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Yesterday, March 1, 2013, marked the end of the 2013 KSP riders application period. Application is now closed for all riders aspiring to compete on the 2013 wave world championship tour. A total of 67 male and 26 female athletes submitted their applications (including tour and single event submissions). The evaluation and selection process in accordance with the qualification system released on February 2nd will start immediately.
According to the qualification system the top 10 male riders (Keahi DeAboitiz, Mitu Monteiro, Airton Cozzolino, Patri McLaughlin, Guilly Brandao, Sebastian Ribeiro, Luke McGillewie and Filippe Ferreira) and top 5 female riders (Jalou Langeree, Ines Correia, Ninja Bichler, Milla Ferreira and Kirsty Jones) of the 2012 KSP world ranking will be contacted by the KSP and offered this year's tour license. Each of these riders will have until March 15th to accept their tour license.
All other applicants will be awaiting the official announcement of the IKA, which will unveil the list of riders to receive the highly coveted spots on this year's KSP world championship tour, joining the pre-qualified top seeds. A full list of male riders that have applied for a tour license reads as follows: Marciel Matchu Almeida, Luis Matias Almeida Brito, Johnny Berger, Ralph Boelen, Bastien Bollard, Guilly Brandao, Lionel Caputo, Ryan Coote, Sebastian Diego Correia Ribeiro, Airton Cozzolino, Keahi de Aboitiz, Matthew Elsasser, Etienne Lhote, Diogo Fernandes, Filippe Ferreira, Enrico Giordano, Gonçalo Gomes, Pedro Henrique, George Ide, Abel Lago, Kevin Langeree, Dimitri Lemoine, Luke McGillewie, Patri McLaughlin, Oteniel Jorge Mitu Monteiro, Mark Moore, Sergey Mysovskiy, Maurício Pedreira, Cruser Putnam, Ran Rave, Jose Nascimento Silva, Skyler Solbach, João Stopani
A full list of female riders that have applied for a tour license read as follows: Kalia Aguera, Ninja Bichler, Kristin Boese, Carol Bolstad, Isa Cohen, Inês Correia, Milla Ferreira, Melissa Gil, Adriana Harlan, Kirsty Jones, Suzanne Kuiper, Jalou Langeree, Erika Lindberg, Lilian Malschaert, Marie Gautron, Marina Marselli, Thalita Pinheiro Da Silva, Kari Schibevaag, Moona Whyte
Male riders that have applied to participate in one or more single events include: Wesley Anderson, Chris Armitage, Grant Baker, Bastien Bollard, Tiago Candelot, Brandon Cordina, Olivier Coubrun, Todd Davis, Stephan de Figueiredo, Paulo Diaz, Sean Facey, Diogo Paes Fernandes, Damien Girardin, Colin Heckroodt, Ewan Hill, Guillermo Jimenez Muñoz, Top Hat Kevin Senn, William King, Raoni Lemos, Kai Lenny, Jon Modica, Aarón Navares, Josh Nehf, Juan Pablo Padilla, Paulino Pereira, Cruser Putnam, Patrick Rebstock, Philippe Renauldon, Jesse Richman, Borja Rodríguez Garfias, Julio Roig López, Brian Smith, Andrea Tringale, Juan José Vázquez Faza, Ian Warner, Frederick Zamora
Female riders that have applied to participate in one or more single events include:Kalia Aguera, Michel Blinkhorn, Kristin Boese, Carol Bolstad, Dominique Granger, Simone Klug, Erika Lindberg, Lilian Malschaert,Marina Marselli, Almudena Naranjo, Michelle Smith, Alma Suárez Zamora, Glennel Warren, Moona Whyte


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Saturday, February 5, 2011
How to Use Up Milk
Seriously, why would you pass up the chance to buy milk at less than 1/2 price? Beautiful, organic milk for less than the cost of your standard non-organic varieities?
I'll bet you're nervous about it. What if something's wrong with it? What if I buy it, and end up throwing it out anyway?
Yes, well those are all fair thoughts. But I've got some ideas for you, so you can go right ahead stock up and make use of marked-down milk.
(You can also use these tips for any close-to-date milk you have at home. I know you hate wasting it ... )
Some grocery stores will mark down milk products as they approach their use-by dates. This means, basically, that you'll only have a few days to use it up. But that's not really a problem, if you have some handy recipes up your sleeve.
1. I love to make it into yogurt!
2. You can also put some into the freezer (for when you get home from a week's holiday).
3. Make your own ricotta, to use in lasagne or dessert or whatever you like to use ricotta for ....
4. Make recipes that use up a lot of milk! Some of my favourites are:
- Rice pudding - for dessert or breakfast - uses 3 c of milk
- Smoothies - use 1 1/2 c of milk
- Mac and cheese soup - uses 4 c of milk
- Ice cream - uses 2 1/2 c of milk
- Hot chocolate or popcicles - uses 1 1/4 c of milk
- Citrus cakes or cornbread or waffles or muffins or chocolate bread - use 1 or more c of milk
5. Make a natural mildew-repellant for your garden
Just add equal portions of milk + water and spray onto plants affected by mildew. (We get alot of this in humid Brisbane ... ) Repeat every few days!
6. Make a skin cleanser
Using a cottonball, gently wipe milk over your face to remove dirt and makeup. You don't even have to rinse if you don't want to.
Have any other good ideas for using up milk? Please share them in the comments section below!
PS. I get most of my marked-down organic milk here!
Amanda xx
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Sorry! I've been having trouble with my comments forms ... if you've written a comment and don't see it - I'm trying to find them again :)
- February 13, 2011 at 5:37 AM
Great ideas! Most times when I buy milk it just goes into cereal or baking and I try to eat up more and more as the "use by" date fast approaches... Never even thought I could use it in so many ways! Thanks for the tips!
- February 13, 2011 at 6:01 AM
Thanks so much for making me the blog of the week! I'm honored.
- February 13, 2011 at 6:01 AM
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@Laura My pleasure!
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@Ashley Ashley - Not Without Salt is *very* inspiring!
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Many children ages 6 to 10, if left to their own devices, would eat pizza 3 times a day, 7 days a week, or play video games for hours at a time. That is because they have not developed control over their drives and appetites, which can include cravings for specific foods, toys, and things, as well as for praise and attention.
Parents who set limits for their children show them that they love and care about them. The following suggestions may help you to set fair and appropriate limits for your school-age children:
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13 fascinating facts about Pat Dix:
• I'm the youngest of 32 grandchildren… on my Dad's side.
• My wife's given name is Sarah Elizabeth… my parents were convinced I was going to be a girl and had only picked out a girl's name for me… Sarah Elizabeth.
• I got into radio/TV after my basketball career stalled in High School.
• I can no longer stand to eat bananas, pudding, applesauce and jello because I ate too much of it as a kid, but I can eat the same thing for breakfast every day as an adult and not get tired of it.
• I graduated 437th of 673 people in my high school class and do not make a list of notable alumni. That list includes: President Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; actors Adam Baldwin, Ann-Margret, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Virginia Madsen, Charlotte Ross and Rainn Wilson; Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman and bassist Pete Wentz; and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
• I grew up where John Hughes shot most of his best movies… Ferris Buehler, Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Risky Business, Sixteen Candles, Home Alone, Uncle Buck.
• I have taken several dream vacations but one of the most memorable was to Scotland with my Dad and Uncle to play some of the greatest golf courses on the planet.
• I played Harold Hill in my high school production of "The Music Man" and never thought I would actually live in Iowa, and yes… I can still do the "Trouble" monologue.
• I was the second best triple jumper on my high school track team.
• I invented a drink called… "The Flaming A" by mistake.
• I've boarded a US Navy Destroyer from a rope ladder while the ship was moving.
• My favorite interview I've ever conducted was actor Hal Holbrook. I asked one question and an hour later he ended a diatribe about society with "Get real Geel!" I said thank you and turned the camera off and I still don't know what that means.
• My sons are Sons of the American Revolution (on my wife's side!), with papers and all to prove it.
You can see Patrick Dix weekday mornings on Channel 13's Today in Iowa morning show.
After attending the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he started his career reporting in chilly Duluth, Minnesota. His second job brought Patrick back south to his home state of Illinois where he anchored and reported for NBC affiliate WEEK-TV in Peoria. Patrick has been recognized for outstanding reporting with awards from The Society of Professional Journalists and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Patrick Dix joined Channel 13 News in February of 1999.
