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Chicago Landmarksby Dana J. Quigley
Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith
Chicago, a major Great Lakes port, is the commercial, financial, industrial, and cultural hub of the Midwest. The bustling city, the most populous in Illinois with a population of about 3 million, is known for its architecture. Follow the slideshow to learn more about some of Chicago's most notable landmarks.
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Fun Fact: Chicago's nickname, the Windy City, may have been coined by politicians from Springfield, Illinois, when describing Chicago's politicians as "windbags" due to their long-winded speeches.
Carol M. Highsmith, a distinguished and widely published American photographer, began donating her work to the Library of Congress in 1992. The Carol M. Highsmith archive at the Library of Congress includes photos from each of the United States and is expected to eventually contain 100,000 photos. Professionally printed and framed prints of these photos are available at PhotographsAmerica.com.
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The Center for Law and Economic Studies' Guest speaker for today's Law and Economics Workshop will be George L. Priest, Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics, Yale Law School, presentation "TBD" All are welcome
Though there are several journalistic exposés of Standard Oilincluding Henry Demarest Lloyd and Ida Tarbell, as well as business historiesnone are fully explanatory. The currently dominant theory of Standard Oil's success is by Elizabeth Granitz and Benjamin Klein who assert that Standard Oil was chosen by oil shippers, the railroads, to police a railroad cartel. According to Granitz and Klein, the railroads split with Standard Oil the profits from cartelization of the crude and refined oil industry.
This Article challenges that explanation, claiming that there were attempts made to cartelize at all levels of the oil industryproducers, gathering pipelines, refiners, and railroads. There are good economic reasons that explain why Standard Oil, a refiner at the remote western location of Cleveland, acquired most of the pipelines and secured a monopoly against the producers and the railroads.
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Goal.com cartoonist Omar Momani gives us his unique take on the football news of the dayHe may have been pipped to the Ballon d'Or once again by Lionel Messi, but it's been quite a year for Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Real Madrid star turns 28 on Tuesday on the back of 12 months which have seen him claim his first La Liga crown in the Spanish capital as well as a host of individual honors.
February 5 is an illustrious occasion indeed for footballers' birthdays, as Carlos Tevez and Neymar also celebrate turning 29 and 21 respectively.
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Indulging the kids leads to worse things than whining
The sight of a second-grader on all fours scouring grout startled my friend, who asked why the girl was tidying the bathroom in the middle of the night. It seems that in the girl's home country, all children performed household chores, determined to prove their worth to families who might otherwise be inclined to give them away.
Her poignant testimony unsettled my friend, but it made me think of the work of Elinor Ochs, a California anthropologist who has been observing the dynamics of 32 middle class Southern California children for the last 10 years. It didn't take very long for Ochs and her fellow researchers to notice a disturbing characteristic these families shared. Their children never lifted a finger to perform housework unless they were asked. And even when asked, the children were typically so dilatory in attending to the tasks the parents simply gave up and did the work themselves.
One delectable example Ochs noted was a dinnertime conversation in which a girl, noticing that silverware had yet to be placed on the table, chastised her parents. "How am I supposed to cut my food?" she asked.
"Asking children to do a task led to much negotiation," The Wall Street Journal reported, "and when parents asked, it sounded often like they were asking a favor, not making a demand, researchers said."
So what did parents do? They brought out the Nintendos, hooked up the Wiis, stuffed the kids in the car to go to karate lessons, straightened little girls tutus so they wouldn't ride up at recitals and signed hundreds of dollars worth of checks to shepherd their kids off to summer camp.
"With the exception of the imperial offspring of the Ming dynasty and the dauphins of pre-revolutionary France," writes The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert, "contemporary American kids may represent the most indulged young people in the history of the world."
It is not just the stuff with which we ply children — one researcher reports that each new child in a household generated a 30 percent increase in clutter — that has helped create what Ochs calls the "dependency dilemma."
It's also the child-centric focus of suburbia, in which keeping up with the Joneses does not mean another car in the driveway, but another activity to check off in a child's bloated resume.
"I've got to input all the kids' activity into my Blackberry," one mother tells me. "Otherwise, I'd forget." She says this not with the irritated exhaustion of an overworked parent, but the prideful exaltation of a mother who knows her kids are already 16 extracurricular activities ahead of yours.
So, what is it that we want in our children? Ochs says that's the dilemma. We're trying to raise independent children, but all our efforts to indulge and cosset them, with taxi service to activities, "family time" and "family nights," a plethora of toys through which we must navigate to find the bed, we're making them more dependent than ever.
No wonder more than three in 10 adults move back in with their parents. It's cozy and you never have to lift a finger.
For the last few months, I've been trying to teach my son to dust. Somehow, he has concluded that the amount of dust he has collected on his cloth equates to the degree to which he has finished the job.
No, I explain. What's important is that you eliminate the existing dust, not that you fill the cloth. In great moments of exasperation, I have gone in to the den, lifted, dusted, demonstrated and redemonstrated this critical, and, I thought, straightforward chore.
The temptation to banish my son from the room and whiz through the process myself is beyond compelling. It is only when he asks his signature question, "What do I get if I do this?" that brings me to my senses.
"You get to live in my house," I say. "You get to eat the food I buy and sleep in the bed I bought." I could go on, of course, but the realization that I am beginning to sound like Joan Crawford in a generous mood curbs my self-righteousness.
"You are part of this family," I say finally. "This family only works if every member participates in its welfare."
Critics, like Sally Koslow, say young adults are stuck in a permanent "adultescence." In her new book, "Slouching Toward Adulthood" she talks about the "savanna of entitlement" that parents like her nourished. "The best way for a lot of us to show our love would be to learn to un-mother and un-father," she writes.
Even if that means living with a dustier-than-you'd like den.
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Do you carry a wallet?
I'm watching the Seinfeld episode where Kramer talks about not using a wallet, and just carrying a few things in your pocket.. and George has the big fat wallet in his back pocket.
That made me wonder, what to a lot of people do? Last night, I needed to take a copy of a guys license, and he pulled it out of his pocket, wrapped in cash. No wallet. But me, wallet.
What do you do? Wallet? Loose stuff in your pocket? A money clip?
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I have a small front wallet with a money clip attached. It isn't as organized as I would like but hate having a big wallet in my back pocket.
I carry a wallet in my back pocket, but I keep it as thin as possible, a bit of cash, drivers license, credit card, medical Id, insurance card, and gamestop rewards card, that's about it. This way I've got what I need without the giant bulky rock in my back pocket
i'm a female moose, but i would rather (and do) carry a wallet instead of a purse. i have done this since i was in high school. so yes, i've been weird for a long time.
@conanthelibrarian: Yeah, I also keep mine in my front pocket. Or, in a coat pocket if I'm wearing one. I try to keep it "slim" but it always seems to get fattened up for a while with receipts and such.
Yep. Have for about 40 years and don't intend to change.
My reason - just because.
Like the female moose here (@moosezilla), I also carry a wallet. Not a men's wallet in the literal sense, but one that has a zipper, holds a checkbook, credit cards, driver's license, dollars & even has a zippeered change holder. It's old, but is holding up. Note: I throw that in a LARGE purse. Along w/various & sundry other items, including a microwave & the kitchen sink. Big purse!
