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Associate Dentist - Flexible Working
If you're after more freedom, this will be a breath of fresh air.
We're looking for an Associate Dentist to work with us at our established Bupa Dental Care practice in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
Associate Dentist vacancy details
- Advanced Performance Related Bonus
- Up to 3 days per week - Monday, Wednesday and Friday Available
- Family Friendly working hours considered – whether it's flexible working, part time, staggered or compressed hours, we will support you to work around your family commitments
- Number of UDAs negotiable
- Great private earning potential - 50% split on any private work completed
About Bupa Dental Care Wisbech
Established with 5 surgeries, modern working environment, fully computerised, Dentally Software, OPG, digital x-ray and air purifiers in all surgeries. There are experienced longstanding associates, supported by a team of qualified professional support staff, Practice Coordinator and dedicated Practice Manager.
- Free car parking is available just a short walk from the practice
- Located on the outskirts of Wisbech Town Centre
Our practice offers Bupa Smile Plan a payment plan that allows patients to spread the cost of their routine preventive dentistry throughout the year. This enables our patients to budget for their dental care and encourages regular attendance helping to maintain their oral health. For you it means a more stable income from a loyal patient base with absolutely no fees or admin costs - you get paid for the work you do in line with private pricing.
Being part of Bupa also means the unique opportunity to provide dental treatment to our insurance customers, improving your revenue streams and growing any private work you wish to undertake.
Just some of the reasons to join - written by our associate colleagues: Perks
- A Invisalign discount course and discount of labs bills (20 % iGO and 46% on comprehensive treatment)
- Implant discount- Straumann, Astra, Nobel Biocare and Zimmer Biomet
- 5 % discount if you choose to use Bupa Dental Care Labs
- 20% discount on Bupa health insurance for you and any dependents
- Earn up to £3,000 per referral in our employee/associate referral scheme
- A large support network of clinicians and Local Referral Networks
- Support from Area Clinical Leads and Area Managers
- Highest standards of clinical governance and expert practice support - giving you the time to concentrate on patient care
- Access to an in-house complaint team
- Well-managed appointment book
- Practice level marketing support
- Access to the latest equipment and technology
- 400+ practicesavailable that makes it easier to relocate
- In house CPD events and Local Clinical Network events
- Access to Clinical Portal for discounted courses
- Sponsored education
- Established career pathways, with clinical and non-clinical roles to further develop your career
Why we're different
As the only corporate dental provider in the UK not backed by private equity, we're in a unique position. We're committed to the UK dental industry for the long-term – both private and NHS – and are ready to treat not just today's patients, but generations to come.
Furthermore, as a limited liability company Bupa has no shareholders, so we're able to focus 100% on delivering a great service for our customers. We are run commercially to ensure we remain competitive, but Bupa reinvests 100% of its profits to help provide better care for patients across the world.
To discuss the role and your options available for this position, contact our Clinical Resourcing Business Partner:
Rachael Wallis
07928 504667
We update our website daily with all our opportunities across
the UK and Ireland. If you want to find out a bit more about
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If you think you'd be perfect for this role, we'd love to hear from you
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Join a growing business that puts patients first
We've chosen to provide services via the NHS and privately, giving patients real flexibility and freedom of choice. It's also good for our business, giving us a mix of stability via the NHS and the scope to grow our business across the private side of things.
The Bupa Group purpose
Love to push yourself? Love to know you've got everything you need? Love to keep on growing?
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An Open Letter to Your Boss (CAD Manager Column)31 Jan, 2008 By: Robert Green
Companies, senior managers, and CAD managers can benefit from increased understanding and improved communication.
A couple of years ago, I wrote a letter to senior managers extolling the virtues of CAD management. I've received a lot of feedback about that letter from CAD managers who wanted me to include more information or touch on particular topics. In this month's "CAD Manager," I've set out to write a letter to your boss in hopes that the company, senior managers, and CAD managers alike will all benefit from increased understanding.
Why CAD Management Matters
If you're a member of senior management and you're reading this column, it's most likely because the CAD manager in your company has brought it to your attention. Over the years I've written columns that advise CAD managers to become more businesslike and communicate more effectively with their upper management. This open letter to you is the inverse; my attempt to speak directly to senior managers about the great effect that CAD managers can have within your company.
You've spent money on computers, software, training, and implementation for CAD tools, and I'm betting you'd like to get more for your money, right? Well I'm here to tell you that your CAD manager is the perfect resource to help you accomplish that goal. Who else around your company actually understands enough about CAD to make all the software work while being able to explain it all to users and senior managers alike? You have to admit that your CAD manager is a unique commodity.
CAD Management Is Not Overhead
A common misperception is that CAD management is simply an overhead activity like unjamming a printer or installing a new phone at a user's desk. CAD managers do perform some clerical tasks, but their core value is in making your projects run better so your company gets more work done with the same number of people. Do I have your interest? To drive the point home, ponder these questions:
- 1. If you could hire someone who could increase every team member's efficiency by 10% for a particular project, would you call that overhead or a job-billable expense with a very nice return on your investment?
- 2. If you could bring in a consultant to tell you where all your process problems are and how to attack them, would you call that overhead or an investment in your future success?
CAD managers allow you to gain all the benefits to which I've alluded, if you'll let them. Start telling your department staffs that you'd like to see CAD management used as a cost-saving and efficiency-maximizing engine that works on every project. By touting the value of CAD management, you'll communicate that it's not about unjamming printers — it's about better design processes.
Authority: CAD Managers Need It
You've likely asked your CAD manager (or have heard others ask them) to undertake tasks such as setting up project kickoff meetings, managing CAD standards, or conducting user training. After all, these tasks are the sorts of things CAD managers should be doing, right? But let me ask, what happens when people don't make it to project kickoff meetings, standards aren't followed, or training classes are postponed? Do you come to your CAD manager's rescue and back him or her up?
Why not resolve to help your CAD manager by backing him or her up with the authority needed to do the job you've asked him/her to do? Some easy things you can do to help your CAD manager are:
- 1. Send out notices for training sessions and project kickoff meetings from your e-mail account and make sure everyone knows that you expect everyone to comply.
- 2. When project or client CAD standards are violated, make it clear that you expect the violators to fix the problems they've caused. You could even offer to attend a standards meeting with your CAD manager to make it clear that standards are a priority for the company and that you expect everyone to work with the CAD manager. You can excuse yourself from these meetings after a few minutes, but the clear message that you support your CAD manager will linger in the room long after you leave.
- 3. While you're at it, give your CAD manager some minor purchasing authority such as a corporate card that will allow him or her to purchase small items — software utilities, a training manual, or emergency plotter supplies — without having to run the accounting gauntlet. The message you send by trusting your CAD manager with some financial responsibility goes a long way.
CAD Management Unifies
Do you have many departments in your company that all have a different set of CAD rules? Does every project seem to have a different CAD standard? Do you realize how much this lack of standardization actually costs?
When empowered by you, your CAD manager can serve as a unifying power to get departments and projects to follow the same set of standards or processes. The reason the CAD manager can serve this useful function is because he or she understands the CAD problems that the various departments and project managers experience. There's simply no other person in the company who can bring the knowledge, clout, and unifying power to bear that your CAD manager can.
The Job Is Growing
Think managing CAD is the same now as it was five years ago? It isn't. CAD management is a lot more complicated now because of the mixed use of 2D and 3D software tools and rendering, visualization, and Internet support. They intertwine to form a perfect storm of CAD support. In fact, most CAD managers are now overwhelmed with making the decisions about which software their companies should adopt and implement.
The single best thing that senior management can do to help their CAD managers in this crucial area is to allocate some time and funding to adequate training. This will allow CAD managers to stay in front of the rapid pace of software change. Asking CAD managers to figure out these types of complex software problems without adequate information is simply inviting errors that could cost your company money in the long run.
As your company moves forward with implementing new software technologies, realize that your CAD manager could really use some time to get the work done. Simply realize that the more software you expect your CAD manager to implement, the more time it will take.
Budgeting for Hardware and Software
I've noticed a growing trend of companies handing over all hardware and software budgeting to IT departments, some of which are disconnected and unaware of CAD users' needs. If you have an IT department that can deliver cutting-edge hardware and software to your CAD users, that's great. If you don't, then empower your CAD manager to get involved with the budgeting process and listen to his or her advice.
I speak from experience when I say that running today's CAD software requires more hardware, networks, and storage and higher-end monitors, graphics cards, and plotting devices than ever before. Your CAD manager supports these requirements every day and can help guide you toward budgeting for the resources your CAD users need to do the job properly. Use your CAD manager in this area of your business. Why not? If he or she can help you make users more productive and prevent you from making hardware and software mistakes, your company benefits.
Invest in Your CAD Manager
If your CAD manager has the potential to provide so many productivity-enhancing functions to your company, what can you do to cultivate and maximize this resource? Here are a few suggestions:
Have regular CAD manager work sessions. Get together with your CAD manager and kick around ideas for how you could save the company time and money using clever CAD management.
