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The U.S. soccer team's fate in this World Cup is tied to the match with Belgium later Tuesday. But there's another, bigger-money connection between the two countries: Belgium is one of the biggest foreign owners of U.S. government debt.
The small European nation was listed as the third-largest holder of Treasurys as of April, the latest month for which Treasury International Capital data are available. Despite a slight decline in its holdings for that month, Belgium has bought up nearly $200 billion of government bonds over the past year, more than any other nation.
That rapid accumulation of U.S. debt has been a topic of conversation in the U.S. Treasury market for months.
But there shouldn't be any financial repercussions from the outcome of Tuesday's Round of 16 game, even if some fans of the U.S. Men's National Team might want to avoid anything Belgian for a while.
That's because Belgium's holdings include debt that is held in custody for other nations. So most market participants assume that Belgium is simply holding for other countries that are making use of the nation's collateral management services. Unfortunately the data don't break down who those buyers could be, but some market participants postulate that it's China.
No, China did not make the World Cup, and the implications of U.S. indebtedness to the Chinese is a topic for another day.
The U.S.-Belgium game starts at 4 p.m. Eastern.
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Sunday, June 26, 2005
IMBB #16 - Skagen Mix
Ah, it's that time of month again! Is My Blog Burning? is THE original food blogging meme, and this edition is hosted by Viv at Seattle Bon Vivant. The theme? Eggs. That's right - eggs. What a huge theme, you might think. I know that I sure did. I love eggs - I eat a lot, and I use them for so much stuff. We always have soft boiled eggs for breakfast on weekends (much to the delight of my cat Kelly - she loves soft egg yolk, and will come running as soon as she hears me crack the shell with a spoon), and whenever we're on vacation. It's a life-long tradition for me, it's always been like that when I grew up. But, as much as I love my boiled eggs (not to mention how much I love my little gadget - the egg boiler!) I can't very well post about that for an IMBB?. Luckily, Viv gave a lot of examples in her announcement - and she even mentioned that fish eggs - roe - would be acceptable.
And here I am, having been waiting for an excuse to share a classic Swedish recipe. Skagen Mix is a mayo-based sauce with shrimp and dill, "invented" by Tore Wretman who is one of the most famous Swedish chefs. He served it with toast, as in a Toast Skagen. This is found on menus all over Sweden (including as a baguette filling in many cafes), it's an eternal classic appetizer. And you certainly should try it.
I have no idea why he chose the name Skagen. Maybe I would know if I read one of his books, but I never have. Skagen is the northern coast of Denmark's largest island - and has nothing to do with Sweden. Maybe he tasted something similar there - certainly possible!
We wanted something more substantial, and served it with a baked potato instead. Match made in heaven. Especially as we happened to have an avocado ripening in the window. Perfect meal. There are tons of recipes for Skagen Mix, using all kinds of stuff - but this one is fairly classic. Although I think that if you really want authentic - more mayo is the way to go. I don't think creme fraiche was introduced in Sweden when this was first invented - but I could be wrong. And besides, Mr Wretman might have used sour cream. In either case, it lightens the whole sauce quite a bit, and I prefer the flavor this way.
Skagen Mix
Two generous portions
3 tbsp mayonnaise
3 tbsp creme fraiche (low-fat is fine)
1 tbsp finely chopped dill
50 g bleak roe
500 g shrimp, unpeeled but cooked
1/2 red onion, finely diced
freshly ground white pepper
Peel the shrimp, and roughly chop them if you want to. (This is not the time to use jumbo shrimp, small ones will be better here.) Stir together the mayo and the creme fraiche or sour cream. Add the dill, roe, onion and white pepper. Add the shrimp. Mix well. Voila - you're done! Serve with anything you'd like - it goes very well on toast, perfect in a ciabatta or in a baguette, excellent with baked potatoes or avocado.
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- McAuliflower said...
Yum... i wanted to use fish roe- I'm glad you actually did it!
This recipe reminds me of my favorite sushi handroll, blush, which I had today: it's spicy sweet mayo with octopus and tobiko (the flying fish roe)- yum!
I love how the roe pop... I call them nature's Pop Rocks! :)
- June 28, 2005 5:44 AM
i was in gotland not to long ago staying with a family and i tried skagen potatis and loved it. i hope this is as good as i remember. thanks for the recipe
- December 12, 2006 1:52 PM
Just returning from a 5-day trip to Göteborg I was searching for a Skagen Toast recipe (because we felt in love in that speciality...) and found your recipe. Due to your excellent description - I'm not very good in those kitchen things - I could surprise my wife with a swedish 'memory-dinner' today.
Tack för your recipe Anne!
Hall, Austria
- July 23, 2008 9:26 PM
- Pille said...
I vaguely remember reading from somewhere that Skagen used to be popular with Swedish artists (as in painters) and that's where the connection comes from. Or sth similar :)
I made Toast Skagen for dinner tonight..
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So taking my SD and mean effect from the last study, using the mean baseline HRSD score (in the drug group) from the paper, and weighting a linear regression by inverse variance*, what do we find?
But also compare this figure with one from the PLoS Medicine paper (Figure 2, right). Note that Kirsch et al have marked the region in green where their regression suggests an effect size over the NICE criteria (Cohen d > .5). On my graph I have also marked (grey vertical line) where the regression effect size exceeds the NICE criteria (mean HRSD difference > 3, marked as grey horizontal line). I find that this occurs around a baseline of 26 HRSD points** versus the 28 points found by Kirsch et al. So not a large difference between my finding and theirs, and likely due to using standardised effect size analyses and associated NICE criteria versus raw HRSD scores and associated NICE criteria, but looking at my figure is rather less striking because a baseline of 26 points is actually more representative of the studies analysed, falling near the mean baseline score.
