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I bought this stand for my Conn 88-H. It works and travels well, but after 4 months of usage, the plastic locking lever to adjust the stand height broke. A more durable locking lever is needed, maybe made of metal instead of plastic. But if you're careful and don't use too much force when locking the lever, it should hold up. But IMO, it is a design weakness. I called WWBW, explained what happened and they sent me a replacement stand at no charge. So kudos to WWBW for the excellent customer service!
This thing worked great for a while, then the pinch lever that holds the top cup to the vertical pole started to slip, banging my King 3B slide on the bumper on the end crook. Now this is NOT a heavy horn, and this should never have happend.
It also happed with my Bach 42BO w/F attach., which is a much heavier horn.
Finally it has even fallen with my little .484 slide bore Conn 18H. It only fits in a few bells in the case, and makes the front end of your case weigh a ton when you carry it.
By far the worst stand I have used; and it was fairly expensive. TWO THUMBS DOWN!!!!!!
Have used it on my Blessing 88HO tenor open wrap F attachment, and my p-Bone, and my Yamaha Xeno YSL 830L Bass Trombone.
Works fine on tenor and pBone, not so good with my Yamaha Bass. The vertical support shaft slips in it's locking clamp, and I have found the slide bumper tip on the floor several times in the morning, meaning the clamp had fallen about two inches. Clamp is not heavy duty enough for a big heavy, professional Bass Trombone.
Because of the composite hard material that the bell sits on and the corners on the component parts, I found it putting small dents on the inside of the bell of my horn. Although it is a stable stand, I have had to modify it to protect my instrument.
I bought this stand when I needed somewhere to put my trombone during the long resting periods that occur frequently when playing in a pit orchestra. I found that the stand supported my tenor trombone just fine. Putting the stand together was no trouble either, once I got the hang of it. When I switched instruments to a Bach Stradivarius and a Conn 88h, the stand still held my instruments true and true.
However, right off the bat, the main neck of the stand seemed pretty rusty and hard to pull out when setting up the stand. This has gotten worse and worse over the two years that I have had the stand. There's still nothing wrong with the way the stand holds my trombones, but I'm worried about what the rust might lead to the malfunctioning of my stand, endangering the safety of my instruments.
Customer service was incredible! They stand behind their product 100%. It was an unusual event, but they exchanged my broken stand for a new one, with my only expense being the shipping back to them. I'll be more careful with this one, don't use for anything less than .500 bore size.
I have been happy with this stand, being able to carry it in the bell of my large bore Blessing, but not in my King 3B with a coffin case. As a result, I had to carry it outside the case and the pad on the top of the stand fell off and I lost it. I haven't been able to get a replacement part, but my son is getting ready to replace his since it is rusty. I'll be able to use his old one for parts. Otherwise, I'm not sure I will replace it with the same stand.
If you are a trombone player you should get one. Right out of the box I was able to get it up and standing, and put my little tenor trombone on it. Tore it down, put it in my horn and put it in my case. It fit perfectly (with the tuning slide down of course). It also fits very well with my tenor with the F attachment. Again, nice and snug, and plenty of room to spare. My being a music major I often have many different horns out at any given moment. I hate having to just 'set down' an instrument. So having the stand is vital. I would highly recommend this one stand because it fits within the trombone and is then easily totted along without even noticing its weight. Again, 5 Stars.
Also forgot to mention that the fit of the stand in the ball varies. It is not recommended for small bore tenor trombones as it will stick out the bell, unless the case is big enough to accumulate the extra length. For Bass trombones, the stand will be deeper in the bell and there will be space between the stand and case end. Putting in a foam or something of the sort can help limit movement. The stand also includes a velvet bag for the stand to limit any scratches within the bell
This is a well-engineered stand that is sturdy enough to support my heavy, double-rotor 1968 Conn 62H bass trombone. Once you figure out how to "unfold" the stand, it's a snap to set up and tear down (the included instructions, however, are a bit ambiguous). The neatest feature of the stand is that it's designed to fit in the bell of your trombone while transporting it inside your case or gig bag. The problem, however, is that it won't actually fit some cases. With my bass trombone, there was too much room between the bottom of the stand and the wall of the case, allowing the stand to bounce around inside the trombone bell -- not cool! Fortunately, I solved that problem by inserting a 5" x 6" x 1" piece of "spongy" foam between the end of the stand and the wall of the case to prevent the stand from moving during transport -- problem solved! However, when I tried to use the stand with my early 1970's King 3B tenor trombone, the opposite occurred. With the stand firmly inserted in the bell, there still wasn't enough room to get the horn's bell section to fit inside what is actually a cavernous coffin-case! (A friend has the same problem with this stand not fitting in his form-fitting trombone case.) In my case, the block that holds the trombone's main brace is fastened to a compartment cover with two screws. Although I haven't done it, yet, I plan to simply drill two new holes and reposition the holding block so that both the bell section and inserted stand will fit inside the case. I'm also a bit skeptical about how well the stand will work in a soft-sided gig bag. If you're able to sufficiently secure the stand to prevent it from bouncing around inside the trombone bell, then I think you'll be okay.
