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Engine Tech - Combustion ControlWritten by on December 6, 2011 Piston rings may look like simple pieces of steel, but their construction and the best methods for using them is advanced science
Piston rings hold a bit of a strange place in the engine building world. Circle Track works with lots of engine builders on different engine projects. And almost every engine builder we talk to admits that filing piston rings is the job he enjoys least out of the entire build process. There's no other way to cut it, the process of file-fitting piston rings is tedious, boring, repetitive and-we'll say it again-boring.
But, on the other hand, we've also noticed that engine builders are willing to invest more money than ever in a good set of rings. And that's because a set of well-made, low-tension rings can make power. A high-quality set of rings that are made to exact tolerances and properly ground can reduce the amount of friction produced as they move up and down the cylinder walls while still maintaining good oil control and longevity.
The function of a set of piston rings is to seal the gap between the piston and cylinder wall. Since the piston is constructed from aluminum and the cylinder bore of iron, they will have different expansion rates from the heat of combustion. The ring must also be able to adapt for these changes as well.
On almost all stock car engines, a package of three rings is used to seal the piston to the cylinder wall. The top ring requires a special construction since it is in direct contact with the flame from combustion and sees the most heat. Most modern racing rings for the Saturday night level use a top ring constructed with a moly coating to help it live in such a harsh environment. But just because it's popular, that doesn't mean that a moly face is the absolute best option for every situation. Wiseco, for example, sells the popular "GFX" ring package with its racing pistons that uses a stainless steel gas nitrided top ring that works extremely well.
The top ring's primary purpose is to seal the combustion chamber so that no gas (or as little as possible) makes it past the piston and into the crankcase. To achieve this, the ring must be precisely gapped so that once the engine is at operating temperature the ring has expanded to the point that the gap has nearly disappeared. Normally, the ring manufacturer will offer guidelines as to how large the gap should be based on several criteria such as the engine's compression ratio, how far down the piston the top ring is located, piston diameter and other factors. It all relates to heat-the more heat the ring sees, the greater the cold gap should be. So the gap for a street rebuild will be less than for a stock car racing motor, and that gap will be less than a ring specified for a supercharged drag racing engine.
For instance, we recently gapped the rings while rebuilding the Circle Track dyno mule. We're using a set of Wiseco 4.030-inch forged racing pistons and a set of GFX rings Wiseco provided to go with them. For circle track racing with these rings Wiseco recommends the cold gap be the diameter of the cylinder bore multiplied by 0.0050 for the top ring and 0.0057 for the second. That equals a top ring gap of 0.022-inch and 0.023 for the second.
The reason the second ring gap is larger is because in racing the purpose of the second ring is primarily for oil control and not to seal the combustion chamber. Any high-pressure combustion gasses that make it past the first ring and get trapped by the second can cause the top ring to flutter, which can significantly affect power production. So the larger gap with the second ring helps allow any gasses to move on past and not get trapped between the first and second rings.
The second ring is typically constructed of a softer material than the first because it is protected from the intense heat of combustion by the top ring. The softer material also helps the ring seal to the cylinder wall better for improved oil control. On most economy-level ring packs the second ring features a taper so that only the bottom portion of the outside edge of the ring comes into contact with the cylinder wall. This helps reduce friction as the ring moves up and down the cylinder bore and also helps it to function better as an oil scraper. But the face of the second ring will wear with engine use, and it must be replaced when the taper is gone so that the entire face of the second ring is in contact with the cylinder wall.
A more advanced design for the second ring is a Napier face. A Napier-style piston ring has a notch or ridge on the bottom of the ring so that the outside edge of the ring is narrower than the inside (which sits inside the piston ring land). This gives the ring extra rigidity inside the ring land where it is most important, but reduces that thickness at the cylinder wall where a thinner ring means less friction. Just a few years ago, Napier-style rings were only used in high-end dry sump race engine applications, but lately they have become more affordable and are used in all types of race engines. The GFX ring package we are using for the dyno mule features a Napier second ring, and Wiseco recommends it for all types of wet- and dry-sump engine packages these days.
Lowest on the piston is the oil ring, which is actually two very thin rings sandwiching an expander ring. The oil ring's only job is to scrape oil off of the cylinder walls and dump it back into the oil pan. Many pistons also use oiling ports off of the land for the oil ring to direct some oil toward the wristpin.
Many street-oriented ring packs come pre-gapped, but that's not precise enough for racing. High end piston rings require the engine builder to gap them specifically to the cylinder bore it will be going into. In general, it is better to gap your rings too large rather than too small. A ring gap that's too big will only suffer from poor control of oil and combustion gasses, but a ring that is gapped too tightly can lead to major engine problems. If the ends of any ring are allowed to butt together, that will lead to scuffing the cylinder walls, and possibly a broken ring or even a busted piston. So you obviously want to avoid that as you tackle the job of prepping piston rings for an engine build.
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1 A Napier-style ring is a great option for a second ring in a performance engine. Here, you can see the notch on the underside of the ring. It reduces the surface area of the portion of the ring that touches the cylinder wall to provide good oil control while reducing friction.2 Piston rings are more complex than simple stamped rings of steel. Most are designed to work a certain way. This GFX ring pack from Wiseco has an "N" stamped on both the first and second rings to mark the top side of the ring. If you accidentally install them upside down, be prepared to burn plenty of oil.3 Before you start gapping your new rings, take a moment to make sure they are properly matched for the pistons you will be using. The rings should slide easily into the appropriate ring land but still have a tight fit. The radial thickness (the distance from the inside to the outside edges) should be matched to the depth of the land so that the entire ring will slide into the groove, but the land should be so deep that it absolutely swallows the ring with room to spare. Inserting the ring into the land backward like you see here is an easy and quick way to check proper fitment.4 Here's a shot to help you visualize how a performance ring package can free up horsepower. On top is the 0.047 inch GFX top ring, while underneath it is the 5⁄64-inch top ring for a stock Chevrolet 350. At 0.078-inch thick, the stock ring is nearly twice as thick as the GFX ring.5 The only other tool you will need is a feeler gauge, which can be had at practically any auto parts store in America. We're gapping the rings for Circle Track's dyno mule engine exactly to the specs Wiseco provided with the rings: 0.022 for the top ring and 0.023 for the second. Oil ring gap isn't critical as long as it is at least 0.010-inch.6 The rings to be gapped fit on the grinder like you see here. Wiseco recommends grinding only one side of the ring. That way to keep a factory edge to make sure the other one remains square. Push the end of the ring against the side of the grinding wheel with only moderate pressure and spin the wheel counterclockwise so it grinds from the outside edge of the ring toward the inside. This is important to keep the coating on the face of the ring from flaking off near the ground edge.7 This is what you want to avoid. This ring was not ground evenly, so the ends are no longer butt square. This will lead to blow-by and a loss of combustion pressure.8 Use a honing stone to lightly deburr the edges after grinding. You only want to knock off any burrs, not round the edges of the ring.
10 In order to properly measure the gap, the ring must be perfectly square to the bore. You can buy an expensive ring squaring tool, but the easiest way to do it is to install a ring on the second ring land of your piston and push it into the bore upside down until the second ring contacts the deck. The ring you are checking must be in the bore shallow enough that the top of the piston can contact the ring all the way around and push it further into the bore.11 Now use your feeler gauge to check the gap. You can't put material back onto the ring, so you want to sneak up on the final gap size in several steps. Here, you can see the gap is only 0.014-inch. We've got a way to go to get to 0.022, but we'll get there slowly to make sure we don't overshoot the mark. Once you get the gap correct, place the ring in an envelope marked with its correct cylinder until you are ready to install it on the piston and the piston in that hole.12 You can install rings on the piston by hand, but if you aren't careful you run the risk of twisting the ring or breaking it as well as scratching up the piston. A simple ring installation tool like this one is an easy and cheap way to make sure your rings are installed properly while stressing them as little as possible.


text: Here is another internet meme that will leave you thinking "awe, this is cute". Today we will learn "how to draw Tuzi", step by step. This rabbit like figure was created back in 2006 by a Chinese netizen named Wang Momo. She said in an interview that the inspiration for Tuzki came from her childhood. When she was a child folks would call her rabbit. She grew up drawing different types of rabbits using different types of drawing tools. Tuzki is easy to replicate so I'm sure you will have no problem with completing the task at hand. Thanks for joining me with this tut folks, I'll be back soon.

