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'Making Contact' Profiles Pioneering Alien Hunter Jill Tarter
The life of astrophysicist Jill Tarter is chronicled in a new book by science writer Sarah Scoles.
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A new book by science writer Sarah Scoles profiles radio astronomer Jill Tarter, a pioneer in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. Even if you haven't heard of Tarter, you might know the fictional alien hunter she inspired — Ellie Arroway, from the movie "Contact," which was based on the book by Carl Sagan. The character was based on Tarter, who was a driving force in what became known as SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Tarter helped transform SETI from a somewhat dubious field in the 1970s to a more organized effort that is accepted by the mainstream scientific community today.
"She kind of fell into SETI work," Scoles told Space.com. Scoles' book, "Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" (Pegasus Books), was published earlier this year. Scoles said early SETI efforts faced serious scientific, political and financial challenges, causing the field to move forward in fits and spurts. Although Scoles acknowledges that scientists work together to build up and establish their fields, she said Tarter served a unique and perhaps irreplaceable figure.
"I'm not confident that there would have been another person who would have picked up the pieces and started over," Scoles said. "[Tarter's] willingness and ability to persevere in the face of all that is not something that a lot of people would have done." [50 Years of Listening for Aliens: Q & A With SETI Pioneer Jill Tarter]
"Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" (Pegasus Books, 2017). (Image credit: Pegasus Books)
A nontraditional life
Born in New York in 1944, Tarter (born Jill Cornell) spent her childhood with a father who encouraged her to dream, according to Scoles' book. Despite growing up in time where traditional gender roles were more regimented, she decided at a young age to be an engineer.
"Why do you want to take calculus? You're just going to get married and have babies," Tarter recalls a high school guidance counselor telling her. (She managed to do all three.) When she completed Cornell University's five-year undergraduate engineering program in 1965, she was the only woman out of 300 students.
Tarter's father, who told her she could accomplish anything as long as she worked hard enough, died when Tarter was 12. Her mother, who had encouraged her daughter toward more feminine roles, continued to provide her with quiet support after her father passed away, according to Scoles' book.
"I think that her mom being forced into this nontraditional role [of a single mother] maybe made her more accepting of [a nontraditional role for] her daughter," Scoles said.
And while her father had pushed young Jill to fulfill her dreams, "what she learned from her mom were the practicalities of how to work hard and get things done," Scoles said. "Her mom was the practical complement to her dad's dreaminess."
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In addition to her bachelor's degree in engineering physics, Tarter earned a master's degree from the University of California at Berkley, followed by a doctorate in astronomy in 1975. During her junior year at Cornell, she married Bruce Tarter. Between undergraduate and graduate school, she gave birth to their only child, a daughter, Shana.
Her marriage to Bruce struggled under the weight of her growing responsibilities. Eventually, the two divorced, and Tarter married fellow radio astronomer William "Jack" Welch.
The probability of success
Early in her career, Tarter came across a paper in the scientific journal Nature on the need to hunt for signals from advanced alien civilizations, according to Scoles. "The probability of success is difficult to estimate, but if we never search, the chance of success is zero," the paper read.
The idea sparked her imagination, and Tarter quickly became a proponent of SETI. The young field suffered a lot of blowback from scientists, according to Scoles, as researchers tried to determine if hunting for signals from alien civilizations was a serious scientific pursuit or a waste of time.
As a woman in astrophysics, which was (and continues to be) a male-dominated field, Scoles said it might have been easier for Tarter to get started in the fringe field "because she was already kind of a fringe character just by being a woman in this particular science." While some scientists may have been reluctant to enter the search for alien signals, Scoles said that Tarter wasn't as concerned because she was already unusual.
"There was a lot less stigma attached because everyone was already [saying], 'What [is] that girl doing?'" Scoles said.
Not long after its 1971 publication, Tarter received the NASA-sponsored Cyclops report, a 250-page document on humanity's ability to hunt for intelligent extraterrestrial life that was instrumental to SETI. According to Scoles' biography, Tarter didn't put the report down for two days. When she finished, she knew she wanted to be part of the search.
Tarter joined the Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP), a project headed by fellow astronomer Stuart Bowyer, who had given her the Cyclops report. Today in its sixth iteration, SERENDIP hunts for signals from advanced civilizations by piggybacking on existing radio astronomy observations.
In 1984, Tarter wrote the charter for the SETI Institute, a nonprofit research organization. According to Scoles, the organization started out as a way to save NASA money, since the agency was funding the bulk of SETI research at the time. By separating them from the government, scientists could fundraise and accept donations while also applying for research grants that used federal funds. The divide also allowed SETI researchers to pursue what Scoles called "risky projects [that] NASA and the National Science Foundation didn't approve of but which turned the heads of the public and a few key philanthropists."
