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So you finally found the perfect set of "ultra-rare" wheels, only to find the offset doesn't push them out as far to the fenders as you would have liked. Do you simply shed a tear and sell the wheels with hope that another set might come along or use some common sense and purchase a set of wheel spacers to give your car that perfect fix? We assume the latter would be the more common choice.
Sometimes your wheels need just a slight hand to help you space them out, gaining extra clearance and a wider stance. Some people may call them spacers, because they don't change bolt patterns. When you move up in wheel size or attempt to squeeze a more aggressive fitment, you may encounter caliper clearance or rubbing problems. Wheel adapters can be a smart and easy solution for you
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We tracked down a Nissan 350Z to test a set of FIC Racing spacers using an od (outer diameter) of 73 mm. These JDM FIC hub-centric wheel spacers are CNC machined from Dura aluminum and fit a number of bolt-pattern wheels, which include 4/5x100 and 4/5 114.3 accordingly. Currently available in 5 mm with various sizes soon to follow, these spacers should suit any of your wheel spacing needs.
Toss those universal fitment spacers; FIC Racing offers six different inner diameter sizes to ensure a perfect fit for your specific vehicle. The id available sizes include 54, 56, 60, 64, 66, and 67 mm.
Extended wheel studs are a much-needed replacement for any car engaged in autocross, track, or drag racing. ARP offers these chromoly steel studs that are heat-treated and have a 190,000-psi tensile strength rating. Notice the side-by-side comparison of ARP studs versus OEM studs with a set of spacers stacked on top of one another. Generally speaking, if your lugs cannot make five full rotational turns before tightening you wheels, your studs are too short and the car shouldn't be driven on the streets.
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We're at the dawn of a new age in energy management. For the first time, Internet-enabled technology can facilitate interaction between electricity suppliers and users, creating a true supply- and demand-driven market with full participation from all energy players. This new technology is known collectively as enterprise energy management (EEM) systems. EEM systems use intelligent meters (dispersed throughout power distribution networks) to communicate with remote command-and-control software. The hardware/software combination helps energy providers adjust their supply of electricity in reaction to prices or demand, and it helps consumers adjust their demands in reaction to prices or supply. In short, EEM systems help control the quantity, quality, and cost of power.
On the following pages, you'll read about two different applications using EEM technology. One is a short-term strategy that revolves around demand-response programs. The other is a long-term solution involving small, distributed power plants.
Demand-Response Programs
EEM systems help alleviate electricity shortages by enabling the real-time exchange of information in demand-response programs. These programs give users monetary incentives to reduce consumption during peak-usage periods. Users can shed loads or switch to onsite generators in response to immediate market prices or whenever utilities notify them of impending load-curtailment sessions. Such actions lower spot-market prices during peak-usage periods. This would prevent situations like the summers of 1998 and 1999, where electricity costs in some regions of the United States were 200 times higher than normal.
An example of a demand-response program in action can be found at RETX, an Atlanta-based company that offers the load management dispatcher™ (LMD), a full-featured Website that permits fast interaction between retail energy players. The company's "negawatt hub" (negawatt means a megawatt saved from the grid) empowers the New England independent system operator (ISO) to offer emergency-response and price-response programs to electricity suppliers and users within the six-state power grid. Any one of New England's 192 energy suppliers can subscribe to the negawatt hub and participate in load-response opportunities. This allows the New England ISO to count load-response assets as available resources and dispatch them as needed.
In the emergency-response mandatory-curtailment program, RETX's system notifies participants of opportunities to engage in the energy markets via e-mail, pager, or cell phone. End users respond by reducing consumption (i.e., shedding loads or starting generators). The RETX server then collects metered data from end-user sites to confirm load reduction and timing.
The voluntary price-response program allows end users to sell negawatts back to the grid when electricity prices are high. For example, when forecasted prices exceed $100 per megawatt-hour, the ISO opens the "negawatt store," and users can decide how much energy to sell to the ISO at spot-market prices for that 24-hour period.
You may be wondering how participating end users access the necessary data to make these decisions. They do so through meters installed at their facilities. These meters can, among other things, communicate such information as price signals, electricity generation and consumption, and historical load profiles and usage.
For the price-response program, end users e-mail energy-usage data directly to the negawatt hub's LMD software, which processes the business transactions the following day. If desired, end users can use the meters to automate load shedding and generator startup.
Working with DG Systems
In the long-term, EEM systems can work in tandem with DG systems to provide higher-quality power. To understand the benefits of this integration, it helps to look at the evolution of electricity requirements.
The escalating demand for high-quality power is defining a totally new set of supply requirements. Internet data centers, digital processes, and computer-controlled mission-critical businesses require near 100% uptime. This equates to six nines (99.9999%) of power reliability, or less than 30 sec of downtime per year.
The current grid delivers only three nines of power reliability (99.9% or about 8 hrs of downtime per year), which is adequate for lighting systems, air conditioners, and motor loads. It can't supply the quality or quantity of power today's businesses need. And even if companies construct more centralized power plants, the electricity produced will be trapped within inadequate transmission networks.
This is where DG comes into play. DG technology permits quick configuration and higher power quality because DG systems are directly connected at end users' sites or through shorter transmission lines.
Studies show that, depending on transmission distance, up to two-thirds of the energy used to produce power in a centralized facility is dissipated by the time it reaches the consumer. Currently, DG — in the form of standby generators — accounts for 10% of the U.S. generation capacity. This figure is expected to climb to more than 30% within 10 years.
When combined with EEM systems that automatically monitor and control generator operation, DG reduces the cost of the electricity supply. Today, you can install a combined-cycle DG unit for about $35,000 and an EEM system for around $30,000.
NiSource, an electric and natural gas company based in Merrilville, Ind., is currently testing the first continuously running microturbine. This unit, which supplies the necessary power to meet a Walgreen's drugstore's base-load requirements, works in tandem with an EEM system.
Gary L. Neale, chairman, president and CEO of NiSource, agrees that generation should be built near demand. "Nobody will allow you to build a 250MW combined-cycle, gas-fired power plant in downtown Chicago, New York, or any other place. Distributed generation is the answer with generation on rooftops and in basements."
An EEM system added to a DG system should accomplish several tasks. The EEM system at the Walgreen's drugstore, for example, receives remote control signals for rapid generator startup or shutdown and archives data during power disturbances or communication interruptions. It also automatically transmits data directly to the public Internet or wireless, satellite, and paging networks so that ISOs, load-serving entities, and end users have identical information.
Ideally, EEM-system meters are industrial-grade. They should continuously report conditions to end users and, if the generator interconnects with the grid, the utility and ISO as well.
EEM software should be installed at command-and-tracking workstations for system-wide or local situation analysis and to support automatic start/stop operations.
Independent power producers are among those companies that rely on DG and could benefit from employing EEM systems. In California, Real-Energy owns and manages generators that supply large commercial facilities with power (40% to 50% during peak loads). This power is sold at a discount — below the local utility's prices.
RealEnergy's projects include fourteen 200kW generator sites, one 60kW microturbine site, and a 200kW solar facility in Fountain Valley, Calif., the largest in the western hemisphere. The company's engineers also installed a solar panel for a 320,000-sq-ft industrial building near San Diego. The building's owners have sold the solar panels' excess electricity to San Diego Gas & Electric.
All this input from a growing number of independent sources raises the question of grid stability. Obviously, if DG systems interconnect with regional electricity grids, voltages must be maintained within a reasonable range, usually within ±5% of nominal. Historically, utilities and ISOs have been responsible for grid stability, but with hundreds of independent producers now pumping power into the grid, they too need to bear part of the burden. According to Brad Forth, president and CEO of Power Measurement, EEM systems can help with that, too.
"An EEM system can stabilize the grid all the way down the power delivery chain by controlling voltage and frequency, managing congestion, coordinating protection and fault clearing, and automatically activating reserve capacity," he says. "The bottom line is that EEM helps create a new, more interactive energy marketplace."
Ralf H. Edler, based in Tucson, Ariz., is a writer and communications consultant for Power Measurement in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. You can reach him at [email protected].

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Saturday, July 23, 2011
China Wins the Future
Winning the future, Obama's "WTF" slogan (no I am not kidding) requires more than building up pirated technology in a slap-dash manner, cheaply. It means innovation. Which in turn requires … property rights widely respected and widely dispersed. China is again regressing to its Eunuchs-on-command-from-the-Emperor mode. Brilliant men either make a few, poorly understood breakthroughs (gunpowder, magnetic compasses) or copy something else, which then goes stagnant. Since there is no one at a deep-wide level to push technology ever further.
The West did not invent: gunpowder, magnetic compasses, paper money, printing, civil exams, and a lot of other things borrowed from China and India. But what the West did do, far better, was push advances constantly. Relentlessly, generation after generation. So that every twenty years there were newer and better navigation devices, charts, understanding of navigation, time-pieces, calculation log-books, and weapons. Made possible not by people under control of the Emperor, or the Central Party Oligarchy, but by many competing, widely distributed, always on the make ordinary folk trying their best to improve their lot every day.
The West beat the best brains on the planet. The West never had Court Eunuchs to match the Chinese Emperor, or the Ottoman's scholars, or the ones in India. But it did have the Beretta Family, and the Caslon family, and the Caxton family, and the Wright family, and many more. All building on the work of others, to constantly improve technology to their own advantage. China has nothing like it.
There are many talented people in China. But their innovations, their designs, will go nowhere for their own advantage. No one is going to invent anything for the glory of the Emperor, or Central Party Committee, and the advantage of Red Princelings. Instead that lack of ability to better one's own self except by examination and rising in the Emperor's (or Central Party Committee) service means a mind-bending bureaucracy stifling anything other than stealing some other culture's advances.
That's not winning the future. More like heading for a crash, as the ability to work smarter with resources diminishes. As Jim Chanos famously observed, the USSR grew tremendously from 1946 up through the late 1970's. Then productivity hit a wall. All the cement had been poured. All the villages electrified. All the people taught to read. All the highways built. All the peasants sent to technical school. And productivity fell, year after year, in accelerating fashion. Because fundamentally, people won't work hard for anyone but themselves. Slaves may fear the whip, but avoid any serious work for their masters. Meanwhile the genius of Napoleon, a former peasant himself, was to make French peasants small landholders. Give a man a piece of property, no matter how mean, and a chance at a family of his own he can improve, no matter how small, and he'll fight to the death for it.
If you wonder how Napoleon managed all those victories, against so many, for so long, before luck ran out, that's how.
The US has many faults, but it is not China. And for that I thank God.
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"Fundamentally, people won't work hard for anyone but themselves. Slaves may fear the whip, but avoid any serious work for their masters. Meanwhile the genius of Napoleon, a former peasant himself, was to make French peasants small landholders. Give a man a piece of property, no matter how mean, and a chance at a family of his own he can improve, no matter how small, and he'll fight to the death for it."
However, as you've commented in other entries, due to rampant hypergamy (among other factors), increasing numbers of men are being shut out of the sexual/marriage market. If these disenfranchised men have little or no incentive to work hard (Why should they work themselves into an early grave if they have little or no marriage prospects and no children to support?), then many of these men will work just diligently enough to fend for themselves. This will help bring about Western civilization's end just as surely as the proverbial barbarians at the gate.
- July 23, 2011 at 9:43 PM
- moneybagzz said...
Utopianists often claim "If we only had more X or less Y, we'd be perfect."
Almost always more X is more government intrusion, taxes, regulation and rules; less Y is usually freedom, and often consequences (think bailouts).
Thank heaven we have elections to clean up messes like we have now.
- July 23, 2011 at 11:07 PM
- moneybagzz said...
Excellent point Anonymous. As a man who has had very little luck on the dating/marriage scene, I would very much like to go Galt, and watch those Alpha-seekers turn into crazy cat ladies when they age out of the dating market.
- July 23, 2011 at 11:09 PM
The PRC is quite royally screwed demographically, much worse than almost all "Western" states, save possibly Japan. The one-child policy is now irreversible and the smart people in the cities have more-or-less stuck with it, while the countryside has not.
So the people having all the kids feel - pretty justly - left out of the Great Chinese Gravytrain. Go to rural China, it's like the 17th century.
This is not a recipe for stability, my friends. The PRC will, indeed, grow old before it grows rich.
I won't even go into the fact that the Reds had destroyed all aspects of traditional Chinese morality so it's a society of unashamed money-grubbing of the most vile sort: imagine a billion-plus of the nastiest Ostjuden crowded together: nice.
Only worry to have is whether the PRC doesn't do something really stupid, ie provoke an East Asian War, as it goes down the tube. Quite possible.
The USA is screwed, don't misunderstand, but far less than the PRC.
- July 24, 2011 at 4:36 AM
This is your kind of thing
- July 24, 2011 at 6:04 AM
You're SO close to the root of the problem here. You danced around it with one sentence and then never another mention. The REAL thing to work for is private property rights.
In past posts, your argument has been basically that beta males should be respected because they are a good tax base and will help build civilization. In other words, beta males make compliant servants for the powers that be.
If we had true private property rights, there would be no such thing as the welfare state. End the welfare state and the little bitches that are running around screwing dirtbags will start to have real consequences staring them in the face. If you want betas to get more poon, the way forward is not to point out that they make great servants. The way forward is to declare that no man has to live for the sake of another, either through literal servitude or through state-sanctioned servitude.
- July 24, 2011 at 6:27 AM
"Thank heaven we have elections to clean up messes like we have now."
You're joking, right?
Every election we've had since 1988, we've been more fucked than the last one. There is literally no chance that any election will produce a leader capable of solving the problems we have.
- July 24, 2011 at 6:09 PM
Off the current topic but quoting the Norwegian shooter:
"Muslim girls were off limits to everyone, even the Muslim boys. The only available
"commodity" at this point was therefore ethnic Norwegian girls, referred to as "whores".
Due to the tolerance indoctrinated through Norwegian upbringing - girls aren't brought
up to be sceptics, racists or anti-immigrant, just like most boys. They are all brought upto be very tolerant. As a result, many ethnic Norwegian girls, especially in Muslim
dominated areas, despise ethnic Norwegian boys because they consider them as weak
and inferior with lack of pride, seeing as they are systematically "subdued" by the
"superior Muslim boys". Ironically, Muslim boys are raised to view Norwegian girls as
inferior "whores". Their only purpose is to bring pleasure until the Muslim guys are
around 20-25 when they will find a pure, "superior" Muslim girl, a virgin. At this point,
the ethnic Norwegian "whores" is discarded, and most of the girls go back to their old
"tribe". They are welcomed back in the name of tolerance."
More: http://www.kevinislaughter.com/wp-content/uploads/2083+-+A+European+Declaration+of+Independence.pdf
- July 24, 2011 at 10:41 PM
- Sherwood Smith said...
It is not that China is on the rise, but that the West is in decline. Everything the West developed and perfected over the last one hundred years was gifted to China via joint ventures, expats in China, and American universities educating Chinese.
Left alone the Chinese will only stagnate and decline. They are grossly incompetent and have a very overrated view of their abilities and accomplishments.
Sherwood Smith
South China
- July 28, 2011 at 7:21 PM
- Human-Stupidity.com said...
The Chinese have higher IQ then whites or blacks.
Race & Intelligence
Something in their education and political system held them back. If they take enough of US technology and education they will prosper.
High IQ, huge masses, add to that the degeneration of the US, dysgenics, etc and things look bleak for the US.
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This is Steve's [Steve Schlozman, the author] story, not mine. It's more like The Andromeda Strain. It's very tense and very medically correct. This guy's a doctor, it's all about being medically correct. I think about it like the first Hammer Frankenstein film, which was all about very graphic scenes of brains floating in blood and things like that. I want it to be perfectly accurate, almost shockingly so.
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Arthur Brings Rain, Rough Surf to New Jersey
Hurricane Arthur is bringing rain and rough surf to New Jersey today as he veers to the north and away from the coastline.
An earlier Flash Flood Watch has been canceled for all of New Jersey but gusty winds are still a threat out of the north at 40 mph with some gusts to 50 mph.
Metoorologist Alan Kasper says the shore seems to so far be getting the most rain. The strongest winds seem to be during downpours; Cape May recorded a wind gust of 41 mph on Friday morning.
The rain and wind will come to an end during the late afternoon making for a beautiful Saturday and Sunday with temperatures in the 80s. Concerns about wind could affect scheduled fireworks displays. Beachwood and Asbury Park have postponed their display until Saturday night along the Toms River. Check our list of displays for updates.
Rough surf and rip currents will remain as Arthur continues his trip away from the coast with very rough surf creating waves and surf of 6-8 feet and beach erosion that will make for strong rip currents all along the shore through the weekend. A High Surf Advisory is in effect for the entire coastline through Saturday afternoon.
Arthur strengthened to a Category 2 storm with winds of 100 mph Thursday evening before passing over the southern end of the Outer Banks . The storm was moving northeast Friday morning after turning slightly west late Thursday, which increased the threat to mainland communities from flooding, tornadoes and intense winds. It has since weakened to a Category 1 storm.
As of 11 a.m. EDT Friday, Arthur was centered 100 miles east-southeast of Ocean City, Maryland and 300 miles southwest of Chatham, Massachusetts It was moving northeast near 24 mph. The storm has sustained winds of 90 mph.
Another round of strong thunderstorms on Thursday night crossed New Jersey, knocking out power to over 40,000 and dropped 1-3 inches of rain fall in north and central New Jersey with lesser amounts east of the New Jersey Turnpike according to the National Weather Service.
The utility tweeted that 30,000 customers without power on Thursday night have had service "safely restored" and crews are working to restore their remaining customers. 1,165 JCP+L customers were still in the dark early on Friday afternoon according to the utility's outage map, mostly in Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren counties as of 12noon. Less than 1,000 PSEG customers were without power in outages scattered around its coverage area on its outage map. Atlantic City Electric's outage map shows over 7,000 customers in southern Ocean County who lost power have been restored.
ABC 7 reports that three children between the ages of 7 and 16 were struck by lightning in Green Township in Sussex County.
The State Fair in the parking lot of MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands closed down all its rides as the storms rolled in according to the Star-Ledger. A tree fell on a house in Chatham according to CBS New York, which reports that water coming down a hill trapped some commuters inside a NJ Transit station for a time.
- Storm slams New Jersey, delays holiday travel plans, knocks out power to thousands / Star-Ledger
- Power restored for 7,484 after Ocean County outage / Asbury Park Press
- Severe Storms Blast Tri-State For Second Night In A Row / CBS New York


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by Jane Lenel
Elsie Storck's piano-teaching life has been full to overflowing. In New Rochelle, N.Y., where she lived until 1978, her schedule was so tight that some students had to arrange their school lunch times and study periods to fit in lessons. (She currently lives in the Cathedral Village retirement community in upper Roxborough.)
There, combined with her work turning out skilled musicians and future professionals, she was also a judge in local and state auditions — a good "show off" method, she smiled during a recent interview, for students who won gold certificates.
In Copake, N.Y., a village graced by one general store, one drug store, a saloon and a church, where she and her husband Ed retired, they had to enlarge their small cottage to fit in Elsie's piano and to accommodate her students — some driving as many as 20 miles for lessons — and musical events.
Along with teaching, somewhere in her days or nights, she found time to feed her own love of playing. "In New York I did lots of accompanying," she said, primarily with singers — soloists and groups such as the Gotham Chorale.
One particular "high moment," she recalled, was a performance in White Plains of the Bach B Minor Mass in which she accompanied the Schola Cantorum, a chorus of about 200 singers and an audience of 2,500.
Now at age 98 at Cathedral Village, having supplied more than the average quota of outstanding pianists over the years, Elsie has spent the last several years filling the demand for an accompanist for singers, instrumentalists and choral groups. And a few years ago performed as a soloist at Cathedral Village and was interviewed for an ABC TV documentary. "All that has kept me busy," she said.
Unduly modest, her explanation for her earlier student popularity is: "I never rapped their knuckles." However, despite this kindly approach, there is no question that she believes piano lessons aren't child's play and that studying piano is serious business.
This attitude is repeated in the "Why We Teach Music" document that hangs by her front door stressing the value of music as an art, vital to helping to create a good life.
"I believe every child should be able to play an instrument," Elsie said, citing the fact that students who play in school bands or orchestras tend to excel academically. Along with the discipline it gives, she noted that "They have no time to get into trouble."
"I didn't use a particular method," she explained. "Every child is different." However, she added that "there are certain fundamentals that must be learned and practiced," and she did use various method books. But the one she used most was "The Language of the Piano," by Dorothy Priesing and Libbie Tecklin, a theory and practice workbook for intermediate students with illustrations by well-known composers.
One of Elsie's former students, Pat Gubler, who has recorded under the solo name P.G. Six and within the loose-knit group The Tower Recordings, had this to say about Elsie: "She was a really great teacher and a very serious player … She was also very nice and laid-back in her approach and very encouraging. I think she saw that while I didn't have, like, massive technique, I did have a bit of a feel for it. When I was finishing high school, she said, 'Well, are you thinking of going to college? Maybe you could study some music, among other things.' That sort of affirmed it for me, that music was something I could pursue further."
To arrive at her own keyboard mastery, Elsie, too, had to undergo the rigors of study. Her mother gave her the first lesson when she was five. She then studied with a local teacher, followed by one requiring a commute alone on a train in New York City when she was 12. She was admitted to the prestigious Juilliard School of Music when she was 16.
After graduating from Juilliard in 1935, she went to Columbia Teachers College for pedagogy courses, and then, believing that "teachers should never stop studying," she took courses at New York University covering all periods of the history of music.
Along the way, she became interested in the organ, took lessons and became a substitute organist at Temple Israel Reformed Synagogue in New Rochelle. There she played for weddings and funerals, and she remembers her terror when, after only six lessons, she had to play for an entire service. She also taught at Columbia County Community College. Elsie has two children: John, an international banker who also taught at Boston University and lives on North Haven Island off the coast of Maine; and Susan, a retired school teacher and pianist-conductor who lives in Ann Harbor, Michigan.
Looking back at her own childhood, Elsie says she is grateful for having lived in a family that loved music and the arts and set the stage for her future life. Looking at her present life, she said she is grateful for the opportunity to live with a similarly arts-oriented "family" of residents at Cathedral Village who follow her instructions to practice scales and arpeggios daily.


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I go back to work when LO will be 9 months, I work from home a lot but on the days I need to go into the office can I get away without pumping or will I get super engorged?
I can't pump at work, we don't really have the facilities and I don't feel comfortable about having to do it.
I have tried to offer formula in preparation for this so I could mix feed but he will not take it so I'm at a loss as what to do... By doing this I hoped my supply would get used to not feeding during day but still have enough to feed morning and evenings


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No -- we don't have an ETA. And you can be sure this isn't going to be in patch 2.1. But CM Nethaera recently confirmed that guild housing is still on Blizzard's agenda. Of course, she can't give us any details -- she's just letting us know they're still planning on it, and that the Blizzard team has a mountain worth of ideas and there's still only 24 hours in a day.
This is a bit different than the last official response we received on the subject, which was when Drysc told us in February that Blizzard doesn't "have any current development or plans on guild halls." But he does encourage some discussion on what a guild hall could be. And on the suggestion forums, there's extensive discussion of what players want in a guild housing solution. But what do you think Blizzard will do with the idea of guild housing when they get around to it?


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Farmland values sustain balance sheets
Strong farmland values continue to stabilize farm finances and to meet performance expectations for non-farm investors, according to the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA). The group recently reported that farmland is a major contributor to sustaining the ag economy and is the biggest asset on farm balance sheets.
Low interest rates, consistent rate of return, slow rate of inflation and poor performance in alternative investments are credited for keeping farmland values high, ASFMRA states. Interest rates on farm loans have dropped more than 2.5% on average over the past two years, reports Charles Knudson, rural appraiser with First Farm Credit Service, Normal, IL. "While this is good news for operators who own their land, it's great news for investors wanting to redirect money from poorly performing stocks toward less volatile investments," he says. As a result, the proportion of land buyers who are investors has increased. In 2001, non-farm investors made 27% of all farmland purchases, compared with 12% in 1989.
USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) reports that farm real estate values are up for the 16th year in a row. Farm real estate values including all land and buildings averaged $1,270/acre in 2003, up 5% from 2002. Farmland value in the Corn Belt rose 4.7%, to $2,450/acre.
Knudson says production farmland typically provides nominal annual returns of 8 to 10% and real returns of 4 to 6%. Returns typically consist of current income from yearly crop sales or lease payments plus land appreciation.
USDA's review of cash rents paid in 2003 shows that Midwest rent averages $110/acre.
Cargill, IMC Global announce merger
Cargill and IMC Global have agreed to merge their fertilizer businesses into a new publically traded company. The combination of Cargill's phosphate, feed phosphates and nitrogen production with IMC's phosphate, feed phosphates and potash businesses will create one of the nation's largest fertilizer companies.
The two companies report combined total assets of $5.4 billion with $2.2 billion in debt. They anticipate annual revenues of about $4.1 billion. Cargill will retain 66.5% ownership of the new company. The new company will apply for listing on the New York Stock Exchange. This will be a first for Cargill, which has never issued public shares.
Within the past several years, Cargill has acquired Continental Grain (1998), Agribrands International (2000), and the European corn miller Cerestar (2001). Last fall, Cargill bid on Farmland Industries' pork processing but was outbid by Smithfield Foods.
Majority of farms still family owned
Preliminary results of the 2002 Census of Agriculture show the majority of U.S. farm operations are still very small. Farms posting less than $10,000 in annual sales amounted to 59% of the country's total farm operations. The census also reported that 90% of all farm operations are run by individuals or families.
Overall, the number of farm operations continued to decline, which is a trend started several decades ago. But the largest operations — defined as 2,000+ acres — increased in number from 74,037 in 1997 to 78,037 in 2003.
The census, conducted every five years by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), measured the total number of people operating farms and ranches instead of just one operator per farm.
Among all farm operations, the percentage of women involved in day-to-day farming and ranching decisions has increased 12% from 1997, to 27% in 2002. More minorities are principal farm operators today than in 1997. The number of principal operators of Spanish, Hispanic or Latino origin increased nearly 51% from 1997 to 2002. The number of black principal operators increased 8.8%, and the number of American Indian operators increased 19.4% from 1997 to 2002.
The final census report will be released in June with information on national, state and county levels. All reports from the census will be available free through the NASS Web site at www.usda.gov/nass. For additional information, call the NASS hotline at 800/727-9540.


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Yet Another High Five Fail – Clip of the Day
High Five Fails are all the rage at 1045theteam.com. I found a little bit of a different one for you, this one involves a massive injury. Watch as a fan just flat out breaks his neck in a high five related accident Aaron Rodgers doesn't miss a beat just goes around him and lets him die in peace. If you have a clip that you think is Clip of the Day worthy email it to email@example.com


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Bit gloomy, this subject, but it's a big one and actually quite interesting. Not everyone who lived in Clarendon Park in the past died there, but a lot did and especially – sadly – the children. National infant (under 1 year) mortality in Victorian England was something appalling like 160 per 1000 live births in 1899 and the figure for Leicester, as a town, was probably significantly higher. One in three children would not live to see their fifth birthday. Adults also had a much lower life expectancy than today.
I have been transcribing the burial records of St Mary Magdalene, Knighton, listing every person who died whilst living in Clarendon Park. It is time-consuming work – so far I have finished 1887-1906 and 1929-1950 and there are literally hundreds of names. Each entry records the person's name, their address, age and the date they were buried. You are welcome to ask me to look up any name or address (I found a tiny baby who died at my house in 1900..very poignant). Anyway, the list forms a useful snapshot of death in Clarendon Park, though totally unscientific. Here are the results for 1887 – 1906:
- <1m 32
- 1m – 6m 45
- 7m – 12m 45
- 13m – 2y 32
- 3y – 5y 13
- 6y – 10y 8
- 11y – 19y 19 (of which 7 were aged 17)
- 20 – 30 24
- 30 – 40 30
- 41 – 50 30
- 51 – 60 31
- 61 – 70 28
- 71 – 80 18
- 81+ 14 (the oldest person was 93)
As you can see, the vast majority of deaths were in children 2 years or younger, though the risk levelled off a bit after that. A surprising amount of people died in early adulthood, and most adults died in what we would now consider middle age, rather than after the current retirement age. There must be many more deaths in the 81+ bracket today. It is notable from the records how the number of child deaths gradually reduces and the age of people generally increases over the 19 years I looked at.
So, how and where were all these Clarendon Park folk buried? There isn't a burial ground in Clarendon Park itself. Many people were buried at Welford Road Cemetery, which opened in 1849 and provided space for people who were not members of the Church of England, as well as those who were. Clearly a lot of people chose to be buried at St Mary Magdalene, Knighton, as St John the Baptist, Clarendon Park and St Michael and All Angels, Knighton had no graveyard (many if not most new Victorian churches were built without). Even nonconformists were buried there – under the Burials Act of 1880 any christian burial could be carried out at parish churches, and quite a few Methodists and other nonconformists were buried at St Mary's. Some people were buried in other parishes, for example if they had lived many years in a village or another part of Leicester before moving to Clarendon Park.
Victorian funerals were big business, with mourning warehouses advertised in the local press. The middle classes were obviously able to spend more on the trappings of mourning but it was a matter of pride for many poorer people to give a decent funeral. Many would not have been able to provide even that. Cab Proprietor William Maurice Jackson was also a funeral undertaker, and coffins would have been provided by some of Clarendon Park's many carpenters, joiners and builders.
Thank goodness those days have passed, and most Clarendon Park dwellers are in good health and can expect to live to a reasonable age. I promise to bring you something less morbid next time! Regards, Elizabeth.


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Historical Document
This page is intended to document as much of our activities as possible so we can maintain a sense of history of what our group has done over time. It should be used for anything that happens outside of the Meeting_Minutes document.
July 2010
Bloominglabs is official!
Moved out of Jenett's basement and into our room at The Collaboration Room. Picked a name for our space. Formed Bloominglabs LLC and signed our lease for the room.
Held these workshops which where open to the public
- Soldering
- AVR programming I
- AVR programming II
- Arduino + RF/wireless
The Soldering workshop was our first and had 17 attendees (out of 6 RSVP's). The AVR workshops had 11 and 6 attendees respectively, and the Arduino RF workshop had 6 attendees. All went over extremely well and had very good feedback.
External Publicity
Local writer Kevin Makice wrote about The Collaboration Room and the Bloomington Hackerspace Initiative in his Wired blog Geek Dad. Member Joe Stone was at the Detroit Maker Faire the weekend of July 31st and sat on a panel about hackerspaces along with Mitch Altman.
August 2010
After the whirlwind that was July we relaxed and only held one workshop. Mitch Altman and Jimmy Rogers stopped by on August 19th to host a soldering workshop, it was another great success.
September 2010
- Obtained a drill press
- Got prototype of RFID door-access system working based on Open Access Control
- Installed shelves on main closet in space
- Cleaned up front porch power tool area
- Installed deadbolts on Matthew's and Arthur's doors
- Aluminum casting mini-workshop with coffee can forge
October 2010
- More work on RFID system
- Collaboween projects built with Matthew
- Arduino shield build parties
- Sumobot throwdown and halloween party at LVL1 in Louisville, KY
- Started accumulating hardware for plastic vacuum-forming table
November 2010
- More work on RFID system
- Prep for December soap-molding workshop
- Prep for January bugbots with Wonderlabs
- Built a plastic vacuum form machine for members to use
December 2010
- St. Nick's workshop (soap-molding/vacuum forming, hand-warmer sewing, hand-bag sewing, and card making)
- Reporter from Indiana Daily Student came and documented the workshop
January 2011
- BugBot workshop with Wonderlab
February 2011
- Contact Microphone Building Workshop hosted by CMKT4 (held at warehouse Behind Russian Recording Studios)
March 2011
- Preparations for July 4th Parade entry
- Electric wheel chair acquired for robotic platform hacking
April-June 2011
- Activity around TEDx Bloomington event - geocaching boxes started, but not enough time to finish these in time for TEDx
- Preparations for July 4th Parade entry
- smoke ring cannons
- twinki launchers
- IR LED message scroll-sign
- Strand Beast (walking machine) design well under way
- electric wheel chair platform hacking via CANUSB adapter
- Reporter from Bloom Magazine interviewed several members and observed a meeting in June
July 2011
- Parade float in Bloomington July 4th parade!
- Moved to our new space on Roll Avenue!!
- Follow-up from Bloom Magazine to get photos of our new space
- New RFID system acquired
- Table-top sander now in the space
- Dust collection system in the works
- Open-house July 23rd
- Lathe acquired
- Electrolysis rust removal system built for the lathe and general use
August 2011
- New RFID system built and tested
- Lathe cleanup on-going
- August 13th BugBots workshop at Wonderlab
- August 23rd Jay hosts an Arduino for Beginners workshop
September 2011
- Bloominglabs is featured is an article in Bloom magazine
- Rex, Jay, Jonathan, and others represent Bloominglabs at a booth at the Indy Mini-Maker Faire
October 2011
- That old standard, the AVR workshop
- dosman and FOOLS make hack-a-day for their lockpicking game (Steve did some programming for the scoreboard). The site buckles under the load.
November 2011
- Catarina Mota from NYC Resistor and Open Materials visits and tells us about interesting materials for projects. This workshop attracted some artists, and we hope to see more artists in the future.
December 2011
- Second Annual Holiday Mini-Workshops. Again the vacuum molder was very popular. Buddha and cellphone molds were made.
January 2012
- Jenett's C programming course starts
- Annual meeting. Members make big plans and then go eat some Bar-B-Q.
February 2012
- Soldering workshop. This one featured kits of dosman's 'Phasor', with nice etched boards
- Theremin building workshops with Harmony School begin. These continue through March.
March 2012
- Second soldering workshop. This one covered SMT techniques (Thanks Nick!)
- Bloominglabs holds its first Game Day
April 2012
- Bugbot workshop at Wonderlab
- Bloominglabs hosts a 'hardware hacking village' at Indy Linux Fest in conjunction with FOOLS featuring the Rumble Challenge, Typing of the Dead, the 'Shoot the Windows Logo and Win Candy' game, Snap Circuits, and more. People really dug it.
May 2012
- The team prepares for the hack-a-thon.