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I have been reading various pages on how to set up the network for xen. Unfortunately, none of them actually have a full example config. They clearly show what the xenbr0 section should look like, but not how you should change the eth0 after mentioning:
Note! The IP configuration of the bridge device should replace the IP configuration of the underlying interface, i.e. remove the IP settings from eth0 and move them to the bridge interface. eth0 will function purely as the physical uplink from the bridge so it can't have any IP (L3) settings on it!
I have tried many configurations that all fail (after running /etc/init.d/networking restart, there is no normal netowork access and can't ssh in or out).
Here is my current config:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto xenbr0
iface xenbr0 inet static
bridge_ports eth0
address 10.0.0.3
netmask 255.0.0.0
broadcast 10.255.255.255
gateway 10.0.0.1
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
Perhaps that is correct and I just need to set up some iptables forwarding rules?
I tried running the command
sudo iptables -I FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-is-bridged -j ACCEPT but I recieved an error message that --physdev-is-bridged is not a recognized option.
The debug output of restarting the network gives the following output:
Reconfiguring network interfaces...
Waiting for xenbr0 to get ready (MAXWAIT is 32 seconds).
RTNETLINK answers: No such process
Failed to bring up xenbr0
ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 3775
I have checked that xenbr0 already exists because when I try to create a bridge with that name, brctl tells me it can't create as one already exists.


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Allen Ginsberg CD Poetry Collection: Allen Ginsberg CD Poetry Collection (Compact Disc)
A collection of poems by one of the greatest literary and cultural figures of the 20th century
Upon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956, Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a generation. Literature, art, sex, love, family, politics; nothing would ever be the same. The Beat Generation was born through Ginsberg and his friends.
This collection of more than two dozen poems in verse and song is the best of the best, celebrating someone who was of his time, ahead of his time, and whose legacy will transcend time.
Included are: Howl, Kaddish, Pull My Daisy, A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley, A Supermarket in California, Sunflower Sutra, America, Many Loves, To Aunt Rose, I am a Victim of Telephone, Kral Majales, Who Be Kind To, City Midnight Junk Strains, On Neal's Ashes, September on Jessore Road, Mind Breaths, Jahweh and Allah Battle, Lay down Your Mountain, Don t Grow Old, Father Death Blues, Plutonian Ode, White Shroud, Sphincter, Personals Ad, Hum Bomb, After Lalon, Put Down Your Cigarette Don t Smoke, Charnal Ground, C mon Pigs of Western Civilization, New Stanzas for Amazing Grace.
About the Author
Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, a son of Naomi and lyric poet Louis Ginsberg. As a student at Columbia College in the 1940s, he began a close friendship with William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Jack Kerouac, and he later became associated with the Beat movement and the San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s. After jobs as a laborer, sailor, and market researcher, Ginsberg published his first volume of poetry, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956. "Howl" defeated censorship trials to become one of the most widely read poems of the century, translated into more than twenty-two languages, from Macedonian to Chinese, a model for younger generations of poets from West to East.
Ginsberg was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French minister of culture, was a winner of the National Book Award (for The Fall of America), and was a cofounder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world. He died in New York City in 1997.


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I would like to learn more about Linux. I briefly went through a few books and quite a few articles online, but the only way to learn something is to actually start using it.
I would like to jump in the deep end and configure a Linux server. So far I have downloaded Ubuntu Server.
I'm looking for goal or a challenge if you like, something that will familiarize me with Linux servers.
Ideally, I would like to be able to configure a secure mail, file and web servers. I have a strong programming background so I hope that it will help me out.
I understand that this is not a specific question, I'm just looking for a milestone or a goal, otherwise I can spend weeks reading books and online articles.
Edit 1: Thank you all for replies.
Based on what you have said so far, I think that there are few different areas that I need to learn about:
- Kernels. Am I correct to say that this is a first thing I should concentrate on?
- Virtualisation. Once I'm happy with my knowledge about kernels I'd like to concentrate on KVM. I've read briedly about hypervisors and I believe that they also fall under virtualisation. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
- Security. Ideally I would like to leave this till last, but I guess that the majority of packages that I will require are online. So I'm not sure whether I should give this a higher priority. SSH, Linux as Firewall and remote access through shell fall under this category.
- Finally I will have a look at backup routines (using Linux as a file-server) and I'll configure web and mail servers. I guess that mail server might be a pain.
I'm tempted to start a blog and see where it takes me after two weeks. In regards to distributives, I have seen that there are hundreds of different Linux distributives. To be perfectly honest I don't want anything simple, but, at the same time, I don't want to spend hours on a very basic operation to start with. Ideally I would like to work only from command prompt, once I can do that I'll be able to work with most of pretty GUIs (I hope so anyway).
Once again, thank you for your help and I will really appreciate any further advise.
Edit 2: This leaves me with a final question on what distribution of Linux I should be using?


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I have a specific mail setup on my mac where I use Mail.app to access my Gmail via IMAP, and the app filters emails into folders ("On my mac" as opposed to in Gmail itself) for my different projects, school, etc. The problem is that whenever Mail.app moves an email into a folder (out of the main Inbox), it gets put in the Gmail Archive (All Mail), and then is no longer accessible via my iPhone - i.e. when I search for it, it's not there. Is there a way to make emails in folders available on iPhone/iPad, preferably actually synced with the device so you have the real folders from Mail.app available?
You need to update your rules to move mail to the gmail IMAP folders rather than the ones from 'On My Mac'. When it does that, it is copying them out of the gmail box to your local mail store.
You could also have the rules set up in gmail which will parse them before sending mail to your device, so on both your Mac and iOS devices they would already be in the correct location.
Be sure that you are making folders that are stored on gmail using IMAP.
It sounds like you are moving the messages to a local folder (on my mac) and the correct behavior in that case is to delete the message from all IMAP folders.
Mail keeps a local copy of all messages - so you still have offline access, time machine backups going back in time, and all the benefits of local storage when messages are "stored in a folder in gmail." Think of the location as the authoritative copy and not the only copy or even the most correct copy. When you make changes offline - those time stamps let the system sync your changes back to gmail once you reconnect and properly integrate changes with new mail that has arrived while offline.
Just to be totally clear - here are some pictures...
Try making a new IMAP folder like the picture below - you can rename it later if needed to see what creating a folder stored on Gmail looks like on your mail client.
You don't want it stored locally like this:
You can drag messages into the new folder or drag entire folder structures as long as you have time for the operation to sync / upload all the data to gmail servers. I have seen folders with 5,000 messages take two or three hours to upload even on normal internet with decent upload speeds so try first with smaller mailboxes to get the hang of things.
iOS 4.0 and newer seem to set Gmail up as IMAP, but older setups are probably POP3, giving you only INBOX access. If you (have) set up your Gmail account on your iPhone as Exchange account or IMAP (for iOS 4.x, just re-set Gmail up, for 3.x follow these instructions) then you can get out of the INBOX by touching Mailboxes button up left and then navigate to All Mail folder where you can see all your mail and search among them.
If this suffices, no changes have to be made to Mail.app filters.


