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My Road
It's your road and your alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Today I made one of the toughest decisions I have had to face until now. . .and I made it alone. Of course I confided in one of my dearest friends about it all (Oh, Steph, how indebted I am to you) and yes, my family gave me their strong opinions, but no one decided for me. Oh, and my best friend, Soldier, has been in the field all week so I only had a chance to send him a few brief texts that ultimately amounted to "Whatever you decide just make sure it's what you want to do."
I decided to put off graduate school (have yet to inform USF of this 30-minute old decision) for a position within a company that will one day lead to heading up the entire Hispanic marketing campaign for this company. Why did I choose it? For a few reasons:
1) I can live at home with my parents (we are making some new living arrangements within the next few weeks).
2) I can save money while living with my parents.
3) I can pay off debt from Florida Southern much sooner than I anticipated.
4) It's a great straight out of school position that I can stay at for a few years (Soldier being Georgia helped me with this, too, but NO I am not the kind of girl to follow the prince charming around regardless of my dreams).
5) I can attend UCF part-time as soon as I have my feet grounded at the company.
6) It feels. . .right. . .for now at least.
7) I can work on my writing without the pressure of my studies (Ain't it funny how I can focus on writing while dealing with the workplace, but not school?)
Making this decision made me realize that I am now an adult. I now control my own decisions. I now control my own finances (with a mom and dad that can bail me out ONLY if ABSOLUTELY needed). I am terrified of what the next few months hold. . .waking up early. . .business casual every day (I absolutely abhor having to be business casual every day). . .no window views. . .straight up REAL WORLD WORK.
But, I will keep wandering along my very own road until I come to another crossroads. . .
Posted by Ash in Blink of an Eye, Collegiate Shenanigans, Mi Vida on May 2, 2011
On Saturday, I graduated with three of the most amazing friends anyone could ask for. This momma bear (what they fall me) was proud.
I also graduated with a dear friend I have known since kindergarten. It was so cliche but beautiful.
Mango Tree – Short Story
Posted by Ash in Simple Words on April 26, 2011
I worked on this piece in a Creative Writing course a few semester's ago and I have decided to go ahead and let it out into the world.
For your reading pleasure. . .
For 19 of her 22 years of life, her only constant was the shade of a mango tree on the side of her abuela's home in South Florida. In a place where residential developments were plastering over seas of green grass and gravel roads were becoming four lane highways, the shade from that tree provided her with more than relief from a sun that poured rays of blinding light and suffocating heat.
The shade from the mango tree was her everything. She would lie on the plush green bed of grass and stare up at the long leaves that masked the sun and the mangoes that would fall to the ground when they were oto ripe to han on to the tree any longer and escape.
From "Yay" to "Woe"
Posted by Ash in Collegiate Shenanigans, Mi Vida on April 12, 2011
I've never been one to run around shouting, "Woe is me. . .woe is me." But, tonight I am.
This afternoon I found out that I was accepted in to the University of South Florida's Masters of Mass Communication porgram for the fall. I went through all of the emotions that come along with that kind of news. I cried. I laughed. I stood in awe. I prayed to my God. I felt at ease. . .
Then, my head began to throb again.
In January of 2007 I began to have terrible headaches. Imagine someone holding your head between their hands and squeezing with no mercy. . .now add a sledgehammer to that mix. . .pounding at their hands. Later that year, during the summer, I was diagnosed with Chiari Malformation I. I remember sitting in that doctor's office at USF Health (ironic, huh) with the smell of latex gloves and industrial cleaner floating around me and sitting on that flimsy paper on the medical bed in shock as tears rolled down my cheeks.
"I have a what?" was all I could try to wrap my head around.
"The only solution is surgery, but even then it may not work. . .in your case it's tough to tell whether it will," one neurologist said.
"It won't make a difference it's too slight," the neurosurgeon added.
They stepped out of the room. They came back. They had no solution to the headaches that had me in pain for days and even weeks at a time.
"They're not migraines, but we're going to try migraine meds for you," was what the neurologist left me with.
Did they work? No. Nothing did.
When I have a headache all I want to do is cry. All I want to do is be left alone, but at the same time be held by my Bella (mom). There have even been times when I've just wanted to die because of the pain I found myself battling silently. I say silently because I know I am blessed. I know. I also know that everyone else has their problems, and who wants added pain to their day? But, as much as I tell myself, "Better me than someone else who doesn't have a bed, air condition, food, etc." I find myself asking God, "Why? Why can't you just help me a little? Why can't you just take it away for the night so I can rest? Why?" As I ask those questions at this very moment. . .I just want to shout them to the Heavens.
I have had the same headache for five days now. Just as in 2007 when I was faced with the news of having Chiari and not knowing if it would seriously interfere with my college career. . .I am now faced with whether it will affect my career at USF. I don't want surgery. I don't want more prescription – I've probably been on at least 18 different ones since 2007 – that leave me sick and debilitated. I just want to know what it feels like not to worry about a headache coming on at any moment.
Now, as I glance at what I have typed away. . .I feel pathetic. I have had a huge blessing today. . .and, here I am complaining.
I have two text messages from my parents summing up the love that I am surrounded with:
Daddy Your mom and I have just finished prayin for you. Anything let us know.
Bella Dad and I are very proud of you. We will help you with your Masters in anyway. Luv ya always. Will keep praying for you. Rest now. Lock doors.
But, still. . .tonight I can't help, but ask my God, "Can You please just take it away for the night?"
Waiting for what?
Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. Gloria E. Anzaldúa
I'll be honest; I'm use to getting what I want all the time. Sound a bit selfish? Conceited? Immature? Well, yes, that is how it sounds, but let me explain.
Day after day, I work hard from the moment I wake up until I let my head fall upon my favorite pillow 16 hours later. My parents have always told me to work hard because nothing in life will be handed to you, and believe me, nothing in my life has been handed to me. I have spent countless hours on projects, at internships and working more than one job at a time to better myself. I'm not use to hearing "no" because at the end of the day I do not only convince others of my abilities, but I strive to perfect them and I make sure that I am better than my competition. I know I have not learned all that I need to live in this world, but I am aware of my weaknesses and am constantly working on turning those weaknesses into attributes that will push me over the top.
So, now that I am faced with an uncertain future, I feel lost. I feel as if all of the work I have put in over the last four years in college are nothing. I feel as if all of those words of encouragement from my parents over the past 22 years are lies.
As some of my closest friends are being offered their first full-time jobs before graduation. I am waiting.
Waiting for a reply from the University of South Florida's selection committee for entry into their Masters of Arts in Communications: Multimedia program. Waiting to hear back from one of the 15 jobs I have applied for over the last two months. Waiting.
Right now the only comfort I have is when I think remember that God has my back (only way I can word that feeling right now) and Ms. Anzaldua's words. I just have to keep moving during this time of waiting and build my own bridges. Just have to move through this waiting room.


