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Much Adieu About Nothing?
Credit unions lost a close ally when Congressman Paul Kanjorski conceded the race to Hazelton Mayor Lou Barletta. The congressman earned his stripes with credit unions during the fight to push through H.R. 1151 in the 105th Congress, which many have proclaimed saved the industry, although some at the time questioned whether it did much good at all.
In fact, that legislation is how credit unions got nailed with prompt corrective action, which set the restrictive nonrisk-based requirements for credit union capital they are lobbying to overturn. CUNA CEO Bill Cheney has said that capital reform will be a top priority for the trade group in the 112th Congress. Additionally, H.R. 1151 hit credit unions with the cap on member business lending, which they are currently working to overturn or at least increase. Credit unions are expending considerable political capital on reversing these two items, not to mention time and money.
These were unfortunate compromises made along the way, but in the end the legislation to save the multiple common-bond charter was passed over a legal ruling won by the American Bankers Association. The legislative process isn't pretty, especially when the affected credit unions were desperate. Kanjo, has he has been nicknamed, was an integral part of the congressional team that made that legislation a reality. He is to be commended for that.
But since 1998, positive credit union legislation has been few and far between. Still Kanjorski was there pushing through the Credit Union, Bank and Thrift Regulatory Relief Act-a mouthful of an acronym compared to CURIA but without the same teeth CURIA had. The act, which contained the least controversial elements of CURIA-namely expanded business lending powers and capital reform-was "an important step forward in our legislative debates about how best to ensure that credit unions can better serve their members," according to Kanjo.
CURIA was introduced in the closing days of 2003 and over five years gathered many co-sponsors and was introduced in the Senate. But that bill that could have expanded lower-cost financial services to Americans ironically died with the financial crisis. After the Democratic takeover in 2008 (seems like a lifetime ago after Nov. 2, 2010), the strategy has been to break the legislation up into bits and pieces in hopes it would move through more easily.
Here too, Kanjorski stepped up to the plate, sponsoring the legislation to essentially double credit unions' member business lending authority. But here we are heading into a lame duck session of Congress after elections and the MBL legislation will not go anywhere. And again, credit unions have lost one of their closest-if not the closest-Democratic allies in Congress.
Credit unions have repeatedly thanked Kanjorski for his efforts. CULAC was Kanjorski's fourth highest PAC contributor before including the partisan communications made on his behalf; when his leadership PAC is factored in it drops to fifth, contributing $19,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That achievement is a great showing for credit unions' political prowess. NAFCU PAC, which is much smaller, gave the $10,000 max contribution to Kanjorski. Credit unions should not forget what the outgoing congressman has done for them even though his home district seems to have forgotten all the funding and goodies he has brought home to them.
However, another cost could be the damage to relations with Congressman-Elect Barletta. The credit union lobbyists will have to jump on reparations right away to ensure at least a positive working relationship with him.
The 112th Congress will not be gloom and doom for credit unions because they have maintained a nonpartisan strategy, which works well for them. At press time, Republican Congressmen Spencer Bachus (Ala.), who originally voted against H.R. 1151 but is a credit union convert, and Ed Royce (Calif.), an original co-sponsor of CURIA with a strong working relationship with CUNA CEO Bill Cheney, were vying for the House Financial Services Committee chairmanship. Bachus or Royce. Either way credit unions win. Republican or Democrat. Either way credit unions win. Now maybe credit unions can actually trounce the banks and win some member business lending and capital reform legislation.


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Hi all, merry christmas
I have recently been inundated with these little... things, ive no idea what they are but they seem to be attracted to electrical equipment - theyre on my pc monitor, keyboard, laptop and pc case. theyre on more or less most other things. They vary in size. the one in the photo is only about 0.25mm long but ive seen them up to about 1mm. They dont seem to bite but under the microscope they appear to have lots of moving mouthparts and at least 8 legs (hard to tell as it was moving a lot)
Its not the greatest picture (taken with a kids microscope using a camera phone) but any help identifying it and then best course of action to eliminate them would be super oh, the bottom of the photo is the end with the mouth parts.
It's some sort of mite. I can't help beyond that, except to say be wary of trying to ID it from photos on the internet as there may be several possible species, given that general appearance (pale with long hairs)
I have just discoverd where they have been coming from. My ceiling! I dont know why it hadnt occured to me before but the ceiling, which has always been off colour due to the room being naturally cold and damp as it has 3 outside walls, was covered in these little mites. A thorough vacuum and light damp dust later and they are now gone (hopefully) and my ceiling is more or less white... ish.
They could be head lice
(A pro thinks that to)
It wouldn't be head lice because head lice are attracted to your head not to electronic things.
he picture is of a headlice
How do you know ??????
It does look simmilar in a couple of ways but i still don't think it is head lice.
I am sure on google images that picture is on as dustmite
I dont think it is a dust mite
I just saw some pictures of dust mites and head lice under a microscope on google images and none of them look anything like the one in the picture above. Sorry but you might be wrong
Bed bugs are dust mites. I think there dust mites.
Bed bugs, lice and dust mites are all totally different kinds of creatures! Bugs and lice are two completely different groups of insects and mites are arachnids, similar to spiders, not insects at all. The pic definitely looks like a mite of some kind.
Having vacuumed the ceiling and any electrical item theyve been seen on they seem to have gone. I dont know where they came from originally. They seemed to like warmth they were mainly around the light fixtures on the ceiling and the warmer electrical items - monitors etc.
They havent been seen for some weeks now and the room has been totally cleaned top to bottom.
Thanks for helping try to identify them im still curious but theyre gone and thats the main thing.
Try a search for "Bird Mites"
look at www.tinywhitemites.co.uk for help


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Kanye West is a musician, producer, artist, author and designer. He has sold over 30 million albums and over 78 million digital tracks worldwide. Over the course of his career, he has had six consecutive #1 albums and seven #1 singles, along with scores of radio hits and millions of concert tickets sold worldwide. West has garnered 52 Grammy nominations and has won 21 Grammys, along with numerous other awards and accolades. He is among the most acclaimed artists of the past decade.
Kanye West will return to the road this fall for THE YEEZUS TOUR - a 23-city North American tour. West – a legendary live performer - combines state-of-the-art staging, production, and lighting design with his unmatched aesthetic, visionary creative mind, and an increasingly impressive catalogue of hits spanning his decade-long career.
THE YEEZUS TOUR is Kanye West's first major itinerary since his WATCH THE THRONE tour with JAY Z in 2011 - the highest grossing tour in hip-hop history – and his first solo tour since 2008's critically acclaimed GLOW IN THE DARK tour. Recently, the Washington Post hailed West as "a visionary who's managed to tweak the serial rhythms that dictate so much of our pop culture diet. He doesn't do cliffhangers. He jumps off…We gasp, gawk and wonder, 'Where will he land?'"
West now readies his powerful, innovative live performance for his first major solo tour in 5 years.
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Student or Learner
Hello~ Whould you help me how to say this naturally?
A: How was the exam? Did you pass it?
B: No, because lack of 2 marks, I couldn't make it.
Or, No, becasue small of 2 marks, I couldn't make it.
( need to have 60 marks to pass but 'B' got 58 marks, so there is 2marks gab)
A: Oh, What a shame!(or Shame on you! or What a unfortun!).
I know how hard you tried. Don't be turn off, you will pass next semester.
Help me please~
Last edited by flytothesky; 18-Dec-2008 at 05:32.
Many thanks~
Sorry but,,, what does ' Don't be put off' mean? I can't get it... (I tried to find on the web but still can't get the meaning...)
see here: put off definition | Dictionary.com
In this context, it is definition 34:b


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The Mancos Town Board approved a resolution to the Land Use Code last Wednesday. The resolution entails amendments, or changes, that allow solar energy systems, removing asphalt and concrete batch plants from being allowed and adding setback language along the Mancos River and Chicken Creek. There was a final public hearing before the board approved the changes. (The Land Use Code can be viewed on the town website at www.mancoscolorado.com.)
The board finally approved the Pioneer Park encroachment permit and ordinance. The part of the property owned by Kent Rath is the entryway to Nathaniel's Hat Maker, and the porch roof. A survey was done by Maness & Associates.
The board approved an ordinance authorizing the public works director to institute or rescind watering restrictions in the event that they are needed. Restrictions have been needed in the past, and because the board meets twice a month, the public works director will be able to make a decision in the event of an emergency.
The printed Mancos Municipal Code was last updated in 2010. The ordinances that are passed each week, while on the website, need to be added to the code every few years. The board allocated $2,500 for this service. This amount will be in the budget next year.
The board discussed the effects of State Amendment 64 on the town of Mancos. They have decided to wait until they know more about what the state of Colorado is going to do. They need to make a decision, either to allow retail marijuana stores or have a moratorium on them, by this summer.
The new marshal, John Cox, said that he would be hiring a new deputy in a "couple weeks".


