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This User's Guide is designed to enable users to get a grasp quickly of what the ADS can do, and to explain the basics of how to use it. Complete information about the many features of the ADS is given in the ADS Help pages on the Web (over 80 pages long, also available in PDF format for printing). This Guide is designed to be an introduction, not a complete explanation of all of the ADS features.
For your convenience, a PDF version of this guide is also available.
What is the ADS? What's in it?
The NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service provides a powerful search engine for each of its three bibliographic databases:
Physics and Geophysics (including abstracts from APS journals and SPIE proceedings)
ArXiv e-prints (all the papers published in the ArXiv e-print archive)
Users can query the database by author, astronomical object name/position (astronomy database only), words in the title, and words in the abstract text. The "results list" is ranked by how closely the paper matches the query (unless otherwise requested by the user). From the results list one can view the full record available for each of the returned articles, including scans, HTML and PDF versions of articles, if they are available.
The ArXiv e-print database contains preprints submitted to the arXiv e-print archive. The ADS maintains this database to allow searches on the latest literature being published, with links to the full text available from the ArXiv.
We provide access to scanned images of articles from most of the major and most smaller astronomical journals, as well as many conference proceedings series. All scanned articles are linked to the corresponding references in the ADS.
We provide references and citations whenever possible. The references and citations database is excellent, but, as is the case with all such databases, it is not complete.
The ADS is on the Web at: ADS (https://ads.harvard.edu/)
This is our `front door' page. It gives users many links: to the abstract query form, to our mirror sites, FAQ page, Help pages, and to a Site Map, among others. Important links are repeated on any pages from which a user might want access to them.
The two main links on this page are to the Abstract Search page and to the Browse Interface.
If you click on the Browse Interface page, you will find links to the following ADS services:
Journal/Volume/Page Service to find a record in the ADS when you know some information about the journal, volume and/or page. Table of Contents Service to view the latest tables of contents from the major journals. Article Service to view and print scanned pages of publications digitized by ADS. Scanned Historical Literature Service to view and print scanned pages of Historical Observatory Publications digitized by the ADS. Scanned Books Service to view and print selected books digitized by the ADS.
Although users can get to most of these services from the abstract search page, it is sometimes usefuql to access some of our scanned literature directly.
Search References, the link to the left of the Browse Library link, leads to a set of links to ADS databases: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and arXiv e-prints. Click on your choice. Each link leads to a query form, which is set up to query whichever database was selected. Users can change or add to the databases they wish to search just by clicking on the database checkbox(es) at the top of any query form.
The main focus of this Guide will be on the Abstract Query page. Most users begin their ADS work with the Search References page, described above:
search references
Or they go directly to the generic query form:
abstract query form (https://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html/)
and set the databases to search by clicking the box next to each database.
The Astronomy/Astrophysics database is selected by default.
The following explanation of the Query Form will acquaint users with the main features of the ADS search process. The sample search following this section demonstrates and explains some of the features described.
At the top of the query form is a line of links:
Sitemap This is self-explanatory. There is a link from this page to a complete set of help pages which can be viewed and/or printed (PDF version).
What's New List of developments in the ADS, the newest chapter at the top.
Feedback Here are links to several forms:
ADS Abstract Service Mailing List sign-up If you would like to be kept informed via e-mail of new ADS features, please use this sign-up form.
Submit Author Abstracts -- Authors may submit their abstracts directly to the ADS using this form.
Submit Corrections -- Form to fill out if you find a minor error or errors in the ADS, such as typos, truncated lines, etc.. Please use the Author Comments form (see below) to correct substantive errors.
Submit Associated References -- Let us know about series or related papers. We will create O links to them to make them easy to find.
Author Comments -- Authors may append a comment to their abstracts. The Comment I link will appear with the author's abstract. The comment may point to errata, amplify or make corrections to the original paper, point to other people's papers, etc., and may include URLs.
Missing Publications -- Links to a list of publications currently missing from the ADS. We appreciate help to complete our collection.
Preferences This links to forms with which users may customize the ADS. The ADS uses cookies to tie a user's preferences to his or her browser and computer. In order to take advantage of this feature, please make sure that cookies are enabled in your browser's settings.
FAQ Check here for answers to common questions.
Help View or print (PDF format) the Help pages. A quick way to get an idea of some of the more complex features of the ADS is to look at the Help section table of contents.
Under these links is a line of text which changes: a "hint". Here we tell users about services they may not have noticed. Below the hint line are options to send your query, store an HTML-format query form you've created, or clear the form.
Databases to query Click your selection. You can query any or all.
Author searches, most basic version
Enter each author's last name followed by a comma and first initial. Names must be listed with each on a separate line. Capitalization is ignored, as is the period after the first initial.
Publishers publish author names various ways. Russian authors' names are transliterated several ways. Names get misspelled or hyphenated when people marry. For complete infromation (help pages) about author searches, click on the Exact name matching link above the author name entry box.
You can query for specific spellings of an author name by using the Exact name matching clickbox. Clicking this box returns matches of the exact spelling you entered of an author's name (including any middle names and/or initials) as found in the ADS database. This is useful for cases in which two or more authors share the same last name and first initial, which is what the ADS system normally uses to perform author searches. Enter all versions of author names which might apply to your search.
To find author names with different spellings, click on the Exact name matching link, and from there click the Exact Author search link. Another way to search for author names is by using the List Query form, reached via the Authors link found above the author name box on the query page. If you only know how a name sounds, you can try to find it using the Soundex feature on the List Query form.
Use the various logic options listed (simple logic, boolean logic) above each text box on the query form to make your search more specific.
Object searches You can search the ADS by celestial object name or position. You can select SIMBAD, NED, LPI or IAUC data by clicking the adjacent box. Your results page will contain links to the data in the database(s) you selected.
Title and Abstract keyword searches Enter keywords into the Title Words and Abstract Words boxes. To search for a phrase, use double quotes around it. "Stop" words like "and", "but" and "the" will be discarded. If "And" is entered in mixed case, the ADS will return everything about Andromeda. Some other "stop" words also have shared meanings.
Keywords entered into the Abstract Words textbox will be searched for in the
Title Words field automatically. Click on the Title Words link
to find additional options, including Soundex.
Some ways to narrow your search
You may select a date range to limit your search results. The default
returns everything in the ADS that matches your search names/words.
To help give astronomers inclusive results, we have grouped words which are related. We call these grouped words "synonyms" (That's not accurate, but it was the closest descriptive term we could find). If a user searches for VLA, abstracts which contain the phrase "Very Large Array" are also returned. A search for "star" will return the paper "Spektrographische Beobachtungen von Be- und Ae-Sternen. III" among a great many others (Sternen -- German for stars). This feature is set on by default. It can deliver confusing results. A search for "galaxy" will find "galaxy", "non-galactic", "intergalactic", "proto-galactic", etcetera, because those words are related to the stem "gal". The synonym feature can be turned off if it isn't useful.
Author names are also sometimes synonymed. We synonym foreign authors whose names are published more than one way. When we know about it, we synonym a person's original name with their married name. We group misspelled names with the correct versions.
The query form default is set to return 100 matches. You can change that setting to get up to 500 items to be returned at a time.
To search for only abstracts by the authors you list which contain the text keywords you selected, click the clickboxes Require author for selection and Require text for selection. (If you don't do this, you'll get the articles you are looking for at the top of a much larger set of returns.)
