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December 2, 2009
Roll forming technology has adapted to a manufacturing market that demands short runs and quick response.
The economy has changed the roll forming business, some say for good. For decades many roll formers have specialized in high volumes, taking on those long-term contracts. Not anymore. In some niches like the building sector or tube production, short runs have played a significant role for years. In other sectors, short runs are the new normal.
"Some [roll formers] have seen a drop in business between 40 and 60 percent," said Jeff Carson, international sales manager of Samco Machinery Ltd., Toronto, Ont., Canada. "When companies aren't getting the volumes they used to, they're bringing on more products to make up for the loss."
"Roll forming has been a great tool for mass production," said Andy Allman, president of AMS Controls, Maryland Heights, Mo. "But historically, changing over from one profile to another has been laborious."
If roll formers feed other operations with large batches of parts, work in process mounts. That's not lean by a long shot. So more roll formers have taken on short runs, and to compete, they're thinking about roll forming production in new ways, especially in how they change over between runs. Streamlined changeovers may have set a roll forming operation apart from competitors in the past, but in some sectors today, quick changeover simply has become a necessity for survival.
Physically moving one roll set and loading on another often doesn't cut it anymore. If you replace roll set A with roll set B, the outboard stand has to come off, and you basically ruin the setup of roll set A. On older systems, this is exactly what happens when the upper shaft is raised to remove the roll tools manually. The operator must remove the roll tools, spacers, and shims; place new tools on; tighten everything up; jog the material through; and make adjustments as necessary to find that sweet spot again. In a short-run environment, this can be a serious drain on cash, as can numerous coil change-outs and part programming at the machine.
Machine technology has advanced to the point where a roll forming system can cost-effectively handle a lot size of one. This is an extreme scenario, but one that today's equipment can manage.
So said Jack Pennuto, sales manager for Warrensville Heights, Ohio-based Formtek Metal Forming Inc. He described roll forming lines "that are able to computerize the changeover for the next product." These fully automated roll formers have motor drives that adjust each roll setup for various flange heights and web widths. "It's possible they could run 20 or more different part sizes in a shift," he said.
Such automated systems have electric motors that can make adjustments for web widths, flange heights, and gauge changes. Some in the building sector thrive off such systems because, while basic design and product families may be limited, part variation abounds. In these cases certain roll forming systems can automatically adjust tooling to produce myriad variations of gauges, flange heights, and web widths.
Electronic control of length changes is another tool that adds flexibility. Older machines have gauge bars or flag switches. As the part emerges from the machine, it hits the switch, which triggers the cut. If the length changes, the operator adjusts the switch, runs test pieces, checks the length, makes an adjustment, and so on. Certain materials can distort if they hit the switch too quickly, which limits the line speed. Part lengths also can be only so long.
"The switch to electronic systems freed up a lot of things," explained Allman. "Now you can run any kind of part length, and there's no real downtime or scrap associated with the length change. The same goes for in-line punching. Now all the operations are controlled by computer, so you can go from one punch pattern to a different punch pattern on the fly with no scrap or downtime."
Single-point adjustment also has helped speed changeover between gauges. Say a job changes from 16 gauge to 20 gauge. In a manual situation, the operator would adjust the upper shaft down on the inboard and outboard sides—a process that, if done frequently, can add hours of downtime to a shift. "So some have opted for a single-point adjustment," Carson explained, which allows an operator to use a caliper and a hand wheel to make the adjustment for the entire machine.
Another common solution is roll formers with rafting, in which a roll forming system is divided into a series of interchangeable cassettes (see Figure 2). Each cassette consists of a series of roll shafts and tools, along with a bottom plate that locks into the body of the roll former. With these, the operator doesn't have to remove rolls from the shafts themselves. The sweet spot isn't lost.
"By using quick-change cassettes, you don't disturb the setup," said Carson, adding that in one recent installation, the company is roll forming five products on one line. "It takes about 12 minutes to change from product A roll tooling to product B roll tooling, because they're just exchanging cassettes."
Using multiple rolls, side by side and separated by spacers, also can add efficiency for short runs. Between products, the operator instructs the control to shift the line over and, using a laser, aligns the new roll tools with the coil. Some uncoilers have a power-traversing sub-base, which means the operator doesn't need to take the time for alignment (see Figure 3). The roll forming system uses a laser to align with the new coil, telling the operator exactly where it needs to be, and the uncoiler's power-traversing sub-base can move left to right (up to 6 inches in either direction) to fine-tune the alignment.
This brings up another essential tool for short runs: multiple-head coils. Today, dual-head uncoilers have become more popular, sources said, simply because they're so critical in a quick-changeover environment. Uncoilers can have up to five heads for certain applications (see Figure 4).
An emerging technology involves automated coil warehousing and feeding, which adds coil changeout flexibility by eliminating the need to transport a coil to and from the roll former. As one product runs, the system readies the next coil, no fork truck or coil car required.
Quick-changeover equipment on the floor is only half the equation. The other half is software to manage information flow from order entry to program input on the machine itself. Controls and associated software can download part information from a company's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Translating software help take orders from the ERP system and queue them up for production. At the roll former, the operator selects the next program, the tool adjustments are made, and the next operation is good to go.
A roll forming company can take two approaches. In one case the ERP system has all engineering data and so feeds it directly through translation software and to the roll forming machine. In other cases, the ERP software is separate from an engineering data management system, which can include information such as a directory of DXF files. In this case, both the order information and engineering data are filtered through specialized software and, again, downloaded to the roll forming system.
"When a product is sent to the roll forming line, you have to marry up the two pieces of information to make sure the correct punching patterns are there along with the production order," Allman explained.
Sometimes the flow of information goes beyond the four walls of a company. Allman described one application for high school bleachers in which the bleacher maker sends files with complete part information to the roll forming company every day. "Every part that's produced is considered completely unique by the roll forming company," he said, adding that the roll former automatically pulls information from those customer files, including part lengths, hole profiles, punch locations, and material information. "Parts are produced the same day and ink-jet printed with an identifier. You have extremely short runs, just exactly what the customer needs—completed within hours of the order.
Historically, roll forming hasn't had high labor content, so it hasn't been as susceptible to offshoring as other processes. But as runs become shorter and changeovers more frequent, labor content rises.
In a way, the economy has forced the matter. Roll formers are adapting to lower volumes, and according to sources, the need to adapt won't go away with the recession.
The FABRICATOR® is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The FABRICATOR has served the industry since 1971. Print subscriptions are free to qualified persons in North America involved in metal forming and fabricating.


