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I wish to thank all those who attended my retirement party on April 19. After 33 years as town clerk and treasurer for Whiting, it was nice to visit and reflect with so many of you at the party.
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WEYBRIDGE — Longtime Weybridge Town Clerk and Treasurer Karen Brisson on Monday resigned from her job after admitting to the local selectboard that she had been embezzling town funds during the past several years, an amount that the town's attorney said could range between $100,000 and $150,000, according to preliminary estimates.
ADDISON — Longtime Addison Town Clerk Jane Grace said last week she is recovering well at home from major emergency surgery performed at Porter Hospital shortly after Town Meeting Day.
Grace stayed at Porter for slightly longer than two weeks after surgery, and returned home on March 24. On this past Thursday she said she has been strong enough to visit her barn and walk around her property.
PANTON — Over the past 17 years many Panton residents have sat on the town's selectboard, while town debates have focused on how to fund needed work on Panton Town Hall, how to word new town plans and zoning laws, and how to get a handle on rising tax rates.
But there has been one constant during those years: Sue Torrey has served as Panton Town Clerk and greeted residents and other visitors in the office nestled in the town hall basement.
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OSWEGO, NY – While Davey Hamilton is the current Novelis Supermodified championship leader at Oswego Speedway, for all intent and purposes Mexico, NY driver Michael Barnes is the man on top of the mountain with Memorial Day Weekend right around the corner.
Since joining Strong Racing full-time in 2012, Barnes has worked his way back into contender status at Oswego, especially during 75-lap events.
Dating back to June 30 of last season Barnes has three top five finishes in 75-lap races at the Speedway, including a runner-up finish during the Novelis Supermodified 'Kick-Off' just two weeks ago. That total would have likely been four, were it not for overheating issues in 2012's Mr. Novelis Supermodified in which Barnes joined Joe Gosek and Kody Graham in a heated battle for the $10,000 top prize.
"75-lappers always seem to suit our car pretty good," said Barnes. "We always have a pretty good feeling of where our car is going to be at the end of 75-laps. It is just really tough out here; there is so much good equipment up and down this pit."
In his first full-time season behind the wheel of the Plum Krazy No. 99, Barnes ended 2012 with four Top 5 finishes and six Top 10 runs and visited victory lane on two different occasions driving to a 9th place finish in the overall driver's standings.
Unlike last season, Barnes managed to finish the opening event of the Novelis Supermodified season two weeks ago, catapulting him to the best start of his Oswego Supermodified career.
Barnes says he will need every advantage he can get to stay at the front of the field with the tough competition at the Speedway in 2013.
"Every position you get this year is going to be earned," said Barnes. "Top threes and top fives are very respectable now, as opposed to what they were five or ten years ago. If you get a top five now it is earned. Everybody wants wins, but it is going to be very tough to say you want to go out there and win two, three, or four races. In order to do that you are going to have to be in the right place at the right time and be on your game every single week to be able to run good up here and run up front."
While Barnes is officially listed second in the current Novelis Supermodified "Road to the Championship" standings, Davey Hamilton will not be back to the Speedway until Budweiser International Classic Weekend, moving Barnes to the point with Independence, OH driver Tim Jedrzejek currently the runner-up.
Jedrzejek, who will run a semi-regular schedule in the Mike Murphy owned No. 60, drove to a heat race win on May 11 and ended the night with a fine fourth place finish on the rear bumper of the driver who rides fourth in the standings, Dave Danzer.
With Hamilton and Jedrzejek etched as part-time Speedway competitors, the Danzer Racing No. 52 is currently the closest weekly competitor to Barnes in the race for the title, only six points behind. In two full-time seasons at the Speedway, Danzer has two career wins but has yet to finish in the top ten in the driver's standings. With a strong third place finish on May 11, Danzer appears to be off to a fast start in search of his best career championship run.
Finishing the current top five in the Novelis Supermodified "Road to the Championship" is two-time Oswego Speedway track champion, Joe Gosek. Gosek timed second fastest in opening night time trials at the Speedway, earning seven valuable championship points. However, Gosek never really seemed to find the handle in the 75-lap main event, running to a rather uneventful seventh place finish.
Shaun Gosselin, Michael Muldoon, Pat Lavery, Dave Gruel, and Tim Devendorf currently round out the top ten drivers in the Novelis Supermodified standings, with defending Speedway champion Otto Sitterly on the outside looking in.
After slicing his way through the field on May 11, Sitterly and Gruel made contact battling for the runner-up spot on lap 66 of the main event two weeks ago, dropping Sitterly out of the feature with a 12th place finish.
Sitterly will be back in the field this Saturday as he looks to avenge his run from two weeks ago and defend his Jim Shampine Memorial title at the Speedway as he continues his drive toward a potential sixth Speedway track title.
Oswego Speedway's Memorial Day Weekend 'Triple-Header' presented by Helena Chemical Company will take the green flag at 5pm on Saturday featuring the Jim Shampine Memorial Novelis Supermodified 75, the Richie Evans Memorial RoC Modified 75, and the Tony White Memorial Pathfinder Bank SBS 35.
Pit gates will open at noon on Saturday, with grandstands opening and hot laps beginning at 2pm.
For more information on Oswego Speedway visit online at www.oswegospeedway.com or LIKE on Facebook at www.facebook.com/OswegoSpeedway or FOLLOW on Twitter @OswegoSpeedway. Those interested in Speedway video programming online can subscribe to the Speedway's YouTube Channel, 'OswegoSpeedwayOnline'.
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The Native-born Assassin just might see a return somewhere
Do you guys want to see more of Connor in Assassin's Creed? Yeah, me neither.
All kidding aside, fans of the series' third assassin just may have something to look forward to. When asked during a reddit AMA if Connor's story would see an Assassin Creed: Embers-style close, Ubisoft Montreal's creative scriptwriter Darby McDevitt responded saying, "Not at this time. Embers took 6 months to make... it was a big project, and beloved by all, but those teams are busy with other things right now. But we loved the project, so maybe we'll go that route again one day."
This is of course a far cry from confirmation that we'll be seeing Connor any time soon, but as long as that story thread remains open, it's not impossible the think we'll be seeing Connor in the expanded universe. McDevitt did go on to say in another post, however, that Connor's likelihood of leading another game isn't very high. "We want Tumblr to pick up where we left off."
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Tech men's and women's cross country teams will be in Nashville Saturday morning to compete in Vanderbilt's annual Commodore Classic. The races will be held at Percy Warner Park.
The men's 8K race starts at 9 a.m. on Saturday with the women's 5K race set for 10 a.m.
The Golden Eagles opened the 2013 season two weeks ago at the
Western Carolina Invitatinal, with the women placing eighth. The
team's veterans led the way, paced by senior Rebecca Cline in 29th
place overall. She was followed by Meghan O'Donoghue in 49th, Yeshi
Dohrman 55th, Peri Winborne 62nd and Amelia McCoy in 68th
The Golden Eagle men's team placed sixth at WCU, with senior John Greene leading the way with a 29th place finish overall. He was followed by junior Sterling Sharp in 36th place, followed by three freshmen. Brennan Huber placed 43rd in his Golden Eagle debut, with Daniel Williamson 54th place and Jordan Roth in the 58th position. Senior Matt Bishop wound up 61st overall ifollowed by freshman Sam Lariviere in 66th place.
Complete results of the two races will be posted on TTUsports.com when they become available.


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Brussels, 20 September 2012
Children in Europe start learning foreign languages at an increasingly early age
Children are starting to learn foreign languages at an increasingly early age in Europe, with most pupils beginning when they are 6-9 years old, according to a report published by the European Commission. A majority of countries or regions have lowered the starting age for compulsory language learning in the past 15 years and some even offer it in pre-school - the German speaking community in Belgium, for instance, provides foreign language learning for children as young as 3. The Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe 2012 report confirms that English is by far the most taught foreign language in nearly all European countries, with French, Spanish, German and Russian following far behind.
