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Prevalence of Substance Use Among Racial & Ethnic Subgroups in the U.S.
Several studies have investigated the associations between race/ethnicity and substance use among adolescents and among adults. As mentioned above, the principal advantage of this study is a much larger sample size than previous studies, approximately 87,000 respondents aged 12 and older in the combined 1991-93 NHSDAs, including more than 22,000 adolescent respondents aged 12 to 17, more than 21,000 young adult respondents aged 18 to 25, and more than 44,000 adult respondents aged 26 and older. The large sample size makes possible 1) a more refined approach to measuring race/ethnicity, and 2) more extensive breakdowns by demographic and other social factors in analyzing the associations between race/ethnicity and substance use.
The racial/ethnic classification used in this report is based on responses to three interviewer-administered questions:
1) "Are you of Hispanic or Spanish origin or descent?"
2) (If yes to preceding question) "Which of these Hispanic-origin groups best describes you?"
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Mexican ___
Cuban, or ___
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3) Which of the groups on this card best describes you? Just give me the number.
INDIAN (American), ALEUT, ESKIMO ____ 03
ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (Including Asian Indian) ___ 04
OTHER (Specify) ______________________ 05
As stipulated in Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, issued by the Office of Management and Budget (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1978), persons of Hispanic origin (first and second questions) may be of any race (third question). Both in the eleven-category racial/ethnic classification used in Chapters 3 and 4 and in the seven-category racial/ethnic classification used in Chapter 5, an individual's Hispanic origin takes precedence over any racial identification. For example, an individual who was identified as "Hispanic-Mexican" based on the first two questions and as "Indian (American), Aleut, Eskimo" based on the third question was classified as "Hispanic-Mexican" rather than as "Indian (American), Aleut, Eskimo." Similarly, the classifications "black" and "white" as used in this report refer to non-Hispanic blacks and to non-Hispanic whites, respectively.
Write-in responses to the second question, "some other group (SPECIFY)," were used to extend our list of Hispanic-origin groups from four to seven, including "Hispanic-Caribbean" (other than Puerto Rico and Cuban), "Hispanic-Central American" (other than Mexico), "Hispanic-South American," and "Hispanic-Other "other than Caribbean, Central American, Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and South American).
Individuals who gave write-in responses to the third question, "OTHER (Specify)," and who were not Hispanic were usually recoded to one of the four explicit non-Hispanic racial categoriesNative American, Asian/Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white. For example, individuals who reported that they were "African American" were recoded as "black," and individuals who reported that they were "Caucasian" were recoded as "white." A small number of respondents, less than 1%, were statistically imputed to a Hispanic origin or racial classification based on the interviewer-observed race of the respondent and on data on race and Hispanic origin that were collected during household screening. No information is collected on respondents citizenship or country of birth, and thus, no inferences can be made about either. Details of the recoding of "other Hispanic" and "other race" responses and of the statistical imputation procedures are available from SAMHSA.
Table 2.2 presents the sample sizes (combined 1991-93 NHSDAs) of the eleven racial/ethnic categories that are analyzed in Chapters 3 and 4, and the estimated number and percentage of NHSDA target population persons aged 12 and older in each racial/ethnic category. The eleven categories are grouped into five major categories: Native American (including American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut), Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white, and there are seven subcategories of Hispanic: Caribbean, Central American, Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South American, and other Hispanic. Also shown in Table 2.2 are the corresponding population estimates and population percentages of the eleven subgroups based on the 1990 U.S. Census. The population estimates based on the 1990 U.S. Census are larger, because the Census data are not restricted to individuals aged 12 and older, but the estimated population percentages based on the 1990 U.S. Census are closely similar to the corresponding percentages based on the combined 1991-93 NHSDAs.
To be sure, the similarity between NHSDA and Census estimates in Table 2.2 results in part from the procedures that are used to weight the NHSDA data. As discussed in SAMHSA (1993, 1995b, c), the NHSDA sampling weights are post-stratified to ensure that NHSDA estimates of the percentages of U.S. population in demographic subgroups defined by age, sex, Hispanic origin, and race are consistent with Census Bureau projections based on the 1990 Census. The post-stratification procedure explains why NHSDA and Census estimates of the percentages of Asian/Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, Non-Hispanic blacks, and Non-Hispanic whites are similar in Table 2.2. However, the post-stratification procedure does not fully explain the similarity between NHSDA and Census estimates of the percentages of Native Americans and Hispanic subgroups, because this procedure ensures consistency only for subgroups defined by two categories of Hispanic origin (Hispanic, non-Hispanic) and four categories of race (Asian/Pacific Islander, black, white, other).
Table 2.3 presents the sample sizes of the eleven racial/ethnic subgroups by age group (12 to 17, 18 to 25, 26 to 34, 35 and older), region (Northeast, North Central, South, West), and population density (metropolitan statistical area greater than 1 million, other MSA, and not in MSA). The sample sizes are especially small for Native Americans (n = 416), Hispanic-Caribbean (n = 611), Hispanic-Central American (n = 1,962), Hispanic-South American (n = 1,075), and other Hispanic (n = 1,181). The small sample sizes of these five subgroups explain why the eleven-category classification of Chapters 3 and 4 had to be reduced to only seven categories in the detailed analyses of Chapter 5. The racial/ethnic classification of Chapter 5 combines four Hispanic subgroups of Chapters 3 and 4Caribbean, Central American, South American, and Other Hispanicinto an expanded "Other Hispanic" category, and Chapter 5 does not report results for Native Americans at all.
