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Simply download the PDF and cut out the template, a bit of 'pre-school' level assembling, aluminium foil and cotton glue all you need.
Note: The PDF is in A4 format, if you're printing in Letter format, remember to keep to the same aspect ratio, ideally use the 'fit to page' feature available on most printers. With that in mind, you should be able to scale up to a much larger version, on a A3 printer.
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This is no help what so ever.
Very machismo and always get a lot of extra seat space in the subway.
I've used it to get 4G from the Martians, but reception was spotty from the Venusians. The nice lady in the white coat let me write down the words, though.
very cool worked like a charm. used aluminum cans
Fellow, felllow, fellow, i tried all and don't work, so do this ugly thing works or you telling false story.
dear! i am facing a wifi signal reception problem, i am using a tp link router model wa7210n and hang on roof with pipe for long uses, but that signals are traveling on upper side , i cannot use with gud signals in down room.
Look this proposal , I am sure you will be able to find the right thing, there is a huge number of amplifiers http://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/
Hey. thanks for the love. You need any help with cell phone signal boosters, just email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. We got solutions for everything.
for those of you serious about making wifi antenna its gonna take some math you comcast makes it easy dont forget to * by velocity factor (copper wire =93-97%)
If the foil rips easy, it's no good. I know that the thickness of the foil shouldn't affect it's reflection of the signal, but I observed my first attempts at making such boosters with the ones I used a heavy foil... too me it works better with a heavy foil. I think it's because cheap foil wrinkles up easy, and you need the foil smooth. I use shiny side towards the target (shiny side glued to the paper for most projects).
My very first attempt with the windsurfer made the signal worse (I blame a combo of cheap dollar store foil, and not getting the cuts and bends right). I made one with the foil on the inside and noticed you can tell if the arc is right if you shine a light on it and it all focuses evenly on the antenna. *You can print the design on bubble-jet/lazer transparency paper/plastic and it will turn out just as good (be it a nickel more in cost).
I tell you what. Why don't you, in true HAM fashion, *prove* the VSWR is horrible. Don't just take potshots from the cheap-seats.
I'm using one right now to share wifi to a neighbor 50 yards away and get a very predictable 9-10db gain. Without the antenna their daughter gets no wifi on her iPhone. With the antenna directed at their side window, she gets solid signal all through the house except for the corners at the far end with lots of walls/structure in between.
This design is no different than a dish, just single curvature instead of dual; which matches fine to the axis of the monopole/omni. Sure it could be tweaked up but if constructed decently it appears to give me a decent 9-10dB gain, with very low error rate and few packet resends so the VSWR can't be an issue.
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I use Ubuntu 10.04 op system, and it tells me the normal signal strength is about 75%.
Having nothing else to do, I decided to copy this template and put the booster thing together. I had little hope it would do much at all. Now understand, I took my time and put it together neatly. When I attached the thing to the router the percentage jumped to 92%.
I moved things around , pointed the diy antenna booster in different directions and watched as the signal strength changed.
75% to 92 % is a nice healthy gain, and I am very happy with it.
It is Hams like you that ruin our hobby... Leave it to the professionals?
Are You, Dad and Grandpa the Professionals... How about Me, I am a US Extra Class and have an 2 Electrical Engineering Degrees? You need to study the facts about SWR.. I know you are a kid, but you need to adjust your attitude, study antennas and electronics..
Quit buying your equipment build some... and leave the experimenters alone. They are doing what you are not, and since you are a ham, shame on you... If I ever hear your callsign, I probably will not answer you!
Good day...
I can't vouch for THIS design, but others that are similar in nature work quite well.
I've used the following design at home, on both 2.4 GHz and 5GHz wifi access points with great success. Informal measurements showed a forward gain of between 5 to 10 db over the AP's antenna alone. My manufacturing method involved styrofoam, card stock, spray adhesive and aluminum foil. Measurements and cuts were made very carefully. I created my design so I could adjust the focus for the best forward gain possible. My measurement was simply Netstumbler running on a laptop 10 meters from the antenna. Rejection from the rear was in excess of 15 db for me. The pattern in front is fairly wide, so accurate aiming is not required as long as you are within a reasonable 20 or 30 degrees from your target.
Positioning was much more critical at 5GHz, naturally.
I used this design with the stock, as well as the 7 db replacement antenna - whose design I do not know.
My real life measurements were made with signal strength reported by my wifi nic to netstumbler. I also see more access points and have more reliable connections than without the reflector. And um, how many folks just happen to have SWR meters, field strength meters or other devices to measure at 2.4 and 5 GHz?
I can tell you in all cases the forward gain and rear rejection were impressive. and FREE. remember the word - FREE.
I was a ham once too.
I purchased an engenius adapter/antenna which helped very slightly but was unreliable.
Someone else suggested I Get an "N" adapter. I purchased a Hawking HiGain wireless N usb adapter.
I haven't tested it yet but I would still like to hear any suggestions you guys could offer to improve this signal.
If you want distance, first thing to try is to get line of sight to the router, maybe move the router to a windows bay.
Next, get yourself a directional antenna, this ought to improve reception. Option a) spend some money on company's account. Option b) Cantanna
I'll see if the cantenna helps.


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41 CFR 105-55.011 - Collection by administrative offset.
(1) The term "administrative offset" has the meaning provided in 31 U.S.C. 3701(a)(1).
(i) Debts arising under the Social Security Act, except as provided in 42 U.S.C. 404;
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(5) In bankruptcy cases, GSA will ascertain the impact of the Bankruptcy Code, particularly 11 U.S.C. 106, 362, and 553, on pending or contemplated collections by offset.
(1) GSA is required to refer past due, legally enforceable non-tax debts that are over 180 days delinquent to the Secretary for collection by centralized administrative offset. Debts that are less than 180 days delinquent also may be referred to the Secretary for this purpose. See paragraph (b)(5) of this section for debt certification requirements.
(2) The names and taxpayer identifying numbers (TINs) of debtors who owe debts referred to the Secretary as described in paragraph (b)(1) of this section will be compared to the names and TINs on payments to be made by Federal disbursing officials. Federal disbursing officials include disbursing officials of the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Defense, the United States Postal Service, other Government corporations, and disbursing officials of the United States designated by the Secretary. When the name and TIN of a debtor match the name and TIN of a payee and all other requirements for offset have been met, the payment will be offset to satisfy the debt.
