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Salvation. It's one of the most basic and fundamental concepts of Christianity. Do you have it? How can you get it? Can you lose it? What is it, anyway? Ask 7 Christians and you may get 7 answers. Most of the debates that revolve around the subject reduce salvation to a thing to be possessed or a status to maintained, and the general assumption seems to be that salvation is almost completely related to one's destination in the afterlife.
In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word that is translated "salvation" literally means "rescue". As a Biblical concept, it finds its dominant expression in the Exodus,where the enslaved Israelites called out for generations to God, who eventually delivered them from their oppression. Most Biblical references to salvation seem intended to evoke this imagery again and again. Another prominent idea found in the Old Testament is that God IS Salvation. The New Testament relies heavily on the Old Testament imagery of Salvation, but there are a few subtle differences. In these texts, Salvation (rescue) takes place by Grace (unmerited), through Faith (trust, confidence) in Jesus. But even this short overview might lead one to an individualistic, escapist understanding of Salvation. Such an understanding would be deeply mistaken and profoundly unbiblical.
I have less than no interest in the debate between "Once Saved, Always Saved" and a Salvation that is called into question by the commission of a sin or the misunderstanding of a concept. The extremes at both ends of that spectrum are equally ridiculous, and frankly I question the spectrum itself. In Galatians, Paul seems to call out the Galatian church for thee distorted version of Salvation they were promoting. He says:
You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
-Gal. 5:4-6 NIV
That's right. The infamous phrase "fall from grace" actually originates in a passage that is arguing against trying to justify yourself by law, as if you were "paying off the god". He essentially says that to do so is to fall from grace...seemingly because you don't recognize it, and you don't believe you need it (or that it's sufficient in the first place). Salvation is not payment for services rendered. It is a gift from God. no Don't miss the next thought though: "The only thing that counts if faith expressing itself through love". Paul refuses to choose from their options. Instead, he transcends them. To do anything else is to reduce grace to a commodity and Salvation to a status game.
I've come to believe that the Christian concept of Salvation is rooted in the Hebrew concept of Shalom. Shalom is a word that the ancient rabbis used to describe both the original condition of the world in the Genesis creation narratives, and God's intention for how the world should be. It means something like "harmony", and the rabbis argued that it exhibited itself in 3 ways: Harmony between God and people, harmony between people and other people, and harmony between people and God's creation. They argue that what we normally refer to as "the fall" in the Genesis 3 narrative is not merely meant to indicate a break the relationship between God and people, but rather the breaking of Shalom in all three of the dimensions we've discussed and a new trajectory towards chaos. It can be argued that all sin can be traced back to the breaking of harmony in these 3 areas. It can also be argued that sin isn't a matter accumulating demerits so much as it is a matter of further distancing yourself and the world from the harmony God intends for it. Salvation then, is rescue from this situation by the God who is most clearly revealed in Jesus.
This re-framing has been profoundly helpful for me. However, there is another aspect of Salvation that I believe may be just as important and just as overlooked. Paul articulates it well in 2 Corinthians 5:14-21:
For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! …
Notice the language of "Creation" and "New Creation" here, and how resonant it is with what we've already discussed. Paul isn't the only one who makes this connection (and this isn't the only place he does it). In the Gospel that bears his name, John structures his telling of the story of Jesus after the Genesis 1 Creation narrative. He names 7 days (in order) in the course of the narrative, and lists 7 signs/miracles (each of which can be tied to the parallel day of Creation). On the 7th day, Jesus "rests" in the tomb. He is resurrected (in a garden, no less) on the first day of the new week, indicating that New Creation has begun. Although I could certainly keep going down that rabbit trail, I want to get back to Paul's argument in 2 Corinthians, because the next part of his argument is fascinating:
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God
I've argued that Salvation is essentially reconciliation...rescue from the trajectory towards chaos...a return to the harmony (Shalom) that was broken, in all of its dimensions. Now, Paul lets the other shoe drop. Those who have been (are being) reconciled have also become agents of reconciliation. Those who have been saved/rescued by God become agents of salvation. It's not that you "have" salvation. It's that salvation has you. The writer of Ephesians makes a similar argument:
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do
-Eph. 2:8-10 NIV
To be clear, I'm not arguing for a works-based Salvation. This text (as well as many others), deconstructs any such argument before it can even get started. However, I am absolutely arguing for Salvation-based-works. To be rescued is to become involved in the rescue. Individual Salvation is not an end unto itself. It is a means, by which we become active participants of what a living and active God is doing in the world. Biblically, Salvation isn't just a status to be claimed, it is a vocation to be embraced.
Salvation is the delightful surprise of having your little life caught up in the purposes of God for the whole world.
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Thank you, Rachel!
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Great ad placement
11 comments:
- OMDG said...
Love it!
- April 5, 2012 at 12:07 PM
- bobbie said...
Nice to know Publix is looking out for our health!
- April 5, 2012 at 12:11 PM
- Dee said...
Peeerfection! All grocery stores should have this next to things like this!
- April 5, 2012 at 12:49 PM
okay - Rachel gets a gold star.. but
patients will start thinking along lines of "metformin lets me eat more cookies, GS or otherwise", and not to treat DM.
can 'statin add in hot dog aisle be far behind.....???
...only in America.....
- April 5, 2012 at 1:04 PM
wow. that is soo sad.... and so ironic.
- April 5, 2012 at 3:01 PM
- Hungarican Chick said...
