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Have you checked the eating facilities, gas stations, equipment sales and repair, and on and on and on. It is driving a lot of income into the local economy. thankfully.......
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About a year ago I started putting in effort to lose weight and get more physically active. My effort to lose weight was successful and I dropped about 13 pounds and felt great. But a few months ago I began doing more intense exersises and I started gaining weight instead even though I'm still eating less calories than what I need to stay the same weight. I'm just really confused because I haven't even been doing any weight training to build muscle and I use a calorie calculator so I don't ever eat enought to gain weight. Help?
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There are so many variables, we can't really give a good answer to "why am I gaining weight despite eating less and working out more".
But, your plan sounds pretty good.. better than the average person. You're active, and you're feeding yourself well. I'd say as long as you're improving at your activity (running faster, kicking harder), keep up what you're doing.
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The Affordable Care Act is more popular among Republicans than Obamacare, by a 22% to 14% margin, and among the general population, 39% to 34%, according to a Fox News poll.
According to Pew, of the 53% of Americans surveyed who disapprove of the ACA, 27% want Congress to make it work as well as possible, while 23% want Congress to "do what they can to make it fail." Among the Tea Party, 64% want their representatives to work actively at making it fail. "The Tea Party wing of the GOP is dead set on sabotaging Obamacare above all else," writes Kevin Drum at Mother Jones.
Jonathan Chait looks at that effort, and gives details on the status of reforms:
Health-care inflation since 2011 has fallen to its lowest level in half a century. The Congressional Budget Office estimates of Obamacare's costs, widely derided at the time of its passage as too optimistic, have thus far proven too pessimistic. The agency has already cut $600 billion off the expected ten-year spending total for Medicare and Medicaid. If the reforms continue to bear fruit, costs will come in even lower.
And health experts increasingly expect the reforms will bear fruit. "The ongoing slowdown in the health-care growth rate defies historical post-recession patterns and is likely to be sustained," concluded PriceWaterhouse-Coopers in June. "It appears that the reforms will stick and health-care exchanges and other policies will bring competitive pressure to markets," says Randall Ellis, a professor of health-care economics. "Although the proof for this point of view is not yet definitive," reports the Health Affairs blog, "the depth and breadth of change suggest that significant transformation in the nation's delivery system is under way." Among health-care wonks, this is no longer a controversial assertion: The evidence thus far suggests Obamacare's cost reforms are a staggering success.
The Wall St. Journal says the defunding drive is a political loser:
Mr. Obama is never, ever going to unwind his signature legacy project of national health care. Ideology aside, it would end his Presidency politically. And if Republicans insist that any spending bill must defund ObamaCare, then a showdown is inevitable that shuts down much of the government. Republicans will claim that Democrats are the ones shutting it down to preserve ObamaCare. Voters may see it differently given the media's liberal sympathies and because the repeal-or-bust crowd provoked the confrontation. …
We've often supported backbenchers who want to push GOP leaders in a better policy direction, most recently on the farm bill. But it's something else entirely to sabotage any plan with a chance of succeeding and pretend to have "leverage" that exists only in the world of townhall applause lines and fundraising letters.
The Congressional Budget Office warns of unsustainable debt levels by 2023, due mainly to the rising costs of Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. In response to the report, Paul Ryan, leader of the House Budget Committee, suggests eliminating Obamacare.
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NPR/Morning Edition has been been running a series on the ACA this summer (including the fact that people like the Affordable Care Act better than Obamacare ...). Those who want to understand it better might want to start with Julie Rovner's report here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/01/196335133/you-ask-we-answer-demystifying-the-affordable-care-act
I wish the bishops who threw so much energy into the "Fortnight for Freedom" would devote the same energy to telling Paul Ryan--loudly, publicly, and often--that he cannot be a devotee of Ayn Rand and a Catholic at the same time. It's not What Jesus Would Do.
What do you mean by unsustainable debt levels? The projected levels of debt in 2023 look to be similar to our current levels as a percentage of GDP, and even in 2038 the levels are high but within levels that have been sustained by large nations with their own currency.
Since the "Affordable Care Act" gets substantially more support from the public than "Obamacare" does, I guess the law would be really popular if pollsters used its full name, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
If opponents truly believed that the ACA was going to prove a miserable failure, they might not be in such a sweat to stop it. They could let it fail, take credit for having been against it, and then propose their alternative, if any. The take-no-prisoners opposition now suggests that they know there willl be no later for them once the law takes effect. If it saves money while increasing access to health care, people will not look kindly on those who tried so hard to deny them its benefits.
According to NCR, the leaders of the USCCB have reiteerated their opposition to what they call the HHR mandate that is connected with this law. They continue to fret about the fact that the mandate makes no exception for owners of businesses who oppose the mandate on conscience grounds to be exempted from the mandate's requirements. What a nutty position for the USCCB to take! Imagine what would happen if their "principle" were applied to all civil legislation.
It would be nice if the bishops (and other religious leaders) also fretted publicly about the fact that employers who increase profits by hiring part-timers are cutting part-time hours so that they won't be liable for providing insurance to employees under ACA. This is happening largely in retail, service, higher ed sectors where adjuncts are used to keep costs down, and, ironically, many areas of the health care biz itself (nursing homes, home care, etc.).
Reducing hours reduces income, and that means that those workers whose hours are cut below the ACA requirement may have to rely on expanded Medicaid or subsidized policies that they might otherwise have been able to pay for on their own. This could raise the cost of the ACA for taxpayers, which, in my opinion, constitutes business welfare.
Jean, I agree with your concern. But let me play devil's advocate for a moment.
I expect that underlying your concern is an assumption that employers have certain responsibilities for the well-being of their workers: e.g. to pay a living wage and, in the US until the advent of the ACA, to provide health care coverage. But the ACA seems to rewrite that part of the social contract. The ACA tells employers and employees that the employer isn't really responsible for the health care of employees. Employer group health care plans, under the ACA, now are nice-to-provides but no longer are expected-to-provides. Employees, starting in a couple of weeks, will have these hi-tech insurance exchanges whose mechanism is designed to push down the price of individual health insurance to levels that are affordable for consumers; and the government (not the employer) will subsidize individuals and families who can't afford to pay the premiums on their own.
Old social contract: employer subsidizes health insurance. New social contract: individuals and the government pay for health insurance, with employers participating if they wish.
This is as much to tell employers: Go ahead and schedule your employees for 29 hours per week. We, the government, will pick up the tab. Perhaps that was not the intent of the authors and supporters of the ACA. But surely it is the "intent" of the legislation itself, as this is the way it is written and is playing out. The authors and supporters of the ACA also have a responsibility: to pass legislation that accords with their view of how the worlds of employment and health care should work. If employers merely follow the law that the authors and supporters of the ACA have passed, it's hard to blame the employers. They're just rats finding their way through the maze that the ACA has constructed for them.
If the ACA is causing serious unintended consequences, it's on the supporters of the ACA to fix the legislation.
