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Wind power has long challenged the known rules of engineering. Yet for years the industry was too small to drive the design modifications to off-the-shelf components that the sector's pioneers knew were required. They had no choice but to use standard parts designed for other purposes. Today, however, the wind sector's double-digit growth has made it a force for change. Little-used generator concepts are being given a new lease of life, the demand for longer and lighter blades is driving advances in composite materials, and even the humble wind turbine tower is challenging engineers to make it stronger and taller without making it too big to transport. Meantime, measuring wind velocity and direction gets increasingly sophisticated in the quest for ultimate efficiency when harvesting energy from thin air.
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What it all means is that component suppliers from the broad engineering sector are now investing in product optimisation to meet demands that never existed before, such as specialised parts for wind turbine drive trains. The wind industry's calls for slow-speed generators and generators that are efficient at part load have the power-engineering industry exploring concepts, which until now received scant attention.
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Connection of a wind turbine's slow-turning rotor directly to a slow-speed generator is a component-saving option compared with taking the more obvious route and connecting a conventional high-speed generator to the rotor through a gearbox. These days, production of slow-speed generators at a cost that makes sense for wind power generation is a whole new discipline for electrical engineers. As for the little-explored niche of permanent-magnet generators (PMGs), they have come into fashion like never before. The greater efficiency of PMGs when operating at less than their rated capacity gives them a particular advantage when employed in wind turbines, which by their nature operate at partial load for most of the time: winds do not often blow at the exact speed that a wind turbine's rated capacity is designed for.
By driving the evolution of power engineering in new directions, the wind industry can build bigger turbines. Technical size limits to economic wind power production have evaporated under the onslaught of human engineering ingenuity. Nowhere is this truer than for wind turbine rotors, where innovations by the composites industry have helped push scientific progress in leaps and bounds. A decade or so ago, blades as long as 60 metres, the size used on today's 5MW turbines, were considered both a technical and economic impossibility. Conventional wisdom held that their weight, even if they could be built to survive, would drive up costs to outstrip the value of the electricity produced. A doubling of blade length, the old maxim ruled, would lead to an eightfold increase in weight. Practice has proved those theories wrong: material advances and better understanding of aerodynamic loads mean the addition of weight to add strength has been greatly reduced. The sky is now the limit, it seems, with 120-metre blade designs on more than one drawing board and diameters of 250 metres for offshore wind turbines under discussion.
More recently the presumption has been that physical limitations on transporting wind turbine towers would lead to size caps. Narrow roads and tunnels preclude land transportation of wide-based towers that can support more tower-head weight. But new combinations of materials and new tower shapes are leading to towers with restricted base diameters that are just as strong as the stiff steel towers used to date (page 26). For really big turbines, pouring concrete towers on site is another solution to what at one time was seen as an intractable transport problem.
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Another significant recent change is the much wider geographic footprint of the knowledge base involved in designing and building wind turbines. Companies with engineering backgrounds as varied as China and North Korea, Germany and Finland, and Britain and the United States, cannot fail to take innovation further and faster still. In the quest for the perfect wind turbine, no end is in sight. The extra cost of building offshore is a primary driver for making turbines larger to gain economies of scale, while the plethora of emerging markets is calling for turbines suitable for an expanding range of challenging terrains and wind strengths. What the market demands is not a single technology solution or size, but a range of products for a wide variety of purposes. No wonder the diversity in type and size of wind turbines is getting bigger, not smaller, as the industry matures.


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Today, We deployed the "David Blaine" version of the TB Module for our EMR solution here at IDI (http://idi.mak.ac.ug). This was mainly for bug fixes and usability improvements based on the feedback that we received from users in the past few weeks. Some of the improvements were related to performance. We had to fine-tune some of our Linq statements in some places to enable better queries to be generated by our ORM. We also added some lookup dialogs that present certain information that would be required to make instant decisions. e.g. showing weight trends to determine loss of weight.
We got some of the feedback in less than 30 minutes of usage. A reason to smile.
This TB module is represented by additional assemblies that are dynamically loaded by ICEA (EMR). If these assemblies exist in a certain folder dedicated for plugins and a manifest file indicates that it must be loaded, then the user will see a seamless integration of features related to it. User rights and security propagates into the loaded module, hence the user that is not explicitly given authorisation to the module will be denied access. We were worried early in the project about reflection and performance but later we found ways to cache some most frequently used views and lazy load images and other data. The system uses a model + view + presenter approach, and we had to made some modifications to the Krypton Toolkit to enable the views to come with their own Ribbon parts. i.e. each view comes with its own RibbonTabs, RibbonGroupButton, AppMenu items and anything you want fused with the main shell. This keeps the controls in context with the data at hand. We also added a mechanism within the framework which keeps the current patient context despite the view you are currently viewing. This enables us to change between views in different modules and still keep on the selected patient in context.
The TB Module is made up of a number of forms within the application.
We had a major challenge in that there had been an Access database which was used to enter information written on forms. The design was not what you'd want (not by us) and to make things worse, there were many fields which were not validated (esp dates) and it was hell to transfer the data into ICEA. The access system allowed duplicates and there was no relationship made between the forms I talked about. Forging relationships where there existed duplicates was a major challenge. I'm happy to say that we found a way to create relationships that did not exist through the TB module.

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My problem with this "research" (which is detailed here) is that they didn't really do much research here. The entirety of their research can be summarized in Amazon's own documentation.
We recommend that you run the Windows Update service as a first step after every Windows instance that you launch.That sounds like good advice to me. Earlier in the same documentation, we find these nuggets:
AWS updates the AWS Windows AMIs several times a year.
In addition to the public AMIs provided by AWS, AMIs published by the AWS developer community are available for your use. We highly recommend that you use only those Windows AMIs that AWS or other reputable sources provide.So I don't know what your definition of "several times a year" is, but let's just say that it isn't every patch Tuesday. Further, the article doesn't mention whether the official Amazon AMIs were years out of date or whether it was a community contributed AMI. Community contributed AMIs might never be updated after being released, and we shouldn't expect that Amazon has any control/influence over this.
So what's the answer here? Well, I certainly side with Amazon in advocating that users enable Windows updates and update their systems before entering production. However, there's a good reason why updates are disabled by default. EC2 instances can be configured to terminate on shutdown. That means that the EBS volumes backing them cease to exist. If you have automatic updates enabled, that won't work well if you depend on this behavior.
The bottom line is that you have to be smart. Moving some processing to the cloud solves a great many problems. Patching is unfortunately not one of them... Just like you wouldn't install a Windows server from DVD and deploy it without patching, you shouldn't start up an AMI and deploy it without patching either.
As an aside, Help-Net Security should be ashamed of themselves for the tag line they used in the article. It's just sensationalism, plain and simple.


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Would have liked a little more warning for one last in-game party or something, but the server is being decommissioned today so it will no longer be possible to play online.
I updated the Google store text to explain the server isn't there anymore, but the iOS version wouldn't let me without updating to a new version as far as I could tell so I may just pull it from the App Store so people won't review bomb it or something because they expect a working server.
It's been a fun eight years, lot of beagles shot. (why Beagles?!) Appreciate all the players and mods who made the community active and spicy during its heyday, thank you.