Be clear about your goals for the CAD manager. This suggestion sounds easy but is frequently overlooked. Tell your CAD manager what you need, when you need it, and why and then listen to his or her advice to help you meet those needs. You'll avoid costly mistakes by doing so, and your CAD manager will be a lot less frustrated.
Communicate more effectively when you meet. Educate your CAD manager about financial terms such as return on investment (ROI), budgeting, and project forecasts so he or she can help you get better financial results. Listen to your CAD manager's technical terms, and you'll learn more about IT and CAD. Agree that you'll both strive to understand each other better because you'll both learn.
Help your CAD manager learn about management. They already know the CAD part, but CAD managers are often woefully unprepared to manage people and projects. Ask them where they need help and then provide it. You'll get a better CAD manager and fewer surprises.
Empower your CAD manager. Use some of the tips I provided in the "Authority" section above to pump up your CAD manager's reputation among your company's staff members. The more successful and respected the CAD manager, the better off the company will become.
Summing Up
I appreciate your willingness to read my endorsement for the great value of CAD management. I believe that senior managers who develop their CAD managers reap huge efficiency gains in the long run, so get to know your CAD manager. You'll be well rewarded for your time and effort.
About the Author: Robert Green
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Conventional textbooks typically provide only the final answers to the problems. While these answers are useful for the better students, who can use them for verifying that their own answer is correct, they are not helpful for the weaker students who may not even know how to begin solving some of the questions. These students need help learning mathematics on their own, and what is useful is the detailed solution process, not merely the final answer. This is what the solutions in OpenlySolved provide - the detailed steps involved in solving each problem - not merely the final answer - all at no cost. Register (for free) to access the solutions and to discuss the topics.
OpenlySolved is also a community of people that use textbooks. It is hoped that the members of this community will get together in the forum to discuss the solutions, highlight any errors in the textbook, and help one another learn. Although some initial solutions have been provided, it is hoped that the community will solve the remaining questions, and make the solutions available to all the other members.
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I had an old friend in town recently for a visit, a friend who'd lived in San Diego for many years until leaving for South America before the law could catch up with him. Back in the day, my pal was a real wild man, spending much of his free time scouring San Diego for the next dive bar with its mandatory sordid adventure, so his return to our heavily gentrified city was like watching a bewildered Bukowski re-emerge after being cryogenically frozen for 20 years, stumbling through the streets of downtown, Golden Hill, North Park, City Heights, and the beaches bitterly muttering to himself about chic bistros and expensive craft brews. The statute of limitations was up but his city was gone.
Never has a stout middle-aged man seemed so distraught to be in a room full of beautiful young women as my companion was when confronted with the new gang populating the renovated Waterfront Bar and Grill or the cocktail lounge that replaced the bar with no name and the crooked pool tables. "What happened, Miller?" He kept saying to me as he shook his head disapprovingly. "Look at this! What the hell happened?"
Even beer Meccas like Hamilton's were a letdown to him when compared to his memory of Sparky's—the musty old bar where we used to drink cheap beer after wandering over from Snippy's or the Slip-Inn. There's just nowhere left to go with people you run into in the park at 1:00 AM anymore.
Watching my friend stroll around downtown was like seeing a man suddenly stricken with traumatic memory loss as he searched futilely for evidence of the Naha, the Orient, and the Hong Kong. His cognitive map of past debauchery had been summarily erased. Memories of depravities past had been murdered. Drunken shaggy dog tales about SRO nights and 6 AM greyhounds rudely thrust down the memory hole. "Where do people drink when they get released from the tank now?" he asked with concern "Where do they go?"
I tried to satisfy the hollow-leg thirst of his nostalgia with trips to the Star Bar in the Gaslamp, the Tower Bar in City Heights, and Tobacco Rhoda's on University Avenue, but even these venerable standbys were now tainted with unwanted revisions and a new population of tattooed hipsters who frequently received my friend's beer-soaked musings about the days of yore with amused contempt. In turn, my friend sneered at their versions of "dive" and incessantly noted how much grittier the place had been when he was holding court after the nightshift. The old Tower was better than the new Tower, Sparky's superior to Hamilton's, the bar in the Greyhound Station better than everything in the Gaslamp Quarter nowadays.
Fundamentally, the loss of all his old haunts was a betrayal of sorts. It was the big middle finger of time and market forces mocking his glory years. More than anyone I have ever met, my companion lived by the Neil Young lines, "See the losers in the best bars/Meet the winners in the dives/Where the people are the real stars/All the rest of their lives." Thus, as I pointed to the new spots on 30th out the window of the #2 bus, all he could muster was a dismayed, "I don't know, Miller. I just don't know."
One evening, as we sat at the bar in the now far more fancy Turf Club I pressed him into duty with this question: "If you had to name the top five lost places in San Diego, what would they be? You name them and I'll put them in my next column."
Here, then, in no particular order, is what he came up with:
1) Suzie Wong's Bar, downtown, east of market on 9th: the bar with the highest number of sleeping patrons at any one time. Perhaps it was the place in San Diego where you were most likely to be greeted with "Fuck You" from the regulars for no particular reason other than the fact that you sat down next to them. It was the kind of place where people still said, "Buy one or be one." Never once had my friend had a drink at Suzie Wong's without ending up in an SRO or some seedy apartment on Cortez Hill performing unspeakable acts with strangers. Ah humanity!
2) The Stage Door at the foot of the pier in Pacific Beach. Here you could play pool all day long and watch the sun set gloriously on the Pacific Ocean as you enjoyed a cheap domestic draft. Open at 6 AM and closed at 2:00 AM, really. Good chance to leave with someone for an after party at their dumpy beach pad or, better yet, to simply head over to the bay side, hop the fences of the expensive condo places, and steal into a hot tub. "There's nothing like sneaking in a quick one in somebody else's condo, Miller. I once had sex in three different places with this great woman I met at the Stage Door. Got chased out of the last one and never saw her again. It was beautiful."
3) The Dolphin Inn down a side street off Market in Southeast San Diego: This was a little bit of Southern Juke Joint in San Diego. They had blues music all the time and a great jukebox with old soul and super nice bartenders. The neighborhood was rough at the time, but folks took care of each other and made sure everyone made it back to their cars. There the blues really felt like the blues. But there was joy in the place too, lots of life, unvarnished.
4) The old Arizona Café in OB. Here my friend once enjoyed watching me get tackled and straddled on the floor by a tough biker chick after I beat her at pool. No harm, no foul. I lived to tell the tale. Cheap beer, no new flat screens, endless potential for trouble.
5) Buffalo Bill's under an SRO on 2nd street, downtown. My friend drank there all day before going to see the Jerry Garcia Band at the California Theatre once. The place had a board with the food special on the wall over by the pool table. Every day it was "Navy Bean Soup." Never left without hearing at least 12 epic lies followed by a shot of Wild Turkey.
Honorable mention: Hell's Angels bar in El Cajon. Enough said. It's still open but deserves notice nonetheless.
Just after 2 AM toward the end of his stay, my friend went to a taco shop near my house in Golden Hill after shutting down yet another unsatisfactory new bar. He was the only Anglo in there but since he speaks fluent Spanish, he started chatting up the patrons, asking them if they lived in the neighborhood and what they thought of the changes that had happened over the last few years. As he told me, "It was pretty interesting Miller. Most of them said that the neighborhood was calmer now, less rough. They like that part. But this one guy says to me, 'It's cool to have all the nice new places, but we can't afford to go there so what good is it really? That's why we still go to the old places, where we can afford to eat. If I want a beer, I go to the market and get a whole six pack for what I would pay for one beer.' Pretty interesting, Miller. Don't you think?"
OK old timers, anything to add to my buddy's list? If you are too embarrassed to play, you can make up a name.


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Clinical Trials Going Active for Cellceutix Anti-Cancer Drug Kevetrin
BEVERLY, MA--(Marketwire - October 08, 2012) - Cellceutix Corporation (OTCBB: CTIX) (the "Company"), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering small molecule drugs to treat unmet medical conditions, including drug-resistant cancers and autoimmune diseases, reports today that it has been advised that the clinical trials for the Company's novel anti-cancer drug candidate, Kevetrin™, will be going active this week at Harvard Cancer Center's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Upon the new designation, the trial information on www.clinicaltrials.gov will be updated to "recruiting" status. The clinical trial titled, "A Phase 1, Open-Label, Dose-Escalation, Safety, Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Study of Kevetrin (Thioureidobutyronitrile) Administered Intravenously, in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors," is available at: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01664000?term=cellceutix&rank=1
The Company has been informed that Dana-Farber and Beth Israel Deaconess are ready to begin the recruiting, enrollment and dosing processes as previously reported. Cellceutix has been advised to expect the first dosing of Kevetrin to be administered within approximately one week of activating the trial.
