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It's just so easy to eat well in the summertime. Surrounded by farm fields, we have the finest produce available. Needless to say, ingredients are always superior in season. We are in peek tomato season and I am in love; I plan to work with tomatoes as often as possible.
Farmers and local gardeners are having a field day with tomatoes and the bumper crop can yield many fabulous recipes to enjoy. Gazpacho is nothing new but what is new is another take on the recipe that I had the pleasure of tasting at Dan's Taste of Two Forks event in July. It is Beau Marchais restaurant's zesty gazpacho with shrimp and reduced coconut milk garnish. The cold soup is sure to bring down the temperature with a kick. My basic tomato sauce with fresh summer tomatoes has been requested. Peeling tomatoes is not the chore you may think it is. Just drop them into boiling water for literally seconds and, after a quick dunk in ice water the peel will slip right off. How satisfying to marry the sauce with any of your pasta dishes. Double the recipe and freeze to bring back summer at any time of the year.
Don't let those fragrant and juicy heirlooms go by without preparing a fabulous summer salad with them. Sliced multi–hued heirlooms with tons of herbs will more than satisfy. One of my favorite salads with heirlooms is roasted beets with heirloom tomatoes and sherry vinegar dressing from my book, Savoring the Hamptons: Discovering the Food and Wine of Long Island's East End. Check it out; you'll be glad you did.
The coconut milk is reduced to give a sweet edge to the soup.
Yield: About 8 to 10 servings
2 1/2 pounds Roma or field tomatoes
1 clove garlic, roughly chopped
1 small shallot roughly chopped
2 roasted red peppers, trimmed, peeled, seeded and diced
1 cucumber peeled, seeded and diced
1/2 cup canned tomato juice
2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
Salt and cayenne pepper to taste
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 (15 oz.) can coconut milk reduced by half*
1/2 pound small cooked shrimp, chopped coarsely
1. Cut a crisscross on the rounded tomato side and drop, in batches, into boiling water for 40 to 60 seconds according to their size. Drain and transfer to a bowl of ice water. With the aid of a paring knife, slip off their skins, then slice and dice the tomatoes, and set aside.
2. Place the garlic and shallot in the work bowl of a food processor or blender and process to finely chop them. Add the prepared tomatoes along with the prepared roasted peppers, cucumber and process or blend to puree. Add the tomato juice, sherry vinegar, seasoning and olive oil and process and blend to mix. Taste for seasoning, transfer to covered container and refrigerate for several hours or preferably overnight.
3. Meanwhile, pour the coconut milk into a saucepan and cook over medium heat until reduced by half, about 5 minutes. Watch this process carefully, adjusting heat as necessary, or the sugars in the milk will burn. Coconut will solidify on standing. When ready to serve the gazpacho it will be necessary to nuke the milk to a pouring consistency.
4. To serve, place a rounded tablespoon of the shrimp in the center of each soup bowl then pour in desired amount of gazpacho and drizzle with reduced coconut milk. Enjoy!
A fresh summer tomato is the best there is and local is the key!
Serves 4 to 6
3 large multi-hued yellow heirloom tomatoes, sliced
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup chiffonade of basil
2 tablespoons tarragon leaves
1 tablespoon thinly sliced chives
1. Arrange sliced tomatoes overlapping on a platter
2. Pour oil and vinegar into a mixing bowl and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Add herbs and stir to mix. Scatter the herb dressing over the tomatoes and serve.
Have on hand to add to pasta, bean stews, pizza and an endless variety of dishes.
Yield: 3½ to 4 cups
3 pounds ripe plum tomatoes or 1 can (2 lb. 3 oz.) plum tomatoes
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
3 large shallots, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 teaspoons tomato paste
1 teaspoon kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves
2 teaspoons julienne of fresh basil leaves
1. Cut a small crisscross on the rounded side of tomatoes. Plunge several tomatoes at a time into a saucepan of boiling water for 40 to 60 seconds. Drain and transfer to a bowl of ice water. With the aid of a paring knife, slip off their skins. Halve tomatoes crosswise, hold in palm of hand, and squeeze gently to remove seeds. Slice, stack and dice, and set aside.
2. In 3 1/2 to 4 – quart saucepan, heat oil over medium heat, add shallots and sauté until translucent. Add garlic and sauté for about 30 seconds longer, being careful not to brown. Add prepared or canned tomatoes with their liquid, if using tomato paste, season with salt and pepper, and stir to mix. Let simmer over medium-low heat with cover ajar about 15 to 20 minutes. Remove cover and cook at a brisk simmer, stirring occasionally, for 10 to 15 minutes longer until some of the liquid has evaporated and sauce thickens slightly. Add herbs and stir to mix. Let cool, then transfer to a screw top jar and refrigerate or transfer to freezer-going containers for up to six months.


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Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of Queen
'Good on showmanship, but not sure about the singing,' admitted Brian May, about the future Freddie Mercury. 'Fred had a strange vibrato,' chuckled Roger Taylor, 'which some people found rather distressing.'
Excerpted from Chapter Four, "Strange Vibrato" of Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of Queen, by Mark Blake. Copyright © 2011 Mark Blake. Reprinted with permission of Da Capo Press. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
'When I joined Queen I had sod all to do.'
-- Mike Grose, Queen bass guitarist
for three months
'I thought they were going nowhere.'
--- Barry Mitchell, Queen bass guitarist
for six months
'Can't complain, nice house, great family and a fancy car
... but it would have been nice.'
-- Doug Bogie, Queen bass guitarist for two gigs
'When I first joined Queen, the other three argued like mad and I just kept out of it.'
-- John Deacon, Queen bass guitarist
since February 1971
In 1970, Woodstock the movie opened in cinemas but not every budding rock musician was a fan. 'When I saw that film it was a shock to realise how little I related to it,' admitted Brian May. 'Queen weren't the sort of band that would get stoned, go on and shuffle around. In a way, we were a reaction against it.' To some in their social circle, Bulsara, Brian May and Roger Taylor had always been an obvious combination of musicians. 'I can remember walking down Ealing Broadway in 1968 with those three and thinking, 'That's it, that's the band," ' says Chris Smith.
Initially, though, Smile's drummer and guitarist were wary of their new recruit. 'I remember thinking, "Good on showmanship, but not sure about the singing," ' admitted May. 'Fred had a strange vibrato,' chuckled Roger Taylor, 'which some people found rather distressing.' Just as it had been with Ibex and Wreckage, it was Fred's persistence that ultimately won the day: 'Freddie was there, saying, "I'll sing and I'd do that,"' said Brian, 'and we gradually went... "OK." '
Author: Mark Blake
Publisher: Da Capo
Publication date: 2011-04
Length: 432 pages
Format: Hardcover
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Image: http://images.popmatters.com/news_art/b/bythebook-reallife-cvr.jpgTim Staffell's exit had also left Smile without a bass player. They recruited Roger Taylor's friend Mike Grose, who had been the co-owner of PJ's, the Truro music venue where Smile and The Reaction had been regulars. PJ's was facing closure, but Grose was a bass guitarist with the added bonus of owning a Volkswagen van and a Marshall amp. Better still, Grose had played briefly as a guitarist in The Reaction and previously understudied for Tim Staffell at a Smile gig at PJ's, after a row between the bassist and Roger Taylor.
Grose moved up to London and into a billet at Ferry Road. May hustled his Imperial College professors into signing the forms needed to let the band rehearse in one of the lecture theatres. Taylor had promised his mother that Smile would play a Red Cross fundraiser at Truro City Hall on 27 June. Neglecting to tell anyone that this was a very different 'Smile', May, Taylor, Bulsara and Grose managed to muddle their way through an uneven set in front of around 200 people in the 800-capacity hall, for which they were paid £50.
