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Earl Weaver was some piece of work. And I mean that in the best possible way. Life was never dull if you were anywhere within the orbit of the Hall of Fame manager, who ruled the Orioles' dugout for 17 seasons and will have his bronze statue unveiled Saturday at Camden Yards.
My first meeting with Earl was unforgettable. By that I mean I probably still carry the emotional scars and should probably unburden mysellf to an analyst some day.
That first meeting took place a couple of hours before a game early in the 1982 season. I was young and new to Baltimore, and new to covering the Orioles as a sports columnist for the old Evening Sun.
Now here I was, sitting next to the legendary manager in the Orioles dugout, interviewing him for the first time. Earl's rep was that he could be cantankerous with the media. I was big-time nervous.
And I was about to get even more nervous.
Because after my second or third question, I asked him something about Jim Palmer. I don't remember the question. But it was something innocuous, something like: "Is Palmer ready to go tonight?"
Which is when Earl send a stream of spittle flying through the air.
It seemed to rise, like some kind of unholy spitball, and hang a foot or two over his head. But I could sense where it would land even as it left his mouth.
And sure enough, as I watched in horror, it landed -- SPLAT! -- on my shoe.
Earl went on talking as if nothing had happened. But I couldn't take my eyes off the big, brown gob now dripping down the side of my loafer.
So many questions leapt to my mind.
Did Earl know he had just spit on my shoe? Did he mean to spit on my shoe? Was this some kind of crazy hazing ritual he performed with the new media guys?
I didn't know. And Earl wasn't giving me a clue. His face was inscrutable. He just kept spitting and talking about Palmer, spitting and talking about Palmer, as I scrunched my feet further under the bench to keep them dry.
Later I would find out that Earl spit on a lot of reporters' shoes, often on purpose, and he thought the whole thing was hilarious.
I covered Weaver for only three years. He retired after the 1982 season, which ended with that heartbreaking loss to the Milwaukee Brewers at Memorial Stadium on the last day of the season, a loss that left the O's one win short of another AL East title.
He came back to manage the Orioles in the middle of the 1985 season. Earl was still Earl, as sharp and colorful a manager as I've ever been around. But the Orioles were just OK (53-52, good for fourth placce) and his heart wasn't in the job this time. It surprised no one when he retired for good the following season.
But I feel incredibly lucky to have covered him, even if it was only for a short time. And in a sick way, I'm sort of glad he spit on my shoe that first day, too.
It gave me an Earl Weaver memory I couldn't forget if I wanted to.


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Another Going Postal Giveaway for you today!
Like The Ribbon Girl giveaway [which is still open], today's prize is also taken from the webstore of someone I know: my friend and Design Team Leader: 3DJean.
Jean is offering you the chance to win a Vintage Label CD, one of several image discs currently stocked in her store here.
Edited to add: Jean is offerering this giveaway to 3 winners now!
Now then, rather than show you a photo of the actual CD here [I'm guessing you've seen a CD before ... and they're not very inspiring are they?] I thought I'd show you a few cards I've made featuring two Victorian bird images printed from the disc:
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Going Postal I'll have to introduce you to the set of stamps [First Class/Sent With Love etc] I've used on top of my Vintage Label digi-print outs, they were a set given to me to work with which I've found highly - yet unexpectedly - useful!
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- Visit 'Scattered Scarlet' the 3DJean Design Team blog;
- Read my giveaway post there which features screenshots of the contents of the CD so you can see the rest of the images. [Sorry but I couldn't quite manage to make 2800 cards just to show you the everything that's on there!];
- Leave a comment on my post on the 3DJean blog - not here - making it clear you'd like to win the CD;
- The deadline for entries is 1pm [UK time] Saturday August 13th.
- I'll then pick three names at random and announce winners here [and on there] on Sunday 14th August.
Someone who doesn't need luck today is Lizzie:
... as her name was chosen at random [via an online Randoom Number Generator] as the winner of the Digital Collage sheets giveaway from last week.
Congratulations Lizzie, I'll be emailing the pdf file over to you ASAP.
- Join me for some more postal-themed crafting later this week, until then don't forget to check out the sidebar where I've listed all previous Going Postal Posts as there are now 3 giveaways still open for you to enter if you haven't already!
- Plus don't forget to blog your own posty-fun and I'll add you to the ever-expanding Going Postal Pinterest board.
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Stop Getting Mad About Emily Gould's Novel
"Is Michiko Kakutani incompetent or just crazy?" Shall we start with that question? Don't blame me. It's what Google autocomplete gave me when I typed "Michiko Kakutani is." I'm just reporting what the Internet says about her!
It seems like a useful way to look at the New York Times book critic in the light of this morning's review of Emily Gould's new novel, Friendship. Or rather, this morning's review of Emily Gould. Before Kakutani gets around to mentioning the book, she offers three paragraphs of negative backstory about its author—up to and including online comments attached to Gould's "very irritating" (in Kakutani's assessment) 2008 New York Times Magazine cover story. Did you know that a commenter back then called her a "trollop"? Now you do.
Quite a literary world, where your angriest critics precede and introduce you, isn't it? In the print edition, Kakutani was so busy sharing years-old third-party invective, she barely managed to fit the title of the novel she was reviewing before the jump. Of course, we must remember that some people have considered Kakutani "the stupidest person in New York City" or "stupid and shallow" or "glaringly missing...humor and wit."
We are all caught up in the battles of yesteryear. Emily Gould's original source of fame or notoriety or publicity was that she wrote for Gawker. She then abruptly quit Gawker and repudiated her work here, in a well-crafted and definitive Gawker post. Some institutional and interpersonal unpleasantness ensued, and then the institutions and persons moved on, separate but still irrevocably linked.
As for me, I like Gould, personally. We have mutual friends, with whom we are much closer than we are with one another. We sometimes go to the same social gatherings and converse there. Once in a while we swap emails.
With that established: Kakutani's review is a particularly nasty bit of assholeism. The novel itself doesn't particularly bother her—"awkward but sharply observed" would be the capsule—but she compulsively looks for ways to swat at the author, even if it means stretching her backhand into the hypothetical:
The novel form (or perhaps the editing process) also accentuates Ms. Gould's strengths as a writer, while playing down the liabilities apparent in her logorrheic blogs.
Yes, perhaps the virtues of Gould's writing aren't really hers, but were added by a third party. Perhaps Kakutani and her own editor were too drunk on Chardonnay at deadline to think about whether such speculation was fair or justified. Perhaps!
Even so, it's not the worst, or most unbecoming, response to Gould's novel. That (so far) has belonged to a literary blogger, who wrote an 11,000-word denunciation of Gould and everything he believed she represented—in unhinged personal and anatomical terms—and then threatened, falsely, to kill himself when people pointed out he was being a misogynist loon. Another day at the office.
