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- August 18, 2010
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How Close is America's Demise?
The United States is running out of time to get its budget and trade deficits under control. Despite the urgency of the situation, 2010 has been wasted in hype about a non-existent recovery. As recently as August 2 Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner penned a New York Times column, "Welcome to the Recovery."
As John Williams (shadowstats.com) has made clear on many occasions, an appearance of recovery was created by over-counting employment and undercounting inflation. Warnings by Williams, Gerald Celente, and myself have gone unheeded, but our warnings recently had echoes from Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff and from David Stockman, who excoriated the Republican Party for becoming big-spending Democrats.
It is encouraging to see some realization that, this time, Washington cannot spend the economy out of recession. The deficits are already too large for the dollar to survive as reserve currency, and deficit spending cannot put Americans back to work in jobs that have been moved offshore.
However, the solutions offered by those who are beginning to recognize that there is a problem are discouraging. Kotlikoff thinks the solution is savage Social Security and Medicare cuts or equally savage tax increases or hyperinflation to destroy the vast debts.
Perhaps economists lack imagination, or perhaps they don't want to be cut off from Wall Street and corporate subsidies, but Social Security and Medicare are insufficient at their present levels, especially considering the erosion of private pensions by the dot com, derivative and real estate bubbles. Cuts in Social Security and Medicare, for which people have paid 15 per cent of their earnings all their lives, would result in starvation and deaths from curable diseases.
Tax increases make even less sense. It is widely acknowledged that the majority of households cannot survive on one job. Both husband and wife work and often one of the partners has two jobs in order to make ends meet. Raising taxes makes it harder to make ends meet–thus more foreclosures, more food stamps, more homelessness. What kind of economist or humane person thinks this is a solution?
Ah, but we will tax the rich. The rich have enough money. They will simply stop earning.
Let's get real. Here is what the government is likely to do. Once Washington realize that the dollar is at risk and that they can no longer finance their wars by borrowing abroad, the government will either levy a tax on private pensions on the grounds that the pensions have accumulated tax-deferred, or the government will require pension fund managers to purchase Treasury debt with our pensions. This will buy the government a bit more time while pension accounts are loaded up with worthless paper.
The last Bush budget deficit (2008) was in the $400-500 billion range, about the size of the Chinese, Japanese, and OPEC trade surpluses with the US. Traditionally, these trade surpluses have been recycled to the US and finance the federal budget deficit. In 2009 and 2010 the federal deficit jumped to $1,400 billion, a back-to-back trillion dollar increase. There are not sufficient trade surpluses to finance a deficit this large. From where comes the money?
The answer is from individuals fleeing the stock market into "safe" Treasury bonds and from the bankster bailout, not so much the TARP money as the Federal Reserve's exchange of bank reserves for questionable financial paper such as subprime derivatives. The banks used their excess reserves to purchase Treasury debt.
These financing maneuvers are one-time tricks. Once people have fled stocks, that movement into Treasuries is over. The opposition to the bankster bailout likely precludes another. So where does the money come from the next time?
The Treasury was able to unload a lot of debt thanks to "the Greek crisis," which the New York banksters and hedge funds multiplied into "the euro crisis." The financial press served as a financing arm for the US Treasury by creating panic about European debt and the euro. Central banks and individuals who had taken refuge from the dollar in euros were panicked out of their euros, and they rushed into dollars by purchasing US Treasury debt.
This movement from euros to dollars weakened the alternative reserve currency to the dollar, halted the dollar's decline, and financed the US budget deficit a while longer.
Possibly the game can be replayed with Spanish debt, Irish debt, and whatever unlucky country is eswept in by the thoughtless expansion of the European Union.
But when no countries remain that can be destabilized by Wall Street investment banksters and hedge funds, what then finances the US budget deficit?
The only remaining financier is the Federal Reserve. When Treasury bonds brought to auction do not sell, the Federal Reserve must purchase them. The Federal Reserve purchases the bonds by creating new demand deposits, or checking accounts, for the Treasury. As the Treasury spends the proceeds of the new debt sales, the US money supply expands by the amount of the Federal Reserve's purchase of Treasury debt.
Do goods and services expand by the same amount? Imports will increase as US jobs have been offshored and given to foreigners, thus worsening the trade deficit. When the Federal Reserve purchases the Treasury's new debt issues, the money supply will increase by more than the supply of domestically produced goods and services. Prices are likely to rise.
How high will they rise? The longer money is created in order that government can pay its bills, the more likely hyperinflation will be the result.
The economy has not recovered. By the end of this year it will be obvious that the collapsing economy means a larger than $1.4 trillion budget deficit to finance. Will it be $2 trillion? Higher?
Whatever the size, the rest of the world will see that the dollar is being printed in such quantities that it cannot serve as reserve currency. At that point wholesale dumping of dollars will result as foreign central banks try to unload a worthless currency.
The collapse of the dollar will drive up the prices of imports and offshored goods on which Americans are dependent. Wal-Mart shoppers will think they have mistakenly gone into Neiman Marcus.
Domestic prices will also explode as a growing money supply chases the supply of goods and services still made in America by Americans.
The dollar as reserve currency cannot survive the conflagration. When the dollar goes the US cannot finance its trade deficit. Therefore, imports will fall sharply, thus adding to domestic inflation and, as the US is energy import-dependent, there will be transportation disruptions that will disrupt work and grocery store deliveries.
Panic will be the order of the day.
Will farms will be raided? Will those trapped in cities resort to riots and looting?
Is this the likely future that "our" government and "our patriotic" corporations have created for us?
To borrow from Lenin, "What can be done?"
Here is what can be done. The wars, which benefit no one but the military-security complex and Israel's territorial expansion, can be immediately ended. This would reduce the US budget deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars per year. More hundreds of billions of dollars could be saved by cutting the rest of the military budget which, in its present size, exceeds the budgets of all the serious military powers on earth combined.
US military spending reflects the unaffordable and unattainable crazed neoconservative goal of US Empire and world hegemony. What fool in Washington thinks that China is going to finance US hegemony over China?
