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Small-Town Dreams
Stories of Midwestern Boys Who Shaped America
John E. Miller
We live these days in a virtual nation of cities and celebrities, dreaming a small-town America rendered ever stranger by purveyors of nostalgia and dark visionaries from Sherwood Anderson to David Lynch. And yet it is the small town, that world of local character and neighborhood lore, that dreamed the America we know today—and the small-town boy, like those whose stories this book tells, who made it real.
In these life-stories, beginning in 1890 with frontier historian Frederick Jackson Turner and moving up to the present with global shopkeeper Sam Walton, a history of middle America unfolds, as entrepreneurs and teachers like Henry Ford, George Washington Carver, and Walt Disney; artists and entertainers like Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Carl Sandburg, and Johnny Carson; political figures like William McKinley, William Jennings Bryan, and Ronald Reagan; and athletes like Bob Feller and John Wooden by turns engender and illustrate the extraordinary cultural shifts that have transformed the Midwest, and through the Midwest, the nation—and the world.
"This book would make an excellent addition to collections that focus on region and boyhood, as well as to collections with an emphasis on twentieth-century American culture."
—Great Plains Quarterly
"Miller has crafted an expertly researched, well-written, and scholarly volume of biographies of twenty-two individuals whose formative years were in the Midwest"
—Journal of Illinois HistorySee all reviews...
"The stories are well told and engagingly written, and the notion of exploring the connection between America's small-town past and its urban present is well worthwhile."
—Michigan Historical Review
"A deeply-researched and brilliantly-conceived account of the small town experiences of a series of Midwesterners whose names many over-50 readers will instantly recall."
—Claremont Review of Books
"[Miller] shows both the cultural shifts that have changed the Midwest (and along with it, the nation) and the persistent, shaping power of place on individuals and the national consciousness."
—Minnesota History
"The essays are well researched, detailed, and strongly written to create a clear sense of the effect that this peculiar sort of American place had on a given man."
—Annals of Iowa
"In a wonderfully readable compilation of distinguished biographies. . . Miller documents the shifts that emptied Main Street throughout the Midwest, . . . [with] the stories of men whose childhoods were spent in the small towns all of them left behind, but some of them never left spiritually. Miller's Small-Town Dreams is a museum of big men from small towns."
—Books and Culture
"This book represents a new and imaginative reconception of the American experience. . . . Especially noteworthy is the emphasis on material culture."
—David M. Katzman, author of Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America
"Small towns are an important part of Americana, not only because 30 million people live in them, but also because we hear so often that they are the 'real America' where homespun virtue still prevails. Miller's book unpacks that mythology, showing its manifestations in the lives of small town boys who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and made good. I look forward to a sequel about small town girls!"
—Robert Wuthnow, author of Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future
"In Small-Town Dreams John Miller ably illustrates the importance of small towns in American history and culture through a gallery of portraits of prominent figures born and raised in them—all going to show you can take the boy out of the town but not the town out of the boy."
—Richard Lingeman, Senior Editor of The Nation and author of Small Town America and biographies of Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis
"This valuable and superbly written study of midwestern farm and small-town boyhoods and subsequent careers will captivate hosts of readers. The smell of corn and hogs, the sounds and silences of hamlets and county seats, and schoolyard athletics, classroom instruction, and theatrical presentationall redolently here. A first-rate regional study."
—Richard W. Etulain, author of Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and ArtSee fewer reviews...
Many of these men are familiar, icons even—Ford and Reagan, certainly, Ernie Pyle, Sinclair Lewis, James Dean, and Lawrence Welk—and others, like artists Oscar Micheaux and John Steuart Curry, economist Alvin Hansen and composer Meredith Willson, less so. But in their stories, as John E. Miller tells them, all appear in a new light, unique in their backgrounds and accomplishments, united only in the way their lives reveal the persisting, shaping power of place, and particularly the Midwest, on the cultural imagination and national consciousness.
In a thoroughly engaging style Miller introduces us to the small-town Midwestern boys who became these all-American characters, privileging us with insights that pierce the public images of politicians and businessmen, thinkers and entertainers alike. From the smell of the farm, the sounds and silences of hamlets and county seats, the schoolyard athletics and classroom instruction and theatrical performance, we follow these men to their moments of inspiration, innovation, and fame, observing the workings of the small-town past in their very different relationships with the larger world. Their stories reveal in an intimate way how profoundly childhood experiences shape personal identity, and how deeply place figures in the mapping of thought, belief, ambition, and life's course.


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Spain tourism CRACKDOWN: Call to ban ALCOHOL on planes to Spain to stop drunks
ALCOHOL sales on holiday flights and at airports should be banned in a bid to stamp out "drunken tourism" in Spain once and for all, industry chiefs have demanded.
Spain crackdown: Flights to Spain should see alcohol banned - say experts
Tourism leaders have even suggested that passengers shouldn't be allowed to walk down the drinks and cigarette aisles in the duty-free shops as part of a campaign to get young people away from linking holidays with getting plastered. Dozens of travel trade representatives from both the UK and Spain met for a "no holds barred" discussion over what to do about "drunken tourism" which was described as a small issue with huge international repercussions because of the image it presented to the rest of the world. The meeting was held in Majorca which is one of the islands which is said to have suffered from "negative press" related to incidents involving drunken Brits and their bad behaviour.
A call is being made to Europe to tighten up legislation, with one police chief saying: "We have already banned smoking. People can't light up for three hours when flying from the UK to Spain so why do they have to drink? What are we waiting for?"
Chief Inspector of the National Police José María Manso later told the Spanish press: "Alcohol should be banned on flights and at airports, the only thing you see is selling and selling more alcohol at Palma airport, it's a shopping centre where alcohol and more alcohol are sold."
The meeting also called for new laws to allow the security forces to intervene if situations with drunken passengers happened rather than being restrained by whether it was the jurisdiction of the Spanish or UK police which frequently led to confusion.
The security forces believe the only way forward is to ban alcohol at airports and on flights. One speaker referred to a European airline that allows children under 16 to drink on a plane while other companies restrict alcohol consumption to those aged 20 and over.
The seminar in Palma was held under the so-called Chatham House rules which allow speakers to voice their opinions without revealing their identity or facing any repercussions.
One representative of a British airport said: "The key is prevention, preventing these passengers from getting on the plane" and even drinking in establishments where alcohol is sold."
Tourism leaders said there had to be a tough approach which would take "courage and ambition" to solve the problem which is also being blamed for balconing deaths and serious injuries.

