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Python code in one module gains access to the code in another module by the process of importing it. The import statement is the most common way of invoking the import machinery, but it is not the only way. Functions such as importlib.import_module() and built-in __import__() can also be used to invoke the import machinery.
The import statement combines two operations; it searches for the named module, then it binds the results of that search to a name in the local scope. The search operation of the import statement is defined as a call to the __import__() function, with the appropriate arguments. The return value of __import__() is used to perform the name binding operation of the import statement. See the import statement for the exact details of that name binding operation.
A direct call to __import__() performs only the module search and, if found, the module creation operation. While certain side-effects may occur, such as the importing of parent packages, and the updating of various caches (including sys.modules), only the import statement performs a name binding operation.
When calling __import__() as part of an import statement, the import system first checks the module global namespace for a function by that name. If it is not found, then the standard builtin __import__() is called. Other mechanisms for invoking the import system (such as importlib.import_module()) do not perform this check and will always use the standard import system.
When a module is first imported, Python searches for the module and if found, it creates a module object [1], initializing it. If the named module cannot be found, an ImportError is raised. Python implements various strategies to search for the named module when the import machinery is invoked. These strategies can be modified and extended by using various hooks described in the sections below.
Changed in version 3.3: The import system has been updated to fully implement the second phase of PEP 302. There is no longer any implicit import machinery - the full import system is exposed through sys.meta_path. In addition, native namespace package support has been implemented (see PEP 420).
The importlib module provides a rich API for interacting with the import system. For example importlib.import_module() provides a recommended, simpler API than built-in __import__() for invoking the import machinery. Refer to the importlib library documentation for additional detail.
Python has only one type of module object, and all modules are of this type, regardless of whether the module is implemented in Python, C, or something else. To help organize modules and provide a naming hierarchy, Python has a concept of packages.
You can think of packages as the directories on a file system and modules as files within directories, but don't take this analogy too literally since packages and modules need not originate from the file system. For the purposes of this documentation, we'll use this convenient analogy of directories and files. Like file system directories, packages are organized hierarchically, and packages may themselves contain subpackages, as well as regular modules.
It's important to keep in mind that all packages are modules, but not all modules are packages. Or put another way, packages are just a special kind of module. Specifically, any module that contains a __path__ attribute is considered a package.
All modules have a name. Subpackage names are separated from their parent package name by dots, akin to Python's standard attribute access syntax. Thus you might have a module called sys and a package called email, which in turn has a subpackage called email.mime and a module within that subpackage called email.mime.text.
Python defines two types of packages, regular packages and namespace packages. Regular packages are traditional packages as they existed in Python 3.2 and earlier. A regular package is typically implemented as a directory containing an __init__.py file. When a regular package is imported, this __init__.py file is implicitly executed, and the objects it defines are bound to names in the package's namespace. The __init__.py file can contain the same Python code that any other module can contain, and Python will add some additional attributes to the module when it is imported.
For example, the following file system layout defines a top level parent package with three subpackages:
Importing parent.one will implicitly execute parent/__init__.py and parent/one/__init__.py. Subsequent imports of parent.two or parent.three will execute parent/two/__init__.py and parent/three/__init__.py respectively.
A namespace package is a composite of various portions, where each portion contributes a subpackage to the parent package. Portions may reside in different locations on the file system. Portions may also be found in zip files, on the network, or anywhere else that Python searches during import. Namespace packages may or may not correspond directly to objects on the file system; they may be virtual modules that have no concrete representation.
Namespace packages do not use an ordinary list for their __path__ attribute. They instead use a custom iterable type which will automatically perform a new search for package portions on the next import attempt within that package if the path of their parent package (or sys.path for a top level package) changes.
With namespace packages, there is no parent/__init__.py file. In fact, there may be multiple parent directories found during import search, where each one is provided by a different portion. Thus parent/one may not be physically located next to parent/two. In this case, Python will create a namespace package for the top-level parent package whenever it or one of its subpackages is imported.
See also PEP 420 for the namespace package specification.
To begin the search, Python needs the fully qualified name of the module (or package, but for the purposes of this discussion, the difference is immaterial) being imported. This name may come from various arguments to the import statement, or from the parameters to the importlib.import_module() or __import__() functions.
This name will be used in various phases of the import search, and it may be the dotted path to a submodule, e.g. foo.bar.baz. In this case, Python first tries to import foo, then foo.bar, and finally foo.bar.baz. If any of the intermediate imports fail, an ImportError is raised.
The first place checked during import search is sys.modules. This mapping serves as a cache of all modules that have been previously imported, including the intermediate paths. So if foo.bar.baz was previously imported, sys.modules will contain entries for foo, foo.bar, and foo.bar.baz. Each key will have as its value the corresponding module object.
During import, the module name is looked up in sys.modules and if present, the associated value is the module satisfying the import, and the process completes. However, if the value is None, then an ImportError is raised. If the module name is missing, Python will continue searching for the module.
sys.modules is writable. Deleting a key may not destroy the associated module (as other modules may hold references to it), but it will invalidate the cache entry for the named module, causing Python to search anew for the named module upon its next import. The key can also be assigned to None, forcing the next import of the module to result in an ImportError.
Beware though, as if you keep a reference to the module object, invalidate its cache entry in sys.modules, and then re-import the named module, the two module objects will not be the same. By contrast, imp.reload() will reuse the same module object, and simply reinitialise the module contents by rerunning the module's code.
If the named module is not found in sys.modules, then Python's import protocol is invoked to find and load the module. This protocol consists of two conceptual objects, finders and loaders. A finder's job is to determine whether it can find the named module using whatever strategy it knows about. Objects that implement both of these interfaces are referred to as importers - they return themselves when they find that they can load the requested module.
Python includes a number of default finders and importers. The first one knows how to locate built-in modules, and the second knows how to locate frozen modules. A third default finder searches an import path for modules. The import path is a list of locations that may name file system paths or zip files. It can also be extended to search for any locatable resource, such as those identified by URLs.
The import machinery is extensible, so new finders can be added to extend the range and scope of module searching.
Finders do not actually load modules. If they can find the named module, they return a loader, which the import machinery then invokes to load the module and create the corresponding module object.
The following sections describe the protocol for finders and loaders in more detail, including how you can create and register new ones to extend the import machinery.
The import machinery is designed to be extensible; the primary mechanism for this are the import hooks. There are two types of import hooks: meta hooks and import path hooks.
Meta hooks are called at the start of import processing, before any other import processing has occurred, other than sys.modules cache look up. This allows meta hooks to override sys.path processing, frozen modules, or even built-in modules. Meta hooks are registered by adding new finder objects to sys.meta_path, as described below.
Import path hooks are called as part of sys.path (or package.__path__) processing, at the point where their associated path item is encountered. Import path hooks are registered by adding new callables to sys.path_hooks as described below.
When the named module is not found in sys.modules, Python next searches sys.meta_path, which contains a list of meta path finder objects. These finders are queried in order to see if they know how to handle the named module. Meta path finders must implement a method called find_module() which takes two arguments, a name and an import path. The meta path finder can use any strategy it wants to determine whether it can handle the named module or not.
If the meta path finder knows how to handle the named module, it returns a loader object. If it cannot handle the named module, it returns None. If sys.meta_path processing reaches the end of its list without returning a loader, then an ImportError is raised. Any other exceptions raised are simply propagated up, aborting the import process.
The find_module() method of meta path finders is called with two arguments. The first is the fully qualified name of the module being imported, for example foo.bar.baz. The second argument is the path entries to use for the module search. For top-level modules, the second argument is None, but for submodules or subpackages, the second argument is the value of the parent package's __path__ attribute. If the appropriate __path__ attribute cannot be accessed, an ImportError is raised.
The meta path may be traversed multiple times for a single import request. For example, assuming none of the modules involved has already been cached, importing foo.bar.baz will first perform a top level import, calling mpf.find_module("foo", None) on each meta path finder (mpf). After foo has been imported, foo.bar will be imported by traversing the meta path a second time, calling mpf.find_module("foo.bar", foo.__path__). Once foo.bar has been imported, the final traversal will call mpf.find_module("foo.bar.baz", foo.bar.__path__).
