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Stats and Methods Urban Legend 2: Control Variables Improve Your Study
In what I can only assume is a special issue of Organizational Research Methods, several researchers discuss common statistical and methodological myths and urban legends commonly seen in the organizational sciences (for more introduction, see the first article in the series). Second in the exploration: Spector and Brannick[1] write "Methodological Urban Legends: The Misuse of Statistical Control Variables."
Spector and Brannick criticize the tendency for researchers conducting correlational research to blindly include "control variables" in an attempt to get better estimates of population correlations, regression slopes, and other statistics. Such researcher effort is typically an attempt to improve methodological rigor when true experimentation isn't possible, feasible, or convenient. Unfortunately, this is a methodological urban legend. And yet, shockingly, the authors report a study finding a mean of 7.7 control variables in macro-org research and 3.7 in micro-org research.
I will let the authors explain the problem:
Rather than being included on the basis of theory, control variables are often entered with limited (or even no) comment, as if the controls have somehow, almost magically, purified the results, revealing the true relationships among underlying constructs of interest that were distorted by the action of the control variables. This is assumed with often little concern about the existence and nature of mechanisms linking control variables and the variables of interest. Unfortunately, the nature of such mechanisms is critical to determining what inclusion of controls actually does to an analysis and to conclusions based on that analysis.
The authors call the blind inclusion of control variables in any attempt to get more accurate results the purification principle. The problem with the purification principle is that it is false; the inclusion of statistical controls does not purify measurement. Instead, it simply removes the covariance between the control variable and the other variables from later analyses, even though that covariance may be meaningful to the researcher's hypotheses. The authors give this illustrative example:
A supervisor's liking for a person might inflate the supervisor's rating of that person's job performance across multiple dimensions. Correlations among those dimensions might well be influenced by liking, which in effect has contaminated ratings of performance. Thus, researchers might be tempted to control for liking when evaluating relationships among rating dimensions. Note, however, that whether it is reasonable to control liking in this instance depends on whether liking is in fact distorting observed relationships. If it is not (perhaps, liking is the result of good performance), treating liking as a control will lead to erroneous conclusions. This is because removing variance attributable to a control variable (liking) that is caused by a variable of interest (performance) will remove the effect you wish to study (relationships among performance dimensions) before testing the effect you wish to study, or "'throwing out the baby with the bathwater."
So how should one actually use control variables? Two recommendations are given:
- Use specific, well-explored theory to drive the inclusion of controls, which goes beyond simple statements like, "previous researchers used this control" or "this variable is correlated with my outcomes." If you believe that a specific relationship may be contaminating your results, this may be justification for a control, but you should explicit state why and defend this decision when describing your methods. Follow up on this discussion; test hypotheses about control varibles.
- Don't control for demographic variables, e.g. race, gender, sex, age. For example, if you find a gender difference in your outcome of interest, controlling for that variable may hide real variance in the outcome that could be explained by whatever real phenomenon is causing that difference. In my own research are, it is not uncommon to control for age when examining the effects of technology on outcomes of interest (e.g. learning). But age does not itself cause trouble with technology; instead, underlying differences like familiarity with technology or comfort with technology or other characteristics may be driving those differences. Simply controlling for age not only removes "real" variance that should remain in the equation but also camouflages a real relationship of interest.
So generally, Spector and Brannick are calling for an organizational science based on iterative theory building, progressively testing alternative hypotheses and narrowing in on answers bit by bit. This approach is closer to what is employed in the natural sciences; instead of testing one-off theories, they build and build, approaching a problem from as many perspectives as possible to narrow in real results.
My only concern is this: since one-off studies with revealing and/or controversial results are the ones most often rewarded with recognition, is this an approach that organizational researchers will really take?Footnotes:
- Spector, P., & Brannick, M. (2010). Methodological urban legends: The misuse of statistical control variables. Organizational Research Methods, 14 (2), 287-305 DOI: 10.1177/1094428110369842 [↩]
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I've just been reading this special issue of ORM. It's a good one. Thanks for summarising the article on covariates for the blogosphere.
I often encounter this problem of inappropriate use of covariates.
I'd add a few other issues:
* not justifying causal mechanisms in a mediational models
* not justifying causal mechanisms in a moderating hypothesis, and
* not justifying causal claims for the direction of a bivariate relationship in an observational study.
A common thread across all these issues, including the covariate one, seems to be an inadequate reflection of causal mechanism.


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Published 8:17 pm, Monday, November 4, 2013
On the national medical research front, I'm reading about studies claiming that young football players suffering concussions tend to do poorly with classroom grades.
Finally, after about 65 years, I have something to blame for being a straight D-minus student throughout my scholastic career.
It took all that time to prove wrong the teachers' reasons for my dreadful marks. I always knew they were picking on me, saying I was inattentive, careless, preoccupied and otherwise uninterested when it came to the art of good grades.
When I played high school football, it was so long ago all I can remember is Fred Flintstone was our team captain.
We wore leather helmets that fit like a glove and without suspension systems, played both offense and defense for 48 minutes with no medical attention on the sidelines. Back then, I thought a concussion was something you put on a chair to sit on.
You didn't come out of a game even when somebody rang your bell. Just the other day, University at Albany Coach Bob Ford said in the old days when you got a "dinger," you just kept right on playing.
Jim Murphy, a former Schenectady County legislator, believed there was a connection between football and players suffering loose lug nuts. Many years ago, I recall writing some nasty stuff about the legislators voting themselves fat pay raises.
"Marv's problem was he played football too long without a helmet," Murphy countered at a Legislature meeting.
My own concussion conclusion is my marks stunk because I never opened a bookcover in junior-senior high. Later, I graduated from college with highest honors, perhaps, because an Army hitch pounded some sense into my dome.
Or maybe it was because the college had no football team.
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Joe Notar, a former Schenectady deputy mayor and City Council president, is at Kingsway Rehab Center recovering from a fall.
He ranks with the very best of the elected folks I covered since I switched from sports to general news reporting in 1969. The retired Marine Corps major never failed to put the community's best interests ahead of politics. Refusing to kowtow to demands of political bosses cost him party endorsement for re-election. The real loser was the city.
In another groove, the octogenarian is a lifelong rabid St, Louis Cardinal fan who bled when the Redbirds were shot down last week in the World Series.
Notar received his biggest Cardinal thrill back in 2004 while a guest at a celebrity golf tournament in Florida. During a program awards dinner break he moved to an empty chair at another table to talk with Red Schoendienst, a Cardinal manager from way back.
All of a sudden, the original occupant of the chair returned to find Notar had plopped in his seat. He got his seat back by playfully sitting in Notar's lap. The displaced guest turned out to be Tony LaRussa, the Cardinal manager at the time.
Notar conceded the situation was a bit embarrassing. "But what a memorable experience for a forever loyal fan," he said.
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Proctors' staffers delving into the theater's extensive stage organ works discovered a U.S. flag that appeared to have been lost in the shuffle of time.
The flag, in a plastic case, was marked with the name of a Navy veteran. Staffers believe the flag may have been unclaimed at a presentation ceremony years ago.
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Team Notes
- Tonight's captains were defensive back Jerrion Johnson, wide receiver Markese Triplett and defensive lineman Rakeem Nunez-Roches.
- Southern Miss won the toss and deferred.
- Today's attendance was 23,492.
- Southern Miss is now 18-11-1 all-time against Louisville and 11-4 at home. Louisville has won the last six meetings.
- Southern Miss has lost four straight games for the first time since 2008 and is 0-4 for the first time since 1976.
- The loss snaps a three-game winning streak against BCS schools in Hattiesburg.
- The Golden Eagles have now lost 12 straight games against ranked non-conference opponents.
Offensive Notes
- Southern ran the ball for 224 yards on 48 carries, both of which were season-highs.
- The Golden Eagles attempted just nine passes, the fewest since attempting 12 passes against East Carolina in 2004.
- Southern Miss' 17 first half points tied a season-high.
- Freshman Ricky Lloyd made his first career start at quarterback. He is the third different quarterback to start this season. It is the first time that Southern Miss has started three quarterbacks in a season since 2007.
- Senior running back Desmond Johnson ran 14 times for a season-high 99 yards.
- His 58-yard run was Southern Miss' longest play from scrimmage this year.
- Freshman running back Jalen Richard scored his first career touchdown on a one-yard run in the second quarter.
- Senior Tracy Lampley had 50 all-purpose yards (46 kick return, 7 punt return, -3 rushing) on the day. With that yardage, he moved into third-place on the Southern Miss career all-purpose yard list with 4,087, passing Ben Garry (1974-77).