The TV news bug runs in the family. Patrick's oldest brother is the director of Chicago's WGN-TV morning news, and his grandfather spent his career in radio and television in Minneapolis and Chicago.
When he's not in the newsroom, Patrick is usually swinging a golf club. He also enjoys reading, listening to Frank Sinatra and fly-fishing. Patrick married his wife Sally in 1999 and lives in Des Moines.


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SequesTech: A Novel Process to Capture and Mineralize Flue Gas Carbon Dioxide
SequesTech: A process that directly captures flue gas carbon dioxide from the combustion process and holds it has earned a patent for the University of Wyoming.
Professor KJ Reddy, whose career in research has spanned decades, began testing a mineral carbonation process three decades ago. Through his work, he proposed a technique that uses carbon dioxide to speed up the carbon mineralization process of industrial residues.
Now, Reddy's SequesTech process has shown that elements of flue gas, which include carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury, can be simultaneously captured and turned into solid minerals without having to separate them from the flue gas. The process captures and holds carbon dioxide and other components of flue gas as an alternative to geologic storage, in which carbon dioxide is injected into pore spaces in underground geologic formations.
Many industrial processes produce flue gas, including those for cement plants, paper mills, steel plants and oil shale incinerators as well as municipal and medical solid waste incinerators. All release anthropogenic carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. These processes also create ash as a byproduct, Reddy says.
When Reddy's early work was published in both the Journal of Environmental Quality and the Environmental Science and Technology Journal, it laid the groundwork for mineral carbonation studies by other scientists, engineers and researchers. Mineral carbonation has been tested in the lab, but Reddy has now tested his technology in the field at the Jim Bridger Power Station at Point of Rocks, Wyo., owned by PacifiCorp.
"Because this process has a fast reaction time, we think it will have wide industrial applications," Reddy says. "All the inputs for this process are at the plant, so the process can be completed on-site."
Prior research by Reddy and others showed that separating the carbon dioxide from flue gas for mineralization has limitations because of the work involved in separation, transport and preparation for mineralization.
Reddy and his team pioneered the process of capturing carbon dioxide directly from flue gas. This specific project shows that significant amounts of flue gas carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury can be directly captured and mineralized by the fly ash particles under field conditions. The pilot-scale study shows this process to be cost effective with a minimum carbon footprint and can be retrofitted to existing coal-fired power plants or installed in new power plants as a post-combustion unit requiring very little of the plants generated electricity to run the process.
The project required the cooperation and collaboration of a wide range of team members. The team at the Bridger power plant consists of Arambel; Paul Fahlsing, director, plant operations; Jim Sedey, engineering manager; Roger Warner, maintenance planner; and Ryan Taucher, environmental analyst.
Reddy leads the UW team. The other members are Morris Argyle, adjunct chemical engineering professor; Michael Urynowicz and Jennifer Tanner, civil engineering professors; and Brandon Reynolds, research scientist from the UW Department of Renewable Resources. David Taylor, professor of agricultural economics and research scientist Thomas Foulke conducted the economic analysis of the process. The team has also included former graduate students Viswatej Attili, Hollis Weber and Mikol Christensen.
"This process has great advantages and complements conventional carbon capture and sequestration technologies by minimizing the cost," Bill Gern, UW vice president for research and economic development, says. "SequesTech holds immense promise in capturing and mineralizing flue gas carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury. It is the most inexpensive technology we know of to capture flue gas carbon dioxide."
To learn more about this novel technology email Reddy at firstname.lastname@example.com . Companies that would like to apply it for commercial situations should email Davona Douglass, director, UW Research Product Center, at firstname.lastname@example.com .


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The History of Kiss' Debut Album
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and for Kiss, the journey to worldwide superstardom began with a single LP: Kiss, which was released on Feb. 18, 1974.
Recorded during a brief burst of studio time in the fall of 1973, Kiss served as the culmination of a master plan hatched by co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, who walked away from their previous band, Wicked Lester, believing that a more aggressive sound — and distinctive image — would take them to the next level.
"The band that first knocked me out was the Beatles," Simmons told Melody Maker in 1975. "Up until then, one wasn't aware of the visual presence a group could have. Each had the same haircut, dressed the same, and if you saw one of them walking down the street, you knew that he belonged to that group. And that concept knocked me out, especially the fact that there was no frontman and each member was a quarter of the whole."
To make their sound whole, Simmons and Stanley hooked up with drummer Peter Criss and guitarist Ace Frehley, each member adopting a Noh-style makeup mask as part of what would quickly become one of the most distinctive visual experiences in rock 'n' roll — and a progressively more theatrical stage show that included fire-breathing, fake blood, and lots and lots of volume.
The makeup added a nifty visual hook for the young band, but it also distracted from the music. "We've often been accused of being pretentious, but in actuality our concept of what we're doing is an effort to shy away from pretentiousness," Stanley argued in the Melody Maker interview. "The thing we do is very surface, for there are no built in subtleties in our music or what we do on stage. We feel our whole image is based on the use of imagination."
Continued Stanley, "There's nothing negative about our show. Just go to a concert and see the kids dance in the aisles, singing along with us. We are, in essence, with the audience for we feel we represent the looseness that everybody can identify with. When people look at us they say, 'That's what's inside me,' they understand that's not what they look like, but rather what they feel like."
When asked by Trouser Press why the band why they wore makeup and "acted like that" onstage, Simmons was more direct. "Why?" Simmons sneered. "Did you see those kids out there? They loved us. They ate it up. We're giving them exactly what they want."
If some were slow to understand the source of Kiss' appeal, Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart served as the early advocate the band needed. Looking to get his new label off the ground after a long and distinguished career that saw him signing a list of classic acts that included Curtis Mayfield and the Isley Brothers, Bogart immediately heard something special in Kiss.
"I've never been into hard rock until recently. But I can honestly say that Kiss is the first band that I've devoted myself 100 percent to," he told Melody Maker. "In fact, they're everything I've been looking for in a rock band. Their visual show that features a drum set that levitates six feet in the air, a lead singer who blows fire out of his mouth, and their wonderful use of makeup is just a shatteringly satisfying experience. Even more important, is the fact that they're probably one of the best rock 'n' roll bands I've ever heard in my life."
Eventually, millions would come to share Bogart's belief, but initially, it was somewhat slow going for Kiss — and for Kiss, which rose no higher than No. 87 on the Billboard album charts despite including a stack of future classics like "Strutter," "Nothin' to Lose," "Cold Gin" and "Black Diamond." Additionally, Bogart faced stiff resistance at Casablanca's corporate parent, Warner Bros., which was compounded by the label's inability to get the band added at rock radio, as well as the slim (or nonexistent) profit margin on their live shows, which ultimately proved crucial to their long-term success.
In an effort to jump-start sales, Casablanca sent Kiss back into the studio to record a new song, a cover of Bobby Rydell's "Kissin' Time," that was appended to the original track listing and released as a single. The gambit didn't work — "Kissin' Time" peaked at No. 83 — but it didn't slow down the band; they returned with their second LP (Hotter Than Hell) in Oct. 1974 and followed it up with Dressed to Kill in March of 1975. None were hugely successful, but they all set the stage for Kiss' big breakthrough: the concert recording Alive!, released in Sept. 1975.
By the end of the decade, Kiss was big business — but in a 1977 interview with Circus, Simmons stressed that they still held the creative reins of an enterprise that, underneath all that makeup, depended more on musical chemistry than anything else. "We design our own show, we write our own songs. It's a blow to our creative egos to read otherwise," he explained. "People ask, 'Who came up with the idea? Who designed your makeup and costumes? Who told you what to look like?' Because we've been so successful, people assume there's something incredible behind the scenes. But Kiss still is, and always has been, Kiss. That's where it begins and ends. Without the four of us, there's nothing."
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Behind the Pay Gap
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Using nationally representative data, Behind the Pay Gap (2007) looks at what men and women are paid one year and ten years after college graduation. Just one year out of college, women working full time are already paid less than their male colleagues, even when they work in the same field. Ten years after graduation, the pay gap widens. Since its release, Behind the Pay Gap has been cited hundreds of times in print media stories, on television, on radio, and online.


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Tropical Storm Karen formed in the southeast Gulf of Mexico Thursday and was expected to approach the northern Gulf Coast on Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
As of 11 p.m., the storm was 340 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph. It was moving north-northwest at 10 mph.