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The Alpines International Club was founded in 1958 to develop, preserve and promote the Alpine Dairy Goat. This non-profit club serves to connect all Alpine enthusiasts by providing a forum through which they can share information, news and ideas. Alpines International invites anyone with an interest in the Alpine breed to become a member.
The Alpine is a medium to large sized dairy goat with upright ears and a medium to short hair coat. This breed can be seen in an assortment of colors and color combinations. They are hardy adaptable animals that can thrive in a variety of climates and maintain good health and strong production. In America, we have two subsets of Alpines; the French Alpine and the American Alpine.
Alpines in the United States –
Today's Alpines are a versatile utility animal. Alpine does make excellent milkers for both home and commercial dairies. Alpines produce a high volume of milk. They have the ability to milk through, meaning that they can produce over a period of one to three years between freshenings. This produces valuable year round milk and reduces breeding costs. Alpine milk has a high cheese yield because of good butterfat and protein content. The all-time ADGA production record for an Alpine was set in 2015 by SG Soldier-Mtn RHRS Chanel Noir 3*M (AA1595764) producing 6,990 pounds of milk over a 305 day lactation. Alpines produce well on pasture or in dry-lotted hay fed conditions. They are known for being exceptionally hardy, curious, and friendly. The beauty and intrigue of Alpine colors make them appealing to everyone.
While Alpine does make excellent dairy producers, bucks make good meat animals and will often gain weight as fast as the meat breeds. Alpine wethers also make excellent pack goats. They tend to be larger, stronger, and healthier than many other goat breeds. They train easily, bond with their keepers, and retain their guard dog like instinct out on the trail. An experienced Alpine Pack Goat can be amazingly trail wise. He will remember a trail he has been on and can lead the pack through snow and fog. Alpine Pack Goats thrive in most climates and they tolerate heat better than Saanens and Toggs. The variety of coat colors makes them appealing to the pack goat buyer.
In 2016, ADGA registered a total of 7,052 Alpines. Alpines continue be a breed of choice for many producers, from backyard hobbyists, to show enthusiasts, to commercial dairymen. –"The History of Goats in America"


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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says Republicans are losing the public relations battle over the tax cuts.
"They won the vote," Pelosi said Thursday at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's annual Fiscal Summit in Washington, D.C., "but they have not won the public opinion of it because the experience people have is something very contrary to misrepresentations they have made about it." (The Fiscal Times is an editorially independent site founded by Peter G. Peterson.)
Pelosi said that, if Democrats win the House in November and she is elected speaker, she would look to revise the tax overhaul and negotiate an extension of the law's tax cuts for the middle class while rolling back its deficit-increasing effects. She added that cutting the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent was the "wrong way to go."
More from Pelosi, via Bloomberg and The Washington Times:
- "Let me just say this: This tax bill has nothing going for it except helping the 1 percent."
- "The tax bill is a dark cloud over our children's future. We want to revisit in a way that puts the middle class first and reduces the debt."
- "Yes, we want to revisit it in a way that puts the middle class first but does reduce the debt — not increase the debt."
- "Wouldn't it have been better if we had spent over a trillion dollars on infrastructure" instead of "tax breaks for the wealthy?"
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that Pelosi's indication earlier this week that Democrats want to undo parts of the new tax law would fall flat with voters. "They want to raise taxes on hard-working Americans. They want to raise taxes on businesses. They want to make it harder for American businesses to stay in America," Ryan said, according to The Washington Times. "I can't imagine that America will want that to happen."


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Sometimes after encountering certain events or incidents, we may consequentially sense a kind of uncanny feeling. It often feels like there is "something more to it" or "certain enlightenment or revelation" ahead for us to find out. The feeling is generally positive, something that we are looking forward to know "what's next".
What do we name/describe this kind of feeling as?


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Registered Dems. outnumber Reps. in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma's Election Board secretary says more than 21,000 Oklahoma voters registered to vote last month.
Secretary Paul Ziriax said Monday that there has been a net increase of nearly 68,000 voters since January, including more than 21,000 during September.
The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 6 general election is Oct. 12.
Ziriax also reported that Democrats still have the most registered voters in Oklahoma, but that Republicans and independents are growing at a faster rate.
As of Sept. 30, Oklahoma had just more than two million registered voters with 46 percent being Democrats, 42 percent Republican and 12 percent independents.
Since January 1st - Republicans have added about 45,000 registered voters while Democrats have added nearly 7,000.


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Design Pattern: Proxy
A proxy is a stand-in for something or someone else. As an actor, you might hire a proxy to attend an autograph signing session. Your proxy is providing a layer between you and your fans, but can forward relevant messages as necessary. You want your proxy to behave as much like you do as possible, so that the fans believe they are interacting with you directly.
Proxies in software are similar to proxies in real life. You might create a distributed object proxy. Such a proxy is designed to make its clients think that they are directly interacting with the object, when in reality the object lives in a process on a remote machine. The proxy manages the intricacies of communicating with the distributed object while ensuring that the client remains blissfully ignorant of these details.
As you might imagine, proxies in Java are heavily dependent upon having both the proxy and the target class—the class that the proxy is "standing in" for—implement a common interface. The proxy needs to respond to all the same messages as the target, and forward them as appropriate.
In this article, I'll demonstrate use of a proxy that provides a security layer, disallowing clients with insufficient access from executing specific methods.
I've built a Portfolio class using test-driven development (TDD). The simple implementation of Portfolio provides two query methods, numberOfHoldings and sharesOf, and one update method named purchase.
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import static org.junit.Assert.*; import org.junit.*; public class PortfolioTest { private Portfolio portfolio; @Before public void initialize() { portfolio = new Portfolio(); } @Test public void containsNoHoldingsOnCreation() { assertEquals(0, portfolio.numberOfHoldings()); } @Test public void storesSinglePurchaseSingleShare() { assertEquals(0, portfolio.sharesOf("MSFT")); portfolio.purchase("MSFT", 1); assertEquals(1, portfolio.numberOfHoldings()); assertEquals(1, portfolio.sharesOf("MSFT")); } @Test public void sumsSharesForMultiplePurchasesSameSymbol() { portfolio.purchase("MSFT", 1); portfolio.purchase("MSFT", 2); assertEquals(1, portfolio.numberOfHoldings()); assertEquals(3, portfolio.sharesOf("MSFT")); } @Test public void segregatesSharesBySymbol() { portfolio.purchase("MSFT", 5); portfolio.purchase("IBM", 10); assertEquals(2, portfolio.numberOfHoldings()); assertEquals(5, portfolio.sharesOf("MSFT")); } @Test(expected=InvalidSymbolException.class) public void disallowsPurchaseOfNullSymbol() { portfolio.purchase(null, 0); } }
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import java.util.*; public class Portfolio { private Map<String,Integer> symbols = new HashMap<String,Integer>(); public int numberOfHoldings() { return symbols.size(); } public int sharesOf(String symbol) { if (!symbols.containsKey(symbol)) return 0; return symbols.get(symbol); } public void purchase(String symbol, int shares) { if (symbol == null) throw new InvalidSymbolException(); symbols.put(symbol, shares + sharesOf(symbol)); } }
The InvalidSymbolException class is simply an empty subclass of RuntimeException.
The first step toward building a proxy is to define a common interface. I execute an Extract Implementer refactoring [Feathers2004], ending up with an interface named Portfolio and an implementation of the Portfolio interface named PortfolioImpl.
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// Portfolio.java public interface Portfolio { int numberOfHoldings(); int sharesOf(String symbol); void purchase(String symbol, int shares); } // PortfolioImpl.java--renamed from Portfolio import java.util.*; public class PortfolioImpl implements Portfolio { ...
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We own very few clothes appropriate for a winter storm, which made for some hysterical memories. Luckily, I own a pair of lined sweatpants that my sister passed down to me probably 6 years ago at least. I fished them out of the back of my closet and have had them on for two days. They did the job of keeping me warm and DRY, which ended up being a blessing with all of the snowballs thrown at me and snow angels I had to make. :-) My duck boots, which are probably 15 years old now, also came out of hiding. Colin's brown boots were perfect for keeping snow out and I piled him into sweatshirts and Jackson's hand-me-down heavy winter coat. The only real issue was gloves. I could only manage to find one black and one red glove (the sad cotton kind with zero waterproofing) in the bottom of my closet and Colin does not even own a pair. For several trips out, Colin wore my mis-matched gloves dangling off his little hands...but he actually found that funny and loved it. Everything kept getting so wet that I quickly just switched to putting his socks on his hands and changing them every few minutes. This also did a good job of keeping his hands warm, although I did end up with a GIANT pile for the dryer last night. Jer made it home from work at about 3:00pm and we all loaded up in the car for an impromptu trip around town to check out the snow and attempt to find better gloves for Colin. You know that you live in Texas when after 3 stores, including Wal-Mart, you can't find a single pair of gloves for sale...in FEBRUARY!. The weather was such a huge blessing. While it snowed ALL day, the temperatures hovered at 33 degrees all day long and kept the roads from icing over too badly. We knew it would dip below freezing last night, but we still had time to run a few errands and see our snow covered town before it got too bad. Although we remain gloveless, we still had the most magical day on record for our little family. Colin spent the whole day either outside or perched at the big window in the kitchen. He was in absolute heaven. He threw snowballs at me endlessly and threw himself into making a giant snowman with me, only to take huge delight in knocking it over when we were done. We made cupcakes together and I made a delicious indian chicken dish for dinner, which was rich and perfect for a snowy night. Even Enzo got in on the fun and romped in the snow with the family, which was a big surprise considering his thin skin and hatred of being cold. :-) The entire day took on an ethereal quality...heavy snow falling in almost white-out conditions outside my window all day long. The neighborhood was silent except for the sounds of children laughing and every single time we would come inside, our tracks would be completely covered so that each time we headed back out, we had a sea of fresh powder in front of us, begging to be jumped in. Colin was pure joy and elation and I got to relive seeing something amazing for the very first time through his eyes. The gift of having children is seeing the world through unguarded eyes and feeling "firsts" all over again. The look on Colin's face out there in the winter wonderland will be etched in my memory forever and I was reminded to thank God for the blessing of my baby all over again. What a perfect day.
I took hundreds of pictures and lots of video...it was hard to even pick a few to save on the blog. I want to frame them all!
Probably the best shot of the day, taken by Jer. Colin was clearly throwing a snowball at me. I love my mis-matched gloves and Colin's sock mittens. :-)
Making snowballs with Daddy!
He loves throwing snowballs more than anything!
I'm coming to get you, Mommy!
The first outing of the morning...look at that smile. Pure joy!
Happy snow baby!
It is SO DEEP! Colin loved stomping in it!


