Captain George's was the venue for the recent 2019 North Carolina Fisheries Association's Annual Meeting, which addressed issues that included conflicts with special interest groups, shrimp trawl bans and aquaculture in the sounds.
The NCFA is the primary organization promoting, providing education and, in recent years, defending North Carolina's commercial fishing industry.
NCFA board presided over an extensive agenda, discussing and taking comments from the dozen or so NCFA members attending on a wide range of legislative, regulatory and other issues the organization faces in 2019.
As board Chairman Brent Fulcher worked his way through the agenda, many of the same concerns facing the NCFA this year are the same, unresolved issues that were on the board's plate five, 10, and even 20 years ago.
Primary among them were the continuing challenges of well-financed efforts of special interest groups claiming to represent recreational fishing interests.
For those who have followed these issues in the past, the actions of the Coastal Conservation Association, a national group with state chapters active in virtually every state, was once again behind several initiatives seen as a threat by the NCFA to their industry.
The CCA has succeeded in reducing quotas of fish allotted to commercial interests, removing entire species of fish from commercial harvest, banning the use of certain commercial fishing equipment, shortening the length of harvest seasons, and taking control of state agencies dealing with marine fishing resources, regulatory commissions, and even state legislatures from California to New York.
It wasn't too long ago that the NCFA and other groups fought back attempts by the CCA to use the state legislature and the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission to ban three species (red drum, specked trout and striped bass) from all commercial harvest as well as a separate effort to ban shrimp trawling from the state's inland waters.
Those issues, particularly shrimp trawl bans, are still looming on the horizon, as well as new efforts by the CCA to shut down certain portions of the Southern Flounder fishery in the state.
The board debated the quality of the scientific data backing some of these initiatives, some of it based on studies considered flawed by academic peer review groups, or paid for by the same special interests seeking these bans or reductions in commercial harvest.
They listened as members related how all of their landings are accounted for as a result of regulations requiring those catches to be recorded by "fish houses" while recreational catches are largely based on estimates. For commercial fishermen, when the landings indicate the maximum allocation for a fish species has been reached, the entire fishery is closed for further commercial harvest, while recreational takings continue.
The same situation exists, in their eyes, when data on fish mortality is circulated. Commercial vessels often have observers who sample catches for mortality and the capture of non-targeted species, while discards among recreational anglers, which often result in fish mortality, are likewise estimated from scanty data.
The board also dealt with the emerging aquaculture industry in the state, particularly oyster farming in inland waters.
In general, the NCFA board and members were supportive of the new industry because it allows their members to add another revenue stream as restrictions on other fishing activities reduce traditional sources of income.
But there were concerns also: Will the increase in oyster farming, where acres of underwater cages house the growing oysters, interfere with commercial trawls, hook and line and other fishing techniques?
The board also lamented the lack of attention from the state, media and even among their own membership on water quality issues, especially where runoff from as far away as the state's mountains, push contaminants into the inland and coastal waters in the eastern part of the state.
Other fishermen questioned whether many of the regulatory "cures" imposed on both commercial and recreational anglers actually made problems worse.
As one member from the audience noted, all fish are predators of other fish, so when the state protects rockfish (striped bass) and their numbers explode, one can expect a decline in flounder numbers as the rebounding rockfish population feeds on stocks of other species.
Another member cited a similar situation with flounder regulations, where the state has steadily increased the length of a flounder that can be legally taken by recreational anglers.
Hooked flounder often swallow the hook whole making it difficult to extract it without mortally wounding the discard. How many smaller fish are killed as anglers discard 13" and 14" flounder until they catch one large enough to keep? And how many larger female flounder, mature enough to reproduce, are lost because the size limit forces the taking of the older, more reproductively active fish?
The board also mentioned how the CCA and other groups want to remove inland fisheries from the control of the MFC and transfer oversight to the state's Wildlife Resources Commission, an agency with no mandate to balance fisheries among recreational and commercial interests or experience in fisheries management where the two groups overlap.
If all of those issues weren't daunting enough, the board dealt with their small budget ($300,000) to carry on with their mission of protecting the cultural, historic and economic aspects of their industry against organizations backed by funding from the likes of Yamaha, Yeti, Costa and others, the potential effects of a new federal law, the "Modern Fish Act" (passed by the GOP-controlled House and Senate, signed by President Trump and supported by the CCA) and what appears to be diminishing media interest in commercial fishing and their side of the story when legislative and regulatory issues are being considered.
I can't respond to the NCFA's Board's puzzlement about the lack of attention regarding water quality issues. Perhaps they are talking to the wrong people. None of the river basins that originate in the NC mountains flow into the eastern part of the state, including NC's coastal waters.
Commercial fishing efforts at all time low , with recreational efforts at all time high… commercial fishermen supply the PUBLIC with fresh Seafood , yet are the ones taking the hits everytime ncdmf create a problem with fisheries…. instead of destroying people's lifes ( commercial fishermen) , I feel like they should be trying to protect them… commercial fishermen feed people, we cannot take much more regulations and survive.
The qualifier "as far away" doesn't mean exclusively "the mountains" and the qualifier "into the inland" followed by "and coastal waters" would include fisheries and nurseries that are not within the purview of your puzzling, broader interpretation, as well as coastal waters contaminated from basins other than those that originate in the mountains.
I added those words for a purpose, as did the NCFA board.
It is really sad that commercial fishermen continue to blame CCA for their problems instead of looking in the mirror. How in the world anyone can believe that CCA is behind the Southern flounder harvest reductions when we got to this point because of the commercial industry control of an MFC that has refused to deal with declining stocks for decades is beyond comprehension. We have run out of time because the MFC has refused to believe the science that you think CCA had anything to do with? Now important recreational and commercial fisheries face 70% cuts and moratoriums. You think we want fisheries closed? We are fishermen and consumers. The commercial industry's refusal to believe the science behind Southern flounder and the central region striped bass is another classic case of history repeating itself. See river herring. If you sincerely want to understand the science I suggest you talk with the DMF biologists that are developing the Southern flounder FMP, not blame it on "special interest groups".
Unless the NCFA stops looking for a bogeyman and starts working with conservation groups trying to save our coastal resources they will kill their own livelihood. We agree on oyster mariculture. There is a place to start.
Interesting that the article points out, correctly, that the MFC has a mandate to balance fisheries among recreational and commercial groups. Thing is when have they ever given any consideration to the recreational side? Look at any past agendas and you'll see nothing regarding recreational fishing listed. Zero -Zip – Nada. Time is way past that anglers should get their fair share of the attention regarding our fisheries. Game fish for example is a pro recreational issue that the MFC should have supported.
If CCA management requests on Southern Flounder had been followed a few years ago the stock would be in better shape for all. Between the MFC, DMF, CCA, and NCFA the only true friend of the future of commercial fishing in N.C. is the CCA. All the others are satisfied with continued decline.
Several years ago a gamefish bill was proposed and defeated. Each of them, speckled trout, red drum and estuarine striped bass, supply about 100,000 lbs of filets annually from commercial fishing annually. These fish cannot feed the 10 million NC citizens as some folks might claim. The per capita (2017) US fish consumption was 16 lbs a year. So if you divide the 300,000 lbs of filets from those three gamefish by the NC population (300,000 lbs / 10,000,000 people) you get an annual 3/100 of a pound per person for those gamefish. How is this feeding the public? It's not, it's not even an ounce of speckled trout, red drum and estuarine striped bass combined. When you contrast this value with the recreational economic impact of these three fish that total way over 100 million dollars a year, gamefish is a viable alternative and that is why in many states they have been reserved for recreational fishermen. We do not manage our fisheries "equally", never have. Blue crabs, shrimp, S flounder all are primarily commercial fisheries. If you want to "equally" manage fisheries, okay. Let's split it all down the middle. I don't think shrimpers or crabbers would be on board with this.
Okay, want to talk about fish stocks? There is only a fraction of commercial fisherman surviving on the water due strictly to being regulated out of business, guess what if there is less commercial fishermen the numbers are going to be down…. common sense… less fishermen taking fish to sell so the numbers look down. Fishing always swings back and forth, fish constantly move, you have good years and not so good years. Its ashame that groups like the cca have to attack us with garbage like endangered sea turtles , but everytime it gets cold, hundreds wash up cold stunned, doesn't sound endangered to me.


