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On July 2, 1862, just one day after our nation suffered the combined losses and casualties of 36,058 men in the Seven Days Battle during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln quietly signed a piece of legislation that would forever change the way Americans thought about education. The Morrill Land-Grant Act called for socio-economic equality in higher education. Through the sale and use of federal lands, institutions of higher education that were affordable and had a solid base in applicable practicum were established, President Lincoln enabled a wounded nation to heal herself through hard work and education.
Just 25 years after the Morrill Act set the stage for land-grant institutions to be established throughout the nation, the Utah Agriculture College was founded and designated to reside in Logan. In the past 125 years, a lot has changed for the school with its plowed fields that overlooked Cache Valley. Along with name changes and expanded facilities, that small school's reach is now state wide, with one comprehensive regional college (USU Eastern campuses in Price and Blanding), three regional campuses (Brigham City, Tooele, Uintah Basin) and 34 Extension offices — including the USU Botanical Center and Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter.
Founded by the Utah Territorial Assembly on March 8, 1888, the Utah Agriculture College opened its educational doors Sept. 2, 1890. At its humble beginnings in the south wing of Old Main, Utah's land-grant college included 139 students and nine faculty members.
Here's a social and educational look at the school's earliest days.
*There was a Preparatory Department to equip students for the rigors of college courses
*The minimum age requirement for Preparatory work was 13; 15 for college credit
*There were five major courses of college instruction offered, including Agriculture, Domestic Arts, Mechanic Arts, Civil Engineering and Business
*On admission, there was a $5 entrance fee; tuition was free
*There were mandatory non-sectarian weekly chapel exercises
*Also mandatory was military drill for men and women — women could opt for elocution and physical culture
*The first Thanksgiving Day football game inaugurated between the University of Utah and the college took place in 1894 and the Aggies won 12 to 0
*Twelve students formed the first graduating class in 1894
Today, in 2013, the university will again celebrate its Founders Day March 8. As part of the celebration, USU's University Libraries assembled an exhibit that showcases prominent but, perhaps, not well known students through the decades.
Ten students, representing decades from the 1890s to the 1990s, are highlighted. Extensive narratives on each student are included in the exhibit at the Merrill-Cazier Library's atrium. Highlighted below are snapshots of the students and their accomplishments.
The 1890s — Thomas Hyrum Humphreys. Born in 1874, Humphreys received his early schooling in the pioneer Bear Lake settlement of Paris, Idaho. He entered the Preparatory Department at the Utah Agricultural College in 1892 and graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1897. He characterized his college career as consisting "chiefly of hard work." He earned a degree in 1897 and the hard work paid off. He began his career with the newly created U.S. Reclamation Service in 1903, advancing quickly through the ranks, being appointed project engineer on the Klamath and Orland projects, two of the Reclamation Service's earliest water development projects. He returned to Cache Valley for several decades, but returned to federal service as director of the Public Works Reserve in 1944 before retiring to Logan.
1911 — Luther M. Winsor. As a graduate in 1911, Winsor became the first from the institution to earn a degree in irrigation engineering, a field that would subsequently come to distinguish the university. Immediately after graduation he was given a horse and sent to the Uintah Basin to advise Ashley Valley farmers. The appointment gave Winsor bragging rights as one of the first county Extension agents in the Western states. In 1939, the federal government selected Winsor as the first technician to advise Iran on irrigation principles. The early contacts made by Winsor paid off following the Second World War, when the university provided agricultural expertise to the government of Iran for nearly three decades.
The 1920s — Mignon Barker Richmond. As the first Black woman to graduate from a Utah college, Richmond holds obvious distinction, but she left the school to pursue a professional career and extensive civic and religious accomplishments. She received a degree in textiles and clothing in 1921 and immediately began teaching her craft at the University of Utah. She also began a life-long association with the Young Women's Christian Association. After the Second World War she returned to full-time work while maintaining community and civic involvements — she served as vice president and later president of the Salt Lake Chapter of the NAACP. She accepted membership on the boards of the Utah Community Service Council and on the Women's Legislative Council, where she was instrumental in formulating anti-poverty legislation.
1931 — Edward P. Cliff was among the first forestry students to graduate from the recently renamed Utah State Agricultural College. He began his career with the U.S. Forest Service on the Wenatchee Reserve in Washington and remained in the Pacific Northwest until 1944 when he accepted an assignment to the Intermountain Region and then as Regional Forester for the entire Rocky Mountain Region. Beginning in 1950 he served as assistant chief for the U.S. Forest Service until he was appointed chief in 1962. He retired from the Forest Service in 1974.
The 1940s — L. Tom Perry began his college life in 1940 but, like many of his generation, he did not graduate until almost ten years later. Service to church and the country delayed graduation for many. When he enrolled in 1940 the enrollment at USAC stood at a near record level. When he returned in 1947, he became a part of a different kind of student body. Older and focused on completing their education, many of those returning GIs were married and some had young families. Hundreds of veterans enrolled at the college under the GI Bill, swelling enrollment to a new record of nearly 4,500 in 1948. Perry graduated with a degree in finance in 1948 and went on to distinguish himself in the field of business for more than 20 years. He also remained devoted to his faith where, in 1974, he received his church's highest calling to serve as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, the spiritual and governing body of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1958 — L. Jay Sylvester was a member of the second senior class to graduate from Utah State University — Utah Gov. George Dewey Clyde signed the official document effecting the name change from USAC to USU on Founders Day, March 8, 1957. Sylvester proudly donned the blue and white as a member of the freshman football squad in 1955, but it was in track and field where he emerged a star. In a 1957 spring meet he set new Skyline Conference records in both the shot put and the discus throw. He went on to be awarded All-American honors for both shot put and discus in 1958 and 1959, but his record-setting did not end with his college career. He set his first world record in 1961, something he would repeat three times during his career. In 1964 he won selection to the Tokyo Olympic Games. He regained the world record in 1968 and competed for the U.S. Olympic team in Mexico City and again at Munich in 1972, where, at the age of 35, he won the silver medal.
The 1960s — W. Brent Robinson was inspired after a high school class discussion about Sputnik to become an engineer. Once enrolled at USU, the Franklin, Idaho, student found a second passion — economics, and he pursued a double major in engineering and economics. His USU training prepared him to successfully complete an MBA at Harvard and enter the world of business where he soon began work in the banking industry. With a move back west to Boise, Idaho, he went to work for a bank that was eventually sold. The new owners appointed him president. At that time he was the youngest bank president in the United States. Through his career he has held executive positions at several retail banking institutions in the United States and Canada and has overseen the sale and mergers of more than 20 banks.
The 1970s — Mary Cleave became an adopted Utahan and stalwart Aggie when the Great Neck, New York native moved to Logan via Colorado to pursue graduate studies in the early 1970s. Her relocation was indicative of the changing demographic at USU during the 1970s, where more than 30 percent of the student body came from states other than Utah — or from other countries — giving campus a decidedly cosmopolitan flair. Cleave graduated with a master's degree in microbial ecology in 1975 and, following commencement, applied to become an astronaut with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That first application was turned down, but NASA encouraged her to pursue a doctorate, which she completed in 1980. She then reapplied and was accepted to the astronaut program. After her successful training, she served as part of the ground crew for five shuttle flights, and in November 1985 she boarded the shuttle Atlantis for her first orbit of the Earth. Included in her personal effects was a USU banner. She completed a second flight aboard Atlantis in 1989. She retired from NASA in 2007.