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Long-awaited Winthrop Beach restoration underway
More than a decade after the project was first proposed, state contractors have begun a major restoration of Winthrop Beach.
The estimated $17 million project, which started in late September, includes replenishing the badly eroded shoreline by adding 450,000 cubic yards of sand and gravel.
Though Hurricane Sandy caused only minor damage to the beach, Town Manager James McKenna said the recent storm "really speaks to why [the project] is important.''
"The beach is a very important public safety issue for us, because we need it to protect us from the very things we were concerned about in the last storm: the volume of water that comes at the town,'' he said. "The beach is going to add an extra layer of protection for so many homes.''
McKenna said the project, which follows the recent completion of state improvements to Short Beach on the Revere line, also gives Winthrop the potential to be "a recreational resource for the entire region.''
Governor Deval Patrick, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, a Winthrop Democrat, and Edward M. Lambert, commissioner of the state Department of Conservation and Recreation, were among those celebrating the start of the project at an Oct. 18 groundbreaking. DCR manages the beach and is carrying out the project.
"It's something I've been trying to get done for about 20 years,'' DeLeo said in a telephone interview.
"This isn't just a question of making the beach more beautiful, more pristine,'' he said. "It's also a question of making this beach safer in helping out folks in the area in terms of flooding and other acts of nature that have raised destruction.''
The project is the last of a series by DCR to improve Boston-area public beaches identified as in need of restoration in a "Back to the Beaches'' report issued in 1996 by a special commission.
"The impetus for this project is critical shore protection,'' said Joe Orfant, the chief of the DCR's Bureau of Planning and Resource Protection. He noted that Winthrop Beach directly faces the ocean, meaning the shoreline and adjacent neighborhood are at particular risk for storm damage.
The project encountered years of delays when the state waged an ultimately unsuccessful bid for federal approval to secure the needed sand by dredging the ocean bottom 8 miles off shore.
The DCR then successfully sought permits to use sand and gravel from an abandoned highway embankment in Rumney Marsh in Saugus. But during that time, the funds originally set aside for the project were no longer available.
DeLeo, who was surprised when he learned of the funding problem last spring, said he made a direct appeal to the governor to find a way to fund the project.
At about the same time, at the behest of DeLeo and town officials, DCR came up with a revised plan that reduced the amount of sand and gravel it needed to truck to the site from Rumney Marsh.
Under the revised plan, 90,000 cubic yards will be dredged from an area behind the Five Sisters, a series of five breakwaters off Winthrop Beach. The remaining 360,000 cubic yards will come from Rumney Marsh.
In addition, a 30 percent reduction in local truck traffic than originally planned is expected, though trucks will still run every three minutes from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. weekdays for eight to 10 months, starting next spring.
"It's our version of the Big Dig,'' McKenna said. "We have to live with a significant but short-term impact to gain the greater good of this project.''
In a first phase of the project, contractors have completed repairs to two of the beach's five "groins'' — protective structures resembling jetties — that date to the 1950s.
Orfant said the repairs to the two groins — both on the southern end of the beach — already have had a beneficial effect, noting they helped lessen damage to the shoreline from Hurricane Sandy.
Contractors will soon begin the dredging, which will produce the sand needed to replenish the southern end of the beach for the project's second phase.
The DCR secured approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection to take the sand from a tombolo, or a pile of accumulated sediment, that is behind the breakwaters.
The sand and gravel trucked from Rumney Marsh will be used to replenish the north side of the beach in the third phase of the project, which will also include repairs to three groins and construction of an additional groin on the north side of the beach.
The project's final phase calls for widening sidewalks on Winthrop Shore Drive, and the addition of new lighting, benches, sand-rinsing stations, and upgraded beach entrances.
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The establishment of the new Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation—managed and operated by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) on behalf of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS)—was celebrated in Vienna today at an opening ceremony hosted by Austrian Federal Minister for European and International Affairs Michael Spindelegger, and attended by MIIS President Sunder Ramaswamy and CNS Director William Potter.
The new center will serve as an international hub for discussions among representatives of civil society, national governments, and international organizations regarding nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament issues. The Austrian Foreign Ministry's October 2010 announcement of the selection of CNS to operate the center cited "its distinguished record of leadership in the field and its shared vision." A key point of emphasis for the center is opportunities to educate the public—and especially young people—regarding nonproliferation and disarmament issues.
CNS is the largest nongovernmental organization in the United States involved in research and training in the fields of nonproliferation and disarmament. The Monterey Institute's Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies (NPTS) master's degree program, launched in August 2010, is the only one of its kind in the U.S., and draws heavily for its curriculum on the expertise and resources resident in CNS and the Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program. Students seeking an NPTS degree made up more than 10 percent of the Institute's student body in the program's first year.
Friday's event began with a panel of distinguished international experts on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) addressing this topic: "Implementing the NPT Action Plans: What's Next for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation? What Role Can Civil Society Play?" The panel featured CNS Director William Potter, Ambassador Susan Burk (Special Representative of the U.S. President for Nuclear Non-Proliferation), Ambassador Libran N. Cabactulan, (Chair, NPT Review Conference 2010), Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala (Chair, NPT Review Conference 1995), and was moderated by Ambassador Alexander Marschik of the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs.
Minister Spindelegger, Director-General Yukiya Amano of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ambassador Tibor Toth (representing the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization), MIIS President Sunder Ramaswamy and CNS Director Potter also spoke at the opening ceremony.
The Vienna Center is intended to serve as a platform for independent expertise in the field of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and will sponsor activities including conferences, seminars, educational and training programs, as well as research and analysis and dissemination of findings. The center will be located in the Andromeda Tower next to the Vienna International Center.
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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Japanese and South Korean shares fell Wednesday while stocks in Shanghai and Hong Kong rebounded in volatile trading after China reported an unexpected decline in exports.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +2.15% ended the day 0.4% lower, while South Korea's Kospi SEU, +0.18% lost 0.3%. Both were pressured after China reported a 3.1% year-on-year drop in June exports and a 0.7% contraction in imports, against expectations of an increase.
Andy Ji, a strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, said a continued crackdown by the government on the practice of inflated export receipts likely dampened the data.
"The robust momentum seen in the first four months of 2013 appears to be subsiding quickly, reflecting the more challenging external environment as well as the sizable appreciation in the domestic currency against those of China's main trading partners," Ji said.
China is a major trading partner and an exports destination for a number of Asian countries.
Meanwhile, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 XJO, +0.07% added 0.4%, and in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index HSI, +0.15% finished 1.1% higher.
The Shanghai Composite SHCOMP, -1.51% erased early losses to end the day 2.2% higher, on a wave of buying in beaten-down financial and property shares in the afternoon session.
The gains came amid expectations policy makers will ensure economic stability.
