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There have been many conferences and events with significant amounts of SQL Server 2005 content over the years. However, there's a difference between discussing new features before a product has been released and describing lessons learned from real-world scenarios. In addition, there's a big difference between learning about SQL Server 2005 months before you can use it and learning about it while your organization is determining their upgrade plans.
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Of course, if you miss Connections this spring, Microsoft TechEd is just around the corner in June, followed by another round of major US-based SQL Server conferences this fall. So you do have options. However, if you're hungry for SQL Server 2005 knowledge, it's not too late to register and plan your trip to sunny Orlando.
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Just under thirty years ago, in 1982, the BBC launched a television series called, "The Computer Programme". Since this was before the launch of the IBM PC it was intended to introduce people to computers and teach them how to program in BASIC. As part of this, a company you may not have heard of called Acorn developed a personal computer called the BBC Micro. You will, however, probably know the company that Acorn became: it's now called ARM. Although ARM doesn't actually manufacture processors, its designs are used in literally billions of phones, tablets and other devices around the world.
A few years ago a number of academics in the UK started a campaign to improve the way computing and computer science was taught to children in British schools. As part of the National Curriculum all children study ICT (information and communication technology). This has mostly been learning how to use office automation software like a word processor and some exposure to web page authoring. The academics wanted children to understand more about how computers work and how to program them rather than just how to use them. They wanted to bring back the ideas and the excitement of the BBC micro, but for the Internet age.
Out of this came a project to create a cheap computer that would allow children (and adults) to write programs and learn about interfacing to things like LEDs, switches and motors. This became the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the end result was the single board computer called the Raspberry Pi (Fig. 1) that uses an ARM-based processor. After several years of development the board was launched on February 29th 2012 with an initial run of 10,000 boards. Demand was so high that the websites of the two distributors in the UK, Farnell and RS, were both rendered inaccessible, effectively through a denial-of-service attack by eager customers! Since then over a million boards have been sold at the incredibly low price of $35 each.Figure 1 shows the comprehensive connectivity of the Raspberry Pi.
The Raspberry Pi board, as shown above provides processing, memory and input/output facilities. What is particularly clever about the design of the Pi is how it keeps the cost of the additional components very low. Let's look at these:
Cooling: Take the side off a modern PC clocked at more than 3GHz and you'll find several fans and a sizeable heat sink attached to the processor. ARM processors are extremely good at using very little electrical power and therefore not generating lots of heat. Even under heavy load you can put your finger on the main chip of the Pi and you'll find it warm, but certainly not burning hot. So, no heat sink and no fans required.
Power: Laptops and PCs need power supplies that can deliver hundreds of Watts and have both 5 V and 12 V connections. The low-power ARM architecture means that the Raspberry Pi can run off a single 5 V supply, which can be obtained directly from a USB connection. Although the current required (about 800 mA) is above what the USB specification defines many laptops, PCs and powered hubs will happily provide enough current. The power supply cost can be just that of a USB cable.
Storage: PCs and laptops use hard drives or solid-state drives; the Raspberry Pi uses an SD card to boot from and provide a file system. If you don't have a spare 4 Gbyte card (the recommended minimum size) lying around, you can get one for about $6. Read and write speeds are both adequate for most situations.
Display: The Raspberry Pi provides HDMI and composite video output, so any modern TV will make a great monitor. Add a cheap USB keyboard and you're all set to go.
Technically, the Raspberry Pi has about the same processing power as a typical desktop PC did in the mid-1990s; the processor is clocked by default at 750 MHz. That might not sound like much but remember, back then we were still running spreadsheet programs, graphical design apps and many other complex things. They just ran a bit slower and didn't have quite so many features as the ones we use today. The Raspberry Pi has 512 Mbytes of memory, so more like a desktop machine from about ten years ago. Since it's intended for school children this is more than adequate for most applications they are likely to develop. In addition, buried in the single-on-chip (SoC) package is a really quite impressive GPU; many people use the Raspberry Pi as a very low cost media server.
What Is Java?
The most important thing to understand when answering this question is that Java is not one thing, but many different aspects of a comprehensive software platform. Primarily there is what's called the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) which consists of the Java language syntax, a rich set of class libraries to simplify application development and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
The majority of computer languages are compiled into instructions that are specific to the machine the application is destined to run on: Windows, Mac OSX or Linux for example. This means that in order to run an application on more than one type of machine you have to compile the application (potentially also making changes) for each platform to be supported. A Java application is compiled to bytecodes that represent the instruction set of a virtual, rather than real machine architecture. The JVM takes these bytecodes and converts them as the application is running to the necessary native instructions and system calls. People often think that this extra processing makes Java slower than native applications. That was certainly true when Java was first launched, but with advanced techniques like adaptive compilation and aggressive method inlining it's actually possible to run certain types of applications faster than natively compiled ones. This is what is described in marketing terms as, "Write once, run anywhere".