Some meta path finders only support top level imports. These importers will always return None when anything other than None is passed as the second argument.
Python's default sys.meta_path has three meta path finders, one that knows how to import built-in modules, one that knows how to import frozen modules, and one that knows how to import modules from an import path (i.e. the path based finder).
If and when a module loader is found its load_module() method is called, with a single argument, the fully qualified name of the module being imported. This method has several responsibilities, and should return the module object it has loaded [2]. If it cannot load the module, it should raise an ImportError, although any other exception raised during load_module() will be propagated.
In many cases, the finder and loader can be the same object; in such cases the finder.find_module() would just return self.
Loaders must satisfy the following requirements:
If there is an existing module object with the given name in sys.modules, the loader must use that existing module. (Otherwise, imp.reload() will not work correctly.) If the named module does not exist in sys.modules, the loader must create a new module object and add it to sys.modules.
Note that the module must exist in sys.modules before the loader executes the module code. This is crucial because the module code may (directly or indirectly) import itself; adding it to sys.modules beforehand prevents unbounded recursion in the worst case and multiple loading in the best.
If loading fails, the loader must remove any modules it has inserted into sys.modules, but it must remove only the failing module, and only if the loader itself has loaded it explicitly. Any module already in the sys.modules cache, and any module that was successfully loaded as a side-effect, must remain in the cache.
The loader may set the __file__ attribute of the module. If set, this attribute's value must be a string. The loader may opt to leave __file__ unset if it has no semantic meaning (e.g. a module loaded from a database). If __file__ is set, it may also be appropriate to set the __cached__ attribute which is the path to any compiled version of the code (e.g. byte-compiled file). The file does not need to exist to set this attribute; the path can simply point to whether the compiled file would exist (see PEP 3147).
The loader may set the __name__ attribute of the module. While not required, setting this attribute is highly recommended so that the repr() of the module is more informative.
If the module is a package (either regular or namespace), the loader must set the module object's __path__ attribute. The value must be iterable, but may be empty if __path__ has no further significance to the loader. If __path__ is not empty, it must produce strings when iterated over. More details on the semantics of __path__ are given below.
The __loader__ attribute must be set to the loader object that loaded the module. This is mostly for introspection and reloading, but can be used for additional loader-specific functionality, for example getting data associated with a loader.
The module's __package__ attribute should be set. Its value must be a string, but it can be the same value as its __name__. If the attribute is set to None or is missing, the import system will fill it in with a more appropriate value. When the module is a package, its __package__ value should be set to its __name__. When the module is not a package, __package__ should be set to the empty string for top-level modules, or for submodules, to the parent package's name. See PEP 366 for further details.
This attribute is used instead of __name__ to calculate explicit relative imports for main modules, as defined in PEP 366.
If the module is a Python module (as opposed to a built-in module or a dynamically loaded extension), the loader should execute the module's code in the module's global name space (module.__dict__).
By default, all modules have a usable repr, however depending on the attributes set above, and hooks in the loader, you can more explicitly control the repr of module objects.
Loaders may implement a module_repr() method which takes a single argument, the module object. When repr(module) is called for a module with a loader supporting this protocol, whatever is returned from module.__loader__.module_repr(module) is returned as the module's repr without further processing. This return value must be a string.
If the module has no __loader__ attribute, or the loader has no module_repr() method, then the module object implementation itself will craft a default repr using whatever information is available. It will try to use the module.__name__, module.__file__, and module.__loader__ as input into the repr, with defaults for whatever information is missing.
Here are the exact rules used:
- If the module has a __loader__ and that loader has a module_repr() method, call it with a single argument, which is the module object. The value returned is used as the module's repr.
- If an exception occurs in module_repr(), the exception is caught and discarded, and the calculation of the module's repr continues as if module_repr() did not exist.
- If the module has a __file__ attribute, this is used as part of the module's repr.
- If the module has no __file__ but does have a __loader__, then the loader's repr is used as part of the module's repr.
- Otherwise, just use the module's __name__ in the repr.
This example, from PEP 420 shows how a loader can craft its own module repr:
class NamespaceLoader:
def module_repr(cls, module):
return "<module '{}' (namespace)>".format(module.__name__)
By definition, if a module has an __path__ attribute, it is a package, regardless of its value.
A package's __path__ attribute is used during imports of its subpackages. Within the import machinery, it functions much the same as sys.path, i.e. providing a list of locations to search for modules during import. However, __path__ is typically much more constrained than sys.path.
__path__ must be an iterable of strings, but it may be empty. The same rules used for sys.path also apply to a package's __path__, and sys.path_hooks (described below) are consulted when traversing a package's __path__.
A package's __init__.py file may set or alter the package's __path__ attribute, and this was typically the way namespace packages were implemented prior to PEP 420. With the adoption of PEP 420, namespace packages no longer need to supply __init__.py files containing only __path__ manipulation code; the namespace loader automatically sets __path__ correctly for the namespace package.
As mentioned previously, Python comes with several default meta path finders. One of these, called the path based finder, searches an import path, which contains a list of path entries. Each path entry names a location to search for modules.
The path based finder itself doesn't know how to import anything. Instead, it traverses the individual path entries, associating each of them with a path entry finder that knows how to handle that particular kind of path.
The default set of path entry finders implement all the semantics for finding modules on the file system, handling special file types such as Python source code (.py files), Python byte code (.pyc and .pyo files) and shared libraries (e.g. .so files). When supported by the zipimport module in the standard library, the default path entry finders also handle loading all of these file types (other than shared libraries) from zipfiles.
Path entries need not be limited to file system locations. They can refer to URLs, database queries, or any other location that can be specified as a string.
The path based finder provides additional hooks and protocols so that you can extend and customize the types of searchable path entries. For example, if you wanted to support path entries as network URLs, you could write a hook that implements HTTP semantics to find modules on the web. This hook (a callable) would return a path entry finder supporting the protocol described below, which was then used to get a loader for the module from the web.
A word of warning: this section and the previous both use the term finder, distinguishing between them by using the terms meta path finder and path entry finder. These two types of finders are very similar, support similar protocols, and function in similar ways during the import process, but it's important to keep in mind that they are subtly different. In particular, meta path finders operate at the beginning of the import process, as keyed off the sys.meta_path traversal.
By contrast, path entry finders are in a sense an implementation detail of the path based finder, and in fact, if the path based finder were to be removed from sys.meta_path, none of the path entry finder semantics would be invoked.
The path based finder is responsible for finding and loading Python modules and packages whose location is specified with a string path entry. Most path entries name locations in the file system, but they need not be limited to this.
As a meta path finder, the path based finder implements the find_module() protocol previously described, however it exposes additional hooks that can be used to customize how modules are found and loaded from the import path.
Three variables are used by the path based finder, sys.path, sys.path_hooks and sys.path_importer_cache. The __path__ attributes on package objects are also used. These provide additional ways that the import machinery can be customized.
sys.path contains a list of strings providing search locations for modules and packages. It is initialized from the PYTHONPATH environment variable and various other installation- and implementation-specific defaults. Entries in sys.path can name directories on the file system, zip files, and potentially other "locations" (see the site module) that should be searched for modules, such as URLs, or database queries. Only strings and bytes should be present on sys.path; all other data types are ignored. The encoding of bytes entries is determined by the individual path entry finders.
The path based finder is a meta path finder, so the import machinery begins the import path search by calling the path based finder's find_module() method as described previously. When the path argument to find_module() is given, it will be a list of string paths to traverse - typically a package's __path__ attribute for an import within that package. If the path argument is None, this indicates a top level import and sys.path is used.
The path based finder iterates over every entry in the search path, and for each of these, looks for an appropriate path entry finder for the path entry. Because this can be an expensive operation (e.g. there may be stat() call overheads for this search), the path based finder maintains a cache mapping path entries to path entry finders. This cache is maintained in sys.path_importer_cache (despite the name, this cache actually stores finder objects rather than being limited to importer objects). In this way, the expensive search for a particular path entry location's path entry finder need only be done once. User code is free to remove cache entries from sys.path_importer_cache forcing the path based finder to perform the path entry search again [3].
