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When Jeannie Entin was pregnant, she insisted that anyone who planned to visit her newborn baby first get a booster shot to ward off whooping cough.
Entin knew the mandate would cause some eye rolling. Already, family members suspected she was reading too many pregnancy and parenting books. Most adults, meanwhile, are notoriously lax when it comes to updating vaccinations.
But pertussis, or whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory tract infection that can turn serious in infants. When Entin explained that adults are the most common source of the illness, she found most people were happy to comply.
"I would rather regret people thinking I'm overprotective or even a little crazy than to regret not protecting my baby," said Entin, 35, of San Jose, Calif.
In an effort to protect newborns and increase adult immunization rates, some obstetricians and pediatricians are promoting the concept of "cocooning," or vaccinating anyone who comes into contact with the infant.
"It's still rather new but catching on," said Dr. Bill Schaffner, a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Research suggests that newborn babies are most likely to catch whooping cough from someone in their own home. To reduce the risk, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that pregnant women receive a combination vaccine that contains tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, also known as Tdap, during every pregnancy.
In studies where researchers have been able to pinpoint a cause, mothers are responsible for 30 to 40 percent of the infections in babies. The rest of the time, other people can make the babies sick, including siblings, grandparents, caregivers and those well-meaning visitors.
Cocooning alone may not be enough to prevent the illness in infants. But it can help provide indirect protection until the baby can get his own vaccine at 2 months of age. And if a pregnant woman is also vaccinated, some of the protection will go across the placenta and provide some immediate coverage, Schaffner said.
But getting everyone on board can be a challenge.
"It's difficult to have to ask," said Leah Sarago, a strength and conditioning specialist based in Fort Worth, Texas, who recently had her second child.
She planned to ask family members who might be staying with her to get vaccinated — her parents and sister already had the booster — but stopped short of requesting that visiting friends get immunized.
"It's hard enough to get friends and family to use hand sanitizer before touching the baby," she said.
New mom Jill Manrique, of Evanston, Ill., had a home birth in February and asked everyone who was present during the delivery to get the Tdap and influenza vaccines. One family member didn't vaccinate her kids, leading to an awkward situation, she said. "I'm still pretty vigilant about it with visitors both adults and children," Manrique said.
Whooping cough starts with coldlike symptoms and sometimes a mild cough or fever. As it progresses, the traditional symptoms appear: fits of rapid coughs followed by a high-pitched "whoop," vomiting and exhaustion. Infants, instead of coughing, may have an interrupted breathing pattern, or apnea.
Before the vaccine became widely available in the 1940s, about 200,000 U.S. children came down with it each year, and 9,000 died. Today, 10,000 to 40,000 cases are reported each year, with 10 to 20 deaths, the CDC reports.
Adults are a major threat to infants, even if they have a mild case. Most pertussis is thought to be spread by coughing, but transmission probably can occur even without symptoms present, Schaffner said. Once a person has it, he can spread it to 12 to 15 others, according to the CDC. About half of the infants younger than 1 with pertussis are hospitalized.
Whooping cough is cyclic in nature and peaks every three to five years. The vaccine's protection appears to fade, so many older children vaccinated as youngsters lose immunity to the bacterium.
Many adults fail to get a booster, meanwhile, due to a lack of funding, awareness and education. Last year, the standards for adult vaccination practices were revised because the rates were abysmally low. In 2012, 14.2 percent of adults older than 19 received the Tdap booster in the previous seven years. For those living with an infant younger than 1, the rate was 25.9 percent, according to the CDC's National Health Interview Survey.

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Excerpt: Games with male-only lead options sell 75 percent better than games with female-only leads. So yes, some of the fear that exists on the publishing side is founded. But you also need to consider the fact that this is a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, given that games with only female protagonists were merely given close to 40 percent of the marketing budget as the male only games. That's right, not even half. And they wonder why those sales are not as good? The game industry is stifling advancement by using outdated, "safe" formulas.
Yay more feminist bullshit where they bleed all over the place over stupid shit that a lot of women don't give a fuck about other than their fisting feminist groups and men who have gag balls in their mouths.
Less is good, less of this
and more of this please
You know, this has become beyond sad. I really say that we should ignore this blatant attempts at stirring up problems completely from now on.
If there are women out there who have nothing better to do than be offended by games, let them become game designers and actually lead the industry in change instead of crying about it and getting their manginas to stand up for them too. I'm sick of these poorly researched whine fests about how women aren't represented properly in the industry or games.
Representation requires doing something to represent yourself. Don't force others to shoulder that burden for you.
Realistically, most people are gamers in some form these days (you could call anyone who accepted a facebook candy crush saga invitation a "gamer"), so as was said above, this "55%" figure is meaningless.
This article seems to be attacking high-spec AAA games though, which are very different type of experience from those described above.
Most of the "hardcore" gamers are indeed white males (given that Europe and North America are still the largest gaming markets in the world (and lets not forget that the article exclusively refers to Western-made games)) and as most people like to play a character they empathise with (better looking of course, though same gender/country generally) most characters are logically white males.


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Customers of Lyons Jewelers who showed up at the Bedford store the day after Election Day got a surprise.
Shoprite is no more, but the plaza is not entirely vacant. The gas station and car wash are still operating and Lago Pizza is still open The pizza place and Italian restaurant is operated by Júlio Ortiz and Esperanza Forero.
"We started just with a take-out," said Forero.
When Original Italian Pizza (OIP) moved from its longtime home at the west end of Bedford to its new home in the old Wal-Mart Plaza, Domenica LoPiccolo wanted to commission Leslie Padgett to do a mural.
Harman Eye Center's newest addition is Dr. Tracy Scheibe.
A native of Knoxville, Tenn., Dr. Scheibe has lived in Beford County for six years, five of them in the Five Forks area. She earned her doctor of optometry degree from Illinois College of Optometry in 1999.
She's a baseball fan.
"I like the Cubs, the Chicago Cubs," she said.
That choice was not influenced by the fact that Illinois College of Optometry is located in Chicago.
Danny Johnson jokes that he's never eaten more than half a worm.
His point is that there are worse things than an apple that doesn't look perfect, the potential result of using reduced spray techniques. The worse thing is pesticide residue on the apple.
Johnson said that he began using low spray techniques when he stopped shipping apples and began selling exclusively directly to the public.
"I don't have to grow a perfect apple anymore," he said.
Doug and Lucy Overstreet didn't originally intend to farm.
They initially started raising livestock at Idlewild Farm because they were concerned about what was in the food they were eating. Their solution was to raise their own.
Then friends started asking to buy some, so they expanded. Doug saw it as a way to make the whole project pay for itself.
Troy and Holly Brown have had Island Creek Farm for 11 years.
"We have farmed actively here for seven years," Holly said.
They are totally organic, and then some.
"We don't use any chemicals here," she said. "We don't even use organic chemicals. We believe in the importance of the health of the soil."
D&L Cattle, in Goode, is run by a father and son team. The D is for David Arrington and the L is for Lynwood Arrington, David's father.
"We've raised cattle for several years," said Lynwood Arrington.
Previously they sold cattle to the market, but they began direct marketing to the public this year, in February, an idea that a cousin suggested. It sounded like a good idea and they began working in September, 2011, to put a plan in action.
Walter Gross, now 78, grew up in the orchard business.
Ben Coleman, of Mountain Run Farm, decided to go chemical free after his son was born.
"I didn't feel good about sitting him in a field that I just fertilized," he said. "We made a point never to bring chemicals down this driveway."
He has built the soil with manure and he said this has brought the soil to life.
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Official OS 220.127.116.113 from SK Telecom has reached the BlackBerry Torch 9800 today. If you have a Torch 9800 get out that USB cord and give your device a fresh OS. Be sure to let us know how it works for you!
Note: The Software Platform and Applications version numbers can be found under Options-About screen on the handheld.


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Before we go any further, you should all place a hefty grain of salt on your tongues. We're about to dip into some pretty heavy speculation, but given what little we know so far that's about all we have to go on.
Roughly five hours ago the official Bethesda Softworks Twitter account released the above image alongside a frustratingly coy single-word explanation. "Tomorrow," it says simply, though what exactly might happen tomorrow is anyone's guess.