Jim, I think ACA proponents could (and should) have anticipated the adverse effects of the bill on part-time employees. Certainly, the emails I sent to my elected representatives alerted them frequently to this eventuality.
However, is the problem with the ACA? Or is the problem with the employers? In my view, it's a bit of both. The employers do have choices about whether to cut hours and avoid benefits.
Breaking the connection between employment and health insurance was one of the intentions of the act. Part of the reason for this is that it was already broken for a lot of people. Millions were unable to get insurance either through their employer or on the individual market. Dealing with this intrinsically requires making employer-provided insurance less necessary and therefore less desirable. The other part is that tying insurance to one's employer causes people to make decisions based on access to health insurance such as staying at a job at a large employer because the difference in prices and tax subsidy offset the increased earning at another job or because one doesn't want to risk the financial implications of a family member developing a chronic condition when one doesn't have access to a large risk pool.
There are some problems with the way the law was written that I would like to fix, but given that the majority of the House will only accept the current law or full repeal, I choose the law as it is. It's not perfect, but it is much better than what we had before.
Ryan - those are all good arguments to have 'Medicare for all' rather than the half-measure that the ACA represents.
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There are some problems with the way the law was written that I would like to fix, but given that the majority of the House will only accept the current law or full repeal, I choose the law as it is.
... those two items - the existence of ACA, and the subsequent realignment of the House - are not independent of one another. The one was the cause, the other the effect. A law which is neither repealable nor revisable is yet another unintended consequence of the ACA and the process by which it was enacted into law.
However, is the problem with the ACA? Or is the problem with the employers? In my view, it's a bit of both. The employers do have choices about whether to cut hours and avoid benefits.
Yes, I agree. However, as hard as it seems to revise the ACA, it's more realistic than pursuading tens of thousands of employers to voluntarily do what it is not in their financial interest to do, just as raising the minimum wage - also a difficult thing to push through - is easier than convincing all of the minimum wage employers to voluntarily double their workers' wages.
While I would prefer Medicare for everyone, guaranteed issue + individual mandate + subsidies is also capable of achieving the goal of universal healh insurance coverage.
Check the employment facts from the Labor Department. More full time jobs are being created than part time. Only a small minority are going to part time. And could, just could the labor picture be caused by the recession and not the ACA which really doesn't go into full efeect till January?
Regarding the bloc in the GOP that wants Congress to do what it can to make Obamacare fail, this article may be of interest:
Some [Republican lawmakers], believing the party's commitment to "repeal and replace" was written in blood, advocate using the upcoming continuing resolution necessary to keep the government open to "defund" it. Others, sensing that President Obama would regard such a move as leaving him no choice but to allow the government to shut down – and it's doubtful anyway that such a measure would be approved by the Senate so that it could get to the president's desk – are taking the position that repeal cannot be accomplished in one bold stroke but must instead be done piecemeal.
Even though there is plenty of polling data showing the American people do not support Obamacare in its current form and would like to see it repealed or fundamentally altered, it is the proponents of the gradualist approach that seem to slowly be winning the argument. The reason for this is simple: They have the president on their side.
Not intentionally of course. The president still stands squarely behind his singular – perhaps even his only – legislative accomplishment of any substance. The sad fact is however that his team has made such a hash of the implementation phase of Obamacare that "delay" is already a reality.
Nevertheless, with the administration already in the "delay" phase it seems only natural that Congress should follow along, the difference being the Democrats want to "delay" until they get it right while the Republicans want the "delay" in order to get something else.
Here is an innovative way for employers to dump their employees: private health care insurance exchanges. Apparently not quite traditional employer group plans, and not quite ACA insurance exchanges. Note that the employers highlighted in these stories - Sears, Walgreen's, Darden - employ retail and food service workers, traditionally a couple of low-paid cohorts.
A Reuters story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-healthcare-exchanges-private-20130917,0,6691639.story
An AP story: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130918/business/709189907/
Here is one more article on private health care exchanges. Note the subhead: "As More Companies Drop Insurance, Consumers Get Stuck with the Bills". It looks like the ACA avoidance scheme that businesses have been longing for.


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2007 Scholarship Luncheon
Our 2007 Scholarship Luncheon, had a theme of quilts, with a special presentation by Amy Green, past president of the Springfield branch of the American Association of University Women.
The AAUW currently gives four scholarships to UIS students.
We chose Quilts as our theme for the scholarship lunch, in honor of the quilt the Association auctions off each year in support of scholarships.
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If radiation treatment is an option, a visit will be scheduled with a radiation oncologist at the Ruth and Raymond Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine.
This first visit is to:
On this first visit, you may be asked to bring X-rays, laboratory tests, and pathology slides for the radiation oncologist to review. Depending on your situation, the visit will take one to several hours. During the visit, a history and physical exam will be done by the radiation oncologist. The radiation oncologist may also discuss their findings with other members of the team, such as your medical oncologist at CHOP. This is to make sure that your child receives the best possible care.
At the end of the visit, your doctor will review the role of radiation treatment. If radiation therapy is to be given, all treatments will be in the Radiation Oncology Department at the Perelman Center.
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You will be asked to sign a consent form once you have a full understanding of the treatment including:
Before you sign the consent form, it is important that you are comfortable with the information that you have been given. Your signature means that you have received the information and that you are willing to have your child treated with radiation.
Even after you have signed the consent, your doctor is always there to answer new questions or to give more information. You can withdraw your consent at any time, for any reason.
At the end of the simulation visit, it may be necessary to put marks —called tattoos — on your child. This is to show the treatment area. Thesemarks will be very small and not that noticeable. They are dots, about thesize of a pinpoint or freckle. They are made using India ink. Not everyoneneeds tattoos.
Placing the tattoos may cause some discomfort. The discomfort willnot last long. The tattoos are permanent, they won't ever go away. Havingthe tattoos allows for bathing without having to worry that the marks willwash off.
After simulation and before treatment begins, the information is sent to radiation dosimetrists and medical physicists. These specialists perform highly technical calculations to set the treatment machine.
After the simulation and all the calculations have been done, you willhave your "set-up" and then treatment can begin. Set-up is the process ofgetting your child situated on the actual machine where their treatmentwill be given. The treatment machines (linear accelerators) look like thesimulator, but are larger. Your child will be placed on the table, in thesame position they were in during simulation. A set of images will betaken. These will be checked by your therapist and doctor.
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text: Here is a really cool tutorial that I drew live yesterday on "how to draw an Indian face step by step". I already have an Indian chief tutorial but that was done when the site first got started and needless to say it really wasn't that good. This Indian chief face is way more cleaner and then headdress is more detailed. I love the way this random drawing came out and to tell you the truth, it was initially going to be a lion face but for some reason it turned into this awesome Indian head that you see here. The colors are awesome and the headdress is superb as well. I love the way he looks old and wise and how he also looks like he is ready to say "how". The Native American culture is probably one of the peaceful around. I have much respect for these people because they were the very first ones to live on the lands and only use what they needed to survive. This tutorial will show you "how to draw an Indian face" step by step. I think he looks classic and hopefully you guys will learn something new from this here tutorial. Peace out and have a great day!