Java was first released in 1995, which means it was originally designed to work on machines that had the same processing power and considerably less memory than the Raspberry Pi. Over the years, Java has also been adapted to different application types and deployment platforms so, in addition to Java SE there is Java Card (a very specialised form of Java designed to run on smart cards with only kilobytes of memory), Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) for server side applications and Java Mobile Edition (Java ME) for small and embedded applications.
In order to convert bytecodes to the right native instructions the JVM must be ported to each combination of operating system and processor architecture. Partially because of the popularity and cost of the Raspberry Pi, Oracle decided to make it a reference platform for Linux running on ARM processors. In addition to porting the JVM changes were made for specific hardware components like the GPU and the fact that the Raspberry Pi has hardware floating point acceleration (which is not mandated by the ARM v5 architecture used in the Raspberry Pi). The result is an implementation of the Java Development Kit 7 (JDK 7) that is tailored to the Raspberry Pi. Oracle also provides a port of Java ME Embedded (version 3.3) for the Raspberry Pi. This is a version of the Java environment that can run in less than a megabyte of memory, but has a reduced set of class libraries.
To develop graphical or user interface applications you can use the JavaFX library. This is an extension to Java SE that provides a rich set of libraries for these types of applications. The runtime has been extended to take advantage of graphics hardware acceleration (through direct use of the GPU) and this has also been tuned for the Raspberry Pi. This is available as early access until the release of JDK8.
Why Is Java Good For Embedded Applications and the Raspberry Pi
There are numerous reasons that make Java an attractive platform for developing embedded type applications using the Raspberry Pi:
The very comprehensive set of included class libraries. Java SE 7 has almost 4000 class libraries covering everything from data structures to concurrency to networking. This saves a lot of time by not having to keep re-inventing the wheel.
Unlike languages like assembler, C and C++, which are typically used for embedded development, Java does not use explicit pointers. This means that you cannot manipulate the address in memory that you want to access, either accidentally or on purpose. This does two things: one, it reduces the number of bugs in code through incorrectly accessing memory, ad two, it prevents people from using common techniques like buffer overruns to bypass security checks and develop malicious code.
Java was also developed to help developers with what could be considered mundane activities like memory management. Again, unlike C and C++ Java does not require a programmer to remember to explicitly free memory when they no longer require it. This is how many memory leaks occur. Java uses a garbage collector that detects when memory can be reclaimed and does so automatically.
Almost all universities teach Java as part of under-graduate computer science courses so that students can understand object-oriented programming principles. Combined with the huge popularity of Java for all types of applications this means that there are literally millions of developers around the world who know how to program in Java.
Java has great tools for developing code. Aside from commercial products there are two free and open source integrated development environments (IDEs): NetBeans and Eclipse. Developing applications with these substantially reduces the amount of time and effort required using facilities like automatic code completion, syntax checking as you type and many other great features. It is simple to configure your environment so you can develop the code for your application on a desktop or laptop machine and quickly deploy it to the Raspberry Pi.
How Do I Get Started?
Oracle has worked with the Raspberry Pi foundation to make Oracle's production-grade Java SE implementation available as part of the standard Raspberry Pi Linux images. This makes life simpler for people as they do not need to download extra software and configure things to get started.
Alternatively, if you want to experiment with what's currently in development you can get Early Access versions of both JDK8 for Embedded or Java ME Embedded 8 including installation instructions for Java ME Embedded 8. JDK 8 also includes the JavaFX 8 library so you can develop graphical applications.
One of the core design features of the Raspberry Pi is the ability to connect it to external devices using standard hardware level interfaces like GPIO, I2C and SPI. It also provides a serial interface through a UART. In the case of Java ME Embedded an API is included called the Device Access API, which makes controlling these from Java very straightforward. Java SE Embedded does not include this API, but there is a separate library available called Pi4J. To use the serial port you can install another library, RXTX using the command: sudo apt-get install librxtx-java.
What Kind of Things Can You Do With Java and the Raspberry Pi?
Despite being small and cheap the Raspberry Pi is a formidable piece of hardware capable of controlling pretty much anything you can think of. Here are some examples of things people have done:
Deutsche Telekom connected a Raspberry Pi to a Nespresso coffee machine. They were then able to use additional Java APIs on the server to provide voice control from a mobile phone. Some of my colleagues at Oracle built a 'Dukepad'. This is a portable device containing a Raspberry Pi, a touch sensitive screen and an accelerometer. The software uses Java and JavaFX to deliver a tablet interface.
Some of the same team also built a robot, controlled by a Raspberry Pi and programmed in Java to play chess (see JavaOne 2013 Chess Robot). Angela Caicedo (also from Oracle) used a touchscreen and an accelerometer to build a system that handles parallax for viewing three-dimensional displays as the screen is tilted (see Beyond Beauty: JavaFX, I2C, Parallax, Touch, Raspberry Pi, Gyroscopes and Much More. (Part I)).
