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Child Injured on Stairs Every 6 Minutes
March 12, 2012 -- Every six minutes a young child in the U.S. is treated in the emergency room for a stair-related injury, according to a new study.
Overall, researchers say an average of more than 93,000 children under the age of 5 were treated for stair-related injuries in an emergency room each year between 1999 and 2008. But the number of injuries decreased by about 12% during that time.
Researchers found that the number of young children who were injured while being carried on the stairs accounts for about a quarter of injuries among children under age 1. These children are also more than three times more likely to be hospitalized as a result of their injuries than children who were injured in other ways.
"Stair-related injuries are on the decline but still represent an important source of injury to young children," write researcher Ashley Zielinsky of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and colleagues in Pediatrics. "Increased prevention efforts are needed, including parental education and improved stairway design."
Stair Safety Still an Issue
In the study, researchers analyzed information from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System of the Consumer Product Safety Commission from 1999 to 2008.
The results showed an estimated 931,886 children under the age of 5 were treated for stair-related injuries in U.S. emergency rooms during the study period.
Most of the injuries occurred as a result of the child falling down the stairs on his or her own. But 25% of children under age 1 were injured while they were carried on the stairs, and 16% fell in a baby walker.
The majority of injuries were bruises and other soft tissue injuries, which accounted for 35% of injuries. About three-fourths of the children had injuries to the head and neck area, and nearly 3% were hospitalized as the result of their injuries.
In addition, an estimated10,000-plus injuries were reported when children fell down the stairs in a stroller or carriage. In many cases, the child was strapped in, but it was not enough to prevent injuries.

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The Bruins began their annual informal captains' practices Tuesday and had all three players that missed the playoffs with injury back on the ice.
Chris Kelly (back), Adam McQuaid (quad/ankle) and Dennis Seidenberg (ACL) were among the participants at Tuesday's inaugural session, which lasted roughly 1 1/2 hours.
Kelly had surgery on a herniated disc in his back May 23, an injury that dated to April 8.
After an injury-plagued season, McQuaid had surgery to repair a long-standing ankle issue in April.
Seidenberg's remarkable recovery from his December ACL/MCL tear would have had him back playing in games in the Eastern Conference finals had the Bruins defeated the Canadiens in the second round.
Others taking part in the informal practice included returning Bruins, hopeful Bruins and locals on other teams. Patrice Bergeron ran the session.
Other Bruins included Tuukka Rask, Loui Eriksson and Daniel Paille. Prospects included Zach Trotman, Justin Florek, Bobby Robins, Tommy Cross, David Warsofsky and 2014 first-round pick David Pastrnak.
Former Bruin Shawn Thornton also showed up in his Florida Panther colors. Hal Gill and Keith Yandle were also in attendance.
Bruins rookie camp begins Sept. 11 and training camp Sept. 19.


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Fish Division, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, Maryland, United States of America
Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Department of Ichthyology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
Department of Environment and Nature, Ministry of Public Health and Social Development, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
Saba Conservation Foundation, Fort Bay, Saba, Netherlands Antilles
Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States of America
Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America
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Competing Interests
Dr. Peter Etnoyer co-authored the Deep Sea News blog with PLoS One editor Dr. Craig McClain 2005–2009. Dr. McClain has recused himself from the Saba Bank Biodiversity Assessment volume for this reason.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MS. Performed the experiments: JTW KEC JLVT PCH WWT PJE MS. Analyzed the data: JTW KEC JLVT PCH PJE. Wrote the paper: JTW. Wrote portions of the paper: KEC PCH PJE. Helped prepare tables and check species identifications: JLVT. Prepared Fig. 1: PCH.


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Keeping Your Diet on Track During the Holidays
It's supposed to be about giving thanks and feeling grateful for all the positive things in your life. But come on, we know it's really about the fine art of American gluttony: mounds of turkey, rich gravy, starchy stuffing, cranberry sauce, four kinds of potatoes, veggies soaked in butter and oil, pumpkin pie, apple pie, and going in for round two a few hours after your stomach finally settles. Then, there are all those leftovers: Thanksgiving eating goes on for days!
Keep your family traditions and indulge. If you make minor alterations in your meal, you'll feel a whole lot better in the morning—and maybe even have the energy to make it outside for your own game of football instead of just watching it on the tube.
Traditional Meal
- Roast turkey
- Stuffing with onions and sausage
- Yams with marshmallows
- Green bean casserole
- Creamed onions
- Cranberry jelly
- Vanilla ice cream
- Pumpkin pie
Nutrition Information
- Calories: 1,713
- Total fat: 59 grams
- Saturated fat: 21 grams
- Cholesterol: 246 mg
- Sodium: 2,904 mg
- Dietary fiber: 13 grams
- Protein: 79 grams
Healthier Meal
- Roast turkey (no skin)
- Cornbread stuffing with apples, celery, and cranberries
- Baked yams
- Mashed potatoes made with buttermilk and roasted garlic
- Roasted vegetables (drizzled with olive oil)
- Cranberry chutney
- Cinnamon frozen yogurt
- Pumpkin chiffon pie
Nutrition Information
- Calories: 1,090
- Total fat: 39 grams
- Saturated fat: 9 grams
- Cholesterol: 143 mg
- Sodium: 1,238 mg
- Dietary fiber: 18 grams
- Protein: 72 grams
With Thanksgiving leftovers coming out of your ears, here are some creative ways to have seconds and thirds:
Ready-Made Menu
- Turkey and cranberry risotto
- Turkey and roasted vegetables stuffed in a pita
- Turkey and rice soup
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.
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Narrated Aisha (May Allah be pleased with her): Allah's Messenger (p.b.u.h.) used to pray four Rakats (units) in Duha prayer and added whatever Allah wished for him. (Muslim) Let it be known that Ishraaq, Salaat ul-Awwabin and Duha are different names that stand for identically the same forenoon prayer. The time of this prayer starts with the sunrise and goes on until one-fourth of the day. The least number of Rakats of Duha prayer is two and the maximum is twelve. The preferable among them are four which are supported and approved by the Ahadith of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.). It may also be remembered that this prayer is a Sunnah of former messengers as they used to offer it during their times. Hence, this prayer is a Sunnah and mustahabb (desirable). As to the matter of this prayer being called a Bidah (innovation) by Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) it only alludes to the fact that if someone develops a habit of continually offering it, it may be regarded as an innovation, as the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) did not always offer it. Narrated Zaid bin Arqam (May Allah be pleased with him) Allah's Messenger (p.b.u.h.), "The prayer of those who are penitent is offered when the young weaned camels feel the heat of the sun." (at-Tirmidhi) This Hadith indicates that the best time of Duha prayer is just before noon. Narrated Anas (May Allah be pleased with him) Allah's Messenger (p.b.u.h.) said, "Whoever prays twelve Rakats (units) of Duha, Allah will build a castle for him in Paradise." (at-Tirmidhi who graded it Gharib "unfamiliar, doubtful"). Narrated Aisha (May Allah be pleased with her): Allah's Messenger (p.b.u.h.) entered my house and prayed eight Rakats (units) of Duha prayer. (Ibn Hibban in his Sahih)