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Hey guess what, this ISN'T THE POST I INTENDED TO WRITE AND DELIVER FROM THE WORDPRESS IPHONE APP!
Come on folks, you know that people use this application to get their personal and precious thoughts down while on the run.
I'm sure you know how much it hurts to write an essay only to have the dog eat it, get a Windows blue screen of death or have the wordpress app crap out AGAIN and lose your post.
Seriously, I don't know what the problem is, but it has been around from the beginning and every time I download the new version (I got 2.2 last night) I pray that you have fixed the one thing that matters.
Reading comments is great, replying to them is even better…
but what I want the app for is to WRITE POSTS!
That's not too much to ask of a blogwriting application, is it?
My iPhone needs a new case every week as it cops the brunt of my frustration with this application.
It's just NOT ROBUST!
It's not like I am trying to do anything special with it, just put words down to upload to the blog.
- It crashes.
- It doesn't save your work.
- It offers to recover lost posts – it lies!
Why does it NEED Internet connection?If I want to read my comments, or upload my posts, let me request it.
Why do I have to wait 30 odd seconds every time I open the app for it to tell me I have no new comments or posts.
I already know this – I want to write!
I'm guessing that it's the flakey 3G network that causes the problems. Here I am writing a local draft (ie: working off line) and the iPhone loses connection and the app has a little hissy fit.
Would you like to recover the lost post?
Hell yeah!
No, not the bit I already saved manually because I can't trust you to hang together for 5 minutes, the bit I lost when you crashed!
I can see it on the screen – it's there to recover…
BUT, when I save the post (god help me if I trust you and keep writing) I have nothing remaining of the recovered post except what I manually saved.
- No extras pre-crash
- No extras post-crash
It shits me no end. I need the app (or something like it) to prepare my drafts away from the PC… But this is really putting me off blogging!
Ohhh and that's a pretty new bug with 2.2. Save one post, get that posts text for ALL of your posts! (or at least not know what text goes with each post)
Gnomer and Out!
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I'm surprised Microsoft (even then) would be happy for people to be blocking in office doors and raising the floor high ..
I want to hear more, MORE, MORE
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The Office of Multicultural Student Services at Lesley University seeks to promote academic excellence, personal achievement and intellectual exchanges of all students through various programs and services. To this end, we aim to uphold the culture of accomplishment and facilitate holistic transformation. Lesley University embraces the values of inclusion, which enables students to take full advantage of their educational potential.
To have a transformational impact on all who explore and contribute to the Lesley University community in advanced preparation for success in the global society.
In partnership with the various departments within the university, students are introduced to the wide array of programs and services to achieve academic success. The Office of Multicultural Student Services is committed to helping students feel connected as a vital part of the campus community and to develop cultural competence. Our services compliment and support the overall mission of Lesley University, which is to facilitate the personal, cultural and social growth of all students in order to promote a more successful and positive college experience.
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Finley converted internship into career
Strategic Management and Innovation
First things first—how did you go about the internship search?
I knew from the beginning that I wanted to intern with a consulting firm, so I made sure to focus my search. I went to a career fair that had several consulting firms in attendance, but I also looked at other companies that had similar jobs I might be interested in. I started early—at the beginning of September—and made contacts in the companies I wanted to apply to, and followed those leads through the interview process.
What advice would you give a first-year MBA who's just starting the job search?
I compare the job search to losing weight. Both seem intimidating at first, but if you break it into smaller, digestible pieces—say, losing two pounds a week, or applying to 10 jobs each week—it's easier to tackle. There's an obvious path to success for each: identify your target companies, attend career fairs where those companies are, communicate with people who may be a connection between you and that firm, send out resumes, search openings in Symplicity (Tippie's job posting system), and above all, work hard.
My own story had what I like to call a "Biggest Loser" moment"—a key event that provided a leg up in getting the job you want. It doesn't excuse you from doing the hard work (after all, the people on "Biggest Loser" still sweat it out every day!). But it provides extra support to help you reach your goal. For example, if Tippie's career services team has an important contact in the company you want to work for.
That moment for me came when I attended an MBA job fair where AT Kearney was in attendance. Creating that connection was the key that made everything else come together. But even for job searchers who don't have that extra support, you can still accomplish your goal—it just takes a lot of hard work.
What were your responsibilities at A.T. Kearney?
I led the Request for Proposal process to hire a systems integrator for a $70 million information technology project. In addition, I created a forecasting model to estimate how much the companies would come back with as their price, using eight major cost drivers. I gained the ability to work quickly under pressure, and the internship helped me to improve the quality and speed of my work.
What did you do over the course of your internship that helped you convert your internship into a full-time offer?
First, I worked my tail off. You can have the best relationships within the company and be "the guy everyone likes," but if your work product isn't phenomenal, you can forget about a full-time offer. You have to start with hard work first and foremost.
Second, I went to a lot of effort to learn if I was a good fit at A.T. Kearney. I identified about 10 people within the company that I wanted to connect with and had coffee or lunch with every single one. I asked them about the company, their history at Kearney, their role, and what past interns did to successfully make the transition to a full-time job. Their answer was "Exactly what you're doing"—networking, building relationships, getting to know the people, and determining if the company was a good fit for them.
Third, I got involved. I was part of a diversity group within A.T. Kearney. Coincidentally, two of the sponsoring partners of the diversity group were managing partners on my work project. So at the end of my internship, when managers and partners were weighing in on me and my performance, they knew me. I had interacted with these partners on several occasions—we were on a flight to New York City for a diversity group meeting, we shared a cab to Manhattan. During these conversations they became familiar with my work product, but they also knew me as a person, thanks to the conversations we'd had. I feel that because I had this extra interaction with the partners and other people in the office, that I had an advantage when it came time for reviews.
What will you be doing at ATK when you start full-time?
I'll be based in San Francisco as a generalist for at least two years, doing 2- to 6-month projects, and almost 100% travel. It might be audits, change management, or data analysis. I'm looking forward to projects that involve marketing or products, and finance-related projects, so I can round out my experience in those areas and gain some additional skills.
Any advice for fellow MBAs?
The best advice for the internship search is to start early. Find contacts in the companies you want to work, and get in touch with them. But always make sure to be yourself during the interview process. While we get an MBA for different reasons, I kept telling myself that I came to get a better job, so my internship search always came first.
When you get there, don't be a wallflower. When people say your name, in reference to your performance, there are two things you never want to hear: "Who is that?" and "Their work product was not good." So work hard, build relationships, and you'll help to ensure that you have a leg up once it comes time for your review.


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text: 16 February 2012 archive See all show photos THE last day of New York Fashion Week falls on a Thursday, and is anchored by two iconic American designers: Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein Collection, who both display their collections in two, smaller, back-to-back viewings. Rumours were that there would be an Occupy Wall Street demonstration at Calvin, and for attendees to be aware that there could be a scene - well, a bigger scene than usual - upon arrival. The second show was a bit of a disappointment, if only for the fact that an anaemic rally of half a dozen or so loitered outside, and word had already spread that Rooney Mara and Emma Stone had attended the earlier presentation. Ah well. The clothes are the real stars of these events anyway, not the celebrity interlopers. Designer Francisco Costa moved away from last season's fleshly, anatomical collection and instead unveiled a robust collection, in terms of fabric and silhouette. The warehouse surroundings were painted black, and as the lights dimmed, an industrial, thumping staccato reverberated through the room, accented by the clomping sound of (alligator) heels on the runway. A collarless black wool and mohair jacket zoomed by with a wide silver belt, an expected minimalist effort from the impenetrably consistent Costa. The following handful of shifts maintained that mien - stiff, linear dresses of dense, woolly fabrics, some belted to forge a hint of womanly contour. But with a sudden burst of colour, a substantial orange coat entered the mix which appeared to be moving away from the body, with the slightest indication of an hourglass form. Next, two shifts - one in that vivid citrus, and another in a faded peach tone - moved through with deep internal pleats that imparted a thick, frozen, ripple effect. Costa cited the art show Post Modernism: Style and Subversion 1970-199 as his catalyst, and it could be seen in his warped, bulky version of mid-century housecoats with sloped shoulders and dolman sleeves (trend alert: oversize outerwear) and the tinge of Eisenhower-era housewifery in the folded fabric's faint suggestion of a nipped waist and full skirt. Mixed in with these hefty bouclé pieces were sleek leathers, in skirts, dresses, and capacious pleated pants. Treated, granular skins were used for a long coat, a cropped jacket, and a wrap skirt - a nice contrast. Wool dresses embroidered with ebony paillettes added a subdued sense of occasion to the final dresses. And while the ethereal Rooney Mara may have not been seated amongst us, the models' blunt sable hair and dewy faces led us to believe that she was, in spirit, present. In fact, many looks seemed to be Costa's direct appeals, and convincing ones at that, to woo the starlet. SEE THE CALVIN KLEIN COLLECTION SHOW ARCHIVE Max Berlinger Continue reading Back to top


