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Going to check out some [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/report/13 easy tickets].
Going to check out some [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/report/13 easy tickets].
Hackers: Oleg Smirnov
Hackers: Oleg Smirnov
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LtU-Kiev Hackathon is a collaborative coding festival aimed towards building and improving Haskell libraries, tools, and infrastructure.
This event is also a get-together of functional programming enthusiasts. With this in mind, attendees are free to choose any programming language they like for their hacking.
LtU-Kiev Hackathon is open to all. You don't have to be a Haskell guru to attend. All you need is a project you are excited to help with or an individual project to work on.
1 Date and Venue
16-17 October 2010, 10 am to 6 pm.
The hackathon will be hosted by GlobalLogic and will be held in Kiev's GL-Club: Mykoly Grinchenka Str., 2/1 (map).
2 Registration
If you will be attending, please register. The space is limited (up to 40 attendees), so don't delay!
3 Projects
If you have a project that you want to work on at the Hackathon, please describe it here. This page is only meant for coordination, it does not impose anything.
If you are interested in one of these projects, add your name to the list of hackers under that project. If you have another project you want to hack on, please add it to the list.
3.1 darcs
Hackers: ADEpt
Adding tests to pathlib and fixing path-handling bugs reported by me
3.2 loker
I plan to conduct an introduction to the project for new and wannabe contributors at the beginning of the first day.
Hackers: Roman Cheplyaka
3.3 vty-ui
Hackers: jtootf
3.4 cabal
Going to check out some easy tickets.
Hackers: Oleg Smirnov, maybe ADEpt (not-so-easy tickets)
3.5 turnir
Hackers: Ivan Veselov
3.6 TermWare
Hackers: rssh
3.7 under.c
`under' utility decodes binary DER data to textual S-expressions and/or encodes sexps back to DER. This C program is based on iteratees and is rather functional in this respect.
Plan is to extend existing functionality with pluggable codecs.
Hackers: vvv
3.8 nullfs
Hackers: xrgtn


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Effects of Exercise: Changes in Carbon Dioxide Output
AbstractEverybody knows that your body needs oxygen to keep going, and that you breathe out carbon dioxide as waste. What happens when you exercise? You have probably noticed that you breathe faster, and your heart beats faster. What triggers your body to respond in this way? How does it "rev up" to keep your muscles going? Here is a project that gives you a peek into the fascinating science of exercise physiology.
ObjectiveTo measure changes in carbon dioxide levels in exhaled air before and after physical exercise.
Andrew Olson, Ph.D., Science Buddies
- Investigating CO2 in Breathing. Bronx High School of Science.
- How Much Carbon Dioxide Is Produced During Exercise? Teacher's Notes. Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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The air that you exhale contains carbon dioxide (CO2), a waste product from the energy-producing biochemical reactions in your cells. You should do background research to find out how your body produces and gets rid of carbon dioxide, including how your lungs and heart (cardiac system) function. You will also want to look into how your body controls heart rate and breathing during exercise, which is a topic called exercise physiology.
In this project you will learn a method for measuring the relative amount of carbon dioxide in the air you exhale. You can compare the amount of carbon dioxide you produce when resting and when exercising, both moderately and briskly.
To measure your carbon dioxide output you will be using a colorimetric pH test. pH is a numerical (specifically logarithmic) measure of how acidic or basic (also called alkaline) something is. Technically, pH is the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration:
What this equation means is for each 1-unit change in pH, the hydrogen ion concentration changes ten-fold. Pure water has a neutral pH of 7. pH values lower than 7 are acidic, and pH values higher than 7 are basic (alkaline). The table below has examples of substances with different pH values (Decelles, 2002; Environment Canada, 2002; EPA, date unknown).
|pH Value
|H+ Concentration
Relative to Pure Water
|10 000 000
|battery acid
|1 000 000
|sulfuric acid
|100 000
|lemon juice, vinegar
|10 000
|orange juice, soda
|1 000
|tomato juice, acid rain
|black coffee, bananas
|urine, milk
|pure water
|sea water, eggs
|baking soda
|Great Salt Lake, milk of magnesia
|0.000 1
|ammonia solution
|0.000 01
|soapy water
|0.000 001
|bleach, oven cleaner
|0.000 000 1
|liquid drain cleaner
A colorimetric pH test means that the color of the solution changes when the pH changes. Here is how it works. When you add the pH indicator solution (specifically bromothymol blue) to plain water, it turns blue, or greenish blue, indicating that the pH is near 7. Carbon dioxide is very soluble in water. When it dissolves, CO2 reacts with water, producing carbonic acid. The pH of the water is shifted from neutral (7) to more acidic (somewhere near 6). Over this range, the pH indicator will change color to yellow. Figure 1, below, shows an example of the pH indicator solution bromothymol blue changing color over this range.
Figure 1. The pH indicator bromothymol blue changes color from yellow to blue over the pH range 6.0–7.6, as illustrated above.
To compare your CO2 output under different conditions, you will exhale through a tube into a bottle partly filled with the pH indicator solution. The CO2 that you exhale will dissolve in the water, and gradually acidify it. You will be able to see the pH indicator change color as this happens. By measuring how long it takes for the pH change to occur, you will have a relative measure of the amount of CO2 in your breath. The less time it takes for the color change to happen, the more CO2 there was in your breath.
Terms and Concepts
- Lung function
- Heart (cardiac) function
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Heart rate
- Exercise physiology
- pH
- Neutral pH
- Acidic pH
- Basic pH
- Colorimetric pH test
- pH indicator
- Bromothymol blue
- How is oxygen used and carbon dioxide produced in cellular respiration?
- How do cells in the body obtain oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide?
- How does the body sense and respond to increased cellular respiration rate?
BibliographyThis site explains the pH scale:
- Decelles, P., 2002. "The pH Scale," Virtually Biology Course, Basic Chemistry Concepts, Johnson County Community College [accessed September 19, 2006] http://staff.jccc.net/pdecell/chemistry/phscale.html
- SMM, 2002. "Habits of the Heart: The Lungs," Science Museum of Minnesota [accessed September 19, 2006] http://www.smm.org/heart/lungs/top.html
- Shakashiri, B. "Carbon Dioxide," Chemical of the Week, University of Wisconsin [accessed January 26, 2006] http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/CO2/CO2.html
- ______, S., 2000. "Exhaled Air," Ask A Scientist Zoology Archive, University of Chicago, Newton BBS [accessed January 26, 2006] http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/zoo00/zoo00065.htm
- Calabrese, L., 2001. "Volume of human lungs," Elert, G. "The Physics Factbook" [accessed January 27, 2006]:
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Materials and Equipment
- pH test strips, available at Amazon.com.
- Clear plastic bottles (4). Pint-size water bottles work well.