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(A) Has been sent written notice of the type and amount of the debt, the intention of GSA to use administrative offset to collect the debt, and an explanation of the debtor's rights under 31 U.S.C. 3716(c)(7); and
(1) The opportunity to inspect and copy Agency records related to the debt;
(2) The opportunity for a review within GSA of the determination of indebtedness (see paragraph (e) of this section); and
(3) The opportunity to make a written agreement to repay the debt.
(B) The debt arises under a contract as set forth in Cecile Industries, Inc. v. Cheney,995 F.2d 1052 (Fed. Cir. 1993) (notice and other procedural protections set forth in 31 U.S.C. 3716(a) do not supplant or restrict established procedures for contractual offsets accommodated by the Contracts Disputes Act); or
(C) In the case of non-centralized administrative offsets conducted under paragraph (c) of this section, GSA first learns of the existence of the amount owed by the debtor when there is insufficient time before payment would be made to the debtor/payee to allow for prior notice and an opportunity for review. When prior notice and an opportunity for review are omitted, GSA will give the debtor such notice and an opportunity for review as soon as practicable and will promptly refund any money ultimately found not to have been owed to the Government.
(iii) When GSA previously has given a debtor any of the required notice and review opportunities with respect to a particular debt (see, e.g., § 105-55.010), the Agency need not duplicate such notice and review opportunities before administrative offset may be initiated.
(5) When referring delinquent debts to the Secretary, GSA will certify, in a form acceptable to the Secretary, that—
(ii) GSA has complied with all due process requirements under 31 U.S.C. 3716(a) and Agency regulations.
(6) Payments that are prohibited by law from being offset are exempt from centralized administrative offset. The Secretary shall exempt payments under means-tested programs from centralized administrative offset when requested in writing by the Administrator. Also, the Secretary may exempt other classes of payments from centralized offset upon the written request of the Administrator.
(7) Benefit payments made under the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.), part B of the Black Lung Benefits Act (30 U.S.C. 921 et seq.), and any law administered by the Railroad Retirement Board (other than tier 2 benefits), may be offset only in accordance with Treasury regulations, issued in consultation with the Social Security Administration, the Railroad Retirement Board, and the Office of Management and Budget. See 31 CFR 285.4.
(8) In accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3716(f), the Secretary may waive the provisions of the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 concerning matching agreements and post-match notification and verification (5 U.S.C. 552a(o) and (p)) for centralized administrative offset upon receipt of a certification from GSA that the due process requirements enumerated in 31 U.S.C. 3716(a) have been met. The certification of a debt in accordance with paragraph (b)(5) of this section will satisfy this requirement. If such a waiver is granted, only the Data Integrity Board of the Department of the Treasury is required to oversee any matching activities, in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3716(g). This waiver authority does not apply to offsets conducted under paragraphs (c) and (d) of this section.
(1) Generally, non-centralized administrative offsets are ad hoc case-by-case offsets that GSA conducts, at the Agency's discretion, internally or in cooperation with another agency certifying or authorizing payments to the debtor. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, when centralized administrative offset is not available or appropriate, past due, legally enforceable non-tax delinquent debts may be collected through non-centralized administrative offset. In these cases, GSA may make a request directly to a payment authorizing agency to offset a payment due a debtor to collect a delinquent debt. For example, it may be appropriate for GSA to request the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offset a Federal employee's lump sum payment upon leaving Government service to satisfy an unpaid advance.
(ii) The payment authorizing agency has received written certification from GSA that the debtor owes the past due, legally enforceable delinquent debt in the amount stated, and that GSA has fully complied with its regulations concerning administrative offset.
(3) Payment authorizing agencies will comply with offset requests by GSA to collect debts owed to the United States, unless the offset would not be in the best interests of the United States with respect to the program of the payment authorizing agency, or would otherwise be contrary to law.
(4) When collecting multiple debts by non-centralized administrative offset, GSA will apply the recovered amounts to those debts in accordance with the best interests of the United States, as determined by the facts and circumstances of the particular case, particularly the applicable statute of limitations.
(d) Requests to OPM to offset a debtor's anticipated or future benefit payments under the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. Upon providing OPM written certification that a debtor has been afforded the procedures provided in paragraph (b)(4) of this section, GSA may request OPM to offset a debtor's anticipated or future benefit payments under the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund (Fund) in accordance with regulations codified at 5 CFR 831.1801 through 831.1808. Upon receipt of such a request, OPM will identify and "flag" a debtor's account in anticipation of the time when the debtor requests, or becomes eligible to receive, payments from the Fund. This will satisfy any requirement that offset be initiated prior to the expiration of the time limitations referenced in paragraph (a)(4) of this section.
(1) A debtor may seek review of a debt by sending a signed and dated petition for review to the official named in the demand letter. A copy of the petition must also be sent to the GSA Board of Contract Appeals (GSBCA) at the address indicated in paragraph (e)(6) of this section.
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Physics Teacher,
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A universal definition of life.
Any entity that has the ability to store and exchange information autonomously.
Perhaps as we move through the next millenium we will need a definition of life that is this general. It may be needed to classify artificial life or to classify alien life. We may find life forms so different to ourselves that the only recognisable feature is information management. It might also help us to identify the point at which a person is no longer alive.
Aug 24 2012: Some things can't be defined.
To define is to close it within borders that really doesn't exist within the natural world.
The thing is that nothing in itself exists separately but is defined by what it is not.
So anything is defined by everything.
Aug 30 2012: "Some things can't be defined"
Such as?
Aug 30 2012: Nothing living can be defined without defining the whole system of life.
If I say:"that's a rose.", I may point at a picture or the real thing, you may think that you know what is a rose because you saw one before and you associate the word with the appearance as you remember.
But to really know a rose you need to understand the rosebush, the way they multiply, the environment of the plant and its history. You have to know the elements and light, cell building/differentiation, the universe - you have to understand being itself to know a rose.
You don't know a thing by describing its morphology alone. Color, smell, you even have to describe yourself as well.
Aug 30 2012: But perhaps definitions are not arrogant attempts to fully encompass everything knowable about a thing. Perhaps they are parochial explanations required in some context.
A rose is also a symbol in litterature, politics, ... more than a living thing, more than a bunch of atoms.
But to give a definition of a rose is to share some understanding of it.
I think everything can and should be defined.
Definition of a rose : a horny bush planted in public gardens to keep children off the lawn.
Debra Smith
Aug 22 2012: I like this portion of the trial of Data on Star Trek to clarify these issues:
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Aug 28 2012: An astrobiologist at The Open University in the U.K. by the name of Sohan Jhetta has contributed this definition:
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"Life is a thermodynamically open chemical system with a semi-permeable boundary. It contains an information-based complex system with emergent properties, part of which drives a metabolism based on a proton gradient. The said gradient generates the necessary potential difference across the semi-permeable boundary. The information is heritable and coded in such a way as to allow variation and thus evolution."