For brevity in this report, we refer to the Hispanic-Cuban subgroup as "Cubans," to the Hispanic-Mexico subgroup as "Mexicans," to the Hispanic-Puerto Rico subgroup as "Puerto Ricans," to the Hispanic-Caribbean subgroup as "Caribbeans," to the Hispanic-Central America subgroup as "Central Americans," and to the Hispanic-South America subgroup as "South Americans." Except in referring to the results of previous research, this report does not use the terms "Asian-American," "Cuban-American," "Mexican-American," "Puerto Rican-American," and so on. Yet it is worth emphasizing that all of the conclusions of this report pertain strictly to residents of the United States and do not pertain to residents of the countries and geographic areas whose names are used to designate U.S. racial/ethnic subgroups.
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Hannibal is a TV series that has to be watched with an open mind and a bucket to be sick in to. This long, gory tale of how the eponymous serial killer came to fame isn't just full of bodies being sliced 'n diced and hung out to dry. It's also coated in a thick brown aesthetic that makes the mise en scene look positively fecal. Everyone wears dark browns and purples; the lighting is shadowy-to-pitch-black; they eat at tables decorated with skulls and antlers; and the rain is Biblical. These people also live in an alternative USA in which there are dead bodies under every parking lot and bobbing about in every river. Watching Hannibal convinces you that America has a serious crime problem. And that the second amendment is probably a survival strategy.
But while the premise of the show is undeniably silly, it's got something to say about a matter that seems a million miles removed from the subject material: the ambiguities of friendship.
Take the season two finale, so crammed full of surprises that even a jaded gore hound like me was shocked. Here come the spoilers. For some time, Will Graham has been trying to entrap Hannibal into attacking the FBI's Jack Crawford in order to expose him as the man who's been eating all the neighbours. To gain Hannibal's trust, Will is pretending that he, too, has become a killer. In a movie, this might all be compressed into 20 minutes, but the beauty of a miniseries is that Will and Hannibal's attempt to seduce one another can be examined in microscopic detail. At first, Will is the hound and Hannibal the fox. But hints begin to drop that Hannibal's modus operandi is to convince his victims to do things that they wouldn't otherwise do, so the roles slowly switch. Hannibal senses that he's being hunted and the knowledge empowers him to resist. The hunt turns into a folie a deux, the men so obsessed with casting spells that they become trapped in the grand illusion. In the final episode, Will sets Hannibal up but not before calling him to tell him to run. Hannibal doesn't run but instead arms himself with a knife and waits for his "friend" to arrive for dinner. With a flick of the wrist, poor Will's guts hit the floor…
For loyal fans of this complex, disturbing series, the moment is strangely logical and cathartic – for we discover that Hannibal is vulnerable after all.
Now, Hannibal is the bad man here who has killed hundreds of people. But as he holds Will close and sticks the dagger in, he points out that it is Will who has betrayed him, not the other way around. He says, "I let you know me, see me. I gave you a rare gift, but you didn't want it." And Hannibal is right. At the core of friendship is knowledge of another – an act of reciprocity that demands honesty and vulnerability. For years, operating as a psychiatrist, Hannibal only listened and observed other people. But to Will he became a patient, someone who bore his soul in search of understanding. He made himself vulnerable in the same way that Erika Kohut does in the novel The Piano Teacher, telling her would-be lover that all she really wants is for him to beat her up. He refuses, so she puts a knife in her own chest. Erika is a masochist: when she realises that she has exposed herself and been rejected, she turns her disappointment on herself. Hannibal is a sadist: when he realises that Will has betrayed him, he disembowels the Judas. Well, it takes all sorts to make a world…
The theme runs throughout Hannibal, with its constant innuendoes about "seeing" people as they really are. Friendship is both thrilling – even sexually – but also threatening. "Friends are always welcome in my kitchen," says Hannibal. As guests or on the menu? The uncertainty reflects how friendship is inevitably imbalanced. One person always wants to learn more than the other; one always has far more than the other to say. And what you discover could well disappoint or even disgust. Especially if you find that your pal is a cannibal.
American TV seems obsessed with murderers at the moment. Dexter paved the way, then came Hannibal, then The Following. The Following is far less complex than either but contains an almost borrowed theme of a policeman coming so close to his prey that their personalities and motivations become confused. Unfortunately, the show just isn't as clever as Hannibal and its lack of appeal is measured in the fact that, by now, I really want the psycho to get caught and get the chair. By contrast, as Hannibal fled the scene in the final episode and boarded a jet for Paris, I couldn't help but wish him well – so long as he didn't take his knife and fork with him. Bon chance, mon ami.
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A Utah family was struck by lightning while driving through a rainstorm. The strike came almost immediately after one of the kids hoped for one.