- Water
- Bromothymol blue. This will be your pH indicator solution. You can purchase bromothymol blue through an online supplier such as Amazon.com.
- Homemade respirometer, as shown in Figure 2, below, which uses the following:
- One bottle, with cap
- Plastic tubing, approx. 1 cm internal diameter
- Modeling clay
Figure 2. Diagram of respirometer setup. Drill holes in the bottle cap for the tubes to pass through and seal with modeling clay. Pay attention to tube lengths, only the inlet tube should be below surface of the pH indicator solution liquid.
- Permanent marker
- A clock with a second hand or stopwatch
- A helper to time you
- Aeration setup for de-acidifying the pH indicator solution. The setup should include an aquarium pump, tubing, and an airstone that can all fit together, although the airstone is optional. Such a setup may be purchased at a local aquarium store, or through an online supplier such as Amazon.com.
- Lab notebook
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Experimental Procedure
- Do your background research to find out about how your body produces and gets rid of carbon dioxide. You should also understand why carbon dioxide makes water more acidic when it dissolves.
- Fill one of clear plastic bottles nearly to the top with water. (Use distilled water if your tap water has pH < 7. You can test the pH using a pH test kit.)
- Add 20-25 drops of the pH indicator solution (bromothymol blue), cap the bottle, and mix gently. You should get a nice green or blue color (pH >= 7). If not, try using distilled water. This will be your diluted pH indicator solution.
- Take the bottle that you will use as your respirometer and fill it a little less than one-third full with the diluted pH indicator solution. Mark the level on the side of the bottle with tape and permanent marker.
- Set up the inlet and outlet tubes of the respirometer, as shown in Figure 2 in the Materials section.
- Fill a second bottle about a quarter full with the diluted pH indicator solution and set it aside as a control for color comparison. Reserve the remaining diluted indicator solution for later.
- Now you are ready to begin. Your helper should tell you when to start, and mark the time (or start the stopwatch).
- Do your best to maintain your current, comfortable breathing rate, inhaling through your nose and exhaling from your mouth through the tube.
- Caution: Do not inhale through the tube! You do not want to suck up the pH indicator solution!
- Observe the pH indicator solution for change in color.
- When the indicator solution in the exhalation bottle has turned yellow, as shown in Figure 3, below, your helper should note the time (or stop the stopwatch). In your lab notebook, record the number of seconds it took to change the color of the solution. You may need to practice this process with your partner several times before actual testing to determine the exact color at which to stop the time.
Figure 3. Stop breathing into the respirometer when the solution has turned yellow. Record the time in your lab notebook.
- Now aerate the pH indicator solution (in the respirometer) to return it to the starting pH. Remove the cap of the exhalation bottle and aerate the solution using the aquarium aeration pump, as shown in Figure 4, below, until the solution matches the original color (compare to your control, it will take 5–10 minutes). (Alternatively, you can pour out the solution into an empty bottle and aerate it there, and pour in the same amount of fresh indicator solution from your reserve. Be careful to fill to the same level as before.)
Figure 4. Aerate the pH indicator solution in the respirometer until the solution returns to its original green-blue color.
- When your respirometer solution is ready again, repeat steps 7–10. Do this until you have at least three measurements at rest (more is better).
- Next, collect at least three measurements right after exercising moderately (walking at a comfortable pace) or briskly (for example, run in place, raising your knees up high) for 2–3 minutes. See how long it takes you to change the color of the pH indicator, then rest for 10 minutes while you re-aerate the buffer. Then repeat the measurement until you have at least three data points for each condition (more is better).
- Finally, while at rest, try breathing into (and out of) a paper bag for one minute (or as close to one minute as you can), and then testing your CO2 output (again for a total of three measurements).
- Average the results for each test condition and compare the results using graphs and data tables.
- How do your results compare to your expectations from your background research? For increasing CO2 output, how does breathing into a paper bag compare to exercise?
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- Correlating CO2 Production with Other Measures. How does CO2 output correlate with other measures of increased physical activity such as breaths per minute and pulse rate?
- Making Your Results More Quantitative. For a more advanced project, you can actually calculate the amount of CO2 produced. You can do this by adding a known amount of NaOH to the indicator solution, and calculating how much CO2 would be required to change the pH to 6. Then, measure how long it takes to acidify the indicator solution. Your measurements will allow you to calculate an estimate of the CO2 exhaled per second. Of course, to make this work you will have to work with solutions of known concentration and volume.
- Effects of Training: Athletes vs. Non-Athletes. If you wanted to get really ambitious, you could see how conditioning affects CO2 output. Do conditioned athletes take longer to start producing additional CO2 with moderate exercise? Do they recover to normal levels faster after exercise?
- Compare CO2 production after anaerobic and aerobic exercise. Compare respirometer results from subjects who run, walk, or bike for 4-7 minutes to those from subjects who do push-ups, lunges, or squats for the same duration.
- For another Science Buddies project on exercise physiology, see: Heart Health: How Does Heart Rate Change with Exercise?.
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peanutgallery5 said:
2012-01-15 21:35:01
What was the most important thing you learned?
Running does produce more carbon dioxide than walking, sitting and breathing through a paper bag; this is because the amount of energy burned in your body increases when running and the body draws in more oxygen to produce glucose. The oxygen is carried to the muscles in a part of a red blood cell called the hemogoblin. When combined with glucose the oxygen is burned and the waste product is carbon dioxide. The more vigorous the activity the more carbon dioxide is exhaled. Experimenting on younger children who are seven and ten years old revealed that more carbon dioxide was produced in a faster time period over all of the test subjects. This is because children have higher tidal volume level than adults. The average male adult's tidal volume is 5 to 7 kg. and the average infant or child's tidal volume is 6 to 8 kg. Since children are able to inhale and exhale more air more carbon dioxide can be produced.
What problems did you encounter?
Instead of making one respirometer I used three bottles and used only one top as the tubes.
Can you suggest any improvements or ideas?
Something that could be added to extend this study is to test the difference between an athlete's carbon dioxide output and a non-athletes output. This is an interesting extension because an ex professional athlete who was tested exhaled more carbon dioxide faster than many of the other test subjects.
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NerdGirlMania said:
2012-01-02 12:03:17
What was the most important thing you learned?
By using different test subjects with varied ages and backgrounds, I learned that CO2 output is more efficient when you are more healthy; my most efficient subject was a triathlete, while my least efficient was a 62 year-old man with an artificial pacemaker.
What problems did you encounter?
Can you suggest any improvements or ideas?
I compared different ages and listed my test subjects backgrounds and how much they exercised each week. *NOTE* I won the 7th grade science fair with this project!
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lovemicrobes said:
2011-02-08 10:44:01
What was the most important thing you learned?
That the rate of exercise changes the production of carbon dioxide.
