fabric, side ventilation knit.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Neckline, more secure back pocket would have been good, price.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Possibly if it were in the sale.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Probably not.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
Comfortable to wear, and oh so soft, but it's too expensive and the neckline could have been both more stylish and practical.
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The travelblogeteria(tm) is chock full o' complainin' today about the admittedly annoying changes US Airways and American made to their programs yesterday, with much of the complaining focused on how it isn't "fair" for the airlines to do this, and that airlines need to be more "respectful" of their program members.
That is absolutely hilarious.
A few thoughts here:
– These are public companies, and their first responsibility is to their shareholders. Sure, some companies will tell you that without happy customers they can't run a profitable business. That has not been the case for airlines. Southwest Airlines has very happy customers and from May 2011 to this month, their stock when from roughly $12 to roughly $24. Spirit's stock went from $11 to $60 during that period (they IPO'd in May 2011). Delta, who has had the industry-worst frequent flyer program, saw its stock triple during that period. You can love (or LUV) your customers, or you can get great stock returns. You pick.
– I know everyone in frequent flyer programs are referred to as "members" but we are not "members" – we are people who are hoarding a highly speculative currency. As I wrote last year:
First, they are not loyalty programs. A loyalty program would reward loyalty. Airline and hotel points programs do not reward loyalty; they issue a currency…and, like all currencies, they can be devalued (or overvalued) over time. We are always surprised, shocked, and offended when airlines and hotels change the value of the currency, and on some level I blame them for it — if these are loyalty programs, is our loyalty now less valuable? Well, no – because they're just issuing currency, not rewarding loyalty. Starwood is basically the Central Bank of the Republic of Starwood.
Airlines have printed points like, as I've said before, they're Zimbabwe's finance minister…we cannot possibly expect their value to hold when points are so readily available. And there's literally nothing keeping airlines from devaluing the points, changing the rules for the points, or adding fees to using the points. It's in the fine print, but it's in there. I'm not sure why this is surprising – we have been kidding ourselves if we think that we have all been good soldiers and we can't believe that we are being betrayed. Please. You think there's no cost to Vanilla Reloads and credit card churns? THIS is the cost.
– How many people complaining about this have earned these miles through credit card churn, and not through airline loyalty, by the way?
– Fly coach…there are no changes there.
– I was actually serious yesterday when I wrote that you should buy shares in the airlines you fly as a hedge against these moves. Sure it's annoying when airlines change their rules, but if they're doing it to boost their bottom line, why wouldn't you take advantage of the upside there? Airline stocks have been gangbusters over the past couple of years now that they're actually running good businesses and charging fees where they can. I know that's annoying as a traveler; but I've hedged that by buying shares in US Airways & Spirit Airlines. Suddenly that $3 water on Spirit isn't so annoying. Plus, if hoarding points IS currency speculation (which I argue it is) then I SHOULD have a hedge against it. Which I've done.
– And perhaps, then, shame on all of us who write about miles for not stressing more clearly that miles have no value until used. I've danced around that idea (as I appear to be the only person telling people not to take advantage of the US Airways mileage sale the other day), but speculatively buying points always seemed crazy to me. Yesterday I was reminded why that is.
– And finally…for all of the virtual ink that was shed on this and how unfair it is and how badly we're treated, I just wanted to remind everyone that the CEO of General Motors has been in front of Congress trying to explain why they didn't bother recalling cars that they knew had caused the deaths of 12 of their customers. Eliminating a free stopover and charging for upgrades seems like a petty complaint in comparison.


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|Lady cream peas, seasoned with smoked meat, onion, garlic and fresh herbs, served with a side of cornbread and pictured here, with broiled chicken.
Southern Style Lady Cream PeasEven though white beans and red beans and rice are common weekly features here in the Deep South, I love beans of all kinds, and all I need is a good rainy day like we had yesterday to have an excuse to make some, no matter the temperature outside. Most often served as a side dish to other foods, southern peas are another love of mine, and I absolutely adore Lady Cream Peas for their buttery flavor and super creamy texture.
Known as field peas, cowpeas, and simply southern peas - though calling them peas is a bit of a misnomer, since they are all actually beans - they are identifiable by their small size and by the seed-eye you'll find on them, that tiny little familiar spot most of us immediately recognize from black-eyed peas the most.
