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TUBE expo exhibitors agree that signs bode well for the coming year
Slight tailwinds, smooth sailing in 2014
It's no secret that Düsseldorf's biennial tube and pipe expo, TUBE®, is a good way to gauge the industry's health. The expo is 3 percent larger in 2014 than it was in 2012, and the exhibitors interviewed for this article expect good things from the industry in the coming year. These in-depth perspectives also revealed that upheaval in the U.S. energy industry is leading to changes that will have repercussions for decades.
Because tube and pipe are used in myriad applications, it's not an exaggeration to say that size of the biennial TUBE® expo in Düsseldorf, Germany, reflects the state of industry throughout the world. Construction equipment, agricultural equipment, retail goods, commercial products, automobiles, nonresidential construction, and energy rely on tube and pipe, and so do countless others. Tube and pipe know no barriers—the production and consumption of these products provides an industrial barometer in both advanced and emerging economies throughout the world.
Several expo exhibitors interviewed for this article agreed that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, 2014 is shaping up to be a good, solid year for the tube and pipe industry.
A View From Germany
As of January, the expo organizer, Messe Düsseldorf, was expecting more than 2,000 exhibitors to reserve 1.1 million sq. ft. of space at TUBE 2014 and the concurrent wire® 2014. In 2012, 1,200 TUBE exhibitors reserved 522,049 sq. ft. of booth space; by January 2014, a similar number had reserved 538,200 sq. ft. The growth reflects confidence in not only Germany or the whole of Europe, but worldwide. Most of the exhibitors are from Europe, but the U.S., India, Taiwan, and China have substantial booth presence. The visitor makeup also has a strong international component; while many are from Europe, 55 percent are from outside the continent, notably the U.S., Brazil, India, and China, according to information furnished by the organizer.
Ike Tripp, president and CEO of Etna Products Inc., Chagrin Falls, Ohio, observed that the countries linked together by the euro currency face better prospects now than they did in the last couple of years. Tripp maintains close ties to the continent by developing lubricants that comply with strict European regulations and marketing them through a European partner, Etna-Bechem Lubricants Ltd., Hagen, Germany.
"Europeans were worried about the future of the euro, but it seems that they have most of the issues worked out, and Europe is on the mend," he said, referring to the sovereign debt crisis on the other side of the Atlantic, which followed on the heels of the subprime mortgage crisis on this side. Some analysts thought that the euro currency was in jeopardy, but judging by its value, it's a healthy currency once again. Before the crises in the middle of 2008, the euro was valued at $1.60. As the crisis unfolded, the currency lost value quickly, falling to approximately $1.25 by December 2008. It gained and fell twice more, once to less than $1.20, but it has gained strength since July 2012 and, as of press time (early February), had climbed to $1.37.
In an interview conducted in November, Friedrich-Georg Kehrer, the director of the tradeshows, cited steel industry data that also predicts better times ahead. The Steel Trade Association predicts growth of 3 percent in 2014; the German Metals Trade Association expects production to be similar to that of 2012; and aluminum manufacturers expect the trend toward lighter-weight aircraft and automobiles to continue to help their industry, Kehrer said.
Recent business predictions also point to a strong 2014. Ifo Institute, which publishes a monthly business survey, found that current business conditions in Germany in December weren't great, but it predicted a solid first half for 2014. Low inventories, future price increases, and staff expansions were common themes in manufacturing sectors as varied as capital goods, consumer goods, vehicle manufacturing, and finished goods.
The latest World Economic Outlook, published in October 2013, indicated that core European economies were recovering, predicting 1.4 percent growth for Germany and 1.0 percent for France in 2014. The southern periphery countries are expected to grow, but not as quickly. The forecasts for Italy and Spain are 0.7 percent and 0.2 percent, respectively.
Frank Nachtigall, laser tube cutting equipment product manager for TRUMPF, Ditzingen, Germany, broadly concurred with these assessments.
"Although there are some positive signs, we're still seeing uncertainties in some of our very important markets, such as Spain, Italy, and Germany," Nachtigall said, but this is counterbalanced by several improving markets to the east—Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia—and some on the other side of the Atlantic, specifically the U.S., Canada, and Brazil. Furthermore, the company is expecting to see a change in fortunes within the next few months in Europe, especially Germany, and in important Asian markets, Nachtigall said.
Cautious and Fearful or Bold and Daring?
In the U.S., equipment investment, measured by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, was unpredictable at best in 2013. It grew a paltry 1.6 percent in Q1, a respectable 3.3 percent in Q2, slumped to 0.2 percent in Q3, and came roaring back with 6.9 percent growth in Q4.
Magnetic Analysis Corp. (MAC), Elmsford, N.Y., a manufacturer of eddy current and ultrasonic testing equipment for tube and pipe production, experienced this sort of hot-and-cold activity from one month to the next, said Vice President of Sales Dudley Boden. It wasn't just its domestic customers, but foreign customers, too, regardless of geography or industry.
MAC has many customers in advanced economies, where the markets are mature and most of the business is for replacements or upgrades, and others in emerging economies, where the action is start-up installations. An exception is the U.S., which has provided many new business opportunities in new tube and pipe plants and related to the automotive industry recovery.
In emerging economies, MAC does quite a bit of business in Russia, mainly in oil and gas; in India, where its big segments are automotive and energy (nuclear and oil and gas); and in China, where MAC's biggest markets are similar to those in India, plus aerospace. Despite the diversity of geographic locations and markets, the aggregate behavior in 2013 was enthusiasm followed by caution.
"It seems like every company is waiting for the next day's financial reports," Boden said. "We go through a month where we just can't keep up with quotations or orders or one thing or another, and then a month later, it all dries up. People aren't willing to go full-bore. It's like they're watching the stock market and watching the financial markets, and they're reacting to every day's events. We still have good business overall, but it's hard to forecast one month to the next."