If the path entry is not present in the cache, the path based finder iterates over every callable in sys.path_hooks. Each of the path entry hooks in this list is called with a single argument, the path entry to be searched. This callable may either return a path entry finder that can handle the path entry, or it may raise ImportError. An ImportError is used by the path based finder to signal that the hook cannot find a path entry finder for that path entry. The exception is ignored and import path iteration continues. The hook should expect either a string or bytes object; the encoding of bytes objects is up to the hook (e.g. it may be a file system encoding, UTF-8, or something else), and if the hook cannot decode the argument, it should raise ImportError.
If sys.path_hooks iteration ends with no path entry finder being returned, then the path based finder's find_module() method will store None in sys.path_importer_cache (to indicate that there is no finder for this path entry) and return None, indicating that this meta path finder could not find the module.
If a path entry finder is returned by one of the path entry hook callables on sys.path_hooks, then the following protocol is used to ask the finder for a module loader, which is then used to load the module.
In order to support imports of modules and initialized packages and also to contribute portions to namespace packages, path entry finders must implement the find_loader() method.
find_loader() takes one argument, the fully qualified name of the module being imported. find_loader() returns a 2-tuple where the first item is the loader and the second item is a namespace portion. When the first item (i.e. the loader) is None, this means that while the path entry finder does not have a loader for the named module, it knows that the path entry contributes to a namespace portion for the named module. This will almost always be the case where Python is asked to import a namespace package that has no physical presence on the file system. When a path entry finder returns None for the loader, the second item of the 2-tuple return value must be a sequence, although it can be empty.
If find_loader() returns a non-None loader value, the portion is ignored and the loader is returned from the path based finder, terminating the search through the path entries.
For backwards compatibility with other implementations of the import protocol, many path entry finders also support the same, traditional find_module() method that meta path finders support. However path entry finder find_module() methods are never called with a path argument (they are expected to record the appropriate path information from the initial call to the path hook).
The find_module() method on path entry finders is deprecated, as it does not allow the path entry finder to contribute portions to namespace packages. Instead path entry finders should implement the find_loader() method as described above. If it exists on the path entry finder, the import system will always call find_loader() in preference to find_module().
The most reliable mechanism for replacing the entire import system is to delete the default contents of sys.meta_path, replacing them entirely with a custom meta path hook.
If it is acceptable to only alter the behaviour of import statements without affecting other APIs that access the import system, then replacing the builtin __import__() function may be sufficient. This technique may also be employed at the module level to only alter the behaviour of import statements within that module.
To selectively prevent import of some modules from a hook early on the meta path (rather than disabling the standard import system entirely), it is sufficient to raise ImportError directly from find_module() instead of returning None. The latter indicates that the meta path search should continue. while raising an exception terminates it immediately.
XXX It would be really nice to have a diagram.
XXX * (import_machinery.rst) how about a section devoted just to the attributes of modules and packages, perhaps expanding upon or supplanting the related entries in the data model reference page?
XXX runpy, pkgutil, et al in the library manual should all get "See Also" links at the top pointing to the new import system section.
The import machinery has evolved considerably since Python's early days. The original specification for packages is still available to read, although some details have changed since the writing of that document.
The original specification for sys.meta_path was PEP 302, with subsequent extension in PEP 420.
PEP 420 introduced namespace packages for Python 3.3. PEP 420 also introduced the find_loader() protocol as an alternative to find_module().
PEP 366 describes the addition of the __package__ attribute for explicit relative imports in main modules.
PEP 328 introduced absolute and explicit relative imports and initially proposed __name__ for semantics PEP 366 would eventually specify for __package__.
PEP 338 defines executing modules as scripts.
|See types.ModuleType.
|The importlib implementation avoids using the return value directly. Instead, it gets the module object by looking the module name up in sys.modules. The indirect effect of this is that an imported module may replace itself in sys.modules. This is implementation-specific behavior that is not guaranteed to work in other Python implementations.
|In legacy code, it is possible to find instances of imp.NullImporter in the sys.path_importer_cache. It is recommended that code be changed to use None instead. See Porting Python code for more details.


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To help attract more fish species and protect the marine ecology, the Dibba Al Fujairah Municipality is submerging more than 300 concrete reefs.
The cone-shaped reefs will be placed in Al Faquit, Ras Dibba and Al Aqqah areas, which already have several hundred artificial reefs, Mattar Saleh Al Kaabi, director of Dibba Al Fujairah Municipality, told Gulf News daily. 'These structures will help the coral reefs grow and lure back the species of fish that once thrived there,' he said. 'The area is becoming a major site of fascinating marine reefs, thanks to the awareness and cooperation of local fishermen who have stopped random fishing and anchoring in those areas.' Since the first 220 man-made reefs were submerged in 1998, many rare fish have been spotted, including cuttlefish, emperor angelfish, bannerfish, broomtail wrasse and lionfish.
Al Kaabi added that a clean coast and unpolluted waters would attract more tourist and divers as well as provide a safe breeding ground for rare fish.
© 2000 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)

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And Not Your Typical Willys
If one asked where Jim Hathaway got his hot rod start, his story would go back 53 years and begin with how he and his best friend, Dennis Murray, built a go-cart when he was in the sixth grade. Using soapbox derby wheels, a wood frame, a Maytag washing machine engine, and good old youthful ingenuity, his life in hot rods was on the move. From there, Dennis and Jim have only taken things to the next level with several projects, but it wasn't until Dennis built a '33 Willys coupe 15 years ago that Jim got the bug to build his very own Willys.
It was 12 years ago when Jim picked up his '38 Willys pickup. At the time, he was living in Oregon, and although he planned to do as much work on the truck as possible, there were some areas that needed to be farmed out, the suspension being one. The Willys headed to Messler Products Co. in Cottage Grove, Oregon, for the suspension work. Jim Messler installed a Mustang II setup with 2-inch drop spindles and 11-inch Torino rotors with Impala calipers. In the back, they went with a 9-inch rear with a coilover four-bar setup with early-'90s Ford Thunderbird Super Coupe disc brakes. Jim wanted to drop in a potent small-block, and what better animal is there than a GM Performance Parts ZZ430? Problem was, Jim couldn't get his hands on one, so instead he had Sallee Chevrolet in Oregon build him a duplicate motor. The motor started as a ZZ4 and was then transformed with GM fast-burn heads, a hotter cam, MSD ignition, and a 750-cfm Holley carburetor jetted to ZZ430 specs. On the dyno, the motor let loose 437.5 horsepower at 6,000 rpm. With the engine complete, it was mated to a six-speed and installed.
Next up, Jim had the cab dipped and sent to a Portland-based shop to have it stretched 5 inches down through the doors. The bill rocked Jim on his heels, so he decided to substitute additional labor hours with a good inventory of fabrication tools and a home shop build. But it was also right at this time when Jim and his wife decided to pack up and move south to Tucson, so the Willys had to be put on hold for a while. Down in Tucson, Jim met Scott Koch, owner of ScottRods, LLC in Catalina, Arizona, and somehow talked Scott into spending two days a week away from his shop to work at Jim's. They agreed that it would be a journeyman/apprentice-type of relationship. So, for the next six years, the two slaved over the Willys.
They started by boxing the frame. Then custom sway bars were fabricated, and the A-arms were narrowed 5/8 inch to accommodate the added hub depth created by the knock-off Mehelich wheels Jim chose to run. An 18-gallon gas tank was fabricated and installed between the frame, and the Griffin cross-flow radiator required two 11-inch SPAL fans to create enough vacuum to flow adequate air. The original six-speed was pulled out when it was found that there wasn't adequate room for three pedals. They substituted a Gear Star Stage IV 700-R4 (although the tranny is a bit of overkill for the ZZ430, Jim assured himself some insurance in case he decides to install a blower) along with a 10-inch, 3,000-rpm stall speed converter. To control the temperature, they used both a B&M oil-to-air radiator and a marine oil cooler to provide liquid-to-liquid heat transfer. Through experience learned with Jim's '40 Ford, they refined the 700-R4 shift control by using an AC Delco kickdown vacuum switch, a Bowtie Overdrive TV cable, their eccentric carb adapter, and a B&M adjustable lockup switch. Allowing adequate exhaust flow are ceramic-coated S&S Headers modified with O2 sensor bungs. The rest of the exhaust system consists of Flowmaster Delta Flow mufflers, Borla tips, and stainless tubing.
