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"Breakthrough Grows Graphene On Silicon Substrate"? I'm calling everyone I know with the news. In fact, I'm writing my congressman to demand a new three day holiday: "National Graphene On Silicon Substrate Day".
NGOSS Day? Sounds like a good name to me
I've been trying to write a poem about the authors of this paper, but I'm having trouble with the scansion.
"GRAPHene on SILicon SUBstrate" is trochaic triameter, and lends itself to the ballad quatrain, e.g.
Has ever there been a more wonderful thing,
than graphene on silicon substrate?
I'll bet Hyun-Chul Kang doesn't mind it a bit,
that in college he wasn't a "fun date".
I've had to drop several of the original 11 authors (HIroKAzu FUkiDOme, RYOta TAkaHASHi, and AKiTASHi YUshiGOe) whose names take up an entire quadrameter line and are hard to rhyme.
Wow this poem has inspired me to write a Haiku.
Haikus are easy.
But sometimes they don't make sense.
That is all.
Well, that is a problem. I started to call all my friends, then I realized I don't have any.
Hey! Wait until we have Steak and BJ Day [steakandbjday.com] declared an officially recognized national holiday before you start trying to add NGOSS day! Good Lord man, get your priorities straight!
For too many years we men have had to suffer through holidays like the St Valentine's and all those anniversaries we are supposed to keep up with and had no holiday of our own. Now it is time, it is finally time, to declare in ONE voice that we want, nay deserve, our own holiday! Give me Steak and BJ Day or give me death!
True, though this would have been a huge breakthrough 1-2 months ago. The paper you linked to was only published on Dec 30 of last year. Prior to that, we had a method to produce tiny flakes of graphene that required an inordinate amount of time, effort, luck, and scotch tape.
Also, graphene would be a lot more useful to us if we could produce it inexpensively on a silicon substrate. The copper substrate stuff is a huge step forward, but we'd ideally like to end up being able to directly grow graphene on
I mean isn't graphene basically unrolled carbon nano-tubes? And aren't carbon nano-tubes supposed to be very very (tensile) strong, strong enough to be considered to be usable as the raw material for a practical space elevator?
If (as another poster claims) 30+" sheets of the stuff can be made, could this stuff (even if slightly impure and not good enough for nano-electronics) be very useful for ultra-lightweight armor, fuel tanks (for a single stage to orbit vehicle), bikeframes... even a space elevator? Or is the fact that it is only a 2D mesh of carbon atoms (as opposed to a 3D "lattice" like diamond) make it substantially weaker?
I read somewhere that a layer of graphene a single atom thick is able to hold back 1 atm. of pressure. Isn't that roughly equivalent to a tissue paper holding back the ocean at some very deep depth (I know this is very imprecise!
According to this [unitconverterpro.com] 1 atmosphere = 33.932446552 feet of water.
Or at least I thought I did, (for some reason I thought 1 atmosphere = 32ft. water
What I meant to say is that think of the relative strength of a mesh A SINGLE ATOM THICK (sorry for the caps, I don't know how to do italics) being able to hold back the incredible number of molecular impacts one atmosphere of pressure implies. If you layered this mesh to be much much thicker so that it actually was macroscopic in thickness (like a tissue paper) it would be millions (billions? trillions?) of atoms thick.
Thanks for the response! Unfortunately I still don't understand, I'm not a chemist/theoretical chemist/physicist (obviously). I didn't think about the fact that graphite isn't good for armor (good point!). Why not? Is it that there are too many defects so it fragments on a nano scale? Or is because there is no "glue" between the layers and that makes them slide around too much (I remember enough chemistry to know that's how pencils work!).
I never knew that there could be a difference between unit thick
After all, graphite is just this stuff layered up millions of times
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't graphite very small fragments of graphene layered on each other? My understanding was that writing with a pencil is just rubbing off the little flecks of graphene. If you layered larger sheets, even a few square centimetres, and layered them more regularly, wouldn't you get something stronger?
If you made a sheet of graphene the thickness of tissue paper, it could possible hold back the ocean. I don't know about straight up graphene, but a sheet of graphene oxide has a tensile modulus of 32 gigapascals.
On the other hand, you can snap it by folding sharply.
Oh hey, 2006 called, and they want their science [sciencemag.org] back.
This field moves *fast* and the epitaxial technique is already being commercialized by IBM (perhaps others too, but IBM isn't hiding it). It's already moving out of science and into manufacturing (for what purpose, I'm not sure anyone knows). Meanwhile, cheaper and larger scale methods to grow graphene have been invented, and are nearly perfected.
The Science article is about graphene on silicon carbide. This article is about graphene on elemental silicon. Very different.
No it's not. The new article is also about graphene on SiC, they just stuck the silicon carbide to a silicon wafer. This does not make the process cheaper or easier.
The difference between the 2006 work and this one is that the present researchers are not growing graphene on a silicon carbide substrate, but on a silicon substrate with a silicon carbide thin film on top. This may make it a little more commercially feasible.
However, the trouble with the epitaxial technique is that no one (AFAIK) has successfully demonstrated a quantum Hall effect [wikipedia.org] in these graphene sheets, unlike the sheets made using the usual "scotch tape" methods. So there's some doubt about whether what they are getting is really graphene. I don't think the present work addresses this problem either.
The real problem is that the band gap is still zero. These things have an on/off ratio of the order of 10 or less, orders of magnitude worse than Si, the material they are supposed to supplement.
The original posting is lacking something very important - an explanation of why this is important. What benefits, if any, are there to being able to do this? Will it lead to faster or more power efficient processors? Will it result in tastier waffles? Will it bring about world peace?
I hope it's the waffles!
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A great grandmother from the Upper Peninsula is now a multimillionaire.
Judy Juntunen traveled more than 10 hours to claim her Mega Millions prize from the February 5 drawing.
Juntunen was almost at a loss for words when the Michigan Lottery commissioner presented her with the big $19 million check.
"I have a big family," Juntunen said. "Four children, I have 16 grandchildren, and 22 great grand children. So, I have plans."
Right now the Atlantic Mine, Mich., native's plans only include buying a new car. Juntunen doesn't know what kind yet, but she said there's one requirement.
"Four wheel drive, because I live up in snow country," Juntunen said.
Buying a car will leave her with just under $9.8 million after taxes from the cash option. The retired postal worker and widow said she still can't believe it.
Juntunen found out the morning after the drawing when her granddaughter called, and after playing the lottery for 20 years, it didn't feel real.
"You make sure you have the ticket first, you go and you look for it, and then, you feel pretty good," Juntunen said.
For her family, it's like winning the lottery a second time, because Juntunen is now cancer free after being diagnosed a year ago. Juntunen's son, Tony, said when he got the phone call that she won, he was initially worried it was going to be bad news about his mom's condition.
"We've had our share of bad luck and bad news, and this was a true blessing," Judy's son Tony Jununten said. "I kinda walked around in a daze the rest of the day letting it all sink in."
He's also been playing the lottery for years, and thought he might have a shot at this Mega Millions himself. Now the Pepsi worker told his boss he might retire. Tony said his mom will help the community with the money, along with his kids and grandchildren.
"We've already put a bunch of kids through college already, and we're going to be paying off some college loans and stuff," Tony said.
While Juntunen couldn't be any prouder as a great grandmother, as a lottery winner, there's one thing she doesn't want to reveal. When asked if she would mind telling the media her age, she responded:
"I'd rather not."
Juntunen bought her ticket at Festival Foods in Houghton, Mich., where she shops regularly.
The store will get a $50,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
She plans to stay living in the U.P.

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DIXON – Naming a police chief as an interim city administrator is not uncharted territory.
Municipal governments in Oswego, Channahon, North Aurora and Montgomery have recently had their police chiefs serve as interim administrators, just as Dixon's City Council plans to do.
Mayor Jim Burke announced last week that Police Chief Danny Langloss will be named as a special assistant to the council.
As special assistant, he will fulfill the duties of former public works and personnel director Shawn Ortgiesen, who was often called a "de facto city manager" for Dixon, and help commissioners with their search for a full-time city administrator.
In other words, Langloss will be a temporary city administrator of sorts until one is hired. The police chief said he has no plans to apply for the position, and he will not receive any extra pay. Day-to-day supervision of the police department will be turned over to an assistant chief.
Some of Langloss' new duties will include heading public works department meetings, managing city personnel, participating in budget workshops, facilitating bids for projects, and organizing the city's strategic plan, among other things.
An ordinance is being drafted by the city's attorney to create the position, Burke said, and a special City Council meeting will be called this week to make the move official.
Langloss said his experience as police chief for the past 5 years prepared him for the temporary post. As police chief, he dealt with balancing budgets, managing personnel, and organizing projects.
In Oswego, which has a population of 30,355, Police Chief Dwight Baird was village administrator for 11 months in 2011 and 2012, while keeping his responsibility as police chief.
He said a police chief is well suited for the position because he typically heads the town's largest department. Baird managed 67 staff members in his department, compared to the 113 city employees he oversaw temporarily as administrator.
In comparison, Langloss manages 34 on his force and will oversee about 85 city employees.
"As police chiefs, we're used to making large decisions, used to dealing with liability to the village, and dealing with personnel issues," Baird said. "Those are the three major areas.
"Also, we're used to working with outside agencies to coordinate efforts."
Coordinating a strategic plan was one of Baird's main projects as administrator. Burke said Dixon plans to push forward with its own strategic planning, which Langloss will coordinate.
Baird put his command staff in charge of the day-to-day operations of the police department, as Langloss plans to do by recommending Police Lt. Brad Sibley be named acting assistant police chief.
"I still was very much involved in major decisions," Baird said. "My command staff did an excellent job and really made the move seamless."
Similarly, Langloss said he still will be involved in decision-making in his department.
Joe Pena, Channahon village administrator, served 30 years in police administration, including a year as interim administrator and police chief. The interim period went well enough for him to take on the administrator position full time.
He said working with people and the understanding of government that comes from working as a police chief were strengths when he made the transition. He managed 25 officers as police chief and transitioned to overseeing 75 to 80 village employees as administrator.
The biggest challenge he faced was understanding economic development and business regulations that came with municipal administration.
"The jobs are comparable on an interim basis," said Pena, who serves as an administrator of the village with a population of 12,619. "Speaking to my situation, I had the most trouble, and this would depend on an individual's personal strengths, in land development issues and economic issues. I'm still learning with those."
Pena said his deputy chief handled day-to-day operations of the police department when he was as administrator in the interim. The deputy chief became the full-time police chief when Pena became a full-time administrator.
Pena said he is seeing a trend of police chiefs serving as city or village administrators in the interim.
In North Aurora, Police Chief David Summer is currently the village's administrator, and Montgomery had its police chief do the same.
"It's an ongoing phenomenon in the past 5 to 10 years to move police chiefs over to administration," Pena said. "I don't know if that's a result of the economy, but it's a situation where municipalities can combine duties for effective administration."
Langloss said he plans to reach out to Baird in the next few days to talk with him about the job.
"I met him several years ago," Langloss said. "He's a sharp and brilliant guy, and I'm going to talk with him about his experience."