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20 Nov 2009 2:27 PM #1
[CLOSED][3.0.3] DataReader.realize expects all data sent to server to be returned
I mentioned some reservations about REST support implemenation in the thread for Ext 3.0 RC2, many of which I see are fixed in 3.0.3. For example, the DataReader.update() no longer expects that server returns all or least some data with representation of the modified record. That's good. However, the DataReader.realize() is still broken. It still assumes that after creating the Record on the client, populating it with data, and sending this data to server, the server will send all this data back. But why server would do it? There is completely no point, it's only waste of bandwidth to send to the client the data that client already have. In some cases server can add/modify some of this data, then ok; but in many cases server won't. BUT, the realize method foolishly drops ALL local data and overrides it with data returned from server, see line 116 in DataReader:
rs.data = data;
The only real difference is that in case of CREATE, in many cases the ID is generated by server, not by a client. So the realize method can expect the ID to be returned by the server in some cases. However, this ID doesn't have to be returned in response body. In RESTful services, it may be part of URL returned in Location header. So it's important to provide the extension point (per-class, i.e. to set it statically for all Ext.data.DataReader instances, and per-instance) for retrieving generated ID.
To sum it up, two things should be done:
1. Don't expect that server would return ANY data; in any case, don't throw away data already available on the client, instead override only those really returned by the server
2. Provide easy to use extension points for retrieving generated ID from server response.
27 Nov 2009 7:16 AM #2
I've just discovered that there are more problems with current code in Ext 3.0.3. Look into Ext.data.Api, in method restify(). There was an interceptor code added to this method.
In the 3.0.3 code I downloaded, it looks like this:
// TODO: perhaps move this interceptor elsewhere? like into DataProxy, perhaps? Placed here // to satisfy initial 3.0 final release of REST features. proxy.onWrite = proxy.onWrite.createInterceptor(function(action, o, response, rs) { var reader = o.reader; var res = new Ext.data.Response({ action: action, raw: response }); switch (response.status) { ....
// TODO: perhaps move this interceptor elsewhere? like into DataProxy, perhaps? Placed here // to satisfy initial 3.0 final release of REST features. proxy.onWrite = proxy.onWrite.createInterceptor(function(action, o, response, rs) { var reader = o.reader; var res = {}; switch (response.status) { ...
This is a huge mess, and should be fixed in future releases of Ext.
22 Feb 2010 10:42 AM #3
Same type of problem in 3.1.1
I am also a bit confounded by the assumptions ExtJS makes. The REST framework I use does not return JSON data in the response to a POST. It does what the HTTP-spec allows and returns HTTP status 201 with the Location header set.
Now, I have subclassed JsonReader and implemented the readResponse method to return a new Ext.data.Response. I parse the reponse header to get the ID of the new resource but the realize method contains :
if (data[f.name] !== f.defaultValue) { rs.data[f.name] = data[f.name]; }
In my case I can get around it by doing something like:
if (data[f.name]) { if (data[f.name] !== f.defaultValue) { rs.data[f.name] = data[f.name]; } }
Would be nice if the JsonReader could ease up on the assumption that the server returns data and maybe have a plugin or a subclass that could be used for server-sides that actually do return updated data in response to create (POST) request.
22 Feb 2010 11:19 AM #4
We are aware of the issue and a refactor is happening for a future release.
15 Mar 2010 3:50 AM #5
In 3.2 beta we still get responseText as raw instead of whole response:
// instantiate response object
var res = new Ext.data.Response({
action: action,
success: this.getSuccess(o),
data: (root) ? this.extractData(root, false) : [],
message: this.getMessage(o),
raw: o
should be:
raw: response


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FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) -- Fort Riley soldiers are hitting the range to train on some of the most advanced equipment in the Army's arsenal.
The training marks the first time that Big Red One soldiers are firing the latest version of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
The armored fighting vehicles are equipped with a 25mm chain gun, 7.62 mm machine gun and a TOW anti-tank missile system.
A fleet of the newest model, the fully digital M2A3's, arrived at Fort Riley in April.
M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles are designed to transport infantry with armor protection while providing covering fire to suppress enemy troops and armored vehicles.
Soldiers from the 2nd "Dagger" Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division conducted a live-fire qualification exercise Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at Fort Riley's Digital Multi-Purpose Range Complex. Crews made their way through the training field, unleashing the Bradleys on an array of different targets.
Officials say the gunnery is the culmination of a long series of qualifications which all crews in the brigade must complete to standard before they are considered ready to deploy if needed.
The Dagger Brigade possesses two Combined Arms Battalions which use Bradley Fighting Vehicles extensively- 1st "Vanguard" Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment and 1st "Dragon" Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment.
"Fort Riley is the center of the Army's modernization effort. We are being equipped with the latest and greatest equipment.For my soldiers, what this means is a chance for us to get back to the basics. For the very first time that this battalion has done in over two years, we have an opportunity to train on our armored combat systems that because of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, have not had the full opportunity to train and 1st Infantry Division is giving us that chance right now," explained Lieutenant Colonel Lee Magee, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment Commander.
"I can monitor every crew's actions so that we can tell what they're doing right and what they're doing wrong and how we can correct those for future engagements. I have an entire target array out here so that I can train everything that we need to do from a high intensity conflict down to low intensity stuff that you typically would see in Afghanistan or Iraq. This is one of the best training facilities in the Army here at Fort Riley," he added.
The new Bradleys are equipped with improved electronics, fire control for aiming and shooting, target acquisition and navigation capabilities.
"There are special cameras on here that allow me, as the Bradley commander, to be scanning the battlefield. While my gunner is engaging one target, I can be looking for any others and whenever an enemy exposes themselves, all I have to do is press one button and the gun goes exactly on that enemy ready to destroy them," said First Lieutenant Steven White with 1st Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment.
Training will continue over the next several months so that the brigade is ready if they are called back into action.
"I like to think of this as an insurance policy. We don't want to be called but when we are called, we want to be able to accomplish the nation's objectives wherever and whenever we're needed... Bottom line is, we're going to be at the cutting edge of technology in the Army's forces across the board. Everything that we have is literally the best, the latest and the current cutting edge of Army technology for ground forces," LTC Magee told WIBW.