In a separate matter, the Company wishes to update shareholders that Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has already started on the project of manufacturing Prurisol, Cellceutix's new drug candidate for the treatment of psoriasis. As previously disclosed, the Company is advancing Prurisol directly into Phase II clinical trials under guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The clinical trials are planned to commence upon the manufacturing of the drug candidate in oral form by Dr. Reddy's Laboratories.
About Kevetrin™
As a completely new class of chemistry in medicine, Kevetrin™ has significant potential to be a major breakthrough in the treatment of solid tumors. Mechanism of action studies showed Kevetrin's unique ability to affect both wild and mutant types of p53 (often referred to as the "Guardian Angel Gene" or the "Guardian Angel of the Human Genome") and that Kevetrin strongly induced apoptosis (cell death), characterized by activation of Caspase 3 and cleavage of PARP. Activation of p53 also induced apoptosis by inducing the expression of p53 target gene PUMA. p53 is an important tumor suppressor that acts to restrict proliferation by inducing cell cycle checkpoints, apoptosis, or cellular senescence.
In more than 50 percent of all human carcinomas, p53 is limited in its anti-tumor activities by mutations in the protein itself. Currently, there are greater than 10 million people with tumors that contain inactivated p53, while a similar number have tumors in which the p53 pathway is partially abrogated by inactivation of other signaling components. This has left cancer researchers with the grand challenge of searching for therapies that could restore the protein's protective function, which Kevetrin appears to be doing the majority of the time.
About Cellceutix
Headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, Cellceutix is a publicly traded company under the symbol "CTIX". It is an emerging bio-pharmaceutical company focused on the development of its pipeline of compounds targeting areas of unmet medical need. Our flagship compound, Kevetrin™, is an anti-cancer drug which has demonstrated the ability in pre-clinical studies to regulate the p53 pathway and attack cancers which have proven resistant to today's cancer therapies (drug-resistant cancers). Cellceutix also owns the rights to seven other drug compounds, including KM-133, which is in development for psoriasis, and KM-391 for the treatment of the core symptoms of autism. More information is available on the Cellceutix web site at www.cellceutix.com.
Safe Harbor Forward-Looking Statements
To the extent that statements in this press release are not strictly historical, including statements as to revenue projections, business strategy, outlook, objectives, future milestones, plans, intentions, goals, future financial conditions, future collaboration agreements, the success of the Company's development, events conditioned on stockholder or other approval, or otherwise as to future events, such statements are forward-looking, and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made. Factors that may impact Cellceutix's success are more fully disclosed in Cellceutix's most recent public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Cellceutix Corp.
Leo Ehrlich
(978) 236-8717


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Jeep Wrangler JK Junkyard Dana 60 Axle Swap - Part 1
One-ton diffs on the cheap
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The '07-currenT Jeep Wrangler JK Unlimited is one of the best builder platforms to ever come out of the seven-slot stable. Four doors make the Unlimited JK more practical for the masses, the 116-inch wheelbase provides a nice balance of on- and off-road performance, and a multilink suspension allows for easy modifications. Given the immense aftermarket support for the JK, it's no surprise that we see the late model Wranglers lining trails and highways across America. While the 3.8L V-6 in the '07-'11 models doesn't win much praise on the performance front, the early-model Unlimited JKs are proving to be an affordably-priced used rig. You can thank part of that lower resale price to the more powerful 3.6L engine launched in 2012.
Weighing in at roughly 4,300 pounds in stock form, one of the biggest drawbacks of the Unlimited JK is that it can quickly pack on pounds when modifed. In fact, it's not uncommon for heavily-modifed Jeep Unlimited JKs to easily rocket into the high 5-, 6-, or above the 7,000-pound range! That's as much as a ¾-ton truck! Aside from the fact that the V-6 isn't the sprightliest engine, the real trouble lies in the stock axles.
Even the Next-Generation Dana 44 axles found under the Rubicon edition are no match for big-weight fgures and 37-inch-plus tires. If there was ever an excellent candidate for a vehicle that could use a factory full-foat axle option, the Unlimited JK would be it. Until recently, your axle upgrade options were limited to big name aftermarket axle builders. This was mostly due to the fact that companies such as Currie Enterprises and Dynatrac were the only option for those who wanted full-foat axle assemblies that would work with the JKs wheel speed sensors.
Luckily, there is now a more budget-friendly alternative for getting 1-ton differentials under your Jeep. It's not too often that you can combine junkyard and JK, but there is a way that the two co-exist rather nicely. In this three-part build series, we'll take you through the process of transplanting a set of wrecking yard sourced '02 Ford F-250 Super Duty axles and placing them under an '07 Jeep Wrangler JK Unlimited Rubicon. In this frst edition, we are getting right to the meat of the swap with the high-pinion Dana 60 front axle.
1. Prep work is a large part of any axle swap. The '99-'04 Super Duty Dana 60 front axle only has a few suspension mounts to remove. After we ditched the stock brackets, we cleaned the axletubes with a grinder and tore it down completely. We then used our JK's stock front axle to gather base measurements for where our new brackets will be placed.
2. One of the biggest hurdles of the Dana 60 swap is the limited space for brackets on the driver side of the axle. This is due to the large differential casting. While welding to cast can be done, in this case, we opted to remove a section of the driver-side casting to expose the more easily welded axletube. After taping off the area we wanted to expose, we used a Sawzall and chisel to peel back the small section of cast material. Since we are moving to a coilover mount, we don't need as much surface area as a coil bucket would require. However, it is possible to ft a coil bucket on the driver side of the axle.
3. To minimize some of the fab work involved, we sourced a JK axle bracket kit from Currie Enterprises. The complete Currie kit comes with upper and lower control-arm brackets, track bar mount, sway bar tabs, coil buckets, and shock mounts. The passenger side of the axle provides plenty of room to set the brackets, so we quickly burned in the 3⁄16-inch steel set using our Miller Millermatic 212 MIG welder.
4. Since we intend to use the Jeep's current TeraFlex long-arm suspension and didn't want to weld directly to the differential casting, we built an axle truss to allow a spot for the upper control arm to attach. The custom truss is comprised of 3⁄8-inch steel plate. In addition to being welded to the axletubes, we bolted the truss to the top of the differential housing.
5. The high-pinion Dana 60 differential allowed us to upgrade to a 5.38:1 gearset, which we attached to the new ARB Air Locker. We say new since ARB not only ftted the Air Locker with a fresh logo, but a 40-percent strength increase. This was accomplished by moving from a three-piece case design to a patented two-piece case design with forged gears. The selectable Air Locker offers excellent strength and added maneuverability to the Unlimited and is a great ft for this daily driven JK.
6. The '99-'04 Super Duty Dana 60 is ftted with 1.5-inch axleshafts and massive 5-806 U-joints. While the inner 'shafts are ftted with 35-splines, the stock outers are 30-spline. There are plenty of aftermarket 'shafts for those looking to upgrade to chromoly and 35-spline outers, but we are going to stick with stock for now and see how well the combo works under the Jeep.
7. By far, this is the most important part of the axle swap. Take note. The reason that the Super Duty Dana 60 is the perfect junkyard axle for the JK is that it has unit bearings. OK, so we don't always dig unit bearings, but in this case, they make life easy. The legendary axle builders at Currie Enterprises have done their homework and designed a unit bearing that can use the JK's stock wheel speed sensors. The company's custom F-450 unit bearing can be ordered in a few different bolt patterns, but we opted for 8-on-170 to match our rear axle.
8. Since the Super Duty Dana 60 is a ball-joint axle, we took a trip to our local parts house and got a new upper and lower ball joint set. Given the heavy diesel engine and abuse that the stock joints are designed to take, we doubt we'll have much trouble out of them under the Jeep.
9. Steering is one area that you have a few options. First, it is possible to reuse the Super Duty's tie-rod ends and stock lower bar, but the odd shape of the bar makes it less than desirable. We are staying with tie rods, but are moving up to larger Chevy 1-ton tie-rod ends, which required us to take a reamer to the top of both steering knuckles. Currently, we are keeping the stock differential cover as well, which means a straight tie-rod bar will not interfere with the cover.
10. From the factory, the JK has a separate drag link and tie rod. We wanted to mimic/improve this setup, so we sent out our Dana 60s passenger side steering knuckle to Weaver Fabrication in Redding, California. Weaver machines, drills, and taps six holes in the knuckle for the company's high-steer arm to mount. Once we place the axle under the Jeep, we will drill out the arm in the appropriate spot and attach our custom drag link.
11. Our junkyard 60 still had the stock vacuum assist hubs, which were plastic and broken. To upgrade, we installed a set of affordable and durable Warn hubs. Unlike the JKs stock unit bearings, the selectable hubs allow the front end components to be completely disengaged, reducing wear and drag.
12. Brakes were another spot that just needed some freshening. A quick test showed that our JK's aftermarket steel-braided soft lines bolted up to the Dana 60s twin-piston calipers using a 3⁄8-inch -24 banjo bolt.