All I can add is that when you are finished doing what he said, you die!Aug 26 2012: Hi Rohan,
With regard to the rock/moss situation, that's a little bit different to the virus situation because viruses, whether nucleic acid or software based, rely on their host to carry out the mechanisms of reproduction for them, whereas the rock is not carrying out reproduction for the moss, it is simply acting as some sort of input for the moss to grow from.
The same argument can be used for trees and soil. Soil only provides various inputs for trees such as nitrogen and water, even humans need food to function, even chloroplast containing bacteria rely on photons from the sun to provide energy for cellular respiration. No life form can survive independently of everything.
I suppose my point is whether reproduction is considered essential for a classification as living, in which case viruses may not not count, depending on your classification of reproduction, and software viruses in particular as their existence is dependent on a foreign entity (for lack of a better word) which itself has no means of reproduction.Aug 26 2012: If a species cannot both reproduce and enjoy copious amounts of drugs, it is infact a half life.
Aug 26 2012: I don't know Ritchie, I've had numerous attempts at reproduction, both sexually and asexually, that have not resulted in fruitful offspring, however I feel like I have quite a full life.
In fact, I think I may take another shot at it later tonight :)Aug 25 2012: I throught my life have sort the answer to this question, as i'm sure many people have. At certain periods of my life I found myself going through bouts of depression and anxiety over this very question. I have also found that people with a lesser mind do not understand the concept of a life with definition, but this is not ofcorse based on any hard evidence or proper reasearch on my part. After much soul searching and research I found what I believe works for me and that is sex and drugs. Now life is great.......... Also, the younger the better :)Aug 24 2012: Life is interaction between matter which is able to sustain itself and reproduce to keep its interaction (its own existence) going. This definition is of course is regards to living things. On a larger scale Life is everything there is. And the definition for that would be: Life is the interaction between all forms and their environments. This very interaction then creates an interdependence for all participants.
To simplify it even more: Life is participation.
peace,wisdom,prosperity for all...
Jon Ho
Aug 23 2012: You don't need to go so far as to alien life form in order to define life.
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Indeed, have you ever heard of liquid crystal? A couple of centuries ago some Austrian botanist called Reinitzer discovered liquid crystal. Now, liquid crystal displays all the properties of being alive; it seemed to be able to grow, move, divide, copulate, and so on and so forth.
So. here you have it. ;)Sep 3 2012: ...
This was addressed by my high school biology teacher. It was something like :
1. metabolism
2. reproduction (to a highly self-same form)
The question was then raised: is FIRE alive? it breathes (conducts metabolism) and reproduces. But it doesn't reproduce to a highly self-same form; so fire is not alive, but biological organisms are. This touches on your "store and exchange information" point.
Viruses are also not alive, because they don't conduct metabolism.
Sep 3 2012: I find it very interesting that several people in this conversation have quite categorically stated that viruses are not alive and they have all been US citizens. In AUS the question is considered very much unanswered. We are taught that the jury is out on viruses from junior high level of science. It's an interesting contrast between two very similar cultures.
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Our scientists have much different notions of life, in that case.
Viruses are much simpler than bacteria; and completely inert until they injecting RNA into a cell. They have no independent means of reproduction. Some of them are not even *contiguous* (e.g. the Hepatitis B virus comes in 2 pieces).
Biologists can actually build some viruses in a lab from scratch. That's not remotely true for a cell (though Craig Venter has bootstrapped the DNA of a cell).
If you're going to categorize a virus as life, you might as well define a prion as life. A prion is just a single (mis-shaped) protein.
Sep 3 2012: So where do you draw the line between living and non-living? At some stage in the evolutionary process a capsule of nucleic acid developed a semi-permiable membrane over thousands of generations, Which generation suddenly became life?Sep 5 2012: I don't think that's well-defined in the PAST (as life was developing) ; but today it's fairly well defined ... in the sense that there are zero (or very few) ambiguous cases today.
At the point that you have metabolism (energy consumption) and self-same reproduction, I would say that's life.
... The future might bring new ambiguous cases, if technology creates a reproducing robot (not just self-assembling, but actually self-reproducing from raw materials in the environment).
Sep 5 2012: You realise that if you go into it a bit beyond highschool level there are around 20 kingdoms of living things, many of them don't fit into your definition.Aug 30 2012: I don't know what a universal definition is. But I think definitions are not supposed to be universal at all. They should be useful, instead.
Aug 30 2012: Universal in the sense that it defines life in a way that could be applied to ecosystems that are totally different to the Earth. The current one really only works here.
Aug 31 2012: Gotcha.
So I'd say living things are entities with knowledge about their environment encoded in them, as a result of mutation and selection.Aug 30 2012: Energy allows life to exist in many variations and dimensions.Aug 29 2012: Life:
The modulation of entropy.
Or to be needlessly complex:
A self-persistent pattern -
That which precipitates self-advantage sufficient to persist from this moment to the next.
I am sure ther are other models, but in biological examples we have this dynamic - that occurs in a separation of "self" and "else":
energy state of the instant -->sense-->determine advantage(means of persistence)-->potential agency-->act-->change of energy state (repeat until self is disrupted).
In higher organisms is gets a little more complex:
state-->sense-->percieve-->update map-->predict-->potential agency-->advantage evaluation-->potential agency-->act-->change of energy state.(repeat).
In social organisms there is also a step to de-code packaged perception(communication) that occurs after the perception step and enhances the potential agency .. it also causes a sub-branch to package perception(information) to be emmitted as part of agency.Aug 26 2012: Hi Adrinn
I believe a sterile cloned animal would be alive based on my classification of anything that carries out cellular respiration being alive, I don't believe the ability to reproduce is necessary for a classification of living however it can be used as a guiding principle for classifying acellular forms, by which I mean that reproduction is a common trait amongst cellularly respiring life forms and therefor may help guide our classification of non-cellularly respiring forms.
Essentially, if some acellular form had the same properties as a cellularly respiring life form however was not a cell, that would be a pretty compelling argument to classify it as an acellular life form.
Here's an interesting one for you, what about Craig Venter's artificial bacteria cell? If you haven't seen the TED video do check it out, very good stuff!
