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I'm totally baffled that we don't have access to the source code. I know this has always been the policy here at 3DBuzz, but for a project of this complexity I find it an impertinence to not have access to the source code, at least as a fallback in case one gets irrevocably stuck.
I just watched the first 15 or so hours of content and already ran into two situations where I've really missed the source code a lot. I lost hours and hours trying to track down the source of the problem. It's just frustrating and kills the fun part of learning to code and MMO. I don't even want to know how many similar situation will arise over the course of the entire series. If only the community here would be very active and could help out, but even that is not the case. At least I don't see much activity here. Or does the MMO series have its own dedicated channel?
Even the Mobile App Dev training kit was delivered with source code (I guess because of the complexity?) and now we are working on a full blown MMO or rather MOBA and get no access to Nelson's repository. Wow.
In my opinion, a provider of video training should make the learning process as much fun and as smooth as possible, with professional guidance and easy to follow chunks of information, no matter the complexity.
Especially the way the source code problem is handled here has always been a bad business decision. Training providers like Lynda or Plural Sight are lightyears ahead in the way they deliver content. Sure, they don't go as deep as developing an entire MMO, but if they did, they would do much more well thought out I'm sure.
I also hate the fact that after all these years, nobody at 3DBuzz told Nelson to slow down his typing. It's just extremely stressful to follow video training where the tutor is typing away at lightning speed. This is BAD TEACHING for god's sake! It's just extremely stressful to follow this teaching style for 100+ hours.
Now that Nelson will be leaving in a couple of months this project will be dead anyway, right? I heard we will get the source code when he leaves, but in the meantime it's the same frustrating situation.
I'm curious to know how you guys think about my points. I can't imagine I'm the first who complains.


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(CNN) — For centuries, lighthouses have illuminated the most treacherous coastlines in the world, offering a beacon of hope to sailors in the depths of darkness.
But as an increasing number of buildings become operated by automated lights, the live-in lighthouse keeper may soon be a thing of the past.
Many of these historic towers and adjacent cottages — often perched on dramatic and remote shores — are now being converted into unique overnight stays.
From the set of the 1980s TV show Fraggle Rock, to a 19th century guesthouse on the Hudson River, here are our top five lighthouse hotels.
Child's play
If St Anthony's Lighthouse in south west England looks familiar, then it means you were probably a fan of 1980s Muppet Show spinoff, Fraggle Rock.
The British version of the children's TV program was set at the pretty lighthouse in Cornwall, home of the show's Captain and his faithful dog Sprocket.
Today, guests can stay in the adjacent two-bedroomSally Port Cottage, featuring a sunlit observation room overlooking the swirling English Channel.
But be warned, the lighthouse is still fully operational, with an electronic fog signal kicking into action on really murky nights.
Dutch art deco
If you're after some impressive panoramic views, then Harlingen Lighthouse, located just 70 miles northeast of Amsterdam, is not to be missed.
The light went out in 1998, and today guests can stay in the renovated art deco building located in the heart of the historic Harlingen Habor.
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Walk up the spiral stairs to the top, and you'll find the giant light has been replaced with a table-for-two, offering sweeping views of the small fishing town.
"For centuries, sailors' eyes were fixed on this spot," said Piet Beuker, Harlingen Lighthouse keeper from 1970 to 1998. "Now the roles have been wonderfully reversed — the beacon has become a lookout point."
Hudson hideout
It's hard to believe the secluded 19th century Saugerties Lighthouseis just two hours drive from bustling Manhattan.
The picturesque redbrick building sits on a spit of land around half-way up the Hudson River, surrounded by rolling hills and overlooking glassy water.
Built in 1869, the charming lighthouse became automated in 1954 and was largely left to decay until a campaign by local residents put it on the National Register of Historic places.
Piet Beuker, former Harlingen Lighthouse keeper
It was finally restored to its former glory in 1990, with guests able to stay in the innkeeper's quarters, wander around the on-site museum, or stroll along the surrounding nature trails.
Down Under wonder
For many of the first European immigrants arriving in Australia in the 19th Century, the first glimpse of their new home would have been of the treacherous Cape Otway coast.
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After surviving the journey to the other side of the world, many ships were wrecked on the steep cliffs just outside Melbourne.
Overlooking the rumbling Southern Ocean, the Cape Otway Lightstation, built in 1848, is the oldest surviving lighthouse in the country.
Today, guests can stay in the nearby lightkeeper's cottages. Located on the dramatic Great Ocean Road, the cottages are a 90-minute car journey to famous rock formations, the Twelve Apostles.
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Nestled on a tiny land bank in San Francisco Bay, the East Brother Light Station is a bit like staying on your own personal island.
Guests can take a ten-minute boat ride from San Francisco to the historic lighthouse, which has been shining its light across the bay for more than 130 years.
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PHIS Implementation Letter to Official Import Inspection Establishments
Below is the text of a letter sent to official import inspection establishments from Dr. Ronald K. Jones; the original is available in PDF.
April 30, 2012
To: Official Import Inspection Establishments
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will implement the import components of the Public Health Information System (PHIS) on May 29, 2012. PHIS is a user-friendly, Web-based application that will consolidate and replace many existing FSIS systems, such as the Performance Based Inspection System (PBIS) and the Automated Import Information System (AIIS). PHIS will integrate our paper-based business processes and individual automated systems into one comprehensive and fully automated data-driven system.
The implementation of PHIS does not change the need for all shipments of meat, poultry, and egg products exported to the United States, to be presented for reinspection at an FSIS official import inspection establishment, or alternative FSIS authorized inspection location. The importer of record is the responsible party for a shipment and must ensure that the application for inspection is submitted to FSIS. Agency communication regarding decisions or actions to be taken on the product will be coordinated with the importer of record or designee.