"The June interbank liquidity squeeze is finally over, but market concerns on China's growth outlook and the health of the financial system remain. We believe the new Chinese leadership values growth,financial market stability and policy continuity," Bank of America Merrill Lynch economists wrote to clients.
They added that policy makers will employ a "practical approach" and control risks, instead of using "shock therapy."
Stock gains in Hong Kong were underpinned by Chinese banks Wednesday, while the property, financial and mining sectors led the advance in mainland stock markets.
The Hong Kong-traded shares of China Construction Bank Corp. 0939, -0.15% CICHY, +0.46% and Bank of China Ltd. 3988, -0.28% BACHY, -0.44% rose 1.9% and 2%, respectively.
In Shanghai, Poly Real Estate Group Co. 600048, -0.97% jumped 5.4%, China Coal Energy Co. 601898, -1.96% CCOZY, +1.49% rose 3% and Citic Securities Co. 600030, -3.33% CIIHF, -15.15% advanced 3.3%.
The Chinese trade data Wednesday came against the backdrop of an improvement in the U.S. economic and employment outlook, which helped stocks on Wall Street extend their rally Tuesday, pushing the Standard & Poor's 500 Index SPX, -0.08% closer toward its all-time high.
Several energy shares gained as U.S. benchmark oil prices ended at their best level in 14 months.
Following those gains, Santos Ltd. STO, -1.30% climbed 1.8%, and Woodside Petroleum Ltd. WPL, -1.03% WOPEY, -1.04% rose 0.4% in Sydney, while PetroChina Co. 0857, +0.00% PTR, -1.47% added 1.6% in Hong Kong.
Australian miners rose after aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. AA, -0.36% played down concerns about a slowdown in China, and as gold prices rose for a second day.
BHP Billiton Ltd. BHP, +1.13% BHP, +0.88% and Rio Tinto Ltd. RIO, +0.72% RIO, +1.44% rose 0.7% each, and Alumina Ltd. AWC, -0.39% US:AWC rallied 3.9%.
The losses in Japan and South Korea came a day ahead of monetary-policy decisions by their respective central banks.
In Tokyo, some technology shares retreated after recent advances, with Trend Micro Inc. 4704, +2.77% TMICY, +0.15% losing 1.2%, and Toshiba Corp. 6502, -0.28% TOSYY, -0.22% shedding 1.4%.
Gains for consumer and retail stocks supported the market, with Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd. 2587, +3.22% rising 2.8%, and Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. 2502, +2.94% ASBRY, +45.96% climbing 2%.
Shares of retailer Aeon Co. 8267, +3.80% AONNY, +1.87% gained 1.4% after reporting an increase in its quarterly profits.
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Reposting from this Lugnet announcement from Steve Witt about events at Brickworld (June 21-24 in Illinois):
BrickWorld will feature the first ever LEGO Castle Building Challenge. Upon entry to the event all registered attendees will be able to enter a drawing for one of twenty spots in the challenge. The challenge will involve the twenty participants speed building the 7093 Skeleton Tower with the winner taking home a 7094 King's Castle Siege.
The nineteen people who didn't win the Speed build will then be able to compete in a Master-Build event to earn one last 7094 King's Castle Siege. The master build will involve the participants to use the parts from the 7093 Skeleton Tower to build a creation from a theme that will be given at the time (ex: spaceship, train, etc.).
I hope to see lots of folks involved and cheering on their friends. The competition will take place on Friday Afternoon with the drawing happening right before the event occurs. Hope to see you there!
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Seal Beach — Harvard-Westlake's Michael Genender defeated Palm Desert's Austin Rapp 6-3, 6-4 won the CIF-SS singles championship Saturday at the Seal Beach Tennis Center.
Genender won four of the final five games after Rapp led 3-2 on serve in the second set.
"After the first set, I knew nothing was won yet and that it would be an uphill battle," Genender said. "I kept telling myself that it was 0-0 and to start over.
"One of the keys in the match was when I was serving down 1-2 at 0-30. I came back to get the hold, and I just kept trying to stay with him and not let him run away with the second set."
Genender broke in the sixth game and had multiple championship points on Rapp's serve at 5-2. But Rapp saved each point to force Genender to serve for the title. The Wolverines standout jumped out to a quick 40-0 lead and eventually held to win the match.
"I felt the pressure after not converting the first match points, but I tried to treat the last game like it was a regular service game," Genender said. "It always helps when you are closing out a set or match to get an early lead, so once I led 30-0 that took a lot of pressure off me."
In the doubles final, San Marino's Ryan Cheng and Robert Carter finished second to University's Eric Tseng and Arash Hafezi, who repeated as doubles champions with a 6-4, 6-4 victory.
"We wanted to end this season winning this," Hafezi said. "It's (Tseng's) senior year, so I didn't just want to win this for myself. I wanted to win this for him and the team."
University saved all six break points and converting its only break point on return. When serving at 1-2, Tseng fended off three break points and held after five deuces. Then in the ensuing game, Tseng and Hafezi got the only break they needed to take a 3-2 lead.
Cheng and Carter had one more chance to even the second set on the Tseng serve, but the senior preserved University's perfect mark on break points in giving Hafezi the chance to hold for the title two games later.
"We came back to our gameplan on the big points," Tseng said. "Instead of going for big serves, we toned it back and used our kick serves. On my serve at 4-3, we were facing a few break points and decided to go with kick serves and won four points in a row to hold."
After 14 consecutive holds in the tournament, Carter had his serve broken twice by Tseng and Hafezi as they overcame an early 3-1 deficit to win the first set 6-4. Tseng, who held at love in his first two service games, was put under the microscope when he served for the first set, and San Marino had one chance to get back on serve. But Tseng served out the set.
Cheng and Carter won their semifinal match 7-6 (3), 6-1 over Palm Desert earlier in the day to reach the final. Carter held all five times in that match, had 10 aces and won 20 of 23 points on his first serve.
" 'If it ain't broke don't fix it' is what I was thinking with my serve," Carter said. "I just kept serving out wide and the returner wouldn't adjust, so I just kept doing it."
Cheng was 41 for 63 on all points on his serve in both matches and held seven times, including a crucial hold in the semifinal to send the first set to a tiebreaker.
"I lost my serve twice to start today and then I just started serving a little flatter," Cheng said. "That was the only change that I made and it paid off."


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Ah, nothing like feel of a fresh page after a short hiatus from writing. I wanted to start my article today by talking about Napa and just how many hidden gems can be found amongst the many, many, many wineries. In my line of work, I get the opportunity to go out to other wineries than the one I work with, to taste their wines, to take their tours, and to get a feel for the experiences they offer.
I meet people, I make connections, I expand my network and I get a grip on the industry as a whole. But it's not just about me and my career. When you come to Napa (or any part of Wine Country) and you ask your servers and Educators about which wineries to go to, they'll almost certainly name the big ones, but don't be surprised when they tell you about the little winery that you've never heard of, tucked away on a back street or off the beaten path. The reason we divulge this information is simple: if a winery has exceptional wines, it's our job to inform the public.