Aug 27 2012: Hi Andrew
If you take away the capability of reproduction from a cell, then you get a form which is alive for maybe a few weeks then it is no more and never will be because we took its livelihood away. So yes it was alive. But not live. When you say it is alive then it implies the fact that it was brought to life. But when you say live than it means that it is capable of existing. And this cell is not, because we took away its reproductive function. After ran its course it will die. If you take away the reproductive function by host, from the virus, it will be no more because the reproduction itself is the life of the virus. The mechanism of reproduction is came to be in the universe, so forms that are more fragile than a granite slab can keep existing but not by keeping one individual alive but rather being able to reproduce and pass down itself to another. We must argue this "what is life and living" question not by one individual from a herd but by clusters. If a form came to existence by the universe trials and errors and it is capable to sustain itself by interacting with its surrounding and reproduce itself to be able to keep the interaction going then it is a living form. When a form came to existence by the universe trials and errors and it is capable to sustain itself by interacting with its surrounding but no longer (as a whole species) or never was able to reproduce, it is alive but not an ongoing living form. And most likely we will never meet this form in an alive state because it will die very quickly. And it will because of its fragile nature.
To look at the prion. I would not consider it alive since it does not pass the info to the next one how to create another prion. Maybe in a few million years it will but not just yet.Aug 26 2012: Cell theory:
1) All living things are composed of cells and cell products.
2) New cells are formed only by division of preexisting cells.
3) All cells are basically similar in chemical makeup and in metabolic activities.
4) The activity of an organism is due to the collective activities and interactions of all of its cells.
Moreover, all organisms must maintain boundaries, metabolism, movement, responsiveness, digestion, excretion, reproduction, and growth in order to be define as alive.
Aug 26 2012: 1)We already have non-cellular life forms on Earth
2)Where did the first cell come from?
3)This is only relevant if you limit life to things that evolved on the Earth's surface. There are whole communities of living things that use quite different metabolic processes around mid-ocean ridges.
Cell theory was first coined in the mid 1600s so maybe we should move on.
Aug 27 2012: Unless it is proven false, we should not discount cell theory.
Aug 27 2012: It certainly describes the majority of life on Earth so far but it may limit our ability to identify life elswhere, if we stick rigidly to it.Aug 28 2012: We cannot just drop a theory in just a mist of doubt for this doubt could just be for nothing. Besides, if we do not have some time of system, then, how would we know the concept of life at all.
Aug 28 2012: I'm just concerned that if we do ever get to another system we might walk strait past the most developed being there because they don't have cells.Aug 29 2012: If they do not have cells, they are not alive. If you want to dispute this, you would have to prove it. If we can not go to another system without a standardized system, then, we would not know what anything is.
Aug 29 2012: So the concept of a silicon based crystalline life form that stores information in the form of metal ions in co-ordinate bonds is of no interest?
And any discussion regarding whether viruses or prions are alive is pointless?Aug 29 2012: Viruses are practically parasites to the living. They are not alive. Prions are similar to viruses, and they are also not alive. The system we have may or may not be accurate for other worlds; however, if we do not have a system, which we can modified, then we would be even more lost in that world.
Aug 29 2012: You seem very comfortable with the "viruses are not alive" thing but I can't find one biologist on staff that agrees with you. If we assume evolution is correct, at some stage there must have been an intermediate between an unprotected strand of nucleic acid and the first true cell. I just find the presence or absence of an encapsulating membrane a fairly arbitrary point to use for classification of life.Aug 26 2012: That which is capable of acting upon it's environment with intrinsic purpose. I think that would suffice.
So by this definition a virus would be a rudimentary or proto form of life. Since it doesn't act directly, but makes it's host act for it.
Life doesn't have to reproduce or even be capable of it, if it did a sterile human wouldn't fit the definition.
Aug 26 2012: If cellular respiration is not necessary, and reproduction is not necessary (which I assume is a viruses intrinsic purpose) then can you classify a virus as a life form, rudimentary or otherwise?
What about a prion? It's basically a naked protein, can something that simple be considered alive?
Aug 26 2012: Well I'm glad to have some debate, I made no mention of cellular respiration as being either necessary or not. I think life could possibly exist in a form other than cellular, this is of course speculation so it remains to be seen. I was speaking to the individual nature of what is alive rather than to what perpetuates life, I agree that reproduction is needed for life to continue past a single generation, but it's not required to regard something as alive in the present.
If you use intrinsic to mean relating to the individual(self-determined) and keep it at that then I don't think a prion is fully alive, it is potentially alive though. Prions cause susceptible(similar) proteins to fold in unusual ways which damage the host, so they are more along the lines of an toxin. Albeit one that can reproduce itself similar to a virus, so possibly a proto life form? Maybe in a few billion years prion derived intelligent life will be pondering these questions.
Aug 26 2012: Hi Adrinn,
Viruses are acellular, if you consider viruses to be alive then there's an example of acellular life.
the reason I brought up cellular respiration is that viruses do not have cellular respiration, if you remove reproduction from the argument of life as well, I don't think viruses have much left that could classify them as living.Aug 26 2012: I have never heard of prions before. Thank you for bringing it up. I looked it up immediately. What I found is that prions are bordering between nonliving and living just as viruses and scientist still debating if they are considered alive or not. Personally form the information I got in the last 20 minutes about prions I would consider a virus to be more closely to be alive then a prion. It seems to me that the prion does not have the information of how to reproduce although the virus does. It looks to me as if the prion is a "bad" type of protein which if interacts with another "good" protein the interaction causes the "good " protein to turn into a prion. But this turn is not because of the splitting of information from the first prion to the other, but because of the molecular structure of the prion. When the prions structure "collides" with the "good" proteins structure it causes the "good " protein to "fall" (unfold) apart into the very same structure as the prion itself. Although a virus does have the information of how to make another one of itself, but lacking the resources to make one.
I`m not a biologist and also fairly new to these matters so please forgive me if my logic makes no sense and definitely feel free to correct me.Aug 26 2012: Are there any living species that does not reproduce? The human which is sterile in your example is only a random occurrence. But for the human to be it had to be produced first by another. So the human species is indeed reproductive and this reproduction sometimes has glitches with sterile end results.
Regarding the living computer software, yes it does reproduce itself and it may also have the capability to adapt, however it did not came to "life" by itself. It had to be engineered. So at best we can call it artificial life. I think all life forms came about without (as far as we know it) engineering. They came to be by the interaction between matter. Of course you can take a bag of computer code and throw it up in the air and calculate, what are the chances that they will fall into the perfect combination to create a software "naturally". And most likely there is a number probably in 1 in the billions or something like that. I'm sure that in the not so distant future there will be living things that are half engineered and half naturally produced, and as I wrote this I just realized that there are already. We might consider the genetically altered plants, algae and so on into this half and half category.