What problems did you encounter?
It took me a long time to obtain consistent, repeatable results. I had to repeat all of the trials multiple times before I got results that clearly showed the effect of exercise on the output.
Can you suggest any improvements or ideas?
Add more drops (20-25) of the pH test solution in step 3.
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labrat said:
2011-02-03 20:01:45
What was the most important thing you learned?
I learned how to create a respirometer system with a pH indicator for determining CO2 output.
What problems did you encounter?
I had to practice the blowing/timing section of the procedure several times before getting consistent results. Determining the exact moment that the indicator solution turns yellow is difficult.
Can you suggest any improvements or ideas?
I would recommend that others use more drops of indicator solution than what is currently written in the PI procedure.
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Since this site's inception a mere two months ago, my dad has been a frequent visitor. Though he doesn't play video games, he eagerly anticipates the day when he'll get a 404 Error so he can call me and say "I told you so." See, as strange as it may sound, my father is slightly older than me, and grew up in a time when video games didn't really exist. And in his teenage years, he saw this new medium develop before his very own eyes. I figured it must have been strange seeing these weird VCRs which let you control dots on the television, and so I decided to talk to him about what that was like. So off we went, deep into the woods of East Tennessee. We equipped ourselves with rudimentary weapons to fend off the hill people, and once atop a grand mountaintop, looking down upon the TVA dams and grist mills, we discussed what his vastly different experience with video games was like.
We're both out of breath as we reach the top, and I ask him if he ever actually played video games growing up. He says yes, and in fact went to an arcade and spent several hours and quarters there. This all came to an end when a friend of his got a pinball machine for Christmas and they could play that instead, for free. I ask him what a pinball machine is, just to instill further disappointment in him with today's generation, and then say I've heard of it, because I had Sonic Spinball for Sega.
We're at a gazebo at the top, and we both sit in the shade. We've done this hike many times before, and always love it. The hike up the trail at the beginning isn't the reason we come though. That part comes later. I tell him that pinball sort of counts, but when did he first really play an actual video game? He says the first video game he ever played was Pong for the Atari. I really do remember the Atari, they had one at the church I went to for preschool, but I don't remember which games they had. I think it was the one with pixels, big pixels. Regardless, I ask him to elaborate. He and his brother loved it, and thought it was extremely difficult. It took a few years of convincing to get one at his own house though, because his parent's thought kids needed to be outdoors instead of controlling the television. It did a good enough job controlling itself they would say derisively, presumably while gathering leaches to reduce the levels of black bile and other humours. Or it could be that they just didn't want the one television in the house tied up with Pong.
Pong was not the only game they played of course. Pac Man and Space Invaders were also fantastic, addictive new innovations. Because there wasn't really much to compare those games to, I ask him what he thought about the graphics at the time. He says that Pac Man and Space Invaders were better because they were in color, and he thought they had good graphics. He pauses and then adds, "No one really thought about graphics then." This makes sense to me. These games weren't trying to be realistic, they were just games. It was the gameplay that mattered. No one cares in Uno how well the cards are drawn, in the same sense no one cared if the Pong ball was shaded or not. Graphics only come into play when you attempt to show something in real life, and the graphical quality is thus measured in terms of how closely it resembles whatever it attempting to be represented. It wasn't that these games had good or bad graphics, it was simply just not a factor to be considered at the time. I'm feeling enlightened, and we look before us at the hike to come.
He goes on to say that he preferred pinball to video games at the time because pinball featured pictures of scantily clad women, which he needed to feed his perverse mind. I suppose he's right, as a kid perversion will outrank Frogger in terms of entertainment 10 times out of 10. I ask if he ever imagined these things (video games) would one day become common place in people's homes, and he said no. They were part and parcel of arcades and skating rinks, and served mostly as something for him to do when they called for couple's skate. Anyone that had one in their home was rich. I ask if he could foresee video games becoming as huge as they are today, and mention that Modern Warfare looks to outsell anything before it in terms of entertainment, including movies. He says no, he thought it was a flash in the pan, a fad that would last for a Christmas or two like Cabbage Patch Kids did for girls.
Video games at the time, he says, were a nice bit of a distraction. In an arcade, they cost money and you didn't want to waste it on something that is over and done in a matter of minutes. I ask if some people got hardcore nerdy into games back then like they do today, and he said not really. It was all so new and novel at the time, and no one had them in their homes, that it was more of something fun to do while you were out. Though, he adds, if your initials were on the high score on a video game, they probably thought you didn't have much going on in your life. I attempt to correct him, and point to my mentor George Costanza and his Frogger high score, and my dad gives a sly smile. He's proven his point.
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The E46 XI was produced from 01-05 in sedan and touring body styles. Powered by either a 2.5L inline 6 in the 325xi or a 3.0L inline 6 330xi. Discuss all thing about BMW AWD E46 'Xi' here.
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where to get an alignement, or suggestions for doing an alignment myself
I've called 3 local "alignment" shops and they have all told me that they need special tools (that they don't have) to do my 2002 325xi alignment. They said they need weights, and they need a "toe bar".
I replaced my front ball joints, struts, and installed the powerflex bushing which has given me a pronounced toe-out.
As far as I know the camber / caster is not adjustable on these cars, but the toe is adjustable (both front and rear).
On my (non BMW) racecars I do a string alignment and use a bubble camber gauge. Because the BMW dealer is closed for the week and I want to get this done I think I'll revert back to my simple method
1) any hints for doing a manual alignment
2) where do you guys take your car for alignment
3) Do you folks get the same BS from local shops? Do you really need this magical "toe bar" to set the toe on the auto?
any help much appreciated, probably going to start this afternoon
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I try to avoid the dealer whenever possible...however for alignments I always go to the dealer only! Call up Daniel's BMW.
Assuming you have a competant tech, they follow the prescribed BMW process to the T, use the sand bags as weight, and insure the steering angle sensor is calibrated.
The steering angle sensor is mounted at the base of your steering column and tells the DSC / ABS systems the steering angle of the car in conjunction with the yaw sensors. This all works together for your stability control. If you have an alignment done at a random local shop and don't have the angle sensor calibrated, then the computer may think you're turning slightly even if you are physically going straight.
Just my two cents, but this is a dealer service for me.
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Jack Williams Tire and Auto: Total Fail, kept my car for 5 hours to tell me they couldn't do it.. would have been $69
Another local shop: Fail but better service, at least they told me on the phone they couldn't do it, would have been $99.00
local 3rd party BMW shop: closed until after Jan 2
Daniels BMW:... calling them is why i hate dealerships, they were very nice but it was expensive and i felt like a number. First i get the operator.. then the scheduler, who says they are booked until past new year.. can't tell me the price... forwarded to service.. nobody picks up... left a voicemail. I just looked on their website and their "Holiday Special" is $169.95.. it must be close to $200... fail on price and customer service, but not out of the running
So is it really worth $200? I might do it if they could actually get me done before the new year but I have no time to screw around once I go back to work January 2.
