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Dear Reader: Do you think you are related to the individuals listed in this post? Please drop me a note! I love hearing from cousins and others researching my family!
My Texas roots include Campbells from San Antonio:
27. Josephine Susan Campbell (b. 1859 in San Antonio – d. 1922 in San Antonio)
54. William Wallace Campbell (b. 1828 in Virginia – d. 1862 in San Antonio)
William is listed as a master mason in the 1860 U.S. census, which I found on Ancestry.com.
William and his wife, Susan Elizabeth Smith (1830-1864), passed away while their children were still young. I found two of Josephine's siblings living with relatives in the 1870 census, but haven't tracked down Josephine's location in that particular year.
The siblings were reunited and living together when they were in their 20s, according to the 1880 census.
William earned a mention in Daughters of the Republic of Texas because his wife, Susan, was the daughter of William John Smith (aka John William Smith, a prominent figure in the battle for the Alamo and the first mayor of San Antonio).
As of yet, I have not been able to discover the names of William's parents, nor the area of Virginia from whence he came. There are a lot of William Campbells in Virginia around the time he resided there for me to sort through.
Josephine married Anson G. Bennett in 1881 and they had 8 children, including my great-grandmother, Susan Campbell Bennett (1884-1966).


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I got that purp.
by Alex February 26, 2004
"yo, roll up some of those purps and lets all get blunted."
by Dank Master Flex April 07, 2003
Purp is the slang word for a high grade strain of marijuana which is also known as Grandaddy Purp or Grapes. It's most commonly found in Northern California where it originates and where it is preferred over most other strains of marijuana. It's also commonly found in Southern California and many places bordering California. It is rare in other areas of the U.S. and it is one of the most potent strains in the country. Purp is not the same as Purple Haze, the strain which was most popular during the 60's and 70's. Purp marijuana is dark green or medium green with a purple shade to it on both the leaves and buds. The hairs on Purp can vary in color, such as purple, yellow, or green hairs. It's one of the more popular strains found at medical marijuana dispensaries in the U.S. The word Purp is used commonly in the Bay Area (San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland etc.) to refer specifically to this type of marijuana. Not every marijuana with purple color is necessarily Purp or Grandaddy Purp. Purp has been featured in a number of magazines such as 420 Magazine and High Times. Many Northern California rap artists have mentioned Purp in rap songs, such as the song "I Got Grapes" by Bay Area natives Nump, E-40, and The Federation. Other artists outside the Bay Area have mentioned it in songs as well, including Lil Wayne, in songs like "Walk it Out" and "D.O.A.". Other artists who have mentioned Purp in their songs include Baby Bash, Soulja Boy, Pimp C, Bun B, Rick Ross, and Yung Joc.
Guy A: Yo I got that Purp
Guy B: Oh man you got that Purp? Damn I better cancel the rest of my plans for the day.
Guy B: Oh man you got that Purp? Damn I better cancel the rest of my plans for the day.
by CJPattaya May 02, 2010
Good purple weed with a grapey, fruity pebblish taste i.e GrandDaddyPurple, Purple Urkle, Purple Kush or Mendo Purps. Popular in NorCal, highly sought after everywhere else.
by KISE1 November 18, 2007
Purp is a recreational drink popular in the Southern United States whose main ingredients originally consisted of some type of prescription cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine, and either soda or fruit juice. Recently, the term has expanded to cover mixtures including over-the-counter cough syrup and vodka in place of prescription cough syrup.
Sippin' on that Purp,
by Lex Diamond May 25, 2006
Slang term for purple haze. A great type of marijuana.
by ARandomHeretic July 12, 2006

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Field joined Deere & Company in 1994 and has held a number of positions in the areas of accounting, treasury, and business development and planning. Field served as Chief Financial Officer of Deere's former Timberjack Group, responsible for all accounting, finance and treasury functions. He was appointed Comptroller, Deere & Company, in May 2001, and Vice President and Comptroller, Deere & Company, in September 2002. Field was named President, Worldwide Commercial & Consumer Equipment Division in September 2007. In 2009, he was named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Deere & Company. Before joining Deere, Field served in a number of assignments at Deloitte & Touche.
Field is a 1985 graduate of Western Michigan University, and holds a CPA. He is a member of the Illinois CPA Society and the American Institute of CPA.
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GRAND JUNCTION – Colorado Parks and Wildlife is advising hunters heading to Game Management Unit (GMU) 23 in the White River National Forest that the southeast portion of the unit will be temporarily closed by the U.S. Forest Service during the upcoming big-game seasons due to concerns about an active wildfire in the area.
Although recent rainfall has dampened the fire, USFS officials are concerned about the number of weakened trees and snags caused by the heat and flames, as well as concerns that the fire could re-ignite as temperatures rise and rainfall moves out of the area. The closure extends through Dec. 31, but could end sooner if conditions warrant.