1982 — Norah Abdullah Al-Faiz is part of a long history of international students who have studied at Utah State University and continued on to distinguished careers. The first international students registered for classes at Utah State in 1916. As the institution initiated agricultural assistance programs with other countries following World War II, the international student population increased dramatically. While their numbers have periodically expanded or contracted, USU's international student community has remained a vibrant part of the campus for nearly 100 years. Mrs. Al-Faiz was born in the coastal city of Shaqra in Yemen and graduated from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. She traveled to the United States to study at USU where she earned a master's degree in instructional technology. She began a career as a public school teacher after she returned to Saudi Arabia, where she ascended to head principal in the girls' section at Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal's Kingdom Schools. In 1993 she was appointed director general of the women's branch at the Institute of Public Administration. In 2009, Mrs. Al-Faiz became deputy minister for Women's Education; the highest position ever obtained by a Saudi woman. She was named by "Time Magazine" as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and has received the Distinguished Arab Women Award in Education from the Arab Women Foundation. During commencement 2012, USU awarded Mrs. Al-Faiz an Honorary Doctorate in Education for her "service as a powerful role model to women aspiring to careers in education …"
1990 — Russell Case. The arts have a tradition at USU that dates back to the institution's founding. Artistic creations often resulted from practical training in carpentry and cabinet-making. Likewise, students enrolled in mechanical drawing courses were encouraged to explore their creativity. USU formed its first official Art Department when it hired Calvin Fletcher in 1907. He would guide the department for the next 40 years, and establish an artistic foundation that has prevailed to the present day. Case enrolled at USU in the late 1980s. With encouragement from his father, artist Gary Case, Russell explored his surroundings through the medium of watercolors. At USU, he expanded his proficiency with watercolors to oils. Pursuing a career as an art professor was Case's original goal, but after studying with veteran faculty members Harrison Groutage and Gaell Lindstron, Case made the decision following his graduation in 1990 to pursue painting full time. It was a propitious decision and his landscapes quickly attracted public attention. His work has been featured in galleries from Jackson Hole, Wyo., to Santa Fe, N.M., where his paintings command considerable attention. He has won a number of prestigious awards and his work is presently represented nationally at the Prix de West in Oklahoma City, Okla.; Western Visions Shows in Jackson Hole, Wyo.; Coors Western Art Exhibition in Denver, Colo.; and Maynard Dixon Country in Mt. Carmel, Calif.
Happy Birthday Utah State University, and congratulation to all the students, across the decades, who have passed through your doors.
(With thanks to USU's University Libraries and the USU Greats for the background information and research used in this summary.)
**Watch Utah State University Archivist Robert "Bob" Parson's talk "A Few Things I've learned while Working in the Archives," the 2013 Spring Friends of Merrill-Cazier Library Lecture.


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Photoshop.next: Sneak peek #2
Background save, anyone? How about massively faster Liquify?
Both of these features have been in the team's sights for a long time, but they kept getting derailed by things like the Carbon-to-Cocoa conversion effort. Nice to have that behind us.
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what about faster surface blur?
even on my i7 2600k @4500MHz surface blur is a snail.
faster liquify is a good start.
optimize for multi core.. multi CPU systems.
If you're after speed, CUDA support would sure be nice.
In my experience people get too hung up on asking for a specific technology (CUDA, Cocoa, etc.) when it would be better to focus on the higher level problem/goal & then let the team figure out the best implementation approach. Many approaches have subtle drawbacks.
How about DOESNT CRASH
Given the dramatically increased market for "apps" and the user interfaces that go along with them, I would hope to see Fireworks style attention to UI design features. Support for things like symbols, shared libraries of both bitmap and vector symbols, 9 slice scaling, better pixel snapping for vector shape layers, etc. I'd much rather see this stuff integrated into Adobe's flagship application rather than scattered throughout several other apps that Adobe has made wishy-washy commitments to.
I don't mind them adding features to Ai, but the thing at the top of my wish list is a file that can be opened with Ai and PS. Just have some PS layers sitting there next to some Ai layers in the same file. You could call it the .pi file type.
That or the reverse of smart objects would fix the problem (it's nice that they let you have an .ai inside a .psd, but there's no way to get a .psd inside an .ai to my knowledge).
You can place a layered PSD in AI, keeping the layers editable in PS. It works just like a Smart Object. Alternately, you can *open* the PSD in AI, converting the layers into AI layers, but then you won't be able to go back to PS.
What about consistent tool behaviour across CS apps?! It's ridiculous that text edit, or bezier controls behave differently in Illustrator and Photoshop. Even more interesting: Photoshop's got a much intuitive vectot free distort tool than Illustrator. Please give the teams some kind of colletctive team building! :-)
Background save! At last! Should be with us for years! Looking forward to even more in-app multi tasking!
Excellent. Love all these small enhancements. They really do help with overall production time. Can't wait for the release. Thx!
You have definitely been battered by Apple transitions in the past decade (9 to X, PPC to Intel, Carbon to Cocoa), and it looks like that is finally behind you. It will be interesting to see what Adobe can do in the next cycle without platform shifts.
So your theory is that Apple is done with the transitions? (When you stand still it's easier to get tackled. I bet Apple has some surprises coming.)
The transitions happened only because they had to. They can now totally focus on OSes and a single set of developer tools (and a single compiler). You could argue that ARM represents another transition, but it's really just an extension.
What is the GPU recommendation for the CS6?
ATI or Nvidia?
Game card(GeForce/Radeon)
Pro card(FirePro/Qadro) ?
Looking forward to seeing more, great stuff:)
Have to say, have liked all the icons for past versions, the new icon for Photoshop is really disappointing.
Given that icon design is at its peak with apps. You only have to spend 5 mins on Dribble looking at icons/ type to see a parade of eye candy.
Could of done something a lot more exciting with the branding, risky even.. maybe its just me lol
Do not blame Apple for trying to bring us into the 21st century with their OS. The transitions/conversions are actually the fault of backward thinking companies such as Adobe, Microsoft etc. who prefer to hold to what they have out of convenience than truly rewrite things to take advantage of newer technologies (some of which Apple provides free). The market has already gone the way of multicores years ago, yet Photoshop has not been written to take advantage of this reality. Start making some sIgnificant under-the-hood changes and I believe your customers will very much appreciate that.
New features are great & necessary and the Photoshop team have provided some extremely useful ones over the years but it is time to overhaul the insides a little to provide some speed/performance improvements
uhhh… isn't this video all about performance improvements?
When will Camera RAW and Lightroom support the Nikon D800?


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The Jeep Liberty offers a great balance for someone who enjoys the outdoors. Day in and day out, it takes the place of a car or wagon: The Liberty seats four comfortably and can carry up to five people and their gear. Fold the rear seats and it can move two people and some serious cargo. Turn off the pavement and it can go just about anywhere.
True to Jeep heritage, the Liberty offers serious off-road capability. In this respect, it stands apart from the herd of compact sport-utility vehicles, few of which offer true off-road capability. The Liberty gives up some refinement and road agility to do this. On the road, it does not ride or handle as well as some of the other small SUVs. But the Liberty is among the best of the small sport-utilities for drivers who need serious off-road capability on the weekend yet need refinement, practicality and affordability during the week.
Just two years old, the Liberty debuted as a 2002 model. It was significantly improved for 2003 with improved on-road stability. The 2004 model offers further, substantial upgrades in safety equipment, and in comfort and convenience options. For example, Chrysler's Enhanced Accident Response System (EARS), which unlocks doors and turns on interior lights five seconds after an airbag deploys, is standard for 2004. New options include a tire-pressure monitor; and UConnect, a clever bit of hardware and software which integrates your cell phone into the Liberty's stereo system.
The 2004 Jeep Liberty is available in three trim levels: Sport, Limited Edition, and Renegade. Each is offered with two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive (4WD). Two engines are available: a 2.4-liter inline-4 and a 3.7-liter V6. The four-cylinder engine is only available with a five-speed manual gearbox. The V6 is available with a heavy-duty five-speed manual or a four-speed automatic that was revised last year for smoother, quieter operation.
Sport ($18,060) and Sport 4WD ($19,570) come standard with the four-cylinder engine, five-speed manual transmission, cloth interior, wind-up windows, manually operated mirrors, and 16-inch tires on steel wheels. A six-speaker stereo with CD player is standard. Air conditioning ($850) is optional, however. Power windows and other features can be added as options. The optional V6 is available with manual transmission ($850) or an automatic ($1,675).
