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A European option is an option that can only be exercised at expiration. No early exercise is permitted with European options in contrast to American options.
All options traded on individual stocks are American options. Most options traded on indexes are European options although some are traded as American options (the S&P 100 (OEX) and the Oil Index (XOI)).


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This is how the United States got sold to China:
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Main article: 1972 Nixon visit to China
President Nixon shakes hands with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai upon arriving in Beijing
Nixon laid the groundwork for his overture to China even before he became president, writing in Foreign Affairs a year before his election: "There is no place on this small planet for a billion of its potentially most able people to live in angry isolation."[115] Assisting him in this venture was his National Security Advisor and future Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, with whom the President worked closely, bypassing Cabinet officials. With relations between the Soviet Union and China at a nadir

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Paul Rodgers and Deborah Bonham's Annual Charity Concert is in its third year.
2013's concert has raised an all-time high of £54,000 that will be distributed to Willows Animal Sanctuary and Assisted Therapy Unit in Aberdeen, Scotland, Mount Noddy Animal Centre & The Cat and Rabbit Rescue Centre both near Chichester, England.
"Once again the evening was a huge success. Our fans and friends come through every time it's quite amazing. Now Willows can breathe a sigh of relief, as this funding will see them through July. Thanks to everyone from the fans, musicians, volunteers to all of the musicians and artists who donated items."
On Saturday 30th March, Paul Rodgers and Deborah Bonham and her band along with special guests returned to The Venue in Chichester to raise the roof one more time for animal charities. The main charity Willows Animal Sanctuary and Assisted Therapy Unit in Aberdeen, Scotland takes in a massive number and variety of welfare cases from cats to pigs to horses. Currently they are home to 300 animals. Paul Rodgers and his wife Cynthia are Patrons of Willows.
Deborah Bonham and her husband guitarist Pete Bullick have adopted both of her dogs from Mount Noddy which specialize in dogs and cats. Cynthia Kereluk Rodgers and Deborah visited the Cat & Rabbit Rescue Centre near Chichester and were impressed with the care and handling of their two hundred cats! So a donation will be made to them as well. Rock memorabilia were the hot items in the live auction with two Autographed Led Zeppelin Posters bringing in £500 and £850.The highest grossing auction item was a Bad Company Autographed Guitar including tickets to a concert this summer, in the US, bringing in £1100. The biggest surprise of the evening was when Elaine and Chris Fairfax from Animal Friends Insurance handed over cheques to the tune of £15,000 to be divided equally between the three charities. Deborah Bonham performed some songs from her new CD Spirit (limited edition pre release CD Digipak out now and available on tour ahead of the September CD, Vinyl and Digital release) during her 1 hour set. To the fans delight Rodgers played a 90 minute set of songs from just his Free catalogue, some songs he had not performed in 40 years!
"We are absolutely over the moon to have such wonderful, lovely talented people supporting Willows Animal Sanctuary and Assisted Therapy Unit! It means so much to have dedicated Patrons, Paul Rodgers and Cynthia Kereluk Rodgers are such kind hearted and beautiful individuals and care so much about animal welfare. Our thanks go to all that helped with the fantastic concert, we know it took a lot of organising and many dedicated volunteers. Deborah Bonham and Peter Bullick are also amazing, thank you both so much for all the time and energy you have put in to this concert. Everyone at Willows thanks you all from the bottom of our hearts".


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(Reuters) - Computer problems are affecting some United Continental Holdings flights, the airline said in a posting to its official Twitter feed on Thursday.
"We're working to resolve it," United said on its official @united feed. Company representatives were not immediately available to comment on the extent of the problems.
There was no information on the matter posted on the web page where United updates its operational status.
Live flight status information for Denver International Airport showed delays for nearly 30 of United's scheduled morning departures. Houston's Intercontinental Airport also showed some delays, though not as many.
Both airports are hubs for the airline.
Shares in the company fell 1.2 percent to $19.74 in morning trading.
(Reporting By Ben Berkowitz; editing by John Wallace)


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The Oregon Court of Appeals has thrown out a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the state's "right to farm" law.
The law protects farmers and foresters from litigation over trespass or nuisance claims arising from common industry practices, like herbicide spraying.
However, the ruling may not be the final word on the constitutionality of the "right to farm" statute, since the lawsuit was dismissed based on the court's lack of jurisdiction — not the merits of the case.
"They didn't address the underlying theory the plaintiffs brought forward. They didn't touch that issue at all," said Tim Bernasek, attorney for the Oregon Farm Bureau. "That is an open question still."
The seven plaintiffs in the case are Lane County residents who objected to their neighbor's use of pesticides and chemicals, claiming the substances drifted onto their properties.
The neighbor raised the "right to farm" defense and the plaintiffs voluntarily dropped the case, but they were ordered to pay for the opposing party's attorney fees.
The award was upheld on appeal in 2008.
The plaintiffs then filed another lawsuit against the State of Oregon, seeking a declaratory judgment that the "right to farm" law violates the state constitution.
They claimed that the statute prevents them from seeking a legal recourse for an injury, which conflicts with the constitution's "remedy clause."
The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected their lawsuit without reaching a decision on that argument.
The court held that the conflict in this case is too speculative, since the plaintiffs haven't made allegations of actual trespass or nuisance.
David Force, attorney for the plaintiffs, said the ultimate question of whether the "right to farm" law is constitutional could be resurrected in court if his clients file another lawsuit over pesticide spraying.
"This doesn't really end anything," he said. "Whether that is desirable or not is something my clients will have to decide."
Force said he disagreed with the ruling's conclusion, since the plaintiffs have repeatedly been subject to the intrusion of herbicides onto their property and water.
"The idea that (the harm) is speculative is simply wrong," he said.
Gary Hale, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, said he would not comment on possible future litigation against his neighbor.
He also hasn't decided whether to challenge the recent ruling before the Oregon Supreme Court.
"We don't know what we're going to do next," Hale said.
If the "right to farm" law's constitutionality is challenged again in a different case, Bernasek said there are valid legal arguments that can be made in its defense.


