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Every year, Tools of the Trade takes the opportunity to recognize standout tools that caught our attention during the previous year. Some rose to the top during testing, while others impressed us as being a leap forward in technology, design, or features that define the current state of the art among tool manufacturers.
Innovation is a key theme of this year's picks. A few of the tools are new-to-market concepts; others exemplify the latest and greatest within their respective categories. All are worthy of special recognition.
We couldn't include every tool that has made a splash since last year's awards, but here are the 12 top picks we chose to showcase for our audience.
The GSL2 is self-leveling and rotates its lines in an effective radius of 60 feet with the help of its full-function remote. The tool is powered by either AA batteries or an optional Bosch 12-volt max rechargeable tool battery. This is the type of ingenious but simple tool that makes us wonder why no one thought of it sooner. Price: $549. 877-267-2499. boschtools.com.
The radar scanner is powered by DeWalt's 12-volt max battery and works through drywall, wood, concrete, ceramic tile, and marble, with a sensing depth of up to 3 inches. Materials it can detect include ferrous and nonferrous metal, wood, PVC pipe, and live electrical wiring. A signal-strength meter lets you gauge the unit's confidence in what it detects, so you can decide whether you need to double-check something found behind surfaces difficult to scan. Price: $299 (kit). 800-433-9258. dewalt.com.
The product came about when Makita's U.S. branch pitched the idea to the company's Japanese headquarters as a way to attract its well-established 18-volt customer base to the brand's 36-volt tools. With the X2 adapter, users can add new and larger tools to their arsenals without having to purchase types of batteries and chargers they don't already use.
The adapter (without batteries) is sold with the brand's 36-volt rotary hammer and chainsaw, or it can be purchased separately to retrofit the rotary hammer, which has been available in the U.S. for a while.
It features a fuel gauge for each battery, so you can check your charge status to make sure both batteries are balanced for efficient output. The X2 snaps on and off either tool's 36-volt battery connection for easier tool storage. Price: BVC02 adapter $80, HRH01ZX2 rotary hammer with adapter $359, HCU02ZX2 chainsaw with adapter $369. 800-462-5482. makitausa.com.
With their surprising power, long-running 2.0 and 4.0 amp-hour batteries, and compact and efficient brushless motors, these tools are poised to replace 18-volt tools for many applications while providing notable savings in size and weight. We predict this type of "right-size" tool will become more popular as subcompact models continue to improve, and will allow pros to go big with smaller tools. Price: Bare tools from $139 to $219, kits from $189 to $319. 800-729-3878. milwaukeetool.com.
This machine's other features include massive cast-iron wheels, a rock-solid guide post with rack-and-pinion gear adjustment, dual dust-collection ports, and a large cast-iron table with a T-square fence that features an extra-tall faceplate for stability.
For extra safety, the saw has a removable magnetic lockout key that disables the power switch, an interlock switch on the tensioning lever that won't let the saw start with the blade untensioned, and a foot brake that switches the power off and mechanically stops the blade. Price: $2,900. 800-274-6848. powermatic.com.
Manufacturers have focused at various times on torque, battery chemistry, voltage ratings (max vs. nominal ratings), brushless motors, and — for the last year or so — higher amp-hour (Ah) battery ratings.
Putting a higher Ah-rated battery on a tool is like putting a bigger fuel tank in a vehicle: It doesn't go faster, but it does go farther. The battery isn't actually larger, though; its cells have greater energy density, so the pack stores more power in the same amount of space.
For years, most cordless battery packs contained 1.0- or 1.5-Ah rated lithium ion cells. With a single string of these cells, compact packs could achieve a 1.0- or 1.5-Ah rating. Full-size packs contain two strings of cells and could achieve a 2.0- or 3.0-Ah rating.
To be fair, some brands have used cells rated higher than 1.5 Ah, but the practice has only recently become mainstream. The current standard is to assemble packs with 2.0-Ah cells, which yield compact and full-size packs rated at 2.0 and 4.0 Ah respectively.
As of now, Bosch, DeWalt, Metabo, Milwaukee, Ridgid, and Ryobi offer 4.0-Ah battery packs in the U.S. market. Panasonic offers 4.2-Ah batteries. The 4.5-Ah packs from Stihl and 6.0-Ah packs from Hilti use three strings of cells to achieve those higher ratings.
It's unclear which (if any) tool company will win the Ah rating war, but tool users will almost certainly benefit from the longer runtime and proliferation of new types of cordless tools that better batteries will make possible.
The sander has two dust-collection settings: the standard setting that picks up dust around the perimeter of the sanding head, just inside the surrounding dust brush; and a setting that pulls dust through holes in the center of the 8 1/2-inch sanding pad. This through-the-pad setting is designed to help support the weight of the sander when used overhead on ceilings. The unit will indeed hold itself up against a smooth ceiling with the vacuum turned on and the sander turned off.
To help you reach all the way into corners, a section of the surrounding dust brush lifts off. And to keep the sanding head from sticking to the work surface, the sander features an adjustable vacuum bypass valve. The tool is powered by an efficient brushless motor that can be adjusted to rotate the head at speeds from 310 to 920 rpm.
The sander comes with one extension, which should allow a person of average height to sand 8-foot ceilings. With an additional (optional) extension, that same person can sand 11-foot ceilings. An optional harness is available to support the weight of the sander and hose for lengthy bouts of overhead use.
For maximum performance, Festool recommends pairing the sander with its CT36 Auto Clean vac, which collects fine dust and comes with a special lightweight hose. Price: Sander alone $1,050, sander and vac $1,748. 888-337-8600. festoolusa.com.
In addition to power and speed, the tool has superior runtime. The maker claims it can drill 35 holes 3/4 inch by 8 inches deep in concrete on a single charge, a feat made possible by the combination of a brushless motor and a 36-volt, 6.0 amp-hour battery — the highest Ah rating we've seen to date. This three-mode combination hammer has Hilti's active torque-control and vibration-reduction systems to protect users from injuries due to bit binding and vibration. Price: $1,599. 800-879-8000. us.hilti.com.
As their name implies, these nailers are characterized by heads short enough to easily fit between 16-inch framing members, and all weigh in at less than 8 pounds — the cutoff manufacturers currently strive to beat. Bostitch still offers larger, heavier guns, as these compact tools max out at 3 1/4-inch fasteners and won't shoot the thickest-gauge nails available. The low-profile line allows carpenters to use smaller, lighter guns for the common tasks that account for most of their time framing.
Premium features include a tool-free switchable trigger and depth-of-drive mechanism, a rotating rafter hook, an internal air filter, a protective nose pad, and a magnet in the nose that holds the last few nails straight. Price: $239 each. 800-556-6696. bostitch.com.
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In our testing, the dual-voltage 18-volt impact driver was equally powerful with new 4.2-Ah 14.4-volt and 18-volt packs — but it was lighter and easier to handle with the smaller battery. And speaking of amp-hours, the individual cells in these packs are rated at 2.1 Ah, the highest number we have seen in a power tool.
The dual-voltage line includes the EY74A1 drill/driver, EY75A1 impact driver, EY75A2 impact wrench, and EY45A1 reciprocating saw. The impact tools feature brushless motors with three speed/power settings, and all of the tools have an IP rating of 56 — a measure of how well they resist dust and water. When sold in kit form, the tools come with 18-volt batteries, which suggests they are intended to help existing 14.4-volt users transition up. Price: Bare tools from $180 to $243, kits from $460 to $470. 800-211-7262. panasonic.com.
