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It's a Marathon, not a sprint
Mayor Bloomberg seems to think that if we don't hold the New York City Marathon on Sunday then the Hurricane wins. Opposition is growing, and count me among the advocates of postponing. Why the obsession with always pretending that life goes on no matter the tragedy or disaster? Or keeping to previous schedules to show how tough or resilient we are? Sometimes life, and death, happens. It's fine to mark that, and to allow it to alter the course of things. This was a huge wallop, and healing will take time.The Syndic of Gotham says the race brings in much-needed cash to the storm-tossed city. Yes, but does everything have to be about business and marketing and the bottom line? Okay, so let the Chamber of Commerce picture this image instead: race volunteers on Staten Island handing out cups of water to runners while residents of the neighborhoods around them are without water to drink. Now there's the kind of PR the city doesn't need.New Yorkers are indeed a tough lot -- they are showing that every moment of every day in the race to pick up, buck, up and carry on. Give them a medal, not a marathon.BREAKING: The Mayor's office reads dotCommonweal, and within moments of my posting this they called off the Marathon. No word yet on rescheduling. Good for them. And I'll cheer when they run through next year, or even next week.
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David Gibson is a national reporter for Religion News Service and author of The Coming Catholic Church (HarperOne) and The Rule of Benedict (HarperOne). He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Life in urban storm-wracked America is quite tough these days. The latest smart iphones don't have service; Starbux aren't open for purchase of the grande loopa amontillado triple cappucinos; Broadway shows aren't showing; and now ... horrors! ... the marathon can't happen.In the immortal words of Tiny Tim: God bless us, one and all. If we just persevere we can have our toys back real soon.(How many people have died on the Eastern seaboard so far?)
I understand the viewpoint of people who wanted the marathon cancelled, but I think a lot of people will be very disappointed as well. If the recovery isn't complete by Thanksgiving, should we cancel the parade?
I think its just days away from the disaster & theyre still looking for bodies and people in Staten Island and Queens and other places are beside themselves with grief and need. The marathon, if run this coming weekend, would seem to suggest that their plight is just one of those things. I think cancelling it was prudent. It can always be rescheduled.
George Vecsey has a good column in tomorrow's (i.e. Saturday, Nov. 3) N.Y. Times on the decision to call off the marathon: "Wisely Stepping Aside in a Bombarded City."http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/george-vecsey-canceling-the-mar...
The cynical response could be that the city has made a lot of money just having the runners show up (hotel rooms, food, transport, etc.) and then calls it off... Should have done that sooner. But having decided to carry on with the Marathon, the city should have stuck to its position. The first right position was to call if off, having decided to carry on, they should have.Christine Quinn, city council president, came out against today. But then she's running for mayor. Hmmm!
The brunt of the storm hit Monday night and it wasnt until later Tuesday that the recovery started: 4 days before the Marathon. Many residents cannot get to work and some still cannot get groceries yet the city is going to transport 40,000 runners plus all their supporters. The only answer was to cancel. At least Bloomberg finally recognized the situation and corrected his decision.
The city could not prevent the hurricane, but it could have canceled the marathon before people flew in from abroad. It owes runners compensation for local expenses at least. Perhaps the city can compensate the runners by footing the bills for their hotel stays, or by offering them vouchers for free food, lodging, and participation next year.
I think Christine Quinn is out to lunch on this one. [Thanks to Mollie for the correction.] Two generators that had been sent to Central Park in order to power the finish-line festivities could have provided electricity to four hundred homes on Staten Island. The scale of human suffering is quite staggering. The Island is reeling. The Rockaways are teetering on the edge of chaos. There was no way the marathon could have gone on. Bloomberg should have recognized this earlier. But how much earlier? Enough to allow the marathoners to recoup their expenses? I don't think so. And I don't think the city should give them one dime. Not until every effort has been made to relieve the suffering of the people who have been displaced by this act of God.
Wait, Christine Quinn was against holding the marathon -- not against canceling it. I'm pretty disgusted with the way Bloomberg and the marathon organizers have been trying to spin the opposition to holding the marathon as entirely emotional. The case for holding the marathon was an emotional appeal to "resilience" and "unity," and it fell flat with New Yorkers. But the case against is primarily a practical one -- the city has urgent needs that the marathon would disrupt. From the NYT: "Critics said that it would be in poor taste to hold a foot race through the five boroughs while so many people in the area were still suffering from the storms damage, and that city services should focus on storm relief, not the marathon." I'd flip that sentence around. Is it in "poor taste" to start a race in Staten Island while they're still finding bodies? Sure. But it's the second part, about how the city should be focusing its services on relief and recovery, that fueled the criticism I heard. Even now the organizers are claiming that it's all about being tasteful: "While holding the race would not require diverting resources from the recovery effort, it is clear that it has become the source of controversy and division." That's ridiculous. The generators. The gasoline. The port-a-potties. The hotel rooms needed for displaced New Yorkers. The ambulances and EMTs and police officers. And then there's the pressure on an already strained transit system and infrastructure.
I'd heard that the marathon wouldn't divert that many police officers and EMTs from relief efforts. But New Yorkers are arming themselves in the Rockaways to defend against looters. The whole area is in dire need of assistance. That obviously has priority over a big athletic event.
Do you think the couch potatoes are behind the cancellation?A profile of Mary Wittenberg, head of the Road Runners, which runs the marathon.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/marathon-starts-to-divide-not-u...
"Costs of Canceling Marathon Are Unknown but Immense"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/sports/marathons-cancellation-sure-to-...
New Yorkers interested in helping with the relief efforts in storm damaged neighborhoods, here is the link to the NYC website: www.nycservice.org
Mr. Gibson, I'm with you (and the mayor) on this one. And for all the reasons you've shared on your own behalf.For whatever reason, your comments reminded me that the U.S. has been at war for more than a decade, thousands of American military personnel have been killed or wounded, and, yet, I'm not aware of any sense of shared sacrifice emanating from the shopping malls of America, etc., much less reflected in our news media. Life --- smiles or ho-hum --- goes on for the average citizen, if not for those families who've suffered the loss of loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the runners et al, life is not fair. A trainer told us years ago that when his kids would complain "That's not fair, Daddy!", he would respond (I assume) with great affection and sympathy, "Of course, kiddo, life is not fair. A fair is a fancy country picnic."
DIGRESSIONThis doesn't fit anywhere, but the Conciliaria blog has posted a slew of articles about what was actually going on at the beginning of Vatican II, especially about the liturgy. For those of you who don't remember the Cold War -- just how terribly cold it was! -- there's one about the bishops who were and were not allowed to attend the Council by their Communist governments. A couple of cardinals couldn't go because they were sitting the war out in embassies of other countries and to leave would have been to be arrested. Now those were some bishops!http://conciliaria.com/2012/11/49-bishops-at-council-from-communist-coun...
I was surprised when the mayor et al decided to go ahead with the marathon; I was surprised when they canceled it; just to say I don't have strong views on this. So I am curious given how this has fallen out: Who or how is anyone going to benefit from the cancellation?