I connected a cheap EEG monitor to a Raspberry Pi and used it to control a LEGO motor, which (in theory) moved a pointer to indicate how hard (or not) I was concentrating (see Mind Reading with the Raspberry Pi). My most recent project involved connecting a Raspberry Pi to my car and, in conjunction with a touch screen and accelerometer, display a variety of real-time data about the car's performance (see The Raspberry Pi JavaFX In-Car System (Part 1)).
What Do I Do Now?
The next step is to let your imagination run wild in terms of ideas for applications. There are already a host of add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi that provide facilities like analog-to-digital input as well as motor and relay controls. All of these can be accessed quickly and easily from Java applications and you don't even need to know a lot about electronics to start building sophisticated embedded applications.
The Raspberry Pi hardware platform with the Java software platform is clearly a winning combination.

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Lions Gate Entertainment Whiffs on Revenues
Lions Gate Entertainment (NYS: LGF) reported earnings on Feb. 9. Here are the numbers you need to know.
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For the quarter ended Dec. 31 (Q3), Lions Gate Entertainment whiffed on revenues and missed expectations on earnings per share.
Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue shrank significantly and GAAP loss per share contracted.
Gross margins shrank, operating margins shrank, net margins grew.
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Lions Gate Entertainment reported revenue of $323.0 million. The eight analysts polled by S&P Capital IQ expected a top line of $363.8 million. GAAP sales were 24% lower than the prior-year quarter's $422.9 million.
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EPS came in at -$0.01. The eight earnings estimates compiled by S&P Capital IQ forecast $0.12 per share. GAAP EPS were -$0.01 for Q3 compared to -$0.04 per share for the prior-year quarter.
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For the quarter, gross margin was 37.5%, 1,410 basis points worse than the prior-year quarter. Operating margin was 3.6%, 160 basis points worse than the prior-year quarter. Net margin was -0.5%, 90 basis points better than the prior-year quarter.
Looking ahead
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Next year's average estimate for revenue is $1.47 billion. The average EPS estimate is $0.11.
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The Twilight Saga's Nikki Reed and her American Idol alum husband, Paul McDonald, are making music together again. Except this time, it's turning into an actual album. The couple just announced the release of The Best Part, their alt-country five-song EP, which they'll distribute via their own indie label, Enzo and Ira Records.
Nikki says in a statement, "What makes this album special is the fact that Paul and I wrote every song on here together. I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue. It was Paul's encouragement and talent that made me feel safe enough to try. There is no greater feeling than doing something you love with someone you love. There will never be another record like this for us, because it's as much about the message behind it as it is about the music."
Paul echoes his wife's sentiments, and went on even further to say, "We wanted everything to be simple and raw, nothing that we couldn't recreate live with a band. When we were making this record we were so in the moment, and it feels unlike anything I've ever done before. It's amazing working with Nikki because she brings out a different side of me musically. Writing with her feels so natural, and so effortless."
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At the Underground Seminar this weekend I met Dominik and Lucas, two climbers who traveled all the way from Austria.
Both guys were very friendly and I had a great time talking with them about what strong is really about.
They told me about this insane rope climbing that happens in Europe – YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE!
Grip strength has been discussed many times here at Diesel and rope climbing is an amazing means for building real strength.
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This are some rope climbing vid's. here is the link:
one was did at a shopping center in france! crazy stuff, 20 metres climbing and many spectators!! on youtube there are more vids!
most of those guys are gymnasts or climbers, they climb over 2 miles a week in training beside their normal sport. I am training not that much, cause its hard on the hands and I like also training with the iron! perfect for an athlete is in my opinion two times a week! on the way down take care of the ellbows – thats also one thing, that pavel always warns! but men, rope climbing makes one brutally strong!
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Al in Vancouver Says:
January 14th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Hey, a sport for skinny guys like me who still chase after strength!
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[…] I met Dominik at Zach and AJ's Strength seminar recently in Jersey and if you remember, he was the one who showed all of us about the rope climbing championships. […]
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September 11th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Cool shit! I didn't know that people competed in rope climbing. Have you ever seen someone climb a rope upside down? I saw this on one of Karl Gotches tapes. Just awesome.
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Major League Baseball suspended play for nearly a full week -- 91 games in all. "Who cares about baseball right now?" Rockies general manager Dan O'Dowd said, putting words to the feelings of even the most diehard of fans. "This is not a time when you worry about playing games."
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Nearly six feet long, the guns have been known to make gun-control advocates apoplectic. The reasons have little to do with the weapon's actual track record. Unwieldy, heavy and expensive, .50-caliber guns have rarely been used in the commission of deadly crimes. (Albert Petrosky, who killed a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy in a 1995 shootout, carried one but didn't use it.) Yet their potential for mayhem is alarming, and their popularity is soaring.
The guns, which cost anywhere from $2,000 to $7,000 and up, are more powerful than most people can even imagine, with an effective range of about four miles. The .50-caliber cartridge, at about six inches long, is five times the size of the .30-06, a round that in other company might be considered plenty powerful. During the Fun Shoot, tracer ammo -- bullets coated with a fast-burning powder that illuminates the shot's trajectory -- showed .50-caliber bullets piercing entire cars and ventilating steel tanks.
