Colin Stretch, Facebook's top lawyer and the man who led Facebook's investigation into Russian election interference efforts following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, is leaving the company.
Stretch, who has been at Facebook since 2010, posted on Tuesday that he's planning to leave the social giant but will stay on until the end of the year to help find his replacement.
"There is never a 'right time' for a transition like this, but the team and the company boast incredible talent and will navigate this well," Stretch wrote. "I am committed to doing my part to assist with the transition and will stay on through the end of the year." Stretch, who lives in Washington, D.C., added that Facebook needs "sustained leadership in Menlo Park," something that's hard to provide from the East Coast.
Stretch's departure comes during a stressful time for Facebook's legal team. Not only is the company still grappling with the role it played in the 2016 U.S. election — Russia used to platform to try and divide U.S. voters with inflammatory and inaccurate posts — but it's also gearing up for the 2018 midterms, and company executives have been open in saying that they expect foreign governments might try again to sway voters.
Facebook is also under federal investigation by numerous government agencies, including the FTC, the FBI and the Department of Justice. That investigation has to do with Cambridge Analytica and how Facebook handled the fact that an outside researcher collected and sold data on as many as 87 million users without their permission.
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Golf notes: Newman, Kellogg Executive to close Monday
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The Peoria Park District's Newman Golf Course and Kellogg Executive 9 Golf Course will close Monday for the season.
Newman's greens and collars are being seeded and top dressed, and both courses will be winterized.
Detweiller Golf Course already is closed for the season. Madison and Donovan will remain open through Dec. 31, as conditions permit.
For more information, call golf operations at 689-3329.
JOHNSON HAS SURGERY: Dustin Johnson had surgery Tuesday to repair cartilage in his right knee. He is expected to be out of competition until sometime in January.
Johnson won The Barclays in August to become the first player since Tiger Woods in 1999 to win in each of his first four years on the PGA Tour straight out of college.
His agent, David Winkle at Hambric Sports, said Johnson has been feeling pain since July, when he was a runner-up to Darren Clarke in the British Open. Johnson is expected to be crutches for a week, then resume chipping and putting. He should be at full speed by the end of December.
RYDER CUP DATES: The 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles will take place from Sept. 26-28, with officials saying that Scotland's unpredictable weather could cause a repeat of the problems that afflicted last year's competition.
Wind and rain at Celtic Manor in Wales last October forced the biennial contest between Europe and the United States into a fourth day for the first time. But European Ryder Cup director Richard Hills says the 2014 tournament is in its traditional slot in the calendar and that Britain's weather can disrupt events at any time.

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Kangaroo Light is a shapeable, soft personal lighting solution for making the dark places of our day a little brighter. On the outside, a splash-proof silicon exterior covers twenty-four soft white LED lights that are Arduino controlled for customization. An accelerometer acts as the power switch; just tap the Kangaroo Light twice to turn it on and flip it over to turn it off. The power for the light is provided by an internal battery that will light up the unit for over two hours before needing a recharge through a USB connection.
Kangaroo Light is designed to be portable and lightweight making it a better choice for packs and purses than a bulky flashlight. Kangaroo Light is targeting a late 2014 release with an estimated 75-dollar price tag and is currently seeking funds through Kickstarter.


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The United States economy will skirt a recession through 1991 and set a postwar record for the longest period of business growth, the nation's top business economists predicted today.
The National Association of Business Economists said 82 percent of the 68 professional forecasters surveyed in April and May said the business expansion would continue slowly through next year.
If so, the current expansion would top the record of 106 months of economic growth from February 1961 to December 1969. The present expansion began 90 months ago, in November 1982.
The forecast was considerably more optimistic than a similar survey last May, when 63 percent of the economists predicted a recession this year. Ninety-six percent of those questioned for the current survey said the economy would continue growing through this year.
The forecasters said the economy, as measured by the gross national product, would grow 2 percent this year and 2.4 percent in 1991. The G.N.P., the total output of goods and services, rose 3 percent last year.
They also said inflation, which was 8.1 percent in the first quarter, reflecting in part weather-related rises in food and energy prices, would drop to an annual rate of 3.7 percent in the last nine months of the year. That would make the 1990 inflation rate 4.7 percent, down from 4.8 percent in 1989.


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YouTube may offer ad-free subscription service
By Erik Sherman
October 28, 2014 / 12:16 PM / MoneyWatch
YouTube, the video-streaming service owned by Google (GOOG), is exploring whether to offer paid subscriptions that would let users watch content without advertising.
"YouTube right now is ad-supported, which is great because it has enabled us to scale to a billion users," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said at a Re/Code conference in Half Moon Bay, California. "But there's going to be a point where people don't want to see the ads."
The option, one of a number the company is considering, could benefit users willing to pay for ad-free YouTube videos, but it's also a way for the service to address some potential significant limitations in its business model.
YouTube has roughly a billion users, a number approaching those who use Google for search and who are on Facebook (FB), and it is looking for ways to boost revenue. eMarketer estimated last year that YouTube could top $5.6 billion in ad revenue, although that was at the high end of various estimates. A report from The Information in July 2014 pegged YouTube's 2013 revenue at $3.5 billion, with net revenue, after payments to video creators, of $1.5 billion. That would amount to abut 7 percent of Google's total revenue and would be small even compared to Facebook.
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One problem Google faces in boosting YouTube's profits has to do with the nature of video advertising. In short, advertisers are loath to pay for what users don't see. There are two general types of ads on the YouTube. One is the type that allows people to opt out after a few seconds, meaning that advertisers don't have to pay when people don't watch the ads. The other type is the so-called pre-roll spot that runs before a video starts. If consumers decided to wait for the video they want, YouTube makes money.
YouTube generates far less revenue per user than other Internet giants. Then there is the mobile factor. According to Wojcicki, half of YouTube's traffic comes from mobile. That channel is increasingly where companies want to advertise. But ad rates can be low, with both Google and Facebook having seen mobile as a cause for downward pressure on ad rates.
For YouTube, offering paid subscriptions could help alleviate that problem. Should people opt in, YouTube and Google could make significantly more money from consumers dislike watching ads. Such viewers also could become heavier users, giving Google even more of the behavioral consumer information that is ultimately so useful in targeting other ads and profitable for the company.
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Discovering New Facts about the 1932-34 Famine in Soviet Ukraine – Oleh Wolowyna – Ukraine 2008 and 2014
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Sometimes a decision at a specific point in time triggers a significant change in one's life course. I started my first Fulbright grant in September 2008 at the Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. I soon realized that the Institute staff was not very interested in my proposed research topic. Then I met Sr. demographer Omelan Rudnytskyi. He spent many years collecting documents and data on the 1932-34 Famine and he also acquainted me with the Institute's history.
The Institute, created in 1918, was the first of its kind in Europe. It's researchers did extensive analyses of the demographic situation in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920-30s. The Institute was closed by the Soviet government in 1938 and many of its staff were shot or exiled to Siberia. It was reopened in 1992 and, thanks to the dedication of several demographers, most of the Institute's work was rescued and resided in its library.
The knowledge about the Famine in Ukraine (also called Holodomor or death by starvation) was still limited at that time. The detailed demographic analyses and Rudnytskyi's knowledge about this tragic event presented a golden opportunity for advancing our understanding of the Holodomor.
I informed the Fulbright office in Ukraine about this situation and asked permission to change my research topic. The request was approved, a research group was formed and a new project was born. This decision had several significant consequences. It opened for me a new area of demographic research, established a mutually beneficial collaboration between Ukrainian and American scholars, and launched a research project that has made significant contributions to our knowledge of the Holodomor.
The project has been going on without interruption thanks to my second Fulbright grant in 2014 and financial support by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) and the Ukrainian Studies Fund. Results from our research have been published in books and scholarly journals like Canadian Studies in Population, Nationalities Papers and Journal of Genocide Studies. We provided the demographic input to HURI's Holodomor Mapa project and our results are extensively used in the book Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by the Pulitzer-prize winner Anne Applebaum.
The project is an example of the Fulbright program's goals. All research is a team effort and all our publications have joint authorship. I received from my colleagues a solid education on historical demography of Ukraine and they profited from my experience in Western research standards and how to prepare articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
Some key figures about the Holodomor:
* four million deaths (13 percent of the total population) caused by the Famine, with one-third of them children under ten years of age;
* 80 percent of all losses occurred during the first half of 1933;
* the number of rural losses increased ten times between January and June of 1933.
According to the French historian Alain Blum, "rarely, in all of the demographic history of Europe, a famine caused losses of such proportions."
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November 5, 2015 August 20, 2019 Laura Goldman	0 Comments Crescent City, Eddie Hurtado, pit bull, Texas floods, Thor
Only Thor knows exactly how he got to Northern California after running away from his home in San Marcos, Texas, during the severe floods in late May.
The friendly, 16-month-old Pit Bull was seen jumping off the back of a truck Sept. 26 in Crescent City. A police officer took him to the Del Norte County Animal Shelter, where it was fortunately discovered he had a microchip with information about his dog dad, Eddie Hurtado.
"In this case, it was one of the rare situations where an animal was chipped and the information was correct," the shelter's director, Justin Riggs, told KIEM. "So we were able to get a hold of the owner pretty quickly."
Over Memorial Day weekend, Thor had bolted as his family evacuated their house, which was flooded by the rising Blanco River, Hurtado told the Associated Press. Their two other dogs returned home, but Thor did not. Hurtado had spent weeks looking for his missing dog.
As for how Thor made the 2,000-mile journey to California, it was probably nothing like "Homeward Bound — The Incredible Journey." *
"It certainly wouldn't be something he did on his own, wandering that far," Riggs told KIEM. "We have had dogs wander 10 or 20 miles in the county, or even a little farther, but certainly there were people involved in this."
Thor had some fur loss and fleas, and was slightly underweight, but was otherwise fine.
Before Thor could be returned home, more severe weather swept through San Marcos. Once again, the Hurtado family had to evacuate their home due to flooding.
Thor stayed at the shelter while his family recovered.
"Certainly after everything they've been through, the least we can do is keep him safe here," Riggs told KIEM.
Hurtado couldn't afford the $1,500 cost to have Thor transported back home to Texas, but Jess Williams and another good Samaritan donated the money after seeing Thor's story on the KEYE TV Facebook page.
Bruce Heinichen, a truck driver hauling a boat to Texas, offered to bring Thor along with him.
"I didn't know he had ridden a wave out of Texas and ended up in California," Heinichen told KEYE TV. "Once I picked him up, I heard that story."
On Saturday, the two took off from Crescent City. Along the way, Heinichen sent the Hurtados photos of Thor relaxing and chewing a bone.
Finally, after over five months apart, Thor and the Hurtado family were reunited last night. As you can see, it was a very happy reunion.
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Movie Maker (also referred to as Reston Movie Maker) is a computer program published by Reston Publishing Company in 1984 which allows users to author computer-animated visual sequences with audio.  Self-playing movies can be viewed without the Movie Maker software. It was developed by Interactive Picture Systems for the Atari 8-bit family. In 1985 it was re-published by Electronic Arts, including a port to the Commodore 64.