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By Hamid Shalizi and Michael Georgy
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan welcomes the United Nations' decision to impose sanctions on the Haqqani network and would not negotiate for peace with the group blamed for several high-profile attacks in the country, the presidential spokesman said on Tuesday.
On Monday the U.N. Security Council's Taliban sanctions committee added the Haqqani network to a U.N. blacklist, the United States said.
Aimal Faizi, President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman, said Kabul backed the U.N. decision, but added it should have been made a long time ago to weaken the Haqqanis, a Pashtun tribe allied to the Afghan Taliban, who he said had carried out most of the terrorist attacks in the nation over the past 10 years.
Although the Afghan government is engaged in reconciliation talks with members of the Taliban, it rules out dialogue with the Haqqani group, believed to be based in the unruly border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"We don't want any kind of deal with the Haqqanis, who were behind many of the attacks on Afghan security forces and civilians including women and children," Faizi told Reuters.
"We have certain negotiating conditions with armed opposition groups but the Haqqanis do not meet the criteria and they are in the service of a foreign spy agency."
Afghan and U.S. officials have accused Pakistan's intelligence agency of using Haqqani militants as proxies in Afghanistan to counter the influence of rival India. Islamabad denies the allegations.
The United States designated the Haqqani network a terrorist organization in September, a move the group's commanders said proved Washington was not sincere about peace efforts in Afghanistan.
Isolating the Haqqanis, who were blamed for the 18-hour attack on embassies and parliament in Kabul in April, could complicate efforts to secure peace in Afghanistan as most NATO combat troops prepare to leave by the end of 2014.
The Haqqanis say they are intricately tied to the Afghan Taliban and both groups insist they must act in unison in any peace process.
Most of the Haqqani leaders have already been blacklisted individually.
Still, the Haqqanis run a sophisticated financial network, raising money through kidnapping, extortion and drug trafficking, but through a legitimate business portfolio that included import/export, transport, real estate and construction interests in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Gulf.
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In a blog Tuesday morning, I speculated about Hawk Harrelson's rants on umpires.
I pointed out the difference in his outburst when A.J. Pierzynski and Robin Ventura were ejected oSaturday and his silence when Jesse Crain didn't get a 3-and-2 call in Baltimore on Monday night. The backdrop, of course, is Harrelson's tirade on plate umpire Mark Wegner in Tampa earlier this season that was followed by phone calls from Commissioner Bud Selig and Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf.
I don't know if Chairman Reinsdorf had a talk with Harrelson last weekend, but I wrote that if he did, he likely would or should make the point that such outbursts could hurt the team that Harrelson so passionately cares for on the field. Umpires are human, after all. They talk. They know what's being said, and I can't imagine they would be too happy about some of the things Harrelson said. Subconsciously, I speculated, it might affect their decisions.
That notion prompted a response from Mike Port, a former general manager who worked for Major League Baseball as the Vice President of Umpiring until March, 2011. Here is his email:
I can't tell you I am the smartest guy in the world, but I can tell you I spent 42 years in Baseball , the last 5 1/2 years of which were spent supervising the Major League umpires.
Are Ken Harrelson's umpire-related rants hurting the White Sox?
In my opinion -- no. Maybe the MLB umpires are good at fooling me -- but based upon my experience and acquaintance with them -- I don't think so.
Several points:
--Just as players try, umpires try. Players miss ground balls, strike out, throw wild pitches, etc. Umpires miss on pitches and calls. But to think umpires "screw up" on purpose is akin to believing that a player would strike out on purpose to aggravate his manager.
--Umpires have great accountability to the Commissioner's Office. As you probably know, plate performances are evaluated by the best technology. And, every call they make is reviewed for accuracy.
--The White Sox. They have a good club. Compliments to Kenny Williams and his crew for trying to "rebuild" and compete at the same time.
--Ken Harrelson. Great personality, but considered an incorrigible, tired act by the umpires. They consider the source and respect the players' efforts too much to make mistakes intentionally.
--In Harrelson's regard, the umpires seem to gravitate to something told to me by Gene Autry (whom I had the privilege of working for with the Angels): "If you see it; why would you step in it?"
A quick review of Harrelson's umpiring "expertise" would seem to indicate that Harrelson is one of those who thinks that because he once flew on a 747 that he can pilot the damn thing.
I doubt the umpires really care about Harrelson. One thing I found them to be excellent at is recognizing ignorance.
Best regards.
Mike Port


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The No Recipe Cookbook by Susan Crowther
There are as many kinds of cooks as there are people in this world, but nonetheless, we can still be grouped into rough categories. One of these categories is people who grow bored or impatient or frustrated when they have to follow a recipe. And this is not a small, select group either: How to cook without recipes is one of the more popular requests we get here in The Kitchn. So when The No Recipe Cookbook: A Beginner's Guide to the Art of Cooking came across my desk, I was excited to explore its potential as a source for recipe-free cooking.
Quick Facts
• Who wrote it: Susan Crowther
• Who published it: Skyhorse Publishing
• Number of recipes: None! Well, there are a handful towards the back of the book, but obviously with this concept the emphasis is not on recipes.
• Other highlights: The author of this book, Susan Crowther, is a graduate of the CIA and the owner of her own catering company, so we're immediately assured that she has a very experienced understanding of the fundamentals of cooking. She's a home cook, a parent, and a professor of nutrition, too, so she also understands what it means to get a healthy meal on the table every night. She passionately believes that while many cookbooks today offer recipes, what people really need is basic instruction on how to cook. In the introduction she says:
The book is charmingly illustrated with watercolor paintings from the author's mother and mother-in-law as well as the Brattleboro Senior Center Water-Based Media Group, located in the author's hometown. There are occasional photographs from Julie Fallone.
• Who would enjoy this book? This would be an excellent book to give to anyone who is just starting out in the kitchen, such as college grads and new apartment dwellers. It also is good for anyone you know who would like to understand the fundamentals and basic techniques of cooking which underlie all recipes.
Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: The No Recipe Cookbook by Susan Crowther
• Visit the author's website: Susan Crowther
Apartment Therapy Media makes every effort to test and review products fairly and transparently. The views expressed in this review are the personal views of the reviewer and this particular product review was not sponsored or paid for in any way by the manufacturer or an agent working on their behalf. However, the manufacturer did give us the product for testing and review purposes.
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Clint Eastwood's career, lately, has been a string of false endings. Every time the legendary actor-director turns up in a new role, it's rumored to be his last. And without spoiling much, he gave himself two spectacular endings (one happy, one sad) in Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino. Drop the curtain, turn off the lights, and call it a day, right?
Wrong. Eastwood's back on screen this weekend in Trouble the Curve, a baseball drama he doesn't direct that get's middling reviews. (We gave it 1 and 1/2 stars out of 5 in our review.) And while IMDB doesn't have a directorial credit in Eastwood's future, he's been putting together a Star is Born remake with Beyonce Knowles and Bradley Cooper for months now.
Are Eastwood's best days still ahead of him? Or should he have stopped working a while ago? Mack and Sean had differing opinions about the state of Eastwood's career, so they took it to the Great Debate forums, where they hammered out the specifics of Clint's past, present and future. Who's right? Who's wrong? Read on, and decide!
Sean: Mack, I'm sorry, but given the quality of the last few Clint Eastwood efforts, I'm sticking by my belief that the once-great storyteller really needed to retire a long time ago. And by that, I mean 20 years ago. That's when Eastwood directed his last true masterpiece, Unforgiven. And nothing that he has put out since has come close to matching that film in terms of quality or resonance.
Mack: Retire after Unforgiven? Are you kidding me? Do you realize Clint has been nominated for three directing Academy Awards in just the last decade? I'm willing to admit a few of this more recent movies have dipped in quality a bit, but I'm dumbfounded as to what you could possibly have against Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, Mystic River, Bridges Of Madison County, and more?
Sean: Well, Mystic River is terrible. An overwrought mess of button-pushing melodrama marked by Tim Robbins' horrific Bahs-tan accent and a stiff Marcia Gay Harden turn. But I digress, slightly. For while I agree with you that Million Dollar Baby and Bridges are very good movies (probably outstanding movies), they are not compensation for the drivel Eastwood puts out. For every Madison County, Clint saddles us with a Blood Work, Space Cowboys, Invictus, J. Edgar, Changeling (!!) ... the list of bad movies -- flat-out BAD movies -- far outweighs the good that Eastwood has produced in the last 20 years.
The big problem I have with Eastwood is that I don't believe he has anything left to say to an audience. What was Invictus about? Can anyone remember? How about Hereafter? It was moody, but what was the point? I'm asking, honestly, because I think Clint works nowadays because it's what he does. He's in a routine. Much like Woody Allen. Start shooting a script in January or February. Keep the budget down. Work with a "kid" actor who's enamored with Clint's legend (Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie), be in theaters by November or December, and repeat the following year. There's no passion left. Every once in a while, maybe. But not enough to justify the last two decades.


