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This the second part of our series about some important considerations for Gibson and Fender pole piece spacing. Part one talked about things to consider for humbuckers. This section will cover things you'll want to know when setting up instruments with single coil pickups.
First, to review – the main focus of this series is to understand that there is a slight difference in the pole piece spacing between typical Gibson style pickups and Fender style pickups. By "pole piece spacing" we mean the amount of space in between the pole pieces of the pickups. This roughly relates to the spacing in between the strings of the guitar, but not entirely. More on this point later.
If you were to measure the distance between the high E string and the low E string you would get different measurements if you were measuring a Gibson style pickup versus a Fender style pickup. When measured from center to center of the two outside (E) strings, a standard Gibson style pole spacing is right around 50 millimeters. A standard Fender style pole spacing is between 52 and 53 millimeters, depending on the pickup.
Just like in part 1 of this series, the best way to proceed is to review the most common questions.
Question 1: A soapbar is traditionally a Gibson style pickup, is there any way to get one with Fender spacing (F-spacing) instead?
Yes. We actually make an F-spaced soapbar P-90. Currently we make them when ordered, so they are not on our web site. To order one you'll need to call the shop and place your order by phone (206) 463-9838. The turnaround time for those is a week or two. We can build them in all of the different soapbar versions we make – standard wind, 50's wind, and +5% overwound.
Question 2: I want to put a soapbar into the neck of my Tele; will I need an F-spaced pickup?
Probably not. Because the strings get closer together as you move from the bridge to the neck, in most cases a standard Gibson spacing will be fine in the neck position. (See question 4 for more detail).
Question 3: I'm installing a 3-piece set of soapbar pickups into my Strat; do I need an F-spaced bridge?
That would be a good idea. Read the discussion for question 4 for more detail.
Question 4: I notice that the strings on my Strat line up differently over the pole pieces, is something wrong?
This is an interesting question. We discussed it in the previous blog, using humbuckers as the example. But since it applies to almost all guitars, it's worth discussing using a single coil example also. As you know, the string spacing is the widest right at the bridge and the narrowest at the nut. So in other words, as the strings span from the bridge saddles to the nut, they become closer and closer together. Put another way, they are never quite the same distance apart anywhere along the guitar. They are either getting closer together as you travel from the bridge to the nut, or getting further apart as you travel from the nut to the bridge. That means the strings will always relate to the pole piece spacing of the pickups a little differently, depending on the position along the guitar.
The Strat is a perfect example. Take a look at this photo. If you look closely, you can see that closest to the bridge – where the strings are their widest apart – they actually sit a little to the outside of the two E pole pieces. If you travel down the guitar and look at the relationship at the middle pickup, you'll see that the strings sit nicely centered over the pickup's pole pieces. And if you travel even further toward the nut – as the strings get even closer together – you'll see that the strings actually sit a little to the inside of the two E pole pieces. Like we mentioned in last week's discussion, this is true in most instances. If the string spacing at the bridge is wider than at the nut, the strings will always relate to the pickup pole piece spacing a little differently, depending on the location on the guitar.


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From the New York Times:
What has not been publicly disclosed are the details of the single recording in the government's possession that it says is an illegal wiretap. According to written summaries of F.B.I. interviews seen by The New York Times, the recording concerns events that led to the divorce of a Los Angeles billionaire, Alec E. Gores, from his wife, Lisa A. Gores, in 2001.So, let's see. A man (who happens to have made a billion dollars or so for himself) hires Anthony Pellicano to bug the telephones of his wife and brother - a serious and straightforward felony. He listens to the recordings. He pays Mr. Pellicano lots of money. And he has not been charged, and has been assured he is only a witness in the case?!
Boy is that weird. But there is no indication whatsoever that the New York Times thinks it's weird, or that they've asked Skip Miller or anyone else why Mr. Gores, a man who according to the Times admits that he hired and paid Mr. Pellicano to commit serious felonies, has been "assured" - apparently by the same prosecutors who have indicted Terry Christensen for allegedly doing exactly what Mr. Gores admits he did - that he is only a witness.
And if the Times doesn't find any of that worth asking about, how about this:
Why is billionaire Alec Gores relying on Skip Miller for legal advice in this case? Skip Miller is a highly competent and aggressive attorney who as late as 1994 was still claiming "white collar criminal defense" as a practice specialty. But the most recent description of Mr. Miller's practice provided by the firm he recently left to Meritas (now deleted from the web, but still available in cached form) does not even mention criminal defense as an area of Mr. Miller's practice at all:
His practice is varied and diverse and includes antitrust, securities, employment, energy, defamation/First Amendment, entertainment (motion pictures, television and music), copyright, toxic tort, civil rights, construction, real estate, inverse condemnation and other areas of the law.Did the reader detect anything of a criminal defense nature in any of that? I don't think so. Maybe it's in that "other areas of law." Is that what Mr. Gores is paying for in a case in which the New York Times says he admits he hired Mr. Pellicano to commit felonies on his behalf? Is there some reason why Mr. Gores isn't looking for advice mostly to someone with more criminal defense experience - and having that special someone speak on his behalf to outfits like the New York Times? It's not as though Mr. Gores can't afford whoever he likes.