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text: On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Jan Heichler wrote: > BC> But then I changed my mind when I started > BC> to hear what a great feature it is to have several nodes booting and > BC> installing the OS in the same 50 minutes (yes, minutes!) that a single > BC> node takes, due to a wonderful feature called multicast. > > 50 minutes for a single node is of course unacceptable. 50 Minutes for > 256 nodes is okay i think. With Scyld we do dynamic provisioning and "diskless administration", so all run-time elements come from a master with each boot. That means we a great deal of effort into making "installation" fast. We have had releases that take 0.750 seconds before a compute node is ready to accept its first job. Yes, that's under a second to start a kernel, activate the network, set up a connection to the cluster master, and configure an application environment. (Of course that's ignoring the time in the BIOS counting memory and PXE's two second delay. And that node hardware had no disks and few devices, the kernel was 2.4 which started faster, and everything software setting was left at the default e.g. no mounted filesystems or extra services. A more typical start-up time is 5-15 seconds.) But in my experience, even 10 seconds is too long for a scalable cluster architecture. Why? Because 100 or 1000 nodes is a really big number. Consider that a untuned master/boot-server spends about 20-25% of its focus on that node during the 10 seconds. Or, just for approximation, we can boot 4-5 nodes at once. That means it takes 3-5 minutes to bring 100 nodes up, and it's unbearably long to bring 1000 nodes up without auxiliary servers. That's why we redesigned part of our boot system when we started to take 10 seconds. And it's why I consider full installation to be unworkable for large clusters, especially when re-installation is considered to be part of cluster administration. > But i doubt that it scales that well. Even Multicast packages get lost - > needs retransmission etc. This pushed the hot button that really triggered my response. We have multicast options in many parts of our system. But they are always turned off. Multicast is a parlor trick, like balancing 10 plates on your nose while riding a unicycle. It makes for a great show, but you aren't served that way at your local diner. We made the mistake once.. a single release.. never to be repeated.. of turning on multicast by default. It worked for us, with small unmanaged switches in the test lab. It broke when we sent the release to customers. And it broke in a different way for each configuration. The problem with multicast isn't how well it performs when it works, it's what happens when things go wrong. Designing a multicast protocol requires knowing the characteristics of the transmission media. What happens when a packet is lost? Is it lost for everyone? Do you lose packets one at a time or in bursts? Do you lose them in small bursts or long bursts? Are losses equally spaced or randomly distributed? Switches make different choices about discarding packets when overloaded. (About the only common choice they make is that multicast packets get tossed first.) They change loss behavior as the load changes. Cascading switches, including multiple switch chips in a single box, multiplies the number of ways they can behave. The more you look at the problem, the more you understand that's designing even simple multicast protocols is very similar to designing error correcting codes (a very difficult problem), and then we toss complexity on top of that. Out of order packets, feedback-generated losses (where sending "please resend packet N" caused more loss), etc. Hmmm, this probably more readable if I stick a list in: A few problems with multicast bulk transfer are It slows the protocol to TFTP speed It discards the ability to use TCP transmit offload hardware and software fast-path receive. Many switches prefer to drop multicast packets, presuming that it is low-priority traffic. This is especially true when multicast is handled by software on the switch, with the embedded CPU sized assuming a typical environment with very little multicast traffic. Multicast packets drops may be pattern based, leaving some transfers persistently incomplete Multicast filtering is imperfect on most host NICs, resulting in a hidden CPU cost and unpredictable performance on machines not participating in the transfer. Why do some people think that multicast is a good idea? It might be just a good example of lessons learned not being unlearned. Using multicast was an excellent solution in the days of Ethernet coax and repeaters. When using a repeater all machines see all traffic anyway, and older NICs treated all packets individually. Today clusters use switched Ethernet or specialized interconnects (Infiniband, Myrinet, etc.), all of which must handle multicast packets as a special case and emulate the behavior. -- Donald Becker becker at scyld.com Penguin Computing / Scyld Software www.penguincomputing.com www.scyld.com Annapolis MD and San Francisco CA


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Jon Woodford needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 97 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
Woodford Design
We are a new company that is developing a couple of products and iPhone apps that will be aimed at the mainstream homeware non tech market. Products are aimed at consumers who wish to have a product that no only enhances their technology device but that also adds benefit to their home and brings good design, aesthetics and high quality. Products will be aimed at the mid to high end of the market.
Company core values are to bring stylish design and high quality to technology accessories.
Target audience will be non tech mainstream consumers who want products to enhance their home and make their lifestyle easier.
Consumer could be a working mother who likes fashion and design for her clothes and home, and wants a product that not only works but will also look good and be stylish. Think Dualit toasters, Smeg fridges, etc
Consumer could be a high earner with disposable income that appreciates design and wants only the best. Think high end hifi, Bose, B&W Hifi
Logo is going to be used for advertising through the mainstream press so needs to be simple, stylish and classic. Can be retro and fun.
The word "Design" does not necessarily need to be in the logo design or wording
Written name and logo required. Could be like such as Rapha mentioned below where Logo is "R" and wording is "Rapha" or something bigger and better
Logo is to be used on printed material, website, software applications and on the finished product so logo needed in many sizes and resolutions.
Think organic, pastel, natural colours
Ideally logo needs to be in Photoshop PSD format with all elements in layers so that for instance wording can be removed from logo or back ground can be removed.
Examples of websites and logos that match design needs are:
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Nigella Lawson - http://www.nigella.com/
Boden - http://www.boden.co.uk
Joules - http://www.joulesclothing.com
White Stuff - http://www.whitestuff.com/
Jamie Oliver - http://www.jamieoliver.com/
Logo should express:
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• Stylish
• Maturity
• Warmth
• Home
• Family
• Environment
• Earth
• Elements
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The 2004 Daytona Beach Motorsports Expo goes back to its roots and promises to offer something for every performance enthusiast.
The Daytona Beach Motorsports Expo is the original. What started out as the Circle Track Racing Expo has changed over the years and modified to fit the ever-growing performance automotive industry.
19 Years of Success and Counting!
For directions, exhibitor or schedule information, and more visit Daytona Beach Motorsports Expo
February 11, 2004 10am – 6pm
February 12, 2004 5pm – 10pm
February 13, 2004 10am – 8pm
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1. $6,000 Racer Sponsorship
Win sponosorship money! Entries will be accepted everyday of the show with winner drawings taking place on the opening and closing day. Each winner will receive a minimum of $3,000 in equipment or sponsorship money that can be used to purchase merchandise at the show. Winner must be present to win.
2. Clevite Engine Builders Showdown
Assembly required. Watch round two of the 5th annual clevite engine builders showdown as nascar's top engine builders team up to compete for bragging rights and the championship!
3. Welding and Frabricating Pavilion
A specific machining area features demonstrations that highlight the latest in fabrication, welding and engine machining equipment.
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Live your 15 minutes of fame right in our own television studio just steps away from the world famous daytona beach.
5. Motorsports Garage
Get down and dirty with industry leaders in the motorsports garage. Hands-on informational seminars and Q&A sessions will give attendees the right tools to win on and off the track.
6. Meet the Drivers!
Autograph sessions with some of the greatest drivers in the country.
7. NASCAR Affliated Author Book Signings
Meet angie skinner, wife of nascar driver mike skinner, onsite as she signs copies of her new nascar book "turning point."
8. Ride & Drives
Put the pedal to the metal and race your favorite bar stool. Challenge your friends to the next roundy round or watch professional racers compete for prize money in the world championship bar stool races!
9. Other Great Racing Activities at the Show Include:
More than 300 exhibits More than 150 hardcore parts exhibitors racing transports, trailers and RV's More than 25 show cars Thousands of racing collectibles and fan activities.


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Monday, April 17, 2006
De Lee, Ted
1) In an acting class my freshman year of high school, the teacher admonished us for "not pronouncing our 't's - there's a 't' in 'battle' - I need to hear it." So we had to say 'ba-tel' to get her off our collective case. Nevermind that that's not how you say that word in American English.
2) At a conference recently a handout for a talk included some transcribed speech, in which the word 'later' was followed by "(lader)" seemingly chastising the informant for flapping her 't's.