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Just out of curiosity (not as if I wanted to run a game like this these days): Are there any good alternatives to Vampire: The Requiem/Masquerade that (instead of just making them available optionally, as Kult does, for example) focus on playing modern day vampires in a contemporary, occultish setting? (Please let's avoid D20-based games. Thank you.)
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Good alternatives? I don't know what you think is good! Try these:
There are games that you could use to play vampires that aren't specifically vampire games. Try Sorcerer, for example.
I also think that My Life with Master would be a fantastic game for playing vampires. You'd have a Master who gave you orders and you could all be minion vampires doing awful things. You could struggle to keep your humanity as you did more and more terrible things.
Vincent Baker's Hungry, Desperate and Alone focusses on playing modern day vampires in a contemporary setting. It's a short game, just a blog post.
I don't know whether it's good. I imagine, given that it hasn't been formally released, that it's only half-baked: an interesting game, rather than a polished one.
At the least, though, it's packed with ideas you can use in other games.
Annalise by Nathan Paoletta is a really interesting and playable take of vampires. Not a perfect fit for your specific need but a great game.
Your question sparked a vague memory, and I went off looking for what I seemed to recall. I didn't find it, but I found two other things that might be of interest. I can't actually recommend any of them, as I haven't played them, so bear that in mind.
Death's Shadow: The Book of Vampires "combines the vampire mythos with the unique multiverse view of Karma system to bring Storytellers everything they allow their players to take on the roles of vampires"
Nameless Streets is a Heroquest-based game that includes the option of vampire PCs. It appears to be a sort of modern-day paranormal noir, if that makes any sense. Probably not focused enough on vampires to be useful.
Sorry just a link, because i have never played nor heard much of this RPG.


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Taxpayer Savings Grants
Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast testified before the Texas Senate Education Committee on August 24, 2012 in favor of the Taxpayer Savings Grants.
Read his testimony here.
Originally proposed in Texas in 2011, Taxpayer Savings Grants is a new approach to advancing school choice. While it may not be the best approach for every state, it's a perfect fit given the problems Texas faces and the way it finances its schools.
On April 7, 2015, the Texas state Senate Education Committee voted 8–3 to pass Senate Bill 4, which would establish a Taxpayer Credit Scholarship Program. The bill by Sen. Larry Taylor (R-Galveston) incorporated some pieces of SB 276, a robust Taxpayer Savings Grants bill authored by Donna Campbell (R-New Braunfels).
Under Taylor's proposal, about 10,000 low-income children would be eligible for private school scholarships. Read Heartland experts' response to the vote.
What is the Taxpayer Savings Grant Program?
The original bill to create the Taxpayers' Savings Grant Program (TSGP) in 2011 read as follows:
1. Any parent or legal guardian of a school-age child who resides in Texas and is enteringkindergarten or attended a public school for all of the academic year prior to their participation in this program, who is willing to help the State of Texas save money by accepting less than the average per-pupil maintenance and operations expenditure in the district in which they reside, may receive reimbursement from the state for tuition paid for enrollment of said child at a private school in the amount of actual tuition or sixty percent of the state average per-pupil maintenance and operations expenditure, whichever is less, and the gratitude of the State of Texas.
2. Within 45 days of the passage of this Act, the Comptroller shall adopt rules solely to effectuate reimbursement and prevent fraud in financial transactions under this program. Such rules shall include the method for counting Taxpayers' Savings Grant students in the Foundation School Program and the consequent savings therefrom. No funds from the Available School Fund shall be used for Taxpayers' Savings Grants.
Is it a voucher or tax credit plan?
The Taxpayer Savings Grants Program (TSGP) is a budget reform proposal, not a school reform proposal. This is why it is administered by the state Comptroller's office rather than the Texas Education Agency, and why the whole proposal is only five sentences long!
The TSGP differs from voucher and tax credit plans in several ways. Unlike voucher plans, enrollment isn't capped, there are no means tests, no new regulations on participating schools, and no enrollment lotteries. Unlike a tax credit plan, participation is not limited to people who pay state taxes, every child receives the same sized grant, and there are no "scholarship granting entities" standing between parents and the schools they choose.
Benefits to Students, Teachers, and Taxpayers
Allowing parents to choose which schools their children attend is a powerful way to promote student achievement as well as reduce spending.
Parents respond to school choice by becoming more involved in their children's education, which is strongly correlated improved academic success. Parents who are empowered by school choice – who know their concerns are being taken seriously, and who are welcome to participate in their schools' management – respond by becoming educational partners with teachers and administrators.
Students who attend schools of choice learn more, have higher attendance and graduation rates, and are more likely to go on to college. These benefits come about because the diversity in teaching methods and school management that choice allows closely reflects the diversity of learning styles and interests of students and parents.
Teachers benefit when schools compete for good teachers. Working conditions improve, and even salaries increase. The TSGP would raise annual salaries for teachers in Houston by as much as $12,000. See:
Joseph Bast, Herbert Walberg, and Bruno Behrend, "How Teachers in Texas Would Benefit from Expanding School Choice," Policy Brief (The Heartland Institute, April 2011).
Because private schools typically spend less than public schools, school choice can also reduce taxes. The Heartland Institute estimates the TSGP would lead parents to transfer about 6% of public school students to private schools, saving the state approximately $1 billion a year. See:
John Merrifield and Joseph Bast, "Budget Impact of the Texas Taxpayers' Savings Grant Program," Policy Brief (The Heartland Institute and the E.G. West Institute for Effective Schooling, April 2011).
On June 6, 2011, the Texas Legislative Budget Board (LBB) issued a Fiscal Note claiming TSGP would cost taxpayers approximately $195 million in its first two years. The Heartland Institute immediately challenged that estimate, and on June 20, 2011, LBB issued a new memorandum changing its estimate to a net savings of approximately $1.2 billion over five years. LBB validated The Heartland Institute's methodology for calculating savings but used an extremely low estimate of the number of students who would enroll, just one-half of one percent of public school enrollment in the first year. Heartland estimates that 6 percent of students will transfer in the first year.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Heartland Institute has prepared answers to six of the most frequently asked questions about the TSGP:
"Q1: How Would the TSGP Affect Texas' Rank?" (Joseph Bast, The Heartland Institute, August 2012)
"Q2: Would the number of openings at private schools increase fast enough to meet the expected surge in demand?" (Joseph Bast, The Heartland Institute, August 2012)
"Q3: Would the TSG program hurt public school teachers?" (Joseph Bast, The Heartland Institute, August 2012)
"Q4: Would the TSG program take the 'best kids' out of public schools?" (Joseph Bast and Marc Oestreich, The Heartland Institute, August 2012)
"Q5: What regulations would schools that participate in the TSG program have to comply with?" (Joseph Bast, The Heartland Institute, August 2012)
"Q6: Do vouchers threaten [not destroy] private school freedom?" (Dick Komer, Institute for Justice, June 2011)
More questions and answers appear here.
Join the TSG Revolution!
Taxpayer Savings Grants are a win-win for students, teachers, and Texas taxpayers. For more information, visit TaxpayerSavingsGrants.org or contact:
Allan Parker
Grassroots Coordinator
Texans for Voluntary Taxpayer Savings
Post Office Box 271257
Flower Mound, TX 75027-1257
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
…or contact Heartland's government relations department at 312/377-4000 and firstname.lastname@example.com.
More information
Kent Grusendorf and Michael Barba, "How Texas Can Take the Lead on School Choice," (Texas Public Policy Foundation, March 27, 2015)
Vance Ginn, Ph.D., "Teachers Win with School Choice," Testimony Before the Texas Senate Education Committee (Texas Public Policy Foundation, March 26, 2015)
Joseph L. Bast, "Making Texas Public Education More Efficient: Taxpayer Savings Grant Program," Policy Brief (Heartland Institute, March 8, 2013)
John Merrifield and Joseph Bast, "Taxpayers Savings Grants: Reply to Fuller," Policy Brief (Heartland Institute and the E.G. West Institute for Effective Schooling, June 10, 2011)
Joseph L. Bast, "Corrections to Fiscal Note for Taxpayers' Savings Grants Program," Policy Brief (Heartland Institute, June 8, 2011)
Joseph L. Bast, "The Indiana School Scholarship Act (House Bill 1003)," Commentary and Anaylsis (Heartland Institute, June 7, 2011)
Joseph L. Bast, "Why Conservatives and Libertarians Should Support School Vouchers," (The Independent Review, October 1, 2002)
* Use Heartland's PolicyBot search engine of more than 25,000 documents of original research and commentary for more information on school reform efforts. Here is a search for "Taxpayer Savings Grants."
News articles at the Heartlander
"Texas Senate Committee Considers School Choice," Kenneth Artz, August 27, 2012.
"Eighty-five Percent of Texas Republicans Approve School Choice Proposition," Joy Pullmann, June 2, 2012.
"School Choice Proposition to Appear on Texas Primary Ballot," Caleb Whitmer, January 17, 2012.
* See archives of The Heartland Institute's monthly public policy newspaer, School Reform News.
Watch Heartland's video explaining the benefits of Taxpayer Savings Grants below:


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9 Apr 2012 7:11 AM #11
Right that is a GWT design concept document explaining the basis/reason for the GWT appearance pattern...but I'd like to see a document recommending specifically how to customize the GXT themes.
9 Apr 2012 7:16 AM #12
There is not so much special about it. There are java files and css files. Depending on what you want to do, you either need to change the css files or extend the java files, or maybe even both.
Your question needs to be more specific.
9 Apr 2012 10:16 AM #13
Okay I'll try to provide a couple specific examples, what's the right way to do this?
1. Create a ContentPanel (with no header) that has a yellow border and transparent body background? As a test I copied all the blue classes/resources to my project and then renamed with Yellow, e.g.
public class YellowContentPanelAppearance extends ContentPanelBaseAppearance { public interface YellowContentPanelResources extends ContentPanelResources { @Source({"ipt/tas/chatdashboard/ui/gwt/client/widgets/appearance/gxt/theme/base/client/panel/ContentPanel.css", "YellowContentPanel.css"}) @Override YellowContentPanelStyle style(); } public interface YellowContentPanelStyle extends ContentPanelStyle { } public YellowContentPanelAppearance() { super(GWT.<YellowContentPanelResources> create(YellowContentPanelResources.class), GWT.<ContentPanelTemplate> create(ContentPanelTemplate.class)); } public YellowContentPanelAppearance(YellowContentPanelResources resources) { super(resources, GWT.<ContentPanelTemplate> create(ContentPanelTemplate.class)); } @Override public HeaderBaseAppearance getHeaderAppearance() { return new BlueHeaderAppearance(); } } And YellowContentPanel.css: .panel { border-color: #ffc125; } .body { background-color: transparent; border-color: #FFC125; }
2. I also often need to be able to style things dynamically, that is some state changes in the app and I need to reflect that change in the UI. Changing the header color of a ContentPanel is a good example. For the dynamic case static CSS doesn't make sense to me so I've tried extending GXT Appearance patterns, e.g.
public class BlueHeaderAppearanceEx extends BlueHeaderAppearance { private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("BlueHeaderAppearanceEx"); private IColorFormatter colorFormatter = new ColorFormatter(); private XElement barElem; private XElement textElem; private XElement parent; public BlueHeaderAppearanceEx() { } public BlueHeaderAppearanceEx(HeaderResources resources, Template template) { super(resources, template); } @Override public XElement getBarElem(XElement parent) { this.parent = parent; barElem = super.getBarElem(parent); return barElem; } @Override public XElement getTextElem(XElement parent) { textElem = super.getTextElem(parent); return textElem; } public void setColor(int colorRGB, int backgroundRGB) { String colorHTML = colorFormatter.toHTMLColor(colorRGB); String backgroundHTML = colorFormatter.toHTMLColor(backgroundRGB); if (textElem != null) { textElem.applyStyles("backgroundColor:" + backgroundHTML + "; color:" + colorHTML + ";"); textElem.repaint(); } } }
9 Apr 2012 12:29 PM #14
You should not save a reference to the elements in the appereance, why do you want to do this?
what I really want to do is dynamically change the full header color and foreground text color.
However this does not provide a good result as the text element is not the full header element
9 Apr 2012 12:33 PM #15
You can skip the call to repaint also.
9 Apr 2012 3:03 PM #16
Regarding 'skip the call to repaint'...yes I verified that was not needed.
Regarding the other issues, I don't understand. I don't want to store a reference to any XElement but could not see another way. The only methods the Appearance interface gives me are:
XElement getBarElem(XElement parent); XElement getTextElem(XElement parent); void render(SafeHtmlBuilder sb); void setIcon(XElement parent, ImageResource icon);
Regarding 'You can create another getter that gets the element that is required for your custom styling. ' I don't yet know how to get the right element, I would have thought that might be the parent XElement but that didn't seem to be right either.
10 Apr 2012 1:03 AM #17
The parent is the parent element if the widget/cell. From that one you can go down to get any child element.
You know the markup, and so you can get any element you require from this widget/cell. getBarElem and getTextElem are doing exact the same thing, you should look at their implementation.
You can add a third method doing the same thing, just getting you the element you require for your custom styling.
10 Apr 2012 5:38 AM #18
But how to use methods like those without storing state? E.g. when I call my new setXXXColor() method how can I call any method that takes an input XElement param? I don't have access to the parent XElement in my setXXXColor() method.
10 Apr 2012 5:43 AM #19
You know the parent element of your widget/cell and you could pass it into that method.
10 Apr 2012 6:20 AM #20
Hum, well I thought that since I wanted to change the appearance of a widget I would call a method on the appearance instance that was injected into the widget. So if I have pass a reference of the widget into the method to change the appearance one wonders what's the point of the appearance instance in this case. E.g. since the code operates on things external to the appearance instance the code might as well be someplace else.
When I try to set the background color on the parent (the header XElement) nothing happens. I think this is because the header is using an image. Is there a way I can affect the color of this (or make the image transparent so the color can be seen)? I.e. I'd like the full header color to be changed at dynamic points in the app...but it's not yet clear to me how to do this.


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Say, I record a live mix I am doing at home for practice, using tracks which I have purchased. I would like to share this mix legally on the Internet. What are the copyright issues involved and how can I share the mix legally?
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The first thing to say here is, I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. Second thing to say... you should talk to a lawyer to answer questions about your particular situation definitively.
Having said that, I found a nice article about the various issues related to DJing, etc. I believe the bit below should be applicable to you, though I'd recommend reading the whole thing. Very interesting...
For each individual music piece you would have to determine what the license you obtained it from was, whether or not that license allows for derivative works from it and if not you need to get permission from the person or corporation that owns the rights to the work:
a) Is it licensed under Creative Commons? ( http://creativecommons.org/ ). If so does the chosen Creative Commons license allow adaptations? Or does it forbid it (Attribution-NoDerivs).
b) Is it in the public domain? Are you sure it is in the public domain? (Copyright laws changed recently, the musical piece might be public domain but the CD recording of a particular orchastra performing it might not be, etc.)
c) If it is not public domain or under Creative Commons who owns the publishing rights? Have you gotten their permission to use the material?
If you purchased all of the music then what I would do is contact the publisher of each piece of music for with a description of how you intend to use it and get written permission from them that it is alright to use it before posting it publicly online. If you are going to be making money off of selling the music or are going to be exposed to a large audience then you should probably consider getting a lawyer involved just to be safe.