The institute proved a lifesaver once NASA began decreasing its budget for SETI research in the late 1980s. Tarter spent 1989 lobbying in Washington, D.C. Although some senators thought hunting for signals from other civilizations was "a fine idea," others found it irrelevant, since results couldn't be guaranteed in what Scoles called "a politically relevant time frame." In late 1993, the hunt for other civilizations was cut from NASA's budget. In her book, Scoles said the SETI Foundation is what saved SETI.
Today, the SETI Foundation not only hunts for signals from alien civilizations but also studies newly discovered exoplanets, hunts for hardy extremophiles on Earth that could give clues about how extraterrestrial life could evolve, and even studies our own planet.
Under Tarter's guidance, the SETI Institute built the Allen Telescope Array, relying on private donations to create a radio telescope that could hunt for signs of radio communications being transmitted by an intelligent alien civilization. The initiative to build a dedicated SETI array came from a series of 1997 workshops Tarter participated in, and culminated in the birth of 42 radio antennas, positioned in the Cascade Mountains in Northern California. The array began observations in October 2007. When funding dried up for the project, the array was sold to SRI International, a scientific nonprofit organization that uses it to probe objects orbiting Earth. Tarter negotiated evening use of the array for the SETI institute.
By the 1990s, Tarter had become a crusader for the cause, juggling both the science of the growing field and the challenges of politics and funding.
Tarter retired as director of the SETI Institute's Center for SETI Research in 2012, but she has continued to share her enthusiasm for the hunt. She's presented TED talks about SETI and been a guest on numerous podcasts. In 2004, she was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world.
"She's become more public in the last 10 to 15 years," Scoles said. "I feel like more people have heard of her now than before she was retired."
In researching the biography, Scoles said she spent a lot of time with Tarter, whom she describes in her book as "a fierce, stubborn, smart woman who asked big questions about the universe and didn't hear 'No' as 'No' but as 'Keep trying.'"
The key to Tarter's success, Scoles said, was her flexibility.
"Gradually, it became clear that she couldn't exactly set the path for how her life was going to go," she said. "She just became open to possibilities and, I guess, prepared for them.
"She was willing to abandon her own schedule for herself and see opportunities as they presented themselves rather than sticking very rigidly to a plan she had made before," Scoles said.
Astrophysicist Jill Tarter, shown here on a platform above the Arecibo radio telescope while she was working at NASA's Ames Research Center. Tarter went on to become a leader in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. (Image credit: Acey Harper/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty)
An irreplaceable asset
Tarter's work in the hunt for extraterrestrial communications put her in contact with the well-known scientist and public figure Carl Sagan. According to Scoles' book, Tarter was surprised that their few brief professional meetings were enough to earn her a starring role in "Contact." Scoles said that the character of Ellie Arroway — in both the book and subsequent film — is very similar to Tarter.
"I think that, aside from the fact that [Arroway] finds aliens in the movie, it's pretty accurate to [Tarter's] personality," she said.
It was this movie that set Scoles on the path to becoming a radio astronomer when she was 12.
"I didn't know radio astronomy existed until I watched that movie," Scoles said. "I thought it was so cool that there was a science where you were essentially looking at space, but at the parts you couldn't see, and that there were some who were using it to look for aliens. That was like a double whammy of very cool things I didn't know people did for jobs."
Scoles studied radio astronomy at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, serving an internship at Green Bank Observatory after her first year. Green Bank's radio telescopes was one of the first to hunt for SETI signals, and during her internship, Scoles stayed in the former house of SETI pioneer Frank Drake. Although Scoles ultimately decided to pursue a career communicating about science and astronomy, she credits "Contact" with kicking off her interest in the field.
"I think a lot of people had experiences like me," she said. "[Contact] inspired a lot of people of a certain generation."
Her fictional fame isn't something Tarter shies away from, Scoles said. When she asked the scientist how it felt to have such a well-known alter ego, she said that Tarter seemed glad to think that the movie inspired so many people to pursue a career in science.
By advancing the hunt for extraterrestrial life before there was even proof of planets existing beyond Earth's solar system, Scoles said that Tarter helped prepare researchers for a time when thousands of worlds would be known to exist around other stars. Her role as a researcher, combined with her ability to maneuver around bureaucratic hurdles, made her invaluable.
In the book, astronomer Margaret Turnbull testified to "the enormous impact that Jill has had — and that thanks to her we [exoplanet and SETI scientists] are all continuing to have — on the world, just by simply existing and being in the scientific community and pushing the frontiers in every direction."
"She's not replaceable," Turnbull said.
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Q: Why matplotlib is not working on the VSCode I wrote a basic plotting code and I run it on the VS code my somehow the program cannot run it
I deleted python itself and VS code and I downloaded them again, but the problem is not solved.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = [1,2,3]
y = [4,5,6]
plt.plot(x,y)
plt.show()

