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When I was first asked to describe the experience of driving a Formula 1 car for this column, I was at a loss for words. How can you put down something so surreal, thrilling and scarcely believable --- the feel of driving an F1 car --- in black and white? But I decided to take a stab at it, so you're the judge!
Four wheels & a steering
Yes. That's about the only common thing between a road car and a Formula 1 car. And I'm not just talking about your humble hatches and sedans, but even thoroughbred supercars like Ferraris and Lamborghinis, or even the Bugatti Veyron for that matter.
Even though a lot of technology from F1 eventually makes it to road cars, the extremely focused, purpose-built nature of an F1 car is impossible to match. In its pursuit to lap a circuit as fast as possible, performance is the overriding factor and there are no compromises. In that sense, everything is really extreme, so an F1 designer doesn't need to worry about air-conditioning, lumbar support or ride comfort.
The basic formula is simple --- light weight, lots of power and the most critical factor, which sets F1 apart from other categories of racing, aerodynamics. Combine these three in the right proportions and you get a sub-12 second 0-300kph acceleration time.
That's 300kph, not 100!
For comparison's sake, an average hatchback will do well to get to a 100 under 12 seconds, whereas even the most powerful of supercars will struggle to get to 300 under 25 seconds. Even the mighty, 1000bhp Veyron takes 19.7 seconds. And mind you, an F1 car has only (!?) 750-odd horses to play with.
So where does the performance come from? The answer is in the three factors I mentioned before. Weight (or lack thereof!) is one of the prime contributors. While a Bugatti may have 1000bhp, it still has a portly 1.8 tonnes to lug around.
So, even though an F1 car produces 250 fewer horses, the weight of 650kg (and that includes the driver!) puts it at a massive advantage when it comes to what is known as the power to weight ratio, which, to a large extent, decides the straight-line performance of a car.
And then there's the engine itself --- which is easily the epitome of automobile engineering technology --- hardly surprising since F1 is the pinnacle of motorsport after all.
Even though going into each nitty-gritty of the amazing 2.4-litre V8s is impossible with the word limit I've been given, a simple comparison will give you an idea of its bonkers potential.
Did you say 2.4 litres?
Yes, nowadays your average luxury sedan may come with a similar cubic capacity (cc) engine, but whereas a 2400cc Accord or a Camry will produce maybe 200bhp, an F1 engine with the same capacity makes a staggering 750bhp --- and that is with loads of restrictions which includes the requirement to use normal pump fuel and ban on super exotic metals like titanium amongst other things to cut costs.
How? Simply put, it is just crazy engineering; aggressive engine designed to operate at extremely high engine rpm --- nowadays F1 engines are restricted (so to speak!) to an 18,000 rpm redline.
An average road car comes with a sub-7000 rpm limiter (on an empty road, try accelerating in first gear and see how far the needle goes on the rpm counter), and road cars that can go past 9000rpm can be counted on fingertips. Considering that, the heart of a Formula 1 car is truly an engineering marvel.
Then, there's the seven-speed gearbox, operated by paddles behind the steering wheel. I know what you're thinking --- loads of cars have paddle-operated transmissions nowadays, but still they're not even close to an F1 gearbox in terms of sophistication.
Made out of carbon-titanium, an F1 gearbox is capable of withstanding an exceptionally high amount of abuse --- like hard downshifts from seventh to first in a couple of seconds, and torturous upshifts while clattering over the kerbs during acceleration.
For example, in Monaco, there are around 4300 gearshifts during the 78-lap, 300-odd km race. A road car will have to do several thousand kilometres to get to the same number of downshifts, and they won't even be 10 per cent as violent!
All this hardware is nestled in a bespoke carbon-fibre chassis, which is designed to offer the best weight distribution and suspension geometry for exemplary handling.
Steering wheel a marvel
On a road car, the steering wheel is a means of controlling the front wheels, but in an F1 car, it is literally the command centre of a spaceship. Including the rotary switches, buttons and paddles, there can be up to 32 individual controls on the wheel!
And, while you may have a little digital readout that shows odometer, trip and maybe fuel efficiency, an F1 car has approximately 10 options for displays including speed, KERS, split lap times, gears display and so on. This allows us to adjust a myriad of settings on the car while driving.
For example, we can play around with the brake bias to change the way brakes work on front and rear wheels — on the move! In fact, it is a switch which you can see drivers frequently fiddle with in onboard shots as some corners may require different percentage of rear and front braking force compared to the others. Considering the amount of engineering subsystems integrated into it, an F1 steering wheel can cost a cool 25 lakhs!
Eye-popping performance
On an average, an F1 car can brake to a complete standstill from over 200kph in less than 65 metres. But to get that sort of performance from the brakes, the driver needs hit the brake pedal with almost 120kg of force.
May sound easy for those pumping out leg presses at the gym, but remember we need to do it several times over a lap and for over 90 minutes continuously, using just the left foot.
The corresponding G-force, which sometimes can be over 4.5 times that of gravity, can sometimes force a tear from your eye and splatter it onto the visor.
Don't try this during your commute though — you'd be lucky to stop from 100kph in that distance, if you manage to keep the wheels pointing in the right direction, that is.
Even the tyres are radically different — you need to warm them up and get them to around 100-degrees before they start gripping. A normal road-car tyre will never see those kinds of temperatures in its lifetime, unless you do a standstill burnout that is!
It isn't skill; it is just that the equipment is designed for performance. To get the maximum performance out of that equipment is a different ball game, though.
For instance, if you're lucky enough to find yourself behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car unprepared, let me assure you that you will not even be able to get the car out of the pit garage, let alone get out on the track and get close to the limit of the car.
It is like me wanting to launch off an aircraft carrier in an F16 fighter jet. The point is that you need a lot of training and go through a lot of steps if you want to handle any cutting edge hardware --- and F1 is as good as it gets when it comes to automobile engineering.


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This project is to develop a small, lightweight Outlook Calendar and Contacts Syncing program that will work over the Internet from PC to PC. The program requirements will be as follows:
Client side:
- Must be able to sync all current versions of Outlook Calendar and Contacts with another PC running the client through the same account.
- Must have user accounts and passwords setup, where in all users under the same account can sync with each other.
- Must have call home to the server to check account status, and have the ability to enable or disable the software from the server.
- Must include a 15 day trial, after the trial the user can be directed to our website to purchased and software will be disabled.
- Must be small, and light on memory and cpu usage.
- Must automatically sync without user actions once setup, this can be real time or in 10 minute intervals.
- User should be able to choose which Calendar they would like synced if they have multiple calendars.
- Must work through antivirus software and firewalls without the need for port forwarding.
- The GUI can be small, but must look professional.
- Must be compatible with Windows XP and all higher versions.
- We are open to ideas on how the sync itself would work, either P2P or through our server.
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- Server database must use MySQL.
- Database should contain account, password, account status, purchase date, license expiration.
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BCD Tofu House
17 W. 32nd St.
Koreatown, NY 10079
(212) 967-1900 /bcdtofu.com
J, my friend from Boston, came to visit New York City. He, DY and I set off to embark on a Manhattan tour, stomping from Soho to midtown, in search of interesting sights and sounds. Mesmerized by the lights of Broadway, we continued on to Koreatown for a little something to fill our bellies.
J: "Do you like tofu?"
Me: "Uh….YEAH."
J (points to the red, green and white logo): "Let's go here!"
And so we were whisked away into BCD Tofu House. Tofu, also known as bean curd, can best be described as a soft "cheese-like food made of curdled soybean milk."
A pleasant waitress directed us to our seats. There, we stared at our menu of options, specializing in the art of tofu soups: seafood, vegetarian, beef, pork, fish and more. You choose from four levels of spiciness: very spicy, spicy, mild or not spicy. I had mine spicy, DY had 'not spicy' and J's was mild. All the lunch menu soups are the same price ($9.95).
BCD Tofu House is an international chain of tofu restaurants with over 13 locations in the USA, Korea and Japan. Most are found in Southern California. BCD's Premium Tofu soups are made with carefully culled, silken tofu and high quality ingredients. A tasty blend of Korean seasonings (red pepper, soy sauce, garlic, etc.) enhances the flavor. Each meal comes with a bowl of hot rice in an individual hot stone pot, along with banchan appetizers: squid slathered in red pepper sauce, macaroni salad, kimchi and other pickled vegetables.
I love my kimchi any way I can get it. Maybe it's the fermentation. Maybe it's the red hot chili peppers. Or the play of textures and flavors – crunchy, spicy, sour, with a dash o' sweet. BCD's kimchi, however, is a little too soft and doesn't shine a light compared to Gahm Mi Oak's. However, I'll take daikon any day!
Our waitress delivered a small tray filled with three delicate-looking white eggs. My friends and I exchanged glances. Were these eggs to be eaten before or after the soup arrived? Raw or cooked? And would we look like totally uninitiated newbies if we asked?
Turns out we didn't have to. In the name of (you guessed it…) adventure, I took one of the eggs and gently tapped it against the table. When I felt a slight shake of liquid movement, it instantly dawned on me what these were for.
To be cracked into the boiling bowl of tofu soup, of course! Next, scoop up some rice with the soup. Eat it while it's hot! Cold tofu soup will put a sour expression on your face.
Now, I'm not a big rice eater. The consistency has to be just right – soft and firm, sticky and chewy at the same time. BCD's rice manages to appease my selectiveness. I found the portions more than adequate.
J rather enjoyed his Curry Tofu Soup, but this is no surprise. DY isn't as big a fan of spicy foods, so he went with the Plain Tofu Soup. Both soups came with meat.
At the end of the meal, our waitress ladled water over our leftover rice. Drink the mixture like a soup. At first glance, it may seem like you're guzzling bland water and rice, but rest assured this concoction aids the digestive tract after a spicy meal.
I think I'll try one of the Combos next time, which pairs tofu soup with one of the following: BBQ rib, beef bulgolgi (barbecued beef), pork bulgolgi, chicken teriyaki, bibimbap, yellow Covina or spicy pickled crab. For vegetarians, there's a Tofu Vegetable Salad Combo. The seafood, ox tripe, and beef & octopus look fun too. Kids might enjoy the ham & sausage tofu soup.
We couldn't help but notice the customers to our left: a whole row of young men, each seated by himself, all facing the same direction! Three-in-a-row. I couldn't help but automatically think of Tic-Tac-Toe. The men appeared to be thoroughly engrossed in their own thoughts, or else on a lunch break from whatever jobs they needed to zone out of.
*Thanks to J for coming up with the snazzy title when I was down with a severe case of headline writer's block.


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The residents of the northern Alaskan village of Shishmaref are currently voting to decide whether or not to relocate their village. As global warming brings up temperatures, the sea ice that once protected the village has begun to melt. Now the town, which is built on a barrier island in the... View full entry
In January, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants totaling $1 billion in 13 states to help communities adapt to climate change, by building stronger levees, dams and drainage systems.
One of those grants, $48 million for Isle de Jean Charles, is something new: the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the impacts of climate change.
— the New York Times
"The divisions the effort has exposed and the logistical and moral dilemmas it has presented point up in microcosm the massive problems the world could face in the coming decades as it confronts a new category of displaced people who have become known as climate refugees."Precisely determining who... View full entry
Nature is poised to reconquer Madrid. Faced with rising summer temperatures, Spain's capital has announced plans, reported in today's El Pais, to seam the city so thoroughly with new green patches that its face could be quite transformed.
City parks will be expanded and restored, and 22 new urban gardens created. Vacant public land will be freed up to create community gardens while the banks of the city's scrappy Manzanares River will be thickly planted with trees...
— City Lab
According to the report, other components of the initiative include funding and encouragement for green roofs and façades. Plants beds would be added to paved squares and ponds may be created to catch excess stormwater like in Copenhagen. Madrid's location – perched high on a plateau that... View full entry
King tides—a type of perigean spring tide (there's your science jargon)—occur when extra-high tides line up with some other meteorological anomalies. They're not a huge deal: The water flowing over the seawall is part novelty, part nuisance. But these rare days hint at a new normal, when sea level rise will render current coastlines obsolete [...]
On January 21 and 22, the king tide will bring San Francisco's shoreline about a foot higher than average high tide.
— Wired
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Cities around the world have only one generation to meet the twin challenges of climate change and a rapidly growing urban population, the head of a global engineering firm has warned.
Gregory Hodkinson, chairman of the Arup group, said that with more than half the world's population already living in cities, and the proportion set to rise to 70% by 2050, city leaders need to take urgent action.
— The Guardian
Gregory Hodkinsin, the chairman of the engineering giant Arup Group, has warned that cities must adapt to climate change and booming population growth within the timespan of a single generation. "If we don't, in my view, we're screwed: my children and my grandchildren and everybody else's... View full entry
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Each year, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) bestows its Walter Gellhorn Innovation Award to a federal agency with the best model practice that can be adopted government-wide. Today, ACUS announced that the 2015 Walter Gellhorn Innovation Award is being presented to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Rebuild by Design Competition. — US Department of Housing and Development
There's something of a mise-en-abyme quality to a competition winning an award, but it's a good occasion to remember the Rebuild by Design was, after all, not quite your regular competition. Organized in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and funded primarily by the US Department of Housing and... View full entry
Beneath the vertiginous LED-strip lighting of Michael Maltzan's Billy Wilder Theater, a diverse audience gathered last Tuesday for a talk entitled "The Next Wave: Urban Adaptations for Rising Sea Levels." Co-presented by the Hammer Museum and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and... View full entry
Should a storm, flood or rising sea levels hit the Danish capital again, the bucolic mini-parks will turn into water basins, the hills essentially functioning as the sides of a bowl. Thanks to a new pipe system, the squares will even be able to collect water from surrounding buildings' roofs. Surrounding streets will, for their part, be turned into "cloudburst boulevards." — Al Jazeera
...As a practical matter, limiting global warming to no more than 2C seemed like the most ambitious target that could possibly be achieved, since it would require virtually ending fossil fuel emissions within 30 to 40 years... Yet even as the 2C target has become a touchstone for the climate talks, scientific theory and real-world observations have begun to raise serious questions about whether the target is stringent enough." — NY Times
As is documented in the article, the recent climate talks in Lima ended with an agreement to try to limit the long-term warming of the planet to below 2 degree celsius above the global average temperature at the start of the Industrial Revolution. This limit has been central to talks aimed at... View full entry
1. By current estimates, if the polar ice caps melt, sea levels around the world will rise by between 80 and 100m.
2. Many cities (and, by default, around 70 per cent of the world's population) border on a body of water of some kind. According to 2010 government figures, 39 per cent of US population live on a coast. Half live within 50 miles of the ocean.
— citymetric.com
Based on worst-case scenarios for sea-level rise, cartographer Jeremy Linn imagined the future of three of America's major Western cities. He used topographic information to speculate on what an 80m – ≈262 ft – rise would look like as well as coming up with new names for this new... View full entry
South America's biggest and wealthiest city may run out of water by mid-November if it doesn't rain soon. São Paulo, a Brazilian megacity of 20 million people, is suffering its worst drought in at least 80 years, with key reservoirs that supply the city dried up after an unusually dry year. — Thompson Reuters Foundation
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Suffering in its third year of drought, more than 58 percent of the state is currently in "exceptional drought" stage [...] Exceptional drought, the most extreme category, indicates widespread crop and pasture losses and shortages of water in reservoirs, streams and wells [...] If the state continues on this path, there may have to be thoughts about moving people out, said Lynn Wilson, academic chair at Kaplan University and who serves on the climate change delegation in the United Nations. — CNBC
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Construction of a four-mile long steel wall going up along a stretch of the Jersey Shore ripped apart during Hurricane Sandy is expected to begin next month [...] The state Department of Environmental Protection awarded a $23.8 million contract to Springfield-based EIC Associates in May to build the steel wall that will stretch from Lyman Street in Mantoloking through Brick. — NJ.com


text: Beautifully packaged, this cigar is made with tobacco that is aged for four years to offer you a smooth and creamy smoke. You will love the dark Ecuadorian Connecticut-shade wrapper and the contrast of this cigar's mellowness and its Robust Nicaraguan fillers. This medium to full bodied Toro is a well-balanced and complex smoke.


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Our team at WAVES Weymouth, which includes volunteers, works with young people in a variety of ways
Information, advice and guidance is offered on issues such as relationship difficulties, problems at home, bullying, drug and alcohol issues, applying for benefits and finding safe accommodation.
Who is this service available to?
Waves offers advice and guidance to children and young people up to the age of 20, and keeps those who may be at risk safe from harm. There are a number of services available which include:
Stand By
Is a service that helps children and young people between the ages of 8 and 19 to deal with low confidence, bullying issues and anxiety.
Have you got children aged 8-14 and need support with a transition that is happening in your family?
We work with children and parents who are going through a change such as separation, changing schools, bereavement, difficulties with friendship or parenting issues.
We can work with just parents or the child, or with both. The work can be office based or outside of our office, and can be organised to suit the needs of each individual family.
As part of this work, every three months we organise a trip to a therapeutic farm for a group of children. This gives them the opportunity to learn new skills, build confidence, make new friends and challenge themselves, as well as having a lot of fun!
Family Mediation
Family Mediation is a long standing service which has always been popular with families and parents struggling to understand their children - teenagers in particular and vice versa Mediation compliments many of the other services within Waves, as it is widely agreed that poor communication is the basis of many family problems.
By improving family communication, the mediation service (FMS) provides support to families so they can move positively though periods of conflict and upset., accepting that not every day is perfect but there are more good days than bad.
Brainwaves is a once a month Saturday morning drop in for families, held at Waves in Weymouth. Just come for a chat and a cuppa, or stay for the whole morning and be creative or challenged with paints, puzzles and activities. Our aim is to have fun either in the building or out on trips, with the help of experienced workers and trusted volunteers.
Dorset Families Matter
This service will provide families support via a key worker. Your key worker will coordinate and identify services tailored to the family members' needs.
Families are identified by external agencies such as: Department of Work and Pensions, the Police and Education authorities under the government programme, 'Troubled Families'.
The main trigger areas for support are: unemployment, criminality, domestic abuse, where the young person is identified by social services as a child in need and health and school attendance - with at least two out of the three having to be an issue.
We find that linking in with local resources and community provision, in order that the families will have on-going relevant support when the project has ended, is an important transition and is as essential as the intervention through the project.
We are now in phase two of the project which also means we have a 'nomination process' for families in need. If you are a family and you think you may be eligible please contact us.
How to access this service
If you would like to find out more about our services please contact us:
Tel: 01305 768 768
Find out more about the service?
Contact WAVES to find out more about our services and our work with young people.
Programme Manager – Roy Koerner


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agate is a very beautiful, C U T T I N G & P O L I S H I N G F A Q We sell some of the best quality fire agate rough available on the internet, all of our material is handpicked for us by our minero amigo. Using his advise and 15 years of knowledge, along with our expertise on the web - together we formulate the value and decide the rarity of every fire agate we sell. In return, we share all profits with him and his family in Calvillo. Once in awhile we experience problems with newcomers to the fire agate cutting and polishing world, and sometimes they are disappointed with their finished product or don't physically see any fire in the rough they purchase. Because they do not have the expertise in how the layers of color are formulated or the true hardness of the stone - this knowledge is very hard to come by for any lapidarist, because as a general rule the miners don't share their secrets. Below
are some tips about fire agate rough, and in the
future we hope to continually add information here to help our
clients to get the most out of their quality
fire agate rough purchases from us here in México.
If you do not see any visual fire, this does not mean that there is no fire in the rough material. Sometimes a specimen needs to be cracked in half (photo above left) to find the fire (photo left), or if you see lines (layers) in a sideview - this is the limonita, which is the refracted material that creates the illusion of fire (photo above middle). We do not sell the mine floor sweepings you see at great discounts on eBay, we only sell good to excellent quality material, for amatuer and professional lapidarists alike. Because of our commitment to our miners, we do not accept returns for any rough material sold. We know you will get at least double your money back (minimum) from your rough purchases, but it is also possible to make 10 times the value of your original investment as well, on our high grade rough - depending on your lapidary skills and patience. As new veins of fire agate in the rock are found, prices and quality can fluctuate - sometimes the miners will not give us their very best rough material because they know that they can make alot more money by polishing it and selling the cabochons themselves. But when there is a new strike, we can usually get them to part with a few kilos of their high grade rough for us. Sometimes you find quartz-like inclusions growing inside of a fire agate raw specimens. The sprays of needles are inclusions of sagenite. These multicolored sprays are highly prized and sought after rare specimen by collectors, and not found in all fire agates. On average we only come across a couple fire agate rough with inclusions per every 25 or 30 kilos of material we receive from the Calvillo mines - as uncommon (but not as rare) as 'lluvia negra', black rain fire agate. |
Sometimes your material may look like it has a black coating (photo above) with no visible fire, these specimens are from the 'Negrita' mine high up in the Sierra Mountains, with entrance only accessible by climbing up a sheer cliff. Known for some amazing gems, the agate from the 'Negrita' mine is a black agate and offset by the fire to make a striking gem. (see photos below) WE WILL CONTINUE TO ADD TO THIS FAQ |
AGATE CUTTING & POLISHING INFORMATION Unfortunately
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Look For The Hidden Potential, Fire Agate can be intimidating to the professional and amateur cutter alike. Fire agate ranging in color from clear to dark brown and the layers of the iron oxide minerals limonite or goethite that interact with white light to create the "fire" or iridescence. There is usually a milky translucent chalcedony that marks the stone's top. The characteristics of rough fire agate can vary considerably, depending on the mine and source material. Fire agate is deposited in botryoidal form, meaning the structure resembles bunches of grapes, commonly called 'bubbles' or 'bubbly'. Most pieces of fire agate rough are twisted and deposited in a variety of angles. This creates a challenge for gem cutters because the sought after color layers follow highly irregular contours in the underlying brown agate. The art of cutting fire agate lies in finding the brightest, best-colored layer and following its contours wherever they lead and not cut through the iridescent layer itself. Sometimes a slip in cutting reveals an even better color layer, but more often, the stone is completely ruined. With one light pass of a diamond grinder you can lose an entire layer of fire, so patience is a must. The 'bubbles' in fire agate vary tremendously in size, from almost microscopic to single large bubbles that can be in the 15mm range or larger, and in some rare cases, a lot larger. Generally speaking, the kind of rough displaying larger "bubbles" is best suited for cutting on standard lapidary equipment, because these shapes are easier to work on flat grinding and sanding surfaces. Fire agate with intricately contoured, irregular or 'bubbly' color can only adequately be shaped using gem carving techniques. Standard lapidary equipment is suitable for cutting most types of fire agate, be careful and take the time to carefully study how each stone is laid out by mother nature.Most lapidarists prefer to cut directly from rough specimens, but occasionally excellent window polished material is available at reasonable prices. Naturally you pay a premium for someone else's knowledge and labor in doing the main work for you. Most window polished specimens often don't make good material to cut through, and only small stones can be cut from what remains of the pre-polished window.The gemmy layers vary in thickness, with the brightest and best layer often at the point between the chalcedony and the brown agate material. Sometimes these layers are only a 1000th of an inch thick, and they are best cut by leaving a slight amount of clear chalcedony over the top as protection if possible. If you sand right down to the color layer, there is a good chance that sanding and polishing can destroy it. In better quality rough, the color layers are arranged successively so that cutting through one layer reveals another. Or there may be multiple bands of layers ranging from very thin to reasonably thick. The gamble is deciding which is the brightest and most desirable color layer and to make it the top of your stone. Color layers usually run in succession from bronze to gold to red and then green, with the rarer blues and purple colors to follow (if they exist). With some multicolor agate there is a 2nd layer of even stronger colors, but it is a gamble to venture past the original layers of fire in hopes of a second more colorful layer.
C U T T I N G Some rough comes without the chalcedony "cap", so it's easier to evaluate. But usually the first step in cutting is to eliminate the chalcedony. If it's thick, some careful trim-sawing can save a lot of grinding. But never cut into the dark agate layer! Removing this "cap" is hard work, tough on equipment and sometimes fruitless: lots of good looking rough turns out to be your basic garden rock. But there's no way to tell for sure until enough of the cap material has been reduced to allow any colors from underneath to be seen. Direct sunshine makes it possible to do some very accurate grinding; indoor lighting, including quartz halogen floodlights, despite their intensity usually lie about the location and brightness of color planes within the rough. Being able to really see what you're doing is the single most important factor in cutting this stone. It's the nature of most fire agate cabs to require some contouring to follow the color layers, and flat grinding wheels are designed to cut convex or flat surfaces. One of the toughest jobs is to grind into the chalcedony crevices and valleys between the larger individual bubbles areas. Unless you decide to invest in specialized diamond wheels shaped for this job, the only way I know to do it is to use the edge of the grinding wheel. Begin grinding one hillside first, then change to the other edge of the wheel to do the opposite one. You'll discover that, with care, the face of the wheel does all the work and the edge gets very little wear. How most miners work around this problem... CAUTION: This type of cutting can be very dangerous as well. The wheel can grab the piece of rough (and your fingers). Work very cautiously, bearing in mind also that putting pressure on the edges of most standard diamond wheels can quickly ruin the wheel. Work carefully, and never use excessive pressure. When grinding has proceeded far enough that vague brown shapes can be seen through the chalcedony, iridescence should be visible as well. Grind a little, sand and inspect carefully in good light sunlight. Repeat until the desired fire colors are fully revealed. The color layers are thicker on top of the bubbles and thin down on the slopes and edges, so do most of your initial sanding on the top. YOUR FIRE AGATE TELLS YOU HOW IT SHOULD BE CUT Don't try to force it into any particular shape - if you are uncomfortable with anything but symmetrical shapes or intend to cut only calibrated sizes for standard mountings, you may find fire agate very frustrating. It doesn't adapt easily to this style of cutting unless you don't mind wasting alot of color and being satisfied with what some call "brown-edges" or "deadspots"; a pool of shimmering fire surrounded by an ugly dead area of plain brown agate. Sometimes this style of cutting is unavoidable, but if you let the patch of bright color define the edges of the finished stone, you will end up with a much more pleasing and higher value stone. Have the patience to stick with the sanding. There is no feeling more exciting than having a boring bronze stone suddenly start showing amazing colors of green, purple and blue, mixed together with reds, yellows and oranges. Sometimes you win, but more often you lose... if you have reason to suspect that multiple or brighter color layers could be present in the underlying layers it is well worth the gamble. You usually end up with more boring or golden stones than you ever wanted anyway, so sometimes it is better to try for the the reds and greens and purples! F R E E H A N D I N G Some people have asked why our stones look so good and they cannot reproduce this quality with the rough they purchase from us. You have to get rid of those machines and polish your agates by hand. Our miners start off using 150 or 180 grit paper and finish with 2500 to 3000 grit and a polishing powder. Use lots of water and only working in bright sunlight so you can work the layers to their optimum. Most miners don't even belive in using dop sticks, they want to always feel the stone in their hands, it gives them more control. |
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The largest issues up until recently has been the reflection and burn in. Proponents like to minimize these issues, but many people are not buying the arguments. Now in the past few months the issue of power consumption has come into play with legislation even contemplated. The plasma proponents try to tell everyone that the tests done to determine the power per sq. in are faulty, but unless they can convince everyone, their reasoning is falling on deaf ears, at least so far. Meanwhile the manufacturers are caught in a bind over all of this. Seems like the path of least resistance is to abandon plasma in favor of different display technology. |
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BLACKSHEAR, Ga - You can tell Pam Chaney is a fighter by watching her struggle trying to take a step.
Chaney lost her leg to a MRSA infection that developed after knee replacement surgery. She's in physical therapy learning to walk on a very basic prosthetic leg that requires a lot of effort and one that she doesn't feel is safe for her lifestyle.
Chaney says this is the first step in a fight to get the leg she feels she deserves.
"Its harder than I thought it would be because you're controlling this with your buttocks and you're controlling this with your stump," says Chaney.
They're some of the hardest steps Chaney has ever taken.
"The top part feels OK. It's from here down I mean when you look at that, that's a little tiny thing you're stepping on," says Chaney.
This basic prosthetic is the only one her insurance company would approve.
"(My doctor) and my physical therapist both said that I'm going to be walking out of this leg in no time soon. It will be nothing for me. He said the safer, more efficient leg is what I need," said Chaney.
In November, Pam got a letter from United Healthcare denying the more advanced prosthetic her health care providers recommended. The basic leg costs $13,700. The leg she wants is $33,000. The letter from her insurance company reads, "We will not cover any service, treatment, item or supply even it is recommended or prescribed by a physician or is the only available treatment for your condition."
Chaney asked for further explanation and she says she was told it was because of her lifestyle.
"I was not an athlete, or a runner or anything like that, so that leg, would suit me," Chaney said they told her.
It was another blow for a woman who before the amputation says she lived an active life.
"I was doing the grocery shopping and you know being out and about on the town. I mean I was just riding around doing my regular, daily things: laundry and you know. I kept my house spotless," said Chaney.
But now Chaney can't get around the house without help. Her physical therapist comes three times a week.
Chaney is 53 years old, and while she has other health complications, she says age is just a number.
"They don't know me at all," she said of the insurance company. "They act as though, 'This is your age group ,in this little block and this is what we say your activity level is.' I'm going to blow them out the rocker," said Chaney.
Chaney's health care providers have encouraged her to keep working. They told her if she can show she's proficient with this leg, she can appeal the denial from United Healthcare to possibly get approved for the more advanced leg.
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In the meantime, her husband just hopes she doesn't get hurt.
"I'm afraid that she's going to fall with this inappropriate leg that she has. I'm looking at her safety," says John Chaney. "It hurts, it hurts real bad. You see someone who was real active then their laying in bed all the time because they can't get up and walk."
For now, Chaney always has someone with her to make sure she doesn't get hurt. Her nurse, husband or physical therapist is always nearby. And no one in this support team is giving up.
"Oh yeah she's going to get that leg and walk. She's going to get up and go and prove the insurance companies wrong," says John Chaney
I started asking questions of United Healthcare in December. I even filled out a release they requested that would allow them to talk about Chaney's case. But they didn't respond to requests for an interview despite multiple follow-up phone calls and emails. The only thing the insurance company did confirm is that Chaney can file a appeal for the leg and they will consider any new circumstances when they get the appeal.
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I spend all day doing nothing, and the MINUTE I have shit to do, the server gets put up again.
I spend all day doing nothing, and the MINUTE I have shit to do, the server gets put up again.
Fucking hell.
Have you seen how mobs spawn in our base? holy shit, I've made sure multiple times every wall is spammed with torches and fucking creepers keep spawning randomly and exploding our shit. Once one exploded next the chests, DeAndre and I had to pick up all that shit as fast as we could. That's what we get for making a base in an ocean biome...
borgyworg stop revising
damnit sugercane JUST GROW
I'm curious what you posted. There isn't much that's illegal to say.
He found FBI's base on 2b2t and if he says it he'll dissapear.
How exactly is 2B2T pronounced? Tuba-toot? Toobeetootee?
It's pronounced: 2b2t
Exactly like that. Two Bee Two Tee.
no its pronounced as a single word
No, it's pronounced "my face when".
I'm gonna cover spawn with obsidian so all you can just stay there
how do you get above the nether ceiling?
I've heard that spamming Ender-pearls while at the very top works. I've also heard something about using a bed, but I'm not 100% on that one.
Alternatively, you can try this:
Use a bed.
That would take forever to break all that obsidian...
ive been trying to get above bedrock aswell, asked a while back. ender pearls are to hard to find, for me at least. this bed method is quite interesting, someone please do go on.
Fucking very angry today, finally was making it towards -30k, crossing the imfamous infinite oceans, rejoin, went underwater during the 5 seconds after disconnect your online. Thought I was hitting spacebar, DASH TO SURFACE. 1 block from air, death. No beds....... well, back to the Spawn Pit climb....... again....
Stand on a high place, preferably over a high gap or over a lava lake and then place and use your bed.
In all seriousness though, there is some kinda complicated way that involves finding a small space that goes up to y:126, then you need to have two boats and it needs to face f: 1 to f:3, theres a video floating about it on youtube. As for beds, if you right click them in the nether it acts like a suped up TNT, but doesn't really damage you. I use it to clear out the top area when I'm looking for places that go up to y:126.
Oh look, I found the video:
A hero to us all.
oh boy, just when we find that, boats temporarily disabled.
why would you even want to
Fast travel.
Auto-Walk all day err day.
what about having to get down
I would assume you would need to bring extra obsidian with you to make another portal at the top.
You can't place any blocks on the top.
Yes you can.
the height limit is increased since one of the updates, but the nether bedrock doesnt go higher
well, shows how long it's been since I last played minecraft
it's tuba-toot
It's actually pronounced Tuba-Teet-Teet-Toot
It's toot toot tat teet teet tap taboot
Gootchy gootchie goo
What's the best way to get food to get to 2k2k?
Zombie Flesh
Or just walk without sprinting and hide at night. Someone a couple pages back said you could walk 10k or something without food.
I've been walking without sprinting and i only get about 1K
You need to avoid jumping too.


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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Cranberry Molasses Dessert
This is a wonderful winter dessert with a warm sauce.
Mix Together:
1 egg beaten
1/2 cup dark molasses
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup hot water
1-1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons Baking Soda
1-1/2 cups whole cranberries (frozen okay)
After you've mixed these ingredients well pour into a lightly greased 9x9 baking dish. You can double the recipe and use a 9x11 pan. Bake for 35 minutes in a 350 degree oven.
This can be made a day ahead of serving.
Just before serving prepare the sauce:
Mix together:
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter melted
1/2 cup cream
Bring these ingredients to a boil. Cut cake into serving portions and pour enough sauce over each cake portion to cover. Serve immediately. The sauce is a very important part of this recipe because the cake is tart and the sauce brings a wonderful balance between tart and sweet. Enjoy.
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I make a similar desert and use vanilla in the sauce.
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For a salaried individual, the Income-Tax Act, 1961, provides various tax-saving investment tools where a taxpayer can park his income, which will not only reduce his tax liability, but also create wealth for his financial needs in the future.
An investment of up to R1 lakh in various schemes, such as Public Provident Fund, fixed deposits (5 years or more), National Savings Certificate of India Post, life insurance from registered insurance companies and mutual funds, as specified under Section 80C of the Act are tax-effective. A taxpayer can save up to R 30,900 if he falls in the highest tax bracket, by investing the full amount under the Section.
Apart from Section 80C, the Act also provides deduction for incurring expenditure for specified purposes like donations, medical insurance and specified diseases. An individual may also opt to contribute a part of his salary (up to 24% of basic salary) to the Provident Fund (PF) through his employer. The employer's contribution of 12% is not taxable in the hands of the employee and the employee's own contribution of 12% is allowable as deduction under Section 80C (up to R1 lakh). Moreover, besides being a safe investment option with guaranteed returns, withdrawal from Provident Fund is not taxable if specified conditions are satisfied.
Further, an individual can use loan as a tool for generating wealth as well as saving tax, housing loan being the classic example. While on one hand, it helps in creating an appreciating asset, on the other, it reduces the tax liability, as the principal repayment of housing loan is allowed as deduction under Section 80C of I-T Act (up to R1 lakh) and interest is allowed as deduction while calculating the house property income. Similarly, interest paid on higher education loan is also tax deductible under Section 80E.
A salaried person can also invest in equity shares and/or equity-oriented mutual funds (where investment in equity is 65% or more) as the regular dividends one gets on these are tax exempt under Section 10(34) & 10(35). Also, gain on sale of above instruments are tax exempt, if one sells them and pays securities transaction tax (STT) after holding them for more than a year. In case of short-term holding, the tax rate is only 15% against the highest tax slab that the individual is subjected to.
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The following procedure shows how to configure MySQL to permit IPv6 connections by remote clients. It is similar to the preceding procedure for local clients, but the server and client hosts are distinct and each has its own nonlocal IPv6 address. The example uses these addresses:
Server host: 2001:db8:0:f101::1 Client host: 2001:db8:0:f101::2
These addresses are chosen from the nonroutable address range recommended by IANA for documentation purposes and suffice for testing on your local network. To accept IPv6 connections from clients outside the local network, the server host must have a public address. If your network provider assigns you an IPv6 address, you can use that. Otherwise, another way to obtain an address is to use an IPv6 broker; see Section 18.104.22.168, "Obtaining an IPv6 Address from a Broker".
Start the MySQL server with an appropriate
option to permit it to accept IPv6 connections. For example, put the following lines in your server option file and restart the server:[mysqld] bind-address = * # before 5.6.6, use :: rather than *
Alternatively, you can bind the server to
, but that makes the server more restrictive for TCP/IP connections. It accepts only IPv6 connections for that single address and rejects IPv4 connections. For more information, see Section 188.8.131.52, "Configuring the MySQL Server to Permit IPv6 Connections".On the server host (
), create an account for a user who will connect from the client host (2001:db8:0:f101::2
CREATE USER 'remoteipv6user'@'2001:db8:0:f101::2' IDENTIFIED BY 'remoteipv6pass';
On the client host (
), invoke the mysql client to connect to the server using the new account:shell>
mysql -h 2001:db8:0:f101::1 -u remoteipv6user -premoteipv6pass
Try some simple statements that show connection information:
... Connection: 2001:db8:0:f101::1 via TCP/IP ... mysql>SELECT CURRENT_USER(), @@bind_address;
+-----------------------------------+----------------+ | CURRENT_USER() | @@bind_address | +-----------------------------------+----------------+ | remoteipv6user@2001:db8:0:f101::2 | :: | +-----------------------------------+----------------+


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Manual window management is awful. Windows 8 ditched windows in favor of fullscreen apps. Traditional desktop window paradigms are powerful but obsolete.
Windows 9 unifies previous contrasting paradigms, taking design cues from all platforms and recent innovations.
Just an unofficial design concept, but damn, this is sexy. This is exactly what Windows needs - a combination of the old and new, leading to something seemingly far more usable than the monstrosity that is Metro in Windows 8.
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I am a fan of XFCE and use it on my Raspbian installs (Raspberry Pi mostly)... I just can't get into to LXDE.
Interesting. I use LXDE everywhere except my OpenPandora and never gave Xfce a chance because it's designed by people who have no intention of adding support for tabs to Thunar.


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We call it the squeeze on living standards as prices rise faster than wages. This has been going on for nearly four years. In France, the same phenomenon is described more emotionally. There, hard-pressed people speak of the experience as being on a "down escalator".
This phrase captures more than just a shortage of money; it adds a sense of descending the social scale. While previous generations may have steadily acquired a higher standard of living and the satisfaction that goes with it, now these gains are being reversed. Some 90 per cent of French people think that their children will be worse off financially than their parents when they grow up. The British have the same fear and it extends right across austerity Europe.