Reception
David P. Stone reviewed the program for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "if you have a need, or desire, for presenting non-game, impressive animation sequences, then MMTK won't let you down. But, to fully enjoy MMTK you must have the deep personal conviction that 'getting there is half the fun'."

A 1984 Antic review contained an addendum from the editor: "ANTIC was so impressed with Movie Maker that we asked the Interactive Picture Systems people to design an animated greeting card for us, which they did to the delight of all who have seen it." The only major dislike from the reviewer was having to use sounds from the existing, fixed library.

Gregg Williams reviewed the program for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "a so-called animation studio that promises "dazzling animated graphics made easy." The reality is four-color "movies" (four colors--on an Atari?!) so amateurish and primitive that they would impress only a 4-year-old."

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Review in the Christian Science Monitor
1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
Review in Electronic Fun with Computers & Games
Review of Electronic Arts version in Antic
Review in ANALOG Computing
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
Review in Creative Computing
Review in Page 6

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Animation software
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Commodore 64 software
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Transferring funds (in India) via NetBanking usually takes place in three different forms — NEFT, RTGS and IMPS. Depending on the type of transaction, banks often charge a certain fee for interbank funds transfer, which gets deducted from the sender's account every time such a transaction takes place. This fee may be nominal for large transactions. But for frequently performed smaller transactions, such fees might add up to a significant amount.
In this article, we'll explore how to transfer funds between different bank accounts (in India), without being charged of any transaction fees.
SBI Buddy is a mobile wallet app released by State Bank of India, which allows users to add funds to their Buddy account and let them spend on mobile recharges and online shopping at various partner brands. Among all these features, which are quite common in several of the wallet apps these days, there's one which is particularly exclusive to Buddy app as of now. That special feature is fee-less instant fund transfers from Buddy wallet to any bank account via IMPS.
Note: The fee-less transfer to bank facility is being discontinued w.e.f. 1st June, 2016. After the deadline, a 3% fee will be applicable on all bank transfers using the SBI Buddy app.
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IMPS fund transfer without any transaction fees
Follow the steps below to transfer money instantly from one bank account to the other with no transaction fee:
Download and install State Bank Buddy app on your iOS or Android device.
Launch the app and register / log in to your Buddy Account.
Once logged in, tap on Add Money.
Enter the amount you want to transfer and choose the Net Banking or Debit Card option.
Once the transaction is completed, the required funds will be added to your Buddy wallet.
Next, tap on the hamburger icon in the top left corner to reveal the app menu, and select 'Transfer To Account' option.
Enter the amount you want to transfer and choose the IMPS mode of preference (IFSC or MMID).
Enter the recipients details and tap Continue. You will be prompted to enter your registered PIN.
Once the PIN has been verified, the mentioned amount should instantly be transferred to the recipient's account and no additional transaction fees are charged.
Benefits of using Buddy for funds transfer
Instant funds transfer is one of the key features of the SBI Buddy app, but it can also be useful for transferring funds in certain unique situations.
Transfer funds without adding beneficiary : Sometimes, you may wish to instantly transfer funds to someone who is not in your beneficiary list. Depending upon the bank, you might have to wait up to 24 hours in order to add them as beneficiary before transferring funds. Moreover, if you intend to send money to people as a one-time activity, you might not prefer to add them as beneficiaries at all. In such situations, SBI Buddy is a handy alternative for instant funds transfer.
Instant funds transfer without NetBanking (with Debit Card) : IMPS funds transfers are usually initiated through NetBanking or Mobile Banking portals. But if you haven't registered for either of these services, SBI Buddy allows you to add funds to your Buddy wallet via Debit Card, and then transfer them to any bank account. Thus, you can perform an instant funds transfer even without a NetBanking account.
Send money without knowing bank details : SBI Buddy is ideal for frequently transferring money among peers, as it allows users to send money using just the recipient's mobile number. A few other wallet apps, like Paytm, do allow such instant transfers, but the money in these wallets usually do not hold their true value. Such transfers are only effective when both the sender and receiver are active users of the same virtual wallet money.
On the other hand, one can simply use the Buddy app to receive funds, and then transfer the money to their bank accounts. Since funds transfer through SBI Buddy does not include any transaction fees, one can get the whole amount transferred to the bank with its actual value.
Even if the recipient's phone is not registered with SBI Buddy, you can still send money using Buddy app. The recipient will then get a notification via SMS, and can claim the money by signing up for a new Buddy account. If unclaimed for 5 days, the money gets automatically refunded to the sender's wallet.
There's no minimum limit for transferring funds; however, you can only transfer up to ₹2000 per day and up to ₹10,000 per month from your Buddy account. Of course, Buddy app is not just meant for users who are SBI account holders; the app works with other banks just as well.
These days, many of the mobile wallet providers in India, including the popular ones like Paytm, Mobikwik, etc. do allow users to transfer money from their wallet to bank account, but with some transaction fees. For example, Paytm deducts more than 4% of the amount being transferred to the bank. State Bank Buddy, on the other hand, does not charge any fee for such bank transfers, even though it uses IMPS.
The only other digital wallet we have found that allows users to transfer funds to bank accounts without a transaction fee in India is PayUMoney. But then again, here you have a limit of ₹500 to ₹5000 per transaction, and the money needs to stay in your PayUMoney wallet for at least 7 days before it can be transferred to the bank.
So now you know how to transfer funds instantly with zero transaction fees. Let us know if you are aware of any other alternatives in the comments below.
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Oats Uttapam is very very healthy recipe. And it's very easy to make. You feel so full for very long time since its full of fibres. In this recipe I added onions, carrots and coriander leaves. But you can definitely add any veggie of your choice. I sometimes add beetroot and cabbage as well. It's served with coconut chutney, green chutney, tomato ketchup or pickles.
Grind Oats into a Mixer/grinder.
Add Curd into oats powder.
Add 1 teaspoon Salt into it.
Add some water to make it smooth.
Keep it aside for at least 1 hour.
After an hour, transfer it to different bowl (you can skip this step).
Add Rice Flour and add some more water if required to maintain the consistency.
Add Ginger and Green Chilli and Black Pepper and salt to the batter.
Pour a scoop full of batter on it. Do not spread, just press it to make round shape.
Brush some oil around the corners and top of the uttapam.
Cover it and cook for 1 minute.
Remove the cover and turn over the Uttapam. Cook for another 1 minute.