Defensive Notes
- Junior defensive lineman Khyri Thornton recorded his first sack of the season and fifth of his career in the first quarter.
- Freshman linebacker Terrick Wright recorded his first career sack in the second quarter.
- Alan Howze and Khalid Wilson combined on a sack in the third quarter. Howze has 1.5 sacks on his career, while Wilson has one.
- Senior defensive back Reggie Hunt returned an interception 23 yards for a touchdown. It was his first career interception.
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- Senior defensive back Deron Wilson recovered his first career fumble in the fourth quarter.
- The Golden Eagles now have three forced turnovers on the season. It is the first time they forced multiple turnovers since last year's Conference USA Championship against Houston.
Special Teams Notes
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Ronald A. Bergman, Ph.D., Adel K. Afifi, M.D., Paul M. Heidger,
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Plate 8.148 Heart Chambers:
Plate 8.150
Atrioventricular Node and Bundle
Plate 8.155 Arteriole
Plate 8.160 Cavernous
Spaces, Erectile Tissue, Penis
The cardiovascular system is composed of the heart and blood vessels.
The heart wall can be divided into three layers: (1) The endocardium (the innermost layer, in contact with blood) is an endothelial cell-lined layer continuous with the tunica intima of those blood vessels that join and leave the heart. (2) The myocardium is composed of cardiac muscle and corresponds to the tunica media of the blood vessel wall. (3) The epicardium (the outermost layer) is covered by a reflection of the mesothelial-lined (serous or visceral) pericardium, contains coronary blood vessels and nerves, and corresponds to the tunica adventitia of blood vessels (Plates 149 and 152).
The mammalian heart has four chambers, two thin-walled atria and two thicker-walled ventricles. The central supporting structure is the "cardiac skeleton," composed of dense white fibrous (collagenous) connective tissue into which the cardiac muscle fibers of the atria and ventricles insert and to which the heart valves are attached. The orifices of the four chambers are guarded by valves, which are endocardial folds supported by internal plates of dense collagenous and elastic connective tissue continuous with the cardiac skeleton. The right atrioventricular valve has three cusps; hence, it is called the tricuspid valve. The left atrioventricular valve has two cusps and is called the bicuspid, or mitral (for the bishop's hat or miter) valve. Semilunar valves located at the ventricular entrance to the aorta and pulmonary arteries have three cusps each. The valves are arranged to prevent retrograde or reverse blood flow.
The heart is a four-chambered pump, which moves blood throughout the vascular system. We will trace the sequence of flow and begin with the atria. Blood enters the right atrium from the great veins (inferior and superior venae cavae) and coronary veins, which carry blood, poor in oxygen and rich in carbon dioxide, returning from the entire body. Blood, rich in oxygen and poor in carbon dioxide, enters the left atrium from the lungs via pulmonary veins. This is the only instance in which oxygen- rich blood is carried in vessels called veins.
Contraction of the right and left atria forces blood past the right tricuspid and left bicuspid valves into the right and left ventricles, respectively. At the end of their contraction, the right and left atria begin to fill once again with blood. Contraction of the ventricles forces oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle past the right semilunar valve into the pulmonary artery, and the oxygen-rich blood past the left semilunar valve into the aorta to supply the entire body and the heart itself. Note that the pulmonary artery contains oxygen-poor blood, a situation opposite to that of the pulmonary vein and the only time oxygen-poor blood is carried in a vessel called an artery. A red corpuscle, for example, moves through the heart in the following way: right atrium, right ventricle, pulmonary artery, lung capillaries, pulmonary vein, left atrium, left ventricle, and leaves the heart to enter the aorta and systemic or coronary arteries. The contractile force required to move blood through the pulmonary system is less than that required to force blood throughout the entire body. This fact is reflected in the thickness of the myocardium of the right and left ventricles (Plates 148 and 149).
The mammalian heart possesses a special system of cardiac fibers, which function to determine heart rate and to coordinate contraction of the heart. These modified cardiac fibers lie beneath the endocardium. Two pacemakers are recognized: (1) the sinoatrial node (SA node) cardiac muscle fibers, in continuity with all other atrial cardiac fibers, lie at the junction of the superior vena cava and the right atrium, and (2) the atrioventricular node (AV node), a mass of irregularly arranged highly branched specialized cardiac fibers located in the right ventricle near the opening of the coronary sinus. Extending from the AV node is a bundle of small, unbranched cardiac muscle fibers called the atrioventricular bundle, which passes to the midline of the heart to branch and form two larger bundles beneath the endocardium on either side of the interventricular septum. The small striated cardiac fibers are continuous with the large, vacuous, glycogen-filled fibers, with few myofibrils, called Purkinje fibers. Purkinje fibers are functionally continuous with ordinary cardiac muscle fibers (Plates 78, 79, and 150). The sequence of events is as follows: The SA node fibers are spontaneously active and transmit electrical signals in the form of muscle action potentials to all other atrial muscle fibers, which are functionally linked to each other by intercalated discs (Plate 76), resulting in atrial contraction. The electrical signal then impinges on AV nodal fibers (Plate 150), which transmit the signal via small unbranched bundle fibers to Purkinje fibers (Plate 78) and finally to the ordinary ventricular cardiac fibers around the apex of the heart, where ventricular contraction begins and spreads upward to end at the midline skeleton between the atria and ventricles.
The myocytes of the right (and to a lesser extent the left) atrium contain specific, membrane-bound, granules 0.3 to 0.4 µm in diameter. Two polypeptide hormones have been extracted from atrial muscle: (1) cardionatrim, which has both diuretic and natriuretic effects, and (2) cardiodilatin, which acts on vascular smooth muscle. Hence, it has been suggested that the atria be considered endocrine organs containing endocrine fibers. These fibers have functional properties also seen in peptide- secreting cells of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts.
Blood vessels that originate from the right and left ventricles are designated as arteries and have a distinctive structure. The wall of an artery usually has three tunics or coats: (1) the innermost layer, or tunica intima, consists of an endothelial cell layer in contact with blood, a delicate subendothelial connective tissue layer, and an elastic tissue layer, the internal elastic membrane; (2) the middle coat, or tunica media, consists of smooth muscle fibers and variable amounts of elastic and collagenous tissues; and (3) the outer coat, or tunica adventitia, composed primarily of loose collagenous connective tissue (Plates 152 and 153). The exact structure and relative thickness of the three coats vary with the size of the artery. Be aware that there are regional structural variations.
In general, three different "types" of arterial vessels may be distinguished, but it must not be forgotten that these so-called types occur as part of a continuous, gradually changing, vascular morphology based on functional requirements. The three types are: (1) large elastic (conducting) arteries, which leave the heart and are continuous with (2) medium and small muscular (distributing) arteries, which join (3) arterioles, which are continuous with capillary vessels. From the structural/functional point of view, elastic tissue is the most important component in the larger vessels, whereas smooth muscle is the most important in the smaller vessels. Blood is ejected from the heart in a pulsating manner, and the aorta and the pulmonary arteries must expand to receive the bolus-type output (systole) of the right and left ventricles. The passive, elastic recoil between systoles (diastole) maintains the blood pressure, smooths the flow of blood, and forces blood through the coronary arteries while the ventricles are filling. Muscular (distributing) arteries (Plate 157) regulate the blood flow to different parts of the body depending upon need, that is, when exercising to skeletal muscles, and during and after dining to the gastrointestinal tract. Hence, the "old-saw," never engage in vigorous exercise after eating a hearty meal unless you wish to experience painful skeletal muscle cramps. Arterioles (Plates 154 and 155) are small arteries that vary in size from 0.02 to 0.3 mm in diameter, with one to five layers of smooth muscle fibers. Arterioles have a relatively thick muscular wall in comparison to their luminal diameter; the lumen of the smallest arterioles can accommodate about three to four red blood corpuscles. Arterioles determine local blood flow with their precapillary sphincters (Plate 158) located at the origin of capillary beds. Blood pressure falls sharply, and blood flow slows in arterioles.
Capillaries (Plates 157 and 159) are endothelial cell tubes whose walls appear as thin lines with bulging nuclei. Capillaries, because of their intimate relationship with the cells of the body and their special permeability characteristics, are functionally the most interesting of the blood vessels. Their thin walls and slow blood flow favor the exchange of nutrients and oxygen for metabolic wastes and carbon dioxide. In addition, hormones from endocrine glands enter and leave the vascular system through regionally specialized capillaries. The detailed "submicroscopic" structure of capillaries can be found in comprehensive textbooks of histology. In brief, four types of capillaries have been recognized based on endothelial structure and the presence or absence of a basal lamina (basement membrane). The four types are described as follows:
Capillaries have several important functions, including (1) selective control of what is exchanged, at what rate, and what size between blood and tissue spaces; (2) production of "substances" that convert angiotensin I to angiotensin II and that can inactivate bradykinin, serotonin, prostaglandins, norepinephrine, and thrombin; (3) breakdown of lipoproteins to produce energy-yielding triglycerides and cholesterol used in membrane formation and hormone synthesis; and (4) production of arachidonic prostacyclin (prostaglandin I2), a significant inhibitor of platelet aggregation (blood clot).
