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Peter Frampton's FCA!35 album and DVD/Blu-ray is in stores now. In Part 1 of Peter Frampton's exclusive interview with Gibson.com he talked of recording the live discs. In Part 2, we delve deeper into his life as a guitar player and the story of his special Gibson Les Paul.
FCA!35 – 1976's Frampton Comes Alive! revisited, reworked and replayed with extras – shows English guitar legend Peter Frampton to still be on top of his game. His golden locks may be gone, but his guitar chops remain. And his playing is arguably better than ever…
On FCA!35, "Lines On My Face" is one of your big ballads, but it swings a little more now, in a good way. Is that a song that you wanted to re-work?
It's just developed. I think I've brought a more lyrical side, guitar-wise, to that song over the years. I'm not claiming to be a jazz player. I listen to all sorts of guitar playing, everything is incorporated into what is my style. And somewhere I'll go what some people think is "wrong" note.
Listen to Miles Davis. Some people think notes are not "right" there. I don't know! But I enjoy the experimentation, and the masters who take liberties over chord sequences. But sometimes what everyone thinks is "incorrect"… Well, to me, it's on the edge.
Have you always tried to push yourself, in terms of guitar playing?
Over the years, I've experimented a lot with bluesy things and some jazz stuff. It's just a progression, to try and go somewhere you've never been before. It's not about dexterity, to me. I've never been someone who finds merit in a million notes a second. It's always the choice of note, for me. Over the bass and the chord. Find your way.
There's a few Humble Pie songs on the FCA!35 album, a pretty heavy version of "I Don't Need No Doctor" for starters…
My son Julian sings that. On this album we're doing "Shine On" and "Four Day Creep" too. We're doing more of the Humble Pie era, and I'm sure I will dig out more along the way. I enjoy doing it.
But something like "Stone Cold Fever" might be hard to do – few can sing that high with that force except Steve Marriott. I can do Steve's verse my way on "I Don't Need No Doctor," but "Stone Cold Fever" is hard! I'd love to do it, it's a great riff. Maybe someone else can sing that for me. They're going to need very tight trousers!
The Rise of the Phoenix!
FCA!35 also boasts the live return of Frampton's 1954 Les Paul Custom "Black Beauty" that was presumed lost in a plane crash in 1980. Frampton had his Les Paul Custom returned late in 2011. Read the whole story of Peter Frampton's 1954 Gibson Les Paul Custom here.
The guitar is now repaired, and does appear on FCA!35. "The first time it comes into play is "Doobie Wah." It's on 50% at least," says Frampton.
It's an amazing tale of a lost guitar – now it's back with you, is it holding up well?
Oh, yeah. I made a rule that we'd only change it if necessary. The electronics weren't working, so I took a liberty there to replace it with New Old Stock (NOS). Volume pots, pickups, capacitors, wiring… it took some doing. But there was very little on the body that needed doing. I could have refinished it, but that would be sacrilegious I think?
It's been cleaned up, but it still has its battle scars. The back of the neck was a little dented – I've had some cosmetic work done there.
And it's singed around the headstock – the guitar with the singe on top! There's no edging around the top of the headstock, it was melted in the heat of the plane fire. But it's an interesting-looking piece now. I'll never refinish it now – it needs to show its battle scars.
As the guitar you used for most of the 1970s, and the one pictured on the original Frampton Comes Alive! album, it must have a lot of sentimental value?
"Oh, yes. From 1970 to 1980, it was there. And the most that ever happened to me was during those 10 years. It's a legendary guitar because it's on that LP cover. But there's also something about that that guitar, when I play it on those original songs…
The first day I brought it to rehearsals, I changed guitars a bit. Mostly, it was the Gibson Custom Peter Frampton Les Paul made for me by Gibson. But when I played the original, everybody would just smile! It just has the sound! I think it's unique. It's not necessarily the best Les Paul in the world, I've never said that. It just has something.
It doesn't have a maple top, like most Les Pauls do. It's a 1954 'Black Beauty', but is solid mahogany. But it was very light mahogany… unusual. When I got it back after 32 years, I just felt the weight and thought: this is my guitar.
And does it sound different to you?
It doesn't have the very deep sound of a normal Les Paul with a maple top. It has a mid-to-high register sound that cuts through. I have another Les Paul that I call the Buzz Saw – it's got that ZZ Top-is full range and can bite your head off. This one is more lyrical sounding. And when I pick it up, you hear the difference – it's amazing.
So does your original have a nickname too?
It's the Phoenix! Suggested by the gentleman who gave it to me, in 1970, when I was in Humble Pie. I spoke with Mark Mariana (who gave Frampton the guitar) when I got it back and he said: you should call that the Phoenix. It rose from the ashes!
FCA!35 has obviously been a big undertaking: what's your next project?
Right now, I am writing music for a ballet. Yes, really! I've lived for the last 10 years in Cincinnati, Ohio, and they have one of the best ballet companies in the country. They asked me about six years ago if they could use some of my recorded music to accompany a small part of a performance. Four songs, two instrumentals – I said yes, I was honored.
Then they sent me a DVD of an in-house performance. It was a pas-de-duex – one male, one female performer. But I was just blown away. So I contacted the head of the Cincinnati ballet, Victoria Morgan. And she said they'd done this once before with another live artist, but would I like to do another show with me playing behind the ballet? The idea is to choreograph the dance to the music I choose to use.
There are three 20-minute sections in a ballet performance. So we agreed to have beginning and end sections with music of mine that people might know. But then I suggested I write some brand new music for the center section. So that's what I'm doing. I'm working on Number 3 at the moment… there will be five pieces, I think. I just can't wait to do it.
This will be quite a surprise to some fans?
It's certainly different. It's scary! But this is what I should be doing. But it will be with a band. Or whatever I choose to have. But the center section – I haven't quite worked it out yet.
And are you working on new rock guitar material as well?
Yes, I'm working on songs now. They will come out on an EP or something before we tour again in 2013. I'm sure we'll play some of the Comes Alive! songs. But only some, it'll be a smattering.
This is the beauty of playing now, for me. Old stuff, new stuff. It will be a different show for me.


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Mark Shuttleworth Answers Your Questions 236
by eldavojohn
We've seen Linux go from servers to supercomputers to smartphones in a very explosive manner but not as pervasively on the personal computer. What, in your opinion, is the next frontier for Linux and is that frontier part of Canonical's future?
Shuttleworth: The really interesting opportunity is to unify all of these different kinds of computing. Let's make one OS that runs on the phone AND on your supercomputer. We're close to that now - we know Ubuntu makes a great cloud OS and a great server OS and a great desktop. So I think the next frontier is to create a seamless experience from the embedded world to the cloud. And yes, that's very much what we are focused on at Canonical.
How to succeed on the desktop?
by paulpach
Linux is a huge success in mobile. Linux is a huge success in servers (and Ubuntu in particular seems to be doing very well in servers, congratulations). But Linux on the desktop seems to be going nowhere fast as far as market share is concerned. In your opinion, what would have to happen in order for Linux to start gaining ground in the desktop?