While I understand cancelling the marathon, I'm a little taken aback by the complete lack of sympathy for the 40,000 + marathoners. Facebook has all of these snarky comments about how the runners should all go volunteer on Staten Island. I wonder if all of those people telling the marathoners to volunteer are themselves volunteering.I have zero interest in the marathon, except to avoid neighborhoods along the route. But I know other people care very deeply. One of my neighbors, who is a marathon runner, saw one of the Ethiopian women who is a front runner, training in Van Cortlandt Park after the hurricane. I'm sure this Ethiopian girl is more than a little disappointed now. And yes, some people in Staten Island have it much worse- incomparably worse. But I don't see why we still can't have a little sympathy left over for the runners.
Isn't the situaton in NY worse than the situation in New Orleans from Katrina?
Sympathy? Sure. I imagine it's disappointing. But it's not as though they visited Siberia for the weekend. They're in New York City--a fine destination even when significantly crippled. But marathoners and their supporters are the ones who should be showing sympathy. I don't care if they volunteer. But I do think the ones who are whining about how liberals are wimps (check Twitter) should shut up immediately and be grateful they aren't cold, hungry, and homeless.
@Mark: While more people are affected by Sandy, the overall conditions in NOLA after Katrina were FAR worse than those in New York or New Jersey, to say nothing of the death count -- almost 2000 people died as a result of Katrina. If you review what happened in Katrina and its aftermath, there is really no comparison.
Margaret Steinfels: A lot depends on how the mayor and his administration now proceed.Without the distraction of the marathon, I would assume that the mayor and his administration will have more undistracted time and perhaps also more resources to direct to Staten Island and other places that still cry out for attention.By the way, I thought the mayor made a terrible first decision. As a result, I admire him for changing his mind and making what I consider to be the correct decision -- the one he should have made to begin with.
The idea of income (100 million) for the city and the morale booster was not necessarily bad. It did not show disregard. Just a misplaced emphasis. If the hotels and other beneficiaries has offered 25 million or so for food and electrical workers, the running of the marathon might have worked. If generators were obtained by that money it might have made a different impact. It is a good case where if both sides showed some creativity everyone could have come out winning. This seems possible though I don't know how an solid analysis would estimate.
jbruns--I think I'm in agreement with you. But if Sandy was not as bad as Katrina, yet there are all these unmet needs in NY and NJ...I'm wondering if Sandy will not hit Obama the way Katrinia hit Bush.
ISTM that comparing New Orleans and Katrina and NYC and Sandy is like comparing apples and oranges. Sure there are lots of similarities. Both suffered catastrophic storms. But New Orleans was less well prepared because Dubya had refused to maintain the levees as needed, and the communications system was horrible to non-existent. Manhattan is mostly 33 feet above sea-level, which protected most of it against the surge, but other boroughs are far less elevated and each of their populations, I would guess, exceeds that of the whole of New Orleans (which was around 400,000 before Katrina). Most importantly, because we New Orleanians had had experience with terrible storms before (Betsy was another giant that went straight through the city) most of us realized that we needed to get out and we did. Only a relatively few thousand with no transportation or extremely hard heads stayed. Those are the ones you saw on TV in the Superdome and Convention Center. Yes, they were miserable, but no doubt so are the people in the boroughs that were hit so hard.So which was worse -- the over-crowded Superdome or the low-lying houses flooded in Queens with little food and no electricity or gas? I think I''d take the Superdome and its potable water. I'd say the long-term effects in New Orleans were worse -- I think there were something like 80,000 houses that were lost. But short-term I don't doubt for a second that there are more people in the outer boroughs of New York who are suffering a great deal more than there were in New Orleans in the week or two after Katrina. Yes, some of the NYC houses are being destroyed, but I wonder if it's as many. If it's as many or more, then the long-term damage in New York will be worse, and the people need our sympathy and help.You can hardly imagine these things unless you see them first hand. And it seems to me that Mayor Bloomberg, in spite of the marathon kerfufle, is doing extremely well in horrible circumstances.All of the big cities learned from New Orleans' experience with Katrina. Most now have adequate communications systems. which alone are great pluses. Now pray that we'll all learn from New York City, and that we will finally be wise enough to take whatever measures are necessary to lessen the effects of these monster storms and other disasters.
Ann--Perhaps you have not seen this:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/nyregion/in-public-housing-after-hurri... police are afraid to go out at night. One good thing coming out of it is a new appreciation on Staten Island for the 2nd Amendment.
Perhaps I should add that it seems that about a quarter of the population has not returned, and I don't imagine it will. Those are the people who could not afford to re-build. I don't know what the situation in the boroughs will be. Big unanswered questions: how many of the people whose houses were flooded will have to re-locate to other cities at least temporarily? Will they return? Who knows.Some people think that New Orleans will never be as large as it was in the 50s. Some think that the poor who had to re-locate might actually be better off living, for instance, in prosperous Atlanta. By the way, Houston welcomed our refugees, and people have been most generous in helping the city recover, both with time and money. Sort of renews your faith in human nature. So some good does come out of the awfulness.And I left out the best part: the City and State took the opportunity to rebuild the public school system from scratch -- and, miracle eor miracles, it seems to be working!!! So don't despair, East Coast. You'll get some good out of this. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Mark Proska: You wouldn't by chance be a Republican who does not plan to vote for President Obama's re-election, would you?Yes, to be sure, there are still a lot of difficulties to be overcome in the aftermath of Sandy.However, unless something really extraordinary happens between now the the time when the voting stops on Tuesday evening, I do not expect to see Obama's re-election hopes hurt by his handling of the Sandy disaster. Thus far, he has handled the disaster well enough for most people to give him passing marks.
Thomas--I stand accused. Although I could agree with you, here's the problem I see with your formulation. When Obama made a campaign stop in NJ and NY, he set himself up as president, as in charge, as responsible. How can he now disclaim responsibility for the fiasco that's resulted?
Mark P. --Imagine trying to get anything done in an American city or just a neighborhood with no electricity, no water, no cell-phones, no passable streets except a few for walking, many detours, no food close by, not enough police, not enough medicine, few doctors, . . . . . . Sounds to me like New Yorkers are doing just fine in the circumstances.
"...no electricity, no water, no cell-phones, no passable streets except a few for walking, many detours, no food close by, not enough police, not enough medicine, few doctors, . . "Ann--Precisely my point. Didn't the president promise FEMA would respond within 15 minutes? Respond with what, exactly? Who's in charge here? Is he going to blame Bush for this too?
Mark, you sound as lacking in facts and as partisan as Rudy G did on Cnn. W Bush ignored the facts until it was too late. How you can compare a population New Orleans 350,000 with New york metro area of 19 million is something. With that comparison we are doing an overwhelmingly better job than with Katrina. There is just no argument. But you do want Romney to win. That Romney who has done more flip flops than any fish ever did.
Mark =For cryin' out loud, man, what do you think has happened in NYC? A UPS strike? Several transformers out of service???? Use your imagination! Parts of NYC are like the German cities that were bombed out in WW II or like Dresden. There is destruction all around of all sorts. Those parts of the city will need rebuilding from the bottom up -- in many places from zilch. They weren't built in five crummy days and they probably won't be completely rebuilt within five years, if then.And not only the city but the outlying areas have also been debilitated, making restoration of even basic services -- like supplying gasoline -- impossible in many cases.Wake up and see the real problems. (One of which is YOU.)