"Linguistic and cultural diversity is one of the European Union's major assets," says Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth. "Language learning facilitates communication between peoples and countries, as well as encouraging cross-border mobility and the integration of migrants. I am happy to see that even our youngest citizens are being exposed to the joys of discovering foreign languages. I also encourage people to look beyond the most widely-used languages so they can appreciate Europe's incredible linguistic diversity."
The report highlights that an increasing number of pupils now learn two languages for at least one year during compulsory education. On average, in 2009/10, 60.8% of lower secondary education students were learning two or more foreign languages - an increase of 14.1% compared to 2004/05. During the same period, the proportion of primary education pupils not learning a foreign language fell from 32.5% to 21.8%.
English is the most taught foreign language in nearly all of the 32 countries covered in the survey (27 Member States, Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Turkey) – a trend that has significantly increased since 2004/05. In lower secondary and general upper secondary education, the percentage of students learning English exceeds 90%.Only a very small percentage of pupils (0-5 %, according to the country) learn languages other than English, French, Spanish, German and Russian.
The report also confirms a rather surprising finding - few countries require their trainee language teachers to spend an immersion period abroad. Indeed, only 53.8 % of foreign language teachers who took part in the recently published European Survey on Language Competences (IP/12/679) stated they have spent more than a month studying in a country where the language they teach is spoken. But this average masks a wide variation of approaches: 79.7% of Spanish teachers have spent more than one month studying their chosen language in a country where it is spoken, while this applies to only 11% of Estonian teachers . These findings raise the question of whether exposing future teachers to on-the-ground experience of using the language should be considered as a quality criterion in teacher training.
The importance of language learning will be a focus of the 'Multilingualism in Europe' conference, which the Commission is organising in Limassol, Cyprus, on 26-28 September. Commissioner Vassiliou will deliver the keynote speech.
Multilingualism in the EU
The European Commission fosters multilingualism and language learning in order to 1) promote intercultural dialogue and a more inclusive society; 2) help the public to develop a sense of EU citizenship; 3) open up opportunities for young people to study and work abroad and 4) open up new markets for EU businesses competing at the global level.
The goal is a Europe where everyone is taught at least two languages in addition to their own mother tongue from a very early age. The 'mother-tongue +2' objective was set by EU heads of state and government at the Barcelona Summit in March 2002. To encourage progress towards this goal, the Commission's new 'Rethinking Skills' strategy, due to be adopted in November, will propose a benchmark on language learning.
'Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe 2012'
The report shows that most countries have lowered the starting age for compulsory language learning in the past 15 years, with the exception of Belgium (French-speaking community), Latvia, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and the UK.
While the age of students starting to learn a foreign language has decreased in general, the amount of teaching time they receive has not significantly increased. Indeed, teaching time dedicated to foreign languages is rather low compared to other subjects.
Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe 2012 provides comprehensive evidence to support policy-making and to improve the quality and efficiency of language learning. Promotion of language learning is one of the main objectives of the Commission's Education and Training (ET 2020) strategy, and also crucial for encouraging the cross-border mobility of EU citizens, which is one of the aims of the Europe 2020 strategy for jobs and growth.
Produced every 3-4 years, the report brings together a variety of data sources and provides a complete picture of language teaching in the 32 participating countries It measures 61 indicators in five categories: context, organisation, participation, teachers and teaching processes. The data is mainly drawn from four sources: Eurydice, Eurostat, the European Survey on Language Competences, and the OECD's PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) international survey.
It combines this statistical data with a description of the context and organisation of foreign language teaching, student participation levels as well as details of the initial and continuing education of foreign language teachers. In addition, the report also presents trends in language teaching over the years and analyses the present situation in comparison with the past. .
Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe 2012 is a joint Eurydice/Eurostat publication, produced in close cooperation with the European Commission.
The Eurydice network provides analyses and information on European education systems and policies. It consists of 38 national units based in the 34 countries which participate in the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme (EU Member States, Croatia, Serbia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey). Serbia and Switzerland did not take part in the Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe 2012 report. Eurydice is co-ordinated and managed by the EU Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.
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Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe 2012
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Starting ages for the first and second foreign languages as compulsory subjects for all students in pre-primary, primary and/or general secondary education, 2010/11
Specific mandatory foreign languages as specified by central education authorities
Percentage of all students in primary education who are learning English, French and/or German.
Foreign languages other than German, English, Spanish, French and Russian learnt by students in secondary education, as a percentage of all languages learnt at this level, 2009/10
Existence of recommendations on the content of initial teacher education and the immersion period spent in the target language country, 2010/11
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Four seniors and one team were honored by the Yale Athletics Department with awards at the annual Senior Varsity Dinner Wednesday night in Commons. Katie Rivkin (Scarsdale, N.Y.) of the field hockey team and Christopher Sinay (Charlotte, N.C.) of the men's fencing team were the recipients of the Kiphuth Student-Athlete Distinction Award. Alex Faherty (New York, N.Y.) of the football team and Brynne Kennedy (Pittsfield, Mass.) of the gymnastics team received the Ford Student-Athlete Community Outreach Award. Additionally, the women's fencing team won the Brodhead Award for highest team GPA.
The Kiphuth Award, given to the male and female student-athletes who rank highest in scholarship and have earned two varsity letters prior to their senior year, is named in honor of DeLaney Kiphuth '41, M.A. '47. Kiphuth served as Director of Athletics from 1954 through 1976.
Rivkin, a history major who has been awarded the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, started all 17 games for Yale, scoring two goals. Both were game-winners, including one in a 1-0 win over Harvard. Sinay, an ethnic, cultural and gender studies major, had six wins in the saber this past season.
The Ford Award is given annually to the male and female student-athletes who during the past four years have demonstrated their commitment to strengthening the relationship between Yale Athletics and the youth in the New Haven community. It is named in honor of Thomas W. Ford '42, who endowed the Yale Department of Athletics Community Outreach Program in the fall of 1996.
Faherty, a tight end who battled injuries to finish the season with eight catches for 117 yards and a touchdown, was involved with multiple aspects of Yale's Community Outreach Program, including the National Youth Sports Program and Youth Days. Kennedy, who earned a season-high 9.250 in the floor exercise against Penn, was chair of the Yale Athletics Department's Community Outreach Committee. She developed the holiday giving program through which Yale student-athletes donated gifts to students at the Vincent Morrow Elementary School.
The Brodhead Award is named in honor of Richard H. Brodhead '68, Ph.D. '72, who served as Dean of Yale College from 1993 through 2004 and was on the faculty of the department of English for over 30 years. The women's fencing team, which finished 16th at the NCAA tournament, earned the award with a team GPA of 3.59.
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text: On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Xu, Jerry wrote: > > Hi, I am maintaining a cluster while lots user uses perl to submit tons of jobs > which seems to me like abusing the system. > > Does everybody meet the same situation? Many user us system call in the perl to > do "qsub", shall I ban this? I don't know exactly why it is bad, but it looks to > me really bad. Anybody can give me a good reason to ban it with better > explanation? What about using perl scripts to submit jobs to a queuing system constitutes abuse? The whole point of a queuing system is that you can control/monitor how much of a resource any group receives. That is, using it you can make it so that the resource isn't allocated first come first serve, so somebody with an automated job submission tool "wins", but in a prioritized queue where you can balance access no matter how jobs are submitted. I'd say that writing a script to manage personal job submission is intelligence, not abuse -- it saves human time, and human time is the most expensive resource in nearly any computing situation. Also, for many tasks, one sweeps some parameter(s) across a range and submit a systematically related series of jobs. This is clearly something that a computer script can do FAR better than a human pecking at a keyboard. I actually use(d) an adaptive script that monitored the returns from simulational jobs generating data across such a range, recomputed mean/sigma for the data points of interest, and resubmitted jobs on a squeaky wheel basis to uniformly drop sigma. In that way I ended up with a very uniform set of error bars on the data points I ultimately fit, which in turn makes it a lot easier to get a believable fit or to resolve problems with a fit form that might be missed by chance otherwise. So don't stop users from submitting tons of jobs using scripts, just institute a policy such that those jobs have a "lowest priority" and will be run in a fair way as the resource is available. rgb > > Sincerely > > Protein > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Could you help me? I have problem my cell phone and Mobile set is nokia 2100. The mobile is not going call and incoming call but sometime going and coimg also.
