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(CBS) An former FBI agent has pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to the Associate Press relating to a disrupted terrorist plot.
Donald J. Sachtleben, an ex-FBI bomb technician from Indiana, disclosed the existence of a foiled terrorist attack to an AP reporter in April and May of 2012.
The information revealed the existence of an upgraded underwear bomb to be detonated on an airplane by a suicide bomber. The CIA disrupted the Yemen-based plot masterminded by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
After pleading guilty, Sachtleben said in a written statement, "I am deeply sorry for my actions. While I never intended harm to the United States or to any individuals, I do not make excuses for myself. I understand and accept that today's filings start the process of paying the full consequences of my misconduct, and I know that the justice system I once served so proudly will have its say."
The story, published by the Associated Press on May 7, 2012, triggered one of the most aggressive leak investigations ever.
Sachtleben worked for the FBI from 1983 through 2008 during which he was assigned to work on many major cases involving terrorist attacks.
In a separate twist to the case, nine days after leaking the defense information to the AP, Sachtleben was arrested on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography resulting from a separate investigation to which he later also pleaded guilty.
The plea agreements call for Sachtleben to be sentenced consecutively to almost 12 years in total in prison, including a 43-month prison term for the national security offenses and a 97-month term for the child pornography charges.
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Main | Risk Factors | Symptoms | Diagnosis | Treatment | Medications | Surgery | Other Treatments | Screening | Reducing Your Risk | Talking to Your Doctor | Resource Guide
If you are experiencing any symptoms of preterm labor, call your doctor immediately. Depending on your symptoms, your doctor may tell you to come to the office or the hospital. Your doctor may also advise you to stay at home. If advised to stay at home, your doctor may tell you to drink two to three glasses of water or juice and rest on your left side for one hour. If your symptoms do not improve in one hour, or improve but return later, call your doctor again or go to the hospital. If your symptoms go away, lie down for the rest of the day. Your doctor may ask you to come to the office for a checkup.
If your preterm labor symptoms progress, you should go to the hospital. Treatment at the hospital may include the following:
Your doctor may decide not to treat your preterm labor. In such cases, labor is allowed to continue to delivery. These cases may include:
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ACOG practice bulletin no. 127: Management of preterm labor. Obstet Gynecol . 2012;119(6):1308-1317.
Late-Preterm Infants. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Committee Opinion No. 404, April 2008. (Reaffirmed 2011)
Prematurity. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://dynamed.ebscohost.com/about/about-us . Updated April 18, 2013 . Accessed April 23, 2013.
Preterm labor. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://dynamed.ebscohost.com/about/about-us . Updated March 15, 2013 . Accessed April 23, 2013.
Preterm labor and birth. March of Dimes website. Available at: http://www.marchofdimes.com/pregnancy/preterm_indepth.html . Updated September 2012. Accessed April 23, 2013.
Preterm labor. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists website. Available at: http://www.acog.org/~/media/For%20Patients/faq087.pdf?dmc=1&ts=20130423T0923201528 . Accessed April 23, 2013.
What treatments are used to prevent preterm labor and birth? National Institute of Child Health & Human Development website. Available at: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/preterm/conditioninfo/Pages/treatments.aspx . Updated November 30, 2012. Accessed April 23, 2013.
Last reviewed March 2015 by Andrea Chisholm, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Introduce him to us.
That particular wreath was on reddit? I can judge him before I meet him.
CHANG! That's mean. I was happy for you because I thought you met a real boy.
Also, don't be offended if you see me calling guys f4gs. It doesn't actually have anything to do with sexuality, I just like to call people names sometimes.
you flufferpump
also also, pretty sure i've done a pre-op at least once. so, yeah
if i went too far there, plz delete <3
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actually it was more like several
Last edited by Sir Legendhead; 12-18-2012 at 10:57 PM. Reason: she was hot tho
I did meet a boy. We hit it off. He's moving to Dallas for a few months though, so we're both back on the market.
That actually is one of my babies that I posted though.
I didn't actually father him or anything, but when you buy one in a yard sale that's as fair as fair gets
Very poor centralization. Shame on you.
Shhh you! That picture was taken last year and I was probably drunk when I took the picture and hung it up.
Or my kid did it and she was like, 6.
I want one for next year and FOREVER AFTER.
That is actually amazing, too bad I don't do Christmas stuff in the house anymore
I might just celebrate Alicemas this year.


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Yankee Stadium to host second Chelsea friendly
- 08 April 2013 14:00
- Posted by @markbooth_mcfc
City will take a bite out of the Big Apple on Saturday 25 May 2013 at one of the world's most iconic sporting venues.
The Champions meet Chelsea at Yankee Stadium in a second post-season friendly in the United States.
Just 48 hours after the sold out game at St Louis Cardinals' Busch Stadium, the second part of this historic double header against the 2011/12 European champions will take place at 5.30pm EST.
Tickets to the first game between City and Chelsea in St Louis were all snapped up in a record time of just twenty minutes and the New York game is also expected to be popular.
Ferran Soriano, CEO of Manchester City Football Club said: "Since City's visit to the United States in 2010, our relationship with North American fans has continued to grow.
"We are enthusiastic believers in the development of soccer in the US and have seen first-hand the passion that North American supporters have for the beautiful game. We are delighted to bring City to their doorstep."
"Yankee Stadium is a fantastic venue, rich in tradition and history.
"We are honoured to have been invited to play there."
...Ferran Soriano - CEO of Manchester City FC...
City have been continuously engaging with US supporters over the past few years, building new Manchester City soccer fields in some of the most deprived communities of New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago, with another soon to open in Washington.
This contest will be the third football match to be played at the current Yankee Stadium.
The first took place on July 22, 2012, with Chelsea FC and Paris Saint-Germain playing to a 1-1 draw in front of 38,202 fans. On August 8, 2012, Real Madrid defeated A.C. Milan, 5-1.
This tradition of top level football in the stadium carries on the sporting heritage from the original Yankees Stadium which hosted some of European football's most illustrious clubs, including Real Madrid, Barcelona and AC Milan.
Pele also called the original Yankee Stadium home when he represented New York Cosmos back in the 1970s.
City legend Dennis Tueart played alongside him.
Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning on Wednesday, April 10 at 10am (CST) at www.yankees.com/soccer.
For updates and further details, including suite opportunities, please visit www.yankees.com/soccer or follow @yankeesevents on Twitter.
To become a Yankees.com subscriber and have access to pre-on-sale availability, please visit www.yankees.com/subscribe.
Keep up to date with information about City's international tour at mcfc.co.uk/Tour-2013.
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Valve just released Alien Swarm on steam, along with all the source code. I would love to build a version of it on my own machine and play a little bit with the code.
Has anyone here tried to build it yet? Is it easy enough to just build and run it?