The only way that the US will again have an economy is by bringing back the offshored jobs. The loss of these jobs impoverished Americans while producing oversized gains for Wall Street, shareholders, and corporate executives. These jobs can be brought home where they belong by taxing corporations according to where value is added to their product. If value is added to their goods and services in China, corporations would have a high tax rate. If value is added to their goods and services in the US, corporations would have a low tax rate.
This change in corporate taxation would offset the cheap foreign labor that has sucked jobs out of America, and it would rebuild the ladders of upward mobility that made America an opportunity society.
If the wars are not immediately stopped and the jobs brought back to America, the US is relegated to the trash bin of history.
Obviously, the corporations and Wall Street would use their financial power and campaign contributions to block any legislation that would reduce short-term earnings and bonuses by bringing jobs back to America. Americans have no greater enemies than Wall Street and the corporations and their prostitutes in Congress and the White House.
The neocons allied with Israel, who control both parties and much of the media, are strung out on the ecstasy of Empire.
The United States and the welfare of its 300 million people cannot be restored unless the neocons, Wall Street, the corporations, and their servile slaves in Congress and the White House can be defeated.
Without a revolution, Americans are history.


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One of the most successful strategies of the forces of darkness is to get groups of people involved in conflicts that create deep wounds in people's souls, preventing them from moving on with their lives on a personal, national or global level. Around the world, you see any number of ongoing conflicts between groups of people and nobody seems able to break the old patterns.
In this book, the ascended masters address this issue by giving profound teachings on the cause as well as powerful tools to provide the solution. This book contains 15 powerful invocations for helping groups of people, nations or humanity let go of the past and move towards a better future.
By studying the teachings and using the tools, you can make an invaluable contribution towards helping humanity move beyond the addiction to conflict that has trapped us for thousands of years. You will, of course, also help yourself move beyond your own past.
The book also contains profound teachings on our original birth trauma, caused by the rejection we experienced after taking embodiment on earth for the first time. This trauma is the key to resolving all other psychological issues. There are several invocations for healing this on a personal and group level.
This book is a gift from our universal spiritual teachers, and it provides universal solutions to one of the most insidious and persistent problems on the planet. A book for all who are serious about doing their part for raising this planet to a higher level.
Although the teaching sin this book were given in Europe, they are universal and the invocations are either universal or can easily be adapted to any part of the world.
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Daniel Romano's Outfit – Sweetheart Like You (Bob Dylan cover)
This one's for all the Dylan superfans. In 1984, Bob Dylan played three songs on Letterman with L.A. punk band The Plugz. They were gritty and garagey and raw. It boded well for his new sound. And then he never played with them again. The album he was ostensibly promoting, Infidels, was much smoother, helmed by Mark Knopfler. For those who still wonder what could have been, Daniel Romano covered the entire album as if he'd recorded it with The Plugz. Continue reading »


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I enjoy me some Nerdist Podcast, so while listening to Chris Hardwick lament about a topsy turvy world where no one but himself knew what cottage cheese was, I was inspired to make this comic. WARNING: This comic makes MUCH more sense if you have listened to Nerdist Podcast Episode #114, which is why it's posted down here and not up in the main comic area.
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The group decided from the beginning that not only was there a need of a rescue and re-homing service, but also that the breed needed a body who would be able to give unbiased opinions to the general public on the welfare and health aspects of this wonderful breed.
The ARW now has reps and co-ordinators working across the country, advising owners, rescuing, re-homing and retraining Akitas. All members of the ARW work for the charity on a completely voluntary basis. This is a completely non-profit making organisation with no wage being taken by anyone and only minimal expenses being claimed where absolutely necessary.
We assist in the re-homing of dogs from all UK rescue organisations such as the RSPCA, the Dogs Trust, Battersea Dogs' Home and many of the County Councils' dog pounds, as well as advising them on the correct way of assessing Akita temperament.
The number of Akitas with problems being brought to our attention is currently growing day by day, which is a great concern to all of us at the ARW. The only way we feel we can reverse this trend is to go forward with our education programme in the hope that this may save the lives of some of our magnificent dogs.
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We work nationwide all over the UK
We are a registered charity, governed by the regulations of the Charities Commission of England & Wales, and are fully accountable and open to all the people who work with us
There are many co-ordinators to work with you
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Uniquely designed with cosmopolitan appeal, Madison Island gives couture-conscious frequent flyers exactly what they want—unprecedented access to the latest looks of the season, style solutions for easy international jet setting, and convenient worldwide delivery.
With its website relaunch in 2013, Madison Island has solidified its standing as the new essential luxury. Its pages are filled with exquisite finds for fashion and home.
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Formed by London College of Fashion graduates Holly Wang and her team in 2009, Miss Patina has continued to grow rapidly due to the fact it fills a niche in the fashion world for good quality vintage inspired goods.
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Miss Patina's design concept is to create individual clothing with elements of vintage glamour, whilst focusing on intricate details, such as lace or mesh overlays, brocade and embroidery. Inspirations for design are taken from previous iconic fashions and fused with today's catwalk trends. Inspired by vintage and a love for art, design and culture, there are many styles that Miss Patina caters to.
Logo: Our scalloped shell is inspired by the birth of Venus, and its reference to the setting sun. The scalloped shell is uniquely feminine and elegant and is frequently displayed in the designs of Miss Patina clothing.
Patina Green: The sheen produced on surfaces through age, represents our influence from past decades, whilst the colour is associated with rococo art, and represents our highly decorative nature. Patina is the beauty of time and comes from a life lived.
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There's one thing about classical music that I've always believed: it is far better to see it performed than to hear a recording of it. While this is true for just about all kinds of music, the multi-layered nature of classical compositions (especially pieces that call for large orchestras) make it even more suited than normal for in-person performance. And when those performances take place in public, the experience is all the more radical. Breaking... read more ›
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Liberal Party of Canada promises to 'modernize' the Home Buyer's Plan
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) welcomes Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada Justin Trudeau's campaign promise to modernize the Home Buyer's Plan (HBP), if elected, by enabling Canadians impacted by significant life changes to access the program and use money from their Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSPs) to buy a house without tax penalty.