I generally just carry a small card wallet with the essentials though I do own a purse for those rare occasions where it is required. I use to just carry the cards and cash in my pocket until I accidentally bent my DL in half. Oops.
Carry a wallet everyday since I was 15, so almost 16 years now. Mine's fairly thick with cards and forms of ID, so I carry it in the front pocket of jjeans or the cargo pocket in shorts.
I carry a medium size wallet in my back pocket, unless I am in a city scenario or other place where I am concerned about theft - then I move it to the front pocket.
I'm another wallet carrying female, I hate carrying a purse so all my pants/shorts/skirts have plenty of pockets. Left front-cell phone, right front-car keys, left back-wallet...which leaves one pocket for receipts, ticket stubs or a poo bag if I have the dog with me :-)
Smaller wallet in front pocket along with a fake big wallet with nothing worth anything in my back as a decoy.
Wallet here. Always.
I always carry a wallet, either a medium sized bi-fold or like I'm using right now a small magic wallet.
I have a huge wallet stuffed with credit cards I don't use as well as tons of receipts for junk that could easily be shredded or recycled. Don't tell my wife I actually admitted all of that though.
I'm another female wallet carrier. I dislike carrying a purse but do carry a backpack to work. What gets me is that most "girl clothes" don't have adequate pockets. Just because most women carry purses doesn't mean we all do. Half the pockets in my dress pants are too small for much more than my pocket knife.
Same style wallet I've carried since high school, and this actuall wallet i've had for 5 years.
Tommy makes a good wallet.
I like to make my own wallets, though my last one died while I was in the process of moving from Dallas to Seattle so I didn't have a lot of time. I bought this one and I loooooove it: http://www.mightywallets.com/hiroshige-mighty-wallet/
I have asked the great Shirt powers if we can make some of our own wallets, I'd love to see some of our designers have at something like the Mighty Wallets.
@ohcheri: i assume you don't have many keys. anytime i tried carrying the keys in the pocket i ended up with bruises that are hard to explain to the doctors and husband. i had to go to a caribeaner[sp.(that clippy thing)] on the belt loop.


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Delcam to launch dual-device inspection software at Control
Delcam will launch the 2013 release of its PowerINSPECT inspection software on stand 3514 at the Control exhibition to be held in Stuttgart, Germany, from 14th to 17th May. The new version offers unique dual-device inspection options that allow measurement with two portable devices at the same time. PowerINSPECT is believed to be the only inspection software that supports simultaneous operation of different types of device, including laser scanning, from different manufacturers.
Other enhancements in the new version include improved handling of point-cloud data, group editing of probing parameters, graphical editing of boundaries for raster-based inspection, more flexibility in programming dual-column CMMs, and easier measurement and marking out when using PowerINSPECT for clay modelling.
PowerINSPECT is firmly established as the world's leading hardware-independent inspection software. It combines the ability to work with all types of inspection device with a comprehensive range of inspection routines for taking simple measurements, for inspection of geometric features and for analysing complex 3D surfaces. The resulting reports present detailed information in an easy-to-read format, that can be understood by all engineers not just inspection specialists.
The ability to provide simultaneous measurement from two devices is an extension of the functionality for dual-column CMMs included in the 2012 R2 release of PowerINSPECT. The main benefit is the same – the ability to reduce inspection times both by measuring a complete object in a single set-up and by taking data simultaneously from two sources.
As with the dual-column mode, the two-device technique works in a similar manner to the single-device version of PowerINSPECT: models are loaded in the same way; inspection items are created using the same methods and so on, meaning that little extra training is required.
Dual-device operation works around the line-of-sight limitations of laser trackers and other optical measuring devices. The new version of PowerINSPECT enables both sides of the same object to be measured simultaneously with two laser trackers. This could have huge time savings in any production line as it would minimise the need to reposition the object or measuring device when inspecting all around the component.
PowerINSPECT can also combine measurements from two different types of device. For example, a laser tracker can be used to check the long-range accuracy of a large component while a portable arm is being used to measure specific critical features in a confined space.
The new dual-device option is related to the dual-column module for CMMs which is also further improved. In particular, it has been made easier to switch between single-column and dual-column operation, so making it practical to inspect two small items independently with the two columns, as well as to inspect separate areas of a single large object.
A new function that will simplify programming for all PowerINSPECT CNC and OMV users is a new 'Probing and Parameters' item that modifies the probing parameters of subsequent probed features. For example, if a different probe or measuring speed is required, the new setting can be applied to any group of measurements or even the complete inspection sequence with a single action. An extra benefit is that similar edits can be made to any programs read into PowerINSPECT 2013 that were originally created in earlier versions of the software.
Raster-based inspection has been made more flexible with the ability to edit the measurement volume graphically. This is in addition to the previous options to use typed dimensions, or a CAD surface or group of surfaces, as the boundary.
Laser scanning of a series of parts has also been made easier. Labels applied to the results from the first part, for example to identify critical points, are now regenerated automatically in the results from subsequent parts so repeated inspections are more automated. In addition, the picking of points for alignment of scan data has been improved, with points being highlighted as they are selected so it is easier to spot any that have been missed.
Finally, improvements have been made for companies using PowerINSPECT for clay modelling, for example in automotive design studios. New time-saving features make it easier for users to display the details of digitised curves, to switch between curves, and to select, edit and mark out points within the curves.
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Here is a list of supported formats:
DV is the standard for traditional low-resolution MiniDV camcorders.
Technicaly, DV is a slightly compressed video and raw sound.
Kdenlive offers a broard DV support:
HDV is a recording format for use in high-definition camcorders.
Technically, HDV offers mpeg2 compressed video with compressed audio.
Kdenlive offers a board support:
AVCHD is a new video format for high-definition tapeless camcorders recording to memory sticks and hard drive.
Technicaly, AVCHD is a complex mpeg4 video stream, referred as MPEG-4 AVC/H.264.
Kdenlive should support AVCHD camcorders, but this is an experimental feature. If you plan buying an AVCHD camcorder, you should try to download non-compressed footage from Internet. Do not invest in an AVCHD camcorder without prior testing using Kdenlive.
Technically, h264 is a highly compressed mpeg4 format. h264 requires a modern single-core or dual-core computer. Kdenlive is able to read and decode h264 interactively using a multithreaded library using two or more cores if needed. Again, multi-core decoding is an experimental feature, which may not work well.
At the present level of Kdenlive, we do not recommend investing in an AVCHD camcorder. If you have the choice, invest in an HDV camcorder.
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#3. Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #25 -- Superman Marries, Enslaves Lois Lane
In one of the numerous "What if?" stories published in this series, Superman has been married to the love of his life, Lois Lane, for a month. For her protection, he keeps their marriage secret and hides her away in the Fortress of Solitude. But adventurous Lois has grown bored of the Arctic and demands that Superman announce their marriage to their world. Reluctant and wary, Superman agrees.
Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #25
But of course, Lois almost immediately regrets her decision, because this is 1961 and she is a woman. Now that the world knows she is married to Superman, she is in constant danger from overpriced merchandise, mass mailings and superbeings who want to kill her. So Superman builds her a protective vehicle, because the Man of Steel isn't going to buy his own groceries, assassins be damned.
Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #25
That bubble is every kid we hated playing Cowboys and Indians with.