"How can he now disclaim responsibility for the fiasco thats resulted?"NOT a fiasco;the recovery in NYC is very impressive. FEMA and the armed forces have done a great job supporting the local efforts. It's only 5 days since the hurricance and ConEd has power almost fully restored here (Staten Island is the worst off, according to the outage map; they're at 85%). But I don't see the Rockaways on the map, are they served by LIPA?Mass transit is working, though there is more to do. Fuel deliveries have been streamlined and the President has tapped into the government reserves, so the gas crunch should ease.The City will take a while to rebuild, but a lot is being done, and being done well.
"Crime during Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath declined in New York City by 32 percent compared with the previous year, the police said on Saturday, but even the storms fury did not stop some from trying to take advantage of the confusion and chaos that followed."http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/hurricane-sandy.h... we have less crime on average, not more, with the Hurricane
There's a lot of headlines about building sea-gates, etc., to prevent the kind of surge that low-lying parts of New York and New Jersey saw on Monday/Tuesday. But it appears that much of the suffering region-wide has to do with lack of electricity, hence lack of lights, in many cases heat, and sources of information. Lines are down. Maybe resources should be spent on burying electric cables.One reason Manhattan is reconnected is that lines are not overhead, they're underground. Hence repairs at single substations solve the problem of many building being without power. Elsewhere in NY, CT, and NJ, trees and other obstacles have to be removed so repair trucks and workers can get to the lines and rehang them.Another curiosity is the way in which electricity is delivered to particular locales. The Rockaways, part of NYC, gets its supply from Long Island Electric, which is a company that serves Nassau and Suffolk counties, and generally has a reputation for bad service. In contrast, most of NYC has ConEd. Battery Park City in lower Manhattan never lost its power because it's connected to a substation in Brooklyn rather than the substation that serves the rest of the area.It's not clear what the mayor or governor can do about the electricity problem except demand that the utilities (public service companies but independently owned) speed up repairs.
Beautiful sunny Sunday in NYC. Perfect weather for a marathon!
Bill--I hope you are right but I think you are wrong. Have you checked any non-liberal news sources? I could provide links, but you can just go to the Drudge report and you'll find a number of them.Ann--I know you didn't mean that.
As for Mark Proska's totally fair-minded political analysis, read this polling data:http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/obama-approval-superstorm-sand... for electricity: It's not simply a matter of buried lines. Lots of those networks were overwhelmed by the storm surge. Including the one served by the 14th St. substation, which exploded on Monday night. And then there are the houses destroyed by wind and fire. The homes blown apart, or bisected by boats, shredded by flying debris, or whose electrical boxes and boilers were swamped by the flood waters. Buried lines are not a panacea. They'd help, and I expect they'll be installed in areas that need rebuilding. But that won't be enough. We can build better sea walls, better barriers, better shock absorbers, better pumping systems, but there's no fool-proof defense against a storm like Sandy. We hadn't seen anything like it before. But we may see more like it in the future.
I liked the suggestion of the oyster beds and the one of the salt marsh buffer. I don't know how practical they are, but they sound really cool. Though I imagine oysters harvested from the Gowanus Canal might taste a little funky.
Grant--Thanks for the link, but isn't TPM generally considered to be left of center? Moreover, shouldn't we be more concerned about the people still suffering from Sandy than who may have gotten a boost in the polls from it?
I have to say the Occupy forces have done an amazing job, in my experience, and that of others, in delivering aid and organizing people:http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/occupy-leads-relief-in-powerless-re... this tragedy shows what they're really about, and what they're really good at. In crises like these, it is so much about distribution and delivery as much as generosity. There is often plenty of the latter. That said, the entire Sandy saga seems to undermine the GOP talking points about FEMA and all federal bureaucracies being a waste. What everyone is talking about is either how well FEMA and local entities have done (the NYT today has a profile of FEMA head Fugate, who has done a pretty admirable job of returning FEMA to good graces after the disaster of the Bush years) or the discussion is about how they could do better. Either way, it's about government having a role, not government not doing its job. For the GOP this is a problem in that they don't like government so when there are government functions to perform, they tend not to do them well. It's a conundrum. The other problem Sandy raises for Republicans is that it undermines the arguments about individual freedom trumping everything. William Saletan at Slate asks the obvious -- if the government can order you to evacuate for the benefit of others, why not the indivdual mandate? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/10/hurri... the funniest conservative effort to critique the government over Sandy, the always hilarious Walter Russell Meade says Sandy shows the problem with the "nanny state" because Bloomberg focused on banning Big Gulps rather than building berms and sea walls:http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/10/31/hurricane-sandy-an... that building sea walls is the city's job, but WRM is stuck arguing against the nanny state while arguing for a bigger nanny state -- one that would do big things that Republicans hate doing. Yeah, he's stuck.
Grant (10:43am) -- Agreed: "We hadnt seen anything like it before. But we may see more like it in the future." Looking ahead also requires more than planning on how to meet Sandy better the next time. Each big hurricane with which I have been intimately acquainted has had unique features, meaning that, even if you had learned and implemented all the lessons of the past ones, Nature would offer a few surprises. A couple of observations, not meant to be predictive but to suggest considerations in looking ahead past Sandy:This weekend, temperatures around NY in the 30's add a new dimension of hazard for residents, responders, and recovery work, especially with limited availability of electricity and fuels continuing for days. The Tropical Hurricane season is arbitrarily said to end November 30. That's not a natural law and, historically, outliers have been observed. The implications of tropical storms arriving when it's cold out (e.g., 35F) need full attention. (If the air temperature were to get down to around 28F, even the sea water spray widely observed can begin to freeze.) Sandy made landfall on Monday night near Atlantic City, about 130 miles south of NYC. It was moving away from the NYC area at the time and continued to do so. While NYC area and the Sound were already on the "bad side" of the storm for wind and surge exposure, a small shift in earlier track direction might have substantially increased the impact there or, alternatively, around Philadelphia or Baltimore-Washington areas. Sandy needs to be clearly recognized as one example, not the model of what may be coming.
"With Big Event Canceled, Marathoners Hold Race of Their Own" and in a good spirit.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/sports/marathoners-hold-race-of-their-...
Dumb me: I thought Christie, Bloomberg, Cuomo and Obama could simply wave their magic wands in sync and --- ta da! --- everything would be back to normal. Just goes to show you that Big Gummint cain't do nuthin' nohow nowhere.However, such things as not letting non-union electricians from Alabama help out in Ny (or maybe it was NJ) because they are non-union does tend to slow things down just a wee bit.
That is adorable, Proska. You want us to pretend that you weren't politicizing this from the start. The polls I linked to are bipartisan. So you are out to lunch. As usual. Stop pronouncing on the state of New York. You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Mark --Yes, I did mean it. You need to take a much closer look and recognize the amazing job all sorts of people are doing and give them some support, not sarcasm. And i'm going to add something: remember the "tree-huggers" who warned 40 years ago about ending up "freezing in the dark"? Well take a look. Sadly, they were right. And there is likely to be more of it. The U.S. has extremely long coasts, and a huge proportion of the population lives all along them. So wise up. Now is the time to give up your Karl Rove/conservative myths and listen to what the scientists are saying. And, no doubt about it, it will cost PLENTY.