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If you could make a wish on behalf of The City 2.0, what would it be?
Today, TED announces the winner of the 2012 TED Prize: the City 2.0. The City 2.0 is the city of the future ... a future in which more than 10 billion people on planet Earth must somehow live sustainably, together. The City 2.0 is not a sterile utopian dream, but a real-world upgrade tapping into humanity's collective wisdom. The City 2.0 promotes innovation, education, culture and economic opportunity. The City 2.0 reduces the carbon footprint of its occupants and eases the environmental pressure on the world's rural areas. The City 2.0 is a place of beauty, wonder, excitement, inclusion, diversity, life. The City 2.0 is the city that works.
A range of visionaries around the world will be advocates on behalf of the City 2.0. We are listening to them -- and to you.
What is your wish for The City 2.0? A wish capable of igniting a massive collaborative project among the members of the global TED community, and indeed all who care about our planet's future.
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Dec 18 2011: Our wish for The City 2.0 is to change the curve of "The law of diffusion of innovation."
I believe people who had watched: How great leaders inspire action, sure will be familiar with what I say below.
According to "The law of diffusion of innovation", it's a standard bell curve that is split up into different segments: Innovators, Early adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority, Laggards. Consider there are three types of people in the world:
Innovators, Early adopters -The ones who play the game
Early adopters, Early Majority -The ones who watch the game
Laggards-The ones who have no idea that the game is being played
(for more details please google: The Law of Diffusion of Innovation)
The cruel fact is, 84% people in the world can't truly participate in the game. And it may be a little unacceptable for people that they are not in the rarely 16% group. But I believe what TED celebrated is open those great ideas from those innovators and early adopters, hoping one day that those audience, who learnt enough to contribute their own ideas, which means to shift people to "Innovators" and "Early adopters" segments by learning from TEDTalks. The biggest question is: how people get to know which segment they stand in different points in time?
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Despite current marketing hype, Advanced Micro Devices next technology thrust against arch-rival Intel Corp. comes late this year. That's when a not-yet-introduced Athlon version of the 32-/64-bit Hammer family debuts and the 512KB L2 cache Athlon, code-named Barton, is unveiled.
In the meantime, AMD is sticking doggedly to its Athlon core design with virtually no changes. The firm next Monday will unveil its new 130-nanometer (0.13-micron) node Athlon XP processor, but except for shrinking the die size from 128sq.mm to 80sq.mm, the design remains unchanged.
AMD didn't even take advantage of the die shrink to increase the 256KB L2 cache on the chip, which could have given a major performance boost. That waits for Barton in 2H '02. By contrast, Intel increased the cache to 512KB for its first 130nm Northwood version of Pentium 4 introduced early this year.
The 130nm Athlon XP, code-named Thoroughbred, does get an increased clock frequency to 1.8GHz, or a performance rating of 2200+ on AMD's model numbering system. Future versions will probably inch this up, but even an Intel gadfly like Bert McComas, principal of InQuest Research, Gilbert, Ariz., acknowledged that Intel is moving ahead of AMD in the performance derby with rapid increases in clock frequency.
Which makes the waiting time for AMD's 64/32-bit desktop Athlon version of Hammer and the Opteron server version critical for the MPU challenger's fortunes.
Opteron will roll into production early next year, although sample server chips were on motherboards all over the big Computex show in Taiwan this week. And in the next six months AMD will be battling ferociously to get design wins with server systems makers, a market the No. 2 MPU vendor has had a hard time cracking.
An AMD spokesman denied that the prolonged wait for new technology processors will impact the firm in the short term. "We have very competitive products now and the new Barton and Hammer series will make AMD the performance leader by far," he claimed.
Meanwhile, AMD and Intel in the last month have continued their vicious processor price war, each slashing prices 20%-to-30%. A major fallout from the 130nm shrink race has been to increase yields and cut production costs for both firms, spurring the never-ending blood-letting.
The constantly sliding processor prices has even caught the attention of Federal Reserve Board economists. FRB analyst Ana Aizcorbe has prepared a statistical paper which merely documents what everyone in the chip supply chain already well knows: that Intel cuts its chip profit margins "substantially from 1993-99." Still, Aizcorbe attributed only 3.5 percentage points of a 24% price decline in the price index for Intel's chips to the profit margin cut. "The data suggest that virtually all of the remaining price declines can be attributed to quality increases associated with product innovation."
For now the AMD-Intel battle is more of the same. We have to wait to see how the new AMD Opteron and 64/32-bit Athlon changes the combat forces.


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Servings: 6-10 servings, depending on slice size
Prep Time: 7 hours 20 min
Difficulty: Easy
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
8 tablespoon (1 stick) butter
3 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 8-inch graham cracker crust
1 1/2 cups strawberries, sliced
1 cup whipped cream
1/4 cup sugar
Whole berries and mint leaves for garnish
In a medium mixing bowl, using a hand mixer, beat the eggs, powdered sugar, butter and cream cheese until fluffy. Pour mixture over prepared crust and chill until firm.