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If your son or daughter will be returning to Saint Ben's and Saint John's next year, their advanced payment is due by Thursday, March 12. A separate billing is not mailed for this advanced payment. You will find more information as well as payment options on the CSB Student Accounts Web site if your student attends Saint Ben's or the SJU Student Accounts Web site if your student attends Saint John's.
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The CSB and SJU Bookstores will host "Grad Finale" from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Wed., March 18, in the Great Hall for SJU seniors and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thurs., March 18, in Alumnae Hall for CSB seniors. This is a one day, one location event where seniors pick up their cap and gown, as well as finalize all their graduation needs with campus departments. You will receive a letter in February explaining the Grad Finale details. You can also visit our Bookstore Web site for additional information. Diploma frames will be on sale during this event as well as class rings.
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Build a team of family, friends, neighbors or co-workers and join the third annual CSB Women's Walk. The Walk will begin at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 26, on the Saint Ben's campus. Family friendly pre-walk activities are followed by a 30 minute walk that loops around the CSB campus. Funds raised support Blazer Athletics and Campus Recreation. For more information and to pre-register, please visit the Women's Walk Web site.
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Kathleen Norris will be at the SJU Bookstore from 2:30-4 p.m., Tuesday, March 17, for a book signing. Kathleen will be reading from her newest book, Acedia & Me. Kathleen is a member of the Saint John's Board of Regents and has written several books, including The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace, and Dakota. During February, the bookstores are waiving ground shipping charges on web orders over $50. Use the coupon code BRR2009 when you place your order. Visit our Bookstore Web site.
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As we experience potholes and a few last snowstorms in Minnesota, many of us are dreaming of summer. For students, summer can be an important time to earn money to help pay for college. But summer can also be an important time to gain career information and experience. It's not too early to encourage your son or daughter to begin planning for the summer. Besides working to earn money, summer activities can help students explore and "test out" various career areas. Visit the Career Web site to learn about some key tips that can help your student.
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Kent Kedl, coauthor of The China Ready Company and a partner at Technomic Asia (Shanghai and Chicago), a firm that guides companies investing in China, describes the market's evolution this way:
"Ten years ago, a company that wanted to make a direct investment was forced to go into joint ventures, which were often arranged marriages from hell. Now, companies can step back, look at the marketplace and choose the best strategy, whether it's a green field, joint venture, licensing deal or acquiring somebody. It has really opened up."
Japanese and Western companies, including those in biopharm, are forging a far richer involvement in the Chinese economy to take fuller advantage of China's rapidly growing consumer market.
China's gradual relaxation of its historic opposition to foreign ownership of companies operating in China, makes it easier for Western companies to pursue capital that is structured more to their liking. This also propels further investment.
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I bought a new HP Pavilion DV7-6199US. In the past on all my computers I have always used Ubuntu primarily and I keep a version of Windows in case I need something that I can't do easily in Linux. I have always just re-sized the main Windows partition to leave enough space for Linux to run with no problems. I would leave the remaining space for Linux on the disk with no partition or anything, just unused space. Then I would run Ubuntu's installer and tell it to use the unused space. Never a problem, Ubuntu would create partitions there however it wanted to.
This time I did all this, but when I resized the partition in Windows the remaining space was labelled unusable by Linux and Windows. So I said OK no problem I booted Ubuntu 11.10 from USB and I just deleted the whole Windows partition and created a 492 GB partition to install Windows on again.
After doing this the Disk Management Utility in Ubuntu said the following error: "Warning: The partition is misaligned by 3072 bytes. This may result in very poor performance. Repartitioning is suggested." Do I keep going? Is this just a screwy error that I can ignore? I can't handle bad performance issues.
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(Columbia, Mo.) - Jewly Harris has been selected as the new director of Columbia College-Salt Lake. In her new position, Harris is responsible for all day-to-day operations of the Salt Lake campus, including class scheduling and student and faculty recruitment and retention. Harris holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix and a master's degree in human resource management from Webster University.
Harris comes to the director position with experience in management and higher education. She began her career at Columbia College in December 2000 as the academic advisor for the Salt Lake campus and was promoted to assistant director in July 2007. Prior to joining the college, Harris was the director of Career Services at Utah Career College where she developed and maintained relationships with local businesses and assisted students with job placement. She also worked as a district sales manager for Brian Taylor and Associates, a clothing company, for two years.
"Over the years of working at Columbia College, I have gained a deep respect and admiration for the college," said Harris. "I have a strong belief in the power of knowledge and have witnessed how the journey of gaining a degree can impact one's life."
Harris said she is excited to be an integral part of Columbia College-Salt Lake as the campus continues to grow. "I cannot wait for graduation day to lead the graduates in the processional, to see their families beam with pride and to see the resolve in each graduate that they have finally completed their degree," she said. �We have the best students, staff and faculty of any college I have worked for. Like we always say at Columbia College, 'Someday starts today'." Columbia College-Salt Lake is one of the college's 34 nationwide campuses, including 17 on military bases. The Salt Lake campus was established in 1975 at Fort Douglas Army Education Center, and in 1989, moved to Decker Lane Drive when the base closed. In order to improve accessibility and increase visibility, the campus moved again in June 2008 to its present location near Interstate 15 and 5300 South in Murray.
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I find it hard to name my characters. Every normal name sounds funny if applied to a product of my fantasy. If I take a common name, I may get the image of someone I know into my head. And that may influence my vision of the character in a way I didn't intended. If I choose an uncommon name or invent a name (for a fantasy story for example) it sounds silly to me. How do you name the characters of your story?
So Sméagol, Gandalf and Bilbo Baggins do not sound silly?
Honestly, don't care too much, if they sound silly or not. First, you can change them, second, I've read some great stories with very silly named characters.
If you want make up fantasy names and have no good idea how to start, here is what I do:
If the characters are strong, the name gets molded to the character; if they're weak, it's the other way around.
"The World According to Garp" makes a pretty big deal about Garp's name - both the word "Garp" and why Garp's mother selected that name play important roles. Nonetheless, I don't think the story would have had a significantly different impact on me if Garp had been named "John". We identify with characters based on who they are - their name becomes a convenient flag for that.
One bit to add about names: if you use fantasy names (because you are, like, writing a fantasy story ;-), take care to make them consistent. Meaning names of people belonging to the same race/people/whatever need to sound/feel "similar" in style. Hard to give an example (I'm bad at finding fantasy names myself :D), but... well, if you give all characters that come from the same region of your world names with lots of accents, then it would look weird (and feel wrong) if suddenly someone from that regions shows up and is called "Bruno". Except...
No parent takes naming their child as an indifferent thing. Before the baby is even born, the name we give the child is an identity that will stick with him/her for the rest of that baby's life. Or to quote Orson Scott Card: "A name is part of who a person is. It's the label that stands for everything you've done and everything you are." (Characters & Viewpoint, p. 41)
I suggest taking a "parental" role to naming characters - just like a parent doesn't know who their child will ultimately be before they're born, that doesn't stop them from giving the baby a name. An identity. A label that stands for everything they are and have done and will do.
As for how you choose your names, here are some tips that I've found very helpful over the years:
Another writer friend of mine went through NaNoWriMo last year, writing furiously to make her 50,000 words, without naming her characters at all.
Naming isn't easy. Sometimes a character will have a name that fits, perhaps, but often not. If you find it difficult put it off. Don't let it get in the way of your writing. Instead write. If necessary, get all the way to the end of your story. Then tackle the naming problem.
