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(Sports Network) - The reigning Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens shoot for their third consecutive preseason win when they host Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers at M&T Bank Stadium on Thursday.
The Ravens rallied to score 20 points in the fourth quarter, capped with a 78- yard punt return by Asa Jackson, as they defeated the Atlanta Falcons, 27-23, last week.
Backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor went 5-for-9 for 83 yards with a pair of touchdowns and an interception, while starter Joe Flacco was 7-for-9 for 118 yards with one touchdown and one interception for the Ravens, who also won their preseason opener against the Buccaneers, 44-16.
Torrey Smith had two catches for a game-high 85 yards and a touchdown against the Falcons. Aaron Mellette and Tandon Doss each had one reception, but both of their catches resulted in a touchdown.
"When you play you try to win," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. "That's why they keep score. So I'm happy about that. But there are things you can correct and they have to get done if we're going to be the team that we hope to be."
The Panthers, meanwhile, stumbled in Philadelphia last week, falling to Michael Vick and the Eagles 14-9.
Newton struggled under center for Carolina, connecting on just 8-of-17 passes for 112 yards.
DeAngelo Williams carried the ball 12 times for 39 yards for the Panthers, who opened their preseason slate with a win over Chicago.
"It's a big deal any time you take the field," said Panthers tight end Greg Olsen. "You want to play well and you want to win. But at the same time, it's a learning experience against teams you haven't really been game-planning for. This is the time that you want to find out what your weaknesses are so you can correct them. That's what the preseason is all about."
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Baltimore baseball fans flocked back to Camden Yards and merrily decorated themselves in orange and black as the Orioles authored baseball's most surprising story of 2012.
Now, signs abound that the enthusiasm from last fall — when the team broke a 15-year streak of losing records and postseason whiffs — has carried forward to a new season, which starts Tuesday in Tampa Bay. The Orioles' home opener Friday is the second-most-expensive opening-week ticket in the sport. The team's merchandise accounts for three times as much of the Major League Baseball retail market as it did last year. And baseball analysts are discussing the club as a viable contender in the American League East.
The Orioles stand to profit, as do memorabilia merchants and the bars and restaurants near Camden Yards. One new bar, the Deck at Camden Yards, plans to open this week to capitalize on the renewed excitement.
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Meanwhile, Orioles merchandise sales account for about 3 percent of baseball's U.S. retail market this year, compared to 0.89 percent for the corresponding period in 2012, according to SportsOneSource, a Charlotte, N.C.-based company that analyzes the sporting-goods industry.
Forbes recently estimated the team's value at $618 million, up from $460 million last year, with annual revenues up 15 percent, to $206 million. The Orioles experienced the largest attendance spike in baseball last season and sold out Camden Yards for two playoff games in October. Team officials won't reveal details of season-ticket sales but say that renewal rates and increases in new buyers are among the highest in the last decade.
"We are psyched," said the Rev. Martha Macgill, the rector of Memorial Episcopal Church in Bolton Hill and a new season-ticket holder with her husband. They spent $800 on a 13-game package. "We became obsessed fans last year."
Chris Matcovich, vice president of data for TiqIQ, said that in addition to the steep prices for home opener tickets, average prices for all Orioles games on the secondary market are up about 13 percent from 2012. "It definitely shows that fan sentiment is up this year off their first playoff appearance in a while."
The owners of bars and restaurants around Camden Yards say they're expecting strong business in 2013 after last year's surprise playoff run filled their cash registers in August and September.
"The lightning is in the bottle, and we're holding onto it," said Pat Liberto, owner of the Camden Pub on Pratt Street. "You can't even get a ticket for Opening Day because they're so in demand. I haven't seen it this way since the '90s."
Liberto said increased business on Orioles game days bumped his revenues about $10,000 a month last summer and fall, the time when enthusiasm generally waned during the club's long run of losing.
Fritz Brogan said the excitement was part of the reason he invested in the Deck at Camden Yards, a new outdoor bar at the Hampton Inn across from the stadium. "There's a great sense of pride in Baltimore right now, and we're just riding the wave," he said. "We probably would have pursued this project anyway, but we're much more excited because of the excitement around the team."
In the memorabilia world, Robbie Davis Jr., owner of Robbie's First Base in Lutherville, said this is the first year he can remember balls and jerseys signed by current Orioles outselling those signed by past stars Brooks Robinson and Cal Ripken.
"It'll pick up even more once they start playing, but people are definitely excited," he said. "People think this team is legit now."
Of course, to maintain that excitement, the Orioles will have to avoid the dismal play that dispirited fans from 1998 to 2011. Many baseball analysts expect them to take a step back from the 93 games they won last season, arguing that the team's remarkable performance in close games is unsustainable.
But ESPN analyst Buster Olney, who covered the Orioles as a beat writer for the Baltimore Sun during their last heyday, isn't among the skeptics. He believes in the team's pitching depth and manager Buck Showalter's mastery of the bullpen. He also senses genuine faith, both inside the clubhouse and among fans, whom Olney observed massing at the Sarasota spring training complex in search of early-morning autographs.
"I went down there expecting to pick Toronto to win the division," Olney said. "But after I spent a few days with the Orioles, I changed my mind."
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Installing Nitrous Outlet's 90mm EFI Plate System On An LS2 C6
Randall D. Allen
Jan 1, 2009
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The Nitrous Outlet LS1/LS2 90mm EFI Plate System (PN NO-10108-10) consists of everything needed for installation, including the EFI plate along with nitrous and fuel solenoids. Also included are nitrous and fuel hoses, a 10-pound nitrous bottle, stainless steel quick-release bottle brackets, and all required electrical components-including an arming switch and a throttle-activated micro switch.
The plate, which mounts behind the throttle body, uses multiple nitrous and fuel-discharge ports to spray across the intake throat, resulting in a super-atomized cocktail of nitrous and fuel.
In addition to full nitrous kits, Nitrous Outlet stocks a full line of accessories. One of the most popular is the Stage 3 Accessory Pack (PN NO-00-6902), which contains an automatic bottle heater, a nitrous-pressure gauge, a fuel-pressure safety switch, an NHRA fitting, a blow-down tube, a nitrous filter, and a purge kit.
Nitrous Outlet also sells this fully automated heater bottle bracket (PN 860-010130). The cradle is made of 6063 T-6 polished aluminum, and bottle removal is expedited with quick-release stainless-steel clamps. A toggle switch, relay, and harness are all included.
Nitrous Outlet's digital dual window switch (PN NO-00-6100) includes built-in throttle-position-sensor (TPS) activation and can be set up to control nitrous activation. In most applications, the switch is set to turn the system on at 3,000 rpm and off approximately 300 rpm before the redline. It features a built-in gear lockout as well as a digital display.
After unpacking the contents of the kit and reading the detailed instructions, the rear hatch is opened to determine a suitable mounting spot for the nitrous bottle(s). A clip-removal tool is used to extract the two push tabs that retain the center portion of the rear trim panel.
The trim panels on each side are next on the removal list. Each panel has two threaded inserts and two push clips that need to come out. Next, the plastic covers over the inner wheelhousings are snapped off, and the manual gas-tank- and trunk-release levers are slipped through the slits in the carpeting.
Once all the clips and retainers are free, carefully lift out each of the side panels and store them in a safe location. Proceed to remove the carpeting from the rear deck.
Once the deck is visible, you'll need to determine a method for mounting the bottle(s). Since owner Allen chose to use two 10-pound bottles and dual heated brackets, Marson inserts will be utilized to ensure a secure fit. The carpet is slit to allow a 27/64-inch bit to drill holes in the top ridges of the deck. A thread-setter tool is then used to rivet 1/4-20 threaded inserts into the holes (one hole in front and two in the rear on the 860 bottle brackets).
The carpet is placed in position, and the 3/4-inch long 1/4-20 bolts are placed through the bracket. A 10mm wrench then tightens each bolt up snugly.