In a large mixing bowl, using a hand mixer, whip the heavy cream and sugar until stiff peaks form. Spread 1/2 of the whipped cream over pie, then layer in the sliced strawberries. Top with the remaining whipped cream and chill for 4-6 hours. Garnish with whole berries and mint leaves before serving.
Recipe courtesy Paula Deen
I saw this recipe while at work looking for something to take to the cook out for tomorrow 4th of July party. I got home with my ingredients in hand and looked at the recipe again. I questioned the 3 oz of cream cheese so I came in for a double look and read the reviews. I'm going to trust Lou's recipe below and pray for the best.
By Susan on July 03, 2013
I love you Paula Deen and wow do Ilove how you cook...
By donna pasqualini on July 02, 2013
sorry for all that you are going through I love your recipes. trust God the final words for you and your company rest with Him not man.
By erma on June 28, 2013
I followed this recipe using The Lady& Sons Savannah Country Cookbook by Paula Deen, page 140. I wanted strawberry pie for our dinner club and trusted the well known resource so went ahead and made two pies following the recipe, all the while questioning the list of ingredients. The next morning I tested the pies having refrigerated them for 12 hours+. I just felt like something wasn't right. I was right, the bottom layer was creamed sugar, butter with eggs just like it was in the mixing bowl. The cream cheese had been omitted from the recipe. I had worked through the raw egg hangup. I discovered the missing cream cheese when I pulled up the Paula Deen web site and fiound the recipe there, with cream cheese.Didn't expect an error in Paula's book, are there others??? I was very disappointed and had to make a quick trip to the locl bake shop. Pat
By pat on March 26, 2013
I have been watchen you on food network for years I love your style of cookin
By Charlie on March 23, 2013
I made this pie last night and like previous people said I couldn't get the filling to set right. I thought it was my fridge at first not working right. I was going to serve it like a pudding but it tasted weird. If I was to make this again I wouldn't use the eggs. More cream cheese. I still love Paula deen but this one is not going in my cookbook.
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By Anonymous on December 30, 2011
When i made the strawberry & cream pie it came out perfectly. Its soo simple and easy to make i would suggest this to everyone.
By Willie Webster on November 04, 2011
using eggs in a non cook recipe?
By Anonymous on August 24, 2011
The base WOULD NOT set up. Done it a second time thinking I did something wrong. Same results. Upon reading the comments (after trying recipe 2 times) tried the "revised" version that Courtney Lou suggested. Base turned out great! Topping recipe not as thought. Did maybe they mean whipping cream (liquid) and not whipped cream? Used 1 cup of whipped cream and 1/4c sugar as directed and it made enough to cover a cupcake. So just kept adding whipped cream to bowl and mixing it until there was enough to cover the pie and called it good enough. Looks good though.
By Nicole Mullens on June 21, 2011
I just had to completly redo this recipe. I put 8 ounces of cream cheese, 1 stick of butter, 1 1/2 cup of powder sugar, 1 cup of cool whip, 1 teaspoon of vanilla and two teaspoons of sugar. let that chill in the prepared pan for a hour or until firm. Then I put a layer of sliced strawberries ontop of that, then followed the topping recipe^^^ No need to stress about the egg part just leave that out. I'd try this one if I was you its so good.
By Courtney Lou on June 15, 2011
I think this pie is great for the Spring because it gathers a lot of people around
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By sherreeina on February 17, 2011
I just made this pie last night, let it set in fridge over night, put strawberries and whipped topping on today, let set another 2 hours, tried cutting it, finally scooped it like pudding, good taste, but glad I tried it before serving it to my Bunko group in Feb.
By Barbara on January 29, 2011
I never have seen whether or not the filling should be cooked...??
By Anonymous on August 30, 2010
The pie is delicous but I could not get the eggs, powdered sugar, cream cheese and butter mixture to set up. I even put it in the freezer and it would not set up at all. When I added the layer of whipping cream it grew and grew like the "blob" and had to serve it in a bowl like a thin banana pudding. What is wrong.
By Anonymous on August 28, 2010
Maybe this should have more cream cheese and less butter. It taste more like butter.
By Anonymous on August 28, 2010
Eat raw eggs?????
By Anonymous on August 26, 2010
My husband and I loved the flavor of this pie but the base would not thicken, (I even tried a few minutes in the freezer). Has anyone else had this problem?
By Anonymous on August 23, 2010
NO WAY, the eggs are NOT cooked!
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I am terribly disappointed with my former school district this week.
This recent article reported the restructuring efforts taking place at the Cooperative Middle School (CMS) in Exeter, NH. (Full disclosure: I worked at CMS for nearly a decade. The school and the people that work there are still very close to my heart) This restructuring process is a direct byproduct of NCLB as CMS has been a victim of that broken legislation. Despite test scores that rank among the top in the state (for those who care), continual improvements in the test scores of both educationally disabled and economically disadvantaged students, the school being awarded the New Hampshire Excellence in Education Award as the state's top middle school in 2008, and a top notch reputation across the state, the school has been defined as a "School in Need of Improvement" through the limited scope of NCLB for the past several years.