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Hello Forum,
A few days ago I shot some pole panos with the new Nodal Ninja R10 ring on the market of Ouddorp - The Netherlands.
Editing of the footprint of the pano that is shot in the shade of a house was a piece of cake by cloning the stones in the street with Photoshop and for the panos that are shot in the sun I used a separate nadirshots that are blended with PTGui's VP correction to get rid off the shade of the short pole. The nadir shots are taken a few steps aside from the original position.
The new R10 (without the rotator) is very suited for use on a pole, the 3/8" socket at the bottom of the base makes it possible to mount the R10 directly on a pole and the camera can easily removed from the R10 with the quick release (QR) clamp.
For pole panos I place the rail in a more forwards position on the QR clamp to place the lens approx. 10 mm out of NPP.
This is very easy to do as the rail can slide a few cm forwards and backwards in the QR clamp.
By setting the lens in a small NPP offset position I reduce the already small footprint of the R10 to almost zero, usually only my fingers around the pole are visible in the nadir of the pano.
For use on a tripod the R10 is also very suited but then I prefer a little up tilt of 2.5 degree, I then also mount the R-D4 rotator to the base of the R10 (with 2 screws and the supplied hex key).
Enjoy the panos.


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I'm learning about de Jong's theory of resolution of singularities and the following fact is used numerous times: an alteration of varieties $h: X \rightarrow Y$ factors as $X \xrightarrow{\pi} Z \xrightarrow{f} Y$, where $\pi$ is a modification and $f$ is a finite morphism. From an exercise in Hartshorne I know I can find a dense open subset in $U \subset Y$ such that the induced morphism $h^{-1}(U) \rightarrow U$ is finite, but I don't know where to go from there. I thought to blow-up the respective closed sets away from these open subsets, but then I'd be moving away from my original varieties. I get the sense this is a known fact. Anyone know a simple proof?
As Sandor points out, this is Stein factorization. Let $X$, $Y$ be varieties over a field $K$. Let $h: X\to Y$ be a proper morphism. Then $h_*(O_X)$ is coherent and $Y':=Spec(h_*(O_X))$ (cf. EGA II.1.3 for the definition of $Spec$ of a sheaf of quasicoherent algebras) is finite over $Y$. Consider the Stein factorization $$h:X\buildrel h' \over\longrightarrow Y'\buildrel g\over \longrightarrow Y$$ of $h$. (It is true by Zariski's connectedness theorem (cf. EGA III.4.3.1 - III.4.3.4) that $h'$ has non-empty geometrically connected fibres and $g$ is finite, but this will not be needed here).
Now assume that $h$ is an alteration, i.e. that $h$ is surjective and that there exists a nonempty open subscheme $U\subset Y$ such that $h^{-1}(U)\to U$ is finite. Replacing $U$ by a smaller set we may assume that $U=Spec(A)$ is affine. Define $U'=g^{-1}(U)$ and $V=h^{-1}(U)$. Then $V=Spec(B)$ for some $A$-algebra $B$, because $h$ is affine as a finite morphism. We thus have $h_*(O_X)(U)=B$. Hence it follows from the definition of the sheaf Spec that $U'=Spec(B)$ and the restriction $h': V\to U'$ is an isomorphism. Hence $h': X\to Y$ is a modification.
Note that this argumentation does not use the full strength of Zariski's connectedness theorem in an essential way here. Most of the things are in a sense "a tautology". The only somewhat deeper fact entering is the fact that $h_*(O_X)$ is coherent, because of the properness assumption.
Concerning your comment, the following is clearly true: If $f: X\to Y$ is a finite morphism and $f_*(O_X)=O_Y$, then $f$ is an isomorphism.
This is Stein factorization Hartshorne, III.11.5.
Thanks to Sándor for the idea of Stein factorization. By Stein factorization as proven in EGA III, 4.3.3 for proper morphisms we have that $\phi$ (I've switched the direction of the morphism) factors as $Y \xrightarrow{\pi} Z \xrightarrow{f} X$ with $\pi$ a morphism with connected fibres and $f$ a finite morphism. By [Hart] II.4.8(e) $\pi$ must be proper. First we note that it's enough to assume that $\pi$ is surjective since it's proper and thus has closed image. Moreover since closed immersions are proper then $\pi$ would remain proper. Also the image of an irreducible scheme is irreducible, so we may assume $Z$ is irreducible, and in fact integral. Now consider the generic fiber of $f$, i.e. $f^{-1}(\eta)$, where $\eta$ is the generic point of $X$. On the one hand we have $\phi^{-1}(\eta)$ and $f^{-1}(\eta)$ are finite sets since they are generically finite and finite, respectively. On the other hand, the fiber of $\pi$ over each one of the finite points in $f^{-1}(\eta)$ must be connected and also finite. Thus the fiber over each one of these points is at most a point. Since now $\pi$ is a surjective morphism between integral schemes we get that $\pi(\zeta)=\nu$, where $\zeta,\nu$ are the generic points of $Y,Z$ respectively, and moreover $\pi^{-1}(\nu)=\zeta$. From the proof of [Hart] Exercise II.3.7, we get that the function fields of $Y$ and $Z$ are equal, and thus indeed $\pi$ is birational. Sound good (albeit wordy)?


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I'd like to use Google Talk/Video with having the full gmail or igoogle interface displayed. The ideal setup would be the lightweight popout interface (link below) in a small Fluid.app single instance browser as a stand-alone desktop app.
If I log into GMail, the chat sidebar has a phone icon so I can use Google Voice, and a camera icon next to me and some of my contacts.
If I log into iGoogle, the chat sidebar has a camera next to me and some contacts, but no phone.
I would like to have video chat (and perhaps the phone option) elsewhere. Google provides a chat talkgadget popout URL: http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout but there is no phone or camera icon accessible.


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KDE Telepathy keeps getting in the way every time I try to use Empathy from the messaging menu. If I get a message, it opens in the KDE telepathy UI instead of in Empathy. This is rather frustrating as it causes a delay before it opens, and is not integrated with Empathy.
How can I stop this from happening? This still happens in 12.10 and I've had to remove the kde-telepathy packages. Is there a solution?


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Refiners and chemical/petrochemical producers can now deploy APC and enjoy sustained benefits by implementing a continuous process for controller maintenance.
[advanced process control]
[adaptive control]
[process safety]
[controller maintenance]
Sometimes a problem seems to linger forever. For the many
years I have worked with advanced process control (APC)
practitioners, APC controller maintenance has been a topic
near, or at the top of, their problem list. Given that APC
practitioners are not generally demure personality types and
are extremely passionate about their business, the
conversations about APC maintenance can be dynamic
at times. Fortunately, with the recent developments in APC, the
tenor of the conversation has shifted dramatically, and there
is great optimism.
When considering APCs history, there is no doubt that
the angst surrounding controller maintenance is understandable.