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6 Objects You Won't Believe People Managed to Lose
In a world overrun with people and technology, you wouldn't think anything of value could remain lost for long. For instance, somebody has surely stumbled across the warehouse and the specific crate that contains the Ark of the Covenant by now.
But there are some great treasures of both wealth and knowledge that remain determinedly out of sight, despite the fact that someone has to know where they are. Such as ...
#6. The Amber Room
Built in 1701, the Amber Room was one of Russia's greatest treasures, and had even been called "the eighth wonder of the world." A spectacular chamber constructed out of amber, gold leaf and mirrors, it is exactly the kind of thing Indiana Jones would fight Nazis to obtain.
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The entire piece changed palaces a few times until it landed in a St. Petersburg Palace, where Hitler's army stumbled across it in 1941. Unable to move it to safety, the evacuating Russians had simply wallpapered over it, hoping the Germans wouldn't ask why a room in a palace would have such tacky wallpaper. But they did and brought the entire room back home to Germany.
Once in Konigsberg, the room was set up in a castle and proudly displayed. By 1945, with the Russians advancing, Hitler personally ordered it to be taken down and sent to a secret location. The record indicates that the room was taken to a railway station, packed up and then the record screeches to a stop like someone told a racist joke at the Apollo. That was the last anyone ever heard of it.
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"How many decade's worth of Argentinean hookers do you think this is?"
How exactly do you lose an entire room full of gold and amber? Some say it was put on a boat that was sunk by the Allies. Other reports place it in a hidden bunker under the city. Meanwhile, the Russians have been searching for it like crazy. Since the end of the war, several expeditions have been mounted all over Europe, with sightings supposedly in abandoned mines, lagoons and caverns. And new investigations even go so far as to say the whole room was destroyed, and the Soviets covered the entire thing up.
The Soviets covering things up? That's a reach.
The room has since been reconstructed in St. Petersburg, but certain pieces of the original pop up now and then just to keep the mystery alive, including a piece of a mosaic a German soldier took out when he helped move the room in 1945. Whoever finds it is going to be able to be rich enough to, we don't know, build a room out of freaking gold.
#5. Hitler's Body
In 1945, with Berlin about to fall to the Soviets, Adolf Hitler decided to kill himself, his new wife Eva Braun and their dog, Blondi (he also ordered her puppies shot. What did you expect? It was Hitler.) The Soviets came in and found the bodies in a bunker about seven hours after he died. After they were buried, Stalin figured Hitler shouldn't get off that easily, so he had their burned corpses exhumed and reburied, then took a part of his skull and his jawbone, because evidently Stalin didn't think much of photographic evidence.
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"That could just as easily be Charlie Chaplin."
Later, in 1970, the site that held the remains was set to be given back to East German control, but fearing a shrine or monument to their former adversary, the Soviets had a KGB team come in the middle of the night, dig up the bodies again, cremate them and spread the ashes in the Elbe River. For the Russians, the case was finally closed.
That is until 2009, when testing on "Hitler's skull" revealed it to have belonged to a woman under 40. Whoops. Either they got the wrong skull or Hitler was hiding a huge secret.
"And this is where the Fuhrer's high-heels and extra brassieres were buried."
This hastily reopened the question: What happened to his body? The jawbone, also alleged to be Hitler's, is also in Russian possession, suspiciously being guarded under the pretense that it is "too fragile." With pressure building on the Russians to release it for testing, the mystery remains open. And there's always the outside chance that we'll find a 120-year-old Hitler living comfortably in a mansion in Argentina.
He finally gave up genocide for a shot at engaging his true passion: performance art.
#4. The From Hell Letter
In October 1888, all London was aflutter about the granddaddy of serial killers, Jack the Ripper, whose identity to this day has never been discovered. The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, an organization of volunteers, was doing its best to keep the streets safe at night (or at least a little less murdery than usual), as was the London police department.
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George Lusk, president of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, ready to examine the shit out of things.
One day, the head of the Committee, Dean Lusk, received an unmarked package. Inside were two things. The first was a note from Jack taunting the Committee and gloating about the other item in the box. That other item was a half-cannibalized human kidney.
Unlike the hundreds of other letters supposedly written by Jack the Ripper, many scholars believe this letter, signed "From Hell," to be one of the few likely authentic ones. Partly because it was packaged alongside a kidney, which are not exactly easy to acquire. Based on the fact that the Ripper was a known kidney thief, the letter was generally agreed to be from the killer. It was subsequently put in a file in the police station and was never seen again.
He either misspelled Mister or the killer was Sean Connery.
Today, with modern analyzing techniques with ink types, paper types and possibly even century-old smudged fingerprints, it's conceivable that we could put the mystery of Jack the Ripper to rest once and for all. At least we could let the cast of CSI give it their best shot. But with the letter and the preserved kidney both lost to terrible record-keeping procedures, we may never know.
Seriously, we understand losing a piece of paper, but a kidney?