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What Health Care Can Learn from the Plastic Surgery Marketplace
Consumer Power Report #375
We all know the stories about what price transparency can do within the health care marketplace. It's amazing how, unlike any other industry, the simple act of posting prices online is worthy of a news story.
One great example of how health care marketplaces can work, if only they're allowed to, is within the realm of plastic surgery, where prices have been posted for decades. Devon Herrick of the National Center for Policy Analysis has done some interesting new work on this topic:
Cosmetic surgery is one of the few types of medical care for which consumers pay almost exclusively out of pocket. In health markets without third-party payers, doctors and clinics use price competition, package prices, convenience, and other amenities in order to attract patients willing to purchase their services. When patients pay their own medical bills, they become prudent consumers. Thus, the real (inflation-adjusted) price of cosmetic surgery fell over the past two decades – despite a huge increase in demand and considerable innovation. Since 1992:
- The price of medical care has increased an average of 118 percent.
- The price of physician services rose by 92 percent.
- All goods, as measured by the inflation rate, increased by 64 percent.
- Cosmetic surgery prices only rose only about 30 percent.
One interesting note is that these prices rose even as the arena became far more innovative. Herrick writes:
Consider corrective eye surgery. From 1999 through 2011, the price of conventional Lasik fell about one-fourth due to intense competition. Eye surgeons who wanted to charge more had to provide more advanced Lasik technology, such as Custom Wavefront and IntraLase (a laser-created flap). By 2011, the average price per eye for doctors performing Wavefront Lasik was about what conventional Lasik had been more than a decade ago; but the quality is far better. In inflation-adjusted terms, this represents a huge price decline.
Now, unlike emergency care, cosmetic surgery is the sort of thing you plan ahead for, with the ability to compare doctors and prices. But the truth is that emergency services account for only a small portion of overall medical expenses in the United States. And even those who need to seek immediate care often find it's much less expensive to shop around and avoid the ambulance. This reminds me of this incredible feature on an uninsured California writer who had an accident, and still took time to shop around:
For our third stop, we visited a branch of Medical Urgent Care Clinics. That it was on the second floor of a building with no elevator was not ideal, but it had good reviews on Yelp. I managed with my girlfriend's help to hop up the stairs. To our happy surprise, the place was empty, and they treated me right away. The cost: a flat $75 cover fee. Dr. Saravia, a young, pretty doctor who received her training in Guatemala, expressed empathy upon seeing my bloodied leg, much of it dirt-black from the road rash, and then she began to clean me up, with the help of a younger nurse. Sensitive to my finances, she consulted me before every injection she felt she needed to make, telling me the price of each. It was like being in a restaurant and hearing the specials. Most were vaccinations, and I chose to get them all and pay the $25 per-shot fee.
Two-and-a-half hours later, my wounds were all cleaned up. I ended up requiring stitches on both knees because the cuts were too big to heal on their own. For three or four weeks, I'd be unable to bend my legs. The doctor told us that she suspected that my left foot had some breakage and sent me to get X-rays at a separate location, five minutes away. At the X-ray shop, we learned that each X-ray would cost $75. My girlfriend repeated the two magical words, "no insurance," and began to engage in a combination of pleading and haggling. They agreed to do an X-ray of my foot and one of my knees for $75 total …
A few years ago, when everyone was debating healthcare reform, people talked about changing the system to give patients more incentives to save money. Having insurance makes you spend more, it was said, and having skin in the game makes you save. I admit they have a point. If I'd had insurance I would have said yes to the ambulance. I would have gotten my treatment in the ER. I would've said yes to most of the recommendations made by my doctors. I would not have been panicking about money. I would not have driven around to a half dozen different places patching together treatment. The way I did things, I made sure that my doctors did only what they felt was absolutely necessary, and I saved a lot. But it was a hell of a way to cut costs.
The aim of policymakers ought to be making this kind of shopping much easier, particularly for non-emergency care. People will respond to price transparency, just as they do in other marketplaces. And no one will ever care what something costs as long as someone else is paying for it.
-- Benjamin Domenech
Paul Krugman and others are crowing that California shows Obamacare working. Not so fast my friend: you'll be paying more and getting less.
Today, you can go to EHealthInsurance.com and find the cheapest plan fitting this description for your age – at $111 per month, the California Farm Bureau's HSA 4500 plan. You're on the hook for your first $4,500 in medical bills (your deductible), but you're totally in the clear after that because there's no coinsurance above that. The terms are as simple as can be, and they are exactly the same for prescription drugs and everything else. With this plan, you'll never pay as much as 10 percent of your current income toward health care in any given year – and that includes your health insurance premiums. (If you want, you can set up a Health Savings Account and use pre-tax money to pay your medical bills, but that's entirely up to you.)
I ran the details of this bare-bones near-catastrophic plan through the HHS actuarial value calculator and found that it would qualify for Bronze status, with an actuarial value of 63.3 percent.
Alas, this plan won't qualify, because this plan will no longer be available when the exchange starts up. This morning, California's state health exchange – California Covered – unveiled the options that consumers will have in the individual market beginning next year when the exchange becomes operational. So what can you expect? The cheapest bare-bones plan you can get in the entire state is more than $200 per month. But that might not be available to you, depending on which region you live in. If you live in say, Napa County, you can't get any kind of health insurance through the exchange for less than $257 per month (corrected). The California Farm Bureau isn't offering plans on the new exchange. So it looks like you're just going to pay a lot more.
More on what California is doing here and here.
SOURCE: Conservative Intelligence Briefing
Idaho and New Mexico: We won't be ready.
Two states that had planned to run their own health-insurance exchanges this fall are asking the federal government for help in the first year, a sign of the obstacles states face in carrying out a centerpiece of the health-care overhaul.
Idaho and New Mexico had been among a few Republican-led states that had agreed to operate their own health exchanges, which will offer a variety of insurance plans for people who don't have coverage otherwise.
But both states' health-insurance board chairmen said this week they can't get their computer systems ready by Oct. 1 and need the federal government to help. Open enrollment for currently uninsured Americans to shop and sign up for health insurance on the new exchanges begins Oct. 1, with coverage effective on Jan. 1.
That leaves the federal government responsible for running all or part of the exchanges in at least 36 states. President Barack Obama's health-care law had envisioned all 50 states running their own exchanges but created a federal exchange as a backup.
The state legislation formally authorizing them to proceed wasn't signed into law until the end of March, which gave the states too little time to prepare the computer systems that will process insurance applicants.
"It's a real task to be able to put this all in place by Oct. 1," said James Damron, chairman of New Mexico's health-insurance exchange board. Dr. Damron said the board, which wasn't named until the end of April, believes it is feasible to get a small-business exchange running by Oct. 1 but not the one for individuals.
In Idaho, the board overseeing the exchange also wasn't established until last month. The board's chairman, Stephen Weeg, said the federal government will run the enrollment and eligibility portions of the state's exchange because a computer contractor hasn't been selected. Idaho consumers could still log on to the exchange's website Oct. 1 to sign up for health insurance, he said. But behind the scenes, federal computers would determine who is eligible for subsidies on insurance.
Federal officials say they are monitoring each state's progress and can absorb more states into the federal computer system if needed. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which run the federal health-insurance exchange, confirmed it will run the technology behind the Idaho and New Mexico exchanges but said it still considers those state-based exchanges.
Remember, what we're talking about here is a Web site. A billion-dollar Web site.
SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
A marketplace with fewer choices:
California's health insurance rates for a new state-run marketplace came in lower than expected this week, but one downside for many consumers will be far fewer doctors and hospitals to choose from.
People who want UCLA Medical Center and its doctors in their health plan network next year, for instance, may have only one choice in California's exchange: Anthem Blue Cross. Another major insurer in the state-run market, Blue Shield of California, said its exchange customers will be restricted to 36% of its regular physician network statewide.
And Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, one of Southern California's most prestigious and expensive hospitals, said it's not included in any exchange plans at the moment.
Those types of exclusive arrangements, increasingly tight networks and outright exclusions are becoming more common as insurers and government officials search for ways to hold down rising medical costs.
The vast majority of Californians get their health coverage through their employers and won't be immediately affected by these limitations in the state-run market. But private companies are pursuing similar changes to shave costs. More employers have been adopting these narrower networks and the government's overhaul of the individual insurance market is accelerating the trend.
Some consumer advocates express concern that insurers will go too far and deprive patients of meaningful choices. State officials sought to blunt that criticism this week, pointing out that the 13 health insurers selected will offer access to about 80% of California's practicing physicians and hospitals.
"If we want to keep costs down, something has to give," said Betsy Imholz, special projects director for Consumers Union. "At first blush, it seems like Covered California has negotiated some good deals, but in any given community we will see how this network issue plays out."
Covered California, the state agency implementing the federal healthcare law, said these trade-offs are necessary in many cases to keep premiums reasonable for California's families.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
The method of Obamacare's passage thwarts technical changes.
Almost no law as sprawling and consequential as the Affordable Care Act has passed without changes – significant structural changes or routine tweaks known as "technical corrections" – in subsequent months and years. The Children's Health Insurance Program, for example, was fixed in the first months after its passage in 1997.
But as they prowl Capitol Hill, business lobbyists like Mr. DeFife, health care providers and others seeking changes are finding, to their dismay, that in a polarized Congress, accomplishing them has become all but impossible.
Republicans simply want to see the entire law go away and will not take part in adjusting it. Democrats are petrified of reopening a politically charged law that threatens to derail careers as the Republicans once again seize on it before an election year.
As a result, a landmark law that almost everyone agrees has flaws is likely to take effect unchanged.
"I don't think it can be fixed," Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said in an interview. "Everything is interconnected, 2,700 pages of statute, 20,000 pages of regulations so far. The only solution is to repeal it, root and branch."
Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana and one of the law's primary authors, said: "I'm not sure we're going to get to the point where it's time to open the bill and make some changes. Once you start, it's Pandora's box."
As the clock ticks toward 2014, when the law will be fully in effect, some businesses say that without changes, it may be their undoing.
SOURCE: New York Times
The Washington Post reports:
White House records show that Elizabeth Fowler, then a top health-policy adviser to President Obama, met with executives from half a dozen investment firms in 2011 and 2012. Among them was Kris Jenner, a stock picker with T. Rowe Price Investment Services who managed its $6 billion Health Sciences Fund.
Separately, an official in the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid spoke in December with managers of hedge funds, pension plans and mutual funds in a conference call. The official, Andrew Shin, was pressed during the 50-minute call for information about upcoming Medicare decisions but declined to discuss matters still under agency review, according to people familiar with the call.
That call and the White House meetings Fowler attended were arranged by political-intelligence firms, an expanding class of consultants in Washington that specialize in providing government information to Wall Street.
Hedge fund executives and other investors are increasingly interested in the timing and nature of health-policy decisions in Washington because they directly affect the profits and stock prices of pharmaceutical, insurance, hospital and managed-care companies. Similar interest surrounds other industry sectors, such as defense, agriculture and energy, whose fortunes are especially dependent on government decisions.
There is no evidence that the private discussions with the two administration officials about health-care decisions provided investors with confidential agency information or that the investors made trades based on what they learned. But this sort of intelligence gathering has been drawing attention from lawmakers and federal investigators who are looking at whether some traders are gaining access to information that is not available to investors in general or the wider public.
SOURCE: Washington Post
It remains unpopular.
Fifty-four percent of Americans oppose President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, according to a CNN poll released Monday, while 43 percent support the law.
Majorities have consistently opposed the law, which subsidizes and expands coverage while making it mandatory for Americans to buy health insurance, since its passage in 2010.
Thirty-five percent of the country opposes the law because it's too liberal, while 16 percent argues it isn't liberal enough.
The poll was conducted on May 17 and May 18, days after House Republicans again voted to repeal Obamacare. The poll of 923 adults has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
SOURCE: Politico
How Obamacare will warp consumer information. http://vlt.tc/vnp
The balance of price transparency and confidentiality. http://vlt.tc/vo8
Obamacare won't cover weight loss surgery in most states. http://vlt.tc/vo3
Sebelius under scrutiny. http://vlt.tc/vnc And on the political hot seat. http://vlt.tc/vne
Hobby Lobby appeal tests limits of federal birth-control coverage mandate. http://vlt.tc/vl1
Coming soon to America: A two-tiered, Canadian-style health care system. http://vlt.tc/vlk
Exchanges under attack. http://vlt.tc/voa
Threats fly in Arizona over Medicaid. http://vlt.tc/vo9
In Maine, LePage delivers instant veto after hospital debt, Medicaid bill passes Senate. http://vlt.tc/vlh
Rhode Island health insurers seek double-digit premium hikes. http://vlt.tc/vo4
Maryland already sets hospitals' prices. Now it wants to cap their spending. http://vlt.tc/vm1
Illinois should not expand its Medicaid Industrial Complex. http://vlt.tc/vo7
The IRS's role in implementing Obamacare. http://vlt.tc/vl7
Obama still trying to sell law to the public. http://vlt.tc/vo5
Details emerge on Arkansas Medicaid expansion. http://vlt.tc/vkq
Passing off Medicaid expansion as reform. http://vlt.tc/vl6
Linda Gorman on Obamacare's war on men. http://vlt.tc/vob
Closing racial and ethnic gaps. http://vlt.tc/vns
How state governments rip hundreds of billions off federal taxpayers using health insurance premium taxes. http://vlt.tc/vmu
Eyelid lifts skyrocket for Medicare patients. http://vlt.tc/vo6