What are the 2016 Falcon Cheer registration fees?
$425 - 6/1/16 - 6/14/16 depending on squad availability.
NEW FAMILIES MUST ATTEND REQUIRED CHEER MEETING ON 4/10/2016.
LOCATION: HINSDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY LOWER LEVEL LARGE CONF. ROOM AT 3:30 P.M.
4/11/16-6/1/16 - amount paid minus $100. No cheerleading refunds after June 1st.
Franchise fees, competition bow, competition fees, uniform rental, practice space rental, 1-child Falcon Fest admission, team mom safety certifications, coach's clinic, registration fee, junior coach training, junior coach stipends, and misc. squad expenses.
No. Falcon Cheer provides the uniform. It must be returned in good condition at the end of the season.
Are there other items I need to purchase?
Yes. There are mandatory spirit/practice wear items you will be required to buy at our SpiritWear sale and cheer shoe sale. 1st year cost is approximately $100-$150. We encourage parents to buy "big" so the cheerleader can use the clothing for more than one year.
Practice may begin as early as July 1st at the coach's discretion. Mandatory practice begins the 2nd week of August.
In the summer, squads practice 4 days a week for 2 hours each day until school starts. Days/times are at the coach's discretion. Once school starts practice is usually 2 or 3 times per week depending on the squad for 2hrs.each day in the evenings. All days/times are at the individual coach's discretion.
Summer practice is held at various parks in the Hinsdale/Clarendon Hills area. Once school begins most cheer squads will practice indoors at Westmont Yard in Westmont.
Games are played on Saturdays and Sundays beginning Labor Day weekend thru mid/November. You will cheer on either Sat. or Sun. every weekend. There are nine regular games in the season plus playoffs and the superbowl.
When will I know the game schedule?
The Bill George Youth Football League www.bgyfl.org posts the schedule in late August. Shortly afterwards, the Cheer Board assigns squads to each game.
Home games are played at Brook Park in Hinsdale (3rd St. & Columbia in the Woodlands). Away games can be anywhere from 20 min to 1 hour away.
The regular season ends in mid November. If a squad (grades 4-8) qualifies for the IRCA State Competition and decides to participate, their season will continue with practices thru early December.
Do the cheerleaders participate in Competitions?
Yes; generally 2-3 competitions. *2nd and 3rd grade will NOT compete in competitions.
What are the Competition dates?
You will be given the Competition dates at your squad meeting in May.
Who will coach my daughter?
Falcon Cheer is an ALL VOLUNTEER organization. Two parent volunteers from each squad will be "team coaches" and 3-4 past Falcon cheerleaders will be "junior coaches." The junior coaches will make up and teach the routine. Adult coaches are in a supervisory role.
Will my daughter be placed on a squad with her friends?
Falcon Cheer tries to accommodate as many girls as possible every year and each squad is limited by number according to our bylaws therefore the Cheer Board reserves the right to place girls keeping in mind the best interest of the organization. We will, however, try our best to put at least two girls together from the same school whenever possible.
When is the MANDATORY Parent Meeting for my daughter's squad?
In May. You will be informed by your coach on time and location.