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To better control the mess created by water and slurry, this manufacturer directs a stream of water through the blade channel in the rolling table beneath the tile being cut. As the table travels toward the blade, the blade is immersed in the water stream just before and during the cut. Because the blade contacts the water under the tile, there is virtually no airborne spray.
For bevel and plunge cuts, or if you simply need a wetter cut, an onboard water valve can be opened to direct a stream of water onto the blade from above, as with a typical wet saw.
Other well-thought-out features include a radically elevated rear splash tray, a built-in bull's-eye level to make sure surfaces drain effectively, and useful wheels built onto the folding stand and the saw itself for easy one-man portability.
For increased service life, the motor features electronic soft start and a protective circuit with an LED that first flashes red, then stays red, and finally shuts off the motor if it becomes overloaded. Price: $1,199. 800-288-5040. husqvarna.com.
Footwear options include waterproof, insulated, electrostatic-dissipative, puncture-resistant, and slip-resistant materials, as well as metatarsal guards and steel, aluminum, or plastic composite protective toecaps. Styles range from lightweight work sneakers to tall, heavy-duty leather lace-ups and wellingtons. Women's sizes are available too. The boots come with a 90-day comfort warranty. Price: Varies by style; men's Pittsburgh (pictured) $180. 866-676-5336. keenutility.com.
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I'd put this feature request in the Feature Request forum but that apparently is not available to normal users. Moving on. I would be great if we had something more general than LoadMask. I specifically want to use it to handles cases where a Grid/Store (a) has no results or (b) has a filter applied hiding all the results.
Consider the image attached below. In this dialog, users type text into the search box. As they type matching results are shown in the first grid. In cases where there aren't any results I want to inform the user. I think the best way to do this is to display a message on-top-of or in the Grid in the style of a LoadMask.
I've able to use LoadMask by taking great liberties and ignoring the abstractions within Ext. I have a rough example in 2nd attachment. I'm still working out the CSS. It would of course be better if there was a 'Good/Proper' way to accomplish the same thing...
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"I set fire to the rain."
An aspiring life coach has been working to help me improve in several areas. She found some of my old notes (I think they came from listening to the Strategic Coach, Dan Sullivan) about the four habits shared by most entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs usually have four characteristics:
- They perform best in times of chaos.
- They wait until the very last minute to finish projects.
- They need to have an adrenal rush, like a big opportunity or their backs against the wall, before their creativity kicks into place.
- They are motivated by goals that seem unreachable.
In his book, Built to Last, Jim Collins calls that last trait, "Big Hairy Audacious Goals."
The people who started Amazon wanted to have "Every book, ever printed, in any language, available in less than 60 seconds." The people who run Google want to "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible."
Amazon and Google aren't quite there yet, but they are working on it.
Anyone who has ever worked with or hired me knows that those four traits define my personality.
I am often the one calm person in times of chaos.
One of the reasons I like participating in mediations or settlement conferences is that I can step back from emotion and keep focused on the overall goal.
I'm the first call when someone dies, gets injured or has a financial crisis. I'm at the top of my game then.
But this inner calm doesn't happen for me in my daily life. Then, I'm capable of bouncing off the walls on the most trivial of matters.
Give me a 10-foot putt to win the hole and I normally make it. Take the pressure off, and I knock the ball into the weeds.
A lot of my friends are trial lawyers. The good ones seem to have that "calm in chaos" mindset.
My body has some kind of inner clock that tells me when to start a project so that I can finish two minutes ahead of deadline.
I never miss a deadline and the work is first rate, but if you're expecting it two weeks early from me, it will never happen. I've done that my entire life.
Along the way, I've been involved in financial management, structured settlements, running political campaigns and journalism.
Those professions cherish deadline performers.
Which is good, since the rest of the world wants to kill us.
Some people hate the media because they think journalists have too much power and bias.
Others hate us because we never pick up our socks off the floor.
Entrepreneurs are motivated by passion, enthusiasm and the rush of new ideas.
Otherwise, we don't do much of anything. We tend not to be motivated by daily routines or repetitive work.
Dreaming the Impossible Dream is a concept that many starting businesses don't get.
If their goal is to get rich quick or plod from day to day, they aren't entrepreneurs – they just have a job they can't get fired from.
I have all kinds of impossible goals.
I wish for world peace, but I'm not in a position to do much about it.
I long to live the rest of my life never hearing another word about any member of the Kardashian family. But I have not been able to make that happen, either.
I've had a lifelong goal to assure that my clients hang on to all their money.
Since most of the people I deal with have suddenly and unexpectedly gotten money after an injury settlement or lottery jackpot, it's not as easy as you would think.
An estimated 90 percent of people blow through a lump sum in five years or less. I'm going against long odds.
Like the people at Amazon and Google, I'm still working on it.
Another goal is to see that no American is ripped off again by Wall Street or by predatory financial products like payday loans.
Some people think that is truly impossible. But, like the song says, I dream of a day when we "set fire to the rain," and change the financial system to come up with a model that is fair to everyone.
Like my fellow entrepreneurs, I like to dream big dreams and make things happen.
From looking at the entrepreneurial personality traits, like it or not, it is a role I was born to play.
Don McNay, who lives in Richmond, Ky., is an award-winning financial columnist for Huffington Post Contributor. You can learn more about him at www.donmcnay.com.


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My landlord used WD-40 to free the UPVC windows and now when opened slightly the wind then catches them and blows them wide open (a real pain when woken at 4am with rain blowing through the room). How can I counteract this?
You can remove the oil film with a rag or paper towel soaked in some organic solvent like isopropyl alcohol.
Don't these windows have any stop so they can be left ajar without blowing open? It might be good to install something like that instead. A long hook and eyelet would be the simplest.
Either wipe it off, or just leave it. WD40 attracts dirt so it will get sticky in no time.
You could use some warm water with dishsoap to remove the oil from the wd40. Since its UPVC you don't want to use cleaners that could damage it. If the parts to be cleaned were metal, I would use brake parts cleaner from an automotive store.


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On a similar note: when using Gauss' Law, do you even begin with Coulomb's law, or does one take it as given that flux is the surface integral of the Electric field in the direction of the normal to the surface at a point?
How is Gauss' Law (integral form) arrived at from Coulomb's Law, and how is the differential form arrived at from that?
Let us for simplicity consider $n$ point charges $q_1$, $\ldots$, $q_n$, at positions $\vec{r}_1$, $\ldots$, $\vec{r}_n$, in the electrostatic limit, with vacuum permittivity $\epsilon_0$.
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Unanswered: Extjs3 to Ext4 migration
We are migrating MVC application from Extjs3 to Extjs4
Below are the steps we followed.
1) AddedExt JS 3 Compatibility Layer2)Added ext3-compat.js and ext3-core.compat.js files reference
3) Added Extjs4 reference
4) Removed the Extjs3 reference
5)Changed Ext3 grid(with paging toolbar) to Ext4
This results in the below output:
An Empty screen --The UI cannot be seen.
Exceptions thrown are :
1."Ext is not defined" in ext3-compat.js at
if (Ext.toolbar && Ext.toolbar.Toolbar)
2."Ext is not defined" in ext3-core-compat.js at
Ext.Compat = function() in ext3-core-compat.js
Could you please help to resolve this
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I need to buy a prepaid SIM card with internet connection in London just for 6 days.
Any suggestion and prices?
