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The Great Laker Freakout
Who's ready to give a big whoop about the discombobulated Los Angeles Lakers? Not me! It's November, buster. Waaaay too early for a basketball psychodrama. The NBA doesn't really become the NBA until spring, when the daffodils bloom, birds return from their Arizona timeshares and Hollywood begins releasing really bad 3-D movies about supernatural cats that talk to dogs and play classical piano.
But here we are, trapped in another Lakers group therapy meeting. On Friday, Los Angeles fired its coach, Mike Brown, after only five games. This was like firing water for not turning itself into Chardonnay. The Lakers have a revamped roster, a new offense and a starting point guard on the bench with a small fracture in his leg. Los Angeles did begin 1-4, but a basketball regular season is a six-month, 82-game slog. Patience would have been advisable, even admirable. Patience didn't happen.
Oh well. Abrupt dismissal is a civic pastime in Los Angeles, right after validated parking, tennis with your plastic surgeon and 55-year-old men who dress like they're in junior high. The Lakers were panicked that 1-4 would become 2-8, 2-8 would become 4-16, and after a few weeks, the disaster would become so unwatchable, Sylvester Stallone would want to star in it. So Brown is gone, packed up in Bubble Wrap along with his Princeton offense, and sent to the Museum of Things Laker Fans Don't Like to Remember, like Randy Pfund, "The Magic Hour" and the Final Days of Karl Malone.
There will be no sympathy here. The 2012-13 Lakers have been lauded as one of the NBA's "SuperTeams," another hoarded collection of well-compensated talent designed to win a title—or at least get talked about so much that we're all sick of them by mid-December. The Lakers were already one of the league's starrier teams, but in the off-season they signed the point guard and former MVP Steve Nash. A month later, they arranged to trade their underperforming center Andrew Bynum and a half-eaten bag of pretzels for Dwight Howard, the newest superstar center to moan his way out of Orlando.
Of course, the Lakers truly orbit around one man: Kobe Bryant, who has won five NBA titles, made 14 All-Star teams and can doom a perfectly competent NBA coach with one well-timed stinkface, as Bryant appeared to do during Brown's final Los Angeles appearance. Put me on the side of Bryant's true basketball admirers, especially when he's irritated—to me, the most dangerous player in the NBA still isn't LeBron James, Kevin Durant or Carmelo Anthony's delusion of himself, but a Kranky Kobe, scoring with a vengeance. But now Bryant is 34, and an old 34, having joined the NBA straight out of the fifth grade. The addition of Howard (a free agent at end of the year) and the 38-year-old Nash was really a maneuver designed to give Bryant a crack at a sixth title, tying him up with idol Michael Jordan. This is not a team that will wait for the future. The ring, as always, is the thing.
Which leads us, naturally, to Phil Jackson, the Lakers's In-Case-of-Emergency-Break-Glass legend. Jackson was courtside for every one of Bryant's and Jordan's rings, and last was seen coaching when the Lakers were cheap-shotting their way out of the 2011 playoffs versus Dallas. That was sad, like watching Obi-Wan Kenobi selling used lightsabers on QVC. Bryant, who played through injury that season, said the other day of that embarrassment: "He's too great of a coach to go out that way."
This would be Jackson's third tour with the Lakers, an amazing workplace accomplishment for any coach not hired by George Steinbrenner. Can the deal get sealed? There have been reports that the 67-year-old Jackson, who has had hip and knee surgeries, would ask for travel restrictions, presumably the right to tell the pilot to turn around whenever the Laker plane gets within 500 miles of the Charlotte Bobcats and Washington Wizards. Cannot blame him for asking! At this point, Jackson could demand that "Hannah and Her Sisters" be re-imagined as an Oliver Stone musical, and Los Angeles would greenlight the check. This narrative has already been written. The Lakers sound All In for Zen.
Should Jackson say no—and ESPN was reporting he could give an answer as soon as Monday—the Lakers could move down a list that includes Mike D'Antoni, Brian Shaw, analyst Jeff Van Gundy, current interim Bernie Bickerstaff, Salma Hayek, Ryan Seacrest, Claire Danes and aggrieved San Diego Chargers leader Norv Turner. But I suspect if Jackson declines, Los Angeles's second choice will be Phil Jackson changing his mind, followed closely by moving the Lakers to Jackson's home in Montana.
If you were already fatigued by these Lakers, the situation is totally hopeless now. But even before the season began, there was an assumption that these Lakers were too talented not to get it together in time for an NBA championship run. Is that truly preordained? Forget the defending champion Heat—can the Lakers hang with the Thunder, the Spurs or even the feisty Rockets? But there's always going to be hope for the Lakers in Los Angeles. That is an optimistic town which commissioned not one or two but three movies about Transformers. They continue to believe that big, expensive things can change.
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It would be somewhat dismissive and insulting to refer to the new album from Canadian synth hero Diamond Rings (a.k.a. John O'Regan) as merely retro. Sure, it is. It really is. Anyone who grew up in the '80s or has an affinity for the music of the time can't help but listen and hear that past, the dark wave, the cold wave, the new wave, the old wave. Can't help but hear Howard Jones, Clan of Xymox, Depeche Mode, Leisure Process, Sique Sique Sputnik, Dead Or Alive, etc. Can't help but be won over, seduced and satisfied. It's stylish. It's sexy. It's voluptuous. It's superb. And it's also incredibly of now. Right now. Today. It's the musical equivalent of watching Drive, something that's so obviously anchored in the past -- the fashion, the pastels, the bright lights -- but so entirely in the present. And something that transcends merely that nostalgic yearning for what came before. The delivery, the presentation: Excellent. The songs: Incredible and lasting and substantive. It's impossible not to want to return to tracks such as "Runaway Love," "I'm Just Me," "A to Z," "Stand My Ground" and, probably most notably, "Day & Night." It's impossible to hear Free Dimensional and be struck by all of it and, especially, that vision that wraps it up and brings it all together. In a retro, futuristic, contemporary kind of way.
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Hi all, I've been using NN3 MKII for a while and it works really well.
Recently, in an accident, my tripod fell to the ground with the NN3 mounted on it (good thing I've already removed my camera). Upon checking, I noticed that the lower rail is bent, probably due to impact on the ground (Pls see attached image).
I was wondering if I can still use the NN3 effectively. If I align the pano head based on the spirit level on NN3 (which is close to the rotating knob), the camera would be tilted (due to the lower rail bent). Will the rotation about the nodal point still be effective? Is there likely to have parallax problems when I take panoramic photos? Is there any way to counter this deviation?
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The "Desktop Sharing" settings that come installed by default seem to use VNC. VNC is a bit of a bandwidth hog, can only work at the resolution of whatever screen is attached to the host, and mirrors every action on the host. (It also seems to work poorly with compositing, but maybe that's been fixed.)
I know about X tunnelling, but that's annoying to use and doesn't always work properly (or, more accurately, some apps don't work properly).
Is there any kind of protocol in between the two, similar to RDP used for Windows? Specifically, something that can run at a different resolution to the host screen and is a little lighter on the network? (Ideally, the more the protocol could have in common with RDP, the better.)


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I'm reading the Wikipedia page on first normal form, and am confused about the last bullet point:
5) All columns are regular [i.e. rows have no hidden components such as row IDs, object IDs, or hidden timestamps].
Does this mean "all information about a row is contained in its values" (my words)?
I understand the rest of the points about 1NF; it's only this one that I'm confused about.


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Hi there to all of you
I have some technical question...
1. If NN5 is attached to ballhead, in this case there's no need for EZ-Leveler. Am I right?
2. I planning to buy NN5 + rotator RD16 + Manfrotto 055Xprob + 498 ballhead. Do I need any additional plate to attach my Nikon D300 to NN5 and then to 498 ballhead?
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I just received the RD8 rotator I purchased for my NN3 MKI. I chose the NN3 adaptor kit with it.
It came with a big bolt to bolt the lower NN3 arm to the rotator, some o-rings, and some small ~3mm bolts that look like they fit into the anti-twist sockets on the RD8.
My lower arm of the NN3 MKI has anti-twist pins press fitted into the arm, I removed those thinking the bolts in the adaptor kit would screw into the lower NN3 rail, then those bolts would sit down in the RD8's anti-twist sockets.