The origins of the Queen name, are, much like Freddie's sawn-off mic stand, steeped in all kinds of myth and hearsay. 'The name was mine,' maintains John 'Tupp' Taylor. 'I used to call Fred "the old queen" and I used to say to him that if he was ever in another band after Wreckage he should call it Queen, and he used to say, "Oh, do you think so?" ' However, Mike Grose remembers sitting in the garden at Ferry Road when Freddie first pitched the name. Ken Testi remembers being told of the new band's name in a telephone call from Kensington Market. 'It made perfect sense to hear that he was with Brian and Roger. It should have been that way all along. I told him it was great news, and then he told me the name: Queen. I said, "You'll never get away with that, Fred." But he was like, "No, it's wonderful, dear, people will love it." '
Other contenders for the group's name included Build Your Own Boat, The Rich Kids and The Grand Dance (the last of these taken from C.S. Lewis's science-fiction trilogy Out of the Silent Planet). But they were no competition. 'The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic,' Freddie later told Melody Maker. 'We want to be dandy. We want to shock and be outrageous.'
'The name was Freddie's idea,' said Roger Taylor in 1974. 'It was just a reflection of the social world we were in at the time, when he and I were working together on Kensington Market. In those days there was a pretty eccentric crowd there, and a lot of them were gay and a lot of them pretended to be, and it just seemed to fit in. I didn't like the name originally and neither did Brian, but we got used to it. We thought that once we'd got established the music would then become the identity more than the name...'
Queen wouldn't be the only name-change that spring. 'Freddie had written this song called "My Fairy King",' said Brian May. 'And there's a line in it that says, "Oh Mother Mercury what have you done to me?" And it was after that that he said, "I am going to become Mercury as the mother in this song is my mother." We were like, "Are you mad?" '
Though no official documentation has ever surfaced at the Deed Poll Office, from now on Fred Bulsara's passport would read Frederick Mercury. The transformation from gauche immigrant schoolboy to extrovert butterfly was complete. 'Changing his name was part of him assuming this different skin,' said May. 'The young Bulsara was still there but for the public he was going to be this god.'
Before long, though, Mike Grose had grown weary of the struggle. May, Taylor and Mercury had been students since the mid-sixties, and were used to living in diminished circumstances. The 22-year-old Grose liked earning a living and found what he called 'the empty days' at Ferry Road depressing: Freddie was an art student used to doing nothing; Brian and Roger still had months left to go on their courses. But Grose was used to working a day job and playing gigs in the evening. That summer, in the garden at Barnes, he had watched as his three bandmates teased out ideas for songs that would eventually find their way on to the first Queen album. Queen had written the whole of what would become their debut, and the song 'Father To Son' (from what became Queen II). Grose thought the band had potential but wasn't prepared to wait. He quit after a few months, returned to Cornwall, played briefly in a group called No Joke with, bizarrely, Tim Staffell, before forming his own haulage company and dropping out of the music scene.
Mike Grose's replacement would be found after a chance meeting in Cornwall. Barry Mitchell had grown up in Harrow, West London. By 1965, he was bass guitar in a soul covers band called Conviction, also featuring a young Alan Parsons on guitar. Parsons would go on to engineer Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon and front his own ensemble, The Alan Parsons Project. Conviction changed their name to Earth in 1967, made one unreleased album and secured a residency at the Coffin Club on London's Gerard Street.
By August 1970, Mitchell was considering giving up music altogether. His most recent group, Black (featuring a black South African Hendrix lookalike) had stalled, and he was working a day job in Soper's department store in Harrow. 'I had a good friend called Roger Crossley who worked there with me,' says Mitchell now. 'The two of us used to hang out at the art college looking for pretty girls. Roger Crossley went to Cornwall in the summer and he met Roger Taylor. They got talking and Roger Taylor said he was looking for a bass player... So my mate gave me his phone number.'
Mitchell made the call, caught the tube to Kensington and auditioned for Queen at Imperial College. His first thought was how blessed the group were to have access to free rehearsal space and storage; the twin holy grails for any struggling band. 'We had a couple of plays,' remembers Barry. 'We ran through some Hendrix and [Willie Dixon's] "Do Me Right", and that was it, I was in.'


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This chapter describes how to administer the extended accounting subsystem.
For an overview of the extending accounting subsystem, see Chapter 4, Extended Accounting (Overview).
For Instructions
Activate the extended accounting facility.
Use extended accounting to monitor resource consumption by each project running on your system. You can use the extended accounting subsystem to capture historical data for tasks, processes, and flows.
How to Activate Extended Accounting for Processes, Tasks, and Flows, How to Activate Extended Accounting With a Startup Script
Display extended accounting status.
Determine the status of the extended accounting facility.
View available accounting resources.
View the accounting resources available on your system.
Deactivate the process, task, and flow accounting facility.
Turn off the extended accounting functionality.
Use the Perl interface to the extended accounting facility.
Use the Perl interface to develop customized reporting and extraction scripts.
Users can manage extended accounting (start accounting, stop accounting, and change accounting configuration parameters) if they have the appropriate rights profile for the extended accounting type to be managed:
Flow Management
Process Management
Task Management
To activate the extended accounting facility for tasks, processes, and flows, use the acctadm command. The optional final parameter to acctadm indicates whether the command should act on the process, system task, or flow accounting components of the extended accounting facility.
Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Activate extended accounting for processes.
# acctadm -e extended -f /var/adm/exacct/proc process
Activate extended accounting for tasks.
# acctadm -e extended,mstate -f /var/adm/exacct/task task
Activate extended accounting for flows.
# acctadm -e extended -f /var/adm/exacct/flow flow
See acctadm(1M) for more information.
Activate extended accounting on an ongoing basis by linking the /etc/init.d/acctadm script into /etc/rc2.d.
# ln -s /etc/init.d/acctadm /etc/rc2.d/Snacctadm # ln -s /etc/init.d/acctadm /etc/rc2.d/Knacctadm
The n variable is replaced by a number.
You must manually activate extended accounting at least once to set up the configuration.
See Extended Accounting Configuration for information on accounting configuration.
Type acctadm without arguments to display the current status of the extended accounting facility.
# acctadm Task accounting: active Task accounting file: /var/adm/exacct/task Tracked task resources: extended Untracked task resources: none Process accounting: active Process accounting file: /var/adm/exacct/proc Tracked process resources: extended Untracked process resources: host Flow accounting: active Flow accounting file: /var/adm/exacct/flow Tracked flow resources: extended Untracked flow resources: none
In the previous example, system task accounting is active in extended mode and mstate mode. Process and flow accounting are active in extended mode.
In the context of extended accounting, microstate (mstate) refers to the extended data, associated with microstate process transitions, that is available in the process usage file (see proc(4)). This data provides much more detail about the activities of the process than basic or extended records.
Available resources can vary from system to system, and from platform to platform. Use the acctadm command with the -r option to view the accounting resource groups available on your system.
# acctadm -r process: extended pid,uid,gid,cpu,time,command,tty,projid,taskid,ancpid,wait-status,zone,flag, memory,mstatedisplays as one line basic pid,uid,gid,cpu,time,command,tty,flag task: extended taskid,projid,cpu,time,host,mstate,anctaskid,zone basic taskid,projid,cpu,time flow: extended saddr,daddr,sport,dport,proto,dsfield,nbytes,npkts,action,ctime,lseen,projid,uid basic saddr,daddr,sport,dport,proto,nbytes,npkts,action
To deactivate process, task, and flow accounting, turn off each of them individually by using the acctadm command with the -x option.
Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Turn off process accounting.
# acctadm -x process
Turn off task accounting.
# acctadm -x task
Turn off flow accounting.
# acctadm -x flow
Verify that task accounting, process accounting, and flow accounting have been turned off.