Although MAC's quoting level stabilized as 2013 drew to a close and 2014 opened for business, Boden said it was too soon to call it a trend.
John Hillis, president of tube and pipe mill builder and tooling supplier T&H Lemont, Countryside, Ill., didn't experience up-and-down activity in 2013. It saw six months of down, then six months of up. Hillis surmised that it was rooted in caution about politics more than lack of demand for goods and services.
"We had a great year in 2012, but the first half of 2013 put us back on our heels," he said. "It was great for automotive, but it wasn't good for many other industries. Some of our customers had pent-up demand for expansion and capital investment, and I think many were looking at Washington [D.C.] and asking, 'Where are we going?' They were looking for some leadership."
This caution was justified. Congress' inability to work up a series of specific budget reductions led to wholesale budget cuts, also known as sequestration, which started on March 1. This was followed by the lack of a budget for the 2014 fiscal year, which started Oct. 1. The results were sudden reductions in government spending—reductions felt throughout the manufacturing community—and a shutdown of the federal government that lasted from Oct. 1 to Oct. 16. However, this didn't affect T&H Lemont. By this time, many of its customers had already made their own plans.
"They had projects on the table, and many got to the point where they said, 'We're either going to do this or we're not,' and pressed forward with expansion plans," Hillis said. "I think many of them came to the conclusion that Washington was going to provide no leadership."
When the tide changed, it changed in a hurry, Hillis said.
"Tooling is a leading indicator," he said. "When we see tooling sales start to increase, we expect equipment sales to follow about six months later. Last year [2013] was different. About halfway through the year we started to see increases in tooling sales, and equipment followed about a month later."
Lubricants also serve as a leading indicator for manufacturing activity. Etna's Tripp said that after a lackluster 2013, he's seeing signs that 2014 will be solid, but not spectacular.
"Steady holds the course," he said. "We're capturing some new business from people who are making new products, and they need new lubrication solutions, so we should have a very good year in 2014."
Slow-moving Changes, Fast-moving Implications
In the U.S. and elsewhere, several subtle, slow-moving changes have been working their way through various industries, with far-reaching results.
The Right Capacity. Working in a commodity industry is never easy. The business cycles are rough, to say the least. Rising demand leads to rising prices, which leads to the temptation—or mandate—to add capacity. Inevitably the prices fall, wreaking havoc on the industry, and eventually the cycle starts again.
Hillis observed that at one time, the U.S. steel industry had little spare capacity. At that time price changes were a good leading indicator of manufacturing activity; a surge in demand led to rising prices. These days the price of steel is stable, and if anything, it's declining, Hillis said, which he thinks reflects a larger aggregate steelmaking capacity. Hillis predicts stable steel prices for the foreseeable future, a welcome predictability for steel consumers of all sorts.
Further down the chain, tube and pipe producers are prone to the same boom-and-bust cycle, depending on the industries they serve. The energy market is one of them.
"Our big market has been energy," Hillis said. "About every two years, people in this market worry that the industry has too much capacity. They said it again about 18 months ago. Since then two big players have said they would invest in even more equipment, and nobody is saying anything about capacity. I think this reflects new exploration in new oilfields, mainly tar sands and shale deposits," he said.
Hillis thinks that consolidation among tube and pipe producers over the last few years has made the industry less volatile. Meanwhile, the expansion of oil and gas drilling, especially with the increased use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, has increased the size of the market notably, and the production capacity in the U.S. is probably about right for the size of the market.
Another noteworthy trend is the changing mix of imported to domestic tube and pipe used by U.S. energy companies. Although the world's production capacity has been growing in recent years, imports are a small part of the U.S. supply lately because of actions taken by the U.S. International Trade Commission.
"We're seeing a huge increase in demand for our products from our global customers, some of whom are building plants in the U.S. in response to anti-dumping rulings," said Susan Conley, product manager of tube and pipe for Quaker Chemical Corp.
Energy Industry Adjustments. Pumping more domestic oil and gas has far-reaching effects. In addition to keeping more energy dollars at home, it also provides oilfield jobs and bolsters demand for all manner of tools, equipment, and supplies, including tube and pipe. Less reliance on foreign sources also enhances price stability.
"Political upheaval and major conflicts around the world won't affect the price of oil like they used to," Hillis said. "The price of oil is stabilized. It's not going to fall by much. It might go down to $98 per barrel, but that's about it." Price stability reduces the risks associated with exploration activity.
However, diesel fuel is another matter. For decades the price for diesel was lower than the price for gasoline, but since 2003 or so, diesel has been more expensive. It's a matter of demand getting ahead of refining capacity.
"We may have hit the mother lode, but delivering the mother lode isn't so easy—it's an infrastructure problem, and it's going to take a while to fulfill," Hillis said. "It would be good for the pipe and tube industry if they can get approval for the pipelines, but it's going to take some time."
The higher price has increased the price of trucking goods from place to place and created some regional opportunities for some tube and pipe manufacturers, Hillis said. The increased cost to transport tube and pipe, even if it added just pennies per pound of freight, redrew some of the territory boundaries for some tube and pipe producers. Hillis also noticed that a new tube and pipe facility near the Bakken deposit might be a good idea, but risky—a sudden drop in the diesel fuel price would undo the proximity advantage.
Meanwhile, the vast U.S. supply of natural gas, unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, is changing the energy market immediately, and it has long-term implications for manufacturing.