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Has the overload of Woot Plus items turned you off?
Since Woot's makeover a few months ago, Woot Plus has gone from a couple extra items on the page.... into a massive amount of items available across all Woot pages and are, seemingly, always available. Two days after the items "sell out" or disappear, they are suddenly up and available again. As you can likely tell from my comments, I'm not thrilled with it. It's too much. I used to check out Woot's deals, but now it has lost all its draw for me. I just come for the community section. I don't even look at the regular Woot deals anymore... This website has turned into little more than a bulletin board for me.
What about you? What's your thoughts?
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Yes, the Woot Plus is getting rather tiresome. I appreciate the extra deals but it seems they have started substituting a larger quantity of deals instead of a few really good ones. Since everything is listed so often, and because the price seems to drop regularly, I've started just waiting them out for the cheapest price when I see something I want. Of course you run the risk of missing the item but that hasn't been a problem yet.
I can't even keep up anymore. There are so many items being sold on Plus deals that it's turned into Amazon Warehouse deals, without the deep discounts. Items are normally sold at the low end of retail -- definitely not worthy of Woot's reputation (their previous one anyway).
Not really. I like there being more to choose from.
What bothers me more is the proliferation of "community deals" on dealswoot that are posted by companies hawking their goods. Most of the time it's not even a deal. I thought the idea was for wooters to post good deals that they have found, but now there is just a lot of free advertising for junk.
@capguncowboy: I concur
Sort of, yeah. My first thought upon seeing today's Woot was that we had already seen this camera before.
I honestly do not even attempt to look at them all. Way to many to keep track of or attempt to figure out if I had looked at or not. The rare times I have looked at them the only items I may have interest in are sold out anyway.
Agree with most of the above. If I've got some free time, I'll check out all of the plus deals at once, by hovering over the headings on the deals page. Anything with an interesting title is further investigated.
I will also go on record as saying that the deals are getting less and less compelling. The only thing that I've missed over the last year or so that was really an "Oh, Darn!" was a heater for $60 that I wound up getting for $75 on Amazon a couple of weeks later. And that was on the Home.Woot page of a woot-off.
For the staff's sake, I hope that all of these are leading to increased profits for Woot!, and hence Amazon. I liked it better the way it was a while ago, but I also wish I could turn back the clock for eBay and some other websites as well. Since I can't, I guess I'll just keep enjoying the parts I still like, ignore the rest, and complain (whine) periodically about the way it used to be...
(Billy Joel's I've Loved These Days plays quitely in the background)
@capguncowboy: I too am definitely burnt out with woot overload. The unfortunate side effect results in me stopping by less. Reading less writeups, and all round just checking woot a lot less.
I still hold a special place in my heart for woot but the mass quantities is becoming way too much to keep up with. I've pretty much accepted that things wont go back (id even be happy going back to 2-3 woot plus deals a week at this point)
Anyways im on my phone so its hard to keep get all my thoughts out so to keep things short: yes WAY too much going on over on the woot sites.
I've bought a few good things from the side deals, and I don't completely dislike the side deal idea, but it is getting really hard to keep up with. If Woot is going to grow, as it obviously has, it needs to grow in some direction, and I guess adding page after page of thing.woot.com would eventually get to be WAY too much. I also don't really want to see Woot's sites look like this or this or this.
I guess the Woot Plus sales are sort of like flash sales on other sites, but there are so many of them and no regular schedule on which they change, as far as I can see. I always try to check out the new sales, but I can't always tell which ones are new and get annoyed sorting through them.
I guess the bottom line for me is "yes and no." There are some decent things out there worth viewing, but it's overwhelming and needs some restructuring, at minimum.
I think Woot Plus's plethora of deals pairs nicely with the $5 All You Can Ship feature.
I don't really mind all of the extra listings.
Too much, don't even look.
When woot plus came up, I was okay with it because they have thumbnails of what they were offering. After all, I expected the change when woot was bought by Amazon.
But then, for the top bar, the images of what was being offered disappeared and was replaced by text. When I do window shopping online, I like to see thumbnails of what is being offered. If I show interest on what the thumbnail shows me, I read the product title and finally then click on the link to see more details because I'm interested on the product. The other times I wouldn't need looking at a thumbnail is when I'm looking for a specific product.
For instance, as of the typing of this comment, I must point out that www.1saleaday.com has the right idea. Show the products they are selling and then show a picture of what is being offered at their "flash sale".
I can't keep up and I don't try to. It's obvious that the one deal-a-day model was taking up precious real estate and not bringing in enough money, but the setup now is laborious and the products offered do not interest me.
If they could improve their selection and their layout--so that I can easily see all side deals for all sites at once--I might be more likely to check in.
In general, I'm tired of checking flash sites. I used to check FAB every day but it just got old. . . too many repeats. But at least that site was well-organized.
Nope! If I have the time I scroll thru, if not, no harm, no foul, no problemo.
I appreciate all your comments here. A couple questions if you don't mind me directing the feedback some....
Assume that we're gonna continue to offer other items than the daily deal on each site and that these items will have a limited sale time (i.e. start & end date)...
What are some things we could do to make it easier for you to look at the Plus offers?
What can we do that would lure you to look through the Plus offers??
I'm interesting in hearing your ideas. Please keep in mind this is brainstorming. Don't expect these to appear next week, next month, etc.
I will agree that it's too much stuff. @thunderthighs: Can we try the Wayback Machine to somewhere around 2011? Since that won't happen, how about maybe 1-2 side deals per site instead of 82 (or however many there are)?
One very, very easy thing you can do is put a day of the week along with the expiration date for each side deal. I see "Ends January 21" and that means little to me if I'm not looking at the calendar and I haven't been paying attention to the date. Tell me "Monday, January 21," and I know when I have to buy my widget by.
It would also be nice if there was some sort of drop-down menu that shows a list of all the side deals on all the sites, in one place.
And make them look prettier.
Better stuff at better prices with more variety would also be nice.
And stuff I can't find anywhere else--not even Amazon, the Mothership--would also be nice.
@thunderthighs: points to prior comment Not having the same deal on multiple pages...sometimes even on the very same day. Sometimes even at different prices. It seems that each tab is a separate company. Hey look, we have a flashlight. Oh look, so do we, same model! Wait...it will be on another tab tomorrow.
@thunderthighs - While it was removed from my previous comment, what works for me is having a list of all sales on one page, where you can see what is new, what is expiring soon, and how many items are left for each sale, broken down by sub-site.
@thunderthighs: I agree with @rayray8822 about the Woot Plus deals pairing nicely with the $5 All You Can Ship feature. When I buy a Woot deal I always double check the side deals to make certain there isn't something else I can add to my basket. Good marketing point!
As far as improving the Woot Plus deals, I agree with the comments above. It just gets too confusing. While I enjoy the humor in the titles for each group of offerings, I frequently can't tell what the sale is about based on the titles, and really have a tough time determining whether this is something new or a sale I've already looked through. Anything to clear that up would be great. I tend to hover over the header and read the drop down (lazy, I know) so it would be great if we could see thumbnails or dates or something to make it clear what is offered.
Yes, it doesn't feel as exclusive anymore. The deals don't feel special.
@thunderthighs: My .02.... It's annoying to have to go to each woot sub site and click on each sub sub category. This is what keeps me from looking at it all. Not sure what would make it better.
Several changes would help:
Apps (well-designed) for each major smartphone platform. Please, no iPhone app first and Android app to follow later, that would be annoying.
Clarity about expiration etc (such as day of week as well as date).
Awesome never seen before deals of the sort woot was once known for. Make it worth the time and effort already.
Clean up the layout and clarify the info and comment links for each item (right now the pages are messy, ugly, cluttered, and a pain to scan thru -for me at least.)
Many of us probably look at the woot sites as often on a mobile device as on a PC. Those pages are horrible in a mobile browser .... yet I have no issues with, say, Amazon's desktop site or other desktop sites using the same browser.
Short answer . . . Yes!
Good gravy yes. I just counted all of the WootPlus deals because I was curious as to how many there actually were- 267!
Two hundred. Sixty. Seven. That is nuts compared to just a year ago.
I hate to criticize because saying that this is a bad thing is like saying that Amazon has too wide a selection, but Woot needs at the very least a central hub where you can see all of the deals being offered without having to click on twenty different links.
Yes, somewhat...but the $5.00 shipping for the day does entice me to add small items I might not otherwise spring for. As a matter of fact, I just did that with an order a couple of days ago.
But I really, genuinely have to want an item to spring for that initial purchase. As some other folks have mentioned, there seem to be fewer and fewer items at really attractive prices as the daily (or designed to be daily) deals; fewer things jump up and say "Buy me!" Too many of the featured daily items seem downright boring.
Curiously, today I happened to read the What is deals.woot FAQ and the preface by one Matt Rutledge, who is listed as Founder & CEO of Woot Inc. It seemed to be written about the place I used to know.
I'm going to think more about the Plus deals and ways they might be improved. Strongly endorse adding the DAY to the date of expiration, though. More later.
The navigation for the plus deals has to be easier and on some kind of understandable cycle. I don't know whether theres going to be new plus deals, so I might remember to hover over the tabs and see if there's something new. If i see something new in the tab, then I have to sometimes guess what the description means and then whether I'm interested in looking. It's too much guessing and clicking to look for the plus deals.
And yes, as already stated, the deals have to be good and fresh. If it's a repeat, at least make some kind of visible cut in the price compared to last time.
@thunderthighs: Thank you for asking for our opinions.
The one thing I find most annoying is that I have to first click on the tab (woot, tech, home, sport, etc) at the top, then I have to click on the Woot Plus main image, and then I have to click on the product I might be interested in. It would be great to have all those plus deals consolidated on one page so I can scroll through them all at once without having to go to so many different pages.
Also, as I browse the site every day, it's difficult for me to determine which of the woot plus deals are new since the day before. Perhaps the consolidated page could order them by the date added.
Why is there an expiration date on the deals? Obviously you are going to bring them back again on another page when you don't sell out of them. Just leave them on the "consolidated" page until they sell out then remove it. It's annoying to see it disappear only to reappear again later as if it's something special.
I rely on the Woot Stalker site for keeping abreast of the Plus deals. Even if I forget to check in a timely enough manner to see the "New" badges on deals, I can look at the posted dates to see when deals were posted. I click on all of the new listings because I've previously missed things due to "cute" Woot titles that didn't capture my interest, but actually had things I would have wanted. If the thumbnails on Woot Stalker look interesting, I then click through to that particular Woot Plus listing.
Woot Stalker lets me satisfy my curiousty, while speeding up and simplifying the process of sifting deals.
Thanks @lichme !
When I think of the all new and improved Woot, it reminds me a lot of Best Buy's Cowboom in purpose - somewhere to put all the extra stuff that hasn't sold as expected. and they're doing a great job at it. I'm sad they sacrificed the old Woot to do it, but it's business and it was inevitable once Amazon bought them. Corporations are about the bottom line. Woot wanted to be financially successful and unique. I still find good deals and shop here, but it's just that - shopping. Woot was a tiny little adventure, right down to not knowing exactly when your package would arrive.
I'm not turned off, necessarily, but in terms of monetary spending, it seems I am.
I find myself barely buying anything during woot-offs, because I know either
1. I have had the chance to buy all of the products I'm seeing on woot plus before
2. I will have the opportunity to buy the item at some point in the future on woot plus
Woot-Offs just don't do it for me anymore. At least before woot plus, I could trick myself into thinking I was getting a good deal on something. Now I know I'm not.
It was this week's $6000-$7000 watches that threw me over. Maybe it's just me, but that kind of an investment shouldn't be made through woot (ar amazon, for that matter). It may be discounted from the original $30,000,000,000,000.00 of the original MSRP, but if I'm going to spend more money on my watch than my current car is worth, I'm AT LEAST going to want to try it on first...
I don't mind the Woot Plus stuff. I like a little extra variety. Most of the time I forget they're there though. I spend most of my time on the deals.woot site.
Agreed. Although I don't like the new woot page layouts, the real problem is the deals .... or lack thereof.
I often don't bother looking at the main *.woot.com deal each day, let alone the side deals. Nothing to fascinate me (wow, what is that?!), no prices I haven't seen before or won't see again tomorrow or next week, no "I've been wanting one but never thought I could justify the price" deals ....why take the time?
I am less likely now to buy something cool now and give it a try anyway - I've already given away or Goodwill'ed too many items that didn't work out and cluttered up my life recently. That's not woot's doing, of course.
Not much reason to pay attention to woot-offs, too predictable and little that's special.
Like many here, I come for deals.woot and the people here (including staff and most esp @thunderthighs).
Thanks to you all for a warm and entertaining site.
I don't often bother with the side deals. It's a "time permitting" aka "I'm bored" thing.
@thunderthighs: If it looked more like "deals" or at least used the "deals" layout on an aggregator page. (e.g. Main items in the top section, plus items and comments in the body) it would be easier to navigate.
@thunderthighs: Put all of the plus deals in one place, under one header - woot +
There are too many of them on the main pages. I haven't bothered reading a write up since they pushed the 'main' product page back a click.
@thunderthighs: I don't mind the Woot plus deals but what I DO mind is that there is no shopping cart. As I've said before, having to order each item individually is a real turn off...and it looks bad to my credit card company to boot.
I'd place more orders if there was a shopping cart to make things easier.
@thunderthighs: I would overhaul the entire system. It is pretty clear that most users seemed to like the 1 item per day idea on the main sites. It also is clear that people do not mind more items however they dislike them together.
Make the Woot sites go back to the 1 item 1 day model and then create a new type of site that would solve many headaches. Make a site something along the lines of warehouse.woot. This site would not be a 1 item per day like people were used to, but more along the lines of a "traditional" retailer. You could keep the current woot plus grouping ideas, but organize them in a way people knew what was new and old so they would know what deals they have not yet viewed. This site might also allow you to use another feature people have been asking for, a shopping cart. This would be a system that could make all sides happy and still allow woot to increase the items for sale each day.
Yes, the plus deals make it unwieldy. Few people want to spend time going through tabs & countless sub tabs. Others before me have stated the fact that few are real deals, and are repeated over & over again.
A site redesign is past due. @lichme's tracker is amazing! Kudos to him for developing that & offering it to us! Shame on woot for not making their own site easy to use.
Two needed but helpful things I've suggested before in similar questions:
1. A shopping cart, so I can toss items in & look for more. No need for repetitive check-outs.
2. Search function in woot that works. If I'm looking for a stuffed animal, I expect to be able to search for it. You know, like you do in any other storefront site. Can't be done w/i woot. Ergo, I'll look elsewhere...simply NOT going to plow through page after page of items on the off-chance it might be offered.
Please make woot user-friendly. Currently it looks like an up-scale, often over-priced, garage sale.
I read a couple responses about adding a shopping cart feature. I'm not sure that would work with Woot and here's why:
The products could sell out quickly -- especially during a woot-off. So there's a high probability you could add something to your cart, look around for other things to add, and then when you go to pay one of the items is no longer available.
This problem could occur at any time during the browsing or check process. So after submitting the charge to your credit card company and finding out one of the items is unavailable, what happens to the other items in the cart? Do they still get sold or canceled? What about the authorization already made?
If they get sold, those people buying extra items to save on the shipping could be angry? If it gets canceled, when you repurchase the canceled items, they could be sold out too.
Of course now that nothing really sells out on Woot except during a woot-off, this may not be that big of a problem.
@cengland0: that's a good explanation on the cart. When you purchase an item, it is reserved for you. At this time, our system doesn't support cart shopping and managing pending purchases vs inventory. Even if an item was in the cart, we would continue to sell the item until it sold out. Unless it's bought and paid for, it's not reserved. That doesn't mean we may not look at something different in the future, it's just not in our current business model.
Y'all are coming up with some good ideas, many echoing my thoughts. That's good info in itself. Keep them coming.
@thunderthighs: Re: Items selling out while in your cart. Have said this before - this is currently true for most storefront sites. If something sells out in your cart, you lose that item. Happens all the time. You then have the option of buying the remaining items or deleting them from your cart.
The key phrase is, "...our system doesn't support cart shopping and managing pending purchases vs inventory." What we're suggesting is to change your existing system so it does work. Your "current business model" is not user friendly. It doesn't make the shopping experience easy or seamless for your customers. You DO want for us to shop here, don't you? And we DO want to. Please make it easy for us to do that.
I'm in agreement with the above answers. I've stopped checking everything but deals.woot because the layout is a mess. I'd really like to see all the side deals move to a separate site. I'd also like to like the initial preview of an item to tell me what you're selling, with a short description and the price. It just doesn't catch my attention unless I see all three pieces of information. I can't tell what most of the side deals are selling; the previews are too vague. I also find the preview of the main item on the *.woot.com pages a turn off because it doesn't tell me the price, so I have no idea if it's a deal.
I also can't help but notice most of the things woot sells are now in a higher price range. I'm not really interested in impulse buying things that are so expensive. I'd like to see more things that are under $50.