If I repeat my analysis so that it is performed the same way as Kirsch et al, modelling an inverse variance* regression line on the mean change in HRSD for each group separately we can see (bottom right) that the point at which the regression lines are 3 HRSD points apart (grey bar) is similar to my above analysis, so that result is replicated when we consider the change scores and baseline HRSD scores for drug and placebo groups separately***.
An interesting further point to note is that the placebo response does not seem to decrease with increasing baseline HRSD when we use raw HRSD change as our effect size, and that drug response does in fact rise with increasing severity. Again this suggests that Kirsch et al's findings were due to using standardised mean differences as a measure of effect size rather than the raw figures. It also puts the lie to the widely reported claim that increasing effectiveness with severity is due to decreasing placebo response rather than increasing drug response.
* Weighting by sample size makes little difference.
** This is still in the 'very severe' category of depression, althought the labels used by NICE do not necessarily reflect clinical practice as Moncrieff & Kirsch say that in
"...the NICE meta-analysis [of] "moderate" (Hamilton score 14-18) through "severe" (19-22) to "very severe" depression ( ≥ 23)...the middle group...would generally be referred to as moderately depressed..."
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Seamus76 wrote:Thanks so much guys.
Marshal, I certainly understand and will wait patiently for your feedback.
The map was based on a layout of the tribes during that time period, which did keep pretty much to the current map. There could be some extension into Georgia or something, but not sure if that adds much to the game play, and would love more feedback and ideas.
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the conquistador region must reset to the same number of neutrals as the starting number: using the current xml code, starting at 3 and resetting to 2 is not possible.
the three tiny bonus zones at the bottom pose some gameplay difficulties because someone is very likely to pick up one or more of these bonuses from the drop. one way to deal with this situation is for one warrior in each of these tiny bonus zones to start neutral.
the larger zones don't have a big enough bonus to make them attractive relative to the tiny zones, which means the winning strategy will almost always be the same. i suggest +8 or +9 for calusa, +5 for apalachee and +3 or +4 for creek. although throwing in a +15 for the timucua war zone might be irrelevant most of the time, it does seem to be at least as logical as no bonus, as well as making the legend neater.
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Another bit of interesting work I did, for another client, was to implement a CAPTCHA system. I chose the library Kaptcha and built services and components around it.
If you follow the documentation for Katpcha, you'll see that you're supposed to configure it inside web.xml and add a servlet. That's not the Tapestry way, especially for something that will likely be split off into its own library at some point and there's no reason that all the necessary plumbing can't occur within the context of Tapestry's APIs.
The essence of a CAPTCHA is two fold: first, a secret string is generated on the server side. On the client-side, an image and a text field are displayed. The image is a distorted version of the secret text. The user must type the text ... humans being better able to pull meaning out of the distortion than any typical program.
Back on the server side, we compare what the user entered against the secret string.
I broke the implementation up into three pieces:
- A Tapestry service to handle generating the secret string and the image
- A Tapestry component to display the image
- A second component to handle the text field
In practice, all it takes to use this is the following:
<t:kaptchaimage t:id="kaptcha"/>
 <t:kaptchafield image="kaptcha"/>
The two components work together to select the secret word, display the image, and validate that the user has entered the expected value.
Let's look at how this all comes together.
KaptchaProducer Service
Kaptcha includes an interface, Producer, that has most of what I want:
package com.google.code.kaptcha; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; /** * Responsible for creating captcha image with a text drawn on it. */ public interface Producer { /** * Create an image which will have written a distorted text. * * @param text * the distorted characters * @return image with the text */ BufferedImage createImage(String text); /** * @return the text to be drawn */ String createText(); }
I extended this to add methods for determining the width and height of the captcha image:
package com.myclient.services.kaptcha; import com.google.code.kaptcha.Producer; /** * Extension of KatpchaProducer that exposes the images width and height (in * pixels). * */ public interface KaptchaProducer extends Producer { int getWidth(); int getHeight(); }
My implementation is largely a wrapper around Kaptcha's default implementation:
package com.myclient.services.kaptcha; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.util.Map; import java.util.Properties; import com.google.code.kaptcha.impl.DefaultKaptcha; import com.google.code.kaptcha.util.Config; public class KaptchaProducerImpl implements KaptchaProducer { private final DefaultKaptcha producer; private final int height; private final int width; public KaptchaProducerImpl(Map<String, String> configuration) { producer = new DefaultKaptcha(); Config config = new Config(toProperties(configuration)); producer.setConfig(config); height = config.getHeight(); width = config.getWidth(); } public int getHeight() { return height; } public int getWidth() { return width; } public BufferedImage createImage(String text) { return producer.createImage(text); } public String createText() { return producer.createText(); } private static Properties toProperties(Map<String, String> map) { Properties result = new Properties(); for (String key : map.keySet()) { result.put(key, map.get(key)); } return result; } }
What's all the business with the
Map<String, String> configuration? That's a Tapestry IoC mapped configuration, that allows us to extend the configuration of the Kaptcha Producer ... say, to change the width or height or color scheme.
Note that this was my choice, to have a centralized text and image producer, so that all CAPTCHAs in the application would have a uniform look and feel. Another alterntiave would have been to have the KaptchaImage component (described shortly) have its own instance of DefaultKaptcha, with parameters to control its configuration.