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This may seem a pointless thread, but I would love to say when I see Salem's buddy icon on his messages, it always makes me laugh. Void main geting blown up and replaced by int main. Very good, and proves the point for noobs to take notice than void main is very old-format and most compilers now days would flag an error.
I just think its a great buddy. I hope Salem reads this cause i'd love to know where he got it


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CARSON, Calif. – A.J. DeLaGarza is still working back from injury, but that has not stopped him from pursuing options internationally.
Two weeks ago, DeLaGarza confirmed to Guam's Pacific News Center that he had named to Guam's 30-man roster for the East Asian Cup semifinal round tournament in Hong Kong in December. The winner of the five-team tournament which spans from Dec. 1 to Dec. 9 will advance to the 2013 East Asia Cup which will take place in Seoul, Korea Republic from July 20 to July 28
DeLaGarza, who has two caps—his last coming earlier this January in a friendly in Panama— for the U.S. national team is eligible to play for "the Matao" through his father's side of the family. If DeLaGarza does join Guam, he'd be the second MLS player to join the Matao this year as New England Revolution midfielder Ryan Guy chose to suit up for the South Pacific earlier this year.
With DeLaGarza still recovering from an MCL sprain in his left knee, the Galaxy defender admits that the opportunity may be put on hold for now.
"It's just the preliminary roster for now," DeLaGarza said last Saturday. They have some big games in December against Australia, Hong Kong, and a couple of other teams. The way that my knee is going, I'm probably not going to even risk it, but it's just an opportunity that I have to maybe seek out. It's nothing for sure, but maybe down the road."


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Felipe Lopez: Happy to trade places
Brewers second baseman getting on base at top of lineup
It's been an easy transition in the first weeks since coming to Milwaukee from Arizona. I know a lot of people with the Brewers, and I've been able to keep similar roles to the ones I had with the Diamondbacks: hitting leadoff and playing second base. Being able to continue to play in those two roles here has helped in the transition.
Though I was traded in July, I guess that I'm not a classic case of a deadline deal. I wasn't traded right at the deadline. I don't think it would have mattered if I was or not. I was ready for whatever. In Arizona, I kind of knew I was going to get traded.
This isn't the first time I've been traded, nor is it the first I've been traded midseason. Last year, I started with Washington before getting traded to St. Louis. Having that experience really helps. This is a similar situation in that I've gone from a team with a losing record to a winning team. I like to be on the contending side, so I'm just glad the people here appreciate what I do and decided to bring me here. It's flattering.
I also was traded during the season in 2006, going from the Reds to the Nationals. That trade didn't put me in a contending situation like these last two trades, though.
Having played for St. Louis and Cincinnati, I have a familiarity with this division. But I'm really just glad I stayed in the National League because I have a strong familiarity with the teams and the pitchers. That's really the key. You have a sense of what guys here throw and what they have, including their tendencies.
The Brewers organization has also helped make it an easy transition off the field. They made it easier by helping me with some living options in Milwaukee. It's very helpful when the ballclub helps a player with that sort of thing and allows him to keep his focus on the field.
I made a lot of friends in Arizona, though. I go on the Diamondbacks' Web site and see what the guys over there are doing. They're still my friends, and I like to see them do well. If I see that one of them is struggling, I'll call and wish them well. I'm just that kind of person. I like to help out when I can.
But, overall, I feel comfortable in Milwaukee, and I'm excited about the opportunity to contribute on a good club.
Veteran infielder Felipe Lopez, who is closing in on his 1,000th career game, is hitting .311 with a .378 on-base average and 11 runs scored in 19 games with Milwaukee after batting .301 in 85 games with the D-backs to start the season.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Whether you're someone exploring the exciting possibilities of becoming vegan, a friend or family member of someone living a vegan lifestyle, or a seasoned veteran vegan looking for new recipes, discovering vegan facts, or celebrating community – there's something here for everyone.
Vegan (pronounced VEE-gun) is a way of life that seeks to end the exploitation of animals. It also protects the environment and helps people. Vegan foods are free of all animal products including flesh, dairy, and eggs. Besides food, there are other animal products that can be avoided including animal skin (leather or fur), feathers, and other products that cause animals to suffer.


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Take the opportunities, boys
More than inconsistent pitching, more than unlucky injuries, what's given me that Sept. '07 chest squeeze (you know the one–that dastardly tightness around the rib cage) has been watching our boys strand men on base. Don't get me wrong–I'm not there again. I still fully believe we're going to have a great season, and I look forward to being a part of the cheering (not booing!!!) fan base.
But come on, boys. You've got to do two things now. 1) Plate the runs. Even if your name isn't Angel Pagan, try some clutch hitting. Avoid some double plays. Get the men home. Please.
2) Beat up on the 2nd tier teams. This includes the Nationals. Take the wins you're supposed to get so there's less pressure when you're facing better rivals. Find whatever fire or moxie or anger or pride or whatever it takes to get you playing with heart. We know you're a more talented team than the Nationals. So don't let them beat you by determination alone.
Okay, boys? Get yourselves in a nice little rhythm. Then I can go back to writing things like this:
Carlos, bubbe, I love you. But why with the hair?


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He was born in Dover the son of Davis and Georgie Ellen Stark Wells. He had a love for animals and was a kind and loving man. He will be missed by all his family and friends.
He is survived by a sister, Betty Price of Russellville; a brother, Ronnie Wells of Dardanelle; a daughter, Jennifer Herrera, and granddaughter, Jasmine Herrera of Pottsville; several nieces and nephews; and special friends, Greg Kent, and Trish and David Bennett.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, James Wells and Charles Wells, and his parents.
A private memorial will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, at McFadden Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in his honor may be made to the Russellville Animal Shelter.
Online obituary and condolences are available at www.lemleyfuneral.com.


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Microsoft Unveils "Surface" Tablet Computer [VIDEO]
Microsoft has unveiled Surface, a tablet computer to compete with Apple's iPad.
CEO Steve Ballmer was on hand to announce the tablet, calling it part of a "whole new family of devices" the company is developing.
The 9.3 millimeter thick tablet comes with a kickstand to hold it upright and keyboard that is part of the device's cover. It weighs under 1.5 pounds.
Steven Sinofsky, the president of Microsoft's Windows division, called the device a "tablet that's a great PC –a PC that's a great tablet."
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


text: After all the thread about the most beautiful, attractive, hottest... etc. people in Trek, let's vote on it and see how the population of this forum ranks the sex appeal of various Trek characters. Mind you, I'm asking you who you find the sexiest, i.e. who you feel most sexually attracted to, not the prettiest or most beautiful. And it is about the characters, not the actors outside of the character. I've made it multiple choice, because there is too much to choose from to limit to just one and besides, we know that Spock(s) will dominate the male part of the poll, so it's more interesting to see how the others rank. I've made it a coed poll, and even though this will most likely result in a huge discrepancy between the number of votes for males and females, due to the male/female ratio on the forum, at least I hope it will prevent things such as straight men turning the poll in favor of Kirk. I've listed most of the regulars, the recurring characters or movie characters that usually seem to get Trek fans hot and bothered, and some of the guest stars who seem particularly popular on this board - but since I can't possibly list all of them, there's the "other" option, and please name your pick if that's what you choose to vote for!


