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Phil Wain,
30 September 2012 17:47
Alex Lowes completed a sensational double in the second British Superbike Championship race on Sunday afternoon, in what was, arguably, one of the greatest BSB races ever. With less than a second covering the top five for much of the race, it all came down to a final lap sort out between Lowes, Shane Byrne and Josh Brookes but a ...
Phil Wain,
04 June 2012 23:13
John McGuinness made it TT win number 19 when he led the Royal London 360 Superstock race from start to finish. After numerous podiums, it was his first win in the class and he led home Michael Dunlop by 7.8s, the Northern Irishman overhauling fellow countryman Ryan Farquhar in the closing stages. "It was a tough race but I concentrated ...
Phil Wain,
02 June 2012 15:23
John McGuinness won his 18th TT today when he took victory in the Dainese Superbike race. The Honda TT Legends rider overcame an early challenge from Cameron Donald and, in his usual manner, once in front he was able to gradually pull away. Aided by two incredibly slick pit stops, a lead of six seconds at half race distance became ...
Phil Wain,
19 July 2009 14:16
James Ellison has taken a dramatic victory in today's first British Superbike race at Mallory Park in one of the most controversial races in the premier class' history. The red flag came out on the 23rd lap after fourth placed Josh Brookes lost control at the hairpin taking out long time race leader Simon Andrews and in the ensuing melee ...
Phil Wain,
21 June 2009 17:05
Leon Camier made it two wins from two today when he comfortably won the second British Superbike race at Snetterton. The Airwaves Yamaha rider hit the front on the fifth lap and was never headed as he opened up a gap over team-mate James Ellison and he ran out winner by over three seconds with the team securing their fourth ...
Phil Wain,
06 June 2009 10:41
After the heroic speeds of Cameron Donald and Michael Dunlop on Thursday evening, a sense of normality was restored to the Isle of Man TT races on Friday but Donald was once again in the headlines though, sadly, for all the wrong reasons this time. Out on his Superstock machine, the Australian went down at Keppel Gate on his first ...
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Definition of part-time in English:
part-timeLine breaks: part-time
adjective& adverb
For only part of the usual working day or week: [as adjective]: part-time jobs a part-time teacher [as adverb]: he only worked part-time
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Hi, my name is Carson
I hope to someday be able to give this to my parents (after reworking it a bit) to tell them how I feel. I thought I might as well just publish it out here first, its a stepping stone.
Here it is, a random apology to my parents for scaring them so much.
To start, I wish not to worry anyone with this note. I simply wish to convey my thoughts, as they have been pooling in my mind in need of some form of escape. The blunt topic of this is simply, I have not been truly happy for some time. I only hoping that in writing about this, I may be better able to understand my feelings. It is ironic, however, that I on more than one occasion have told a great friend of mine not to express their thoughts and emotions through writing, but instead to verbally and physically display them.