As an official import inspection establishment, you will have the option to access PHIS over the Internet using a secure account. This will allow your business to interact electronically with FSIS in performing a wide variety of operations, such as responding to and appealing noncompliance records, viewing reports, and accessing Memorandums of Interview (MOI). Interested parties are required to obtain a USDA eAuthentication (eAuth) Level 2 account from USDA as the first step in the access process. The steps to obtain an account can be found on FSIS' Web site.
The Agency recently completed a pilot with industry representatives which tested domestic establishment access to PHIS. However, when PHIS implements in May, the industry access feature will not yet be available. When available, further instructions on industry access will be posted to FSIS' Web site at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PHIS/.
To facilitate the implementation of the PHIS, FSIS is proposing changes to the imported products inspection regulations. Proposed amendments to the foreign inspection certificate requirements include the development of standard operating procedures for sanitation, more specific product information that will assist in designating reinspection assignments, and clarification of the required prior notification for FSIS reinspection that will now parallel the entry filed with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). These changes are detailed below.
Standard operating procedures for sanitation (Sanitation SOPs) are written procedures that official establishments develop, implement, and maintain to prevent direct contamination or adulteration of meat or poultry products. To ensure that imported meat and poultry products do not become contaminated while undergoing reinspection prior to entering the U.S. FSIS will be proposing in the Federal Register to amend 9 CFR 304.3(a) and 381.22(a) to clarify that before being granted Federal inspection, official import inspection establishments must have written Sanitation SOPs (9 CFR 416.11 through 416.17). These Sanitation SOPs are not required on May 29, 2012, though once the final rule is in effect, all official import inspection establishments currently operating under Federal inspection would then be required to develop Sanitation SOPs.
Import inspection personnel will continue to perform sanitation inspection tasks and other directed procedures within the official import inspection establishment that will be scheduled through PHIS. Unscheduled procedures prompted by a trigger event, such as a pre-stamping violation, will also be documented in PHIS. The agency will also maintain an establishment profile, based on the information provided on FSIS form 5200-1, Application for Federal Inspection, in PHIS.
PHIS electronic link with Customs and Border Protection
Among the many services it provides, PHIS will automate and streamline the import inspection application and certification processes. Specifically, PHIS will electronically link with the Custom and Border Protection's (CBP) Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) to create a unified import processing system for entering data. This system will enable U.S. importers and customs brokers to enter FSIS import inspection application data directly into ACE through the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) as part of the CBP entry process, thereby eliminating the need to file a separate paper application with FSIS. However, when PHIS implements in May, the CBP ACE will only transmit the entry/entry summary data existing in ACE to PHIS. Agency specific data (PGA Message Set) will not be transmitted until later in 2012.
In addition, PHIS will enable electronic interface with foreign governments' certifications systems, which will allow for government-to-government electronic certification, eliminating the need for a paper inspection certificate.
Application and presentation for reinspection
When PHIS is implemented on May 29, 2012, U.S. import verification activities will continue to be performed on imported meat, poultry, and processed egg products that have been inspected and certified by an equivalent foreign inspection system. Ultimately, eligibility of the foreign country, foreign establishment, and product will be determined by the system when the application for FSIS import inspection is filed by the U.S. Importer of Record or U.S. Customs Broker. The information will be verified by the FSIS import inspector when the shipment is presented at the official import inspection establishment, using the official inspection certificate issued by the foreign inspection system.
Interim Procedure
Though FSIS has defined the information required to complete the FSIS application for inspection, these additional data elements have yet to be implemented by CBP. Until such time, FSIS will only receive a partial set of data electronically (Attachment 1).
Therefore, importers (or their brokers) will continue to submit a paper copy of the current import application (FSIS Form 9540-1 (version 03/26/2004)) to the FSIS import inspector at the designated official import inspection establishment identified on the application where the product will be presented for reinspection, no later than the time of filing with CBP. FSIS requests that the applicant provide the following information to "Box 31 Remarks:"
- The email address of the customs broker or applicant and,
- The estimated date of arrival.
For applications that are incomplete or contain inaccurate information, the applicant will be requested to correct the application before import reinspection will proceed.
In preparation for implementation of Agency specific data (the PGA Message Set), FSIS has revised the Import Inspection Application (Meat, Poultry & Egg Products) (DRAFT FSIS Form 9540-1), which will be used for all meat, poultry and egg products shipments. This revised DRAFT FSIS Form 9540-1 is enclosed (Attachment 2) and highlights the source of each data element required on the form (e.g. entry summary data from ACE or the foreign inspection certificate). Importers or brokers can use this version to update their data entry screens for the ABI.
Shipments from Canada
When PHIS implements, Canadian exporters will no longer be required to submit an advance copy of the FSIS Form 9540-1 to the official import inspection establishment. In the case of egg products, the importer will no longer submit an advance copy of FSIS Form 5200-8 (Import Request Egg Products-CFIA Application for Inspection) to FSIS' Office of International Affairs. The FSIS Form 5200-8 will be replaced by FSIS Form 9540-1. When the importer or broker files their entry with CBP, this will provide FSIS with prior notification. The importer or designee will be responsible for submitting the paper copy of the FSIS form 9540-1 to the import inspector along with the official inspection certificate.
It should be noted that once PHIS implements, all importers may continue to use the paper application option, FSIS Form 9540-1, Import Inspection Application, in lieu of electronic entry through ACE. Further, a paper FSIS Form 9540-1 will continue to be required for shipments of meat, poultry, and egg products imported into ports where the CBP ACE system is not available (e.g., American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands).
Failures to Present
When PHIS is implemented, FSIS will be able to monitor the movement of imported product more effectively and efficiently. In the event that the shipment fails to present for FSIS reinspection at an official import inspection establishment, FSIS will consider that shipment as ineligible for entry and a request for redelivery will be initiated through CBP. The importer may be subject to appropriate civil penalties associated with this enforcement action. If the shipment fails to return to the official import inspection establishment (e.g. the shipment is delivered to the end user in the U.S.), the imported product, or any product produced from the ineligible product may be subject to FSIS recall or seizure.