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Almost immediately after he said it, the SUV's antenna was indeed struck by a bolt of lightning, but it wasn't as cool as Taylor probably thought it would be. The antenna was destroyed, the car's electrical gauges all shut off and three tires were blown out. The Morlocks were stranded until a passerby stopped and called them a tow truck. Fortunately, everyone was unharmed, albeit a little shaken up.
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After that, the man paid $20,000 to Jenkins, and $5,000 to a different person, prosecutors said. The funds, prosecutors say, were withdrawn from a retirement account belonging to the salesman's wife.
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JUDGING CHILI – Dipping their spoons in the ICS red competition chili entries are chili judges, from right, Bil Baird from Claremore, Rick Brinkley, Randal Bobbit, and Miss Owasso Yvonne Talent, all of Owasso
SERVING IT UP – Filling up tasting kit cups at the Three Hot Mama's chili booth was Judie Ellis of Wichita, KS.
CHOPPING CHILIES – Bruce Brown from Wichita, KS. chops up some jalapenos for his competition salsa.
CHILIJOHN AND CHILIPEPPERMOBILE – ICS cook-off veteran ChiliJohn Fenrich strikes a pose with his Chilipeppermobile and a squadron from the Thunderbird Youth Academy of Pryor, OK. The squad helped with set-up, tear-down and keeping chili booths from blowing away during the day.
Rains Can't Keep Chili Lovers Away From Harvest Fest Cook-Off
OWASSO – Despite intermittent showers and gusty winds, hundreds of chili lovers flocked to Centennial Park in Owasso on Saturday to enjoy world class chili, hayrides, bounce houses, contests, kids' games and "fair food."
"We were very pleased with the crowd, they just ignored the weather and had a great time," said cook-off organizer John Fenrich. "Our chili cooks are a hearty bunch and they look at bad weather as a challenge, not a problem."
The annual Owasso Harvest Festival Chili Cook-Off attracted International Chili Society cooks from six states. The winners Saturday in the ICS competitions for red chili, green chili and salsa will represent Oklahoma at the 2011 International Chili Society World Championship Cook-Off next October.
"It was a great cook-off," said Bob Alexander, the defending ICS red chili champion. "The judges here know what good competition chili is all about and Oklahoma will be well represented at the World cook-off."
In addition to tasting chili, festival attendees enjoyed a variety of Harvest Festival activities and contests sponsored by the City of Owasso, Owasso Family YMCA and Arvest Bank.
The event was a fundraiser for the Pride of Owasso High School Marching Band. The Band is raising money to go to Pasadena, CA. to march in the Rose Parade.
Tasting kits were sold. After tasting all of the People's Choice chili tasters could vote for their favorite.
A special award for the first time ICS cook garnering the most points was given to Robbie Hixon of Norman for his Hoagy Style Competition BBQ Chili.
Little chili lovers were also competing for Little Miss Chili Pepper and Little Mr. Hot Sauce honors. Crowned Little Miss Chili Pepper by Miss Owasso Yvonne Tallent was Makayla Keirsey, daughter of Britney Keirsey. Proclaimed Little Mr. Hot Sauce was Coda Snell, son of David and Karla Snell. These contests were sponsored by Tippi Toes Dance and Sprouts Play Café.
Sponsors for the Owasso Harvest Festival Chili Cook-Off were The Owasso Reporter, P&K Equipment, City of Owasso, Owasso Family YMCA, Arvest Bank, Family First Chiropractic, VCA Owasso Animal Medical Center, Hampton Inn and Suites, Martial Arts Academy, Sports Clips, Anytime Fitness, Mail This! Copy That!, Quick Trip, Madalan's Hallmark, RCB Bank, Office Depot, Drake Chiropractic, J&K Media Resources, Party Depot, Catoosa Small Animal Hospital, AAA Insurance – Levi Molini, St. John's Hospital, Tippi Toes Dance – Broken Arrow/Owasso.
2010 Owasso Harvest Festival Chili Cook-Off Results
People' s Choice Chili
1st Ann Burney, Owasso, Extreme Mom's Oklarado Chili
2nd Barry Shockemoehl, Claremore, Big Foot Bar-BQ Chili
People's Choice Salsa
1st Debbie Williams, Owasso, Crash Course Classy Chassis Chili
2nd – Barry Shockemoehl, Claremore, Big Foot Bar-BQ Chili
1st Big Foot Bar-BQ, Claremore
2nd One Hot Mama's, Wichita, KS.
ICS Red Chili
1st Don Eastep, Harrison, AR.
2nd Jim Stoddard, Coppell, TX.
3rd Bob Alexander, Tulsa
4th Clif Dugan, Dennison, TX./ Mike Barbara,
ICS Green Chili
1st Bob Alexander, Tulsa
2nd Bruce Brown, Wichita, KS.
3rd Mike Mayenschein, Owasso
ICS Salsa
1st Jim Stoddard, Coppell, TX.
