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Boasting one of the most PACKED signing schedules of SPX and Fantagraphics' we have FOURTEEN people signing at our table (and a few more Fantagraphics' cartoonists are tabling all by their lonesome) You can find all these sweet 'n' sassy cartoonists and book debuts at tables W57-6, along the very rightmost wall.
Ed Piskor: 11-12:30pm, 3:30-5:00pm
Leslie Stein: 11-12:30pm
Michael Kupperman: 11am-1pm
Janet Hamlin: 12:30pm-2:30pm (Saturday signing only!)
Justin Hall: 12:30pm-1:30pm
Carol Tyler: 1-2:00pm, 6-7pm
Charles Forsman: 2-4pm
Gary Panter: 2-3pm
Dash Shaw: 2-3pm
Ulli Lust: 3-5pm
Paul Hornschemeier: 4-7pm
Ben Catmull: 5-6pm
Peter Bagge: 5-6pm
Marc Sobel: 6-7pm
Peter Bagge: Noon-1pm
Leslie Stein: Noon-1:30pm
Justin Hall: Noon-1pm
Carol Tyler: 1-2pm
Paul Hornschemeier: 1-2pm
Ed Piskor: 1:30-3pm
Ulli Lust: 2-4pm
Dash Shaw: 2-3:30pm, 5-6pm
Marc Sobel: 3-4pm
Michael Kupperman: 3:30-5pm
Gary Panter: 4-5pm
Ben Catmull: 4-6pm
Charles Forsman: 5-6pm
• Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor Yes yes y'all! This explosively entertaining, encyclopedic history will school you on the old school, taking you back to the early days of the music genre that changed global culture. Originally serialized on the hugely popular website Boing Boing, Hip Hop Family Tree is now collected in a single volume cleverly presented and packaged in a style mimicking the Marvel comics of the same era.
• Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013 by Janet Hamlin The only public visual record until 2013 of the notorious, historic, carefully censored military trials at Guantanamo is Hamlin's courtroom sketches. This book collects her most potent and revealing sketches and chronicles her experience.
• Fran by Jim Woodring What is to become of the beloved trilobular chuckbuster Frank now that he has journeyed outside the Unifactor and met his soulmate, Fran? The answer is delivered here in devastatingly unpredictable fashion. Fans of Frank, connoisseurs of bizarre romance, and spelunkers in the radiant depths of graphic metaphysical psychodrama will want to add this singular cartoon adventure story to their lifetime reading list.
• Everybody is Stupid Except for Me (And Other Astute Observations) by Peter Bagge A decade of informed, provocative, cantankerous & hilarious cartoon opinion pieces from our favorite libertarian curmudgeon, on topics ranging from Stupid War to Stupid Sex and, of course, Stupid Politicians. BONUS: This new edition of the sold-out Everybody Is Stupid features an extra 32 pages of never-before-collected comics, including an epic biography of eccentric libertarian (and Ayn Rand contemporary) Isabel Mary Paterson.
• Treasury of Mini Comics Volume 1, edited by Michael Dowers Four decades of deliberate DIY cartoon rebellion! Collecting some of the best mini comics ever produced by some of the most creative artists in the world. In a do-it-yourself world, anything goes… boundaries are crossed, envelopes pushed, wounds opened. From the silliest fart or boob jokes to the most deeply felt "EMO" style poetry, mini comics creators have been uninhibited in their efforts to strive for something fresh, raw, and vital.
• Love and Rockets: The Covers by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (badass design by Jacob Covey) A beautiful, oversized art book featuring over 120 iconic comic covers (front & back) from the first 3 decades of Love and Rockets, collected for the first time in full color. The perfect gift for L&R fan, this book presents them without trade dress (logos, marketing hype, etc.) when possible, allowing the original cover illustrations to communicate on their own. With a fancy clear plastic book jacket, you need to grab a copy and return home a hero.
• Wandering Son Volume 5 by Shimura Takako In this volume of the acclaimed series about transgendered kids exploring their unfolding identities, we've reached a big event; the junior high school entrance ceremony. Envy and jealousy are prominent themes in Volume 5: Chiba-san is jealous of Takatsuki-san, for whom Nitori-kun still carries a torch. Maho envies Anna-chan's professionalism as a model. And Chii-chan's loyal sidekick, Shiri Momoko, is intensely jealous of anyone in whom Chii-chan shows the slightest interest. And so our protagonists set off on the journey to adolescence….
• Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain by Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge's first appearance, in one of Barks's funniest holiday stories! "Christmas on Bear Mountain" is one of Barks's funniest holiday stories and a true landmark in comics history, and offers a fascinating look at a rough-edged, genuinely nasty character whom Barks would soon soften… Journey to Volcania, "down under" and the West Indies with Donald and the nephews. Plus seven 10-pagers and abundant critical and historical notes. Not available in stores until NOVEMBER!
• Walt Disney's Donald Duck Christmas Gift Box Set by Carl Barks A double dose of Disney's Donald Duck! A thoughtful, memorable, can't-miss special Christmas item handsomely presented in an inviting gift box set that will delight readers of any age. In these twin volumes, you'll find page after page after page of intrepid quests, daring adventures, and breathtaking escapes. Readers will be spellbound by these timeless classics – with their engaging plots, clever humor, and heartwarming themes.
• Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955 by Charles Schulz The first four years of Peanuts in sparkling, scrupulously remastered color! Relive that delightful, Sunday-morning reading experience and get a fascinating peek at Schulz's evolving creative process.
• The Complete Peanuts Volume 20 (1989-1990) by Charles M. Schulz The 20th volume is dense with romantic intrigue, from the Marcie-Peppermint Patty-Chuck triangle to Charlie Brown's romance with Peggy Jean. Snoopy meets his brother Olaf, Spike communes with the cacti, and more fun with the gang.


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The 918 Spyder Collection: complements the super sports car perfectly.
The 918 Spyder collection is Porsche Driver's Selection's tribute to the most fascinating new sports car of recent years. The high-performance hybrid caused a sensation among motoring experts. The press reports describing the technical innovations and performance of the 918 Spyder were overflowing with superlatives. Since the prototype was first presented at the Geneva Motor Show in May 2010, the car, which is manufactured in the main plant in Zuffenhausen, has become an object of desire throughout the world. Anyone who loves this spectacular and innovative car is sure to enjoy the 918 Spyder collection. It includes everything you could possibly want, from a luxury watch to a miniature model of the 918 Spyder. *Please note online clothing sizing is EU sizing. US sizing is 1 size smaller: Example - EU size M = US size S.

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OK, we haven't officially done athlete run-ins for a while now, but this is too great. Besides, it doesn't technically involve an athlete. We just heard this story yesterday and will not let another hour go by without sharing, because it must be out there, in its glory, hidden no longer. This was told to us verbally, over the phone, and we actually at one point reflexively spit out a lozenge which very nearly struck someone close and dear to us. We recreate the story here. Enjoy.
A friend of mine just told me he's getting married. When he gave me the news I immediately thought of the time we were in Scottsdale at spring training, because it's the best pickup story I've ever been a party to. It was about nine years ago, and I actually forget the bar. But my friend was seriously putting the moves on this somewhat attractive young woman, who was wearing leather pants and had a leather jacket draped over her lap. They had been chatting at the bar for about an hour, and my friend thought he was in the house. I had never seen someone work so hard for a score.
But just as he was putting on the finishing touches, Chris Berman walks by. And without even breaking stride, Berman looks at the girl, points and says "You're with me, leather." And the girl looks up, instantly recognizes Berman, snatches up her jacket and walks out with him, leaving my friend in mid-sentence.
Because we made another call to independently confirm this tale, "You're with me, leather," now officially enters the pantheon of Chris Bermanisms, of which there were probably several more uttered later during the evening in question. Yeah, we should have noted earlier that this thing gets really horrifying if you think about it too much.


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WWE Star Randy Orton -- DIVORCED ... He Gets Bentley & Guns
WWE Star Randy Orton DIVORCED He Gets Bentley & Guns
This came out of nowhere ... mega-rich WWE star Randy Orton HAS GOTTEN DIVORCED -- and TMZ has learned, he gets a ton of the marital loot ... including cars, massive bank accounts ... and of course, his gun collection.
The divorce order was signed just last month. Randy and his now-ex Samantha were married in 2007, but separated in 2012. Samantha filed for divorce in March, claiming the marriage was "irretrievably broken." They have one 4-year-old daughter.
But the split seems pretty amicable ... both parties came to a separation agreement, which details the division of property post-split.