13. The stock Jeep Wrangler JK axle measured just over 65 inches wide (measured between wheel mounting surfaces). The '99-'04 Super Duty Dana 60 front axles are right under 69 inches. There are some pros and cons to gaining width, and once we get our 1-ton axles bolted under the Jeep, we will delve into this a bit more.
Sensor Smart
A few things we feel you should know about wheel speed sensors and the JK. The '07-'11 Jeep Wrangler JK will operate (run, drive, do smoky burnouts) without a single wheel speed sensor, the '12-current JKs will not. Unfortunately, running without wheel speed sensors means your dash will be ablaze with lights, your speedometer will no longer work, and your check engine light will be on. Since the JK uses the wheel speed sensors for your speedometer, you need to have at least one to make it work in the pre-2012 models. One speed sensor will also kill the check engine light, an important fact for some depending on your state's inspection requirements. Essentially, you could grab a junkyard Dana 60 such as we have and purchase only one unit bearing from Currie. This would cut down the cost of the axle conversion even more. We don't recommend ditching ABS and ESC for most daily-driven vehicles, but it certainly is something that we know many of you can live without.
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After a week or so I can now take stock of the grading and think about what went well and what didn't and how the preparation helped...or not?
My main concern leading up to the day wasmemory recall of the techniques. I've grained long enough to know them to a fair standard (some better than others, granted) so this didn't trouble me so much. I did however *still* get muddled up with the Japanese names and find that there is lag between being asked for a technique and my brain processing it and outputting it as action. So what to do? Well as MattKlein commented, just swot up on techniques and have someone call waza at random. Over and over again. And over some more. This worked quite well and in the grading I was confident that I could manage.
The second issue was not knowing who I would gradewith. As shorinji kempo is based on pair work this can have an effect on performance. Naturally techniques should be able to applied to anyone but in a grading it comforts you to know who your partner is. As it happens when I met mine and we had a chance to go through embu I felt a lot easier. He knew his stuff and was fluid in movement. No problem.
In fact during feedback Mizuno sensei made this very point about grazings. To him a grading is useful as it pressure tests technique. Yes they make allowances for the fact that sometimes we don't have a chance to practice with a partner beforehand but in real self defence you have to make the technique work. And this is grading: making it work under pressure. It's no good asking an adversary on the street to stop and start again "cos I wasn't prepared".
Lastly it's worth mentioning sweat. I know it's notpleasant but on a hot spring day in a packed dojo it becomes an issue when you're trying to apply wrist locks. The answer? Think creatively. Go with the flow of the technique and focus on the outcome (immobilising an opponent, trapping an opponent or maybe throwing). It was trickier but a valuable lesson.
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25-Apr-2003 -- Continued from 27°N 111°E.
Thursday 24 April 2003 (Day 8, continued) - From Longhui, I first took a bus a short distance west to Dongkou. At the Dongkou bus station, waiting for my next bus, I noticed several people wearing facemasks. Awareness of SARS among the general population was becoming quite good, and the disease was now the hot topic of conversation.
From Dongkou, I managed to catch a passing bus that took me all the way west to Anjiang, but unfortunately arrived too late to allow me to make the last bus from Anjiang south to Hongjiang. I recognised a member of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) who had been a passenger on the bus to Anjiang, and who now also wanted to get to Hongjiang. I introduced myself, and we ended up agreeing to split a cab. During the cab ride, the PLA guy invited me to stay at his place in Hongjiang, rather than at a hotel. But after we arrived, he couldn't find his aunt who had the key to his place, so instead I said I'd stay in a hotel after all. He accompanied me across town to a hotel of his recommendation, and made sure I was safely checked in before leaving, steadfastly refusing to accept any money for my share of the cab ride from Anjiang.
Friday 25 April 2003 (Day 9) - I checked out of the hotel in the morning, and left my large bag with reception, intending to pick it up later. I then took a commuter bus to the southern outskirts of Hongjiang, from where I understood I could get a bus 10 kilometres south to the small town of Ruoshui.
Unwittingly, I took an unintentional side trip towards Huitong, much further to the west, when I boarded the right bus going the wrong way! Once I'd realised my mistake, I informed the ticket seller, and he very kindly flagged down the next bus we passed travelling in the opposite direction. I switched buses and was back in business, albeit a bit further behind schedule than I had originally intended. Nevertheless, it was a gorgeous sunny day--the best weather of my trip thus far--and I was in great spirits.
Judging by my map, the confluence was on the left bank of the Wushui River, near a village called Wangdong, about three kilometres east of Ruoshui. The Wushui River ran through Ruoshui, and I soon found a small ferry service that ran from Ruoshui to Wangdong, as well as other places along the river. I hopped on board for the peaceful journey upriver. As the confluence got closer, it became evident that it was not on the left bank at all, but rather in the middle of the river itself. When we passed by it, it was less than 50 metres off to the right of the boat. Unfortunately, I didn't think to snap a photo of the GPS until we were a little further beyond (but still within 100 metres).
I got off the boat on the right bank at the first opportunity, about 500 metres further upstream, and from there walked back to the confluence. It was 110 metres from the shore, and I judged that it might very well be situated on one of a number of small islands.
I had already completed 12 confluences in Hunan, and only narrowly missed a perfect reading on one of them. It was with this in mind, together with the beautiful weather and the tranquil surroundings, that I made the decision to invest some time in trying to find a way to get closer to the confluence, and perhaps even obtain another perfect reading.
Back where I'd disembarked from the ferry, there were a couple of farmhouses, and a couple of very small boats tied up in the river nearby. I decided to go back and explore the possibility of getting out in one of these small boats. I reached the first farmhouse, and had just started chatting with the inhabitants, when suddenly a group of people appeared, led by two uniformed police officers. They first asked me if I had permission to be in the area, and when I admitted to not having sought any such permission, nor even knowing that it was a requirement, they very politely asked me if I would accompany them back to the Ruoshui police station.
On the boat trip back to Ruoshui, I had the presence of mind to snap north-south-east-west photos as we passed by the confluence once more. It was also on the boat trip back to Ruoshui that I finally understood from one of the policemen that this was a sensitive military area. That's when I started to get worried.
What follows is a very long story indeed, however I have reluctantly decided to exclude it from this report, in order to avoid jeopardising in any way my future confluencing prospects in China. Suffice to say that, for a while there, things looked particularly grim, and it did cross my mind that I may very well earn the dubious honour of being the first confluencer incarcerated in the line of duty. (Anyone interested in hearing the full first-hand account of my ordeal is more than welcome to come and visit me in Hong Kong.)
Saturday 26 April 2003 (Day 10) - With my GPS impounded by the police for "further study", there was no point carrying on, so I took an overnight train from Huaihua back to Shenzhen.
Sunday 27 April 2003 (Day 11) - I arrived in Shenzhen around noon, crossed the border back into Hong Kong, and made my way back home to Lamma Island. My three-week holiday had been cut short to just one week. The police in Huaihua had told me I could collect my GPS in a week's time, so I decided to resume work for a week, then head back to China to pick up my GPS and carry on with the final two weeks of my holiday. It really does help to have an understanding boss.
Story continues at 28°N 110°E.
Special note to would-be visitors: This confluence is located in Huaihua County. At the time of writing, Huaihua County is designated as closed to foreigners. Any foreigner wishing to visit Huaihua County is required to apply for a permit from the police. (Fortunately, this is the only confluence in Huaihua County.)


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Hurricane Matthew cleared out of Florida's southern tip Friday morning and service gradually resumed in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale's airports. Orlando International Airport said it will resume operations at 6 a.m. Saturday, though many flights are still cancelled.
However, as the storm moves north transit hubs in neighboring states tapered off flights or closed terminals altogether.
According to FlightAware, a site that tracks global flight statuses, Matthew has forced airlines to cancel more than 4,500 flights between Wednesday and Sunday.
Charleston International in South Carolina shut down operations Friday afternoon and cancelled all Saturday flights. The airport said plans for Sunday will be announced at a later time, and updates can be found here.
In Georgia, the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport closed at 12 a.m. Friday. The terminal is scheduled to reopen at 8 a.m. Sunday.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest airport, said it is monitoring the storm and asked passengers to check with their carrier for cancellations. Over 200 flights have been cancelled Friday and dozens more on Saturday.
The Air Force controls the runways and will dictate when to close the airfield. Service at the airport could resume Sunday, Campbell said.
Early Friday Ft.Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport announced that the airport's terminals were being reopened and that "our airline partners are implementing their plans to resume service later this morning," the airport announced in a tweet.
The number of canceled flights globally on Friday morning was down to 1,946 from Thursday's 2,800, according to FlightAware. As Miami and Fort Lauderdale clear up, the number of delays and cancellations will continue to decline.
American Airlines announced Friday that most of its flights would resume sometime Friday morning or afternoon. The airlines saw its first arrival at Miami International Airport at 9:05 a.m with a flight from São Paulo, Brazil. A reduced departure schedule began Friday at 1 p.m. and a full departure schedule was expected at 4 p.m.