# acctadm Task accounting: inactive Task accounting file: none Tracked task resources: extended Untracked task resources: none Process accounting: inactive Process accounting file: none Tracked process resources: extended Untracked process resources: host Flow accounting: inactive Flow accounting file: none Tracked flow resources: extended Untracked flow resources: none
Use the following code to recursively print the contents of an exacct object. Note that this capability is provided by the library as the Sun::Solaris::Exacct::Object::dump() function. This capability is also available through the ea_dump_object() convenience function.
sub dump_object { my ($obj, $indent) = @_; my $istr = ' ' x $indent; # # Retrieve the catalog tag. Because we are # doing this in an array context, the # catalog tag will be returned as a (type, catalog, id) # triplet, where each member of the triplet will behave as # an integer or a string, depending on context. # If instead this next line provided a scalar context, e.g. # my $cat = $obj->catalog()->value(); # then $cat would be set to the integer value of the # catalog tag. # my @cat = $obj->catalog()->value(); # # If the object is a plain item # if ($obj->type() == &EO_ITEM) { # # Note: The '%s' formats provide s string context, so # the components of the catalog tag will be displayed # as the symbolic values. If we changed the '%s' # formats to '%d', the numeric value of the components # would be displayed. # printf("%sITEM\n%s Catalog = %s|%s|%s\n", $istr, $istr, @cat); $indent++; # # Retrieve the value of the item. If the item contains # in turn a nested exacct object (i.e., an item or # group),then the value method will return a reference # to the appropriate sort of perl object # (Exacct::Object::Item or Exacct::Object::Group). # We could of course figure out that the item contained # a nested item orgroup by examining the catalog tag in # @cat and looking for a type of EXT_EXACCT_OBJECT or # EXT_GROUP. # my $val = $obj->value(); if (ref($val)) { # If it is a nested object, recurse to dump it. dump_object($val, $indent); } else { # Otherwise it is just a 'plain' value, so # display it. printf("%s Value = %s\n", $istr, $val); } # # Otherwise we know we are dealing with a group. Groups # represent contents as a perl list or array (depending on # context), so we can process the contents of the group # with a 'foreach' loop, which provides a list context. # In a list context the value method returns the content # of the group as a perl list, which is the quickest # mechanism, but doesn't allow the group to be modified. # If we wanted to modify the contents of the group we could # do so like this: # my $grp = $obj->value(); # Returns an array reference # $grp->[0] = $newitem; # but accessing the group elements this way is much slower. # } else { printf("%sGROUP\n%s Catalog = %s|%s|%s\n", $istr, $istr, @cat); $indent++; # 'foreach' provides a list context. foreach my $val ($obj->value()) { dump_object($val, $indent); } printf("%sENDGROUP\n", $istr); } }
Use this script to create a new group record and write it to a file named /tmp/exacct.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Sun::Solaris::Exacct qw(:EXACCT_ALL); # Prototype list of catalog tags and values. my @items = ( [ &EXT_STRING | &EXC_DEFAULT | &EXD_CREATOR => "me" ], [ &EXT_UINT32 | &EXC_DEFAULT | &EXD_PROC_PID => $$ ], [ &EXT_UINT32 | &EXC_DEFAULT | &EXD_PROC_UID => $< ], [ &EXT_UINT32 | &EXC_DEFAULT | &EXD_PROC_GID => $( ], [ &EXT_STRING | &EXC_DEFAULT | &EXD_PROC_COMMAND => "/bin/rec" ], ); # Create a new group catalog object. my $cat = ea_new_catalog(&EXT_GROUP | &EXC_DEFAULT | &EXD_NONE) # Create a new Group object and retrieve its data array. my $group = ea_new_group($cat); my $ary = $group->value(); # Push the new Items onto the Group array. foreach my $v (@items) { push(@$ary, ea_new_item(ea_new_catalog($v->[0]), $v->[1])); } # Open the exacct file, write the record & close. my $f = ea_new_file('/tmp/exacct', &O_RDWR | &O_CREAT | &O_TRUNC) || die("create /tmp/exacct failed: ", ea_error_str(), "\n"); $f->write($group); $f = undef;
Use the following Perl script to print the contents of an exacct file.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Sun::Solaris::Exacct qw(:EXACCT_ALL); die("Usage is dumpexacct <exacct file>\n") unless (@ARGV == 1); # Open the exact file and display the header information. my $ef = ea_new_file($ARGV[0], &O_RDONLY) || die(error_str()); printf("Creator: %s\n", $ef->creator()); printf("Hostname: %s\n\n", $ef->hostname()); # Dump the file contents while (my $obj = $ef->get()) { ea_dump_object($obj); } # Report any errors if (ea_error() != EXR_OK && ea_error() != EXR_EOF) { printf("\nERROR: %s\n", ea_error_str()); exit(1); } exit(0);
Here is example output produced by running Sun::Solaris::Exacct::Object->dump() on the file created in How to Create a New Group Record and Write It to a File.
Creator: root Hostname: localhost GROUP Catalog = EXT_GROUP|EXC_DEFAULT|EXD_NONE ITEM Catalog = EXT_STRING|EXC_DEFAULT|EXD_CREATOR Value = me ITEM Catalog = EXT_UINT32|EXC_DEFAULT|EXD_PROC_PID Value = 845523 ITEM Catalog = EXT_UINT32|EXC_DEFAULT|EXD_PROC_UID Value = 37845 ITEM Catalog = EXT_UINT32|EXC_DEFAULT|EXD_PROC_GID Value = 10 ITEM Catalog = EXT_STRING|EXC_DEFAULT|EXD_PROC_COMMAND Value = /bin/rec ENDGROUP


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April 19, 2013, 11:55:22 PM »
Hi all. I am considering adding a solar power system to my fifth-wheel so it is independent of generator (gasoline-driven power) when dry-camping. Has anyone done this and what kinds of unexpected issues did you encounter? How did you affix it to the top of the trailer so the panels could be repositioned? (Or did you just reposition the whole trailer?) Did you have to reinforce the roof? Thanks! ~Melinda
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April 20, 2013, 12:28:49 AM »
There are lots of threads on solar power on here, use the search button in the menu bar.
In short, you need more space than your roof allows to be self sufficient on solar alone. There are a lot of variables to consider. And to top it off the expense is tremendous.
It can be done if your expectations are reasonable, but you will not be living on an unlimited amount of power.
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April 20, 2013, 05:40:38 AM »
Being able to install solar panels and not use a generator is still years in the future. If it were possible then a huge amount of RVs would be doing it. CaptSteve is correct, your roof isn't big enough, solar power is way too inefficient and the cost is way too high with the current technology.
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April 20, 2013, 07:37:21 AM »
I generally agree with the others, with the caveat that it depends on your energy needs, what I call your "energy budget". If you want to use air conditioning, make extensive use of electric appliances (including a computer & tv), or use a lights for many hours daily, you will probably not have adequate power. Air conditioners in particular use huge amounts of power and are impractical to run except via shore power or generator.
Solar can produce only so much power, even if you cover the roof with top-quality panels. You also have to have a battery bank capable of storing that power for the many hours/day when the sun isn't shining directly on the panels. Then you need a large inverter to convert the stored DC power to 120vac for your household electric appliances, but an inverter is only about 90% efficient, so there is a substantial loss in the conversion.
Assuming your needs are within the capabilities of a solar + battery system you can afford, the technical problems are few. Modern RV roofs are easily capable of supporting the panels, which can be screwed or glued top the surface. Running the wiring down to the battery bank(s) sometimes requires a bit of creativity in the routing, but is seldom a big challenge. Finding space for enough batteries and carrying the extra battery weight may be the toughest part, but that depends on how much power storage you need. If 2-4 batteries will handle it, it should not be a problem.