I guess the first thing that I want to talk about happened to me quite a while ago. Although 'happened to me' isn't exactly the correct thing to say. In addition, this has been haunting me ever since it has happened. It was around the time of my trip to either Italy or Mexico. I believe it was Italy. It was probably around 2007 or 2008 and I would have been around 14-16. No, it must have been earlier because it was before the fire, which happened in 2007. In reality, I was probably closer to 13 or 14 years old. One of the stupidest things I have ever done is play the "choking game". I remember I tried it in the downstairs bathroom. I blacked out, upon awakening, I felt blood dripping down the back/side of my head, and I saw a red ring from the rope around my neck. I was scared out of my mind! I ran upstairs to my mom, yelling and crying my eyes out. WTF had I just done?! My mom helped me to clean up but she knew something else was wrong. I don't remember if it was that day or the day after but I remember sitting down and having a long talk about it. I think we had the talk the day after. But, I remember after getting cleaned up, I eventually told my mom what I did. It was the most unique experience I have ever had. I couldn't keep lying to my mom, she was already suspicious. I remember being in my room, my mom just outside the door. I was formulating the words in my head, and as the words came out of my mouth, the tears swelled in my eyes, and I lost all ability to hear. It was like, my brain was trying to prevent me from hearing the truth from my own mouth. I told her "I played the choking game". It was probably the saddest I have ever seen my mom. She broke down crying and I broke down too. I don't remember how long it was before we embraced to support each other. But I seem to remember I went to embrace her, to support her, to comfort her. What had I done! She looked far more distraught, and saddened then even I was. I don't remember much after that, other than the fact that I asked to sleep in her bed that night because I was haunted by the fresh memory of what I had just done. It was the next day that we sat down and had a long talk about it. It was hard for me to sit through it. I pulled the napkins off of the table where we were sitting and began to systematically rip them to shreds. Folding in half and tearing the napkins until the table was covered with tiny shreds. My hands, jaw, all my muscles kept clenching when she said the word. I don't know where my dad was at that point, he was probably off on a business trip, but I made my mom promise that she wouldn't tell dad. I couldn't bear breaking his heart like that. After that, time went on but I never forgot about it. Each day I thought about it. It was taking over my mind and sanity. Soon we were on holiday and we were on a family vacation in either Italy or Mexico and I remember standing outside the house we rented and my mom approached me. She told me that, she had told my dad. I was angered, I was distraught, I was horrified. She promised me that she wouldn't tell him! I asked what he did after she told him, and she said he just cried. My dad crying, the role model of my life. I don't think I had ever seen him cry before. What had I done! I hated myself!
Even as I write this almost four years later it still haunts me, almost every day. It kills me inside to think of how badly I hurt my parents. To this day, I have never forgiven myself for what I have done, nor do I think that I will probably ever forgive myself for the agony I put my parent through. I wish to tell my parents, im so sorry, a million times over. But I know there is no way to erase how much I fucked up. I honestly love them so much and never intended to do anything to hurt them.
So this is part one, in a list of apologies that I would like to write and tell for all the stupid shit I have done.
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Does your 401(k) plan pay higher than average fees? Do you have more than one qualified plan?
A number of recent reports indicate why you may receive special scrutiny if your plan is selected for audit or investigation. Statements by officials at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) also provide guidance about how to survive the audit process without being subjected to penalties or enforcement action. Here is some information about new projects and what the auditors will be looking at, and some advice how to prepare.
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In 2010, I wrote about an IRS 401(k) questionnaire that had been mailed to certain 401(k) sponsors. The IRS has released its report of the results, and the most common errors it found. Here is a link to an IRS summary of results.
The IRS will be targeting the most common problems it identified through the questionnaire when it does an audit. These included small sponsors with multiple plans, failure to make top heavy minimum contributions, and late corrective distributions when 401(k) plans fail non-discrimination testing. The IRS also confirmed that it selected for audit any plan sponsor that did not return the questionnaire.
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The IRS has stated that the first thing its auditors look at is whether a plan has appropriate controls; that is, whether there are documented procedures and practices to prevent or quickly flag errors. If a plan has appropriate controls, the audit may not proceed further.
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The Philadelphia office of the DOL has just announced that it will be opening investigations involving 401(k) plans where participants appear to be paying high fees based on the DOL's own plan data files, and we expect that other DOL offices may be following suit.
Plan sponsors should expect that the DOL will be asking to see service provider fee disclosures that were required by last July 1, and looking carefully at what fiduciaries did with them. Plan fiduciaries who have reviewed their service provider disclosures and benchmarked and reviewed their fees through an entity independent of their vendors will be in the best position to defend themselves if their plan fees are claimed to be too high.
ERISA has never required hiring the least expensive provider; factors such as superior service and plan complexity are appropriately also taken into account. But the plan fiduciary who can't answer the DOL's questions about fees is not going to be in a good position.
