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- Overview
- SuperFlow® Regulator - The 505-027 SuperFlow® "B" Regulator on the SuperLite® 17B offers high performance. The regulator has been tested at Dive Lab at Panama City, Florida. It meets all current U.S. Navy and European diving standards.
- Air Train - The air train diffuses incoming breathing air/gas onto the face port/lens to defog and ventilate.
- Brass Handle - Handle can be removed without breaking seals, making it quick and easy to attach accessories.
- Defogging Steady Flow Valve - Provides an additional flow of gas into the helmet for ventilation and defogging.
- Emergency (EGS) Valve - Supplies backup breathing gas to the diver.
- Fiberglass and Carbon Fiber Reinforced Shell - Kirby Morgan® has over 50 years experience in composite laminations. The helmet shell is hand laid up glass fiber reinforced thermal setting polyester (fiberglass) with carbon fiber reinforcement at key points for added durability. It is light and highly impact resistant, and provides a heat/cold barrier as well as being an excellent electrical nonconductor.
- Gas Supply Non-Return Valve - Commercially Rated™ It prevents loss of gas pressure in the event of umbilical damage.
- Nose Block Device - Allows the diver to block the nose to equalize ears.
- Side Block - Multi-use side block has additional ports built in to provide controlled air flow, if needed.
- Silicone Oral Nasal Mask - Made of a superior silicone material which is hypo-allergenic and has a longer work life than latex.
- Whisker Wings - Bubble deflecting Whisker wings keep bubbles further from face port and ears, improving visibility and decreasing internal noise.
- Neck Dam/Yoke Assembly secures the commercial diving helmet to the commercial diver's head and positively prevents accidental removal. The angled neck dam helps the helmet ride comfortably while working face down.
- Low Pressure Plug is removed and replaced by a suit inflation hose when the commercial diver is wearing a dry suit.
- Communications are either bare wire posts or a male Marsh Marine style waterproof connector.
- Latch Catch Mechanism locks the neck clamp and yoke in place.
- Water Exhaust automatically keeps water drained from the commercial diving helmet.
- Kirby Morgan Quad-Valve™ Exhaust System (Patents Pending), The Kirby Morgan Quad Valve Exhaust System is a superior exhaust system with exceptionally low exhalation resistance that helps to keep the commercial diving helmet free of contaminants in polluted water. The Kirby Morgan Quad-Valve™ Exhaust System is the first exhaust that isolates the breathing system from the surrounding water with a four valve, low breathing resistance design.
The SuperLite® 17B helmet has been tested and conforms to the performance requirements as set forth in Annex II of Directive 89/686/EEC and, as far as applicable, the EN 250:2000, EN 250/A1:2006 and EN 15333-1:2008 (class B). It is fully CE marked with demand regulator SuperFlow® 350 and oral nasals P/N 510-690 and P/N 510-747.
- Weight: 29.03 lbs.
- Helmet Shell: Fiberglass, polyester resin, polyester gel coat, and carbon fibers
- Control Knobs: Polyurethane
- Lens: Scratch Resistant Polycarbonate
- Neck Dam: Neoprene. Optional latex neck dam available.
- O-Rings: Buna-N
- Head Cushion: Nylon bag filled with #4 Polyester foam
- Recommended Lubricants: All commercial diving helmets and band masks are lubricated at the factory with Christo-Lube. Kirby Morgan recommends Christo-Lube for all gas train components. Dow Corning 111 Silicone lubricant may also be used with gas mixtures less than 50 % oxygen.
- Regulator: The 505-027 SuperFlow® Regulator on the Kirby Morgan SuperLite® 17B Commercial Diver's Helmet offers high performance. The commercial diving regulator has been tested at Dive Lab at Panama City, Florida. The Kirby Morgan SuperLite® 17B Commercial Diver's Helmet meets all current U.S. Navy and European commercial diving standards.
- Cage Code: The cage code for identifying KMDSI products for U.S. government purposes is 58366.
- CR Standards: These helmets meet or exceeds all standards established by Dive Lab of Panama City, Florida, and are CR (Commercially Rated) marked.
- Operational Specifications:
- Maximum depth on air 220 FSW (67 MSW) with the old style single exhaust or new Tri-Valve® Exhaust.
- Maximum depth on air - 150 FSW (45.73 MSW) when equipped with the old style double exhaust whisker assembly.
- Maximum depth on HEO2 Surface Supplied, 330 FSW (100 MSW) Work rate - Heavy - 62.5 - 75 l.p.m. RMV. Maximum current - 3 knots with standard exhaust, 5 knots with Tri Exhaust Umbilical, 3/8 inch Maximum length 600' (183 MSW)
- Breathing Gas Requirements, 4.5 a.c.f.m. at the side block at depth.
- CE Approved: The SL 17A/B helmet is CE Approved.
- Temperature Limitations:Use at water temperatures below 33° F (1°C) requires use of Hot Water Shroud (Part # 525-100) and hot water.
SuperLite® 17B Commercial Diving Helmet with Bare Wire Posts - P/N: 500-010 Includes:
- (1) Manual SL® 17B - P/N: 100-001
- (1) Logbook with Pen - P/N: 125-001
- (1) Tool Kit with Pouch - P/N: 525-620
- (1) Helmet/Mask Bag - P/N: 500-901
- (1) Head Cushion Foam Spacer Kit - P/N: 525-745
The Kirby Morgan Hot Water Shroud (Part # 525-100) in conjunction with hot water to the commercial diver should be used whenever commercial diving operations are conducted using HEO2 at water temperatures less than 60°F (15.56°C) for the comfort of the commercial diver. Kirby Morgan DSI further recommends that the shroud be used in conjunction with hot water to the commercial diver whenever commercial diving operations are conducted using air or mixed gas, in waters colder than 36°F (2.22°C) to reduce the possibility of demand regulator icing.
Usually the greatest danger of demand regulator icing will be encountered on deck when the surrounding air temperature is less than 32°F (0°C). This effect is primarily due to the refrigeration effect of breathing air pressure reduction, and the addition of moisture from the commercial divers exhalation coming in contact with the topside air temperature.
If diving where the water temperature is 36°F (2.22°C) or warmer but the topside air temperature is below freezing, (32°F (0°C) icing of the demand regulator is possible. To help eliminate the possibility of freezing on the surface, warm water should be run over the exterior of the demand regulator prior to water entry, if the hot water system is not used.
Only commercial diving equipment certified and tested according to EN 250/E DIN 58 642 may be used with the Kirby Morgan SuperLite® 17B Commercial Diver's Helmet when conducting commercial diving operations in European EC compliant countries.
The umbilical assembly should be composed of good quality diving hose that meets commercial diving industry standards. Generally, gas hose will be married to the communications wire, pneumofathometer hose, and strength member in a manner that will allow the strength member to receive all the strain. There are also good quality umbilicals available that are assembled at the factory using a twisted method which does not require marrying. Regardless of the system used, the umbilical is the commercial diver's life line and should always be of excellent quality and maintained carefully.
- Description
The fully tested Kirby Morgan SuperLite® 17B Commercial Diving Helmet 500-010 set the working standard for the commercial diving industry worldwide! Many thousands of underwater hours have proved that the SuperLite® 17B design to be dependable, comfortable, extremely rugged, and is Commercial Rated™. The KM SuperLite® 17B has been tested and certified to meet or exceed all requirements for all governing agencies, and is also certified for use in commercial diving operations worldwide.
The KM SuperLite®17B has been tested and conforms to the performance requirements as set forth in Annex II of Directive 89/686/EEC and as far as applicable, the EN250 (edition Jan 2000) and the E DIN 58 642 (edition Feb 1998). When this helmet is used for air diving in countries that conform to C.E. regulations, it may be used to a maximum depth of 164fsw (50 msw). I.A.W. EN250.
The KM SuperLite®17B system consists of two pieces: the neck dam-yoke and the commercial diving helmet. The commercial diver slips on the angled neck dam with the attached yoke. The neck clamp is then slipped onto the commercial diving helmet and locked. The locking system not only seals the neck dam to the commercial diving helmet but also secures the front of the yoke.
This commercial diving helmet also includes the Kirby Morgan Quad-Valve Exhaust System which retrofits to many of the Kirby Morgan Commercial Diving Helmets. This Exhaust System is also recommended for commercial diving in biologically contaminated water, when the commercial diver is properly trained and qualified, using recommended procedures. The Exhaust System has exceptionally low exhalation resistance that the commercial diver must experience to appreciate. The Kirby Morgan SuperLite® 17A/B Commercial Diving Helmet Retainer™ chin strap and yoke strap make it virtually impossible to have the commercial diving hat come loose. These upgrades are standard on all new KM SuperLite® 17B helmets and will retrofit to all previous KM SuperLite® 17B helmets.