As for orienting the panels, most people don't. If you are parking long term in an open area, you can orient the trailer to the optimum position. You probably wouldn't climb up on the roof to adjust panels anyway.
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Re: solar powered fifth-wheel?
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April 20, 2013, 09:52:26 AM »
Run the air conditioner, not out of the question but unpractical. It takes a huge battery bank to store the energy to even run the AC short term and a lot of solar to recharge it. One person I know has the bank and inverter to do it but only 250w of solar an the recharge would take days. He does however heat his rv with electric heaters off of his bank and inverter.
Other than that I know of a few people that run their rigs off of solar. They have large banks and inverters that run residential refrigerators, microwaves, coffee pots, toasters, TVs and dishes... much more than I do with my solar which is just keep my battery bank up. I have a inverter but my TV, DVD, and various chargers (phone, laptop, other batteries etc) are all 12v.
The cost of solar has never been cheaper too. Buying kits or having a dealer install them is still outrageous but you can pick up the panels, wiring, controller and other bits for a fraction off of ebay and craigslist. I got lucky and found 450 watts of panels for $100 on craigslist and generally can find panels at under $1 a watt locally. Company's like solarblvd.com sell the panels cheap plus shipping. I think their last sale was a 250w panel for $150 plus shipping, two panels would be $130 for shipping meaning 500w for a total of $430. Controller cost is controlled by the type of panel and the size of the installation. More watts = bigger more expensive controller.
I use a single 230w panel left portable, a 380ah battery bank and a 20a MPPT controller. This allows me to have the rig in the shade and the panel in the sun. I can also start tracking the sun at dawn adjusting every so often to maintain the maximum exposure. With a bank big enough to hold us over for 4 or 5 days of rain and enough watts to recharge it in one day even if it's partially cloudy, I doubt I'll run the generator aside from exercising it and the need of AC. BTW I have spent under $500 on my system. I can see 10-15 amps charging from dawn to dusk tracking and over 8 amps if mounted flat.
Most people mount flat, others hinge the panel so you can tilt for better mid day exposure to the south. Tilting and rotating on the roof would be complicated and require many trips on the roof for adjustments but it can be done.
So it boils down to how much do you want your system to do for you, how much power do you use and how much money are you willing to spend?
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Re: solar powered fifth-wheel?
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April 20, 2013, 10:19:58 AM »
Read this entire site, should answer all your questions.
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Re: solar powered fifth-wheel?
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April 20, 2013, 11:01:45 AM »
I can only tell what I have done, what I do and describe my system. I have 4 150 watt panels permanently mounted--no swivels- on my roof and room for at 3 more. I mounted them solid because I do not want to cclimb on the roof just for the extra 10-15% uotput. I have a 3 stage charger,4 225 amp-hour 6 volt batteries and a 1500 watt pure sine wave inverter. iI the summer in Montana, we did not hook up or run a generator for over a month. We watched TV, used 2 laptops, and used the microwave for short periods-less than 5 minutes just to warm something up, plus all the normal stuff--lights (non-LED), water pump and parasitic drain. This winter, the system could not keep up with demand, so we hooked up when possible. I think that if I had put up the other 3 panels that i have room for, it would work in the winter. So, when people tell you that you can not power a RV with only solar power, they are correct. You can not run air conditioners, electric heaters, or other long running heavy draw items. You have to choose where you park, with shade in mind. You need to keep power use in line with your system. And, in the winter, because of less sunlight, you might need to hook up oor run a generator once a week or so to keep a good charge (12.5+ volts) in your batteries. We have been using this system for only 8 months or so. If I had it to do over, I would put in 3 more panels. The reason I haven't is because I built the system when I was still working and drawing social security and had money available. Now that I have retired, I do not have the spare cash to buy the panels and upgrade the charger. The system has given us oppourtunites to boondock for extended periods, but we still need to hookup and go empty the holding tanks and get water.
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Re: solar powered fifth-wheel?
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April 20, 2013, 12:01:13 PM »
Wow! Thanks everyone for the feedback, -and thanks for the link! Since our "camping weather" season is only about six weeks here, my family and I will be relying on the fifth-wheel more ;Das an alternative living area when the power is out (often for more than a week at a time) or when the teen-age daughter has sleep-overs or guests. We have a large generator (and a wood stove) for the house, but one of the things we discovered after our Nisqually quake in 2001, and a few bad wind storms (70+ mph winds/freezing rain/snow) is that, once our 50 gallon supply of gasoline was used, we had to travel up to 50 miles to find more while the power was out. The same goes for potable water. (Our well water turned to mud for over a week after the quake.)
As far as a solar system goes, I don't have an air conditioner (don't need one) but will need the heater. I have converted the lights to LED so they use only tiny bits of power, and the only other power sucker may be a television or the microwave, and the pump for the water. The refrigerator, hot water heater, and furnace have propane or electric power options. So, it looks like this may be doable! -Even if the little generator has to be used once in a while to recharge batteries or to run the furnace, it will still use less gas...Thanks for the feedback...Now off to research more...
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Re: solar powered fifth-wheel?
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April 29, 2013, 08:08:51 PM »
There are two parts to this equation and conservation , use of LED's, in our case I used an Espar diesel heater and I use computer case fans (small trailer). The other half is solar and perhaps one of the bes sources is Handy Bob
and yes you can have enough solar area on a 5er, he did.
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April 30, 2013, 08:26:44 AM »
Thank you so much for this link! Right now, I feel I cannot read/research enough as, since this will be a bit of an investment, I want to do it right the first time. If nothing else, I am learning how much I don't know...
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Re: solar powered fifth-wheel?
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May 09, 2013, 08:15:55 PM »
Handy Bob is a good resource. Yes you can use solar and there are two parts of the equation, current generation and current conservation. We have a large teardrop trailer with a 185W high voltage panel and Morningstar MPPT controller. All LED lights and when off grid use propane for cooking, water heater, grill. But we do have a 300W Morningstar Sursine inverter to power TV and charge laptop... We have never gotten below 73% depth of discharge.
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May 10, 2013, 12:24:23 AM »
Thank you, Shadow Catcher! I have just read up about inverters and how they work with the electrical system in my RV. For the first time, I clearly understand the difference between AC and DC power, how DC is converted to AC, the importance of sine waves, and how to figure out how much "juice storage" I may need to run stuff when the generator or solar panels are not charging things. Very interesting stuff. -I can't quite build rockets yet, but I'm getting there!
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Re: solar powered fifth-wheel?
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May 10, 2013, 08:23:13 AM »
RV isn't solar powered but my sticks and bricks are. I know technology has moved forward but 400watts of panels is quite a large area required.
I live comfortable with a 4kw inverter with 120 VAC output. I do have a step up transformer for the 220 required for the well pump. But everything else is coverted to 120VAC. As for batteries I've got a 1,000 pounds of batteries 24 volt system 820 AmpHours worth of power.
Devices that create heat typically are the tough ones. Like a 1,500w heater or coffee maker will draw 125 Amps DC (12 volt DC) or 62.5 Amps DC (24 volt DC). Being we are talking RV the idea of any large load or large battery banks are going to be out of the question I think. This why I think my 400w little inverter is excellent for the RV because even with my two 12V batteries I might have about 100-150 Amp/hours of battery with the 400w inverter load...
12 Volts DC x 33.3 Amps DC =
= 120 Volts AC x 3.33 Amps AC
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Re: solar powered fifth-wheel?
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May 10, 2013, 08:47:42 AM »
I have two 125 watt panels and 4-6VDC golf cart batteries on my fiver. The panels are bolted to the roof. I simply don't worry about trying to gain maximum sun. If I was that worried there are probably 99% of the places I like to camp that i could no longer go.with a proper setup, even on cloudy days you will still see gains. Maybe not full power, but gains non the less. Even with solar i still carry a generator with me. One just never knows when it will be necessary.