Next, it was on to the bodywork. Scott cut the cab back apart to get the doors aligned properly, then fabricated new floorboards before putting it back together. Jim fabricated the instrument cluster with the Classic Instruments gauges canted toward the driver. The Vintage Air A/C evaporator is mounted behind the passenger seat, as Jim wanted to be able to retain both gloveboxes. The fabricated A/C ducting runs forward through the center console, with outlets below the seats and at the top of the console. The front of the bed was shortened 5 inches to accommodate the stretch, while the back of the bed was shortened 7 1/2 inches to satisfy their esthetics. The rolled pan incorporates a hinged license-plate frame that hides a hitch receiver; after all, don't trucks need to be ready for work? After they widened the rear fenders, they found that the running boards had to be widened, and then both ends had to be re-arched to match the fender lines. Scott says that the first shoe that lands on one of these will result in an amputated foot! Lastly, a tonneau cover and tailgate were created for the bed as well.
Scott talked Jim into a PPG tri-stage Brandywine. But Jim felt the need to get away from the heavy metallic that a gold or silver basecoat would have brought into the equation, so Scott did about 20 test panels before they agreed on their chosen basecoat color. Then the translucent Brandywine was modified again with a large amount of extra toner.
Tucson's Eddie Salcido is responsible for the interior. Eddie stitched up the cork-dyed leather interior with a very alluring pattern. He also modified Honda Prelude seats, which, according to Jim, couldn't be more comfortable. In the end, Jim says it best about his truck: "Talk about being a long way from the stereotypical Willys Gasser!"


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|Name: cdfs-kmdl-2.6.18-371.el5xen
|Distribution: Unknown
|Version: 2.6.23
|Vendor: ATrpms.net
|Release: 6.el5
|Build date: Mon Oct 14 04:59:26 2013
|Group: System Environment/Kernel
|Build host: flocki.atrpms.net
|Size: 69240
|Source RPM: cdfs-2.6.23-6.el5.src.rpm
|Packager: ATrpms <http://ATrpms.net/>
|Url: http://www.elis.ugent.be/~ronsse/cdfs/cdfs.html
|Summary: A file system that 'exports' all tracks and boot images on a CD as normal files.
CDfs is a file system for Linux systems that 'exports' all tracks and boot images on a CD as normal files. These files can then be mounted (e.g. for ISO and boot images), copied, played (audio and VideoCD tracks)... The primary goal for developing this file system was to 'unlock' information in old ISO images. This package contains the cdfs kernel modules for the Linux kernel package: kernel-xen-2.6.18-371.el5.x86_64.rpm.
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A Magician's Library Full of Secrets
Bill Kalush started seriously collecting magic books after college and turned that collection into the Conjuring Arts Research Center in New York City. It's a library full of secrets. Photo: Bryan Smith
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Previous Instalment: Part 1 – the decision
At the end of the day, the decision had essentially been taken out of his hands. Daniel could see that his competitors were already benefiting from the type of industry exposure and customer contact that he had envisaged getting for his own company. And this was coming from their blogs.
However, this was NOT about keeping up with the Joneses – that would be pointless. To make it work for his business, he knew that he had to have a clear idea of what he wanted to do with the blog and what results he wanted it to achieve for him. He also needed to be clear about the people he was looking to attract to his blog – if he knew that then he could focus on writing articles that they'd want to come and read, and pass on others. This sharing of content was going to be key.
This was the business marketing side and he felt comfortable with it – after all, it was what he knew and was passionate about. However, he also needed to know how to really use blogs and get the best out of them. How could he engage with his readers, how to set up a blog, what software to use, how to get it into Google? So many questions and much of which he felt he knew little about.
He had to start somewhere. So he decided to check out what similar companies were doing online and how they were using blogs to promote their businesses. His searches on Technorati and Google's blog search gave a lot of good starting points – he then followed the links they referred to and added the best ones to his RSS feed so that he would receive their news automatically. He could see RSS was going to be a real timesaver and made a mental note to make sure his blog would offer it too.
He also used Google to search on "Business Blogging" and that provided some excellent reference sources – the more information he had, the better equipped he would be to get the best results out of the effort he'd be putting into the blog.
Based on the advice there, he decided that the blog should appear as part of his current website as that would help promote all his other pages as well and that he would integrate it properly. It would give visitors to his site the ability to leave comments and ask questions directly – a great plus in developing closer relationships with them. It would also distribute and promote his information automatically for him, giving his company greater visibility.
Having looked at the alternatives, he decided that a blog system called WordPress would probably offer the best solution – lots of future development potential and tried and tested on many thousands of blogs. In this instance, going with the crowd did seem to be the best option. He'd need to load it on his own server but it looked straightforward and, during his research, he'd also seen there were people around who could give help if he needed it.
He felt that his readers would appreciate a constant flow of articles but would probably feel overwhelmed if he tried to send information every day. He planned to post 2 to 3 times a week and worked from that standpoint. He also felt that the he had a handle on the sort of information they wanted – a mixture of industry information, links, informed opinion and an insight into what made him and his company tick. He also wrote out a big "Don't try to sell!" post-it note to remind himself that the blog was not a direct sales tool. That he knew would just be a turn off to his readers.
Feeling much more comfortable about the organisation of the blog, it was now time to put that into action, get it set up and work out what elements would be important to make sure it had a successful launch.
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Pig only has one toy car, but he wants lots more! Super Why and his friends fly into the story of a ruler with the golden touch and meet King Midas. The king may think that MORE is better, but all he ends up with is more problems! The reading heroes help King Midas, and Pig learns an important lesson about appreciation. Educational Objectives: To learn to be glad about what you have, discover the alphabet, identify the letters M, I, L, K., practice the magic of spelling, and use the power to read to change the story.
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2015 Dodge Charger Premiers At New York Show
Crosstown rival Chevrolet may have reclaimed the value full-size sedan segment with its latest Impala, but Dodge will not take that sitting down. The 2015 Dodge Charger that makes its debut at the New York International Auto Show gets a thorough refresh, known in the industry as a "major minor" update. Boosting Fiat-Chrysler's faith in the rear-wheel-drive sedan's future is Dodge's claim to the youngest buyers in the segment.
The only unchanged sheetmetal on the 2015 Dodge Charger consist of the roof and the rear door panels. Such a thorough facelift means the inner panels of the front and rear fenders have been changed as well as those outer panels. Dodge design chief Joe Dehner's team drew in the bodywork at the four corners of the car and lowered the hood, ditching the truckworthy grille profile in favor of a grille that draws on the Dodge Dart's for inspiration and proportions. Don't worry, it works. Dehner is proud of the way the Charger looks like it's eight to ten inches shorter than the current Charger, even though it remains about 199.9 inches long, on a 120.2-inch wheelbase.
"We chainsawed off the corners of the car," Dehner says.
His team has minimized chrome on the new car, with black window moldings and an optional black grille. Even on the standard grille, Dehner says, the chrome is kept to a minimum. A "subtle satin bead" grille will be available, and the grille's shape is repeated in the punch-out openings of the grille itself. The headlamps, lower front foglights and full-width "racetrack" taillamps are all-LEDs. Washer nozzles have been moved from the top of the hood to behind the hood at the windshield, which makes it easier to apply stripe options.
The Charger's new sheetmetal alters the proportions between the lower body and the daylight opening. It no longer looks like a low-roofline, high-beltline sedan, a style the car has been sporting since its debut as a 2006 model. In back, a low-profile lip spoiler attached directly to the trunklid and rear fenders replaces the stanchion spoiler of the current car.