There are very problem. I am check all the funtion and settings. I think, The mobile set screen come this no 429 02. what is this no: and how to remove this?
If anybody know please help me. I also shown all the mobile repair center.
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Fort Fun: 5 Cool Fort Accessories
It's that time again — when parents wish their kids would just go outside and play already! When I was a kid, building forts was a major part of my outdoor life. Living on the East Coast with plenty of wooded areas helped. Often, we didn't even need to build anything, and just found an overgrown nook somewhere.
Here are a few fort accessories to bring even more fun to fort play:
1. Block & Tackle Kit. Perhaps you need to move supplies in and out of your fort: voila, a block and tackle kit.
2. Cable Car Kit. Similar to the block & tackle kit, but the cable car doesn't require the same amount of height. Maybe you have two ally forts that need to send coded messages back and forth to each other.
3. Stick-lets. These silicone fasteners help kids bind sticks together in any way they choose. Stick-lets let kids build their own structures, toys, tools, or whatever they so desire.
4. Rope Ladder. If your kids are lucky enough to have a tree fort or treehouse, how about an old fashioned rope ladder to get in and out?
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Sioux Falls Police See Increase in School Zone Tickets Over Last Year
The numbers are in from a week-long school zone enforcement effort in Sioux Falls.
Police Lieutenant Jerome Miller says the week was "fairly successful":
Miller says no DWI arrests were made during the week. He says the 184 citations represent an increase of 25 over the 2012 total.


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BUSINESS WIRE / ME NewsWire DENVER - Friday, September 28th 2012
MPEG LA announced today that Librassay®, a landmark collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other leading healthcare innovators (listed below), is now providing one-stop worldwide access to diagnostic discoveries for personalized medicine.
"Uncertainties surrounding access to patented technologies have imperiled healthcare advances," said Larry Horn, MPEG LA President and CEO. "Just as MPEG LA's origination of patent pools provided a market-based solution for accessing consumer electronics, video and information technologies, now MPEG LA's Librassay® introduces a similar solution to the healthcare market with the potential for profound cost savings and quality of life benefits. We applaud the pioneering foresight and efforts of the world's leading research institutions demonstrating a commitment to their understanding that making world class medical technology widely available is as important as inventing it."
"The NIH's policy is to disseminate its technologies as broadly as possible to promote commercialization and improve public health," stated Mark Rohrbaugh, Director of the NIH Office of Technology Transfer. "This agreement promotes our policy by permitting MPEG LA and Librassay® to pool patented technologies contributed by NIH with complementary technologies from other sources, and to grant non-exclusive, commercial licenses from the pool for in vitro diagnostics and personalized medicine."
"Before Librassay®, obtaining licenses to medical diagnostic inventions was an ordeal," added Kristin Neuman, Librassay® Executive Director. "Now Librassay® offers one place where diagnostic developers and service providers can obtain assured and affordable access to patent rights, and patent holders have the opportunity for wider adoption of their technologies in combination with others, reasonable compensation for their research investments and the incentive to invest more."
Initial contributors to Librassay® include
Johns Hopkins University
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
National Institutes of Health
Partners HealthCare
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
University of California, San Francisco
Starting with some 400 patents, Librassay® makes worldwide medical diagnostic patent rights from the world's leading research institutions available to everyone through a one-stop license. Librassay® is expected to be of particular benefit in connection with emerging multiplexed diagnostic tests for disease and other health conditions, including whole genome sequencing, for which patent rights belonging to many different parties may be needed.
MPEG LA welcomes other patent holders to join Librassay®. For information, please go to firstname.lastname@example.com.
To access the on-line Librassay® store, or request a copy of the Librassay® Patent Portfolio License, please go to www.librassay.com.
MPEG LA is the world's leading independent provider of patent licenses offering wide access to important technologies. MPEG LA developed modern day patent pools. By assisting users with implementation of their technology choices, MPEG LA offers licensing solutions that create opportunities for wide adoption and fuel innovation. MPEG LA's original license for digital video compression helped produce the most widely employed standard in consumer electronics history. It has become the template for addressing patent thickets. Today MPEG LA manages licensing programs consisting of 6000 patents in 74 countries with 159 licensors and some 5000 licensees. For more information, please refer to http://www.mpegla.com.
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), founded in Baltimore in 1876 by philanthropist Johns Hopkins, was America's first research university and today is a leading center for higher education and research. The National Science Foundation has ranked JHU number one among U.S. academic institutions in total science, medical and engineering research and development spending for 32 consecutive years. To date, 36 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with JHU, and the university's research is among the most cited in the world.
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
The Ludwig Institute is an international non-profit organization committed to improving the understanding and control of cancer through integrated laboratory and clinical discovery. Leveraging its worldwide network of investigators and the ability to sponsor and conduct its own clinical trials, the Institute is actively engaged in translating its discoveries into applications for patient benefit. Since its establishment in 1971, the Institute has expended more than $1.5 billion on cancer research.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is the world's oldest and largest private institution devoted to prevention, patient care, research, and education in cancer. Our scientists and clinicians generate innovative approaches to better understand, diagnose, and treat cancer. Our specialists are leaders in biomedical research and in translating the latest research to advance the standard of cancer care worldwide. For more information, go to www.mskcc.org.
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
Partners HealthCare
Partners HealthCare is an integrated health care system, founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital that offers patients a continuum of coordinated and high-quality care. In addition to its two academic medical centers, the Partners system includes community and specialty hospitals, a physician network, community health centers, home health and long-term care services, and other health care entities. Partners HealthCare is committed to patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community. Partners is one of the nation's leading biomedical research organizations and is a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization.
The University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, is one of America's premier research and teaching universities. As a member of the Ivy League, Penn has a proud history of academic excellence with 12 schools that offer undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees to more than 21,000 students. With 165 research centers and institutes, research is a substantial and esteemed enterprise at Penn supported by a research budget approaching $1B annually. In particular, the Perelman School of Medicine is consistently ranked among the top institutions listed in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with ~$500 million awarded in the last fiscal year. For more information, visit www.upenn.edu.
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. As the birthplace of biotechnology and the largest public recipient of funding from the National Institutes of Health, UCSF is dedicated to translating the nation's investment in biomedical research into direct public benefit. Central to that effort are the more than 1,700 active inventions and 450 intellectual property licenses under management by the UCSF office of Innovation, Technology and Alliances. More than 97 products are currently being sold based on UCSF technology, with 13 more in clinical development. For more information, visit www.ucsf.edu.
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Once clients are connected to the broker, the routing and delivery of messages can proceed. In this phase, the broker is responsible for creating and managing different types of physical destinations, ensuring a smooth flow of messages, and using resources efficiently. You can use the broker configuration properties described under Routing and Delivery Properties to manage these tasks in a way that suits your application's needs.