3) The recorded interface in my voicemail system, which generally sounds chatty and colloquial, says "This message has been De Lee, Ted," which always makes me want to say, 'My name isn't Ted.'
Frankly, I don't really care that people don't know about flapping 't's. Why should they? But it's interesting that this particular sound gets attention where others don't; I can't imagine an acting teacher telling actors to devoice the 's' in 'rose,' for instance.
2 comments:
- Luke said...
I've also noticed (especially in sung music)that a lot of t's are getting "s" tacked on to them...hence the line "i want to talk to you" comes out as "i want tso tsalk tso you". I haven't read about this anywhere...any thoughts?
- Ben said...
As a matter of fact, I do have some thoughts about that. First of all, I should point out that these 't's are before stressed vowels and are normally aspirated - that is, followed by a puff of air. From there it's not too big a stretch to 'ts' - I call this 'tsadification' after the Hebrew letter that makes the /ts/ sound, though I bet there's a technical term. I associate this in speech with two groups of people - 1) British people, especially from southern England, and 2) New Yorkers of Puerto Rican and Dominican heritage. I think that in America, though, this is spreading rapidly and widely, but that's based on vague impressions, not data. I posted a while back about British and American singing pronunciations and the curious and complex relation between them.
Good observation, in any case.


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In the early morning, before most people get out of bed, I usually go for a long walk just to absorb the unadulterated sounds of nature . . . and it was on just such a walk that I discovered a purple caboose parked on a semi-deserted railroad siding.
Now it's almost impossible—even at 5:30 a.m.—to be unaffected by a purple caboose sitting in a nearly abandoned area . . . and the yellow sunshine smile painted on the side of this one made it absolutely irresistable. Paying no attention to the hour or to the red cabooses on either side, I climbed right up on the platform of that smiling wonder.
The sound of my own knocking suddenly brought me back to my senses. Five-thirty in the morning is no time to be beating on the door of a purple caboose! After waiting a few moments and getting no response, I made a hasty retreat. I also made a mental note to return at a more reasonable hour.
My subsequent visit proved that I hadn't been dreaming. There stood the happy caboose, sandwiched between what appeared to be three ordinary red ones. I cautiously stepped up on the purple car's platform again and peered through the window in the door. With the exception of some carpenter tools and lumber, the interior was bare.
I was badly disappointed and was starting to leave when an automobile pulled up and a man in his early 20's jumped out. He was wearing a smile as friendly as that of the sunshine face.
"Hi," he said as if we were old friends. "Will you join me for a cup of coffee?" He was headed toward one of the red cabooses and, in somewhat of a daze, I followed.
My wonder increased when we walked through the door. Inside, the small (14 ft. high, 9 ft. wide and 33 ft. long) railroad car was divided into living areas, the walls were gaily papered or paneled in dark wood, the floor was covered with a cheerfully patterned red carpet and a potbellied stove stood in the center of the main room. Not only was the red caboose a complete home, it was a very attractive one as well.
As my host showed me around and I began to close my gaping mouth, we exchanged introductions. Charles Bartlebaugh was the owner of both the friendly manner and the red caboose (it had been his home for the past four years).
And the happy purple beauty? "I sold that one to Dr. Klein. He's going to take it up north and use it for a ski cabin. In fact," Chuck continued, "I once owned all four of these cars. Selling cabooses to people who want a very inexpensive and very livable home is how I currently earn my living."
Now I never would've guessed that a living could be made selling cabooses, of all things, and I was anxious to find out how Chuck had gotten started.
Getting Started in Dealing Cabooses
"Let me preface that story," he said, "with the fact that I've been on my own since the tenth grade and have always felt that money is secondary to happiness. I guess I'm trying to say that even before I was out of high school, I was looking for some way of surviving without losing myself in a meaningless struggle just to make money.
"Anyhow, when I was still in high school my girl and I would come down to the tracks and talk to the guys that ran the local freight. There was an old wooden depot here then, and the whole scene was interesting to me. After a while we got to bringing some wine and chicken with us to share with the train crew and, in return, the crew would let us ride the freight on the one-day round trips. It was different and a lot of fun.
"Once, when I mentioned that I needed a place to live, one of the crew suggested that I buy a scrapped caboose. I don't know if he was joking or not, but the idea sounded great."
Shortly thereafter, Chuck graduated from high school and began looking for a caboose ("I mean I really looked!") but it took him from 1965 until 1967 to locate one.
"After all the letters I had written, all the scrap yards I had gone to and all the people I had talked with, it really was kind of odd how I happened to get my first caboose," Chuck recalls. "I was at a sports car race in Mossport, Canada and casually mentioned that I was looking for a caboose . . . and a guy I didn't even know said he knew where I could get one.
"It was really strange, kind of like walking down the street and having some character come up and whisper, 'Psst . . . hey kid, want to buy a caboose?" This guy seemed typically shady but, not having anything to lose, I followed his directions to a scrap yard in St. Thomas, Ontario and—sure enough—there was a caboose. As a matter of fact, I'd found eight of 'em.
"At that time, scrap dealers could purchase the cars, burn off the wood and salvage the metal for a profit. This particular dealer was willing to let me have one of his eight . . . as long as I took the other seven and paid him $350 each. Since I didn't have even the money to buy one—let alone eight—I accepted . . . which meant that I had to do something. "
What Chuck did was to place an advertisement in the London and Toronto papers offering six cabooses, as great little cottages, for only $350 apiece . . . the same price he had to pay for the cars. An amazing number of people answered the ad and, in no time at all, Bartlebaugh had sold all six. With $2,100 in his hand, the dealer let Chuck have the other two cars on credit.
"At last I had my caboose," Chuck remembers. "I didn't know exactly what I was going to do with it, but I had it . . . and one to spare. Both were in excellent condition, and getting the railroad to pull them was no problem. Crossing the border back into the United States did, however, present some difficulty."
Chuck, it seems, had made the mistake of painting one caboose (the one he still lives in) before leaving Canada. When the Customs officials' saw the bright red car, they decided that it was still good enough to qualify as railroad equipment and demanded a $1,000 deposit before they'd release it. There was no way that Chuck could convince them differently.
Finally, out of desperation, Bartlebaugh contacted a broker (someone who brings supplies across the border for a price). The broker's fee put Chuck another $100 in debt, but it was worth it. The caboose was classified as scrap and brought into the country duty free. Since that time Chuck has bought other cabooses in Canada and has had no trouble bringing them into the United States . . . he just doesn't paint them until he's back home.