Most people who like big guns like all big guns, and the .50-caliber was hardly the Fun Shoot's only draw. Throughout the event, the air rattled and the ground shook to the staccato music of a multitude of machine guns and assault rifles -- from small, handheld Uzis to anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns.
Across the country this past weekend, people grieved and feared. For Fun Shoot participants, the assembled firepower was a potent sign of individual freedom and a source of collective comfort. "This is probably the safest place in Colorado right now," Brown observed.
Few things simultaneously stir the patriotic soul and stoke the fires of anti-government outrage better than the Second Amendment. Add in feelings about the recent terrorist actions, and an especially strange mixture of resentment and pride hovered over the third annual Fun Shoot. The trucks and campers filling the parking areas boasted more than their fair share of bumper stickers questioning the motives of the U.S. government. But a dozen flags flown at half-mast across the encampment snapped in the strong midday breezes.
"With-us-or-against-us" groups like Rocky Mountain Gun Owners revel in this kind of muddy ideological terrain. "Last week I'm checking my telephone messages, and I got four from Democrats asking me where they could buy assault weapons," Brown reports gleefully. "Osama bin Laden hasn't kicked in any doors yet. But let's face it: When the riots happen, your ideology goes out the window."
If the riots do happen, RMGO will be standing by to say, 'We told you so.' Self-billed as "Colorado's Largest No-Compromise Gun Rights Organization," the group must have broken some kind of speed record last week. On September 14, a mere three days after terrorists rammed three planes into American monuments and crashed a fourth, RMGO posted an editorial on its Web site bemoaning how "Americans have been indoctrinated to be good victims."
"The reason that a few hijackers armed only with knives and box cutters were able to murder tens of thousands of innocent people," it continued, "is less a problem of physically disarmed passengers, and more a problem of psychologically disarmed passengers."
Such rhetoric hardly marks a change in approach for the group. Like many Americans who are in favor of gun control, RMGO also views the National Rifle Association with suspicion -- but for completely opposite reasons. "The NRA promotes the same policies as Neville Chamberlain: appeasement," Brown says. "You know -- if we just give them Austria, they'll be happy. Unlike the NRA, we didn't take a public-opinion poll to decide what we believe." (Mary Ann Bradfield, who lobbies Colorado politicians for the NRA, declines to comment on Brown or the RMGO. "Now is not the time for that sort of thing," she says.)
Brown typically refers to the NRA's local affiliate, the Colorado State Shooting Association, as a "lapdog to Governor 'Gun Control' Bill Owens" -- a politician the RMGO holds in special disregard. The governor earned the group's enmity with his support of Amendment 22, which requires purchaser background checks at gun shows, as well as his highly visible role in Sane Alternatives to the Firearms Epidemic, or SAFE Colorado, a gun-control group formed in response to the killings at Columbine High School.
Though only 35 years old, Brown has spent most of his adult life scrabbling in the trenches against the forces of gun control, wherever they may lie. "I've always been a gunny my whole life, and I got tired of seeing politicians who knew nothing about it," Brown says. A native of South Dakota, Brown moved to Colorado in 1984 to attend CSU. "When I walked into my dorm room, I had five or six rifles," he recalls. "Whenever my roommates scooted off to Cozumel, me and my buddies would go to Kiowa County and shoot like hell."
He worked early on for the college Republicans, and soon after graduation landed a job as a local staffer for U.S. Senator Bill Armstrong. Later he went to work for the state legislature, and then the Colorado State Shooting Association as a lobbyist. But in 1996, Brown quit the gun-rights group in disgust "when I refused to kiss politician ass instead of kick it."
Unlike the NRA, which in response to growing public pressure has slowly agreed to a handful of small restrictions in order to maintain its larger agenda, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners has taken the opposite strategy under Brown. It has vigorously opposed any and all measures to regulate firearms, from background checks and registration of certain weapons to efforts to mandate the safe storage of guns. "We don't think that's a solution to crime," Brown explains. "It's an attempt to appease the leftist media. So we don't do it."
The group, which claims more than 7,000 members statewide, also actively seeks out and promotes political candidates who promise not to compromise on the Second Amendment. Brown says he has already enlisted former state senator Jim Congrove to run for Jefferson County sheriff against John Stone. Brown says that Congrove, unlike Stone, will issue permits to carry concealed weapons to any applicant who wants one and is not disqualified by criminal background. ("I haven't decided anything on that yet," Congrove clarifies, although he acknowledges that he was a consistent supporter of Second Amendment rights while serving as a state representative and senator.)
Several weeks ago, RMGO filed a Freedom of Information Request with El Paso County, seeking the names of each of the 4,400-odd residents who had been issued a permit to carry a concealed handgun there. The county balked at first, but two weeks ago, at the prodding of RMGO's attorney, it relented and released the list. Brown says he meant no harm: His goal was not to publicly shame or humiliate the permit holders, but to simply add them to RMGO's mailing list.