Shuttleworth: The mobile world is crucial to the future of the PC. This month, for example, it became clear that the traditional PC is shrinking in favor of tablets. So if we want to be relevant on the PC, we have to figure out how to be relevant in the mobile world first.
Mobile is also interesting because there's no pirated Windows market. So if you win a device to your OS, it stays on your OS. In the PC world, we are constantly competing with "free Windows", which presents somewhat unique challenges.
So our focus now is to establish a great story around Ubuntu and mobile form factors - the tablet and the phone - on which we can build deeper relationships with everyday consumers. All the major PC companies now ship PC's with Ubuntu pre-installed. So we have a very solid set of working engagements in the industry. But those PC companies are nervous to promote something new to PC buyers. If we can get PC buyers familiar with Ubuntu as a phone and tablet experience, then they may be more willing buy it on the PC too.
by thePsychologist
Hi Mark! It seems based on your blog and other sources that an Ubuntu tablet is definitely planned and should be in the works at least sometime in the next year. When do you think consumers will be able to walk into any decently-sized electronic store and pick up an Ubuntu-based tablet?
Shuttleworth: No pre-announcements here, sorry!
But yes, we've said clearly that the phone and tablet are key stories we need to tell by 14.04 LTS. So I hope that by then you'll know when and where to expect it in-store :)
Oracle certification
by hawkinspeter
Will Ubuntu ever be a certified platform for running Oracle databases?
Shuttleworth: That's not really something I can say "yes" to ;)
We do know that there are some very large Oracle databases running on Ubuntu, and the people running them get all the support they need from Oracle. If you're a large Oracle shop, call them up and ask for support on Ubuntu. But of course, with Oracle's own Linux now in the market, Oracle is unlikely to promote another Linux until they change strategy.
Nowadays, we get asked about this very rarely - people seem to have moved to care a lot more about Hadoop and some of the newer big-data options than they do about traditional SQL. And of course Ubuntu is by far the most popular OS for large big-data deployments. Perhaps for that reason we are not pushing Oracle very hard ourselves - we've met a few times and their reaction has been some corporate equivalent of .
Re:A couple of questions
by cheesybagel
Why doesn't Ubuntu include Android emulation so people can run their vast catalog of Android apps on their laptop, tablet or the like?
Shuttleworth: Because no OS ever succeeded by emulating another OS. Android is great, but if we want to succeed we need to bring something new and better to market.
If we said we aimed to run Android apps, then two things would happen. Every developer that potentially cared about Ubuntu would feel it was OK to just write an app for Android. And every bug that would be specific to our implementation of Android's APIs would of course be a bug for us to fix, not a bug for the app developer. So, we won't do that.
Touch-a-touch-a-touch me...
by Count Fenring
Unity, like most other operating system visual shells, is moving in a decidedly touch-oriented direction. Has this actually proved beneficial in pushing forward an OS that's primarily in use on servers and workstations? Have users (as a percentage of total OS users, or as a percentage of total Linux users) risen or declined since Unity was introduced?
Shuttleworth: Unity positions itself to be *ready* for touch-only platforms like the tablet and phone, but the desktop flavour of Unity is optimized for the desktop. That's why we have such great support for keyboard navigation and hotkeys, why we have menus and indicators that you really need a mouse and keyboard to use. Yes, we have big app icons. But so have some desktop shells for 15 years (before the NextStep Dock, even).
On balance, I think Ubuntu's share of users has continued to rise, based on trends in hard-to-fake sources like Wikipedia traffic logs. Unity is by far the most widely used shell on Ubuntu, despite the depressed-hipster "can't live with unity" meme. And the fact that the other DE's that are shooting for the future are adding bits and pieces of the Unity design suggests that we're on a good track. I'm rather proud of introducing several ideas before they showed up in MacOS and Windows, and I think we have more in the pipeline like that.
Unity was TWO big changes. First, there was the set of changes themselves. That's always hard - there's no way to change huge chunks of the big open source desktop in one fell swoop and get it all perfect in less than six months. So 11.04 was hard, it got better steadily, and it's really fantastic now. And second, there was a cultural shift. Ubuntu shifted towards leadership rather than simply integration. We thought design was important, we talked to the folks responsible for all the current DEs at the time, and they didn't seem to understand what was going to be the reality of personal computing - a highly mobile oriented world. So we led, and I'm glad we did, even though it is hard to do that.
It was very frustrating for us to essentially feel blocked from contributing - design or code - in the existing free desktop communities. It was weird when it became more productive to collaborate with KDE than with the core GNOME maintainers. But we couldn't let petty politics stop us - we're the only company that really cares about the desktop, and even though it hurt to be pushed out of the nest of existing partner communities, sometimes you have to decide to fight for what you believe in. And we did.
Losing its Lustre
by Skunk
Do you feel that Ubuntu might be losing its way amongst the more technical users with some of the decisions that are being made? For example, forcing a beta-level UI onto users for 3 versions of Ubuntu from 11.04-12.04, integrating paid search results from Amazon etc. Linux Mint, which is rapidly growing in popularity, would seem to be a backlash against Unity and is a splintering of Ubuntu (in fact the vast majority of packages are identical to Ubuntu). Do you therefore feel that Ubuntu's popularity has reached its peak and is at risk of stagnating or declining?
Shuttleworth: We are all at risk of stagnating if we don't pursue the future, vigorously. But if you pursue the future, you have to accept that not everybody will agree with your vision.
The raw numbers suggest that Ubuntu continues to grow in terms of actual users. And our partnerships - Dell, HP, Lenovo on the hardware front, and gaming companies like EA, Valve joining up on the software front - make me feel like we continue to lead where it matters.
The Linux distro market has always been highly fragmented and ideological. Nothing new there.
Do you get tired of all the bickering?
by olau
It's evident Canonical and you personally as dude-in-charge have received a lot of flak over the past years, especially as you have started producing more software in-house rather than relying on upstream. Linux seems to attract a horde of vocal fans that aren't afraid to complain when things aren't going their direction. Does that get on your nerves or have you learned to live with it? Are you happy as dude-in-charge-of-product?
Shuttleworth: Yeah, I've been quite astonished at the level of vitriol and paranoia that pervades some of the opinion-fests that pass for discussion and debate in the FLOSS community. And quite disappointed that more folk don't appreciate that we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shift the world towards a much more open platform than ever before, but that nasty flaming of individuals who lead that effort, whether its me or anyone else, is totally counter-productive.
I made the commitment to Ubuntu because I had opinions about how free software should steer itself to being the standard way people to software, and I felt that it was pointless to have opinions and not be willing to stand by them with personal skin in the game. If you're not willing to do real work to achieve the outcome you believe in, then you're just another empty vessel with an opinion. And as the saying goes, opinions are like assholes - everybody's got one. What matters is the people who are willing to knuckle down and do real work to make a difference.
And Ubuntu has attracted a very large number of those - not just the folks who you'll find in the headlines, but an astonishing number of great people who just help out because they can and they care. If FLOSS does get over the hump of common acceptance, it will be because of those (often unsung) heroes, not because of the big mouths of ideologues.
Balance between software freedom and usability?
by Bradmont
Ubuntu has made decisions that have been less than popular with the Free-software only crowd. Personally, I benefit from these decisions, for example, via easy access to Nvidia and Broadcom drivers on my laptop, but I also see the importance of the other side of the argument. What is your short- and long-term perspective on including restricted drivers and non-free software in Ubuntu? Is your approach simply pragmatic, do you hope to bring long-term change in industry practices by making free software a viable and important desktop platform, or something else entirely? Thanks!
Shuttleworth: Well, I feel the same way about this as I do about McCarthyism. The people who rant about proprietary software are basically insecure about their own beliefs, and it's that fear that makes them so nastily critical.
If your way of seeing the world IS genuinely more productive, effective, efficient, insightful and usable, then you should be confident that you will win in the long term, and folk who dabble in a different way of working will come to realize that you're right eventually. If FLOSS really is a better way for Oracle to do their thing, then the more we get them doing with FLOSS, the more likely they are to promote the people who are successful around that approach.
So I think Linus has been very smart to have a broadly permissive attitude to proprietary drivers in Linux, for example. He can still give a company the finger for being uncollaborative, but note that he was not being ideological about licenses, he was focused on the quality of engagement - about getting stuff actually working. That strikes a good balance in the kernel, where we want the core to be pretty definitively copyleft, but its good to let hardware companies dabble in non-free drivers if that's what they think is best. If we're right about the benefits of FLOSS, they'll get there in due course. That's why I was so happy to have Canonical leading a lot of the work around ARM Linux - those guys were all investing a lot, inefficiently, and we thought that if they tried a better way, they would like it and grow around it, and now Linaro is a lovely success story.
If you think you'll convince people to see things your way by ranting and being a dick, well, then you have much more to learn than I can possibly be bothered to spend time teaching.
Cool hack
by vlm
Describe a hack that you personally participated in that you find cool. Not you paid someone to ... or I once saw someone else ... or you bought something cool that ... I mean traditional hack like "identify problem" "flash of insight in ur brain" "minutes to days of sweat using techie tools" "something cool now exists, lookit". I don't care about the subject as long as its vaguely slashdot style technical and you think its cool and the slashdot audience would think its cool. The coolest hack is not necessarily the biggest or most famous, either. Maybe you have a hobby where you personally programmed the worlds coolest Christmas light display on your house, or you handmade a truly elaborate model railroad fully articulated draw bridge, I donno, whatever floats your boat. TLDR just tell your hack story, and make it cool.
Shuttleworth: I love design - and especially in combining ideas in ways that make them both better. A recent project was figuring out how we want to fit our phone, tablet and desktop stories into one coherent whole. I quite like the solution we came up with. Tell me if you like it after 14.04 LTS ;)
Governmental Roles In Space?
by eldavojohn
Since you like to comment on both government interaction with businesses and seem to be interested in space travel, what is the appropriate level of the government's role in space? Can you define what is too little and what is too far? What, if anything, should each nation regulate? Are nationalistic programs and races good for space travel or should it just all be privatized and given a sort of 'international waters' anything goes freedom?
Shuttleworth: The national space missions should be exploratory and seeking to push back boundaries, not crowding out the basics. I think the agencies failed to recognize that they could facilitate private sector activity in areas they pioneered, so we got stuck in agency-monopolized access to low earth orbit for decades. That is changing now, and the real win will be that agencies get lower-cost lift and certification and training options that let them plan the really pioneering missions of tomorrow - Mars and the outer planets.
Regulation is good for established markets - I generally like to see governments regulate hard to achieve efficiency and level playing fields in markets. What gets broken is government actors that participate directly, as Fannie and Freddie do in real estate in the US, for example. But I'm not a libertarian (apart from a brief spell in student days) - I've seen far to much corrupt and nasty behavior by corporates that act in a very narrow set of interests.
So, when you take that trip to low-earth orbit, or parabolic firecracker ride courtesy of one of the space tourism operators, you'll be glad of a regulatory framework that aims for passenger safety. And the professional astronauts, who don't really give a hoot about personal safety beyond the obvious "don't be an idiot with my life", will be glad for the access to deep space that they would get courtesy of a vibrant market in the "easy" stuff.

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St. Marys AD Steps Down
ST. MARYS — The head of the athletic department for the St. Marys School District has stepped down.
Athletic Director Joe Bline issued his resignation Tuesday morning, effective July 31. Bline told The Evening Leader he accepted the same position for the Marysville School District. Bline's decision comes a few days after St. Marys Superintendent Mary Riepenhoff resigned to take a position with Race to the Top.
"It's closer to my family," Bline said, noting he is originally from Newark. "I am extremely happy and St. Marys is a great place. My kids and wife are happy here but it's too good a situation to pass up."
Bline came to St. Marys three years ago. During his tenure, Bline said he experienced a lot of highs with the Roughriders.
"There has been so much happen over the last three years," Bline said. "It's been really crazy from moving into the new school, the playoff run we had three years ago — that was a wonderful experience. I have been able to work with some great coaches and great athletes. I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention the girls soccer Final Four run, Makayla Breland going to the state track meet and the girls bowling team winning state this last year."
Bline said the opening was posted Tuesday morning. Members of the St. Marys Board of Education will be tasked with finding a replacement.


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Senate Bill No. 284
(By Senators Miller, Hall, Browning, Wills, Plymale, Williams and Kessler (Acting President))
[Introduced January 26, 2011; referred to the Committee Government Organization; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §3-5-17 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to changing the date of the canvassing of votes in a primary election from the Friday following a primary election to the Monday following a primary election.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §3-5-17 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
§3-5-17. Canvassing and certifying returns; recount procedures.
The county court, commissioners of the county commission, sitting as a board of canvassers, shall meet convene at the courthouse of the county on the Friday next succeeding fifth day after any primary election, excepting Sundays, and shall proceed to canvass the returns of such the election. The procedures prescribed in section nine, of article six, of this chapter relating to canvass of general election returns, shall, where adaptable, be applied in the canvass of the primary election returns. The board shall proceed to ascertain the result of such the election in the county and district and election precincts thereof and cause to be prepared and recorded in the primary election precinct record book a table or tables which shall show, as to each candidate of each political party for each office, the number of votes cast for him or her at each precinct and the total number thereof cast in the entire county. The board shall then make up and enter in said record book a certificate for each political party showing, as to each candidate for each political party for each office, the total number of votes, in words and also in figures, cast for him or her in the entire county and the number of votes received by all the candidates of such party in such district which shall be in the following form:
The board of canvassers of the county of ................ of West Virginia, having carefully and impartially examined the returns of the primary election held in said county on the ....... day of ..........., 19...., do hereby certify that in said county or district, at said election, on the official ballot of the .................. party for the office of ..............., A. B. received ............ (......) votes; C. D. received .............. (......) votes.
And so on for each office for each political party according to the truth. When the certificates are all entered, the report shall be signed by the members of the board or a majority thereof. by a majority. Such members shall also sign separate certificates of the result of said the election, within the county, for each of the offices to be filled by each political party
as provided by the following section.
The provisions of article six of this chapter, relating to the recount of votes in general elections, shall, to the extent applicable, be operative in primary and other elections conducted under provisions of this article.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to change the date of canvassing of votes in a primary election from the Friday following the election to the Monday following.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.


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Hello, sorry if this is the wrong section or forum to post such a thing but I need help. I am having trouble making a program exactly what my professor wants. I know I need two variables meaning two JPoptionpanes but I am not sure how to calcuatore the percetange. Here is the assignment:
Write a program that reads two integers using the JOptionPane class: one representing the number of shots taken by a basketball player, the other representing the number of shots made by the same player. Calculate the shooting percentage and output it formatted with percent notation using the JOptionPane class.
Here is what I have so far(this is just stuff that I formula together and slap on the source code it doe snot work) I can't get the percentage to display
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
public class Basketball
public static void main( String [] args )
String input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( null,
"Please enter shots taken by a basketball player" );
int shotstaken = Integer.parseInt( input );
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "Baseketball player has taken " +
+ shotstaken + " shots");
String input2 = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( null,
"Please enter shots made by a basketball player" );
int shotsmade = Integer.parseInt( input2 );
double shootingPercentage = (( shotstaken / shotsmade) * 100 );
NumberFormat percentFormat = NumberFormat.getPercentInstance( );
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "The shooting percentage is " + percentFormat.format( shootingPercentage ) );


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Brookline, MA (Antiochian.org) - Hellenic College Holy Cross, the oldest and largest Christian Orthodox institution for higher learning in North America, invites Orthodox Christian students from the United States and Canada to take part in a summer vocation exploration program that integrates faith, learning, and service. In its ninth year, the CrossRoad summer institute has proven to be a successful program preparing teens for leadership in the Church and in their communities.
One of the vibrant programs of HCHC's Office of Vocation & Ministry (OVM), CrossRoad offers participants access to HCHC's distinguished faculty instruction and enthusiastic graduate students who serve as staff. Since the program is on HCHC campus, participants experience the beautiful campus that is within minutes of Boston.
In addition to participating in theology classes, CrossRoad students attend Vespers each evening at neighboring parishes in the Boston area and engage in community service. Described by many as a "life-changing experience," CrossRoad provides a strong foundation for the future leaders of the Church, evidenced through the way CrossRoad alumni reflect on what they learned during the 10-day period.
CrossRoad alumna Katya Soot of Albany, OR, said, "Two and a half years ago, I attended Crossroad, and yet it feels like yesterday. Time and distance have no power over the love and knowledge that Crossroad fostered for all of us in just ten days. To this day, what I learned and the people I met at Crossroad continue to influence my life, and I know this is something that will last forever."
Alumnus Michael Takes of Clayton, MO, added, "CrossRoad was an amazing experience that helped me learn about my faith and prepared me for living an Orthodox life in college"
This year's sessions are June 23-July 3 and July 10-20, 2012. Application Priority Deadline is March 1, 2012. Applications may be downloaded from the CrossRoad website.
About CrossRoad
CrossRoad draws its name in part from the metaphorical crossroad at which high school seniors and graduates find themselves as they prepare to embark on their life journey towards further studies and careers. CrossRoad's 350 alumni hail from 39 states, Canada, and the Bahamas. To accommodate the overwhelming interest, CrossRoad runs two sessions annually.
For summer 2012 each accepted applicant will receive a full scholarship and is only responsible for travel costs to/from Boston. CrossRoad is funded by the OVM through the generosity of the Lilly Endowment Inc., the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Endowment Fund, Old Neighborhood Foods, the Virginia H. Farah Foundation, and benefactors from the greater Orthodox community. Applications may be downloaded from the CrossRoad website at crossroad.hchc.edu or received by mail by calling the office at 617-850-1310. Visit the website to see a short video of the CrossRoad experience. Applicants must currently be in their junior or senior year of high school. Application Priority Deadline is March 1, 2012. The Office of Vocation & Ministry (OVM) at Hellenic College is now accepting applications from high school juniors and seniors for its CrossRoad summer institute.


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Thread: History of Savannah GA
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#1 History of Savannah GA07-21-2012, 02:03 AM
Founded in 1733 by colonists led by James Edward Oglethorpe, Savannah is the oldest city in Georgia and one of the outstanding examples of eighteenth-century town planning in North America.
Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
Savannah was, by
design, the first step in the creation of Georgia, which received its charter from King George II in April 1732, as the thirteenth and last of England's American colonies. In November 1732 Oglethorpe, with 114 colonists, sailed from England on the Anne. This first group of settlers landed at the site of the planned town, then known as Yamacraw Bluff, on the Savannah River approximately fifteen miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean, on February 12, 1733.
After establishing cordial relations with Chief Tomochichi of the resident Yamacraw Indians, and Indian trader and liaison Mary Musgrove, Oglethorpe
Courtesy of Georgia Info, Digital Library of Georgia
James Oglethorpe
began to carry out his concept for the layout of Savannah. Oglethorpe and Savannah's coplanner, William Bull of South Carolina, laid out a town loosely based on the London town model but featuring wards built around central squares, with trust lots on the east and west sides of the squares for public buildings and churches, and tything lots for the settlers' homes on the north and south sides of the squares.
Oglethorpe and the Georgia Trustees originally conceived Savannah, and the new colony, as a philanthropic endeavor. It was the Trustees' intention to provide a refuge for English debtors who could establish the basis for an agrarian class of small, yeoman farmers working in concert with a business and mercantile class in Savannah, thus providing a commercial outpost to the neighboring colony of South Carolina.
Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries
Savannah City Plan, 1734
In Savannah's formative years, and through most of Georgia's period as a proprietary colony, there was a ban on slavery. This was lifted in 1750. There were additional prohibitions in the new colony on "spirituous liquors" (until 1742), and Catholics were forbidden to live in the colony until the territorial and commercial disputes in the region between England and Spain were settled in 1748. There were no lawyers until 1755.
The early history of Savannah is remarkable for the sheer diversity of its people. Religious observance played an important role in the early life of Savannah. In addition to its founding English settlers, Jews arrived from London in the summer of 1733; they later founded the Congregation Mickve Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in the South. In the spring of 1734 came Evangelical Lutherans from Salzburg, known as Salzburgers, who settled on the Savannah River at a town they named Ebenezer. Scottish Highlanders and German Moravians came in 1736, followed by Dutch, Welsh, and Irish settlers. John Wesley and Charles Wesley conducted Anglican services. In 1737 the Reverend George Whitefield arrived and soon after founded Bethesda, colonial America's first orphanage.
Savannah citizens played prominent roles in the cause of American independence, although Georgia, as a general rule,
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Frictional Games seems to be working on a follow-up to Amnesia: The Dark Descent, if a teaser site is any indication. For the time being, we know nothing about the game except that it carries the "Amnesia" name, and has some kind of connection to China.
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The front air duct will be going to the esc to help it stay cool at high speed. Been reading everywhere on how they heat up and die on people so that's the solution. Still waiting on the light weight flexible hose from china though for that mod to be complete.
The front of the car I had notice that the factory canard is very flexible, so I don't think it's reliable for 100+ runs.
This is what I did for more rear DF. Just add a hard rubber o-ring to the back of the wing mounting screw to lift it up in the back. Try one first to see if it's enough DF for you. Add two and you might scrape the rear diffuser so stiffen springs in the rear.
Also make a mounting plate for the rear body mount and wing. The body is very soft so this helps transfer the DF to the rear wheels. Do the same for the front, it's much easier.
With all the air going inside the car it's actually trapped in the rear and forces it downward right where the diffuser is so it'll create a bit of a lift and act like a parachute. I added vents on top rather than right next to diffuser.
Also slvr bullet I think this car is very capable of reaching very high speed if you have time, money and patience. Most of my mods here will help you getting more df. If you have any questions or need help lmk.
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thanks for the pics will get my project started. Time and money I have its patience is my problem
never can own to many rc cars
to many to list
Nice job! Thanks for sharing it
Q: how do you cut the lexan, it looks quite clean!
Did you cut cut other vents, then the one in the "license plate area"?
np. I use a hot razor that I got from radio shack ($20) to cut out the vents, then borrowed my wife's nail filer to smooth out the lines. Just don't let the females know or you're in big trouble .
Nice, may have to steal your idea later. Looks awesome!
LOL yea do not touch their stuff
here's how to remove play in the front steering bellcrank. dont worry about having it too tight, it'll loosen up after a few run
I'm thinking this car doesn't really need the rear wing. I'm not using mine at the moment. We'll see what happens.
let us know. i think that might be a mistake
never can own to many rc cars
to many to list
Looks like he wrapped it with Teflon tape.
Yep it's thread sealer/teflon tape wrapped around the shoulder screw for the steering system. very simple mod to remove unwanted play. working on anther mod right now, will post up pictures in a bit.
yeah ponie keep us informed on that one i would love not having the wing on mine also just was scared to start messing around with the design of things. like everybody knows they get airborne very easy
never can own to many rc cars
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Here's another mod to help remove more slop in the front. What I did was ordered 2 #30 (.1285) drill bits and cut them down to size. Put it on a drill press then use a dremel to cut slots for e-clips to go through on each end. Now it's close to zero slop up front. You guys don't have to drill anything here. It's the exact size of the hole
Here's how it looks like installed
This mod is simple and very useful. Installed 5 o-rings size 6x8x1 in the hub retainer bolt that goes in the hex hub. What it does is to help smooth out vibration between the axle and hex hub
mods look great , only thing I would do it make doubles of everything because you will need them regardless if your planning togo over 50mph
Nice! Keep them coming!
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Will do sir. Been too busy to ask my friend at the airbase for some run time. I'm currently working on getting actual foam tires made for this car. Calling a few of my suppliers out of county to see if it's possible... Fingers cross 2" 1/4 wide in rear and 2" in front
Get them 4.35" in diameter too. BSR's come at around 4.10"
E Revo brushless, XO-1, Nitro 4 tec 3.3, HPI RS4
be nice if somone made some treaded belted tires in our size
I have not done this yet on my XO1 but over the years I have used brass or aluminum tubing to make crush-sleeves to fit between the inner races of both inner and outer bearings to reduce slop. Time consuming as YOU would know (mill off .0005too much and you start over) but worth the trouble.
This is a reply to FARTOFDOOM's Outer Hinge pins (drill bits) and hub retainer o-rings. I almost know I clicked on "reply with quote".
By the way: Thanks BennyG6 for your replies in the picture and video thread.
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Any updates?
Very interested in this project.
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Well guys(comma) I(apostrophe)ve officially started on the foam project and this thing is going to be EXPENSIVE(period) But it(apostrophe)s well worth it(exclamation mark exclamation mark exclamation mark) I(apostrophe)ll update you guys when everything is done (smiley face) If you guys have any questions or need help with any of the mods feel free to give me a pm(period)
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LOL yea I thought it was kinda funny how the asterisk (the little star looking thing on the #8 button) could be so offensive when clearly I was telling another member you couldn't use it to cover letters. But yea back to the subject...
Finally my gyro came in the mail!!! Still waiting on my setup station UPS got delayed till Monday.... Installed pic will be up in a bit, gotta go cook mah steak!!!
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What kind of setup station are you getting? I thought about calling Hudy to see if there 1/8 scale station would work or if they had any plans to build one specifically for the XO1. I even thought about modifying my current Hudy stuff. I am anxious to see what the "'aftermarket" (in genera)l does to support this car.
I got the intergy 1/8 universal setup station(http://www.integy.com/st_prod.html?p...3#.UC9nDfXg9Ow)
I was thinking about modifying my Hudy to work with this car too but then the intergy isn't that expensive so might as well.
Dual links front mounted directly to the steering block with gyro installed.
Tighter steering system
More responsive
It's a pain to adjust
Same with the rear.
I think I've found a very simple solution to fix the front suspension but I need someone with a new untouched steering system. If you guys don't mind spending a few dollars and have a digital caliper in hand feel free to pm me. This mod wont be as smooth as mine though but it will make your car a lot smoother and easier to drive.
Also require you taking pictures to post on here so we could share the mods with everyone.
Last edited by FartOfDoom; 08-19-2012 at 03:31 AM.
If you can afford all of this awesome equipment, you could at least put some cuut screen over the front intake...
And there he goes with the carbon...
FartofDoom is this the one you use as a spacer for between those 6mm bearings?
Sharing is the best thing to do on EARTH legally.
no sir they're made from a different company, part # KYO96641.
They come in 10x 3x5x.1, 10x 3x5x.2mm, and 10x 3x5x.3mm
Kyosho parts are permitted, as are almost every other brand.
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Big Thanks FartOfDoom! I know that brand, I'm doing the steering mode now, without the washer, I did install those bearings already, working smoothly but I still need those spacers, just in case it might slip.
On the suspension pins I have the replacement also, I want to ask if what you did to cut it in size, did you grind it or use a bolt cutter?
Sharing is the best thing to do on EARTH legally.
no problem I'm here to help . I used a dremel and a standard cutting disc to cut the shaft down to size. measured the stock shaft with a digital caliper and it's 54.51mm exact
Here's a simple mod that's very easy to do if you want more front end down force.
I drilled a hole through the foam bumper to the high speed canard and put in a screw and washer so that it's a little stiffer for more down force.
Here's a vid of the result
Sorry wife was being a pain in the something in the back ground
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I'm working on a mod tmrw that will reduce the bump steer (thanks to blacky2kgt for pointing this out) and will also help with the overall steering throw/sensitivity for better control (this one is for TheStenchOfSpeed) if you like to drag the beast. BTW nice setup TheStenchOfSpeed
Just curious... how is that gyro working out for you?
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But don't try this at home because all the pieces of this puzzle aren't even in the box. To further complicate matters, pieces that appear to fit snuggly today might not fit at all tomorrow.
General manager Dave Gettleman is in charge of the Panthers' puzzle. It won't be easy, but the good news is that many of the pivotal pieces are locked in place and the entire puzzle doesn't need to be rebuilt following a 12-4 season.
"You're always going to have holes you have to plug; that's the way it is. You can't avoid it," Gettleman said Thursday at the NFL Scouting Combine. "But if you're drafting well and you're developing well – and that's one thing (head coach) Ron Rivera and his staff do a great job with – you'll be fine.
"There are only two teams in this league right now that have had winning seasons four years in a row – New England and Green Bay. That's what our goal is, and to do that we have to be thoughtful with what we do with every player, with every dollar."
The Panthers' situation relative to the salary cap is better than it was when Gettleman ascended the podium at Lucas Oil Stadium one year ago for the first time as a general manager, but it's still the biggest thing that makes the puzzle so daunting.
Gettleman and others around the league are hopeful the cap will increase from $123 million to $130 million before the new league year begins March 12. Even if it does, the Panthers – like a lot of teams – will still face difficult decisions when it comes to shaping their roster for 2014 and beyond.
"Last year we were quite a bit over, and we had to do some maneuvering just to get under for the first day of the league year. The progress for this year is that we don't have to do any of that, but that doesn't mean we're sitting here with $35 million," Gettleman said. "Every penny helps, but we're trying to get the thing under control. If it goes to 130, very frankly I don't know if we're going to spend to 130. We're going to be smart. If you're constantly up against the wall, you can't maneuver.
"Our free agency is going to be just like last year. We're going to look for guys that we feel have been overlooked that can help us. We thought we did pretty well last year."
The free agency part of the puzzle includes decisions on players that were key cogs in last season's success but could become free agents next month – players like defensive end
But for the next few days – and for the previous few days back in Charlotte – the focus is on the part of the puzzle dedicated to the draft.
"We just had our February draft meetings with all the college scouts coming in," Gettleman explained. "We met for about five days, worked on the draft board, eliminating players that don't fit us offensively and defensively.
"Then for the next week, the college scouts met with the coaches and got them tuned in and ready for the players here in Indianapolis."
Gettleman said his lengthy evaluation of the 2013 roster leading up to the Combine revealed the goal of improving in the secondary and on offense as a whole. But Gettleman, fresh off picking defensive tackles in the first two rounds of his inaugural draft as a general manager, said position needs wouldn't impact his approach to this May's draft.
"Don't write that in the draft the Panthers are taking this and this and this," Gettleman said. "Philosophically, we're going to take the best player on the board.
"Nobody in America expected Star (Lotulelei) to be there with the 14th pick last year. My Giants buddies were laughing at me because we turned the card in in 30 seconds. Yes, he was the highest player on the board, and so was KK (Kawaan Short in the second round). We're going to go with that philosophy."
When the dust settles on the 2014 NFL Draft, the large majority of the roster will be in place. Panthers fans can rest assured that between now and then, Gettleman will leave no stone unturned.
"You want to keep developing your players, developing your talent so that you can have sustained success," Gettleman said. "From a personnel standpoint, you obviously need to have your quarterback. We have our quarterback. The next thing you really want is a nice spread of age across your roster – the wily veterans that know what it takes, the guys that are in the prime of their career and the young guys that are contributing. Something that was exciting for us last season was that at meaningful times, we had six rookies on the field on defense.
"We've just got to continue to get better. You're constantly going to shuffle your roster. You can't maintain the status quo. You've got to use all the methods that you can to improve."


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Nokia has unwrapped a couple of budget phones this morning, pitching the 110 and 112 as internet devices despite their - by modern standards - tiny 1.8in, 128 x 160 screens.
The two dual-band handsets can take two Sims, mind, handy for mixing business and pleasure.
New Nokias: 110 (left) and 112
There's a variant of the 110, called the 111, which has but one Sim slot. However, it's a quad-bander, so it'd be my choice out of the three for a cheap voice phone. Or would be if I hadn't just bought a Nokia C1-02 to replace my now-abandoned smartphone.
Other specs include a 0.3Mp camera, FM radio and a Micro SD slot for storage - cards of up to 32GB capacity are supported.
The 112 is fractionally bigger and heavier than the 110, but there's not a lot in it. The 112's advantages over the 110? A slightly bigger battery - for 14 hours' talk time to the 110's 10.5 hours - and the inclusion of eBuddy instant messaging software.
The 110 and 111 will retail for around €35 (£28), while the 112 will cost €38 (£30). It'll be out in Q3; the 110 and 111 will be out later this quarter. ®


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Tulsa trails...
Building trails that provide connectivity is certainly a laudable goal. But as always, the devil is in the details. There are a host of questions:
- Where does the right-of-way come from? Most schools have residential housing adjacent. Whose homes will be demolished to make right of way? Think about the elementary and middle schools in your area. Would it be possible to build a trail system that accessed those schools?
- Assuming the right of way can be found, how do you fund the construction? Trails cost roughly $1 million per mile. Should it come out of the school's budget, or is it more the sphere of public works or parks? Does it involve city,state, county, tribal, or federal land? Each entity has to sign off on the plan.
- Who will maintain the trail, or more directly, whose budget will pay for it?
If you're beginning to get the idea that planning and building a trail network involves a multitude of questions, compromises, competing interests, and protracted bureaucratic infighting, you begin to understand why they're difficult to bring into existence. A trail idea will not meet with universal acclaim. Quite the contrary, in fact. The NIMBYs, naysayers, and simple obstructionists show up at every public meeting. They can be quite vocal, and more importantly from the political classes point of view, they vote.
But that's just the political and planning end. Even if you have a trail system, parents have to permit their children to use it. Given the "stranger danger" paranoia that infects so many parents, can we really expect them to let their kids ride a bicycle to school? It would be pleasant to think that one or more parents would ride with them, but the days of Ozzie and Harriet are long gone. If I recall right, less than 20% of families have a stay-at-home Mom. Chances are, both parents are hustling off to work. There isn't time to ride a bike.
Before anyone brings up the idea of bikelanes that service schools, or the idea of utilizing existing sidewalks for the same purpose, let's remember that bikelanes complicate intersections and traffic interactions for adults. Children would have a much harder time negotiating such intersections. And sidewalks offer another level of complication as kids don't obey stop signs and motorists simply don't look for cyclists on the sidewalk. The crash rate is 3 times higher than it is on the street.
I attended an INCOG planning meeting some time ago when they made the initial proposal for the trail network in their service area. One of the planners said the typical timeline is 10 years from concept to completion. And that's true if there are no major complications. Tulsa's trail network is nearing completion, and despite it's wide-spread nature, it doesn't allow full connectivity in that it doesn't fully connect neighborhoods with schools, parks, businesses and shopping. You have to ride on the street to reach many destinations. That will always be true. However, the on-street bicycle route network complements the trail system by using lightly traveled neighborhood streets.
But think again about what I said about stranger danger. Do parents allow their children to use the existing trails and bike routes to reach their schools? Has anyone ever done a count of students biking to and from school on a regular basis? I think that would be interesting information to have before tying to launch a construction project.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A 3-year-old Olathe, Kan., girl is ready to return to a Springfield animal park, where her close encounter with a camel brought her family national attention.
Aliyah Inzer was visiting the Wild Animal Safari near Springfield recently with her parents, Tyler and Marcie Inzer, and her baby sister. People feed the animals as they drive through the park, and Aliyah was sitting on her dad's lap handing out treats.
One camel, not satisfied with the treats he got, stuck his head completely into the family's car and briefly put his mouth on Aliyah's head.
The parents reacted quickly, with Tyler Inzer pushing the camel away from his daughter, KCTV5 reported.
Aliyah thought it was funny and started giggling and the parents played along to keep her calm.
When the ornery camel decided to try to squeeze into the car and get all the way into the passenger seat where Marcie Inzer was sitting the family drove away.
"Then he started chasing the car, which got us laughing even more," Marcie Inzer said Monday. "After we got past the camel, we checked her out, and she was fine and laughing."
The little girl wishes she could have brought the camel home. And she says she wants to go back to the animal park.
"He was soft, and he was slimy," Aliyah said. "He bit my head, and he pushed my head. He also came with us in the car. It was funny! Daddy said, `Oh my gosh!"'
The family uploaded their "Bad Camel" video to YouTube, where it went viral and was highlighted on national news shows Monday.
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Not sure whether its helpful or not. The only thing I can think of which might cause it is a failure of local DNS services.
Can you try setting up the share again, but using the IP address of your PC instead of its name?
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GeordieJedi wrote:Thanks Paulm
As an aside, is it possible to SSH into a/my NAS as a standard user ?
I can SSH in as either Admin (an admin user, that's not root itself)
and as root proper.
The reason being is, i'd like to know the user ID of my standard user account on my NAS.
(And I currently can't login as my standard NAS user account via SSH. I'm certain that I'm using the right credentials).
mount | grep nfs
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
sudo mount /mnt/video_share/video
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting Hoth:/volume1/video
ls -l /mnt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 6 21:47 music_share
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 6 21:47 photo_share
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 6 21:47 video_share
127.0.x.x localhost
192.168.x.x Hoth
192.168.x.x Yavin
192.168.x.x stardestroyer
# hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
192.168.x.x Yavin
192.168.x.x stardestroyer
/volume1/video stardestroyer(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,anonuid=0,anongid=0) Yavin(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,anonuid=0,anongid=0)
/volume1/photo stardestroyer(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,anonuid=0,anongid=0) Yavin(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,anonuid=0,anongid=0
/volume1/music stardestroyer(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,anonuid=0,anongid=0) Yavin(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,anonuid=0,anongid=0)
/volume1/homes stardestroyer(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,anonuid=0,anongid=0)
sudo mount /mnt/video_share/video
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting Hoth:/volume1/video
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Saints Row 3 -- excuse me, Saints Row: The Third -- will let you toy with its character creator before the game hits this holiday season. Publisher THQ and developer Volition announced the Saints Row Initiation Station, to be released on the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
With the Initiation Station, you can create your best fashion disaster and share it with friends. Plus, you can download other peoples' characters and tweak them, or collaborate on a co-op set. THQ was about as vague as vague can be on a release window for the Initiation Station, so just expect it sometime before Saints Row hits.
If you pre-order Red Faction: Armageddon, you'll get early access to the character creator before it hits the rest of the unwashed masses. Current pre-orders count as well, so if you happen to be a fan of ridiculous outfits and wanton property damage: score.


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It's that time of year again for all the Top Ten lists of movies you never saw, music you never heard, TV shows you never watched and books you never read.
Not that you didn't try. You wanted to see that must-see movie all the critics were talking about at Sundance and Cannes but, like the rest of the movies on their Top Ten list, it never came to your town. Now you can't remember what it was called, just that it sounded wonderful. But you also remember that, three years ago, you went to a movie that was at the top of everyone's Top Ten list and you hated it. Why didn't anyone mention that it was in Dutch with English subtitles?
There were some movies you wanted to see this year but they only stayed at the mall for one week and that was the same week Sally at work was sick and you had to fill in for her. Oddly enough, she saw it. Where does she find the time?
Then there were all the movies that opened Thanksgiving Day. Why didn't you go? Oh yeah, you were busy that week cleaning the house and getting the extra bedrooms ready and shopping for stuffing and preparing a Thanksgiving meal and then cleaning up the mess afterwards -- while everyone else went to the movies. Everybody went on Thanksgiving night because the next day was Black Friday and they wanted to shop, not see a movie. Then you got so busy with Christmas cards and making cookies that you still haven't seen any of the new films. You won't be able to go Christmas Day, either, because you'll be on the road to Grandma's house and that thing you ordered for Bob never came in the mail so you've got to get that straightened out, but you kids, you go see something. The kids have got plenty of time to go to movies. They aren't spending any of their free time studying, that's for sure. They act like it's hard to maintain a grade point average of .02. That's worth $50,000 a year. Why is it that when you send kids off to college, they come back stupider than when they left? You wouldn't think it was possible.
You didn't get a chance to hear any of this year's Top Ten songs, either. When you turn on the radio in the car, they never tell you what song you're listening to. You'd really like to know so you'll know what song it is that you're hating. You're just now starting to like stuff that was on 1997's Top Ten list. All the new stuff sounds awful until you've heard it about 50 times. By the time you start to like it, it's an oldie and no one plays it on the radio anymore. So gradually you go back to listening to stuff that was popular when you were in high school. You know you're officially out of touch when you go to the wedding of two 20-somethings and you've never heard any of the songs they're dancing to at the reception.
The Top Ten Books of the Year? Do you know what it means if you sell a million books in the U.S. of A.? It means 309 million people didn't buy it. And very, very few people sell a million books. So making a Top Ten List of Books is like making a Top Ten List of Edible Worms. What's strange is that most small children love books. But when they get to school, we teach them that reading is boring by making them read Shakespeare and Dickens, when we should be "making" them read the Harry Potter and Hunger Games books.
Since there is absolutely nothing that can't be turned into a Top Ten list -- Top Ten Back-of-the-Airplane-Seat Magazines, Top Ten Shepherds, Top Ten Roadkill Recipes -- you may wonder why there are so many of them. It's so we can go to the office party early. Ours is one of the Top Ten in our building.


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we are having a problem at work with one of our millers melting nozzles we have several of the same feeders we are melting the nozzles just after a couple passes can someone please help with with trying to figure this out
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Originally posted by cruizer View PostGoing to say, that your tips are NOT recessesed in the nozzle at least 1/8". This makes for some unwanted heat, and a few other thingsBob Wright
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What brand and model of MIG gun???
is it maybe a different brand or model than the other ones that are not having this problem??
different settings??
the guns that use a TWECO style contact tips have a tremendous selection of tips....
getting the 1/8 inch recess with all that selection is easy...
Pretty good selection for the Miller "Fastip" style as well
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Isn't that what is called "burnback". If so, it could be caused by wrong voltage and/or wire speed setting. It could also be the wrong gauge wire, perhaps too light for the metal being welded.
I had trouble with burning nozzles and sticking tips to the wire until I learned the proper settings on my MM252.Miller Syncrowave 200
Milermatic 252
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What are you using for a Welder.
I have had this problem a few times using a xmt 350 with a 8 rc feeder. two or three times it was someone messing with my programs. But one time It was the feeder. board went bad and called for max heat intermittently. One other time I had a short in the 14 pin cable causing wide open voltage. melting the tip half way back in the barrel.
I suggest hooking up the feeder to a different rectifier. and see what happens. if the feeder does the same thing. change the control cable.
Originally posted by aametalmaster View PostYup. The first thing i do at work with a new tip is grab the whiz wheel and knock off a good 1/8". I wish Miller made shorter tips or longer nozzles...Bob
I've been checking and there are longer nozzles available:
169-724 Orifice = 1/2", Length = 2-5/8"
169-725 Orifice = 5/8", Length = 2-5/8
I am wondering what the advantages would be to the 1/8" recessed tip and a 5/8" orifice versus the 1/2" orifice.
My torch works nicely now, but I would like to try these other nozzles if there is any benefit to a change.
Thanks in advance for comments.Miller Syncrowave 200
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Since you say you are running the same feeders on a few machines, then try swapping the whip that is burning nozzles with another whip on a good machine. I've had this problem before when the ceramic core in the whip got damaged and wouldn't pull the heat from the nozzle. By switching whips you will know if that is the culprit.Miller syncrowave 200 runner with coolmate 4
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Men's lacrosse raises awareness for blood cancer research
The Hamilton College men's lacrosse team raised more than $4,200 during November for the HEADstrong Foundation to support blood cancer research.
Hamilton men's lacrosse, led by the efforts of Matt Hill '13, raised the fourth-highest dollar amount of the 113 teams that participated in the fundraiser. Donations came primarily from family and friends of the lacrosse program.
Collectively, 422 players from around the world raised more than $100,000 during November for HEADstrong. The money is allocated to help families affected by the disease, improve the quality of life for patients and help fund research for a cure.
The HEADstrong Foundation was established after the 2006 death of former Hofstra University lacrosse and football player, Nick Colleluori. The foundation has inspired the lacrosse community to raise awareness of blood cancer through lacrosse-related events.
The most prominent event is dubbed "Lacrosse Mustache Madness," in which players participating in the fundraiser agree to grow out their mustaches during November. Since its inception in 2009, Lacrosse Mustache Madness has successfully generated more than $300,000.


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University of Central Missouri
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Warrensburg, MO 64093
Phone: 660-543-4640
Fax: 660-543-4943
Contact: Mike Greife
WARRENSBURG, MO (April 27, 2009) – In keeping with a commitment to the sustainability of the environment and available resources, UCM has embarked on an unprecedented 24-month, $36.1 million project that will radically reduce energy consumption and the university's carbon footprint on the Warrensburg, Mo., campus, while making a significant improvement to the academic learning environment.
Signing Ceremony Celebrates Project Kickoff
The university will kick off the project Friday, May 1, with a signing ceremony at 1:30 p.m. in the atrium of the Ward Edwards Building on the Warrensburg campus. Key partners joining university officials in the signing ceremony and celebration include Arah Schuur, director of energy efficiency building retrofit program for the Clinton Climate Initiative; John W. Conover IV, president of the Trane commercial systems business in the Americas; Dennis Strait, principal for Gould Evans Architects; John Gould, leasing credit products executive for Bank of America; Santanu Nath and Scott Bayless of S&S Engineering; along with local and state government officials and community leaders.
Trane Named to Lead Project
Following an investment grade audit of campus facilities to identify conservation measures, the university's board in April 2009 approved a $36.1 million energy performance contract with Trane of Piscataway, N.J., to guide the renovation and upgrade of campus buildings with any eye toward significant energy savings while providing a vastly improved learning and working environment across the campus.
Key elements of the upgrades include the installation of renewable energy-efficient HVAC systems, new hot water distribution systems, installation of more energy-efficient lighting, installation of campus-wide building automation, life safety measures, laboratory air systems and controls, green technologies for curriculum utilization and campus green awareness, replacement of roofs and windows on various buildings, improved air handling systems and acoustical improvements for the classroom and office spaces.
Roberts Leads Campus Team Effort
The sustainability initiative is the result of the efforts of Betty Roberts, vice president for administration and finance, and her staff in a concentrated team effort to develop a comprehensive approach toward more efficient energy usage and a much improved work environment.
Banc of American Public Capital Corp. Provides Financing
Financing for the project will be provided through a 15-year lease-purchase through Banc of America Public Capital Corp., a subsidiary of Bank of America. The lease-purchase agreement will provide financing for all costs associated with the construction, installation of equipment and labor.
Part of Long Term Commitment to Sustainability
The energy services contract (ESCO) initiative is part of a commitment made by UCM President Aaron Podolefsky when he became a charter signatory of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment in 2007. He established the UCM President's Commission on Sustainability to focus on campus-wide efforts to increase sustainability through recycling, waste management, transportation, utilities and energy, planning and funding, and curriculum and education.
An Improved Campus Environment
"The ESCO initiative brings us all together as stewards of the resources we have," Podolefsky said. "It's an exciting time for UCM as we begin work to improve the quality of the environment for our students, faculty and staff."
Missouri Legislation Makes Project Possible
Roberts cited the significance of the initial legislation that made the ESCO project possible.
"In 1997 the state of Missouri made it possible for state agencies to contract with energy services companies to identify and enact significant energy savings measures," Roberts said. "That foresight has provided us with the tools to make much-needed improvements to campus facilities at a long-term cost that is significantly less than if we financed through traditional methods."
"I commend the University of Central Missouri for undertaking this comprehensive approach to increasing its long-term energy efficiency," said Linda Crothers, president of Banc of America Public Capital Corp. "We are pleased to provide financing for this and other public and private sector projects so our clients can save energy and reduce their carbon footprints. These efforts are part of Bank of America's 10-year, $20 billion environmental initiative to address climate change."
Trane, a business of Ingersoll Rand, improves the performance of homes and buildings around the world. Trane solutions optimize indoor environments with a broad portfolio of energy efficient heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, building and contracting services, parts support and advanced controls for homes and commercial buildings. The company made a commitment to work with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation, on large-scale retrofitting projects.
Clinton Climate Initiative Offers International Leadership
The William J. Clinton Foundation launched the Clinton Climate Initiative in 2006 to create and advance solutions to the core issues driving climate change. Working with governments and businesses around the world to tailor local solutions that are economically and environmentally sustainable, CCI focuses on three strategic program areas: increasing energy efficiency in cities, catalyzing the large-scale supply of clean energy, and working to measure and value the carbon absorbed by forests.
The Clinton Climate Initiative is supporting signatories of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commission to retrofit college and university campuses across the country for significant energy and carbon savings.