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This card is a great choice for those who need to make lots of purchases online or over the phone. You can use the NetSpend Card to buy clothes or toys, rent a car, or reserve a hotel. And with its great rewards program the more you spend the more you earn.
Issued by Inter National Bank and MetaBank, the NetSpend Card is a prepaid card that is available either as a MasterCard or a Visa card. Depending on your choice as a consumer, you can use your MasterCard or Visa prepaid card at any online or retail location that these cards are accepted. They can also be used to make purchases over the phone, to buy gas, reserve a hotel room, or even rent a car.
Applying for this card is as simple as clicking on the link below and filling out a brief application. All you need to do is supply your name, address, phone number, date of birth, and a social security number for verification of your identification. Then within 7-10 days you will receive a personalized card that you'll need to activate and can then start using immediately.
Along with being easy to get, this card will also make it easy to spend. But you don't have to worry about overspending because you can never spend more than what you have preloaded into your account. Unlike a credit card, with this prepaid debit card there is no chance of bounced checks, overdraft charges or high interest rates.
In addition, carrying a NetSpend plastic card is much safer than cash and it comes with some great added bonuses, rewards, and low fees. Customers also have access to their online account 24/7 along with some great money management tools.
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Like many other prepaid cards, the NetSpend Visa or MasterCard is a great choice for anyone who is looking for a convenient way to make purchases or pay bills using plastic instead of checks or cash. If you fall into any of the following categories then you'll definitely want to learn more about this convenient card.
- Bad credit or no credit
- No bank account
- Trying to stay out of debt
- Want to manage money
- Rejection from credit card companies
This card is a great choice for people who have bad credit or no credit. There is no credit check or calls to a credit bureau so anyone who applies is guaranteed 100% approval. And when you are struggling to get a traditional credit card or even open a bank account you can count on NetSpend to provide you with an alternate form of spending.
If you have struggled with overdraft charges or having to pay off high interest rates in the past then you'll also want to get your hands on this card. Not only do you never have to worry about paying these outrageous charges but you'll also have some great tools at your fingertips to help you learn to budget and manage your money better for future spending as well.
Benefits - When you are trying to choose the best prepaid card for you and your family, it is important to find the one that best fits your needs and fits into your budget. Not all prepaid cards offer the same fees or the same benefits to its customers. But with the NetSpend prepaid card you can take advantage of some of these great additions:
- No credit check
- 100% guaranteed approval
- Online account access 24 hours a day
- Free direct deposit
- Free money transfers between cardholders
- Online or over the phone bill pay
- Money is FDIC insured
- Savings card for prescriptions
Rewards – Whether it's on necessities, to pay the bills, or to buy that new pair of shoes you've had your eye on it is impossible to avoid spending money. So why not earn something back for all of the daily purchases you make. When you use this card you'll be able to take advantage of the NetSpend Payback Rewards program.
The more you use the card the more rewards you can earn. Rewards are sent directly to your online account and you can choose from various merchants and the rewards you are most interested in. Once you redeem your offers by using your card, your account will be automatically credited with the amount of the reward.
- Log into your online account
- Look for offers on the transactions page
- Shop at the places listed that have active offers
- Earn cash back in your account
Unique Features - Prepaid cards are becoming an extremely competitive market. That is why many cards are looking for ways to make their services stand out and make their customers as happy as possible. These are a few of the unique features that NetSpend offers its valued customers.
- No sign-up fee
- No minimum card balance
- Online budgeting tools
- Accreditation from the Better Business Bureau along with an A+ rating
- Anytime Alerts – text messages about transactions and card balances
- 5% APY Savings Account
- Referral program –every time you refer a friend earn $20 for yourself and that friend when they sign up
- Customizable card – for an extra fee you can customize your card with a picture of your choice
Like many other cards there are some fees associated with the NetSpend Prepaid MasterCard and Visa Card. These fees are quite minimal and are lower than many other competitors' cards. Since this card provides such great features and amenities you will find that paying some low fees is well worth the service and convenience of using the card.
When choosing this card there are three separate purchase plans to choose from. Each plan varies in their fee schedule but is tailored to the individual needs of the cardholder. You will want to review each plan, assess your spending needs and decide which is best for you. There is the option of switching plans if you find yourself using a particular service more than another.
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|Online Account Management
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|Customized Card
|Online Bill Pay
|Check Refund
You work hard for your money so you shouldn't have to work hard or pay extra fees to have access to your money. That is why NetSpend gives its customers a variety of options for getting their hard earned cash into their account. Not only is the card convenient and easy to use, but reloading it is convenient and easy too.
One of the great features of this card is that you never have to carry a minimum balance. If your balance is $0, the only penalty is that you won't be able to make any purchases. This card also allows you deposit up to $10,000 on your card and guarantees that every penny is FDIC insured up the current amount. Your money is also safe and protected from fraud and identity theft.
With so many choices for reloading your card you'll never find yourself without sufficient funds for making purchases or paying bills. All of these methods are easy and most can be done online with just the click of a button. Check out all of the options this card has to offer.
- Direct Deposit – Whether it's a government issued check or a monthly paycheck you can have it deposited directly into your account by filling out the proper form and providing your employer with your account number. It's quick than cashing a check, completely free and if you deposit at least $500 each month you'll be upgraded to a Premier Card.
- Reload Network Locations – You can add cash or a check at more than 100,000 network locations including Western Union or participating grocery stores or gas stations by simply swiping your card and giving the cashier the amount you want to deposit.
- Bank Transfers – Money from a bank savings or checking account can easily be loaded to your card by simply giving your NetSpend account number to a bank teller or entering the number at the bank's online account manager.
- PayPal Transfers – Funds in your PayPal account from selling things online or receiving money sent from a friend's or family member's bank account can be directly sent to your card account with no fee to pay.
- Card-to-Card Transfers – Whether you're a parent transferring money to your child's card or need to share money with your spouse, it is quick and convenient to just enter their account number from your online account and hit transfer. This service is free if done online.
- NetSpend Reload Pack – These packs are available at several retail locations and are great for adding money to someone else's card or putting funds in your own account if you don't have your card at your disposal.
- Tax Refunds – After filing your tax return simply fill in the form with your account number and the refund will be sent directly to your card account. It's much faster than mailing your check along with being secure and totally free.


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Lots of stormy weather, but I got started on the battery cart. Should be able to finish up the remaining packs soon!
Blue Sea Bus Bars – https://amzn.to/2Yxo3sJ
Lots of stormy weather, but I got started on the battery cart. Should be able to finish up the remaining packs soon!
Blue Sea Bus Bars – https://amzn.to/2Yxo3sJ
Happy Star Wars Day! As a safety measure, I got some acrylic panels to put on the outside of the packs to keep from shorting them out if they touch each other once connected. Please share the link below with friends and family.
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Kinda all over the place this week, but made good progress. Great mitre saw technique suggestions! 4 down, 3 to go!
Second cell pack was a doosey. Placed an order, changed my mind, but think I finally figured it out.
I've made some progress, had some hiccups and Tom has some headway cells if you're looking for some. I'm working on several powerwall videos and hope to have them done soon. Storm season is approaching!
Tom's Headway Cells: https://ebay.to/2JupfKJ
Terry's Power2Spare eBay store: https://ebay.to/2R4PoTT
Proper Cell Soldering by "The Combat Engineer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtHw-RNyl3g
KWeld Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/KWeldNorthAmerica/
BUS BARS! I talk about making bus bars and how I'm planning to connect everything together. You won't want to miss it! 😀
Power2Spare has large, brushless fans for keeping the Opus BT-C3100s cool while you are processing cells. They cut the cycle time down vs the stock fans and work even better on the 1,000 mAh setting. The mod is simple, but I did have issues. Also shows test results.
I walk through my cell processing process to sort cells into groups and answer a question about lead-acid vs 18650s.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Kicking off a new year and a new project, but this one is not lighting related. Don't worry though, I have plenty to do with the display this year and will work on those at the same time.