In its pure form, natural gas is just methane, or dry gas. However, many natural gas deposits contain wet gas, which contains other hydrocarbons, such as ethane, propane, butane, and pentane. These can be separated and used on their own, or they can be further processed to make other chemicals, which are feedstock for scores of products. The process, colloquially known as cracking, turns ethane into ethylene, which is used in manufacturing plastics. Methane itself can be turned into methanol, a feedstock for making paints, plastics, formaldehyde, acetic acid, MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether, a gasoline additive), and dozens of other common products.
"Cracking is used to make the chemicals that are used in hundreds of products that people use," Tripp said.
A small gas-cracking plant can cost as much as $1 billion, Tripp said. "Shell is planning to build one in Monaca, Pa. It's going to use a lot of pipe, a lot of tube, create a lot of construction jobs, and all the offshoots," he said, referring to additional construction and business activity in the immediate area.
Tripp pointed out that this is another factor changing the balance of power in the energy industry.
"It's a global economy, and with the U.S. having a very big jump on shale gas development, money is coming into the U.S. to build methane-cracking plants here, rather than all that money going to the Middle East," Tripp said. "The U.S. has more economic stability and more political stability than many other energy-rich nations in the world, and these factors drive investment decisions."
Conley cautioned that while the exploration and drilling activities have been moving along quickly, a couple of speed bumps threaten to slow the industry a bit: low prices and environmental concerns.
"The price of natural gas has been depressed for quite a while, which limits exploration, but this market is a huge potential opportunity" she said. According to the Energy Information Administration, in 2013 the average wholesale price for natural gas was $3.73 per million BTU, which was nearly $1 below its long-term average price. Persistently low prices make it difficult for energy companies to earn a return on investment, and dramatic price swings also add uncertainty; since 2008 the wholesale price has varied between $1.82 and $13.31 per million BTU.
Meanwhile, 178 communities in New York alone have instituted either a ban or a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, based on concerns that it can affect groundwater quality.
Although persistently low prices hamper exploration efforts, they might have a long-term benefit to the energy industry. Conley pointed out that they encourage conversion to natural gas wherever practical, creating a larger long-term demand.
Alloy Advancements. All eyes seem to be on the automobile industry, and it's not hard to see why: Automobile production uses plenty of tube, employs plenty of people, and is relatively easy to tally. It's also growing quickly. Worldwide automobile production more than doubled from 2002 to 2012, from 41.4 million units to 84.1 million units.
But it's not enough to count automobiles; it's important to keep an eye on changes in production processes. For example, years ago exhaust systems were made from galvanized steel and didn't last long. In some cases, they lasted less than five years. Key developments in improving exhaust system corrosion resistance were the adoption of stainless steels and laser welding, said Henning Mutschler, industry management, tubes and profiles for TRUMPF Inc. A laser's small spot size makes a small heat-affected zone, resulting in better corrosion characteristics than welds made with conventional gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW, or tungsten inert gas [TIG]).
Many automobile producers in developing countries—notably China—still rely on galvanized steel for exhaust components, but Mutschler thinks the change to stainless steels and laser welding is just a few years away, probably less than five. Mutschler also thinks that, in addition to laser welding equipment, China's domestic exhaust suppliers also will need new mills. The small spot size of a laser welding machine, which is about 1/10th the diameter of a TIG arc, requires a modern, well-maintained mill for minimal gap, edge mismatch, and seam wander and to achieve the necessary stability at the higher speeds that laser welding achieves.
The change in materials isn't solely in automotive; a similar process is at hand in the energy market. Many specialized metals, especially duplex and superduplex alloys, are used in the oil and gas industry. As recently as 2007, the industry was using just five or six ferritic alloys, but these days many more are available, Mutschler said. They are often less expensive and provide better corrosion resistance than the austenitic steels they are replacing, but with one caveat. Like the stainless steels used for exhaust systems, their corrosion resistance benefits from the smallest possible spot size.
Better Times Ahead in 2014
In addition to stable commodity prices and solid predictions for equipment and consumables sales, the PMI™ was showing signs of a strengthening 2014. In December 2013, the PMI was 57 percent and the New Orders Index was 64.2. In addition, Tripp and Hillis both think that Washington will have a little less influence on business in 2014.
"Business in 2013 was held back by a substantial tax increase, but the marketplace has become accustomed to this and has factored this into 2014 budgets," Tripp said. "Also, they passed a budget for the first time in four or five years, so we don't have to worry about that until September," Tripp said. Hillis concurred that the budget passage may have been a turning point.
Quaker's Conley expects the energy industry to continue to propel growth throughout the world, despite some regional disparities.
"Although some regions are getting more of the volume [of orders] simply because of where they are located, we see energy sector business continuing to increase," she said.
The outlook isn't all rosy—Tripp wonders how the Affordable Care Act will play out, and he noted that 40,000 pages of new regulations were added to the Federal Register in 2013—but on balance he is optimistic for 2014 on both sides of the Atlantic.
"The tax increase of 2013 is behind us, so that brought some certainty, and Europe seems to be on the mend," Tripp said. "It's not great, but it's on the mend, but I think these two factors have put a little wind into our sails as we head into 2014."
Facts and Figures
Location: Messe Düsseldorf
Dates: April 7 – 11
Show hours: Mon. -Thurs: 9:00 to 6:00 Fri: 9:00 to 5:00
One-day Ticket: 52 € Five-day Ticket: 92 €
Show directory for wire expo: 30 €
Show directory for Tube expo: 30 €
Show directory bundle: 55 €
Admission tickets include free round-trip transportation on the Rhein-Ruhr regional transport network (VRR).
Show Planner
See www.tube.de and click on Trade Fair Preparation under the Visitor Service tab to prepare a schedule.
*These are on-site prices. See www.tube.de and click on Registration & Tickets under the Visitor Service tab to order etickets and catalogs at lower prices.
Eric Lundin
FMA Communications Inc.
