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Rufo's Famous Tapa MenuShare
Rufo's Famous Tapa
- Rufo's Famous Tapa
the best seller since 1984! Mouth-watering, tender Batangas beef, marinated and served in Rufo's rich, sweet "Famous Sauce" with a side order of fried egg. The sauce is really a dish on its own! "Sauce Pa Lang Ulam Na!"
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Breakfast 24-7
- Breakfast 24/7
Rufo's version of the All-Day Breakfast. Available all day, everyday, any darn day!
- Longaniza
Sweet, juicy and with a distinctly garlicky flavor, this is the Pinoy version of the pork sausage done the Rufo's way. Served with fried egg.
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- Tocino
Chunky tender morsels of Pampanga pork, marinated in pineapple sauce for a delectable sweet and juicy experience. Served with fried egg
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- Corned Beef a la Rufo's
A generous serving of juicy corned beef, sauteed in onions, fried and served with farm-fresh scambled egg.
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- Burger Steak
Juicy home-made beef pattie smothered in tasty gravy with fried egg on the side.
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- Embotido
A sumptuous combination of freshly-ground Laguna Pork sprinkled with raisins, herbs and seasonings is Rufo's version of the Filipino meatloaf.
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- Crispy Danggit
Delicious Danggit from Cebu, deep-fried and served extra crispy, perfectly complemented with a side order of tomato
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- Specials
Rufo's Best Sellers
- Boneless Bangus
Fresh from Dagupan, this milkfish is submerged in a unique combination of flavors and spices before deep-fried to a crispy golden perfection
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- Chicken Barbeque
1/4 prmium Chicken, bathed and pre-grilled in its essences before basted with a sweet tangy barbeque sauce.
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- Pork Barbeque
Two sticks of soft, juicy pork, marinated and coated in a rich, tasty barbeque sauce.
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- Liempo
Choice-cut pork, pre-grilled and flavored with Rufo's special home-made Liempo marinade. Served hot with a side order of sweet Liempo sauce.
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- Sizzling T-Bone Steak
A hearty cut of T-bone from the choicest Batangas beef, marinated in its succulent juices with soy sauce, garlic and butter, served piping-hot and sprinkled with bits of garalic on a sizzling plate.
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- Lumpiang Shaghai
Delicious pork spring rolls fried crispy golden-brown, served with a rich sweet and sour sauce.
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- Pork Chops
Prime cut pork, seasoned with Rufo's special spices, carefully fried to a golden brown, while locking in its natural flavors.
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Cooking ng Ina Mo!
- Cooking ng Ina Mo!
Home-Style Pinoy dishes just like how mom used to make.
- Pinoy Beef Steak
Filipino-style beef steak, submerged in the flavors of soy, lemon, shallots with a tinge of freshly ground pepper.
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- Chicken Tinola
Steaming Filipino chicken soup with a hint of ginger and locally-grown light spices. Rufo's "Chicken Soup for the Pinoy Soul."
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- Chicken Adobo
Fresh chicken cuts carefully marinated and cooked in a flavorful traditional Adobo sauce.
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- Pork Humba
Tender pork shank and cutlets slowly braised in spiced soy-pineapple juice and topped off with a sprinkling of banana blossoms.
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- Bulalo
Juicy beef shanks slow-cooked to produce a flavorful broth with native petchay, sweet corn on the cob and Baguio beans. Truly Souper!
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Pulutan Party
- Pulutan Party
Local bar chow a la Rufo's! Perfect with a bucket of ice cold beer or as an entree with extra rice!
- Tokwa't Baboy
Generous chunks of Tofu deep-fried with delivious pork slices and bathed in Rufo's sweet, sour and spicy Tokwa Dressing.
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- Sizzling Sisig
The Philippines' favorite "pulutan" contains the perfect blend of flavors and spices topped with farm fresh egg and served crackling in its own juices on a sizzling plate.
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- Chicharon
Extra crispy deep-fried pork rind.
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- Mushroom Adobo
Authentic Chinese button mushrooms, sauteed in garlic and special seasonings is Rufo's version of the Vegetarian Adobo. A healthy twist to the Philippines' foremost dish.
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- Sizzling Chicken Sisig
Finely chopped cubes of fresh, juicy chicken flavored with special spices, onions and seasoning is the healthier version of our "Pinoy Pulutan". Served scorching hot on a sizzling plate with farm fresh egg on top.
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- Chili Chicken Wings
Tender chicken wings, fried to a crispy golden-brown, delightfully basted with Rufo's sweet and spicy chili sauce and served searing hot on a sizzling plate.
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- Chopsuey
A flavorful Fil-oriental fusion of fresh garden vegetables, pork, dried shrimp, chicken liver, sesame and spices.
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Fil-Am Fusion
- Fil-Am Fusion
Traditional American dishes done the Filipino way. A delectable culinary blend of Eastern and Western flavors!
- Beef Tapa Sandwich
Our iconic Rufo's Famous Tapa, now is a sesame seed bun! Tender, juicy Batangas beef topped with farm fresh egg and Baguio lettuce. More famous than any American roast beef sandwich!
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- Spaghetti Bola-Bola
A delicious symphony of native flavors and spices blended into a Filipino spaghetti sauce. Sprinkled with grated cheese, and topped with chunky Pinoy meatballs over al dente pasta.
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- Sizzling Crispy Chicken
Southern Fried Chicken cooked to a Pinoy-style juicy-crispiness, sizzling in home-made gravy and buttered vegetables.
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- Rufo Burger
Juicy home-made beef pattie served with tomato, Baguio lettuce and lathered with our sweet, Asian-inspired Famous sauce. A perfect dish for people on the go!
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Dessers and Side orders
- Leche Flan
Milk caramel custard dessert
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- Black Sambo
A sumptuous gelatin fusion of native chocolate, milk and cream.
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- Creamy Fruit Fiesta
Creamy fruit cocktail with crushed honey graham crackers.
- 36
- Oriental Cream Soup
Rich cream and egg soup with a mix of garlic, spring onions and authentic Asian seasonings.
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- Salted Egg with Tomato
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Beverages and Others
- Softdrinks
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- Iced Tea / Juice
- 30
- Iced Tea / Juice
- 37
- Bottled Water
- 25
- Local Beers and Flavored Alcohol
- 56
- Cigarettes
- 80
- Rufo's Blend Brewed Coffee
- 36
- 5+1
Bucket of Local Beers and Flavored Alcohol
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Add Ons
- Garlic Fried Rice
White rice, fried in garlic and sprinkled with crunchy garlic bits.
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- Plain Rice
- 14
- Fried Egg
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- Extra Tomato
- 10
- Peanuts
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- Extra Cheese
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- Atchara
- 10
- Prawn Flakes
- 12
- Tokwa Dressing
- 13
- Gravy
- 7
- Famous Sauce
- 7
Premium Items
- Rufo's Cap
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- Rufo's Jacket
- 496
- Rufo's T-Shirt
- 236
- Rufo's Mug
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by Grant Moser
Carl Drake, 39, owner of Drake's Gourmet Food & Catering at 8419 Germantown Ave., graduated from Chestnut Hill Academy in 1991. Shortly thereafter, he was studying to be a teacher at the University of Denver when he realized something: he didn't like any of his professors. So in 1993 he came back to Chestnut Hill, where he was born and raised, to rethink his future. He found work at a local restaurant named Pollo Rosso in the Chestnut Hill Hotel, whose head chef was Amy Edelman, now the owner of The Night Kitchen Bakery.
"After working there for a year and a half, she said, 'Carl, you should really look into going to culinary school. If you get a formal culinary background, you could do a lot more.' So I went to look at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and fell in love with it right away," said Drake. In 1997, he graduated from CIA, located in Hyde Park, NY, with a two-year associate's degree.
Drake enjoyed his time at CIA. The chefs were talented, and the facilities were state-of-the art. The guiding philosophy he still follows today is a piece of advice a chef at the school passed on to him: you're only as good as your last plate.
"If at the end of the night," Drake said, "you're slacking and putting something together just to get it done, then you're not a true chef. It's what I tell my employees. Everyone is a VIP. If you have one bad customer, he's going to tell 10 people."
Carl's internship at school was with the legendary Georges Perrier's restaurant, Le Bec Fin. When school finished, he stayed on at the restaurant to continue learning. "It was intense, working 10-hour shifts, six days a week. But I was learning the different methods of cooking, whether grilling or broiling or sauteing. Because you're at the restaurant more than anywhere else, the people there become your family. Hopefully you get along with them and kid around and have fun, but you also have to really work your butt off. You're on your feet the whole time and moving non-stop."