When the 2015 Dodge Charger goes on sale this fall, it will come with the eight-speed automatic transmission only. The eight-speed currently comes with the 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6, which is rated 31-mpg highway, and now will be the transmission coupled to the 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 option. All-wheel-drive versions will come with the de-coupling feature already in AWD versions of the new Chrysler 200 and of the Jeep Cherokee. The base Pentastar V-6 makes 280 horsepower, and a performance package upgrade increases that to 300 horsepower. Hemi-equipped Chargers will have 20-inch wheels as standard equipment. Electric power assisted steering will be tuned specifically to the various wheel/tire combos offered.
Inside, the changes include "less retro" gauge faces, a new seven-inch thin film transistor (or TFT - liquid crystal display) cluster, a new wheel design, new color and material selections, and new aluminum bezels and brushed metal finishes. Of course, the lastest Uconnect in-car connectivity system will come with the Charger.
All this work indicates Fiat-Chrysler put considerable additional cost into the Dodge Charger, even as an all-new model expected on a new, flexible rear-wheel-drive platform being developed primarily for Alfa Romeo is expected in three model years. The Charger is not a niche car, Dodge says, with sales of 98,336 last year, beating everything in its segment but the Chevy Impala.
Dodge says it has the youngest buyers in the segment, and for the first quarter of 2014, sales are down fewer than a thousand units, to 24,956, still ahead of Ford Taurus, Toyota Avalon and Nissan Maxima. Dodge won't say how many of these Chargers are the Charger Pursuits, which get the same updates for 2015, though the Charger is said to be the second-bestselling police car in the U.S., behind the Ford Explorer-based model, but ahead of the Taurus-based Police Interceptor.


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Waters Corporation. (11/5/12). "Press Release: Waters Selects MTM Research Center at Orebro University for Center of Innovation Honors". Milford, MA.
Environmental Research at Laboratory Directed by Professor Bert van Bavel Pivotal for Carrying Out Provisions of Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
At a ceremony at the School of Science and Technology at Orebro University (Orebro, Sweden) Waters announced the selection of the MTM Research Center for its Centers of Innovation Program for research in the field of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) now regulated under provisions of the Stockholm Convention. The MTM Research Center under the direction of Professor Bert van Bavel has earned a reputation for excellence in the area of POPs analysis and the development of analytical methods for tracking quantities of POPs in the environment and for quantifying human exposure to these harmful contaminants. His research also supports the United Nations Environment Programme aimed at building capacity for POPs analysis by training scientists and advising laboratories in state-of-the-art methods.
POPs are released into the air, water, and soil/sediments primarily from the incineration of municipal wastes, combustion of fossil fuels or as byproducts of metal, pulp and paper manufacturing processes. Once in the environment, they don't disappear. POPs have been linked to numerous diseases including cancer, insulin resistance, and are believed to be endocrine disruptors.
Speaking at a ceremony on campus, Matilda Ernkrans, a Member of the Swedish Parliament and the Chair of the Committee on the Environment said, "Waters establishment of a Center of Innovation at the MTM Research Center is an important contribution to environmental research and a great recognition making me very proud." She told the audience that she's concerned about the combined effects of POPs on human. "Last year, two MTM scientists tested my blood and found traces of dangerous chemicals including PCBs and DDT, chemicals which have been forbidden for a long time and are still circulating in the environment," she said. "There are many of us who want to know more so we can have a better understanding of the risks we are being subjected to, and that is why the work that is being carried out the MTM Research Center with support from Waters, is so important."
"The establishment of a Center of Innovation at MTM Research Center initiates a new phase in our collaboration with Waters. It means we will be able to put more resources on projects we design together and gives us access to the most modern technology which is very important for us," said Professor Bert van Bavel. "As a reference laboratory for UNEP we need to have top-of-the-line instrumentation to keep our status and to keep us at the forefront of science. We're looking forward with excitement to a fruitful collaboration and to achieving the ambitious goals we have set for ourselves."
"At Waters we believe in the Science of What's Possible and the idea that there is nothing that science can't help solve. We are very lucky to have found at Orebro University in the MTM Research Center a partner that shares our belief in science and education. Using science to help safeguard our environment is a challenge worth investing in," said Andre Ayache, Vice President and General Manager, European Operations, Waters Division.
The MTM Research Center is currently investigating LC/MS as a tool for more sensitive, selective and efficient methods of POPs analysis, particularly fluor compounds. To take its research to the next level, it recently took delivery of a benchtop ACQUITY® I-Class UPLC® System and Xevo® TQ-S Mass Spectrometer equipped with an APGC ion source.
The Waters® Xevo TQ-S tandem mass spectrometer represents a step change in targeted quantitative UPLC/Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) analysis. This system is capable of accurately measuring target compounds in complex samples at femtogram levels or below.
The Xevo TQ-S features new StepWave ion-transfer technology, a revolutionary off-axis design for dramatically increasing the efficiency of ion transfer from the ion source to the quadrupole MS analyzer while at the same time actively eliminating undesirable neutral contaminants. This gives the Xevo TQ-S impressive class-leading sensitivity. When compared to earlier generation mass spectrometer models the chromatographic peak areas are typically more than 30 times bigger and the signal-to-noise ratios are typically 5 to 10 times better.
The APGC source is unique in that it allows scientists to make exact mass LC/MS/MS and GC/MS/MS measurements on a single Xevo TQ-S Mass Spectrometer eliminating the need to dedicate a mass spectrometer for LC/MS/MS work and another to GC/MS/MS work.
About the MTM Research Center
The Orebro University MTM Research Center is one of three European Union Reference Laboratories supporting United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) efforts to build capacity among the network of worldwide independent and government laboratories supporting the provisions of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants which legally binds parties to the Convention to track 22 POPs in the environment and reduce or eliminate their release. Presently 178 of the 191 United Nations member countries have signed the Convention. Analytical methods developed by the MTM Research Center and others are now used by more than 200 laboratories to monitor levels of POPs in marine wildlife, food, water, and human blood, breast milk, and tissue as part of a global monitoring program administered by the UN.
Swedish scientists have been on the forefront of research into POPs ever since a Swedish chemist became the first to identify PCBs in eagles as early as 1964. While at Umea University, Professor van Bavel was a member of a research group that became one of the first to discover the presence of brominated flame retardants in whales and, later, in humans. Flame retardants are commonly used in clothing and upholstery.
About Waters Centers of Innovation Program
Waters Centers of Innovation Program recognizes and supports the efforts of scientists facilitating breakthroughs in health and life science research, food safety, environmental protection, sports medicine and many other areas.
Professor van Bavel joins 18 other researchers and research centers recognized by Waters' Centers of Innovation Program. The others include Professor Jeremy Nicholson, Imperial College London; Professor John Engen, Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.; Professor James Scrivens, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Professor David Cowan of Kings College London; Professor Arthur Moseley of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Professor Julie Leary of the University of California - Davis; and Professor Albert J. Fornace, Jr., Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, D.C.; Professor Marcos Eberlin, University of Campinas, Brazil; Professor Ganesh Anand, National University of Singapore; Dr. Konstantinos Petritis, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona; Dr. Joseph Dalluge, University of Minnesota; Prof. Sarah Trimpin, Wayne State University; Dr. Frank Gonzalez, National Cancer Institute; Dr. Devin Peterson, University of Minnesota; Caroline West and Eric Lesselier, University of Orleans; Professor Vladimir Shulaev, University of North Texas; Professor Pauline Rudd, National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training; and Dr. Amit Kumar Mandal, St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
These leading scientists, in partnership with Waters, are using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry to help shape the future of scientific research and unlock the mysteries of science.
About Waters Corporation (www.waters.com)
For over 50 years, Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) has created business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations by delivering practical and sustainable innovation to enable significant advancements in such areas as healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality worldwide.
Pioneering a connected portfolio of separations science, laboratory information management, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis, Waters technology breakthroughs and laboratory solutions provide an enduring platform for customer success.
With revenue of $1.85 billion in 2011, Waters is driving scientific discovery and operational excellence for customers worldwide.
Waters, ACQUITY, UPLC, Xevo, StepWave and UltraPerformance Convergence Chromatography are trademarks of Waters Corporation.