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While some offices may keep�food and drink�in the fridge, you probbaly don't want to eat anything inside the fridge at the East Middlesex and Suffolk County Mosquito Control Projects office in Waltham. It's full of bags of dead mosquitoes.
As part of the project's mission to determine where spraying should occur and if diseases are being spread, the bugs are collected by field workers in traps, sorted by species in Waltham�and eventually tested at a state lab.
Since West Nile virus started appearing in Massachusetts more than a decade ago, along with the more deadly eastern equine encephalitis, what is collected and tested has become a major public�health endeavor.
It's difficult�to predict how many mosquitoes the area will see this summer, but the spring and early summer mosquito population has been considered normal, said Tim Deschamps, executive director of the Central Massachusetts Mosquito Control Project. The mosquito population for the rest of the season will depend entirely on the weather. The hotter and wetter the weather, the more mosquitoes will thrive, something to consider after last week's extreme heat and heavy rain.
�(The Mosquito Control Projects) do more than we could ever do on our own,� said Jim White, the director of the Natick Board of Health. �They�ll go above and beyond if necessary.�
The goal of these projects is twofold, said David Henley,�the superintendent of the East Middlesex and Suffolk County Mosquito Control Projects. It aims to control large mosquito populations and to contain the spread of diseases that affect people and some farm livestock.
�It�s a controlled approach, as opposed to erratically spraying and treating,� said the commissioner of the Central Massachusetts Mosquito Control Project and Milford Board of Health agent Paul Mazzuchelli. �And I think that�s the safest and most effective approach.�
Mosquitoes are caught in one of three types of traps around the state and taken back to the project office. There, an entomologist sorts them by species under a microscope and sends them to the Hinton State Lab Institute in Boston to be tested for disease. The state lab crushes the mass of separated mosquitoes for testing.
Mosquitoes mostly carry two diseases - West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis (EEE). There have been no reported cases of either disease this summer, but they tend to appear later in the season, according to Henley. Last year, there was�one human case and�two animal cases of EEE and�eight human cases and�two animal cases of West Nile.
Because of its warm winter and spring, 2012 was an especially bad year for these diseases in the Bay State, and by this time two years ago there had been reports of both. In 2012,�three people died from EEE and a total of 40 people�were sickened with West Nile or EEE.
Henley explained that this winter and spring were cold so he expects there will be a slow buildup to when the diseases become a risk.
Mosquito control projects,�which are funded by member communities,�use a number of methods year-round to fight the insects, but ramp up their treatments during the warmer months. If there are any confirmed cases of West Nile or EEE in the area, workers with the control projects increase spraying and add a second round of larvicide treatments.
During the late spring and summer, the groups do ground larvae control in wetlands and catch basins. From the sky, they spray for�both larvae and adult mosquitoes. During this time they also catch thousands of mosquitoes and test for diseases. Ditch maintenance takes place year-round and source reduction - reducing the number of places mosquitoes can lay eggs -�occurs in every season except summer.
Getting larvicide into where mosquitoes breed falls to workers such as Jon Daigle.
Last week, Daigle biked around Framingham on�an unseasonably hot day. The East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project seasonal worker dropped tiny, water-soluble packets of larvacide down storm drains across the�town in an attempt to stop mosquitoes before they start.
On the ground, Daigle is part of a six-person crew covering 26 communities this summer, riding mountain bikes along roads, stopping at storm drains and marking each drop with a quick shot of spray paint.
Sometimes the fight goes to the air.
�Airplanes with pesticides would be very effective,� said Henley. �However, environmentally it would come at a cost. Politically it wouldn�t be supported. So we use a variety of lesser measures.�
Aerial spraying was�last used over Southeastern�Massachusetts because of high levels of EEE being found in mosquitoes.
While West Nile virus often has signs and symptoms similar to the flu and passes within a few days, EEE can be fatal, especially in the very old and very young. EEE signs and symptoms include a high fever, severe headache and almost always results in a prolonged hospital stay. Those who survive the illness often have lingering neurological complications.
There is no vaccine to prevent either illness but health experts say the best way to avoid getting sick is to wear insect repellent, long-sleeved shirts and long pants when outdoors and avoid going outdoors during peak mosquito activity at dawn and dusk.
Experts expect normal levels of West Nile virus and EEE this summer
While some offices may keep�food and drink�in the fridge, you probbaly don't want to eat anything inside the fridge at the East Middlesex and Suffolk County Mosquito Control Projects office in Waltham. It's full of bags of dead mosquitoes.


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Gospel night
Oliver's Grove Baptist will hold a southern gospel concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 30, at 8715 U.S. 301, Four Oaks. Heaven's Way, a local group, will perform. Admission is free and a silent cake auction will be held. Proceeds will benefit the 9th annual Vision Walk in Raleigh June 7. Call 919-963-2282 for more information.
Summer schedule
Christ United Methodist Church will kick off its new summer schedule June 1 with coffee, fruit and juice at 9:45 a.m., and a worship service at 10 a.m. at 1082 Amelia Church Road, Clayton. The service will be followed by a community potluck lunch and information about upcoming opportunities. Call 919-553-9770 for more information.
Support groups
• Shiloh Baptist Church hosts GriefShare, DivorceCare and DivorceCare for Kids support groups at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at 3414 N. Shiloh Road, Garner. There is no cost, and participants may enter at any session. Child care is available upon request. For more information, visitwww.shilohgarner.org
or call 919-553-3319.
• Mount Zion United Methodist Church's Healing Hope Cancer Support Group will meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month, in the Share & Care classroom at the church, 15772 N.C. 50, Garner. Email email@example.com or 919-550-9092.
Bible studies
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosts a New Testament Bible study at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at 1433 Aversboro Road, Garner. The group is ongoing. For more information, visit
• Men's Bible study of Johnston County continues a verse-by-verse study of the Gospel of St. Matthew 7-8:30 p.m. Mondays at First Baptist Church, 202 S. Fourth St., Smithfield. This study group runs through May. Visitwww.mbsjohnstoncounty.com


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Let's assume you know whom you want to work with, but you just don't move in their circles. How can you make yourself known without cold-calling (or risking rejection)?
Simple. Try networking and nurturing a relationship with social media. This article will help you prospect using the power of LinkedIn and Twitter (together).
#1: Get Your House in Order First
First, you need to do some housekeeping before you put yourself forward, and by that I mean clean up your LinkedIn profile. Take a good hard look at it and ask yourself the following:


text: It's that time of year again, dear readers, where we showcase the season's biggest trends and most noteworthy looks. For fall, there are so many ways to freshen up your wardrobe, whether it's adding a bold statement piece (psychedelic '70s prints and bejeweled separates), incorporating the season's new it color (Bordeaux), or experimenting with some borrowed-from-the-boys fashion (pantsuits and military). But of course, that's not all! Click through today's slideshow to see all of the top trends and pick up a handful of our curated picks. Also, don't forget to check out our Fall Trends video for even more inspiring outfits!


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My Cape Cod: A Coastal Cottage House Tour
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As you could probably sense from my anorexic posts last week, I was in deeply relaxed vacation mode on Cape Cod. I had a family wedding near Smuggler's Notch in Vermont, and then snuck down to the beach for a few bonus days. By the way, I had no idea Vermont was so beautiful in the summer. It was truly breathtaking to drive through the valley surrounded by blue mountains, farms, lovely old homes surrounded by tall Hollyhocks and moo cows! But I digress. I decided to share the little cottage where I stay on the Cape. Also, coincidentally, Big Mucky-Muck Design Public Honcho Matt was coming to ya live from the same cottage a week before I arrived!
It's not modern, rather, it's very Shabby Chic, a trend that hit the tipping point sometime pre-Target launch, but I figured what the heck, Hatch readers might enjoy it anyway. I'll admit it, I've never turned my back on Shabby Chic. While I've cleaned up and streamlined a bit from the peeling paint and extra bits of clutter that I surrounded myself with in the 1990s, I still find it to be a very relaxing and comforting style. I've shared most of my pictures in an ideabook at Houzz.com, so if you feel like checking the whole thing out, hop over there for a minute or two. Here's a little preview so you can decide if you want to bother!


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Tool Test: Bessey Auto-adjust Toggle Clamps
From the April 2012 issue, #196
Toggle clamps are an indispensable workholding device for jigs, but they are a bit fussy to adjust to the desired height and clamp pressure. Leave it to Bessey to come up with clever innovations that give the traditional toggle clamp a big leap forward.
With these new versions, variation in thickness of the work is a non-issue. You can clamp a wide range of thicknesses, from a thin veneer to 2-3⁄4″ stock, without a single adjustment. Just lift the lever handle, change material and lower the lever. Done. A simple screw adjustment provides a clamping pressure range from 50-550 pounds per square inch, and the selected pressure does not change when the material's thickness changes.
The horizontal clamp is available in two models with different thickness capacities. Bessey also offers an in-line or "push/pull" version. (Price: $20)
Web site: Bessey Tools
Video: See this toggle clamp in action.
From the April 2012 issue #196.
Buy the issue now.