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:/Users/xxx/Desktop/Cmpt Physics/dreams.py", line 1, in <module>
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 138, in <module>
    from . import cbook, rcsetup
File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\rcsetup.py", line 24, in <module>
    from matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern import parse_fontconfig_pattern
File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\fontconfig_pattern.py", line 18, in <module>
    from pyparsing import (Literal, ZeroOrMore, Optional, Regex, StringEnd,
File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pyparsing.py", line 104, in <module>
    import copy
File "c:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Cmpt Physics\copy.py", line 5, in <module>
    from pylab import plot,show,grid
File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
    from matplotlib.pylab import *
File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pylab.py", line 218, in <module>
    from matplotlib.dates import (
File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\dates.py", line 156, in <module>
    from matplotlib import rcParams
ImportError: cannot import name 'rcParams' from 'matplotlib' (C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py)

Any idea why this happens ?

A: It looks like you are running code from a directory that contains a module named copy which is shadowing the copy module from the stdlib (c:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Cmpt Physics\copy.py looks to be the culprit). Rename that file to something that isn't the same name as something in the stdlib and it should fix the issue.
Typically shadowing the stdlib leads to odd results like this where it pulls in modules out of order or the wrong module and makes things break in an odd way.

A: I just had this issue on Windows. My issue was due to some Python packages installed using pip while other installed using conda. I fixed it by uninstalling the pip packages and reinstalling everything with conda install.

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Syro Demo
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Getting started
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#!/bin/sh

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else
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fi
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LICENSE   # Full text of the project's license
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app.rb    # Top level Syro application
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config.ru # Rack's entry point, it loads ./app.rb
decks/    # Custom decks
doc/      # Documentation
filters/  # Validation filters
lib/      # Libraries
mails/    # Templates for emails
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routes/   # Syro apps that will be mounted
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test/     # Test files
views/    # Templates for views
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To learn more about Syro, visit the [website][syro] and check the
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Соцгород завода имени Чкалова — жилой микрорайон в Дзержинском районе Новосибирска, построенный в 1930—1940 гг.

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Строительство соцгорода началось одновременно с постройкой завода горного оборудования, впоследствии перепрофилированного в авиазавод. Сооружением жилого посёлка руководил А. Ф. Табатчиков. Жилые корпуса строились по проекту К. Е. Осипова и А. В. Баранского. Общее руководство по проектированию и «оформлению» жилых корпусов велось К. Е. Осиповым и Б. А. Биткиным.

На улице Республиканской в 1932 году были возведены дома № 1, № 3, № 5, № 7 и № 9 и в 1936 — № 11.

В 1932 году на Трикотажной улице сооружены дома № 49 и № 49а.

На улице Авиастроителей с 1933 по 1941 были построены следующие здания: № 2а (1933), № 2 и № 3 (1936), № 6 и № 6а (1937), № 4 (1938), № 5 и № 7 (1940), № 8 (1941).

В 1938 г. на территории соцгорода были открыты 4 магазина: мясной, молочный, хлопкосбыта и мехторга.

Первоначально в соцгороде планировали построить театр. В честь будущего культурного заведения была названа улица — Театральная. Но вместо театра был сооружён клуб имени Калинина (совр. Детский дом им. Калинина), который открылся в 1945 году.

Архитектурный стиль
Многие здания соцгорода построены в стиле сталинского ампира. При строительстве домов № 1, № 3 по ул. Республиканской и № 49, № 49а по ул. Трикотажной использовались типовые проекты Новосибсоцстроя, основанные на проектах бригады Эрнста Мая.

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In Germany, 60 companies with around 70 production sites for wood pellets have a production capacity of 2.7 Mio. tons per year. In 2010, 1.75 million t pellets were produced in Germany by which one quarter had to be exported because of insufficient domestic sales. About 85 percent of pellets were produced of saw rest wood. 15 percent of raw material was industry wood (round wood, which cannot be sawed). Most pellets produced in Germany are certified (ENplus/DINplus).
In 2010, 83 % were certified A 1 for private use, of which 15 % were sold bagged, 68 % in bulk. 17 % of the total amount was sold as industry pellets. In 2011, they produced an estimated amount of 1.8 Mio. tons from which 1.4 Mio. tons were used in the country. The high inland production results in a security of supply even in long, cold winters as in 2009/2010 and 2010/2011. Additionally, prices are stable at a low level. The average price for wood pellets was 225 EUR/t in 2010 and 233 EUR/t in 2011.


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Day 3 (Mon., 29-June-2009): North Dakota; Montana; Glacier N.P. by jgn on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 in Reading and Travel
Monday the 29th (Day 3) was all about finding things to do as we cruised through Western North Dakota and Eastern Montana. We woke up with the sunrise:
Caroline, the 6-yr. old, and John, the 40+ yr. old, were fighting it out for who could be more bored. Train travel with a soon-to-be-first-grader is tough. But we brought along a lot of surprises for Caroline, such as a magnetic knock-off of Battleship called SeaBattle:
I should say that Caroline was quite content to read at long stretches from her books about Fairies, which we doled out slowly.
I finished on my Kindle the novel One Second After ( Amazon), which is about the impact of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) on everyday life in North America and a small town in North Carolina in particular. Besides being a pretty ripping yarn, the novel is plausible agit-prop for the notion that the federal government should harden many more resources against the effects of EMP. After reading the book, I read up a bit on EMP, and if you're concerned about, oh, the end of life as we know it, I would recommend that you read it. (It's better than the TV series "Jericho," but not as good a novel as World Made by Hand ( Amazon).)
In the mid-morning, our sleeping car attendant told us that there would be a wine-tasting at 3 PM. Now that sounded fun. However, there were to be no kids! So I did the one on this leg, with the expectation that Julie would do the tasting on the way back. It was a lot of fun. Here's a pic of one of the dining car managers reading about the wine:
The wine wasn't bad. All bottles in the $10 to $15 range; probably the best was a 2006 cab from Castle Rock. During the tasting, there were some trivia questions: I answered enough of them to win a bottle of the Castle Rock, which Julie and I saved for a later meal.
The train rolled into East Glacier at around 6:45 PM. The approach to Glacier became somewhat more lively, but was, for the most part, more of the flat prairies of the eastern part of Montana and North Dakota, along with some badlands-style mesas:
And more grain elevators . . .
But there was one big change: Mountains! I'll be posting some pics in the next post.
We walked with our luggage from the train station right across Highway 49, and into the Lodge. The Lodge is reminiscent of the other big National Park lodges, such as the one at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, but supported with gigantic logs, i.e., tree trunks, with what seemed to be their original bark. In the hotel is a nice restaurant, a lounge, a gift shop. We got our keys and visited our room, which was spare but big. Once in our room, Julie ran back across the highway to get our rental car. We were on the second floor right behind the front desk, with our own door onto a porch above the front entrance. We found it very quiet -- we observed on tripadvisor.com that many people complained about the noise, but, frankly, it was just fine (this was the first of many times when the advice on tripadvisor.com from other travelers seemed to be quite off).
We grabbed a couple of beers from the lounge -- the best was a Blackfoot River Gold, an organic pale ale. Caroline got a shower, and then we all faded and went to sleep in anticipating of the big event for Day 4: Driving the Going-to-the-Sun Road.