The HBP is a REALTOR®-driven initiative, introduced by the government as a short-term stimulus measure in 1992 and made a permanent program in 1994. Since its inception, over 2.8 million Canadian have used the HBP to help make home ownership more affordable. The program allows Canadians to borrow, on a repayable basis, from their own Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) to purchase a home.
Expanding the HBP to help Canadians maintain homeownership after a significant life change, such as job relocation, the death of a spouse, marital breakdown, or a decision to accommodate an elderly family member, has been a REALTOR® Action Issue since 2011.
Home purchases involving the HBP generate spin-off spending and create jobs. In 2015, home purchases involving the use of the HBP are projected to result in over $2.8 billion in spin-off spending and more than 19,900 jobs.
For more information on the Liberal Party of Canada's announcement, please review the Affordable Housing for Canadians backgrounder on the party's website.
For more information on CREA's proposal on this topic, please review our Support Canadian Workers Through Job Relocation infographic on REALTOR Link®.


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SETIcon Auctions Out of This World Stuff
"SETIcon is like Comic-Con with a Ph.D."
So says Edna Devore, Deputy CEO of the SETI Institute. And it seems a lot of attention is being shown to SETI and the upcoming SETIcon II, mainly due to the amount of space news in the news of late:
- NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft nearing interstellar space
- Kepler announcing more habitable planets than ever before
- NASA and FAA work out spaceship rules
- America's 1st woman in space, Sally Ride, made her 1st flight, 29years ago this week
- Chinese manned space mission
On June 23rd, SETI will hold an auction to raise money in support of SETI's education programs. This includes science research and STEM education.
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SETIcon Auction to Benefit Science Research and STEM Education
SETIcon II, the public convention where science and imagination meet, features a fund-raising auction on Saturday, June 23, atthe week-end public event. The catalog for the live and silent auction is online at seticon.com/2012/auction-items/. The auction features science adventure travel, vacation stays, wine tasting tours, fine art, signed science and science fiction books, and space collectibles. SETIcon II is being hosted by the SETI Institute at the Hyatt Santa Clara, 5010 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA, June 22-24.
"The Apollo Missions to the Moon inspired a generation to dream of space exploration, and I was one of those dreamers," says Edna DeVore, Acting CEO at the SETI Institute. "I'm truly excited that the SETIcon auction will feature the great Apollo Mission adventure with a signed print of "Earthrise," by William Anders, who along with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, was one of the first three persons to have left Earth orbit and traveled to the Moon in December 1968. Anders took the famous photograph, "Earthrise," and has donated a print he will inscribe to auction winner.
"There's some great space and astronomy adventures being offered at the auction, including a night at Lick Observatory with SETI Institute scientist, Franck Marchis, an astrophotography trip with Seth Shostak to the Allen Telescope Array, and attendance at a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with David Knight, producer of Shuttle3D which is being sneak-previewed at SETIcon," says Andrew Fraknoi, SETI Institute Board Member. "And, you can bid on a tour of SLAC/Kavli Institute with Pierre Schwob, also a Board Member, or take a tour of the Allen Telescope Array with Jill Tarter herself!"
For the truly adventuresome, Pascal Lee, a SETI Institute planetary scientist, isoffering to host two visionary humans on an expedition to Devon Island in thehigh Arctic, where they will be a part of the new "The Mission to Mars onEarth" project: a new participatory exploration program to Haughton Crater, inmany ways the most Mars-like place on Earth. Together with researchers, they willtest new robots, spacesuits, tools and participate in real Arctic exploration.
Marchis, Shostak, Knight, Tarter, Schwob, and Lee will all be at SETIcon II to discuss these adventures with bidders.
Closer to home, there are great opportunities for flight-seeing being offered. Airship Ventures has donated tickets for flights onboard the airship Eureka,the largest and only commercial passenger airship in the world. Winners will fly with a SETI Institute scientist on board to enhance the experience. Eureka flies in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as Los Angeles and San Diego. In addition, for aviation lovers, both a helicopter and a vintage warbird flight around the Bay Area are available to bid upon.
Looking for a place to get away? How about a week in a Jill Tarter's lake-side cabin at Donner Lake, or a similar stay in Bend, Oregon. There's a day trip to the wine county for six, featuring visits to several wineries and lunch, with all transportation provided.
Fine art—including space art—will be on display and for purchase through the auction. Three signed and framed Marc Chagall lithographs (Floral Bouquet, Les Lupins Blue, and Red Bouquet with Lovers, each with certifications) will be featured. Other pieces included are original space-inspired art by Lynette Cook, Danielle Futselaar, Charles Lindsay, Carol Berry and Pascal Lee. Want to know more about the artwork? Visit seticon.com/2012/auction-items/.
For the armchair space buff, a wide variety of autographed books are on auction, including first edition Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson, and Exterrestial Intelligence: The First Encounter signed the original Star Trek cast and others, including Frank Drake. Lucky attendees will also find autographed books from Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jill Tarter, Kevin Grazier, Rosaly Lopez, Andrew Fraknoi, Richard Rhodes, Lynette Cook, and others.
Bidders can pick up fine wine, dinners with scientists, and space-related collectibles. Winners can own a Mars meteorite donated by David Morrison or a Pioneer Mission replica plaque signed by Frank Drake, who collaborated with his close friend, Carl Sagan, in its design. Signed posters—including autographed Spider-Man poster—and simply fun items round out the auction.
The SETIcon auction is a fund-raiser for the SETI Institute, a 501(c)3, non-profit scientific and educational research organization. Auction proceeds will help to support science research and education.
To attend only the auction, arrive by 4:30 PM Saturday, June 23, and register for a bidder paddle at Auction/Exhibit rooms at the Hyatt Santa Clara, 5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA. Free parking behind the hotel; hotel is at the Great America Station of the light rail.