Pericytes are located along the external surface of capillaries and small venules. Because they possess contractile proteins (myosin and actin), it has been suggested that these cells are contractile and may assist the movement of blood through sluggish, non- or poorly contractile, small blood vessels.
As with the arterial system, veins can be divided into three "types" according to size: (1) venules, (2) small and medium-sized veins, and (3) large veins. Venules can be recognized when they are about 20 µm in diameter (about three red corpuscles across) and possess an endothelial lining, a thin layer of collagenous fibers with some fibroblasts. They have neither muscle fibers nor elastic fibers. With increasing size (about 45 µm), some elastic fibers appear in the tunica intima along with collagenous fibers, and smooth muscle begins to appear between the endothelium and the outer fibrous coats. With still greater increases in caliber, a distinct intima, media, and adventitia become recognizable. The largest veins possess some longitudinal smooth muscle and a delicate internal elastic membrane in the tunica intima; a thin smooth muscle coat (which may be absent) forms the tunica media; and prominent bundles of smooth muscle separated by collagenous fibers appear in the thickest of the three coats, the tunica adventitia (Plates 157 and 161).
Many small and medium-sized veins contain valves that prevent retrograde blood flow and the pooling of blood in the limbs where they are especially frequent. The erect posture of man, in particular, necessitates this structural specialization in veins. Valves are paired folds of intima, which are commonly located just distal to the entry of a communicating vein. Some veins do not possess smooth muscle fibers and, as a result, do not have a tunica media. These veins are found in the maternal part of the placenta, the spinal cord pia mater, retina, sinuses of the dura mater, most cerebral veins, trabecular veins of the spleen, and veins of the nail bed. Other interesting veins are found in the penis (Plate 160); these veins possess specializations of their intima called polsters. Polsters are local accumulations of fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells located beneath the endothelium that form conspicuous longitudinal thickenings or ridges. They are believed to play a role in retarding venous outflow during erection.
Blood flow against gravity and toward the heart in the thin-walled veins is aided by the contraction of skeletal muscle and the system of valves. Blood pressure in the venous system is less than one tenth that in the aorta, and blood travels slowly and smoothly through relatively large, thin-walled vessels. In spite of the differences in blood pressure and velocity of flow, the venous return to the heart must equal the ventricular output. The vascular system contains approximately 5 liters of blood, which is pumped and circulated throughout the body about 3200 times daily.
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Metric DC Servomotors Datasheets
from Aerotech, Inc.
Design Features. Dynamically balanced, skewed rotor for exceptionally smooth velocity. Standard NEMA 23, 34, and 42 frame sizes. Standard stainless-steel shaft resists corrosion. Double shielded bearing for long motor life. Options include tachometer, encoders, metric flange, and integral cable [See More]
- Units: English; Metric
- Shaft Speed: 3000 to 6000
- DC Voltage: 40.0 to 137.0
- Continuous Current: 4.1 to 6
from MICROMO
FAULHABER brushless DC motors feature high torque, high speed with a small size and weight; brushless DC motors are ideal for heavy duty servo applications with frequent overload conditions as well as for continuous duty applications where maximum operational lifetime is required. BLDC Servomotors... [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Shaft Speed: 8500 to 14500
- DC Voltage: 12.0 to 24.0
- Continuous Current: 0.5000 to 0.9500
from National Instruments
National Instruments AKM brushless servo motors provide superior dynamic performance, a wide variety of frame sizes, and several speed and torque ranges. Perfectly matched with National Instruments AKD servo drives, these motors enable plug-and-play configuration due to integrated Smart Feedback... [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Shaft Speed: 4000
- DC Voltage: 160.0 to 320.0
- Continuous Current: 1.16
from SKF/Global
SKF Magnetic Bearings has developed an extensive line of frameless Brushless DC motors for both magnetic bearing and rolling element bearing spindles. [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Shaft Speed: 42000
- DC Voltage: 72.0
- Continuous Current: 7.5
from Yaskawa America, Inc. - Motion Division
3.3W, 5.5W, 10W, 11W, 20W, 30W. The SGMMV ultra-small capacity brushless servomotor can be used in a variety of applications. This ultra-compact unit comes in a wide selection of models including two flange sizes, AC or DC power* and holding breakes*. Features. Low inertia. High resolution absolute... [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Shaft Speed: 6000
- DC Voltage: 24.0 to 48.0
- Continuous Current: 2.1
from ElectroCraft
Our ElectroCraft RapidPowerTM Plus Brushless Servo Motor, Nema 23, is a high voltage, high performance brushless servo motor incorporating the latest electro-magnetic components creating high continuous torques with low inertia for rapid acceleration. It is available with hall-effect commutation or... [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Shaft Speed: 0 to 6000
- DC Voltage: 160.0 to 320.0
- Continuous Current: 1.6
from Exlar
For hazardous duty environments with constant exposure to flammable gasses or vapors* Exlar 's ER Series rotary explosionproof motors and gearmotors provide an excellent solution. Exlar 's motors utilizing T-LAM ™ technology, an innovative segmented winding, have been designed for... [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Shaft Speed: 300 to 3000
- DC Voltage: 24.0 to 48.0
- Continuous Current: 7.7 to 17.6
from HSD S.p.A.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS. Speed ratio 1:6,25. 640 RPM. W 68 S1. Fieldbus CANopen Interface [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Commutation: Brushless
- Shaft Speed: 640
- Gearbox Ratio: 6.25
from Mayr Corporation
Permanent magnet motors and servo motors. Extremely quiet running due to low torque ripple content and high speed consistency. Custom-designed for your application. Carbon lifetime of 5000 to 6000 hours. High-performance, low-backlash gearbox. Protection IP 54 or IP 65 (Protection IP 68 available on... [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Shaft Speed: 2000 to 3000
- DC Voltage: 24.0 to 160.0
- Continuous Current: 0.4600 to 3.6
from Moog Animatics
Animatics delivers total machine solutions. As passionate machine builders, we truly understand the associated challenges and demands of this endeavor. Our comprehensive solutions spring from the desire to deliver significant savings to machine builders by lowering the real world total cost of... [See More]
- Units: English; Metric
- Continuous Current: 4.5
- Shaft Speed: 7900
- Continuous Torque: 3.8
from MTC Industries & Research Carmiel Ltd.
The MDC-BL-58 was especially designed for applications where high torque to volume ratio is needed. It is a brushless DC motor with outer wound stator, rare-earth/cobalt magnets rotor and Hall effect rotor position sensor. Peak torque obtained on the axis at nominal voltage of 48 VDC is 7.5 N*m... [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Shaft Speed: 4400
- DC Voltage: 48.0
- Continuous Current: 0.8000
from Namiki Precision Jewel Co., Ltd
Our brushless motor lineup includes models from 4mm diameter up to 22mm diameter sizes. All have low inertia rotors for quick response, and hi energy rare earth magnets for optimum performance. The slotless, brushless motors achieve more efficient operation through low damping losses. Planetary and... [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Shaft Speed: 103 to 10650
- DC Voltage: 3.0 to 24.0
- Continuous Torque: 0.0 to 0.3
from Nidec Corporation
Used in applications that require precision positioning. Many DC servo motors are used in printers, plotters, and other office equipment. They are also used in machine tools, packing machines, industrial robots, and other applications that require control. [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Shaft Speed: 700 to 3000
- DC Voltage: 16.1 to 28.9
- Continuous Current: 0.6600 to 5.6
from Pittman Motors
PITTMAN ® automation grade brushless DC servo motors are IP65 rated construction (with a shaft seal) and include a wide range of torque and speeds in standard NEMA mounting configurations. The brushless motor construction is optimized for extended motor life, low cogging, smooth low speed... [See More]
- Units: English; Metric
- Shaft Speed: 6000
- DC Voltage: 325.0
- Continuous Current: 4.42
from WITTENSTEIN, Inc. (formerly alpha gear drives)
dynamic – high torque – efficient. cyber dynamic line servomotors are the smart selection for your application. Equipped with absolute feedback in a stainless steel housing, they deliver the highest performance, reliability, precision and value in the smallest package. Product Features. [See More]
- Units: Metric
- Continuous Torque: 0.1
- DC Voltage: 24.0 to 48.0
- Commutation: Brushless


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Riding your bike is way more exciting than towing or hauling it, but sometimes it has to be done. The good news is that there are some essential pieces of gear that will make your towing chores easier, safer and more enjoyable. You may never look forward to loading or unloading your bike - but if you're properly equipped and prepared, at least you won't have to dread it.