My PCP put me on that stuff to manage my PCOS symptoms, and holy hell in a handbasket I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I eventually told doc no way... What it did to my digestive system was a crime. I spent more time in the bathroom during the day than I did at my desk. It was annoying too because every time I went in for a procedure, I'd have to explain that NOOooo, I don't have diabetes... and then I'd have to look at that dubious smirk on the face of the person asking me. ::oy:: I'd rather have no ovaries than to have to suffer through the indignities of that drug again.
- April 5, 2012 at 3:12 PM
- Moose said...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I love it.
Double plus funny if you're like me and get really bad, er, gastrointestinal side-effects from metformin. "Free Bulemia Help! Now eat your cookies with reduced blood sugar AND free laxative effect!"
Just kill me now.
- April 5, 2012 at 5:39 PM
- bobbie said...
I'm so with you, Moose!!
- April 6, 2012 at 1:14 AM
- Packer said...
Saw article indicating off label use for cancer treatment. Yup ,saw it yesterday in the newspaper. Might be of some interest to you folks to look for that article, says people who take this med are markedly less likely to contract certain cancers. I am not making this up, really.
- April 6, 2012 at 9:47 AM
- X-Ray chick said...
Talk about irony!
- April 6, 2012 at 10:18 AM
oh America. instead of "got milk?" it's now "got diabetes?" Next up, Prilosec and coffee? SSRI's in the ice cream aisle? any other good (bad) pairings you can think of?
- April 6, 2012 at 8:05 PM

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Raw milk and cream? Geez, around these parts, you and your source would be rounded up as dangerous criminals. Heaven forbid any raw milk should get off the farm. I think we had a guy up here (Ontario) who formed a cooperative to supply raw milk to people, and the government shut him down.
I love milk, cream, butter, yogurt, cheese, all things dairy -- and I live in dairy country. I'd love to find a source for raw milk because I've heard that it's way better than pasteurized. But I don't want to get anyone in trouble. Maybe one day I'll luck out.
You're lucky to have found a source! Good luck with the experiments in yogurt. We make our own yogurt (from pasteurized milk) and I will note that I think the purpose of heating the milk to a certain temperature is to kill microbes that might inhibit the lactobacillus necessary to get a good yogurt.
Facebook chimes in on this one, too:
This is an excerpt of a recipe for raw milk yogurt given to me by a friend and dairy fermentation instructor. When the recipe refers to "her" I'm talking about my friend. I use this information to distribute to my students. Hope it works for you. I, like you, never liked the idea of heating raw milk to 180. Doesn't have to.
"If you want a thicker yoghurt, you can add powdered milk to the liquid milk, increasing the solid non-fat content, and increasing both protein and calcium as well (though she does not mention it in this recipe, 1-2 Tabl. would be fine. Just make sure to mix it well into the milk. It can be added at anytime in the process).
Heat the desired quantity of milk to 105 degrees F
Add 1 heaping tbsp of commercial yoghurt (she does not reference live active cultures but you know the drill). Or use a commercial yoghurt starter and then add the appropriate amount of milk.
Cap container and place in an ice chest
Fill chest with 110 degree F water to the neck of the containers (can be a lot of water if you are only making one quart. I sometimes fill it to just have the height and it works out fine. Do pay attention to the temperature dropping. Sometimes, if the cooler is ajar or does not keep the water at the right temperature you may need to add more hot water.)
Allow to ripen 8 - 12 hours until thick. Refrigerate
Thanks, Donna! I'll give it a try.
Here's a link to making yogurt in the crockpot on low (I've done this with good results). I'm not entirely sure what the temp is on low but I think you should be safe. It seems she may also have suggestions for counter top yogurt.
Here's another link to making yogurt at a low temp on the stove top.
I had a light-bulb moment after hearing my SIL (a former neo-natel nurse) caution her son-in-law who who was just a few-days-old dad to take care to not over-heat the breast milk in order to protect the natural nutrients.
Since then I heat my raw milk to a gentle body-temp degree...85- 90+ degrees. It takes much longer to set since I usually don't add (or take away!) anything. The raw milk ferments its own cultures & it is my understanding that the longer the fermentation, the more lactobacillus is formed. So, I amped up my patience & let it ferment the 20 - 24 or so hours necessary.
I sometimes preheat my oven to warm & then turn it off, and generally use the oven light to maintain a warmer environment than my kitchen. I sometimes wish I had a smaller unit...maybe the size of the old briskers, but until then..
I also use raw milk, so I've experimented with finding the right temp. My yogurt is slightly less firm using a lower temp, but I found a happy medium that I like if I heat it to something around 145 - 150.
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FC Seoul 3-1 Seongnam (23:10:11)
Dominic Norris pushes the boundaries of European Football Weekends by around five thousand miles to bring us a report from a match involving two of South Korea's footballing heavyweights...
Travelling from the relaxed, curious hubbub of South Korea's single largest populated island, Jeju-do, to the franetic, blurred motion of the nation's capital, Seoul, was enough of a shock enough to leave me feeling somewhat in limbo. Gone were the stunning beaches and waterfalls replaced by towering buildings that threaten only to get larger and larger as the fight for space among a thriving capital city reaches fever pitch.
My initial plans would have seen me visit a Jeju United match to watch a team rooted in a sense of disappointment at a season that has seemingly fallen well below the expectations set during previous campaigns. However circumstance meant that I ended up disregarding the need to see United in favour of the capital club and reigning champions - albeit for only a short while longer - FC Seoul.
The match against Seongham - the K-League's most successful club - promised to be a clash of the titans in spite of the poor performances by both clubs over the course of the season. It was somewhat disappointing to catch a match between two traditional powers so close to the end of the season where neither side had particularly much to play for other than pride - this was after all the final home game for Seoul.