The performance and stability of a broker depend on the system resources (such as memory) available and how efficiently they are utilized. You can set configuration properties to prevent the broker from becoming overwhelmed by incoming messages or running out of memory. These properties function at three different levels to keep the message service operating as resources become scarce:
Systemwide message limits apply collectively to all physical destinations on the system. These include the maximum number of messages held by a broker (imq.system.max_count) and the maximum total number of bytes occupied by such messages (imq.system.max_size). If either of these limits is reached, the broker will reject any new messages until the pending messages fall below the limit. There is also a limit on the maximum size of an individual message (imq.message.max_size) and a time interval at which expired messages are reclaimed (imq.message.expiration.interval).
Individual destination limits regulate the flow of messages to a specific physical destination. The configuration properties controlling these limits are described in Chapter 17, Physical Destination Property Reference. They include limits on the number and size of messages the destination will hold, the number of message producers and consumers that can be created for it, and the number of messages that can be batched together for delivery to the destination.
The destination can be configured to respond to memory limits by slowing down the delivery of message by message producers, by rejecting new incoming messages, or by throwing out the oldest or lowest-priority existing messages. Messages deleted from the destination in this way may optionally be moved to the dead message queue rather than discarded outright; the broker property imq.destination.DMQ.truncateBody controls whether the entire message body is saved in the dead message queue, or only the header and property data.
As a convenience during application development and testing, you can configure a message broker to create new physical destinations automatically whenever a message producer or consumer attempts to access a nonexistent destination. The broker properties summarized in Table 16–3 parallel the ones just described, but apply to such auto-created destinations instead of administratively created ones.
System memory thresholds define levels of memory usage at which the broker takes increasingly serious action to prevent memory overload. Four such usage levels are defined:
Green: Plenty of memory is available.
Yellow: Broker memory is beginning to run low.
Orange: The broker is low on memory.
Red: The broker is out of memory.
The memory utilization percentages defining these levels are specified by the broker properties imq.green.threshold, imq.yellow.threshold , imq.orange.threshold, and imq.red.threshold , respectively; the default values are 0% for green, 80% for yellow, 90% for orange, and 98% for red.
As memory usage advances from one level to the next, the broker responds progressively, first by swapping messages out of active memory into persistent storage and then by throttling back producers of nonpersistent messages, eventually stopping the flow of messages into the broker. (Both of these measures degrade broker performance.) The throttling back of message production is done by limiting the size of each batch delivered to the number of messages specified by the properties imq.resourceState .count, where resourceState is green , yellow, orange, or red , respectively.
The triggering of these system memory thresholds is a sign that systemwide and destination message limits are set too high. Because the memory thresholds cannot always catch potential memory overloads in time, you should not rely on them to control memory usage, but rather reconfigure the system-wide and destination limits to optimize memory resources.


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By Jonathan Hartzell, NBA.com
There's been much discussion recently about the proper way for an NBA franchise to rebuild. Many of these discussions have been about teams who appear to purposefully build an inferior roster in order to obtain a high Draft pick. This concept, also known as "tanking," inspired an entire series by the ESPN TrueHoop Network staff and an excellent rebuttal from Tom Ziller at SB Nation.
The key question raised by all of these articles: What IS the optimal way for an NBA franchise to construct a championship team?
The best way to answer this question is to look at how past champions were constructed.
Here's a graph that breaks down the roster construction of the past 20 NBA champions (click to enlarge):
And here's how the top three players on each team were acquired:
(EDITOR'S NOTE ON ABOVE TRANSACTIONS: Maxwell was sold to the Houston Rockets by the San Antonio Spurs on Feb. 20, 1990; James technically joined the Heat in a sign-and-trade deal that gave the Cavs two future first-round, two future second-round picks, a trade exception and an option to swap first-round picks with Miami in 2012 — which the Cavs passed on. Bosh technically joined the Heat in a sign-and-trade deal that gave the Raptors two first-round picks in the 2011 Draft and a trade exception.)
A few things of note:
- The 2004 Pistons were incredible. None of their top three players was drafted by the team; Tayshaun Prince and Mehmet Okur were the only players drafted at all by the Pistons.
- The Pistons and the 2011 Mavericks were the only championship teams over the past 20 years who acquired the majority of their players through trades.
- The importance of the Draft is clear. Outside of those pesky Pistons, each championship team drafted either their best or second-best player. I labeled both Dirk Nowitzki and Kobe Bryant as drafted by their current teams even though they were drafted by other teams (Milwaukee and Charlotte, respectively) and traded on Draft night or, in Kobe's case, shortly thereafter.
- The Heat started a new trend of how to build a champion with the majority of their players being acquired through free agency. This has a lot to do with the roster purge they experienced during the summer of 2010 when they cleared significant roster space to re-sign Dwyane Wade and sign LeBron James and Chris Bosh.
Overall, the general construction of these squads seems to be quite basic. Draft a superstar, trade for players who fit well with said superstar, sign supporting role players and, boom … championship. Sounds easy enough.
But it's obviously not that easy, considering only eight franchises have been able to crack the code over the last twenty seasons.
It's clear, though, that the first and most important step in building a championship roster is acquiring a superstar. Unfortunately, superstars are rare. So for most franchises that are not located in a hugely desirable free-agent destination, or can't swing a blockbuster trade, the only way to acquire one is through the Draft.


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Things you will have to pay for:
1. Time(duration of the course):
Your MBA can take up 12 to 24 months to complete. Now, that period hampers your total experience count and it might get even worse if you do not find yourself a seat in a respectable college. In other words, it could be regressive for some.
2. Opportunity cost:
Suppose you are earning Rs 8 lakh per anum right now and in the majority of cases there is a 10% increment each year. So, for a two-year program, your potential earnings lost would be around Rs 16.80 lakh.
3. Tuition fee and costs:
An average cost for a two year MBA course in India comes to about 12 to 15 lakhs. This is excluding every other cost you will incur during your course and that could be living expenses and a whole host of other things.
If you are planning to study abroad for an MBA you can assume it is going to cost around Rs 35 lakh in a decent college. You can also include the loans you will take to go on those trips during your courses which is also an integral part of building deeper relationships.
The fees could go up to Rs 25 lakh in India and more than Rs 70 lakh abroad for the top colleges. Recent stats show that a two-year, full-time MBA program at Stanford will now cost you a whopping Rs 1.20 Cr, which in itself is a new record.
4. The Loan:
For such a big amount, there is a huge probability that you will have to take a loan. At best you may get 75% of your tuition fee as a loan based on your collaterals and school you get a seat into. If you get a loan of Rs 9 lakh at an interest rate of 10% p.a., for a duration of 10 years, you would have paid Rs 15.85 lakh at the end of the term.
Total: Rs 16.80 (Opportunity cost)+Rs 15.85 (fees with loan)+other expenses ~ Rs 32 to 40 lakh in India.
Things you may gain:
1.Qualification and knowledge:
An MBA definitely increases your knowledge and certainly widens your spectrum of eligible jobs in the market.
2. New opportunities
The first year in an MBA course has common subjects for all and thus, no specialization. This gets you ready for many aspects of business and opens up new opportunities for you.
3. Increased relevant network
As Steve Winwood said, "Networking is rubbish; have friends instead." I hope you got the point.
4. Increased pay
This is the biggest single reason why most of us go for an MBA and yes it does pay well and not just well, but one of the best in the industry as compared to other masters degrees.
A list of Colleges with Tuition fee under Rs 35 lakh
(Note: Tuition fees and average salaries have been taken from business school websites and various other sources)
Most of the colleges provide scholarships as per your past record but the main thing you need to decide is which college suits you the most for your subject.
A look at the affordability in abroad as compared to India
A pack of bread in the US costs 7 times more than that in India.