A hurricane watch was in effect from Grand Isle, Louisiana, to west of Destin, Florida, while a tropical storm watch was in effect from Destin to Indian Pass, Florida, the National Hurricane Center said.
A tropical storm watch was also in effect from west of Grand Isle to east of Morgan City, Louisiana, as well as in metropolitan New Orleans, Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in 18 Florida counties. Though the federal government is partially shut down, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said that resources would be available for Tropical Storm Karen, Scott said.
"Our number one priority is the safety of our citizens. We will not let the government shutdown in Washington in any way hurt our emergency response efforts in Florida," Scott said in a statement. "I spoke to FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate this evening and got his personal assurance that no federal resource would be denied in response to Tropical Storm Karen, despite the ongoing federal shutdown."
A tropical storm warning was in effect for southeastern Louisiana from Grand Isle to the mouth of the Pearl River.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency for the storm.
"The position of the storm is increasing deep tropical moisture and spreading it to central Florida," said National Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen.
He added that is a "better than average chance of thunderstorms," for South Florida. But that the Panhandle will be impacted more with possible tropical storm weather Friday and Saturday.
Karen is expected to strengthen and could be at or near hurricane strength late Friday and early Saturday. The storm is expected to turn toward the north on Friday with a gradual turn to the northeast on Saturday.
Karen's center is expected to be near the coast within the tropical storm warning area on Saturday.
Karen is the 11th named storm of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season.
Meanwhile, what was Tropical Depression Jerry became a remnant low over the Atlantic Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said.
As of 5 p.m., Jerry had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph. It was located about 790 miles west-southwest of the Azores and was moving east-northeast at 14 mph, the hurricane center said in its last advisory on the system.
Jerry no longer had sufficient organized shower and thunderstorm activity to qualify as a tropical cyclone and had become a post-tropical cyclone, the hurricane center said. It was expected to dissipate in a couple of days.
There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect.
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The Library and Archives Canada has issued a another podcast, and this one concerns the First World War Service Papers in Sign Me Up: CEF Files, 1914-1918. These papers are being digitized and are being put online.
I listened to the podcasts, and although nothing new was mentioned in the podcasts, I feel that there will be questions that will still be asked about the papers. The researcher will have to study the various papers in detail in order to reconstruct the life of the soldier. For example, if the soldier was in the Canadian militia before signing the Attestation Paper, what militia unit was it, where were they located, what was his service, or if he served in different regiments while overseas (which many did), why was this so? Who did he serve with, his time of service, in what battles was he involved, and so forth.
I had the occasion to download a complete service record a couple of weeks ago, and depending on the length of the records, it can be a rather long process from start to finish. Some of the records were difficult to read because of the use of abbreviations, and the faded ink, but some of the papers were very clear.
I think the best thing to do before one starts to read the service papers is to read the book, Canadians at War 1914-1919: A Research Guide to World War One Service Records, by retired Library and Archives Canada archivist, Glenn Wright.
This book, although it was written in 2010, is still THE book to read when researching CEF papers. If you read and study this book, you will have a good understanding of the records that you are viewing.
The book is for sale through Global Genealogy at http://globalgenealogy.com/countries/canada/military/resources/101160.htm
Don't forget to scroll down this page and see the book review I wrote for Families, the journal of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) http://www.ogs.on.ca, of which I am its editor.
Although the review was published four years ago, my opinion of his book has not wavered, and, in fact, the more I use it for research, the more invaluable I find it as a resource.
A table of contents of the book is available as a PDF file here - http://globalgenealogy.com/countries/canada/military/resources/images/101160-contents.pdf
For more on this blog, go to http://genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-list-of-books-for-holidays.html
To listen to the podcast, go to http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/podcasts/Pages/cef-files-1914-1918.aspx


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Hamburger wrote:how to attach wires to blueseries 12A ESCs? Those have no pads and I cannot solder to the tqfp atmega8 pins directly (no appropriate tools and insufficient eyesight even with mag-glasses). I had hopes something like a socket type thing would exist that could be used - but came up empty.
#define TIMING_ADV 0|1|2|3
LenzGr wrote:This page on the OpenPilot Wiki lists a number of possible approaches. I like the one where they used modeling clay
ziss_dm wrote:I have committed small change which allows you to adjust timing advance..
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#define TIMING_ADV 0|1|2|3
I think, slightly increasing timing you can regain power loss, but probably in expense of efficiency.
can i somehow limit the range 1100-1700us instead of 1100-1900us?
Hamburger wrote:I am far from being an expert on this topic, but to me the fets appear to be all same, so I'd say nfet only.
Do you know this list of ESCs https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... ZRlE#gid=0 ?
It is not complete, especially about P/N and N-only variants, but may be helpful.
Hamburger wrote:dunno.
Mystery20A_nFET seems like a good start. It definitely is for an all N-FET type. With the list for the SimonK firmware, having or not having a crystal seems to make a difference. The Mystery20A_nFET do have a crystal.
But I do not know, better ask the man.
crashlander wrote:Yep!
You were right it works with Mystery20A_nFET.
Hamburger wrote:....
- from flashed ESC
- the stock ESC?
It is not recommended to use this option with ArduinoPWM input method (or should carefully be tested on the ground) because this method has low tolerance margins and the overclocked RC generator working on 16Mhz has significant variations. The usual symptoms are:
•Esc not arming.
•Stops at full throttle (it is hard to diagnose with MWC as it reserves some throttle, it is better to use simple arduino sketch to test it).
Also over clocked RC oscillator has lower thermal stability.
(yes|no) – On boards without external crystal, the internal clock source (8 MHz) must be used. Due to manufacturing tolerances, it's possible to calibrate it with an external program (e.g. PonyProg?). The calibration value is stored in the EEPROM and can be used by this firmware. It should be disabled on boards with external resonator or when OVERCLOCK is defined.
Hamburger wrote:update on the Plush 10A: done. It works. (I had one motor stop in mid air exactly once, but could not yet reproduce.)
Is it just me or is the whining noise from wii-esc @ 8MHz worse than with original firmware (which runs @ 8MHz as well, afaik) ?
Gaijin wrote:I built a simple ESC flashing tool (for ESC's with pads e.g HK SS30A AND 20A, Hobbyking F-20A) from a 2x3 pin header plug, the pins from servo connectors and a UsbAsp programmer, no need to clamp as it's so quick
However I've found the quad to be overshooting/ hunting and somewhat unstable with re-flashed high performance esc's (otherwise the same combination flown before), can someone suggest a more suitable default set of PID's to start tuning from, i haven't really mastered PID tuning yet
Kv: 1050rpm/v
Operating Current: 4A ~ 12A
Peak Current: 15A
Suggested prop: 9x4.7
Weight: 46g
Dimensions: 27.6 x 28mm
Yes, I did read about creating the hex file. But have problems with it. So, which files I need and so on.
Hamburger wrote:Andrej,
Do you have a number for the actual max. current your motors draw?
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Office Systems and Procedures
by E. WILLIAM SEVETSON Consultant, Management Advisory Services, Chicago Office
Presented before LeTourneau-Westinghouse Company Distributors'
Financial Representatives, Peoria, Illinois—November 1965
IN ORDER to place the subject of Office Systems and Procedures in proper perspective, it is desirable first to spend a few moments defining
the term. Dropping the "Office" modifying word, Systems and Procedures
might be broadly defined as the corporate policies, procedures, forms, and equipment necessary to conduct a business. It would be a mistake to limit this discussion to the office per se, since we should be concerned with all paper work and paper-work processing wherever it exists throughout the organization.
Thus, we are talking about all the various activities that include paper work and the carrying out of management policies. They include time reporting and payroll, inventory control, budgeting and cost accounting,
order entry and invoicing, accounts receivable and payable, purchasing and receiving, and management control reporting. The approach
to these activities that follows is directed to the small and medium-sized office with 10 to 15 clerical employees, since this is the type of operation of most interest to your group.
Why is this subject on the program today? First, the number of persons engaged in handling paper work is constantly increasing and the cost of performing this work therefore represents a larger and larger share of the cost of doing business. In order to stay competitive, these costs need to be reviewed and controlled. Second, also because of competition,
more information—timely and valid—is necessary for effective decision-making—a requirement also arising from competitive considerations.