Finding the ticket office proved to be the most difficult part of the afternoon. The Seoul World Cup Stadium is a 66,000 seater behemoth that takes a bloody long time to walk aimlessly around multiple times. Judging by the large signs that surrounded the stadium I could buy a ticket from one of four offices situated at two ends of the ground. It sounds simple but when the signs are out of date and leading you to ticket offices that are in fact no longer in use it becomes a little more complicated. However after blindly heading up the ramp that towers over a main road up to the stadium's first tier I finally managed to trade my 7,000 won - just under £4 - for a seat in the stadium.
The pre-match entertainment contained a large helping of the X Factor.
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The Seoul World Cup Stadium aka The Sangam Stadium. Built for the 2002 World cup and designed to represent the image of a traditional Korean kite.
The game itself was a fairly eventful and entertaining affair. Both sides seemed intent on attacking and Seoul intially started on the front foot with Mauricio Molina and Dejan Damjanovic linking up nicely and looking most likely to break the deadlock. After 20 minutes there was a lull in the game - as well as in the stands - which seemingly caused the big screens to light up and announce that it was 'Vuvuzela Time' followed by the dispicable din of thousands of horns. They're bad enough on television but in real life it only gets worse - afterwards in the stadium shop I witnessed an old man, possibly 70ish, attempting to draw noise from a vuvuzela and I think I died a little inside.
I had initially looked on mockingly at a small band of fans towards the front of the stand where I was seated - next to a large collective of military types - who donned Seongham's bright yellow shirts and chanted relatively proficiently. I thought it somewhat cute that this tiny band of merry men had made the trip to the capital to support their club however upon Seongham opening the scoring - through Sung Chan Jeon after 25 minutes - I was slapped in the face by some crazy occurrence. The entire stand cheered. Was I somehow unwittingly seated in the away stand - despite there being no pre designated seats?! No, as it turns out, I was not sat in the away end for as Seoul grabbed their deserved equaliser the entire stand again erupted in cheers.
This struck me as stange having only ever really watched football in the flesh in England where the tribalist manner of the game tends to lead support towards one team or another, with very little in between. However it seems as though Korean football is yet to truly establish a true identity for itself among its people. The stadium was fuller than I had anticipated however it seemed to be predominantely made up of children and their parents who appeared to view the football as merely being a day out - as opposed to a signal of commitment to FC Seoul.
Seoul's equaliser came through Tae Hwan Kim who's goal just before half time brought Seoul back into the game after a period of frustration. The goal also saw a fresh rendition of a song that flowed along to the tune of 'If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands' - whether they were the actual words being sung, however, is another matter altogether as my Korean leaves much to be desired.
SSID (Seoul & Sun In Dream) the mascot. An extraterrestrial, obviously. SSID was beamed down to the stadium in his intergalactic spaceship in 2006.
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The half time whistle brought about another unexpected surprise. While I was tucking into another kimbap the stadium announcer, rather giddily, said something to the delight of much of the crowd who were actually paying attention. It turns out that former Tottenham Hotspur full back Lee Young-Pyo was in attendance and onto the pitch he strolled to give, what I can only assume to be a truly memorable speech, after picking up an award of sorts.
The referee's whistle announcing the beginning of the second half was met with the loud crack of red fireworks which further added to the already surreal string of events that had already taken place - did I mention that I bought my kimbap from a supermarket built into the stadium? The second half itself threatened to be a fairly drab affair as neither side could quite find the final ball to create a signficiant chance - despite Seoul dominating possession of the ball. However with just over 10 minutes to go - the obvious fan's favourite - Damjanovic produced a moment of brilliance that put Seoul ahead. His swivel and volley from the edge of the area, despite him losing his footing, was a goal that any forward would relish and it sent Seoul on their way to the three points.
Molina later bundled home a header from close range with merely seconds left on the clock and so when the ref blew for full time the curtain was drawn on Seoul's season in their home city. The inevitable lap of honour, applauding the 40,000 plus fans, ensued with a certain degree of appreciation sent back from the depths of the stands as the stadium emptied at a rapid rate.
My introduction to Korean football was both eye opening and interesting. The enticement of so many families to watch Seoul is obviously a promising development as the club looks to ensure that future generations of fans are secured. There are many nation's across Europe who are attempting to acheive just what Seoul have managed to in order to reduce the militant nature of the game and secure its future as a spectator sport. It's because of Seoul's desire to aid the development of new generations of football fans that the gimmicks of fireworks and vuvuzelas are necessary - however one would hope that somewhere down the line such methods will not need to be utilised.
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Compression molding mass out of aircraft interiors
Continuous carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic lightweights smoke detector pan and slashes production cycle time.
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- Compression molded "smoke pan" designed for conversion from 2-D to 3-D form.
- Hat angle and plateau optimized to prevent part from shrinking against mold surfaces.
- Angle changes optimized with radii to minimize fiber wrinkling and maintain structural integrity.
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There has been much talk in the aerospace industry over the past few years about the potential for use of thermoplastic composites in the aerostructures of future aircraft. Indeed, R&D efforts are underway in the U.S. and in Europe to assess the viability of a variety of carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastics in everything from wing structures to fuselage sections to empennage components. If, and how much, thermoplastics will actually be used in primary and secondary commercial aerostructures remains to be seen. In the past decade, Airbus SA's (Toulouse, France) decision to incorporate thermoplastic composites into wing leading edges was big news, but was also the exception (see "Thermoplastic composites gain leading edge in the A380," under "Editor's Picks," at top right).