Powerwall info page (helpful links): https://bit.ly/2QiAKDi

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Well, first of all... I am a bad aunt. I misspelled my little nieces name :( Anna René is the correct spelling. Here are a few more pictures of her from my parents camera and Zach & Jill's.
In other news, Danny & I were given a free overnight stay at a hotel about an hour away for our whole family. It's got a thermal pool and kid play area, etc. So we're excited to have our first family vacation--even though it's only one night and one day. I am so very excited! I hope the place is nice and all it's supposed to be (we've been told) either way though, it was FREE! We're aiming to have a long weekend in August with some friends. You know me... there will be pictures in a few days. So we leave in the morning.
Have a great week!!
-Aunt Krista-
ps-- Yes, we have another new niece, Zaylee Ann on Danny's side of the family and I posted the ONLY pictures I have of her. So I'm not playing favorites ;)


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The Condusiv blog shares insight into the issues surrounding system and application
performance—and how I/O optimization software is breaking new ground in solving
those issues.
In just 3 minutes, George Crump, Sr Analyst at Storage Switzerland, explains the real problem around fragmentation and SAN storage, debunks misconceptions, and describes what organizations are doing about it. It should be noted, that even though he is speaking about the Windows OS on physical servers, the problem is the same for virtual servers connected to SAN storage. Watch ->
In conversations we have with SAN storage administrators and even storage vendors, it usually takes some time for someone to realize that performance-robbing Windows fragmentation does occur, but the problem is not what you think. It has nothing to do with the physical layer under SAN management or latency from physical disk head movement.
When people think of fragmentation, they typically think in the context of physical blocks on a mechanical disk. However, in a SAN environment, the Windows OS is abstracted from the physical layer. The Windows OS manages the logical disk software layer and the SAN manages how the data is physically written to disk or solid-state.
What this means is that the SAN device has no control or influence on how data is written to the logical disk. In the video, George Crump describes how fragmentation is inherent to the fabric of Windows and what actually happens when a file is written to the logical disk in a fragmented manner – I/Os become fractured and it takes more I/O than necessary to process any given file. As a result, SAN systems are overloaded with a small, fractured, random I/O, which dampens overall performance. The I/O overhead from a fragmented logical disk impacts SAN storage populated with flash equally as much as a system populated with disk.
The video doesn't have time to go into why this actually happens, so here is a brief explanation:
Since the Windows OS takes a one-size-fits-all approach to all environments, the OS is not aware of file sizes. What that means is the OS does not look for the proper size allocation within the logical disk when writing or extending a file. It simply looks for the next available allocation. If the available address is not large enough, the OS splits the file and looks for the next available address, fills, and splits again until the whole file is written. The resulting problem in a SAN environment with flash or disk is that a dedicated I/O operation is required to process every piece of the file. In George's example, it could take 25 I/O operations to process a file that could have otherwise been processed with a single I/O. We see customer examples of severe fragmentation where a single file has been fractured into thousands of pieces at the logical layer. It's akin to pouring molasses on a SAN system.
Since a defragmentation process only deals with the problem after-the-fact and is not an option on a modern, production SAN without taking it offline, Condusiv developed its patented IntelliWrite® technology within both Diskeeper® and V-locity® that prevents I/Os from fracturing in the first place. IntelliWrite provides intelligence to the Windows OS to help it find the proper size allocation within the logical disk instead of the next available allocation. This enables files to be written (and read) in a more contiguous and sequential manner, so only minimum I/O is required of any workload from server to storage. This increases throughput on existing systems so organizations can get peak performance from the SSDs or mechanical disks they already have, and avoid overspending on expensive hardware to combat performance problems that can be so easily solved.
Tags: SAN, fragmentation, performance, WIndows, solid-state, ssd
Today we are very excited to announce the release of V-locity 4 VM Accelerator. With this latest release, V-locity increases VM and application performance by up to 50% and does so without any additional storage hardware.
Let's face it - in today's world of virtual environments, we generate a tremendous amount of data and it's only the beginning. In fact, findings included in a recent study by IDC titled "Extracting Value from Chaos" predict that in the next ten years we will create 50 times more information and 75 times more files.
The impact of this data explosion on server virtualization can often lead to I/O bottlenecks. This is because a physical server running multiple virtual machines (VMs) must often carry out far more I/O operations than one server running a single workload, and typical virtualization environments emulate I/O devices that run less efficiently than native I/O devices.
In essence, virtualization acts like a funnel, combining and mixing many disparate I/O streams, sending out to the disk what becomes a very random I/O pattern. To make matters worse, the more VMs are added, the more the issue is compounded as more I/O is "randomized." All of this has a very negative affect on storage performance, and renders time-honored techniques such as read-ahead buffers and caching algorithms far less effective than in conventional physical environments.
Storage I/O is the most critical issue in a virtualized environment, and can cause organizations to spend a great deal on storage, purchasing more and more disk spindles, but often using only a fraction of their capacity because of performance issues. The outcome is that, due to issues relating to performance bottlenecks in the storage infrastructure, some applications are deemed unable to be virtualized; however, a properly tuned storage environment might have accommodated those applications. So what's the alternative? The answer is V-locity 4 VM Accelerator.
V-locity 4 VM Accelerator provides:
What makes V-locity 4 so effective is its powerful toolkit of proactive technologies, including IntelliWrite,® V-Aware,® CogniSAN,® InvisiTasking® and the new IntelliMemory® RAM caching technology.New! IntelliMemory™ Caching TechnologyIntelliMemory intelligent caching technology boosts active data, improving I/O response time up to 50% or more while also eliminating unnecessary I/O operations from getting into the network or storage.Improved! IntelliWrite® TechnologyIntelliWrite automatically prevents the operating system from breaking files into pieces and writing those pieces in a performance penalized manner. This proactive approach improves performance up to 50% or more while preventing any negative impact to snapshots replication, data deduplication or thin provisioning growth. As this proactive approach happens at the server level, the network and shared storage simply has less I/O operations to transfer and process.New! Performance Benefit AnalyzerThe Performance Benefits Analyzer helps document the performance benefits of V-locity. The benefit analyzer looks at your current system performance, then compares these results to those after using V-locity to provide a detailed report showing specific improvements and benefits to your system.V-Aware® TechnologyV-Aware detects external resource usage from other virtual machines on the virtual platform and eliminates resource contention that might slow performance.CogniSAN® TechnologyCogniSAN detects external resource usage within a shared storage system, such as a SAN, and allows for transparent optimization by not competing for resources utilized by other VMs over the same storage infrastructure. And it does this without intruding in any way into SAN-layer operations.InvisiTasking® TechnologyInvisiTaksing allows all the V-locity 4 "background" operations within the VM to run with zero resource impact on current production.Set It and Forget It®Automatic and real-time operation.For more details and a FREE trial, visit www.condusiv.com/products/v-locity or call a sales representative at 1-800-829-6468.
Tags: vlocity, v-locity, vmware, hyperv, san, nas, virtualization, windows
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As high performing storage solutions based on block protocols (e.g. iSCSI, FC), SANs excel at optimizing block access. SANs work at a storage layer underneath the operating systems file system; usually NTFS when discussing Microsoft Windows®. That dictates that a SAN is unaware of "file" fragmentation and unable to solve this issue.
With file fragmentation causing the host operating system to generate additional unnecessary disk I/Os (more overhead on CPU and RAM) performance suffers. In most cases the randomness of I/O requests, due to fragmentation and concurrent data requests, the blocks that make up the file will be physically scattered in uneven stripes across a SAN LUN/aggregate. This causes even greater degradation in performance.
Fortunately there are simple solutions to NTFS file system fragmentation; fragmentation prevention and defragmentation. Both approaches solve file fragmentation at the source, the local disk file system.