As the storm tracked northward, Delta Airlines also resumed flights Friday morning to Miami, West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale.
Miami, along with Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, both shut down Thursday. Fort Lauderdale halted operations at 10:30 a.m. with Miami following at noon.
Orlando International Airport announced Thursday afternoon that it would cease commercial operations at 8 p.m. ET. It anticipates to resume flights on Saturday, Oct. 8, contingent on staff availability and clean-up ability.
All flights to and from Orlando have been cancelled Friday and half scrapped Saturday. FlightAware expects that number to rise. Orlando's world-famous theme parks — Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and SeaWorld — all closed due to the storm.
Orlando Melbourne International Airport closed at 2:30 p.m. Thursday. It was not clear when it expect to reopen. Jacksonville International Airport remains open, but noted several flights have been canceled. "Check flight status with your airline before coming to the airport," JAX wrote in a tweet.
The Palm Beach International Airport also reopened Friday and many airlines planned to resume operations from the terminal. The airport advised passengers to check with their airline before going to the airport as several flights remain cancelled.
Changing Flights
Hurricane Matthew has prompted airlines to offer travel waivers to passengers scheduled to fly from airports impacted by the storm.
Airlines had previously offered Matthew-related change-fee waivers to areas in the Caribbean hit by the powerful hurricane but are now extending them to cover U.S. airports as well.
American said it would waive change fees on trips scheduled between Oct. 5 to Oct. 9 from certain airports in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina. The airline had already offered waivers on trips scheduled through Thursday in several Caribbean nations including Cuba.
United Airlines said it would waive change fees and any difference in fare for customers scheduled to fly Wednesday through Friday to, from or through five airports in Florida. The waiver has also been extended to several airports in the Carolinas and Georgia.
Delta waived change fees on flights to, from and through the Caribbean between Oct. 2 and Oct. 6 that may have been impacted by Matthew. Flights Thursday and Friday in or out of eight Florida cities as well as to and from several airports in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia can also be changed without incuring fee. Customers who wish to cancel a trip as a result of a flight cancellation are entitled to a refund.
JetBlue Airways said passengers flying Thursday through Sunday to or from eight cities in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina can change planes without a fee or additional fare. A similar offer covers Caribbean travel through Thursday.
Spirit Airlines said it would waive the change fee and fare difference on Florida trips Thursday and Friday.
Southwest Airlines will allow customers with flight reservations scheduled to arrive or depart cities that have been affected by or will be in the storm's path between Oct. 2 and Oct. 7, to re-book a new trip or travel standby within 14 days of their original travel date.
Cruises have also been affected by Hurricane Matthew, with Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Carnival Cruise Line all rerouting some ships or modifying the order of ports.
For instance, the Carnival Elation — which is currently in the middle of a five-day cruise — is skipping Half Moon Cay and Nassau in the Bahamas, adding in an extra day at sea and an extra day in Key West, Florida. The Carnival Conquest skipped a stop in the Dominican Republic for an extra day at sea.
Royal Caribbean, however, has changed the date for at least one cruise sailing out of Port Miami. The Empress of the Seas will now depart Friday instead of Thursday.
Port Canaveral has announced it will close by Wednesday afternoon, the first time the naval port has shut down operations since 2004.
Bus and Rail
Amtrak suspended passenger rail service through Friday between Miami and New York and the auto train between Lorton, Virginia, and Sanford, Florida. A line that normally runs from New York to Savannah, Georgia, only went as far south as Washington.
Transit Operations have also been affected by the storm. Broward County Transit will cancel all scheduled bus service and paratransit service for Thursday. The county said it will decide on what service will run on Friday and Thursday evening.


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When Chris Jordan said that her 12-year old son wouldn't be able to trick or treat because he had a football game on Halloween, another mom looked at her like she had two heads. At 12, the woman informed Jordan, he was far too old to go trick-or-treating anyway.
Jordan, an Austin, Texas, mom of seven children, ages 8 to 18, wasn't completely shocked by the other parent's disapproval. "There's a pretty large group here in Austin that thinks once your kid is 10 or 11, they shouldn't be going out — that Halloween is just for little kids."
People across the country and the blogosphere are asking when kids should stop with the trick-or-treating. After all, a cute little princess or power ranger on your porch is one thing. A six-foot-tall teenager, who can't be bothered to paint his face or wear a plastic mask in return for some Smarties, can start to feel like something else — perhaps not entirely in the spirit of the holiday.
Some cities have placed a legal age limit on trick-or-treating. In Belleville, Ill., eighth grade is the last year you can go out trick-or-treating with your friends on Halloween. A city ordinance prohibits high school students from participating in any "Halloween solicitation."
According to Erin Clifford of the City of Belleville's mayor's office, Mayor Mark Eckert led the push for a high school trick-or-treating ban in 2008 because constituents — primarily single mothers and senior citizens — were frightened by larger teens showing up at their homes on Halloween.
Mayor Eckert told the Associated Press, "When I was a kid my father said to me, you're too damn big to be going out trick-or-treating. When that doesn't happen, then that's reason for the city government to intervene."
Boonsboro, Maryland has an even stricter cut-off. According to the Boonsboro town clerk, Barbara Rodenhiser, the city prohibits children over 12 from going door to door on Halloween.
Are we going overboard with trick-or-treating bans and cut-offs? We are just talking about a single night on which teenagers may want to ring your bell, snag a handful of Hershey Kisses, and partake in one of America's greatest childhood pastimes. Isn't a little trick-or-treating in junior high and high school better than our kids growing up too fast?
As Chris Jordan put it, "In the big scheme of things, trick-or-treating is a fun, innocent tradition." Though Jordan says teens who want to trick or treat have got to hold up their end of the bargain. "The holiday is based on dressing up and getting candy in return. It's not about going out and begging for stuff."
Most folks agree that there is a social contract on Halloween. Teens can't just show up on somebody's doorstep, trolling for candy, without wearing some kind of costume.
Megan Latshaw, a mother in Baltimore, Md., says she'll give candy to anyone next week, regardless of age, as long as they make a good faith attempt at a costume. She recalls the time an older teen showed up at her house on Halloween in what looked like regular street clothes. Half-jokingly, she demanded to know what he was dressed up as. "He responded very quickly that he was a student," she says. "At least he had an answer." So she gave him candy.
High school sophomore Amanda Mauriello, 15, says kids from 1 to 17 trick-or-treat every year in her town of Branford, Ct. But she agrees that Halloween is a two-way street. No matter how old you are, you've got to put in a little elbow grease — or greasepaint. "If you are out trick-or-treating," she says, "you have to wear some kind of costume." She plans on dressing up as either an M&M or a cowgirl this year.
And before you judge a trick-or-treater's age, it's important to remember that teens today don't necessarily look like adolescents from previous generations, and that children can show signs of physical maturation at different stages in their tween and teen years. That hulking "teenager" on your doorstep might be younger than you think.
Dr. Melissa Arca, a pediatrician, blogger and mother of two, reminds people this Halloween that there's a wide range of what a healthy teenage girl or boy may look or sound like. "We've known for some time that girls are maturing physically earlier and earlier," she says. "For the last few years, girls as young as 9 and 10 have been going through puberty. And then some girls will experience physical signs of maturing much later."
Boys may also be developing earlier than past generations, according to a recent study in the journal Pediatrics. Meaning, that kid in front of you may not be as old as you think— even if he's got a five o'clock shadow that's not painted on. And even if he is on the tail end of age-appropriate trick-or-treaters, worst case: he makes off with a few pieces of your candy.
Get your Boo on with more stories from TODAY Moms:
Moms' candy confessions: Yes, we ate your chocolate
Why Halloween is the scariest holiday for dads
TODAY's special Halloween section
Is it OK for little boys to dress like girls on Halloween?


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Albert C. Barnes, in full Albert Coombs Barnes, (born January 2, 1872, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 24, 1951, Chester county, Pennsylvania), American inventor of the antiseptic Argyrol (a mild silver protein anti-infective compound for mucous membrane tissues) and noted art collector, whose collection is a part of the Barnes Foundation Galleries.
Barnes grew up in poverty in South Philadelphia but managed to attend the University of Pennsylvania Medical School (M.D., 1892), supporting himself by tutoring, playing semiprofessional baseball, and boxing. In 1894–95 he attended schools in Germany to study advanced chemistry. When he returned to Philadelphia, he and a German chemist, Hermann Hille, devised the formula for Argyrol, from which Barnes made a fortune. He bought out his partner in 1907 and formed the pharmaceutical A.C. Barnes Company (which he would sell very profitably in 1929).