I need to buy a prepaid SIM card with internet connection in London just for 6 days.
Any suggestion and prices?
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Finally I got a 3 (http://three.co.uk) SIM for 1 pound and unlimited traffic data for 15 pounds.
You can get a 10 pounds - 500Mb plan too.
All of these things as a prepaid plan and working in less than a minute.
You get a ticket with a code to set your SIM card credit and that's all. Take a look at their plans here.
After having a quick look, I think that Orange: http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/plans/planDetailPage.jsp?item=prod640006
and O2 (Text & Web tariff): http://www.o2.co.uk/tariffs/payandgo
offer the best deal. Make sure you double check before you buy/top-up though, because these things tend to change really quickly.
giffgaff offers 500 MB of data for 5 pounds, which ramps up to 10 pounds if you also want 250 voice minutes and 1 GB.
I just got back from an extended trip to London and had good luck with a Three pay as you go SIM plan. £15 got you 3000 texts, 300 mins, and unlimited data. I used an iPhone 5 and although the data was 3G and not LTE, I was pleased by both the speed and the coverage. I had no issues anywhere in London or on side trips 30mins to an hour away.
I'm based in the US and use Sprint. You need to insure that your handsets are unlocked for international use (which Sprint will do for free). The steps are a little complicated, but do-able.
One benefit: Three allowed wi-fi tethering which costs extra with Sprint. Another benefit of unlimited data.
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In Singular points of complex hypersurfaces, John Milnor proves the following theorem:
Let $x \in V$ be a point on a variety $V$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ or $\mathbb{C}^n$. Assume $x$ is either a smooth point or an isolated singularity. Let $D_{\epsilon}$ be the closed $\epsilon$-ball about $x$, $S_{\epsilon}$ its boundary (the sphere about $x$ of radius $\epsilon$), and $K = V \cap S_{\epsilon}$. Then for $\epsilon$ sufficiently small, the pair $(D_{\epsilon}, V \cap D_{\epsilon})$ is homeomorphic to the pair $(CS_{\epsilon}, CK)$, where $C$ denotes taking the cone. (Theorem 2.10)
In Remark 2.11, Milnor observes that this theorem "likely" holds even if $x$ is a non-isolated singularity; in particular, it is known even in this case that "a suitably chosen neighborhood of any point is homeomorphic to the cone over something."
This book was written in 1968. What is the current status of this problem?


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Smoothwall is a best-of-breed Internet firewall/router, designed to run on commodity hardware and to provide an easy-to-use administration interface to those using it. Built using open source and Free software, it's distributed under the GNU Public License.7,445 weekly downloads
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Endian Firewall Community
Endian Firewall Community (EFW) is a "turn-key" linux security distribution that makes your system a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionalities. The software has been designed for the best usability: very easy to install, use and manage and still greatly flexible. The feature suite includes stateful packet inspection firewall, application-level proxies for various protocols (HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP) with antivirus support, virus and spam-filtering for email traffic (POP and SMTP), content filtering of Web traffic and a "hassle free" VPN solution (based on both OpenVPN and IPsec).4,687 weekly downloads
jNetPcap - Libpcap/WinPcap Java Wrapper
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The Nemesis Project
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PeerGuardian and MoBlock Debian packages
Debian packages for PeerGuardian Linux (including the GUI) and its precessor moblock/blockcontrol/mobloquer. PeerGuardian is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges). Its origins lie in targeting aggressive IPs while you use P2P. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/peerguardian/37 weekly downloads
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After an excellent lunch of turkey, cornbread stuffing, green beans, and our traditional apple and pumpkin pie, we settled back to hear two excellent speakers this year:
Harry Berman, Interim Chancellor spoke of the importance of scholarships and how blessed we are to have such generous donors.
Our second guest speaker was Delinda Chapman, a 1974 alumnus of UIS with a Masters of Arts degree in Educational Administration and retired Asst Deputy Director with the Illinois Department of Public Aid. Delinda spoke about her scholarship in honor of her husband, John E. Erickson, an education professor. It was evident from her comments how much genuine pleasure she has received from the scholarship, both in the way it honors her husband's memory and in the help that it gives to students.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. – Crossing four runs in the top-half of the ninth inning, Anderson University baseball sealed a 5-2 win over nonconference opponent Southern Wesleyan Wednesday evening at Fluor Field, home of Minor League Baseball's Greenville Drive.
The win is the Trojans' fifth victory in a row and eighth of the season, as AU has won two-straight at the friendly confines of Fluor Field. SWU falls to 9-13 for the year.
Sophomore right-hander David Thompson completed his longest outing of the season, tossing seven complete innings, giving up just one hit and striking out a season-high eight batters. Despite the stellar performance, Thompson received no decision with the late inning heroics.
The win went to right-hander JT Trujillo who earns his first victory of the season, completing 1.1 innings with a strikeout and two walks. Junior Evan Jordan shut the door on the Warriors, earning the final two outs with a strike out, facing three batters.
Offensively, the Trojans pounded out 13 hits, but left 13 runners stranded and managed just one run through eight innings of play. After allowing a run in the fifth inning, Anderson answered in the seventh when sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper found the right center gap for a triple, scoring Brett Cash. For Cooper, the RBI triple was his second three-bagger of the year.
The Trojans grabbed their game-winning and insurance runs in the ninth as senior right fielder Paul Como singled through the left side, scoring Nathan Galliford and Cooper. Later in the inning, third baseman David Jones found the same hole in the infield and brought home Como and substitute Garrett Bernardo.
Despite a late run by the Warriors, Anderson held on for the win in the ninth inning, improving its record at Fluor Field to 2-1.
Starting catcher Ben Pendleton finished the contest 3-for-5 with three singles, tying Como for the team-high in hits. Cooper added a 2-for-4 performance with a run scored and an RBI, as the sophomore now has a hit in 16 of his last 17 games.
Anderson returns to South Atlantic Conference play on Friday when it begins a six-game conference road trip, beginning at Wingate for a three-game set. First pitch on Friday is scheduled for 6 p.m.


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I've been trying for hours to try and find the following settings.
Nikon D700 with a 105mm f2.8 lens
If anyone could help me out, I'd really appreciate it!
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I've been trying for hours to try and find the following settings.
Nikon D700 with a 105mm f2.8 lens
If anyone could help me out, I'd really appreciate it!
Meghan, What procedure are you following to set up your panohead and how are you checking that the setup you end up with "works"? The whole process should not take hours: I set up my head in ten minutes or so. You want to locate the entrance pupil of the lens on the horizontal and verical axes of the head in order to avoid parallax effects. You can quickly establish the position of the entrance pupil in less than a minute just by looking into the lens with your two eyes, and with the back of the camera pointing at a bright window or light. Stop the lens down to f/16, say, using the depth of field button on the camera so that you see the aperture as a small disc illuminated by light transmitted through the viewfinder. Move a finger along the lens barrel until it appears to be at the same distance as the spot and that gives the approximate position of the entrance pupil. Use that position as the starting point for further tests to refine the position. See this tutorial.
Make sure you have the tripod sited on a solid floor and set the camera to a small aperture for your tests (e.g. f/11 - f/16). Since the lens has a longish focal length, I would use the method with a strip of sticky tape on a window described in the tutorial or two widely separated objects (poles etc).