For much more information about the entire weekend event, go to: seticon.org. Tickets will be available at the door, starting at 4 PM, Friday, June 22.
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Classroom Resource: FaceCards
Some teachers have found that while they like the benefits of the I.D. Card exercise, they have found the expense, inconvenience (dangling badges get in the way) and policing ("Where's your badge?") out weighed the benefit. FaceCards were developed as a lower cost/maintenance solution. The two FaceCards of a Robotics Team's members are intended to be placed in a clear sheet protector by the team's kit/supplies. The FaceCard has the same information as the I.D. Badge, but in a larger format/layout. The attached FaceCard PowerPoint file contains a template for the FaceCard (two per page) and instructions for students for creating the content for the cards. The last slide contains another "first-days" activity for students to help gather information to aid the teacher in forming the initial Robotics Teams.


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Green tea helps mice keep off extra pounds
- Date:
- October 4, 2011
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- Penn State
- Summary:
- Green tea may slow down weight gain and serve as another tool in the fight against obesity, according to food scientists.
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Green tea may slow down weight gain and serve as another tool in the fight against obesity, according to Penn State food scientists.
Obese mice that were fed a compound found in green tea along with a high-fat diet gained weight significantly more slowly than a control group of mice that did not receive the green tea supplement, said Joshua Lambert, assistant professor of food science in agricultural sciences.
"In this experiment, we see the rate of body weight gain slows down," said Lambert.
The researchers, who released their findings in the current online version of Obesity, fed two groups of mice a high-fat diet. Mice that were fed Epigallocatechin-3-gallate -- EGCG -- a compound found in most green teas, along with a high-fat diet, gained weight 45 percent more slowly than the control group of mice eating the same diet without EGCG.
"Our results suggest that if you supplement with EGCG or green tea you gain weight more slowly," said Lambert.
In addition to lower weight gain, the mice fed the green tea supplement showed a nearly 30 percent increase in fecal lipids, suggesting that the EGCG was limiting fat absorption, according to Lambert.
"There seems to be two prongs to this," said Lambert. "First, EGCG reduces the ability to absorb fat and, second, it enhances the ability to use fat."
The green tea did not appear to suppress appetite. Both groups of mice were fed the same amount of high-fat food and could eat at any time.
"There's no difference in the amount of food the mice are eating," said Lambert. "The mice are essentially eating a milkshake, except one group is eating a milkshake with green tea."
A person would need to drink ten cups of green tea each day to match the amount of EGCG used in the study, according to Lambert. However, he said recent studies indicate that just drinking a few cups of green tea may help control weight.
"Human data -- and there's not a lot at this point -- shows that tea drinkers who only consume one or more cups a day will see effects on body weight compared to nonconsumers," said Lambert.
Lambert, who worked with Kimberly Grove and Sudathip Sae-tan, both graduate students in food science, and Mary Kennett, professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences, said that other experiments have shown that lean mice did not gain as much weight when green tea is added to a high fat diet. However, he said that studying mice that are already overweight is more relevant to humans because people often consider dietary changes only when they notice problems associated with obesity.
"Most people hit middle age and notice a paunch; then you decide to eat less, exercise and add green tea supplement," said Lambert.
The National Institutes of Health supported this work.
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Journal Reference:
- Kimberly A. Grove, Sudathip Sae-tan, Mary J. Kennett, Joshua D. Lambert. (−)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate Inhibits Pancreatic Lipase and Reduces Body Weight Gain in High Fat-Fed Obese Mice. Obesity, 2011; DOI: 10.1038/oby.2011.139
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Well, I got back Monday afternoon from the Northern California Bible Conference which was held in Burlingame, CA (just south of San Francisco on the Peninsula) and sponsored by Grace Bible Church but which my Pastor did not attend, and so, obviously, did not teach at. Instead it was taught by one of the pastors my pastor has ordained, a man who has started his own ministry out here in the west.
The subject was Authority — how it is the most important thing in the universe. The question asked was "Do you know who/what your authority is?"
The answer… it's a threefold construct — a triangle of God, His Word and the Pastor Teacher God has assigned to you to communicate that Word.
We were reminded that God is not the author of confusion. (I Co 14:33)
That God does things in ones — One Lord, one faith, one baptism (Eph 4:5) — and that we each have one spiritual gift and one pastor teacher assigned at a time.
We reviewed the scriptures that document the fact that we are assigned a Pastor Teacher — Ephesians 4:12, 13 which tells us the gift of Pastor-Teacher is given for the training of the saints for the work of the ministry. I Pe 5:3 reveals that each pastor is assigned a specific congregation, and I Th 512 adds that each believer is assigned a pastor… and thus a specific congregation as well. The local congregation operates as a body in itself, and all the parts are needed by all the other parts. (I Co 12)
In times past the notion of staying loyal to an assigned pastor and local assembly was mostly unchallenged due to the difficulties of travel and the limitations of technology. If you wanted to hear someone you had to be there. Or perhaps, as in the first century, ou could rely on letters or books. Now with the explosion of printed material as well as internet technology which puts the works of thousands at our fingertips, and with transportation having advanced to the point you can travel thousands of miles in a day… this is more of a challenge. And that challenge was what the bulk of the teaching — and the conversation — at the Northern California Bible conference was about.
With the proliferation of prepared, doctrinal pastors in recent years, many of whom have their messages recorded and made available through the internet or other digitized means, it has become very easy to go "church hopping." Don't like what your pastor is teaching this week? With a couple of mouse clicks, you can see what Pastor B is teaching. Angry and offended because your pastor has dared to tell you the truth and thereby become your enemy (Gal 4:16), you can click out of his site and go to someone else who teaches more in line with what you want to hear. Do you just want to accumulate knowledge? Feel good about your life and your self? Or are you simply curious as to what else is out there? Are you bored? Familiarity can be a subtle attack on your mental attitude with respect to doctrine which can cause you to become dissatisfied, restless or feel dry — though sometimes that dry feeling is just part of the Christian life, a test to see if you will proceed regardless or wander away in search of something new and more exciting.