GrantFirst, if you recheck the link, youll see it is not to bipartisan polls, but to a talking points memo authored by a gentleman who went to NYU who interned at the New Yorker. I would hardly consider his analysis bipartisan.Second, are you actually demanding that I post no further comments on the city of New York? Seriously?Third, I understand that nerves can be on a knifes edge with the election so close. If it makes you feel any better, at this time I see Obama as a clear favorite to win re-election. Thats not based on any inside information, except maybe for Pennsylvania, but given that I dont know what the hell Im talking about, perhaps tist provides little comfort to you.
You politicized the storm. That disgusts me.
AnnI am sorry to hear that you did mean it, that is not like you. As it goes without saying that the sacrifice of our first-responders is laudable, I saw no need to say it.Now, as for the state of New York city, and the surrounding area, have you seen this?http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/02/FEMA-Still-Doesn-t-Ha... this?http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227307/Hurricane-Sandy-Misery-2... more.
An interesting summary of part of what is going on in the NY/NJ area is in the US Defense Department status report of its contributions to the FEMA response as of noon Nov 4. http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=118439
Mark --You seem to think that hurricane responders can predict where the massive amounts of supplies will be needed, where they can be safely stored ahead of time, and how fast they can get the supplies to people. But that cannot usually be done very well because hurricanes are essentially unpredictable at this point -- nobody knows just where they will hit. If some people made some silly promises, too bad. I don't think it was the head of FEMA or Mayor Bloomberg. If people are impatient, I can understand th at, but those who complain without ceasing don't seem to understand just what catastrophe is.
@Mark Proska (11/4, 7:57 pm) You are correct that TPM provides "commentary on political events from a politically left perspective" as editor and publisher Joshua Marshall has stated since he began the company. And you are correct about the biographical details of Kyle Leighton who wrote the article to which Grant Gallicho linked (11/4, 10:43 am).Since those biographical details are at the end of the article, I'm surprised you apparently didn't read this excerpt which appears near the top of the article: "Since Oct. 28, a national tracking poll by Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling has shown Obamas job approval making a net gain of 6 percentage points. PPP is also the only national poll tracking a similar metric for Romney, his favorability rating, on a daily basis. During the same period, Romneys favorability has dropped by a net 7 points.Other daily tracking polls have also shown Obama making similar gains. Republican-leaning Rasmussen showed a 5-point net boost since its Monday poll. A daily ABC News/Washington Post poll has put Obamas approval rating at 50 percent or above in nine of the 12 editions through Friday, and at 49 percent on the three other days." http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/obama-approval-superstorm-sand... of Mr. Leighton's or his employer's political views, this is a straightforward analysis of polling data. What's more, it's an analysis that includes the political leanings of some of the pollsters as well. Finally, it's an article that includes links to the data that undergirds its analysis. If you've got a critique of the content of the article, please make it. Attempting to dismiss it out of hand only serves to weaken your debate position (in my view).I can understand Ann Olivier's frustration with your behavior in this thread. If you've got an argument to make that FEMA in particular and government officials and agencies in general have performed less effectively thus far in response to Sandy than they and their counterparts did in the first few days after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, please make it, and make it based on the facts of the case.Otherwise you risk coming off as one of those so-called conservatives who has concluded that "reality has a well-known liberal bias", and has therefore decided not to let reality interfere with his/her opinions.
Along the lines of back-seating recreational activities; Is there any discussion of using places like the new Barclay Center for shelters?I read that many of our schools can't reopen because they're being used as emergency shelters. I think we need our schools much more than we need to see basketball games. Same with MSG and other indoor entertainment venues; is it possible to put them to more constructive uses during the emergency?
Irene -- Mayor Bloomberg talks schools about 2/3 of the way through a Nov 4 Press Release. The problems are widespread through the NJ/NY area, but the quantities he is dealing with add an aura of surrealism to me.http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2012b/pr391-12-static.html Classes are going to resume for nearly one million public school students tomorrow [Mon Nov 5]." We think something like 90 percent of the schools will be open tomorrow. 65 schools that we know wont be open. They includeeight schools with emergency shelters, as well as 57 schools that sustained serious damage " On Wed, kids from the 57 seriously damaged schools will go to alternative sites. Kids are to be dressed warmly since some buildings have no heat. "now [Nov 4] fewer than 75 schools, Im happy to say, without power; thats down from 178 yesterday,"
Jack- I was also struck by what seemed like pretty bad conditions in at least one school being used as an emergency shelter. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/nyregion/back-to-school-bundled-up-but... a substantial number of people still need emergency housing, we need to figure something out, which is no small thing in a city with housing scarcity.
Grant's sharp summary at 11/04 10:43am would be well illustrated by a set of pictures from The Atlantic, which suggests what "cleaning up" from a unique catastrophe is going to mean this winter and next year. Note the disappearance of the warring political campaign signs that were planted in so many front yards just a week ago. Nature may be communicating about priorities. http://m.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/hurricane-sandy-the-aftermath/1...
Grant Gallicho, Ann Olivier, Luke Hill:Thank you for your responses to Mark Proska.
Here's more (note well: Fortune Magazine is generally considered left of center):By Cyrus SanatiFORTUNE -- A combination of bad policy and poor planning exacerbated fuel shortages in New York and New Jersey last week and over the weekend, creating yet another headache for residents impacted by Hurricane Sandy. With a lack of backup power at pipeline pumping stations and gasoline storage facilities, it has been difficult to deliver fuel to the hardest hit areas of the storm.While New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday that the gas shortages should ease over the weekend, he has since changed his tune, saying on Sunday the problems will likely continue for an unspecified "number of days." As such, drivers in the region shouldn't expect a quick fix. Gas lines and rationing will continue as long as there remain kinks in the sensitive gasoline transport network.
Mark --NYCGiuliano's comparison to Katrina shows he doesn't know what he's talking about. You really do need to open your eyes to the nature of catastrophes and to the fact that they cannot be entirely prepared for in such a way that repairs can always happen quickly. Was there some stupid planning? Maybe so, but I assure you FEMA and Sandy doesn't compare with FEMA and Katrina. You can start with the communications, or rather lack thereof, at Katrina. FEMA has obviously impreoved greatly, and when you consider that the human costs due to Sandy (there must be at least 15 times more people involved in the worst hit areas), I have great respect for the work all those people are doing. Especially considering Katrina. I myself evacuated and could not return for 5 weeks -- and that was earlier than a great many people. I was lucky to have gas and electricity (I had just gotten it back), but I had to get a cell phone because my telephone wasn't working, and I also needed a new roof. I was one of the lucky ones.And while you're at it, consider that you just might be a bit biased. (See, I'm trying to be nice.)
Ann--Katrina was a strong category 3 hurricane when it made landfall. Sandy was not even strong enough to be classified as a hurricane when it made landfall. You're comparing apples with pumpkins.