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If you want to disable root account in Ubuntu you need to lock the root account by using the following command
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In Linux there is a special account called root. By default it is locked in Ubuntu but you can enable the root account.
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There's no need for an enabled root account. You can simply use
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At very low levels this doesn't matter so much. Your nonmagical mace will do just as well as your nonmagical longbow. Implement powers can be used without an implement at no penalty.
But as you level up, you are going to acquire a magic longbow, and most likely feats and items that enhance your ability to use a longbow. Your melee weapon powers can only be used through your mace and are going to lag behind in their chance to hit and damage. Implement powers can be used without a Holy Symbol, but again your effectiveness is going to be reduced without one.
This is going to make you prioritize
So at first glance, a ranged weapon cleric isn't the best idea. But there are a few ways around this.
While this option opens up a few new options with a longbow, you're diminishing your "cleric-ness". The end result isn't much better.
Once you are 11th level, an Elven bow cleric really starts to shine for this one reason:
This opens up a world of possibilities. Every
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An Elven Bow Cleric is weak before level 11, but with the Seldarine Dedicate Paragon Path you should be fine.
Start with the Moonbow Dedicate feat. While it requires worship of Sehanine, there are a number of fascinating builds possible here. You'll want to look at the Bow Cleric mini-handbook. All of this advice changes at level 11, of course, where I simply recommend going half-elf with moonbow and making sure you have hand of radiance.
In terms of build, Elf with Moonbow is as standard as it gets, especially as elves now get dex/wis as a possible combo. I prefer the razorclaw shifter, simply because it's not generic as [expletive]. Battle Cleric is essential for armor.
There's little domain synergy, as the two worthwhile "power of" of Sehanine are melee based. Silvery glow is excellent, but moonbow provides a feat bonus to damage. Don't forget a screaming bow which maps damage into thunder damage. It'll become critical by paragon as part of a "make blasts larger" strategy: something that clerics and invokers can use to deadly, deadly, effect.
A completely different tack is to take the Elemental Initiate theme so that you get ki-focus proficiency. At the end of the day, I'd probably hybrid warlord, as the number of ranged-weapon interrupts they get can strongly synergize with the cleric buffs, and the warlord at-wills work better with the bow.


