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Web based applications represent a growing slice of the software development pie, but many of the internationalization issues involved are not yet standardized or are poorly understood. The simple concept of separating user interface from program code (represented by the extensive use of resource files on stand alone systems) seems to have cast aside in the typical web application. Mixing program code and user interface is the defacto standard for HTML and it is not uncommon to see a Java Servlet writing HTML code, which in turns contains Javascript. How do we best separate form and function in such an environment? Web applications may also have the added complexity of trying to present information to multiple clients in multiple locales simultaneously.
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Title: College of Agriculture Extension reports, 1913-1972
Predominant Dates:1940-1969
Extent: 127.2 Cubic feet. More info below.
*Please note that it is best to search by county. The reports were processed at two different times, due to the fact that some were located at a later date. Some older reports may be interspersed with the more recent years.
For the most part, the reports are arranged alphabetically by Indiana county and then chronologically.
Date Acquired: 10/01/2010
Subjects: 4-H Youth Development Program (U.S.), Agricultural extension work--Indiana, Home demonstration work, Home economics, Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service
Forms of Material: Brochures, Bulletins, Clippings (Information artifacts), Correspondence, Ephemera, Newsletters, Photographic prints, Programs, Reports
Languages: English
4-H Youth Development Program (U.S.)
Agricultural extension work--Indiana
Home demonstration work
Home economics
Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Alternate Extent Statement: 126 cubic foot boxes
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research. The collection is stored offsite; 24 hours notice is required to access the collection.
Use Restrictions: Purdue University
Acquisition Source: College of Agriculture, Janet Bechman and Margaret Titus.
Acquisition Method: Transfer of records received from Margaret Titus on October 22, 2010.
Processing Information: Whenever possible, original order of the materials has been retained. All materials have been housed in acid-free boxes.
Finding Aid Revision History:
Date range for collection updated 1/11/13; final updates to finding aid completed 5/19/16.
Collection identifier updated from UA 14.13.01 to UA 59 as of January 25, 2017.
Other URL: http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/fa/pdf/ua00059_ag_exten.pdf

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Opening: 12 January 2018, 6-8pm, with the artist present
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to present the exhibition curated by Caroline Bourgeois, chief curator of the Pinault Collection. This new exhibition marks the first collaboration with the Austrian artist, represented by the gallery since October 2017.
In 2003, Caroline Bourgeois has organized a monographic exhibition on VALIE EXPORT at the Centre National de la Photographie, Jeu de Paume, in Paris, which travelled at the CAAC, Sévilla; the MAMCO, Geneva; the Camden Arts Center in London, and finally, the Sammlung Essl Privatstiftung in Klosterneuburg, Austria.
The French curator details her concept of the current exhibition:
"VALIE EXPORT has always refused conventions. Rejecting the role of housewife, she turns to art with a sense of urgency. Her first and seminal gesture is when she dubs herself VALIE EXPORT—in all capital letters—to match the strength of an other self who may bear a masculine name. Defining your name instead of enduring your father's.
In 1967 she invents her artist's name in order to export her ideas and works. Later she appropriates a cigarette pack of the Austrian brand Smart Export and names it after her new artistic self. The work presented in the exhibition documents this first action: (1970).
The exhibition presents major early works from 1968 to 1976. In 1972, VALIE EXPORT invents the concept of the first international woman exhibition (Vienna, 1975), which becomes a reference for the feminists of her time and those who follow in their footsteps.
She questions in a nearly phenomenological way the image and role of the female with her series entitled: (1968), where she presents herself "in disguise" to demonstrate the importance of the staging of the female body. This action also stresses the expectations in terms of appearances and the place of seduction in relationships. It is then followed by a tattoo: (1970) representing a garter on the thigh. This action and its photographic representation speak for themselves. She continues her revolution of the fate of women with: (1972), which evokes the question of rape, a subject that still resonates today. In this series she underlines the necessity of appropriating one's own body and taking out the social effects of patriarchal culture. She looks closely into the consequences of these effects on her own body. With these actions, she takes a stance.
Works from the (1972-76) series are on view in the ground floor and upstairs rooms. They constitute another type of action taking place in the city, inside an apartment or in nature, where she uses her body in a nearly sculptural way to underline the lines, the spaces, and the powerful constraints of her surroundings. With this, she proposes—ahead of other practices—to appropriate the exterior as a museum, to act outside.
By playing with her body in public spaces, she reveals how power relations inhabit the actual structure of the street and its buildings. She adds a conceptual dimension, where the body becomes like a pencil drawing lines. The insertion of lines and colors on the photograph emphasizes this dimension. This almost pictorial approach to photography is even more present in the works set in nature, which references her conceptual photographs.
VALIE EXPORT also experimented with video, a medium which, at the time, offered a larger space for freedom, and shows how the artist elaborates on and conceptualizes her own work.
Two video works, (1970) and (1973), are included in the exhibition. In addition, to recognize the importance of the symbolic inversion of gender codes, posters of (1969) are displayed on the gallery walls as they once were in the street.
VALIE EXPORT seeks in a phenomenological manner something on her body, her place, the question of the artist. I think she has a process, which is close to Bruce Nauman's, where everything must be questioned in order to then exist. Like she says, her nerves spoke and her rebellion became the motor which pushed boundaries, including her own. I think this goes further than a psychological dimension, as it touches on artistic questions both structural and conceptual. She transcends the political with her photographic work, which stuns with its atemporal pertinence.