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The military doesn't want the precise location revealed, but the 1-126th is training to go to a Taliban stronghold set in a remote and fi ercely rugged terrain. A place where temperatures climb to 120 degrees during the day in summer, and plummet to below freezing at night in winter; where the elevation can rise to six times higher than Michigan's, and where most of these soldiers won't know more than a smattering of the language or the culture.
Their enemy will be a mix of Taliban, Al Qaeda and hostile tribes from the region. These citizen soldiers of our state's National Guard—men from communities across Michigan who spend the bulk of their time in careers as pedestrian as nurse, computer programmer and security guard—might as well be dropped on the moon.
The men of Charlie Troop have signed on to endure all of the above and much more for many reasons. Around this camp there is the standard talk of duty and of protecting the Constitution, but also of free college education and the pay—about $15,000 a year for an active duty private in the National Guard. But the bottom line reason they're pumped about this mission, they agree almost to a man, is the esprit de corps—a brotherhood that Grant says, "can be closer than family."
Having each other's backs after they deploy in Afghanistan will certainly take on a deeper meaning than most of these soldiers can yet understand. Charlie Troop is training for the especially dangerous work of infantry reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition. The soldiers will be working on foot, usually in small groups, camouflaging themselves into a foreign landscape to gather intelligence. The "cool guy stuff" they like to call it, tossing around lines like, "These boots are made for walking" and, "Travel light, freeze at night."
For all of their commendable bravado, many of the skills are new to most of these soldiers, and they have a lot to learn. Few in the unit have been to Afghanistan, and the 1-126th last deployed to Kuwait and Iraq as a convoy security unit in 2008. It was a thankfully uneventful assignment. As a result, says, Grant, "Some bad habits developed."
The 126th's regular National Guard weekend-warrior schedule has recently been upped from two days a month to three—and will climb to four days a month after this three-week training is complete and before they head to Fort Shelby. At Camp Grayling, the largest National Guard facility in the country, which sprawls over 230 square miles of Crawford, Kalkaska and Otsego counties, the soldiers engage in live-fire exercises, search a faux Middle Eastern village, complete with a mosque, work on nighttime surveillance techniques as they did last night, and much more.
That training schedule presents a crazy juggling act of jobs and family for these men. Regardless of the circumstances, it is Grant's job, working with his counterpart, lanky, affable NCO (non-commissioned officer) Sergeant George Landry, to prepare these men for hell. It helps that Grant has seen a little hell himself.


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Grand Prize: US$2500 and a paid trip to Denmark
22 other cash prizes to be won by students with an equivalent number of referral awards
Dyalog Limited, which markets Dyalog APL - the most commonly used dialect of the APL programming language is pleased to announce the launch of the 2012 World Wide APL Programming Contest.
The purpose of the contest - now in its fourth year is to encourage students and others to investigate APL (A Programming Language), in the hope that exposure to APL broadens their horizons and adds a new tool to their toolbox. A fully featured copy of Dyalog APL is available free of charge to students, whether they participate or not. Students of disciplines other than Computer Science are encouraged to participate; many of the most successful APL users have backgrounds in other fields.
A total of US$12,600 in prize money is available:
The Grand Prize winner will receive US$2,500 plus round trip travel to the Dyalog '12 Conference in Elsinore, Denmark, commencing Sunday, October 14, 2012, where they will receive the award in person and present their contest submission.
Second and third prize winners will be awarded US$1,200 and US$600 respectively.
A further 20 contestants will receive US$100 each.
Additionally, people or organisations who refer the winning students to the contest will receive the same dollar prizes they need not be students to make the referral.
Contest participants may use Dyalog APL, or any other version of APL, to develop their solutions subject to the conditions outlined in the contest terms and conditions.
The contest is open to anyone except contest organisers and employees of Dyalog Ltd., but participants should be aware that only students who meet the criterion for a free Dyalog Educational Licence are eligible for the Grand Prize. Students can apply for an Educational Licence directly via the Dyalog website. Prizes for referring a winning entrant can be won by anyone.
Deadline for submission is 12:00 UTC (Noon), Sunday, August 5, 2012. Grand, second and third prize winners will be announced on August 13, 2012, and the remaining winners, as well as the referral prize winners, will be announced during Dyalog 12 in Elsinore.
For more information on the programming contest rules and submission of entries can be found at the contest website: www.dyalog.com/contest_2012/index.html
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Kathryn Bigelow talks of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
It would be misleading to compare director Kathryn Bigelow to CIA agent Maya (Jessica Chastain), the central character in her new movie, "Zero Dark Thirty." But it's tempting to do it anyway. Both work in a world dominated by men. Both are extremely focused. And both are fierce.
"I don't know how to characterize myself," Bigelow, 61, says about the commonalities between her and Maya, who is based on a real agent. "But I think what's so fascinating about the screenplay is that it's about a character who defines herself through her actions, her dedication, her commitment and her courage."
Search for bin Laden
"Zero Dark Thirty," military speak for 12:30 a.m., covers the 10-year search for Osama bin Laden, culminating in an almost real-time re-enactment of the raid by Navy SEALs on his lair in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Most of the story is told through Maya's eyes as she follows leads developed by the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques, electronic eavesdropping and finally good old-fashioned boots on the ground.