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Kirk Hammett poses with a special Boris Karloff guitar inspired by a movie poster for "The Mummy" in an image from his new coffee table book, "Too Much Horror Business." (Abrams Images)Link
Kirk Hammett with an early days iteration of his movie memorabilia collection in an image from his new coffee table book "Too Much Horror Business." (Abrams Images)Link
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A "King Kong" movie poster from Kirk Hammett's collection. (Abrams Images)Link
Kirk Hammett showcases his extensive collection of horror movie memorabilia in the new book "Too Much Horror Business." (Abrams Images)Link
Kirk Hammett is known to most people as the guitarist in the world's greatest metal band, but when he's not devoting his time to Metallica, he's pursuing a lifelong passion: collecting horror movie memorabilia.
It's a hobby that dates back to his childhood days in San Francisco, when he'd spend hours with Gary Arlington at the San Francisco Comic Book Company in the city's Mission District. There, Hammett developed a love for horror and underground comics that dovetailed with his fascination with the Universal canon — Boris Karloff's monster in 1931's landmark "Frankenstein" was a personal favorite.
In the new large-format coffee table book, "Too Much Horror Business — The Kirk Hammett Collection," the musician showcases the treasure trove of cinematic artifacts that he's amassed over the years, chatting at length with interviewer Steffan Chirazi on a range of issues — the evolution of his archive, the impact of watching "The Day of the Triffids" as a very young boy and the tragedy of the vanishing Saturday monster movie matinee.
It was the acquisition of two particular pieces — the first, a costume worn by Karloff in 1934's "The Black Cat," the second, a costume worn by Bela Lugosi in 1932's "White Zombie" — that convinced him it was time to share the gems he'd collected with fellow fans.
"I could not believe that these things still existed, that they still survived after 70 odd years or so, and I could not believe that they were available," Hammett said by phone from San Francisco earlier this week. "I saw both of these pieces in two different auction catalogs. When I acquired them, I thought, this is too good for me to enjoy in a solitary fashion. This is stuff that other people should see because it's so cool."
Hammett said he initially had the idea for a book about 10 years ago but actively began working on the project in 2009. He chose to organize the photographs of his collection chronologically, and the range of memorabilia is impressive (Hammett estimates that his is the second largest such collection in the world). The book is divided into three parts, the first of which focuses on movie posters and props by decade, the second on toys and masks, the third on other artwork.
Perhaps most striking are the pages devoted to his expansive gallery of movie posters for films including the classics of German Expressionism "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu," the 1925 version of "The Phantom of the Opera," 1931's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and the Universal monster films. The emphasis on the posters was intentional; Hammett considers them the centerpieces of his collection.
"The movie posters is the stuff that I truly, truly love and am just obsessed with," he said. "I was truly obsessed with the cultural significance of it all. The beauty of the movie posters really, really struck me. The horror movie posters of the '20s and '30s have this very romantic feeling to them. Back then there was no real formula for making these posters. The people who created this stuff put as much time and effort into a horror movie poster as they would have a western or a romance. The goal was to make as beautiful a movie poster as they possibly could."
Hammett, who in the introduction describes himself as "a keeper, a curator, a warden, a historian, a guardian," chose to write the captions for the images himself, in order to ensure that his own voice came through.
"It was important to me that the book was personable, rather than it being some sort of reference book or scholarly book," Hammett said. "I wanted it to be fun and enjoyable. Fan enthusiasm was a big part of it. Knowing that it's coming from a fan's perspective, which was my own perspective, I took great pains to make sure that came across."
Hammett remains an avid collector and in fact, is already making tentative plans for a follow-up volume to "Too Much Horror Business." Discovering and acquiring the memorabilia keeps him closely in touch with the cinema that deeply influenced him as a young man — the items bring him great joy and maybe even more importantly, an endless source of creative inspiration.
"They're inspiring to me, they're totally inspiring," Hammett said. "The room in my house that all the movie posters are in has very little furniture — all it has is a couch, a guitar and an amp and that's where I go to play guitar. I feel grounded when I'm in that room. When I'm playing my guitar, this stuff relaxes me, it puts me in the zone where my creative juices are flowing.
"It also brings me back to a time in my life when I was a kid when I really, really loved this stuff," he added. "I guess you could say it's sentimental. I have such a love for the movies themselves, a real genuine love for these movies. I can't help but not love them."
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By Gary Robertson
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - A Virginia judge delayed deciding whether to dismiss charges against a well-known chef who worked in the governor's mansion, in a case that could reverberate in the state's upcoming November gubernatorial election.
Richmond Circuit Court Judge Margaret Spencer on Monday delayed until the end of the week a decision on whether to dismiss felony embezzlement charges against Todd Schneider, former chef at the executive mansion.
She also left in place a gag order prohibiting lawyers involved in the case from speaking to the press in what has ballooned into a political scandal that threatens the legacy of Governor Bob McDonnell.
McDonnell, who has been mentioned as a possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate, also faces state and federal investigations over gifts he accepted from Star Scientific Inc Chief Executive Jonnie Williams Sr. - including $15,000 in catering services for the wedding of McDonnell's daughter.
The Schneider case could also affect state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who is seeking to succeed McDonnell. Under Virigina law, he is ineligible to run for re-election.
Cuccinelli, too, has acknowledged accepting gifts from Williams, though he initially failed to report them. The gifts include two stays at the CEO's waterfront property in southwest Virginia and a catered Thanksgiving dinner.
Schneider's attorney, Steven D. Benjamin, said in court on Monday that Cuccinelli had initially charged the chef, but then recused himself from prosecuting the case.
When Schneider, who worked in the governor's mansion from 2010 to early 2012, was confronted in early 2012 with charges that he had taken food from the governor's mansion to support his own catering service, he met with federal authorities and investigators from the attorney general's office and told them about Williams' relationship with the governor.
"The trial hasn't even taken place, and already it's been a first-rate disaster for the Republicans," said Larry Sabato, who leads the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Sabato said if the trial date remains October 15, it couldn't be worse for the GOP and Cuccinelli.
"More information will be revealed at the peak of the campaign season and the headlines will keep appearing," he said.
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Bench Power Supplies
Bench power supplies are boxes that you plug into the wall, and provide an adjustable range of DC voltage on their output terminals. They usually have some knobs and a meter of some sort on them to help dial in the correct voltage. Some also have current limiting to help when troubleshooting or testing a new project. (Keeping the current limited to just above what the device needs can help prevent shorts from damaging components)
We have several bench supplies at the lab, from very small to very large! Any of them should be able to provide the power you need, but if you have certain voltage or current requirements, make sure the supply can handle that! All of the supplies have their ratings clearly printed on them.
Models of supplies at the lab
Small Grey Power Supplies
- Model: [9902-PS]
- Voltage: 3-12VDC (Stepped at 3, 4.5, 6, 7.5, 9, 12)
- Current: 2A
- Adjustable Voltage?: YES
- Adjustable Current?: NO
- Owner: Lab
- Other information: These are small power supplies, we have two or three of them around the lab. They are useful for [Arduinos] or other small projects that don't need a ton of current. Actually, they should be fine for most of what we do in the lab. Select the voltage with the selector switch, and turn it on, simple as that.
Grey Digital Power Supply
- Model: [9600 PS]
- Voltage:0-18VDC
- Current: 0-3A
- Adjustable Voltage?: YES
- Adjustable Current?: YES
- Owner: Lab
- Other information: This is a fully adjustable bench power supply with Constant Voltage(CV) and Constant Current(CC) adjustments. To use, turn on the supply with the leads disconnected. Make sure the Current knob is not all the way down. Adjust the voltage knob to get the desired VDC on the display. Plug in your device. If the bottom CC light is on, that means it's in current limiting, and it's backing down the voltage to limit the current. You need to turn up the knob a little to adjust this, while viewing the display.
BK Precision
- Model: [1692]
- Voltage: 0-15VDC
- Current: 40A Continuous
- Adjustable Voltage?: YES
- Adjustable Current?: NO
- Owner: Lab
- Other information: This usually sits on the large work desk under the pegboard. If the knob does not change the voltage, check the underside of the unit for a small switch, whose purpose it is to lock it to 13.5v. This is for easy setup for 12v vehicle-powered devices such as radios and other audio setups, or anything you need to run off 0-15VDC.
Motorola Bench Supply
(AKA 'The Big One')
- Model: Motorola Power Supply
- Voltage: 0-40VDC
- Current: 40A Continuous
- Adjustable Voltage?: YES
- Adjustable Current?: YES
- Owner: Chorca
- Other information: This is a large power supply. It weighs a lot because it's linear, not switching like the small BK Precision. There is a huge transformer in here and basically no digital logic. It's all discrete components. It can handle running something at high power for long periods due to it's robust construction. It's also somewhat dangerous, keep your fingers out of the high current section. At the same time, those wishing to use the high current section will need to acquire their own probes, as the ones that came with it are missing.