KaptchaImage Component
So with this service in place, how do we generate the image? This is done in three steps:
- Selecting a secret word and storing it persistently in the session
- Rendering an  element, including a
- Providing an image byte stream when asked by the browser
package com.myclient.components; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.OutputStream; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; import org.apache.tapestry5.ComponentResources; import org.apache.tapestry5.Link; import org.apache.tapestry5.MarkupWriter; import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.Persist; import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.SupportsInformalParameters; import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.Inject; import org.apache.tapestry5.services.Response; import com.myclient.services.kaptcha.KaptchaProducer; /** * Part of a Captcha based authentication scheme; a KaptchaImage generates a new * text image whenever it renders and can provide the previously * rendred text subsequently (it is stored persistently in the session). * * The component renders an  tag, including width and height * attributes. Other attributes come from informal parameters. */ @SupportsInformalParameters public class KaptchaImage { @Persist private String captchaText; @Inject private KaptchaProducer producer; @Inject private ComponentResources resources; @Inject private Response response; public String getCaptchaText() { return captchaText; } void setupRender() { captchaText = producer.createText(); } boolean beginRender(MarkupWriter writer) { Link link = resources.createEventLink("image"); writer.element("img", "src", link.toAbsoluteURI(), "width", producer.getWidth(), "height", producer.getHeight()); resources.renderInformalParameters(writer); writer.end(); return false; } void onImage() throws IOException { BufferedImage image = producer.createImage(captchaText); response.setDateHeader("Expires", 0); response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"); response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "post-check=0, pre-check=0"); response.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache"); OutputStream stream = response.getOutputStream("image/jpeg"); ImageIO.write(image, "jpg", stream); stream.flush(); stream.close(); } }
This component (which has no template) has two render phase methods. In
setupRender() we choose the secret word; since the
captchaText field has the @Persist annotation, it's value will be stored in the session.
beginRender() is where we render the image. We also generate a callback link for an event named "image". The URL Tapestry generates will identify the page and component within the page, as well as this event name.
Notice how we use the
getWidth() and
getHeight() extensions on the service interface to set these attributes of the  tag.
Later, the browser will send a request for the event, and the
onImage() event handler method will be invoked. This is where we get the image bytestream from the service and pump it down to the client. As you can see, we set a bunch of header values to ensure that the browser won't cache the image.
KaptchaField Component
The last part of the overall puzzle is the text field. Again, there are two main responsibilities:
- Rendering out the text field (when rendering)
- Validating that the user entered the correct secret text (when the form is submitted)
package com.myclient.components; import org.apache.tapestry5.BindingConstants; import org.apache.tapestry5.ComponentResources; import org.apache.tapestry5.FieldValidator; import org.apache.tapestry5.MarkupWriter; import org.apache.tapestry5.ValidationTracker; import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.BeginRender; import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.Environmental; import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.Parameter; import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.SupportsInformalParameters; import org.apache.tapestry5.corelib.base.AbstractField; import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.Messages; import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.Inject; import org.apache.tapestry5.services.FieldValidatorSource; import org.apache.tapestry5.services.Request; /** * Field paired with a {@link KaptchaImage} to ensure that the user has provided * the correct value. * */ @SupportsInformalParameters public class KaptchaField extends AbstractField { /** * The image output for this field. The image will display a distorted text * string. The user must decode the distorted text and enter the same value. */ @Parameter(required = true, defaultPrefix = BindingConstants.COMPONENT) private KaptchaImage image; @Inject private Request request; @Inject private Messages messages; @Inject private ComponentResources resources; @Environmental private ValidationTracker validationTracker; @Inject private FieldValidatorSource fieldValidatorSource; @Override public boolean isRequired() { return true; } @BeginRender boolean renderTextField(MarkupWriter writer) { writer.element("input", "type", "password", "id", getClientId(), "name", getControlName(), "value", ""); resources.renderInformalParameters(writer); FieldValidator fieldValidator = fieldValidatorSource.createValidator( this, "required", null); fieldValidator.render(writer); writer.end(); return false; } @Override protected void processSubmission(String elementName) { String userValue = request.getParameter(elementName); if (image.getCaptchaText().equals(userValue)) return; validationTracker.recordError(this, messages.get("incorrect-captcha")); } }
renderTextField() method is largely straight forward: by the time this is invoked, the unique clientId and controlName will already have been set for the field. The only trick here is to create some client-side validation to enforce that the field is required.
Later the form will be submitted by the user and the
processSubmission() method is invoked. It asks the KaptchaImage for the stored text and compares it to the user's input. If invalid, then an error message is recorded, associated with the field. The actual error text is stored in the component's message catalog.
Tapestry's approach is quite often about integration: integration of component code with other resources (such as templates or message catalogs), integration of components with other components, and integration of components with services. Here we get to see how a singleton service can be used by any number of components, how two components can be connected together, and how easy it is to provide logic both when rendering a page and on later related requests from the client.
If you check the comments below, you'll see that Jon and I have been sparring good-naturedly about what constitutes "simple". Most of the code is related to integration: integrating the Kaptcha code into the Tapestry infrastructure; adding features such as just-in-time initialization to the DefaultProducer code, adding new features (access to the width and height of the image), allowing for configuration of the Kaptcha Producer in the "Tapestry way" (via contribution methods in module classes), and hooking into Tapestry's normal infrastructure for handling form submissions and reporting user input errors ... even client-side logic to enforce that the field is required.
All that integration is what allows the end-developer to get by with just the following in their page template:
<t:kaptchaimage t:id="kaptcha"/>
 <t:kaptchafield image="kaptcha"/>
... and even that could be compressed down to a single convenience component wrapping the two underlying components:
That is simplicity: no decisions to make, no URLs to map, no other files to edit, no additional code to write.
However, this still follows the Law of Immutable Complexity: making one part of a system simpler will make other parts more complex. In this situation, that extra complexity is the integration code (the two components and the service that Jon objects to). That's a trade-off I'm always willing to make: write some medium complex code once (and test it, once) and then be able to use it wherever I want.