In response to that blogger's breakdown, the critic Glenn Kenny* wrote to apologize for his own foaming hostility toward Gould in the past:
When you're a drunk, and have some facility for words, and things aren't going so great for you, you can read something and infer that the writer's situation is better than your own, and it can throw you into a frothing bloody rage. You think, "Why is the world paying attention to this NOBODY?" or "why is this NOBODY making more money than I am?" and "why isn't this NOBODY beset with paralyzing depression and fear like he or she deserves to be instead of me?" and so on, and then because you fancy yourself a critic or a perspicacious observer of the cultural scene, you mold these resentments into a theory that there is something VERY WRONG with the culture and that the person you hate is the one responsible for that thing being very wrong.
Some things are genuinely worth getting angry and being nasty about. But this particular cycle of publicity and outrage and abuse surrounding Gould and her novel seems especially misplaced, if also inevitable. Yes, she has been profiled in Elle, and in the Styles section of the Times. And even as those profiles appeared, it was obvious that there would be a terrible response (though the depths of that terribleness were still a surprise).
It comes down to the fallacy that Kenny was pointing to: this sense that Emily Gould is somehow stealing attention that would better serve someone else. She isn't, and it wouldn't. She has written a novel, and like all the rest of us who have written books, she faces the usual long odds. A profile in Elle is not going make her a best seller. A profile in the Times is not going to make her a best seller either. (Ask Jon-Jon Goulian.)
An author does publicity because an author is expected to do publicity, to get whatever opportunities she or he can. Someone has given you some money—an advance on sales—and this is where you hustle for it, without the luxury of shame or shyness. Ten times out of ten, it is likely to make very little difference.
So there is no need to take (or give) offense, or to throw up flaming barricades to keep Gould from using her name recognition to overtake Janet Evanovich. If the book is lucky enough to find a larger audience, it will almost certainly not be an audience that cares about infighting in literature or on blogs. Among Kakutani's digs at Gould is that the book has "chick-lit architecture"—which means, at bottom, that Michiko Kakutani too feels powerless to do anything about it.
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USC athletic director Pat Haden interviewed Denver Broncos interim coach Jack Del Rio for the Trojans' coaching position, according to a report.
Del Rio has been mentioned as a job candidate since Lane Kiffin was fired in September and Haden met with the former USC linebacker in Denver two weeks ago, according to Jay Glazer of Fox Sports. A source confirmed Haden interviewed Del Rio.
USC's also reached out to NFL analyst Jon Gruden and reportedly spoke to former Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith. The Trojans are also interested in Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin, Vanderbilt coach James Franklin and Boise State coach Chris Petersen but will probably wait until after the season to speak to them.
Current USC coach Ed Orgeron said Sunday night he was unaware of the Del Rio interview.
"That's the first I heard about it. I really don't care," Orgeron said. "I know (Haden) has a job to do and has to do what's best for USC. I'd rather be in this position, being with the Trojans."
Haden interviewed Del Rio on Nov. 1 and the next day Denver Broncos coach John Fox was hospitalized and eventually underwent surgery to replace the aortic valve in his heart. USC is expected to hire a coach in December.
Orgeron, who is riding high after the Trojans upset No. 5-ranked Stanford on Saturday night, is also expected to interview for the job.
"That's totally out of my hands," he said about getting hired by Haden. "I will say this. Everything happens for a reason."
The Trojans are 5-1 since Orgeron was appointed USC's coach.
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Former USC coach Pete Carroll was among those to send Orgeron a text message after the Stanford game. Others who congratulated him were former USC players Marcus Allen, Brian Cushing, Anthony Munoz and Kenechi Udeze.
Orgeron also heard from players he coached at Miami, including Warren Sapp, Cortez Kennedy and Dwayne Johnson, the actor who used to go by the nickname "The Rock."
Asked Sunday night if he ever imagined getting this much attention when appointed interim coach, Orgeron said, "I hadn't even thought about it.
"I took things one day at a time and needed to get (the players) laughing again. The guys are starting to play better."
COnfidence sky high
There is little the players don't feel is possible following the victory over Stanford.
"We can do anything we want from here," said kicker Andre Heidari, who made the game-winning field goal.
Wide receiver Marqise Lee said the Trojans are not surprised by their four-game winning streak.
"We always thought the sky's the limit," Lee said. "Now everybody else knows."
Return to rankings
The Trojans are ranked No. 23 in the BCS and Associated Press rankings and No. 25 in the coaches' poll. It was the first time USC made the BCS rankings since 2011.
"From the outside it looks good," Orgeron said. "But on the inside it doesn't mean a lot. Beating Stanford, that's gratifying for us."
Decisions, decisions
The Pac-12 will announce today the starting time for USC's game Saturday at Colorado. The six-day window, as it is known, helps TV networks select the more attractive games and conference commissioner Larry Scott said the short notice might inconvenience fans but "elevates the conference (TV) profile."
Scott conceded it is a "balancing act" to cater the needs of TV and also make things convenient for fans who attend games.
Fox exercised its contractual right to conduct a six-day pick for Saturday's games. The network will choose between USC-Colorado; Arizona State at UCLA; Oregon at Arizona and California at Stanford.
Fox gets the first selection for its 4 p.m. (PST) game that day. ESPN has the next pick for its 12:30 p.m. (PST) game. The Pac-12 Network has the third selection for its game that will kick off at 7:30 p.m (PST or MST). Fox gets the remaining game for its 1 p.m. (PST) contest.


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Getting off the bike, I realized that the marathon was going to be nothing that I ever expected. I knew that I would be slow. I knew that it would be a run/walk. I had planned to go out much slower than race pace, in fact, the plan was to run 10:30's for the first 6 miles, and then hang on or adjust depending on how I felt. My goal time had been around a 5 hour marathon. But I knew that my legs were already shot! I walked out of the tent with another awesome card from Jennifer in my hand. The transition chute was long, and I walked with a few others trying to decide what to do. At the top of some short stairs, I saw the marathon timing mat, so I started jogging as I went across. That didn't last long as I saw my dad and walked next to him up to the first aid station. I had one of the awesome volunteers pour ice water on my neck and back, which made me feel so good...everywhere but my legs. I kept walking down around the KFC YUM! center in the shade and up a hill. At the top of the hill, I decided to see what I could do with a slow jog and did ok for a block. I saw Jennifer, Caffrey, Trevor, Wyntre, Tom, Colleen, Abigail, and Brittany standing on the side of the road cheering for me, so I ran to them and stopped to strategize.
Our hotel was in a perfect spot and RIGHT ON THE RUN COURSE! Here's what the course looked like. Our hotel was right where the top left corner of the orange #14 box is on the map.
|We were actually RUNNING!!!
Tom is a Type I Diabetic, so after awhile, he told me that he needed some sugar. He ate some nutrition that he was carrying, but he obviously wasn't as energetic as he was when we first started. It sounds funny, but it was actually perfect, because I suddenly was the encourager, which only boosted my positivity. We continued the long walk talking everything from triathlon to religion. I can't tell you how awesome it is to have such an incredible friend that not only is willing to drive 7 hours to come support me, but is willing to walk with me to make sure I'd finish. Tom, I love you, bro! You are the man! Thank you!!!
