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look that up in google earth street view and look up you'll see my antenna (it's huge) channels 7, 9 ,11, 13 no problem
Channel 5 forget about it even though this thing has an UHF component channel 2 is spotty and channel 4 rarely acts up, Now if you look in antenna web and go for a satellite view you'll see my problem a big arse red brick building in the way of my reception on wilshire blvd just a block away and inbetween me and mt wilson. thinking off adding a self built 4 or 8 bay coat hanger antenna, and joining them with a splitter before the whole shabang goes down to my apartment. note here one of my biggest problems is that I have alot of connections (3 computer tuners one sd convertor box and a standard flat panel tv) and my amp is in my apartment where the signal comes in not upstairs by the antenna, can't be helped tried pre-amps they didn't work can't afford a great one the one I tried sucked. So I'm trying to get a better signal in the first place.
Need some hints, have a 3D printer designing a 4 bay maybe an 8 bay to be clipped onto the mast. figure if I add a splitter to use both antenna's I should be in business.
however I need some hints and advice on how to optimize this.
And do the hanger antenna designs really work? 5.75" (146mm distance between the screws)?
any advice would be appreciated
You need a narrow beamwidth antenna, not a four bay coat hanger job.
half of my antenna is similar to a 91xg, (except for the weird shape of the things) if you look at google earth street view you'll see what I mean. I can't buy anything at this time. at least not anything worth mentioning. One catch about using a uvsj is that I would lose the narrow focus uhf part of my big antenna. when I look at the DB8 it's basically an 8 bay wire antenna with a reflector behind it. So the way I read your answer from what I can understand I got the narrow focus, but the direction must be off. I've always had problems getting both 2 and 5 in it has become almost impossible since they built the building next door.
Regrettably my landlord won't cooperate with this and if I raise it any higher I would need guywires and they will not go for it, I got to keep it there, any other place would be blocked. Also the only reason this landlord is letting me keep my antenna on the roof is because I had permission from the previous landlord.
So that mast as it is, is my only option. but I could add like a 4 or 8 bay antenna (if the 8 bays are in one row) to the mast.
thinking if I could find some refrigerator shelves I could put it behind the wire hanger antenna because my mast wouldn't be able to tolerate a solid surface that would act like a sail.
But I would need some data what would be the optimal distance behind the wire hanger can anyone tell me this.
I found out the following other facts
since I had to move my antenna to the other side of the roof after they built that monstrosity next door, the antenna cable was extended, by adding a 50 foot cable, well there is also a 12 - 15 foot cable from the balun to the roof, so the total run to my amplifier is about 120 ft estimated. however the mid piece (which is cheaper cable I assume ) is about 27 ft too long.
If I could get a cable guy to make me a 24 ft piece (they got the really good stuff) I might cut down on about 1-2 db of attenuation. (poor me has to beg for everything)
on the roof with my laptop and a inDtube dtv stick I got channel 2,4,5 in but windows media center register those with 4 bars, so still weaker than channel 7, 9, 11 & 13.
So maybe I can improve cheaply if I beg some peeps, but unless I add an antenna with the same lead length to the splitter I dunno how much it will do good
okies I can tell you some more news still need help, replaced the excess run of 50 ft rg6U with 25 feet of rg6 high performance from a satellite guy that was nice. However this did nothing to improve my reception, also found out my philips amp did nothing as well took it out all the channels are still the same. Also found out that this is my antenna Channel master ADVANTAGE SERIES VHF/UHF/FM 30-ELEMENT, 113''BOOM. From what I heard in two different forums the antenna should be fine. need to still try to replace my balun and the first part of the cable run (15 feet lower quality cable with 15 feet of cable tv quality I scored the other day as well. However, the location where it's mounted, it's slanted, means I'm gonna need some help with this, and I'll need some help from some people to do this (for safety's sake).
What else can I say? I might need to replace the screws in order to do this and I will definetly need my laptop (with a tv tuner) to do the orientation, just to figure out if I can improve my reception on the worst channels without losing the other ones.
this is all I have found out in the last couple of days, main things that need to be done in my opinion sand contacts replace balun and that cable and maybe reorient by about 1 to 3 degrees, maybe much more and find a bounce signal, if that does not help then I'll be at my wit's end.
Anything else you folks can think of would be appreciated.
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If the new Evergeen building is now in the way of your signals, I wonder if you can pick up some useful reflections from a building that is east or west of your location.
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redoing the distance is not a problem I can just print some spacers and since I only cut one of my hangers so far I could redo the length as well, but here is my real question assuming I'm aiming in the same direction exactly and I have this bow tie type antenna on the mast approximately 1 ft behind the balun tap (exact measurement to follow) for the channel master I have on the roof in order to splitter combine them would the lead from the bow tie have to be one ft shorter so the signals sync up? this is just theory right now, but I just wanted to know after I try to rehab the antenna and I still don't get a strong enough signal. 2,4,5 i.e. 43, 36,31 RF channels those are the weakest channels I got that actually bother me, the upper channel numbers are fairly irrelevant.
so I would need an antenna that is optimized for rf between 31 and 43.
Does anyone have any clue about combining antennas? and which way this would work best? because the uhf 31-43 are the ones I need and they are fairly miserable.
albeit just from a location standpoint 36 (aka ch4 nbc) has the strongest signal right now (as in 50-60) channel 43 (aka ch2 cbs ) is at about 42 in signal strength and channel 31 (aka ktla5) hovers around 36 and drops out all the time. the HI-VHF channels are all in the upper 70's to 90's except for 8 and 10 which I dun give a crp about.