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Enjoy the most accurate driving instructions while driving in Italy/Greece.
Improve the performance of your Opel EHU CD70 navigation system with this Opel Sat Nav map update, covering 1,125,065 kilometers of road in Italy/Greece.
Benefit from updated road data including new motorway junctions, trunk roads and roundabouts as well as adjusted speed limits and turn restrictions. These features are considered by your Opel navigation system to ensure accurate route planning according to your preferences.
The latest POI database will enhance your navigation driving experience. In this Opel map update 297,218 Points Of Interest are covered. These include petrol station, airports, restaurants and parking facilities.
This navigation product includes 1 CD with the latest GPS map for your Opel vehicle.
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Packing My Library An Elegy and Ten Digressions Alberto Manguel
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A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries.
In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000‑volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading. In this poignant and personal reevaluation of his life as a reader, the author illuminates the highly personal art of reading and affirms the vital role of public libraries.
Manguel's musings range widely, from delightful reflections on the idiosyncrasies of book lovers to deeper analyses of historic and catastrophic book events, including the burning of ancient Alexandria's library and contemporary library lootings at the hands of ISIS. With insight and passion, the author underscores the universal centrality of books and their unique importance to a democratic, civilized, and engaged society.
"Alberto Manguel is a kind of global Reader Laureate: he is reading's champion, its keenest student and the most zealous proselytiser. . . if you value these particular pleasures already, you may find yourself the ideal reader for Alberto Manguel."—Daniel Hahn, Spectator
"Packing My Library [alternates] intimate chapters that make up an 'elegy' for his library with 10 masterly digressions on his life as a reader and lover of books. . . . Manguel's intellect and enthusiasm are on full display as he cites a dazzling number of books in many languages, dilating on an astounding number of topics."—Ernest Hilbert, Wall Street Journal
"The enviably multilingual Alberto Manguel . . . reflects on his peripatetic life in Packing My Library, . . . an excellent [book] about books."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post
"Slight but poignant. . . In its exploration of the symbiotic relationship between life and literature, the biblio-memoir would appear to be a rallying cry in the affirmative."—Lucy Scholes, Financial Times
"One of the world's greatest readers, whose finest work has often been about the writing of others. . . has produced a book —a slim, fragmentary meditation on the power of reading and the importance of libraries."—Claire Armitstead, The Guardian
"Books jump out of their jackets when Manguel opens them and dance in delight as they make contact with his ingenious, voluminous brain. He is not the keeper of a silent cemetery, but a master of bibliographical revels."—Peter Conrad, The Observer
"A labyrinth of intellectual thought intermittently dispersed amid 144 pages of pure literary appreciation – the likes of which, one really doesn't come across every day"—David Marx Book Reviews
"The area which Alberto Manguel has mapped for himself is that of the eros of reading. . . . He is a Don Juan of libraries."—George Steiner, The Guardian
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"Alberto Manguel is a wanderer among books, immensely curious in such an intriguing way that he lets his readers easily discover the fruits of his curiosity."—Roberto Calasso
Alberto Manguel is a great reader. His entire oeuvre testifies to this. In Packing My Library, Manguel continues his celebration of the book as object, conduit, and talisman. This elegy for his library, including digressions on citizenship, dictionaries, god's speech, and creativity, shows a profound appreciation for the shibboleths and affinities of the bibliophile. A joyful testament!—Jeff Deutsch, Seminary Co-op
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As one of the first Android phones with a dedicated HDMI-out port, the HTC EVO 4G is the perfect candidate for a multimedia dock. The official HTC HDMI dock is that perfect multimedia dock. It's stylish, simple, and works great — which is what most of us look for in our electronic accessories.
Inside the box is everything you need to get going. The dock, a 72-inch (that's six feet) HDMI cable, and a quick and easy set of directions and you'll soon be watching video on your television or monitor. And the dock's small size makes it perfect for carrying along with you to share video and pictures from your EVO on any television.
Just plug one end of the cable into the dock, the other into the TV, and go. There's even a microUSB port on the dock so you can charge while watching. The dock itself is weighty, and has four rubber feet to keep it from sliding around while using it. You precious EVO 4G fits tightly, and there's no fear of breaking anything because it fell out of the connector.
The HTC EVO 4G was one of the most popular Android phones ever, with good reason. It was a real game changer, and the current crop of big, bright displays and media-centric devices can all trace their roots back to it. And you know what? It's still great. Hit the break for a few more images.
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Floods kill 4, paralyze Indonesian capital
- Floods most widespread to hit Jakarta in recent memory
- Deforestation one of the factors behind floods
- President%2C foreign minister pictured standing in water up to shins
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's army deployed rubber boats in the capital's business district on Thursday to rescue people trapped in floods that inundated much of the city of 14 million people. The president was pictured standing in water up to his shins — his trousers rolled up — at the palace waiting for the arrival of Argentina's leader on a state visit.
The floods were the most widespread to hit Jakarta in recent memory. Authorities said at least four people were killed and 20,000 evacuated. Many more homes were inundated following around five hours of heavy overnight rain that coursed through rivers already swollen by a long monsoon season.
Few areas in the city were spared, from wealthy suburbs to riverside slums and gleaming downtown business blocks. Offices and schools were deserted and traffic ground to a halt. The international airport was operating normally, but travelers were finding it hard to get there.
"This is horrible," said Yanitha Damayanti, a bank teller stranded downtown. "For the first time in my life, downtown Jakarta has flooded."
The city has long been prone to floods, but successive governments have done little to mitigate the threat.
Deforestation in the hills to the south of the city, chaotic planning and the rubbish that clogs the hundreds of rivers and waterways that crisscross the city are some of the factors behind the floods. The city's vulnerability exposes the country's poor infrastructure even as it has posted impressive economic growth in recent years.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the country's foreign minister were pictured standing in water up to their shins at the presidential palace waiting for the arrival of Argentina's President Christina Kirchner, who is on a state visit. The meeting of the two leaders apparently went ahead.
"I have no problem with the palace being flooded, "Yudhoyono said. "The most important thing is the people are protected."
In some places, water levels were up to 2 meters (6 1/2 feet) high. Seen from above, the main road through the heart of the city resembled a muddy river. Even as authorities struggled to rescue those trapped and provide them food and shelter, some were thinking of the economic cost.
"This is an extraordinary disaster," said Syamsuddin Basri. "I had to cancel many important business deals."