Thanks for the heads up on the steering wheel angle. I bet I can use my scanner to tell me the perceived angle and compare that to the strings (should I go that way).
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Not really a task you would want to attempt for many reasons. For any modern 4-wheel alignment, the tools and rack equipment are exotic. $200 at a specialty shop would not be crazy talk. You should get a number from the dealer. If it's scary, check out the euro shop. Hack shops are to be avoided as you found out.
I think mine was $180 out the door at an independent local.
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I went to Monro (my only option at the time), and they gave me the same bs after wasting 2 hours of my time. Went to sears the next day, and after 4 hours they aligned my car to 325 specs. Objected and finally got an OK alignment. I would say just find somebody who is not afraid to loosen the rtab bolts and knock out the alignment tabs if necessary. They could use some encouragement, too.
BTW, there is an alignment DIY by jpr on this site. Just search for it. Good luck.
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Thanks guys, JPR DIY link is here: http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthr...889&highlight=
I will use a technique that I'm more familiar with and report back results.
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Put as much neg camber on the front as possible and then set toe to zero.
Toe the rears in to factory spec and then try to make the rear camber match on both sides, as close to -1 deg as possible (this will change the toe again slightly but you prob won't be able to tell with a string).
That's my opinion anyways.
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Accomplished a few things in the last week but also ran into some difficulties...
The good: Finally invested $40.00 in 2 lengths of 8' long x 1" diameter aluminum tube from boxstore to place on jack-stands and hold the mason-string. Much improved over tying it to the jackstand directly. Working on a writeup on how to actually do an alignment this way (when I'm done).
The bad:
1) This whole inpa / ediabas scanner thing... what a PITA. I'm good with computers, but the amount of time and drudgery trying to get that program to work seems crazy to me in these times... reminds me of computing in the 90's. I have managed to connect to the car, but I cannot connect to the module to see the steering wheel angle. Using the car to tell me the steering wheel angle is a critical part of my alignment process (I want to align the car to 0 angle, which should guarantee a good job). I'm on the ediabas related forums and will continue to soldier on until I get something that works.
2) I don't believe the car was ever aligned judging from the rust on the tierod ends and how tough they are to free up and turn. I had to heat the left side end almost cherry and use 2 pipe wrenches to get the steering rod to turn. Before that I had to use a pipe extension on the lock nut (also heated) and had to use the impact hammer to knock the collet off the tierod end. still soaking all in penetrating oil before I work on them again. I will probably take them all the way apart and anti-sieze them (like I do with everything). lesson learned... don't even try the 13mm wrench on the steering tie rod... just go right to the pipe wrench. I buggered the threads on the tierod pretty good.
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This is probably a bit out of your range, but Bob's Garage is a great place that I get my advanced servicing done. I had front and rear alignment back in November and it's been great ever since. (Especially considering how it pulled to the right.) I was charged $120 for it.
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This is probably a bit out of your range, but Bob's Garage is a great place that I get my advanced servicing done. I had front and rear alignment back in November and it's been great ever since. (Especially considering how it pulled to the right.) I was charged $120 for it.
Address: 236 Delsea Drive, Sewell, NJ 08080
Phone (856) 589-5055
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I just bought new tires all the way around and ask for a 4 wheel alignment, the guy didn't tell me anything about special equipment or adding weight. he just told me it was gonna take a couple hours to do this. Now it runs straight like an arrow and drives so much better.
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Thanks for the info gentlemen
Regarding my post above.... INPA / EDIABAS installation complete, I can now talk to the ECU...which means i can do a string alignment and use the ECU to ensure my wheel is centered. Details on my getting that to work on my car here: http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthr...5#post15026645
I've confirmed I can read perceived steering angle, and that it aligns exactly with the steering wheel in the center position. why sit there and guess when the car can tell you.
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How to do a string alignment on an e46
I completed the string alignment and took the xi for a road test. Drove great with the suspension work (bilstien shocks, eibach springs, new bushings). I'm not going to take it for a more "professional" alignment because I feel I nailed it.
What you will need:
- A way to read the ECU (computer + INPA)
- Wrenches: 13mm, 21mm, 24mm
- mason string (home depot has this)
- jack stands to hold string
- anti-sieze compound
- trusty and familiar tape measure, prefarably smaller sized (6' variety).
- 8' x 1" aluminum tubes (I find this handier than just jack stands because it makes it easier to get a perfect rectangle around the car)
Step 1) make your tools:
a) String setup: I measured my 8' aluminum tube to verify equal lengths and drilled holes exactly 1' in from the outside. I then fed the string through the holes using a light down the middle of the tube. You can also just wrap the string around the tube, but drilling holes makes the system easier to setup. set it off to the side
b) alignment pads: Vinyl tile would be better, but I had scrap 1/4" plywood, so I cut approx 1' squares and sanded / greased the contact surfaces to allow slippage. Without an alignment pad it is very difficult to accurately set toe. set it off to the side
Step 2) Using INPA / Ediabas place your steering wheel at 0 degrees. Note that this steering wheel angle is very sensitive, and a couple degrees steering wheel does not = a couple degrees road wheel angle because of the gear reduction in the rack. Wiggle the wheels back and forth until you get it centered. turn the ignition off and pull the key out
step 3) completely dissassemble the tie rod linkages on both sides if you have never done this. Jack the car up in the air, clean everything, re-assemble with liberal anti-sieze. I just changed front components so I just loosened the front, the rear would be done as well for a rear alignment.
This was a big PITA for me. Judging by no wear marks on the tie rod themselves and how frozen everything was the car was probably never aligned post-delivery. I needed to break out the pipe wrench (13mm wasn't cutting it), the pipe extension, the torch, and use a bit of persistance. When done dissassembling one nut was buggered, so I went to sears and got 2 new 14mm x 1.5 nickel plated nuts for the stopper nuts.
step 4) reassemble everything with liberal anti-sieze and visually line up everything. Make sure your steering wheel is still centered. line this up by looking down the brake rotor at the rear wheel and walking around the car once. Put the tires back on and set the car down on your alignment pads. push down on the front and rear a couple times.
Step 5) set up your jack stands and string around the car in a perfect rectangle, equally spaced on each side from the center of each hub.
The wheels will not make a perfect rectangle, but your string setup should. This is the key to the whole aligment, get the strings exactly the same length from the center of the hub on each side.
Front to back is not as important, but I put the jack stands so I can support the rods with a few inches to the front and back bumper, and i measure from the wheel with a tape to get it close.