I'm not sure exactly how other Educators set criteria for visiting other wineries, but mine falls along the following lines:
The moral of this week's article is twofold: 1) If your Wine Educator makes a suggestion for a winery that you've never heard of, take the chance and trust them. For the most part, they've done their homework on this. 2) If you see a winery while you're in Napa, Sonoma or Mendocino and you've never heard of it, do what we do, stop in, introduce yourself and see where things take you. You might be surprised and find yourself a hidden gem that you can share with your friends… or keep all to yourself.
It's good to be writing again!
Zach Glassman is a Wine Educator with 8 years of professional experience in Napa, Sonoma and New York. If you have any wine-related questions, want to share wine stories, or for pretty much any other reason, feel free to send him an email at [email protected]


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Coventry City boss Mark Robins has captured Sunderland defender Blair Adams on loan until January 5.
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Coventry City boss Mark Robins has captured Sunderland defender Blair Adams on loan until January 5.
The 21-year-old, who has been capped twice by England Under-20's, came through the Sunderland Academy under Kevin Ball and was awarded a first-team squad number in the 2010/11 season.
Adams has also had loan spells at Brentford and Northampton but is yet to make a first-team appearance for the Black Cats.
Robins said: "We're delighted to have him. He's a young player who's keen to do well and keen to make his mark.
"Sunderland have helped us out massively in the way they have pushed this through so we have to thank them for that because there was a lot of interest in him but it's a big step for him and hopefully he can fulfil his potential over the period we have him.
"He'll get forward for us, it gives us another option at left-back but he's played at left wing as well so there is that option to move him up one. He's a solid youngster and he's been working under Kevin Ball at Sunderland for quite a while and Kevin is a hard task master so I'm looking forward to working with him."


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SCAN-TV shutting down, future of Seattle public access TV unclear
Todd Bishop, TechFlash
Seattle Community Access Network, the independent non-profit group that has operated the city's public access TV station for more than a decade, says it will cease operations at the end of the year -- without a transition period -- rather than bid for a new contract under the 85 percent funding cut proposed by Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn.
The group, known as SCAN-TV, announced the news today -- saying it tried to negotiate a 6-month transition period with the city but couldn't reach "workable terms." Executive director Dian Ferguson said in a news release that it "does not appear that anyone with the authority to restore funding is listening."Read more.
Mayor McGinn's community media problem
UPDATE: Community groups urge Seattle City Council to restore funding for public access.
Why does Mike McGinn's office seem to have such a problem with community media? After local blogger/journalist Sakara Remmu (pen name Sable Verity) criticized the Mayor in blog posts, Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith took it upon himself to complain to Remmu's employers at the Tabor 100. Tabor fired her rather than harbor a perceived enemy of the Mayor's office. The episode raised troubling questions about abuse of power and the Mayor's office's respect —or lack thereof —for independent media.
That lack of respect was on full display in the Mayor's proposed budget, released last month, which slashes city funding for community access TV provider SCAN. SCAN trains local video producers and airs their programs on local cable channels. Previously funding SCAN in the neighborhood of $600,000 a year, the Mayor's current proposal would reduce that annual amount to just $100,000—a cut which would essentially strangle the nonprofit out of existence, and leave the city without a local training facility dedicated to helping local producers develop programming for community audiences.
Listen to a report on SCAN from KBCS 91.3FM.Read more.
Low-power radio bill down to the wire in Senate
Jennifer Martinez, Politico
A bill that would allow the Federal Communications Commission to give licenses to more noncommercial, localized radio stations is caught in static.
Despite support from both sides of the aisle, including strong backing from Arizona Sen. John McCain, a group of Republican senators have successfully blocked the bill.
Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso currently has a hold on the measure, which would create a new crop of radio stations — known as low-power FM stations — dedicated to hyperlocal community news, such as information about school boards, city councils and church groups, or spreading music by local artists.Read more.
Weds, Oct 20: Media, Meet Justice!
Join RTM and the Northwest Media Action Grassroots Network at Hidmo (20th and Jackson, Seattle) on Oct. 20 for an evening of media justice strategizing and discussion: Media? Meet Justice.
Local activists will share lessons learned this summer at the Allied Media Conference and the US Social Forum, including reflecting on intersections between media justice and immigrant rights, food justice, racism and economic oppression, among other issues. Then we'll put on our thinking caps for a strategic conversation about how community media, media justice and social justice groups can work together in the Northwest to strengthen the movement for social change.
Media. meet Justice! A cross-movement media justice strategy discussion Weds, Oct. 20, 6:30-8:30pm, Hidmo (20th and Jackson, Seattle)Read more.
Communities of color call on FCC to apply network neutrality rules to wireless networks
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In comments filed today with the Federal Communications Commission, almost thirty organizations, including Reclaim the Media, members of Latinos for Internet Freedom and the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), called on the agency to apply Network Neutrality rules to all Internet access platforms, including on wireless networks.
People of color are among the fastest growing constituencies in the United States and the most active users of the mobile Internet and many rely exclusively on their cell phones and other mobile devices to get online. Communities of color use their mobile devices as a primary tool for activism, community engagement and democratic participation, from defending the rights of immigrants to registering to vote.Read more.
Inslee to FCC: Stop stalling on broadband reclassification
On Sept. 30 Rep. Jay Inslee (WA-01) released this statement regarding the announcement that efforts to craft bipartisan net neutrality legislation in Congress have stalled: "Waiting and deliberation is over, the FCC must now move to reclassify broadband under Title II. Innovators and consumers can no longer wait, hoping, that the internet will remain open and free from discrimination they need certainty. For months I have encouraged the FCC to reinstate the rules of the road that have allowed for the explosion of innovation and economic growth on the internet. Instead, some have pointed to Congress to find a solution. Despite the efforts of Chairman Waxman, it is now clear that Congress will likely not find a bipartisan approach this year that will protect consumers and the online marketplace. The time for FCC action is now. We can't wait any longer."Read more.
Beyond beltway, groups say the FCC must protect broadband
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Nationwide, community groups respond to killed Waxman bill, claim FCC authority over broadband is the only sure way to protect consumers
A coalition of 60 community organizations from across the US and leaders representing small businesses, communities of color and America s'poor says while clear rules of the road for high speed broadband Internet are needed, getting those rules from Congress isn't the way.
Coalition spokespeople suggest that the lack of Net Neutrality protection for wireless broadband in the recent Waxman bill was unacceptable, failed to meet equity standards and could have slowed the road to economic prosperity for America's rural, struggling suburban and urban communities of color.Read more.
Seattle's slow progress towards community fiber: an update
Christopher Mitchell, MuniNetworks
If Seattle moves forward on the Community Fiber Network it has been considering, it will be the largest such network in the nation. However, as we recently noted, progress has been slow.