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After the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, what happened to the Imperial Byzantine family? Did they later establish other smaller kingdoms? Do any European Royal family trace their ancestry to them (Especially in eastern Europe). Is there anyone in this time who holds the claim to throne of the empire (as in the case of many dissolved monarchies)?
Byzantine Empire was not formally a hereditary monarchy. There was no law which regulated inheritance in Byzantine Empire.
Nevertheless the offsprings of the imperial family sold the right to claim the throne to Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, Spanish monarchs. This was inherited by Charles V, Holy Roman emperor. Yet he never styled himself a Byzantine or Constantinopolian emperor. Being a Roman Emperor was a part of his title though after he was crowned Roman Emperor by the Pope (he was the last man to receive this title ever).
In addition to Anixx's answer, check out Andreas Palaiologos - the oldest newphew of Constantine (the last emperor). Looks like he sold his "rights" to the Byzantine throne twice, both to France and Spain. And his younger brother sold them to... gasp... the Ottomans. Well, they had to get some money for high living.
Which brings us to another aspect: Mehmed II claimed that he actually was the new Roman Emperor, or Kayser-i Rum as he called it, by right of conquest. (He did have a point there). I know that Suleiman the Magnificent called himself so as well (in a letter to Charles V) but wikipedia, linked to in "claimed" above, a ssertsthat later sultans dropped the title.
see my several answers to this question "Greek Revolution- where did the greeks look for descendants of the byzantine dynasty?"
Greek Revolution: Where did the Greeks look for descendants of the Byzantine dynasties?


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At approximately 5 p.m. November 1, Sheriff's South County Narcotics Unit detectives arrested an Isla Vista resident on drug related charges. 23-year-old Jacob Loureiro was taken into custody following a search warrant served at his apartment located in the 6500 block of Seville Road. Louriero had been under investigation by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Enforcement Unit for the past several weeks.
During a search of the apartment, detectives located evidence establishing that Loureiro was selling several types of prescription medications. Although Loureiro was prescribed some of the medications, the investigation revealed that he was selling the pills to residents in the Isla Vista community. Evidence was also located, indicating that Loureiro was selling marijuana. In addition to the prescription narcotics and marijuana located, Sheriff's Narcotics detectives found that Loureiro was in possession of a shotgun, a handgun, a law enforcement style collapsible baton, and brass knuckles.
Although the shotgun and handgun were lawfully possessed, a request will be made with the District Attorney's Office to review this case for additional weapons violations based on Loureiro being in possession of a combination of narcotics for sale and firearms.
Loureiro was arrested and booked for violations of possession for sales of a controlled substance, possession for sales of marijuana, and possession of a deadly weapon. Loureiro's bail was set at $30,000.