Traditional maintenance approaches have been expensive,
disruptive and labor intensive. Arguably, the most prominent
and visible issue has been the need to take controllers offline
to collect open-loop process data suitable for model
identification, which resulted in lost stability and benefits.
Similarly, step testing was disruptive and resulted in further
costs due to off-spec product and lost throughput.
In attempts to address the maintenance problem, many APC
vendors have developed tools to assist in revamping APC models
and, to one degree or another, they did deliver some benefits.
Nonetheless, these solutions never completely addressed the
core problems: Maintenance was still done infrequently.
Controllers were still taken offline to collect current
open-loop process data. The scope of effort was still high due
to a lack of precision in identifying problematic aspects of
the models. Step testing was still done in an aggressive manner
to shorten the duration of the testing period.
These issues have affected not only the core base of users
of the technology (like refiners and
olefins/bulk chemical producers), but they have also created
barriers to APC adoption in adjacent industry segments. The
initial and ongoing cost of ownership relegated the technology
to very large-scale processes where the benefits were large
enough to justify the effort and expense of developing APC
solutions. The deep skill set required to be an effective
practitioner further hampered growth of the installed base.
It needs to be pointed out that these advances are the
result of over 10 years of concentrated effort. The solution
required innovation in just about every area of the technology,
from the model identification algorithms to the optimization
engine. It is driving considerable change in practitioner
workflows and methodologies. And as we observe the early
adopters of the technology, we are seeing a wholesale change in
the economics of APC, with lower initial costs and less erosion
of benefits over time.
The game-changing innovation is called adaptive process
control. To appreciate the significance of this achievement for
APC technology, Table 1
points out some of the key innovations developed during the
10-year journey.
Rather than build another tool for sustained value, the
latest adaptive process control software develops a controller
that is more self-sufficient and requires less maintenance. APC
maintenance becomes a continuous built-in process rather than a
project. It automates the process of
assessing model quality, collecting current data and generating
new models as needed.
In the traditional model of controller maintenance
(sustained value), revamping the controller was a lengthy and
costly project. Under adaptive process control, however, the
controller is modified over time in more of a continuous
process (Fig. 1). The model update occurs
without the need to take the controller offline and enables a
company to reap the benefits of both control and optimization
while the model is under maintenance. Model quality analysis
(Fig. 2), which continually runs and assesses
the accuracy of the model, can detect when degradation of
performance occurs. It can pinpoint a specific part of a
controller, thereby helping engineers to determine the
underlying cause of the degradation in performance.
Adaptive modeling creates candidate models for the engineer
for review. Importantly, the engineer always has the final
decision about which models to deploy online. In addition,
adaptive process control runs an automated test agent to
continuously monitor the process and alert the engineer in real
time of any problems that occur within the workflow. As a
result, adaptive process control shifts maintenance from
arduous projects to a pragmatic online
approach for continuous maintenance.
Now, engineers can do everything required to update control
models without the need to turn off the controller. Of equal
importance, the software design ensures that the process
control engineer remains central to the decision-making process
in deciding which new models to deploy.
One happy consequence of the automation in adaptive process
control is that it reduces the cost and effort to apply APC to
new controllers, not just to the existing ones. This area is
where process manufacturers will see maximum benefit. That is,
applying APC to multiple controllers in parallel. With adaptive
process control doing more of the work, the engineer can split
time between controllers and complete multiple modeling efforts
in the same time span. With this approach to controller
modeling, users have reported a minimum 25% reduction in effort
for single projects and twice the benefit for multiple parallel
projects. In addition, companies
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new rollout opportunities in secondary units and utility
systems. Due to these new economics, companies are re-thinking
the traditional wisdom of where it makes sense to apply
Consider the following scenario: A typical refining unit with APC generates a
minimum annual benefit of $2.5 million (MM) but gives away 35%
across a five-year cycle due to maintenance-related issues.
Thats a loss of $875,000 per APC application. Multiplied
across an average of nine major units under APC control per refinery, this totals almost $8 MM
in potential lost benefits over a five-year period that can be
traced back to downtime or sub-optimal operating periods of the
controller. Of this time, 60% is usually spent in revamp, 30%
is underutilization due to the controller not operating at peak
performance and the final 10% is attributed to plant
turnaround. With adaptive process control, refiners can get
online faster to begin accruing benefits sooner after
turnaround and reduce sub-optimal operation over the life of
the controller.
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for APC and easily justifies its pursuit. With this latest
advance, its easier than ever to unlock APCs
tremendous operational benefits. Refiners and chemical/petrochemical producers can now
deploy APC and enjoy sustained benefits by implementing a
continuous process for controller maintenance. Adaptive process
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The determination of AspenTech to improve model-based matrix control (MPC) is commendable. As Mr. Golightly points out, the history of MPC performance has been rocky, to the great dismay of industry, who enthusiastically embraced MPC.Like AspenTech, I have been studying the problems of MPC performance for nearly 15 years, but have come to different conclusions about the root causes of well-known "degraded" MPC performance. I believe it is a matter of process models changing daily, and even in real time, as feedstocks and feed rates change, as they do daily in modern refineries. It also has to do with the wholesale manner in which MPC utiilizes models for predictive control, especially when coupled with general model inaccuracy.Although I salute efforts in industry to improve MPC performance, the solution proposed in this case could be simply the latest in a series of "root causes" and solutions that have emerged over the years, all of which have eventually gone by the wayside, while the problems have remained.Based on my analysis, even an ongoing model quality analyzer will not resolve the problem -- what good is a one week cycle, when processes change on a daily and hourly cycle? Moreover, the models need to be ready for the new changes, not ready to learn from them. And finally, as I mentioned, the wholesale application of predictive control is itself inappropriate (I believe) in an operations environment, where very conservative control action to preserve process stability is the order of the day.To adopt the proposed solution is not to take MPC performance to the next level, but to take support to the next level. Now users will need to be expert in MPC, performance monitoring, and at using the new online tools. This adds yet more costs and complexity to a technology that has already grown too expensive and complicated.My work leads me to believe that multivariable constraint control and optimization can be accomplished without models -- indeed, many "degraded" MPC applications in industry are basically ignoring their models today, and functioning primarily based on the direction of the gain (positive or negative) only. Model-less multivariable control (getting rid of dependence on models altogether) is the most promising approach to multivariable control performance going forward.
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(I'm new to this!) I'm running a virtual server running CentOS. I'm trying to run a server that listens on port 37760. The code I'm running executes successfully, so I run
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Elizabeth (Libby) Allison earned her B.S. in music education and her M.A. in education from the University of Connecticut and a C.A.G.S. in education leadership and administration from Fitchburg State College.
In addition to teaching at The Boston Conservatory, Allison is an assistant professor of music education at Berklee College of Music. She is also a choral and music education clinician, festival adjudicator and choral conductor for the Massachusetts Music Education Association (MMEA) board of directors. She was a chairperson for the 2005 MMEA conference.