Along the way, she evolves from civilian to warrior, butting heads with colleagues and superiors, her mission to find bin Laden becoming less like a job and more like a mania. She has no friends, family or love interest. The audience is never told why she is the way she is, but that is very much in keeping with the movie itself, which moves like a procedural.
The screenplay, by journalist Mark Boal, is based on his reporting of the raid and the events leading up to it. But originally the film was going to be about not finding bin Laden, specifically his escape from American forces in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in 2001. Boal was more than halfway through the script and Bigelow was scouting locations when bin Laden was killed in May 2011. Suddenly their movie required major surgery, so they abandoned it altogether and made a very different film.
In what must be a record for a project as logistically challenging as this one, it took only six months to rewrite the script, assemble the cast (Jason Clarke, Mark Strong, Jennifer Ehle, James Gandolfini) and painstakingly re-create the bin Laden compound, which had to be built to withstand the rotor wash of the Black Hawk helicopters that would descend on it during filming.
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"It kind of permeated everything about the film," Bigelow says of this sprint. "There was a kind of contemporaneous aspect to it. The story was being reported and the story was being filmed almost concurrently with a certain degree of momentum and urgency. It felt like a very timely piece."
Obviously, given the setting and documentary-like attention to detail, the film bears more than a family resemblance to "The Hurt Locker," Bigelow and Boal's Oscar-winning 2009 film about a Baghdad bomb-disposal unit. Bigelow seems to enjoy investigating human behavior under extreme conditions.
But the scope of this film is much broader, involving not just one man or group but the intelligence community and political class to which it must report. In fact, the production came into conflict with those worlds even before cameras rolled, when it was alleged that Boal was given classified information by the Obama administration in an effort to present the president in a flattering light before the election.
"The film was mischaracterized, and there was a lot of sloppy reporting," Boal says. "We didn't take anyone's talking points and turn them into a movie. As far as the access, I didn't do anything differently from what I've been doing since I was 20. You knock on as many doors as you can."
Bigelow says the material was inherently dramatic, which made it easier than it otherwise might have been to shape for the screen. But there are a lot of people, including some who haven't seen the movie, who wish the filmmakers had done more than just shape it. Meaning they should have editorialized about the CIA's use of torture to extract information.
There are no scenes in which agents argue with one another about the morality, efficacy or legality of waterboarding, beating and humiliating prisoners, all of which is shown in the movie. Either Boal the journalist determined that such discussions never took place or Boal the screenwriter decided they didn't belong in the story. According to Bigelow, it's both.
'Doing your job'
"It's so interesting," Bigelow says, allowing that she doesn't understand why people don't get it. "They used to ask me about 'Hurt Locker,' 'What are the politics of those soldiers?' And my response then, and would be now, is when you're down range bending over a series of wires, you have a bomb suit on, it's probably 120 degrees inside your helmet, your IQ is dropping and you have only 45 seconds to be on the ground because someone will call in your coordinates and there'll be a sniper on you, you're not saying to your buddy, 'Who are you going to vote for in November?' In other words, you're doing your job."
When making her argument, Bigelow doesn't raise her voice or otherwise alter her cool and low-key delivery. Tall, almost willowy, with a face far more youthful than her age, the Bay Area native is not an outwardly imposing person, but you get the message when she sends it. It's another trait she has in common with Maya, who doesn't look like the stereotypical idea of a hard-boiled agent. With flaming red hair, she's striking, but because she's such a cipher and a pit bull, her looks come off as beside the point.
Asked if she cast Chastain with these warring effects in mind, Bigelow implies that the real Maya had similar qualities, but she won't come out and say so.
"We're going to protect our sources," she says. "These are civil servants who are working in the intelligence community, so that's all I can say."
What she will say is that she learned everything she could about those 10 years in the Middle East and the events preceding them, down to the number of wives bin Laden had and the fact that women like Maya played such an important role in tracking him down. She said she was surprised by that - and surprised that she was surprised by that. After all, she is the first woman ever to win an Oscar for directing, which she accomplished by applying her considerable skills to something more than just blowing things up. Same with "Zero Dark Thirty."
"I think what's so significant about the movie for me is that it's a glimpse into the psychology of the intelligence community and what it takes to make those kinds of sacrifices, put yourself day in and day out in dangerous situations and dedicate your life almost exclusively to make our lives safe," Bigelow says. "There's no attitude. There's no agenda. That's the story." {sbox}
Zero Dark Thirty (R) opens Friday at Bay Area theaters.
To see a trailer, go to www.zerodarkthirty-movie.com.
John Clark is a freelance writer. E-mail: email@example.com


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My name is Dutch Boyd. I need a logo for my domain name company called JackNames.com.
JackNames.com is a domain name portfolio website where I buy, sell, and develop domain names with a focus on poker names. You can see the current logo that I whipped up myself on the website. I'm not looking for a remake of that logo. I'm looking for something fresh. I like the idea of incorporating the jack from the playing card somehow.
The JackNames domain portfolio is over 4,000 names strong. I will be looking to design logos in bulk for many of the names on the list and will be using this contest to spot talent. So please send your best design.