Here are the ten essential accessories to add to your towing kit:
BOLT Locks - $27.49 - $40.95
If you have a late model Chrysler, Ford, Nissan, Toyota, GM SUV or truck your towing life can be a little bit safer and easier with a BOLT lock. "BOLT" stands for "Breakthrough One-Key Lock Technology." They make a set of padlocks, hitch locks, cable locks and toolbox latches that can be instantly coded to work with your vehicle's ignition key. By following some very simple instructions, consumers can set up their own locks to work with no locksmith or dealership visit required.
Unless you're a high school janitor, you'll appreciate the fact that you can now unlock your toolbox, secure your tow hitch, lock and unlock your spare tire without having to add a key to your key ring.
Hindsight Hitching System - $299.99
Have you ever wished that you had eyes in the back of your head? The Hindsight Hitching System is one way to fulfill that dream, sort of. Its a wireless, rechargeable system that consists of a clever magnetic mount camera and a portable 2.4" LCD monitor. You just stick the camera on the back of your vehicle, point it at the trailer hitch, and then you'll be able to see what's going on from the comfort and convenience of your driver's seat. The camera has a microphone too, so you can hear as well as see what's going on. Much easier than the traditional "C'mon back, c'mon back" system that we've all used for years. Additional cameras are available for $99 each, and you can connect up to four at a time to the system, allowing you to switch back and forth for multiple views.
Trailer Wheel Ring Dock Chock - $5.37
Your trailer needs attention, even when it is not hitched to your tow vehicle. This simple, inexpensive accessory can be a lifesaver. Place the Ring Dock Chock where you want your trailer's tongue to stay, and lower the trailer wheel so that it is nestled in the center of the ring. Your trailer will stay put, avoiding the creep and roll that sometimes happens to an unattended trailer. If you've got a permanent parking space for your trailer, you can even permanently secure the Ring Dock Chock to the ground, and it will act as a locator so that you will always be able to park in exactly the right spot.
Trailer Wheel Chocks - $7.00
This is another inexpensive accessory that should be in every towing kit. Don't search for a rock or a log to chock your trailer wheels. Carry a set (or two) of actual wheel chocks to keep your trailer securely stationary while you load and unload your bike. I tend to lose these all the time, so I go with an inexpensive, solid rubber set like you can find at Harbor Freight or a similar discount tool place. I take the additional precaution of spray-painting my chocks in a high-viz color so I can find them, and hopefully remember to pick them up before I drive away.
Pingel Cycle Jaws Wheel Chock - $289.00
If you trailer your bike on a regular basis, or even if you don't, a motorcycle wheel chock will change your life. Pingel's Cycle Jaws Wheel Chock is my personal favorite, because it is so easy to use. Just roll the bike right in to the chock, turn the crank on the side of the chock, and it locks your wheel into the perfect position, holding your motorcycle securely upright. You still have to tie your bike down in a trailer, but you don't have to compress your forks and risk damaged springs and seals. The Cycle Jaws can also be used on any level surface off of the trailer, making it handy for storage, maintenance and cleaning.
Continue Reading: Ten Essential Accessories for Your Towing Kit >>


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The White Salmon Retreat!
July 14-16th on the beautiful White Salmon River. Camping is at Hollenbeck Park and free for WRRR members. We will be meeting ready to go at the BZ Corner Put in at 11am. Shuttle leaves from the old Northwestern Lake Takeout at 12pm Sharp!!! The river is a pool drop Class 3+ with optional Class V Husum Falls. The portage/lining is fairly straightforward at Husum falls, but does take skill. It is usually best to keep boats moving and regroup in the Eddie's below the footbridge just around the corner.
It is usually best to think light and bring paddle rafts and IK's / Hardshells. Boats require some effort to get to the bottom at the put in.
Camping is available Friday through Sunday nights at Hollenbeck Park 33 Mt Adams Road, Trout Lake, WA (off Hwy 141 to Mt Adams about 1/2 mile north of the store restaurant) Some years she has guests Thursday night so please respect others if you are arriving earlier Friday!
There is a Sunday trip going TBD at camp. Who's going to the Columbia with us?!?
Trip Leaders: Aaron and Kat Birrell, Nancy Douty, Randy Rogers, WRRR Board


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I was stunned because Jim was only 53 years old and he looked even younger. I had also just seen Jim a few weeks earlier and he looked great. There were no signs he would soon suffer a massive heart attack that would take his life. I was saddened because, like anyone else that knew him, I knew we were losing a class act of the first order.
Border Bowl II is only a few days away. The game will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday at Laney Memorial Stadium in Augusta. The game is the creation of WJBF-TV and features the top senior football players from around the CSRA. It is Georgia's best versus the top players South Carolina has to offer in the second annual Battle for the Paddle, with the proceeds going to benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities of Augusta.
Grovetown offensive lineman D'Ante Smith was in Atlanta this past week after he was selected to play in the second annual Georgia Elite Junior Classic. Only 70 of the top junior football players in the Peach State are chosen to play. Last year Columbia County was represented by Lakeside's Rashad Roundtree and Stephen Houzah.
County Pride Oscar: Greenbrier / Lakeside Boys Golf.
There are 85 schools in Class AAAAA. So for the boys AAAAA state golf title to come down to a playoff between schools separated by only a few miles is unlikely, but that is what happened in May, with Greenbrier winning after a one-hole playoff.
Also, the schools, for the most part, are extremely evenly matched.
After Harlem, I truly believe Grovetown, Greenbrier, Lakeside, Evans and Augusta Christian are almost dead even.
And, Augusta Prep is not to far behind. So, these rankings are not easy, and could certainly change over the next couple of weeks.
QUALITY WINS: 7-1 vs. the other Columbia County Schools (all Class AAAAA)
LOSS: to Greenbrier, but played without Reggie Reid. With Reid they blew out Greenbrier to open the season
1. To the parents of all Columbia County athletes – I give common sense
Now, all of you may not need this, but plenty do. If you are a grown man and wear face paint at a youth football game – I am likely talking to you.
Parents should do the following:
A. Support your child in their sports endeavors.
B. Come to their games and root for their team.
C. Allow the official coach to handle the coaching.
D. Keep any negative comments you have about the coach to yourself when you are around your child.
Matt Blume was a standout pitcher for the Evans Knights. After graduating from Evans in 2010, he went on to pitch at Augusta State University. If you would have told me I was writing a column about Matt it would be because he was graduating from ASU or had done something great for the baseball team.
This, however, is not a column I should be writing.
I wish I did not have to let people know about an event to raise money for Matt and his family because the 22-year-old is battline cancer.
With the Bears and Greyhounds eliminated, that left Northside Warner Robins to represent the region the rest of the way. Well, the Eagles were ready for the challenge. They crushed Glynn Academy 31-7 to advance to the Semi-finals. There, they ousted undefeated Allatoona 30-21. That left a match-up in the Georgia Dome with red hot Mays. Northside took care of the Raiders 25-18 to claim the school's third state title in the last nine seasons. They also gave fans of the region plenty of fire power for next season, when all the naysayers begin their annual bashing of the region.
The basketball odyssey of Ebony Wells has taken a turn northward. The former Harlem and Grovetown basketball standout is in Philadelphia, Pa., and is a starter at Division I La Salle University.
The 6-foot-2-inch Wells had a stellar prep career. After playing as a freshman and sophomore at Harlem, she transferred to Grovetown for her final two seasons.
Columbia County is certainly not known as a hot bed of girls basketball talent. However, the perception is changing.
Ten years ago, a point guard named Michelle Sweic led Greenbrier to new heights on the hardwood. Sweic was the county's first freshman to win Player of the Year honors in 2003-04.
Columbia County News-Times ©2018. All Rights Reserved.


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Rooftop Tent help
As per Nakmans pledge of using this forum instead of MUD as the first place to go for help/advice......here I am.
It's time for a RTT for me. We've got a lot planned this year and I'd like a RTT for my travels and for when I've got Keagan with me. I've been 2 days searching the websites and Youtube looking at all the different models. I was naive to think that there were only one or two companies. There's like 50 companies with 20 different models each. I'm not looking for you to say "buy this or that", but rather what features you like/dislike about yours or ones you've seen. I've got 5 or 6 trips planned so far this year, and we'll do a few local overnighters. I figure I'll use the tent +/-20 times a year.
We'll probably get a popup sometime in the future as the girls get older, but for now a RTT is at the top of the list.
I guess I'm not really sure what to look for in features/materials. And, I don't want to spend $2500, so Eezi-Awn and hard tops are out.
Find one that you can mount and un-mount by yourself. That should rule out most of 'em ;)
I thought this was a pretty decent idea.
They pop up all the time. Just keep an eye on craigslist and you'll pick one up before long. Most people who bought them here rarely used them and have largely resold them for more than what they originally had in them. :rolleyes:
Check the members forum Fishy (not sure how to link to it here), I got the gents at Tepui Tents to commit to a RS discount on their tents. From what I've seen of them, they are a pretty decent line of tents, and the discount is substantial.
I like the ones where you can stand up inside.
I have Camping lab which I think comes from the same manufacturer that makes Mombasa RTTs . Christo probably knows a ton about RTTs, I think many are made in South Africa.
Fernando is the owner of Camping Lab and is based out of Florida. He is a good guy and is from South Africa.
Mine has the plastic base vs marine grade plywood like EZ awn. I would agree EzAwn are probably best quality but I have had mine since 2009 and it has held up very well. I keep it in the garage and only install when I am going to use it. So I am happy with my $850.00 purchase.
Wife helps me lift it on the truck. Takes 20 mins to tighten.
The kids love the sleeping pad and it is actually warmer then a standard tent, I guess the canvas is heavier duty. I took the rain fly off, cause when it is windy, it is noisy.. The canvas is water resistant and never has leaked.
I have the smaller size of the Camping Lab. If I had to do it all over again, I might buy the bigger size. As it is now, wife and 2 kids fit well up there but I sleep in the truck. Not much different than at home..:D
If I could pic a favorite RTT and money was no bother, it would be the style Iggy has. Light weight and more arrow dynamic but those are like 3k.
Finally I would say buy one used. I bet it would have less than 10 uses, if you could find one slightly used. Then you could save bundles....
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I like the ones where the ladder is completely outside the footprint of the tent as opposed to underneath the tent and protected by it . Just seems to me like a waste of "tent space" up top for the ladder, and a waste of sheltered space down below. Twice I've sought refuge under a RTT during adverse weather (horizontal rain/snow awfulness) and it was kinda neat, being inside those changing room walls. But never so bad that I couldn't have made it up the stairs to go to bed.
Have you read that article that Kurt Williams wrote on these? I thought he did a great job explaining the +'s and -'s of RTT's in general, and some of the key differences. Pretty sure it's on Expo, maybe his site as well... lmk if you want help finding it.
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Chapter 4: The Art of Meditation on God
It is important to understand the art of meditation on God. Loving God is actually a great meditation on God. Your heart concentrates itself on the Supreme Being. You make yourself en rapport with this mighty existence. How will you succeed in doing this great sacrifice of meditation on God?
Ordinarily, in every human being, the consciousness, which is the nature of the soul, gets diverted to the sense organs. Even when we close our eyes and plug our ears, the senses operate. A sense is not the physical eardrum or the retina of the eye; it is a sensation that is perpetually taking place in us. The manner in which the mind operates will indicate to what extent the sensations are active. Close your eyes and then start thinking. You will think only in terms of the memory that you retain of the objects of sense. So even if the eyes are closed, sensory activity need not cease. The sense organs are not the culprits. They are only the vehicles through which consciousness emerges in terms of the objects outside. This habit of the mind, or consciousness, to think always in terms of what is outside us has to be checked. This is what is known as self-restraint or sense-control. You cannot think God correctly unless your senses are controlled.
When Sri Krishna, as we have it in the Mahabharata, proposed to go on a peace mission to the court of the Kauravas, Dhritarashtra, the blind king, hearing the news of the coming of this great person, summoned his minister Sanjaya and asked, "What kind of person is coming? Can I behold him?" The minister Sanjaya, the wisest of people at that time, remarked: "You cannot see him unless you are a kritatma. An akritatma cannot behold this great person that is coming to the court of Your Highness." What is kritatma, and what is akritatma? Kritatmata is to be blessed in a spiritual sense to be able to restrain the operation of the sense organs. Such a person can behold Sri Krishna, who is the master of self-restraint.
This is a symbolic statement indicating that the vision of God is the cessation of sensory activity. God is the soul of the universe and, therefore, only your soul can contact that universal Soul. The senses, the mind and the operations of the psyche normally cannot hope to contact God. There is no such thing as contacting God, really speaking, because contact implies the coming together of two elements. The soul of the human being actually is the replica of the Soul of the universe. It is a miniature presentation of the universal existence which is the paramatman, as it is called – Supreme Soul. So only a soul can behold the Soul. The effort that you have to exercise in this regard is something to be deeply considered. You cannot desire God when you desire something else. The desire for another thing different from the supreme existence of God is a diversion of interest. The diversion of the mind to something which is other than the great objective of your meditation – such a devotion is called vyabhicharini bhakti. It is a dishonest way of looking at God and trying to deceive Him, as it were, by making it appear that you are concerned with Him while you are really concerned with the objects of the world.
Why are the senses so strong? Why has it become so difficult for us to restrain them? What is the matter? When a clarified understanding suggests to you that the inclusion of God's being in your own person is going to give you whatever you want – superabundance of everything that you can conceive is in the very being of the great Almighty Lord – knowing this, why should the senses move here and there? The reason, apparently, is the search for as much joy as possible. Is there no joy in union with God? The power of the sense organs, which find joy only in outward objects, influences the mind to such an extent that when you think, you think with joy only of that which is outside you. It is not easy to control the sense organs. The secret of their success, the source of their power, is in the attachment that consciousness has with this body. Though omnipresence is the nature of reality, location is the nature of this body. The body is in one place only and, therefore, it wants only one thing – connected with each sense organ.
You have to learn the art of meditation, first of all. Many of you must be practising meditation. And each one of you should honestly feel for yourself how far you have succeeded in pouring your entire personality into the consciousness of God's existence. Meditation is not a routine. It is not a mechanical performance of religiosity. Meditation is not an activity in the ordinary sense of the term. You are not 'doing' something in meditation. Your being wells up into a heightened form of performance. You do not know whether you have got a soul at all. How many of you think that there is a soul? You think it is just 'me', this physical body, and, with some concession, it is this mind, this reason, this intellect – the psychological operation. Have you got a soul? Actually, you do not have a soul, you are the soul! So do not say "the soul in me", and so on. If the soul, which you are, is in you, then what are you? Are you something other than the soul? Remove this idea from your mind, first of all. You do not have a soul inside you, as if you are outside the soul. You are, yourself, the soul.
But, what is the soul? It is consciousness. Where is consciousness? It cannot be tied down to the little barrier of the physical body. Consciousness cannot have a limitation. The very consciousness of the limitation of consciousness implies that it is everywhere. You must be a little bit logical in this context. Deep thinking and analysis is necessary. If consciousness cannot be limited, it cannot be only inside your body. You have to work like a schoolmaster, like a teacher who goes on repeating the same thing again and again to the children, the students, so that what he says enters their minds. Repeat it again and again. This repetition of the formula of the soul's actual union with God is sometimes known as japa sadhana.
You know what is japa. You take a name, conceive a formula – a kind of expression describing the nature of God. You call it a mantra because it is holy. Repeat it again and again: "Almighty Lord, I seek You! Almighty Lord, I seek You! Almighty Lord, I seek You! I seek You only! I want You only! Thou art everywhere! I seek You, That which is everywhere! May my heart melt in the Ocean of Your Being!" Go on telling this to yourself. I am not giving you a mantra here, but a formula to think. You can think and recite the formula of God's existence in any manner whatsoever, in any language, because language is only an expression of feeling, of your intention. Loudly call the Name of God. Let it be That. Your senses will be hushed completely by the sound that you make in calling the Name of God. The noise of the senses, of course, is very intense. They clamour; they cry. They create a big hullabaloo. They will not allow you to think, even. "I want this! You give this to me! I am not satisfied!" say the sense organs.
While there are many ways of compelling the senses to come down to the level of the soul's action and being, one of the ways I am suggesting is loudly calling the Name of God. Nothing can succeed like this method, because you yourself are hearing what you are speaking. When you hear, your mind hears. And when you repeat this kind of calling, the soul will feel what the mind has been thinking. It is not merely muttering something that is called japa. It is a serious activity you are engaging yourself in. "I have to do one thousand malas today," people say. They are thinking more about the number of malas than the quality of thought. You can have a thousand malas, it is all right, but a thousand times you must be intensely thinking only this thing. Do not think of the beads, the fingers, and the time that you have taken for the japa. Remove this idea of time. "I have to finish it in three hours." Why should you finish it in three hours? Why are you limiting your aspiration to the time? A few minutes of internal surge of love and concentration on God's perfection is a greater japa than merely rolling the beads for a long time with a wandering mind and unsatisfied sensory calls.