At the end I still like to stick with the definition that a living thing is a form which is capable to reproduce and sustain itself at least for long enough to be able to complete one reproductive cycle. And life is the interaction between non reproducing and reproducing forms.
Aug 26 2012: Very true, sterile life is a random occurrence and you are right in a broad sense that life is able to reproduce, but can that be the deciding factor in determining an individual is alive?
Aug 26 2012: No since the mentioned sterile human, is alive because of his past, and not because of his future. The way of production of this human is the proof of its aliveness.Aug 26 2012: Hi Rohan,
interesting concept with the software virus, can a software virus be considered life if it reproduces only within an artificial cell (a computer) which itself has no means of reproducing?
Also, how about a cross species such as a mule? Is it considered life as a sterile species (I'm kinda cheating there because mules are not species, rather the failed mating of 2 disparate species)?
Aug 26 2012: Hi Andrew
We might consider it alive but that would be artificial life only. To answer the other part if the "host computer" does not reproduce I`m not sure but there is a type of moss which is living in rocks. This moss is alive although it would not be able to exist without that very rock. The rock would be the non-reproducing host.
For the mule. It is alive since it came to be. The cross mating is just as random as thee sterilization in a human being.Aug 26 2012: Would a sterile, cloned animal be alive?
What about a computer program which thought of itself as alive? Would it be alive since it came to be? Arguably it was created by life, humans.Aug 26 2012: Is a prion alive?
Aug 26 2012: That is part of the problem. Are you infected with a prion bourne disease or are you poisoned with a chemical called a prion?Aug 23 2012: Life is living in love; love of living, love of our lovers; love of nature, love of our times and circumstances and the opportunity to learn something new.
Anything that has the potential to die has life.Aug 23 2012: MRS GREN
Nutrition- as in it eats.Aug 23 2012: Animated matter that is aware of being aware
Aug 26 2012: A bacteria is not self aware, but it is alive
Aug 26 2012: Maybe so don't know if that is true or not? What about a virus?
Aug 26 2012: Are you asking if a virus is aware or if it is alive? It is not aware of it's own existence, as to whether it is alive... If you define life as including the ability to utilise energy and self-replicate, then no.Aug 26 2012: Ok I'm revising my definition to animated matter.
Gail .
Aug 23 2012: Being demands movement and movement causes learning.
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For me, a well-lived life is one spent learning, which is how I try to spend my days. Those who choose willful ignorance or intellectual laziness aren't really living. They're just existing.
Gail .
Aug 23 2012: Life = being. Not necessarily "a" (physical) being.
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Aug 23 2012: Being = ?Aug 23 2012: "Any entity that has the ability to store and exchange information autonomously."
Define "autonmously".
Also, where does a sterile animal stand in that definition?Aug 23 2012: I think defining liiving things is still a major grey area as are most concepts in biology, it's messy and complicated, where do viruses fall for instance?
Aug 23 2012: Any entity that has the ability to store and exchange information autonomously.
By this most general of definitions viruses are alive if they are in the appropriate environment. But so is some computer software in its environment.
Aug 23 2012: Yes so by that definition software could be considered living, even some mattresses could be considered living but I think living things such as organisms have additional properties which make them more complicated like self replication and adaptability.
Aug 23 2012: Some computer software is self-replicating and adaptive. BTW if you think your mattress might be alive you could try spraying it with a pesticide.;-)Aug 23 2012: On a PhD student salary my mattress looks like Swiss cheese punctured with springs. I don't have the fancy memory foam that conforms to me, I conform to my mattress. There may be software that can do all that I don't doubt it, I just wanna point out that with these additional properties the term now narrows to a smaller range of phenomena. However I have to point out that biological adaptation might be different than software adaptation although I can't say for sure since I don't know that much about software adaptation.Aug 23 2012: Well, that is a hard question! why? Because we define life more with our senses than by reason! for many life has to be made of meat. Built a robot with meat and the same with iron, and you will have debates about the iron one. We can only define life when we became more objective with the world!
Now we have trouble defining when human life starts, how can we define other? What happen when we find an alien life that simply doesn't born, doesn't eat, doesn't multiple? Better yet, will they consider us as living things? how will we prove to them that we are living things?


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I am sure this has been gone over before, but I am wondering if more muscle equates to longer distances. I have seen some scrawny guys who can just bomb, and some more muscular guys who get out driven by them. I am not in either category, although I noticed that when I gained weight (not from muscle), I was able to drive farther than when I was much skinnier.
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while I have, in no way, perfected this, it's all about the snap.
mass x speed x speed = power
Muscle helps but the formula is about more than muscle.
Arm speed+ snap+form=distance.
Muscle helps arm speed. So do elasticity and fast twitch muscles.
Being tall with long arms doesn't seem to hurt either. Also being in shape. Technique is the ultimate determinant of distance. Poor technique will not get distance.
I'm old, short and fat.. I'm fuct.
I'm old as well. I wonder how testosterone therapy would work?
It couldn't hurt ;) Muscle is nice, but if I had a choice I'd want more fast twitch muscle fibers. Form 1st, but the guys I see who can really get great "D" can generate/have great quickness/speed.
I had a friend I used to play with who's distance went down observably when he bulked up, his muscles seemed to inhibit his usual form. Being strong helps get you over 400 feet, being muscle-bound gets you attention from shallow women!!!
Yeah, I think that you need to maintain flexibility as well. Sometimes when guys bulk up they lose that flexibility.
I have done no other excercise in the last year other than 300+ rounds of disc golf. I have lost 51 pounds and gained lots of disc golfing muscles. My legs are stronger, I have tight abs, my arms are toned, my neck is vainy, and my lower back is stronger than its ever been. I'm 6'2" and now weigh 241lbs. I have been able to get my drives out to 425+ with only the hint of have good form. Then the other day I had a break through in loading the disc up and really feeling the the disc snapping out on release. I haven't tried to see how far I'm throwing now because I'm having fun perfecting lines that I haven't been able to throw previously. I would say that I am now able to throw as far as before but with much less effort.
That said, i would surmise that having the muscle groups I mentioned be toned and then learning good technique might be the optimal method to gaining more distance. I'm not an expert, I just stayed at a Holiday Inn last night.
I am still new to the sport, but am learning loads thanks to everyone here. One of the comments I read about wrist snap, made me focus on it totally today. And, I easily added 50 plus feet to my drives...just by focusing on cocking and snapping my wrist...thanks, everybody!