Supes is treating Lois (his wife, remember) at best as an afterthought, and at worst as a prisoner. Sure, she can drive around in the giant everything-proof bubble he somehow managed to build for her (presumably with Batman's help), but couldn't he have at least put in some tinting? It's almost like he wants people to shoot at it so he can test how bulletproof it is.
This is all not even considering the fact that he expects Lois to live in the goddamned North goddamned Pole for the rest of her natural existence, with nobody to talk to except for a bunch of robot Superman clones that seem curiously preoccupied with some other area of the frozen wasteland:
Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #25
"Sorry, Lois. But you did marry an alien superbeing with no real ability to comprehend mortal needs."
Finally, you may have noticed by now that Lois is Mrs. Superman, not Mrs. Kent. That's because somehow, in between vowing to be faithful and loving and true to each other, the notion that Supes should perhaps tell Lois his secret identity evidently never occurred to either one of them.
Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #25
"Then I'll check in with my other wife in Des Moines! This 'faster than a speeding bullet' shit is tits."
#2. Nightwing #93-95 -- Tarantula Rapes Nightwing
If you're not a comic book guy, you should know that Nightwing is the identity Dick Grayson (formerly Robin) adopted in later years, and Tarantula is an up-and-coming heroine who Nightwing decides to mentor in the art of crime fighting.
So, she goes off to face the supervillain Copperhead, and she gets her ass handed to her:
Nightwing #95
Luckily, Nightwing comes charging in to save the day before Copperhead chokes her to death. As he does, Tarantula stands to the side, all moon-faced and doe-eyed as the man of her dreams valiantly defends her.
Nightwing #95
To be fair, any one of us would swoon over a guy flip-kicking a dinosaur man in the face.
After the fight is over, Tarantula tries to steal a kiss. She almost succeeds, but work-oriented Nightwing walks away before first impact, not even looking over his shoulder to see if his devoted student is following him.
Nightwing #95
Because he's got 99 problems.
Eager to please, she chases after him like an affectionate puppy. Seems like a pretty standard "girl has unrequited crush on her gruff mentor" story line, right?
Well, as it turns out, that gruff exterior may be a manifestation of some fierce PTSD. While Nightwing lay injured and immobile two issues prior, Tarantula climbed aboard and, ignoring his protests, raped him in the street.
Nightwing #93
Writer Devin Grayson has reassured us that "I never used the word 'rape,' I just said it was nonconsensual." Sure thing!
Nightwing #93
Because, hey, nonconsensual sex and rape are totally different things.
Later on, she drags a drunken, plainclothes Nightwing to the courthouse and takes advantage of his weakened judgment to get him to pay for a marriage license for the two of them.
Nightwing #93
"Man, I sure am glad this obvious rapey sociopath knows my real identity."
All the love in the air gets thrown into high gear when Nightwing bails out at the last moment and leaves Tarantula standing all by her rapey self at the county clerk's office.
Nightwing #93
"I need to go break into my sister's apartment."
#1. Ant-Man #3 -- Ant-Man Has Sex With His Dead Friend's Girlfriend on That Dead Friend's Grave
Avengers: The Initiative #8
... almost.
Despite being a superhero, Ant-Man has always been kind of a shithead. In the new series, Ant-Man's alter ego is Eric O'Grady, who has all the same powers as the original Ant-Man but engages in slightly different habits of douchebaggery.
Ant-Man #3
To be fair, this is precisely what most of us would do with this power.
During a mission, Eric's best friend, Chris, gets killed, and Eric has to deliver the tragic news to Chris' girlfriend, Veronica.
Ant-Man #3
She cried so hard her glasses broke.
Eric and Veronica spend the next week mourning their loss together and growing closer as they bond over Chris' death, traveling together to Chris' hometown for his funeral and some manly superhero cry sessions.
Ant-Man #3
"Funny story -- I was kinda responsible for your boyfriend's untimely death. Let's bone."
After the funeral, they again find each other for comfort and support, and eventually their grief comes out in the form of a teary-eyed make-out session in the rain.
Ant-Man #3
You wouldn't have thought it, but Ant-Man's shrinking power is a surprise hit with the ladies.
Pretty standard romance, right?
Actually, when we say "after the funeral," we mean exactly that. As in "directly after the funeral." As in "they're standing on the freshly piled dirt atop Chris' earthly tomb." This could be seen as an acceptable part of their mutual mourning process, except for the fact that they are currently in a graveyard, making out directly on Chris' grave a week after his death. You can leave a Big Mac out on the counter for longer than that and eat it without a problem. And soon, they fall down to the grave itself to get their bone on:
Ant-Man #3
Boy, everyone else must've just left immediately after the service.
So the guy is rotting six feet below his best friend and his girlfriend rolling in the dirt, tearing each other's clothes off and teetering on the edge of vaginal boniferation. Finally, Veronica cuts it off before it becomes the full-fledged deed, leaving Eric sitting in front of his buddy's tombstone with balls more blue than any grief-stricken mourner in the entire cemetery. Presumably he then went home to "wrestle with his guilt."
Ant-Man #3
"Hey, buddy, just keep on saying nothing if it's cool for me to rub one out here."
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Free screening tickets for two to watch The Avengers. [Select Cities]
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Couple of things to keep in mind:
* Make sure you arrive early.
* Stay till the very end as some screenings may give away promotional gifts and posters.
* If you can't make it, cancel or pass the tickets.
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Good find Op, thanks for posting :D
Good find. Does anyone know how early you should show up to these? Ill be at the Cherry Hill show unless they had a Philly one
@biesterd1: Well nevermind. They sold out already.
DAMN! this would have been AWESOME! already sold out for LA and SD. BAH!
If you're going you should stay to the end. Disney has teamed up with LEGO to give out movie posters of the Avengers as LEGO minifigures. I've read they're planning to give out 2 million of these posters nationwide on opening night so chances are you're bound to be one of the lucky ones to get this poster.
Also, stay to the end since Captain America 2 (coming in 2014) will pick up where Avengers leaves off.
Another good website for free screenings is gofobo
"Free Tickets to watch The Avenger"
- Can I pick which Avenger I get to watch? I hope it's Iron Man
Sorry, I'm just salty I missed out :)
Looks like site is down
servers must be overloaded. can't get thru.
site is back up, no listings anywhere near me :(
No locations near me. Terrified of ever going anywhere near "Maimi, FL" though!
Damn that was quick ! ! !
almost as soon as the site came back up both locations near me ran out (Houston and San Antonio , TX)
Grrr Glendale, AZ is sold out.
No showings in my state, much less my city. :< I guess I'll just have to pay to see it. /suffer
Sold out on Orlando, FL.
What a surprise, nothing within a few hundred miles of where I live.
I can't even get the website to load now.
Woot killed another site. I love it!
Can't get the site to open. They never have my city on these things anyway. But thanks for the post.


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What is the difference between limping and an open limp?
I know that when you just pay the bigblind on preflop it's called limping. But what is an open limp?
What is the difference between limping and an open limp?
I know that when you just pay the bigblind on preflop it's called limping. But what is an open limp?
Open Limp:
When the first player enters the pot by limping in.
When a player is first to enter the pot and simply limps they are making a call of the big blind. This is generally considered to be a weak-passive play typified by beginning poker players.
The small blind is $5 and the big blind is $10 in a live poker game. The first two players fold. The next player then limps in and calls the big blind for $10. This is an example of an Open Limp.