Click on the link above or Barrys Photo to go directly to the download link for Barry Carter Files. Click on the zipper. You cannot preview it. It can only be downloaded. It is quite lengthy and will take about 30-60 minutes to download.
After you download it you must extract the file with a .rar file unzipper. If you don't have this tool you will need to find one. I used this free one and it works good. Click here to download.
When you get it unzipped, at first it looks like there is not much there. But you will find many many files within files. Open all of them. Many of the links are broken or expired but there a thousands of pages of Ormus information gathered by Barry.
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In the wake of 9/11, an immigrant worker considers the future
Leah Garchik May 13, 2019 Updated: May 13, 2019 2:45 p.m.
Ryan Guzman plays Fernando, a son from Mexico searching for his father, an undocumented immigrant who worked at the World Trade Center's famed restaurant and disappeared after 9/11 in "Windows on the World."
Photo: UpCal Entertainment
At the Vogue Theatre, SFJazz Center, the SFFilm Society and UpCal Entertainment sponsored two screenings last week of "Windows on the World," an indie movie co-written by Robert Mailer Anderson and Zack Anderson, and produced by the former, who also wrote a whole lot of music for the film. Edward James Olmos is one of the stars of the movie, and his son, Michael D. Olmos, is its director.
All that to say that although there's nothing amateurish about the indie movie, it has a handmade/custom-made feel. "It's an independent film, so naturally we ran out of money," Mailer Anderson told the audience. "So naturally, you get jazz musicians." Mailer Anderson loves jazz and has supported SFJazz; several of the musicians in the movie are members of the SFJazz Collective. "Their bread and butter is to help you and not get paid."
The "custom-made" applies well to its plot, about a Mexican immigrant working in the kitchen at Windows on the World, the restaurant on top of the World Trade Center, when the building is attacked and collapses. Although 9/11 happened in 2001, the issue of immigration, central to the story, is central to American concerns right now. Latinos make up something like 18% of the population of the United States, said Mailer Anderson, but are represented in only 6% to 8% of films and TV programming.
Miramax had signed on to do the project in 2004, but after a series of negotiations with Hollywood folks — What if one character was a drug dealer? Could they get Jeff Bridges to play him? — that deal never reached fruition.
As to the music, said Mailer Anderson, licensing is "really expensive. We spent our whole budget on 'New York, New York,'" an essential piece of which is used in the movie. Plans to use a piece of Tony Bennett singing "Rags to Riches" were scrapped in favor of a Mailer Anderson composition for financial reasons. Mailer Anderson was fearless. "I can write a 'fire of desire' form," said the composer, who did just that.
• Butterfly lover Stevanne Auerbach, who in the 1980s founded Butterfly Lovers International, was pronounced by Guinness World Records as owner/curator of the world's largest collection of diverse butterfly items (1,649 items) in January. Now Auerbach is out with a book, "My Butterfly Collection: On the Wings of the Butterfly," and movie, "My Butterfly Collection: The Documentary" (with filmmaker Jonathan Ruchlis), about her passion — and the passion of others — for butterflies.
Auerbach, noted as a parenting and play expert, had started on the book in the '80s. She thought she'd lost the manuscript in a 1986 apartment fire. "When I found the charred manuscript a few years ago in a file cabinet, put there by a SoMa neighbor, I began again to work to complete the book," she emails.
Auerbach believes "the health of the planet rests on the wings of the butterfly," and suggests year-round celebration of Earth Day.
• At EVB Advertising in Oakland last week, Nikki Lastreto, co-founder of Swami Select, interviewed Lizzie Post, great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post and the author of "Higher Etiquette," a new book about cannabis and manners. Said the young Post, "Emily's perspective on alcohol Prohibition was that she was disgusted with the government's interference with what she believed were citizens rights. So I have no doubt she would have felt the same about cannabis use."
A column a few weeks ago about the 80th anniversary of the Maritime Museum — particularly praising the murals — prompted a letter from Riley Doty about the history of the 140-foot-long mural-like tile work on the building's "back porch." It has been restored, but it is still unfinished, as described, says Doty, by historian Cindy Casey.
The mural is "just at the stage it was the day the crew of WPA artists and artisans who were working on the piece walked off the job in protest and never returned," emailed Doty. "The issue was that they were decorating what was to be a public bathhouse and then it was announced that the city had entered into a lease where an upscale restaurant was going to lease the building instead. WPA artists were famously progressive-minded, union supporters, etc." The man who abandoned it was Sargent Johnson, who had already completed the bas-relief on the front of the building. He was one of only two African American WPA artists in California.
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Implements the functionality of the 'fanplot' package as 'geoms' for 'ggplot2'. Designed for summarising MCMC samples from a posterior distribution, where a visualisation is desired for several values of a continuous covariate. Increasing posterior intervals of the sampled quantity are mapped to a continuous colour scale.
This package is a ggplot-based implementation of some of the functionality of the fanplot package by Guy Abel. Fanplot provides methods to visualise probability distributions by representing intervals of the distribution function with colours. Plotting samples from posterior distributions obtained through MCMC is a particular aim. A ggplot-based implementation is useful as it allows leverage of the power of ggplot2 features allowing, for example, facetting and easy theming.
Installation directly from CRAN should be possible shortly, once the package has been resubmitted and checked: install.packages("ggfan") Otherwise, the package can be installed directly from github using the devtools package: devtools::install_github("jasonhilton/ggfan").
The provided fake_df data gives and example of the type of data you might want to plot with ggfan: it consists of 1000 samples of an outcome variable of interest at each value of a covariate x. We can plot this simply using standard ggplot2 syntax and geom_fan. Convenient ggplot features such as themes, colour scales and facetting can also be used.
A full description of the functionality of ggfan is provided in the vignette, provided here.
Ensures compatibility with ggplot 2.2.1.9000 and hopefully therefore 2.3.0.
Adding a default linetype to GeomIntervalPath prevented an error in the call to draw_key_path in the new version of ggplot2.
Make rstan a strong dependency to avoid warnings when running vignette or on load of dataset if this package is not installed on test platform.


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I had just flown in from the middle of the Church-Planting Movement (CPM) we helped catalyze in the mountains of a highly restrictive country in Asia. I landed in a world very different from my mission experience—a traditional field with over 100 years of mission work, churches of all denominations and mature seminaries. Yet, despite the large number of indigenous Christians, it was a field in which the kingdom had plateaued and was now in decline.
Jesus warned that persecution can easily stop any growth that has occurred. In Asia, persecution was not fueling our movement; boldness and perseverance in the face of persecution were. I have yet to see a CPM emerge on any of the six continents where persecution in some form did not have to be overcome by Christians.
Jesus was describing His upcoming death which would make way for the fruit of salvation among the nations. He chose not to shy away from the cross despite the immense cost. Again, boldness and perseverance in the face of persecution.
Paul, with the other apostles, chose not to be intimidated by difficulty. Again, boldness and perseverance in the face of persecution.
The elements of disciple-making movements are not unlike a rocket ready upon the launchpad. The rocket is fully assembled (e.g. all of the mechanics of the strategy). The right trajectory is loaded into the ship-board computer (e.g. vision). The fuel tanks are topped up (e.g. the spiritual dynamics of abiding in Christ and prayer). Even so, the rocket will not take off; it is just ready to take off.
What takes it from "ready" to "take-off"? Ignition. Someone must push the triggering button to ignite the engines to hurl the rocket into space. "Death" is the spiritual triggering effect of every movement of God. Until a servant of God is willing to pay the price, CPM elements remain a theory in the laboratory. Until a servant of God takes the time to hit the streets, meet with ridicule, endure false accusations, sacrifice personal priorities, joyfully receive imprisonment and even pay with his or her physical life, a movement is only ready to ignite. But in reality, it slumbers on the launchpad.
When I train disciples around the world, I always take time to focus on persecution and difficulty. I ask this critical question: "Do you really want a movement of God knowing what it will cost?"To help them have a biblical perspective, we study the gospels and the book of Acts examining the price disciples paid to launch movements all over the Roman empire.
In those movements, the evangelistic teams suffered. Their families suffered. Their new disciples suffered.
Before reading any further (or for additional study) I invite you to examine the following ten passages. Take ten sheets of paper and divide them into four quadrants. Answer the following questions, spread them out side-by- side and look for patterns.
How did the evangelists respond?
What were the results of the persecution (good or bad)?
Invariably persecution arose because ordinary disciples opened their mouths in difficult environments to proclaim the gospel boldly. Sometimes miracles were associated with their proclamation. But always there was a clear, culturally understandable, verbal presentation about Jesus. This happened even in harsh environments with opposition from Jewish leaders, government leaders, citizens, businesses, and demonic powers.
It was not just the proclamation of the gospel that started the persecution, but the fact that dozens, hundreds and even thousands of new disciples were attracted from the old way of life to a new life in Christ. This frequently sparked jealousy among those of the status quo.
Typically, three major groups were the sources of persecution, sometimes coordinating their efforts. The first group was the religious community. In a great number of these passages, the Jewish leaders (believers in the Scriptures) were incensed about the proclamation of Jesus as Lord, often inciting riots or government arrest of the evangelists.
It is not uncommon today for religious leaders to incite persecution. It's one thing for Hindu fundamentalists or Muslim radicals to do so. But imagine the great pain when CPM initiators find themselves attacked by respected Christian leaders of well-established churches! In our work in Asia, leaders of government-sanctioned churches frequently turned in house churches to the local authorities.
Even in the West, church leaders often lead the charge in ridiculing movement efforts. Rather than biblically going in private to meet with those they ridicule to try to love, understand and build unity, they publicly malign hard-working servants of God. At the same time, CPM initiators must guard themselves from becoming proud or divisive, and justly inviting criticism.
In Acts, the second group that persecuted was the government. Just as Pilate worried about his appearance and control, thus condemning Jesus, so also these government leaders became nervous as a new kingdom— though not a political one—spread under their watch.
Especially under authoritarian regimes, government persecution is quite common and sometimes tipped off by religious leaders or local citizens in the community. Government persecution frequently results in interrogations, imprisonment and even martyrdom. Though it may not make the news, in two thousand years of church history, persecution has never been greater than it is today.
In Acts, the third group to persecute were local citizens that were concerned about the impact of the spread of the gospel. Sometimes they were business leaders like the Ephesian silversmiths or Philippian fortune-tellers who were losing business. At other times, they were ordinary people who were stirred to riot over concern about their way of life being jeopardized.
In many places around the world, neighbors are the ones to turn house churches in to the police. At other times, mobs form to attack the homes of those who have left the local religion. Sometimes, families ostracize a new believing family member and after beatings, they then hold a funeral over this one who is now dead to them. At other times, believing family members are locked up and put through a deluge of weeks of re-indoctrination.
In our Asian CPM, neighbors in the village came to two believing families to collect a 75-cent annual fee to purchase and kill a pig to sacrifice to demons. As the believers examined the Scriptures, they felt convicted not to pay for food offered to idols. A mob damaged their homes and tore down the walls on their centuries-old rice terraces. Without home or livelihood, both families were forced to flee for their lives.
Yet in all of the cases cited, the new disciples faced these persecutions with boldness and perseverance. They were willing to die in order to live for their faith.
In the ten passages in Acts, the evangelists refused to be quieted.
Jesus had taught the disciples to share the gospel and make disciples, and to expect difficulty in doing so (Matt. 10:16ff). Because they expected it, persecution did not quench the zeal for their work.
In addition, the evangelists frequently responded with rejoicing in the midst of persecution, bearing witness to their tormentors, encouraging local believers to remain steadfast, and sometimes fleeing to the next places to continue preaching the good news.
For them, persecution was part and parcel of normal Great Commission work. The religious freedom we have experienced in the West over the last 250 years has been a brief blip on the timeline of church history. Normal church history involves persecution for believers who are serious about their faith. Let us not bemoan the fact that even in the West persecution is rising. Though we don't relish it (and can sometimes pass laws to minimize it), this is normal and to be expected.
At times the evangelists were miraculously delivered from their situation. They were filled with joy when it made no sense. They were guided clearly by the Holy Spirit as God's presence rested heavily upon them. Whether physically delivered or not, they stood up to persecution with boldness and perseverance.
We must prepare ourselves and disciples we train to prepare to boldly and joyfully endure persecution. This Acts study is one resource to help do that. And prepare you must, for no movement occurs until the spiritual triggering effect of death is activated.
In the early days of African evangelization, missionaries packed their belongings in a wooden coffin for the long ship ride. With disease and opposition, they knew they would likely only have a few months or years to proclaim the good news. We must live with the same spirit.
I recall an evening in Asia where my wife and I called our three young sons into the bedroom to ask them this question: "If it cost Mommy or Daddy our lives so that our people group could receive the gospel, would it be worth it?" We all agreed that it would, and the gospel eventually spread like wildfire. We did not die during that time (though we experienced many other difficulties), but the life-threatening cancer I now carry in my body apparently came through the parasites I picked up in those remote mountains.
We would all say it was worth it because Jesus Christ is worthy of praise from every tongue, tribe, people and nation. Knowing the cost, do you want God to start a movement through you?
1 Steffen, Tom 1974 Passing the Baton: Church Planting that Empowers. La Habra, CA: Center for Organizational & Ministry Development, 4.
2 Johnson, Jean 2012 We Are Not The Hero: A Missionary's Guide For Sharing Christ, Not A Culture of Dependency, Sisters, Oregon: DeepRiver Books, 175.


A team of scientists has discovered a gene that, when it stops working, causes the appearance of colon cancer in it's sporadic (noninherited) form. This discovery is predicted to create new treatments and new ways of preventing colon cancer. These researchers found out that this particular gene can be activated again by a special medicine, increasing the vulnerability of the colon cancer. This research reconfirms that this gene, called hMLH1, has a major importance in the fight against colon cancer.
Scientists know that if gene isn't working properly it will come to the development of a type of colon cancer found at people that have no cases in their family. But when it works correctly it stops the DNA from the cells from getting damaged. It does this by producing an enzyme that detects mistakes in the DNA fixing them before the whole cell is corrupted.
If the gene deactivates, the DNA gets tainted with methylation, a substance that makes the cell reproduce itself chaotically producing malformed cells. There is a drug known as 5-azacytide that separates the methylation of the DNA and repairs the cell. But scientists can't use this drug and they already look for a new one because 5-azacytide is very toxic. This fact was discovered by analyzing several colon cancer patients. At all of them colon cancer started while the age of 50 or 60, just the average time of this kind of cancer.
It is proven that the hMLH1 gene is inactive at colon cancer patients and it's already known how to activate it again and make it work properly. After activation of this gene patients become more receptive to chemotherapy, this way increasing the chances of destroying the colon tumors they have.
There may be a way of preventing the development of the cancer, if the DNA of the cell can be protected as soon as the gene starts to deactivate. This could be done after science will be able to isolate the gene and find a way to modify it in such a way it won't shut down.


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Yes, The News Media Can Only See Alarmism
Post author By Maurizio Morabito (omnologos)
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Andy @Revkin and others (here and here) note with John Fleck of inkstain that
Fleckstain: Media skip Science paper on energy solutions while hyping 1 on Arctic CH4. Problems hotter than solutions?
I do not think so. Simply, it's all been Allcott's and Mullainathan's (the original authors') fault. In fact, this is what they wrote:
"Just as we use R&D to develop "hard science" into useful technological solutions, a similar process can be used to develop basic behavioral science into large-scale business and policy innovations. Cost-effectiveness can be rigorously measured using scientific field-testing. Recent examples of scaling behaviorally informed R&D into large energy conservation programs suggest that this could have very high returns."
And this is what they should have written instead:
"It might be one of the most ominous bits of evidence yet that global warming could run out of control. Unless we use R&D to develop basic behavioral science into large-scale business and policy innovations, the most-feared potential self-reinforcing effects of climate change may be starting to get under way. Recent examples of scaling behaviorally informed R&D into large energy conservation programs suggest that this could have very high returns. Otherwise, the effects of climate change will persist becoming evident faster than anyone predicted."
(click here for the original alarmism)
Obviously, Climategate notwithstanding, an enormous percentage of newsmedia people still firmly believe only titillating stories about upcoming disasters will ever attract the interest of their readers. I have a feeling that's the kind of newsmedia most likely to go the way of the dodo, at least regarding scientific journalism.
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cmbsays:
To previous poster – it's easy. It says so right in the article. That exact sentence, in fact. =)
Lailasays:
Have you read Denis Rancourt's essay "Global Warming: Truth or Dare?"
papertigersays:
I cruised through earlier, took a look at this post and thought, "eh. I got nothing much to say on this."
Then I turn around and BAM. The topic hits me in the face at the next establishment source I ran into.
At the local Public television station's online site Molly Samual posts:
(Some) Pika Persist at Low Elevations.
One of the authors, Connie Millar, said she saw pika far more often and in a broader elevation range than she had expected she would.
This newest study would seem to support the federal decision. But Shaye Wolf, staff biologist with the CBD, says that though the study "provides a snapshot of where pika are now, long-term in-depth studies have found that pika populations are declining."
The majority of those declining populations are in Nevada's Great Basin, at relatively low elevations for pika colonies. One paper Wolf cites was recently published in Ecological Applications. Authors Erik Beever and Chris Ray concluded that shrinking pika populations in the Great Basin could be partially attributed to climate change. Pika have an extremely narrow band of temperature tolerance and can suffer heat stroke in temperatures comfortable to humans.
Meanwhile, even though the Fish and Wildlife Service has denied federal protection to the pika, CBD is still working on gaining state-level protection in California. CBD biologists consider the pika to be a bellwether species for climate change.
Molly wrote that after reading this; American Pika are thriving in the Sierra Nevada and southwestern Great Basin
Rock formations buffer pika from warming temperatures ALBANY, Calif., March 1, 2010—
New research addressing climate change questions, a priority focus of the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, documents that American pika in the Sierra Nevada and southwestern Great Basin are thriving and persist in a wider range of temperatures than previously discovered. Results were recently published in a paper titled "Distribution and Climatic Relationships of the American Pika (Ochotona princeps) in the Sierra Nevada and Western Great Basin, U.S.A.; Periglacial Landforms as Refugia in Warming Climates," by Constance Millar and Robert Westfall in the February 2010 issue of the journal "Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research."
A small mammalian relative of rabbits and hares, the American pika inhabits rocky slopes of western North American mountains. Pikas tolerate cold climate environments through a combination of physiological and behavioral adaptations where these same adaptations may make them sensitive to even mildly warm climates. Vulnerability of pika habitat to global warming has been an escalating concern, causing speculation that the range of suitable pika habitat will contract upward in elevation as lower elevation site temperatures increase. Millar and Westfall developed and used a rapid assessment method to detect recent presence of American pika in 94 percent of 420 sites in the Sierra Nevada, California, southwestern Great Basin, central Great Basin and central Oregon Cascades ranges. Occurrence and non-detection sites were then compared to pika's habitat affinities to rock formation types and the climatic features of those sites. Rock-ice feature landforms are important habitat components providing insulation and refugia from outside air temperature increases and accounted for 83 percent of the sites. Site climate data indicate that in this study region, pika tolerate a wider range of temperatures and precipitation than previously interpreted.
Low elevation populations are usually in relatively warmer locations, so have been thought to be at risk due to rising 20th-21st century temperatures. Millar & Westfall found, however, that 12% of their occupied sites were lower in elevation than the historic (early 20th century) records indicate, revealing that pika live 500 meters (1640 feet) below what was previously known for this region.
Results of this study suggest that pikas in the Sierra Nevada and southwestern Great Basin appear to be thriving and tolerating a wide range of thermal environments. This study also suggests a greater distribution in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin than has been found in other studies in these regions, and provides important baseline surveys that can be used in future pika ecology and population studies.
How in the hell can you read this, and then interpret it as "…shrinking pika populations in the Great Basin could be partially attributed to climate change"?
It's enough to make me want to pull my hair out.
Channel 6 is local to me, so what I need is someone to talk me out of beating the crap out of Molly.


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Q: If you try 9n**9n**9n in Chrome's console, Chrome breaks (it resembles an infinite loop). Why does this happen? If you try 9n**9n**9n in Chrome's console, Chrome breaks (it resembles an infinite loop).

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*Does the V8 engine lack the implementation for this case?

I mean, if you try 9**9**9 it will return Infinity, which is kind of nice.

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*Why doesn't V8 return Infinity as well in the former case?

*And why does it seem to go into an infinite loop?

I tried this in Firefox too, and this problem doesn't exist, because currently there's no BigInt implementation in SpiderMonkey.
Thanks!

A: As was said already, 9n is the BigInt representation of 9.
The ** (power) operator works from right to left, causing quick escalation of results:
2n**2n**2n === 2n ** 4n === 16n
3n**3n**3n === 3n ** 27n === 7625597484987n
4n**4n**4n === 4n ** 256n === 13407807929942597099574024998205846127479365820592393377723561443721764030073546976801874298166903427690031858186486050853753882811946569946433649006084096n

On my system this becomes quite laggy from 7n**7n**7n, which takes about 32 seconds to calculate print. The result is 695976 digits, the first 5000 of which are printed in the console.
I haven't tried it any further, but I'd say it is just chewing away on the result. This could well take hours or days to calculate print (or perhaps even an Out Of Memory situation might occur at some point).
Update:
I just tried var x = 7n**7n**7n in the Chrome console, so just assigning it to a variable, and this finished in almost no time. It turns out that converting the bigint to a string is what takes up time; printing x.toString().length takes a similar amount of time as printing x or 7n**7n**7n.
Further experimenting revealed other interesting behaviour, see these results:
// Pure calculation time increases significantly when the exponent grows:
var x = 7n**7n**7n; // ~   1200 ms
var x = 7n**8n**7n; // ~   7000 ms
var x = 7n**7n**8n; // ~  62000 ms
var x = 7n**8n**8n; // ~ 470000 ms

// But it's a different story when the base number is 'simple' in binary terms, e.g. 8n:
var x = 8n**7n**7n; // ~      1 ms
var x = 8n**8n**7n; // ~      1 ms
var x = 8n**7n**8n; // ~      7 ms
var x = 8n**8n**8n; // ~     17 ms

And yes, there is an end to it all:
var x = 32n**16n**8n;

gives:

VM436:1 Uncaught RangeError: Maximum BigInt size exceeded
at <anonymous>:1:28

The upper limit in Chrome appears to be 1 billion bits (1e9 bits), or about 125 MB - Reference: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint/issues/174#issuecomment-437471065

A: Background information:
In JavaScript you can use n suffix for making the number as bigint (simpy big numbers). Big numbers have different ways of computations. Usually they are more "expensive" to compute. It does not use the processors built-in methods for calculations. Instead bigints use soft computations.
Description of the issue:
9n**9n means 9^9 (9*9*9*9*9*9*9*9*9). It is 387420489. Even if you multiply 387420489 by itself it is really big number. But **9n means you want to compute 387420489^9 which is really really very big number. It seems for chrome it takes too long to calculate it or some unknown issue happens.
Basically it must be a bug which needs to be reported. Freezing the browser in weird way is not good user experience.

A: The answer as to why 9**9**9 returns Infinity is because it doesn't take very long to overflow the maximum value (around 2^1024). It might even shortcut it with the ** as see if the first number >= 2 and the second number > 1024, then it will be Infinity.
With BigInt, it can represent much, much larger numbers, so that's what it tries to do. It takes a long time to reach "Infinity" with BigInt (EDIT: which would actually be a RangeError exception). Finding 387420489 can be done pretty quick, but 9n**387420489n, where it is multiplying BigInts almost 400 Million times...that takes a while.
A BigInt operation is much slower than a regular int operation. I expect you might get a result (or a RangeError exception) if you wait 20-30 minutes, but could be much longer.

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The worldwide demand for energy and resources continues to increase. At the same time, with increasing consideration for the environment, the world is moving toward sustainable, green and renewable solutions in the recovery of energy and resources. Geomechanics and geophysics play a crucial role in the engineering of energy and resource extraction from the subsurface Earth, including oil, gas, coals, minerals and heat to meet such goals of sustainability. Indeed, geomechanics and geophysics have perhaps the most direct impact on geo-energy and geo-resources development in terms of exploration, production, safety, sustainability and environment. The journal G4 provides a platform to share the latest findings and knowledge from scientific research, technology development and engineering projects, on geomechanical and geophysical solutions for energy and resources extraction from the subsurface Earth. Potential authors are invited to submit and publish original research in the journal. The journal will publish its first issue in 2015.
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package com.seattletestbed;

import android.util.Log;
import com.seattletestbed.R;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipFile;

/***
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 * Utility class
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 * Extracts a zip archive
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 * Based on the code from "reakinator" @ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5028421/android-unzip-a-folder
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public class Unzip {

	private static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 8192;

	// Unzips a zip archive specified by filePath to the directory specified by destinationPath
	public static void unzip(String filePath, String destinationPath) throws Exception {

		// Create buffer to be used during the extraction process
		byte[] buffer = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];

		// Get archive file
		File archive = new File(filePath);

		// Iterate through entries
		try {
			ZipFile zipfile = new ZipFile(archive);
			for (Enumeration<? extends ZipEntry> e = zipfile.entries(); e.hasMoreElements();) {
				ZipEntry entry = e.nextElement();
				// Unzip entry
				unzipEntry(zipfile, entry, destinationPath, buffer);
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			// Error occured
			Log.e(Common.LOG_TAG, Common.LOG_EXCEPTION_UNZIPPING_ARCHIVE + archive, e);
			throw e;
		}
	}

	// Unzips a zipEntry from the zipFile to the outputDir using the buffer specified in the arguments
	private static void unzipEntry(ZipFile zipFile, ZipEntry entry, String outputDir, byte[] buffer) throws Exception {

		// Check if the entry is a directory
		if (entry.isDirectory()) {
			// Create the directory (incl. complete directory path if necessary)
			(new File(outputDir, entry.getName())).mkdirs();
			return;
		}

		// Get output file
		File outputFile = new File(outputDir, entry.getName());

		// Create directory path if necessary
		if (!outputFile.getParentFile().exists()) {
			outputFile.getParentFile().mkdirs();
		}

		Log.v(Common.LOG_TAG, Common.LOG_VERBOSE_EXTRACTING_FILE + entry);

		// Set up input and output streams
		BufferedInputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(zipFile.getInputStream(entry), buffer.length);
		BufferedOutputStream outputStream = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(outputFile), buffer.length);

		try {
			// Copy from input stream to output stream
			int readBytes;
			while((readBytes = inputStream.read(buffer))!=-1)
				outputStream.write(buffer, 0, readBytes);
		} catch (Exception e) {
			Log.e(Common.LOG_TAG, Common.LOG_EXCEPTION_UNZIPPING_FILE + entry, e);
		}
		finally {
			// Close streams
			outputStream.close();
			inputStream.close();
		}
	}
}

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Please join St. Martin de Porres Catholic School as we participate in a school-wide community service event We will be laying wreaths on the resting place of the many soldiers at the DFW National Cemetery while paying our respects and honoring those that gave their lives to defend our country. A caravan from the school will be coordinated. Please watch for details.


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Videos: First Future for PR Industry
August 28, 2018 DianaPrsancova Trends in Public Relations Leave a comment
The PR industry as a part of a fast moving 24/7 digital era has been facing several challenges. This highly competitive market produces an immense number of information, however, there remains a problem to differentiate quality over quantity. Too much of content disturbs the audience who becomes drown in data. As our attention span is even shorter than the one of a goldfish, a possibility to spark our interest has become even more difficult.
The concerns about the industry future has been expressed. Being a PR professional means to have a flexible and multidisciplinary approach to get attention of jaded audience or to impress journalists. The lines between PR, social media, digital marketing, and advertising are quickly disappearing while the role of press releases is being overtaken by direct to audience engagement. The PR industry needs to earn consumer's attention rather than interrupt it.
It is important to choose an appropriate channel when spreading a message to target the right audience. The necessity to become agile foster the creation of digital publications. Because print papers as we know nowadays are disappearing, digital means is becoming favourable winner in the battle of preference.
The key to successful modern PR is to be different. For 2018, the essential is not to produce as much PR content as possible, but rather a content that will stand out. New consumers preference leans towards video content. By 2021, 82% of global consumer Internet traffic will stand for the video.
Is video content creation the way how to catch audience's attention and boost engagement in PR?
As Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook predicts:"Video is a mega trend, in a decade, video will look like as big a shift in the way we share and communicate as mobile has been." Video has become a trend in the digital environment as the number 1 preferred content type among audience. To engage with and learn more about a certain brand, 41% of audience choose watching a video.
Videos build trust and help to increase users' understanding of the product or service based on 97% of marketers. Positive impact of video content shows, the users have been convinced to buy a product or service by watching a brand's video in 81%.
Audience expects appealing and easily accessible content which has power to engage. Videos encourage
sharing and contributes to branding by promoting company's logo. Good news are, the most memorable branded content 3 times more popular than branded blogs or ebooks is a video. The other reasons why to incorporate video content in PR are to boost search engine rankings and to help email marketing click-through rate.
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Necmettin Erbakan University
Necmettin Erbakan University Turkey
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Necmettin Erbakan University published between 1 October 2020 - 30 September 2021 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Article Count and Share for Necmettin Erbakan University
Physical Sciences 20 0.00
Chemistry 1 0.20
Compare Necmettin Erbakan University with other institutions
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
9.20% Domestic
90.80% International
Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators with Necmettin Erbakan University by Share (41 total)
Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey
Domestic institution
Necmettin Erbakan University and Konya Food and Agriculture University (KFAU) (0.80)
Necmettin Erbakan University0.20
Konya Food and Agriculture University (KFAU)0.60
Necmettin Erbakan University and Marmara University (0.41)
Marmara University0.34
Necmettin Erbakan University and Selcuk University (0.40)
Selcuk University0.20
Necmettin Erbakan University and Çukurova University (0.18)
Çukurova University0.18
Necmettin Erbakan University and Akdeniz University (0.09)
Akdeniz University0.07
Necmettin Erbakan University and Gazi University (0.07)
Gazi University0.04
Necmettin Erbakan University and Başkent University (0.07)
Başkent University0.04
Necmettin Erbakan University and University of Health Sciences (SBU) (0.06)
University of Health Sciences (SBU)0.03
Necmettin Erbakan University and Boğaziçi University (BU) (0.05)
Boğaziçi University (BU)0.05
Necmettin Erbakan University and Inonu University (0.04)
Inonu University0.02
Top 10 international collaborators with Necmettin Erbakan University by Share (328 total)
Necmettin Erbakan University and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) (1.26)
National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)1.26
Necmettin Erbakan University and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (1.00)
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres0.99
Necmettin Erbakan University and European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (0.89)
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)0.89
Necmettin Erbakan University and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) (0.63)
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)0.63
Necmettin Erbakan University and Imagine Institute (0.46)
Imagine Institute0.40
Necmettin Erbakan University and RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen) (0.42)
RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen)0.41
Necmettin Erbakan University and Harvard University (0.40)
Harvard University0.36
Necmettin Erbakan University and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (0.40)
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)0.34
Necmettin Erbakan University and Imperial College London (ICL) (0.36)
Imperial College London (ICL)0.35
Necmettin Erbakan University and Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (0.35)
Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)0.29
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The Alistair Knox Reserve in Eltham is a hub for community life. It's where preschoolers come together during the week for playdates, where galahs and cockatoos pick for seeds in the grass, where mammoth gum trees wave their tall branches and where families ride bicycles along the edges of the Diamond Creek.
It is also the location of the Eltham Library, the Eltham toy lending service, the monthly Eltham Craft and Produce Market and it sits very close to the home ground of the Eltham Panthers football team.
The reserve was established in 1975 and makes such an excellent display of bush gardening and sustainable building practices, it has been classified by the National Trust.
It contains rockwork by influential designer Gordon Ford, that cleverly blends into the park without looking placed and there are patches of native shrubbery that mimic the way trees appear in their natural environment. The reserve is named after architect Alistair Knox, who has been credited with reviving the 'rammed earth' movement in Australia. Also in his honour, mud-bricks (popular in many Eltham buildings) have been used to create the park's award-winning, Greg Burgess designed, library.
Keeping within the theme, the play equipment in the reserve is not the garish plastic type found in most council gardens. It's been left plain with rustic timbers exposed so as to better fit in with its natural bushland surroundings. The reserve has climbing equipment of three different sizes to accommodate a range of abilities. There are slides, rings, swings, bridges and rockers. The playground is surfaced with tan bark.
Another interesting feature of the reserve is the Wetland ponds; made up of a duck pond, sediment pond and frog pond, that cascade one into another after heavy rain. Melbourne Water, with the help of water features and pool designer Peter Glass, installed the wetlands as a filter so that pollutants from urban areas could be dissolved before entering local water ways.
Several sculptures, are contained within the reserve, one of Alan Marshall the local author of the famous Australian novel 'I Can Jump Puddles'. The reserve also houses a section of the Heidelberg School Artist's Trail with Walter Withers the focus of the information plaques.
To get to Alistair Knox Reserve catch bus 513 or 902 and get off near the corner of Bridge Road. Alternately take a Hurstbridge train and travel over the historic timber trestle bridge on your way to Eltham Station. Or, if you're driving, parking is available either in Panther Place or at Main Road above the reserve. While spending the day out at the park, drinks and snacks are available from The Tea Pot Cafe. You can also dine at the nearby Shillinglaw Cottage, which was built in 1856.


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High schools no longer need to be brick and mortar buildings with rows of desks that form a four-by-four classroom with teachers as the sole source of expertise. XQ School Leaders will share how they are breaking the mold as to where learning takes place. Hear from school leaders who are building and running schools where learning takes place in a museum, in natural environments, and across satellite sites.


EDMOND, Okla. – It was a shocking start to the lunch rush at an Edmond restaurant on Monday morning.
Shortly before noon, emergency crews were called to Boulevard and 15th St. in Edmond after a car ran into a building.
Officials arrived on the scene and found a gaping hole in the side of the One Cafe.
Fortunately, there were no reports of injuries.
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First Rupununi Music, Arts Festival a big success
The three-day Rupununi Music and Arts Festival had an auspicious start at the Rock View Lodge in the Annai community of Region Nine on Friday. It was formally opened by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who commended the organisers for launching an event that brought performers from across the world to Guyana's interior.
Two international artistes performing.
He said that tourism has been identified as a sector that can foster development by attracting overseas visitors to experience the unique flora and fauna. To this end, new airlines and the expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport are in train to take advantage of the new opportunities available, along with the construction of the soon to be opened Marriott Hotel, the Prime Minister said.
The fact that Guyana has been listed as one of the top 21 places to visit in 2014 by the prestigious National Geographic Traveler Magazine was also noted by him. The Prime Minister also took the opportunity to announce the presentation of a $5M cheque to the organisers as a show of Government's support for the inaugural event.
For Tourism Minister (ag) Irfaan Ali, the event was about being able to experience global music.
"Music is one of the most beautiful forms of bringing people together, culture together and having humanity embracing each other."
Minister Ali, observing the large influx of overseas guests and performers, reminded them that they could always extend their stay in what he described as the cleanest most beautiful area in Guyana. The Minister also commended the organisers for initiating the programme and using local talent and skills to ensure its success.
The event was also described by Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett as a unique way to showcase the interior of Guyana to many who believe that Guyana basically starts and ends on the coastal region. It will also benefit surrounding indigenous communities, she noted, and they will learn from it.
Tassa drummers at the festival.
Co-ordinator Colin Edwards said that the event was not easy to organise, and whilst he acknowledged that some mistakes may have been made inadvertently, next year's festival would build on and improve what was described by many who attended as a wonderful event.
Edwards thanked all the entities that made it possible such as Government, the Ministries of Tourism and Amerindian Affairs, Embassies, local banks and a myriad of private sponsors.
Annai's Toshao, Mark George, also welcomed the hundreds of visitors and urged them to enjoy what he termed as, "the most beautiful part of Guyana". He asked them to encourage others to come and experience what the community has to offer.
The performers included Marc Mathews (spoken word) and Keith Waithe (jazz & world flautist) Chuckie' (Marlon Adams) and the Buxton Children's group, Fusion African drumming, Raghu's Indian Tassa drummers, Ras Camo, Indus Voices & Dance Worqs, Trevor Rogers, Desmond Atherly, Desmond Atiwell and the Surama Cultural Group.
International performers were Zambian Namvula, Filligar (USA), Iryna Muha (UK/Ukraine), Ramon Goose (UK), Pavel Vánì (Czech Republic), Aref Durvesh (UK),and Drew Gonsalves (Canada via Trinidad). (GINA)


Each year some friends of mine hold a brilliant party, a post-Christmas pre-New Year white elephant where you can rid yourself of any bad gifts you received. It makes getting bad gifts almost desirable, and it serves as a happy way to prep for the New Year. This year we received this, um, decoration? It's a five-headed dog made from a glove and glued onto a plastic base of some sort. We heard that it was chosen by a six year old. Notice one of the dog heads is backwards? Awesome.
Here is to hoping your upcoming year is free of backwards headed dog things, and full of yummy things to eat and good hair days.
Last month I came across a rumor online (ok, all over Ebay in sellers' descriptions) that Prada had discontinued it's colorless lip balm. It's my absolute favorite of all time and my heart broke a little bit. I did some more digging and I found out that whole boxes of the ridiculously expensive stuff were selling at TJ Maxx for $8, and my heart broke a whole lot because I didn't know about it at the time. I suspect the TJ Maxx special was because of some online store shutting down and dumping their inventory, but I honestly have no idea what was actually behind it. (Something similar happened the first year I moved to San Francisco – a well-stocked dot com shop closed and shortly thereafter a discount store on Polk Street was filled with supercheap aromatherapy candles, yoga cds and fancy facial cleaners, it was great.) I still cannot tell if it has been discontinued but I hope not, it's one of the things I'm willing to pay way too much for.
Here are two lip balm related sites I felt the need to include in this post but couldn't find a way to put in gracefully so here you are: Kiss Fix (formerly Lip Medic, what's the story there?) has tons and tons of lip balms for sale. And a new discovery: Chaptasitc tests and candidly reviews lip balms. They have a page on the top rated lip balms by Real Simple magazine.
So, now that my two favorites have been yanked cruelly out of my consumer hands I ask you – What is your favorite lip balm?
Daiso stores are popping up – Anh-Minh reports from a new one in Daly City, California, and just this morning L from Sharpening My Stick(s) sent me photographic evidence of one opening in Westlake Center in downtown Seattle. The Seattle area, well region, has three stores already – Lynnwood at Alderwood Mall, Federal Way in the Commons, and Puyallup in the South Hill Mall.
Shortly after I heard about Anthelios sunscreen Michelle wrote to tell me that it has finally been approved by the FDA, at least in SPF 15, and we can buy it in the US now. Here is a list of where to find it in stores and it looks like CVS carries it. Darn, we don't have CVS in Washington.
I bought some SPF 45 and 60 while we were in Vancouver and I like it because it doesn't make me break out, but in the higher SPF it does leave me awfully shiny, too much for daily use. Right now I use it when we're going to be hiking. Hopefully the SPF 15 will be a little softer. Anyhow, Anthelios is worth giving a try if you're looking for a good sunscreen and daily moisturizer for your face.
I've been considering getting some Candela lights. I like soft glowy light at night, but I don't tend to buy candles. I think these would be great to keep in the dining room as a quick way to make a regular dinner more romantic. And now that we have a deck I'm eyeing the Luau portable lamp as well.
And this is a bit late, but take a look a the holiday Fun with Candelas which include PDF instructions on how to make a tree, snowman or angel.
We made homemade sun jars as gifts this year, and it took a little trial and error to find the right solar lights to go inside. So much so that I kept notes so, should you want to make one, you don't have the same troubles I did. Go see: homemade sun jar.
Buddha Bowls! Perfect for eating dinner in front of the tv, though not necessarily what they are meant for.
How to Cook Everything, which I immediately used to find recipes for the Cornish hens and sweet potatoes we had for dinner.
A susbscription to Cook's Illustrated magazine, and the January issue with the article on dutch ovens. As reported by a few people in the comments of previous posts they rate the Chefmate 5 quart ($40 at Target, not online) up there with a Le Creuset, the only reservation being that the Chefmate is smaller so you need to brown meat in a few extra batches.
I wish everybody a Merry Christmas, I hope it's warm and bright and has full electricity and internet access.
Here are some (blurry and poorly composed) photographs of the gingerbread display in downtown Seattle this year.
This was much larger than it appears here.
Simple and charming tealight place settings.
Super cheerful gumdrop wreath, I remember seeing this on Alicia's site last (?) year!
Alison from Six and a Half Stitches used the Martha Stewart mini pinatas to make Christmas ornaments, I swoon. You can see my Valentine's day version of them here.
And Kungfoodie has gathered an impressive amount of information on making gingerbread houses, excellent.
Culinary Fool on sparkling shiraz, I love sparkling reds.
Mint chocolate brownies at Shelterrific. It uses York Peppermint Patties.
Some very soft trees at Two Straight Lines.
Craftapalooza turns us towards this tutorial on One Hour Craft for Humbug Party Bags.
This is a beautiful chocolate advent calendar, at Brownie Points.
David Lebovitz's best holiday snack ever.
Pretty snowflake templates at Freshly Blended.
Check out the Christmas stocking with a special access panel at Skona Life (about half way down). Awesome. Take a look at the rest of the site too, it's beautiful.
Drink accessories at Cool Hunting. I like the chocoates that perch on the lip of your glass.
The Anticandy at Smitten Kitchen. They look perfect.
Martha Stewart's Tree Trimming How-To at Modern Roost.
It's beautiful, but might be deadly, go see the Peppermint Fluff Martini at The Spirit World.
Gingerbread house patterns at The Kitchen.
I've always wondered if it was safe to eat the silver dragees or not. The Dragee Report at The Kitchen.
DIY Holiday Tree to download and print out, from HP, very cool. At Swiss Miss.
Just as I was ready to declare this a White Christmas Because All We Can Get On TV Is Static the cable (and therefore internets) came back last night. I'll need some time to catch up.
So, where do I go to get a puzzle these days? It was an informal tradition in my parents house to have a puzzle set up during the holidays to give you something to do when everybody has run out of things to talk about but nobody will be the first to turn on the television. We usually got a cheesy murder mystery puzzle which you have to construct to learn who dunnit. Scott and I decided to get one for ourselves this year since it's not looking like we'll have the internet to distract us for Christmas. I went to two malls to find a games store (I remember these very clearly, they had board games, puzzles and a bit of role playing supplies) but they don't seem to exist any more. I ended up buying a not too cloying puzzle at Toys R Us (a place I never want to set foot in again) and a Lost mystery puzzle at Target (which I'm pretty sure I'm going to return). Anybody? Know of a store with a good selection of puzzles in or around Seattle?
We're still cable and internet-less but we're feeling luckier by the day to have power. The houses around us are still without electricity and it's been darn cold at night. We've been mocking our own "but we're going to miss Battlestar Galactica" fretting from last week. Sundry's post, with pictures, is pretty much what we woke up to on Friday. I was lucky enough to find hot coffee at Fry's (don't ask) and gas in Renton that day without waiting in horrendously long lines.
This is a picture of the picture I took of the bread I was baking when our power went out Thursday night. The bread baked fine, we are super lucky and have our power back already, but we don't have internet at home (I'm at the library). It's awful boring.
Evany showed off a little crocheted Christmas tree she received as a dinner party favor (so smart!) and shows off her own little forest. She points us to this thread on Craftster – Crocheted Christmas Tree with Buttons for how to make them. If you are like me and don't know how to crochet (yet) see the Soft Tree sewing pattern at Little Birds.
These Santa Lucia dolls at Posie Gets Cozy are so sweet.
Mantle villages abound and make me wish I had a mantle: made out of old Christmas cards at Danny Seo's Simply Green, all lit and pretty at Wise Craft and Angry Chicken and a sweet little one made from cardboard at Kiddley with a decorated update.
Kiddley has been filled with good holiday stuff, check out the pom-pom garland, , paper Santa Lucia crowns, Crazy Hat Crackers, Advent Stick and Advent Activities.


We are delighted to announce the winner of The Graduate Art Prize 2017, artist Charlotte Aiken for her work Untitled Triptych (see below). Charlotte has just completed her BA at The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University and her winning artwork is a large-scale, three-part abstract painting (created using acrylic paints on canvas), with each one of the three paintings measuring 2.22m x 1.4m.
Charlotte's piece centres on the notion of infinity, as exemplified by the representation of the sky. Her overpoweringly large-scale pieces allow her to work in an aggressive, physical manner and she prefers to use decorating brushes to apply the paint to accentuate imperfection and texture, recreating an impression of the sky rather than an accurate portrayal. The precise abstract lines running across and interrupting the vastness are symbolic self-representations, inspired by electricity wires running through the sky.
The Graduate Art Prize, an increasingly influential awards programme now into its fifth year, is open to all final-year students on BA and MA degree courses at British art colleges or universities. This year saw a shortlist of 26 artists and artworks selected from an increasing pool of high-quality submissions, with an incredible 87% increase this year in overall submissions, compared to 2016. The shortlist was created by art consultants ARTIQ, who run the prize, together with event partner, law firm partner Herbert Smith Freehills, with the final winner selected by public vote.
The winning artist receives a £1000 cash prize as well as – along with all other shortlisted artists – the chance to be represented by ARTIQ in their future careers. ARTIQ works with interior designers and architects, as well as corporate and hospitality clients to promote the use of art in the workplace and in hospitality and residential environments through the curation of art collections on a sale, rental, exhibition or bespoke commission basis.


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If you've hired a graphic designer in the past, you know exactly how pricey such professional help can be. The top graphic designers charge quite a bit of money, and while you may receive high-quality, impressive work, your pocketbook will certainly be worse for wear. The good news is that times have changed, and with the resources available on the Internet today, it's possible to get graphic design down at a reasonably affordable price. In this post, I will go over how you can do that.
There are several options if you want to design something cheaply. The first, most obvious one is to learn a bit of graphic design on your own. By going to sites like Lynda.com, you can take online courses that teach you basic design concepts and how to use popular design tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator. But as you will soon realize, graphic design is a very complex field. You may be able to learn some of the basics in short order, but if you want to get to the point where you consistently create attractive designs, you will need lots of training. Keep in mind, graphic design is a field that many people get degrees in. So don't fool yourself into thinking you can learn it quickly. To become a competent designer, you will need to invest hundreds of hours, and spend quite a bit of money on training resources, software, and other tools. If you are a student, you can often get the tools you need at a discount. Photoshop, for example, can be purchased at a fraction of its retail price if you are a student. But even still, you will end up spending quite a bit of money collecting all the tools you need. Therefore, learning design is not a practical option for most people.
A second option is to hire a designer online. Although graphic designers on the whole are rather expensive to hire, there are many places you can go online to hire cheap design help. Fiverr is one such site, and you can get many things such as logos designed for as little as five dollar. But as you can probably imagine, you can't expect top quality work when you pay such a small amount of money. If you get lucky, you may receive design files that look okay, but in many cases, the work done by cheap graphic designers and below par and don't pass muster if your goal is to convey a professional image. To make matters worse, some of the least expensive designers on such sites are located in foreign countries. This adds another layer of complexity to your project, as language barriers can often lead to miscommunications and costly mistakes.
A third option is to work with online printing companies. Many of them offer free templates you can use, and if you need a modestly attractive piece produced quickly, this is a good, inexpensive option you might want to consider. In most cases, you can design such pieces rather quickly, since the image and design work is already done. All you typically have to do is add the text you want to appear on your printed material. One great thing about working with an online printing service is that once you create your design, you can place your order quite easily. As you may or may not know, ordering printing services online is a straightforward process similar to ordering many other products. You will always have a chance to view a final version of your artwork before you place your order. I recommend reviewing this screen very carefully, since you don't want to order thousands of printed goods that contain a typo. Also make sure you search the web for any online coupons or special discounts you can use to bring down the price of your order.
Ultimately, my suggestion is to use a combination of these different tactics. For simple things like website buttons or photo editing, you should definitely learn how to do such things on your own. Graphic design tasks that are a bit more involved can be done by inexpensive designers you find online. And simple print projects, such as business cards, can be designed using online tools that are available at online printing companies.
None of these solutions will yield the snazziest designs or win you any awards. But by using one of the methods discussed above, you will be able to get decent looking designs that look quite good, especially considering how little money you have spent. In an ideal world, you would have a dedicated, talented graphic designer you can turn to. But in the small business world, such is a luxury most of us don't have. Fortunately for us, the Internet provides us with many alternatives that aren't perfect, but allow us to choose a reasonable compromise.


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Q: Does atomizing a stream protect data in a thread through member functions So based on this scenario:
#include <fstream>
#include <thread>
#include <string>

// Atomize this
std::ofstream f;

void func()
{
  std::queue<std::string> sq;
  std::string s;
  for (volatile int i = 0; i < 10 || !f.eof(); i++) {
    // Will s get corrupted?
    std::getline(f, s);
    sq.push(s);
  }
}

int main()
{
  f.open("somefile.txt");
  std::vector<std::thread> threads;
  for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    threads.push_back(std::thread(func));
  }
}

I'll be calling getline inside of a thread, which (I assume) works no different than a loop that increments the file pointer into a string until a delimiter. What is the appropriate way of securing the file pointer such that getline doesnt collect garbage data. Point B: I just set up a mutex to lock it while getline is being run.
I read that atomic type variables cannot be written/read at the same time, but I'm unsure if this works in a member function as well. Does it lock from reading/writing until the getline method terminates? Or will it (un)lock as getline loops *f;
Of course I can mutex this, I am just curious if streams are threadsafe in this scenario.

A: Using stream objects in multiple threads without explicit synchronization generally introduces data races. (The standard streams std::cout and companions are an exception under certain conditions.)
If by "atomize" you mean something like
std::atomic<std::ofstream> f;

that is not possible. std::atomic works only with trivially copyable types (or std::shared_ptr/std::weak_ptr).
You need to use a mutex.


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Hex External
Hex Phillips
Slotted Tamper-
Hex Torx
Square Pozidriv® Tamper-
Spanner Clutch External
Square External
Driver Style
in.-lbs.
Quick-Change Hex
Reversible Hex
Hex Shank Size
Metal Clip Rail
Torque Adjustability
Less than 500 in.-lbs.
Minimum Torque
2 in.-lbs.
Torque-Limiting Mechanism
Slip Release
Square Drive Size
Bit Standard
Clockwise Accuracy
For Bit Hex Shank Size
About Torque Tools
Nutdriver Bits
Hex Shank for Power Tools
Also known as nut setters, these bits turn hex nuts and cap screws.
Hex shank bits (also known as insert bits) are used in hand drivers or with a bit adapter in power tools.
Hex shank bits for power tools have a groove in the shank and fit directly into power tools without an adapter. They offer more reach for recessed holes and less wobble compared to a hex shank bit used with an adapter.
Size Bolt
Clearance Lg. OD Material Each
1/4" Hex Shank Size
9/32" 1/4" 1 1/2" 0.422" Steel 00000000 00000
1/4" Hex Shank Size for Power Tools
9/32" 1 3/8" 3 1/4" 0.5" Steel 0000000 00000
These assortments contain general-purpose bits.
Tamper-Resistant Hex
Drilled Spanner
Pozidriv®
Tamper-Resistant Torx
Pieces Components
Included Adapters
Included Drive
1/4" Hex Shank Size—Steel
17 16 Bits
1 Adapter Phillips: No. 0 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Phillips: No. 1, No. 3 (1" O'all Lg.)—2 ea.
Phillips: No. 2 (1" O'all Lg.)—4 ea.
Slotted: 3/16" (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Slotted: 7/32", 1/4", 9/32" (1" O'all Lg.)—2 ea. 2 1/8" Lg. Bit Adapter
for Power Tools __ 0000000 000000
1 Drive Tool Phillips: No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 (1" O'all Lg.)
Slotted: 5/32", 11/64", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32" (1" O'all Lg.)
Hex: 5/64", 3/32", 1/8", 5/32", 3/16" (1" O'all Lg.)
Torx: T10, T15, T20, T25, T30, T40 (1" O'all Lg.)
Square: No. 0, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 (1" O'all Lg.)
Clutch: 1/8", 5/32" (1" O'all Lg.) 2 1/4" Lg. Bit Adapter
for Power Tools 7 3/4" Lg. Bit Screwdriver 00000000 00000
1 Drive Tool Phillips: No. 1, No. 3 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Slotted: 3/16", 1/4", 9/32" (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Hex (Inch): 1/16", 5/64", 3/32", 7/64", 1/8", 9/64", 5/32"
3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 5/16", 3/8" (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Hex (Metric): 2 mm, 2.5 mm, 3 mm, 4 mm
5 mm, 6 mm, 8 mm (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea. 1/4" Male Square Drive
× 1/4" Hex Shank Adapter
2 1/8" Lg. Bit Adapter
1 Drive Tool Phillips: No. 0, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Slotted: 7/64", 5/32", 7/32" (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Hex (Inch): 5/64", 3/32", 7/64", 1/8", 9/64"
5/32", 3/16", 7/32", 1/4" (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Hex (Metric): 2.5 mm, 3 mm, 4 mm
5 mm, 6 mm (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Torx: T10, T15, T20, T25, T27
T30, T40 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Square: No. 0, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Pozidriv®: No. 1, No. 2 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Clutch: 5/32" (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea. 1 7/8" Lg. Bit Adapter
for Power Tools
1/4" Male Square Drive
× 1/4" Hex Shank Adapter 7 1/2" Lg. Bit Screwdriver 0000000 00000
100 96 Bits
4 Adapters Phillips: No. 0 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Slotted: 3/32", 1/8", 5/32", 3/16", 7/32", 1/4"
9/32", 5/16", 3/8" (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Hex (Inch): 0.050", 1/16", 5/64", 3/32", 7/64"
1/8", 9/64", 5/32", 3/16", 7/32", 1/4"
5/16", 3/8" (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Hex (Metric): 1.5 mm, 2 mm, 2.5 mm, 3 mm
4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm, 7 mm, 8 mm (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Tamper-Resistant Hex (Inch): 3/32"
7/64", 1/8", 9/64", 5/32", 3/16", 7/32"
1/4", 5/16" (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Tamper-Resistant Hex (Metric): 2.5 mm, 3 mm
4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm, 8 mm (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Torx: T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T15, T20, T25, T27
T30, T40, T45, T50, T55 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Tamper-Resistant Torx: T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T15
Square: No. 0, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Pozidriv®: No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Drilled Spanner: No. 4, No. 6, No. 8, No. 10
No. 12, 1/4" (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Screw-In Hook Driver Bit—1 ea. 1/4" Male Square Drive
× 1/4" Hex Shank Adapter (1" O'all Lg.)
Bit Adapter for Square Drive Tools __ 000000 00000
1/4" Hex Shank Size and 1/4" Hex Shank Size for Power Tools—Steel
2 Adapters Phillips Hex Shank: No. 0 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Phillips Hex Shank: No. 1, No. 3 (1" O'all Lg.)—2 ea.
Phillips Hex Shank: No. 2 (1" O'all Lg.)—9 ea.
Phillips Hex Shank for Power Tools: No. 1, No. 3
(2" O'all Lg.)—2 ea.
Phillips Hex Shank for Power Tools: No. 2
Slotted Hex Shank: 3/16", 7/32", 9/32"
Slotted Hex Shank: 1/4" (1" O'all Lg.)—2 ea.
Slotted Hex Shank for Power Tools: 3/16"
1/4" (2" O'all Lg.)—2 ea. 1/4" Female Square Drive
× 1/4" Female Hex Adapter
3" Lg. Bit Adapter
for Power Tools __ 00000000 00000
1/4" Hex Shank Size and 1/4" Reversible Hex—Steel
1 Adapter Phillips: No. 1, No. 3 (1" O'all Lg.)—2 ea.
Reversible Phillips: No. 2 × No. 2
(2 3/8" O'all Lg.)—2 ea.
Slotted: 13/64", 15/64", 9/32" (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Reversible Slotted:
15/64" × 15/64" (2 3/8" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Square: No. 2 (1" O'all Lg.)—5 ea.
Square: No. 1, No. 3 (1" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Reversible Square: No. 2 × No. 2
External Hex: 1/4", 5/16", 3/8"
7/16" (2 5/8" O'all Lg.)—1 ea. 2 1/4" Lg. Bit Adapter
1/4" Hex Shank Size for Power Tools—Steel
50 50 Bits Phillips: No. 0, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4
Slotted: 1/8", 9/64", 5/32", 3/16", 7/32", 1/4"
9/32", 5/16" (2" O'all Lg.)—1 ea.
Hex (Inch): 0.050", 1/16", 5/64", 3/32", 7/64", 1/8"
Hex (Inch): 5/32" (2" O'all Lg.)—2 ea.
Hex (Metric): 2 mm, 2.5 mm, 3 mm, 4 mm, 5 mm
Torx: T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T15, T20, T27
Torx: T25 (2" O'all Lg.)—2 ea.
Square: No. 0, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3
No. 4 (2" O'all Lg.)—1 ea. __ __ 000000 00000
1/4" and 5/16" Hex Shank Size—Steel
2 Drive Tools Phillips 1/4" Hex Shank: No. 1, No. 2 (1" O'all Lg.)
Slotted 1/4" Hex Shank: 3/16", 1/4", 9/32" (1" O'all Lg.)
Hex 1/4" Hex Shank: 5/64", 3/32", 7/64", 1/8"
9/64", 7/32", 1/4" (1" O'all Lg.)
Hex 5/16" Hex Shank: 5/32", 3/16" (1 1/4" O'all Lg.)
Torx 1/4" Hex Shank: T10, T15, T20, T25, T27
T30 (1" O'all Lg.)
Torx 5/16" Hex Shank: T40, T45, T50
(1 1/4" O'all Lg.)
Square 1/4" Hex Shank: No. 1, No. 2, No. 3
(1" O'all Lg.)
Pozidriv® 1/4" Hex Shank: No. 1, No. 2 (1" O'all Lg.)
Clutch 1/4" Hex Shank: 3/32", 1/8", 5/32"
3/16" (1" O'all Lg.) __ 5 3/8" Lg. Angled Tight-Clearance
Ratcheting Bit Screwdriver
5 1/2" Lg. Tight-Clearance
Ratcheting Bit Screwdriver 00000000 000000
Nutdriver Bit Sets
Included Bolt
Clearance Overall
Dia. Material Container
7 Bits External Hex: 3/16", 1/4" (1 3/8" O'all Lg.)
External Hex: 7/16" (1 5/8" O'all Lg.)
External Hex: 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8" (1 1/2" O'all Lg.) 3/16"-5/16" 5/16"-5/8" Steel Plastic Caddy 00000000 000000
These standard nutdrivers have a hollow shaft that provides clearance to remove nuts from long bolts.
Inch size nutdrivers are color-coded by size.
Color Overall
Lg. Bolt
Clearance Lg. O'all
Wd. Material Handle
Material Each
9/32" Orange 6 5/8" 3" 3" 7/16" Chrome-Plated Steel Plastic 0000000 00000
Sets include an assortment of nutdrivers.
Pieces Includes Bolt
Clearance Material Handle
Material Container
10 3/16" Black Nutdriver—7" O'all Lg.
7/32" Brown Nutdriver—7" O'all Lg.
1/4" Red Nutdriver—7" O'all Lg.
9/32" Orange Nutdriver—7" O'all Lg.
5/16" Yellow Nutdriver—7 1/2" O'all Lg.
11/32" Green Nutdriver—7 1/2" O'all Lg.
3/8" Blue Nutdriver—7 1/2" O'all Lg.
7/16" Brown Nutdriver—8 3/4" O'all Lg.
1/2" Red Nutdriver—8 3/4" O'all Lg.
9/16" Orange Nutdriver—8 3/4" O'all Lg. 1 9/16"-3 1/8" Steel Plastic Fabric Roll-Up Pouch 0000000 000000
Compact Nutdriver Sets
A scaled-down version of standard nutdrivers, these tools are shorter, slimmer, and easy to take with you. Sets include a secondary handle that slips over the attached handle for greater torque and a more comfortable grip. Drivers are color-coded by size.
Pieces Includes Overall Lg. with
Handle Bolt
11 3/32" Blue Nutdriver—3 1/2" O'all Lg.
3/16" Black Nutdriver—3 1/2" O'all Lg.
9/32" Orange Nutdriver—3 1/2" O'all Lg.
Secondary Nutdriver Handle 5 1/8" 7/16"-3/4" Zinc-Plated Steel Plastic Plastic Case 0000000 000000
Torque Screwdriver and Bit Sets
These sets include an adjustable torque driver, bits for different drive styles, and a socket adapter. Turn the collar on the driver to adjust torque. When set torque is reached, the driver slips to disengage and stop turning the fastener, preventing overtightening. Sets come with a calibration certificate that is traceable to NIST and includes the test measurements that confirm accuracy.
Note: Accuracy ratings do not apply to the lower 20% of the torque range.
Pieces Includes Torque
Range Graduations For Bit
Shank Size Torque-Limiting
Direction Clockwise
Accuracy O'all
Lg. Material Handle Certification Each
Slip-Release Torque Limiter
in.-lbs., Nm
1 Drive Tool
1/4" Square Drive Socket Adapter
Screwdriver Bit Extension
Torque-Limiting Screwdriver 2-36 in.-lbs.
0.2-4 Nm 2 in.-lbs.
0.2 Nm 1/4" Clockwise ±6% 7 3/4" Aluminum Aluminum Calibration Certificate with Test Data Traceable to NIST 0000000 0000000
6-Point Sockets
Achieve the best possible grip on hex fasteners and prevent rounding.
Size Material Specifications
Met Overall
Lg. Each
9/32" Chrome-Plated Steel ASME B107.110, SAE AS4984A 7/8" 0000000 00000
9/32" Chrome-Plated Steel ASME B107.110, SAE AS954G 2" 0000000 0000
12-Point Sockets
The 12-point shape quickly positions on hex fasteners. These sockets are for hand-driven use only.
9/32" Steel __ 7/8" 0000000 00000
9/32" Steel ISO 1174 1 1/8" 0000000 00000
9/32" Steel __ 2" 0000000 0000
12-Point Flex Sockets
Pivot the head to access fasteners from an angle. These sockets have a 12-point shape that quickly positions on hex fasteners.
Lg. OD Material Each
9/32" 1 1/4" 1/2" Chrome-Plated Steel 0000000 000000
Impact Hex Bit Sockets
These sockets are made to withstand the high torque and force of impact tools.
Lg. Material Finish Bit
Replaceable Each
9/32" 3 15/16" Steel Black No 00000000 000000
6-Point Impact Sockets
Achieve the best possible grip on hex fasteners and prevent rounding. These sockets are made to withstand the high torque and force of impact tools.
Size Nut Bolt Material Finish Overall
9/32" 15/64" 1/2" Steel Black 7/8" 0000000 00000
9/32" 5/16" 19/32" Steel Black 1 1/8" 0000000 0000
9/32" 19/64" 1 5/8" Steel Black 2" 0000000 00000
9/32" 5/16" 2 1/4" Steel Black 2 3/4" 0000000 0000
Economy 6-Point Socket Sets
Suitable for occasional maintenance work, these sets are imported. The hex shape grips hex fasteners and prevents rounding.
Included Includes Each
1/4" Square Drive—Chrome-Plated Steel
21 16 Sockets
2 Drive Tools
1 Adapter Standard Sockets: 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2"
Deep Sockets: 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2"
5 1/2" Long Ratchet Wrench
5 7/8" Long Socket Screwdriver Handle
3" Long Extension
1 3/8" Long Flex Adapter 0000000 000000
1/4", 3/8" Square Drive—Chrome-Plated Steel
3 Extensions 1/4" Standard Sockets (Inch): 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2"
1/4" Deep Sockets (Inch): 5/32", 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2"
1/4" Standard Sockets (Metric): 4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm, 7 mm, 8 mm, 9 mm, 10 mm, 11 mm, 12 mm, 13 mm, 14 mm
1/4" Deep Sockets (Metric): 4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm, 7 mm, 8 mm, 9 mm, 10 mm, 11 mm, 12 mm, 13 mm
3/8" Standard Sockets (Inch): 1/4", 5/16", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16", 5/8", 11/16", 13/16"
3/8" Deep Sockets (Inch): 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16"
3/8" Standard Sockets (Metric): 6 mm, 7 mm, 8 mm, 9 mm, 10 mm, 11 mm, 12 mm, 13 mm, 14 mm, 15 mm, 16 mm, 17 mm, 19 mm
3/8" Deep Sockets (Metric): 10 mm, 12 mm, 13 mm
3/8" Deep Spark-Plug (Inch): 5/8"
5 1/2" Long 1/4" Square Drive Ratchet Wrench
3" Long 3/8" Square Drive Extension
6" Long 1/4" Square Drive Extension 00000000 00000
Premium 6-Point Socket Sets
Made in the U.S.A., these tools handle the toughest industrial applications, provide the best grip on fasteners, and have a superior finish. The hex shape grips hex fasteners and prevents rounding.
Sockets—Chrome-Plated Steel
Pieces Includes Each
10 Deep Sockets: 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16" 00000000 000000
10 Standard Sockets: 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16" 00000000 00000
Sockets with Drive Tools—Chrome-Plated Steel
1 Adapter Standard Sockets: 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16"
6" Long Socket Screwdriver Handle
5" Long Ratchet Wrench
1 3/8" Long Flex Adapter 00000000 0000000
1 Adapter 6-Point Deep Sockets: 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2"
6-Point Standard Sockets: 5/32", 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2"
12-Point Deep Sockets: 9/16"
1 5/16" Long Flex Adapter 0000000 000000
1/4", 3/8" Square Drive
1 Adapter 1/4" Standard Sockets: 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8"
3/8" Standard Sockets: 7/16", 1/2", 9/16", 5/8", 11/16", 3/4", 13/16", 7/8", 15/16", 1"
6" Long 1/4" Square Drive Socket Screwdriver Handle
7" Long 3/8" Square Drive Ratchet Wrench
3/8" Female Square Drive × 1/4" Male Square Drive Size Adapter 00000000 000000
Foam Socket Organizer for 10 Piece 1/4" Square Drive Size Set 0000000 Each 000000
Foam Socket Organizer for 15 Piece 1/2" Square Drive Size Set 0000000 Each 00000
Value 6-Point Socket Sets
For high quality at a lower price, choose these U.S.A.-made sets. They have a hex shape that grips hex fasteners and prevents rounding.
10 Standard Sockets: 5/32", 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2" 0000000 000000
5 13/16" Long Ratchet Wrench
Premium 12-Point Socket Sets
Made in the U.S.A., these tools handle the toughest industrial applications, provide the best grip on fasteners, and have a superior finish. The 12-point shape quickly positions on hex fasteners.
Deep Sockets: 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16"
1 3/8" Long Flex Adapter 0000000 0000000
Foam Socket Organizer for 22 Piece 3/4" Square Drive Size Set 0000000 Each 0000000
Impact Hex Bit Socket Sets
Use these sockets as an alternative to a screwdriver or L-key. They are made to withstand the high torque and force of impact tools.
Pieces Includes Overall
Lg. Material Finish Container
10 Bit Sockets: 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16", 5/8", 11/16", 3/4" (6" O'all Lg.) 6" Steel Black Metal Clip Rail 0000000 0000000
18 Bit Sockets (Inch): 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16", 5/8", 11/16", 3/4" (3" O'all Lg.)
Bit Sockets: (Metric): 6 mm, 7 mm, 10 mm, 12 mm, 14 mm, 15 mm, 17 mm, 18 mm (3" O'all Lg.) 3" Steel Black Plastic Case 0000000 000000
6-Point Impact Socket Sets
The hex shape grips hex fasteners and prevents rounding. These sockets are made to withstand the high torque and force of impact tools.
Included Includes Finish Each
1/4" Square Drive—Steel
11 11 Sockets Deep Sockets: 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32", 5/16", 11/32", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16", 5/8" Black 00000000 000000
9/32" No. 9 15° 1/4" 5° 9/32" 11/64" 15° 5 3/16" Chrome-Plated Steel Polished 0000000 000000


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