© economictimes
Now the main question is still simple and easy to answer, but only useful if you are ready to take make daring move. You need to know if you really enjoy business and it's nuances. Does it excites you as your career, or you are just doing it to get that higher salary or to make that shift from your boring field? Now, I won't say any of this is wrong, but first you've got to do what is necessary and then what is possible and only then if you think your MBA would act as a ladder to your dream career, you should go for it, otherwise here are is a list of people who did not have an MBA and still succeeded.
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iXware has added scanning functionality by popular demand. Use your MFP to scan documents to your network or business application.
Scanning with iXware is simple
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Because iXware stores the documents as text searchable PDF files, you can use the Acrobat Reader or any desktop search engine to find the right document. You can search by metadata, such as the answers to the questions entered at the time of scanning, or you can search by content. A supplier name, a customer reference, an address field, an amount… anything will let you find the right document instantly.
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Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change
Research Highlights
June 2009
PNNL's Tony Janetos Co-authors White House Climate Report
New report summarizes climate change science and impacts on United States
Dr. Tony Janetos speaks at the White House news conference about climate change impacts in the United States. At left is Dr. Katharine Hayhoe from Texas Tech University and ATMOS Research & Consulting; at right is Dr. Jerry Melillo from the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Result: PNNL scientist Anthony Janetos was a key spokesperson at a White House news conference announcing the release of a major new climate change assessment on June 16, 2009. "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States" summarizes current climate change science and projects regional and national consequences of the changing environment. It also discusses some of the actions society can take to respond to the climate challenge.
The White House Office of Science and Technology, which released the 200-page report, called it the "most comprehensive, authoritative report on global climate change impacts in the United States." The purpose of the report is to increase understanding of climate change and to provide a framework for decision making. The report received widespread media coverage, including from the Associated Press, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Time magazine, National Public Radio, numerous climate change blogs, and Twitter.
Janetos directs the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a partnership between PNNL and the University of Maryland. He wrote the ecosystems section and served on the author team for the full report. The ecosystems chapter concludes that, "Human-induced climate change, in conjunction with other stresses, is exerting major influences on natural environments and biodiversity, and these influences are generally expected to grow with increased warming."
Ecosystem impacts include changes in basic processes such as photosynthesis; large-scale shifts in the distribution of plants and animals; and increased threats from fire, pests and disease. These effects are occurring now and are likely to grow, especially in desert, coastal, and arctic environments.
Why it matters: "The most important thing in this report is that the impacts of climate change are not something your children might theoretically see 50 years from now," Janetos told reporters during the news conference. "The thing that concerns me the most is that we have a whole host of impacts that we now observe in the natural world that are occurring sooner and more rapidly and that appear to be larger than we might have expected 10 years ago. If anything, we might have underestimated the rate and the impact of changes in the climate system."
Method: The report summarizes an extensive body of scientific information in layperson-friendly language. The authors drew primarily from 21 synthesis and assessment reports of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP).
The USGCRP is a 13-agency group that includes the Department of Energy. PNNL's atmospheric scientists and other researchers contributed to several USGCRP climate studies cited in the report. Also included were other peer-reviewed assessments and research, as well as government statistics, publicly available observations, and advice from expert reviewers.
What's next: This work is part of PNNL's quest to transform the Nation's ability to predict climate change and its impacts. Janetos is now working on expanding the JGCRI's research agenda on integrated assessment to include more sophistication on climate impacts and adaptation. The Global Change Research Act of 1990 requires the USGCRP to conduct an assessment of the impacts of global change in the United States at least every four years.
Acknowledgments: Janetos' work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, as part of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Research team: In addition to Janetos, the report was authored by 30 people from Federal agencies, universities, national laboratories, and other research institutions.
Reference: Thomas R. Karl, Jerry M. Melillo, and Thomas C. Peterson (eds.) 2009. "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States." Cambridge University Press, New York.
Here you can listen to Tony Janetos' interview with 610 KONA radio.


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Today I had the pleasure of attending a Thanksgiving Potluck thrown by a very dear couple that I met through our San Francisco Bay Area Celiac Support Group. I love trying new recipes out at potlucks, but the hard part is always deciding what to make and bring. I usually have enough ideas for ten potlucks, and have to hold back so that I can actually fit the food into my car and onto my host or hostesses' table. This time was no exception, although I was a little hampered by the fact that most of the ingredients in my fridge were either leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner or bare bone staples, like onions, sweet potatoes, and canned beans. I found myself quite inspired by those ingredients, actually, and equally inspired by a recent trip to the Sunnyvale Farmer's Market and a meal from the Oaxacan Kitchen. I wanted to make something with Mexican flavors, but with a nod to Thanksgiving ingredients yet suitable for a brunch menu. And thus, this sweet potato black bean hash recipe was born. It went over very well at the brunch. I think the green chili sauce adds a lot of flavor, and is fun and unexpected when paired with sweet potato. I hope you enjoy this healthy, vegan recipe! What unconventional recipes do you have for sweet potatoes? Share in the comments! *note, the Oaxacan Kitchen restaurant that I reviewed last year has closed, but they still have stalls at various local farmer's markets and a traveling truck.
This recipe was entered in The Gluten-free Homemaker's Gluten-free Wednesday Event and Simply Sugar and Gluten-free's Slightly Indulgent Tuesday Event.
Gluten-free Vegetarian Sweet Potato Hash Recipe
Spice Blend:
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. oregano
1/2 tsp dried epazote (optional)
1 tsp. salt
freshly ground pepper to taste
Main ingredients:
1 tbsp. grapeseed oil
fresh cilantro, washed and diced (optional)
Quickie Green Chile Sauce*:
Combine spice blend in a small bowl. Reserve.
Heat oil in a very large cast iron or stainless steel pan on medium high. When oil is hot, add your diced sweet potatoes. While those are browning, prepare your beans.
In another pan (preferably cast iron, but nonstick is ok), heat your tablespoon of oil, saute your additional half of an onion until translucent and then add your black beans. Saute for a few minutes and sprinkle with some of your spice mixture. Saute for another few minutes and add your chili powder.
Back to the first pan. Once the sweet potatoes are brown on one side, turn them. Clear a small area in the pan and add a little oil to it, letting it heat. Then add your cumin seed to the oil, let sizzle, and mix throughout while sprinkling with some of the spice mixture. Add your onion and let start to turn translucent. Once it does, clear another area in your pan, add another drizzle of oil and toss in your diced mushrooms. Let them brown and then turn and sprinkle with spice mixture. Once they have browned, you are ready to add your beans. Mix them into the large pan with the sweet potatoes. At this point, reduce the heat, add the lid and let the flavors blend for a few minutes.
To make your green chili sauce, drain your roasted green chilies and mince them. Heat the oil in a saucepan on medium and add your minced onion and garlic. As it turns transluscent, add your minced green chilies, water, and arrowroot starch slurry. Heat to simmer and let thicken. Turn off heat and remove from burner when it has reached the desired texture.
When ready to serve you can sprinkle with (optional) cilantro. Invite guests to drizzle hash with your green chili sauce.
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Singer-songwriter Peter Cincotti is jazz-influenced pianist and vocalist with a bent toward adult-alternative pop and '70s influenced rock. Born in the Park Avenue apartment of his parents, Cincotti displayed a talent for music after being given a toy piano by his grandmother at age three, and when he was four he began taking piano lessons.
At seven, he attracted the attention of Harry Connick, Jr., who had him sit in at a show at Bally's Grand in Atlantic City, NJ. He studied classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music and studied jazz piano privately with Ellis Marsalis, among other teachers.
At 12, he turned professional and began playing in clubs in New York. He began singing to his own accompaniment in 1999. That summer, he toured with Connick. In 2000, he appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival, winning a prize in a piano competition.
In 2001, he performed in the off-Broadway production of Our Sinatra. That year, he graduated from the Horace Mann School and, in the fall, enrolled as a freshman at Columbia University.