This being the Internet rumor and speculation have run rampant, with most positing the idea that the screencap is an image from the long-awaited first downloadable content addition for Bethesda's wildly successful, critically-beloved The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. "Looks like a Stormcloak being interrogated by a Thalmor agent. Check out the collar and pointy ears on the dude in the foreground," writes Facebook user Ben Ruddock.
As OXM points out it has been long known that the first two DLC packs for Skyrim will initially be exclusive to the Xbox 360, which, given the recent announcement of an upcoming Skyrim update focusing on Kinect voice commands, casts a suspicious air over the timing of this image's appearance.
Assuming we are looking at the first screenshot from an upcoming Skyrim DLC pack, the picture gives scant information as to what that pack might include. OXM also notes that Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media has trademarked the word "Dawnguard" specifically for video game add-ons, and that the Skyrim community discovered low-resolution versions of familiar landmarks from earlier Elder Scrolls titles on the Skyrim disc (though neither of those facts really tell us anything concrete). For all we know this hypothetical DLC opens a rift between Tamriel and the post-apocalyptic wastes of Fallout 3, forcing players to combat wave after wave of giant Radscorpions with nothing but a rusty sword and the kinetic force of their screams.
That was supposed to be a joke, but now that it's in print the idea sounds awesome. We won't know for sure what Bethesda has up its sleeve until tomorrow, but we're keeping our fingers crossed for a chance to FUS RO DAH that nuke in the middle of Megaton just to see what happens.


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Officials say a 17-year-old boy is the latest victim of a shark attack off North Carolina's coast, the second attack in as many days and the sixth attack in the past two weeks.
Rescue personnel and park rangers responded to the boy, who suffered what they described as injuries to his right calf, buttocks and both hands while swimming in the Outer Banks on Saturday, according to a post on the National Park Service's Facebook page. The boy was swimming with others when he was bitten, but no one else was hurt, officials said.
A hospital spokeswoman says the boy was in critical risk of dying, but his condition has improved.
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While Steve Jobs' long statement was clearly a prepared one, he truly displayed a little bit of agitation and passion, which is a welcome change from the bland North Koreanesque shows we get to see during staged press events. When talking about Android, Jobs focused on it being a fragmented platform, a platform that will not win due to its non-integrated nature. He also challenged the open nature of Android.
"Google loves to characterize Android as open and iPhone as closed. We see this disingenuous and clouding the difference," Jobs said, "The first thing we think of when we hear open is Windows [ed. note: lolwut?], which is available on a lot of devices. Unlike Windows, where PCs have the same interface, Android is very fragmented. HTC and Motorola install proprietary user interfaces to differentiate themselves. The user left to figure it out."
"Even if Google was right and the real issue was closed vs open, it's worth remembering open doesn't always win," he continued, "In reality we think the open vs. closed argument is just a smokescreen to try and hide the real issue which is: what's best for the customer, fragmented or integrated? We think Android is very fragmented and becoming more fragmented by the day. We prefer integrated so the user doesn't have to be the systems integrator."
While Jobs has a point about the fragmentation from a developer's point of view, I'm not so sure about customers. Who cares if a Samsung device has a slightly different UI than one from HTC? Will people be using them side-by-side? Of course they won't - they'll have one phone for the coming two years, and then move on to something new, and even if that's one sporting a slightly different skin, much of the Android experience is still the same. I've been fiddling with both Sense and Samsung's UI, and apart from looks, they don't appear to be too different at all. Nothing the car-brand-switching and TV-brand-switching crowd can't handle.
So, how does the father of Android, Andy Rubin, respond to all this? Angry? Fearful? Sad? None of that - in his first ever tweet he responds to Jobs' words as matter-of-factly as can be.
I couldn't agree more. I'm not a die-hard Free/open source advocate like some of you, so in my mind, there's nothing wrong with Google placing some demands on access to Google's services like the Marketplace or the use of the Android trademark. I mean, Haiku and Red Hat (among other open source projects/companies) place similar restrictions on the use of their trademark/services, and rightfully so.
Nothing is stopping a CentOS-like initiative for Android if people are really concerned, and that is exactly why Android is open, no matter how Cupertino tries to spin it the other way around.
Jobs had more to say, more specifically, on 7" tablets. Some people were hoping for a 7" version of the iPad, but Jobs pretty much slammed the door on that one by going on a bit of a rant about 7" tablets. He stated that 7" is too small for finger-friendly use, quipping that they ought to ship with sandpaper to grind down your fingers. Why the tiny keyboard on the 3.5" iPhone is all good is a mystery to all.


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There are some things that are "odd" about running a farm. I couldn't say they were weird, but just different….odd. For instance, as I was vacuuming my child's room the other day, pieces of straw littered her floor. To me, it's no biggie, probably just fell out of her sweatshirt or her shoe.
Here's my point, to a suburban housewife this could cause quite
an alarm! If she were to discover it in October, the mystery
would have been solved eventually by remembering that she had that
cute little Martha Stewart harvest display on her porch that the
kids were playing on. You know the one that required
too much money a trip to that store in town where they have
all of the cute farm-y stuff? And now she has all of these
"squares" of straw that she just doesn't know what she is going to
do with, composting farmer's dream. But no!
This is the dead of winter folks, not harvest time. She
quickly would have jumped to conclusions and ultimately she would
have it pinned on a rat or varmint that has gotten into
the house and tracked all of this filth in. Que an
Not in my house, straw and mud on the floor. Completely normal. And the vacuum is actually a permanent fixture in our living room and entryway that we use…
Chicken feet. A two gallon bag of them in the freezer, in fact there's more than one right next to the 20 lbs of lard that needs to be rendered. Now, THAT would cause most to squirm. I could get a shirt that reads, "I eat chicken's feet". Really what I do with them is boil them down for stock, wonderful gelatinous and thick stock for soups and stews. Would you believe that my kids use them as back-scratchers on processing day? yep…farm punks.
Completely normal and delicious. Not my kids, the feet.
Muddy boots, cases of fruits and vegetables,
gallon compost buckets, irrigation fittings, zip ties,
pocket knifes, pliers, and work gloves on the counters, mason jars,
duct tape, an outside refrigerator full of
pickles…this is ALL completely normal here.
Now, just to back me up let me tell you what I have found in my farm girlfriends' houses. And mind you, it is a seasonal thing. Fixtures change due to the time of year. For instance, it is calving season and milking season for one of my farm girls. No doubt, she is rounding up as many gallon jars as she can. They are littering her kitchen and taking over the shelving in her pantry. And how about that piece of latex tubing that hangs from her kitchen window, right over her sink? Forget the cutsie stuff hanging in the windows, tubing it is! And on her window seal…. never mind. In another farm girl's kitchen there is no doubt seed packets, soaking pea seeds, etc…it's planting time! And finally, I can only imagine what litters most farm girl's kitchen tables right now…trays and trays of tiny vegetable seedlings.
All completely odd to most, but completely normal to a farm girl. How odd is your house?


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Design optimization helps reduce engineering time and increase fatigue life of refrigerant lines on a new generation of scroll chillers
April 7th, 2014 by Pavak Mehta
Preventing fatigue failure of copper refrigerant lines that connect compressors to condenser coils is a critical aspect of designing a new scroll compressor chiller configuration. Traditionally, R&D teams use a combination of physical testing and conventional finite element analysis to qualify the lines, especially to identify and correct resonances that could cause a reliability problem. But this approach is too slow to address chiller designs that have more than 100 refrigerant-line configurations. Trane has developed a new automated workflow capable of developing robust designs. The methodology combines design of experiments, response surface modeling and numerical optimization algorithms to configure refrigerant lines to minimize stress at running speed. The automated workflow uses ANSYS® software combined with Optimus® parametric optimization tools to evaluate 10 design alternatives and tune the refrigerant line geometry until operating stresses are below the endurance limit — all in the time once required to analyze just one design.