The Kirby Morgan Side Block Assembly is standard in the B configuration: receiving the umbilical over the shoulder. The KM 17B offers comprehensive head protection, an adjustable demand breathing system for gas economy, anti-flooding features, rapid emplacement, a neck dam clamp that mechanically breaks a low-pressure lock, and a trim to fit angled neck dam which seats the dive helmet comfortably, especially when working in the face down position. The pull pin neck clamp release provides a system for prevention of accidental helmet removal.
The outer shell or bag, P/N 510-522, of the SL 17A/B Head Cushion, P/N 510-521, is now made of a durable, nylon based material (black), plus, a webbing strap has been added to strengthen the snap mountings. The material is laser cut to prevent the edges from fraying or unraveling. Velcro tabs have also been applied to the exterior for attachment of the Head Cushion Foam Spacer (HCFS, p/n 525-745).
The Head Cushion Foam Spacer (sold as 525-745 HCFS Kit) is also now shipping in the SuperLite® 17B Helmets as an integral part of the cushioning system.
Warning: Before attempting any diving in any type of contaminated water, a complete commercial diving and topside course in hazardous materials emergencies should be completed. The commercial divers and the topside team must be properly trained and have the proper safety equipment. All commercial diving helmets and suits can leak water under certain conditions. Divers should use extreme caution when diving in contaminated waters.
* Please reference the Accessories and Parts categories in the left hand column for all accessories and parts associated with the Kirby Morgan SuperLite® 17B. Click on the SuperLite® 17B and then the SuperLite® 17B with Posts category and the Accessories and Parts categories will appear beneath it.
* For Questions on Kirby Morgan® Helmet Retaining Systems, please refer to the bulletin in Attachments tab which contains more detailed information.
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Product FAQ's
Will the Superlite 17B yoke work with the Superlite 17K helmet?
No, the Superlite 17B utilizes a different neck ring system. The correct yoke to mate with a Superlite 17K would be part number 960-127.
What is the fitting type on the emergency valve?
The threads at the end of the emergency valve are 9/16-18. A standard scuba hose, female (9/16"-18) will attach to them.
What's included with the Superlite 17B helmet?
Can I upgrade my 17B helmet with the new 455 balanced regulator?No. The 17B helmet has the Super Flow B regulator which has a smaller breathing tube that is not compatible with the 455 regulator.
How do you remove the retaining pin from the dial-a-breath adjustment knob?Punch out the retaining pin using a 3/32" punch. Use a block of wood with a ¼" hole drilled through it to support the knob. Position the knob so the roll pin is over the hole. The adjustment knob can be held against the wood block allowing the roll pin to be driven into the ¼" hole.
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Second generation Kern County, Calif., farmer Charlie Fanucchi reaches for a white paper bag on the console of his SUV. He pulls out four small carrots. They are about the size of a new pencil — still a few weeks away from harvestable size. They will add circumference by the time they are ready to dig for market. However, length is the most important factor with the carrot type the Fanucchi family grows. Baby carrots.
"A good baby carrot is one you can get four cuts from," Fanucchi explains moving his spread thumb and forefinger down the small carrots to see how close the crop is to four cuts per carrot.
When Fanucchi started farming with his family after graduating from Fresno State University almost 35 years ago there was no crop called baby carrots.
Baby carrots are one of the most successful snack vegetables ever introduced to the American consumer. It was created in Kern County, the same place where Acala cotton was developed almost 80 years ago.
Carrots and cotton are just two of the 15 crops Fanucchi farms with his brothers, nephews and daughter under the names of Poso Ridge and Tri-Fanucchi Farms.
For much of Fanucchi's agriculture career, he has been active outside the turn rows in an array of organizations from California Beet Growers Association to the Bakersfield Production Credit Association. However, at 66 he is not slowing down. Last fall he became just the 10th board chairman of Calcot, the 77-year-old Western cotton marketing cooperative.
Besides cotton and carrots, the Fanucchi family farms wine grapes, wheat, onions, garlic, potatoes, melons, tomatoes, peppers, almonds and some others in the Mettler-Wheeler Ridge area of southern Kern County as well as in the Wasco area of the county, where most of the farm's cotton is produced.
Fanucchi is undoubtedly the most diversified farmer ever to sit at the head of the Calcot boardroom table. He brings to the Calcot chairmanship a broad view of Western farming.
The Fanucchi family's farm is a mirror of how times have changed in the San Joaquin Valley. Farming has never been more diversified. Much of that diversification has come at the expense of cotton.
Cotton acreage this year is about half what it once was. In its place are more high-value field crops like carrots and other vegetables and permanent crops like almonds and grapes.
Fanucchi farms 7,500 acres with his partner/brothers Joe and Frank; four nephews; and daughter, Catherine, who recently came back to the farm from a law career.
While the Fanucchi family farm is highly diversified, about a third of the farm is cotton each year, both Acala and Pima.
Fanucchi and his brothers are the cotton/potato experts in the family. The younger generation has taken the lead with the newer crops, a source of pride for Fanucchi, relieved that the younger generation is taking the reins of the future of SJV agriculture.
Fanucchi, the cotton man, admits he likes diversification and the permanent crops as well. It spreads the risks of farming.
His dad, Joe Fanucchi, immigrated to California from Italy in 1909. He worked for the famed Miller and Lux farming/cattle operation and farmed Kern County Land Co. land. He established the Fanucchi family farm in the 1920s and signed up with Calcot in the mid-1950s.
Charlie Fanucchi has been on the Calcot board since 1991 and was vice chairman before he moved up, replacing Arizona producer Bruce Heiden.
Calcot has seen some tough times of late with an embarrassing advance overpayment several years back that cost them membership; the hiring and firing of a new president within eight months and the lawsuits that followed; an ill-fated move to cooperative almond marketing, and controversy surrounding the development of Calcot's former Pinedale warehouse property in Fresno into a business park.
Nevertheless, Fanucchi did not hesitate to move into the chairmanship role. "I knew there would be challenges right away as chairman, and I looked forward to them. I also knew Bruce had done a good job and before him John Pucheu. I also knew I had the challenge of filling the shoes of some very capable men."
The biggest challenge has been the battle over bales and growers within Arizona and California. With a dwindling cotton acreage in both states, competition among merchants and Calcot for bales and growers has become at times brutal. With Calcot's series of problems, a bulls-eye might as well have been plastered on the water tower of the cooperative's Bakersfield headquarters.
"With everyone hitting us from every angle, I knew this year's sign-out period would be a challenge," said Fanucchi. However, membership did not drop significantly, except in two areas, the Buttonwillow areas of Kern County and a small area of Tulare County. However, Calcot picked up some new members.
"We had a larger sign-out after the overpayment than we did this year,' said Fanucchi. "I am pleased with the loyalty of Calcot's members after the problems we have had in recent years and with a new chairman and president coming in."
Longtime Calcot executive Bob Norris took over when the board fired Australian David Farley.
The failure of several California agriculture cooperatives in recent years is not lost on Fanucchi. "I think part of the problem with cooperatives that failed was a lack of communications and not keeping up with what the farmers need and want."
Fanucchi says Calcot will not make that mistake. "We will listen to growers and respond to their concerns and needs."
He says he hopes Calcot members view their marketing cooperative as he does, an extension of the family farm. It markets the cotton he spends months growing.
"I think we have to trim and modify our operations to make sure we do a good job of handling growers' cotton," he said.
With normal yields in 2004, Calcot will handle about 1.1 million bales of California and Arizona Acala, upland and Pima cotton this season.
Calcot has marketed more than 2 millions bales of cotton annually in years past, but Fanucchi said that likely will not happen again because Western cotton acreage will never again be what it once was.
Farm program credited
It would get even smaller without the federal farm program now in place. It has become a Herculean struggle every five years to get an effective farm bill passed. Fanucchi says the current one is one of the best he's seen because it provides insurance when prices are poor.
"When times are bad we have a safety net that can return the cost of production and keep us in the cotton business so when things become profitable again we can still be in the cotton business," he said.
Getting money from Congress for farm bills has become like pulling teeth, and commodity groups will fight like a cornered wildcat to keep that cash.
However, California, Florida and other Sun Belt vegetable and specialty crop producers want the government's help, too. Western Growers is the leading force trying to get Congress to pass the Specialty Crop Competitiveness Act that carries a $3 billion price tag over five years.