As a result of that designation, the school has to be "restructured".
What bothers me most about this designation is the reasoning of one member of the school board, and the solution not given by anyone.
First, the school board perspective as quoted from the article above.
According to Townley Chisolm, chairman of the school district's curriculum and philosophy committee, one of the main goals of restructuring is to increase test scores for students in all subgroups of the school when it comes to the annual New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP). The NECAP exam, administered each fall, determines whether a school makes Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in reading or math. To exit the SINI status, a school must have students in all subgroups meet performance targets on the NECAP and make AYP for two consecutive years.
Chisolm said that although changes are geared to improve all students' achievements, the school district is focusing on improving curriculum for students identified as economically disadvantaged and educationally disabled, because those subgroups have had a harder time making AYP.
Mr. Chisholm, as a constituent of the Exeter Region Cooperative School District, let me say this loud and clear: I don't care how my kids (or CMS kids in general) do on the state assessment. I have come to learn that we can't be in the business of chasing data and I don't believe that the true impact the CMS teachers have on our kids is adequately measured by how well our student can fill in dots. In the words of Will Richardson, those tests are about content and knowledge, not learning.
But, I don't blame you completely because we are all victims of NCLB and the allure of higher, albeit meaningless test scores. CMS is forced to "restructure" not in the best interest of kids, but in the best interest of test scores. CMS is restructuring to get off the damn list. There's no discussion of personalizing education (beyond higher test scores), helping kids discover passions, providing time for students to dig deeply and solve problems as describe by Shawn Cornally in his TEDx talk, or develop knowledge and skills beyond those found on the tests.
Will Richardson recently lamented on the fact that "a) this country has pretty much lost its way and that b) at the end of the day, our education system carries much of the blame." He went on to write,
It's bad enough that we're bleeding kids to the tune of 7,000 a day from the system, [1,200,000] a year. That's not all due to the test, certainly, but much of it is due to being subjected to a curriculum that is driven by the one size fits all outcomes that we've set up for them. Read Seymour Papert's list of 8 Big Ideas for Constructionist Learning and ask yourself seriously how much of that goes on in your school. My guess is not much, and the primary reason is we don't value that stuff more than we value making sure kids pass the test. We don't give kids time to go deep, we don't honor failure, and we're not about "learning to learn" as much as we are about "learning to know." So many of our kids are disengaged or simply not interested in learning because they see no benefits past the exam. Are we really surprised that so many adults in our society aren't learners? So many teachers, in fact? That's not our emphasis in schools.
Well, Will, my guess is that not much time was given to discussing Papert's list here is Exeter, because "restructuring" and "constructing" are rarely part of the same conversation.
Now, the solution not given.
What isn't said here is that district leadership had a choice not to restructure. If indeed transformation needed to take place, they had the choice to do it internally, without the NCLB hoops and dependence upon arbitrary (math and reading) test scores. All they had to do was say "no" to $250,000 in Title I funding. I know, in these economic times how can anyone say no to a quarter of a million dollars, but in a $45M budget, the Title I funding amounts to less than 1%. So, for less than 1%, school leaders have allowed the state and a broken piece of legislation to help dictate what changes need to be made. They have taken the power out of the hands of professionals at CMS and sold it to the restructuring process as outlined by NCLB. While true transformation (not restructuring) needs to take place at the school level in an almost grassroots effort, by accepting these monies, district leadership has ceded oversight to state officials. And, by the way, I know these state officials personally. They are all great people with years of experience in education, but they don't know anymore about what's happening in our local middle school than what we know is happening in theirs. In fact, their hands are tied by NCLB regulations and while the number of schools going through this restructuring process has grown, their resources are have decreased. By accepting these funds, district leaders have taken the ability to lead and affect change out of the capable hands of professional educators at CMS and into the hands of an overworked and understaffed Department of Education. For less than 1%.
Having been involved in writing these plans under NCLB guidelines in the past, I guarantee that CMS' restructuring plan doesn't delve into any meaningful, long term reform. Instead, I'm sure that it focuses on "strategies" to help students be more compliant and do better on the test. As a good friend and mentor of mine often said, this restructuring is no different than "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." If indeed transformation was needed (as determined by something more meaningful than three weeks of testing in October), its time build a different boat.
Channeling Sir Ken Robinson, I have to believe that the professionals at CMS would do more for kids if they were allowed to stop trying to make their kids fit into their school structure and started making their school structure better fit their kids. But then again, there are 250,000 reasons why they weren't allowed to do that.


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I've been wondering when this subterranean HIT problem was going to surface. Currently health care uses two code sets; ICD-9 the diagnostic codes for what conditions or diseases the patient has and CPT procedure codes for what physician services are done. ICD-10 (ICD-11) codes combine both diagnosis and procedures into a single code number, hence the larger number of codes. This is requiring a major change in clinical or medical record software and billing software which means current hardware may or may not be able to accommodate "more rich" data.