"Superstorm Sandy packed more total energy than Hurricane Katrina at landfall" By Brian McNoldy, U. of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/sandy-pack... Daily for past week: Update on the US DoD and National Guard Response to Hurricane Sandy http://www.defense.gov/releases/
Mark P. --Yes, Katrina's winds were a "just" strong 3, but her surge, which came in from the Gulf when it was a 5, is what did most of the damage in New Orleans. Betsy was a 5 when it hit the Coast off New Orleans, but it didn't do nearly the damage that Katrina did. I stayed for that. Awesome is the only word. What was the difference? The meteorologists say that the *angle* at which the area is hit can make a big difference. In the case of Katrina it hit in such a way that it pushed a lot of Lake Pontchartrain (and no doubt the Gulf) over the city -- a lot of the flooding came from the north!My main point about Sandy was that it hit an area with a population which is at least 16 times larger tha the metropolitan New Orleans area. Metro N.O. is just somewhat over 1 million), so Sandy's target was bound to produce more damage and suffering -- there is more there to hit. Also, remember that Sandy's surge had been building up from the Bahamas. Surges do not calm down as quickly as the winds do after the winds peak.One thing I don't entirely understand is how few people evacuated. I suppose that is something you need to learn from experience. We didn't evacuate for Betsy, but left for Katrina. But there is the added great complication in the New York area -- where would those 16 million people go? Clevelnd, Chicago, Canada? Where are the rooms to hold them? Maybe it's not possible to evacuate the area. (For Katrina we went to Memphis. It was the closest we could get rooms.)
Ann -- On evacuation, imagine, if you haven't seen it, the normal daily 4 to 8+pm outflow from New York. Millions in functioning transportation go to intact homes with water, food, beds, gas, etc. available when they arrive. Massive multi-state transportation networks are both extremely high capacity and extremely crowded on an ordinary day. The population of NYC (8M) is about the same as the entire state of New Jersey and twice the population of the adjacent state of Connecticut. As Sandy approached, all nearby states were considered vulnerable. (Storm effects ended up observable as far west as Lake Michigan with 25ft waves and western Maryland with 2ft of snow.) One thing worse than no evacuation is evacuation in progress with roads and bridges jammed when the storm arrives. I believe the magnitudes of everything involved in the New York-New Jersey area make it unique and require some basic thinking different from what has been learned from big storms in Louisiana, Florida, and North Carolina. When the new lessons are learned, they may well help elsewhere next time the need arises.
Jack --You're entirely right. The situations are apples and oranges. It might be practical for some to leave early in the New York area, but certainly not all. In areas nearby the New York area the smaller coastal areas would differ. For instance, if a storm were going to hit eastern Massachusetts or southern Maine then large-scale evacuation might be practical because there are fewer people and there are places for the people to go. Not so with NYC. What must be remembered is that areas differ and hurricanes differ, but they are alike in being terribly destructive.Of course, if meterology could be improved significantly then predictions could be made much earlier. But I doubt you'll find a meteorologist who thinks that the big storms will ever be thoroughly predictable. Too many factors in their equations, and the factors change.The area is going to have to make some very big decisions soon. This will require a great deal of learning on the part of most people, I suspect, and I urge you all to find out more about the problems of your own particular area. Unfortunately, a proposed solution for one area (e.g. barriers in front of NYC) might impact nearby regions (e.g., the Jersey Coast and Connecticut) very badly, so there will undoubtedly be a lot of heavy-duty politicking about it. My only thought is that you should consider the possibility that some areas should not be built on at all. For instance, around here most of St. Bernard Parish (where some of my people used to live -- note the "used to") is just too low for habitation, at least that's how I see it. Those people just keep getting flooded out. The same might be true of parts of New Jersey and Delaware. Yes, very sad for the people who shouldn't go back. I might add that this probably also applies the the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. It's next to St.Bernard Parish and just too close to sea level.
"One thing I dont entirely understand is how few people evacuated. I suppose that is something you need to learn from experience. "And also, I'm not sure about this, but it sounded from the Mayor's releases, that some of the areas in which we were providing relief after the hurricane were still under mandatory evacuation. I was wondering why we weren't bringing people out of the area rather than bringing supplies in.My sister-in-law did not evacuate from Long Beach as ordered. Her husband didn't want to because the last evacuation turned out to be unnecessary. Unfortunately,this time around, the lower level of her house was badly damaged and the two family cars were destroyed.
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Irene --Sorry about your sister-in-law and her husband. But it's true that some things you just have to learn through experience. After Sandy there probably won't be much false optimism in your area for a long, long time. You are all in our prayers.


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I've created a table in Postgres 9.1 called 'markets' that contains data about a market in a specific US zip code. I've partitioned the data on the zip code column, using the first digit of the zip code. So I have a 'markets' table and 10 inherited tables such as markets_0, markets_1, etc.
My constraint for each of the inherited table looks like such:
CONSTRAINT markets_0_zip_check CHECK ("left"(zip::text, 1) = '0'::text)
CONSTRAINT markets_1_zip_check CHECK ("left"(zip::text, 1) = '1'::text)
and so forth, for child tables markets_0 through markets_9. I also have an insert trigger that handles storing the data in the proper table.
I loaded a few millions rows and ran EXPLAIN on the queries and everything looked fine when I queried on zip code. The query planner went straight to the appropriate table. However, after loading about 12 million rows of data, the query planner is now looking at all 10 tables, even though I'm querying on the zip code.
For example, a query such as this:
EXPLAIN select * from markets where zip='75254'
produces this:
-> Seq Scan on markets (cost=0.00..0.00 rows=1 width=116) (actual time=0.002..0.002 rows=0 loops=1)"
Filter: ((zip)::text = '75254'::text)"
-> Index Scan using index_markets_0_on_zip on markets_0 markets (cost=0.00..8.52 rows=1 width=118) (actual time=0.021..0.021 rows=0 loops=1)"
Index Cond: ((zip)::text = '75254'::text)"
-> Index Scan using index_markets_1_on_zip on markets_1 markets (cost=0.00..8.54 rows=1 width=118) (actual time=0.013..0.013 rows=0 loops=1)"
Index Cond: ((zip)::text = '75254'::text)"
-> Index Scan using index_markets_2_zip on markets_2 markets (cost=0.00..8.39 rows=1 width=118) (actual time=0.014..0.014 rows=0 loops=1)
Index Cond: ((zip)::text = '75254'::text)
and so forth for each of the 9 tables.
So here is what I've done to trouble-shoot this:
I've verified that
SET constraint_exclusion = partition;is enabled in my postgresql.conf file. I've tried setting this in the query itself with no difference in the results.
I've verified that there are no overlapping constraints or zip codes that don't start with 0-9.
I've verified that the data is being stored in each table properly.
I've run
VACUUM ANALYZEon each of the tables; just in case.
I have other partitioned tables that are working fine on the same server, so I'm stumped as to why this is no longer working.
Any ideas?

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Why is the
chown command root-only?
Why can't non-root users use chown to give away files they own?
Why is the
Most unix systems prevent users from "giving away" files, that is, users may only run
The reason for this restriction is that giving away a file to another user can allow bad things to happen in uncommon, but still important situations. For example:
On Linux, you need the CAP_CHOWN capability to chown. root is granted such. Refer to: http://vouters.dyndns.org/tima/Linux-OpenVMS-C-Implementing_chown.html for explanations. If you intend to give the CAP_CHOWN capability, build your code with libcap-ng or libcap as demonstrated by: http://vouters.dyndns.org/tima/Linux-PAM-C-Pluggable_Authentication_Modules_programming_example.html where you have to simple replace CAP_AUDIT_WRITE with CAP_CHOWN.
In the hope this can help you.
You can launch the command but it will not work if you are not root. It is easy : imagine a user which can change a software to root user. It can add the setuid bit and, voilà, the guy is root ! So, the use can add the bit with chmod, but no chance to change the owner of files.