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National Geographic has announced the grand prize winner of the 2019 Travel Photo Contest.
Thousands of entries were submitted to the contest from all around the globe, and there were 3 categories to submit to: Nature, Cities and People. A panel of expert photographers and National Geographic staff judged the photos.
Weimin Chu's photo, "Winter in Greenland" depicts the fishing village of Upernavik in northwestern Greenland, came 1st place in the Cities category and also won the Grand Prize.
Chu receives the prize fund of $7,500 (USD) and his picture will be posted on National Geographic Travel's Instagram account, @natgeotravel.
Here is the winning photo:
"It felt so harmonious. The whole land was covered by white, cold snow, and the blue tint at dusk made it even cooler. But the light from the windows, street lights and the family of three made the world warm again," says Chu. "I love the contrast and mood of this scene. I was busy taking continuous pictures at that time, trying to capture the best moment."
Photo and Caption by CHU WEIMIN / 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST
Cities 2nd Place – In The Age Of Aviation
"There are four runways at San Francisco's International Airport (SFO). This is a rare look at the approach end of runways 28 left and right. I had dreams of documenting the motion at SFO and [arranged] permission to fly directly overhead. What a windy day it was. Winds at SFO were 35-45 miles per hour, which meant a bumpy flight, and it was much harder to control the plane while photographing. The flight was challenging, but it was also so thrilling that I couldn't sleep for several days afterward."
Photo and Caption by JASSEN TODOROV / 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST
3rd Place Cities – Streets Of Dhaka
"People pray on the street in Dhaka, Bangladesh during Ijtema. Bishwa Ijtema is one of the major Islamic religious gatherings which is [observed] annually in Dhaka and millions of Muslims visit [during this time]. Dedicated prayer grounds are not [large] enough to handle this huge number of people, so large numbers of people come to [Tongi], the main street of Dhaka. All the ground transportation and [pedestrian crossings] are suspended during that time."
Photo and Caption by SANDIPANI CHATTOPADHYAY / 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST
Nature 1st Place – Tender Eyes
"A gorgeous griffon vulture is seen soaring the skies in Monfragüe National Park in Spain. How can anyone say vultures bring bad omens when looking at such tenderness in this griffon vulture's eyes? Vultures are important members of the environment, as they take care of recycling dead matter. Vultures are noble and majestic animals—kings of the skies. When looking at them flying, we should feel humbled and admire them."
Photo and Caption by TAMARA BLAZQUEZ HAIK / 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST
Nature 2nd Place – Dream Catcher
"What happens before a wave breaks? That question has been my assignment this past year. On this particular day, I decided to shoot the sunset on the east side of Oahu, Hawaii. About 100 photographers were out in the morning, but I had the evening to myself. The textures from the trade winds [created] subtle colors from the west and blended well using my 100mm lens. I had to look into my viewfinder while this wave was breaking. Not an easy task when a wave is about to crush you."
Photo and Caption by DANNY SEPKOWSKI / 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST
Nature 3rd Place – Dusky
"Dusky dolphins often travel together in great numbers in the deep canyons of the Kaikoura, New Zealand in search of food. They glide through the ocean effortlessly, coming up only to breathe. Dusky dolphins are fast and will often keep pace with a speeding boat. I waited on the bow of the boat as the Dusky dolphin almost broke [through the surface]. Their elegance and streamlined bodies are built for speed and maneuverability—accentuated by the smooth, clear water of the New Zealand coastline."
Photo and Caption by SCOTT PORTELLI / 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST
Honorable Mention Nature – King Of The Alps
"A herd of ibexes in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland cross a ridge above Lake Brienz. Their powerful and impressive horns show who the king of the Alps are. Ibexes are ideally adapted to live at dizzying heights. The continuing ridge path and the rising fog show the natural habitat of these animals. After a few hours of observing the animals, I spotted the ibex herd on one side of the ridge. Several ibexes stopped at the transition [to view the world around them]"
Photo and Caption by JONAS SCHÄFER / 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST
People 1st Place – Showtime
"Actors prepare for an evening opera performance in Licheng County, China. I spent the whole day with these actors from makeup to [stage]. I'm a freelance photographer, and the series "Cave Life" is a long-term project of mine. In China's Loess Plateau, local residents dig holes in the loess layer [to create cave living spaces, known as yaodongs] and use the heat preservation properties to survive cold winters. This series mainly records the life, entertainment, belief, labor, and other [daily] scenes of the people living in the caves."
Photo and Caption by HUAIFENG LI / 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST
People 2nd Place – Daily Routine
"This photo was taken at a public park at Choi Hung House in Hong Kong. When I visited during the afternoon, it was very crowded with many young people taking pictures and playing basketball. But when I visited at sunrise, it was quiet and a different place. [The area] is [designated] for neighborhood residents in the early morning, and there was a sacred atmosphere. I felt divinity when I saw an old man doing tai chi in the sun."
Photo and Caption by YOSHIKI FUJIWARA / 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST
People 3rd Place – Horses
"Every year on the feast of Saint Anthony the ceremony of the purification of animals, called Las Luminarias, is celebrated in Spain. In the province of Avila, horses and horsemen jump over bonfires in the ritual that has been maintained since the 18th century. The animals [are not hurt], and it is a ritual that is repeated every year. To make the photo, I moved from Seville to San Bartolomé de Pinares because I am very interested in photographing ancestral rites."
Photo and Caption by JOSÉ ANTONIO ZAMORA / 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST
People Honourable Mention – Mood
"I captured this layered moment during sunrise along the banks of the Yamuna River in Delhi, India. This boy was thinking silently, and visitors were enjoying the loud musical chirping of thousands of seagulls. The early morning golden light from the east mixed with the western blue light, creating a [ethereal atmosphere]. I am a regular visitor [here] and have photographed this place for the past three years. Now, many national and international photographers have begun visiting [too]."
Photo and Caption by NAVIN VATSA / 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST
All of the winning photos, along with the honorable mentions, can be viewed at natgeo.com/travelphotocontest.


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Have you noticed the uptick in the number of women who are coming forward with stories of sexual harassment? Hollywood actresses banded together showing their support and solidarity by dressing in black at the Golden Globes, every news channel, publication, and social media platform are writing stories about sexual harassment, and the #metoo campaign is now a worldwide phenomenon.
The #metoo campaign went viral in October 2017 to demonstrate the prevalence of sexual harassment in the workplace. The now recognized hashtag can be seen on practically every social media platform, on billboards and signs, and in intimate conversations among people. #Metoo has been posted millions of times showing the magnitude of this problem.
Social activist, Tarana Burke originally created the hashtag #metoo back in 2006 on the MySpace site, to promote power through empathy for the millions of women who have experienced sexual abuse. But it was Alyssa Milano who reintroduced the hashtag to show just how many people have experienced abuse.
[easy-tweet tweet="Where did #metoo come from and what does it have to do with #bullying? "]
All over the world, women AND men, are throwing off the cloak of shame for the last time and standing in unity to proclaim that sexual abuse happened, that it's not their fault, and that it should never happen again to anyone.
I can't tell you how many people have reached out to me about how the #metoo campaign relates to the work I do with regards to bullying and incivility. I've avoided the topic for a while until I was clear on my reason for getting involved, other than supporting anyone who has been mistreated in any way. And then I received an email from a nurse asking me for help. She told me she was being bullied and harassed at work, shared the story, and then ended her email with #metoo.
What she described to me really didn't fit the definition of bullying or the #metoo campaign and so I decided to help clear up any misunderstanding regarding the terms.
Harassment takes bullying to a completely different level. There are legal ramifications involved here so it's important that you clearly understand their definitions. You may have employees complaining that they are being harassed or discriminated against. So, YOU need to know if their complaints are valid.
It's important to note that harassment and discrimination are against the law. Bullying is not.
Trying to understand what's bullying, harassment, discrimination or just rude behavior can be difficult at best. While the law backs up some terms, some are subject to interpretation, so it's time we set things straight.
[easy-tweet tweet="What's the difference between #bullying, #harassment, #discrimination & just #rude behavior?"]
Discrimination is the treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person based on the group or category to which the person is perceived to belong rather than on individual attributes (EEOC). Discrimination also falls under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and is weaved very tightly with harassment. Discrimination occurs any time an employee can say he/she was treated differently because of their gender, race, or disability.
Types of discrimination include:
- Age
- Disability
- Genetic information
- Pregnancy
- Race/color
- Religion
- Sex
For an employee to claim discrimination, they have to show how they were treated differently than someone else, just because of their characteristics.
Harassment is a form of employment discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, (ADEA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, (ADA).
According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) harassment is any unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
For employees to claim harassment, their civil rights must have been violated.
Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment also falls under the legal protection of the Civil Rights Act. This form of harassment involves any unwelcomed sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature. Interestingly, sexual harassment doesn't have to be sexual in nature. Just making offensive comments about somebody's gender can be considered sexual harassment.
I can remember when a young male nurse was hired on my unit. One of the older nurses constantly made nasty comments about men. Once I heard her say, and I quote, "I don't think men should be nurses and I will do everything in my power to get you out." Yikes! Of course he just ignored her and actually stayed on our unit for a few years until a better opportunity presented itself to him. He was a really good nurse! Now that was 26 years ago. None of us considered that he was being subjected to sexual harassment – we just thought he was being subjected to a queen bully!! I wonder what would happen now.
Bullying is the repeated patterns of disruptive behavior with the conscious (I know I'm doing this) or unconscious (I don't even realize) attempt to do harm. For a behavior to be considered bullying, it has to have 3 components:
1. A Target
There HAS to be a target. This target can be a single person or group of people. For example, someone might pick on just one new nurse and make her life a living hell, but is nice to everyone else. Group targets can include the opposite shift (nurse on days hates all nurses on nights), new nurses, or nurses who have a particular ethnic background.
2. Harmful
The behavior has to be harmful in some way. This harm can be to the target (I get diarrhea every time I see that I have to work with this person) or harmful to a patient (a nurse who sabotages or sets a nurse up for failure, affecting patient care).
3. Repeated
I do believe this is the most important criteria for bullying. The behavior can't be just a one-time event (I get testy with you during a crisis). The harmful behavior has to be repeated over time. Some other experts say that the behavior has to be repeated over the course of 6 months or more. I disagree. I would consider a behavior as bullying if it is repeated several times over the course of several weeks.
If someone tells you they are being harassed, discriminated against, or bullied, please help them. Thank them for telling you and then help them "unpack" their experience to see if they are protected by law.
[easy-tweet tweet="If someone tells you they are being harassed, discriminated against, or bullied, please help them!"]
If it's happening to you, what do you do? Tell someone. Ask for help. If you're the target of sexual harassment, take off the cloak and join the millions of people in the world who are standing in unity to say, "Not here. Not now. Not ever again."
Take care. Be kind. Stay connected.
Helping you cultivate a healthy happy workforce,