Tension the string as much as possible without lifting the jack stands off the ground.
step 6: fire up INPA again and ensure your car is at 0 degrees wheel deflection.
Step 7) adjust each wheel to give the desired toe (i gave each front just shy of 1/16 differential toe-in from front to back of wheel (actually measured from rim). This is 1/32 of toe-in. Use INPA to keep the wheel at 0 degrees
Check the backs even if you aren't doing them, they should have a little toe-in and be exactly the same... if not they need to be done too or you need to double check your string positioning.
Step 8) tighten down the backer nuts
step 9) take a walk around and re-check everything. Do not get lazy here, if something isn't right find out why and fix it. My toe didn't change by tightening the backer nuts.
Step 10) test drive (most fun), do some highway, turns, whatever... the auto should have a centered wheel, no strange bump-steer, and be very neutral and light feeling in a straight line.
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Treatment depends on the cause.
Rest, physical therapy, and exercise may be recommended if the pain is caused by muscle spasm.
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Call your health care provider if you have:
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The health care team monitor how many fluids you receive and how much and often you urinate.
The following tests may be done:
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So far, I've conquered WEP, and started to move to WPA-PSK (TKIP)
After getting my PCAP and verifying it has a 4 way handshake (Wireshark, filter EAPOL), I ran the following:
cowpatty -s 2WIRE529 -d /mnt/sda2/patty/c* -r 529
note that the hashes are named c1, c2, etc and are in the above specified location (a windows HDD)
cowpatty 3.0 - WPA-PSK...
Collected all necessary data...
Starting dictionary attack...
Invalid word length: -33
Found a record that was too short, this shouldn't happen in practice!
Unable to identify the PSK from the dictionary file. Try expanding your passphrase list, and double-check the SSID. Sorry it didn't work out.
335676973 passphrases tested in 0.00 seconds: 100672123545123.44 passprhrases/second
Note: I am suspecting that the hash I got from shmoo is not the right one... and maybe I should get the one from renderlab (which I'm downloading right now). let me know if that's where I went wrong.
When I ran the above code, I sometimes got an invalid word length on lines 160, 85, etc (when I specified the exact file, such as -r c2)
I downloaded the 1.2 gb hash file/torrent from Shmoo (hxxp://rainbowtables.shmoo.com/), named alpha_num, and then unzipped it with 7 zip (in windows).
And yes, the SSID (2WIRE529) is one of the top 1000 commonly used ESSID.
There are .md5 for every file (5 separate ~200mb files) I did not run a md5 hash on the files (which were compresssed as .lzma, and decompressed to .rt, but renamed to be just c1, c2, etc) [I'm suggesting that they may have been corrupted] Example:
Any suggestion, or clue about the Invalid word length: -33 ?
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During an interview with Sen. Richard Burr, Tom Brokaw did not challenge Burr's false claim that Sen. Barack Obama has proposed "increased taxes -- and that's taxes across the board on the American people without exception." Obama has in fact proposed raising taxes only on households earning more than $250,000, while also calling for tax cuts for low- and middle-income families.
During the September 2 edition of MSNBC Live, NBC News host Tom Brokaw failed to challenge Sen. Richard Burr's (R-NC) false assertion that Sen. Barack Obama has proposed "increased taxes -- and that's taxes across the board on the American people without exception." Brokaw did not note that Obama has proposed raising taxes only on households earning more than $250,000, while also calling for tax cuts for low- and middle-income families. Nor did he note that McCain's own chief economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, has reportedly said it is inaccurate to say that "Barack Obama raises taxes."
Attacks on Obama's tax plan by the McCain campaign have been criticized when scrutinized for accuracy. For example, PolitiFact.com found that an ad released in early August claiming that Obama "promises more taxes on small business, seniors, your life savings, your family" was "a distortion of Obama's proposals" because "Obama does not promise those things; in fact, he promises more taxes for taxpayers with the highest incomes." Additionally, FactCheck.org found a pattern of deceptive and misleading ads about Obama's tax plan by the McCain campaign. In an August 31 editorial headlined "Continuing Deception: Mr. McCain's ads on taxes are just plain false," The Washington Post wrote:
THERE IS a serious debate to be had in this presidential campaign about the fundamentally different tax policies of Barack Obama and John McCain. Then there is the phony, misleading and at times outright dishonest debate that the McCain campaign has been waging -- most recently with a television ad.
The two candidates have very different positions on taxes. Mr. Obama wants to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and cut them substantially for low- and middle-income taxpayers. He would cut taxes for more households, and by a larger amount, than Mr. McCain, who would give the greatest benefits to wealthy households and corporations.
These are disagreements rooted in divergent views about the role of tax policy: the importance of reducing inequality versus the importance of encouraging investment. Mr. Obama has the wiser and more fiscally responsible of the plans, on balance, but this is by no means a one-sided debate between evil, tycoon-hugging Republicans and good-hearted Democrats. Higher taxes do have consequences for the behavior of both individuals and corporations. Listening to the candidates debate and defend their actual plans would be a useful exercise.
Instead, the McCain campaign insists on completely misrepresenting Mr. Obama's plan.
From the 4 p.m. ET hour of the September 2 edition of MSNBC Live:
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Notice is hereby given that the Indians and the dependent members of their immediate families named below are no longer entitled to any of the services performed by the United States for Indians because of their status as Indians; that all statutes of the United States which affect Indians because of their status as Indians shall be inapplicable to them, and the laws of the several States shall apply to them in the same manner as they apply to other citizens within their jurisidction. Title to the land on the Cloverdale Rancheria has passed from the U.S. Government under the distribution plan approved August 13, 1959, for the rancheria.
Cloverdale Rancheria, described as follows: All these certain lots, pieces or parcels of land, situate, lying and being in the township of Cloverdale, county of Sonoma, State of California, and bounded and particularly described as follows; to wit: Beginning at a point in the center of the main public road leading from Cloverdale to Healdsburg and at the northwesterly corner of the land formerly owned by Louis Bee, which is an iron pipe two (2) inches in diameter, two (2) feet long, driven below the surface of the ground, from which a fir tree five (5) feet in diameter marked "R.M.," and known as station 8 on the Musalacon Grant line bears south 47° W., 39.38 chains distant; thence N. 47°40' E., along the northerly line of the land formerly owned by Louis Bee, 49.25 chains; thence north 59°15'W., 6.07 ½ chains to the southerly line of the land of Helena M. Woolsey, thence S. 47°28 W., along the southerly line of the land of Helena M. Woolsey, 46.68 chains to the center line of the hereinbefore mentioned public road; thence S. 34°15'E., along the center line of said road 5.71 chains to the place of beginning, containing 27.50 acres.