In February 2002, at 18, he became the youngest performer to headline at the prestigious Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel in New York. He was signed to Concord Records, and his self-titled debut album, produced by Phil Ramone, was released in March 2003.
His sophomore effort, On the Moon debuted at number two on Billboard's Jazz Chart in late 2004 and featured a mix of jazz standards next to Cincotti's original songs which had begun to lean toward adult-alternative pop. The album earned Cincotti his first gold record in France and was supported by a successful worldwide tour.
Cincotti released the single Goodbye Philadelphia in 2007 which revealed his continuing evolution into a rock-oriented songwriter and performer. In 2009, Cincotti released East of Angel Town which, although still showcasing Cincotti's knack for jazz inflected pop, was more of a pop/rock singer-songwriter album and featured production from legendary producer David Foster. – William Ruhlmann


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Tuning With Shocks Part II
In today's racing world, we have pre-built shocks available with any number of combinations of disk designs and valving. Some types of designs provide the ability to adjust shock rates quickly at the race track. With all of these choices, we have what we need to choose the exact rate of compression and rebound necessary for a particular set of conditions. This can either be an advantage or the proverbial "enough rope to hang…" syndrome. The more we learn, the better we can make decisions regarding shock selection.
More and more, racers are being educated in all aspects of chassis tuning and they want to know more about shock technology. The more we know about each of these subjects, the less fear we have. It is what we don't know that we fear the most.
The information presented here is intended as a guide to help you understand the basic principles of shock technology and the art of track tuning with shocks. Exact rates for the shocks you need for your car will depend on how your car is constructed, set up, and driven, as well as factors such as weight distribution and race track characteristics.
We would really like to give you the exact shock values that will make your car as fast as it can be, but that would be impossible due to the many variables. Those variables are why you must work with your particular car and not follow what others are doing. Each car is a little different than the others and each driver has his/her own style of driving.
Part One dealt with the basic construction of the racing shock. We learned that the two strokes of the shock, rebound and compression, are looked at separately and perform functions related to different areas of track tuning. If we deal with rebound and compression separately, we need to be able to tune each independently. There are also different designs of shock pistons including the linear design and the digressive design. Again, we are able to achieve varying results by utilizing all of the variables of shock design.
For some situations, we would use split valve shocks. Split-valving means we have different rates of resistance for rebound and compression because we need to tune each movement a little differently than the other. We can also rate the two movements differently for each corner of the car to further tune the setup. If we want, we can buy (at a greater expense) shocks that have external adjustments for rebound, compression, or both (called double adjustable). That way, we can experiment with different shock rates without removing them from the car. Regardless of how we arrive at different shock rates, we do need to know beforehand what we are looking for and how to get there.
Shock companies provide a system of numbers or letters to reference the rates of rebound and compression. Most of these companies try to provide a cross-reference so that their numbering system can be compared to the other systems used by competing shock brands. The ultimate match between shock brands is not exact due to differences in design of the valving and the fact that companies will rate shocks at a different shaft speed.
If, for example, a "3" shock or an "A" shock were rated by each manufacturer at 100 pounds of resistance, comparing them would depend on what speed of movement each company rated that 100 pounds. We know the rate of resistance is directly related to shaft speed. Company X might rate the 100 pounds at 5 inches per second of shaft speed where company Y might rate the 100 pounds at 10 inches of shaft speed. We can see where the two would not feel the same to the driver. The X shock might well be 150 pounds of resistance at 10 inches per second of shaft movement where as the Y shock might be only 75 pounds of resistance at 5 inches per second of shaft movement.
To simplify things, we will use the numbering system to relate to the amount of rebound and compression, the smaller number representing less resistance. Because we are not telling the exact rate in pounds of resistance for each number, the comparisons and trends will be good for either a dirt or asphalt stock car. Generally speaking, dirt cars require a softer overall package than asphalt cars.
A basic starting shock setup for a medium-banked race track might be a pair of "six" shocks on the front and a pair of "five" shocks on the rear. These would be true 50/50 shocks where the resistance in either direction, rebound or compression, would be equal. If the shocks were the split-valve design, each shock would be numbered as say a 6/5, which for our purpose means that the first number will represent the rebound resistance and the second number will represent the compression resistance.
Controlling wheel movement would be much easier if the shocks were all we had to work with. But in reality, our race cars are supported by a set of springs. If we wanted true equal resistance to wheel movement with the shocks installed along with the springs, we would want the rebound resistance to be greater than the compression resistance (reference Part One – July, 2003 issue – where we said that springs promote rebound and help provide resistance to compression). As we install stiffer springs, we will naturally increase the rebound resistance and decrease the compression resistance.
The more balanced shock layout might look like this: Front shocks = 6/5, rear shocks = 5/4. The greater rebound helps control the force of the preload on the spring as it is released and the softer compression works along with the resistance to compression provided by the spring.
High-Banked Setups
For a setup that uses higher-rated springs in the front and rear for a higher-banked race track, we might use a pair of 6.5/4.5 shocks on the front and a pair of 5.5/3.5 shocks on the rear. That is because the higher rating in the springs promotes rebound and therefore we increased the rebound resistance. The higher spring rates also resist compression and so we can reduce compression resistance in the shocks.
When the banking of the race track is very high, say 18 degrees or more, we need split valving, but we would go up on both the rebound and compression rather than up on rebound and down on compression. The reason is that the turn speeds are much higher on the very high-banked tracks and the shocks will move much faster in both the transitional areas of entry and exit, and also as the car goes over bumps and dips in the race track. Without the higher level of control, the suspension might bottom out with obvious negative results.
A more realistic layout for a very high-banked track might be a pair of 6.5/5.5 shocks on the front and a pair of 5.5/4.5 shocks on the rear. We have increased the resistance for both rebound and compression as well as introduced split-valving to a degree.
Low-Banked Race Tracks
For low-banked race tracks, we would need to spring the car much softer to slow down all of the movements in order to help maintain traction. One of the basic ingredients needed to maintain grip at low-banked tracks that have less grip is to soften the whole setup, including spring rates and shock rates. As we soften the springs, we will also soften the front shocks to say 5/4 valving and the rear shocks to a pair of 4/3 shocks. This is the general way shocks can be matched to the stiffness of the spring setup.
One exception is when we go beyond the normal softening of the springs into what has become known as the "soft spring – big sway bar" setups that have become popular in short track asphalt racing. These setups often use super soft springs in the front and, to help control dive on entry, the teams must increase compression resistance to overcome the tendency for the car to bottom out as we brake and turn left on entry into the corners. Here is where we might go back to the true 50/50 shocks. The debate is still on as to whether there is a need for the SS-BS setups and it has definitely been realized that those setups do not work in all situations.
Entry Tuning with Split-Valve Shocks
If we split the front shock compression rates with a left front (LF) 5/4 and a right front (RF) 5/5, then while the suspension is in motion due to weight being transferred onto it, then the RF suspension will move slower than the LF suspension. Additional weight will be transferred onto the RF and LR tires, causing a momentary increase in the crossweight percent in the car. This obviously tightens the car.
It is important to note that, contrary to some opinions, the weight transfers almost immediately when a force is presented to enact that transfer. As we brake into the corner, the weight transfer happens quickly. If we transfer 300 pounds on entry from the rear to the front, the 300 pounds goes to the front in an instant. The distribution of that 300 pounds between the two front wheels, while the suspension is assuming a new attitude that will support the additional weight, will depend entirely on differences in stiffness of the suspension systems at all four corners. Stiffness is defined as the resistance to movement of the shocks and springs.