In 1905 Barnes built a mansion in Merion and began collecting paintings. In 1912 he commissioned artists Alfred Henry Maurer and William J. Glackens, the latter a former high-school classmate, to collect some Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in France. He was sufficiently encouraged by their success to begin his own personal buying trips to Paris; he never again used an intermediary. His most successful trip was in 1922–23, when he purchased more than 100 paintings. Over the years his collection grew to include dozens of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, and Pablo Picasso and more than a thousand other art treasures. He was one of the first American collectors to appreciate the art of Chaim Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani. Barnes's taste also included the early American Modernists, Old Master drawings, African sculpture, and ironmongery.
The Barnes Foundation, housed in quarters next to his Merion home, was chartered on December 4, 1922, and opened in 1925. The 22-room structure displayed his collection in an idiosyncratic and highly personal manner that eschewed standard museum practice. The foundation also was intended to promote art education by providing art classes taught by a full-time staff and by establishing a publishing program. (Barnes himself wrote and coauthored a number of books on art.)
Barnes had a reputation for being paternalistic and hot-tempered, and he engaged in a number of public rows with employees, art critics, and museums. He died in an auto accident. After extensive litigation, the galleries were opened to the general public in 1961, ending a long-standing tradition of limited access. But zoning laws prevented easy accessibility and made it difficult to raise funds for upkeep. The foundation's neighbours were also unhappy with the heavy traffic and inadequate parking. Courts ultimately allowed the collection to move to new purpose-built galleries in Philadelphia (designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and opened in 2012) that attempted to keep the art displayed in the manner Barnes had dictated. The Merion campus remained home to the institution's archives, arboretum, and horticulture program.


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Our Verdict
When I first reviewed Alfred, the app- and file-launching utility, back in early 2011, I praised it for its simplicity: You'd invoke the utility with a shortcut key-combination, type the first few letters of an application or file's name, and Alfred would find what you wanted and open it. It did more than OS X's built-in Spotlight feature—if not quite as much as other launchers such as Butler, Launchbar, or Quicksilver—without a lot of monkeying around.
But almost as soon as I wrote that review, Running With Crayons, the utility's developer, began monkeying around with Alfred, adding powerful new features such as global hotkeys (which let you assign permanent keyboard shortcuts to files, apps, Web searches, and other things) and extensions (which let you quickly run AppleScripts, Automator workflows, complex file searches, and more) to the essentially simple app. With Alfred 2, that trend continues. This recent major update introduces a feature called workflows for performing more-complex series of actions.
Thankfully, this added power doesn't compromise Alfred's appealing simplicity. You can still use Alfred to reliably find and launch files, apps, and Web searches without any complex configuration. But if you're willing to dig deeper, you might be pleasantly surprised by just how powerful this easy-to-use launcher can be.
When you activate Alfred using your chosen shortcut (I use Control+Space), you get a basic text-entry box. You start typing what you want there, and Alfred returns a list of possible hits. Scroll down that list (or use one of the displayed Command-number keyboard shortcuts) and select an item to open it. So far, this sounds just like Spotlight, right? But like other third-party launcher utilities, Alfred learns which apps you launch most frequently and puts the most-used ones at the top of the results list. (I wish it did so more reliably with files.)
Using keywords, you can find more than just apps and files. For example, typing
g followed by a search term, for example, initiates a Google search for that string of text. There are similar shortcuts for Bing, Yahoo, Gmail, Twitter, Amazon, and more. Alfred can also search your contacts, clipboard history, and dictionary; it can perform standard and advanced math calculations; and it offers a library of keywords for controlling your Mac (
logout and
emptytrash, for example). Alfred also has an iTunes controller and text-snippets capabilities, a la
Since my previous review, Alfred 1.x extended its core functionality in some really useful ways. A file buffer, for example, lets you find multiple files in sequence, adding each to the buffer with a quick keyboard shortcut, then perform the same action (copy, move, whatever) on all of the files at once.
All of that is still there in Alfred 2.0, but one thing is missing: Alfred 1.x had a separate preference tab for creating global hotkeys. That hotkey functionality is still available, but it's subsumed by version 2's marquee new feature, workflows.
Workflows are bit like the extensions that were introduced in Alfred 0.99, providing customizable actions to which you can attach hotkeys or keywords. So, for example, you can now set up a workflow that will search for recently used documents in your Dropbox folder whenever, and you can assign to that workflow the keyword
dropbox. Workflows can be simple (launch a single file via a hotkey) or complex (use a keyword to initiate multiple Web searches for a given search term). Workflows can include a variety of scripted and programmed components—there's even support for Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, as well as shell scripting and AppleScript.
Alfred 2.0 comes with a small selection of sample workflows, as well as templates you can use as the basis of your own. You can construct your own workflows from scratch, by combining triggers (hotkeys, for example), inputs (such as keywords), and actions (open file, reveal file, run script, and so on), and you can output results into processes that can be as simple or complex as you wish. You can also download and install workflows that other Alfred users have already built.
Themes and other improvements
Alfred 2.0's other notable change is the addition of themes. Several built-in themes let you change the utility's colors, fonts, and the size of the search-results window. It's also simple to create your own: After clicking a plus-sign (+) button, you can tweak the current settings by holding down modifer keys (Command, Option, and so forth) and clicking on the various interface elements. The color, font, and sizing options are limited, but they do provide a reasonable degree of customization.
The developer also says that Alfred 2 has been rewritten from the ground-up to improve performance. I personally couldn't detect any change in speed, but I never had problems with its performance in the first place. Running With Crayons also says its improved the way Alfred works with Contacts, but, again, I never saw any issues with Alfred 1 in that respect, so I can't vouch for the changes.
As before, Alfred itself is free, but to get the most out of it, you need to buy the Powerpack (currently £15—about $23—for a single-user license). That purchase gets you workflows, themes, clipboard history and saved text snippets, iTunes controls, keyboard-based file navigation and file actions, Contacts and email integration, lists of recent documents for specific apps, Dropbox syncing for settings, and more.
Like its predecessor, Alfred 2 provides more launching power than Spotlight with little or no intervention on your part. And if you're willing to invest the time required to set up Alfred's more-advanced options, as well as to take advantage of the new workflow feature, Alfred provides impressive power and flexibility. However, if you are willing to invest that kind of time in a launcher utility, it's worth asking what you really want in return: Butler offers its incredibly extensive configuration screen, Launchbar its seemingly bottomless index, Quicksilver its catalog, triggers, and plug-ins. Each offers more built-in actions and customizability than Alfred does. But in each case, tapping into that power requires considerable time and effort. If its comparative simplicity or its new workflows appeal to you, Alfred is still a great choice. But if you're after the most powerful, most infinitely configurable launcher you can find, I recommend checking out the other three before deciding.
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Microsoft Windows may get all the press coverage, but when you want to get real work done, you turn your attention to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel.
Excel is, of course, part of Microsoft's Office suite of productivity tools. Microsoft sells Office under two models: Individuals and businesses can pay for the software license up front and own it forever (what the company calls the "perpetual" version of the suite), or they can purchase an Office 365 subscription, which means they have access to the software for only as long as they keep paying the subscription fee.
When you purchase a perpetual version of the suite — say, Office 2016 or Office 2019 — its applications will never get new features, whereas Office 365 apps are continually updated with new features. (For more details, see "What are the differences between Microsoft Office 2019 and Office 365?")
This cheat sheet gets you up to speed on the features that were introduced in Excel 2016 and Excel 2019, the perpetual-license versions of Excel included with Office 2016 and Office 2019, respectively. In Office 365, Excel has all those features, plus several more. If you or your organization has an Office 365 subscription, see our separate Excel for Office 365 cheat sheet for coverage of all the latest features.
Most of the tips in this article apply to both Excel 2016 and 2019 for Windows. Near the end is a section for Excel 2019 only.
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Use the Ribbon
The Ribbon interface that you came to know and love (or perhaps hate) in earlier versions of Excel hasn't changed much in Excel 2016 or 2019. Since the Ribbon has been included in Office suite applications since Office 2007, we assume that by now you're familiar with how it works. If you need a refresher, see our Excel 2010 cheat sheet.
As in Excel 2013, the Ribbon in Excel 2016 and 2019 has a flattened look that's cleaner and less cluttered than in Excel 2010 and 2007. The 2016 and 2019 Ribbon is smaller than it was in Excel 2013, the title bar is solid green rather than white, and the text for the Ribbon tabs (File, Home, Insert and so on) is a mix of upper- and lowercase rather than all caps. But it still works in the same way, and you'll find most of the commands in the same locations as in earlier versions.
To find out which commands reside on which tabs on the Ribbon, download our Excel 2016 and 2019 Ribbon quick reference. Also see the nifty new Tell Me feature described below.
Just as in previous versions of Excel, if you want the Ribbon to go away, press Ctrl-F1. To make it appear again, press Ctrl-F1 and it comes back.
You've got other options for displaying the Ribbon as well. To get to them, click the Ribbon Display Options icon at the top right of the screen, just to the left of the icons for minimizing and maximizing PowerPoint. A drop-down menu appears with these three options:
- Auto-hide Ribbon: This hides the entire Ribbon, both the tabs and commands underneath them. To show the Ribbon again, click at the top of PowerPoint.