This notice is issued pursuant to the Act of August 18, 1958 (72 Stat. 619), amended August 11, 1964 (78 Stat. 390), including the provisions in the 1964 Act that this notice affects only those Indians who are not members of any other tribe or band of Indians, and that all restrictions and tax exemptions applicable to trust or restricted lands or interests therein owned by the Indians who are affected by this notice are terminated.
This notice becomes effective as of the date of publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER.
Secretary of the Interior.


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New Jersey Symphony Presents Tchaikovsky and Sibelius Works Inspired by THE TEMPEST, 1/25-27
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Jacques Lacombe present a Winter Festival program featuring Tchaikovsky and Sibelius works inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest. The Orchestra augments Sibelius' music with performances by actors from The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. The program also includes Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral."
"There are quite a few scores [that draw inspiration from] Shakespeare's The Tempest," Lacombe says. "To perform Sibelius' music written to accompany the play with live performances by actors is an interesting combination-it is a chance to tell the story with both music and text. I find that, with its rhythms and phrasing patterns, there is a music in the way Shakespeare's text has to be delivered. To collaborate with a company like The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey brings something special to the Winter Festival."
Performances take place on Friday, January 25, (8 p.m.) at the Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, Saturday, January 26, (8 p.m.) at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark and Sunday, January 27, (3 p.m.) at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown. A Classical Conversation begins one hour before the January 25 performance in Princeton. A panel discussion, "Taking It All In: Critical Issues Surrounding Air Quality," moderated by Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation President & CEO Christopher Daggett begins one hour before the January 26 and 27 performances in Newark and Morristown, respectively. The Newark performance will also feature an Information Fair & Artisan Marketplace; artisans and environmental organizations will host displays in the Prudential Hall lobby before the concert and during intermission.
Winter Festival partnering organizations include The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Liberty Science Center, Newark Museum and New Jersey Sierra Club. Liberty Science Center and the Newark Museum have crafted special offers for Winter Festival ticketholders. For more information on the Winter Festival and related events, visit www.njsymphony.org/air.
Tickets start at $20 and are available for purchase online at www.njsymphony.org or by phone at 1.800.ALLEGRO (255.3476).
Friday, January 25 at 8 p.m. | Richardson Auditorium in Princeton
Saturday, January 26 at 8 p.m. | NJPAC in Newark
Sunday, January 27 at 3 p.m. | Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown
Jacques Lacombe, conductor
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
Bonnie J. Monte, artistic director
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY The Tempest Fantasy-Overture
SIBELIUS The Tempest
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral"
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Classical Conversation
Friday, January 25 at 7 p.m. | Richardson Auditorium in Princeton
NJSO Director of Artistic Planning Roger Wight discusses the concert program with a special guest.
Taking It All In: Critical Issues Surrounding Air Quality
Saturday, January 26 at 7 p.m. | NJPAC in Newark
Sunday, January 27 at 2 p.m. | Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown
Moderated by Christopher Daggett, President & CEO, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Join us for this revealing discussion about the quality of the air we breathe-both indoors and outdoors. Find out about the many ways in which we all can contribute to cleaner air.
Information Fair & Artisan Marketplace
Saturday, January 26 at 7 p.m. | NJPAC in Newark
Artisans and environmental organizations will host displays in the lobby before the concert and during intermission.
Jacques Lacombe, conductor
NJSO Music Director Jacques Lacombe is renowned as a remarkable conductor whose artistic integrity and rapport with orchestras have propelled him to international stature.
Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal from 2002 to 2006, he led the orchestra in more than 100 performances. He served for three years as Music Director of both orchestra and opera with the Philharmonie de Lorraine in France; he has been Music Director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières since 2006.
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Fordham Law Receives Leadership Gift from Family of Geraldine Ferraro '60February 15, 2012
Fordham Law is pleased to announce that it has received a leadership gift from John Zaccaro, Sr., and his children in memory of his late wife, the Honorable Geraldine Ferraro '60. The gift will support the Fordham University School of Law & Undergraduate Residence Hall currently under construction on Fordham's Lincoln Center campus and is set to open in
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Fordham Law will name the ninth floor of the new building, which will house the clinical education suites, for Ferraro—a tribute to the legal career she spent fighting for victims of inequality and abuse following her graduation from Fordham Law in 1960. The Geraldine A. Ferraro Clinical Education Center will provide ample space for clinic students to meet with real clients—most otherwise unable to afford legal representation. The suites will feature state-of-the-art video technology and secure storage for confidential files.
"It is doubly generous that John Zaccaro makes this very welcome gift in the name of Congresswoman Ferraro," said Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham. "Not only will the gift ensure that we can produce better educated law alumni, but John Zaccaro and the rest of the congresswoman's family do us a great honor by allowing us to link her name and reputation to Fordham Law, setting a worthy example for future generations of law students."
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"My mother's Fordham experience helped shape her life and her professional career," said Ferraro's son, John Zaccaro, Jr. "A role in Fordham's clinical Education Center gives her, in eternity, a role in representing the underprivileged as well the ability to impact the lives of future leaders. I think that's what my mother would have loved."
Making the clinical suite's new name even more appropriate is the fact that Fordham Law School runs a Prosecution Clinic in the Queens D.A.'s office, where Ferraro established and headed the Special Victims Unit that prosecutes sex crimes, child abuse and crimes against the elderly.
Following her work with the Queens D.A., Ferraro served three-terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1984, presidential candidate Walter Mondale selected her to be his running mate, making her the first female vice presidential candidate on a major-party ticket. She subsequently served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and pursued a long career as an author and businesswoman. She died on March 26, 2011, from multiple myeloma.
"Geraldine Ferraro was one of the most distinguished alumni of Fordham Law and a stalwart supporter of the school throughout her entire life," said Michael M. Martin, Dean of Fordham Law School. "The Fordham Law community is profoundly grateful to her family for honoring her memory with this generous gift to the new law school building. We believe, as Geraldine did, that clinics are an integral part of a complete legal education, and this gift will enhance the clinical experience for generations of Fordham Law students to come."
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Mar 11, 2011 Line 6 Tips & Tricks
By Jim Dalrymple When Avid released Pro Tools® 9, one of the biggest developments was support for third-party USB audio interfaces. For Line 6 users, this means we can finally take full advantage of all the amazing hardware and software features of our POD Studio™ interfaces and use them in the Pro Tools platform. Here […]
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From Decayed Parchment to 'Bit Rot' — Challenges in Digitizing Archimedes
Michael Toth
Archimedes Palimpsest Program Manager
and Doug Emery
Archimedes Palimpsest Data Manager
January 22 , 2009
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The Archimedes Palimpsest, written in Constantinople in the 10th century, contains seven of the Greek mathematician's treatises. It is the only surviving copy of On Floating Bodies in the original Greek and the unique source for the Method of Mechanical Theorems and Stomachion. In the 13th century, the manuscript was taken apart, the Archimedes text scraped off, and the parchment reused. In 1906, the undertext was recognized as containing previously unknown works by Archimedes. Since 1999, intense efforts have been made to retrieve the original text using advanced imaging techniques.