Within the next month or so, the organization also plans to file a lawsuit in Colorado district court, Brown adds. It will claim that the Brady Bill's background checks, in which a computer takes anywhere from several minutes to a couple of hours to scan a buyer's criminal background, are unconstitutional.
"The government doesn't need to know who owns what guns," Brown says. "It doesn't need to approve who can buy a gun. We don't like lines like that. Adolf Hitler drew some clean lines: Jews couldn't carry guns and the SS and Gestapo could. I suppose there was less crime in Nazi Germany.
"We say, why shouldn't you be able to have this freedom? Why shouldn't you be allowed to own a .50-caliber or a machine gun?"
"We're gonna shoot the cannon in a minute," the range officer shouted. He paused, then added, "If anyone wants to watch." There was a general chuckle across the range: Who wouldn't want to watch the cannon?
The artillery in question was the 1937 37-millimeter Bofors owned by Lon, a resident of Green Mountain and a fixture at big-gun shoots. (Like everyone else at the Fun Shoot, Lon asked that only his first name be used.) Mounted on two wheels and so big it comes with its own seating pad, the gun uses rounds that are about a foot long and nearly two inches in diameter.
Finding enough space to shoot guns with a range that can be measured in townships is always a challenge. Last year's Fun Shoot was held in unincorporated Adams County -- an isolated area, but close enough to DIA flight patterns to warrant concern. Particularly now. "After what happened last Tuesday, I don't think the FAA was going to be happy with us shooting 20-millimeter guns in flight paths," Brown points out. Originally the group thought it had found a site outside of Brush, a range that Brown had used before. "One of the things I like to do is get together with a bunch of guys from my church and go to this place north of Brush," he says. "We tie an old car to a post, put a brick on the gas pedal and let it drive itself in circles while me and some friends shoot at it with machine guns. It takes about five minutes to stop it with eight guys shooting. Cars are tough. Usually it's the radiator hits that stop it. Then we got to let it burn."
But that location, too, proved imperfect for a sustained Fun Shoot. "An old lady lives next door, and we wouldn't have been able to let her stay there," Brown says. "It just wouldn't have been nice. We would have had to send her to Disneyland to see her grandkids." Finally, after some calls, Brown landed the Musgrave plot.
Situated a dozen miles east of the Weld/Morgan county line, the firing range was about as safe as you could get and still be inside what is commonly known as civilization. Rules for shooters were strict, and strictly enforced: mandatory eye and ear protection, no alcohol, open chamber markers (such as a pencil sticking out of the chamber) required, ownership paperwork in order. There was even a dress code -- or, more accurately, an anti-dress code. "The media could try to paint us in the 'militia' corner, so we ask, 'No camos, please,'" the registration form noted. (Everyone complied, although one father-son team passed the weekend in fully authentic World War II garb. Message T-shirts were also common: "Christian, American, Heterosexual, Pro-Gun Conservative. Any questions?" read one.)
The field looked less like productive crop acreage than a large yard decorated Appalachian style. Several old automobiles had been placed at different distances throughout the plowed property; numerous propane tanks were also scattered about the field. Most of the targets ranged from a quarter to two-thirds of a mile from the firing line. On a hill beyond the field, just under a mile distant, a lone propane tank taunted shooters. (Early Saturday afternoon, a temporary ceasefire was ordered so that volunteers could put out a small grass fire ignited when that target was hit.)
The report of Lon's 37-millimeter cannon was like pressing your ear to a clap of thunder. A collective whistle of appreciation rippled through the crowd as a round slammed into a junked car in the middle of the field. "Whooo-eeee!" yelled one guy. "You gotta love that!"
Lon, who began collecting guns years ago, definitely does. "You know how it is," he says. "You start small and you work your way up." He bought the 37-millimeter from a man in Pahrump, Nevada, who had kept it in a shed for years until the thing rusted into uselessness. Although ammunition is difficult to find, Lon has managed to scrape together about 200 shells, which he reloads by hand.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which regulates guns in this country, doesn't pay a lot of attention to older weapons. Under a section of the law called "Curios and Relics," many large guns over fifty years old can be bought and sold without much oversight of the transactions. This break from government intervention and meddling is a welcome relief for big-gun enthusiasts such as Lon, whose collection has grown over the years.
Lon had also set up a 1940s-era Solothurn, from Switzerland, obtained from a police officer near Detroit. Farther down the line was a 1940 Boys. Originally a .55-caliber anti-tank gun, Lon converted it to .50-caliber because the ammunition is easier to find. Next to that was a 1918 Maxim, an 8-millimeter automatic Lon acquired from a guy who lived outside of Greeley. When Lon found it, the gun was rusted up -- "deactivated," in BATF lingo. But with some elbow grease and a $200 federal tax payment, it became fully functional.
Lon's guns were a highlight of the weekend, and people periodically stopped shooting their own firearms in order to watch him direct tracer rounds into a car about 400 yards away. Each shot was unfailingly accurate, and smoke curled up around the car. Every hour or so, Lon also launched a bowling ball from his vintage mortar. It soared several thousand feet up and a good quarter-mile away before falling into the mud with a classic incoming whistle.