Scroll down below the part of the query form which is visible to find three options:
Full Text Search -- Links to forms for searching the scanned pages.
myADS -- Personal notification service that allows users to set up two areas of interest (using keywords and author names). When the ADS is updated (about every two weeks), an e-mail list of everything that is new in the ADS which corresponds to the user's interests will be sent. Some "new" entries will be old, though newly available on the ADS.
myADS now includes the capability to have separate notifications for the Astronomy/Astrophysics and Physics/Geophysics databases. In addition, it provides for daily and/or weekly notification for the arXiv e-print database in collaboration with the arXiv e-print server.
Private Library and Recently read articles -- Two ways to keep track of material you're interested in without having to look it up again. The Private Library requires that cookies be turned on. Users may maintain more than one Private Library.
Following these are Journal/Volume/Page, Current Journals and Unread Journals
Current Journals This is like the magazine rack at a library. The ADS has the tables of contents and (for most of them) the abstracts for the current month issue of these journals. Users can select the journals they want to see here by editing Preferences.
Unread Journals Users can make their selected Current Journals disappear once they have looked at them by setting up this section.
The initial search can be sorted various ways from the initial query form. Options which are not obvious are linked to the help pages, where they are explained.
Under Settings near the bottom of the query form are four settings that users can change. Only advanced users would ever want to change the last two -- the weighting options.
Synonym Replacement `As mentioned, Synonym Replacement makes it possible (by default) for those searching the Astronomy/Astrophysics database to retrieve abstracts which mention words or terms which are related to the keywords entered. Most of the time this is useful. Turn this option off if you want to match keywords exactly. The ADS has not yet implemented the Synonym Replacement option for the Physics/Geophysics database.
Relative Weights This allows users to emphasize one field or another.
Use for Weighting This determines if the field should be used in calculating the scores.
Sample ADS search
Let's say that you want to find all papers by Michael J. Kurtz and Guenther Eichhorn, and all papers about URANIA . Unless you are sure all the papers you want are in the Astronomy database, click on the Physics/Geophysics database and/or arXiv e-prints databases. It is sometimes difficult to categorize papers, and authors sometimes write papers which straddle fields, so selecting multiple databases may be wise. Astronomy/Astrophysics and Physics/Geophysics were selected for this illustration.
In the Author field enter:
kurtz, m
eichhorn, g
In the Text field enter:
Capitalization is ignored. "urania", "Urania" and "URANIA" will all be returned, if they exist.
Note that Michael Kurtz' middle initial was not used. If you want to search for Michael J. Kurtz' papers, you must search for them using the Exact name matching option.
As of this writing, a search for Kurtz with the Authors/Exact Author Query Form (in both databases) showed 18 papers by "M. Kurtz". Any of them could be by Michael J. Kurtz. 135 papers were by M. J. Kurtz -- likely to be by the author in question. 65 were by Michael J. Kurtz explicitly. There were two papers by Michael Kurtz. If there is more than one Michael Kurtz, you would have to know what Michael J. Kurtz is writing about to find the Michael Kurtz papers which belong to him. These numbers will change, of course. Michael J. Kurtz will doubtless have written new papers by the time the reader checks the Exact Author search list.
To find papers for which M(...) Kurtz is the first author, enter ^kurtz, m in the Author field. To find papers for which M(...) Kurtz is the last author, enter kurtz, m$ in the Author field. To find papers for which Michael Kurtz is the only author, enter ^kurtz, m$ in the Author field.
You can set the number of items to be returned at one time to as much as 500 entries. Doing so can be helpful if you think you might want to resort your results. As mentioned above, you can limit the date range to restrict or focus your search.
Query Results pages return more or less quickly, depending on the complexity of your search and the speed of your connection. Results are usually returned within a few seconds.
To demonstrate some features of the ADS , let's look at one of the papers returned after the above search, "The NASA Astrophysics Data System: Overview", by Michael J. Kurtz, Guenther Eichhorn, Alberto Accomazzi, Carolyn S. Grant, Stephen S. Murray, and Joyce M. Watson, published in 2000, in volume 143 of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement.
Unique identifiers called bibcodes lead each entry on the Query Results page. Bibcodes are 19 character strings used by the ADS to locate and manage the data in the ADS. Clickboxes to the left of each bibcode allow users to select articles that interest them. Much of the information about this paper is contained in the bibcode, in compressed form:
2000A&AS..143...41K -- The whole ADS bibcode for this paper. 2000 -- publication year (4 characters reserved) A&AS.-- publication name abbreviation (5 characters reserved) .143 -- volume number (4 characters reserved) . -- 14th space (1 reserved for special characteristics and special cases (unneeded in this bibcode). ..41 -- page number (4 characters reserved) K -- first author's last name initial, upper case (1 character reserved)
Note that "." is used as a space marker in our bibcode system. Bibcodes must be 19 characters in length. If an author's last name begins with an accented character, the accent is removed. If an author's last name begins with a lower-case character (von Braun, for instance), the initial is changed to uppercase.
Click the bibcode or the A link for this paper to bring up the abstract and other information about the paper. The ADS serves users all the material we have about each entry, unless the user applies filters. Sometimes fields such as the Affiliation field are missing because the ADS was not given those data. Click on any of the letter links beside the bibcode to see the available related material.
If you want to find similar abstracts easily, go to the bottom of the page displaying this (or any) abstract, to the Find Similar Abstracts section. Click Send Query. All the words except "stop" words are sent to the database as a query. The keywords are weighted and scored according to how frequently they appear in the database. Infrequent words such as "URANIA" weigh more than frequent words like "research". When this search was done, 685544 abstracts matched at least one word in this abstract. Users would likely only be interested in the top one hundred or so at most. This feature works best when the submitted abstract contains specific vocabulary.
At the top of the results page is the original paper, "The NASA Astrophysics Data System: Overview". It gets a score of 1.0 (it matched all the criteria submitted). The papers which follow are scored and listed in descending order of relevance (unless you requested otherwise).
Instead of submitting an entire abstract, users can put abstracts into a query form and edit that form. To do that, click the query form option below the abstract, then click Send Query. You will get back a new query form with the abstract loaded into it. You can edit that form and apply filters, if you choose, then click Send Query as usual.
Another way to get related material easily is to click on the U link, if there is one. The U link finds and displays papers that were also read by users who read the selected paper during the past three months. The U link results will vary, of course. The moving three month time period allows a dynamic view of current readership. This feature works best for more recent papers which were published in major journals.
As an example, clicking on the U link for 2001SPIE.4477..186K, "Evolution of Urania into the AVO", by Michael J. Kurtz and Guenther Eichhorn, on January 4th, 2005, showed eight readers of this paper (the displayed number in the Score column). Seven of those readers also read the next paper on the Query Results page, six read the next two, five read the next several, etcetera. The U link gives users a view into what others who are interested in the subject are reading: a "hot trail" to follow. Eventually some of those readers will cite "Evolution of Urania into the AVO", but those citations may take years to appear.
Citations and References are also useful in finding related material. Users can click next to all items of interest on a Query Results page, and go to the bottom of the page to return references or citations for those items.
Near the bottom of the Query Results page is an area which allows users to format their results in various ways.
Click on the box next to Display on Screen (the default option) to view ways to return results, including saving results to a file, or sending results to a printer.
Click on Sort by Date (most recent first) (the default option) to view the list of sorting options.
At the bottom of the Query Results page are several options:
Get reference lists for selected articles is self-explanatory.
Get citation lists for selected articles is also self-explanatory.