Before installation, the bottles are prepped by installing the bottle nut and nipple with an adjustable wrench and then removing the plug on the valve with a 3/16-inch Allen wrench. In place of the plug goes a Nitrous Outlet liquid-filled pressure gauge, which has a fitting for a heater pressure switch. According to Vasser, Red Loctite or Teflon pastes are the only acceptable sealants for this job.
With the bottles positioned in the brackets, the NHRA-mandated blow-down tubes are prefit to determine where the carpet will need to be slit to facilitate hole-drilling. A 1/2-inch bit is used to drill through the fiberglass panel.
The tubes are slipped into position and marked, then cut with a hacksaw so they protrude past the panel by about 1 inch. After fitment, a 7/8-inch wrench tightens the tubes.
Next, the mass-airflow sensor (MAF) connector is unsnapped, and the PCV system is disconnected. A flat-bladed screwdriver is used to unscrew the band clamps that retain the bridge between the air-cleaner assembly and throttle body. The four throttle-body bolts are then liberated with a 10mm socket.
The Nitrous Outlet plate is mounted between the throttle body and intake manifold, with the integral O-ring seal toward the front and the flat portion to the back. Replacement 2 1/2-inch bolts are threaded into the manifold and tightened securely with an 8mm socket.
The optional C6 Head Solenoid Bracket (PN NO-5416) allows the solenoids to be mounted to the passenger-side cylinder head. Included with the bracket are bolts and spacers for the EVAP bracket.
After the fuel, nitrous, and purge solenoids are mounted to the bracket, the EVAP hose is disconnected, and the EVAP retaining bracket is removed with a 15mm wrench.
The solenoid bracket and solenoids are then installed, followed by the bridge and air-cleaner assembly.
Next, the driver-side valve cover is removed, followed by the cap at the end of the fuel rail. A rag is placed under the end of the rail, and a Schrader-valve tool is used to take off the valve. The rail side of the fuel-pressure-switch manifold is tightened down with a 9/16-inch wrench, while the switch itself is attached to the manifold with a 1/2-inch wrench (apply Loctite to junction). Once that is complete, a fitting is attached to the end of the manifold, and an 18-inch -4AN fuel line is routed under the throttle body and attached to the inlet side of the fuel solenoid.
The LS1/LS2 90mm EFI Plate System comes with adjustable power levels; in this case, the owner opted for a 150hp shot. After referring to the jet chart that comes in the instruction manual, the specified fuel jet is loaded into the plate. The supplied 2-foot 3AN fuel line is then attached with a 7/16-inch wrench and routed under the passenger-side fuel rail to the fuel side of the EFI plate. The line is tightened on the plate side with a 7/16-inch wrench.
The proper nitrous jet is loaded into the plate, and the 2-foot -4 nitrous-feed line from the nitrous solenoid is tightened with a 9/16-inch wrench. It's then routed to the plate and tightened with a 7/16-inch wrench.
With the fuel and nitrous routed to the EFI plate, the optional Nitrous Outlet purge kit (PN NO-00-6200) is removed from its packaging, and the 3-foot, 3/16-inch flexible aluminum line is unrolled. After determining that the best location for the purge line is in the center of the cowl, a drill and a 13/64-inch bit are used to cut the necessary hole.
The purge line is then routed along the passenger side of the intake manifold and cut to length. Next, the fitting to the purge solenoid is tightened with a 7/16-inch wrench, and a cap is placed over the end of the line at the cowl to keep out debris.
After locating a spot for the dual digital window switch, the unit is mounted to the inner fenderwell (inside the fuse panel) by drilling two 1/8-inch holes and screwing in the supplied 8-32 self-tapping screws. Although not shown, three holes were drilled in the firewall on the passenger side-one each for the relays that operate the system-arming switch and the dual bottle heaters.
In order to bring the -4 AN main nitrous line and related wiring into the C6, the interior needs to be partially disassembled. This will provide access to the upper-firewall panel. Before accessing the panel, the passenger-side sill plate is popped off.
Pull down the upper firewall panel and locate the rubber grommet through which the PCM wires run. Use a razor blade to make a 1-inch slit on the right side of grommet, then get out the 16-foot -4AN nitrous line and put tape over both ends to keep out debris. Feed the nitrous line through the slit in the grommet until it passes through the firewall. With that done, route the solenoid and system wires under the fuel rails and protect them with wiring loom. Put loom over the digital dual window switch and relays, and route them through the same hole in the grommet. Make sure the nitrous line won't abrade against the loom or come in contact with the firewall.
Continue routing the nitrous line and bottle-heater wires down the passenger-side sill plate and rear trim panel until they reach the nitrous bottles.
One of the most important accessories for any nitrous system is a quality nitrous filter such as this unit from Nitrous Outlet (PN NO-OO-6500). Although the solenoid itself is equipped with a stainless mesh filter, it's not meant to be the primary filtering source. Check back next month, when we wrap up our installation and unleash the nitrous-snorting Vette on Real Performance Motorsports' chassis dyno.
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Kirbydox and I were talking about the possibility of getting the CO's to archive this series in conjunction with the placement of a new piece of art. It could be set up to have the maximum number of caches under an HGS sockpuppet account so everyone can find them and our HGS members maintain them. Of course, I will do my share to furnish Berty tubes and help maintain them. Thoughts?
Archiving One Huge Smile to redesign
Posted 04 November 2013 - 07:38 AM
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Posted 04 November 2013 - 08:00 AM
how soon are you talking about archiving? I've wanted to do this series one my trips out to visit my family and the weather is getting nice to hike it.
although, new geoart is always nice to have.
Posted 04 November 2013 - 08:04 AM
was my reaction at the suggestion of re-doing CLAPS. But now, I'm glad I did. A nice changeup with differnet placements, styles, and types. The smile is a great hike though different areas and was thoroughly enjoyable. The right time of year it's really pretty, too. I don't know what's in store, but a refresher may really be great, whether new art or even just a new smiley.
So, is it that? Just something new? Or is this a ploy for new caches because Kirbydox not have enough other local caches to find now? That may be an entirely different problem.
Posted 04 November 2013 - 08:18 AM
Well, many of the HGS has already di it. Heck, I've done it 3 times. The planning, redesign, logistics, etc, could make the placement of the new caches 2-3 months in the future and then there is the coordination of the current CO's archiving the old ones as we submit the new ones.
I suck at laying out something of this magnitutde, but others thrive on it, so I will furnish the containers and the sweat of placing them and we can kick it around ad naseum.
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Posted 04 November 2013 - 08:32 AM
I guess I better go do that series then. I've grabbed 3 or 4 of them when I was out grabbing FTF's in the reservoir, and all of the ones I grabbed needed maintenance (which I did). I haven't put the series on the map of ones to knock out because I assumed the rest would be in the same condition, but I could be wrong. Guess I could read the last few logs and see. Either way, I need to go finish the series, so if anyone wants to go do it sometime soon, let me know if you want to team up.
Posted 04 November 2013 - 08:45 AM
Just kicking around the option, that's all. I don't own a one and the CO's might not go along with it.
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Posted 04 November 2013 - 08:51 AM
Posted 04 November 2013 - 10:42 AM
@TexasWriter..I'll team up with you..
Me too, made an attempt with Mrs. D. one day and she made it R-E-A-L-L-Y clear that she wasn't going back there EVER again. (Needless to day: She hates BushWhacking).
We did two (2!) that day before it was clear I was gonna have a divorce on my hand if we continued, so I went back the day after and went after a couple by myself. I have to admit I probably picked the wrong day/season/etc. but I didn't feel quite comfortable doing them by myself.... heard all kinds of critters (big & small) scatter away when I whacked my way across the bush.
So I'd love to tag along, but won't be back in the Houston Area until December 2nd.
"Do or do not, there is no try." -Yoda
Posted 04 November 2013 - 11:02 AM
Sounds like a good idea to me. One piece of advice. Set a date and stick to it. I am redoing the entire Jones Forest into something special and have had two dates set and been asked multiple times to push it back. Now asked again by another cacher to postpone. I won't say any names....Cough Cachestacker Cough.....
