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Finding money for research can sometimes seem like negotiating a maze. That's especially true in the decision sciences, which cover both generic and applied decision-making, encompass many diverse fields, and for which there are numerous sources of funds. To help you through the maze, ScienceCareers details some of the grant funding programs in the decision sciences.
Funding for generic decision science research
Investigators can find funding for studies of decision-making processes and techniques from both public and private sources. In the government sector, the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS) program supports research into decision-making by individuals and groups, as well as organizations and societies as a whole. This NSF program comes under its Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, and, according to its Web site, funds research into areas of "judgment and decision-making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision-making; management science and organizational design."
The DRMS program funds full research studies in decision-making, with proposals due on 18 August 2006, with the following deadline for proposals set for 18 January 2007. Jacqueline Meszaros, Ph.D., program director for DRMS, says the program awards grants to about a fifth of proposals received.
The program accepts proposals for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants that provide funds for travel, special equipment, and event participation. The next submission deadline for these programs is 11 August 2006. DRMS can also fund smaller projects under NSF's Small Grants for Exploratory Research program that supports preliminary inquiries, as well as studies taking unconventional approaches to the subject matter.
Meszaros suggests that researchers in decision sciences should also consider the special Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) program, a special interdisciplinary competition that …
aims to increase our collective ability to anticipate the complex consequences of change; gain a better understanding of the dynamics of human and social behavior as well as the cognitive and social structures that create and define change; and help people and organizations better manage profound or rapid change.
One of the areas emphasized by HSD in 2006 is decision-making, risk, and uncertainty, which includes studies of risk perception, responses to hazards and extreme events, and the role played by educational systems in that response. Meszaros says that these are large grants (up to $750,000) and are intended for interdisciplinary teams.
NSF funds more quantitative and algorithmic research in the decision sciences as part of its Operations Research (OR) program. This program falls under NSF's Engineering directorate. These studies focus on the tools and technologies of decision science rather than the behavioral aspects, which would fall under DRMS. More details of the OR program will be available on 1 September 2006, with proposals due on 1 October 2006.
Outside government, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funds research into the functioning of business organizations, which includes studies of businesses' decision-making processes. Although the research it funds may reach into the details of organizational behavior, the foundation expects the findings to have broader implications for understanding the nature of businesses and their impact on workers, investors, and society at large. The foundation, according to its Web site, favors "empirical studies of real organizations and people, especially studies that employ field work and direct observation."
In 2005 and 2004, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded economic research on alternative corporate governance models, namely the principal/agent and team production models, and their ability to explain both the legal and economic behaviors of public companies. Also in 2004, the foundation funded several studies of international outsourcing, called "offshoring," and the factors that went into the offshoring decisions in the medical imaging and semiconductor industries. These projects involved economists and sociologists.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation accepts research proposals at any time, with grants awarded by the foundation's trustees four times a year. The foundation recommends first sending a preliminary letter of inquiry before investing the considerable time and effort in preparing a full proposal. The foundation also funds smaller grants, called officer grants that do not need trustee approval. These grants are often used for planning or exploratory studies, or to support events such as workshops.
Another nongovernment source of funding in decision sciences is the Russell Sage Foundation, which is both a research center and a source of funding for social science research generally. The foundation awards major grants for research in its four main topic areas: Future of Work, Immigration, Cultural Contact, and Social Inequality. The Russell Sage Foundation has smaller programs in trust and behavioral economics where research in decision-making may also be relevant.
In 2005, the Russell Sage Foundation awarded a grant to social psychologist Samuel R. Sommers on the impact of race and gender diversity on group decision-making, which ScienceCareers featured in a May 2006 article. Also since 2003, the foundation has funded socioeconomic studies on scheduling of entry-level retail jobs and case studies of decisions to hire unregulated ("off-the-books") workers in New York and Chicago. Other recent research supported by the Russell Sage Foundation includes studies of time decisions and cognition and economic decision-making.
The foundation's application procedures call for detailed proposals, but they encourage a preliminary letter of inquiry before starting a full proposal. The organization's board of trustees reviews proposals twice a year, with deadlines for proposals in mid-March and mid-August of each year.
Funding for applied research in decision sciences
Making decisions better and faster is a goal found across the spectrum of disciplines, and in some cases, researchers can find funding for their investigations when they focus on particular subject areas. Researchers investigating decision-making in health care quality and defense, for example, will find significant interest and funding from U.S. government agencies.
To the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the decision-making process is a central research focus, according to Francis D. Chesley, M.D., director of AHRQ's Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations. AHRQ, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for improving the quality of healthcare in the U.S. Chesley's office oversees much of AHRQ's external research awarded through grants and small-business contracts.
Workshop on Grant Funding for Decision Science Q. B. Chung of Villanova University, who advised ScienceCareers on this article, and Godwin Udo of University of Texas, El Paso, will lead a workshop on grant writing for decision science research. The workshop takes place at the 2006 annual meeting of the Decision Science Institute. |
Chesley says decision science research "is particularly useful in studies of the outcomes and effectiveness of care and quality." Another area where decision science plays a vital role is in the field of health information technology, also an AHRQ focus. To underscore the importance of decision science to AHRQ's agenda, he adds that AHRQ has a separate peer-review panel to review proposals on healthcare technologies and decision-making.
Chesley notes that "AHRQ's funding is more oriented toward applications than bench science," and the agency's current priorities give greater focus to researching the needs of sicker patients. In the federal government's fiscal year 2006 (beginning 1 October 2005 through 30 September 2006), AHRQ plans to fill gaps in knowledge about patient care dealing with complex conditions, such as multiple diseases and risk factors. Chesley says the emphasis on multiple diseases "is a signal to the research community that this is an area where the agency plans to commit resources."
AHRQ shares the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application and review processes, including those for research studies (e.g. R01, R03), training (K-series), and small business. The agency posts its funding announcements on its own Web site as well as Grants.gov, the government's central funding portal.
Researchers studying decision-making and health care should also keep an eye on announcements from NIH. Although NIH does not have a separate program devoted to decision-sciences, the subject will occasionally play a key role in a larger undertakings that the agency funds. For example, a program announced in March 2006 funds research into decision-making processes affecting healthy lifestyles.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has an extensive program of funding basic and applied research supporting the Department of Defense's mission, which covers a wide array of disciplines. Part of DARPA's research agenda is devoted to improving the decision-making capability of forces at both the tactical and strategic levels.