Existing Manual Process
Trane is the world's leading producer of commercial and light commercial scroll air-cooled chillers that are used for air conditioning, process cooling, refrigeration, dehumidification and other applications. The company's line of chillers includes single-scroll compressor configurations under 15 tons up to tandem compressors over 60 tons. The refrigerant lines are sized to survive long periods of near-continuous operation in an environment that teems with strong vibrations generated by compressor cycling. Lines that are configured with a resonant frequency away from the operating frequency of the compressor have a substantially longer fatigue life. Each line's resonant frequencies depend on the details of its geometry, such as overall length, bends and bend radii. The geometry of each line is, in turn, constrained by the need to avoid obstructions, such as equipment and other lines.
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Software Review: SimWise 4D – Motion, Finite Element Analysis, and Optimization in One Package
February 16th, 2014 by Jeff Rowe
By Jeffrey Rowe, MCADCafe Executive Editor
There are a number of simulation/analysis software products available for conducting motion and FEA studies. However, the ability to conduct them both, as well as optimizing assemblies is a tall order, especially for mere mortals and non-CAE specialists. With a relatively short learning curve, for this evaluation SimWise 4D proved its mettle for handling motion, FEA, and optimization in one comprehensive package.
What is known today as SimWise 4D began when Design Simulation Technologies (DST) acquired a license from MSC Software Corp. to the MSC.visualNastran 4D (vn4D) product. That software traces its roots to the Working Model 3D product developed by Knowledge Revolution, which was acquired by MSC in 1999, extended to include FEA capabilities, and renamed Working Model 4D.
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Manufacturing in Brazil – The Heartbeat of the South American Market
December 12th, 2013 by David Heller
In this IMSTV In Brief Video Mario Winterstein, AMT Business Development Director and Achilles Arbex, General Manager of AMT – Sao Paulo Technology Center discuss the heartbeat of the South American market and why it's a great opportunity today for manufacturing technology businesses. Read the rest of Manufacturing in Brazil – The Heartbeat of the South American Market
HP ZBook15 Mobile Workstation Review – Is Beauty More Than Skin Deep?
December 1st, 2013 by David Heller
HP recently introduced its ZBook series of mobile workstations. After attending the product launch in NYC, I was fortunate enough to get a top of the line HP ZBook 15 mobile workstation to evaluate and discover if this sleek new beauty's performance promise was more than skin deep.
My evaluation unit was über equipped with the highest performing NVIDIA GPU, included a built-in HP DreamColor Display system and came with the following specifications as supplied:
O/S: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Service Pack 1
My first impression of the mobile workstation was the attention to its detail, at many levels: its strong and substantial construction and yes, as you can see above, the ZBook 15 is beautifully designed. Its case is artfully and ergonomically constructed of high-grade burnished aluminum resting on a light weight but strong magnesium chassis that, as I unfortunately learned the hard way, protects the unit from accidental damage.
A Tale of Unintended Consequences – Testing the ZBook 15's Ruggedness and Durability
Accidents do happen – courtesy of Dr. C. Wacko
I never intended to test this unit's durability but sometimes life gets in the way. After completing my evaluation, the mobile workstation was sitting closed on the floor directly below my TV stand. I was swapping out a couple of connectors at the rear of my 46" TV and as I nudged the TV to the front of the glass stand-top to gain access, the fifty-pound glass plate unexpectedly tipped forward and slammed forcefully down on top of the closed computer. OMG!
When I saw the two inch recessed gash in the case above the screen I was certain that I had completely destroyed this expensive loaner and quickly but carefully pulled the unit free. I said a few prayers and booted up to find that although the screen had cracked it was still emitting light. There was hope, and I quickly plugged in an external VGA display and miraculously the computer worked perfectly! I do not recommend this as an evaluation method, but it certainly does prove that the ZBook 15 is capable of surviving even the most egregious mishandling and of overcoming the worst of accidents.
Ease of use
The keyboard is well laid out and includes a full numeric keypad, back lit keys, and the TouchPad mouse controller is ideally positioned. Using other portables the fleshy mass under my thumb intermittently rubs against the finger controlled pad while I'm typing, initiating all sorts of unwanted actions and consequences. This never happened to me on the ZBook 15, and to use the workstation with a mouse and avoid this possibility altogether all I had to do was double tap the TouchPad to toggle it off. The ZBook 15 is also equipped with a fingerprint reader you can use instead of entering a password when signing in. And, it works! I was skeptical about this feature at first, but found that lightly sliding my forefinger over the reader logged me in every time without a hitch
Ports (Expandability)
Four USB ports are positioned around the sides and rear of the unit: 1 USB 2.0 port for backwards compatibility and 3 USB 3.0 ports, one of which can be used as a charging port that always has power available to charge your other devices, even when the machine is turned off. This came in handy during a recent business trip when I had my iPad's cable but forgot to bring along the AC charging plug.
The sides of the workstation also include an SD memory card reader, one port that accepts a composite headphone-out/microphone-in cable, an optical drive that plays Blu-Ray DVD's and plays and records to standard DVD's and CD's, a VGA monitor input jack, a DisplayPort, and a Thunderbolt I/O that greatly increases data transfer performance with bi-directional 10 Gbps speed. (There is no HDMI port. However, I learned that if you want to display HD video on your TV, the HP "DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter" is available as an inexpensive accessory.)
Flip the unit over and you'll find a docking connector, flush-mounted with the surface that gives you the option to expand your possibilities by powering external displays or other devices.
My evaluation unit came with 16GB of system RAM and 500 GB of hard drive storage that's paired with a 32 GB MLC mSATA module with intel SRT (Smart Response Technology) for quick boot and file access.
I particularly liked the ability to open the back panel with just a flip of a lever to quickly upgrade system RAM to 32GB, and upgrade storage to a whopping 1.87TB with no tools needed. The modular design with green touch-points allows for tool-less removal and replacement of most common modules making upgrades and maintenance a snap.
The Optional DreamColor Display
The evaluation unit came equipped with an integrated DreamColor display. The DreamColor display was introduced a few years ago on the DreamWorks Animation campus where it collaboratively got its birth by providing exceptional color accuracy across their entire studio. One feature set that I took special note of are its six built-in and selectable color calibration modes: sRGB, Rec. 709, Rec. 601, Adobe® RGB, DCI-P3 emulation, and full gamut. There's also one user programmable mode that lets you customize your unique color look and feel across an entire enterprise.
You initiate the DreamColor control panel by entering "HP Mobile Display Assistant" into the Start menu search field. This wasn't immediately obvious or explained, and to get there faster I pasted a shortcut icon to this program into the task bar.
Subjective Testing
To experience this machine as it was intended, I began my evaluation by using the mobile workstation in my every day work by taking it with me daily to and from my office, and then on an out-of-town business trip. The ZBook15 is ISV certified to perform with virtually all engineering software and I loaded in and worked with Autodesk Maya 2014, the full Adobe creative suite, and Avid's Pinnacle video software during my evaluation.
I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly the unit booted up – it took just 15 seconds to boot from a cold start to the login screen and only 3 seconds to the desktop after swiping my finger. I also clocked boot times for my applications – Autodesk Maya 2014 fully launched in 4 seconds, Adobe Photoshop in 3, and Avid's Pinnacle video editing software in just 7 seconds.
I fully exercised each of these applications creating and rendering complex models and scenes with Autodesk Maya and doing full video editing and rendering with both Adobe Premiere and Avid Pinnacle. The renderings appeared to fly by and when operating in these applications all actions occurred almost instantly.
Working in this responsive environment was a breath of fresh air and allowed me to get to work fast without impatiently drumming my fingers waiting for the next screen to appear.
I clocked the battery life at an even 2 hours while running the very compute intensive SPECapc Maya 12 Benchmark Test and was told that on my unit battery life was diminished by at least half with the DreamColor display installed. The HP spec claims 14 hours of battery life, but this is without DreamColor, and measured when the computer is idled.
Objective Testing
To objectively gauge how well the ZBook 15 performs I ran two benchmarks, NovaBench (geared more toward overall performance) and SPECapc Maya 12 (geared more toward graphics performance).
NovaBench Benchmark Test
16156 MB System RAM (Score: 238)
Total NovaBench Composite Score: 1,190
The ZBook 15 scored well above average. 41,004 NovaBench workstation benchmark tests were performed over the past 3 months and the average composite score for these was 864 compared to the ZBook 15's score of 1,190.