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I have a few resolutions for this year. Some of them are very blog oriented at first glance, but really, they just help my research stay on track.
Get through with inputting all family info that I currently have in documents in my genealogy program.
I still have two whole boxes of documents to go through, and they include (among others) newspaper articles, old passports, and my babybook.
Finish identifying and scanning all family pictures I have
One huge box of pictures still await my attention. I do not believe there are any more pictures in there from my father's side of the family, so I'll just have to 'pester' my mother for a few evenings to get them all identified.
Develop research plans for the next phase of research,
which is generation II (my parents), generation III (my grandparents) and generation IV (my great-grandparents
These are the generations I want to focus on this year. That gives me 14 people to research, although some of them have been researched by someone else before. Still, I would like to check his work with my own eyes, and see if I couldn't possibly find something more.
Make a success of this blog by posting interesting post on Dutch or local history, my own research and family.
My own research (in the form of research log posts) and my own family (in the form of anecdotes, biographies and one of my planned series) will get a lot of attention. However, I've already discovered that Dutch history in general, and local history in specific are two very important parts of genealogy. These things might not give direct information on my ancestors, but they show something of the lives of my ancestors. I hope to convey this in these posts.
Get started on my two planned series
I'm planning two series that kind of fit together. One is a series about Dutch genealogy sources, how they work, what information they give. It's meant as a research guide for people researching their ancestors in the Netherlands, and researching this will help me too, as I'm just beginning and haven't really used these sources before.
A series that ties in with this is that I plan to show the information I have on my grandparents and great-grandparents, and discuss it. I've seen a lot of these posts on several of the blogs I read, and I find them not only interesting, but also helpful. I might not have the same records before me, but the method for reading them is still the same. This series will also be the practical examples of the series I mentioned before.
Post my own memories
I want to do this so others may know more about my and future generations have something more about me than I have about the generations before me. I plan to write one memory (not necessarily chronologically) a week and when I've 'caught up' I plan to print them all out and file them chronologically. (Might make a good memoir when I'm old ;) ) Of course, I'll still keep writing my memories, but at least I'll have some of them on file already. I'm most likely going to do this by topic (like school, holidays, etc).
This post was written for the 87th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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Hi, thanks for the comment. Good luck on your own goals - you have some awesome ones!ReplyDelete
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Good luck with your resolutions; I look forward to reading the results! Will also be interested to read about German research, as it is a new area for me (my husband has German ancestors).ReplyDelete
@Greta: well, I plan to start this year on my German research, but I've already heard from several sources that it takes a lot of patience, and with an early review of what I do have I've already seen lots of problems with finding where to get info, so we'll see how it goes.ReplyDelete
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What Alexander's reaction to disbarment sounded like
I just read Jon Alexander's April 6 response to the State Bar decision to recommend disbarring him. All I heard was "waaa."
Jack Brown, Crescent City
Haters brought down voters' choice for district attorney
Well well well. Job well done by the Jon Alexander-haters ("Judge wants DA disbarred," April 6). You proved your case.
In fact all you have really done is bring down a man that "we the people" voted to protect us and to put the bad guys away.
How much victory is there in that?
"We the people" wrote, shouted, voted who we wanted to rid Del Norte County of crime and drugs.
"We the people" said we know about his past, yet want him as our DA.
"We the people" of Del Norte County know the power of our votes.
"We the people" will not forget at our next election.
Summer Moore-Clawson, Crescent City
Please save Sutter Coast from being downsized
As you know, our local hospital, Sutter Coast Hospital, is threatened with losing its governance and autonomy through the act of "regionalization" to the larger Sutter Health of Sacramento. This will be coming about through a transfer of ownership agreement initiated by the larger institution and our hospital board.
Because of our geographical isolation, a new "critical access" designation — favored by Sutter Health — will downsize our 52-bed capacity hospital to just 25 beds and thus limit local patient access.
It will also necessitate many of our mostly elderly population to either drive long distances (if able) for surgical treatment or be airlifted to Medford or San Francisco in emergency situations.
Besides being expensive, there could be dangerous delays in patient care, particularly if no life flights are available. As a result, the regionalization plan has greatly alarmed the town's citizenry, its local doctors, and the hospital staff.
Additionally, our hospital, from which my wife and I have received expert medical care for over 20 years, is the only one within a radius of 82 miles. We'd be lost without it.
Please help us save our hospital.
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I'm doing a CTF application for my final year project. I wanted to craft a SQL injection flag but I don't wish that they can simply found out the SQLi vulnerability by injecting ' . Hence, is there way to make SQL injection harder but not impossible using PHP?
Blind SQL injection is probably one of the harder techniques, in that it requires more work. You could make a page that doesn't display any output based on the query, but shows error messages when a query is malformed. The attacker would then be forced to use blind SQLi techniques to attack it.
Of course, an automated tool would break this immediately, since it could automate the entire injection. One interesting way around that would be to have some kind of super-simple image CAPTCHA (no distortion, just a plain image) that the attacker must solve in order to send a query. This would either force them to do it manually, or make them look into OCR techniques.
You could hide error details, which makes it harder for the user to know that injection is possible.
A next level would be Blind SQL injections, as Polynomial mentioned.
Also, you could reflect the injection on another page than the current page, for instance a log page so the user doesn't get imediate feedback on the injected code.
Or you could replace certain characters in the input string (See: SQL injection: isn't replace("'", "''") good enough?).
My first thought is to limit what characters or regex patterns you look for. You could limit the use of only certain strings within the user input that would allow for attacks but would complicate what kind of attacks would work.
I'd say the easiest way to come up with something like this is probably to think of a particular attack you want someone to arrive at and then work backwards. Try to design protection to block everything other than the attack you wish them to perform. It could even be as simple as making it SQL Injection proof but then specifically allowing the desired attack input, though that might be a little too tricky depending on what you are looking for.


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The Gemoro in Rosh Hashono 17b says that HKB"H put on a talis like a shaliach tzibbur and taught Moshe the 13 middos and said whenever Israel sins they should perform before Me according to this order (which we understand to be repeating the 13 middos) and I will forgive them. Are there any authorities who infer that for saying the 13 middos the shaliach tzibbur should wear a talis?
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Yes, Taame Haminhagim 681 says (with my own translation):
(However, the footnote there cites other reasons the shatz should do so, and other views as to whether he should.)
The minhag at Yeshivat Har Etzion is for the Ba'al Keriyah to cover his head with his tallit when reading the aliyah that contains the 13 middot (say, on a fast day).