Hey John,
Thanks for the info. I'm using "The Grid " Method: http://www.rosaurophotography.com/html/technical7.html
I was following the method of finding the Nodal Point by using the gold ring. If I had read that tutorial earlier, I would have done the point the lens at light thing, and realized that the entrance pupil was much father back then the gold line on the 105mm lens.
That being said, I still don't think it would have only taken me 10 minutes...
I did figure it out though, later last night. If anyone else has rail settings to compare mine to, I wouldn't mind seeing if there is a big difference.
For the Bottom Rail, I'm using 63mm, and the Top Rail, 67.5mm.
LRS = lower rail setting D700 on NN5 is 61,
http://www.easypano.com/forum/displa...1&TopicID=4162 Test with your equipment. If the tooth of the saw cuts to the right, move right, if to the left, move left. 1mm by mm.
URS = upper rail setting of D3 105mm/f2.8 VR on NN5 is 64.


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Dear customers,
Some customers have been reporting concerns with the M1 upper rotator knob. If the knob on the upper rotator breaks the knob will rotate freely. This is an apparent flaw in the design of the plastic that seems to apart from the inner metal portion when strong force is applied. We are making new knobs to solve the issue which may take up to 60 days to complete.
In the interim if your knob begins to become loose stop using it immediately. Remove the knob from the rotator by loosening the captive screw at the center of knob. As a temporary fix please request for a new knob (from the same batch) to allow use of M1 before the new batch is ready. Don't apply more tightening force than necessary to upper rotator into place. The positive stops at the upper rotator keep the rotator securely locked. Tighten the knob untill you feel an increase in friction should be enough.
If the knob becomes too loose and you can't remove it this will require a special tool to remove it. Please return to your reseller for servicing.
We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. When the new knob is ready, we will send them to customers at no cost. We will also include a small enhancement (based on customer feedback) that will make the knob work more smoothly.
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No matter what I do, leJOS seems to be unable to find my nxt brick.
I'm using the driver, verrsion 1.02. (What am I supposed to use, the Fantom driver or just the "driver"? Nothing seems to answer this question.) It seems to have installed correctly; when I go into the device manager, I can see the NXT. However, lejos never ever finds it. I use eclipse; whenever I attempt to do so, it complains of a transmit error and the brick goes completely unfound. I attempted to flash the firmware, but more disaster occurred: when I started nxjflash.bat, it sent the nxt into samba mode and then proceeded to do nothing for several minutes. I eventually gave up and killed the batch file, but now the NXT is stuck in samba mode and it can't be found by the computer! What's going on?
PS: I know I don't have much specifics on the state of the nxt, but I've tried several times to fix this and nothing works. I can get specifics on the driver or anything, if you tell me where to look.
EDIT: OK, currently I managed to reflash the firmware. Flashing firmware works... connecting to the successfully flashed NXJ firmware does not. The "driver details" in device manager identify fantom.sys as the driver for the nxt, which I believe is the norm. However, winusb.sys is missing.... does the NXT need this to connect?


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(G) Voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Kristin Chenoweth, Andy Garcia, George Lopez, Jamie Foxx, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, Bruno Mars. Grade: B.
I typically find sequels and remakes as appealing as foot fungus. Is it too much to ask for an original story rather than a money grab furnished by Xerox? Fortunately, every now and then sequels and remakes come along that don't weaken the immune system.
Imagination frequently provides the cure, often found in something as simple as introducing a character with some verve. Think Jessie in "Toy Story 2" and Puss in Boots in "Shrek 2."
And, thankfully, in "Rio 2," the latest sequel from 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios, there's Gabi, the poisonous dart frog voiced by Kristin Chenoweth, she of the amazing pipes. The film actually introduces a host of new characters, but Gabi is the one who stands out. Her duets with Nigel (voice of Jemaine Clement), the evil cockatoo whom she adores for some inexplicable reason, give the film a boost. Case in point, their rendition of "I Will Survive." Take that Gloria Gaynor.
Like its 2011 original, "Rio 2" features plenty of dazzling 3-D dances bolstered by eye-popping color. I challenge you not to tap your toes. One number even evokes Busby Berkeley.
As for the plot, "Rio 2" borrows a page from the "Madagascar" films where the animals, comfortable in their city confines, go back to the wild. Instead of fish out of water, we have birds out of nest. Here, Blu (voice of Jesse Eisenberg) and Jewel (voice of Anne Hathaway) take their brood from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon where they discover that they're not only the blue macaws on the planet. Blu, unaccustomed to the jungle, brings along a fanny pack. He also has to deal with Jewel's domineering father, Eduardo (voice of Andy Garcia), who hates all things human, and the romantic Roberto (voice of Bruno Mars), Jewel's childhood friend.
Subplots have ornithologists Linda (voice of Leslie Mann) and her husband Tulio (Rodrigo Santoro), looking for these macaws and Nigel looking for revenge against Blu. For topicality, while the first film cast bird smugglers as villains, the sequel portrays loggers as evil incarnate as they chop down tree after tree, laying waste to the rain forest and the birds' habitat. Another subplot has Blu running afoul (sorry) of scarlet macaws when he accidentally invades their territory. This gives the film a chance to play a soccer-like grudge match. I hear soccer is kind of popular in Brazil.
Finally, Pedro (voice of will.i.am) and Nico (voice of Jaime Foxx) return. Here, they're looking for talent to bring back to Rio for Carnival.
Page 2 of 2 - That's a lot of storylines to keep track of. A few too many, as the drama gets diluted. Suffice it to say the young ones will enjoy the action scenes and the comical Nigel, who is so good at being bad.
Brazilian director Carlos Saldanha, who directed the original along with the "Ice Age" films, knows how to anthropomorphize with the best of them. The script by the late Don Rhymer, Carlos Kotkin, Jenny Bicks and Yoni Brenner has its comic moments, but the film is best served by the musical numbers. Even on this count, the film underutilizes Hathaway and Rita Moreno, who voices Aunt Mimi. Their talent deserves to be showcased. Of course, I'd like hear more of Chenoweth, too.
But hey, bottom line, "Rio 2" entertains. To butcher a Carole King lyric, it's light and breezy and it knows just what to do.
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23 Apr 2012 6:21 AM #1
Unanswered: treenode.appendChild(newNode) thows error insertBefore is null
I am running extjs 4.0.7 in IE8 and IE9. I currently am creating a TreeGrid by dynamically adding child nodes to other nodes using the appendChild() method. This seems to work fine most of the time. However, when browsing to the page through an outlook plugin it throws an error insertBefore is null or undefined. The outlook plugin is part of Microsoft Dynamic CRM 2011 and allows browsing CRM pages without needed to go through a separate IE window.
I appreciate any suggestions on how to fix this issue.
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Can you gave any test case peace of code?


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Behind the Scenes with Discovery Channel's Street OutlawsWritten by John McGann on January 21, 2014 What they drive, who they are, what they do.
Discerning fact from fiction is often a difficult task. When a person makes a statement such as, "Oklahoma City has the fastest street cars in the country," a few reactions are possible. Indifferent people will say, "Whatever, who cares?" To which our response is, "Go drive your Prius off a cliff." Argumentative people will parse the definitions of fastest and street car. Is a car with a parachute mount really a street car? Does a real street car have Hard Blok in the engine? Must a street car have an alternator? Finally, competitive sorts will skip past all the discussion and build a car to beat the guys making the claim.
All that is fallout from the new TV show Street Outlaws on Discovery Channel. As a Car Craft reader, we'll assume you've seen the TV show, too. If you haven't, the second season will be airing soon. We hear they are filming it as this is being written.