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Missouri House Committee Votes to Nullify Obamacare
Missouri's HB:1534, also known as the Federal Health Care Reform Law, declares the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as unauthorized by the United States Constitution. Furthermore, language utilized in the bill creates criminal penalties for persons enforcing or attempting to enforce the act…
According to Article 1 of the Missouri Constitution, the purpose of the government is to protect the rights and property of the people, and that neither other states nor the general government has the right to regulate their internal affairs. So it seems pretty clear that Missouri Government isn't supposed to allow tyranny to proceed unchecked, but should be working to protect its citizens from the abuses of Big Government. Because of this, passionate supporters of HB:1534 spoke at a recent hearing not only about the unconstitutionality of the Federal Health Care Reform Law, but that Missouri citizens shouldn't be required to accept health care that includes provisions that they are morally or religiously opposed to. Additionally, there was the thought that people should be free to opt out of certain services and providers. Testifying for the bill were Representative Bahr; James Coyne, Mid-Missouri Patriots; Ron Calzone, Missouri First; and Missouri Right to Life.
However, those who opposed HB:1534 noted that access to affordable health care is vital to people living with certain diseases, such as AIDS and HIV. And rather than encourage individual responsibility, such opposition believed that robust Governmental measures are necessary in order to protect life and prevent the further transmission of dangerous diseases. Testifying against the bill was Gretchen Waddell of the Missouri AIDS Task Force.
Meanwhile, others like Dave Roland of the Freedom Center of Missouri, noted that when the United States Constitution was ratified, several states demanded that certain rights be protected, such as a state's ability to reject certain federal actions.
As a result, the Committee on General Laws voted "do pass" by a vote of 5 to 4 on March 29, 2012.Details


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Neal Communities sold 71 new homes in January, its best month ever.
The Lakewood Ranch-based builder said it sold new homes in 12 neighborhoods from Parrish to Englewood. The Central Park community in Lakewood Ranch posted the most sales at 14.
Company president Pat Neal said buyer demand is increasing. He said Florida used to build about 120,000 new homes every year, but just 42,000 permits for new homes were issued last year.
"We have a demographic boom superimposed on top of an economic boom," Neal said. "There has been a huge release of pent-up demand."
The company also reported nine sales at Grand Palm, its new master-planned project in Venice; 8 sales each at Woodbrook in Sarasota and Arlington Cove in Englewood; and six sales at Forest Creek in Parrish.


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It's the largest local reward ever, officials said, and it was collected from public and private donations.
"We will not tolerate this reign of terror," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said.
"We will not tolerate this murderer remaining at large."
The reward was announced during a press conference attended by the multi-agency taskforce formed to pursue Dorner, which includes the police and other officials from Los Angeles, Irvine, Riverside, as well as the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz released the name of the officer killed Thursday, in what officers have described as an ambush by Dorner.
His funeral is set for 10:30 Wednesday at Grove Community Church in Riverside and he will be buried in the Riverside National Cemetery.
Diaz said he is still withholding the name of the second officer who was shot in order to protect his family.
Dorner, he said, "has already shown and stated that families of police officers are fair game and for that reason to this point we have not released that information."
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said at least 50 LAPD families are being guarded by protection details.
"This is an act and, make no mistake about it, of domestic terrorism," Beck said.
"This is not about capturing a fleeing suspect. This is about preventing a future crime, likely a murder."
He added that as long as Dorner is lose, an attack on a uniformed police officer or the family of a police officer is likely.
Meanwhile in Big Bear, where Dorner's disabled truck was found loaded with weapons and survival gear Thursday morning, day four of the tireless manhunt was gearing up to resume the search, but with a quarter as many personnel as in previous days. A law enforcement command post that had been set up near the Bear Mountain ski resort was dismantled.
"The search continues to locate Christopher Dorner in the Big Bear area with approximately 25 officers on the ground and a helicopter providing aerial support," San Bernardino sheriff's officials said in a written statement.
"As the number of cabins, rentals and unoccupied/vacation homes diminishes, the amount of personnel and resources needed has been scaled back accordingly. Although there have been no reported sightings and officers have found no new evidence that points to a location in the Big Bear area, the Sheriff's Department remains committed to the public's safety."
Deputies, including SWAT team members, continued combing the wooded area behind the resort where Dorner's burned out truck was discovered.
The smaller number of searchers is not an indication authorities believe Dorner is not in the mountain area, according to Cindy Bachman, spokeswoman for the sheriff's department, but that a smaller area is left to be searched.
At the peak of the manhunt, more than 100 officers and authorities were in the snow-covered community searching for the fugitive.
San Bernardino County Sheriff's authorities moved the command post which for the last three days had been at the Bear Mountain Ski resort to the Big Bear sheriff's station.
Temperatures dropped to 5 degrees in Big Bear Lake over he weekend.
The search for Dorner has led to the creation of the multi-agency task force formed to pursue the ex-officer implicated in three murders.
Dorner's rampage began a week ago in Irvine, where he is accused of fatally shooting Monica Quan and her finance.
Quan's father is a former LAPD captain who had represented Dorner during the proceedings that led to his termination. Department officials said Dorner had lied when he accused his training officer of kicking a suspect during an arrest. On Wednesdsay night, just hours after authorities identified Dorner as a suspect in the double murder, police believe Dorner shot and grazed an LAPD officer in Corona and then used a rifle to ambush two Riverside police officers, killing one and seriously wounding the other.
Dorner, 33, of La Palma, claimed in an 11,000-word manifesto first posted on his Facebook page that his career was undone by racist colleagues. The document vowed revenge against Beck and several other officers he held responsible for his firing in 2008. Dorner also suggested in his manifesto that he supported gay rights and gun control.
"The Violence of action will be HIGH," Dorner writes on his manifesto. "I am the reason TAC alert was established. I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty ... You will now live the life of prey."
Experts who reviewed the manifesto on Thursday said the statements showed a "trifecta of intelligence, mental illness and paranoia."
In the meantime, Donor has led law enforcement across Southern California, from San Diego to Torrance to the Big Bear area, where on Thursday, Dorner's Nissan pickup truck was found burning on a rugged fire access road.
Officials said Saturday they'd determined that the axle had snapped, and that he'd set the vehicle ablaze.
Inside the burned-out truck, authorities said, they found an arsenal of weapons.
Over the next two days, SWAT teams and officers in cold-weather gear conducted door-to-door searches for Dorner, even breaking into locked vacation homes in the picturesque ski resort.
The operation was interrupted Friday when a blizzard moved in, but a break in the weather Saturday allowed two heat-sensing helicopters to resume their search for any new clues.
While the hunt for Dorner has centered near Big Bear, other agencies have been looking for clues into his life and how long he may have been planning his ramgage.
On Friday, officers served a warrant at a house in La Palma that is owned by Dorner's mother and collected 10 bags of evidence. Police also colleged evidence from a Buena Park storage unit, but refused to say what they'd found.
In addition to his training with the LAPD, Dorner also received specialized training as a Navy reservist, earning a rifle marksman ribbon and pistol expert medal. He was assigned to a naval undersea warfare unit and various aviation training units, according to military records.
He took leave from the LAPD for a six-month deployment to Bahrain in 2006 and 2007. An LAPD newsletter has carried a photo of Dorner with then-Chief Bill Bratton, who gave him a gold coin as a souvenir.
Feb. 1 was Dorner's last day with the Navy, which may have triggered his rampage, experts in mental health said.
Beck told a local TV station Saturday that Dorner's case and allegations of racism within the department would be reviewed as a way to secure the public's trust in the agency.
"Dorner's allegations are about a police department that doesn't treat African Americans fairly, and I don't think that's true," Beck said. "And I want to make sure we don't lose this precious ground we've gained."
Anyone with information on Dorner's whereabouts was asked to contact the task force at 213-486-6860. Tips may also be submitted anonymously by calling L.A. Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.