Foreign Inspection Certificate Requirements
Whether a paper or electronic certificate is used, each shipment of meat, poultry or egg products certified for export to the United States must be accompanied with an inspection certificate, prepared in English, and contain the following information:
- Name of country, the date the certificate is issued, and if applicable, the foreign establishment number where the certificate was issued
- Name and foreign establishment number that produced the product
- Species used to produce the product and the source country, establishment number, if the source of the meat, poultry, or egg products originate from a country other than the exporting country
- Name and address of exporter or consignor
- Name and address of importer or consignee
- Number of units
- Net weight for each lot
- Shipping or identification mark on units
- The product's description, including the product's process category, product category, product group (Attachment 3)
- Production dates, when applicable
- Name (including signature) and title of person authorized to issue inspection certificates for products exported to the United States (paper certificates only).
The product lots identified on the import inspection application must match the product lots as certified on the foreign official inspection certificate. Lot groupings are based on product, species, product category and product group. The mixing, matching, splitting of lots is not permitted at the official import inspection establishment. The importer should coordinate with the foreign exporter to designate lots during the certification process in the foreign country.
FSIS has previously allowed foreign countries to guarantee the replacement of the foreign inspection certificate, which would allow continuation of FSIS reinspection pending the arrival of the certificate within 30 days of the guarantee. FSIS intends to discontinue this policy when the PHIS is implemented. FSIS will refuse entry to any shipment that has not been properly certified. Replacement certificates will be accepted, either electronically (e.g. scanned copy transmitted by e-mail (gov't-to-gov't) or replacement through eCertification) or paper. Once received, FSIS will continue with the reinspection.
FSIS reinspection
When PHIS implements in May, FSIS import sampling will continue to be allocated by country, process category, product category, and species. Reinspection of product is performance-based, intended to verify the effectiveness of the foreign inspection system. FSIS ensures that the official inspection certificates issued by the exporting country, whether in electronic or paper format, are authentic and accurate and randomly samples meat, poultry, and egg products prior to releasing the consignment into commerce of the United States. This random sampling focuses on public health risks and food safety, subjecting specific shipments to a more in-depth reinspection of product, which may include product examination or laboratory testing for pathogens and chemical residues.
If the shipment fails reinspection, the non-compliant product is refused entry and the automated system intensifies the rate of reinspection to ensure product compliance. FSIS has the discretion to increase the level of sampling for a specific product, country and/or foreign establishment due to cause other than import reinspection failures.
On May 29, 2012, PHIS will be operational in all U.S. import inspection establishments handling shipments from all countries eligible to export meat, poultry, and egg products. At that time, FSIS will replace the existing Import Manual of Procedures, which provides guidance to the FSIS inspection personnel, with FSIS Directives. FSIS will provide further guidance and information to both foreign governments as well as industry regarding PHIS prior to the implementation date. The updates to information related to PHIS will be available on FSIS' website at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PHIS/.
If you have specific questions about PHIS implementation, please contact the FSIS Office of International Affairs (OIA), Import Inspection Division at (202) 720-9904 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Dr. Ronald K. Jones
Assistant Administrator
Office of International Affairs
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The return of Bowe Bergdahl has prompted the latest round of criticism about Obama's weakness in foreign policy. For Obama's domestic opponents, calling him weak and ineffective on the world stage is nothing new – we've heard it repeated ad nauseam on events from Ukraine to Syria, Venezuela to the South China Sea. And he's not the first chief executive to face this charge. Harry Truman's critics complained that he had " lost China." Jimmy Carter was lambasted as weak due to his response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, his failure to recover American hostages in Iran and for " giving away" the Panama Canal. What has been distinct about Obama's situation is that his critics have simultaneously accused him of being both weak and excessively strong, with words like "tyrant" and "dictator" popping up regularly.
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The Daily Show's Jon Stewart picked up on the contradiction this spring, after a number of right-wing commentators compared Obama unfavorably with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But the two competing narratives go back further than that. In the spring of 2010, just weeks after Obama was accused of tyranny and " shoving health-care reform down the American people's throats," his response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the Gulf Coast invited criticism of weakness. It's not just that both narratives exist as part of the discourse about the Obama presidency; sometimes both come from the same person.
Take Sean Hannity. In spring 2013, the Fox News host declared the president weak because of his response to the situation in Syria (Obama was " sucking up" to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, Hannity said). During Obama's first year in office, Hannity criticized the president's position on waterboarding, suggesting, "Now, this president is taking us back in time exposing us to the very same dangers that left us vulnerable before September 11," and noting, "this president who bowed at the feet of the Saudi king." Yet in 2012, Hannity registered his dissatisfaction with an executive order that he said would allow Obama to declare " martial law" and with presidential actions that "ignore the basic principles of our Constitution."
In March, Ted Cruz, the voluble Texas senator, announced at the Conservative Political Action Conference that we no longer have a president because Obama has declared himself our dictator. Two days later he was quoted in the Washington Examiner stating that "Obama's weakness" was a factor determining Putin's decision to act militarily in Ukraine. As Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank points out, former senator and Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint also experienced made a quick shift from accusing the president of being a "playground bully" to pointing out his weakness in facing down the Kremlin.
What's going on here? First, let's look at the content of these critiques. Sometimes they have been aimed at the actual substance of policy: that the Affordable Care Act is too strong, the president's policies toward Syria or on torture too weak. But the narratives about dictatorship sometimes focus on process rather than substance. These critiques suggest that the problem lies not with the policies themselves, but rather with Obama's disregard for constitutional limits and for the separation of powers.