Say what you will about the show, but there are two big factors in its favor: It is drawing attention to the issue of street racing, and it is inspiring other people to build fast cars of their own. Facebook and message boards are full of people talking about the show, both good and bad. The point remains, however: People are talking about the show, and they continued to watch through the first eight episodes. On top of that, the energy generated was enough to inspire people to get working on their own cars, building something that could hang with, or maybe beat, a car on the show.
While Car Craft fully supports people building fast cars, street racing is an issue we've tap-danced around. We like the cars and the adrenaline, but we can't and don't want to condone street racing. Nevertheless, Street Outlaws forces people to discuss this issue because one very common complaint is that the racing on the show is done on closed streets or airport runways. "How can they call themselves street racers if they are racing down a runway?" is a common complaint. The answer is obvious, of course: Neither the production company nor Discovery Channel want to be liable if someone were to be injured during the filming of the show, so the racing is done on closed roads. We obviously take the same position, which is why you won't see any street racing pictures in this article. Instead, we will focus on the people we met during our week in the 405 and the cars we saw while we were there. You'll notice a trend in Oklahoma City: Big-cubic-inch big-block Chevys with lots of nitrous rule the street. Oh, and the people are much cooler in person than the way they come across on TV.
The 405
Central Oklahoma's telephone area code is 405. It incorporates 25 counties, 111 cities (including OKC), and encompasses a population of 1,296,000 people. Whether or not the area has the fastest street cars in the country is open for discussion.
Alternative Motorsports
Chuck Seitsinger owns this '89 Mustang, the only car not powered by a big-block of some kind. Purists will still be offended by his choice to drop a small-block Chevy in it, though. His small-block is a potent piece, starting with a Dart block with a bore and stroke combination that calculates to 428 ci. Hensen racing Engines did the machining and assembly, and some of the goodies include a Callies crankshaft, r&r aluminum connecting rods, and ross racing pistons. The compression ratio is a stout 14.5:1, and the thing sounds absolutely killer when running. His cam is from Bullet, and he was intentionally vague on the specs but would admit to having more than 0.800-inch valve lift. Isky lifters and a Jesel shaft-mount rocker arm kit round out the valvetrain. The cylinder heads are from aFr, and they ingest the fuel mix from a Braswell 4375 carburetor, mounted sideways to quell the effects of fuel slosh under hard launches.
Chuck's been running a Monte Smith nitrous plate system but is planning a switch to turbochargers as his power-adder of choice. Chuck took some Internet commenter heat after the first two episodes of the show, with people saying he was a terrible driver. He's actually a record-holder in the now-defunct NDRA series in the Honda Civic on the lift. Its best pass was 8.21 at 184 mph. He did that with a stock-block 1.8L engine on 60 pounds of boost. Chuck says if the car had been rear-wheel-drive (and therefore able to hook better), he'd have been going 7.70s.
James "Doc" Love drove his '70 Monte Carlo to Chuck's shop for us to go over with our cameras. He's owned this car since 2003, and it was a decent performer at the time he purchased it, hitting low 11s at the track. It's also bit faster now, with a 570-inch, short-deck big-block Chevy packed with a Callies crankshaft, GRP connecting rods, and Diamond pistons. Race Flow Development built the cylinder heads, and Doc has an additional 600 hp available at the tip of his finger, should he want to hit both stages of the Monte Smith Performance nitrous kit. Mickey's Chassis Works in Norman, Oklahoma, built the rollcage and wheeltubs, and Andrew Teal did the bodywork and painted the car in Imperial Blue.
John "Baron" Gentry brought his budget-built Cutlass to Alternative Motorsports, too. His 468-inch big-block was built by Henson Racing Engines with an Eagle crank and rods, JE pistons, Chevrolet Performance rectangle port cylinder heads, and a Holley Dominator built by Madix Racing Carburetion. This relatively simple combination sends 560 hp to the rear wheels, naturally aspirated, and 898 hp on the unit. The sweet blue paint was a home-grown exercise he accomplished with several cans of Plasti-Dip, so John can peel the coating off whenever he gets sick of Smurf blue.
The Farm Truck
Hidden in a totally generic-looking industrial complex on the north side of OKC is where Sean Whitley keeps the '70 C10 Farm Truck, perhaps the most well known of all the Oklahoma City cars. Sean purchased it from an Auto Trader ad in 1998 and quickly blew up its existing 400ci small-block. Don't let the Farm Truck's ratty exterior fool you—serious business is found under the hood. The engine is among the smallest of the group with just a 0.030-over Chevrolet Performance ZZ502 crate engine. Mark Brown at Advanced Engine & Machine in Salina, Kansas, machined and assembled the current configuration, using the stock GM crankshaft, Diamond pistons, Scat rods, and ported Chevrolet Performance cylinder heads. Add to that a Nitrous Express fogger kit tuned by Justin Shearer, Hooker headers, and a 4L80E transmission built by A&A Transmissions. The combination is mild enough to run on pump gas, and though the engine has been in the truck for 13 years, it's still potent enough to make 10.20 passes at the track, even though Sean admits it's time for a rebuild. Farm Truck's interior is a mixture of quirkiness and functionality, combining pull cords for train horns and a full complement of gauges across the bottom of the dash. Also noteworthy is the rollcage installed so tightly you barely see it. Sean likes dogs, so say hi to Keebler, Benny, and Louise (foreground to background). Louise has been Sean's constant companion for more than 12 years, and she's always in the truck with him when he's racing. Worried about liability, the show's producers required that Louise be fitted with her own custom fire suit.
Monza and Youngblood
Jerry Johnston is known in the area for his Chevrolet Monza race car, but he recently finished building this '72 Camaro Z/28. He bought it three years ago as a rotting shell in some guy's garage. "It was covered with about a foot of dust," Jerry says, and "it hadn't been tagged since 1985." It took him less than two years to get it to the condition you see here. Mickey's Chassis Works built the chassis, the rollcage, and the headers, and while it was at the chassis shop, Jerry worked on getting the driveline together. He started with Dart's tall-deck block, adding a Callies crankshaft, GRP aluminum connecting rods, Diamond pistons, and RFD cylinder heads. The final displacement measures out to 598 ci, and with a 14.0:1 compression ratio, the soundtrack is pure sex. Jerry refused to discuss cam specs past the fact that it's a Bullet solid roller grind. He has a T&D shaft mount rocker arm system, a 1,250-cfm Dominator built by Pro Systems, an Edelbrock Super Victor intake, an MSD ignition, and a two-stage nitrous fogger kit by Monte Smith. The transmission is a PTC-built Powerglide with a 3,500-stall PTC torque converter. Power gets to the ground through a McNasty fabricated 9-inch axlehousing built by Mickey's Chassis Works. Jerry's car is the nicest-looking 7-second car we've seen in years, and Jerry credits Jason Gardner who did the bodywork and After Hours Paint and Body for the stunning paintjob. Jerry finished the interior and wired the car. One cool touch we especially liked was his RPM Performance data-logging dash panel.