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From Hurricane Sandy, One Year Later, Part II, one of 24 photos. An abandoned exercise bike sits in a sand dune near a home destroyed last year by Superstorm Sandy in Mantoloking, New Jersey, on October 27, 2013. Progress is visible in some areas along the beachfront while others remain badly damaged, days before the one year anniversary of the storm. (Reuters/Eric Thayer)
Mr. Thayer and Mr. Lott, both freelance news photographers, have been friends and competitors since 2007. They covered the presidential primaries in 2008 and 2012, hurricanes, fires, floods and the shootings in Newtown, Conn., working side by side, usually for different clients. Mr. Lott is based in Phoenix, Mr. Thayer in Brooklyn. They both work often for Reuters and The New York Times.
Photojournalists are naturally competitive. Their clients want the very best image from an event, but usually the photographers want it even more. Mr. Lott and Mr. Thayer may be close friends, but they still want the best image in any situation, with any camera.
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"We're always trying to one up each other, in the friendliest way," Mr. Thayer, 39, added. "But I still want to beat him."
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Over the course of two weeks they photographed together in New York and then went on a road trip to Chicago and Detroit. As they simultaneously posted photos, their friends and followers weighed in, commenting that this round went to "Team Thayer" or to "Team Lott."
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The most important position in the NHL is that of the goaltender. They are the last line of defense, and a good one can make your team great. Two good ones can carry a team.
With the increased emphasis on divisional play this year, we will take a look at all of the tandems in the Senators' new-look division and rank them 8 through 1. We will look at the talent of the starter, consistency of the backup as well as how confident a team would be if their starter went down and the understudy would be forced into extended action.
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My dream last night,
I got away from a zombie but it was still scary.
I got away from a zombie but it was still scary.
*it's 3:26 a.m. & I don't want to have this dream anymore.* My school had a tumblr meet up. When I came back from it, I saw my girlfriend hugging one of these girls from our school. It's not an ordinary hug, it's one of the hugs she gives me, even better. But like always, I just walked pass her because I know I don't have to worry. Then when I was peeing, the girl came in the bathroom. Somehow, I was peeing without closing the stall and nobody had a problem with it. Right in front of me, my girlfriend walks in & starts tonguing the girl down IN FRONT OF MY FACE. I was fucking shocked. My heart skipped a beat & it was hard for me to breathe. After I peed, I saw one of my friends Karina, sooo she walked me to my bus stop. I told her what just happened. She was shocked too! I got on the bus by myself and somehow, my girlfriend managed to get in my house too. I was asking her questions about it, & she was just quiet. However, when I was just quiet, & asked her why she kissed that girl in front of my face, she came out saying, " Oh, you ain't know. We've been talking. Why do you think I hug her like that everyday?" After that, I WENT OFF. I told her to get out of my life & my house, with a threat telling her to watch out for my uncle because he might kill her for this. I went in my room & I saw my sister. I was just a fucking wreck. My sister, not only is mad at her friend, " the girl ", but is so much more upset at my girlfriend more for hurting me. She was ready to fight her!! I broke down. And as I remember, my last words were, "I TRUSTED HER!" Then I woke up …
02/02/12 We were at the movies. It was late at night. Me & my friend were there. It was also a carnival thing too. So we were walking around & stuff. Then, demons were trynna attack us like the ones in Charmed. While they were trying to attack us, we kept on finding ways to defeat them. It was 2 something in the morning by then. Then, there was this unhappy mermaid who wanted to kill everybody because of her unhappiness. However, I found a way to keep her calm. I found a necklace that belongs to her girlfriend. For a moment, we were at peace, until 2 demons tried to kill us again. We hid behind the, now, sleeping mermaid. They were saying my wife Stephenie's name. They were saying that in order to know if I'm really in love, they'll have to kill her. But then, of course, I'm not gonnna let that happpen. I let them chase me by the mermaid. As soon as they stepped on her tail, she went ballistic! She had the 2 demons so scared! She sang a melody that summoned her whole crew with other creatures & stuff. They came in with a big wave of tsunami only targeting on the demons. So the demons were intimidated. Then, I woke up.