That said, thermoplastic composites, carbon and glass fiber-reinforced, have already won their way into commercial aircraft interiors in a variety of applications — some structural, such as brackets and clips, and some semistructural. An example of the latter, and a testimony to the lengths aircraft OEMs are now willing to go to lightweight their aircraft to enhance fuel economy, is Triumph Composite Systems' (Spokane, Wash.) continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic smoke detector pan. The tray-shaped composite component (see photo, p. 55) is inverted and installed in the aircraft ceiling in many places to provide a mounting space for onboard smoke detectors.
Triumph converted the pan from a hand layup/vacuum bag design. It's molded from a four-ply 0.045-inch/1.1-mm thick PEI blank supplied by TenCate Advanced Composites USA (Morgan Hill, Calif.) under the Cetex brand. The total surface area of the pan is 320 in2/0.2m2 and it features a hat section that is 3 inches/76 mm deep. Although the pan is glass-reinforced, it illustrates many of the same design lessons Triumph has learned working with continuous carbon fiber.
Housed in a facility once occupied by a unit of The Boeing Co. (Chicago, Ill.), Triumph is a prolific compression molder. Nick Busch, R&D engineer at Triumph, says the company's smoke pan is a good example of what has become Triumph's specialty — converting labor-intensive, long cycle-time thermoset-based composite parts to highly automated, short cycle-time thermoplastic-based composites that are manufactured, primarily, via compression molding.
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Why go to the trouble for a part so small? The appeal of thermoplastics is understandable: Ease of handling, ease of processability, recyclability, toughness and, notably, no lengthy and expensive cure in an autoclave. Further, aircraft interiors present unique challenges that revolve primarily around fire, smoke and toxicity (FST) mitigation: In case of a crash or onboard fire, aircraft interior components must not only resist burning, but must also self-extinguish after flame source is removed. According to U.S. Federal Aviation Admin. (FAA) standards, most aircraft interior components must not allow a flame burn length of more than 8 inches/203 mm. Further, after removal of the flame source, the flame on the component may not persist for more than 15 seconds.
Compression molding, too, has strong appeal, particularly for aerospace manufacturers who are frustrated by the process inconsistencies inherent in hand-layup, autoclave-based molding processes. Compression molding of thermoplastics typically starts with a preconsolidated blank, usually consisting of several plies of carbon or glass fiber fabric (unidirectional or woven) oriented to meet the mechanical requirements of the application. The reinforcements are infused with a thermoplastic resin, which in aerospace applications is likely to be an engineered material: polyetherimide (PEI), polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), polyetheretherketone (PEEK) or polyetherketoneketone (PEKK).
Although preconsolidated blanks can be manufactured in-house, they also are available from established third parties. Triumph's pan blanks, for example, are supplied by TenCate Advanced Composites USA, and vary in size, depending on the size of the final part. The molder, then, can order and receive raw materials with a defined and consistent fiber volume fraction and thickness. Additionally, RTP blanks, unlike thermoset prepreg, require no refrigeration and can be stored at room temperature indefinitely.
2-D becomes 3-D
In preparation for molding at Triumph, a blank is usually placed in a frame or attached to a carrier sheet that helps keep the blank properly positioned and oriented in the mold. Frames and carriers also offer cycle-to-cycle positional consistency, a key factor in part repeatability. Next, the blank, on its frame or carrier, is transferred robotically to a preheater (infrared or other heat source) that heats the blank to more than 600°F/315°C, thereby softening it in preparation for molding. The time required for preheating depends on the size and thickness of the blank (usually 0.010 to 0.250 inch or 0.254 mm to 6.35 mm), as well as the resin type, but can take as long as 10 minutes. After preheating, the blank is shuttled into a mold (the mold tools are held at an elevated temperature, typically below the Tg of the material), which immediately closes on the blank and forces the now-soft material to assume the shape of the mold. Robotic handling systems and a prescribed, consistent preheating process also ensure repeatability.
After forming, the part is cooled to harden the matrix and then demolded. Typically, and unlike a thermoset composite part, a thermoplastic blank is designed with sacrificial material on its edges to provide a gripping surface for the positioning frame. This material is removed postmold via machining or trimming to bring the part to its final dimensions. (Also, Busch points out, any porosity problems in thermoplastic parts tend to occur near those edges.) This step can be followed by drilling and/or other finishing steps.
Design challenges
As with every composites manufacturing process, compression molding is ideal for some applications, but not all. Undercuts, sharp angles and complex curvatures are at best difficult if not occasionally impossible. Further, converting an existing part from infusion or a similar process to compression molding, as Triumph does regularly, is more complicated than simply transferring CAD files.
Because compression molding involves the conversion of a flat, effectively 2-D blank into a complex 3-D part, there are, says Triumph's Busch, certain design rules that must be followed and limitations that must be respected. The rules grow out of the fact that the process induces forces that tend to produce fiber bending, stretching, buckling and wrinkling during the conversion from flat to contoured forms. Many of these principles are illustrated in the smoke pan, which presents several challenges that were met by not readily obvious design solutions.
First, says Busch, with the exception of L- or C-brackets, vertical part walls are strongly discouraged because, as a thermoplastic material cools, it shrinks and "grabs" tooling surfaces. A part with vertical walls thus tends to grip the mold surface against which it was formed, making part removal difficult. The rule of thumb is to design vertical walls with a draft angle of at least 2°. "We like drafted walls better than vertical walls," he says. As is apparent in the illustration on p. 55, Triumph's smoke detector pan features a hat section with 15° slopes. Further, says Busch, any hat or pyramid shape like the one on the smoke pan should terminate in a flat surface and not reach a peak.
Second, because continuous glass and carbon fiber tend to wrinkle and buckle when formed around highly concave or convex surfaces, and because such wrinkling compromises the structural integrity of the part, angle changes must be carefully designed and managed. On the smoke pan, for example, a prescribed, curved radius is used to transition fiber and material from one angle to another at the top and the bottom of the hat section, minimizing stress on the fiber and maintaining structural integrity.
"When you go from 2-D to 3-D," says Busch, "you have to think about what happens when something goes around a corner."
Triumph's design software is used to simulate fiber bending as much as possible, but, says Busch, "usually we just rely on trial and error." As a result, Triumph has developed extensive and proprietary design guidelines that help the company optimize a design for thermoplastic compression molding.
Another factor Triumph has to consider, says Busch, is the processing temperature of the resin. Some thermoplastics require temperatures as much as 100°F/38°C hotter than others, which adds time to the heating cycle. In addition, with so much heat buildup in the part, managing part cooling becomes a more critical concern so as to avoid postmold warpage.
Ultimately, notes Busch, one of the great limiting factors that prevent aerospace parts manufacturers from embracing thermoplastic compression molding is tooling cost. "But," he says, "you have to look at the full picture to see what the value is." Such value is built into every stage of the process: High automation, short cycle times and enviable process consistency. Busch says that for the smoke pan, the cost/benefit cutoff for compression molding is about 115 parts/month. Further, Triumph requires only two blank configurations to mold 10 unique part numbers. Most importantly, the smoke detector pan underscores the greatest benefit of conversion from a thermoset layup-based to compression-molded version: a production cycle time savings of 75 percent — a factor any aircraft designer will find not difficult to convert to a dollar value.
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Donald Schnurer: "Why let it hold me back when it's not really in the way?"
A Lake Geneva baseball player is making quite an impression on the field not only for his play, but for the challenge he overcomes in order to play.
Donald Schnurer, a junior at Badger High School, has been playing baseball since fourth grade.
"I've played a bunch of sports my whole life," Schnurer said. "But baseball is always the one I've been best at."
Schnurer was born with a partially-formed right arm. He is missing his forearm and two fingers, but that has never stopped him from playing the sport he loves.
"It's really just a matter of adjustment," he said. "It's not impossible to do anything with my arm like it is, I just got to adjust to different things."
Coach Aaron Zweifel said Schnurer's ability, plus his desire to compete, helps the team in many ways.
"He just blows me away every day," Zweifel said. "He plays any position you want him to. He does whatever you need him to do."
And the crowd that has followed him also appreciates his desire to win.
"He's a spitfire," said Kim Andresen, who has seen Schnurer come up through the leagues. "He's always given it everything he's got."
Andresen said calling Schnurer's arm a disability is simply not true in his case. "It doesn't hinder him a bit," she said.
Schnurer hopes to move on and play baseball in college, possibly at UW-Whitewater. His fans believe his passion and talent will take him there.
"It's a game I love, and love to play," he said. "Why let it hold me back when it's not really in the way?"
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|There was this great Conan O'Brian where we discovered that all bottled waters are actually filled by a single fat man sitting in the back of the studio while laughing maniacally and stuffing his face with potato chips.
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|i wont lie, fiji water does taste really good (if you think water has no taste, i beg to differ, taste arizona water). but really, what's the point of forking so much money. just buy yourself a good water filter system. youre already paying a water bill, make ir work for you.
|May 14th, 2009 11:24 PM
|If I know someone who only drinks these f'king expensive bottled waters, I'm never going to speak with that person again...
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|Sep 26th, 2008 08:55 AM
|Damm "wobzire", there goes my million dollar idea
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|Sep 25th, 2008 01:06 PM
|I'm gonna start my own water company. It'll be called "just plain old tap" It's for all those people who like the convenience of water in a bottle but aren't stupid enough to act like their getting anything else anyway.
|May 28th, 2008 08:06 PM
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|I put liquor in Fred and started driving, I got pulled over and exclaimed, "It's just water" Cool thing is, I got away with it.
|Apr 22nd, 2008 07:45 PM
Proud to say I drink whatever's cheepest. (Our tap water isn't what I'd call good.)
But I think I shall start naming my water. Like this bottle I'm drinking here, this is now Larry. mmm... Larry, you're refreshing!
|Apr 18th, 2008 09:35 AM
|Count Mek
Woah, I'm drinking good ol' tap water, and it doesn't have a commmenor name like Fred, pfft. ¬¬
Great article though XD
|Apr 16th, 2008 11:40 PM
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|Deer Park should be called Deer Piss. That's what it is, ya'know. Deer Piss.
|Apr 15th, 2008 07:52 AM
|My sister drinks tthat Fiji Water. Unfortunately, she always gets nearly killed by the bettas she puts in it :-)
|Apr 14th, 2008 07:36 PM
|You guys forgot Evian -- which is literally "naive" spelled backwards.
|Apr 14th, 2008 05:09 PM
I live in Michigan, my water comes piped in from Lake Erie. At home I drink from the tap. I drink bottled water at work because the building is old and the pipes leave black flecks in the water. We buy the bottled water in bulk and store brand from Sam's club.
And yes I was wondering about the "Taint" water too.
|Apr 14th, 2008 06:46 AM
|Strange Bottles you have over there...I love water, since it is the best liquid there is, but I don´t give too much though about if it´s from some lake in france or from our own springs...it´s just water and water is good.
|Apr 14th, 2008 12:30 AM
Great piece...
i used to date a guy who drank only fiji water. i kind of always thought he was a douchebag and now your article confirmed it. :D
|Apr 13th, 2008 11:55 PM
|I'm amazed you didn't slam-dunk Deer Park.
|Apr 13th, 2008 09:24 AM
|Terror Dino
What i find funny is that Aveta apperently comes from ireland yet isnt in any shop over here that i've been in. Wouldnt it be cheaper to produce for the home market rather then to ship the water over the water to the states? But then again this world is full crazy shit like that. Well that or really its just some guy (named Bob) filling the bottles from the mains laughing like a mainac. Thanking only fools and horses for this excillent idea.
God Damn Bob!
|Apr 13th, 2008 08:54 AM
|Cpt. Beardless
Whoa, some of those bottles are awesome! I'd buy them without the water if it was possible. Also, I need a Fred just so I can go around thirsty girls offering them some "Fred"(it's awesome because I'M Fred).
I'm more of a tap water person, bottled water just has a bad taste or in most cases, it's carbonated.
|Apr 13th, 2008 07:18 AM
|Le Bleu might be one of the funniest things I've seen in my life.
|Apr 13th, 2008 05:27 AM
heavy water, all, the isotopes...
but whenever i travel overseas,
i usually drink "Le Vie" water
|Apr 13th, 2008 03:22 AM
Call me a snob, but I prefer heavy water.
look it up
|Apr 13th, 2008 02:05 AM
|flouride is evil.
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(CBS/AP) PHOENIX - Michael Guzzo was becoming increasingly unhinged for months by the incessant dog barking coming from homes all around him. He even put up fliers on doors throughout his Phoenix townhome complex advising people of pet ordinances and fines.
Police say this weekend the 56-year-old went on a rampage, methodically killing four members of a family who lived next door,along with their two dogs. He then walked across a courtyard and tried to kill more neighbors with dogs, before he returned home and killed himself.
One of the victims, Renee Moore, "told me all the time the man was crazy," said her mother-in-law, Jacque Alderman, 70. "He just couldn't stand the dogs."
Also killed in the Saturday shooting were Moore's father, Bruce Moore, 66; her husband, Michael Moore, 42, who used his wife's last name; and her son, Shannon Moore, 17.
While Guzzo's motive died with him, neighbors and family members of the victims pointed to his growing annoyance with noise from neighborhood dogs.
"He hated them. But everyone here has dogs," said Joni Flood, 27, who lives a few doors down from the victims.
Libni Deleon, 26, said he returned home from work just a few months ago to find Guzzo standing by his back gate, where Deleon's two dogs were on the patio barking.
"He said, 'Your dogs are barking. I'm here to live in peace,'" Deleon recalled.
Moments after Saturday's killings, Guzzo went back to Deleon's home and began kicking on the front door.
Deleon's wife, Vanessa, had just gotten out of the shower. She grabbed their two children and ran upstairs to hide in the bathtub.
Libni Deleon went toward the door as Guzzo blasted two holes through it, sending about 20 shotgun pellets into the walls at the back of their home.
He ran upstairs to get his gun, opened the window and began to yell at Guzzo, who opened fire again before walking back to his own home to kill himself.
"I feel pretty darn lucky," Libni Deleon said.
The victims' family members, meanwhile, are struggling to come to grips with their loss, dumbfounded by the sheer senselessness of the killings.
Standing amid pools of drying blood on the home's back patio where the two men were apparently shot first, Michael Moore's brother called the killings "angering beyond belief."
"It just angers me looking at all this because I just feel for my brother," said Patrick Riley, 41. "The helplessness."
The patio wall was chipped with pockmarks from the shotgun's blast. Police haven't given specific details of the attack, but Riley said he thinks Guzzo shot his brother over a 6-foot cinderblock fence while he worked on an engine.
"He had no idea what was coming," Riley said. Bruce Moore was killed a few feet away near the patio door to the home.
Riley said police told him Guzzo killed the two men first, then walked through the family's unlocked front door and shot Renee, her son, Shannon, and the dogs.
The killer was no stranger to the family, even though they had little contact with him, Alderman said. Renee Moore had told her repeatedly that Guzzo hated the dogs.
Alderman sobbed Monday as she stood outside the home while other family members gathered on the porch where the two men, including her son, were shot.
"I don't want to see the blood," she said with a heavy sigh.
Phoenix Sgt. Steve Martos said authorities can only speculate on a motive for the killings.
"If he had left a note, maybe," Martos said, "but nothing like that occurred in this case."
Janet Guzzo, Michael Guzzo's ex-wife, told CBS affiliate KPHO that he had cut ties with his family members over 25 years ago after years of mental and physical abuse from his father.
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Many people in Russia and the United Kingdom believe a teenage girl can identify diseases in patients better than their physicians. Investigators who tested the medical psychic for a Discovery Channel program don't agree.
One hundred ten years ago, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen announced the discovery of an invisible form of radiation that could make photographs of bones and organs inside a living human body. At first, many scientists called the discovery of mysterious "X-rays" a hoax, but when the skeptics put Roentgen's claims to the test, they were quickly convinced about one of the greatest discoveries in science and medicine. Indeed, just six years after his discovery, Roentgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics.
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After the CSICOP-CSMMH test of Natasha Demkina, a Discovery Channel photographer takes publicity shots for The Girl with X-ray Eyes. The program, already broadcast several times in Europe and Asia, has never been shown in North America. The author believes the program may be considered too skeptical for a more credulous American audience. Photo credit: Andrew A. Skolnick.