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I am not sure if users will make the shift to Linux at all.
People that play on Steam have Windows running and most of the times also other games that are non steam.
Even if i applaud the attempt to open the gate for Linux, i am not convinced that Linux will the new gaming platform in the future. Of course it can be, but i just can't imagine it.
Unless of course MS goes out of business.
It seems more like an option and testing what they can do with Linux and building demand on Linux.
If its running i will try it out but Linux has still some obstacles. With my 7 year old motherboard i always have problem even to get my Logitech webcam to be recognized.
If we would get Android for desktop maybe all that would change. How knows.


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Anybody Heard of upcoming Google Zebra Update ?
The New Google Zebra Update coming soon to battle the abundance of spam content on the web. Panda hit on-site elements. Penguin mainly focused on off-site issues. Zebra is going to town on social...
1. Too many retweets with keywords included around a link
2. Face book updates with too many shares from people not in your industry
3. Any Google+ shares as this will look spammy (Google+ is a graveyard right, so any activity looks suspicious?!)
4. owning a Pinterest page - brands only use these for SEO benefit no?
If you've been creating great content which may be being shared extensively by people on the web, some of which might not be bloggers in your niche, then start looking over your shoulder.
Thanks for sharing, nice information.
Bad news for why bought retweet, g+ share, facebook share for their websites.......
I am still confuse about Google Zebra so, need to know more about this. Because some of us said that Google Zebra is nothing and other side people says it kinda of update. Ohh.. God tell me the correct answer
The agent Zebra is Google's latest algorithm update who's mission is to clean up the eCommerce community and rid the world of low quality merchant scum. With online shopping growing exponentially each month.


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The suddenly-hot Nashville Predators will aim for a fifth straight victory when they visit the sliding Minnesota Wild for Saturday's clash at Xcel Energy Center.
Nashville began this season with one win in its first six games (1-2-3) before rattling off four consecutive victories. The Predators have allowed only three goals during the winning streak, outscoring the opposition by a combined 13-3 margin.
After slamming the St. Louis Blues, 6-1, on the road on Tuesday, the Predators posted a 3-0 home win Thursday evening against Los Angeles. Colin Wilson scored twice and Pekka Rinne recorded 32 saves to notch his 26th career shutout, as Nashville beat the defending Stanley Cup champions to earn its first win of the season at Bridgestone Arena.
Gabriel Bourque also lit the lamp, while Kevin Klein added a pair of assists for the Predators, who won the contest despite being outshot 32-14 by the Kings.
"We didn't have too many shots tonight, but it's nice that we're burying our chances now and creating that offense," Wilson said. "It's certainly something to build off of."
Nashville has a 4-2-1 road record this season and has won two straight and three of its last four games in Minnesota. All told, the Predators have taken four in a row and seven of their previous eight encounters with the Wild.
Minnesota has struggled mightily since posting a 4-2-1 mark in January, as the club enters Saturday's game with an 0-3-0 record since the calendar flipped to February. The Wild have been outscored by a combined 9-3 score during the recent slide, which featured losses against Anaheim, Phoenix and Vancouver.
After losing to the Ducks and Coyotes on the road, the Wild were dealt a 4-1 home setback by the Canucks on Thursday. Vancouver scored the game's first four goals over the first two periods and cruised to the win in the third.
Niklas Backstrom stopped just 12 of the 16 shots he faced for Minnesota, while Tom Gilbert provided the team's lone goal. Gilbert has three goals in 10 games this season, equaling his output from 67 games in 2011-12.
"[Vancouver] just played better than us. Pretty simple," said Wild forward Zach Parise.
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Embattled lawmaker's husband has heart attack, Bradford to be gone all week
The husband of state Rep. Laura Bradford, who has longed for a normal life ever since a high-profile traffic stop last month, suffered a massive heart attack today.
The Mesa County Republican said her 58-year-old husband, Linton Mathews, was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and underwent surgery to remove a blockage and insert a stent.
Mathews has been in the news himself. Upset with how Republican leadership treated his wife after Denver police suspected her of drunken-driving on Jan. 25, he changed his voter registration from Republican to unaffiliated on Feb. 3.
Bradford said she didn't realize how much stress her husband was under.
"He was so busy taking care of me and I negated my responsibility to care of him," she said today in a phone interview. "I'm so glad he lived. I'm fortunate to be married to my best friend."


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I guess those posters who literally started threads calling Coples a bust were a little premature!!!!
First-round pick Quinton Coples recorded a batted pass, a strip-sack, and two tackles for loss in the Jets' preseason opener.
Coples looked like the real deal, and afterwards coach Rex Ryan described his impact as "tremendous," even if Coples' snap-to-snap consistency was a bit lacking. Still, Coples was one of the most impressive first-round picks of the first week of preseason. Other high-impact first-round defenders included Whitney Mercilus, Luke Kuechly, Melvin Ingram, and Chandler Jones.
I guess those posters who literally started threads calling Coples a bust were a little premature!!!!
From a fan's perspective, I really like what Rex did letting Coples play for an extended period of time vs. the Bengals.
Watching him hold his own against the first team, and then looking impressive against 2nd and 3rd team gave us all something to smile about, particularly with lingering Gholston anxiety over 1st round defensive picks.
I don't recall any Coples is a bust threads?
Perhaps I simply ignored them.
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Just lovin' life.....
Keep on going back to the selective optimism. One game does not make or break a player. If we can't call someone a bust after one week, then we can't call someone a HR either.
Coples was tremendous in that last game. He was in on a lot of plays. Looked tired and was sucking air at the end so needs a bit of endurance work but he was excellent.
He did great against the 2's, no so well against the 1's. He will progress and get better. He looked unblockable at times, really like this guy.
I love Maybin. I think everyone here knows that. I just thought overall he was a non-factor. Even against the 2's and 3's. I trust that will improve.
Davis, on the other hand, was all over the field. I was really impressed with his quickness.
Nice to see the kid get a little props on the national scale, I have to say. Gotta root for this kid to succeed, we need it.


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If you had a hot tub that could transport you to any era in time, would you really make a beeline for the 1980s?
That's where the filmmakers headed with "Hot Tub Time Machine," a not-so-excellent, dude-where's-my-youth adventure that's occasionally amusing but mostly is as lazy, self-involved and garish as that chintzy decade itself.
The '80s make an easy target, and casting John Cusack, one of the most enduring stars to rise from that decade, adds to the flashback and lends some assurance that you're not forking money over for a hot tub and getting a rusty, leaky old claw foot tub instead. If this guy signed on, it can't be as dumb as it sounds, right?
Well, "Hot Tub Time Machine" pretty much is as dumb as it sounds, its goofy but potentially clever concept landing closer to the moronic monotony of "Dude, Where's My Car?" than the inspired idiocy of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure."
Some of the trouble arises from Cusack's castmates in this tale of four losers who travel back to 1986 to settle old scores and do a little messing with the timeline for personal profit.
Cusack is fine, wandering the action like a manic Scrooge who has come back to see how he squandered his early promise with bad choices. As one of his buddies, Craig Robinson captures the same droll charm he brings as the warehouse foreman on "The Office."
But much of the story hinges on character actors Rob Corddry and Clark Duke, who overdo everything with a shrillness that makes the movie's crass jokes and gags all the more obnoxious — and a lot less funny than they might have been.
The thin plot centers on three middle-aged buddies grown apart: insurance salesman Adam (Cusack), whose girlfriend just left him; party guy Lou (Corddry), who has no friends, no job and no prospects; and hen-pecked married man Nick (Robinson), who gave up his music dream and now works in a chic canine-care shop.
Video: Actors jump into 'Hot Tub Time Machine' With Adam's video-game geek nephew Jacob (Duke) along for the ride, these three take a weekend trip to the ski resort that was the scene of their best times in the '80s.
One drunken night, and presto, Mr. Hot Tub Time Machine sends them back to a pivotal night of their youth for a chance to either let time play out the same sad grooves or use their knowledge of the future to create a better past for themselves.
Lizzy Caplan, Collette Wolfe and Lyndsy Fonseca unremarkably round out the cast as some of the women in their lives.
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Chevy Chase bizarrely turns up as a mysterious hot tub repairman, his fleeting scenes so pointless and forgettable they beg the question, was this really one of the biggest stars of the '80s?
Video: Cusack: Getting stuck in '80s a comic nightmare Crispin Glover, who co-starred in 1985's time-travel adventure "Back to the Future," continually takes over the movie with his weirdly amiable turn as a bellhop who has his own dark fate hanging over him.
Cusack and production partner Grace Loh are producers on "Hot Tub Time Machine," and they brought in Cusack's old high school pal and longtime creative collaborator Steve Pink to direct. Three screenwriters — Josh Heald and writing partners Sean Anders and John Morris — teamed up on the script, which has flashes of humor and a couple of truly hilarious moments.
But the story rests too often on easy '80s potshots — Look, a Jheri curl! Check out those leg-warmers! Can you hear me on my brick cell phone? — and today's parlance falling on deaf '80s ears — E-mail? What's that?
Some chuckles arise out of the soundtrack stuffed with '80s tunes, among them Spandau Ballet's "True," Cutting Crew's "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" and Robinson's cover of Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl."
The silly title, the Cusack-1980s connection, the goodhearted spoof of a decade that still brings back a wince of embarrassment for many who lived through it. You just want this movie to be a hot, bubbly nostalgia bath to soak away some of the worries of today's serious times.
Sadly, "Hot Tub Time Machine" never stokes up to more than a lukewarm whirlpool.
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That's easy. Just sit up all night drinkin' Natty Lite and never go to bed.
I would not recommend leaving IS ON vs. IS OFF if shooting a comet -- if that's what you're asking
Based on the research looks like the comet won't be the "light in the sky" everyone was hoping it was going to behttp://astronomia.udea.edu.co/cometspage/Understand this may look like an off-site topic but there have been discussions about the comet on this site previously so just passing along the apparent bad news.Hope they get it wrong and I'll be spending some cold nights out in the middle of nowhere.Attempting to bring this topic back to the forum. If there are people here who do astrophotography would like reading what equipment is being used.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
BCS Update, Part II
Thanks to one of our readers for pointing this out. Our bad. For some reason, apparently our eyes didn't immediately go to any of the clothed women in the picture. Go figure.
P.S. Why the name "Brigid Kelly" in the mag? Any Wisco readers/students know?
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Let's be honest guys, this photo is totally fake!!! Playboy totally took some girls from California and gave them Wisco stuff. I would believe it if girls were 50 LBS heavier and posing for "overweight hotties"…not that I've seen is…
And as for Bridget Kelly…fictional…just like Joe Pa actually coaching a game
- May 24, 2006 9:13 AM
- MichiganGOBLUE said...
They probably put a fake name in there so psyco geeks wouldn't look her up in the school directory and stalk her.
- May 24, 2006 1:11 PM
Hmmm, actually I know most of the girls in that picture and it's totally not fake. That is definitely Brigid and the burnette to her right is her roommate I think...what an apartment. Not sure why they didn't use her last name though.
- May 24, 2006 4:17 PM
This is another photoshopped attempt by those Michigan infidels to discredit the great Ohio State University!
Clearly this is an indirect attack on our new football uniforms and is totally unrelated to hot Big 10 chicks in a nudie mag!!!
- May 24, 2006 5:57 PM
anon at 1:17pm,
Yeah, uh, I know her too... we're dating... but, she, umm... lives in Canada.
- May 24, 2006 6:09 PM
Anon...you know you get the monthly edition of "G-string Fatties" to wack off with. Just step up, be a man, and admit it.
and dont be envious of JoePa (its either Joe Paterno, or JoePa, you moron)or Penn State - who does it the right way for 40 years. No probation..no $500 handshakes that are forgotten when 'ya need a win'. At least PSU hasnt had 'banners' stripped from the rafters...we would rather compete honestly...then be a known cheater.
Say what you will but how many wins in 1-A does your coach have (not 'counted' wins, real ones vs 1-A teams).
Let him get to 350, then open your mouth.
otherwise keeps drooling over women you will never get.
- May 25, 2006 2:07 AM
Piss U fan-
Alright, I'll admit it...I love the hot fatties!
Should I have said that this pic is as likely as Piss U beating Michigan. Keep trying though...every once in awhile a blind squirrel finds a nut.
- May 25, 2006 8:36 AM
Here's the answers fellas,
The name is posted under Brigid Kelly because Kelly is her middle name. She probably just wanted to maintain some anonymity. The girl next to her also goes to madison and is named Colleen. I see her around a lot
Yes, the photo is real. It was taken with the girls and people from the Delta Upsilon fraternity.
And finally, whoever the idiot is that wrote the first post, no, you don't have to be from California to be a good looking girl...
- July 07, 2006 5:07 PM