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A Forth CPU assembler
An assembler for a Forth-like CPU.
A tool to connect ASDF system definitions in a way that supports auto-loading of systems.
Abstract classes
An implementation of abstract CLOS classes, i.e. classes that can be subclassed but not instantiated. This is part of the Lisp hacks collection by Tim Bradshaw.
As a project Alexandria's goal is to reduce duplication of effort and improve portability of Common Lisp code according to its own idiosyncratic and rather conservative aesthetic. What this actually m...
Applicative iteration
A library that provides for Common Lisp the syntax of Scheme's named LET construct. In addition, it generates a loop even on implementations without tail-call elimination. This is part of the Lisp hac...
An implementation of the Blowfish encryption algorithm.
Bouquet: a graph generator
A graph generator that accepts Lisp objects as nodes, and produces descriptions for use with the Tulip graph visualization framework.
A library for "generating dot (a program in the Graphviz suite) output from arbitrary Lisp data". Graphviz is a graph visualization software.
A library "for parsing, validating, and hyphenating International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs)".
A library for accessing and inspecting .PDB and .PRC databases of PDA devices based on the PalmOS operating system. It does not provide conduit functionality, but works on databases downloaded off a P...
A collection of semi-standard, well documented, miscellaneous utilities with good error checking. It includes utilities for sequences, I/O, iteration, mathematics, functions and more.
CLAWK is an AWK-like text processing language with a Lispy implementation.
CLUnit is a anit test tool designed for environments "characterized by frequent interactive unit test runs". It has a purpose similar to RT, but is simpler to use and supports more powerful types of t...
Calcul des sphères d'influence des atomes d'une protéine
A program for computing the influence spheres of atoms in a protein.
Calendrical Calculations (source code)
The source code from the papers "Calendrical Calculations" by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, Software-Practice and Experience 20 (1990), 899-928; and "Calendrical Calculations, II: Three Hi...
Closer to MOP
Closer to MOP is a compatibility layer that rectifies many of the absent or incorrect MOP features as detected by MOP Feature Tests in a growing number of Common Lisp implementations.
Collecting lists forward
A library for traversing lists and collecting elements backwards. This is part of the Lisp hacks collection by Tim Bradshaw.
Common LISPcraft Code
The source code for the book "Common LISPcraft" by Robert Wilensky, W. W. Norton & Company; 2nd edition (June 1986). It mostly includes AI and parsing code.
Common Lisp and IEEE 754
Comformance test suite for Common Lisp implementations purporting to conform to the IEEE 754 standard for floating point operations.
Conduit packages
Conduits are a generalization of packages. They allow the definition of packages that extend other packages in some way, such as having some symbols from another package. This is part of the Lisp hack...
ContextL is a CLOS extension for Context-oriented Programming.
Crypticl (A Common Lisp cryptographic library) is a library of cryptographic functions with the goal "to provide flexible, high level cryptographic abstractions on top of a kernel of core cryptographi...
Date-Calc Lisp
A library for date calculations that is a port of the Date::Calc Perl module.
DefDoc (An extensible, dynamic document creation system) is a document processing system inspired by TeX. It comes with an HTML output engine.
Defaulting optional arguments for generic functions
An implementation of CLOS "wrapping" methods. They are "like around methods but happen outside them (so: before and after), and the least specific wrapping method is outermost". They provide a clean w...
Design by Contract
An implementation for CLOS of the Design by Contract method of software engineering, developed by Bertrand Meyer for the Eiffel programming language.
a Lisp-programmable document preparation system.
FOR: iteration in the style of Python
An implementation of a FOR control structure macro similar to that of the Python programming language, which is based on iterator objects.
FReT (Framework for Regression Testing) is a testing framework inspired by Lift, CLOSUnit and JUnit, with an emphasis on interactivity.
FUCC is universal parser generator for Common Lisp. Currently LR0, SLR, LALR, LR1 and LL parser generators are implemented, and GLR, CYK and other algorithms are planned.
Simple regression testing framework "designed with Common Lisp's interactive development model in mind". It features hierarchical test suites, functions for re-running recent tests, and inter-test dep...
Float numbers input-output
A library for reading and writing binary IEEE-754 float numbers.
Functional Geometry
A functional geometry explorer, i.e. an application for describing and drawing pictures with functional programs. It can can generate PostScript output.
Genetic Goban
A GO game playing program based on genetic algorithms.
A library for "generic hash tables".
Global lexical variables
An implementation of global lexical variables.
A library for HTML generation, which allows to mix HTML markup with Lisp code. This is part of the Lisp hacks collection by Tim Bradshaw.
Hierarchical packages
An implementation of hierarchical packages, i.e. packages with a hierarchically structured namespace. It is based on the Allegro CL hierarchical packages by Franz, Inc.. This is part of the Lisp hacks...
Hypertext documentation system for Lisp source code. It provides mappings from (package-name, symbol-name, documentation-type) triplets to documentation URIs.
IMAGO is an image manipulation library. It can load and save image files in various formats, and provides basic manipulation operations.
Library for parsing and formatting dates in ISO 8601 format.
Iteration construct similar to CL:LOOP. It is more extensible and has a more Lisp-like syntax than CL:LOOP.
Infix notation macro
A macro for entering expressions into infix notation, which get expanded into conventional Lisp prefix form.
LEXER is a lexical analyzer generator.
A library for manipulating dates and times, based on the paper "The Long, Painful History of Time" by Erik Naggum.
LaTeX Letter
A small, simple program for producing mail merge letters with LaTeX. It generates a single LaTeX file containing all the letters. It is in a stable state, but not feature rich. Adapt to your own requi...
Lisp hacks
A collection of small libraries for packages, dynamic variables, lists, iteration, CLOS, and HTML generation.
Lisp toys
A collection of small utilities for syntactic extension, global variables, control structures and list manipulation.
List comprehensions for Lisp
A library for manipulating lists with list comprehension constructs. It can also be used with arbitrary sequences, hash tables and multidimensional arrays.
List comprehensions, after Python
An implementation of the GATHER macro, which generalizes the list comprehensions facilities of the Python programming language.
MINI compiler
A compiler for a simple, Lisp-like language called "MINI". The tool generates code for an imaginary stack machine, and is intended For educational purposes.
MOP Feature Tests
This package provides a test suites for checking what CLOS MOP features a Common Lisp implementation supports.
MT19937 is a portable Mersenne Twister random number generator.
Maintaining dynamic state
A library for defining a "dynamic state", i.e. "a set of variables - and macros for establishing and accessing this state". This is part of the Lisp hacks collection by Tim Bradshaw.
Memoizing functions
A library for function memoization. This is part of the Lisp hacks collection by Tim Bradshaw.
NCASE: case using a jump-table
An implementation of the NCASE control structure macro, which has semantics similar to CASE but is able to optimize certain cases with a jump table.
Numerical Recipes in Common Lisp (Broughan/Senac Version)
A version of code from the book "Numerical Recipes in Fortran" (first edition), translated by Kevin Broughan from Fortran.
Numerical Recipes in Common Lisp (Ken Olum Variant)
A version of the Common Lisp code from the book "Numerical Recipes" slightly rewritten by Ken Olum. The code was translated by Kevin Broughan from Fortran from the first edition of the book.
A Lisp-like web development language that can be compiled to JavaScript.
Postscript Lindenmayer Systems
This code is a generator of Lindenmayer systems, with PostScript output. A Lindenmayer system is a fractal for describing plants.
REGEX is a powerful and efficient regular expression compiler and matching engine.
REGEX/CLAWK/LEXER Packages
A collection of text processing tools by Michael Parker: a regular expression compiler and matcher (REGEX), an AWK-like text processing language (CLAWK), and a lexer generator (LEXER).
Read-time packages
A library that makes it possible to read an entire Lisp form in the context of a given package by switching packages at read time. This is part of the Lisp hacks collection by Tim Bradshaw.
A simple XML parser featuring an efficient and purely functional implementation, support for different DOM models and XML namespaces, and access to the underlying Lisp implementation's character sets.
A library for reading and writing GIF image files.
Common Lisp code for the book "Spectral Analysis for Physical Applications: Multitaper and Conventional Univariate Techniques" (Cambridge University Press, 1993) by Donald B. Percival and Andrew T. Wa...
Singleton classes
A library for implementing singleton CLOS classes, i.e. classes that only have a single instance. This is part of the Lisp hacks collection by Tim Bradshaw
Source Compare (SC): A 'diff' program for Common Lisp
A diff-like tool for comparing Common Lisp source files.
A Common Lisp extension for using expressions in infix notation.
Sudoku Solver
A program for solving the Sudoku logic puzzle.
A binary trees library with a uniform CLOS interface. It supports ordinary binary, AVL, Red-Black, and AA trees.
The Alias Method
An implementation of the Alias Method for generating a function that returns the value of a random variable with a specified probability. It is described in "On the alias method for generating random ...
A library for fast topological sorting.
User Manual: Automatical User Manual Creation
A tool for extracting documentation from Common Lisp source files. It can generate ASCII, LaTeX and Scribe output.
A toolkit for building test suites, based on JUnit by Kent Beck and XPTest by Craig Brozensky. It provides a tradeoff between programmer overhead and good support for fixture setup and teardown.
A small, simple, non-validating XML parser. It provides mappings from XML to s-exps and back. XMLS is self-contained, embeddable and thread-safe, and comes with support for XML namespaces.
A static analysis cross-referencing tool.
ZPB-EXIF is a library for accessing metadata in EXIF format stored in digital camera image files.
Asdf-packaging (A project to package up loose code) is an umbrella project for updating, packaging and distributing useful software in an ASDF-INSTALLable format. This software was usually written for...
A fork of the Salza file compression library.
A command line style calculator application, which includes a postfix to infix parsing library.
A CGI library based on a widget system, with support for HTML generation.
A pure Lisp library for writing Macromedia Flash movie files. It is currently incomplete and undocumented.
A parser and generator for the JSON data-interchange format.
Library for manipulating dates and times in Temps Atomique International (TAI) format.
Library for generating menus for controlling an application and editing of special variables settings. It currently comes with a text-based backend, but others can be defined.
Library for parsing MP3 audio files.
Collection of small games, such as Hasami-Shogi.
Clax is a library for intelligent software agents that exchange messages.
cljl - Common Lisp JPEG Library
A pure Common Lisp library for encoding and decoding JPEG images files.
Dyslexia is a spelling and grammar checker.
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From far, far away in a European corner of the globe comes an alternative call to Jihad. This is not just Jihad; this is Topless Jihad [1].
Women of miscellaneous heritage but from the collective 'sextremists' FEMEN [2]- strewn between hubs in the Ukraine, Sweden and Paris - are enjoining their supporters to strip off in the battle with the 'Islamists'. The Ukrainian feminist protest group are known for their topless tactics in their struggle against man-made injustice. According to their website, they "defend with their breast sexual and social equality in the world."
And on April 4th, 2013, they're appropriating the popular Islamic mantra and crusade of 'Jihad'. Turning the tables on the terms of reference, the infidels are the conservative Muslims who suppress their bodily womanhood.
Inspired by the semi-naked brazen battle of 19 year-old Tunisian Amina Tyler [3], FEMEN mean business, as they deploy their best assets to the front-line to tackle the oppressive patriarchal honor society. Armed with nothing but their inked breasts- scrawled messages across their fronts - therein lies the rub, and their raison d'etre, as they go for bust against the sworn enemy in its male and Muslim form.
International supporters of the cause (traditional brassieres need not apply) -- the FEMEN faithful (or faith-less, whichever way you're oggling) and those engaging in freeing their breasts from Islamic oppresion, apparently, should mark the online occasion on their individual Facebook pages or at a Tunisian embassy near them.
Say the organisers: "Do your topless action near embassy of Tunisia in your city!"
Rallying calls for the day include "Bare breasts against Islamism!" and "There will be a million Aminas"; the bar is set high for a prolific turn-out.
The mission statement by the organisers of the event thrusts their prize mascot Amina into the eye of the storm, as she fronts their Jihadist campaign. "The fate of the Femen - Tunisia activist Amina Tyler has shaken up and united thousands of women across the globe....Amina's act of civil disobedience has brought down upon her the lethal hatred of islamists inhuman beasts for whom killing a woman is more natural than recognizing her right to do as she pleases with her own body. For them, we now see, the love of freedom is the most dangerous kind of psychiatric illness, one demanding radical forced treatment in the spirit of fascist punitive medicine.The "Arab Spring," for the women of North Africa, has turned out to be a frigid sharia winter that has deprived them of what few political rights and liberties they enjoyed."
On the eve of International Topless Jihad Day, we sneak a voyeuristic gander at the motley crew of flashing Mujahideen so far, in a gallery set to multiply with breasts overnight.
[1] http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/femen-topless-jihad-481979
[2] http://femen.org/en/about
[3] http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/tunisia-naked-girl-478021