Compounding this is the drive for physicians and hospitals and other health care providers to adopt HIT standards to be able to collect and share patient data between themselves and with patients. Its the perfect storm requiring medical practices to do massive IT upgrades just when access to capital is difficult. The financial incentives from Medicare are not generous enough to make this conversion cost affective for most physician practices. Many hospitals aren't in better shape.
It is the health care equivalent of air traffic controllers shifting from radar to GPS guidance. Other nations have made the shift but they aren't dependent upon codes for provider payment. The US is. This conversion will constipate provider reimbursement and provider cash flow. This is what is driving many physicians to just give it up, become an employed physician or retire. It will force hospitals to consolidate or close.
The shift also causes a comparative effective research problem because there is no good linkage from the old two code (ICD-9 and CPT Code) currently used and the new single code use. It will be impossible to look back and compare data collected in the old system with data collected in the new system. Yep a giant mess.
I'm no Luddite, but delay seems good here. ICD-11 will probably be piloted in 3 years, so why not jump a version? Moreover, given the implementation and budgetary problems with HIT, further ICD delay preserves some option value for delivery folks.
it probably has a lot to do with hoping the new system will allow insurers and the government to keep the money they should be paying out to providers. When you are that big, every day the money stays in the bank makes you money. Meanwhile community providers and hospitals alike will feel the pain.
Or perhaps having so many "new" codes tied to a "new" payment system will end up increasing what "providers" claim, and increasing waste, fraud and abuse, currently at $900 billion a year.
These "false claims" can't be detected since all claims are based on the procedure, equipment, drug, etc computer numbers submitted..even if those submitting them aren't providers and the services or products never were provided. But they are paid quickly, as required by law, none the less and CMS and Justice chases the "crooks" recovering only 1/2 of 1% [$4 billion of the $900 billion falsely claimed].
But don't worry, the government plans to just cut Medicare and Medicaid to balance the books, except in the state Medicaid programs where only cutting Medicaid and education can make up the difference.. for now! .
In the modern computer age we need coding for…? Why whould a system where the provider documents the visit electronically then converts it to code that goes to the payor converted back to a procedure or diagnosis and checks the documentation to verify the code.
what's the point…why not just use the electronic data to provide payment and skip the whole coding excercise?
To answer the question on coding, somebody has to decide on what codes to include into the computer; who do you think puts those in? There are many payer rules that need to apply under this exception and that exception, based on payer rules and guidelines. Again, a decision needs to be made. I know, you think that the computer can be programmed to to do all that, but that ain't so. Although, the coding process could be streamlined into more computed-assisted coding and claim review.
The first code is used for disease and health statistics; telling us we pay twice as much for lower results, even when the statistics don't apply nationwide as not everyone in America is covered, and never will be, since there aren't enough docs and nurses. All the excess spending goes to crooks using the second codes to defraud the system that the Feds can't catch. .
This was a useful report on the ICD-10 market. There is more information about one of the companies here:
I see some posts from people below that are just learning about the industry. The ICD-9 codes are not as descriptive and do not help with information on analytics for health populations, and disease management. ICD-10 should make life better for people.
Second, there is a synergy here with payment reform. Over time physicians will be compensated for "Quality" meaning improved outcome for patents, instead of being compensated for the number of procedures. The increased detail in ICD-10 helps give more data on the outcome.
Third, as noted in WSJ's blogs, most every other major nation in the world is using ICD-10, although most are using a less detailed version defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). ICD-10 CM in the U.S. provides more detail and more coverage for diagnosis and procedure codes.
Fourth, ICD-10 should help with Fraud, Waste, and Abuse a major drain on the health system today.
Before ICD-10 goes in, there is a co-required standard in electronic data interchange, the EDI standard X12 HIPAA 5010.
All of these things are going to force both health care providers and insurance companies (payors) to be more paperless, which we all should welcome.
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My association has a resource page that explains ICD-10 in detail and offers tools to convert ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes (http://www.aapc.com/ICD-10/resources.aspx). While I'm concerned about the implementation of ICD-10, I think that those that educate themselves and prepare early won't have too much to worry about. I see my role as a coder evolving over time. Our EMR isn't going to replace my job, but I'm going to be working more closely with it in the future.
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I can't give you specific details or numbers, but I can say for certain that the weight of the actuator mechanisms alone would be enough to make the thing nearly un-launchable.
This one I don't follow. The actuators on swept wing aircraft don't make them impractical. If there's some non-linear factor in scaling that up to the shuttle I don't see it. Also Im proposing to lose the heat shield weight by the time the wings deploy - so perhaps that counters the actuator weight a bit.
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Last, but not least, there would be serious fluid flow problems resultant of the various slots and ports needed for storage of the flight surfaces while retracted.
Why does there need to be any fluid flow during storage? I would think only during deploy and only then if you went hydraulic vs electric.
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An F-14 or any other swing-wing aeroplane doesn't face anything like max-Q.
Well that supports my point. I want to totally remove the aerial surfaces from ascent and max Q. That implies a much reduced drag coefficient on ascent and thus some substantial (?) savings in fuel. From
Around a point called Max Q, where the aerodynamic forces are at their maximum, the main engines are temporarily throttled back to avoid overspeeding and hence overstressing the Shuttle, particularly
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The shuttle needs its wings for re-entry. They are what slow it down.