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Women's Golf Seventh at Hilton Head Lakes InvitationalMarch 10, 2014
BLUFFTON, S.C. – The Anderson University women's golf team is in seventh place following opening-round action on Monday at the Hilton Head Lakes Invitational, hosted by Pfeiffer at the par-72, 5,935 yard layout.
Limestone and Montevallo lead the 18-team field after carding an opening-round 317, while Wingate (318) is third. King (327) is fourth, with North Greenville (328) just behind the Tornado. Coker (333) leads AU (336) by three, while the Trojans are one stroke in front of Mount Olive (337) and two ahead of ninth-place Erskine (338). Lincoln Memorial rounded out the top-10 with a 340.
The Trojans' second event of the spring saw sophomore Braiden Furtick card a 9-over par 81 and shares 17th, while junior Natalie Feder fired a 10-over par 82 and is tied for 23rd. Junior Sarah Timms is four shots further back following a first-round 86 and is tied for 46th.
Senior Katie Eskew (87) and sophomore Garyt Hamilton (88) are tied for 51st and 54th, respectively.
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VS2008 Training Kit: Connected Application Foundations using WCF, WF, and Windows CardSpace
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Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast.
This session was presented by Justin Smith and is the from the
Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), and Windows CardSpace are powerful technologies for services, workflows, and identity management, respectively. This talk introduces developers to all three technologies, describes how they work, and how to write applications that take advantage of their features. Topics covered include: SOA basics, WCF architecture, WCF bindings, hosting WCF services, WCF behaviors, WF architecture, WF activities, WF hosting, WCF and WF integration, CardSpace basics, and integrating CardSpace into web applications.
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Average for US jobless claims at fresh 5-year low
|In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, photo, job seekers line up to speak with a State Dept. employee about job opportunities in the federal government during a job fair in Boston. market. Weekly unemployment benefit applications rose just 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 336,000, the Labor Department said Thursday, March, 21, 2013. Over the past four weeks, the average number of applications has dropped by 7,500 to 339,750. Thatís the lowest since February 2008, just three months into the recession. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment aid barely changed last week, while the average over the past month fell to a fresh five-year low. The decline in layoffs is helping strengthen the job market.
Weekly unemployment benefit applications rose just 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 336,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.
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Independent and Catholic: Remembering Robert Hoyt
The Columbia Journalism Review has a nicely done piece on Robert Hoyt, founding editor of National Catholic Reporter, and on that newspaper's origins. I never met Hoyt, but it seems to me that his son, Michael Hoyt, former editor of the journalism review, has provided a nuanced and well-written portrait of his father in this article. He shows the importance of maintaining an independent Catholic press with outlets such as NCR and Commonweal, for which Robert Hoyt became a senior writer after leaving NCR.
It is good to see Robert Hoyt's life and work placed before the broader journalism community that Columbia Journalism Review reaches. Here is the top of the story:
Here are some of the things and people that my father loved: Gregorian chant, Joe Louis, airplanes, the Detroit Tigers infield of the mid-1930s, Salem cigarettes, Martin Luther King Jr., Latin, and big northern lakes. "That's not a lake," he would say, whenever I used the L-word about some muddy little man-made body of water, "that's a pond." Once, we drove all night from Missouri to vacation at Torch Lake, in Michigan, where he had experienced some happiness as a boy. I was in the front with him when we arrived, exactly at dawn, the rest of the family slumbering in the back of the wagon, a golden sun fingering across the blue water. He had tears on his face.
Another thing he loved: reporting. He was in awe of how good reporters find things out—interesting and significant things to be shaped into news, analysis, argument. He believed that journalism has a moral center, and that its motor is honest, independent reporting. Doing that reporting—asking questions of strangers—was not his cup of coffee. But he was an editor, and he didn't have to.
My father's claim to fame is that, nearly 50 years ago, in the fall of 1964, he and some colleagues set in motion a lively newspaper that covers the Catholic Church and its tidal pull on the world, from an independent and intelligent lay perspective—a paper that changed the rules for covering religion and remains an influential voice.
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Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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Thanks Paul for the link--and the reminder. I was editor at Commonweal and hired Bob as Senior Writer. Among his great talents was getting the right word, writing a sentence that was lean and accurate, and constructing a paragraph that helped shape the over-all argument (we could undoubtedly improved that sentence right there!). That also made him a terrific editor.
One of his daily challenges was to finish the NYTimes crossword puzzle between 86th Street, home, and 120th, the CWL office.
What did Charlotte say of Wilbur? Good friend and Great writer....Bob would look it up before writing it down.
Very sad. He abandoned his wife and six children.
(He spoke at my high school graduation. Can't remember what he said.)
Sorry, Wilbur said it of Charlotte. Bob would have looked it up...
In case you were wavering about whether to click on the link that Paul Moses provided, here's a compelling reason to do so: the story includes a picture of Tom Blackburn, along with other early staff members at NCR.
Thanks, Paul -- this was a really interesting read. And I do recommend looking up Peggy's 2004 "farewell" to Bob Hoyt here.
Wow - Tom Blackburn is a handsome guy!
Thanks Mollie. I guess Charlotte's Web is intrinsically linked in my mind with Bob!
One of the many things I like about Commonweal is frequency with which I learn about neat people.


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Communal kitchens are difficult to maintain.
Due to the need for sanitation, freshness and the near simultaneous use of tools, communal kitchens are a complex collaborative workplace. Everyone using the kitchen should conciously participate in preventing entropy.
Communication between everyone using the kitchen is essential. Minimalistic direct communication is essential or disfunction, spailed food, and an unsanitary environment rapidly ensues.
If you are not sure, or are certain you don't know how to use the kitchen, find collaboratores who already have a comprehensive understanding of kitchen excellence.
kitchen maxims
Use oldest items first. (eg. stock rotation)
Add new to old, never add old to new.
Clean as you go. Leave it cleaner than you found it.
Start with less, add more to taste. (eg. salt, pepper, soy sauce)
Keep drawers and cupboards closed when not in use.
Everything in its place, a place for everything.
Label it. (date, description, project, instructions, ...)
If in doubt, ask.
At Noisebridge any use of a resource is called hacking. So using the kitchen for any purpose is hacking. This also means anyone using the kitchen is, at all times, responsible for being excellent.
Kitchen tools belong in the kitchen. Some kitchen tools are expensive and may be difficult to replace. If you need a kitchen tool elsewhere, leave a note on the kitchen white board, and return it as soon as your done with it.
Larger projects invovle resouyrces (tools, ingredients, labor), so the intentional destruction of a project is not being excellent. Make an effort to communicate with the team members working on the project before taking action to remove a work in progress.
Tools for eating and drinking should not leave Noisebridge and should be returned to the kitchen when no longer needed.
The kitchen is a place where bio-hazards appear in a few hours.
If you don't want to kill/sicken the other hackers, ask someone who knows about sanitation, look it up online, or stay out of the kitchen/fridge/dumpster.
If you don't appreciate moldy food or vermin, learn from and help the other food hackers clean.
Communication includes writing labels with as much details needed for coherent communication.
If you want to improve the kitchen, study excellent kitchen design. Since we are hackers, it is ok to keep changing the kitchen, as long as you don't stop until its ready for the other food hackers to return.
If two or more projects are using the kitchen at the same time, work it out using your excellent communication skills.
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begin communicate with those in and around the kitchen; discuss your project; inventory available ingredients, tools, supplies; plan item or menu; make shopping list, budget, collect money if needed; if enough people, split into two groups; cobegin { buying team goes shopping; cleaning team prepares kitchen; }; prepare food; eat, share left overs, safely store uneaten food; cleaning, sorting, putting things away; If inclined, write up your experiences, recipes, ideas for the future;.. end;