An open limp is the first one that just pays the bigblind instead of raising.
In most cases it is a weak gameplay because...
... if you've a good hand, you got to protect it and raise instead of just limping. ... if you've a worse hand, your get rid of it and not waste chips for it.
Because it tells everyone on the table that you got a "ok"-hand, not strong, not bad or maybe bad, but obviously not strong.
But in a few cases it makes sense to open limp. Example:
It's risky for someone with a strong hand to open limp or just limp, because he has no clue about the cards of the villian.
Someone who "open limps" is someone who DOESN'T raise with a very strong hand such as AA, but just calls "limps."
He's hoping that someone behind him will raise with a "strong" (but weaker) hand, such as KK, QQ, or AK, so he can re-raise. This is a good tactic if there are a number of people at the table who will raise with a lot of hands, including some that are weaker than these three.
An open limp is when the first person entering the pot (except for the blinds) enters with a limp. A limp is just a call (1 big blind). This is mostly considered a weak play because just calling the big blind implies you have a weak hand. Sometimes it is done in early position hoping one would raise your "weak" hand so you could reraise with a monster (AA, KK).


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Volume three in the epic fantasy sagafrom multiple Hugo Award-winning author Lois McMaster Bujold
Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers, but the bigotry of blood kin cannot be easily overcome. Leaving behind all that they have ever known, they set off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples a passage that will not be ventured alone. New companions join them on their road: Fawn's brother, Whit, escaping a hopeless future on the family farm; two novice Lakewalker patrollers fleeing the catastrophic consequences of an honest mistake; a young flatboat captain searching for her vanished father and fiance; a shrewd backwoods hunter; and a farmer boy unintentionally beguiled by Dag's growing magery. On an eventful journey to where great rivers join, the ill-assorted crew will be sorely tested and tempered as they encounter a new world of hazards both human and uncanny.
About the Author
One of the most respected writers in the field of speculative fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold burst onto the scene in 1986 with Shards of Honor, the first of her tremendously popular Vorkosigan Saga novels. She has received numerous accolades and prizes, including two Nebula Awards for best novel (Falling Free and Paladin of Souls), four Hugo Awards for Best Novel (Paladin of Souls, The Vor Game, Barrayar, and Mirror Dance), as well as the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her novella The Mountains of Mourning. Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. The mother of two, Bujold lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Praise For…
"Compelling . . . Bujold excels at creating interesting and sympathetic characters, and this story will satisfy readers who enjoy romance as much as adventure."
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The November 2006 issue of School Reform News reports California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed in September the nation's first law altering union contracts that protect experienced teachers and don't give low-performing schools enough freedom to hire the people they want.
Also on page 1:
- The U.S. Supreme Court announced it would accept an appeal of a Washington State Supreme Court decision that could affect all labor unions in the state.
- Just a few days before it was scheduled to go into effect, Arizona's new corporate scholarship program was taken to court.
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Gas taxes collected are nowhere near $6.4 Billion, so next time someone tells you that the roads take no other tax money, correct them.Hide replies
Um, duh!!!!! There is federal funding that will cover some of the cost.
Point is, bullheaded conservatives that think all other transportation should pay for itself often say that gas tax pays for all road costs. Loon.
Gas taxes are merely a premium charged for directly using the road system. If you do not use the road system directly, you still benefit greatly from its existence (riding your bike, walking on the sidewalk, fire/police access, mail/ups, product delivery to local stores which you walk to, etc.), which is why paying for improvements with other (mainly property) taxes is perfectly fair.
Now a passenger train shuttling a few hundred people a day back and forth between two cities benefits nobody but those few hundred people… and even that could be argued!
Still isn't the point that people often say that gas taxes pay for the whole of road construction. Have you never heard this before?
I've never heard anyone say that road construction and/or road maintenance is 100% funded by the gas tax.
Yes, and I explain to them that they are incorrect. Just as you are incorrect in thinking that all of the citizens of Wisconsin should be on the hook to pay for the operation, upkeep, and future improvements for the not-so-fast rail system once the federal money runs out from two years ago.
*Which is what I am assuming you are implying.
attc, every time money for passenger rail comes up, anti-rail zeolites bring up subsidies and "rail should pay for itself". But they don't apply that same logic to highways.
milwmonster, so it's ok do subsidize highways (your preferred method of travel) but not ok to subsidize rail. Got it! Typical selfish tea-party view. I consider myself a Libertarian because of the inconsistent views of selfish conservatives like you.
looney, Federal funding dollars for road-building, which by the way re-pays one fo his top contributors, is more important than the health of the state's citizens, then...?
Scott...where do you get your voodoo math from? How are you able to spend an additional $850 million on transportation plus offer a income tax rebate of a few hundred million, plus the couple hundred million you've kicked back to your business buddies, where is it coming from? We aren't growing jobs and selling state assets to cover your current spending will do nothing but load future taxpayers with more debt and more expenses.
Typical GOP with their spend mentality without ever raising revenue to pay for it...Hide replies
"Your current spending will do nothing but load future taxpayers with more debt and more expenses."
Obama "investments" ("stimulus" is no longer the buzz word) in roads and bridges with borrowed money are OK though, right?
I don't recall Obama saying we had surpluses while bonding out debt...
Hmmm...where have we heard a number around $850 million for transportation investment? Oh yeah...that nice investment our federal government was going to give us to make transportation improvements.
Walker....you do realize you aren't getting that money?Hide replies
Walker is not making an $850 million "transportion investment in passenger rail which was the $850 million dollar sinkhole passenger rail offer from the feds. You're either intentionally misleading or, perhaps, simply misled...
Remember, it was a scant few years ago bridges were falling apart in the zoo interchange because of mismanagement by Doyle and the democrats.
Thank you Governor Walker for making these improvements a priority. They are vital to the citizens and businesses of the Wisconsin.Hide replies
Seems to me the Marquette Interchange was built during Doyle's tenure so what were you saying?
I am in no way a fan of Doyle, but don't be obtuse.
Bridges in the most heavily traveled interchange in the state had to have weight limits imposed, and temporary replacements had to be installed at huge cost to taxpayers under the watch of Doyle and the dem majority. That's a fact, and a total failure. Deal with it.
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Koch needs to raise the per post cash he pays so he can attract a higher level of clown
Better Without Bush and StephenHawking - it might be good to read more than just the first two paragraphs of an article then rush to post idiotic comments.Hide replies
What about my statement is incorrect? The roads cost more than the gas tax takes in.
And who do you think ultimately pays for these magical bonds???
Do like I say, not like I do.
'Asked if he envisioned selling off the 37 state government-run power and heating plants around the state as a means of raising more money to repay bonds, Walker replied, "Could be." ' Another example of crony-capitalism?Hide replies
Anyone want to bet in "no bid process"? I feel one of BIGGEST mistkes Walker can do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is the need for the state to own 37 power plants and a ton of surplus property? This is the State of Wisconsin not Mother Russia.
How much is the state paying for power from it's plants versus what they would be paying as another hostage of our utility monopolies?
Does it matter to you? Or are you just into giving away things you own so you can rent it back to use it?
Using the surplus to help update our vital infrastructure. Awesome. Thank you governor!Hide replies
Ever taken an accounting class or owned a business? Surpluses do not exist when you bond out debt.