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The shuttle is already the most complex machine on the planet. I think that adding these features are going to add way too many places for possible failures. The return isn't worth the risk.
Yes, I'm suggesting wing storage does away some significant contributors to that complexity: that fragile, tile based heat shield which must be seen as an Achilles heal of the current design; I read now that management of the surface foam on ascent (which killed Columbia) is problematic - requiring telescopic inspection of the shuttle in orbit, etc, etc. A stored wing does away with all of that and use a traditional monolithic heat shield as has been done in the past.
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Storing the wing and tail would be problematic (compare wing/tail dimensions with fuselage), and for that reason alone it is not practical.
Likely so, though thats not clear to me. I was thinking the wings we be scissored, overlapped for storage underneath the fuselage.
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Moreover movable/deployable wings/tail would require additional mechanical systems which would increase probability of failure,
Yes, but there's experience w/ swept wing mechanicals and I'm proposing elimnation of much more complexity in return, I believe.
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and that wing system must sustain heavy loading during the slowing down in the atmosphere.
Not if they don't deploy until late into re-entry. I suggest deployment a little higher than when the shoots popped on capsule re-entries.
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Thirdly, the thermal protection system must provide a tight, continuous seal otherwise hot gases may leak through and undermine the structural integrity of the wing/fuselage as was the case with the loss of Columbia.
Yes exactly, replace all of that a single monolithic shield. Eject the shield as done w/ capsules exposing deployable wings.


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Deprived of his innocence, Paul then journeys into the harsh Arrakeen desert with his mother. His father is dead, most of his friends and allies are dead, and he himself is believed to be dead. With the destruction of all he loves, Paul metaphorically dies and rises again as Muad-Dib, who is destined to lead the Arrakeen natives (the Fremen) to Paradise. Paul's metaphoric rebirth combines aspects of various religions and philosophies. In accordance with Buddhism, Paul loses all his attachments and achieves
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The Finnish standard of living is now one of the highest in Europe. Infant mortality is the lowest in the world. Neatness and efficiency abound.
When you arrive from Moscow at 9:20 in the morning at this Finnish border town of Vainikkala on the Red Arrow express train, you are apt to experience culture shock. It hits me every time.Vainikkala, a microcosm of Finland. Right off, you are greeted by Finnish prosperity, order, neatness, craftsmanship. Here are houses and offices with sauna baths. Here and there, basements with luxury swimming pools.
Finland, as small a country as it is, is still a leader in many industrial categories including construction of powerful ice-breaker ships, passenger liners, paper manufacturing equipment, furniture and, yes, saunas. One recent government report says Finland's standard of living - based on gross national product per capita - is among the top six in Western Europe, after Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark.
The Finns are hard-working, intelligent, disciplined and honest. They are lucky to have had strong, honest leadership.
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All is fresh, clean, operational. The washrooms are clean. The walks are clean. There is no rubble or litter about. Things are as they should be. You have no complaints, only compliments. You marvel at Finnish efficiency, something you missed back across the border.
Regrettably, in the U.S.S.R. a fair percentage of things don't work or work improperly. This includes doors and locks and gutters and the like. But, to be fair, not a few Russians recognize the gap. So there is talk right now in the Soviet press of creating a "new mentality" among citizens. It is a hard nut to crack.
A case in point: inside the U.S.S.R., a certain shabbiness and disorder is commonplace. Invariably, you meet workers including talented and cultured people who apparently don't think it important to pick up garbage right under their feet, or remove a stray cobblestone from the sidewalk. But how do you impose a "new mentality" on a people that encourages them to exert individual responsibility when the entire socialistic system is geared to subjugating individuality?
Finland, in my view, represents much of what is best and efficient and right about the free enterprise system. For example, here in Vainikkala you can buy train tickets, change your money and even get sales tax refunds at the very same window. At the end of the cafeteria line you can choose from an assortment of newspapers and magazines. Back in the U.S.S.R.,these functions would not be organized in a similar efficient fashion. There would be one
window for purchasing train tickets, another to exchange money, a third to get sales tax refunds. And the cafeteria would be in another building with no magazines in sight.
Outside the Vainikkala border station, I counted 55 automobiles. Of this total, 26 were made in Japan, one was a Ford, and the rest Volvos, Saabs, a Citroen and a few Soviet-made Ladas. Clearly, the United States is low man on the totem pole when it comes to selling cars in Finland.
You can, if you want, drive all the way to Helsinki from Moscow. The distance is about 650 miles and some drivers do it in 15 hours. From Vainikkala to Helsinki, the roads are good and well-maintained. Finnair and Aeroflot fly the Moscow-Helsinki route in slightly over an hour. Or you can ride the Red Arrow Express between the two capitals in 14 hours.
Passenger trains are alive and well in Finland. The Finnish state railway offers eight sleeper services from Helsinki to various parts of the country, including one route up to the Arctic Circle. On certain long-distance runs, special children's carriages are available free of charge with no reservations required.