Problem is the anti-twist pin holes on the NN3 lower arm don't line up with the holes on the RD8.
Even looking at the newer NN3 MKII lower arm, I don't see how the anti-twist pin holes on that arm would ever line up with the anti-twist sockets on the RD8.
there are no instructions with the "adaptor kit", and I can't find any on the website.
Can someone tell me how this thing goes together?


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Midnight on Tuesday is the deadline for filing your state and federal income taxes and a portion of Georgia's taxpayers are undocumented workers.
It's hard to say exactly how many of the state's workers are illegal.
Workers who don't have social security numbers can still file a tax return, using a nine-digit Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or I-TIN. The Georgia Department of Revenue doesn't know how many people with ITINs are here illegally. But the Immigration Policy Center says in 2010, undocumented workers in Georgia paid more than $85,000,000 in income taxes.
Grace Williams is an Atlanta accountant who filed some of those returns. She says there are two reasons why undocumented workers file tax returns. Some want a refund. But Wilson says those who owe hope paying their taxes will lead to bigger things.
"A lot of people in the community are telling them that that's the responsible thing to do," Williams says, "And if they aspire to become legal one day, the first thing that they're going to look at is, 'Did you do your taxes?" she says.
Williams says those workers hope to become U.S. citizens. But DA King, president of the Dustin Inman Society, which advocates enforcement of immigration laws, says that's not the real motivation.
"They are getting a refund on the Additional Child Tax Credit," King says, "Refund is not the right word. They're getting a rebate from the government for having U.S.-born children," he says.
King calls the segment of undocumented workers who pay taxes "microscopic." He points to the Center for Immigration Studies. The group doesn't have Georgia-specific numbers, but nationally, they say illegal immigrants who file tax returns receive billions more in refunds than they pay in taxes.
So, what's next? It's hard to say. Immigrants' rights groups advocate a path to citizenship, while opponents want tougher enforcement.
WABE reached out to Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers, who has authored major immigration legislation in Georgia. Rogers declined to be interviewed for this story.
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Published: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 8:05 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 8:05 a.m.
SPARTANBURG, SC-- Karen Lynn Hicks Sellers, 64, of Spartanburg, SC, died Monday, March 25, 2013, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Born October 17, 1948 in Spartanburg County, she was the daughter of the late Edward Leonard and Betty Jo Bright Hicks.
Mrs. Sellers was a charter member of The Rial B. Seay Chapter of the United Daughters of Confederacy, program director of the Piedmont Historical Society, Spartanburg County Historical Association, SC Genealogical Society, Great Granddaughter's Club of UDC, Pinckney District Historical Society, Member of the Order of the Eastern Star, volunteer with the Una Fire Department Support Team, past member of Women's Council of U.S. Postal Service, Greenville, SC, American Postal Worker's Union, she was a genealogist and historian. She was retired after 28 years with the U.S. Postal Service, Greenville, SC.
She is survived by a daughter, Dawn Jonelle Sellers Shores (Ricky); grandchildren, Heather Shores, Kerri Smalley, and Jacob Shores; great-grandson, Charles Wesley Smalley; aunt, Olean Hicks; and several cousins including Charles Morgan. She was predeceased by her grandparents, Edward Leland and Etta Miller Hicks, and Charles Tillman and Pearlie Mae Bailey Bright; grandson, Joshua Shores; and great-grandson, Joshua Shores Smalley.
Visitation will be 6:00-8:00 PM Thursday, March 28, 2013 at Floyd's North Church Street Chapel. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 AM Friday, March 29, 2013 at Floyd's North Church Street Chapel, 235 N. Church St., Spartanburg, SC 29306, by Susan Turpin Illner, Bobby Rhymer, and the Rev. Carrol Caldwell. Burial will be in Fort Prince Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers will be Darby Rollins, Troy Beaudoin, Andy Sears, Harold Jenkins, Jackie Fuller, Todd Dorsey, Tommie Dorsey, and Jeff Hadden.
Honorary escort is members of the Una Fire Department.
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When I make a project I use to divide it into several specific goals. And this use to work for me.
Now I'm learning a new language (English language) for my own.
I have some activities like:
- Read easy english books
- Listen english podcasts
- Read / write in english webs ...
that improves my knowledge of the language.
The problem is that I don't know how to set goals to this activity.
For example, when I make a web page I can set some goals or milestones:
- Create web base
- Finish styles
- Put content
- Public to internet
- Finish all the project
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Frivolous lawmaking In a perfect world, legislative leaders facing unusually tough challenges in the coming session would instruct their caucuses to clear the decks of nonsense. But Connecticut's Capitol is not a perfect world. With the state budget deficit, the gun-control and mental-illness debates sparked by the Dec. 14 Newtown shootings, and the continued migration of Connecticut jobs to the South, the nonsense lives on. Consider just two: increasing the minimum wage and focusing on the gender wage gap. The minimum wage already has been shown to deprive inexperienced young men and women, especially African-American youths, of job opportunities. The gender gap mostly can be explained by individual choice and human biology, and in any event, it's already illegal to pay a woman less for the same work a man is doing. One would think the real problems are so pressing, the politically correct foolishness would be allowed to lay in the weeds until next year. One would be wrong.
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Eric Church Asks: "Where Did You People Come From?"
"Selling out arenas, I remember we were at the club two years ago just down the street," he says.
Yeah, Eric Church has sold about a half a million tickets on his current tour, filling arenas across the country. But it's still hard for Eric to believe.
"No, no way, not with the path that we came," Eric tells the Regina Leader-Post in Canada.
"What's weird is playing a lot of these cities now, selling out arenas and I remember we were at the club two years ago just down the street. It's just weird for me to be out there and see that and go, 'What the hell happened? Where did you people come from?'
"It'll never feel normal for me because I'll always feel like we're the underdog a little bit," he said. "I'll always feel like we've got to fight harder than everybody else, that we have to give it more than everybody else.
"I mean, I never thought I'd have a No. 1 anything so to have the No. 1 album and the second No. 1 single off this record, it's just bizarre."
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WINTERSVILLE - Cathy DiBenedetto's hard work and commitment to the Indian Creek Local School District has paid off when she received the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics East District Award for Outstanding Elementary Classroom Teacher.
A former fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade teacher at Wayne Elementary, DiBenedetto is responsible for eighth-grade mathematics at the middle school.
According to Hills Elementary Principal Cecilia Fritz, DiBenedetto has shown strong commitment to her students by making her math classes exciting and stimulating.
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HONORED — Indian Creek Middle School eighth-grade math teacher Cathy DiBenedetto, left, has received the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics East District Award for Outstanding Elementary Classroom Teacher. She was recognized Thursday at the monthly school board meeting. Also on hand for the recognition was Cecilia Fritz, Hills Elementary School principal. - Jess Looman
"She engages the students by using music, hands-on activities, the Internet and smart boards," Fritz explained. "Her lessons go beyond the classroom setting and are made usable in the everyday lives of the students. They go beyond simple math skills and incorporate reading and literacy.
"She not only engages students, but she engages faculty as well by participating in the whole faculty study groups each month," Fritz added. "These study groups bring the mathematics staff together to discuss different methods of teaching and improve the overall curriculum of the district."
DiBenedetto said that she prepares rich lessons that help students become more critical thinkers.
"I think that it is very important for math teachers and students to talk and hear math vocabulary on a daily basis," she stated. "Sometimes we do not give students enough credit. They need to realize that math is all around us and they need to use their math skills and knowledge in every class."
DiBenedetto said her favorite lessons include, "Shopping at the Class Store," "Life in a Geometric Town" and "Bubble Data."
"I really want to thank Mrs. Fritz for nominating me as well," she added. "Thank you also to the board for giving me the opportunity to enhance my teaching skills and better engage the students in different modalities."
DiBenedetto was one of eight teachers across the state to receive the award.


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I work in a team with wide range of expertise and experience. I have been trying to introduce weekly knowledge sharing sessions. Sessions of 30-60 min length where everybody gets a chance to present something and talk about it. This will contribute in improving presentational and language skills. However, the team is not motivated towards this, either the attendance is too low or none. How to get a team work towards such an idea?