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The number of deer harvested this year is up from last year. Last hunting season 303,162 deer were taken state wide by Hunters. This year that number is up to 312,519 and this is just a preliminary result.
The west-central region was also up 6% compared to last year. Officials from the DNR say that a combination of nice weather during opener, the above schedule corn harvest, and the season landing on the deer rutting season contributed to a good hunt.


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This very special light is in 'mint' condition as received from Don (10/2011) and has not been carried, so is a shelf queen. Don etched his initials for me on the Ti Clip. I had originally purchased this light for a family member in the Marines, but they needed the money more. In June of this year, I asked Jeff Hanko to install (4) Trits alternating between ICE BLUE & GREEN to run parallel in the tail, which he graciously did. Jeff did install his screws when re-installing the clip on the light, but I will also include Don's original one's as well. His work is absolutely stunning and shows in this light. I have to say and you probably already know that these two makers are outstanding to do business with and their service after the sale equals the beauty of their work!!! You get a little taste of both makers with this masterpiece! TheFirst 'I'll Take It' wins followed with a PM for payment instructions via Paypal only. Buyers must have a 'Verified' Paypal account and must be able to pay immediately. ***Price (SOLD) $455/total Shipped USPS Priority Mail Small Flat Rate Box with Tracking. ***Please Note: US/CONUS Sales only! Thanks!
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The Uniform CPA Examination: Purpose and Structure
The Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination is the examination that an individual must pass in order to qualify for licensure as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in any of the 55 U.S. jurisdictions (the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands).
CPAs are the only licensed accounting professionals. CPA licenses are issued by state boards of accountancy in the 55 jurisdictions – there is no national CPA licensure process in the U.S.
The purpose of the Uniform CPA Examination is to provide reasonable assurance to Boards of Accountancy (the state entities that have statutory authority to issue licenses) that those who pass the CPA Examination possess the level of technical knowledge and the skills necessary for initial licensure in protection of the public interest. Public interest is protected when only qualified individuals are admitted into the profession.
One of Three Licensure Requirements
The Uniform CPA Examination is one of the "Three Es" – Education, Examination, and Experience – that constitute the requirements for CPA licensure. Of these three requirements, only the CPA Examination is uniform (i.e., it is the only examination that is accepted for CPA licensure by all U.S. jurisdictions), while education and experience requirements may vary from one jurisdiction to another. Candidates for CPA licensure must meet all three requirements. As a result, passing the CPA Examination is not sufficient – in itself – to qualify for licensure.
The Uniform CPA Examination currently consists of four sections: Auditing and Attestation (AUD), Business Environment and Concepts (BEC), Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR), and Regulation (REG). These four sections represent a total of 14 hours of testing.
The Uniform CPA Examination developed from the examination that was used for admission to membership in the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). In 1917, the Institute offered the examination for use in the licensure process by Boards of Accountancy. At that time, Boards in three jurisdictions accepted the invitation. It was not until 1952 that the examination was first used in all jurisdictions.
Until the end of 2003, the Uniform CPA Examination was administered twice a year in the paper-and-pencil format. In April 2004, the computer-based CPA Examination was launched and the paper-and-pencil examination was discontinued. In 2009, the computer-based CPA Examination reached a milestone – one million administrations. A new CPA Examination release is scheduled for 2017.