IntelliWrite® "The only way to prevent fragmentation before it happens™"
IntelliWrite is an advanced file system driver that leverages and improves upon modern Windows' file system "Best Fit" file write design in order to write a file in a non-fragmented state on the initial write. Intelligently writing contiguous files to the disk provides four principal benefits above and beyond defragmentation, including:
While eliminating fragmentation improves performance. it is important to properly configure and account for advanced SAN features.
With the increasing popularity of SANs, we've included instructions in the Diskeeper installation to ensure users properly configure Diskeeper:
We suggest reading this full document before executing any of the recommended configurations. These instructions apply to V-locity (used on VMs as well).
Implementing Diskeeper on a SAN is simple and straightforward. There are two principal concepts to ensuring proper configuration and optimal results:
If you are implementing any of the following SAN based technologies such as Thin Provisioning, Replication, Snapshots, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) or Deduplication, it is recommended to follow these guidelines.
Defragmentation can cause unwanted side effects when any of the above referenced technologies are employed. These side effects include:
This is why it is important to enable the fragmentation prevention (IntelliWrite) and change the Automatic Defragmentation to occur during non-production periods to address the pre-existing fragmentation:
During Installation, disable Automatic Defragmentation;
Upon installation ensure IntelliWrite is enabled on all volumes (default). IntelliWrite was specifically designed to be 100% compatible with all advanced SAN features, and should be enabled on all SAN LUNs. IntelliWrite configuration is enabled or disabled per volume, and can be used in conjunction with Automatic Defragmentation, or exclusively.
Once installed, enable Automatic Defragmentation for any volumes that are not mapped to a SAN LUN. This may include the System Partition (e.g. C:\).
If you are not using any advanced SAN features, it is recommended to enable Automatic Defragmentation for all days/times. However, note that pre-existing fragmentation will require significant effort from Diskeeper to clean up. This effort will generate disk I/O activity within the SAN.
Therefore, if existing fragmentation is significant, initially schedule Diskeeper to run during off-peak hours. As Diskeeper has robust scheduling capability, this is easily configured.
The above example disables defragmentation Monday through Friday. It also disables defragmentation Saturdays and Sundays except between 7pm until 3:30am the following morning. This would afford 17 hours of defragmentation availability per week. Immediately following these scheduled defragmentation periods is when SAN maintenance for advanced features should be addressed (e.g. thin reclamation, deduplication).
Should accommodating SAN maintenance be difficult (e.g. limited maintenance windows)using a weekly optimization process, very granular scheduling is also available with Diskeeper. Note, maintenance windows are not required in order to implement and benefit from IntelliWrite.
If you are implementing the above mentioned advanced technologies and your SAN provides hot block optimization / data tiering, it is also recommended to disable I-FAAST® (Intelligent File Access Acceleration Sequencing technology). I-FAAST sequences hot "files" (not blocks) in a Windows volume, after determining hardware performance characteristics. The sequencing process creates additional movement of data for those advanced SAN features, and is therefore generally recommended to disable when similar SAN solutions are in place.
Note, I-FAAST requires Automatic Defragmentation be enabled. Also note that I-FAAST is disabled by default in Diskeeper 2011 in certain cases. Also note that I-FAAST generates additional disk I/Os and will therefore cause an increase in the aforementioned Automatic Defragmentation side effects.
Once pre-existing fragmentation has been removed, increase the periods in which Diskeeper actively optimizes the Windows file systems. With real-time defragmentation and InvisiTasking® technology, Diskeeper immediately cleans up fragmentation (that is not prevented by IntelliWrite). This minimal ongoing optimization generates only invisible, negligible I/O activity.
New features in Diskeeper 2011 to improve SAN performance:
Diskeeper 2011 introduces SAN specific solutions. These default solutions automate many of the configurations required for SAN-attached servers.
Diskeeper 2011's new Instant Defrag™ technology dramatically minimizes I/O activity, and exponentially speeds up defragmentation. The Instant Defrag engine is provided fragmentation information, in real-time, by the IntelliWrite file system filter driver (those fragments that it does not prevent). Without the traditional need to run a time and resource intensive whole-volume fragmentation analysis, Instant Defrag can address the recently fragmented files as they occur. This dynamic approach prevents a buildup of fragmentation, which could incur additional I/O overhead to solve at a later date/time.
Diskeeper 2011's new Efficiency Mode (default) maximizes performance, while minimizing disk I/O activity. By focusing on efficiency and performance and not on presenting a "pretty disk" visual display, Diskeeper 2011 minimizes negative side effects (e.g. reduce snapshot storage requirements or thin LUN growth, etc..) while maximizing performance benefits. It is a SAN-optimized defrag mode and our recommended solution for SAN-attached Windows volumes.
By default, Efficiency Mode also disables proprietary file placement features such as I-FAAST.
Also, by default, Diskeeper 2010/2011 moves data to lower NTFS clusters, and hence generally "forward" on SAN LUNs.
Want this in PDF form. Get it here: Best Practices for using Diskeeper on Storage Area Networks.pdf (3.00 mb)
Tags: defragmentation, san, ntfs, windows, storage area network,
Defrag | Diskeeper | SAN
I recently came across an older article about defragmenting SANs (read it here). It includes interviews with analysts, SAN vendors (some pro-defrag, some against), and an employee from Diskeeper Corporation.
I was particulary impressed with the EMC'ers response:
"The SAN can't do anything about the fact that Windows sees the file in 30 bits," said Wambach. "That's really something that is happening outside of the storage realm."
He highlights the abstraction perfectly. SAN vendors claim that a defragmenter cannot correct fragmentation due to the fact it is abstracted from the physical blocks. We absolutely agree with this statement. And for that same reason, SANs cannot fix fragmentation in the NTFS file system, which causes excess and unnecessary overhead on the OS.
Tags: defragmenting, defragmenting, san, san, defrag, emc, defrag, emc, windows, windows, storage, storage, defragmenter, fragmentation, defragmenter, fragmentation, ntfs, ntfs, file system, file system, os, os
I had a test run here internally in order to make a point about what does, or more specifically "does not", happen when you VMotion/SVMotion a Windows Guest OS (GOS). We wanted to demonstrate that, while VMware is copying the VM to another host/storage, it does nothing about the internal fragmentation of files in Windows.
We felt this was a valuable demonstration as one of the old (1980s) ways to "fix" fragmentation was to copy off the files/backup, reformat the volume, and then copy back/restore. This offered a degree of success, but required taking the data offline in order to get rid of most of the fragmentation. On a side note, backing up/copying fragmented files takes a lot longer than it would on contiguous and ordered files.
Anyway, S/VMotion is such a cool feature because it works on live VMs. So, if the VMDK movement somehow did align/reorder files in Windows, it could be a great solution to Windows file system fragmentation! So here's how we tested...
1. Setup 2 ESX 4.1 Servers with iSCSI storage and vCenter with SVMotion capability.
2. Create a VM with Windows 7 in one of the ESX Server storage (Ex: Storage1) and a 20 GB Thin virtual disk.
3. Using an internal tool, create moderate fragmentation on the virtual disk (80k fragments, average fragments per file around 3.0, around 50% free space).
4. Install V-locity with all features (e.g. defrag, IntelliWrite, etc...) disabled. This is just so we can run a fragmentation analysis and save the reports.
5. Save the "Before SVMotion" analysis report, and then stop V-locity Windows Service (to make sure it is entirely inactive).
6. Using SVMotion move the live VM to the other ESX Server storage (Ex: Storage2).
7. Once the move is completed, restart the V-locity Windows Service and perform a post "After SVMotion" analysis.
8. Save this job report.
We saw what we expected, given VMotion leverages Changed Block Tracking (CBT) technology and is block, not file based. I attached the report, so you can see the side-by-side analysis data, files in Windows are not defragmented in an SVMotion. Now, that's not to say possible fragmentation of the VMDK files themsleves (on VMFS datastores) was not affected, but that's a topic for another post.
Tags: vmotion, svmotion, windows guest os, vmware, vm, windows, fragmentation, esx, iscsi, v-locity, changed block tracking
virtualization | V-Locity | VMware
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PR Academy's 2016 'Trends Survey' researched students' views as practising communicators on professional qualifications, their professional experiences and their training needs and priorities.