Fanucchi has been a Western Growers director almost as long as he has been on the Calcot board and finds himself stuck between a bell pepper and a cotton boll.
"The specialty crop bill is a well thought-out, good piece of legislation. It has six titles that are all important objectives and should be accomplished," he said adding that vegetable and other non-program crop farmers are not asking the federal government for direct payments like commodity producers receive.
"Specialty crop growers are looking for help in opening markets and in being treated fairly in trade issues," he said.
Additional money
"There is a place for this legislation, but I feel it cannot take money away from the farm program. It has to be newly appropriated money," said Fanucchi. Not every vegetable and specialty crop grower agrees with Fanucchi.
Getting new money out of Congress for agriculture will be a tough row to hoe.
Fanucchi said opening up the federal farm bill to fund the so-called "produce bill" would not only threaten the federal financial safety net for commodities, but it could open up the bill to more stringent payment limitations as well as more environmental constraints, said Fanucchi.
It is a risk the U.S. cotton industry does not want to take, even for fellow, struggling producers.
Fanucchi recites the commodities' argument that without a federal farm commodity program, farmers would switch to growing vegetable and specialty crops and flood the market.
"With the exception of almonds, it would not take many acres to get the supply and demand of most specialty crops out of balance and prices would tumble," he said. Specialty crop growers need the current federal farm program to remain intact as much as commodity producers, believes Fanucchi.
He hopes there are enough ex-cotton producers on the Western Growers board who understand that and are not adamant about taking that $3 billion from the federal farm program.
"I also think a lot of the Salinas-area growers who have come into the valley to grow lettuce and other produce have a better understanding about the federal farm bill now that they farm on the west side of the valley in the middle of cotton and other program corps like wheat," said Fanucchi.
Likes diversification
Charlie is a cotton man, and he doesn't plan on changing. "We don't make a lot of changes year to year on our row crop. Cotton acreage remains pretty constant. I suspect even if it did get to $1 per pound, we would not change a lot more of our acreage into cotton. We like being diversified, and cotton is part of that."
He also knows that once cotton disappears like it has east of Highway 99 across from home, it does not come back.
"Farmers who go into permanent crops don't change back out to row crops," he said. They change permanent crops.
Cotton acreage may have dropped dramatically over the past decade, but Fanucchi does not believe it will disappear from the valley and Arizona.
As long as there is a federal safety net, it will part of the Western agricultural landscape. However, Fanucchi adds that cotton remains viable also because producers are more efficient than ever before and new varieties and technology have reduced costs and increased yields.
Drip irrigation is part of that. Fanucchi has grown drip-irrigated cotton on as little as 18 to 20 inches of water.
He estimates he uses only 50 percent of the water his father used to grow a cotton crop.
"We are continuing to expand our drip acreage. We are putting in another 120 acres on tomatoes this year."
Another new cotton technology that has reduced growing costs has been herbicide-resistant cottons, because they have reduced hand labor.
Pima has been a big boost for the valley's cotton industry and gives cotton a brighter future for the valley.
"This Pima thing has really taken off and the Supima group has done a great job in promoting. A certain percentage of people want high-quality Pima or any ELS cotton products and are willing to pay for it,"
Fanucchi's tenure as Calcot's chairman started on a positive note. This year's planting weather was the best in many years.
"Last year was bad. Yields were disappointing. Insect pressure was especially bad in the southern end of the valley. Pima did not do well. We are off to a much better start this year," he said.
Now if only the market would do likewise. "When China starts buying — and I think they will — we will see a market turnaround. I am in the seasonal pool — that is how much conviction I have it will be a good year," laughed Fanucchi.
Economics were on growers' minds this winter and early spring when Calcot hosted grower meetings throughout Arizona and California.
"Not much was said about the lawsuits or the Pinedale situation. Bob did a good job of explaining the situations to members," Fanucchi said.
The new Calcot board chairman said the board is committed to taking the lawsuits to trial and has no intentions of settling. As for Pinedale, Fanucchi said development will sell out two to three years earlier than anticipated. "The projections are to sell out by the end of next year. It has turned out to be a good deal for us," he said.
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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- Barry University's volleyball team understands the test that lies ahead in Friday's 7 p.m. home opener against No. 28 Palm Beach Atlantic at Health & Sports Center.
"I think the team is really excited to play at home, and PBA is a great home opener," Barry third-year coach Steve Hendricks said. "They're off to a great start."
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"We have a great shot against this team," Hendricks said. "We're looking forward to the battle and sticking to the challenge."
Palm Beach Atlantic sophomore hitter Faith Rohn is averaging 4.5 kills per set, and leads the 'Fish with 144 putaways. Junior setter Becca Acevedo has 316 assists with an average of 9.88 per set. Sophomore middle blocker Stephany Brown is first in blocks (22) and second in kills (84).
Barry sophomore setter Jasmine Serna has 103 assists, while splitting the duties with freshman Jenny Trinidad, who has 91. Between the two of them, they've combined to average 11.49 assists per set. Sophomore middle blocker Laine Cielena leads the team in kills (53), while freshman middle blocker Ivana Didanovic has a team-best .395 attack percentage and junior outside hitter Jayla Trombley is hitting .377. Freshman defensive specialist Kristen Reid leads the team in digs (48), and Serna shadows her closely with 47. Carrero has 45 kills, and sophomore middle blocker Katie Dooley 26.
Barry will host its annual Alumni Match at 4 p.m. Saturday with some of the former Buccaneer greats returning to HSC to play against this year's current crop of youthful Bucs.
"I am really excited to be in front of a home crowd," Hendricks said. "Having the addition of a 'seventh player,' if you will, is a benefit to us. To have their support and enthusiasm makes us feed off their energy because we are a very passionate playing team, and we thrive in that environment. We want to be a fun team to watch."
UP NEXT: Barry University hosts No. 28-ranked Palm Beach Atlantic in the
home opener ... The Buccaneers lost both meetings to the Sailfish in 2012.
EYES ON OPPONENT: Palm Beach Atlantic got off to a great start this season,
winning nine of its first 10 matches via three-set sweeps ... PBA has won
eight straight matches ... The Sailfish's lone loss was a five-set setback to Tusculum
on opening day at the Carson Newman Tournament in Jefferson City, Tenn.
... Soph. OH Faith Rohn is the Sailfish's leading hitter with 144 kills ... Jr. S
Becca Acevedo has 316 assists ... Soph. MB Stephany Brown has 22 blocks.
ATTACK MODE: Barry has outhit its fi rst six opponents in all three categories
-- kills (217 to 172), attack percentage (.213 to .121) and kills/set (11.4 to 9.1).
MAKE IT TWO TO TANGO: Soph. MB Laine Cielena was named to an
all-tournament team for the second straight weekend after collecting the honor at
the Eckerd Classic last weekend ... She and Fr. S Jenny Trinidad received all-tournament
honors at the Ram Rumble on the opening weekend.
SETTING THE TABLE: Soph. S Jasmine Serna had a career-high 42 assists
in Barry's sweep of Wilmington to cap its play at the Eckerd Classic Saturday ...
Her 42 assists is the most for any player in a match the Bucs have played so far.
HOT HAND HANDLER: Between Serna and Trinidad, the Bucs have fl ipped
the switch over the first six matches as to who's handling the setting duties ...
Serna leads the team with 103 assists, while Trinidad has 91.
DOWN WITH DIDANOVIC: Fr. MB Ivana Didanovic ranks 28th in the country
in attack percentage at .395 ... She is third on the team with 36 kills.
FRESH NEW LOOK: All six freshmen have seen playing time already for the
Bucs this season ... Two of them lead in separate stat categories ... Fr. Ivana Didanovic
leads the team in blocks (14) ... Fr. Kristen Reid leads in digs (48).
DOWN ON THE BLOCKS: Barry has been outblocked, 37-32, by opponents
this year ... Pace and Wilmington are the two teams the Bucs have outblocked.
ALUMNI GATHERING: Barry's annual alumni match is set for 4 p.m. Saturday
at HSC ... The Buccaneers welcome back several of its former greats.


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Given that the UFL wasn't very good about paying its bill when it was playing, it's understandable that the UFL isn't paying its bills now that it's not playing.
We've received a copy of an email that is being circulated among UFL players regarding ongoing delays in the payment of their wages, and regarding their options for getting their money.