- Show Tabs: This shows the tabs but hides the commands underneath them. It's the same as pressing Ctrl-F1. To display the commands underneath the tabs when they're hidden, press Ctrl-F1, click a tab, or click the Ribbon display icon and select "Show Tabs and Commands."
- Show Tabs and Commands: Selecting this shows both the tabs and commands.
And if for some reason that nice green color on the title bar is just too much for you, you can turn it white or gray. (In Excel 2019, there's also a black option.) To do it, select File > Options > General. In the "Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office" section, click the down arrow next to Office Theme, and select Dark Gray or White (or Black) from the drop-down menu. To make the title bar green again, instead choose the "Colorful" option from the drop-down list. Just above the Office Theme menu is an Office Background drop-down menu — here you can choose to display a pattern such as a circuit board or circles and stripes in the title bar.
There's a very useful feature in what Microsoft calls the backstage area that appears when you click File on the Ribbon: If you click Open or Save As from the menu on the left, you can see the cloud-based services you've connected to your Office account, such as SharePoint and OneDrive. Each location now displays its associated email address underneath it. This is quite helpful if you use a cloud service with more than one account, such as if you have one OneDrive account for personal use and another one for business. You'll be able to see at a glance which is which.
Get things done quickly with Tell Me
Excel has never been the most user-friendly of applications, and it has so many powerful features it can be tough to use. Microsoft has made it easier with a feature in Excel 2016 and 2019 called Tell Me, which puts even buried tools in easy reach.
To use it, click the "Tell me what you want to do" text to the right of the View tab on the Ribbon. (Keyboard fans can instead press Alt-Q.) Then type in a task you want to do, such as "create a pivot table." You'll get a menu showing potential matches for the task. In this instance, the top result is a direct link to the form for creating a PivotTable — select it and you'll start creating the PivotTable right away, without having to go to the Ribbon's Insert tab first.
If you'd like more information about your task, the last two items that appear in the Tell Me menu let you select from related Help topics or search for your phrase using Smart Lookup. (More on Smart Lookup below.)
Even if you consider yourself a spreadsheet jockey, it'll be worth your while trying out Tell Me. It's a big time-saver, and far more efficient than hunting through the Ribbon to find a command. Also useful is that it remembers the features you've previously clicked on in the box, so when you click in it, you first see a list of previous tasks you've searched for. That makes sure that tasks that you frequently perform are always within easy reach. And it puts tasks you rarely do within easy reach as well.
Use Smart Lookup for online research
Another new feature, Smart Lookup, lets you do research while you're working on a spreadsheet. Right-click a cell with a word or group of words in it, and from the menu that appears, select Smart Lookup.
When you do that, Excel uses Microsoft's Bing search engine to do a web search on the word or words, then displays definitions, any related Wikipedia entries, and other results from the web in the Smart Lookup pane that appears on the right. Click any result link to open the full page in a browser. If you just want a definition of the word, click the Define tab in the pane. If you want more information, click the Explore tab in the pane.
For generic terms, such as "payback period" or "ROI," it works well. But don't expect Smart Lookup to research financial information that you might want to put into your spreadsheet, at least based on my experience. When I did a Smart Lookup on "Inflation rate in France 2016," for example, I got results for the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament, and other information telling me that 2016 was a leap year. And when I searched for "Steel output United States," Smart Lookup pulled up the Wikipedia entry for the United States.
Note that in order to use Smart Lookup in Excel or any other Office app, you might first need to enable Microsoft's intelligent services feature, which collects your search terms and some content from your spreadsheets and other documents. (If you're concerned about privacy, you'll need to weigh whether the privacy hit is worth the convenience of doing research from right within the app.) If you haven't enabled it, you'll see a screen when you click Smart Lookup asking you to turn it on. Once you do so, it will be turned on across all your Office applications.
Chart the new chart types
Spreadsheets aren't just about raw data — they're about charts as well. Charts are great for visualizing and presenting data, and for gaining insights from it. To that end, Excel 2016 has six new chart types, including most notably a histogram (frequently used in statistics), a "waterfall" that's effective at showing running financial totals, and a hierarchical treemap that helps you find patterns in data. (Excel 2019 has two more new chart types, which we'll cover later in the story.) Note that the new charts are available only if you're working in an .xlsx document. If you use the older .xls format, you won't find them.
To see all the new charts, put your cursor in a cell or group of cells that contains data, select Insert > Recommended Charts and click the All Charts tab. You'll find the new charts, mixed in with the older ones. Select any to create the chart.
These are the six new chart types:
Treemap. This chart type creates a hierarchical view of your data, with top-level categories (or tree branches) shown as rectangles, and with subcategories (or sub-branches) shown as smaller rectangles grouped inside the larger ones. Thus, you can easily compare the sizes of top-level categories and subcategories in a single view. For instance, a bookstore can see at a glance that it brings in more revenue from 1st Readers, a subcategory of Children's Books, than for the entire Non-fiction top-level category.
Sunburst. This chart type also displays hierarchical data, but in a multi-level pie chart. Each level of the hierarchy is represented by a circle. The innermost circle contains the top-level categories, the next circle out shows subcategories, the circle after that subsubcategories and so on.
Sunbursts are best for showing the relationships among categories and subcategories, while treemaps are better at showing the relative sizes of categories and subcategories.
Waterfall. This chart type is well-suited for visualizing financial statements. It displays a running total of the positive and negative contributions toward a final net value.
Histogram. This kind of chart shows frequencies within a data set. It could, for example, show the number of books sold in specific price ranges in a bookstore.
Pareto. This chart, also known as a sorted histogram, contains bars as well as a line graph. Values are represented in descending order by bars. The cumulative total percentage of each bar is represented by a rising line. In the bookstore example, each bar could show a reason for a book being returned (defective, priced incorrectly, and so on). The chart would show, at a glance, the primary reasons for returns, so a bookstore owner could focus on those issues.
Note that the Pareto chart does not show up when you select Insert > Recommended Charts > All Charts. To use it, first select the data you want to chart, then select Insert > Insert Statistic Chart, and under Histogram, choose Pareto.
Box & Whisker. This chart, like a histogram, shows frequencies within a data set but provides for a deeper analysis than a histogram. For example, in a bookstore it could show the distribution of prices of different genres of books. In the example shown here, each "box" represents the first to third quartile of prices for books in that genre, while the "whiskers" (the lines extending up and down from the box) show the upper and lower range of prices. Outliers that are priced outside the whiskers are shown as dots, the median price for each genre is shown with a horizontal line across the box, and the mean price is shown with an x.
For more information about the new chart types, see PCWorld's "What to do with Excel 2016's new chart styles: Treemap, Sunburst, and Box & Whisker" and "Excel 2016 charts: How to use the new Pareto, Histogram, and Waterfall formats."
Collaborate live with Excel Online
When Office 2016 was released, the most trumpeted new feature was real-time collaboration that let people work simultaneously with each other on documents no matter where they were, as long as they had internet connections. (Microsoft calls this "co-authoring.") When you collaborate with others live, everyone with access to a document can work on it simultaneously, with everyone seeing what everyone else does as they edit.
But Excel was left out in the cold for live collaboration. Only Word, PowerPoint and OneNote had that feature, with Microsoft saying that at some undetermined time, Excel would be given live collaboration.
In July 2017, Microsoft at last rolled out real-time collaboration to the Excel desktop client — but only to Office 365 subscribers. (See "How to use Excel's new live collaboration features" for a complete walkthrough of how to use them.)
Many people (myself included) expected that Excel 2019 would get co-authoring features, but that's not the case. To get live collaboration in the Excel desktop client, you have to be an Office 365 subscriber.
Perpetual-license Excel 2016 and 2019 users can, however, collaborate live using the web-based version of Excel, and I'll show you how to do that here. Excel Online is less powerful and polished than the Excel desktop client, but it works well enough if you want to collaborate in real time.
To collaborate using the online version of Excel, the file you want to share needs to be in OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint or Dropbox. To start, head to Excel Online by going to office.com; then sign in using your Microsoft ID and click the Excel button. When Excel runs, open the file you want to share.
Next, click the Share button at the top right of the screen. A screen pops up over Excel. In it, enter the email address of the person with whom you want to share. If you want to share with more than one person, enter multiple email addresses. Then type in a note if you want.
If you're signed in with an individual Microsoft account, the people you share the document with can edit the document by default; however, you can give them read-only access instead by clicking the "Recipients can edit" link under the "Add a quick note" area and choosing "Recipients can only view" from the drop-down list. When you do that, you'll also see an option to designate whether recipients need to be signed in with a Microsoft account to see the workbook. When you're ready, click the Share button.
When you're done, a screen pops up confirming to whom you've sent the email, and whether they can edit or only read the document. You can click that drop-down to change their permissions or stop sharing the workbook. On this screen you can also send another email to share with others, by clicking the "Invite people" link in the left pane. When you're done with the screen, click Close.