How do you tackle it? Do it with a baby name book. Use an online baby naming resource. Take a name and change it up a little in your head as if you are a parent who simply has to have a unique name for Baby X. Pick the name you always thought you were going to call your daughter until your spouse overrode it. Use the middle name of your friend who least or most resembles the character. Flip through your college yearbook and pick the kid who most looks like your character. These are just a few ideas. There are tons more. Just write. Then name.
I find much easier to first imagine the character, see it wading through the planned story-line, get emotionally involved with its (mis)adventures, then I can think a name that matches that stronger image of the character I've built.
If you don't really feel your character alive, it really doesn't call for a proper name (yet). Also it may be easier, for supporting or eventual characters to just give any name, and rename it later, when it gains truer life in your imagination.
Use variations on names from Ancient history/mythology. Greek, or Norse, or Mayan, or whatever, pick your flavour.
This can give you a very wide variety of fictional names that are still similar to each other (for a rich, "realistic" feel).
Most of my "fantasy world" style character/place names come from my old testament reading.
This is a complete list of Bible place/person names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biblical_names
I change them around a bit (try different letters and syllables, to get a different sound).
I get some good metaphors too, but I don't have a link to a list of those.
Examples: The Sword Bathed in Heaven, fed their enemies on the bread of affliction and the water of affliction, a shadow from the heat, a refuge from the storm, etc.
The Old Testament in particular can give a very authentic "ancient civilisation" feel to native English readers, probably because of the influence the Bible has had on English speaking culture (including fantasy novels) over the centuries.
Try this to put the importance of character names into perspective: Begin with nothing more than a person's name, and then write the story. Does she truly end up typecast as the similarly-named girl you knew in fourth grade? Or does she take on different attributes - do you give her reactions and thoughts fit for the character you're creating? More likely the latter.
Naming your character might be the least important thing you do with respect to what that character becomes and how you (the author) think of her. When the character's name actually plays a role in defining who she is, however, or when the name is representative of something that defines her (such as Garp's name in The World According to Garp), keep in mind that in life we don't usually choose our names: our parents do. Give the charater's father a moment's thought: would he have named his daughter Chaersogih, Purple Sunlit Mai Tai, or Katie?
By the way, take the undue pressure off of your mind about having those corrupting outside influences infect your creative vision. There's nothing wrong with allowing someone you know lend a trait or two to one of your characters. While you're still getting to know the character, go ahead and let the name give you ideas. If you're dead set on who and what she is, the name won't be able to stop you even if it (or if Chaersogih from fourth grade) tried.
I either use an existing name and change something like adding a letter or swapping two: Boris -> Borsi. Ken -> Kan.
If that fails, I pay this site a visit: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/index.php
My advice is to start collecting names in a file on your computer. I've have categories of names that have appealed to me over the years. For example, one of my favorite categories is "computer generated names". Some of them are hilarious: Zhamak Boobs, Parveen Farmiloe, Jimbo Razi, Hercules Hook. I got these from computer generated spam who's 'sender' names were obviously created by a computer program choosing to combine list elements from various lists of peoples names and objects. But I collect real names too.
If setting your story in the real world, be careful of the social connotations of choosing foreign names. In the US, Billy Bob and Chuck carry certain connotations (southern and down-to-earth respectively). Likewise in the UK, Charles and Oliver will have social connotations. If you are an English speaker, you're probably aware of these already.
Therefore, be aware that the same is true for other countries. Eg, Jens, Pierre, Bjorn all have social connotations too. If in doubt, ask a native speaker of the language you go for.
There is a great great great resource for naming characters. It is a random name generator you can choose the influences and the origin of the name and each name has a meaning when it is generated. A real meaning. All names come from most of the cultures that inhabit our dear planet.
On the same page you can search for names according to meaning and/or sex.
Another technique for inventing names is just cutting a word you see in half, example:
I just saw the word community so I cut it to the piece I like the most like Munity or ity.
Then I take another word I see, for instance answer, and cut it, ans or wer or we.
Then I produce the name, result: Itywé you can always put an accent to make it fancy. But as everything don't abuse it.
This is an interesting article about using markov chains to generate realistic sounding character names http://www.dgames.org/markov-chain-name-generator/ in this case it generates Hindu and ancient Greek names but the same principle can be applied for whatever. Also there are any number of baby name sites that I use. You can look through names of certain origins.
I wish there was a single reference book for given names from around the world, but I haven't been able to find one. I have a couple of books on my shelves that have been quite helpful:
Concise Dictionary of First Names (OUP) http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198662594.do
African Ethnics and Personal Names (Ariko) [ new user, so I can only post one link - google it! ]
There are a lot of 'baby naming' websites out there; they tend to be pretty poor quality and unhelpful, but others may have better luck.
As for fantasy names, Tolkien was a linguist (or 'philologist' as they said then), and the reason there is such a strong consistency in the names is that they are part of languages he not only spent a long time on, but applied his knowledge of real languages to them. You can tell when people have taken short cuts.
Critique Circle has a random name generator, but it is more useful for modern stories than fantasy. You can choose gender and change the level of obscurity.
I find it helpful to research the names. If your fantasized world is similar to an existing country, find out what language they speak and try those names. If your fantasized language sounds like an existing language, do the same thing. I have found that names always fit the characters better if their origin is similar to that of the character.
You asked how "I" name a character. I create my character and give him/her a name that fits the social and geographic location of the character. It's like picking names for children. You just do it.
I've heard that some people use a phone book. Some these days use a name generator. I have one friend (unpublished) who visit cemeteries.
If you are really having problems you might be over-thinking the problem.
If you can create a story I'm amazed you can't create names for your characters....
What I've done for names:
If you're trying to come up with names for a fantasy world, I suggest coming up with some phonology for a language in your fantasy world, and then generating a bunch of words that match it. (You can add flavor by creating multiple languages with different phonological rules, or by imposing a rule that the pattern of sounds communicates something about a character's gender or status. In Mindy Klasky's "Glasswrights" series, for example, the higher a character's caste, the more syllables were in his or her name.)
I agree with Martha above that you shouldn't give different characters names that start with the same letter. (Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh has an Arthur and an Art, but I think Chabon was just showing off.)
And one other tip: full names sound better if the first and last names have a different number of syllables.
I don't know why, but I like naming conventions of Post-Modern writers like Pynchon's Oedipa Maas and Dr. Hilarius or DFW's Hal Incandenza.
They're absurdist, but suggest additional meaning which makes them intriguing.
I suppose, though, that naming conventions are tied to genre. An example that comes to mind is that I've seen characters referred to as only a letter in shorter fiction, but that may become tedious to the reader in a full length novel.
Two commonly recommended strategies for character naming are the perusal of popular names lists and looking up the meaning of names. Both aren't very useful.
If you have to look up the meaning of a name, your readers won't know it either and it won't influence their perception of a character.
And popular names aren't always perceived as positive. For example in Germany the name Kevin is one of the most popular and widespread names, but it is chosen mostly in low income families and has become associated with ADHS and low performance in school. So much so that teachers show prejudice towards pupils with that name, as research has shown.
But what can you do?
I am German, so the names I use as a writer are German. A research group at a German university has researched the associations that people have for certain names: how old do they imagine an Alexander, how intelligent is a Julia, how attractive a Ben? The research is still limited to a small selection of names and attributes, but it is a valuable starting point.
One German website lets users judge names and gives top 50 lists for attributes like intelligence, attractiveness, age, masculinity/femininity and several character traits: http://www.onomastik.com/Vornamen-Lexikon/
If I want to use a name that has not been researched, I ask friends how they imagine the person with that name. I was often surprised what negative associations people have for names I like. Some names sound fat, others unfriendly.
Maybe there is similar research for names from your culture?