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text: To start off this forum, thought Id paste an article I wrote about the state of Indian SFF in English.... A long, long time ago, in a country far, far away from the dwellings of the ancestors of Isaac Asimov and J.R.R. Tolkien, ancient Indian wise men wrote about flying saucers, death-rays, hideous alien monsters and incredible machines, setting down tales of wonder and imagination in massive epics that still enthrall the world. Our old tales are full of creatures and devices that make other epics – all subsequent world literature, in fact - look like non-fiction. Add to that our vast, sprawling panorama of folktales old and new, and you'll agree with me when I say that Indians are culturally geared towards a fondness for fantasy or science fiction – under whatever guise it masquerades in its twenty-first century avatars, be it alternative history, space opera, magic realism, cyberpunk, steampunk, speculative fiction or my personal favourite, Weird Fiction. Yet unlike in the west, where SFF (Science Fiction/Fantasy) literature has a huge market of its own and has achieved comparative literary legitimacy, in India SFF is still the far-outer-country cousin of Literature with a capital L – a mindset that will take years to break. It doesn't matter how thought-provoking or insightful SF is, or that the fundamental questions that speculative fiction asks about the human condition are the same as that of any great literary work, or that SFF lit offers a huge, colourful playground in which to study the numerous quirks of the human race humans have ever faced – at some level, say our self-styled lit-elite, SFF will always remain small-l, not-so-legit literature. A great many SF writers have gone off into long tirades about the beauty of the genre – how SF both reflects and inspires science, how Somnium, the first major western SF work, written by Johannes Kepler and published in 1634, is a landmark in world literature (it tells the story of a young Icelander who travels to the moon and is a response to discoveries about the earth made three decades previously by Copernicus.) In my opinion, SFF doesn't need a defence. Down the ages, Weird Fiction has catered to a variety of tastes all over the world; it has proven immensely popular, and will continue to be so long after its critics have been reincarnated as tapeworms. What is undeniable, though, is that until very recently a combination of a largely conservative mindset amongst the people who decide which way Indian publishing is going and the tiny size of the market for Indian writing in English have meant that there is hardly any Indian speculative fiction in English of note – which is criminal, given our country's oceans of fabulous resources, mythical, historical and social. When my first novel, The Simoqin Prophecies, was published in January this year by Penguin India, it marked a milestone (OK, more like an inchstone, but a stone nevertheless) in the story of Indian publishing in English. It's not very often that Indian publishers are willing to experiment, to stray from the conventional Great Indian Novel/Memoir/Exotic Guide path, and I was lucky that the market has matured enough for Penguin to give SFF publishing a shot, to decide that it was time for Weird Fiction to come out of the closet where it was lurking with miscellaneous monsters and rear its ugly head amidst the lofty heights where Indian Writers in English walk, converse, and eat steamed rice with lentil curry. Which doesn't mean, of course, that my book was the first SFF novel an Indian writer has written in English – it was just the first book that was marketed as an unabashed genre novel, that didn't need to be hidden under a cloak, and smuggled into Literature's halls. Indian SFF writing in English has actually been around for a while. By restricting the field of discussion in English I am, of course, excluding a lot of fabulous Weird Fiction in (other) Indian languages – in Bengali alone, the Upendrakishore-Sukumar-Satyajit Ray dynasty has given us a sparkling array of world-class speculative fiction, topped off by Satyajit Ray's charming SF stories for children – and any Bengali worth his fish will also tell you that Ray was the one who came up with the original idea we saw onscreen as Speilberg's ET. But we're discussing English writing alone, where India has also produced the World's First SF Award-Winning SF Novel Which The Author Didn't Consider SF – Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome, a fabulous, extensively researched and compelling tale about Ronald Ross' malaria research that won Britain's top SF award, the Arthur C. Clarke award, in 1997. I spoke to him at the launch of his new book (spoke is perhaps an overstatement, babbled like an incoherent fan-boy is more accurate) where I learned, to my infinite sorrow, that he doesn't plan to write more SF at the moment. Besides, he didn't think his award-winning effort was SF either. In an interview with Paul Kincaid in 1997, Ghosh said, "I don't really think of The Calcutta Chromosome as being a genre novel. Science fiction tends to lie very squarely within the domain of the world's richer countries and it was a challenge, as an Indian writer, to write about science." In any case, anything Amitav Ghosh writes is Literature. The same holds true for India's other great SFF writer, Salman Rushdie – and I'm not just talking about magic realism being a very close stepbrother to genre SFF. Nearly all of Rushdie's novels contain SFF elements, but his first novel, Grimus (1975), was straightforward genre fantasy, based on the 12th-century Sufi poem The Conference of Birds. Grimus is an anagram of the name 'Simurg', the omniscient bird of ancient Persian myth. Rushdie's best fantasy so far is undoubtedly the wickedly funny Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) with its swashbuckling colourful landscape and tongue-in-cheek tributes to fantastical literature from Baghdad to Bengal. An interesting case in the history of Indian SFF is that of Ashok Banker, author of the new seven-part Ramayana, which is being sold all over the world as genre fantasy, but, strangely enough, is being called a retelling of the epic, not SFF literature, in India. Banker, in his new avatar as a white-clad Hanuman-devotee, is the only Indian writer you'll find discussed on international SFF websites. In India, though, he's launched his books saying he's treading in Valmiki's footsteps. In either case, his books, which take the most incredibly material-rich epic in the world and add to it popular SF elements and monsters from well-known contemporary western writers, signal India's first entry into the big-league international SFF publishing market. He's currently working on a new-age Mahabharata, after which he plans to take on the take of Krishna as well. Another big-advance Indian author, Ruchir Joshi, incorporated SF elements very effectively in The Last Jet-engine Laugh. And yet another Indian writer (well, he's British, but his father used to live in Kashmir once, so we are entitled to adopt him) who almost wrote SFF is Hari Kunzru. In a recent interview, he told me he's always been fascinated by alternate worlds and has always been a huge fantasy addict. Unfortunately for genre enthusiasts, he discovered early in life how to sell Literature to publishers for millions of pounds – though he also told me, in the same interview, how his next novel would be a fantasy about an Amazonian tribe visited by men from outer space. I wouldn't start booking advance copies of this masterpiece if I were you, though, since he's never going to write it. Following this impressive top order, there's me, with my little flag and trumpet, and a few others – Manjula Padmanabhan writes SF, as do the Dynamic Duo who write under the pseudonym Kalpish Ratna. In fact, the other day I found this story by Kalpish Ratna about the issues faced by cloned incestuous lesbian twins in post-apocalyptic Bombay. Fabulous! And Vandana Singh, author of the charming children's book Younguncle Comes to Town, has written for international magazines and aims to be an SF novelist. We haven't all met in dark alleyways with fake lightsabers in our hands yet, but I suspect we will soon. What is the future of Indian SFF? Search me, I don't know, but it can only be good. Sure, the scene now isn't too encouraging – the market is tiny, the foreign publishing market for SFF is completely distinct from the mainstream literary ones where a lot of Indian writers are big names, and this new crop of Indian writers still needs to have their SFF published abroad to stand a chance of making a living from it. But things will definitely change for the better – hopefully soon. We have writers of immense talent and stupendous imagination, an ever growing market, and a few editors and publishers who dare to innovate and give new genres a chance, no matter how boring the industry is in general. There are galaxies to be explored, and the first ships are already on their way. Then again, are you going to take my word for it? After all, I'm just a fantasist.


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Paulina Porizkova Says ANTM Will End A Modeling Career Before It Starts
- Paulina Porizkova on America's Next Top Model: "The one guarantee that you will never make it as a model is to go on that show." Which is both honest and interesting, since she used to judge "that show." [NYPost]


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In my appplication i have to load the abc.html file in to specific layout. So for that which view i have to use ? Should i WebView is fine. or there is anyother View that load that local html file fast.
Note: the Html file is not loading from the server or internate. but it is tha local file that we stored in to assets directory.


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The Chicago Tribune just posted an interview with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof.
"This interview contains no spoilers for Season 6. I didn't (and still don't) want to know any specifics about the season to come.
I was interested in finding out how Cuse and Lindelof approached Season 6 and how they feel about the fans' expectations for the last season. This section of the transcript also contains the first set of 'Star Wars references, and there are several "Battlestar Galactica" and "Sopranos" references too. Also, giraffes."
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Council Bluffs, Iowa (CNN) - In the face of bruising headlines and public opinion that President Obama did not bring his A-game for Wednesday's presidential debate, Vice President Joe Biden rallied to the president's side - disagreeing with dominant public opinion and essentially casting Romney as a flip-flopper.
"I thought the president did well. He was presidential," Biden said after reporters asked him about the president's widely panned debate performance.
In the next breath, the vice president turned the tables – panning Romney's performance, instead.
"You just never know what … position that Governor Romney is going to come with," Biden said. "I mean, the centerpiece of their economic policy so far has been a tax cut. And last night I, we found out he doesn't have a $5 trillion tax cut."
"I guess he outsourced that to China or something," Biden added. "I don't know if that's off-shored. But it's hard to figure out what Gov. Romney's position is on a number of issues. But I think as time goes on, meaning days, it's going to become pretty clear that Gov. Romney has either changed a number of his positions or didn't remember some of his positions."
Biden's comments came during a stop at a Hy-Vee grocery store in Council Bluffs, ahead of a campaign in the city. They echoed a slam from the president himself. At a Denver campaign event, before Biden's, the president mocked that "the real Mitt Romney" could not have on stage with him.
Both men press that Romney has proposed $5 trillion in tax cuts that would help the wealthy and harm the middle class. Romney repeatedly denied that characterization and insisted his plan would not add to the deficit.
Independent fact checkers have sided against President Obama's claim.
Performing a fact check, CNN anchor John Berman ruled the claim as false because of Romney's intention to offset the tax cuts by eliminating as yet unspecified loopholes and lowering deductions.
Berman rated Romney's claim that his plan would not add to the deficit as incomplete.
Meanwhile, Factcheck.org also ruled the president's claim as false.