So next on the agenda is taking the antenna down for about 30 min cleaning the contacts replacing that last stretch (15ft) with better cable and sanding the contacts and then trying to reorient the antenna minutely and seeing with my laptop if I can get a little better positioning.
The bowtie antenna should be above or below the big antenna, not behind it.
Lord Kelvin, 1883
Folks, got somethings to report, checked my balun sanded contacts, replaced the 15 ft of coax from the antenna to roof (was rg59 mismatch now it's cable quality rg6 :) )
played with the orientation did not get much improvement at all but the contacts and the cable gave me a very slight improvement signal wise. However where it comes into my house (used a laptop an an atsc stick and I lose most of the dropouts on channel 2,4,5 (43,36,31 RF respectively). So I'm thinking that I should get a distribution amp lose the 2 way splitter and the three way living room splitter leaving only the one 2 way splitter in the bedroom. there is a ge distribution amp that is with-in my current price range http://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-4-Way-Distribution-Amplifier-73290/202698886#.Ultxub8aA20 thinking this could eliminate the losses suffered due to my insane setup ( five total tuners, convertor box living room, bedroom tv, network hdhomerun (will go in livingroom as it is now) and the tvminihd on my hack that is hook to my bedroom tv. Also in the future I might want to add one more hdhomerun, but this would mean splitting again I dunno if that will be feasible, without building a better hd uhf antenna. As I said before the vhf channels all hover around 87 % the ones that count.
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I am a first time homeowner with a decent bathroom right now. However a few new items would make a huge difference. All I want to do is tile the floor, install a new shower/tub, new vanity and new toilet. I will be removing the old linoleum flooring in there right now as well. I need to know the order to do those things. Here is what we have in mind:
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My only fear is that I install new tile and when I go to replace the toilet the plumbing wont line up.
Also any other tips and advice would help as well.
Most toilet flanges ( the hole in the floor) are set at a standard distance from the wall. If you are intending to install a new one, before you purchase check the instruction manual on line for the dimensions and compare them with what yours is at right now, should be the same.
Typically toilets are a standard 12" (to the center of the drain hole) from the back wall (but not always) so verify that dimension before you go to buy a new one.
Depending on what type of supply line you have you may need to buy a new supply line but that's not an issue at all.:)
Thanks for the info...im gunna run with it.
I am thinking a fiberglass tube however I have heard some things about having the tub sit in a type of mortar mixture, is this true?
I've never installed a fiberglass tub but I have had a fiberglass tub bottom crack on me due to too much flex. This was in a mobile home we owned years ago so no real surprise there. That is your chief concern. You want to make sure that there is no flex in the tub bottom once you installed it.
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i have a ford 8" rear end that im planning on putting in my Duster. most think the rear wont be strong enough for what i want to do. theres a 65 or 66 mustang at the junkyard with just the 9" hosuing left. im sure i can get a centersection with a decent ratio from a van or truck, i saw alot there.
will the 28 spline 8" axles work in the 9" as long as i get a 28 spline centersection?
will the backing plates bolt up?
Or will a 8" with 4.10 gears hold up to a mild 360/727 and a manual valve body? i wont ever run slicks on it. what will be the first to breaks? my gess is the spider gears.
yes the same axles and backing plates will work as long as the length is the same.
Hmmm, 4.10s, no slicks, mild 360, fmvb...
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Choosing a digital SLR for our top award for 2009 has been a very difficult decision. We've seen some superb cameras this year, including the Nikon D300s, D5000 and D3x, the Canon EOS 5D MkII, 500D and 50D, the Sony A300 and A330, and the Olympus E-620. One camera stands out even in such esteemed company though, and that is the Pentax K-7. Although Pentax lags some way behind Canon and Nikon in worldwide sales, its digital SLR cameras have seldom been less than excellent, and at their best can match or exceed anything the mass-market competition can offer.
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BRITAIN is in the grip of an icy blizzard so severe that it crippled London's bus network, which carried on even during the Blitz, and caused transport chaos throughout the country.
More snow has been forecast throughout Britain, which is experiencing its harshest winter weather in 18 years.
Adults and children trapped at home have headed outdoors to play, throw snowballs and in, some city parks, to ski and snowboard. In London, it was reported sledges had sold out.
And while snowstorms also hit Italy, killing three people, and Spain, there has been widespread anger that London has been paralysed by the snow while other European cities deal with it as a matter of course.
Town halls have begun to run out of grit and salt, de-icing trucks have been deployed too late for peak traffic periods, buses in central London ground to a halt on Monday and the Tube and railways were closed for long stretches of the day.
The nation's 2800 schools were to remain closed for a second day yesterday and between a quarter and half the nation's workers were expected to stay home or work from home on the second day of the blizzard, costing the economy an estimated £1.2 billion ($2.6 billion).
The last time Britain experienced such widespread snowfall was in February 1991. The British meteorological offices now forecasts that more than 30 centimetres could fall in London, while northern England and the Pennines could see as much as 50 centimetres.
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has defended the decision to ground buses, saying unleashing them onto ice would turn them into "lethal weapons". He was heavily criticised by his predecessor, Ken Livingstone, who said buses had never "in a million years" been stopped by the snow.
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UPDATE: High-profile sex offender who fled Canada arrested in West Seattle; Police investigating sexual assault claim
Stanley allegedly assaulted a 16-year-old boy in West Seattle prior to his arrest
Updated story for Oct. 22, 12:45 p.m.
A high-risk violent sex offender who fled Canada and was located in Seattle by authorities on Oct. 17 was arrested in West Seattle in the early morning hours of Oct. 22 for investigation of sexual assault of a teen victim and harassment.