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Current Newswire:
CoreOS Plots a Course Forward for Containers #tectonicsummitDec 04, 2015, 14:39 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)
CoreOS is also going to continue to push forward on its vision of a standardized format for container application images. CoreOS originally launched its appc (App Container Image) effort to define a standard for containers in December 2014. In June of this year, CoreOS joined with Docker Inc to start the Open Container Initiative , which might have been a place for the appc spec to thrive. Philips said that OCI is only taking a narrow view of containers at this point only looking at the runtime and not the image format.
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text: During the 15th ISMA International Conference, organized by the International Function Point User Group, the Land & Naval Defense Electronics Division of Leonardo SpA shares their approach to software engineering tools to manage software risks. Among the results: team efficiency and reduction of development costs. This is a summary of the insights identified during the event by Piero Todorovich, journalist of Zero One Web.


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Genome-wide analyses of expression data and HIF-1 binding sites provide insights to the HIF-1 hypoxia-inducible factor in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
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JoAnne Powell-Coffman
The hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) has been described as the master regulator of transcriptional changes that enable hypoxia adaptation. HIF is conserved and expressed by all extant metazoan species analyzed to date (LOENARZ et al. 2011; SEMENZA 2000; SEMENZA 2012). In this dissertation, I used C. elegans as a model system to study HIF-1 function and regulation. In the first part of my thesis, we studied the cross talk between HIF-1 and SKN-1. We found that SKN-1 transcriptionally regulates egl-9 to inhibit HIF-1 protein levels and activity. We propose that this interaction enables animals to adapt quickly to changes in cellular oxygenation and to better survive accompanying oxidative stress.
The second part of the thesis is dedicated to understand the phenotypes of 4 known HIF 1 negative regulator mutants and the consequences of HIF-1 over-activation. Affymetrix microarrays were used to measure the whole genome mRNA expression in vhl-1(ok161), rhy 1(ok1402), egl-9(sa307), and swan-1 (ok267); vhl-1(ok161) compared to N2 wild-type animals. In supporting the model that RHY-1, EGL-9 and SWAN-1 act in common pathway(s) to repress HIF-1, our data show that the mutant phenotypes of rhy-1, egl-9 and swan-1 loss-of-function are similar at the molecular level. Prior studies suggest that besides hypoxia resistance, misregulation of HIF-1 disrupts multiple processes, including pathogen resistance and brood size. In consistent with this, we found that genes up-regulated by HIF-1 over-activation converge with genes involved in immune response pathways; and genes commonly misregulated in HIF-1 over-activation mutants are enriched in cell-cycle and reproduction functions. Intriguingly, we found that HIF-1 and DAF-16 converge on key stress-responsive genes and function synergistically to protect C. elegans from moderate hypoxia stress.
The third part of the thesis combines microarray analyses and ChIP-seq to understand HIF-1 function. The microarray study in this part focuses on HIF-1-dependent gene expression changes under short-term hypoxia (2 hours, 0.5% oxygen). ChIP-seq is aimed to identify HIF-1 direct targets. We found that HIF-1 mediated hypoxia gene expression changes are involved in multiple biological processes, genes involved in lip metabolism are newly identified by this study. Collectively, these functions are important for C. elegans development and survival under hypoxia. We also found that short-term hypoxia-responsive genes overlap with H2S responsive genes, and HIF-1-dependent hypoxia-responsive genes overlap with genes regulated by DAF-16. Further, we found that potential HIF-1 direct targets identified by ChIP-seq are enriched in the differentially expressed gene lists identified by microarray in response to hypoxia treatment and constitutive HIF-1 high activation.
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Dingxia Feng
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Feng, Dingxia, "Genome-wide analyses of expression data and HIF-1 binding sites provide insights to the HIF-1 hypoxia-inducible factor in Caenorhabditis elegans" (2013). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 13324.


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If you're on the look out for cheap, popular music then the relatively fledgling Amazon download store is apparently the place to hit at the moment with the price of a single currently cheaper than that of a single more than 40 years ago (none of the "good old days" nonsense this time around, eh?). While the music industry at large might try to tell us that this is a bad thing, and it will certainly mean less and less royalties for the artists, what it means in real terms to you and I is that we can purchase singles from the top 100 download list for an impressively low 29p per track.
Of course, another major loser from this is likely to be Apple's iTunes service, who recently removed the rigidity from their own pricing to offer a sliding pricing mechanism between 59p and 99p per track. While that may work out cheaper in some cases than the previous flat 79p per track, it is still some way short of Amazon's deflated prices.
As a legal music downloader, you're far from short of options and the Times Online estimates that there are currently more than 50 websites and services where you can legally download tracks for a cost. Unfortunately, not all download sites are created equally and you may be hard pressed to find one that fits all of your needs. Itunes may have its knockers but the software is fairly intuitive and easy to navigate while the ability to now download mp3 files is also a vast improvement. However, Amazon's own service is not that far behind in terms of ease of use or ease of navigation and with these prices it is certainly worth a try.
Source – Times Online


text: Zylla Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, micadunet said: Ok, i Will try with other sd cards. Could you explain how to mount a usb memory? You have to plug in at the back of the pineapple? Then how can you mount it as sd? It's a little long and "technical" if you will, but if you're used to using Linux, and mounting stuff there, then it shouldn't be a problem for you. Yes, you have to take out the sd-card. And then insert a usb-memory stick into the Nano's USB-port. Easy-peasy. The exact procedure have been discussed countless times within a thread i created in this forum called: "MANA Toolkit for Wifi Pineapples". Just partition the memory stick like the SD-card. One ext4 partition, and one swap partition. Then to get it to re-mount at every boot you need to edit the /etc/config/fstab file. But all this is explained within my thread. Just look it up, i've written it so many times in there :) Edited February 12, 2018 by Zylla Quote Link to post Share on other sites


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Culminating two months of infighting, PlanetOut is reorganizing. On the outs are a major financial backer and the company's chief executive officer.
Tom Rielly, who founded the company a year ago, is back on the board after being kicked off two months ago and is replacing outgoing president and CEO Jon Huggett. Rielly and PlanetOut are buying out Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm, which had pumped $2.7 million into PlanetOut.
That makes Rielly the majority stake holder in PlanetOut, the online gay community that launched on the Web and America Online with great fanfare only five months ago.
AOL has a minority stake in the company and the remainder is owned by employees and some angel investors with Silicon Valley companies, Rielly said.
PlanetOut's troubles are a cautionary tale for other online services. The company found itself unable to please their investors and serve a grassroots community. For now, at least, the grassroots is winning out.
Rielly characterized the reorganization as positive, saying PlanetOut is now free to pursue its vision of becoming the premier online service for the gay community. Detractors, however, worry that PlanetOut's vision is too small, catering primarily to gays and lesbians living in large metropolitan areas such as San Francisco.
There also will be staff cuts, with at least two employees leaving. Harry Taylor, vice president of sales, criticized for his efforts to attract "mainstream" advertising by toning down the site, also left. But Karen Wickre, who Huggett fired two months ago, will be returning as editor of PlanetOut Press, a new division that will publish books related to the Web site.
Rielly characterized the internal problems plaguing PlanetOut as a combination of a clash of personalities and differing philosophies.
By definition, Sequoia was looking for a fast return on its investment. But a content company trying to build an online gay community needs time and the trust of the community to do so, Rielly said. Sequoia "realized that the content business doesn't necessarily fit into the venture capital model," he said.
In other words, PlanetOut wasn't bringing home the bacon fast enough. "Although they were willing to take a gamble, they were not willing to change their business expectations quite to the extent that the market requires," Wickre said.
Rielly said PlanetOut and Sequoia mutually decided to part ways. Sequoia did lose some money in the deal, but Rielly would not say how much. Sequoia partner Mike Moritz, who will be stepping off the board of directors, declined to comment.
PlanetOut, Rielly added, has been bringing in advertising dollars with companies including American Airlines, Virgin Records, and Amazon.com. But, he said, the service is no longer relying exclusively on ad revenues. It also is trying to generate sales from transacting online commerce, licensing content to gay and lesbian newspapers, and hosting gay and lesbian Web sites.
Rielly added that PlanetOut has enough money in the bank to last three years.
Most people who log on PlanetOut have had no indication that trouble was brewing. In fact, the number of visitors to the site have continued to increase, Rielly said.
But Netizens paying attention would have noticed at least one small difference that speaks volumes about the feuding factions and their differing philosophies.
Two months ago the service, lead by Huggett, dropped PlanetOut's tag line, "a worldwide online community for gay, lesbian, bi[sexual], and trans[sexual] people," saying the inclusion of bisexual and transgender communities would alienate potential mainstream investors and advertisers offended by PlanetOut's more radically queer sensibilities.
Huggett said he had his eye on the international gay and lesbian community and "not just a small group in San Francisco," he said. PlanetOut, he added, "is getting smaller."
But Rielly said the tag line reflected PlanetOut's desire to serve the entire gay community in all its diversity. "We need to serve all aspects of our community, and we're not just for a certain segment."
Last week, the tag line was put back on the service. "Everyone here is just in the greatest spirits right now," Rielly said. "We've gotten more work done in the past two weeks than we had in the previous four months. And we're very, very happy. We're sort of rocking and rolling right now."