I like the idea of having a jack somehow incorporated in the logo. I very much like the logo for CadillacJack.com. Some of my websites have a logo incorporating a blue spade, and I kind of like that image. Also, many of our visitors are foreign (mostly chinese), so it's important to have something with universal appeal... maybe it would even be cool incorporating some chinese characters that would be fitting for JackNames.
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Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco, 1992
Dr. Pazin joined the National Human Genome Research Institute's NHGRI's Extramural Research Program in 2011. Mike is part of the NHGRI team overseeing the ENCODE project, generating an Encyclopedia of DNA Elements from the human genome, and the modENCODE project, identifying functional elements in the fly and worm genomes. He manages a portfolio of grants in functional genomics. He is also a member of the NHGRI Data Access Committee.
Prior to joining NHGRI, Dr. Pazin was a principal investigator conducting research on the role of chromatin remodeling in gene regulation, at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging. This research was performed using cell-free (biochemical) assays and cell-based (single-gene and genomic) assays using T helper cells and neurons as model systems. He received his B.S. in chemistry from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his Ph.D. in cell biology from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and completed postdoctoral training at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
De S, Wurster AL, Precht P, Wood WH 3rd, Becker KG, Pazin MJ. Dynamic BRG1 Recruitment during T Helper Differentiation and Activation Reveals Distal Regulatory Elements. Mol Cell Biol, 31:1512-27. 2011. [PubMed]
Precht P, Wurster AL, Pazin MJ. The SNF2H chromatin remodeling enzyme has opposing effects on cytokine gene expression. Mol Immunol, 47:2038-46. 2010. [PubMed]
Ishii H, Du H, Zhang Z, Henderson A, Sen R, Pazin MJ. Mi2beta shows chromatin enzyme specificity by erasing a DNase I-hypersensitive site established by ACF. J Biol Chem, 284:7533-41. 2009. [PubMed]
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Definition of the Factors
To quantify keyword difficulty, you will associate it with the keyword searches; the higher the keyword search volume, the more competitive the keyword, in most cases. We can look not only at the amount of search volume, but also the number of indexed pages in Google containing the exact term. The higher the number of competing pages, the more the keyword would tend to be competitive.
Therefore, to give a mathematical definition, keyword difficulty can be approximated by the following formula:
Keyword Difficulty = Keyword Search Volume (Exact match) x Google competing pages
In the above definition, it is obvious that if a certain keyword has a very high search volume and many competing pages, it is a difficult keyword for which to rank in Google.
The size of the domain can be measured by the number of indexed URLs in Google using the operator:
So if the ranking URL is http://www.seochat.com , the site operator query will be:
{mospagebreak title=Objective and Methodology of the Study}
The main objective is to determine whether Google prefers to rank big websites for highly competitive terms. In this study, you will need a statistically valid sample size. A sample of size of 30 is selected. The 30 random samples will be comprised of the following breakdown:
~10 highly competitive keywords
~10 medium competitive keywords
~10 very easy (non-competitive keywords)
Below is the procedure for gathering the data:
Step 1: Make a final list of keywords selected — a total of around 30 keywords based on the sampling distribution, with varying difficulty. Put the data in a table format for easier organization. Use the Google Keyword Tool and the Google search engine itself to get the raw data for keyword difficulty computation.
Step 2: Using Google.com, get the top 10 ranking URLs for each of those keywords on the list.
Step 3: Get the number of indexed URLs for each of those top 10 ranking domains, starting from position 1 and going through to position 10, removing duplicate domains and outliers (refer to spreadsheet for details; link provided in a later section). Tabulate the data in the Excel spreadsheet.
Step 4: Compute the average number of indexed URLs for each keyword from position 1 through position 10 domains.
Step 5: Make a correlation plot between average number of indexed URLs vs. keyword difficulty.
Step 6: Make a regression analysis on the data.
Step 7: We'll draw conclusions and make recommendations.
Keyword Selection List and Keyword Difficulty Data
Data has been gathered according to the methodology set in the previous section, and then keyword difficulty has been calculated. Below you'll see a screen shot of the data gathered:
You've probably noticed that the highly competitive keywords (the first ten) have very high keyword difficulty values as compared to medium and easy keywords.
{mospagebreak title=Google Top 10 Ranking URL Data for the Selected Keywords}
After the top 10 domain name data is gathered from Google for the selected keywords, the indexed pages of the domain are gathered as well. How many pages are indexed correlates with the size of the domain.
However, after the data has been gathered, to ensure accuracy of the results, the data outliers are removed. These outliers are defined as data points outside:
Outlier = average + standard deviation;
In layman's term, this outlier represents some noise or special cases which are not considered "normally occurring." After removal of the outliers, the final average data will be used for correlation plot. Below is screen shot of the data table containing an outlier:
Data Tabulation of the Overall Results
Once the outlier has been removed and the average numbers of indexed pages are re-computed, a new column will be added to the original data table labeled "Average indexed URLs of Top Ranking domains."
For example, in the above screen shot, for the competitive keyword "books," the average indexed URLs for all of the top 10 ranking domains for "books" (position 1 to position 10) is 7571714. This number of indexed pages signifies "very large ranking domains" for Google's top 10 positions.