Reasoning out the effect of weight transfer onto the front suspensions that are dissimilar in stiffness, the slower moving (or stiffer) corner will momentarily retain more of the transferred weight while the suspension is moving to a new attitude to support the added weight. If the RF suspension is stiffer than the LF suspension, then both the RF and LR tires will support more of the total sprung weight of the race car.
Crossweight is defined in short track racing as the percent of the combined RF and LR weight versus the total vehicle weight. If the crossweight percent increases, the car will be tighter on entry and the car might be faster if that is the desired effect. This is exactly why it has been said that a stiffer RF shock will speed up weight transfer to that corner. In truth, some of the momentary weight that has been transferred onto the RF due to that corner being stiffer than the LF corner may well return to the LF tire as the car reaches a steady state or a steady ride height at mid-turn.
If the car is already tight on entry, after having eliminated common causes of tight entry such as rear misalignment or brake bias issues, an opposite effect can be utilized. If we increase the compression of the LF shock and/or increase the spring rate on that corner (which is usually a good idea for flat tracks), we can effectively reduce the crossweight in the car on entry while the suspension is in transition by loading the opposite diagonal, the LF and RR. As one diagonal goes up in percentage of supported weight, the other goes down. We can also work with the rear shock rebound rates to help effect changes in weight distribution and corner entry characteristics. To neutralize a car that is tight on entry, a stiffer rebound setting in the LR shock and/or a softer rebound setting in the RR shock will cause more of the transferred weight to be taken from the LR than the RR tire during the transitional period. This too causes a decrease in the RF and LR weight distribution percentage that loosens the handling momentarily while the suspensions are in motion.
Exit Tuning Using Split-Valve Shocks
Corner exit performance that utilizes the shocks is primarily tuned by splitting the compression settings in the rear shocks and/or the rebound settings in the front shocks. A stiffer compression setting in the LR shock will load the LR and RF corners as weight is transferred to the rear while the rear suspension is in motion. A stiffer shock in rebound at the LF corner can help accomplish the same effect by causing a slower movement of that suspension and a more rapid transfer of weight off of that corner which in turn increases the percentage of weight supported by the RF and LR tires.
The term "tie down" is often used to refer to a shock that has a high resistance to rebound. If the rebound rates are higher for both left side shocks than those of the right side shocks, then as the car turns left (especially with quicker turning rates associated with smaller radius turns), the tendency for the left side suspensions to quickly rebound as weight is transferred from the left side to the right side is reduced.
If we can stop the sudden motion, we can keep the left side down on initial turn in and the chances are good that the whole attitude of the car through the middle of the turns will be lower. A lower center of gravity (CG) means less weight transfer off the left side of the car and more retained left side weight. For asphalt stock cars and dirt cars on higher-banked tracks with grip, a higher left- side weight means more equally loaded tires, left to right, and more traction. The opposite is true of dirt cars on slick tracks.
The reverse term, or "Easy Up" shocks, are used to help raise the suspension quickly which does also raise the center of gravity of the sprung mass and a higher CG promotes more weight transfer. Drag cars use this effect on the front of their cars to promote more weight transfer to the rear tires for added traction. On dry, slick dirt tracks, teams can utilize less rebound in the left side shocks and in the front shocks to promote weight transfer to the right side for better side bite and to the rear for better traction off the corners.
Putting All Of This to Use
In order to utilize the configurations we have discussed here, we must be able to use a range of different rates of shocks in order to find the right combination for our car at a particular race track. For a team that races at only one track, the process is fairly simple. You would experiment to find the fastest set of shocks and ones that suit the driver's style and stick to those. For teams that travel to different tracks, some changes will be necessary if the setup needs to change and/or the track layout is different from track to track.
Many shock experts agree with certain basics, such as:
1. The shock package should be softer overall when racing on dirt and when the track is flatter when on asphalt.
2. Get your basic setup close to being balanced before trying to tune with shocks. Shocks cannot solve basic handling balance problems.
3. Higher-banked tracks require a higher overall rate of shock as opposed to flat tracks. This is because of the higher speeds and the extreme amount of downforce.
4. Shocks that are mounted farther from the ball joint should be stiffer than if they were mounted close to the ball joint. With each inch of travel of the wheel, the shock mounted farther away will move at a lesser speed, meaning less resistance to both rebound and compression.
5. Tune entry performance first. If there are no entry problems, make small changes if you want to experiment to see if entry can be improved. Entry problems include a tight car or a loose car. The worst problem, by far, would be the loose-in condition. Nine times out of 10 this is an alignment problem and not shock related.
6. Tune exit performance last. If there are no exit problems, don't make any significant changes. Exit problems can include a car that pushes under acceleration or one that goes loose under power. Be sure that you do not have a tight /loose condition where the car is basically tight and goes loose just past mid-turn.
7. On dirt tracks, reduce rebound settings on the left side and decrease the compression rates on the right side for dry, slick surfaces to promote more chassis movement. This helps to maintain grip as the car goes through the transitional phases of entry and exit.
8. On asphalt tracks, once the car has been tuned with shocks for optimum entry and exit performance, increase the overall rebound rates a small step at a time, especially on the left side, to possibly increase overall performance. This is especially good for low- to medium-banked race tracks. For highly- banked tracks, the added rebound is not necessary or advisable.
A Closing Caution
The suggestions provided here are representative of trends that can enhance your handling package. Before any of this can work, the setup must be balanced, the steering characteristics must be ideal, and the car must be aligned properly. If not, you will probably chase the setup and experience a lot of frustration and expense. Shock tuning is the last thing to experiment with in order to try to increase your race car's performance, but it is nonetheless a necessary step in finding the ideal total handling package.


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Hope College Theatre will present "Almost, Maine" by John Cariani in the DeWitt Center studio theatre beginning Friday, Oct. 8.
Performances are scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 8 and 9, and Tuesday through Friday, Oct. 12-15. Curtain time for all performances is 8 p.m.
"On a magical winter night in the fictional small town of Almost, Maine, several of its residents experience both the joy and the disappointment of love," explained Daina Robins, who is the production's director as well as a professor of theatre and chairperson of the department. "It's a sweet and funny tale and one that we are hoping will appeal to our primary intended audience --the students here at college --but will resonate with anyone who understands the ups and downs of romance."
In addition, to Robins, faculty members working on the production team are Richard Smith, scenic and properties designer; Michelle Bombe, costume designer; and Perry Landes, lighting and sound designer. Staff member Paul Anderson is the technical director, and staff member Darlene Christopher is the costume shop manager.
The cast of "Almost, Maine" includes sophomore Skyler Adams of Holland; senior Tom Bird of Baraboo, Wis.; junior Noah Busman of Scotia, N.Y.; junior Kelsey Cratty of Rockford Ill.; freshman Lauren Ezzo of Haslett; junior Daniel Pesch of Western Springs, Ill.; sophomore Kaija von Websky of Holland; and junior Kara Williams of Saline. Other students working on the production are junior Elizabeth Dwyer of Ypsilanti, stage manager; and junior Annelise Belmonte of Northbrook, Ill., assistant stage manager.
Tickets for "Almost, Maine" are $10 for regular admission, $7 for senior citizens and Hope faculty and staff, and $5 for students, and are available at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and may be called at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The DeWitt Center is located at 141 E. 12th St., on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street.


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April marks the fourth straight month of job losses in the United States, so what better way to cheer yourself up than to take out a massive wedding loan to finance the princess fantasy of your dreams! Those fuddy-duddy finance nerds at The Street want to rain on your wedding parade, though; they point out that taking out a wedding loan is a fucking terrible idea. "While getting a wedding loan may seem like a good way to bridge any shortfall a couple has, it's one of the biggest financial mistakes they can make," says writer Jeffery Strain. "There is nothing worse than starting off married life tens of thousands of dollars in debt, especially if student loans and other debt is also being brought into the marriage."