More than ever before, her work seems relevant. Unfortunately – or fortunately – we must now and always remain in high alert around the question of the place of women in our societies. It's far from being won. I think it's precisely because of work like VALIE EXPORT's that women today are more able to take on different roles for themselves and others. Like every great artist, she opens doors, widens the field, and transforms the territory. The work of VALIE EXPORT offers us an example of how to invent your own life, while still questioning oneself constantly in order to act on oneself and the exterior."
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Rural America elected President Trump. Rural America doesn't benefit from private charter schools like the larger cities do. Please call the White House and ask him to not cut 21CCLC funding. To support public schools and the after-school programs that benefit the most students. Call 202-456-1111 and leave a comment about how those of us that supported him are asking him to support us by not cutting the budget for the 21CCLC programs.
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Be better to contact each and everyone of our STATE representatives; we probably will not get much satisfaction from the female that replaced Hill but we should try; we should also be contacting the candidates and see where they stand on this issue. Our people in DC are mostly RINOs; with that said, changes and supports starts at home, that means our communities, our districts, our counties and then the STATE. We would not be in quite this mess if Meade would have followed the State Constitution and renovated the capitol building by putting out bids; the Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit for this…Meade should be investigated! The Capitol renovation was approved at a$50 million, he went over by $280Million; so let us take a look here..why do we need 67 Supreme Court judges at an average of $81,000 a year and the same for Attorney's…USA operated all 50 states and territories using 9 justices and quite a few less deputy Attorney Generals; then let us take a look at one of the State justices, wife of Groathouse Construction and their best friends Plan 1. What is relationship with the architect and Groathouse getting a multiplicity of contracts? Are they under bidding..we should study that; so, if they get the contract in this manner, then how many Change Orders come through to get them to where they are way over from say what another contractor/architect would have charged? Think about it..better to wonder, even better to research and bring our State government into decent alignment so we can keep our state somewhat free of corruption. This is just the tip of the iceberg to think about…we need to get into what is happening in our own county and it is not good, not good at all!
So, if there is going to be money spent that the federal government has no business spending on anybody, rural conservative America should fight for its place at the federal teat, too, is that it? Count me out. What part of "the federal government has no legitimate role in K-12 education" don't people understand? Also, parents have to step up higher and PARENT, for crying out loud. It's not the government's job, at any level, to take care of your kids because you're such low-lifes that all you do is drink, drug, and fight when they come home after school.
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Telescopes: Super Views from Space
It probably comes as no surprise that telescopes do a better job of collecting light and observing outer space than your eyes. But do you know why? (Hint: the answer is NOT magnification!)
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This Moveable Museum article, available as a nine-page printable PDF file, offers a thorough, kid-friendly look at telescopes. It discusses the following four concepts in depth, and provides a reading list for further research:
- telescopes collect and detect light, like giant eyes
- telescopes' advantages over eyes include a larger light-collecting area, collecting light for longer periods of time, and the ability to detect wavelengths of light invisible to humans
- different telescopes collect different wavelengths of light
- telescopes in space avoid interference from the Earth's atmosphere
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Captioned, "Convoi Funebre de Negrillons" (funeral procession of black children), portrays (foreground), a deceased child laid out on a wooden (?) tray with flowers which is resting on an ornate canopied carriage (without wheels ?) that is pulled through the street; the grieving parents hold onto the carriage. In the background, another child is carried in a similar tray which is transported on a man's head. The engravings in this book were taken from drawings made by Debret during his residence in Brazil from 1816 to 1831. For watercolors by Debret of scenes in Brazil, some of which were incorporated into his Voyage Pittoresque, see Jean Baptiste Debret, Viagem Pitoresca e Historica ao Brasil (Editora Itatiaia Limitada, Editora da Universidade de Sao Paulo, 1989; a reprint of the 1954 Paris edition, edited by R. De Castro Maya).


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The men were apprehended Thursday at Istanbul Ataturk Airport, where they were trying to enter the country using fake passports, The Journal of the Turkish Weekly reported Friday.
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U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. diplomatic staff employees were killed Sept. 11 by suspected militants during protests at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi over "The Innocence of Muslims," a U.S.-made film that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.
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A comprehensive plan is, in essence, the vision by which a community determines specific actions relative to zoning, planning, policies and projects that will have a major impact on the community.
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The week ahead of a clash between Liverpool and Manchester United is often dominated by talk of the historic divide between England's two greatest clubs. Tales of yesteryear crop up when discussing institutions that have shared every honour on offer since rising from humble, working-class beginnings.
But on Sunday, the modern face of this storied rivalry will rear its head but today it's jealousy that provides the backdrop for the fixture, rather than the challenge for trophies.
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Liverpool undoubtedly wish they had exploited the Premier League cash cow as ruthlessly as Manchester United when they look at the behemoth their foe has become. It is easy to forget that the Reds were in an unrivalled position of strength before the landscape of English football changed in 1992, but they failed to modernise to their own well-documented cost.
Meanwhile, despite having enjoyed a spell of dominance which matches their rivals in terms of its length, United still cannot boast a haul of five European Cups. It is a fact which Sir Alex Ferguson will clearly lament when he reflects on his oft-quoted desire to "knock Liverpool off their ******* perch" and one which fans from Merseyside regularly revel in.
Such details dominate the discourse between two sets of fans nowadays, largely because the modern Premier League 'customer' has little link to the rivalry's original roots. Despite the obvious benefits of English grounds being filled with supporters from far-flung destinations, the organic nature of the hostility has undoubtedly taken a hit.