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It's game night, lambs. We don't know about you but we can't help feeling a little excited. We know the odds are stacked against us—we basically have to win every game from here till the beginning of April and pray other teams lose all of theirs—but we're still feeling good, especially after eking out a win against the Sharks.
Guaranteed, though, the teams we face down the homestretch are not going to make this easy on us. These will be physically-charged games. And if by some miracle we make the playoffs, chances are our boys will be so exhausted from the run up to the end of the regular season, we won't make it past the first round.
We say all this, of course, with the hope that we're wrong. We say this hoping San Fernando, Huggybear, Cogs and Bobby continue to demonstrate what gritty Oilers hockey looks like. We say this hoping that Kevin Lowe stands up yelling and screaming at every call, goal and slight against the Oil. We say this hoping that Whyte Ave sees the kinds of crowds it did during our last playoff run.
We say this 14 shots into a Texas mickey this warm March morning.
But mostly we say this because no matter what happens, we're Oilers fans first and foremost. None of this fair-weather fan crapola. We're laying it all on the line for a team that has had more than its share of ups-and-downs.
Tonight, we're looking for the ups: the Oilers will take it 4–2. The fourth goal will be an empty netter.
Go Oil!


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The man who was once revered as the manager with the seemingly perfect gift to always keep a team united while guiding the Yankees to six World Series appearances and four World Series championships, while never missing the playoffs during his twelve-year reign as the Yankees' skipper, probably went too far in taking unprovoked shots at Yankee players and his ex-bosses.
The book is Torre's vehicle to show how he was wronged by the Yankees. It was Torre's chance to attack the Steinbrenners and Yankees general manager Brian Cashman for what he perceived as a slap in the face after all of his aforementioned success.
As Torre stated in the book, and as he detailed on Friday, speaking in a television interview about the book with CNN's Larry King, the reason he declined the Yankees' offer to return after twelve successful years, wasn't about the money. It was about respect and the potential feeling of managing while constantly looking over his shoulder. "Winning is enough motivation," he told King, regarding the Yankees partial-faith, incentive-laden deal that they put on the table. "That they thought I needed motivation to do a better job, bothered me." On that, Torre was right. He accomplished enough over twelve years to earn the Yankees' trust in him.
However, where Torre was wrong and spiteful was that the attacks in the book went a step further, not stopping at addressing the reasons he felt disrespected and unappreciated by the Yankees' offer to keep him. Torre also hypocritically attacked the same players that he always taught to live by the rules 'What happens in the clubhouse, stays in the clubhouse.'
But, Yankee fans and the Yankee organization shouldn't be too concerned with Torre's comments, as bitter as they seem. Rather, they should be worried that Torre's book confirms something that they really already knew -- that the Yankees' overall direction has been flawed over the past eight years.
Torre's book validates that it's not overvalued players or a deficiency in talent which has prevented the Yankees from returning over the past eight years to its championship glory days of the late 1990's and 2000, but it underscores the Yankees' lack of chemistry in spite of having the talent needed to win.
Most telling in that regard, were Torre's comments to King about players like Alex Rodriguez. Torre gushed over Rodriguez, saying he was "the most gifted player I've ever managed. He can do everything." Yet, he also said "When Alex came over, it became strained in the clubhouse. He needs all those statistics. He monopolized the attention. He's a lightning rod. Everything he does commands a great deal of attention. Alex coming in, just like when [Jason] Giambi came in, it changed the personality somewhat."
That was Torre's way of telling King that there's a big difference between simply collecting as many talented, high-priced mercenaries (like Rodriguez or Giambi) as possible, and building a team which may be a little less talented, but which had hard-nosed, all-heart, team-first players like Scott Brosius or Tino Martinez, who won championships under Torre.
Yankees fans and the Yankees' organization may not like the way Torre said it, and they shouldn't. But, the bigger message beyond his words is a truth they must confront and change if they hope to see the Yankees return to the types of days when Torre managed a winner in New York.


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Pacific Theatre Takes THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE on Tour, Beg. 12/5
Pacific Theatre's production of the CS Lewis classic The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in a magical two-actor adaptation of Lewis' beloved tale has become something of a signature piece for Pacific Theatre, interpreted anew by director Kerri Norris and actors Kaitlin Williams and Mack Gordon. Taking a show on tour for the first time in more than six years, this production will launch at Pacific Theatre December 5-15 and travel through May 2013.
A dream so beautiful you remember it all your life, always wishing you could get back into that dream again. Peter and Lucy Pevensie may be adults now, but a regular life in London cannot compare to their adventures in the land of Narnia. When they revisit The Wardrobe, it doesn't take long for them to get caught up in their reminiscence and relive their journey through the land where it was always winter and never Christmas. The land where Peter and Lucy, joined by their siblings, were not mere children, but Sons of Adam and Eve, warriors for the great Lion Aslan, defeaters of the White Witch, and finally, kings and queens. The land no one can forget once they have experienced it.
Perhaps due to its imaginative two-actor telling, or perhaps due to the timeless ability of Lewis to make both child and adult alike clutch their hearts and gasp at the adventures of four British children, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has become a signature piece for Pacific Theatre. By telling CS Lewis' beloved tale with only two actors, "we give the audience room to see their Narnia, superimposed on the story Peter and Lucy, play out", says Artistic Director Ron Reed. "The opportunity to participate in co-creating the world of the play… perhaps is the essence of live theatre."
Like Aslan, this captivating journey is on the move, touring to Coquitlam, North Vancouver, and West Vancouver. Tour dates and locations listed below, all bookings are handled by the individual venues.
New to this production are actors Kaitlin Williams (Doubt) and Mack Gordon (Wittenberg), a powerhouse couple who are not only some of Vancouver's hottest young actors, but writers and producers as well. Also new to Narnia is director Kerri Norris (Wolf at the Door). Veterans in creating Lewis' imaginative world are costume designer Naomi Sider, set designer Omanie Elias, lighting designer Lauchlin Johnston, and sound designer Jeff Tymoschuk. Stage management by Laura McLean.
THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE adapted from the novel by CS Lewis will play the following tour schedule:
Dec 5-15 at Pacific Theatre (1440 W 12th Ave, Vancouver) 604.731.5518
Dec 18-22 at The Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) 604.927.6555
Apr 21-27, 2013 at Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave, North Vancouver) 604.990.3474
Apr 28-May 4, 2013 at Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Ave, West Vancouver) 604.913.3634
Tickets are available through each individual theatre. For additional information, visit www.pacifictheatre.org/wardrobetour.