The problem with this "spiritual adultery" (as the concept was taught this weekend) is that even prepared, experienced doctrinal pastors disagree in what they teach. Some say the rapture will occur at the end of the church age and other place it mid Tribulation. Some say we don't need rebound (confession of sins to regain the Filling of the Holy Spirit) and others say rebound is central to the function of the Christian life. Some have taught that you can reach in this life a state of sinless perfection and others are aghast at such a suggestion.
All of them can support their positions scripturally because, as my pastor says, you can make the Bible say anything you want it to. So then, how does the congregant determine which is right? To think that you have the ability to discern through all the different teachers and pick out which one is correct here and which is correct there is really pretty arrogant. It assumes that you out of all of them are the one with the greatest knowledge and ability to see truth. It's especially arrogant if you consider the fact that most of the men you are critiquing spend their days digging into God's word, study the Greek and Hebrew and have spent years doing so, whereas the average congregant has devoted maybe only 20% of the same amount of time to their studies.
Actually, that mindset, the one of roaming about sampling from this and that source as you determine (or perhaps you think the Holy Spirit is guiding you… but not anyone else, apparently, or wouldn't they be right?) is pretty close to today's post-modernist thinking that says you don't need an authority, someone to teach you, but that you can figure things out for yourself. It says that there is no absolute truth, either, that image is more important than words, that personal experience and emotion trumps reason. A 2002 article in Christianity Todaypoints out that "when we speak of truth…our postmodern neighbors hear just one more opinion among many." I wonder if that might not also apply to some of our fellow Christians, their thinking influenced by the prevailing viewpoint of the times.
But the Bible doesn't hold that a man's opinion or his experience is important. God's ways are not man's ways; His thoughts are not man's thoughts. The fool is right in his own eyes. The ways of a man seem right to him… And pastors were given to train and instruct the saints for the work of service. Yes, the Holy Spirit is our ultimate teacher — we can't understand a thing the pastor teaches apart from Him; nor can the pastor study and teach correctly apart from Him. But that doesn't negate the fact that the gift of pastor teacher has been given for our edification and we need him. One pastor. One human authority at a time to respect, trust and submit to — not merely to the man himself, but ultimately to God, who provided the man and delegated the authority to him.


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So, the West Covina Chamber of Commerce had a five-hour closed door board meeting yesterday. I stopped by at noon on Thursday to see if I could go inside in meeting or at least get an agenda, and had no luck with either.
The board members did not tell Exectuive Director Gary Lawson and Marketing Director Monica Cabrera what happened in the meeting. Instead, Lawson and Cabrera received a letter via fed-ex this morning. The letter informed them of their reinstatement, and also that they would both be suspended without pay pending further legal advice. (Read here if you are lost.)
Still no word as to the reason for their firing, reinstatement or suspension, though Lawson is convinced it has everything to do with a restraining order he, Cabrera and part-time employee William Medina filed against board member Luis Chacon.
Since Lawson and Cabrera are the only two full-time employees of the six-person staff, it kind of makes you wonder who is going to be picking up the slack. Also, part-time employee Medina said he is considering quitting over the whole ordeal.
Board members refuse to return calls. While the board is a private agency, it does receive some public funding. This year, it got $75,000 from the city of West Covina, Lawson said.
This is just me talking, but once a private agency receives public money — your money — it seems that those agencies should strive for some sort of transparency and accountability to the public — even if that means returning a phone call or distributing an agenda. I'm not the only one that sees it that way, either.


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Compulsive gambling is not easily detected. The person with a gambling problem will often go to great lengths to cover up the problem and will appear to look all right, regardless of the consequences of their gambling.
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Join a growing movement in support of someone or something, often in an opportunist way, when that movement is seen to have become successful.
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The word bandwagon was coined in the USA in the mid 19th century, simply as the name for the wagon that carried a circus band. Phineas T. Barnum, the great showman and circus owner, used the term in 1855 in his unambiguously named autobiography The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself, 1855:
"At Vicksburg we sold all our land conveyances excepting four horses and the 'band wagon'."
Barnum didn't coin 'jump on the bandwagon', which came later, but he did have a hand in some other additions to the language. He was nothing if not a publicist and, even though there is no definitive evidence of his inventing any new word or phrase, he certainly can be said to have made several of them popular. Firstly, there are a couple of celebrated quotations:
"There's a sucker born every minute." and
"You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time."
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations lists those under their Barnum entry, along with the dictionary compiler's favourite weasel words – "attributed to". There is considerable doubt that he said either of the above. Barnum's acquaintances have claimed that the first would have been somewhat out of character for him, and Abraham Lincoln is often confidently cited as the author of the second. Actually, the 'some of the people' dictum isn't found in print until 1887 (some years after Lincoln's death and when Barnum was in his dotage), when it appears in print in several American newspapers, again guarded by vagaries like "Lincoln once said".
Two other terms that we certainly can thank Barnum for popularising are 'Jumbo' and 'Siamese twins'. Jumbo was a little-used slang term in Barnum's day and was recorded in John Badcock's Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, 1823:
"Jumbo, a clumsy or unwieldly fellow."
The word was coined as the the name of a giant elephant that was housed at London Zoo. Jumbo was sold to Barnum in 1882 and exhibited in his shows. It is via Barnum's marketing zeal that the word became widely used as epitomising hugeness. The creature itself didn't have much luck. It died in 1885 after being struck by a train. Its heart was cut out and the torso was stuffed and mounted and continued to tour with Barnum's circus. It was destroyed in a fire in 1975 and now languishes as 14 ounces of ash in a peanut butter jar.
Barnum's other contribution to the language is the term 'Siamese twins', which he applied to the 'joined at the hip' brothers Chang and Eng Bunker.
Back to the bandwagon. Circus workers were skilled at attracting the public with the razzmatazz of a parade through town, complete with highly decorated bandwagons. In the late 19th century, politicians picked up on this form of attracting a crowd and began using bandwagons when campaigning for office.
