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Monday July 23rd, 2012 4:43pm
BRIGHTON, Mass. – Major League Lacrosse, the premier professional outdoor lacrosse league, announced Monday its weekly award winners for the week ending June 12, 2011, according to MLL Commissioner David Gross. Midfielder Ben Hunt of the Chesapeake Bayhawks was named as the MLL Offensive Player of the Week while Boston Cannons goalkeeper Jordan Burke earned the league's Defensive Player of the Week honor.
In addition, midfielder Jeremy Thompson of the Hamilton Nationals was named as the recipient of the Cascade MLL Rookie of the Week award.
Hunt scored a career-high five goals, including a two-point goal, and added three assists as the Bayhawks handed the Denver Outlaws their first loss of the season with a 16-15 overtime decision at INVESCO Field at Mile High on Saturday night. Honored as the Bud Light Player of the Game, Hunt also scored the game-winning goal just 1:07 into overtime off a pass from midfielder Steven Brooks as the Bayhawks overcame a four-point deficit to earn the victory.
Hunt, who had scored just one goal in his first three games this season, is the Bayhawks' third-leading scorer this season with 10 points. He has scored six goals, including a two-point marker, and added three assists in four games for the Bayhawks, who are tied for first place in the MLL standings with a 3-1 record.
In leading the Boston Cannons to a 19-8 victory over the Long Island Lizards, Burke posted a career-high 24 saves and allowed just seven goals as the Cannons earned their second straight win. Named as the Bud Light Player of the Game, Burke made nine of his saves in the second quarter as the Cannons held Long Island scoreless for nearly 21 minutes while building a 9-4 lead they did not relinquish.
Burke's 24 saves are the most by any goalkeeper in the MLL this season.
Burke, who was making his second straight start, leads the MLL with a 9.53 goals against average and a .651 save percentage. In the last two games, the Brown University graduate has posted a 9.50 goals against average while stopping 66.0 per cent of the shots he has faced.
Making his MLL debut, Thompson scored two goals to help the Nationals earn their first victory of the season, a 14-13 win over the Rochester Rattlers on Friday night at Sahlen's Stadium. He scored his first career goal just 51 seconds into the second quarter to give Hamilton a 4-3 lead before adding a goal in the third quarter, which gave the Nationals a 9-7 cushion.
The sixth overall pick in the 2011 MLL Collegiate Draft, Thompson helped Syracuse University reach the quarter-finals of the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship as a senior. A third team USILA All-America selection as a senior, Thompson led all Syracuse midfielders with 30 points, scoring 18 goals with 12 assists. He also led the Orange with 61 face-off wins.
The MLL season continues this week with three games. On Thursday night, the Bayhawks will travel to Long Island to face the Lizards in a televised affair on ESPN2. On Saturday, the Cannons visit the Rattlers while Denver looks to return to its winning ways against the Nationals.


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Mathematical Charts and TablesCharts and Tables for Instruction
Charts and Tables for Instruction
Ancient Babylonian scribes learned to record numerical tables on clay tablets. If a schoolroom or library burned, the tablets baked hard, and might survive for millennia. Several such tablets are preserved in libraries today, and the replica of one of these at the Smithsonian reminds us of the long history of these objects.
In the 19th century, new European ideas about teaching arithmetic to very young children reached the United States. In 1831, the Boston firm of Munroe & Francis published a series of some fifty "infant school cards," designed to teach subjects ranging from arithmetic to reading to natural history. Teachers were to use the arithmetic cards in conjunction with another piece of apparatus newly introduced in Western Europe and then in the United States, the teaching abacus or numeral frame.
Charts also were used to teach about weights and measures. In the wake of the French Revolution of 1789, the French developed an entirely new system of measuring distance, area, volume, temperature, and even time. By the 1860s, several European countries had adopted a revised version of this metric system, and metric weights and measures were legalized in the United States. An organization known as the American Metric Bureau began to distribute metric demonstration apparatus for the classroom. In the 1890s, the American Metric Bureau began to sell a metric chart for educational use.
Within the decade, the metric system was but one of several topics illustrated in a set of charts copyrighted by R. O. Evans of Chicago. Evans' set of twenty charts illustrated such wide ranging topics as counting and writing numbers, arithmetic operations, fractions, the area of surfaces and the volumes of solid, business methods, and surveying.
In the first half of the 20th century, machines that could do ordinary arithmetic became common in the store and the office, and inexpensive adders were available for consumers. In the years following World War II, educators placed new emphasis on understanding the principles underlying arithmetic. Charts such as number lines sold for classroom use.
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Mathematical Chart, Metric System
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- In the wake of the Revolution of 1789, French scientists developed a new system of weights and measures known in English-speaking countries as the metric system. A handful of early 19th-century American mathematics textbooks discussed metric measurements. In the 1860s, metric measures were legalized in the United States, although they were not mandatory. A few advocates of the new system, most notably the distinguished librarian Melville Dewey, joined together to form the American Metrological Society and to advocate the use of metric measures. This chart was prepared by the Society for classroom use.