Thus, for businessmen such as yourselves a first duty is to make a periodic self-appraisal of the systems and procedures in force in your operations.
How can these objectives be accomplished in your particular operation?
How should you proceed to make a review of your present operations? These are the questions I shall try to answer in the course of the discussion.
The basic systems and procedures tools are (1) forms design and control and (2) written policies and procedures.
Any systems effort starts with the design and use of proper forms. To ensure that each form is readily understandable, contains the right


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The rate of preterm births in the United States dropped to a 15-year low of 11.5 percent in 2012, according to a report released Friday, but the country still came in dead last among industrialized nations on this measure of infant health.
The rate reflects six straight years of declines, possibly due to factors such as a drop in smoking among women of childbearing age, said the March of Dimes, the nonprofit group that produced the report.
The improvement comes during an acrimonious, partisan debate in Congress about health insurance centered on President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law.
The Affordable Care Act requires all insurance plans to cover maternity care, spreading the cost of healthy pregnancies across society.
That provision led to a testy exchange Wednesday when Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, testified before a congressional panel and defended the provision. Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers retorted that the maternity requirement "is why health care premiums are increasing, because we are forcing (people) to buy things that they will never need."
The requirement increases premiums for a typical policy about 3 percent, calculated James O'Connor of Milliman, an actuarial firm, in an April report for the health insurance industry.
"We are the only high-income country in the world not to have everyone covered for maternity care," said Dr. Edward McCabe, medical director of the March of Dimes.
Before the ACA, "only 16 percent of plans in the individual market covered women for maternity care," McCabe said. "Requiring that coverage is a statement about our values as a society."
The rate of preterm births peaked in 2006 at 12.8 percent, as women gave birth at older ages and were more likely to carry twins, triplets and higher multiples.
The reasons for the declines are unclear, but several factors likely played a role. The percentage of women of childbearing age who smoke, a risk factor for early labor, fell from 22.5 percent in 2011 to 20.8 percent last year, said McCabe.
The percentage of women in that age group who are uninsured also dipped, from 21.9 percent to 21.3 percent, government data show.
The decrease in preterm births should make a dent in health care spending: preemies cost the United States more than $26 billion annually, according to the Institute of Medicine, or $51,600 per preterm baby in 2005.
In the first year of life, medical costs for a baby born before 37 weeks gestation are 12 times those of one born at 40 weeks, a full-term pregnancy.
Those costs continue for years. Preemies can suffer developmental delays, vision loss and cerebral palsy, leading to higher educational costs and lost wages, said McCabe.
The drop in preterm births in the United States since 2006 means that about 176,000 fewer babies were born too soon, calculates the March of Dimes, for an estimated $9 billion savings in health and societal costs.
The variation in rates of preterm births among U.S. states is almost as great as that among countries.
Vermont led the nation with just 8.7 percent of births coming before 37 weeks gestation. Alaska, California, Maine, New Hampshire and Oregon had rates of 9.6 percent or lower, the target recommended by the March of Dimes.
At least 80 countries have rates of preterm births below 9.6 percent, according to a U.N. report, "Born Too Soon," released last year. They include China, Romania, Cuba and Latvia. And every developed country has a rate of preterm births lower than that of the United States, the U.N. report showed.
"I think it's wonderful what the March of Dimes is doing with this report," said Dr. Wanda Barfield, director of reproductive health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "It's taking us to school in terms of how the U.S. is doing on preterm births: we rank 130th out of 184 countries."
The states with the highest rates of preterm birth are Mississippi (17.1 percent), Louisiana (15.3 percent) and Alabama (14.6 percent). If they were countries, they would be among the 14 worst of the 184 for which data are available, according to the U.N. report. The global average is 11.1 percent.
Rates also varied by race. Among non-Hispanic blacks, 16.5 percent of births were preterm last year, down from 18.5 percent in 2006 and the lowest in more than 20 years. Among whites, the rate was 10.5 percent.
The high U.S. rate for preterm births is often blamed on the nation's racial, ethnic and economic diversity, said McCabe, "but the California example refutes that."
California, with half a million births each year, "has an incredibly diverse population, but it set up policies and procedures to make reducing preterm births a priority," he said.


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Under new manager John McNamara, the 1985 Red Sox ended the season with a mediocre 81-81 record. During the summer, the Cape Cod Baseball League All-Stars returned to Fenway Park Fenway Park and defeated the all-star team from the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League.
Record: 81-81, 5th in American League East
Manager: John F. McNamara
Attendance: 1,786,633
Ralph Houk retired after the 1984 season and the Red Sox turned to another veteran manager, John McNamara.
In McNamara's first game at the helm, Oil Can Boyd beat New York's 46-year-old Phil Niekro at Fenway Park, 9-2. With a 15-13 record in 1985, Can was the only Boston pitcher to reach double digits in the win column and have a winning record. The young pitching staff had growing pains as a whole and Roger Clemens' shoulder surgery limited him to 15 games.
Wade Boggs looked like a magician with the bat again and ended the year with a team-record 240 hits, thanks in part to a 28-game hitting streak in July. Boggs also won his second batting title with a .368 average.
Though the team finished with an unspectacular 81-81 record, the year contained some memorable moments. On July 21, Marty Barrett pulled off the hidden ball trick at Fenway Park just two weeks after doing the same on the road.
On August 6, Red Sox catcher Marc Sullivan went on strike along with other players throughout baseball. The strike lasted only two days but Marc became the first baseball player to go on strike against his father, Red Sox co-owner Haywood Sullivan.
Catcher Rich Gedman hit for the cycle on September 18, with a single on an infield hit and an improbable triple down the left-field line. Gedman's feat was the fourth cycle by a Red Sox player in six seasons.
The Cape Cod League All-Stars defeated their Atlantic College League counterparts in a high-scoring affair at Fenway Park on July 15, 1985.
|1985 Non-Red Sox Baseball At Fenway Park
|July 15
|Cape Cod Baseball League 12, Atlantic College Baseball League 9*
* From 1975 to 1987, on a biennial basis, Fenway Park hosted an all-star game between the Cape Code Baseball League and the Atlantic Collegiate League. The all-star game alternated between Fenway Park and sites closer to the ACL's teams, such as Yankee Stadium and Veterans Stadium. In 1988, the Cape Cod Baseball League returned to an intra-league format for their annual all-star game and in 2009, Cape Code League All-Stars returned to Fenway Park for the Cape Cod League All-Star Game, which was played again in 2010.


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With the announcement of the 2012 primetime Emmy Award nominations a day away (it will beam live from L.A. at 6:35 a.m. MT), a set of last minute predictions is in order.
Overall, I'm hoping there's some new blood in the big categories. Not that "Mad Men" and "Modern Family" haven't been deserving multiple, consecutive winners.
Not that it wouldn't be fun to see "Mad Men" secure its fifth in a row, not that "The Amazing Race" isn't a logistical production feat… but I'm pulling for some surprises among the nominees.
My predix in the major categories:
Drama: "Homeland," "Mad Men," "Breaking Bad," "The Good Wife," "Game of Thrones," "Downton Abbey." (Note "Downton" shifts from miniseries to drama category this year.)


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When Kevin Lavelle graduated from Sarasota High School in 2004, his heart was set on studying engineering.
The star pupil would go on to study at Southern Methodist University in Texas on a full academic ride but to switch gears from engineering not long after he graduated in 2008.
Lavelle, along with two other entrepreneurs, would launch their own unique clothing line.
"I remember being in Washington, D.C., one summer at 19 years old and watching guys in suits running into buildings soaked in sweat," Lavelle said. "That's when the idea hit me."
All summer he watched as executives suffered from the relentless heat of summer in the nation's capitol. Although the idea never left him, once he returned home to Dallas, Lavelle continued with his engineering career.
Nearly eight years later, after Lavelle spent time building his r�sum� working for a management consulting firm in Dubai and an energy venture-capital group back in the United States, he revisited his idea of developing a sweat-resistant, breathable clothing line for professionals.
Mizzen+Main, a line of men's dress shirts with stretchable fabric and unique fits, was born in Dallas, Lavelle's first and current home after Sarasota.
The process was a tedious one.
"I spent nearly a year just trying to find the right kind of fabric that would work," Lavelle said.
He worked with dozens of seamstress companies, trying to find the right fabric that he needed for the collection he dreamed of making.