Drake proceeded to work at other well-respected Philadelphia restaurants after leaving Le Bec Fin, including La Terrasse, Opus 251 and Bacchus Market & Catering, but he was also thinking about venturing out on his own. In 2003, he and his then-pregnant wife, Claire, moved to Erdenheim from the city. His wife happened to be passing by the Flourtown Farmers' Market one day and asked if there was any space available.
There was. Drake decided this was his chance to get his own business started because it didn't require a lot of overhead to get off the ground, provided him a facility to cook out of and got his food in front of the public. Three years later he moved to his present location in Chestnut Hill.
Drake's business has always focused on catering, even though he offers take-out food as well. In fact, 75% of his business is catering, and that suits him just fine. "There are plusses and minuses to everything. With catering, you know how many people are coming, whereas in a restaurant it's a big guess. It's also not every night of my life, so I have a bit more family time than a chef in a restaurant. But then, there's times like May and June where I have only two days off a month. I initially wanted a restaurant and still wouldn't rule that out if I found the perfect location, but I'm enjoying what I'm doing now…
"I can basically do anything, whether it's Thai or Italian or German. I really like to do things I've never done before, and that keeps me excited about cooking. I do sit-down dinners for 15 to 20 people, cocktail hors d'oeuvres parties and weddings up to 300 people."
Owning your own business is a dream-come-true, but comes with a lot of work. "It's 24/7. If there's a problem you're the dishwasher, you're the plumber, you're whatever you need to be. There's more stress, and your day isn't done when the door closes; I'm still thinking about stuff.
"When you're working for someone else, you at least get to go away and turn off a little, but it is nice that I can say, 'Hey, I'm taking off for the morning and go see my kids play soccer or whatever comes up.'"
In addition to her maternal duties, Claire helps with music classes for children and works at several schools. The Drakes have three children: Natalie, 9, and Lucas, 7, who both attend Erdenheim Elementary School, and Nicholas, 5, who attends St. Thomas Nursery School. Claire is also is an actor who works with several acting companies, both locally and downtown. And Carl's mom helps out in the business a couple of hours every week. "I couldn't do any of this without them," said Carl.
Drake's is open for take-out Tuesday through Friday from 11-6:30 and Saturday from 10-5. And the third Thursday of each month for a sit-in, fixed-price three-course BYOB dinner, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
For more information, visit www.drakecatering.com or call 215-247-5911.


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upontheshelf necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Looking for a classic country home decor logo need for company named Upon the Shelf. No bright colors, needs to work well for business cards, product labels, etc. Needs to be easy to read, but have some character.
Upon the Shelf
We are looking for a logo for our home decor and furniture store. It is located in a charming old house and most of our customers are drawn to "country" decorating. We carry many different home decor lines and also deal some with antiques. We would like it to be simple, but eye catching and hopefully brandable. We are going to use this for business cards, labels, bags, gift certificates, signs, etc. We would prefer for the name to stand out the most and the address/phone number to be included. Classic look would be great, not too cutesy and muddled.
- Item 1...Store name: Upon the Shelf
- Address: 130 Connaught Street Vanderhoof, BC
- Telephone: 250-567-3135
- Simple logo with simple colors, black and white would be fine, some color would also be fine, reds would be preferable
- Tag Line: From our house to yours
- Examples of logos we like:
- Item 1...tacky and overwhelming logo with too much, lots of color
- We don't want this to be very new age or retro
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These large 11" 30th birthday balloons will make colourful party decorations for this landmark birthday.
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These professional quality 30th birthday balloons are made from 100% latex and are biodegradable. They can be filled with air or helium for floating party decorations. They are suitable to use with our disposable helium canisters and self sealing balloon valves.
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Belafonte blasts 'white America' for black gun crimes
NAACP forum used to attack 2nd Amendment 'carnage' in cities
WASHINGTON – Harry Belafonte, entertainer, long-time left-wing activist and admirer of Third World dictators, inserted himself into the national debate on gun control when he claimed "white Americans" who agitate for gun rights are ignoring the black "river of blood that washes the streets of our nation."
The actor was on hand to be honored at the 2013 NAACP Image Awards when he asserted in his acceptance speech that the "group most devastated by America's obsession with the gun is African Americans."
"Although making comparisons can be dangerous, there are times when they must be noted," he said. 'America has the largest prison population in the world. And of the over 2 million men, women and children who make up the incarcerated, the overwhelming majority is black. We are the most unemployed, the most caught in the unjust systems of justice, and in the gun game, we are the most hunted."
Belafonte continued: "The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children. Yet, as the great debate emerges on the question of the gun, white America discusses the constitutional issue of ownership, while no one speaks of the consequences of our racial carnage."
Coverage of the NAACP Image Awards highlighted "Django Unchained" actor Jaime Foxx's controversial statement that "black people are the most talented race in the world."
Belafonte failed to mention that a disproportionate share of gun violence in America is black-on-black. FBI and crime data from major city police departments show it's black people "hunting" other blacks that largely comprises the "river of blood" flowing in American streets.
A WND analysis of the murder rates in Chicago from 2003 to 2011 show most of the city's massive murder mayhem is black-on-black crime. Moreover, the death toll by murder in Chicago over the past decade is greater than the number of American forces who have died in Afghanistan since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom, according to a police analysis.
A WND review of the Chicago Police Department Murder Analysis reports from 2003 to 2011 provides a statistical breakdown of the demographics of both the victims and offenders in the 4,265 murders in Chicago over that time period.
For the 2003-2011 period, blacks were the victims of 75 percent of 4,265 murders. Blacks also were the offenders in 75 percent of the murders.
According to the 2010 U.S. Census information, Chicago has a population of 2,695,598 people. The city is 33 percent black, 32 percent white (not Hispanic), and 30 percent Hispanic or Latino in origin.
For the 2003-2011 period, whites were nearly 6 percent of the victims and accused of carrying out 4 percent of the murders.
For the 2003-2011 period, Hispanics or Latinos were 19 percent of the victims and 20 percent of the offenders.
Belafonte's comments:
Belafonte is no stranger to controversy, recently advocating that critics of President Obama should be thrown in jail.
"The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a Third World dictator and just put all of these guys in jail," he said to MSNBC's Al Sharpton regarding how deal with those who stand in the way of Obama's second-term goals.
On a January 2013 edition of MSNBC's "PoliticsNation" show, Belafonte appeared in a segment with Kerry Kennedy of the RFK Center for Justice.
Sharpton asked Belafonte: "All right, Harry. You fought for decades for some of the quote, 'entitlements' that the right wing wants to try and balance this budget, balance the deficit off of. As you look at this, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, [you've] been an activist leader from Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt through Dr. King, through Mandela, to Obama. How do you view this and what is the challenge for those that are on the field today?"
Belafonte responded: "What I think has most attracted me through this whole process is watching the political maturity of the American people. There was a great question during the first election as to whether or not Barack would even be elected. And after the turnout showed emphatically [it] would put him in the presidency, it's interesting to watch the second term."
He continued: "When everybody really didn't quite know what the game would be. Well, the American people, in their maturity, declared themselves fully. We want what Barack Obama is talking about. We want the country to go in that direction."
Belafonte said "what fascinates me, is that the face of millions of Americans expressing their desire. The whole political establishment defining its game, that there should be this lingering infestation of really corrupt people who sit trying to dismantle the wishes of the people, the mandate that has been given to Barack Obama."
"And I don't know what more they want," he said. "The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a Third World dictator and just put all of these guys in jail. You're violating the American desire."
In 2006, Belafonte called then-President George W. Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" when he was part of delegation with actor Danny Glover and Cornel West to visit Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
He praised Chavez, saying, "No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people … support your revolution."


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Over the past few spring trainings, we've dabbled in ranking the managers as they are about to enter the season. We take into consideration past performances, plus struggles, rosters, communication, tactical ability, longevity etc. It's all subjective.
The first-timers we place at the bottom of the food chain. I've always said, if you're one of 30 major league managers, you're doing something right, so you won't see any negativity in the comments.
1. Bruce Bochy, Giants — Granted, in winning championships two of the last three years, he has had superb pitching. But he doesn't always have the best lineups, yet he performs little miracles.
2. Joe Maddon, Rays — There isn't a more innovative manager in the game. He combines psychology, communication, data, and common sense to form the epitome of the modern-day manager.
3. Buck Showalter, Orioles — A complete manager who sets the tone with his personality and knowledge. Very good in-game manager.
4. Jim Leyland, Tigers — Like Bochy, more old-school, and it still works. Universally respected.
5. Terry Francona, Indians — Two rings in eight years with the talent-laden Red Sox. We'll see how he handles the challenges with this pitching staff and a less talented roster.
6. Bob Melvin, Athletics — Quickly becoming one of the elite, with two Manager of the Year awards. Nicely molded a young pitching staff and got optimum performance out of his lineup.