- The tan paper chart shows a meter length divided into decimeters, centimeters, and millimeters. It also shows a liter container and a block 1,000 cubic centimeters in size. It gives the value in United States currency of silver coins weighing from 1 gram to 1000 grams. A mark at the bottom front of the chart reads: Copies of this chart will be mailed on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps. (/) ADDRESS AMERICAN METROLOGICAL SOCIETY, 41 EAST 49TH ST., N.Y. CITY.
- Science magazine noted publication of the chart in 1891, which is used as the approximate date of the object. This example was found uncatalogued in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
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- ca 1891
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- American Metrological Society
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- 1990.3012.01
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- 1990.3012.01
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- 1990.3012
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- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center

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By WILLIAM SHARPCastle Dale
Dear Editor,
Now is your chance to stand up for freedom in your own back yard. The Fee Demonstration program that took away your right to freely travel your canyons and much of the forest is up for comment from the public.
"Those who would trade their land and freedom upon it for outhouses deserve neither." Are you willing to trade your freedom on public lands for outhouses? Well, that is what the Fee Demonstration program suggests. Ask any lawyer. If you willingly pay a fee to enter a property, you are admitting that you are not an owner of that land. Think of it, in one fell swoop con artists in the government took away your land and your freedom upon it.
Freedom loving leaders of the past realized the importance of free public lands. Most of America's founders came from nations where the land primarlily belonged to the king or his lords. Anyone who didn't pay the bribe etc. to get on the land got an arrow between the shoulder blades or got their hands cut off if they were caught on the land.
Consider the fact that the government knows they can get money for improvements on this land by indirect taxes, but instead some have opted for and "in your face, direct demand for their paid permission before you enter the land" thus crushing any notions you may have had about the land being yours or you having freedom upon it.
Brainwashed? Many of the general statements coming from the public are favorable to the program. It appears some like the program and prefer outhouses to freedom. This is a sad indication of just how far removed Americans are becoming to the concept of freedom. The founder of America did all in their power to get governments thumb off their necks, and we are doing all we can to put it back on.
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It has also been mentioned that long storage of malt may cause an increase in DMS levels in malt.
It has also been mentioned that long storage of malt may cause an increase in DMS levels in malt.
==PROPERTIES of DMS==
==PROPERTIES of DMS==
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DIMETHYL SULFIDE (DMS) DMS ( Dimethyl Sulfide) is an organic sulfur compound present above its flavor threshold in most beers. Because of its low flavor threshold, 10 - 150 ppb, it is a primary flavor and aroma compound that makes a significant contribution to beer character, especially in lager beers. It has a characteristic taste and aroma of cooked or creamed corn.
DMS in Beer
Some detectable level of DMS is characteristic of many lager styles, and is especially noticeable in light lagers. However, DMS is present in most beers at some level. It is excessive DMS that gives some home brewed ales a "cooked corn" character.
The amount of DMS found in beer is lowest in British ales, 10 - 20 ppb and highest in German lagers and all-malt beers, 50 -175 ppb, while the United States' lagers generally contain 40 - 100 ppb.
Beers with high adjunct ratios or low gravities allow the DMS taste or off-taste to be more detectable, while German beers, all-malt beers, flavorful beers, especially dark beers, make the taste of DMS less discernible even at higher levels.3
Causes of DMS
DMS is created whenever wort is heated, by the breakdown of precursors found in pale malts. Under ordinary circumstances, most of the DMS that is created by heat is then evaporated during the boil. Some DMS is also removed during vigorous ale fermentations, which is why higher levels are often found in lagers.
- Covered boil
- Covering the brew kettle during the boil prevents DMS from evaporating, and results in high levels of DMS in the finished beer.
- Slow cooling
- Because DMS is created at temperatures below boiling, cooling the wort too slowly means that excessive levels of DMS can be created which cannot be evaporated once the boil has stopped.
The DMS produced during the hot wort stand will stay in solution even if the hot wort tank is vented. For every extra hour of hot wort stand, a DMS increase of approximately 30% will result. The level of DMS in the wort determines the level of DMS in finished beer. In order to predict the level of DMS in finished beer Table V shows the relationship between SMM in malt and DMS in beer.
Preventing DMS
The level of SMM in malt is responsible for the DMS level in wort. During mashing the SMM, DMS and very soluble DMSO are brought into solution. No SMM is hydrolized to DMS at this time.
Kettle boiling hydrolizes SMM to DMS which is removed during evaporation. The half life or time needed to remove half of the DMS is 40 minutes so that three-fourths is removed in 90 minutes. Narssis recommends a 100 minute boil to reduce the level of SMM and DMS to acceptable levels in most beers.