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Running head: BRAIN NETWORKS AND SOCIAL COGNITION i Contribution of Fundamental Brain Networks to Individual Differences in Social Cognition Tong Sheng University of Southern California
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Our biggest UI constraints aren't our tools.
I was just riding with someone whose name shall be withheld to protect the guilty. We were in her new Prius, upgraded from an earlier model. She tried to turn on the air conditioning, (it's mid-October in Phoenix and A/C is still very much a necessity,) but she couldn't get it to work the way she wanted it to.
"Is this broken already?!?" And she angrily pushed a bunch of buttons until it did something close to what she wanted.
In truth, the air conditioning is working just fine. More importantly for this discussion, it works AS DESIGNED.
The problem is, the climate controls in her newer model work differently than the ones from her previous model, and she had no patience to figure out those differences.
This interaction is not an anomaly. Not just as a software developer, but as a user, I've seen people routinely complain about how a piece of software (doesn't) works.
This imposes two distinct sets of constraints on us as software designers.
First, we are constrained by user expectations set by their history of use of the platform and other software on it. In an action dialog box or alert on your platform of choice, is "Cancel" the button on the left or on the right? If you don't know and create such a dialog / alert with it reversed from the norm, or worse yet, you have a personal belief that the usual placement is wrong and intentionally reverse it, you've created a situation that's going to irritate a bunch of your users and cause them to think less of your software. Enough such annoyances and they'll stop using it entirely.
Second, we are constrained by our own interface decisions. Have you figured out a better way to organize your interface for greater productivity? Do you already have a version of your software out in the wild? You might want to reconsider your "new and improved" interface design. Just like my… driving companion, if your existing users expect things to be set up a certain way, and you change it on them, no matter how superior your new design is, your existing users may see it as broken, or at least bothersome. They may not stick around long enough to adapt to your changes.
This leads to one important conclusion.
I've seen others recommend to developers that the most important thing is to get a first, functional version of your app out into the world, and then to refine it later.
I'm going to have to vehemently disagree.
Have you seen the stats on the percentage of users who abandon a mobile app after three sessions or less? They're staggering. You really don't get a second chance to make a (good) first impression. In the world of software, you may not get a second chance to make ANY impression.
So make sure you get the interface right the first time through. Follow conventions. Adhere to standards. Make workflows function in as few clicks / taps as possible. Reign in your desire to "Interface Different".


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Women gathered on the slopes last weekend for the season's first Women's Mountain Biking Camp.
Run through Fernie Alpine Resort, the beginning/intermediate class catered solely to women, teaching them a variety of skills including neutral positioning, bike body separation, braking, climbing, descending and cornering.
Fernie Alpine Resort Instructor Samantha Sedlowsky said her main goal was to ensure the women were having a good time and getting down the hill safely.
"I think it went great," she said. "I think everyone had a good time and learned some things and got more comfortable on the downhill trails."
Although the skill levels among the group of nearly 10 women were diverse, Sedlowsky said the group dynamic was fantastic.
"I think for most women it's just more confidence inspiring to have other women around them, supporting them, knowing they're not being pushed too much," she said. "And having a women instructor as a role model means they can visualize and put themselves in that person's shoes."
The women participating in the camp agreed with Sedlowsky. One woman, who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2008, said developing her skills in a women's camp helped her to regain her confidence in mountain biking.
"The skills and comradery of having a women's only camp was really just amazing," Becky Ragala said. "I think that was one of the big things that really progressed my way of learning mountain biking."
For Sedlowsky, seeing someone progress and incorporate the skills they've learned through the camp into downhill mountain biking is something she can be proud of.
"I really enjoy when someone just does something that they didn't think they could do," she said. "I love mountain biking so much. You forget about everything else that's going on in your life and you just concentrate on having fun and going down the mountain."
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There's more than just a little irony the official Small Business Saturday promotion that encourages people to spend their money with small, independently owned businesses on Nov. 26 rather than only with big box retailers. Irony or no irony, though, the message is still relevant — small businesses are the engine of our economy, particularly in areas such as Western North Carolina. Let's hope consumers remember that truth throughout the entire holiday shopping season, not just on this big kickoff weekend.
Now to the irony. The Small Business Saturday promotion was started by American Express, the huge credit card company that controls almost 25 percent of the credit card market in the U.S. That said, let's give the company kudos for getting on a bandwagon that many of us have been riding on for years.
Whether it's this Saturday, Black Friday or anytime between now and Christmas, dedicate a portion of your holiday shopping to local, independently-owned small businesses. These businesses generated 64 percent of net new jobs over the past 15 years and employ just over half of all private sector employees, according to the Small Business Administration.
When you spend money with these businesses, a higher percentage of those dollars stays in the community. Those business owners and their employees are your friends and neighbors.
During the recent Waynesville election, this issue of local vs. big box was a campaign issue. Some argued that the town's land-use policies inhibit economic development by making it hard for standard big-boxes or chain stores to build. Alderman Leroy Roberson captured my sentiments exactly when interviewed by our newspaper. Here's an excerpt from that story from last month:
"Cracker Barrel is not my main concern. We are getting lots of good restaurants without Cracker Barrel," Roberson said. "I want to create a climate that provides for small business. The big chains can take care of themselves. They have millions of dollars they can invest."
Roberson said it is appropriate to ask chain stores to respect the towns they come in to.
"They should at least try to become a part of the community, in terms of 'OK, this is the appearance you have, how can I fit into this?' Not 'This is the way we do it everywhere else and if you don't like, we are not coming,'" Roberson said.
Roberson's philosophy fits nicely with the argument I feel compelled to make every holiday season. It's the local businesses — whether art galleries, auto parts stores, restaurants, and local and regional retailers — that make our mountain communities such special places to live. Keep that in mind as you make your spending decisions during the holiday season and throughout the year.