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text: Hi Marc! Am Montag, den 29.01.2007, 08:21 +0100 schrieb Marc: > Martin Krüger schreef: > > Hello, Hermann, > > > > > > The automatic load of the cx88-dvb module can be achieved via the > > /etc/modules - file in Ubuntu. I simply added the name of the module > > in a line in this file -- and now everything works. > > > > > Does the cinergy T² work with this module too?? I was not able to make > it work under Ub 6.10 Sorry, since you posted a copy to me directly, I know nothing about the cinergyT2 and don't have any usb dvb device, also no Ubuntu. The cx88-dvb module is only to support DVB on Conexant cx2388x PCI bridges. The chips else work for analog video/vbi/radio under video4linux. > Failed to open device > /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 : opened ( TerraTec/qanu USB2.0 Highspeed > DVB-T Receiver ) > /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 : : No such file or directory > /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 : : No such file or directory > QLayout "unnamed" added to QWidget "unnamed", which already has a layout > marc at ubuntu:~/development/dvbt-scanaid-0.03$ DvbCam::probe(): > /dev/dvb/adapter0/ca0: : No such file or directory > Using DVB device 0:0 "TerraTec/qanu USB2.0 Highspeed DVB-T Receiver" > tuning DVB-T to 402000000 Hz > inv:2 bw:0 fecH:9 fecL:9 mod:6 tm:2 gi:4 hier:4 > ............... > Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency > Frontend closed > dvbsi: Cant tune DVB If I try to find your previous mails, I can see you had it working under FC6 and a green LED was on, which now never happens. FC6 likely uses a 2.6.19x kernel, which is in truth a 2.6.20-rcx and this could make some difference, but there is not a single other error report for this device on 2.6.17, which is quite old by the way and we should have more such reports then. Guess either you have messed something up or even the hardware has troubles. Can you test if it still works on FC6 or whatsoever? Usually the install of mercurial v4l-dvb is very safe and takes care for all, but if anything is messed up delete the whole modules in /lib/modules/2.6.17-Ubuntu-something/kernel/drivers/media (the whole media folder) Run "make distclean" on the v4l-dvb mercurial and then "make" and "make install" again. After deleting the media folder you could also force the install of the Ubuntu kernel again to be sure you have all back originally from that kernel. There is a lot of back porting, adding compat stuff, make it sysfs ready and issues with the input layer for the remote visible. http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb?fl=7dac07b49712;file=linux/drivers/media/dvb/cinergyT2/cinergyT2 Maybe 2.6.17 is currently not fully compatible for that device with v4l- dvb mercurial, you seem to have input device register errors on X. Either stay with your default Ubuntu kernel then, or try latest mercurial on the recent 2.6.20 kernel from kernel.org. If FC6 still works it is something in that direction. For your "scan" question ./scan -n -o zap -p dvb-t/be-Your_Transmitter > channels.conf > Some like this directly in dvb-apps/util/scan or with corrects paths > on your PC should do it. > Put the resulting channels.conf in ~/.tzap .xine ... Hm, there seems to be only be-Tournay with one single transponder. Full compat to distro kernels is not the main goal of a development repository, if at all ..., but this additional service is quite fine today, but not always guaranteed to work immediately. Only a shot in the dark. Good Luck, Hermann


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2021 Aeroyacht
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- Year:
- 2021
- Length:
- 110'
- Engine/Fuel Type:
- Twin / diesel
- Located In:
- Long Island, NY
- Hull Material:
- Composite
- 65591-2079945
- Current Price:
Conceived from the ground up the advanced Aeroyacht 110' luxury catamaran is today's most innovative performance yacht. As one of the largest composite catamarans in the world she is the first model and part of a sleek, new range (A95', A110' and A125') representing the ultimate high-performance, supremely styled - 21'st century world traveler.
Designed by Gregor Tarjan - founder and president of Aeroyacht in collaboration with the renown multihull-naval-architect team of Morrelli & Melvin and Paul "Whirly" Van Dyke of Steve Fossett's "Playstation" fame, the 35 knot capable Aeroyacht 110' luxury catamaran characterizes the "next generation" of high-performance sailing vessels. No compromise has been made to create the fastest and most beautiful yacht afloat. The international press calls the A110' the "Wally" of catamarans as her striking styling and a top class finish set her apart from the crowd. Recently voted by French magazine Design @ Home - famed designer Ora-Ito's all-time favorite boat is our own Aeroyacht 110 catamaran.
Special emphasis on self sufficiency and ecological consciousness has been incorporated into conceiving this landmark vessel. A huge array of deck mounted solar panels, optional wind turbines and environmentally friendly building materials have been utilized to make this ultra-luxury yacht in tune with our times.
One of the most unique features of this super-shallow-draft cat is the fact that as part of the optional equipment, the A110 can be equipped with a personal exploration airplane. The 2 seater Icon-A5 amphibian sports-plane can be housed across a specially built aft beam platform and be used for sightseeing, shuttling guests to the yacht or in case of medical emergencies. Aeroyacht's innovations include many firsts in the world of luxury catamarans such as a Grand Prix style performance rig, semi-flybridge-style twin cockpits, hammerhead -reverse bows and an optional Traxon light wall system. br>
This listing is for a new semi-custom build with approx 28 months delivery from date of order.
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Boat Name
Aeroyacht 110
Builder: Aeroyacht
Designer: Gregor Tarjan / Morrelli & Melvin
LOA: 110 ft 0 in
Bridge Clearance: 139 ft 0 in
Engine 1:
Engine Brand: Yanmar
Engine Model: 6LY
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Engine 2:
Engine Brand: Yanmar
Engine Model: 6LY
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Maximum Speed: 43 mph
Beam: 44.2'
Max Draft: 6'4'-12'3"
Displacement: 60T
Total Power: 440
Cruising Speed: 15 kots
Fuel: 2 x 426 gal
Fresh Water: 2 x 276 gal
Holding: 3 x 300 gal
General Description
The Aeroyacht 110 catamaran can be built to various international industry-construction standards including: ABS, Lloyds, MCA and Bureau Veritas
Port side Aft entry to crews quarters. Powder room with head and lavatory. U-shaped lounge with twin cocktail tables and (2) movable chairs. Forward entry to port hull guest cabins. Centerline Forward facing navigator station, 3 seat lounge seat with steering and navigation controls. Removable entertainment center unit with 65" plasma TV (unit retracts and swivels for optimum view). TRAXON creative LED light system walls
Starboard side Sliding doors leading to aft deck, with fixed glass side lights, port and starboard. Aft wet bar with (3) stools, icemaker, refrigerator and liquor locker/storage. Aft entry to galley and crew mess. U-shaped settee providing dining space for 8-10 with
Sail lockers in forward hull compartments. Forward - VIP guest cabin with en-suite head and shower, hanging lockers, desk, and stowage. Amidships – Owner's cabin with en-suite head and shower, hanging lockers, desk and stowage. Daggerboard trunk. Aft – Galley with pantry, food prep center, stovetop/oven, refrigerator/freezer, crew mess and washer/dryer. Engine compartment – diesel engine with running gear and propeller. Diesel generator and switchboard. Rudder and steering gear. Large side-opening transom "beach-club" doors, storage for dive equipment and water sports toys.
Sail lockers in forward hull compartments. Forward - Twin guest cabin with en-suite head and shower, hanging lockers, desk, and stowage. Amidships – VIP guest cabin with en-suite head and shower, hanging lockers, desk and stowage. Daggerboard trunk. Aft – Crew cabins [(1) double and (2) singles], with shared head and shower, hanging lockers, and stowage. Engine compartment – diesel engine with running gear and propeller. Diesel generator and switchboard. Rudder and steering gear. Large side-opening transom "beach-club" doors, storage for dive equipment and water sports toys.