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This question is related to Impact of covering glass on lens performance.
I use a 63x TIRF objective with a numerical aperture of 1.46 and oil immersion. The immersion oil has an index of $n_e=1.518$. I'm observing green eGFP fluorescence at around 510 nm. Does it matter if I use a coverslip (BK7 glass) with 140 $\mu$m thickness instead of 170 $\mu$m?
Edit: The objective is a Zeiss Objective alpha "Plan-Apochromat" 63x/1.46 Oil Corr M27


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Really? All that video tells me is "fetch quest".
Really? All that video tells me is "fetch quest".
The implications of a fetch quest, to me, are orders of magnitude more appealing than Uncharted's narrow corridor linearity.
I liked that "collect stuff for a vehicle" part when it was called Dead Rising 2: Case Zero.
Me too! Honestly, that's probably one of the best things to channel when making a zombie game., IMO. Throwing that into a realistic world (not filled with rich wives, insane shop owners, and a doomed bachelorette party) can completely change/improve the atmosphere and experience.
I love Uncharted to death, but the change of pace is nice. I doubt it's going to be super expansive, though, because the graphics make that hard. But I'm really excited; their last four games (Jak 3) have all been tits. The play they showed at E3 looked fantastic.
Ellie was hilarious in that trailer.
Can't think of a reason not to be ultra excited for this.
This will be amazing. I love naughty dog (Jak and Daxter franchise and Uncharted franchise). They can do no wrong.
There will be a new trailer at the VGAs tomorrow. One year after its launch trailer, I think its about time they gave us a release date, or at least a release window. Hopefully some more gameplay is shown too
Did they show any of the fungi zombies in the new trailer? I know they keep saying they're not the focus of the game but I'd still like to see some gameplay with them.
Less than 5 months and this game will be out and in my hands.
There's now a deep consideration for getting a PS3 for this game. Hell, they're cheap now and I could catch up on the games I missed out on sticking with the 360 this generation.
Do it (if you can). They're cheap, play blurays, play online free, and have exclusives other than Halo, GoW, and Forza.
As far as I'm concerned it's the game I waiting the most for! Best 3D graphics ever seen to date.
Just saw the new trailer. Showed a lot of the fungal zombies which makes me happy. I know a lot of people are like "They're not zombies!" but fuck you they're fucking zombies just like how the Infected in 28 Days Later were also pretty much zombies.
Wonder what the multiplayer will be like? Kind of hoping for something like what Operation Raccoon City tried and failed to do with a Hero's vs. Villains thing with fungi zombies as a dynamic environmental hazard.
Man I need to go back and play some UC3 multiplayer.
Yeah definitely zombies, and I'm glad for that.
Actually kind of disappointed with the multiplayer. Was really hoping for a co-op horde mode or a PvP deathmatch type game where a bunch of infected rush the level halfway through. Like Operation Raccoon City, but good.
I mean it doesn't sound bad. I'll definitely be playing it. I was just hoping for a little more than what we're getting.
Whoa, at first glance, the eurogamer article sounds like a far more sophisticated and appropriate version of horde mode...
...but then I realized that the zombies aren't necessarily a focal point of the matches."Matches take place over a number of in-game weeks, during which time each human player or team has the chance to gain Clan members or see them die from infection, starvation and enemy incursions."
The gaf article doesn't even mention the fungi zombies, which reinforces the bummer."Your Clan will also have to contend with random events, such as an Infected attack"
I do hope they have some co-op action available and/or some team deathmatch options that allow you to crank up constant enemy threats.


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I had a password-protected Access 2007 database that I used to use extensively but hadn't used in a few years and had forgotten the password. I looked around for a recovery tool, but the only ones I found for a 2007 database format (ACCDB) wanted money, and the data I needed out of the DB wasn't worth that to me. Instead I tried writing a VBA routine to brute-force discover the password, and to my great surprise, it worked. (It took about 75 mins to find my 4-character password, searching through all combinations of any type-able characters, though I did "stack" my character list towards the ones I thought were in the password.)
Now, said program is not terribly elegant or fast, as I am not a cryptographer or a hacker/cracker, but it does work and it is simple enough that most people with a basic knowledge of VBA could implement it. I would like to share this with others, to save them the frustration I had (and possibly money too, if they need their data that bad). StackOverflow seems the best place to put it, but I worry that because this is so directly linked with potentially nefarious uses that it will likely be deleted. What say you? Can it be safely posted, is there a better place for it (on or off StackExchange), or should I just take my secrets to the grave?


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How Yoga Made Me an Enlightened Eater
I love food and I'm pretty sure it's got a thing for me too.
I grew up in Kansas where cheese came in the form of a thin orange square wrapped in plastic. Dinner often came out of a box and I thought Miracle Whip and mayonnaise were the same thing. I lived blissfully unaware as I continued into my college years thinking the vegetable garden blend of cream cheese was healthy because it contained vegetables. You can't fault a Kansas girl for trying.
It wasn't until I started a full-time yoga practice that I started to change my ways. The interesting part was that no one pushed their yogic eating principles on me. It was simple — the more I practiced, the more my desire for good, healthy fuel grew.