According to the document, Randy gets his 2012 Range Rover, his 2011 Bentley, and his 2009 Harley Davidson. Samantha gets her 2013 Infiniti.
Randy also gets a bunch of six-figure bank accounts, his gun collection, his jewelry, and one house ... plus 100% of all rights, title, and interest in his WWE contract (which is worth a ton of money). According to the docs, Randy rakes in $291,666 per month in salary.
Meanwhile, Samantha gets a bank account worth $654,317 ... not bad ... as well as her jewelry (including her $99,000 engagement ring and wedding ring). She also gets one house.
As for their daughter, Samantha gets sole legal and physical custody, but Randy gets visitation. He has also agreed to pay Samantha $4,500 per month in child support.
Seems pretty fair to us.


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Barcelona Nights by Ottmar Liebert (1959-)
Ottmar Liebert is a German-born composer and guitarist, born to a Chinese-German father and a Hungarian mother. As a child, he spent most of his time traveling Europe and Asia with his family. Ottmar leads an ensemble called Luna Negra ("Black Moon"), which has gained popularity performing as a touring band and recording music albums in a "Nouveau Flamenco" style.
Flamenco. 94 Measure. 7 pages. 4/4 Time Signature. Rasgueado. 4 Pdf containing 4 voices. lead guitar, harmony guitar. rhythm guitar, accompaniment.


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History of Silicon Valley
For the past fifty years Silicon Valley has been the world center for venture capital markets, technology investment, and innovation. The Silicon Valley "model" of conducting deals and supporting entrepreneurial capitalism is widely used around the world. Silicon Valley is now home to the largest concentration of technology expertise in the world, boasting more than 6,600 technology companies employing more than 254,000 people.
The Electric Spark that Started the Beginning
If venture capital is the engine that runs Silicon Valley, then Arthur Rock may be its James Watt–the guy who figured out how to harness steam. He once said, "I want to build great companies. That's how I get my kicks. I look for people who want the same thing." Rock's story starts in the spring of 1956 when William Shockley, who co-invented the transistor in 1947 while working at AT&T's Bell Laboratories, founded the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory near Palo Alto, California and Sand Hill Road.
Despite his brilliance as a physicist Shockley was a disaster as a business manager. Eventually, Shockley's core team could not stand it anymore. The renegade engineers–nicknamed the "Traitorous Eight" decided to leave and form a new venture.
The eight were Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and Sheldon Roberts. They contacted the New York investment banking firm of Hayden, Stone & Company because Kleiner's father had an account there.
They asked the bank to help them find a corporation interested in hiring the group of them to help establish a semiconductor operation, preferably, on the San Francisco Peninsula.
This attracted the attention of Rock, an analyst at the investment bank. Rock in turn introduced them to Sherman Fairchild, who at that time was IBM's largest shareholder. Fairchild was interested in redirecting his camera company towards the field of electronics and data processing. Together they created Fairchild Semiconductor in Palo Alto in 1957, the first venture to work solely with silicon.
Over the years, the departing "Fairchildren" helped to create the semiconductor industry. Between 1966 and 1969, no less than 27 new chip ventures were formed by Fairchild émigrés. Two the eight, Noyce and Moore, started Intel Corporation in 1968 and Rock also funded them with $2.5 million.
Perkins and Kleiner founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the most influential and central venture capital firms in the world today. Together, the Fairchildren established the central philosophy of Silicon Valley–anyone with a good enough idea can get the capital, the workforce and the markets to make it a reality.
Discussions About The Risk Capital Industry In The United States
Frank Knight, a professor of economics at Chicago in 1928, wrote in Uncertainty and Profits, "The only risk which leads to a profit is a unique uncertainty. Profits arise out of the inherent, absolute unpredictability of things." Alfred R. Berkeley III, vice chairman of NASDAQ, told us that "capital is like oil; it's stored energy. It's the fruits of someone else's labor ready to be put into play in businesses."
For nearly every entrepreneur, access to private equity capital, or risk capital, is a key ingredient to successful business growth. In the broadest understanding of the stratification of capital, risk capital is money for investment in innovative enterprises or research in which both the risk of loss and the potential for profit may be considerable.
We use the terms risk capital and private equity to refer to the universe of that asset class—which includes angel investments, venture capital, leveraged buyout, and mezzanine financing—that make direct capital investments in high-growth potential ventures. The one element that binds this diverse group of investors is that they receive some type of equity or stock vehicle when they put money into a venture.
Conceived in France
Contrary to most media reports, the venture capital industry did not start in 1996, nor did it die in 2000. Many claim to be the "first venture capitalist," but the practice dates back as long as humans were exploring, inventing, producing, and selling. Although Britain already had developed a capital market late in the eighteenth century to fund the industrial revolution, it was the Parisian brothers Jacob and Isaac Pereire who leveraged the studies of the French economists who established Credit Mobilier as the first true entrepreneurial bank in 1852. Their work in France became "a philosophical system around the creative role of capital" and the prototype for the entire banking system in Europe, and it ushered in what we can call finance capitalism.
Born in New York
The model for modern banking crossed the Atlantic after the turmoil of the Civil War. Its beachhead was established in New York by Jay Cooke and the American Credit Mobilier, which helped to finance the transcontinental railroad. Later, J.P. Morgan, who had been exposed to banking in London, established his bank in New York in 1865 as the "conduit for European investment capital in American industry." He is recognized as the founder of the "most successful entrepreneurial bank of the nineteenth century," and it still operates today. One of the first major deals in American history was in 1877 when Thomas Alva Edison formed the Edison Electric Light Company. In 1889, working with the investment bank Drexel, Morgan & Company, Edison established his electrical manufacturing firm, which today is known as General Electric.
Nurtured in Boston
The industry was still immature until the end of World War II. Three people stand out among those who put risk capital on a more permanent institutional base: John H. Whitney, a wealthy polo player and angel investor; Georges F. Doriot, a Harvard Business School professor of entrepreneurship; and Ralph E. Flanders, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. In 1946 Flanders helped Doriot form the American Research and Development Corporation (ARD) in Boston. It used a small pool of risk capital from individuals and institutions to make active investments in selected emerging businesses. Whitney was first to coin the phrase venture capital. On February 10, 1946, J.H. Whitney & Co. opened their doors with $10 million of Whitney's own money committed to invest in new business ventures.
Matured in Silicon Valley
Venture capital, which was born in New York and nurtured in Boston, did not really come of age until it moved to California. There it "joined forces with the brash young technologists who were using bits of silicon to create an information revolution as profound as the industrial revolution a century earlier" in Santa Clara County.
With only some 600,000 acres, about the size of Rhode Island, it is hard for some to believe that Santa Clara was seen as the seed farm to the world. But millions have visited Santa Clara, much like the nineteenth-century politicians, journalists, technologists, and revolutionaries, who made obligatory pilgrimages to Manchester, England, to pay homage to the steam revolution and to meditate on the new economy that was then being created. Silicon Valley's investment banking community was firmly established in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It turned entrepreneurs' dreams into mountains of cash on the fertile soils first tilled by innovators like Bill Draper.
After he helped run the Marshall Plan in Europe for President Eisenhower, General William H. Draper founded Draper, Gaither & Anderson in 1958, together with Rowan Gaither (founder of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, CA) and Frederick L. Anderson (a retired Air Force general). After working three years at his father's firm, William Draper, General Draper's son, founded Draper & Johnson Investments with Pitch Johnson. The Drapers along with Arthur Rock are known as the few who "made Silicon Valley happen."
Educated in the SBIC Program
In 1958 Lyndon Johnson was seeking small-business support for his run as the Democratic presidential nomination, and he pushed the Small Business Investment Company Act of 1958 through the U.S. Senate. The SBIC program gave tax breaks to private investment companies that targeted small businesses and let them leverage their resources with low-interest loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). During the late 1960s the program helped fuel the creation of today's formal venture capital industry by creating hundreds of venture capitalists overnight. These early firms were formed as limited partnerships, with the venture capital company acting as the general partner. The general partners received a management fee and a percentage of the profits earned on a deal. The limited partners, who supplied the funding, were institutional investors such as insurance companies, endowment funds, bank trust departments, pension funds, and wealthy individuals and families.
This pattern has pretty much been the same since 1978–1979, when pension funds began investing in venture capital funds after the Labor Department liberalized rules under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). One of the key milestones of the venture capital industry in the United States, the act changed not only the composition of investors in risk capital funds but also increased the total flow of funds into the venture capital industry. Before 1978 new commitments to VC funds had never exceeded $500 million (in 1993 dollars). In 1979, new commitments exceeded $1 billion for the first time and averaged over $4 billion in new commitments per year throughout the 1980s.