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Bouncers are one of those parenting products that can really make a difference—anything that soothes a fussy baby or offers mom a few moments of much-deserved quiet time is alright in our book.
While admittedly there are higher-end products on the market that may look more modern or offer more bells and whistles, the Elephant March Cradling Bouncer by Bright Starts gets the job done.
While it's important to note that you should never leave a baby completely unattended in his bouncer, it is nice to find a product that has taken extra care to ensure your wee one is as safe as possible when he's out of your arms. The Elephant March bouncer has an adjustable 3-point safety harness and non-slip feet, so baby stays put, and the toy bar is easy to remove with one hand, which allows for immediate access.
As far as entertainment goes, this particular bouncer is a simple solution to help soothe baby. It comes with three toys—a soft lion, a plush giraffe and a spinning rattle—that are all adorable and, more importantly, keep an infant completely mesmerized. The cradle-like seat is cozy for baby and the light colors are attractive and calming. The bouncer lightly vibrates and includes 5 different melodies, and it also comes with an automatic shut-off feature, so the vibrations stop once your baby is lulled to sleep.
Notably, one of the most appealing features of this bouncer is its price—at only $25, it makes a great gift or a pain-free purchase if you find yourself in a pinch and need a bouncy seat while you're away from home. (Hey, it's not always possible to take everything to grandma's for the holidays!) If you do find yourself having to satisfy a fussy baby with a bouncer during your travels, and the low price-point doesn't convince you, then this will: it comes ready to rumble, right out of the box—no tools are necessary! (You will need 3 C batteries to make the music play, though!) For sleep-deprived parents, the ability to forgo a long, technical instruction manual is a perk that can't be beat. Plus, the seat pad is machine washable, another very convenient plus that is easy to appreciate.
All in all, this bouncer is definitely a catch for parents who are trying to stick to a budget or get a little more bang for their buck.
Price: $25
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The Great Taos Bank Robbery: And Other True Stories of the Southwest (Paperback)
In this extraordinary collection, Tony Hillerman presents the Southwest as only he can, choosing remarkable true tales from his personal archives of local lore. As you read these stories, you will be amazed, astounded, and oftentimes confounded by the power of ingenuity, serendipity, and the strange, comical coincidence of life and how it proves, once again, that truth is ultimately stranger than fiction.
From the amusing title story of the holdup that didn't happen, to the riveting account of scientists tracking Black Death through the arroyos, to the ironic account of how a black cowboy's commonsense intelligence destroyed the dogma of the Smithsonian Institution, master storyteller Tony Hillerman reveals the present and timeless past of one of America's most beautiful and haunting regions.
About the Author
Tony Hillerman was the former president of the Mystery Writers of America and received its Edgar® and Grand Master awards. His other honors include the Center for the American Indians Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for the best novel set in the West, and the Navajo Tribes Special Friend Award. He lived with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.


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Can anybody explain the historical context and the reasons for which the comic below, preserved to the British Museum, was painted? What is its meaning? Why is Napoleon so little? And, more generally, what role did British cartoonists play in the early 1800 in reference to communicate ideas to public opinion?
This painting 'The Cossack Extenguisher' was drawn by William Elmes in 1813.
Description of the painting: from BritishMuseum
Reason for the painting:
This painting was drawn after the Russian campaign. The result of this campaign was decisive Russian victory. In this campaign Russians often raided the french with light Cossack cavalry which made huge damage to the French army. Cossacks under commander Ataman Matvei Platov (1757-1818) scourged the French during their retreat from Moscow in 1812, and again after their defeat at Leipzig. Hence, Leipzig is shown in the background.
About depiction of Napoleon's height you can refer to the- was napoleon as short as common knowledge states - question on the site.
Roles played by British cartoonists in 19th century:
The original image is in the British Museum it is an Elmes print, published by Tegg in 1813. The page referenced also contains links to related cartoons.
Williamsburg VA has a selection of cartoons about the US revolution for independence, including a discussion of the "macaroni" in Yankee Doodle.
The Library of Congress has a teacher's guide to the history of American Political Cartoons
The image isn't very clear, but the earliest cartoon that I personally remember is one that depicts Charles I's execution - not what we think of as a traditional cartoon subject


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My husband and I watched We Need to Talk about Kevin the other night. I highly recommend this movie. While it's beyond depressing, it covers some interesting topics such as unconditional love through horrible acts and the mother's role in these acts.
I don't want to give much away, plot-wise. I will say that Tilda Swinton plays Eva, a mother of a son who committed unspeakable acts of violence. She spends a lot of the movie wallowing in guilt and loving this "monster."
The question the movie left me with is: How responsible is the mother when her child does an unspeakable act? Some of you might jump in and correct me and say the question should be how responsible are the parents. I am purposely posing the question with just the mother being responsible. Why? Because society always seems to put all the blame on the mother when things don't go well.
Are mothers responsible? This is a general question that probably can only be answered on a case by case basis. In the case of the movie, they show Eva to be a less than perfect mother. She's not naturally maternal. She seems to resent being a mother and giving up the freedom she had before becoming a mother. Actually, I really related to her character! Does this provide the ingredients to cause a child to be amoral?
In the case of the movie, I'd have to say, "No!" Kevin was shown to be a sociopath or a psychopath since the time he was a young toddler. It just seemed to be who he was. Yet, I found people who commented on the boards at the IMDB site seemed to place a lot of the blame on the mother character. Interestingly, one review I read at this site complained that the movie was too extreme in making Kevin an obvious sociopath when a more interesting movie would have been to be more ambiguous to raise more questions regarding nature vs. nuture. Nevertheless, a sizable number of people commenting blamed Tilda's Swinton's character for how her son turned out.
I find an interesting parallel with the topic of autism. While experts have found no evidence that a mother is responsible for her child's autism, many people in society blame the mother anyway.
Why is the mother always blamed? Why can't people at least pick on both parents?
Just wondering!
Anyway, if you have a chance to see this movie, I highly recommend it. Just be sure to get a prescription of Prozac for after the movie. It's not an easy movie to watch.