The study examined:
For 2016, the survey was extended to look at how communicators perceive their employers' use of social media, and whether influencing senior managers/clients about the value that PR has as a strategic function is a significant challenge for them.
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The Samurai Way of Baseball: The Impact of Ichiro and the New Wave from Japan
Robert Whiting
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Ichiro...Nomo...Hasegawa...Hideki Matsui...one by one they have come to America and made their mark as incredibly gifted and popular ballplayers. But this new wave of athlete-led by the sensational Ichiro Suzuki, whom many refer to as the best all-around player-is just the tip of a fascinating iceberg. Illuminating a deep and very different tradition of baseball, Whiting shows why more Japanese players will be coming to America...and how they will forever transform the way our game is played. Grandly entertaining and deeply revealing, The Samurai Way of Baseball is a classic book about sports, business, and stardom-in a world that is changing before our eyes.
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everyman, an empathetic hero for those who wondered if their endless, anonymous toil as salarymen, or office ladies, might ever pay off. In an era where Japanese heroes tended to be pop stars with spiky hair and equally spiky personalities, he was reassuring evidence that the old ways still survived. An unabashedly nice guy, always ready to accommodate his adoring Japanese fans with an autograph and reporters with an interview, Matsui had never been known to complain about anything to
had asked for the same kind of money that the top guys are making." The Yakult Swallows' curmudgeonly manager Katsuya Nomura, a man notoriously critical of young players, had nothing but praise for this brightest of new stars in the NPB constellation. "He's wonderful," gushed Nomura. "He hits well. He runs well. He plays good defense. He's polite in his private life and is kind to his parents. I've never seen anyone like him. It's strange that such a person is born into this world." At the
all over the park. Suzuki was unable to walk in downtown Seattle without being mobbed. Ironically, those owners who initially opposed Yamauchi's acquisition wound up benefiting from it heftily thanks to MLB TV broadcasting contracts with Japan that proved to be worth tens of millions of dollars. Author Shawn Wong, an Asian-American professor of English at the University of Washington who had himself experienced discrimination, was particularly happy about the way things ultimately turned out.
in D.C., I was still involved in Japanese affairs and know of no efforts by the U.S. government to pressure the U.S. major leagues to not sign Japanese players. If there was anything like this going on, I suspect the embassy would have known about it." Marvin Miller, an active participant in and close monitor of the baseball scene for the last 40 years of the 20th century, said, "I never heard even a rumor that there was political pressure on the big leagues to keep their hands off the Japanese."
good as Ichiro's. Although he was a .249 lifetime hitter who could not hit the outside breaking pitch, he rose above himself in 2000 when he batted .278 with 28 home runs, 85 RBIs and 15 stolen bases. Becoming a free agent, in his ninth year, he unexpectedly turned down several multimillion-dollar, multiyear offers from Central League teams and, seemingly on a whim, signed with the New York Mets for a reported league-minimum $200,000. Already dubbed "Airhead" and "Spaceman" by detractors,


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The Unicron.com Events and Interviews section has been updated with the second part of our report from Botcon 2009. This segment features all that Hasbro contributed to the show. Included you'll find:
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I love the concept of the Middle Way. Buddhism teaches walking the path of the Middle Way, which to me represents a perfect balance. We can only be strong if all aspects of our lives our strong; physical, intellectual and spiritual. Similarly, there is no point in spending hours meditating if we are ignoring our physical needs, or solely focusing on our ego-driven needs and ignoring our inner wisdom. The Middle Way bridges the gap between extremes. Just as hedonism is not a valuable way to live, nor is self-sacrifice.
I must admit, balance is not my forte, which is probably why I value this principle so highly, and can see such a marked difference when I strive to create harmony and balance in my daily life. I thought I'd escaped getting sick this winter, but woke up yesterday full of cold, and one of those brain-freeze headaches you get when you eat ice-cream too quickly. I spent the day sniffling and sneezing at my desk, slave to hot honey and lemon and feelings of self-pity. But of course to some degree it is the inevitable cause of not getting enough sleep or taking care of myself. The timing isn't great either as I have today off work and am on my way to Cologne for a Winter weekend break with Kev.
As I was packing this morning I came across 170 euro in my dressing table drawer. Cue surprise…elation….joy! Followed, and this is no exaggeration, five minutes later by a tracked delivery through the postbox from France. Excitedly open envelope and recall just about enough of my A-level French to understand it's a speeding fine. Cost? 180 euro. That puts me back at minus 10 euro. Ironically though, I think this experience is kind of fitting with my Middle Way theme. It's pointless being swayed by unsubstantial things which happen to us. They might seem important one minute but the next they are rendered irrelevant.
I must go now, as I'm shortly due to board the Eurostar and ride all the Middle Way from London to Germany.


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7-Eleven - Experienced Retail Store Manager Wanted
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- Career Level
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- Full Time
Job Description 7-Eleven Retail Store Manager TO APPLY, PLEASE VISIT JOINTEAMYATES.COM Yates Service, Inc. is a third generation, family owned business that has been in Alexandria, Virginia for over 54 years. We are looking for an EXPERIENCED Store Manager to operate a beautiful, new, high volume, 3,000 sq. ft .7-Eleven next to the Braddock Road Metro. This is one of 7-Eleven's flag ship stores. Essentially, you will be running a small business. You'll oversee store operations, supervise employees, manage inventory and promote 7-Eleven and Yates Service to your customers and community. You'll maximize sales and profits by using sound business practices to implement the 7-Eleven strategy all the while setting a standard for customer satisfaction by making your store a model of our company's Five Fundamentals; Quality, Assortment, Service, Value and Cleanliness. What Will You Do? · Oversee store operations, supervise employees and manage inventory · Develop successful sales plans to grow your store's profitability · Implement new product lines and create strategies to introduce and promote focus items · Set standards and model behavior for optimum customer service · Recruit, train, develop and motivate your employees and coach employees regularly · Process all daily paperwork, banking, payroll, · Place all daily product, merchandise, and supply orders and ensure there are no out of stocks · Collaborate and work together with corporate reps from 7-Eleven and Yates Service on a day-to-day basis The Store Manager position requires the following: · Minimum of TWO YEARS management experience at a 7-Eleven store(s) · Minimum of FIVE YEARS management experience in the retail/food-service industry · High school diploma or equivalent required, bachelor's degree preferred · Strong problem-solving, analytical and time-management skills · Excellent customer service skills and effective communication skills · Willingness to work "on call" and ensure the job gets done · Desire to be part of a performance-driven team that strives to be the best in the industry · Ability to coach employees and reward excellence through positive reinforcement · Ability to hold employees accountable to the stores expectations of them Physical Requirements: · The Store Manager position requires constant standing, bending and reaching · Frequent lifting of one to five pounds and occasional lifting of up to 40-50 pounds is required What's in It for You? Yates Service, Inc. is committed to a positive long-term vision by creating an environment that encourages and rewards excellence and promotes a TEAM environment. We are pleased to provide the following benefits: · Relocation costs for Manager and family · Competitive salary and bonus incentives · Health Insurance · Vacation pay · 401(k) Plan TO APPLY, PLEASE VISIT JOINTEAMYATES.COM


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Justin's Journey
By Arash Markazi
As Justin Fargas prepares to go to another football practice, he walks through USC's Heritage Hall. Despite spending countless hours in the legendary building, he stops for a moment and once again looks at the four Heisman Trophies sitting in the lobby - staring at each one like a visitor seeing them for the first time.
'It motivates me,' said Fargas, the fifth-year senior who is preparing to play in his first and only season at USC . 'Just to be here and play at Tailback U. with the great tradition of tailbacks that have played here and the great things that they've done before, and to see those four Heisman trophies and the retired jerseys, that's all the motivation in the world for a tailback.'