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Le Jardin d'Acclimatation
This children's amusement park sees thousands of tourists every year. It features a menagerie and the Exploradome Museum, with fantastic optical illusions and amazing structures. The park's attractions include zip-lines, swings, deforming mirrors, paddling pools, radio-controlled boats, a theatre, a small farm, pony and camel rides, an aviary, a butterfly garden and amusement rides. Apart from being loads of fun this wonderland of games and activities is frequently educational and many of the activities are designed to educate children. The park offers workshops for children over three that aim not only to amuse but to teach skills and cultivate talents; workshops revolve around things like cooking, gardening, magic and theatre. There are also joint workshops for parents and young children and a few classes for adults only. There are a number of restaurants and cafes on the premises which are useful for refueling as you will probably need at least a few hours here and could easily spend a whole day. It is a great place for kids to blow off steam at the same time as learning some useful skills; the activities are wonderful for parent/child bonding too.
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NIS America have been pouring the love onto Europe of late, releasing titles like Bleach: Soul Resurrección or the magnificent Cave Story 3D and even – most recently – Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention for PlayStation Vita. Now though, it is the turn of Way of the Samurai 4, coming September this year to PlayStation 3 and via digital download through the PlayStation Network.
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AA5AU RTTY Contest Notes - 2013 ARRL RTTY Roundup
Twenty-five years of the ARRL RTTY Roundup... I was only 30 years old when I operated in the first ever Roundup in 1987. I can't say it seems like yesterday, because it doesn't. It seems like a long time ago. I don't remember the actual contest or even where I was living at the time or what kind of radio or antenna I was using, but I do remember that it was a lot of fun. So here we are 25 years later.
Preparation for this contest started in early September 2012 when I returned home from evacuation of Hurricane Isaac to find my 2-year old 3-element SteppIR badly damaged, my 55' tower slightly bent and my KT34, on a second tower, no longer operable on 20 meters. I had a lot of work ahead of me in order to get the station prepared for this year's Roundup. The rebuild of the antenna system is well-documented here for those interested. My passion for operating in the ARRL RTTY Roundup is the driving force that keeps me rebuilding after all these storms. If it wasn't for the Roundup, I probably would have given up after the first one.
I ended up lowering my 55' tower to 45' with a brand new 3-element SteppIR on top. I took parts from the damaged 3-element SteppIR and built a modified 2-element SteppIR which replaced the KT-34 on the 35' tower. The 30/40 meter loop dipole was badly damaged in the storm and I had received the parts to fix it. I actually did repair it and had intentions of installing it on the 2-element SteppIR but I didn't get done in time for the contest. Not getting this done would have a big impact on me but I didn't know it at the time. I re-installed my 80 meter inverted vee off the 45' tower and installed a 40 meter inverted vee off the same tower, both using DXEngineering baluns. The two baluns were inches apart. In pre-contest practice sessions, it was obvious the two inverted vee antennas were too close to each other. The interference on 40M when transmitting on 80M was bad. I worked diligently to try to correct it. I really didn't have anywhere else to put the 40m inverted vee so I built a stub to null 80 meters but that didn't work. I tried some other things that didn't work either. The best thing I could come up with was to use my Pixel receiving loop on 40 meters when transmitting on 80. This minimized the interference but did not eliminate it. I finally realized I was not going to fix this problem before the contest.
The propagation forecast for the contest was not great. We expected the flux to be in the low 100 range, so when the flux rose to 143 before the start, there was hope that ten meters would give us extra contacts like it did last year. But something told me this wasn't going to happen and I ended up being right. I'm not sure how I knew this, but my hunch was correct. One thing I changed for this year was to get rid of the third radio. I wouldn't do SO3R this time because I'm not set up for it with these antennas. A check of the weather showed no threat of thunderstorms during the weekend. No memories of my 2009 weather-related blunder to contemplate.
Flunking Psychology 101
Because of all the unknowns with my new antenna setup, I set a goal of 2000 contacts, which was a mistake. I made 2200 contacts in 2012, so lowering my expectations for this year was an act of total stupidity on my part. I told myself I was trying to be realistic, when it fact, the problem between 40 and 80 meters psyched me out. I was mad at myself for not getting 40M added to the 2-element SteppIR and I allowed it to have a negative impact before the contest even started. The 200 contacts I would miss on 40 meters this year, all on Saturday night, would have put me at my 2012 total. In hindsight, I tried too hard to make 40 meters work Saturday night. In years past I had huge runs on 40 meters. I made the critical mistake of trying to run on 40 meters Saturday night even though it wasn't working. I was lazy or stubborn or stupid or all three. When I realized what I had done, it was too late. All I could do was tell myself that tomorrow would be better. I would quit earlier Saturday than I normally do and kick ass on the high bands starting early in the morning to make up for the lost contacts. I still had the second half of the contest to go and I wasn't about to let a mistake, no matter how big it was, impact the fun of big high band runs on Sunday. That's basically how it went.
First 12 Hours
I had decided beforehand that I would start the contest on 15 and 20 meters, and check 10 meters later. I had a feeling that 20 was going to be the best band so I started the contest with the big antenna on 20 and the smaller antenna on 15. It was obvious from the start that the 3-element SteppIR at 45' is much better than the 2-element SteppIR at 35'. Duh! However, the little SteppIR worked just as good as the KT-34 it had replaced and would prove it's worthiness as an effective antenna. It was good enough for a second radio, but my plans to revert it back to 3-elements with the 30/40 loop dipole have been expedited. I'm looking forward to having two 3-element SteppIR yagi antennas in the very near future.