Whatever..your guy doyle left a 3.6 billion steaming pile when left office
Because I am not a Walker sycophant, Doyle is "my guy"? You are a simpleton.
On that note, "Your guy" Tommy Thompson left how many billions?
Kick......any guess as to how long your current login will last on the site? Any longer than the "alldemsarelogical" that you used?
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probably a similar number to those that contributed to every WI governor's campaign. your posts continue to be irrelevent. at least your consistent
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KickinitinWI.... you should check your own grammar before you correct someone else!
Talk about hilarious and ironic!
Even union leaders are happy with the governor! WDS on the wane?
And once again, the party of fiscal responsibility says - Charge it.Hide replies
Capital bonding has been going on forever and is a tool utilized by both parties at all levels of government. When used responsibly, it is an effective tool to finance costly, durable public improvements.
In private life when faced with an extremely costly expense such as replacing a worn out car, do you eat the whole cost up front for a new vehicle that will last 10-15 yrs, or do you spread out the cost over some number of years.
Easy answer. Unless your someone like AlGore or Mike Bloomberg. And, even collectively WI isn't as filthy rich as those phonies.
Scott Walker's own Secretary of Transportation, less than a month ago, signed a report warning against continued bonding to pay for transportation projects due to the heavy debt load the Transportation fund was looking at.
Less than a month ago.
Explain why Scott Walker's Secretary of Transportation, working with much of the road building industry, was wrong.
Downvoting a statement of fact, Mark Gottlieb signed a report stating that the transportation fund should find sources of revenue other than bonding less than a month ago, seems to point that the only reason that this plan gets support is because it's the Republicans proposing it. Even though there's considerable disagreement among Republicans behind the scenes.
I'm hope you're happy in a few years when a quarter of the transportation fund is taken up with debt service.
In private life, it's not a good idea to take out a second mortgage when you're already under water on the first one. But, it certainly make look good for the checkbook in the short run.
That's this transportation proposal.
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Ok, I can do future problems like this, but is there a rule that explains this? What just happened to both sides of the equal sign?
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Ok, I can do future problems like this, but is there a rule that explains this? What just happened to both sides of the equal sign?
There are two steps here: starting with $$\frac{52}{x}=13$$ we multiply both sides by $x$ to get $$\frac{52}{x}\cdot x=13\cdot x$$ $$52=13\cdot x$$ and then dividing both sides of that by $13$ to get $$\frac{52}{13}=\frac{13\cdot x}{13}$$ $$\frac{52}{13}=x$$
For $a, b, c, d$ non-zero,
$\frac{a}{b} = \frac{c}{d}$ is equivalent to
$ad = bc$.
Believe it or not, this is your situation! (with $d = 1$)
I'd count several steps here. Anyways...
We start with $$\left(\frac{52}{x}\right)=13$$. Multiplying both sides by x we have $$\left(\left(\frac{52}{x}\right)*{x}\right)=(13*{x}).$$ Since $$\left(\frac{x}{1}\right)=x$$ we have $$\left(\left(\frac{52}{x}\right)*\left(\frac{x}{1}\right)\right)=(13*{x}).$$ Applying the product rule for quotients, we have $$\left(\frac{(52*x)}{(x*1)}\right)=(13*{x}).$$ Since multiplication commutes, we have $$\left(\frac{(x*52)}{(x*1)}\right)=(13*{x}).$$ Applying the product rule for quotients again, we have $$\left(\left(\frac{x}{x}\right)*\left(\frac{52}{1}\right)\right)=(13*{x}).$$ Since $$\left(\frac{x}{x}\right) =\left(\frac{1}{1}\right)$$ we obtain $$\left(\left(\frac{1}{1}\right)*\left(\frac{52}{1}\right)\right)=(13*{x}).$$ Applying the product rule for quotients once again we have $$\left(\frac{(1*52)}{(1*1)}\right)=(13*{x}).$$ Since $(1*1)=1$, and $(1*52)=52$ we obtain $$\left(\frac{52}{1}\right)=(13*{x}).$$ Now we multiply both sides by $$\left(\frac{1}{13}\right)$$ and obtain $$\left(\left(\frac{1}{13}\right)*\left(\frac{52}{1}\right)\right)=\left(\left(\frac{1}{13}\right)*\left(13*{x}\right)\right).$$ Since 13 equals $$\left(\frac{13}{1}\right)$$ we obtain $$\left(\left(\frac{1}{13}\right)*\left(\frac{52}{1}\right)\right)=\left(\frac{1}{13}\right)*\left(\left(\frac{13}{1})*{x}\right)\right).$$ Since * associates we have $$\left(\left(\frac{1}{13}\right)*\left(\frac{52}{1}\right)\right)=\left(\left(\left(\frac{1}{13}\right)*\left(\frac{13}{1}\right)\right)*{x}\right).$$ Applying the product rule for quotients on both sides we obtain $$\left(\frac{(1*52)}{(13*1)}\right)=\left(\left(\frac{(1*13)}{(13*1)}\right)*{x}\right).$$ Since $(1*52)=52$, $(13*1)=13$, and $(1*13)=13$, we obtain $$\left(\frac{52}{13}\right)=\left(\left(\frac{13}{13}\right)*{x}\right).$$ Since $$\left(\frac{13}{13}\right)=1$$ we obtain $$\left(\frac{52}{13}\right)=(1*x).$$ Since $(1*x)=x$, we obtain $$\left(\frac{52}{13}\right)=x$$
Even reasoning in this way steps have gotten left out, such as how we can "multiply both sides by x."


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WHEELING - Today's teens and young adults have grown up in an age when technology, hectic schedules and convenience foods loaded with calories constantly within reach have pushed maintaining a healthy lifestyle to the back burner for some.
But despite all those outside influences, local health experts say the decision to make one's health a priority must come from within. And while some young people are taking ownership of that responsibility, it seems to be a decision some are reluctant to make these days.
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College student George Culler works out at Centre Town Fitness in Wheeling. While some young people remain health conscious, physical activity just doesn't seem to be a priority for many youth.
Dr. Amy Jean, a pediatric endocrinologist at Wheeling Hospital, specializes in the treatment of children with both juvenile and adult-onset diabetes, and her prior research has focused on the prevention and treatment of obesity. She said while her younger patients are more teachable, teenagers' poor health habits often prove difficult to break.
"If they are not personally motivated ... nothing will happen," Jean said. "I have to wait until they're ready to make that change."
George Frazier, manager of Centre Town Fitness in downtown Wheeling, believes societal pressures and a decreased emphasis on teaching physical education in schools are partially to blame.
"With all the communication tools that are out there today, worrying about their social lives and social connections, and they're not investing themselves in their future health. ... A lot of people feel like when they're young they're not at risk, and that's unfortunate," said Frazier.
Frazier said those who fail to develop the desire to stay physically fit when they're young are far less likely to turn things around as they age. And the further one slips into obesity, the more intimidating it becomes to begin a fitness program.
The "rule of thumb," Frazier said, is setting aside 45 minutes to an hour for exercise an average of three to five days per week.
With an extensive trail system and several indoor and outdoor swimming pools, he added that Ohio Valley residents have plenty of opportunity to stay active without spending a lot of money.
"You don't have to belong to a gym to get good physical activity," he said.
From a dietary standpoint, Jean said the increasing number of single-parent families as well as households where both parents work have driven society toward quick and easy meals that often lack nutritional value.