This leads to an unsavoury situation whereby a Norwegian can decry the "Mancs" on the opposite side of the divide whilst United fans with Wayne Rooney's name on their back can slam "Scousers" with little sense of irony. These supporters are saying all the right words, but there is little meaning behind them.
And that very 'meaning' of the fixture should, on paper, have been diluted, given the gap which has emerged across the North West.
Liverpool have realistically challenged for the title just twice since the inception of the Premier League, whilst their great rivals have yet to finish outside of the top three. The fissure between the pair also only appears to be widening, with United 21 points ahead of the Reds prior to Sunday's meeting at Old Trafford.
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Matters are also helped by the fact that the resentment which has corrupted the fixture is enduring, even throughout Liverpool's recent decline. Manchester City's title win last season may have prompted a brief reassessment of United supporters' priorities, but it proved only a fleeting distraction for the Red Devils. Roberto Mancini's men have a few battles to win yet if they are to take precedence over Liverpool in the eyes of those at Old Trafford.
And so Liverpool in particular must hold onto everything which makes them still relevant to the country's greatest team by taking the latest opportunity to prove that they will soon make this battle last the season, rather than just 180 minutes each year.
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If you've gone to USPS.com to track and confirm delivery of a letter or package, you've used the U.S. Postal Service's Product Tracking System (PTS) and probably not known it. And you might not have noticed either when USPS moved the system to open source.
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Postal Service information technology officials have upgraded the 15-year-old, mainframe-based system to handle more transactions and lower the cost of operating the system.
The work to upgrade PTS is part of a larger plan to standardize on the open-source and less expensive Linux operating system, said John Byrne, manager of application development and head of USPS' Integrated Business Solutions Centers.
The service is moving 1,300 Sun Solaris midrange servers to a Hewlett-Packard Linux environment. USPS is using Novell's SUSE Linux on the mainframe and distributed computing platforms to forge greater interoperability between the two environments, Byrne said.
However, the mainframe story is one of migration and reuse of valuable business logic developed over 15 years, Byrne said.
"We've hosted [PTS] on the mainframe, and the mainframe is a proprietary environment, meaning you have to pay the software vendors a certain price to use their software," Byrnesaid . "We wanted to take advantage of Linux and open source. We want to grow the scanned events without having to pay more software costs. So we started down the path to Linux."
In recent years, surveys of mainframe users conducted by consulting firm Gartner indicate that pricing of third-party and even IBM software have inhibited mainframe growth.
IBM ported Linux to the big iron machines several years ago as a way for organizations to consolidate workloads. IBM now offers System Z series mainframes that are pure Linux and others that are a mixture of propriety and Linux operating systems.
Nearly 2,800 of the 5,000 unique applications available on the System Z platform are Linux-based, according to IBM. Linux accounted for about half of the roughly 1,000 new or updated applications produced for the IBM mainframe in 2008, IBM officials said.
Moving Cobol to Linux
For its part, USPS had to find a way to take source code written in Cobol and reuse it on Linux. Cobol, which marks its fiftieth anniversary this year, was created to mimic the way people talked. So instead of developers writing in machine code, they could write instructions in English, Byrne said.
After evaluating several products, USPS brought in Micro Focus' Compiler for Linux, which takes the Cobol source code and converts it into an executable that will run on Linux, he said.
USPS' business and marketing departments wanted to expand the number of events inserted into PTS' database. Events are transactions that occur at the service's retail counters, such as shipping and picking up packages or the delivery of priority mail by carriers to businesses and residences. The mail is scanned to confirm delivery, and that information is sent to the PTS database.
"All of these events get inserted into the database, all the programming checks for logic, checks for duplicates, checks for valid numbers — even United Parcel Service and Federal Express shipments — are inserted through a series of Cobol programming languages that have been developed over the last 15 years," Byrne said.
"We're inserting like 40 million events a day," he added.
The compiler lets developers move Cobol code to the Linux portion of the mainframe without rewriting source code, Byrne said.
"Nobody wants to take the risk of trying to redesign a program," said Bill Errico, vice president of federal sales and marketing at Micro Focus. He said USPS used a series of the company's Studio product line that supports the development and extension of Cobol applications for deployment to Windows, Unix and Linux.
"There's a lot of risk in taking those working applications and starting over and redoing them and lots of costs," he said. "So the concept of reusing the business logic that is applicable in today's environment makes a lot of sense."
Micro Focus' compiler takes applications and modernizes them in a framework named the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL), a co-processor within the IBM Z series, Errico said.
IFL lets developers take applications that might traditionally be transferred to a server environment and keeps them within the mainframe without all of the expenses of the large enterprise system, he said.
Running Linux workloads on IFL does not result in any increased IBM software charges for System Z operating systems and middleware, IBM officials said.
By using the Cobol compiler for Linux, USPS could perform tasks a piece at a time, Byrne said. The PTS has 56 transaction types, such as acceptance scans and delivery confirmations, that have now all been migrated to Linux.
Migration work started last summer, and by the beginning of the year, the improved PTS on mainframe Linux was operational, Byrne said.
There were some hiccups along the way. For instance, the Cobol code converted to Linux was disconnecting with the database. "Even on heavy days, it was fine, but some days, it would disconnect and cause us to have to restart manually," Byrne said.
Developers working on the project had to write software code to restart the system automatically. "We went over this with IBM, and they said you probably have to put some custom code in there," Byrne said.
Byrne declined to talk about specific savings USPS has gotten from the move to Linux.