On October 29, 2008 all images and data from the Archimedes Palimpsest were released to the public. Archimedes Palimpsest Program Manager Michael Toth, and Data Manager Doug Emery discussed the use of digital multi- and hyperspectral imaging, metadata, and data encoding and access to provide standardized data as effective tools for scientists, researchers, preservation experts and information managers. They also discussed how the program sought to address the "bit rot" problem in ensuring the digital data will be available in useful form for years to come. This includes application of input and feedback from conservators, preservation specialists, scientists, IT professionals, NASA, and data encoding specialists. This approach to data management and associated issues addresses the challenges faced by libraries, archives and museums in the current IT environment.
This presentation discussed the full scope of requirements addressed in applying advanced spectral imaging techniques to this program. This included integration of the imaging system and data acquisition process to collect high-resolution spectral images for advanced data processing, research and scientific studies. It included details on the collection and management of the data, and the encoding of the metadata in a standardized format. The data is freely available under a Creative Commons license for the development of GUI's and applications linking the spatially aligned images and transcriptions.
About the Speakers:
Michael B. Toth, R.B. Toth Associates, has been the Program Manager and Systems Integrator for the Archimedes Palimpsest Program since 1999, with a range of experience in other cultural preservation and US Government technical programs. He provides management, systems integration and strategic planning for the study, preservation and display of cultural objects for museums and libraries.
Doug Emery, Emery IT, is the Data Manager responsible for the image metadata collection, data storage and distribution for the Archimedes Palimpsest and other projects. His educational background is in ancient cultures and languages, but for the past several years he has worked as a programmer and database administrator in academics and private industry. Doug brings professional expertise in data management, as well as an understanding of the issues involved in working with ancient manuscripts as a freelance computer consultant.


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By Joseph B. Treaster, Editor, OneWater.org
MIAMI—Cholera is working its way through Haiti. It is killing people and terrifying everyone. Medical help and money has been pouring in – not enough money, the United Nations says, but a lot of money, a lot more money than has been flowing for a much worse health problem.
In the first six weeks of the cholera outbreak in Haiti, more than 2,000 people died. During the same time, many more people in poor countries around the world died from the other health problem, an estimated 210,000. But hardly anyone noticed.
"This is a silent killer," said David Winder, an international aid executive in Washington who has been dealing with public health for decades.
Cholera and the bigger problem are cousins. Both are forms of diarrhea. But the more common, forms of diarrhea are far more widespread and far more deadly. Cholera kills about 120,000 people a year; the more common forms of diarrhea kill 15 times more people, about 1.8 million a year, 5,000 a day. Hard to believe when you live in the United States or Europe; but in poor countries diarrhea is a persistent killer.
Cholera gets the headlines for good reason. It can kill in hours rather than days as with other kinds of diarrhea. "It's very dramatic," said Dr. Gordon M. Dickinson, a University of Miami specialist on infectious diseases at the Veterans Hospital in Miami. People become dehydrated, go into shock and die. The other forms of diarrhea kill the same way. But there is more time to react.
Children are the main victims. More of them die of severe diarrhea than from HIV/AIDS, malaria and measles all together. Yet the problem has not captured the imagination.
"People think of diarrhea as a temporary illness associated with something like bad food," said Brenda McIlwraith, a spokeswoman for WaterAid, a non-profit organization in London, working to reduce diarrhea around the world.
Very little progress is being made. In Haiti, "diarrhea is here all the time," said Christian Lindmeier, a spokesman for the World Health Organization in Port-au-Prince. In the first wave of cholera deaths, he said by telephone, people thought "it was just another diarrhea" and they did not seek treatment.
Cholera and the other forms of diarrhea are preventable. "We know how to deal with these diseases," said Dr. Claire-Lise Chaignat, the head of the World Health Organization's Global Task Force on Cholera Control in Geneva. The bacteria, parasites and viruses that cause the diseases travel in drinking water. They get into the water and, sometimes, food, along with human waste, as sewage and on dirty hands. All that needs to be done to fix the problem is to provide clean drinking water, basic toilets and some tips on hygiene.
But the scale of the problem is staggering. About 1 billion people do not have clean drinking water, the United Nations estimates, and 2.6 billion, nearly 40 percent of the world's 7 billion people, don't have toilets.
It could take $50 billion dollars to put a big dent in the problem. No one is sure. But right now, Mr. Winder, the head of WaterAid in America, says spending "is far below what's needed."
The United Nations anticipates spending $164 million to tamp down a cholera epidemic that may sicken as many as 400,000 Haitians. Only about 20 percent of the money had been raised as the epidemic settled in. But it is a real spending target. And that is a lot of money in proportion to total spending in Haiti on public health.
Spending that kind of money in advance in Haiti on clean water and toilets would have saved lives. It would have made it harder for cholera to get going. It would have been the right thing to do economically, too. Half the hospital beds in the poor countries are filled with patients with severe diarrhea. That is a daily recurring cost. Improving sanitation would reduce those costs. It would also reduce days lost at work and from school.
Doctors and engineers may know how to solve the diarrhea problem, but every day there is evidence that it is not easy. Hundreds of aid agencies are working on it, but the work is piecemeal and sometimes counter-productive. In some places, Dr. Chaignat said, the people responsible for health and water "rarely talk to each other. The health sector doesn't understand the water sector and vice versa."
So the plague of diarrheal diseases grinds on. The people suffering most have no political clout. They are poor and they die quietly. Sometimes they make it to hospitals. But often they die in huts and shacks and out-of-the way places. One at a time. You don't hear about it.
Joseph B. Treaster is the editor of OneWater.org, the environmental magazine of the University of Miami on the Internet. He is a former reporter and foreign correspondent for The New York Times and the author of three books including, Hurricane Force: In the Path of America's Most Deadly Storms. Mr. Treaster holds the endowed Knight Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication at the University of Miami's School of Communication and at its Knight Center for International Media.
Twitter: @JosephBTreaster
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GSA's Budget Reflects Emphasis on Managing for Results(Attached is GSA FY 2003 Budget Overview )
February 5, 2002
Contact: Bill Bearden (202) 501-1030
WASHINGTON, D.C.� President Bush's Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 budget request for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) includes $260 million in direct-funded operating appropriations and obligation authority of $18.9 billion, to provide procurement and property management services to Federal agencies.
"The President's budget request for GSA represents an important step toward enabling the agency to achieve his goal of significantly improving government performance by being customer-centric, efficient and results-oriented," said GSA Administrator Stephen A. Perry.