Perfected in the Reagan Era
Things changed with President Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, when the business environment shifted from President Carter's "Days of Malaise" as the Republicans produced political leaders committed to entrepreneurial capitalism. Their thrust took shape under "supply-side economics," which was first envisioned by economic adviser Dr. Arthur Laffer. His winning thesis was simply this: Lower the marginal tax rates. He believed that individuals should keep more of their hard-earned money, which would encourage them to make more.
On August 15, 1981, less than seven months after being sworn in, President Reagan signed the Kemp-Roth bill into law. It was the cornerstone of what would become the most successful economic policy for new business venturing in U.S. history. The bill's treatment of capital gains, a lowering of the top capital gains tax rate from 28 percent to 20 percent, made high risk investments even more attractive, causing a twofold increase in commitments to venture capital funds in 1981. Entrepreneurs then launched a boom that would last, except for a brief eight months following the Gulf War in 1991, until the end of the twentieth century. It was the longest period of economic expansion in the nation's history. Between 1983 and 2003, the Dow Jones Industrial average provided an annual return of 11 percent. For comparison, between 1965 and 1983 its annual return was 1 percent.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor Non-Farm Employment Data, the American economy generated over 27 million new jobs between 1980 and 1995. Over 24 million of these new jobs were created by small- and medium-size entrepreneurs operating high-growth ventures. As Dr. Laffer predicted, even Washington, D.C., prospered well, with the U.S. Treasury revenues increasing 28 percent to more than $1 trillion in 1990.
At the closing of the last century, MIT economist Lester Thurow had this to say: "In what will come to be seen as the third industrial revolution, new technological opportunities are creating fortunes faster than ever before. The United States has created more billionaires in the past fifteen years than in its previous history—even correcting for inflation and changes in average per capita gross domestic product."
Understanding the Economic Impact of Venture Capital on the U.S. Economy
Entrepreneurship, combined with support from venture capital, is a major force driving economic growth in the United States. Thomas McConnell of New Enterprise Associates said, "Venture capital investment is a national phenomenon that helps set the U.S. economy apart from others in the world." Venture capital financed groundbreaking research and untold improvements in infrastructure and technology. The average venture-backed company employs nearly 100 workers within five years and creates almost twice as many jobs as their nonventure-backed competitors.
In his 2002 presentation before the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Mark Heesen stated it clearly. He said, "Investments by venture capitalists over the past thirty years have built companies that are responsible for nearly 11 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, have created 12.5 million jobs, and have generated $1.1 trillion in revenue in the year 2000 alone."
John Taylor from the NVCA provides more details. A NVCA-supported study found that for every dollar invested in 1970–1999 there was $6.50 in U.S. revenue during 2000. And for every $13,775 of venture capital investment between 1970–1999, there was one job in the year 2000. In 2000, U.S. venture-backed firms paid $58.8 billion in federal taxes, $7.8 billion in state and local taxes, had net income of $13.8 billion, exported $21.7 billion, and invested $157.3 billion in R&D.
There is no doubt that venture capital will continue to play an increasingly vital role during difficult economic times like we experienced after the Perfect Storm. It is one of the few sources of risk capital available to innovative businesses. In fact, as Heesen adds, "Some of today's most successful companies were founded in difficult economic environments."
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The ceiling fans with lights are the perfect combination of lights and ceiling fans, also the perfect embodiment of classic and modern styles, home essential for its both decorative and practicality. This rustic ceiling fans with size 42 inch is suitable for room space around 8~15m2, widely used as living room ceiling fans and hotel room ceiling fans etc.
It features a bronze finish, wooden walnut blades, and light fixture with opal frosted glass, relies on a silicon steel motor with triple capacitor to provide powerful, quiet circulation. It also features three fan speeds and a reversible switch for customized comfort. Run the ceiling fan counterclockwise to stay cool in the summer, or run it clockwise to recirculate warm air in the winter and eliminate cold spots. This transitional ceiling fan with light is controlled by pull chain.
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There are two Shelby 1000s in the world. Watchmaker David Yurman took one out to the desert and filmed all of its whining, supercharged, tire-smoking glory.
We don't know much about Yurman's watch, but we could listen to that V8/supercharger combo for hours. The whole video is like watching Mad Max in high def, but with guys wrenching on things in slo-mo instead of some crazed anti-Semite strutting around in leather pants.
And no, none of this footage was 'shopped. It's just what you get when you put 950 all-natural horses to work.
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Beyond a Shadow of a Stout
We all love Stouts, and now we have a dedicated badge to celebrate your dedication to these dark, top-fermented beer in multiple variations, like Oatmeal, Milk and more! Which one will you start with? That's 5 different beers with the style of Stout. Try 5 more for Level 2!
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'Horrific' Situation Led Bernard And Ruth Madoff To Try Suicide, She Says
"I thought, 'I just can't, I can't take this. I don't know how I'll ever get through this, nor do I want to.' So we decided to do it."
So says Ruth Madoff — wife of the mastermind behind what's thought to be the biggest Ponzi scheme ever — to The New York Times about the Christmas Eve 2008 suicide attempt by the couple.
She and Bernard Madoff, Ruth said in interviews with the Times and with CBS News' 60 Minutes, each took handfuls of what they thought was Ambien and then climbed into the "chintz-draped canopy bed" in their Manhattan penthouse. But instead of dying, they both woke up.
Ruth tells the Times she's glad she didn't die. "I'm not sure how I felt about him waking up," she adds.
Ruth calls the situation her husband put them in "just horrific."
Bernard Madoff, who stole billions from investors who trusted him with their money and cost those investors nearly $90 billion in cash and paper losses, is serving a 150-year sentence at a federal prison in North Carolina.
The couple's son Mark, 46, committed suicide last December. He and his brother Andrew were never charged with any crimes and in fact had alerted authorities to what their father was doing.
Bernard Madoff tells ABC News' Barbara Walters that he hasn't spoken with Ruth since just after their son's death. ABC's Good Morning America reports that:
"Not seeing my family and knowing they hate me" is the worst thing about being in prison, he said. "I betrayed them."
Much more from Ruth's conversation with 60 Minutes' Morley Safer is due on Sunday night's broadcast (7 p.m. ET). The Times says she is giving interviews "to help promote a new authorized biography, Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family, to be published Monday by Little, Brown."


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OCZ Reaper HPC 2GB PC2-8500: Earlier this year we had reviewed OCZ's Flex XLC memory, which was great if you planned on water cooling your memory with its Xtreme Liquid Convection heatspreaders, but if water near your computer system frights you, OCZ recently introduced a new alternative that uses a heat-pipe conduit for cooling your DDR2 memory. This cooper cooling solution is patent-pending and is designed to transfer the heat away from the memory through the copper heat-pipe and to an aluminum fin array. The memory at hand today is the OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Reaper HPC edition, which runs at DDR2-1066 with 5-5-5-15 timings and is backed by an OCZ lifetime warranty.
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rcapd [-d]
The rcapd daemon enforces resource caps on collections of processes. Per-project and per-zone physical memory caps are supported. For information about projects, see project(4). For zones information, see zones(5)
When the resident set size (RSS) of a collection of processes exceeds its cap, rcapd takes action and reduces the RSS of the collection.
The virtual memory system divides physical memory into segments known as pages. To read data from a file into memory, the virtual memory system reads in individual pages. To reduce resource consumption, the daemon can page out, or relocate, infrequently used pages to an area outside of physical memory.
In the project file, caps are defined for projects that have positive values for the following project attribute:
See project(4) for a description of project attributes.
For a system with one or more zones, you can dynamically set the rcap.max-rss value for a zone with rcapadm(1M). To set a persistent cap on memory usage within a zone, you use zonecfg(1M).
You configure rcapd through the use of rcapadm(1M). The daemon can be monitored with rcapstat(1). Configuration changes are incorporated into rcapd by sending it SIGHUP (see kill(1)), or according to the configuration interval (see rcapadm(1M)).
The following option is supported:
Example 1 Setting Resident Set Size Cap Attribute
The following line in the /etc/project database sets an RSS cap of 1073741824 bytes for a project named foo.
The following exit values are returned:
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
rcapstat(1), svcs(1), rcapadm(1M), zonecfg(1M), svcadm(1M), project(4), attributes(5), smf(5), zones(5)
"Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon" in System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management, and Solaris Zones
If killed with SIGKILL, rcapd can leave processes in a stopped state. Use SIGTERM to cause rcapd to terminate properly.