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Just playing devil's advocate - If I were on your team, and I was worried about meeting deadlines for my current project load, then I too would be inclined to skip such superfluous knowledge sharing sessions.
In sum, I'm have no use for knowledge sharing sessions if it compromises my ability to meet project deadlines within the context of a reasonable 40-hour workweek. My time away from work is simply too valuable.
Have you tried these yet:
Just a few ideas of things to contemplate.
How are they reinforced for attending?
This is central to answering the question.
It's very easy to subvert knowledge sharing by the implicit (or even explicit) claim that the knowledge sharing is of no value.
If the knowledge sharing is going to have a reward to people, it has to have value to the organization. It is has to make people happier or more productive. It has to reduce cost or risk.
What potential problem areas does the organization have right now?
Hint. Compute the "lottery factor" -- how many people can win the lottery and leave without causing problems? When the lottery factor is low (i.e., 1 person leaves and you're all in trouble) then management will see the value in sharing that one person's knowledge. So will other people, since they might find some job advancement.
For each technical skill (or knowledge sharing area) compute the lottery factor. How many people know this? How many of them can we afford to have leave? Find the subjects with the smallest lottery factors. Make it a total cost-saving, risk-reducing victory for everyone concerned.
In order to run these kind of sessions successfully, you need a team culture where people learn from and teach teammembers when the need arrises. You might need to work on team culture first, organise joint training sessions for new knowledge areas, pair veterans with less experienced collegues in a coaching role, etc.
Find people feeling strongly about an ambiguous or new subject (coding standards, future frameworks, enhancements to current toolsets, lessons learned from past experience) - you should be able to spot these during the (bi)weekly project meetings - and invite them to research those issues in small internal projects (sometimes 1 person alone, sometimes with a few people) where the end goal of the project is to present the results in your learning sessions. Give them a time budget in which they can do this.
Make it clear that the presentations in these sessions are voluntairy, that there is ampel room for discussion and that the outcome of the session will shape the way projects are run in the future. Commit to the outcomes of those sessions if there is enough consensus - this can be scary at first but it shows you take your team members serious while inviting them to participate in structuring their own future work.
what you can do is don't make it weekly session instead share knowledge on the go! Encourage team members to ask questions and seek help from others when ever they face problem.
Identify people and interact with them frequently, seek their advcie, help and inputs.
This way you can achieve your goal.


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Ill be using this. thanks.
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Say I have a function
where $x_1$, $x_2$, $x_3$ are the three roots in increasing order and $A$ is positive. Clearly $V(x)$ is positive at large $x > x_3$, negative between $x_2$ and $x_3$, and so on.
Now, say I wish to evaluate
$$\int_{x_2}^{x_3}\sqrt{-V(x)}\mathrm dx$$
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For new library school graduates, or for more seasoned librarians ready for a change, entering the job market can be an intimidating, frustrating experience. We hear that there are no jobs available, and that the few libraries that do advertise new openings are inundated with applications.
Perhaps less publicly, we also hear administrators express concerns about a lack of good candidates for important positions, and we notice some jobs being advertised for months or being re-posted, sometimes more than once. We notice ALA's estimate of over 122,000 libraries in the United States, as well as its estimate that academic, public, and school libraries employ over 150,000 librarians (ALA does not estimate the number of librarians who work for special libraries, vendors, or other employers). It may also be worth noting that, although U.S. unemployment as a whole remains relatively high, employment rates appear to be stratified by education level: in 2010, the average unemployment rate among people with Master's degrees was 4%.
Because we do not yet have access to reliable, real-time data, we are left with imperfect, occasionally confusing information. No one knows the actual employment rate among librarians or how satisfied librarians are with their jobs. Nor do we know how satisfied administrators are with the librarians they employ or the applicant pools for positions they hope to fill.
By looking at the past and the near future, and by studying the process of conferring Master's degrees on prospective librarians, we can begin to think about strategies for ensuring that we, both individually and as a profession, are taking an efficient approach to matching libraries' needs with the supply of library workers.
Should library schools admit fewer students? Is the admissions process sufficiently selective? Are library school curricula and graduation requirements too similar or too distinct? Are they providing their students with the skills they need in order to get hired and do useful work? Should there be licensing exams for librarians? What data would we need to collect in order to come up with useful answers to these questions?
I hope this essay makes a contribution to that discussion. My original idea for it was to build on existing analyses of ALA-accredited library programs, adding my own observations based, in part, on my status as a somewhat recent library school graduate (Drexel University, September 2007), first-time adjunct professor (I taught a course at Drexel's library school this past summer), and potential faculty member (I am a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University's library school).
That will have to wait for the second part of this essay. Before discussing how library schools might better serve public interests and their students' needs, we need to make sure we have reliable data about current library programs. The rest of part one is devoted to the story of that data.
The Librarian Job Market: Projections
According to the latest data (2008) from the Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 159,900 librarians and in 2018 there will be 172,400, a projected growth rate of 7.8% (between 7% and 13% is considered average). The anticipated number of job openings due to growth and replacement needs is 54,500, with 12,500 openings attributable to new jobs being created and 42,000 due to attrition.1
We have been hearing about the graying of the profession for a long time, a factor that will contribute significantly to roughly one quarter of all current librarians leaving the profession by 2018. Who will be hired to fill those positions? What qualifications will they be expected to possess?
Right now, 84% of librarian jobs require a Master's degree, 13% require a Bachelor's, and 2% an Associate's, and new job postings appear to indicate an increasing expectation that applicants will have earned a graduate degree in a library-related field. According to Nazi Torabi's review of research by Robert K. Reeves and Trudi Bellardo Hahn, most current employers are requiring an MLS or MLIS, though even a Master's degree is not sufficient. In addition, writes Torabi, "experience, either through internships, co-op programs, or part-time or full-time employment, is essential for new graduates seeking employment."
As mentioned above, the BLS expects employers to need 54,500 new librarians in the ten years spanning 2008 to 2018. We can represent that need as requiring 5,450 new Master's-level graduates per year (54,500 divided by 10).
If library schools were to continue conferring 5,478 degrees per academic year, which is the average number of MLS and MLIS degrees they awarded from 1997-98 through 2006-07, there would be roughly as many new librarians as new jobs for librarians.2 Based on the years the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) makes available for comparison, 5,478 Master's-level library degrees per year would be near the midpoint given library schools' relatively recent history:
- 1970-71: 7,001
- 1975-76: 8,037
- 1980-81: 4,859
- 1985-86: 3,564
One concern, at least for recent and future library school students, is that library schools have already begun conferring more Master's-level degrees. The number of degrees conferred increased every year between 1999-2000 and 2007-08. In addition, in the two academic years following the ten years included in the average above (1997-98 through 2006-07), Master's-level graduates from library schools numbered 7,162 (2007-08) and 7,091 (2008-09). That not only makes the job market especially competitive for recent graduates, it also means, if the number 54,500 was correct, that library schools should aim to graduate roughly 40,320 for the eight years remaining in the BLS ten-year projection, an average of 5,040 for the academic years 2009-10 through 2016-17.
There are several problems with the information presented so far in this essay. Before continuing, it seems worth discussing three primary issues.
1. Unlike medical schools, which faced pressure not to produce an oversupply of physicians, there appears to be no pressure on library schools to graduate only as many librarians as will be needed to fill vacancies
As with the job market as a whole, a limited level of unemployment among degreed librarians increases employers' ability to hire selectively among the most qualified candidates while simultaneously decreasing salaries. When they produce more librarians than are needed, library schools make libraries happy by vetting, and providing initial training for, a more highly skilled, cheaper work force.
The key for library schools is to avoid granting so many degrees that the entry-level market for librarians becomes significantly more competitive than comparable job markets. If a disproportionate number of potential applicants perceive librarianship as offering worse prospects than comparable alternatives, then it becomes increasingly likely that the overall number of library school applicants will decrease and that library schools will have to compete with each other more aggressively for the most highly qualified applicants.
Although library school students are already graduating into a difficult job market, it seems at this point to be no worse than the job market facing law school graduates. While the salary potential for the most highly qualified new librarians is nowhere close to the salary potential for the most highly qualified new lawyers, the risk is nowhere near as great in terms of the amount of debt encumbered by the average student or the time commitment required to complete school. On a risk-adjusted basis, it is entirely possible that library school is a safer decision.