For example, DARPA seeks to apply science and technology to improve decision-making capabilities in operations involving urban regions, where 60% of the world's population now resides. As spelled out in DARPA's strategic plan, these capabilities include behavioral and cultural factors studied by social scientists:
For pre- and/or postconflict stabilization operations, DARPA seeks advanced concepts and technologies to give U.S. forces capabilities to quickly and accurately understand and deal with changing social and environmental circumstances that could undermine a combatant commander's objectives. Capabilities are needed that rapidly prepare soldiers for missions in new cultural environments; improve command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance in stabilization operations; and improve U.S. Forces' situational awareness of changing social and environmental circumstances. Combined, these efforts will enhance stabilization by enabling a limited number of U.S. Forces to achieve operational objectives through virtual force multiplication.
DARPA bundles many of its research needs into single solicitations it calls Broad Agency Announcements. BAAs spell out specific research and technology needs, but they often encourage more innovative and cross-disciplinary solutions. DARPA also updates BAAs occasionally as new requirements emerge.
A current BAA for DARPA's Defense Science Office, entitled "Defense Sciences Research and Technology" (BAA06-19), seeks the following capabilities related to decision-making:
Novel Technologies to Improve the Human Consequences of Transformation:
New approaches for training individuals and teams, including embedded training and simulation; Understanding and improving team performance; and New approaches to improve rapid decision-making in chaotic or data-poor environments.
Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Part 1 of the BAA gives the technical topic areas covered in the announcement and part 2 spells out the proposal procedures. DARPA encourages submission of preliminary white papers (up to eight pages) describing a proposed research approach. The deadline for proposals under this BAA is 9 February 2007. Like AHRQ, DARPA also posts its funding announcements on Grants.gov.
Other sources
The two areas described above, healthcare and defense, are examples of applied fields where agencies fund research in the decision science. Researchers can follow developments in other industries by subscribing to newsletters from industry associations or using news alerts generated by search engines. And don't forget GrantsNet, ScienceCareers' research funding database, which has broadened its coverage of social science funding opportunities.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. SES-0549096. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. |
Alan Kotok is Managing Editor of ScienceCareers. |
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Grendale (3.5e Deity)
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Grendale is the Valgorian god of Fire. He is also known as The Flame Welder.
Greater Deity | |
Symbol: | Red Triangle |
Home Plane: | Valgora |
Alignment: | Chaotic Neutral |
Portfolio: | Fire, Weather, Chaos |
Clergy Alignments: | True Neutral |
Domains: | Fire |
Favored Weapon: | Sword |
Grendale is a turbulent God known for quick spurts of anger or lust.
Travelers pray to Grendale for safe passage at night by asking for "The Flame's Light".
Clergy and Temples[edit]
Clerics of Grendale are found in major and minor areas all across Ghikva, Hesjing, and even Malsvir. They are usually called upon to every major army's travels, as they are looked at as the mediators of Grendale.
The most common gathering of followers is in the settlements of outdoors men who live in the wilderness.
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- CNN spoke to a host of design and technology experts to see what future holds
- Key developments are in the field of wearable technology and 3D printing
- Best design is a marriage of technology, science and manufacturing techniques
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Forecasting future technology has never been easy. In the 1950s, scientists and technologists envisaged that by now the world would be free from disease, traversed by flying cars, and fueled by minerals from distant planets.
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So, in what areas will the next major breakthroughs occur? Keeping in mind that prediction is more of an art than a science, CNN spoke to a host of design and technology experts -- from academics to magazine editors -- in search of what might well just be the shape of things to come.
The Editor
According to Marcus Fairs, editor-in-chief of influential design magazine Dezeen, the most high-impact developments over the next decade will be primarily in the areas of manufacturing and wearable technology.
"New digital design tech, 3D printing, robotics and the emerging field of 3D scanning, plus exponential leaps in manufacturing -- together, they are putting really powerful tools into the hands of individuals," he says.
"In the same way that laptops revolutionized personal computing two decades ago and cheap video editing software did for film, so too there will now be a revolution in manufacturing."
For Fairs, wearable technologies such as Google Glass point to another major evolution in design: the disappearance of objects altogether.
"The broader movement in design no longer asks 'is something a nice object?' but rather 'how can we get rid of this completely?'"
From wearable devices such as those being pioneered by sportswear manufacturer Nike, and Jawbone to digital tattoos and "things that you can swallow that will check you out from inside, (such as) a project that adds an artificial organ to help the body use water more sparingly", Fairs believes the future could well be defined by objects almost disappearing entirely.
The Curator
Deyan Sudjic, the director of the Design Museum in London, controversially selected a simple website as the winning entry in the 2013 design awards. The government site GOV.UK won, he said, because of its dramatic subjugation of form beneath function: "The overall winner this year is very interesting. It is apparently very simple, but it works beautifully. I think there is nothing more irritating than design that doesn't work."
For Sudjic, the future of design is about how well an object fulfills its function, not just its aesthetic qualities. At the same time, Sudjic believes there is a revival of interest in physical objects, noting that 2012 was the first year in two decades that saw a rise in vinyl record sales.
"I see design trying to get to grips with both the longing people have for the physical world and those other more slippery digital developments. People are still interested in tangible experience (...) You see that with the Makerbot, which is currently just making combs and shoehorns, but will soon be creating objects which are significantly more complicated."