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West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has reportedly slammed the 'disrespectful' English Cricket Board (ECB) over sacking of his buddy Kevin Pietersen from the England team.
Gayle said that he was 'disappointed' with the manner Pietersen 'bowed' out of international cricket, as it was 'disrespectful'. According to the Mirror, Gayle also sad that it is sad to see big player, who has made an impact around the world, to "go out like that" and added that for a top player like Pietersen a chance to retire and walk away from the game should be provided regardless of what is happening.
Gayle also said that he would miss him personally as Pietersen is an "easy wicket" for him and is also sure that the fans would miss him too adding that he would try to entertain the fans.
Although, Gayle has reportedly been welcomed back into the Windies squad with open arms, after signing a new central contract for the first time in three years, Pietersen is just a gun for hire.
Gayle, who has had problems with the West Indies Cricket board (WICB) and also had injury problems, said that he is keen to play all the three formats of cricket for West Indies, the report added.


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Boneless round steak | 1 1⁄2 Pound (1 Steak) | |
Whole chicken breast | 12 Ounce, split (1 Piece) | |
Onion | 1 Large | |
Onion | 1 Large, studded with 2 whole cloves | |
Water | 8 Cup (128 tbs) | |
Salt | 1 Tablespoon | |
Freshly ground pepper | 1⁄4 Teaspoon | |
Garlic | 1 Clove (5 gm), crushed | |
Parsley sprigs | 2 | |
Bay leaf | 1 | |
Thyme leaf | 1 Teaspoon | |
Carrots | 4 Large | |
Leeks | 1 Bunch (100 gm) | |
Turnip | 1 Small |
1 Trim all fat from beef; place in a large kettle or stock pot with chicken breast, soup bone and onion; cover with water.
2 Bring slowly to boiling; skim surface until clear; stir in salt and pepper. Tie garlic, parsley, bay leaf and thyme in a piece of cheesecloth; push under liquid; cover kettle; lower heat. Simmer 2 hours, or until beef is almost tender when pierced with a two-tined fork; skim surface of liquid until clear.
3 While broth simmers, pare carrots and cut into 2-inch pieces. Trim leeks and cut into 2-inch pieces; wash well. Pare turnip; cut into 1-inch cubes.
4 Add vegetables to broth; simmer 1 hour, or until meat and vegetables are tender. Remove cheesecloth and soup bone from kettle.
5 Transfer beef, chicken and vegetables to a heated soup tureen with a slotted spoon; keep warm. Allow ail fat in kettle to rise to surface of broth; skim off. Taste and season broth withadditional salt, if needed. Ladle broth into tureen.
6 Present tureen, then remove beef and chicken to a small heated platter; cut into thin slices. Ladle consomme and vegetables into deep soup bowls and pass platter of beef and chicken. A small amount of prepared horse radish can be served with the meat. Cook's Tip: This is a perfect recipe to make ahead and freeze. Divide mixture among 8 freezing-cooking bags (10x8 inches). Close and label bags and freeze, following manufacturer's directions. To serve, place frozen bags into a large saucepan of boiling water. Allow water to return to a boil, then boil 20 minutes. Open bag and pour into a deep soup bowl.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 1806 Calories from Fat 394
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 44 g67.3%
Saturated Fat 15.2 g76.1%
Trans Fat 1.2 g
Cholesterol 612.4 mg204.1%
Sodium 6744.8 mg281%
Total Carbohydrates 109 g36.2%
Dietary Fiber 23 g92.2%
Sugars 46.4 g
Protein 238 g475.9%
Vitamin A 1007.3% Vitamin C 175.8%
Calcium 43.7% Iron 144.8%
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In 2005 engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DoE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled Jaguar, a system that would later be upgraded into a world-beating supercomputer. By 2011 it had grown to a room-size system that used seven megawatts of energy, ran nearly 225,000 processor cores and had a peak performance of 2.3 petaflops, or 2.3 quadrillion calculations per second. Topping Jaguar, albeit necessary to deliver ever more complex modeling of sophisticated energy challenges, would not be easy.
Simply adding more CPUs, or central processing units, to scale Jaguar to 20 petaflops would require enough energy to power 60,000 homes. To best their own record, the Oak Ridge engineers instead turned to video games—or more precisely, to the graphics processors used in Microsoft Xboxes, Nintendo Wiis and other video game systems.
As of Monday Jaguar becomes Titan, a supercomputer that leverages both CPU and GPU (graphics processing unit) accelerators to deliver 10 times the performance of Jaguar with more than five times the power efficiency.
The key to Titan's speed and efficiency is a design that uses more than 18,500 NVIDIA GPUs, along with nearly 300,000 CPU cores, which typically form the foundation of high-performance computers. The GPUs account for about 90 percent of the system's computational performance and enable Titan to remain roughly the same size as Jaguar.
When fully brought up to speed, Titan (a Cray XK7 system) promises to be the world's most powerful open-science supercomputer, even more powerful than the DoE's Sequoia, a 16.3-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q system crowned the world's fastest supercomputer in June. Sequoia differs from Jaguar/Titan, which placed sixth on the list, in that Sequoia is used exclusively by the DoE's National Nuclear Security Administration to monitor U.S. nukes. Titan will be used by a variety of researchers for a variety of projects.
Titan will initially support a handful of key projects at Oak Ridge, including Denovo, simulation software that models the behavior of neutrons in a nuclear power reactor. Oak Ridge's engineers designed Denovo for Jaguar as a way to help extend the lives of the U.S.'s aging nuclear power plants, which provide about a fifth of the country's electricity. Running Denovo, Titan will take 13 hours to model the complete state of a reactor core at a specified point in time, a job that took Jaguar 60 hours to perform.