His son, Brandon, drives this '81 Z28, which they bought as a roller about two years ago. A production 454 block resides under that tall cowl-induction hood. It's been punched out to 496 inches and is loaded with Eagle crank and rods, SRP pistons, Brodix heads, and a Comp solid roller cam with about 280 degrees of duration and more than 0.800 inch of valve lift. Henson Racing Engines did the machining and assembly. On top, Quick Fuel's 1,050-cfm Q Race Series carburetor is bolted to an Edelbrock intake. Brandon's running about 13.0:1 compression, just slightly less than his dad, and he's also running a two-stage fogger system. A TH400 built by Wilson Racing Transmissions is bolted to the engine, and it shoots about 800 hp back to the 9-inch rear axle. Calvert Racing split monoleaf springs and Cal-Tracs traction bars keep the rearend planted.
Varley's Auto
Wayne Varley is the owner of the automotive repair business that bears his name. He started working on cars at 14, when he changed the water pump on his father's car. He's been a professional mechanic since high school, a street racer for longer than that, and an unapologetic, life-long Ford lover. "I bleed blue," is an expression he repeated often during our interview. This Mustang mural is in the lobby of his repair shop. Wayne owns this '80 Mustang notchback (on the lift in the background), a car he calls the original Midwest street car. He's been racing it for years, saying "I [never] turned down a race. I've won a lot of money by late-night racing." The only guy on the show without a Chevrolet engine, Wayne feels "like a blue boat in a sea of orange." Currently, the driveline is out of the car, while Wayne and his son, anthony Maytos, a technician at Classic recreations, assemble a potent 526ci plant based on a Ford racing a460 block, Cobra Jet cylinder heads, a Scat crank, Eagle rods, Wiseco pistons, a Bullet racing cam, and a 1,050-cfm Dominator carburetor. His goal is 650 hp on the motor, with plans to spray about a 500 shot of nitrous on top of that. Wayne was also quick to point out that his car was more streetable than most of the others on the show with a full interior, a full exhaust system, and the stock unibody rather than a tube chassis.
Joe "Dominator" Woods is a welding instructor for a drilling company. He purchased this '67 Dart about 10 years ago as a rolling chassis. Currently, it's powered by a 632ci Bow Tie big-block built by Jerry Johnston with a Callies crank, GRP billet rods, and JE pistons. The Comp solid roller cam dials in around 290 degrees of duration at 0.050-inch tappet lift and 0.820-inch valve lift. Brodix heads set the compression ratio at 13.5:1. Joe's 1,550-cfm Dominator was prepped by DaVinci Carburetor, and a PTC Powerglide with a 3,500-stall torque converter sends power to the wheels. He's just running a nitrous plate system right now, but a fogger system is in the works. Why put a Chevy into a Mopar? Joe says he's not brand loyal, and the Chevy was a pragmatic decision. He admits his car is the most like a race car out of the group, with a Funny Car cage and minimalist interior. He built the cage, the headers, and the fabbed 9-inch axlehousing.
Murder Nova
Shawn Ellington is the owner of Murder Nova. For those not up on modern colloquialisms, "Murder" is a shortened version of the phrase "murdered-out," used to describe a car finished completely in matte black. Shawn has owned this '69 Nova for eight years, and it was basically a roller when he bought it. Now, he's pushing about 1,800 hp to the wheels, thanks in no small part to the Proline Racing 572 under the Nova's lift-off hood. The foundation is a Dart Big M block, Dart 380 heads, a Lunati billet crankshaft, billet rods from Oliver, and Diamond pistons. Into the mix, add a Jesel shaft-mount rocker arm system, a Comp solid roller cam, Isky lifters, a titanium intake, and Inconel exhaust valves, and you have a really impressive engine. Shawn didn't stop there, however. He mounted a crank-driven ProCharger F3X supercharger, which runs an undisclosed amount of boost, and sharp eyes will notice the camshaft-driven cable, which spins a mechanical fuel pump, "because the electric pumps I tried couldn't keep up," Shawn says. It feeds Q16 race gas to a 1,400-cfm blow-through Dominator built by Carburetor Solutions Unlimited. At the time of our shoot, Shawn's car wasn't running. He had broken the transmission during filming of the first season of Street Outlaws and was using the down time to make some changes to the top end of his engine, as well—in other words, convert to EFI!
Gerald Brand
Gerald Brand, owner of Brand Racing Engines, was another name that kept turning up the more people we talked to. He's built or machined the engines in Varley's Mustang and Justin's Silverado. Gerald has been machining and building engines since he was 17 years old. Now 54, he's owned his business for 25 years, and his machine shop is also located on his home property. He strictly does performance builds, too, saying half his customers are circle-track racers, and the other half are drag racers. He occasionally does vintage road racing engines, too. We especially liked his shop assistant and dyno operator, Ruby, the Corgi/Red Heeler mix.
Big Chief and Flip
Tyler "Flip" Priddy was one of the bigger personalities on the show. Unfortunately, he died just two weeks prior to the show's premier episode. Out of the group of cars on the show, his El Camino is closest to a build we'd feature in Car Craft, because it was done on a very tight budget with leftover and used parts. Justin "Big Chief" Shearer walked us through the build. "The engine is a 454 block we got out of a dump truck, the crank and rods are from Eagle, and we're using Probe pistons. The heads are Brodix BB2 Shawn [Ellington] bought for his Nova that were ported by some meth head who ruined them. We pulled them out of the trash and put them on this engine." The rest of the engine includes a mystery cam—"The numbers were ground off," says Justin—Comp rocker arms, a Crane stud girdle, an Edelbrock intake manifold, a used Madix Carburetion Dominator, and an NX fogger system. The trans is a 1.69:1 First gear Powerglide, and a 9-inch is out back, equipped with 4.10:1 gears on a Mark Williams spool.
Why the fender-exit zoomies? "We both liked WWII airplanes like the P-51 Mustang," Justin says. They needed to make exhaust for the car and had a pair of exhaust flanges and spare tubing lying around, and the result is certainly unique. The car sounds really cool with them, too.
Justin is known as Big Chief because of the GTO he's had for a while. It's currently being completely rebuilt, so he's been driving this '03 Silverado his wife bought a few years ago. He swapped in an LQ4 6.0L engine upgraded with Callies connecting rods and SRP pistons, an Isky cam, and a PT88 turbocharger from Precision Turbo & Engine. A Tial wastegate and an eBay intercooler round out the induction side of the turbo system. All this is good for close to 1,000 hp at the wheels, so Justin swapped the truck's stock rear for a 14-bolt axle out of a 3⁄4-ton pickup, but the added power has him munching through a series of 4L80E transmissions so far. Since we shot these pictures, Justin has totally upgraded the turbo kit with a larger, more efficient turbocharger and a bigger intercooler.
Mike Henson
Mike Henson has built several of the engines powering the OKC cars. He began his career as a diesel mechanic and machining and assembling engines on the side. Then in 2006, he quit that job to start Henson Racing Engines. It's an easy commute to work, too, since his machine shop is right next to his house. Now, he just does performance builds, from hot street engines to circle track, with a few Pro Mod engines in between. He has a dyno cell in the shop and told us the biggest power number he's seen on it was 1,880 from a blown alcohol big-block Chevy. The engine in his Top Sportsman Corvette makes 1,300 with a 600 shot of nitrous. It's powered by a 706ci Brodix 11.2-inch deck-height big-block Chevy and runs 7.17 at 185 mph at the track.