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Amidst the global crisis of a dysfunctional old paradigm, a new renaissance of human culture is underway. Over the course of 4 episodes and 23 transformational festivals around the globe, THE BLOOM: A JOURNEY THROUGH TRANSFORMATIONAL FESTIVALS explores the alchemy of themes that weave a true story of genuine hope for our times: A new blooming of human consciousness emerging through creativity, love and joy & an emerging culture pointing the way to a bright and promising future.
This looks very interesting, the Soundtracks to each episode will be released as LP's and the lineups look great.
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... To become a Webdeveloper?
there are various software, but before you may need to define which fulfill your need. obviously you will need a browser, preferably main browsers like MSIE, firefox, opera, safari. if you like to code, then you can use a simple word processing like notepad or wordpad. there are more, but can't name all of them (i use pc platform).
if you are more the type of 'what i see, that is how i want it' (correctly said WYSIWYG = "what you see is what you get"), then you might want to consider products like DreamWeaver, GoLive, FrontPage. some free product are: Nvu, Mozilla Composer. there are lot more but don't know their name.
perhaps an image editor like Photoshop, PaintShop Pro, CorelDraw, GIMP.
sorry, posted in wrong thread
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- Tech companies such as Amazon or Google are planning major robotics initiatives
- Ryan Calo: Drone technology can revolutionize delivery, agriculture, photography
- He says of course there are many technical, legal and social hurdles to overcome
- Calo: When drone app store opens, that's when innovation will take really off
Amazon, Apple and Google: All of these big tech companies have announced major robotics initiatives or investments in recent months. Amazon, in particular, managed to capture the public imagination when founder Jeff Bezos outlined a plan to deliver packages by drones.
As drones become more mainstream, the prospect of excessive surveillance and other dangers loom. Drones drive down the costs of surveillance to a worrisomely low level. For example, it wouldn't be surprising if Amazon delivery drones were equipped with cameras for loss prevention. So what would stop law enforcement from asking Amazon for all of its drones' footage in a given neighborhood where there had been a crime?
Simultaneously, drone technology has the potential to revolutionize delivery, agriculture, photography and possibly disrupt major industries.
Imagine that you're shopping at Barnes & Noble. You ask for a book that the store does not carry. Rather than send you online, Barnes & Noble flies the book over from another store while you shop or take a coffee break.
Or imagine that you're a farmer whose livelihood depends on catching crop disease early. You could use drones to fly over thousands of acres in an afternoon to spot problem areas.
These are exciting uses for drones. But the real innovation will come when companies such as Amazon mix their robotics strategy with their love for open platforms.
What does that mean?
Recall that the first personal computers did not come to the market until the mid-1970s. Before that, government and industry purchased or leased computer equipment dedicated to a particular purpose such as database management. That's analogous to what Amazon and other companies are doing today.
Amazon paid nearly $800 million for the robotics firm Kiva Systems for the specific purpose of helping to organize its warehouses. The company is now experimenting with drones for the second task of delivery.
The real explosion of innovation in computing occurred when devices got into the hands of regular people. Suddenly consumers did not have to wait for IBM or Apple to write every software program they might want to use. Other companies and individuals could also write a "killer app." Much of the software that makes personal computers, tablets and smartphones such an essential part of daily life now have been written by third-party developers.
As author Jonathan Zittrain points out, it would be hard to name a category of important software -- from word-processing to e-mail -- that some computer hobbyist did not create first at home. Today, popular apps such as Snapchat or Instagram are used by millions of people. Yet, both were created by just two or three people in their 20s.
There are, of course, problems with apps for robots.
You do not necessarily want a live-action version of Angry Birds using drones. And who is responsible should someone get hurt by interacting with robots?
Once companies such as Google, Amazon or Apple create a personal drone that is app-enabled, we will begin to see the true promise of this technology. This is still a ways off. There are certainly many technical, regulatory and social hurdles to overcome. But I would think that within 10 to 15 years, we will see robust, multipurpose robots in the hands of consumers.
Worried about your kid getting to and from the bus? A drone app lets you follow her there by trailing her phone and returning when she waves. Selling your house? An app on a drone will command it to fly around your property and stitch together a panorama of photos for a virtual tour. Same drone, thousands of possibilities.
Put another way, the day when Amazon or Apple opens a drone app store is the day when drone innovation takes off. On an open model, the sky is quite literally the limit.
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I am a college student, who has been told, consistently, the same rules of rounding decimals since I was in third grade. 17.52 is 18, and 17.49 is 17. Today, my chemistry professor threatened to turn this very basic rule upside down for reasons I cannot comprehend.
His edition of the rules are as follows:
In the instance that 5 is the first non-significant figure in a number, he says to look to the next non-significant figure. No problem. At which point he says the following thing:
If 5 is not followed by anything, round up
If 5 is followed by an odd number, round up
If 5 is followed by an even number or zero, round down.
For example, if we were to round the following numbers to the third significant figure:
17.150 rounds down to 17.1
17.151 rounds up to 17.2
17.152 rounds down to 17.1
And so on.
Does this make a bit of sense to anyone out there? I need to know. If this is correct, and I have been told wrongly the rules of rounding up until this day, I would like to know. An explanation would be helpful too, as to why this rule is true.
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TootsNYC wrote:"So the technician took a chance that she might get through, and also wanted to make sure the woman knew that the company was focused on her problem.And the woman is mad?"I've been down this road many times myself, and the problem is that more often than not, the call that came in early will result in a "left message" tag on the call, and she wouldn't get her call at 5:00. That's not how it's supposed to work, but I've been in technical support for decades and that exact scenario has played out for me thousands of times. I leave a message to call after 1:00. The call comes in at 12:10 and I'm not there. No call comes in after that, and when I call at 5:00 I'm told, "the tech called you and left a message." So yeah, she's mad, and to be honest she should be. In a very direct sense, it's Cherry91's company that didn't follow directions. What would drive the technician to take a chance on getting through when said tech was informed by the caller that she'd have her phone switched off?"As long as a technician calls at the available time (which you apparently agreed to), she's really not got a lot of logical room to complain."As I said above, I'd give better than even money that waiting for the call at the appointed time would be a mistake because it won't happen. I'd do exactly what she did, which is call back right away and reestablish the callback timeline. I may not become irate about not being able to talk to the tech right then, but I'd certainly be irritated that this company ignored the agreed-upon timeline.Virg
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UPDATED 4/26/2012 by Julie Montanaro
A Tallahassee family claims the sheriff and state attorney conspired to cover up the murder of David Mays.
The businessman and former Chief Osceola was shot and killed in his home and not everyone is convinced it was an accident.
Within seconds of the gut-wrenching 911 call, David Mays was dead. Investigators concluded Mays, his girlfriend and their son were struggling over a shotgun when it went off. A grand jury later ruled it was an accident.
Attorney David Chester doesn't buy it. At a press conference Thursday morning, he pointed to a blood spattered t-shirt worn by Joyce Strano that day and a relatively clean shirt worn by her son.
"It's as if they're saying Dakotah jumped into a swimming pool and came out dry," Chester said.
He claims the state attorney never showed the grand jury the shirts or any other forensic evidence. He questioned why no fingerprint analysis or gun shot residue evidence was analyzed.
He claims the Sheriff and state attorney worked together to cover up Mays' murder.
Here's what he had to say when asked why.
"There's a financial incentive. This incentive was provided in the first 24 hours of the investigation," Chester said. He would not elaborte saying he didn't want to jeopardize an FBI investigation.
"We have done a complete and thorough investigation. It has been vetted by two separate entitites and we are confident in the findings in this case," LCSO Spokesman James McQuaig said. "Mr. Chester has been given the opportunity to speak his mind to the public. However, we will speak in a courtoom."
Both the sheriff and the state attorney admantly deny the conspiracy theories and an attorney for David Mays' son called the cover up allegations "outrageous."
"These allegations are outrageous, irresponsible and simply not true," attorney John Leace said. "It is my sincere hope that this tragic accident is left in the past and that Dakotah be allowed to continue the healing process privately," Leace said in an on camera interview late this afternoon.
Leace points out that Chester does not represent the entire Mays family.
[UPDATE] April 26, 2012 - 10:50am
An attorney for the Mays family claims the Leon County Sheriff and the state attorney conspired to cover up the murder of David Mays.
David Chester says he just recently had a chance to look at the evidence in the case. He says that the shirt worn by Mays' girlfriend that morning is covered in blood, but his son's is not.
Chester also claims that May's girlfriend initially told deputies that the son was in the kitchen at the time of the shooting, but later claimed that his hands were on the gun during the struggle.
Chester claims the state attorney never showed the grand jury the clothes or any other physical evidence and led them to the conclusion it was an accident.
When asked why the sheriff of state attorney would want to cover up a murder, Chester said there was a "financial incentive."
A spokesman for the Leon County Sheriff's Office denied the claims. He says LCSO is comfortable with the findings of the investigation and considers the case closed.
State attorney Willie Meggs said "What would Larry Campbell and I have to gain by covering up a murder? We work night and day to solve them." He said he is "confident the investigation was done by competent investigators doing their best to deal with a very sensitive case."
The teenage son's attorney was outraged by the cover up allegations made this morning. John Leace sent this statement:
"David Chester claims to be the "Mays family attorney," however he does not represent David Mays' brother, George nor does he represent David Mays' own son. They have nothing to do with David Chester or his conspiracy theories. As Dakotah Mays' attorney, I can tell you that these allegations are outrageous, irresponsible, and simply not true. This was a tragic accident, nothing more. It is my hope that everyone will respect this child's privacy and stop this public spectacle once and for all."
[UPDATE] April 26, 2012 - 10:35am
The Mays family holds a press conference, asking who killed David Mays. David Mays' life ended with a shotgun blast to the head in his home on Chaires Cross Road in Fall 2010
Eyewitness News has a reporter at the news conference. Stay with WCTV for updates.
UPDATED 8.11.2011 9:15pm by Julie Montanaro
The Leon County Sheriff's Office has released a multitude of pictures, documents, and video related to the David Mays shooting death investigation. The Mays family is asking the FBI to investigate the original LCSO investigation.
More Photos can be found at the links below.
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Video of the investigation can be found below:
An attorney for David Mays' longtime girlfriend, Joyce Strano, says he is outraged by today's claims of murder and a cover up.
Bruce Alter said "I am outraged on behalf of Joyce Strano. She was the victim of a violent attack by David Mays and now she is the victim of a media attack by Dannitte Mays (David's brother) and his attorney. All she wants to do is raise her son and get on with her life."
Alter also called it a "reckless" attack by attorney David Chester. "It's one thing to disagree with law enforcement and the state attorney, but to suggest that they are somehow obstructing justice is disturbing" for an attorney and member of the Florida Bar.
Alter says he is also outraged that the media would give Dannitte Mays and his attorney a "soap box for these baseless claims."
"The whole thing is the ranting of a disturbed individual," Alter said.
UPDATED 8.11.2011 7pm by Julie Montanaro
A Tallahassee family requests an FBI investigation into a shooting that claimed the life of David Mays.
A family attorney contends deputies and the state attorney "dropped the ball" and claim the two worked together to cover up Mays's murder.
David Mays's life ended with a shotgun blast to the head in his home on Chaires Cross Road last fall.
Deputies say - and a grand jury later agreed - that it was an accident. Mays was killed, they said, as he, his girlfriend and 14 year old son struggled over a shotgun.
Ten months to the day later, the Mays' family attorney says it still doesn't add up.
"It paints a picture more of, what you would commonly hear called, an execution style murder than a suicide or accidental shooting," attorney David Chester said.
Chester says Mays's girlfriend was never considered a "suspect" in this case. He claims if her story of a life and death struggle were true, she would have had bruises or injuries to prove it. He questioned everything from blood spatter to bullet trajectory.
"The laws of physics, math, logic, those laws are what has also been broken in this case. What we want to know is why," Chester said.
Chester even went so far as to accuse the sheriff's office of working with the state attorney to cover up Mays' murder.
"It's just simply not true," said LCSO Spokesman James McQuaig. "The facts are this was a terribly tragic accident the day it happened. We investigated it thoroughly and professionally," McQuaig said.
"Bad things do happen, but if it's not an accident, we want ... justice is what we want," Chester said.
State Attorney Willie Meggs emphatically denies there was any sort of cover up.
"We did not cover up a murder. We rely on the grand jury presentment which deemed this an accidental shooting as a result of a domestic dispute," Meggs said.
The FBI will not confirm or deny whether it has a file open on the Mays case.
We are working right now to try to put the death investigation report on our web site so you can read it for yourself. We'll let you know when it's ready.
Videos of the David Mays investigation released by the Leon County Sheriff's Office
[UPDATE] 8-11 Noon -
The family of a former chief Osceola is now asking the FBI to investigate his death. David Mays was shot and killed last October and today his family says the truth has yet to be told.
The family attorney says it is impossible that Mays killed himself and to suggest that is "an insult."
Attorney David Chester says the death investigation done by the Leon county sheriff's office and subsequent grand jury presentation defied the laws of physics.
"The laws of physics have been broken. What other laws have been broken?" Chester said.
Chester says the sheriff's office and state attorneys office worked together "at the highest level to cover up murder."
It points to an execution style murder, more so than a suicide or an accident, Chester said.
[UPDATE] 8-11 10am -
A news conference was held by the Mays family earlier this morning. The family is asking for the FBI to investigate the Leon County Sheriff's Office investigation into the death of Tallahassee businessman and former Chief Osceola, David Mays.
The family of David Mays has asked the FBI to investigate his death.
The family attorney says it is impossible that Mays killed himself and to suggest that is "an insult."
Attorney David Chester says the death investigation done by the Leon county sheriff's office and subsequent grand jury presentation defied the laws of physics.
"The laws of physics have been broken. What other laws have been broken?" Chester said.
Chester says the sheriff's office and state attorneys office worked together "at the highest level to cover up murder."
It points to an execution style murder, more so than a suicide or an accident, Chester said.
The original story can be found below.
UPDATE 12.2.2010 6:50pm by Julie Montanaro
A pair of 911 tapes are released Thursday, December 2, in the shooting death of Tallahassee businessman and former Chief Osceola David Mays.
They were released in the wake of a grand jury decision not to press charges in the deadly domestic dispute. and the recordings give a gut-wrenching glimpse into the chaos and panic inside Mays home.
The first call came in at 7:33 in the morning...no one on the line...and a hang up 12 seconds later.
The second call placed from the home of David Mays and Joyce Strano that October morning is nine gut-wrenching minutes long.
Both were placed by the couple's 14 year old son:
Operator: 911, what's your emergency?
Son: He's going crazy. he's trying to kill my mom.
Operator: Stay on the line with me, okay?
Son: Come now. Come now.
Operator: I need to know the address."
Son: (inaudible) He's got a gun. Help.
Operator: Sir, I need to know the address.