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After Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera opened their own cartoon studio in July 1957, they developed a reputation for dependability and, more importantly, saleability. They made cartoons that kids wanted to see. Even when "Top Cat," "The Jetsons" and "Jonny Quest" failed in prime time, they found new homes—and eager sponsors—on Saturday morning network programming.
Perhaps for that reason, Hanna-Barbera ended up taking over production of two cartoon series begun by others. One was Laurel and Hardy, the brainchild of Larry Harmon, who bought the rights to Bozo the Clown and franchised it into a nice little fortune. The other was "Sinbad, Jr."
There was talk of a half-hour, combined live-action/stop-motion Sinbad in 1960—Screen Gems had signed a co-production deal—but it had nothing to do with the later cartoon series. For that, we have to zoom up to 1964 and the man who brought the world some of the ugliest and most unwanted cartoons—Sam Singer.
Singer inflicted "Paddy the Pelican," "The Adventures of Pow Wow" and "Bucky and Pepito" on syndicated television in the 1950s. You can read his background in THIS POST. Singer somehow kept managing to find new partners willing to help him churn out new series. He had better success in 1960 with "Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse." Then in 1964, something else came along.
American International Pictures is known today for its string of bikini pictures (pun not intended) and teen science fiction or horror movies such as "I Was a Teenage Werewolf." By 1964, the studio was evidently looking to expand its distribution and its eye landed on the lucrative world of TV cartoons. Variety reported on July 29, 1964:
Vulcan Vamps 130 'Sinbad' Briefs For AIP-TDistributionWho was Monroe Rapaport and what was Vulcan Animations? For the answer, we turn to page 71 of the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, Volume 1957, published in 1950. It announced Rapaport, the former vice-president and technical director of Processed Chemical and Coating Corporation of Brooklyn, had taken over the ownership of Vulcan Lacquer and Coatings. It would appear Rapaport somehow got bitten by the animation bug and a corporate subsidiary, using the Vulcan name, was set up to make cartoons. Maybe. Vulcan seems to have disappeared from the picture pretty quickly. Variety reported on August 4th that American International Television had signed a term contract with Sam Singer Productions for worldwide distribution of the Sinbad Jr. cartoons, and production had already begun. No Vulcans were mentioned.
Vulcan Animations Ltd. execs met yesterday with American International Pictures reps to firm deal for 130 five-minute "Sinbad" cartoons. Shorts, which Vulcan will produce for AIP domestic distribution, will be released overseas by Transcontinental Distributors.
Monroe Rapaport heads Vulcan and Albert E. Marten is the president of TD. Sim Singer [sic] will be creative supervisor on cartoons.
AI Television set a time frame it hoped to have the cartoons ready for stations and hit the road to sell them. Broadcasting magazine of November 16, 1964 reported some good news.
Metromedia 1st buyer of AI-TV cartoon series1965 rolled along. Variety reported on January 22nd that the cartoons would go into syndication in March. That's when full-page ads in trade papers appeared. On April 21th, Variety blurbed the cartoons had now been sold in 31 cities, but there was no indication whether they had begun airing. It's altogether possible they weren't as they were still being produced. Variety looked at the future of American International in its May 25th edition. The paper quoted executive vice-president Samuel Z. Arkoff about the cartoons:
In its first venture in U. S. TV production, American International Television Inc. announced last week it is producing and distributing an animated color series, The Adventures of Sinbad Jr. consisting of 130 five-minute segments.
James H. Nicholson, president of AITV, reported the series has been sold in advance of its official release date to the seven Metropolitan Broadcasting (Metromedia) TV stations: WNEW-TV New York; KTTV(TV) Los Angeles; WTTG(TV) Washington; KCMO-TV Kansas City, Mo.; WTVH(TV) Peoria, Ill.; WTVP(TV) Decatur, Ill., and KOVR(TV) Stockton -Sacramento, Calif. Sinbad is available for an early 1965 start.
Arkoff added that AIP has no plans for vidseries production beyond current "Sinbad, Jr." cartoon strip of 130 5-minute episodes. Hanna-Barbera has taken over animation chores, he said.What happened to Singer? Why did Hanna-Barbera take over? The paper is silent on both questions.
"No plans" in the Variety story was merely a fleeting consideration. Broadcasting magazine outlined in its October 11th edition:
AI-TV expands sales adds more filmsWhat cartoons were being discussed with the Japanese companies? Ah, always more questions than answers when you delve into animation research. The trade papers are silent. If anyone has confirmed information that answers the question, leave a note.
American International Television, established as a TV distribution company 18 months ago, is expanding its sales operations throughout the world and is embarking on a new product acquisition spree.
Stanley Dudelson, vice president in charge of distribution for the company, a subsidiary of American International Pictures, reported last week following a month-long overseas business trip that AI-TV has set up sales representation in Paris, Rome, Toronto, Tokyo, and Madrid (from which Latin America will be handled temporarily). He said AI-TV also has begun negotiations for the co-production of three half -hour cartoon series in color; three half-hour cartoon series in black and white and a five-minute cartoon series.
Mr. Dudelson said the majority will be co-produced in Tokyo. He said details on these projects would not be given until contracts are signed.
In addition, he reported, AI-TV has acquired distribution rights to five color features from abroad, which will be edited, scored and dubbed for sale as 90- minute color specials. Titles include "The Friendly Amazon," "Witch Doctor In Tales," "Devil's Pass," "Volcanoes of the Devil" and "The Great Secret." AI-TV currently is distributing to stations more than 200 feature films and 130 five- minute color segments of the Sinbad Jr. cartoons.
And what of Sam Singer? Variety speaks of him no more. Neither does Broadcasting. Or Sponsor or any TV trade publications I've glanced through. However, the late Michael Sporn related on his blog his brief experience with Singer on the feature "Tubby the Tuba" (released in 1975). Read what Michael had to say about him HERE.