Well if you look at all the world champions in the past decade or so, have any of them really been built like a Greek Olympian? I'm not bulky, but I've watched a skinnier person than me bomb a sidearm drive 400 feet. I think it's more technique and disc selection. (He used either a Vulcan or an Archon) I find that when I try to use too much arm it tends to turn everything over. The best, smoothest shots I have are just focusing on a quick and precise body twist more than anything. If you want to build muscle that helps I'd say focus on abs and core the most.
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I'm not really the type of girl who posts photos of her food daily… it has a little to do with not wanting to take the time to do it and most to do with the fact that I remember photos as I'm taking the last bite. Oops.
Oh well.
We are really liking Paleo/Whole 30 type of eating and believe we'll stick to the main jist of it all even after the month is over. We'll move over to a more Paleo way of eating (right now, we aren't cooking with ANY sugars…not even agave, stevia, etc) and we won't feel bad if we sometimes have a little cheese or just a little bread or a piece of cake. I've actually been looking for recipes like these for a long time (over a year) and just figured out recently that it's classified as Paleo/Primal. I had an idea of how I wanted us to eat in my head but didn't know what to call it! I love that we found it and it's so much easier when it's lumped into a category…makes it easier to find recipes!
Anyhow, let's link you up with some goodies we've tried, shall we?
Budget Friendly Balsamic Mustard Chicken and Oven Roasted Veggies by Everyday Paleo – This was an EASY meal and absolutely DELICIOUS! The kids gobbled it down as fast as they could and wanted seconds! We will definitely be cooking this again…plus, it was easy and pretty inexpensive!
For "desserts," we occasionally have kiwi, grapefruit, pineapple, banana, etc. On a couple of occasions I actually have made (and loved) the Fruit Parfaits and Fried Banana Pudding from Sarah Fragoso's Everyday Paleo Family Cookbook. (Sidenote: We really really really like her cookbooks! The 2 "desserts" didn't use any "natural" sugars…it was just preparing the fruit/coconut milk/spices we were eating separately to make something that seemed more like dessert!)
Buffalo Beef "tacos" – For the adults, we season beef with Frank's Hot Sauce and wrap in large lettuce leaves with tomatoes and avocados. For the kids, we omit the hot sauce. We serve them with sauteed veggies and are good to go! Quick and easy!
Buffalo Chicken with Veggie Strips/Fries – Bake chicken wings, coat with Frank's Hot Sauce.
For veggie strips/fries:
1. Preheat oven to 425 F
2. Cut carrots and zucchini/squash into strips of about 3 in long and about the width of your pinkie-ish.
3. Line a baking sheet with tinfoil and a light layer of olive oil.
4. Season with salt and pepper, cumin, and paprika
5. Bake for about 20 minutes or until tender, turning about half-way through.
6. Eat.
Yummy Chicken Pasta – my mother in law informed me that the photo for this one looks "disgusting," so I'm working on creating a new one for you… but, I urge you to try it. It's really really good. It's another one of our favorites!
More Southwestern Frittatta – We also took this to a gathering and it was a pretty big hit! Love having leftovers for lunches and suppers!
Breakfast for Supper - Eggs, bacon, tomatoes, sauteed veggies
And, if you're like me and "on the go" for breakfast/lunch and don't have time to whip up a culinary wonder every time…check out this link for some GREAT time saving tips and ideas!!
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Thai Village Life On The Canals Of Ampawa
Tour Overview :
Tha Ka is perhaps the most charming and traditional of the green areas of orchards and farms surrounding Bangkok. Staying in a villager's comfortable home on a canal in a coconut orchard, you will have a genuine experience of old Thai hospitality. On this trip, you will enjoy the home cooking and be able to try your hand at producing coconut sugar with the villagers.
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Day by Day Itinerary :
Date 1 : Bangkok - Samut Songkram
Bangkok - Samut Songkram - Ampawa/Ta Kha Floating Market (L,D)
am Pick up from a hotel in Bangkok , travel to Ta Kha Village, Ampawa (1.30hrs. drive). Walk to the host's Thai style of house, keep all luggage, and have lunch with the host. After that, row the boat to the floating market. Observe people lifestyle, and visit neighboring gardeners, and local temple, etc. and buy something to cook for your dinner.
Overnight (homestay) in the coconut garden.
Date 2 : Samut Songkram - Bangkok
Produce Coconut Sugar-Departure (B,L)
am Early morning, join the host to offer food to monks who row a small boat along the canal to let people make merit. After breakfast, learn the whole process of producing coconut sugar and have a trial. A real great experience!
pm After lunch, enjoy your life with villagers before returning to Bangkok


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Maria Hoefl-Riesch scored her second third place of the weekend in coming from tenth after the Super G leg of the Super Combined to finish in third in the first Super Combined of the World Cup season. Canadian Marie-Michelle Gagnon took the race victory; Michaela Kirchgasser took second.
Hoefl-Riesch had been a little down after the Super G and when she came down the slalom she admitted she knew that Kirchgasser was a long way in the front. "My slalom run was not the best," she admitted after the race. "Yesterday I was third by seven hundredths and the same again today, I missed second place by seven hundredths and I could have easily made this up," she explained. "All in all it is a really successful weekend for me and I am really happy."
While the weather played a part in the outcome, Hoefl-Riesch was the last racer to make it on to the podium. As a strong speed skier, this part of the race had not been her best despite the early start of the race. Anna Fenninger had been the best placed HEAD World Cup Rebel in third after the Super G with Lizz Goergl in sixth and Hoefl-Riesch in tenth. Ramona Siebenhofer and Kajsa Kling also made the top fifteen finishers from the Super G section in 12th and 14th.
As the warm air played with the snow conditions, Hoefl-Riesch's slalom run was, she admitted, not her strongest and when she placed in third with nine more racers to go, she felt at first it would not be enough.
With each racer having a greater advantage yet still not being able to better the combined time, Hoefl-Riesch was soon being pulled back into the leaders enclosure with the other podium winners.
With just Niki Hosp to go, her lead was a considerable 1.37 seconds over Gagnon who lead and more to Hoefl-Riesch. By the half way stage, the lead was halved and when the Austrian crossed the line, she slotted into fourth and Hoefl-Riesch had her second career podium in Super Combined World Cup races. Hoefl-Riesch had not felt that confident that her time would hold up she admitted after the race but the clock said otherwise!
With third place, Hoefl-Riesch has returned to lead in the Overall World Cup with Anna Fenninger in second.