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Holliday's return, Wainwright's arm carry Cards
ST. PETERSBURG -- Before the Cardinals vacated the Rogers Centre clubhouse over the weekend, Matt Holliday strolled past his manager's office with a message to deliver.
Back tightness having just kept him out of Sunday's lineup, Holliday let Mike Matheny know he would be recovered by the time the Cardinals next took the field. Two days later, Holliday proved himself a prognosticator with one sixth-inning swing.View Full Game Coverage
ST. PETERSBURG -- Before the Cardinals vacated the Rogers Centre clubhouse over the weekend, Matt Holliday strolled past his manager's office with a message to deliver.
Back tightness having just kept him out of Sunday's lineup, Holliday let Mike Matheny know he would be recovered by the time the Cardinals next took the field. Two days later, Holliday proved himself a prognosticator with one sixth-inning swing.View Full Game Coverage
Powered by Holliday's bat and Adam Wainwright's ability to dominate with what he described as "subpar-to-average stuff" on Tuesday, the Cardinals struck a Rays team while it was already down for a 1-0 win, the Cardinals' third consecutive shutout.
"You'd like to give them more than one run, but you give Adam one run and follow that up with the back end of the bullpen, you feel pretty good about our chances to win," Holliday said. "They've pitched pretty well."
Exceptionally well, in fact, as of late.
St. Louis closed its visit to Toronto by outscoring the Blue Jays, 10-0, over the weekend. The staff's stinginess continued despite a change of venue, as Wainwright's seven shutout innings and another two from the 'pen boosted the club's scoreless-innings streak to 27 in front of 17,226 at Tropicana Field.
It added to the frustration for Tampa Bay, which has lost 14 of 15 and not scored in 28 straight innings.
"Right now, it's just difficult in general as a team, not being able to get the runs, get the big hits when we need it," said Rays starter Jake Odorizzi, who served up the game's lone run. "One of these days, it's going to break through and both [the hitting and pitching] are going to match up and we should be a pretty tough team."
The Cardinals' three straight shutouts is a first for the team since the second week of the 2013 season. It has been 71 years since the club recorded three consecutive shutouts on the road in a single season. The team boasts a Major League-most 13 shutouts this year and has had 14 games in which its starter has pitched at least six innings without allowing a run. That is the most in franchise history through 65 games.
"We're pitching very well right now," said Wainwright, the National League's first nine-game winner. "We just have to keep that momentum going. Shelby [Miller] led us off in Toronto with a great performance [on Saturday], and we're just trying to back that up every time."
Odorizzi, who grew up about 30 miles east of St. Louis, actually outpitched Wainwright in the early going. He threw four no-hit innings on 43 pitches before allowing a pair of two-out singles in the fifth. Those didn't hurt him.
The swing Holliday took the following inning did.
Holliday returned to the Cardinals lineup on Tuesday after proving himself healthy enough during batting practice. Holliday flew out in his first at-bat, drew a walk in his second and then tattooed Odorizzi's 1-2 offering in the sixth to break the scoreless tie.
"I didn't feel great, but good enough," Holliday said. "[The back] loosened up enough to get a good swing off of him."
The homer, Holliday's fourth of the season, was just the second in the left fielder's last 135 at-bats.
"I'm liking his bat speed. He's real close, I think, to getting on a tear," Matheny said. "Hopefully he was OK for carrying us today."
It was sufficient support for Wainwright, who has not allowed a run in half of his 14 starts and has pitched at least seven innings in all but two. This time, though, he needed some improvisation.
He characterized his cutter and sinker as just OK and his curveball as "not very good." It all led Wainwright to get more creative in moving pitches around and throwing them at varying speeds. He even added a slider to the mix.
"There are going to be days where you may feel 100 percent, but your stuff isn't 100 percent," Wainwright said. "You have to battle, and you have to find ways to get outs."
The Rays worked Wainwright during an 18-pitching first inning but couldn't capitalize on two singles and a walk. A double play -- one that Rays manager Joe Maddon unsuccessfully challenged -- helped Wainwright get out of the jam.
In the fourth, Wainwright's induced two lineouts to second baseman Kolten Wong to strand two in scoring position.
Though Wainwright's pitch count was relatively low (92), Matheny pulled him before the right-hander got a fourth crack at the lineup. A combination of a fresh 'pen, Wainwright's overall workload (he is the first pitcher to reach 100 innings) and his having to battle while not at his best led to the early unplugging.
"When they are rested, we typically will push them a little bit," Matheny said, as Wainwright was pitching on five days' rest. "Once again, we really liked what our bullpen could do today."
That bullpen made things interesting. Pat Neshek allowed both hitters he faced to reach in the eighth. Lefty Sam Freeman, slowly being pushed into a more important late-inning role, halted that momentum by retiring two.
"That could go in a couple of directions," Matheny said. "Fortunately, Sam made a couple of real good pitches."
"I throw what [catcher] Yadi [Molina] calls," Freeman added. "That makes it as simple as possible."
The one-run lead then went to Trevor Rosenthal, who, after hitting Jerry Sands to load the bases, induced a popout to close the eighth with the bases full. Rosenthal walked one in the ninth before sealing the four-out save with a pair of strikeouts.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB.


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Hi, edk at nortel.ca wrote: : I have two Yucca plants and a Diefenbakia that is spreading very sticky : sap on the floor underneath it. It is attracting ants and my husband is : threatening to throw them out. I have seen certain leaves on the yucca : plant with sticky yellow spots on them which I cut off as soon as I see : them. The dief. is sticky on its leaves all the time. It is normal that Dieffenbachia plants produce liquid to some extend. This is called guttation. But guttation drops usually appear at the tips of the leaves. Try to reduce watering a little bit. This might help. Be careful when getting in contact with the sap. It may cause irritation of the skin. If the liquid is sticky it may as well be caused by parasites. Check this up first. As Yuccha are inhabitants of dryer areas they are not used in getting rid of surplus water like the rainforest-inhabiting Dieffenbachia. So this seems to be a problem with parasites. Plants with ridgid leaves can be showered with an emulsion of paraffin oil in water to suffocate parasites. But get yourself informed before about how to this. Wrong handling might damage the plant as well. Bye, Kerstin


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One of the nation's most prestigious golf clubs has decided it doesn't want the president's portrait on display.
Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck is refusing to hang a portrait of President Donald Trump, who is a member of the club, according to Page Six. Republican members of the club have been pushing to honor the president, according to Page Six.
Speculation is the club doesn't want to drive a wedge between members or offend charities, according to Page Six. Winged Foot is hosting the US Open in 2020.
Trump's name has also been removed from his locker, according to Page Six.
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Trump, who owns the Seven Springs Estate in Bedford, also owns Trump National Golf Club Hudson Valley in Stormville and Trump National Westchester in Briarcliff Manor. The Trump name also adorns Trump Tower At City Center in White Plains, Trump Plaza in New Rochelle, Trump Park Residences in Yorktown and the Donald J. Trump State Park on the Westchester/Putnam border.
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There was once a time when every professional, no matter his or her industry, put on a suit each morning.
But today, there are so many interpretations of formal and business casual that it can be easy to look sloppy or over-dressed if you're not aware of the environment.
Sylvie di Giusto, founder of Executive Image Consulting, works with executives looking to improve how they present themselves and professionals hoping to impress their clients and bosses. In her new book "The Image of Leadership," she breaks down the five levels of dress code that she uses with her clients.
We've represented them below, and included di Giusto's insight into how to make your clothes work for you in the office:
If you're not sure which level is most appropriate for your work environment, the basic rule of thumb is "the more you deal with a client's money, the more traditional and conservative you should be dressed," di Giusto says.
That means that people in finance, law, and accounting, for example, should stick to traditional business attire, and those in creative industries, like entertainment and advertising, can dress flexibly within the casual levels.
If you're a member of the board or meeting with a member of the board, boardroom attire is most appropriate — regardless of the size of the company.


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GREENVILLE, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, has introduced a new series of Schottky barrier rectifier diodes uniquely packaged as lead-less chips. Eliminating the standard lead frame wire bond provides the chip with top-bottom symmetry, which enables better heat transfer, better current handling capability than SOD devices, and fewer mounting problems. Available in several case sizes and a range of current values spanning 0.1A to 8A, the new lead-less chip form Schottky rectifier diodes are ideal for applications including switch mode power supplies, high frequency rectification, portable battery powered devices, and reverse bias protection.