The first time Fargas walked through Heritage Hall in 1997, he was one of the most coveted tailbacks in the country, breaking records at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Calif. At the time Fargas dreamed of wearing the Cardinal and Gold and breaking records at the Coliseum.
'I always wanted to be a Trojan,' said Fargas, who ran for a school-record 6,357 yards and 82 touchdowns in his three-year high school career. 'I had a good relationship with Coach (John) Robinson and I had committed to him early before my senior year. When they had a coaching change, I had to look at my other options and I pretty much narrowed it down to the two L.A. schools and Michigan. When it was all said and done, I didn't see myself being a Bruin, and Michigan seemed to be the best option after the coaching change.'
Although Fargas surpised many of his friends and family by deciding to leave his warm-weather home for the chilly climate of Ann Arbor, he was intent on showing people that he could be a premier tailback wherever he went. It looked like he was on his way to making his dreams come true as a freshman, rushing for 277 yards and one touchdown on 77 carries, including a 120-yard breakout performance in the rain at Northwestern. But instead of breaking records, Fargas ended up breaking his right leg against Wisconsin towards the end of his freshman season.
The injury would not be just a minor setback in Fargas' career; it would come to epitomize it.
Following an initial surgery that saw two titanium rods and 12 screws implanted in his leg, Fargas was forced to go back to the hospital four months later when his leg wasn't healing properly. Doctors were forced to re-break his leg and insert two metal plates. The surgeries forced Fargas to red shirt in 1999 and, while he was out, Fargas also found time for a third operation to fix tendons in his right big toe.
'It hurt because I wanted to play so bad,' said Fargas, who nearly lost his foot after the initial surgery when doctors briefly considered amputating it. 'I guess in retrospect, I should be glad that I can even walk, but at the time I just wanted to play football.'
By the time Fargas was healthy enough to play football again, he had fallen so far down the depth chart at tailback he moved to safety just so he could get on the field.
'When I finally came off my injuries, I wasn't quite certain where I fit in, so I moved to defense,' said Fargas, who played safety in high school.
'Had I stayed at Michigan, I could still be playing defense and maybe had a shot at playing in the NFL at that position, but in my heart and in my dreams, I wanted more. I'm a natural tailback. I figured that by me making a move from Michigan to USC, I could have a chance at being a top tailback.'
At the same time that Fargas was attempting to transfer to USC, the Trojans made another coaching change, this time bringing in Pete Carroll to replace Paul Hackett.
'Fargas was really big out here, but I didn't know who he was. I had never heard of him before,' Carroll said. 'We had a release on him and eventually got it to the point where he called us and we arranged for him to come to campus.
'When they opened the door and I met his father, I was floored. I had no idea that Antonio Fargas was going to be walking in here.'
While Carroll was surprised to see 'Huggy Bear' from TV's Starsky and Hutch walking into his office, he wasn't as shocked when he saw what Fargas was doing on the practice field every day, as he served as the Trojans' scout team tailback last season, forced to sit out following his transfer.
'He left no doubt from the first day that he would be going a thousand miles an hour every chance he got,' Carroll said. 'He's very tough, very aggressive and very physical. Those are characteristics you don't necessarily place on a running back.'
Fargas' aggressiveness helped him go from the scout team to the first team in the spring as he ran for 139 and 111 yards during USC's spring scrimmages, some of the better spring perfromances by a Trojan tailback in recent memory.
Now Fargas is waiting to put up those kind of numbers on game days.
'I can't wait to put on that helmet and play at the Coliseum,' Fargas said. 'It's been a long journey and a long wait, but I'm finally ready to make my dreams come true.'
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Summary: No conflict and no contest. The Kindle Fire will sell well and be a huge success for Amazon. Other Android tablets will be hard pressed to meet its price point and capabilities. The iPad, OTOH, will continue to sell millions per quarter and not notice the decimation of the nascent Android tablet market.
Short synopsis: The Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet will do more to disrupt the Android tablet market then it will Apple's iPad market. Why? Because the Amazon tablet will be the first successful Android tablet to sell in any quantity. It will be successful for one reason only, its ability of its users to purchase items through Amazon. That's it. It won't be the apps, the games, the music, its ability to play Flash (if it can), its speed, its specs, its openness or anything else that Android lovers like to proclaim as the winning feature over the iPad. Amazon will use the Kindle Fire as a way of expanding their reach into consumer wallets by providing a gateway device that expands on the book buying capabilities of the original Kindle into a more inclusive buying experience at Amazon.
Amazon will makes it money through taking a percentage of every sale made through the device. Apple will make its money by selling people hardware in the form of iPads.
Amazon Kindle Fire
The Kindle Fire is reportedly based on the hardware design of the poorly selling RIM Playbook, only with a less powerful chip to run it. But that's probably okay, as its real target is the B&N Nook Color, not the Apple iPad. As a competitor for the Nook, the Fire simply has to be able to run Kindle software and allow access to the web via a browser to allow easy access to the Amazon store.
Computerworld's article lists the following things it expects from the Kindle Fire:
- Amazon's tablet will likely be 7 inches in size.
- Amazon's tablet may not have the best hardware.
- Amazon's tablet probably won't be available for another month.
- The Amazon tablet will likely run Android — but it won't look like Android.
- The Amazon tablet probably won't revolve around Google services.
- The Amazon tablet will be made for media consumption.
- The Amazon tablet could be pretty cheap to buy.
According to TechCrunch, the Kindle Fire can install and run apps and Amazon has created their own store for easy downloading of apps. Reportedly, the Amazon Kindle team weren't interested in doing the software for the device so Amazon simply hired Quantas, the maker of the hardware to do the software as well. How well they do remains to be seen. We won't know until it's released and Android fanbois get a chance to hack into the device and see what changes Amazon has made to their forked version of Android.
Coming as it does in mid-November, the release is designed to coincide with the new Nook Color reportedly set for release around the same time frame. Just in time for holiday sales.
Why will the Kindle Fire sell so well? If rumors are true, Amazon has cut the cruft away from Android and made it a single purpose device, and that purpose is to sell books and video and music and apps and everything else through the Amazon store. Right now, the Kindle can only lead you to their book section, but the Fire has the possibility of doing for other media what the Kindle did for books.
One prediction I will make is that the Android fanbois will have a field day hacking the device to work more like they think an Android tablet should. It's nice to have a hobby, but most people will be perfectly fine using it as its sold.
And that's probably a good thing.
UPDATE: Event just finished and Amazon has knocked it out of the park. Finally, another company that "gets" the user experience and is doing everything they can to make it seamless for the user. Their take on the browser with Amazon Silk really plays to their strength as a computing juggernaut in online sales. Their price points are excellent ($199), and the Kindle Fire looks to be an amazing device. Bravo Amazon, bravo.
UPDATE 2: Here's another take on the same idea from someone much smarter about the field than I, Amazon vs. Apple? No, it's Amazon and Apple vs. Everyone Else.


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D.2 U.S. Nuclear Testing Program
The U.S. nuclear testing program began with the Trinity test on July 16, 1945, at a location approximately 55 miles northwest of Alamogordo, New Mexico, now called the Trinity Site. The test confirmed the Fat Man implosion design weapon would function to produce a nuclear detonation and also gave the Manhattan Project scientists their first look at the effects of a nuclear detonation.
The United States conducted five additional nuclear tests between 1946 and 1948. By 1951, the United States had increased the ability to produce nuclear devices for testing and conducted 16 nuclear tests that year. Between 1951 and 1958, the United States conducted 188 nuclear tests. Increasing the knowledge and data associated with nuclear physics and weapon design was the main purpose of most of these tests. Some tests were designed to develop nuclear weapons effects data while a few were safety experiments. These tests were a mixture of underground, aboveground, high-altitude, underwater, and above-water detonations.