Since you are interested in finding out whether Google prefers to rank "big" sites for "difficult" keywords, you will need to make a correlation plot between these two factors/variables (keyword difficulty and average number of indexed URLs of top ranking domains).
To download all of the data sets, tables and computations used in this article for your own evaluation purposes, you can go here:
{mospagebreak title=Correlation and Regression Analysis of the Data}
Finally, once the data table has been finalized, you are ready to make a correlation plot. Using the MS Excel correlation plot feature generates a chart that looks like the one below:
It is surprising to see that there exists a strong correlation (78%) between "average indexed URLs of Top Ranking domains" and "Keyword difficulty." In short, big domains are the ones ranking for difficult keywords. Stating this in another way, "Google typically prefers to rank big websites for highly competitive terms."
For easier keywords (low keyword difficulty value), Google returns smaller websites with a lower number of indexed URLs. However for highly difficult keywords like "LCD" and "SEO," Google prefers ranking big websites.
Conclusions and Recommendations
The result of the study pointed out that Google typically loves big websites for very competitive terms. There are lots of reasons for this, aside from the size of the website alone. Other factors could be the age. Of course these websites are old and continually updating their content. As a result, such websites become very large and earn a lot of trusted/natural links which forms a strong ranking foundation in Google for competitive terms.
You should consider the following recommendations:
First, if a website is small, this also means that the website is still young or underdeveloped. Such a web site should never target medium to highly competitive keywords because Google apparently prefers to rank big websites for competitive terms. This will avoid wasting a lot of resources on something that would be very hard or impossible to achieve.
Second, for big websites, it might be feasible to target competitive terms, provided other important search engine ranking factors are also considered. These include such items as the link profile of the domain, content and authority.
Third, if there is one important thing you can do to your website now which can substantially help search engine rankings in the future, it is adding and updating content. Doing this can significantly increase the size of your website, which is a positive factor for ranking competitive terms. Also, it can be a big factor for attracting long tail traffic and natural deep links.
Fourth, big websites do have some advantages in earning natural links and earning long tail traffic. Once you start earning deep links, it helps you to attain a natural link profile for your website (your inner pages have value or importance), which is a positive factor. And then, these pages will also rank for deep searches and contribute to your overall traffic.
Fifth, as far as internal link development, if you link all of these inner pages to your home page, it will substantially strengthen the home page as far as ranking for highly competitive terms. This is similar to what http://www.nasdaq.com does to rank in the first position for "stock market."


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Brussels, 10 July 2013
Commission proposes Single Resolution Mechanism for the Banking Union
The European Commission has today proposed a Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) for the Banking Union. The mechanism would complement the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) (IP/12/953) which, once operational in late 2014, will see the European Central Bank (ECB) directly supervise banks in the euro area and in other Member States which decide to join the Banking Union. The Single Resolution Mechanism would ensure that – not withstanding stronger supervision - if a bank subject to the SSM faced serious difficulties, its resolution could be managed efficiently with minimal costs to taxpayers and the real economy.
Commission President José Manuel Barroso said: "With this proposal, all the elements are on the table for a banking union to put the sector on a sounder footing, restore confidence and overcome fragmentation in financial markets. We have already agreed common European supervision for banks in the euro area and other Member States who wish to take part. Today's proposal complements that with a strong and integrated single system for dealing with failing banks. We cannot eliminate the risk of future bank failures, but with the Single Resolution Mechanism and the Resolution Fund it should be banks themselves – and not European taxpayers – who should shoulder the burden of losses in the future."
Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier said: "We have seen how bank crises can quickly spread across borders, sending confidence into a downward spiral throughout the euro area. We have also have seen how the collapse of a major cross-border bank can lead to a complex and confusing situation: the cumbersome decision-making process which led to the orderly resolution of Dexia is not an example to follow.. We need a system which can deliver decisions quickly and efficiently, avoiding doubts on the impact on public finances, and with rules that create certainty in the market. That is the point of today's proposal for a Single Resolution Mechanism: by ensuring that supervision and resolution are aligned at a central level, whilst involving all relevant national players, and backed by an appropriate resolution funding arrangement, it will allow bank crises to be managed more effectively in the banking union and contribute to breaking the link between sovereign crises and ailing banks."
The reinforced supervisory framework of the SSM, as well as enhanced prudential requirements (see MEMO/13/272), will bolster the safety of banks. However, the risk of a bank experiencing a severe liquidity or solvency problem can never be totally excluded. Bank supervision and resolution need to be aligned and exercised at the same central level in order to curb uncertainty and prevent bank runs and contagion to other parts of the euro area.
The proposed SRM would apply the substantive rules of bank recovery and resolution (see IP/12/570) – due to be adopted shortly - in the banking union. The EU's Council of Finance Ministers reached agreement on a general approach on these new rules on 27 June (MEMO/13/601) and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament adopted its report on 20 May. Negotiations between the Council and the European Parliament are about to start and final agreement on the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive should be reached this autumn.
The Single Resolution Mechanism would work as follows:
The Commission's role would be limited to the decision to trigger the resolution of a bank and the decision on the resolution framework, thereby ensuring its consistency with the Single Market and with EU rules on state aid, and safeguarding the independence and accountability of the overall mechanism.