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In this session, we describe new capabilities recently introduced in MATLAB® and Optimization Toolbox™.
Chief Scientist Joe Hicklin starts by describing two significant new capabilities in MATLAB:
table, a data container for managing, sorting, and filtering tabular data
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Joe shares his insights into how MATLAB is designed to be the language of choice for millions of engineers and scientists worldwide. This talk provides a unique opportunity to learn from one of the key designers of MATLAB.
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Development of Freshwater Flux and Overflow Arrays Off S.E. Greenland
OCCI Funded Project: 2006
Interrogating the 'Great Conveyor': two questions; two flows
By Bob Dickson and Stephen Dye, CEFAS
The first question is relatively uncontentious: 'is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) of importance to climate?' These days, it would be generally accepted that through its northward transport of warm tropical waters, the AMOC contributes effectively to the anomalous warmth of northern Europe (Large and Nurser, 2001; see also Rhines and Hakkinen, 2003). The oceanic fluxes of volume, heat and salt that pass north across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge from the Atlantic to the Arctic Mediterranean have now been soundly established by direct measurement under the EC VEINS and ASOF/MOEN programmes, as have the corresponding fluxes to the Arctic Ocean (Ingvaldsen, Asplin, & Loeng, 2004 a,b; Schauer et al 2004). We now know that the 8.5 million cubic metres per second of warm salty Atlantic Water that passes north across this Ridge carries with it, on average, some 313 million megawatts of power (one watt is equal to a power rate of one joule of work per second of time) and 303 million kilograms of salt per second (?sterhus et al 2005). As it returns south across the Ridge in the form of the two dense overflows from Nordic Seas, its salinity has decreased from about 35.25 to 34.88 and its temperature has dropped from 8.5°C to 2.0°C or less. Not surprisingly, surrendering this amount of heat is of more than local climatic importance. When the AMOC is deliberately* shut down in the HadCM3 Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model by artificially releasing a large pulse of freshwater in the northern North Atlantic (Wood, Vellinga and Thorpe 2003, Vellinga 2004; Wood et al 2006), the cooling of mean air temperature over the northern Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea 0-10 years after shutdown exceeds -15C, and some lesser degree of cooling is evident over the entire Hemisphere. (*note that this is a 'what if' experiment. No full-size model predicts it).
The obvious follow-up question is much harder to answer: is the AMOC actually slowing? Most computer simulations of the ocean system in a climate with increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations predict that the AMOC will weaken as the subpolar seas become fresher and warmer (eg Manabe and Stouffer 1995; Rahmstorf and Ganopolski 1999; Delworth and Dixon 2000; Rahmstorf 2003), but opinions are divided both on whether thermohaline slowdown is already underway or on whether any variability that we see is natural or anthropogenic. From the current literature for example, we have the report from HadCM3 Group (Wu, Wood and Stott, 2004) that the recent freshening of the deep N Atlantic has been accompanied by an increase in the AMOC, diagnostically associated with an increased north-south density gradient in the upper-ocean; from the Princeton Group (Delworth and Dixon, 2006) the idea that anthropogenic aerosols may actually have delayed a greenhouse-gas-induced weakening of the MOC; from the Kiel Group (Latif et al 2006), the suggestion that the expected anthropogenic weakening of the thermohaline circulation will be small, remaining within the range of natural variability during the next several decades; and from the Southampton Group (Bryden et al 2005), the claim that the AMOC has already slowed by 30% between 1957 and 2004. None of these opinions ---and there are others!---is controversial in the sense that they are all based on established and accepted techniques. But the more extreme are certainly controversial in their interpretation of events. Our observational series are simply too short or gappy or patchy to deal unambiguously with the complex of changes in space, time and depth that the Atlantic is exhibiting, and even the closely-observed line that Bryden et al rely on is not immune. Modelling the same Atlantic transect (26°N), Wunsch and Heimbach (2006 in press) find a strengthening of the outflow of North Atlantic Deep Water since 1992 (ie, in the layers and years where Bryden et al had observed their major decrease), and from the month-to-month variability that they encounter are forced to conclude that 'single section determinations of heat and volume flux are subject to serious aliasing errors'. Such uncertainties in our observations are bound to feed through to our models. Thus in their recent assessment of the risk of MOC shutdown, Wood et al (2006) can go no further than conclude that shutdown remains a 'high impact, low probability event' and that 'assessing the likelihood of such an event is hampered by a high level of modeling uncertainty'.
Two Fluxes: The fact remains that, understand it or not, current climate is changing. In their careful reassessment of the climatic record, Osborne and Briffa (2006) conclude that 'the most significant and longest duration feature during the last 1200 years is the geographical extent of warmth in the middle to late 20th Century'. And despite the fact that Bryden et al report a decrease in the net northward oceanic heat flux through 25°N from 1.3-1.4 to 1.1 PW since 1957 (1PW=1015W), the many time-series collated by the ICES WG on Oceanic Hydrography (ICES, 2006) show clearly enough that the Atlantic waters crossing over the Greenland-Scotland Ridge to the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean are generally at their warmest and saltiest since records began (see also Polyakov et al 2006). Reflecting this trend, Overpeck et al (2005) report that the Arctic system remains on trajectory to a new seasonally ice-free state, 'a state not witnessed for at least a million years'.
Developing an understanding of the longer-term variability of the ocean-atmosphere-cryosphere system of subarctic seas is therefore critical to the continued development of our climate models. Together with partners at University of Hamburg and the Finnish Institute of Marine Research, CEFAS has focussed its attention on measuring two ocean flows off SE Greenland that seem of particular importance to the Earth's climate system. The cold, dense Denmark Strait Overflow, whose characteristics and variability are measured by the Slope array, drives the abyssal limb of the AMOC. The freshwater that flows south on the adjacent East Greenland Shelf ---the largest component of the freshwater flux that reaches the North Atlantic from the Arctic (Dickson et al in press) ---has been implicated in model experiments with slowing that circulation down.
Forty years on from Val Worthington's first heroic but unsuccessful attempt to deploy current meters across the violent flow through Denmark Strait in February-March 1967, the overflow array is now proven and fully-developed. A decade of continuous observations now reveals that the near-bottom flux at densities sq > 27.85 is around 4 Sv, close to the 3.8 Sv predicted by Jack Whitehead (1998) on the basis of hydraulic constraints. Käse and Oschlies (2000) later used hydrographic observations and modelling to confirm that the strength of the DSO is, to first order, in hydraulic balance. However, as our observations have lengthened, they have moved us on a little from thinking of the DSO as an unchanging, hydraulically-controlled flow (eg Girton et al, 2001) to a hydraulically-controlled flow that can show interannual change. As Figure 1 will show, the short term strengthening-then-weakening of overflow transport that we observed in our current meter array around 2000 is now neatly confirmed both by a model-optimised ADCP array close to the sill (Macrander et al 2005) and by transport estimates from satellite altimetry in the Denmark Strait (Köhl, Käse, Stammer and Serra, in press). There is no evidence yet of any long-period trend and no evidence of any co-variance in transport between Denmark Strait and Faroe Bank Channel overflows, as we had once supposed.
Curry and Mauritzen (2005) made the next logical step. Recognising that it is the density contrast across the Denmark Strait sill that drives the overflow and noting that both overflows have undergone a remarkably rapid and remarkably steady freshening over the past four decades (Dickson et al 2002), Curry & Mauritzen (2005) use Whitehead's hydraulic equation to ask how much more fresh water would have to be added to the western parts of the Nordic seas to produce significant slowdown. They find that's not going to happen anytime soon:-
'At the observed rate, it would take about a Century to accumulate enough freshwater (e.g. 9000 km3) to substantially affect the ocean exchanges across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, and nearly two Centuries of continuous dilution to stop them. In this context, abrupt changes in ocean circulation do not appear imminent'.
The fact that the freshening trend of both overflows at the sill has slowed to a stop over the past 10 years has merely reinforced this conclusion.
Freshwater Flux array
is at a much less advanced state of development. Set across the continental
shelf of SE Greenland, it aims to use an array of fixed or profiling moored
salinity sensors and current measurements to measure the major (and at present
largely unmeasured) component of freshwater flux passing south from the Arctic
Ocean to the N Atlantic under the ice of the East Greenland shelf. Our reliance