As we got back to where the cheerleading squad was, my awesome brother-in-law, Trevor, who also had driven up and had to work the next morning (a 5+ hour drive), took me around the loop, by the finish line. We stopped at Special Needs and I decided to switch socks and shoes. I had been feeling a hotspot on the bottom of my left foot. It turned into a beautiful blister. Wanna see?
It wasn't the most comfortable, but neither was moving...PERIOD! The volunteer at Special Needs was so awesome. Both of my legs completely locked up as I sat in the chairs there. I couldn't even bend to get my socks and shoes off, so this complete stranger bent, untied both my shoes, took those stinky things off, took my sweaty socks off, put fresh socks and shoes on, and handed me my Snickers that I had packed for this time. She was incredible!
Trevor and I walked back to the cheering squad where a photographer took this picture. Still smiling, but hurting!!!
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Now I know for many of you, you can walk a 20 minute mile in your sleep! Me too! But it was all I could do to keep moving forward. I was putting down some really fast miles (haha) at 16 or 17 minutes, and that was enough. Remember that the cutoff for an Ironman is 12:00 midnight. I had started 34 minutes later because of the time trial start, so I had less time. Never in my life had I thought that I would be anywhere close to a cutoff. I was thinking 14 hours at the latest.
Colleen kept me moving forward. We talked vacations, spouses, babies, you name it. Although it sucked, she made it fun! The sun went down, and we put on glow sticks that went around our necks. There were hundreds of others walking. Hardly anyone was mustering any kind of run. We reached the turn around and had a little over 6 miles left. Here's where it started to get really hard. I have never been that physically exhausted in my life! When I started the marathon, I thought, "I can walk all day!!!" Now, I was really questioning whether or not I would be able to go 6 more miles. It was all I could do to put my hands on my hips and just keep putting one foot in front of the other. I found out later that I wasn't the only one that was hurting. Colleen's feet were throbbing, and I don't blame her! Did she ever say something? Nope! She was positive the whole way. What an incredible friend to be there by my side the whole way back.
With .8 miles to go, we saw Tom and Abigail who walked a little ways with us. Tom and Colleen walked me through the rest. They told me that the last half mile was for me to think about the last 8 months of training, the early mornings, the long runs and rides, the sacrifice, the pain, and everything else that I had gone through for this moment. Tom told me to turn on "the jets" as I left them, and I did...for 10 seconds before everything locked up again. I had to kind of laugh to see the miserable shape I was in. I wanted to run, seriously! As I rounded the last corner, I could see the bright lights of the finish, and that was enough to get me running no matter what muscles were cramped.
The street was lined on both sides with 6-8 people deep as they were straining over the barriers to get a high-five from any Ironman Finisher. It was the coolest thing in the world! I felt like a king! They were there to see me!!!! I saw Josh Woods, who had finished the race a couple hours earlier, and Brittany, his Wife along with my dad there. Pretty much right in front of them, in the center of the chute was a manhole cover that was slightly raised. I saw it, but I didn't realize that my steps were so close to the ground. I tripped over it and about sprawled all over the ground. Luckily, I saved it and laughed as every muscle cramped worse. I had purposefully held back so that I had the chute to myself, because I wanted to hear those words "Matthew Smith, You are an Ironman!"
My dad took this picture of me running up the finisher chute. You can see me way up there in the light.
I've heard that Louisville is one of the coolest finish lines ever because it is under the Fourth Street Live roof. The noise is deafening! I started to weave back and forth between the sides slapping hands on both sides. Jennifer says I slapped hers, but I don't remember it.
FINALLY, I crossed the finish line!!!
The catcher gave me my medal, water and chocolate milk, and I was ready to find Jenn. She was on the other side of the fence, but I found her quickly. I had been waiting for that moment and just hugged her and let all the emotion out. It was AWESOME!!!
After seeing my dad, Josh and Brittany, I started to feel light-headed and queasy, so I sat down. I had heard that getting an IV is one of the best ways to recover, and the way I was feeling, anything was worth a shot. A volunteer wheeled me to the medical area where I got an IV.
After hobbling the couple blocks back to the hotel I was completely overwhelmed by the incredible support that I had as my phone was blowing up with texts, phone calls, emails, Facebook posts, and tweets. You guys are awesome! I couldn't have done it without you. Just to know that so many of you were tracking me through the day, some even using up all their data on their phone (MINDY), made my day worth continuing. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
But there are several people that I would like to specifically thank for their dedication to me becoming an Ironman.
Jennifer and Caffrey: You guys got the worst of it. Early mornings when I would be gone. All day Sunday by yourself as I rode century after century. Listening to me complain about being sore or tired. Encouraging me when all I wanted to do was quit. You two are the best! I could never have done it without you. Even on race day, you had just as long a day as I did, but you stood out in the heat and never complained. You are my pride and joy! I am the luckiest guy in the world to have you, Jenn, as a wife and you, Caffrey, as a son. I love you both SO much!!!
Josh and Brittany: You guys are awesome too. Josh, you have trained the most with me, supported me through the slow rides and runs, encouraged me, pushed me, motivated me and kept me going. Thanks for being such a great friend. You are the man, and I love you! Brittany, you're a great friend too, and I'm so glad that you married J-Woo!!!
Dad and Grandpa: Thanks for making the long drive up to Louisville to sweat it out in the heat just to support me on race day.
Trevor and Wyntre: Thanks for driving all the way up to see my race, to walk that long block with me, to carry my shoes. Thanks for being tired the next day at work because you stayed to support me. Love you!
Tom and Colleen: You guys are incredible! From the endless wisdom and experience of doing an Ironman to encouraging me and advising me. Thanks. And obviously, thanks for doing the whole marathon with me! I can't even explain how much that means to me! I'm so glad God put us in the same area so that we can be friends. You guys are the best! Maybe one day we will be related...through our kids. :)
The Buford Family: All week long, I have thought about how so many of you stayed up late to see this pastor cross the finish line. What a fantastic church I get the honor and privilege to serve. You really are family, and it means the world to know that you guys love me too! Thank you!
Brooks Running: Thank you Brooks for all the free gear this year! You made it possible to train in the best equipment out there. My body thanks you!!! Let's do it again in 2014!
And to all the others of you that I didn't mention, your wisdom and advice and support and motivation helped so much, and I will always be grateful. Thank you!!!
Will there ever be another Ironman in my journey? Well, I guess you'll have to keep reading!


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CupCake is my last equine friend and permanent resident at Leslie Stables. As the veterinarians decide and work on her lameness, I will add to her page with other pages.