Michael Sean Stanley, 48, has made the international news rounds in the past week after he was allowed entry into the United States.
After registering as a homeless sex offender with the King County Sheriff's Office on Oct. 19 nothing had been heard until Stanley reemerged in West Seattle. According to police, several people called 911 shortly before 6 a.m. on Oct. 22 to report a man was yelling in an alleyway near the 2400 block of 44th Ave. S.W. (behind the Admiral Theater).
One witness told police he asked the screaming man to quiet down and Stanley allegedly threatened to assault him. Police say Stanley was combative with officers when they arrived and claimed to be armed with a knife. During his arrest a small knife was recovered and officers noted he "appeared intoxicated."
Afterward, further police investigation and an incoming tip revealed Stanley allegedly sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy prior to his arrest.
According to police, Stanley met the 16-year-old at a West Seattle grocery store. From there, police said he allegedly "struck up a conversation with the teen and walked him to an alley in the 2400 block of 44th Ave. S.W." where he gave the teen alcohol, grabbed him and sexually assaulted him.
Police said the 16-year-old pulled a knife on Stanley and was able to escape.
The alley near the 2400 block of 44th Ave. S.W. is near the Admiral Junction (just west of California Ave. S.W.), home to nearby child care, elementary and high school institutions.
Stanley's journey to Seattle began on Oct. 1 when, according to an Associated Press report from Mike Baker, he disappeared near the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary in Canada after cutting off an electronic monitoring bracelet. Schools in the area were put on lockdown after his disappearance as authorities searched for the man with "a long history of sexual offenses against women and children …" including a recent 32-month prison stint for assault and forcible confinement involving minors.
Through tips, Seattle Police and U.S. Marshals located Stanley at the corner of 2nd and Yesler in downtown Seattle on Oct. 17, yet they could not arrest him as he had not committed any crimes in the U.S. and Canada decided not to extradite him. Based on his history, however, the King County Sheriff's Office was able to require he register as a sex offender, which he did the next day.
KCSO spokeswoman Sgt. Cindi West said Stanley registered as homeless with a general address of 1st and Pike, downtown. He was classified as a level 2 sex offender (moderate risk to reoffend), the base classification for homeless offenders. West said his classification could be moved up to a 3 (high risk to reoffend) after they have had a chance to review his Canadian arrest record and run his history through the state's scoring system for offenders.
Stanley is currently booked in King County jail and is scheduled to make a court appearance later this week.
SPD and the King County Sheriff's Office "are now working to determine how this (arrest) will impact his offender status," according to SPD.
Correction: Stanley is an American citizen. Updated the headline on Oct. 22 to reflect he is not Canadian.
Update for Oct. 22, 11:45 p.m.
Seattle Police are now investigating Canadian sex offender Micheal Sean Stanley for a sexual assault in West Seattle after more details came to light after this morning's arrest.
Here is the update from SPD's Blotter:
Shortly after arresting sex offender Michael Sean Stanley this morning, Seattle police received information that he may be the suspect in a sexual assault in West Seattle earlier today.
According to the report police received this morning, Stanley met a 16-year-old male at a grocery store, struck up a conversation with the teen, and walked with him to an alley in the 2400 block of 44th Ave. SW. In the alley, Stanley plied the teen with alcohol, grabbed the teen, and sexually assaulted him.
The 16-year-old pulled a knife on Stanley and was able to run to another location and contact police.
Detectives believe this incident may have preceded several calls to police about noise and threats in the alleyway. After investigating those complaints this morning, officers arrested Stanley for harassment.
Stanley, who fled Canada and entered the US earlier this month, is currently in the King County Jail, but will be re-booked on additional charges today.
Stanley is currently registered as a sex offender and is under the supervision of the King County Sheriff's Office. Authorities are now working to determine how this will impact his offender status.
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Seattle Police just announced the arrest of Michael Sean Stanley for investigation of harassment in West Seattle after he was found threatening people and yelling on the 2300 block of 44th Ave. S.W. in the early morning hours of Oct. 22.
Stanley has been widely reported on this past week after Seattle Police and US Marshals found him in the downtown core. Stanley had reportedly fled Canada where he is known to have committed predatory crimes, and was required by the King County Sheriff's Office to register as a sex offender after Canada declined to extradite him.
Here are the details on this morning's arrest from Seattle Police (and we will update when we get more information):
Seattle police have arrested Sean Michael Stanley, a violent sex offender who fled Canada and entered the US earlier this month.
Just before 6 AM this morning, police received several reports that a man was yelling in an alley near the 2300 block of 44th Avenue SW in West Seattle.
One caller told police that when he'd asked the man to quiet down, the man had threatened to assault him.
When police arrived at the scene, they found Stanley, who became combative with officers and claimed he had a knife.
After finding a small knife on Stanley, who appeared intoxicated, officers booked him into the King County Jail for harassment.
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Posted by Tom Grant on July 7, 2010
[Another interesting finding about the requirements tool market, from research by Yours Truly and Mary Gerush. For other observations about this very interesting market, click here and here.]
As organizations improve their requirements practices, and as the requirements tool vendors adapt in response, the front end of the requirements process is getting a disproportionate amount of attention. Many requirements defects start early, with the information that you feed into the requirements-generating machine. For example, if you don't have a clue how criminal investigators work, you're going to make basic mistakes in feature prioritization and design when you build a case management system for them.