The level of DMSO does not change during the kettle boil. A small amount of DMS, 0.4 ppb, may be contributed by hops, especially if added in large amounts late in the boil. As long as the wort is hot SMM will be converted to DMS. It is important to convert SMM to DMS in the kettle so that build up during the hot wort stand is minimized.<br
The following steps should insure low levels of DMS in the finished beer:
- Boil the entire wort 90 minutes or longer
- Ensure that the boil is vigorous - rolling
- Allow at least 8% evaporation
- Minimize the hot wort standing time
- Rapidly cool the wort
Fermentation and DMS
During fermentation, the evolution of CO2 removes and reduces the level of DMS. At moderate DMS levels of 30-60 ppb a 30-35% reduction can occur, while a 35-60% reduction can occur at higher initial DMS levels, 60-150 ppb.
The yeast's metabolism does not convert SMM to DMS but certain yeast can produce higher DMS levels by reducing DMSO to DMS, especially in lager beer production at cooler temperatures. Certain wild yeasts and Enterobacter agglomerans can produce DMS.5 Table VI shows the reactions that take place in malting and wort boiling.
DMS After fermentation
No change in DMS level occurs unless some form of purging or contamination occurs. Water dilution of high gravity beers may reduce the perceived threshold of DMS due to dilution of other mashing flavors.
Creating DMS
The threshold of DMS can assume to be 40 ppb and n for DMS was determined to be 1.12.5
The major source of DMS in finished beer is derived from its precursor, S-Methylmethionine (SMM), an amino acid, which is formed during the germination and kilning process of malting barley.
Barley does not contain DMS or SMM. However, both are formed by the biosynthesis occurring during germination. SMM, also known as DMS precursor (DMSP), is heat-labile and decomposes on heating to form DMS during kilning, wort boiling and hot wort storage.
No DMS is formed during germination. The amount of SMM produced during germination is dependent on the barley crop year, the growing conditions, the barley variety, the germination temperature, the germination humidity, the germination time, the steep-out moisture content, airflow rate, the use of alkaline steeping liquor (KOH) and the use of potassium bromate.
The most effective way to reduce SMM during germination is by slightly under- modifying malt, specifically by reducing the moisture content of barley at steep-out to 40-42% and reducing the germination temperature to 55-60oF. It has been shown that a reduced airflow during germination resulted in a 50% lower SMM level in the finished malt.4
Alkaline steeping liquor and use of potassium bromate and other factors which reduce the metabolic growth rate during germination have been shown to significantly reduce SMM and insuring DMS levels in finished malt.
Two row barley which has a normally lower nitrogen content than six row barley, has been shown to produce significantly less SMM during the malting process. European malt has less SMM and DMS than North American and Canadian malt.1
Regardless of variety or growing conditions, the most important factor for reducing SMM and DMS occurs during kilning. The SMM formed during germination is converted by the heat of kilning and air flow to DMS. The DMS formed is either removed or volatilized in the kilning draft, oxidized to (Dimethyl sulfoxide) [DMSO], or remains in the finished malt. Since DMS is easily removed during the kettle boil, it is important that the ratio of SMM to DMS be as low as possible in the finished malt.
The conversion of SMM to DMS occurs at about 1401F. Therefore, by increasing the withering temperature, increasing the final kilning or curing temperature and extending the final curing time the level of SMM and DMS will significantly be reduced in the finished malt. The stability of SMM in malt is greater at higher moisture levels.
It has been reported that the half life of SMM in malt at 7.5% moisture is as follows:4 7.5% moisture: half life SMM: @ 185oF 1.9 hrs. @ 175oF 4.8 hrs. @ 150oF 20.0 hrs.
British pale ale malts, Munich malts and other malts cured at higher temperatures show very low levels of SMM and are of little significance to final DMS levels in beer.
Some general indicators of higher SMM in malt are corresponding higher degrees of modification, soluble nitrogen and alpha - amino nitrogens.
It has also been mentioned that long storage of malt may cause an increase in DMS levels in malt.
Beer Styles and DMS
Types of beers in order of their perceived threshold of DMS.
Those with the lowest thresholds are most likely to have off tastes at excessive DMS levels.
Lagers (lowest):
- Low adjunct beers with low gravities or diluted flavor.
- High adjunct beers with corn grits
- High adjunct beers with other adjuncts
- Low to medium gravity (1.040-1.048) beers - all malt
- All malt German or higher gravity, light colored - flavored beers
- Amber - dark flavorful beers
Ales (highest):
- British light ales
- American or British amber or dark ales
- Stouts or strong flavored beers
PROPERTIES of DMS
Boiling Point: 99oF
Density: 0.848
Flavor Threshold (Beer):
Perceived Threshold: 10-150 ppb Depends on amount of flavor in beer
Flavor: Cooked corn, creamed corn
Aroma: Same - highly volatile
Source: Precursor in malt (SMM), hops (minor)


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3M™ Glass Bubbles are engineered hollow glass spheres that can be used as a density reducing additive.
Used for drilling fluids/cement slurries to reduce and control bottom hole pressure.
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Improved production, less remediation, reduced formation damage and better zonal isolation
Low-density cement slurries made with 3M™ Glass Bubbles offer the potential to reduce costs and improve performance compared to alternative solutions. In oil well cements, 3M glass bubbles can help reduce slurry density to below 9.2 pounds per gallon (1.08 kg/l). Unlike low-density cement slurries made by dilution with water or other techniques, cement slurries made with 3M glass bubbles develop quickly with high compressive strengths, minimizing waiting on cement (WOC).