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I would like to know examples of smooth compact connected manifolds, on which there exists an effective smooth circle action preserving a positive smooth volume, besides the simple example: $[0,1]^d \times \mathbb{S}^1$. Is there a classification of these manifolds?
As already pointed out, whenever you have a compact group $G$ acting on a manifold $M$, this action can be made isometric by constructing a metric on $M$ via a standard averaging process. In particular, if you have a (effective) circle action on $M$, you can find a metric $g$ on $M$ such that this action is isometric. In other words, the isometry group of $(M,g)$ contains a circle. This should provide you with plenty of examples: intuitively, a manifold that carries a circle action is one that has (at least) a "circle" worth of symmetries.
For example, take $M$ to be any rotationally symmetric surface in $\mathbb R^3$, e.g., a round sphere $S^2$ or a torus $S^1\times S^1$. Then $M$, by definition, has an isometric (effective) circle action. Moreover, these are the only (orientable) manifolds of dimension $2$ with an effective circle action. This follows from the fact that if we have a torus action on $M$, then the Euler characteristic of $M$ is $\chi(M)=\chi(M^T)$, where $M^T$ is the fixed point set of the torus. Since $M^T$ is a totally geodesic submanifold of $M$, it can be a circle or a finite collection of points. Thus, $\chi(M)\geq 0$, which means $M$ is homeomorphic to $S^2$, $\mathbb RP^2$, $S^1\times S^1$ or the Klein bottle $K^2$, according to orientability and $\chi(M)=2,1,0$, respectively. This is the classification you ask for in dimension equal to $2$.
Classifying compact connected manifolds of any dimension with a circle action and nothing else seems rather too general. More interesting problems are, for example, classifying manifolds with an isometric circle action that also have, e.g., some curvature condition. For example, if $\dim M=4$ and $M$ has a metric of positive curvature that has an isometric circle action, then Hsiang-Kleiner proved that $M$ must be homeomorphic to $S^4$ or $\mathbb C P^2$.
In the answer of Will, one can exchange manifold $N$ to an orbifold with singularities modeled on $\mathbb R^{n-1}/\mathbb Z_k$ and $\mathbb R^{n}/\mathbb S^1$. Then his answer works for effective action. You can get a lot of examples this way, but I do not think you can call it a "classification".
On the other hand assume you have a manifold $M$ and want to know if it admits an effective $\mathbb S^1$-action. In this case Will's answer is useless and as far as I know no good answer is known.
If there is an action on $M$ then
I do not know any other restriction.
Assuming you mean: An action of the group $\mathbb R/\mathbb Z$ without stabilizer:
If you look at the quotient of the manifold $M$ by the action, you get a manifold $N$ with a circle bundle $M$. Circle bundles are classified by their Chern class, which is an element of $H^2(N,\mathbb Z)$ coming from the exact sequence $H^1(\mathbb Z) \to H^1(\mathbb R) \to H^1(\mathbb R/\mathbb Z) \to H^2(\mathbb Z)$.
To find a volume preserved by the circle action, take any volume and average it with its pullbacks along the circle action.
So the classification is any smooth compact connected manifold $N$ plus an element of $H^2(N,\mathbb Z)$.
The $3$-manifolds with effective $S^1$-actions are called Seifert manifolds and are completely classified. Essentially, all of them can be obtained from a circle bundle over a surface by removing tubular neighborhoods of several fibers and gluing them back in a clever way. For details you can check P. Orlik's book Seifert manifolds, Lecture Notes in Math. Springer Verlag, 1972.
The classification in higher dimensions is more complicated and I don't know if it is complete. For certain $S^1$ actions (called hamiltonian) on $4$-manifolds there is a wealth of results; see e.g. Y. Karshon's paper Periodic Hamiltonian flows on four dimensional manifolds, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 672 (1999) (see short version here.)
This is more of a comment than an answer. Any simplectic manifold with an effective circle action preserving the form is an example. So any smooth projective toric variety is an example of a manifold with an effective circle action preserving a volume form.
Edit: I forgot to say what the volume is: it's the top power of the symplectic form.


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Less than a week after the last lifts were powered down, the slopes of Breckenridge Ski Resort's Peak 7 are turning brown.
The snowpack, which hit a season high in mid-March that was still well below average, is evaporating quickly across the county.
The snow that hasn't melted is the driest experts have ever seen.
The snow-water equivalent - a measurement of the moisture contained in the snowpack in inches of water - fell to 29 percent of average in the Blue River Basin on May 1 - the lowest on the 45-year record.
The Colorado River Basin also hit a record low earlier this week, with a snow-water equivalent falling to 21 percent of average. The basin's total snowpack was also at 21 percent of average.
"Statewide snowpack looks to have peaked around March 12, a month ahead of the average peak date and began melting in late March at rates typically not observed until May," National Resources Conservation Service state conservationist Phyllis Ann Philipps stated in a recent release.
Now, with the snowpack nearly gone and little water residing in what's left, stream-flow forecasts are falling short as well.
At the end of April, local agency officials gathered for an annual meeting that is normally used to plan for high rivers and potential flooding.
The discussions this year were different.
"We jokingly called it the high water meeting," Lake Dillon Fire-Rescue spokesman Steve Lipsher said. "This year it was really more the no water meeting."
Stream flows on the Blue River near Dillon Reservoir will likely only reach 41 percent of normal between May and July, National Weather Service water forecasters say.
"The unseasonably warm temperatures we've had (are) bringing the runoff off pretty early," NWS hydrologist Treste Huse said.
Though there is a slight chance of precipitation in the forecast Sunday and into the early part of next week, May is showing a "tilt" toward dryer conditions in the north-central mountains, Huse said. After that, the chances of precipitation are about 50-50, according to current forecasts.
But while weather patterns and water levels may be reminiscent of 2002, a year of severe drought for Colorado, the state's reservoir levels are in good shape.
Dillon Reservoir was 94 percent full as of April 30, compared with a historic median of only 85 percent, according to data provided by Denver Water.
The utility's total available system was 88 percent full on the same day last week, above a historic median of 79 percent.
"That's due to customers' good conservation and some decent weather years," Denver Water spokeswoman Stacy Chesney said. "But we are asking our customers to cut back to help preserve water in the systems because we don't know what the weather will bring."


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Typically, credit-card companies try to lure their customers by linking their credit-card purchases to certain attractions or benefits. These reward programs are therefore extremely desirable even from the customers' point of view, provided a little vigilance and prudence is used while choosing them.
Co-branded Cards
- Co-branded cards are an interesting way of deriving the most from your credit cards.
- The co-branded cards carry the name of a third party, which may be a retail outlet, airlines and so on. Such cards will have benefits whenever you purchase products from the third party. They may also be co-branded with a charity that will receive a fraction of every payment you make with the card.
- Co-branded cards are more likely to carry significant fees. Make sure that the benefits they provide outweigh the costs.
- Read the fine print and ask questions when it comes to benefits. The descriptions provided are often vague and you need to clarify the details to make sure that the benefits you get are worth the annual costs.
- The usual warnings about credit cards apply to these cards as well. So, avoid getting caught in the debt trap by using them wisely.
In this age where most financial gurus discourage the use of credit-cards, credit-card reward programs have emerged as one of the finest examples of smart marketing, having the potential to create a win-win situation for both the credit card company and its customers.
Read on to get to know more about these credit-card reward programs and understand which one is designed to suit your needs:
Before Enrolling for a Credit-card Reward Program
Today, credit-card users have a wide array of alternative rewards to select from. But before they decide which one to sign up for, it is imperative that they evaluate different credit-cards on the basis of the rewards, rebates and other benefits associated with their usage.
As not all credit-card reward programs are the same, a potential credit-card user must compare and contrast the charges, procedures as well as accumulation and redemption of points before taking the plunge.
It is also essential that one finds beforehand as to whether the credit-card of his choice automatically enrolls him to the benefits of its reward programs or it necessitates adherence to certain laid down procedures or payments to become eligible for the advantages.
But once they are enrolled, they have a wide assortment of credit-card reward programs to choose from.
Types of Credit Card Reward Programs
Here is a list of the different credit-card reward programs available to a credit-card holder:
1. Cash Back/Rebate Cards
The 'cash back/rebate cards' are the most sought after reward programs for the simple reason that these enable users to get a part of the payment made by them, either in cash, check or by the way of a discount of the said amount, thus increasing their practicality.
However, selecting a credit-card that offers the best cash back may not be that easy. It requires one to evaluate each card closely to find out the hidden costs such as annual fees, balance transfer fees and grace period apart from the list of stores where it can be used.
2. Frequent Flier Reward Cards
The 'frequent-flier reward cards' are ideal for those who frequently travel by air. Such a card enables user to collect air miles for the distance traveled and subsequently redeem these air miles by getting free air tickets.
There are a few cards that offer hotel rewards entitling its users free stay in hotels either in conjunction to their frequent-flier card or separately.
Once again you need to check the various airlines and hotels available on the card's list before you decide to travel. Read the fine print and pay special attention to the list of services included and excluded from travel arrangement before opting for this reward card.
3. Points Reward Cards
The 'points reward cards' help you earn points on each of your purchases. You are required to collect these points and redeem them later by choosing merchandises from their list, for free. Often the list of merchandise that you can select is available beforehand. So make sure that you check this list and get enrolled only if it has something worthwhile.
4. Gasoline Reward Cards
Lastly, the 'gasoline reward cards' entitle you to free gas once you have accumulated a certain number of points.
All said and done, one must not forget that non repayment of the amount due for your credit card purchases comes with penalties, and exorbitant interest rates. So, while deciding which credit card to choose, select the one which delivers the best mix of a reward program most suitable to your lifestyle and and has lowest penalties or interest rate.
Also, do not forget reading the terms and conditions before signing-up for one, as a reward program might be nothing more than a marketing gimmick.
This story was originally published on 02/01/2011.