In March 2004, Monica Garnsey, the producer-director of a Discovery Channel documentary on Natasha, asked the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) to scientifically test the young woman's claims for the program. Because Natasha's paranormal claims involved medical diagnoses, I was asked to join CSICOP fellows Ray Hyman and Richard Wiseman in designing an appropriate preliminary test, to see if the medical psychic's abilities warranted further study. (Hyman's accompanying article, "Testing Natasha," is the report of those tests.)
Examining the claims of medical psychics like Natasha Demkina presents unique difficulties beyond the usual problems involved in testing dowsers, mind readers, and most other paranormal claimants. For example, we needed to consider the logistical, legal, and ethical concerns regarding the privacy of subjects' medical information. Barrie Cassileth, chief of Integrative Medicine Service and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair in Integrative Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, was willing to help us recruit volunteer subjects through the Center. However, the Center declined involvement in the documentary, so Cassileth could only assist us unofficially by recruiting four of the seven volunteers we needed from her personal acquaintances.
We wanted a test that would prevent Natasha from making diagnoses that could not be disproved, as is her usual practice. So we settled on a simple test design that required Natasha to find already established medical abnormalities in the test subjects. This not only eliminated the problem of her giving us a long list of health problems that cannot be disproved, it eliminated the problem of subjects trying to force Natasha's vague comments to fit their existing problems. And it prevented the potential harm that could result from subjects being frightened into undergoing unnecessary and invasive medical tests to rule out diseases that Natasha claims to see.
Such a calamity happened to Dr. Christopher Steele, the host of a medical television show in the United Kingdom, who in 2004 invited Natasha on his show to provide "medical readings." When she read Steele, she said she saw something wrong with his gall bladder and that he had kidney stones and an enlarged liver and pancreas. The physician rushed off to have a battery of expensive and invasive clinical tests-which found nothing wrong with him.3 In addition to being exposed to unnecessary diagnostic radiation, he had a colonoscopy, which is not without risks. Studies have found that .2 percent (two tenths of one percent) or more of patients who undergo colonoscopic screening suffer a bowel perforation, which can lead to life-threatening infection and the need for surgery.4,5
We wanted to conduct a blinded test. Natasha claims to see through people's clothing, yet she says she cannot see through a fabric screen, which we wanted to use to prevent her from seeing the test subjects. We found this unexplained contradiction curious-and frustrating: Any test she would agree to would have to allow her to study the test subjects using her normal senses. As Hyman points out, this study flaw alone could provide an astute person powerful clues about a person's health problems. It would be less of a problem if we were able to recruit subjects who were physically and demographically similar. Unfortunately, we had great difficulty recruiting subjects for the test and had to settle for several people with characteristics that suggested their target conditions.
Natasha claims she can see everything inside of people's bodies down to the cellular level, and her mother says her readings are 100 percent accurate. So the test-which required her to match at least five of the target medical conditions to the correct subjects-should have been very easy compared with her normal readings. She didn't have to scan entire bodies looking for unknown conditions. She was told exactly what to look for and exactly where to look. Yet it took her more than four hours to complete the test and, inexplicably, she took an hour to examine the seven subjects before deciding which one was missing a large part of her left lung! She guessed that one correctly, but why would anyone who claims to be able to see "every cell" inside a person take an hour to decide which person was missing a large portion of one lung?
Natasha matched only four of the conditions correctly-a score that everyone prior to the test had agreed would not justify further testing. Natasha's most dramatic misdiagnosis was her failure to see a large metal plate covering a missing section of skull in a man who had a large brain tumor removed. Instead, she indicated that she "saw" a metal plate and missing skull section in a man who had his appendix removed but a normal skull.
There was an error in our test protocol, which could have been much more embarrassing for us, had Natasha had the power to see it. Although our test design6 required no more than one subject to have any of the target medical conditions, we discovered after the test was over that the man who had a metal plate in his head also had undergone an appendectomy. He had forgotten to mention this when he was recruited but brought it up after the test because a missing appendix had been one of the test target conditions. This mistake gave Natasha twice the chance of correctly guessing which subject was missing his or her appendix. Despite having twice the odds of being correct, she still chose a subject with an intact appendix.
This is one of the six test cards that were used to assess Natasha's ability to see abnormalities within the subject's bodies. In English and in Russian, the card directed Natasha to identify the number of the subject who doesn't have an appendix. Natasha answered subject number 2 — a woman who still has her appendix. Natasha protested during the test that appendixes can grow back after an appendectomy. When told this isn't possible, she insisted that they do grow back in Russia. Photo credit: Andrew A. Skolnick.
After the test, Natasha asked if she could give me a medical reading in the hope of convincing me that her powers are real. With CSICOP's Senior Research Fellow Joe Nickell taking notes, I agreed. Her reading, in which she scanned me from head to toes while describing the abnormalities she saw, took about ten minutes. Few of my organs passed the inspection: My neck vertebrae were too tight, too close. The bronchial tubes of my lungs had phlegm causing me to cough. The muscle on the left side of my heart is a bit weak and the valve closes late. The mucosa of my stomach is abnormal. A segment of my liver was enlarged and I was suffering poor bile circulation. The head of my pancreas is increased and abnormally dark (although not seriously). My duodenum has a little scar. My prostate gland has a nodule and is inflamed. My right kidney has "sand," while my left kidney's urethra is enlarged. In other words, I should forget about ever again signing an organ donor card.
Neither my physician nor I are aware of any of these problems. Nevertheless, Natasha and her supporters claim she sees what doctors and their tests often miss. The only way I could prove her wrong would be to submit to an autopsy-which I'm not quite ready to do.