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In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, lawyers for the family of the late Eugene Ellison alleges a "troubling pattern of police conduct" at the department and charged that internal investigations into allegations of misconduct are intended to "exonerate police officers who have committed excessive force, illegal warrantless entries and other unlawful acts in the course of their duties."
Ellison, 67, who was black, was fatally shot in December 2010 in his Little Rock apartment during a confrontation with two white off-duty police officers, Donna Lesher and Tabitha McCrillis, who were working security at the apartment complex. The officers said they went to check on Ellison and that he reacted violently when they entered his open apartment. An internal police investigation determined the shooting was justified.
Members of Ellison's family filed suit in October 2011 against the officers, the police department and the Chateau Apartment complex.
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'09 Miller Award finalists announced
Players will determine Man of Year among six candidates
Curtis Granderson, Torii Hunter, Mike Lowell, Albert Pujols, Shane Victorino and Barry Zito were named the finalists in their respective divisions for the 2009 Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award on Sunday following nine days of online fan balloting at MLB.com and MLBPLAYERS.com.
Players across both leagues will now choose among the finalists in balloting for all of the 2009 Players Choice Awards that will take place at ballparks on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Pujols (2006) and Hunter (2007) are previous winners of the Marvin Miller Award, which goes to the player whose combination of on-field performance and community activity most inspire others to a higher level of achievement. Zito has been a finalist in the past while Lowell, Granderson and Victorino will appear on the Players Choice Awards ballot for the first time.
In balloting at AL and NL ballparks, players will choose the winner of the Marvin Miller Award as well the rest of the 2009 Players Choice Awards: Player of the Year, Outstanding Player (AL and NL), Outstanding Pitcher (AL and NL), Outstanding Rookie (AL and NL) and Comeback Player (AL and NL).
Jeter already has a spot for record-setting ball: Derek Jeter will provide the Hall of Famed with some article of memorabilia to commemorate his passing of Lou Gehrig to become the Yankees' all-time hits leader, but it won't be the baseball that he drilled to right on a soggy Friday night at Yankee Stadium to break the record.
"I'm sure my parents will have it," Jeter told the New York Daily News. "My parents keep a lot of that stuff."
Jeter's former manager, Joe Torre, offered his congratulations to Jeter with a text message.
"I communicated with him. I didn't call him," Torre said. "I heard back. I texted him -- that's his favorite thing. I've got to get into that young stuff."
Doumit first in line for whirlpool: On Friday night, Pirates catcher Ryan Doumit not only took a ball off of his kneecap, but he was also struck by a foul ball on the collarbone and hit by a ball on his forearm.
"It's what we sign up for," Doumit told MLB.com. "You can't complain. You got to keep that whirlpool full of ice for after the game."
Barajas showing his prowess behind the plate, too: Rod Barajas is having an outstanding year at the plate with 18 home runs and a career-high 64 RBIs so far. But the Blue Jays' catcher is more pleased with the job he's done behind the plate.
"With all the pitchers we've had, the young guys, the mixing in and out, I'm probably happiest with that, helping the young guys through the good times and the bad times and trying to get them back on track," Barajas told the Toronto Sun. "When you start catching guys you've never caught before or spent very little time with them in Spring Training, you have to get to know them quickly, what they can do well and what they don't do so well and try to take advantage of their strengths.
"So this year was really a challenge in trying to be on the same page and try to help these guys get through as many innings as they possibly could. Mentally, catching-wise, calling pitches-wise, it's probably been the most draining season that I've had -- and the most gratifying. For me, it's not just about swinging the bat, it's about development, helping the young guys and trying to be a [positive] influence on their season."
Manzella savors first hit: Tommy Manzella collected his first Major League hit on Friday night when he beat out a slow bouncer for an infield single. The Houston rookie shortstop said he is saving the ball for his father, Tommy Sr.
"At first, I thought I'd missed it," Manzella told the Houston Chronicle. "I broke hard out of the box, and as soon as I saw it get over his head, I thought I had a chance. I've heard from so many friends since I got called up, and you start thinking back to all the guys you played with. You pinch yourself."
Hoffpauir playing for the future: Micah Hoffpauir wants to be a part of the Chicago Cubs in 2010 and understands now is a good time to show he belongs.
"I've heard it a lot in the Minor Leagues as well: You're playing for next season right now," Hoffpauir told the Chicago Sun-Times. "Obviously, there's a lot of guys here playing that aren't going to be on this team next year. There's guys that we're playing against that may be on this team next year. That's one of those things where you're pushing toward the end of the season to do as good as you can to hopefully make an impression on somebody."
Gomes sees his career on the upswing: Jonny Gomes has seen a bit of a resurgence in his career this year, with a .271 average, 19 home runs and 48 RBIs through Sunday's game -- this in spite of starting the season at Triple-A and getting fewer than 250 at-bats Louisville.
"I wanted to get on track and back on the map," Gomes told MLB.com. "I did have a couple of 20 homer seasons in the big leagues under my belt without a lot of at-bats. The other one where I didn't hit 20, I hit 17. Last year, I didn't have many at-bats.
"It worked out but not exactly ideal. A couple of people had to go down for me to get in there. The opportunity door opened for me, and I stuck my foot in there, and hopefully I turned some non-believers into believers."
Liriano shines after layoff: Francisco Liriano found himself on the mound for the first time in almost a month on Friday night, tossing two scoreless relief innings against the Oakland A's. He recorded four of his six outs by strikeout.
"I just feel great," Liriano told MLB.com. "Way better than I did in the beginning of the season. I feel my arm was just really tired."
Looper making solid impression: Braden Looper will be back with the Brewers if manager Ken Macha get his way.
Looper is 12-6 with a 4.77 ERA this year, and the Brewers and Looper have mutual options for next season.
"We're six games under .500, and he's six over," Macha told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "As manager, absolutely I want him back."
Blanks shooting to return to action this season: Rookie Kyle Blanks, currently out of the Padres' lineup with a strain of the plantar fascia ligament in his right foot, is holding onto slim hope that he will be able to play again this season.
"Realistically, it's tough to say that will happen," Blanks told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "My goal is to be physically ready to play before the end of the season."
Hamilton gets a boost with shots to his back: Josh Hamilton has been moving around without pain after receiving two injections in the lower back and hopes to return to the Rangers' lineup in time for this weekend's series against the Angels in Arlington.
"I'm feeling a lot better," Hamilton told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "Waking up today was like night and day from where [the back pain] had been."
Hamilton reportedly learned that a small bulge in his lower back is the result of a pinched nerve and inflammation from Pars Defect that can be traced to a 2001 car accident while he was with Tampa Bay.
Out three months, Matsuzaka set to make return: Daisuke Matsuzaka, who has been out for three months, will return to the Boston rotation on Tuesday against the Angels.
"I know that it took me some time to get here," Matsuzaka told the Boston Globe through interpreter Masa Hoshino. "But I also feel that I was able to use that time to get prepared really well, and I just hope that I can apply all those things that I was preparing for in my start."
Guzman ponders move to second base: Cristian Guzman has seen a lot in his 10 years in the Majors, but that did not prepare him for a meeting with Washington's management on Thursday night. Manager Jim Riggelman and general manager Mike Rizzo met with Guzman to discuss moving the veteran to second base next season.
"I think he was taken by surprise by it," Rizzo told the Washington Post, "and that was another reason why we posed the question to him now rather than later. You know, his response was, he's never played second base before. I gave him a laundry list of great players who have continued their careers moving from shortstop to second base, and it kind of sunk in and made some sense."
Martin finds results with new approach: Russell Martin has been reworking his approach at the plate and believes he's beginning to make progress. He hit two home runs against San Francisco this past weekend, bringing his season total to six.
"I feel like I'm swinging at what I want to swing at," Martin told the Los Angeles Times. "I'm not swinging at what the pitchers want me to swing at. I find myself getting into good counts."
Wright on board with chance to become a starter: The Astros want to consider Wesley Wright, a reliever for most of his professional career, for a spot in the starting rotation next season.
"I definitely think I have the stuff to do it," he told the Houston Chronicle. "It's just a matter of getting the experience. I need to show I can go five innings and face a lineup three times. I think it'll be good for me."
Allen making an impact at first base: The more Brandon Allen plays, the better the impression the rookie first baseman is leaving with the Diamondbacks. In 19 games entering Sunday, he had three home runs and nine RBIs and has played well in the field.
"He's remained calm," manager A.J. Hinch told the Arizona Republic. "He's got a good demeanor, he's very competitive, not too high, too low. I think his defense is much better than I anticipated."
Vazquez masterful in going the distance: Javier Vazquez was dominant through eight innings, leading Atlanta to a 9-2 rout of St. Louis on Sunday. Vazquez finished with a complete-game seven-hitter, the first route-going performance for a Braves pitcher this season.
"One of the best games I've ever seen pitched through eight innings," Braves manager Bobby Cox told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Reminded me of some of the [Greg] Maddux games."
Kendrick impressive in first start of season: For the first time this season, Kyle Kendrick made a start for the Phillies on Sunday, picking up the victory in his team's 5-4 win over the Mets. Over 7 1/3 innings, Kendrick allowed just two runs while striking out three.
"It felt good," Kendrick told MLB.com. "I really enjoyed that. That was fun. To get that today was pretty special."
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New TransUnion Research Offers Additional Payment Detail
New research into consumer payment behavior promises to enhance credit scores and enable even more precise risk-based pricing, executives with a major credit scoring firm and credit unions say.
TransUnion one of the three major national credit bureaus, started by looking more closely into one of the large gaps in the credit card world, the gulf between "transactors" – those who pay off their entire credit card balance each cycle – and "revolvers" who only pay off part of the balance. Then the analytic firm set out to discover the other ways that those who make higher payments treat their other loans and to quantify that impact.
"TransUnion's study has confirmed the conventional wisdom that transactors—those consumers who pay off their entire balance each month—are better risks than revolvers, i.e., consumers who only pay a portion of their balance, and moreover has quantified just how big an increase in risk revolvers represent," said Ezra Becker, co-author of the study and vice president of research and consulting in TransUnion's financial services business unit.
"Just as importantly, the study revealed that not all revolvers are equal: those who pay more than the minimum on their credit cards, even if they don't pay off the full balance, present less risk across product type," Becker said.
"Our findings are good news for consumers, particularly those who only pay off portions of their credit cards each month. Even if they can't pay the full balance, they may now find that lenders view them in a more positive light depending on the amount they do pay," he said.
The firm discovered that of consumers making payments on their credit cards, 40% will pay their entire balance while 60% will pay somewhat less. Of those 60%, 20% will pay only their card minimum.
TransUnion also came up with a new data point, the Total Payment Ratio, which is found by dividing a consumer's total monthly credit card payment by the total minimum due on their cards. Thus, a consumer who makes $1,200 in card payments on cards on which he had minimum payments of $600 would have a TPR of 2.0.
The firm also found that cardholders who routinely pay only their card minimums are two and three times as risky as those pay more, even if only slightly more.
This information should help credit unions better understand their risk and better tailor their loan pricing, explained Fred Ryerse, senior vice president of lending for the $2.4 billion Members 1st Federal Credit Union in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Ryerse noted, for example, that this development will enable his credit union to better understand some of the nuances in credit scoring. For example, an auto loan applicant with a credit score of 700 but with a history of making only minimum payments on cards might receive a lower credit limit or pay a somewhat higher interest rate than an auto loan applicant with a base credit score of 690 but a TPR of 2.0.
The same data could also be used as an early warning should a member begin to get into trouble financially, Ryerse observed.
For example, a member who had long had a TPR of 1.3 and who had fallen to making only minimum payments might get a call to see what might have happened and whether the credit union could help overcome some difficulty.