"Once across the border that first time, I was faced with another difficulty . . . where to park my caboose. The local railroad didn't want me on their sidings but, fortunately, a petroleum dealer owned the land under this one and he said I could park here. When the railroad decided to remove the tracks, the oil company bought them . . . and I've been here ever since for only $15 a month, which is about the least expensive rent I've ever heard of."
After getting settled, Chuck had to find a way to pay for the two cabooses. The passing thought he gave at the time to actually dealing in used railroad cars was dismissed because of the difficulty of finding the cars and the expense involved in moving one off the tracks. Still, not being eager to get into the 8-to-5 routine, he tried to think of alternative ways to make money.
Making a Living While Living a Dream
What Bartlebaugh came up with was a series of schemes that would let him pursue his interest in railroads and make a living at the same time. The first was an idea for creating a shopping center out of several train cars and—if possible—an engine. Chuck figured he could lease the cars for use as retail stores—maybe even as a restaurant—and could then use his own caboose as both an office and a residence.
"This was a couple of years ago and my first experience in the business world. In the process of getting investors I came across a man who seemed very interested, so I explained my plan to him in detail. Once he had my idea to go with his money, he decided that I would be of no further use and he told me to get lost in very strong language. For what it's worth, my idea seems to be working out very well for him."
At about the same time—it was 1969 and the 100th anniversary of the first transcontinental railroad trip— Bartlebaugh had another grandiose scheme. Chuck's plan was to relive that first cross-country railroad jaunt by taking his caboose from New York to California and back.
Of course, there was that old nemesis . . . money. The cost would have been prohibitive to Chuck, so he went out again, looking for people to back him. "I guess I had another good idea because I was able to get my caboose carpeted and paneled for free as a promotional gimmick. Then I managed to interest a couple of railroads and they offered me free passage. It looked as if the trip was on."
By this time the newspapers had heard of Bartlebaugh's plans and were sending people out to interview him. He was a guest on a 1-1/2-hour TV talk program, Johnny Carson invited Chuck to appear on the "Tonight" show before the trip and a third TV talk show (no longer on the air) wanted to interview him at the end of the journey. One of the network news commentators even arranged for the transcontinental traveler to send in weekly progress reports once he was under way.
Everything was shaping up rapidly and, not only was Chuck Bartlebaugh going to make the cross-country anniversary trip, but it looked as if he would make some money, too.
"I guess I should have known better," Chuck laments. "A few days after the news commentator contacted me, I received a letter from the railroads stating that they could no longer offer me free passage. They felt I was getting too much publicity and that, if they went through with the deal, they would be letting themselves in for a big liability risk because my caboose was sure to draw crowds too large to handle wherever it stopped. They were very nice about the whole thing, and they were right . . . I guess. But there was no way I could finance the trip myself, so I had to put it off. I haven't forgotten about it . . . I've just delayed it."
As a result of the publicity he'd received, people began stopping by the siding almost every day to see Bartlebaugh. They all looked at his cabooses and asked questions, quite a few showed an interest in buying and most were very open to his way of life. Once more, Chuck began to think about dealing used cabooses for a living.
In the two years between 1967 and 1969, Bartlebaugh had been doing more than planning shopping centers and transcontinental trips . . . he had also been busy building a network of contacts that would eventually help him locate and buy a good number of the used cabooses in North America as they came onto the market.
"I wrote letters to all the railroads, in an effort to locate the cars. There are over 200 major rail lines and another 100 smaller ones, you know, and that made for a lot of correspondence. I drove around a good deal, too, checking railroad yards for cabooses that looked abandoned. When I found one, I asked around to see who had the responsibility or authority to sell it. Usually I had to write a lot of letters back and forth—in addition to contacting people on the telephone and really just making a pest of myself—before I could obtain the information I needed.
On one occasion, Chuck called a major railroad and talked to 27 people in his effort to find out which one could authorize the sale of a caboose he'd found. He got all the way up to one of the vice-presidents only to be referred back to the very first person he had called. It was then that Chuck decided to try and go about it a different way . . . the only trouble being that there was no different way.
Bartlebaugh persisted in trying to cut through the red tape of "official channels" . . . and he finally succeeded. By 1970, thanks to his private grapevine of railroad contacts and friends throughout the U.S. and Canada, Chuck was able to find and buy cabooses with a minimum of hassle. "I now know people who will tell me when a caboose is going to be released," he says. "When this happens, I just check my list to see who's authorized to sell that particular car, contact the person and add another caboose to my collection."
Currently, the number in that collection is limited at any one time to three (in addition to his own) because of the size of Bartlebaugh's home siding. The cabooses now occupying the site are already sold but are either being worked on or are waiting to be moved. When they go, Chuck will buy another three for resale . . . providing he can find them.
How to Choose the Right Caboose
"Wooden cabooses are rarely used anymore and are becoming harder to locate," Chuck comments. "When I bought my first ones in 1967 they cost me $350 each. Now, because of their growing rarity, I pay $750 to $800 apiece. The money-minded will note that this means the value of the caboose is rapidly increasing."
When Chuck does locate a caboose he takes a couple of retired railroad friends with him to inspect it. "I've found these men to be great guys," he notes. "When it comes to railroad equipment, they really get a lot of pleasure out of helping me check it out.
"Before I purchase a caboose, we look it over and make sure it's in running condition and, if the wheels are badly worn or the wood dry-rotted, I won't buy. When the wheels are squared off or the wood wasting away, the car will vibrate apart on the tracks. A caboose with bad wheels may never even make it to its destination. However, if there's just one bad wheel or only a few boards that need changing, the car is fairly solid and I'll probably take it."
Before Chuck accepts a car, he also makes sure that its brake lines are good and that the trucks (wheels) are OK for interchange (changing from one railroad line to another). Chuck says, "if the caboose was built for one of the old narrow-gauge lines, it won't transfer to the standard-gauge track now used by most railroads. Such a caboose, except under very unusual circumstances, isn't worth buying."
A caboose currently costs Bartlebaugh between $750 and $800 and he sells them to his customers for $1,250. For the $450 or $500 difference, Chuck's buyers purchase both a railroad car and a guarantee that the car will be delivered to a specified site in running condition. If it's impossible to get the caboose to the site, Chuck will return the customer's money in full. And if the car breaks down enroute—no matter where—Bartlebaugh will either refund the money or have the caboose repaired at his expense. "That makes me doubly careful when I buy a caboose," Bartlebaugh says, "and, so far, I've had no trouble delivering the ones I've picked."