All this is difficult. So, what you do in the beginning is to have a model of the presence of God, which may be in the form of a diagram that you can draw of the cosmic existence – a yantra or a mandala, as it is usually known – or even a picture of what you conceive God to be. You cannot conceive of God, of course. You cannot take His portrait; it is not possible. But you can imagine an extensive dimension of Being, including everything that is in creation. This kind of concept is adumbrated beautifully in the description of the cosmic form of God – Visvarupa darshana – as we have in the Purusha Sukta of the Veda and the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavadgita. It does not mean that God has arms, legs, feet, eyes, etc. But you cannot think of Him in any other manner. The idea behind this portrait, this picture of the omnipotence of God through the Visvarupa darshana, is to compel the sense organs and the mind not to think anything other than one thing. Various methods have to be employed.
I mentioned to you japa sadhana, loudly chanting the Name of God – calling Him from the bottom of your heart as if you are dying for Him. You must really want Him. This is very important. "I do not know whether it is possible in this life, or not. Anyway, I have not succeeded in having any vision of God up to this time. Twenty-five years of meditation have been for no purpose. I do not know. I have pain in the legs. There are many difficulties in this life. I have so many commitments. I have a family. I have to work hard." These thoughts will come as vicious angels telling you that you are not meant for this. This is a predicament that you may have to face, but is something which great saints and sages have also faced.
"Take this vast kingdom of gold and silver," someone whispered into the ears of Jesus Christ who was on a high mountain, in meditation. "Why all this waste of withering your body? You have attained perfection already. Get up," said Mara to Buddha in meditation. When Dhruva of the Srimad Bhagavata fame, a little boy, went into meditation, it is said in the Puranas that he saw his own mother in his presence, just as Buddha saw his wife in his presence while he was meditating. It was not merely imagination – visibly, concretely, the figure of the wife was before him. "My dear Lord, why have you deserted me?" she said. A mother comes: "My dear child, this is not meant for you. Come on." Wherever there is an ardent effort to crush the senses, to divert them back into the mind and melt them in the soul, these obstacles will come like a ravaging tempest. Therefore, you should not try to do intensive forms of tapas when there are some lurking desires. Who does not have a desire for mundane things? If you are earnest in this practice, you must be as clear as a statistics officer, tabulating the desires. Make a list of all these desires that you have in your mind. They may be looking like a million, but they are really not so many. There are some fundamental impulses in you, and you are very well conscious of them. Make a list of them.
Can you fulfil these wishes? Sometimes there are some minor desires. Middling-intense is the form of certain desires. Some desires are very strong. How do you handle these desires? There are desires which can be harmlessly fulfilled. Do not go to extremes. There are harmless desires which are just requirements of the body. They are not luxuries; they are necessities, without which you cannot even survive. You must know what these needs of the physical personality are. Fulfil them in the measure that is necessary, without going to luxurious extremes. Certain desires are strong enough to worry your mind, especially when it is not easy to fulfil them. Some of the desires are beyond the capacity of your physical and mental existence, fulfilling which appears to be almost impossible in this life. They have to be handled only by direct meditation on God.
Remember, there is nothing that God cannot give you. The desires are foolish expressions of an uneducated mind. All that you want in this world, which is just a shadow of the realities of things, you will find in the Reality, in the kingdom of God. All the objects, all the persons, everything that you see in this world are shadows of a reality that is in the heavens. Hence, you are pursuing shadows actually when you are after the objects of sense. No sense contact can satisfy you completely. There is agony following every form of sense indulgence. You cannot be indulging in sense objects throughout your life. The vigour of the body will diminish by dissipation of energy, and later you will find you have got nothing from this mirage of the appearance of objects. It was a dry desert looking like clean water.
Are you sure that God can give you all things? Does not the Bhagavadgita loudly proclaim to us, "Whoever is intent upon Me exclusively, without any external thought, I shall take care of your requirements appropriately, as you would need them." You may doubt, sometimes, whether this is true. Has God ever given you what you need? You will complain, "I have got nothing from God. In spite of my worships, my japas and my prayers at the altar, I am the same miserable man." Do you know why you feel like that? It is because you have not asked God. It is told to us by the great Master, "Ask, and it shall be given." But you are not asking Him. Your mind is elsewhere. Your whole being should rise up into activity in asking from God. God is a whole Being and, therefore, He demands the whole of your being in order that He may respond. Asking is not thinking. It is the soul rising to the surface of intense action – unthinkable, indeed, what this could be. Intensely think that what you want is here with you.
Apart from the spiritual aspect of the certainty of God giving you everything, there is also a psychological side of it. If you intensely think that you want a thing, it shall come to you, but you should be intense and exclusive. One of the suggestions made by psychologists is that if you need a thing, feel that it has already come; that you are in possession of it. As everything is everywhere in this universe, it is not difficult to actually obtain what you need by intense longing for it. You should not think that what you need is somewhere else and it has to gradually come near you. "It has already come, and it is with me, and it is me!" Needless to say, you are identifying yourself with the very thing that you want. If this process can go on for a long time, you will find everything getting materialised. If you want laddu, laddu will come. If you want oranges, oranges will come. It may look very foolish to think like this, but it is a fact. God can give you even a spoon of sugar for your tea. He is not incapable of doing that. There are stories in the lives of saints where these miracles have taken place. You have got doubt in your mind. "This is not possible for me." The devil is always whispering, "This is not for you, it is not possible." "These are all useless talks," it will tell you; and it will go on telling you continuously so that you may not succeed at all in your life. Vigorous concentration and intense longing is necessary. If you cannot think properly along these lines, read stories, anecdotes wherein you will see how God has blessed devotees.
I shall recite to you an anecdote, for your information; and there are many others of that type. There was a person, very poor, begging his meal from people around. But he was a great devotee of God and he knew that God will give him everything, that he will receive alms every day; that there would be no difficulty. He was an ardent believer in the proclamation of the Bhagavadgita: ananyas cintayanto mam ye janah paryupasate tesham nityabhiyuktanam yoga- ksemam vahamy aham (B.G. 9.22). "Undividedly devote yourself to me; I shall give you whatever you want and protect all your belongings." He believed in this proclamation intensely. He had no doubt at all. And he was receiving alms abundantly, every day, with no difficulty whatsoever. One day it so happened that he could not get anything. He was a poor fellow, with a wife and children. They were almost starving. He went hither and thither begging for food, and that day he could get nothing. This happened on the second day, and the third day, too. The children were crying due to the pangs of starvation. He could not imagine how this could be. "Has God forgotten me? He has forgotten me! He has not fulfilled His promise. No, I do not believe this proclamation. Tear out this sloka. Break this sentence from the Bhagavadgita." In those days, scriptures were written on palm leaves. There was no printing paper at that time. He took a nail and struck that sloka – tore it in agony. "This is a falsehood! I am dying of hunger and nothing has come to me!" In agony, he went out of the house.
A few minutes afterwards, when he was away from the house, a boy came with two bags of rations and threw them on the veranda of the house, calling out to the missus, "Mother, your husband has sent these things for you." His tongue was bleeding.
The mother came out. "From where have these rations come?"
"Your husband has bought these things and asked me to carry them. I have done so and am leaving them here," the boy replied.
"But what is the matter? Where are these bags coming from? He is a poor man. And what is the matter with you that your tongue is bleeding?" she asked.
The boy said, "I was a little delayed in bringing these things, and in anger he tore my tongue."
She cursed her husband, "You are a crazy man! This poor boy has brought these bags of rations and you tore his tongue!" In the evening when her husband returned, she exclaimed, "Have you gone crazy? You tore the tongue of that boy who brought rations."
He said, "I have not sent any rations. I have not torn the tongue of any boy. I don't know what you are talking about."
But there, the bags of rations were lying. He closed his eyes, and wept deeply for the mistake that he had committed and the distrust that he exhibited in respect of God by not believing in the truth of His proclamation. There are many other instances like this.