For now, it seems that some players are inclined to be patient with founder Bill Hambrecht (who is affectionately — or otherwise — referred to as "Bill Hambone" in the message), but only until Friday, November 8.
The willingness to wait seems to be driven in large part by the delays that will arise if the players pursue their legal options. Many states, however, have specific laws regarding the failure to pay wages, entitling employees to receive extra payments for their trouble, along with attorneys' fees and interest.
The goal of such provisions is to provide a strong incentive to employers to "settle up" with employees when the relationship ends. Otherwise, plenty of employers would be tempted to stiff a former employee.


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TheOneAbout necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 50 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Our Voices United
We're creating a holiday video messaging campaign to encourage the men and women of the US Armed Forces who are in places around the world far from their friends and family.
We have video submissions from US Congressmen and several high profile politicians. We expect a fair amount of press coverage on this issue, so your work will get a lot of visibility!
I realize the award amount isn't huge, but I am a start up company and dont have money yet (although plan on keeping in touch with my designers for more work in the near future).
18-60 year old men and women that are American patriots. Most likely these will be military families. They like simplicity, establishment, and security.
We have an existing site, but think it can look a lot better. You can see our current design at http://www.TheOneAbout.com/usa - there's some room for improvement! We want to see your creative and unique ideas for how to improve the existing landing page WHILE preserving the same overall functionality.
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Finalists must provide the final format in PSD.
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Intel Shows 48-core x86 Processor as Single-chip Cloud Computer
48-cores ahoy!
Intel unveiled a completely new processor design today the company is dubbing the "Single-chip Cloud Computer" (but was previously codenamed Bangalore). Justin Rattner, the company's CTO, discussed the new product at a press event in Santa Clara and revealed some interesting information about the goals and design of the new CPU.
First, many of you will likely remember the original "Tera-scale" project that we reported on back in 2006 - at the time it included 80 cores on a single processor but was really just a technology showcase and a proof of concept.
That project and today's differ on quite a few levels. First, the "SCC" is much closer to a realized product as Intel has started looking into markets that will benefit from this type of computing power. Also, the architecture and design of the cores on the SCC are fully functional x86 IA cores where as on the original 80-core test chip we were simply looking at floating point processors.
The new SCC has also been tweaked for efficiency and can run with as little power as 25 watts!
The 48 cores are arranged in 24 "tiles" - what you can think of as 24 separate dual-core processors. These tiles are then connected via a 2D mesh network that can support up to 256 GB/s of bandwidth! There are four integrated DDR3 memory controllers (though no mention of how many channels each controller is) that can house as much as 64GB of total memory.
Things get interesting here - Intel is saying that they have removed hardware cache coherency which effectively means each "tile" will be completely separate in what it stores in local L2 cache. All cache communication between cores and tiles will thus be handled by the mesh data communication system and the dedicated "message buffer" on each tile.
Power efficiency is very important when it comes to server environments so Intel has made some impressive steps there. Each processor will have 8 different voltage "islands" and 28 different frequency "islands" - this means that each tile can run at its own frequency while each collection of four tiles will run at a different voltage. This should potentially allow the CPU power consumption to scale with compute very well.
The processor die itself measures at 567 mm^2 - compare that to the newest Intel Lynnfield parts that measure 296 mm^2! This is a massive part to be certain but you would expect as much with 48 even basic x86 IA cores.
What uses could Intel find for a processor like this? Intel points to segments like financial analytics, physics modeling, HPC parallel workloads, complex web searching and more. Here are a few quotes from potential SCC users:
"We're very excited about Intel's Single-chip Cloud Computer. In the Barrelfish project we are designing OS architectures for future multicore and manycore systems. The chip's memory system and message passing support are a great fit for us, and it's an ideal vehicle for us to test and validate our ideas." – Prof. Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich
"The Single-chip Cloud Computer is an exciting platform for datacenter research because the combination of fine-grained voltage and frequency control, together with the ability to shut off entire zones of the processor, means that we can accurately investigate the balance between computation, memory, and I/O. The chip's massive parallelism gives us the ability to investigate, today, the degree of parallelism that will be needed from applications five years down the line to make the best use of emerging many-core platforms." – David Andersen, assistant professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
"The upcoming Single-chip Cloud Computer is of great interested to application developers and tools researchers. The availability of the hardware will greatly accelerate our development of applications and tools for massively parallel computing platforms." – Prof. Wen-Mei Hwu, University of Illinois, UPCRC@Illinois co-director
"Microsoft is partnering with Intel to explore new hardware and software architectures supporting next-generation client plus cloud applications," said Dan Reed, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Extreme Computing. "Our early research with the single chip cloud computer prototype has already identified many opportunities in intelligent resource management, system software design, programming models and tools, and future application scenarios."
Though this project is much further along than the previous tera-scale offerings were, we still have quite a bit of time before processor based on this technology begin to be implemented in server environments. What we are happy to see is progress and new and innovative directions from the leader in processor technology.
Further Reading:
- IDF 2006: Terascale Processing Brings 80 Cores to your Desktop
- Intel's 80 Core Terascale Chip Explored: 4GHz clocks and more
- IDF Fall 2007: Terascale Computing Updates and more
- Intel Research Chip Advances 'Era Of Tera'
- Intel Develops Tera-Scale Research Chips
Finally, here is the full press release from Intel below.
that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for
laptops, PCs and servers. This futuristic chip boasts about 10 to 20
times the processing engines inside today's most popular Intel
Core-branded processors.
The long-term research goal is to add incredible scaling features
to future computers that spur entirely new software applications and
human-machine interfaces. The company plans to engage industry and
academia next year by sharing 100 or more of these experimental chips
for hands-on research in developing new software applications and
programming models.
While Intel will integrate key features in a new line of
Core-branded chips early next year and introduce six- and eight-core
processors later in 2010, this prototype contains 48 fully programmable
Intel processing cores, the most ever on a single silicon chip. It also
includes a high-speed on-chip network for sharing information along
with newly invented power management techniques that allow all 48 cores
to operate extremely energy efficiently at as little as 25 watts, or at
125 watts when running at maximum performance (about as much as today's
Intel processors and just two standard household light bulbs).
Intel plans to gain a better understanding of how to schedule and
coordinate the many cores of this experimental chip for its future
mainstream chips. For example, future laptops with processing
capability of this magnitude could have "vision" in the same way a
human can see objects and motion as it happens and with high accuracy.
Imagine, for example, someday interacting with a computer for a
virtual dance lesson or on-line shopping that uses a future laptop's
3-D camera and display to show you a "mirror" of yourself wearing the
clothes you are interested in. Twirl and turn and watch how the fabric
drapes and how the color complements your skin tone.
This kind of interaction could eliminate the need of keyboards,
remote controls or joysticks for gaming. Some researchers believe
computers may even be able to read brain waves, so simply thinking
about a command, such as dictating words, would happen without speaking.
Intel Labs has nicknamed this test chip a "single-chip cloud
computer" because it resembles the organization of datacenters used to
create a "cloud" of computing resources over the Internet, a notion of
delivering such services as online banking, social networking and
online stores to millions of users.
Cloud datacenters are comprised of tens to thousands of computers
connected by a physically cabled network, distributing large tasks and
massive datasets in parallel. Intel's new experimental research chip
uses a similar approach, yet all the computers and networks are
integrated on a single piece of Intel 45nm, high-k metal-gate silicon
about the size of a postage stamp, dramatically reducing the amount of
physical computers needed to create a cloud datacenter.
"With a chip like this, you could imagine a cloud datacenter of the
future which will be an order of magnitude more energy efficient than
what exists today, saving significant resources on space and power
costs," said Justin Rattner, head of Intel Labs and Intel's Chief
Technology Officer. "Over time, I expect these advanced concepts to
find their way into mainstream devices, just as advanced automotive
technology such as electronic engine control, air bags and anti-lock
braking eventually found their way into all cars."


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A CODE OF ETHICS THAT'S NOT: When Rhode Island enacted a Code of Ethics in 1992, one of its key provisions was a "revolving door" prohibition that was intended to keep state elected and appointed officials from taking important state jobs for a year after leaving office. The law applies to those in "senior policy-making, discretionary or confidential positions."
Has the law worked? It has not come even remotely close to working! Why doesn't it work when it seems to be clearly written and easy to interpret? Because the State Ethics Commission refuses to interpret it as legislators intended it and as it is clearly written.