But Lon's guns were far from the only draw. Denver Bullets Inc., a Capitol Hill gun store, had reserved two conjoining spots along the firing line. Under a pair of white tents, three employees were kept busy renting out a large selection of Uzis and a series of fully automatic 9-millimeter rifles and AK-47s, all firing anywhere from 500 to 1,200 rounds per minute. There was also a relatively rare, fully automatic 12-gauge shotgun.
And that was just the smaller hardware brought by Denver Bullets. In front of the tents, facing the field, was a wall of larger artillery, mostly belt- or box-fed anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns. The M-60, circa 1955, earned its reputation shooting out of helicopters in Vietnam. One impressive setup, dual German machine guns mounted on a single swivel, peppered the Colorado farmland with more than 2,000 shots per minute, or thirty per second, if anyone could count that fast.
Most of the guns are relatively easy for citizens to acquire, explains Greg from Denver Bullets. According to federal law, any machine gun manufactured before May 1986 is available to any person over the age of eighteen who can pass a background check and come up with the $200 tax. "If you can buy a gun, you can own a machine gun," he says.
Several of the guns on display were made after 1986 and could only be legally owned by law-enforcement officers or Class III gun dealers. So the Fun Shoot provided a rare opportunity for regular citizens: All of the guns were available for rent, at $25 for fifty rounds.
Down the line from Denver Bullets, Jay, a tall, serious-looking man, boasted perhaps the most famous gun at the event. Known as the "ma-deuce," the belt-fed M2 machine gun was used in World War II to propel Browning's .50-caliber rounds through German tanks. But not in Morgan County, of course. "I don't hunt or target-shoot," Jay says between percussive bursts from the four-foot-long gun. "I just like to watch machine guns go off."
The M2 is widely considered the granddaddy of the whole .50-caliber movement. Single-shot, or semi-automatic guns that fired a round, popped up occasionally after World War II. But it wasn't until a decade ago, when the gun achieved near-mythic status in the Gulf War as the sniper's consummate tool, that its popularity soared. Today the .50-caliber cartridge has attracted an estimated 20,000 peacetime fans, who are enthralled by the range, power and sheer pyrotechnics of the weapon.
Jay's collection of big guns was so large, he arrived at the range in a pickup-mounted camper pulling a trailer. Setup and breakdown of his half-dozen guns took the better part of a morning. On Sunday morning, more than an hour was spent gathering up the mounds of shells that surrounded his spot on the firing line. The time and cost of Jay's hobby -- at 600 to 900 rounds per minute and about $2 per round, firing the M2 can quickly strain a budget -- makes manning big guns a solitary pursuit. "I had this hobby before I had a wife," he says. "Now I don't have a wife, so there's no one to complain."
Randy's wife, Theresa, wasn't doing any complaining, even though a bum knee prevented her from shooting. Randy, a genial two-tour Vietnam vet, had brought his family along in a 1972 Pinzgauer, an Austrian military vehicle that's a cross between an SUV and an ATV. Once he'd parked the Pinzgauer, he mounted his .50-caliber rifle to the bed, so he could shoot out the back of the vehicle. "The .50 has more range than anything else," he says. "It's one of the most phenomenal guns you can get your hands on."
"But if you're going to get into it, you gotta be careful," he adds. "You don't see amateurs getting involved with it. The only people who have interest in it are people who've been around guns all their lives."
He's made sure that group includes his family. Theresa shot the gun at last year's Fun Shoot. And this past weekend, the couple's fifteen-year-old daughter, Sarah, shot it for the first time. "It was awesome," she says, reclining under a tent with her family. "Things were blowing up. Even when the cars already were on fire, you could tell when you hit it. Sparks would fly up."
"A few of my friends think it's pretty cool," she adds. "Others think I'm a psycho. I don't talk about it too much around them."
"This particular gun will never be misused," Theresa says. "I take great satisfaction in knowing these guys can come out here and do this because they want to."
Next door, Vic, a plasma physicist who once taught at the University of Colorado, meticulously picked off targets nearly a mile away. The appeal of one of the most successful military guns ever, he explained, is being able to use it peacefully. "Usually they're used in times of war," he says. "This is one of the few times you can use them and only damage paper and metal. It's a very innocuous sport."
Fathers nudged their sons behind the guns, eagerly paying -- $10 for three shots, $15 for five -- for the experience, snapping pictures to preserve the moment. After one thin boy fired into the field, the gun's owner tried to pump him up. "A little better'n a .22, isn't it?" he laughed, slapping the boy's back.
The boy smiled slightly and rubbed his shoulder. "What's wrong?" the owner asked loudly. "Something bite you?"
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The entire Fun Shoot seemed more pyrotechnic than hostile or military, and I was easily drawn into the spirit of the thing. I stood in line and paid my money, first to shoot the tripod-mounted .308 M60 (my fifty rounds disappeared into the muck and were gone in a flash, although my arms shook for minutes afterward), and then a .50-caliber owned by Bob from Denver Bullets.