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Putting a Price on Carbon
Is Managed-Price Cap and Trade Different From A Carbon Tax?
Evaluating a hybrid approach to carbon pricing.
Author: Eric de Place
(@Eric_deP) on April 30, 2009 at 6:05 am
This article is part of the series Putting a Price on Carbon
When I examined the managed-price approach to cap and trade I asked: "if managed-price cap and trade is basically just a carbon tax, why go to all the trouble of developing the apparatus of a cap-and-trade system? Why not just have a plain old vanilla carbon tax instead?"
Recent testimony from Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), considers the possible ways that managed-price differs from a carbon tax. (All inset quotes below are from this CBO testimony.) As it turns out, there are not many important differences.
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According to CBO, here's one possible way that managed-price differs from a carbon tax:
It would allow policymakers to distribute a share of theallowances to firms for free if they wished to do so. For example, they could give allowances to coal producers, electricity generators, or to dislocated workers in the coal industry.
Okay, so managed-price cap and trade would allow free allocation of permits to polluters. Fair enough. But in reality this is only a very subtle difference from a carbon tax. There's no good reason to believe that a carbon tax would prevent policymakers from giving things away for free. It's no small secret that federal and state tax codes are riddled with loopholes and tax exemptions for favored industries.
Here's another possible way that managed-price differs from a carbon tax:
It would allow firms to meet a portion (specified by policymakers) of their requirement for allowances by purchasing "offsets," which are credits for qualifying emission reductions in areas not subject to the cap. For example, individuals or firms not subject to the cap might generate offsets through biological sequestration… and then those offsets could be available for purchase by firms subject to the cap.
So managed-price would allow offsets. But, again, this is really no different from a carbon tax. A carbon tax regime could easily include an offset program: firms could choose to either pay a carbon tax or purchase certified offsets. In fact, it would be precisely the same choice that firms would have under auctioned cap and trade with offsets: purchase a permit or purchase an offset.
And here's another way that managed-price might differ from a carbon tax, in its basic design:
Regulators would establish a path of rising prices for allowances, with the goal of complying with the cumulative cap that legislators set. That path would be adjusted periodically if new information indicated that future compliance costs were going to be higher or lower than anticipated or if progress in meeting the cumulative cap was less than expected.
Again, this is only a phantom difference. A carbon tax could be set to gradually increase over time. (In fact, virtually every carbon tax proposal I've heard of has a tax rate that increases over time.) What's more, even a fixed carbon tax rate can easily be adjusted by policymakers or regulators, just as virtually every tax in existence is adjusted. If a carbon tax extends until, say, 2050 it's almost impossible to imagine it going untouched over that period, for good reasons or for bad.
But there are a couple of real differences between managed-price and carbon tax:
Firms could sell any allowances that they were given but did not use.
Okay, fair enough. I suppose this is a legitimate difference from a carbon tax, though it's probably a minor one. Under a managed-price system, firms could sell unused allowances to other firms. Even so, there would likely be a limited market for these permits because under managed-price the government is agreeing to sell an unlimited number of permits at the fixed price, so presumably no one would pay more on the secondary market than they could pay to get the permits directly from the government. It is, however, possible that some firms would pay less on the secondary market in the event that other firms ended up holding permits that they had purchased and found that they didn't need. Being able to sell unused permits at a discount would help firms manage risk.
Interestingly, Congressman McDermott's version of managed-price cap and trade actually does not differ from carbon taxes in this respect. (Bill is here.) McDermott's plan disallows sales on the secondary market, though it does allow firms to return any unused permits to the government for a full rebate. So in this respect too, McDermott's plan is much like a carbon tax: firms only pay when they emit; and there's no trading.
So that's one legitimate difference. And here's another:
It would allow firms to reduce uncertainty about their future compliance costs by entering into futures contracts. For example, firms subject to the cap could agree to buy allowances at fixed prices in the future from traders that were willing to absorb the risk that the price of allowances would turn out to be higher or lower than anticipated.
Under managed-price, firms could use derivatives products like futures contracts to manage their exposure to price changes. I know that derivatives are supposed to be a four-letter word these days, but they do play an important role in stabilizing the economy. And managed-price will allow polluters to hedge their risk, much as they might in an ordinary cap and trade program.
What's the final tally? Despite CBO's claims, a managed-price approach to cap and trade is different from carbon taxes in only two important respects: 1) there will be some limited trading on a secondary market; and 2) firms can use derivatives to manage their risk. (Congressman McDermott's managed-price legislation has only this second difference from carbon taxes.)
There is, however, one more difference that the CBO testimony doesn't mention. Managed-price sets up a bigger and more complex policy apparatus than a carbon tax likely would. It will design a permit and auction system, as well as a published price schedule and regulatory guidelines for adjusting prices.
All things considered, I'd rather just have either ordinary cap and trade or ordinary (adjustable) carbon taxes. (Or both.) It's hard to see how the managed-price approach to cap and trade accomplishes much that can't be done more simply by the plain vanilla carbon pricing policies that are already in wider circulation.
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Please bear in mind that the shipping prices change slightly according to the daily exchange rate variations.
If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact us. We will try to do our best to help you.
The delivery time varies from 7 to 30 days, depending on the country. However, in very rare cases, due to custom clearance procedure it can be extended up to 60 days. We use regular postal services for all the orders from our website, except catamarans. If you have any questions about your parcel delivery, please contact us.
Smartkat catamarans delivery time: in the countries of the EU - 5-7 days. In countries outside the EU, delivery shall take 7-10 days. We use UPS courier for Smartkat.
Vurtego Pogo Sticks are delivered to the most countries in 5-7 days. Speed courier is responsible for the delivery.
How do we ship parcels?
Packages from our warehouses in China will be shipped by ePacket or other reliable courier, depending on the weight and size of the product.
Smartkat catamarans are being sent from Austria- the country of manufacturing.
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How do we provide tracking information to you?
If you already made an order you can track it on our Tracking Page. You will be given instructions for tracking your parcel after the item will be shipped from our warehouse. If you haven't received tracking code info within 5 days, please contact us.
Please be informed that for very few products we can provide free shipping without tracking number for the following countries: Australia, Canada, Estonia, Germany, United States. The exact info is given on the product page in Notes.
My tracking status is "no information available at the moment".
For logistical reasons, items in the same order will sometimes be sent in separate packages. At the same time it also reduces customs fees.
Do we provide the Return service?
Please visit our Return Center to get information about our return / refund / exchange policies and terms.
Color and size difference note.
We kindly inform you that due to manual measurement issues, there may appear 1-1.5 cm difference in size of the products. The colors may be slightly different because of your individual PC or mobile phone color and brightness settings.