And it's not just the information that has fallen under suspicion. A lot of people are equally worried about the other raw material, ideas, that you feed into this machinery. Here are a few commonly cited concerns:
- Missed opportunities. Customers, partners, and even people in our own organization have great ideas that we're not hearing.
- Miscommunication. People with good ideas don't always make themselves clear, and even if they do, we might misunderstand them.
- Misconception. We don't have reliable ways to measure the relative value of ideas that we might pursue, for both ourselves and for our customers.
- Missteps. It takes too long to collect, analyze, and communicate ideas.
- Misanthropy. We don't like listening to other people. Perhaps it's because we're so brilliant that we don't need to.
Innovation management vendors exist to help with these problems. Aside from the small, specialty vendors focused primarily on innovation, such as Spigit, Imaginatik, and Brightidea, other vendors big and small – Jive, IBM, PTC, and salesforce.com, to name but a few – have added innovation management, or innovation-ish products and services, to their existing portfolios.
On the surface, there appears to be a big market for innovation vendors. Many organizations have departments dedicated to innovation, and the title "chief innovation officer" doesn't sound as novel as it did just a few years ago. Technology vendors believe that innovation powers their business, so in theory, there's a huge market for innovation assistance in that sector alone.
And yet, the innovation management vendors have yet to capitalize on this seemingly vast opportunity. Among a wealth of possible explanations (for example, are organizations really as willing to dive headfirst into the deep end of the innovation pool as they claim?), our research into the requirements market provides one definite answer: Ideation, which has been the emphasis of the innovation management market, is only the first step of the innovation process. Ideas have no value unless you're able to act upon them.
Which is why, for the sake of our overview of the requirements market, we decided to include innovation management vendors. Potentially, they can make valuable contributions to the early phases of the requirements process, where teams are collecting both ideas (what to build) and information (for whom, in what form, and for whose benefit). The teams that might use these tools already understand this use case, since they have to identify good ideas and swiftly act upon them. It's all one process to them, even if that's not how innovation vendors or requirements vendors have seen things.
Ideas feed into other processes than requirements, but innovation vendors have to connect their products and services to something. Ideation on its own is just a form of what early social scientists called sterile excitation, "romanticism of the intellectually interesting, running into emptiness devoid of all sense of objective responsibility."
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Comment from Vincent Carbone on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 02:57
Hi Tom,
Thanks for putting together this piece and including Innovation Management in your research.
I think you are correct about "Ideas have no value unless you're able to act upon them"... What we have found over the past 11 years at Brightidea is that companies operate around the entity of a "Project" not an "Idea". Projects get funding, resources and eventually have the opportunity to be realized.
In understanding this and listening to our clients, we have developed two components of our suite to help our clients transition their good ideas into projects.
With our Swithboard and Pipeline our clients are gathering and collaborating on the needed background and business metrics that provided management a solid foundation to turn the ideas into projects (which get acted upon).
Let us know if you are interested learning more about these important aspects of our solution and clients success.
Vincent Carbone
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Oil refinery waste suspected in Craig
CDPHE: Texaco potential source of soil, water contamination
July 27, 2012
In other action …
During its regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, the Craig City Council:
• Approved, 4-0, July 10 meeting minutes.
• Approved, 4-0, the renewal of a retail liquor store license for Eastside Liquor, 539 E. Victory Way.
• Postponed renewing a 3.2-percent retail beer license for Pizza Hut, 1070 W. Victory Way, due to the lack of a business representative present.
• Postponed renewing a 3.2-percent retail beer license for Walmart, 2000 W. Victory Way, due to the lack of a business representative present.
• Approved, 4-0, a temporary hotel and restaurant liquor license for Double Barrel Steakhouse, LLC, 351 Ranney St. The city council will host a hearing Aug. 28 to determine if the business will receive a regular license.
• Approved, 4-0, a $49,868.50 bid from Anson Excavating for curb, gutter and concrete improvements.
• Heard a monthly financial report on behalf of city finance director Bruce Nelson, who was absent.
— Councilors Ray Beck, Gene Bilodeau and Byron Willems were absent from the meeting.
Some of Craig's hotels, businesses and residences may be sitting atop contaminated soils and ground water reserves from an oil refinery abandoned more than 65 years ago.
City of Craig and Moffat County employees were recently made aware of the potential soil and groundwater contamination on the west side of Craig by representatives of the Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
Among some of the suspected soil contaminants in unknown volumes are sludge, oily waste, solvents, pesticides, organic and inorganic chemicals, acids, bases, and heavy metals, according to a July 16 Department of Public Health and Environment report.
Elevated levels of arsenic, lead, chromium and zinc — in volumes exceeding Colorado Basic Standards for Groundwater — also are suspected in some of Craig's surface and shallow groundwater reserves.
The alleged contamination is located near the intersections of West Third Street and Colorado Highway 13, between West Third and Clay streets, where Beacon, N.J.-based Texaco, Inc. operated an oil refinery from 1926 to 1947.
During that time, Texaco reportedly refined 1,000 barrels of crude oil per day into gasoline products.
In addition to a refinery, Texaco also operated an above ground storage facility located on the west side of Colorado Highway 13, where Rocky Mountain Inn, the Holiday Inn of Craig and Hampton Inn & Suites currently sit.
The old refinery, located across the highway from the storage tank farm, now houses Trapper Fitness Center, Best Western Deer Park Inn and Suites, Fastenal Company and Severson Supply & Rental Co.
The Department of Public Health and Environment report does not cite any recent scientific studies.
Instead, the report references two studies conducted on the potential contamination site, one done by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1984 and another conducted around 2000 by Bob Peterson, of CDPHE's solid waste unit in Grand Junction.