7. Mike Scioscia, Angels — Always high on this list. Very consistent approach that works.
8. Joe Girardi, Yankees — Has one championship under his belt and amazingly won 95 games last year with Mariano Rivera missing most of the season. Knows pitching as well as any manager in the game and has the ability, like Francona, to handle big stars.
9. Davey Johnson, Nationals — His roster talent is undeniable, but his father-figure presence on a fairly young team has worked marvelously.
10. Charlie Manuel, Phillies — Always a favorite here, Manuel is another old-school guy, managing by what his eyes tell him. Players have always responded to his charisma and street smarts.
11. Ron Washington, Rangers — Has overseen a perennial contender and has been able to really manage playing time in the Texas heat. This year could be challenging without Josh Hamilton.
12. Dusty Baker, Reds — Vast experience managing high-profile players, with the ability to pat a guy on the back and get him to play. His detractors have never liked his bullpen management, but he did just fine with that last season.
13. Fredi Gonzalez, Braves — Made a huge improvement in his bullpen management last season and now oversees a very talented lineup and pitching staff.
14. Clint Hurdle, Pirates — He has really grown. He can be tough but fair, and brings an enthusiasm to the job despite working in a market that hasn't had a .500 team in 20 years.
15. Eric Wedge, Mariners
16. Ron Roenicke, Brewers — From the Scioscia tree, Roenicke has an even keel about him that seems to bring a comfort zone to players, and he seems more flexible than his mentor.
17. Kirk Gibson, Diamondbacks — Has been able to step back from his natural fiery side and be more understanding of the modern-day athlete, realizing that not everyone plays the way he did.
18. Ron Gardenhire, Twins — Solid veteran manager, but lately the Twins have fallen on hard times and Gardenhire, in the final year of his contract, could take the fall.
19. Bud Black, Padres — Forget the "pitching coach trying to be a manager." Now he's simply a manager who used to be a pitching coach. Black has roster challenges that simply may not be overcome, but the reviews on him from opposing scouts are very favorable.
20. Robin Ventura, White Sox — Positive returns after one year for the anti-Ozzie Guillen. He has one of the best pitching coaches in baseball in Don Cooper, which certainly helps.
21. Mike Matheny, Cardinals — Has been able to fill Tony La Russa's big shoes with a team that always seems to be in the hunt. Articulate, and communicates very well.
22. Ned Yost, Royals — Plenty of experience, and may finally have a roster he can contend with. A solid baseball man who has earned his stripes.
23. John Farrell, Red Sox — He'll have to prove himself in Boston and, like Black, shed the pitching coach-turned-manager label. While some Toronto players were critical of him during a woeful 73-win 2012 season, he has won over his current Red Sox team. He's smart and has a presence.
24. John Gibbons, Blue Jays — He had a .500 record in Toronto the first time around (2004-08) and in an unusual situation, the fiery Gibbons is back managing the same team.
25. Don Mattingly, Dodgers — He knows about high expectations, having been a Yankee for so long. These Dodgers have the highest expectations of just about any team in baseball. Mattingly has improved quite a bit from his first year.
26. Terry Collins, Mets — Another solid baseball man, who has had an unfortunate roster situation the past few years. With an infusion of younger talent, Collins should do well in grooming players.
27. Dale Sveum, Cubs — Management feels he's done a great job. He lost 101 games in his rookie season, but there was little he could do about it. A baseball lifer, Sveum lives and breathes baseball.
28. Bo Porter, Astros — Energetic and tough. Good traits to lead a young team.
29. Mike Redmond, Marlins — Excellent track record in Jays minor league system.
30. Walt Weiss, Rockies — After several years as a special assistant in Colorado, Weiss took some time away from the game but was lured back to take the managing job.
Apropos of something
Manny Acta hopes to follow Buck Showalter, Bobby Valentine, and Terry Francona by reentering the managerial ranks after working as an ESPN analyst. Acta, only 44 years old, has been fired in two difficult settings — Washington (before it got good) and Cleveland (last season).
He took on the broadcast role because, he said, "I felt I needed to step back from it after six years and see it from a different vantage point. Six years of being with rebuilding teams takes its toll. My goal is to manage again, but in the right situation where the team has a chance to be a contender."
Acta has another full-time job: general manager of the Licey team in the Dominican winter league. Licey is a proud franchise with a rich history (22 Dominican titles, 10 Caribbean World Series titles) but has fallen on hard times, and Acta has been hired to rebuild the franchise with high-quality players. He is touring spring training sites trying to solidify commitments from players for next season, and will soon be in Red Sox camp to take Rubby De La Rosa out for dinner.
Asked about being a GM in the majors someday, Acta said, "I don't think so. I'm a manager. That's what I want to do.
"I could be the batboy as long as I'm around the game, but managing is something I hope to be able to continue at some point. I'm still relatively young and have learned from the two experiences in the major leagues.
"I think this job with ESPN could definitely help me with the exposure of keeping my name out there. It worked well for Buck and Bobby and Tito, and if that happens for me, I'd be thrilled."
Apropos of nothing
1. All spring training games should start at 11 a.m. No need for afternoon or night games in this setting.
2. Too many major league teams are setting the agenda for World Baseball Classic participation. It's once every four years, so designate two or three top players from each team to play (unless there are injury issues). That way, every team bears the same burden and takes the same risk.
3. San Francisco-based Bill Arnold compiled a list of home run leaders during each Pope's reign: Pius IX (1846-76), Charley Jones, 6; Leo XIII (1878-1903), Roger Connor, 138; Pius X (1903-14), Frank Schulte (73); Benedict XV (1914-22), Babe Ruth, 162; Pius XI (1922-39), Ruth, 552; Pius XII (1939-58), Ted Williams, 482; John XXIII (1958-63), Hank Aaron and Harmon Killebrew, 174; Paul VI (1963-78), Aaron, 437; John Paul I (1978), Jim Rice, 13; John Paul II (1978-2005), Barry Bonds, 703; Benedict XVI (2005-13), Albert Pujols, 312.
4. While the Dodgers recently signed a 25-year, $7 billion TV deal and other teams are cashing in on massive broadcast contracts, the Marlins are earning only $16 million-$18 million on a deal that doesn't expire for three more years. Couple that with what is expected to be sagging attendance (a result of fan anger and apathy), and owner Jeffrey Loria can't be very happy. Question is, will he sell?
5. Will the Pirates break their 20-year losing drought? They were 79-83 last season, so it could happen, right? But consider that they were 12-5 against the hapless Astros in the same division. The Astros are gone. They were also 4-11 against the Brewers. With Houston gone, the Pirates are scheduled to play Milwaukee 19 times this season.
6. Interesting opt-out dates for the Red Sox: Mitch Maier, March 29; Lyle Overbay, March 26; Ryan Sweeney, March 28. Others around the league: Brandon Inge (Pirates), March 24; Daisuke Matsuzaka (Indians), March 24; Scott Kazmir (Indians), April 2; Rick Ankiel (Astros), March 31; Erik Bedard (Astros), March 31; Austin Kearns (Marlins), March 26; Chone Figgins (Marlins), March 26; Marlon Byrd (Mets), March 27; Endy Chavez (Dodgers), March 24; Jeff Baker (Rangers), March 31, Ramon Ramirez (Giants), April 1; Kevin Slowey (Marlins), March 30; Cory Wade (White Sox), March 30; Brent Lillibridge (White Sox), March 28.
Updates on 9
1. Christian Yelich, OF, Marlins — Florida has another stud outfielder. Yelich, who hit a walkoff homer vs. Boston last Monday, doesn't appear far away from the majors, even if he only played A ball last season. The first-round pick from 2010 had former Red Sox infielder Nick Green asking reporters after the walkoff, "Waiting for 'the Natural?' " A Giancarlo Stanton-Yelich 1-2 punch could reinvigorate the angry Marlins fan base.
2. Victor Martinez, DH, Tigers — Jim Leyland is not ruling out Martinez catching at some point, especially with year-long interleague play, but he wants him to stay healthy because his presence in the lineup could be huge.
3. Rick Porcello, RHP, Tigers — There's an obvious trade to be made: Porcello to Boston for Andrew Bailey (perhaps with another player or two going one way or the other). But the Red Sox rotation is full right now, and Allen Webster is knocking at the door. The Tigers would love an experienced closer like Bailey. It'll be interesting to see if the Red Sox consider this.
4. Kyle Lohse, RHP, free agent — This situation is a perfect example of the stubbornness of major league GMs. They all know Lohse is an experienced No. 3 or 4 starter. Yes, you have to relinquish a draft pick to sign him (a No. 1 or No. 2 depending on order of finish last season). But once a team grabs him, the ones who lost out will be scratching their heads, wondering, "Why didn't we act sooner?" "That's the way it's going to go," said a National League GM, "but you also don't want to overpay for a pitcher who has been hanging around that long. If you can't get him at your price, then you look foolish paying what he was asking two months ago." Texas still makes the most sense when the negotiation games are over.