Son: (inaudible)
Operator: What is he doing to her?
Son: "He's crazy. He's trying to shoot my mom.
Operator: "Gun? He has a gun?
Son: "He has a shotgun, hurry please, come now."
Within 30 seconds, David Mays was dead.
Operator: "Signal zero with a gun ...
Operator: I'm sorry?
Son: He just shot himself in the head, please ...
Operator: He just shot himself in the head? Stay on the phone with me sir, please.
The calls are the first glimpse into the terrifying moments that would ultimately land this case in front of a grand jury.
Joyce Strano told them Wednesday that the shotgun accidentally went off as she and her son tried to wrestle the gun away from David Mays.
The 911 call goes on for more than nine excruciating minutes as Strano ran outside, tried to contact family members, and comfort her crying son.
Strano: "I know. It's okay baby. Come here. It's okay. Come hold me. It's alright, baby. Okay. It's okay. It's alright. It's okay baby, I promise."
We did talk with David Mays' brother Dannitte Thursday. He didn't have much to say about the grand jury decision, but he did say most of all he hopes his 14 year old nephew can move past this, through counseling and hopes he will continue to have a close relationship with his uncles, especially George.
UPDATED 12-2-10 6:21pm by Lanetra Bennett
Many neighbors say David Mays mostly stayed to himself.
Donald Swedmark said he never even saw him outside. Therefore, he was definitely shocked to hear what was going on inside of Mays' home.
Swedmark said, "We couldn't figure out what was going on when the police were there."
David Mays' neighbors say they can't believe what was going on back on October 11th.
Even now that authorities have released the tapes of the frantic 911 phone calls coming from Mays' home at 4040 Chaires Cross Road.
"You don't know what the neighbors are always doing." Said, Swedmark.
The tapes reveal a tussle involving 51-year-old Mays, his 14-year-old son, the son's mother, Joyce Strano--and a shotgun.
Area neighbor Jerry Spence said, "Bad. I couldn't believe it. Everything was all happy when I went over there. I didn't know anything about that. Everything was all good when I went over there."
Neighbors say the grand jury's presentment didn't provide a lot of answers either.
Authorities say Mays, who was FSU's second Chief Osceola in 1980-1981, was shot in the back of the head.
Wednesday, the grand jury decided that the shooting was accidental.
Swedmark said, "I don't see how it could be accidental. They had a shotgun in the bed with him. But, I'm, not the one to make that kind of judgment."
Neighbors say they never saw any signs of domestic violence coming from the home, despite what is heard on the 911 tapes.
They also say while there are still many questions left unanswered, they are glad the tapes were released.
UPDATE 12.2.2010 12:30pm by Julie Montanaro
911 tapes released today paint a violent picture of the last moments of David Mays' life.
Mays's 14 year old son placed two calls that morning.
The first call lasts just seconds and there is chaos in the background, but no one speaking on the line. The second call lasts more than eight minutes as the son of David Mays and Joyce Strano describes a violent struggle between his parents.
Operator: "911 What's your emergency?"
Son: "He's going crazy. He's trying to kill my mom."
Operator: "Stay on the line with me, okay?"
Son: "Come now! Come now!"
Operator: "I need to know the address."
Son: (inaudible) "He's got a gun, help!"
Operator: "Sir, I need to know the address."
Son: (inaudible)
Operator: "What is he doing to her?"
Son: "He's crazy. He's trying to shoot my mom."
Operator: "Gun? He's got a gun?"
Son: "He has a shotgun. Hurry, please. Come now!"
Moments later, the son screams that his father has shot himself in the head. The mother Joyce Strano then takes the phone. She tells the operator she has blood all over her. She tells the operator that her son has run out of the house crying.
Strano stays on the line with the 911 operator as she tries to console her son and you can hear her calling family members on another phone, asking them to come to the house. "It's bad," she says at one point.
Strano's attorney said Wednesday that Mays was killed when the shotgun accidentally went off during a struggle over the gun. The Leon County Sheriff's Office is still redacting and printing copies of its investigative reports.
The 911 tapes were released this morning after a grand jury decided Wednesday that no criminal charges would be filed in the case.
UPDATE 12.2.2010 9:15am by Julie Montanaro
Today the Leon County Sheriff's Office will be releasing copies of the 911 calls received from the Mays-Strano home October 11th.
Records custodians are still working to compile the investigative reports for release, said LCSO Spokesman James McQuaig.
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TALLAHASSEE, (FL) – December 1, 2010 –
A Leon County Grand Jury today found the death of David Mays to be an accident. On the morning of the October 11, 2010 shooting, the Leon County Sheriff's Office received a frantic call from the 14-year-old son of David Mays and Joyce Strano. Deputies responded to Chaires Crossing residence to find Mr. Mays dead from an apparent shotgun wound. The LCSO conducted a thorough investigation of the incident. After all the physical evidence was analyzed, the matter was presented to the Leon County grand jury. The grand jury concluded that there was no criminal wrongdoing. The grand jury was presented with the physical evidence and also heard the testimony of Strano and both of David Mays brothers, Dannette and George Mays. The grand jury's finding of a "No True bill" was reached at the conclusion of deliberations this afternoon and exonerated both Strano and her son from any wrongdoing.
"The findings of the grand jury are perfectly consistent with what Ms. Strano has been saying all along", said Bruce Alter, Strano's attorney. "Contrary to earlier reports, both she and her son were interviewed a second time in detail by LCSO and provided DNA and fingerprint samples to LCSO. In addition, Ms. Strano even voluntarily took and passed a polygraph examination given by the retired chief polygraph examiner of FDLE. She and their son continue to mourn the tragic passing of David Mays." Alter added.
The grand jurors found specifically that the incident was an accidental shooting. According to the Presentment of the grand jury:
"We find that a shotgun was introduced into a domestic dispute. There was a struggle between Mays, the mother of his child and his son over the shotgun and the shotgun was accidentally discharged during the struggle causing the death of David Mays."
[UPDATE] 12-1 8:00PM-- by Julie Montanaro
The shooting of a Tallahassee business man and former chief Osceola is deemed an accident.
The family and friends of David Mays have been waiting for answers for more than 6 weeks. Today a grand jury reviewed the case for more than 4 hours and decided his death was a tragedy, not a crime.
Joyce Strano described the terrifying October morning, the morning her long time boyfriend David Mays was shot and killed in their home, to a grand jury Wednesday.
She wouldn't comment on camera about what happened that day but her attorney did. Bruce Alter says "Strano her son and Mays struggled over a shotgun and it accidentally discharged."
Deputies got two frantic 911 calls from the home on Chaires Crossroad on October 11th.
What was initially dispatched as a suicide was soon be classified as a suspicious death.
Grand jurors heard testimony not only from Strano from both of Mays brothers and the medical examiner and later issued a no true bill.
State Attorney Willie Meggs commented saying, "they considered all of the evidence and the medical examiner and witness and the folks over there. And the 911 tapes is a very telling story."
The Leon County Sheriff's Office has yet to release the tapes or any details of the investigation. Friends and colleagues continues to wait for a truer picture of what happened in that home.
Bruce Alter says "Miss Strano cared and loved David Mays very deeply. And she wants to start the healing process as quickly as possible. Hopefully today will begin that process."
We are still trying to reach the Mays family, but so far they have not returned any of our calls. David's brother is still consulting with his family and attorney before doing so.
[UPDATE] 12-1 3:40PM -- by Julie Montanaro
An attorney for Joyce Strano says the shooting death of David Mays was a tragic accident. Bruce Alter says Strano found Mays lying in bed with a shotgun and as she and her son struggled to get the gun away from Mays it accidentally went off.
The state attorney would not comment on the specifics of what happened, but said it will become clear once 911 tapes and details of the investigation are released by the sheriff's office.
[UPDATE] 12-1 2:40PM -- by Julie Montanaro
A grand jury has just wrapped up deliberations. In the shooting death of David Mays, the jury decided there was no criminal conduct and no indictments necessary.
[UPDATE] 12-1 11:20AM -- by Julie Montanaro
Joyce Strano is now testifying before the grand jury.
[UPDATE] 12-1 10:40AM -- by Julie Montanaro
A Leon County grand jury is meeting behind closed doors right now, reviewing evidence in the death of David Mays. Mays was found dead in his home October 11th with a single gunshot wound to the head. Mays longtime girlfriend Joyce Strano and her teenage son were in the home at the time.
So far grand jurors have heard from lead investigator Brian Pearson, medical examiner Lisa Flanagan.
David May's brothers, George and Danitte, are now testifying before the grand jury.
A Leon County grand jury meets today, 12-1, to decide if anyone will face charges in the death of David Mays. Mays was the former FSU Chief Osceola who was found dead in his home.
51-year-old David Mays was shot and killed in his home on Chaires Cross Road on October 11th, but investigators are still trying to determine exactly what happened and have yet to conduct in-depth interviews with Mays' girlfriend and son, who were in the house at the time.
Stay tuned to Eyewitness News at Noon as we bring you more details on this story.
UPDATED 10.28.2010 by Amy Long
Rain and overcast skies greeted the Mays family as they said goodbye to a longtime Tallahassee resident.
David Mays was buried next to his sister, mother, and father at the Saint John's Cemetery in Tallahassee.
Friends and family of the Tallahassee businessman and former Chief Osceola gathered one last time to remember a man they say shaped their lives.
While Mays' death is still under investigation some say the questions don't overshadow the fact that he will be missed.
Daniel Whitehurst, a longtime friend says, "He's Just a great person, like all the Mays boys are, and their mother was and I will miss him."
Doug Dickinson, a childhood friend says "The investigation is still open. It's been hard on the boys because they want to know what happened. They've hired an attorney. We know that there are some statements that have been made, so I think they are starting to get a little bit of clarity on it."
The 51-year-old was found dead in his home on Chaires Cross Road on October 11th, but investigators with the Leon County Sheriff's office are still trying to determine exactly what happened.
The case could wind up before a grand jury in December.
UPDATED 10.26.2010 by Julie Montanaro
State Attorney Willie Meggs says he does not yet have any of the investigative materials gathered by LCSO in the David Mays case.
Meggs says when he does, he will review them and review his options, including the possibility of having a grand jury review the case.
The grand jury is not scheduled to meet again in Leon County until December 1st.
UPDATED 10.25.2010 by Julie Montanaro
It's been two weeks since a Tallahassee business owner and former Chief Osceola was shot and killed in his home.
51 year old David Mays was shot at his home on Chaires Cross Road
on October 11th.
The sheriff says investigators are still trying to determine exactly what happened in the house.
An LCSO spokesman said Monday that deputies are still working to arrange in depth interviews with Mays' girlfriend and son, who were in the house at the time, and says they are still awaiting tests on the shotgun found at the scene.
LCSO has denied our request for a copy of the 911 tape citing its ongoing investigation.
David Mays' death came as a shock to many, and the Leon County Sheriff's Office has received lots of comments from people concerned about why the case is still unsolved.
Investigators now tell us the gun used in the shooting was a shotgun.
Mays was found dead in his home with a single gunshot wound to the head on Monday, October 11th.
Many in the community have taken an interest in this investigation and it has sparked some debate about just how Mays' died.
Lt. Tim Baxter said, "The case is active and ongoing were following up on the information and evidence we have in the case. Can't put a time period on it for you, it's something we're going to look into thoroughly and were going to come to the right conclusion with it."
Attorney Bruce Alter of Coral Gables is the lawyer for May's 14-year-old son, and his son's mother Joyce Strano. He sent us a statement saying "It should be noted that the police went to the home in response to a 911 call, during which the son reported that his father was 'going crazy' and was trying to kill his mother. In the immediate aftermath, both Ms. Strano and her son were so shaken that they had to be taken to the hospital."
Alter also said deputies interviewed both Strano and her son at the hospital.
The defense attorney is confident more talks between Strano, the boy, and deputies will happen soon in hopes of bringing closure to the investigation.
To see the full statement from Attorney Bruce Alter look under our documents tab.
Hundreds of people turn out to celebrate the life and mourn the loss of a Tallahassee man. A man who was shot and killed one week ago Monday though deputies are still trying to figure out how.
Stories of David Mays echoed through Killearn United Methodist Church Monday. Somber moments were quickly followed with light hearted stories and those who knew him best and say Mays would have wanted it that way.
Childhood friend, Doug Dickinson says,"The things you will always remember about David is his smile- because he was a real character. He was absolutely bigger than life.", "I can remember being in Atlanta Georgia at 2 o clock in the morning with David one time and came out on the outside deck of a bar and everyone was clapping and cheering and everything and I looked up to the top of the flag poll and there was David waving to the crowd."
That's just one of the many memories and years of laughter 51 year old David Mays leaves behind for his friends and family. The Florida High graduate kept his roots in Tallahassee while attending Florida State University and bringing stadiums full of people to their feet as the second ever Chief Osceola.
Following a short modeling stint- Mays brought his charm back to North Florida- and opened the first Gold's Gym in Tallahassee- But those who knew him best say above all, his real talent was sharing compassion.
Jeff West, David's best friend says, "He took time for anyone. It didn't matter whether you were homeless, rich poor broke. It didn't matter. He loved people and he loved people's stories."
Friends say there's no doubt Mays' life ended before his time and while they are laughing and sharing memories of the good times, they have questions about his untimely death."This whole investigative part of David's death. It's hard."
"The family is having a tough time, I think, being able to grieve because of the situation of not knowing what happened. They want to know. That's going to be important for their closure." Dickinson says.
Mays' son, and the mother of his child were not at Monday's memorial service.
James McQuaig with the Leon County Sheriff's Office says the gun found at the scene was turned over to FDLE and it could take 6 weeks or more to return with DNA or fingerprint results.
David Mays' visitation was on Sunday, October 17th at the Culley's Meadow Wood Funeral Home.
There has been a constant flow of people coming in and out of the funeral home. The line was backed up in the front of the funeral home to speak to the family. It's hard to tell how many people came in all.
51-year-old David Mays was a long-time business man in Tallahassee. He opened the Gold's Gym here in 1986, and he attended Florida State University where he was the second Chief Osceola from 1980 to 1981.
Although no one would speak on camera Sunday, I was able to talk to family members and some of his friends who were here and they told WCTV what a great friend he was, and that he was also a great dad.
The funeral will be held at Killearn United Methodist Church on Monday, October 18th, at 1:30p.m.
Tallahassee FL - Leon County Sheriff Larry Campbell says the investigation surrounding David Mays' death has prompted a campaign to get him removed from office.
The investigation is into the suspicious death of Mays. 51, who died from a gunshot wound to the head Monday.
Mays was FSU's second Chief Osceola. The FSU graduate served as the mascot from 1980 to 1981. Mays opened Gold's Gym in 1986 and is well-known among the body-building community in north Florida.
He was working as a Realtor when he died.
Investigators say Mays died from a single gunshot wound to the head and the gun that was used is being processed for DNA and fingerprints.
Leon County Sheriff Larry Campbell says, "We are fighting a tremendous number of rumors that are going through the community. I'm getting phone calls telling me how incompetent I am and how I'm and idiot, etc. etc."
Sheriff Campbell says there has even been talk about starting an online campaign on the social networking site Facebook to get him kicked out of office.
Tallahassee, FL - The Leon County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a well known Tallahassee man.
Deputies say David Mays, 51, died Monday morning at his home on Chaires Crossroads in Leon County from a gunshot wound.
Mays was FSU's second Chief Osceola. The FSU graduate served as the mascot from 1980 to 1981.
Mays opened Gold's Gym in 1986 and was well-known among the body-building community in north Florida. He was working as a Realtor when he died.
We'll have much more on Mays and the investigation surrounding his death tonight on Eyewitness News.
WCTV has included pictures of David Mays from his days as Chief Osceola and has also provided a LCSO Press Release.