The 1984 EPA study was prompted when, during the construction of a road to the Craig sewage treatment plant, city employees encountered black, oily and odorous soils two feet below the surface throughout the majority of Texaco's old refinery site.
At the time, the EPA reported 15 shallow water wells with an average depth of 38 feet were located within a mile of the refinery site.
In addition, EPA officials received reports of oil oozing out of the ground from residents of Lamplighter Estates Mobile Park, 2210 W. Third St.
Peterson returned more than 15 years later to conduct groundwater monitoring and reported contaminants exceeded Colorado Basic Standards for Groundwater.
But, no action was taken.
The lack of action prompted council members to ask Tuesday why a resolution hadn't been reached long ago.
"The city council met (Tuesday night) and discussed the former Texaco refinery site summary you provided to me," Craig City Manager Jim Ferree wrote in an email to CDPHE officials.
"There is one question. It appears from your report that there have been several site visits over the years. The city council is wondering, why now?"
CDPHE officials said they were unaware the site existed until recently.
Additional discussions about the former Texaco refinery site are expected to take place by city and county officials the next several weeks, but because the site is located within Craig city limits, Moffat County officials said they believe city council members should take the lead.
In the meantime, the report states CDPHE officials have contacted representatives from Chevron-Texaco to gauge their interest in participating in the cleanup effort at their legacy site.
If those efforts are unsuccessful, the report states CDPHE would assist city and/or county officials with acquiring funds through the EPA Brownsfield program for investigation and remediation operations.
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2014–15 Undergraduate Bulletin
2014–15 Undergraduate Bulletin > Academic Departments, Programs, and Courses > Department of History
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Charles Bolton, Professor and Head of Department
Professors Bilinkoff, Kriger, Mazgaj, Ruzicka
Associate Professors Anderson, Barton, Elliott, Filene, Hunter, Jackson, Jennison, Jones, Levenstein, O'Brien, Rupert, Tolbert
Assistant Professors Bender, Eger, Levine, Parsons, Villella
Lecturer Moser
Adjunct Professors Ali, Leimenstoll
The Department of History offers a program which has four principal objectives: 1) to provide a general knowledge of the history of the United States, Europe, and the wider world (as we have defined our fields of concentration); 2) to teach students to think and read critically and thereby to develop the ability to analyze historical documents and to appreciate the nature of historical interpretations; 3) to improve students' ability to communicate both orally and in writing; and, 4) to foster the ability to conduct historical research. The Department offers a broad spectrum of courses in U.S., European, and wider world history; in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods; in social, cultural, political, economic, intellectual, military, and diplomatic history; the history of science; and in a variety of special topics including gender, sexuality, witchcraft, and terrorism.
The History Major prepares students for career opportunities in a wide range of employment, where liberally educated minds can be turned to fruitful account. It offers an excellent general background for later, more specialized studies in fields such as law and journalism. A number of history majors go on to work in public service at the local, state, and federal levels or find employment in those areas of the private sector where a premium is put on a sound general education. Finally, many history majors employ their skills more directly: in the teaching profession (from the primary through graduate school levels), in museums and archives, or in the expanding field of historical preservation work.
The department offers programs leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree in history, the Master of Arts in history, and the Doctor of Philosophy in history.
Although the department does not formally restrict admission to its courses with regard to level, it recommends its 300-level courses to sophomores and above and its 400- and 500-level courses to juniors and seniors.
Academic Departments, Programs, and Courses
History Major (HIST)—B.A.
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Avinash Rajagopal dives into OpenBuildings.com:
"Wikipedia tends to be long on technical information and short on architectural criticism. A typical page on OpenBuildings, on the other hand, has all the basic information you might need-contractors, materials, costs, etc.-but it also has the potential to gather opinions, in the form of user reviews as well as links to articles by professional architecture critics."
Rajopal says the site also has an iPhone app in the works so you can read about buildings on the go.


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You'll notice I haven't posted a lot of my replicas as of late. Serendipitously, the gates of Warner Brothers opened wide when I recently did some work for a license holder. Couple that with Mina Lima's fantastic collection of prints at The Printorium (the exact files, but not the exact medium) and it would seem all my replica dreams have come true. That's when I realized that my love of making replica props is rooted in the hunt for the elusive details other people might miss. When I get together with other replica makers, that's the geeking out I enjoy: Pointing out what's exact, what isn't, and why.
It's rare that I find other people as obsessed as I am with wanting to create an exact duplicate. When I read Celestial Toystore's write up of his process to make the perfect replica Sherlock coat, I knew I'd found a kindred spirit: http://www.sherlockcoat.com/ 3D scanned buttons with color matching! That is a quest for accuracy.
I don't think it's about fooling people. It's about knowing you were able to perfectly recreate a process.
At the moment, I've given replicating a bit of a rest. I'm filling my toolbox with new skills and waiting for something to grab my eye.


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Team USA's Gina Oliver: There and Back Again
July 8, 2013
Article Courtesy of Clare Lochary of Lacrosse Magazine
Gina Oliver decided to quit while she was ahead. The All-World women's lacrosse defender had won gold with Team USA at the 2009 FIL Women's World Cup. Physically and mentally exhausted by the five-year journey between her first national team tryout and her first international medal, Oliver figured it was better to free up a roster spot for someone younger and hungrier.
"I don't want to just do it and take the opportunity away from someone who's really working at it like I did," she said. "If this is right for me, if I leave it and miss it, I can come back."