The transition from the literal 'jumping on a bandwagon', in order to show one's alliance to a politician, to the figurative use we know now was complete by the 1890s. Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt made a clear-cut reference to the practice in his Letters, 1899 (published 1951):
"When I once became sure of one majority they tumbled over each other to get aboard the band wagon."
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We've written about the Decorah Eagle Cam and about the Jewel bear cam.
Well, we've decided to give back to the Internet and today we launched NPR's Official AntCam:
The ant farm is at NPR's Washington headquarters — on the third-floor News Desk, if you must know — and it was very generously provided by NPR's Homepage Editor Laurel Dalrymple, who hasn't had much luck keeping these poor insects alive at her own home.
But the truth is: We all just found this farm mesmerizing. It's lit by LED lights and instead of sand the ants are working to build a colony using a blue gel full of amino acids, sugars and fungicides to keep the ants alive.
That gel was developed by a group of Syracuse students and researchers at the University of Colorado working on a NASA experiment. It allowed the ants to dig and survive in a zero-gravity environment. National Geographicexplains that after 19 delays, the experiment finally launched on-board the doomed Shuttle Columbia .
After the disaster, NatGeo followed up saying the students didn't give up.
If all goes as planned, the 60 harvester ants — all female — will create something unique and beautiful before long. We'll leave the cam up and let you monitor the progress along with us.
Update at 8 a.m. ET, April 30: As you can see from this photo, we're a very high-tech operation. The camera is taped to a stack of books. The ant farm is taped to ledge of an editor's cubicle.
Update at 5:51 p.m. ET. When They Started:
The ants, by the way, were put into the farm at around 1 p.m. ET.
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Mediterranean peasants originally created soups as a way to put together a meal from the scraps of food they had on hand. Adding beans, lentils, and meats to your soups creates a heartier soup that can often serve as a complete meal. Serve these soups in a bowl with some crusty whole-wheat bread to make a one-pot meal on a cold day.
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 6–8 hours
Yield: 8 servings
1 onion, diced
3 carrots, washed, quartered and sliced into 1/2-inch slices
3 celery stalks, quartered and sliced into 1/2-inch slices
Two 14.5-ounce cans navy beans, drained and rinsed
One 28-ounce can diced tomatoes
4 cups low-sodium chicken stock
4 Italian chicken sausage links, quartered and sliced into 1/2-inch slices
2 sprigs thyme, or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
2 bay leaves
1/2 teaspoon dried sage
1 cup orzo or other small pasta
3 zucchinis, quartered and sliced into 1/2-inch slices
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan for serving
Salt to taste (optional)
Stir the onions, carrots, celery, beans, tomatoes, stock, sausage, thyme, bay leaves, and sage together in a 4- to 5-quart slow cooker.
Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours. During the last 30 minutes of cooking, add the orzo and zucchini and cook for 30 minutes on high or until you're ready to serve. Add salt to taste (if desired).
Divide the soup among eight bowls, removing the bay leaves. Top each bowl with 1 tablespoon of the grated Parmesan and serve.
Per serving: Calories 382 (From Fat 98); Fat 11g (Saturated 4g); Cholesterol 25mg; Sodium 1178mg; Carbohydrate 50g (Dietary Fiber 10g); Protein 23g.
Cabbage and Bean Soup
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 50 minutes
Yield: 6 servings
1/4 cup olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
2 celery stalks, chopped
6 sprigs parsley
1 bay leaf
1/4 teaspoon dried sage
One 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes
8 cups water
1/2 pound Yukon gold potatoes, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 pound green cabbage, chopped (about 6 cups)
1/2 pound baked ham, cut into 1-inch cubes
One 14.5-ounce can cannellini beans, drained
1/4 cup instant polenta
Salt and pepper to taste
Heat the olive oil in a large stock pot over medium heat for 1 minute. Add the onions, carrots, and celery and cook until the onions are translucent, about 6 to 7 minutes.
Add the tomatoes (with juice), parsley, bay leaf, and sage; lower the heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes.
Raise the heat to medium-high, add the water, and bring the mixture to a boil. Add the potatoes, cabbage, ham, and beans.
Cover and drop the heat to simmer for 20 minutes or until the potatoes are tender.
Whisk in the polenta and continue whisking for 4 to 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Serve.
Per serving: Calories 345 (From Fat 110); Fat 12g (Saturated 2g); Cholesterol 21mg; Sodium 754mg; Carbohydrate 44g (Dietary Fiber 8g); Protein 17g.
Pasta Fagioli
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Yield: 8 servings
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 ounces pancetta, diced small
1 teaspoon dried rosemary, minced
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme, or 2 sprigs fresh thyme
1 bay leaf
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 medium onion, chopped small
2 medium carrots, diced small
2 celery stalks, diced small
6 cloves garlic, sliced
Two 14.5-ounce cans cannellini or navy beans, drained and rinsed
One 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes, undrained
8 cups low-sodium chicken or vegetable stock
2 inches Parmesan rind (optional)
1 cup ditalini or other small pasta
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
In a large stock pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat for 2 minutes. Add the pancetta and sauté for 3 to 5 minutes. Add the rosemary, thyme, bay leaf, red pepper flakes, onions, carrots, celery, and garlic.
Continue to sauté for 7 minutes or until the onions are translucent. Add the beans, tomatoes (juice included), and stock. Bring soup to a boil and lower the heat to simmer.
Add the Parmesan rind (if desired) and pasta and continue to cook for 20 minutes or until the pasta and vegetables are tender. Remove the rind and discard.
Season the soup with salt and pepper. Serve each bowl with 1 tablespoon of freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
Per serving: Calories 290 (From Fat 60); Fat 7g (Saturated 2g); Cholesterol 8mg; Sodium 796mg; Carbohydrate 42g (Dietary Fiber 7g); Protein 18g.


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Shorter gaps between vaccines considered to tackle rise in Indian variant cases
Ministers are poised to order further action in response to the spread of the Indian coronavirus variant of concern as new figures show cases have more than doubled in a week.