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CASCADE LOCKS, Ore.—The Harvard sailing team capped its season with a third-place finish in the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association/Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship on the Columbia River Gorge.
The Crimson placed second in the B division and sixth in the A division to total 190 points in 14 races against an 18-team field, just two back of runner-up Hobart/William Smith and 29 behind repeat champion Boston College. Harvard finished 13 points clear of fourth-place Georgetown for its second straight top-three finish. St. Mary's rounded out the top five with 210 points.
"I am very, very proud of the team, all year and how they executed at this event," head coach Mike O'Connor said. "We had a shot at getting second, but we are happy where we finished, and we are in good company in the top three."
Harvard came into the final day of the season in second place behind BC. Ten races were sailed Wednesday, and the Eagles sealed the regatta with six top-five finishes and back-to-back wins to wrap up A-division competition.
The Crimson, meanwhile, got a strong performance from its B-division squad. Harvard opened and closed the day with B-division wins and had five top-five finishes in six races in that division. John Stokes, Tedd Himler, Meghan Wareham, Quincy Bock and Alma Lafler represented Harvard in the B division, finishing with 75 points, nine more than division-winner BC.
Alan Palmer skippered for Harvard in the A division, with help from Bock, Lafler and Ryan Byrne at crew. They finished sixth of 18 with 115 points. Georgetown won the division, but BC's third-place finish was enough to secure the national championship.


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A Youtube users demonstrates the use of a Slidefire stock, a so-called "bump stock."
WASHINGTON -- For gun enthusiasts, the Slide Stock is an exciting add-on that enables shooters to unleash bursts of machine-gun-like fire from semiautomatic weapons like the AR-15.
Online videos show exultant gun owners spraying targets, including ones depicting zombies, with what appears to be fully automatic fire at rates of 400 rounds per minute or better.
On its website, the Slide Stock's manufacturer, Slide Fire Solutions Inc., of Moran, Texas, tells its prospective customers: "Prepare to change the way you play." (Of the zombies, their refrain is: "Prepare. They won't kill themselves.")
For Slide Fire Solutions, the sweetest part may be the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in 2010 said the Slide Stock is perfectly legal under law.
But for gun control advocates, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., bumpfire devices -- as they're known generically -- are a nightmare waiting to happen.
"With practice, a shooter can control his rate of fire from 400 to 800 rounds per minute," Feinstein said Wednesday, speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on guns. With such devices, she said, mass shooters gain "tremendous killing power" that can "tear young bodies apart."
Along with other Democratic lawmakers, Feinstein introduced an updated assault weapons ban last week in response to the Newtown, Conn., shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. In addition to 157 named assault weapons, Feinstein's measure specifically outlaws bump-fire stocks.
"Fully automatic weapons are illegal, and I strongly believe that devices allowing shooters to fire at similar rates should also be outlawed," Feinstein said.
For Steve Sposato, of Lafayette, Calif., such devices are a nightmare that did, in fact, happen.
Gian Luigi Ferri used an earlier incarnation of bump-fire, the Hellfire trigger, on the Tec-9 semiautomatic pistols he fired during the July 1, 1993, shooting rampage at 101 California St. in San Francisco. Among the eight people murdered that day was Sposato's wife, Jody Jones-Sposato.
"These devices have no purpose at all in our society, period, end of story," Sposato said. "People think it's fun, but people think it's fun to throw grenades, and they're illegal. Trade-offs have to be made."
Sposato called manufacturers of these products "dirtbags out to make a buck, and they don't care who gets hurt."
Gun enthusiasts offer rave reviews, but warn bumpfire can be an expensive habit.
"Fun? Yes indeed, the Slide Fire Stock is uber fun," said David Fortier, writing in Shotgun News in September. "It will put a smile on your face just as quick as it empties your wallet as you burn through copious amounts of ammunition."
David Koresh, the Branch Davidian cult leader in Waco, Texas, told law enforcement authorities that he used Hellfire triggers on semi-automatic weapons, according to "No More Wacos," a 1995 book by gun-rights advocate David Kopel. Koresh and his followers killed four ATF agents during a 1993 raid before setting their compound ablaze during a subsequent FBI assault. At least 74 people died, including 25 children.
Gun manufacturers and users alike have long been fascinated with machine guns, which turned traditional warfare on its head when used to devastating effect in World War I. Prohibition-era gangsters' use of the "Tommy gun," which shot 875 rounds a minute or more, prompted Congress in 1934 to pass the National Firearms Act placing stiff federal registration and taxation requirements on machine gun possession.
Although the technology has been around for 40 years or more, bump-fire devices gained popularity in the wake of the Firearms Owners Protection Act, which among other things outlawed civilian possession or transfer of machine guns not legally in circulation prior to the law's signing date on May 19, 1986.
Firearms entrepreneurs have played a cat-and-mouse game with ATF regulators, attempting to engineer devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to replicate fully automatic ones while staying inside the legal distinction that divides them: A single trigger pull for each shot (semiautomatic) versus a continuous burst of shots "without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger" (machine gun).
Although not required to do so under federal law, the ATF's Firearms Technology Branch in Martinsburg, W.Va., reviews any submitted device and determines on what side of the line it fall.
"We don't take a position on whether we like an item or don't like an item," said ATF senior firearms enforcement officer Max Kingery. "We simply classify it according to the law."
A Marine Corps veteran, Kingery test-fires guns with each device installed. For the device makers, his decision can make the difference between commercial success and failure.
ATF officials did not provide exact numbers on how many devices have been submitted for classification. Kingery said that in seven years he's reviewed approximately 10 to 12 such items.
Traditional bumpfire devices required a rifle be held at waist level, making the weapon difficult to shoot accurately, if the shooter could get it to work at all, Internet reviewers say.
By contrast, Slidefire Solutions' Slide Stock is held at shoulder level. Its flexible bridge between stock and mainframe essentially harnesses the weapon's recoil power to keep it firing round after round.
Instead of pulling the trigger for each shot, shooters pull back with their trigger finger and forward with their free hand. If done with the proper push-and-pull, the weapon convulses into a paroxysm of fire.
Kingery compared it to stretching a rubber band.
To some, distinctions between fully automatic machine guns and bumpfire-equipped semiautomatics may seem metaphysical at best.
In online videos, including a promotional one on Slidefire Solutions' own website, gun frames gyrate back and forth against the Slide Stock as users fire continuous bursts with little or no effort beyond a single trigger pull.
But Kingery insisted the appearances are deceiving.
"It's not just one motion," he said. "It might appear to be shooting automatically, but it's actually not."
Slidefire Solutions put ATF's 2010 approval letter on its website. Online reviewers routinely urge buyers to print out this and other such letters and show them to police who question their weapons' legality. Slidefire Solutions did not respond to requests for comment.


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Whether you are interested in finding out about the latest alumni news or events (such as the next alumni conference), contacting other alumni from your country or even creating a new alumni association, this is the place to be! The first thing you should do is to join Connect2ISU, but you can also check alumni success stories, review the last job offers or decide to support ISU.
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Leveraging crystal anisotropy for deterministic growth of InAs quantum dots with narrow optical linewidths. Nano Letters. 13(10):4870-4875. nl402744s.pdf (3.82 MB). 2013.
Optical Measurement and Modeling of Interactions between Two Hole Spins or Two Electron Spins in Coupled InAs Quantum Dots. Physical Review Letters. 110(11) e117402.pdf (853.13 KB). 2013.
Quantum control of a spin qubit coupled to a photonic crystal cavity. Nature Photonics. 7(4) Carter PhC qubit.pdf (992.15 KB). 2013.
Scalable qubit architecture based on holes in quantum dot molecules . Physical Review B. 86(8) 12-1231-1628.pdf (760.88 KB). 2012.
Controlling the nuclear polarization in quantum dots using optical pulse shape. Physical Review B. 83 10-1226-4261.pdf (571.62 KB). 2011.