After the 2009 World Cup, Oliver returned to Pittsburgh, where she is an assistant coach at Duquesne University, and indulged in her favorite post-Team USA recovery ritual -- a two-hour massage. She worked out less, concentrated on coaching and enjoyed the break from playing.
But 18 months later, sitting on the couch and watching Team USA in the 2011 Champion Challenge on ESPN, the urge to play came back. Watching her teammates on TV felt weird."I've been a part of a team, and competition, for so long that I missed it," Oliver said. "I had that itch. I'm not done yet. I still want to play."
Thus Oliver came back to the team in the summer 2011 and made the cut again. She returned to international competition last July, and will be suiting up once again this month in Oshawa Ontario for the FIL World Cup.. Any steps she lost she regained by training on her own and with Duquesne's strength and conditioning coach.
Plus, she now has what might politely be called the benefit of experience. Oliver, 29, describes her veteran status more bluntly.
"As a coach, I wish I knew then what I know now. I see the game in a totally different light, especially now that I'm an old hag and I can't move as well," she said.
Oliver has always had an on-again-off-again relationship with the national team. Mike Scerbo, once an assistant at Ohio State and now the head coach at Duquesne, had to talk her into trying out when she was a breakout player for the Buckeyes, winning American Lacrosse Conference Rookie of the Year in 2002 and Player of the Year in 2003. She went to her first national team tryout in summer 2004 as a ride-along with former Ohio State career goals leader Megan Mirick.
"I told her, 'Just go along with Megan. Worst-case scenario, you play in a great tournament and maybe learn something," Scerbo said.
Oliver was cut from the team.
"I was really, really mad," she said. "That was the first time I was told I wasn't good enough."
But the tryout experience sparked something in Oliver. After the final cut, she got a note from Sue Heether, then the Team USA team goalie and later head coach of the 2009 squad, telling her she had exceptional talent and should continue pursuing a chance to play for Team USA.
"It started to become her goal, something that she wanted rather than something that I wanted for her," Scerbo said. "She has that unbelievable desire to win. She was blessed to be a very gifted young lady athletically -- speed, strength, quickness -- but what sets her apart from her peers is she is the epitome of a competitor. You can play checkers with her and she'll want to play until she wins. We play PIG on the basketball court and she gets mad at me if I even come close to beating her."
Oliver first made the cut for Team USA in 2006, still ambivalent about the long commitment required to make a World Cup roster and win a world title. She graduated from college as Ohio State's all-time leader in ground balls (236) and caused turnovers (201), ranked second in draw controls and third in career points (166), but she was not yet sure she wanted to make a career of lacrosse. Sue Stimmel, then head coach of the Buckeyes, encouraged her to stick it out for loftier reasons.
"The typical lacrosse player comes from middle class or upper middle class and has it pretty good. Gina is not your typical lacrosse player," said Stimmel, now the head coach at Upper Arlington (Ohio) High.
Oliver grew up in Pottstown, Pa., a place she describes as "a little rinky-dink town." Her father died when she was in sixth grade, and her mother struggled with substance abuse. In high school, she bounced between a network of aunts and other relatives. Stimmel had a string of different phone numbers to try when contacting Oliver during the recruiting process.
Stimmel discovered Oliver by chance when she caught a Pottstown (Pa.) High game during a trip home to southeastern Pennsylvania. When she saw Oliver tearing up the field, she got mad at herself for missing such a talent. How had someone so good slipped through the fingers of the dozens of college lacrosse coaches combing the area for prospects?
When she spoke to Trojans head coach Andy Bachman, she was stunned to discover the reason.
"She was a field general. She was the one calling plays, directing traffic, telling people where to go and what to do," Bachman said. "She was one of the reasons why -- not just for the years she was here, but after she left -- we had such a strong team. It was her presence in the locker room and on the sidelines."
Bachman recruited Oliver to play for Pottstown and paid her way to play in the 2000 US Lacrosse Women's Division National Tournament. She played for Upper Atlantic 3, which won the championship, becoming the lowest-seeded team to ever earn the Valerie Walchak Trophy. Even if Oliver did not know she was destined for greatness, others did. At the 2000 WDNT, Sue Stahl, then head coach of the women's national team and at Old Dominion, told Bachman that if Oliver stayed healthy, she was a lock for Team USA someday.
Stimmel didn't want to see Oliver turn away from that opportunity, so when they were both home for Christmas in 2006, Stimmel arranged a lunch with Hall of Famer Tina Sloan Green. Sloan Green was the first black NCAA women's lacrosse coach and won national championships in 1982 and 1984 at Temple. Stimmel was a goalie on both teams.
"I loved it because she's big on the bigger picture," Oliver said.
Sloan Green impressed upon Oliver the importance of giving young black girls a role model in women's lacrosse. Oliver treasured her memory of playing with Cherie Greer during her first Team USA tryout and thought about the larger implications of her lacrosse career.
"Tina's all about getting more African-Americans into lacrosse. My story and my journey would impact a girl somewhere out there -- whether it inspired her to try lacrosse or another sport -- and do something with her life outside the usual things in the city," Oliver said. "Or it might be for a Caucasian girl in Arizona who picked up the sport later and really sucked at first, but made it. That humbled me. It's not about me."
Oliver has five nieces and three nephews. As it turns out, the fiercest defender in the world is a big softy when it comes to little kids. If she were not coaching, she said, she would run a daycare center.
"If you ever see her work a camp, she has every single kid in love with her at the end of it," said Team USA goalie Devon Wills.
Oliver's nieces, nephews and godchildren were too young to appreciate her 2009 achievements. But now they are old enough to understand, and the 2013 FIL World Cup will be in Canada, close enough for them to travel to the games if she makes the team. She plans to do so.