Welcome to firstratefitness.net. Our goal for the site is to make it the best fitness resource on the internet, giving you top notch articles that will help you improve your fitness, and also help improve your life. It's a lofty goal but our team of writers is completed dedicated to the cause. Keep reading below to learn more about myself, the founder, and also more about what you can expect from our site.
My name is Keith Daniels and I have been a fitness enthusiast since the 8th grade. That was the year when I was finally old enough to be allowed into the high school's weightroom. As I ventured into the weightroom for the first time, I could see nothing but potential. Potential for me to grow both physically and mentally. And the potential to help me succeed in the sports I was pursuing.
I quickly learned that I was correct- there was a lot of potential but it required a lot of hard work and dedication. But the visible results and progress made it all worth it. I loved leaving the gym knowing that I gave it my all and that the work I put in would help me do better in sports.
Track and field ended up becoming by best sport and I competed in both high school and college. It was a fun and rewarding sport that is both physically and mentally tough. After my injury-plagued college career ended I started coaching.
I firmly believe that weight training has the ability to give you an edge in just about any sport. Whether it's track and field, football, baseball, or basketball. Weight training also has the ability to help you mentally. Among other benefits, getting bigger and stronger can help you gain more confidence. So most, but not all, of the content on this site will be about weight training and how it can be properly used to your advantage. But besides weightlifting, we will have plenty of articles on running, yoga, and fitness equipment, as well as other fitness topics. To request an article on a specific topic, you can simply email us via our contact page.
The goal for each of our articles is for them to be standalone resources. Each article will be in-depth, answering most the questions you would normally have after reading an article. The articles will provide both guidance and step-by-step instructions.


This printer shows signs of use such as scratches and scuffs. To remove the right cover assembly, the tab shown in this image must be depressed. Easy to Use and easy to find replacement ink cartidge from any local office retailer. The toner in the printer is low and should be replaced upon arrival. Good, crisp, clean printing. One or more of the values entered is not permitted. Quality wireless printer The HP name typically means quality and this printer doesn't disappoint.
Note the back cover assembly's top third is composed of a hinged door here pictured closed that serves as the unit's straight-through output door. How does HP install software and gather data?
Here's a closer look at the formatter assembly by itself. For a smaller printer, thats pretty good.
Hp laser printer 1300 Cart printre items: We were unable to retrieve the list of drivers for your product. To remove the HP's lower front cover, Philips head screws such as this one revealed by the removal of the left-side cover assembly must be removed. There are more deluxe printers available but for the price, this one is tough to beat. Multiple pages print FAST!
Tell me what you're looking for and I can help find solutions. Skip to main content.
Hp laser printer 1300 straight black vertical bay accepts an additional DIMM memory chip, while the rectangular silver metal housing to the bottom left accommodates the model's LIO connection. The Formatter Assembly Here's a closer look at the formatter assembly by itself.
Quality wireless printer The HP name typically means quality and this printer doesn't disappoint. Large Capacity ink cartridge, hp laser printer 1300 to 10, sheets per Cartridge!!
Download list – Download multiple files at once View, edit and download your entire list of software and drivers here. Note that the DC ptinter board still sits inside its support pan part number RC Easy to Use and easy to find replacement ink hp laser printer 1300 from any local office retailer.
Formatter Assembly With several Philips head screws removed, the metal cover falls away revealing the Laxer formatter assembly board. Thank you for your patience.
hp laser printer 1300 Left Plate Disassembly Pictured here is the left plate assembly, hp laser printer 1300 the formatter board. The hp laserjet N printer is known to last for over 15 years. I also print a lot of labels and I have had other printers prinnter the label o ff the sheet and then the printer pirnter toast.
This control board the orange-beige printed circuit board to the left carries model number RM Manufactured in China, this component serves as the power supply and control board for the printer. I bought it specifically for the wireless function and it fully meets my needs.
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Please make a different selection, or visit the product homepage. This printer is being sold as pre-owned. How is the HP refurbished?.