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How I have made these things
September 04, 2005, 08:23:29 AM »
I will go into more detail on this subject later but want to get a post in here to get it started.
On my first geared device, I ground an old HSS router bit to approximate shape and cut teeth with a router mounted in my metal lathe and a home made index. They worked OK but didn't look the way I wanted. The index was not very good so I then bought a dividing head from Grizzy for, I think, less than $300 and mounted it on my lathe so that I could get good accurate indexing. That improved the effort but it was still far from perfect.
Some time passed and I obtained a copy of a book, "Gears fpr Small Mechanisms" by Davis and, having also learned to use a CAD program figured out how to draw good cycloidal teeth. This took me some considerable amount of time because it requires thought and concentration, hard commodities to acquire when one is out of practice. I then bought a CAM package to go with the CAD, (Bob CadCam) and was able to produce G code for my machining center and make perfect wheels and pinions. Now this was a long, expensive proceedure and there are numerous other ways to get good results but I am convinced that if you are wealthy enough and crazy enough, this is the best of all possible ways to produce gearing.
The standard, time honored method of gear cutting requires precision ground cutters, and a good lathe with indexing. This will produce excellent gears but the problem is that there are no cutters available that are large enough for wooden wheels and pinions. They are available for brass clocks but wood requires teeth which are at least slightly larger than the largest brass gear cutters made. An enterprising philanthropist could probably have a series of proper cutters made at considerable espense, which he could then sell at reasonable cost to the rest of us. So if there is such an exemplary individual out there, this is your chance to serve humanity.
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September 06, 2005, 06:00:29 PM »
I had the pleasure of a visit to JR's shop - it's a lot like getting sent to Santa's workshop - lots of really neat inventions and gizmo's for a mechanically intuitive mind to feast on.
JR demonstrated how he had cut his gears (Wheels and Pinions) on his CNC machining center (a Haas used for his business). I had just completed piecing together a small home CNC milling machine (Sherline with Servo drives) - and this was just the ticket to exercise my mind and mill.
Armed with the Grasshopper article (also from JR), inspiration and information from JR - I dove in. I have completed making my gears, and am now in the process or re-making my grasshopper mechanism. I hope to have my clock running in the near future (time and work permitting).
I will say - it the CNC milling machine really makes gear variation a possibility. If you had an indexing set-up and cycloidal tooth flycutters - you could do a very good job at making these gears. The only problem is - if you ever want a different module (pitch) - you need a new flycutter. That's where the flexibility of the CNC milling machin excels.
(Just my $.02 worth)
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September 07, 2005, 09:58:06 AM »
I haven't a shop, nor the money to get some of these tools, So I put my brain to work. What I came up with is to CAD up templates and have them cut with a laser cutter. Then rout them out. I am hopefully going to the laser cutters for the first time next week. With any luck I will let you know how it went within 3 weeks.
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September 07, 2005, 10:06:49 AM »
I have had some wheels laser cut. It did a very accurate job and cut them right out. The only problem was that the cut surface was black from the heat, slightly tapered and a little rough.
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September 07, 2005, 10:23:28 AM »
I was going to cut them out of a plastic material. I know about the roughness. i am hoping that when used as a templat with 1/8 inch guided bit that it will take out most of that. If not than i may haft to sand. Still in the experiment stage. It may not work either.
another possible way to mill gears
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September 07, 2005, 11:25:25 AM »
OK, I will try to explain the idea. I have seen these table saw blades that hold a piece of steel or solid carbide on the end. They are changeable and you can make molding with your table saw. Cut a dozen gears at once.
Next. I watched somebody custom grind a blade for a profile hand plane with a dremil and a jig. Very accurate and fast with the right set up. He basicly buffed the final shape to sharpness.
The Idea. Buy this special blade for the saw and make your own cutters and use a jig to index and position the gear. Cut teeth one at a time on your table saw.
Also I think you can get custom cutters for like $100. Carbide for like $250
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September 07, 2005, 11:26:32 AM »
The above message was me. I guess I didn't sign in. OPPS
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September 07, 2005, 02:12:05 PM »
Yes that would probably work. I have a single cutter head like that and I have ground custom blades for molding in just that way. You would have to make a sled to hold a mandrel with a stack of wheels on it and have a good accurate index arrangement. It would be a failry dangerous setup though and I think there may be easier ways. We all have to work with the tools we have, though, so sometimes the best way is just not available.
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September 07, 2005, 03:52:39 PM »
If I do this, I will have help from my instructor at school. Beleive me, Safty will be the highest priority. In fact some things that were ok to do in a production cabinet shop are not here. Thats ok with me. I am learning the best way to keep my figures.
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September 07, 2005, 07:28:45 PM »
I have seen this type of set-up before - in a Fine Woodworking book. But the regular table saw blade was used to produce Escape style gears (i.e. non-cycloidal and non-involute tooth profile). The figure showed only making one gear at a time - but making multiple copies on a mandrel with an indexing plate is entirely possible (as JR described).
I guess it depends on how many of the same clock gear you need to produce (I don't expect a similar market as that of the late 1700's when Great Britain embargoed the US from brass, steel, etc - causing the boom years of woodworks clocks). :)
Damon Miller
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September 10, 2005, 08:04:40 PM »
It is difficult for me to understand why one would want to mass produce a wheel or pinion for a wooden gear clock. As has been pointed out each change in center distance alters the tooth profile, thus one wheel/pinion does not fit all. My understanding of the wooden gear clock history leads me to believe that these timepieces were made one at a time mostly for the makers use. I also find great pleasure in the working of the woods and making one wheel/pinion at a time for a given configuration. That is my 1/2 cents worth.