"That was my motivation that I can do this," Oliver said. "I can have my nieces and nephews sitting at a World Cup game and seeing their aunt play with a U.S.


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BALTIMORE (Stockpickr) -- It's earnings season, which means that the stakes are raised for the next six weeks or so, as a slew of significant corporate earnings results get released to the public. Earnings are a big deal for any investor: After all, good earnings can be the catalyst for monumental moves in stocks -- and poor numbers can trigger double-digit sell-offs just as easily.
It all comes down to earnings surprise.
Simply put, an earnings surprise is when a company exceeds or falls short of the market's expectations for its results. So to be fair, it's not just strong earnings that spur a buying frenzy in a stock; instead, you need to find stocks with stronger earnings than the market had already priced in. Today, we're going to attempt to spot those stocks ahead of time.
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To do that, we're looking at the S&P 500's perennial outperformers -- stocks that have a history of material positive earnings surprise in the last several years. Not only do they have a higher statistical likelihood of being underrated by Wall Street, but I think that these names are also much more likely to beat estimates this quarter given the subdued valuations we're seeing in 2011.
Though betting on stocks ahead of earnings adds considerable risk to even the bluest of blue chip portfolios, it also obviously increases the potential gains that you can collect as an investor. Without further ado, here's a look at six stocks that my earnings surprise model is giving high marks to for this quarter.
Exxon Mobil
2011 has already been a fairly strong year for oil and gas supermajor Exxon Mobil (XOM). Shares of the company have rallied more than 14% year-to-date, besting the S&P by almost 9% on the heels of prolonged triple-digit oil prices. With earnings scheduled for next Thursday, this stock could make an excellent earnings surprise play.
Part of that comes from the fact that Wall Street has proven unable to accurately predict Exxon's earnings. Over the past five years, XOM has bested Wall Street's earnings expectations nearly two-thirds of the time -- and it's beaten sales predictions three-quarters of the time. Those sales surprises are very material too -- average surprise rings in at 155.2%.
Low costs should be one of the biggest elements of success for Exxon this quarter. Because the firm already sports strength on the demand side of the equation as well as comparatively low costs at its oil and gas-producing assets, the company's margins should continue to ring in strong this quarter. If an earnings beat comes with a dividend increase, shares could seriously appreciate next week.
Exxon, a holding in Warren Buffett's portfolio, is one of the 2011 Dividend Aristocrats.
E*Trade Financial
Discount brokerage firm E*Trade Financial (ETFC) isn't an earnings surprise play for the faint of heart. This stock fell into significant financial distress during the height of the recession as attempts to increase returns backfired in tougher economic times. But as the stock starts to shore up its business once again, investors could benefit from increased fundamental performance.
E*Trade expanded its operations during the boom, shifting its focus from discount brokerage to a more-capital intensive integrated banking model. While the move provided profitability when times were good, it left E*Trade with a balance sheet riddled with risky, unattractive assets when the bottom fell out of the housing market. Since then, E*Trade has returned to its core brokerage business, opting to court more revenue-intensive traders as it restructured its heavy debt load.
From an earnings consistency standpoint, this stock isn't a high-quality name. Even so, Wall Street has known that for a while, leaving much of its discontent priced into shares right now. With average sales surprise of 136.1%, E*Trade could impress investors when it announced its numbers tonight after the bell. Still, consider this pre-earnings buy as speculative as they get.
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the company. That upward sentiment swing could play well after the bell.
E*Trade is one of the top holdings of David Tepper's Appaloosa Management as of the most recently reported quarter.
Berkshire Hathaway
On the other end of the spectrum is Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B). Headed by Warren Buffett, this $188 billion conglomerate is the prototypical blue-chip stock. Berkshire owns a wide bevy of businesses, from GEICO Insurance to Netjets to apparel names such as Fruit of the Loom and Acme Boots.
Berkshire's diversified operations mean that the company is less susceptible to more contained economic hiccups -- still, at its core, Berkshire Hathaway is a financial firm, and investors shouldn't discount the stock's exposure to more severe swings in interest rates or insurance losses.
Related: Warren Buffett's Top 10 Dividend Stocks
Even though this stock has long been a Wall Street darling, it still has a history of besting analysts' rosy expectations. Over the past 19 quarters, Berkshire has posted positive earnings surprise 13 times -- on average, beating estimates by double-digits.
Berkshire should report its second quarter 2011 numbers by the first week of August.
Philip Morris International
Overseas tobacco giant Philip Morris International (PM) is another name that's shown solid performance in 2011 -- shares have rallied more than 17% so far this year. The company weighs in as the world's second-largest tobacco company, with popular cigarette brands such as Marlboro, L&M, and Parliament flying the firm's corporate flag. Financially, Philip Morris International has been performing at a high level in recent years, thanks largely to a major shift in demographics to the emerging markets.
While saturated markets in Western Europe offer few avenues for growth right now, less developed cigarette markets like China, Africa, and Eastern Europe do still have upside. In the cigarette business, brand is still a crucial element of any firm's strategy, and because PM lays claim to such a powerful portfolio of names, the company is able to command a premium price and enjoy strong consumer stickiness even in less affluent markets.
Foreign currency risk is one of the biggest challenges to consistent earnings estimates for this stock. Still, a weak dollar has previously acted in PM's favor, generating average sales surprise of 11.5% in the last five years. Watch for earnings tomorrow before the market opens.
Philip Morris, one of the highest-yielding tobacco stocks, shows up on a recent list of 10 Value Stocks to Make Money in 2011.