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We live on the Magdalen Islands or Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada. The Magdalen Islands are in the center of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and happen to be surrounded with more than 300 km of sandy beaches, perfect for horseback riding. Nine-year-old Dream has two mares to his herd – Willow Breeze (Minority) is a nine year old Canadian and stands almost 15hh and Woodmere Frilifili (Frilly), a Standardbred filly, standing almost 16 hh. Occasionally there are other horses in the area. So come along for the ride, the view or just a plain good time. We don't have much, but we don't need much either.
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Very nice and fun to learn about the cars history and some good stories about it. I wish I could do that onto car. My trail ends with the guy I got it from.
Quote from: camaroboy68ss on May 14, 2014, 10:11:51 PMVery nice and fun to learn about the cars history and some good stories about it. I wish I could do that onto car. My trail ends with the guy I got it from.First-Congrats Dave! Were you inspired by my post about contacting previous owners? Vince's post about his car got me in gear and it paid off. Too bad the trail goes cold before 76~77 time period on my car. At least I know the last 3 owners now. I did not know the guy I got car from until this past October...can you imagine?Second-C-Boy68ss AKA: YG with a C, Never say never. Check out this post: http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?topic=12063.0 a month ago by ME! I put an add on CL and got a call the next day...you could have picked my jaw up off the floor! I have had this jewel(turd) since 79 (35 years) and never thought I would know any of its history. It was surreal to say the least.
10K, Wow! His memory may have embellished some of the facts. Would not be the first time I have heard a story strrreettccchheedd over time.lol. A stout performer nonetheless. I know those short stroke SB's can really wail...those were the days.
I believe the 10k rpm out of a 327. Motor had to be built right to do it but they could.


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Historical Standard: ASTM A29/A29M-04 Standard Specification for Steel Bars, Carbon and Alloy, Hot-Wrought, General Requirements for
SUPERSEDED (see Active link, below)
1. Scope
1.1 This specification covers a group of common requirements which, unless otherwise specified in the purchase order or in an individual specification, shall apply to carbon and alloy steel bars under each of the following ASTM specifications (or under any other ASTM specification which invokes this specification or portions thereof):
1.2 In case of any conflict in requirements, the requirements of the purchase order, the individual material specification, and this general specification shall prevail in the sequence named.
1.3 The values stated in inch-pound units or SI units are to be regarded as the standard. Within the text, the SI units are shown in brackets. The values stated in each system are not exact equivalents; therefore, each system must be used independently of the other. Combining values from the two systems may result in nonconformance with the specification.
1.4 For purposes of determining conformance to this specification and the various material specifications referenced in , dimensional values shall be rounded to the nearest unit in the right-hand place of figures used in expressing the limiting values in accordance with the rounding method of Practice E 29.Note 1
Specification A 29 previously listed dimensional tolerances for cold-finished bars; these are now found in Specification A 108.
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
ASTM Standards
A108 Specification for Steel Bar, Carbon and Alloy, Cold-Finished
A304 Specification for Carbon and Alloy Steel Bars Subject to End-Quench Hardenability Requirements
A311/A311M Specification for Cold-Drawn, Stress-Relieved Carbon Steel Bars Subject to Mechanical Property Requirements
A321 Specification for Steel Bars, Carbon, Quenched and Tempered
A322 Specification for Steel Bars, Alloy, Standard Grades
A370 Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products
A434 Specification for Steel Bars, Alloy, Hot-Wrought or Cold-Finished, Quenched and Tempered
A499 Specification for Steel Bars and Shapes, Carbon Rolled from T Rails
A575 Specification for Steel Bars, Carbon, Merchant Quality, M-Grades
A576 Specification for Steel Bars, Carbon, Hot-Wrought, Special Quality
A663/A663M Specification for Steel Bars, Carbon, Merchant Quality, Mechanical Properties
A675/A675M Specification for Steel Bars, Carbon, Hot-Wrought, Special Quality, Mechanical Properties
A689 Specification for Carbon and Alloy Steel Bars for Springs
A696 Specification for Steel Bars, Carbon, Hot-Wrought or Cold-Finished, Special Quality, for Pressure Piping Components
A700 Practices for Packaging, Marking, and Loading Methods for Steel Products for Shipment
A739 Specification for Steel Bars, Alloy, Hot-Wrought, for Elevated Temperature or Pressure-Containing Parts, or Both
A751 Test Methods, Practices, and Terminology for Chemical Analysis of Steel Products
E29 Practice for Using Significant Digits in Test Data to Determine Conformance with Specifications
E112 Test Methods for Determining Average Grain Size
Federal StandardsFed.Std.No.183 Continuous Identification Marking of Iron and Steel Products
Military StandardMIL-STD-163 Steel Mill Products--Preparation for Shipment and Storage
Other StandardsAIAGB-5 02.00 Primary Metals Tag Application Standard
alloy steel bars; carbon steel bars; cold finished steel bars; general delivery requirements; hot wrought steel bars; steel bars; Carbon steel bars/shapes--specifications; Cold-finished steel bars--specifications; General delivery requirements--steel; Hot wrought steel bars--specifications; Steel bars--specifications; Alloy steel bars--specifications
ICS Code
ICS Number Code 77.140.60 (Steel bars and rods)
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Lab expects PNNL-based supercomputer to rank in world's top 20 fastest machines
News Release
January 24, 2013
EMSL allows researchers the world over to study molecular science in a wide variety of fields.
The new supercomputer will live behind these windows ...
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RICHLAND, Wash. —
A new supercomputer expected to rank among the world's fastest machines will be ready to run computationally intense climate and biological simulations along with other scientific programs this summer. This computational work will aid research in climate and environmental science, chemical processes, biology-based fuels that can replace fossil fuels, new materials for energy applications and more.
Chosen by a competitive process, Atipa Technologies in Lawrence, Kan., will provide the machine to EMSL, the Department of Energy's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory. EMSL is a national user facility on DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's campus that provides experimental and high performance computing capabilities to enable users to address environmental and energy challenges through molecular-level theory and experiment. It is also home to the new supercomputer's predecessor, Chinook. As a national user facility resource, the new system will be available to scientists everywhere,who will be able to apply on a competitive basis to use it. Currently, about 400 scientists use Chinook.
"We're developing a supercomputer that will aid energy, environment and basic science missions important to DOE," said PNNL computational scientist Bill Shelton, the associate director at EMSL who manages high performance computing. "Enhanced computing power will benefit our users who conduct experiments and want to verify them with modeling. Integrating computational theory with experiment is critical to accelerating scientific discovery."
Funded by DOE's Office of Science, the new $17 million machine will likely peak at 3.4 quadrillion — 3.4 million billion — calculations per second and be more than 20 times faster than the four-year-old Chinook. The new supercomputer's capacity and speed are expected to rank it among the world's top 20 fastest machines when it comes online. Peaking at 3.4 petaflops, the new computer will be able to do in one hour what would take a typical laptop more than 20 years to do.
Atipa Technologies has been providing high performance computers to DOE and its labs for more than a decade.