5. Joba Chamberlain, RHP, Yankees — Word that Texas has scouted him and that he would be available doesn't come as a surprise to those in the Yankee organization who feel they've gone about as far as they can with him. "They would deal him in a heartbeat and then fill in with one of their starters in the bullpen," said an AL scout. "If Texas would give up [Mike] Olt, a deal could get done there."
6. Steve Cishek, RHP, Marlins — The side-arming sinker-baller, who played for Team USA, is drawing considerable interest from teams looking for a reliever. Cishek, who attended Falmouth High School, is 6 feet 6 inches, 215 pounds. In 2012, he took over as closer from Heath Bell for a spell and had 15 saves. One scout projects that Cishek "probably appears on the most wish lists around baseball."
7. Yuniesky Betancourt, SS, Phillies — He has improved his visibility, and it wouldn't be shocking to see a team deal for him before the season. The best thing that happened for Betancourt is Jimmy Rollins playing in the WBC. Betancourt is also in good shape, which has been a challenge for him in the past. With a March 24 opt-out in his minor league deal, he's on the Cardinals' list as they attempt to replace Rafael Furcal.
8. David Segui, former major leaguer — Who got Manny Ramirez back on track with his hitting? That's right, Segui. He was a teammate of Ramirez's with the Indians. "I just had to get him back hitting the way he used to," said Segui, who has a private hitting school in Kansas City. "He had bought into the new style of hitting — hitting off your back leg and starting your hands back. I got him back to where he used to be — out front. Manny could help any major league team right now. He had to take the Taiwan job because it was a job. He's a completely different person than what he was. He's very religious. Lives his life completely different. He can still hit. I don't care how old he is."
9. Bruce Chen, LHP, Royals — With Luke Hochevar demoted to the bullpen, Chen is likely safe as the fifth starter, but the Royals appear to be open to deals for both pitchers. Chen would garner more interest; there have been plenty of scouts watching his every start in Surprise, Ariz. The additions of James Shields, Wade Davis, Jeremy Guthrie, and Ervin Santana have suddenly given the now-relevant Royals depth.
Short hops
From the Bill Chuck files: "Over the two seasons since John Farrell left the Red Sox, their team ERA was 4.45, 26th best in the majors. Then again, the Farrell-managed Blue Jays had an ERA of 4.48, 27th best." Also: ".357, .327, .312, .299, .287: Albert Pujols's batting averages over the last five seasons." . . . Happy birthday, Bill Mueller (42) and Tim Lollar (57).Nick Cafardo can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @nickcafardo. Material from interviews, wire services, other beat writers, and league and team sources was used in this report.


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McCarthy Posts Nation's Sixth-Best Timeby Brent Harris • April 25, 2011 Share:
Junior Kevin McCarthy ran his fastest 3000-meter steeplechase time of the season, finishing sixth at Saturday's Jesse Owens Track Classic at Ohio State University. His time of 9:11.68 is the sixth-quickest among all men's NCAA Division III competitors. McCarthy's time is an improvement over his previous NCAA Championship provisional qualifying time of 9:16.78.
Senior Seth Einterz joined McCarthy at the meet, finishing eighth out of 26 runners in the 5,000-meter run, crossing the finish line in 14:50.58.
While McCarthy and Einterz competed at the Jesse Owens Classic on Saturday, the remainder of the Wabash team traveled to Louisville, Kentucky for the Bellarmine University Classic. Weather forced the cancellation of several events at that competition.
Daniel Ambrosio won the javelin throw with a toss of 56.89 meters (168.08), his longest mark of the year. Evan Groninger was right behind in second place with a throw of 55.11 meters (180 feet, 10 inches, outdistancing the rest of the field by over 15 feet.
Joel Beier finished second in the shot put with a mark of 14.17 meters (46 feet, 6 inches). Matt Scheller was third overall with his mark of 14.12 meters (46 feet, 4 inches). Scheller was also third in the hammer throw, tossing the implement 46.98 meters (154 feet, 2 inches). Alex Moseman was sixth overall (42.84 meters; 140 feet, 7 inches), while Zach Helman grabbed seventh place (40.45 meters; 132 feet, 8 inches). Brad Pusateri was eighth (39.00 meters; 127 feet, 11 inches). Ambrosio added a fifth-place finish in the high jump by clearing 1.78 meters (5 feet, 10 inches).
Donavan White blistered the track with a season-best time of 3:56.43 to take second in the 1500-meter run. White's time is the fourth fastest of the season by a North Coast Athletic Conference male athlete in that event. John Haley grabbed second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.40.
Patrick Posthauer was third in the 110-meter hurdles, finishing in 15.56. Teammate Billy Rosson took fifth place with a time of 15.96. Sean Hildebrand tied for fifth place in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.18. Chase Belton tied for seventh by finishing in 11.34.
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This etching depicts the route of the flood that devastated the villages of Williamsburg, Skinnerville, Haydenville and Leeds, Massachusetts. The floodwave dumped most of its contents (including several dozen bodies) on the Florence meadows, shown at the bottom of the picture. In the upper lefthand corner, in the town of Goshen, are visible two reservoirs which were part of the network of reservoirs owned by the same mill owners who built the failed Williamsburg reservoir. It was these waterpower systems that made New England manufacturing so successful. Three weeks after the flood "Harpers Weekly" published an article and several detailed pictures of the disaster for its large national audience.
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Trojan Bubble Car
1961 - 1965
This fun and stylish car
only has three wheels.
The door is at the front
and the engine is at the back.
The model is called a Trojan 200.
It was assembled at Trojan's factory
on Vicarage Lane, Croydon
and sold through their showroom
on the Purley Way.
The museum bought it
with help from the PRISM Grant Fund.
Frederick Andy
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Frederick Andy
Frederick Andy talks about
putting Trojan bubble cars together:
"We did a batch of colours at a time,
would be light blue,
dark blue, yellow, grey, red.
I suppose we approximately turned out
about 35 cars a week.
We'd had thousands of spare parts
and engines -
a very pricey item the engine -
from Ireland
and of course these were
given to us for next to nothing
and so this kept the price of the car
down quite a lot."
"Once, we ran out of these parts
and we had to make our own,
press our own bodies
and buy the engines from Germany,
it became a bit expensive.
And of course when you realise
at this time they brought out the Mini,
and the Mini was the same price
as our little bubble car
and we just could not really
compete with that."
Designing and making bubble cars
The bubble car was designed
to cope with a petrol shortage
in the mid 1950s.
The Ernst Heinkel Company in Germany
created a car that could
go a long way with very little fuel.
The idea outlived the petrol crisis.
It was sold to Dundalk Engineering
who were based in Ireland,
then to Lambretta-Trojan,
who had a Croydon factory and showroom.
About 6,000 bubble cars
were assembled in Croydon
between 1961 and 1965.
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Dammir - I Am Here
This sound clip was created by Dammir
during the I Am Here project.
I Am Here was part of
Stories of the World,
one of the major projects
at the heart of the
London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
We asked a group of 14 - 24 year olds
to select their favourite objects
and tell us why they are important
to their identity.
In his clip, Dammir speaks about
what the Bubble Car means to him
as a young person growing-up in Croydon.
"My name is Dammir, I'm 16.
I live in Croydon...
"Reasons why I chose the Bubble Car
is design, I think it's just fantastic.
Also it reminds me of a helmet.
Think about the Olympics
and think of the cyclists that in the Olympics
with that little streamline helmet,
which reminds me of the car,
that's what the car design probably is.
I like the car because it just reminds me
how wacky people used to be in the day.
It reminds me of my mum,
because I think that was like
the century she was born in, one of them...
"It's just like a piece of history
that like needs to be here, it's part of me
to the fact that I am Croydon
and so is the car
because the car was
manufactured in Croydon.
So, to a certain extent,
its part of me and I am part of it."


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Learn how to build a solar water heater using these tips from this successful low-cost solar design.
Build a Solar Water Heater
"The little fellow seldom slays the giant," says north Texas resident Doyle Akers. "Not really. Not since David laid it on Goliath anyway. But it sure is fun when we little guys (MOTHER-type homesteaders) get to tweak the giants' (the big power companies) toes from time to time."
My wife Georgia and I moved out to our little homestead ten years ago because we value an independent way of life. We've found, however — as so many others have — that life (independent or not) carries an increasingly large price tag these days.
So we've learned to scrounge and barter for many of the things we need . . . and to use our own country ingenuity to provide much of the rest.