"We're achieving significant savings moving from the Sun to the HP environment — obviously not as materially as the IBM proprietary environment to Linux because the mainframe has had the higher cost to begin with and farther to fall," he said.
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Can anyone tell me how much an uncapped broadband Internet service subscription costs in the US, because a 2 Terabyte hard drive every 170 days would be required to capture and store a 128 character data string at 32bit UCS and this would equal a total of 512 bytes of data per incertion. These calculations have been made at the highest possible character quality whilst only an 8 bit code per charachter and perhaps a 64 character length data string might be all that is required, or just 64 bytes per "insertion" - the data in that case would be handled a lot faster and of course a lot cheaper if 64 bytes were the case and anytime someone wanted it printed for any reason, a handling program could do that for you in 64 inch pica from system memory if you liked. Now if one would need the excessive data requirements of 512 bytes per "insetion" mirrored and backed up for longer than six months, it would cost around $200 these days for 2 new 2Tb hard drives, every six months The entire system could easily run on a standard PC, because i'm getting the jist from this report that the existing system has been utilising roomfulls of 15 year old IBM mainframes. 15 years ago mainframes would have been running at 100 Mhz and so today a single Desktop PC has the processing power of several roomfuls of 15 year old mainframes. Then all we have to do is find out how much they pay Mr Burne annually and voila, we could deduct this off of the $ 396 million per annum to see exactly how many million percent profit USPS make on tracking an item at 19 cents a throw and how many billion % profit it is at 75cents. The irony is that all postal items have to be scanned anyway, whether they're trackable, or not and that in order to run a postal service in today's day and age, computers are required to run the system anyway. Yet, it takes a simple little thing like "track and trace". (Trade Mark, Registered Copyright, or whatever else it may be that someone perhaps gets a percentage in royalty payment for from the use of the name out of - in order to finance their next election campaign, or to finance their 200ft yacht moored of an island off the Caribean maybe?) for someone to now decide that USPS need to come out of the dinosaur days and to upgrade their systems. How quaint? Thank the Lord for small mercies and some open source too, because without it, i doubt the penny pinching old faggots who hold the purse strings at USPS would have let Mr Burne bring them out of near extinction enough to compete with the Mafia styled competition who are leading USPS toward competing with their Mafia styled practices, at Mafia styled prices.
Now for aguements sake, let's just say that it takes 2 events per day for each item tracked (one for incomming and one for outgoing) and so therefore USPS handels 20 million tracked postal items each day. Lets discount this even further by saying that on average it takes 5 days for delivery, so that we only have 4 million items delivered through the USPS system each day, while another 4 million enter into the system each day. Lets say 75% of these items are sent by people with online postal ordering facilities. An Internet connection, a USB scale (optional), a laser printer and a credit facility would be the ideal requirements in order to handle this process and to receive it at the discounted DIYATW price of 0.19c through an online transaction from your home, or business. Let's assume then, that 75% of the people who post off trackable items, do it the DIYATW (do it yourself all the way) and so therefore 75% of 4,000,000 transactions costing 0.19 cents per item = $570,000. Now this is how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, because let's add the 25% for the poor people who might pay for this service over the counter, but only because they do not have access to the required facilities as described above. On average it would cost around 0.75 cents = $750,000 for people to use DIY without the ATW and to utilise what little of their own reserves to do so. The extra 56 cents i expect is so that a manequin can accept it over the counter, instead of the postman banging your wife, or your secretary when collecting it from your home, or business. We then come to an annual income from tracking service fees alone of $396,000,000 per annum. Calculations are based on a nice round figure and considdered that the service operates for 300 working days (excluding Sundays and public holidays) per year. A lot of hard working e-Bay and Amazon peoples business, such as posting off their items sold during the week, is done on a Saturday, because they have other jobs and so one can definitely not exclude it. Saturday is probably one of the most busy days of the week for parcel post at USPS, yet they seem to winge about spending a few dollars on computer equipment and software and fight to have Saturday off instead. All this, whilst forecasting a $232 billion loss over the next 10 years!
Mr Byrne, please stop using bedroom terms in the computer world in a postal environment. It would be much more appropriate to use the term "capturing 40 million events a day". The word capturing might also add a certain ambiance and atmosphere, because after all it would capture the essence of what the postal system once was. It was once a system that was completely free and where people left their letters under a rock, or hidden in a tree and when one fine day a ship came past, these items would be collected and delivered free of charge.
The app is not open source, just the OS. And Solaris is open source, too, so they were already open source in that respect.
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Romero did not appear in the Phillies' 10-0 win over the Blue Jays, which featured a complete game from lefthander J.A. Happ.
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AICR's Foods that Fight Cancer™, a major update and expansion of a popular section of the AICR website, features the foods AICR gets asked about most frequently. Starting with four of the most asked-about foods (including blueberries, cruciferous vegetables and flaxseed), AICR will add or significantly update new foods every month.
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AICR's Foods that Fight Cancer™ details the strength of current evidence linking a given food to lower cancer risk by presenting the conclusions of systematic reviews of the scientific literature conducted in AICR's expert report and its updates. But it also highlights open areas of investigation – the ongoing research in labs, clinics and populations that is seeking to answer still-lingering questions.
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The John Bolton Super Pac has released its very first television ad, and the subject is Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire's 2nd District. The ad, titled "Baffled," features clips of Kuster's disastrous Benghazi comments during a public meeting (in which she claimed Benghazi was not an issue before the U.S. House and Libya was not in the Middle East).