The recoil of the big gun was hardly more than that of a 12-gauge shotgun. Yet the report was deep and satisfying, as much tactile as it was aural. Even when standing yards away, you could feel the big bullet's explosions from inside the gun's thick metal barrel, beginning in your chest and vibrating down your legs. Effortlessly, I nailed a 24-inch bulldozer wheel a good 1,500 feet away. The bullet went clean through the inch-thick metal. It felt good.
We all felt good. That Saturday night, the Morgan County field lit up with exploding propane tanks and burning cars and tracer rounds that flew through the dark Colorado night like a thousand fireflies, and everyone stood to cheer and yell. In a country struck low by pocket knives, box cutters and passenger planes, what was the harm? "This is why we fight wars, isn't it?" Brown asked.
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NORWICH Six were arraigned in Chenango County Court on Dec. 6, for crimes including sex offenses, larceny, and driving while intoxicated.
Nicholas S. Barrows, 27, Smithville, was arraigned for the class D felony of sexual abuse in the first degree and the class A misdemeanor of endangering the welfare of a child. Barrows has been previously convicted of burglary in Oxford and received a sentence of 18 to 54 months in prison. He was on parole when the current alleged crime took place.
Barrows was issued a no contact warrant, protecting the witnesses of the crime, which include the victims relatives. The victim is currently living outside the area, but the mother of the victims boyfriends children, who are witnesses to the crime, still reside in the area.
He has no intention of contacting them, Judge, said public defender, John Cameron.
Judge, the defendant committed the alleged crime years ago and because he is facing substantial time in prison, I would ask that bail be set at a substantial amount, said District Attorney Joseph McBride.
Cameron told the Judge that Barrows had already been arraigned in Smithville and currently released on a $60,000 bond. Judge Revoir continued the bail set by Smithville court at the same amount.
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Coming out of the SummerSlam weekend events in Los Angeles, word from sources to PWInsider is that Steve Austin will indeed be wrestling one more match with WWE but that match most likely will not take place at WrestleMania 29 in 2013.
Austin's final match isn't expected to happen until WrestleMania 30 in 2014.
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Date original: September 22, 1863
Event: Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence
Person: William Clarke Quantrill
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LONG BEACH — Two things happened on the same day in the life of Alfons Kontvis. He graduated from teachers college. And his country was occupied by Russians.
The year was 1940. The place was Lithuania, then a small, independent nation east of the Baltic Sea.
For Kontvis, it was the beginning of a period of suffering that still brings tears. For his country, it marked the onset of a national nightmare that he believes goes on.
After the Russians came the Germans. Then, in 1944, when the Soviet army drove the Nazis back toward Germany, the Russians returned. Today Lithuania is officially a part of the Soviet Union where native language and culture is stringently discouraged.
Kontvis, 66, a retired Westminster engineer, is president of the Lithuanian Club of Long Beach. Its purpose: to provide a place for people from the old country and their descendants to share and preserve a language and heritage in a city virtually teeming with new immigrants from other countries.


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Subway Recycles Its Packaging Into High Fashion
Sure, Lady Gaga can go out in her dress made from red meat, but that seems like a waste of good protein. And you never know what kind of diseases the meat might pick up. Meanwhile, the folks at Subway recently showed off a line of nearly ridiculous but more eco-friendly dresses on the runway in Chicago.
At the Project Subway fashion show in the Windy City, the sandwich chain featured the work of costume designer, Elsa Hiltner, who used recycled Subway packaging for her creations.
As described by Packaging Digest:
One model wore a bodice created from a Subway Lunch Box package, with floral detail made from a Subway Cookie Bag. A looped skirt was made from Subway Cookie Bags as well.
The show was intended to highlight Subway's eco-friendly packaging initiatives. "Subway continues to show that you can eat fresh, be sustainable and look great!" said one overly enthusiastic executive sandwich artist.
All we want to know is: Do the Subway fashions have that same, unique scent that all the Subway restaurants do?
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The difference between Obama-energy and Obamacare is that the government admits you are getting ripped off.
The future of Obama-energy, a collection of bureaucratic regulations from the EPA and other executive agencies (officially known as the Clean Power Plan—CPP), can be seen in the future of Obamacare: higher prices. As the New York Times admitted about 2017 and the Affordable Care Act: "Yes, Obamacare Premiums Are Going Up."
Get ready for big increases in premiums under the Affordable Care Act. A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation examined the most popular individual plans under the new health care law in 14 major cities around the country and found that insurers were asking for increases in 2017 that are twice as big as this year's. There is wide variation, including some places where rates will go down, but the average requested increase is 10 percent.
While it will be months before insurers and regulators agree to final rates for the coming year, the Kaiser analysis confirms the signals we have seen from industry and government experts — that consumers and the federal government are likely to see much higher prices in many markets. Clearly, insurers are struggling to figure out how much to charge so they can cover their costs but still attract customers.