The Finns know how to live. If you travel first class by special express train, you can have a hot, scrumptious breakfast served to you at your seat. Of course, you can make all your telephone calls from the train.
The Finnish standard of living is now one of the highest in Europe. Infant mortality is the lowest in the world. Neatness and efficiency abound.


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Hamilton Tiger-Cat Ryan Hinds walked on the ground he had left 18 years earlier and the memories began flowing back to him.
There were the sights, the sounds and smells he didn't even know he had experienced. But once he began processing them, he knew they were instantly familiar.
A lot had changed since the 25-year-old Hamilton Tiger-Cat cornerback had left his native Guyana to immigrate to Canada as a seven year-old boy.
He was returning last month as a grown man, a professional football player, back to try and give something back to the country of his birth.
"I couldn't believe I was going back after 18 years," said Hinds, who is entering his third year with the Tiger-Cats this season. "I saw the airport I had left from, there were flashbacks of places I didn't know I remembered, different smells, then going to my old house."
Hinds's road back to Guyana actually had very little to do with his status as a professional football player and far more with his professional pursuit away from the field.
As a biology graduate from the University of New Hampshire and an aspiring physician, Hinds began taking part in medical research internship at McMaster University Hospital last year.
His is studying something called pectus excavatum, a congenital deformity of the anterior wall of the chest.
It's not your typical off-field activity for a professional football player, but then there aren't many CFL players who aspire to a career in medicine after football (Hinds says when he takes medical literature on Tiger-Cat road trips during the season, there's rarely a fight with teammates for his reading material).
So when one of the doctors at McMaster was putting together a project to raise money for pediatric facilities in Guyana, he approached Hinds because of his interest in pediatric medicine and his connection to the country.
"When they asked me to be the face of this project I was overwhelmed because it sounded huge," said Hinds, who was raised in Toronto. 'The doctor (Brian Cameron) does a lot of work with Guyana so what he had in mind was to help the pediatric ward because often it gets left to the last. So the whole idea is to get the pediatric ward to where it should be."
When he arrived in Guyana, Hinds was taken to meet the country's president, Donald Ramotar.
"Meeting the president the first day kind of put into perspective for me how big this project can be," he said.
Guyana is a former British colony located on the North coast of South America where standards for things such as health care are far below those of North America.
There are only two practicing pediatricians in the country of 750,000, both of whom work in the private sector. And any questions Hinds may have had about the need for funds to upgrade the country's medical facilities were quickly erased by what he saw.
"I walked into the isolation room in the pediatric ward and it looked like a jail cell," said Hinds. "There was paint peeling and there was just a single flat mattress. There were no IV's and the toilet tank was caged and the seat had no covering. You can't believe kids stay here when they're trying to get better."
Part of the trip was to open a neonatal intensive care unit which had been funded by efforts led by a Canadian doctor, Dr. Narendra Singh, who founded Guyana Help the Kids. Seeing the fruits of that project gave Hinds hope that his efforts to create a new pediatric ward can drastically improve conditions in his former home country.
Seeing the state of things in Guyana would have been jarring to anyone. But his personal connection to the country made it hit home especially hard.
"You identify with people because I'm from there," he said. "It gives you motivation that it somehow has to get done."
To that end, Hinds is holding a dinner this Sunday, April 22, at the Workers Art and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, aimed at raising awareness about the project and form a small working group directed at larger fundraising efforts.
Information is available at www.ryanhindsghtk.blogspot.ca or www.guyanahelpthekids.com.
Hinds said the people of is native country have no real idea what he does for a living back in Canada, not surprising in a place where cricket and soccer garner most of the sporting attention and North American football is virtually unknown.
But if Hinds is able to accomplish his goals for a new pediatric ward, the people of Guyana will have plenty for which to remember him.
"Being back to help my country was pretty moving because you always want to give back to where you've come from."
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5 Ways to Live Small in Big Spaces
Recently I was watching House Hunters on HGTV, a favorite show of mine, and there was a couple who was buying a bigger house because they had too much stuff and were squeezing themselves out of their current home. It's not like they were living in a studio apartment and needed a two bedroom, so this got me thinking: as someone who recently left the city for the suburbs, I'm still living like we're in 800 square feet, and this is how.
5 Ways to Live Small in Big Spaces
- Sparsely Furnish: Just because you have the space, doesn't mean it has to be filled to the max. Let your furniture breathe and have space to be seen. If you don't over-stuff, you can actually allow your furniture to float in the center of a room, away from your walls, something you can't often afford to do in small spaces. If you lived without that piece before, consider that you might not need it now, or at least not right away.
- Stay Organized: Staying organized is a must-do in small spaces but it's easy to let that go if you have a few hundred or few thousand extra square feet. If you're disciplined to stay organized in your larger home, your space will function so much better and you'll feel very much on top of your to-do's. Make sure everything has its place and keep it there.