A framed glass sliding door assembly leads from main saloon forward to loggia. A bimini extends 66" forward from the leading edge of the deckhouse. Centerline, forward facing seats (module on forward side of sliding door assembly). Molded-in forward deckhouse seating, port and starboard. Molded steps leading aft to deckhouse hardtop for access to upper helm stations (Starboard only). (4) molded steps leading to forward upper decks.
Molded-in settees with serving tables and centerline storage. (4) molded steps to upper side decks, port and starboard.
Forward – Hull crossbeam and longeron. Forward deckhouse lockers (port and starboard for fenders and mooring lines storage). Deckhouse hardtop with integrated solar panels with mast and jib track. Aft deckhouse bimini- hardtop with twin "semi-fly" helm stations and sheet control winches (port and starboard). Molded steps on inboard side, port and starboard, for helmsman crossover and access to main hardtop. Molded steps leading from aft cockpit to upper helm stations (port and starboard). Mainsheet traveler track located aft of double settees and integrated into top of aft crossbeam structure. Sheet control winches (port and starboard). (4) molded steps leading down from aft cockpit to transom main boarding deck (port and starboard). 16' Dinghy (shore boat) and lifting/lowering platform davit.
ICON A5-amphibian aircraft (2 seat sports plane) Jacuzzi with waterfall/ wet-bar in forward loggia Maximum security "safe-room" Twin air-generators located in lockers (port and starboard of forward loggia) Push-button command system by LANTIC controlling entertainment, cabin and on-board information.
Hulls with reverse bows and raked transoms. Flush hull-side portlights. Molded chines in hull side (upper and lower), both fade into ends. Multi-faceted deckhouse with raised feature and hidden courtesy LED lights with water break step at base (float look). Deckhouse hardtop with break line and facets. Deckhouse hardtop-bimini extension over aft cockpit, supported by twin settee corner stanchions. High aspect ratio square-top mainsail performance rig, "Park-Avenue" carbon boom, carbon mast and soft standing rigging
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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In good news for all chocolate lovers, a daily dose of dark chocolate could lower the risk of stroke and heart attack, according to new research.
In a study published today in the British Medical Journal, Monash University researchers showed that dark chocolate's blood pressure- and cholesterol-lowering qualities made it a cheap (and tasty) intervention strategy for the 30 per cent of the Australian population at high risk of cardiovascular disease.
PhD student Ella Zomer, Professor Christopher Reid, Dr Alice Owen and Dr Dianna Magliano from the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, and Professor Danny Liew from The University of Melbourne predicted that daily dark chocolate consumption could prevent 70 non-fatal and 15 fatal cardiovascular events per 10,000 people over a 10-year period.
Ms Zomer said the study was the first to examine the long-term health benefits of flavanoids, which are found in dark chocolate and known to lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
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Cardiovascular disease, such as heart attack and stroke, is the leading cause of death worldwide.
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Date: December 5,2013
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On the afternoon of Tuesday December 4, 2013(3:50P.M.) members of the Winnebago County Violent Crime Task Force took Delaneo D. Love (male/dob 8-13-86/27yrs old) into custody.
Love was wanted on outstanding warrants for Aggravated Battery with a Firearm and Possession of a Firearm by a gang member. The bond is $500,000.00.
The Task Force consists of Detectives of the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department, the Rockford Police Department, the Loves Park Police Department, the Illinois State Police and Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The Task Force works in close cooperation with the FBI and DEA.
Delaneo Love is a reputed member of the Moe street gang. The Moe gang is a violent criminal organization.
Love has been a wanted fugitive since June 1,2013. An intense investigation has taken place by the Task Force to locate him. He was considered very dangerous.
The warrants are a result of a shooting which took place in the Parking lot of the North Towne Mall.
Love was located in a vehicle which had been under surveillance by the Task Force. The vehicle was stopped on the Illinois Toll way in the area of Riverside Blvd. by the Task Force Detectives.
There were no injuries during the arrest. Love was a rear passenger in the vehicle.
The driver of the vehicle, Delmetra Pomlee (female dob 8-30-86/27yrs old) was charged with Driving after Suspension.
The second passenger, Anthony K. Bland (male dob 1-1-80/33yrs old) was charged with possession of marijuana.
The charges are merely accusations. All are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
12-5-2013 (0900)/ correction to original release.
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The USD lost a little ground to the major currencies on Thursday as mixed results turned up across the board within the marketplace. After making significant gains against the EUR and GBP earlier in the week, the greenback found some resistance in yesterday's trading. Equities underscored the results on the currency markets by turning in a flat day in which most international bourses moved in a tepid manner. The weekly Unemployment Claims figures were released yesterday and the number was better than expected with a result of minus -565K compared to the estimate of minus -608K. Also Wholesale Inventories data was released and produced a negative -0.8% outcome. Today the U.S. will release its Trade Balance numbers and the University of Michigan will deliver the Prelim Consumer Sentiment reading.
Going into the weekend the USD can expect to trade in correlation with the results from Wall Street still. The unemployment data in the States yesterday was better than the anticipated number but nothing to write home about. There is a palpable nervous sentiment that exist in the stock markets and earnings from the likes of many retail companies the past two days did little to calm fears that the U.S. economy is not exactly rosy. It is clear that in order to spur sales among consumers that retail companies have had to heavily discount their prices in order to create demand. Fears of unemployment continue to cause anxiety for consumers and this directly impacts many aspects of the recession that has a strangle hold on the American economy. The affects of summer trading may be underway with traders starting to look forward to holidays, but with so much pressure on the stock markets investors will have to keep their eyes primed on bears whose negative sentiment seems to be growing. The USD has had a fairly good stretch of trading based on a flight to quality, even though so many question the amount of stress that the U.S. government is putting on the greenback structurally due to the huge amount of stimulus packages it has undertaken. Today's trading will likely mirror the results from Wall Street and the USD's safe haven status is likely to be spoken about again by some traders.
The EUR turned in a mixed performance on Thursday as it basically treaded water against the USD. The German Trade Balance numbers were released yesterday and produced a result of 10.3 billion compared to the estimate do 8.9 billion. Today the French and Italian Production data is on the calendar and the German's will publish their Wholesale Price Index figures. These numbers will be watched by traders but may have little impact on the currency markets. It has been a relatively light week of economic data from Europe which continues to be under a cloud from speculation swirling about the poor health of the Eastern and Central European economies and the exposure that financial institutions have regarding this. It is being reported that the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, has been approached about having to create an aid program for a host of these nations that are requesting loans. The outlook for an economic recovery in Europe has grown weary like its counterparts and investors appear to be looking at the EUR with a more critical eye.
The Sterling stabilized on Thursday and gained against the USD after being put under pressure earlier in the week. The Bank of England's MPC results surprised no one when the key interest rate was left unchanged. The BoE did cause news on Thursday however when they announced no change to the level of quantitative easing that it has undertaken. Today the U.K. will be releasing its PPI Input and Output data but no major change in the inflationary landscape is likely to occur today. The Sterling may have gotten a boost when investors choose to believe that the Bank of England's non-action on Thursday was a good conservative business maneuver. The U.K. is suffering its steepest recession since the end of World War II and the British government is facing a critical test of its leadership. The Sterling goes into Friday's trading with the possibility of being a focal point for opportunistic traders who may choose to tread within its ranges.
The JPY found some tranquility on Thursday after two days of rather volatile trading. The JPY and USD currency pair has traded within a very tight range the past few months and its movement this week was eye opening. The strength the JPY has shown against the USD comes on the heels of investors looking for a safe haven as international equity markets have wobbled. The Bank of Japan went on record yesterday saying that the strength of the JPY is undesirable and not welcome. The Japanese economy showed that it is suffering from the recession severely yesterday when its CPGI inflationary readings showed an enormous decline of -6.6%. The JPY is at the stronger side against the USD and may provide traders with the ability to test its waters for those willing to see if its range can stay true.