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That's been the news story for next year every year since the misnamed Affordable Car Act took effect. Every year we are warned of skyrocketing rates and every year it happens. Yet it is never enough as we are told the following year.
If Barack Obama wants to destroy the middle class then he should be happy.
The difference between Obamacare and Obama-energy is twofold. First, Obamacare was legislation passed by Congress, Obama-energy is legislation (!) mandated by Obama. Second, Obama lied repeatedly about Obamacare saving consumers money while there is no such deception going on for Obama-energy. As Breitbart recently reported on the Clean Power Plan,
Although the president likes to tout the CPP's projected energy efficiencies, he makes little comment about its economic ramifications. But if there were any doubt as to the plan's hefty price tag, federal number crunchers at the Energy Information Administration (EIA) have released an analysis of the CPP's impact.
For starters, the EIA says the plan will mean "significantly higher" prices for residential and commercial electricity. They attribute this to "higher transmission and distribution costs" coming at a time when electricity consumption will also grow slightly (in 2015-2040), compared to 2000-2015.
Interestingly, the EIA projects that these higher electricity prices will actually reduce demand 2 percent by 2030. Why? Because "compliance actions and higher prices" will force cash-strapped consumers to adopt their own austerity measures.
"Austerity" just means poverty. This is austerity that will have nothing to do with paying down debt or dealing with any necessary expense. It will be induced by nothing more than politicians messing up energy production.
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Between 1972 to 1980 Jerrold Foutz helped establish and served as head of the Power Electronics Branch at the Naval Ocean Systems (NOSC), San Diego, California (now called the Naval Command, Control, & Ocean Surveillance Center). The branch charter included becoming the repository of the Navy's corporate knowledge on the design and use of power supplies as used in Navy electronics equipment. This knowledge was made available to Navy contractors through the branch's role as trusted advisor to Navy Program Managers in the field of power supplies for electronics.
The mission of making this knowledge available was accomplished first by accumulating and indexing one of the most complete data bases on power supplies for electronic systems existing. Problems and solutions were then extracted from this data base along with key papers that described the problem and its solution.
If papers were not found, industry or universities were funded to find and publish the solutions.
These problems and solutions were then reduced to viewgraphs (several hundred), which were used to brief Navy program managers and their contractors. The way these viewgraphs were used is that the requirements of the program were first determined and then viewgraphs selected that addressed the problems associated with those requirements. For example, if the requirements included TEMPEST (preventing eavesdropping on unintentional signals produced by most electronic equipment), then viewgraphs dealing with TEMPEST and power supplies were included.
Two presentations were prepared from these viewgraphs. One, lasting about 50 minutes, was an executive overview that discussed the problems, associated program risk, and risk management, but excluded technical solutions. The second, which immediately followed the first, was for the responsible design engineers and their management and lasted three hours. In this presentation, solution options were discussed and a copy of one or more papers on the subject were provided to the contractor. The rest of the day was spent on doing topological design reviews of the contractor's proposed designs or discussing specific problems and solutions.
Jerrold Foutz gave this presentation, in one form or another, to over 350 Navy power supply design activities during his eight years at NOSC.
The presentations were extremely well received. Several contractors thought the presentations should serve as a model for technology transfer and the Navy should give a similar presentation in all technology areas, not just power supplies.
After leaving the Navy, Jerrold Foutz used the same problem/solution orientation to key the original version of the SMPS Technology Knowledge Base, which was an inverted file database of power electronics literature. Over 100 problems were used as keys, and by using one of these keys, you could recover all papers in the database discussing the problem and its solutions. The problem was users did not know the keys! To overcome this short coming, expert systems were tried for making an intelligent front-end to the inverted file search engine. (See [FOUT86A], [FOUTZ87A], [FOUTZ88A], [FOUTZ88B], and [FOUTZ88C].) While trying to reduce the labor involved in doing this the hypertext paradigm was tried, which became the ultimate solution.
Those writing papers may want to recover all past papers on the subject, but designers just want the one best paper that helps them solve the problem. In its present form, this is what the SMPS Technology Knowledge Base is all about. Copyright law prohibits providing you the best-solution paper, but you get an abstract of the paper and a full reference so you can get your own personal copy. Other resources, such as websites, that are relevant to the problem are also given.
In retrospect, the SMPS Technology Knowledge Base is just an updated version, in hypertext form, accessible through the World-Wide Web, of the viewgraphs and papers used at NOSC to help Navy design activities recognize problems and find solutions. The major difference is that it is not tailored to your individual requirement. You have to use the contents, indices, tutorial, and the problem/relevance/solvability/solution abstract at the top of each problem to determine if the material applies to your design.


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Trick or Treat?? 360nightlife's 2013 Halloween events are fast approaching and we hope the Washington DC area is ready! We are always amazed at the creativity (and sometimes lack thereof) you put into your costumes. Expect to see some Walter White and Edward Snowden clones, and of course some beautiful women in scantily clad wardrobes (we won't complain)!
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