A collection's RSS can exceed its cap for some time before the cap is enforced, even if sufficient pageable memory is available. This period of time can be reduced by shortening the RSS sampling interval with rcapadm.
The rcapd service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier:
Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). The service's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.


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Willys History: John Willys bought the Overland Automotive Division of the Standard Wheel Company in 1908 and renamed it the Willys-Overland Motor Company in 1912. In 1913 Willys continued to build his empire by buying the Edwards Motor Car Company, followed by the Electric Auto-Lite Company in 1914, the Russell Motor Car Company in 1916, New Process Gear in 1917, the Duesenberg Motors Company in 1919 and the F.B. Stearns Company in 1920 (among others).
Between 1912 and 1918 the Willys Overland was second in U.S. production to Ford and in 1926 the line was replaced by the Whippet. In 1913 Willys bought the rights the Charles Knight sleeve valve engine and used the Edwards Motor Car Company to build the Willys-Knight. Willys-Knight automobiles were built from 1913 to 1233 and in their heyday, the mid 1920s, the company produced over 50,000 cars per year.
The recession in the 1920s was more than Willys could handle and his backers put Walter P. Chrysler in charge. Chrysler developed the 'Chrysler Six' but it was not enough to save the company and much of it was auctioned off. The last Whippet was produced in 1931 and the Willys-Knight division closed its doors in 1933. After the Great Depression Willys started over with the Willys '77' but did not have enough capital to make it work, then World War II turned things around. During the war Willys-Overland Motors built over 350,000 Jeeps, which became the CJ-2A for the civilian market. However the civilian market had only modest interest in this utility vehicle, even after four-wheel drive was added. In 1946 Willys-Overland introduced the Willys Jeep Utility Wagon and the Jeep utility truck the following year
In 1953 Kaiser Motors bought the Willys-Overland Company and changed the name to Willys Motor Company. In 1963 the name was changed to the Kaiser-Jeep Corporation, who removed the Willys name in 1965 and then sold the company to American Motors Corporation (AMC) in 1970. In 1980 Renault partnered with Kaiser-Jeep to build the CJ Jeep series until 1986. And then in 1987 Chrysler bought American Motors.


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Scientists Refute Greenpeace Claims About GM Corn
Lanham, MD; January 6, 2012 -- An article in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) refutes claims by Greenpeace Germany that the western bean cutworm (WBC), Striacosta albicosta (Smith), is "a new plant pest" that was "caused by genetically engineered corn." The Greenpeace Germany report, which was written by author Richard Then of Testbiotech, offers a "surprisingly simplistic conclusion" regarding the spread of western bean cutworm over the last decade, according to the JIPM authors.
In "Genetically Engineered Bt Corn and Range Expansion of the Western Bean Cutworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the United States: A Response to Greenpeace Germany," corresponding author William Hutchison, professor and chair of the University of Minnesota Department of Entomology, and his co-authors maintain that the Greenpeace report fails to consider broader ecological and agronomic factors which explain why the WBC's range has expanded. These additional factors include insect biology, synchrony of insect and corn phenology, reduced insecticide use, increases in conservation tillage, soil type, glyphosate-resistant crops, insect genetics, insect pathogens, pre-existing insect population densities, and climate change.
The JIPM authors focus on several discrepancies of fact and interpretation in the Greenpeace document, beginning with its title, "Agro-biotechnology: New plant pest caused by genetically engineered corn. The spread of the western bean cutworm causes massive damage in the U.S."
Despite the Greenpeace claim, the WBC is neither "new" nor has it caused "massive damage" recently. The WBC was originally collected in Arizona in the 1880s and was considered an economic pest of beans and corn as early as 1915. Over the last decade its range has expanded, but documentation of economically damaging infestations has been relatively limited.
The Greenpeace claim that the WBC has historically "been confined to very limited regions and did not cause any major problems in maize crops" is also untrue, according to the authors. Farmers in Nebraska reported major problems as early as 1962, and instead of being "confined to very limited regions," the WBC was documented throughout the western Great Plains from Mexico to Alberta, where it was found in the mid 1950s, despite the Greenpeace claim that it was found in Canada for the first time as recently as 2009.
According to the authors, "a curious theme throughout the Greenpeace Germany report, is that Then (2010) ignored the possibility of other influences on western bean cutworm range expansion, including several ecological and agronomic factors." For example, the increasing use of conservation tillage since the mid-1990s favors the survival rate of WBC larvae because less deep plowing minimizes mortality to insect pests that overwinter in the soil. Another possible reason is the reduction or elimination of insecticide applications, which has occurred with increased use of Bt corn over the past decade, likely resulting in increased survival of the WBC. Other possibilities for the WBC range expansion, such as climate change, were also ignored by Greenpeace and Testbiotech.
Out of concern that "potential misinterpretation of selected quotes" in the Greenpeace report may lead to confusion among future regulatory decision makers, the authors go on to give specific responses to other claims in the report.
These responses, and the full JIPM article, can be downloaded at http://www.entsoc.org/PDF/2012/JIPM-Greenpeace.pdf.
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Right Wing Honors Pearl Harbor by Whining About Sasha and Malia's School Lunch
It's the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and across the internet, the right wing is commemorating this world-historical event the only way it knows how: by insinuating bizarre things about the Obamas.
See, Sidwell Friends, the private school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama, is serving an "Asian" menu for lunch today, featuring teriyaki chicken and roasted edamame (as well as "oriental noodle salad" and fortune cookies). The school—which hires a subcontractor that assigns menus randomly—says it's "completely coincidental." Hmmm.
Now, I'm something of an amateur historian, and after doing a little bit of research I've uncovered a great deal of evidence that the U.S. is not actually at war with Japan anymore, and also that, who on earth gives a shit what the Obama kids eat for lunch? But let me answer my own question! Right wing trolls give a shit. "'Random'? 'Coincidental'? MY ASS!!!" writes "Nachum" on this delightful Free Republic thread. Drudge gives the story prominent placement at the top left: "Sasha and Malia Obama's School Opts For Japanese Food... 'Completely coincidental'..." And, of course, G. Gordon Liddy had to share his opinion:
Harmless oversight or a slap in the face?
Sasha and Malia Obama's School Opts For Asian Food On Pearl Harbor Day
http://t.co/u3gdJN4N:Wed Dec 07 15:28:41 via web
Happy Pearl Harbor Day, everyone! So nice to know that our men and women in uniform died to bring us all this.


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Be near me Lord Jesus, I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever, and love me, I pray.
Bless all the dear children in thy tender care,
And fit us for heaven to live with thee there.
Every Christmas Eve we sing "Away in a Manger," and for the past 30 years I've cried whenever we get to stanza 3. I can't get through it. There is nothing more important in our world than the nurture, care, and security of children.
That's why I'm grieving, I'm sad, I'm angry, and I'm determined. Like the rest of our country, I am grieving the deaths of 20 first-graders and 7 adults from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut, who were gunned down by 20-year-old Adam Lanza. Lanza's own mother was the first victim. I can't comprehend how such a horrific tragedy could happen in an ordinary town that has always been a safe place for children and families to live.
Millions of people the world over have gathered to pray for the families of the victims, those who survived, and first-responders. This is the worst mass murder since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre and is the latest in a string of multiple killings this year.
Since we are in the season of Advent/Christmas/Epiphany, the Massacre of the Innocents comes to mind. King Herod ordered all the boy babies under the age of two in Bethlehem to be killed in the hope of snuffing out the life of the child Jesus, a competing "King of the Jews." Matthew's quotation of the prophet Jeremiah, referencing the killing of these babies, rings true today, "A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more."
I still remember the Bible story book my mother read to me as a child. Every Christmas story about Mary and Joseph, Jesus' birth in a manger, the wise men, and the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt is fresh in my mind. I remember nothing, however, about the Massacre of the Innocents and am grateful that my mother spared me that gruesome story, which I didn't need to hear as a little kid.
I'm also blessed that my mother and father were able to give me a safe childhood. They were excellent parents, and I wish that same kind of secure upbringing for all children in this world. But I now know there was also a lot of luck involved, for the world can be a scary place, and even the best of parents cannot always protect their children. That's why I grieve. I grieve for the lives that could have been and for those who are suffering through this unthinkable tragedy. Be near them, Lord Jesus, I ask Thee to stay.