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I designed and built the above "Factory Cart Coffee Table" for the October 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. As happens with many woodworking projects, I pulled inspiration from a variety of sources. Recently, it has become popular to re-purpose old factory carts to serve as coffee tables , to bring an old-world, rustic charm to your living room. These carts have popped up in furniture catalogs including Restoration Hardware and Pottery Barn, and are even sold online by antique dealers. You can sometimes find an original cart in an un-restored condition for a few hundred dollars, but a fully restored one will usually cost more than $700.
While browsing the web site of one dealer, I noticed that some original carts had stenciled company labels on their sides. One label immediately caught my attention: TOWSLEY CINCINNATI.
I thought locating information on a company that created carts in the 1880s would prove difficult, but a quick Google search brought me to the Old Wood-Working Machines web site. Steve Shanesy brought this site to my attention while he was restoring an old Delta Unisaw, and it contains a wealth of information about old tools and manufacturers.
On the John T. Towsley Manufacturing Co. page, there are images of advertisements, patents and a catalog , the last 12 pages of which are nothing but factory trucks (carts). This catalog not only provided me with some general dimensions of the carts, but also inspired me to make a modern version , complete with a CINCINNATI stencil.
Around this time I was also referred to a blog called Knock Off Wood. Ana White is the author of the blog, and from her home in Alaska she reproduces furniture from stores and galleries using dimensional lumber from the home center. You should definitely check out her site – there's tons of inspiration and plans for weekend projects. She has a factory cart coffee table design, but it looked a little too small and delicate for my taste. But White makes building these projects seem so easy that it gave me the confidence to build a design of my own.
Armed with the Towsley catalog and the confidence, my first step was to design the coffee table in SketchUp. You can download the final SketchUp model below. The great thing about SketchUp is that it allows you to adjust the dimensions of the project on-the-fly , it has a built-in "wood stretcher." Visually, it allowed me to see how the table would look with the top boards flush with the sides, or with various amounts of overhang. Without SketchUp, I wouldn't have been confident of how a 1″ versus a 2″ overhang would look without some work in the shop.
After finalizing the overall dimensions, it was time to acquire the materials. The rubber casters sold at the home center didn't give me the "old-school" look I was going for, so I managed to find a set of spoked steel casters from an industrial supplier online. The next part of this puzzle was choosing the material for the top. After a visit to see an original factory cart at the Restoration Hardware across the street from our office, I decided that I wanted a weathered and slightly mismatched top. If a cart got a lot of use in a factory or warehouse, inevitably one of the boards would need to be replaced. So I decided to construct the top out of pallet boards. How's that for reclaimed lumber!
Constructing this project was a breeze; it's outlined in detail in the October 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. I was already familiar with pocket screws; I used them when I built my storage bench for the June 2009 issue, so I decided to use them again in this project.
The final element was to choose a finish. I wanted a balance between looking clean but rustic. After another visit to see the original cart, I decided on amber shellac. After using it on this project, I understand why Senior Editor Glen Huey recommends it , it applies easily and dries very quickly. Perfect for this weekend project.
If you decide to build this coffee table let me know, and please send photos. I'd love to see what you come up with. And that's my favorite part about this project: You can customize it to match your tastes and your home.
I've uploaded the entire project plan for the "Factory Cart Coffee Table." You can read the entire article online and download a PDF copy.
I used the Kreg Jig to build this project, but I lost the manual. Luckily the Kreg web site has instructions as well as videos on using the jig system.
You can download more project plans from our I Can Do That page , including my Storage Bench featured in June 2009 issue.
Also, we've published a book of many projects you can easily do in a weekend. Right now it's on sale for $13.59.
And take a look at "The Table Book." There are several small size table plans and you can check out the entire contents by visiting this blog entry.
Try northerntool.com for casters.
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Description for Pachira Five Buds
Pachira is a tropical wetland tree of the genus Pachira and is commercially sold under the name money tree and money plant.It has shiny green palmate leaves and smooth green bark. It is a durable plant and will adapt very well to different conditions. The pachira needs plenty of sunlight though it is important to avoid direct sunlight during the summer months as the leaves may get sunburned.
The plant is also known as Malabar chestnut or Saba nut. Money tree plants often have their slender trunks braided together and are a low maintenance option for artificially lit areas. Money tree plant care is easy and based upon just a few specific conditions.
|Common name
|Flower colours
|Bloom time
|Money tree
|Upto 60 ft in their native habitat.
|easy to medium
Planting and care
Plants are often grown as bonsai specimens and house plants, being very tolerant of drought and shade.
|Full sun to partial shade.
|Plant the tree in peat moss with some gritty sand.
|These plants like a moderately humid room and deep but infrequent watering. Water the plants until the water runs from the drainage holes and then let them dry out between watering.
|The best temperatures are 60 to 65 F. (16-18 C.).
|Remember to fertilize every two weeks as part of good money tree plant care. Use a liquid plant food diluted by half. Suspend fertilizing in winter.
Caring for Pachira Five Buds
- If your home is on the dry side, you can increase the humidity by placing the pot on a saucer filled with pebbles.
- Keep the saucer filled with water and the evaporation will enhance the humidity of the area.
- The plant should be repotted every two years in a clean peat mixture.
- Try not to move the plant around a lot.
- Money tree plants dislike being moved and respond by dropping their leaves.
- Also keep them away from drafty areas.
- Move your Pachira money tree outside in summer to an area with dappled light, but dont forget to move it back in before fall.