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Since PHA's International PH Conference was first organized in 1994, patients have been able to attend at far less than the actual cost to PHA. In past years, the patient registration fee has been approximately 20 percent of the per-registrant cost to PHA.
Unfortunately, even with this blanket benefit for patients, many cannot afford to attend. Hotel costs and travel costs, particularly for those requiring oxygen during flights, add up prohibitively. The fact is that our members live with a disease that adds significantly, and sometimes catastrophically, to the cost of living while often reducing their ability to work.
To help as many patients as possible have the opportunity to learn and network at PHA's conferences, PHA sought funds from Ronald McDonald House Charities and launched the Patient Scholarship Fund in 2000. PHA raised between $50,000 and $60,000 in scholarship money for the 2000, 2002 and 2004 Conferences. These funds directly helped 40 to 50 patients attend each event who otherwise might not have done so.
By 2004, PHA's International PH Conference had become the largest PH meeting in the world. It had integrated well-received Scientific Sessions, bringing additional value to the medical community. Evaluations were exceptional. However, while the event was continuously growing in impact, it became apparent that more needed to be done to assist patients with the cost of attendance. PHA set a target to raise the Patient Scholarship Fund to $150,000 for the 2006 Conference, and PHA successfully doubled the number of 2004 scholarship recipients. Since 2006, the Patient Scholarship Fund has allowed us to make attendance possible for hundreds of people.
As the patient population has continued to grow, so too does the demand for scholarships. Since 2001, the patient community in the U.S. has grown from about 3,000 to between 20,000 and 30,000. The scholarship program has also become better known during that time. This energy is reflected in the growth of applicants and recipients between 2006 and 2014. With continuing growth and interest in the field, applications are expected to continue to increase in 2016.
The Patient Scholarship Fund is supported by many members of the PH community, including patients, caregivers, medical professionals, corporations and PHA staff, and fills the gap for as many qualified patient applicants in need as we can support. Companies or groups who give a minimum of $20,000 will have a Community of Hope Patient Scholarship Fund created in their name.
Based upon need, PHA Conference scholarships are awarded at three levels to cover the cost of the following:
All scholarship decisions are made by an anonymous awards committee, composed of patients and caregivers. Funders are blind to the awards process and have no role in evaluating or selecting recipients. Participation in the Patient Scholarship Fund will not count toward a funder's total sponsorship level.
"You have provided the most wonderful experience…a wealth of opportunity to learn more about our disease and the unforgettable chance to be around hundreds of smiling faces that all said the same thing: 'I understand and I'm so glad you came.' Thank you with all my heart."
"We had a wonderful time. I have been able to talk to my doctors better with the information that I learned and my daughter has talked to people at school. She wore the PHA shirt to school and found out that her science teacher's sister has PH. She is now her favorite teacher and they talk about PH often. I found out the other day that her biggest fear is me dying and she said that she wasn't as scared after learning so much at Conference. Thank you so much from both of us."
"I just want to say thank you for the scholarship. Without it, I could not have gone. I came back with a positive attitude about my PH."
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A pair of parties marked a new chapter in Houston's efforts to combat illiteracy. At the Hobby Center, Neil Bush welcomed a handful of businesses and civic leaders to discuss the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation's new Blueprint for Community Action. ... Meanwhile, Mayor Annise Parker hosted her Literacy Leadership Award Breakfast at River Oaks Country Club. Ellie Francisco and Leisa Holland-Nelson chaired the annual event, which serves as a fundraiser for the Houston Center for Literacy and honors organizations which offer literacy services. –River Oaks Country Club photos by Michelle Watson; Hobby Center photos by Kim Coffman