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Ross Lovegrove, an industrial designer whose work covers aviation, transport, timepieces, consumer electronics and everything in between, says that the future of technology requires complete understanding of material structure:
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Imagine starting with a fully charged battery and connecting it to the motor with no other power input. Obviously, the motor is going to run off the battery, but by conventional thinking it will stop when the battery runs down. It isn't running by the conventional wisdom of electrical physics. It isn't running by the conventional rules of electric motors and generators, but it is running. And it isn't something complex. It's pretty simple, once one gets the hang of the basic idea. Impossible, you say. Not at all. That's precisely what John Bedini has done, and the motor is running now in his workshop. It's running off the principles of electromagnetics that Nikola Tesla discovered shortly before 1900 in his Colorado Springs experiments. It's running off the fact that pure empty vacuum - pure "emptiness", so to speak, is filled with rivers and oceans of seething energy, just as Nikola Tesla pointed out. It's running off the fact that vacuum space-time itself is nothing but pure masless charge. That is, vacuum has a very high electrostatic scalar potential - it is greatly stressed. To usefully tap the enormous locked-in energy of that stress, all one has to do is crack it sharply and tap the vacuum oscillations that result. The best way to do that is to hit something resonant that is imbedded in the vacuum, then tap the resonant stress of the ringing of the vacuum itself. In other words, we can ring something at its resonant frequency and, if that something is imbedded in the vacuum, we can tap off the resonance in vacuum stress, without tapping energy directly from the embedded system we rang into oscillation. So what we really need is something that is deeply imbedded in the vacuum, that is, something that can translate the "vacuum" movement into "mass" movement. Well, all charged particles and ions are already imbedded in the vacuum by their charged fluxes, so stressed oscillations - that is, vacuum oscillations - can be converted into normal energy of mass movement by charged particles or ions, if the system of charged particles or ions is made to resonate in phase with our tapping "potential". For our purpose, let's use a system of ions. First we will need a big accumulator to hold a lot of the charged ions in the system that we wish to shock into oscillation. We need something that has a big capacitance and also contains a lot of ions. An ordinary battery filled with electrolyte fits the bill nicely. While it's not commonly known, ordinary lead-acid storage batterys have a resonant ionic frequency, usually in the range of from 1 - 6 Mhz. All we have to do is shock -oscillate the ions in the electrolyte at their resonant frequency and time our "trigger" potential and "siphon" circuit correctly. Then if we keep adding potential to trigger the system we can get all that "potential" to translate into "free electrical energy". Look at it this way. Conventionally "electrostatic scalar potential" is composed of work or energy per columb of charged particle mass. So if we add potential alone, without the mass flow, to a system of oscillating charged particles, we add "physical energy" in the entire charged particle system. In other words, the "potential" we add is converted directly into "ordinary energy " by the imbedded ions in the system. And if we are clever we don't have to furnish any pushing energy to move pure potential around. (For proof that this is possible, see Bearden's Toward a New Electromagnetics; Part IV; Vectors and Mechanisms Clarified, Tesla Book Co., 1983, Slide 19, Page 43, and the accom- panying write-up, pages 10, and 11. Also see Y. Aharonov and V. Bohm, "Signifi- cance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the Quantum Theory", Physical Review, Second Series, Vol. 115, No. 3, Aug. 1, 1959, pages 485-491. On page 490 you you will find that it's possible to have a field-free reigon of space, and still have the potential determine the physical properties of the system.) Now this "free energy resonant coupling" can be done in a simple, cheap system. You don't need big cyclotrons and huge laboratories to do it; you can do it with ordinary D.C. motors, batteries, controllers and trigger circuits. And that's exactly what John Bedini has done. It's real. It works. It's running now on John's laboratory bench in prototype form. But that's not all. John is also a humanitarian. He's as concerned as I am for that little old widow lady at the end of the lane, stretching her meager Social Security check as far as she can, shivering in the cold winter and not daring to turn up her furnace because she can't afford the frightful utility bills. That's simply got to change and John Bedini may well be the fellow who changes it. By openly releasing his work in this paper, he is providing enough information for all the tinkerers and independent inventors around the world to have at it. If he can get a thousand of them to duplicate his device, it simply can't be supressed as so many others have been. So here it is. John has deliberately written his paper for the tinkerer and experimenter, not for the scientist. You must be careful, for the device is a little tricky to adjust in and synchronize all the resonances. You'll have to fiddle with it, but it will work. Keep at it. Also, we warn you not to play with this unless you know what you are doing. The resonating battery electrolyte produces hydrogen, and if you hit it to hard with a "voltage spike" you can get an electrical spark inside the battery. If that happens, THE BATTERY WILL EXPLODE, so don't mess with it unless you are qualified and use the utmost caution. But it DOES work. So all you experimenters and pioneers, now's your chance. Have at it. Build it. Tinker with it. Fiddle it into resonant operation. Then lets build this thing in quantity, sell it widely, and get those home utilities down to where we can all afford them - including the shivering little old lady at the end of the lane. And when we do, lets give John Bedini, and men like him the credit and appre- ciation they so richly deserve. Tom Bearden April 13,1984 John Bedini [Note: John Bedini developed Two kinds of controller devices. One, being very simple, is the one I will present here. The other is quite a bit more complex, and would be impossible for me to reproduce here... Anyway if you want to see the all electronic controller, get the book "Bedini's Free Energy Generator" by John C. Bedini, Published by the Tesla Book Co. 1580 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae, CA 94030.] For some time man has been looking for different ways to generate electricity . He has used water power, steam power, nuclear power, and solar power. Recent papers written by Tom Bearden make a free energy generator possible. Tom Bearden, rather than patent his devices, chose to share them with people who had open ears. I myself have had many conversations with Tom Bearden. He found Tom to be one of the most reasonable men he had ever dealt with in this energy field. Most others would tell you stories of great machines they had, but would never present the truth with circuit diagrams or a look at the machine in question. Tom, on the other hand, clearly presents his ideas and clearly presents his ideas and discloses the concepts by means of which they work. The facts I am about to present to you about free energy were never put into textbooks, only portions were. The textbooks have grounded people in conventional theory and made things very complicated. What I am about to explain is very simple; anyone can understand this theory and