"We're excited to have the opportunity to provide the new supercomputer with a theoretical peak performance of 3.38 petaflops and 2.7 petabytes of usable storage. It will be built and deployed by Atipa Technologies in collaboration with Supermicro," said Mike Zheng, president of Atipa Technologies.
As EMSL's flagship high performance computer, researchers from around the world will be able to use it. The EMSL team designed it for researchers who typically need resources of this scale but don't generally have access to such a powerful computer. This wide availability makes it stand out from other supercomputers.
"Its uniqueness is that it will be optimally configured for climate and chemistry simulations and biological analyses," said Shelton.
For example, the new machine will offer added speed for improved climate models. "The new computer provides a wonderful opportunity for climate scientists to get more work done and get each simulation done more quickly," said PNNL climate scientist Phil Rasch. "It is a huge jump in the computing power available to us."
And it will produce more details about how organisms work. "I'm excited because with the amount of data researchers are generating in biology, this supercomputer will open up new avenues for our users," said EMSL biology science lead Scott Baker. "More computing power is like having more pixels in a picture. We'll be able to look at proteins and complex biological interactions more realistically. This will allow us to better understand and control organisms like microbes so that we can develop new renewable fuels."
The design's 196,000 processing units are Intel processors combined with Intel Phi many integrated core (MIC) accelerator cards. The accelerator cards will ratchet up the power. They work with the conventional processors and memory and allow up to 120 extra calculations per node to be performed simultaneously rather than one at a time. (Anyone with a graphics card in their personal computer has taken advantage of a hardware accelerator.)
The system's 23,000 Intel processors have 184,000 gigabytes (184,000 billion bytes) of memory available, about four times as much memory per processor as other supercomputers. The additional memory will allow scientists to use the processors more efficiently for biology, climate research, chemistry and materials science.
Atipa will deliver the computer's components by July 2013 and assemble it at EMSL. The EMSL team will spend a few months installing and configuring the system and getting it up to speed. They expect to have it running for national and international researchers in October 2013. In the meantime, EMSL will be sponsoring a naming contest among EMSL users and friends.
The New Supercomputer's Fast Facts:
ED NOTE: This supercomputer is now known as Cascade.
DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit the Office of Science website.
Tags: Computational Science, EMSL, Supercomputer
Located in America's heartland in Lawrence, Kansas, Atipa Technologies is the High Performance Computing division of Microtech Computers and has been building Linux-based HPC clusters for well over a decade. A privately-held company, Atipa has developed comprehensive Linux solutions for diverse enterprises, academic research labs and Department of Energy research organizations. Over the years, Atipa has had 14 supercomputers in the Top500 and four supercomputers in the Green500.
EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, is a DOE Office of Science user facility. Located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., EMSL offers an open, collaborative environment for scientific discovery to researchers around the world. Its integrated computational and experimental resources enable researchers to realize important scientific insights and create new technologies. Follow EMSL on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory draws on signature capabilities in chemistry, earth sciences, and data analytics to advance scientific discovery and create solutions to the nation's toughest challenges in energy resiliency and national security. Founded in 1965, PNNL is operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit PNNL's News Center. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.


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Julia Baker: Save up for hospital
Craig — Forty-two million dollars for a hospital.
I've always been taught if you want something, save up for it. Seems like they want the hospital built right now.
The stupidest thing they did was they could have built another floor on top of our hospital we have.
Then they buy all the houses around the hospital, then they change their minds again and sell them.
Why didn't they keep them, rent them out and have money for the new hospital? The seniors and low-income (residents) are going to be taxed for 24 years. These people don't have that kind of money. All we are doing is putting a tax on children that are growing up and starting out in life.
So that means if the hospital goes through, they can add more taxes if they want. Don't kid yourself, once you get on a ballot and they win, they can do just about anything they want.
Quit spending our money for your stupid mistakes. Please get out and vote on this.
Julia Baker
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NZ What architecture students are dreaming of
Property Here - Friday, April 05, 2013
A student architecture competition includes a plan for Christchurch Cathedral to be "reconstructed"and its roof line again made visible.
Duncan Harding of Victoria University's faculty of architecture and design won an Institute of Architects award for his computer-designed plans for the Anglican cathedral, which is rebuilt to express the original process of construction.
Check out some of the student designs here.
The scheme is a final-year project by Mr Harding which the judges described as "forensic reconstruction, delving into reportage from nineteenth century newspapers to use text to put the cathedral back together again".
Arnika Blount of Unitec's department of architecture won an award for her Wunderkammer subterranean world on the site of the Auckland Domain reservoir beside the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
She drew on a Renaissance tradition to display natural history and ethnographic objects and produced a highly resolved scheme for a new underground world.
The Institute of Architects has produced a booklet showing the work of all 24 fifth-year students who entered the awards, sponsored by Graphisoft.
John Walsh, institute communications manager in Auckland, said the projects were extremely imaginative and showed high skill levels.
"All are unbuilt. If they can't dream when they're students, when can they? But some are more possible than others. I love the Domain project, because that reservoir is there," he said of Arnika Blount's work.
Kathryn Collins of Unitec's department of architecture designed a new railway station in Auckland, opposite the Mercury Theatre - a scheme actually planned as part of the Central City Link project, although no building plans have yet been launched. The judges praised this scheme, saying it retained some of an original building's theatricality.
Grace Mills of Victoria University designed a new agora (public open space) in a Christchurch maritime suburb and Josephine de Guzman of Victoria designed a proposed winery in the Te Muna valley near Martinborough in the Wairarapa.
The hand-drawn graphics were described by the judges as being skilfully combined with computer renderings to produce a highly evocative architectural scenario.
The institute says the awards have been running for more than 10 years.


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Sandy Recovery Still Top Priority Despite Boardwalk Blaze
Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts press on almost eleven months later and he frustration from displaced homeowners continues to fester.
Last week's massive inferno on the Seaside boardwalk certainly didn't help matters. In fact, for some, it's made the whole process a lot harder forcing officials to turn to damage control while making plans for the future.
During yesterday's monthly breakfast meeting of the Ocean County Mayor's Association, several issues were discussed from the available business grants and home raisings to the stalled dune project and the recent events along the boardwalk in one of the most popular tourist spots in the state. Social media as of late has been lighting up with Sandy victims worried there won't be money for them if it goes to the boardwalk repair project.
Benjamin Spinelli, the Senior Policy Advisor with the Hurricane Sandy Taskforce says that isn't true at all. He says "the redistribution of some of the funds will have no affect on the Sandy recovery process. There is money out there and this won't be an issue. The problem really lies with insurance companies. That's a complicated and tough issue and is delaying payment to many affected by Sandy."
In addition, Spinelli further pressed for local resilance partnerships between municipalities and local leaders. He feels "the more we combine strengths during the recovery process, the better."
It could take anywhere from three to five more years before the new normal is fully established.


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Abounding Midlife Living
Part of the Abounding Midlife Living Series
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"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly."