The most recent example of the law's and the Ethics Commission's failure is the commission's decision last week that Governor Chafee's Director of Administration, Richard Licht, can compete for a superior court judgeship because he is not in a "senior policy-making position." Licht runs the largest department in state government and has unfettered access to Governor Chafee. Not only does he make policies for his department, but he undoubtedly advised Chafee on other, statewide policies. Previous examples of the commission's failure to use common sense in interpreting the Code of Ethics' revolving door provision, include its 2009 decision that then-Governor Carcieri's chief of staff, Brian P. Stern, was also exempt from the revolving door provision. Stern was quickly appointed to a superior court judgeship.
Our General Assembly must revise the Code of Ethics to make it abundantly clear that it applies to all senior state officials. The language must be very specific so it will be understood even by the seemingly illiterate members of our Ethics Commission.
WILL BRAYTON POINT COOLING TOWERS GO? For those of us who live near the coast on the west side of Narragansett Bay, the rising of the Brayton Point Power Station's massive cooling towers a couple of years ago was appalling. Suddenly, the beautiful horizon over the east side of the bay was marred by two ugly, intrusive, belching cooling towers. Although upset by the unsightly addition to the previously serene eastward view, west bay folks took it in stride not wanting to be classified as NIMBY – "not in my back yard" - complainers. Now, after so recently installing the monstrous towers at a cost of about $500 million, Brayton Point is going to close. Its owners say onerous environmental regulations and competition from natural gas are just too much for the company to make a profit from the coal-fired plant. Let's hope the company takes the "good neighbor" approach and tears down the grotesque towers that detract so much from the Bay's beauty.
INTERNECINE SQUABBLING AMONG DEMOCRATS: "It's time to stop using pensions as a political football," said General Treasurer Gina Raimondo, a likely candidate for governor, responding to fellow Democrat Frank Caprio, the former state treasurer who was beaten badly in the governor's race in 2010 and who has decided to run again for treasurer. In an obvious ploy to curry the favor of unions, Caprio has called for Rhode Island to start handing out union COLA's again and to reduce pension fund investment fees - moves that would cost our taxpayers dearly while unwisely reducing investment diversification and, thus, exposing the pension fund to greater risks. Caprio is demonstrating budgetary and investment knowledge worthy of a financial rookie.
To use a football metaphor, Caprio's early campaigning makes him look like an inexperienced and desperate tight end running deep as he frantically tries to catch the football. Even if he catches it, he's likely to fumble it again like he did in 2010.
SUPREME COURT CASE TO AFFECT RHODE ISLAND: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that will directly affect Rhode Island's political campaign laws. Nine states, including ours, set an upper limit on cumulative political donations. Rhode Island restricts donations to $1,000 per candidate and a total of $10,000 to all candidates, parties and political action committees. The plaintiff in the case and many First Amendment advocates contend that cumulative restrictions violate donors' freedom of speech since they cannot financially support the messages of all candidates they wish to support. For example, if a donor wanted to donate $1,000 to every Democrat running for state representative in Rhode Island he could not. He could donate to only ten candidates. The cumulative limit would also restrict the donor from donating to multiple political action committees, thus limiting his or her ability to exercise free political speech.
Placing a limit on the amount that can be donated to individual candidates has some merit since it prevents a donor from "buying" a candidate. However, limiting the number of candidates a donor can contribute to by enforcing a cumulative donation limit seems to be arbitrary and restrictive of free speech. The court is likely to decide as such and invalidate Rhode Island's cumulative restriction.
ARMY VS. NAVY: Ever since the commander of the multi-service U.S. Special Operations Command, who just happened to be a Navy admiral, assigned a Navy Seal team to the successful Osama bin Laden raid, the national news media has had a love affair with Navy Seals - to the exclusion of special operations forces from other military services. Our military recently conducted two special operations raids on foreign soil - one by Navy Seals in Somalia and one by a team from the Army's Delta Force in Libya. The Navy's operation failed while the Army's succeeded. Yet, almost every news story devoted 90 percent of its coverage to how and why the Navy operation was conducted while barely mentioning the Army's successful operation. Why? The Navy and the Marine Corps have huge publicity departments that schmooze with journalists. It seems that the Army just trudges on without fanfare, doing its job without seeking publicity.
OBAMACARE ROLLOUT: A poll conducted following the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) shows that 40 percent of Americans think the rollout didn't go well at all, while 27 percent say it went well or somewhat well. The remaining 33 percent of Americans are so confused about the law they couldn't tell whether its rollout went well or not. Between major computer glitches and government's failure to inform people about the law's intricacies, the implementation seems to be muddling along instead of steaming ahead. If our government doesn't get far better at implementing this very controversial law, Republicans will have even more justification to possibly reverse it after the 2014 elections.
HOW WILL WE FUND RHODE ISLAND'S OBAMACARE EXCHANGE? HealthSource RI is the Rhode Island version of the health insurance exchange mandated under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Its budget is pegged at $26 million for the budget year that starts in July of 2014. For that fiscal year, the $26 million will be provided by the federal government. At the end of that fiscal year, however, federal money is scheduled to disappear. Where will the money come from to run the exchange after that?
Governor Chafee issued an executive order in 2011 that says HealthSource RI is not allowed to use state general revenue money to run the exchange. So, what happens when the federal money is gone and state general fund money can't be used? Of course, there will be more taxes, surcharges and fees suffered on Rhode Island taxpayers and on businesses that purchase insurance through the exchange. There is no other way to keep it running. This certainly seems to beg the question: What exactly is "affordable" about the Affordable Care Act?
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Recent polls show there is a rising backlash in the U.S. over the NSA's ubiquitous spying on law-abiding Americans. Former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden - now in Russia - had this to say as he accepted the Sam Adams Award from a group of retired U.S. national security officers, "They (NSA spying practices) hurt our economy. They hurt our country. They limit our ability to speak and think and live and be creative, to have relationships and to associate freely." When even retired intelligence officers side with Snowden, it's time for all Americans to pay attention to what's happening to privacy and individual liberties in our country.


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I am currently having lot of issues with the Intel 7260 wireless card relating to unstable network connections (i.e. limited or no network connections, frequent dropouts). These problems are quite widespread, so it is not limited to Lenovo branded machines, many other brand of laptops are also having similar problem. This workaround is temporary until the laptop company and intel provides an official fix.
Step 1. Go into your control panel -> System Security -> System
Step 2. Click on Device Manager on the left hand side of the window.
Step 3. Click on Network Adapters
Step 4. Right click on Intel Wireless 7260, and click on properties
Step 5. Click on Advanced Tab
Step 6. Click on HT Mode and then select disable as an option.
Disabling the HT mode means you are operating the wireless card in G mode (54 mbps), for some people this is too slow, but it is an acceptable short term solution for preventing frequent network connection dropouts.
Would you please stop publishing your tips here? All of them are already well documented, either in manual or elsewhere on this forum. What is exactly your point? Collecting kudos and solutions?
I'm not reading some Knowledgebase, this is a discussion forum. Could you please remove your tips from here and move them to the supposed Knowledgebase?
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This is for Knowledgebase article. If you already know this, please ignore it.
Then write them straight into the KB which can be done saving you the extra work of posting them here first
Please remember to come back and mark the post that you feel solved your question as the solution, it earns the member + pointsDid you find a post helpfull? You can thank the member by clicking on the star to the left awarding them Kudos
Please add your type, model number and OS to your signature, it helps to help you.
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If this is a 'short term' solution, what is the long term solution? I'm not asking to be snarky or anything, I'm just wondering why this solution isn't acceptable for the long-term, and what the next step is?
01-02-2014 08:46 PM - last edited on 01-02-2014 10:36 PM by Bugbatter
Intel has known about this issue since 2012, we are now in 2014. This issue has been prevalent since the release of Windows 8 and among several different wifi card, as evident by this 67 page thread.
I blame Lenovo for a lack of quality control and Intel for their crappy job.
Personally, I am trying to do everything by the book to return this laptop. I have contacted Mark_Lenovo for a solution and Lenovo Support. So far, no-one has offered me a solution nor offered to ship me a new wifi card. I have also contacted BB and Lenovo regarding a return. Both claim I am SOL.
Goanna keep trying to be nice for one more week. Past this and I am contacting the BBB.org on Lenovo and Intel.
Then again I blame myself. I knew what poor quality Lenovo laptops were when my z570 lost touch button and Energy Management software support on Windows 8. Yet I was stupid to buy another laptop from this company. As I stated before, this is one of the worst purchases of my life. -.-
Then again, upon reaching out to Mark, I thought I could trust this company again. He told me to contact him, should I run into issue. Yet, at the first sign of issues, he ignores my messages.