Allison is a member of MENC: The National Association for Music Education, the American Choral Directors, the Gordon Institute for Music Learning, the Dalcroze Society, Boston Area Kodaly Educators and the Organization of American Kodaly Educators. Allison formerly taught as a classroom, instrumental and vocal music teacher for grades K-12 at various schools, including the Charles River School (Massachusetts), East Hartford (Connecticut), Dedham (Massachusetts) and the Boston Collegiate Charter School (Massachusetts). Allison is also the former director of performing arts for Canton public schools (Massachusetts). As a vocal soloist and choral conductor, she performs regularly in New England, Canada, Great Britain, India and Sri Lanka. Performances and recordings of early American music made for Old Sturbridge Village (Massachusetts) can be found under her maiden name, Elizabeth LaFramboise.
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6 Dec 2012 2:22 PM #1
Store same Model via a different response format
What's the best way to get server data into a store if the response format is different from one web service to another? Example:
user/1 returns
{response: {id:1, name:'Charles'} }
{data:{ person:{id:2, name:'Snoopy'}, favorites:[ {id:1, name:'Charles'}, {id:3, name:'Woodstock'} ] }}
Ext.define('Person',{ extend:'Ext.data.Model', config:{ fields:[ { name:'name', type:'string', convert:function(value,record){ //If the name is Charles, change it to Blockhead if(value == 'Charles'){return 'Blockhead';} else{return value;} } } ] } })
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BLAINE - A bright, sunny Sunday afternoon soon turned tragic for a Blaine family when flames destroyed their home.
Firefighters from three different volunteer stations converged on the house at 68115 Handel St.
The fire was reported at approximately 3:45 p.m., according to Wolfhurst Volunteer Fire Department Chief Matt Otto.
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Volunteer firefighters from Bridgeport, Brookside and Wolfhurst responded to a fire in Blaine Sunday afternoon. No one was injured in the blaze, which destroyed a home at 68115 Handel St.
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ABOVE: A fireman helps another with his oxygen bottle Sunday afternoon during a fire in Blaine.
"It was pretty much involved when we got here," Otto reported.
Assisting Wolfhurst were units from Bridgeport and Brookside.
Firefighters were seen tossing charred remains of furniture out windows as smoke continued to billow from the roof.
According to Otto, the family was home at the time of the blaze, but everyone was able to escape unharmed.
One woman, presumably the resident, tried to return to the structure, but was quickly denied by firefighters.
The bottom portion of Blaine-Chermont Road was closed to allow emergency vehicles access to fire hydrants.
No cause had been determined when The Times Leader went to press today. Stay tuned for more details as they become available.
According to a spokesperson, the house was in the process of being torn down when a fire ignited. Firefighters battled the blaze for approximaely three hours.
Units from Wolfhurst, Brookside, Colerain and Sunset Heights responded to the fire. The Harrisville Volunteer Fire Department provided a water tanker.
The department was called Saturday at 8:09 a.m. to 452 N. Huron St., and answering the call were Engines 5 and 2, Ladder 1 and Rescue 1.
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If warmth and empathy could be gift-wrapped, the package might look like therapist Claudia Crawford.
Perhaps it's because her steady, attentive green eyes easily convince you there's nothing you could confess that she couldn't help you overcome. Maybe it's because her East End office is as bright and friendly as her wardrobe, with its comfortable couches and children's toys, including a towering bookcase crammed with the Beanie Babies she began collecting in 1996. It might be her chicken rice soup, requested by friends who swear by its healing powers when they have a cold.
Or maybe it has something to do with her constant companion, therapy dog Wiggles, a 10-year-old, occasionally pugnacious pug who whines when she leaves the room. Wiggles is a great ice-breaker and instantly puts people at ease, Crawford said. In fact, some of her young patients prefer to share their fears with him instead of her during sessions. Wiggles, for his part, is true to his name and happy to help.
Crawford is both humbled and grateful to have counseled hundreds of children with behavioral issues since she earned her master's degree in child development and marital and family therapy from Western Kentucky University in 1972.
She started her career with the University of Louisville Medical School's Child Evaluation Center, and then went into private practice in 1983, specializing in child sexual abuse and ADHD. For Crawford, warmth and empathy truly are job requirements.
Fortunately, she gets her greatest joy out of helping others. Unfortunately, her passion for service was borne out of personal tragedy.
Crawford is a Michigan native but moved to Louisville's Jeffersontown at age 8. Her mother, Bernice Hopkins, was the first female city councilwoman for J-town and still lives there. Her father, Martin Hopkins, passed away during her first year of college.
Crawford graduated from Eastern High School in 1967 and went on to WKU for undergraduate school. At age 20, she married. But the couple was in a car accident a week after their wedding, on the way home from their honeymoon. Crawford was thrown from the car and survived with minor injuries, but her husband was killed.
"I was a bride one Saturday, and the next Saturday I was picking out coffins," Crawford said. "It was quite an adjustment from feeling like your whole life is ahead of you to what felt like a black hole."
Through the support of friends and family, Crawford went back to Western to finish her degree and pursue a career in therapy.
Crawford said that her gut-wrenching loss taught her two things. One, her gratitude for the love and support of friends and family made her want to spend the rest of her life giving that gift to others. And two, there is nothing in life that God could throw at her that she couldn't survive.
This lesson helped her survive another heartbreak a few years later. Crawford never remarried but decided she wanted to be a mother, so she attempted a single-parent adoption. The birth father changed his mind the day the baby was born, calling off the adoption process. Crawford was crushed, but she knows it was meant to be.
It's a trade off, she said. "If I had children of my own, I couldn't do as much" for the children of her community.
And Crawford does a lot. The laundry list of her volunteer activities fills several pages of her resume. She has served on boards, task forces and committees for numerous nonprofit and professional organizations, including the Center for Women and Families, Family & Children's Place, Goodwill Industries and the Kentucky Alliance for Missing and Exploited Children.
Crawford said simply, "Since God spared my life in that accident and everyone called it a miracle, I feel like it's important for me to make life better for others by being in it."
She is most proud of being part of the team that helped get the Marital Rape Bill passed in Kentucky. She is currently working with a group that is encouraging women to call their congressman in Frankfort to protest proposed amendments to the Violence Against Women Act. She is also spearheading a fund-raising project for Goodwill. People in the community are encouraged to submit old family recipes, along with anecdotal stories associated with the recipes, for publication in a cookbook that will be sold in Goodwill thrift stores.
When she is not out actively making the world a better place, Crawford spends her free time on her own brand of therapy – knitting and cross-stitch. She also enjoys swimming, cooking and watching movies at her home in the Brownsboro Road/Rudy Lane area. A recent favorite film – no surprise – was "Red Dog." (Wiggles approved.)
She enjoys her downtime, but Crawford doesn't see retirement in her future anytime soon. She feels she has a lot more yet to give.
"I love what I do," Crawford said, tearing up as she recalled some of the troubled children she has counseled over the years. "There is no greater gift than… to be part of a child's recovery."