Limited Edition models offer upgraded interior amenties and a better grade of cloth upholstery. Limited ($22,750) and Limited 4WD ($24,260) come standard with the V6 engine and automatic transmission. Leather is available as part of a big option package ($1,145) that also includes a programmable overhead console, power seat adjusters, deep-tint glass, power heated side mirrors, a security group, and an AM/FM/cassette/CD stereo with steering-wheel-mounted audio controls and Infinity speakers. On 4WD Limited models, the same package ($1,690) includes Jeep's SelecTrac full-time four-wheel drive.
Renegade is a specialty model with a roof-mounted light bar, rock-rail protection, and black body-side moldings. Renegade 2WD ($22,910) and 4WD ($24,520) models come standard with the V6; heavy-duty five-speed manual transmission; air conditioning; cruise control; tilt steering; 16-inch graphite-painted aluminum wheels; power windows, mirrors, and locks; illuminated keyless entry; roof rack side rails; and many other features. Renegade 4WD models include a skid-plate package. Automatic transmission ($825) is optional. A premium package ($1,240) adds the automatic, power leather seats, and upgraded door trim panels, along with an overhead vehicle information center that allows the customer to program automatic locking, lighting, and other features.
Side-impact airbags ($490) are optional on all Liberty models, and we highly recommend them. Serious 4WD adventurers may want the optional Off-Road Group ($765 for Sport, $520 for Limited), which includes skid plates for the front suspension, fuel tank and transfer case; a locking rear differential; heavy-duty engine cooling; P235/70R16 all-terrain tires; and tow hooks.
With its seven-slat grille and round headlights, there's no question the Liberty is a Jeep.
The Liberty's body is tall, providing the driver with a commanding view of the terrain ahead. In terms of exterior dimensions, the Liberty fits between the Jeep Wrangler and Grand Cherokee. With an overall length off 174.4 inches, it's slightly longer than the Ford Escape. It's longer than Jeep's classic Wrangler as well, but 7 inches shorter and as much as 500 pounds lighter than the Grand Cherokee.
The Sport model is trimmed with a gray front fascia, and accent-color body-side moldings and wheel flares that give it a rugged, youthful look.
Limited models are distinguished by body-colored trim and unique aluminum wheels that create a more sophisticated appearance.
The Renegade is instantly distinguished by a bold light bar integrated into the leading edge of the roof. It also features a roof basket, bolt-on fender flares, removable side steps, unique graphite-painted aluminum wheels, and a body-colored front fascia. The activity light bar houses four halogen lamps designed to light rocky terrain or a nighttime game of beach volleyball. (Be aware that operating roof lights may not be legal on your roads.) The Renegade was inspired by Jeep's Dakar concept. It comes in a limited choice of colors: Bright Cactus Green, Light Khaki, silver, and black.
A neat feature on all models: Yanking hard on the outside door handle causes the glass hatch to swing up as the door itself is swinging out, which saves time and effort. Pulling on the handle with less force causes just the glass hatch to swing up. Also, the door swings open from the right, better for curbside pickups at the airport.
The Jeep Liberty comes with a roomy interior that can accommodate five passengers and a generous amount of cargo, with good usable space behind the second row of seats. Sitting in the Liberty gives the driver a sense of spaciousness with acres of headroom (best in class, according to Jeep). Door panels are scalloped out for elbow rests, and a grab handle is provided on the passenger's side of the dash. Sit in the Liberty, and the first thing you'll likely notice is that it feels tall in the saddle.
The seats in the Sport model feel firm in the middle, but the side bolsters are too mushy to provide much side support. Also, there's no seat-height adjustment. In short, I found the Sport seats uncomfortable. But the cloth upholstery has a hard finish that feels like it'll hold up well. The Renegade front seats are tailored with unique cloth center panels and vinyl bolsters. The front seats in the Limited are more comfortable. They are chair-like, softer and more contoured than the seats in the Ford Escape.
Getting in and out of the Liberty is more difficult than it is in some of the more carlike SUVs. The door openings are relatively narrow, the step-up height is a little higher, the seats have side bolsters to get past, and your feet must clear relatively high side sills.
The Liberty's rear seats are comfortable, capable of holding three people. Two adults should be happy here. There is lots of rear headroom, and lots of space to slide your feet under the front seats, but knee room is limited. Getting out of the back seat requires a bit of a stretch down, and your legs drag across the fender. So be sure to clean that area before putting any well-dressed guests back there.
The Liberty offers a generous amount of cargo space behind the rear seats, though not quite as much as the Ford Escape does (29 cubic feet for the Liberty vs. 33.1 cubic feet for the Escape). Our 155-pound puppy was happy to ride behind the rear seats. Two full-size garbage cans fit side-by-side back there, something that can't be said for many SUVs. Grocery-bag hooks and cargo tie-downs are provided to keep things from rolling around. An optional cargo organizer opens to a shelf with compartment dividers to keep packages in place, and can be folded flat when not in use.
Fold the rear seats down and the Liberty offers a lot of cargo space, virtually the same as the Escape does (69.0 cubic feet for the Liberty vs. 69.2 cubic feet for the Escape). Dropping the split rear seat is a one-hand operation in the Liberty; the rear seat bottom stays in place. The cargo floor isn't perfectly flat when the rear seats are folded down, however, and that's my biggest gripe with this vehicle. Nor are the rear seats readily removable as they are in the RAV4. Also, removing the rear headrests requires pressing two buttons at once to release them.
Overall, the interior presents a round motif that looks contemporary, with round door handles, round instruments, round air inlets, a round horn pad. Textures and finishes are nicely done. Big gauges use black-on-beige graphics. The Limited adds attractive satin chrome highlights to the instrument panel and doors. The Renegade gets brushed aluminum (real aluminum) highlights on the instrument panel that give it a machined look consistent with the exterior theme.
The shifter is on the tall side, but works well. The available leather-wrapped steering wheel is comfortable and features well-designed cruise controls.
The accessory controls work well and intuitively. The power window switches are located on the center console, however, more awkward and less convenient than if they were on the door. The manually operated heating/air-conditioning controls work well, though the mode selector demands attention. The radio works well, but uses a separate and poorly located button to preset stations, an unnecessary distraction when driving.
A new option on Liberty is UConnect, Chrysler Gro
Jeep lowered and re-tuned the Liberty's suspension for 2003 for better ride and handling. Jeep also reduced the steering effort for easier maneuverability at low speeds (parking).
The Liberty doesn't ride as smoothly on the road as a Ford Escape, particularly over bumps and other irregularities where it bobbles a bit. Nor does it handle as well as the more car-like SUVs. It's relatively slow steering and off-road suspension add up to lethargic transient response in lane-change type maneuvers. That said, the Liberty rides reasonably well. It doesn't beat the driver up as much as a Jeep Wrangler does. The wider tires of the Limited and Renegade models seem to offer more stability than the narrower tires of the Sport. I've found winding Virginia backroads to be an enjoyable experience with Liberty's rack-and-pinion steering. The Liberty also felt quite capable on crowded freeways around Los Angeles.
The 3.7-liter V6 works well with the automatic transmission, responsive to the driver's wishes. The V6 is rated 210 horsepower and 235 pounds-feet of torque. That's enough to give the Limited model a 5000-pound tow rating (though I don't think it's the best choice for pulling a trailer that heavy).
The 2.4-liter twin-cam four-cylinder engine comes standard on the Sport model, and is only available with a five-speed manual gearbox. I found the four-cylinder with manual transmission to be a smooth combination, though I suspect it may struggle when moving 3,826 pounds of Jeep at higher elevations. Besides the lower initial cost, the 150-horsepower four-cylinder rates an EPA-estimated 20/24 mpg city/highway, versus 16/22 for the V6 (or 17/21 for the V6 with automatic transmission). A slightly larger fuel tank on the 2004 models gives them a little more range.