Bishop Michael F. Burbidge has a secret. At the risk of being disowned by his nieces and nephews, the Philadelphia native admitted liking country music in his September 2015 bishop's column for NC Catholics.
Many years later the young boy from southwest Philly is far from his hometown, but there are some bonds that distance can never break.
The Catholic Church was the center of the strong Catholic community to which he and his family belonged. He remembers being able to walk to church with his family — a tradition he missed when the Burbidge family moved to the suburbs when he was in fifth grade. While the move caused him to miss out on being an altar server like his older brother Francis, it did not interfere with another cherished tradition.
Looking back on the time and place that made him the man, priest and bishop he is today, he recognizes there are challenges now that were not present in his childhood.
It was in this environment that he experienced the love and support of his parents and older brother. He got his first job at a Sears department store, working first in the garden department then working with "soles" in the shoe department.
It was also in Philadelphia that Bishop Burbidge was blessed with a Catholic education, received the sacraments and eventually would hear the call to the priesthood.
Having spent the first 49 years of his life and vocation in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, first as a priest, then as an auxiliary bishop, it was a big adjustment to leave. But in his 10 years as the bishop of Raleigh, he has succeeded in bringing a little of the City of Brotherly Love to the South. This can be seen in the work he has done and in the lasting relationships he has formed.
Coming to Arlington will be a bit of a homecoming for Bishop Burbidge. It's only about a three-hour drive to his hometown, depending on traffic. He might be able to enjoy more family dinners with his brother, nieces and nephews — in the hope they have forgiven their uncle for his new musical tastes.


Votes will rush to settle if the conservative government will earn a third term or have a Labor administration take its place.
"Now is not the time to turn back".
"So it isn't just about the next three years, it's about what does the next decade look like".
All 151 lower house seats will be up for grabs in May, as will half the seats in the Senate.
"So the choice to be made by Australians on May 18 is like it always is at every election, and that is, who do you trust to deliver that strong economy which your essential services rely on", Morrison said.
Morrison rose to political prominence when he was tasked with overseeing immigration policies of the country.
- The prime minister is chosen by the governing party from the House of Representatives.
Labor is campaigning heavily on health and education, arguing the coalition is yet to properly restore funding cut in a series of federal budgets. "We're ready, we've got the policies, I've got a united team, we've got a vision for the future".
He said Labor would be offering "lies and higher taxes", while the government had a positive agenda.
The measure will reportedly take effect the day after the Australian authorities call the election and will apply to ads containing references to politicians, parties, and electoral procedures, as well as various political slogans and logos.
During the vote, Australians are expected to elect members of the country's parliament, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate.


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Pre-Basel: Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra GMT
Omega introduces the Seamaster Aqua Terra GMT. The Co-Axial calibre 8605/8615 is the first of Omega's proprietary movements to be equipped with a GMT complication, meaning that along with the central hour, minute and seconds hands, there is a GMT hand which completes one rotation every 24 hours, making it possible to keep track of the time in two time zones. Find a wallpaper image inside. The 43 mm case is available in a choice of metals: 18k red gold or stainless steel or, in a bicolor version in 18k red gold and stainless steel. The sapphire crystal on the screw-in caseback allows a clear view of the Co-Axial movement inside. The watch is available with either a bracelet in the same metal as the watch case or with a black, brown or blue leather strap. The dial is distinguished by the teak pattern associated with the Aqua Terra collection. The vertical lines are reminiscent of the wooden decks on luxury boats. The applied 18k gold brushed and polished indexes are coated with white Super-LumiNova and the faceted hands are crafted from 18k white or red gold. Like the indexes, they are coated with white Super-LumiNova which allows ease of reading in all light conditions. The GMT hand's red arrow makes it easy to distinguish the two time zones. The GMT hand can also be used for compass orientation: when the watch is held parallel to the ground with its hour hand pointed in the direction of the sun, the GMT hand, when it is adjusted to the same time on the 24-hour GMT display, will indicate north in the northern hemisphere. At the heart of the Seamaster Aqua Terra GMT is the Co-Axial caliber 8605/8615. It is part of the family of movements Omega introduced in 2007 built around the first practical new watch escapement to be developed in some 250 years. The Co-Axial escapement in the Omega calibers is used in conjunction with a free sprung-balance and its function differs considerably from that of a conventional lever escapement with index. The watch's rate can be adjusted by modifying the moment of inertia of the balance by means of two gold regulating micro screws embedded in the circular balance. This design avoids the disturbing effects of contact between the balance-spring and the index pins and therefore ensures that the stability of rate offered by the Co-Axial escapement is maintained over long periods of use. The result is reduced friction which means that there is almost no need for lubrication; the Co-Axial calibers have long service intervals and the Seamaster Aqua Terra GMT, which is also equipped with a silicon balance spring, is delivered with a four-year warranty. The image below may be enlarged with a click.
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#!/usr/bin/node