Faith is the miracle-maker! Faith is everything! Nothing can work except faith. Actually, in faith you are digging deep into the very structure of existence. Faith arises from the soul itself. It is an operation of your truest being, and so it touches the bottom of creation, and the whole thing shakes with your faith. Though it is difficult to gather yourself into this kind of devotion to God in the humdrum life of day-to-day activities, you have to hit your head with your fist and strike yourself saying, "Don't make a mistake!" You are one with this universe; you must remember that. Physically, ecologically, in the form of the working of nature, you are inseparable from the forces of the universe. So how will you lack anything? The forces will enter into you when you actually open the doors of your personality, and the energies will rush into you. Instead you have closed the doors by devoting yourself too much to the requirements of the sense organs. Open your gates!
It is true that whatever you ask shall be given, when you knock at the door of God it shall be opened, and whatever you seek you shall find. These three sayings of Jesus Christ in the New Testament are a wonderful recipe for the malady of the soul. You have to believe it, and you will see how it works. God is not even one inch away from you. The omnipresence of God precludes His distance from you. Many a time we are like children, thinking that God is far, far, far away in the heavens. An all-pervading being has no space inside it, so you cannot say that it is something away from you that has to take time to come near you. Timeless is the existence of God. Spaceless is His Being, so He does not take time to act; and He is not merely near you, He is you, operating from the source of your being. This is true love of God, bhakti at its supreme form – para-bhakti, as it is called.
You are not here in the Academy to hear something that is being told. You can hear it anywhere. Here, it is an occasion to remake yourself and be another person altogether when you complete this course. You have to become another person, and not remain same person that you were when you came. You have to unite yourself intensely, as you have felt the need for attaining perfection. You have to adopt several methods of spiritual practice. I mentioned to you the mode of japa sadhana. You may not be able to go on with this for a long time, due to fatigue of the exercise. Take to another method, which is the study of scriptures. Read the holy scriptures. When you study the scriptures, you are, at that time, attuned to the great masters who wrote the scriptures. You are attuned to the ideas expressed in the scriptures. It is also a kind of meditation of a different type. Japa, svadhyaya or study, and direct meditation – you can adopt any method you like to place before your mind a concept or a form of God, and it is up to you to choose what it is.
Every day this practice has to be continued. You should not miss the link by forgetting to do it on any particular day. It is like taking medicine for curing an illness. The doctor says you must take these medicines at regular intervals and you should not miss taking them on any day. Otherwise the link will be broken; the effect will not be there. Practice should be done every day – at a particular hour, if possible. The power of the time cycle helps you when you sit for your practice at a specific hour or time of the day. If possible, it should be at the same place in your house, facing the eastern direction or the northern direction, as it has been prescribed to us. The energy of the sun rises into action from the eastern horizon and you absorb the energy of the sun when you are facing the east. The northern direction is also prescribed because of the magnetic energy that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole. These are good prescriptions: same place, same time, same method of practice, and facing the same direction. Never expect a result immediately, because to expect a result would be to bargain with God. "I have done something for you and you are not giving me anything." This feeling should not be there. Everything has its own time. "In due time you shall have everything," says the Bhagavadgita.
There are three types of meditation to which you can resort: internal, external and universal. It is your predilection to choose which one is suitable for you. Many devotees feel like placing God in their own heart, or in the middle of their eyebrows, because they find that is convenient as it is easier to love that which is nearest than to love that which is away or far from yourself. The nearest thing is your own self, and you, to some extent, love yourself more than you love anybody else. So in order not to neglect your personality totally, place the presence of God in some location within yourself. During waking hours the mind operates at a point between the two eyebrows. In dream the mind operates in the throat, through certain nerve channels. In deep sleep the mind enters the heart. During meditation, during sleep and at the time of death, the mind is in the heart. This is one form of internality of the concept of God and the placement of the great vision in yourself. It is quite good.
Otherwise, you can have an external arrangement for the purpose of meditation on God – an image that you place before yourself, any kind of form which you would consider as suitable for your particular sentiment and need. It can be a portrait, an image, even a shaligrama stone or a lingam – whatever it is, to your satisfaction. You should not think of the image at the time of meditation. It is only the placement which you have conceived in your mind for bringing the Universal Being into this point. The centre of the universe is said to be everywhere. Where is the centre of the universe? Is it far, far away in the skies? Everywhere, at every point, is the centre of the universe. Can you conceive of this? This is a feat of the exercise of the vision. Everywhere is the centre. If everywhere is the centre, there cannot be a circumference – which is another way of saying everywhere is the Soul, and all is Soul.
The image that you place before yourself is itself not to be regarded as God. Everywhere is sunlight, and you can focus it through a lens at any particular point. You do not bring God down to the form of the image, but raise the image to the form of God – the other way around. In the beginning you may feel that there is a location for God: God is in a temple, on an altar, etc. But later you expand your vision of God from the point that you have chosen at a particular place to something which fills all space everywhere. Everywhere you see that vision, just as you see the sun everywhere after you concentrate on it for a long time with your eyes open. As the centre of the universe is everywhere, the image that you take up for your worship is also everywhere. Anything can be taken as a point of concentration. You can touch your body by touching any part of your body. Here, you will consider yourself as a person having the vision of God in this form. You observe, you see, you have a vision of God as a devotee, as a performer. That Being is to be considered as something in front of you, though it is everywhere.
One of the stages of devotion is this – where you do not identify yourself with That which is everywhere, but look at It spreading Itself everywhere. Everywhere you are seeing One Thing. This is an external form of meditation that is prescribed. The universal form of meditation is a still higher stage where the universe itself is contemplating itself. You are not meditating, because you have gone into the universe, as it should be. Who contemplates? The whole cosmos is being aware of itself. The highest meditation is the awareness of That which is everywhere – awareness of Itself only. The whole world, the whole cosmos, the whole creation is vibrating with the consciousness of itself. You are not meditating; That which is everywhere is contemplating Itself only. "I am what I am." This is the universal meditation that is prescribed in the paths of yoga.


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What does solicitor mean?
Definitions for solicitorsəˈlɪs ɪ tər
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word solicitor.
Princeton's WordNet
solicitor, canvasser(noun)
a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes
a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents
In many common law jurisdictions, a type of lawyer whose traditional role is to offer legal services to clients apart from acting as their advocate in court. A solicitor instructs a barrister to act as an advocate for their client in court, although rights of audience for solicitors vary according to jurisdiction.
In English Canada and in parts of Australia, a type of lawyer who historically held the same role as above, but whose role has in modern times been merged with that of a barrister.
In parts of the U.S., the chief legal officer of a city, town or other jurisdiction.
A person soliciting sales, especially door to door.
Webster Dictionary
one who solicits
an attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney
the law officer of a city, town, department, or government; as, the city solicitor; the solicitor of the treasury
Origin: [F. solliciteur, L. sollicitator.]
A solicitor is a lawyer who traditionally deals with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in court. In the United Kingdom, a few Australian states, Hong Kong, South Africa and the Republic of Ireland, the legal profession is split between solicitors and barristers, and a lawyer will usually only hold one of the two titles. However, in Canada, New Zealand and most Australian states, the legal profession is now for practical purposes "fused", allowing lawyers to hold the title of "barrister and solicitor" and practice as both. The distinction between barristers and solicitors is, however, retained. Some legal graduates will start off as one and then decide to become the other.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'solicitor' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3269
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'solicitor' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2367
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'solicitor' in Nouns Frequency: #804
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of solicitor in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of solicitor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Sample Sentences & Example Usage
The solicitor said, 'It's automatic jail time,'.
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
I spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
If you flee a traffic stop, it's a death sentence. We think it's wrong, and we think the solicitor got it wrong, zachary, no question, tried to leave. But it's clear he didn't turn to run over Lt. Tiller, but Tiller put himself in a position of danger.
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Heylo, Moon peeps!
So as I'm getting acclimated into my new job I've also been making recurrent wipes through the story and characters and making revisions. Obviously we want everything to flow properly, but at the moment the story does have several hangups from the old-design that need addressing.
Mason mentioned that we're changing a lot of our story lingo. What we were originally calling Days (back during the initial pitch) we then called Issues but are now calling Stories. Ultimately I see this allowing us much more creative freedom in the way we present our story arcs. This is becoming more and more clear as the story is reworked. The story flow can no longer interfere with exploration in situations where the player is (for example) trapped on a ghost ship or in the deep south. Previously you were able to explore within the current context of the story, and were expected to stay within the confines of current events or area. We've really opened up the design to allow the story to be front and center when you want it to, or take a back seat to exploration and challenges if that is what you want. Additionally, this can be done at any time, between any of the objectives. Finally, this puts some ease on the development of the game because we no longer need to have assumptions about what the player wants or doesn't want to do at any given moment.
Anyways, I just wanted to drop in and write a little something something on the blog. Hope y'all have a great day and a great weekend. See you in the forums in the meantime.