Moderator Note: Post edited per forum rules.
PS. If a mod is going to delete this, at least msg this post to Mark. For I am truly disappointed in him and Lenovo. For now BBB.org seems like my only solution.
01-02-2014 08:49 PM - edited 01-03-2014 10:00 AM
Oh god. Well best of luck to you.
You dont' even WANT to know the conversation I just had a couple hours ago with Lenovo. I could write a book. I'll probably post it on my forum topic later, but yeah, I wish you the very best of luck. I don't think I will ever purchase any Lenovo product ever again, [EDIT due to moderator sensitivity] unless they do some serious butt-kissing. My bottom will need to be red from all the kissing it receives for me to even consider...
..ugh. I can't go on or I'll just keep fuming for hours.
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Minnesota Man Indicted in Wife's Dismemberment
ST. PAUL (AP) — A St. Paul man accused of dismembering his wife now faces a first-degree murder charge.
A Ramsey County grand jury Tuesday indicted 35-year-old Steven Roger Johnson on charges of first-degree murder and second-degree intentional murder.
Johnson was previously charged with second-degree murder in the death of his wife, 32-year-old Manya Jewel Johnson.
Charges allege Steven Johnson fatally shot and dismembered his wife in their home Jan. 6 after she said she planned to leave him and take their son. The complaint alleges Johnson placed her remains in plastic bins and stored them in a friend's garage in White Bear Lake.
The complaint says the friend alerted police after Johnson told him what he'd done.
Johnson is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. His attorney had no comment.
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U.S. says hopes China, Japan push diplomacy on isles spat
The United States hopes that tentative diplomatic engagement between China and Japan amid their dispute over a group of islands in the East China Sea is successful as escalation is in nobody's interest, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Saturday.
Ties between the world's second- and third-biggest economies have been strained over the uninhabited islets, controlled by Japan but claimed by both countries. The isles are known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.
Aircraft and ships from the two countries have played cat-and-mouse in the vicinity of the islands, raising fears of conflict, perhaps sparked by an accident.
Speaking after a tour of the region, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel said the world did not want the spat to get out of hand.
Global interest in economic stability, Russel told a news conference in Beijing, was "too strong for the world's second and third-largest economies to remain at odds.
"We hope that leaders on all sides will exercise restraint and sensitivity and will consistently pursue diplomatic and friendly moves to manage disputes or resolve outstanding issues," he said.
"It is of great concern to the U.S., as it is to all countries that rely on maritime corridors, that there is any risk of an incident that could lead to a crisis or lead to an escalation," he said.
"We hope that quiet diplomatic engagement between Japan and China bears fruit, and we note with interest that Prime Minister Abe and President Xi Jinping had some form of encounter or conversation in St. Petersburg," Russel added, referring to the brief meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit earlier this month.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is keen to improve ties and has called for dialogue with China, though he has rejected any conditions on talks.
China has shown no inclination to respond to the overtures, aside from the short exchange between the leaders in Russia, and says it has indisputable sovereignty over the islands.
China's military told the United States this week not to support Japan, nor let it do as it pleased, over the islets.
China has long harbored suspicions about U.S. interest in the dispute as the U.S.-Japan security treaty commits the United States to intervene in defense of Japan if there is an attack on Japanese-administered territory.
The United States also has a hefty military presence in Japan, including on the southern island of Okinawa, which is close to the disputed isles.
[Source: Reuters, Beijing, 14Sep13]
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There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918) grew up in Newport, New York, the daughter of the inventor of the Yale lock. She was married to Henry Winn in 1861, and had two children with him. They drifted apart and divorced, and she began to study art intensively. Several years later, she changed the spelling of her name and purchased the Old Manse, a house in the center of Deerfield, Massachusetts, now used as the Deerfield Academy's Headmaster's House, in 1885. She lived there with her companion, Annie Cabot Putnam, and her mother. In Deerfield, she took up metalworking, the art that gave her a prominent reputation in the Arts and Crafts movement. She remained in Deerfield until her death, spending the summers there; her winters were spent in Chicago, Illinois. This painting is one of the few surviving examples of her brushwork, although she painted extensively before 1885. In it, she imagines herself returning to the home she refurbished and loved as a ghost. Although there is no solid evidence, it is possible this has happened once or twice since her death in 1918.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Comic 519: The Worst Comic Ever Made
I am making an official declaration: this individual comic is, with no exceptions, the worst comic I have EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. This includes print comics such as Garfield and the really bad political cartoons that crop up during election season. This is an abysmal piece of work and Randall ought to be ashamed of himself. ASHAMED. It is entirely indefensible. It is not funny, and it is far from insightful.
All right, stop me if you heard this one before. So an intelligent kid goes to high school and finds himself bored by all of his classes, assumes they are a waste of time because he is unchallenged, and in his free time adopts some other hobby that he finds to be challenging and rewarding, and he puts a lot more value on that activity and associates more positive memories with it, so he assumes it is a lot more important to the rest of his life. Then his parents take him to visit a college campus and when he meets with the admissions counselor he says "That's no admissions counselor, THAT'S MY WIFE."
So, it's a chart comic. Minus points for that. And it's not funny. I'm not even sure if it's trying to be funny, but if it's not it is even worse because it is also not insightful. Maybe he is going for (as the alt text implies) "It's amazing how much small decisions can totally change your life." And yes, true. I could tell you about countless tiny things that happened to me that have completely changed the course of my life. But this is (a) not a very insightful way of saying it, and (b) implying that these are the only decisions that actually matter.
Or perhaps he's making a comment about the education system. "Man, you don't learn anything important in school it's not like I'll be using any of this in my job, you don't know nothing this sucks" etc. This is not clever or insightful or useful; this is something high school students say when they don't want to do their work. Especially the intelligent ones who are doing other hobbies that they have decided they want to get paid for, like playing with Perl.
And now we move on to the feature known as "Rob Reads The Forums, So You Don't Have To." Not only is everyone agreeing with it "oh man that is so true," we have what counts as a Get Out Of My Head, Randall, and then an Obvious Troll who is my new personal hero (if you are this person PLEASE COMMENT I LOVE YOU). Mostly everyone seems to think that this comic is their new personal Jesus.
god why did i look at the forums i think it may have broken me YOU ALL BETTER APPRECIATE IT
UPDATE: I have replaced the link to the actual comic with a link to Carl's parody on his post. Which I am glad happened, because THERE IS NOT ENOUGH BAD STUFF TO WRITE ABOUT THIS COMIC. TONGUE NOR HEART CANNOT CONCEIVE NOR NAME THEE.
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It's whiny as fucking hell. "Who needs school? I am too good and smart for plebeian opiates like school! Also I know Perl so I am better than you."ReplyDelete
Ramsey: It's more than whiny. It's "I am too /special/ and smart for school."ReplyDelete
I was kind of that kid when I was in high school. I now recognize that while I did receive an inadequate education due to being easily bored and unchallenged, it was not actually a waste of my time. I learned a lot, and it shaped a lot of who I am, and isn't the real point of education teaching you how to teach yourself?
- onerodetoasabayDecember 18, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Y'know, maybe he lucked out, but in my high school we ended up doing a hell of lot more than 400 hours of homework since some teachers were smart enough to develop the art of busywork which cut into my habit of wasting time, so quit your bellyaching, Randall.ReplyDelete
Am I the only one that was pissed the fuck off at the emo-tastic alt-text?ReplyDelete
Translation of alt text: "If you had made the decision to talk to That Guy Who Was Your "Nice Guy" Friend, your life would have been so much better." No?
ANYWAY I agree, your troll was pretty amazing.
By the way, Rob, do you know how to keep me logged into Blogger? I have to re-log in every time I close the window and isn't the whole point of using the account that I don't have to log in? >=(ReplyDelete
Do you have 'remember me' or whatever set on Gmail? It uses the same cookie, I think. If you are always logged in to Gmail you are always logged in to Blogger.ReplyDelete
The alt text bothered me but not for that reason. I just felt like it was going for 'one conversation can change your world, man.' It just didn't do it very well? I may be sympathetic because I spend too much time thinking about things like 'how different would my life be if I hadn't done X' so... eh.
YES I DO which is why I am so irked. >=( Humph.ReplyDelete
Ah. I think Randall just bothers me when he gets emo... because when he does it he gets this mass reaction of OH MAN THAT IS SOOOO TRUE GET OUT OF MY HEAD
What I find really funny about all of this is how much Randall is worshipped at MIT. (http://tech.mit.edu/V127/PDF/N26.pdf)ReplyDelete
It's almost like he has to be condescending to keep from imploding. Nobody seems to realize that he is actually a professional cartoonist and so all of his jokes don't apply to himself. These MIT kids are going to grow up to be great Physicists, Chemists, or Computer Scientists and they'll look down and find Randall still doodling on a website while Randall in turn looks down on even more impressionable teenagers.