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Creating theatrical comedy that can make an audience burst into laughter at every turn is no easy feat. When the comedy in question revolves around the farcical events leading up to an attempt at a communist revolution one Saturday morning, featuring all sorts of double crossing, it seems a rather large order. Yet Suzy Cripps' 'The Optimists' pulls all this off slickly and superbly, the events of the play supported by a consistent stream of deliciously snappy dialogue. Sustaining such constant laughter throughout the entire one-hour production is incredibly impressive, especially for a brand new script, and much credit is due to the writer, directors, and entire cast.
The Optimists is the second offering presented at the New Writing Festival, directed by Lucy Hayes and Cameron Spain. While the cast should be commended for their crisp performances, Hayes and Spain's direction tightens the whole production into a compelling hour, infusing every scene with a punchy pace that prevents the show dragging and losing its deft sense of humour. The show uses the entire space of the BT Studio effectively; the surrounding stage is predominantly black with the exception of a red painting, co-ordinating nicely with the costuming. The vast majority of actors are dressed in black with the occasional insertion of bright Communist red – and in his colourful football shirts and dressing gown, Ryan Lea's Daniel was the only real exception to the colour-scheme, highlighting his constant sense of being awkwardly out of place.
Cripps' snappy writing, however, is the real backbone of The Optimists. Each character had their own unique and distinctive voice, which is an impressive display of skill from a new writer. Some might not find the various plot twists and developments particularly believable, or think that the ending ties everything up far too quickly and neatly, but ultimately these are all elements of farcical comedy, that inevitably demands some suspension of disbelief. Either way, the dialogue and performances throughout are certainly entertaining enough to make one forget about their improbabilities; your time will almost definitely be spent in side-splitting laughter instead, in no small part due to the commitment and energy of an extraordinarily capable comic cast.
The entire cast have excellent comic timing and a strong stage presence, although John Livesey as the dry, cynical aristocratic Russian valet Sergei is the standout performer in my mind. His Russian accent never faltered and he wrung the comedy out of every single line. His chemistry with Ryan Lea's hapless Daniel was spot on, especially in the opening scene; Sergei's cynicism contrasted nicely with Daniel's bumbling naivety as well as complimenting the bumbling hot-air of Ben Thorne's Alex. Interplay between cynicism and naivety, and between practical realism versus unrealistic optimistic expectations, coloured almost all the characters' interactions, right down to the cafe owner's exasperation with the communists using her premises to hatch a haphazard "plot" (featuring a memorable turn from Ella Ditri who makes the most of a smaller role). Throughout all of this Sergei remains a sardonic voice playing off both Daniel and Alex, bringing them back down to earth, as does El Blackwood's posturing Katie. Elizabeth Mobed also deserves mention as Tatiana, her spiky performance instantly raising both the wit and the tension of the scenes whenever she is onstage.
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Moon phase on 20 November 2030 Wednesday is Waning Crescent, 24 days old Moon is in Virgo.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 28% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 18 November 2030 at 08:32.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1879" and ∠1942".
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2030 after 19 days on 9 December 2030 at 22:40.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 381 of Meeus index or 1334 from Brown series.
Length of current 381 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 30 minutes. It is 16 minutes shorter than next lunation 382 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 55 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠332.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠349.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
7 days after point of apogee on 13 November 2030 at 05:00 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 25 November 2030 at 21:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Moon is 381 559 km (237 090 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 521 km (222 153 mi).
8 days after its descending node on 11 November 2030 at 18:45 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 25 November 2030 at 13:32 in ♏ Scorpio.
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
7 days after previous North standstill on 12 November 2030 at 16:17 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠21.904°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-21.903° in the next southern standstill on 26 November 2030 at 06:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Will Kaala launch superstar Rajinikanth's career in Tamil Nadu politics? All the signs say, yes
All the signs indicate that Kaala will be Rajinikanth's last and final hurrah as an actor — as he announces his entry in politics
Superstar Rajinikanth started the shoot of his Pa Ranjith directed Kaala, for son-in-law Dhanush's Wunderbar Productions in Mumbai from Sunday, 28 May 2017. The film is being shot in actual locations in Mumbai, like Dharavi. The story is about a man from Tirunelveli who comes to Mumbai and unites the local Tamils, and later goes on to become a Robin Hood-like don. A source revealed that the story is very much Nayagan-meets-Kabali — and that it could be a launch pad for Rajinikanth's political career.
Kaala has an impressive star cast — like National Award winning Tamil actor and director Samuthirakani, who plays Rajinikanth's chief henchman. The female actors incude Huma Qureshi, Eashwari Rao and Anjali Patil. Ranjith has also roped in some of the finest Marathi actors like Nana Patekar, Sayaji Shinde, Ravi Kale, Pankaj Tripathi, Mikhi Mikija and south Indian supporting actors Sampath, Aruldas, Aravind Akash, 'Vathikuchi' Deepan, Ramesh Thilak, Manikandan, Velu and hundreds of other junior artistes for the movie.
On the technical side, Ranjith's regular music director — Santhosh Narayanan — is in charge, while Murali G will be the cinematographer. National Award winning editor Sreekar Prasad has been roped in by Ranjith, replacing his regular editor PL Praveen. The buzz is that Kaala will be a quickie and the entire shoot will be wrapped up in 60 to 75 days in Mumbai, and on a huge set put up in Chennai. The film is budgeted around Rs 150 crore, will be story-driven, and have only basic VFX and special effects. Please note Rajinikanth's last release Kabali's theatrical and other rights and endorsements fetched a pre-release business of Rs 175 crore. As per trade sources, Wunderbar is trying to get somewhere around Rs 200 crore for Kaala, as trade inquiries have started.
Meanwhile, the grapevine has it that Kaala will be Rajinikanth's last and final hurrah as an actor, as he will be moving into politics. Rajinikanth's brother Satyanarayana Rao Gaikwad, who lives in Bengaluru, told The Times Of India: "It is the people's wish that Rajinikanth should enter politics. He has just ended the first round of consultation with his fans and well wishers who were urging him to take the plunge." Satyanarayana Rao made it clear that Rajinikanth would make his political plans apparent by the end of July. It makes sense as the Kaala shooting schedule will be complete by then. The buzz is that the film will have a lot of political messaging — which would be Rajinikanth's proposed party's ideological stance.
Rajinikanth has also formed a core think tank team to advise him on his political moves. The feeling is that it is the right time to step into politics, under the prevailing political situation, as an alternative to Dravidian parties. A well known consultant who helped the BJP is likely to be roped in to give Rajinikanth's image a political makeover.
Just a week before his Mumbai shoot, the superstar met up with political analysts and top editors on a one-to-one basis and sought their opinion and views. He met leading editors of Tamil and English news channels and discussed the political situation and his entry into politics. His think tank is also sourcing all the latest on the caste equation constituency-wise, and the major issues regarding the common man. All this has put the spotlight back on Rajinikanth's imminent entry into politics.
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Unetbootin is a software open source relatively recent, but surely mature. It is a single executable (the version for GNU/Linux) which ensure the execute permissions. The software in question is a normal USB stick a USB USB "Bootable". For operation are not necessary dependencies. Unetbootin uses qt4 statically linked, he does not need another.
As is clear from the screenshot below the operation is very simple. It choose a distribution (if we have the iso well, otherwise he proceeds to automatically download), you choose the mountpoint on which is mounted the exhibition USB mass storage and proceeds with installation.
That the USB stick is formatted would preferable, but not required. Unetbootin works with filesystem Fat16.
I used Unetbootin to install Ubuntu 10.04 on my Acer Aspire One a110, in addition to being easy to understand the functioning, is also very fast in the installation.


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Domat Control System takes part in an interesting project of production and usage of hydrogen from renewables. In the Nuclear research institute Řež there was built an experimental plant containing a PV power plant, accumulatiors, hydrogen generator, hydrogen fuel cell, and inverters for supplying of the grid. The hydrogen storage tank has 10 m3 volume, and stores hydrogen pressurized up to 15 bar. In the control system it is possible to program different control strategies for optimum utilization of the form of energy which is the cheapest: if there is abundance of solar irradiation, the PV plant energy is converted to AC and fed into the grid. If the grid consumption is lower than the momentary capacity of the PV plant, the extra energy is stored in the accumulators in daily cycles, or brought to the hydrogen generator, as hydrogen may be stored on a long-term basis. If the PV plant output power is insufficient, or grid consumption is high, the fuel cell operation is enabled, which converts hydrogen to DC. The direct current is inverted and fed into the grid. Other I/Os of the MXIO module monitor temperature and pressures in the piping and hydrogen storage tank, keep proper temperature in the machinery rooms etc.
In the next stage, weather forecast model data utilisation is planned. This service has been available for several years as RcWare Weather, having been used to control heating and cooling circuits with large process delay time.
What is interesting at this project is the data integration of all technologies (SMA PV inverters, Studer accumulator control, Xantrex inverter, Hogen hydrogen generator, and Fronius fuel cell). It makes possible to monitor and store all operational and diagnostic data from the technologies, and control them over a bus at the same time.