Dave Comstock
Known as Daddy Dave on the show, Dave's '96 Sonoma was also out for repairs during the time we were in OKC. It's too bad we missed out, too, because the specs are impressive. Starting with an aluminum block from Donovan Engineering, Morgan and Son Racing Engines of Grand Prairie, Texas, built the monstrous 632ci engine using a Callies crank, GRP rods, and JE pistons. Then they dropped on a set of Big Chief cylinder heads. The compression ratio is somewhere around 14.0:1, so it runs on VP C23 race gas. On top of that, Dave runs two huge stages of nitrous through it. He wasn't too specific just how much, though. "It actually has three stages of nitrous, but I've only used two so far," he says. A Hughes Performance–built Powerglide transmission and a 5,000-rpm stall PTC torque converter are bolted to the engine, sending power to the Fab 9 rear axle built by Mickey's Chassis Works. How fast is it? "You can just say it goes sub-4-seconds in the eighth-mile," Dave says. Umm, that's pretty fast.
Big Rob Entertainment
Robert Chapman was our guide through the OKC scene. He's a field repair technician for an oil and gas drilling company, and in his off time, he runs Big Rob Entertainment and is the responsible party for helping the 405 guys gain YouTube fame. He's been filming races since 2006, editing them to upload to YouTube or burn to DVD. His YouTube channel has more than 5,000,000 views. He also excels at photobombing any picture you are trying to compose.


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Acorns Golf Links is located in Waterloo, Illinois featuring 6,701 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72 . The course rating is 72.3 and it has a slope rating of 125. You will not find subdivision golf at Acorns; just nature, beautiful scenery, challenging design, and you. Making Acorns the premier public course to test your game, have fun with good friends, or to get away from your daily hussle and bussle. Acorns features zoysia fairways, five tee boxes; matching every level of golf and large bent grass greens. Designed by William Ebeler, the Acorns golf course opened in 1997.
Ranked seventh-best golf course in the state of Illinois, Annbriar is an 18-hole, par 72 course. Photo Credit-Annibriar-Golf-Course
Splash around at the Aquatic Center. Climb up four stories and launch down your choice of two water slides with more than 320 feet of winding turns and diving wells, or take a dip in the pool.
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This 18-hole golf course was designed by Robert B. Harris.
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Belle-Clair Fairgrounds & Exposition Center
Home to the annual St. Clair County Fair, several craft shows and monthly flea markets, the complex also includes the Belle-Clair Speedway, with stock car races and demolition derbies.
This par 9 course is located in Breese.
Just outside of Edwardsville, Bilbrey Farms is home to exotic animals and trained birds. Come feed the animals or stay at the bed and breakfast.
Open all year, swimming and fishing, handicap access.
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Illinois' only United Nations World Heritage Site. This 2,200-acre site preserves the central section of the largest prehistoric Indian city north of Mexico. An Interpretive Center presents a coherent account of this sophisticated prehistoric culture. Climb Monk's Mound, see the film and life-size village. Don't miss annual events that focus on Native American culture.
Swimming, fishing, boat rentals, RV and cabin rentals, tent camping.
Spend the day tackling go-karts, miniature golf, batting cages, bumper boats and a video arcade.
Route 66 runs through the island which connects Illinois and Missouri. East side of the Mississippi River.
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Boasting some of the largest greens in the Midwest, the 18-hole Clinton Hill has matured into one of the finest public golf courses around, with a great blend of par 3s, 4s and 5s.
Putt along this nine-hole golf course.
This 18-hole golf course was designed by Al Linkogel.
Columbia Not-So-Secret Training Loop
The Columbia Not-So-Secret Training Loop is a 63 mile trail of medium to difficult level trails, where local roads interlace across a seemingly endless valley of floodplains, levees, bluffs, and sheer cliffs hundreds of feet high. Start in Columbia where you'll roll over hills that add up to about 3,500 feet of elevation gain. Coast through quaint Mayestown, where store signs read "Open by luck or accident". You won't need to leave much time for the fast return trip along the riverbank, where tailwinds can push you home at 30 miles an hour.
Drost Park features a 7-acre lake, pavilions, 1-mile walking trail, boat ramp, playground, and restroom facilities. The University of Illinois' Master Gardeners keep it seasonally beautiful.
Grab your skates and hit the ice any time of the year at this indoor ice arena. Didn't bring your skates? No problem. Rent a pair and take a few laps around the rink. It's the coolest place in town all year round!
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This club features an 18-hole, regulation length golf course.
Located in Maryville, this facility has an indoor arcade, batting cages and lots more fun for kids. Alfonzo's Restaurant is right next door for pizza lovers.
This par 72, Goalby-designed golf course has 18 challenging holes.
Fox Creek features an 18-hole golf course.
A great place to spot water birds, fish, boat, or play a round of golf. The park covers 1,125 acres, including two lakes and a wetlands area.
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Colorado will continue on the road to recovery and add a variety of jobs in 2014 across almost all business sectors following a positive year in 2013.
The Business Research Division at CU-Boulder's Leeds School of Business compiled the forecast for its 49th annual Business Economic Outlook Forum presented by Noble Energy.
"With Colorado's skilled workforce, high-tech diversified economy, relatively low cost of doing business, global economic access and exceptional quality of life, the state is poised for long-term economic growth," said Richard Wobbekind, CU-Boulder professor and executive director of the Leeds School's Business Research Division.
Overall, the forecast calls for a gain of 61,300 jobs in 2014, compared with a gain of about 66,900 jobs this year. All sectors of the Colorado economy are predicted to grow in 2014 with the exception of the information sector, which includes publishing and telecommunications.
Colorado is expected to be in the top five states for job growth in 2014 with workers added in both goods- and services-producing sectors.
The strongest sector for projected job growth in Colorado in 2014 is the professional and business services sector, which is expected to add 14,200 jobs or grow by 3.8 percent.
"Colorado has strategic advantages in the professional and business services sector given the highly educated workforce, innovative spirit and small business base that we have in the state," said Wobbekind. "If national-level political and fiscal uncertainty subsides, we may see even stronger growth in this sector than what we're currently projecting."
Other leading job growth sectors for 2014 include the construction sector, which is expected to add 11,000 jobs or grow by 8.7 percent; and the trade, transportation and utilities sector, which is expected to add 9,100 jobs or grow by 2.2 percent.
Colorado's unemployment rate is expected to remain below 7 percent in 2014, which is comparatively better than the national unemployment rate.
Commenting on the overall forecast, Wobbekind said, "After the deep recession we encountered as a state and a nation, it is really a relief to be reporting strong positive job growth in Colorado."
For the full news release visit http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2013/12/09/positive-broad-based-job-growth-forecast-colorado-2014-says-cu-leeds-school. To view the entire economic outlook for Colorado in 2014, including an overview of each of the state's major economic sectors, visit http://leeds.colorado.edu/BRD.


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I am having difficulty solving the following problem:
Marge has n candies , where n is an integer between 20 and 50.If marge divides the candies equally among 5 children she will have 2 candies remaining . If she divided the candies among 6 children she will have 1 candy remaining.How many candies remain if she divides the candies among 7 children ?
The equation I got was $$5q-6k+1=0$$
I tried using this method but I dont think it will work here. Any suggestions on how I could solve this ?I would appreciate it if the method involves equations instead of plugging in numbers and testing.


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How did receiving a Tippie MBA prepare you for your career?
Receiving a Tippie MBA prepared me for my next career by allowing me to hone my professional skills in a safe environment. To be successful as my career progresses, I realized the skills necessary for my first job out of my undergraduate studies were very different than those needed for my roles post-MBA. In short, I needed more polish. I was able to practice skills such as interviewing, global business and dining etiquette, presenting, and team building through the numerous "mock" environments created for us. These are often discounted skills taken from a full-time MBA program, but with an already "technical" background, they were the necessary additions to my skill set that helped me land in a Leadership Development Program after completing my MBA.