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I have been reading the post:
Simple Complex Number Problem: 1 = -1
and other similar posts based on the manipulation of complex numbers.
If I want to simplify $\sqrt{(-1) \times (-1)}$, I would, using phasor algebra, do
$$\sqrt{(-1) \times (-1)} = \sqrt{-1} \times \sqrt{-1} = 1 \angle 90 \times 1 \angle 90 = 1 \angle 180 = -1$$
I believe the above way is neater and that I have the right answer.
Please do let me know what you think.
PS: What I'm doing is to avoid simplifying when under the square-root sign.
Thanks a lot...


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What is known in contemporary mathematics about orders of growth for functions that exceed any degree polynomial, but fall short of exponential? This is a subject for which I've found little literature in the past.
An example: $Ae^{a\sqrt x}$ clearly will outrun any finite degree polynomial, but will be outrun by $Be^{bx}$.
If we replace $x$ with $y^2$ then that example doesn't seem so deep. Are there functions that exceed polynomial growth yet fall short of $Ae^{ax^p}$ for any power $0<p<1$? What classes of functions can we distinguish with different kinds of in-between orders of growth? What can we know about their power series expansions, or behavior in the complex plane? Those are examples of the kinds of questions I have, and would like to find literature on.
Have any definitions or terminology been established concerning this? The right jargon will facilitate searching.


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I'm a 44 year-old male, fast-recreational cyclist -- about 6,000 miles/yr. -- who has used a heart rate monitor on and off for nearly 15 years. Quite honestly, I find it kind of aggravating, as it often seems like my heart knows what I want to do and refuses to do it! If trying to do a "recovery ride" my HR can rise so easily that its next to impossible to stay in the recovery zone, yet, when trying to do intervals, I often struggle to get to 150 BPM. I recently got an indoor trainer which had a built in power meter. (My first time using one.) Out of curiosity, this past week I decided that everyday, I would ride at a steady 200 watts -- which seems to be upper endurance or lower tempo zone for me -- for a while to see how it correlates to my heart rate. While I'm fully aware of how HR varies for numerous reasons, even I was surprised that my HR ranged from 123 BPM to 152 BPM for that same effort! (And both those reading were on consecutive days.) I don't do anything really structured, but have recently been following the basic concepts of the CTS training routines. (Doing their "field test" -- which ranged from 148 - 164 BPM for my tests -- then setting my zones accordingly.) Now, how in the heck am I supposed to do something like CTS's "climbing repeat intervals" -- which has a range of just 4 BPM -- if my HR varies by as much as THIRTY BPM for a given effort?!?! (Yes, I realize a power meter on a trainer may not be 100% accurate, but still.) In fact, if my HR varies that much, wouldn't that mean that, most of the time, while doing a "climbing repeat," I wouldn't be at the correct intensity, even if I strictly adhered to the "correct" HR zone? (I tried getting an LT test at the CTS Lab, but that failed . . . they couldn't draw enough blood to get accurate readings.) Looking back at my training logs, it seems I may have ridden better when just riding by feel. At the least, it was more enjoyable riding that way, rather than always struggling to stay in a prescribed zone. ("Oh, slow down, my HR is too high . . . wait, now it's too low, pick up the pace ... too high . . . too low . . . too high . . . ") Would I be better off going back to that? (I still had some structure, in terms of "recovery," "endurance," and "interval" days. I just didn't check or worry about being at a specific HR.) A power meter would be nice, but unless the prices came WAY down, forget it! If I do stay with the HR zone training, should I adjust the zones on a daily basis, based on whether my HR is high or low? (It becomes quickly apparent to me if its high or low. But the only way I would know by how much is to check on the indoor trainer before the ride.) But, hey, Eddy Merckx never used a heart rate monitor. Seems like he didn't do too bad . . .
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Based on your description of your issues with heart rate training, I'd be willing to bet that you are training daily, or without enough rest days between sessions, and that you are training above your cardio fitness level.
If you have a need to train to a goal, rather than just ride, try dropping the intensity of your training down a level, and make sure that you follow a good rest day schedule as well.
Our bodies don't gain during exercise. Exercise breaks us down. The gains come in the rest periods after exercise, when your body recognizes that it's been put through the ringer, and builds up to a peak that will support the new level of effort that is required.
The problem is that this peak effort stage only lasts a short period of time before your body goes back to what it's used to, and it's tricky to figure out that recovery period for yourself. The key is that if you exercise again at that recovery point, and then have a rest period, then you will make gains.
Push yourself again too early, and you prevent the build up from happening. Wait too long, and the gains are gone before you build on them.
Why is this relevant to your question? Because if you are seeing very different heart rates (especially higher rates) on the same course and level of effort over 2 consecutive days, then your body isn't finished with its building stage. You needed more rest before you push it again.
For me, I make the most gains when I ride hard, and then rest 2 days, another hard effort, then rest one day. Light effort, one day rest. Hard effort, 2 days rest. And so on.
But, and this is key, it's different for everyone. Following someone else's plan is good to figure out what works for you, but you will need to pay attention to the feedback your body gives you and modify accordingly. That feedback (at least in the cycling/training world) comes in the form of data from your heart rate and power meters, average speed, and perceived effort levels.
CTS has great training programs which are designed to be applicable to a lot of people. They may need to be modified to work well with your body.
This article may provide a bit of insight into some of the factors:
(It's running-oriented, but applicable to cyclists as well.)
Dehydration has a huge impact on my heart rate. I've seen it rise by 20 points or more when I'm badly dehydrated. Training within an hour or two of a meal also seems to raise my heart rate.
That said, the range of heart rates you're seeing seems suspicious. Have you tried using another HRM to check the accuracy of yours? FWIW, my HRM (a Garmin 500) shows erratic results if the strap contacts are insufficiently moistened or badly positioned on my chest.


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I am using Vegas Pro 10 and I can't find a (good) way to make pictures flying through the screen. Well, it's a little bit difficult to describe but what I am thinking of is a screen, where you can see small pictures coming from the background and growing to the middle of the screen, these pictures come in sequence und after it reaches a certain size it fades away. (A little bit like a Picture Gallery). So there is also a little bit of an 3D-Effect included. Maybe the best comparable situation is when you click [WIN] + [Tab] and then you go through the windows. Sorry for the bad eyplanation, I hope anybody gets what I am talking about ;)
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Vegas Pro 10 has two features that could help you out. Either using the Track Motion feature for the entire video track engaged with key frames, or the pan/crop feature for the shot itself engaged with key frames would allow for changes of size, shape, rotation, zooming, orientation (reverse, upside down) and such.
Here is a tutorial on Vegas (not sure of version but this will work in Pro 10) on how to use the Track Motion feature:
Here is a tutorial on Vegas Pro 10 on how to use the Pan/Crop feature:
If you are using more than one clip or several still images, you should use the Track Motion with key frames as the Pan/Crop feature works only with the shot itself.
Hope this helps.
Not sure if this was possible in Vegas 10 already, but in Vegas Pro 13 there is a transition called "3D Fly In/Out" which you could use to achive that effect. It probably much simpler than having to deal with pan/crop. As any transition it also offers the option to store your settings and re-apply them to other events.
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just a bit of fun...
Having seen Matt BCUK's thread on the Caldera Cone, I thought I'd have a go at designing a clone.