The City's Seattle Jobs Plan proposes a publicly owned fiber network as a smart investment. The report notes that Seattle applied for BTOP stimulus funding from NTIA, but the recent notice of awards suggests that Seattle will not receive any grants or loans. Way back in March, City Councilmember Bruce Harrell published a lengthy post about Seattle's options. Harrell is a pivotal official on this issue and his post suggests he has given it a lot of thought. The post seems geared toward those pushing for a community fiber network. The overall message is that this is a hard decision… which is fine, but the Council seems more ready to wait out the clock than actually make a decision.Read more.
McGinn: Seattle remains committed to citywide municipal fiber
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn says that his office is still committed to his campaign promise to build a fiber broadband network covering the entire city. He addressed the topic during a Q&A this week at The Stranger's Questionland:
We've put together an interdepartmental team to look at the issue and figure out what a high-level business plan for an advanced network might look like. The city has built and maintains a high speed, optic broadband network connecting schools, government facilities, and community institutions. The interdepartmental team's business plan will guide the effort to expand broadband to businesses and homes. The plan will be completed in early 2011. Once the plan is finalized, the city will explore funding options and next steps.
McGinn's answer echoes the inclusion of broadband infrastructure as a component of the Seattle Jobs Plan recently released by the Office of Economic Development. This is encouraging news, at a time when the city is struggling financially and other major infrastructure projects (viaduct, bridge, waterfront) are demanding public attention and money.Read more.
City of Edmonds moving ahead with municipal broadband plans. What's Seattle doing?
Good news from our neighbor to the north, Edmonds, WA:
Edmonds Council votes to pursue customers for its broadband business
The Edmonds City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday night to support efforts to pursue customers for the city's 24 strands of fiber optic cable, which so far have been largely unused by anyone other than the city itself [...] Efforts so far to market [the city's] broadband have been stymied by a poor economy and a year-long delay while the city successfully went to court to secure the right to sell broadband services to private entities. [...]
While the city has spent $492,000 to activate the broadband network, it is saving approximately $97,000 annually because it doesn't have to purchase fiber optic services, and is expected to recoup its investment by 2015.
Full article in MyEdmondsNews here, with useful background here.
This is great news for folks in Edmonds, who by and large already enjoy better Internet connectivity than most people in Seattle, with fiber broadband offered by Frontier (formerly Verizon); now there will be a locally, municipally owned alternative. The resulting competition should benefit customers in pricing and service.
Meanwhile, Seattle's broadband future remains mired in inertia, despite the city's technology office having a remarkably clear vision for pursuing a municipal fiber system of our own, and despite Mayor McGinn campaigning on the issue.Read more.


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The following are updates on area Major League Baseball players.
Brandon McCarthy (Glendale native) starting pitcher, Oakland Athletics: McCarthy has worn the mantle of staff ace well for the Athletics lately, going 3-0 in his past three starts, including his best outing of the season in a 3-1 home win over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday.
Over seven scoreless innings, McCarthy allowed four hits, no walks and struck out a career-high 10 batters. He finished his day strong, retiring the heart of the Tigers' lineup — Miguel Cabrera, Prince Fielder and Delmon Young — on swinging strikeouts.
McCarthy's current win streak, which includes decisions over the Baltimore Orioles on April 27 and Boston Red Sox on May 2, has lowered his earned-run average from 3.38 to 2.56 and improved his record to 3-3 with 36 strikeouts.
While the winning is a recent trend, McCarthy's consistent efforts have been there all season. He's allowed more than two earned runs just once in eight starts and has gone at least six innings in all but one game.
Oakland, which was 19-18 and in second place in the American League West coming into Wednesday, takes on the Texas Rangers, McCarthy's former club, today at 5:05 p.m. PDT with McCarthy scheduled to take the hill.
Marco Estrada (Glendale Community College, 2003) pitcher, Milwaukee Brewers: Since being taken from the bullpen and being inserted into the starting rotation, the former Vaquero has had mixed results, but appears to be locked in as the No. 5 starter for now.
Estrada made his first start of the season on April 21 after Chris Narveson was placed on the 60-day disabled list with a season-ending rotator cuff injury and he allowed just one earned run on two hits in a no-decision against the Colorado Rockies, while striking out nine to no walks.
Consecutive losses to the St. Louis Cardinalsand Cincinnati Reds followed, in which Estrada gave up a combined nine earned runs on 15 hits, but he bounced back with a quality start on Sunday against the Cubs (six innings pitched, two earned runs). Once again, however, Estrada didn't factor into the decision and is still seeking his first win at 0-2 with a 4.20 ERA and 27 strikeouts to six walks.
Estrada will get the Minnesota Twins at home for his next start on Friday at 5:10 p.m. PDT when the Brewers (16-20 and in fourth place in the National League Central heading into Wednesday) begin a homestand.
Freddy Sanchez (Glendale Community College, 1998) second baseman, San Francisco Giants: A return to the field continues to be pushed back for the ailing Sanchez, who is now reportedly suffering from a lower back injury after spending the entirety of the season so far on the disabled list because of setbacks involving his surgically-repaired right shoulder.
The San Jose Mercury News reported on Wednesday that Sanchez visited a back specialist on Tuesday and received an epidural injection.
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As warned, Obama is preparing to make a budget deal with Congressional Republicans that will involve significant cuts to Social Security benefits. Poor elderly women are to be sacrificed to maintain bloated levels of military spending. The need for an alternative to the Democrats couldn't be clearer. --PG
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A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
"He can accomplish what Republicans only dream about."
President Obama and his Republican partners in austerity have choreographed a kind of bi-partisan ballet, in which the dancers reach out to each other in slow motion, their fingers almost touching, teasing the audience. These cheap and transparent theatrics are designed to transmit a soap opera-like sense of drama: "Can the two parties come to a compromise for the sake of the country?" But, the fact is, Obama and the Republicans reached most of their grand bargain more than a year ago, when they slashed $1.7 trillion out of domestic spending over a decade. As liberal Obamite Robert Kuttner, of Demos, points out, there's very little left to cut except Medicare and Social Security.
Social Security has always been Obama's Great White Whale; he's conspired with Republicans and right-wing Democrats to harpoon the mother of all New Deal programs since the very start of his presidency. But Social Security is not an easy mark. George Bush found that out in his second term, when he suffered his worst domestic defeat in attempting to privatize the program.
It would take a Black Democrat, fresh from a near-landslide election, to put Social Security on the chopping block, as Obama did in January of 2009. But before he could move in for the kill, Obama and his allies had to convince the public that Social Security is a major contributor to the federal budget deficit – which is a lie. Social Security runs on its own stream of revenues that go into the Social Security Trust Fund, totally separate from general taxation and debt. However, by endless repetition of the Big Lie – that Social Security adds to the federal deficit – Obama and other corporate Democrats and Republicans succeeded in maneuvering the program into the austerity debate, where it does not belong.