Holy shit this was a wank comic... not even a comic, it was a chart.ReplyDelete
I don't know if anyone has ever seen the chart-comic website indexed [ http://thisisindexed.com/ ] but this is very reminiscent of that.
Randall - stating simple observations in chart form does not a comic make. Please try harder, or I will write a letter to your parents instructing them to love you less.ReplyDelete
And all that homework/busywork in high school WAS useful. It taught how to grind through hours of tedious assignments that I didn't care about, thus preparing me quite well for my job at the patent office.
Poore, you totally said what I said (to Carl's post) a half a day before I did. Please stop preemptively plagiarizing my ideas, thanks. =DReplyDelete
Also, please write that letter. I enjoy the concept.
Here's a better comic. You get to see a lego[tm] person wrestles a lego[tm] god (who happens to fight dirty).
I can't believe that The Brick Testament is better than present day xkcd.
Amanda, I may just actually write that letter. Of course, I'll have to figure out Randall's parents' address first. Then I can finally be INTERNET FAMOUS.ReplyDelete
It's like regular famous, only not.
Oh and sorry about the preemptive plagiarism. I forget sometimes that I am a shark from the future and know things before I should be able to.
GUYS i knew it! He was a shark the whole time! get himReplyDelete
- ohmanyouguystrolledmesohardMarch 30, 2009 at 7:38 AM
Are you guys trolling? If you're not trolling, what makes you madder: the fact that he makes 'bad' comics or the fact that far more people enjoy them than not?ReplyDelete
Obligatory I'M NOT GONNA READ A RESPONSE SO DON'T BOTHER WITH ONE
- AnonymousMarch 31, 2009 at 12:07 PM
to ohmanyouguystrolledmesohard:ReplyDelete
The second. It says so on the blog title: "xkcd: Overrated"
Wait, it doesn't. Carl! Why did you change such a to the point title? Now it just echoes the sub domain.
I changed it a few months ago, I wanted it to be stronger. Honestly, it's because I went from believing that xkcd was an ok comic that was overrated to believing that it truly sucks. Also I was hoping it would make google searches for "xkcd sucks" more likely to point here (mission accomplished, eventually)ReplyDelete
- Aces HighSeptember 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM
I don't think any one will notice this since it's so old, but I just want to say this. In my first class for essentially Advanced Beginner's Programming in Uni my teacher showed this comic to us and I don't know why. I think he may have done it because we will be learning Perl in the class but everyone, EVERYONE in the class except me and the row I was in and the row in front of me laughed at the joke.ReplyDelete
My prof even asked if anyone remembered any of their classes, like their Social classes from grade 11 and I was the only one who raised my hand (I'm sorry Randall, but I actually liked learning about the Great Wars and Imperialism and I know that I could find a way in my career to make it relevant, I'm sorry you couldn't do the same) and it saddened me to come to the realization that in my first class I learned that I was surrounded by people who might not be forumites for xkcd but the fact that they actually could relate... yeah I didn't like stuff in high school, but I knew I needed to do it in order to get in to University, maybe those losers didn't think the same way.
One final note, I'm taking those classes because they are electives for my Psychology Major, as evidenced that my Psych profs probably don't know much about computers outside of turning them on and using Microsoft Office, checking their email or using the internet so I highly doubt that my knowledge of Perl that I will get from this class will help me in my career of Psychology, a career where I should not be spending my time writing programs for a computer, a career where I should be TALKING to people and using my social skills.
A final, final word. One thing my prof in computers said was that maybe even the small things we do outside of the dull grinding of school can be more beneficial to us, and like many above have said, Randall may have been trying to make a point that self-learning can leave a more positive experience with you (since most of University is self-taught any ways) than having knowledge forced down your throat, but not everyone works that way, some people can't learn themselves, they HAVE to be taught by someone else so this is a flawed, pretentious and arrogant statement that Randall is making (not the first time though, amirite?) but in all seriousness, if your parents or your teachers don't warn you ahead of time that higher education will be 90% your own private learning and 10% your profs teaching you then you're kind of screwed any ways.
THANK YOU. you are correct.ReplyDelete


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BARCELONA (Reuters) - In Barcelona's Hospital Del Mar, Telefonica is doing more than connecting phone lines - it is also developing a lucrative new business keeping patients' hearts in good shape.
A heart-monitoring program put in place by Telefonica is just one kind of machine-to-machine (M2M) technology that telecom operators are racing to develop for sectors including healthcare, automotive, transportation and energy.
Carriers such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, AT&T, Verizon, China Mobile, and France Telecom are betting that M2M will be a significant source of growth as the number of connected devices climbs to 12 billion or more by 2020.
In cars, for example, mobile technology can be used to automatically call emergency services after a road accident. In offices, France Telecom uses it to tell companies when their coffee machines need re-stocking, while energy companies are equipping homes with 'smart meters' to track consumption and permit differential pricing.
The potential prize is billions of dollars in new business for telecom groups, many of which are otherwise faced with declining sales, and the promise of big cost savings for their customers.
Yet turning the 'Internet of Things' into a real business will not be easy for big telcos, since the market is far more complicated than their traditional sales of mobile and Internet contracts to consumers and companies.
To succeed, they have to develop an understanding of a range of industries, their specific needs and regulatory constraints. They also have to outfox a phalanx of new competitors such as start-ups in Silicon Valley, app developers, and corporate giants like IBM, General Electric and Philips.
Analysts' forecasts vary widely on the size of the M2M market and how much of it telcos can win, since the biggest opportunity comes not from putting a mobile SIM card in devices but from providing the software and services to make them work.
Machina Research predicts revenue of 714 billion euros ($933 billion) by 2020 for M2M overall. Informa Telecoms & Media's Jamie Moss says the market is growing slowly and will reach 217 million connections and $9.3 billion for telcos by end 2014. They earned $5.7 billion from M2M this year, dwarfed by the roughly $1.14 trillion from mobile services in the same period.
"I am very convinced that M2M will be a profit driver," said Matthew Key, who heads Telefonica's digital unit, which aims to earn 500-800 million euros in annual M2M revenue by 2015.
"But we need to sell more than just basic connectivity by adding know-how and a complete service, and build the business locally step by step."
The opportunity and the challenges for telcos in M2M are on display at the Hospital Del March
Every morning, patients recovering from heart attacks use equipment installed in their homes by Telefonica to weigh themselves, take their blood pressure and answer a few questions on their symptoms via a touch screen. The information is transmitted to nurses at the seaside hospital's cardiac unit who follow up by phone if they have any concerns.
The program has had a positive effect on mortality rates, reduced hospital visits and saved 9,000 euros per cardiac patient since it began two years ago, according to doctors.
Nurse Ana Linas said the system was so simple to use that an illiterate elderly woman was among the patients able to use it.
Yet the hospital, which experienced some video connectivity problems that were quickly resolved by Telefonica, has no plans to expand the project because of the costs involved.
"You have to hire trained people so that it all works. Although costs fall a lot later on, the initial investment is high in staff and equipment," said doctor Cristina Enjuanes.
With budgets under pressure and doctors often reluctant, getting the investment needed to roll out telehealth schemes can be an uphill struggle.
Telefonica wants to roll out the heart-monitoring program elsewhere in Spain and is also investing heavily in projects in Britain with the National Health Service.
"I cannot tell you when it will ramp up. What I can feel is that we are getting closer to it ... We will know soon the speed at which demand will move, and whether there is finally an opportunity to create a totally new (business) category," said Jose Perdomo, head of Telefonica's e-Health division.
Telefonica has had more success rolling out e-health in Latin American markets such as Brazil and Chile, where more medical care is provided via the private sector than in Europe.
The M2M gold rush has sent some telcos on the acquisition trail to get technology and expertise. AT&T bought U.S. start-up Xanboo and has used its technology to develop security services for the home, as well as tools for homeowners to control their heating, lighting and appliances from a mobile phone.
Verizon paid $612 million in June for Hughes Telematics and plans to build on the company's expertise in M2M software for tracking truck fleets, as well as crash detection, emergency calling, and maintenance needs for cars. Hughes has a worldwide contract with Volkswagen and a U.S. contract with Mercedes.