It actually started last night, as I was trying to figure out how to improve the vapour chamber in a Red Bull side burner. I decide that, rather than simply place the inner wall between the pressed rings on the can bases (which gives a very narrow vapour chamber), I thought I'd made an inverted conic section wall, held in place by the pressed ring at the top, but hitting the pressed dome of the bottom can.
A little bit of basic maths allowed me to derive the inner and outer radii and the conic sector angle to create a conic section of any size and shape I wanted.
Then I thought "hmmm... that's a Caldera Cone, isn't it..."
So, a bit of PostScript later, and we have a programmable Caldera Clone generator, written in PostScript, that allows you to set all tha parameters you need to suit your pan and burner setup:
Pan diameterPan heightBurner heightBurner flame offsetHandle widthHandle depthNumber of holes at bottomNumber of holes at topSize of holesScale to fit A3Split into two pages
The parameters are set by simply editing values in the file.
The idea is to print the design at full size (printing on two pages if necessary), and using the template to cut out some thin aluminium sheet (e.g. 'oven liner').
Now, if only I could find some of this mythical 'oven liner' that the Yanks seem to find at every corner shop and supermarket...
To use the file, cut & paste the following post, and save to a text file called clone.ps (or whatever name you want). Then use GhostScript/GSView to view and print the design.
Enjoy. It's only a bit of fun, after all...
The latest, fully configurable script for Clone, Flissure, Infernal and Strata options for the template, discussed in this very long thread, are now available with a user-friendly front end script generator at zenstoves:
Okay, here's an example...
This is very interesting and usefull Cap'n, thank you.
I recently experimented with a truncated cone like the caldera but not as tall/wide.
I wanted the mug (Alpkit) to sit on top of the cone, thus creating a stable base/pot support and windshield that would stop any heat being wasted up the side of the mug yet would be able to be rolled up inside the mug for storage. The only thing that puts me off the Caldera is the packing of it. Anyway the experiment was a flop as the stove was starved of oxygen even with large ventilation holes on one side.
I did all the calculations by hand and then used the drawing package at work to print it out but it was a very long and tedious affair. I'd like to go back and experiment some more with different sizes untill I get something that performs the way I want. This will make things much easier to do so I think.
I must admit I know nothing about Postscript/Ghostscript but I'm now off to trawl the net to learn.
(I just used stainles steel shim for my prototype/flop so will be hunting the mythical oven liner also)
Thanks Bigbananafeet (Sandy)
The first paper prototype managed to support my MSR Ti Kettle...
I didn't remember some of the sizes correctly (such as handle depth and width). They've now been corrected, allowing for top and bottom handle width settings, and the upper holes have been made bigger and moved down.
I also have a cunning plan for a simple locking mechanism for the interlocking tabs.
BBF, you shouldn't need to know much about PostScript, other than to edit the user parameters as indicated (and the 'expert' parameters if you wish).
GhostScript and GSView can be downloaded for free from here. They're very good tools.
Whilst the code isn't perfect (bashed in very quickly), it seems to cope with a reasonable range of parameter variation.
> windshield that would stop any heat being wasted up the side of the mug
Of course, there's a problem with this, as you must have a way for hot combustion gases to escape upwards; that's the only way they'll go... If you don't allow these gases to escape, the burner will go out. Or produce a lot of carbon monoxide.
The Caldera cone is a nice way of ensuring the hot gases stay in close contact with the pan, even if it's the side of the pan. As long as they're in contact with the pan, they'll continue heating the contents.
Very impressive! Thank you for your efforts.
A couple of questions if you don't mind?
Are the figures in the code the ones that you actually used for your MSR Titan Kettle? Or are they the pre-corrected ones? If so, what were your corrected ones? /forum/smilies/wink_smiley.gif ]
What does the 'Burner flame offset' variable represent? Is this the distance from burner top to pot bottom, or something else
I will also be very interested to see the version with the updated tabs.
I did some tests
classic windscreen: 12 gr
(home made) caldera windscreen:68 gr
used a ionstove
500ml water: 8°C-> 100°C
classic windscreen: 14 gr meth (=18 ml) -> 95°C (13 min.39sec)
caldera windscreen: 13 gr meth ->100°C (14 min. 20 sec)
esbit+ classic windscreen: 12 a 13 gr esbit (13 min.) ->100°Cesbit+ cone: 12 gr esbit (11 min.) ->100°C.
Yes, the burner offset is the gap between the top of the burner and the bottom of the pan.
In a Trangia, this is 24mm.
Having measured my MSR properly, the figures are:
/panHeight 95 def % height of pan/panDiam 116 def % diameter of pan outer walls immediately under rim/handleWidth 22 def % max width of pan handles/handleDepth 78 def % measured from top of pan to lowest point on handle
I've since refined the design to allow top and bottom handle widths, nice rounded corners on the handle hole, and a finger locking mechanism.
If anyone wants the latest version, drop me an email. It's a massive 6013 bytes (oh, the beauty of PostScript!)...
Oh, and I should point out that I've only ever seen pictures of a genuine Caldera Cone. I just took the basic conic section idea and designed the rest of the features.
The ratio of pan diameter to base diameter, for instance, is set to 1.5, as that seemed reasonable. I don't know what is 'correct', but, since you can set it to any value you like, it's up to you...
Im dowloading the ghostscript program right now and I'll have a play with it. I'll probably email you for the latest version later Captain.
Cheers Bigbananafeet.
Another attempt, this time with the correct pan height (86mm). Note the narrower handle opening.
> if you're fortunate enough to be using OS X on a Mac - a FAR better hiking computer setup IMO
Unless you want to run any of the mapping programs...
Macs may run DisplayPostScript; the Next machines did; i.e. native PostScript display.
GSView runs perfectly well, and is better for PostScript code development, as it includes debug information if you mess up. Well, I'm guessing Preview won't do this, not having a Mac...
Glad you think it may be of use. As I said, email me for the latest version.
> Im dowloading the ghostscript program right now
BBF: you'll need GSView as well; this is the 'front end' to GhostScript.
did you make a cone out of aluminium or are you still on the oven liner quest?
Seriously, have you located a suitable material for this?
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I am curious how a child can be helped to move on from his/her pacifier, and what age is a good age to do this?
In my opinion, I'd have them self-pacifying before they go to school at the very latest. Since you don't know how long it will take to wean them off, it's probably better to give yourself a head start of 6 months - a year before the time you'd like them cut off.
Start weaning them off by having it for exclusive use only: only for bedtime, only in the car, etc...
Other parents have done the following to stop it cold-turkey:
Get them down to using a single pacifier, then cut a sliver off of the pacifier each day, making it shorter and shorter. I would recommend getting them off the pacifier before they are old enough to rationalize missing it; 8 - 13 months old maybe.
Dummy / Pacifier use should stop between the ages of 6 months and 12 months ...
...and they should only be used at night time before then
As for how to stop, you could try "PANTLEY'S GENTLE REMOVAL PLAN"
Our first daughter used to leave her binky everywhere. Eventually we started telling her that the dog would eat it if she left it laying around.
Then, one day, "the dog ate it." She howled for a while the first night, had a minor meltdown for the next couple nights, and then that was it.
Our second daughter gave it up on her own with very mild prodding.