anyone who understands what he is doing can build this device. I have been grounded in conventional theory for some eleven years. I have always tried to study the simplicity of electrical circuits, but my mind wouldn't allow this because of my orthodox training. In any event, I had to change the way i was looking at things. I started to wonder, why do we need to have things so complicated? The truth of the matter is, we have been taught to consume or waste energy at every turn in our lives, so we jump into our cars, turn on lights, etc. In other words, we have been conditioned to waste energy and fuels lavishly, not realizing that someday someone will sky-rocket our energy bills to a point where we will not be able to pay for these fuels. Everything will come to a stand-still. But laugh as you will, at that time Rube Goldberg machines will power your future. It probably will not be uncommon to see machines from the size of garbage cans to the size of two story apartment houses powering everything in sight. These machines will be using a force in nature never conceived by the conventionally trained mind of today. The theory I am about to explain to you will bring you one step closer to gaining free energy. To begin my story I must state I had a vision - looking for this energy. Many times I hammered my head into the ground, but I refused to give up in my search . Any person with a dream should never let it be wasted by fools, who will always say "you can't do that". All that statement really means is that they do not know how to do it. There are many different ways to explain this theory. I will discuss the first one now. The device is very simple and uses a motor, a generator, a controller switch, and a battery. Basically, we drive a direct current motor with pulsed current from a battery, then utilize a special means to cause the battery to recharge itself. First, the battery, controller, and generator are interconnected as shown in figure 3. (See also Figure 1) /-----\ /-----\ o-12v | |===| || | 14v.o [Motor==| |==||===Gen. ] o+ | |===| || | .o \-----/ Mass \-----/ Controller Figure 1: The Kromery Converter __________ = Brush 1 _-_ * =shaft /xxx\ xxx=copper /x/x\x\ = =brush | x*x=|_________ _o--o1 \ \x/ /Brush 2 /| \_ _/ 2o--/ - = Brush 3 o--o3 __________ Equivelant Circuit Figure 2: Controller Construction 3O To controller 1O To controller | brush #3 | brush #1 | | | Mass | 2O To controller | Gen. Motor| | brush #2 | ____ = ____ | | \----O+ |-=-| +O-/ \-To batt + /--O- |-=-| -O--+---To batt - | ---- = ---- | \---------------/ Figure 3: Schematic of the device Let's begin by stating certain facts. The ions move backwards under charging conditions and in reverse under discharging conditions. So here we start our new concept. Suppose we have constructed a machine that has tricked this battery into a different space and time relationship. Simply put, suppose the battery never did any work and it should have its full charge left in it. Suppose this becomes possible because we have stressed the terminals in such a way that the ions in the battery electrolyte actually move themselves backwards. The machine, or unit, that makes this possible has many different names. Some people call these units generators, energizers, alternators, etc. Conventionally such devices have one thing in common; they stress the battery backwards by pushing electricity into the battery and forcibly pushing the ions in the electrolyte backwards. In our theory, we are not going to push anything - the ions are going to move themselves, recharging the battery. If we go a little deeper into this theory, you are probably asking yourself, "what is this madman talking about?" Simply put, we are going to put a stress on the battery terminals for a moment in time and the battery will do the rest. Now comes the heavy part of this theory. What they didn't teach you in textbooks is that, in order for the battery to charge, two oscillatory actions must occur, one at the positive terminal and one at the negative terminal. Under different stress levels this then forces the ions backwards. The same would occur for an electron. Our machine will slingshot ions in the battery electrolyte backwards beyond the normal recoil action. I must give a very stern warning at this time that if the voltage developed is too high the battery will explode. Use the utmost care. Test setups in my lab have proven that this can be dangerous. Do not build the device and experiment with it unless you know what you are doing, and use the utmost caution. When struck by a sharp voltage spike, the electrolyte in the battery will resonate at a certain frequency and this can also force the ions backwards. Simply put, the battery, the motor, and the energizer will become resonant at some point, "ring" like a bell when we "strike" it, and in its ringing the most energy will be developed. [Note: sorry I can't produce waveforms here so get the book! I will present the explanation here, however] The battery is really charging itself. The ions in the electrolyte are being stressed in a curved space and time relationship, the battery is actually forced into believing that no work ever occured. The oscillatory action that has taken place by the energizer has just pulsed our "slingshot" and immediately let go. Once this has happened, the electrolyte in the battery goes wild and the ions race backwards, giving off hydrogen and oxygen gas. I must make a stern warning here! The time of the stimulaing pulse is very important. If the time is to long the battery will burn itself out. If the pulse time is too short or if the circuit fails to operate correctly, the battery will never recover its charge. Taking this into consideration, the only failures that could occur would be the controller failure due to a points faiulre (on the electronic controller), or the multivibrator latched in the "on" position (again, only on the electronic controller). Anyone studying this can see that we have used very little energy to get to this point, and gained a lot of resonant energy in return. We must remember that, if the battery is applied to the energizer longer than normal, we must burn up the excess energy to keep the battery cool. The problem now becomes one of embarrassing excess of energy, not a shortage. The energizer is also a simple machine, but if yu want to, you can make it very complex. The simple way is to study the alternator principles. The waves we want to generate are like those that came from old D.C. generators with the exception of armature drag, bearing drag, and no excited fields. Also, we would want to cut the magnetic fields at 90 degress to the armature. The simpler the better. I am going to throw a few ideas your way. I have run some tests in my lab and discovered that certain types of energizers, generators, and alternators do what we need. Also, we want to be able to tune the output of our energizer. The old D.C. generator puts out something very close towhat we need, except for The drag. In an A.C. generator output we are going to see just what we manufacture. It would appear that this leaves this generator out. Not really, because we can make this generator's output change by rectifying it. In looking at the A.C. generator with rectified output, we see that it could become very useful to us as an energizer, simply because it is the easiest to construct and its principles are simple. I have done experiments with an A.C. generator using ALL N. alligned magnets, and rectified. Most people can see that that type o alternator might have some problems. However, remember that I am looking for a certain type of wave form that I want to tune to a certain frequency at a certain speed. The winding of this alternatr is a problem and it is a bit tricky, but I chose to stay with this unit. You may choose a different method if you retain the principle. The type of energizer that was used for the prototype was a standard office type 2-speed A.C. fan housing. The coils were replaced with 6 coils of approx. 