Posted 04 November 2013 - 11:10 AM
Procrastination is the thief of time. So many caches and so little time. With winter coming on, let's just do a mash-up for One Big Smile or two, knock it out and knock it off.
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Posted 04 November 2013 - 11:57 AM
I better get out there and finish it...
Posted 04 November 2013 - 12:22 PM
We still have a long way to go to complete this series so I hope either we plan a mash-up soon, or that the re-design will be a good time in the future. Some of us haven't finished all the caches in Houston, like KirbyDox has! Slow down woman!
Posted 04 November 2013 - 12:40 PM
as possible....maybe even have an event nearby ...we could leave said
event and attack the smilie as a group:)
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Posted 04 November 2013 - 12:56 PM
Dang. We be bad geocachers, Kirbydox and me. We started a firestorm.
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Posted 04 November 2013 - 12:56 PM
Something tells me I am going to to the Big Smile a 4th time.
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Posted 04 November 2013 - 01:52 PM
Oh no... i thought i had more time!
I've been waiting for the right moment for years now ;-)
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Posted 04 November 2013 - 02:14 PM
Oh no... i thought i had more time!
I've been waiting for the right moment for years now ;-)
That's exactly what I was tellilng Brent....
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Posted 04 November 2013 - 02:32 PM
Posted 04 November 2013 - 02:34 PM
Replace the smiley with "HGCS"
Not Enough Room.
Posted 04 November 2013 - 02:58 PM
Replace the smiley with "HGCS"
Not Enough Room.
What if you use lower case?
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Updated Sep 5, 2013 - 9:45 am
Clint Eastwood's wife swap after marriage split
A swip swap of sorts...
It's been less than a week since Clint Eastwood and wife Dina reportedly separated. And now, there are rumors the couple may be involved in a love swap, reports New York Daily News.
Dina Eastwood, 48, is said to be romantically linked to University of Hawaii basketball coach Scott Fisher, while the legendary "Dirty Harry" star, 83, is reportedly romancing Fisher's ex-wife, according to an US Weekly report.
According to a source, the former Mrs. Fisher could have been the mystery woman that Eastwood was reportedly spending time with earlier in the week.
The reports of a relationship between Dina Eastwood and Fisher apparently stem from a 33-year friendship between the two, dating back to their high school days.
The NY Daily News reached out to Eastwood's rep, but they declined to comment.


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Emotional Publishers Clearing House Moment for Florida Prize Winner
Florida resident Ronald Burton went to work that day expecting it to be just like any other day of the week. Suddenly, he was called to his manager's office. "I thought, 'Why does he want to see me immediately?' I thought I was in trouble," he revealed after it was all over. Little did he know the PCH Prize Patrol was waiting behind the conference room door.
"The first thing I saw was a camera in my face and then the Big Cardboard Check turned backward," Burton said. "Then I saw the man in the jacket and I was like, 'Oh my goodness!'"
The famous prize award team had first gone to the Publishers Clearing House winner's home and surprised his wife, with a $10,000 check. She then took them to Burton's place of employment.
"I looked over and saw my wife, and there were tears coming out of her eyes. It was a heck of an experience. It came at a perfect time with Christmas around the corner and the way the economy is and everything," he said. The cash prize money will allow them to pay bills and have plenty left over for some fun.
Each sweepstakes winning moment is unique. What kind of an experience do you think your "PCH Moment" would be, if you won?
Waiting to hear from you,
Deborah Holland
Executive Vice President
Publishers Clearing House (PCH)
10 thoughts on "Emotional Publishers Clearing House Moment for Florida Prize Winner"
Well it'll help me my wife and my 10 children upgrade….We're blessed to be touched by my inlaws to give us a 2 bedroom mobile home and we make the rest work… no matter what anyone would appreciate a big winning, but regardless this I think its a great opportunity to try for free..you never know it wouldn't hurt. PCH lets go!!!!!
I am going to be a winner oneday
I would love to buy a house for me and my family.We. have always been renters So that wouud be a different for us living the american dream.I would also like to be able to help the less.fortunate people and children who haven't had there wishes come true.like donate to the children's make a wish foundation.Etc.
If I won,I'm going back home and see my grand father,sigh my grand ma are not here anymore. I miss her badly.and I wanna see my grandpa befor it's too late and I wanna fix his lil.house and buy him a wheelchair.and buy them stuck of rice so that they won't eat casaba or crops all the time.and maybe I will try to find my mom haven't seen her in 20 years
These stories are so sad i also have one but ill keep it to myself because Im still crying about about the stories ive just read they really really touched my heart. God bless you guys
My boyfriend is disabled and I have become disabled in the last 3 years. I would like to buy us a small home in the country and a truck.Some of the money would go to children with disabilities.I would also donate some to homeless vets.After that I don't know what I would do because I have never had too much money.
Thank You, Tracy
Lake Panasoffkee,Fl
to be 1 in 1,750,000 isn't a reality to me, but I keep entering,as it keeps my mind off of the tragities that have happened in the past 8yrs. On 9/11, I lost my only son Thomas Nicholas Pecorell. He was a passenger on American Airlines Flt. 11, which was the first to be flown into the World Trade Center. My life as it was before that day has ended. He was married 1 month less of his 2nd Wedding Aniversary, and they were expecting their first child, a child he was so very happpy about. Fortunately, his wife did not go on that trip to Boston, and my 13th grand child was born 6 months later, he is 7 yrs old now.
The second tragity was June 25th when my youngest daughter and son-in law lost their only son Cory,(my grandson) who was 18 yrs.old at the time he was brutally murdered.
My dream insted of nightmares is to be able to help my youngest daughter by paying their bills, as she is working 2 jobs to help support her family. She has a wonderful, smart daughter (my grand-daughter, who has been given a paid scholorship, to attend college. Thank God. Their is so much I could say about Lisa, my daughter, and her courage, wonderful outlook on life, regardless of what she is going through, and always there for me, as I try to be for her.
I would like to have a Memorial in my son's name to save the endagered Animals in this World. On of the passionate quality's, beside his love for his family, was the of all living things on this earth, he believed that all living things have the right to pusue their paticular paths toward happiness without the threat of destriuction or interferance by others. He insisted that all creatures deserve the chance to live as free from fear as possible and that only in the most necessary cases of self-defense were acts of violence justifiable.
If their is nything left for me I would like a small condo, because my son's widow is paying my rent, and I don't want to be a burdin to her anymore.
These are my Dreams
Thank You for your Time
Tom's mother
If I won,I would buy a house for myself and for my mother. I would also donate money to wildlife rescue organizations to prevent certain species of animals from becoming extinct. I would put the rest of money in savings,and use it wisely!
i moved to florida or out west so i can win hold it i have to win first well that leaves me out. give me a break with the last comment tell the truth what u would really do if u won.
i well buy a house, car, visit the hospital if i won a 1 million…


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excaliber scroll saw
would like to here from anyone who has a ex-21 saw, and how they like it. I now have a dewalt and there are a couple of reasons i want to switch, mostly how it tilts for angle cutting.
Papa Jim
I've had my EX-21 for about 3.5 years and absolutely love it. It is as close to vibration free as a scroll saw can be. I've had no problems with it in the time I've had it. Now, having said that, let me tell you a story about learning a hard lesson:
I was given an EX-21 as a gift 4 years ago. We purchased it from Woodcraft and, for the first month I had minimal problems with it and was happy. Then the saw started knocking loudly. When I called Woodcraft for help, they told me they would not handle the warranty problems, I had to go somewhere else for that. Fortunately for me, they gave me the name of Ray Seymore who is the owner and Pres. of SEYCO. Ray spent a lot of time on the phone talking me through repairs and adjustments. After a couple of months of this, Ray offered to replace the saw. I dragged my heels because I had orders to complete. I finally gave up, called him, and he did me the favor of replacing the saw. The one he sent was perfectly set up and has performed flawlessly for the 3.5 years I've had it. I can't say enough about Ray's customer service and integrity.