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Proven Results
Avalon Consulting, LLC positioned as the big-data professional for partners and customers
Avalon Consulting LLC was founded in 2003 to provide systems integration consulting to large enterprises with a focus on portal-based web applications and content management systems. Avalon initially focused on high-end platforms offered by Vignette (CMS, web portal) and Autonomy (enterprise search).
By 2009, it had dozens of Fortune 500 clients, and began investing in a NoSQL delivery capability based on the needs of its client base. In 2010, it began offering services around Hadoop, and refocused its enterprise search capabilities around both Elasticsearch and Solr. The company has now taken all these technologies and added new consulting services to its capabilities. This report focuses on the development of its NoSQL, Hadoop and SAP HANA Vora services.
Over the past couple of years, Avalon has worked hard to establish itself as one of the rising stars of the bigdata consultancy market. Its focus on mentoring, and its investment in its big-data Center of Excellence in Austin, Texas, are paying off in terms of customer wins and in establishing new strong, strategic partnerships with both Cloudera and SAP. To manage the next phase of its growth, it needs to put more structured sales and marketing processes in place and create software assets, building on its strength in packaged scenarios for extracting data from data lakes.
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Modern Search Unlocks Ancient Secrets within a Major Information Resource
The Challenge
This organization is a global leader in creating specialized information resources and technologies. It challenges itself with providing the most successful ways for people to search, find, use, and share information. Through innovative, user-centered discovery technology, it offers billions of pages of global content that includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant resources for researchers of any level and sophistication—including content not likely to be digitized by others.
This powerhouse of digital information wanted to develop a repository that draws on advanced search features to efficiently deliver information to its users. It also wanted to facilitate the uploading of content and effectively monitor its subscriber usage.
The Solution
Avalon led development to import historical documents and records into a MarkLogic repository. Avalon later used this data to develop an entitlements-based search interface to provide a powerful search experience for this organization's customers.
Using MarkLogic and a Java integration, Avalon was able to implement modern search features like faceted navigation, browsing and auto-complete. Avalon also built an administrative tool which allows users to manage billing and invoicing to subscribers.
The Delivery & Outcome
Anxious to demo this new product at an upcoming industry conference and launch sales to academic libraries soon after, this organization was expecting a rapidly-delivered solution. Within three weeks, Avalon created a working search prototype that could be interactively reviewed by the project sponsors.
The product debuted on schedule with three modules of archival collections documenting two of the most important and widely studied topics in 20th-century American history: the Black Freedom Struggle and the Vietnam War. These modules are the first in a five-year plan to build more than 25 modules of rich and varied content that create a full spectrum of archival materials. The product will eventually house 23 million pages of digitized primary source material.
Content Management Transformation for a Global eCommerce Site
The Challenge
When you're a multinational corporation operating one of the largest ecommerce sites in the world, you need a content management platform, structure, and practices to deliver the right content in the right place, tailored to deliver messages to a large and diverse audience.
Our client had embarked on an ambitious multi-year site redesign but was hampered by an out-of-date model for entering and managing content, poor content organization, inefficient workflows, inadequate security, and a lack of standards and processes. Instead of being the catalyst for evolving their web presence, the corporation's web content management system implementation was adding cost and time to every new initiative.
The Solution
Our client turned to Avalon to design flexible content frameworks that would support multiple web products, translated into several languages, capable of delivering personalized information to web and mobile platforms.
Working in close partnership with business and IT leadership, Avalon designed a new suite of content types that gave the business control over where and how content could be displayed and then migrated hundreds of thousands of content instances to the new structure. We rationalized and reorganized the content structure, implemented a functional security model for content authors, developed custom reports for content managers, updated publishing workflows, and defined and enhanced the content management process. Through extensive training and documentation, we ensured that the content managers could truly own and operate their content management system.
The Outcome
The new approach to content management delivered a high return on investment across the content lifecyle:
- During the transformation of the content to a new framework, Avalon mapped content and developed an automated migration process that cut months out of the project.
- On-going content management has become routine, allowing work to transition from a highly-specialized content manager organization to low-cost content maintenance staff.
- New initiatives have reused and extended the content frameworks with minimal need for new development, cutting deployment costs to a fraction of what they had been.
ContentMARK™ Facilitates Powerful WCM and Search on MarkLogic Platform
The Challenge
MarkLogic had a repository of assets including rich media, videos, PDF files, images, spreadsheets, and Word and Excel documents. The company wanted these assets to be more readily available for users who regularly searched for and downloaded data and documents for use in promotional materials such as sales sheets, white papers, and presentations. MarkLogic envisioned housing this content on its own platform to inherently provide a sophisticated but easy-to-use search solution for users.
The Solution
MarkLogic turned to trusted partner Avalon to leverage our proprietary ContentMARK Application Framework to create a web content management system on MarkLogic's database. ContentMARK is equipped with an asset management system that allows for storage of any type of content. Assets are managed through a series of screens that allow for uploading and deleting items as well as managing meta properties, using xml schema definitions, associated with the content. Processing is applied to uploaded documents through the content processing framework. Using MarkLogic document filters, Avalon ingested and converted the assets to binary documents, extracted text content, and created a repository that is fully indexed and searchable.
The Outcome
Eager to share this searchable content, MarkLogic made this resource library available to current users and the public – people who are interested in the company and may also find these assets useful. MarkLogic's enhanced web content management system allows for:
- A two-step publishing process to control public facing content - Templates and containers are initially placed in draft mode that is only visible to content managers. After content is ready for public consumption, the content manager is able to publish the specified content to the site.
- Enhanced security via user and role management - ContentMARK allows for native MarkLogic accounts as well as external OAUTH2 providers like Facebook and GitHub with role-based security to grant or deny access to content and assets within the system.
Avalon continues to leverage its ContentMARK Application Framework as an out-of-the-box framework designed to facilitate powerful content management implementations on the MarkLogic platform – for MarkLogic and other clients.