'use strict';

var http = require('http');
var path = require('path');
var io = require('socket.io');
var ioSession = require('socket.io-express-session');
var expSession = require('express-session');
var express = require('express');
var compression = require('compression');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var CoreServer = require('./core_server');
var EventEmitter = require('events');

/************************* Support Site *********************************/

var COOKIE_SECRET = 'imhotep';
var app;

class APIServer extends CoreServer {
  constructor() {
    super();
    // Setup the session
    this.events = new EventEmitter();
    this.session = expSession({
      cookie: { httpOnly: false },
      secret: COOKIE_SECRET,
      resave: false,
      saveUninitialized: false,
    });
    // Set up the rest
    this.visitors = [];
    this._bindfns = this._bindfns.bind(this);
    this._bindfns();
    this._setExpress();
    this._setSocket();
    this._setRoutes(() => {
      this._setSite();
    });
  }
  _bindfns(){
    this._setExpress = this._setExpress.bind(this);
    this._setSocket = this._setSocket.bind(this);
    this._setRoutes = this._setRoutes.bind(this);
    this._setSite = this._setSite.bind(this);
    this.run = this.run.bind(this);
  }
  /*
   * Setup Express Frontend
   */
  // Calculate sha1 hash of the file object
  _setExpress(){
    this.express = express();
    this.express.disable('x-powered-by');
    // prevents caching in Edge
    this.express.use(function noCache(req, res, next) {
      let browser = req.headers['user-agent'];
      // add browser.includes('rv') for IE
      if (browser.includes('Edge')) {
        res.header('Cache-Control', 'no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate');
        res.header('Pragma', 'no-cache');
        res.header('Expires', 0);
      }
      next();
    });
    this.express.use(
      require('serve-favicon')
        (__dirname + '/../../public/img/favicon.ico')
    );
    this.express.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
    this.express.use(bodyParser.json());
    this.express.use(cookieParser('imhotep'));
    this.express.use(this.session);
    this.express.use(require('method-override')());
    this.express.use(
      require('serve-static')
        (path.join(__dirname, '/../../public'))
    );
    this.express.use(require('morgan')('tiny'));
    this.express.use(require('compression')());
    this.express.set('views', path.join(__dirname, '/views'));
    this.express.set('view engine', 'pug');
    // Create the core router
    this.router = express.Router();
    this.express.use(this.router);
  };

  /*
   * Setup the socket server
   */
  _setSocket(){
    // Socket server
    this.server = http.Server(this.express);
    this.ioServer = io(this.server, {});
    this.ioServer.use(ioSession(this.session));
    this.ioServer.on('connection', function (socket) {
      socket.on('disconnect', function () { });
    });
  };

  /*
   * Core API Routes
   */
  _setRoutes(cb){
    require('./api/v3/step')(this, () => {
      require('./api/v3/tool')(this, () => {
        require('./api/v3/tolerances')(this, () => {
          require('./api/v3/geometry')(this, () => {
            require('./api/v3/changelog')(this, () => {
              require('./api/v3/custom')(this, () => {
                if (this.config.mtConnect) {
                  require('./api/v3/MTstate')(this, () => {
                    if (cb) {
                      cb();
                    }
                  });
                } else {
                  require('./api/v3/state')(this, () => {
                    if (cb) {
                      cb();
                    }
                  });
                }
              });
            });
          });
        });
      });
    });
  };

  /*
   * Static Site
   */
  _setSite(){
    var endpoint = '';
    if (this.config.host) {
      endpoint = this.config.protocol + '://' + this.config.host + ':' + app.port;
    }
    var services = {
      apiEndpoint: endpoint,
      socket: '',
      version: '/v3',
      machine: this.machinetool,
    };
    // Serve the root client framework - customized as needed
    var _serveRoot = (req, res) => {
      this.visitors.push({ 'time': Date(), 'ip': req.ip });
      var appConfig = {
        title: 'NC.js',
        source: '/js/main.js',
        services: services,
        config: this.config.client
      };
      res.render('base.pug', appConfig);
    };

    this.router.get('/', _serveRoot);
    this.router.get('/listVisitors', (req, res) => { res.status(200).send(this.visitors) });
    this.router.get('*', function (req, res) {
      res.status(404).send('404 Error: Not Found');
    });
  };

  /*
   * Primary run
   */
  run() {
    this.server.listen(app.port, () => {
      this.logger.info('CAD.js API Server listening on: ' + app.port);
    });

    process.openStdin().addListener('data', (inputData) => {
      if ((this.server !== null) && (this.server !== 'undefined')) {
        inputData = inputData.toString().trim().toLowerCase();
        if (inputData.length === 0) {
          process.exit(0);
        }
      }
    });
  };
}
/***************************** Run the server *********************************/

app = new APIServer();
app.run();


If there is a need to hide, remove, or un-publish your listing for any reason, there are several ways you can achieve this.
This will also remove your listing from any search results.
You can delete a listing from your dashboard view. Click on Venues to bring up your listing(s). Check the listing and from the drop-down menu below this, select 'Move to Trash' and click Apply to remove the listing.
Please note you can only remove venues you have created.