My youngest son has decided that he likes his thumb better. I'm not sure what I'm going to do if he doesn't stop on his own -- it's not like I can take that away from him. :-)
Why do children suck pacifiers? Answering that question helps unravel the weaning puzzle. Infants are born with a sucking reflex and sucking is a natural and effective calming strategy. They are born with a NEED to suck. As their motor, vision, and attending skills develop, healthy children should be encouraged to learn more age appropriate calming strategies. It is so important for our children to learn self-regulation of their emotions so they can calm themselves appropriately as they develop.
Weaning from nursing/bottle feeding is possibly the best time to wean from the pacifier because they no longer NEED to rely on sucking.
Even if it does not change their teeth (OFTEN it does) it always changes their swallow pattern which OFTEN leads to muscle weakness, facial changes, and later speech problems. I see soooo many children with these problems. Here is a link to the International Association of Orofacial Myology that has a good overview of swallow development and possible complications/consequences.
A really cute book that kids enjoy about pacifier weaning is "The Last Noo-Noo." Parents find this helpful with the pacifier rite of passage.
I had a pacifier until 5 years old. An aunt of mine promised to give me the big present I wanted only if I'd get rid of it. And it worked.
I heard that you don't really need to worry unless the teeth get deformed from the too intensive sucking. When the child will go to school, the mockery of other children will quickly make it uninteresting.
My daughter is 12 and she still wants to use and pacifier i tell her no but recently I've caught her sleeping with one and also i caught her buying a packet of Tesco loves baby 2 pack butterfly soothers. so i would say anytime they stop wanting to use one. i have Spoken to her but she says they are for her reborn she is getting for her Christmas so i let her away with it but secretly i know they are for her. she never use one for 8 years. personaly i would let them do what i did stop them at 2-3 then if they want to start using one again at 10-12 let them. hopes this helps thanks xx
I say get rid of it around 6 months to a year for sure. If your child is 2 years old and still asking for his pacifier, I say tell him he's a big boy now and it's time to throw it away. Encourage fun activities because he is a big boy (or girl)! Deal with the crying for a couple of days, and bam they are over it! I assure you they will be fine!


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I want to get cpu usage of the phone and then draw on PC.
I want to do like this:
First, run a background process in the phone which caculate the CPU usage and show in terminal.
Second, use adb commnad to get the terminal output.
Finally, draw curve with data.
I'm confused wheather it will work normally without big latency. At first, I want to put the cpu usage into a file, and use command of 'adb pull' to pull the file, then read the file and draw. I thought this may cause big latency.
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More legal help, right?Hide replies
hes going to need it_
better start singing braunie_
I would use PEDs too if my job was to perform at a high level in professional sports and when it could mean getting a "set for life" contract. Big deal. How about these people go and put this kind of effort in to catching child predators or something.Hide replies
theres gotta be more specific documentation on the 1500 dollars.
Barry Bonds, is that you?
no, just big mac.
So, eagleeyes, you would cheat, lie, whatever it took just so you can make the big bucks? Nice set of integrity you got there.
This blog is just a re-hash of the ESPN document the JS already posetd earlier.
Not looking good for us who stood by him. Makes us look like dam fools. Mr. Braun, I make myself look like a fool plenty, I don't need your assistance.Hide replies
No but the Brewers do if they want any chance at winning their division.
let me guess... you stand by your initial statement and have nothing else further to say Braunie? it's getting deep real quick.
looking forward to the moron responses about 'there's no definitive proof'... we are now inching toward the final act of the lance armstrong saga here.Hide replies
better call Oprah_____________
The ESPN report says the list is not "definitive proof" that Braun received or used PEDs. But it said a source indicated the players on the list received PEDs and that there was "no other reason to be on that paper."
Still no definitive proof
why wouldnt the legal advise charge be on some other document?
yes, yes... the first to accept. i should remind you there is also nothing in the report that precludes you from using common sense in forming your own conclusion. i know you're waiting for a hand scribed admission of guilt with a picture of Braun putting a needle in his booty but that usually doesn't happen in these cases.
You don't use a needle to take PED's.
imo only the naive believe braun is clean. and the organization looks like sycophants from the comments i have seen. braun stiffing all of us with is silence and behavior.Hide replies
He doesn't own you anything. If he wants to keep his mouth shut so what? Some of you act like you are special and deserve every athlete to answer all your questions, however personal. I say get real, they own you nothing but 100% effort on the field and he gives that.
He's obviously been juicing, but I really don't care anymore. Obviously he isn't the first and won't be the last. He doesn't look like a freak (Bond/McGwire), so its easier to handle in that regard. Hopefully he quits, but I don't care... Keep testing, fining/suspending those folks getting caught, and move along. If you do get caught, no hall of fame, more like the hall of shame... The money/reward is just too high for these guys..you'll never stop it.Hide replies
its so out of control we should just throw in the towel___
I wonder at what point teams look to get out of certain contracts on this under some legal speak. It's difficult but I wouldn't be surprised if teams push for contract termination agreements if PED usage is proven against a player, by test or circumstances. While this doesn't necessarily "prove" anything for sure, I'll again say where there's smoke, there's fire. And where's there's smoke three times, the fire is pretty darn big.Hide replies
Why would the Brewers want to terminate Braun's contract? Even if he was suspended, and he wasn't and won't be, he is still a great player that helps them win. This isn't a contest to see who is more righteous, this is baseball and nothing more. Braun could have gotten more money as a free agent and choose to stay in Milwaukee and that makes him a great person to me.
The primary reason for termination clauses is to show the players the game is bigger than them and put real financial consequences into the picture. A secondary reason is to get out of a deal you no longer want on the books thereby wiping out long term liabilities.
Take the A-Rod deal - the Yankees want out. The Braun deal could become similar if we say his performance was enhanced and he becomes an average player clean. At that point, wouldn't it be in the club's best interest to explore termination of contract as you'd be paying him large dollars to be average and the deal was signed under circumstances that later revealed dishonest and borderline fraudulant behavior on the field?
I just try to think of the next step for teams and MLB to take if they are serious about cleaning things up. Harsher punishments and voiding of contracts could go a long ways.
Agreed Bo Ryan Braun! I posted this same thing the other day. Until MLB start voiding contracts if people are caught using PED there will always be players trying to cheat. I propsed putting a lab in every park and players are tested weekly....YES weekly. If caught using, you will be forced to play at league minimum and contract is voided. Wow would that clean things up. Right now doing steriods pays because there is no deterrent. Get caught you still keep you big contract.
Fool me once, strike one. Fool me twice, STRIKE. THREE.Hide replies
Wouldn't 'fool me twice', be srtike two?
Not unless you want Braunie to get one more chance than he deserves to come clean.
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I am a little confused on how a wizard's spellbook works.. I used the dnd insider to help me create my character so I am assuming it knows what it's doing.. anyway, it's allowing me to take 3 at will powers, 2 encounter, and 2 daily powers. Am I allowed to use all of these before I take an extended rest, or does this have something to do with my spellbook where I have to pick and choose what to cast after every rest?
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The powers you're picking are what is available in your spellbook. You can cast any at-will and non-utility encounter powers as if you were a normal class. However, after each extended rest, you must pick which one daily or utility power of each level you will have accessible until the next extended rest.
All the spellbook lets you do is swap out which dailies and utilities you have selected. You can only swap after an extended rest, and can only swap for other powers in your spellbook.