Chuck admits that moving a caboose off the railroad tracks and onto a site once presented a problem, both financially and operationally. "In fact," he says, "it was this very problem that prevented me from selling cabooses for a living for more than two years."
Back when he was new at the business of buying and selling railroad cars, Bartlebaugh shipped each caboose by rail to the point nearest the requested site and hired an expensive crew of heavy equipment movers—called riggers—to move the caboose from the tracks to its new location.
Since the riggers' union required that ten men be put on the job, the final leg of the moving process usually cost about $3,000. Riggers were also difficult to locate and, even when they could be found, wouldn't move a caboose more than 12 miles.
Chuck eventually learned that, because a caboose weighs only 18 tons, it can be moved from a railroad by a housemover . . . who works either alone or with just one helper. Not only is this method considerably cheaper, but housemovers are easy to find and will haul a caboose almost any distance. Now Chuck can have his cars relocated just about anywhere, including places where there aren't any roads (just so long as a moving truck can make it over the ground) for about $400.
Who Wants to Buy an Old Caboose?
With a dependable source of cabooses lined up and the problem of moving the cars solved, Chuck obviously needed only one thing—customers—to put him in business. I was beginning to wonder just what kind of folks would buy a used railroad caboose when Bartlebaugh answered the question for me.
"People who buy cabooses come in all shapes and sizes, and they purchase the cars for many different reasons. Some folks want a caboose for a cottage, a hunting or fishing cabin, a ski lodge, workshop, art or craft gallery or even a permanent home. Others just buy the cars to put in their back yards."
The old railroad cars also have a special appeal to people on the move. A caboose owner can travel conveniently and relatively inexpensively with all the comforts of home . . . because he just takes his house with him. If it's in good repair and parked on an accessible siding, a caboose-home can ride the rails just like any other passenger car.
When Chuck wants to take a trip, for example, he simply tells the officials at the nearest freight office where he wants to go and fills out a bill of lading. The caboose is then inspected to see if there's enough oil in the hot boxes and that the brakes will hold air. If everything checks out, a train picks up the car, takes it to the siding nearest Chuck's destination and leaves it until he's ready to come back. Cost is 44¢ a mile, with a minimum travel requirement of 75 miles . . . not cheap, but not expensive either if a few friends ride along.
Chuck's description of living in a caboose was beginning to sound so good that I figured there must be some catch (probably money) that he hadn't told me about. Granted that a good used caboose bought from him cost only $1,250 plus an average $400 for delivery . . . how much would I really have to spend to turn one of the railroad cars into a completely finished and furnished home, ski lodge or whatever? And then how much would it cost to park and maintain my new pride and joy?
"That," says Chuck, "depends on what you want. I would say that for about $2,500 you could have yourself a really plush caboose. Take that purple one of Dr. Klein's. Right now, we're putting in a small sauna bath. Once that's completed, we'll add paneling, lighting fixtures, refrigerator, stove, bathroom, beds . . . the whole works. I'm sure that his total cost for the caboose, remodeling and delivery won't be much over $2,500."
Bartlebaugh further explained that, after the caboose has been bought, moved, remodeled and delivered, there's very little expense involved. Most land owners—even when their site is in the middle of the woods—set their cabooses on a strip of track, which can be purchased from any railroad for next to nothing. This means there's no worry, work or cost for a foundation.
There's also little problem for the caboose owner who either doesn't have land or who would rather (say, for travel reasons) stick to the regular working sidings.
"The railroads in this area—and many others—are kind of funny," Chuck explains. "If they can't have a business that brings them rail profits, then they'd just as soon let the tracks rust as make money renting them for something like this.
"Often, though, such 'unprofitable' tracks are sold, and there are hundreds of privately held sidings like this one which the owners are more than willing to rent cheap. As I said before, to keep four cabooses here costs me a total of only $15 a month."
What Is It Like to Live in an Old Caboose?
I had to admit that Chuck's converted cabooses were sounding better all the time . . . but what was it really like to live in one of these retired railroad cars? Chuck answered that one by pointing out the comfortable features of his own caboose.
Twin beds just inside (one on the left and one on the right) the "front" door double as sofas. Above the beds are book shelves and the space underneath each sofa is used for storage.
The middle of Bartlebaugh's car boasts the genuine, original, old-timey potbellied stove with which the caboose was originally outfitted. "All the lanterns came with this car, too," says Chuck, "but it's now virtually impossible to find a caboose with all its interior trappings complete."
My host went on to say that the potbellied stove is great for breaking the chill but that he prefers to use a 1,500 BTU electric space heater to keep his retired railroad car cozy in sub-zero weather. "There are two reasons for this," he said, "One is that the fumes from the stove are potentially dangerous and the other is that it's just too much trouble to feed the coal stove all night. The little potbellied burner is a lot of fun, though, and quite handy for warming the car during the fall, spring and on mild winter days."
Directly across from the stove, Bartlebaugh has hung a table from the ceiling on chains. When traveling with his home, he unhooks the chains and allows the table to drop down against the wall.
Chuck has tucked a mini-kitchen into one far corner of his caboose's main room and a desk into the other. The kitchen is complete with a bottled-gas stove and hot and cold running water (fed from the same kind of portable tank that is commonly used in large boats). Cupboards for cooking utensils line the wall above the sink and a small television set is built in over the desk.
A pair of louvered swinging doors between the corner kitchen and the desk open into the cupola or "back room" section of Chuck's rolling home. The bathroom, with shower, is enclosed on one side of the hall beneath the cupola and Chuck's refrigerator and main storage space is on the other.
"Upstairs" on both sides are built-in "booth" seats. "This is one of the places where cabooses often vary in size," my guide told me. "Mine seats four people on each side and makes a great place from which to view the scenery on a trip. Other cabooses, such as Dr. Klein's purple beauty, have a cupola large enough for an extra bed on each side of the hall . . . thereby increasing the car's sleeping space."
Behind the cupola, outside the railroad car's "back" door, is Chuck's back porch or platform. The roof of the caboose, which overhangs the front platform, overhangs this one too and guard rails and ladders to the roof-front and rear-add the finishing touches to the outside of the car. Inside, a telephone tops off all the comforts of home.
Most people prefer to do their own wiring, decorating and painting and—except for replacing windows and an occasional door—Chuck doesn't usually remodel the cabooses he sells. He's always willing, though, to help people—like Dr. Klein—who do want assistance with the job.
Although Chuck Bartlebaugh buys cabooses all over the country and sells them throughout the state of Michigan, it is obviously impossible for him to travel any great distance to inspect and sell one car. In other words, if you live far away from Michigan and you want to buy a caboose, you're left pretty much to your own devices . . . but not entirely.