- Purge: Paring back is a common task in our house. It's totally addictive. In the series Living with Less, I've gone through every room in our home already once and plan to do so again soon. It's not that we're always bringing in new goods; instead, as we pare back we realize, even the things we thought were useful not always are.
- Refuse: When living in a small footprint, you must be so careful not to bring anything into the space that's not useful. Take this same approach to your larger space; it'll help you keep unneeded stuff in check. Refuse, refuse, and refuse that unneeded, single-use item. I promise you'll be fine without it.
- Purpose: Living in the dimensions of past generations, our home has specific rooms for specific functions. Our dining room, kitchen and living rooms are all separate and we love that. When you live in a small space, every inch has its purpose. Keeping that level of intention for your larger dwelling is just as important. Yes, you have the extra square feet, but you don't need your office spilling into your dining room (something I'm totally guilty of) or your TV room in your bedroom. Keep your spaces separate and make them purposeful.
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"Refuse, refuse, refuse" really struck a chord with me. I just celebrated a birthday, and many work friends gifted me with well intended, but useless items. I keep trying to get them to make a donation to a charity instead, but these gifts appear anyway. I cannot REFUSE a gift, but I can put it aside and take it to Salvation Army next time I am making a purge. I am so grateful to have friends who give me gifts, but it is awkward when you choose/need to limit your possessions!
During the months leading up to our recent move, I threw away at least a garbage bag a week and brought tons of stuff to charity shops. I didn't think we had that much stuff before the purge, but we did. I don't even remember most of what I dumped.
Even after all of that, as I'm slowly unpacking and organizing our new home, I find things I wish I'd left behind. I wanted *everything* that we packed, lifted, carried and transported to be useful and loved. Oh, man, we brought so much more than we want or need.
Sure, I got rid of a table I hated and still need to replace it, and we need a new sofa and bookshelves, but at least we didn't haul crap we didn't love. We're living sparsely for a while until we find the *right* furniture. Eventually this place is going to be the home I want, not the home I ended up with. Until then I'm learning what clutter really is - we don't have the furniture to store crap, so I get to really see our stuff. And get rid of it.
I love House Hunters too and always get annoyed at the childless couples who move out of a 3 BR/2bath because they need more space. Seriously two people nowadays live in more space than an entire generation families just three decades ago. I used to date someone who was not happy with his 3 BR/2bath/1 garage house because he wanted a basement. In any case, I live in a small space (655 sq feet) and I often feel that it's quite a lot of space for me and my cat. I could totally see living there comfortably with a spouse.
As far as unwanted gifts and tchotchkes go, tell people that for any occasion, what would be most meaningful to you is a donation to a charity, even of just 5 bucks.
When people threaten to give me gifts, I always tell them to get me nothing but experiences (people seem to hate doing the donation thing because they feel they have to get you something). So, tickets to a play, yearly memberships to the zoo, whatever...just don't make it a thing!
TKPGirl,, I agree with you on the HGTV. I don't understand the need for a 5 bedroom house for two people.
If you like it and you can afford it, why not? Roman Emperor Hadrian didn't like the palace on the Palatine Hill in Rome, probably not big or posh enough for him, and went for a villa that spreads over 1 square kilometre, with palaces, thermae, a theatre, temples, libraries, a pool with an island, state rooms and quarters for courtiers, praetorians and slaves. To want something is not necessarily to need it!!!
The problem is that most people living in these big spaces *can't* afford it. If you have so much as $1 in debt (and that includes mortgages and car payments, which lots of people like to ignore despite the interest), then you should not be complaining about your big space not being big enough.
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A warning for reserving names with starter accounts though, if you create it in your main Battle.net account (which is easier if you also use that account to form raids for soloing old content)
Once you *log into* a character, their mailbox is filled with all the CE/store pets your account has purchased, but you cannot access the mailbox on a starter account. Since you can't delete a character with mail, you'd have to wait 30 days for those mails to expire before you can delete the character.
So either don't log into the character after creating it, or reserve the name long before (in this case) the release of the expansion so that the mailbox is empty again.


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Greetings everyone. I'd like to announce the launch of the official All is Brawl Pokémon League to all of you. This is a league open to anyone to participate in, and hope for it to be a great success in expanding and promoting the enormous Pokémon community on AiB. The league itself consists of 9 gym leaders, and 1 champion. To defeat the league you must defeat 4 of the 9 gym leader's mono-type teams. This grants you access to challenge the league champion. People who are defeated by the champion will have to wait 3 days before re-challenging gym leaders for another shot at the champion. However, winners who manage to defeat at least 4 gym leaders and the champion will be rewarded with the brand new Pokémon Master badge. Allow me to introduce the league to all of you, so you know what you're getting into before challenging the league: Clair - lightlanayru (Psychic) Wallace - Dashing Professor Beef (Water) Volkner - Faketime (Normal) Falkner - TheMangoVaporeon (Flying) Koga - Terios the Hedgehog (Dark) Giovanni - Arban (Fighting) Jasmine - Midnite (Ground) Blue - HyperKeeby (Electric) Arceus - nealdt (Steel)
Morty - Champion Valdens (Mixed)
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