2. Economic projections are notoriously difficult
Projecting what will happen tomorrow is incredibly difficult, let alone what will happen next year or over the next decade. But selecting 2008 as the initial year for a projection may have been especially inauspicious given what happened that year: a decline in U.S. gross domestic product, along with the start of an unemployment spike and a stock market crash. Projections are worthwhile in that they help to provide some direction, and there is no reason to believe the Department of Labor projections were based on anything but the best available information. But, as librarians well know, sometimes the best available information will only get you so far.
3. Figuring out how many people graduate each year from an American Library Association-accredited program with a Master's degree in a library-related field is surprisingly difficult
I thought this would be the easy part of this essay. With the help of a Presidential Task Force on Library Education, ALA's Committee on Accreditation updated its Standards for Accreditation of Master's Programs in Library and Information Studies in 2008 and released a statement of Core Competencies in Librarianship in 2009; it also released a revised second edition of its Accreditation Process, Policies, and Procedures in 2011. As is demonstrated in a Library Journal article by Norman Oder on the Presidential Task Force on Library Education and in the Committee on Accreditation's own Standards Review blog, many within the information professions take the accreditation process seriously, and there can be significant debates surrounding accreditation policy.
ALA's Office of Accreditation helps to vet applicants for the External Review Panelist pool, and also supports the accreditation process by maintaining a directory of currently accredited programs, as well as a list of all programs accredited since 1925. However, no one at ALA officially knows how many students graduate each year from the programs it accredits. When I asked for this information, I was directed to ALISE, the Association for Library and Information Science Education, which produces an annual Statistical Report.
The ALISE reports, which are compiled from questionnaires submitted annually by each accredited program, provide a great deal of data and analysis. However, I discovered a few problems when I tried to make use of ALISE data for this project:
- It is proprietary and accessible only to ALISE members. Though the University of North Carolina provides public access to the Statistical Reports for 1997-2004, several of ALISE's more recent reports are inaccessible to me, despite my connections to Rutgers and Drexel. Fair use seems sufficient for me to share the data I most care about—the number of graduates from each of the accredited library programs for each of the past ten years—but there is no reason to assume most readers would be able to verify any claims I make about the data.
- It appears to be inaccurate. The individual number of graduates for each accredited program, when summed, does not equal the number given as the overall total for reports covering the 1999-2000 (off by 8), 2000-2001 (off by 13), 2001-2002 (off by 19), or 2002-2003 academic years (off by 9).
- It is incomplete. The 2007 report, covering the 2005-2006 academic year, is unedited and unreleased, while the data for the 2008 report has not yet been compiled from that year's questionnaires. The ALISE web page for its Statistical Reports lists both as being "for future release."
- It does not match the data the schools reported to the National Center for Education Statistics. Moreover, in some years it is higher and other years it is lower, so it does not seem to be differing in a predictable way (such as NCES including data from non-accredited programs).
- 1999-2000: 4,877 (ALISE "total") or 4,885 (ALISE sum) vs. 4,577 (NCES)
- 2000-2001: 4,953 (ALISE "total") or 4,940 (ALISE sum) vs. 4,727 (NCES)
- 2001-2002: 4,923 (ALISE "total") or 4,904 (ALISE sum) vs. 5,113 (NCES)
- 2002-2003: 5,175 (ALISE "total") or 5,184 (ALISE sum) vs. 5,295 (NCES)
IPEDS Data: Annual number of graduates from each ALA-accredited program, 2000-01 through 2009-10
For these reasons, it does not currently make sense to use ALISE data as the basis for answering questions about the relationship between library schools and the library job market. Fortunately, an alternative to the ALISE data is available through the NCES Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Data Center.3 IPEDS uses Classification of Instruction Programs (CIP) codes, which for the most part are extraordinarily useful in figuring out how many people graduated from each of the ALA-accredited library programs in each of the last several years. The last three CIP code revisions—1990, 2000, and 2010—have the same code number for Library Science, 25.
Among accredited programs, all report graduates for the Library Science classification except the University at Albany-SUNY, the University of Michigan, the University of Missouri, and the University of Puerto Rico. I have written to each of these schools and included their information in the following table.
Some Observations About the Data
My goal for this essay was not to engage in detailed statistical analysis. Rather, I wanted to verify that useful data is available for free from a readily accessible source, a necessary step before progressing to part two of this essay. However, before discussing part two, it seems useful to make a few observations about the data and ask a few questions that may eventually lead to useful information.
- If you rank the largest classes for each school by size, the top ten graduating classes between 2000-01 and 2009-10 are:
- 465 (San Jose State University, 2009-10)
- 456 (San Jose State University, 2006-07)
- 448 (San Jose State University, 2007-08)
- 437 (San Jose State University, 2008-09)
- 359 (University of North Texas, 2006-07)
- 356 (University of North Texas, 2009-10)
- 338 (San Jose State University, 2005-06)
- 315 (University of North Texas, 2008-09)
- (tie) 308 (San Jose State University, 2004-05)
- (tie) 308 (University of North Texas, 2007-08)
All ten classes appear to be primarily attributable to two administrators. Ken Haycock was director of the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University from 2005 until 2010, and Herman L. Totten has been dean of the University of North Texas School of Library and Information Science since 2005.
This raises two questions: Is it a good thing for the profession for administrators to be able to position their schools as outliers in the production of ALA-accredited Master's degree recipients? And if it is not, are there remedies that would avoid creating even greater issues than the problem they would be intended to address?
- It may be interesting to see if the number of graduates from a program relates to its perceived quality, a measure readily available through U.S. News:
U.S. News ranked 50 master's degree programs in the United States that are accredited by the American Library Association. The rankings are based solely on the results of a fall 2008 survey sent to the dean of each program, the program director, and a senior faculty member in each program.
The questionnaires asked individuals to rate the academic quality of programs at each institution as outstanding (5), strong (4), good (3), adequate (2), or marginal (1). Individuals who were unfamiliar with a particular school's programs were asked to select "don't know." Scores for each school were totaled and divided by the number of respondents who rated that school.
- Does the recent increase in the number of library school graduates seem to correlate more closely with endogenous factors, such as the iSchool movement or the increasing emphasis on online education, or with exogenous factors, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics study or broad economic trends?
Looking ahead to part two
The significant variation in the number of students in accredited library programs, along with the rapid increase in the number of students who receive their library training without ever meeting one of their professors in person, harks back to library education at this point in the last century. Melvil Dewey's personal influence began to wane after the first few years of the 20th century and Andrew Carnegie was already very actively funding libraries, leaving something of a void in library education just as demand was increasing. There were few training programs we would think of today as library schools, so many of the people hired to work as librarians received their education through correspondence-based programs.
In 1919, the Carnegie Corporation hired Charles C. Williamson to assess library education and make recommendations for how it might best support libraries and their users. In 1923, he published what is generally known as the Williamson Report, though its official title is Training For Library Service A Report Prepared For The Carnegie Corporation Of New York.4 Williamson's findings and suggestions led to the Carnegie Corporation funding the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago, which conferred the first Ph.D. in Library Science, and played a pivotal role in establishing the standards for library education that arguably remain in place today.5 As noted above, ALA began accrediting library schools in 1925.
Working together, ALA and the Carnegie Corporation were increasing demand through advocacy for libraries—specifically, by funding new libraries—and also through advocacy for librarians by investing in their educational resources: new schools: dedicated, better trained faculty; modern textbooks; and updated, evidence-based curricula. Meanwhile, they were decreasing supply by adding de facto regulation in the form of library school accreditation, a limitation on supply that continues today. From the Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition entry for librarians:
A master's degree in library science (MLS) is necessary for librarian positions in most public, academic, and special libraries. School librarians may not need an MLS but must meet State teaching license requirements…. States generally have certification requirements for librarians in public schools and local libraries, though there are wide variations among States. School librarians in 20 States need a master's degree, either an MLS or a master's in education with a specialization in library media. In addition, over half of all States require that school librarians hold teacher certifications, although not all require teaching experience. Some States may also require librarians to pass a comprehensive assessment. Most States also have developed certification standards for local public libraries, although in some States these guidelines are voluntary.