We patch our clothes and turn out the lights when they aren't needed. We swap for used tools and other items, and then repair them. We carry home the smashed 2 by 4's we find alongside the road, cut out the good parts, and use the lumber in various ways around the place. And we notice the blistering-hot water which comes out of a plastic hose that's been left lying in the sun . . . and wonder if we can't use the idea to help at least one David (our little homestead) tweak the toes of at least one Goliath (by lessening our mini-farm's consumption of the local big power company's high-priced electricity).
Well, we can. And we know because Georgia and I have been doing just that for over a year now. Not all the time and not in a polished, state-of-the-art fashion. But — for a total investment of only $30 and a week of slow going — we now have a solar water heater which supplies us with almost all the hot water we can use seven months of the year. (And if we really wanted to, I don't think it'd be too hard to modify the setup so it'd operate on a year-round basis.)
Now I'm not an engineer, so I know my solar water heater isn't perfect mechanically. And I'm not an artist, so it isn't particularly pretty either. And I did make some mistakes — most of which are still stuck together with No. 8 box nails out there in the yard right now — when I put our sun-powered unit together.
But our water heater does work, its design is quite simple, I did mostly build it with salvaged and bartered materials, and I do figure that most anyone who can swing a hammer and screw two pieces of pipe together can do the same.
Except for some helpful articles in MOTHER, most of the information floating around about solar water heaters a year or so ago was entirely out of our reach. Sure, the ideas that the big industry and the big government engineers were coming up with would work . . . IF [1] you had an arm elbow-deep in some tax-supported treasury, [2] you wanted to build on some incredibly large scale, and [3] you were willing to wait somewhere between 15 and 20 years for a payoff on your investment.
I'm sorry. Georgia and I are homesteaders. We don't operate in that league. We can't afford arrays of roof panels, computer-controlled valves, sensor-activated switches, automatically operated pumps, and 1,000-gallon water storage tanks in the basement (we don't even have a basement).
What we can afford is recycled scrap lumber, bartered cement, and a little sand out of a nearby riverbed. So that's what we used in our solar water heater. That, and this simple idea: Put something out in the sun, and it'll get warm. Paint it black, and it'll get warmer. Put a transparent or translucent cover over it and it'll get hotter yet.
We have hot, humid summers here in my part of north Texas . . . and winters that are often cloudy and disagreeable.
"Well," I thought, "I'm not an engineer, so I may not be able to design a solar-powered water heater that'll work year round. But I'll bet I can put one together that'll do the job through the spring, summer, and fall. I know that water gets hot in a hose when the hose is left lying out in the sun. If it'll work with a hose, it should work with a 55-gallon drum . . . especially if the drum is painted black. And if that barrel is enclosed in a sort of greenhouse . . . ." The drawing with this article tell most of the rest of the story.
I bartered a little of my time and energy welding up a neighbor's trailer hitch for a sack of portland cement . . . found some good sand in the bottom of the neighboring Red River . . . and mixed and poured a 32 inch by 44 inch slab of concrete.
This foundation is four inches thick around the edges and measures about two inches through out in the middle. (I've never been overly exact when it comes to construction dimensions.) I reinforced the slab with coat hangers from Goodwill Industries and left a hole four inches in diameter toward the front so I could run water intake and outflow pipes up into the finished water heater from underneath.
The concrete foundation was oriented north/south (so the finished water heater would face south, of course) with a magnetic compass. And the slab was located as close as possible to the electric water heater inside our house (since the sunpowered heater sometimes would be preheating water for the electric unit) yet not so close that the finished solar collector would be shaded by the building.
I framed up the water heater's walls from salvaged 2 by 4's . . . which was more or less a mistake. Next time I'll rip my framing down to 2 by 2 size. It'll go twice as far that way, and still be more than strong enough for a structure no bigger than the one we're talking about.
The north and east sides of the collector-building have "double walls" filled with fiberglass insulation (one of the few materials we bought new). The inside of those walls is also lined with ordinary aluminum foil to reflect heat back toward the center of the structure. The top, south (front), and west sides of the collector are covered with two layers of salvaged plastic patio roofing. As you can see, the front comes off so we can service the collector drum inside (although that hasn't been necessary, except for the startup/shutdown cycle we put the heater through each year).
The walls of our solar collector were built right around a barrel (Old Number 10) that we bought secondhand for $2.00. And, try as I might, I just couldn't think of any practical way to use hot water directly from the drum. "I'll simply have to come up with some sort of heat exchanger," I figured.
At first I thought of stuffing coils and coils of plastic hose into the collector drum and then filling the rest of the space in the barrel (around the loops of hose) with water. After that, I'd hook one end of the hose to our pressurized supply of cold well water and the other to our home's hot water outlets. That way, I calculated, the sun's heat would warm the water that always stayed in the barrel . . . which, in turn, would transfer a large part of its warmth to the water which flowed — on demand — through the coils of hose submerged in the tank.
While I liked the idea, I wasn't sure the loops of plastic hose would be as good a heat exchanger as . . . well, as a real heat exchanger made out of metal tubing and fins.
"Wait a minute," I told myself. "I repair air conditioners and I've got a whole bunch of old heat exchangers from junked air conditioners sitting around here. And even if I didn't already have them on hand, I know that worn-out air conditioners are available for the asking — or, at most, a dollar ad in the local paper — and the hauling away in every community in the country. Why can't I use the exchanger coils from a few old air conditioners in my solar water heater?"
"By gum," I answered myself, "I not only will do it that way . . . while I'm at it I'll go all the way. I won't just use one or two of the old exchanger coils in our heater . . . I'll cram in as many as the collector barrel will hold."
So I stacked up five salvaged air conditioner heat exchangers, connected 'em together with copper pipe (also scavenged from junked air conditioners), made all the joints watertight with silver solder (since "those who know" tell us that lead solder is dangerous when it leaches into drinking water), and put the whole core into the collector drum.
Experience has since shown that my one idea (of using old air conditioner coils for our solar water heater's exchanger) was a good one. My other brainstorm (cramming as many of the units as possible into the drum) wasn't. By the time our well water finds its way through the incredible labyrinth I've created, its pressure is so markedly reduced that it doesn't flow out of our hot water faucets as fast as we'd sometimes like. In short, the traditional American belief that "bigger is always better" isn't necessarily so. I'd probably have been a lot smarter if 1'd hooked just two of the exchangers together and installed them near the top of the collector drum where the captive water is always hottest.
Other than the inconvenience of reduced pressure which I've built into our supplemental water heating system, the setup works just fine. Cold water — which is piped into the bottommost coil submerged in our collector barrel — is warmed by the solarheated captive fluid which surrounds it. Then, as the water flowing through the stack of five submerged exchanger coils works its way on up through the connected heat exchangers, it's warmed even more by the hotter and hotter sun-heated captive water which surrounds the higher coils. By the time the flowing water comes out the top of the stack and starts for the faucets in the house, it can be as hot as 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
That's right. "As hot as" 120 degrees Fahrenheit . . . on an average summer day when the outside air temperature is 95 degrees Fahrenheit. During the night which follows, though, the temperature of our solar-heated water will drop down to just over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. A catastrophe? Not really. Georgia and I have always preferred a bedtime shower to one in the morning anyway, so we've only had to make one real adjustment in our schedule to accommodate this daily swing in the temperature of the solar-heated water: I've learned to shave at noon, instead of first thing in the morning . . . and that adjustment certainly hasn't been a physical crippler.
Now I'm sure we can come up with something simple and inexpensive that will do away with even this minor inconvenience. Say, a movable panel of insulation that we can swing back during the day to allow the sun to shine on the solar collector . . . and then across the structure at night to hold the captured heat in. To tell the truth, though, our $30 water heater has worked so amazingly well right from its first day of operation . . . that I just haven't gotten around to thinking much about improving its day-to-day performance.
Nor have I given a great deal of thought to extending the water heater's annual useful season. Sure, we probably could fill our collector barrel with antifreeze or oil — instead of plain old water — and then use the heater year round without fear of freeze-ups. But oil might be a fire hazard and, besides, its heavier viscosity wouldn't transmit heat from the sun to the submerged exchanger coils as rapidly as water does. And more important yet, both oil and antifreeze are expensive. As the industrial efficiency experts like to say, "I think it's more cost productive to fill the collector drum with water once a year on April 1, enjoy virtually free hot water for the following seven months, and then drain the tank the first of November."
As the accompanying schematic shows, both this seasonal changeover and any "fine tuning" of our hot water supply that we care to make during the spring, summer, and fall are a snap . . . . thanks to a simple cutoff (bought for 50¢ from a local flea market) and selector valve (75¢). Cold water from the well can't flow through the solar heater's coils until I open the valve on April 1. And any time the water which then passes through the solar heater isn't hot enough to suit us straight out of the tap . . . we can just switch the selector over, run the water through our electric heater, and give it an extra "boost". (Even when we do — about six times a season — of course, we're still saving both energy and money . . . since it's far easier to heat pre-warmed — rather than cold well — water.)