What type of impact did the program have on you both socially and academically? What was it like being a part of a small program?
Part of the full-time MBA experience is an exercise in time management. Between juggling course work, a time-consuming job search, and a graduate assistantship, it was important for me to build a solid network of co-workers and friends in the program that I could rely on both academically and socially. Because our class spent so much time together, both in the classroom and out, we became very close and could help each other because we truly knew each other. That makes all the difference in a demanding program, and formed the basis for a network of peers I feel I could reach out to, be it advice or just to catch up, for the rest of my career.
How did the consulting opportunities (BSC) prepare you for future success? Did you feel they were instrumental to your development?
The consulting opportunities through the Business Solutions Center gave me the opportunity to practice my project-management skills, both as a team member and during my second year as a team leader. Particularly as a team leader with no prior experience leading people, I gained invaluable experience learning how I can most effectively communicate and lead a project team to success given my work style and personality. This was one of the most challenging experiences in the full-time program. In the end, we not only succeeded as a team, but I learned many ways I could improve the experience for the next team I am privileged to lead. The best part about this opportunity was that I could make mistakes and learn to effectively lead a team in a safe environment where neither my career nor the future of my company was at stake. These types of safe learning environments are a huge advantage Tippie MBA students have over their counterparts in the workplace who learn through trial by fire with their reputations on the line.
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Both on and off campus, I found the environment to be friendly and inclusive. On campus, I felt a deep caring from the staff and faculty to see my classmates and I succeed both in the program and afterward. My peers in the program were just fun to be around. Especially as a woman coming from a highly male-dominated industry, I appreciated being around other women who set very high professional standards for themselves and accomplished their goals while still having fun and enjoying life.
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I have a terrible habit, Whenever I am deeply concentrating on something I chew my fingers, Not just a slight munch, but enough that i am splitting the skin.
The issue is that I am so focused on what I am doing that I don't notice me chewing my fingers, yet if I try to focus on not chewing my fingers then I do not focus on the task, hence I avoid chewing my fingers.
I have tried wrapping them in plasters, or bad tasting products, and whilst it works in the interim the moment they are removed (even after a month) I revert back to the habit, I imagine this is because I notice they are there so don't fully concentrate, hence avail the habit.
So, my question is, how can I remain productive whilst actively trying to break this habit?


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Kasha with Vegetables
Categories: Big-Batch Meals, Entertaining, Kids' Favorites, Quick to fix, Vegetarian
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Kasha, also called buckwheat groats, is a healthy and delicious whole grain cereal that can be prepared in a manner similar to risotto to make a hearty vegetarian main course
Prep Time: prep 5 mins
Cooking Time: cook 40 mins
Serves: makes 4-6 servings
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 1 carrot, finely chopped
- 2 portobello mushrooms, sliced
- 1 celery stalk, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 / 3 cup kasha (buckwheat groats)
- 1 / 2 cup dry white wine
- about 4 1 / 4 cups hot vegetable stock or water
- 1 beet, cooked until tender, chopped
- 2oz ( 55g) rindless goat cheese, crumbled
- 2 tbsp chopped parsley
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- Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion, carrot, mushrooms, celery, and garlic, and cook, stirring often, for 8-10 minutes, or until lightly browned. Add the kasha and cook, stirring often, for 2-3 minutes more. Add the wine and stir until it has been absorbed.
- Stir in 1/2 cup hot vegetable stock and reduce the heat to medium-low. Simmer, stirring, until the stock is absorbed. Stir in another 1/2 cup of stock and repeat. Continue cooking and adding more stock for about 20 minutes, or until the kasha is tender but still a bit chewy.
- Stir in the beet and season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a serving bowl and sprinkle with cheese and parsley. Serve hot.
- prep 5 mins; cook 40 mins
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Having recently had my Nikon 10.5mm shaved I'm experimenting with using it with my D800 on the R1. At 0 degrees a dark patch is noticeable at the zenith so I prefer to use +5 degrees instead. I have found it works just fine at the recommended 1.1 setting, however it doesn't seem to lock off as securely as it does at 0 degrees and +7.5 degrees.
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Family members says Francisco "Chico" Zuncin will be buried Wednesday afternoon at the Galaxy Ranch in Duplin County. Chico will be laid to rest in a small cemetery near the soccer field he visited daily.
Francisco Zuncin's young life revolved around soccer, friends and family. The Zuncin Family speaks about their loss, three days after Francisco - known as "Chico" - is killed in a crash.
"He was trying to give us hugs, always," said sister-in-law Maria Flores.
Family members say 16-year-old Chico loved to tell jokes and considered everyone a friend.
Flores, who was like a second mom to Chico, was numb when she discovered he was killed less than half a mile from his home.
Family members say on most days, they knew exactly where to find Chico.
"That morning I was calling him, looking for him, and he wasn't there," said Flores.
Rene Zuncin, Chico's dad, says the boys were en-route to Wilmington to help a friend move. Troopers say the four teens didn't get far.
Chico's brother, Carlos Mendez, was one of the first on scene after the crash.
"I was calling his name, and I was like wake up Chico, Chico wake up," said Mendez.
Mendez tried to help his brother.
"He had his eyes a little bit open, I could see his eyes, but he wouldn't respond back," said Mendez.
Troopers say Chico was killed on the scene of the accident.
Since Chico's death, the community has come together to assist the Zuncin family.
"I'm thankful for everybody that help me, I appreciate that a lot," said Rene.
Chico was the youngest of seven children.
Flores says Chico loved playing soccer at the Galaxy Ranch in Duplin County.
On Wednesday, Chico will be buried in a small cemetery near the soccer field at the Galaxy Ranch. Flores says Chico's soccer friends will never be far.
The East Duplin High School soccer team raised more than $8,500 to cover the funeral expenses of a teammate that was killed in a crash on Friday.
Friends say Francisco Zuncin's family will use the donations to cover his funeral arrangements, and the rest will go to help cover the medical expenses of the other three teens in the wreck.
Assistant Coach Matthew Carter says the fundraising efforts will continue next week with the assistance of local churches.
Francisco Zuncin will be be buried at the Pine View Cemetery on Wednesday.


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12 Jan 2011 9:00 AM #1
Premier League Fantasy Football App - www.eplstat.com
I've been able to hack together a quick and dirty Premier League Fantasy Football app at www.eplstat.com/Sencha/index.html thanks to the following:
1. Sencha GeoCongress Demo App
2. Sencha Twitter Demo App
3. RSSReader App posted to these forums
These examples have been incredibly beneficial, but I still have a ton of questions and issues.
1. IPhone - When I bookmark my application on the IPhone, why is the application so slow to load? When I navigate to the application via Safari the load time is much quicker than when the application is bookmarked.
2. Sencha-Touch.js - I've invested about 4 hours in building a new sencha-touch.js that is supposed to only use the classes that I want and hence be faster. Is there any easy to way to build a dependency hierarchy so my testing of this new sencha-touch.js is not trial and error? Today, my process is open up an instance of Araxis pointing to the new jsbuilder file and the original jsbuilder file. Remove a dependency. Invoke the jsbuilder.bat file. Deploy the sencha-touch.js. Test. There has to be a better way.
3. Sencha-Touch.css - Is there a similar tool to JSbuilder for sencha-touch.css?
Thanks for any responses.
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