The Liberty is fully capable of tackling the Rubicon Trail, the mother of all unpaved roads, and has in fact done just that. We drove a Limited 4WD model over a gnarly trail used at the annual Camp Jeep event near Lovingston, Virginia. A Jeep engineer and I followed a modified Wrangler driven by an off-road club member. A Ford Escape or a Toyota RAV4 would not have made it, but the Liberty crossed steep ditches and gullies, where its short front and rear overhangs paid off. It wove through stands of tightly spaced trees, where its tight turning radius was a benefit. It clambered over big rocks and fallen trees and slowly forded boulder-strewn creeks with 18 inches of rushing water. (Jeep says it can handle 20 inches at 10 mph.) Its traction up steep, muddy banks was truly impressive, with no wheelspin. If you need a vehicle to negotiate rugged terrain or slog down muddy trails, the Jeep Liberty is an excellent choice.
Four-wheel-drive models come standard with Jeep's tried-and-true Command Trac part-time system. It works great. Shift from 2WD to 4WD on the fly with a slight pull on the hand lever. When the trail is looking really ugly, slow to 2-3 mph and while still coasting, shift into neutral, and pull the lever up higher for low range. It works great. Our only complaint is that the rear wheels bind up on dry pavement when accelerating out of a tight corner.
Selec Trac is an optional system ($395) that offers the modes above but adds a planetary center differential that lets the driver shift into full-time 4WD for year-round conditions. The full-time mode is ideally suited to inconsistent conditions: patches of ice, gravel roads, wet, slippery roads. It also works on dry pavement.
Either way, V6-powered Liberties can also be ordered with the optional limited-slip rear differential, called Trac-Lok ($285), for improved traction off road.
Like most small SUVs, Liberty follows the trend away from body-on-frame to unibody construction. Jeep calls Liberty's construction "uni-frame" because it's a beefed up unibody with frame-like reinforcement rails. This gives the Liberty increased strength and rigidity. That
Jeep Liberty strikes an excellent balance between off-road capability and on-road sophistication. It's a good choice for drivers who like to venture into the backcountry, but need comfort and practicality in a daily driver.
Go-anywhere capability separates the Liberty from other small SUVs. Though less agile on the road than the so-called cute-utes, such as the Ford Escape and Toyota RAV4, the Liberty is vastly superior once you leave the pavement.


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January 2004 · Global Graphics has just published an application data sheet describing PDF/X support in the Harlequin RIP. The application data sheet can be downloaded from Global Graphics' PDF/X resources page.
November 2003 · Martin Bailey has just finished updating his PDF/X FAQ – answering many essential questions with regard to PDF/X, including information about the revised versions of the PDF/X standard.
October 2003 · PDF/X-3 Inspector (Freeware) now also runs on Mac OS/X 10.2.3 or newer as well as – besides Acrobat 5 – with Acrobat 6.0 Standard or Professional. Click here to go directly to the download area.
July 2003 · Apago just released a new version of their PDF/X conversion and verification plug-in PDF/X CheckUp for Adobe Acrobat. Besides supporting OS/X and Acrobat 6, it now also comes with a flexible and convenient Box Editor that lets a user easily set or modify page geometry (i.e. TrimBox and BleedBox).
June 2003 · Adobe just released the new version 6.0 of its Acrobat product family. Acrobat 6.0 Professional offers Distiller based conversion of PostScript to PDF/X, conversion of PDF files to PDF/X, PDF/X verification as well as PDF/X based soft proofing, hard proofing, separation preview and separated output. The PDF to PDF/X conversion and PDF/X verification features are part of the Preflight plug-in, which Adobe licensed from callas software.
June 2003 · The Ghent PDF Workgroup has published a set of 9 requirements specification for the exchange of PDF prepress files, which are now all based on PDF/X.
June 2003 · The new version 5.0 of PDFlib now lets you generate output conforming to PDF/X-1, PDF/X-1a, and PDF/X-3, embed output intent ICC profile or reference standard output intent and copy output intent from imported PDF documents.
June 2003 · The shareware PStill from Frank Siegert now supports creation of both PDF/X-1a as well as PDF/X-3 files.
June 2003 · The Acrobat plug-in SuperColor from Heidelberg makes conversion of PDF/X-3 files with ICC based or Lab colors to CMYK a quick and simple operation. For users who have to deal with many PDF files, Acrobat's batch processing feature or callas software's AutoPilot may be used for automation.
January 2003 · LucidDream's Delta RIP module "PDFflow" produces PDF 1.3 as well as PDF/X-1a.
September 8, 2002 · At Seybold Seminars San Francisco, Xinet announces PDF/X-1a support in their FullPress workflows solution.
August 15, 2002 · Global Graphics – known as the developer of the Harlequin and Jaws PostScript RIPs – releases free PDF/X test patch.
August 8, 2002 · OneVision just released new versions of their solutions "Asura" and "Solvero" that now offer full support for PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3.
May 22, 2002 · Today Dwight Kelly from Apago launched a new mailing list «pdfxhelp» dedicated helping users new to PDF/X get started. Within hours after announcing the mailing list numerous PDF/X experts and PDF/X pioneers have already joined the mailing list – this means subscribers will receive a lot of valuable advice typicallly within hours after submitting a question. Also, a lot of feedback from those who have already «done it» will be available.
Dwight Kelly is president of Apago, who develops various tools and solutions around PDF/X as well as TIFF/IT. For several years Dwight has been actively involved in the standardisation of PDF/X as well as TIFF/IT in ISO Technical Committee 130.
May 21, 2002 · As of April 22, 2002, all national members of Technical Committee 130 – the part of ISO that is among other things working on standards for digital file exchange – have voted in favor of PDF/X-3 (ISO 15930-3). Meanwhile the PDF/X-3 standard has been sent to the ISO Central Secretariat in Geneva for publication.
This means that there are now two parts of PDF/X: PDF/X-1a, which is focusing on delivering PDF files using only CMYK and spot colors, and PDF/X-3, which supports color management workflows.
May 21, 2002 · The PDF/X-3 Working Group of the European Color Initiative has publised the second part of the PDF/X-3 Cookbook Recipes.
The PDF/X-3 Coookbook Recipes guide step by step through the procedure of preparing, creating, verifying and processing PDF/X-3 files, using common desktop publishing applications.
Currently there is only a German language version. An English language version will be available around August 2002.
April 22, 2002 · Berlin based software developer callas software, German Printing and Media Industries Federation (bvdm), Swiss Federal laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA), Association for the Promotion of Research in the Graphic Arts Industry (Ugra) and the international association of newspapers Ifra jointly announce the release of 'PDF/X-3 Inspector Freeware'.
PDF/X-3 Inspector (Freeware) can be downloaded from the download area of this website.
PDF/X is an international standard (ISO 15929 and ISO 15930) that already has become an integral part in many PDF workflows. This website is dedicated to resources, tools and links around PDF/X.
PDF/X consists of several parts. ISO 15929 outlines the ideas behind the PDF/X approach as taken by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and sets forth a couple of basic requirements to be honored by all ISO PDF/X standards.
ISO 15930 consists of several parts. The first part – ISO 15930-1 (also known as PDF/X-1:2001 and PDF/X-1a:2001) – has become an ISO standard in 2001, and addresses delivery of digital pages where only CMYK and spot colours shall be used.
The second part – ISO 15930-2 (also known as PDF/X-2) - still is under development, and addresses incomplete file exchanges, where for example a high resolution images are exchanged indepedent of the PDF/X file itself.
The third part – ISO 15930-3 (also known as PDF/X-3:2002) – will become an approved ISO standard around summer 2002.