As for the way the saw tilts, it makes perfect sense to me and it works very well.
It's one of the reasons I bought the EX-21 and the one feature I have yet to use.
I had used them in Judy Gale Roberts classes for four visits. When I went to Dallas to see my oldest boy, I stopped in to see Ray and gave him 20 minutes to talk me out of one - he couldn't do it and I walked away with a brand new one.
Since I bought it there and he didn't have to pay for the "Free Shipping" he was currently offering, he threw in a magnifier lamp with the foot switch that he normally puts in.
I have used it since the first of the year and it is wonderful. Ray may be more expensive than some of the other dealers, but what you get in service is well worth the price. Ray adjusts & sets up the saws before he ships them to you. Than only adjustments I had to make were the ones I screwed up while playing with it.
I have heard many stories like Jan's. Someone bought a saw somewhere else, had problems, and Ray bailed them out. If you do get an Ex - get it from Ray.
Even General International sends folks to Ray for help.
The tilting head is awesome. I was really astonished at how smooth and quiet the saw is. My wife says it sounds/feels like a sewing machine. The machine is heavy and solid.
I agree with the "go with Seyco" advice.
It's a great saw and I'd never go back to the DeWalt. Do buy it from Ray tho - rather than Woodcraft. He knows them inside and out.
I agree 100% with all these comments!
Phil J.
Me too ditto!
Anyone here have comments on the 30"? Thats what I am considering gettng for the extra throat depth..... I am already sold on the excalibur itself.
Ok, you're sold, but I will note that bowl making is a whole lot easier on the EX than the DeWalt. Tilting the blade keeps gravity out of the list of error inducing stuff. Also, The DeWalt can be taught to keep the arm up, but the EX does it better and higher, so thickness of material is no issue. The tension on the EX is an over-center device with the same tension on every set-up, the DeWalt is an inclined plane so you have choices of how high to set the tension. I have and use them both.
I have the EX30. I do like having the extra depth in the throat - especially for larger intarsia backers. If you do a lot of intricate fret work using smaller sizes (ie 11 x14 or so) you may prefer the 21 simply because the arm on the 30 is heavy to lift for threading holes. It does have the ability to adjust to stay up on it's own, but you still need to pull it down. I don't do a lot of fret type work, but from the little I've done - without tightening the upper arm to stay up - the arm is heavy. Other than that, I've got no complaints.
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Deidre Shauna Lynch, Professor of English at Harvard University will give a talk titled, "Pride and Prejudice by Numbers" at the University of Tennessee on Monday, April 13th, 2015.
Deidre Shauna Lynch, Professor of English at Harvard University will give a talk titled, "Pride and Prejudice by Numbers" at the University of Tennessee on Monday, April 13th, 2015.
On a snowy Saturday in late February, faculty and graduate students who attended last summer's Dickens Universe in Santa Cruz convened in Knoxville, Tennessee for the Graduate Winter Conference. Funded by the Dickens Project, this year's conference was co-organized by Professor Nancy Henry (English, UT) and Professor Ellen Rosenman (English, UK). Graduate student Kat Powell (English, UT) assisted in organizing the conference along with a committee of UT graduate students in the nineteenth-century literature division, including Becky McCann, Alli Clymer, John Stromski, and Matt Smith.
For this conference, faculty members serve as mentors, providing feedback on student papers in advance of the conference. This year's mentors included Dickens Project Director John O. Jordan (UC, Santa Cruz), Ryan Fong (Kalamazoo), Elizabeth Meadows (Vanderbilt), Carol MacKay, (U of Texas), and Ellen Rosenman (U of Kentucky). Professors MacKay and Rosenman also served as panel moderators along with Amy Billone (U of Tennessee), Nancy Henry, and Kat Powell.
Representing universities from the west to east coast, Canada to Texas (and Australia!), the graduate students presented engaging papers on diverse subjects from the rhetoric of nineteenth-century beards to the "behindance" of parentheticals in fiction to the musical mechanics of poetry. As always, the warm and collegial atmosphere associated with Dickens Project events helped make the conference a success. After a long and lively day of exchanging ideas, graduate students and faculty braved winter weather conditions to explore Knoxville's unique charms.
We look forward to this summer's Dickens Universe in Santa Cruz on Aug. 2-7, which takes for its focus Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit and American Notes. The Universe will be preceded by a conference on The Long, Wide Nineteenth Century, July 31-Aug. 2. Besides the scholarly program, attendants look forward to the nightly celebrations guided by this summer's capable Cruise Directors, Anne Sullivan (UCR) and Kevin Sigerman (Rutgers). In the words of Nicholas Nickleby, "The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." Hope to see many of you there!
On Friday, January 30th at 3:30 p.m. in 1210 McClung Tower the Nineteenth-Century British Research Seminar will hold a seminar-style discussion with Michelle Meinhart (Music Department, Martin Methodist College) to discuss her work on Music in Nineteenth-Century British Women's Travel Writing.
Michelle is an Assistant Professor of Music at Martin Methodist College in Tennessee, where she teaches courses in music history. She earned her PhD in musicology at the University of Cincinnati in 2013, and her research focuses on British women's music collections and life writing in the long nineteenth century. She is currently completing a monograph titled Sites of Performance, Sites of Healing: Sheet Music Collections and Memorializing the First World War in the English Country House from which her March 2014 article in the Journal of Musicological Research was derived. In 2014 she was a fellow at the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Institute, "World War I and the Arts: Sound, Vision, Psyche," and her archival work has been funded by the American Association of University Women, the English Speaking Union, and the Presser Foundation. She also plans to write a book on music in nineteenth-century British women's travel writing. Her essay "Variations on the Grand Tour: Musical Seduction and Catholic Communion in the Italian Travel Diaries of Lady Anne Noel Blunt, 1853-4" will appear in Perplext in Faith: Essays on Victorian Belief and Doubts, edited by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre and Julie Melnyk, forthcoming this year. Currently she also is completing a journal article on nineteenth-century music collections at the Columbia Athenaeum, formerly a girls' school in middle Tennessee.
Professor Meinhart's forthcoming article, and the subject of discussion, is available upon request. If you would like to attend the seminar, please contact graduate student coordinator, Kat Powell.
Professor Henry will workshop a chapter from her current book project on Women and the Nineteenth-Century Cultures of Investment at 3:45 p.m. in Melrose E-102 this Tuesday. An abridged version of Dr. Henry's chapter on the economic contexts of Elizabeth Gaskell's works is available on the Nineteenth-Century British Research Seminar's group page on Blackboard. For more information contact graduate student coordinator, Kat Powell.
Virginia Zimmerman, professor of English at Bucknell University, will give a talk entitled, "Stone Hinges: Archaeological Fantasy and Time Travel in Late-Victorian Children's Fiction" from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in 1210 McClung Tower. Professor Zimmerman is the author of Excavating the Victorians (SUNY 2007), A Sketch in Time (Cruïlla 2012), and This Powerful Rhyme (forthcoming from Clarion). The event is free and open to the public.
Recently, UT faculty and students visited sunny Santa Cruz, CA, where they attended the Dickens Universe. Professor Nancy Henry, who serves as the Professional Relations Director on the Executive Committee of the Dickens Project, has been taking two students with her to the "Universe" since 2008, when she joined the UT faculty. She also brings one faculty member each year, and this year she brought Assistant Professor Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud before he leaves for his Fulbright Fellowship year in Morocco. Nancy co-taught a graduate seminar on this year's text, Our Mutual Friend with Chris Pittard (University of Portsmouth, UK).