Being seen as simultaneously too strong and too weak is a structural condition for presidents. The framers of the Constitution debated about how to design an executive strong enough to protect the country, but still constrained by the rule of law. Writing from the vantage point of the mid-twentieth century, the political scientist Richard Neustadt argued that when presidents resort to unilateral "command," it means their efforts to persuade others have failed. In this sense, it would certainly be possible for the president to both lack the necessary strength to govern and to have the capacity to use the powers of the office in excessive and even constitutionally questionable ways– in both foreign and domestic policy.
In recent decades, presidents have been even more vulnerable to this conundrum. Support for strong executive leadership declined after Vietnam and Watergate, as did trust in government across the board. Yet the need for " energy in the executive," as Alexander Hamilton described the original design of the office, never went away. Neither did our obsession with the man in the Oval Office; witness how George W. Bush was blamed for the decades-long failings of the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans, or how Obama has taken political hits for the actions of VA hospital officials in Phoenix. Two conflicting sets of expectations about presidential leadership have coexisted for about 40 years: Do we want our presidents to micromanage everything, or do we want them to share power—and with it, responsibility?


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SwedishAmerican Health System announced a date for the relocation of its Brookside immediate-care services in Rockford.
I wrote in November that Brookside Immediate and Occupational Care, 1215 N. Alpine Road, would be moving to the former SwedishAmerican Regional Cancer Center/ACT space at 2473 McFarland Road. The new spot, near the Perryville and Spring Creek roads intersection, is about 3.5 miles east from the existing clinic.
Services will be relocated on Feb. 4. It's a newer space, and the space devoted to immediate care will be larger. It became available when the health system's new Regional Cancer Center opened last fall.
Brookside sees about 35,000 patient visits a year.
The space will have separate waiting areas for immediate care, laboratory, radiology and occupational medicine services, as well as bigger exam rooms, closer parking and more work space for staff members.
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Tuesday at War Memorial Stadium in Hampton, VCU and Old Dominion will wage a battle against cancer. The Rams and Monarchs will play at 7 p.m. in the first Key Dog Strikeout Cancer Classic, named for late VCU Baseball Coach Paul Keyes, who passed away in November after a battle with cancer. Proceeds will be donated to Keyes' family.
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"I doubt [my interrogator] ever cared about the multilayered pressure campaign that Newsweek and others had put together on my behalf—the editorials and petitions, the diplomatic démarches, the quiet personal efforts of world leaders. But there were Iranian officials who also disagreed with my detention. Soon after the election they might have been too hesitant or too powerless to do much. But by September, with Iran on the verge of nuclear talks, they could make the case that I had become a distraction."
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I just bought one of these, and I have to say I am quite pleased with it. Check out Lisa Gade's review:
She only gave it 3 out of 5 stars, but that was when it was over $1,000.00. Also, it originally came with Vista, which ran kind of slow (resource hog that it is) and Service Pack 2 helped to speed it up. Many downgraded to XP Tablet, and were very happy with performance. Myself? I upgraded to Windows 7 and I am really happy with it. I hope to investigate some Linux distros as well, but haven't had time yet.
This thing is loaded with features:
1.6 Ghz Intel Atom Z530 processor
1 GB RAM (well that's a little too minimalist)
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Intel GMA 530 video
60 GB hard drive
1.3 MegaPixel webcam
a,b,g,draftn WIFI
GPS and Garmin Mobile PC Software
convertable to tablet mode
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CF slot Type I and II
SD card slot
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VGA out and Ethernet using supplied dongle
4 cell battery gets about 7 or 8 hours
Mono speaker and audio jacks
Got mine for $416.00 plus (exorbitant) shipping charge ($457.00 total) from ubid.com. You won't find a more feature packed portable for the price.
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$416.00 is an awesome price for that little beast. $39.00 for shipping is a bit steep but if considering the very low price for the device itself it's not too bad IMHO. I considered getting one too but they are very hard to find where I live and if they show up they cost a fortune. So did this replace your C1000 and netbook?
As for the performance, on my Eee PC (1.33GHz Atom Z520, 1GB RAM, 32GB SSD) I found Windows 7 to be acceptable but a bit slow, sometimes annoyingly slow. On the other hand, my UMPC runs XP on the same CPU/RAM/SSD and it's very snappy, much snappier than 7.
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I picked one up off Ebay before knowing about the Ubid deals for $488 shipped (after bing cash back) and have been pleased. For me it came down to either this or the Netwalker. Not haivng to deal with ARM was the decision maker ... been there, done that.
The device runs Windows 7 ok, considering one gig ram and the slow stock hard drive. A little laggy at times but I'm not in any rush, mostly running business apps, and love the 6+ hour battery life (brightness 50%, wifi on, rest off via Fujitsu power saving tool).
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@ merlin1:
It replaced my 6000L (Tosa). I had a C1000 for a few months, and went back to my Tosa because of the larger screen size mostly. I have not missed my Tosa as much as I thought I would, I guess because I can do all it did and more with this little device.
The netbook I had (Sylvania G) was a dud from the start. It came pre-installed with a Linux distro that did not support the built-in WIFI or video acceleration. It was an Ubuntu derivative (GOS), but if I updated anything, packages broke. A succession of Distros were tried, and would lock up after a few hours. VIA's Linux support was practically non-existent.
@ TheWalt:
I considered the Netwalker too, as well as the Umid M1. I decided against the Netwalker because it is far easier to find up-to-date software for X86 processors than ARM processors. Since I do not really have programming skills, I do not have to depend on the wonderful programmers that kept our Zauruses alive so long. The Umid M1 only came with 8 GB storage. Since I had bought an Mtron 32 GB SSD (originally for the unworthy Sylvania G), I put that in the U820, and it is rather snappy. I can even watch youtubes if I select medium quality. (I can't tell the difference on a 5.6" screen anyway.)
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I have a kind of love/hate relationship with my refrigerator. Some of you may wonder why I'm nurturing any kind of a relationship at all with my appliances. Well, if it's got to be in your house, you must have at least a working relationship with it, because if not, you have no influence over it when it goes on the fritz. Not that my reasoning with an appliance has ever fixed it, but I believe the repair bills could cost substantially more if my appliances couldn't tolerate me.