"I knew we needed a stretchable fabric that wouldn't wrinkle and that moves with you when you're wearing it," he said.
The idea was to find a kind of fabric that would transfer heat -- the fabric would push hot air out and bring cool air in.
Lavelle spent 15 months sifting through thousands of fabrics to find the right one. His work was all the more challenging because his name held no clout in the apparel-making industry.
"A lot of businesses wouldn't answer or call me back," he said. "Others told me I was barking up the wrong tree. It was difficult because I was searching in secret. I didn't want anyone in the industry to know what I was working on."
Although Lavelle had a great idea, he did not have any background in retail or fashion. But hard work and his persistence to build the brand eventually paid off.
"This is an industry where it really pays off to know people," Lavelle said. "We're getting there now, but it wasn't easy in the beginning."
Finding the fabric was key to making a shirt that was a breathable and that would fit a variety of body types. Having a management and engineering background, Lavelle recruited two others to help him build the brand.
Web Smith and Steven DeWitt, two young entrepreneurs, joined the founding team, bringing an expertise in marketing, branding and e-commerce to help build the Mizzen+Main brand.
The Mizzen+Main online store launched in mid-2012.
Even though Mizzen+Main products are sold in stores, Lavelle and his team believe the future of retail is in e-commerce.
The team uses an online-based cloud platform to manage accounts and expenses, which uses much less expensive software compared with bulkier point-of-sale technology used in most brick-and-mortar stores.
"Getting started online is such a seamless process," Lavelle said. "And we don't have to worry about the hassle that comes with so many other, larger programs."
Jake Thompson, also from Dallas, wears the Mizzen+Main line because he struggles to find dress shirts that fit his athletic body type.
"I'm an athletic guy, and shirts at stores like Express always cut into my chest, and my shoulders are usually too broad," Thompson said. "With the growth of fitness concepts like Crossfit, the Mizzen+Main cut makes a lot of sense."
While the price for a shirt from Mizzen+Main is double the price of a $60 button-down shirt from Express, the quality of the product is worth the extra price, Thompson said.
"I can wear a light blazer or jacket with it and still feel cool and comfortable," he said. "It's always wrinkle-free, so I'm never spending extra to dry clean the shirts like I would if I bought them at a store in the mall."
While the majority of the young company's sales comes from its online platform, Mizzen+Main also is carried in four boutique stores across the country.
Lavelle and his team are preparing to open a flagship store in the fashion-and-design district in Columbus, Ohio, by the end of the year, too.
"Columbus may not sound like much, but this city is one of the top three retail capitals in the U.S.," co-founder Web Smith said. "The Limited, Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret -- those are just a few brands that are headquartered here. Our brand will be in front of some of the brightest and most influential people there are in the retail industry."
As Mizzen+Main continues to grow, Lavelle hopes he can establish his brand back home in Florida, too.
"The shirts are perfect for the hot and humid weather in Florida," he said.
The idea is to increase the line of shirts available and even extend into the women's market one day.
In a little more than a year, the company has expanded its line from just button-down men's shirts to long-sleeve casual shirts called "Henleys." Lavelle said the company is testing a blazer prototype that, like his shirts, would be cooler to wear and wrinkle-free.
Mizzen+Main is on the radar of several luxury chain stores, too.
Lavelle has been in talks with Saks Fifth Avenue and hopes to sell Mizzen+Main products in Saks stores soon. A Neiman Marcus executive sits on its board of directors.
"We want to be the next great American brand, like Ralph Lauren or Tommy Hilfiger, that can offer products for the everyday guy, from a college student to a CEO," Lavelle said.
Sarasota High grad hits on unique clothing line
When Kevin Lavelle graduated from Sarasota High School in 2004, his heart was set on studying engineering.


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Aliya Itzkowitz and the seventh-ranked Harvard women's fencing team are looking to capture the NCAA Northeast Regional title on Sunday (Gil Talbot).
The Big Apple
The Harvard men's and women's fencing teams head to St. John's University in Queens, N.Y., Sunday, March 10, to compete in the 2013 NCAA Northeast Regional with bids to the NCAA Championship on the line. The competition will be held in Carnesecca Arena and Taffner Field House. The Crimson hopes to duplicate the success of a year ago where three fencers captured gold, six medaled and the maximum number of fencers (12) moved on to nationals.
ESPN3 will begin streaming the event at 3:30 p.m. with highlights of the women's saber, women's epee and men's foil. The women's foil, men's epee and men's saber will be shown live in its entirety. Sid Farooqui will be joined by 2012 U.S. Olympian Dagmara Wozniak in the broadcast booth. Click ESPN3 to access the stream.
Title Defense
All three Harvard gold medalists from the 2012 Northeast Regional will defend their titles on Sunday. Sophomores Emma Vaggo and Peregrine Badger vie for the women's and men's epee crown, while junior Eric Arzoian seeks to repeat in the men's sabre. Medalists from a year ago, juniors Mike Raynis (bronze) and Alexandra Keifer (silver) look to move up the podium in the men's epee and women's foil, respectively.
Returning Hardware
All six gold medalists from 2012 are back in 2013. Both sides in the foil, as well as the women's epee return all of their medalists. The men's epee and women's sabre will see two of the previous year's medal earners, while Harvard's Eric Arzoian (gold) is the only returning medal getter in the men's sabre.
The Toughest Region in Fencing
Including Harvard, both the men's and women's sides will have three ranked programs competing in the Northeast Regional. Carrying momentum from the Ivy League Championship they captured on Sunday, March 2, the men jumped from No. 7 to No. 3 in the latest CollegeFencing360.com Coaches Poll. With 117 points, they are tied with regional host No. 3 St. John's in the national poll and now sit ahead of No. 7 Columbia. Five other schools on the men's side received votes in the national poll: Brown, Sacred Heart, Brandeis, Yale and MIT. The Crimson women improved one spot to No. 7 going into the Northeast Regional. They will meet No. 3 Columbia and No. 5 St. John's. Brown, Sacred Heart, Yale and Cornell received votes.
On the Line
As it did in 2012, Harvard could send up to 12 fencers for the championship tournament. Two for each of the three weapons (epee, foil and sabre) in both genders. Since the national title is awarded as a coed team, sending the maximum number of fencers is important for the Crimson to make a run at the NCAA Championship from March 21-24. Both fencing teams finished sixth at the 2012 NCAA Championship.
Last Time Out
On March 1-2, the No. 7 Harvard men's team posted a perfect 5-0 record at the Ivy Round-Robins to pick up the program's seventh conference title. The Crimson topped Yale, 21-6, and Columbia, 15-12, on day one, before fending off Brown, 19-9, Princeton, 16-11, and Penn, 14-13, to climb atop the Ivy.
The No. 8 Harvard women's team finished with a 4-2 record and brought home third place. The Crimson defeated Yale, 20-8, and Cornell, 16-11, before falling to No. 3 Columbia, 20-7, on day one and sandwiched a loss to Princeton, 19-8, with victories over Brown, 17-10, and Penn, 16-11.
Fencing Family
In the final men's match of the day, and with the Ivy League crown hanging in the balance, the Crimson and Penn Quakers were tied, 13-13. Facing his older brother Jason in the foil, Harvard first-year Jerry Chang proved to have the quicker strike and emerged the victor. The win gave Harvard the outright Ivy title, as the foil squad was the difference in the match, 5-4.
The Crimson men collected six All-Ivy honors, including sophomore Brian Kaneshige's second straight First-Team All-Ivy League accolade in the foil with a 10-5 record. Fellow foil, freshmen Michael Woo (13-2) and Jerry Chang (10-5) also picked up first-team honors. In the men's saber, senior Thomas Kolas was 9-5 on the weekend, garnering second-team All-Ivy status, while junior Michael Raynis (9-5) and senior Ben White (8-5) received All-Ivy second-team nods in the men's epee.
Three Harvard women earned All-Ivy honors this season. Emma Vaggo also earned a second all-conference accolade. The sophomore went 16-2 in the women's epee to garner first-team honors. Picking up second-team nods were senior Felicia Sun (epee) behind a 9-5 record and freshman Aliya Itzkowitz (sabre) with a 14-4 mark. Harvard's leading foil was junior Alexandra Kiefer, who went 11-7 on the weekend.
Regional Recap 2012
The Harvard men's and women's fencing teams earned six medals (3 gold) and placed 12 fencers in the top-10 places across the six events.