For example, the budget supports GSA's initiative to improve real and personal property asset management practices. This initiative was also supported by the president's "Freedom-to-Manage" legislative package, which proposed changes to the 50-year-old Property Administrative Services Act to allow agencies such as GSA to use modern property management practices.
The budget also supports GSA's initiative to address the large backlog of deferred maintenance, repairs and alterations to GSA-managed Federal buildings. GSA manages 8,300 government-owned and leased buildings, which house more than 1 million Federal workers in 1,600 U.S. communities. Many of the 1,600 government-owned buildings are in need of repair and alterations work. The 2003 budget includes $986 million to address many of the needed repairs and alterations, thereby providing a safe and healthy work environment. This initiative is consistent with GSA's mission, "To help Federal agencies better serve the public by offering, at best value, superior workplaces, expert solutions, acquisition services and management policies."
The budget includes $557 million for new construction. This enables continuation of the Federal courthouse construction program and border stations, which are part of Homeland Security efforts.
To make it easier for citizens and businesses to obtain information and do business with the government, GSA's budget request includes $45 million to fund governmentwide electronic government (E-Gov) initiatives and $10 million to fund a new Office of Citizen Services.
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Alexei Zhitnik has a twin named Dimitri who, for all I know, is bumping around the Ukraine parlaying his brother's fame into discounted shovel service. If you're looking for Zhitnik's twin on the National Hockey League ice, look closely at ex-Panther Dmitry Yushkevich, who was traded Wednesday to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for forward Jaroslav Bednar and defenseman Andreas Lilja.
Archives for November 2002
Yushkevich deal may set the bar if Sabres trade Zhitnik
Biron hopes to own Pens for a change
'Biron's record versus the Penguins is 1-8-1 with a 3.74 goals-against average.'
Lengthy injured list at least isn't growing
'Barry Williams (Greg Brady from "The Brady Bunch") will sing the national anthem and be joined throughout the game by Chris Knight (Peter Brady) and Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady) for in-game promotions. Music from the disco decade will be played during breaks in the action. Right on!'
Sabres vs. Penguins
'C Mario Lemieux has three goals and 12 assists in his past six games.'
Penguins-Sabres scouting report
'The Sabres opened the season with back-to-back wins with a combined score of 11-2. They've won only two games since.'
NHL coach in exile
"In Buffalo, he thought he was bigger than anyone in the organization," a current NHL GM says. "Bigger than the GM, bigger than his star player, Dominik Hasek. "That's what he's done everywhere he's been. He ruined his reputation. Nobody trusts him because of his track record. At least 20 GMs, including myself, would never consider hiring him, because they don't trust him."' (Submitted by: obz)
Global goalies
'"I feel that Marty is at a higher level right now at his age than the norm. And he's maintaining that higher level."'
Be thankful n at least two Sabres have heart
Off the bench and down the hallway to the lockerroom, here come the Buffalo Sabres, a 1-0 lead on the board and the fans for once actually cheering after 40 minutes. Over the railing above the walkway spill four arms covered to practically their fingertips in the bright red sleeves of their oversized third jerseys. Arms swing, hands wave, fingers wiggle, anything to get the attention of the players below. The Sabres' helmets are only three feet away, but it might as well be three miles.
Lightning makes its own luck against Sabres
'The Tampa Bay Lightning spent three days in Atlantic City, N.J., before it arrived in Buffalo. Then the Lightning sat its All-World goalie to start a backup who hadn't won a game in three years and had been activated off injured reserve Saturday. But the Buffalo Sabres still couldn't win.'
Bolts, Sabres Deadlock
'Tampa Bay continues to find ways to earn points on the road.'
Modin Returns, Is Eager To Play
'"Confidence is always a big thing and in my case it has certainly helped this year,'' Gratton said. "Last year I was kind of caught up in a numbers game with all the centers we had, so I was placed into a different role. This year I feel like I have got off to a good start, and hopefully it will continue.'''
Lightning laments lost opportunities
'The Lightning snapped a six-game losing streak at Buffalo dating to 1999 and, by earning one point for the tie, held onto first place in the Southeast. Tampa Bay tied it on a goal by Fredrik Modin, marking the eighth point it has earned when trailing after two periods and the 10th time it has rallied to earn points this season.'
Holzinger remains patient
'"It's exciting to play," said Holzinger, a 5-foot-11, 185-pound native of Parma, Ohio. "When you're hurt, you're excluded from the team a little bit, and it was tough to be on the outside looking in. I wanted to try to get back as soon as possible and be a part of the success."'
Lightning 1, Sabres 1
'In only his second start of the season, Hodson stopped 22 shots to record his first standings point in more than three years, allowing the Lightning to rally for a 1-1 tie against the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday.'
Tampa Bay 1, Buffalo 1 (ot)
'"We would have loved to have two points," Ruff added. "It's baby steps for us. … In our situation now, we're only happy if we win."'


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I am using example two of the Sliderman JS module found hereSliderman.js - Examples - JavaScript Image Slider Library - Created by Devtrix
I have set this up to work in my aspx page and I am having issues in IE7&8, however, when I test in an HTML page it works fine. My IE debuggers is showing a JS error in the aspx page only.
Can someone please lead in the right direction as to why the same code is rendered differently between these two files? Shouldn't they both work exactly the same?
Here is my aspx page (JS error in IE)AffinityHotels aspx
Here is the same code (minus the UI) in an HTML page (no JS error in IE)Sliderman.js - Examples - Created by Devtrix.net
Thanks for any feedback. This is a weird one.
IE9 shows no error. Hang on, check advanced settings are to display notifications about script errors - nope, no problem there.
Testing in IE8 mode, and there's the problem. Line 170 of the code.
function slideContainer(slidesContainer, display){
container = newElement('div', {width: display.width, height: display.height, position: 'absolute', top: 0, left: 0, overflow: 'hidden'});
return container;
Testing shows that the newElement() function has no trouble there, and the error occurs on that line, so it has to be the assignment. Why could that be?
Could it be that the container variable should not reach out beyond the function to make changes to a similar variable at a different scope?
var container = slideContainer(parameters.container, display);
There are a lot of different container variables at different scopes, so it seems that one is trying to clobber the other.Let's ensure that the container variable in the slideContainer remains in there:
function slideContainer(slidesContainer, display){
var container = ...
It seems to work after that update.
This seems to be a genuine bug in the script, which we're now fixed.
Hello paul_wilkins, I can not thank you enough for taking time to look at this problem. Your suggestion worked perfectly. Thanks!!
You're welcome. I've notified the author about the bug, and pointed him here to this thread, so hopefully a fix will be in the works at some stage.
Good news - the plugin has now updated to 1.3.6 with the fix, so future downloads of it will be safe from having this same problem occurring.
Nice. Thanks!