I'm not just grieving, I'm sad. I'm sad because of the destructive ways in which human beings choose to abuse and hurt other people. God created each one of us with free will, which means that God will not stand in the way of the decisions we make. Because we are not robots we can choose evil over good, but we also bear the responsibility for our decision-making.
Sometimes I wish God would just intervene and stop this madness, but that is not God's way. God wants us to follow the ways of Jesus, to do good rather than harm. How God must suffer, then, when we freely choose to hurt and kill one another.
God yearns for us to imitate Christ in our thoughts, words, and actions, but God will never force the heart. God goes so far as to invite us to be God's representatives on this earth. It's up to us to create a world of peace, mutual understanding, respect, and inclusivity. I am awestruck by the millions of acts of kindness that take place every day in our world. They far overshadow the mass killings.
I am also sad for Adam Lanza, for his tortuous life that prompted him to inflict such evil. I am sad when people with mental illnesses don't receive the help they need to live with joy and fulfillment, and I'm sad when we label other people and don't reach out to those on the fringes. God loved Adam Lanza, too. Close by them forever, and love them I pray.
I am not just grieving and sad, I am angry. It's a righteous indignation that some Christians are using this mass killing as an opportunity to promote a religious/political agenda that has nothing to do with the tragedy and defies God's grace in Jesus Christ.
Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was asked on Fox Live how God could let this tragedy happen, and he responded, "We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage? … Maybe we ought to let Him in on the front end, and we wouldn't have to call Him to show up when it's all said and done at the back end."
Huckabee's pronouncement mocks the amazing effort and skills of our public school educators and administrators to teach character as well as academics. It also disregards the reality that government-mandated school prayer is unconstitutional for good reason. But the greatest travesty is that Huckabee assumes God was not present during the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary. God is always there in the moments of our greatest need.
Equally distressing were the comments made by Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association on his radio program last Friday, "You know, the question is going to come up, where was God? … God is not going to go where He's not wanted… No, we have spent 50 years telling God to get lost… 'We don't want You in our schools'… We've kicked God out of our public school system. And I think God would say to us, 'Hey, I'll be glad to protect children, but you gotta invite me back into your world first. I'm not going to go where I'm not wanted. I am a gentleman.'"
Such declarations remake God into the image of a small, mean, and vindictive deity who refuses to protect children, and that image has nothing to do with what we know about God in Jesus Christ. God does not duck out because God is "not wanted" or "offended." Rather, we see in our scriptures a God who never causes brokenness and evil and comes to us even when we turn away. Moreover, in Jesus' crucifixion we see God's willingness to suffer the very pain and evil that afflict us. For God is Emmanuel, "God with us."
Our Christian beliefs affirm that God was there with the victims of the Sandy Hook shootings. Jesus was the very first responder last Friday, giving courage and comfort to the children and teachers and cradling those who were shot in God's eternal arms. Bless all the dear children in thy tender care.
I am not just grieving, sad, and angry. I am determined. Enough is enough. We must put an end to our love affair with guns in this country. Why is it that my daughter's friends who live in other countries tell her, "We don't want to live in the United States because everyone has access to guns. Why is everyone allowed to have a gun?" At a Taize prayer service on Saturday night, someone mentioned that a friend stationed in Afghanistan posted on Facebook, "Why is it that I am safer in Afghanistan than you are in the United States?"
In many parts of the country the predominant culture is not sports, music, or technology, but guns. There are an estimated 300 million guns in our country. Connecticut's "Gun Valley" is the birthplace of the U.S. firearms industry. Ironically, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the second largest gun lobby in the U.S. after the National Rifle Association, is located in Newtown, just 3 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School.
In another odd twist, the Michigan legislature approved Senate Bill 59 last Thursday, the day before the mass shooting. This bill would allow concealed weapons in formerly off-limit places such as schools, day care centers, stadiums, hospitals, and churches. The bill is waiting for Governor Rick Snyder's signature.
Many churches have declared themselves gun-free zones, including the West Michigan Conference of The United Methodist Church. If our churches are indeed sanctuaries, what place do guns have in our buildings? Are there any sacred and safe places left? We are called to bring in the kingdom of God not with violence but with shalom, grace, hope, and forgiveness. And fit us for heaven to live with thee there.
Could this be the tipping point? What are we willing to give up in our country so that all people can live in safety? I am determined to advocate not only for gun-free churches and schools but for common sense regulations that do not permit ordinary citizens to own assault weapons that can kill dozens of people in a few minutes.
We have just one world, just as 20 sets of parents in Newtown, Connecticut had just one first-grade child. Do we have the courage and the will to put our children above our guns? Are we fit for heaven – and for earth?
P.S. The next "Leading from the Heart" will be published on December 31. May the angel's song be yours as well this Christmas and always.


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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Atypical Antipsychotics vs. Older Meds: $$$
Here's what I found on Walgreens.com. These are monthly costs.
Olanzapine (Zyprexa) 15mg: $554.98
Risperidone (Risperdal) 4mg: $331.09
Quetiapine (Seroquel) 500mg: $519.77
Aripiprazole (Abilify) 20mg: $518.99
Ziprasidone (Geodon) 100mg: $483.08
Compared to:
Haloperidol (Haldol) 5mg : $10.89
Perphenazine 16mg: $29.83
Looking like a lot more than a 10-fold difference in price, eh?
Now, let's add in benztropine to control for some of the side effects commonly seen on haloperidol or perphenazine.
Benztropine 2mg: $12.09
We get a total of Haldol + benztropine of $22.98 per month and perphenazine + benztropine of $41.92. Thus, the cheapest new AP (Risperdal) is eight times as pricey as perphenazine + benztropine. Most of the comparisons with Haldol suggest that the price difference, even including benztropine as an adjunctive medication, is at least 20-fold. With perphenazine + benztropine, the difference decreases to 10-13 times as expensive.
The doses I used were from gleaning doses that were used in clinical trials.
We know, however, that the atypical antipsychotics are not 10-20 times more effective than older meds; indeed, there is little reason to suspect they are much more effective at all in comparison to older meds, as can be seen here, here, here, and here.
4 comments:
- Alone said...
Finally, someone doing the analysis of cost the correct way.
Let me just add one thing: in a world where the doctor isn't accountable to the cost, there's no reason to Rx two drugs (e.g. haldol + cogentin) when one (atypical) would do.
If doctors had to opreate within a pharmacy budget, then there would be.
But it's not all bad for Pharma. For example, is Seroquel more expensive than Haldol+cogentin+ ambien? (I don't know.) If not, then AZ may have a case in using Seroquel over the combo.
you see my point. Any discussion about the relative merits of one drug over another has to include efficacy, safety, and cost. Right now, doctors are only responsible for the first two.
- Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:55:00 PM
- CL Psych said...
Thanks for your comment. I did the calculations including Ambien. For 12.5 mg/day, Ambien runs $111.99/month. Thus, an Ambien/Cogentin/Haldol cocktail is still much less pricey than a single atypical med on a monthly basis. If you REALLY liked polypharmacy, you could throw in generic alprazolam and paroxetine to the mix and still come out cheaper than a single atypical. But in the real world, I bet many docs prescribe and atypical or two along with Effexor or Lexapro in combination with Xanax XR to blow costs absolutely through the roof. And when prescribing to people with schizophrenia, who cares? After all, it's just the taxpayer who foots the bill in most cases!
- Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:05:00 PM
- Kass said...
Forgive me for my stupidity, but why are the atypicals so expensive? Is it just the fact that they're newer? I don't understand what makes them different from the older antipsychotics. (Sorry I haven't done my homework on this...)
- Tuesday, January 02, 2007 8:24:00 PM
- CL Psych said...
The atypicals are more expensive because they are currently under patent -- there are no generic atypicals. Starting some time this year, Risperdal will lose its patent and a generic formulation will be available shortly.
The older meds are all generic at this point and are hence much cheaper
- Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:18:00 AM


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Once released, the bomb's INS/GPS will take over and guide the bomb to its target regardless of weather. Guidance is accomplished via the tight coupling of an accurate Global Positioning System (GPS) with a 3-axis Inertial Navigation System (INS). The Guidance Control Unit (GCU) provides accurate guidance in both GPS-aided INS modes of operation (13 meter (m) Circular Error Probable (CEP)) and INS-only modes of operation (30 m CEP). INS only is defined as GPS quality hand-off from the aircraft with GPS unavailable to the weapon (e.g. GPS jammed). In the event JDAM is unable to receive GPS signals after launch for any reason, jamming or otherwise, the INS will provide rate and acceleration measurements which the weapon software will develop into a navigation solution. The Guidance Control Unit provides accurate guidance in both GPS-aided INS modes of operation and INS-only modes of operation. This inherent JDAM capability will counter the threat from near-term technological advances in GPS jamming.