just pulled my 11T's out of storage and am trying to get them up to snuff. i have been out of the audio loop for a good many years, and am trying to learn.
question... has anyone used this upgrade kit from Ebay, or woul;d i do better elsewhere? and if eleswhere, can somebody point me in the right direction. i do have to be somewhat budget minded.
Welcome to Club Polk, Steve.
You can upgrade your crossovers in a more effective manner than that. HERE is the schematic for the RTA11T; if you have modest soldering talent you can do a part-for-part swap of the capacitors and resistors and be pretty satisfied.
If your budget is truly tight, you could order Dayton capacitors for the 12uF and 34uF values, and Mills 12-watt wirewound resistors for the 2.7 ohm and 1.5 ohm values and escape pretty lightly. If you can swing it, I'd recommend calling Polk and ordering a pair of replacement tweeters (RD0-194) to replace the SL2000 tweeters found in the RTA11T. About $48 apiece shipped (mention you're a Club Polk member!) and they give a smoother, more pleasing treble.
If you can expand your budget a bit more, you can order Sonicaps (Gen I) from Soniccraft.com for the 12uF capacitors in the tweeter circuit. They're having a 20% off sale right now so the time couldn't be better.
In any case, you have a nice pair of speakers that (IMO) are well worth upgrading. If you can do the whole works (crossovers and tweeters) you'll have something you can probably be satisfied with for as long as you wish.
One last tip, since Polk occasionally used up their remaining stock of nameplates when putting out a new line of speakers, it's worth double-checking that you do in fact have 11Ts and not 11TLs. The 11T has the SL2000 tweeter as shown in the pictures here, with the visible leads going off to each side of a silver dome.
Hope your project goes well, and there's lots of folks here that have done what you're setting out to do, so advice is easy to come by!
Very good suggestions ^^^^above. Don't waste your time with that Ebay kit it's no better than you have in the crossover now.
Looks like my PartsExpress link shows they don't carry the 2.7 ohm Mills. Soniccraft does.
thanks for the good info folks. this is a super great place!
i will check out the links when i get home from my long day... i do have a budget, but i also want to have as good a sound as possible given my components.
this is going to be my computer audio set-up.i have a NAD C 325BEE hooked into the computer via a Matrix Mini DAC. i got the polks way back in the day out of a pawn shop, but haven't had anything set up for a long time, so i am quite excited to have this project... i have been living on computer speakers for far too long.
and yes agfrost, they are 11Ts with the SL2000s.
do most people leave the tweeter protection or remove it when upgrading?
If you're judicious with the volume control, it's believed to be an upgrade to just solder a jumper in place of the polyswitch (tweeter protection).
The crossover I updated (RTA11TL) didn't have a polyswitch, so I cannot say, but there are some who prefer to put a small resistor (~0.5 ohm) in place of the polyswitch; others prefer to just put a wire jumper.
I'm not sure if I saw the auction that you're referencing, but I did see a "RTA11T crossover" auction recently that I wasn't sure if it was actually from an 11T--didn't look like the others I've seen. Did it look like the one from post #5 here?
Most of us remove the polyswitch and use a .5ohm resistor in it's place. Here is another decent cap for your budget.
http://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/px-cap-250vdc/ If your leaning towards the Dayton caps these are a little better and about the same price.
well, i guess i have shown both my noob-ness and my over-anxiousness. the item shown in the auction looks very close to your link, and nothing like the crossover i just pulled from my speaker....stupid me.
edit: upon closer inspection, it really doesn't look like either lay-out wise, but the electronics are more 11TL like.
here's the pic from the auction. if it is in fact 11TL, can i still make use of it?
any old .5ohm? i would assume this has no sonic impact?
and looking at the schematic... do you not differentiate between the electrolytic and mylar caps? just order all the same?
so it looks like this.
(2) 33 uF Daytons...for the 34 uFs.
couple of .5 ohm resistors if i so desire.
anything i might be missing?
Sonic Craft also carries AXON(?) caps, which are comparable to Dayton. Picking up everything at the same place will help you save on shipping.
and i would love that, but the only 33 uF i can find on the site is a Sonicap, which is nearly $48... which i one new RDO194. i need to save somewhere..
i can get $7 shipping. could be worse.
You have to call or email them and ask for that cap, it's not on their site.
ok then! thanks for everything. gonna get it all ordered tomorrow.
Steve, I've got a pair of 33uF Jantzens that are yours for the asking. Make a couple more posts then send me your address in a private message (click my username) and I'll send 'em out your way.
i remember the question i had last night.... the resistors in my Xover are 5 W.... since i do not fully understand each part's function, what does changing to a 12 W resistor do?
its far a whole different use.
ok... so not these? they are the only .5 ohm with a 12W value i can find.
Welcome to the club. I highly recommend you go with the Sonic Craft Sonic Cap. It is much better than the Axon caps. If you have a value you cannot find on Sonic Crafts website, contact them and they will steer you in the right direction. If you can go for 12W Mills resisitors (as others suggested) in the values you are looking for, go for it.
Then after, you will want to add Dynamat Extreme to the speaker baskets to prevent ringing, and add mortite to seal your speakers.
It will be a completely different speaker after performing all these upgrades.
Statistics show that 98% of us will die at some point in our lifetime.
The other 2% will work for WalMart.
i am mostly going that route...for now.
all i need to know is if these (http://www.parts-express.com/pe/psho...tnumber=005-.5 ) are the correct resistors to replace the polyswitch, and i am good to order.
of course, then the speakers will be so good, they will make me annoyed with my NAD, so i will have to shop for a new amp... then round we go!
yes those are the ones you should be able to get them through Sonicraft if that is the direction you choose.
Welcome to the fold officially now, Steve. You came inquiring about a $20 ebay kit and now look at what we've "helped" you to commit to!
Not sure what NAD you're running, but most of what they make won't necessarily be outclassed by your 11Ts (I'm feeding my modded 11TLs with a NAD 2600A amp to good effect). Of course, there may be gains to be found...:twisted: I think you'll be pretty happy with what you're planning.
all the caps, resistors, and 48 feet of solder ordered form soniccraft today... just a touch over $100 with shipping, so not too bad. 20% off is a great thing, plus they are real nice on the phone. good service and very helpful with my questions and insecurity.
the NAD is a C 325BEE 50 watt integrated, 2006-2008 era. i also have a 2150 and so wish i could run both... but the integrated doesn't bridge. i like the NAD gear, but i am well aware of its limitations and colorings. it will suffice for now as budget will limit experimenting with truly high end amps, and my wife will limit the necessity for more power.
packages are rolling in... one more to go tomorrow before i can start.
i received these ebay Xovers today, and the more i look at schematics, i am fairly certain they are 11T and not 11TL. the resistors are 2.7 and 2.0, which is not TL.
any thoughts please? i would like to use these if i am correct.
That would appear to be a match for the 11T schematic: 12uF electrolytic, 34uF electrolytic, 12uF mylar caps; 2.0 and 2.7 ohm resistors, polyswitch. Have you pulled the crossover out of your speakers to see if they're exact matches?
If you unscrew the board from the "cup" you can follow the copper traces to see if everything is tied together as shown on that schematic (just to be sure and to familiarize yourself with the circuit). Oh, and one "I'm sorry to give such obvious advice" bit of advice, but do your crossovers one at a time, so you've got a comparison.
here is a pic of current crossovers, front and back... so these large copper sections are the traces? i am used to looking at motherboards and such, much finer paths.
looks like a match component-wise though the inductors don't match.
Yep, those are the traces. Crossovers are a heck of a lot easier to solder than a motherboard, eh? Definitely doesn't require the same level of precision.
This crossover looks like the one in the TLs that I worked on--Honestly I wasn't convince that the crossovers you got on ebay were 11T's until you posted the larger pics so the components could clearly be seen. They must have been from an earlier production run? I'm guessing the inductors are an electrical match if not a part-for-part match. Simply because I worked on crossovers that looked like the ones in post 27, I'm more comfortable imagining working on those (but I'm not doing the work so you can decide if you have a preference!).
Perhaps you can check the location of the through-holes on each style crossover and determine if one will be easier to lay out your new and larger caps on. If one looks easier/simpler, that's the one to go to work on.
this will be a fun weekend. there is just not enough time in my week to dedicate focus. i want to make sure i do this right.
new question, same 11T's... i bought some spikes, and since the 11T has a foot on it, i assume you put the spikes in the "floor" of the speaker and not in that rim around the bottom?
I'm trying to remember how the base of the 11T is constructed--My 11TLs don't have that 'rim'/frame you mention. Are the slider feet mounted on that part of the base, or on the part that is the actual main cabinet? You'll want the feet to go into the more structurally sound "floor" like you're imagining above.


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By Lori E. Sizer on April 26, 2022 Festival team
The Crossroads of Texas Film and Music Festival returns to Waxahachie this week.
The city said there were only a few movie and concert tickets available.
Thursday through Saturday at the historic Chautauqua Auditorium in Getzendaner Park, the city will celebrate the best in Texas movies and music, including concerts by Max Stalling, Jason Boland and the Stragglers with special guest Kenny Feidler and the Cowboy Killers, and Randall King!
Buy your tickets at eventbrite.com/…/crossroads-of-texas-film…
The Bookstore Day event is scheduled for Saturday
O'Brien's Bookstore celebrates Independent Bookstore Day and its first anniversary from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Regulars and guests are invited to join in the celebration with refreshments, games and a prize wheel with prizes, such as autographed copies of "Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn", Independent Bookstore Day Mad Libs Special Edition, Leigh Bardugo tote bags and more.
The prize wheel will spin every 15 minutes until the prizes have disappeared.
O'Brien's Bookstore is located inside Gingerbread Antiques in downtown Waxahachie at 310 S. College St.
The dog park will reopen on May 7
Wags-a-hachie Dog Park is set to have its grand opening from 9-11 a.m. on May 7 at 701 Howard Road, behind the Farmers Market.
The event will include vendor booths, giveaways and more.
The dog park closed last year for upgrades. These include a new agility/play equipment area, improved fencing, shaded picnic areas, benches and picnic tables, garbage cans, a 53-space concrete parking lot with lighting and ADA sidewalk connections to walking and biking trail. There is also a mural, which incorporates the dog park, the farmers market and the butterfly garden.
Residents are asked to use Matthews Street to access the parking lot.
Splash pads set to open May 30
Waxahachie Town Wading Pools will open on Memorial Day, May 30.
There are three wading pools: George Brown Plaza at 209 N. Jackson St., open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Matthew's Park at 501 Harvest Grove Road (open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.), and Railyard Park at 455 S. College St. (open daily 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.).
For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3EtUcYF.
The Farmer's Market will open
The 2022 Downtown Farmers Market will hold its grand opening on May 7.
The Farmer's Market will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. every Saturday from May to October from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. It is located at 701 Howard Road.
For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3N0Tu8K.
Eagle Flight School Camp
Eagle Flight School Summer Camp is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 6 through July 7 at Faith Family's Oak Cliff and Waxahachie campuses.
The program is suitable for all ages and is designed so that students can take what they learn in the classroom and apply it in different ways – through EXPLORE360 adventure learning activities, athletics and visits to many top attractions in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
This free five-week program combines indoor and outdoor learning in new and fun ways to ensure every child is prepared for their next grade level.
This year's Eagle Flight School program will include an in-depth study of the great state of Texas suitable for every age and grade level. Each week will be dedicated to a different region of the Lone Star State and exploring each region's history, people, and places. Breakfast and lunch are included each day.
To register, go to Faithfamilyacademy.org/signature-programs/efs. The registration deadline is June 5.
Kindergarten and kindergarten overview
Waxahachie ISD will hold its pre-K and kindergarten roundup from 5:30-7 p.m. on May 3.
All pre-K will be held at Turner, and kindergarten will be held on the student's zoned campus.
Marvin and Wilemon Kindergarten Lottery students will be notified by April 18 if they have been selected for a place at their school of choice, and they are invited to attend the roundup at that campus.
Pre-K students are asked to bring ID, proof of income, birth certificate, social security card, and vaccination record.
For more information, visit wisd.org or call 972-923-4631.
An Earth Day celebration will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at Central Presbyterian Church, 402 N. College St. in Waxahachie.
Shred-It will be in the parking lot to receive the paper to be shredded. Fees are $10 for home shredding and $25 for business shredding. It will be shredded while you're there, so you're guaranteed it's gone.
For more information, call Patty Dickerson, chair of the Earth Care Congregation ministry team, at 972-217-5956.