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Shooting star: Machado takes fast track to ASG
O's 21-year-old third baseman 'blessed' to be in Midsummer Classic in first full season
NEW YORK -- Orioles third baseman Manny Machado, like any ballplayer, always dreamed of being a Major League All-Star -- he just never imagined it would come so soon.
Just 21 years old and in the midst of his first full big league season, Machado is already making his first All-Star appearance. At this time a year ago, the American League reserve third baseman for Tuesday's All-Star Game at Citi Field (7:30 p.m. ET on FOX) was the starting shortstop for Double-A Bowie.
The Orioles phenom made his Major League debut on Aug. 9 last season, nearly one month after the 2012 Midsummer Classic was played in Kansas City. He's taken full advantage of his first opportunity to be selected for a Major League All-Star Game this season, hitting .310 with seven home runs and 45 RBIs, while playing spectacular defense at the hot corner.
"Just being a part of this selected group is something that everyone dreams about," Machado said. "It's just an honor to have this opportunity, and honestly it really hasn't sunken in yet."
Naturally a shortstop, the Orioles knew Machado was capable of holding his own defensively. Yet, this season, the third overall pick in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft has also rounded into form at the plate.
At the All-Star break, Machado easily leads the Major Leagues with 39 doubles. The AL's starting catcher for Tuesday night, Joe Mauer of the Twins, is a distant second with 30.
Not only is Machado roping doubles at a greater frequency than any other player this season, but he is doing so at a nearly unprecedented rate. His 39 two-baggers are the second most ever hit before the All-Star break, just three shy of Mariners designated hitter Edgar Martinez's record set in 1996.
"I'm just doing what I can control at the plate and trying not to do too much, really," Machado said. "I've just been going out there trying to play baseball, taking it day by day, and the most important thing is that we keep coming up with wins."
Already a talented defender, Machado is coming into his own at the plate, and that has truly turned him into an all-around threat. The former shortstop started his rapid transition to third base last season with Bowie. He made just two starts at the hot corner with Bowie before he found himself adjusting to the new position on the big league stage, skipping Triple-A altogether.
Through it all, Machado showed few signs, if any, of uneasiness at the hot corner. He regularly turns in highlight-reel plays, often leaving his teammates in awe of his defensive prowess.
"I don't think there's any way that I could do what he's done," said J.J. Hardy, Machado's teammate and the starting AL shortstop. "Really not playing any games in the Minor Leagues -- just two, I think -- at third base in the Minors. Then to come up and, the first day in the big leagues, play third base and be as good as he has -- I don't think people realize how good of an athlete he is to be able to make that transition so easily."
Machado is one of a record 39 first-time All-Stars named to this season's game, a list that includes Orioles teammates Chris Davis and Chris Tillman. Machado's initial All-Star appearance comes one year after fellow phenoms Bryce Harper of the Nationals (first overall pick in 2010) and the Angels' Mike Trout (25th overall pick in 2009) participated in their first Midsummer Classics. Both Harper and Trout are in the starting lineup this season for their respective league.
"I think we are seeing a rash, or influx, of tremendous young talent that really is changing our game," said National League manager Bruce Bochy. "I think they are just getting better, faster, bigger, stronger still, and it's impressive to watch these guys."
As one of the game's brightest young stars, Machado has already had a number of highlights in his brief big league career. Following his late-season promotion in 2012, Machado helped the Orioles reach the postseason for the first time since '97, and he now finds himself a part of Baltimore's largest All-Star contingent since that same '97 season.
"I can't believe how fast everything has happened," Machado said. "I was just excited to be in the big leagues when I got called up. Then, obviously, we made the playoffs as a team, and now to be here in my first All-Star Game surrounded by all these guys -- I just feel truly blessed."
The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on Tuesday. Come to MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM also will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.


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First premise: Nothing made by mortals can be perfect.
Second premise: Every communication is partly made by the listener.
Conclusion: No perfect revelation to mortals can be made.
The second premise is the interesting part. Its obviously true that communication includes understanding– the listener is the understander–and so the listener makes part of the communication. But there's another way that the listener makes it.
Just a few days ago I was flipping through my journal. As I get older and settle into myself more, journal-flipping embarrasses me less and surprises me more. The thoughts are less juvenile and less obviously mine, they surprise me the way any novel insight surprises me. This time, flipping through my journal, I came across an aphorism. "Every conversation is a little civilization." Every conversation is its own subculture. There is a private social contract when we speak.
The speaker seeks to be understood and speaks according to his understanding of the listener. He has a model of the listener through which he filters his thoughts. This model is partly created by the listener, by the listener's responses, and by the listener's prior acts and being. Taking off from D&C 50 , we might even say that the listener helps directly construct the model through the channel provided by the Holy Ghost.
When we speak, we speak in roles. But those roles are partly determined by what the listener will accept and more than partly determined by who the listener is. Lehi says there are things that act and things to be acted upon. The acting thing is partly determined by the thing that is acted upon: the thing that is acted upon sets the metes and determines the bounds of the actor's possibilities.
The word is made flesh.
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Swimming to diminish leg lymphedema…
For a considerable length of time I've been telling individuals with Leg Lymphedema that the best exercise to lessen the swelling is swimming. Why? There are a couple of reasons swimming is the best exercise.
One, since you are even when swimming instead of vertical and your leg beneath your middle. This is like when you are resting or hoisting your leg to lessen the swelling.
Two, when swimming your natural liquids are coursing. The development of the appendages and muscles are making a power to move the liquids all through your body. The development of kicking while at the same time swimming is driving the liquids out of your leg. Your blood and lymphatic liquid are being moved more quickly when swimming as opposed to sitting or resting.
Three, the water itself offers a delicate pressure when in a pool. It is more delicate than a pressure stocking, however it is as yet accommodating for when you remain in the pool in the middle of swimming. Swimming is incredible, however notwithstanding standing and moving your leg through the water is useful.
What's more, four, swimming is non-affect. That implies, your foot isn't hitting the floor with each progression as it is with strolling or running. Strolling and running really influence leg lymphedema to wind up more regrettable on account of the majority of the beating/effect and gravity. Indeed, they help course a bit, yet the effect makes the liquids be pressed down into the leg instead of driving the liquids out of the leg. Your body is vertical and the liquids rundown. Swimming is extremely delicate and successful for those of us with leg lymphedema contrasted with some other oxygen consuming activity.
I've been managing leg lymphedema since my 1991 growth medical procedure. At the time, I as of now had an active recuperation degree, was a wellness mentor, and a tumbling mentor. I knew how the body worked.
I had threatening melanoma in my correct thigh. I was informed that I would be out of commission for whatever remains of my life by numerous specialists after disease medical procedure. The medical procedure was the best way to spare my life. That was whether it wasn't at that point past the point of no return. The specialist didn't know whether the malignancy had effectively spread to my lymph hubs and all through my body. On the off chance that it had, it would have been past the point of no return. Going into the medical procedure I didn't know whether I had a long time to live or a lifetime of being sleeping.
The specialists expelled the harmful tumor and the lymph hubs from my crotch territory amid the medical procedure. It was two medical procedures consolidated that kept going numerous hours. Instantly after the medical procedure, my leg was as wide as my midriff. I had a tree trunk and far to go to diminish it to typical size. My life was spared, however my leg and life were always showed signs of change. It took about multi year to lessen my leg to relatively ordinary size. I have kept up my leg lymphedema to a great degree well since I am so taught.
A couple of speedy tips for diminishing the swelling… lift, pressure, flow/light exercise, and an exceptionally solid eating regimen of different foods grown from the ground – that is the key to diminishing the swelling and holding it down. Eat nourishments, for example, foods grown from the ground. Avoid prepared sustenances, quick nourishments, lousy nourishments, liquor, pop, and other unfortunate sustenances.
I considered non-intrusive treatment in school and have been a CSCS for a long time. I know how to keep up wellbeing and recoup from sickness and damage. I concede, my insight has made it less demanding for me to keep up my leg lymphedema, yet you can do it as well.
What incited me to compose this today? I go throughout the entire winter wishing I approached a pool so I can keep up my lymphedema better. This week the pool opened and I paid for my pool pass. I'll have the capacity to keep my leg looking and resting easy, scarcely any swelling on non-working days. Yahoo!
I swam out of the blue this late spring yesterday and my leg felt and looked incredible thereafter. Raising today and it can rest easy. I can hardly wait to go to my formal dance social later tonight!
Anybody in NJ with leg lymphedema that needs to talk, meet for a fast swim, or needs a tad of assistance just