Besides attending the fascinating presentations, graduate students Matt Smith and Becky McCann participated in more intimate workshops as well as a range of scholarly and festive activities. Matt attended a graduate student seminar led by Dan Bivona (Arizona State) and Peter Capuano (University of Nebraska-Lincoln). He participated in the pedagogy workshop led by Priti Joshi (University of Puget Sound) and Susan Ziegar (UC-Riverside) and attended the "Shapes of Dissertations" professionalization seminar given by Catherine Robson (NYU). Matt had this to say about his experience with the workshops: "The dissertation workshop will certainly prove invaluable when it comes time for me to begin structuring and organizing my project. The pedagogy seminar was perhaps the most fruitful, particularly the sessions we spent creating and workshopping rough drafts of syllabi for 19th-century literature courses."
Becky took part in a writing workshop under the direction of Elisha Cohn (Cornell) and Jill Galvan (OSU). Along with five other graduate students, Becky had the opportunity to discuss and receive feedback on her current project on artificial resuscitation in Our Mutual Friend. She also spent most of her afternoons in a graduate seminar led by Claire Jarvis (Stanford) and Amanpal Garcha (OSU). During the professionalization workshops, Becky chose to attend a publishing seminar with Rae Greiner (Indiana), and editor of Victorian Studies, and Jonathan Grossman (UCLA), who serves as an editor for Nineteenth-Century Literature. Becky reflects on her experience:
"The writing workshop provided me the unique opportunity to have professors and grad students from other universities review my work. The range of interests in the group was exciting and impressive, the perspectives of my peers from other consortium schools refreshing and invaluable. I felt so fortunate to receive feedback from a group of scholars who were intimately familiar with the text with which my essay is concerned, and I enjoyed catching a glimpse of the kind of work other students are producing while reading excerpts from their dissertation chapters and the like.
"The graduate seminar was an absolute blast! Our group engaged in conversations that spanned the novel's narrative necessities and thematic underpinnings, the daily lectures, and professional approaches to presentation and pedagogy. Again, the Universe experience–of forming relationships and working with peers and future colleagues from other consortium schools–was itself unique and altogether invaluable.
"The presentation seminar, too, proved illuminating. Professors Greiner and Grossman did a superb job of demystifying the process of publication at their respective journals. I left with a more thorough understanding of what publication entails and a clearer sense of purpose than I had coming out of similar seminars at UVA or UT."
Graduate students and faculty also made time for the Universe's many festivities. Participants socialize at PPPs (post-prandial potations), Victorian high tea, and even a Victorian dance (complete with quadrilles!). Matt and Becky also attended the annual play. This year thespians of all ranges participated in "OMFG: A Dickensian Travesty"–a farce performance based on Our Mutual Friend.
Students who attend the Universe will also be fully funded for attendance at the corresponding Dickens Project Winter Conference in Spring of the following year. This year's Winter Conference, organized by Professor Henry and Graduate Student Conference Coordinator Kat Powell, will take place at The University of Tennessee. Next summer's Universe will take on Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit and American Notes. UT students need not be specialists in Dickens or even in Victorian literature to attend the conference, but students who have attended the Universe have also participated in the 19th C British Research Seminar. Applications to represent UT at the Dickens Universe are usually solicited in February by Dr. Henry.
Professor Nancy Henry gave a keynote address on Friday, June 20, 2014 for the British Women Writer's Association's 22nd annual conference, "Reflections," hosted by SUNY, Binghamton. In her talk, "Fiction Reflected in Lives/Lives Reflected in Fiction," Henry encouraged critics to seek out connections between biographical material and literature, but she cautioned them to do so responsibly. Henry explored the critical history of the misuse of biographical and literary evidence in the example of George Eliot and her biographers, which can be read in further detail in her recent book, The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biography (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Henry also addressed the rich potential found in the intersections between biography and literature in the case of Charlotte Riddell and the influence of the Bankruptcy Act of 1869 and the Married Women's Property Act of 1870 on her personal life, her literary career, and her fiction. These cases and others will appear at length in her book-in-progress, Women and the Nineteenth-Century Cultures of Investment.
Henry also chaired the panel, "Reflecting on 'Progress': Technology and Economics, which included UTK graduate student, Kat Powell. Kat's paper, "Reflecting on Sour Grapes: Cognitive Dissonance & Innovative Shunts in 19thC Railroad Fiction," comes from her dissertation-in-progress on Railroads and Regret.
After the conference, Nancy Henry joined some of her current and former dissertation students for a relaxing brunch by the lake.


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Table Of Contents
Release Notes for Resource Manager Essentials 3.3 on AIX and HP-UX
Additional Release-Specific Information Online
General Known Problems on HP-UX
Server, Browser, and Desktop Known Problems
Installation and Upgrade Known Problems
Installation Known Problems on AIX
Configuration Management Known Problems
Configuration Management Known Problems on AIX
Contract Connection Known Problems
Software Management Known Problems
Software Management Known Problems on HP-UX
Syslog Analysis Known Problems
Syslog Analysis Known Problems on AIX
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Contacting TAC by Using the Cisco TAC Website
Release Notes for Resource Manager Essentials 3.3 on AIX and HP-UX
These release notes are for use with CiscoWorks 2000 Resource Manager Essentials 3.3 running on AIX 4.3.3 and HP-UX 11.0. (Additional information can be found in the Release Notes for CD One, 4th Edition on AIX and HP-UX).
This document contains:
•Additional Release-Specific Information Online
–Server, Browser, and Desktop Known Problems
–Installation and Upgrade Known Problems
–Installation Known Problems on AIX
–Uninstallation Known Problems
–Configuration Management Known Problems
–Contract Connection Known Problems
–Software Management Known Problems
–Syslog Analysis Known Problems
•Obtaining Technical Assistance
•Make sure all applications are stopped before you upgrade Essentials. The upgrade depends on having reasonable interaction time with the database. If this is not possible, the upgrade fails.
•CWSI Campus 2.x and Essentials 3.3 cannot coexist on the same machine.
•We have certified our product using HP-UX 11.0 with the September 2000 General Release patch bundle. Failure to install this patch bundle may lead to performance issues and other problems.
New Features
The new features in Resource Manager Essentials 3.3 are:
•Support for Java Plug-in.
•Support for new devices. (See the Supported Devices in Resource Manager Essentials 3.3.)
•Inventory—New Custom Reports
•The Serial Number report displays information about the devices in the selected view.
•The Service Assurance Agent (SAA) is an IOS feature that measures Round Trip Response Time (RTR).
•Syslog Analysis—Support added for the WorkFlow application on Cisco's Media Convergence servers.
Documentation Roadmap
The documents provided in PDF on your product CD are:
•Getting Started with the CiscoWorks2000 Server (DOC-787167=)—Provides information about setting up, administering, and assessing the CiscoWorks2000 Server. The CiscoWorks2000 Server is required and used by all CiscoWorks2000 applications.
•Installing and Setting Up CD One on AIX (DOC-7812889=)—Provides installation instructions including both server and client side system requirements, steps for installing and uninstalling, and installation troubleshooting information.
•Installing and Setting Up CD One on HP-UX (DOC-7812888=)—Provides installation instructions including both server and client side system requirements, steps for installing and uninstalling, and installation troubleshooting information.
•Installing and Setting Up Resource Manager Essentials on AIX (DOC-7812887=)—Provides information about Resource Manager Essentials requirements and how to install Resource Manager Essentials on AIX.
•Installing and Setting Up Resource Manager Essentials on HP-UX (DOC-7812886=)—Provides information about Resource Manager Essentials requirements and how to install Resource Manager Essentials on HP-UX.
•Using Resource Manager Essentials (DOC-7811544=)—Provides information on using Resource Manager Essentials.
•Resource Manager Essentials online help—Provides task-oriented and context-sensitive help from every window that contains a Help button.
You can order a complete set of hardcopy user guides for the products contained in the LAN Management Solutions Bundle using the part number CWDOC-RWAN-LMS.
You can place orders for documentation through an authorized Cisco reseller or a Cisco sales representative.