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can any subgroup of the unitary group of full matrix alg $M_d(\mathbb{C})$ be approximated on finite sets by a finite subgroup?
i.e. is the following True or false? Let $n, d$ be positive integers and let $u_1,..., u_n$ be in the unitary group $U_d=U (M_d(\mathbb{C}))$ of $M_d(\mathbb{C})$. Then for every $\epsilon > 0$ there are $v_1, ..., v_n$ in $U_d$ such that $\| u_k - v_k \| < \epsilon$ for $k = 1, .., n$ and such that the subgroup of $U_d$ that $v_1, ..., v_n$ generate is finite.


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I am looking to gain a deeper understanding of, and increase my own skill in "Mathematical Simplification". But I've been finding the concept overly vague and haven't been able to find any good resources myself.
Here are some of the questions/ideas I am attempting to clarify: -When exactly is a number or expression considered "Simpler" than another? -What are common and useful techniques for Simplification? -How much of Simplification is Objective and how much is Subjective? -Is there a generalization of Simplification that covers much more of Mathematics then basic Arithmetic and Algebra? (Say from the perspective of Set Theory, Category Theory, Abstract Algebra etc.)
My question can best be summed up by asking if there are any detailed, formal and rigorous explanations of Simplification? If there isn't, why is that so? Is this concept of "Simplification" that textbooks seem to assign such paramount importance simply an artifact of "school-math" that proper mathematicians don't concern themselves with?
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September 3, 2013
The Humanities Initiative at NYU has launched a redesigned web site that features videos showcasing research in the field, information on fellowships and other funding opportunities, event listings, and more.
The redesign of the site, humanitiesinitiative.org, coincides with the Initiative's celebration of its seventh year supporting humanities research at NYU.
"The new website has been designed to better serve the needs of the NYU community and external audiences by showcasing the depth and breadth of projects and the caliber of research at the university," said Faculty Director Jane Tylus, a professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature.
Features of the new website include:
• Video interviews of students and faculty sharing stories of their research projects in the humanities
• An inside look at the Leadership Alliance Mellon Initiative (LAMI) summer program through video interviews and research project presentations
• Optimized viewing experience for desktops, tablets and mobile devices
• A library of links to local and global humanities resources, institutes, and organizations
• Online applications for 2014-2015 award competitions including Faculty Research Fellowships, Graduate Student Research Fellowships, Team-Teaching Stipends, Research Project Team Stipends, and Grants-in-Aid
• A calendar of events organized by the Humanities Initiative
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Created in 2007, the Humanities Initiative at NYU draws on the talents and energies of our faculty and students across the university to provide a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion and collaboration in the humanities and arts. To foster and enhance the humanities community at NYU, the Initiative sponsors a number of endeavors aimed at promoting interdisciplinary dialogue, teaching, and research.
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Cubbie Bench with Door
At A Glance:
Every room needs storage. The piles of belongings that can result from a lack of storage space are not only unattractive - they're downright disheartening. Sounds like the perfect job for this attractive storage bench. The two side compartments feature adjustable shelves for flexibility, while the center cubbie has a door to hide anything you deem unattractive.
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Brown Deer - About 100 students leave Brown Deer every year to attend public school outside of the district and the School Board wants to know why.
In an effort to get a better understanding of why parents choose to Open Enroll their students in surrounding public school districts, School Board members will reach out to these families via phone in the coming weeks.
"We can guess all we want, but until we get hard data we won't know what to focus on," board member Kevin Klimek said.
These families will receive a letter in the mail before calls are made, letting residents know what to expect. The letter will be signed by all the board members to show this is a unified effort by the board to better understand families' reasoning, as well as discover ways the district might improve, Board President Gary Williams said.
Klimek said most board members have agreed to make the calls.
"It's not an attempt on our part to change their mind or bring students back next year, but we do want to have an honest discussion with those families to see what the reasons are and what we can do to change," he said.
Board members will report their findings back to the full board when the calls are complete.
Williams said they have been concerned for some time about the number of students leaving the district every year to seek education elsewhere. This is one way they decided to research why that is occurring.
"These are Open Enrollment students going to other public schools even though they live in Brown Deer," Klimek said. "We wanted to try to make contact from a board level because we are dealing with constituents and we can find out the reason behind their decisions."
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KIRIU USA Corporation celebrated the official start of manufacturing operations.
The plant will employ 30 people by Christmas and up to 60 by next year. The plant manufactures automotive brakes for Nissan.
KIRIU USA Corporation, a 100 percent-owned subsidiary of KIRIU Corporation in Japan, the second largest automotive brake rotor producer in Japan, constructed a 35,000 square foot facility in the South Central Kentucky Industrial Park. KIRIU is an official Nissan supplier in the USA, and currently delivers 100 percent of Nissan and 90 percent of Subaru demand in Japan.
"With our quality workforce and our central location, Kentucky once again has become the location of choice for another world renowned company," said Gov. Paul Patton.
KIRIU President Toshio Nakagawa said, "Bowling Green was selected from over 20 sites in Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky not only because of its strategic location for the automotive parts supplier, but also because of the very supportive community for new industry and further business development. KIRIU was also attracted because of Western Kentucky University and the dynamic growth of Bowling Green. Consequently, KIRIU is proud of selecting Bowling Green for its most strategic overseas operation in the world."
"We are excited about KIRIU's decision to locate in Bowling Green and Warren County," said Chamber Chairman Mike Murphy. "In the Summer 2001 edition of Southern Business & Development, Bowling Green was named one of the South's Best Automotive Suppliers location. Having 62 automotive and truck plants in the South and Midwest within next day delivery proves Bowling Green is an asset to the automotive industry."
KIRIU Corporation, mother company of KIRIU USA, is located in Japan and has a history of nearly 100 years. This project represents an investment of approximately $9 million for the land, building and machine equipment.


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The IKS Gr'oth was a Klingon D7-class battle cruiser that was in service with the Klingon Imperial Fleet in the mid-23rd century. In 2268, the Gr'oth was under the command of Captain Koloth. The starship's first officer was Korax.
In that year, the Gr'oth entered Federation space and demanded shore leave rights at Deep Space K-7 after completing a six-month mission. It left the station with an engine room full of tribbles. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles"; DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")
In 2269, the projected stasis field, a weapon capable of disabling the warp drives and completely paralyzing all the vital systems of enemy ships, was installed on the Gr'oth. In that year, the Gr'oth pursued a Federation scoutship piloted by Cyrano Jones, a Federation citizen who was responsible for causing ecological sabotage to a Klingon planet and stealing a Klingon glommer. Koloth attempted to disable the USS Enterprise, under Kirk's command, in order to retrieve Jones and the glommer. (TAS: "More Tribbles, More Troubles")
|D7-class starships
|IKS Gr'oth • Kang's battle cruiser • IKS Klothos • Kohlar's battle cruiser • Kuri's battle cruiser • Unnamed
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According to the script for the episode, the pronunciation for Gr'oth was "grrr-OTH". [1]
According to Dax, in "Trials and Tribble-ations", Koloth greatly regretted not ever getting the chance to meet Kirk in battle. This appears inconsistent with the battle that Kirk and Koloth had in the TAS episode. It was, however, possible Koloth had meant a "real" battle, where he had the goal of destroying Kirk's ship instead of just disabling it. Alternatively, Koloth may have regretted never facing Kirk in hand-to-hand combat. However, it was worth noting that, at the time "Trials and Tribble-ations" aired, TAS was not considered canon by the production staff.