John Stratton, Verizon's vice-president for enterprise, said the Hughes deal would allow it to gain know-how in the software needed to boost the profitability of M2M contracts beyond the few dollars earned from the connection itself.
"If we only transport the bits of data in M2M projects, that has relatively modest value, less than 10 percent of the market opportunity overall," he said in an interview.
"The next big piece is the solutions on top, which is what motivated us to buy Hughes."
Korea Telecom's experience launching a taxi fleet management service powered by M2M technology demonstrates the point. Initially it earned about $5 a month per taxi for tracking taxi locations with mobile technology. It boosted that to $50 per month and signed five-year instead of two-year contracts by selling a software platform and call center as a package with the taxi tracking.
Telefonica invested 2 million euros in a Spanish start-up called addFleet that makes a free taxi-calling app for consumers, and a paid version for taxi owners to track cars.
"There is no global market for taxi cabs, so you need to go local first," said Telefonica Digital chief Key.
Martin Garner, an analyst at consultancy CCS Insight, said telecom operators would have to adapt if they are to succeed in making M2M a mass technology, adding that for now the market was growing slower than they would have hoped.
"We do think there is a big world in M2M for the telcos," said Garner. "But they have to go and take it: it will not come to them."
($1 = 0.7652 euros)
Additional reporting by Harro Ten Wolde, Robert-Jan Bartunek and Roberta Cowan; Editing by Will Waterman


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Just two weeks from the July 6 slaughter date, participants in the "Chick to Plate" project at the Hannaford Career Center are becoming concerned that they won't be able to fulfill the "to plate" part of their project — in other words, that they won't find takers for all 150 or so chickens they have lovingly raised on the north campus of the HCC.
Even if you don't eat chicken, I urge you to buy one from Janice Bosworth's agribusiness class. They have been raised humanely from birth as part of a collaboration between Bosworth's Hannaford Career Center students and fifth graders from Mary Hogan.
Chicken is tasty. Any questions?
If so, check out the Chick-to-Plate story here, or in our Monday, June 20 print edition, to read all about the project!
So, if you don't eat chicken, buy one as a gift for someone who does. If you don't buy into the "eat local" school of thought, then at least consider supporting a unique and exciting project that makes you say, "now that's what education is all about." At $3.00/pound, you can't afford not to.
There are so many great things about this project that it's hard to keep track. First, Mary Hogan fifth graders spent a month incubating the eggs in their classrooms, using the opportunity to learn about everything from nutrition to puberty, the merits of eating local food to the science of actually making it happen. All the while, they were immersed in the excitement of having a "classroom pet" — or rather, 40 classroom pets — to keep them consistently engaged.
After the chicks hatched, they were moved to the Career Center, where agribusiness students have spent over a month learning first hand about the challenges of raising and selling meat birds for profit. Not by reading about it, or by simulating it, but by actually doing it. Any teacher — and most students, for that matter — will tell you that there is no better way to learn.
But the aspect of this project that really merits your unconditional support is its relevancy to the realities of life in Addison County.
During the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, tens of thousands of Latino high school students in Los Angeles walked out of school to protest the Euro-centric curriculum being taught in their History and English classes. That same racial inconsistency between curriculum and student population has been put forth as a theory for why inner-city African Americans continue to underachieve compared to their rural white counterparts to this very day.
The composition of Vermont schools is obviously more racially homogeneous than in many urban schools, but the idea of cultural consistency within the school curriculum is just as powerful. It took me awhile to realize that not all white students necessarily share the same cultural values — for example, the values, priorities, and goals of a child whose family owns and operates a farm may be vastly different from those of a child whose parents do just about anything else.
If you went to college after high school, you probably felt that most of what you learned in school had at least marginal relevance to your educational path. Imagine for a moment that instead of going to college, you knew from a young age that you would work on your parents' farm after graduation — now how relevant is that knowledge? Now, imagine that you had the choice — college or farming — and you were on the fence. In what direction would the school curriculum have pushed you?
Of course, once students reach high school they can enroll at the Hannaford Career Center and learn a trade, but by that point their decision has often already been made. Teaching the importance and relevance of the farming industry from an early age can only be a positive influence on students — and all residents — in Addison County.
For students who live on farms, it will increase their engagement with school by making curriculum material more relevant to their daily life. Students who don't live on farms will still benefit by learning more deeply about the factors and industries that have led to the vitality of Addison County. For residents of Addison County at large, it will lead more bright and able students to choose a career in farming, thus ensuring the continued strength of the industry that is so crucial to our county.
Without support from the community, the Chick-to-Plate project — despite its many brilliant successes — is in danger of being deemed a failure. All you have to do to avert that unfortunate outcome is go to www.hannafordcareercenter.org/news and order a chicken. Your satisfaction is guaranteed.


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The J.M. Smucker Co. has filed a second $16 million permit with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement as part of its planned plant expansion at 4789 Cromwell Ave. in Oakhaven.
No contractor or architect was listed on the permit, which is the second in Smucker's plan to invest $41 million to upgrade its peanut butter production lines. The Orrville, Ohio-based company filed a $16 million permit at the end of January.
The Economic Development Growth Engine of Memphis and Shelby County in mid-January unanimously granted Smucker an amended payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement for 15 years on personal property and 13 years on real property.
In addition to 42 new positions, which will have an average wage of $52,545, created through the expansion, Smucker will maintain its existing 61 employees.
The approved tax freeze will save Smucker $13 million, but the company will still pay an estimated $16.2 million in taxes to the city and county over the length of the PILOT. The company said 25 percent of the company's planned $21.5 million in discretionary spending will be with women- and minority-owned businesses.
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FedEx Freight, a less-than-truckload subsidiary of FedEx Corp., will increase shipping rates by an average of 3.9 percent effective March 31, 2014.
FedEx Freight said its "fuel surcharge will remain unchanged and is one of the lowest in the LTL industry."
The rate increase is for FedEx freight shipments within the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Canada and Mexico.
The new rate hike comes after FedEx Freight raised prices by an average 4.5 percent July 1.
Rate increases for FedEx Express and FedEx Ground shipments went into effect Jan. 6.
– Amos Maki
Michael Ganda has been tapped as associate partner/partner of strategic influence at Paradigm Marketing and Creative.
Ganda has been with the firm for eight years and was formerly Paradigm's brand developer.
Firm president Charles Gaushell said Ganda will continue to develop the firm's market strategy and branding services while expanding his focus on new client development.
Paradigm recently won two Gold Addy Awards and a Silver Addy Award at this year's Memphis AdFed (American Advertising Federation) award show.
– Andy Meek
The Supreme Court says a bankruptcy court may not go after property or funds that are legally exempt from creditors.
The justices in a unanimous opinion ruled Tuesday in favor of a California man who declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The man claimed $75,000 of the value of his home was covered by California's homestead exemption and was therefore exempt from the bankruptcy estate.
The man was later found to have fraudulently shielded some of his assets from creditors. A federal bankruptcy court said the exempt funds could be used to defray the attorney fees associated with uncovering the fraud, and a federal appeals court agreed.
But the Supreme Court reversed. It ruled that a bankruptcy court may not tap into exempt money to punish debtor misconduct.
– The Associated Press
The state Senate has passed a bill to legalize switchblades and other knives with blades longer than 4 inches in Tennessee.
The chamber voted 24-1 on Monday to approve the bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Mike Bell of Riceville.
The measure would make it a felony to use a switchblade knife during the commission of a crime and would increase the maximum fine from $3,000 to $6,000.
Legislative analysts project that the measure would lead to one incarceration every 10 years.
Under current law, switchblades are included on a state list of weapons that are illegal to knowingly possess, manufacture, transport, repair or sell.
The companion bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Vance Dennis of Savannah is awaiting a vote in a subcommittee of the House Finance Committee.
A newspaper analysis of public records has found that more than 100 lobbyists have been hired since 2009 by pharmaceutical companies, suppliers and trade associations to influence lawmakers.
The Tennessean reports the efforts have stymied past legislation aimed at restricting sales of cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine, which is used to make methamphetamine.
According to the newspaper, drug companies have spent between $5.9 million and $15.2 million to lobby lawmakers over the past five years.
That's more than double what groups supporting the legislation have spent on lobbying efforts. The newspaper reports groups supporting the legislation have spent between $2.8 million and $6 million and hired 23 lobbyists.
Drug companies have wide-ranging interests, but a Consumer Healthcare Products Association spokeswoman said pseudoephedrine regulation has been a top issue in the last five years.
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