12/28/11 I was in a building watching these people shoot a zombie movie. Unfortunately, there were real hidden zombies in it so when my mother got bitten & everybody was all in the building, slowly, people started getting infected. So that's when I found a way out. Theree was this boarder line where the fully infected couldn't escape & the mortal ones can go out, even the ones that just got bitten. About 30 of us escaped & a few were bitten so we asked them to go back. Then we found this secret portal with a man trying to save the world. Before we go in there, some people were willing to stay in contact with me & go back in the building so we can stop them. People started to change up so we went in the portal & then I woke up.
12/27/11. This girl was affected by this epidemic & it's from bed bugs. Anybody can be affected by it, by any chance. If you get bitten, you're gonnna be automatically obsessed to the first person you see when you wake up. Unfortunately, this tall girl saw me first. I don't even remember who she is but she's super crazy but sexy! Eventually, it got really scary. She was EVERYWHERE I go. I liked it at first but it got super crazy. She wanted to kiss me every minute, even in front of my Filipino ass family. Shit. Then, I woke up.
The school was together for New Year's eve. Fireworks were present. Sadly, we were all gonnna die one by one because it was our final destination.along with that, the mall that we were in had a killer looking for me & my friend, Andre. So then we were hiding & running from the fireworks & the killer at the same time. Then, we went through a cut with a gangster & a gun. He chased us & then we saw a good hiding place! But, while we were hiding, my other friend Kassandra came to give us cookies, left it in front of the door we were hiding at. Little did she know, the killer was right by the front of the door. After, she went in a door that says "tnt" then the killer saw the bang of it. Obviously, the killer's gonnna be thinking that's us. Omg, on the surprising side, another door beside ours had somebody hiding there too. It was a girl & she said, "save her!" … I was crying because if I don't run outt, Kassandra's gonnna die :'( then I woke up!


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At least 20 dead in Costa Rica mudslide
Gov't urges citizens to leave search and rescue to the professionals.
Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 03:08 PM
Rescuers search for bodies after a landslide in Costa Rica. A rain-sodden hillside collapsed on homes early Thursday killing at least 20 people, many as they slept. (Photo: Ronald Reyes/AP)
A wave of mud and rocks rushed down the Pico Blanco hill at dawn and slammed into some 30 homes in San Antonio de Escazu, a southwestern suburb of San Jose, said the National Commission on Emergencies (CNE).
"They are now talking about 20 people dead," CNE spokesman Reinaldo Carballo, told AFP.
Rescuers scoured the area for 12 others missing among upturned cars, washing machines and twisted sheets of tin roofing material, all buried helter-skelter in mud that in places was waist-deep.
Among the bodies recovered at the disaster site, AFP saw those of two children.
"It sounded like airplanes approaching, then we were hit," said Ismael Morientes, who lost his home and car but managed to flee with his family.
Landslides affected other parts of the city but there were no victims, said Red Cross spokesman Freddy Roman.
President Laura Chinchilla urged that search and rescue efforts be left to trained professionals, amid reports civilians were digging around, slowing down crews already hampered in their work by driving rain.
"Even women and children are getting involved in the rescue effort... it's our duty to protect their lives," Chinchilla told a press conference in San Jose.
Later the search for survivors was suspended for the night, the Red Cross said, but rescuers planned to resume the effort at first light.
The president said the landslide had damaged main water supply lines and the government was setting up a truck delivery system to speed supplies to some 700,000 people across the country lacking potable water.
Chinchilla said her government was turning to "friendly countries" and international financial institutions like the InterAmerican Development Bank and World Bank for financial help to deal with the disaster.
Neighboring Nicaragua, which has been embroiled in a border dispute with Costa Rica, immediately offered to do whatever possible to help.
Schools were closed in several Costa Rican cities, including the San Jose metropolitan area, due to heavy rain over the past 48 hours. Several towns along the country's Pacific coast were flooded and isolated.