Interestingly enough, we don't "save" anything by not using our solar water heater during its season. We've tried closing the system down for a day or two in the summer and letting the drum's contents "cook" up to a higher temperature. Nothing doing. When we then drew water from the solar heater again, it was never any hotter than 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Maybe MOTHER's engineers can tell us why. The other side of the coin (the positive side), however, is just as interesting: We can use a great deal of hot water on a summer afternoon, and still have all we want that evening after the sun has gone down. Our solar-powered water heater's "recovery", in other words, is very rapid.
And, yes, the heater works fairly well even on cloudy days. The only time we had to switch over to our electric in-house unit during last year's seven-month "solar heating season" was on about six occasions when it rained more or less constantly for several days in a row.
And here's a worthwhile tip: If you ever recycle an old air conditioner exchanger coil into a solar water heater . . . be sure to flush out the salvaged coils first. I didn't and, for the first few days we used our new heater, oil (which had been put into the exchangers to lubricate the air conditioners' Freon) flowed out of the bathroom faucet with the hot water. As it spread in a pretty film across basin after basin of water I told Georgia that it was super-refined, sulfur-free, pure, and probably good for the complexion. She was not convinced, and we were both glad when the oil finally washed away.
(That oil, by the way, disappeared about the same time as the blue-green water that came out of our new heater during its first few days of operation. It must have been a chemical reaction between the traces of Freon/oil and the minerals in our water.)
And one more tip: Our well water can be rusty at times. So, when I fill our collector drum with its captive water each spring, I add half a box of Calgon (available from almost any supermarket) to the water to keep the minerals in suspension.
Yes, we've learned a lot since we built our solar-powered water heater. And I'm sure that some people will laugh at the idea of "fooling around" with "something that only works seven months a year". But Georgia and I aren't laughing. Maybe because we really amazed ourselves a little when we plumbed up our shade-tree-engineered, cobbled-together contraption for the first time . . . and it actually worked. Maybe because we remember how much higher our yearly electric bills were before we installed the $30 heater.
I tell you, there's nothing quite so delicious as stepping into a shower on the last day of October, lathering up, and then luxuriating in a long . . . slow . . . pleasantly . . . warm . . . bath. Especially when you know that you've just enjoyed seven full months of identical showers at almost no cost, while consuming hardly any fossil fuels, and without putting more than a few pennies into the pocket of some electrical utility Goliath for the privilege.
That's important to me. We little guys don't get to slay the giants very often these days. But — tweak! — sometimes we do get to tweak their toes just a tad.


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Tour de France
McEwen x Cavandish, Giro 2008
I am glad they have a rest day, not that I went to bed at 8 pm last night. Somehow, I stayed up late, eyes glued to the box and hoping they showed something tour. How disappointed I was...
Anyway, "they" need a rest after the Pyrenees. I just sit here, trying, unsuccessfully, to "borrow" a couple of pictures to illustrate Ricardo Ricco's great performance and superior ability to go up the mountains on Stage 9. Also, to descend like "The Falco" and time trial to the line at Bagnères de Bigorre for his second Tour Stage win. That was huge!!! Sure, there wasn't much of a chase as Team CSC (Ha!)wasn't interested on catching the youngster.
The stars: Ricco, Ricco, Ricco and The Cobra.
Then, comes Stage 10. Great race again, a break away and a solo attack on the Tourmalet by "even younger" and now 5,000 euros richer Remy Di Gregorio. Don't forget Cancellara, a 80 kg timetrialist going up the mountain like a 65 kg climber (I do think he was told to wait and help Jens "the animal" Voigt).
Voigt and Cancellara get together and smash it. Di Gregorio turns right and attacks in one of the toughest climbs in Europe getting caught shortly after by a very "light" groupetto. At this stage, Valverde and Cunego were miles back. Voigt keeps going like a wild boar launching Frank Schleck up the mountain with the Saunier Duval duo on his wheel. He is now against Piepoli and Cobo on a 8 km climb... He did well not to blow up completely, I reckon, choosing to go for the Yellow Jersey and not the stage.
Further back, Cadel is loosing time but plays cool and gets Menchov to work with him. Clever in the short term, he wears the yellow by 1 second and for the first time in his life. It brings tears to his eyes... In the long term, I am not sure. To defend that jersey now will take a huge effort, at least until the penultimate day on the 59 km ITT where he can shine.
The question: is he going to get a yellow Ridley too?
The stars on that stage: Vande Velde, Di Gregorio, Saunier Duval climbers and Frank Schleck.
I hope Cadel Evans can win a stage, it would be good for his morale and he would be seeing as a true winner by his peer, not just as a rider sitting in and counting the seconds.
And, lets not forget McEwen. The guy is about to throw a tantrum at any time. If he doesn't win in Paris we will see that Ridley flying over the barriers. That brings me to USA/UK hero and good boy now, David Millar. Is he still in the race?
Bring back the Time Bonus!
The Charles Coin Memorial
That's my next race. No, I am not prepared for it so I don't expect anything great in terms of results. I will use the 104 km event as a hard training ride and work my guts out to help a mate. Having said that, I might surprise myself with my fresh legs and do a crazy attack and stay away. The good thing, I have been looking forward to this race and now it is just days away.
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'Diddy' Aims New Music Channel at Millennials
Sean "Diddy" Combs is starting a new cable TV channel that aims to be a credible source for new music and capture the elusive millennial audience. Can he succeed? Merissa Marr reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal.
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* Talks must be held to avoid partition - Chad president
* Deby met Central African Republic interim president
* Rebels, Muslim civilians have fled south in thousands (Adds comment from MSF International)
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N'DJAMENA, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Chad's President Idriss Deby has called for the creation of a U.N. peacekeeping mission to contain violence in Central African Republic, the first time the region's military heavyweight has publicly sought U.N. intervention.
Deby also warned that the country, his neighbour, risked partition if there were no talks with the mainly Muslim Seleka force that seized power last year but stepped aside under intense international pressure in January, retreating to their northern rear bases.
The former French colony has been gripped by chaos since Seleka, a loose coalition of northern rebels mixed with foreign mercenaries, launched an uprising in late 2012.
Thousands have died and around 1 million people, a quarter of the country's population, have fled cycles of violence that continue even though there are now 5,000 African and another 1,600 French peacekeeping troops deployed on the ground.
The rebel retreat has led to Muslims fleeing the south and warnings from a top U.N. official of "ethnic-religious cleansing".
Speaking late on Monday, Deby said the French and African forces could not alone secure a country that is the size of France. "We need more men, more assets. Only the U.N. can provide this. We need to move to a U.N. force," he said.
Regional leaders have previously called for the French-backed African force to be given more time to stabilise the situation, despite pressure from Paris and human rights groups for a fully fledged U.N. peacekeeping mission.
The European Union has pledged to send up to 1,000 troops to Central African Republic and U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is due to report shortly on the possibility of a U.N. mission.
Denis Sassou Nguesso, president of Republic of Congo, another regional power broker, told France's Le Figaro newspaper 10,000 peacekeepers were needed.
In unusually strong comments towards the world body, Joanne Liu, head of medical aid agency MSF International, said the United Nations had so far failed to protect the people of Central African Republic.
"Right now the cycle of violence is completely out of control. There's no order. It's total, total chaos," Liu told reporters in Geneva. "The basic protection of the population is not happening."
Seleka fighters ousted President Francois Bozize in March last year but their time in power was marked by killings and abuses, leading to the establishment of mainly Christian self defence militia, known as "anti-balaka".
Attacks on civilians by these fighters since Seleka quit power has forced thousands of Muslims to flee in convoys to the north or neighbouring countries. This exodus of traders has pushed food markets to the brink of collapse.
Reflecting the chaos, Liu said MSF was now the biggest employer in the country. It has 2,070 local and 240 international staff there.
U.N. aid chief Valerie Amos is on a visit to the country, which remains "in the midst of a full-blown humanitarian crisis", a U.N. statement about her trip said.
Violence in the capital, Bangui, has delayed the deployment of French troops elsewhere to halt inter-communal attacks. However, in recent days, they have deployed to the west as part of efforts to control the main roads.
Rwandan peacekeepers escorting one convoy said they killed four "anti-balaka" gunmen who opened fire on civilians near the border with Cameroon late on Sunday.
Currently visiting Chad, Central African Republic's Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza conceded that she was not able to guarantee the security of Muslims in her country but said she hoped they would one day return.
"We cannot accept the partition of the country," Deby said after meeting Samba-Panza. "There has to be talks with Seleka ... so they can return."
French officials say they underestimated the scale of the inter-communal hatred they found once they deployed troops.