Also, low-density slurries with 3M glass bubbles avoid the multiple staging that is commonly used in wells which require a long column of cement, and where weak exposed formations will not support the hydrostatic head during cementing.
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In drilling fluids, 3M™ Glass Bubbles HGS Series help attain fluid densities as low as 5.5 pounds per gallon (0.66 kg/l). 3M glass bubbles-based fluids control density efficiently, process easily at rig site and are compatible with surface cleaning and other downhole equipment. These fluids also are ideal for the range of temperatures, pressures and hostile environments found downhole.
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First impression after a quick spin through the new Twitter #Music service: I like what I've seen — and mostly heard — so far, and appreciate the opportunity to discover new artists and hear fresh material. The famous and almost-famous performers and songs that are surfacing through the service are based on tweets and the kind of attention they are generating out on Twitter.
Twitter announced Twitter #Music Thursday morning on ABC's Good Morning America. It launches on the Web, and as a downloadable iOS app, with an Android app promised later. Twitter first tested #Music on real-life celebrities such as Wiz Khalifa and Blake Shelton, and having passed that test is letting the rest of us past the velvet rope. The company says that many of the most-followed accounts on Twitter are musicians, with half of all users following at least one musician.
On my iPhone 5, where I did most of my own listening and testing, the interface is sweet, with an animated disc of the tune that is playing spinning on the bottom left corner of the display. The Web display is similar.
Tap on the spinning platter to summon volume and other controls as you listen and to make the animated disk appear larger. At that point you can drag your finger on the animated disk to fast forward or rewind within a song. If you swipe left or right on the screen you can play the next or previous tune.
It's important to note that you must sign into Twitter #Music with your Rdio or Spotify subscription account credentials to hear full length tracks, assuming the tune is available in those respective services' catalogs. Otherwise you're limited to half-minute previews, which are supplied by Apple's iTunes. If you like a song you can go to iTunes to buy it. Twitter is looking to add other music services to the mix.
And what of the given tracks that have your ear? To help you discover material, Twitter segregates selections into several categories or charts.
For starters there is the "Popular" chart, the most popular new music trending on Twitter, presented with artist pictures or album covers in a handsome grid. On the iPhone 5 there was enough screen real estate to display 15 of these pictures at once. In the Web version as displayed on my 27-inch computer monitor, there was room for 66 images. On the iPhone, it is only when you tap or click on a picture that you will see the actual title of the song that you now have the opportunity to play — it's not like the complete artist discography or even more than one track from the performer is available to you right on the spot. You will see both the artist name and song title from the main interface on the Web.
During my initial tests, Demi Lovato's (@ddlovato) Heart Attack topped the most popular list, followed by Azealia Banks' (@azealibanks) explicit Yung Rapunxel.
The second chart is a collection of artists billed as the "Emerging" category, or the "hidden talent found in the Tweets." The Pastels' (@pastels_the) breezy Check My Heart sat atop that category.
Those first two charts would look the same on your Twitter #Music screens as it looks on mine. But the next charts are tailored to your own musical tastes. There's the "Suggested" category which consists of recommended artists based on artists that you already follow. And the "#NowPlaying" category features music tweeted by friends and other people you follow. Lastly, you can display a screen just with the artists who you follow.
From any of these screens, you can click on any artist's Twitter username to view their profile and follow them, provided that you're not already doing so and — this is nice — to see the artists that they are in turn following. I learned, for example, that Sheryl Crow (@sherylcrow) follows Justin Timberlake, Colbie Caillat and Paul McCartney, among others. It was not much of a shock, I suppose, that Chris Brown (@chrisbrown) follows Rihanna (@rihanna).
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If you missed the most offbeat fund launch of the summer, Paul Britt of Index Universe recaps it for you: An ETF of 24 companies headquartered in and around Nashville. The likely clientele: Nashvillians.
The executives behind Nashville Area ETF (NASH) have been quoted suggesting they're serving the desire to go local. As they told Ashley Lau of Reuters: "There is a proclivity to invest locally … Most of these companies operate facilities all over the place, but their headquarters and brain trusts are here, and their leading jobs are here."
Britt approves: "I happen to live in San Francisco, and I'd buy a San Francisco ETF if one existed. Why? Because every day I see growth and opportunity—a bustling city filled with construction cranes and start-ups. So I have a view on which way it's heading."
Hold on a second. (1) Isn't this unusual concentration the opposite of what index investing used to be? (2) Is there really a local investment thesis here at all?
I was tempted to argue investors would be unwise to put all their IRA eggs in the same basket where their mortgage is. Say, if you own a home in a Nashville suburb, you have 60% or 80% of your net worth linked to the fortunes of Nashville's real estate market. So the last thing you should be doing is tying up more of your "risk" money there instead of, say, SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) or Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI).
But that's not quite right. HCA Holdings' (HCA) fortunes may be more tied to the national health-care sector. Corrections Corp. of America (CXW) isn't about the local economy. Tractor Supply (TSCO) is a story about … you get the idea.