And while schools have taken steps to influence child nutrition, including removing soft drink vending machines, she doesn't see a noticeable change in behavior among teens as a result.
She said many of the children she sees don't wake up early enough to eat a good breakfast, then choose not to eat school lunch and instead meet up with their friends for fast food after classes are over.
"They eat a huge amount of fat calories and sugar calories right after school," she said.
Jean agrees with Frazier that the local area offers numerous ways to remain active, including many that weren't around when she grew up here 20 years ago - it's just a matter of people choosing to take advantage of them.
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The data in the PHP array was taken from SQL Database. Now I want to be able to use this in JavaScript.
I searched the web and people are suggesting to use JSON using this code:
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I get this error in firefox when using firebug
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var js_var = JSON.parse("{"Key1":{"id":"1","name":"MyName","address":"USA"...
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Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), is building a
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price of piped-in gas from the United States, where increased
production from shale formations has lowered prices in recent
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keep Pemex pipelines from reaching a critical state due to a
lack of pressure. Critical alerts in the past have forced
industry to cut back on their use of the fuel.
Mr. Martinez said that while Pemex's immediate goal is to
guarantee sufficient natural gas supplies in the short term, he
expects the company to eventually increase its own production
of the fuel from the current 6.4 billion cfpd by exploiting
Mexican shale gas deposits now in the exploration phase.
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Mexico's government dominated energy industry by allowing more
private investment. The three main political parties are
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$$p(x) = \frac{2x^6 - x^4 - 4x^2 - 8}{x^2 + 4x - 3}$$


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The prevailing wisdom before this men's college basketball season was that Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari had figured out a way to beat the game. The Wildcats went 38-2 last season and won the national title, only to reload with another class of freakishly precocious freshmen to whom Lexington is merely a pit stop before packing off to the NBA.
Then the season started.
More than halfway through this year's college basketball campaign, those of us who predicted back-to-back titles for the Wildcats don't have egg on our faces so much as Western omelets with a side of hash browns and bacon. After losing to Alabama Tuesday, Kentucky fell to 12-6 and its NCAA tournament bid is in jeopardy. Calipari's squad doesn't have a win against a team ranked in the top 50 of the Rating Percentage Index, a metric used in NCAA tournament selection. Against top-100 RPI teams, the Wildcats are 1-6, with their one win coming in the first game of the season.
The rest of Kentucky's schedule brings both good and bad news. The good news is that the Southeastern Conference is only the seventh-best league in the country this year, according to kenpom.com, a basketball statistics website. That means there are plenty of winnable games left.
The bad news: Just six of Kentucky's last 13 games are against RPI top-100 teams—and the Wildcats may have to win most of them just to be in the bracket. Not that this particular pack of Wildcats remembers what that's like: None of the players in Kentucky's starting lineup played on last season's championship team.
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The local Presbyterian Church has a sign outside offering an Alpha Course. I'm sure I've heard of the same course being offered by the Roman Catholic Church. So is the Alpha Course a very general Mere-Christianity-type thing, or is it customised to each denomination, or are the two Alpha courses completely unrelated?
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The UK website for the Alpha Course can be found here. There are others for each country, so use Google to find yours. The Wikipedia entry can also be useful.
The Alpha course is extremely popular across the world and in many denominations. It originated in the Church of England, and it is exactly what you expect - an introduction to the core of Christian belief, Mere Christianity style. It is not specific to Anglican beliefs, and has been used by a huge number of churches of many denominations.
One of the key things about Alpha though is that it is intended to be more than a lecture series. It is key to the course (assuming it is being done properly) that it is done in a discussion framework. The lectures should be followed by a discussion in a small group, to which Christians and seekers are free to contribute. Ideally there should be food as well - the guidelines for running the course recommend it.
The only slightly controversial aspect of the course is that it does teach that the Holy Spirit may give supernatural gifts, such as speaking in tongues, to Christians. It doesn't claim that those gifts are essential, and it doesn't talk about more controversial gifts. Some churches choose to omit those parts of the course.
Some churches choose to modify the course in other ways, but the one you see is unlikely to be a different course. Ask whether it includes lectures by Nicky Gumbel - if so then you are getting the real deal. I would personally make sure that there is an opportunity for discussion as part of the course. In my experience omitting that misses the point.


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What is preventing hardware manufacturers from creating a device that will allow the user to select their OS? A phone similar to a PC or a mac that can have linux, windows or mac OS installed. Are there any regulations preventing this?
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There's no legal way for a company to acquire licenses to iOS. For example, 'hackintoshes' are in violation of the OS X EULA. Apple doesn't go after individual users because it's not worth it, but, considering how litigious they are, it's hard to imagine them not going after a manufacturer that sold iOS clones. They seem to have legal precedent on their side, too (see the Psystar case).
A practical issue is that it's a lot of work to get drivers working for various devices on phones. Who's going to do the work to write iOS, Symbian, RIM, or Bada drivers for the hardware that's used in the phone? For example, the ICS android update still isn't available for my current phone, six months after the initial alpha build was leaked. The current leaked build is an improvement (it doesn't crash all the time), but the wireless still doesn't work, and even regular voice is somewhat buggy.
This is largely a business problem -- not a technical problem. I've got an HTC HD2, which originally shipped with Windows Mobile 6.5 (ugh!). I bought it, however, knowing that before it was even available in the US, hackers were already working on porting Android to it. Since then, I've loaded a couple different versions of Android on it, and I know that there are builds for Windows Phone 7, too. At one point, I was booting Windows 6.5 and has the option to launch Android off an image on my SD card -- effectively a dual-boot solution.
Obviously, there are some technical limitations -- there are hardware features in newer phones that mine doesn't support, and so on -- but the ability of this one piece of hardware to run multiple operating systems has been impressive, IMO. As smartphones and their OS's have become more sophisticated, the abstractions between hardware and software have matured as well, which is one of the factors that allow this sort of multiple OS support. It's my understanding that these abstraction layers are what really lay the groundwork for which hosts can run which OS's from a technical standpoint.
As others have indicated, Apple goes to great pains to ensure that their OS is used only on genuine Apple hardware. This is a business decision first and foremost, though it's backed by the understanding that the more liberal they are in terms of hardware that can run iOS, the less control they've got over users' experiences with Apple. The importance of that end-user experience hasn't been lost on other vendors, though, and I think very few vendors would see a whole lot of value in making users' experiences vastly more complicated by allowing them to boot into a variety of OS's.
The closest analog we've seen to that sort of "developer phone" right now was Google's Nexus phone, which was targeted specifically at developers. Even that phone, though, was intended to run Android only, for obvious reasons. Given the existence of emulators running in development IDE's, I suspect that multi-boot phones aren't a huge priority even for vendors wishing to target developers.
I'll focus on smartphones only, because if you include feature phones, then everything gets even more complicated.
Basically there are two kinds of operating systems for mobile devices
Even Android (which everyone can just use and build a phone with) has some restrictions if you want to deliver the non-opensource Google applications with it (and you do want to do that, because otherwise people won't have the full experience, for example the Play Store is part of that suite).
So while one could technically build a phone that could run multiple OSes, it would be almost impossible to convince all OS developers to let you actually run their OS on your device.