I had big runs on 20 meters and smaller runs on 15 throughout the day Saturday and I was pretty satisfied with the way things were going. The start was pretty typical of most of my later Roundups where the rate is usually way above 100/hr for the first few hours, then falls off a bit but keeping the average above that 100/hr overall rate. My rates for hours 1 through 5 were 100, 106, 110, 110 and 94. I did check ten meters twice during the daylight hours to find everything was to the west coast. I did a couple of quick S&P passes there, but did not try running on ten at all the whole weekend. Ten just sucked all weekend as I knew it would.
Normally when the rate starts falling on 15 in the late afternoon, it's time to move to 40 meters. With the rate falling quickly after sunset at 2300Z, I went to 40 meters at 2320Z. There were a lot of stations on 40, but it didn't seem as crowded, as shown on the PRO III scope, as it normally is. This is where my struggles began. The interference on 20 meters was significant when transmitting on 40, so I tried something that actually worked well for me. I put the big SteppIR on 15 instead of 20, and there was no interference on 15 when transmitting on 40. But 15 was going away quickly after sunset, so I decided to move that radio to 80 meters at 2340Z. I only worked one station on 80 and decided it was too early for 80, so went back to 15. Finally I moved back to 80 at 0019Z for good. The interference on 40 when transmitting on 80 was terrible. And I just couldn't make 40 work for me. This took a major toll on my score as the rate between 2300-2400Z was only 67 and between 0001-0100Z, it tumbled to 64. Usually, the move to 40 and 80 allows for my rate to jump back over 100/hr for a few hours and my "norm" is to average 100/hr for the first 12 or 13 hours. That didn't happen. Forty meters just seemed strange and I started to panic a little. I had the interference, but it wasn't enough to completely shut 40 down for me. I could still copy stations, but the band seemed strange like it was too long. I've had that happen in the past, but I had already convinced myself that the problem was my 40M inverted vee and the 80 interference. Maybe it wasn't, I don't know. In the next 5 hours, the rates were 74, 74, 94, 73, and 94. So after twelve hours (at 0600Z) I had only 1060 contacts. That's 140 contacts below my normal average. Since in years past I would go to at least 0700Z and sometimes 0730Z (if 20 was open to EU at their sunrise), with continued high rates, I knew I was drowning. After only 29 contacts between 0600-0630Z, I shut it down. I was nearly 200 contacts off pace. I was not happy. I didn't go to bed right away. I spent a few minutes trying to convince myself I would make this up the next day. I was very tired. Fighting the low bands had really taken a lot out of me. I went to bed and fell asleep quickly but I was so tired I was afraid of not waking up in time, so I set two alarms.
Sunday 1200-2130Z
Last year I took a 5.5 hour rest period, then worked all the way to 2329Z and took the last 30 minutes of the contest off. Post analysis of that recording-setting effort showed that my rate steadily increased in the last couple of hours Sunday. And in years past the last 30 minutes of the contest usually yields the highest rate of the second half of the contest. So this year, I decided to take 5.5 hours again but to save 30 minutes for when the rate is usually slowest on Sunday, which can be anywhere between 1900-2200Z. I would watch the rate meter and make the decision on the fly. With 5.5 hours of rest, I needed to restart at 1200Z on Sunday. This is an hour before my sunrise.
I restarted by running way down around 7036 kHz on 40 meters while S&P on 20 to Europe. At 1200Z, 20 meters was open well into Europe. There was minimal interference on 20 while transmitting at 7036 kHz because the 1st harmonic was at 14072 kHz and most of the stations were high in the band on 20. This helped and I got a good start with 76 contacts that first hour. Occasionally I would check 15, but it didn't open until an hour later. At 1300Z, it opened fast and was instantly full of signals. The rate fell slightly to 73 between 1300-1400Z, but that was OK. As 15 opened up all the way by 1400Z, the rate started climbing and was 90, 90, then 107 because 20 meters was unbelievably open to everywhere in the USA/Canada and to Europe. I ran 20 meters for two and a half hours on one frequency Sunday morning after 15 opened. What's most impressive about this great run is that I had put the big SteppIR on 15 to Europe and was running 20 on the smaller antenna. It was working very well for me. I kept checking ten meters but there were very little signals and nothing from Europe at all there. So I continued with 15 and 20 because it was working and I was having a lot of fun. The 40-meter debacle the night before was out of mind.
But something happened between 1700-1800Z when the rate fell to 68. I was running on both radios as I had been for hours but it just slowed down. I checked ten meters and there was little there, so I kept trying to run on 20 and 15 but it was just slow. Analysis of the log shows that I should have gone S&P on 20 meters when things slowed down. This was a mistake that I normally don't make. In that hour, I had 37 contacts on 15 and only 31 on 20. I was getting tired and had gotten lazy. I had forgotten to post a sign in front of me that says "Go Get That Next Contact". What a blunder! Finally after 1800Z I went S&P on 20 while running on 15 and the rate climbed back up to 103 between 1800-1900Z. That was a shot in the arm I needed.