On the women's side, Emma Vaggo's gold medal in the epee competition was a shining moment for a squad that tallied three medals and five top-10 finishes. Also medaling were Alexandra Kiefer, who took silver in the foil, and Caroline Vloka with bronze in the saber. Nadia Eldeib took ninth in the epee and Kathy Chou finished in seventh of the foil to round out the Crimson top-10 at the competition.
Up Next
Those Harvard fencers who are selected will compete next at the NCAA Championship at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio Texas, March 21-24.
Punching Their Ticket to the Alamo
The qualification for the NCAA Championship is based on a formula comprising a 60 percent weight on regional performance and 40 percent regular-season meets. Regional champions for each weapon automatically advance, with remaining bids going to fencers based on performance and the region they compete in. Twenty-four spots in the epee, foil and saber for both the men's and women's competitions are distributed. The Northeast Region received at least eight allocated spots per weapon in 2012.
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Global Rally 2018: Forever is Coming Home
Some would say Global Rally is the epic conclusion of each year in the Forever business, even though it happens in April. From giving out millions of dollars in Chairman's Bonus checks to introducing new products and top country sales, the events at Global Rally are the grand finale to the personal journeys' of each FBO and the success of another year in Forever.
2018 marks 40 strong years in business and to celebrate, we are coming home!
April 22-30, 2018, Global Rally qualifiers will have the opportunity to experience Dallas, Texas and the many attractions that make it a special place for the Forever family. Home to Aloe Vera of America and one of three Aloe plantations, Texas is not only the perfect place to celebrate 40 years, but also a great place to get back down to our Forever roots.
At Home with Forever
Aloe Vera of America in Dallas, TX is the manufacturing keystone for our entire Aloe Vera operation around the world. From here, we control the Texas and Dominican Republic plantations, our processing facility in Mission, Texas, over 8 million gallons of Aloe Vera gel every year and the manufacturing of our many successful lines of Aloe Vera products.
So, what can you look forward to by qualifying for Global Rally next year? It's not just the chance to see some of the inner workings of Forever in the USA, it's the the chance to expand your global business, learn more about a major part of Forever's vertical integration and an opportunity to get a taste for what it is that makes Forever the greatest opportunity in the world.
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By Daniel A. Brown
Sometimes the most obvious truths escape our attention until we find ourselves in a new setting. For instance, even though I had been taught the truth of God's word from boyhood, it was not until after I began attending a Pentecostal church during my college years that I realized how often the Bible exhorted me to "Praise the Lord." The non-charismatic church culture from which I came made me inherently suspicious of borderline danger points that might carry me away into emotionalism—like lifted hands, spoken praise and hymnal-less worship. I still do not know how I had missed such an obvious theme in Scripture, but "Praise God" suddenly made sense to me as a personal encouragement, rather than as mere words or an emphatic (verbal) punctuation mark.
Perhaps that is why I'm always on the lookout for obvious truths that unintentionally become hidden behind well-meaning spiritual attitudes. Take for example our passion and earnest prayers for God to "do something"; as Pentecostals we celebrate spontaneous interventions, miraculous and sovereign activities of the Spirit. And well we should. But a simple reading of the Bible reveals that what God does on earth almost always happens through the agency of individual human beings; He does almost nothing all on his own, without using some person's staff, hand, lips, etc. People are God'ss tool of choice, and that is why Jesus told us to pray for laborers, rather than for the harvest (Matt. 9:37-38).
I'm not suggesting that it is wrong to pray for revival—just that it is an incomplete understanding of how God "moves" unless we have a corresponding passion to mobilize workers for the Harvest: intercession and discipleship; seeking God and sending people. One way to think about why God employs us fallible creatures, is that He wants us to share His excitement by involving us in the very process of rescuing and transforming His children.
In the same way that an overly spiritualized view of God's activity on our planet can cloud a complete picture of how He does things, so too can our feelings about natural vs. spiritual—especially when it comes to subjects like administration and structure in our churches. We who rely on fresh leadings of the Lord in our personal lives and ministry are suspicious of any barriers or limitations that might get put in His way. The very mention of structure frightens many Pentecostal leaders—usually because they fear it will unduly "quench" or interrupt the free flow the Spirit.
But God is not constrained by order; a river with narrower passage flows faster, and a river that overflows its banks is called a flood. Just as God uses flesh and blood people as vessels for His activity, (subjecting the spirit of a prophet to the prophet), so He often makes physical arrangements to sustain spiritual breakthroughs; "God is not a God of confusion" (1 Corinthians 14:32-33). From the very beginning of Creation we see God bringing order to chaos, setting up boundaries to distinguish night from day, developing (eco)systems, job descriptions ("Be fruitful and fill?") and arenas of responsibility (Caretakers of the planet).
The Book of Numbers is essentially an administrative handbook on duties and arrangements for God's people, and throughout the Old Testament we find series after series of record-keeping, boundary-defining, tribe-distinguishing, people-deploying and assignment-giving. Whatever their spiritual meaning or implication, these are administrative activities—the stuff of structure and logistics.
What often escapes our Pentecostal Bible-reading is that spiritual matters usually have some sort of organic (logistical "flesh and blood") implications. In fact, the physical arrangements are pivotal in many cases. One excellent example of this is the well-known story of Moses' battle with the Amalekites (Exodus 17). When Moses' hands were extended, Israel prevailed. That will preach! The spiritual implications are huge—spiritual warfare brings victory. Amen.
But notice other details in the episode: Moses' arms needed support to remain aloft (Aaron and Hur); Joshua and others fought an actual physical battle with swords. Without the spiritual power activated by Moses' simple obedience, no victory was possible, but only with physical arrangements, could spiritual victory be sustained.
We see this same picture on the exodus from Egypt just after Moses meets his father-in-law who is bringing back Moses' wife after their lengthy separation (chapter 18). Moses tells Jethro about all the miracles God performed, and they have quite a celebration service. Hallelujah! That, too, will preach. Then we come to these telling words: "And it came about on the next day?" (v. 13). Jethro saw the lack of intentional structure in Moses' approach to ministry, and that every dispute or issue bottlenecked at Moses' feet. Jethro knew that Moses needed an arrangement of people and responsibilities to continue ministering to the people the "next day"—in between miraculous interventions.
One New Testament episode highlights the synergy between logistical planning and spiritual breakthrough. When the revival in Jerusalem spread so rapidly, the Hellenistic widows were getting overlooked in the food distribution. (Have you noticed how spiritual growth causes problems? That will preach—but only to preachers.) This solution was to delegate and make arrangements for physical realities.
Overly spiritualized interpretations of this text mistakenly assume that Peter considered "waiting on tables" less important than the spiritual tasks of prayer and preaching. Actually, since he and the other disciples had already received their "waiter and busboy" training in the feeding of the multitudes some years earlier (see Matthew 14 and 15), Peter understood that such work would be leadership roles. And it was. Stephen's heavenly vision and Phillip's conversion of the Ethiopian flow seamlessly from their structural assignments in the food pantry ministry.
Does structure and over-planning sometimes get in the way of what the Lord wants to do? Of course. I am not saying that we ought to put our trust in well-oiled plans, or rely on administrative structures to accomplish Kingdom enterprise on earth. All plans must be brought under Jesus' Lordship with the simple belief that a God who gave such detailed instructions about the dimensions and materials and furnishings of His Temple, surely has thoughts for arranging the living church in each of its local expressions.
What practical ways can we think about combining structural arrangements—administration, staff positions, etc.—with spiritual pursuits? More specifically, how can we develop and improve our church structures? Let me offer these suggestions for your consideration, recognizing that they must be adapted to fit with your particular situation:
1. Most importantly,
think of structure as a verb
(an action or process) rather than as a noun (a thing or product). Structure is something to do—arranging stuff where it belongs now, moving things around, getting things to fit together to accomplish a goal—not something to have. Even if you are able to draw a flow chart with boxes and names and lines of accountability for your church, I can tell you that it is already out-dated. People, things and needs have changed. Good administrative asks the question: Who or what needs who or what to do what we're trying to do? The answer may be as simple as drivers for the Junior High event or as complex as someone to oversee various care ministries in the church.