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The largest hurricane to make landfall along the mid-Atlantic coastline of the U.S., Superstorm Sandy made history. Experts say Sandy is a sign of more to come.
Theodore Roosevelt Tour of the Museum: TR and the Giant Sequoia
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The restored Theodore Roosevelt Memorial is now open, and a new self-guided tour—available as part of the Museum's Explorer app, or on our web site—highlights exhibits around the Museum with a connection to TR, who was President from 1901 to 1909. In this post, the second in a series, we explore one of the tour's stops: a slice of the trunk of a giant sequoia, on display in the Museum's Hall of North American Forests.
Video Series Offers Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Restoration of the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals
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The dioramas in the Jill and Lewis Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals have always been splendid, but after more than a year of painstaking restoration, they look better than ever—giving visitors close looks at many species of North American flora and fauna. A multi-video series, now on amnh.tv, documents parts of the restoration process.
A Meeting of Minds, in "Nature and Poetry: A Conversation with E. O. Wilson and Robert Hass," Thursday, December 6, at the Museum
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On Thursday, December 6, the eminent sociobiologist E. O. Wilson will join former U.S. Poet Laureate and MacArthur Fellow Robert Hass (far left) at the Museum for a discussion about the interplay between art and science—and how close observation of nature, whether in poetry or science, can inspire the conservationist in all of us.
Artifacts from Museum's Collections Offer Clues to Two-Thousand-Year-Old Cooking Methods
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In the new exhibition Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture, artifacts from the Museum's collections help illuminate how people cooked and ate in China some 2,000 years ago, during the Han Dynasties (226 BC to AD 220).


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Charlotte, N.C.- The 49ers look to continue its success going into the Conference USA after dominating the Atlantic 10. Charlotte racked up 23 of the possible 32 indoor and outdoor championships during its seven year tenure.
Charlotte starts and finishes its indoor season in Birmingham, Ala. Jan 10-11, running in the UAB Blazer Invitational. The 49ers will return to Birmingham Feb 28-March 1 for the Conference USA Indoor Championships.
The 49ers take the trip north to Blacksburg, Va. for back-to-back weekends, Jan. 17-18 and 24-25 for the Virginia Tech Invitational and Hokie Invitational. The 49ers visit Blacksburg four times during the course of the indoor season participating in the Virginia Tech Challenge, Feb. 21-22, as well as the Virginia Tech Last Chance meet, Mar. 7-8.
Charlotte wraps up the month of January competing in two meets, Jan. 31-Feb. 1, in Winston-Salem, N.C. and Clemson, S.C., participating in the JDL Hilton Invitational and the Clemson Bob Pollock Invitational. The 49ers return to Winston-Salem, N.C. for the JDL UCS Invitational, Feb. 14-15.
Charlotte looks to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championship, Mar. 14-15, in Albuquerque, N.M. to wrap up the indoor season before jumping into the outdoor season the following week.
The Niners open its outdoor season hosting the 49er Classic, Mar. 20-22. Charlotte wraps up the month of March in Raleigh, N.C. running in the Raleigh Relays, Mar. 28-29.
Charlotte shifts their focus to April participating in two meets the same weekend running in the Colonial and Florida Relays, Apr. 3-5 in Williamsburg, Va. and Gainesville, Fla. respectively.
The 49ers head across the state to Greenville, N.C. for the East Carolina Invitational, Apr. 11-12 before heading home to host the Charlotte Invitational, Apr. 18-19.
The Niners take a couple weeks off from competition before heading to Charlottesville, Va. on May 10 for the Virginia Challenge and the NC A&T Aggie Invitational on May 11.
The Conference USA Outdoor Championships will be held in Houston, Texas, hosted by Rice University, May 15-18.
Charlotte looks to wrap up their 2014 outdoor season at the NCAA East Preliminary hosted by the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Fla., May 29-31 as well as the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., June 11-14.
Athletes that qualify for the USATF Junior Championships will compete July 5-6 in Eugene, Ore., following the USATF Championships June 25-29.


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I have an iPod classic 80 GB since 2007. I bougth a cable that allows me to stream the music from my iPod to my Pioneer car radio.
Now I would like to use the same cable for my iPhone 4, however it doesn't work. It seems that apple changed some pins in the connector. Is that possibile?
Do you know a solution for having my iPhone 4 working as well my iPod? Maybe a simple connector adapter?


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GENESEO, N.Y. - Comedian John Heffron, winner NBC's Last Comic Standing, will perform on Saturday, October 22 at 8:00 pm in Kuhl Gymnasium.
SUNY Geneseo's own student improvisational comedy group, No Laugh Track Required, will open the show, followed by comedian Abbi Crutchfield. Then, John Heffron will take the stage.
Tickets may be purchased in advance online, by phone at 585-245-5873 or at the Student Association Ticket Booth in the College Union. Tickets may also be purchased one hour before the show at the box office in Wadsworth Auditorium. Tickets are $17 for Geneseo students, $19 for children under 12, $23 for faculty/staff/alumni, and $25 for the general public.
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I know the rules for TFD in 3.5 mention it can carry anything within its weight limit and can be directed by the caster within its range limits, but are there any rules about actually riding Tenser's Disk? I realize the capabilities implications of travel by hovering disk would probably be DM's call, but in general what's the consensus on using the TFD for self-transport?
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No, you can not ride a Tenser's Floating Disk.
There is a definitive, and official answer from the WoTC 3.5 FAQ (Pg. 91);
I would not say that being able to ride the disk is game-breaking or overpowered. Another first level spell exists called Mount that is comparable to Tenser's floating disk. Depending on your need, maybe better. It is also a first level wizard spell. There is nothign to stop you from loading up your mount with jewels or gear, like you would a Floating Disk. You can also compare it to the spell Levitate, which is a second level spell that allows you to float 20-ft. from the ground. There exists a 4th level spell called Greater Floating Disk (Spell Compendium, Pg. 96) which has a fly-speed of 20-ft. and specifically says in the spell description that it allows characters to sit on it and ride it.
You could certainly ride it, it just has no propulsion of its own. So by itself, it wouldn't do much good, and certainly wouldn't be equivalent to a mount. But there are still some uses. For instance, my wizard in the Skulls and Shackles campaign (Pathfinder, but close enough) used a Floating Disk with a long pole cut from a sapling as a skiff to cross a swamp.
As others have pointed out, it has no propulsion of its own, merely following the caster around. However if you have a familiar with the share spells ability, you can cast spells with a range of self on your familiar (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/classes/sorcererWizard.htm). This includes Tenser's Floating Disk (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/floatingDisk.htm).
Because of this, cast the spell on your familiar then you can ride the disk while your familiar walks, crawls or flies around. They have to stay fairly low, but if they're fine with low flying you can get a pretty significant speed boost, as well as retaining your movement action each round by investing in a hawk familiar (60ft fly speed) or similar.
To those of you who say it has no form of propulsion, I refer you to the text "You can command the disk to move up to your speed as a move action." I see no reason why you couldn't command it to move while you are on top of it.


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I signed up for a free PGP key provider that worked with my Gmail account. I set it up to work with Apple Mail in Mac OS X Lion. Now, I realize I never use this encryption key, and I want to remove the service from my Gmail account setup. How can I find out what it is the service that I signed up for called, and how to remove it from my account?
Hard to guess what you might be using, and until that is known removing it is tricky. Two possibilities to try work out what it is: