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Good idea! I haven't decided if I want to bash with it. We get carried away up there
So I am going to try the roll cage
Didn't like a few things right off the bat. Mainly I had to take the rear sway bar off maybe a different brand will work. Had to bend the front easy bar together a little bit and the center mount has a small bracket with a knurled head on the bolt. Both just spin when I tighten them up
Trucks still not too heavy just over 11lbs with spc 5400 50c batteries
Does anyone know why the front skid plate is not one piece that also mount to the steering post?
Seems like it would be much stronger
I received the tony's screw set today. Glad the screws are better because the rcscrewz box is much better!
I'll wait your comments on the roll cage...I never liked it much.
Rock n Rolla !
I do think they could of worked on it a bit more. Edges are very sharp too
Yep broke out the sandpaper last night
Turns out the flm hybrid for my maxx is shaping up to be a bigger pain then the losi mod
Ordered bulkheads without diffs because no one stocks them. Now flm are made for older style diffs that were wider and never changed design. So my losi diff will need a 2mm shim behind the ring gear. That's big!
So far one thing after another on this project tool
Yeah 2mm is a large gap. For a ring gear.
If its not breaken then your not racing.
I have some hyper 7 diffs on their way to see if they will work better
Made a tool to remove the rear motor bearing
Its made out of a big nail! The e maxx rear bearing came out fairly easy the revo fought me all the way. Had to regrind it perfectly to fit the bearing and was still a pain
Pulling the motor with the roll cage wasnt too hard . Hard part was the motor brace!
I just installed my orange seal ceramics ! Now have them in my revo and my e maxx
The losi will work but the flm bulkheads are designed for wider diffs. I shimmed it 1.6mm which is a lot ! Brings the cup far away from the axle and sometimes they recommend extended shafts. So I ordered some hyper 7 diffs and will see is they fit better
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humm if it works excellent. I dont think i have nails that big. i think ill keep using the tool i borrowed for mine if i can find it again lol.
Living life.
I picked up a front aluminum shock mount to match the rear. Had to do a little grinding to get the mount to fit over the brace
When I was installing the orange seal ceramics I had my neu small block next to it. My neu 1112 is twice has hard to turn then my 1515. I couldn't believe how much harder
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Living life.
Got all these views with no comments!
im watching :P
still frustrated from braking a rear bulkhead again with a losi diff. i might put back the integy ones, they are heavy but i m with 3 set of batteries so :/ i dont know.
<3 Traxxas~Align~Ducati~Lib-tech~JacksonGtrs <3
ok i have some comments!
first of all i am stealing the front brace thing. i never thought to put a rod to the middle screw and i killed hours cutting the body post so that a rod passes through, and making a metal plate to go on the 2 front screws. is yours good for the flex or not then? because it doesnt actually hold the bulkhead on both sides... I think that screw will flex in the chassis. i am looking for something solid to prevent the integy aluminum bulks from bending upwards.
second, you have those aluminum rockers, i instead bought the lunsford titanium rocker screws. the steel ones ALWAYS bend on me, destroying the bearings with time. i hope the $33 are invested well.
3. a tip. i added some stiff pad inside the front RPM bumper holder because yes it breaks. and after that the bumper itself brakes. i dont have a pic atm but i put a rectangle pad there and caught it with 3 tie wraps. seems more solid
4. how does the epoxy on the bulkheads hold so far?
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edit: well thats actually you who put the epoxy lol!
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I would think the brace helps. How much don't know I went with the roll cage and didn't go any further
If the titanium posts work let me know. Never had good luck with their pillow balls on my merv
On my merv I use that hard foam that traxxas uses in their packaging so I know that helps!but I have a T bone front bumper on the way but might have to trim it I hate how big and bulky they look but they work
On the front I ran jbweld because I ran out of the plastic epoxy I used in the rear. It came off on the first ride! I had a few headons with my e maxx. Front lower skid plate design puts all the force on the front half of the bulkhead and its two lower bolts and T bone uses the 4 bolts
Let us know how that roll cage works out for you mate...my epoxy broke off the bulkheads too. I don't use it anymore.
Rock n Rolla !
so far only thing i don't like is i can't run a rear sway bar and i think with the motor mount i can't run the tekno sway bar either
it would be close with the tekno maybe with some mods
Picked up some more shims and a T bone 3 piece front bumper. That will tie the bottom together much better
here's a good one: save some rc parts for the rest of us!
Living life.
The T-Bone front bumper is the only bumper from T-Bone I'm currently missing, I think I just don't like how it looks. Can you post some nice photos of it when its mounted? Maybe that will change my mind .
Dave! NO more. I feel the need to do whatever you are doing...
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
ha! just think how strong our revo's will end up!
i like how it will distributes the impact better!
better then i thought it would look
Looks good. I have the tbone stuff on my 3.3 converted revo and love it! Gonna pick up some for my slash mt too.
I'll be watching your feedback on the T-Bone skid...not sure I'd put that on. My front bulk is holding up well now that I profiled the diff to suit. No more cracked front bulkhead, I've done some heavy bashing with it so far and holding up strong. I'll see how long it lasts but so far a huge improvement .
Rock n Rolla !
I think when I have time I will finish the integy bulkhead and assemble it with my spare losi diff and have it on standby. Not going to run it in my e maxx and flm hybrid so it will give me something to do
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Hopefully the last of maxx parts come tomorrow so we can bash Sunday!

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Shaun Morgan, with or without Seether.
[QUOTE=Warfish;3653505]The Greatful Dead.
Gets almost no mainstream respect (usually mocked actually), yet kept "Roots Rock" alive, and was directly responsible for their very own genre of popular music (Jam Bands).
-Rob Thomas (earlier on) & Dave Matthews in terms of just their song writing abilities.
-Overall musicians, I think John Frusciante, Simon & Garfunkle, Jack Johnson, Free Energy (as a band), Elton John (in america it's like people don't even know who he is!), better than ezra (band)....
just to name a few.
1) David Gilmour is not at all underrated. Everyone knows of all his brilliance.David Gilmour.
Sure he gets alot od respect, but not nearly enough for his talent. When Jack White and Joni Mitchell (wtf?) routinely are listed as "better guitarist" than David Gilmour, there is something seriously wrong.
For example: http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyl...-reveals-0528/
2) I know Pink Floyd is your band, so I understand why you still maintain he's underrated, because he's just too good to ever receive enough accolades in your eyes. I guess that's why I have John Frusciante as underrated as well.
Gilmour absolutely belongs in the Pantheon of G.O.A.T., right next to the Claptons, Pages and Becks. The fact that in many surverys/pollings he often ranks far belong, losing to players not even considered great guitarists at all (Cobain ffs? Joni "are you f'ing kidding me" Mitchell!?!?!) is an abomination of disrespect.
Methinks maybe you're looking for something to underrate him. I think everyone realizes he's one of the greatest.
And how do you leave Hendrix, Santana, and Frusciante off a list of GOAT guitarists?
Warren Haynes. Not sure if there is a better guitarist/singer/song writer post 1980. Allman Bros, Gov't Mule, the Dead and Phil & Friends is a pretty cool resume.
Here's a clip for Warfish.
Mick Taylor of the Stones.
Here are three great examples of his work:
If you like the blues and hell, even if you don't, listen to this version of the Robert Johnson classic "Love In Vain" live from Fort Worth June 24, 1972. If you just want to hear the solo, pick it up around the 2:20 mark.
(Sorry only audio, no video. The Stones are releasing the classic Stones concert film DVD Ladies & Gentlemen on blu-ray this fall. It's been in theaters but never officially available on VHS or DVD. I've had it for years on boot.
Here is an audio clip of his solo on "Can't You Here Me Knocking" from the album Sticky Fingers.
Here is an audio clip of his solo on "Time Waits For No One" from the album It's Only Rock & Roll.
THe Cowboy song.
Here's a guy you either love or hate...he grew on me over time.
If you have 9 minutes to waste, watch the way he segues into Danny Boy at the end of this....
Bruce Cockburn
Here is a name many have not heard but Albert Lee was once described by Eric Clapton as the greatest guitarist in the world. He played with everyone from Buddy Holly to Eric Clapton.
I saw him at BB Kings about a month ago and he's still great.
Here is a video of Country Boy. Note Clapton in the audience. If you want to see some kick a$$ guitar pickin', jump in at the 1:30 mark.
I always felt like the band Marillion were vastly underrated as musicians. They never really caught on here in the US, probably due to their lead singer/song writer Fish's tendency to write longer songs and concept albums which didn't fit the radio media's idea of hit songs. But they really were awesome musicians. They are still around, but Fish left the band and they are no longer the same.
Other vastly underrated guys are the King Crimson guys - Robert Fripp, Tony Levin, and Adrian Belew.
And journeyman Chester Thompson is probably the best drummer in the world that no one ever talks about.


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The thing about picking Charmander as my first starter is that I had a much more difficult time beating Brock and Misty, who I think were the first two gyms.
I'm very confused how to vote...I clicked on Bulbasaur and then my screen dimmed with a small I think part of the vote bar left in the center to click on....did my vote register when I clicked on the one bar?
Charmander. He turns into a damn dragon. Why would you pick anything else?
Charmander, all the way!
I got the same thing. xD
My first Pokemon game was Yellow so it would've been Pikachu, but I also got Blue as well and I went Charmander all the way.
When you pick Charmander the first two gyms suck, after that its smooth sailing. If you pick Bulbasaur its the direct opposite.
Bulbasaur is the obvious choice. The only starter ever to have 2 types at the base form, he also has type advantage over the first 2 gym leaders. In fact, the Bulbasaur doesn't have a type disadvantage against a gym leader until Sabrina.
I cant stand Pokemon. All card games are just copy cats from the first and best card game ever. Magic The Gathering. Don't you pokemon fans go thinking Pokemon came out first. You need to do your research.
This poll is asking about the Game Boy games, not the card game.
Oh yeah, and SQUIRTLE!
First time I ever played I chose Squirtle. Every time after that it was always Charmander. Fire types FTW!!!
You need to be a level 5 to vote.
Pokemon Yellow was my first game and while Pikachu was my first pokemon, I did get all the other starter pokemon up to their final evolutions.


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Updated: May 6, 2013 8:17 pm
Hey M Girls!
Just last week, some of today's biggest stars flew to Las Vegas for the iHeartRadio music festival! Unfortch, not everybody could make it to the event, so The CW will be airing the show tonight...and the best part is, you can watch it from your couch!
The two-hour special will include performances by Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Pink, Usher, No Doubt, Pitbull and many more. Check it out only on The CW at 8pm ET!
Let's dish: -Are you going to tune in tonight? Which performance are you looking forward to most?
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Former-Real Madrid star and two-time Champions League winner Christian Karembeu believes Bayern Munich are one of the best teams he's ever seen.
The French World Cup-winning midfielder was talking to GiveMeFootball at the FIWC Grand Final in Madrid – the tournament that aims to crown the world's best FIFA 13 player.
And Karembeu thinks German football is reaping the rewards of hard work that started over 20 years ago, and that Bayern Munich in particular are one of the most impressive outfits he's ever watched.
Speaking to GiveMeFootball, Karembeu said: "I've been to Bayern Munich. To the facility and I think they are one of the best teams I have ever seen, ever watched.
"It is a very well structured [club] – right from the president down. Things are very open. I know why they are in the final again – because this is their second final [in two years]. This [kind of dominance] doesn't happen very often for many teams. So they deserve to be there. They deserve to win."
Munich's final against Borussia Dortmund this month will also be their third in just four years – although they're yet to win the competition since their penalty shootout victory over Valencia in 2001.
The German final at Wembley Stadium will be the first all-Bundesliga affair in the Champions League era, and Karembeu thinks the German league's dominance is the result of hard work and investment that started more than two decades ago.
"I know that from 20 years ago they built new academies, used new ideas, and now they have the results from what they implemented," continued the ex-Real Madrid midfielder.
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Former pro wrestler climbing for kids
Sweetwater can take even more pride in one of their home-grown celebrities, as John "Bradshaw" Layfield, a former professional wrestler, is now taking on a new challenge: climbing mountains for kids.Layfield is involved with and leads a program that is an extension of the Beyond Sports initiative based in London called "Beyond Rugby Bermuda". Bermuda is a long way to go from Sweetwater, but Layfield first became acquainted with the area as a means to break away. When he married a New York native and settled in the city, Layfield shared in a phone interview that he would head to Bermuda to escape the hustle and bustle of big city life. But what he saw on the island, however, changed his life. He found out there was a need for someone to run the Beyond Rugby program, so he decided to stay and took the leadership role. Beyond Rugby Bermuda, in partnership with the Family Centre--an internationally-recognized charity of the island, uses the sport as a way to help young people who are considered "at risk" to make a positive change and difference in their lives. Layfield shared that anywhere from 50-60% of male Bermuda boys drop out of school, but in the program's second year, 100% of the students plan on graduating, thus giving the kids options for the future."We tell kids that they can do anything they want if they work toward it and have a plan," said Layfield. Through his climbing journey, he hopes to demonstrate that to the kids.Layfield said that as a youngster growing up in a small town (he moved to Sweetwater with his family as a first grader), the outside world fascinated him. He recalled reading about Mount Everest and always had a dream of climbing the mountain.He played football during his high school years in Sweetwater, as he recalled being part of the team who, after a long playoff drought, made a post-season appearance. He graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1985--one year ahead of the state football championship team, but was able to succeed on the field while playing football as a student at Abilene Christian University. Layfield is most recognized as WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) personality "Bradshaw" or JBL (John "Bradshaw" Layfield). But after years of championship wins, he retired from the sport due to a broken back injury.As he started to feel better physically, Layfield recalled that his dreams of climbing came back to him. He says he got the idea of a Seven Summits Challenge--where a climber will climb the highest peaks of every continent--from Annabelle Bond, the fastest woman ever to achieve the feat.Layfield has several reasons for taking on this challenge. Personally, he says the climb is about doing something great while serving as a great test of a man's endurance. And while it's also a great fundraiser for the kids of Bermuda, he says that he wants to be an example to those kids as they see their coach doing what he says. Partnering with him on this journey is the WWE, who he calls one of the most charitable organizations in the world. They have assisted him with promotional opportunities and social media presence, allowing others to learn about his climbs.In June, he climbed the highest mountain in Europe, Mt. Elbrus, which is located in Russia. Just this past month, he summitted Mount Kiliminjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Layfield will conclude his first year by climbing the highest mountain in South America, Mount Aconcogua.Year Two will take him to Mount Vinson in Antarctica, followed by the highest mountain in North America in Denali, Alaska. In September 2013, he will spend time training for his October climb in Indonesia at Mount Catensz, the highest mountain in Oceania.Finally, in the spring of 2014, Layfield will take on the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest in Nepal.The journeys will be chronicled on Layfield's "Seven Summits" page on the Beyond Rugby Bermuda website, which links to the WWE webpage. Both sites offer photos from the climb, along with videos, tweets and Facebook posts.On each trek, Layfield hopes to plant the WWE flag as well as the Bermuda flag at the mountain's apex. And after some persuasion from his father Lavelle, who was in a top leadership role at the former Texas State Bank in town, he now also has the Texas flag with him.Layfield's parents have lived in East Texas since he headed to college, and his sister Sylvia Sims--a former tennis coach at SHS--was the last one in his family to move away from the area. However, he says that he is very proud of being from Sweetwater and hopes to one day come back and visit the area.To learn more about and follow Layfield's Seven Summits journey, visit www.beyondrugbybermuda.com/7-summits.html.


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The emergency coin collection was given to me by my parents back in the 1980's. Wartime Priorities demanded that the U.S. Treasury find substitute metals for minting nickels and pennies.
On Oct 8, 1942 , a new 5 cent piece was issued. They were made of 56%
copper, 9% manganese and 35% silver. To distinguish the new alloy, enlarged mint marks were used. These marks and their year of mintage, incorrectly used, helped catch both a counterfeiter and a spy during WW2.
The 1943 "Steel Cent" was issued in Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco. these cents are made of zinc-coated steel. often called "Silver Pennies", they are slightly lighter in weight than copper cents.
The 1944-1946 "Shellcase Copper Cent". The "Silver Pennies" of 1943 proved themselves to be unpopular. They were often mistaken for dimes and the zinc coating quickly wore away. The U.S. Treasury found an acceptable source for copper--used cartridge cases. from 1944 to 1946, all cents were made from these recycled shellcases in a 95% copper and 5% zinc.


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Realignment fever cooled a few degrees this week courtesy of the Big 12. Conference officials gathered at their annual spring meetings told ravenous media that the league is content with 10 schools and is not considering imminent expansion.
The "for now" and "near future" hedges will sustain conspiracy theorists, and indeed, history teaches that realignment dynamics can shift daily. But interim commissioner Chuck Neinas and Big 12 athletic directors were firm in asserting that expansion talk was brief and did not include discussion of potential targets.
So chatter about Florida State and Clemson bolting the ACC for the Big 12 can rest, temporarily, as can talk of their departure unraveling the ACC and prompting Virginia Tech to bail for the Southeastern Conference.
Still, some on Twitter and message boards insist backroom discussions between the Hokies and SEC already have commenced.
"That's total hogwash," Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver told me Thursday. "I promise you there's nothing going on with Virginia Tech and the SEC. … It's just so stupid."
Weaver and SEC commissioner Mike Slive have known one another for more than 25 years, dating to a 1980s NCAA infractions case at Florida, where Weaver was an administrator. Slive, an attorney, was advising the school – Slive also represented Virginia Tech in a 1980s NCAA violations matter.
Realignment likely will re-emerge on June 20 when Slive and his colleagues from the Big 12, ACC, Pacific 12, Big Ten and Big East convene in Chicago to continue hashing out college football's postseason structure for 2014 and beyond.
I've heard from many how the ACC could be marginalized by, or excluded from, a four-team playoff. But I don't see it, despite the conference's recent on-field shortcomings.
A league that includes Florida State, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Miami and Georgia Tech won't lack access. Fans, media and, most important, TV networks, wouldn't stand for such a power play by the Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC and Big 12.
Those who say ACC teams couldn't crack a top-four playoff field haven't paid attention or have selective memory. Just last season Florida State, Virginia Tech and Clemson were among the Associated Press' top six at various stages before fading. The Seminoles were No. 6 in preseason; the Hokies were No. 5 in the Bowl Championship Series standings entering the ACC title game, despite one loss and a soft non-conference schedule; at 8-0 and No. 5 in the polls, the Tigers were perfectly positioned for a national-title run.
Moreover, Virginia Tech's two-loss 2007 squad finished third in the BCS standings. That same season, Boston College and Matt Ryan rose to No. 2 in the polls.
So the notion that ACC membership would impede a team's playoff path doesn't wash.
Presuming the commissioners agree to a format at their Chicago meetings, they will forward a proposal to the BCS' Presidential Oversight Committee. Chaired by Virginia Tech's Charles Steger, that group is scheduled to meet June 26 in Washington, D.C.
That's all for now. Barring famine, pestilence or Notre Dame joining the ACC, Teel Time is taking a week-plus siesta. Catch you on the other side.
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text: Stephanie George Obama Grants Pensacola Woman Clemency By Bob Barrett • Dec 19, 2013 The White House Thursday afternoon The White House announced that President Obama granted clemency to 21 individuals, including a Pensacola woman serving a life sentence. In 1997, Stephanie Yvette George went to trial in Pensacola on a relatively minor drug charge. But...it was her third offense, so when she was convicted she was sentenced to the mandatory minimum sentence: life in prison. Now, 16 years later, Stephanie received word that she will soon be released from prison.


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Eagles dominate White Deer in rematch
The Sanford Fritch teams met up with White Deer for the second time this season. The first round was a wild one, and the second matchup did not disappoint either. Both games were very physical, and a total of five technicals were called between the two games.The Lady Eagles won the first contest between these teams easily, and did so again on Tuesday night. Fritch ended the 1st quarter with a three pointer from Meek at the buzzer to go up 21-6, and ended the half up 29-13. The third quarter found the Lady Eagles pulling away, and the White Deer coach was called for a technical foul after many frustrations with the officiating. The Lady Eagles end the third up by 18.There was not much action in the fourth, just more solid play from Fritch. They end the game with a nice 52-31 win.Meek was high point for the Lady Eagles with 15 points, 9 of those coming in the first quarter. She also had 3 rebounds and 2 steals. White finished with 11 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 steals. Setliff had 10 points and 7 boards for the Lady Eagles.The last game between the Eagles and Bucks went down to the wire with Fritch winning by 1. From the start of this second matchup, it looked like it would be more of the same.Fritch did not put any points on the board for the first four minutes of the game. Not much scoring happened in the first as it ended 9-5 in favor of White Deer.They improved in the second quarter and played much better defense. They go into the half only down by two.The Eagles came out on fire in the third quarter and tied it up at 21 and 23 before going up by as much as 7. A technical was called on the White Deer coach as play got very physical for both teams. Then technicals were called on a Fritch defender and a White Deer player after elbows were thrown. After things settled down a bit, Fritch found themselves up by 6 after three quarters of play.Both Blakely and Reynolds would foul out in the fourth. Blakely was called for a technical after his frustration for fouling out. The Eagles were still in control, however, and cruised to a 50-42 win over White Deer.Blakely was the leading scorer with 16 points, 8 rebounds, and a block. Melton finished with 14 points and two steals. Valle also had a nice game with 10 points, 6 rebounds, and 3 steals. The Eagle defense played very solid throughout, shutting down the big guys inside.Both Eagle teams will host Wellington at 5:00pm on Friday night.


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Except the medicines, with the advancement in medical equipments we have created various machines and other units that helps the doctor in diagnosis our disease and medical problems. We have X-ray machines, ventilators, anesthetic machine, blood pressure monitor, ultra sound machine, CT (CAT) scan machine etc. These are very helpful machine of modern time. With the advancement of technology, medical science has witnessed a great boom in the last few decades. Today we have cures and treatments of almost every disease except a few like cancer and AIDS. Due to this advancement in medical science human existence become more reliable. Now we are sure that we can save ourselves from various hazardous diseases.
If we talk about medical equipments that work at fitness equipments also, we have various such products such as Knee belt, infusion pump, air purifier, nebulizer, diabetic shoes, walkers etc.
In our childhood we don't need such thing, but thanks to medical science for making the life of senior citizens or the old age people much better than they used to live. Home medical treatment equipments are must for the old age people. But excluding these high tech machines such as CT (CAT) scan and X-tray machine, medical science has constructed various other medical equipments also that make our life more comfortable and soothing. Medical laboratory equipments, surgical equipments, medical oxygen equipments, and disposable medical lab equipment there are divided into various categories.
If you are an old age person and want to keep yourself updated with recent medical innovations and equipments, there is a lot of information available on internet. Various websites provide information on health maintenance for old age people.
There are various online classified websites, which contains contact info about who deals in sell and purchase of used medical equipments. If you are an individual and cannot afford to buy new equipments as they are very costly then you can buy this equipment at low price by finding old medical equipments dealers through these classifieds websites. And if you are in medical profession and establishing your personal clinic then also you can buy expensive medical equipments in reasonable prices.


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headhonchoII wrote:You can of course start your search overseas and get some interviews lined up but it makes more sense to personally check the places out and have interviews face to face. The companies and labs will take you more seriously if you are in Taiwan. Being Taiwanese you should have a place to stay and you speak Chinese so it should not be too difficult. I found jobs in research here after a few months with no Chinese and no experience, can't say it was the easy way to do it though! At that time they had no program for overseas students in academia sinica but they do now.
My advice is to come to Taiwan and get a bit of experience and go back to America but hey see how you like it yourself!
Isha wrote:This is just an advice but you should wait a while and let your emotional state settle first. Trying to look for jobs while you are desperate is not a good decision. You might end up in a wrong/unwanted place.
If you are looking for academic positions (not as student or RA) like lecturer, chances are better if you look outside Taipei for Taipei has long queue of applicants. If you want to be a student or RA, apply in Taipei. They also have a new Biotechnology stuff coming up. You can try there too.
I would again say, fix a position first and then come over. Going head to head is not a good way to find a job unless you are left with no other option.
Good luck.
headhonchoII wrote:She is not going to get a high level position with a B.Sc and no experience. For positions like research assistant in a government funded lab or lab assistant these are pretty easy to find. But it would be better to get your list of candidates ready to meet first prior to arriving in Taiwan.
Typing 實驗助理 or 研究助理 into 104.com.tw gives plenty of options. At least half the positions only require a B.Sc. That's just on that site with those keywords. People don't do these jobs very long because of the low pay and poor prospects, they move on to something else or further study. I'm sure there are other sites like Academia Sinica's own website that list open positions. Or you could just call up the Pharmceutical research dept or other related depts to see what is available.
zyzzx wrote:Why don't you go for a Masters? Why do you think that work experience would make you more qualified for a PhD program? If you are worried about getting into a PhD program, a Masters will probably help much more than experience as a low level lab grunt (which is all you will be with just a BS). If you are considering a PhD, I'd try to get on with it as quickly as possible. It takes long enough as it is - why waste a few years being a low level tech and end up that much older when you finally finish and can get on with your life? And even if you aren't interested in going the PhD route, I'd imagine that you can go much farther in industry with a Masters.
In my university department (not life science, but still science), there are a lot of research assistants doing reasonably non-grunty work, but they all have a Masters.
BernardT wrote:My GF is an Associate Director at a CRO and she said you have a chance at getting a job as a Clinical Research Assistant at a CRO given what you've described.
If you're interested, PM me.
PigBloodCake wrote:Isha wrote:PigBloodCake wrote:But.. For now I just want to go back... I've been in the US for +13 years now, I want to go home...
After a few years here, I'll bet you'll change your mind about this.
I second that comment. Most people I have talked to, who returned for home, regret their decision.
1. Having a boatload of $$$$ to live/retire in the 'wan.....no problem.
2. Looking for your other 1/2 in the 'wan.....no problem.
3. Need a job to survive in the 'wan.....
PigBloodCake wrote:coconut wrote:If regret happens, then oh well, it's not like I can't move :P I had no choice about coming to the US but I have choice about going back.
You took this quote from me, didn't yaAs for now I like the lifestyle (and weather) in Taiwan way better.
Trust me, you ain't see nuthin' yet (unless you're talkin' 'bout 台中 or even 高雄).
Isha wrote:As for now I like the lifestyle (and weather) in Taiwan way better.
In the last 12 months it has rained for 6 months continuously. Now it is hot and humid. This is Taipei weather report. You really think weather here is better? Not to add constant earth shaking and typhoons.
Isha wrote:Just to add, Master degree takes 3 to 3.5 years here in Taipei.
coconut wrote:Many people on the island does it, why not me?
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== Locations ==
== Locations ==
'''GTA San Andreas'''
'''GTA San Andreas'''
* Spawns while driving a [[Baggage]](often) or [[Taxi]](less often) in [[Los Santos International Airport]], [[Los Santos]] ([[Days of the Week|Sun]]).
* Spawns while driving a [[Baggage]] (often) or [[Taxi]] (less often) in [[Los Santos International Airport]], [[Los Santos]] ([[Days of the Week|Sun]]).
* Spawn while driving a [[Regina]] in [[Easter Bay International Airport]], [[San Fierro]] ([[Sun]]).
* Spawn while driving a [[Regina]] in [[Easter Bay International Airport]], [[San Fierro]] ([[Sun]]).
* A Uranus can be found parked in the showroom of [[Wang Cars]] after completing [[Zeroing In]].
* A Uranus can be found parked in the showroom of [[Wang Cars]] after completing [[Zeroing In]].
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The Uranus is a two-door hatchback that appears in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto IV.
GTA San Andreas
The Uranus in GTA San Andreas is a car that is frequently found in the San Fierro area, and is an excellent car to use for street racing. It is a car that takes well, and is perfectly adapted to the streets of San Fierro, and has a balanced out ride, giving the player the ability to feel in better control of what he/she is doing. The Uranus is based off the 1990/1991 Chrysler BD platform vehicles: the Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, and Plymouth Laser; the taillights are based off the 1992-1994 Eagle Talon.
The Uranus is redesigned for GTA IV, having been branded with a Vapid badge. This time, the car resembles a 1983-1986 Fox body Mustang (most likely a 1985/1986 because of the grille), with the front also bearing some similarities to a Ford Sierra RS Cosworth, however the Uranus is front-wheel drive. The taillights look quite reminiscent of 1989-1994 Pontiac Sunbirds.
A modified Uranus also driven by members of the Russian Mafia appears in Hove Beach with a custom bodykit including: rear window louvers, a "whale-tail" spoiler which pays homage to the spoiler on the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth (while emulating some Fox body Mustang spoilers), and a huge decal on the windshield which reads "LOZSPEED" (pronounced as "lose speed", obviously taking a hit at "ricers"); "LOZSPEED" is also a possible parody of Neuspeed, and could be referring to the "lose speed" and "new speed", which the names do sound when pronounced. The modified version lacks any enhanced performance over its stock counterpart. As a further hat tip to the Sierra RS Cosworth, the modified Uranus in GTA IV features a pink and grey Burberry-patterned baseball hat on the rear parcel ledge, paying homage to "chavs".
In The Ballad of Gay Tony, the LOZSPEED Uranus is one of vehicles that can be found with an unique paintjob during the Drug Wars side mission.
GTA San Andreas
GTA San Andreas' Uranus is regarded as a average sports car, with above average acceleration and top speed, and very stable cornering and grip, coupled with excellent braking. However, given the vehicle's stiff suspensions, considerably high ground clearance, a tall body construction and shorter axle tracks, the vehicle's risk of tipping over on bumpy terrain is higher than most cars of its class. The Uranus is rear wheel drive, despite the models it is based on being FWD, and a transversely mounted engine(4cyl shown) under the hood.
The Uranus in GTA IV is powered by what feels and sounds like a six-cylinder engine, coupled to a 4 speed gearbox in a FWD layout. Acceleration is fair, and top speed is brisk; but leaves a lot to be desired. The suspension is rather soft, and leads to much body roll; making the Uranus fishtail when cornering at speed. Braking is good, though ABS is not available on the Uranus. Accident deformation is very poor, often rendering the vehicle un-drivable after one major impact to the front. The engine is also very shoddily built, and has been known to fail after two to three impacts. Unlike its rival, the Dinka Blista Compact, the front wheel drive system causes understeer, even at relatively low speed, and the engine is underpowered, even though the Uranus is the lightest car in the game, according to the game files.
Modifications (GTA San Andreas)
- Wheel Arch Angels, one of the six vehicles that can be modified in it.
- Due to programmer error, the PC version of the GTA San Andreas Uranus lacks a sheen.
- The Uranus plays the following radio stations by default when entered:
- K-DST in GTA San Andreas.
- The Vibe 98.8 in GTA IV.
- The name could refer to the Saturn, which is an automaker which name is also based on a planet.
- Uranus is a planet in the Solar System; however, people tend to jokingly use the word as a crude reference to the term "your anus". Seeing Rockstar Games' penchant for crude references, the Uranus is most likely an in-game joke.
- The Uranus features the Door Ajar Chime, which can be heard with the driver's door open in quiet areas.
- In TBoGT's Drug Wars, the LOZSPEED Uranus is featured however the ones featured don't have the windscreen banner or the four fog lamps or the front.
- The Russian Mafia variant has a visual glitch where, the exhaust pipe is moved to the other side of the bumper rather than where it should be, further notice is the trail of exhaust coming out of the original place.
- In GTA: San Andreas, the Uranus features a "third taillight" on it's center console. When braking, it is noticeable when you crack it's rear windshield.
- In perfect condition this car can be sold in the S&M Auto Sales for $1,500
GTA San Andreas
- Spawns while driving a Baggage (often) or Taxi (less often) in Los Santos International Airport, Los Santos (Sun).
- Spawn while driving a Regina in Easter Bay International Airport, San Fierro (Sun).
- A Uranus can be found parked in the showroom of Wang Cars after completing Zeroing In.
- Spawns while driving a Euros in Easter Bay Airport Daily, however by the time you have a Euros, there are easier places to obtain the Uranus.
- Spawns when the cheat, "faster cars" is activated.
- Spawn around Hove Beach, Broker.
- Spawn around Northwood, North Holland and East Holland, Algonquin.
- Spawn around Middle Park, Algonquin.
- The modified variant can be found at Hove Beach driven by Russians.
- Found parked on Happiness Island.


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Seen the ti-84 mentioned a lot lately... The only thing I remember was I could program it, and my professor let me for my Calculus 1 class. I still don't know a lot about Calculus, but I know more about programming... Makes me think if calculators are good for learning the subject, or for learning how to program the subject.
There was never any requirement that saved programs actually compile, of course, which means the calculator has a nifty spot to keep your crib sheet.
At my school, our TI-38 calculators had to be handed in prior to the examination for a factory reset.
Really? [datamath.org]
I remember back when students were mainly using TI-82s and I had a TI-85 instead... I figured that the instructors wouldn't be that familiar with the 85, so I wrote a program that mimicked the TI-85 factory reset screen.
However, the instructors never actually cleared them.
>The only thing I remember was I could program it, and my professor let me for my Calculus 1 class. I still don't know a lot about Calculus, but I know more about programming...
Actually, you know more about calculus than you think you do. In order to write a program, you must understand what the algorithm does that you're using.
That is if you wrote the program from scratch instead of simply plugging things in from a cookbook.
Actually, you know more about calculus than you think you do. In order to write a program, you must understand what the algorithm does that you're using.
Unfortunately, the algorithms I used on my TI-81 were more like, "crude text adventure parser" (stereotypical DnD dungeon) "parametric equation of a side view of a boob" (boys will be boys) and in later years when I had a HP-48 I wrote a pretty decent 68hc11 simulator using an array as memory and variables as the registers. Welcome to state machines! The '48 had pretty good hex math capabilities and I never implemented the whole instruction set, but I certainly had the basic load, store, add, branch type stuff and a crude debugger UI that could show contents of registers and memory and single step etc. My microcontroller instuctor was somewhat impressed. Also in high school I did learn a fair amount of trig on my own as I finally got a working 3d cube render-er which was a pretty stereotypical 80s home computer BASIC challenge. Basically you store the 3-d cube as an array of the corners coordinates and then plot them ignoring the Z coord, then execute a transform on all the points (there are several ways to implement this), replot, run the transform, replot, you end up with a little controllable rotating cube. Without double (triple?) buffering the flashing as it redraws is almost unbearable and you have to have a strategy to depend with floating point rounding (like not rotating the existing cube by 1 degree each time, you rotate a unit cube by a continuously varying angle (like 41 degrees X rotation this time, 42 the next etc). Its quite slow on a TI-81 but watchable and interesting from a demo-scene perspective.
I learned calc in my senior year of HS anyway, but it was much more despite having a graphing calc than because I had a graphing calc.
So this is what kids do with their "valuable educational math tools" instead of whatever curriculum the PR firm releases. Its more or less the college prep kids equivalent of when the shop kids make bongs in class instead of birdfeeders.
I grew up with a TI-99/4a (world's slowest BASIC interpreter) so my experience is similar to yours I guess, though I didn't get as far as implementing a 6800 simulator in a '48 (I actually learned how to program one by burning UVEPROMs later).
I guess my POV is skewed because the programming tools for math in HS were more primitive and the most advanced TI calcs were versions of the 30 and my most advanced calculator is a HP48 ( the real reason I like it is because I can scroll the stack easier and algebraic
"Educators simply weren't asking for them until recently... We don't want to create technology for technology's sake"
Translation: "We haven't the slightest clue what the word innovation means or why it's important."
"Educators simply weren't asking for them until recently... We don't want to create technology for technology's sake"
Translation: "We haven't the slightest clue what the word innovation means or why it's important."
Innovation is the devil when it comes to this sort of thing. The article made the excellent point that TI calculators are approved for standardized testing due to their readily-known constraints. What's the point of releasing a new model every year when students won't be able to use them on the important things?
Don't get me wrong, I love my TI-89.
But the very-dark-green-on-dark-green is damned impossible to read in anything except exceptionally well lit rooms, and entering functions isn't even half as quick as it could be. Its whole directory/namespace system is uninspired, and reading input/output from functions is bizarre. There's no easy way to get the argument list of a function without consulting the catalog, which forces you to scroll through all its hundreds of functions or so, and even then it's not very informative (the TI-84 is way better at this even). And so on.
Yes, you can have innovation. The whole point of innovation is to make people's lives easier in ways they couldn't have otherwise anticipated.
You didn't have to scroll through the whole thing, just put in the letter it started with. I think. It has been a while but one of my TIs provided a way to skip to a particular part of the catalogue.
The TI-89 is very different then the rest of the 8x series.
The 89 and its various versions have much more in common with the 9x series (I believe that was just the 92 and 92+)
I had an 83+ and later an 89. I remember I liked a few things about the 83 that the 89 was lacking in. The catalog was one of them, but for the life of me I cannot remember why.
Wait a minute, are you talking about grade level and college entry standardized testing in the U.S.? That stuff's like 8th grade mental math, why the heck would you need a calculator for it?
Also what is the point most students are carrieing cellphones that are much faster, and has a better display.
My (old) iPhone is more powerful than the PC's that I used in college with Maple and MatLab on them, we used that software because the calculator just couldn't do it.
because you cannot easily prevent a student from cheating with a phone that has outside access to the internet, messaging, etc. The calculators could not talk to each other (without a blatantly obvious cable).
The calculators could not talk to each other (without a blatantly obvious cable).
Maybe the TI ones could not. The HP-48 and similar sure could until HP lowered the sensitivity of the IR receiver and that was easy to restore.
True, but not many people had those, at least when and where I was in school. I was the oddball with a Casio CFX-9850G.
Translation: "We can still charge a fortune for old technology as long as nobody asks for anything better"
A couple years ago I bought an LG Thrive on a prepaid plan - so undiscounted - for about $150 I believe. The phone was not great, but it had 256 megs of useable RAM, a 320x480 color screen, and a 600MHz processor... not to mention the hardware one expects from any smartphone (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS, low-end camera).
So how can TI get away with charging almost that much today for a single-purpose device that doesn't even compare favorably with a low-end smartphone from two years ago? Does it serve as an espresso machine too, or maybe as an electric razor?
So how can TI get away with charging almost that much today for a single-purpose device that doesn't even compare favorably with a low-end smartphone from two years ago?
Because designed to be brought into closed-book examinations can't be Internet-enabled general-purpose computers. And they cost so much because they're single-use devices.
They cost so much because they're devices that are the only accepted model for school use. If someone made an equivalent and sold it for $50, TI wouldn't drop the price because the equivalent hadn't been certified as acceptable for test-taking.
Of course the whole thing is absurd. Algebraic solvers aside, being able to plug numbers into a calculator is all you'll be doing with one outside of very specific fields. Memorizing formulae is totally unnecessary, although knowing which one to use is important - and
The best math professor I had in college let us take a page of notes to an exam. He stated that its more important for us to understand the steps to solving a problem rather than memorizing a formula that can be easily looked up. And he was absolutely right because that was the first math class that I received an A+; 96%+ on every exam. And I came out with an excellent understanding of the material. Someone may think "hey, that's cheating!" But think about it for a moment, how is jotting down formulas and some notes on how to apply them cheating? If you don't understand the material how do you know which notes to make or how to apply the formulas? You wouldn't. And you would fail the exam.
More kids would benefit if teachers stopped with the bull shit rote learning of formulas and instead taught the kids how to use them. Its easy to bomb a test because you forgot its -b +- and not b +- or b^2-4ac and not b^2 + 4ac in the quadratic formula. Or that sine is opposite over hypotenuse and not adjacent over hyp. Basic trig and algebra are what usually scare kids away from math because of stupid shit like that. And its a shame because they form the foundation for advanced fields such as engineering and physics.
There's nothing conceptually important about the arbitrary choice of absolute phase of cosine and sine. It doesn't affect your understanding at all to know which one goes where, as long as you remember that they are offset in phase by 90 degrees, and that they are linearly independent vectors in a certain vector space. You could always come up with an arbitrary choice, write it up on top of the exam answers, and stick with it throughout -- it'd be perfectly acceptable, to me at least.
It's a poor math test if merely having an arbitrary amount of notes will significantly affect your grade. In my college years, most professors would limit the amount of notes simply so that there'd be less distraction to other students from the inevitable hapless fool who brings in a foot of books. The amount was still more than enough to cover all the material -- you can fit a lot of stuff on a couple of letter-sized pages. I wrote my cheatsheets in LaTeX and people would ask me to share them after the exa
So how can TI get away with charging almost that much today for a single-purpose device that doesn't even compare favorably with a low-end smartphone from two years ago?
A. Calculators are built to be abused by students and a ruggedized cell phones is pricey
B. TI can charge whatever they want because they're a defacto monopoly. The text books are literally written with how-to sections for TI calculators.
There's the Nspire lineup which has more features and whatnot, but it's still woefully underpowered and underfeatured compared to a smart phone from 5 years ago.
So how can TI get away with charging almost that much today for a single-purpose device that doesn't even compare favorably with a low-end smartphone from two years ago?
Because these calculators are allowed to be used during the test at schools. Their lack of functionality is a benefit. If you bring your phone in, you could use it to find other answers. These devices don't even compare favorably to the Palm Pilot1000 from 1996, although those cost $200 more.
In the testing centers at a lot of universities, the proctors know how to erase the ti-85 before you enter the testing center. Or they can loan you one to use for the test.
So build a full featured smart pad that has the same wipe capability and wipe them before tests. Possibly automatically through the local network the devices are all required to talk to if they're allowed in the classroom. (With the ability to restore from a network save of course, so the student doesn't loose whatever he saved on it)
Deliberately gimping a product this badly just means the student won't learn valuable skills with it. I've forgotten everything I ever learned about programming TI calculat
In the testing centers at a lot of universities, the proctors know how to erase the ti-85 before you enter the testing center. Or they can loan you one to use for the test.
If you need a calculator at university. You are doing it wrong!
RPN. Also, speaking for myself, I far prefer actual buttons to poking at a touchscreen.
Amen. My HP 48GX made the TI look like a toy.
Ah so its the buttons which cost 80% of the entire device.
So how can TI get away with charging almost that much today for a single-purpose device that doesn't even compare favorably with a low-end smartphone from two years ago? Does it serve as an espresso machine too, or maybe as an electric razor?
The TI doesn't need to and shouldn't get into a feature or spec sheet race. It's a mobile calculator and that's what it should do well. It compares very favourably with a smartphone if we actually consider what it's for.
I haven't had a serious use for my TI since upper secondary school, yet I still prefer it to any option. In more than a decade of owning it I've changed the batteries something like twice. Some smartphones on the other hand need charging twice a week even for standby.
I still have the interfa
You have to consider what it means for a calculator to be on approved lists for school systems all over the world.
You do not mess with that lightly.
This is exactly right. The reason the TI-8x line has been around unchanged for so long is because school systems find it sufficient, but not too much, and teachers know exactly how to reset its memory. If you let kids start using whatever software they want on their smartphones, cheating would become much more widespread than it is now. When I was in high school, I used a HP 48S (still do from time to time) and I could have cheated my pants off with that if I wanted to, as the teachers didn't have a clue about it. (I didn't, but easily could have--more important to have things like Ant in my RAM!)
Is using Google really cheating? That's exactly what you're going to do outside of a school if you don't know how to come up with the answer.
It's important that students understand fundamentals but to be honest anything beyond basic algebra is going to be useless for most people. Even as a software engineer, I use "advanced" math... never. For people wanting to go into careers that require that kind of stuff, they should take those classes or pick it up during an internship.
Then again, that applies to basic
For people wanting to go into careers that require that kind of stuff, they should take those classes or pick it up during an internship.
They have those already. It's called a PhD. Every other degree exists to give you a basic grounding of all principles involved. I like your ideal but the reality is that the modern form of a career means you change jobs and specialties every 5 minutes. If you asked me a year ago if I were doing functional safety I would have said "Fucntional what?" If you asked me 3 years ago if I was going to work in the oil and gas industry I would have said no I much prefer micro electronics. And if you asked me in university if I ever thought I'd use an integral in my job, I'd have said hell no.
That's the problem. You don't know what you don't know, and how do you know that in 5 years from now you won't get a lucrative job offer working for some software company that develops simulation software suddenly making advanced maths a core skill of yours?
If we really got to pick our subjects in a way that made them only relevant for the jobs we were planning to get we'd find ourselves entrapped in one job. Kind of like our grandparents where career meant working for the same company in the same role for 20 years.
take a trip to arduino land where you get 16k or 32k for program space (in bytes).
turns out I was able to get about 10k lines of C (mixed c++) inside an arduino 328 32k flash chip.
but when you run out, its a hard-stop and you KNOW it. oh boy, do you know it. virtual memory? what's that.
My ZX-Spectrum in 1984, with its 48 kB RAM was more powerful than this thing, and I had a resolution of 256x192 pixels.
The following assumes you were making a serious point - a self-inflicted "whooosh!" if you weren't.
Power, in this context, is relative. The power of the electronic calculator is obviously portability combined with immediacy. The resolution of which you speak so proudly came with a form factor that was inappropriate for putting in your pocket (unless you've got seriously baggy cargo pants on with room for a small CRT, a power supply, and a tape player or perhaps a microdrive).
The Spectrum's handling of maths
I think both. After I read the rest of the thread, I also became aware that the thing can even be more likened to a ZX Spectrum because of the Z80, and then my nickel fell also on the resolution and the color range, 320x256x16 means a memory of 160 k bytes of RAM. With its 21 k of working memory, that means 4 times the memory of the Speccy.
Yes, you are right.
Yeah, how could a major semiconductor firm which is deeply in embedded electronics find chips ? Mystery
Neither the SE nor the Gameboy had a color display.
Back in my day we didn't have this fancy TI-84 stuff. We had our RPN HP calculators and we liked them just fine.
Oh, and get off my lawn
Back in my day we didn't have this fancy TI-84 stuff. We had our RPN HP calculators and we liked them just fine.
Oh, and get off my lawn
What you do you mean "back in my day"? RPN was and still is the best way to do handheld calculations.
When I was in university, I explained RPN to some classmates one day and was met with the incredulity I was used to, so I proposed a race. Without the participants looking, one student was to write a hugely complex, multiply tested function on the blackboard and then we'd both turn around and start feeding it to our calculators (some fancy TI job for him, HP 49G+ for me). I had the answer before my oppone
...multiply tested function...
Er, damn. Multiply nested.
Absolutely. I recently treated myself to a brand-new HP50g after a couple of years of using 48 series emulators on my Mac and iOS devices. Makes maths fun again and it's inspired me to re-learn a lot of the calculus that I've forgotten since Uni. Back in the day ('87 was when I stopped learning maths the first time) I had a Casio 7000G. Rambling now, but RPN FTW!
'round my parts, an HP calculator was the High School graduation gift of choice for academically excellent kids.
I got a HP 34C for being accepted at MIT and Princeton.
Rich dumb kids got cars instead of calculators. Oh, well.
One thing TFA touches on but doesn't answer is what battery life is like. Those old Z80 monochome beasts could easily last for a whole semester on a single set of batteries; in terms of hours of runtime that works out to dozens and dozens of hours (the similar Gameboy got 30+ hours, and that's with it working at full tilt every second it's turned on!).
So what's the impact on battery life by using a color screen? A Z80 + RAM uses so little power these days that surely the bulk of the unit's power supply is g
There is simply no justification for such low resolution screen. I know the argument about TI calculators being on approved list - but a higher screen resoltion won't make them "un-approved". Fuck, in this day an age such a low resolution screen is probably exactly as expensive as a 800x480.
I can't shake off the impression that TI are just being dicks because they can.
I can't shake off the impression that TI are just being dicks because they can.
It's called a public corporation. As long as the money keeps coming in at a pace they're happy with, they don't change behavior, no matter what that behavior might be. Sometimes it produces simply a shitty calculator, as in this case. Sometimes people die in great numbers, e.g. Union Carbide in Bhopal. Sometimes the repercussions last for decades, e.g. BP in the Gulf.
I remember back when the TI-83 "boom" was happening in public schools around here and math textbooks were starting to show up with content in them tailored to TI-83 calculators. Suddenly, it was required that students have "a graphing calculator" for math courses, on pain of automatic failure. I'm not sure how this happened but I imagine it involved large sums of money changing hands: Somehow, every single published textbook was chock full of key-by-key instructions on how to solve problems that applied ONLY to TI-8x series calculators, and none other. Never were the concepts behind the button presses explained, it was just a matter of "press this button, then this button, then enter your value, then press this button..." So, while the schools were not able to admit that what you really needed was a TI-83 calculator and none other without exception, that's really what this new policy meant. In the early days, most primary school teachers didn't have much experience working with these "newfangled" calculators and were not able to offer assistance or background explanation about any of these button-pressing procedures, so the lucky ducklings with non-TI calculators (like me!) were basically shit outta luck. I had, and still have, a Casio CFX-8950GB Plus, which was at the time and still is superior to the TI-83 line in every possible way. It also has a color screen, but owing to the times it can only do four colors. Even still.
However the heck this twisted situation came about, it meant that TI wound up with a near-monopoly on the graphing calculator market, considering the lion's share of that market is mandatory primary education, most of it in public schools (this is in the USA, mind you). So, they've been able to churn out basically the same calculator pretty much without change or improvement and charge the same price for it at retail. I'll bet you a nickel it's a shitton cheaper for TI to manufacture a TI-83 now, with it's tiny simple processor and chunky low-rez monochrome screen than it was back in the early '90's. I'll bet the damn thing prints money for them.
Meanwhile, the rest of the market (and the world) innovates, improves, and moves on. This move to stick a 320x240 screen and a "whopping" 21k of RAM would be a bold and exciting one if it happened 15 years ago. Somehow, I picture today's students failing to get excited about a machine that's considerably less capable than a low-end current smartphone. Hell, I have a first- or second-generaton PocketPC PDA that's more powerful than that.
I predict that this machine will cost just as much if not more than the old calculators, the old style calculators will stay on the market as a "budget" option for poor kids but their price will not drop much or at all (especially if the zooty color model costs considerably more than the current price point), and nobody who isn't forced to buy one as the particular calculator for a particular math course will care; From a functional standpoint, as opposed to your specific "press this button" classroom requirements, better tools are already available elsewhere and will continue to be.
In my years in secondary school and later on at university the usage of any TI calculator was strongly discouraged, the reason being that it could not even calculate the sine of pi properly. Instead of plain 0, it gave a (infinitessimally) minute number instead...
We did math the old fashioned way, with a "scientific" calculator, and did the graphs by hand using colored pencils. But I guess nothing of importance was created before the invention of the graphing calculator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_signing_keys [wikipedia.org]
This is school, they have to do everything ass-backwards.
It's just like closed book tests. They don't test if you can do the work they test how good you are at cramming.
I was dragged into a Best Buy for Xmas shopping, and I happened to see the TI calc section. Interestingly, they had several of the older model calcs that have been out of production for years available new in the box.
I couldn't help but chuckle seeing the same $160 price tag on both a TI-89 Titanium and a Nspire CAS color. I love my TI-89Ti, but there's a big difference in the hardware it and the new shiny, yet no price difference...
Monopoly indeed.
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Having been rapped on the knuckles for hacking Apple's iPhone, SAP is playing by the rules to make its next customer relationship management (CRM) software work with Apple's handset.
Bob Stutz, a senior vice president for SAP's CRM biz, has unveiled SAP CRM 2007 with a web rather than a portal-based interface to work on Apple's brick.
Stutz has been quoted saying the SAP CRM 2007 interface would let end users load business contacts, information on sales prospects and account data onto the device. The interface will provide an "iGoogle-like" front end to its enterprise software, SAP said.
An SAP spokesperson, though, told Reg Developer the SAP CRM 2007 applications unveiled this week work inside the iPhone's Safari browser and do not access the iPhone's local hardware or software resources.
"What ever is on the iPhone is basic. The hardcore CRM is not there. It's meant to be a convenience [for sales people in large organizations like Intel]," he said.
SAP is apparently sacrificing potential functionality and limiting itself to working inside the browser after Apple quoted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for hacking the iPhone to make a proof of concept work on the device.
SAP's vice president of imagineering Denis Browne told El Reg in September that the community wanted the iPhone to be "open and available" with a first step being an iPhone SDK and improved support for Flash and Java. SAP on Wednesday called Apple one of its closest partners, adding Apple is standardizing on SAP as a global enterprise partner.
In addition to the iPhone, SAP is also being made available on the Blackberry, Palm Trio and Windows. SAP has long been criticized for being weak on mobile access.®
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Birds on the wire: Colin Simpson and the emergence of the radio documentary feature
Tony MacGregor, Arts Editor, ABC Radio National
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Tony MacGregor examines the 1948 ABC radio feature about the Expedition both as a remarkable contemporary account and as a media object of an emerging form – the radio documentary feature.
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium
- Book launch: Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land ExpeditionAndrew Sayers, Shane Mortimer, Martin Thomas, Anne McGrath, Professor Mandy Thomas and Margo Neale
- Terra incognito no more – reflecting on changeRobyn Williams, science journalist, presenter and author
- A history of the 1948 expeditionDr Sally K May, Australian National University
- Unpacking the testimony of Gerald Blitner: An Indigenous perspective on the Arnhem Land ExpeditionMartin Thomas, University of Sydney
- Locating the expedition politically: 1948 American–Australian RelationsProfessor the Hon Kim Beazley AC
- The Smithsonian's participation in the Arnhem Land ExpeditionPaul Taylor (paper read by Martin Thomas)
- 'A Robinson Crusoe in Arnhem Land …': Howell Walker, National Geographic, and the 1948 Arnhem Land ExpeditionMark Jenkins, writer, editor and historian
- Fossicking memoriesEmeritus Professor Raymond Louis Specht and Martin Thomas, University of Sydney
- Inside Mountford's tent: paint, politics and paperworkDr Philip Jones, South Australian Museum
- The responsibilities of leadership: The records of Charles P MountfordSuzy Russell (paper co-authored by Denise Chapman), State Library of South Australia
- 'Bastard barks': A gift from the 1948 Arnhem Land expeditionAdjunct Professor Margo Neale, National Museum of Australia
- Beneath the billabongs: The scientific legacy of Robert Rush MillerGifford Miller and Robert Cashner
- Appraising the legacy of the Arnhem Land Expedition: An insider's perspectiveEmeritus Professor Raymond Louis Specht
- The 'exciting thing was the landscape': Raymond Specht, a botanist in the fieldDr Lynne McCarthy, National Museum of Australia
- Launch of Collecting Cultures, a book about the 1948 expeditionCraddock Morton, National Museum of Australia
- Birds on the wire: Colin Simpson and the emergence of the radio documentary featureTony MacGregor, Arts Editor, ABC Radio National
- Hidden for 60 years: The motion picture films of the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem LandJosh Harris (paper read by Mark Jenkins)
- Collecting Australia at the Smithsonian: 150 years and still goingDr Adrienne L Kaeppler, National Museum of Natural History, United States
- Making a sea change: Rock art, archaeology and the enduring legacy of McCarthy's research on Groote EylandtDr Anne Clarke, University of Sydney and Ursula Frederick, Australian National University
- The forgotten collection: Baskets reveal historiesDr Louise Hamby, Australian National University
- Missing the revolution! Negotiating disclosure on the Pre-Macassans (Bayini) in North-East Arnhem LandDr Ian McIntosh, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis, United States
- The forbidden gaze: The 1948 Wubarr ceremony performed for the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem LandDr Murray Garde, University of Melbourne
- From Fish Creek to the Mann River: Hunter-gatherer transformations in western Arnhem Land, 1948–2008Professor Jon Altman, Australian National University
- Forget the barks! Bring on the string figures! The String Figures of Yirrkala: Activating a legacyRobyn McKenzie, Australian National University
- Yolngu ways of knowing Country: Insights from the 1948 Expedition to Arnhem LandEmeritus Professor Dr Ad Borsboom, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Closing remarksDr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia


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Republicans capitulated on Tuesday to US President Barack Obama's call to extend the nation's borrowing authority with no strings attached, dialing back the threat of an election-year fiscal showdown.
The House of Representatives narrowly approved a measure to suspend the US debt ceiling until March 2015. It now moves to the Senate, which was to begin debating the bill yesterday.
A drama-free extension of borrowing authority without other conditions would mark a shift away from recent confrontations that brought the world's largest economy to the brink of default, culminating in the US government being shuttered for 16 days in October last year.
It could also avoid the turmoil that rocked US and international markets during the previous debt limit fights.
House Speaker John Boehner, unable to gain sufficient support from his fractured party for a plan he unveiled on Monday that would have tied the debt limit to a revision of military pension benefits, introduced the debt ceiling bill knowing it would need support from nearly all Democrats.
The legislation passed by 221 votes to 201, a clear victory for Obama in the wake of the shutdown that Americans blamed largely on Republicans.
Boehner said it was "a lost opportunity" to work together to find cuts and reforms equal to the increase in the debt limit.
However, when his earlier plan collapsed he offered a debt ceiling hike with no accompanying legislation, violating his own principle, put forward in 2011, that extension of borrowing authority be accompanied with federal spending cuts in equal measure.
US Vice President Joe Biden said Boehner's stand-down was "a victory for the country," while the White House called the vote "a positive step in moving away from the political brinkmanship that's a needless drag on our economy."
Boehner said Obama was clearly "the one driving up the debt," currently at US$17.3 trillion, and that the president will be forced to own it as lawmakers gear up for campaign season ahead of November's mid-term elections.
"Only in Washington would the solution to a US$17 trillion national debt be an increase in our borrowing limit," frustrated House Republican Jason Smith said.
The measure now heads to the Senate. Legislation there can bog down in procedural votes, and a delay would risk the government's ability to pay all of its bills.
Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell was silent on whether his members would seek to force a 60-vote threshold to advance the measure in the 100-seat body. That would require Republicans to join Democrats to move the bill forward.
"We'll see how it plays out," McConnell said.
Senator Roy Blunt was one of several Republicans prepared to vote no.
"Increasing the debt ceiling without changing behavior is not a good idea," he said.
Meanwhile US stocks added more than 1 percent on Tuesday, supported both by the Boehner announcement and Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen's comments on monetary policy in her first congressional testimony in her new role.
The White House has insisted for weeks that raising the debt ceiling was non-negotiable and it did not want to see policy riders attached.
However, Boehner stressed that Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would need to rally her own troops to get a borrowing authority extension through the House.
She pulled through, with just two Democrats voting no. Twenty-eight Republicans, including Boehner, voted for the bill.


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I had stepped out of the room and left my son to himself for just a second. Typically, I hear him all of the time. Sometimes he's banging a toy on the table…or hitting his head on it…or crying…or crawling. This time, when I stepped out, I listened for him, but couldn't hear him. As you can probably guess, 9 times out of 10, that means he's up to no good. This time was no exception. Here's what I said about it on Twitter:
Caught my 10 month old son snacking on dog food. Probably tastes better than his pureed snap peas.
I am positive that his pureed peas, though they look and smell pretty gross, are vastly more tasty than dog food. Dog food was created for, well, dogs. Pureed peas, while not created for me (thank you very much, I'll stick with non-pureed veggies), were created for humans to enjoy…or at least for humans to consume and receive energy from.
I can't imagine that Rex was truly satisfied with the dog food. Though he cried when I took it out of his mouth, but at some level he was saying, "Thank you for taking that nasty stuff out of my mouth!" I didn't discipline him…he didn't know better, the food was accessible, and it was something new. I simply removed it from his mouth, and carried him away from the food bowl. Like I said, he did cry, but it was only for a moment.
I wonder how many of us need some junk removed from our lives. How many of us need God to come in and remove that thing that is ultimately unsatisfying? That will ultimately leave a bad taste in our mouth and our stomachs unnourished…that "seemed like a good idea at the time." It won't be fun in the moment, but looking at the bigger picture, getting rid of the nasty dog food is what's best for you. Go ahead and spit it out. Turn from it. Run away from it. That's what repentance is.
God's ready and willing to forgive. Even for our dumbest mistakes. Why not give Him a shot?


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Safety From Sweden: An Inflatable Bike Helmet
Malmö, Sweden
Eva Lindsjö Lindell, a 50-year-old physiotherapist, was cycling to her job in a college town north of Stockholm early one morning in November and took a spill. The frigid Scandinavian weather had made the pavement icy. As her bike accelerated down a slope, it slipped and she hurtled toward the ground.
Ms. Lindell wasn't wearing...


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April 24, 2013
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Each senior must return his completed forms and checkout card to the Deans' Office no later than Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Students need to be aware of the policy regarding fulfillment of senior requirements: Visit http://www.wabash.edu/bulletin/home.cfm?site_code_id=962
Candidates for the degree who fail to complete all of these requirements in a timely fashion will not be allowed to participate in Commencement, nor will their transcripts be released.
Wednesday Religious Chapel: Center Hall Tuttle Chapel, 10:00AM
Each Wednesday that classes are in session, a brief Christian service is held in Tuttle Chapel, second floor of Center Hall. It runs from 10:00 am. until 10:10 am. All are welcome.
Wabash Wellness Biggest Loser: Allen Athletics and Recreation Center Servies Wrestling Room, 11:00AM - 12:45PM
Weigh-ins will be held in the wrestling room in the Allen Center on every Wednesday from 11:00 A.M. until 12:45 P.M. from January 30 to April 24.
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March 27, 2014 brings the 13th annual There's A Reason I'm a Teacher Conference to NAU's College of Education. This conference provides a professional development opportunity for our teacher candidates as they interact with recognized outstanding teachers through keynote addresses and breakout sessions. Our teacher candidates will take away best practices used daily in the classrooms they will soon be overseeing as they enter the teaching profession. The College of Education is grateful and proud to present this conference in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers, Arizona Educational Foundation and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona.
Jeffrey Charbonneau
Jeffrey Charbonneau is a Chemistry, Physics and Engineering teacher at Zillah High School, Zillah, Washington
Beth Maloney
Beth Maloney is a 5th grade teacher at Sunset Hills Elementary School, Surprise, Arizona
Torie Ellison
Torie Ellison is a special education teacher for Arizona City Elementary School, Toltec Elementary School District


text: Energy | 22. February 2010 | posted by Jan Oliver Löfken | 5 Comments Energy question of the week: How much electrical power can be harnessed from tides? Under the influence of the Moon's gravity, the water of Earth's oceans rises and falls twice a day. Powerful forces are at work all over the globe between every low and high tide – forces that can be harnessed to generate electrical power. Just how mature is the technology and what is the potential that tidal power stations could unleash? read more


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NSA Surveillance Repercussions Prompt Need For Planning
Channel chiefs from some top technology firms had little to say when asked by CRN editors about how revelations over NSA surveillance activities could positively or negatively impact the channel. Meanwhile, leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden continued to make top headlines during a roundtable discussion with the channel chiefs at the XChange 2013 Conference in Washington, D.C. Edison Peres, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Cisco, summoned up a succinct answer: "We're still trying to understand what's happening there," Peres told CRN. "I'm not sure the whole thing is really clear yet." But as leaks continue to expose NSA activities, from reportedly obtaining ways to decrypt sensitive data to implementing back doors in widely used software, solution providers told CRN they believe the impact from the revelations could have significant repercussions on sales. Here are 10 areas where the consequences could be potentially considerable.


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SKILLMAN, N.J. (March 20, 2013) – Oklahoma Christian remained atop the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's NCAA Division II South Central Region rankings, which were released Wednesday, while two OC player made their debut in the regional singles rankings.
OC (8-2) was regionally and nationally ranked last month for the first time as a Division II program. The Eagles currently are No. 10 in the national rankings, which will be updated next Wednesday.
Following OC in the regional rankings were Abilene Christian (Texas), Incarnate Word (Texas), Cameron, Midwestern State (Texas), St. Edward's (Texas), Western New Mexico, St. Mary's (Texas), McMurry (Texas) and Metro State (Colo.).
The Eagles own wins this season over Abilene Christian and Midwestern State. They have regular-season matches remaining against St. Edward's, Incarnate Word, Cameron and Midwestern State.
In the first individual regional singles rankings of the year, OC's Bruno Tiberti, a junior from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Martin Poboril, a senior from Pribram, Czech Republic, were third and fourth, respectively. Tiberti is 7-3 this season, while Poboril is 6-4.
In doubles, Tiberti and Poboril – who have a 7-3 mark this season – were ranked third, while OC's Nicolas Auruccio and Julio Pulido were ranked 10th with an 8-2 record.
The Eagles have faced a brutal schedule that has included seven opponents which were ranked either in Division II or the NAIA at the time of the match.
The first national singles and doubles rankings of the season also will be released next Wednesday.


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This is a huge blow to the team.
Merrill Out Six Weeks
He fractured a vertebra against Windsor:
Michigan defenseman Jon Merrill suffered a slight neck fracture during the team's exhibition game with Windsor on Tuesday, and will miss approximately six weeks, according to NorthJersey.com's New Jersey Devils blog.
Merrill's NHL rights are held by the New Jersey Devils. The blog post was quoting Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello, who said he spoke to Merrill.
Merrill was injured on a hit from behind into the boards during Tuesday's game.
"It's nothing that needs surgery," Lamoriello was quoted as saying. "It's just needs time to heal. But I spoke to him today and he's doing fine."
That's not good, and means that all of the Serville/Clare/Chiasson group will skate until he's back.
Feel terrible for him. Shitty injury.
As big of a loss as he is Trouba/Moffat Bennett/ Chiasson should be two pretty good lines. After that it gets a litte scary though.
This incident brings to light the prospect of future NHL prospects leaving school early to avoid possible catastrophic injuries. Merrill is a high end prospect & this could hit him in the pocket book? Here's hoping this don't happen & Jon makes a full recovery! Go Blue,& remember those who stay!
What a bummer. In an exhibition game no less. Get better soon, Jon.
Very. Bad.
Dammit! Well, I hope he gets well soon.
That is a huge bummer.
How does this injury compare in severity to a severe concussion, which is what I thought it was initially? In hockey, guys can miss a whole season after taking a nasty head shot, so I guess 6 weeks is a lot better than it could have been.
Still sucks for Jon though. I wish him a speedy recovery!
As a Fire/Medic I've have been on a few calls like this. Anything that has to do with the cervical portion of the spine is going to be severe, but it all depends on how bad the break actually is. A vertebrae is just a bone, so you can break it and have no long term damage at all.
The real risk of a vertebrae fracture is the piece of bone moving and coming into contact with the spinal spinal column itself. Since he wasn't spine boarded and a C-Collar wasn't used, it seems that the injury is much less severe than it could have been.
So it turns out we have to now worry about AMHDHG (Angry Michigan Hockey Defenseman Hating God)?


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Awesome, thanks! As the planning progresses I will certainly send you a PM.Just scanning this thread you've had some good recommendations already but drop me a pm and I can e-mail you a load of other options.
I'm from about an hours drive North of Edinburgh but live 'doon Sooth'....still get home a couple of times a year though so still in touch with where to go and what to see.
4 days simply won't be enough,try to squeeze a week or 10 days out of it and you can afford to take a trip into the Highlands and if possible as far as Skye and Applecross.I cannot recommend highly enough a trip through Perthshire & The Trossachs.I lived in the Rannoch area for a while and can recommend any number of places to stay and visit.Ideally hire a car and drive the A82,you will discover the correct usage of the word awesome as it carves through Glencoe(you may have gotten a glimpse of this if you watched Skyfall)I'd also recommend Pitlochry and Aberfeldy. Beautiful area and some very good distillery tours(Edradour,Blair Atholl and best of the lot IMO Dewar's World of Whisky at Aberfeldy...you can also raft down the rapids on the river Tay which will be a blast in March!!)
3 or 4 days in the Highlands still leaves you a long weekend in the city.
First off Edinburgh is in my biased view one of the most beautiful cities on earth.it's small enough to wander around but big enough to be a capital city and has that big town vibrancy(Ok if you're from NY everything else seems small but trust me )you won't be short of things to do.The Castle is an absolute must see.It's hard to describe that moment when you are driving through central Edinburgh when the castle first comes into view..properly awesome...you'll know exactly what I mean when you experience it.If you are there in March you might be able to see a 6 Nations Rugby Interntional.It's worth trying to coincide with a game as the atmosphere in town on rugby weekends is like nothing else.Tickets can be hard to come by as the tournament is so popular but I have some rugby contacts so let me know.
Everyone talks about he deep-fried mars bars and haggis and yes that's worth trying for novelty value but Edinburgh also has some great restaurants and you can eat at Michelin star standard in a number of places,definitely worth treating the old girl to dinner at Tom Kitchin's place or Martin Wishart.Take a stroll down Leith way.It used to be 'mingin' but is now upmarket and full of trendy bars,cafes and restaurants(remember the word 'mingin' you'll hear it a lot especially in and around the pub!!).
If you really want to treat the lady then a night at The Witchery is worth spending a bit extra on.It's an atmospheric and very highly regarded hotel yards from the castle esplanade with a top,top restaurant.Great if you want your romantic credentials to go sky high although the credit card may feel the pain for a few months!!
There's basically too much to do,you'll love it especially if you don't care too much about he weather.As I said pm me and I can I've you as much help as you need.Here's a great book I recommend to anyone visiting Scotland...you should find it on Amazon no problem.The guy knows his stuff and is spot on with his recommendations....enjoy


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Our core narrative, the story into which every serious thinker is required to fit his or her thoughts, is the narrative of progress—the story that defines all of human existence as a single great upward trajectory from the caves to the stars, and insists that the present is better than the past and the future will inevitably be better still. The problem with that narrative, of course, is that for most people the present is significantly worse than the past—standards of living for most Americans, for example, have been declining for more than thirty years—and the future promises to be even worse than the present. The narrative of progress has no room for that perception; in public life, the only way in which it's possible to bring it up at all is to suggest that someone or something is to blame for the temporary lack of progress, and then offer a plan to get the obstacle out of the way so that progress can get under way once more.
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BASKETBALL: USV tops W-G in OT
KENTON — The Waynesfield-Goshen Tigers fell short 51-45 in overtime to the Upper Scioto Valley Rams in a hard-fought Division IV girls basketball sectional final Saturday night in Kenton.
The game went into overtime with the scored tied at 40-40. But the Rams pulled away for the victory.
W-G's small bench made it hard for their young players to step up to USV.
"Foul trouble really hurt us in this game," W-G coach Ted Patton said. "Ivy Horn fouled out in the fourth quarter and Kaylee Patton fouled out in overtime, both of them weren't there to help us in the end unfortunately."
Kaylee Patton lead the Tigers with 21 points. Patton was the only player to be in double digits for W-G.
Fast pace and defensive pressure from USV caused W-G to give up the ball in the first half of play.
The Rams started the game out with a 14-1 run over the Tigers. W-G managed to put up five more points by the end of the first quarter, going into the second with a total of six.
The Tigers had trouble with missed shots before the half, allowing the Rams to take a big lead, 25-14, going into the third quarter.
"We played badly the first half," Ted Patton said. "It was hard for us to make up for that."
The Tigers managed to bounce back in the third quarter and scored 11 points while the Rams only put up five points making the score 25-30 going into the fourth.
Junior guard Kaylee Patton put the Tigers ahead with a 3-point shot at the 5:00 mark in the fourth, making the score 33-32 with a Tiger lead.
"We played the best second half that we played all season and I was very impressed," Ted Patton said.
Senior Kayla Prater lead USV with 25 points, 11 points just in overtime.
Junior Ali Goldsmith helped with 13 points and 10 rebounds in the game for the Rams. Goldsmith was the only player to score a double-double in the night.
"It was a hard fought battle," USV coach Mike Risner said. "We went on a drought in the second half but we got out and we were very fortunate at the turnout."
The Tigers ended the season with a record of 10-9 overall, 5-1 in Northwest Central Conference play.


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inspired by : teepees and tents
posted on: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Is there anything more magical than a hideaway teepee? I think not.
the boo and the boy
Like the wardrobe to Narnia, in your wee one's eyes a play teepee or tent can be a rocket ship to the stars, an enchanted kingdom for toys, or just a safe and cosy place to hide.
They're also amazingly aesthetically appealing. Who knew a little pyramid of plain or striped cloth could add such luxurious whimsy to a wee room?
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Remember this adorable stripy ensemble? You can nab your very own at Little Yoyo Styles. Or are you crafty? Have you made your own teepee? I used to create little cubbies for myself and once pitched an outdoor tent in the back yard then hauled all my teddies outside to sit it in with me.
The baby space preschooler took one look at these and declared he wants a tent too. Of course!
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We made one out of garden canes from a discount shop, curtain rings and clothesline rope. The kids helped with every stage on a very rainy day. It is now several years old and has survived lots of kids, sleepovers, funny dads and chickens. We just throw a variety of vintage sheets over it, depending on who is using it. (floral vs planets). It goes in bedroom, lounge room or garden and is huge! Now the newest toddler will inherit it to replace her change table. Best $10 we ever spent!ReplyDelete
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annie - genius! I love the idea of mixing it up with vintage sheets.
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i have a teepee on my wish list! i love these.ReplyDelete
I love each of these cute tents! SO perfect for kids. When I was a kid I would build tents in my room. I think I would have preferred one being made already like these!ReplyDelete
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so adorable!!
gorgeous! i have had 'make a teepee' on my to create list for ages... maybe its a job for the school holidays. hmmm...ReplyDelete
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