These are not the only conditions minimizing competition and protecting working librarians from termination. Librarians may also belong to a union, earn tenure (or quasi-tenure), or hold Civil Service commissioned positions. While occupational licensing among librarians is not as organized as it is in fields like medicine or law or the financial industry, it may be worth investigating if librarianship could benefit from more licensing or less, and, if any licensing at all is beneficial (either to the public, to librarians, or both), how it might best be organized.6
Finally, it seems worth investigating who is educating librarians and how the educators have themselves been taught. Library science is part humanities, part social science, and, at times in the past, and perhaps in the near future as well, part information science, and even computer science. Figuring out how these tensions might be balanced has everything to do not only with the producing an appropriate supply of new librarians, but also ensuring these new librarians have the requisite skills to meet the demands of the marketplace.
Thanks to Nicole Cooke, and to my Lead Pipe colleagues, Emily Ford and Leigh Anne Vrabel, for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this essay. And thanks to Emily for helping me with the final draft as well.
- To find this data on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, go to Selected Occupational Projections Data: Search by Occupation, enter Librarians as the keyword and choose "Job openings due to growth and replacement needs, 2008-2018" as the variable. [↩]
- These figures are derived from data found in the National Center of Education Statistics Digest of Education Statistics for 2010 and for 2009, "Master's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by field of study: Selected years." For 2010, the source data is found in Table 283, and for 2009, it is in Table 272. [↩]
- From the IPEDS Data Center home page:
- Select Compare Individual Institutions.
- On the resulting page, select Publicly Released Data, then select Continue.
- The field labeled Institution Name on the next page also accepts either individual UnitIDs for schools or a comma separated list of UnitIDs. Download this list of UnitIDs for all schools that had ALA-accredited programs between 2001 and 2010, enter its values into the Institution Name field, and chose Select. If you choose, review the list for accuracy against the earlier linked current directory and historical list of ALA-accredited programs, then choose either Check All or check the box next to individual institutions and select Continue.
- You will be presented with a list labeled My Institutions. Select Continue.
- On the resulting page, select the plus sign next to Completions to see a list of variables, and under it select the plus sign next to Awards/degrees conferred by program (2000 CIP classification), award level, race/ethnicity, and gender – includes new race/ethnicity and award level categories, and under it select the plus sign next to Gender – 2002-03 to 2008-09. For Step 1, select the check box next to any or all years between 2002-2003 and 2008-2009. For Step 2, select both First Major and Second Major and choose Save; select Library science (option 25) under CIP Code – 2000 Classification and choose Save; and choose Master's degree under Award Level code and choose Save. For Step 3, choose Grand total. Then choose Continue near the top of the screen.
- You will be presented with a list labeled My Variables. Select Continue.
- Decide if you want Institution name only or if you also want the UnitID (I recommend the former), if you want short or long variable names (I recommend the former), if you want to view your report on screen or download it (I recommend the former first, followed by the latter), and if you want imputation and status flags. There is also an option to include a name for the table. Select Continue.
- Adjust accordingly. Data earlier than 2002-2003 is available, but uses 1990 Classifications for its CIP code and is listed under a different variable. There is also early release data available for 2009-2010, but it requires a free login, which can be obtained by contacting IPEDS through its help desk.
- See also:
- Vann, S. K. (1971). The Williamson reports: A study. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press.
- Williamson, C. C. (1971). The Williamson reports of 1921 and 1923: Including Training for library work (1921) and Training for library service (1923). Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press.
- Richardson, J. V. (1982). The spirit of inquiry: The Graduate Library School at Chicago, 1921-51. Chicago: American Library Association. [↩]
- See:
- Kleiner, Morris M. (2006). Licensing occupations: Ensuring quality or restricting competition? Kalamazoo, Mich: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
- Kleiner, Morris M. and Krueger, Alan B. 2010 "The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing." British Journal of Industrial Relations. 48(4), 676–687.
- Kleiner, Morris M. 2011. "Occupational Licensing: Protecting the Public Interest or Protectionism?" Policy Paper No. 2011-009. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
- Winston, C., Crandall, R. W., & Maheshri, V. (2011). First thing we do, let's deregulate all the lawyers. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press.


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Suppose we are given a ray $\rho_a$ beginning at point $a$ and a ray $\rho_b$ beginning at point $b$. I want to find a circle $C_a$ tangent to $\rho_a$ at point $a$ and another circle $C_b$ tangent to $\rho_b$ at point $b$ such that there exists some point $c$ and a line $\ell$ passing through $c$ such that $C_a$ and $C_b$ intersect at $c$ tangent to $\ell$.
Note that if we insisted on a particular point $c$ and line $\ell$ given ahead of time, then each circle would be over-constrained. However, since we don't insist on a particular point $c$, I think that this should be possible.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Charlotte men's and women's track team looks to continue its success when it opens the 2012-13 indoor season on Saturday, December 1 at the JDL College Kick Classic in Winston Salem, beginning at 9 a.m.
With Charlotte's seasoned veterans, the continuous development of its returners, and the addition of several newcomers, it has its expectations set high for the indoor season.
It's no secret that the 49ers expect to have another rewarding year after finishing at the top of the Atlantic 10 last season. The women captured the 2012 A-10 title and were picked to defend the title at the 2013 Atlantic 10 Conference Championship. The men finished second at the conference championship and as a result were predicted to finish in that place at the 2013 A-10 Championships.
Charlotte's depth along with its balance was a key to last season, where the women picked up 10 of its 14 conference titles. Joann Blakney was named the 2012 A-10 Most Outstanding Track Performer after winning titles in the 60m and 200m dash. T'Sheila Mungo was tabbed at the Most Outstanding Rookie Performer after capturing the 500m title. The Niners were also led by Jaleah Wilder (400m), Maraya Slatter (800m), and the 4X400 meter relay team of Wilder, Mungo, Cecily Young, and LeAnna Morrison. Also turning in consistent efforts for the 49ers throughout the season were La Trese Barker, Dominique Weathers, and Morrison.
In addition, Coach Olesen was named the 2012 A-10 Women's Coach of the Year.
The Niners will look to returners Briauna Jones, Jessica Morgan, Brittney Simmons, Lauren Gulley, Katrina Wright, Toby Jo Klauenberg, and Jana Eatman to contribute significantly in the field events during the indoor season along with newcomers Jamaica Dean, Aubrey Dowding, and Sarah Fell. Several returners and freshmen are also expected to make an impact in the sprints and hurdles.
On the men's side, returners LeRoy Rouse and Khyran Shank stepped up big for Charlotte in the 60m and 200m dash. Cordell Livingston was runner-up in the 60m hurdles.
In the distance events, Michael Tamayo moved into 10th all-time in school history in the 800m, finishing fifth overall in a time of 1:55.77.
Robert Wilson, in the midst of heptathlon competition, broke the school record in the pole vault, clearing 15'11". Livingston and Desmond Stearns finished third and sixth in the triple jump and Trey McRae tied for second in the high jump. McRae and Coye Still both jumped a height of 6'8.25", moving the duo into a tie for fourth all-time in Charlotte history.
The Niners expect to remain strong in the field events with its veterans and their recruiting class.
Experience and depth are two factors that the 49ers will rely on. Charlotte's biggest transition will take place in the sprints and hurdles. It returns Brian Hamilton, Jamil Muhammed-Ray but also adds influential rookies such as Anthony Bynum, Christopher Boyd, Casey Evans, and Chris Tate.
Charlotte's next meet will be in 2013 when it heads to future Conference USA member Alabama-Birmingham, for the UAB Blazer Invitational on January 10.


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I would seem logical that the more times an event does not happen, the more likely it is to happen, for example: If a coin is flipped and it lands on tails 10 times in a row it would seam more likely that the next flip will result in heads.
The Infinite Monkey Theorem is one such idea that suggests this is true,
It states that if some number of monkeys are left in a room with typewriters for an infinite amount of time then they will eventually compose all written texts ever produced. This seems to suggest that since the chance of the monkeys writing a work, say Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, is very low. The more times they do not write it, the more likely they are to write it, until the chance becomes significant and it, the writing of the play, happens.
However another idea, Gambler's Fallacy states quite the opposite.
It states that the chance of an event does not increase with the number of times it does not occur.
So what is the answer? Does the likelihood of an event go up the more times it does not happen, or does it stay the same? And if it does stay the same then how does one explain the Infinite Monkey Theorem?


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Why would the lights going out be such a big deal?I think that most of us on this board, have already planned for falling back on our own resources, as far as power goes. And if we, in the US are given just a little bit of time, there are so many new types of power generation coming online, that, soon, it will only be a blip.
...Still, some of the advice strikes me as useful: Don't put a lot of money into glitz and glitter and Captain Commando Crap, just get yourself a good rifle with a good scope, a good, dependable handgun, maybe a good, dependable shotgun, lots and lots of ammo, and practice, practice, practice.
...You know what I think is the biggest "if" for most preppers when it comes to combat scenarios? The most basic question of all - if you've never pointed a gun at somebody and pulled the trigger, will you be able to do so when the time comes? And you will never know the answer - not for sure - until you find yourself in that situation....
So much depends on where you are, eh? If you're in the city, fugetaboutit. I joke with my willfully-ignorant liberal nephew that he'll 'never get out of Brooklyn alive'. Well...he thinks it's a joke anyway.There are several stages in the breakdown of society and the first real violence will begin when the city-dwellers realize that their EBT cards are worthless and the supermarket shelves aren't being restocked.
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I can think of at least three scenarios that take down the US power grid more or less permanently: EMP, Carrington Event, and viral attacks.The fact remains that if you fry the big transformers, there are no replacements available in time to do any good.
I can think of at least three scenarios that take down the US power grid more or less permanently: EMP, Carrington Event, and viral attacks.The fact remains that if you fry the big transformers, there are no replacements available in time to do any good.
They said they were staging some transformers for the bad weather that will come, in a few months.
The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability has released the "Large Power Transformers and the U.S. Electric Grid" report, an assessment of the procurement and supply environment of large power transformers (LPTs). The report examines the characteristics and procurement of LPTs, including key raw materials and transportation; historical trends and future demands; global and domestic LPT suppliers; and potential issues in the global sourcing of LPTs.
LPTs have long been a major concern for the U.S. electric power sector. Key industry sources � including the Energy Sector Specific Plan, the National Infrastructure Advisory Council's A Framework for Establishing Critical Infrastructure Resilience Goals and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's Critical Infrastructure Strategic Roadmap -- have identified the limited availability of spare LPTs as a potential issue for critical infrastructure resilience in the United States.
Ken: There is a lot of blithe handwaving about a major, nation-wide grid down scenario. Here. Read what the DOE has to say about losing big transformers: Large Power Transformers and the U.S. Electric Grid"Potential issue for critical infrastructure resilience" is gov-speak for "scared shitless."
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Red Stanley's 1932 Ford - Chicken CoupeWritten by Gerry Burger on February 22, 2012
Some old race cars are lost, never to be found. Others are simply forgotten. This Deuce coupe was never really lost, yet it was somehow forgotten—until David Turner heard that Red Stanley's dominating A/Gasser had been roosting in a chicken coop for more than 40 years within 10 miles of Red's Ringgold, Georgia, home.
With the help of Mike Goodman and Larry Rose, we tracked down builder Red Stanley, 82, who acquired the stock '32 in 1957, trading for a trophy-winning '40 Ford sedan. In went one of Pontiac's 347-inch V8s, adapted to a '39 Ford Top Loader tranny and an early Ford rearend. Red managed to launch the car and not the differential by using only Second and High gears, he explains. After he upgraded to Pontiac's new 370-incher in 1958, the additional power necessitated a modern Ford three-speed and 9-inch rear. In 1959, he again went with Pontiac's latest and greatest: a 389 bored and stroked to "at least 430 ci," fed by three Rochester carbs. Asked what times it ran, Red smiles and says, "Heck, the timing equipment was so primitive, the times wouldn't be accurate, anyway, but I really don't remember. The car ran over 100 miles an hour. We were more concerned with winning races than speeds and e.t.'s."
Red's friend, boss, and racing partner, Robert Nance, took over in 1961, installed a Dodge wedge, and eventually resold the car to Leslie Anderson, who raced with a Ford engine (and taped over the word Dodge visible here) until retiring the coupe to his chicken house in 1967. It was Leslie who sold the Deuce to David Turner, who plans to put it back on the street—for the first time since 1957—while preserving the race car look and as many vintage pieces as possible.
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Hixson (Tennessee) Drag Strip was the site of this classic 1959 clash between Red Stanley's Tri-powered Pontiac combo and Happy Dix's '40 Ford, running a blown 283 Chevy with four carbs. "I'd always give up a car length or two off the line," Red recalls. "That Pontiac wouldn't rev like the Chevrolets, but I had a big cam in it, and when that thing hit 4,000 rpm, it'd jump up like it was gonna climb a tree!"Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip operator Karen Eason kindly obliged our request to put an old race car back on the track for the first time in more than four decades. Originally black, and later white or light gray, the body remains stock from its grille shell to the rear bumper and framehorn covers.The decklid is held in place with a pair of hardware-store hinges, as the entire inner skin has been cut away to save weight. That light in the middle of the panel is a brake/running light for flat towing. A 2x4 bolted to the original Deuce bumper served as a pushbar.Long ladder bars, unusual for the '50s, were homemade from galvanized pipe. The coupe's nose-high stance came later, when a spacer block raised the front end an additional 2 inches. We photographed the car without an engine, so its final racing altitude would've been about 4 inches lower than indicated here.A small recess in the firewall was required to clear a Pontiac distributor. Notice that the chassis is not boxed. Also worthy of note is the mounting of the rear radius rods in front of the firewall, while a short, tubular radius rod of galvanized pipe locates the axle. A simple engine cradle is left over from either the Dodge or Ford motor that replaced Red's Pontiacs in the '60s.David Turner plans to retain the nicely constructed, four-point rollbar. The A/Gasser always raced as a single seater.One might expect an old race car's stock dashboard to be cut up, if not discarded, but this one is well preserved, right down to its glovebox door. That steering wheel is the only one this car has ever known.OK, it's not exactly a safe fuel cell, but in 1957, an old solvent can worked fine. Strips of old Port-A-Walls were recycled into cushions, insulating Red's makeshift fuel tank from the metal straps.
Asked how long it took to drill thousands of lightening holes into his running boards, Red just smiles and says, "A long time."Remnants of cowl decals from Mickey Thompson Enterprises, Schiefer Clutches, and Iskenderian Cams illustrate that this coupe ran all the right stuff back in the day.


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If you wear rigid gas permeable contact lenses, you should not wear them for at least three weeks before your evaluation. Other types of contact lenses shouldn't be worn for at least three days prior to the evaluation. Be sure to bring your eyeglasses to the surgeon so your prescription can be reviewed.
On the day of your surgery, eat a light meal before going to the doctor and take all of your prescribed medications. Do not wear eye makeup or have any bulky accessories in your hair that will interfere with positioning your head under the laser. If you are not feeling well that morning, call the doctor's office to determine whether the procedure needs to be postponed.
What Happens During LASIK Eye Surgery?
During LASIK eye surgery, an instrument called a microkeratome or femtosecond laser is used to create a thin flap in the cornea. The cornea flap is then painlessly peeled back and the underlying corneal tissue is reshaped using another laser. After the cornea is reshaped so that it can properly focus light onto the retina, the cornea flap is put back in place and the surgery is complete.
LASIK is performed while the patient is under local anesthesia in the form of eye drops and usually takes about 10 minutes to complete. Patients may also request mild sedation. Plan to have someone drive you home after surgery.
What Should I Expect After LASIK Eye Surgery?
Your eyes will temporarily be dry even though they do not feel that way. Your doctor will give you prescription eye drops to prevent infection and inflammation and eyedrops to keep your eyes moist. These drops may cause a momentary slight burn or blurring of your vision when you use them. Do not use any eye drops not approved by your eye doctor.
Healing after LASIK eye surgery usually occurs very rapidly. Vision may be blurry and hazy for the first day, but most patients notice improved vision within a few days of surgery.