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More than two weeks after Alvin and Kathryn Liknes and their five-year-old grandson, Nathan O'Brien, were last seen alive, a man was arrested Monday and will be charged with three counts of murder in connection to the trio's disappearance. Here's a day-by-day list of developments in the case that's captivated the city and the nation:
June 27-29: Alvin and Kathryn Liknes host a three-day weekend estate sale at their Parkhill home.
June 29: It's the third day of the estate sale and Jennifer O'Brien, Kathryn's daughter, visits the home with two of her children. At around 10 p.m., she leaves five-year-old Nathan O'Brien at his grandparents' house for a sleepover.
June 30: Jennifer O'Brien returns to the Liknes house around 10 a.m. to pick up Nathan. No one is there. In the afternoon, police announce they're investigating what they say is the suspicious disappearance of Nathan and his grandparents. Around suppertime, an Amber Alert is issued for the missing trio.
July 1: Police say they have a "big mystery" on their hands, and evidence at the Liknes home suggests the three family members left the residence against their will. Police ask anyone who attended the estate sale to contact them.
July 2: The parents of Nathan O'Brien make an emotional public plea for the return of their son at a news conference with police. "I know Grandma's holding you so tightly right now and taking care of you, and they are doing everything in their power to keep you safe, so I need you to . . . stay strong, Nathan," says Jennifer O'Brien, clutching a T-shirt belonging to her missing son.
July 3: About 75 people who attended the Likneses' weekend estate sale stop by a community hall meeting in Parkhill to talk to police about the sale. Investigators want to determine what items were purchased during the sale, compared to what items remain in the home.
July 4: Staff Sgt. Doug Andrus says a violent struggle occurred inside the Likneses' home before the three went missing. Police release images of a green Ford F150 made in the late 1980s or early 1990s that was seen driving around Parkhill several times during the night of the disappearance.
July 5: Dozens of police officers fan out in the area around the Likneses' home. The search is complete a few hours later. Soon after, a large police presence is seen at an acreage in the rural northeast corner of Airdrie and, in the evening, police confirm that the massive search at the property is related to the investigation. Police find a green truck matching the description of the one seen near the Likneses' home at the scene and take one person, Douglas Garland, in for questioning.
July 6: Police and RCMP continue their grid search of the rural Airdrie property. Douglas Garland, 54, is released from police custody, then remanded in custody at Calgary's remand facility on charges of possessing identification in the name of Matthew Hartley, a 14-year-old Cardston boy who was killed in a 1980 car crash. Garland's sister is in a common-law relationship with a member of the Liknes family and Garland remains a person of interest in the missing-persons case. Garland once operated an illegal drug lab on the property, owned by his parents, which is now being searched by authorities.
July 7: The hunt for the missing trio intensifies at several locations in rural Airdrie as police also investigate business connections between Alvin Liknes and Douglas Garland. Meanwhile, Garland appears in court on an unrelated identity-theft charge. Judge Mark Tyndale orders Garland be held in custody for an additional 48 hours.
July 8: At the first media update on the case since July 5, police say they still have "more questions than answers" about the case and say their search for the three could go on indefinitely. "The search will continue until no stone has been left unturned," Calgary Police spokesman Kevin Brookwell says as investigators continue to scour properties in Airdrie for clues.
July 9: Douglas Garland, the only person of interest in the trio's disappearance, appears briefly in court regarding two identify-theft offences unrelated to the missing-persons case. In a brief court hearing, lawyers representing the Crown and Garland say they are discussing bail conditions ahead of another court appearance later in the week. Also on July 9, officers begin searching sections of the Spyhill Landfill in the city's northwest for clues in the case.
July 10: Investigators continue to search the Airdrie acreage owned by the parents of Douglas Garland and the landfill search is extended to the East Calgary dump. In the evening, hundreds of people attend an outdoor vigil in Parkhill for the missing family. The crowd includes many members of the Liknes and O'Brien families. "This is beautiful," says Jennifer O'Brien, Nathan's mother. "All these people here for us, it's overwhelming, I didn't expect it. Bring him home. Bring him home, please."
July 11: Douglas Garland, the only person of interest in the trio's disappearance, is released on bail on unrelated identification theft and credit card charges. Garland cannot reside at his parents' family farm outside of Airdrie as police are still combing the area for clues.
July 12: Police search the Parkhill home of Alvin and Kathryn Liknes a final time. The search for clues continues in Airdrie and at local landfills.
July 13: Police release Alvin and Kathryn Liknes' home as part of their investigation. The ever-present police tape and patrol cars of the past two weeks are gone.
July 14: Police announce that a man was arrested early Monday morning and will be charged with three counts of murder in connection to the disappearance of Alvin and Kathryn Liknes and Nathan O'Brien. The Amber Alert is called off.