Written by: Robert Petrucci, Chief Commodity Expert and Forex Analyst
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The pair made a bullish correction, after crossing the 1.3990 level and is now floating between the 1.3910 price levels to 1.4020. However, all oscillators on the the daily chart are showing bearish momentum. Going short appears to be the preferable strategy.
The bearish trend made a corrective move breaching the resistance level of 1,6290 and is now floating between the 1,6250 price level to 1,6335. However the negative slope on the 4 hour chart's Slow Stochastic indicates the formation of the bearish movement within the channel. Going short appears to be the preferable strategy.
The sharp bearish channel on the daily chart continues. However the Slow Stochastic on the daily chart is showing the correction of the current bearish trend is possible and is supported by the RSI. Traders should wait for a stronger signal before taking any position.
There is a very accurate bearish channel forming on the 4 chart. The daily chart also supports a bearish notion. We expect the next target price to be around the 0.6170 level. Therefore, the preferred strategy will be a short position.
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Gold is now showing bearish momentum as seen by the hourly oscillators. Both the daily and hourly charts support another bearish move. Therefore, it seems that Forex traders will be able to maximize gains today by entering a short position.
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The Yankees, My Tweet, C-4, And Shamwow
The reaction by most who saw the photo I posted on Twitter on Thursday seemed to be: "Are you sure that isn't Vince, the 'Sham-Wow' Guy?
Apparently that was not the reaction from Major League Baseball.
Writing in The New York Daily News, Anthony McCarron reports that MLB was to contact the Yanks today about the possibility that their version of infamous infomercial pitchman and battery defendant Vince "Fettucine, Linguine, Martini, Bikini" Shlomi may have violated the ominous sounding "baseball operations bulletin C-4":
Major League Baseball officials will call the Yankees Saturday to remind them of baseball operations bulletin C-4, which forbids team staff from communicating pitch types and pitch speed to players via hand signals, an MLB spokesman said.
McCarron identifies the signaler as Brett Weber, a former minor league pitcher who was hired by the Yankees more than two years ago to pitch batting practice, then run the radar gun and compile offensive and defensive charts during the game.
Apparently sequences like this – which I finally captured on camera during Thursday's season opener at Yankee Stadium – may be 'C-4 Transgressions':
That's Weber on the left (behind, as another wag suggested, Mother Teresa) and Alex Rodriguez on the right, more or less in the on-deck circle. He is not looking to see if Cameron Diaz is in the seats.
I sit more or less between them. Weber has, since at least the start of the 2010 season, been seated about dead center behind the plate, four or five rows from the backstop. I have not watched him through an entire game to be certain of this, but it is my impression that the signaling is heaviest early in a game, and that not it is not done to all players (and no jokes about how that's because Weber "can't do this all day"). I can say without fear of contradiction that this is no coincidence. I have seen Rodriguez look for the signal, nod, look away, and the signal stop.
Last year, on at least one occasion, the Yankee employee had some sort of card or card-shaped object with which he also gestured towards the players in the on-deck circle. I do recall at least one occasion last season in which I did not see Weber at the game. I can't speak to 2009; my seats that year were about seven rows back and more or less lined up with the on-deck circle.
While McCarron concludes that Weber is signaling pitch speed to the players, and more to the dugout than to the batter in the on-deck circle, my sense was that these signals were more likely to indicate the type and location of the pitch, and specifically to the next hitter. But I'm just drawing a conclusion.
As odd looking as this has always been, it has struck me as being something less than cheating and I wasn't looking to portray it as such. As I wrote earlier, I noticed this last year and made a few desultory attempts to capture the images, but none had been to my satisfaction until Thursday – so it was not as if I was trying to catch the Yankees at anything, and, obviously I've been in no hurry to do so. The same information – pitch type and speed – is flashed on the gigantic centerfield scoreboard more or less simultaneously with Weber's gesture. McCarron explains:
Some Yankee hitters waiting on-deck look for pitch speed from that employee instead of on the scoreboard – where it is shown in most every ballpark, including the Stadium – believing the staffer is more accurate.
The thing that amplifies this strange saga is history. In the '70s and '80s the Yankees and MLB were frequently at odds over an "Eye In The Sky" – an innovation by the late George Steinbrenner in which a Yankee employee (beginning, I believe, with Gene Michael, and lasting so long that the last one may have been Buck Showalter) worked from the press box level and was in communication with the dugout during games, relaying goodness knows what. The Commissioner's Office frowned on this and monitored it regularly.
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If I remember correctly, ESPN ran a story on this (the Yankees specifically) a few years ago and the team openly admitted to it. Again, just from my memory, the hand signals were for pitch speed because, like you said, the scoreboard is usually inaccurate.
Follow up: Buster Olney article from seven years ago: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=olney_buster&id=1863947
"Jeter watched videotape constantly, before and during games, but he was less interested in his swing than in the pitch location. And he cared more about timing the pitches than about the particular strengths of the pitcher. As he stood in the on-deck circle, he would make eye contact with the Yankees' employee who sat in the stands and operated a radar gun. Jeter would guess how hard the pitcher was throwing — holding up two fingers if he thought the pitcher was throwing 92 mph, for example. Using this sign language, the radar gun operator might respond with three fingers if the pitcher was throwing 93 mph, and Jeter would nod."
Keith – I am really glad MSNBC fired you – you are a real jerk.
Give it up Keith. I think the front office ought to ban you from setting foot inside Yankee stadium ever again.
Any information on how the pros do it is appreciated by us Royals fans.
this is a suggestive story like "what is the shamwow guy doing exactly" not a snitch. Big fan.
Why does anything you say that sounds even moderately negative about the Yanks incur malice from both your fans and theirs? Rhetorical question. Sort of.
Hear, hear! All Keith did was talk about something he's been noticing for over a year. And has been called a "snitch", "a real jerk" and "Typical liberal asshole" in return. Jeesh.
Hey, if Keith could fly, they'd call him an elitist. If he could walk on water, they'd say he couldn't swim. There are those who live only to denigrate others. I figure we either ignore them, or let Keith have batting practice. 🙂
The seat might cost $500 a game, or about $40,000 a year, but teams, the Yankees in particular, are willing to spend much more than that if they believe it will earn them a few wins.
I see Keith's loyalty to the Yankees is equal to his loyalty to America. He seems to openly loathe the things he pretends to love. Typical liberal asshole.
You sir are the asshole. Mr. Olbermann, like every good reporter, reported what he saw, what he's been seeing for quite awhile now. It is not his fault that MLB considers it cheating. As he has said many times before, he is a fan of baseball and a customer of the Yankees. You probably won't understand the difference between the two given that you are a typical conservative idiot.
This isn't new. They've already had stories on this a few years ago.
True. Nothing new and all of a sudden people are freaking out about this pic. Great photo, go red sox!
Cathy(and all the other haters):
Did you see the comments before you? This has been going on for years. It's only a story because of who KO is, and the guy looking like the Shamwow guy.
I thought KO's first allegiance was to the Mets? If I had KO's money, I'd have season tickets to both even though I am a Mets fan, as I am also a baseball fan. Alas, I don't have KO's money.
I believe Keith said once that his allegiance was to the game of baseball, not any one team.
I believe his parents were long-time season-ticket holders until they passed away within the past year or two.
Gee…imagine that…the Yankees cheating!