After 1900Z, the 20-meter rate fell sharply but this is not unexpected. So I moved from 20M to 10M for twenty minutes S&P to work all the very strong west coast stations. The west coast ops had this great opening on ten but no one else was there. I went back to 20. The rate between 1900-2000Z was 70 and fell to 63 between 2000-2100Z. All the while I was dragging and felt very tired. I had come to a point where I needed rest. I knew it and now was as good a time for it as any. So at 2100Z I shut down for a 30-minute power nap. I climbed into bed, after setting 2 alarms, and fell asleep. Man, I was tired.
Last Two and a Half Hours
I was hoping my power nap would invigorate me and it did. I got up in time to restart at 2130Z. I quickly checked ten meters but it was history - no signals. The PRO III was on 15 meters and I could tell there weren't as many signals there as before by looking at the band scope, so I restarted on 20 and 40. I did a 25-minute S&P on 40 while running 20, then put the 40 radio back to 15 for S&P there. The rate was 36 for that first 30 minutes and that wasn't bad. I was feeling better physically and when I went back to 40 at 2230Z, it was rocking. So I went S&P on 40 while running 20 and this worked very well as 20 started getting real good again and just about every station I came across on 40 was new because I hadn't worked them the night before! The rate between 2200-2300Z climbed to 81. In the final hour I made 94 contacts between 20 and 40 meters. This was very good indeed. I had made my goal of 2000 contacts, barely. But I was drained. I couldn't remember being that tired at the end of a Roundup. I was exhausted.
Post-Contest Analysis
I encountered several problems in this contest that were all self-inflicted. Whether or not they are fatal is yet to be known. First of all, I should have made the effort to get the 30/40 meter loop dipole installed on the 2-element SteppIR before the contest. Although I have no idea how that would have worked at only 35 feet, I feel it may have reduced the interference from 80 meters since there would have been much more separation between the 40 and 80 meter antennas. Given what I had on 40 meters, a low inverted vee, I should have tried more S&P on 40 meters Saturday night instead of trying to run. I think two of the reasons I was trying to run on 40 was A) I always run 40 at night in the Roundup, and B) I found a couple of "sweet" spots on the band where the 80 interference wasn't so bad so I stayed there; afraid to move. Kind of like a deer in headlights. I shouldn't have psyched myself out.
On Sunday, as tired as I was, I probably should have taken that last 30 minutes of rest earlier, say at around 2000Z or 2030Z when the rate started dropping off and I was feeling tired. It's hard to say, but it's something to think about for next year. I know one thing, the last two hours of the Roundup are high-rate for me and I need to be there. Despite having my best-ever score in 2012, I should never take 2330-2400Z off like I did then. So at least I didn't make that mistake again.
I have to guess that having to do another total-rebuild on the antennas may have affected me this year. Getting older doesn't help, but since I have to do all this antenna and tower work by myself, maybe it took something out me. Don't get me wrong; I love working on antennas and towers and building stuff. But when you have to totally redo everything 3 times in seven years, it's enough already. I'm not making excuses. I screwed up and I know it. I told myself I wasn't going to make 2200 contacts like I did last year and sure enough I didn't. It doesn't take a psychology class to figure that one out. Hopefully I won't do it again. On the other hand, 2000 contacts isn't bad for low power. It's the 2nd most I'd ever worked. And depending on log-checking, should be my second best score ever. Despite beating up on myself the whole time, I actually did have a lot of fun.
Twenty-five years from now I will be 80 years old. Wouldn't it be really neat to operate in 50 Roundups? I guess I have a new goal now. It's funny how the Roundup can be so inspirational. I'm looking forward to the next 25 years. Oh, and one goal for next year already - 2400 contacts. That 100/hr for 24 hours low power. No one has ever done it. I'm planning on it. Thanks to everyone who worked me.
73, Don AA5AU
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Amateur Radio Station AA5AU antennas for the 2013 ARRL RTTY Roundup (January 2013)
Modified 2-element SteppIR yagi @ 35' with Pixel receiving loop antenna on top
Brand new 3-element SteppIR yagi @ 45' with 40 and 80 meter inverted vee antennas off the tower at 40' and plastic owl on top
"Left" radio consisting of Icom IC-756 PRO III with SixPak, SteppIR controller, M2 rotor controller, headphone switch, Dunestar filter switch & NIR-12 filter
"Right" radio consisting of Kenwood TS-870, SteppIR controller, M2 rotor controller, Dunestar filter switch & NIR-12 filter
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Call: AA5AU Operator(s): AA5AU Station: AA5AU Class: Single Op LP QTH: LA Operating Time (hrs): 24 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs ------------ 80: 232 40: 374 20: 774 15: 580 10: 60 ------------ Total: 2020 State/Prov = 58 Countries = 68 Total Score = 254,520 Club: Louisiana Contest Club
Radios: Icom IC-756 PRO III running 100 watts Kenwood TS-870 running 90-95 watts Antennas: 3 element SteppIR @ 45' 2 element SteppIR @ 35' 80M inverted vee with apex at 40' 40M inverted vee with apex at 40' Pixel receiving loop @ 36' Other stuff: Dell Dimension desktop PC running XP with WriteLog V11.08B Dell Inspiron laptop running XP with WriteLog 11.08B M2 RC2800 rotor controllers (2) Dunestar 600 band filters (2) Array Solutions SixPak 2-radio antenna switch JPS NIR-12 Dual DSP audio filters (2) Dunestar 842 2-radio headphone selector Heil Pro Set Elite headphones Icom PS-60 power supply Astron 40 amp power supply


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"It was an excellent team effort tonight," said Spartan head coach Tom Minkel. "We had some tough, hard-fought matches, and I think this was the best team effort we've had in some time."