In 1958, the United States instituted a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear tests. Nuclear testing resumed in 1961 and the United States conducted an average of approximately 27 tests per year over the next three decades. These included 24 joint tests with the United Kingdom;1 35 tests for peaceful purposes as part of the Plowshare program;2 seven to increase the capability to detect, identify, and locate nuclear tests as part of the Vela Uniform program; four to study nuclear material dispersal in possible accident scenarios; and post-fielding tests of specific weapons .In 1992, Congress passed legislation that prohibited the U.S. from conducting an underground nuclear test and led to the current policy restriction on nuclear explosive testing.
D.2.1 Early Years of the U.S. Nuclear Testing Program
The first six nuclear tests represented the infancy stage of the U.S. nuclear testing program. The first test at the Trinity Site in New Mexico provided the confidence required for an identical weapon to be employed at Nagasaki. The second and third tests, both in 1946, used identical Fat Man design devices to evaluate the effects of airdrop and underwater detonations in the vicinity of Bikini Island, located in the Pacific. The next three tests were conducted in 1948 on towers on the Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific, testing three different weapon designs.
These first six tests began with no previous data and, by today's standards, very crude test measurement equipment and computational capabilities. Because of this, only limited amounts of scientific data were gained in each of these events.
Figure D.1 Bravo Nuclear Test
In the 30 years between November 9, 1962, and September 23, 1992, the United States conducted 760 deep underground nuclear tests (UGT).4 The locations for these tests included the NTS, Nellis Air Force Range in Nevada, and the vicinities of Fallon, Nevada; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Amchitka, Alaska; Farmington, New Mexico; Grand Valley, Colorado; and Rifle, Colorado.5 The tests during the period between November 1962 and April 1976 included four detonations above one MT, 14 detonations between 500 kt and one MT, and 88 detonations between 150 and 500 kt.6 Of the 1,054 total U.S. nuclear tests, 63 had simultaneous detonations of two or more devices while 23 others had zero or near-zero yield.
Generally, a device for a weapons-related UGT (for physics research, to refine a warhead design in engineering development, or for a post-fielding test) was positioned down a deep vertical shaft in one of the NTS test areas. Informally, this type of test was called a "vertical test." Typically, a large instrumentation package would be lowered into the shaft and positioned relatively close to the device with electrical wires running back to aboveground recording instruments.
Figure D.2 Underground Nuclear Test Preparationt
The vertical shaft was covered with earth and structural support was added to prevent the weight of the earth from crushing the instrumentation package or the device. This closed the direct opening to the surface and precluded the fireball from pushing hot radioactive gases up the shaft into the atmosphere. When the detonation occurred, the hundreds or thousands of down-hole instruments momentarily transmitted data but were almost immediately consumed in the fireball. The preparation for a vertical UGT took months and included drilling the vertical shaft and preparation of the instrumentation package, which was constructed vertically, usually within 100 meters of the shaft. The instrumentation package was typically 40 to 80 feet high, several feet in diameter, and surrounded by a temporary wooden structure. The structure would have levels, approximately seven to eight feet apart, and a temporary elevator to take technicians to the various floors to place and prepare the instruments. The test device would be lowered into the shaft, followed by the cylindrical instrument package. After the test, the ground above the detonation would often collapse into the cavity left by the cooling fireball, forming a subsidence crater on the surface directly over the test location.7 See Figure D.2 for a photograph of a preparation site for an underground nuclear test.
Generally, a UGT device for an effects test was positioned in a long, horizontal tunnel deep in the side of one of the mountains in the Yucca Mountain Range, located at the north end of the NTS. Informally, this type of test was called a "horizontal test." The tunnels were relatively large, usually more than 30 to 40 feet across, and ran several miles into the side of the mountain. Typically, the tunnel had a small-scale railroad track running from the entrance to the deepest part of the main tunnel, which included a train to support the logistics movement of workers and equipment. The main tunnel would have many long branches, called "side-drifts," each of which could support a UGT. Instruments were positioned at various distances from the device and a huge blast door was constructed to permit the instantaneous effects of nuclear and thermal radiation, X-rays, and electromagnetic pulse to travel to instruments at greater distances but to close prior to the arrival of the blast wave. After the detonation, instruments outside the blast door would be recovered and the side-drift would be closed and sealed with a large volume of earth.
For both vertical and horizontal UGTs, the device would be prepared in a laboratory environment and transported to the test site, usually only a few days prior to the test date. On the test date, the NTS operations center would continuously monitor wind direction and speed to determine where any airborne radioactive particles would travel in the unlikely event of a "venting" incident.8 If the wind conditions could blow venting gases to a populated area, the test was delayed until the wind conditions changed. Frequently, UGTs were delayed hours or days.
In 1974, the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) was signed by the United States. The treaty would not be ratified until 1990 but, in 1976, the United States announced it would observe the treaty pending ratification. The treaty limited all future tests to a maximum yield of 150 kt. This presented a unique problem because, at the time, each of the three legs of the nuclear triad required new warheads with yields exceeding 150 kt and this compelled the weapons design community to make two major changes to nuclear weapons development.
First, new warhead designs were limited to using tested and proven secondary stage components, which provide most of the yield in high-yield weapons. The rationale for this change was that if previous testing had already determined the X-ray output required from the primary stage to ignite or drive the secondary and if testing had also determined the output of the secondary, then all that would be needed was a test to determine if the new primary would produce a yield large enough to drive the secondary. Of the 1,054 U.S. nuclear tests, at least 82 had yields that exceeded 150 kt. Another 79 may have had yields exceeding 150 kt but are listed in unclassified source documents only as being between 20 to 200 kt. Many of these tests provided the data for scientists to determine the required information (e.g., ignition threshold, yield output) to certify several different secondary stage designs, which would produce yields greater than 150 kt. See Figure D.3 for a summary of U.S. nuclear tests by yield.
Figure D.3 U.S. Nuclear Tests by Yield
The second change was that, in order to test any new warhead with a yield greater than 150 kt, the warhead would have to be reconfigured to ensure it would not produce a yield in excess of 150 kt. Thus, the newest strategic warheads would not have a nuclear test, in its new configuration, for any yields above 150 kt.
By the 1980s, the U.S. nuclear testing program had evolved into a structure that categorized tests as physics research, effects, warhead development engineering, and post-fielding tests. Physics research tests contributed to the scientific knowledge and technical data associated with general weapons design principles. The effects tests contributed to the base of nuclear effects data and to testing the vulnerability of key weapons and systems to the effects of nuclear detonations. Development tests were used to test or refine key aspects of specific designs to increase yield output or to improve certain nuclear detonation safety features. Post-fielding tests were conducted to provide stockpile confidence and ensure safety. For each warhead-type, a stockpile confidence test (SCT) was conducted between six and 12 months after fielding. This was intended to check the yield to ensure any final refinements in the design added after the last development test and any imperfections that may have resulted from the mass-production process did not corrupt the designed yield. Post-fielding tests were also used to confirm or repair safety or yield problems when non-nuclear testing, other surveillance, or computer simulation detected possible problems, especially unique abnormalities with the fissile component. If a problem was confirmed and a significant modification applied, a series of nuclear tests could be used to validate the modification to ensure that fixing one problem did not create a new issue.
D.2.3 Transition to 3-D Codes
By the early 1980s, the United States had conducted more than 970 nuclear tests, most of which had the basic purpose of increasing the scientific data associated with weapon design or refining specific designs. The national laboratories had acquired the most capable computers of the time and were expanding the computer codes to analyze, for example, fissile material compression and fission events in a three-dimensional (3-D) model. By the mid-1980s, use of 3-D codes had become routine. The 3-D codes provided more accurate estimates of what would be achieved with new designs or what might happen, for nuclear detonation safety considerations, in an abnormal environment.
With the 3-D codes, the national laboratories evaluated a broader range of abnormal environments for fielded warhead-types (e.g., the simultaneous impact of two high-velocity fragmentation pieces). This led to safety experiments and improvements that might not have otherwise occurred.9 The increased computational modeling capability with the 3-D codes also helped scientists to refine the near-term nuclear testing program to include tests that would enhance the base of scientific knowledge and data. Each year, the results of the nuclear testing program increased the computational modeling capabilities.