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Fine Tranching with RDKit using Heavy Atom Count and LogP
Written by Jennifer Young on April 14, 2020
- 1 Introduction
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- 3 Sample Bash script for running on many smiles files
These scripts perform fine tranching with RDKit to compute the heavy atom count and logP for each molecule and put it in a bucket of the form HxxPyyy for positive valued logp (i.e. 0 < logp) and HxxMyyy for negative valued logp (i.e. logp < 0). The scripts are located in
How to run
(If you are using our cluster) Source conda environment for RDKit
If you are using our cluster, there is already a conda environment with RDKit available and you just need to source it using the following command. You need to use bash.
source /mnt/nfs/home/devtest/anaconda3/bin/activate my-rdkit-env
If you need to create a conda environment, follow the instructions at https://rdkit.org/docs/Install.html
Read the section : How to install RDKit with Conda. Once you do
conda activate my-rdkit-env
You are ready to run the Python script.
Run Python script with the desired arguments
The smiles file and batch size are command line arguments. If you choose a batch size of 10,000, the output file will be written to after each batch of 10,000 molecules is processed. The input smiles file should have the following 2 columns
- smiles
See python script http://wiki.docking.org/index.php/Rdkit_hlogp_batch.py for reference
python /nfs/home/jyoung/code/fine_tranche_hlogp_scripts/rdkit_hlogp_batch.py <smiles_file> <batch_size>
The output file will be a file with the name <smiles_file>_hlogp and will have the following 3 columns
- original smiles
- original ID
- HxxPyyy HxxMyyy
Sample Bash script for running on many smiles files
If your smiles file is large, split into chunks of 1 million (or whatever your desired size).
split -l 1000000 <your_smiles>
Then run the following script which is reproduced below.
Change the x?? to the desired pattern and change the batch size to the desired value.
#!/usr/bin/env bash for i in x??; do source /mnt/nfs/home/devtest/anaconda3/bin/activate my-rdkit-env python /nfs/home/jyoung/code/fine_tranche_hlogp_scripts/rdkit_hlogp_batch.py $i 10000 done


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Just after dawn on May 23, 2019, two climate scientists, Tom Matthews and Baker Perry, stood on the Southeast Ridge of Mount Everest at 27,650 feet, on the verge of making history. They had spent months preparing for this moment: the installation of the highest weather station in the world.
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Missy is an Australian Shepherd who has been owned since she was a puppy. She was diagnosed at 18 months old with bilateral hip dysplasia and was told that she would very likely need a hip replacement before the age of 5.
Soon after diagnosis Missy started hydrotherapy and has been undertaking it regularly ever since. We have had the pleasure of treating Missy since 13th September 2017 when she moved here from her previous centre.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Twice Missouri faced fourth down on its last drive of Monday's Liberty Bowl. Twice it put the ball in the hands of its senior NFL-bound quarterback Drew Lock, ultimately needing a touchdown to overcome a five-point deficit to Oklahoma State.
The second attempt was less than a yard short, sealing an agonizing 38-33 Tigers loss.
"It was a heck of a game," Missouri coach Barry Odom said. "You want to win them all, but they ended up making more plays down the stretch than we did."
The 1,139 total yards between the two teams set a Liberty Bowl record in its 60th year.
No. 24 Missouri had 637 yards, breaking a 30-year old Liberty Bowl record. Lock was 23-of-38 passing for 373 yards and three touchdowns in his final game in a Tiger uniform.
A year ago, Missouri played in just two games that were decided by one possession. The Tigers closed this year in a manner more befitting for 2018. Monday was the fifth game Missouri played this season that was settled on the final drive.
Missouri took over with 5:54 remaining, needing a touchdown. The fact the Tigers were still in the game was a minor miracle. Nine minutes earlier, the Tigers were down 16 with Oklahoma State 28 yards from adding to its lead and delivering a lethal blow.
Two Cam Hilton interceptions and 38 seconds of magic from Missouri's offense — which included an 85-yard touchdown pass from Lock to Johnathon Johnson and a ridiculous 55-yard touchdown run by Larry Rountree III — brought the game back within a possession.
"It was kind of representative of the whole season," linebacker Cale Garrett said. "There's been times where we've had a decision to make and we can either fold and lie on our backs and just, 'Whatever happens, happens,' or stand up and fight and keep fighting no matter what. … We made a decision, no matter what it is, we can still get into this game."
Missouri's final drive was jump-started with a 32-yard catch by Johnson, who was brilliant in his hometown homecoming. The Memphis native had nine catches for a career-high 185 yards.
The Tigers continued to march, paced by Rountree — who finished with a career-high 202 rushing yards — and Lock. A 25-yard pass to Jalen Knox that would have put Missouri inside the 10-yard line was initially ruled complete, but the catch was overturned on review. Knox was injured on the play and didn't return.
Oklahoma State delivered punishment from start to finish. Two of its defensive backs were ejected for targeting. Plenty of other crushing Cowboys hits were deemed legal.
"I asked them to take the challenge of playing the (Southeastern Conference) and to be more physical than them, and they did it," Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said.
Two plays after the incompletion to Knox, Missouri faced fourth-and-3 from the Oklahoma State 25. In the face of an all-out Cowboys blitz, Lock squeezed a sidearm throw to Johnson for a 7-yard gain.
Lock was flattened on the play, the back of his head connecting hard with the turf. He got up uncharacteristically slow.
"We could see he was kinda banged up a little bit, but we all saw him get up and get in that huddle," tight end Kendall Blanton said. "That's just a testament to who he is."
Missouri ran the ball on its next three plays, which set up fourth-and-1 from the 9. At stake was the first nine-win season for the Tigers since 2014 and eighth in program history.
Lock kept the ball on a read and darted to the corner. Oklahoma State safety Kolby Peel met Lock two yards short of the line. Lock sprawled, flying off the playing field. Out came the chain gang.
Two feet short.
After the game, a reporter asked coach Barry Odom what the play call was and how it was supposed to work. Instead, Lock — seated directly to Odom's left — spoke into the microphone.
"I can do that," Lock said, taking ownership of the play. "It was a two tight end set. Normal zone play. I had the option to pull it or give it, whichever one I wanted."
Odom and Rountree agreed the pull was the right call. So did tight end Kendall Blanton.
"There's no shame in his game, man," Blanton said of Lock. "He's played thousands of games on this field. If he made the read, I'm pretty sure it was the right read."
The Tigers came out with a plan to run the ball and did it often. The conservative approach led to a 16-14 halftime lead, with Rountree at 102 yards before the break.
The third quarter was all Oklahoma State. The Cowboys scored two touchdowns in the first five minutes of the second half, quickly turning the game around. With 3:08 left in the third quarter, Tyron Johnson caught a 46-yard pass from Taylor Cornelius to give Oklahoma State a 35-19 lead.
Missouri stalled on its next drive around midfield and turned the ball over on downs. The Cowboys had an opportunity to drive in the knife on their ensuing possession.
The Tigers dodged death with Hilton's crucial interception from at the 15-yard line. Lock's 85-yard touchdown to Johnson came on the next play.
Initially, the Tigers sent out their offense to go for two and cut their deficit to eight points. Then Odom took a timeout and sent out the kicking unit, and the extra point left Missouri down 35-26.
"We felt we were going to have at least two more possessions," Odom said. "We didn't feel great after the touchdown about lining back up and running the two-point play that we had at that current time."
Hilton got another interception on Oklahoma State's next possession, and the Tigers capitalized again. Rountree delivered one of his best plays of the season, catching a lateral and dodging a tackle for loss before charging 55 yards for a touchdown. An extra point made it 35-33.
The middle of the fourth quarter swung madly. Oklahoma State stalled on a drive near midfield and ran a fake punt that was stopped short of the line by Ronnell Perkins. Missouri's ensuing drive lasted only three plays, and Tucker McCann's 42-yard field goal attempt — that would have put the Tigers up by one — was blocked. Missouri also lost a point on a failed extra point attempt in the first half.
Oklahoma State kicked a field goal with 5:54 remaining, making it necessary for Missouri to score a touchdown on its final drive.
Cornelius was named the game's Most Outstanding Player. He completed 26 of 44 passes for 336 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions.
The Cowboys' wide receiver pair of Tyron Johnson and Tylan Wallace cut Missouri apart in the second half. Johnson finished with seven receptions for 141 yards and two touchdowns and Wallace had seven catches for 83 yards and a touchdown. Oklahoma State running back Chubba Hubbard, playing in place of regular starter Justice Hill, had 145 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries.