200 turns of #20 wire - all in phase. Six permanent magnets are bonded to an aluminum disc. This arrangement is basically a magneto, but will produce more amperage than ordinarily expected of a magneto. Controller Construction: Figure 2 shows the controller. It should be made of two coencentric circles, one with approx. 140 degrees of copper, the other, spaced far enough from the first for a brush to be inserted between them, a full 360 degrees of copper. Provisions should be made to rotate the brushes in relationship to each other in order to secure the required timing. Eike Mueller John Bedini found that the material generally available concerning Kromery's Converter had been altered. Rebuilding the Kromery Converter from the patent papers ended up in a non-functioning device. Bedini found the necessary modifications which made this machine perform. Our first goal was to determine the converters efficiency. We found this to be quite difficult as the efficiency changes with the load applied. Figure K-1 shows the first setup we used. We drove the Kromery Converter from a 12v motorcycle battery. We connected at the output of the converter a condenser and a rectifier bridge in parallel. The rectified current was then put back into the motorcycle battery. To detect any current flow, we connect into the positive line a 12 V light bulb. The result of this test was the light bulb was lit up. However after 15 minutes the batrery voltage had dropped from 11.05 V to 9.10 V. The speed of the converter was stabale at 1020 rpm. /----------\ /----\ /--O Kromery +O----+--O+12v| |/-OConverter-O---+---O- | FIGURE K - 1 || \----------/ || \----/ || || || /------------/| KROMERY CONVERTER |\-------. | | | / \ | | | /FW \ | TEST SETUP #1 | \-Bridg+--(X)-/ | \ / Bulb | \ / \--------. In the next test we introduced a seperate battery (battery #2) for charging from the converter. We recharged the battery #2 from 12.30 V to 12.40 V within 4 minutes, and we measured a current flow into the battery #2 of 0.8 amperes. /----------\ /----\ /--O Kromery +O-------O+12v| |/-OConverter-O-------O-#1 | FIGURE K - 2 || \----------/ \----/ || || /-------------\ /----\ KROMERY CONVERTER |\-------. \--O-12*| | | / \ /--O+#2 | | | /FW \ | \----/ TEST SETUP #2 | \-Bridg+--(/)-/ | \ / Ampere *Note difference | \ / Meter in polarity from \--------. battery #1. Figure K-2 shows the second test setup. Because the kromery converter ran too slow on one 12 V battery, we decided to drive the converter using 24 V via two 12 V batteries, connected in series. Next we wanted to find a correlation between the normal charging of battery #2 using a commercial battery charger, and charging this same battery with the Kromery converter. We drained the battery #2 to 8 V, connected it to the Kromery Converter, and after reaching 11.51 V, we measured the time it took to charge the battery from this voltage level of 11.51 V to 12.45 V. We reached this voltage (12.45 V) after 11 minutes. The indicated current into the battery was 0.94 A. We then repeated these steps using the commercial battery charger. Because we ran out of time after nearly 2 hours, we disconnected the battery from the charger. The battery voltage had reached 12.41 V. The measurement is depicted in Figure K-3. THE BATTERY CHARGER NEEDED 119 MINUTES TO RAISE THE BATTERY VOLTAGE FROM 11.51 V TO 12.41 V FIGURE K - 3 THE KROMERY CONVERTER NEEDED 11 MINUTES TO RAISE THE BATTERY VOLTAGE FROM 11.51 V TO 12.45 V NOTE: The charger could not fill up the batteries to 12.45 volts within two hours. We wanted to find a correction factor for the Kromery Converter by comparing the same effect, i.e. the charging of the same battery from one specific voltage to another specific voltage. The calculation of this factor is avilable in the book "Experiments with a Kromery and a Brandt-Tesla converter built by John Bedini" By Eike Mueller, with Comments by Tom Bearden. Table K-1 shows the combined test results. Because we detected an increase in the speed of the Kromery Converter as well as a decrease in the input energy when we increased the output load, we decided to measure the input energy and speed when the output was shorted. Again, the input energy dropped and the speed increased. Measurement No Load Loaded With Shorted Corrected Battery Fact. 5.535 ============================================================ Input Voltage 25.30 25.00 24.90 Input Current 3.90 3.00 2.20 ------------------------------------------------------------ Watts In 98.67 75.00 54.78 Watts Out N/A 10.26 N/A 56.78 ------------------------------------------------------------ Speed In Rev/Sec 40.00 65.00 73.00 Output Voltage DC 48.00 10.80 N/A Output Current N/A 0.95 1.05 ------------------------------------------------------------ Watts In/Out N/A 7.31 N/A 1.32 ============================================================ Table K - 1 Using the earlier determined correction factor of 5.535 we calculated the energy they put into the battery to 56.78 watts (from 10.26 * 5.535). Looking at Table K-1 we see that it takes only 54.78 watts to run the Kromery Converter when the output is shorted. This result led us to continue with theese tests and load the converter output even more. The results of these tests can be seen in Table K-2. Here again, we detected that we would get a higher efficiency of the total device, the more we load down the output side. This effect is totally contradictory to the conventional laws of physics. Measurement No Load Loaded With Loaded w/ Loaded w/ Lamp & Batt 13.5 Ohms 0.63 Ohms ============================================================ Input Voltage 25.40 25.30 20.00 21.90 Input Current 3.90 3.90 3.39 2.30 ------------------------------------------------------------ Watts In 99.06 98.67 67.80 50.37 Watts Out N/A 21.00 185.19 634.92 Watts Out (Corrected) 116.24 ------------------------------------------------------------ Resistance (Ohms) N/A N/A 13.50 0.63 Output Voltage DC 48.00 28.00 50.00 20.00 Output Current N/A 0.75 N/A N/A ------------------------------------------------------------ Watts In/Out N/A 0.85 0.37 0.08 ============================================================ Table K - 2 We used the Kromery correction factor for the First case, when we had connected the battery to the converter output. We did not use this factor in both other cases when we used resistors in the output circuit. The above test results show that the efficiency of the Kromery Converter is well above 100%. The end. Typed by (_>Shadow Hawk 1<_). May be distributed anywhere as long as


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January 18th, 2009, 08:02 PM | #43 |
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A few things to ponder...
Once they register you as the particular purchaser of ammo, if some scumbag breaks into your home and steals it, and you maybe didn't realize it was gone, good chance they tie you to a crime with said ammo. The whole coded ammo concept was patented from some yayhoos in Cali ( if I remember correctly ) and now they are trying to get the legislation passed to make a fortune off of it. Great idea: invent product + get gov't to make it mandatory = MEGAPROFIT! Good thing for Obama that the economy was the big issue through all 3 debates. Didn't get any time for questions to be asked about any other issues. IE: gun ownership. Outcome might have been different if he had to answer on how he feels about everything else besides the economy. Great idea: Make opponent look bad + avoid all issues except 1 = win |
January 18th, 2009, 08:17 PM | #44 |
Mall Crawler
God fucking damn it...... I just am getting to the point where I can afford the nice EBG's. Just bought a nice Bushmaster today too. Dont tell me I wont be able to feed it a year from now.