The match started at 174 pounds where Ian Hinton defeated EMU's Nick Hendrick, 5-1. After an Eagle win at 184 pounds, Tyler Dickenson at 197 and heavyweight Alan O'Donnell put MSU on top, 10-6, when they each recorded victories.
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The Eagles 18th-ranked Chris Jenkins slashed the MSU lead to 10-9 when he defeated Eric Olanowski at 125 pounds but that would be as close as EMU would get, as the Spartans claimed the night's final five matches.
No. 1-ranked Franklin Gomez won his 22nd consecutive match at 133 pounds to start the Spartans' winning streak, followed by freshman Dan Osterman, who registered a major-decision win (15-6) over Andrew Novak at 141 pounds.
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The second annual Over the Edge Quad Cities kicked off shortly after 10 a.m. as a man dressed as Spiderman appeared over the edge of the historic 11-story building before rapelling down the side.
Organizers hoped to get 92 people to raise a minimum of $750 each in pledges. The goal was to raise $30,000 for the Special Olympics.
As of Tuesday afternoon, 50 people were registered on the group's website, overtheedgequadcities.com. Those signed up had raised $27,151.
Roy and Carey DeWitt saw the event on TV last year and decided to sign up. The two raised about $850 each, they said.
Mr. Dewitt said he was glad to help out a good cause, and he didn't mind stepping over the edge more than 130 feet up.
"You really put your trust in the team at the top, and you smile for the camera," he said. "And then you just try to enjoy the ride down."
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I will likely be wearing this Taiyo Whales cap during the weekend.
I'm going down to Los Angeles this afternoon for AX 2011, my third overall (2008, 2009). I'm interested in seeing the Anime & Manga Symposium events as well as hanging out with some people around the con. My flight down there is scheduled to land at 1:40pm so I will probably miss anything happening before 2pm.
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Friday July 1 – Day 1
2:30-3:30pm – Aniplex of America (LP3)
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5:30-6:30pm – An Introduction to the World of WAKFU (LP1)
6:30-7:30pm – Uncool Japan: The Trials of Tribulations of Japanese Pop Culture (LP4)
6:45-7:45pm – FUNimation Industry Panel (LP1)
8:00-9:00pm – Symposium Open Session 1 (LP4)
9:00-10:00pm – Anime Genesis Live: Benu's Violent Torpedo of Moe (LP3)
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Saturday July 2 – Day 2
9:00-10:00am – Production I.G. Panel (LP1)
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Bitcoin "mining" is a misnomer
Bitcoin "mining" is a process of creating hard-to-compute chain of transactions to make sure nobody tries to spend money twice. It is important because the chain is not stored on a trusted server, but rather copied thousands of times among all the computers in the network. The resulting structure is called a "blockchain", that is a chain of blocks of transactions. As it is nearly impossible to change the history of payments (and therefore cancel transactions or double-spend bitcoins), users stay confident that the history of transactions looks the same to everyone. This is the central part of the Bitcoin protocol: a solid and distributed mechanism to verify validity of payments.
People who spend electricity to create blocks are called "miners". They are paid for their trouble by transaction fees (offered voluntarily by others) and block rewards that are source of the new bitcoins. There is a limited number of bitcoins and all of them are distributed among the first several million blocks available to everybody to "mine". That's why the process of building the blockchain is called "mining".
However, the term makes sense only within the earliest history of Bitcoin when there were almost no economy and no transactions, but only a bunch of geeks computing almost empty blocks for reward that they were trading for fun and a couple of cents. If you tried to find any info on Bitcoin in 2010, you would find mostly the info about mining. Back then a pizza was sold for 10000 BTC (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/History) and the whole project looked like a game.
Today there is a much more interesting economy, daily transaction volume is almost $3 million and rapidly growing, more than 50% of all bitcoins are mined already and the per-block reward has already been halved in December 2012 (as defined by the protocol). Blockchain is used for real transactions — purchases, currency transfers, investment, bets and all other things we use money for. Miners are making very real money which is a strong incentive to carefully include and validate all transactions to keep the value of the system growing.
So today it is a good time to remind ourselves and everyone that the Bitcoin is not about "mining" money. It is about verifying payments in a very secure manner, without trust in any authority, very quickly and efficiently. Mining is just a temporary effect of bootstrapping the next era in human kind.