At the 27-28 June European Council, EU leaders set themselves the target of reaching agreement on the mechanism by the end of 2013 so that it can be adopted before the end of the current European Parliament term in 2014. This would enable it to apply from January 2015, together with the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive.
Before the proposed rules enter into force, any bank crises would continue to be managed on the basis of national regimes. However, these regimes are set to converge increasingly towards agreed principles of resolution, namely the allocation of bank losses to shareholders and creditors instead of taxpayers. This is achieved on the one hand by the revised guidelines on state aid to banks also adopted today (see IP/13/672) and on the other, the possibility of direct recapitalisation of banks by the European Stability Mechanism. Both require appropriate "burden-sharing" by private investors in a bank as a condition of public support by national and European Stability Mechanism resources.
The Single Resolution Mechanism was announced by the Commission in the Communication on A Roadmap Towards a Banking Union (September 2012) and in the Blueprint for A Deep and Genuine Economic and Monetary Union (November 2012).
The European Council in December 2012 recognised the need to set up a Single Resolution Mechanism to accompany the Single Supervisory Mechanism in the Banking Union. In March 2013, it committed to complete the Banking Union via a series of steps and confirmed that the Commission's proposal for a Single Resolution Mechanism should be examined as a matter of priority with the intention of adopting it before the end of the current European Parliament term in 2014.
The European Parliament has consistently called for greater integration in the arrangements for resolving banks, and in a Resolution adopted on 13 June 2013 urged the Commission to adopt as quickly as possible the proposal establishing the Single Resolution Mechanism.
See MEMO/13/675 and MEMO/13/679
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Networking 101: Understanding TCP, the Protocol
TCP In Plain English
We sometimes hear people call it "the TCP/IP protocol suite," which means that they're talking about layers 1-4 plus 7, similar to how we presented layers. TCP lives at layer 4, along with its unreliable friend UDP. TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol, by the way. Remember the header picture from the IP article? When a packet is encapsulated, we'll of course have the IP header at layer 3, and immediately following is the TCP header, which becomes the "data" for the IP header. TCP includes its own jargon, just like everything else. There was Ethernet frames, IP datagrams, and now TCP segments. You can think of them all as packets, but be sure to use the correct terms when communicating with others.
While trying to think of other things people say about TCP, it seemed apropos to spend some time explaining the things people are trying to tell you. There's nothing worse than asking a guru a question, and getting a response like "well, it's end-to- end." If you knew TCP you'd know what this meant, but then you wouldn't have asked the question in the first place. Let's see what we can do about that.
Whenever a TCP packet is sent, an acknowledgment, or ACK, is returned. This is really the only way to provide a reliable protocol: You must let the other side know if you have received things. Of course, people will want to improve on an inefficient system like this. Enter "piggybacking ACKs" into the picture. People call TCP "full duplex" because of piggybacking, because it lets both sides send data at the same time. This is accomplished by carrying the ACK for previous packet received within the current packet, piggybacked. In terms of preserving network utilization, this is much better than sending an entirely separate packet just to say "got it." Finally, there's the concept of a cumulative ACK: ACKing more than one packet at a time, to say "I got all the others, including this one."
In IP we dealt with individual packets being part of a larger IP datagram. Remember, a TCP segment is an individual TCP packet. TCP is a stream, so there isn't really any other concept to worry about aside from a "connection." Maximum Segment Size, or MSS, is negotiated at connection time, but almost always changes. The default MSS is 536, which is 576 (the IP guaranteed minimum packet size) minus 20 bytes for the IP header and 20 bytes for the TCP header. TCP tries to avoid causing IP-level fragmentation, so it will almost always start with 536.
The sexiest feature of TCP still remains; this is the Sliding Window Protocol. The window is essentially the amount of un-ACKed data that has been sent, and it can grow and shrink at will. This gets really interesting, and will be covered next time.
The header of a TCP packet is 20 bytes, just like an IP's. Both IP and TCP headers can get larger, if options are used. TCP does not include an IP address; it only needs to know about the port on which to connect. Don't let this confuse you though, TCP keeps track of end-to-end connections in a state table that includes IP addresses and ports. It's just that the header for TCP doesn't need the IP information, since it comes from IP.
It is easier to think of a packet as a stream, one byte after the next. Everyone always wants to show a table for the header, but this can confuse matters more. The TCP header, starting with the first bit is:
- Source port, 16 bits: my local TCP port that's used for this connection
- Destination port, 16 bits: The remote machine's TCP port that I'm talking to
- Sequence number, 32 bits: the number used to keep track of packet ordering
- Acknowledgment number, 32 bits: the previously received sequence number that we're ACKing
- Header length, 4 bits: the number of 32-bit words in the header. This is set to five, if no options are used
- Reserved, 6 bits: reserved for future use
- Flags, 6 bits total, each flag is one bit (on or off):
- URG: urgent field pointer
- ACK: this packet is (or includes) an ACK
- PSH: push function (not used)
- RST: reset, or terminate the connection
- SYN: synchronization packet, aka Start Connection
- FIN: final packet, start hang-up sequence
- Window size, 16 bits: begins with the ACK field that the receiving side will accept
- Checksum, 16 bits: a checksum of the TCP header and data
- Urgent pointer, 16 bits: an offset from the sequence number that points to the data following URG data
- Options: MSS, Window scale, and more. This is mostly the focus of our next installment on TCP.