Id say its like banning moonshiners. Or thats how it will be spun at least. |
January 18th, 2009, 08:19 PM | #45 | |
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you got a good buy on that gun! it was in really nice shape! michigan isnt one of the states that they are trying to do any bans in YET |
January 18th, 2009, 08:28 PM | #46 | |
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Keyword YET. The two reasons why I bought that M4.....fear mongering shot the value of my cetme through the roof, allowing me to sell it for double what I paid for it (thus giving me the cash needed for the bushy). And I figure I could turn around and do the same thing with this M4 if another ban actually comes into play. |
January 18th, 2009, 08:45 PM | #47 |
What a crock, and a fuckng joke
Criminals will always get guns and ammo....period. Unmarked guns and ammo. My M24 Sniper rifle can't shoot factory ammo. It HAS to be hand loaded for. Hey....politicians.....Worry about the real world issues you white and n igger fucks.....and leave the honest man the fukc alone |
January 18th, 2009, 10:08 PM | #49 | |
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For a while I believed they were passing gun control laws to "protect ourselves" from each other, as asinine as it seemed. But lately, I dont think they are trying to stop crime, but instead flat out disarm the majority. |
January 18th, 2009, 10:12 PM | #50 | |
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January 18th, 2009, 10:58 PM | #51 |
Mr. Special Snowflake.
January 19th, 2009, 10:51 AM | #55 |
In the band!
imagine that. much easier to push around people that cannot push back.
January 19th, 2009, 11:02 AM | #56 |
I <3 Miatas
The people in charge of the bullet matching already said we don't have the infrastructure to hold this data.
There are tons of guns that ammo is no longer made for so those people have to handload. Many MANY hunters load their own ammo for not only the price savings, but for high performance custom loads. |
January 19th, 2009, 11:06 AM | #57 | |
In the band!
January 19th, 2009, 11:07 AM | #58 |
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the question I have is, since this will apply to all ammo, how are they going to mark buckshot?
oh, and if you read it a little closer, the cost that will be added is $.005, so half of one penny per round...I know alot of places where it is posted, it says $.05 (five cents) but the actual bill states $.005...not that the financial cost is that big of a concern, compared to the other costs... |
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Mongoose Package Manager - Summary
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The Mongoose Package Manager is an open source software distribution system. It is kernel and architecture independent. It will have support for dependency tracking, bootstrapping dependency loops, and optional package features. Other features are planned
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posted by pbgavin, Tue Jul 29 19:40:34 2003 - 1 reply
I decided to rewrite most of the code in mpak. It was hastily and badly written. So far, I've got a good start on the parser. I also added the ecstacy library, which will be a generic C++ POSIX interface library which mpak depends on.
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I have placed a design document at <http://www.nongnu.org/mpak/design.html>.
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A book by Malcolm Gladwell
Like a lot of Truthdig readers, I didn't grow up studying the Old Testament. We no longer expect every well-educated reader of English to know bits of the King James by memory. How quaint would that be, when so many who haven't read the Bible are carving out respectable careers in publishing—or thumbing the pages of Malcolm Gladwell's fifth book, "David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants"?
Gladwell, though made in England and Canada, has made it in America, where the Bible belongs to its believers. The Old Testament is literary catnip for social conservatives, but secular readers rarely investigate because our resources include an intellectual freedom often missing in many religiously shaped lives. This privilege turns out to be a disadvantage because the Old Testament stories have never gone away and have more power than we realize.
In "David and Goliath," Gladwell uses the tale related in 1 Samuel 17 to explore "lopsided conflicts"—a curfew imposed by the British army on a Catholic part of Belfast; a mediocre team from an affluent California city playing against the "born-with-a-basketball girls"; a canny civil rights leader looking for ways to provoke Birmingham, Ala., public safety commissioner Bull Connor in 1963. Gladwell begins by warning us that "we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong. … Giants are not what we think they are." The "giants" or "powerful opponents" Gladwell wants us to get right (or at least reconsider) include "disability, misfortune" and Ivy League schools.
In Gladwell's "theory of desirable difficulty," we mistakenly identify privilege as strength. He focuses on colorful individuals such as Hollywood producer Brian Grazer and the well-known litigator David Boies, suggesting that dyslexia, apartheid, childhood misery and the size of your daughter's fifth grade class are existential cousins. Juicy opportunities are left on the table because we're so busy trying to ally ourselves with giants—like the Ivy League. When holding the upper hand, we underestimate the underdog's advantage and place too much faith in our own. The British Army in Belfast "did not understand that power has an important limitation. It has to be seen as legitimate, or else its use has the opposite of its intended effect," says Gladwell, showing a pronounced sympathy for Northern Ireland's besieged Catholics. Too often, we misconstrue our enemies.
All this because we don't really know what went down with David and Goliath.
Gladwell sets out to correct the record, though what happens when shepherd boy meets professional monster in the valley of Elah is "a matter of legend."
We should be wary, though, when Gladwell, who grew up around evangelicals, makes a point of indulging both secular readers and believers. He plays a gentle trick on the latter—"medical experts now believe ... Goliath had a serious medical condition"—and makes this poignant loser, with his pituitary tumor and his "diplopia" (a fancy name for double vision), sound like the invalid next door rather than a constructed character designed to advance political and tribal agendas. So far, so mischievous.
If we consistently get David and Goliath wrong, it's partly because we get our impressions of this dynamic dyad from everything but the Book of Samuel. The mismatched fighters appear in paintings, cartoons, movies and—too often—news headlines. Facebook, Israel, immigration reform and high finance, along with primary and state elections, have all inspired confusing comparisons with David and Goliath. Confusing, because nobody likes to identify with Goliath, and everybody (even a reactionary anti-immigration lobbyist) wants to be seen as David, the righteous and ultimately triumphant underdog.
Somewhere in our collective secular hard drive, we have stored a tabloid story that seems, like a Daily Mail teaser, wonderfully cheap and compelling: small cocky shepherd boy, hulking giant, slingshot, moral victory. (Or perhaps merely a military solution.) This, and the lesson itself—the small shall conquer the large because they have justice (previously known as God) on their side—is what we carry in our heads.
Einstein called the Bible "a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." This particular legend is alarmingly childish because of its happy ending. Our biggest mistake is in seeing it as a physical duel, rather than a political triangle involving King Saul. Because of Saul, the long aftermath of David's showdown with the giant is neither happy nor pretty.
A seriously premodern ruler, Saul will try to get David killed by ordering him to go forth and circumcise a hundred Philistines. He sweetens the trap by offering David one of his daughters. When that plan backfires, Saul tries to have David assassinated. David's most important adversary isn't Goliath, it's King Saul—the father-in-law from hell. To stay alive, David concocts a murky deal with the Philistines. Jonathan, Saul's son, makes a controversial pact with David, creating yet another political trine. By the time Saul is dead and David proclaimed king, the ingenious shepherd has slaughtered so many people we've lost count.