- The Pachira plant rarely needs to be pruned but as part of your annual money tree plant care, take off any damaged or dead plant material.
Typical uses of Pachira Five Buds
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Ornamental use: The tree is also planted as a street tree, to provide shade and as an ornamental in gardens
Medicinal use: The skin of the immature green fruit is used in the treatment of hepatitis. The bark is used medicinally to treat stomach complaints and headaches. A cold water infusion of the crushed leaves is used to treat a burning sensation in the skin.
- http://homeguides.sfgate.com/care-pachira-plant-48078.html
- http://tropical.theferns.info
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The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has announced that the draft scoping report for the Robert Moses Parkway North/Niagara Gorge Corridor project will be available for the public to review beginning on Wednesday, Feb. 20, with a public open house. The open house will take place from 3 until 7 p.m. in the Cataract Room at the Conference Center Niagara Falls, 101 Old Falls St.
The format of the open house will allow the public to review the alternatives derived from the scoping process and to have questions answered by project consultants. Members of the public can also leave written comments. The plan covers the area of the Robert Moses Parkway from Main Street in the City of Niagara Falls to the Village of Lewiston.
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The report will also be available online at http://nysparks.com/inside-our-agency/public-documents.aspx.
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For a major rail car manufacturer, Handling Specialty engineered and manufactured three custom lift systems, each comprised of two self-propelled scissor lifts and one wireless radio frequency hand controller. Together, the lifts handle a railcar body weighing up to 16,800 lbs.
Loaded via crane, the lift system follows floor-mounted guide rails to move the railcar through a series of in-line progressive work stations. At the end of the assembly line, the lifts are picked-up via forklift and returned to the beginning of the line (note the fork pockets in the photo above). At this facility, the lifts move up and down once and travel 100' horizontally per eight hour shift.


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It took me a while to find a job. And even longer to find the right job. But when the right job came along, I pursued the job with passion and integrity, knowing with certainty that I had what it takes to perform the duties in the job description.
And I got the job. Every day I go to my office, I do my very best to do the very best job I can do for my team and the company that placed its trust in me. I understand that like with any job, it takes time to learn the ropes and become perfectly efficient in performing my duties. I also understand that not all tasks are as enjoyable to perform but should I encounter a task that for some reason I am less inclined to perform, I will still do my best. I signed the dotted line and I honor my duties.
However, it seems this professional integrity is not necessary to be found in all sectors.
Politicians in government, for example, are exempt from keeping the promises they made to the people – their employer – at least in Iceland.
The legitimate reason behind dismissing one of its main election promises, that is, the referendum to decide whether or not to continue the EU accession talks is simple: Political impossibility.
A political impossibility is a funny phrase. It refers to our politicians' impossibility to perform a task they in fact were recruited to perform. The Progressive Party and Independent Party's stand against the EU talks is that Iceland does not belong in the European Union. Therefore they have submitted a proposal to Parliament to put an official end to the talks by withdrawing from them, as I mentioned in my last column.
Mikael Torfason, editor at 365 media and the host of a Sunday afternoon news-oriented discussion program on Channel 2 (Stöð 2), Mín Skoðun ("my opinion") gave a definition of this term in his program yesterday afternoon. In his opinion, the political impossibility is simply that they cannot be expected to take on a task that is in opposition of the two parties' internal policies.
To him, the political reality is simply that more than half the Icelandic population wants to continue accession talks with the EU and then vote in a referendum whether to join the EU on those terms or not.
I'll be honest with you: Mikael Torfason is not my favorite journalist.
But this time, he is right.
Why is it that the present government can allow itself to take a stand that is in total disregard of its employer – the people – in the name of "political impossibility". I can just imagine if a normal employee used this argument as an excuse to refuse to perform a designated task, especially seeing that the head of the Independent Party himself said that he would support a referendum to decide whether to continue the EU talks or not.
Earlier this week, Channel 2 showed a clip from an interview taken during the elections last spring where Minister of Finance Bjarni Benediktsson made it quite clear that a referendum should and would take place, possibly as early as the spring of 2014 alongside the nationwide municipal elections.
But now, according to the Minister of Finance and head of the Independent Party, it is wrong to continue the theatrical performance that is the EU accession negotiation process, both to his party and the European Union.
Meanwhile, roughly 8,000 people came to Austurvöllur to protest last Saturday; this was day five of an almost week long protesting.
A recent statistical study shows that 82 percent of electorates want a referendum. I feel it is the general consensus, following Icesave referendum one and two, is that voters like to be asked about the big issues. The European Union is a big issue and therefore I feel that electorates need to be asked. And the result needs to be respected, no matter how the politicians in charge feel about it.
A politician is in servitude to the nation as a whole, both those who voted for them and those like myself, who didn't.
I am genuinely concerned that our politicians – the people's "employees" – regard themselves as superiors to the people they serve, and will choose not to listen to a large enough number of dissatisfied electorates and withdraw from the accession talks.
What happened to their professional integrity?
Most of us would be sacked for not performing a duty fundamental to the job we signed up to do. Clearly a petition with more than 40,000 signatures and five days of bellowing protests is not enough.
Júlíana Björnsdóttir – [email protected]


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The Nth Legopian War had begun in earnest, as invasion forces from both sides spilled across the Nondescript Plains.
One such invasion force was centered around the Marmoset, a giant battle platform constructed by Builders League United (BLU). The first stop on its tour of destruction was the Unnecessary Wall. This wall was an artifact of the ancient, ultra-advanced Geezers, who have since mysteriously vanished. This didn't really concern either the Legopian Alliance or the Connected Bricks of Legopia at the moment, though. It was just something to smash on the way to the cities or a place to hole up in, respectively.