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According to the 2011 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress, homelessness among veterans has declined 12 percent since January 2010.
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Support staff will also offer quality improvement training designed to help reduce the amount of time necessary to house a homeless veteran to 90 days or less. Pilot training in Los Angeles and New York City has already helped shave an average of 64 days from the veteran housing process in these communities.
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Ross Commons
Completed 2002
Amazingly, the local and sustainably harvested beech and birch that completes the interior of the Ross Commons dining hall was a blue print away from never leaving the forest. "In the beginning," Director of Environmental Affairs, Nan Jenks-Jay remembers, "the architects wanted cherry. A nice interior wood--sure, but you won't find so much as a board foot of it in Vermont." But through the insistence of collage officials like Jenks-Jay and Director of Facilities Planning Dave Ginevan, the project architect Tai Soo Kim soon began to embrace locally harvested wood. With the experiences of Bicentennial Hall to guide them, the Office of Facilities Planning worked with the architects and a local forestry group, Vermont Family Forests, to design a building that incorporated Vermont forest resources.
The level of planning that followed was intense. From the building design to the management of the forest, to the installation of the finished products--each step relied on the one before it. What began as a flickering idea quickly evolved into a multi-year effort that spanned the state.
The links below offer an explanation of these steps and serve to chronicle the journey of the Ross wood from the forest to its installation.
In photos, the story behind Ross Commons
1. Forest Management
When the decision was made to use sustainably harvested wood in the new LaForce dining hall, the College didn't have to look far for a forest to supply it. The College's Bread Loaf lands, located only 20 minutes from campus, contained the yellow birch and beech the project required. By the project's end 30,000 board feet were removed from the property, the equivalent of seven log trucks.
Throughout the logging, David Brynn of Vermont Family Forests served as the primary forester managing the Bread Loaf lot to insure the forest's long-term health, both as a resource and an ecosystem.
Following the removal of the timber, College forester Steve Weber performed a variety of management techniques ranging from relocating tops and stumps, to run-off control, to agitating the soil to disturb fern growth and encourage seedling trees.
Similar management practices were employed prior to and after logging on the other local wood lots involved in the project.
2. Logging with Bill Torrey
3. Logging with John Anderson
Middlebury graduate John Anderson '94, occupies a highly specialized niche in the world of logging: he uses workhorses to skid logs from the forest floor to developed logging roads. The seemingly backwards technique represents the finest in sustainable logging. With his workhorses, Anderson can extract timber from deep within a woodlot without bulldozing new roads. An Art History major while at Middlebury, Anderson is one of the only "traditional" loggers in Vermont. John uses a modern chain saw and may use a skidder on existing roads, but skidding with the workhorses is his specialty. The workhorses substantially reduce the impact and general wear and tear that result from dragging logs across the forest floor. Working closely with his horses, Andersen can direct a log down a slope so as to avoid crushing saplings that may one day grow into valuable timber. His technique represents the opposite of a clear cut.
When I caught up with John during the fall of 2001, it was a beautiful October afternoon. Vermont Family Forests had turned to him to log some yellow birch from a private wood lot in Starksboro. The timber would augment that taken from the Bread Loaf wood lot. John and his crew worked with fluid efficiency that afternoon, moving between horses and saw to bring the yellow birch down to the landing. Like logging everywhere, the work was grueling and dangerous, but it wasn't ugly. In fact, it was anything but ugly-- it was beautiful. Over the next half a year, I would watch as the logs that toppled to the forest floor that autumn afternoon were brought back to life. I would see them transformed and reinvented as rough boards, door frames, ceiling panels and decorative wall paneling. I like to think that October day set the standard for the whole journey, from the milling to the last panel in La Force, was beautiful and exciting.
4. Growney's Sawmill
As part of the LaForce job, VFF asked Growney to go through the SmartWood certification process. This entailed moving his mill to a covered location to keep the wood dry and fresh, as well as some paper work and lots of record keeping. "It is almost to the point where every log is numbered," Growney said. "There is a lot of honesty in the certification. I am obligated to do everything I can to get the most usable timber out of low grade logs." And that is precisely why VFF turns to Growney. Using the smaller blade of his mill he is able to salvage boards from low quality logs, logs that a bigger mill might immediately dismiss as firewood or pulp.
5. Gagnon's Sawmill
6. At the Kiln
The majority of the wood destined for Ross Commons was sent across the state to St. Johnsbury to dry. Here, at the Caledonia Kiln, the roughly milled boards were prepared for several weeks in the kiln. For the wood to dry evenly, it is essential that the boards be stacked in such a way to allow the dry air of the kiln to circulate. Thus, the rough wood that arrived in a mismatched bundle from the mill must be carefully stacked and spaced with scrap boards, such that no two pieces touch. The stacking process, and the destacking once the wood is removed from the kiln, are the most labor-intensive aspect of the drying process. However, once the wood is staked, the job gets easier, for the wood will sit in the kiln until the moisture is literally baked out. But there is still work to be done. Jeremy Jacquet, son of Henri Jacquet the owner of Caledonia Kiln, measures the moisture content in sample boards almost daily to determine when the wood should be removed. Once the wood emerges from the kiln, it is destacked and prepared for shipping. Though no visible transformation has occurred, the drying treatment will help preserve the integrity of the wood long into the future.
7. Belgian Woodworking
Len Schmidt was the mastermind behind the green certified wood's long and lengthy journey through Vermont's local timber and woodworking infrastructure to Middlebury's Ross Commons. Owner of Belgian Woodworking and part time employee for Vermont Family Forests, Schmidt served as the "project manager" for the Ross Commons project. It was his responsibility to route the wood through the correct middlemen or as Schmidt put it, the "local, value-added" companies, mills, kilns, and woodworkers, to achieve the end product desired by the College. The decisions that Schmidt makes in terms of where to send the wood are driven by Vermont Family Forests's vision of a local and sustainable product. As Schmidt says, "Vermont Family Forests is about local value adding. If we have a choice: up the road or to Pennsylvania, we will go up the road every time."