2. That is why
good structure is fluid and flexible,
adapting to "daily bread" needs. Rigid, bureaucratic models like in the military or industries where workers do the same basic set of things day after day, do not function very well in the church. To begin with, we utilize lots of volunteers, who will get left off such flow charts precisely because they are not "consistent." And, churches do so many different kinds of things each week—CM, crisis counseling, bulletins and worship practice—and such a variety of things each year—Harvest Festivals, jail outreaches, mission teams, etc. It is impossible that the same few people are the best ones for all those jobs!
3. Good structures recognize that
position is not as meaningful as involvement.
A titled position does not mean that the person holding the title can orr should be that involved in the actual work that must be done. Going back to the example of a Junior High event, the ideal scenario would be for the Youth Pastor to arrange things (time, information, etc.) to find and involve someone else in finding the drivers. Without intentional arrangements, pastors fall into the same trap as Moses, assuming there is no alternative to doing everything themselves. Who else and how else can I get other people involved in this project is a question that will make you a better administrator.
4. Since churches' programs are mostly short-lived activities, good structure will
maximize the use of small workgroups,
differing combinations of personnel with changed roles from the last project. For instance, the Youth Pastor and the dad who organized the drivers for the Junior High event might both be part of a team planning the Father/Son fishing derby; as a married man with a son, the dad probably knows more about what and how to plan than the single youth pastor does—for this event. And if they're smart, they will invite a mom or two to get in on the planning too. Our question is Who can think about this project better than I can, and who has knowledge that I lack?
5. You've heard the saying, "Doing things right is not as important as doing right things." I do not think it has to be an either/or choice, but if we grasp the priority expressed by the statement, I would put it this way about structure: "Avoiding mistakes is not as important as empowering people enough to make mistakes." Good structure increases overall productivity by
pushing the decision-making power to the front most positions in the organization,
not by restricting the power to a few individuals at the top. The whole point of having designated areas of responsibility is to release people to maximize their decision-making and minimize their permission-asking. As I told a staff person last week,"I'd rather have you pray/think about and then make a decision—even if it turns out to be the wrong one—rather than await my decision about things for which you are responsible."
6. As obvious as it sounds, the whole point of administration and structure is to better enable a church to accomplish its purposes in/with the lives of its people. Thus, the
structure must match the goals of the church.
Let's take cell groups. We emphasize cell groups in our church because one of our goals is to keep encouraging people toward ministry leadership roles. That is also why our cell groups are structured to have apprentice leaders, and why we have lay leaders overseeing clusters of cell groups, and yet another layer of lay leaders (two couples) who minister to those cluster leaders. If your church's main assignment is to gather the flock to listen to teaching, cell groups would be counter-productive. Thus, good administrators ask the question: What does our planned-for structure communicate to people? (Have you noticed that people watch what we do much more than they listen to what we say?)
7. Here's another obvious thought:
the structures we have in place ought to actually work.
By "work" I mean that they are enabling the church to carry out lots of ministry activity without the leader's direct oversight or involvement. The amount that even a "gifted" leader can do on her own, is small compared to what she and three key program-staff members can do, and that pales in comparison to what she, those staff and the nine additional volunteers can accomplish. A church does not have to be big to have great people doing amazing things by partnering with other great people. But a church of any size does have to have a leader who arranges things in such a way as to make such partnership the norm rather than the exception.
8. As Pentecostals we thrill with the understanding that Jesus gave ministry gifts to His church; we are each uniquely capacitated by Him and the Spirit to be particular parts of the Body. Some are prophets, others are exhorters; teachers, mercy-showers and givers sit alongside evangelists, servers and pastors. Paul explained that a church body builds itself up in love when each part is actively and efficiently working the way it is supposed to work.
Good church structures recognize, celebrate and promote
Most likely, an exhorter will be more relational and less organized than a teacher if asked to head up the coffee ministry. And if one is passing the coffee baton to the other, some of the job is bound to get lost in the transition. The neat thing is that something new will grow back in its place.
9. Lastly, remember that all structure is merely artificial. There is no actual spiritual life in it at all. Little of eternity is affected by shifting service times a half hour backward, or by changing someone's title from assistant to associate. The implications of that can sound almost the opposite of what I've been saying thus far.
Structure is disposable—meant to be used rather than preserved
; like an umbrella it works until it breaks, or until the sun comes out. Like clothes, they wear out. As fresh and new as our systems and structures begin, they all eventually require significant readjustment, and sometimes it's best just to trash them and start over with new structures for new seasons.
The Bible tells us that David, a man after God's heart, led Israel with a combination of integrity and ingenuity; he was both spiritual and skillful (Psalm 79:72). That understanding will preach! And it will make us more effective preachers.
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Nvidia's latest launch involved two cards, the GTX 660 and GTX 650. We already tested the faster one, here, and its performance ranks somewhere between the HD 7870 and HD 7850. Today, we'll check out the GTX 650 and see how this card priced at around €100 fares against the competition, such has HD 7770 or GTX 550 Ti.
The GTX 650 is based on the GK107 GPU that Nvidia showed in June when it launched the GT 640. The GPU has two SMX units with 384 CUDA cores, 16 ROPs and 32 texture units. The GTX 650's performance bump from GTX 640 isn't down to a new architecture however, just the clock. Namely, while the GTX 640 GPU runs at 900MHz, the GTX 650's ticker runs at 1050MHz.
Point of View / TGT realized there's no real fun without a more serious overclock and clocked its GTX 650 Ultra Charged as much as 131MHz higher, which equates to 12 percent. Memory overclocking helped the card to get a better bandwidth, up from reference 80GB/s to 89.6GB/s.
Unlike the rest of Kepler-based GTX cards, GTX 650 has no Boost technology, meaning the card runs constantly at its highest possible clock, which is 1189MHz in Ultra Charged's world.
The GTX 650 Ultra Charged relies on single fan, dual slot cooling that shouldn't have problems in cooling the card, but we'll cover that in more detail later.
The GTX 650 has a 64W TDP and supports PCI Express 3.0, just like the rest of Kepler-based cards.
The boxes PoV/TGT used for the GTX 660 and GTX 650 are smaller than earlier GTX packages. We liked that as it wastes less cardboard. There's not a lot of info on the box, just the basic stuff. Here we see the Ultra Charged emblem and a small sticker saying Low Leakage Selection. TGT likes to point out they handpick the best chips that take higher clocks well.
GTX 650 Ultra Charged is really a miniature graphics card, only 14.8cm long (PCB is 14.5cm). It couldn't have been shorter because it would be too short for the PCI Express connector.
TGT strapped its factory overclocked GTX 650 Ultra Charged with dual slot cooling, making sure it's quiet. The cooler is actually a simple solution made of a large heatsink and a single fan. The heatsink is one slot wide, while the fan takes up another.
The fan is 9cm in diameter (CF-12915B 3000 RPM). It looks a lot like the fan used in GTX 680 cards. It also has 11 fins, but it uses two wires, instead of the GTX 680's three. Its speed can still be controlled but all the tools we used read the RPM in percentages only. We maxed the fan out at about 90 percent RPM. All in all, the fan isn't loud, not even when maxed out. The fan is easy to take out for cleaning - releasing the two latches holding the plastic frame will do.
TGT's GTX 650 Ultra Charged packs a total of 1GB of Samsung's GDDR5, in four memory modules. All of the modules are placed on the front. The memory is model number K4G20325FD-FC04, meaning it's GDDR5 specified to run at 5000MHz GDDR5 effectively.
The power connector is in the top corner. Although reference GTX 650 cards draw 64W, the power connector is here due to overclocking.
The Ultra Charged's I/O panel offers three video outs. VGA out is slowly fading, but PoV/TGT thought there are still users who need it. The GTX 650 is too weak for surround gaming but using more displays for office work has multiple benefits as well, so no need to throw your old VGA display out just yet.
There is no SLI connector, which doesn't mean SLI is off, but we don't have two GTX 650 to try it out.
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The GTX 650 can be further overclocked and we managed a 4-5 percent performance bump. TGT overclocked the card by 131MHz and we added another 65MHz (1189 to 1249MHz). GTX 650 has no Boost technology so the GPU runs at its maximum clock in 3D.
We overclocked the memory by 300MHz (effectively GDDR5).
The GTX 650 Ultra Charged had an 18 percent faster GPU and equally faster memory, which earned it an 18+ percent performance gain compared to the reference GTX 650.