If you do not know much about PDF/X yet click here to learn more about PDF/X. Martin Bailey, working as Senior Technical Consultant for Global Graphics and member of the PDF/X working group of ISO, has put together a FAQ covering all the essential aspects of PDF/X.
The website of the European Color Initiative (ECI) already now offers useful information about color management in general and specifically PDF/X-3. Among other things, a 'cook book' with recipes for creating PDF/X-3 files with common desktop publishing tools has been developed, and the first part has been published (sorry – currently only available in German; most of the other information around PDF/X-3 as well as color management is available in English).


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Charles Saatchi -- Dinner for 1 ... Try Not to Choke Anyone
Charles Saatchi Dinner for 1 Try Not to Choke Anyone
Millionaire choke artist Charles Saatchi -- the guy who says he was only "playfully" strangling his wife in public last week -- surfaced in London today for a dinner date with himself.
Saatchi has been hounded by the U.K. media ever since photos surfaced showing the ad mogul getting a little too hands on with his celebrity chef wife Nigella Lawson.
But today, Saatchi arrived solo to the the swanky 34 Restaurant in London.
With Lawson reportedly out of town -- and far from Saatchi's grip -- looks like the only thing he'll be choking in the near future is his own chicken.
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They Hate Our Freedom: The Truth about the Military Commissions Act
By Aaron Sussman
On October 17th, with Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, and Donald Rumsfeld standing behind him, George W. Bush solemnly announced, "in memory of the victims of September 11th, it is my honor to sign the Military Commissions Act of 2006 into law.â€
It is apt that Bush invoked a terrifying assault on America as he signed the Military Commissions Act (MCA), legislation that chisels away at our civil liberties, abets and immunizes top-level torturers, and strikes at the core of American values and tradition. The message that Bush gave when he signed the Defense Bill in 2005 is now truer than ever:
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.â€
"In memory of the victims of September 11th,†Bush passed a law that Robyn Blumner of the St. Petersburg Times calls "an obscenity against liberty and decency†and that the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) calls "unconstitutional and un-American.†A fitting tribute indeed for the victims whose names have been manipulated by this administration to justify everything from invading Iraq, to the USA PATRIOT Act, to torture, to tax cuts. This "honor†to the victims of September 11th is a national disgrace for which the Bush administration, both houses of Congress, and the media are to blame.
While the White House struggles to convince the nation that the MCA is perfectly legal and essential in order for the CIA to continue "one of the most successful intelligence efforts in American history,†the true implications of this act must be made clear. Out of the many dubious clauses in the act, the most egregious is the one that eliminates the writ of habeas corpus (the right to challenge the legality of one's imprisonment), a fundamental right that dates back to the Magna Carta. In his First Inaugural Address in 1801, Thomas Jefferson said, "Freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus I deem [one of the] essential principles of our government." Ironically, the Supreme Court case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which held that Bush's original military tribunals were illegal and made the Congressionally approved MCA necessary, would never have occurred if the MCA had been in effect, as it was petitioned by a detainee.
According to the MCA, "No court, justice, or judge shall have
jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas
corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States
who has been determined by the United States to have been properly
detained as an enemy combatant or is awaiting such determination.â€
This allows the President to seize a person who is in this country legally and detain that person indefinitely. Who, though, exactly are these "enemy combatants?â€
The MCA says, "The term 'unlawful combatant' means…a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States… or a person who… has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the president of the secretary of defense.â€
With such vague language as "purposefully and materially†and such ambiguous standards as "another competent tribunal,†it is not difficult to foresee the grave violations of human rights that the state can commit. According to Yale Law Professor and author of Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism Bruce Ackerman, the MCA "authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.â€
One of the few vociferous opponents of the MCA in the Senate, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, presented this chilling scenario: "Imagine, you are a law-abiding, lawful permanent resident….You do charitable fund-raising for international relief agencies….Then one day there is a knock at your door. The government thinks that the Muslim charity you sent money to may be funneling money to terrorists, and it thinks you may be involved….You are brought in for questioning….You ask for a lawyer. But no lawyer comes… Then you're sent to Guantánamo. And then nothing, for years, for decades, for the rest of your life.â€
Does giving money to this hypothetical charity fit the definition of "purposefully and materially?†Of course it does, because all the term really means is that Bush has, what Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Marjorie Cohn calls, "the power of a dictator.†According to Molly Ivins, "one person has already been charged with aiding terrorists because he sold a satellite TV package that includes the Hezbollah network.â€
Once you are detained and denied the writ of habeas corpus, you effectively have no protections, no counsel, and no rights. Bush has repeatedly emphasized that "we do not torture†and "freedom from torture is an inalienable human right.†This is only true if you allow the Bush administration to define "torture,†a definition that has become so nebulous that it might as well be changed to "whatever techniques are not being used by the U.S.â€
The MCA gives the President the authority to define and apply Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention, which refers to the treatment of detainees, and reconfigures the War Crimes Act to expunge this nation's crimes. The MCA, according to Amnesty International, will "narrow the scope of the War Crimes Act by not expressly criminalizing acts that constitute 'outrages upon personal dignity, particularly humiliating and degrading treatment' banned under [Common Article 3].†This is a considerable relief for the torturers in our government. According to the Huffington Post's Aziz Huq, "the Bush administration has gutted the no-torture rule. It has added the requirement that a person 'specifically' intend to cause the pain that amounts to torture….It means that any government agent who says his goal was to get information, not to cause pain, hasn't tortured….â€
The Bush administration, then, does not think it is torture when federal government employees engage "in acts such as soaking a prisoner's hand in alcohol and lighting it on fire, administering electrical shocks, subjecting prisoners to repeated sexual abuse and assault, including sodomy with a bottle, raping a juvenile prisoner, kicking and beating prisoners in the head and groin, putting lit cigarettes inside a prisoner's ear, force-feeding a baseball to a prisoner, chaining a prisoner hands-to-feet in a fetal position for 24 hours without food or water or access to a toilet, and breaking a prisoner's shoulders.†Combine those horrors with what other countries do to suspects seized by the U.S. under the "extraordinary rendition†program, and America's shameful role as a violator of human rights is illuminated.
Yet, we are consistently told that opposing these acts and maintaining a basic level of humanity and decency is tantamount to treason. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert claimed that opponents of the MCA are "putting their liberal agenda ahead of the security of America†and that Democrats "would gingerly pamper the terrorists who plan to destroy innocent American lives.†According to Hastert, we have the false dilemma of either "gingerly pamper[ing] the terrorists†or of criminally stripping Americans and non-Americans of their rights, torturing them, and committing the brutalities and excesses of tyrants. This is one of the many logical fallacies employed by the GOP leadership to misconstrue the terms of the debate and cause people to vote out of fear; a strategy that weakens this country and undermines democracy.
The media, which has been uncritical and complicit in regard to torture has failed its democratic obligations once again with the MCA. When the legislation was first introduced, the media considered the "substance a yawn†and preferred to "focus on the sexy rift between George Bush's White House and those roguish Republican mavericks headed by John McCain.†Michael Ratner, who is the President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, pointed out on the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting radio show CounterSpin that "There was no internal rift about habeas corpus, which was barely covered in the press.†By pitting these two ideologically-similar contingents against each other as the only two sides of the debate, the media effectively erased the massive criticism leveled by Constitutional law experts, human rights activists, watchdog groups, and everyone else who has a stake in preserving civil liberties and international law.
By the time the press addressed the real issues concerning the MCA, it was too late. A New York Times editorial titled "A Dangerous New Order†calls the MCA "an unconstitutional act.†Unfortunately, the editorial, which could have influenced votes in the House and Senate, was run after the act was signed. The editorial also erroneously states, "The law does not apply to American citizens, but it does apply to other legal United States residents.†In fact, as Robert Perry of Consortium News points out, the Act states that "Any person is punishable as a principal under this chapter who commits an offense punishable by this chapter, or aids, abets, counsels, commands, or procures its commission.†Another inaccurate statement was made on Fox News Special Report with Brit Hume, when Major Garrett said, "this bill does give detainees the right to appeal their status as enemy combatants, just not before civilian courts. They can appeal to a court of military review.†Detainees do not all have procedures to challenge their detention in court, an error that was addressed by the media watchdog group Media Matters.