In addition to the massive effort required to coordinate the project, Schmidt handled one of the more sensitive steps of the project in his own workshop: beech paneling for the Ross Lounge. That the Ross Lounge would have beech paneling was nothing extraordinary, but the project architects had decided to sequence the panels such that panels from the same log would align, allowing observers to essentially see individual trees within the paneling. Because of the sequencing and matching required to maintain the accurate placement of panels from the same log, Schmidt performed the drying and initial trimming of the rough lumber at his own shop, Belgian Woodworking. From there, the logs were carefully stored and worked on in sequence until their eventual installation in the Ross Lounge.
8. Tioli Inc.
The beautiful birch ceiling that arches over the Ross Commons dining hall didn't have too far to travel. David Duclos, owner and operator of Tioli Inc., a local woodworking business, assembled the ceiling panels at his Middlebury shop. Of all the hands the wood passed through, Duclos's were perhaps the most important. For it was Duclos who shaped the rough lumber into the finely crafted panels that catch the sunset and bring a warm golden glow to the dining hall. After visiting Duclos at his Middlebury shop, I was impressed not only by his level of craftsmanship but by the care he took to adhere to VFF's vision. It was apparent Duclos understood his role in contributing to sustainable forest management practices.
The process of building a panel involves many steps, the first of which is material management. Duclos and his workers spend a considerable amount of time calculating lengths to minimize waste. As Duclose says, "a 10' bundle does not yield two, 61" pieces, but does yield two, 57" pieces while an 8' bundle yields one 61" piece and one small piece to fill a splice row." The task is a mind-numbing bit of number crunching but is an essential step in maximizing yield and represents the principle advantage to processing wood at the small-scale, local level.
As the wood is sized through a series of crosscut and straight line rips, the good "shorts" are pulled aside for use later in drawer side material. Any high-grade material over 6" is set aside for use in a splice row later. Once all the panel slats are molded to uniform dimensions they are sanded and assembled into a 7 to 9 slat panel. Then after a final machine sanding the panels receive a sealer coat, a finishing hand sanding, and a final top coat of stain. Once they are dry the panels are packed in wax paper for shipment down the road to Middlebury College.
By the end of the process, almost all the raw lumber has been converted into beautiful panels. Those unusable scraps that remain feed woodstoves for winter heat while the sawdust and shavings go to bed cattle. Such is the sustainable vision and discipline that Duclos brings to his work, a sample of which now hangs for all to see in the Ross Commons Dining hall.
9. Stark Mountain Woodworking Inc.
This became particularly important for the thin beech paneling. As beech is notorious for its squirrelly ways and total defiance of staying flat, the paneling for Ross Lounge was heavily weighted and stored in the driest place possible.Crafting the decorative moldings and fine wood products out of the rough lumber takes a skilled hand and a perceptive eye.
When making baseboard, all the individual boards must be examined and paired such that the grain is as homogenous as possible. Once a match is found the boards are glued and clamped together until the joining process is complete. As with Tioli, absolute attention is devoted to minimizing waste. Whether the wood is green certified or not, shorts are saved for drawers and care is taken to use the majority of boards.
10. Going Up
The installation of the Vermont wood into the new Ross Commons facility occurred throughout the spring of 2002. The installation of the ceiling was by far the most extensive and labor intensive process. Each panel had to be trimmed to fit on site due to normal variation in the steel frame. They were then lifted by a pneumatic lift to the ceiling and installed by two carpenters working one panel at a time. Other aspects of the installation--the beech paneling, circular kitchenettes, and wood floor, required similar craftsmanship and were completed late that spring and into the summer.


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KDE2 release schedule update
The KOffice hack session is over, and Matthias Elter is back with a new KDE2 release schedule. While some of the details are still being discussed (hotly), in essence, RC1 will be released on Monday October 2, and the final tarballs will be created on Monday October 9. The public release will follow on Monday October 16. Note that the next KDE will be named KDE 2.0, contrary to what the announcement says. Woo!
Re: KDE2 release schedule update
It's 19:24 (US Central), and where is RC1? I was looking forward to that today...
By Nobody at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Re: KDE2 release schedule update [going too fast?]
Maybe wait another week?
It still seems really unstable to me still (my desktop keeps "crashing"). But maybe cleanly built total new binary installs will work better.
I assume the packagers will be looking for bugs while they prepare the rpm's tar.gz's and of course now the *.deb's !!!!
By AC Of Course at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Re: KDE2 release schedule update
Maybe the webmaster of developer.kde.org can update the release-schedule on that site? I've been looking on that one for some time and it doesn't change, it's still somewhere in Juli...someone here who can update it?
Jonathan Brugge
P.S.: I've been running the beta-versions of KDE2 for some time now, and it's quite stable. One thing I would like to see is more support of Konqueror: I can't load some pages because it has no support for the protocols the page uses (like https). If it can open a page, I prefer it above the always crashing Netscape.
By Jonathan Brugge at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Great, but ....
but how do i have to wait for Redhat 6.x/7
By Christian Groove at Wed, 2000/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: KDE2 release schedule update
Wow! ... Wow!
Neat! ...
Cool! ...