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Q: A question on interpreting function and lambda function in Python I am having a hard time with a practice problem involving function and lambda using Python. I wonder if you could help me explain how this function works:
The problem is: What is the expected output of the following code:
v = [1, 2, 3]

def g(a,b,m):
    return m(a,b)

print(g(1, 1, lambda x,y: v[x:y+1]))

I understand that the lambda part is equivalent to v[1:2] which is slicing v and returns [2, 3], but how do I interpret g(1, 1, [2,3])?
Thank you for your help.

A: A lambda is just a self-contained function inside a single expression. Internally, there's almost no actual difference between functions and lambdas other than the syntax for writing them.
The thing you might not be seeing is that you can pass a function like any regular variable (so the third argument of g() is a function/lambda). So, in your case, you're creating a lambda:
lambda x,y: v[x:y+1]

and passing it as the third argument to g(). Inside g(), the third argument gets called with the first and second arguments. So the lambda doesn't get actually called until inside the function - defining it does not automatically execute it.
g(1, 1, [2, 3]) would fail, because [2, 3] is not callable (consider: [2, 3](a, b) doesn't make sense).

The following code would be functionally identical to what you have (replacing the lambda with a normal function):
v = [1, 2, 3]
def lam(x, y):
    return v[x:y+1]

def g(a,b,m):
    return m(a,b)

print(g(1, 1, lam))

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Nexus 6P or Moto X Pure – Which is the best Android flagship phone?
Google today announced a pair of two Nexus phones in San Francisco. The event, as is increasingly common, was also live-streamed (replay on YouTube).
The smaller Nexus 5X is made by LG, features a 5.2-inch 1080p screen. Starts at $379 (16GB).
The Nexus 6P is made by Huawei (a first), features a 5.7-inch 1440p screen. Starts at $499 (32GB).
Both phones come with the new USB Type-C connector, which means no more fiddling about trying to figure out what side of the cable is "up". For some this could be a pain, though, as it means either replacing existing USB cables lying around the house, or buying an adapter.
Read about today's Google Event: S'more to love across all your screens (Google Blog)
Both are unlocked (the trend of 2015), carrier free (i.e. no bloatware!), and are available for pre-order today from the Google Play Store.
But, the biggest comparison will likely not come between the two Nexus phones, but rather amongst the competition. The most interesting to me, and I suspect for many others will be:
Nexus 6P vs. Motorola X Pure Edition.
Both are large screen phones, and both are positioned at the top end of their respective product line-ups. So, how do they compare?
First, the Motorola X Pure.
Moto X Pure Edition (Motorola)
There's a lot to like here. First, there's that unmistakable Moto design language — a nicely curved backside, relatively small bezels, clean surfaces. Buttons are where you expect them to be (nothing funky like we've seen on something like the LG G3), the camera is pretty sweet (21MP) and has 4K recording.
Dimensions: 153.9mm H x 76.2mm W x 6.1 to 11.06mm Curve
The Pure X uses a Snapdragon 808, has 3GB RAM and — this will please many — has a Micro SD card. Battery is rated at 3000mAh.
Screen-wise, the Moto X Pure has a 5.7″ 1440p Quad HD display and front-facing speakers (thank you, so handy in the car for nav, and at home for videos!).
Bonuses include TurboPower charging. Plus the X Pure in for about 15-20 min, and you get about 10 hours of extra battery. Perfect for a Starbucks refuel.
Moto X Pure Edition pricing:
$399 / 16GB
Overall, a really nice job by Motorola on this phone. With several inlay styles (18) and a variety of accent colors (7), you can customize to your heart's content. Also, don't forget you also get the Moto Display which allows you to see notifications in a low power ambient mode while your phone is resting on a table (still, I wish these new phones still came with LED notification lights).
Nexus 6P (Huawei)
The Nexus 6P is positioned as a flagship phablet. Fortunately it's priced more like a conventional Android phone, and not like Samsung's (well regarded) Note range. Like the Moto X Pure, this is looking like a great device, save for a few missing bits, which I'll get to in a sec.
Nexus 6P specs include: 5.7-inch AMOLED 2560×1440 display, Snapdragon 810, 3GB RAM, front-facing speakers, 12.3MP camera.
Dimensions: 159.4 H x 77.8 W x 7.3mm
USB-C is also here as well — like it or not, reversible connectors are the way forward, so order up some new cables.
Missing features are a bit of a disappointment, though not surprising given the endless "leaks" over the past few weeks. Most notable is the absence of QI wireless charger. Bummer that. I love dropping the phone onto a charging pad at night, as I was able to do with the Nexus 6 (and Nexus 5 before that). Also, there's no SD storage slot, nor removable battery. And — this could be huge omission for series photogs — there's no optical image stabilization (OIS) for the camera. Ugh. Big miss there.
Nexus 6P pricing:
$649 / 128GB
Moto X Pure or Nexus 6P?
Choosing between the two is a close call. Obviously if budget is the primary decision criteria, go with the Moto X Pure. At $399 for the base 16GB model, you'll pay $100 less than the 6P's $499 entry price.
Pricing aside, I'd still go with the X Pure.
The Moto X has a better camera, wallet-friendly pricing, and an SD slot which I like for loading on movies and music (great when travelling too, when a network or wi-fi aren't readily available). Also, the Moto X Pure comes in a more compact package — narrower and not as tall as the 6P — and, like past Moto X phones, feels pretty sweet in the hand thanks to that curved back.
Neither phone has Qi charging which is a shame. Then again, Qi seems to be on the way out. Not sure why that is, I love the convenience.
If you want Android 6.0 Marshmallow right away, or if you really want a fingerprint sensor, the Nexus 6P (or 5X) should be top of mind of course. Also, you might even want to consider the Nexus 6 (2014) which still packs a lot, especially considering a 32GB Nexus 6 can be had for only $349 (and will likely receive Android Marshmallow update next week).
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Both the Moto X Pure Edition and Nexus 6P are solid Androids. Although I'd save $100 and go with the X with its awesome Moto Display feature and svelte ergonomic, I'd suspect I'd be pretty happy too with the Nexus 6P and its rapid-fire OS updates.
Heck, with phones like the Moto G ($179!?), and Huawei Ascend Mate, and Asus Zenfone 2, and Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3, we really are living in a new era of unlocked greatness.
I remember when I got my first Android phone in 2009, the now historic Motorola Droid. I entered my Google credentials, and, boom, everything synced; a far cry from my aging BlackBerry. That phone came with a 2-year Verizon commit. I was happy as a clam. But, now, in 2015, the choice for budget-friendly Android devices is staggering. Moto X Pure Edition? Nexus 6P? Nexus 5X? Choice is all so very good.
WATCH: Google Press Event 9/29/15 ft. Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P
Fitbit OS Update for Versa 2, Ionic: Clock face switcher, always-on enhancements, advanced sleep tools, more


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Carl Looft (né Knutsen; 9 February 1863 – 10 April 1943) was a Norwegian physician, and among the first pediatricians in Norway.