Get also-read lists for selected articles allows users to submit multiple U link queries which shows recent readership for multiple abstracts.
When the Require author for selection and Require text for selection options were selected, the ADS found seven matches. Selecting the Require author for selection field returned 261 matches. Selecting Require text for selection alone yielded 89 matches.
The List of Links at the top right of the Query Results page link provides a description of all of the letter links which follow the listed titles.
Below that is a link to Access Control Help. Publishers restrict access to their recent issues. If you come to a page asking for your user ID, you have been taken to the publisher's site. The content provider requires proof of your subscription to the publication before you will be allowed to enter. The Access Control Help section describes how to access some on-line documents which are linked through the ADS, but which are maintained at other sites.
If you get an error message , or if the system finds no matches and you think it made an error, check to be sure your search criteria are entered correctly. If so, and if the error persists, please copy the complete error message into the User Feedback form or send us e-mail to ads at cfa.harvard.edu to let us know what happened so we can fix the problem.
If you are working from another country, or if you work late at night, using an ADS mirror site might prove more efficient.
An up-to-date list of mirror sites is available at: Mirrors
We hope that this Guide will help get you started using the ADS. The Help pages fill in many details left out here. There you can find descriptions and explanations of the ADS' many other features.
The ADS staff is always happy to answer questions. You can reach us via the Feedback form (the link at the top of the query page). form, or by sending us e-mail to: ads at cfa.harvard.edu


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What a great Bastille Day. Doreen and I cycled up the Col de la Colombiere to watch the Tour de France. People and cyclists everywhere and hot!
We rode up with Brian – his first week in Geneva and already cycling mountains. Martin and Barry took the train from Geneva and bravely rode all the way home. Scott – from New Zealand rode from Lake Annecy on the other side – and somehow we all met up and hung out exactly one km from the top. Of course the publicity caravan was fun, with free samples tossed at us – we all now own polka dot caps and I am about to try grand-meres café.
A major highlight, Brian took off with a bag and somehow returned with 10 beers from way down below. Nice! Another highlight: a photo with tour legend Didi the Devil.
When the helicopters arrived, we knew the riders were near. It took about 30 minutes for them all to pass – wow were some of them suffering – they were strung out all over the road. Last climb on an almost 200 km day in the heat – fair enough.
Doreen and I returned home and saw us all clearly twice on the TV highlights. Great day!

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Exclusive: Piers Morgan on Alex Jones
CNN host Piers Morgan just called to discuss his interview last night with Alex Jones, the conservative radio host and gun advocate who went on a tirade against Morgan, gun control legislation, and a litany of government conspiracies.
"He was the best advertisement for gun control you could wish for," Morgan told POLITICO.
(VIDEO: 6 explosive interviews)
"That kind of vitriol, hatred, and zealotry is really quite scary. I didn't feel threatened by him, but I'm concerned that someone like him has that level of influence," Morgan said. "There's got to be a level of discourse that can rise above what happened last night. It was undignified, unedifying."
(Also on POLITICO: Alex Jones, creator of 'Deport Piers Morgan' petition, blows up on CNN)
In what Morgan described as a "big, long rant," Jones -- the man who started the White House petition to deport Morgan -- shouted questions about gun control legislation, gave premonitions of a 1776-like rebellion, and pronounced conspiracy theories -- including his belief that 9/11 was an inside job -- while Morgan tried calmly and in vain to conduct a civil interview.
"Sometimes it's better to let somebody have the rope they need to tie themselves in knots," Morgan told POLITICO, noting that he had been far more vocal and more passionate in previous interviews with gun advocates. According to Morgan, Jones continued ranting straight through the commercial break that divided the two-segment interview.
(PHOTOS: Celebrities call for gun control)
Morgan said he anticipated such a performance: "I knew what we were going to be getting into with him," he said. "I know about his background and his reputation, so I know he's kind of shock jock."
But Jones is also influential among conservatives, Morgan said, which is why he had him on CNN.
"He said last night that his show now airs in 140 networks, he has a huge online presence -- every day his message gets sent out to millions of Americans," Morgan said. "Through vitriol and rhetoric he is able to spur heavy gun sales and ammunition sales. He works off of fear."
Jones is the host of The Alex Jones Show, based in Austin, Texas, and the creator of InfoWars.com and PrisonPlanet.com, two websites that promote a worldview the Southern Poverty Law Center described as being "governed by logic-leaping deductions and heedless pronouncements."
(Also on POLITICO: Alex Jones detained by TSA en route to Piers Morgan interview)
But Jones has made a success of those websites, of his show, and -- most recently -- of the petition to deport Morgan, which has over 100,000 signatures. Last night, White House spokesman Jay Carney issued a response to the petition, citing "the freedom of expression" as "a bedrock principle in our democracy"
"He is clearly a smart guy under the craziness," Morgan said. "Look, you could tell from the way he ranted that he's not a stupid man. But that makes him more dangerous. There will be lots of people who follow him avidly who are not so intelligent, who believe everything he says."
Morgan added that the petition to deport him was "not an insignificant issue."
"There is a pattern of British people who espouse peace or want more peace being gagged in this country," he said, citing John Lennon and Charlie Chaplin. But Morgan said that Carney's nod to the First Amendment was promising.
"They were making the point I've been making: You can hardly accuse me of attacking the Second Amendment by attacking the First Amendment," he said. "I am merely representing my opinion, and that is protected."
(PHOTOS: Pols speak out on gun control)
Though the media seems to have all but forgotten the gun control debate, and though chances for gun control legislation are starting to look dim, Morgan vowed to continue addressing the issue until government takes action.
"After every shooting, America goes back to normal. The media come off the story, nothing gets done, the pressure on politicians dissipates," he said. "But you and I both know there's going to be another shooting in months, or even weeks. My intent is simply to keep this issue boiling along until the politicians act on it."
"I think America is getting diluted to the horror of these things: it's become too casual, too widespread, too indiscriminate, and incredibly dangerous," he said. "Something has to be done."


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Manhart Racing V8 R - Hart Eater
The M3 that ate an X6 M powertrain
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A stack of tires sits in the corner and there are broken down bodies of BMWs past and present everywhere. It would be a shame, but this is no graveyard, it's the headquarters of Manhart Racing and each and every one of the sorry BMWs is the precursor to a brighter, better future. Like the 707bhp V8 R Biturbo we're here to drive.
Gunther Manhart's operation is a recent addition to the world of front-line tuning, but his workshop in Geilenkirchen has been open since 1986 and he is responsible for a good few cars that have eventually surfaced with another badge on the hood. He also spent more than a few years developing engines for BMW in house.
Now, though, Manhart has gone mainstream. It's still a small outfit Christian Erfurt is the marketing man when he's not fixing the electronicsbut then it's a firm that is already punching well above its weight.
M5-powered E30s and V10-powered E90 Tourings have become his calling card. In the corner of the workshop there's even a 2002tii being measured up for an E92 M3 powerplant. But that's a story for another day, and an airfield.
We're here because of the BMW M3 with the entire drivetrain and transmission from an X6 M crowbarred under the hood. And that makes it more than a car. It's a nod to the future of turbo-powered BMW M cars and what will happen when the tuners get hold of them. Long story short, it's going to get crazy.
There's an animalistic way in which the car scrabbles off the line like a greyhound on lino. It doesn't just get off the line, it tears up the road as it blasts through 62 mph in 3.6 seconds with the tires flailing helplessly and the whole rear end wobbling like a, erm, bigger lady jogging. It could be faster, but it's all about getting that power down.