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Inoue and Baldwin are the first to do the throw 3A at both Olympics (in the SP) and Worlds (in the LP) both in 2006. Rena did reach for the ice on the landing at Worlds, but really close inspection of replay showed that she did not touch down IIRC. They got a slightly negative GOE for the element but full base value for the element. I/B placed 4th at 2006 Worlds largely due to the fact that John landed his 3T for once and Rena landed the throw 3A. They were 3rd in the LP. Still the highest placement at worlds for a US pair in the last nine years since Ina and Zimmerman's 2002 bronze.
Thanks for this info., Spun Silver, would loooooooooooove to watch this, but that's awfully early here on the West Coast.
Their throw 3axel was superb! I soooo wanted them to go to the 2010 Olympics, after having skated superbly at Nationals that year, and also Rena landing that FAB throw 3A!
By the way, thanks for the info. about their being the highest placing American Pairs Team in 9 years, didn't know that, thanks again!
And they had the HIGHEST TES at 2006 Worlds LP, too. Ina and John are special.
It's annoying that S/S think they would be the first to land a 3A at an international competition. Learn your own sport history!
Excited to see the last two flights. Let the strongest couple win! The competition is giong to be tough!)))
1998-Meno and Sand 2nd
2002-Ina and Zimmerman 3rd
2006-Inoue and Baldwin 4th
2010-Denney and Barrett 7th
Prior to that American pairs had routinely had their best showings in each Olympic cycle in non Olympic years going back to 1980
1979-Babilonia and Gardner 1st (7th in 1980;Carruthers)
1982- Carruthers 3rd (10th in 1984; Miller and Fauver)
1987-Watson and Oppegard 3rd (4th in 1988; Wachsman and Waggoner)
1991-Kuchiki and Sand 3rd (7th in 1992; Urbanski and Marval)
1993-Meno and Sand 5th (6th in 1994; Meno and Sand)
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Hello - I've checked a number of back "issues" here and haven't found a problem like mine - I didn't check them all, so I'm sorry if I'm being repetitive.
Within the past two months we have started having trouble with an overwhelming sulfer smell at ONLY the kitchen sink. It happens with both the hot and cold water, but is worse with the cold water, so I don't think it is related to the water heater. After the water runs for about 30 seconds, the smell abates but is back if we don't use the faucet for 15 minutes or so. The smell doesn't happen at any other faucet in the house.
About a year ago I changed the faucet and supply pipes to the kitchen sink. The supply pipes are flexible plastic pipes and quite long. Is it possible that there is something in the plastic pipes that is causing this smell? Any other people with this problem?
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July 01 2008 12:17PM
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It's being reported on Sportsnet (thanks for showing Wimbledon TSN) that Joseph has signed to Toronto to a one year deal. How is this possible?
NO way. I thought they were trying to get younger?
July 01 2008, 12:30PM
HA what are they signing him to do? Tell stories about the last time he was a Leaf and the team was crappy, super old and overpriced and looking to improve the team.
Oh wait...
Still a better signing than Jeff Finger at 3.5M/year. Not that that is saying much.
That Finger signing is classic. Man, the Leafs are even worse than Love Guru, which says alot.
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Petrino says Louisville 'is where I want to finish my career'
New Louisville coach Bobby Petrino met with media Thursday at a press conference in the Papa John's Cardinal Stadium press box to discuss his second stint at the university following coach Charlie Strong's departure to Texas.
"It's great to be back home," Petrino said in his opening remarks. "This is our home. I'm so excited to come back."
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RELATED: Instant reaction to Petrino hiring
After thanking Western Kentucky's athletic director and president, Petrino said he's "going to make the most of the opportunity" presented at Louisville by athletic director Tom Jurich.
"No question about that," Petrino said, adding that "my first mistake was ever leaving the University of Louisville."
Later, Petrino said, "I think Tom understands this is where I want to finish my career."
He joked that contractually, he won't have much choice. His buyout is $10 million and the contract for seven years and $3.5 million per year. Putting that in perspective, it cost Louisville $11 million to leave the American Athletic Conference.
"A buyout to me is not even important. He told me to put $100 million in there," Jurich said. "He wants to stay here. He wants 15 years."
Jurich said the contract also has a morals clause.
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PREVIOUSLY ON PETRINO: Change of scene, and maybe a changed man
Petrino quickly got to his goals at Louisville with the Cardinals entering the Atlantic Coast Conference: win the league, get in the four-team College Football Playoff and win a national title.
"We're going to build on everything coach Strong started here," he said.
Should he have that success, maybe as soon as next year, Petrino said he's got to "come right out and say it" — that he has no interest in coaching anywhere else.
How else has Petrino changed?
He said he pays more attention to family these days. He also "coaches the person as much as the player."
But Jurich wanted more proof. He asked Petrino, "Do you have enough courage to look me in the eye and tell me you've changed? If you lie to me, I'll kill you."
Jurich added that he spoke with ACC commissioner John Swofford, who was in favor of hiring Petrino.