He was born in Bærum to physician Carl August Knutsen and Margery Henriette Caroline Louise Thaulow, and was a grandson of Heinrich Arnold Thaulow. In 1892 he married Sofie Bolette Gran.

Looft graduated as cand.med. in 1889. His thesis from 1897 was a treatment of mental disability among children. From 1890 to 1940 he practiced as pediatrician in Bergen. In addition to his work as physician, he was responsible for a series of epidemiological investigations among children. Among his conclusions was that appropriate nutrition during pregnancy and infancy was an important factor for the mental development of the children.

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A city as big as Birmingham is packed with things to do. You can visit art galleries and museums, or do some shopping at the Bullring. You can come to watch sport or to soak up some culture with one of the many festivals occurring throughout the year. Let's take a look at which festivals are worth checking out on your next visit to Birmingham.
Next taking place between the 16th and 24th February 2018, Cross Currents is a festival which celebrates classical music. Focusing more on the contemporary, the festival sees acclaimed musicians, composers and students share the stage to bring together a collection of workshops and performances.
This impressive dance festival takes place every two years, with the next date being the 1st to the 24th June 2018. The festival takes over venues to display world-class performances and also takes to the streets to showcase the diverse range of dance styles.
With the first Pride festival taking place in 1997, the festival has gone from attracting just a few thousand people to hosting around 50,000. Taking place on the 26th and 27th May 2018, you can expect to see colorful performances from celebrated stars and local legends.
A regular to the Birmingham festival circuit, Flatpack takes place every spring, with the next festival taking place on the 13th to 22nd April 2018. It uses a variety of venues in and around Birmingham to put on film screenings, installations, exhibitions and other events.
Since 1999, Birmingham Literature Festival has celebrated writers and the books they produce by holding events in the city centre. See a range of readings, theatre performances and author interviews in this October festival, or you could pop along to the spring edition which takes place on the 27th to 29th April 2018.
Of course, whichever festival is up to your street, you will need to make sure you have suitable accommodation. Look into serviced apartments in Birmingham such as those found here http://www.8waterloostreet.co.uk to give your trip to Birmingham the finishing touch. Just remember to research the area and plan your travel to and from the venues.
With such a diverse history, it's no wonder that Birmingham hosts some of the most celebrated festivals in the world.


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The boy of course became Nostradamus and the ripped pages from books explained his visions of the future. Nostradamus was one of the first to re-paraphrase these prophecies in French, which may explain why they are credited to him.
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Modern views of plagiarism did not apply in the 16th century; authors frequently copied and paraphrased passages without acknowledgement, especially from the classics. Nostradamus ran into some controversy with his predictions, as some thought he was a servant of the devil, and others said he was a fake or insane.
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Nostradamus had the visions which he later recorded in verse while staring into water or flame late at night, sometimes aided by herbal stimulants, while sitting on a brass tripod.
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His family was originally Jewish, but had converted to Catholicism during the previous century. Each of the centuries or chapters contain prophetic quatrains, except for Century VII, which has 42, for a total of prophecies.
Thanks to printing practices at the time, no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies exactly the same. When obliged to attempt this himself on the basis of the published tables of the day, he frequently made errors and failed to adjust the figures for his clients' place or time of birth.
Even the often-advanced suggestion that quatrain I. The publication in of Nostradamus's private correspondence [66] and, during succeeding years, of the original editions of and discovered by Chomarat and Benazra, together with the unearthing of much original archival material [38] [67] revealed that much that was claimed about Nostradamus did not fit the documented facts.
Even the planetary tables on which he based such birthcarts as he was unable to avoid preparing himself are easily identifiable by their detailed figures, even where as is usually the case he gets some of them wrong. Another form was a ritualistic practice associated with the Delphic priestess, Branchus, a soothsayer from the famed Oracle of Delphi in Greece.
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Can Zoneminder 1.30.4 runs on Raspberry pi model B+?
we "successfully" installed zoneminder 1.30.4 on raspberry model B+ but when we try to open new monitor we get in this problem.
is it possible to run correctly this version of zoneminder with our hardware specs or is it infeasible?
Re: Can Zoneminder 1.30.4 runs on Raspberry pi model B+?
The cpu is too slow and the amount of ram is just too little to run zoneminder + sql database + cameras.
With that hardware the best you can hope for is to build a Raspberry Pi camera (only), and then run ZoneMinder on some other machine on your network.
You can do the same thing with your B+.
I tried this as well, but it just couldn't cut it. The video was very choppy, it was sluggish, etc.
I ended up using an old Dell laptop (D620) which was no longer suitable for my current desktop needs but great for Zoneminder. Installed Ubuntu 16 server using the Zoneminder Ubuntu docs. Works great.
You can probably find a cheap used one on Ebay for about the price of a RP. I just checked and saw someone selling a lot of 4 of them for $51.
I almost mentioned this in my last reply. A couple of us have been working with Odroid's and they are performing really well.
These are 8 (asymmetric) core machines with 2GB ram.
The hc1 accepts a 2.5" drive while the hc2 accepts a 3.5" drive.
However, if cost is more important for your application then a good solution is to do what joseph85750 did. Just buy a small, used pc. Anything with at least 4 cores (not hyperthreaded) will be able to drive a handle of HD IP cameras just fine.