If you're signed in with a corporate account, the process is slightly more streamlined. On the initial pop-up screen where you enter recipients' emails, you'll see a box that says, "Only the people you specify who have this link can edit." Click it and you'll see a screen with more sharing options, including anyone, people in your organization, and people with existing access. There's also a checkbox to allow them to edit the workbook or not. Make your selections and click Apply. Then, back on the first pop-up, click Send.
Excel now sends an email to all the people with whom you want to collaborate. When they click the "View in OneDrive" or "Open" button, they'll open the spreadsheet. At this point, they can view the spreadsheet, but not edit it. To edit it, they need to click the Edit in Browser button at the top of the screen or click the Edit Workbook menu and select Edit in Browser. They can then edit the document right in their browser window.
Everyone using the document sees the changes that other people make in real time. Each person's presence is indicated by a colored cursor, and everyone gets a different color. As they take actions, such as entering data into a cell or creating a chart, their work instantly appears to everyone else.
On the upper right of the screen is a list of everyone collaborating on the document. Click a name to see the location of the cell they're currently working on (for example, G11). You can also hover your mouse over someone's colored cursor and see their name.
Chat isn't available. But if you click the Skype icon on the upper right of the screen, you can launch Skype, see if they're on the service, and communicate with them that way.
Note that even the owner of the workbook must be using Excel Online in order to collaborate in real time. If you have the workbook open in a perpetual version of the Excel 2016 or 2019 desktop client, no one else will be able to make changes in their browser; they'll see a message saying the file is locked. If you're using Excel Online, everybody can make changes (assuming you've given them editing privileges). When everybody is done making changes and no longer has the workbook open in their browser, you can reopen the file in the Excel 2016 or 2019 desktop client.


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sketchbook drawings
You want sketches? I've got sketches! Loads of 'em!
I've been on a sketching/drawing tear recently. No doubt something to keep my mind off all the painting and moving that needs to be done. Crazy! I'll post more later....
(Click on image to go to its Flickr page.)
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I love your drawing style.
love these ward. those hands!ReplyDelete
Love'n the stylization in the hands. Keep on that tear!ReplyDelete
those are some purdy sketches. i always love the look of ink over colorerase...sigh....good times.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comments, guys! And thanks for stopping by. Me need attention.ReplyDelete
Eee, what a great style you have, Ward!! :)ReplyDelete
I love looking at sketchbooks. Thanks so much for posting these :)
How long did those take you?
LOVE those hands!ReplyDelete
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Martian 'Freedom 7' Crater 50 Years After Freedom 7 Flight (Stereo)
May 04, 2011
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this stereo view of a crater informally named "Freedom 7" shortly before the 50th anniversary of the first American in space: astronaut Alan Shepard's flight in the Freedom 7 spacecraft.
The image combines four frames that Opportunity took with its navigation camera during the 2,585th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (May 2, 2011). Shepard's suborbital flight lasted 15 minutes on May 5, 1961. Two of the frames come from the camera's left eye, the other two from its right eye. The scene appears three dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left.
The crater is about 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. It is the largest of a cluster of about eight craters all formed just after an impactor broke apart in the Martian atmosphere.
By taking advantage of seeing many craters of diverse ages during drives between major destinations, the Opportunity mission is documenting how impact craters change with time. The cluster that includes Freedom 7 crater formed after sand ripples in the area last migrated, which is estimated to be about 200,000 years ago.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington.


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Cincinnati, OH – Rookie Matt Harvey pitched 7 2/3 stellar innings and added a two-run double, as the New York Mets avoided a three-game sweep with an 8-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday.
Harvey (2-3), who made his major league debut on July 26, took a perfect game into the fifth. In all, the 23-year-old righty was charged with one run on four hits with a walk and eight strikeouts. He now has 34 Ks in five career starts.
"I knew it was going to be a tough lineup. I just wanted to go out and not so much worry about who I was facing, as much as where the call was, where the pitch was supposed to go and try and execute as best I could," said Harvey.
Ike Davis homered and drove in a pair while Jason Bay hit a solo shot for the Mets, who scored just one run over the first two games of the series.
Homer Bailey (10-8) took the loss, allowing six runs -- four earned -- on eight hits over 5 2/3 innings. He walked three and struck out six.
"Physically I feel great. I have no excuses. I'm just not making pitches as consistently as I need to," said Bailey.
Jay Bruce had a seventh-inning RBI double and Ryan Ludwick homered during a three-run ninth for the Reds, who saw their five-game win streak come to an end. They still lead the NL Central by six games.
Entering Thursday, Cincinnati had given up just one run over a 34-inning stretch, but New York used a pair of three-run frames to secure its third win in the last 10 games.
Davis led off the fourth with his 21st homer of the year before a two-out single by Bay and an intentional walk to Kelly Shoppach set up Harvey's blast to the wall in left-center field, which made it 3-0.
In the sixth, Bay belted a one-out homer to right and Shoppach reached on an error by third baseman Scott Rolen. Harvey moved Shoppach up with a sacrifice bunt and Ruben Tejada followed with an RBI double. Mike Baxter then singled home Tejada for a 6-0 lead.
Harvey, who had lost three straight starts after winning his debut, hit Ludwick with a pitch to begin the fifth inning. Rolen followed with a two-out infield single to break up the no-hitter, but Devin Mesoraco grounded out to end the threat.
Brandon Phillips led off the seventh with a double and crossed the plate on Bruce's two-bagger down the right-field line.
Davis tacked on an RBI double in the ninth and scored later in the frame when shortstop Zack Cozart couldn't handle a sharp grounder from Justin Turner.
In the bottom half, Frank Francisco gave up a leadoff homer to Ludwick, an RBI single to Miguel Cairo and a run-scoring double to Cozart before Jon Rauch struck out Wilson Valdez to secure his third save of the season.
Game Notes
Harvey's 34 strikeouts over his first five major league games rank second in Mets history behind Dwight Gooden (36) ... Rauch has allowed just one run over his last 20 appearances dating back to June 28 ... The Reds are 21-9 since Joey Votto left the lineup.


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Memorial Day weekend is coming to mark the start of summer, and once again I find myself confronted with assholes all over the place telling me I can't wear shorts. First there's designer Tom Ford:
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
Then I have The Awl bitching at me about it too ("Men should not wear shorts. That is all."). You listen to me, you anti-shorts gay mobsters: I WILL WEAR SHORTS IF I GODDAMN WANT TO.
I don't give a shit what you deem appropriate or tasteful. I live in Maryland and for the next four months it will be 50,000 fucking degrees outside, and it'll be so goddamn humid I'll have to wear flippers to swim through the air. It's HOT. It's fucking deathly hot already. They don't even have spring here anymore. There's winter, then it rains a for a couple weeks, and then the entire landscape turns into A FIERY PIT OF HOT LAVA. There are elephants basting themselves with rain puddle water down my block. It is hot as shit.
Oh, what's that? Linen pants are breathable? Oh hey, that's great! Let me just plunk down $200 for a pair at Banana Republic, because that's totally within my price range. Organic fabric only for me! Oh, and look! They don't have any waist sizes above 28 inches! Because everyone who shops at Banana Republic is some kind of magical skinny Eurofairy who stays reed thin on a diet of cigarettes, cocaine, and gross self-absorption! BLOW ME. Take your fucking edict and DIE. I'd love to dress like Danny Ocean, but the sale rack at Old Navy isn't cooperating.
I know men don't have the prettiest legs in the world. They're hairy. They're gnarled. Sometimes I see an old man in shorts and his veins look ready to shoot out of his leg and wrap around me, asphyxiating me to death. I get that. But it's fucking HOT. Now, maybe it isn't hot for you if you're Tom Ford, and you weigh six pounds and a slight draft sends you rushing for your manpashmina because you decided to live your life like a fucking tuberculosis patient. Not all of us have a goddamn tennis court to retire to, cuntflap.
For NORMAL men, there are issues like swamp-ass that we have to deal with every day, and shorts help alleviate that problem. Not all the way. Sometimes you're sitting in your car and you can feel the sweat pooling up in your ass because your ass is trapped between your body and the scorching hot leather interior and God that's an awful moment. But at least your legs aren't dying, because you were smart enough to wear shorts.
It's only May and already my inner thighs can melt fucking steel right now. So I'm gonna wear shorts. Oh yes I am. I'm wearing them right now. Really sloppy looking shorts too. Mesh. You can see the outline of my dick in the fabric, they're so loose hanging. I look like a jobless hobo. And you know what? I DON'T CARE BECAUSE I'M NOT GOING TO DIE OF FUCKING HEAT STROKE.
I'm gonna wear my shorts and I'm gonna walk around like an uncivilized American caveman who would make Tom Ford gasp in fright and clutch his carryall. And if he doesn't like it, he can throw on a snowsuit and sit in a fucking kiln. Shorts are awesome.
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