"Social Security runs on its own stream of revenues."
At this point it must be said that Obama's insistence on making Social Security a budget deficit issue shows that he has always intended to make drastic cuts to the program. One of the reasons Social Security has long been thought of as "untouchable" is because President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal Democrats purposely insulated it from the conventional budget process. However, President Obama has largely neutered Social Security's traditional congressional defenders, who know perfectly well what their president is up to, but will not directly oppose him. That's why we at Black Agenda Report call Obama "the more effective evil"; he can accomplish what Republicans only dream about.
Obama's scheme to cripple Social Security is to change the way inflation is measured, resulting in a drastic scale-back in cost-of-living increases in recipients. According to Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the cuts would amount to 3 percent over 10 years, 6 percent over 20 years, and 9 percent over 30 years. In dollar terms, Black Minneapolis Congressman Keith Ellison says retirees would lose $6,000 in the first 15 years of cuts and $16,000 over 25 years.
And that's just the beginning. Once the untouchability of Social Security has been breached, it becomes just another social program to be carved up on austerity chopping blocks. President Obama's true legacy will be to have begun the destruction of the crown jewel of what's left of the nation's social safety net.
For Black Agenda Radio, I'm Glen Ford. On the web, go to BlackAgendaReport.com.
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O'Reilly still blasting retail chains for apocryphal "Merry Christmas" ban
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On his radio show, Bill O'Reilly claimed that retailers Best Buy and Crate & Barrel are "still ordering their people not to say, 'Merry Christmas,' " and that the stores "will fire" employees who do. According to each store's spokesperson, neither retail chain has such a policy.
On the November 29 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly continued to hype the so-called "war" on Christmas by claiming that retailers Best Buy and Crate & Barrel are "still ordering their people not to say, 'Merry Christmas,' " and that the stores "will fire" employees who do. O'Reilly also asserted that "ordering" employees "not to say 'Merry Christmas' " is "the worst kind of fascism you could possibly have." In fact, representatives of both stores have denied having policies that forbid employees to say "Merry Christmas" to customers.
Contrary to O'Reilly's assertion, neither Crate & Barrel nor Best Buy appears to have policies forbidding employees from saying "Merry Christmas" and firing them if they do so. O'Reilly is presumably basing his claim that Crate & Barrel "order[s] their people not to say 'Merry Christmas' " on a November 22 Minneapolis Star Tribune article, which reported that Crate & Barrel spokesperson Betty Kahn said, "We would definitely not say 'Merry Christmas.' " But as the weblog Think Progress reported, "Kahn said her quote was misconstrued. Crate & Barrel has no policy encouraging or discouraging store employees from saying 'Merry Christmas' or any other greeting."
Best Buy also reportedly does not forbid its employees to say "Merry Christmas." As noted in the November 22 Augusta Chronicle, "Best Buy spokeswoman Dawn Bryant said Best Buy workers are allowed to greet customers any way they choose, including 'Merry Christmas,' but the company's promotional efforts are limited." Bryant added "that one [Best Buy] commercial uses the Happy Holidays saying. 'The idea is that we're celebrating the entire holiday season, just not pulling out any one specific holiday.' " According to the November 22 Star Tribune report, another Best Buy spokesperson asserted: "We're not banning Christmas. ...It's the opposite. We're celebrating that holiday, along with the others that are celebrated during November and December."
From the November 29 edition of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
O'REILLY: It's a bunch of people who are running around and they're angry, but they've got no direction for the anger. And there are so many insane things that, everyday, I come into work and I say to myself, "How can this be happening?"
You know, I have to tell you that I did not want to do Christmas controversy stories this year. You know, we did it last year, we won the war, Wal-Mart and Macy's and all the big stores are saying, "Merry Christmas," and they've stopped ordering their employees not to say it -- most of them. Best Buy and Crate & Barrel are two that still are ordering their people not to say, "Merry Christmas," which is the worst kind of fascism you could possibly have. They have a right to do it but it's just stupid.
But anyway, this season I said to myself, "You know, with all the trouble we have overseas and the war on terror, I really don't want to get into the Christmas thing again." We won it, it was a worthy campaign, but do we have to do it again? And then, I'm confronted with this stuff.
O'REILLY: So, that is the -- that is the end game. Now, you get back to Crate & Barrel and Best Buy, who are ordering their employees, "If you say, 'Merry Christmas,' we will fire you." Now, this is insane, OK? It is, to me, an affront, so I don't shop at those places. I don't want to give them my business, because they annoy me. Nothing more. Nothing more. It's annoying. I don't want to do business with those people. My right. Now, it is their right to tell their employees what they can and cannot say. Unfortunately, private companies can do that. It's their right.
So, it's basically my right -- I'm not going to buy your little barrel or a crate, or I'm not going to Best Buy. I'm going to go someplace that says, "Merry Christmas," because it's the Christmas season. That's why you give gifts. You give gifts because it's Christmastime. The spirit of giving. That's a tradition. Don't acknowledge the tradition, I ain't gonna -- I'm not going to buy it, not going to do it.
O'REILLY: I have to fire somebody. How many people have I fired this year? Philip Nulman, CEO of the Nulman Group and author of the marketing book, Just Say Yes! All right, so you believe that Crate & Barrel and Best Buy and others who order their employees not to say, "Merry Christmas" are smart?
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Traditionally, this town's history is linked to that of the apostle Santiago (St. James).
Situated just 22 kilometres from Santiago de Compostela, this town's origins are linked to Iría Flavia. This was the Roman city to which the apostle Santiago's remains were brought from Jerusalem. Its countryside, gastronomy and historic heritage are the main attractions for tourists, although the town is perhaps best known as the home of two important writers: poet Rosalía de Castro and Nobel literature prize winner, Camilo José Cela. In fact, in this town you will find the Rosalía de Castro House-Museum and the Camilo José Cela Foundation.
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Chad Burggraf necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 166 diseños de 48 diseñadores freelance.
We need a fun, core identity logo for for our umbrella brand.
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Our company's primary focus is building great, simple, polished software that is easy to use and has a "light-hearted" feel (many modern web software companies do this fairly well, including 99designs).
We need a logo for the main umbrella name Tasty Codes. We will need additional logos designed in the future for a family of related products.
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Taft defeats Robert F. Kennedy in three sets
The Taft varsity volleyball team enjoyed their second to last home match Tuesday evening with a 25-14, 25-21, 25-12 victory over the Robert F. Kennedy Thunderbirds.
It didn't take long for the Lady Wildcats to get on a roll after outscoring Robert F. Kennedy 7-1 to begin the first set. The Thunderbirds roared back to get within one thanks to five unanswered points. Taft held onto the narrow advantage until they went on a 6-1 run to up the lead to 18-9.