Now comes the weird bit. Because this is a full drivetrain transplant I'm riding an eight-speed-automatic M3, which is a concept I struggle with, and though it comes with paddle shifters just as a DCT would, I soon realize there's no point messing with them.
That eighth ratio is just enough to confuse me, and to be honest, the car seems to understand its powerband far better than I do. So after a few hopeless grabs at the shifters I decide to focus on the horizon that seems to rush up and head butt the windscreen with unreasonable speed on anything approaching a straight. It's a madhouse in there and the practicality side of the four-seat supercar is just gone.
It's a thrill machine now, nothing more, so with the logical side of the brain engaged you may as well get a lightweight Lotus or even an Ariel Atom instead. But some people just want the ultimate BMW, and this is it.
In full auto it's scary fast, chirping the tires with each upchange as the car snarls towards world's end.
The seductive overture of turbo whine and wastegates flushing as the next of the eight gears slots home adds to the violent crescendo. Some will always prefer the naturally aspirated V10 that is soon to be consigned to history, but then that's progress, and you'd never get this power from that engine without strapping on a blower in any case.
Switch to Sport mode and it opens up a whole new can of crazy. There are quicker cars in this world, but this one feels like a great white shark rodeoone wrong move and it could throw you off, turn around and bite you in half. And even when I'm on the throttle I'm always a heartbeat away from stabbing the brake pedal and engaging the monster six-piston and 395mm rotor brake assemblies, also taken from the X6 M.
The Manhart is a rollercoaster ride and struggles to contain those charging horses in all of the first three gears. In the bends, though, it's brilliant, thanks to a 3,420-pound curb weight accounted for by the carbon hood and trunk, lightweight doors and other weight saving measures.
Then there's the fully adjustable KW coilover suspension and those lightweight Breyton wheels. The full transplant means the balance isn't really affected either, so the car just dives into bends as you'd expect of an M3 shorn of 200 pounds of pure fat.
You'd have to have the Roundel at your core or all the money in the world to buy one, since it weighs in at $190,000. And there are plenty of other fast cars on the market for that kind of money. But for those that don't have to look at price tags, Manhart has an intriguing proposition.
And it's not hard to see where the pennies go. This is a monster job and when we finally pop the hood for a look at the engine we're confronted with a mass of braided hoses and not a single cubic inch of open space. The X6 M's engine and two vacuous radiators seem virtually wedged in there with a shoehorn. And the power bulge, bigger than a porpoise's back, might look vaguely ridiculous on the outside, but Manhart needed every millimeter of manufactured space.
And it's fair to say that Manhart doesn't do overt cosmetic jobs; he doesn't even make his own wheels or body kits. That could come in time, but for now the front splitter comes from AC Schnitzer, the wheels are from Breyton and Manhart branding is limited to a few accents in the cabin and the badge. Of course, as sure as night follows day, Manhart will eventually have his own wheels and kits, but for now he simply plunders the best from other tuners. He even uses G-Power superchargers and turbo kits, modifying them to his own specifications.
It might seem like a shorthand approach to tuning, but Manhart is out to build the fastest cars he possibly can and he looks past the names on the parts he uses to get the job done. And there is no doubt that he has.
Great things are coming from what looks like an automotive graveyard in a grey corner of Germany. And though this was the first visit to the fledgling firm, we already know it will not be the last.
Manhart Racing V8 R
Longitudinal front engine, rear-wheel drive
4.4-liter V8 bi-turbo with Manhart Racing ECU, air intake, HJS catalytic converter, 90mm exhaust pipes
Independent wishbones with KW three-way adjustable coilovers
Six-piston calipers, 395mm ventilated discs (f), four-piston calipers, 345mm ventilated discs (r)
Wheels and Tires
Breyton Race GTS, 9x20 (f), 10.5x20 (r). Dunlop SP Sport Maxx, 255/30 (f), 305/25 (r)
Peak Power: 707 hp @ 6000 rpm
Peak Torque: 663 lb-ft @ 4500 rpm
0-62 mph: 3.9 sec.
Top Speed: 210 mph
Manhart Racing M6XR Biturbo: SUV or Supercar?
It wasn't the answer I was expecting. But when I asked about the 0-200 kph (124 mph) time of the Manhart Racing M6XR Biturbo Christian Erfurt simply pulled to the side of the road, waited for us to ready a stopwatch and said: Let's find out!
This test is about as technically sound as Scientology. It's wet, there are three of us in the car, we're using an iPhone as the timing gear and we're on a public road. But with all this going against us, just 14.6 seconds later we're bursting through the 124-mph mark and we've proven just how good these big SUVs can be in the real world.
People will argue that is quicker than most have managed with a stock M3 in the dry, much faster, and I wouldn't take these figures to court as this was far from a sterile testing environment. But on that day, in those conditions, that's what the iPhone said, and that is freaking fast.
This is a 700hp BMW X6 M that just devours road and can do it time and again in any conditions we care to throw at it. We swap seats and within minutes I'm through 150 mph, one hand on the wheel, with a plume of spray splattering other cars as we blast past on a derestricted section of Autobahn just outside of Geilenkirchen. Just across the Dutch border, literally 20 minutes away, I'd be in prison, forever.
I plant the throttle and the eight-speed Auto box kicks down three whole ratios before the front end lifts up like a speedboat and fires down the road at an unreasonable speed. Although this big battle barge takes 4.7 seconds to breach 60 mph, it's one of those cars that belongs at 140 mph+, its in-gear acceleration is frightening and its cruising gait is really in the high triple figures. As proof we offer up the number of mashed-up wasps in the radiators, that doesn't happen at slow speeds.
It's no supercar, there's not enough feedback through the wheel or action in the cockpit for that, despite a suspension that has been dropped by 30 mm and lightweight AC Schnitzer 11x23 wheels wrapped in 315/25ZR-23 Continental ContiSportContacts. But it is a ridiculously fast bahnstorming express train, if you're into that kind of thing, and apart from the matte wrap it's pretty subtle.
Manhart doesn't do major cosmetic work, yet, he's just not big enough and he doesn't seem the type to slap a lairy widebody kit on it. So apart from the 23-inch AC Schnitzer rims, the carbon-fiber mirror covers and the tiny lip spoilers on the front end, there is hardly anything else to mark it apart. That's kind of refreshing.
Manhart Racing might not be the biggest name in tuningnot yetbut Gunther is a master and worked at BMW for many years in engine development. He knows what he is doing and this company will get bigger and better, in a hurry.
And there's no denying this is a rocket for its size. This is long distance, first class travel, providing you can afford the fuel bill (we put 20 in for the test and had to stop 30 minutes later for more) and the fines that are an inevitable part of covering ground at 186 mph.
And if you're not going to do it then there's no point in buying the car, the X6 M is more than capable so the only reason to come here is if you spend your life deep in the red zone.
I was a massive skeptic when the X6 M launched, it was simply the wrong car for the times and it looked like an epic fail in the making. I was wrong, executives and celebs have snapped up this alternative to the Porsche Cayenne like hungry gannets. It's a go-anywhere sports car that takes zero skill to drive fast, comes with a big comfy seating position and a sleek coupe-style roofline.
The kind of people with the budget to buy one don't care that an M5 is more sporting, or that the X6 M comes with less interior space than a decent 3 Series, or that a 7 Series is seven times comfier. They love this big, commanding rocket and the only problem some of them have is that 550 bhp isn't enough.