In the Bible, David's messy relationship with the king unfolds over 16 chapters; his brief encounter with Goliath occupies one. Even in the minds of nonbelievers and not-quite-believers, Goliath's importance is exaggerated. Goliath is a Sunday-school favorite. A grotesque enemy has more popular appeal (and is easier to teach the children about) than a murderous father figure.
It's been said in The Nation that Gladwell writes for people who buy "books you can talk about with your boss"—a snooty but relevant assessment, since you might speak as carefully to a boss as to a child.
So would you rather chat with the boss about Gladwell's Goliath or Samuel's King Saul, the jealous CEO plotting to destroy a talented newbie? King Saul, essential to the Goliath story, turns out to be a high-ranking in-house hater, triangulating and treacherous as only a family member can be. Goliath, a hired thug from across the way, is more clean than mean. That's why David and Goliath is such a palatable—Gladwellian, actually!—story.
Gladwell keeps us engaged through seven congenial chapters, telling stories of individuals facing great challenges, while treating us to charts, graphs and diagrams. Have you ever wondered why so many dyslexic dudes appear to be running the world? Well, Ikea, Goldman Sachs and parts of Hollywood, certainly, and at least one prominent law firm. Your boss may be one of those gifted dyslexics, who, like Brian Grazer, "learned how to do everything possible to sell my point" or, if he has half of David Boies' compensatory talent, there is "no stray comment or revealing admission from ... an hour or a day or a week before" that won't be "heard, registered and remembered." For Gladwell, who often sounds as shrewd and cheerful as Eleanor Porter's fictional heroine Pollyanna, "The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty."
In Chapter 8, the tone changes.
Mike Reynolds, a dad who seems very much like an Old Testament figure, has never recovered from his 18-year-old daughter's violent death. He's the architect of California's notorious Three Strikes statute, signed into law in 1994, two years after his daughter Kimber was killed—because, says her father, "I'm going to do everything in my power to try and prevent this from happening to anybody else."
Reynolds isn't satisfied—how could he be?—but he doesn't admit that Three Strikes could be a mistake, even when he learns that California has become a place where you can be sentenced to 25 years to life for stealing a TV set if you're a repeat offender. Gladwell creates a convincing portrait of a tragic individual who "employs the full power of the state in his grief" and still feels incomplete, "plunging his government into a fruitless and costly experiment."
I don't know whether a keen understanding of a Goliath's limited power would have stopped Reynolds from embarking on his campaign, but he certainly didn't do this alone. Career-building prosecutors, and all that profit from the California prison industry (including any companies doing business with the system) are among those benefiting from his grief—and, perhaps, from his daughter's death.
Gladwell's encounter with Reynolds is part of a problem we all, increasingly, live with. Three Strikes came into existence during the first decade of widespread sex offender registries. Consider the parallels:
Patty Wetterling, whose 11-year-old son Jacob disappeared in 1989, began promoting sex offender registration laws in 1990. In 1991, a Minnesota law was passed. In 1994, the Jacob Wetterling Sex Offender Registration Act was part of President Clinton's Crime Bill. Another federal law, the Adam Walsh Act, received support, over the years, from grieving parents and was passed in 2006. Like Three Strikes, all these laws were championed to protect or vindicate the powerless. They are broader than you'd expect.
Sex offender registration has been used to punish children who would have been scolded for playing doctor in 1988, to imprison women who sell sex to survive, to criminalize high school students in consensual romantic relationships. Children younger than Jacob Wetterling was at the time of his abduction have been branded as sex offenders. One critic of sex offender registration in recent years is Patty Wetterling. Her principled opposition to a law she once lobbied for is rather inspiring, for our largest mistakes are the hardest to acknowledge.
It's not just that people misread state power. It's worse. By positioning yourself as the underdog, you can humiliate others, destroy lives, misuse your government's power and maybe even get a bad law passed. People who see their struggles in David and Goliath terms are naive and often dangerous. Sometimes, as Gladwell shows us, they influence the justice system and create lasting damage.
On Twitter and elsewhere, "Check your privilege" has become the underdog's political putdown du jour, a stone in every David's virtual sling. Underdogs exist across the political spectrum—left, right, libertarian, feminist, antifeminist—and they have more in common than they care to admit. I don't know whether Gladwell would agree with me, but I think the time has come for every David to check his conscience. Or hers.
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Racking up some serious frequent flyer miles, the members of One Direction hopped a plane at LAX International Airport and flew to Sydney, Australia earlier this week.
They've been crisscrossing North America all week and on Sunday night (November 23) the members of One Direction landed in Los Angeles.
Niall, Harry, Zayn, Louis and Liam took the Nokia Theatre LA Live stage at the 2014 American Music Awards to perform their new single "Night Changes" after releasing their new album FOUR less than a week earlier.
It's always a special occasion when they show up and the boys of One Direction had a blast on " Jimmy Kimmel Live" last night (November 20).
Joined by a few kittens, a Pomeranian dog and some adorable little kids, the "Best Song Ever" singers posed for what Kimmel dubbed was the "cutest selfie ever."
It's been a crazy week for One Direction fans, as the British boy band released their new album Fouron Monday (November 17) and now there's a new music video for their second single "Night Changes."
One Direction fans are jumping for joy as four become five again because Zayn Malik is back.
Never underestimate the power of music to eradicate the evils of the world, as it took only five minutes for Band Aid 30 to collect $1 million to beat Ebola.
They're the five hottest guys in pop music but sadly only four of the members of One Direction were able to come out for their big "Today" show gig this morning (November 17).
While Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles all looked to be in fine form, Zayn Malik had to ride the bench.
It's Friday and there's no better way to celebrate the weekend than with some new material from One Direction.
The British boy band dropped the new ditty "Night Changes" earlier today (November 14) ahead of the release of their fourth studio album FOUR.


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A Craig man who was considered a sexually violent predator has moved from the area, the Craig Police Department and Moffat County Sheriff's Office announced Monday morning.
Jeff Hammond, who was convicted of sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust, according to the Colorado Department of Corrections, moved to Craig in May.
Law enforcement, as required by state law, announced when Hammond moved to town. Likewise, the Monday notice of his departure was also a requirement, law enforcement officials said.
They provided no further details of where Hammond had moved.