June 2012
- Bloominglabs team attended the 1st ever LVL1 Boneyard Hack-a-thon
- The lathe is fixed up to the point it is now operational
July 2012
- Lockers now available for rent
- Bugbot workshop at the Wonderlab Kids Camp - held at University Elementary School
August 2012
- Mid-sized mill acquired
- Monthly RasberryPi Meetups started on the first Tuesday each month
- Bloominglabs "Circle stickers" available to members
September 2012
- Our yearly open house was a smashing success, covered in the local Hearald Times paper the following day
- Circuit board etching workshop
- Rube Goldberg day at WonderLab - Jenett, Mitchell, Jonathan, and others participated
- Soldering workshop
October 2012
- Intro to Arduino workshop
- Participated in LVL1's "Make Food Not War" Hackathon
- Contacted by the Monroe County Library on having a makerspace within the Library, discussions ongoing
- Had meeting with city about the TechPark they have established
- Started Laser Etcher/cutter acquisition proposal for the space
- 10 week programming class led by Jenett
November 2012
- Helped Russ's friend rewire electric winch controls for a dumb-waiter system in his house
- Began discussions about holding a MakerFaire in Bloomington (to be named Makevention)
- City invited us to submit a response to their Firehouse RFI, began coordination with Nicole Jacquard with the IU FabLab on this front
- Contacted by Bray Entertainment Casting for a possibly spot in an upcoming reality TV show
December 2012
- St. Nicks workshop
- Closed Bloominglabs LLC, formed Bloominglabs Incorporated as a non-profit as a project of the School Factory
- Updated our install of MediaWiki for our front page, started work on a WordPress site as a formal front page
- Collaborated with IU/Kylie Peppler on Indiana 2013-2014 Innovation Fund Grant (did not get however)
January 2013
- Multi-room speaker system installed (Audio Network)
- Significant work put in on the Firehouse RFI submission, turned in on January 31st deadline
- Automatic web-based invoicing system setup for membership dues
- Asset tracking with asset tag printing capabilities for all objects in our physical space
- Setup a CRM system for grant and opportunity tracking and coordination
- Open Arena server setup inside the space
- Scrolling LED sign setup and accessible from IRC
- Auto-greeting system setup (festival text-to-speech greetings when badging in with RFID)
- Acquired a wood lathe and gouges for the space
February 2013
- Installed multi-room CCTV_Network with 8 channel computer controlled video switcher and frequency agile RF generator
- Facilitates presenters (and any other A/V media) which is present in the front room to be present in any other room in the space
- Competed in the international Open Arena hackerspace competition
- Received a MAME arcade cabinet into the space
March 2013
- Began fundraising for the laser cutter
- Following the March Geek Dinner we provided free ice cream for everyone who came over to Bloominglabs afterwords
- Corey setup the Bloominglabs Badge service https://badges.bloominglabs.org
- Jenett, Steve, and Nathan presented at the IU Makes lecture
- A journalism student posted her coverage of Bloominglabs.
- We did another Wonderlab bugbot workshop on March 30th
- At the end of the month we reached our pledge goal for funding the laser cutter
April 2013
- Participated in the Creativity Week event, work still ongoing into May with the 4th street bridge
- Placed the order for the laser cutter
May 2013
- Laser cutter arrived!!
- Saturday fleamarket event
- Setup video camera to watch the laser, connected to CCTV system
- A new member donated blood to have cash for his first months dues - way to set the bar high! (Will Robot)
June 2013
- Blue barrel bonanza workshops (rain and compost barrels)
- Machining workshops started
- Squishy circuit kids workshop with Wonderlab June 19th & 20th
- Geek camp with Kevin Makice June 26th (soldering, circuits, lock picking, etc.)
- Stop motion kids workshop at Elletsville Library June 24th, Monroe library on the 25th
- Space reallocation project in planning phases
- Many amazing laser projects created this month
July 2013
- July 3rd: accepted our 30th and 31st members!
- "Makey Makey" Wonderlab kids camp workshop - July 15th
- Drawdio Wonderlab kids camp workshop - July 16th
- Machining workshops for members
August 2013
- Makevention prep in full swing (held August 24th)
- Time lapse of bike dome being built: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHxuAcvl6vc
- Laser cut wood and acrylic gear-wheel badges
- Laser cut paper trebuchet badges
- Continuation of machining workshops for members
September 2013
- Recovery from Makevention
- Laser tube replaced after an early death of our tube
- Continuation of machining workshops for members
- Started investigating larger locations for Bloominglabs
October 2013
- Arduino workshops
- Continuation of machining workshops for members
November 2013
- Started microcontroller nights every Thursday evening for members
- As part of microcontroller night, created Arduino controlled thermostat for space (w/Ethershield and web interface)
December 2013
- Craftmania at St. Nick's Workshop with Discardia at MCPL
- Continuation of machining workshops for members
- Nitocris from IU shoot a video for a series of UITS Tech Tips at Bloominglabs
January 2014
- Annual meeting
- Checked out a potentially bigger space for Bloominglabs (Adam Nahas)
- 2nd laser tube busted due to incredibly cold temps coming in through exhaust vent and freezing water in the laser tube water jacket
February 2014
- Had a Saturday hackathon at Rex's
- Checked out another potentially bigger space for Bloominglabs (Adam Nahas)
March 2014
- More discussions about Adam's latest warehouse for Blabs to sublet, passed on this one
- Opportunity for a commercial space on Landmark Ave, 4th & Rogers, Fell Building
- Toured facility at Alion Science and Technology at the Bloomington Airport for potential collaboration
April 2014
- Critical_Playshop_-_Perception - hosted by member Austin
- Soldering Party (at Blabs) with SDC and Steve Backs to solder up Arduino shields for an upcoming MCPL workshop
- Laser cutter back in action at 45W!! (now with backup laser tubes)
May 2014
- Spring Flea Market
- Ctrl-Alt-Let's Eat! Pizza Hut Fund Raiser for Bloominglabs
- Miah from the city approached us about a warehouse on S. Rogers Street (which we obtained in July!!)
June 2014
- Arduino workshops with Monroe County Public Library (MCPL)
- Geek Camp hosted by Kevin Makice visits Bloominglabs for an afternoon (kids event)
- Participated in the National Day of Making June 18th [1]
- Wrote an RFP "About Us" document for the S. Rogers warehouse to be submitted with our bid
- On June 24th the City Parks and Rec board approved our bid for the South Rogers warehouse!! (And Adam Nahas got his bid on the other warehouse on the same lot)
July 2014
- Obtained access to the S. Rogers warehouse


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the enigma that is badger wrote:Ben-Jammin wrote:I know better than to ask for release dates, but still, these had better come out.
I know as much as you do! Still, if all the M2HB parts are already at the articles stage, it's only a matter of time for Will to work with his tooler to get all the mold ready for production runs. No idea the other stuff (tripod and MPC), but they are awesome so hopefully Will might put the designs into full production sooner than later.
spartan117 wrote:I love these so much! The only problem I have with them is sometimes they can kind of "clash" like having a dude with a purist gun and then a dude rocking a brikarms. It kind of makes me go "am I going for tiny realism? Or am I just sticking to the goodness of Legos. It's quite the inner struggle I have. Like wether or not to fap to halo picture or pictures of actual women.
Silent-sigfig wrote:silverdream wrote:Don't forget the monopod and u-clip. Those really add to what you can do with Lego weapons.