You can purchase individual installation and user guides using the Cisco MarketPlace ordering system. Cisco sales representatives, resellers, and users with direct ordering privileges can locate documentation part numbers and other ordering information by selecting the Documentation product family within MarketPlace and navigating to the CiscoWorks2000 section.
Additional Release-Specific Information Online
For information about supported devices, refer to the following URL:
Known Problems
Known problems are unexpected behaviors or defects in Resource Manager Essentials software releases. They are graded according to severity level. These release notes contain information for severity levels 1 through 3.
You can search for problems using the Cisco bug tracking tool, Bug Navigator II. To access Bug Navigator II, log into Cisco.com and select Service & Support > Technical Support Help—Cisco TAC > Tools > Software Bug Toolkit >
Bug Navigator II, or enter the following URL in your web browser: http://www.cisco.com/support/bugtools.
This section contains:
•General Known Problems on HP-UX
•Server, Browser, and Desktop Known Problems
•Installation and Upgrade Known Problems
•Installation Known Problems on AIX
•Uninstallation Known Problems
•Configuration Management Known Problems
•Configuration Management Known Problems on AIX
•Contract Connection Known Problems
•Software Management Known Problems
•Software Management Known Problems on HP-UX
•Syslog Analysis Known Problems
•Syslog Analysis Known Problems on AIX
General Known Problems on HP-UX
Server, Browser, and Desktop Known Problems
Installation and Upgrade Known Problems
Installation Known Problems on AIX
Uninstallation Known Problems
Administrator Known Problems
Availability Known Problems
Config Editor Known Problems
Configuration Management Known Problems
Configuration Management Known Problems on AIX
Contract Connection Known Problems
Inventory Known Problems
NetConfig Known Problems
Software Management Known Problems
Software Management Known Problems on HP-UX
Syslog Analysis Known Problems
Syslog Analysis Known Problems on AIX
Obtaining Documentation
The following sections provide sources for obtaining documentation from Cisco Systems.
World Wide Web
You can access the most current Cisco documentation on the World Wide Web at the following sites:
Ordering Documentation
Cisco documentation is available in the following ways:
•Registered Cisco Direct Customers can order Cisco Product documentation from the Networking Products MarketPlace:
•Registered Cisco.com users can order the Documentation CD-ROM through the online Subscription Store:
•Nonregistered Cisco.com users can order documentation through a local account representative by calling Cisco corporate headquarters
(California, USA) at 408 526-7208 or, in North America, by calling
Documentation Feedback
If you are reading Cisco product documentation on the World Wide Web, you can submit technical comments electronically. Click Feedback in the toolbar and select Documentation. After you complete the form, click Submit to send it to Cisco.
You can e-mail your comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.
To submit your comments by mail, for your convenience many documents contain a response card behind the front cover. Otherwise, you can mail your comments to the following address:
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We appreciate your comments.
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Cisco provides Cisco.com as a starting point for all technical assistance. Customers and partners can obtain documentation, troubleshooting tips, and sample configurations from online tools. For Cisco.com registered users, additional troubleshooting tools are available from the TAC website.
Cisco.com is the foundation of a suite of interactive, networked services that provides immediate, open access to Cisco information and resources at anytime, from anywhere in the world. This highly integrated Internet application is a powerful, easy-to-use tool for doing business with Cisco.
Cisco.com provides a broad range of features and services to help customers and partners streamline business processes and improve productivity. Through Cisco.com, you can find information about Cisco and our networking solutions, services, and programs. In addition, you can resolve technical issues with online technical support, download and test software packages, and order Cisco learning materials and merchandise. Valuable online skill assessment, training, and certification programs are also available.
Customers and partners can self-register on Cisco.com to obtain additional personalized information and services. Registered users can order products, check on the status of an order, access technical support, and view benefits specific to their relationships with Cisco.
To access Cisco.com, go to the following website:
Technical Assistance Center
The Cisco TAC website is available to all customers who need technical assistance with a Cisco product or technology that is under warranty or covered by a maintenance contract.
Contacting TAC by Using the Cisco TAC Website
If you have a priority level 3 (P3) or priority level 4 (P4) problem, contact TAC by going to the TAC website:
P3 and P4 level problems are defined as follows:
•P3—Your network performance is degraded. Network functionality is noticeably impaired, but most business operations continue.
•P4—You need information or assistance on Cisco product capabilities, product installation, or basic product configuration.
In each of the above cases, use the Cisco TAC website to quickly find answers to your questions.
To register for Cisco.com, go to the following website:
If you cannot resolve your technical issue by using the TAC online resources, Cisco.com registered users can open a case online by using the TAC Case Open tool at the following website:
Contacting TAC by Telephone
If you have a priority level 1(P1) or priority level 2 (P2) problem, contact TAC by telephone and immediately open a case. To obtain a directory of toll-free numbers for your country, go to the following website:
P1 and P2 level problems are defined as follows:
•P1—Your production network is down, causing a critical impact to business operations if service is not restored quickly. No workaround is available.
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CEBU CITY, Philippines - Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal has restored the priestly faculties of two controversial clergymen during installation rites in Minglanilla town, southern Cebu.
Fr. Joey Belciña and Fr. Oscar Ornopia are two of a new team of ministers of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish?s team ministry.
?They have been renewed. They have undergone the renewal course, especially the Assist Programs in the diocese as well as the national level,? said Cardinal Vidal after celebrating Mass at the parish church.
The two priests were welcomed to the town together with other new ministers: Fr. Ladislao Tangente, Fr. Oscar Banzon, Fr. Hernani Bercede and team moderator Fr. Scipio Deligero.
In 2003, Fr. Ornopia admitted to having violated his vow of celibacy and sired two children.
Fr. Belcina was accused of sexually abusing his teenage scholar in 2006.
?They expressed to me their desire (to go back to performing priestly duties),? Vidal said.
Both priests declined to be interviewed yesterday.
Cardinal Vidal said he informed other diocesan priests about his decision to reinstate both priests.
?That was the first test: The reaction of the community of priests. I explain it to them and they accepted it,? the cardinal said.
During his homily yesterday, Vidal said he thoroughly studied the move to reinstate the priests and asked the Minglanilla parishioners to accept them.
He said all six priests who compose the team ministry have agreed to help each other perform their duties for the parish.
?They are willing to serve as priests, nothing more. Forget the past,? Vidal said.
Vidal said the Assist Programs that both priests went through involved heavy reflection and contemplation.
?For example, in the morning, before anything, they have the Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament. Then they will go to Mass and do other things,? Cardinal Vidal said.
?Graduates? of the program have formed a community wherein they help each other by continuing what they practiced within the program, Vidal said.
While Vidal said that the archdiocese could not intervene in how Fr. Ornopia supports his children, the community may do something about it.
?It is up to them to do something,? he said.
Leaders of different religious organizations of Our Lady of the Rosary Parish of Minglanilla welcomed the six new priests.
The group, however, would be vigilant: Fr. Belciña and Fr. Ornopia would be monitored, while the town?s children would be cautioned, said Inocentes Secuya, barangay captain of Tulay and chairman of the Parish Assistance Group.
Secuya said the group was well aware of both priests? backgrounds. The allegations were serious, and should not be taken for granted, he said.
?We also would not like our parish to be embarrassed. Through our group, we?ll make sure that will not happen,? he said.
Secuya, however, said that as long as both priests stick to their priestly duties, the Parish Assistance Groups would fully support them.
Liumen Canedo, former president of the Parish Pastoral Council of Minglanilla, said it was not for the parishioners to judge the two priests despite their backgrounds.
?We have to give our support to their program, but we will be extra careful,? she said.
Fidel Baran, chairman of the town?s Catholic Youth Catechists group, said the group's members, mostly composed of young boys and girls, have been warned of the two priests. The group, however, would not object to the priests? assignment in the town.
He said that even if the allegations against both priests were true, he was confident they would not do it again in Minglanilla.
?The people are very active in religious activities and already aware of the wrongdoings of the priests,? Baran said. ?God probably made sure to assign them to our parish to help reform them or curtail their behavior.?