Chuck says, "If you want to purchase a caboose, be careful. Approximately 90% of the cars which are retired are simply not worth buying. Inspect any surplus rolling stock very carefully (preferably with the help of one or more retired railroadmen who know what to look for) before you lay your money down.
Happy hunting!


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Aldbury necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 198 design presentati da 48 designer.
ENVIARCH - EnViArch provides EVAcology and EVAtool products. E-V-A stands for Environmentally Viable Architecture.
EnViArch Ltd - We are a UK company with the aim of providing a revolutionary global WEB 2.0 SAAS product to help significantly reduce global warming contributions from buildings.
Buildings currently contribute approximately 45% of the West's carbon emissions. As architects are involved at the inception of projects they have the opportunity via better design decisions to make a significant impact on emissions reduction. However, they are currently under equipped to do so, as the tools available to them are not entirely effective because they are not tailored to their creative way of working.
Our product will help architects and designers to develop significantly more environmentally friendly buildings. It will be both a project management tool (EVAtool) and an extensive knowledge repository (EVAcology).
A core aspect is the ability to use WEB 2.0 technology to build a wiki type open source, peer reviewed Knowledge Repository that can evolve and grow dynamically to harverst/retain only relevant, cutting edge and real time information (wisdom). EVAtool is a subscription based SAAS that provides a context (by means of a structured workflow) for this Knowledge to be presented to design teams.
An early version enabled the design of
The target market is the architectural and building design professions.
Therefore the logo needs to be professional but also appeal to the "green" side of people. As architects are visually literate and innovative the logo should also appeal to this aspect.
The target age group is wide - say 25 to 60.
1. 2 logos required with common feel but independent.
2. EVAtool + EVAcology - EVA in caps and –tool, -cology in lower case. If you can differentiate the two parts in a different way feel free to (we may have other EVA products later).
3. EVAtool logo should have a beta option – EVAtool Beta
4. Logo to be corporate but contemporary, simplistic but creative/innovative.
5. Words describing EVAcology – Environment, Ecology, Sustainability, Evolutionary, Growth, Conexions, Community, Wisdom, Knowledge, Dynamic, Changing, Solving, Life Enhancing, Building.
6. Words describing EVAtool – Management, Process, Team, Community, Control, Better Solutions, Environment, Low/Zero Carbon, Natural, Building, Metric, Performative, Measuring, Simplifying.
3 links of logos we think are interesting:
http://www.logolounge.com/articles/…icleID=680 – Varidot, Sequential, Dandelion – but these are just thoughts, feel free to be creative.
A modifiable vector version of the logo in .ai or .eps (CMYK)
Winner must transfer full copyright for created artwork
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The Orioles won't finish the season with a sweep of their perennial bullies, but they still have a chance to make October intolerable for Red Sox Nation.
Paced by four homers, including the first two of rookie catcher Ryan Lavarnway's career, Boston beat the Orioles, 8-7, on Tuesday, remaining tied in the American League wild-card race with the Tampa Bay Rays, who beat the visiting New York Yankees, 5-3.
With one game left in the 2011 season, Boston needs a win Wednesday and a Rays loss to avoid a one-game playoff Thursday afternoon in St. Petersburg, Fla. The reverse would send the big-money Red Sox home without the playoffs for the second consecutive season.
"They're meaningful for them, not for us," said Orioles center fielder Adam Jones, who hit his 25th homer of the season but also grounded out to end the game. "It would be different if we were playing meaningful games. This place would be rocking; it would be a totally different atmosphere. But they need the games more than we do, so I think all the pressure's on them."
At least the Orioles made it incredibly interesting again for the announced crowd of 22,123, which traded "Let's go, O's" and "Let's go, Red Sox" chants and rose to its feet in the tense ninth.
"You already know we ain't going to quit," Jones said. "You've got the crowd behind you. We didn't quit."
Trailing 8-4 in the eighth, Chris Davis' RBI single and Nolan Reimold's run-scoring triple against reliever Daniel Bard cut the lead to two runs.
In the ninth, the Orioles mounted a brief rally against Boston closer Jonathan Papelbon. J.J. Hardy led off with a single and moved to second on a groundout by Nick Markakis on the 11th pitch of his at-bat. Vladimir Guerrero followed with a two-hopper into left field to bring the winning run to the plate in Matt Wieters, who already had two hits, including a homer.
Wieters hit a tapper in front of the plate that scored Hardy but was thrown out at first. Pinch-runner Matt Angle, the tying run, reached second base. But he was stranded there when Papelbon won an epic, 10-pitch at-bat with Jones, who hit a soft grounder for the third out.
"I think everybody felt like we'd make a run at them," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "And we did over the course of the game."
It was Papelbon's 31st save of the season and kept the postseason hopes alive for the Red Sox, who have lost a nine-game lead on the Rays since Aug. 31.
To help eliminate the Red Sox (90-71) on Wednesday, the Orioles will have to solve Boston left-hander Jon Lester, who is 14-0 in 17 starts all time against Baltimore.
But in a month of the unexpected -- one in which the Orioles have won four of six against the Red Sox and 12 of their past 18 against playoff-caliber clubs while Boston has dropped 19 of 26 in September -- the suddenly struggling Lester is no longer a stone-cold lock at Camden Yards.
"That's not really a topic of discussion that our guys will have," Showalter said. "He's had some no-decisions where he didn't pitch particularly good here either. So that's why it's the big leagues. It's good. They're good. We've got the chance to compete tomorrow."
The last-place Orioles (68-93) no longer have a chance to win 70 games for the first time since 2006, partially because rookie Zach Britton on Tuesday turned in his worst start since his one-out nightmare in New York on July 30.
Perhaps fittingly, the Orioles' promising lefty finished 11-11 in a roller-coaster season that both demonstrated the top pitching prospect's talent and exposed his lack of experience.
"If you asked Zach would he have taken that coming out of camp, he would have said, 'No,' but that's the drive he has. He'll go home and take it all in and learn from it, and he'll figure it out," Showalter said. "There's no set time frame. There's not some chapter in a book, 'A Young Pitcher Develops 101,' that says this happens and it leads to that. But all things being considered, it's a good start for him, and I hope it's the start of a long, good career for a young Oriole pitcher for us."
Britton retired seven of the first eight batters he faced but allowed a two-run homer to Jacoby Ellsbury in the third and a three-run home run in the fourth to Lavarnway, his first as a big leaguer. He lasted 4 1/3 innings, giving up five runs on seven hits and two walks and pushing his final ERA to 4.61.