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Back in 2009 I posted a question in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica looking for a function which generates the union of two (not necessarily convex) polygons. The Imtek library has a function which generates the intersection of two such polygons, but it doesn't have a union function. There are apparently C libraries available to which one could link which include such a capability (e.g., http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/alan/software), but I'm still curious if anyone has developed (and is willing to share) a native Mathematica function to generate a polygon union.
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Mopar 8 3/4-Inch Rear Axle AssemblyWritten by Jeff Smith on June 1, 2010 Swapping Gear Ratios Is One Of The Quickest Ways To A Big Change On Any Street Car, So Let's Show . . .
Shannon Hudson's performance world is evolving. For years, he drove a lime-green '69 Valiant with the total drag racing package, right down to the Mickey Thompson ET Drag Radials and 4.11 gears. Outside the dragstrip, the car wasn't as much fun, especially on Los Angeles freeways where he'd have to spin his small-block to 3,600 rpm just to keep from getting run over. Because Hudson, the owner of Redline Gauge Works, is a car crafter whose taste had changed, the time had come to do something different. He decided to ditch the drag race package, put fat tires on all four corners, improve the A-Body's handling, and swap out those 4.11s for something more streetable. The first step was to perform the gear change, so he pulled his Valiant up on the rack at his buddy Dave Reeves' rearend shop, and we stopped by to document the conversion to a set of 3.55:1s. Here's how it all went down.
Rear Axle Assembly - The Buildup
The Mopar 8 3/4-inch rear axle assembly was Chrysler's midsize gear carrier system-smaller than the massive Dana 60 used in the Hemicars yet beefier than the pedestrian 8 1/4-inch. But not all 8 3/4-inch rears are the same, as there are three different casting numbers (found on the side of the case) based on pinion bearing size. This is important because parts, torque values, and even the pinion preload specs vary based on these case dimensions. Hudson's 489 centersection originated in a '70 Challenger using the largest bearings of the three casting numbers of 41, 42, and 89. Hudson had already contacted Randy's Ring & Pinion and ordered a set of 3.55:1 gears, a master rebuild kit, and stronger axles with a larger 5x4 1/2-inch wheel mounting bolt pattern for a set of Rocket wheels.
By the time we got to Reeves' shop, technician Dale Lee had already popped the axles and the 8 3/4-inch rear axle assembly centersection out of the housing, stripped the centersection, and had it sitting on the bench ready for assembly. One thing Lee did before we got there was mark both main caps with a center punch because they do not interchange. Lee also removed the bearing pressed on the pinion shaft to measure the shim thickness. The 4.11 gear had a 0.012-inch shim under the pinion along with 0.036 inch of shims underneath the pinion bearing race closest to the ring gear in the case. Reeves noted that it is common to find shims in both places.
Rear Axle Assembly - Pinion Gear Size Differences Reeves decided to use a 0.015-inch shim under the pinion to compensate for the change in size of the pinion gear. Deep gears like 4.11s employ a small pinion gear, while the 3.55's pinion is quite a bit larger. This changes the relationship of the pinion to the ring gear, necessitating a thicker pinion shim to move the pinion gear deeper-or closer to the ring gear centerline. Reeves chose to do it this way based on his experience, and we decided to pass that knowledge along with a chart of pinion shim thickness recommendations that should position the pinion close enough that you shouldn't have to measure pinion depth. Because of this, we did not run through the pinion depth procedure here, but you can find it at CarCraft.com.
|Ring gear bolts
|55 ft-lb
|Main cap bolts
|90 ft-lb
|Pinion preload (89) new bearing
|14-19 in-lb
|Pinion preload (89) used bearing
|6-9 in-lb
|Total preload (89) new bearing
|30-35 in-lb*
|Ring gear backlash
|0.006 to 0.010 inch
|*Total preload is a combination of turning the pinion and the ring gear without the axles installed.
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|Yukon 3.55 gearset
|Randy's Ring
|Yukon Master Overhaul set
|Randy's Ring
|Yukon axle set, 5 x 4.50
|Randy's Ring
|Yukon spanner wrench
|Randy's Ring
|Yukon bearing race driver
|Randy' Ring
We've heard the centersection called all kinds of colorful names, such as pumpkin, hog's head, dropout, and pig.
New Gear Break-In
Once those new gears are installed in the rearend, you must curb your enthusiasm for at least a few hundred miles before you begin flogging those burnouts and dragstrip passes. Randy's Ring & Pinion suggests taking it easy on the new gears, especially for the first 15 to 20 miles, with no hard acceleration, then let the gears cool completely. After that, avoid abuse for the first 100 miles and then change the gear lube after the first 500 miles to get rid of the metal that will inevitably be found in the oil from the new gears and bearings.
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Hudson found a used pinion flange, but because of the wear mark left by the old seal, it needed a repair sleeve to ensure it wouldn't leak. Luckily, the local NAPA store stocked the correct-diameter Speedi-Sleeve.To install the Speedi-Sleeve, technician Dale Lee cleaned the shaft and applied a light coating of red Loctite. Then he pressed the sleeve over the yoke shaft with the supplied tool and a hammer.Lee placed the original shims (0.036 inch) back in the case that had been under the old bearing race and then pressed in the bearing race with a hammer and a large brass drift, making sure the bearing races were fully seated in the case.Here is the 0.015-inch shim on the new pinion gear. The new pinion bearing was then pressed in place.Lee lubed and then placed the smaller, outer pinion bearing in the case and installed the pinion seal after coating the outside of the seal with sealer. Next came the new crush sleeve over the pinion shaft along with some gear lube on the bearing.After installing the pinion in the case and slipping the restored pinion yoke over the pinion, Lee lubed the pinion nut washer and placed red thread-locking compound on the pinion nut threads. He used a 1/2-inch drive impact gun to slowly remove all the slack in the system and then carefully tightened the pinion nut just enough to create a slight drag when turning the pinion. Work carefully here because if you overtighten the crush sleeve, it must be replaced before you can try again.Lee worked slowly and carefully, tightening the pinion nut and checking the pinion preload with a dial-type inch-pound torque wrench to work up to the specified 14 to 19 in-lb of preload for new bearings on an 89 case. The used bearing spec for the 89 case is 6 to 9 in-lb.Lee used a Randy's Ring & Pinion carrier bearing tool to remove the old bearings from the differential. The tool clamps around the bearing and removes it much like a power steering pulley removal tool.Lee attached the ring gear to the carrier. All 8 3/4-inch Mopar differentials use lefthand thread, 3/8-inch NF bolts to attach the ring gear to the differential, and the Yukon master install kit includes new bolts. Make sure the gear is fully seated to the ring gear flange and torque all bolts using red thread locker. Never use lock washers under ring gear bolts.
Lee installed the carrier bearings on the differential. Make sure both bearings are fully seated on the carrier flanges. He used bearing drivers and even an old inner bearing race to ensure the bearings were fully seated.After Lee set the ring gear and differential in the case, he put white lithium grease on the spanner nuts and made sure the nuts were fully engaged with the threads before installing the main caps. He lightly tightened the main cap bolts to allow the spanner nuts to turn.To set backlash, Lee tightened the left (driver-side) spanner nut to push the ring gear toward the pinion. This will probably require moving the right-side spanner to properly position the ring gear. The right-side spanner determines the preload on the carrier bearings.The backlash spec for most rear gears is a relatively wide range. In this case, it's anywhere from 0.006 to 0.010 inch. Reeves wanted to work toward the minimum spec for better durability and started by adjusting the left-side adjuster to 0.008 inch of backlash.To check the gear pattern properly, Lee painted six gear teeth with the yellow checking paint supplied in the Yukon master install kit. Reeves emphasized that wrapping a rag around the pinion to put a slight load on the bearings is important to getting a proper reading on the pattern.Here is Lee's final pattern. The first attempt at 0.008 inch indicated the ring gear was too close to the pinion, so Lee increased the backlash 0.002 inch to 0.010 inch to create the pattern shown here.This is the coast side of the gear with the tighter 0.008-inch backlash that places the pattern too deep into the ring gear. Increasing the backlash returned the pattern more to the middle of the ring gear teeth.Here is the assembled centersection with the adjuster locks bolted in place. Lee actually bent one slightly to position the lock so he didn't have to risk moving the adjusters since this rear was so backlash sensitive.
The last step was to slide the new Yukon axles in place. Hudson brought different wheels with the wide bolt pattern only to realize he needed matching brake drums to complete the changeover to the larger Mopar 5x41/2-inch bolt pattern.


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