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#BookReview – Marcia Meara – Wake-Robin Ridge
Sunday book reviews continues with my review of Wake-Robin Ridge, a romantic mystery by Marcia Meara. Read the review below:
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A PHONE RINGING AT 2:00 A.M. never means anything good. Calls at 2:00 A.M. are bad news. Someone has died. Someone is hurt. Or someone needs help."
On a bitter cold January night in 1965, death came calling at an isolated little cabin on Wake-Robin Ridge. Now, nearly 50 years later, librarian Sarah Gray has quit her job and moved into the same cabin, hoping the peace and quiet of her woodland retreat will allow her to concentrate on writing her first novel. Instead she finds herself distracted by her only neighbor, the enigmatic and reclusive MacKenzie Cole, who lives on top of the mountain with his Irish wolfhound as his sole companion.
As their tentative friendship grows, Sarah learns the truth about the heartbreaking secret causing Mac to hide from the world. But before the two can sort out their feelings for each other, they find themselves plunged into a night of terror neither could have anticipated. Now they must unravel the horrifying events of a murder committed decades earlier. In doing so, they discover that the only thing stronger than a hatred that will not die is a heart willing to sacrifice everything for another.
My 5 Star Review: – A Hard Book to Put Down
I have to admit, I was more than surprised at how much I loved this book. I enjoy this author's writing and I'd been looking forward to reading one of her books. At first I wasn't sure I'd enjoy the genre, but Meara has a way of captivating her readers. She could probably re-write the telephone book and I'd read it. With all the plots and twists along the way, I couldn't help but get back to reading in my stolen moments.
Marcia Meara chose a clever method of blending two romantic relationships from two different eras into one story. This kept me wondering what one couple were doing while I was reading about the other until her story linked both couples together.
This book touched me with several emotions. I found myself smiling, crying, frightened, anticipating the outcome of the relationships right through to the end. Meara knows how to hook a reader, and naturally I'll have to read the next book.
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Thank you so much for such a great review, Deb! I'm thrilled you enjoyed Wake-Robin Ridge, and hope you'll like the rest of the series, so far. I'm aiming for five or six books, though only three are published at this point. Looking forward to your meeting Rabbit, when you get the chance. (Hint, you might even find out something new about Ruth and Frank, in it, during Rabbit's story.) 😀 Thanks again!
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- 1 Intro
- 2 Tech Info
- 3 DIY Wind Turbines
- 4 blades
- 5 connector
- 6 generator
- 7 Alternator
- 8 controller
- 9 energy storage
- 10 energy outlet
Welcome to Jair's awesome internship project to build a replicable small-scale wind energy system.
A few different configurations will be explored, including 3D printed turbine blades, gearboxes, stepper motors, laptop battery banks, and a 3D printed brushless motor.
Project 1 is a vertical printed windblade on a modified frame.
Project 2 is a small Urginsky windblade.
Tech Info
We have 3D printed a Savonius & Gorlov VAWT blades out of PLA with the GigaBot printer. My first goal is to make with this blade my first wind turbine that has a 110V AC outlet.The first thing i am working on is choicing the right sort of generator to use for charging a battery. I have 3 small PMDC(Permanent Magnet DC Motor) that produce a small voltage with a maximum speed of a powertool. Motor 1 produces 3V, Motor 2 produces 3.3V and Motor 3 produces 7V.
The battery will be 12V DC battery, because the battery is in Direct Current configured i will be using a Permanent Magnet DC generator. finding the right generator is hard because it must not be damaged and must be enough to charge a 12V DC car battery. I also have to decide if i am making or buying a charge controller. Charge controller ensures Low Voltage Protection, Over Voltage Protection, Battery Cut Off Circuit, Back Current Protection and Over Discharge Protection. If we can put LCD on the charge controller we can also see the data on the wind generator and the battery. We also have an old solar charge controller that can be used. After honking up the charge controller to the battery. We must convert 12V DC to 110V AC outlet so that we can power stuff with the VAWT wind turbine. I am now busy with the VAWT stand so that i can start putting everything together.
small scale windTurbine
i had an idea to make a small scale VAWT with the 3 PMDC motors i have to power a small outlet. Im thinking of a design where you can attach it on any stable pole you want to. The point of this project is to get familiar with the off-grid setup so i can make its at a larger scale and for the use of the 3 small DC motors.
DIY Wind Turbines
Lenz2 Helical Turbine XL
3D printable Vertical Axis blades
- Quentin Harley
- https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:16504
- Ugrinsky wind turbine
- https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:996946
- Conceptual Wind Turbine
- https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:582948
- Wind Turbine speed
- https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3415666
- Antonio Di Maria
- https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:904398
- Direct connection: a simple method to connect the wind blades with the generator.
- brake system: to slow down the blades so that the wind turbine will not get damaged.
- gear system: gears are used to multiply or divide the torque or the speed.
Stepper Motor generator
A motor rated at 50 volts for example could be used to charge a 12 volt battery at low RPM, whereas a 15 volt stepper motor could only charge a 12 volt battery when up at near its maximum RPM limit.
Find out how to make a simple Stepper Motor Voltage Doubler Circuit here which will can be used to increase the voltage output from the stepper motor (at the same time as reducing the current).
Note that the electricity generated by a stepper motor is usually in multiple phase AC. To rectify this into direct current (DC) for battery charging or lighting LEDs etc, you need to use a suitable bridge rectifier (or multi phase bridge rectifier. Note that some voltage is lost in the rectification process (wasted as heat).
the tecnical specifications printed on an MAE Size 23 1.8 degree (200 Step) Stepper Motor from Italy. This four-phase motor will put out up to 1 Amp per phase at up to 84 Volts. Therefore at the low RPMs typical of a DIY wind turbine you could expect to generate a high enough voltage after rectification to keep a 12 volt battery bank topped up.
3D printable brushless motors
- MakeSea
- Christoph Laimer
Scavenged motors
- Washing machine motor
- CPU Fan to generator
- From fan to generator
- Brushless motor
- old hoverboard
Testing a brushless motor
Car Alternator
An alternator is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current. For reasons of cost and simplicity, most alternators use a rotating magnetic field with a stationary armature.
Alternator vs Generator
Alternators and generators are two devices which generate electricity. An alternator can be called a type of generator. Although both these devices serve the same function, they are quite different in every other aspect.
An alternator is a charging system for cars that produces electricity. Generators are used in the production of large-scale electricity. Both alternators and generators convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. The main difference between them is in regard to what spins and what is fixed.
In an alternator, electricity is produced when a magnetic field spins inside the stator (windings of wire). In a generator, on the other hand, the armature or windings of wire spin inside a fixed magnetic field to generate electricity.
Alternators are considered more efficient than generators. Alternators conserve energy by using only the energy that is needed, while generators use all the energy that is produced. Alternators have a higher output than generators.
When it comes to polarization, alternators and generators are very different. While generators have to be polarized after installation, there is no need for polarization in alternators. Alternator brushes last longer than those of generators. This is because the brushes in an alternator are used only for carrying current to power the rotor and the slip rings they ride are smooth. There is another difference between generators and alternators when it comes to charging. An alternator will not charge a dead battery and if you do try to charge it, there is a possibility that it will burn out. A generator, however, can be used for charging a dead battery.
There is also a difference in size as alternators can fit into a small space, while generators are larger.
Summary: 1.In an alternator, electricity is produced when a magnetic field spins inside the stator (windings of wire). On the other hand, the armature or the windings of wire in a generator spin inside a fixed magnetic field to generate electricity. 2.Alternators conserve energy by using only the energy that is needed. Generators use all the energy that is produced. 3.Alternators produce voltage when needed and generators produce voltage at all times. 4.Alternators generate a higher output than generators.
buy a charge controller
You may find charge controllers at your local hardware store. Or maybe you can use that old solar charge controller you have.
DIY charge controller
The charge controller is required device to protect the battery and the user.
- DIY charge Controller link video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sfjsHjS62g
DIY solar charge controller
Can u use a solar charge controller for a wind turine? Yes you can very well use the charge controller of solar for the wind turbine too, provided the maximum ampere output expected from the turbine is within the range of specifications of the charge controller.
energy storage
The plan is to make a Off-Grid VAWT, therefor we will need a rechargeable battery.
The three stages or steps in lead/acid battery charging are bulk, absorption, and float. Qualification, or equalization are sometimes considered another stage. A 2 stage unit will have bulk and float stages.
battery cahrgeer basics:https://chargetek.com/images/pdfs/equal.pdf
Examples of low voltage batteries
- Silver Flat Pack=Lithium Polymer (LiPo)=3.7V
- AA, AAA, C, D (Rechargeable)=NiMH or NiCd=1.2V
- Car Battery=Six-cell lead acid=12.6V
Examples of these type of batteries are:
- Aluminium-ion battery
- Carbon Battery
- Flow battery
- Lead–acid battery
- Glass battery
- Lithium-ion battery
- Magnesium-ion battery
- Metal–air electrochemical cells
- Molten salt battery
- Nickel–cadmium battery
- Nickel hydrogen battery
- Nickel–iron battery
- Nickel metal hydride battery
- Nickel–zinc battery
- Organic radical battery
- Polymer-based battery
- Polysulfide bromide battery
- Potassium-ion battery
- Rechargeable alkaline battery
- Rechargeable fuel battery
- Sand battery
- Silicon air battery
- Silver-zinc battery
- Silver calcium battery
- Silver-cadmium battery
- Sodium-ion battery
- Sodium–sulfur battery
- Solid-state battery [7]
- Super iron battery
- UltraBattery
- Zinc ion battery
12V DC Car Battery
energy outlet
MY GOAL: one 110V AC outlet