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I am progressing a little on one of my brick walls. The Joyce/Joice family. George Washington Joyce, born about 1805 in North Carolina, married Jane somewhere and sometime, and died before 1870 in Switzerland County, Indiana. That was all I knew at the beginning of last week.
George Washington Joyce
b: 1805 North Carolina
Married Jane IDEN[born in 1806 in Virginia] on December 22, 1825 in Loudoun County, Virginia.
1850 Switzerland County, IN census has first 2 children born in North Carolina and the rest born in Iowa? How did Iowa get in there??
In the 1870 census Jane is living with her son Robert and his family.
The marriage was not found by me. I was still looking in North Carolina records. It was found by a good friend and fellow researcher, Norma Scott. She saved me!!!
Pretty good, if a little blurry week.
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Flexible and Printed Electronics
By Kevin Cammack, FlexTech Alliance
The microchip has transformed the lives of everyone on this planet in ways that could not have been imagined 50 years ago. Today, a new technological revolution is emerging that could have a similar impact on our lives. Flexible and printed electronics, or FPE, are transforming the way we live and interact, and organizations like the FlexTech Alliance for Displays and Flexible, Printed Electronics (www.flextech.org) are helping to make FPE a reality. Integrated electronics are no longer only just about smaller and faster; today's important metrics include larger area, ruggedness, weight, power budget, conformability and green/clean manufacturing and products that can be integrated seamlessly into all aspects of life.
"In the future, structural materials will incorporate sensing, reporting, and even healing functions...." National Academy of Sciences, "Materials Science and Technology: Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century"
The market for Flexible and Printed Electronics will grow rapidly in the near future. FPE underpins emerging products in the fastest growing markets in the world— photovoltaics and electronic displays. The global market for all FPE applications today is estimated at just under $1.2B. NanoMarkets® estimates those markets will increase to a $10B market by 2012, and a $300B market is projected by 2025.
The Technology
Flexible and Printed Electronics describes a broad set of technologies applicable across a multitude of products. FPE may be very small, such has cell phone components, or very large (literally thousands of square meters), enabling applications that can only be dreamed of today. The common theme of FPE is that it enables the production of electronic devices that can be readily integrated into all aspects of life in a seamless manner, at low cost, on large scales, using inherently green processes and materials.
- FPE are inherently green: In many cases, FPE replaces the materials in traditional electronics, including toxic metals such as germanium, with plastics and inks. These new materials have the advantages of low energy consumption, high fault-tolerance, transparency, light weight and shock resistance.
The common themes among these elements are:
- materials and manufacturing costs
- novel applications not practical to manufacture today
- of U.S. print manufacturing capacity for microelectronics manufacturing.
Market/Product Opportunities
Products made possible by FPE in displays, lighting, sensors and solar are only now beginning to come onto the market today. FlexTech estimates that by 2017, FPE revenues will exceed $5B annually in several industries, including indoor lighting, photovoltaics, integrated displays and smart packaging.
Figure 1 Predicted growth of FPE markets through 2017
Some specific product areas of intense industry interest include:
Emerging Opportunities
FPE will also enable capabilities that can only be dreamed of today, such as intelligent clothing, structure-integrated sensors, wearable medical diagnostic tools, and implantable RF devices.
Learn More
Firms and individuals interested in learning more about flexible and printed electronics should consider attending the Flexible Printed Electronics Workshop on August 20, 2008. The workshop is free to attend and hosted by FlexTech and Mark Andy at the Mark Andy headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Attendance is limited— interested individuals should RSVP to Kay Mascoli (firstname.lastname@example.com) to reserve a spot.