Jurich called the week, which started with Charlie Strong leaving for Texas, a whirlwind.
"I didn't expect that to happen," Jurich said.
He said he cut the list of potential candidates down to seven quickly as interviews started.
"It kept leading me back to Bobby Petrino," Jurich said. "Bobby and I have a lot of history together. A lot of it's great. A lot of it's not great."
Jurich said Petrino convinced him he's "a changed man," and his wife Becky ensured that.
Petrino's family attended the press conference with him. It followed a meeting with the U of L Athletic Association's personnel committee gave the hire unanimous approval.
Petrino said he started thinking about Louisville as soon as he found out Strong was headed to Texas, but he first heard of mutual interest from WKU's athletic director, Todd Stewart.
"We had a great day and a long discussion," Petrino said of his eventual interview with Jurich. "I think I got there at noon and left town" after 9 p.m.
It took a while for Jurich and Petrino to reconnect after he left for the Atlanta Falcons in 2006, the coach said, "but I was able to reach out to Tom when I had my mistakes" at Arkansas.
To prove he's changed, "I'll always have a sign in our locker room that says, 'It's a show-me world,'" Petrino said. "It'll be up to me to show it."
He said he's both emotionally and contractually tied to Louisville.
Petrino said Clint Hurtt will remain on Louisville's staff. As for other coaches, he called it "a work in progress" and promised he'd move quickly on hires.
"There might be a few" coaches coming from WKU, he said.
Petrino also said he will evaluate Louisville's current recruits who are committed and start making phone calls Thursday.
Petrino met with Louisville's players on Thursday morning and plans to see them individually Thursday through Sunday.
"It was a short meeting, and the first thing I did was compliment them on how well they've done," Petrino said.
In announcing the hire, Louisville published a page breaking down Petrino's past coaching history and numbers. It also revealed the Cardinals' full home slate for 2014: Florida State, Miami, Kentucky, North Carolina State, Wake Forest and Murray State.
"We have to do a great job in the transition," Petrino said. "A lot of times change is really hard on everybody. We have to get through that quickly."
President James Ramsey said that in order for the program to continue its upward trajectory, "you've got to have the right people on the bus." Ramsey said he met with Petrino on Tuesday after he interviewed with Jurich.
"There's no question we've got the very best person to lead our Cardinal football team forward," Ramsey said. "It is Tom's recommendation, but it's supported by the university."
There's a clause in Petrino's contract that he must use his best efforts to schedule a home-and-home series with WKU.
Petrino's comments were quick: "I think we'll probably use our best efforts" to get that done.
And now WKU has a job opening. Petrino gave his recommendation to Jeff Brohm, the former Louisville quarterback and current Hilltoppers offensive coordinator.
"He's extremely ready for it," Petrino said.
Jonathan Lintner also writes for The Louisville Courier Journal.


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A pie in the sky?
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Hezekiah seeks counsel from Isaiah to save Jerusalem—Isaiah prophesies the defeat of the Assyrians and the death of Sennacherib—Hezekiah prays for deliverance—Sennacherib sends a blasphemous letter—Isaiah prophesies that the Assyrians will be destroyed and that a remnant of Judah will flourish—An angel slays 185,000 Assyrians—Sennacherib is slain by his sons.
1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the
2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the
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4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy
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6 ¶And
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 ¶So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest
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12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
14 ¶And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
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20 ¶Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast
21 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The
22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
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24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
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26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the
27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
30 And the
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the
32 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.
34 For I will
35 ¶And it came to pass that night, that the
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.


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Skip to comments.Track crew accidentally turned off crossing gates, lights before fatal crash, probes say
Posted on 04/19/2010 7:28:45 PM PDT by Chet 99
A track crew inadvertently turned off the gates and warning lights at a rail crossing in University Park late last week, shortly before a deadly crash in which a train blindsided an SUV driven by a Chicago woman, according to the preliminary federal and state investigation disclosed on Monday.
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This just sucks. Condolences to the young woman's family.
This is one that will certainly never go to court, and they'll just hand her family over a truck full of cash.
Yes Folks,
I slow down at RR Tracks and look both ways. To those that insist at flying across RR tracks... Don't play with trains....
Always assume there could be a faulty RR switch, etc...
There was nothing faulty here.
This is an incident that resulted from total negligence.
RE: dragnet2 wrote:
There was nothing faulty here.
This is an incident that resulted from total negligence.
It is like something from Ayn Rand ... incompetence rewarded leads to innocents' death.
We all roll our windows down (even in the rain) and listen for the train. We look both ways before crossing.
Even leaving aside obvious negligence like this case, equipment fails and malfunctions.
The railroad is very sensitive about this crossing because it's a busy one on a main drag into the city. They have crews out several times a week checking the gates here, and you'll often see a CSX truck parked at the crossing just keeping an eye on things.
Stuff STILL goes wrong. They have an 800 number posted on the gates to call in case of a malfunction. I call it about once every month or so - gates stuck down or (worse) stuck open with lights flashing and bells ringing. After an hour or so everybody just ignores the lights and bells. The first thing CSX does in that case is put a go-slow order on all the trains.