I've thought about it, but Lego makes their own, albeit clunky, monopods; and I'm certain that they'll have their own U-clip within the next two years.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
Bluefog wrote:I have a ton of BrickWarriors stuff and really like it. Good quality.
AZKAMAT wrote:Bluefog wrote:I have a ton of BrickWarriors stuff and really like it. Good quality.
I've known about thier stuff for about a year now, and I was considering buying some, but I eventually elected to concentrate funding on Brickarms. I don't have any regrets, but if I ever get some extra $ lying around I'd like to buy some samples of some of their weapons.
Are the same plastic as LEGO uses?
And to touch on the Brickarms subject in general, I like the look a lot because I'm a gun nut, and I've also found a lot of their designs to be really compact compared to multi part LEGO weapons.
Ben-Jammin wrote:I think I'd rather see the RPD and the M1917 over any of those Japanese guns, though I do admit that I like the bayonet on the Arisaka. I like the vector pretty well too.
Ben-Jammin wrote:I think I'd rather see the RPD and the M1917 over any of those Japanese guns, though I do admit that I like the bayonet on the Arisaka. I like the vector pretty well too.
AZKAMAT wrote:They've had images and talk on the RPD for a long time now. I think prototypes for it were made around the same time as the M60, which has already gone into production.
AZKAMAT wrote:From stuff I've seen on their forums is looks like they're going to release a wave of Japanese weapons (bolt rifle, SMG, and LMG) sometime in the future. They have prototypes of the Browning machine available too (the American Maxim gun, not the .50 Cal) which probably mean those will go into production soon as well.
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On his return flight to Rome after his hectic trip to the Holy Land, Pope Francis held a highly noteworthy press conference with reporters, including the surprise announcement that he would meet with a group of sex abuse victims and celebrate Mass for them in the near future, perhaps in early June, and that he is open to retiring from the papacy.
As the Catholic and secular media learned last July on the flight from Rio de Janeiro to Rome after his attendance at World Youth Day, the pope's journey home is potentially as newsworthy as the trip itself. The flight from Tel Aviv to Rome proved no exception.
As he did on the Brazil flight, Pope Francis made himself available to reporters on board the papal plane for an impromptu press conference. Attention focused on the sex abuse scandal, upcoming papal journeys and a possible new wrinkle to the challenges facing Vatican finances.
In responding to questions about the Church's handling of the sex abuse scandal, Pope Francis reiterated his firm commitment to a "zero tolerance" policy for abuse, but he also revealed two surprising developments. The first was his planned meeting with victims, and the second was that at least four bishops currently are under Vatican scrutiny with regard to the scandal.
As he has in the past, Francis used strong language for abusers. He called the abuse of children by priests "an ugly crime," a "very grave" problem and a betrayal of the Body of Christ. Instead of bringing children to holiness, such a priest, Pope Francis declared, abuses them and gives them problems that last a lifetime.
He compared the actions of abuser priests to the celebration of a black mass, the Satanic ritual involving the desecration of the Eucharist. In December last year, the Holy Father established an unprecedented Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors with the task of advising him on the Church's efforts to protect children and offer pastoral care for victims of abuse. He named its first eight members in March, including four women. One of them, the Irish lay woman Marie Collins, was herself a victim of clergy sexual abuse as a girl in the 1960s.
As an unmistakable sign of outreach to victims, Pope Francis stated that he would meet soon with six to eight sex abuse victims from various countries, including Germany, England and Ireland, and would celebrate a private Mass for them in the Casa Santa Marta, the Vatican hotel where he resides. This will be Pope Francis' first encounter with a group of victims, although he met with Collins in May.
In a second surprise, the pope announced that three unnamed bishops currently are being investigated by the Vatican for their activities related to the scandal and another has been found guilty and will be facing punishment. The pope did not elaborate as to whether they are under investigation for personal actions of abuse or if they had failed to handle cases properly.
Critics of the Church's handling of the scandal often have focused on the issue of possible penalties for bishops who fail to hold abusers accountable, and Pope Francis seems determined to make bishops accountable. He said to reporters that in Argentina there is a euphemism for the special treatment of some officials, calling them "daddy's boys." The pope said sternly, "On this problem, there can't be any daddy's boys," meaning that no one should be safe from punishment when it comes to clergy sexual abuse.
Another topic of scandal discussed was the reported mishandling of some 15 million euro (approximately $20.5 million) belonging to the Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly called the Vatican Bank. The Vatican has tried to cope with several financial scandals over past years and has worked to implement global requirements for financial transparency and fraud prevention. The current problem, however, has greater potential ramifications because of concerns that Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State from 2006 to 2013, might be involved.
Pope Francis has moved quickly since his election to launch wide-ranging reforms in the area of Vatican finances, including the creation of a commission to improve oversight of the Vatican Bank and to fight against fraud. When asked what the biggest challenge so far has been to implementing reform, he replied that "the first challenge is me," but he was remarkably candid about the inquiry into the money, saying, "It is something under study; it is not clear. Perhaps it is the truth, but at this moment it's not definitive. It is under study, to be fair." He also stressed the continuing importance of effective reforms, noting, "while there will always be sinners, it's important to try not to increase their number."
Francis also announced that he will visit the Philippines and Sri Lanka next January. With an apostolic voyage already planned for Korea in August, the pontiff is making very manifest that promoting the Catholic Faith in Asia is a major priority for his pontificate.
He is also concerned for the plight of Christians in Asia and around the world, with a focus on religious liberty. "There are martyrs, today, Christian martyrs," he lamented. "And in some places you cannot carry the crucifix or cannot have a Bible. You cannot teach the Catechism to children, today! And I think — and I believe I am not mistaken — that at this time there are more martyrs than in the early days of the Church."
As for his own possible retirement, Francis seems quite willing to consider it under the right circumstances, pointing to Pope Emeritus Benedict as a role model both for him and all future popes. "We need to look at him as an institution: he opened a door, the door of emeritus popes," Francis declared. "Only God knows if there will be others, but the door is open." He added on a personal note that if the day comes, "I will do what the Lord tells me to do. ... But I believe that Benedict XVI was not a unique case."
Matthew Bunson is OSV's senior correspondent.
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