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2. Michaela Kirchgasser (AUT)
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12. Wendy Holdener (SUI) HEAD
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Hopping on the mountain bike, heading into the woods, and taking on nature with wild abandon - there's no better way to spend a weekend afternoon! This amazing motivational poster features a young man in full protective gear on a rugged off-road bicycle, jumping a felled tree with intensity and persistence. Beautiful design, stunning photography, and an inspirational message - the perfect addition to the wall of home or office!
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Game One2010 World Series - October 27, 2010A Panoramic View in AT&T Park - San Francisco, CA - The Rob Arra Collection
Step into AT&T Park, right behind home plate, for the ultimate view of a historic night in Bay Area baseball history! This spectacular panoramic print, from legendary sports photographer Rob Arra, captures the scene during Game 1 of the 2010 World Series, as Giants fans settle in for what would, in the end, be a powerful, dominating performance and a world championship. As the great Tim Lincecum readies to unleash another surprise split-finger fastball on an unsuspecting Texas Rangers slugger...SNAP! The moment is preserved for all-time, and is now available for your wall.
With this spectacular print, you are transported back to that amazing scene, bringing to life the opening game of the 106th World Series. With the magnificently-lit stadium looking resplendent against the darkening dusk sky by McCovey Cove, it's all laid out in front of you, in perfect color and crisp detail. Both a stunning view of San Francisco's beautiful stadium, and a lasting commemoration of the 11-7 home victory, this is a truly spectacular work of photographic sports art for your wall! Whether you attended the game in person, were watching on TV, are a life-long Giants fan, or are simply a lover of historic baseball moments, this print is for you! A true piece of history for your wall - a perfect centerpiece for your home or office, and a must-have item to add to your collection.
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The Poteau Spirit Center named its Stars of the Month for September.
Aidan Athey was so honored because he doesn't give up on the skills he is learning, and he worked hard in class.
Juliet Clarke was named the Gymnastic Star of the Month because of the improvement she has shown and her positive attitude of "I can do it."
The Team Star of the Month is Abbey Billings because she listens well in class, and is working very hard as this is her first year to compete.
Macy Wolf is the Tumblebear Star of the Month because she is a great listener and tries her best.
Kalen Nye, who participates in the PSC's tumbling class, was chosen for achieving her back handspring on the air track, and for perfect attendance.
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07-26-2008, 09:22 PM #21Senior Member
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Ultimately how bad do you need the machine?!!!
New machines come out all the time, if you don't need it RIGHT now then wait to see what they come out with. If you need it before they come out with a new model then buy what fits your needs at the time. If you are able to wait but then don't like the machine they come out with anyway maybe you'll be lucky enough to get a deal on the previous version.
If you can afford to wait 2, 4, 6 , 8 months for the new model then you should probably ask yourself why your buying it in the first place.
Remember guys, these are welding machines, not high heels and handbags!!! You don't have to buy the new one to be in style for the fall fashion trend!at home:
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I'm still waiting for the ultimate computer but they keep changing them.
Oh yeah..........and for the prices to come downNick
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07-27-2008, 11:29 PM #25Ed Conley
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Only problem I have had with my Dyn200DX is the momentary HiFreq, and the erratic way it works, I just use LiftArc instead, but would like to know if something is wrong with my machine, my Syncrowave 250 does not react this way, any opinions....PaulMore Spark Today Please
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The HF starting appears to be one of the areas which the new version will address. Previously there was a single default start setting used erroneously by many for all different kinds of tungsten type and size, but which was intended for 3/32" diameter ceriated. I wouldn't say that the previous versions had problems as much as I would say the user didn't take the time to understand how to setup the machine properly--by reading the owner's manual. Sure you can just crank up the starting amperage and start duration, and it will light off just fine. The problem becomes undue wear on the tungsten. So the best compromise between consistent starts and long tungsten life becomes adjusting the parameters to only as much starting amperage and time as is necessary. For the comment about the syncro250...remember that HF is applied for both starting and continuous operation in AC mode, whereas it is only used for starting on the Dynasty model.
The new model appears to still have the generic starting mode for 3/32 dia. tungsten, but goes further by providing pre-set start parameters based upon the user's selection of tungsten diameter: 0.020, 0.040, 1/16, 3/32, and 1/8.
In addition, the range of starting adjustment has grown from being start amp, start time to start amp, start time, slope time, and min. amperage. So for those who hate to make adjustments other than the big dial for amperage, your best bet will be just to select the correct diameter of tungsten and that should give you good starts.
On another note, there also appears to be the ability to select different AC waveforms. Previously, AC was defined as 'Advanced Squarewave'. This offered a lot of puddle agitation due to its nearly vertical transition between DCEP and DCEN. Some in the past complained about silicon freezing in the puddle and giving a less than shiny final bead. Now you'll be able to choose the 'Soft Squarewave' which slows down the transition rate between DCEP and DCEN and provides less silicon freezing and better wetting at the toes of the bead. For the old-school users, a true sinusoidal waveform can be selected, as well as a triangle waveform.
The new Dynasty 200 is still just a 200.
No news on a 250 yet.
The changes are it has the whole wave form adjustability that the Dynasty 350 has and it has a new arc starter system.
These are running changes and should already be available on new machines ordered as warehouses deplete current stock.
The front panel looks the same. The new waveform adjustments are located in a hidden menu screen.
The machine does start and run darn near just like the Dynasty 350.
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So..... Is a 250 coming???
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The Uptown Farmers Market returned to the South Parking Lot at Weiss on June 23rd. It will run every Thursday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. through October 27th.
"Being healthy starts with food," says Terry Tuohy, director of volunteer services at Weiss. Tuohy envisioned the market—along with a rooftop farm—as a way to make a social impact on the diverse neighborhood the hospital serves, from senior citizens and young families to people living below poverty level.
A main focus of the market continues to be the children of the community. Last year, local school children from Goudy Elementary School visited the market to learn about healthy eating, and this year park district groups also will tour the market.
"Our most pressing concern in the community is diabetes, and the first step to combating it is eating right," says Tuohy. "If people learn proper eating [habits] early in life, Weiss will make a difference, especially with pre-diabetes."
According to the American Diabetes Association, an estimated 79 million people in the United States are pre-diabetic, a condition characterized by higher-than-normal blood sugar levels that precede Type 2 diabetes. Food plays a major role in whether or not the disease develops further.
Some of the food available at the Uptown Farmers Market comes from half a block away, atop Weiss' parking garage roof. The hospital has partnered with community farmers and volunteers to nurture an urban farm in the middle of a cement city. The food grown is donated to local soup kitchens and sold at the market.