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For Detroit Turbos equipment manager Gary Law, the Major Indoor Lacrosse League game against the Baltmore Thunder on Saturday night was a night to remember.
For the first 11 minutes of the season opener at the Baltimore Arena, he was the goalie.
Bad weather conditions -- fog, snow and rain in Detroit, Syracuse, N.Y., Toronto and Baltimore -- gave the Turbos major problems. Paul and Gary Gait, flying out of Syracuse, N.Y., had to land in Philadelphia, hire a taxi and drive to Baltimore, arriving at 7:45 p.m., 20 minutes before the scheduled starting time.
The plane carrying starting goalie Ted Sawicki and the goalie equipment was delayed out of Detroit. Because of this and the large walk-up crowd -- nearly 4,000 -- the start of the game was delayed 43 minutes.


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July 21, 2005
Carbon monoxide poisoning tied to generator use
By Anthony J. Brown, MD
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a study of 10 hospitals in
Florida, the vast majority of carbon monoxide (CO) poisonings
that occurred during the 2004 hurricane season were related to
the use of gasoline-powered portable generators. Six of the
generator-related poisonings proved fatal.
operated outside of any building and far away from doors,
windows or air conditioners," study co-author Dr. David Van
Sickle, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in
Atlanta, told Reuters Health.
"This is the first time we've looked at exposure to CO from
portable generators after a warm weather disaster," he added.
As reported in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report, four major hurricanes hit Florida between August 13 and
September 25 of last year. The Florida Department of Health
noticed an increase in CO poisonings in hurricane-affected
counties and the CDC was called in to assist with the
In the present analysis, the CDC reviewed the medical
records of all individuals who were diagnosed with
unintentional CO poisoning at one of the study hospitals
between August 13 and October 15, 2004.
A total of 167 nonfatal cases, representing 51 exposure
incidents, were identified and all but 6 involved individuals
who had been using portable generators. As noted, six fatal
cases, stemming from five exposure incidents, occurred and all
were associated with portable generator use.
The most common symptom, present in 80 percent of cases,
was headache, followed by nausea and dizziness, each seen in
about 50 percent of patients.
With the nonfatal poisonings, the generator was usually
located outdoors, typically near a window or air conditioner,
or inside a garage. By contrast, in the cases of fatal
poisonings, an indoor location was invariably cited.
"Our findings emphasize that when used outside, portable
generators need to be placed a significant distance from the
house," Van Sickle said.
"We are continuing to investigate generator-related CO
poisoning in detail to determine why the victims located the
generators where they did," Van Sickle added. "The possibility
that the extension cord may be too short has been discussed and
it's something we're looking into."
SOURCE: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, July 22,


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Fall 2016 Newsletter
Multi Technique Pillow
Instructor: Sandy Adkins $45
Thursday, September 29, October 6 & 13, 10 am—1 pm
Learn 4 fun new techniques which you can utilize on future projects while making a beautiful pillow in class You will learn to make a folded star for the first technique and the center of your pillow. For technique 2 you will learn to make piping with the piping hot binding tool. You will texturize fabric to use for the rest of your pillow front with technique 3 and wrap up the back of your pillow with a hidden zipper in technique 4. As stated above, all of these techniques can also be used in future projects.
Quilt Making for Beginners
Instructor: Carolyn Nance $60
Thursday, October 6, 13, 20, 27 & November 3
6 pm—8 pm
Quilt making from start to finish! Students are instructed in picking out fabric and tools, using a rotary cutter, piecing accurately using a 1/4" seam, sandwiching their finished quilt top, quilting and binding their quilt during this five session class. Everyone will leave class with their own finished quilt. Book is required.
Instructor: Carolyn Nance $35
Saturday, October 29, 10 am—3:00 pm
You've been asking us to add this fun project to our class calendar. Make one in class and have plenty of time to make more for Christmas gifts. Choose any fabric you like and spray with waterproofing when your done! Pattern is required. Bring a sack lunch with you to class or run out for a carry out!
Celtic Stars 2-Day Workshop
Guest Instructor/Designer: Kathleen Andrews $50
Saturday, November 19, 10 am—3 pm &
Saturday, December 3, 10 am—1 pm
Join Designer Kathleen Andrews during this two day workshop introducing her newest design. Celtic Stars is an intermediate pattern but is easily made using chain and strip piecing, simple template piecing and Celtic made easy with the use of double sided tape instead of pins for perfect circles. Pattern is required.
Prima Diva
Instructor: Sandy Adkins $40
Thursday, October 27, 10 am—4 pm
If you loved the Diva Wallet you will really love The Prima Diva! It is not only a wallet, just add a wrist strap and make it a clutch or add loops & a chain and make it a purse. The Prima Diva has 2 zippered sections plus 12 slots for cards and six more pockets. Pattern is required. Bring a sack lunch.
Quick Cosmetic Bag
Instructor: Sandy Adkins $20
Thursday, November 3, 10 am—1 pm
Whip up this quick cosmetic bag in class and have plenty of time to whip up more for Christmas gifts. Free pattern is provided to class members.
Fusible Machine Applique
Instructor: Sue Koehler $10/session
4th Saturday of the month,
start any month, 10 am – noon
Find out how EASY it is to do fusible machine applique! Join Sue for the Winter Cardinal or the pattern of your choice. The Quilters Garden has many patterns, some with fabric kits, or you can choose the fabric or have Sue help you choose in class.
Join us for our Holiday Open House,
Make it-take it project, anytime between 10 –3 on Saturday, November 26th.
Make a quick holiday project while enjoying some goodies with the girls.
There will be a small fee.
Sweet Tooth
Instructor: Carolyn Nance $10/month
Second Saturday of each month for 12 months,
Starting Saturday, May 14, 10 am—noon
Feel like a kid in a candy shop! This Block of the Month design features 12 unique blocks all created with the Super Sidekick & Hex N More rulers. There are no pesky Y seams! Each month you'll create two blocks from the same design. Creative fabric placement will make your quilt appear to have 24 different blocks. Fabric kits are available in either Kona Cotton or Batik. Pattern and rulers are required. Kits are also available for purchase if you don't want to take the class.
Instructor: Carolyn Nance $10/month
Third Thursday of each month for 11 months,
Starting Thursday, May 19, 10 am—noon
Take a trip through the galaxy! This block of the month features nine blocks all created with the Hex n More and Super Sidekick Rulers by Jaybird quilts. Each month you will create two blocks from the same design. Creative fabric placement will make your quilt appear to have 18 different blocks. Fabric kits are available in either Kona Cotton or Batik. Pattern and rulers are required. Kits are also available for purchase if you don't want to take the class.
Have a 'Garden Party' to celebrate your birthday!
The Quilters Garden will continue our "The Garden Party Birthday Celebration" program.
What better place to spend your birthday celebration than a free class at The Quilters Garden with a group of your friends. The cake and the class are on us!
Invite a minimum of six and maximum of eight friends and the class for all of you is FREE.
Choose your birthday celebration project from a list of one session, two to six hour projects.. Our intention is that all party attendees will leave the party with their completed project. Stop into the shop to see a selection of project ideas.
Party attendees will receive a 10% discount on the project kit and will also receive 10% off anything they purchase at The Quilters Garden the day of the party.
Call your friends, call The Quilters Garden and schedule the date!
- Register for your party with a minimum of six and maximum of eight friends.
- Register early to get your date. A deposit will be required to hold the date.
- Class time is up to six hours. If the class goes through lunch, attendees must purchase their own lunch.
- The smaller projects can be held in the evening.
- Pick your class project when you register so we can be sure to have the proper kits.
- If there is a class project (not listed) that you would like you are welcome to request it.
- All Party attendees must purchase the kit.
- Party attendees must bring their sewing machine, thread and basic supplies.
- Party attendees get 10% off everything they purchase on party day.
- Birthday cake & coffee will be provided by The Quilters Garden.
- Party attendees must have fun!
- Prices may vary slightly.
Classes must be pre-paid with cash or check made out to the teacher. No seat is held until payment is received.
The Quilters Garden gives students 10% off all class supplies and also 10% off everything purchased on class days.
The teachers would appreciate that students come on time and prepared for class with all supplies ready to go,
Class refunds are only given with 48 hour cancelation notice. Students must cancel by phone or in person (no exceptions).
Class refunds can not be given on classes with guest instructors unless your spot is filled.
The Quilters Garden would appreciate, if possible, that you purchase your class supplies from us. Without your support we would not be able to continue to provide you with these wonderful class opportunities, quality fabrics and supplies.


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The Village Improvement Society held the Mustache March 5k with proceeds to benefit Gilda's Club, Roswell Park and the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition.
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