San Antonio de Escazu, located some seven kilometers (four miles) southeast of downtown San Jose, was a poor neighborhood where smarter middle-class homes had been starting to spring up.
Floods and landslides have killed some 300 people across Central America in this year's especially violent and wet rainy season, which stretches from May to November.
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A civil defense siren (also colloquially referred to as an air raid or tornado siren) is a mechanical or electronic device (modern-day sirens are electrically powered whether they are electronic or electro-mechanical) for generating sound to provide warning of approaching danger and sometimes to indicate when the danger has passed. In some areas in the United States, civil defense sirens may sound in the late morning and early afternoon on a regular basis.
Initially designed to warn of air raids in World War II, they were adapted to warn of nuclear attack and of natural phenomena such as tornadoes. The generalized nature of the siren led to many of them being replaced with more specialized warnings, such as the Emergency Alert System.
In a mechanical siren, sound is generated by a motor driving a shaft with a special turbine (known as a rotor or chopper) on one or both ends. It will have only one fan if it is a single-toned siren, while if it is a dual-toned siren, it will have either one fan on each end or two fans in a stack on one end, with one fan having a few more blades than the other. Around each fan—or chopper or rotor—is a housing with a number of rectangular holes to match the number of fan blades. This housing is known as a stator. The end of each blade has a plate whose shape is matched with the rectangular holes and circular curve of the stator. The blades draw air in at the end and force it out through the slots in the housing in rapid pulses, as the plates on the end of the blades interrupts that flow, which is what produces the sound. Some mechanical sirens, such as the Federal Signal Thunderbolt series, also employ compressed air that is blown at the rotor to supercharge the sound from the siren, which causes the sound to be sharper and much louder than it would be with the chopper and stator alone.
Modern sirens can reach up to, but not commonly, 135 decibels when measured 100 feet (30 m) away from the siren; the loudest confirmed siren ever produced was the Chrysler Air Raid Siren, producing 138 dB at 100 feet. The Chrysler Air Raid Siren used a 180 hp V-8 Hemi engine to drive the siren and weighed 5543 lb.[2] Most sirens are mounted on poles that are usually around 30 to 50 feet off the ground, on top of buildings, or sometimes on tall structures, such as water towers.
Many warning sirens have a sound that is distinct from that used by emergency vehicles due to use of two simultaneous tones, with pitches usually in a 5:6 frequency ratio (an untempered minor third).
Some newer sirens have the ability to broadcast voice messages over large areas, depending on winds and noise. These electronic sirens differ from electromechanical sirens in that they rely on a series of large loudspeakers to produce sound. There is some question about the ability of a system of electronic sirens to broadcast a voice message with sufficient intelligibility over long distances – not only does the sound echo off some surfaces, the sound could have multiple arrival times from widely spaced siren sites.
During World War II for a "Red Warning" of approaching danger, the siren produced a single continuous tone that rose and fell regularly between one high and one low (All Clear). Another alternating tone signified a "take cover" warning for immediate danger.[clarification needed]
After World War II, two further warnings were introduced for nuclear attack – a "Grey Warning" indicated approaching nuclear fallout with a 2½ minute warning of short steady tones divided by equal periods of silence, the silence being created with a manual shutter or electric solenoid.
A "Black Warning", also for manual sirens, was either a Morse code 'D' (— · ·) or three quick tones, indicating imminent danger of fallout.
These signals are described in the video Civil Defence Bulletin - No. 5.
The U.S. used several other sets of warning tones, which varied over time, by government structure, and by manufacturer.
The initial alerts promulgated during World War II were the Alert Signal (a 3-5 minute steady continuous siren tone) and the Attack Signal (a 3-5 minute wail siren tone, or series of short tone bursts on devices incapable of wavering, such as whistles).
The Victory Siren manual stated that when manual generation of the warbling tone was required, it could be achieved by holding the Signal switch on for 8 seconds and off for 4 seconds.