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Global Defence and Strategic Issues
Asian and Oceanian Militaries
Chinese Civil Aviation and Shipbuilding
Vladimir79
China: World's Leader in Shipbuilding
Vladimir79 on Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:49 pm
At the shipyards of China continues to receive orders for the construction of ships
Thus, according to the China Association of Shipbuilding Industry in July 2009, China's factories and shipyards received orders for ships, the total capacity of which amounted to more than 4.1 million tons - is the overwhelming proportion of world shipbuilding market - nearly 70% of the total the number of orders.
Note, in June 2009 China's shipbuilding enterprises lowered to the water court, the total capacity of which reached 12.33 million tons. A person Explicit growth rates - for now by the number of orders China clearly overtakes the leaders of the global shipbuilding industry - Japan and South Korea. Whether more will be!
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Vladimir79 on Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:40 pm
China has chosen the supplier of avionics for the liner C919
Chinese Commercial Aviation Corporation (COMAC) has selected a European company, GE Aviation Systems as a provider of core processing system , display system information and on-board maintenance system for a new Chinese airliner trunk C919, reported Tuesday , the Chinese media .
On Monday COMAC signed with companies GE Aviation and AVIC Systems (" Daughter of China Aviation Industry Corporation AVIC) an agreement of intent concerning the delivery of information display systems , data processing , as well as on-board maintenance system for the liner C919. In addition , GE Aviation Systems will provide aircraft for the system of record data during the flight.
Under the agreement GE Aviation Systems and AVIC Systems will create a joint venture , which will develop and manufacture of airborne electronic equipment for the C919. The agreement provides for a gradual transition from direct supply of equipment GE Aviation Systems to localize production in enterprises AVIC Systems. Conclusion of an agreement with GE Aviation Systems basically completes the procedure for selection of suppliers for the C919.
C919 - China's first draft of the main airliner with a capacity of 150-197 seats , its first flight is expected in 2014 , began commercial operation in 2016 . The project is COMAC - Chinese state-owned company , established in 2008 to design and manufacture of new civil aircraft.
AVIC Systems - a subsidiary of AVIC, responsible for the production of aircraft components, including avionics , fuel systems and control systems. GE Aviation Systems - Europe's biggest manufacturers of aircraft equipment, wholly owned subsidiary of American GE Aviation, which is part of the corporation General Electric.
Re: Chinese Civil Aviation and Shipbuilding
Engines will be supplied by Snecma of France and avionics by European GE subsidiary. Can we all laugh at this video saying it is all homemade.
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solo.13mmfmj on Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:02 pm
Why are so obsest to say that they build everything.They only copy stuff.
George1 on Sat Jan 03, 2015 4:38 pm
China's new 10,000 ton Coast Guard cutter
George1 on Wed Mar 18, 2015 11:02 pm
Chinese aircraft manufacturer Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation (Chengdu), part of the State Aircraft Corporation AVIC, completed assembly of the bow of the Chinese perspective amphibian "Jiaolong-600" (TA-600).
"Jiaolong-600" (TA-600) to become the largest of seaplanes produced in the world - its maximum takeoff weight is up to 54 thousand pounds. In 2015, we plan to collect the first prototypes of the aircraft, in 2016 to be held its first flight. The "Jiaolong-600" enjoys strong political support. This is an equal part of the national program "three large aircraft." Two other "large aircraft" -
C919 airliner developed and heavy transport aircraft Y-20.
http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1226872.html
George1 on Sun Apr 19, 2015 3:26 pm
China Builds Mother Ship for Deep-Submergence Vehicle
China laid the keel on Saturday of the mother vessel for an 11,000-meter manned submersible as part of the country's deep-sea research program, local media reports said.
The ship, "Zhang Jian", named after the founder of Shanghai Ocean University, is 97 meters long and 17.8 meters wide. It has a designed displacement of around 4,800 tons and 15,000-nautical mile endurance ability, Xinhua news agency reported.
Designed to carry 60 people, the ship will boast advanced laboratories, data processing and information centers and other devices.
The "Zhang Jian" will serve as a mother ship to the manned submersible "Rainbow Fish" which is capable of diving to a depth of 11,000 meters, and will be used in general ocean expedition missions, deep-sea engineering, rescue and salvage, underwater archaeology and film shooting, said Cui Weicheng, head of the Hadal Research Center at Shanghai Ocean University.
The vessel is scheduled to float in June 2016. Chinese scientists will launch unmanned diving expeditions in the deepest area of the Pacific's Mariana Trench in 2016, and manned diving in this area in 2019, with the Rainbow Fish submersible and other deep-sea devices, the agency said.
China's manned submersible "Jiaolong" reached its deepest depth of 7,062 meters in the Mariana Trench in June 2012.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150419/1021093021.html#ixzz3XlFyTJci
George1 on Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:34 am
The agreement on the possibility of assembly in Russia of the Chinese MA60 aircraft
Guest on Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:37 pm
COMAC rolls out first C919, China's 1st homemade large passenger aircraft:
Source: http://www.cavok.com.br/blog/comac-apresenta-oficialmente-o-seu-c919-a-maior-aeronave-comercial-ja-produzida-na-china/
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sepheronx on Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:55 pm
I always thought that it would have been good for Russia to have co-worked with China on the aircraft instead of having two competitors (SSJ and MS-21) since it is obvious Chinese companies would purchase the aircraft and so will a lot of other countries. Russia could have easily gained profit from it and its products for the aircraft could have been used. The more competitors the lot less sales there are. Hence why I fear MS-21 wont actually sell well at all, as SSJ-100 is selling alright so far (but orders for SSJ-100 is still lot less than this C919 aircraft).
type055 on Mon Nov 09, 2015 8:30 am
Vladimir79 wrote: Engines will be supplied by Snecma of France and avionics by European GE subsidiary. Can we all laugh at this video saying it is all homemade.
you can laugh now , where is Russia's GT25000?
Guest on Tue Dec 08, 2015 11:45 am
"Dec. 7, 2015 shows China's first polar airplane "Snow Eagle 601" having a trial flight at the Zhongshan Station, a Chinese scientific research base in Antarctica The Basler BT-67, named "Snow Eagle 601", will operate supply runs and other logistics missions for expedition teams within a radius of 1,300 km around China's Zhongshan Station in Antarctica, said Qin Weijia, deputy head of the administration. The aircraft will also serve as a transport between Zhongshan and Kunlun stations and nearby stations of other countries, Qin said.
The aircraft, manufactured in the United States, can fly at a speed of 380 km per hour with a maximum payload of 5,900 kg. It will be equipped with research equipment including an ice radar system, airborne gravimeter, airborne magnetometer and onboard laser radar system. Since China lacks aircraft operation experience in Antarctica, the plane will be operated by Kenn Borek Air, an Canadian airline.
In its maiden journey, Snow Eagle 601 will take off from Canada, fly over South America and land at the Rothera Research Station of the United Kingdom as the first stop. Then it will fly to the Zhongshan Station via a short stop at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station of the United States. Afterwards it will make a flight to the Kunlun Station, at about 4,000 meters above the sea level near Dome A."
Source: http://defence-blog.com/news/chinas-snow-eagle-601-first-polar-airplane-conducts-successful-trial-flight.html
Location : South Pole
China's new 98,000-ton mega ship
max steel on Thu Jun 02, 2016 11:46 am
George1 on Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:09 am
China is planning to carry out the maiden flight of AG600, the world's largest amphibious aircraft, in mid-May, local media reported Thursday.
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201703301052106634-china-amphibious-aircraft-world/
George1 on Fri May 05, 2017 6:02 pm
The first flight of the Chinese passenger aircraft C919
miketheterrible on Fri May 05, 2017 8:48 pm
I was always under the impression that Russia should have worked with China on building all types of passenger aircrafts. I mean, it would guarantee work + profit for Russian companies like Irkutsk and Sukhoi Civil, as well as continuous orders and work.
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Tsavo Lion on Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:34 am
China developing Y-20F commercial transport plane
The Y-20F-100 will be longer than the Y-20 and can carry 28 airfreight containers, or 65 metric tons of cargo with a maximum flight range of 8,000 km. The Y-20F will be powered by the under-development indigenous Shenyang WS-20 high bypass turbofan engine, replacing the aged Soviet era Soloviev D-30KP-2 turbofans on the Y-20. ..
China has also inked agreement with Ukraine's Antonov to resurrect the second An-225 transport aircraft in phase one and start series production of the world's largest transport plane under license in the country. http://www.aviationanalysis.net/2018/05/china-developing-y-20f-commercial.html
The military may also get a version of the Y-20F. Time will tell!
George1 on Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:22 pm
Plans to create new modifications of the Chinese regional aircraft ARJ21
According to the magazine "Aviation Week & Space Technology" in the material of Bradley Perrett (translated from ATO.ru), the Chinese aircraft building corporation COMAC is in talks with one of the international freight carriers regarding the development of a cargo version of the regional aircraft ARJ21-700. At the same time, COMAC performs the final assembly of the first version of the ARJ21 business jet. A long-awaited long version of the regional liner should appear after the first update of the aircraft.
George1 on Sat Jun 30, 2018 2:53 am
In China, work began on the creation of an atomic icebreaker
George1 on Sun Oct 21, 2018 4:31 pm
The Chinese amphibian AG600 made the first take-off and landing from the surface of the water
George1 on Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:51 pm
The first Chinese icebreaker of its own construction went to sea for sea trials.
Tsavo Lion on Fri Jul 12, 2019 5:45 am
China launches first locally-made icebreaker
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FORGET YOUR preconceptions – that's pretty much what this Healey said the minute we clapped eyes on it. More so once we had a good chance to crawl over the thing.
A combination of the rare factory hardtop (one of just 200 said to be have been produced) plus the various alterations to the body pretty well announce the intent.
You'll see the guards have been flared, while a host of rally-style features added, including venting, additional lights and boot lid. It adds up to compact and muscularlooking package.
The story goes the car was brought into Australia in 2008 and stripped back to bare metal. As anyone who has seen this process in action, rebuilding one of these things is not a cheap exercise.
There was no skimping – some $150k was spent.
It seems whoever played ringmaster on this project wasn't afraid of a little mix and matching.
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out of sight is the more modern five-speed manual transmission.
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Q: How to fundamentally approach creating a 'financial planner' application? I want to create a financial planning application (for personal use), for which the overall functionality will be this:

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*User (me..) can create different 'scenarios'.