D.2.4 End of Underground Nuclear Testing
In 1992, in anticipation of a potential comprehensive test ban treaty, the United States voluntarily suspended underground nuclear testing. Public Law (Pub. L.) 102-377, the legislation prohibiting U.S. underground nuclear testing, had several key elements. These included a provision for 15 additional nuclear tests to be conducted by the end of September 1996 for the primary purpose of applying three modern safety features (enhanced nuclear detonation safety (ENDS), insensitive high explosive (IHE), and fire-resistant pit (FRP)) to those warheads planned for retention in the reduced stockpile under the proposed Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) II.
With a limit of 15 tests within less than four years, there was no technically credible way, at the time, to certify design modifications that would incorporate any of the desired safety features into existing warhead-types. Therefore, the legislation was deemed too restrictive to achieve the objective of improving the safety of those warhead-types lacking all of the available safety enhancements and it was decided the United States would not conduct any further tests. The last U.S. underground nuclear test, Divider, was conducted on September 23, 1992.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 1994 (Pub. L. 103-160) called on the Secretary of Energy to "establish a stewardship program to ensure the preservation of the core intellectual and technical competencies of the United States in nuclear weapons." The Stockpile Stewardship Program, a science-based approach to ensure the preservation of competencies as mandated by the FY 1994 NDAA, has served as a substitute for underground nuclear testing since 1992. For more information on the Stockpile Stewardship Program, see Chapter 4: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Infrastructure.
D.3 Quality Assurance and Non-Nuclear Testing
The goals of the U.S. nuclear weapons quality assurance (QA) programs are to validate safety, ensure required reliability, and detect or, if possible, prevent problems from developing for each warhead-type in the stockpile. Without nuclear testing, the current stockpile of nuclear weapons must be evaluated for QA only through the use of non-nuclear testing, surveillance, and, to the extent applicable, modeling. The DOE/NNSA Stockpile Evaluation Program (SEP) has evolved over decades and currently provides the information to support stockpile decisions and assessments of the safety, reliability, and performance of the stockpile. This program is designed to detect stockpile defects, understand margins at a component level, understand and evaluate changes (e.g., aging), and, over time, predictably assess the stockpile. The overall QA program includes laboratory tests, flight tests, component and material evaluations, other surveillance evaluations and experiments, the reported observations from DoD and DOE/NNSA technicians who maintain the warheads, continuous evaluation for safety validation and reliability estimates, and the replacement of defective or degrading components
as required.
No new replacement warheads have been fielded by the United States for over two decades. During that time, sustaining the nuclear deterrent has required the United States to retain warheads well beyond their originally designed life. As warheads in the stockpile age, the stockpile evaluation has detected an increasing number of problems, primarily ones associated with non-nuclear components. This led to an expanded program of refurbishments, as required for each warhead-type.
Because the warheads of the stockpile continue to age beyond any previous experience, it is anticipated the stockpile will reveal age-related problems unlike any other time in the past. As part of proactive QA management, the DOE/NNSA maintains a surveillance program to ensure effectiveness of the U.S. stockpile. These surveillance activities take place in multiple DOE/NNSA locations, including the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas (Figure D.4).
Figure D.4 Pantex Plant
Disassembly and Inspection—Weapons sampled from the production lines or returned from the DoD are inspected during disassembly. Weapon disassembly is conducted in a controlled manner to identify any abnormal conditions and preserve the components for subsequent evaluations. Visual inspections during dismantlement can also provide "state-of-health" information.
Flight Testing—After disassembly and inspection, selected weapons are reconfigured into JTAs and rebuilt to represent the original build to the extent possible. However, all special nuclear material (SNM) components are replaced with either surrogate materials or instrumentation. The JTA units are flown by the DoD operational command responsible for the system. JTA configurations vary from high-fidelity units, which essentially have no onboard diagnostics, to fully instrumented units, which provide detailed information on component and subsystem performance.
Stockpile Laboratory Testing—Test bed configurations are built to enable prescribed function testing of single parts or subsystems using parent unit hardware from stockpile weapon returns. The majority of this testing occurs at the WETL, which is operated by Sandia National Laboratories at Pantex and involves electrical and mechanical testing of the systems. The Air Force JILT facility, located at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, also conducts evaluations of joint test beds to obtain information regarding delivery platform-weapon interfaces.
Component Testing and Material Evaluation—Components and materials from the disassembly and inspection process undergo further evaluations to assess component functionality, performance margins and trends, material behavior, and aging characteristics. The testing can involve both non-destructive evaluation techniques (e.g., radiography, ultrasonic testing, and dimensional measurements) and destructive evaluation techniques (e.g., tests of material strength and explosive performance, as well as chemical assessments).
Disassembly and Inspection—Weapons sampled from the production lines or returned from the DoD are inspected during disassembly. Weapon disassembly is conducted in a controlled manner to identify any abnormal conditions and preserve the components for subsequent evaluations. Visual inspections during dismantlement can also provide "state-of-health" information.
Flight Testing—After disassembly and inspection, selected weapons are reconfigured into JTAs and rebuilt to represent the original build to the extent possible. However, all special nuclear material (SNM) components are replaced with either surrogate materials or instrumentation. The JTA units are flown by the DoD operational command responsible for the system. JTA configurations vary from high-fidelity units, which essentially have no onboard diagnostics, to fully instrumented units, which provide detailed information on component and subsystem performance.
Stockpile Laboratory Testing—Test bed configurations are built to enable prescribed function testing of single parts or subsystems using parent unit hardware from stockpile weapon returns. The majority of this testing occurs at the WETL, which is operated by Sandia National Laboratories at Pantex and involves electrical and mechanical testing of the systems. The Air Force JILT facility, located at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, also conducts evaluations of joint test beds to obtain information regarding delivery platform-weapon interfaces.
Component Testing and Material Evaluation—Components and materials from the disassembly and inspection process undergo further evaluations to assess component functionality, performance margins and trends, material behavior, and aging characteristics. The testing can involve both non-destructive evaluation techniques (e.g., radiography, ultrasonic testing, and dimensional measurements) and destructive evaluation techniques (e.g., tests of material strength and explosive performance, as well as chemical assessments).
Surveillance requirements, as determined by the national laboratories for the weapon systems, in conjunction with the Air Force and the Navy for joint testing, result in defined experiments to acquire the data that support the Surveillance Program. The national laboratories, in conjunction with the DOE/NNSA and the nuclear weapons production facilities, continually refine these requirements, based on new surveillance information, annual assessment findings, and analysis of historical information using modern assessment methodologies and computational tools.
The Enhanced Surveillance Subprogram assesses the impact of material behavior changes on weapon performance and safety. This joint science and engineering effort provides material, component, and subsystem lifetime assessments and develops predictive capabilities for early identification and assessment of stockpile aging issues. The Subprogram identifies aging issues with sufficient lead time to ensure the DOE/NNSA has the refurbishment capability and capacity in place when required. Typically, the lifetime assessments include efforts to understand basic aging mechanisms and interactions of materials in components, assemblies, and subassemblies. Accelerated aging experiments are used to obtain data beyond that available from traditional stockpile surveillance. Experiments are also used to validate broader, more age-aware models developed to support lifetime assessments and predictions pertinent to life extension programs. In addition, the subprogram provides new or improved diagnostic techniques and technologies to detect and quantify aging degradation mechanisms in the stockpile. The capabilities and knowledge gained are applied to assess and develop candidate replacement materials, through separate technology and component maturation program efforts, for future stockpile insertion.
1 The United States and the United Kingdom were preparing to conduct a 25th test when President George H. W. Bush announced a moratorium on underground nuclear testing in 1992. Until that point, the nuclear relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom, as defined by the 1958 Mutual Defense Agreement, allowed for the conduct of joint tests between the two nations. This was a great benefit to the United Kingdom—especially following the atmospheric testing moratorium of 1958—because the nation did not have the same access to land that could be used for underground nuclear testing as the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the 1992 testing moratorium, the United Kingdom formally undertook to end nuclear testing in 1995 and they ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in April 1998. See Chapter 9: International Nuclear Cooperation, for a more detailed discussion of the nuclear relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom.