Therearen't be any regulations that prohibit this type of hardware from being developed. However, the developers of the mobile OS might not have any incentive to provide OS deployment support. Apple, for instance, prefers a closed ecosystem where their OS is used only on their own devices.
Even for those mobile operating systems where it is easier to port to various device types, such as Android, device manufacturers have a difficult time providing timely updates to users of existing devices.
In short, while users might benefit from this type of device, a lack of vendor support would likely doom this type of hardware to a niche existence.
In a few words: Software companies' interests and lack of demand.
About the first reason:
Most software companies require that the phone covers some prerequisites, before allowing the vendor to install the OS on the phone. For example, the requirements for Windows Phone 7 can be found on Wikipedia: Windows Phone.
This excludes vendors who make their own software, like RIM (Blackberry) and Apple, but they consider their software as a competitive advantage and are not interested in providing their proprietary OS-es to other vendors.
In general, Android is the least problematic of the main operating systems: you can checkout it, compile and deploy it yourself (minus some proprietary Google Apps that come preinstalled on Android phones).
However, Windows has taken steps to become even more restrictive: Windows 8 for ARM (this is not Windows Phone 8) will not allow the user to install another OS by locking the boot loader
About the second reson:
Almost nobody would want such a phone. It would provide a bad user experience, because of the mashup of different OS-es, different UIs, different apps working on each OS, etc. It would be hard to learn since to use it would require knowledge of all operating systems installed to be utilized fully.
If a vendor tries to do this, the financial results would probably be devastating and the project would be deemed a huge failure.


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I've got horrible rust stains on my car's rims, and I'm at a loss as to how to get rid of them. A bit of googling suggests the use of steel wool, but I'm not sure how much I trust that. Any suggestions?
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I'd try some CLR in a very small spot to see if it can remove it. I'm not sure the effect it will have on metal so try it in a very small/inconspicuous spot first (maybe on the very edge of one of the spokes).
The photo you have added is not of Chrome rims. Chrome rims are a lot harder and can be cleaned with what you've suggested.
Aluminium rims are a lot softer and easily get stains though they don't get the actual rust(mostly).
I have similar stains on my Ford and was able to get rid of it after 2-3 iterations of Armour-All Wheel cleaner.
I think any decent off the shelf wheel cleaner should be able to help you. Though I don't believe it will be done in one go, you will need to repeat it a few times.
I've had very good results with Nevr-Dull - Magic Wadding Polish. It will take a bit more work to clean your wheels than CLR (or some other corrosive) but is probably safer for the wheels, and avoids the potential damage that steel wool might cause.
An Oxalic acid scrub is the old standard method of removing rust stains from chrome and other metal objects. It's sold as "wood bleach" in lumber yards, and likely sold as "rust remover" at hardware stores. My tin of the stuff is 20 years old, so I'm not familiar with what the brand names are today.
You could try using Cola and report back the results ... the Mythbusters didn't try Cola on Aluminum (which is what I am assuming your wheels are made of).
You should try using one of the 3M (or any other brand) recycled plastic bottle scrubbers. The aluminum should not be harmed as it is a much stronger material than thin woven plastic.
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5 Things Nobody Tells You About Living in Japan
Two years ago, I achieved alpha-geek status among my friends by moving to Japan. Since then, all I've been hearing from them is how lucky I am and how they would murder any endangered species still clinging tenaciously to existence in exchange for permission to live in my closet. And I totally get it, because come on, it's Japan -- the wackiest, most interesting place on the planet. Who wouldn't want to live here?
Well ... you might not, actually. Because while there are plenty of great reasons to live in Japan, such as the low crime rate and the amazing public transportation system, there are a few things you should know before you decide to pack up your manga and hop on a jet across the Pacific, wearing rabbit ears and flashing peace signs at everyone who makes eye contact with you. For starters ...
#5. Everything Is Frightfully Low-Tech
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Quick question: When was the last time you had to use a fax machine?*
*"What is a fax machine?" is an entirely acceptable response.
"Some sort of ... sex toy?"
Well, you should try moving to Japan if you want to recapture the magic of the fax machine and other 1990s technology. I actually use one about twice a month to send out my work invoices, because many of the Japanese companies that employ me do not accept paperwork by email. The rare ones that do require that my Word/Excel files be compatible with their 1998 version of Microsoft Office, which is sort of like requiring your Avengers Blu-ray to play on a Betamax machine.
My point is, on the surface Japan seems like the closest thing Earth currently has to a moon base, what with their stock exchange being entirely computerized and wireless Internet literally coming out of their vending machines.
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Neither of those things are jokes.
But the truth is, many things are still being done in painfully old-fashioned ways, a phrase which here means "by hand and on paper." Actually, having seen the amount of paper a typical Japanese office goes through, I feel safe in assuming that the entire country has declared a shadow war on both the information age and trees.
How can this be? Well, Japan is still mainly in the hands of the older generation: Over a fourth of the population is over 60, and they're in no particular hurry to adopt new technology (particularly not Apple products, because as far as Japan is concerned, Steve Jobs can go fuck himself). Institutions like banks, the postal service and government offices still keep all of their records on paper, maintained and filed by superfluous personnel who could easily be replaced by an old Soviet computer (which incidentally is more or less what a friend of mine at a Yokohama municipal office was using at his workstation as recently as 2010).
Many businesses still don't even accept credit cards. A Japanese airline can get you to any corner of the globe without a hassle, so long as you're paying in cash, even if the tickets come up to a few thousand dollars each (and I wish I wasn't speaking from experience). This is made even more difficult by the fact that I don't think I've ever seen a 24-hour ATM anywhere in Japan.
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"We're proud to announce the launch of a new debit card, usable only in this room and only for the next 11 minutes."
That's right; most banks in Japan keep their ATMs indoors, which means that once the banks close (typically around 6 p.m.), so do the machines, utterly defeating their entire purpose for existing. It's another extension of that technological resistance -- pretty much anywhere outside of Tokyo harbors a deep generational resentment for automation. They don't want the ATMs operational while there aren't any bank employees around to help in case something goes wrong (although outside of users being clubbed with a thermos and robbed, the list of possible mishaps is embarrassingly short). You can always try an ATM at a convenience store (the number of which currently exceeds the national population), if you don't mind the variable transaction fees that seemingly change at random. And that's only if your ATM card will even work in machines outside of your bank, which it almost certainly won't.
The damn thing even looks like a 1980s fever dream of the future.
Of course, the best time to find out whether the 7-Eleven around the corner accepts your card is after 1 a.m., when all of the public transport has stopped and you desperately need money for a taxi. Basically, if you're planning on doing anything at all besides going to and from work, you need to keep fistfuls of cash either on your person at all times or piled under a mattress in your freezing apartment.
Wait, why is your apartment freezing? Because ...
#4. The Houses Have No Heat
Japan is constantly depicted in movies and TV shows as a technological wonderland of science and innovation, to the point where you would expect every toilet to resemble the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, complete with a not-quite-real-or-fake-enough Patrick Stewart screaming "Make it so!" in a Japanese man's voice. The reality, however, is that your house or apartment will most likely lack such basic things as central heating and thermal insulation, and you'll be forced to burn that Ghost in the Shell poster your mom would never let you hang up just to stay warm.
Behold, the wonders of the Far East.