The Gr'oth was not identified by name or seen in the original version of "The Trouble with Tribbles". A D7 battle cruiser was seen commanded by Koloth in the animated episode "More Tribbles, More Troubles". The episodes "Trials and Tribble-ations" and the 2006 remastered version of "The Trouble with Tribbles" identified the ship orbiting K-7 to be a D7. "Trials and Tribble-ations" was the source of the ship's name.
The old-fashioned D7 model was built by Greg Jein specifically for DS9's special 30th anniversary tribute to The Original Series. While faithful to the original D7 model, Jein took liberties with the Gr'oth, including enhanced details similar to those of the K't'inga-class starship. The model was also painted with a vaguely greenish hue, similar to the color scheme of "future" Klingon starships.
Star Trek Log 4 and the Star Trek Concordance make references to an IKS Devisor as being the ship commanded by Koloth in the animated series episode "More Tribbles, More Troubles". Although this information was not canon, it was acquired from the episode's script (which can be purchased here). Aside from this, there was nothing to indicate it was a different ship.
According to Star Trek: Voyager writer Mike Sussman, [2] dialogue for the seventh season episode "Prophecy" was written with the intent of reusing the studio model of the Gr'oth. A K't'inga-class CGI model was used instead, resulting in an apparent discontinuity.
External link Edit
- IKS Gr'oth at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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MARLIN (November 26, 2012)-- Marlin police Chief Darrell Allen was out of the hospital and on his way to a rehabilitation facility in the Austin area Monday.
Allen spent about a week in the intensive care unit of Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco after he was injured on Nov. 16 in an early morning rollover accident near Marlin.
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The accident happened at around 2 a.m. Nov. 16 on State Highway 6 north of Marlin as Allen was driving home from an off-duty security job in Waco.
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Any person establishing premises for the production, blending, cellar treatment, storage, bottling, packaging, or repackaging of untaxpaid wine (other than wine produced exempt from tax under section 5042), including the use of wine spirits in wine production, shall, before commencing operations, make application to the Secretary and file bond and receive permission to operate. Such premises shall be known as "bonded wine cellars"; except that any such premises engaging in production operations may, in the discretion of the Secretary, be designated as a "bonded winery".
A prior section 5351, act Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 663, consisted of provisions similar to those comprising this section, prior to the general revision of this chapter by Pub. L. 85–859.
1976—Pub. L. 94–455 struck out "or his delegate" after "Secretary" wherever appearing.
Section effective July 1, 1959, see section 210(a)(1) of Pub. L. 85–859, set out as a note under section 5001 of this title.
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1963-1966 Chevy Power Steering Upgrade - Eased Steering For Early C10sWritten by on February 24, 2012 CPP '63-66 Chevy Power Steering Upgrade
Have you ever wished you didn't have to muscle your truck around just to get it in a parking spot? Well, it's nothing now to adapt power steering (PS) to any vehicle but usually the hard part is searching through junkyards for used and, most of the time, sub-par parts. When you finally find the parts, it is anyone's guess on weather they will fit or even work for that matter. This is why CPP has done their homework and came up with several power steering packages to fit our classic trucks. For this tech story we are going to show you an easy way to adapt power steering to your '63-66 Chevy pickup/Suburban.
The CPP kit 6366PSK comes with a PS gearbox, pitman arm, PS pump, brackets, hoses, bolts, adapter plates, and steering shaft with rag joint. The only thing that needs to be added is a U-joint to fit your steering column, but not to worry CPP has those to. As you might have already figured out, we are installing the CPP kit on a '65 Chevy Suburban that was featured in our August 2011 issue of CLASSIC TRUCKS. During the photo shoot with Chris Markley's Suburban, I watched him struggle to turn the truck around like it was some sort of 10-ton tank. Well, it's not quite that heavy but one thing definitely does not help the steering, and that's the wheels. Chris purchased the massive 22" Billet Specialties Wheels with the thought of one day adapting a PS system. Being that Chris is a general contractor by trade he really didn't know which parts were needed to complete the install but a quick call to CPP put his mind at ease. If I were to grade this install on a scale of 1–5, I think it would be a 2.5 because of the minimal tools that were needed and it was not that hard to figure out what went where. CT
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The first thing I always do is make sure I have all the parts listed and that they were not damaged during shipping.I supported the '65 on the rack and made sure it was stable by rocking the back end when it was a few inches of the ground.If your doing this on a garage floor make sure you get the vehicle up as far as the jacks will safely rise.The pitman arm joint, cotter pin, and nut were removed. I used a pickle fork to remove the pitman joint from the drag link.To remove the pitman arm joint it was easier to remove the driver side outer tie rod end to help everything clear the crossmember. Then I removed the four bolts holding the stock gearbox on the frame and removed the gearbox and pitman arm as one assembly.The CPP power steering gearbox and new pitman arm were then test fitted to the new mounting bracket.I ran a tap through the mounting plate holes so that I would not cross-thread the holes while trying to hold the gear box up. The plate on the left is used on the inside of the frame and the right plate will help space out the gearbox and relocate two mounting holes.
With the shaft facing up and the holes toward you, drill out the top left hole so that the provided bolt will slide through it. Don't worry, the mounting bracket has a threaded hole on it for this one bolt because the stock frame is in the way of the hole.Using the bracket, I placed in two bolts top left and bottom right of the new CPP bracket. This provided me with a template for marking the holes to drill.I drilled the new holes for the CPP bracket and bolts. Notice the top left bolt hole is slightly bigger, this hole and bolt will help hold the bracket and backing plate to the frame.The far left bolt is slightly shorter than the rest and will be used for the hole that was drilled into the box. The far right bolt is slightly larger and will be used to hold the top left hole and brackets to the frame. The rest of the bolts will hold the gearbox on to the mounting brackets.Place the backing plate inside the frame and align the holes by placing bolts through the hole. Using the provided larger bolt and nut on the top right.The gearbox is now ready to be clocked. I did this by rotating the gearbox one way and then counted the amount of turns it took to get it to the other side. Then I divided the number in half and turned the gearbox to that number. Then I could set the pitman arm to the center facing the rear of the vehicle.