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September 13, 2008
Call to Order of the State Rehabilitation Council
Following the Commission for the Blind meeting, Chair Beth Butler opened the State Rehabilitation Council meeting. The following members were present: The following members were present: Beth Butler, Debbie Jackson, Julie Kagy, Ruth Haines, Jay Williams, Eddie Weaver, Kathy Brack, Allen Casey, Terri Meyers, Anita Heath-Cunningham, Graham Watt, and Tommy Jenkins.
Others Present: Gary Ray, Jan Fesperman, Joann Wood, Mary Flanagan, David Arthur, and Carla Parker
Approval of Minutes
A motion was made by Graham Watt, seconded by Julie Kagy, and carried to approve the minutes of June 13, 2008.
Policies and Procedures Committee: Terri Meyers and Jan Fesperman
Jan Fesperman presented 2 policy changes regarding hearing aids and psychological services. These policies reflect changes in financial updates. These policies were approved through the Policies and Procedures Committee. Copies of the changes were available. A motion was made by Graham Watt, seconded by Anita Heath-Cunningham, and carried to approve these 2 policy changes.
State Plan Committee: Graham Watt
The State Plan has been submitted to RSA for approval. It is now time for a statewide needs assessment. Mary Flanagan will be working with the committee on the needs assessment. Once the scope of work is developed, the Request for Proposals is presented on the DHHS website. DSB also sends info to entities that may be potential bidders but may not check the DHHS website on a regular basis. Once the proposals come back, they are assessed for cost, timeliness, and the plan for doing the needs assessment.
Consumer Information—Julie Kagy
Mrs. Kagy distributed a copy of the revised survey which is sent to rehabilitation consumers. This survey will be sent to all consumers rather than only the successful closures. Couple of changes were incorporated—circle the services that were most beneficial; survey will be on large paper; rather than "checking" your choice, use "mark" your choice. The survey will be sent out this quarter.
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There is a RSA website available to State Council members to receive training and have a better understanding of the role and history of the State Rehabilitation Council. Website to access this training will be sent to members.
Question was asked about receiving training for new Commission members. Please let Debbie Jackson know the needs and she will put the training together.
Beth Butler reminded everyone of the required Ethics Training. Any member that has not attended, needs to contact Graham Watt, Ethics Liaison.
A request was made to print the materials for future Commission meetings front and back.
If anyone would like to tour the Haywood Building, Cynthia Joos will lead the group to the building after the adjournment of this meeting.
Following an adjournment motion by Graham Watt, seconded by Julie Kagy, and carried the State Rehabilitation Council adjourned at 12:30 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted
Beth Butler, Chair, State Rehabilitation Council
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Some residents in Sarasota are fighting against a proposed Walmart; they got a boost in their efforts Monday night when the City Commission agreed to hold a new hearing, even though the planning board approved the site plan in November. Jerry Sparkman is a local architect who opposes the Walmart.
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Two more Occupy Tampa members were arrested for trespassing last Wednesday night. Daniel Walford was arrested at the amphitheater on the west side of Kiley Garden, where he said police singled him out.
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WalMart has launched a nationwide ad campaign that critics say is aimed at offsetting declining sales and bad press generated by a class action discrimination lawsuit now in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. This comes as a remodeled WalMart store in Tampa held an official ceremony today to unveil its expansion to include 188,000 square feet and a full line of groceries.
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A large crowd is expected tonight at the Tarpon Springs City Commission on Walmartâs plans for a supercenter on vacant land beside the Anclote River.
There actually could be two nights of hearings on the proposed Walmart, considering the last hearing in January 2005, which lasted 12 hours and ended at 7 in the morning.
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Critics of a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter in Tarpon Springs are cheering a decision last night by the cityâs Board of Adjustment.
The board voted 3-2 to accept an appeal by several concerned citizens to treat changes to the approved site plan for the store as âmajor" rather than "minor."
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The radar seeker makes it easier to use the missile in "fire and forget" mode. The laser seeker is more accurate (to within a meter or two of the aim point.) The British developed, for their jet fighters, a special launcher that holds three Brimstone missiles. The launcher hangs from one of the fighters' hard points. This launcher is used on the Eurofighter Typhoon and the older Tornado. Saudi Arabia recently received the first eight of the 72 Typhoon fighters it ordered from Britain.
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Top Ten IT Trends for 2013–Trend 1
by Hu Yoshida on Dec 5, 2012
Over the past few Decembers I have posted on the top 10 trends that I expect to see in the coming year. This blog post is the first in a series on my top IT trends for 2013.
The Background for 2013 Trends
The explosion of data will continue to be the biggest concern for the IT industry as Big Data begins to takes center stage. Exabytes will begin to enter into planning discussions and petabytes will be the new norm for large data stores. A lot of attention will be focused on secondary data that is generated for copies and backups and stale data that is not immediately needed, but that chews up a lot of the IT budget for retention and maintenance. Workers will have multiple smart devices that they will use to create and access data outside of the data center, which will increase their productivity, but will create new headaches for the IT department. The total cost of ownership for storage will go through a major change as operational costs come down and capital costs begin to creep up. Against this backdrop, I have put together my trends for 2013.
1. Dramatic Changes in OPEX and CAPEX
Over the past 10 years the total cost of storage has been increasing by about 7% per year while the growth of storage capacity has been growing at about 30 to 40%. The increase has been mainly due to operational costs (OPEX), while the cost of hardware (CAPEX) has been relatively flat. Disk technologies have had a phenomenal run with increases in recording densities doubling every 18 to 24 months, causing disk prices to erode about 30% per year. Containment of hardware costs was also helped by the introduction of Storage Area Networks (SAN), which eliminated direct attached silos and made better use of hardware through consolidation, but added another level of management and complexity to operational costs. As more applications and data share larger and larger storage frames it becomes more difficult to schedule and execute backup, maintenance, and migration windows.
These trends in CAPEX and OPEX are about to change dramatically. The good news is that the introduction of server and storage virtualization is having a major impact on operational costs and is reversing the trend of increasing OPEX. Storage virtualization technologies from Hitachi Data Systems have been shown to reduce TCO by 40% or more, with payback in less than a year. On the other hand, CAPEX, or hardware costs, have begun to trend upwards as more functions are delivered in hardware and the demand for storage capacity has exploded due to the pressures of Big Data and the need to retain data forever. At the same time, advances in recording technologies have slowed as I showed in my post back in June of this year.
The price erosion for storage capacity is projected to be only 20% per year through 2020.
The chart above comes from a customer who has been implementing storage technologies like replication, virtualization and automated tiering over the past five years while their capacity requirements were growing by 40% per year (they did not provide measurements for 2010). When they began in 2007 the capital cost of hardware was less than 25% of the total cost of ownership on a cost-per-TB-per-year basis. Through the use of capacity efficiency technologies this company has been able to reduce their TCO/TB/year from about $11,000 to less than $4000 and now the cost of CAPEX is over 50% of TCO. In order to continue to reduce their TCO this company must focus on tools and processes to reduce CAPEX. The increasing demand for capacity along with the deceasing price erosion of storage technology will make it more challenging to reduce CAPEX; however, there is a lot of waste in the way customers acquire and utilize storage today. I will identify these areas of waste in future posts in this series on my 2013 IT trends.
OPEX and CAPEX are changing rapidly as new demands are created, new technologies evolve, and older technologies begin to age. IT must employ economic principles and measurements to eliminate waste and insure that they are making the right investments for a sustainable IT budget.
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Bill McGloin on 10 Dec 2012 at 6:23 am
As always, a good article. I'd agree OPEX & CAPEX are naturally starting to trade places; I see a slow down in the rate of capacity growth of the traditional disk drive, meaning the volume & variety of the data explosion requires simply more drives.
This is balanced by the advances in controller intelligence, which offer a very much simplified management interface, allowing a larger volume to be managed by individuals, and removing the management of data from the "dark art" it was a few years ago.