The weapon system allows launch from very low to very high altitude and can be launched in a dive, toss, loft or in straight and level flight with an on-axis or off-axis delivery. JDAM also allows multiple target engagements on a single pass delivery. JDAM provides the user with a variety of targeting schemes, such as preplanned and inflight captive carriage retargeting.
JDAM is being developed by Lockheed Martin and Boeing [McDonald Douglas]. In October 1995, the Air Force awarded a contract for EMD and for the first 4,635 JDAM kits at an average unit cost of $18,000, less than half the original $40,000 estimate. As a result of JDAM's pilot program status, low-rate initial production was accelerated nine months, to the latter half of FY 1997. On April 30, 1997, the Air Force announced the decision to initiate low-rate initial production (LRIP) of JDAM, with the first production lot of 937 JDAM kits. The JDAM Integrated Product Team achieved a phenomenal 53 guided JDAM weapon releases in the six months prior to the LRIP decision. JDAM demonstrated high reliability and outstanding accuracy. Twenty-two of the weapon releases were accomplished during an early Air Force operational assessment. Over a four-week period operational crews put JDAM through an operationally representative evaluation, including targets shrouded by clouds and obscured by snow. All 22 weapons successfully performed up to their operational requirements including overall accuracy of 10.3 meters, significantly better than the 13 meter requirement. Early operational capability JDAMs have been delivered to Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., and low-rate, initial production JDAM deliveries begin on 02 May 1998. McDonnell Douglas Corporation of Berkeley, MO, was awarded on 02 April 1999, a $50,521,788 face value increase to a firm-fixed-price contract to provide for low rate initial production of 2,527 Joint Direct Attack Munition kits. The work is expected to be completed by January 2001.On 28 April 2000 McDonnell Douglas Corp., Berkeley, Mo., was awarded a $5,648,796 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract to provide for incorporation of Pin-Lock Tail Actuator System technology into the production effort for 8,163 Joint Direct Attack Munition kits. The Pin-Lock Tail Actuator System provides a more durable and accurate method of maneuvering the tail fins of the JDAM than the existing Friction Brake technology. Expected contract completion date was 31 March 2001.
The JDAM program is nearing the end of its development phase. More than 250 flight tests involved five Air Force and Navy aircraft. JDAM will be carried on virtually all Air Force fighters and bombers, including the B-1, B-2, B-52, F-15E, F-16, F-22, F-117, and F/A-18.
JDAM was certified as operational capable on the B-2 in July 1997. Limited Initial Operational Capability was achieved on the B-52 in December 1998.
The B-1B Lancer conventional mission upgrade program is configuring the B-1B to carry out its role as the primary Air Force long-range heavy bomber for conventional warfare. The 11 Feb 1998 drop from a B-1B was the 122nd guided JDAM launch. The depot at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center will install the modification kits in the initial block of bombers by January 1999, giving Air Combat Command seven JDAM-capable B-1B bombers 18 months ahead of the initial program schedule.
The JDAM product improvement program may add a terminal seeker for precision guidance and other system improvements to existing JDAMs to provide the Air Force with 3-meter precision and improved anti-jamming capability. The Air Force is evaluating several alternatives and estimates that the seeker could be available for operations by 2004. The seeker kit could be used by both the 2,000-pound blast fragmentation and penetrator JDAMs.The Advanced Unitary Penetrator (AUP), a candidate to be integrated with a GBU-31 guidance kit, is a 2000 lb. class penetrator warhead intended as an upgrade/replacement for the BLU-109 warhead in applications requiring increased penetration. The AUP is designed to provide increased penetration capability over the BLU-109 warhead while maintaining the same overall weight, mass properties, dimensions, and physical interfaces associated with the BLU-109 warhead. This concept integrates the AUP warhead with the GBU-31, the JDAM tail kit for 2,000 lb class warheads. This concept uses the Hard Target Smart Fuze (HTSF), an accelerometer based electronic fuze which allows control of the detonation point by layer counting, distance or time. The accelerometer senses G loads on the bomb due to deceleration as it penetrates through to the target. The fuze can distinguish between earth, concrete, rock and air. The boosted penetrator concept is based on achieving maximum penetration without sacrificing operational flexibility. Total system weight will be less than 2,250 pounds so that it can be carried by all AF tactical aircraft and bombers as well as the Navy's F/A-18. The goal is to achieve greater penetration than the GBU-28 with a near term, affordable design. A dense metal warhead will be used with a wraparound rocket motor to allow internal carriage in the F-117. Advanced explosives will be used to compensate for the reduced charge weight. This concept integrates the boosted penetrator warhead with a JDAM guidance kit with an adverse weather Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).
The Ballasted Penetrator in GBU-32 concept is a 1000 pound dense or ballasted penetrator integrated with a GBU-32 guidance kit using compressed carriage for internal carriage in advanced fighters (F-22, JSF) or carriage in cruise missiles (JASSM, CALCM, ACM, ATACMS, Tomahawk.) The warhead would either be designed with a dense metal case or contain dense metal ballast for maximum penetration. The warhead will be filled with an advanced insensitive explosive to compensate for the reduced charge weight. The warhead will be integrated with the GBU-32, the JDAM tail kit for 1,000 lb class warheads.The Boosted Unitary Penetrator concept is based on achieving maximum penetration in a weapon that will fit internally in the F-22. Total system weight will be less than 1300 pounds. A dense metal warhead will be used with a wraparound rocket motor. Use of next generation compressed seekers and aero-control designs along with reaction jet control will allow the size to shrink sufficiently to fit inside F-22 and JSF. Advanced explosives will be used to compensate for the reduced charge weight. This concept integrates the boosted penetrator warhead with a JDAM guidance kit with an adverse weather Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).
The JDAM/BLU-113 concept improves the GBU-28 by enhancing the nose design of the BLU-113 warhead for improved penetration. The warhead nose reshape will improve BLU-113 penetration by more than 25%. The penetration could potentially be further improved by replacing the traditional HE fill with a dense explosive. The design involves integrating the improved BLU-113 warhead with a JDAM tail kit.The Compressed Carriage GBU-32, J1K, enhanced fill concept is a JAST-1000 warhead with enhanced fill integrated with a GBU-32 guidance kit using compressed carriage for internal carriage in advanced fighters (F-22, JSF) or carriage in cruise missiles (JASSM, CALCM, ACM, ATACMS, Tomahawk.) The warhead is a combined penetrator and blast/fray warhead. The warhead shape is optimized for penetration and the enhanced fill and internal liner provide blast and controlled fragmentation capability. The warhead is shrouded to match the MK-83 mass properties and interfaces. The warhead will be integrated with the GBU-32, the JDAM tail kit for 1,000 lb class warheads. Use of aero-control designs along with reaction jet control will allow the size to shrink sufficiently to fit inside F-22 and JSF. This concept uses the Hard Target Smart Fuze (HTSF).
The Direct Attack Munitions Affordable Seeker (DAMASK) Fleet Advanced Demonstration (FAD) accuracy enhancement kit is a seeker of the lowest possible cost that will improve JDAM accuracy to three-meter circular error probability (CEP). The three-year FAD began in FY 98 and continued through FY 00. DAMASK includes a very low-cost sensor mounted to the front of a JDAM and an off-the-shelf signal processor mounted in the existing JDAM tail kit. It uses an uncooled imaging-infrared focal plane array (UIIFPA) sensor and low-cost optics, both developed for the consumer automobile market. An off-the-shelf, commercially available signal processor is the final component of the accuracy upgrade kit, estimated to cost less than $12.7 thousand per seeker in quantity. During the final stages of weapon flight, DAMASK's unique guidance system will image the target area, locate a mission-planned aimpoint and update the JDAM target location. The mission-planning image can come from satellite, uninhabited air vehicles or reconnaissance aircraft. A template is then automatically produced from the mission-planning image and loaded on board the aircraft with the baseline JDAM mission plan. Organic targeting is possible because the target area can be imaged with onboard synthetic aperture radar (SAR) or forward looking infrared (FLIR) sensors, and the pilot can then select the desired impact point using a heads-down display.
|Close air support, interdiction, offensive counterair, suppression of enemy air defense, naval anti-surface warfare, amphibious strike
|Mobile hard, mobile soft, fixed hard, fixed soft, maritime surface
|Air Force and Navy
|Air Force
|Program status
|First capability
|Guidance method
|GPS/INS (autonomous)
|GPS/INS mid-course with a terminal seeker yet to be selected
|Greater than 5 nautical miles, up to 15 miles
|Circular error probable
| 13 meters using integrated GPS/INS unit
30 meters using INS only
|3 meters
|Development cost
$683.9M FY 1995 estimate
$399.3M FY 1999 estimate
|Air Force has programmed about $76.5 million for development through 2001
|Production cost
|$4,154.4 million
|Total cost
|$4,650.6 million
|Acquisition unit cost
Average unit cost
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| $18,000 current estimate
$42,200 initial estimate
| Navy: 12,000
Air Force: 62,000
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I came across an issue that makes me think there is bug in the 3.0 framework. When I try to use extension methods I get the following error:
Missing compiler required member
When using this simple code:
public static class StringUtils {
static void TestExtension(this String targetString) {
The only way to make this compile error go away is to add the following code:
namespace System.Runtime.CompilerServices {
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It's been a few months since I have used extensions methods, but I'm pretty sure I didn't have to do this. Has anyone else come across this issue?