For most applications a CPP Double-D U-joint will attach the steering shaft to your stock or aftermarket steering column.Moving on to the power steering pump. On a small-block Chevy two bolts will hold the CPP brackets to the block. Since Chris already had some aftermarket March Performance pulleys that converted to serpentine belt I thought it would be easier to adapt to the March system. Left is the CPP V-belt bracket and right is the March power steering bracket for serpentine belts. For the V-belt set up there is a bracket that is attached to the PS pump and either to the water pump or intake manifold depending on your application.Regular PS fluid will work but I like to use synthetic PS fluid on new PS systems. I used a bottle and a half of the AMSOIL Synthetic Power Steering fluid. Then I checked for leaks before starting the vehicle.Using the March serpentine belt pulley system worked well with the CPP power steering upgrade. Here is a look at the front of motor with PS upgrade.I jacked the front of the C10 up so the front wheels were off the ground. Then starting the motor for a few seconds I moved the wheels from side to side to get the air out of the PS lines. I then stopped the motor and filled the PS pump and repeated this step until the steering felt good.


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The 5 Most Unintentionally Racist Movies About Racism
On Saturday we sometimes ask people whose writing we like to fill in for us. Our readers get to read something a little different, and we get to finish giving our dog full-body cornrows. Today's guest column is from the Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts, who's written movie reviews, and film commentary for Ain't It Cool News. Today he takes a look back at some films that didn't know they were being racist.
Congratulations, America! Now that we've elected a black president, there's no more racism! But don't be so modest, crackers--go ahead, pat yourselves on the back! If it wasn't for you making a bunch of well-meaning but ham-handed and accidentally racist films, why, the rest of us would have never learned our lessons! Hail our conquering heroes, the real champions of equality in America...
The Aim: To tell the story of the Civil War's first company of black soldiers, literally fighting for their own freedom and humanity.
The Clueless White Guy Who Fucked it Up: Ed Zwick, director of The Last Samurai (starring Tom Cruise as the last samurai) and Blood Diamond (starring Leonardo DiCaprio as an African). You can already see a pattern here.
How He Fucked it Up: He cast Denzel Washington, Andre Braugher and Morgan Freeman (great!), and then centered the movie squarely on Ferris-fucking-Bueller (what the fuck!?)
The face of black struggle in America.
Now, Zwick is sorta handcuffed here because his script is based on the letters that Colonel Robert Shaw sent to his family. And not THAT Robert Shaw. Although if a civil war were ever fought against slave-owning, secessionist sharks, it'd be Colonel Quint's company that saved our country.
"Earn This."
But still, for every scene where Freeman and Washington are successfully conveying the emotion, the pain and the strength needed to fight for a country that considers you less than human, there are three scenes where Zwick cuts to Broderick moping aimlessly like someone shit in his Cheerios. Because in Zwickworld, there's no way a white audience could possibly know they're supposed to feel bad about slavery unless Ferris Bueller shuffles around his tent like Michael Cera at a Civil War reenactment.
The Aim: To shed a light on everyday prejudices and how quietly destructive they can be when left to simmer for too long.
The Clueless White Guy Who Fucked It Up: Paul Haggis, creator of Walker, Texas Ranger.
How He Fucked It Up: Haggis had his car stolen from him one night, and like most sane people who are robbed at gunpoint, he went home and wrote a sympathetic screenplay about his attackers. In Haggis's case, "sympathetic" means he turned them into Heckle 'n' Jeckyl, and wrote everyone in the film to be shrill, stupid stereotypes hiding their prejudice under a thin veneer of sophistication.
It won a ton of Oscars for being a thought-provoking and insightful look at prejudice in America. Seems almost impossible to concisely sum-up, right?
There. That's the essence of Crash, distilled into its purest form. I just saved you 90 minutes and a stress headache, without losing an ounce of subtlety and nuance. Plus it dramatically reduces unnecessary exposure to Sandra Bullock.
#3. The Toy
The Aim: To teach children about the importance of family and friendship, and the worth of sharing and generosity.
The Clueless White Guy Who Fucked It Up: Richard Donner, director of Superman and The Omen.
How He Fucked it Up: By attempting to make slavery cute and adorable.
Donner's no stranger to being accidentally insensitive to black people. For a man who made "Verisimilitude!" the mantra of the Superman production, it sure didn't apply to the black populace of Metropolis, the entirety of which was one dude. Who was a pimp. And took time out of his busy day selling ass to congratulate Superman on his "bad out-FIT" before whooing like Ric Flair.
"That's what black people are like, right, Tom? You sure we're not being too conservative?"
But The Toy is the ultimate example of Hollywood's isolation from anything even remotely resembling the real world. Because sane people with a tenuous connection to reality would have noticed that the plot of the movie hinges on Jackie Gleason purchasing a black man for his son to play with.
And it's not as if Richard Pryor starts the movie with a shred of dignity and then has his pride slowly disemboweled by a sniveling, 12-year-old, fuckhead named "Master Bates." No, Pryor is a janitor, chosen to be "The Toy" because he's funny when he bugs his eyes out and bumps into things. As his reward, he gets firecrackers shot at his face.
"This hurts my soul so much. You don't even know. I've burnt my own face off while smoking rock and that didn't hurt like this does."
In it's defense, the movie does contain a facile attempt to make up for promoting slavery as a pillar of family strength, by having Masterbates and Pryor wreck a Ku Klux Klan fundraiser. It couldn't be any more halfheartedly apologetic if the movie stopped and Donner poked his head into frame and said, "No, it's OK. I have loads of black friends. It's cool."


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How Is PTSD Treated?
The goal of PTSD treatment is to reduce the emotional and physical symptoms, to improve daily functioning, and to help the person better cope with the event that triggered the disorder. Treatment for PTSD may involve psychotherapy (a type of counseling), medication, or both.
Doctors use antidepressant medications to treat PTSD -- and to control the feelings of anxiety and its associated symptoms -- including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Paxil, Celexa, Luvox, Prozac, and Zoloft; and tricyclic antidepressants such as Elavil and Doxepin. Tranquilizers such as Ativan and Klonopin; mood stabilizers such as Depakote and Lamictal; and neuroleptics such as Seroquel and Abilify are sometimes used. Certain blood pressure medicines are also sometimes used to control particular symptoms. For example prazosin may be used for nightmares, or propranolol may be used to help minimize the formation of traumatic memories.
Psychotherapy for PTSD involves helping the person learn skills to manage symptoms and develop ways of coping. Therapy also aims to teach the person and his or her family about the disorder, and help the person work through the fears associated with the traumatic event. A variety of psychotherapy approaches are used to treat people with PTSD, including:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy, which involves learning to recognize and change thought patterns that lead to troublesome emotions, feelings, and behavior.
- Exposure therapy, a type of cognitive behavioral therapy that involves having the person re-live the traumatic experience, or exposing the person to objects or situations that cause anxiety. This is done in a well-controlled and safe environment. Exposure therapy helps the person confront the fear and gradually become more comfortable with situations that are frightening and cause anxiety. This has been very successful at treating PTSD.
- Psychodynamic therapy focuses on helping the person examine personal values and the emotional conflicts caused by the traumatic event.
- Family therapy may be useful because the behavior of the person with PTSD can have an affect on other family members.
- Group therapy may be helpful by allowing the person to share thoughts, fears, and feelings with other people who have experienced traumatic events.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a complex form of psychotherapy that was initially designed to alleviate distress associated with traumatic memories and is now also used to treat phobias.