John 10:10
American culture is increasingly marked by many shouting voices — demanding, confusing, manipulative, and discordant. They drive us to buy, watch, read, subscribe, vote, drive, eat, drink, wear and believe.
Because we live in an era of mass culture, we cannot easily escape the voices. They shout from billboards, computer screens, radios, televisions, print media and even the aisles of your grocery store.
In fact, modern life is becoming more like prison; we are losing control of the noise levels in our environment.
And, just as in a prison, the voices that bombard us come from those who do not know or love us. Think about it — every mass media voice that demands your action comes from unknown motives, agendas, and personalities.
Most of them want your money.
Recognizing the Thief
We all live our lives somewhere between the Lord's invitation to abundant life and Satan's attempts to destroy us. Those poles are clearly and concisely captured in John 10:10. Jesus, the One Who died for us, invites us into His abounding life. The devil's only intention for us is robbery, death, and destruction.
Few things are as tragic as the devil's tornadic path of destruction through people in midlife. We see them everywhere: crippled, diseased, confused, angry, fearful, addicted, lustful, lonely and bitter.
Behind each of those conditions is a voice that once called out. They spoke from sexual images flickering on a computer screen, the lure of easy credit, shameful political promises, fraudulent ideas of perpetual youth and other lying voices.
Does it seem that the thief is particularly aggressive as people reach their midlife years?
I think so. He tempts us toward the tragic destructions of "last chance" indulgences of sex, money and power. And, at the same time, he tells us our life is over. He insists that, "at your age, you have nothing left to offer your family, church, community or nation."
In a youth-obsessed culture, that lie has sidelined too many who had and still have too much to give.
Age Never Disqualifies
When Joshua and Caleb were young men, Moses chose them for the elite reconnaissance team to spy out the Promised Land. And, of the 12 spies, they were the only ones who brought a good report. The other ten inflicted deep discouragement and doubt on the children of Israel.
God told Moses that all those who doubted would die in the desert. But, Caleb and Joshua — because they followed the Lord with a whole heart — would enter and inherit the land.
So, consider the dramatic scene 45 years later (as told in Joshua 14). Joshua is now the leader of the nation (following the death of Moses). And, as he presides over the allotment of the Promised Land, Caleb walks up to Joshua and asks if they can talk.
I just imagine these two old friends walking away from the crowd and gazing out at the land.
Caleb recalls the scene nearly a half century ago when he and Joshua went in to explore the very land on which they now stand. He reminds Joshua that the other spies "made the heart of the people melt" with fear. But, that he and Joshua had operated from a whole heart toward the Lord.
And, then, he gives radiant (and quite audacious) testimony of following the Lord into life's afternoon:
"So here I am today, eighty-five years old! I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I'm just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.
"Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said."
Then Joshua blessed Caleb … and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.
Joshua 14:10-13 (NIV)
Age does not set anyone aside.
Some of the greatest stories in the Bible involve people who were too old. Besides an 85-year-old Caleb ready to "Rambo" his enemies, consider the aged Elizabeth becoming pregnant with John, 84-year-old Anna who served God in the temple "with fasting and prayer day and night" and, of course, Abraham and Sarah becoming parents in their very elderly years.
All of them lived a full life out of a whole heart toward God. Age is never a disqualifier. The only qualifying issue for an abounding life is the strength and clarity of our heart.
How to walk into "the Afternoon" of life
About 20 years ago, Joanne and I celebrated our anniversary with dinner in a fine restaurant. When the waitress, who was a newlywed, learned that we had been married "so long," she asked how we did it.
I told her, "Well, we decided we wouldn't take society's marital advice. It tends to celebrate things which destroy marriage and relationships. So, we don't think it makes sense to listen to the culture. We have chosen, instead, to follow Christ. He believes in our marriage, so we choose to listen to what He has to say."
As we approach our 44th anniversary, we still believe and are fully committed to that.
One of the saddest lines in the Bible is found in Hosea 7:9: "Strangers devour his strength, yet he does not know it."
Too many people give their strength to strangers. Often in midlife, they realize that those who did not know or love them had devoured their very best. The raucous and loud voices of marketing, get-rich-quick schemes, sexual temptations, chemical addictions, and toxic affiliations had stolen their resources and relationships.
Those voices all emanate from the one who "comes only to steal and kill and destroy."
Doesn't it make more sense to listen to the One who invites us into abounding life?
This series of articles is designed to help those in (and beyond) the midlife years to live a full and abounding life. Despite the dishonest "surround-sound" of our culture, we can walk into the afternoon of life with abounding grace, peace, love, rest and joy. We will examine the application of that life in our families, churches, and communities.
But, in summary, I think the largest "how to" of living an abounding life is: listen to the Lord, not the myriad voices which surround us.
We know that the Lord loves us. We can always trust Him to speak words of life.
Like seeds, His words produce His life in the soil of our life. When those seeds push through the soil, they will feed and strengthen you throughout the afternoon of your life.
Caleb knew that. You can too.


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From today's Toronto Sun: "Raptors forward Chris Bosh becomes a free agent at the end of the season and for that primary reason the four-time NBA all-star has yet to commit to the U.S. team for next summer's FIBA world basketball championships in Turkey. In the rumor department. Bosh has been mentioned in a possible trade to the Golden State Warriors in a deal that would involve Andris Biedrins coming to the Toronto, with, of course, a lot more, if there's any substance at all to the rumor."
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Wayland campuses showing support for military personnel
With armed forces being beefed up nationwide, students on university campuses are being called to leave their classrooms and return to their Reserve or National Guard units in preparation for military action.
With 11 campuses outside the Plainview headquarters, Wayland Baptist University students are not exempt. The majority of those campuses are located on or conduct classes on military installations. But none are exempt from the effects of the largest military call-up since the Persian Gulf War.
"Our campuses didn't really get hit too hard, because there hasn't been a mass deployment from any of the bases," said Dr. Bill Hardage, Wayland's vice chancellor.
Hardage said the real effects of the war won't likely be felt until the next enrollment term in November.
"We expect to see maybe a ten percent downturn in enrollment in November, based on deployment and added work shifts," he said.
"When some were deployed, others had to cover their work shifts and didn't have time for classes."
When military personnel are called up, Wayland's policy is for students who will miss 25 percent or more of the term to apply for a Military Temporary Duty Assignment Withdrawal Refund if they must drop all classes. Hardage said students also have the choice of making up their work if they return during the term or taking an incomplete for the course and finishing the required work at a later date.
The U.S. Department of Education has directed universities like Wayland to provide relief from student loan obligations by postponing loan payments for borrowers during the period of active duty service. Schools were also urged to provide full refunds of tuition and other charges and flexibility in re-enrollment for those students.
Wayland is doing just that, while encouraging military students to complete their education once they return to their bases.


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NZ Realtors deny foreigners upping prices
Property Here - Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Questions are being raised about foreign buyers' influence on New Zealand's housing market, particularly in Auckland.