*Each scenario is configured with different incomings/outgoings.

*Scenarios can be 'explored' in a calendar format with projections taking into account tax, interest (on both debt and savings) and so on and so forth.

My problem lies in how to fundamentally approach the project.
I've considered:

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*When creating incomings/outgoings for a script to apply them to each day in a 'days' table of a database, acting as a method of caching. This means that if I wanted to look at January 14th, 2074 there aren't thousands of cycles of calculations to run through and the result can just be pulled.

*Do each calculation dynamically, but again, I'm finding it hard to visuallize how I would handle different tax allowances (I'm based in the UK by the way), payrises and 'changes' to my incomings/outgoings.

I've sat on this for a couple of days and am struggling to come up with an elegant approach to my problem.
There may well be software out there that does what I'm looking to do (in fact I'm sure it is) but I would like to develop this myself for learning purposes, to be able to add it to my personal life 'toolset' and to allow me to expand on it in the future.
Many thanks to all who have any input on my dilemna.

A: This is fairly generic advice for any problem, but it may help.

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*Start with the data. Work out what information you'll need to store, how each piece of information relates to the others. If you get the data structure wrong, you can spend an incredible amount of time writing code to "force" it into the correct structure.

*Caching is "easy to apply" late in the day, as it's generally adding new tables and memory stores. It's best to get the system working first (proof of concept), then cache the data at the bottlenecks you find during real usage. Otherwise you may find yourself making incredibly complex on-demand caches for data that is only used once in the project's lifetime. (Note that "easy to apply" is dependent on you getting the data right, and encapsulating well. However, these are important anyway.)

*Start small. If you look at all the complexities you will go mad. Accountants and Financial Software Companies are paid a lot for a reason. Start with one specific plan to begin with, and work on generalising once you've got that locked down. Working on the small will allow you to detect the actual issues you'll have to deal with when you reach the large, rather than the issues you currently think you'll have to deal with.

*Remember this is primarily a self-development project. You're not being pressured to estimate and date, and the penalty for failure is zero. Feel free to experiment and throw away code that doesn't work.

A: Before starting please check palo bi... İt is a very nice excel integrated solution... İt will inspire you a lot' if you didnt see yet
İ think excel is a better platform for financial stuff,
Your calendar views can be pivot table aggregations maybe?
For small applications
Your every income can be line in excel
Your senarios can be sheets maybe,
But when size increases you will need olap s dimentional approach...
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Many children in low-income countries such as here in Nepal have insufficient vitamin B12 intakes in infancy. This appears to weaken their social and theoretical learning capacities later in life. Previous research has shown many Norwegian babies to also have too low an intake of this vitamin, which is important in brain development. (Illustrative photo: Colourbox)
Pregnant women who eat fewer eggs and meat can have kids with late brain development
Norwegian researchers have found that five-year-olds who received little vitamin B12 as infants tend to have greater problems solving various language and numerical problems as well as understanding other children's emotions.
Anne Lise Stranden
wednesday 29. mars 2017 - 06:20
Medical scientists have measured the vitamin status of infants and tested their social and theoretical skills five years later.
They discovered differences related to the quantities of vitamin B12 babies had received. Five-year-olds who had lower intakes in infancy trailed behind other kids their age in tests.
B12, also called cobalamin, is essential to the brain. Meat, milk and eggs are the major sources of the vitamin. In Norway another common source is mackerel, mainly sold in tins.
The researchers collaborated with Nepalese and American colleagues on the study, which was implemented in Nepal. It was recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Tested kids with puzzles
The research started in Nepal when blood samples were taken from 500 infants to measure their levels of vitamin B12.
Five years later, 320 of these children were contacted and underwent testing, including how long it took to solve various puzzles.
The results showed a clear connection between early vitamin B12 status and various assessments of the children's development.
"We found differences in how the children interpreted complex geometric figures and the degree in which they recognised other children's emotions, dependent on the levels of vitamin B12 they had as infants," says Clinical Psychologist and Researcher Ingrid Kvestad.
She works at Uni Research Health in Bergen and was first author of the work.
Can apply to other children
Researchers at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen have previously shown that Norwegian infants can also get insufficient B12. In fact, two out of three babies under four months had low levels.
But this was a small selection of children – ones who had been referred by polyclinics because they were not developing sufficiently or they had eating problems.
"The vitamin especially affects the nervous system in the first few months," explained Dr Anne-Lise Bjørke-Monsen to Science Nordic's Norwegian partner forskning.no in 2013.
New-borns have a little stored-up B12 they got from their mothers in utero. As infants they need to get enough B12 from breast milk, or for those who are bottle-fed, from milk supplements.
So it is important for pregnant women and mothers who breastfeed their babies to eat right. Vitamin B12 is mainly found naturally in meat, dairy products and eggs.
But after two or three months of breastfeeding a mother's milk contains less B12.
So in 2013 the researchers Anne-Lise Bjørke-Monsen and Ingrid Torsvik recommended mothers who were feeding their babies nothing but breast milk at the age of six months to start giving them other food to ensure their child gets enough B12.
Vegans and vegetarians can get too little
Getting sufficient quantities of B12 without taking vitamin supplements can be particularly challenging for pregnant women who don't eat meat.
"We didn't measure this, but if one doesn't want to eat meat and alternative can be mackerel," says Kvestad.
The Norwegian study from 2013 also showed that a single injection with B12 did wonders for the kids.
It improved their motor skills development.
That study involved 100 infants who had been referred to the Children's Clinic at Haukeland Hospital because they were lagging in motor skills development, had eating problems – or both.
These infants' average age was four months and about half had been solely fed with breast milk. Blood samples showed that eight out of ten had low B12 levels.
Meat can give children a better start
However, Kvestad is more concerned about children in low-income countries.
"Huge numbers in South Asia eat little meat and insufficient vitamin B12 levels are widespread," she says.
This seems to have an impact on children's learning abilities and skills in interpreting others.
A sizeable number of children in low-income countries fail to develop to their full potential for their age group.
"Our results show that correcting vitamin B12 deficiencies early can be a way of ensuring these kids a better development," says Kvestad.
She thinks that extra B12 in these regions can be an easy and cheap way of giving many children a better start in life.
A delay or a chronic problem?
Are children who received insufficient doses of B12 just behind schedule in maturing or does the deficiency cause permanent, irreversible damage to brain development?
"We don't know. To find out we need to also test the children as they get older and see if the differences decrease, persist or expand," says Kvestad.
She and her colleagues are investigating this question in a number of large interventional studies in Nepal and India.
This initiative involves cooperation among researchers from Uni Research Health, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Tribhuvan University in Nepal, the Center for Intervention Studies in Maternal and Child Health at the University of Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital and researchers in the USA, including from Johns Hopkins University.
Abstract: Ingrid Kvestad, Mari Hysing et al.: Vitamin B12 status in infancy is positively associated with development and cognitive functioning five years later in Nepalese children. Abstract. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 22 March 2017.
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Exclusive breastfeeding may cause B12 deficiency in babies
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People sometimes say that vegetarians get sick if they begin eating meat again. Research doesn't back them up.
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