Legopian Alliance:
The Marmoset's primary ordinance is a huge artillery cannon. Both of the Marmoset's side platforms hold a Cruise Missile capable of dealing similar damage, and a gun turret. The machine's only real weakness are the two Ragnite radiators beside the Cruise Missiles, since there was no way it was blowing up otherwise. To the right of the Marmoset are three heavy infantry, and to the left is the light battlemech Loki.
The Marmoset has a crew of seven, with the artillery cannon manned by the head of BLU himself, known only as The Engineer (or "Engie" to his friends). The Marmoset's rear entrance is protected by a Level 2 Flamethrower Sentry.
Connected Bricks of Legopia:
The newly-renamed Connected Bricks of Legopia has garrisoned a motley band of fighters at the Wall. In the courtyard, the tank Edelweiss and three Pogo Stick Knights face down the Marmoset. Atop the wall are three archers, led by the sideways-crossbow-wielding Gangsteth. To the left of the wall is a BLU Scout and Captain Style. The Wall's right battlement houses an Anti-Tank Lancer (Not pictured) and the Warrior Monk F'thog. Below the right battlement, the machine gunner Jameson waits in ambush, while a Reliable Excavation Demolition (RED) Soldier waits outside of ambush. The mounted "knight" Stu waits behind the gates, while a BLU Sniper peers through an arrow slit.
Turn 1: Connected Bricks of Legopia
The BLU Sniper picks off one of the Marmoset's Cruise Missile crew.
Jameson steps out from behind cover, and the RED Soldier joins in the attack. The resulting exchange of fire ends in a stunned Jameson and damaged Loki.
The Edelweiss and Pogo Stick Knights move out of the Marmoset's way to the left flank. Captain Style is angry that the Edelweiss has blocked the enemy's view of his awesomeness.
Turn 2: Legopian Alliance
The Marmoset fires its artillery at the Edelweiss and surrounding infantry, scoring a direct hit! The Edelweiss is completely unharmed, and one Pogo Stick Knight survives the attack. The remaining Pogo Stick Knights, Captain Style, and the BLU Scout are all killed.
The Marmoset advances. The Pogo Stick Knight barely avoids being squished.
The left gunner swings his turret around in hopes of clubbing F'thog...
F'thog takes the opportunity to leap aboard the Marmoset!
The right gunner has more luck, killing Stu as he charges around the Wall.
The first Cruise Missile is launched at the RED Soldier!
The Soldier's Adamantine Helmet absorbs the blow. The filthy pink-skin Jameson is disintegrated. The explosion also flushes a Ninja out of hiding!
The Heavy Infantry, seeing nothing to kill, withdraw to the Marmoset. Loki advances.
Turn 3: Connected Bricks of Legopia
Before being squished, Neenja leaps aboard the Marmoset and bisects the left gunner.
The Pogo Stick Knight does likewise, though the right gunner survives the attack. F'thog gets up and attacks the remaining Cruise Missile Crewman, though the Crewman survives.
Loki incinerates the RED Soldier.
Turn 4: Legopian Alliance
The Marmoset fires an artillery shell at the top of the Wall, killing the two generic archers. Gangsteth sees the shot coming and jumps onto the front of the Marmoset before the shot lands.
The Marmoset collides with the wall, grinding to a halt! All of the silly Minifigs too busy killing eachother to wear seatbelts are sent flying. Many are killed (no-one of consequence, though, and not a single CBL unit)
Turn 5: Connected Bricks of Legopia
The Edelweiss trundles behind the now-stopped Marmoset and scores a direct hit on the dazed Engineer!
The Edelweiss activates its hydraulics in celebration.
...But wait! That Engineer was a Spy! The real Engineer wasn't aboard the Marmoset at all!
The Pogo Stick Knight bounches back aboard, killing a Heavy Infantry who had clambered up on the right platform.
Loki grabs the late Jameson's weapon and guns down the Anti-Tank Lancer.
The Marmoset's pilot makes a desperate run to fire the last Cruise Missile.
The Pogo Stick Knight beats him to it, launching the Cruise Missile at Loki! It's destroyed!
The pilot, the last surviving Alliance unit, disgraces his side by surrendering.
The Nth Legopian War:
Battle 1: Battle of the Non-Descript Plains
Battle 2: Battle of the Unnecessary Wall
Battle 3: Outbreak at Ribannald
Filler 1: Capture the Princess
Filler 2: Battle for Ascention
Filler 3: Legopia versus the Saturnalia Spirit
Post-battle Notes:
-Soo, the Marmoset couldn't smash through the wall. What a miscalculation that was. It probably would've been better just to squish that Pogo Stick Knight and the Edelweiss.
-RED and BLU are private military contractors and arch-rivals, so it makes sense that BLU wouldn't send their leader on such a generic mission. After the fiasco at the Unnecessary Wall, with BLU and RED troops working together against BLU troops, they both reserve the right to kill the other contractor's members on sight and will only work for one side per-operation (the highest-paying one, naturally).
-A Marmoset is a type of monkey. In this case, it's also a Valkyria Chronicles reference.
-F'thog stands for Flip-The-Hell-Out-Guy.
-After defending itself on the first turn, Loki ended up attacking with response actions every time. Pitted against so many anti-tank units, it couldn't really afford to lose an attack.