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I just bought a HP Envy ultrabook 1002TX. It comes with a Win7 Home basic and a 32GB SSD + 500GB HDD.
I started to install ubuntu and in doing so went and deleted all the partitions on my HDD and recreated them the way I wanted.
Then when I tried to install ubuntu it didn't recognize my HDD. To solve this i typed
dmraid -E -r /dev/sdX where the 'X' was my SSD drive. After this ubuntu can install but windows for some reason does not install. Also the Intel Caching feature is lost and SSD is just sitting and doing nothing.
I want to know how to solve this problem. Ideeally I would like to use the SSD for caching, either in windows or ubuntu. How do I get the SSD back to working as an Intel rapid cache? How do I get windows to install properly? It tell me that windows is unable to configure itself to my hardware, and my PC came with windows pre-installed so this is not possible.
Sorry for the long question and thanks for your answers!
At one time when I booted I pressed
Ctrl+i and went to the intel rapid cache menu. I think i screwed up something in here, because only after this the rapid cache stopped working, and each time I booted the PC thought the BIOS was my primary disk.


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Path of Destruction
Oklahoma endures the random fury of a monster tornado.
Only readers who have lived through a tornado can truly appreciate the unique and terrifying ferocity of its winds. Even the force of a hurricane, which at least has a long wind up and warning time, can't match the explosive and random fury of a tornado's touchdown and destruction.
The residents of Moore, Okla., know this destruction all too well having endured it in the past. Yet nothing but fate could spare the Oklahoma City suburb's residents from the tornado that cut a mile-wide path that literally leveled whatever it passed over.
The local TV stations on Monday night said residents had as much as a 16-minute warning, which is longer than average for a tornado. Yet when such a storm decides that it will drop in front of you there's nothing to do but find the best available shelter and pray to be spared.
As we went to press the death toll was 24. The number is especially painful for including many children at elementary schools that hadn't been evacuated when the storm set down. The cruelty of a tornado is that so often there is no time to evacuate.
This is the height of tornado season across much of the American Midwest, when the changing seasons bring that peculiar mix of moisture, hot and cold temperatures and varying atmospheric pressure that creates a funnel of death. So far this tornado season had been less damaging than most, but not any more. Now Moore will join Joplin, Missouri and Tuscaloosa, Alabama as recent landmarks to nature's indifference to human civilization.
On cable TV Monday, we heard more than one Oklahoman invoke faith in God and the determination to rebuild. You might call that the Oklahoma way. The rest of America wishes them God speed.


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For example, I have a mass, m = 0.1kg and I square root it, giving me m = 0.316 (3s.f.) does the unit still stay as kg, or does it change?
As the other answers (and dmckee's comments) note, yes, if you take the square root of a dimensional quantity then you need to take the square root of the units too:
$$ \sqrt{4\;{\rm kg}} = 2\;{\rm kg}^{\frac12} $$
And no, I can't think of any meaningful physical interpretation for the unit ${\rm kg}^{\frac12}$ either.
However, in the comments you say that you were "told to plot a graph of distance against square root of mass." What that means is simply that you should scale the mass axis non-linearly, presumably in order to more clearly show the relationship between the two quantities. For labeling the mass axis, you basically have two choices:
While, technically, both of these are valid, I would strongly recommend the latter option. Just compare these two plots and see which one you find easier to read:
Alas, not all plotting software necessarily supports such axis labeling, or at least doesn't make it easy, which is why you sometimes see plots with funny units like ${\rm kg}^{\frac12}$.
Yes, the dimension of a quantity changes if it is square-rooted. If $m$ is a mass with dimension $[m]=\textrm{kg}$, $\sqrt{m}$ is not a mass, but another quantity with dimension $[\sqrt{m}] = \textrm{kg}^{1/2}$.
More generally, if $[a] = A$ and if $[b]=B$, then $[a^n b^m] = A^nB^m$ etc.
It becomes the square root of the unit. Think of energy:
$$E = \frac{1}{2}mv^{2}$$
If I solve for $v$, I have $v = \sqrt{\frac{2E}{m}}$. Since $\rm 1 J = 1 kg \cdot m^{2}/s^{2}$, we see that the units have to obey the square root, or we will end up with our velocity equalling something other than m/s.
Take the root of the unit of area (Eg: 4 m$^2$ )
Let's square root 0.1kg:
So obviously the unit changes. If it stayed the same, we'd have $0.316\mbox{kg} = 10\mbox{g}$ which is clearly false.


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I am new to Linux/unix and would like to know how to setup my (ve) server to host my website.
The (ve) server will have centos 5.5 installed with a LAMP stack.
I am specifically looking for a way to setup the domain/fqdn to point my registrar (http://co.za/) to my server IP. For example: www.mydomain.co.za takes me to my website.
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I shifted to Ubuntu 10.10 now I am facing problem to have C/C++ compiler. What are the possible ways so that I can use C/C++ compiler using all the libraries (like graphic, math, conio, stdlib, etc) as in Microsoft Windows creating executable file?
Ubuntu provides the standard Gnu Compiler Collection in the repositories.
You can install the Gnu C Compiler gcc as well as the Gnu C++ compiler g++ with the following command:
You'll probably also want to install libc6-dev (which includes the C standard library) and libstdc++6-4.5-dev (which includes the standard C++ libraries).
If you're looking for something comparable to Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler, try taking a look at Qt - specifically Qt Creator . It's a full-fledged IDE with a visual form designer, code-editor, and debugger.
There's a great tutorial for getting started with Qt here.
The below is (1) a simple hello-world program (2) compiled (3) made executable (4) executed. If you don't have the compiler, install gcc and g++ using the software install gui, or by running this command:
You could install the c++ compiler via terminal.
To write your code there a lot of editors like Gedit (installed by default) or Emacs. If you need an Integrated development environment, you could use Anjuta for example.
See: How to Compile a C/C++ Program on Ubuntu Linux
It's present in all Linux/Unix distributions.
That's the compiler, but if your question is actually directed towards an IDE, then there are a couple I could recommend:
...and the list goes on...
Generally, Ubuntu comes with C and C++ compiler. If you have specific requirement for some compiler then you can find and install it. If not available you can install by doing this,
As for writing codes, there are different IDEs available. The one that I use is Eclipse IDE for C,C++ developer http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-cc-developers/junor. If you use IDEs then IDEs will take care of compiling program for you through their GUI but you can also build a code from command line as mentioned in detailed over here http://www.wikihow.com/Compile-a-C/C%2B%2B-Program-in-Ubuntu. Eclipse will also make your life easier when it comes to debugging your code.
Regarding your question on how to open My Computer? You will have to tell me which version of ubuntu you are using and which desktop environment?
For battery do this,
right-click on the status bar (generally on top) -> add to pannel I have added "Indicator applet complete" and then you should have battery indicator.
You can write your program in many ways .
If you like terminal text editors then
so i hope you know how to write a program . For example with Gedit . you can find it by typing as gedit in your unity dash which can activate by pressing Super key on your keyboard .
after opening it , type your program there and save it where you want .
Actually you should have a package named as build-essential to run your C/C++ programs succesfully . if you not installed it then you can with
from your terminal . as you said you are a basic Ubuntu users and of course new to Ubuntu, you can get your terminal by typing as terminal in your Unity dash as i suggested above .
After saving your program to run it you have to follow these intructions to RUN it .
.hope that helps.


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Saint Symphorian of Autun
Born to the imperial Roman nobility, the son of Senator Faustus and Blessed Augusta. Covert Christian. As a young man he studied at Autun, Gaul (in modern France). There he was arrested by provincial governor Heraclius for not worshipping the pagan goddess Cybele, he asked for tools to destroy the statue. Arrested and flogged for heresy. Because he was from a noble family, he was given a chance to recant, and was even offered bribes to do so; he declined. Martyred in the presence of his mother.
Do not be afraid, Symphorian. Your death will lead straight to eternal life. Life will not be taken from you, only changed. – Blessed Augusta at Symphorian's execution
- "Saint Symphorian of Autun". CatholicSaints.Info. 26 September 2010. Web. 28 July 2016. <>