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Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both delivered foreign policy speeches in New York today, Obama at the United Nations and Romney at the Clinton Global Initiative. The coincidence offers an opportunity for comparison. For now, let's look at Obama's speech, and I will try to get to Romney's tomorrow.
The context for Obama's speech was turmoil in the Arab world and the murder of Ambassador Stevens and other Americans in Benghazi. The speech wasn't as bad as it might have been; for one thing, Obama offered, for the first time, a reasonably strong defense of free speech. On balance, I give it a C-.
Obama began with a tribute to Chris Stevens's career, as was appropriate. But at the key moment, Obama characteristically slipped into the passive voice:
Two weeks ago, he travelled to Benghazi to review plans to establish a new cultural center and modernize a hospital. That's when America's compound came under attack. Along with three of his colleagues, Chris was killed in the city he helped to save.
The compound "came under attack." By whom? At least this time, Obama acknowledged that it was an attack and not a demonstration. And Stevens "was killed." Again, while Obama was not explicit, he seemed to be backing away from the smoke inhalation theory. But who killed Stevens, and how, and when? We are not likely to learn anything more about his fate until after the election.
The next passage is dishonest:
If we are serious about upholding these ideals, it will not be enough to put more guards in front of an Embassy; or to put out statements of regret, and wait for the outrage to pass. If we are serious about those ideals, we must speak honestly about the deeper causes of this crisis.
Why won't it be enough to put more guards in front of an embassy? The embassy in Cairo was protected by Marine guards, and the mob didn't sack it, although they did succeed in tearing down the stars and stripes and replacing it with al Qaeda's flag. More guards could have prevented that. And the consulate in Benghazi apparently wasn't guarded at all. It should have been. Here, Obama implicitly lets himself off the hook for the needless deaths of four Americans.
Obama expressed enthusiasm for the "Arab spring." As he ticked off his administration's actions with respect to each country, he highlighted, certainly unintentionally, the lack of any coherent policy:
We were inspired by the Tunisian protests that toppled a dictator, because we recognized our own beliefs in the aspirations of men and women who took to the streets.
We insisted on change in Egypt, because our support for democracy put us on the side of the people.
We supported a transition of leadership in Yemen, because the interests of the people were not being served by a corrupt status quo.
We intervened in Libya alongside a broad coalition, and with the mandate of the U.N. Security Council, because we had the ability to stop the slaughter of innocents; and because we believed that the aspirations of the people were more powerful than a tyrant.
And as we meet here, we again declare that the regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end so that the suffering of the Syrian people can stop, and a new dawn can begin.
With hindsight, maybe we shouldn't have "insisted" on regime change in Egypt, or led from behind on Libya.
Obama's discussion of the "deeper causes" of Muslim unrest included the inevitable denunciation of the YouTube video that ostensibly provoked the protests:
That is what we saw play out the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world. I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video, and I believe its message must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity. It is an insult not only to Muslims, but to America as well – for as the city outside these walls makes clear, we are a country that has welcomed people of every race and religion. We are home to Muslims who worship across our country. We not only respect the freedom of religion – we have laws that protect individuals from being harmed because of how they look or what they believe. We understand why people take offense to this video because millions of our citizens are among them.
This is profoundly hypocritical. Certainly the video puts Islam and Muhammad in a bad light, but no more so than countless movies, plays, books, etc. have portrayed Christianity and Judaism. Moreover, compared to much popular entertainment, it is neither crude nor disgusting. As just about everyone has pointed out, Hillary Clinton screamed with glee at "The Book of Mormon," which is at least as disrespectful toward the Mormon church as the YouTube video is toward Islam, and considerably cruder. It is not the case that America rejects insults to religions; on the contrary, every one of its powerful cultural institutions encourages such insults. But I guess that is a little more truth than Obama thought his audience could handle.
Next, Obama went on to explain why he didn't ban the video. (The same explanation would apply to "The Book of Mormon," but apparently no one has suggested that he should ban that play.):
I know there are some who ask why we don't just ban such a video. The answer is enshrined in our laws: our Constitution protects the right to practice free speech. Here in the United States, countless publications provoke offense. Like me, the majority of Americans are Christian, and yet we do not ban blasphemy against our most sacred beliefs. Moreover, as President of our country, and Commander-in-Chief of our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so. Americans have fought and died around the globe to protect the right of all people to express their views – even views that we disagree with.
Yes, that's right–Barack Obama and Jesus, they are both subject to so much unfair abuse!
We do so not because we support hateful speech, but because our Founders understood that without such protections, the capacity of each individual to express their own views, and practice their own faith, may be threatened. We do so because in a diverse society, efforts to restrict speech can become a tool to silence critics, or oppress minorities. We do so because given the power of faith in our lives, and the passion that religious differences can inflame, the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech – the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy, and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect.
I know that not all countries in this body share this understanding of the protection of free speech. Yet in 2012, at a time when anyone with a cell phone can spread offensive views around the world with the click of a button, the notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete. The question, then, is how we respond. And on this we must agree: there is no speech that justifies mindless violence.
There are no words that excuse the killing of innocents. There is no video that justifies an attack on an Embassy. There is no slander that provides an excuse for people to burn a restaurant in Lebanon, or destroy a school in Tunis, or cause death and destruction in Pakistan. …
All true, although it assorts oddly with the administration's hauling in the maker of the YouTube video for questioning. Obama went on to discourse on who must and must not control the future, culminating with this:
The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.
Really? There is a great deal to criticize in Islam, and in the life of the "prophet," which was anything but exemplary. Peoples who now labor under the yoke of Islam will never make progress until such critiques are heard and acted upon. My own view is that the future very much belongs to those who "slander"–or criticize, anyway, which is the same thing–the "prophet of Islam." Obama next tries to draw a parallel with other religions:
Yet to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see when the image of Jesus Christ is desecrated, churches are destroyed, or the Holocaust is denied.
This is, of course, a false parallel; slandering the prophet is by no means on a par with burning down churches and murdering their congregants, which is what happens in the Islamic world. And the problem with Holocaust denial is that it is not an academic debate, however disingenuous; rather, the danger is that those who deny the Holocaust, like, say, Ahmadinejad and his followers, yearn to repeat it. And whom is Obama kidding? Neither he nor anyone else has any intention of defending Christians and Jews against either symbolic or real assaults. For example, don't hold your breath waiting for Obama to denounce Bill Maher's (that would be million-dollar Bill) slurs against Christianity.
Next, this:
Among Israelis and Palestinians, the future must not belong to those who turn their backs on the prospect of peace. Let us leave behind those who thrive on conflict, and those who reject the right of Israel to exist.
The Israelis must wonder why Obama had to drag them into it. What do they have to do with the riots that roil various Muslim countries? Nothing. And if the Obama administration protected America's embassies and consulates as competently as Netanyahu's government protects Israel's, Obama wouldn't have to begin his speech with a tribute to a murdered ambassador.
Well, that's enough. Obama concluded his speech with what amounted to a plea for his own re-election, which probably puzzled his listeners. Having walked through the speech once more, I think my grade may have been a bit generous. D+ is perhaps closer to the mark.


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Former Carroll Shelby employee Angelica Smith filed a lawsuit today in L.A. County Superior Court alleging she was groped by the automotive legend, forced to bring him pornography, raped by another employee at his home, and finally fired by Shelby for complaining about the assault according to TMZ. UPDATE.