That's manna from heaven for the tuners who have gone to work on this politically insensitive gas-guzzler, and Manhart's 700bhp variant with 663 lb-ft of torque is about as manic as these giant SUVs should ever get.
Even the leading lights from Ferrari and Lamborghini don't have this kind of power or torque, although they don't have 2.3 tons of body to dragadmittedly.
Gunther Manhart's boys went to work on the ECU and fitted a stainless steel sports exhaust with a 200-cell racing HJS catalytic converter that leads into a back box with four 90mm tailpipes. But most of the boost on the 4.4-liter V8 that produces the frankly insane horsepower number comes through pure electronics. Which means the same boost is ready and waiting for the new M5, so if you don't like the X6 M then there's still a silver lining for you here.
That's a way off, though, for now we should just stand back and applaud a car that just should not work on so many levels. Physically it's a two-ton rocket, which is stupid, and financially this is the wrong car for the current economic times. Wasteful, profligate and kind of obscene, it is a middle finger and then some to the world at large. But then that's why people buy them.
They come for the style statement, the pseudo SUV look with a prestige badge and sports car performance that is effortless, that takes no talent to control. And when they tire of the shove in the back they can head to Manhart Racing to get an SUV/hypercar crossover that will beat an M3 to 125 mph with three in the car in the pouring rain.
At least that's what the iPhone says.
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Community way is a new tool for locally based fund-raising and economic development. Donations in community way dollars (cw$) connect non-profits and businesses in a mutually beneficial support cycle.
Any individual or group can readily initiate this fund-raising program, which is designed to recover all start-up costs. It will work best when many local businesses and organizations participate, but it can also finance a single project or cause.
how it works - community way slideshow and video (2 min)
For business, this is a simple and cash-free way to increase sales, strengthen the local economy, and secure customer recognition and loyalty. Since the cw$ are as good as cash at participating businesses, people can help without losing purchasing power, and by shopping locally, they vote for the community they want.
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Smart cards are the preferred method for moving cw$ and recording transactions, especially at business point-of-sale. A smart card is a computer chip on a card that stores value and records transactions between cards. Businesses can also use ledger forms, voice mail, web, and email to record transactions through a community currencies service provider (ccsp).
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Lil Dagover and conrad Veidt in The Congress Dance 1931
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November 28, 2006
The Parents in Asphalt 2
The domestic background. Father is a paternalistic policeman
probably desk-bound who reads the paper every night and works his way through cigars asymbol of manhood within the film to the cigarettes of women. Mother of course is in the domestic everyday work environment.
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The Parents in Asphalt 1
The horror on the face of the parents. They are doting mother and paternalistic policeman father. Both are churchgoers and upright pillars of the community.
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Frolich Returns from the fight in Asphalt
Frolich returns home after the fight. One of the more expressioistic shots used in the film. The shadows, the claustrophobia of stairs and the bars with the hunched figure all speak of the transition from expressionist style into what would become classic thriller or film noir style.
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Frolich in Asphalt 1
The true horror of the events dawns upon Frolich's dutiful policeman.
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Frolich_Ausweis left behind
The Amman character mulls over the policeman's papers dropped in the heat of passion. It's all about identity!
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Betty Amman in Asphalt 5
More lolling and pampering in the bath
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Betty Amman in Asphalt 4
Mopping crocodile tears away Amman sneaks a surreptitious glance at Frolich's reactions to her outpourings.
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Betty Amman in Asphalt 3
Amman in the Jewellers making eyes at the elderly Jeweler.
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Today FinalWire announced the release of AIDA64 3.20, the next release of the well-known system information and benchmarking tool. To keep pace with current developments, support for new operating systems, current and upcoming hardware and various other improvements. The new version can be downloaded on their website.
The tool now allows the creation of customized sensor panels. The feature announcement page of AIDA64 3.20 shows a very nice panel as an example, that can be downloaded from their forums (registration required). Given the nature of this feature it is aimed at advanced users as there is no graphical interface for creating the panel.
Other than that most of the improvements target support of new hardware and software such as Windows 8.1 as well as minor enhancements. The full list of enhancements reads:
Microsoft Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM support
Support for up to 128 logical processors and 2 processor groups
SensorPanel area graphs and histograms
Optimized 64-bit benchmarks for Intel Core i7 "Ivy Bridge-E" CPU
HTML report menu, revamped MHTML report format
Socket FM2+ and LGA-1150 motherboards support
DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.4, APP SDK 2.8.1, OpenCL 1.2 SPIR support
Support for Bochs PC Emulator 2.6.2
Intel 525, Intel 530, Samsung 840 Evo SSD support
GPU details for nVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 760


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A couple of nights ago at Fresh Choice they were serving a Tuscan White Bean soup I really liked – so I decided I'd try to replicate it at home in the pressure cooker. Here's what I came up with this afternoon.
1 + 1/2 cups white beans, pre-soaked (I quick soak in PC)
2 onions, coarsely chopped
1 tbl crushed garlic (Gilroy Farms recommended)
1/4 cup water for sautéing onions/garlic
1/2 pound baby carrots, chopped
4 stalks celery, chopped
1 5 oz bag spinach ( de-stemmed, chopped)
2 med. zucchini, chopped
8 oz fresh mushrooms, chopped
1 carton Imagine No Chicken Broth
4 cups water
2 tsp Italian seasoning (I buy in bulk from Whole Foods)
Fresh ground pepper to taste
Sautee onions and garlic until soft. Add all other ingredients. Pot will be full, but don't worry – the spinach and other veggies have a very high water content, and it will all settle down while cooking. Bring to pressure and cook for 5 minutes. Use natural pressure release. Open lid, add pepper – and serve!


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.111ZChina's economy speeds up
By John Ross
China's economy in 2012 was "a tale of two halves": In the first six months slowdown, even a feeling of developing crisis; in the second half recovery and accelerating growth. The story therefore had a happy ending. But it is worth noting what went wrong in the first half, and how it was corrected in the second, as this contains lessons for the future.
The initial problem in early 2012 was simple. China's economic policy makers underestimated the problems in the developed economies. China's official prediction of 10 percent export increase in 2012 could not be achieved without significant growth in developed markets. This did not materialize – the US economy grew slowly while Japan and the EU's fell into a new decline. Consequently, as is now officially stated, 2012's export target will not be achieved.
This itself was not an extremely serious error. It is impossible in economics, due to the enormous number of variables involved, to make precisely accurate predictions, only orders of magnitude can be accurately predicted. The undershoot in export growth in 2012 will not be enormous. To compensate for international demand being weaker than predicted China required a domestic economic stimulus. It was here that a much more serious problem initially arose.
Early in 2012 the World Bank produced a report arguing that China's state should "get out" of the economy – something clearly going against a new state stimulus program. Supporters of such neo-liberal policies in China, for example Lang Xianping, launched a campaign arguing that a stimulus program was futile and that China faced terrible economic depression. Western authors such as Nouriel Roubini advanced less extreme versions of the same analysis.
Such "the state must get out of the economy" neo-liberal policies have produced economic disaster where they have been pursued in countries as diverse as Europe, Latin America and Russia. I warned in this column in March that such policies would damage China's economy.