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Is your Child Ready to Read? 10 Signs of Reading Readiness for Home Educators
Helping a child learn to read is one of the greatest joys for many home educators. There is nothing more magical, fulfilling or rewarding than watching your child finally read their first few sentences fluently and entirely on their own.
Your child will learn to read at their own pace, and most home educators know that there is no set age at which all children are expected to be ready to start reading.
However, understanding when your child is ready to read doesn't have to be a mystery. Home educators can look out for a few common signs of reading readiness in their child.
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Reading readiness starts with motivation
The first and most important sign that your child is ready to learn to read is a willingness and interest in learning. Motivation is an essential component of learning to read – children must be enthusiastic or interested in reading before they will put in the effort to learn how to do it.
Children who are ready to read may:
Pretend to read. This shows that your child understands that reading a book, magazine, or the back of their cereal box is an enjoyable, or at least worthwhile, activity and wants to try it out.
Pretend to write. Your child may use pencils or crayons to "write" (which will likely be scribbles). This can be observed during pretend play, where your child may demonstrate an understanding of the functionality of printed words.
There are many ways to motivate children to develop an interest in books and reading. Home education reading programmes such as Reading Eggs include interactive and highly motivating reading games and activities that help young children develop an interest in reading from an early age.
Another good indicator that your child is ready to read is if they show interest, enthusiasm and involvement during story time. This means that they enjoy being read to, at least for short periods of time, and frequently request or look forward to read-aloud time.
It's also important that your child can demonstrate listening comprehension skills before they take their first steps at learning to read. Take notice of your child's ability to retell familiar stories in their own words and answer simple questions about a story.
A child who is ready to read should also know how to hold a book the right way, turn pages from left to right, and understand the left-to- right progression of sentences.
Common signs your child is ready to learn to read
Children who are ready to learn to read will usually show an interest in words and letters. Your child may point to capital letters and identify them, recognise some lowercase letters, and know the alphabet song.
Another indicator of reading readiness is print awareness. Your child should understand that readers sound out words by looking at letters and thinking about what sounds they make. They don't need to be able to actually sound of the words on their own, but they should understand the concept.
Your child should also have some degree of phonological awareness. A good way to tell if they are aware of the sound structure of words is to see if they can rhyme simple words, clap syllables, and identify the beginning and ending sound in a word.
Your child may learn to read this year or next depending on their level of reading readiness. In the meantime, encourage them to see the joys of books and reading through regular reading time and play-based reading games – it's never too early to show your child how wonderful it is to read!
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'Kustom Kulture' cars brighten Old Town
Lime green, pungent purple and apple red blasted Old Town out of its sandy hued past Saturday.
Dozens of souped up cars popped up on San Diego Avenue and none more out of character for the historic district than Dana and Lorene Hinkle's "Gold Rush."
The 1932, blindingly gold painted Ford pickup drew an nonstop stream of gawkers. It fairly glistened in the summer sunlight, as if Midas himself had applied his magic touch.
Hinkle and his son Dylan, 15, spent the last four years -- and $225,000 -- tearing the car apart and rebuilding it with 540 chrome parts, 1,450 fasteners and an all-steel frame. He commissioned Pete "Hot Dog" Finlan to add gold-leaf pinstriping.
"I'm a detail freak," Hinkle said.
The Hinkle car was one of nearly 100 entries in the third annual "Fiesta de Kustom Kulture" car bike and "lowbrow" art show, put on by the Motor Cult apparel shop and the Old Town San Diego Chamber of Commerce.
Isabela Ramirez, 7, was mesmerized.
"It's my favorite color," said the Temecula resident, accompanied by her brother, two sisters and parents celebrating their 16th wedding anniversary. "It's so sparkly and shiny. It's really nice."
When Hinkle heard this, he invited Isabela to sit in the cab as her father, Carlos Ramirez, snapped photos.
"I love cars," Ramirez said. "If I had to choose, it would be a '73 Camaro, the year I was born."
Shop owner Julius Ulrich, 49, said he grew up on monsters, skulls, flying eyeballs, Elvira's "Mistress of the Dark" scary TV show of horror films, and his father's hot rod magazines. He and his wife Kim, 45, came up with the festival in 2011 and expected up to 20,000 attendees at the one-day event.
It wasn't your run-of-the-mill restored car show, Ulrich said. Instead, participants typically "punch it up" and remake cars as they please.
"It's a little more involved because the art is so fantastic," he said. The "Kustom Kulture" spelling and phrasing is intentionally offbeat, he explained, a countercultural message that draws on Southern California surf culture and individualism. Enthusiasts dub their works "lowbrow" to distinguish them from "highbrow" art.
Chamber volunteer Marie Pedrin admitted the event was "kind of out of character" from what Old Town is all about -- restored adobes and reconstructed western storefronts up to the 1870s.
But if history and nostalgia go together and they drum up business for area shops and restaurants, why not?
Yenry Matus, 39, (his parents gave him that spelling because they're Greek) drove his unadorned 1936 Ford Cavalier overnight from Boyle Heights in Los Angeles and said other motorists honked and thumbs-upped him on the freeway.
"These cars are different," he said, made of metal not plastic.
He plans to paint his car burgundy and cover the seats in rich leather; his family's in the upholstery business, after all.
Casey Hensley was one of several dressed-to-the-nines singers and models who posed for photographers alongside the cavalcade of colorful cars.
"I like cars," she said, especially the blue Chevelle she eyed across the street. But she said she's "scared" of driving them. And who wouldn't be, for fear of making a scratch, causing a fender bender or, horrors, parking under a tree where sap and bird droppings might blemish the hood.
But these car enthusiasts didn't seem too prissy about their prized possessions.
Robert Lagos of Ocean Beach said he rebuilt a 1951 Chevy pickup and now drives it every day.
"It gets 17 miles per gallon," he said. "That's pretty good."
And he doesn't have to submit it for smog inspections.
Besides the purple, blue and lime green confections parked on the avenue, there were many vendors selling "Kustom Kulture" T-shirts, artworks and souvenirs.
In one was Jeff Isbell. By day, he oversees single-family additions at the city's building department. But after hours he's "Kong," an expert pinstriper, who uses E-Z Flow enamel paint and Kafka pinstripe brushes on everything from popsickles and guitars to vintage cars. He doesn't work from preconceived layouts or designs.
"I come up designs on the fly," he said. "As I do it, it kind of talks to you. It's a free flowing design."
The result, as show organizer Julius Ulrich said: "It's so cool!"
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One of the major problems for fuel cells is the fuelling infrastructure itself. Hydrogen – the fuel of choice from an environmental or energy efficiency perspective – is not yet widespread enough to drive fuel cells towards the mainstream, and other fuel choices such as natural gas are equally problematic. But one fuel cell company in the USA has found an answer by powering fuel cells with biogas derived from a number of different applications.
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Program Notes for Episode 24
From the news: Capital Hill wants taxpayer supplied iPhones, potentially impacting data security.
Tales From The DarkWeb – Cross Site Scripting Attacks hit Yahoo users.
Conversation with Jacob West about eVoting security. Read the Fortify Software report on eVoting security.


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Signomi - Sunday 29/08/2010, 03:14
Titan - D-Versified
Choose one that fits with your playing style, though Uppers in T1 is popular, whereas Bangers in T2.
IM _Miterman - Sunday 29/08/2010, 04:32
Definetly pick a clan that will help you win(=/- atk/+/-power)
All stars are good
I personaly like montana and uppers
This is from a T1 perspective.
If you play Montana Uppers or Rescue, it says to other players that you have weak skills and that you need training wheels on your bike or viagra to perform with the ladies, depending on your interests and age group.
If you play one of those clans with Hugo, well then you tell the whole world that you are completely incompetent and that you were born with no balls or lost your balls some other way. It also clearly says that you lose more often than not...
Also, having a 5* in your deck is a tell-tale sign that you are a donkey (thesaurus this), having two of those in your deck downgrades you to the rank of retarded house plant/donkey.
Hope that helps.
Fatecalling - Tuesday 31/08/2010, 11:57
@fitjohn..i like what you say for the most part...but no problem with 5 stars..hell, if you could fit em, good luck with most hands.takes skill to build.
but yea..attack manipulators are...well, i hate playin' against them...but i beat em
IM _Miterman - Tuesday 31/08/2010, 17:19
Wow fit john
your nice
if you want to scrap by winning and make your oppenents feel good then have at it
I would rather ensure vitory and clober my oppents
BTW I have 2 5 stars
I would respect your choice to base your decks on morals, but I can't bring myself to praise you for it. Insulting players for using cards and clans that go against your morals makes you sound self-righteous. Your post is basically saying, "If you don't play like me you're an ass!"
I respect people that hinder themselves for a better challenge. My favorite deck plays that way: Give me a chance! but insulting others for not following your principles is silly and very rude.
Slipknot, which clan you pick entirely depends on you. Since you say that you switch clans because you're "Good with them", you should try and save clintz and build your collection. If you save up you'll have all the cards you need in your collection and you won't have to sell your cards every time you want to change clans.
Talking T1, I stand by what I said. Since you said you agree in spirit, I'll take that you know I am right but are a little prudish with language, baffling considering I did not use the word ass, you did.
Let me rephrase:
Montana Uppers Rescue are used by weak players.
If you need up to +18 attack by adding Hugo to a Montana deck, then there is no way you are skilled in any way.
5* in your T1 deck leaves too much points on the table for serious DT showing.
You know I am right about all this. A player that places top 10 in a DT not using Montana Uppers Rescue is a better player than the one who wins it with a douchey deck.
I paraphrased your post. You may not have used the word directly but saying "you are a donkey (thesaurus this)", it's basically saying ass. But you're right-- you didn't say the word.
I feel that you're still going a little overboard by speaking in absolutes, but I already agreed with your values, so there's no real need to rephrase yourself.
And yes, this how I speak, but I prefer the term "Indifferent", not prudish. I'm not one to hold back words to be proper. If it needs to be said it comes out of my mouth (or in this case, my fingers).