In 1950, the Federal Civil Defense Administration revised the signals, naming the alert signal "Red Alert" and adding an all-clear signal, defined as three one-minute steady blasts, with two-minutes of silence between blasts.[3]
Beginning in 1952, the "Bell and Lights" Air Raid Warning System,[4] developed by AT&T, was made available to provide automated transmission of an expanded set of alert signals:
The Yellow Alert and Red Alert signals correspond to the earlier Alert Signal and Attack Signal, respectively, and the early Federal Signal AR timer siren control units featured the "Take Cover" button labeled with a red background, and the "Alert" button labeled with a yellow background. Later AF timers changed the color-coding, coloring the Alert button blue, the Take Cover button yellow, and the "Fire" button red (used to call out volunteer fire fighters), thus confusing the color-coding of the alerts. A malfunctioning "Bell and Lights" warning system unit was the center of the plot of the 1963 movie Ladybug Ladybug (film).
In 1955, the Federal Civil Defense Administration again revised the warning signals, altering them to adapt to deal with concern over nuclear fallout. The new set of signals were the Alert Signal (unchanged) and the Take-Cover Signal (previously the Attack Signal). The All-Clear signal was deleted because leaving a shelter while fallout was present would be hazardous.[5]
Sirens began to replace bells for municipal warning in the early 1900s, but became commonplace following America's entry into World War II. Most siren models of this time were single-tone models which often sounded almost an octave higher in pitch than their European counterparts. Dual-tone sirens became more common in the 1950s, but have been used in some areas since about 1915. During the Cold War, standard signals were used throughout the country for civil defense purposes, referred to as "alert" and "attack". Volunteer fire departments generally used a different siren signal. Many towns, especially in California and New England, used coded air horns or diaphones for fire calls and reserved sirens for civil defense use.
Today, signals are determined by state and local authorities and can vary from one region to another. The most common tones produced by sirens in the United States are "Alert" (Steady) and "Attack"(Wail). Other tones include Westminster Chimes (commonly used for the testing of electronic sirens), Hi-Lo, Whoop, Pulse, and Air Horn and fast wail.
The U.S. Federal standard regarding air raid signals is defined in FEMA's Outdoor Warning Systems Guide, CPG 1-17,[6] published on 01-March-1980, which describes the Civil Defense Warning System (CDWS) and its warning signals. The language was slightly revised by FEMA's National Warning System Operations Manual, Manual 1550.2[7] published 2001-03-30:
While the tones used vary in some locations, the most common tone, the "Alert", is widely used by municipalities to warn citizens of impending severe weather, particularly tornadoes. This practice is nearly universal in the Midwest,and parts of the deep South, where intense and fast moving thunderstorms that can produce tornados occur frequently. The sound of the "Alert" is a steady continuous note. In seaside towns, the "Alert" may also be used to warn of a tsunami. It should be noted that, in the case of rotating sirens (such as the formerly-common "thunderbolt"), while an "Alert" signal will produce a steady tone from the siren itself, those hearing it will detect a rising-and-falling tone as the direction of the horn changes.
The "Attack" tone is the iconic, rising-falling sound of an air raid or nuclear attack, frequently heard in war movies. It was once reserved for imminent enemy attack, but is today sometimes used to warn of severe weather, tsunamis, or even fire calls, depending on local ordinance.
There is no standard "Fire" signal in the United States, and while the use of sirens by volunteer fire departments is still common, it is diminishing. In the dry areas of the western states, residents may be required to shut off outdoor water systems to ensure adequate pressure at fire hydrants upon hearing the signal. The fire signal can vary from one community to another. Three long blasts on a siren is one common signal, similar to the signal used by volunteer brigades in Germany and other countries. Other locales use the hi-lo signal described above, and some communities (particularly in New England and northern California) make use of coded blasts over a diaphone or air horn for fire signals, reserving the use of sirens for more serious situations. Some cities use the Attack tone as their fire call. Some communities make use of an "all clear" signal, or sound separate signals for fire calls and ambulance runs.