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September 11, 2005, 04:23:59 AM »
At one time - wood works (all or nearly all gears (Wheels, Pinions), arbors, etc.) - were mass produced. During the years following winning our independance from Great Britain - who embargoed us from steel, brass, etc. - a boon market for wood works clocks existed. Literally 10's of thousands of clocks were made with with "wood works".
This also meant that the average man could afford a timepiece for their house (as it was not as expensive as a hand crafted brass/steel clock) - as the clocks were mass produced - with many interchangeable parts from maker to maker. Many of these timepieces still exist today - and are still in working order keeping time.
Today - I think the ability to make multiples has a lot of use, as it can enable a craftsman to make a few copies of his work for sale. I can definitely see where my small CNC milling machine will be a great help in producing gears and what not for clocks or kinetic sculpture or "gizmo's".
I don't know that I understand your comment on changing center distance alter's tooth profile. Tooth profile - whether it is involute or cycloidal - is determined by basic gear geometry (Predominantly Pitch/Module and number of teeth in Wheel/number of teeth in pinion). The tooth profile is derived from the manner of tooth form used (e.g. "Cycloidal" or "involute"). This, then, will determine the actual tooth geometry construction. From this geometry - the pitch circle is computed, and the theoretical center-to-center distance of the Wheel/Pinion or Gear/Gear train.
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September 11, 2005, 05:58:09 AM »
Years ago I read the Westphale article in the Woodworking Magazine and knew that making woodworks was for me. The only problem was all the machinery that Westphale used was a little to costly. After much thought and research I settle on a scrollsaw. Drawing up the patterns on a CAD and sawing them out with a scrollsaw under a magnifying glass is a highly accurate process. I've also made wheels using a router. Just does not provide the satisfaction of sawing them out. The early clocksters in New England used hand tools and primitive lathes. This was their winter job since farming had to wait till springtime. Examining those early woodworks revealed that the teeth were sawn by hand and none alike!
Around 1810 Eli Terry had a contract with the Porters to manufacture 4,000 woodworks. Enters the sawmill that was water powered. I owned number 3706 and what an improvement over the hand made ones. Now we have all the latest equipment and can make a much improved timepiece. However, there is much more to making woodworks than designing perfect teeth and pinions. Those early clocks ran on or about three pounds of weight for thiry hours. Eight day clocks ran on or about 7.5 pounds. Those early clocksters were amazing. My favorite is Jesse Emory. His clocks were beautifully engineered. The time train that I made using his design ran on 15 ounces. He used a three pound weight to overcome those little problems of dust, dirt, and bugs getting in between the wheels and pinions.
Glad to see this forum up and running. Nothing like exchanging ideas on this great hobby.
Marc Tovar
Layton, UT
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September 11, 2005, 07:27:30 AM »
The profile change I was referring to is the change determined via the module. Using the "module" system (which almost all clocks do) the width and space between the teeth change (profile).
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September 29, 2005, 11:58:40 AM »
The templet idea is under way. I hope to share with you what i have learned soon(2 weeks max i hope). Just an update. I am still on it.
More to the process than i expected.....
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Thus the Stadium was ready to be opened by the first of the new year, 1940. The final cost: $400,000 (which Duke finished paying after the football team won the Sugar Bowl in 1945).
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Duke's new Indoor Stadium was officially opened on January 6, 1940. Touring the building before the evening ceremony and subsequent game, local city officials were "speechless." Said Chamber of Commerce President Col. Marion B. Fowler, "It is so colossal and so wonderful ... This building will not only be an asset to the university but to the entire community as well." Chamber Secretary Frank Pierson concurred, "There are no superlatives for it."
But Duke's Indoor Stadium was a structure of superlatives. The arena measured 262-feet long by 175-feet wide and was the East Coast's largest indoor stadium south of the Palestra in Philadelphia. Nine fixed steel frames spanned the ceiling at 26-foot intervals, which "provided an exceptionally good sight line." Seating for 8,800 included 3,500 folding bleacher seats on the floor designated, then as today, for the exclusive use of undergraduates. Maximum capacity was 12,000. A total of 16 ramps in the upper level helped prevent bottlenecks. It was according to the program issued the opening night, "one of the most modern and complete physical education buildings in the country."
The building was dedicated before a crowd of 8,000, the largest ever in the history of southern basketball. President William P. Few and Dean William H. Wannamaker presented the Stadium to the University. Dean R.B. House of UNC-Chapel Hill, representing the Southern Conference, also spoke. Aware of the tensions his presence as a member of a rival institution might cause, House affirmed, "I am a Methodist. I aspire to religion, I endorse erudition, and I use ... tobacco ... Hence, I claim to have good personal grounds for being a friend and well-wisher of Duke University." House continued: "... here will be on parade not only Duke University, but also ... youth ... education ... (and) the values of a great and democratic people. Modern games preserve for us the athletic glory of Greece, the executive efficiency of Rome ...."
To the greater glory of Greece, Rome, and particularly Duke University, the Blue Devils beat the visiting Princeton Tigers that night, 36-27.
It was in February, 1986, that NBC Sports commentator Dick Enberg told the world about the latest planned renovations for Cameron. "They're going to make a real sports antique out of it ... complete with brass railings and stained glass windows."
For Duke athletic officials watching the Sunday afternoon broadcast of the Duke-Georgia Tech game, this was certainly news. Planned renovations did not, as some rumors indicated, include stained glass windows, but there was a major facelift being planned which included new side walls, a new electronic scoreboard and even brass railings.
Renovations began in 1987. The lobbies and concourse were remodeled during the summer of 1987. Then, in 1988, work began on the interior of the arena. A new electronic scoreboard, new sound system and decorative wood paneling gave Cameron an updated look, while maintaining the original elegance. The addition of 750 new student seats, increasing Cameron's capacity to 9,314, gave the Cameron Crazies, the Duke students who have made a name for themselves as Duke's exceptional "sixth man," a little more room to practice the art of supporting their team creatively.