Data from Public Health England (PHE) shows a rise in cases from 520 to 1,313 this week in the UK, with the agency saying cases were "rising in the community" and it was assessing the impact and severity of the variant.
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What has the government said?
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation was being monitored carefully and the Government "will not hesitate to take further action if necessary".
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out local lockdowns being necessary to contain the spread of the virus.
Dr Susan Hopkins, Covid-19 strategic response director at PHE, said: "We need to act collectively and responsibly to ensure that variants do not impact on the progress we have all made to drive down levels of Covid-19 and the increased freedom that brings."
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A vaccine bus has been set up to increase uptake among those who are eligible and a rapid response team of 100 nurses, public health advisers and environmental health officers has been sent in.
Meanwhile, surge testing has been deployed in Sefton, Merseyside, after cases of the Indian variant were confirmed in the Formby area, with anyone over 16 who lives, works or studies in the area urged to take a PCR test.
Measures have also been brought in elsewhere, including in parts of London.
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"It is imperative we all continue to be vigilant, and if you live in one of the 15 areas where we've introduced surge testing, make sure you get a free PCR test.
"And everyone who's eligible needs to come forward and get a jab."
Mr Johnson said the Government was "anxious" about the variant and "there is a range of things we could do, we are ruling nothing out".
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Despite the spread of the Indian variant, Mr Johnson said there was "nothing that dissuades me" from easing England's lockdown on Monday or the further steps towards normality on June 21.
But he added "there may be things we have to do locally and we will not hesitate to do them if that is the advice we get".
Local lockdowns are only expected to be used if evidence suggests they are necessary to contain or suppress a variant which escapes the vaccine.
Although the Indian variant is thought to be highly transmissible, vaccines are expected to be effective against it.
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Tory Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, said: "Why on earth would we lock down when the vaccines continue to break the link between cases and hospitalisations and deaths?"
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham warned against attempts to impose local measures.
Mr Burnham, who battled the Government over Manchester's restrictions last year, told the BBC's Newscast: "We would be very concerned about the Government putting Blackburn, Bolton, anywhere to be honest, under local restrictions when the rest of the country is unlocking."
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People are being encouraged to go for testing and to self-isolate if needed.
PHE said there were "many small dispersed clusters" in London and it was working with borough councils on a local approach, which had already been effective at driving down variants.
Dr Hopkins urged people to follow local public health advice and said: "Cases of this variant are rising in the community and we are continuously monitoring its spread and severity to ensure we take rapid public health action."
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Layla Moran MP, chairwoman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on coronavirus, said: "The latest figures are deeply concerning and suggest the Government failed to act swiftly enough to prevent the Indian variant being imported into the UK."


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Photography podcast #80 talks about how to clean your DSLR camera's sensor. It describes the wet technique and the dry technique and it's not as scary as it seems. We also talk about how to clean your camera's mirror as well as cleaning camera lenses and general camera care.
Links /resources mentioned in this podcast:
Original suggestion thread for this podcast from our photography forum
The visible dust website — Camera and camera sensor cleaning products
The Copperhill Method of sensor cleaning — They sell cleaning kits and products as well
SensorKlear by Lenspen demo on Youtube
Camera and camera sensor cleaning supplies at B&H
Lenspen SensorKlear to clean camera sensors at B&H
Air blower at B&H
March 2010's Light and Shadow assignment on the Photography.ca forum
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This is a word that carries a lot of weight with me. Just how much weight I wasn't completely aware of (consciously) until last night. As I have mentioned before Onyx and I have begun to create lists of tasks for me each night that I am to get done while he is at work. These are all sorts of things such as housework, spiritual work, making a living work, relationship work, or whatever else. They are to keep me on track and so I have a tangible thing to look at when I'm feeling like I haven't gotten anything done that night and say "no, see, you have finished things!"
I'm not entirely sure why but the last few days I've been slacking a bit. I have not completed things by the time I have to go to bed and last night I forgot to send him my nightly text at 3am until nearly 3:45. This was not good, of course, and I knew that but sleep was necessary. The night before we had been talking on gtalk and he mentioned he was disappointed about me having to go to bed before everything was done but that it was acceptable because of circumstances that had happened. Following closely, last night he said he was disappointed in me for missing my nightly text.
I started bawling. Him saying that felt like punishment enough for what I had done because I felt so poorly about it. I knew it was a disproportionate reaction and I could actually examine my emotional reaction as it was happening, which was nice and is something I've been working on. Neither of us would have guessed I would have reacted so strongly to such a small thing, but I did. I was somewhat shocked, actually, and thus commenced my analyzation of why that term has such power over me.
When I was growing up I was rarely punished for bad behavior. My mother is big on developmental and child psychology and my father would just get withdrawn and upset but rarely directly punish me. I can only think of one instance where I was even sent to my room, so mostly my "punishment" was guilt or being told they were disappointed in my behavior. Naturally this created a trigger in me. I strove to never disappoint them (or never let them know about what they would be disappointed about). Disappointment was the worst thing I could do to someone.
That's not to say I don't and haven't disappointed people. There are plenty of things I have done that I feel bad about, but for the most part those are small things, there is nothing in my life that I regret.
I attribute the weight of his words last night to be partially because of the new power dynamic that we have been building between us and partially because of hearing it two days in a row. I was already feeling down from the day before and I was already beating myself up about not doing what I was supposed to and he said that. For the record, I keep saying "he said that" but I'm not placing blame on him for my reaction or anything, neither of us could have predicted that is what would happen. Vaguely I remember recognizing disappointment from others as a source of pain for me, but it hadn't come up in so long I just had no idea I would react so strongly.
I also have a tendency to subconsciously punish myself. I was feeling extremely down after that happened and although I got myself to feeling a little better through the hours before Onyx came home when he came home I closed myself off and didn't allow myself to find the comfort in him that I might have been able to if I wasn't, essentially, punishing myself. There was no time when I thought "I'm going to do this" but that is what happened. I was sad and closed off and I had done the same thing the night before as well, though to a smaller extent.