Specific follow-up after the surgery varies from one surgeon to another. You will revisit the doctor for an evaluation 24 to 48 hours after LASIK eye surgery, as well as at regular intervals within the first six months.
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Sleeping Your Way to the Top
To Get an Edge, NFL Teams Meddle With Player Sleep Patterns; the 68-Degree Hotel Room
For decades, the NFL has taken many measures to make sure talent is spread around the league evenly and that every team can have a fighting shot. It's natural, then, for teams to try almost anything, no matter how wild, to gain the slightest advantage.
This season, however, at least three teams have decided to tackle one of the simplest competitive issues imaginable: making sure their players get enough sleep before games.
The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers spent the summer tearing through sleep studies—some of them commissioned by the U.S. military—looking for ways they might help their players improve their performance by sleeping more like teenagers. "We've looked at quite a few of them," said San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh.
Prior to a 1 p.m. game against the Jets in New Jersey this season, San Francisco moved its entire team to a hotel outside of Youngstown, Ohio—not because they had any particular reason to be in Ohio, but to give the team a chance to get acclimated to Eastern time.
And after sleep specialists visited the Jets earlier this year, linebacker Bryan Thomas said the team has made an extreme effort to make sure everyone is sleeping properly. This includes pre-setting all temperatures in the team hotel rooms to the sleep-therapy recommended 68 degrees and recommending players sleep in pitch-black rooms.
Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh, Jim's brother, has begun to take measures to combat jetlag on long trips: Before the Ravens fly west to play San Diego on Nov. 25, their plan is to stay at home but simply start practices and meetings later until they are operating on West Coast-time while in Baltimore.
Football teams that want their players to sleep like teenagers before games aren't an exotic species—bed checks may be as old as the sport itself. Ultimately, though, each player has been left alone to devise their own sleep strategy—and the result is a hodgepodge of theories.
Jets backup quarterback Greg McElroy said he heard about a study in which people under 25 years old operate best on nine hours and 15 minutes of sleep. He noted that that's basically impossible with an NFL schedule. "I don't know if I'll ever have the time to sleep 9:15," McElroy said.
The recent push to maximize sleep patterns is also part of an ongoing effort to combat a famous inequality on Sundays that even the almighty NFL cannot do anything about: time zones.
Because there are only a few time slots NFL teams can play in, a team from California can get stuck with starting times on the East Coast that are the equivalent of 10 a.m. in their hometowns. It's become a fairly desperate problem for West Coast teams. Of the four Pacific-time teams, three of them lost more than 75% of the time over the past decade when playing 1 p.m. games on the East Coast.
The 49ers are 2-15 in such games during that span, and only after Jim Harbaugh took action last season, when he first tried moving the entire team early before a game so they could adjust to Eastern Standard Time. The 49ers have been known to deal with leaving their practice facility early by staging elaborate scheme meetings in the parking lot behind a Holiday Inn.
"It's not necessarily traveling from East to West or West to East that is a deterrent in winning, it's really playing a 10 a.m. body clock game," said 49ers CEO Jed York, who said the Ohio move gives the team a better chance to win than flying out on Friday night when "you're still really on Pacific time."
49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks says the team's sleep strategy is one of the keys to its early success this year. After the detour to Ohio, the 49ers moved on to New York where they thrashed the Jets 34-0. Brooks, who grew up in Virginia, said he frequently flies between the coasts and on the first night back on a new coast, can't sleep at all. Then, he said, he can't get to sleep until 5 a.m. the following night. He said sleep deficiencies have mental and physical effects: forgetting where to be on a specific play or, if you are there, struggling to keep up—at least early in the game.
"To wake up this early and play a game?" 49ers offensive lineman Alex Boone said of 1 p.m. starts, "you've gotta have your body clock ready or else you're going to be as tired as hell. It's hugely important."
Football is unique among major team sports in that there's very little travel involved. Professional basketball teams fly out after games, making for late arrivals but plenty of time for sleep before the next game. Baseball teams spend countless nights on the road, but are in the same city for three or four days, where their sleep schedules can be maintained and monitored by the team.
Of course, NFL players don't have to rely on their coaches for sleep advice. They can always just throw science out the window and rely on a simpler philosophy: It's probably better to go to bed before everyone else does. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady recently admitted he was in bed at 7:15 p.m. on a Monday night. "Trying to get bright-eyed and bushy-tailed," he said.
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Study Suggests Less Fluid Intake May Improve Performance for Marathoners
Dec. 20, 2010 -- Marathoners who lost the most body weight during a race finished more quickly, even though their weight loss exceeded the amount typically recommended for best running performance, according to a new study.
The weight loss reflects a lower level of fluid intake or a faster rate of fluid loss.
Most runners are cautioned to ''hydrate, hydrate, hydrate." But the new study suggests that might be too much of a good thing for performance results.
"The clear evidence is that drinking just to thirst is the optimum strategy," says researcher Timothy Noakes, MD, the Discovery Health Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
"Drinking either more or less than to thirst impairs exercise performance," he tells WebMD in an email. "Drinking more can be fatal, as has occurred to a number of U.S. female marathon runners and soldiers."
In recent years, U.S. marathons have experienced participant deaths due to excessive intake of water, which can lead to an abnormally low level of sodium in the blood, or hyponatremia.
The study is published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Fluid Intake and Running Time
Noakes studied runners participating in the 2009 Mont Saint-Michel Marathon in France.
At the start, 884 marathoners agreed to participate, and 643 of those finished and were included in the study results.
The study participants -- 560 men and 83 women -- weighed in at the start of the race and then at the finish.
All were given the same pre-race guidelines: try to drink about 250 milliliters (8.5 ounces) of either water or a 4%-8% carbohydrate-containing drink every 20 minutes during the race.
On average, runners in the group overall lost 2.3% of their body weight during the race. Among sports experts, there is debate about the issue, but many experts warn that a weight loss above 2% can impair athletic performance.
But when Noakes looked at the weight loss and finishing times, he found those who lost the most ran the fastest.
The three groups, by time, and their weight loss:
- Those who finished under three hours averaged a 3.1% body weight loss.
- Those who finished between three and four hours lost 2.5%.
- Those who took more than four hours to finish lost 1.8%.
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User talk:Danf
Hi, Danf
Danf, it was a pleasure to meet you and Kevin last night. I just added a user page to this wiki. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 03:47, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
New device for now
Hi Dan, my roommate lilly has borrowed me her MindWave Mobie. It has the same ThinGear chip, but talks over bluetooth, not RF. I have a bluetooth receiver on my laptop, but I reckon the dream machine does not. Either way we can use it to debug the plexer code you're writing. Also see https://github.com/robintibor/python-mindwave-mobile for an object oriented approach to reading data off sent by the ThinkGear. robintibor is more maticulous about data rows than akloister. See you at the pwn meeting tomorrow. User:bfb
whatsup hacka?
Nothing going tonight. Up late, needing sleep. See you tomorrow. PS found a light read on mind/brain sleep research in the 20th century, linked under current readings. -kevin
Thanks Immonad (talk) 18:40, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
this is an example of a note to say hello via wiki because email is a broken protocol, considered harmful, and depracatable
say what ??? --Danf (talk) 01:18, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Good stuff
By golly have a listen
Connectivity Restored...
to switch 31, aka the collaboration station.
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hey dan
Chris here. Good talking last night. Here's the deep learning site I mentioned. deeplearning4j.org. Curious to hear what you think.


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Many martial arts (taekwondo and karate being the most obvious examples) incorporate powerful jumping maneuvers as part of the standard set of techniques practiced within the art. Many of these techniques are improved by a combination of height and speed (essentially, hang time to borrow a term from basketball). While there is clearly a degree of phsycial talent and natural physique involved in having a "good" jump for martial arts, one can see a marked improvement from repeated practice of the maneuvers, indicating that there is some ability to train for a "good" jump. So the question is this, are there any exercises that have been shown to improve jumping height and speed in a way that is suited to use in the martial arts?
Perhaps even more than jumping higher or farther, practicing the techniques you wish to use while jumping will help the most. The sharper the technique, the less motion and momentum you will waste while in the air. Get proficient at the techniques on the ground first before trying to figure out how to move your body in the air to get the same result. If you have the technique down, the remaining part of the equation will become how to get your body into a position to perform it and recover efficiently in the air.