on 'tube' moorings 35-45m long to carry the salinity sensors up to the
ice-base, thus protected against strikes by drift ice on the principle of the
knock-down-and-bounce-back 'Margaret Thatcher doll', has brought real advances,
notably the recovery of continuous salinity records of up to 4 years duration.
However the accelerated discharge of the glaciers at SE Greenland in 2005
reported by Rignot and Kanagaratnam (2006), including the increased mass-loss
of the Kangerdlugssuak Glacier from 5-to 36 km3 ice/yr between 2000
and 2005, has brought a major new and perhaps unsurvivable hazard. With
grounded icebergs still present within 10 km of the array position when
recovery was attempted in August 2005, it seems clear that the heavy losses we
experienced then are likely to be due to this cause. Though the array we
redeployed in 2005 was a rudimentary one, (one tube mooring with three Microcat
sensors together with one ADCP), we plan once more to attempt to extend that
small array towards its intended coverage in September 2006 with a 2nd
tube mooring and a new Aanderaa RDCP-600 acoustic profiling current meter. The
climatic importance of measuring this flux argues against withdrawing the array
at our first reverse. But this will never be a safe site and only time will
tell if our plans to re-extend the array across this dangerous shelf are
justified or foolhardy. Val Worthington would have known the feeling!
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Curry R and C Mauritzen, 2005. Dilution of the Northern North Atlantic Ocean in Recent Decades. Science. 308 (5729): 1772-1774.
Delworth TL and KW Dixon, 2000. Implications of the recent trend in the Arctic / N Atlantic Oscillation for the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. J Clim, 13, 3721-3727.
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Matt Gelb still here while Andy enjoys some vacation...
The headlining news from players and teams exchanging arbitration figures on Tuesday centered mostly around San Francisco ace Tim Lincecum. The two-time Cy Young award winner is seeking $13 million. The Giants are offering $8 million.
Lincecum is looking to surpass the record for highest salary ever awarded in arbitration -- $10 million.
And so is Joe Blanton.
Yes, that's right. Joe Blanton. He of the 12-8 record and a 4.05 ERA in 2009. He who is slotted as the Phillies' third starter. Not to say those numbers are anything to scoff at, but last time we checked, Blanton hasn't won a Cy Young. Or even appeared in an All-Star game.
Blanton is asking for $10.25 million. The Phillies are offering $7.5 million.
Some perspective: Cliff Lee will make $9 million in 2010 for Seattle. The Phillies will pay Roy Halladay $10 million in 2010. (Halladay's actual salary is $16 million but Toronto is paying $6 million of it this season.) Also facing arbitration, Detroit ace Justin Verlander is asking for $9.5 million. Verlander won 19 games last season and finished third in the American League Cy Young voting...
OK, you get the picture.
Blanton's request of $10.25 million is shocking, considering precedent. Here's why: There can't be any possible way that Blanton's people would expect to win a case should it go to arbitration.
In the last four years, only four pitchers have asked for more money than Blanton during the exchange of figures. They are: Lincecum (2010), Felix Hernandez (2010), Francisco Rodriguez (2008) and Carlos Zambrano (2007). Zambrano settled his case just before the scheduled hearing. Rodriguez lost his case, but was still awarded $10 million, which was what the Angels had offered. That tied the record for largest salary award in arbitration.
Of course, Rodriguez shares that record with Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard along with Alfonso Soriano*. All three were awarded $10 million. Howard won his case; Soriano lost his. Again, we're talking about top-flight players here. Blanton doesn't fit that bill.
*There is an interesting connection in all of this. Blanton's agent is Casey Close, who also represents Howard. Close helped Howard win that record $10 million in 2008. Is he looking to one-up that?
How the Phillies approach this will be interesting. The Phillies have taken a player to arbitration just three times since 1996 -- Howard (2008), Travis Lee (2001) and Willie Banks (1996) -- and the franchise has shown a willingness to avoid the hearing at all costs. But after seeing Blanton's demand, will the front office want to play hardball with the pitcher?
Typically, teams will settle around the midpoint of the exchanged figures before the case can go to arbitration. That would put Blanton's 2010 salary at $8.875 million. That would be a 63 percent raise from Blanton's 2009 salary of $5.454 million.
Does he deserve a 63 percent raise? Last season was probably Blanton's third best in the majors. He put up better numbers in 2005 and 2007. He also won 16 games in 2006.
Can the Phillies settle below the midpoint? Sure. The midpoint is just an unwritten guideline that most deals follow. But what if the Phillies let the case go to arbitration? The panel of three arbitrators must pick either of the two figures -- $10.25 million or $7.5 million. There is no in between. Either the player wins or the team wins.
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I could use a new Luke Jedi w/ Blue Saber
So, what would you proceed to chase down next? Suggestions please, all are valid.
Quote from: evenflow on October 12, 2005, 08:38 AMI could use a new Luke Jedi w/ Blue SaberWell that one I have covered, at least. Came from a card too. I bought it off ebay and the bubble was only partially dented, but badly yellowed. He packed it poorly and it arrived totally thrashed - crushed, cracked, falling apart. So I opened it and the bonus was it was a snap collar cape. So that Luke is done. I'm still at a loss where to go though. I know I'm unlikely to finish a carded collection though I do have a fondness for trilogo's. Ships are neat but room consuming. I may have to unload a lot of my modern ships to make room.
Are you just talking about the 4" line, or are you willing to delve into other vintage areas? If the latter, then I would highly recommend going after the Kenner Micro Collection line, if you haven't already. One of the greatest Star Wars collectibles ever, IMO. I've still got my entire complete (pristine) Micro collection from my youth, and it's still the pride and joy of my collection.
My first reaction is to say no, I'm not interested in stepping outside the 4" line. So much to collect there and so much neat stuff yet to find. I do like the Die-cast stuff a fair bit though.
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Shoshanna And Charlie Meet Awkwardly On Set Of HBO's 'Girls'?
April 29, 2013: Do these flicks from the set of HBO's Girls tell us anything about season 3? At the least, Shoshanna (actress Zosia Mamet) and [UPDATE: some guy that resembles Charlie (Christopher Abbott)] will have some sort of awkward sidewalk encounter. Click through for the photos.
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Melons defeat Overton 23-14
Seniors open season with a big win
OVERTON—It took the Gothenburg Senior baseball team a couple of innings to get rolling in their season opener at Overton Friday night.
Once they did, though, the Melons were hard to stop.
Behind 2-0, Gothenburg didn't score until the top of the third inning when singles by Brandon Wlasiuk, Cody Ostergard and Ben Mayher led to three runs.
The Gothenburg advantage lasted only a short time as Overton put together a five-run inning to go up 7-3.
A three-run home run in the top of the fourth inning by Landen Haake sparked the Melon offense.
With Cody Ostergard and Tre Ostergard on base, Haake hit the ball over the fence.
Brady Preitauer singled to start things rolling again, advancing to second on a passed ball.
When Mayher followed up by reaching on an error at third base, Preitauer turned the play into a run and Mayher advanced to second.
On a full count with two outs, Korey Ahlenstorf walked. A single by Taylor Walker drove in Mayher and Ahlenstorf gambled for the score. Gothenburg ended the inning up 9-7.
Overton didn't go away, scoring a pair of runs on three hits and one error to tie 9-9 going into the fifth inning.
Overton regained the lead after five innings, outscoring Gothenburg 4-3 in the fifth. It was the last time the Melons would trail.
With two outs in the top of the sixth, Cody Ostergard walked, Tre Ostergard singled and Haake walked to load the bases for Preitauer.
A fielding error at second allowed Preitauer to get on base, scoring both Cody and Tre while advancing Haake to third.
Haake scored on another Overton error that pushed Preitauer to third base.
A triple by Mayher scored Prei-tauer and Mayher ran home on the next play when Ahlenstorf singled. The inning ended on a ground out to the pitcher with Gothenburg leading 17-13.
Haake powered the Melons again in the seventh inning with a two-RBI triple as Gothenburg scored six runs on two hits and three errors.
The Seniors scored their final run of the game when Ahlenstorf stole home with two outs in the bottom of the seventh.
Tre Ostergard spent nearly five innings on the mound with Haake getting the win in relief.
Now 1-0, Gothenburg travels to Lexington Wednesday (today) before hosting Hershland on Saturday and the same Lexington team Sunday.
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The 2013 TdF route poses some interesting challenges for someone who would like to see the final mountain stages and finish. Not that we know of anyone who's made a habit over the years of doing exactly that! First step is to visualize things, which I've done here, using information from the official LeTour.fr website.
TUESDAY, JULY 16TH – STAGE 16 168km Vaison-la-Romaine / Gap
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17TH – STAGE 17 32km Embrun / Chorges
SUNDAY, JULY 21ST – STAGE 21 118km Versailles / Paris Champs-Élysées