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Do you have any tattoos?
where at? How many? Of what?
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Maybe it's the neighborhood .... ;+}
I don't think I know anybody with at least one tattoo and one piercing you can't see right away.
Some days it's a real PITA to goto the airport ...
I have a phoenix on my left shoulder blade.
I have a bunch that I regret... I'm gonna get more and I'm sure I will regret those too!
I have none, but that's just because I can't afford anything right now. I already know some of the ones I want to get. First, on my right front shoulder, I'm getting the black knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail with no limbs and the caption of "I'M INVINCIBLE!!!" underneath. Next, I'm going to get the pistol Mal used in Firefly with the words "I aim to misbehave" as well. So far, those are the only two I've really decided on and I'm not 100% positive about those being exactly like that. I just hope I can put up with the discomfort, as I don't have a good pain threshold.
I started to ask the same question last weekend, but did a search first and thought it would be too much like this one that I found.
No. I don't like the same music I liked 20 years ago or the same books or the same hair style, et cetera. I've always been afraid I wouldn't like the tatoo after a few years.
Last night my beautiful 18 year old just used all her babysitting money to get a double flower tattoo covering almost the entire top of her right foot. I would never have signed for it, which is why she had to wait until she was 18 and could do it alone. She said it hurt really bad and her foot and ankle are extremely swollen. I have no idea how she is going to fit her pretty little foot into the beautiful silver sequinned pumps she bought for prom in two weeks. I honestly hope she will be able to wear shoes to school on Monday.
i dont want any tattoos on my body
I have the quote "I burn for no cause but my own" on my left side/ribs.
@cindihoward: Is the swelling really red? You might have to take her to the doctor. She may have a bacterial infection and the doctor may need to drain fluids out. Monitor the swelling and elevate her foot. If the swelling does not go down, she needs to get that checked out.
No. I have nothing against them, I've just never been able to think of anything that I'd still want on my body when I'm old and gray.
@cindihoward: swelling is actually normal for the first day or so, every body reacts differently to getting tattooed. some redness is normal too (think about it, the skin's been drilled with a needle repeatedly, especially a "tender" area like the foot is going to show signs of such a procedure). But if after several days the swelling & irritation haven't gone down then yes, go to a doctor. If she went to a reputable shop to have the work done then cleanliness shouldn't be a worry. Just make sure she keeps it clean and moisturized. (And, yes, I've had enough ink done, as well as friends who are tattoo artists, to have some idea what I'm talking about).
Not yet. I will be getting at least 1 this summer. I want the "old school" Philadelphia Eagles logo first, but am not sure exactly where I want it.
@housry23: Maybe next you could get one of a REAL team.....;-] (I kid! I kid!)
I have 3. I have cloud's buster sword on my right calf, the cursed seal from naruto on my left shoulder, and a tribal dragon on my left bicep that my cousin and I got together. I know, big nerd.
I have 4: A Celtic fireball being held up by a Hawaiian warrior on my left shoulder and a tribal band with an ankh on my right.
I have your name on my ass!
Yes. I have an eagle on my back, some custom blackwork on my thigh, and a Koi half-sleeve. More to come until I, at least, finish my sleeve and get more on my back.
I have 4 as well. I'll probably end up with more, and if one day I really regret them, I guess I'll at least be happy that my tattoos are my biggest concern. Must mean I did something else right. But for now I still like 'em all :)
My first is a line from a song on my wrist, another is a line from a song that the lead singer wrote for me after a show one night (inside of my upper arm), another is an owl (between shoulder blades), and the last are some tribal Honu (green sea turtles) that I drew and had done when I was visiting the Big Island (Hawaii). I got the turtles done on my side and it was one of the more painful things I've been through. But that may have been the style the artist used..one big fat needle instead of a bundle of smaller needles.
Now I'll be easily identified should I ever commit a woot murder :O!
I have 3 tattoos, all designed by and one just tweaked by me, each shoulder and a larger one between my shoulder blades. I really should take pictures some time. One is tribal sun, one is more like a circuitboard illuminati, and one is... I dunno the style. I used my french curves pretty liberally. It's the larger one.
I'm waiting for my mid-life crisis to get a Tri-Force Tattoo :)
@mommyleah: That will probably be my next and last one as well. Can't do the back of the hand, trying to figure out a appropriate location so my clothing still covers it at work.
I have five so far and I am getting the next part of my sleeve on my right arm done this month. Love them, can't wait to have more.


text: This is the second symbol that I am uploading from the Divergent series. Up next, we will tackle the task of learning "how to draw Amity", step by step. Again, Amity is one of the five factions that is part of the Divergent world. Under their logo or symbol it reads "Amity the Peaceful". Amity is actually THE only faction that is peaceful or is a peace dwelling race or kind. They also believe in kindness, forgiveness, trust, self-sufficiency, and neutrality. I guess you could say that they are more like the commune from Wanderlust. The image is pretty simple, it's just a tree with no leaves. It's actually a silhouette of a tree. Have fun drawing Amity from Divergent and I will be back with the last faction symbol from the Divergent series.


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Keeping Your Diet on Track During the Holidays
For the kids, the Festival of Lights is all about the presents, but for us adults, it seems to be all about the scrumptiously fried food (and of course, commemorating the Maccabean victory over Antiochus of Syria and how the Maccabees created a miracle and lit the menorah with a drop of oil that lasted for eight long nights). Today, we're a lot more nutritionally enlightened; we realize that fried foods aren't a good base for any meal, holiday or not. With a few minor adjustments to the traditional menu, you can take the healthy route, cutting 644 calories and your fat in half, and still get your potato latkes. (A Hanukkah without them would be sacrilegious, wouldn't it?)
Traditional Meal
- Chicken soup
- Brisket
- Potato latkes
- Applesauce
- Green salad with vinaigrette
- Jelly donuts
- Hanukkah gelt
Nutrition Information
- Calories: 2,038
- Total fat: 105 grams
- Saturated fat: 27 grams
- Cholesterol: 520 mg
- Sodium: 2,896 mg
- Dietary fiber: 8 grams
- Protein: 114 grams
Healthier Meal
- Chicken soup
- Roast chicken breast, no skin
- Potato latkes
- Applesauce
- Green salad with vinaigrette
- Fresh fruit salad
- Apple Streusel Pot Pie
Nutrition Information
- Calories: 1,393
- Total fat: 53 grams
- Saturated fat: 11 grams
- Cholesterol: 322 mg
- Sodium: 1,959 mg
- Dietary fiber: 13 grams
- Protein: 76 grams
More on: Children's Nutritional Needs
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Total Nutrition © 2005 by Joy Bauer. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
To order this book visit the Idiot's Guide web site or call 1-800-253-6476.


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8 Nov 2012 8:20 AM #1
Compile only dependencies?
Is it possible to collect with sencha compile only the dependencies for an application?
I set the classpaths to the src files of my app and with --sdk-path the path to the ExtJS-src.
After compile, the compiled file has all classes from my src and the sdk-src, although not all sdk-src files are necessary.
Can I set an option like the Ext.Loader. that knows who the sdk-files are and includes only a a file, if it's required?
8 Nov 2012 5:50 PM #2
Can you post the command you are running? In general, the "--sdk-path" option is only used to generate app command and has some issues when used in application calls. The way the compiler works is based on a classpath, so the command you are using will help clarify what you are running into.Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
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"Use the source, Luke!"
9 Nov 2012 12:47 AM #3
I try to concatenate my src folder without to create my app with the "sencha generate app" command . The structure of my project don't match with the from from "sencha generate app" created structure. All my ExtJS logic lies in this src folder and I need compile to compress and concatenate all these, to save loading time and size.
sencha compile -classpath= /develop/htdocs/res/jsdev/ concatenate -out=out.js
HTML Code:
[INF] Processing classPath entry : /develop/htdocs/sencha-compile-temp-dir [INF] Processing classPath entry : /develop/htdocs/res/jsdev/ [INF] Processing class inheritance graph [ERR] Failed to resolve dependency Ext.data.Model for file mb2c.models.SliderStoreModel [ERR] com.sencha.exceptions.ExNotFound: Unknown definition for dependency : Ext.data.Model
sencha -sdk-path=/develop/ext-4.1.2a/ compile -classpath= /develop/htdocs/res/jsdev/ concatenate -out=out.js
9 Nov 2012 10:30 AM #4
We need the classpath in your second example to know that we have a complete app, but you can exclude whatever you want from the concat using the set operations provided by the compiler.
See http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-1/#!...mmand_compiler for coverage of this topic.
In your case, try something like this:
sencha -sdk-path=/develop/ext-4.1.2a/ \ compile \ -classpath=/develop/htdocs/res/jsdev/ \ exclude \ -namespace=Ext \ and \ concatenate \ -out=out.jsDon Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
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"Use the source, Luke!"
9 Nov 2012 2:01 PM #5
I am having similar trouble getting only dependencies to be included in the all-classes.js output file. In my old build process with sencha-sdk-2.0.0 I could issue this command:
sencha create jsb -a index-dev.html -p app.jsb3
sencha build -p app.jsb3 -d build
Today I upgraded to the sencha-sdk-18.104.22.168 build and I am trying to craft a similar command. I have come up with:
sencha compile -classpath=ext/src,app-config.js,app.js,app \ -option=debug:false \ page -yui -in=index-dev.html -out=build/index.html
The "Trimming the Excess" section from http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-1/#!...and_app_single says:
The page command then determines the subset of files used by "index.php".
As it is the sencha-sdk-188.8.131.52 command generates an all-classes.js file that is 25% larger than the sencha-sdk-2.0.0.
9 Nov 2012 2:33 PM #6
The page command looks for the x-compile section of your markup file to make this determination, so if you could post that here I would be glad to see if there is anything ado there.Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
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"Use the source, Luke!"
10 Nov 2012 9:05 AM #7
10 Nov 2012 9:56 AM #8
I realize now my issue is that I was executing the sencha cmd against ExtJS 4.1.2 and not ExtJS 4.1.1a or ExtJS 4.1.2a ... I started from scratch with one of the 'a' sdks and everything seems to be working great.