2 The Plowshare program was primarily intended to evaluate the use of nuclear detonations for constructive purposes (e.g., to produce craters for the rapid and effective creation of canals).
3 While the AEC was a forerunner organization to the current NNSA the DASA served as a precursor to the current Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
4 Four of these were surface experiments, without a nuclear detonation, to study plutonium scattering.
5 After May 17, 1973, all U.S. nuclear tests were conducted at the NTS.
6 81 of the 90 tests are listed in the unclassified record with a yield between 20 and 200 kt.
7 The collapse that caused the subsidence crater could occur at any time, from minutes to months, after the detonation, making the time of the collapse unpredictable.
8 Venting incidents occurred very few times during the history of U.S. underground nuclear testing. Venting occurs when a vertical UGT shaft is close enough to an unknown deep underground cave system that leads to the surface and permits the expanding fireball to push hot radioactive gases through the underground cave system to the surface and into the air. Instruments to determine geology thousands of feet underground were not precise enough to detect all possible underground caves or cavities. Venting can also occur if the blast door for a horizontal UGT is not strong enough to contain the blast wave.
9 For example, an interim fix for one of the Army warheads was fielding a "horse-blanket" to be draped over the container to provide fragmentation/projectile shielding for transportation and storage; the ultimate fix put the shielding inside the container.
10 Sealed-pit warheads are the opposite of IFI; they are stored and transported with the nuclear components assembled into the warhead and require no assembly or insertion by the military operational delivery unit.
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American songstress Selena Gomez was recently photographed leaving a Pilates session in Beverly Hills, California.
Gomez looked fit and well and was dressed in a simple white t-shirt and black shorts. She also had a black sweatshirt that said 'Sinner' on the sleeve, wrapped around her shoulders. She was also carrying a bible.
Over the past few years, she has spoken more about her Christian faith and has started to perform worship songs. In 2016, she sang at Hillsong Church's Young & Free Revival Concert, which was held in Los Angeles.
The young singer has been a fan of Pilates for several years. She has regularly been seen at hot Pilates workout sessions in Los Angeles. The gym she works out in is kept at around 35°C. However, the class she was spotted leaving recently was not a specialised hot Pilates session.
In 2017, the 25 year-old singer had a kidney transplant, after complications from Lupus meant that hers were failing. Her best friend Franica Rasia was the donor. To make sure that she recovers fully, the young singer decided to take a year off. She also decided to prioritise her health, something she explained to Katherine Langford from Harper's Bazaar, when she said:
"I want to make sure I'm healthy. If that's good, everything else will fall into place."
Clearly for her, like so many people who attend Pilates classes in Preston, and other locations around the world, exercise is important. Many people who attend Lancashire Pilates classes are also recovering from illness or injuries. This form of exercise is also used by many physiotherapists to strengthen the body and improve circulation – both of which are essential for recovery.


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What if I told you that I improved my grades simply by the type of notepaper I purchased, when and how I chose to read and even by eating candy in class? I did just that.
Attending college, as an adult, I have made strait A's, but I cannot say the same for when I was in high school. In high school, I had many misconceptions about A students. I believed they were naturally smart,' studied day and night,' or my personal favorite, there popularity somehow contributed to those good grades.'
As an adult I took a course on study skills and amazingly I too began to make the grades. Not only that, but is seems that my newfound grades actually began to make me smarter. Grades are not always determined by how hard you study or how smart you are. Try the following techniques and you can determine your own grades.
Claim Your Seat:
It really does make a difference where you sit in the classroom. When you sit in the front of the class, not only do you see and hear better but you are not distracted by what is going on behind you. In addition to what you see and hear, teachers and professors really do have a better perception of the students who sit in the front three rows. If you find yourself on the boarder between and A and a B, or a B and a C, having the instructor in your favor may be what makes the difference.
Take Good Notes:
Go to class armed with pen and notepad, prepared to take good notes. Do not take just any notepad; try to use colored legal paper. Research studies show that your brain remembers what you right better, especially if it is written on colored paper, with yellow being the most memorable.
Snack In Class:
If you can get away with it, studies confirm that you retain more information if you are experiencing something pleasurable while learning. Eating colored candies while listening to a lecture may actually help you remember the details. In fact, if you take a different flavor or type of candy to each class, you may begin to associate the details with the type of candy that you consumed.
Read In Short Sessions:
Your brain retains the information that you read at the beginning and the end of your study session. Most adults only have a twenty-minute attention span; that is why we typically see commercial breaks for every twenty minutes of TV viewing. So if you read for two hours strait then you are going to retain the information you studied during the first twenty minutes and the last twenty minutes. That means that you have wasted the 80 minutes in between. Try studying in twenty-minute intervals.
Review Your Notes Before Bed:
Your brain is most likely to retain the information that you review just before you go to sleep. If you have a test or final, the last thing you should do before you go to bed the night before is review your study notes.
Review With A Friend:
It really does help to study with a friend, preferably one who is in the same class as you. Not only will your brain retain the information better in a social situation, but also your friend may have caught some information that you did not.
Write It All Down:
When you write information on paper it is more likely to find it's way to your long-term memory. This is especially helpful if you are trying to learn a long list of vocabulary terms. Make it a practice to make handwritten flash cards for every term and you will have no problem remembering them.
Trade Notes With A Friend:
Note taking is only effective if you write down all of the information, and lets face it we all get distracted at one point or another. Find someone in the class who is willing to let you look at their notes and make it a habit to read over them at least one time per week. This is as simple as making time to arrive at class a little early or stay a little late and it is well worth the effort.
Tape Record:
If your professor will give you permission, tape-recording is still one of the best ways to ensure that you do not miss any lecture information. I would caution however not to become lazy on your note taking if your teacher allows you to tape.
Apply What You Know:
One of the best ways to learn and retain a new concept is to apply the information to your daily life. If you are studying Psychology, analyze your family. If you are studying Science, do some experiments in your kitchen. If you identify with the information your brain will not discard it.


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Lying Dream and True Portent
Lying Dream and True Portent
This chapter begins with the first book of the Iliad, according to which, in the ninth year of the Trojan War, Apollo destroyed many Greeks to punish Agamemnon, their commander, for having taken captive the daughter of Apollo's priest. To avert the plague, Agamemnon begrudgingly freed the girl and, in her place, took to his tent Achilles's beloved concubine Briseis. Enraged, Achilles withdrew from the war and asked his mother, Thetis, to implore Zeus to punish Agamemnon. The king of the gods thus decided to send him a "destructive dream." Hera, Zeus's wife, stiffly opposed Troy, so without telling her or any other god, the Olympian ordered Oneiros to tell Agamemnon that the Greek troops could "now" take the city. The subsequent attack would cause the death of many.
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Grade 4
To me, home is a special place
A place where all dreams come true.
A place that everyone matters
And everyone is involved.
A place where old friends reunite
And new friends are made.
A place where the river calls me
Outside my door,
A place that far back Ojibwe and Cree,
Yes, they once lived here, and now…me
To me a home is where I am loved the most,
Where I am recognized,
My talents, my hopes.
A home is a place to be encouraged,
A place to encourage
When others are discouraged.
A home is a place where we share ourselves and our space
In hopes of seeing joy
On one another's face
To me a home is a place where I feel secure
From the rain, the snow
And all of my fears.
A home is a place where I am free to play
And would love for all others
To have fun in this way.
A home is a place where I am warm,
A place of comfort during a storm.
When I think of the thought of not having a home,
I begin to cry and in sadness I roam.
So every night before I sleep,
I thank God for my home
Which is mine to keep
And maybe with luck this poem has grown
Into something that will help a child have a home.
By Ryan Mota


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