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This club has a regulation eighteen hole course and a regulation nine hole course. The eighteen hole Lake Ridge Course has fairways that vary from hilly to flat, and ponds come into play on eight holes. The 1994 U.S. Amateur Public Links Tournament was held here. "Golf Digest" rated this course as the #1 "Best in State" course for 1995-96. They also rated it 31st among the "Top 75 Public Courses" for 1990. The Lake Ridge Course was built on flat terrain and has water coming into play on seven holes. The signature hole is #6, a 200-yard, par 3, with water on the left side of the fairway from tee to green. The Eagle Bend Course is located next to Flathead Lake. Water comes into play on four holes. The signature hole, #7, a 446-yard, par 4, has an elevated tee with a view of the entire course and Flathead Lake.
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U.S. freight carload traffic was down 2% for the week ending Dec. 1 measured agains the comparable week of a year ago. U.S. intermodal slipped 1.1%, counter to its usual weekly gains recorded during 2012.
AAR noted, however, that 14 of the 20 carload commodity groups it tracks posted increases compared with the same week in 2011. Gainers included petroleum products, up 65.3%, metallic ores, up 27.2%, and iron and steel scrap, up 20.2%> Declining commodities included coal, down 12.7%, waste and nonferrous scrap, down 5.6%, and primary forest products, down 5%.
Canadian freight carload volume slipped 0.7% during the week ended Dec. 1 compared with the same week last year, and Canadian intermodal volume also fell, down 2%. Mexican freight carload volume rose 6.3% for the week, while Mexican intermodal shone, up 15.1%.
Combined North American rail volume for the first 48 weeks of 2012 on 13 reporting U.S., Canadian, and Mexican railroads was down 1.9% measured against the comparable period in 2011; combined North American intermodal was up 4.3%.
AAR also released full-month figure for November, showing U.S. intermodal volume rose 1.2% when measured against November 2011, the 36th straight month of gains. U.S. freight carload volume for the month slumped 4%.
"Coal and grain together account for almost half of non-intermodal U.S. rail traffic, so they are obviously very important to railroads. But coal and grain carloads often rise or fall for reasons that have little or nothing to do with the economy. Other commodity categories like autos, lumber, and crushed stone, sand, and gravel that are more highly correlated with economic growth have been growing, which we hope is a good sign for the economy moving forward," said AAR Senior Vice President John T. Gray.