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Way cool. I just decided to start a similar project, and did a google search to see how much open source code I'll be able to use for it. Yours was one of the first projects to come up. Thanks in advance for however much of your code I use!
Nicely done demonstration, John! I think I will use ConfigObj in my project as well.
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I just wasnt sure of the capabilities of this program you all feed me and I ll feed you it will be like this nest of alien feeding untill we are surrounded in a plasma of some sort and from there evolution is orbical. (orbs energy spheres)
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Hi John, great to see you adding your stuff to ShowMeDo.
Nice work. Seems really useful.
Pretty cool. It looks like it may be time to try out speech recognition again!
This s very cool. Must have taken long to train Dragon to recognize you so well.


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TORONTO -The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Nov. 22 in New York City included one city high school student participating in the annual tradition senior John Rodesh, who marched with 250 other student-musicians from across the nation in the Macy's Great American Marching Band.
Rodesh, who plays euphonium, was selected after he auditioned for the band, and he was the only student from Jefferson County chosen, according to Rodesh.
"It was the 86th-annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade," he said. "The parade was Nov. 22, and I was in New York City from Nov. 17 through Nov. 23. There were close to 250 members representing youth from every state.
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HONORED — Toronto High School senior John Rodesh marched with 250 other student-musicians in the Macy's Great American Marching Band during the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Nov. 22 in New York City. Rodesh said the opportunity to march with some of the finest high school musicians in the country was an honor. -- Mark Miller
"I auditioned for it in February," continued Rodesh. "I had to prepare a solo on my instrument and send it to the selection committee. The committee also looks at (a record of) community service and activities in school."
Rodesh said he had to raise a little more than $2,000 for the trip, but he had plenty of help doing so.
"None of it came out of my pocket," Rodesh said, adding he was grateful to the community for its support. "It was all donations from local businesses, Toronto High School alumni, school organizations and private donations. The community is so small, but I had no problem raising funds. I was getting donations from and thanking people I didn't even know. It was great. It was one thing I didn't have to worry about."
Rodesh said the trip's hectic schedule included practicing music and parade moves with the band.
"We stayed in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., about 30 minutes away from New York City," he said. "We rehearsed in a military armory that also was an indoor soccer field."
Rodesh said the field was measured to the dimensions of Herald Square in New York where the band would be performing its routine before millions of TV viewers.
"We performed 'Moves Like Jagger' on the parade route," Rodesh said. "(When the band was broadcast on TV) in Herald Square we performed 'Lazy River,' an old swing tune. The parade route was 4 miles from Central Park West to Herald Square. On the streets (on the parade route) there were 5 million people."
The band had previously practiced the day before in Herald Square so the television crew could determine the best angles to shoot, said Rodesh. He added he was too busy to think about or get nervous about the millions of parade-watchers on the streets and watching television.
"I didn't sleep for 23 hours before the parade," said Rodesh, adding he was too busy preparing for the performance. "We were so occupied with marching we never did get nervous. The band directors were great. They ran it like a college band."
Rodesh did get some time to do a bit of sight-seeing while in the Big Apple.
"We had some free time in Times Square every day," he said, adding he saw several celebrities and other musicians on floats. "We saw the World Trade Center Memorial, watched 'Mama Mia!' on Broadway and went to the Top of the Rock observatory platform in Rockefeller Center. You could see the entire city skyline from there."
Rodesh said the entire experience was one he'll never forget.
"It was really cool," he said.


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Justin N. Feldman '42 LL.B. was a Manhattan attorney and an unswerving critic of Tammany Hall who helped coordinate Robert F. Kennedy's 1964 U.S. Senate campaign. Feldman, whose work in New York City politics spanned seven decades, passed away on September 21, 2011, at the age of 92.
A Manhattan native, Feldman immersed himself in local politics as a prominent member of the Fair Deal Democratic Club, a group devoted to breaking Tammany Hall's stranglehold on city politics. He coordinated the successful 1960 Congressional campaign of William F. Ryan '49, who unseated Tammany's candidate in the race for New York's 20th district. That same year, Feldman worked on the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy.
Feldman supported another Kennedy family member's political aspirations in 1964, helping to manage Robert F. Kennedy's successful campaign for one of New York's U.S. Senate seats.
Feldman, who remained deeply involved in local politics over the next several decades, was a founding member of Landis, Feldman, Reilly & Akers. He became head of litigation at Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman in 1982, and practiced until the age of 90.
Feldman is survived by his wife, former Manhattan prosecutor and crime novelist Linda Fairstein; daughters Jane and Diane; son Geoffrey; and two grandsons.


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Misadventures in Online Dating: Getting Started
At the age of 28, I decided that dating had thoroughly kicked my butt. It seemed as if 99 percent of my friends were engaged or married or having babies; meanwhile, I continued pursuing a breed of man who was never quite able to leave behind his college glory days and blatantly refused to face adulthood. It's an irresistible combination, I know.
In my early twenties, I had the supernatural ability to hone in on this type of man in the midst of a crowd and can only blame myself for my early dating mishaps. But at some point in my mid-20s, I made a dramatic internal proclamation that I would never seek out this type of man again. But from then on they just came to me. I became the pied piper who attracts the emotionally stunted and unavailable.
The only thing worse than my actual dating history was when I made my friends listen to my tales of woe. This is why, when my friends could take no more, I was finally convinced to give the online dating scene a shot. I had recently undergone an especially rough breakup, to which my sanity, sobriety and eating habits were not responding well, so I figured I had nothing to lose.


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This should be rather standard so I hope somebody with a good background in probability theory would give me a quick solution or a reference.
We are given a threshold positive integer $T>0$. Let $a_1=1$ and for all $k$ with probability one half set $a_k=3a_{k-1}$ or else $a_k=2a_{k-1}$. We will stop the process at smallest time $\tau$ when $a_{\tau} \geq T$. We would like to compute the constant $c$ defined to be,
$ E[ \sum_{i=1}^{\tau} a_i ] = c T + o(T) $
Could you estimate $c$ ?


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Kentucky State Police say the two children who were killed in a school bus crash in northern Kentucky were both 3 years old.
Police identified the young victims from Monday's crash as Ryder Deitz and Caroline Tuttle, both of Carrollton.
Police say the boy and girl were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident that took place as a Carroll County school bus carrying students home from the Head Start preschool program overturned and crashed into a tree.
Nine children, all preschoolers, were on the bus along with two adults. Four children remain hospitalized.
The crash occurred on a narrow country lane in Carrollton and remains under investigation.


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We are getting you ready for Valentines Day with a recipe from Angela's Cafe. And in case you don't want to cook, you can always take your Valentine to her restaurant.
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Chocolate Raspberry Torte
12 squares of semi sweet baking chocolate
melt 4 squares with a stick and a half of butter
while its hot put in a serving of raspberry gelatin and half cup sugar
beat 3 eggs
1/3 cup flour and pecans
stir all
pre heat oven at 350 degrees
cook for 40 minutes
When it comes out of the oven, let cool for 5 minutes then invert onto a plate.
Melt 4 squares of chocolate and mix it with a carton of whipped topping. Put topping on top of torte.
Last 4 squares of choclate melt and then put on wax paper then put it on the refridgerator for at least 30 minutes. When hard, cut into irregular shapes to garnish torte. Then add rasperries.


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How can a Bayesian network be used to perform attack analysis of web traffic? I read an interesting article on its application. "Web Application Defense with Bayesian Attack Analysis" but I was not clear about its methodology.
Bayesian networks are a form of probabilistic model, whereby a set of conditions can be used to predict whether an assertion is true or false.
For example, let's suppose there are two conditions we are using to predict whether a disk is dying.
We might formulate the probabilities like this:
This can be interpreted as follows:
We can take this type of model and apply self-learning to it. We take a large set of data where the outcomes are known, and use this to build a probability model.
For example, in a network we might have tests such as:
We run these tests over a set of known traffic on the network, and inform the model of times where a breach has or has not been attempted. It can then check which tests were most likely to correlate with a particular type of target event, and build a probability model like we did above.
When we detect further breaches, we tell the model "this was a breach", and it can attempt to improve its model. We can also tell it when it falsely alerted us to a breach.
These models can become extremely complex when dealing with large numbers of question and huge datasets, especially when the model contains test questions that are fed from sub-models, or other forms of analysis. As such, they can provide an excellent pattern-matching approach to intrusion detection.
It is classifying the requests / packets / messages into good / bad ones and this classification is based on a database, which is created during training process, so you need to classify the initial batch yourself, and then it goes on self-learning.


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After working on a small project versioned with Hg for a while, I've verified the local and the central Mercurial repositories today. Locally I've got no errors or warning and "repository uses revlog format 1". In the central repository however I get
repository uses revlog format 1
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
warning: `x' uses revlog format 0
warning: `xx' uses revlog format 0
warning: `xxx' uses revlog format 0
(13 warnings of this type in total). Can I get rid of these warnings?


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This was an answer provided to a question I asked previously. I followed the other approaches to the question; however, I couldn't seem to follow this one:
How do you progress from the 2nd term to the 3rd term and then from the 3rd term to the 4th? What identity/logic is used etc.?


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A group of poor orphan boys are under care of a priest. Some of the elders of this group join the gangsters in robbing a bank and make some of wishes of the younger's true (buy them clothes, ball etc.). One of them becomes a famous gangster.
The priest takes them to a school and tries to change their future. The famous young gangster gets arrested by police and is sentenced to death.
The priest goes to him at jail and asks him to cry when he is going for execution because he is the hero of boys and they will follow his way unless they think he has been regretful in the last moments. Young gangster replies, pride is the last thing I have when leaving this world and denies his request.
Tomorrow when boys read newspapers they find that gangster was begging for his life when he was getting for execution.