Traditionally, Japanese houses have always been built to let as much air flow through them as possible, because the summers here average somewhere between 80 and 90 degrees. Unfortunately, this piece of architectural brilliance will betray you come wintertime, as there is nothing at all in place to keep frozen winds from bursting into your house and dragging warm air off into the night like the werewolves from The Howling. But as most foreigners in Japan learn firsthand, you're sort of expected to just tough it out.
You can pick up an electric AC/heater, if you feel like throwing down hundreds of dollars to pay for both the unit and the required professional installation, but even then it's only enough to cover one room. The Japanese simply do not heat more than one or two places in the entire house -- they never have, and they aren't likely to start before you move here. Your only other option is a kerosene heater, which you can't really leave running overnight unless you're trying to burn and/or suffocate your family to death. Of course, having one also means keeping several cans of kerosene around the house at all times, so the "burning" thing may eventually happen on its own.
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"It's cool, plastic isn't flammable."
Newer buildings like those in the middle of Tokyo probably have central heating systems strong enough to microwave a chicken just by shutting all the windows, but considering that land and building costs in Japan are still some of the highest in the world, the only people who can afford to live in new homes are those rich enough to insulate the walls with unicorn pelts.
#3. The Hospitals Close on Evenings and Weekends
The good news about health care in Japan is that your insurance is accepted pretty much anywhere. The bad news is that most hospitals keep shorter hours than a Blockbuster Video. Generally speaking, Japanese hospitals are only open from about 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and are usually not open at all on the weekends. So if you lop off a digit at a family barbecue, you basically have to wrap your stump in a Pikachu towel full of ice, wait for Monday to roll around and hope your severed finger doesn't get freezer burn.
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"Attention horribly injured people: The hospital will close in 15 minutes. Please continue clinging desperately to life."
Even then, it's no guarantee you'll get to see a doctor, because outpatients are usually only admitted in the morning. If you don't get to the hospital quickly enough, you'll have to wait another day (oh, and good luck using all that personal time in a country where missing work is considered a form of light treason). Also, first-time patients can't make appointments at most medical facilities, so you pretty much just have to show up and hope somebody dies in a car accident on the way to the hospital and frees up a slot. And make sure to bring cash with you (see above), because while the majority of hospitals have ATMs, you really don't want to play "Will my card work here?" while you're bleeding from the face.
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"I'm afraid you'll have to visit the ATM before we attach the second oxygen cylinder."
If you do manage to make it into a doctor's office, make sure that you bring someone with you who can speak Japanese, because not many doctors or nurses speak English. Which actually brings me to my next point ...


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March 10th 2009 by Sabrina Posted In: Design, Events, Information Visualisation
Tags: Ben Schneiderman, Colin Ware, Design, Information Visualisation, Knowledge Discovery, SocialAction, TreeMap, Visual Literacy
Ben Schneiderman from the University of Maryland, gave a fascinating talk in Cambridge on 5th March 2009 about the topic of "Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery."
Ben has authored many books and papers on human computer interaction, and was the founder of the Human Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland. His keen interest is the field of information visualisation.
During his talk, Ben pointed out that in contrast to scientific visualization, information visualization is a relatively young field, as information visualization conferences have only been going for about 15 years. He added that, the challenge with information visualization is that the information keeps changing over time.
Ben presented his conceptual break down of information visualization tasks: "Overview -> zoom and filter -> details on demand." What he means is that one should provide an overview first, showing all the information, for example complex graphs, diagrams and maps. This allows the user to orientate themselves and get the big picture. Then allow the user to zoom into more detail and filter out any unwanted information. Finally, allow the user to select an item and get more detail about it when required.
The most enlightening point that Ben made during his talk was that: "Information visualization gives you answers to questions you didn't even know." He went on to argue that "there should be a move from opportunistic discovery and to a more systematic discovery of knowledge."
Ben illustrated his argument with a number of demonstrations and screenshots of projects that he and his students have developed over the years. Each guides knowledge discovery thought the visualization of different patterns in the data. Ben emphasised that for information visualization "the interest is not in a particular value, but an overall view and patterns in the data". Yet, he also emphazised the importance "trying to see the violations in the data that are contrary to your expectations".
Ben demonstrated his famous treemap that has now been modified by many commercial companies. It has been modified for example to visually show the constantly changing landscape of the google news aggregator, and even the New York Times has used it to show changes in truck and car sales.
Other tools which Ben showed were the ShapeSearcher which finds spikes in the data, Scattergrams which provide the opportunity of hunting for stuff, the alignment tool which can filter by event and show what happened before and after this event, and another tool which identifies gaps in the data.
The most intriguing example of finding patterns in data was Ben's demonstration of the SocialAction tool, which uncovers hidden structures in social networks over time. The visualization presented the correlation between US senators voting the same way. It showed a strong correlation that democrats and republicans vote the same way. Only four republicans sometimes voted similar to the democrats. Yet the most surprising finding through this visualization was that the correlation for democrats voting the same way was far stronger then republican voting the same way.
Ben concluded his talk with three key points for information visualization to guide knowledge discovery:
1. Rank-by-Feature Framework, i.e. rank by what people want to know
2. Decomposition of complex problems into multiple simpler problems
3. Ranking guides discovery. It is important to provide systematic
approaches for discovery.
Challenges of visual literacy
A theme that kept popping up in the talk and particular in the questions afterwards, was the challenge of visual literacy. Words can help to clarify matters of information visualization, but Ben explained that textual information is only good for simple queries (such as a rank list in Google search results). Visual tools on the other hand are better for complex queries.
For anyone who is interested in finding out more about the challenges of visual literacy, Ben recommended the work of Colin Ware, a perceptional psychologist, who looks at the challenges of understanding visual information.
Interesting reads about information visualisation:
Bederson, B. and Shneiderman, B. (2003) The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections, Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA. Amazon UK, Amazon US
Card, S., Mackinlay, J., and Shneiderman, B. (1999) Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA. Amazon UK, Amazon US
Tufte, Edward (1983) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT. Amazon UK, Amazon US
Tufte, Edward (1990) Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT. Amazon UK, Amazon US
Tufte, Edward (1997) Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT. Amazon UK, Amazon US
Ware, Colin (2004) Information Visualization, Second Edition: Perception for Design (Interactive Technologies), Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA. Amazon UK, Amazon US
Ware, Colin (2008) Visual Thinking for Design, Morgan Kaufman, Burlington, MA. Amazon UK, Amazon US
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Between the June 2009 end of the "Great Recession" and March 2012, Connecticut recovered 40,000 of the approximately 120,000 jobs that were lost in the 2007-09 downturn. However, the UConn authors (who often understate Connecticut's economic troubles) noted that four of the last five quarters witnessed the weakest job growth in Connecticut history.
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I already have windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 installed. Now I want to install windows 8 for a triple boot. How can I do that?
Make sure it will not go beyond the 4 primary partitions; if so then your PC will not boot up.
You can make extra partition with GParted--up to four primary partitions, or up to three primary partitions plus an extended partition that acts as a contained for logical partitions. This way you can effectively have more than four partitions.
Make sure you have sufficient space for Windows 8.
Install Windows 8.
Now you notice that only Windows 7 and 8 are listed in Windows's boot loader.
You have 2 option to make it so you can select Ubuntu when booting your machine:
Add Ubuntu in windows boot loader by using easyBCD.
Reinstall GRUB 2 by live CD.
For this watch this video.
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