"The ability to burn nuclear fuel uniformly is very much dependent on knowing and being able to predict the distribution of neutrons in the core," says Tom Evans, a computational scientist at Oak Ridge's Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL), which created Denovo. Titan will enable much more precise simulations.
Titan calculations will also be used to provide nanoscale analysis of materials used to build electric motors and generators as well as model the burning of a variety of fuels in internal combustion engines. Still another application will simulate long-term global climate. A sizable amount of Titan's capacity in the coming year will be devoted to the DoE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment program (INCITE), which invites academia, government researchers and industry to apply for access to the supercomputer for their various projects.
The performance comes at a price, however. Because Jaguar used only CPUs, its computer architecture was simpler, which in turn made it easier to write its software. "The algorithmic complexity to write that code for a machine like Titan is momentous," Evans says. "For us, first and foremost is getting the CPUs and GPUs to work together."
Titan may be cutting edge, but Evans already has a hankering for more computational power. Ideally, Evans and his team want to do complete, high-fidelity 3-D simulations over a full reactor depletion cycle, which requires calculations at many reaction state points—not just a single point in time. Despite its horsepower, even Titan may not be able to achieve this. "We want to push the envelope, but the reality is that Titan's not going to get us there yet," Evans says. The computing resources required to do this are significant, and Evans points out that he and his team don't have Titan all to themselves. It looks like the engineers had better get cracking on Titan's successor.
Out to Crunch: U.S. Energy Department Unleashes Its Titan Supercomputer
When fully operational, Titan will use a combination of computer and graphics processors to surpass the world's fastest supercomputers


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When Good Cops Park Badly
Chinatown residents and business owners fired off another salvo in downtown Manhattan's street parking wars. They held a press conference Wednesday morning to tout a new report by the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives which documents just how bad the abuse of free street parking privileges by police, court officers and other municipal workers has become in lower Manhattan.
On March 29, two TA volunteers were detained and questioned by police for photographs of cars parked on the sidewalk outside the 5th Precinct in Chinatown as part of this survey.
But that didn't deter the rest of the TA team, who managed to document a whopping 115 illegally parked cars blocking sidewalks, crosswalks, and fire hydrants between 9 and 10 o'clock that morning, in a five-block area bounded by Canal Street, the Brooklyn Bridge, Centre Street, and the Bowery.
More than 90 percent of the illegally parked cars had city-issued placards that permit free street parking for police and government employees when on "official business." But those placards aren't supposed to be all-day passes for city workers who simply commute to work and back, and they don't give anyone the right block sidewalks, hydrants, or crosswalks. (The rules are clearly spelled out on the back of this NYPD-issued placard obtained by the Voice.)
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According to Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, most of the scofflaw cars they spotted belonged to cops. "We cut back on the close-ups of the actual placards and license plates," says White, when asked how volunteers managed to keep photographing offending vehicles without running into further hassles from police. "Clearly it's a situation of selective enforcement when the NYPD is turning a blind eye to the worst sorts of illegal parking, like blocking sidewalks and hydrants. The very people supposed to uphold the laws are the worst offenders."
As if to underscore his point, he pointed to a white coupe (pictured below, courtesy of Transportation Alternatives) with a NYPD placard on the dash that was parked on the sidewalk on the corner of Mulberry and Mosco streets, and partly blocking the crosswalk.
Similar photos are included in TA's report, many of them shot by Chinatown business owners and residents, whose fight against illegal street parking has made them sidewalk vigilantes. They've even made a short film, Clogged Arteries, in partnership with Community Board 3.
It's tempting to ask, what's the big deal? New York City cops are underpaid, and the streets are so tight in Chinatown. Where are the blues supposed to go?
Both NYPD and court officials concede their members bend the rules--in part, they say, because there's increased demand for parking due to stepped up security details downtown after 9-11. But Chinatown residents say the excess street parking has created a cascade of problems in their neighborhood, from fire trucks and ambulances that can't get through, to the all the delivery trucks doubleparking to drop off goods and pedestrians forced to dart into traffic. Outside the Church of Transfiguration on Mott Street, pallbearers often carry coffins over doubleparked cars because the crosswalks are blocked.
Meanwhile restaurant and store owners say the parking squeeze is choking off the local economy by driving away customers. Over the last two years, 32 businesses have closed shop in Chinatown, which suffered greatly from the street closures following 9-11, when only cars with permits were allowed south of Canal Street.
"Chinatown became their parking lot after 9-11, and since then they've never left," complains Jan Lee, who owns an antiques store on Mott Street. "It's actually gotten worse because people have copied the placards using digital scanners. A lot of them are fake," he charges of all the purported police and court officer cars he finds camped outside his doorstep.
And anyone without a placard, Lee says, gets ticketed.
At the press conference, Lee and others called on the city to investigate the proliferation of forged parking placards, which have been cropping up all over the city. They also want the NYPD and City Hall to crack down on illegal street parking.
But mass transit advocates like White say City Hall should phase out free street parking privileges for municipal employees altogether. "Studies show city workers commute by car at two to three times the rate of other New Yorkers," notes White. "Clearly it's just encouraging a bad habit."
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Skies of Arcadia was my first RPG and still stands as my favorite video game. The age of discovery in a world of continents floating in the sky where you play as a sky pirate in a flying wooden sailing ship... It's just awesome, even though the plot is an RPG cliche storm and the battle system gets broken late in the game, but the concept never gets old and it was an RPG that dared to be lighthearted in the days when true RPGs were angsty, and there was no annoying love triangle subplot. I love that scan and I'm so glad I found a large high-res copy of it~ So yeah. Enjoy having Vyse, Aika, and Fina sailing the skies on your desktop.