Optical control of one and two hole spins in interacting quantum dots. Nature Photonics. 5(11):703-709. 11-1226-3607.pdf (247.3 KB). 2011.
Electronic spin polarization and detection in InAs quantum dots through p-shell trions. Physical Review B. 81 09-1226-3623.pdf (273.53 KB). 2010.
Three-Dimensional Control of Self-Assembled Quantum Dot Configurations. ACS Nano. 4(7):3877-3882. 10-1226-2510.pdf (317.94 KB). 2010.
Ultrafast optical control of entanglement between two quantum dot spins. Nature Physics. 7:223-229. 10-1226-4276.pdf (436.28 KB). 2010.
Antibonding ground states in InAs quantum dot molecules. Physical Review Letters. 102 08-1226-4126.pdf (2.04 MB). 2009.
Directing Nuclear Spin Flips in InAs Quantum Dots Using Detuned Optical Pulse Trains. Physical Review Letters. 102 09-1226-0054.pdf (414.14 KB). 2009.
Optical spin spin initialization and nondestructive measurement in a quantum dot molecule. Physical Review Letters. 101 08-1226-3576.pdf (1.08 MB). 2008.
Optically mapping the electronic structure of coupled quantum dots. Nature Physics. 4 08-1226-0001.pdf (1.18 MB). 2008.
Photoluminescence spectroscopy of the molecular biexciton in vertically stacked InAs-GaAs quantum dot pairs. Physical Review Letters. 99 07-1226-3326.pdf (1.15 MB). 2007.
Electrically Tunable g Factors in Quantum Dot Molecular Spin States. Physical Review Letters. 97 06-1226-3198.pdf (760 KB). 2006.
Electrically tunable g-factors in quantum dot molecular spin states. Physical Review Letters. 97 06-1226-3198.pdf (760 KB). 2006.
Engineering Electron and Hole Tunneling with Asymmetric InAs Quantum Dot Molecules. Applied Physics Letters. 89 06-1226-3026.pdf (324.85 KB). 2006.
Optical Signatures of Coupled Quantum Dots. Science. 311 06-1226-0501.pdf (272.86 KB). 2006.
Optical Pumping of the Electronic and Nuclear spin of Single Charge-Tunable Quantum Dots. Physical Review Letters. 94 04-1226-1081.pdf (177.85 KB). 2005.


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Bits and pieces from the local sports scene:
Finding out who is the city's best: There will be a large group of youngsters running and jumping around at Burbank High today, that is, if the weather cooperates.
But the boys and girls will be scampering about for a purpose — to find out who are the best middle school track and field athletes in the city.
Athletes will be taking in the annual Burbank All-City Track Meet from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. between the three local schools, John Muir, Jordan and Luther Burbank.
The meet used to be a local tradition until it fell on hard times and was not run for almost 15 years. However, the event was revived in 2001 and has been going strong ever since.
Along with sprinting and distance races, athletes will also get a chance to show their talents in field events.
Jordan is hosting the meet, and Muir has won nine of the last 10 events since the meet was reinstated.
Also, if any former students from the three middle schools who participated in the all-city meet in the late-1960s thru the mid-'80s would like to obtain get copies of past results can get in touch with Branko Sevic at (818) 558-5320, ext 22823.
Former athletes from all three schools who took part in the meet in the past are encouraged to attend. There will also be refreshments offered at the meet.
Organizers said the meet will go on if there is light rain, but the event would have to be postponed if there is a heavy downpour.
Tubert earns award at Arkansas: Former Burroughs High and University of Arkansas freshman standout Emily Tubert was named the Southeastern Conference Women's Golfer of the Week last week.
Tubert paced the No. 12 Razorbacks to a come-from-behind win at the LSU Golf Invitational in Baton Rouge, La.
"Emily is a very solid player," Arkansas Coach Shauna Estes-Taylor told the university's website. "She really showed what she was made of against a very tough field. She has had a great year so far and really stepped up big. This is a well-deserved honor for Emily."
Tubert finished third in the LSU Golf Invitational with a three-round score of 219 and helped pace the Razorbacks to the team title. She moved up on the leaderboard on the final day, shooting a 71, which was the third-lowest round for any golfer during the tournament.
The Razorbacks captured first-place honors with a seven-stroke win over second-place Virginia and a 12-stroke win over a third place trio of Alabama, Duke and Tennessee.
The Razorbacks are taking part in the 13th Annual Mountain View Collegiate in Tucson, which concludes today.
The team is squaring off against a tough field and faces another challenging event on the par-72, 6,227-yard course.
Arkansas is the highest-ranked team, according to the recent Golfstat.com poll at No. 12, this week. The other teams in the field include No. 13 Iowa State, No. 26 Oklahoma, host No. 28 Colorado and No. 40 Minnesota.
Leading the charge for the Razorbacks is Tubert. She is ranked No. 30 this week and is the highest-ranking player in the field.
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One of the very first results destined for industrial mass production from the research conducted on the limited editions of the 2003 Tea&Coffee Towers project, E-LI-LI is a large vase, made of stainless steel.
Studio Fuksas, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is one of the most outstanding international architectural firm in the world. Over the past 40 years the company has developed an innovative approach through a strikingly wide variety of projects, ranging from urban interventions to airports, from museums to cultural centers and spaces for music, from convention centers to offices, from interiors to design collections. With headquarters in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen, and a staff of 170 professionals, the practice has completed more than 600 projects and has worked in Europe, Africa, America, Asia and Australia, receiving numerous international awards.


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|Colla, Sheila - York University
|Arduser, Mike - Missouri Department Of Conservation
|Ascher, John - American Museum Of Natural History
|Cane, James - Jim
|Deyrup, Mark - Agcert International
|Droege, Sam - Us Geological Society
|Gibbs, Jason - Cornell University - New York
|Griswold, Terry
|Hall, Glen - University Of Florida
|Neff, John - Retired Non ARS Employee
Submitted to: Journal of Kansas Entomological Society
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/11/2011
Publication Date: 1/1/2012
Citation: Colla, S.R., Arduser, M., Ascher, J.S., Cane, J.H., Deyrup, M.A., Droege, S., Gibbs, J., Griswold, T.L., Hall, G., Neff, J. 2012. Documenting persistence of most Eastern North American bee species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) to 1990-2009. Journal of Kansas Entomological Society. 85(1): 14-22.
Interpretive Summary: Bees are important pollinators in most regions, but understanding their conservation status in North America is hindered by the lack of comprehensive early collections. We have tried a different approach, going through major museum collections to find which species are still being collected and which ones have not been seen in a long time. Nearly all (95%) of the 770 native bee species in eastern North America are still being found and collected. The 37 species that have not been found in the past 20 years were all rarities to begin with; they may still exist too. There has been no major bee extinction event in the eastern US and Canada over the past century.
Technical Abstract: The status of wild bees, the major group of pollinators in most biomes, has gained recognition as an important ecological and economic issue. Insufficient baseline data and taxonomic expertise for this understudied group has hindered efforts to assess the conservation status of the majority of wild bee species. To more objectively address their current conservation status, we drew upon museum collections and the expertise of melittologists to compile a complete list of bee species for eastern North America, discriminating those which have and have not been detected during the past 20 years. The vast majority (95% of over 770 eastern North American bee species) have been found again, at least once since 1990. The remaining 37 species were rarely collected before 1990 as well. Some may truly be at risk (or lost). Others are undoubtedly data deficient due to inadequate knowledge of their biologies or hosts, or the geographic regions or local habitats where they occur. Distributional and ecological patterns among these missing species are discussed. Most were recorded in the region only from peripheral areas or areas known to be undersampled by recent collectors, such as the southeastern United States. Others are characterized by specialized life histories or they cannot be identified routinely in the absence of taxonomic revisions. Clearly, most eastern North American bee species have persisted until recent times, with no evidence of widespread recent extinctions. An absence of well-documented global extinctions of bees does not warrant complacency regarding pollinator conservation, as our qualitative method does not lend itself to documenting range contractions, range fragmentation, or declines in abundance and species richness in local bee communities.


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