Farmers Jed Schenkier and Will Pool have set up 20 planter boxes around the rim of the parking garage and built 15 raised beds, containing seasonal fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, spinach, watermelon and basil. They plant their crops using compost from food waste collected at the hospital and throughout the community; they hydrate the crops with water collected in rain barrels. The farmers also maintain an apiary of 150,000 bees, which pollinate within a 3-mile radius of Weiss.
"One rooftop garden is not going to change everything, but it's part of a movement. We're part of a movement," says Schenkier.
Managing the Uptown Farmers Market at Weiss is part of the hospital's Health for Life initiative, which emphasizes healthy living habits for people of all ages. The community also can engage with the effort online through the Health for Life blog. For more information, visit WeissHospital.com.
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Bruce Springsteen's The Rising has become, as the tenth anniversary of the attacks that inspired it approaches, the closest thing we have to an official soundtrack to 9/11. It is the "soaring musical statement" of that day's impact on our national psyche, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer's music critic. New Yorkers selected it in a poll conducted by WNYC as one of the top three records they want to hear on the radio on the anniversary. High school teachers are using it to evoke the visceral pain and confusion of that day for their clueless students. The problem with this is that The Rising is a terrible, bad, no-good record that cheapens us all.
Bruce Springsteen is among the nation's greatest living songwriters and has undoubtedly created some of the greatest rock records ever made. I love him dearly. But The Rising is a failure. It purports to document a nation's rupture and guide us toward salvation—"here the poet, not unlike the priest and community during Mass, opens a window in space and time for communion with the dead themselves: the dead who alone, perhaps, can transform the rage of the living and awaken in us a vision of something more than more of the same," is how one Catholic critic recently put it. You can almost feel the weight of Springsteen's duty on the record—these are his people, these firefighters. This is his backyard. A nation turned its weary eyes to the Boss, and he keenly felt the need to answer. But the answer was overwrought, grandiose, bombastic. He went big. We didn't need anymore big things.
Springsteen's grandiosity and bombast worked magic when applied to the backstreet tragedies of high-school dropouts on the Jersey Shore. The Wild, the Innocent, & the E Street Shuffle and Born to Run recast the mundane travails of ordinary outcasts as Shakespearian epics, and Springsteen's anguished lyrical stretches—"broken heroes on a last chance power drive"—served to underline his low-rent characters' essential dignity rather than his own purple tendencies. He was living beyond his means as a songwriter, but it's effective when you're taking life-sized stories and elevating them to myth.
It doesn't work the other way. And that's what The Rising is: Springsteen tried his Bard of the Jersey Turnpike routine on something that was epically large and unspeakably horrid, something that needed no mythologizing. The result is a mawkish assortment of cliches. There is blood—red blood—in the street, and emptiness in the sky, and hands are held, and spirits are touched. In the title track, Springsteen chose to place himself right in the center of the tragic spectacle, inhabiting the mind of a doomed firefighter climbing the stairs of one of the towers. The rousing, inspirational number is at the same time too on-the-nose and too off-key (does a dying man really grasp to a "dream of life... like a catfish dancin' on the end of a line" in his last moments? Just like a catfish?).
Contrast that with "Streets of Philadelphia," in which Springsteen obliquely and subtly addressed the AIDS crisis. There's no hammer in that song—no IVs, no pills, no gaybashing—just the pain of mortality and loneliness and the yearning for companionship.
If there's art to be found in the carnage of 9/11, it is at the periphery, among the ordinary and the living. Nobody alive knows what it was like to march to their death on 9/11. And a relative few know what it was like to lose a loved one on that day. Anthemic stadium-chants about those losses are empty exercises. But we all know the low-grade fear, the numbness, the confusion, the small heartbreaks. That's the territory that The Rising—or any album that seeks to do justice to that day as it was lived, as opposed to how it was televised—should have inhabited.
One record that did live there is the criminally overlooked Summer of the Shark, by Portastatic—Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan's other band. Released in 2003 to little fanfare, Summer of the Shark catalogs the small moments, the mundane calamities that reverberated out from Ground Zero. "In the Lines" (you can listen to it below) is about the near-universal experience of trying, and failing, to check in by phone on friends in New York City after the attack: "I got this woman on the phone, wrong number / Even she starts crying." A throwaway line in "Chesapeake"—"Songs we used to hate / Are making everybody cry"—captures more of what it was like to be an American in the weeks after 9/11 than all of Springsteen's empty churches and grasping hands and na-na-nas. [Full disclosure: I co-wrote a book with McCaughan.]
There are other 9/11 records of course: Stever Earle's Jerusalem, with it's "John Walker's Blues" about "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh. There were the inevitable jingoistic country confections, and that horrible Paul McCartney song. The Rising is better than all of them. But it measures up neither to Springsteen's greatness nor 9/11's awfulness. If you find yourself this week needing to hear what you felt like 10 years ago, go listen to Summer of the Shark.
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Songwriters of all stripes gather in Music City this week for the 20th annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival, taking place Tuesday-Saturday at 10 local music venues. This year's lineup includes current country chart-toppers, pop songwriting legends, recognizable names of rock, Americana, bluegrass and Christian music, and more than a few under-sung behind-the-scenes players who'll get a much-deserved turn in the spotlight.
We've collected some of the week's highlights here, but a full perusal of the schedule (at www.tinpansouth.com) is highly recommended.


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Should have the details tomorrow but The Henry County local government access channel called me today with an interest in filming a 5-10 min promo to be aired next week.
I'm looking for some golfers who would be interested in being filmed while playing golf at JPM. If anyone is off next Thursday and would be available please, please let me know. Ideally I would like at least three other golfers so that a foursome is present.
Tomorrow I should know the time when the filming is to take place. Hope to see anyone there.


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A landslide.
An intersecting valley complex.
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Lagrange showed that three bodies can lie at the apexes of an equilateral triangle which rotates in its plane. If one of the bodies is sufficiently massive compared with the other two, then the triangular configuration is apparently stable. Bodies at such points are sometimes referred to as Trojans. The leading apex of the triangle is known as the leading Lagrange point or L4; the trailing apex is the trailing Lagrange point or L5. Collinear with the two large bodies are the L1, L2 and L3 unstable equilibrium points which can sometimes be useful places for spacecraft, eg SOHO. (For a more detailed explanation, click on the diagram to the right).
The angular distance north or south from the equator.
The hemisphere that faces forward, into the direction of motion of a satellite that keeps the same face toward the planet.
An instrument similar to radar that operates at visible wavelengths.
The illumination of the night sky by waste light from cities and outdoor lighting, which prevents the observation of faint objects. This is why it is hard to see stars in big cities.
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