The seamless couplings of the Bush administration, both houses of Congress, and the media, combined with the powerlessness of the judiciary, exposes this new era of anti-democratic collusion and the dissolution of "checks and balances.†It is a harsh blow to democracy when the criminals in the highest offices of the government prove they are not criminals by changing the laws that they violated. The strategy of those who made the MCA into law is to erase their past crimes to pave the way for new ones. The MCA effectively immunizes government officials against allegations of torture and other war crimes. Surely this was a consideration when Alberto Gonzales told Bush that denying the Geneva Conventions would "substantially reduce the threat of domestic criminal prosecutions under the War Crimes Act.â€
Rosa Brooks wrote in the Los Angeles Times,"It's far too late for Bush to have a legacy that won't be a source of shame to future generations. So he's going for second best: a congressionally delivered get-out-of-jail free card.†This "get-out-of-jail free card,†while giving the Bush regime tyrannical powers and immunity for past crimes, has the reverse effect for all the co-conspirators who let Bush hurt this country: Congress (and all those Democrats who voted "aye†), the media, the courts, and, of course, we, the voters, all of whom are now more culpable than ever. The MCA is the latest link in a chain that increasingly shackles democracy and progress, that tarnishes the rights and dignity of every person in every country, and that, with every new link, makes us more complicit accomplices to the crimes committed by our government, by the ones who hate our freedom.
In a State Department Foreign Press Center Briefing, John Bellinger, the Legal Advisor to the State Department said: "And with respect to the Military Commissions Act, which is extremely complex, hard to understand, as wonderful a job as you all do in reporting this in the press, it is hard to understand the details of the law unless one gets down, lawyer to lawyer, to explain it.â€
- Questions and Answers from the Center for Constitutional Rights
- ACLU's letter to the Senate
- Unchecked Powers, by Anup Shah
- Are You an Unlawful Combatant? From AntiWar.com
- Habeas Corpus Sellout, by Nat Hentoff
- Q & A about the MCA from Human Rights Watch
- About the MCA from Human Rights First
- "Take Back Essential Rights with Local Action†from the Bill of Rights Defense Committee
- Pushing Back on Detainee Act, by Michael Ratner
- Damage Control, from TomPaine.com
- Contact your Congressperson and Senator and demand your Constitutional rights
- "Express Your Disappointment with your Senator Who Voted the Wrong Way†on the MCA; sign this form letter from the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Habeas Corpus Defined and Explained
- Habeas Corpus, R.I.P (1215-2006), by Molly Ivins
- Video: Keith Olbermann, "The Day Habeas Corpus Diedâ€
- A Brief History of Habeas Corpus, from BBC News
- Federal Habeas Corpus Review
- The Torture Myth, by Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
- Documents on America's use of tortue, from the American Civil Liberties Union
- Sign the Amnesty International pledge against torture, "The America I Believe Inâ€
- Host a viewing of Outlawd: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, and Disappearances in the "War on Terror.†Click link for free DVD.
- A Crime, Not A War, by Aaron Sussman, about torture and the media
- "U.S. Torture and Abuse of Detainees,†from Human Rights Watch
- Why Retired Military Brass Don't Want Torture, by Charles Kaiser, LA Times


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Mets overcome Marlins in 12th on Travis d'Arnaud's single
NEW YORK -- With little left in another lost season, the New York Mets are focused on the performance of their young players.
Travis d'Arnaud and Vic Black gave the team -- and their moms -- something to be excited about Sunday.
The slumping d'Arnaud had an RBI single with two outs 12th inning and Black earned his first career win in New York's 1-0 victory over the Miami Marlins on Sunday.
"It's big. Extra-inning game, bases loaded, and just get that hit. It's an undescribable feeling," d'Arnaud said of his first walkoff hit in the major leagues. "More importantly it was a big win (to win) the series. Try to lead the Mets in the right direction."
With several rookies' families in town, d'Arnaud gave the game ball right to his mom. Black was given the lineup card, and it was sitting in his locker. He said it will be going home to Texas with his parents.
Dillon Gee and Tom Koehler took a pitchers' duel into the eighth inning before the Marlins and Mets each used five relievers to finish off the fifth extra-inning matchup this season between the NL East's worst teams.
D'Arnaud came through in a game of many missed opportunities and after the two previous batters grounded into forceouts at the plate. New York had loaded the bases with no outs against Zach Phillip (0-1), making his third appearance for the Marlins.
Ryan Webb relieved after Lucas Duda walked to load the bases and got pinch-hitter Zach Lutz to ground to third base. Andrew Brown then grounded to first base, and the throw went home for the second out.
"I think guys sometimes in that situation they just relax because, 'Hey, we've got our backs against the wall already,' and he made some great pitches," Miami manager Mike Redmond said. "It looked like he was going to get through the inning."
D'Arnaud, who singled in the 11th only to be stranded at third base, lined a soft single up the middle to give the Mets their fifth win in 16 home games. Acquired by New York in the offseason trade that sent NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey to Toronto, has just five hits in his last 28 at-bats.
"It's about the process itself," Mets manager Terry Collins said of the Mets hitting. "And that's why you see good at-bats, you see them work the count, you see them taking a better swing, you see them starting to use the two-strike approach."
Black (1-0) pitched a perfect 12th inning, his 12th appearance between Pittsburgh and New York this year.
Miami wasted chances early, going 0 for 12 with runners in scoring position in the first nine innings. Eric Young Jr. was the only Mets player to reach second base -- a two-out double in the sixth -- until they put a runner on third in the 11th. But Young was struck out by Chad Qualls to end the threat.
"We had lots of opportunities, again," Redmond said. "They gave us a couple opportunities in the ninth, two errors, and we just weren't able to capitalize."
The Marlins have lost eight of 10.
Gee and Koehler had batters flummoxed into the eighth. Both mixed breaking balls that dipped into the 70s with a fastball that reached 90 mph for Gee and 94 mph for Koehler. The result: flailing bats, awkward checked swings and a whole lot of softly hit balls.
"Obviously Gee's a real quality starter, and you want to limit as much as you can as far as hits and runs," Koehler said. "But no matter who you're facing you've got to put up zeroes until you win."
The Bronx-born Koehler was 0-4 with a 5.89 ERA in seven starts since beating the Mets since Aug. 1 with six scoreless innings.
Pitching in front of more than 40 friends and family from the area -- he grew up in New Rochelle and played college ball at Stony Brook -- he was impressive against a team that had scored just 12 runs in the first seven games of a homestand.
Gee sent a soft line drive over a ducking Koehler's head with two outs in the third for the Mets only baserunner before Young doubled.
Koehler allowed three hits in a career best-matching eight innings. He struck out five without walking a batter -- he had gone six straight starts giving up at least two walks.
Gee has been stingy when he has allowed runners on base. Batters were just 3 of 28 with runners in scoring position coming and the Marlins were worse: hitless in seven at-bats against the right-hander.
Gee gave up six hits in 7 1/3 innings. He walked two and struck out eight, including four in a row between the second and third.
Game notes
Murphy made two errors in the ninth, ending the Mets' season-high eight-game errorless stretch. ... Collins said reliever Frank Francisco will be unavailable for several days after he was hit on the right hand by a line drive in the opener of Saturday's doubleheader. ... The Marlins are 5-13 in extra innings. The Mets are 8-10.