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text: HomeMenus & SpecialsOn TapBreweryHistoryBeer To Go! *Christmas Eve: 11 am – 6 pm *Closed on Christmas DayHours: Monday – Thursday, 11 am - Midnight Friday, 11 am - 1 am Saturday, 11 am - Midnight Sunday, 11 am - 11 pm Upcoming Events see all events Hammerhead's 34th Birthday Saturday, January 25 Happy 34th Birthday, Ruby! Saturday, March 21 Happy 25th Birthday, Black Rabbit Red! Thursday, April 02 Great moments in Hammerhead history For fans of our beloved Hammerhead Ale, know ye this: legend has it that the brew's hallowed recipe was perfected here. Actually, Fulton Pub dates back to 1926, when it was a Prohibition-era hangout serving home-cooked meals, pinball games, stogies, candy and ice cream. Speculation says that during Prohibition the pub might even have provided patrons the odd pint as an unadvertised special. What is certain is that when the prohibition against strong drink did end in America, it wasn't long before the present-day Fulton location became a beer parlor. It was also later a workingman's bar known as the Home Tavern. The Fulton was renovated and opened by McMenamins on Cinco de Mayo in 1988. Today, we serve up hearty pub fare in intimate setting in Portland's Macadam neighborhood. We've got casual dining for the entire family, either indoors in our cozy pub or outside on our garden patio. Fulton Pub allows pets at our sidewalk seating only. Menus Menu Kids Happy Hour & Specials Beverage Happy Hour served daily 3 - 6 pm & 10 pm - Close Drink specials 3 - 6 pm & 10 pm - Midnight No substitutions, additions, or to-go orders We offer Northwest-style pub fare that incorporates the freshest seasonal ingredients from local and regional growers and producers (including Tillamook Cheese and Ice Cream, Pleasant Valley Pickles, Sheridan Fruit Company, Country Natural Beef and many others). We make everything onsite, including pizza, soups and more. Weekly specials round out our menus – ask your server for details. Gluten-free buns available! These light, crisp, locally made products are available for an additional charge with hamburgers and sandwiches – just ask your server. Please note: Although the bun is gluten-free, our kitchens are not. All Ales Cider Andiron Double IPA Black Widow Porter Blackberry Cider Crangerine Dream Cider Durstlöscher Kölsch Edgefield Apple Cider Electric Orange Weizen Hammerhead Kris Kringle McMenamins Irish Stout Nebraska Bitter Observable Universe Hazy IPA Party Boat Lager Purple Haze Ruby Ale Terminator Stout White Tiger IPA Everything's Jake at the Fulton. At least, that's how it began. In 1926, during the depths of Prohibition, one of Portland's great saloon men, Jake Reisch, built a new place on Southwest Nebraska. It stood down the street from the neighborhood grocery, just up from the Portland Shipbuilding Company's yard and right next to the Shell service station. Jones Lumber and Portland furniture were a brisk walk or a short street car ride to the north. This was back when the Fulton neighborhood got its fingernails dirty... What do 1920s saloon man Jake Reisch, Trailblazer Harvey Grant and Hollywood dude Keanu Reeves have in common? Read more to find out. Bring in your growler for these fills from our taps: (or purchase a glass growler at any of our locations) Beer Hard Cider 32 ounce $8-$12.50 32 ounce $9-$14 64 ounce $16-$25.00 64 ounce $18-$28 Get fills on special at the Pubs: Growler Mondays: $9* *certain beers may be additional charge Cider Wednesdays: $14* *this price applies to standard Edgefield Cider – regular apple or seasonal only Check out what's ON TAP at WHICH LOCATIONS on the free McMenamins app. Cans Our cans of signature Ruby and Hammerhead are available at all locations. Ask about seasonal and limited-edition cans and bottles as well. Crowlers Offered at our 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop, Cedar Hills, Cornelius Pass Roadhouse, Elks Temple Bottle Shop and Winery Tasting Room (just for cider), a Crowler is a 32-ounce vessel that we fill fresh from an ale or cider tap of your choice and seal up. Kegs/Cornelius Can Shipping Beer Now shipping to anywhere in Oregon Call the Edgefield Gift Shop to order: 503-492-5470 7 a.m.–7 p.m. Pacific Time Max 24 cans per order per state law Why can't you ship elsewhere? While Oregon law allows us to ship outside of the state, individual state laws prohibit us to ship beer directly to consumers.


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Good question, and I direct you over to Physicians for a national heal program for a rousing Amen. What you are describing is essentially single payer.
I've expressed it thusly: I'm a supporter of single payer the same way I'm a supported of nuclear disarmament. Wouldn't be great if all countries got rid of their nukes? Anyway, back in the real world...
Here are the reasons we can't just "get rid of" all those gosh-darn insurers:
1. Political realities
There's just no Congressional support for single payer, beyond some less than influential liberal democrats in the House. Not only are most progressives looking at market-based plans, even those more moderate plans spark fierce opposition from the conservatives, and even some squeamishness from democrats. Influential business interests are only minimally receptive to the modest plans put forward since their interests are directly threatened by the public plan option. It would take an absolutely seismic shift of the debate for single payer to even be given serious consideration.
2. Public acceptance
People are ready for health care market reform, but they are also wary. Basically, they want something to be done for all those people who are unable to get insurance, but they are mostly satisfied with their own plans and don't want to change. They may, even dislike their insurance, but the prospect of being forced out of their known coverage to some new unknown national plan is pretty unnerving. It's difficult to convince people that such radical change isn't very risky, and if there's no public support, the political support will evaporate.
3. Lob losses
There are literally millions of people working in the private insurance market. If that industry were legislated out of existence, those jobs would also be lost. Yes, this is a short-term disruption that would in the long-run be more than made up by the efficiency of single-payer. Especially in the current job market, tossing a couple of million people onto the unemployment rolls is not a prospect to be taken lightly. Additionally, there are billions of dollars in shareholder equity in the private insurers that would also be lost, which would be a significant market disruption (and would not incidentally spur furious opposition from the wealthy interest threatened by single payer -- see point number one above).