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Updated Valvetrain Components - New Life For Tired ValvetrainsWritten by on October 1, 2010 Updating A Radical, Yet Aging, Big-Block Chevy With The Latest Valvetrain Technology.
In 1997 former President Clinton began his second term, scientists cloned Dolly the sheep, the spacecraft Pathfinder landed on Mars, and the Spice Girls released Spiceworld-their second Number One album-making the group the first British band since The Beatles to have two albums on the U.S. charts at the same time. Rock aficionados around the world mourned. That year, I was in the Bay Area, taking pictures and scribbling notes for an engine story that would appear in the August 1997 issue of Hot Rod magazine. Mike Blackstone was caressing a big-block Chevy to pump out what was some serious pump-gas horsepower for the day. Fastest street car racing was starting to get crazy and people were losing sight of the street aspect of fun, go-fast cars. This 557ci engine coming together in Blackstone's shop was designed for both street and dragstrip duty.
Nearly 15 years later, the engine has seen more than a dozen dyno pulls topping out at 893 hp and 740 lb-ft of torque, countless trips down the strip with and without nitrous, and thousands of street miles, including a drive from Los Angeles to Detroit. The concessions made in favor of more power in this big brute eventually created durability issues. First, we lost a lifter driving the car through Chicago. We tossed in a new set of lifters, changed the oil, and kept driving. Within a year, though, a mystery valvetrain noise developed.
We do need to explain something about this specific engine that drove the original and the replacement valvetrain components. This was never about building a docile street engine that will deliver 50,000 miles of service by just changing the oil and spark plugs. It's not about a smooth idle or having vacuum to operate power brakes. This is about big, nasty power that scares Toyota Prius drivers when we pass them in the HOV lane. Even in our quest to replace key pieces of the valvetrain, we wanted to maintain as much of the power as possible. Our true interest was to only make compromises required for higher durability on the street. Make no mistake, these are still race-inspired designs, but thanks to nearly 15 years of technical advancements, this valvetrain should require less maintenance and deliver better endurance on the street than the previous generation.
We recently took the engine to Kurt Urban Performance to tear it down and rebuild it. Urban normally builds LS engines these days, but in the early days of fastest street car racing, he built hundreds of big-block Chevys. He was very familiar with the parts we had in this engine and what the engine was built to do. We worked with COMP Cams to update the old valvetrain and solve some of the age-old problems with running a radical cam profile on the street. Quite a bit of new technology has developed for demanding applications like this. Even though this engine is on the radical side for the street, nearly all of the components are identical in function to any big-block Chevy, and the technology is similar for any cam-in-block engine. So if you have one of these old faithful engines in your street car, there's most likely a new trick for it in this article.
Why Can't These Parts Get Along?
The challenge in using race-bred valvetrain parts on the street boils down to the individual parts being at odds with each other. To make maximum power, a roller camshaft snaps the valves open and closed very quickly. This places immense side-loading force on the lifters, literally forcing them up by squeezing them against their bores. In addition, the valvespring pressure is very high in order to control the valves as the cam cycles them. If the springs aren't matched to the cam profile and the maximum rpm of the engine, the valves can actually bounce when they close, and the lifters won't stay on the cam lobes. This is bad for power, and it can be catastrophic for the engine. Even with the latest technology, a huge race cam on the street will eventually kill a set of lifters. In fact, Kurt Urban recommends we replace the lifters in this engine after 5,000 street miles or immediately if we find that the valve lash loosens up. While we're at it, the valvesprings should be checked each year, and replacing them before seeing hard racing use is a wise choice. How big is too big? It's best to work with a knowledgeable team like the folks at COMP Cams to make that determination for your specific application.
Hydraulic Versus Solid
Most engine builders opt for more moderate cam specs on an engine that will spend most of its life on the street. Sure, you'll give up some power, but you have to weigh the pleasure of hassle-free street driving with maximum horsepower at wide-open throttle. Just as important as the cam specs is the basic type. A roller camshaft will make more power because of the steep ramps that are possible, but should you use a solid roller or hydraulic? A long time ago, a roller lifter cam meant constantly checking the valve lash-the clearance between the rocker and the valve tip. In a solid lifter setup today, that's still true. The advantage of a solid lifter, in addition to maximum power, is that the valve lash is a great canary in the coal mine. If you find more clearance, something is wearing or broken, and you need to inspect the rocker, rocker mount, valve tip, and lifter. If you suddenly have less clearance, you probably have a valve that's mushrooming, and it's time to pull the heads. Hydraulic lifters absorb some of the beating within the valvetrain, especially the bearings in the roller lifters themselves. They also alleviate having to periodically check and adjust the valve lash. Matt Summerfield at COMP really would have preferred that we use a hydraulic roller cam with 266/274 degrees of duration at .050 and .646-/.646-inch lift for this engine. This would have greatly extended the life expectancy of the lifters and would make the valvetrain virtually maintenance free.
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The first step in any engine upgrade should start with a thorough inspection of wear to determine what needs replacing. The mystery noise in our big-block Chevy was a damaged valve tip (arrow). The wear pattern on the other valve tips showed us that the valvetrain geometry was good. This failure was simply a matter of too many street miles on components that were engineered for racing.This engine was built with titanium intake and exhaust valves. These are ultralightweight for high revving, and they require a little less spring pressure than a heavier stainless steel valve, however, they aren't meant for prolonged street use. Valvespring and cam profile technology has evolved so much that the 7,000 rpm that this engine spins to isn't a problem with heavier valves that will wear better on the street.The solid roller lifters used in this engine were standard race components. With this type of hardware, durability is measured in run hours. You can get quite a few trips down the dragstrip or even on a circle track compared to the run time involved in driving across the country. And most race engines get freshened up each year, which isn't necessarily true with a street engineStarting with the bumpstick, Matt Summerfield at COMP Cams walked us through the new profiles that decrease the stress and wear on the lifters. These new profiles also require less valvespring seat pressure, which decreases stress on everything in the valvetrain. To visualize and simplify the difference in profiles, look at the old camshaft (left) that had lobes that were more rectangular in shape. This pushes the lifters sideways in their bores, literally squeezing them upward. The newer profile (right) has slightly more angle to the ramps, lowering the side-loading of the lifters. Naturally, this comes at the expense of duration, but the new profile minimizes the power loss of a "smaller" cam.One thing that hasn't changed in roller camshaft technology is the distributor drive gear. You want to make sure you get an iron gear, which will happily mesh with a standard distributor gear. Since roller camshafts come from a race lineage, most aftermarket roller cams will require that you install a sacrificial bronze distributor gear if you don't specify an iron gear. The bronze gear on the distributor is softer than the camshaft so that it wears instead of the cam gear. This means one more thing to inspect and periodically replace if you don't have an iron gear on the cam.The Elite Race solid roller lifters are the latest technology from COMP Cams for maximum durability in radical engines. The most significant strength improvements are a longer axle (0.400 inch) that is pinned in the body on both sides. The pins add strength, and they pressure feed oil to the axle and needle bearings. These lifters also use the highest grade roller bearings-as well as more of them-for improved load distribution. The bodies are made from 8620 steel.You can see the top oil hole (arrow) in this view. The pushrod inserts can be changed for center, left, or right offsets for custom valvetrains. The insert also features oil control that allows you to increase the volume of oil delivered to the top end in applications that need it. The Elite Race lifters are also lightweight, reducing overall valvetrain mass. The only drawback is that these lifters cost between two and three times more than others.Another COMP Cams lifter option is the redesigned Endure-X. While not as trick as the Elite Race lifters, these use EDM Oil Injection, which delivers pressurized oil to the needle bearings inside the roller. This single design feature greatly improves longevity compared to standard roller lifters. Another trick is to bore a Chevy block to accept larger-diameter lifters for a Ford. The stock Chevy diameter is 0.842 inch and the Ford diameter is 0.875. The COMP Cams lifter set (PN 823-16) is designed specifically for this. COMP offers a rebuild program for the Endure-X lifters, which replaces the axle and roller assembly and inspects the rest of the lifter body.Advancements in valvesprings over the past decade have been massive. Thirteen years ago, the valvespring required to deliver seat pressure with the valve closed was a massive triple-spring setup (right). Evolution in alloys, treatments, and coatings has allowed the use of dual springs that deliver the same control over the valvetrain. These COMP Cams valvesprings are made from Pacaloy material, which is created in a process that results in steel that is more pure. They are impact treated and the surface is chemically enhanced to remove imperfections. These steps reduce surface stress, providing greater durability.
Whenever you change valvesprings, there are a number of things to check. The inside of the valvesprings need to be positively located on the head; COMP Cams offers a variety of inside diameter spring seats to fit around the valveguides on the head and properly locate the springs. If you're changing the outside diameter of the spring, you'll need to change retainers too. Even if you're not, always inspect every retainer and valve lock (also called a valve keeper) for damage or wear. A failure here means a dropped valve and severe engine damage.With extremely aggressive cam profiles and high spring pressures, stud-mounted rocker arms require a stud girdle for strength and stability. These are a pain, so we opted for shaft-mounted T&D rockers when we built this engine. After all this street abuse, these rockers, which were engineered for race engines, still looked and felt great. We sent them to T&D for a thorough inspection and rebuild. They inspected the aluminum bodies and steel shafts for any excessive wear and cracks. T&D replaced the needle bearing assemblies, roller tips, and 13 of the pushrod cups.COMP Cam's nylon thrust button is a little different twist on a cam button. It's easy to cut or grind to fit but has very good wear characteristics. We really like COMP's billet keyway adjustable timing set. The double-roller chain is pre-stretched and heat-treated, the gears are machined from billet steel, and the top gear has an integrated Torrington roller thrust bearing for reduced friction and wear against the block. Degreeing the cam is easy with the nine keyway sprocket. In steps of 2 degrees, you can advance or retard the camshaft a maximum of 8 degrees.Naturally, we replaced all of the valves. Rather than put in another set of titanium valves, we opted for a set of stainless steel valves. These are made for severe street use and should deliver years of trouble-free service. Even though these valves are quite a bit heavier, we believe that the upgrades we've made to the rest of the valvetrain will still allow us to rev the engine to its 7,000-rpm redline.