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Throughout this vast array of experience, Jon has served as a trusted, objective source of information for those IT professionals who create, store, manage, and administer data and storage assets. Jon has furthered this mission as both managing principal partner at Toigo Partners International -- a consultancy specializing in IT consumer advocacy, data management and storage technology -- and chairman/co-founder of the Data Management Institute, which has trained and certified nearly 100,000 data management professionals worldwide over the last 20 years.
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Bring classic horror films back to the BBC!
Television has become so bland in the last decade that it has become impossible to find any of the classic old horror films being screened anywhere, even on the BBC. Years ago, BBC2 would screen regular horror double bills on Saturday nights which featured cult movies from Universal, RKO, Hammer Films and beyond. If you'd like to see these films back on the box, please sign this petition and tell your friends to do the same!
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The old horror movies were the best.
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love, love. love the classic b and w's!!!!!
Myself, family, and friends ALWAYS watched the horror double bill on Saturday nights! We looked forward to it all week!
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Derrick Gill4 days ago Comments: It would be great to get a late night double bill of some good/bad old movies from horror genre of 1940's to 1970's on a Friday night say.(assuming there's any left that SKY don't own the rights to).
Arthur McCausland5 days ago Comments: We need Horror back on BBC Two - the line up now is so boring. Give us some fright for our Saturday night.
Peter Sydoruk1 week ago Comments: I agree I'm totally fed up that both BBC & ITV no longer show classic horror, SCI-FI, film noir etc. All we get are fork out your money shows, News etc. Use to enjoy a weekend horror and classic films at Xmas. BBC now show them at 6:00am in the morning and ITV has just given up providing entertainment after 11:00pm. Rare treat to see a b/w classic Night of the Demon on 4. Even ITV4 won't show b/w episodes of the Saint, the Avengers etc. We need to get the horror channel on Freeview TV and Film 4 etc to show old movies at night, not just in the afternoon!
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Numerous complaints against Lubbock's Animal Control have been pouring into KCBD since we first began our investigation in January.
The original story focused on the death of a 13-year-old Australian Shepherd named Cutter. His owner Dianna Wilson says two aggressive dogs ripped through the picket fence and attacked Cutter in the back yard. He eventually died several days later from his injuries.
Prior to Cutter's attack she had called Animal Control multiple times for help with the aggressive dogs that kept trying to get into her yard. While the officers responded to each call, Wilson says they never actively searched for the dogs until Cutter's death.
After we aired Cutter's story a large number of calls, emails and Facebook posts flooded KCBD with similar concerns about dangerous dogs and claims that Animal control officers were not doing their jobs.
We took those complaints to Mayor Glen Robertson who says those concerns are new to him.
"Part of the problem is these complaints are going to the media and not to elected officials," Robertson said. "It's a frustrating situation as a mayor to hear we have this many concerns with our animal control."
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The more intelligent a person is, the more short-lived will be his love - love as you know it. That is why as humanity is becoming more intelligent, love is becoming a short-lived phenomenon. In the past it was almost permanent; there was nothing like divorce. In uneducated countries there is still nothing like divorce. The more a country becomes educated, cultured, sophisticated, the rate of divorce increases, in the same proportion, for the simple reason that people can see that they get bored with each other. Then there is no point in dragging it on; then it is better to finish it. But the mind can finish one thing and immediately substitute it with another illusion, again and again.
Mind is a non-learner. Even the intelligent person remains a non-learner and the mind has become so powerful that anything coming from the heart never reaches you, your being, uninterpreted by the mind. The heart says eternity and the mind interprets permanency. That's where you are missing the point. The yearning of the heart is for a vertical dimension; that is the dimension of meditation. Mind lives horizontally; hence the mystics of all the ages have realized the fact that mind and time are not two different things - mind is time. Mind cannot live vertically; mind lives in the past, in the future. For the mind, the present is non-existential. From the past to the future mind goes on moving. The present seems to be only a passage from the past to the future.
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A hunter was going to the jungle to hunt. A friend wanted to accompany him; he also wanted to be a hunter, but he was very unskillful and amateurish. The hunter said, "Okay, you can come along."
The hunter brought him to a place where tigers used to pass and lions used to pass, because it was close to a pond and they were bound to come to the pond when they felt thirsty. So they were hiding in a bush. The hunter gave him indications, hints: "When it is going to happen, be alert and shoot immediately."
A tiger passed. The hunter was amazed because the friend remained almost frozen; he didn't even move, he didn't do anything to shoot him. He asked, "What happened?"
The friend said, "It went so fast that I saw him only when he was out of sight."
That is exactly what the present is: you see it only when it is out of sight; when it is already past, only then you see it. You never see it as the present - mind is not that quick. Mind is not alert, not aware. Mind is dreaming. It is always surrounded by past and future, and the small, atomic moment of the present goes fast. It must be moving faster than light itself, because we never catch hold of it. By the time we are aware it is already gone. The time that we take in becoming alert is enough, and it is gone. You always know it when it is out of sight. So all that you are aware of is the past which is no more and the future which is not yet. You live between these two non-existential things.


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