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That's not really my name, it's more like a stage name for me. A few friends and I started a band, we don't have a name yet. I tried to play guitar, but I ended up as vocalist, my dream!!~ We kinda suck though, lol. :wink: and I love it when we practice cause when I'm singing, I pretend I'm like a part of DAI, I wish. I'm spread out everywhere, trying to write songs, play guitar, everything!~ When I grow up, I want to go to Japan and be a singer. But I still have a long road ahead of me and I have to learn Japanese. I really love Tomiko's voice (and her lips) so much! I listen to her music as I put my pants on to go to school in the morning. I listen to her when I go to bed. Her voice is the best. 8) If this actually works out, buy my CDs okay? Please!~ I'm working really hard, if anyone wants to read any of my lyrics: [email protected]


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At this time of year, there is nothing better than watching a little Christmas movie on TV. We all know the big name movies, but in addition to those, I like to watch movies on the Hallmark Channel and the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel. I thought I would share one of my favorites each day as we head to Christmas.
Today's movie is A Boyfriend For Christmas.
Have you seen it? What did you think? Let me know in the comments. Also feel free to share your favorite Hallmark movies...and maybe they will be featured next!
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"I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:Follow your spirit; and upon this chargeCry "God for Harry! England and Saint George!""
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"In the long run, the greyhound kills the hare"
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"Fast as the hare runs, the greyhound outruns her, since he catches her"
"The greyhound that starts many hares kills none"
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in the NOVA area Ravens Nest will be on Monday 6/3 at 11pm. i can't believe a ravens telecast over this past winter wouldn't have received high ratings. there has been so much to talk about between winning the S[B], losing and retiring players, new player and coach acquisitions and the draft.
the lack of media coverage of teh discussion topics above was a lost opportunity to grow and enhance the ravns fan base. i don't get why bisciotti doens't get this being a successful business man.


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Atlanta-area teen abducted during home invasion
Updated 7:12 pm, Tuesday, September 17, 2013
JONESBORO, Ga. — Robbers broke into a home near Atlanta early Tuesday, demanding jewelry and money, and when they were told there was none of either in the house, abducted a 14-year-old girl and shot and killed the family dog, police said.
Police were stopping cars and checking them during an all-out search for Ayvani Hope Perez. The two men pried open a back door of the home in the Ellenwood area around 2:15 a.m., demanding the items, said Clayton County police Officer Phong Nguyen.
The girl was last seen being taken from the home in a gray Dodge, police said.
The home invasion was apparently random, Nguyen said told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"It didn't appear that they knew each other," he said of the suspects and victims. "They just moved in about a month ago."
Police late Tuesday morning released sketches of the two suspects. By Tuesday afternoon, the FBI joined in the search for Perez.
The crime happened on a cul-de-sac in Ellenwood, a small community about 10 miles southeast of Atlanta, police said. The neighborhood is on the northern edge of Clayton County, just south of the DeKalb County line.
"I'm so terrified," 16-year-old Breyana Walker, who lives just down the street from Ayvani, told the newspaper.
"I feel like I need someone here with me," she said. "It could happen to anybody. I don't know what to do."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Tuesday that there's a $10,000 ransom demand for the girl. And her father, Alberto Perez, of El Paso, rushed to Georgia to be with the family. He and the girl's mother are divorced.


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"Saturday Night Live" for the most part proceeded as usual this week, with Martin Short hosting a mostly festive Christmas episode.
But the show also took a moment to acknowledge the great tragedy in Newtown, Conn., on Friday (Dec. 14) with a solemn opening featuring a the New York City Children's Choir singing "Silent Night."
It was understated, and pretty beautiful, and it struck just the right note before going on with the comedy. Following the cold open — after which the kids got to say "Live from new York …" — and the credits, host Martin Short took the stage with a bawdy monologue and song that featured a host of backstage cameos ranging from "SNL" alums Kristen Wiig, Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey to Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson.
Comedy of course has its place even after a tragic event like Friday's. By noting the very real pain people are feeling, though, "SNL" hit it out of the park with the cold open. Well done, Lorne Michaels and Co.
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I have an unordered list that has been coded with the help of code that came from an old article Chris posted, http://css-tricks.com/centering-list-items-horizontally-slightly-trickier-than-you-might-think/#comments.
The code Chris uses in the artice works well in Safari and Firefox, but I am having trouble using it with IE7. The list does not centre, instead it fixes itself to the lefthand edge of the div it is sitting in.
The link below shows the page (scroll to the bottom of the page to see what I mean). Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can correct this in IE?
Thanks in advance
A side note first, you don't need the div of "navigationBar". There's no point in having it there because the UL can be applied with those same styles. So instead of:
Go with:
As for the problem you're describing, it shows perfectly for me in IE7. In IE6, however you have some problems.
I can see that it's off in IE7 compared to FF3.5, doesn't look terribly bad but I know how annoying inconsistencies are.
If you read on the comments on the article itself there's a lot of discussion about that it doesn't work in IE6/7 and a few people trying out solutions with little success.
I think one of the problems is that IE7 doesn't recognize min-width, I played around a bit with it but I couldn't find a solution for you.
Thanks for the replies.
I am aware of the issues with IE6 (think it's something to do with the container div?, but don't have a version of IE6 to test with).
Thanks for the advice for the navigation div, I have already changed my code to what you recommended, thanks.
The nav in the footer aligns itself left only in IE (maybe IE6 also, but can't test this) IE8 renders it fine, so my question is, could there be a rule in my CSS that IE7 does not like/ignores and can a solution be recommended?