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It's been touted as a party to begin all others. But this year, it will be much more about the end than the beginning.
On Saturday, Sept. 22, the Speed Art Museum will host its annual 100/100 event, the institution's yearly recruitment party for its Patron Circle, a status reserved for those who donate between $500 and $4,999 toward membership and/or the museum's annual fund. A hugely popular local social, there's been much talk about this year's highly-anticipated spectacular, but due to its top-secret nature, little has been revealed about the evening – that is, until now.
"(100/100) started out as an idea to host 100 dinner parties around the community among the Patron Circle members, to invite their friends into their home to discuss the benefits they enjoy within the Patron Circle," said Kevin Borland, a Patron Circle Steering committee member who's helped plan 100/100. "Certain years, (the Speed Museum) picked 100 different paintings within the collection and a different likeness of that would be at each individual party. And when (guests) get to the main party (at the Speed), they can learn a little bit more about the artist and kind of what their intentions were."
Founded in 2009, 100/100 provides money for educational programming and outreach efforts of the museum, which is a vital resource in arts education for the region, serving more than 30,000 school children annually. In years past, throughout the town, 100/100 would kick off with 100 themed dinner soirees featuring artwork from the Speed collection, such as Marc Chagall's "Waiting (L'Attente)" and Vito Acconci's "People's Wall." The parties would then conclude with all hosts and attendees arriving at the museum for an evening filled with world-class art, entertainment and dancing.
"What comes to mind is it's totally unexpected and, that to me, makes it such a fun event," said Cheri Collis White, who has attended every 100/100 event since its inception and is a member of the Speed's newly-formed Board of Governors. "I don't know what I'm going to expect as I climb those stairs to the museum and walk into the entrance. It's that element of surprise that makes it such a popular event. There's been a lot of good buzz around the event, and I think this is a really great way to show the museum support. And, it's my way of throwing my support around the museum before it closes for several years."
In 2012, in honor of the three-year transformation about to occur at the Speed, 100/100 will experience a sort of reconfiguration, itself. For this year only, the typical dinner parties that accompany 100/100 will be postponed in order to hold the entire event at the Speed in celebration of its upcoming expansion. "We decided this year that with the party coinciding with the expansion kickoff that we really wanted to focus the party on the (Speed) building (inside) the building," said Kirsten Popp Pfalzgraf, communications manager at the Speed Art Museum. "We have some unexpected surprises that will incorporate art into the event in a way we haven't before. And you have to come in order to find out what that means."
Presented with support by Wells Fargo Advisors, and with media sponsorship provided by The Voice-Tribune, this year's 100/100 event will include music from DJ Jaleel Bunton, a member of the alternative rock band TV on the Radio, and artwork by Louisville artist Braylyn Stewart, with a projection of films by Ryan Daly showing in the Sculpture Court.
"I'm a young independent artist who's been visiting the Speed since grade school, so for the museum to choose my work is extremely flattering," said Stewart, whose artwork can be see at such places as the Americana Community Center and Shawnee Community Center. "I've been painting live events around Louisville for many years, but to be asked to do an installation at a Louisville landmark? How could I not say anything but 'YES!' I'm just very excited to be showing my work in such a revered museum."
Beginning the 17th, Stewart will paint the entrance to the museum, including the glass walls and a portion of the sidewalk on the campus side of the museum. "I will also be (working during 100/100) inside the museum in a secret location with a surprise ending you have to see to believe," he added.
Promised to leave attendees talking for years to come, the 100/100 event will culminate with the ultimate art experience. Following the awe-inspiring affair, the Brown-Forman Art After Dark: Lights Off will take place from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. "The other neat thing is that the party will continue on," Borland said. "We used to end the party at about 11 p.m. or midnight (but this year) we're going to open up Art After Dark. … It's a party for (people) to attend at a very low ticket price. There will be dancing and the music will continue on, and it should be quite an event."
The 100/100 fete and Art After Dark are taking place as part of a weekend of expansion kickoff activities, collectively titled "Lights Off/Future On," throughout Sept. 21-23, in order to celebrate the beginning of the Speed's unprecedented $50 million expansion project. Occurring over the next three years, the expansion is the largest capital project by an arts institution in Louisville to date. It will create a state-of-the-art space for larger special exhibitions, new contemporary galleries, a family education welcome center, indoor/outdoor café, museum shop and a multifunctional pavilion for performances, lectures and entertaining. Additionally, the new Art Park and public Piazza will be constructed for the display of sculpture that will engage University of Louisville students, faculty and museum visitors.
While the Speed is building new galleries and renovating old ones, it will lend art from its collections to other public facilities, including the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, the Frazier History Museum, Louisville Metro Hall and the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort. Exhibitions organized by the Speed are also now touring the country and region.
"(The 100/100 event) is the perfect way to kick off this new era of the Speed with a celebration that is as momentous as this," said Popp. "It's really going to blow people's socks off and make them just so excited about what is yet to come from the Speed."
Tickets to 100/100 are free for Patron Circle members; $175 for non-members. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. with cocktails and delectable edibles, and will conclude at 11 p.m.
For tickets and information, call 502.634.2704 or visit www.speedmuseum.org.
Throughout the weekend of Sept. 21-23, "Lights Off/Future On," will feature a Public Groundbreaking on Friday, Sept. 21, at 5:30 p.m., Family Fun Happenings on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., the Patron Circle's annual 100/100 event from 7:30 p.m. until 11 p.m. and Brown-Forman Art After Dark: Lights Off on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 11 p.m. until 2 a.m. The weekend will conclude with a final public viewing day of the Speed on Sunday, Sept. 23, from noon until 5 p.m.
Museum hours through Sept. 23 are Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. (open late); Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Galleries are closed on Monday and Tuesday. General admission to the Museum is $10, free for members.