I thought maybe this "wedding loan trend" was something Strain came up with because he was under, erm, STRAIN to find a topic to write about, but then I Googled it and found that totally respectable lending institutions offer wedding loans for the financially foolish. But there's another way to finance your wedding without going through all the red tape of a bank loan! Take this email we received yesterday from a PR company:
Subject: STORY IDEA-Brides Want Cash, Not Blenders
In this poor economy, brides need cash to help pay for their weddings and honeymoons rather than blenders they'll have no use for. I can offer an interview with a bride who turned their bridal gift registry into a money market.
Next up: how to sell your children into white slavery for fun and profit!
Wedding Loans: Till Death Do You Owe [The Street]
Industrial Output Plunges in April [AP via NYT]


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Getting Started
Taking a Systems Approach
Establishing Accurate Farm Zones
Fine-Tuning Management Zones
Mastering the Drainage Connection
Varying Planting Populations
Selecting the Right Hybrids
Adjusting Nitrogen Inputs
Calibrating Your Yield Monitor
Unleashing Drones
Avoiding Common Pitfalls
Tackling Weak Links
Harnessing the Power of Sensors
Safeguarding Your Data
Case Study: Scattered Acres Farm
Case Study: Joe Sullivan
Evaluating Investment Returns
By: Margy Eckelkamp, Farm Journal Media
With every combine pass, you have the opportunity to harvest more than grain. Farmers know there is variability across their fields, but having a GPS-referenced yield map provides a solid foundation for future zone management decisions.
"We've found that the most important data are the yield maps," explains Neal Wolheter, who farms near South Milford, Ind. "We've used soil maps for 12 years for zone management and a yield monitor for the past five to help refine those zones."
The key step to gathering usable data with a yield monitor takes place before harvest even begins—with proper calibration.
"Many yield maps have not been usable in zone management decisions because the calibration process was not done properly," explains Farm Journal Associate Field Agronomist Missy Bauer. "You have to teach the monitor what's considered low, medium and high yields for each grain type."
Bauer and her crew have worked with farmers across Michigan, Indiana and Ohio to develop management zones. When preparing for harvest every year, she says the most common mistake is the size of calibration loads.
"Incorrectly, farmers will often run a calibration load as a whole semi load," she says. "We do 4,000-lb. to 8,000-lb. loads at the different speeds to simulate bushels per acre. That cleans up the data, but those calibrations are only good for +/- five moisture points in corn. So we run a high-moisture corn type and a lower moisture corn type when we calibrate."
For Wolheter, his motivation to properly calibrate yield monitors comes from the value of the data.
"We've seen how good-quality yield maps translate into better zone management," he says.
Following the calibration instructions changes the yield monitor from measuring averages to precisely mapping variability.
"If a grower calibrates by the semi load, his maps could be accurate to the average of the field, but you can't pick out the variations in yield. Those maps don't show any defined patterns in yield," Bauer says.
Identifying that variation in a field is the difference between measuring accuracy and preciseness. This is the definition of spatial variability.
"If your yield monitor is accurate but not spatially accurate, it's only good for managing inventory," says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. "It won't be a good tool for zone management because it's all about precision. We really need an accurate and spatially variable map. However, I can work with a spatially variable yield monitor that is 10 bu. off from the elevator better than one that only displays accuracy."
Ferrie encourages farmers to think of the yield map as their report card.
"Of all the layers we are going to look at, the yield maps show the history of the field. From there, we can make predictions on how different things will affect yield—nitrogen management, population, drainage—but it all comes down to what actually happens in the yield map," Ferrie says.
Focusing on a high-quality yield map is even more crucial in an extreme year.
"The years of extreme create some of the best zone maps," Bauer says. "It's the very wet and very dry years that help us pick out the differences, which can be very valuable. Farmers should not hesitate spending the time to calibrate in those years."
Refine the lines. The data collected with a properly calibrated yield monitor is an irreplaceable component of zone management.
"When we talk about developing management zones, it's about where to draw the lines," Bauer says. "We have to respect soil types, but yield can't only reflect soil types; it also breaks down those soil types into finer zones."
For Wolheter, multiple years of calibrated yield maps showed that the zones formed by soil type needed further revision.
"Once we reviewed the yield maps, we saw water issues and misapplication of potash and lime that needed to be addressed," he explains. "In some cases that cut zones in half; in others, we just needed to move the lines."
Pairing yield results with soil types can help make variable-rate decisions for population and nitrogen rates.
"In the whole equation of zone management, you have to take out the emotion and put numbers to it," Ferrie says. "In a yield map, you can identify the lost potential."
The next level. Once you have a yield map showing variability in the field, it's time to use other tools and layers of data to investigate.
"Our general process is to evaluate soil maps, overlay a yield map and factor in topography," Bauer explains. "That just helps define and refine the zones. Then we use additional layers to answer questions."
Using normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) aerial maps, Wolheter has been able to learn more about water management challenges.
"We saw that in some of our fields, there were specific areas that we needed to know more," Wolheter says. "So we prioritized the larger fields and starting capturing NDVI maps in-season. On our soils, parallel tiling can pay heavy dividends. Having an extra layer of data in-season supported the investment in some of our fields."
Both Farm Journal Field Agronomists stress the importance of using additional data layers, such as NDVI maps, in addition to a yield map; it is not a direct replacement.
"The two layers aren't totally interchangeable," Bauer says. "If the NDVI is taken late season in August, for example, that map will reflect a yield map more closely. However, a late June NDVI is a better scouting tool."
It's the detail and timing of an NDVI map that gives it value in the zone management process.
"NDVI maps can give us sub-meter resolution to the data," Ferrie says. "For example, even a well-calibrated yield map may not show a small area that needs to be managed. But a sub-meter NDVI map can show that area, and if it appears consistently year after year, it can be factored in."
If there are still unanswered questions, there are more tools available including in-season technologies, such as aerial photos and thermal imaging, and out-of-season agronomic measures such as soil analysis, tissue analysis and electroconductivity mapping.
Thermal imaging captures measurements every 10 days to closely monitor crop changes.
"With any aerial service, you might want to ask for a high-resolution photo to be taken at the same time to ensure there weren't obstructions from clouds," Ferrie cautions. "Even with all these maps, farmers need to put their boots on the ground. They look at each layer independently, separate each crop and look at each year differently—their in-field experience is key."
Issues that show up on maps as poor but need further ground-truthing could range from a water-management concern to soil health.
"In a dry year like 2012, we saw that inside the same soil texture, problem areas ranged from an acre to the size of house. We looked below ground in those pockets and found perched water tables. That indicates a water supply problem, which has to be taken into consideration when we make the population map," Ferrie says.
Taking zone management layers one at a time helps farmers digest the massive amounts of information.
"No doubt, farmers themselves are in the driver's seat to verify these zones," Bauer says. "We have yet to find a computer that can replace the farmer's in-field knowledge. Really good management zones are achieved by layering multiple sources of information, including human experience."
Wolheter has a practical piece of advice—buy a good printer. While he has digital files on his iPad, nothing can replace the hard copies.
"We print out all of our maps and organize them by field and year," he says. "Being organized is the top way to not get overwhelmed. It's also easier to share that information with the rest of our farm or landlords."
Wolheter also bought a small spiral binding machine to make the printouts into booklets for each field.
To ease into the process, Wolheter is varying population and nitrogen on the fields that will return the biggest payback. "For now, we only use VRT on fields larger than 15 acres," he says.
While the end goal in adopting zone management will be different from farm to farm, a calibrated yield map will pave the best path.
"It takes paying attention to a little bit of everything but not necessarily everything at once," Bauer says.
Ferrie likens managing data layers to writing an open book. "We learn a little more each year," he says. "The lesson along the way is that we don't have all of the answers."


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