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CCDAE: An acronym for applying sound tactical principles to 'routine' situations
Officer Ian Cooley of the San Jose Police Department says it's better to be a 'problem finder' prior to any potential incident, as opposed to a reaction-based 'problem solver' after something jumps off
I recently visited with the instructors and attendees at a Force Options Instructor Course being held at about an hour away from my San Francisco office. One of the instructors — Officer Ian Cooley of the San Jose Police Department — passed along fodder for about 10 PoliceOne columns in the span of about a half hour.
In sum, Cooley uses tactical concepts and principles — in conjunction with an understanding of the human brain's performance limitations and survival stress reactions — and a concept he calls 'pros and cons' as the bases of his thought process. That's a heavy-duty troika.
For me, one of the key takeaways from Cooley's instruction the other day was an acronym you can apply to myriad situations you encounter on patrol.
CCDAE: An Acronym for Officer Safety
"A little list of tactical principles I have is cover, concealment, distance, angles, and escape routes," Cooley said. "You can apply those in any situation. Whether you're a police officer or in the military, you can't argue with those concepts."
Cooley is absolutely right. This is not news. These five elements are critical to officer safety and are taught in one form or another pretty much everywhere. They bear repetition and contemplation:
• Cover
• Concealment
• Distance
• Angles
• Escape Routes
Cooley explained how using those basic tactical principles in combination can help prevent a violent encounter — and subsequent use of force — from ever even happening.
"Mr. Miyagi asked, 'How do you avoid a punch?," Cooley offered. "'Don't be there, Daniel San.' Well, there are plenty of situations where certain things aren't going to happen simply because I'm not going to be there," Cooley said.
"I'm going to solve this problem from distance, and I'm going to have some cover between me and the subject. I'm going to think about escape routes — both for me to seek a better position and to eliminate the suspect's ability to escape. By using good, basic concepts and tactics, we're able to avoid a lot of things."
Just using distance alone in a contact, you take away the confidence of the bad guy — a bad guy is far more likely to try to attack as the distance between you decreases. Start putting together various elements of that acronym, and you're vastly increasing your position of advantage.
Fasten your seatbelts, my friends, because here's where we start removing car doors from their hinges.
Applying CCDAE to the Traffic Stop
"On a car stop, I pull everybody out of the car. I don't walk up on any car, because I'd have no tactical advantage at all. None! I don't care if I walk up on the driver's side or the passenger's side. What tactical advantage do I have?"
Cooley walked out into the open space at the center of the U-shaped formation of classroom tables and pantomimed such an approach — his hand on his hip as if on the grip of his gun, snaking his shoulders and neck to peer into that little triangular window by the rear pillar, or through the rear passenger windows.
"Doing this — using this little side thing — what tactical advantage do I have? If there's a one-percent-er in that car who wants to get it on, he's going to dictate how that goes. I'm too close. Action beats reaction. He's going to act first and my brain is going to have to catch up. Three quarters of a second to identify a stimulus, another three quarters of a second to begin to react."
Applying CCDAE to the car stop, he explained, you'd take position behind your squad, and call the subject(s) out of their vehicle.
Cooley then went back to the podium, got behind it and said, "I don't want to be up in the grill of a guy who wants to shoot me. I use my cover, my concealment, my distance, my angles, and my escape routes."
To drive the point home — and probably for a few laughs — Cooley then took an extremely nonchalant stance. He plopped his forearms on the podium, pantomiming a gun in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
Gesturing the puff of that cigarette, Cooley said, "If he wants take a shot at me from fifty feet away, let's do it. I'm trained. I know I can shoot pretty decently. I've got cover, I've got distance. I can see his angles and escape routes..."
Now, I try to never use the word never, and always avoid the word always, but the abovementioned strategy for traffic stops seems pretty darned sound to me. Without doubt, though, it's a tool for the kit. Hooah?
Problem Finders, Not Problem Solvers
Something Cooley frequently says in his classes is that "tactics and techniques are tools used within the parameters of the tactical concepts and principles."
He added, "Use the tactics and techniques you like that work for you. There is no 'one way,' but remember, if you create a tactic to solve a problem, you may create a new problem. There are pros and cons to every decision — just understand what your problems are and what you are willing to risk. I want to encourage solving issues before they happen if possible, it's better to anticipate and be a problem finder prior to any potential incident, as opposed to a reaction-based problem solver."
Mull that stuff over a bit. Talk about it with the other officers on your shift. Consider how you can use CCDAE on just about any call you get. Add your thoughts in the comments area below. And above all else, stay safe out there my brothers and sisters.