I've been teaching since 1973 Taekwondo and a few more Korean arts practice practice practice using ankle weights in kicks
This is something I improved on by doing the following : (the exercises in the order of difficulty)
Along with this you must obviously do jump kicks/twirls to improve on the technique like raphael said
Notes :
Lose weight and pack on fast twitch muscles in your feet, calves and thighs. An area of muscles that are overlooked often when thinking of jumping is the hamstrings. Your hamstrings pull your knees back like a spring, straightening your leg and launching you into the air. Uphill sprints are great for this. But don't forget about actually practicing the jumping technique itself. You'll be amazed how much height you gain simply by applying proper form. I remember gaining a good 10 centimeters from one session in dance class (of all places) because our instructor pointed out the things I did wrong.


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Just Ignore the Slow Starts
The Knicks Often Fall Behind Early—But Things Tend to Work Out in the End
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.—Considering some of the disastrous years that preceded this one, the 2012-13 season has been a pretty good one for the Knicks.
They have outperformed preseason expectations. They remain in the driver's seat for the Atlantic Division crown. And they are widely considered as being one of the few with a puncher's chance at taking out the defending champion Miami Heat this postseason.
But if there is one confounding problem that has plagued this team, it is the Knicks' consistently slow starts each night.
A close look at the numbers suggests that team's age may have a lot to do with that.
The Knicks, the oldest team in the league, seem to pick their spots when it comes to playing with urgency. Like several older teams before them, the Knicks seem to realize they usually have enough talent and know-how to win, no matter how large a hole they dig themselves.
The 104 points per 100 possessions they allow in the first quarter ranks 18th in the league. Conversely, in the fourth quarter, they allow just 99.4 points per 100 possessions—fifth-best in the NBA.
The Knicks followed that formula Monday during their 22-point comeback victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. The win marked the Knicks' 10th of the season in which they came back from a deficit of 10 points or more—the NBA's third-highest win total in such games, according to Stats LLC. (They got their 11th comeback win Wednesday night against the Detroit Pistons.)
Statistically, that makes them almost identical to other teams that have been the league's oldest in years past. In four of the past five seasons, the NBA's oldest team has been among the league-leaders in come-from-behind wins.
For instance, the 2009 Dallas Mavericks had an NBA-high 18 wins in which they came back from 10 or more points down. A pair of San Antonio Spurs teams, in 2007 and 2008, and the 2010 Miami Heat all finished with more than a dozen comeback victories—considerably more than the league average of eight wins.
Jason Kidd, who played on that 2009 Dallas team, said he believes more experienced teams play with a subconscious lack of fire to start games. The 39-year-old acknowledged the approach is a risky, but natural for a team that has older players who have won before.
"[Playing that way] isn't necessarily ideal, but I think it does end up happening that way sometimes with experienced teams," said Kidd, who won a title in 2010. "There's a balance. You obviously want to play with effort. But to be a team that closes well, you have to have something in the tank for the end of the game."
Granted, the Knicks' collective age doesn't explain all of their early-game struggles. Coach Mike Woodson attributed Monday's slow start in Cleveland to playing on the road, and he may have been onto something: Nine of the Knicks' 11 biggest come-from-behind wins have been on the road.
But there are other factors involved in the Knicks' early-game struggles.
For one, the starting lineups are ever-changing. Wednesday's starters—Raymond Felton, Iman Shumpert, Tyson Chandler and little-used players Kurt Thomas and James White—comprised the Knicks' 16th different starting lineup this season. Among the 16 teams that would make the playoffs if the season ended today, only the Atlanta Hawks have used more lineup variations to start games.
Age is undeniably an issue in the slow starts, too. Analysts have long said that younger teams are capable of performing well against stronger opponents in the early going, but tend to falter down the stretch, lacking the necessary savvy to hold the lead.
That notion appears to be holding firm this season. Among the 10 teams who have blown the most big leads this season, eight are in the younger half of the league. The Pistons, the Knicks' opponent here Wednesday, landed on that list, having lost 16 double-digit leads.
"You can look at age, but I think it just comes down to us taking every opponent seriously," said Thomas, who's 40 years old. "It's human nature to look at a schedule and say, 'We're the better team [and should win.]' But games aren't played on paper. Every team in this league is capable of beating you—especially if you take them lightly."
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At the Windows 8 start screen, type XBMC.
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June 14, 2010
Weekend grocery shopping at the Old Biscuit Mill a must!
Whether you're after the simple or the exotic, the fresh or the pre-prepared, the neighbourhood goods market at the Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock, Cape Town, is the perfect place to stock up on tasty food.
The market is held every Saturday – but make sure you're there early to get your hands on the pick of the crop. There are over 80 stalls to browse at the weekend market and not all of them sell food. You can also find beautiful jewellery, trendy fashion and bouquets of freshly-cut flowers.
The food market focuses on organic delights and homemade delectables and gives shoppers the opportunity to enjoy their purchases right then and there, if they're willing to brave the straw-bale seats.
Why not start your culinary exploration of the market with a slice or two of cheese?
Bagels are a superb accoutrement to some creamy cheese
Hit the organic veggies stall if you're after something a little more healthy
There's even a stall dedicated solely to mushrooms and truffles!
Grab some patriotic pastries for dessert
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15 Mar 2013 9:49 AM #1
Unanswered: Cannot export chart to image
Hi all, I'm getting some trouble trying to export my chart to image. I'm new with ext js charting so I really can't find out how to solve it
The error shown is:
ArgumentError at /
invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
- file: RubyRegexp.java
15 Mar 2013 9:58 AM #2
By the way if you need the code of how I'm configuring my chart I can post it
26 Jun 2013 5:56 AM #3
Also I've UTF 8 encoding problem exporting chart as image
I've the same problem.
There is someone that solved this problem?
26 Jun 2013 9:11 AM #4
Hi alessandro,
Don't know if is useful for you but I'm using PHP in the backend of my app. I do some Ajax request and the response is what I use to pupulate my chart store.
Within the PHP code that I use to return the response I just call the utf8_encode(mydata) function.
I mean, maybe you can solve it from your backend. I don't know if there's a way to encode data on the client side.
Also, you can try to put the <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />
tag on the frame your are using to render your chart.
26 Jun 2013 10:56 AM #5
Thank for your reply.
I've already tried what you proposed, unfortunately with no success.
I've also searched svg source text sent by ext to io.sencha.com searching for the messed up UTF8 character with no result. All seems in ascii english.
Any other idea?
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I mean, a way to "follow" a especific user (an analogy could be mark a tag as "interesting"/"ignored").
Is this possible?
You can follow their RSS feed. Scroll all the way to the bottom of their user page. The RSS link is on the right.
Reputation System would become a Popularity Score
A way to favorite or follow track users would only be a way to inadvertently game the reputation system solely based on subconscious human nature.
People with lots of followers would get even more up votes from the acolytes no matter how flippant, trivial, complete and incorrect their answers might be.
People with no followers would most likely get ignored even with better more complete and accurate answers.
This would turn the reputation system into a popularity score, more than it already is.
Social isn't always Positive
The inverse is also just as true, create an enemy and they could more easily follow you and serial down vote everything you answer or ask. That will make the sites better how?
I don't want to have to manage yet another list of people I don't want tracking me, I don't want to manage yet another list of people I have to constantly respond to requests either.
It would just encourage newbies to think that stackexchange sites are FORUMS!
There is already this tendency for new users to treat all the stackexchange sites as discussion forums. Nothing should be done to encourage this behavior and increase the load on the community and moderators especially to police questions that clog up the works.
It would also signal a similar shift in policy to long existing members as well.
Use an existing Social network and leave me out of it
The RSS feeds already do what a favorite would do.
Use an existing 3rd party aggregation site like Delcicous.com to bookmark these feeds and aggregate them and publish and share them. Use Pinterest or Bo.lt as well?
A long-time-dead question, but I think it's worth the mention:
Unlike the others around here, I still think the usage for this is sound and well-founded, so I created a browser addon that highlights posts by your favorite users.