By summer 2012 the damaging consequences of state failure to intervene were clear. In May annual fixed asset investment growth fell to 20.1 percent, the lowest level for a decade. In August the yearly increase in industrial production declined to 8.9 percent, from 11.4 percent in January. In the same month industrial company profit fell 6.2 percent year on year. A sense of malaise, even elements of crisis, was evident during the first half of the year under the impact of policies which reflected neo-liberal opposition to state intervention.
Fortunately from mid-year policy changed, creating the happy economic ending to the year. In late May Premier Wen Jiabao announced growth must receive more support. An infrastructure investment program that grew to US$157 billion was launched. Theoretical support to the new stimulus was given by former World Bank Chief Economist and Vice President Lin Yifu – who specifically stressed an investment based stimulus package was preferable to a consumer based one.
These policies meant the state "getting back" into the economy – not in the sense of trying to administer it, but in that of setting the overall investment level. Such policies are familiar in either Chinese economic analysis stemming from Deng Xiaoping or Western ones coming from accurate reading of Keynes. Premier Wen Jiabao also turned the economic tables, explicitly justifying not only the 2012 stimulus but the earlier one in response to the 2008 financial crisis.
The stimulus package launched in mid-2012 was rightly of a much smaller scale than 2008's. In 2008 the world economy plunged downwards in the greatest economic decline since 1929. A huge stimulus was necessary to guard against downturn on such a scale – particularly under conditions where not only was there severe existing global recession but also further downside risks. The 2008 scale of stimulus, US$586 billion, was to guarantee China's economy was not dragged into global downturn.
But in 2012 there was stagnation, not sharp decline, in the advanced economies. China's required stimulus was therefore much smaller – a program on 2008's scale would have been highly undesirable in overheating the economy in these different circumstances. The announced infrastructure stimulus in 2012 was approximately one third of 2008's. But the state was "stepping into" the economy on an appropriate scale.
The correctness of these policies was shown rapidly. By November the investment decline had reversed – the annual increase in fixed asset investment rising to 20.7 percent. The same month year on year industrial production accelerated to 10.1 percent. Industrial company profits began to grow – rising to a 20.5 percent yearly increase in October and 22.8 percent in November. Profits growth in October and November was so strong that it turned the 1.8 percent yearly decline in January-September into a 3.0 percent increase in January-November. While GDP growth for the 4th quarter 2012 will not be available until later it would be highly astonishing, given these trends, if it were not higher than the 3rd quarter of 2012's 7.4 percent.
What are the conclusions, and what are 2013's perspectives? It showed, as always, the disastrous consequences of neo-liberal opposition to appropriate state intervention in the economy. A moderate problem facing China, lower than anticipated growth in developed economies, and consequently somewhat slower than anticipated export growth, became a significant crisis due to opposition to appropriate state intervention. However once policies were corrected, and appropriate investment stimulus policy measures adopted, all the advantages of China's economic structure came into play. Within a few months China's economy was recovering with an impetus that is strong enough that it will clearly continue into 2013.
China's difference to Western economies is that once the appropriate economic policy response is decided it has structures to deliver it. The Chinese state has sufficient levers that it can set an overall investment level in the way that Deng Xiaoping or Keynes considered necessary. This created rapid economic recovery in the second half of 2012. In contrast the Western economies have no structures to set the overall investment level. The latter remains purely in private hands – something Keynes explicitly warned would create crisis.
In the Western economies, to attempt to reverse the decline in fixed investment which is the core of the Great Recession, governments are reduced to running huge, ultimately unsustainable, budget deficits or flooding the economy with money – symbolized by the various quantitative easing programs in the US and hyperexpansionary monetary policies now followed by the European Central Bank and Japan's central bank. These have failed both to reverse the investment decline in developed economies while threatening other states in the global economy with inflation and currency fluctuations due to this excessive monetary expansion. China's policies ensure its own investment does not decline, thereby generating economic growth, while not pumping excessive monetary stimulus into the global economy.
Provided the policies which brought China's economy success in the second half of 2012 are continued, its economy's prospects for 2013 are clear. China's economy in the 2nd half of 2012 was on an upward trajectory shown clearly by upward shifts in profitability. As this was still growing it will clearly continue into the first half of 2013. Projections of accelerated growth for the first half of 2013, compared to 2012, therefore appear well founded.
During the course of 2013 external conditions will have to be reviewed to see if the existing domestic stimulus is sufficient – theoretically the domestic stimulus could be reduced if export conditions significantly improve, or it could be accelerated further if external conditions deteriorate. But 2013's basic dynamic is that China will grow much more rapidly than other major economies, due to its structural strength and its much superior mechanisms for dealing with economic downturns which 2012 again demonstrated.
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer
(CNN) -- Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has launched a grand jury in his investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 election, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the Journal said Mueller had impaneled the grand jury in Washington, where his team of investigators continue to look into whether President Donald Trump or any of his campaign associates colluded with Russia during the presidential contest.
Meanwhile, Reuters reported that subpoenas had been issued in connection to Donald Trump Jr.'s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer. The news agency cited two sources familiar with the matter. That meeting has drawn scrutiny since an email exchange beforehand indicated the Russians offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
The move would signal a new step in the investigation, which Trump has lambasted as a "witch hunt." Trump has denied any collusion between his team and the Russians. US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia attempted to sway the presidential contest in Trump's favor.
Ty Cobb, special counsel to the President, said he wasn't aware that Mueller had started using a new grand jury.
"Grand jury matters are typically secret," Mr. Cobb said. "The White House favors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly... The White House is committed to fully cooperating with Mr. Mueller."
Trump ignored shouted questions about Mueller as he departed the White House on Thursday afternoon.
Smiling and waving, Trump walked from the Oval Office to his Marine One helicopter on a sunny August afternoon. He was joined by son Eric Trump and daughter in law Lara Trump, as well as Jared Kushner and new chief of staff John Kelly.
A spokesman for Mueller's office declined to comment on the report.
Federal investigators have seized on Trump and his associates' financial ties to Russia as among the most fertile avenues for moving their probe forward, people familiar with the investigation tell CNN.
The web of financial ties could offer a more concrete path toward potential prosecution than the broader and murkier questions of collusion in the 2016 campaign, these sources said.
In May, CNN reported that federal prosecutors had issued grand jury subpoenas to some associates of former national security adviser Michael Flynn as part of the ongoing probe into the Russian meddling.
Mueller took over that investigation in mid-May.
Those subpoenas were issued by the US Attorney's office in Alexandria, Virginia, but the Wall Street Journal report indicated that Mueller would utilize a grand jury based in downtown Washington, near the offices where Mueller and his team work.
The question of Russian interference has hung over Trump's presidency for months, even as the White House has sought to wall itself off from the matter. Trump has retained a team of lawyers to handle the growing legal swirl.