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Manchester City are reportedly planning a £60 million summer offer for Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets which, if completed, would break the record fee paid by a British club.
Chelsea hold the current record for the £50 million they spent on Fernando Torres when he moved to London from Liverpool in 2011, and City could yet trump that figure in the summer transfer window.
According to the Daily Star, Manchester City are ready to make Busquets their No.1 target next year and are willing to pay £60 million in order to lure him away from the Camp Nou.
The 24-year-old Spain international is reportedly unhappy at Barcelona after Alex Song was recruited from Arsenal to provide competition in Tito Vilanova's midfield.
Barcelona, however, may be unlikely to entertain an offer for Busquets and will perhaps point Roberto Mancini towards the player's £121 million release clause.
The signing of Busquets could well compensate for the potential departure of Yaya Toure next summer, after the Ivorian's agent said the midfielder wants to leave Manchester City.
Toure has supposedly achieved all he can as a City player, while his agent invited bids from the likes of Bayern Munich and Chelsea.
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It is a great pic forgot to mention that
Sent using lipo power
Mountains cant stop me
they have tried
These 8200 batteries are super, 1 hour of bashing!
These with my new Trencher X wheels and WOW! A totally different truck than stock, like night and day!
I think my SPC 8200's are the best thing I've bought for my trucks. I got the icharger 206b and I love it. I built a power supply with tips from Jamann and it was totally worth it. The charger never even gets warm. My packs charge together in under a hour. I dropped it in my slash last night with the 18t pinion and it was crazy! I can't imagine what the 3s will do.
Same here. Trenches and lipos are the best upgrade I've ever done!
Is owning 27 RC's too many? No way!
just HAD to write a quick post on these SPC LiPo's
after the DeWalt motor and T-Bone skid plates (full set) upgrade to my Summit, my 5000/25C (2S) LiPo's really took a hit when it came to run time.
Enter SPC 8200/50C (2S).... WOW just wow (there's not much more to say)
picked up 4 of these and slapped the 2nd set in the ERBE... WOW
who needs 6S ? these SPC 8200/50C (2S) LiPo's last a WHOLE lot longer than the 5000/25C (3S) and its all but impossible to keep the front wheels on the ground with either set(s)
bottom line: SPC ROCKS!!! these LiPo's ROCK!!
(if your thinking of trying these... DO IT!!)
My posts and summit are a hazard to your health
Well, Seems they finally ran out. Wonder how long the wait is going to be this time?
I have 2 friends who want 2 packs each after seeing mine. Glad I got mine when I did
Ya, I'm glad I got mine when I did too.
Is owning 27 RC's too many? No way!
quick question. could you not just enlarge the wire notch on the chassis to make the main wires fit then run the smaller ones throuth the battery vents? and just to clarify, my onyx 245 will charge these fully?
Stop being a panzy n just cut the fins already! No offence, but just do it. I used wire cutters. Remove 2 fins pet vent.
U could enlarge original holes. BUT the leads come off the battery in the middle of the pack and the leads are a thicker than Traxxas leads and do not bend aswell to use original holes.
Worse comes to worse, u can replace the plastic vents for $5
To SUMMIT up, its my coolest RC.
Yes, you can enlarge the notches in the chassis and battery door. You can even add notches at the front of the battery bays. I've done both but I'd cut the vents.
Alt-248 on the number pad = °
Sorry, but instructions on charging a non-Traxxas battery with a non-Traxxas charger definitely falls under the aftermarket support category.
Alt-248 on the number pad = °
SPC is out of EVERY pack they sell, should have 2500 and 8200 2s packs in the next few weeks though.
To SUMMIT up, its my coolest RC.
I've been waiting on the 3s 1500 for over a month. Hope they get em in soon. The site says mid to late april.
addicted much....
8200 packs are back in stock tomorrow
To SUMMIT up, its my coolest RC.
Nice, They said today. But as of 7:20pm they still had not been updated.
Wonder for how many packs this time?
To SUMMIT up, its my coolest RC.
Ha! It says they are in stock, with 33 in stock. I'd bet there is at least 100 not listed...
Is owning 27 RC's too many? No way!
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Alt-248 on the number pad = °
Curiosity...As for how many: if you don't plan on buying them all, what does it matter?
Is owning 27 RC's too many? No way!
To SUMMIT up, its my coolest RC.
I just bought 2 packs. Stock where showing 32, now 29.
I really hope they will pass the border, I'm in cacanada! I didn't know about the latest shipping laws?
... for the fun of excess!
just ordered my first set of these
crawl-bash-swim. The Summit does it all.
Batteries just arrived after 6 days of shipping! I had to pay 25$ fee as well... So that's 45$ each battery but 23$ shipping + 25$ import fee.
Can wait to see how long my summit run with these lipo!
... for the fun of excess!
it will probably out last you... especially if you got more than 1 set.
To SUMMIT up, its my coolest RC.
What charger are you guys using? I have a Hitec x1 and it charges each battery pack in under 14mins. At 6amps 7.4v(2s),,i get about 30mins runtime what am i doing wrong? Has anyone used this charger for this set? It takes about 40mins to full charge my erevo 3s lipo
^^Summit Kawasaki Edition and E-revo VXL^^
I'd look into a better charger. Take it from me, I had one of those, and it ruined quite a few of my batteries. It stopped balancing correctly. Took me about four ruined packs before I figured out it was my charger.
I upgraded to an icharger and love it.
addicted much....
I use the Hitec 4X. I charge 4 batteries at once. I can charge 6 amp per battery max. I always charge on balance mode, never regular or fast charge. It takes about an hour to put the batteries into storage mode (3.8v) after I have used them. It takes 45 min to fully charge (4.2v) once the batteries from storage (3.8v). It takes a little over an hour to charge from fully discharged (3.4v) to (4.2v). Buy a cell checker and you can test the battery through the balancing plug to check your voltage to see if you have a fully charged battery. I have not had any problems with my lipos or nimh with this charger. I really like mine.
The charger i have is the problem im noticing, makes sense after seeing the avg charge time is much much longer than mine. Whats a decent charger with out having pay premium for it. I looked at the hitec x4 and it looks great but after seeing the price wow its expensive if you only have one truck and 2 lipos. I just need a simple charger that works, these lipos are new only ran it 3 times so far and would hate to ruin them.
^^Summit Kawasaki Edition and E-revo VXL^^
Best bang for the buck is iCharger... either a 106B or a 206B.
Both will need a power supply.
Whatever it is I just typed... could be wrong.
I noticed they have a 7200mah 70c pack now. Any one know if it fits the summit? If so, would the stock summit with its brushed motor even use the extra output?


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Lard. Lardy. Or as the Italians romantically refer to it: lardo. The associations with shivering rolls of chubby flesh being chased around the playground are comic yet laced with danger. Far from innocent yet not proven guilty, accusations of raising cholesterol and clogging arteries have outlawed lard to the margins of our kitchens. Instead, taking centre stage in the frying pan is lard's sexier, slimmer (and expensiver) continental cousin- olive oil.
But are we doing the right thing by cutting down so dramatically on something that tastes so good? Read More