The problem is that display: table technique isn't supported in IE-anything…
That article is pretty old and bad, haha. I think what I would do now is try to set the wrapping UL to "float: left", without setting a set width. A floated element will only grow as large as it needs to in width, then you could center it with margin: 0 auto; I'm not entirely certain that would work cross-browser, but it's a good place to start at least.
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First a caveat: my pc is packed away, ready for moving to a new appartment next week, and I'm on the mac (which I will keep running until the last possible moment :D ), so I haven't seen the footer in ie and none of this is tested in ie.
Just from reading what you posted and the comments in the link you gave, I think your problem is coming from this rule in pageContent.css
The obvious solution is to add float:none; to ul#horizontal-list li in pageLayout.css. But of course that messes a few other things up, so after a bit of jiggery pokery this is what I came up with:
ul#horizontal-list li {
padding:0 3px;
Now that's not pixel perfect with what you now have in firefox, but if it solves the centering problem in ie then it's close enough for an ie specific stylesheet.
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Yes but then I would have to buy a copy of windows, and consequently subsidise microsoft :x . This way I have an old 2nd hand laptop, which didn't cost much more than a windows license, with just enough space on it to run xp, ie6, 7 and 8 for testing purposes, and a 30gb partition to play with ubuntu :D .
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Historical Development of Physical Education
Many students who are studying to teach physical education may be interested in undertaking courses in the historical development of Physical Education. A study of these programs will help students understand how certain techniques of teaching, and skills, have come about and are vital in this field.
Physical Education goes back to Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece, but has now become an integral subject in schools around the nation. Initially most physical education was linked with military training. For instance, developing upper body strength was seen as vital to throwing a javelin or for sword fighting. As in some communities, such as the Ancient Greeks, military service was compulsory and the numbers of men undertaking such regimens was vast. Since physical education was linked to military service, the number of women taking up this pursuit was relatively low in comparison to men.
In the U.S., schools and colleges were initially set up so as to concentrate on academic teaching and achievements. In achieving this, physical education as mainly disregarded. However, a professor at Harvard recognized the need to exercise and helped push through policies where physical education became a formal subject in schools.
It is commonly argued in the US, whether the emphasis should be on being physically fit through the various sports on offer, or just straight forward exercise. The former is extremely popular and many exercise programs have been created to help promote fitness in certain age groups and for people with different interests.
There was a general decline in the number of students willing to undertake physical education in the late 20th Century. This was because in some cases funding was drastically reduced to many state schools and colleges. Also, there was a shift in priorities and students' parents preferred that their children focused more on academic subjects.
These days, with an increasing number of children across the US suffering from obesity and other related health problems, there is growing demand for physical education in the society in general and schools in particular. Therefore, the demand for physical education specialists is also increasing as is reflected in the Federal Government policy.
Related Programs
- A.T. Still University of Health Sciences
Master of Science in Human Movement (M.S.)
- Boston University
Transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy


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Wonderful Monday morning!
I woke up to a sunshine & my spirits are up …… I have a feeling today will be a wonderful day ….. especially since today is the first day of the Spring Break for my kiddos.
Last week I spent 3 days in Vancouver on a career trip with Little Peanut ….. right after we left Hormone Boy got sick ….. no matter how old they get …. they need their mommy when sick.
I felt so bad I couldn't be home to take care of him so last night I had to make it up to him …. I cooked his favorite Sunday Supper …. SPAGHETTI WITH MEAT SAUCE & BAKED ITALIAN MEATBALLS.
I don't usually make the MEAT SAUCE …. that is my husband's job the Italian in the family , but since he won't be home for another couple weeks I had to do my version of MEAT SAUCE with the help of Hunt's Tomato Products (always in my pantry).
However …. I am the MEATBALL maker & I have been told my BAKED ITALIAN MEATBALLS are to die for …..
So yesterday I made a big pot of SPAGHETTI MEAT SAUCE …… baked huge tray of ITALIAN MEATBALLS …. cooked box of Barilla ( the only pasta I use) SPAGHETTI ….
…. Sunday Supper was on ….. mother's guilt was gone …. smile on my boy's face was restored.
….. and we have enough leftovers for today ….
I can't give you my husband's Meat Sauce recipe because only he knows it & cooks it for 3 days just like his grandma did …..
….. however, according to my half Italian children …. my MEAT SAUCE was AWESOME!!!!
This recipe makes enough Meat Sauce to freeze for later.
- 3lbs Lean Ground Beef
- 1 Tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 Onion (chopped)
- 6 Cloves Garlic (chopped)
- 2 cups Carrots (finely chopped)
- 14 oz Hunts Green Pepper, Celery & Onion Chunky Tomatoes
- 16 oz Hunts Stewed Tomatoes
- 5.5 oz Hunts Tomato Paste
- 1 Tbsp Oregano
- 1 Tbsp Basil
- Salt
- Pepper
STEP 1: In large pot or skillet heat olive oil on medium high and brown the ground beef. Turn the heat to medium. Add onion, carrots and garlic. Cook for few minutes. Stir occasionally.
STEP 2: Add crushed tomatoes, stewed tomatoes, tomato paste, oregano, basil and pepper. Cook for 5 minutes. Cover the pot. Turn the heat down to low. Cook for 1 hour.
STEP 3: Take the lid off. Salt to taste. Stir well and serve over cooked spaghetti.
TIP: Sprinkle the meat sauce with fresh chopped basil when serving.
MY SECRET INGREDIENT: Adding 1 tsp of Red Currant Jelly when cooking the sauce will take the acidity out.
Don't forget …. Keep Smiling …. Keep Cooking!
This recipe is linked to:
MANIC MONDAY @ Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen
© Copyright 2013FoodieBibi, All rights Reserved. Written For: Bibi's Culinary Journey


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