Robert F. Kennedy briefly bounced back to cut the deficit to eight at 18-10 and 19-11 but Taft answered with a 6-3 run to take the first set.
Taft had a tougher time in the second set. After the Lady Wildcats jumped out to a 5-2 lead, the Lady Thunderbirds countered with a point to trail by two. Taft maintained the small lead before Robert F. Kennedy went on a 5-2 run to overtake the lead at 17-14. Taft roared back with a 9-2 run to take the lead back at 23-19.
Robert F. Kennedy scored the next two points before Taft answered with two to win the set.
Taft regained their momentum at the start of the third set by racing out to a 6-0 lead. After the Lady Thunderbirds cut the lead in half, Taft took off again with another 6-0 run. Following a Robert F. Kennedy point to end the run, Taft pulled away by outscoring the Lady Thunderbirds 7-3 to lead 19-7.
Robert F. Kennedy strung together back-to-back points before Taft outscored the Lady Thunderbirds 6-3 to close out the set and match.
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Don't Trip on the Red Carpet, Evolve with GNOME CVS
A Good Week for Compulsive UpdatersI bet there's a malady common to all Debian users, courtesy of the addictive simplicity of apt-get: it involves running apt-get update ten times a day looking to see if any of the archives have changed, heralding the arrival of something good, like a nagging bug that's been fixed, or the latest release of a closely watched program. It's a sickness, but when you have a sources.list that includes everything from Galeon's latest builds to Evolution to the ever-evolving KDE2 archives maintained by Ivan Moore, there's always a chance something's changed.
This last week has been a great one for GNOME watchers, and it provided plenty of opportunities for a lot of apt-getting. Last Saturday, GNOME 1.4's first beta release came out. Ximian had it packaged and ready to go in remarkably short time. A few days later, Ximian was at it again,rolling out Red Carpet 0.9, which we'll look at further along in this column.
GNOME 1.4 Beta One provided a lot of people with their first look at the upcoming 1.4 release, including the first chance a lot of people just following along have had to see Eazel's Nautilus running on their machine. There's a lot of interesting stuff to see in the release, but it's a good one to stay away from for the moment unless you're genuinely interested in helping the developers find bugs. I emphasize that last because this is a case where they're making a widespread release to get the word out, get some eyeballs trained on potential problems, and prime Bugzilla with some fodder. They aren't releasing a new stable version you can get work done with, so people approaching it should take stock of whether they want to download it out of a desire to help or a need to have the latest and greatest because it's there.
Sometimes helping out your favorite project by compulsively downloading the latest snapshot or refreshing your copy of the CVS tree of a favorite project is hard. It involves things breaking, or going wrong, or not working as billed, and this particular release is no exception. Though the version of gdm, the GNOME X display manager, that ships with the beta has a "GNOME Classic" option for using GNOME 1.2, there are a lot of core libraries that get updated for this beta, and some things break as a result.
Download this with your eyes open or, better yet, give it another week or two: a second beta that will likely take care of the worst of the bugs unearthed by the more adventurous is supposed to be making its way out in a week (February 28).
Opportunity knocks in the form of a broken library
This brings us around to another issue, preparatory to getting a long-deferred hands-on with Red Carpet, Ximian's package manager, which is the price you sometimes pay for following a lot of cutting-edge projects closely: mangled dependencies. The latest victim of this particular syndrome is Evolution.
Evolution and Red Carpet both depend on the gtkhtml library. Evolution, for instance, uses it in part to render HTML mail and in part for composition of messages. A version of gtkhtml was shipped out that broke elements of the library needed to compose messages in Evolution, leaving a lot of people curious about Red Carpet with a broken mail client to contend with.
By the time this hits the web, there's a chance the snapshots Ximian is shipping will have corrected the problem (they're reportedly moving their servers this week, contributing to a slowdown), but in case it doesn't, this is an excellent opportunity for the curious to learn a little about GNOME CVS, because all that's needed to get both Red Carpet up and running and restore Evolution to proper functionality is a build of gtkhtml from CVS.
The GNOME project has provided a page that teaches a little about how to use anonymous CVS to get the latest elements of the GNOME project. There's no point in replicating all the information that link provides, since it's clear and concise and even I can follow along. The thing to keep in mind is just that in order to have both Red Carpet and Evolution running alongside each other at this point, you want to get a copy of gtkhtml with cvs -z3 checkout gtkhtml once you've set the proper environmental variables. You'll need to build the library and replace the existing gtkhtml once you've installed Red Carpet, because most of the means for obtaining it will automate the installation of the newer, broken version of the library.
Building from CVS, just to provide one more caveat for newer users, isn't the same as building from a tarball. CVS builds involve using the autogen.sh script found in the package's directory and passing appropriate variables to it much as you would with a typical configure script found in source tarballs. In the case of building for GNOME packages, putting new builds in right place is key. You'll likely want to use the line:
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
if you're building against a GNOME installation you downloaded as binary packages for your distribution.
You can probably install the library over the existing one Red Carpet
will install, but if you can, force the removal of the package using
either the dpkg -r --force-depends command or RPM's rpm
-e --force. Your package manager may complain for a day or two,
but it's tidier when it comes time to resync with whoever's providing
your binary packages, because you'll be able to simply make
uninstall the library you built from CVS and replace it with a
normal binary package when the time's right without worry of cruft
being left laying around in your directories.
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How to select control valves, Part 3
When it comes to selecting and sizing control valves, gain and stability are key characteristics. The non-commercial valve selection chart in this article serves as a reference tool you can download!
In the search for the most appropriate control valve, gain and stability are as crucial as any other selection characteristics. The gain of any device is its output divided by its input. The characteristic range and gain of control valves are interrelated. The gain of a linear valve is constant. This gain (Gv) is the maximum flow divided by the valve stroke in percentage (Fmax/100 %).
Most control loops are tuned for quarter-amplitude damping. This amount of damping (reduction in the amplitude of succeeding peaks of the oscillation of the controlled variable) is obtained by adjusting the controller gain (Gc = 100/%PB) until the total loop gain (the product of the gains of all the control loop components) reaches 0.5 (see Figure 1 below).
>>How to select control valves, Part 1
The gains of a linear controller (Gv = plain proportional) and a linear transmitter (if it is a temperature transmitter, its gain is Gs = 100%/°F) are both constant. Therefore, if the process gain (Gp = °F/GPM) is also constant, a linear valve is needed to maintain the total loop gain at 0.5 (Gv = 0.5/GvGcGs = constant, meaning linear).
If the transmitter is nonlinear, such as in the case of a d/p cell (sensor gain increases with flow), one can correct for that nonlinearity by using a nonlinear valve whose gain drops with flow increases (quick opening). In case of heat transfer over a fixed area, the efficiency of heat transfer (process gain Gp) drops as the amount of heat to be transferred rises. To compensate for this nonlinearity (drop in process gain = Gp), the valve gain (Gv) must increase with load. Therefore, an equal-percentage valve should be selected for all heat-transfer temperature control applications.