Documents for the case aren't currently online, but in their report TMZ lists off a long series of complaints from Smith (not pictured) about her time as a receptionist for Carroll Shelby, the 88-year-old behind the Shelby Cobra and numerous Shelby Mustangs.
Initially, according to the woman, it started off with him making her pick up his groceries and pornography and, eventually leading to a groping by Shelby himself.
The hostile working environment reached its low point, according to the woman, when Smith says she was drugged and raped by another employee of the company at Shelby's home and then fired after she reported the rape to Shelby. She's now suing Shelby and his companies for $5 million in damages.
At stake could be the Shelby name, which his company fights hard (and frequently litigates) to protect. Ford currently calls their most powerful and expensive Mustang model the "Shelby GT500" after the legendary Mustang tuner. There are also at least two movies in various stages of production about Shelby's life and experience at Le Mans.
UPDATE: Carroll Shelby''s attorney released the following statement to Jalopnik:
Carroll Shelby is disappointed that such wild and fantastical allegations have been made by a former employee. The fact is that her position was no longer required due to Mr. Shelby's age, health and work schedule. But this apparently disgruntled former employee and her counsel have chosen to turn this into yet another prematurely publicized, frivolous lawsuit against a public figure. Carroll Shelby has full confidence in the judicial system and believes that the truth will come out through the legal process.
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St. Paul, Minn. – What more can we learn about long-necked dinosaurs that we don't already know? A Macalester professor and her colleagues have found that Madagascar dinosaurs carried giant, hollow bones in their skin that may have helped them survive the harsh environments they inhabited. This discovery has shed new light on the anatomy and function of these bones in the biggest animals to ever walk on land.
Biology/Geology Prof. Kristi Curry Rogers is the lead author of a paper in today's Nature Communications about bizarre, gigantic bones that grow in the skin of Rapetosaurus, a species of huge plant-eating dinosaur from the island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa.
"This is the biggest osteoderm ever found for any backboned-animal," said Curry Rogers, "The fact that it's hollow debunks all sorts of ideas about how these bones functioned in long-necked dinosaurs."
Osteoderms are bones embedded within the skin and are common among reptiles and some mammals. They create the unique pattern on the backs of crocodiles, the armor body covering on armadillos, and the distinctive plates of dinosaurs like Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus.
Among the long-necked dinosaurs called sauropods, osteoderms are found in one globally distributed subgroup – the Titanosauria. For more than a century, paleontologists have been trying to figure out how these weird bones were distributed in the skin of the long-necked titanosaurs and what they might have been used for. Were they for protection, like in armadillos and crocodiles? Were they for display? Could they have helped regulate body temperature?
"Knowing something about the lives of these dinosaurs, particularly in the context of the drought-prone paleoenvironment they lived in, tells us that osteoderms may have been important for storing minerals, which allowed Rapetosaurus to survive the rough times," said Curry Rogers.
Instead of the hundreds of interlocking plates in living animals with osteoderms, Rapetosaurus had only a few osteoderms in its skin. This means that they were less likely to serve as protection or as body temperature regulators.
"The discovery of these giant osteoderms provides new insights into what these bizarre structures may have done for the dinosaurs that had them," said Curry Rogers. "It helps us clarify what these Madagascar dinosaurs looked like with their skin on. Our sample also includes both adult and juvenile osteoderms, which tells us how the osteoderms changed over the lifespan of the dinosaur," said Curry Rogers.
In the vicinity of the osteoderm, the skin of Rapetosaurus would have stretched, making it in places up to seven times as thick as an elephant's skin. The bone also hollowed out over the course of the dinosaur's lifespan. So even though it was massive, in the adult dinosaur osteoderms would've actually been fairly lightweight.
Curry Rogers is the lead author of the Nature Communications paper. Her collaborators include Michael D'Emic (University of Michigan and Georgia Southern University), Raymond Rogers (Macalester College), Matthew Vickaryous (Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph), and Amanda Cagan, who graduated with a biology degree from Macalester in 2010.
Macalester College, founded in 1874, is a national liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,958 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, multiculturalism, and civic engagement. Learn more at macalester.edu.
Sauropod Dinosaur Osteoderms from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar
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The Winkel rattle and teether, by Manhattan Toy, is an award winning classic, a true "must have" for parents and infants. Its maze of soft, continuous tubes and its stunning colors instantly capture and hold baby's attention. The mesmerizing loop design and lightweight construction make it very easy for little hands to grab, hold and rattle – a perfect clutching toy to engage baby's gross motor skills. The center cube features a quiet rattle so baby can explore sound and cause and effect. The soft, pliable loops are BPA-free for teething or gumming babies. Winkel can also be refrigerated to provide a more soothing experience for particularly sore baby gums and teeth. Winkel's patented design and developmental features have made it a baby favorite, parent "go to" for over 25 years.
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For over 30 years, Manhattan Toy has been making award-winning, high quality, visually appealing toys for babies, toddlers and kids. Our Winkel rattles and teethers have long been recognized for their unique developmental features and continue to receive accolades after 25 years of play. The Winkel's most recent honors include the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award and the Special Needs Adaptable Product Award in 2013. All of our products, from the newest concepts to our time-tested classics, are innovatively designed to inspire imaginative play and delight our customers.
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Once upon a time, back when "text" was still a noun, and not every toy had batteries, there was a little toy company that set out to become the best toy company ever. Not because it endeavored to make a more loveable teddy bear or a truck that turns into a wristwatch, but because it endeavors to make a difference. This little company called Manhattan Toy recognizes that we are profoundly influenced by what we play with. That in every little pair of hands lies not a marketing opportunity, but a chance to positively affect the future. That having a sense of humor means the difference between enduring life, and enjoying it. If it doesn't contain a wink and smile, it isn't worth making. We remember every day that every invention on this earth, be it as complex as a Hadron collider, or as humble as Tupperware, as life-saving as penicillin or as life-altering as the Cronut, was dreamed into existence. We remember that the most powerful thing any of us within this life, is our imagination.
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- 4.5-Inch in diameter, for ages 0-24 months
- Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award 2013


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Here's a thing I'm calling (for lack of a better name) "Snowflakey". The idea came from the Kimotion Arts store on Shapeways.
Kimotion Arts has these neat 3D printed ornaments with an object arranged in a circle to make a snowflake-like thing. I dig it, so I decided to dig into it.
The first thing I did was fire up Inkscape and draw a really simple figure. It's terrible, really, but I did it in less time than it took Inkscape to launch on Mac OS X. I created an SVG file, and then exported it as a DXF file, making sure I converted all the line segments into straight lines first. (Of course there were no curves in this drawing, but if there were, I'd convert them!)
Once I had my DXF file, it was easy to pull that into OpenSCAD, and place six of them in a circle with the following code.
objheight = 4; objcenterspacing = 20; objrotate = -70; for (i = [0:5]) { rotate(i*360/6, [0,0,1]) translate([0, objcenterspacing, 0]) rotate([0, 0, objrotate]) linear_extrude(height = objheight, center = true) import( "figure.dxf" ); }
The code is not the greatest… in fact there is probably much room for improvement, but it's the first thing I got working, so I ran with it. My idea for the 3 variables at the top were so you could easily tweak them for different art. Sadly, as you change objcenterspacing and objrotate, they affect each other, so it's a lot of back and forth between those two values. I also could not find a way to assign a filename to a variable, so your DXF will need to be named "figure.dxf" or you'll need to edit the import line.
Since my drawing was so terrible I wanted to try something else, so what better than Land recreation symbols 27, better known as "Tennis Man" by most people.
A few quick edits and I had this nice Tennis Man Snowflake for that special ball smasher on your list… (Notice the canvas size of 25mm wide by 35mm high. You can do what you want, but the OpenSCAD code will be expecting something close to that. Otherwise you'll just have to tweak the numbers even more.)
I decided to try once again to draw something. This one took a little longer than a minute, but turned out just as terrible as the first one I did. Still, maybe you like "Blobby Man" as a snowflake.
How about ants? This one is interesting. Maybe spiders would have been a better choice. (And yes, I know I could probably do the entire "6 items rotated" thing right in Inkscape, but that wasn't the goal here.)
What about the old nag? No, I'm not taking about your mother-in-law (kidding!) but this fine old horse from OpenClipArt.org, where I get many of the SVG files I use. Export this as an STL file and you're ready to print it on your RepRap!
If you've got an improvement to this OpenSCAD code, by all means, let me know. I'm still very much in the learning phase with OpenSCAD, so I do these things to learn, and because of that I'm open to any suggestions.