For the first time, the BNZ-REINZ Residential Market Survey this month sought 572 real estate agents' views about overseas buyers.
It asked: "Are you noticing more or fewer buyers from overseas?" and said that was included in response to the increasing incidence of comments that Kiwis were being outbid at auctions by foreigners.
Agents were mute on the topic: not a single agent said they saw more foreigners.
"The results would not appear to support that claim in that a net 0 per cent of responding agents feel that there are more buyers from overseas," the survey said.
Agents were also asked where foreign buyers were coming from and said the biggest group was people from the United Kingdom followed by Chinese then Australians.
Foreigners' influence was also raised in an nzherald.co.nz live chat with Auckland Council economist Geoff Cooper. He was asked whether house prices would be affected by foreigners parking their funds here as form of investment.
"Are there statistics on it?" a reader asked, but Cooper said the effect came down to basic economics.
"The economics of this is ... simple: if there is more demand, prices will increase. I have not seen any such data," Cooper said, but he mentioned the new BNZ-REINZ question.
One licensed agent working in the finance sector claimed Chinese buyers were sourcing money for Auckland houses from their home country at 0.5 per cent interest. He blamed them for pushing up prices and said people were too complacent about the situation.
Mini-vans of Chinese house hunters were cruising housing areas, he claimed.
But Peter Thompson, Barfoot managing director, said only a small proportion of auction bidders at his Shortland St rooms were Asian. And many of these could be residents or descendants of New Zealanders for many generations.
Ian Thornhill, a Barfoot agent, raised concerns about the situation last year, commenting after an Epsom deal when a Chinese investor bought a house then left it empty.
BNZ chief economist Tony Alexander plans to widen the scope of questioning in the survey.
"I think next month I may ask not just about whether foreign interest is rising or falling, but agents' perceptions of the level of their existing ownership," he said.
Yesterday, Alexander sent out this year's first edition of a series on growing with China, looking at some of the recent data on corruption in China, innovation, and surveys of the main things people are worried about.
"Why do Westerners fear or show disrespect for China when it has produced the biggest movement of people out of poverty in world history, has done more to provide an economic base for Africa than decades of Western aid have been able to achieve, has grown over 40 per cent since the global financial crisis while Western economies have struggled, has delivered trillions of dollars in cheap goods to Western consumers, and when China's history for five millennia is one of physical containment as a near land-locked civilisation?" Alexander asked.
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NZ house buyers come from:
United Kingdom: 26.8 per cent
China: 24.4 per cent
Australia: 21.7 per cent
Other: 6.9 per cent
Europe (excluding UK): 6.1 per cent
Other Asia: 5.9 per cent
India: 5.5 per cent
USA: 2.7 per cent
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SILT. Healthy particles of silt are suspended in the river, buffed off eons of Wingate sandstone and the debris of flash floods fire-hosing through twisted arroyos. These tiny particles of soil, mud, stone, trees and bones scour our skin as we float in the slow, warm current of the river. We drift in silence, particles ourselves in the immense canyon, scarcely able to imagine what lies ahead.
SAND. We set up temporary evening homes on wide, sugary beaches. Winds have carved the sand into dunes, which bake in elegant windrows. I can't help myself, and walk along the top edge of a dune, marring the smooth surface. Beneath my toes, rivulets of sand tumble over the edge and fan out in deltas of repose. In days, maybe hours, none of my marks will remain, and the sand will continue its lazy abrasion and sculpting, eventually blowing into the river, into another river runner's ear.
COMPANIONS. We're drunk with the serenity of it all, the seven of us — my wife of 14 years, my good friend and his 17-year-old daughter, a woman from Grand Junction, and our two male guides. The guides are typical river rats, young, glazed dark brown from the sun, competent in all things wild. My wife likes them both because they're irreverent, funny and built of raw sinew, and because they live in shorts and sandals almost year-round. My wife doesn't tell me this, but it doesn't matter because the guides are busy trying not to watch the 17-year-old too much.
RUINS. We tie the boats up, make our way along a narrow path through dense stands of tamarisk to visit an ancient granary made by Anasazi, or Ancestral Puebloans, out of mud and rock. The granary is small, maybe four feet across and five feet high, its rough semicircular wall set into the cliff face. Fingerprints are obvious where wet mud was pressed into cracks hundreds upon hundreds of years ago, and I can scarcely believe I'm looking at impressions made by the original builders — signatures, really, of skilled artisans and desert dwellers who left here for reasons still not completely understood.
In the baking heat of the afternoon, trying to wrap my mind around a culture that thrived with simple tools, I hear a power boat roaring up the river. The whine echoes for many minutes, and I swear I can smell the stink of gas, even from this distance. Instead of complaining about the noise, I complain about tamarisk, a tree that was introduced into the region decades ago from Mediterranean countries, and now has taken over almost every drainage in the Southwest to the detriment of native flora and fauna.
"But you know," one of the guides says from behind the smoke of his unfiltered cigarette, "tammy has actually helped keep people out of some of the ruins along the river." The tamarisk is so hard to walk through, and even harder to see through, that some of the ruins and rock art are protected from curious boaters and artifact hunters. I chew on this new information on the way back to the boats. I truly wanted to hate this weed.
RAPIDS. Oh, yes. The river is running very low, but we still find roiling water in Cataract Canyon, just below the confluence of the Colorado and Green rivers.
"Don't steer," I remind my wife, who's paddling in the bow of the kayak. "I'm not," she shouts, just as a wall of water rises up, grabs our pitiful craft and hurls it skyward. We paddle furiously, sometimes hitting rocks or nothing at all, and in moments we're through the rapid, soaked but smiling. I twirl my paddle like a helicopter blade, then we smack tips together high in the air in celebration.
More exuberant water follows, but at Big Drop Rapids, close by Teapot Canyon, we scout the river and decide to run the rapids in the bigger boat. It's the best choice, but still, once we're safely through, I look back and wonder what it would have been like in the kayak, dropping into huge troughs and driving over billowing, standing waves, barely able to hold on to the paddle. Maybe another time, another life, when the river is higher.
NAMES. We're walking upriver, tiny specks in the canyon, on a jaunt to see what there is to see. I lift my eyes and the canyon walls rearrange my psyche, the limestone, sandstone, shale, chert and siltstone piled in dizzying cliffs to form the Honaker Trail Formation, above which is the Cedar Mesa Sandstone, which is below the Organ Rock Shale, which anchors the Moenkopi Formation — all of which comprises only half the height of the canyon. Curtains of desert varnish stand out high on the walls, a lustrous patina streaking the rock, a festival of black, brown, tan and orange minerals, as alive as I am but infinitely more interesting.
TIME. The guides are lounging down by the boats, probably telling lies to each other. They're both holding tall plastic cups of concoctions that make them happier than they already are. I team up with my buddy to beat them in horseshoes, sand flying everywhere. Toward the end of the game, I don't even know I made a ringer until the men on the other end excavate the shoe, digging as carefully as archaeologists.