In the early 1990s, Mike Krzyzewski and Athletic Director Tom Butters decided the time was right to give Cameron an addition with new locker rooms, coaches offices, an academic center and a new Sports Hall of Fame. Several years later, ground was broken for the new Schwartz-Butters Athletic Center after the end of the 1997-98 season. That complex now houses the men's and women's basketball programs, as well as Duke's athletic academic center.
The first part of that expansion and improvement project was the installation of a new floor in Cameron Indoor Stadium after the 1996-97 season. The latest advancements in floor technology were utilized to give the Blue Devils one of the finest playing surfaces in the entire country. Prior to the 1999-2000 season, a new press row was added. Air conditioning was added in 2001-02 and for its 100th season in 2004-05, the concourse was enhanced to celebrate Duke's tradition in men's and women's basketball with the addition of poster displays and all the banners were replaced in the rafters.
Cameron underwent a series of improvements over the summer of 2009 to enhance the gameday experience, while also retaining the revered qualities of the facility as it approached its 70th year as the home of the Blue Devils.
In front of the undergrads is a new state-of-the-art press table featuring 90-feet of LED (light emitting diode) technology. The new press row will improve crowding in the first row of the student section and features two aisles that will help fans and media members in and out of their seats at halftime and after the game. One of the most visible enhancements came in the upper bowl of Cameron where all 5,649 seats were painted Duke blue in conjunction with an extensive pressure washing of the seats, concrete, railing and tunnels.
Each of the distinctive brass railings that surround the arena were refurbished prior to the beginning of the 2009-10 basketball season.
In 2016, a two-story addition measuring 14,200 square feet came online on Cameron's south side. The first floor features a new lobby and exhibit space, as well as two new areas for ticket operations. The second floor of the new addition houses the Champions Club, a hospitality space with a capacity of roughly 250.
Originally the largest indoor arena in the South, Cameron is today one of the smallest in the nation. Nevertheless, its stature grows from year-to-year. Sellout crowds, top 25 rankings and championships of every variety have become the norm. The "creative harassment" of student spectators has given Duke the honor of being known as "one of the toughest road games in the USA," according to USA Today and any visiting team that has ever played in Cameron. In its June 7, 1999, issue, Sports Illustrated rated Cameron Indoor Stadium fourth on a list of the top 20 sporting venues in the world in the 20th Century, ranking ahead of such notables as Wrigley Field, Fenway Park and Pebble Beach Golf Club.
The Blue Devils have had an amazing amount of success in Cameron, winning over 80 percent of their games all-time. In 1999-2000, Duke established both the Atlantic Coast Conference and school record by extending its home winning streak to 46 games.
The Duke men's basketball team has an all-time record in Cameron of 847-157 for an .844 win percentage. The 847 wins is the most in the ACC and the fifth-highest total in the country on a current home court. Under Coach K, the win percentage increases to .887 with a 489-62 record.
Despite the changes that have taken place, Cameron Indoor Stadium has remained very much the same over the last 70+ years. New seating, high tech electronics and a fresh coat of paint have not altered, but rather enhanced, Cameron's most enduring characteristic ... its spirit. It is still a building of superlatives.
Excerpted from "Home Court - Fifty Years of Cameron Indoor Stadium" by Hazel Landwehr.


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The dairies will take steps to control nitrogen sources, such as manure and commercial fertilizer, at their facilities.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached legal agreements with a handful of dairies in the Yakima Valley of Washington State that the agency says will help reduce nitrate in area groundwater and nearby drinking water wells.
"This is good news, especially for those working locally to protect Yakima Valley groundwater," said EPA Regional Administrator Dennis McLerran in Seattle. "By working constructively with us in this local situation, the dairies have committed to protect drinking water and we have committed to collaborate on practices that keep people safe and farms in business."
Under the terms of the agreements, the dairies will:
• Provide alternate drinking water sources for neighbors within a one-mile radius whose wells have levels of nitrate above EPA's drinking water standard of 10 parts per million;
• Take steps to control nitrogen sources, such as manure and commercial fertilizer, at their facilities;
• Conduct soil and groundwater testing at each dairy, to evaluate if nitrogen sources are being controlled.
The Washington State Department of Agriculture voiced support for today's action.
"Nutrient management issues are critical for the community, the environment and the dairy industry," said WSDA Director Dan Newhouse. "We look forward to working with the EPA, the dairy industry and other affected parties as we strengthen our efforts in crafting long term solutions to the challenges we face."
Today's agreements are specific to the dairies that were part of EPA's study released last September: Cow Palace, LLC; George DeRuyter & Son, LLC; Liberty Dairy, LLC; H&S Bosma Dairy (part of Liberty Dairy); D&A Dairy, LLC; George & Margaret, LLC (part of both D&A and George DeRuyter & Sons Dairy).
The agreements complement ongoing efforts by the recently formed Lower Yakima Valley Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) to reduce threats posed to water quality from excess nitrogen from other dairies, other agricultural sources and from septic systems.
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-For the third week in succession, a member of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's track and field team been honored by the Little East Conference.
Sophomore Linee Mello-Frost (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) has been named Little East Conference Women's Track and Field Athlete of the Week.
At Saturday's Springfield College Invitational, Frost won the 55 meter hurdles in 9.15 seconds. She ran 8.99 seconds in the trials, and qualified for the Eastern Conference Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Championships with that performance.
"I was very pleased to see that Linee has been named Little East Conference Track Athlete of the Week," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "It's especially satisfying, seeing that she was one of the student-athletes at New Bedford High School when I coached there. It is gratifying to see her get this award."