Experts say the origins of the crisis lie as much in a battle for control over resources in one of Africa's weakest-governed states, split along ethnic fault lines and worsened by foreign meddling, as they do in religion.
Paris announced last week an extra 400 troops would be sent and the French mission would last longer than the expected six month timeframe given when launched in December.
France's Jeune Afrique said Samba-Panza told visiting French members of parliament that she wanted French troops to remain in her country until at least early 2015. (Additional reporting by Andrew Callus in Paris and Tom Miles in Geneva; Writing and additional reporting by David Lewis; Editing by Alison Williams)
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PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) is a revolutionary way to solve urban transportation problems. PRT combines the advantages of the car with those of transit. PRT thereby offers the fastest, most comfortable and most environmentally friendly travel mode in the city. Read more about how PRT works.
The Beamways PRT system has its focus on low investment requirement, high capacity and minimal energy consumption. These properties will be very important in the emerging PRT market. Beamways AB was formed in January 2008 and is located in Linköping, Sweden.
During the latest years three PRT systems have been sold, and RFQs for two more projects are being prepared. This shows that the PRT market is now opening after a long pause since the first system was installed in Morgantown, Virginia in the seventies. Thanks to the incredible improvements within the computer and electronics fields we have seen in the last decades PRT today has great possibilities of succeding on a large scale.
Latest news
BeamEd 1.4 released
The long awaited new BeamEd version 1.4 was finally released today. See the BeamEd product page.
Here are some new features:
Setup dialog layout in two columns, fits in a regular 768 pixel high screen.
Drag in background now roams the viewport around (only click creates a station).
A red hair cross is drawn at the reference point of the selected image if enabled in Setup/Image scale.
64 bit executable for very large network design.
New compiler and UI library versions.
Updates to the manual, file format description etc.
Correns tunneldebatt (Swedish only).
Beamways deltar i Correns så kallade tunneldebatt. Redan rubriken visar tydligt var Linköpings största medium står i frågan. Beamways tycker dock att en lösning med ett spårtaxisystem kompletterat med lite större fordon för att hantera behovstoppar (när ett tåg kommer in) ger en mycket mer attraktiv och kostnadseffektiv lösning.
Om vi enbart fokuserar på en tunnellösning har vi inget vettigt backupalternativ om Trafikverkets prislapp blir för hög att gå till val på för våra lokalpolitiker, vilket resulterar i en väldigt dålig lösning med en stor bro genom staden.
Vid mötet kommer jag att dela ut denna flyer.
Mer information finns i den insändare som publicerades i Corren 2013.
Örebro considers ATN
The Swedish city of Örebro has ATN as one of its options for future transit. Now the plans are to be presented to the inhabitants for review. The press conference resulted in written reports as well as radio programming. Both selected to use one of the Beamways renditions as illustration:
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Podcar conference in Berlin
It is time for the sixth Podcar conference, this time in Berlin September 19-20. Beamways will of course be there and also at the Institute of Sustainable Transportation booth at the Innotrans conference which occurs concurrently.
We hope to see you in Berlin soon!
PRT possibility at Chalmers, Gothenburg
Last week a PRT system at the prestguous Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden was discussed on the initiative of the two science parks Johanneberg (at Chalmers) and Innovatum (Trollhättan). The meeting was attended by representative of the City of Gothenburg, regional authorities and the transit agency. The topic of the discussion was a possible podcar system on the Chalmers campus. The local branch of the Swedish public radio reported (in Swedish, naturally): http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=986. Scroll down the page somewhat until the Beamways system comes into view.
The aim of the project is to solve the traffic problems which will otherwise arise when Johanneberg Science Park extends its operation with another 4000 office spaces in the already cramped Chalmers campus.
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2012 she made the switch.
I thought she was a wilson kind of gal. When did she change to the pure drive?
Yeah, she's pretty well known. She's ranked 21 right now.
Nice action photo. Quite stunning... Anyone well-known in the tennis world?
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Wednesday, July 17: Watch Bank of America
John Shipman takes a look at the stocks traders will be watching in market action, including Bank of America, IBM, and McDonald's. Photo: Getty Images.
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... the the ... yet ... reached ... the earnings week this week ... big earnings week America listed a few days worth of stock so little that morning the they will be essentially show you what other big thanks to show Nestle already this season ... three strong trading revenue was ... up to clean equities ... second-quarter was a pretty good quarter for the stock market so that benefited from that a notably at the Osaka my colleague gave rallied on Heard on the street asking he mentions ... it's a clean quarter that's there's not enough we get off hold message on inside your feelings from Bank of America we get as much as one I think that's it said ... were the first things that you notice visitors all all ... very limited amount ... of salute the sun free of charge is and and special items that ... we've seen in B of A's earnings for the quarter after quarter ... China's increases to infertility I would think that I think that some other source or to get off on hold on their own business ... on the consumer business still is really clicking ... on a ... retail banking records of eighteen in the mortgage business the actually on increase their provisions for loan losses on ... as credit quality of theirs which has been improving based on improving it ... as of the stock and pay some to look for and will have more on that later today ... on MoneyBeat to come back IBM ... is another stock we have more earnings IBM reports that the only reason why one of the top five units because of its hefty stock price that has an outsize influence on the Dow Jones industrial average is a price weighted index sells the stock trading near two hundred dollars in that in the the interesting thing about IBM's earnings it's had eight straight quarter where ... the stock is either rallied strongly for lunch ... alternately so ... you know ... last quarter ... it was we were in one Q earnings ... stock launched ... in J where were reports four Q earnings had rallied ... it's been this pattern is no one basically for two years so ... on Friday and reports after the bell today ... it's as if the pattern holds its due for a rally tomorrow to seventy had outsized impact on exactly and the stock was hit pretty hard last week when Goldman downgraded the US so it sort of in a position you could argue two to rally update outlast another Dow component McDonald's McDonald's is which is the dollar on ... hefty pile ... of priced stock in the Dow Jones industrial average ... aam ... near all-time highs and the GE needs decided he would downgrade the stock had its earnings next week ... they do a survey of their own proprietary survey of franchisees and their little bit worried ... that this treaty is overly optimistic about U S same-store sales ... and it even if off McDonald's just ... sort of meets expectations on sales are for the stock could get hit pretty hard sell check ... up with aunts down in premarket ...


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The Hermit is the card of seclusion and turning within. It characterizes an introverted phase in life, during which we shield ourselves from outside influences. We find repose and, above all, are separate from bustling activity and crowds of people. The Hermit therefore stands for an important experience within, through which we can perceive who we are, what we want, and how we can get there. He unites two valuable extremes: the depth of experience and the heights of perception. This card is often wrongly feared by many people. It is only when its qualities are misunderstood that fears of loneliness and abandonment arise. The person who follows the call of the Hermit willingly will find enrichment through clarity, strength, and the joyful experience of being able to be alone with himself.


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Elis Take On Georgia and Bradley
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — With its spring campaign underway, the Yale men's golf team will take on No. 10 Georgia in a historic match-up on Mar. 16 before facing Bradley on Mar. 18.
On the heels of a 14th-place finish at the Mar. 11-12 Tiger Invitational at the Lake Course on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Grand National in Opelika, Ala., the Elis will travel down to Florida for a 36-hole match with Georgia.
The match is significant in several ways. It will take place at the Mountain Lake Club in Lake Wales, Fla., a course designed by Seth Raynor, who co-designed the Yale Golf Course.
And the historical relationship between the two schools adds to the match's significance: Georgia adopted the Bulldog as a mascot because of Abraham Baldwin, a Yale alumnus who served as the school's first university President. In 1929, when Georgia opened its football stadium with a game against Yale on Oct. 12, the two teams also met on the golf course two days later. Georgia came away with a 5-1 win.
Although the match-up is likely to be challenging, the Elis will look to the opportunity to continue to tune-up for the spring season. The spring campaign began against a highly-ranked field at the Tiger Invitational; there, the best performer was junior Sam Bernstein, who finished in a tie for 10th place amid in highly competitive field.
Following the Georgia match-up, the Bulldogs will take on Bradley in an one-round, 18-hole match on the Streamsong Resort's Red Course in Polk County, Fla. Streamsong boasts two new courses and the Yale team will take full advantage, playing five rounds there over three days.
After the Bulldogs return from Florida, competition in the northeast will begin apace with the Apr. 6 Yale Spring Opener, which they will host at the Yale Golf Course. The Yale team last won the event in 2010 by one stroke over Central Connecticut State University.
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Liberty News
Online Academy enrollment soars
In just one year, Liberty University Online Academy, featuring Christ-centered distance learning for grades 3-12, has gone from 20 students to an expected 300 for this fall.
"Last year at this time we barely even existed," said Jay Spencer, executive associate for online projects at LU.