Onyx and I had a talk about this earlier today so he knows about what the word triggers in me and we discussed possible options for punishment that he could inflict that would not be as damaging or affect me for so long. Of course, if I do something or don't do something that carries a lot of weight with it he also knows that he can use that word to hit home the true weight of the situation to me. Ultimately, this is another tool for him to use in our dynamic.


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The skeleton helper testcase class generated by Rails 3 inherits from ActionView::TestCase. Simple helpers can be tested by comparing their return value with a golden string. For more complex helpers, use render :text to fill the view state with the helper return value, then use assert_select. assert_tag doesn't work.
Simple Helpers
Helpers that produce a single tag, or a string, are probably best tested simply by comparing their output with an expected value. Helpers can be called directly from the test class, as inheriting from ActionView::TestCase will set up an appropriate test environment, which includes a mock controller if necessary.
The code listing below demonstrates this.
Complex Helpers
To me, canonical example of a complex helper is one that includes a call to form_tag or form_for. These methods produce a div inside the form tag, and the contents of the div has been very brittle during Rails 3 development, mostly due to the snowman debate. A test shouldn't depend on the div contents, if all that matters is that there's a form in the helper's output.


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Downtown Joplin has seen its share of buildings come and go over the years. One might think that urban renewal, which ravaged much of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, is to blame. But as much as urban renewal makes us howl here at Historic Joplin, it's not always at fault. Back in 1907, it was announced that the Peter Schnur residence, one of Joplin's oldest surviving buildings, would be demolished.
The Schnur residence was built in 1871 by Peter Schnur, one of the first residents of Joplin, and founder of the Joplin Evening News. When he was appointed postmaster of Joplin, Schnur sold the newspaper. According to Joel Livingston's history of Jasper County, Mr. Schnur died in 1907 "after marching in a parade."
The house originally consisted of two small rooms. In subsequent years the house was added on to and received an interior coat of plaster. It reportedly bore the distinction of "being the only plastered house in Joplin. The house was later sold to Charles Workizer, G.B. Young, and then to the Bell Telephone Company. The phone company planned to demolish the house in order to build an office building.
Peter Schnur's widow, when asked about the home, said, "When we first came to Joplin and built the old house in 1871 the present city of Joplin was nothing but a prairie, not a fence, and but few buildings in sight. There were not even any laws over the place; everybody did as they pleased. My daughter, now Mrs. Ed Poter, and my son, Burt Schnur, were at that time but three and two years old, respectively."
Mrs. Schnur recalled, "I remember well the annoyance I underwent from the fact that there was no fence around our home behind which I could corral my children. One day Burt, then about three years old, wandered away from home and got lost in the tall prairie grass on what is now Wall Street. We found him, finally, within ten feet of an open shaft, and I that night issued an ultimatum to the effect that if there was not a fence around the house within a week, I was going to leave the district. I got the fence, and I have been glad of it ever since."
The Globe estimated that the demolition of the house would take several days before the original two rooms of the home were reached.


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The Scolefin® Polypropylene product range of the Ravago Group is based on high quality homopolymer as well as copolymer polypropylene grades, compounded with different fillers and produced with many years of compounding experience.
General info
Scolefin® PP compounds offer a wide range of very interesting properties:
- Optimal combination of toughness and stiffness
- Long term heat stability
- Suitable for 2-K moulding
- Good balance of properties among stiffness and impact resistance
- Excellent chemical resistance
- Wide range of flow properties
- Flame retardancy (selected grades)
Ravago, the producer of Scolefin® PP compounds, offers one of the broadest polypropylene compound portfolios which includes:
- Mineral fillers 5-70%
- Talcum, chalk, mica, wollastonite or barium sulphate
- Glass fibres & beads 5-60%
- Impact modified
- Flame retardant grades (UL94: V-0)
- Colours
- Natural, black and coloured
- High performance grades for the automotive industry
- Tailor made compounds to exactly meet the customer's and application's requirements at the best price
Scolefin® PP prime compounds processing
The temperature settings of the injection moulding machine should be set at 200°C at the hopper and increases at a uniform rate to 240°C – 260°C at the nozzle.
The experience has shown that the favourable tool temperature is max. 40°C, but to enhance the gloss of the Scolefin® filled PP grades the tool temperature could be increased to 50°C – 80°C.
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EMAX Avan Mini 3 Inch PROPELLER 3X2.4X3 (6xCCW 6xCW 3 Sets)
The Emax Avan Mini propeller 3x2.4x3 was designed for Babyhawk Race 3 inch to maximize flight time and performance. This propeller is matched to Emax 1106 4500kv for 3s and 4s flight. A true 2.4" pitch throughout the blade gives a linear control feeling across the throttle band while still achieving high speeds. This allows for ease of flight and more precision. With a special PC blend, the Avan Mini weighs 1.25 grams. Most of the weight is centralized near the hub creating a low moment of inertia of 3.05 grams*square centimeter which in turn makes a very responsive prop. The large blade chord makes the propeller very durable.
The Avan Mini was designed from the ground up starting from design constraints such as RPM, airspeed, and required thrust. From these constraints, aerodynamic models were built to predict performance and to design the blade shape. Highly cambered airfoils were used to achieve high lift coefficients at high angles of attack prolonging stall. This allows for a higher blade angle while still remaining efficient. The cambered airfoils also allow a greater flight envelope making for great low-end responsiveness while still being able to achieve high speeds.
A special Polycarbonate blend is used to achieve high durability. This material is incredibly tough and ductile to resist fracture in high impact crashes. A thick blade root was designed to further increase this durability. Our injection mold process is optimized to reduce bubbles in the plastic to increase the strength of the propeller and to maintain superb balance.
- 3-inch diameter
- 2.4-inch pitch
- 3 blades
Inertial Properties:
- weight: 1.25 grams
- Moment of Inertia: 3.05 g/cm^2