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A man sought by Douglas County authorities since Tuesday night's fire in Chambers Field was found safe in a Lee Vining motel this afternoon.
Gordon Campbell, 59, and an orange 2005 Hummer he was driving, were last seen at 7 p.m. Tuesday turning toward the home he shares with Mashelle Begovich.
Two hours later when a fire broke out in the home, deputies attempted to find Campbell to determine he wasn't inside the home.
Investigators determined early this morning that he wasn't inside the home, but there was no word on where he'd gone.
This afternoon the California Highway Patrol found the Hummer abandoned near north June Lake Loop.
Campbell told officers he'd crashed the Hummer, and went to the motel.
No charges are pending against Campbell.
No one was injured in or fighting the fire which destroyed the home at 1136 Meadowlark Circle.
Firefighters rescued a dog from the burning home, but none of the other animals on the Begovich property were affected by the fire that claimed her home.
With no hydrants in the area, firefighters had to bring water with them to fight the fire, which was reported at 8:45 p.m.
East Fork Deputy Chief Tim Soule said firefighters completed their primary search of the house at 9:10 p.m., and reported the fire knocked down at 9:30 p.m., 45 minutes after the initial call.
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The fire appears to have started on the west side of the house.
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Job Title: Office Administrative Assistant
The Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB) located in Baltimore County, Maryland is recruiting a fulltime and/or partime Office Administrative Assistant. The Office Administrator will be serving as the face of the front-office staff as well as the ISB organization to the public. ISB is looking for someone who is efficient, dependable, organized and enjoys working with people and community members. We are seeking a self-motivated person who can provide excellent customer service and knows how to manage the day-to-day whirlwinds of a large, complex organization. The ideal person will have a strong attention to detail, a flexible attitude, and dependable. Be an effective communicator with an easy to get along with personality. Confidentiality, excellent organizational skills and accuracy are important qualifications for this position, as well as good customer relations and the ability to communicate clearly. Must be available to work on-site during office hours: M-F 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM. Must be flexible to work some evenings and weekends, if necessary.
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- At least three years of previous experience in office management, school, or a non-profit environment.
- Fluency in English (Spoken and written).
- Experience interacting with various interfaith organizations and involvement in outreach activities.
- Must be able to provide proof of the right to work in the United States as described by the Department of Homeland Security on this page: http://www.uscis.gov/i-9- central/acceptable-documents on the first day of employment.
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- Experience working in a changing and fast-paced environment
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- Understanding of Islamic environment.
- Able to interact with a diverse community, staff, and vendor populations with a high degree of cultural and religious sensitivity.
- Exhibits 110% professionalism and positive attitude when interacting with customers, family members, and visitors at all times.
· Interact with all persons and organizations, Muslim and Non-Muslim, in a manner that reflects positively on Islam, Muslims, and ISB.
· Continually strive and conduct oneself in ways that foster unity and inclusiveness among all community members, and promote broad participation in Islamic and community activities.
· Lead by example to prevent discrimination on any basis including but not limited to school of thought, gender, race, nationality, ethnic origin, citizenship, political affiliation, or economic status.
· Conduct oneself in a manner that is respectful of the history and diversity of the Muslim community.
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The Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB) is a Muslim mosque and religious community center in suburban Baltimore, Maryland serving Baltimore County. ISB was founded in 1969 by the local Muslim community, which met weekly on the campus of Johns Hopkins University. In 1982, the society purchased eight acres of land, where the present Masjid Al-Rahmah was built. In the years since, a housing complex, full-time K-12 primary school, Quran Academy Hifz & Seminary program, a Sunday school, a Community Health Clinic, and the multi-purpose hall have all been built. The center was the location of President Barack Obama's first presidential visit to a United States mosque on February 3, 2016.
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Alice forsees a vampire coming to town co-incidently a human arrives all the while peace between the wolves an the Cullens is about to be shattered
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My name is Leon Redgrave and I am a twent-one thousand year old elementally gifted vampire, I did for sometime work with the Volturi but after being betrayed by them I cut ties to wander from place to place. I barely remember my human life.
Forks Washington
A young vampire sat up and a radiant smile spread across her face
"Mom I've found him"
"My mate" the woman smiled warmly
"What does he look like and when will he be here?"
"His name is Leon Redgrave an elementally gifted one of us" Alice replied her excitement obvious "he'll be here in exactly three days"
"What direction is he coming from?" Esme asked
"The forest at about midnight on the third day" Alice replied
"Well then we had better tell Rosalie and Carlisle"
"Tell us what?" the two blondes asked from outside as the pair returned from hunting
"I found my mate" Alice repeated to the pair who both smiled the pixie like vampire paused"and it appears that your's is also arriving a day before mine" she pouted
"What?" Rose cried
"And she's human" Alice added then giggled at her sister's dumbfounded expression Carlisle standing beside Esme smiled at their kids
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Hall of Fame basketball writer Sam Smith probably has forgotten more about basketball than most people remember.
But when it came to Derrick Rose's knee injury and the backlash he took for sitting out the 2012-13 season, Smith saw something he hadn't witnessed in 30 years covering professional sports: fans turning on the homegrown star of the hometown team. RedEye talked to the co-author of "The Jordan Rules" for his take on Rose's injury and the 2013-14 Bulls.
Talk about why you were upset by the backlash toward Rose.
I was shocked at the level of vitriol towards a popular and cooperative player. I'd never seen anything like that, questioning an injury. I've never seen a player's injury questioned to that level. It would be one thing if it was Rasheed Wallace, but Derrick Rose is a good guy. He's cooperative and friendly to everybody, and to challenge his character and his motives, I was personally getting upset. I thought the character assassination for this guy, of all guys, given the severity of the injury, it was just unprecedented.