In a properly tuned loop, the decay ratio of the oscillation amplitude is constant at 0.25. Such decay ratio (¼) is obtained if the product of the component gains (the total loop gain) is constant at 0.5.
In case of flow control, one effective way of keeping the valve gain (Gv) perfectly constant is to replace the control valve with a linear cascade slave flow control loop. The limitation of this cascade configuration (in addition to its higher cost) is that if the controlled process is faster than the flow loop, cycling will occur. This is because the slave in any cascade system must be faster than its master. The only way to overcome this cycling is to slow down (detune) the master by lowering its gain (increasing its proportional band), which in turn degrades its control quality. Therefore, this approach should only be considered on slow or secondary temperature control loops.
Positioning Positioners
A valve positioner is a high-gain (0.5% to 10% proportional band), sensitive, proportional-only, valve-stroke position controller. Its set point is the control signal from the controller. The main purpose of having a positioner is to guarantee that the valve does in fact move to the position that corresponds to the value of the controller output.
The addition of a positioner can correct for such maintenance related effects as variations in packing friction due to dirt buildup, corrosion or lack of lubrication; variations in the dynamic forces of the process; or nonlinearity in the valve actuator. In addition, the positioner can allow for split-ranging the controller signal between valves, or can increase the actuator speed or actuator thrust by increasing the pressure and/or volume of the actuator air signal. In addition, it can modify the valve characteristics by the use of cams or function generators.
A positioner will improve performance on most slow loops, such as the control of analytical properties, temperature, liquid level, blending, and large-volume gas flow. A controlled process can be considered "slow" if its period of oscillation is three or more times the period of oscillation of the positioned valve.
Positioners also are useful to overcome the "dead band" of the valve, which can be caused by valve-stem friction. The result of this friction is that whenever the direction of the control signal is reversed, the stem remains in its last position until the dead band is exceeded. Positioners will eliminate this limit cycle by closing a loop around the valve actuator. Integrating processes, such as liquid level, volume (as in digital blending), weight (not weight-rate), and gas-pressure control loops are prone to limit cycling and will usually benefit from the use of positioners.
In the case of fast loops (fast flow, liquid pressure, small-volume gas pressure), positioners are likely to degrade loop response and cause limit cycling, because the positioner (a cascade slave) is not faster than the speed at which its set point (the control signal) can change. A controlled process is considered "fast" if its period of oscillation is less than three times that of the positioned valve.
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Susan Granger's review of 'Bad Words'
Jason Bateman ("Identity Thief") makes his feature directorial debut and stars in this crude, rude, dark comedy about 40-year-old Guy Trilby, a proofreader with a photographic memory, who takes advantage of a technical loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and declares his eligibility because he never completed eighth grade.
In the regional competitions, self-righteous parents are understandably angry when abrasive, yet verbally agile Trilby gleefully triumphs over their uber-bright adolescents, many of whom have been studying assiduously for years. The furious tournament administrator, Dr. Deagan (Alison Janney), and its dignified director, Dr. Bowman (Philip Baker Hall), do everything within their power to disqualify him. Trilby's merciless victories catch the attention of dowdy Jenny Widgeon (Kathryn Hahn), an online news reporter who is curious about his underlying motives. But, then, on an airplane en route to the finals in Los Angeles, Trilby is befriended by a polite, sweetly precocious contestant, Chaitanya Chopra (Rohan Chand), whose father pressures him to win at all costs. Their clandestine evening excursions, which include shoplifting and vandalism, set to the music of the Beastie Boys, form the epitome of inappropriately disreputable fun.
Working from a screenplay by Andrew Dodge, Bateman obviously relishes his antihero's ferocious, foul-mouthed insults and mean-spirited intimidations. Both screenwriter and director credit the Oscar-nominated documentary "Spellbound" (2002) for inspiration and insight into the insular, arcane world of elite spelling bees -- with their elaborate protocols. And the words chosen to test the smartest competitors are among the most obscure, many almost unpronounceable.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Bad Words" is a surprising, subtly subversive 7, the most misanthropic comedy since "Bad Santa."


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Frank Mullen '53: The Tie that Bindsby Susan Cantrell • March 25, 2004 Share:
The Class of 1953 has three new class agents: Bob Miller, Fred Warbinton, and Jack Engledow, who says of his predecessor, Frank Mullen: "When we were graduating, we had an election for class agent. I've told Frank over the years that I'm so glad he won. I ran, too, but thanks to the way it worked out, I got out of a lot of work."
Engledow is doing good things for Wabash, but he was so right in his assessment of the class agent's job, at least the way Frank Mullen had defined it for half a century. Nearly every month since their graduation in 1953, Frank Mullen has written a class agent's letter to his classmates. Even if he missed a few months a year, that adds up to about 450 letters. And he has made hundreds of calls and written hundreds of notes to his classmates, gleaning information, expressing condolences, passing along good news, and checking in on his friends. With Frank Mullen as the tie that binds them, the men of the Class of '53 remain a group that still cares very much for each other and for Wabash.
Bob Miller, an attorney in Anderson, IN, recounts a stunning example of Mullen's dedication to his class. The first scheduled meeting of the Class of '53 reunion committee was set for only a few days after the 9/11 massacre in New York. Undeterred, Mullen flew out to Indianapolis on a 747, carrying, he reported, only five people. "Even that," Miller reports, "couldn't stop Frank."
Engledow's thought that "Frank turned the job into a crusade, making us a whole with his attention to every one of us" almost certainly reflects the fact that Mullen spent most of his working life as the development director at the Yale Divinity School and is an ordained minister. He knows how to connect with people in a way that makes them glad he did.
Last spring at their 50th Reunion celebration, Mullen's classmates presented him with a beautiful Wabash chair bearing the citation "World's Greatest Class Agent." Alumni Director Tom Runge '71, an appreciative Mullen fan, reports that a few months later, "The Society of Wabash College Class agents backed up the '53 boasting by presenting him the Warren Shearer Award, their top award for excellence as a class agent." Many other tributes came from individuals such as Warbinton, who says simply: "Frank helped keep his class together by knowing about so many people. He headed a lot of people in the right direction."
About a year ago, Mullen suffered a stroke that caused him to resign his position as class agent for the Men of '53 and move from his home in New York to his private apartment in a Quaker retirement center in Richmond, IN. According to his old friend and classmate Fred Warbinton, he is doing very well in his new situation, getting out and about for shopping and entertainment, and making new friends to add to those he has enjoyed for so many years.
You can reach Frank Mullen at this address: Frank Mullen, 2030 Chester Blvd. #146, Richmond, IN 47374.
The three new Class Agents are more than willing to help the Class of 1953, but they know it will take all three of them to fill Frank Mullen's shoes.


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