It won't be long and you'll be able to find fresh Lady Cream Peas on the roadside in many parts of the Deep South, though I can never manage to chase any down around here. I don't even know if anybody even grows them here locally to be honest. Course, it would probably help if I hit the farmers market a little early or travel outside of the "city," because those are the places you are most likely to find them. Heck, it's hard to even find them dried at the stores here, so I just order mine online direct from Camellia. Though fresh is best, dried will certainly do, and it's worth the cost of shipping to me to be able to enjoy them right from my pantry.
|Photo: Camellia Brand Beans
Most southern peas and beans are cooked about the same way - some kind of smoked meat, often bacon, andouille sausage, tasso, ham or ham hock - is used for the base seasoning. To that we add some onion and garlic, sometimes a hot pepper, and from there it's just a few minor variations in the herbs and seasonings used depending on the variety of pea and your own personal preferences. In fact, if you don't have access to Lady Cream Peas you could certainly use this recipe for other southern peas.
Here's how I make my Lady Cream Peas.
Rinse and sort the peas and add to a Dutch oven or soup pot.
I used tasso which is a highly seasoned cured pork that has been rubbed with a variety of spices and seasonings prior to smoking - including plenty of cayenne pepper. It is firm in texture like ham, but adds a huge kick of rich and spicy flavor to dishes. Because tasso is so highly seasoned, I'm using it first with just the beans and water before adding the other seasonings. This will infuse the flavor into the water and beans though you can certainly add everything all together as well. You may use pretty much any smoked meat you favor - bacon, ham, ham hocks, smoked sausage and smoked turkey even.
Chop up the tasso or smoked ham, and add it, along with the water to the peas.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 1 hour.
Now it's ready for some additional seasoning!
In a separate skillet, sauté the onion in the butter until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook another minute. Since I used a spicy tasso to season my broth, I skipped the hot peppers, however, if you use a milder smoked meat, jalapeno is a great addition to kick up the flavor a bit. Clean the jalapeno of the seeds and ribs, dice, then add in here with the onion to saute it.
Transfer the skillet contents, including all of the drippings, to the pot. Add all of the seasonings, except for the salt and pepper.
Continue cooking, uncovered, for another 1/2 hour, or longer, until peas are tender and liquid has reduced to consistency desired. Taste and add salt and pepper only as needed.
Recipe: Southern Style Lady Cream Peas©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 1 hour 30 min | Yield: About 6 servings
- 1 pound dried lady cream peas, soaked overnight
- 1/4 pound of pork tasso or smoked ham, chopped
- 10 cups of water
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- 1 cup of chopped onion
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, chopped
- 1 teaspoon fresh flat leaf parsley, chopped
- 1 teaspoon fresh basil, chopped
- 1 teaspoon fresh oregano, chopped
- 2 bay leaves
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
Soak beans overnight to speed the cooking process. Rinse and sort the peas and add to a Dutch oven or soup pot. Add the tasso or smoked ham and the water; bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 1 hour.
In a separate skillet, sauté the onion in the butter until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook another minute. Transfer the skillet contents, including all of the drippings, to the pot. Add all of the seasonings, except for the salt and pepper, and continue cooking uncovered for another 1/2 hour, or longer, until peas are tender and liquid has reduced to consistency desired.
Taste, season with salt and pepper only as needed. Serve with a side of cornbread as a main dish meal over rice, or as a side dish with your favorite meat.
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Cook's Notes: Use this recipe with other southern peas, such as black-eyed peas, crowder peas, field peas, butter peas and purple hull peas. Jalapeno or other hot peppers are a nice seasoning addition for many southern peas. Since I used spicy tasso this time, I left the peppers out, but feel free to add some in if you use a milder smoked meat. Can substitute dried herbs for the fresh - reduce to about 1/4 heaping teaspoon. I used Camellia brand dried lady cream peas, but fresh peas can be used also. Total cooking time will be reduced to 45 minutes to an hour or so. If you love Lady Cream Peas but you're having trouble finding them in your area, you can buy them in dried form direct from Camellia online.
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