SPECapc Maya 12 Benchmark Test
Final Thoughts
Cons: None significant, especially noteworthy since this is one of three new ZBooks just released.
For More Information about the HP ZBook 15 mobile workstation: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/workstations/zbook-15.html
IMTSTV 'IN BRIEF' Video – Aircraft Markets in an Age of Extremes with Richard Aboulafia
November 22nd, 2013 by David Heller
Here's the latest In Brief video from IMTSTV. In Brief is a quick update on news and events from around the manufacturing industry, featuring interviews with industry experts, how-to tips for business, and more. Investigates is an in-depth look at some of the most important topics in the manufacturing industry. Upcoming episodes will focus on topics like smartforce development, reshoring and more.
IN BRIEF: Aircraft Markets in an Age of Extremes with Richard Aboulafia
AMT' – The Association For Manufacturing Technology's Industry Economist, Russ Waddell got his wings at the Global Forecasting and Marketing Conference (GFMC) 2013. He discusses the recent trends and future outlooks on aircraft markets with Richard Aboulafia, Vice President, Analysis at the Teal Group Corporation in a new IMTSTV program.
Two New IMTSTV 'IN BRIEF' Videos – Fiscal Reality & Global Forcast
November 18th, 2013 by David Heller
Here are two of the latest In Brief videos from IMTSTV. In Brief is a quick update on news and events from around the manufacturing industry, featuring interviews with industry experts, how-to tips for business, and more. Investigates is an in-depth look at some of the most important topics in the manufacturing industry. Upcoming episodes will focus on topics like smartforce development, reshoring and more.
IN BRIEF: Fiscal Reality with Alan Beaulieu
November 18, 2013
AMT's Industry Economist, Eric LeMasters caught up with Alan Beaulieu, President of ITR Economics at the 2013 Global Forecasting & Marketing Conference for a quick update on the current Fiscal Reality. Alan's presentation at the conference covered projections for machine tool orders as well as an outlook for the general economy.
For more on the Fiscal Reality go to www.AMTonline.org/GFMC
IN BRIEF: Global Economy, Global Forecast with Adrian Cooper
AMT's Industry Economist, Russ Waddell talks with Adrian Cooper, CEO of Oxford Economics and long time presenter at the Global Forecasting & Marketing Conference. Adrian provides some insight on the next downturn in the economy, exchange rates impacting global supply chains, and what it takes to create a global economic forecast.
For more on the Global Forecast go to www.AMTonline.org/GFMC
Arena Releases Four New Products That "Will Change Manufacturing"
November 8th, 2013 by David Heller
Before Thomas Friedman published his ground-breaking book "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century," Arena Solutions, the pioneer of cloud-based product lifecycle management software, predicted a global business paradigm shift and the tools necessary for manufacturers to remain competitive in a global market.
Friedman's book title is a metaphor alluding to the fact that there are several business "flatteners", such outsourcing, supply chaining, work-flow software, uploading and the importance of collaboration, that have turned the world into a global market; these flatteners have also leveled the playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors have an equal opportunity.
In November, Arena launched four unique new solutions — Arena Demand, Arena Projects, Arena Exchange, and Arena API; Individually, these applications allow manufacturers of all sizes to aggregate material demand, project manage with greater visibility, securely share build packages across global supply chain teams, and integrate their business systems with Arena's products. Collectively, these products consitute a paradigm shift in how manufacturers embrace PLM solutions to transform their manufacturing operations and maximize business results.
Here's a breakdown of the four new products introduced within Arena's Fall '13 Release:
Improved visibility is one of the themes and key benefits of their Fall '13 release. Demand and Projects specifically address the lack of operational transparency that frustrate many modern manufacturers. When OEMs outsource their manufacturing, they also outsource their material planning, leaving them blind to the total quantity of parts they'll buy over the next year. Because Arena Demand provides OEMs with parts visibility across product lines (both broad and deep) users can forecast aggregated material demand to better negotiate bulk discounts. Similarly, Arena Projects empowers OEM Project Managers with greater visibility into the true advancement of the product record to eliminate decentralized project miscommunication and product error.
Another theme of Arena's new release is the importance of securely sharing product data that applies to both the exchange of information across supply chain teams as well as transfer of data from Arena PLM to other business systems. While OEMs want efficient supply chain approval processes, they don't always want to give their primary supply chain contact's second and third teams access to their PLM system.
Arena Exchange allows OEMs to forward, filter, and share build packages across their supply chain's own supply chain, enabling more robust team collaboration. Lastly, with Arena API, customers can open a portal from their ERP or other business system directly into Arena's product family to access BOMControl data.
For manufacturers, a flat world offers new global opportunities as well as new supply chain challenges, especially with OEMs increasingly outsourcing their manufacturing needs. Arena seems to really understand manufacturer's needs by addressing the most important manufacturing challenges facing OEMs today.
By Guest Blogger John Papageorge (Arena Solutions)
Autodesk's Intention to Acquire Delcam
November 7th, 2013 by David Heller
Yesterday we published an official announcement by Autodesk stating their intent to purchase CAM software company Delcam. They recently acquired HSMWorks, another high end CAM company, and I spoke with Anthony Graves, Autodesk CAM Product Manager for their HSMWorks CAM software, to learn what impact this potential acquisition would have on HSMWorks and Autodesk.
In answer to my questions Anthony pointed me to a blog post he made today and that I've republished below:
"What we can state at this time is the following:
Autodesk remains committed to the development of HSMWorks, Inventor HSM, and the integration of our existing, next generation CAM technology into our cloud services. We just released HSMWorks 2014 with support for Solidworks 2014, and we are planning to launch our beta of Inventor HSM (3D) sometime over the next few months. A successful acquisition of Delcam would not affect our current plans.
Delcam, like many other vendors, including Autodesk Partners Gibbs & Associates and Vero, offers a broad range of capabilities that our current CAM offerings do not support. Delcam has the well-earned reputation as an industry leader and all of the experience and technology that helped them achieve that distinction. You could say, with the addition of Delcam into the Autodesk family, Autodesk will be uniquely positioned to offer the best in both integrated CAM and stand-alone CAD/CAM, to all users regardless of their chosen CAD platform. It's all about providing the best tools to users – something Autodesk is committed to.
For those of us inside the Autodesk CAM Team this is an exciting development. Over the years there has been a shared respect for each others technology and we have had a great relationship between members of our two teams. The possibility of these two teams being able to share ideas and technology will drive innovation, performance, and quality for the broadest range of machining disciplines.
If you have any questions, please direct them to Carl White, our Sr. Director of Manufaturing Engineering, here at Autodesk. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Anthony Graves
The 2013 Boston COMSOL Conference: Attendees Get Their Hands On COMSOL's New Version 4.4 Pre Release
October 17th, 2013 by David Heller
For the ninth consecutive year the COMSOL Conference was held this year in Boston from October 9th through the 11th and will now visit seven countries wrapping up in Tokyo in December after hosting more than 2,000 enthusiastic users. I visited from California and while driving to the conference I was taken aback by the colorful beauty of New England in the autumn and then, when I arrived, by the highest level of excellence on display at the conference.
"Sugar maples turn yellow with a tinge of pink. Swamp maples turn red, almost all the shades of red, so that the valleys are like carmine rivers. Birches and aspens turn golden and coppery and white ashes go through that incredible series of colors that range from yellowish-green to blue-tan to greenish-blue to purple, and then bronze, to tan, and to rust." (Hal Borland)
Let's simulate that!
I'm always awed by this spectacle of color and I suspect that out of the 330 attendees at this year's annual COMSOL Conference in Boston more than a few were thinking how they could model and simulate this natural phenomenon using COMSOL Multiphysics. 🙂
The day started with a keynote by COMSOL CEO Svante Littmarck who introduced the COMSOL Multiphysics 4.4 pre release with all its new features, and I'll cover these in detail later in this article. This was followed by three compelling user presentations:
Siddiq Qidwai with the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. told us how he uses COMSOL Multiphysics to mitigate structural corrosion which is a formidable challenge both in terms of the cost to the maritime industry and the time and effort required to perform accurate computational modeling. In his talk he described his investigation into the effects of microstructure on corrosion pit growth and its effect on mechanical performance highlighting the technical challenges he faced and then overcame by taking advantage of the numerous options available from an evolving COMSOL library.