The GTX 650's GPU has a TDP of 65W and it doesn't get very hot. The large heatsink and a 9cm fan did well, both in performance and noise departments. The card didn't exceed 60°C until our overclock, and even then it did so by 2°C. The fan goes up to 32 percent RPM in AUTO mode and it will stay quiet throughout.
Long story short, Kepler based offerings are better in power management than Fermi. Luckily, the GTX 650 Ultra Charged is here to save the GTX 650's face, because the GTX 550 Ti almost crushed the reference version.
Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 and GT 640 use the same GK107 GPU, this time only faster. Compared to the GT 640, the thing that gave the GTX 650 a real performance boost is GDDR5, earning it two times the bandwidth per clock cycle than DDR3. However, the GTX 650 doesn't offer spectacular performance gain compared to the last gen's GTX 550 Ti. In fact, tessellation performancea and power consumption seem to be the things where the GTX 650 clearly takes the cake.
Point of View / TGT realized that the reference clock, although 158MHz higher than the GT 640's 980MHz will not be enough to turn the GTX 650 into a capable gaming card, so it gave it additional 131MHz boost. Running a 1189MHz GPU and 5600MHz GDDR5 memory allowed for gaming up to 1920x1080, depending on the game of course. More demanding games such as Crysis 2 or Metro 2033 will require turning off some effects.
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For those getting caught up in the highest-priced Senate race in the country, the third televised debate between U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren on a theater stage in Springfield was must-see TV tonight. With only 27 days left before Election Day, it was one of the last chances for candidates to rope in voters on live television and to set a course for the final campaign drive.
For those getting caught up in the highest-priced Senate race in the country, the third televised debate between U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren on a theater stage in Springfield was must-see TV tonight.
With only 27 days left before Election Day, it was one of the last chances for candidates to rope in voters on live television and to set a course for the final campaign drive. The debate comes at a time when the campaigns have become increasingly confrontational, battling over personal attacks as much as political differences. Polls show victory is within each candidate's grasp.
The candidates were on the stage of Springfield's historic Symphony Hall in an hourlong face-off widely broadcast around the state and on national outlets, including C-Span.
Moderator Jim Madigan of WGBY-TV 57 asked the candidates questions solicited from the public and assembled by a group of local journalists before a full house of 2,600 people.
The race could barely be tighter, according to polling. Ms. Warren is debating in a region where she has proven strongest among likely voters.
A Western New England University Polling institute survey of likely voters the week of Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 had Ms. Warren leading 50 percent to 45 percent statewide. That poll had Ms. Warren ahead 58 percent to 41 percent in Western Massachusetts, 50 percent to 47 percent on the North and South shore areas, and 50 percent to 42 percent in the Boston area. In Central Massachusetts, Mr. Brown is leading , 60 percent to 36 percent, according to the poll.
Two polls released yesterday, however, showed the race tightening. A WBUR/MassINC poll shows Mr. Brown leading 48 percent to 45 percent, while a UMass-Amherst poll had Warren leading, 48 percent to 46 percent.
Some issues spilled over from the first debate, in Lowell.
Campaign issues include Mr. Brown's criticism of Warren's private legal work; his refusal to release a list of his past legal clients as previously promised; and Mr. Brown's identification during the last debate of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, seen as the most conservative justice, as his model of a Supreme Court judge.
In one of the Democrat's harshest ads so far in the campaign, Ms. Warren this week blasted Mr. Brown for an ad he put out accusing her of misrepresenting her role in representing Travelers Insurance in a Supreme Court case over a trust fund to compensate asbestos workers.
Mr. Brown accused her in their last debate of siding against asbestos workers, and in the new ad, argues the case shows she is not who she claims to be. She put out an ad late last week featuring the daughter of an asbestos workers disputing Brown's claims, calling them "shameful" and accusing Mr. Brown of intentionally misleading voters in an attempt to capitalize on the suffering of asbestos victim families.
In her radio response, Ms. Warren states, "I've been out there working for asbestos victims, including going to the United States Supreme Court to try to protect a half a billion dollar judgment for them." Mr. Brown for his part still maintains she was a "hired gun" to protect the insurance company, not the victims.
Meanwhile, Brown will be pressed to make his case that the state will benefit from his positioning himself as an independent vote in the Senate, despite his partisan allegiances.
Ms. Warren was tasked to lay out her final campaign themes, reinforce her arguments for middle class tax cuts and more spending in education and infrastructure. Ms. Warren took the opportunity to to tie Mr. Brown to his longtime political ally, presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who is polling badly in his home state.
Mr. Brown this week continued to argue that raising taxes on those earning more than $250,000 would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs nationwide. Ms. Warren, meanwhile, stumped with Caroline Kennedy and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and announced a new field push aimed at boosting support from seniors.
Page Brody, executive director of the Springfield Public Forum, which linked up with an array of local media outlets to host the debate, said the sponsors are aware of the intense interest in the race.
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Written by Brett McKay
So everyone is talking about the unveiling of Apple's iPhone. I've got to admit, it looks pretty slick. However, I'll be passing. First, it's going to be expensive: $600. Yikes! Second, Apple has turned into the Microsoft of digital music. They have a stronghold over it, and it looks like they're not loosening their grip one bit. There was an interesting article in the New York Times today about Apple's "crippleware." Basically, Apple has set it setup so that consumers who buy and download music from iTunes can only play those downloads on their iPod. Additionally, you can't play songs that you purchase from other download stores on your iPod. So if you buy an iPod, you're stuck downloading from Apple. What a scam.
Alpha Geek at Lifehacker made a strong case that buying CD's is preferable to downloads for the simple fact that you have more control with what you do with them. One of the problems with downloads is that it's a pain in the butt to get your songs back if for some reason your computer crashes and you lose them. If you had the CD, you can just rip it again.
When it gets down to it's a personal choice. But if you want to save some money and want the liberty to do with your digital music as you please, steer clear of the iPhone.


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This is surgery to remove a severely diseased and failing heart. It is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased donor.
A heart transplant is done if you have:
If you are planning to have a heart transplant, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
More than 80% of heart transplant patients live for at least one year after surgery. Most return to normal activities, including work and exercise.
Some factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
Be sure to discuss these risks with your doctor before the procedure.
There is a shortage of donors, so you may be on a transplant list for some time. You may need to carry a cell phone with you at all times. This is to allow the transplant team to reach you if a donor heart becomes available. You may need to stay in the hospital for monitoring. You may need to be on continuous IV medicines to help stabilize the function of your diseased heart. Some may need to have a mechanical pump called a ventricular assist device (VAD). The device will help to stabilize your heart while you are waiting for a transplant.
Before the surgery, your doctor will likely do the following:
]]>General anesthesia]]> will be used. It will block pain and keep you asleep through the surgery. It is given through an IV in your hand or arm.
After you are asleep, the doctor will cut through the skin and breastbone. She will open the chest and connect you to a heart-lung machine. This machine takes over the functions of the heart and lungs during surgery. The doctors will then remove your heart. The donor heart will be prepared and sewn into place in your chest. Next, the blood vessels will be connected. After this, the blood will start to flow and warm the heart.
The new heart may begin beating on its own, or the doctor may give you an electrical shock to get your heart started. For safety, you will also have a temporary pacemaker attached to the heart to help the heart beat stay regular. Once the doctor is sure that the heart is beating fine, the blood will be rewarmed. The heart-lung machine will be disconnected. Next, temporary tubes may be placed in the chest cavity to drain any blood that has collected. The doctor will close the chest with stainless steel wires. Lastly, the skin will be closed with absorbable sutures.
You'll be closely monitored in the intensive care unit (ICU) with the help of some/all of the following devices:
8 hours
You will have pain during the recovery process. Your doctor will give you pain medicine.
This procedure is done in a hospital setting. The usual length of stay is at least two weeks. Your doctor may choose to keep you longer if you shows signs of rejecting the new heart or have other problems.
While you are recovering at the hospital, you will need to:
Your doctor may need to take a ]]>biopsy]]> of your heart routinely and additionally as needed if you:
When you return home, do the following to help ensure a smooth recovery:
The surgical site in your breastbone will heal in 4-6 weeks.
After you leave the hospital, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:
In case of an emergency, call 911.
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Transplant Living
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Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Heart transplant. American Heart Association website. Available at: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3066619. Updated May 2009. Accessed July 21, 2009.
What is a heart transplant? National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute website. Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/ht/ht_whatis.html. Updated September 2008. Accessed July 21, 2009.
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