-Loki carries two rockets and a size-2 flamethrower, so it can't carry a handheld weapon until it clears up space by deploying its rocket salvo. Generally, it will get this weapon by looting a corpse. The whole thing worked surprisingly well, and it was a fun unit. Perhaps I'll mass-produce some more "vulture" armored units.
-You've probably noticed that my creations' colour schemes are basically non-existant. This is because I'm not a patient person with Lego, and it's monotonous enough to find the right pieces in our big box without worrying about colour. My newer units generally are built with some eye for colour, though.
-We've been experimenting with "who goes first" rules instead of leaving it to a dice-roll. The rule for this battle was "The side with the single most expensive unit goes last". This was because it's much easier for monster units to steamroll an enemy army before they can really do anything, and the "weaker" side should get a chance to react. A new rule inspired by this round is "Whoever deploys first, goes first". This is to counteract the imbalance in being able to pick which units fight which. For example, in this battle, I deployed first. During the battle, my heavy infantry were matched with a tank, and Loki was going up against the enemy's entire anti-tank contingent. By the dice things ended up going pretty smoothly for both of those two groups, though.
-The name for Legopia's ancient civilization was a toss-up between Geezers and Ancient Ancients.
-(VALKYRIA CHRONICLES SPOILERS) The Edelweiss was, in fact, piloted by a zombified Isara Gunther.


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The United States Marine Corps is acting to terminate its agreement with a North Carolina clothing manufacturer that was believed to be making clothing with American military logos and slogans in a Bangladesh factory where a fire killed more than 112 workers, officials said.
Activists in Bangladesh told ABC News that inside the smoldering wreckage of the Tazreen Fashions factory they found order forms and design specs from the brand, Soffe, for sweatshirts and tank tops emblazoned with U.S. Marine Corps insignia and logos. Marine Corps officials said they had been told the items were being made in America.
"Under the License, the Marine Corps may terminate the License if Soffe is found to be in breach of certain provisions," said Jessica O'Haver, who oversees the military branch's licensing program. "The Marine Corps has reason to believe that Soffe has in fact breached the license, and has informed Soffe of its intention to terminate the License."
The move by the Marines is the latest in a series of developments in the aftermath of the deadly blaze, as a number of major American brands have tried to explain how their clothing lines wound up in a factory that had been hit with repeated warnings for serious safety violations.
A Reuters report filed from Dhaka Tuesday said that at the time of the fire, the factory was operating without a safety license and had been warned twice to improve conditions there. The report quoted the country's director general of the Fire Service and Civil Defense as saying that he had "refused to renew the license because there was a lack of fire safety measures … fire safety provisions had not been put in place."
Officials with the company that owns the Tazreen factory, Tuba Group, have repeatedly declined to comment on the blaze, but the largest company whose clothing was found in the factory, Wal-Mart, has acknowledged it is investigating to determine how the safety warnings came to be ignored by its suppliers.
More documents found in the factory indicate that two Wal-Mart suppliers were using the factory around the time of the fire, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Kevin Gardner, a Wal-Mart spokesman, told the Times, "If we determine that other suppliers were using a deactivated factory to produce merchandise for Wal-Mart, that's a violation of our supplier standards. If that is the case, it is unacceptable and we will take appropriate action."
An executive at the parent company of Soffe, the label making garments with U.S. Marine Corps logos, told ABC News last week that his company also did not know how design specs for his firm's items wound up in the Tazreen factory. He provided ABC News with shipping records showing the company last received a shipment from Tazreen in 2011, and said they had requested that factory no longer be used.
"We never purposefully produced garments there. Ever," said Bob Humphreys, chairman and CEO of Delta Apparel, Soffe's parent company.
A spokesman for Delta Apparel said Wednesday that Tuba Group told Delta Apparel that the documents were stored at Tazreen "in connection with the Tuba Group's general marketing efforts there."
"We never authorized any production, United States military or otherwise, at Tazreen," said the spokesman, "[and] we have no current relationship with the Tuba Group." He said Delta had ended its relationship with Tuba earlier this year.
Advocates with the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity discovered the order book in the burned out Tazreen building and photographed it. The photos include order sheets dated July 2012, designs for hooded sweatshirts that say "Semper Fi" or "U.S. Marines," matching sweat pants, and a tank top that says "The Few. The Proud."
Humphreys reviewed the photos at the request of ABC News and said that the order forms and specs appeared to be "based on" his company's documents. He initially speculated that Tuba, which had an order from Soffe, had moved production to Tazreen without telling his company.
Worker rights groups in the U.S. expressed outrage that an overseas factory with clearly identified safety problems would be selected to manufacture clothing for a licensee of the United States Marines. "The fact that Marines logo clothing was found in the rubble of the sweatshop fire should serve as a wake-up call to the U.S. government to put into place safeguards to ensure decent working conditions in government supply chains and among licensees," said Liana Foxvog of the International Labor Rights Forum.
The Marine Corps has expressed serious concerns about the production process, and said they never allowed Soffe to make military licensed clothes in Tazreen.
"The Marine Corps has established specific guidelines for its licensees and their manufacturers around the world," O'Haver said in a statement emailed to ABC News. That includes "prohibitions against forced labor, child labor, health and safety, harassment or abuse, wages and benefits, working environment, and other issues. Neither Tazreen Fashions nor their parent company Tuba Garments, LTD are authorized manufacturers of Soffe licensed Marine Corps branded merchandise."
O'Haver said the Marine Corps "has offered Soffe a period of time to provide information" before it formally terminates its agreement with the company.


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