Sooner or later somebody's going to get hit, it's been since the late 80s when somebody jumped the gate at the next crossing 2 miles up the line . . . but we had a close call about 2 years ago. Go slow order saved the day.
The other scary thing is that the two main crossings here are the only "no horn" crossings in the state. Four gates, European style, so the train doesn't pull for the crossing. Which scares the heck out of me, that horn is one more safety factor.
Westbound we have good sight lines in both directions, but eastbound you can't see more than 50 yards up the track to the south and the trees are right up against the road to the north. So we listen with all our ears. Fortunately there's a crossing 2 miles north and another crossing which is NOT a no-horn crossing about 1/2 mile north, so you can hear a southbound train pull the whistle for the middle crossing. Thank goodness.
I've gotten to where I can tell from the sound of the diesel motors whether it's a slow or a fast freight.
But they do, unfortunately.
People expect things like trains and planes to be safe and expect those that operate and run them to keep them safe...Just the way it is.
Me personally? On approach to intersections with green lights, my foot is off the accelerator, and hovering over the brake, watching for broadside and left turn killers....Things like intersections are mass murderers.
I hear ya, I drive defensively all the time.
I would much rather let Mother Nature take me out naturally than some loose screwball :-)
School buses are required to stop at the crossing, and open the door to listen for the trains.
The trains are required to blow their whistles (except we have some intersections now where they trains don't late at night, but they are labelled with signs so motoroists know to be extra careful.
I do fly across tracks, but I always glance both ways, and I'm pretty sure I'd notice a train barreling down. Of course, that assumes a good sight line.
In my opinion, it should be impossible to shut down the gate power without lowering the gates. That would be a pain for motorists, but then the people working on the tracks would have to go manually raise the gates, which would make it clear to them that they had shut off the gates.
There should also be an alarm when the gates are off. Maybe even a blinking light set powered by batteries, in case there is a general power failure.
THAT is a really good idea. I wonder if I ought to call the trainmaster and suggest it.
I live in a relatively flat part of Wisconsin and you can see at least a mile up and down the track as you approach a RR crossing. Not everyone slows down but most do, not because of approaching trains though. It seems the railroads are responsible for maintaining the narrow strip of highway between the gates. State/County crews will not touch that area and for good reason. On the other hand, RR crews very seldom pull maintenance either with the consequence that the crossings are usually in a terrible state of repair. When they finally get around to fixing things, they don't stay fixed for long as the constant pounding causes the roadbed to move with the passing freight cars. It's scary to sit at a crossing and watch the rails flex 4 to 6 inches as the wheel trucks roll down the line.
There was a time when government subsidized the railroads, that time has long passed and it shows. The flow of government money has shifted to interstate roads (trucking) and regional airports (air freight), neither of which can move the thousands of tons of coal a day needed to keep a central power plant operating. So the railroad slowly returns to rust.
I usually take the long view up & down the track from a quarter mile away and then hit the throttle so that I literally fly through the gate without touching the muffler grabbing, chuck hole ridden surface.
Don't get me started about gates stuck in the down position w/ lights flashing and bells clanging for days at a time. No wonder people drive around the cross-bucks, sometimes you have no choice.
As someone who lives near a railroad crossing, I'm not exactly a fan of the horns at 2am.
Why not have a signal light on the tracks before the crossing which indicates that the crossing is working correctly, along with signage: "IF LIGHT IS NOT FLASHING, SOUND HORN AND SLOW TO ___MPH."(*) I understand that if the crossing gates and lights aren't working the horn provides some safety factor, but if the lights and gates are working, I fail to see how the horn does anything other than add annoyance.
(*) That would be the simplest means of letting people sleep without adversely affecting safety. An alternative, if the trains on a route would be equipped with standardized "navigation" equipment, would be to have the gates communicate their status to the locomotive via wireless or other means. That could provide an engineer greater notice of a gate that could be expected to fail (e.g. because it doesn't have power).
We moved here in 1994, the no-horn gates weren't installed until last year. Our house is 3 houses down the first street from the crossing. The blowpost for southbound trains stands 185 yards from our bedroom window (or so says my trusty Bushnell rangefinder).
I didn't mind the horns. It was kinda nostalgic. We had 37 trains a day, plus specials. The first couple of weeks we lived here it was annoying, after that we didn't even notice. Slept right through, even with the bedroom windows open.
With that said, I used to investigate crossing accidents for the old Southern Railroad. Your suggestion simply adds more electronics and more things to go wrong, plus a sign that nobody will read. Our almost-accident a few years ago was an idiot who drove around a large "CROSSING CLOSED" sign. We were walking our dogs when he drove his jeep onto the crossing - they had removed the asphalt to repave, and he drove right into the hole and his front bumper stuck under the first rail. About that time we heard the horn two crossings north . . . .