Julie Slaughter of Etrema Products in Ames Iowa told us how she uses multiphysics models to design magnetostrictive transducers and how vital to her work COMSOL Multiphysics and these models are. In her simulations and studies she uses magnetic, mechanical, acoustic, thermal single domain models, magnetic, magnetostrictive nonlinear models, and magneto-mechanical linear coupled models at different states of the transducer development cycle from concept to optimization, proof-of concept, and finally to design verification.
Peter Woytowitz of LAM Research in Fremont California wrapped up the keynotes by sharing how LAM uses COMSOL Multiphysics in semiconductor fabrication. Peter showed how computational modeling is being applied to wafer fabrication equipment, IC device modeling that includes solid, fluid, electrical and plasma modeling, to enable progressively higher transistor densities, better architectures, reliability and speed. He also took a look into the future where molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry modeling will play an increasing role.
All attendees were able to download this release to see and learn about the new features for themselves. They then had the opportunity to attend one or more of the conference's thirty mini courses, each focused on a specific simulation challenge, to sharpen their skills and then to apply this new found knowledge to their work.
Community is Key
Community and sharing is a major part of the conference and in the exhibit and display room I was surrounded by a dedicated community, connecting and sharing. These professionals came to the COMSOL Conference to sharpen their simulation skills, pick up new modeling tools, and to learn from colleagues who face similar simulation challenges, and they were really making the most of it.
What piqued my interest were posters mounted on panels throughout the room. Seventy-four user-created poster info-graphics were on display at the conference and each poster showed how each person or organization used COMSOL Multiphysics to simulate, study and solve a wide range of engineering challenges, including some very esoteric and interesting applications like the flow around a flying saucer micro air vehicle, and how human brain electrical conductivity relates to epilepsy.
Each poster contributor was more than happy to explain their work, and these simulation devotes also created and presented one or more of the 178 presentations and 104 papers given at the conference.
When this Conference series concludes in December COMSOL will combine all the user presentations and put them online for a few years. You can go to their site now and peruse this growing resource of past user presentations and papers. COMOL's done an excellent job of organizing the material so you'll get to the study you're looking for fast.
There were also seventeen exhibitors on hand; the bulk of them certified COMSOL consultants who help users get the most out of the software along with companies including Mathworks MATLAB, SpaceClaim and Simpleware. MathWorks (MATLAB) and SpaceClaim demonstrated their software with LiveLink® bidirectional data transfer between COMSOL Multiphysics, while Simpleware showed their tool and how they import analysis-ready meshes directly into COMSOL Multiphysics.
COMSOL hasn't yet released a video that explains all the features offered in the new version 4.4 pre-release. However, I'm presenting below their most current video that covers their previous 4.3b release and describes the many new innovations added to COMSOL Multiphysics over the past year.
Six New Add-On Modules Provide More Functionality
It all starts with COMSOL Multiphysics that includes the desktop graphical user interface and core physics interfaces for mechanical, electrical, fluid and chemical applications. You can then augment and drill down into each of these areas with add-on products that offer specialized physics interfaces, dedicated models, solver technology and post processing tools aimed at specific application areas, and that are all compatible with each other making it easy to mix different physics together.
Since last year, six new add-on products have been added to the required core COMSOL Multiphysics interface
Meet COMSOL's new Version 4.4
The COMSOL Multiphysics user interface has been completely reworked and improved in v4.4 and now sports a 'Windows' style ribbon menu at the top of the GUI. The ribbon gives you an instant overview without having to drill down, making your experience more intuitive and reducing clicks to show options so you can spend more time focusing on the work at hand and less time having to think about how to use the interface.
Read the rest of The 2013 Boston COMSOL Conference: Attendees Get Their Hands On COMSOL's New Version 4.4 Pre Release
HP's Big Workstation Launch Wows 'em In the Big Apple
September 12th, 2013 by David Heller
September 4, 2013
This year's HP global workstation product launch event was the biggest I've ever attended, and the most exciting in terms of the revolutionary new product offerings presented and the people I met and interviewed.
We gathered early on Wednesday morning in a large hall in the NYC Sheraton Hotel, right in the midst of bustling Times Square, and to get the ball rolling were treated to speeches by some heavy hitting HP workstation users.
Mark Russell, Independent Producer, Director and Vfx Specialist
First at bat was Mark Russell, and he hit it out of the park. Mark is an independent director, producer and Vfx creator who produced the soon to be released Paramount Pictures, Martin Scorsese film 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' a tale of financial intrigue that's now in post production and destined to become a blockbuster when it hits theaters on November 15th, 2013.
We were treated to some video outtakes from this production that showcased the VFx work that Mark supervised for this film that was primarily shot and produced on Long Island and in Manhattan, just a quick subway ride to Brooklyn where Mark lives.
When you watch the film you won't know where reality ends and CG takes over, it's done that well. One series of fly-over shots were taken of a mansion in the Hamptons with multiple takes from a 4-bladed radio controlled miniature helicopter equipped with a super high-definition camera that transmitted the video wirelessly to an HP workstation on the ground for processing and viewing in real time. The mini-copter stays in the air for less than a minute before running out of juice and the ground crew had to plop in new batteries fast to get this small bird back in the air before the 'magic' light evaporated. The perfect lighting conditions occur close to sunset and the perfect light window lasts only around thirty minutes, so the film crew had to be super organized to shot this series in the allotted time, and keeping everyone and everything organized was a major part of Mark's job. Oh, and they did make a rendered CG Model of the mansion that you can't tell from the real thing for shots that the mini-copter just couldn't cope with.
The mansion fly-over was a special effect, but not necessarily a CG Vfx one. Computer generated effects were reserved for scenes that couldn't be done practically without CG. For example, there's a scene in the film where a helicopter flown by a drunken pilot dangerously skirts buildings scattering terrorized pedestrians. Mark and his team made me believe it was the real thing and saved a lot of lives and money in the process by not trying this stunt with a real helicopter, buildings or really panicked people . No one was hurt and the pilot wasn't arrested for DUI.
In another scene, a luxurious 100 foot + yacht glides in to a picturesque Mediterranean harbor. The harbor and beautiful setting are real, but the Yacht isn't. Rumor has it that this mini luxury liner goes up in explosive flames later in the movie, and you just don't want to do this with a vessel that could cost between $10 and $60 million dollars coupled with annual operating expenses that could top $500K a year …. That's more than I made last year! OMG.
So, what's the hook? HP workstations of course. Mark has an HP portable workstation virtually glued to him, and uses it daily to organize his crew, communicate, and do Vfx work on the fly. HP compute power was used during the filming of 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and now Mark and his team along with others are burning the midnight oil hunched over HP displays doing post production and editing work, pulling together thousands of shots and transforming these bits and pieces into a stunning movie. Read the rest of HP's Big Workstation Launch Wows 'em In the Big Apple


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Not long ago, a student's personal electronic device was considered a disruptive force in the classroom, but that is changing.
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For examples of how students are using their own devices to enhance learning, one need look no further than the 12th annual AT&T/MACUL Student Technology Showcase at the State Capitol Building in Lansing Wednesday, Nov. 28. Some 125 students from 35 schools will show legislators and the public how they have integrated technology into the curriculum.
As student owned technology devices become more commonplace, learning becomes expanded and available 24/7. Let technology serve the student and the rest will follow.
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Minghong Ma, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Department: Neuroscience
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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Office: (215) 746-2790
Fax: 215-573-9050
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B.S. (Biophysics)
Peking University , 1988.
M.S. (Biophysics)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1991.
Ph.D. (Neuroscience)
Columbia University , 1997.
B.S. (Biophysics)
Peking University , 1988.
M.S. (Biophysics)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1991.
Ph.D. (Neuroscience)
Columbia University , 1997.