It is lonely on the down escalator. The traditional political parties, of the left and the right, seem to have little understanding of what people are going through. Understanding? No, strike out that word, it is empathy that politicians often lack. The political class does not feel others' anguish. And so, disappointed, the hard-pressed turn instead to the parties of the far right.
This is what has happened in Britain, with Ukip higher than it was in the opinion polls. In France, the far-right party led by Marine Le Pen is gaining ground to such an extent that the traditional parties have begun to panic. In the Austrian general election last Sunday, there was a surge in support for the Eurosceptic right-wing Freedom Party, which got 21.4 per cent of the votes cast. In Greece the far-right party, Golden Dawn, obtained seven per cent of the popular vote in the 2012 election.
But it is important to be careful here. People holding bigoted views (as in Greece) may lead these parties, but their new members don't necessarily share them. In these pages two weeks ago, Tim Lott wrote a perceptive piece describing the attitudes of the British working class (WC) so misunderstood by the liberal middle class. He wrote that "In the WC formulation, people who have a history in this country, particularly of working-class struggle, have a greater right to the benefits of the state than immigrants and incomers… This is not racism – it is a belief no different, I imagine, to that of the average Muslim or Sikh – that the in-group, the culture to which you belong, is to be preferred above those rights of non-members of the group. This is communitarianism."
A French specialist in public opinion put this in a different way in Le Monde the other day. Alain Mergier asked why did working-class people turn to the right? "Not because the Front National is xenophobic, racist, anti-Semitic (which it is less than it was) but because its statements are a mirror in which struggling people recognise their social experience – the fragility of social ties, increased vulnerability and the uncertainties immediately ahead. They criticise the traditional parties for being deaf to the destruction of their daily life."
But while some leaders of the far-right parties may keep any bigoted beliefs they hold, if they do, well hidden from public view their close lieutenants frequently let them down and adverse publicity is the consequence.
In Greece, while the pattern is the same, the situation is incomparably more serious. In Athens on 17 September, a rapper, Pavloss Fyssas, was set upon and killed by supporters of Golden Dawn. This might have been another brutal murder quickly forgotten, but this one wasn't. Mr Fyass became a martyr. A political commentator wrote : "Until then we had managed to be civilised about the differences between left and right… With Fyass's assassination, that line was crossed."
Unexpectedly the Greek government took its chance. Learning from the way the military in Egypt recently moved against the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of the deposed Prime Minister, Mohamed Morsi, it arrested 22 senior members of Golden Dawn last week and issued warrants for a further 10 people. Four of the party's MPs were in court yesterday to answer charges of criminal activity, including murder, assault and money-laundering.
These sorts of actions, well-justified as they may be, are not, however, going to halt the growing popularity of the far right. Forgive me if I quote from another French political scientist, Pierre Rosanvallon. In a recent book, he wrote that studies have shown that citizens are at least as sensitive to the behaviour of the people in government as to the precise nature of the decisions they make. "We find a new insistence on attentiveness, openness, fairness, compassion, recognition, respect and presence… Survey after survey has shown that a central concern of people everywhere is that political leaders should share their experiences."
The key word here is attentiveness – to the many who earn less than the median wage, to those on the downward escalator. Showing empathy for their plight would do more to stop the drift to the far right than any arrests in the night or the striking of chauvinistic attitudes by mainstream politicians. Fortunately for us, Labour understands this need and the Coalition is following suit. Mr Farage's moment is passing.
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While You Were Sleeping: A Blogger Tumbls for Calvin Klein, Will Azealia Banks Perform at the Met?, Plus More!
- Hanneli Mustaparta will serve as a contributor to Calvin Klein's new Tumblr account, which will feature her photography, modeling and more. [Calvin Klein Tumblr]
- Azealia Banks tweeted that Alexander Wang would escort and dress her for the Met Gala, and that she would perform — but she has since taken down the "performance" tweet. [Page Six]
- In more blogger news, check out Emily Weiss's new summer cut. [Into the Gloss]
- Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is designing lingerie for Marks & Spencer. She has modeled for brands including Victoria's Secret and Agent Provocateur and knows a thing or two about sexy underthings. [Fashionista]
- A silk kimono sold for $75K at a recent Titanic memorabilia auction. [WWD]
- Harper Beckham has already been offered a modeling contract, naturally. [HuffPo]
- The Maje store in SoHo is offering head-to-toe makeovers tonight, featuring complimentary blowouts, makeup consultations and styling. The fun begins at 5PM. [Maje]


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This thread is on its way to 50 pages...more once I get a decent picture of Tx to work with....
FF2: You changed your name to BrooklynBound?
SBIII: It doesn't even have a first name, it just says BrooklynBound!
FF2: The guy's either going think 'here's another guy with a fake ID', or here's BrooklynBound, 25 year old Hawaiian organ donor. Okay? So what's it gonna be?
BrooklynBound: [grinning] I am BrooklynBound.
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The annoying prick, annoyin prick
I dont know what to say about FF2's ceptin it looks like a photo of a really pale white guy taken about 15 years ago.
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I hate to say this b/c I personally find the line quite annoying, but this really might be the greatest thread ever.
This thread might get me fired today. Lol, too funny.
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Out of the blue I cannot connect to Facebook when using 4g. 3g works just fine. This is for both the app and the website. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app. All other apps and websites work just fine on 4g. I'm rooted on stock ROM. Anyone else ever have this problem?
Looks like I fixed it. Wiping cache and dalvik did the trick. Edit: not working again. It worked for a few minutes then quit. This time wiping cache didn't work. WTF?
Only possibility I can think of is Juice Defender. But I have been using it for quite some time and this issue just started recently.


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