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I generally like to let my fermented beer sit in the primary fermenter for a couple of hours in the kitchen (where I bottle) to give any sediment a chance to settle to the bottom of the carboy. I haven't had any issues with skunk beer, but am I testing fate by doing this? I don't have blinds in my kitchen. The sunlight this time of year in my region is mild at this time of the day (17:00 EDT) and it's not in direct sunlight. More like a shaded section of my kitchen.
Your beer will be fine for a few hours in the kitchen.
Skunking is caused by the ultraviolet radiation which provides energy for reactions involving the isomerized hop acids and sulphur compounds in the beer. While there is a small amount of UV radiation emitted by fluorescent bulbs, it's much less than sunlight - 8 hours under a fluorescent bulb is about the same as a minute of sunlight - about 1/500th the amount.
It takes a few minutes of sunlight to skunk a beer, so you'd need to leave the beer under the fluorescent lamp for 24 hours or more, and if your fermentor is semi-opaque plastic bucket it will provide some UV protection, so even longer would be needed.
If it's not direct sunlight, the reaction that produces skunking will take longer, but you're not completely safe. You should probably take steps to limit the amount of light as much as possible in that situation. Maybe throw a towel over it as it sits.


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Tuesday, July 10, City Council meeting, 6:30 p.m. at City Hall
Items of interest on the agenda included:
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The next Council Meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 24. The agenda for the next meeting will be posted on the city's website on Friday, July 20.
Meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. in Council Chambers, which is located on the second floor of City Hall at 102 North 3rd Street. Parking is available in the Thalian Hall parking lot or in the city parking deck located directly across from City Hall. Meetings are also broadcast on GTV (Time Warner Cable channel 8) or simulcast by clicking "Online Videos" on the city's website.


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First, kudos on the software. It was just what I was looking for and it works great.
Currently I am using RSyntaxTextArea in my application, in a JInternalFrame (the application involves a main desktop with different internal frames). I followed the code here to get it going:
http://fifesoft.com/rsyntaxtextarea/exa ... ample1.php
However, I'd like to also draw on many of the features that come with RText, e.g. the find-replace dialog. If there is a way to just drop the RText JPanel into a JInternalFrame that might be the best. But if not, it would be nice to use the RText jar as a library and reuse all the menu items, actions, and others functions you've spent so much time creating in my own open source app. I could probably figure out how to do these things on my own with some effort, but if you have any suggestions or guidelines I'd very much appreciate it.
Again, nice app! Thanks for any suggestions,
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New Milford Event brought flavor of Ireland to Hunt Hill Farm
What a wonder it was. Irish author and novelist Frank Delaney's 30-minute performance, featuring memorable tales of "My Hidden Ireland!" took place March 8 at Hunt Hill Farm, to benefit its cultural and culinary programs for families and children. Pierce Campbell of the Kerry Boys entertained guests with haunting Irish songs. The songs' origins were recounted by Frank with relish, his signature humor and a joyful love of his birth country. Ellen McCourt, honorary chair of the event in honor of St. Patrick's Day, introduced Frank.
One-hundred and twelve ticketholders at the sold-out event feasted on North Atlantic smoked salmon; braised lamb stew; Irish seafood coddie; potato and caramelized onion colcannon; and homemade raisin soda bread pudding with Bailey's Irish Cream-infused whipped cream.
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Above: Mr. Alfred O. Therkildsen, generous donor, with his stepson David Barrows, UIS' VIce Chancellor of Administrative Affairs.
UIS' First Building Named for a Donor
In the fall of 2009, Alfred O. Therkildsen gave a generous gift to enable UIS students to do research related to The Nature Conservancy's wetland restoration at Emiquon. Because of his generosity, UIS' field station at Emiquon was named the Alfred O. and Barbara Cordwell Therkildsen Field Station at Emiquon.
The picture at right shows Mr. Therkildsen at the field station with his stepson David Barrows, UIS' Vice Chancellor of Administrative Affairs.
We thought you would enjoy meeting this wonderful donor whose gift will so noticeably enhance UIS students' academic success.
Mr. Therkildsen's Story
Alfred O. Therkildsen was born in Schenectady, New York, and grew up on his family's farm south of Albany, New York. During World War II, he was stationed–among other places– in Louisville, Kentucky, where he met his first wife, Sarah.
Although he had started college at Princeton when the war began, rather than returning after the war he was married instead. He and Sarah had two sons and a daughter.
After Sarah's death in 1965, Mr. Therkildsen married a long-time family friend, Barbara Cordwell Barrows, who brought three sons with her into what would be known, according to Alfred, as the "Therkil-Barrows family. " Dave Barrows, UIS' Vice Chancellor of Administrative Affairs, was one of those sons.
The family moved to Illinois when Mr. Therkildsen was transferred to an Olin Corporation plant in East Alton, Illinois. He worked there through several reorganizations and then took a job with the Illinois Department of Revenue, from which he retired in 1986.
A Family Gift
Barbara Cordwell Therkildsen's parents, Arthur H. Cordwell and Zelma Pack Cordwell provided the funds that would eventually be given to Emiquon through a trust that they left to their daughter, Barbara.
Mr. Therkildsen has great praise for Barbara's parents, especially Mr. Cordwell. "Dad Cordwell was an interesting man," he says. "He put himself through Rutgers University as a civil engineer. While there, he was a Phi Beta Kappa student
He worked as an engineer on the Holland Tunnel between New York City and New Jersey. He then worked as an executive for the telephone company for many years."
Mr. Cordwell loved gardening, and it is fitting that his hard work has contributed to an environmental concern like The Nature Conservancy's restoration at Emiquon.
"He was the only man that I ever knew," says Mr. Therkildsen, "who could pick two rows of strawberries at the same time, using both hands. In the end, he died in the garden, doing what he loved to do."
To Honor Barbara
The Cordwells' inheritance passed as a trust to Barbara Cordwell Therkildsen and then to Mr. Therkildsen, who decided to give to Emiquon in Barbara's memory.
"Barbara is the key to the gift," Mr. Therkildsen says.
"It was her stewardship and management of the trust that made it possible for me to make this gift, and so I made the gift in her memory."
Barbara Cordwell Therkildsen will be an inspiration to the many women students and scientists who work at Emiquon. Barbara returned to school at a later age for a nursing degree and then worked in a doctor's office for many years.
While in school, Barbara was listed as the outstanding student in her class, and her name appears on a plaque at Lincoln Land Community College.
"She was such an outstanding student," says Mr. Therkildsen, "so I figured we would just continue that—she'll be remembered at Lincoln Land, and now she'll be remembered at UIS as well."
Also Honoring David Barrows
Also remembered through the gift is Dave Barrows, who designed the field station and is remembered on the plaque pictured on the previous page.
"I think all the world of him," says Mr. Therkildsen, who calls Dave Barrows his guardian angel. "Whenever I need help, I call Dave. There's never any question. He drops everything to come if I need him."
It was Dave Barrows who first proposed the gift to Mr. Therkildsen. "He called me one day," says Mr. Therkildsen, "and said, 'How would you like to have your name on a building?'"
Upon hearing that Dave had designed the building, Mr. Therkildsen decided it would be a wonderful way to celebrate his family and especially Barbara.
Mr. Therkildsen's Hope for the Gift
Beyond remembering Barbara and her parents and honoring Dave, Mr. Therkildsen hopes that his gift will help the Emiquon restoration to succeed and that the research that occurs at the Therkildsen Field Station contributes to that effort.
"In this day and age," he says, "when every inch of grounds seems to end up in a housing development or a strip mall, it's nice to know that the Conservancy's floodplain restoration efforts will continue."
A Word of Advice
Mr. Therkildsen has some advice for the students who will benefit from his gift: Follow every opportunity, especially when the opportunity comes because of someone's thrift and good management. "The opportunity can open up the world to you. It's up to you what you do with it."