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Global Eco Watch: 1.2 million Indians died of snake bites in last 20 years
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology
First real-time digital platform to monitor rice fields can bolster food security
Researchers are developing the first real-time monitoring platform for rice fields, which will give information about the quantity of rice …
Back to basics: COVID-19 labour crunch brings direct seeding of paddy in focus
States have been trying to promote DSR for some time; it is gaining traction now — Since June, when kharif sowing started, 0.7 million ha …
The Green Revolution and a dark Punjab
Punjab has paid a price for food security. The use of pesticides and fertilisers has resulted in a number of health issues for the state's …
Why farmers are not cheering their exceptional feat this kharif season
Highest rice acreage in six years, more farmers in farms, a bounty monsoon and an expected bumper harvest don't enthuse farmers as their …
A possible Indo-US trade agreement would be an imperialist attack on India's farmers
Such a deal will have repercussions on our agricultural production and economy
Flash droughts hit nearly 15% rice, maize areas in 1951-2018 monsoons: Study
At least 39 flash droughts occurred in 1951-2018; 82% occurred during the monsoon season, the study found
Enhanced food security and soil biodiversity: A climate-positive approach
Conservation of soil biodiversity, soil organic carbon through sustainable farming practices should be deemed essential to improve agricultural …
Ancient DNA is revealing the genetic landscape of people who first settled East Asia
It has shown rapid shifts in ancestry over the last 10,000 years across Asia, likely due to migration and cultural exchange
Study zeroes in on target plant hormone to improve potassium deficiency in rice
Plants deficient in Potassium more susceptible to salt, drought, chilling and other stresses
Bumper kharif amid excess stock? Is India staring at hard agri decisions
Restrict procurement from Punjab and Haryana; stop procuring from states offering bonus on MSP; divert excessive stock for ethanol and cattle feed
Last straw to stubble burning
Straw can be converted into fuel for use in vehicles. It can also replace coal in old power plants, reducing …
Modulating pathogen functions control sheath blight disease: study
Millions of tonnes of rice are lost due to this disease every year
Global Eco Watch: Chinese pink dolphin numbers rise in Pearl river estuary
Kerala must opt for heat-tolerant rice varieties for better yield: Study
Rise in temperature and reduction in rainfall under present and future climate scenario affected rice yield, thereby reducing crop maturity time
Activists urge FSSAI to reconsider planned fortification of rice, oil
Instead of food fortification, the food regulator needed to promote organically grown, biodiverse food for people, ASHA said
COVID-19 lockdown provides opportunity to save Punjab's declining groundwater
Pandemic forced Punjabi farmers to adopt a less water- and labour intensive rice growing technique because of labour shortage; it now might …
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Area under rice cultivation has been declining rapidly in north Kerala district between 2004-05 and 2018-19
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Every day, 54, mostly developed countries give nearly $2 billion in support to their farmers
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Dependence on food import is not the solution for preventing biodiversity loss or decreasing greenhouse gas emissions
Don't worry, experts say after Pakistan gets GI tag for its own Basmati rice
Basmati joint heritage of the subcontinent; Pakistan's exports will not dent India's share
How India can be 'atmanirbhar' for edible oil production
In 2019, India imported around 15 million tons of edible oils worth approximately Rs 7,300 crore
Crop nutrient management using digital tool improves yield, reduces greenhouse gas emissions: Study
More than 80% of 1,594 participating farmers reported an increased crop yield and farm income, according to the study
How millet production can empower women farmers, strengthen agriculture
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The Glenlivet Estate
Lying between the Ladder Hills and the Cromdale hills in the Cairngorms National Park, the two broad straths of the rivers Avon and Livet form the beautiful Glenlivet Estate.
With a special character of its own, Glenlivet exhibits some of the finest landscapes of the Grampian Highlands; clear rushing burns and rivers, sheltered straths, glens and woods, wide expanses of high heather-covered hills, and above all you can find solitude and a wonderful sense of peace, quiet and open space.
Glenlivet welcomes you to explore its tracks and byways.
Walking, mountain biking, fishing, birdwatching, skiing - whatever the season, all the family will find something to do in Glenlivet. A wealth of fascinating historic sites bear witness to past events that have shaped the landscape and the community that live here, while the mixed countryside supports a wide variety of upland birds and animals.
Encompassing over 90 square miles, Glenlivet's landscape of rolling hills provides excellant opportunities for a variety of outdoor pursuits. An extensive network of over 100 miles of waymarked path and cycle trails, local walks and long distance hill tracks, allow access to many remote and secluded parts of this varied countryside. Follow the ancient 'whisky roads' used by smugglers. Visit the famous 'hidden' Catholic Seminary at Scalan or quietly amble through farms, forests and open moorlands, amongst outstanding scenery. More ambitious walkers can explore the neighbouring Cairngorm Mountains or enjoy the Speyside Way Long Distance Path, which has a terminus at Tomintoul.
Sheltered from the prevailing winds by the high Cairngorms, the climate of the area is surprisingly dry. Winter snows can last well into the spring allowing downhill skiing at the Lecht, or challenging cross country skiing on the undulating hills and forest trails.
At the heart of Scotland's whisky country and on the well-known Malt Whisky Trail, much of the best of the Highlands is within easy reach of Glenlivet. The many attractions of Strathspey, the beaches and fishing villages of the Moray Coast and the castle country of Grampian and Royal Deeside, are all within an hour or so's drive on quiet, scenic roads, where driving is still a pleasure.
A full range of local services is available within the Estate including good quality restaurants, hotels and inns. A wide choice of comfortable, self-catering cottages and farmhouse B&B's ensures a good selection of places to stay, where you can be sure of a warm reception. The community welcomes visitors and traditional courtesies remain, in an area where there is still a sense of peace and quiet that is fast disapperaing elsewhere.
Visitors are welcome to share this peaceful countryside and we hope you will enjoy exploring Glenlivet.
A new mountain bike trail centre and cafe opened in 2013 offering a blue and red route catering for cyclists of a wide range of abilities. The trails total 21km and the red route will offer some of the longest sustained downhill singletrack in the UK. The blue route is suitable for families.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Thursday marks the start of the cold weather rule period in Kansas, restricting utility cutoffs for nonpayment of bills.
The rule is in effect from Nov. 1 to March 31. It prohibits shutoffs of residential electricity or natural gas service when temperatures are expected to be at or below 35 degrees over the following 24 hours.
Utilities also must contact a customer 24 hours before a disconnection, and offer a 12-month payment plan for the customer to maintain or re-establish service.
The Kansas Corporation Commission, which regulates utilities, says residents can help control heating costs by keeping furnaces maintained, weather-stripping and caulking doors and windows and setting thermostats at reasonable levels.


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sane-dc25 (5) - Linux Manuals
sane-dc25: SANE backend for Kodak DC20/DC25 Digital Cameras
sane-dc25 - SANE backend for Kodak DC20/DC25 Digital Cameras
DESCRIPTIONThe sane-dc25 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to Kodak DC20 and DC25 cameras. At present, only the DC25 has been tested, but since the code is based on a DC20 interface program, it is likely to work for that model also.
DEVICE NAMESThe current version of the backend only allows one camera to be connected. The device name is always "0".
CONFIGURATIONThe contents of the dc25.conf specify the serial port and baud rate to use. The baud rate specifies the maximum rate to use while downloading pictures. (The camera is always initialized using 9600 baud, then switches to the higher rate). On my 90MHz Pentium, I usually have no problems downloading at 115200 baud as long as the system is not excessively busy and the "interrupt-unmask flag" is set in the IDE driver (hdparm -u1). Supported baud rates are: 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, and 115200.
The dumpinquiry line causes some information about the camera to be printed to stderr during startup. Note: This is not compatible with saned, so make sure you don't have any dumpinquiry lines if you are using saned (i.e. scanning on a remote machine using a network).
Empty lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. A sample configuration file is shown below:
# this is a comment
- /etc/sane.d/dc25.conf
- The backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-dc25.a
- The static library implementing this backend.
- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-dc25.so
The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that
support dynamic loading).
- This environment variable specifies the list of directories that may contain the configuration file. On *NIX systems, the directories are separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are separated by a semi-colon (`;'). If this variable is not set, the configuration file is searched in two default directories: first, the current working directory (".") and then in /etc/sane.d. If the value of the environment variable ends with the directory separator character, then the default directories are searched after the explicitly specified directories. For example, setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in directories tmp/config, ., and /etc/sane.d being searched (in this order).