None of us has a watch, so time takes its proper place on the margins of reality. Evening moves down the cliffs and the river seems a bit louder, as if our ears are tuning more sharply to the landscape to make up for what we can't see. We settle comfortably into earnest conversations that condemn mining industries as we pass around various silt-free cold liquids in aluminum cans, fetched from big plastic coolers within arm's reach. The night collapses peacefully around us.
RUBBLE. "I'm going to say this just once," I tell my buddy, my best friend of many years. "Then please smack me if you hear it ever again." We're immersed in the murky, mild Colorado, can't keep out of it, and all I can see of him is a grin and a chin, his lovely, ferociously smart daughter within earshot. With my feet I touch the bottom of the river, then nothing, then touch, then nothing.
"The Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell are the greatest travesties humans have visited upon the Southwest, maybe the planet," I proclaim. I almost run aground on a sand bar, then roll free. "To think of the hundreds of miles of landscape just like this buried under a reservoir, under tons of silt, under the stink of powerboats…" I sputter to a halt in the face of the stupefying ugliness awaiting us down the river.
My friend is silent. He has a different take on things such as huge dams on formerly free-ranging rivers. He appreciates the landscape differently, no matter how altered, because soon nobody will be around to see any of it.
"This is all just temporary," he finally says. I think his eyes are closed behind his sunglasses. "In geologic time, nothing humans do really matters."
"Yeah, just think," I say, rolling onto my back to watch the canyons recede behind us. "Polished stumps of concrete instead of a dam. What great rapids they'll make."
STARS. For our bed, during our nights on the river, I help my wife put a tarp on the sand. We lie down and sleep, using clothes for pillows. In the middle of the night, I wake up and can't remember what day of the week it is. The moon's thin sliver hides behind rimrock, and stars are layered beyond reasoning. Bats work the balmy night air, nailing moths and other insects, and for some reason I want to feel the radar they use. I want to grasp the concept of geologic time, to work it into a form I can see.
Instead, I run warm sand through my fingers, thinking about scorpions and the rough touch of rock while the water sings on downriver. I won't be able to leave here, not tomorrow, not yet, not ever.
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University Of California Gives Big Boost To Open Access, Still Confused About Sharing Knowledge
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Techdirt has been monitoring for a while the inexorable rise of open access in the academic world. But even against a background of major wins, this latest news from the University of California (UC) is still big, not least because it seems to represent a major shift there:
The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of UC will be made available to the public at no charge. "The Academic Council's adoption of this policy on July 24, 2013, came after a six-year process culminating in two years of formal review and revision," said Robert Powell, chair of the Academic Council. "Council's intent is to make these articles widely -- and freely -- available in order to advance research everywhere." Articles will be available to the public without charge via eScholarship (UC's open access repository) in tandem with their publication in scholarly journals.
So just how big? This big:
The policy covers more than 8,000 UC faculty at all 10 campuses of the University of California, and as many as 40,000 publications a year. It follows more than 175 other universities who have adopted similar so-called "green" open access policies
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UC is the largest public research university in the world and its faculty members receive roughly 8% of all research funding in the U.S.
As the associated FAQ spells out, this new policy mandates "green" open access -- that is, depositing articles in a university repository, where they can be published under a range of CC licenses, chosen by the authors. This move represents a big boost to the store of information freely available to anyone with an Internet connection. It's hugely welcome both for itself, and for the likely knock-on effects it will have on other institutions around the world.
However, there's something a little odd here. On the one hand, we have the University of California generously making available at no cost the fruits of its academic work "in order to advance research everywhere." On the other, we have the University of California aggressively using patents to enclose knowledge, and to extract rents from it, which is likely to discourage research because of the risk that UC might see it as infringing on its patents. Confused much?
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- A new study suggests that women are less willing to sacrifice ethical values for money and social status
- It also suggests that women associate business with immorality more strongly than men do
- Ethical concerns may explain the gender imbalance in workplaces and MBA programs
- The implication for organizations is that acting more ethically may help retain talented women
Women are less ready to compromise their ethics in pursuit of success at work, a recent study has suggested.
A study done by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School suggests that women are less willing to sacrifice ethical values for money and social status, and that women associate business with immorality more strongly.
These concerns may explain why MBA programs and the executive level within companies have a heavy gender imbalance. And if matters of ethics are creating a gender gap within business organizations, it is just another reason for companies to do business ethically.
"Doing well and doing good might not always go hand in hand, but I think here is an interesting case where businesses can retain talented women by acting more ethically," says Jessica Kennedy, the paper's lead researcher and a post-doctoral fellow in legal studies and business ethics at Wharton.
There were three studies in the paper. In the most significant study, the researchers created job descriptions that included details like job responsibilities and salary, and asked subjects how interested they were in the jobs.
Some of these imaginary descriptions included an ethical factor: there was a conflict between acting ethically and doing well at the job and employees were expected to prioritize money and social status.
Only under the condition where ethics came into play did women, on average, show less interest in the job. "They were more likely to say, 'I would have to sacrifice my values to do well in this job, I would struggle with the things that I'm asked to do,'" Kennedy said.
For women who are looking to advance in their careers, Kennedy says that it would help for those who value ethics highly to figure out the ethos of an organization.
Kennedy says that after seeing the studies' results, other people have enthusiastically agreed that her findings about gender resonate with their real-world experience.
However, prior to the study, she says, there was a general silence about the topic and had not heard anyone explicitly say women value ethics more than men.
"The explanation that I've come up with for that is that ethics are kind of taboo in organizations," she says. "I think maybe that's why no one is willing to say, 'I have ethical reservations about this,' because it seems like a very serious accusation that no one wants to make toward their organization."
But Kennedy stops short of saying the study implies that women behave more ethically than men.
"It's not that they're more ethical, it's that their job interest is more affected, and so maybe men feel similarly," Kennedy says. "They may have moral reservations, but they're taught to suppress them so they don't report them, they kind of override them more, and it's questionable whether this translates directly into ethical behavior."
While perhaps it is unclear whether women are more ethical, there are other behavioral and attitudinal differences between genders that can affect career advancement, too.
Whitney Johnson, the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm, who has written about gender in the workplace, brings up that from the outset women are often expected to be more "giving" and "nice" (in negotiations, for example), which can hinder their careers.
She points outs that there are differences in how men and women are expected to behave in work relationships, with women being presumed to reciprocate helpfulness, while men are not.
Johnson has also observed business situations in which women and men have different views of what they owe to companies.
"In my experience, it is more common for a woman who has started a business and taken equity capital to feel like she needs to repay, when she doesn't, because it was equity -- which is the view most men take," she says.
Even though women may be short-changed in the workplace because of these ingrained beliefs and behaviors, Johnson sees these characteristics of women as desirable for creating higher ethical standards.
"It is the very need of ethics that is driving many of us to talk about bringing the 'feminine' relational characteristics to the masculine 'wield power' characteristics of the workplace," she says.