My husband dove into the Jeep and forcibly hauled the man out, while I hared home with the dogs and brought back our Expedition and a logging chain. Hubby was just hooking up the chain to the Jeep's rear bumper when the headlight came around the curve. Fortunately the engineer was under a go-slow order and brought his train to a halt about 50 feet from the Jeep. The engineer was cussin' mad, needless to say.
You can't fix stupidity.
The European gate does prevent anyone from jumping the crossing if the gates are working properly. But old Murphy hangs around railroad crossings a lot.
My house is less than 100yds from the track, about 100yds before a crossing. I'm not sure of the train's exact position when it sounds the horn, but it's loud.
Your suggestion simply adds more electronics and more things to go wrong, plus a sign that nobody will read.
The sign would be for the engineer. If an engineer cannot be trusted to read signage, he shouldn't be driving a train. I'm not sure I see a particular difficulty with designing the system so that in case of failure the light for the engineer would definitely not blink. And in that case if the engineer is doing his job he will sound the horn (if the engineer can't be relied upon to sound the horn if the light isn't blinking, how can he be relied upon to sound the horn in any case).
Our almost-accident a few years ago was an idiot who drove around a large "CROSSING CLOSED" sign.
How often would having the engineer sound his horn make any difference.
A few years ago I was traveling down a county road that run parallel to a RR track.
I noticed someone working on the box near the tracks while approaching a intersection with a green light and the green light turned red without warning. No yellow, no 3 second wait, nothing. The lady in front slammed on the brakes but the car behind her slammed into her. I managed to only tap the lady in front of me by screaming to a stop.
I looked up after the crash and both lights were now green both ways.
About 10 seconds later the lights seemed to go back into a normal cycle and the assclown working on the RR lights drove off.
I was ticketed and the LEO refused to believe someone was screwing with the lights. AT my court hearing the judge checked the logs for the local maintenance crews and tossed my ticket, still cost me $500.00 in a deducible to fix my car
When a problem with our crossing gates is reported, the trainmaster issues go-slow orders and all trains go back to sounding the horn until the problem is corrected.
I just feel better with the horn - one more chance for me to be warned of the train, if the crossing signals aren't working and somehow the engineer doesn't get the word. But most of the neighborhood is just annoyed by the noise.
We almost had time to get that Jeep off the crossing when we heard the horn, if I hadn't had to throw the dogs in the house before I got in the truck we would have done it.
Hi Gandalf,
Thanks for the insightful look in your neck of the woods.
I'm out here in california ( yea i know the politicians suck) :-)
But out here I only have view of the railroad tracks about 10 feet either way sometimes, as the path down the railway is blocked but fencing/buldings/bushes/ (you name it), so the only way to really see what is coming down the tracks is to actually slow down.
I do turn off the radio and open the windows usually as i approach the train tracks and slow down to about 20mph or less if there is no visibility either way.
Luckily the trains know to slow down to a crawl as some of the roads don't have signals and some of the tracks are in poor condition (as you mentioned).
Better safe than sorry, right? :o)
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I live a block from a crossing on the CSX mainline. We go back and forth over it many times daily.
If the transmitter works, people near the tracks are spared the noise of the horn. If the transmitter fails, the engineer sounds the horn as he would if the system did not exist. If the system is designed to fail "safe" (which would not seem overly difficult) what's the problem?
It's not. No system involving electronics is EVER "fail safe". About 4 months ago, they put up signs under the yellow RR crossing warning signs: "NO TRAIN HORN". They're trying to cover their posteriors for when the gate fails, but I don't think drivers are going to understand that that means "LISTEN" doesn't apply here.
It fails on a conservative estimate about once a month. The window between the failure of the gates and when the trainmaster notifies the engineers is the window where a fatal accident is going to happen, sooner or later.
Duplication of systems (gates, crossing bells and lights, train horn, train bell) is the best way to cover that window.
The train was here LONG before this suburb existed. I had no problem with proximity to the southbound horn from 1994 to last year. I used to investigate crossing accidents, and when you've taken photographs of some poor moke's remains crushed inside his car a few times, it gives you a different perspective.
As I said, I didn't mind the horn a bit, it's fairly regular so you get used to it. After 2 weeks they didn't even wake us up any more.
If a system is "fail safe", that means that a failure will not create a hazardous condition. For example, if the system included a couple accelerometers for each gate along with a couple of current sensor for the lights, and those devices were to all report their status to a couple of differently-designed processors, each controlling a relay that feeds the "no horn needed" light, there are many ways the system could fail such that the light wouldn't illuminate, but if that occurs the only effect will be that the engineer sounds the horn. For the system to fail so as to create a hazard, either the lights would somehow have to draw the right amount of current while not illuminating and the accelerometers would have to report the gates were at the proper angle even though they weren't, or else both receiving processors would have to fail simultaneously at the same time as the crossing gates failed. Highly unlikely.
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Dark-haired Eden Levine is one hot tamale who has proudly added Cybergirl of the Week for October 3, 2011 to her resume. Born in El Salvador, Eden is part Salvadorian and part Guatemalan, which perfectly explains her exotic beauty. The fierce Latina now calls Los Angeles hom...
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