A lot of the criticism of Rose came right here in Chicago. What did you make of that?
I felt like I became a defender of Derrick, not just because I write for the Bulls website, [but] because of how I felt about that. I was on a local radio show with an ex-football player and he was talking about how he had an ACL injury. This was a fat lineman who was 300 pounds and could barely move, and he was comparing himself to Derrick Rose. That's how ridiculous it got.
And that was another thing: there was an awful lot of Chicago talk radio that was really negative and really critical towards him. And I understand that it's just conversation, but for the guys who played professional sports and know about that injury and the severity of it and what it can mean to your future, it was too much. Derrick is the future of the Bulls, and without him nobody is talking about a championship or any serious contending for the Bulls.
Most of the anger seemed to stem from people thinking he would come back last season. Did you think he would play last year?
I thought very early on, from the beginning of the season, that he wasn't going to play and I thought it was the right thing.
Do you think the disconnect came from people not knowing the fundamental difference between being hurt and being injured?
Yes, way injured. This guy had a serious knee injury that required reconstructive surgery. What makes Derrick unique in many respects is, to me, I've never seen a player like him in the history of the NBA at the point guard position to play explosive like that. Here is one of the great gifts to sports, a point guard who plays like this. If he were to lose that, it would be terrible. You want to have this guy come back and hopefully be what he was. So to take the risk of him coming back before he's ready would've been really irresponsible.
I give a lot of credit to Derrick. Iif it were me, at his age, I would've been influenced by the talk and tried to come back and play. I thought he was really the most mature guy in the room by saying that sitting out was the right thing to do. and [saying] I'm not going to worry about what people say about me. I think that was really impressive the way he handled it considering the community response. But it was really disappointing for people from Chicago who knew the character of this kid to question or say that he was a coward, or that he let down his teammates. That was unbelievable.
How much do you think Adrian Peterson's comeback from his ACL injury with the Minnesota Vikings influenced what people thought about Rose?
It's a different situation. First of all, he's a football player running around in armor and he's not jumping. The key to Derrick is his explosiveness and how he can do these things in the air. People tend to take the one exception—and Adrian Peterson was an exception because nobody had ever done that before—and think that everybody should be able to do it. That was really unfair to Derrick to compare him to the one guy who did something very unusual. And I don't think it came out, but Derrick had talked to Adrian Peterson and he told him not to look at him because he couldn't have played basketball coming off the same injury.
How do you think the Bulls will do this season?
I think they're very good and I think they have a real chance to be in the Finals. But with that said, so do eight other teams. I think the league is really good and there's four legit championship teams in the East, four or five in the West, and you can be really good and not get there. But this is the best starting five since Tom Thibodeau has been here. And the first two years that Thibodeau was here, they led the league in wins. They closed the gap at shooting guard, potentially, with Jimmy Butler. They have All-Stars in [Joakim] Noah and [Luol] Deng, [Carlos] Boozer has been good, and if Rose comes back to his level, I think you've got as good a starting five as anybody can put out there.
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Tom Brady, Superbowl-winning quarterback and husband of a supermodel, ought to be the idol of the male masses.
Instead, everyone is making fun of his hair. Now Justin Bieber – he of the hair that can come only from clamping a bowl on your head and getting out the clippers – is jumping on him. And the kid is a Canadian to boot!
We're talking a place where they punt on third down. Stick that in your Grey Cup and take a drink.
In a new video the tweener sensation raps: "Sacked like a sacker. Call up Mr. Brady. Tell him to leave his hair to the guy who sings 'Baby.'"
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Foremost is a Linux based program data for recovering deleted files and served as the basis for the more modern Scalpel. The program uses a configuration file to specify headers and footers to search for. Intended to be run on disk images, foremost can search through most any kind of data without worrying about the format.
Foremost was developed by Jesse Kornblum and Kris Kendall when they served in the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Originally designed to imitate the DCFL's carvthis program, it gained popularity among Air Force investigators and was eventually distributed to the general public.
First published in 2000, a major update was released in 2005 when Nick Mikus joined the project.
Foremost served as the basis for Golden Richard's Scalpel, a significantly faster program to also recover deleted files. It has also inspired tcpxtract, a program for extracting file from network traffic.
Due to programming difficulties, foremost is limited to processing files smaller than 2GB.


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Imagine, if you will, my surprise and delight when I received an email from "the premiere Sugar Daddy website" Seeking Arrangement about the ins and outs (LOLZ) of Valentine's Day spending. The notorious site, which provides the philanthropic service of connecting enterprising youngsters with oft-married older dudes and their AmEx black cards, polled about 9,000 men and the same amount of women about their Valentine's Day yens as well as their budget.
Here's one chestnut:
Valentine's Day was a holiday created for women, everything from chocolate hearts to pink and red cards leaves women with a heightened sensitivity to romance. It's no secret that men look to capitalize on their vulnerability in hopes of entering a new relationship, or get rewarded with lovemaking.
Or you could just get laid ANY old day of the year if you stopped calling it "lovemaking"? But moving on. They found that 77% of the guys who participate in Valentine's Day are only doing it in the hopes of taking you down to Poundtown. But the E-Z Pass to the off-ramp that leads to Poundtown has a price, which is conditional on your commitment level:
Single: $257: Dinner or Activity
Married: $203: Presents
Committed Relationship: $180: Presents
In summation:
Results revealed that in order to be rewarded with lovemaking on Valentine's Day, men had to shell out $218 on the whole date.
Bear in mind that this is "the average man" who is somehow in communication with Seeking Arrangement, which is NOTHING like the average man. But if you find one of them, you can see Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 15.57 times. Worth it!
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