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Crime / Action
Director: Taylor Hackford
Running time: 118 mins Released: 8th March 2013
About Parker
Parker (Jason Statham) is a smart, aggressive thief out to pull big heists and rob the rich with little to no tolerance for diversions, gang politics or mistakes. At the Ohio State Fair he attempts a job, but his posse become tired of following his orders and a fight ensues, leaving Parker for dead. These people don't know that Jason Statham is the hardnut equivalent of the Energiser bunny, and soon he has tracked them down to Palm Beach where his former colleagues hope to steal some jewels. Providing some help, ditziness, possible romance and definite cleavage is real estate agent Leslie (Jennifer Lopez) who agrees to get involved in this violent escapade because being the love interest is the best way to survive a Jason Statham film.
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Photoacoustic effect in nanocomposite structure 'porous silicon-liquid' has been investigated. Main mechanisms involved in the formation of photoacoustic signal in such structures have been experimentally studied. Liquids with different viscosity (ethanol and acetone) filling the nanopores have been used. A proposed mathematical model describing the photoacoustic signal formation was found to be in good agreement with the experimental results. The role of thermally induced pressures provoked by the liquids confined inside the nanopores in the photoacoustic process has been analyzed.
'Porous matrix-liquid' structures are widely used in such fields of science and technology as medicine, biology, geology, chemistry, etc. [1]. This is important to know mechanical, thermal, optical, and other properties of these structures from an application point of view. Investigations of such properties allow to obtain a lot of useful information about the hosting porous matrix, behavior of the liquids in the confining pore spaces, (for instance, properties of nanofluids), as well as about the whole composite porous matrix-liquid structure.
Photoacoustic (PA) techniques have proven to be capable for studying of porous materials [2] and layered structures [3]. This is mainly due to the fact that, in most cases of their practical implementations, they are nondestructive. In particular, it has been already demonstrated the possibility of using PA techniques for the study of fluid migration in porous materials [4]. Moreover, the PA signal detected by a piezoelectric registration was shown [5] to be sensitive both to thermally induced pressures (TIP) of the liquids localized inside the pores of the composite 'porous silicon-liquid' system and to the pressure relaxation phenomena. Thus, understanding of the PA transformation effects in the porous materials with empty or filled pores enables development of new experimental and diagnostic methods (including in situ methods in the manufacturing process) for characterization of such materials and composites.
In this paper, photoacoustic signals recorded with a piezoelectric transducer in the nanocomposite structure porous silicon-liquid are theoretically simulated and experimentally measured. In particular, the influence of thermally induced pressures of the liquid in the pores on shape and parameters of the photoacoustic response is analyzed in detail.
A sandwich layered structure shown in Figure Figure11 is investigated. Mesoporous silicon surface covered with a layer of transparent liquid (ethanol, acetone) was illuminated by a blue LED (the wavelength corresponding to the maximum spectral energy density was 470 nm). Rectangular modulation of the exciting light intensity has been performed with a frequency of 78.2 Hz and duty cycle of 0.5. Thermoelastic stresses occurring in the structure have been deduced from the recorded time-dependent voltage of the piezoelectric transducer (analogue for PZT-5A, thickness 200 μm).
The mesoporous silicon layers were prepared by anodic etching. Highly boron-doped p+-type (0.01 to 0.02Ω.cm) double-sided polished (100)-oriented Si wafers were electrochemically treated. Etching solution contained a 1:1 volume mixture of concentrated aqueous HF acid (49%) and pure ethanol. A constant anodic current density depending on the desirable porosity value was applied for various times to ensure different thicknesses of the final porous layer. A permanent stirring of the etching solution was applied in order to evacate hydrogen bubbles formed during the anodization process.
Absorption depth of electromagnetic radiation (with the wavelength below 600 nm) in the mesoporous silicon is about a few microns. Therefore, the case of near-surface absorption has been considered. The Z axis is directed in the depth of the sample, and the coordinate origin is situated on the top surface of the porous silicon layer. The temperature distribution inside the sample can be described by heat diffusion equation:
where c and ρ are the heat capacity and volume density, respectively; χ, the thermal conductivity. The boundary conditions for this equation are as follows:
, where the fluid layer is thermally thick, and thermal perturbation does not penetrate to the top boundary of the liquid;
, where thermal conductivity of the glass ceramics is much smaller than the thermal conductivity of bulk silicon, so we assumed that the heat did not penetrate in it;
, where electromagnetic irradiation is absorbed at the top surface of the porous silicon and where I is the irradiation intensity; f(t) is the function describing temporal dependence (modulation) of the irradiation intensity.
Periodic rectangular modulated irradiation with cycle duty of 0.5 was used in our experiment:
According to this,
where ωn =2πn/Tp (n is the integer number); n=0 in the sum term corresponding to the averaged intensity distribution for one period has been omitted.
Thus, the depth and time-dependent temperature in the sample can be written in the following form:
The equations for temperature harmonic components can be obtained by substitution of expressions (Equations 2 and 3) in Equation 1 with the following boundary conditions:
Solution of these equations for the simulated layer structure shown in Figure Figure11 can be represented as follows:
The constants , , , and can be obtained from the boundary conditions.
At quasi-stationary approximation, the thermally induced pressure (TIP) distribution for a liquid infiltrated in the mesoporous layer can be described by filtration equation [6]. Considering thermal expansion of the liquid, this equation can be written as follows:
where ε is the porosity, βTl is the coefficient of volume thermal expansion of the liquid, K is the fluid permeability of the porous silicon, η is the liquid's viscosity, β is the liquid's compressibility.
Boundary conditions for Equation 6 are the following:
Taking into account linear approximation for Equation 3, one can obtain expression for the liquid pressure inside the pores:
The equation for pressure harmonic component can be obtained by substitution of expressions (Equations 3 and 8) in Equations 6 and 7:
Solution of this equation can be represented as follows:
The constants and can be obtained from the boundary conditions.
Elastic deformations in the nanocomposite structure porous silicon-liquid can appear under its heating by non-stationary irradiation as a result of a thermoelastic mechanism. According to the equation [7] for quasi-stationary approximation, the source of thermoelastic force in such structures can be presented as follows:
This source consists of two components: (1) the thermoelastic stresses of the porous matrix and monocrystalline Si wafer (first term) as well as (2) the TIPs of the liquid inside the pores (second term).
Thus, the elastic stresses in the whole sample can be represented as follows:
where G(z, z′ ) is the elasticity Green's function depending on elasticity parameters and geometry of the investigated sample. This function can be easily obtained for the case of quasi-stationary approximation (see, for example, reference [7]) using reciprocity theorem and Kirchhoff-Love theory:
If the polarization axis is perpendicular to the PZT surface, then time evolution of the photoacoustic signal shape at the PZT electrodes can be presented in this form:
where is the function describing the voltage excitation performance depending on a point at which the elastic force is applied.
Figure Figure22 shows typical experimental curves corresponding to the voltage oscillations of the used piezoelectric transducer (PA signal) recorded on the nanocomposite structure porous silicon-liquid for two different thicknesses of the porous layer. Liquids with different viscosity values (alcohol and acetone) were used to fill the nanopores of the porous matrix. The experimental PA signals obtained for the mesoporous silicon layer with empty pores ('porous silicon-air' structure) are shown for comparison. Simulated PA signals for the nanocomposite structure porous silicon-liquid are presented in Figure Figure33 for different values of thermal conductivity and fluid permeability of the porous matrix and compared with the corresponding experimental curves.
As one can see from Figures Figures22 and and3,3, the PA signal obtained for the porous Si-liquid structure is significantly different from the PA signal obtained on the similar structure without liquid (see reference [8], for example). In particular, at least two main characteristic features of the transient PA signals recorded from the nanocomposite structure porous Si-liquid can be noted: (1) a sharp initial rise is followed by (2) a more or less pronounced bend. These features become to be well resolved especially for relatively high porosity and larger thickness values, and the following characteristic sequence can be observed: sharp rise -maximum -bend -minimum -additional slight signal growth. These features are ensured by the TIP appearance (first feature) and relaxation (second feature) of the liquid inside the pores. The TIP arises due to significant differences between the parameters of the liquid and solid matrices (in particular, thermal expansion coefficients and compressibility). The time positions of these features depend on the thermophysical properties of liquid and solid matrix composites, fluid viscosity, the permeability K, and the thickness of the porous layer.
As we can see in Figure Figure3a,3a, the first feature shifts toward the lower time range when thermal conductivity increases. It can be explained by the fact that thermal energy achieves more rapidly in Si wafer. Consequently, it leads to (a) the decrease of the liquid heating and (b) the general changes of relation between thermoelastic stresses and TIP contributions in the resulting structural deformations. Figure Figure3b3b illustrates influence of porous matrix permeability on the temporal shape of the PA signal. The first feature is shifted to the lower time edge with increasing permeability. The similar qualitative result is observed if the liquid viscosity decreases. This is due to the fact that the TIP relaxation time increases as a result of decreasing dissipative forces. Taking into account all these effects, the experimental PA signals can be perfectly fitted by the mathematical model described previously and by considering general thermophysical properties of the porous matrix-liquid composite, viscosity, permeability K, and thickness of the porous layer (for example, see comparison between experimental and simulated signals shown in Figure Figure33).
Several fitting results of the time-resolved PA signals are shown in Figure Figure4.4. The order of magnitude of the porous Si permeability for well wetting liquids is found to be about 10−18 m2 which is in good agreement with the value determined previously from gas permeability measurements [9]. Thermal conductivity values of our nanocomposite structure (approximately 1 to 3 W/(m K) for different samples) correspond quite well to the experimental values of thermal conductivity of porous silicon reported earlier [10].
In this paper, experimental and theoretical investigations of photoacoustic effect in nanocomposite porous silicon-liquid structures have been reported. The role of thermal-induced pressures of liquids confined inside the nanopores in formation of the photoacoustic signal has been highlighted. The influence of liquid and porous matrix parameters on the temporal shape of the photoacoustic signal has been demonstrated.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests
DA made an experimental setup and experimental measurements. MI made the mathematical model and made modeling for the experimental conditions. AK made a modification of experimental setup and took part in fitting of experimental results. VL participated in the samples' fabrication and in general data analysis. RB coordinated the project and data analysis. All authors took part in experimental and modeling data analysis and discussions. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Joined: 16 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:25 am
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Hello everyone,
I am new to this forum and usually hang out at photo.net. I posted the following message there and was told to try here as well. Thanks for your help, Markus
(...) I am trying to assemble a wind stabilizer brace for my Century Universal 8x10 field camera. I came across this version while browsing the internet:
I like this set-up and want to use it as a template for mine. It was easy to find aluminum bars that slide into each other at a local OSH, but I have no clue where to get the other parts, in particular the knobs/screws and the rear and front attachments, including the hinge-like contraption on the rear attachment. I have received so many helpful tips and hints in this forum that I thought this is the right place to ask for help again. Many thanks in advance, Markus
PS: I am in Los Angeles, BTW... PSS: If I manage to successfully assemble a brace, I will certainly share my experience with others and post all information needed to build one yourself
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Don't know if it will help but have you tried smallparts.com?
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:20 am
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Geees... DO NOT go drilling holes into a Century Universal!!!
Do you have any idea how hard it is to fix all those little holes people go drilling into these fine old cameras? How many holes do you think can be drilled into a wood camera before it becomes worthless junk??? How many Century Universals do you think are left in the world???
If you want a more stable camera, buy one! If you want to destroy a camera, do it to one that's worthless to begin with! If you want a stable Century Universal, invest in refurbishing what you have and you won't need any grotesque atrocities mounted on it!
"Ya just can't have too many GVIIs"
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:18 am
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RichS: I take donations for a new camera...
-> a self-made brace will cost me $30-40
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:30 am
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On 2004-10-16 22:18, albertz wrote:
RichS: I take donations for a new camera...
-> a self-made brace will cost me $30-40
And take 2 to $400 off the selling/worth price of the camera when you're done!
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:21 pm
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Well a brace like the one shown will set you back a lot more than $30-$40 unless you have a milling machine at home.
The brace is designed well, and made well but it still relies on a single point of contact between the tripod and the camera.
I have an 8x10 Deardorf and with a nice brass (heavy) 24" Artar. I have to extend both the front and the back, which makes for a very wobbly camera. Rather than make up rods and poles on the camera that would restrict camera movements I bought a used Bogen 2001 tripod, removed the legs and with some inexpensive ball joints and a couple of smaller Mathews clamps I now have three (well two, I never finished the third) extra supports.
The work flow is simple. Set the camera on the tripod. Tilt, swing and focus until my heart's content. Then the braces go from a leg of the tripod (via mathews clamp) up to the front standard. The brace has a piece of wood with a rabbett to catch the edge of the front standard and is held in place with velcro with a couple of velcro straps. A ball joint in there keeps things aligned.
The rear is a bit more difficult since there isnt a tripod leg directly below, but the idea is the same.
In this manner I've supported the camera by a minimum of two places and as many as 4.... a much more stable situation, than braces and holes on the camera....and it keeps RichS's blood pressure down.
"In order to invent, you need a good imagination and a lot of junk" Thomas Edison
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:41 pm
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RichS: I am not planning on ever selling this camera...
Les: Hmm- I will think about the tripod support. Though I would have to carry another tripot on me then... As far as I can tell from looking at the pictures of the brace, the movements/focus are adjusted before the brace is locked into place, so in that sense, it does not really restrict the movements.
At any rate, thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts... Markus
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:46 pm
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Les: Now that's a great idea! And it makes me think of creating something out of sliding sticks to more match the Berlebach tripods I use? I will deffinitely have to put some thought into this and see if I can come up with something that not only works, but matches the tripod, and is portable...
Yep, I do tend to get a bit excited when I hear about people doing nasty things to fine old cameras. My wife has mentioned "obsessed" a few times when I talk about the CU's
On the other side, I'm sitting here with what would be a pristine CU, except for a dozen small holes some idiot drilled into the cover /base for some unknown reason. What a pain to fill and try to match the finish, without doing more damage... Thank goodness they're small holes...
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Andreas Feininger authored a column in "Modern Photography" four decades back, and he described a support system for a large-format camera equipped with a long lens. It involved two tripods, one attached in the usual way. The other had one leg removed, and the two remaining legs were joined to the two rear legs of the primary tripod at their bottom tips. The tripod head of the secondary tripod was attached to the rear of the camera bed. You can imagine a clamp that would serve this purpose, without much difficulty.
The difficulty with this support is that it would seem to require a good deal of horsing around to get the thing pointed in the right direction. I have thought that some kind of slide atop the secondary tripod, with the necessary clamp traveling on the slider, would simplify the aiming process.
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The only reason I used the Bogen tripod was that it was cheaper and lighter to buy and disassemble than to try to make my own telescoping aluminum tubes.
And for 80% of what that modified camera will be doing, the rods won't interfere, but put the front or back into a deep swing......
Re: Feiniger. Why isn't all of those old farts keep stealing my ideas 50 years (okay 30) before I was born???
Actually it wasn't completely my idea. A friend of mine had an 11x14 Deardorf and we found out that it was easier to shoot with when using 2 Star D tripods and a platform rather than a 45 pound derick of a single tripod. I just sort of blended that idea into an 8x10 version.
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:57 am
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I've found that many times when I come up with a great idea, someone has stollen it from me years before
This whole idea does have me thinking now...
Although when a CU is tightened up, it's a very tight camera and I haven't found any need for external support.
But... Now I'm also thinking along the lines of a smaller apperatus that would use a spring clamp at each end, extension tube (or wood sticks) between. Clamp one end on the back, one on the front. The only thing it would need that might be difficult is a ball joint of some sort. For the little stress encountered in this situation, it could easily be made out of the same wood. Metal would be easier to buy. But wood would be very easy to make. Could use the same design for the tripod leg to camera on a slightly larger scale. I think the biggest problem would be the clamp to hold the sliding inner stick. That's usually done with a metal band, but it shouldn't be too hard to fabricate one. Maybe out of brass for the looks?
Just what I needed, another project... But I do love to fire up the router table
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By Carrie Muskat and Teddy Cahill / MLB.com
Right-hander Corey Black, the Cubs' No. 16 prospect, threw six hitless innings Wednesday as Double-A Tennessee defeated Birmingham, 9-1.
In his first win in Double-A, Black struck out eight batters and allowed three walks in six innings. He threw 91 pitches before being relieved by P.J. Francescon to start the seventh inning.
The Smokies' no-hit bid ended soon after Francescon took over. The second batter of the seventh inning, right fielder Josh Richmond, broke it up with a single. Though Birmingham would scratch out another hit and a run in the eighth inning, Francescon completed the final three innings to earn a save.
Black has pitched well since the Cubs acquired him from the Yankees in exchange for Alfonso Soriano last July. In 42 innings in nine games with his new organization, Black has a 2.79 ERA and a 44-to-22 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
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CHICAGO -- Cubs outfielder Justin Ruggiano underwent an MRI on his left hamstring, which he injured Wednesday trying to chase down Aaron Hill's fly ball and fell on the visitors' bullpen mound during Chicago's 7-5 loss to Arizona.
There were two outs in the ninth, the D-backs had just tied the game at 5, and they had a runner at first when Hill lofted the ball to right. Ruggiano ran after it, and the ball dropped just fair for a two-run triple. Ruggiano slid into the bullpen mound, grabbing his left hamstring.
The Cubs outfielder had to be helped off the field by athletic trainer Ed Halbur and manager Rick Renteria. Ruggiano was taken to a local hospital for the MRI.
In the sixth, Ruggiano hit his first Cubs home run, a two-run shot, which helped Chicago open a 5-2 lead.
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CHICAGO -- Anthony Rizzo knows how special Wrigley Field is.
"Hall of Fame players have played here, a lot of world champions have played here," the Cubs first baseman said of the ballpark, which celebrated its 100th anniversary on Wednesday.
"I'm standing in the same box that Babe Ruth stood in," Rizzo said. "As a kid growing up, everyone mimics Babe Ruth. It really is an honor to play here on a daily basis and not just today, but every day and hopefully for the rest of my career.
"This stadium was built 100 years ago; there's still steel from 100 years ago. How it's still standing, I don't know. It's unique."
There is some steel and concrete remaining from when the ballpark was first built in 1914, located mostly in the dugout area.
"I was here before they started with the lights and some of the other transitions they made," Cubs bullpen coach Lester Strode said. "We were close to getting to the World Series [in 2003] and I was here for that one as well. This is a big day not only for me, but a lot of fans and players, past and present. I'm glad to be a part of it."
The Cubs and Diamondbacks players both wore throwback uniforms. The Cubs had on versions from the 1914 Chicago Federals, and Strode needed a little help from infielder Luis Valbuena on how to wear his stirrups.
"I still don't have the feel for back in 1914," Strode said. "I know a few guys have an idea, so I'll roll with it."
Rick Renteria, in his first season as the Cubs' manager, says Wrigley has played fair, and he has no complaints.
"I think pitchers need to keep the balls down in the zone," Renteria said. "If they execute just like in any ballpark, they can get outs. We have to make sure we stay on our toes and catch the ball. Obviously, this is a park that when the wind is blowing out, you have a chance to drive the ball out of the ballpark."
The manager remembers his first day at Wrigley back in September 1986. He had been called up to the Pirates that month.
"I just remember being in the clubhouse, and the visiting clubhouse is significantly smaller than the home clubhouse, but nonetheless, you're in the big leagues and you're in a ballpark that has a lot of history," Renteria said.
"I wanted to get on the field and take it in. There's a lot of history here, obviously, and it's a great city. I think it's a nice ballpark to play in. The fans bring a lot to the table. Hopefully, we can give them a lot to cheer for."
Said Rizzo: "It'll never get old playing here."
Valbuena another option at top of order
CHICAGO -- Cubs manager Rick Renteria says Luis Valbuena gives the team one more option as a leadoff man.
Valbuena set the tone on Tuesday night when he led off for the first time this year and battled Arizona starter Brandon McCarthy with an 11-pitch at-bat. Valbuena eventually flied out to left.
"His on-base percentage has been extremely high, especially against right-handed pitching," Renteria said of Valbuena, who has a .420 on-base percentage against right-handed pitchers. "Yesterday, I think he set the tone. He fouled off a lot of pitches and got on base."
The Cubs have used Emilio Bonifacio and Junior Lake so far this season in the No. 1 spot. Valbuena has been used primarily against right-handed pitchers, and he could be inserted more at the top of the lineup.
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• Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta will make another Minor League rehab outing on Saturday with Double-A Tennessee, which could be the right-hander's final tune-up before he's activated from the disabled list.
Arrieta was slowed this spring by tightness in his right shoulder, and he has made four rehab outings, including 5 2/3 innings on Monday for Class A Advanced Daytona.
"He's been progressing well," Cubs manager Rick Renteria said.
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. Teddy Cahill is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @tedcahill. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.