Each side of the TCP connection uses the two pairs of IP address and Port to identify the connection, and sends the data on to the application that is listening on the port.
And that's all there is.
Just kidding, there's tons more to know about TCP. Come back next week to learn how all of these features interact, and discover even more about TCP.
- TCP is the most frequently used protocol, and lives at layer 4 in the protocol stack.
- TCP provides congestion control, reliability, and a stream on which to send data.
- To be efficient, TCP tries to send as much data as possible before getting an ACK back.
Article courtesy of Enterprise Networking Planet


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Last Saturday I spent a wonderful lunch with an awesome bunch of food bloggers and friends in a ranch outside the city. The weather was absolutely perfect and the grounds were stunning. We had a five course meal prepared by a private chef in a fantastic setting. Best among all the elements though, was the fantastic camaraderie and great fun that we shared. From the time we set off in our little convoy of cars, until the time we drove back, sleepy and sated, the air was filled with laughter and good vibes. My fellow bloggers who were present have already written it up and you can read about our adventure here:
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Another highlight of that afternoon was the owner's herb garden, whose produce is used by the chef in the meals he prepares there (like ours!). Rows of sprightly, bright green aromatics were quite a sight for a tired city girl's eyes. And the smells! I needed only to run my fingers lightly on them and my whole hand smelled of rosemary or coriander. I bought a bunch of rosemary and oregano, but what keep pulling me towards it (whether by its scent or its looks, I do not know) was the Vietnamese coriander. It smelled like an almost violent cilantro…strong and assertive. It was the first time I had come across it and I was intrigued, so I took a bunch of that as well.
Back home I was a flurry of hunting down recipes for my new herb. This type of herb is used mostly in soups…and Vietnamese soups are something that I have never tried at home. Actually, I have never tried making Vietnamese anything! Luckily, I found a recipe for just such a soup (Bún Bò Huế) in my October 2006 issue of Saveur. I heavily adapted it though to suit what I had on hand (just half a kilo of beef shank and some bone with marrow), as well as the time I had to work with (not enough time to boil meats, then refrigerate, then slice, and all the rest). I ended up with something I like to think of as Vietnamese Nilaga, or, as below, Vietnamese Style Bulalo (bone marrow).
Vietnamese Style Bulalo (bone marrow)
(adapted from Bún Bò Huế recipe in Saveur October 2006 issue)
- 2 tablespoons + 4 tablespoons canola oil
- 3 medium yellow onions (2 chopped and 1 sliced thinly)
- ½ tablespoon annatto seeds (atsuete)
- 500 grams boneless beef shank, cut into roughly 1 inch chunks
- 2-3 1.5-inch pieces of bone with marrow (bulalo)
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons + 2 ½ teaspoons fish sauce (patis)
- 5 trimmed stalks of lemongrass (4 cut into 3-inch pieces and bruised, 1 minced)
- 1 teaspoon + 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 teaspoons dried chili flakes
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon shrimp paste (bagoong)
- 150 grams Vietnamese egg noodles, boiled as per packaged directions
- A large bunch of Vietnamese coriander or culantro, root end removed
- 4 scallions, chopped
– Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a stockpot then add chopped onions. Cook onions until slightly soft, around 2 minutes. Add annatto seeds and cook until onions are dark yellow, around 4-5 minutes.
– Season beef with salt and pepper and add to the pot, pushing the onions to one side. Sear for about 4-5 minutes. Add 2 ½ liters of water and bring to a boil. Skim off and discard scum that forms on top. Add 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, bruised lemongrass, and 1 teaspoon sugar. Lower heat and simmer until meat is tender.
– While your meat is simmering, get on with the chili mix. Place remaining oil, chili flakes, garlic, and minced lemongrass in a small pot and gently simmer until fragrant (about 5 minutes). Remove from heat and stir in remaining fish sauce and sugar. Set aside.
– When meat is tender add shrimp paste and chili mixture (to taste). Taste for seasoning and adjust if needed. At the last moment toss in Vietnamese coriander and take off heat.
– Divide noodles into bowls (this will serve 2-3 people). Top each bowl with sliced onions and scallions. Pour the hot broth with some beef and bulalo into each bowl. Serve with remaining chili mix.The hot, fortifying, meal-in-a-bowl came out better then I expected. This is one of those "hits-the-spot" soups. The broth was beefy and flavorful, the beef fork-tender, and the smells emanating from the kitchen were new and exotic…the smell of Vietnamese cooking! The marrow/bulalo was its usual unctuous and mind-melting self (I'm a BIG marrow fan, obviously), with a new dimension as it melded deliciously with the distinct flavors of the broth. C and I hunkered over our bowls; the only sound our contented slurping.Looking at other resources, the herb I had looked different from the pictures of Vietnamese coriander on the internet. It actually appeared more like culantro, another cilantro/coriander relation, more aromatic than both Vietnamese coriander (which is actually milder) and cilantro. Upon further investigation, it seemed that the herb I had on hand was indeed culantro (I have amended the recipe above to include both). The March 2006 issue of Saveur featured it. Culantro is indigenous to the West Indies but is used all over, including Vietnam, where it is called ngo gai (as opposed to Vietnamese coriander which is referred to as rau rǎm) and is one of the standard herbs in pho and other soups. Whew! So I was not totally off-base when I used it! And more good news: As I have discovered it to be culantro, I now have a new bunch of recipes in which to use it…all hailing from Trinidad! Who knew you could go all around the world and never leave you kitchen?UPDATE 2/13 — C made a very typical local salad of chopped tomatoes, onions, and shrimp paste (bagoong) to go with some fried fish last week. We chopped up some of the culantro and tossed it in the salad. Simple but amazingly flavorful and delicious!