Keep up the GREAT work Keith. If it were not for you ferreting out the lies and exaggerations of the Bush Crime Family we might have Senator John "A Vote For Me is a Vote for 4 More Years of George Bush" McSame in the White House. I loved the comments above, especially from the Cheney-wipes who referred to you as a "typical liberal" cheneyhole. Apparently the mindless minions of the Fox Fiction Channel gallery of misinformed people simply can't stop listening to you. You'd think they would learn eventualy – oh, wait – how can they learn when they think Glenn Beck is the smartest man in America? Good on ya, Keith. Keep pissing off the conservatives. Like lemmings they are all headed for a cliff.
Meanwhile, in sports …
Funny you mentioned Mother Theresa… because that was my first thought when I saw the person sitting in the foreground. I have to say, I'm glad you'll be at Current TV later this spring – you are sorely missed, and it will be nice to have you on a non-corporate channel. Enjoy the game! 🙂
Fiction of the book aside, This tale reminds me just a bit of Sparky Lyle's hysterical novel "The Year I Owned the Yankees." The spring in Tommy John's elbow that could be adjusted prn; and the infamous(?) phones in the outfielder's gloves! One would think that with the tech tools we have now, a simple thing like "hand signals" would be obsolete… Thanks for this story!
It's only cheating in the Patriots do it.
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Could we keep politics out of baseball (sports), please? KO noticed; so what? Should the Giants continue to pretend about steroids? Sports do not divide into liberal and conservative. Grow up!
Kinda gives new meaning to the term "pitchman", doesn't it?
Although I do not agree with Keith on anything politically he is one of the best baseball minds out there. I keep hoping he decides to come back and do sports and maybe MLB Network hire him. Love his work on baseball.
Keith, is that Mother Teresa in the foreground, taking in the Yank's/Tiger's game?
I am still learning here, but it seems to me that the Yankees are a wonderful ball club! They obviously have produced some of the finest players in the history of America's favorite pastime. There is really no need for them to try to do anything wrong, because they do so many things right! They need take no chances even dabbling in suspicious behavior. Real champions don't need to do that. Yesterday, I was asked by my funeral insurance salesman if I had Lou Gehrig's Disease, and after studying about him recently, I had to say, "No, but I really do like that guy!" One thing that shocked me, as I continue to study this sport, is that Alex Rodriguez was spitting all over the field. (I know baseball guys spit, and recall that from long ago.) However, he was littering…spitting what appeared to be sunflower seed shells. Is that right? What dexterity, I thought, that he can shell them in his mouth and spit out the casing without "batting" an eye! But, is this a good place to do that? Yankee Stadium is so beautiful, and as you point out, so expensive! Native Americans believe spitting on the ground is spitting on your mother (Earth). Why do the players always have to have a mouthful of something? First it was bubble gum, back in the Topps card days, then it was a chaw of tobacco…and I would wonder how the players did not slip in all that brown spit! Is it legal to spit stuff all over the field? Better yet, is it nice? ;o) Remember, I am just becoming a fan, so forgive me if I have crossed a base line!
Wait, Keith! I am an expert on spiritual things, with a masters in ministry from Seattle U…and I was taught catechesis in Rome by Mother Teresa…true! SO let me field that last question. Ryan asks if that is Mother Teresa taking in a Yank's game. Ryan, she has been dead for years physically. She spent most of her time pulling the poor and dying from the streets of Calcutta. However, I think she has Sisters of Charity still in New York…and she could be watching from Heaven. Those seats are priced out of this world! Wheeeeeeee! ;o)
P.S. The first thing Mother Teresa said…when she got up to the podium at this marble church in Rome…after the prayer…was to ask the people to stop making love in the streets of Italy. No kidding! I had all my students with me and it was shocking.
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This is the tip of the iceberg.
What is a bigger scandal is the
strike zone conveniently shrinks for
the home team at Yankee stadiun.
It has been documented on TV broadcasts over the years.
Nothing has been done about it and it taints
baseball big time.
Make that Missionaries of Charity…Mother Teresa's order in NYC! I knew Mother Teresa…and that gal in the stands is no Mother Teresa! Uh oh, my lessons in baseball are getting a little frightening now. 😮
Many Yankees fans, but not all, will admit they are not baseball fans. They make no effort to understand the game within the game, to appreciate the skill and positive qualities in opposing players and teams. Thanks Keith for keeping this beautiful game in perspective. It's supposed to be fun!
Call Yankee fans loud, obnoxious, smug, entitled, or any of the other numerous, worn out clichés that litter the field of discussion in this regard. Whatever. But to say "many Yankees fans, but not all, will admit they are not baseball fans. They make no effort to understand the game within the game, to appreciate the skill and positive qualities in opposing players and teams" is just Yankee-hating hogwash. We have our share of knuckleheads like any baseball fanbase. Maybe there's more of them because the Yankees have such a large following. But to make such a bold statement implies that you are not acquainted with any Yankee fans except, perhaps, a small sample size of knuckleheads. Or actively consume the Pinstripe-averse Kool Aid. I would direct you to the numerous Yankee-related blogs in which opposing teams and players are discussed to an almost exasperating nerd-like degree, but you've obviously made up your mind already, so I won't bother.
A-Rod looks for any kind of edge? Say it isn't so.
This is Keith's porn tape!
I disagree, believe Alex Rodriguez WAS looking to see if Cameron Diaz is in the seats 🙂
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Colorcon, Inc. will introduce a new optimized performance film coating system, Opadry® 200, during the week of October 24, 2011 at both the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. (Booth #2237) and the CPhI Worldwide Event in Frankfurt, Germany (Stand #42J05). Opadry 200 represents Colorcon's continued innovation and leadership in ensuring a full line of functional options for pharmaceutical formulators.
Colorcon developed Opadry 200 in response to industry demand for continual improvement in performance and cost. According to Kamlesh Oza, General Manager of Film Coatings at Colorcon, "Pharmaceutical scientists today work with medications that have known sensitivity to light, moisture and oxygen. It has been a challenge to find a fully formulated product that can quickly coat those products in a cost effective manner and protect them. Our new system is an optimized performance, low tack, high-film strength, immediate release system that helps cut manufacturing time, and achieves best-in-class moisture protection along with superior product appearance."
Opadry 200 systems are designed using compendial ingredients that meet the regional and/or global regulatory requirements of the user when developing NCE, OTC or generic products.
About Colorcon
Colorcon is a world leader in the development, supply and support of formulated products for the pharmaceutical and nutritional industries. Its core businesses include film coatings, modified release technologies, functional excipients and tablet design services. Colorcon has 18 technical service laboratories globally and more than 1200 employees exclusively dedicated to its customer base.
SOURCE Colorcon, Inc.


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O'Brien says GOP losses largely out of his control
Outgoing House speaker has no apologies for agenda
After Democratic success on Election Night in New Hampshire, many are wondering what's next for Granite State Republicans and outgoing House Speaker Bill O'Brien.
Before the election, Republicans held nearly three-fourths of the 400-seat New Hampshire House. Democrats won back 120 of those seats, moving into the majority.
O'Brien has taken some heat for the GOP losses, but he said the results were largely out of his control.
"In New Hampshire, legislative races are dictated in many ways by what's going on at the top of the ballot," he said.
O'Brien isn't backing away from his agenda of the last two years, and he's not apologizing for anything, defending the tea party philosophy as one based on smaller government and individual rights.
"That's intrinsically American," he said. "To try and demonize the tea party is to try and reject American traditions."
But some said it's time for the Republican Party to reinvent itself and do it in a hurry. Republican strategist Tom Rath was blunt in his assessment.
"The old white guys club is over, and it's time to seek diversity," he said. "Not just one or two people in a particular circumstance. We need to make this party more accessible to more people."
Several names have been mentioned as possible minority leaders in the House, including Deputy House Speaker Pam Tucker and Bartlett Republican Gene Chandler.
On the Democratic side, former House Speaker Terie Norelli will be challenged by Nashua's David Campbell.