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There's been some great stuff lately:
- Gustavo Oliveira has an article in Gamasutra about writing an efficient cross-platform SIMD vector library and the tradeoffs involved. The last page was of particular interest, as I had wondered how effective the Intel C++ Compiler (ICC) was vs. Microsoft's. He also provides downloadable source code and in-depth statistics.
- NVIDIA has given some information abour Fermi, their next GPU. Warning: their page will automatically start some audio – annoying. You could just skip to the white paper. One big deal about Fermi is its support of doubles, which means it can be used for more science & engineering number-crunching. The Tech Report has a good overview article of other interesting features, and also presents benchmarking results.
- Tests of OpenCL, the platform-independent parallel programming standard, have started to appear for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs.
- Speaking of NVIDIA, their PhysX engine is getting some attention. The first video clip in this article gives a sense of the sorts of effects it can add. Pretty stuff, but the funny thing about PhysX is that it must accelerate computations that do not actually affect gameplay (i.e. it should not move around any objects in the scene differently than non-PhysX machines). This limits its use to particle systems and other eye candy. Not a diss—heck, most game graphics are about eye candy—but something to keep in mind.
- Naty pointed out an article about how increasing the number of megapixels in a camera is just salesmanship and gains no actual benefit. The author later gives more explanation of his argument, which is that diffraction puts a physical limit on the useful size of a pixel for a given camera size.
- Sony Pictures Imageworks has released a draft describing their Open Shading Language (OSL). While aimed at high-end rendering for films, it's interesting to see what is built-in (e.g. deferred ray tracing) and what they consider important. Read the introduction for more information, or the draft itself.
- My favorite infographic of the week: Avatar vs. Modern Warfare 2. Ignore the weird chartjunk concentric circles, focus on the numbers. The most amazing stat to me is the $200M advertising budget for MW2.
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Eastern Michigan University community mourns student found dead in apartment
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include information from a family spokesperson.
The death of an Eastern Michigan University student has devastated those who knew her.
The cause of death has not been determined, police said in a news release, but is being treated as an apparent homicide.
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Monroe resident Jacob McLaughlin has been designated as the Niswender family spokesperson.
McLaughlin told AnnArbor.com he has known the Niswender family for nearly 12 years and graduated in 2008 from Monroe High School with Julia and her twin sister, Jennifer.
McLaughlin declined to share any specific information about the investigation at the request of the family.
"There is an ongoing investigation and the main thing I want to stress is to respect the privacy of the immediate family and make sure the investigation is able to run its course," McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin said about 50 to 60 family members and friends have gathered at the family's house in Monroe to remember Niswender.
"The family is in complete and utter shock," McLaughlin said. "... It's devastating."
McLaughlin said the family will be releasing a statement at some point, though he isn't sure when.
A classmate and professor described Niswender as a career-driven and friendly individual.
EMU professor Megan Gore said Niswender was one of her "favorite" students. Niswender was a junior, majoring in communication, media and theatre arts at EMU. Niswender also attended Monroe Community College.
"She was passionate about her studies in electronic media," Gore said. "She strove to do her best no matter what the assignment was. Several weeks ago she took a trip to New York with our electronic media program and was so excited to share with me her experiences."
Gore said Niswender often shared her career aspirations.
"She always had a smile on her face and loved to laugh in class, making the classroom environment very special for everyone," Gore said. "I am devastated by her loss as I know her classmates are as well."
EMU student Adrienne Ayers was in an audio production class with Niswender that was taught by Gore.
"We worked together on an audio project for class and she was in my group," Ayers said. "Every time I came to class Julia was always happy and she was always nice to me. She was funny and always made me laugh. Her personality was the kind that would make you want to be friends with her. I never saw Julia upset or anything and she was a true sweetheart."
Niswender's sister, Jennifer, recently graduated from the EMU journalism program. EMU professor Carol Schlagheck, who taught Jennifer, also is from Monroe.
"It's tragic and I've met Julia and I knew her sister, Jennifer," Schlagheck said. "I'm crying. I'm shocked. They're both from Monroe and Monroe is mourning. It's horrible. We feel badly for the whole family. They were very close."
EMU police are working closely with Ypsilanti police in the investigation, EMU spokesman Walter Kraft said in an emailed message to the campus community Wednesday morning.
Niswender's apartment complex, Peninsular Place, was quiet Wednesday morning, with a few EMU students making their way to class down Leforge Road toward campus, peering at the TV news truck parked in the entryway of the complex. The apartments are near the intersection of Huron River Drive and LeForge Road.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Detective Sergeant Thomas Eberts at 734-482-9878 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAKUP (773-2587).
Katrease Stafford covers Ypsilanti for AnnArbor.com.Reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com or 734-623-2548 and follow her on twitter.
Nicole Streeter
Thu, Dec 13, 2012 : 1:35 p.m.
I am sorry to hear of this young woman's death,. As a former student and Alum of EMU, I saw the construction of Peninsular Place apartments, and often wondered how college housing would work out right next to the well known section 8 /ghetto apartments directly behind and across the street. For years, those other apartments and Le forge itself have been known as the slums, although many a college student has lived in the area due to low cost/rent living, My own vehicle was broken into once while I was at the apartment of a classmate tutoring him in History. one of the oldest bar/restaurants known in Ypsilanti, The Wooden Nickle, which sits across the street from Le Forge, was a staple in the college community, until the "clientele" changed and violence became part of a regular occurrence there. The tried changing the name, but it didn't matter, and it closed it's doors back in 2006-2007 ( I believe) My thoughts go out to the family of this young woman. Although no info has been released as to suspects, I would like to know if this was a random act, or if it was a person she knew? Obviously the PP apartments doesn't want bad publicity, but I think they should acknowledge that they are a college student based complex, built feet away from a well known complex that has for years, been known as "one of the worst areas of Ypsi".
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 11:42 p.m.
Our family is praying for her family. No words can describe the pain they are feeling.
Lorrie Mayzlin
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 11:24 p.m.
No matter the circumstances, the end result is devastating to two different cities -- Monroe and Ypsilanti ... the college campus, despite "outsider" views is a community by itself, entwined into a larger city. I pass by this group of campus housing every day on my way to Washtenaw Community College (I also attended MCCC and transferred to WCC/EMU for my program). It hits home in a hurry because you never know who or what is lurking around the corner. Ypsilanti has always had it's share of an ill lot -- with transient people. This type of news is the type of news that no parent ever wants to hear -- and prays about everyday when they send their children off to a larger college campus. It makes it doubly hard for parents because of the the timing -- just before Christmas...and harder for students at Eastern Michigan University, Washtenaw Community College and even University of Michigan -- as we are ALL in our final week of the Fall 2012 semester. The burden of final exams and the stress that causes, now coupled with the death of a friend, and the worry that if this is determined to be foul play without suspects, that they are still out there -- somewhere... My sympathies go to Monroe County Community College, because it is such a small college and everyone knows everyone.... to the family, because as a parent this is more than we should ever bear.... to the campuses of EMU, WCC and UM, because as a student, this weighs heavily on our already burdened shoulders. May she find peace in God's light.
Thu, Dec 13, 2012 : 6:16 a.m.
"....with transient people." Way to show your stereotype and prejudices. :( Just because someone is down on their luck and may be temporarily homeless does not make them bad people or further provoke them into being murderers. Let's not jump to conclusions here.
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 10:28 p.m.
*Apparent* homicide, "cause of death not determined."
Thu, Dec 13, 2012 : 1:19 p.m.
This is the standard language of police reports and, especially at this stage of the investigation, no other terminology would suffice. If the writers of a2.com chose other words they would be substituting their own judgment for that of law enforcement. I don't understand why you would ask them to be less than professional. Unless you're implying that the police are being deceptive, in which case I have a lovely, handcrafted tinfoil hat I'd like to sell you.
Thu, Dec 13, 2012 : 12:45 a.m.
Unnecessary criticism of a sad situation. As a prolific commentator, you might realize that instead of being pertinent, this time you are the one off the mark. So sorry for your lack of discretion and impetuous remark.
City Confidential
Thu, Dec 13, 2012 : 12:35 a.m.
GoNavy, the death scene may have contributed to the use of the word "apparent". If the apartment showed evidence of a crime, but the exact cause of death has not been determined, the police could still use the word apparent.
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 9:35 p.m.
My wife and I send our thoughts and prayers to Julia's family.
Linda Peck
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 6:55 p.m.
Thank you, Miss Katrease, for your touching writing on Julia Niswender. I pray for blessings for her and her family and friends.


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The Lemon Cake Male Objectification Experiment
As someone who likes to bake and doesn't own a car, I have schlepped a lot of cakes on a lot of trains. I've maneuvered pies over subway turnstiles and Tupperwares between strangers' elbows. What was unusual about this one lemon cake was that I wasn't carrying it—and that's where this experiment was born.