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text: Guest JBaymore Posted August 10, 2012 Report Share Posted August 10, 2012 NOTE: I think this subject likely comes into the general category of "Education", since I am thinking that I want to start a thinking process and discussion here. But if there is a better place to put this thread... some other MOD... please move it there. I'm not sure WHERE it best fits . This posting I've put in here below (in blue) is a copy of a response that I made in a recent Facebook thread that followed an image of a multi-multi-lane highway in California all packed up with cars, and speaking about CO2 and pollution and global warming and such. This whole topic is a pet peeve with me. Not the environmental concerns.... I am afraid they are all too very real. And to clarify my overall "stance" a bit here....... I've been a proponent of Zero Population Growth (remember that from the 60s), using renewable fuels (been burning wood for home heat since the late 70's and for kilns since 1969), keep acrerage in some tree regrowth, use solar energy (have had solar collectors and a solar greenhouse since the late 70's), own a 40 mpg vehicle (so the 20 mpg truck only gets used when necessary), upgraded the house's insulation, and so on. I was concerend about this way before the recent "fashionability" of the subject (child of the 60s). I call much of the recent attention that some potters are putting onto "green" activities, "Greenwashing". By that I mean that the things that we are doing to be "green" amount to having vwey, very little impact in the big picture. We tend to worry about adding 1/2 inch of IFB to a kiln structure, call it "green", and go right on driving an SUV. We cut our firing temperature from cone 9 to cone 6, call it "green", and fly to NCECA or other conferences every year. And so on. And yes, I do still fly to NCECA and to Japan. I, like most of us, have a large carbon foorprint. But drawing heavy public attention to our kiln firings is likely not going to end very well for us. Those glowing kilns scream out "energy consumption" to the uneducated observer whereas an SUV does not......... and our kilns are a great easy political target. And doing a lot of the very, very small impact things that we are doing and not taking on the BIG ones that REALLY matter (real mass transit in the USA anyone?) makes us feel good, but severely limits our effectiveness. If we are concerned about the environment, we should be all over the BIG issues politically.... not lowering firing temperature and calling it a day. While potters certaintly need to do what they can to monitor their ceramic work's environmental footprint, this is also why worrying too much about the inpact of our kiln firings on CO2 and other pollution is NOT really productive in the bigger picture. This kind of picture is documenting one instant in one location on one day. Multiply it by the world, by 24 hours a day, and 365 days a year. In my presentation at the Portland NCECA conference I mentioned a comparison between the firing of a 40 cubic foot gas kiln and driving a 20-ish mpg car. Do the chemistry and math....... it is a no-brainer where this thought goes. I also compared one single 747 flight from NYC to Tokyo to the firing of my noborigama...... and I can fire for more than a lifetime on the CO2 from that one single flight. Most potters would do better by looking at their other life habits like the mileage of their cars and trucks, how far they physically travel in those vehicles to market their works, how well their homes and studios are insulated for heating and cooling, how much stuff they buy that is imported from CHina and other far-waya places, and so on. Another BIG issue is that the cars and drivers pictured above have more "political clout" in "the way of the world" than today's potters will ever have. Because we have no "power" and no "lobby", polititians will happily shut down "those terrible energy consuming CO2 producing kilns" before the car manufacturers get told to increase mileage or real mass transit comes to America. We are unfortunately an easy target so that they can say, "Look at me, I did something for the environment" best, .......................john Quote Link to post Share on other sites


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The Orange County Sheriff's Office just dropped an info packet on our inbox. Some interesting tidbits in here. For one: Apopka police stopped a Dodge Stratus with four people inside a few blocks away from the shooting. In the car, the cops found a loaded Smith & Wesson hand gun "wrapped in a sweaty black T shirt inside a black nylon back pack." The suspected owner of the gun was shirtless and "sweaty," according to the incident report provided by the sheriff's office.
Shirtless, sweaty, and armed before dawn? I believe that's known as "Monday" in certain parts of Florida.
The report continued:
No one in the car claimed the black nylon bag and no one had knowledge of a gun in the bag. All four subjects in the car admitted to being present at "Blue Jeans" when a fight broke out inside the club and outside in the parking lot.
Three of the car's passengers are thought to be related to at least one of the shooting victims. But the report does not identify a suspect. When a police officer went to Florida Hospital Apopka to question Quentin Taylor, the victim who'd been shot in the head, Taylor took a turn for the worse, according to the officer:
I asked this subject his name, and who was responsible for the injuries he had received. Taylor either could not, or would not answer any questions that I asked. I was later able to obtain his name from the hospital staff. While I was attempting to question Taylor, he appeared to have a seizure. Medical personal stepped in to treat the victim, and at the time of this report the victim remained unconscious.
[UPDATE: WEEI has posted the incident report.]
Another curious bit of information can be found in a background statement from the sheriff's office, wherein we learn that a lawyer for Meriweather contacted the sheriff's office on Wednesday, when news of the shooting was little more than a handful of tweets by sports radio talk show host Dan Sileo. The lawyer said he wanted to set up an interview between the authorities and Meriweather. But that interview has yet to happen. Relevant text from the background statement:
The Orange County Sheriff's Office is investigating the circumstances of a reported shooting which occurred during the early morning hours on February 28th, 2011, resulting in serious facial/head injuries to Quentin Taylor (24yoa), when he suffered a gunshot to the face and Nico Stanley (23yoa), who was grazed by a fired round.
The Sheriff's Office responded to the reported scene, but no activity, suspects or scene could be established or located with any certainty at the time of the calls. Shortly thereafter, the Apopka Police Department was advised and responded to a call of two shooting victims at Florida Hospital Apopka, launching our criminal investigation.
While I cannot divulge all of the investigative details, I can advise that the OCSO detectives responded to the hospital and were unable to obtain any identifying information from the victims; one of which was heavily sedated, due to his injuries.
Investigators have been following up on the limited information that has been received since the date of the shooting and were only able to obtain both victims statements, one on Monday and the other yesterday, Wednesday, March 9, 2011 as to the circumstances that led to the shooting and who was present.
Based on this information and investigative follow-up obtained yesterday we can state, based on the confidence of those victim statements, that William Brandon Meriweather, among others, has been identified as being present during the shooting, which resulted in injuries to the two victims and occurred in the area of 17th St. and Marvin C. Sanders, during the early morning hours of February 28th, 2011.
We are not prepared at this time to characterize or disclose Mr. Meriweather's status in this case, though we do seek to interview him. This past Wednesday investigators received a call from an attorney identifying himself as representing Mr. Meriweather, who stated he was looking to facilitate an interview with his client. We are receptive to this overture (opportunity) and detectives are seeking to further this interview if it can be arranged.
We do want to reach out to anyone who may have witness information in this case to contact our office and offer a statement. I would also caution that investigators are following up on any reports of anyone assisting the shooter in this case or is aware of the location of any evidence or firearm.
Meanwhile, The Boston Globe interviewed one of his relatives who claims to have been at the party and who also claims that another man fired the gun, someone named Anton Massey.
Relative says Brandon Meriweather was trying to break up fight [The Boston Globe]
• Patriots Safety Brandon Meriweather Accused Of Shooting Two Men During Brawl
• More Details About The Alleged Meriweather Shooting From The Victims' Attorney: "If It's A Scam, It's Elaborate As Hell"


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For her third time hosting Saturday Night Live, Anne Hathaway not only showed off her killer pipes, but also her infamous knack for impressions. In her opening monologue, the Oscar nominee sang her heart out on a spoof of one of the classic songs from her upcoming film, Les Miserables, "One More Day." However, it wasn't her impressive voice that caught our eye, but her blink-and-you-missed-it Stefon impression:
Although Hathaway's slightly scathing impersonation of Katie Holmes was not posted online, her noteworthy send-off of Homeland's Carrie Mathison was. Hathaway nailed not only her jazz freak-outs, but also her love of corkboards. And we're glad someone finally said something about Brody's small mouth!:
Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Renner to host SNL
Finally, SNL capped off another election season with a cold opening focused on Mitt Romney's post-loss pity party. How does someone like Mitt Romney drown his sorrows? Kissing his wife on the lips, throwing Karl Rove off of a balcony, and lots and lots of milk:
But do you know who is more depressed about the outcome of the election than Romney? Drunk Uncle, who waxed nostalgic about the days when if you wanted a House of Representatives, you built it yourself:
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Distributed hybrid caching relies on four elements:
GSACacheClientManager must be configured on each Oracle ATG Web Commerce instance that participates in distributed hybrid caching. It initiates invalidation events for repository items that use distributed hybrid caching, and sends event messages to the GSACacheServerManager for distribution to other Oracle ATG Web Commerce instances.