"I think I still would have been disappointed at the beginning of the season," Britton said about his overall numbers. "Obviously, I didn't know what the AL East is like, or major league baseball is like, but I still feel like I'm capable of better. I'm not going to be satisfied with those numbers. I think I can do a lot better. "
His line could have been worse, but reliever Jason Berken entered in the fifth and struck out Jed Lowrie, and, with the bases loaded, Nick Markakis made a great running, diving, backhand stab of a dying fly ball for the third out.
Berken couldn't hold it together in the sixth, though, serving up a triple to Carl Crawford and Marco Scutaro's seventh homer of the season. Lavarnway hit Boston's fourth homer to lead off the eighth against Zach Phillips.
The Orioles scored first on a double by Vladimir Guerrero that scored Markakis from first base. Guerrero scored in the fourth when Wieters launched a two-run home run into the Orioles' bullpen. Measured at 411 feet, it was Wieters' 22nd homer of the season.
The runs came against former Oriole Erik Bedard, who for the second time in a week did not pitch well against his old team. Bedard was charged with three runs in just 3 1/3 innings Tuesday after giving up four runs in 2 2/3 at Fenway Park on Sept. 20.
Reliever Alfredo Aceves (10-2) allowed one run -- Jones' 25th homer of the season -- in 3 2/3 innings for the win.
And now the teams will battle one more time -- with the Red Sox hoping they can celebrate in Camden Yards and continue their season into October.
Wednesday's "game is very important," Jones said. "Both them and Tampa need the 'W.' So, we're standing in their way, and New York is standing in Tampa's way."


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MITCHELL - The city of Mitchell has issued $6.5 million in bonds to remodel the Corn Palace.
Corn Palace Director Mark Schilling tells The Daily Republic that the $6.5 million will provide for improved lighting, heating and cooling; improved domes, murals and minarets; and a permanent gift shop. It will also allow for an upgraded lobby; an elevator to carry people to the second level; and additional and improved handicapped seating.
The improved Corn Palace would also have two major exhibits and a new auxiliary gymnasium.
The renovation is one of four projects the city has issued bonds for. The total cost of the projects is $13. 9 million. The other projects include adding a layer of ice to the ice area, expanding the library and building a new city hall.
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US election: Four more years... of what?
Americans voted for four more years of President Obama - but what else did they vote for?
How Republicans and Democrats in Washington choose to answer that question will have a major impact on the next four months for the US economy, let alone four years. That's because it will determine how - and how far - they take the country over the so-called "fiscal cliff".
The first piece of good news is that the cliff is not quite as large as it looks. The other is that it is not, really, a cliff. Unlike Wile E Coyote, a divided Congress could step over the cliff, look down, and step back onto solid ground again.
That is more or less what the "smart money" now expects them to do. But that's not to say there won't be some moments of vertigo on the way.
More on that in a moment. But the big economic conclusion that investors have already drawn from the election result is about US monetary policy, not fiscal. Put simply: they think that the US central bank's policy is now going to be looser - for longer - than if Mitt Romney had won.
The argument is that Mr Obama is more likely to replace departing "doves" on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors with other doves - ie, people who are more likely to support the current policy of pumping money into the economy for as it takes to bring down US unemployment.
Investors also think that there will now be a relatively dovish successor to Ben Bernanke, if the current Fed chairman decides to stand down when his term expires in 2014.
These assumptions are probably right - though the definition of "dove" and "hawk" is always a bit simplistic. There are plenty of examples where presidents have appointed Fed governors (or judges) to do one thing, only to see them turn into something very different. Today's monetary dove might, in different circumstances, be tomorrow's hawk.
Other things equal, "four more years" of Obama-style monetary policy probably suggests the dollar will be weaker than it might have been under President Romney.
That, and the prospect of more years of quantitative easing, may not be welcome news to many emerging market economies, who worry that Ben Bernanke's Fed is sending a wave of cheap liquidity into their already challenged financial systems.
Whether it's good or bad news for the eurozone is harder to judge.
To have a chance of surviving in its current state, most economists say the eurozone needs growth and the only way it will get that - across the region - is through a weaker currency. Some would say the same about the UK. A weak dollar could make that more difficult.
But most important of all to anyone in Europe - Britain included - is that America achieves decent growth. Will that be stronger under President Obama?
A majority of voters in the key "swing states" seems to have decided that it will - or at least, they have decided that the risks in Mr Romney's approach to fixing the country's problems outweighed the potential benefits.
Crucial to that, however, will be what happens to that "fiscal cliff": the $600-690bn - or 4-4.5% of GDP (depending on how you measure it) in spending cuts, tax rises and other measures that could come in January, if there is no deal between Congressional Democrats and Republicans to stop them.
I said the cliff is not as large as you might think. That's because at least $230bn of that $690bn involves regular quirks of the crazy US tax system - like the raising of the threshold for the Alternate Minimum Tax - which always get fixed and almost certainly will be this time.
So we're talking about a somewhat smaller cliff of maybe $460bn, or 2.6% of GDP. (Thanks to Kevin Logan at HSBC for pulling some of these figures together).
About $125bn of that - the expiry of both President Obama's temporary payroll tax cut and extension of unemployment benefits - will almost certainly go ahead. The administration did not even bother to incorporate them in the President's budget plan.
That degree of tightening - about three quarters of 1% of GDP - is unlikely to send the US back into recession. In fact, you might think it the bare minimum, for a country that is still running a federal deficit of more than $1 trillion.
The real argument is over the remaining $110bn in spending cuts - including defence cuts which the Republicans hate - and the $200bn or so in tax rises that will happen if the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire - which Republicans also hate.
Democrats are determined to see these tax rises go ahead for households earning more than $250,000 a year, which would raise about $50bn. Republicans are equally determined to stop them - or at least, they have been.
Has the result done anything to break the stalemate? Medium term, perhaps. Many in Washington I speak to think the Republican party that emerges out of this very bad outcome will be resigned to higher taxes on the richest households. They may well also be thinking of an election strategy that reaches further beyond their core vote.
But there are some basic realities that the "hands across the aisle" scenario has to deal with. One is that almost every Republican member of the House if Representatives has signed a pledge not to raise taxes on anyone. The other is that the president has said he will not delay those automatic spending cuts without a "balanced" 10-year plan to lower the deficit - i.e. one that involves higher taxes on the rich.