Description of Research ExpertiseRESEARCH INTEREST
Olfaction and Respiration-driven Brain Activity
Patch clamp, Optical imaging, Optogenetics, Electrophysiology in behaving mice, Neural circuit mapping, Mouse behavior, Immunohistochemistry, Molecular biology
The mammalian olfactory system relies on a large number (~1200 in rodents) of G-protein coupled odorant receptors (ORs) to detect and discriminate numerous odors in the environment. Each olfactory sensory neuron (OSN) in the nose manages to express only one OR type. By combining patch clamp, optical imaging, molecular, and genetic approaches, we are investigating how the olfactory sensory neurons with defined ORs encode different odors in the environment and how olfactory experience modifies the sensitivity and organization of the system.
We recently discovered that OSNs serve dual functions as odor detectors and mechanical sensors, which leads to the hypothesis that the nose provides the respiration rhythm to the brain in addition to the olfactory information. Respiration is not only influenced by autonomic demands, but also by emotional states (fear, anxiety, anger, etc). On the other hand, conscious control of breathing, usually in the form of rhythmic nasal breathing, can significantly affect physiology, mood, and cognition. By combining optogenetics, electrophysiological recordings in behaving and anesthetized animals, behaviors, and neural circuit mapping, we are investigating the source and significance of respiration-locked brain activity.
Selected PublicationsMoberly AH*, Schreck M, Bhattarai JP, Zweifel LS, Luo W, Ma M*: Olfactory inputs modulate respiration-related rhythmic activity in the prefrontal cortex and freezing behavior. Nat Commun 9: 1528, 2018. Notes: *corresponding authors.
Yu Y†*, Moberly AH†, Bhattarai JP, Duan C, Zheng Q, Li F, Huang H, Olson W, Luo W, Wen T, Yu H, Ma M*: The stem cell marker Lgr5 defines a subset of postmitotic neurons in the olfactory bulb. J Neurosci 37(39): 9403-9414, 2017. Notes: †equal contribution and *corresponding authors.
de March CA†, Yu Y†, Ni MJ, Adipietro KA, Matsunami H*, Ma M*, Golebiowski J*: Conserved residues control activation of mammalian G Protein-coupled odorant receptors. J Am Chem Soc 137: 8611-8616, 2015. Notes: †equal contribution and *corresponding authors.
Yu Y†, de March CA†, Ni MJ, Adipietro KA, Golebiowski J*, Matsunami H*, Ma M* : Responsiveness of G protein-coupled odorant receptors is partially attributed to the activation mechanism. Proc Natl Acad Sci 112: 14966-14971, 2015. Notes: †equal contribution and *corresponding authors.
Challis RC, Tian H, Wang J, He J, Jiang J, Chen X, Yin W, Connelly T, Ma L, Yu CR, Pluznick JL, Storm DR, Huang L, Zhao K, Ma M: An olfactory cilia pattern in the mammalian nose ensures high sensitivity to odors. Curr Biol 25: 2503-2512, 2015. Notes: Commented by Wall CM and Zhao H (2015) Sensory Biology: Novel Peripheral Organization for Better Smell. Curr Biol. 25:R833-6.
Connelly T†, Yu Y†, Grosmaitre X, Wang J, Santarelli LC, Savigner A, Qiao X, Wang Z, Storm DR, Ma M: G Protein-coupled odorant receptors underlie mechanosensitivity in mammalian olfactory sensory neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci 112: 590-5, 2015. Notes: †equal contribution.
Jiang Y†, Li YR†, Tian H, Ma M*, Matsunami H*: Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M3 modulates odorant receptor activity via inhibition of β-Arrestin-2 recruitment. Nature Commun 6: 6448 (1-15), 2015. Notes: †equal contribution and *corresponding authors.
Lee AC, He J and Ma M: Olfactory Marker Protein Is Critical for Functional Maturation of Olfactory Sensory Neurons and Development of Mother Preference. J Neurosci 31: 2974–2982, 2011.
Tan J, Savigner A, Ma M and Luo M: Odor information processing by the olfactory bulb analyzed in gene-targeted mice. Neuron 65: 912-926, 2010.
Grosmaitre X, Fuss SH, Lee AC, Adipietro KA, Matsunami H, Mombaerts P and Ma M: SR1, a mouse odorant receptor with an unusually broad response profile. J Neurosci 29: 14545-14552, 2009.
Grosmaitre X, Santarelli LC, Tan J, Luo M and Ma M: Dual functions of mammalian olfactory sensory neurons as odor detectors and mechanical sensors. Nature Neurosci 10: 348-354, 2007. Notes: Featured in Research Highlights in Nature (March 1, 2007), 446:5.
Grosmaitre X, Vassalli A, Mombaerts P, Shepherd GM and Ma M: Odorant responses of olfactory sensory neurons expressing the odorant receptor MOR23: a patch clamp analysis in gene-targeted mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci 103: 1970-1975, 2006. Notes: Featured in "In This Issue" by PNAS.
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I'm working on another painting and in the upper right I am putting some old inner tubes and wondering what color they would have been in the early teens. They look white in old photos but might have been a gray. I've seen red and carmel colored ones but assumed they were from the 20's or 30's.
Does anyone have any ideas on tube colors or pictures?
I think the red ones are 1930's or later. I would say tan or grey for real old ones. Same as old tires - made from natural rubber.
I have also see red ones in the Model T size, but they might have been replacements as my dad had model T's long before I was born and the red tubes were in his stash.
"Red" is the color....the best inner tubes of the day, cost the most were the thick red rubber tubes.
Firestone Adv 1916 Automobile.
note the 'red' tubes adv in the copy.
And Firestone played off the 'red' is best with red side wall tires too!
Wow! I like the detail in that painting. From the work benches and construction to even a few low tires. Great work Richard.
Here are a couple more.
1916 Liberty Auto Supply catalog, New York
These are neat....red thread on the tires for Ford!
That oil stained garage floor looks like my oil stained garage floor!!! LOL
Wish I could get a painting like that done of a brass 16 T in some sort of scene.
Thanks for the information guys and the kind words too. I'm always amazed at the depth of knowledge on the forum. I like the red and have a few red tubes so I will change them to red.
Richard, do you sell your paintings / prints? This one is awesome! Is this finished or are you going to put brass car being fixed over the oil spots?
Dan T did a nice job of showing the proof of red tubes being that early.
Richard, You are also right about caramel colored and almost white colored tubes. I have seen both and still have a small piece of a near translucent caramel colored tube. I pulled the remains of it out of a tire about forty years ago.
I wish more people had tried to save old tires and tubes, even pieces of them. I once saw a gray tread/bright green wall tire hanging on a collector's garage wall inside. It was about a 28X3 and shriveled from age.
Gray and red-wall tires were more common, however we are still talking about nearly a hundred years ago now when they were new and in use. When those things were still showing up around swap meets, most hobbyists were just throwing them away. I guess most people thought no one would ever really care what a tire used to look like.
Great artwork, Richard!
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
I love Richard's paintings and think he should produce a Model T calendar with them on. Or sell copies of your paintings thru the museum.
Richard (I'd like prints if you ever do them)
This is from the 1922 Western Auto Supply Company "Ford Owners Supply Book" with 129 pages.
Not as early as you ask.
#1 Jumbo Extra Thick Red tubes.
#2 Blue Ribbon Extra Quality inner tubes,in Gray and Red(note that red cost more)
#3 Pharis Paramold Jumbo extra thick tubes "shown in red" (and 10,000 mile tires for $14.95)
I took a red one out of my '17 torpedo runabout a couple years ago. My dad put the tires on in 1951 they were Wards Riverside brand. The tubes also have Wards Riverside on them.
The tubes in my 22 TT tires were red, Truck first sold in 1925,... but I'm not sure they were original... but likely were. It was retrofitted with AA wheels in the 30's and the original 32X41/2 tires were with the truck when I bought it, worn out and had red tubes...
This is directed to Ken Kopsky and Richard Eagle. Ken, I agree with you. Richard's attention to detail is amazing. At first glance, I thought I was looking at a color photo. Richard, You must have a lot of time in that amazing painting. If somehow, maybe on photo shop on a computer, you could interject paintings of different members and their cars into that painting, I bet you could sell a bunch. I'd be in line.
To answer some of the questions and comments about the painting, we did put a calendar together for this year and sold enough through the Vintage Ford ad and some local stores and museums to pay for printing. We gave the rest away to friends and family. I enjoy working on the cars and doing the paintings but printing and marketing are more work to me than enjoyment and are a distraction from what I like to do. Most of my friends who enjoy the paintings would rather spend their money on old car parts than a painting that took several hundred hour to do. I don't blame them. I've had more fun showing the paintings at local shows and on this forum than trying to make any money.