GSACacheServerManager directs cache invalidation events to Oracle ATG Web Commerce instances that contain the affected repository items.
ServerLockManager connects each GSACacheClientManager to the GSACacheServerManager. The ServerLockManager and GSACacheServerManager must be configured on the same Oracle ATG Web Commerce instance.
An invalidation event of class GSACacheEvent conveys a cache invalidation event for repository items that use distributed hybrid caching.
A GSACacheClientManager must be configured on each Oracle ATG Web Commerce instance where one or more repository item descriptors have their caching mode set to
distributedHybrid. The GSACacheClientManager has the following Nucleus component path:
Each GSACacheClientManager must set the following properties:
host and
port-num specify the ServerLockManager 's address and port. If two ServerLockManagers are specified for failover purposes,
lockServerAddress and
lockServerPort must list their respective addresses and ports in the same order.
For example, given two ServerLockManagers on hosts
tartini.acme-widgets.com and
corelli.acme-widgets.com, where both use port 9010, you can configure a GSACacheClientManager component as follows:
lockServerAddress=tartini.acme-widgets.com,corelli.acme-widgets.com lockServerPort=9010,9010 enabled=true
Each ServerLockManager must run in the same Oracle ATG Web Commerce instance as a GSACacheServerManager, and must be configured to support distributed hybrid caching. During repository startup, the GSACacheClientManager connects to the ServerLockManager, which hands over the connection to the GSACacheSeverManager; this connection becomes the communication channel between the GSACacheClientManager and GSACacheServerManager for cache invalidation events.
For debugging purposes, you can also set the
loggingDebug property to true.
A GSACacheServerManager maintains routing information for all cached repository items that use distributed hybrid caching. When a cache invalidation event occurs on a repository, that repository's GSACacheClientManager sends the event to its GSACacheServerManager; the GSACacheServerManager relays this event to the appropriate clients.
The GSACacheServerManager has the following Nucleus component path:
To enable a GSACacheServerManager, set its
enabled property to
true. You can also configure its
defaultItemCacheSize property, which sets the maximum number of items that are mapped for each item descriptor. This property is initially set to 1000. For more information on setting this property, see Optimizing Performance later in this chapter.
Each GSACacheServerManager is associated with a ServerLockManager that runs in the same Oracle ATG Web Commerce instance, via the connection information specified by GSACacheClientManagers. You can provide a backup GSACacheServerManager by configuring those GSACacheClientManagers to connect to the same secondary ServerLockManager. Precedence of GSACacheServerManagers is set by their respective ServerLockManagers (see ServerLockManager Failover).
For debugging purposes, you can also set the
loggingDebug property to true.
In order to enable distributed hybrid caching, a ServerLockManager must be configured on the same instance as the GSACacheServerManager with the following setting:
When thus enabled, the ServerLockManager hands over the connection from a GSACacheClientManager to the GSACacheSeverManager; this connection becomes the communication channel between them for all subsequent cache invalidation events.
GSACacheClientManagers and GSACacheServerManager communicate with each other by passing GSACacheEvent objects, which encapsulate invalidation events with the following information:
Repository item ID
Item descriptor name
Event type
The following table describes the four types of GSACacheEvents:
GSACacheEvent type
Sent when a repository item or item descriptor is invalidated. The GSACacheServerManager determines which clients cache the item; it then relays the event to their respective GSACacheClientManagers for delivery to the target repositories.
If the GSACacheEvent provides a repository item ID, only the specified repository item is invalidated. If the GSACacheEvent omits a repository item ID, the entire item descriptor is invalidated, and the corresponding item caches are flushed.
Sent when a repository item is cached.
Sent when a repository item is deleted. On receiving this GSACacheEvent, the GSACacheServerManager determines which clients cache the item; it then relays the event to their respective GSACacheClientManagers for delivery to the target repositories.
Confirms that a repository item is removed from the cache. On receiving this event, the GSACacheServerManager removes the item from the list of items that it manages for that GSACacheClientManager.
All events except
LOAD_INTO_CACHE are sent asynchronously.
LOAD_INTO_CACHE is sent synchronously in order to ensure a consistent view of item data across all repositories and handle rare race conditions. The GSACacheClientManager property
synchronousMessageTimeout determines the maximum amount of time each GSACacheClientManager waits for the GSACacheServerManager to reply before caching an item. This property ensures threads wait only a finite period of time for a reply from the GSACacheServerManager. The default setting is 500 milliseconds.
The following graphic shows how removal of repository item on Oracle ATG Web Commerce server Alamo triggers an invalidation event for all repository caches that also contain that item—in this case, on Oracle ATG Web Commerce server Houston.


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Hulbert: Why Couldn't Wall Street 'Sell' BlackBerry?
Even as late as Friday, most analysts on Wall Street still rated BlackBerry either a buy or hold. That's just par for the course on the Street, where analysts are still loath to utter the word "sell." MarketWatch's Mark Hulbert joins MoneyBeat.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... and ... even when it's Friday and Monday morning ... most analysts on Wall Street still rated BlackBerry e durable body or on hold ... at just four for the course on the street where analysts still loath to utter the word fell ... MarketWatch's Mark Hulbert has a few thoughts on analyst ratings on what we learn from BlackBerry Mark hell are you ... area I'm pretty good I ... some analysts report that the cash to buy BlackBerry we think about that ... with ... the contagion of an aircraft had no idea what does the piano ... I made is amazing how a Wall Street just as a complete aversion to ever see a sell them ... I mean it's it's a ... visibly if I ... think ... you look at BlackBerry a company that is I mean been sliding sliding fine for a long time ... and ... most of the analyst ... I mean ... how could you still have a buy rating on this company ... well I mean to be there along with them and our rating on hold in recent days and it's you know there were couple analysts taking a ... so ... so ago ... star ratings on Monday though the red button icons and closing the barn door after the the forces of last minute to watch for but that is going on for some time ... and and and it's only in the last couple days DNA start downgrading the Inn on Macie a candle holder Robeco ... which is another category that analysts live ... as a way of avoiding ever and the state were to sell it ... to be fair I mean I think that ... this is not unusual when the net effect of wind today I got from the Essen P for the all five hundred companies in the ... SB five hundred Index ... and something like ninety five percent of all the ratings of older high ... it's it's like insulate will be gone for all above average age is yet the SEC two point two percent of the ratings ... alone and thousands of individual ready for some absolutes ... companies are only two point two percent are actually sell ... you two questions two questions come to mind mark first is ... why is that ... that way ... in the second is ... how much trust should you put in these readings if they are so skewed towards By ... well yes but why why having a conflict of interest because this is nothing unusual ... event that is is is we all know that that that ... was a bit of firms ... also have relationships with the companies they rated it a one off and on and so therefore they don't wanna say nice things ... on accurate in just a wee ... bit and come to an end a decade ago there was this a theme so with the SCC ... gotten a lot of firms that separate their research departments from investment banking ... the incentive sees it had blown through the wall were supposed to predicting the two operations ... as for how much traction with the common ... symptom anyone with a ... tablet and is installing ... enough for your decoder ring out of your box of cereal in the morning and ... every time you were told that probably means to sell ... us the minimum you should try to take the and the wording isn't the reason so that they die ... secondly I mean we Guinea get a recap of why as Wall Street in favor ... of livestock Haranzo who want to advise on which stocks will warn you