Best-in-breed automaker Ford (F) may be one of the best examples of what a positive earnings surprise can do for a company that's been on the wrong side of investor sentiment for too long. Ford shares rallied nearly 20% on outsized earnings numbers last October, and earnings on July 26 could give investors more of the same after a six-month selloff.
Ford has made significant strides toward improving its quality in the last few years -- not only the quality of its earnings but also the quality of its cars. Recent initial quality awards are finally curbing the notion that American cars can't compete with foreign rivals from a quality and efficiency standpoint. And Ford is benefiting immensely from a sales standpoint.
In 2009, Ford's persistence paid off, and the firm was able to record its first profit in years -- a profit that more than doubled last year. The firm has beaten analyst expectations by an average of 19.3% in the last five years, quite an accomplishment when you consider the fact that those years include pre-turnaround performance. This stock should be a solid performer this earnings season.
Ford, one of TheStreet Ratings' top-rated automobile stocks, was featured recently in "5 High-Beta Stocks That Could Explode."
First Solar
First Solar (FSLR) is a giant in the solar business, an industry that's admittedly fallen upon hard times in the last few quarters. Even though shares have fallen more than 25% since its February peak, bearish analyst expectations could yield profits for investors if this name is able to produce a "less worse" quarter.
Right now, the consensus estimate for First Solar is 92 cents per share -- half of the EPS number that the company generated a year ago. While that muted estimate is based on diminished demand, and absurd competition, Wall Street may have overcompensated for market conditions.
First Solar is still the cost leader in the solar business, something that's becoming all the more valuable as silicon prices increase input costs for all players. The company's size also plays in its favor -- while other names in this capital-intensive industry are leveraged to the hilt, FSLR's league leader status has enabled the company to build out an attractive balance sheet.
Earnings surprise has traditionally been outsized at First Solar -- the company's EPS have historically bested estimates by 41.6% since going public. Investors should keep an eye on First Solar's earnings call, expected to take place next week.
First Solar shows up on a recent list of 5 Top Energy Stocks From Goldman Sachs.
To see these earnings surprise plays in action, check out the Earnings Surprise Q2 2011 Portfolio on Stockpickr.
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Hamilton North Special School is having its 8th Annual Charity Motorbike run on Sunday the 23th November 2014. This is an event that is open to anyone that rides a motorbike and is to raise money to help children with Special Needs
Two weeks further on and finally feeling that the first milestone is just around the corner
having the bike registered and getting number plates!! :-)
Id been struggling to refit the gearbox to the bell-housing, not being able to centre everything just right for it to slide back together. So, using the dimensions given in my Haynes manual, Mace Engineering machined a tool to help centre
God, it's the beginning of July already! Winter seems to have set in with dreary grey days on end and none of the exciting stuff like snow or electrical storms. In my last post Mike the auto-sparky had been for his second visit to rewire the bike and return it as much as possible to 'factory' wiring. The idea being to establish a known starting point and see what improvement, if any, it made to the way the bike was running. So...
Re-connecting the fan and thermo-sensor seems to have
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Thursday evening was the last of the Honda Twilight Ride Days. It's only 3 sessions but it's also really cheap.
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Christmas can be stressful, not just because of money -- but more often because of time. "I have three days to buy 16 presents, bake 12 dozen cookies, and I have to throw a party featuring my famous 'buche du noel' " can become an all too frequent refrain. Divide and conquer when the task list gets too long (but first just take some of the items off the list -- maybe the Nativity scene never gets set up or maybe this is the year you send New Years cards instead of Christmas cards). You can simplify your holidays by setting priorities and choosing the things that matter most to you and your family.
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Since we all lead whirlwind lives -- long work hours, lots of friends, or big families -- the best gift can often be the gift of time. Last Christmas, my husband Dan gave me "I will get the buffet chest refinished" (this family antique desperately needed work and I had never gotten around to it). Girlfriends and I often give each other theater tickets -- mostly because we all love musicals but also because it's a promise to spend time together.
The gift of time can also apply to personal finance. There are plenty of chores to promise as a gift: opening an IRA, researching insurance, or opening a brokerage account. None of these are very time-consuming, but they can easily be overlooked in the whirl of the holiday season.
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Families differ on the activities, religiosity, and gift-giving of Christmas and Hanukkah and a marriage means two families -- which means two different traditions. My first married Christmas was a challenge because my husband Dan's family seemingly did everything wrong. They ate the wrong foods (Where was the fruit cake? The creamed onions?), they opened presents on Christmas Eve and not Christmas Day and even sang different carols at church.
Articles abound about the stress of the holidays. Prevent some of your own by planning the season together. Decide what invitations you will and will not accept; plan time for just the two of you that's relaxing; and talk about any stress you are feeling.
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Little Rock, AR doom metal band PALLBEARER have completed work on their follow-up to 2012's acclaimed "Sorrow and Extinction" LP. Entitled "Foundations Of Burden", the sophomore release sees the present-day doom metal giants create a more expansive, advanced, crushing, and emotionally charged album that takes everything to the next level beyond its predecessor.
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06/08 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
06/09 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Barbary
06/10 – Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
06/11 – Richmond, VA @ The Canal Club
06/12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Club Europa/Northside Festival (w/Hull, Planning For Burial, Yellow Eyes, and Vilkacis)**
06/15 – Miami, FL @ Churchill's
06/16 – Orlando, FL @ Backbooth
06/17 – Tampa, FL @ The Crowbar
06/18 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jack's
06/20 – St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
06/21 – Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
06/22 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
06/23 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
06/24 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada
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