There are so many wonderful black and white photos that inspire me. The tricky part is trying to put realistic color into paintings from those photos. Thanks to those who have responded.
I think the painting is about finished except for some color changes. There was a suggestion to put a town car in it which I wish I had thought of originally.
When I replaced the tubes in my original '07 Autocar the tubes were red. Crunchy but red!
I have at least one tube that is off white. I guess I'll have to dig it out for proof seeing as nobody else has one.
This is from a 1911 Sears catalog.
This 1916 Times Square Automobile Co. catalog still shows grey tubes.
Another great one!! Thanks Richard....Chip
Thanks again Guys. Here is the latest version with red tubes and a few more parts. When I dug out my old red tubes I could see why people didn't save them. They are disintegrating with time and exposure to the air.
Richard E,
Looks good! I am still amazed at how wonderful your paintings look!
I have tried to save a few red inner-tubes. I think I still have a couple stashed inside old tires to help them survive. I don't know how else to preserve them or how much longer they will last. That nearly translucent caramel colored gum type tube I still have part of came out of a tire a long time ago. It had ripped just by removing the rim from the tire and came out in pieces. I bagged it and boxed it for keeping. A few years later, when I looked at it, about half of it had turned into a gummy puddle. It keeps shrinking, not a lot of it left.
The rear end housings on the loft look to be early?
Again, beautiful artwork! Thank you for sharing it with us.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
Wayne, Yes those are supposed to be early axle housings. I've tried to keep this painting in the early teens but I do have a HHCT, a closed valve engine and a tapered transmission cover in it.
I agree with you, the best place to store inner tubes is inside tires. I spent a few days last summer patching old tubes and mounting them in old tires on old rims just to preserve them.
In an antique store today I saw a vintage Packard bicycle with all red tires, the same color as the red tubes shown above. I don't recall ever seeing red bicycle tires before........
Speaking of inner tubes, I don't care what color they are, as long as they work! There were some a couple of years back, what were terrible. I think they said EEU on them. I wish Coker and Lucas would now supply tubes without a stem, so we can install our own valve stems on them. The new vulcanized metal stems are awful, and the wrong size too!


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The library will be hosting a drop in crafts program for children of all ages. Come and create a unique craft.
Meet a friend at the library for free activities and fun.
There is something fun going on at your library every week during the time of the Summer Reading Program.
*Funded by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.


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"Popopo megale, afto eitan poly kalo. Milas Helinika vlepo" Now that is what I call a Greek translation.Poster: vrossi46
very nice to see all these light wind videos from Dimitri and thank you for sharing these videos with us
There will be always someone who disagree ......always happen but i think that is for good reason because without them we will not have all these light wind videos and all these detailed explainesion about kiting in light wind conditions and light wind kite designs.
Hope to see and other kite companies do the same with the same passion of the sport.
I have tested the v2 and the kite is absolutely amazing , v3 should be even better.
Momi for me is the best kite designer
also Dimitri here is better to say ''katalaves blaka, se varethika'' than '' katalaves koukle
George B.
"Je vois que beaucoup de gens suivent ce poste de très près. C'est très intéressant" Now that's French.
Wait until you see the new video of the INFINITY V3 in action in less then (5 knots) while I was in Naples (Florida). I hope this post won't reach 150 pages. Now that's English for people that don't understand the concept of light wind conditions.
Ok, it's 3:30 in the morning here, time to catch my plane for Anguilla. "Filia s'olous sas".


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I have sample html which I want to parse into array elements in php without any framework
We currently use IFTTT to save a link from an email or clicksend text (Example attached) and the script just takes the body of the message to find the link and thus only takes the first jpg and ignores the rest. We would like a method, script or otherwise that can parse the links and separate them individually for use in the IFTTT google drive integration
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I require all order entries/cancellations/ammendments and transactions to be parsed/scraped from the Oasis DEX. I require to/from address, currency, datetime, block.
I would like to get all Bancor transactions (From/To account, token/Eth, amount, date, block). Parsing the ledger is one way ([login untuk melihat URL]) however I am open to other extraction / scraping methods.
Have a cron that includes a cURL request and it's throwing an error. I need to determine if the error is being cause by the script of if it's an issue with the APE request itself. PM me with questions and for sample code. This should be a super quick job for an experienced programmer, please bid accordingly.
I need to crawl and parse of European Union Countries Computer Science and IT professor's informations
parse log file using python or ruby see=> check [login untuk melihat URL] file for more info
...script to parse YouTube videos but only with the word (new) under the video Example: images attached 2. output those videos in a XML or PHP array 3. If their is no results just have the ouput be blank (Example) Title: Time: Thumbnail: Youtube Video embedded auto start: 4. The output embedded code for the video would autostart 5. the file for the
I'm extending a sample c++ p...I'm receiving it correctly. *Eventually I will want to wrap this in a c# application (or perhaps pass the message on to a c# app). For this project I will be happy just having someone with experience explain/ show me how to parse the message. **I will not be able to share all of the source files that I am working with.
A json request returns a set of data as follows: { "success" : true, "message" : "", "result" : { "buy" : [{ "Quantity" : 12.37000000, "Rate" : 0.02525000 } ], "sell" : [{ "Quantity" : 32.55412402, "Rate" : 0.02540000 }, { "Quantity" : 60.00000000, &...
...software script that has an input field that we can paste datablocks into. Attached is a file with example datablock. I need the script to output the following: ISBN PRICE There should be 50 isbns per datablock. Here are the first 5 from the attached file so you can see where the data is: 0689106726 $3.79 0738207659 $3.79 0810907658 $4.96
Help required parsing HTML in Perl, I'm currently using Mojo::DOM but am having problems finding out how to update inline styles. No rendering is required, this is parsing exercise only. Typical tasks are as follows; 1) Find All [id^="conTaID"] Update style width:100% and max-width:600px; 2) Find All [id^="conTaID"] Remove one class 3) Find All [id^="conTaID"] R...
I have a landing page built on Wordpres...gravity forms. After a user enters there details they are redirected to the Acuity Scheduler. The Acuity scheduler requires Name and email to be entered. I require assistance to parse this data from Wordpress form to the Acuity scheduler so users don't have to enter their information twice in the same journey.
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hI, I need a html page where i can see the api data displayed. i need it in 2hrs. please check the design and api
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... The attached folder contains a sub-folder with the 35 pages, and an Excel file named, "Example Data Collection for Page 001". The Excel file is an example of what data should be saved and how it should be recorded. I have manually collected and saved to this Excel file all of the order records from saved web page 001. This project will be to
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I'm looking to integrate Google OCR into an app. You will need to parse the output based on some business rules (logic), and store in a database. Give me a rough idea of what this will cost. Experience with Google OCR is a MUST.
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Users / Re: Will this system work with LMCE?« on: August 13, 2007, 06:54:51 pm »
You might want to get a fast CPU if you plan on encoding multiple threads at a time.How fast of a CPU would be needed to make a box that should last years and have the ability to feed to probably up to 3 or 4 front-ends? I'd like to just build this box now, use it on one TV for the time being, then when I move to a bigger place just add something like a Fiire thin client on other TV's. I didn't think it would need too fast of a CPU if the tuners had hardware encoders (like the hauppauge I have from an older system does)
thats the same motherboard i have and everything i checked on it works great so far. a couple things...make sure you disable the onboard sound if you plan on using another card...i used a soundblaster audigy 2. also...update the BIOS before you start loading anything on it. i had some installation issues at first that were fixed when i updated the BIOS. you may not have the problem now, as that was when it was still 1.0 on ubuntu. i also didnt check SPDIF since i used the other soundcard.I'm probably going to use onboard sound (to save PCI slots for future tuners), but good to hear it works for you. Do you by chance remember what version the BIOS was when you started with the mobo and what you had to upgrade to for everything to work? I'd rather not have to search for a floppy drive to update the BIOS unless I need to when I get this.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Apr 2006 21:17 UTC
Virus researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found proof-of-concept code for a cross-platform virus capable of infecting both Windows and Linux systems. In an alert posted to Viruslist, Kaspersky said the sample virus has been given a dual name - Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a - and highlighted the way attackers are targeting multiple platforms in malware attacks. "The virus doesn't have any practical application," the company said in the alert. "It's classic proof-of-concept code, written to show that it is possible to create a cross-platform virus."