I believe Natasha may have been making some bad guesses based on non-paranormal observations. While the test was ongoing, I swallowed some water down my wind pipe, which triggered a loud fit of coughing. It was so loud that someone had to close the briefing room door. Natasha apparently misjudged the cause of my coughing. My shoulders and neck were sore and tired from lugging around my luggage and a heavy camera bag. She apparently misread my drooping posture as a sign of a spinal problem. And earlier, I had complained to the Russian translator that I had a headache (from stress and lack of sleep). I suspect that information may have been passed on to Natasha, who wrongly attributed the problem to narrowed blood vessels in my neck. Even more telling was what Natasha didn't "see." She failed to point out any of my confirmed health problems, which include hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, recent colon surgery, nasal polyps, a very narrow pharynx, and sleep apnea. She also didn't see the calcified plaque in two of my coronary arteries that was documented by spiral CT scan.
Natasha Demkina supporters widely site this "diagnostic" drawing of a "sarcoidosis granuloma" as evidence of her remarkable X-ray vision. Yale Rosen, M.D., a leading expert on sarcoidosis granuloma, however, disagrees. Frame from the Discovery Channel program The Girl with X-ray Eyes. Copyright 2004 Discovery Channel.
The Discovery Channel program, The Girl with X-ray Eyes, has already been broadcast several times over the past six months in Europe and Asia,7 but has not been broadcast in North America. The program highlights one of Natasha's most impressive diagnoses, involving a man who says he had been treated for tuberculosis for a year yet hadn't gotten any better. In desperation, he turned to Natasha for help. Unable to describe what she saw in the man's lungs, she drew a picture. With the help of Natasha's drawing, the man got a referral to a doctor in Moscow, who claimed to see the same thing through her microscope and that the drawing is indicative of an inflammatory disease lesion called sarcoidosis granuloma. That's a remarkable confirmation of the young psychic's powers-at least for viewers who don't have a clue what sarcoidosis granulomas look like.
It didn't look like any pathological finding I've seen, so I sent an image of the drawing to Yale Rosen, M.D., Professor of Pathology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, a leading expert on sarcoidosis granuloma, whose Atlas of Granulomatous Diseases is widely used in the training of pathologists.8 Here is Dr. Rosen's opinion of Demkina's drawing:
Try as I might I can see no resemblance whatsoever of this drawing to a granuloma or to any other microscopic pathologic finding that I know of. If I were presented with this drawing and no background history I would guess that it was made by a 4-6 year old child who was trying to depict a human-like head with four appendages (? arms and legs) attached. If Ms. Demkina is claiming that a physician made a diagnosis of sarcoidosis based upon this drawing I would say that that's simply unbelievable.
We've asked the producer/director several times when the documentary may be broadcast in the United States. We have not received an answer. I am afraid that Discovery Channel may consider the program too skeptical for the American audience. I hope I will be proven wrong.
- Moniche, Igor. 2004. X-ray girl sees right through Sun man. The Sun. Available at satori-5.co.uk.
- Hagan, Lucy. 2004. Girl "sees" broken bones. The Sun. Available at groups.msn.com.
- TV doctor in health scare after meeting "X-ray vision" girl. 2004. Ananova. Available at ananova.com.
- Kavic, S.M. and M.D. Brasson. 2001. Complications of endoscopy. American Journal of Surgery. April; 181(4):319-32.
- Anderson, M.L. et al. 2000. Endoscopic perforation of the colon: lessons from a 10-year study. American Journal of Gastroenterology December; 95(12):3418-22.
- Test Design and Procedures for Preliminary Study of Natasha Demkina. 2004. CSICOP and CSMMH. Available at www.demkina/ demkina. protocols.doc.
- The Girl with X-ray Eyes. 2004. The Human Files series, Discovery Channel. Program description available at discoverychannel.co.uk.
- Rosen, Yale. Atlas of Granulomatous Diseases. Available at granuloma.homestead.com.


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After all these years of chanting "ABC" under our breaths when confronted with a collapsed patient, healthcare providers need to change their chant to "CAB." The American Heart Association has issued new guidelines for emergency resuscitation. The new standards direct rescuers to use the mnemonic CAB to remind them to address the situation in the following order:
C: Compressions
A: Airway
B: Breathing
But even more importantly, when a lay person in an out-of-hospital situation (for example in a home or public place) encounters an adult who has collapsed, the AHA is recommending "Hands-only CPR." No rescue breaths are given at all — instead, the bystander/rescuer is instructed to call 911 (or send someone else at the scene to call 911) and to immediately begin chest compressions.
"Compressions" refers to the act of pumping on the chest of someone whose heart has stopped. By pushing correctly in the center of the chest, the heart can continue pumping blood throughout the body, ensuring that vital tissues (such as the brain, the heart muscle, the kidneys, etc.) continue to receive oxygen. The compressions should be performed at a rate of about 100 per minute, and to a chest depth of about 2 inches. Compressions should be maintained until trained help arrives.
One hundred compressions per minute is a pretty good clip — when I had training recently, the instructor suggested pumping to the rhythm of the Bee Gees' song "Staying Alive." (He also pointed out that the song "Another One Bites the Dust" provided the same pace, but suggested this might be a less palatable song to be humming during a rescue.)
Research has shown that hands-only CPR saved lives 22 percent more than the traditional method of alternating breathing and compressions. Estimates suggest that training the public to use hands-only CPR could save 3,000 people yearly in the United States.
Check out handsonlycpr.org to get more information, or better yet, contact your local American Heart Association or Red Cross and sign up for a CPR course.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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