If the library was compiled with debugging support enabled, this
environment variable controls the debug level for this backend.
A value of 128 requests maximally copious debug output; smaller
levels reduce verbosity.
AUTHORPeter Fales, dc25-devel [at] fales-lorenz.net.
BUGSKnown bugs/limitations are:
I haven't figured out how to trigger an option reload following a "scan." This causes problems when a new picture is snapped for example, the slider that is used to select the picture from the camera may not be updated immediately.
More general comments, suggestions, and inquiries about frontends or SANE should go to the SANE Developers mailing list (see http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html for details). You must be subscribed to the list, otherwise your mail won't be sent to the subscribers.


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Fearing mistreatment of their children with disabilities at school, parents across the country have taken to fitting their kids with hidden devices to capture a day in their lives at school.
Among the mundane teacher-student interactions are the sounds of slapping, taunting voices, talk about the best recipes for martinis, and selected reading from an article that refers to the inadequate size of a sexual organ.
In the most recent case, Stuart Chaifetz, a New Jersey father of a 10-year-old with autism, Akian, sent his son to school with a wire in February, after school staff said the boy was being violent in school, the Daily Dot reported.
The behavior was out of character for Akian, and even a behaviorist couldn't provoke him into acting the same way outside of class.
To get to the root of what was causing his son to act this way—Akian and other students in his class speak very little—Chaifetz fitted his son with wire.
Chaifetz's recording captured staff calling his son a "bastard" and telling him to shut his mouth. School staff were heard talking negatively about parents, and they were caught talking about alcohol.
The story reminded me immediately of a case in Atlanta, where the parents of then-10-year-old Stefan Ferrari, who also has autism, recorded several days of their son's life at school in 2008. Stefan doesn't speak.
That recording caught Stefan's teacher and colleagues talking about sex and sharing recipes for dirty martinis. It reflected Stefan being teased for eating pizza from the trash, and the threat of a "'be-quiet hit' to a crying child, followed by the repeated slaps of an adult's hand against Stefan's bottom," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
In one part of the recording, the teacher reads aloud from a magazine advice column: "The man I am dating is intelligent and he opens the door for me and he puts up with my moodiness, but he has a small penis," she says.
While Akian's father told the Daily Dot that he doesn't plan to sue, Stefan's parents did. Eventually, a lower court judge ruled that Stefan was "intentionally injured in that classroom by trauma ... and he was verbally abused," and ordered the school district to pay for Stefan's education in private schools through age 22.
The school district then sued Stefan's parents and eventually the parties settled out of court. The AJC reported that though the terms were confidential, court records indicate the district will pay the Ferraris' legal bills—about $236,000—in addition to almost $800,000 for its own lawyers, plus other expenses. The records said the district also will place "a certain amount of money," into a trust fund for Stefan's education. (There's a lot more to this case for sure. Read the complete AJC story.)
In Akian's case, his father told the Daily Dot that the Cherry Hill, N.J., district has transferred an aide and teacher to another school within the district. In Atlanta, Stefan's teacher was eventually fired.
In this video, Akian's father describes what led him to record his son's day at school and includes bits of the recording.
And in yet another case in Ohio, the mother of a teenage student with developmental disabilities sent her daughter to school with a recording device to prove a teacher and school aide were bullying her, the Associated Press reported.
A teacher and aide in the Miami Trace Local District are heard questioning Cheyanne about her weight and how active she is and commenting on her character and the character of her mother and her boyfriend.
"Are you that damn dumb? Are you that dumb?" the aide is heard saying. "Oh, my God. You are such a liar. ... You told me you don't know. It's no wonder you don't have friends. No wonder nobody likes you. Because you lie, cheat ... steal."
In another instance, the teacher talks to the girl about the results of a test. "You know what? Just keep it," she said. "You failed it. I know it. I don't need your test to grade. You failed it."
The aide eventually resigned, the Washington Court House Record Herald reported. The teacher was suspended from working for a year, and the district settled a lawsuit filed by the girl's family for $300,000.
I have never taught students with disabilities, and I can only imagine that it is difficult, frustrating, under-compensated work that many of these teachers aren't fully prepared for, but presumably there are at least a few moments of delight and inspiration, too. I hate to think, though, that parents feel obligated to record their children's days at school to ensure their safety.
Or is this what it has come to?
A version of this news article first appeared in the On Special Education blog.


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April 19, 2007
Upgrade! Boston
Technological Frontiers and the Limits of Nature: Networked Interventions
UPGRADE! BOSTON: Technological Frontiers and the Limits of Nature: Networked Interventions -- a panel discussion with Jane D. Marsching, Cary Peppermint and Brooke Singer; moderated by Shane Brennan :: WHEN: May 3, 7 pm :: WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge.
Technology both extends humanity into the natural environment and brings the "wilderness" indoors. "Arctic Listening Post" by Jane D. Marsching seeks to create hybrid digitally based forms that interweave science, culture, representation, history, and wonder through works that look at our human impact on climate change in the Arctic. "A Series of Practical Performances in the Wilderness - Summer 2005," by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir, attempts to bring wilderness into the global digital network through vlogs (video blogs) via Quicktime, DVD interactivity, and the database format with which it was conceptualized. Brooke Singer will discuss working with and documenting communities living in toxic sites across the US who are tackling remediation themselves because either the government has not responded or simply says, all is well. About the speakers.
Part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Funded by the LEF Foundation.
Upgrade! Boston is curated by Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org in partnership with Art Interactive. It is one of 24 nodes currently active in Upgrade! International, an emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get involved, please email jo[at]turbulence.org.
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Online dating site Zoosk just filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC, announcing its plans to raise $100 million in an initial public offering. The company, which has offers up a website and apps for daters around the world to find each other, posted a net loss of $2.6 million in 2013 on revenues of $178 million.
Zoosk uses big data and a bit of algorithmic recommendations technology to help its users find partners. With a "proprietary Behavioral Matchmaking engine," the company learns from clicks, messaging, and other actions of its members to produce matches that are supposed to find better matches. The idea is that the more data it has, the better its recommendations get.
As part of the filing, Zoosk provided details of its global business, which includes 26 million members worldwide and 650,000 paying subscribers across 80 countries at year-end 2013. That's up from the 18 million registered members and 483,000 paying subscribers a year earlier.
While it started out on the web, the company has been successful in capturing mobile users, as it's reached the position of #1 grossing dating app and a top 25 grossing app on the Apple App Store.
At the same time its subscriber numbers have grown, revenues increased 63 percent from 2012 to 2013, rising from $109.1 million to $178.2 during that period. Its net loss also decreased significantly, from $20.7 million in 2012 to $2.6 million at the end of 2013.
While subscriptions accounted for $153.8 million of its revenues in 2013, Zoosk also has a rapidly growing virtual currency business, which increased from $5.4 million in 2012 to $24.3 million a year later.
BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, and RBC Capital Markets are acting as joint bookrunning managers for the proposed offering, with Oppenheimer & Co. and William Blair acting as co-managers.
Zoosk had raised $60 million since being founded in 2007. Investors include Crosslink Capital, Keating Capital, Canaan Partners, Bessemer Ventures, ATA Ventures, Jeff Epstein, Plug & Play Ventures, and Amidzad Partners.