CPG 1-17 recommends that a monthly test be conducted, consisting of the steady Attention signal for no more than one minute, one minute of silence, followed by the Attack signal for no more than one minute.
A "growl test" signal is described conceptually by CPG 1-17 for use when a siren must be tested more often than once a month. This is typically a 1-second burst of sound to verify the proper operation of the siren without causing a significant number of people to interpret the test as an actual alert.
Sirens are sometimes used as part of an integrated warning system that links sirens with other warning media, such as the radio and TV Emergency Alert System, NOAA Weather Radio, telephone alerting systems, Reverse 911, Cable Override and wireless alerting systems in the United States and the Emergency Public Warning System in the Canadian province of Alberta. This integrated approach enhances the credibility of warnings and reduces the risk of their being dismissed as false alarms by corroborating the warning messages through multiple media. The Common Alerting Protocol is a technical standard for this sort of multi-system integration.
Siren installations themselves have many ways of being activated. Commonly used are DTMF broadcasts over phone lines (direct connection or standard PSTN) or over radio broadcast. This does leave room for exploitation, but there are protections from false alarms. These sirens can also be tied into other networks such as a fire departments volunteer notification/paging system. The basics of this type of installation would be a device (possibly the same pager the firefighters have) connected to the controller/timer system of the siren. When a page is received, the siren is activated.
A mechanical siren uses a rotor and stator to "chop" an air stream, which is forced through the siren by radial vanes in the spinning rotor. An example of this type of siren is the Federal Signal 2T22,[8] which was originally developed during the Cold War and produced from the early 1950s to the late 1980s. This particular design employs dual rotors and stators to sound each pitch. Because the sound power output of this type of siren is the same in every direction at all times, it is described as omnidirectional. The Federal 2T22 was also marketed in a 3-signal configuration known as the Federal 3T22, which had capabilities for a "hi-lo" signal.
While some mechanical sirens produce sound in all directions simultaneously, other designs produce sound in only one direction, while employing a rotator mechanism to turn the siren head throughout 360 degrees. One such siren is the ACA Allertor.[9] This siren also produces two pitches simultaneously in a musical interval, but in this case the rotor and stator incorporate separate sections for producing each pitch.
An example of such a siren being produced today is the Federal Signal Model 2001 series. Introduced in 1988, it is capable of battery backup. There are two separate motors in the 2001. One powers the siren rotor, while another powers the rotator mechanism.[10]
One rare type of mechanical siren does not rotate or produce equal sound output in all directions. The Federal Signal RSH-10 "Thunderbeam" siren,[11] introduced in 1981, employs a slowly rotating angled disc below the siren, which directs the siren's output throughout 360 degrees. This same method, applied differently, produces the distinctive sound character of the Leslie loudspeaker, but the rotation of the disc in the Thunderbeam is far too slow to produce the "warbling" sound associated with the Leslie loudspeaker.
The Federal Signal Thunderbolt series is arguably the most recognizable and iconic of all warning sirens, due to its unique shape and design.[citation needed] It creates a very distinct tone made specifically to get the attention of people. Thunderbolt sirens use a separate blower to force air through the rotor and produce greater air movement with each pulse, thus they are described as "supercharged".[citation needed]
Specially designed horns having an exponential profile amplify the sound, causing the air at the end of the horn to be displaced the same distance as air in the throat of the horn with the passage of each wavefront. This lends a unique distorted character to the sound of these sirens as the throat of the horn is overloaded.
Within the Thunderbolt product line, three different configurations were offered. The Thunderbolt 1000 is a single-tone siren, and the Thunderbolt 1000T is a dual-tone siren. The Thunderbolt 1003 is essentially the same as the Thunderbolt 1000T, except that it employs solenoid-actuated slide valves to create a "hi-lo" signal primarily used as a fire signal.