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Dodgers Game Previews
Dodgers Look To Hyperextend Pirates Road Woes
By Eric Stephen@ericstephen Updated Sep 15, 2009, 3:00pm PDT
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The Dodgers and Pirates resume their three-game series tonight, and the scales are once again heavily tipped in favor of the home team. The Pirates have not won a series on the road since May 18-21, when they took three of four games in Washington. They have lost an amazing 41 of their past 52 road games, including 14 of their past 15. On the season, the Pirates are 19-53 away from home. The Pirates are threatening to have the worst road record in a season in the last two decades. Both the 2003 Tigers (who lost 119 games) and the 2006 Devil Rays (who lost 101 games) went 20-61 on the road. Of course, both of those teams made the World Series three years later, so Pittsburgh fans might have something to look forward to.
The Dodgers welcome back Randy Wolf tonight, who returns to the mound after missing one start due to a hyper-extended left elbow. Wolf has thrown six straight quality starts, and is 5-0 during that stretch. He also has a streak of 14 straight starts of pitching at least six innings, and has done so in 26 of 30 starts this season.
Zach Duke has really struggled of late, allowing 32 hits and 20 runs (18 earned) in just 13 innings over his last three starts. He has allowed five home runs in those three short starts. Among the 90 MLB pitchers with enough innings to qualify for the ERA title, Duke ranks 87th in strikeouts per nine innings, with 4.31. Duke's 89 strikeouts this season are 14 fewer than Jonathan Broxton. In six career starts against the Dodgers, Duke has never allowed fewer than four runs, and has a 7.53 ERA against them.
Obscure stat of the day: Casey Blake has 10 sacrifice flies this season, the most by any Dodger since Eric Karros had 12 in 2000. This is just the 11th time a Dodger has hit as many as 10 sacrifice flies in a season, headlined by Gil Hodges' club record 19 in 1954.
The Dodgers may have waited until game number 145 this year to play the Pirates, but they won't have to wait long to face them in 2010. Rob Biertempfel of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review tells us the Dodgers will be in Pittsburgh to open 2010.
Be sure to check out Xeifrank's simulation of today's game here.
Don't forget to RSVP for True Blue LA Day at Dodger Stadium, on the next-to-last day of the regular season, October 3 against the Rockies.
Get your guesses in for our today's "One, Two, Three Strikes, You're Out," here.
Game Time: 7:10pm
TV: KCAL
Baseball Reference Preview


The latest addition in the Dojo 1.3 release is the new dojox.charting class, DataChart. Its primary purpose is to make connecting a chart to a Data Store a simple process. There are also other benefits with DataChart: less parameters are needed to create a basic chart, and more defaults and convenience methods get you up and running quickly with Dojox Charting.
We naturally have to wait for the DOM to load, so in dojo.addOnLoad, we'll place the chart code. In its most basic, default form, it requires no parameters, besides the node id. The store can be set in the parameters or as a separate method as shown. The setStore method is the same as used elsewhere in Dojo, like in the DataGrid. Unlike the Grid, the DataChart needs one additional argument — the store item property that will be charted. In this case, that property is historicPrice.
And that's all it takes to get up and running with charts.
The property we used for our default chart is historicPrice and as you can see, it's an array. Because the default chart is a line-type, and plots each item separately, more than one bit of data is necessary to span across the x-axis. In our case, there are seven slots in the array, which is why we had an x-axis span of seven. If we charted the price property, we would have seven points all along the y-axis, and the chart x-axis would only have a length of one.
Those x-axis labels could stand to be a little more descriptive. Fortunately, DataChart has a convenient method for applying the store item labels. We can edit the chart.xaxis object, which is exposed so that besides the property we will add here, you can edit the standard chart axis properties as shown in the comments of the code.
labelFunc is actually a method that you can tap into to write custom labels. In our case, we are going to give it a string, which tells DataChart to use its seriesLabels method. Simply put, it connects the item labels to the chart labels.
In the previous example, we connected to the chart's onData event (we connected once by disconnecting it immediately after the first call) and then create the legend programatically, now that the chart knows its data.
Hey, wait a minute! What is scroll:false?
The DataChart supports information updating, which allows it to animate. To update the information, you change the item property in the store. The DataChart is connected to the onSet event in the store and reflects the change. The test in the DojoX trunk demonstrates this with spinner widgets that modify the store item property.
stretchToFit: This is how native charts work. If given five bits of data, the x-axis will be five segments long.
displayRange: If set, stretchToFit is overridden and the x-axis will not stretch, it will always be that long. This is often used with scroll.
scroll: If true and there is more data than fits on the x-axis, it will scroll to the left.
Note that the y-axis is always fixed, having it stretch to fit or scroll is not currently supported.
I know that the combination of these parameters can be confusing, especially when it comes to different chart types. I've created a demo that you can use to test the different parameters and dynamically build new charts. It not only shows off the features of DataChart, but will get you up and running that much faster!
Note: Learn more about the new DojoX Data Chart and more at one of our upcoming workshops in Sydney, Munich, London, Milan, or Paris.