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Gun Owners, Don't Get Mad – It Is Time To Talk
December 14, 2012 is a date I will likely never forget. The tragedy in Newtown, CT has been seared into our collective minds. As horrible as any of the recent mass shootings have been, this one is worse for one simple reason -- most of the victims were completely helpless children.
In the wake of this tragedy people are having heated, passionate arguments on the Internet about what needs to be done. Most of these debates will be pointless insult contests that won't advance the conversation. This is why I'm not participating in the comment section of news sites right now. No one thinks objectively in that forum and compassionate logic is completely absent. If someone disagrees with you, you are a "moron."
I am a gun owner. In fact, I own two of the three firearms used in the Sandy Hook shooting; a Glock pistol and an AR-style rifle. Shooting and hunting are among my favorite hobbies. I am an advocate for the Second Amendment and believe in our right to bear arms. I also believe that something needs to be done. And I hope that gun owners and advocates are sensitive to recent events.
Mass shootings are a complex problem with many layers. No one aspect is wholly at fault for the 16 shooting tragedies that have happened this year. Guns are certainly part of it. They are the tool used to perpetrate these crimes. But they are just that, a tool. School security is something that also needs to be addressed. Gun-free school zones are useless. Maniacs on a mission don't care about gun-free zones. Do we need armed guard s at our schools? I don't know, but nothing should be ruled out right now. Mental illness is also part of it but talking about it is so tricky and needs to be treated sensitively. While the vast majority of gun owners are law-abiding citizens and are not on the verge of a horrible crime, most people who suffer from mental disorders are also not a threat either. But a fraction of a percent of people in both of these groups are a threat. Identifying them and preventing them from doing something evil is what needs to happen.
I am not a doctor and have no experience with mental illness so I will not speak to that. As a gun owner I will say this to my fellow owners: Don't get mad, it is time to talk about gun control. We may have to make some concessions. I don't like that concessions may have to be made, but people are scared, and with good reason. Hell, I am scared too! Whether certain weapons are banned, restrictions are placed on magazine capacity, stricter screening on those who purchase firearms or tighter rules for weapons owned in homes with children are instituted, some combination of these things is likely to happen, and I have to say, I am fine with that.
On the other hand, I do not think a blanket ban of so-called "assault weapons" is the answer either. Parts of the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, were somewhat ridiculous to gun owners in the definitions of weapons that were banned and there were ways around it.
Magazine capacity restrictions are the most likely thing to change, in my opinion. It's also the change I would be the most agreeable to. My AR-15 came with one 30-round magazine and I can't stand it. It's big and bulky. It takes a box and a half of ammunition to fill it, and I never do. It gets in the way when I'm trying to shoot from a bench. It is also way more than I would ever need. I bought a 5-round magazine for my rifle so that I could target shoot more easily, and so that I can legally use it for hunting.
National legislation is likely to be introduced in the next year. Passage of any legislation to control gun ownership will be tough to do. I don't think that everything to come out of Washington will be a bad idea. Some will be bad, some will be good. But to me I think this is something that should be handled at a state level. South Dakota has much less restrictive gun laws than, say, New York. We're more rural, the capital of pheasant hunting, and sport shooting in general is a way of life to many, myself included. We also don't have the same problems with gun violence that those in New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles do.
I urge everyone who is a gun owner to be compassionate and reasonable in the weeks and months to come. I have friends who will completely disagree with some of the things I have said and that doesn't bother me. I don't know what changes should be made, but I can't come up with a good reason why the status quo is the way to go.


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Guild of Handicraft
English, active 1888–1908
Standing Comport, 1905
silver, enamel
21.8 x 20.8 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds from an anonymous donor
Metallic, Decorative Arts Silver
The WAG owns several works by the Guild of Handicraft including this splendid comport, a type of dessert dish supported by a stem base. The Guild was the brainchild of architect, designer, and writer Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942). Influenced by John Ruskin and William Morris, Ashbee strongly advocated for craftsmanship and hand-made processes. He established the Guild in 1888 in East London, relocating in 1902 to the rural setting of Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, which allowed for exploration of a co-operative and communal existence. Not surprisingly, the Guild's aesthetic formed in direct opposition to the appearance of machine-made wares. Instead of flawless finishes with ornate surfaces, the Guild preferred overt evidence of the maker's involvement, such as textured surfaces reflecting the hammer strikes needed to shape the silver. The WAG comport carries this unmistakable evidence of handwork, punctuated with small plaques of floral enamel work and openwork design.
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