The program, which grew out of Liberty University's award-winning Distance Learning Program, is receiving five to eight applications a day, Spencer said.
"We've got a good mix of students coming in this fall. Some of them have been homeschooling, some of them are coming out of Christian schools, and a significant number are coming out of public schools."
Students are studying from homes all over the U.S. and from as far away as Romania, Italy, Jerusalem and Australia.
Although enrollment is on a rolling basis and students can begin their courses at any time, there is a $500 discount for all students who apply and complete enrollment by July 31. (Click here for more information.)
Spencer said recent updates include a browser-based curriculum, where students will no longer receive CD-ROMs in the mail to install on their home computers.
"Now there's no software, no CDs, so they can study from any computer — Mac or PC — that has Internet access," he said.
The curriculum has also been expanded to include more elective courses —from Civil War History and a Vietnam-era course, to Essentials of Communication (a speech class), trigonometry, and an integrated chemistry and physics class.
The new curriculum will also have a communicator system, where students will be able to see if their teacher is available online and instant message them.
Because of the phenomenal growth of the program, eight to 10 teachers are being added by Sept. 1.
Spencer said students benefit from the teacher interaction, which is often more than in a traditional classroom.
"Eighty-five percent of the grading is done by the software, so the teacher spends time not grading (they're only grading 15 percent), but educating and answering questions," he said. "It's even better than raising their hand in a classroom because when a teacher is answering that question, they're answering only that student's question, there's not a whole classroom waiting until they get finished to move on.
They're all moving at their own pace; they're all getting the individualized attention they need."


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CompuLab fit-PC2 Preview - Nettop PC with Intel Menlow
Unboxing and Preview
I thought before I sat down with the box for the next week or so of testing I would show the basics on the exterior and interior and give a brief overview of what it claims it can do.
The hardware in this tiny box is limited, but still impressive:
- Intel Atom Z530 1.6 GHz
- Intel US15W SCH chipset
- 1GB DDR2 memory
- Integrated Intel GMA500 graphics
- 2.5-in SATA 160GB hard drive
Because this system uses the Menlow-based Atom Z-series processor and 'Poulsbo' chipset, rather than the N-series CPU, it has support for HD video decode acceleration and CompuLab, the manufacturer, claims it can play back 1080p video with just 20% CPU utilization. We will have more on the hardware side of things in our full product review.
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Fantastic review, thank you! - We are currently trying this in a car and finding it a fantastic product. Power is peaking at around 8W with a 3G card transmitting data and full CPU utilization - very impressive!
A 2 year old 1.2ghz Via Epia CarPC by comparison peaks at 25W (!) and provides a third of the performance of this thing.
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Yankton Soldier Wounded in Afghanistan
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) - The mother of an Army soldier from Yankton says he is recovering after being wounded in Afghanistan.
Susie Gill tells the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan newspaper that 22-year-old Pvt. Zack Haas is doing fine after suffering shrapnel wounds to one of his legs when the helicopter he was in came under a rocket attack earlier this week.
Haas was deployed to Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division in June.
Gill says she's looking forward to seeing her son in North Carolina at the end of month when he returns to the U.S. with the rest of his unit.


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I've been going to the Newport Beach Film Festival since its inception, and I have to say that this year's crop of films has been the best yet. I hope these two will find their way to more movie theaters soon:
"Mariachi Gringo" – with this title, I expected a satire. But I loved this tale of a blue-eyed Midwest dude who becomes fascinated with the guitar playing at a local Mexican restaurant. The owner takes Edward (Shawn Ashmore from "X-Men") under his wing and teaches him the true artistry of mariachi music.
Edward hops on a bus to Guadalajara with its famous Plaza de los Mariachis, where he meets lovely Lilia (Martha Higareda) and finds his passion in mariachi and Mexican culture.
Featuring wonderful musical segments, notably by singer Lila Downs, "Mariachi Gringo" charmed the audience and gave me a newfound appreciation for the soulfulness of this "soundtrack of life." It also gave me a look at beautiful Guadalajara, where my father was born. Dad would have been proud.
"Swerve" – this Australian spotlight film about a briefcase full of money was a lot of fun. It's hard to imagine a film noir in the harsh Outback, but this story of a decent guy in the wrong place at the wrong time gives us all the elements of a classic hardboiled crime story.
There's the random witness (David Lyons) to a fatal accident, the beautiful woman (Emma Booth) who can't be trusted, and her husband the sheriff (Jason Clarke) who seems easygoing but is said to have a dark side.
There is black humor, murder and mayhem galore in "Swerve," which lives up to its title with all the nifty plot twists and double-crosses.
In some ways it reminded me of"The Maltese Falcon"but with a lot more grit.
Now playing in cinemas...
"The Raven"is a well crafted period piece set in the 19th century. It centers on a series of horrific murders that mimic plots of several gruesome stories by Edgar Allen Poe. A psychotic killer is on the loose and Baltimore police ask the author of the novels to assist in their investigation.
John Cusack is in top form as the legendary troubled writer. Poe's accounts of strange deaths depicted in "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" are just two of many that come to life as the serial killer terrifies the city.
This costume drama has great production values. But the high brow look is punctuated with grisly portrayals of the bloody homicides that justify the R rating.
It's a macabre exercise that's professionally done, but only for fans of this genre.
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JOHN DEPKO is a retired senior investigator for the Orange County public defender's office. He lives in Costa Mesa and works as a licensed private investigator.


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Avaya Plus TandbergTuesday, March 24th, 2009
Posted By Eric Krapf, Editor, Aug 21, 2008
In what is probably the first really interesting consolidation rumor I've heard in a long time, there are reports that Silver Lake, the private equity firm that ownsAvaya (NYSE: AV), has approached Tandberg about acquiring that video-focused vendor.
This would be a complementary acquisition rather than a duplicative one; it'd be a vendor (or its owner) buying technology, rather than buying market share. In other words, it'd be the kind of acquisitionCisco (NSDQ: CSCO) does. Which happens to be a pretty successful model.
Indeed, a Silver Lake-Tandberg deal — assuming Avaya played into the scenario — would really set Avaya apart and would arguably make Avaya the most credible alternative to Cisco for enterprise communications. It's getting harder and harder to escape the conclusion that video is moving from nice-to-have/status symbol, to critical element of a communications solution going forward (Irwin Lazar thinks so). Of course, video means lots of different things: Desktop, room, telepresence. All but desktop seem like a pretty good bet to take off for business purposes (also see this Wainhouse Research feature article.
But if there's another big winner in this scenario besides Avaya, I'd have to say that, in fact, it's Cisco, on both the perception and the reality. In terms of perception, an Avaya-Tandberg mashup essentially validates Cisco's big push into telepresence. I was among those who were very skeptical about telepresence; it just seemed too expensive and, frankly, over the top — with the lighting and the color design and the C-shaped table and all. But what the ensuing two years have taught us is that the telepresence room may well be the Apple interface writ large: It's just cool, and it makes people go, "Ooooh" and "Aaaah." Technologists discount this factor at their peril.
And, of course, Cisco wins big on the substance if video/telepresence rooms become a standard feature of corporate offices, because that's gonna take a *lot* of bandwidth. In fact, that was one of the reasons I was skeptical of telepresence when Cisco first came out with it: It seemed like just too naked a ploy, too obvious an attempt to get people to upgrade their routers yet again. But damned if it didn't work. Cisco just keeps figuring out ways for its competitors to sell more bandwidth and QOS for Cisco to provision.
A final aspect to watch is the competition/cooperation/partnership view of things. Cisco looms as the only real end-to-end choice, the one-stop shop. Microsoft could be this at the application layer, but you'll always have Cisco in the network, where Microsoft is absent. The contrasting vision is, if not best-of-breed, at least multivendor. With the Siemens-Enterasys JV, there's clearly an attempt to leverage new accounts for both vendors, at the same time that there's a realization that Enterasys still needs customers beyond Siemens users, and Siemens users will have vendors besides Enterasys in their IP infrastructures.
Some enterprises may be truly all-Cisco shops, but going forward it's likely that many will remain multivendor, whether intentionally or by circumstance (M&As, installed base not going away, etc.). Which raises a point about telepresence: If it does become business-critical, or at least something that every business has, there will be intense pressure on the vendors to make their systems interoperate, which they don't today. Cisco may not be thrilled by that, but it will be driven by its own success.
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Nano-structured composite materials consisting of nano-wires and nano-particles in a matrix are used widely in applications such as micro-electronics, solar cells, aircraft design etc. Nano-structured materials consisting silica (silicon dioxide) are used in electronic packages. SETUMD can be used to study the structure and geometry of these systems. It also provides the ability to determine transport properties such as thermal conductivity of a silica nano-wire or nano-particle.
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