Workers stranded in elevator rescued safely
Craig Fire/Rescue was called to Tri-State Generation & Transmission at 8:45 p.m. Monday because two workers had been stranded in an elevator 300 feet up one of the smokestacks.
Fire trucks arrived, and rope technicians assembled their gear and prepared to climb the 300 feet on a ladder on the outside of the smokestack.
However, the elevator began working, and the workers were returned to the ground safely.
Fire chief Bill Johnston said the elevator malfunction was an electrical one, but the power plant was able to fix the problem before firefighters began the rescue.
Although Johnston said his crew was prepared to attach their harness and rescue the workers from the smokestack - they were stranded about halfway up the 600-foot smokestack - he was glad that his firefighters remained on the ground and the workers returned safely.
"That puts my firefighters in jeopardy," he said. "But everyone's fine."
Lightning is reported cause of Monday fire
Three agencies responded to a wild fire Monday afternoon.
Lightning was the reported cause of a fire on the Butler ranch on Moffat County Road 3. The fire encompassed about 117 acres and was reported about 4:30 p.m.
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Robbie has a dark side. How cute!
FYI, it's actually a destruction of the sodium gradient in compressed nerves, not blood flow.
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Devise a Smart Bedtime Routine
Starting your day well depends on a good night's sleep and a plan for organizing things you will need for the morning. The less you need to do in the morning, the more likely you'll get to work on time. An evening routine typically involves the following steps:
- Lay out tomorrow's clothes, down to underwear, socks, and shoes.
- Place items and anything you'll need to take with you on a "launch pad" — an area near the door from which you exit every day. Items might include briefcase, car keys, cell phone, purse, coat, umbrella, a grocery list, or dry-cleaning receipts.
- Prepare breakfast. Fill the coffee pot and program it to brew while you're dressing. Place a clean coffee mug next to the coffee pot. Set the table for breakfast, putting out cereal boxes and unrefrigerated food items.
- Prepare lunch. If you brownbag it most days, make a sandwich or put a salad in an airtight container. If you will buy lunch, make sure you have enough cash to pay for it. Finally, prepare or, better yet—supervise—the preparation of children's lunches.
- Log off the computer and shut off the TV an hour before bedtime. Studies show that watching TV or using e-mail or the Internet within an hour before turning in wakes the brain up, instead of preparing it for sleep.
- Take a hot bath or shower before getting into bed. The gradual lowering of your body temperature as you cool off helps induce sleep.
- Get kids into bed (or in their rooms reading quietly) an hour before your bedtime. Adults need to wind down and relax, without being "on duty" until their head hits the pillow.
- Make sure that your kids' bedtime routine mirrors yours. Lay out clothes, deposit items on launch pad, bathe.
- Get into bed at least a half-hour before lights out. Read quietly, and not from a page-turner that will tempt you to stay up.
- Set the alarm to give yourself a minimum of seven hours of sleep and an hour before departure time the next morning.
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Free Thanksgiving Day Meal in Nearby Holley
Yes, I know that Holley is not Brockport
However, this wonderful event is open to all and I want to make sure that anyone in Brockport in need of a meal this Thanksgiving knows there is an opportunity right next door.
The Holley Community Loaf and Ladle will be offering a free Thanksgiving meal on the holiday itself – Thursday, November 24th. The meal will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on 2 Jackson Street in Holley from noon to 2 p.m.
Reservations are not necessary but are appreciated for planning purpose.
Please contact Bill or Karen DesJardin at 638-6954.
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This craft is a pack tradition of ours that was passed down to me from our old pack Cubmaster. It is relatively simple to make and very cheap. I make this for all the new scouts that join our pack as a reminder that their ultimate goal as a scout is to achieve their Eagle rank. (I don't have any "in progress" pictures as I already had this one made, but it's really easy to make)
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Announced at Cannes in 2007 and scheduled to shoot that summer, Andrei Konchalovsky's version of The Nutcracker arrives several Thanksgivings past its due date—CGI-enhanced, 3-D-retrofitted, and bizarrely high-concept. As co-scripted by Konchalovsky, The Nutcracker in 3-D is closer to the E.T.A. Hoffmann story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" than to Tchaikovsky's snowflake-dusted Sugarplum Fairy fest; nominally set in 1920s Vienna, it's less a dance film than an operetta, with Tim Rice's lyrics put to Tchaikovsky's music. Nathan Lane, wearing a gray fright wig and mimicking Walter Slezak's sachertorte accent, is the kindly godfather; the little heroine is Elle Fanning, noticeably more childish here than she will appear next month in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, but nonetheless rivaling big sister Dakota's knack for the sudden shrill scream. John Turturro plays the villainous Rat King in makeup that makes him look alarmingly like Phil Spector. Sigmund Freud is repeatedly name-checked, but the influence of another onetime Vienna resident is far more evident: The evil rodents who take over the city in a bit of 9/11-evoking terror are nothing less than Ratzis—they even operate an extermination camp for children's toys, complete with crematoria. Konchalovsky not only anticipated Toy Story 3's dump-truck-to-hell sequence, he exceeded it. In one fantastic bit of business, Turturro (or his avatar) dances an exultant flamenco amid toys heaped in the street like bundles of confiscated clothing. The wildest thing about this movie is its faith that what kids (and parents) really want for Christmas is a Nutcracker version of the Final Solution.
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The Bhaag Mikha Bhaag actor was invited to lecture at London Indian Film Festival
There are many feathers jostling for space in Farhan Akhtar's brimming-with-talents hat. The 40-year-old is known for his multi-talented personality- a unique combination of an actor, a singer, a film-maker, a TV host and a writer. An overwhelming package of wholesome and credible entertainment that Farhan is, will now have one more feather being added to his pre-occupied hat. Farahn will now turn into a lecturer!
After achieving enviable accolades for his portrayal of athlete, the flying Sikh, Milkha Singh in Rakeyesh Omprakash Mehra's movie Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Farhan has now been invited to take a master class at a film festival in London.
The event is believed to be a part of British Film Institute (BFI) special 'in conversation' program with the London Indian Film Festival which also happens to be Europe's biggest independent film festival which will unfold on July 10 and end on July 17.
We hear that Farhan has been given a freehand to talk about a range of topics including acting, singing, direction and writing. Now that's an interesting prospect, isn't it? And we at BollywoodLife can't wait for the sexy actor to spill pearls of wisdom and make India proud on the global platform!


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