Converged infrastructure based solutions, providing orchestration & automation functionality, also reduce the OPEX. This OPEX reduction is further enhanced by the advances in environmental savings offered by the latest technologies.
Whilst I've not yet seen CAPEX reach the 50% mark referenced, I have seen it move from the 15-25% range to get closer to 40%. A future 2-tier model of performance & capacity, combined with greater intelligence in the management and controller levels should see us get closer to 50% over the coming years
Hu Yoshida on 11 Dec 2012 at 11:14 am
Thanks for the comment and agreement that CAPEX and OPEX are beginning to trade places. These costs seem to go in cycles. Before the introduction of SANs, storage hardware costs were more than 50% because storage was directly attached and adding capacity was used to solve management problems. With the introduction of SANs, we consolidated more servers onto shared storage resources and got rid of the storage silos. We replaced as many as 6 to 8 direct storage units with one storage frame that was shared by multiple servers and we started to look at what was actually used versus what was allocated. Storage technology was still advancing, capacity prices were eroding at 30% or more per year and CAPEX as a percentage of TCO began to stabilize despite the increasing demand for storage. However, OPEX was increasing because every time we changed the shared storage infrastructure we had to manage the impact on all the servers and applications that shared that storage. Now that we are addressing this with storage and volume virtualization and simplifying the management interface, we are seeing a dramatic decrease in OPEX as a percent of TCO versus CAPEX. What is different this time around is that the hard disk technology has slowed down and the price erosion that we have enjoyed for the last 50 years has slowed to less than 20%. So the rise in Hardware costs is accelerating CAPEX costs. See David Merrill's take on CAPEX and the impact of depreciation. Those of us in the US may have another reason to worry about the fiscal cliff!


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Semiconductor: 20Hz
Data is really dry. Anything that can be put into an impenetrable spreadsheet and turned into an equally incomprehensible graph or bar-chart is usually best left well alone. But Semiconductor think not, in fact they ruddy love the data – so much so in fact that they've actively sought out data from the The Canadian Space Agency to utilise in their latest project. 20Hz is an audiovisual maelstrom of an animation that takes raw data from electromagnetic storms and re-interprets it with sound and light, allowing us just a little insight into the weather systems of the cosmos. It's pretty stunning.


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SEATTLE — The state Board of Education is making another attempt at encouraging Washington schools to replace their Native American mascots.
In the past decade, about 10 schools have given up their Indian mascots. But another 50, including tribal schools, are holding fast to their nicknames as warriors, braves, redskins and red devils.
Local angle
The athletic teams at Vancouver's Columbia River High School are nicknamed the Chieftains, and Indian-based imagery is used in representing the school.
Vancouver school district officials haven't had a chance to address the topic since the board's resolution Wednesday.
"We've not had an opportunity to review the State Board of Education's advisory statement with our board of directors to determine a course of action, if any, that's in the best interest of our students, staff, and community," Superintendent Steve Webb said in email.
— Tom Vogt
The state board passed a resolution on Wednesday urging districts to stop using Native American mascots, but as board spokesman Aaron Wyatt acknowledges, it does not have the authority to mandate this change.
There are no consequences for schools that do not voluntarily choose a new mascot, Wyatt said Friday.
Oregon's state Board of Education voted in May to ban Native American mascots, nicknames and logos. Schools in that state have five years to comply. Eight Oregon high schools are affected.
Washington's resolution, which is similar to a resolution passed by the board in 1993, was inspired by research by the American Psychological Association citing the adverse effects of Native American mascots on students.
The resolution also mentions the widening achievement gap between Native American and other students and the call by a number of national organizations and tribes for this change.
"We are in the business of educating students," board member Bernal Baca said in a statement. "We need to remove any barrier that will impede student success."
Marcus Morgan, superintendent of the Reardan-Edwall School District near Spokane, said the issue hadn't been raised during his tenure with the school district but he was open to the idea of discussing it now.
All of Reardan's sports teams are the Indians and about a quarter of the district population are Native American or Alaskan Native students.
"I think it's maybe time to ask the questions," Morgan said Friday.
He said he would probably make some calls to tribal leaders as well as the school board and other community leaders to see if this is an issue the community wants to tackle.
Reardan schools have a long tradition of Native American students, as well as having enthusiastic sports fans, Morgan said. He doesn't think the Indian mascot has been seen as derogatory, but he added that the issue deserved more research.


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Pittsfield, Massachusetts: 10 Reasons to Visit
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We've been as guilty as anyone of barely slowing down as we've driven through Pittsfield on our way from Tanglewood in Lenox to Mass MoCA in North Adams.
In years past, Pittsfield seemed to be merely a crossroads with shuttered retail shops and all the untidy business of Berkshire County government. The handsome Beaux Arts commercial buildings along North Street may have hinted at the city's flush past, but we couldn't even find a place to get a decent cup of coffee.
These days, Pittsfield surprises everyone who stops by. While the rest of us have been whizzing past, the city has been quietly but busily reinventing itself. Here are 10 good reasons to find a parking spot and take a look around.
1. Even old is new again
"The Berkshire Museum was the only thing that kept downtown Pittsfield alive in the dark old days," executive director Stuart Chase says, only half joking. "The only other reasons to come downtown were to go to court or go to the bank." After more than a century as Berkshire County's only public museum combining art and natural history, the institution recruited Chase from the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown to lead the charge into a new era.
Now the museum is hatching the Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation, named for the local donors who founded General Systems and pioneered Total Quality Management. Twin galleries are being reclaimed from offices and storerooms to showcase Berkshire firsts. But the museum hasn't forgotten its eclectic past. What other institution, Chase asks, has "a mummy, Hudson River school paintings, shells, Alexander Calder's first public commission, and even a small aquarium?"
2. Street life is back
Old-timers reminisce about North Street on Thursday nights, when people walked shoulder to shoulder with paychecks burning holes in their pockets. Today, the old department stores may be gone, but the people have returned. They frequent spots such as Wild Sage, with its tiny gallery in back and "antiques" and used books out front, and the fiber arts and gift shop Twin Hearts Handworks. Pittsfield native Cara Carnevale lived in the bohemian enclave of Madrid, New Mexico, and returned home with Southwest tongue in cheek. Twin Hearts "is where the fun people come to do fiber arts," she says — and buy Boss Lady and Dirty Girl personal care products (made by local company Blue Q). Pittsfield, Carnevale says, has become "the cool place for people tired of paying South County prices."
3. There are fun places to hang out
Also on North Street, Bellissimo Dolce has a classic see-and-be-seen scene with vast plate-glass windows and big mirrors. The folks behind this Italian bakery-café set aside Saturday nights for alternating programs of jazz sets and tango classes, and they even host the occasional weekday poetry night. (The strawberry cream cheese Bundt cake is no slouch, either.)
And when you need something more bracing than coffee, head to Brix Wine Bar. Owner Patrick McGinley relocated from Hartford, Connecticut, to open this very Parisian spot in 2005. Get there early for a seat, or stand at the zinc bar with glass in hand.
4. Something's cooking
The Lantern, a classic American bar and grill with local art on the walls and '40s jazz on the sound system, serves an exceptional burger. And for lunch with aspirations, it's hard to beat the swordfish BLT at On a Roll Café.
Pennsylvania craft brewers Christine Bump and Bill Heaton stumbled onto Pittsfield on a road trip a few years ago and fell for the town. They revived a moribund brewery in 2005 and, as Pittsfield Brew Works, have been crafting 10-keg batches of artisanal ales ever since.
Top choice for pre- or post-theater dining is Spice, a temple of imaginative, seasonal comfort food in suave surroundings carved from the former Besse-Clark department store. Tucking into a plate of pasta and Maine lobster with spinach, bacon, and chive cream banishes forever the days when all you could wish for in Pittsfield was a decent cup of joe.
5. The show goes on
Summer 2006 was the Big Bang for culture in Pittsfield as two historic theaters reopened.
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