It's possible that the election has changed the dynamic for this "lame duck" Congress. More likely, though, might be the scenario that many Washington insiders now expect - which is that the $460bn in spending cuts and tax rises are allowed to happen, but then partially reversed, in a deal early in 2013.
Why would it be easier to do this in January than December? Because then, Republicans can say they are voting to cut taxes for the majority of Americans, rather than raise them for the rich.
That might sound to you like a distinction without a difference. But I suspect you are not a House Republican who has sworn not to raise taxes.
Remember, the Republican party retained control of the House. Future Republican contenders for President may draw major lessons from Obama's re-election. It's not obvious that Congressional Republicans will.


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Hey, before I start this tutorial let me get one thing straight-I am not a batch master, do NOT e-mail me asking complicated questions about batch commands and so on. I know basic batch, and thats all that I am writing in this tutorial, so do not send or ask any complicated questions.
What is Batch?
Batch is a DOS language developed by IBM. It uses MS-DOS commands and executes all of them in a single file. Basically, it types many DOS commands by itself, saving you time (and arthritis). I am writing this tutorial assuming that the reader knows at least the bare essentials of MS-DOS, such as the commands cd, dir, mkdir, del, etc. If you do not know any DOS commands or not enough to read this, i suggest you learn them first, knowing the commands will help you understand this tutorial ALOT. You can look below for some of the commands, but I might forget a few.
How do I write batch?
You can write batch on most simple text editors. The most common text editor for writing batch is Notepad, but you can also use Wordpad and MS-DOS edit (to use DOS edit simply go to the directory you want your text file in and type edit (filename) example: {C:\edit hello} this would make a text file called Hello. of course the brackets wouldnt be there, i just put them there so you could tell what the example was)
How do I execute a batch file?
To execute a batch file in Windows you can simply double click on it. However, the file will close automatically, and if you want to see the code in the file you should use DOS to execute it. To execute one in DOS simply change to the directory that the file is in and type batchfilename.bat and it will automatically start the file.
Basic DOS Commands
cd -changes the current directory
dir -lists unhidden files in the current directory
mkdir -makes a new directory
rmdir -removes a directory
del -removes a file (cannot be used to remove directories)
rem -puts a remark in the file. anything on the line with rem will be ignored. can be very useful for inserting comments.
echo -prints text onto the screen
Let's do this!
Ok first we will start with a very basic batch file. Open up a basic text editor and type
cd C:\Progra~1
mkdir Hello
save the file as filename.bat
NOTE: Make sure you save the file extension as .bat or else DOS cannot read the batch file!
Now lets execute the file- C:\Directory: filename.bat
on the screen it will show
C:\directory>cd C:\Progra~1
C:\Progra~1>mkdir Hello
This batch file changes the directory to C:\Program Files and makes the directory Hello. NOTE-If your wondering why i typed cd C:\Progra~1 and not cd C:\Program Files, this is because DOS will only read the first section of the directory name. If the directory has a space in it you must type the first 6 letters of the directory name and after that you type ~1.
Now lets say you want to insert comments into the file. To do this simply type
REM this is a remark and it will be ignored by DOS
rem can be very helpful for inserting facts about the code, such as REM This is a batch file designed to delete temporary internet files
What if you don't want people to see your code? To do this type Echo Off before the code you don't want people to see. To turn Echo back on type Echo On . If you want to hide only one piece of code you insert a @ at the beginning (example: @cd C:\Windows) This will hide the code when the batch file is executed.
Variables are needed to make batch files smart. Variables are defined as %1 through %9. These variables are typed after the batch file name when you execute it. (example: C:\Batchf~1>filename.bat jack) In this case the variable would be jack. Lets tell the batch program to make a user defined directory.
mkdir %1
The batch program would then make the directory that the user named to make.
Variables are very helpful and can be put to better purposes than I have shown here.
The IF Command
IF is a very helpful batch command. It checks a user-defined statement, and then issues a user-defined command. Here is an example
IF EXIST C:\Windows\hello.txt DEL hello.txt
In this case the batch checks to see if the file hello.txt, located in C:\Windows, exists, and if it does it deletes hello.txt
EXIST is probably the most commonly used IF argument. You can also use IF NOT EXIST, which checks to see if the file does not exist.
Checking to see if a folder exists is different than checking for a file. \null must be used after the filename. For example, if you want to see if C:\Windows exists, you would type
IF EXIST C:\Windows\null ECHO Windows Exists
\null is only needed for checking if directorys exist.
Say you want to exit DOS after the batch file is done. At the end of your batch file type EXIT and DOS will close.
Pausing is used to ask the user if he wishes to continue. To enter a pause command simply type PAUSE in your batch file. It will then say Press any key to contine, press ctrl+c to cancel. This is helpful for asking a user if they are sure.
Although this is an abrupt ending, it will not be the last. I will work on this batch programming guide some more in the future, but right now I have a lot of stuff to do. Please post any comments good or bad that you have on this guide.


text: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Lux, James P wrote: > Without going into a big research project.. Here in Southern California, > rents are about $1/sq ft/month for cheap industrial space. Electricity is > about $0.20/kWh (maybe for a big bulk consumer, it gets down to the > $0.10/kWh range) > > Figure a node draws 400w, and you can stack 20 nodes in a rack, which > occupies 10 square feet (need to have room to stand in front of the rack, > etc.) > > So each node is costing $144/20= $7.20/yr in rent and 0.4*8000*0.2 = $640/yr > in electricity. > > The rent is tiny compared to utilities. $2K/node seems plausible (3* > utility cost), but that doesn't include any of the infrastructure costs > (racks, cables, installation, copies of Windows Server edition, etc.). If > the real power draw is more like 200W, and you don't run them 24/7, then > you're getting down to the $100/yr/node costs.. But often you can't get "cheap" industrial space. You need excellent climate control and server-room class wiring. Otherwise you can add the cost of outfitting it with a couple of Lieberts, a harmonic-balancing transformer, and a rewiring job (amortized however). Call it a few hundred thousand over N years? In server-class space, this is all provided but I doubt you'll get away as cheaply as all that -- after all each node costs THEM an amortized chunk of that same set of Lieberts and transformers. Also, may server rooms offer "management" services -- somebody onsite to e.g. reboot your nodes or babysite the power and AC while you sleep. This too adds cost. So I think your estimate above is a lowball -- not implausibly low for space that is "free" but you pay for power, but I'm guessing low by a 500-100% for a space you can just put your nodes in and not worry about them (adequate space, security -- you've got tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars of hardware in there and may have valuable data as well, adequate AC and power, and maybe a systems admin qualified babysitter. rgb Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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