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Most cruise ships today have desalination equipment and more than 90 percent of the water in Arabian Peninsula countries comes from seawater desalting plants.
If you've ever sailed on a cruise ship or traveled in the Middle East, chances are you drank seawater that had the salt removed. Most cruise ships today have desalination equipment and more than 90 percent of the water in Arabian Peninsula countries comes from seawater desalting plants.
Stamford-based Poseidon Resources Corp. is one company -- among a burgeoning industry in the United States and worldwide -- that is developing alternative water sources as drought, population growth and a dearth of locations for new reservoirs creates chronic shortages of fresh water.
In one of its projects, privately owned Poseidon developed a plant that removes salt from Gulf of Mexico water and produces 25 million gallons of fresh water per day for the Tampa Bay region.
The Apollo Beach, Fla., facility is the nation's largest desalination plant. It was completed last year and is slated for further expansion over several years, said Andrew Kingman, Poseidon Resources' chief executive officer.
As U.S. demand for potable water exceeds supply for the foreseeable future, Poseidon Resources plans to build additional desalination plants in Southern California, Texas and undisclosed Southeastern states over the next several years. The company also develops, invest in and manages water and wastewater treatment facilities in the United States and Mexico.
Poseidon Resources operates an experimental desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif., that makes 40,000 gallons of fresh water daily. The purpose of the San Diego County plant is to show local residents and others how salt removal works.
Because the county has to import 90 percent of its fresh water from Northern California and the Colorado River through pipelines, Poseidon Resources believes the Pacific Ocean is a reliable and seemingly endless third source.
"Desalinated water is the only supply of drinking water that is drought-proof," said Walter Winrow, president, chief operating officer and a co-founder of Poseidon Resources, adding that conservation and better water storage are the other components to ensuring a dependable water supply in Southern California.
"Southern California gets half its water from the Colorado River, which has a lot of other straws in it," he said. "Desalination isn't the silver bullet, but it is a necessary component in a diversified portfolio."
But desalination is distrusted by some environmental and concerned citizens' groups, who question the possible effects of two massive desalination plants that Poseidon Resources has proposed for the region. They worry that desalination, which puts the removed salt back into the sea, could have detrimental ecological consequences.
In addition to environmental pressure, the higher cost of desalinated water is an obstacle for Poseidon Resources and other companies in the industry.
Local water utilities typically pay $2.50 to $3 per 1,000 gallons for desalted seawater produced at large plants, said Doug Brown, chief executive officer of Watertown, Mass.-based Ionics Inc. The publicly traded company designs and builds desalting plants and is involved in other water and wastewater treatment systems.
Poseidon estimates that desalinated water would cost San Diego about $2.70 per 1,000 gallons, vs. $2 per 1,000 gallons for water from the county's current sources. Subsidies that Poseidon expects to receive from the California and Texas state governments for its future plants would make the price for desalted and fresh water from natural sources almost equal, Kingman said.
In fact, desalinated water is cheaper today than it once was. Manufacturing processes for equipment that removes the salt molecules have become more efficient, and today's filtering membranes can handle higher volumes of water, Brown said.
Ionics makes membranes for reverse-osmosis desalination, the process Poseidon uses in its seawater treatment plants. The Massachusetts company is a potential provider of reverse osmosis systems for Poseidon's proposed plants in Southern California, Kingman said.
Hydraunatics, an Oceanside, Calif.-based company that made reverse-osmosis membranes for the Tampa Bay plant, is another contender. Reverse osmosis occurs when pressure forces water to move across a permeable membrane. Once it crosses the membrane, the water contains fewer solid particles.
During reverse osmosis desalting, ocean water flows into a plant where two filtration steps remove dirt and other larger particles. After a third filtration step removes microscopic particles, the water is pressurized to 900 pounds per square inch, which is powerful enough to create a 2,000-foot high geyser.
The pressurized water is then shot through reverse osmosis membranes so small that they let water molecules through but keep out salt molecules. One reverse osmosis plant that Poseidon plans to develop by 2007 in Carlsbad would produce 50 million gallons of desalted water a day, enough to serve 400,000 to 500,000 people. It would cost $270 million to build and Poseidon would finance the cost.
Poseidon also has proposed a $250 million facility of similar size that would open three years from now in Huntington Beach, Calif., in Orange County. The plants depend on receipt of numerous regulatory and environmental approvals.
One reason for the environmental roadblocks is concern about a biproduct of desalination. Reverse osmosis yields 50 million gallons of extra-salty water for every 50 million gallons of fresh water that are produced, Kingman said.
Ocean water contains about 3 percent salt. The water that returns to the ocean after the desalination process contains 6 to 7 percent salt, but returns to normal salinity soon after ocean waters dilute it, Kingman said. The recycled water has minimal effect on ocean salinity because of the ocean's size, he said. Sharing seawater with nearby electric power plants helps dilute the water, too, Kingman said.
In Carlsbad, a power plant that now circulates 500 million gallons of seawater a day to cool its turbines would give 100 million gallons daily to Poseidon's planned desalination plant. Of that 100 million gallons, Poseidon would produce 50 million gallons of fresh water and 50 million gallons of water that is about 6 percent salt, Kingman said.
The ultra-salty water would blend with 400 million gallons of seawater that the Encina Power Station in Carlsbad sends back to the Pacific Ocean each day, he said. The water would reach the sea at 3.3 percent salinity, which would dilute quickly and not hurt marine life, Kingman said.
The Tampa Bay desalination plant, which Poseidon no longer owns or manages, also blends its leftover water with power plant discharge water, Kingman said.
For the past 10 years, Poseidon Resources has developed, financed and invested in $2.5 billion with of water and wastewater projects and other infrastructure developments.
Three former GE Capital executives, Winrow, Poseidon Resources Chairman Jacek Makowski and Walt Howard founded the company Resources in Stamford in 1994. Howard is now with GE Infrastructure Water & Process Technologies.
Poseidon chose Stamford for its headquarters because it is close to airports and to New York City-based Warburg Pincus, a primary shareholder in the company, said Kingman, who had also worked for GE Capital. Poseidon employs seven people in Stamford and 36 companywide. It also has offices in San Diego and Long Beach, Calif.
The company entered the desalination field in 1997. Before that, it had developed six industrial water treatment plants in Mexico and upgraded a wastewater treatment plant in Cranston, R.I.
Winrow said Poseidon expects to increase revenues three- to four-fold over the next five years, largely through desalination projects. The company does not disclose revenues, but Winrow said it produces earnings for its private shareholders.
While the Middle East has been using desalination since the 1950s, the desalination industry is quite small in the United States, said Thomas Pankratz, a board member of the Topsfield, Mass.-based International Desalination Association.
Four billion gallons a day, or less than 1 percent of the fresh water used in the United States, comes from desalting facilities, Pankratz said. He also is a vice president with Denver-based CH2M Hill, which designs and operates desalination plants.
Worldwide, desalination plants produce about 8.5 billion gallons of fresh water a day, mostly in the Middle East, Pankratz said. Countries that process seawater include Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Greece, Portugal, several Caribbean nations, China, India and Australia, according to Poseidon Resources.
The world has about 11,000 to 12,000 desalination plants, said Pankratz, co-author of a book called "Desalination.com" (Lone Oak Publishing). In the United States, about 20 plants desalt seawater, he said. Most of this country's 1,900 desalination plants process brackish groundwater, which gets salty when rain mixes with salts in rocks and soil, Pankratz said.
The desalination industry is growing as conventional water sources such as underground aquifers are overused, he said. About 20 large-scale (more than 10 million gallons a day) desalination plants for seawater have been proposed in the United States, most of which are in California, Texas and Florida, Pankratz said.
"Seawater desal is not a panacea," he said. "It still is expensive, but in many parts of the world, including the United States, there simply is no alternative."