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Long Island restaurant reviews: This week's picks
"Fuego Picante means spicy fire," writes Peter Gianotti of the newest establishment from the Singh Hospitality group. "But the restaurant isn't so hot." The "Mexican smokehouse and cantina" is the latest resident of this seemingly cursed location. Previous short-lived Singh tenants include RUB BBQ, Long Fin, BeSi and Kansas City Smokehouse.
Joan Reminick has much better luck at Millennium Chicken III in Hicksville. This is the third location (after Valley Stream and Elmont) of the Long Island mini-chain. "Despite a name that suggests a poultry-centric menu," writes Reminick, it "qualifies as a full-fledged Peruvian restaurant," although the signature rotisserie chicken is "bronze, juicy, flavorsome to the bone."


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(CHRISTIANPOST) — Popular journalist and columnist Roland Martin encouraged Christian athletes to "keep shining" despite criticisms of their public gestures of faith, naming Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis as an example.
"Ray Lewis and other players of faith have a tremendous platform. More than 100 million people will probably be watching on Sunday. If someone makes a decision to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior because they were inspired by Ray Lewis' exhortation of his faith on Super Bowl Sunday, great. If someone just wants to watch the game, no problem," said Martin in an op-ed posted on blackchristiannews.com on Sunday.
Pointing to the hypocritical reaction of fans to expressions of faith in the media, Martin explained that criticizing Christian athletes for simply praising God was unwarranted.
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If at first you don't succeed... try AncestorSearch
The latest newsletter from UK webssite LostCousins.com contained the following story. It's such a great example of a success story using my AncestorSearch tool that I just have to share it. It's an important reminder that exactly how you format your Google search really does make a huge difference in the results you get; AncestorSearch helps format your Google search to achieve more focused and successful genealogical search results. See here and here for more background info, and give it a try -- even for those ancestors you've searched for hundreds of times before to no avail.
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The above story is from LostCousins.com founder Peter Calver's latest newsletter.
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If at first you don't succeed...
I was absolutely delighted to receive the following email from Edward in Australia:
My grandfather Ernest Edward Ruffell (1903-1949) came to Australia in 1924, after he had had a falling out with his father. Family legend says that his father paid for his ticket to Australia on the proviso that he never came home. Whatever the truth in this story, after my grandfather arrived he changed his surname, and went on to marry and have a family of his own. He sadly died young of tuberculosis.
When the family in England tried to reconnect with him in the early 1950s they found it almost impossible, and by the time they had, he had already passed away. They were very briefly in contact with his children in Australia, then fell out of contact again.
In one of your recent newsletters you recommended a genealogical search engine. So I went to it and entered my great grandfather Charles Alfred's name, as I had a hundred times before in other places. I was amazed to find a reference to a newspaper request for info on Charles Alfred and his wife. It had an address and phone number.
So I decided to ring the number, and was thrilled that the person who answered on the other end was my grandfather's niece (daughter of his sister). She was also thrilled and told me that the family back in England had been thinking about their Aussie relatives for years.
Anyway this has led to a wonderful reconnection with the family, with lots of photos and stories (including two more of my grandfather... previously we only had one of him).
I want to send you a heartfelt thanks for recommending the search engine, and hence for helping to reconnect a family that has been apart for over 80 years!
Every day I receive emails from researchers who claim to have "tried everything" and "looked everywhere", but it's the ones like Edward who persevere (and keep an open mind about where the next clue will come from) who get the success they rightly deserve.
The above story is from LostCousins.com founder Peter Calver's latest newsletter.


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Penguins center and Russia's most eligible bachelor Evgeni Malkin has been on Instagram for an entire year. We regret that we've only now made this discovery.
We've documented Malkin's celebrated social media prowess before. But that was just Malkin on Twitter. This? You can get lost in this. Even if it's not quite as amazing as Sammy Sosa's Pinterest page, it's still Evgeni Malkin in real life as his awkward, fun-loving self. лучший.
Look, it's Malkin aquaboarding. Malkin with parakeets. Malkin pretending to play the stand-up bass. Malkin as Batman. Malkin with goats. Malkin in the locker room with puppies. The masked Malkin. Malkin with a lobster. Malkin holding a giant fake shark. And so much more. We've collected a bunch of photos for you below, but be sure to check out the rest at Malkin's Instagram page, complete with their original Russian captions.


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Hi All!
My in-laws dropped by for an extended visit, which gave me a chance to talk in-depth with my 79-year old Father-in-law, Don Sponholz. Now, Don lost his biological Father at age three , and so was raised by his Mother, Grandmother and aunt/uncle…that is, until Chicago White Sox trainer "Packy" Schwartz came into his life by marrying a girl he had dated in his youth—Don's Mom.
Don was large for his age…and a good ball-player ( first base )….and Packy was the White Sox trainer….so, one really neat result for this high school ball-player was to actually suit up in a Chicago White Sox uniform and take batting and fielding practice with them during parts of the 1947, 1948 and 1949 seasons…awesome for a teenager!
Talk about memories! A few that came from Don as he looked back over the team rosters that I found on the internet were:
Frank Papish: Who could really "neigh" like a horse
Dave Philly: Whose remedy for "jock itch" was pouring 100% alcohol on his
Rudy York: Who was a big American Indian and played first base
Bob Kennedy: Who has a nicknamed "cannon arm"
Luke Appling: Who was really a terribly nice guy…..unless he got upset with
management, in which case he would purposely foul off dozens of
balls to cost them money.
Gus Zernial : Who was a "gentleman's gentleman"…but often told Packy he would
hate to meet his kid ( Don ) in an alley ( like I said, Don was big for
his age )
As Don explained it to me, after practice, all the players walked back to the showers/locker room through an area where fans could ask players to sign baseballs, etc. Well, Don was in a White Sox uniform, and big for his age, and was asked for his autograph…so on about 10-12 occasions that he can remember, he signed balls for fans. More than likely, other players signed the same ball…or his signature could be solo; no way of knowing.
So, my quest is simple: what better present to give this gentle, intelligent man than a "memory ball" from what had to be some of the happier times of his young life? If anyone out there knows of a "Don Sponholz" baseball ( single or paired with other White Sox players ), please let me know…and help complete a lasting memory for this 79-year old Navy veteran and Father of five.


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High end CPU cooling segment packs plenty of strong competition but Thermalright Archon has proven that its extraordinary performance deserves a place in top spots.
If you're shopping for a cooler you should note that Archon is 17cm tall. Archon's standard packaging includes Thermalright's quality TY-14cm fan. Archon is 55mm thick and if it fits in your case, it probably means that it will take two fans without getting in the way of your equipment.
We were sent a standard Archon package with one TR-TY 14cm fan by pc-cooling.de and it costs about €60. However, if you want two fans you can head over to pc-cooling.de and purchase the same package with two fans for €70, here.
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Inspired by the Chanel Rouge Allure lipsticks, the packaging of these glosses is the same black laquered case. They are much more pigmented than the regular Chanel glosses but are just as nonsticky.
|Comes packaged in a black laquer case - a fingerprint magnet :)
|Double-sided beveled wand, as Chanel puts it - is soft and picks up
sufficient amount of gloss. I don't know what "flocked" is though!
|Have applied it slightly sheer.
Nonsticky, generously pigmented, and very classy packagining, this gloss is an absolute must-try from Chanel. Chanel has another product, Rouge Allure Laque, and if you are a lipstick person, then that maybe a better choice - I think of those as liquid lipsticks :) For a lipgloss lover, though, Rouge Allure Extrait De Gloss are the best best best glosses ever.