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FERNI, "Wonderful"
There are so many great, lesser known voices out there in the world, and on some occasions I am privileged enough to write about them. With these days of accessibility to music everywhere, we get to hear songs we would never otherwise have heard. Ferni Lopez is a veteran blues/rock singer from the Houston area, and his ages-old voice packs the emotional wallop that just doesn't grow on trees. "Wonderful" is not everyone's cup of tea – it's a thoughtful, deliberately paced, sparse-sounding blues/rock song. But regardless of your rock music affinities, it will rivet you with its subtleties and intensities. Yup, all in one song. It's from Ferni's recently released EP Afterburn, which you can buy on iTunes but also hear on Ferni's Bandcamp page. And remember where you read about it 🙂


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It's about time I use my cubed beef money for something like a small salmon filet, and flash cook it in the cast iron, flake it into a fresh white sauce thickening in the pot on the back burner, and turn the salmon white sauce over the tortellini I bought last week instead of I don't remember what.
It's about time I move the cooking utensils out of the stove-side drawer which started sticking when we had our counters replaced about eight years ago, and hang them up on hooks. Isn't that why wooden spoons and spatulas and whisks and basting brushes have a hole at the ends of their handles?
It's also about time I concede to the fact that the vegetable garden isn't growing vegetables this year. I don't know why. I stirred fertilizer into the soil, but I think it's just tired. The tomato vines stand gangley and as bored looking as teenagers on summer break with no job.
I conceded, partly, two weeks ago. I yanked the worst offender. It didn't argue, didn't resist and if I didn't know better I'd say the vine nearly helped me in it's removal saying, "It's about time!" The others are next.
Yellow Therapy Dog feels it, too. Maybe it's the green bean/dog food diet that's making her hungry for variety, or maybe she's just full of beans, but the crate she's slept in her whole life? She doesn't want to sleep in it anymore. She's done.
This is not entirely a fish-eating family. My big German pokes his head into the kitchen. He doesn't say it, but he doesn't have to. "Something fishy's going on in here," is written all over him. He sleuths the salmon as I stir it into the white sauce and, "Oh! Should I be stirring this into the sauce?"
What can he say? It's done. And something akin to "It's about time I stirred the pot like this" adds a nip of spice between us just here in the kitchen. I grin and win a kiss.
It's about time to stir the pot.
It's about time to stir the pot.
It's about time to do some things differently.
And I am.
Here I go-because everything I blog comes from my journals and it's about time I stir the blog pot.
So, picking up from where I left off-
3 Green Tomatoes hang on a vine too weak to ripen on.
Pretty, but not crisp.
It's good to be quiet with the Lord.
It's good to say to Him, "I'm here, Lord."
It's good to show Him what I've got my hands full of and to say, "I don't know what to do with this!"
It's good to wait to hear what He's going to say....
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Microsoft will be releasing Windows 10 later this month. It's not long since the company revealed different editions of its upcoming operating system. It is now prepping for the launch of Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Home - the two variants of the desktop platform - on July 29. When that happens, which version should you opt for?
Unlike Windows 7 (also true for several other Windows versions), Windows 10 - the desktop operating system - comes in only two variants for desktop home users. The company has toned down from seven different flavours for its desktop operating system to just two. Of the two editions, Windows 10 Pro, as you may have guessed, has more features.
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Anyway, I adored that book (with its thoroughly unthreatening abstract cover) although parts of it were pretty scary. I had a crush on Meg but I liked Calvin anyway and I wanted to meet Mrs. Who. I read the sequels when I found out they existed. I read other young adult novels she'd written (The Young Unicorns), and then her adult fiction (A Severed Wasp, in particular, which I've reread several times).
About ten years ago I was at work one day, in the World Financial Center, and a co-worker looked up from the paper as we were all eating lunch and said, "Hey, Madeleine L'Engle is signing books over at the Trinity Church bookstore." (One good thing about that job was that I was not the only person in the room who said "Really???") So we walked over and met her, and I bought a copy of The Other Side Of the Sun, which she signed for me. We chatted with her for a while as the lunch hour ended and the store emptied out, and she was every bit as kind and engaging as I'd imagined from her books.
The inscription, more than just a signature, is lovely, but what charmed me the most was when she flipped to the first page of the book and corrected a typo ("sandpipers stalked" had become "sandpipers talked"). "This edition embarrasses me," she said. "It's full of typos. The kind that spell-checkers don't catch."
Her writing always spoke to me, was always an escape. She wrote realistically about children and teenagers. She wrote about worlds in which it was good to read lots of books and have an inquiring mind. Her books were full of gentle humor and a deep respect for learning and knowledge. She was identifiably Christian, but always gentle and compassionate and open-minded, never spinning off into pathology the way writers like C.S. Lewis often did. In my early teenage years, the Catholic Church reversed what had been a gradual course of liberalization and turned sharply rightward under John Paul II. The religious authorities in her books were a welcome relief from the mean-spirited intolerants who characterized organized religion in my life. Her books were deeply moral, but never judgmental, and encouraged thinking rather than condemning it. The first time I saw the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in person, it was her books I was thinking about.
"Of course I'm Meg," she told an interviewer. Of course I loved her!


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Research Fellow - The Uncertainty of Identity
University of Birmingham - School of Computer Science
Starting salary £27,854 a year, in a range up to £36,298 a year, with potential progression to £38,522 a year.
Post is available for up to 26 Months
A Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is available within the EPSRC-funded project "The Uncertainty of Identity: Linking Spatiotemporal Information Between Virtual and Real Worlds".
The goal of this project is to investigate models, algorithms, systems and tools for geographic and social network analysis extracted from massive data sets.
This is an exciting opportunity for conducting ground-breaking interdisciplinary research at the interface of large-scale data mining, machine learning, mobile systems, and complex networks/network science. The project will be conducted in collaboration with the other partners of the projects including researchers at University College London, City University London, Purdue University, Arizona State University and several governmental organisations. There is also funding for research visits to the United States.
To apply you must hold a first degree in the areas of Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Electronic Engineering or a related discipline, and normally, a PhD relevant to the research area or equivalent qualifications. Also, you should have demonstrated your research competence through high-quality and high-impact publications in top conferences and journals in one (or more) of the following areas: data mining, data visualization, machine learning, large-scale data processing and systems, mobile systems, and/or complex networks/network science.
Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Mirco Musolesi (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~musolesm/) at the School of Computer Science.
Closing date: 15 February 2013
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As my patient, you can expect thatI will give you my undivided attention and provide you with the highest quality of dental care. I will take the time to understand your needs, and will educate you on my findings. Together, we will come up with the best plan for you.
Dr. Ms favorite TV shows are Survivor, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones, and his favorite vacation destination is Mexico.
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Arizona Mission of Mercy, Give Kids A Smile, Super Sealant Saturday
Dr. M grew up in Air Force bases all across Russia. He immigrated to the U.S. in 2002, where he pursued his passion for dentistry. He enjoys spending time with his family and friends, as well as fishing, hiking, playing volleyball, and snowboarding.
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