4. Monopsony
Though Single Payer has lots of internal efficiencies and ancillary benefits, it has one very big drawback. Monopoly power allows the only seller of a service to drive up the price as high as possible. Monopsony power is the inverse, and allows the only purchaser of a service to drive the price as low as possible. If there was only one health insurance plan with the unilateral power to set prices, provider reimbursement would be rapidly driven down. Given that Medicare and Medicaid already reimburse at levels that are unsustainably low, the future under single payer looks very bleak for health care providers as an industry. Competition among multiple insurance agencies to maintain provider networks keeps reimbursement up at reasonable levels.
So much as we would love to be rid of them, the future of health care does require a role for the private insurance companies, both as matters of policy and of politics.


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We may not be able to master a lot of complex arguments against theistic evolution, but Jesus' own treatment of Genesis closes the question.
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Calculating How Far an Object Will Slide Down an Inclined Surface
You can use physics to calculate how far an object will slide down an inclined surface, such as a ramp. For example, say you and your friends are pushing a refrigerator up a ramp onto a moving van, when suddenly your combined strength gives out and the refrigerator begins to plummet back down the 3.0-meter ramp. As you watch with dismay, it picks up speed. A car is parked behind the ramp, only 7.2 meters away. Will the errant refrigerator smash it?
Assuming that the ramp and the ground both have the same kinetic coefficient of friction and that the refrigerator starts to slide from the top of the ramp, you need to calculate how far the refrigerator will slide. You quickly pull out a pencil and paper and draw a figure showing the refrigerator as it slides down the 3.0-meter ramp.
When an object slides downward, the forces acting on it are different from the forces used to push it up the ramp (see the figure). With the fridge, there's no Fpush force to push it up the ramp. Instead, the component of the refrigerator's weight acting along the ramp pulls the refrigerator downward. And while the fridge slides down, friction opposes that force. You also need to know the coefficient of kinetic friction,
For this example, the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.15.
So what force accelerates the refrigerator downward? The weight acting along the ramp is
and the normal force is
which means that the force of kinetic friction is
The net force accelerating the refrigerator down the ramp, Facceleration, is the difference between the component of the refrigerator's weight along the ramp and the frictional force opposing it:
Note that you subtract FF, the force due to friction, because that force always acts to oppose the force causing the object to move. Plugging in the numbers gives you
The net force pulling the refrigerator down the ramp is 360 newtons. Because the refrigerator is 100 kilograms, you have an acceleration of 360 N/100 kg = 3.6 m/s2, which acts along the entire 3.0-meter ramp. You can calculate the final speed of the refrigerator at the bottom of the ramp this way:
Plugging in the numbers, you get
The final speed of the refrigerator when it starts traveling along the street toward the parked car is about 4.6 meters per second.
Now you need to calculate how far the refrigerator is going to go. Because it's traveling along the pavement now, you need to factor in the force due to friction. Gravity will no longer accelerate the object because the street is flat. Sooner or later, the refrigerator will come to a stop. But how close will it come to a car that's parked in the street 7.2 meters away? As usual, your first calculation is the force acting on the object. In this case, you figure the magnitude of the force due to friction:
Because the refrigerator is moving along a horizontal surface, the normal force, FN, is simply the weight of the refrigerator, mg, which means the force of friction is
Plugging in the data gives you
A force of 150 newtons acts to stop the sliding refrigerator that's now terrorizing the neighborhood. So how far will it travel before it comes to rest? If you take the refrigerator to be moving horizontally in the positive direction, then because the force is acting in the opposite direction, its horizontal component is negative. Because of Newton's second law, the acceleration is also negative and is given by
You can find the distance through the equation
The distance the refrigerator slides is
In this case, you want the final velocity, vf, to be zero, because you need to know where the refrigerator will stop. Therefore, this equation breaks down to
Whew! The refrigerator slides only 7.1 meters, and the car is 7.2 meters away. With the pressure off, you watch the show as your panic-stricken friends hurtle after the refrigerator, only to see it come to a stop right before hitting the car — just as you expected.


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not yet. im just so frustrated with it, i gave up. i'll probably get back into the rc mood this weekend.
As I and Nitronaught too well know, helis can indeed be very frustrating, especially at first.
Alt-248 on the number pad = °
my co-workers are asking me about it everyday. i tell them they're the reason its broken!
I imagine the learning curve is easy compared to other air vehicles. Ever try to fly something like an MSR? That is what I learned to fly on and from what I have seen and experienced the Quad is a piece of cake to fly compared to the MSR.
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It may be easy for an experienced flyer but tricky for a new comer.
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For some reason I find it more easy to control my MSR than my quads when it comes to turning. But taking off with a quad is way more simple.
Nobody is born with experience
If they don't fly right out of the box even someone with experience has there hands full, there is a sheet included with the QR1 that states in large type " PLEASE READ" and I very highly recommend you go through the reset procedure before you even try to fly at all. Mine out of the box was difficult to control, definitely not normal. After performing the reset it is perfect, does exactly what you command and nothing else. Before the reset that was not the case so this is for you guys that may not know what they should act like....
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You do realise that it has a gyro in it and it only spins certain blades based on how it is held right.........?
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Will see how I do at flying this thing. The only thing I haver ever flown is a AirHogs Helicopter from ToysRus LOL. Looking forward to getting it, I'll read the manual and start off really slow, thanks for the tip on the reset Rastus. I'll make sure I do that right away
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This is how I got comfortable with mine without any damage. I started with input sensitivities set low-about 25 to begin. Get directly behind the copter-pointing directly away from you. Gently lift off with throttle only-up just off the floor. Cut throttle if drifting/rotating and set down. Do the accelerometer reset if movement is severe. Gently lift off again. Trim for any drifting or rotating as necessary. Repeat the low liftoffs and trims a few times. You can quickly get them to lift almost vertically. Then practice just doing a stable hover and gradually add forward/backwards and lateral movements. I did this in a very small room without breaking any props. Once you rotate the copter where you are not directly behind it, control inputs get complicated quickly. EDIT-be sure to but battery in fully each time (it will affect balance) and even the power wire position can have effect on movement so try to position it the same each time.
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