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5 Mysterious Disappearances (That Were Elaborate Hoaxes)
#2. Close Encounters of the Nonexistent Kind
It's a story you've heard before. Regular Joes find themselves out in the boonies at night (it's always at night). Cletus and Bubba Jr. see a disc-shaped light, and someone gets anal probed by melon-headed creatures of the sky. If you've heard one, you've heard them all. But there was something about Travis Walton's 1975 "abduction" that not only made people think twice about the existence of aliens, but somehow warranted a 1993 feature film that actually made it into theaters. Into theaters!
With such masterpieces as TMNT3 and Super Mario Bros.!
First, we need to backtrack. In 1975, Travis Walton and his six co-workers were driving home after work when they saw a flying saucer. They stopped to get a better look-see, when Travis' curiosity got the best of him and he bolted toward the light. According to the witnesses, a beam of green-blue alien brightness lifted Travis a foot into the air, then shot him back another 10 feet, then dropped his country ass on the ground. His good friends fled faster than WWII vets at a Rocky Horror singalong.
Now, it helps set the scene to know that 22-year-old Travis was a logger, and that this is what he looked like:
You know this man has never worn anything but denim.
If it were possible for Ron Swanson and the construction guy from the Village People to make a grown baby-man, Travis Walton would be it.
A few minutes after leaving the scene, the loggers returned. Travis, the spaceship and any hopes of living a normal life were all gone. Within hours, sheriffs were searching -- no sign of him. The next day, they had helicopters and jeeps and horse officers looking -- still nothing. For days, the community searched for the man. After all, even if the whole thing was a logging trip gone horribly wrong, there had to be a body somewhere, right? It wasn't until five days later that Travis reappeared -- thinner, wearing the same clothes, frazzled and mumbling about beings with huge eyes. And apparently he thought he'd only been gone a few hours.
"I just railed some 2C-I and hydrocodone, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, ALIENS!"
And so many people believed him that this one story became one of the biggest abduction stories ever.
The Bullshit:
Right off the bat, we're starting with a UFO abduction, so it's not like Cracked.com is going to blow your minds with a debunking session. But that still raises the question of why somebody would make up such a story.
Well, almost from the moment Travis Walton returned, he would only talk to people who believed in UFOs and paid him. You know who fit that bill perfectly? The National Enquirer, which had a $100,000 reward for anyone who could prove aliens existed. For access to the story, the tabloid magazine paid for Walton's medical exams and a polygraph test -- which he failed (a fact which everyone immediately decided should be kept secret).
Because that would only make the truth all fuzzy and untruthful.
So if the presence of The National Enquirer didn't raise some eyebrows, the fact that the whole Walton family had been UFO-obsessed for years should have. Travis' brother Duane was fond of telling people he'd been chased by a UFO in the forest as a kid, and their absent father was a UFO fanatic before he abandoned the family. When told about the abduction, Travis' mother insisted the aliens wouldn't harm her son -- that he would be returned, because that's how aliens do. There was no "Oh no! My baby!" or suspicious glances at the rest of the crew. Just an implicit understanding that yes, her son was with the aliens in the sky, and yes, he would be returned shortly.
"Just as soon as he takes us to his dealer."
But still, there were those six witnesses. Six. You can't fake six witnesses to an event -- someone is bound to fall apart somewhere in the interrogation process, right? Not if, as the sheriff alleges, the saucer was actually a lit balloon that brother Duane set off at the right time, and the loggers really believed they saw something all along. Especially since the driver had watched a movie about a UFO encounter two weeks earlier.
If you're waiting to hear when these guys got caught, too bad. Travis Walton published his book, which later became a movie, and he gets invited to UFO events all the time. In other words, we think we've found the perfect crime.
Now, if you'll excuse us, we've got to disappear for two or three days.
Speaking of the perfect crime ...
#1. The Case of Agatha Christie's Baffling Revenge
Maybe you're not a 70-year-old lady who loves to knit by the fireplace while reading Agatha Christie mystery novels and sipping hot tea. But even if you've never read a Christie page-turner, you've probably heard of her. After all, her books have made her the best-selling fiction writer of all time, ahead of even Dr. Seuss and Stephen King. Only Shakespeare has sold more works than Christie, and God help us all if you don't know who he is.
The difference between Shakespeare and Christie, however, was that Agatha was a huge celebrity in her lifetime. And since her lifetime was after cameras and movies were invented, everyone knew what she looked like. In 1926, she looked a little something like this:
It's surprising that any foxes survived the 20th century.
On December 3, 1926, the author was enjoying the success of her latest murder mystery when her husband, Archie, dropped a bomb. He was leaving her for another woman. Like, right then. He had his bags packed and everything. So he takes off and leaves her alone with their child. Then she does the same. The kid just hangs out in bed by herself.
"Looks like it's time for 'The Case of the Dog in the Gas Oven.'"
The next day, Agatha's car was found at an embankment by a lake, which was eerily named Silent Pool, because she knew her stuff. In it was a small suitcase with her belongings, her coat -- remember it's December in England, which Dickens taught us is very cold -- and her driver's license. Things did not look good for Ms. Christie. The lake was promptly dredged, and no fewer than 15,000 volunteers began the 11-day hunt to find her.
We should have also mentioned that her mother had died only a few months before. So there were two big fears: a) she killed herself or b) her husband did the killing for her. Why else would this otherwise successful, famous, rich woman abandon her child and disappear?
"Screw that, I'm young and rich. Why wouldn't I?"
It was the stuff of a murder novel -- if only a detective could come in and crack the case.
The Bullshit:
There was no need for a detective. A banjo player, of all people, said he knew exactly where she was -- at a spa 200 miles away. Sure enough, there she was, registered under the name "Teresa Neele," which happened to be the last name of her husband's lover. While there, she danced the Charleston, played bridge with new friends and quietly enjoyed crossword puzzles, and when asked if she was the famous writer, she politely chuckled that she wasn't.
Banjo player? Waaait a second, what kind of mustache was he rocking?
So maybe she was in some kind of fugue state? Between her mother's death and her husband's abandonment, maybe she had suffered a nervous breakdown? Some researchers claim that yes, that's it. Agatha Christie, the world's most famous murder novelist, who weaves intricate plots of mystery and intrigue, just happened to suffer from a sort of amnesia that just happened to frame her husband for murder.
We say, sure, if you're enrolled in Fat Chance Academy. Ms. Christie took a train to that spa, which she was able to afford because she was wearing a money belt swollen with wads of cash. The whole thing was a clumsy attempt to embarrass her husband for leaving her, maybe even frame him for murder, but it was the crappiest framing ever made. And her fans and the police were livid with her when they found out she'd been chilling at a spa the whole time they were looking for her. In their eyes, it was a publicity stunt to promote her latest novel -- one that worked, because the whole country talked of nothing else but Ms. Christie's disappearance for 11 days.
Not the perfect cover.
And as a footnote, not only did Agatha Christie go on to write 60 more novels after her disappearance, she also eventually remarried, to a man 15 years her junior. She was never investigated, and everyone kind of forgot about that time she abandoned her 7-year-old kid. Which was a pretty neat trick, when you think about it.
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March 7, 2012
Itamar Rabinovich, who served as Israel's ambassador to the United States during the Rabin government, will deliver a public lecture "From Waging Peace to Lingering Conflict" on Monday, April 2, 5:30-7 p.m. at NYU School of Law's Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South (between Sullivan and MacDougal Sts.).
The lecture, sponsored by NYU's Taub Center for Israel Studies and the Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, is free but an RSVP is required to firstname.lastname@example.com or 212.998.8981. Subway Lines: A, B, C, D, E, F, M (West 4th Street).
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Rabinovich, Israel's ambassador to the United States from 1993 to 1996 and chief negotiator with Syria under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, will discuss both the lingering conflict in the Middle East and the current situation in Syria.
Rabinovich served as the president of Tel Aviv University from 1999 to 2007. He is the author of several books, including The View from Damascus: State, Political Community and Foreign Relations in Twentieth-Century Syria; Syria Under the Ba'ath; The War for Lebanon; The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations; The Brink of Peace: Israel and Syria; and Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century. Rabinovich is currently a Global Distinguished Professor at NYU's Taub Center for Israel Studies.
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OOW and Social Networking
By marina on Oct 16, 2009
In case you missed the Oracle BMW sailboat (doubt you did), here it is.
The event itself was quite energizing and technology centric, filled with events, two exhibit floors, and multiple sessions. Exhibit floors included Cloud vendors like Amazon, as Oracle is available on EC2. There was a large presence by Sleseforce.com with their CRM on the cloud and developer cloud Force.com offerings. The Oracle development team had a long stretch of booths on the expo floor as well. Below are a few technology snapshots that particularly apply to Social Networking applications.
To improve performance and scalability of PHP applications, you can pool DB connections with Oracle's Database Resident Connection Pool (DRCP). This is important because by default, HTTP requests are handled by individual process in the following manner. A PHP application is deployed on an Apache server using a mod_php module. Individual HTTP requests are processed within a corresponding Apache child process, which is spawned for each request. All resources, including the database connections, are created and destroyed within the context of that child process. However, creating individual database connections for each HTTP request is a resource expensive operation. Oracle's DRCP allows PHP applications to leverage a connection pool. DRCP keeps track of open connections and recycles them in a fashion similar to a JDBC connection pool. It times out idle connections and a Connection Broker of DRCP manages incoming connection requests. Using persistent db connections improves web application scalability.
Mapping and GIS applications can leverage Oracle's database spatial and mapping technology. With Oracle Locator you can quickly calculate a distance from point A to point B, trace a travel route, and perform amny other mapping functions. Most startups in the GIS space rely on PostgreSQL, but if you happen to use Oracle there are definitely many useful features you can utilize.
Oracle's open source, in-memory database, Berkeley DB transactional data store, is used across a multitude popular Web 2.0 apps. To name a few, MemcacheD uses Berkeley DB as it's core in-memory engine. It's often used as an embedded DB. For example, Sun's large scale, open source, networking platform for gaming and virtual world applications, Project Darkstar, also leverages Berkeley DB. Berkeley DB is also used by Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and Heretrix, an open source Internet crawler project. Ulike TimesTen, Berkeley DB is not designed with a primary goal of SQL query execution, instead it can be used as a key-value pair for large objects. The db stores data in a shallow B+ tree, which contributes to quick data retrieval as well as fast writes. The implementation is available in C and Java.
Oracle's Open Source resources can be found here.
Aside from the Oracle technologies that can be applied for building Social Networking applications, partner applications were a big part of the exhibit. There were multiple startups (in SSE definition) that demonstrated technologies for efficient data transfer, data archival and replication.