Another example of a supercharged siren that has a separate blower is the Alerting Communicators of America (ACA) Hurricane.[12]
A variation on the supercharged electromechanical siren is the pneumatic Hochleistungssirene (HLS), produced by the German firm Pintsch-Bamag, and later by the German firm Hörmann. Soon afterward, Hörmann improved on the design to create the HLS 273, which did away with the massive siren head of the original in favor of a more compact head and cast aluminum exponential-profile horns.
These sirens stored an enormous reservoir of compressed air, recharged periodically by a diesel engine-driven compressor in a vault in the base of the massive siren unit. The later HLS 273 located the large (6000 liter) air tank underground beside the machinery vault, instead of in the mast itself as in the earlier HLS units.[13]
Electronic sirens produce their sound in a fashion that is fundamentally different from electromechanical sirens. Instead of a motor-driven rotor spinning inside a stator, electronic sirens consist of an electronic tone generator, a high-power amplifier, and a horn loudspeaker typically incorporating one or a multiple of compression drivers.
Typically the loudspeaker unit incorporates horn loading, which causes them to be similar in appearance to some supercharged electromechanical sirens.
Many of these loudspeakers incorporate a vertical array of horns, in order to achieve a practical yet effective high-power audio source with pattern control in the vertical plane. Each cell of the loudspeaker horn is driven by one or a multiple of compression drivers, which are typically purpose-built for siren applications.
One type of purpose-built compression driver for this type of loudspeaker handles 400 watts of electrical power and features an enormous magnetic structure with two donut-shaped magnet slugs stacked on top of each other to provide enormous flux.
For siren applications, high-fidelity sound is a secondary concern to high output, and siren drivers typically produce large amounts of distortion which would not be tolerable in an audio system where fidelity is important.
As with electromechanical sirens, there are both omni-directional and rotating categories, though Whelen Engineering produces sirens which oscillate through 360 degrees, rotating in one direction and then in the other to allow a hard-wired connection between the amplifiers and the siren drivers. Also, these sirens can be set to rotate any amount from 0 to 360 degrees, allowing sirens to broadcast only in certain directions.
An example of a rotating electronic siren is the Whelen Engineering "Vortex",[14] American Signal Alertronic RE1600[15] and Federal Signal Siratone 408, 612,[16] & 812, whose design incorporates four vertically arrayed loudspeaker cells exiting into a common manifold. This horn design accomplishes pattern control in the vertical plane and focuses the output into a high-penetration beam.
Examples of omni-directional electronic sirens are the Federal Signal EOWS1212, Federal Signal "Modulator" series,[17] Whelen Engineering WPS2700, WPS2800, and WPS2900,[18] ATI HPSS and American Signal I~Force, in which compression drivers located in each cell exit into the center of the cell.
The contour of each cell forms the horn profile in this case, though other omni-directional sirens simply array directional re-entrant horn modules in all directions to produce a continuous coverage pattern, such as the ASC AL-8000 series,[19] and Federal Signal DSA series.[20]
China has sirens located in most cities and towns, particularly those disputed or near disputed territories. Should the state declare a state of emergency because of attacks, invasion or when there is a very high risk of military conflict, sirens will blare to warn the public of possible attacks or invasion. The sirens are controlled by the People's Liberation Army.
In addition, Nanjing in China will blare air raid sirens at 10 a.m. annually on December 13, followed by a moment of silence, displaying in the memorial's collection, artifacts testifying to the savagery of Japan's Imperial Army during the "Rape of Nanking" or also known as the Nanking Massacre. Same as other sirens, the sirens that only serve memorial purpose are controlled by the People's Liberation Army.
Taiwan has sirens that cover at least some metropolitan areas. The government holds annual air raid drills.
Mumbai has around 450 sirens, located in all parts of the city. Some 200-250 are still functional. The government is thinking of repairing sirens, and installing new ones.
In Mumbai civil defense, sirens were used during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, warning civilians about air raids by the Pakistan Air Force. At night, sirens were also used to indicate blackout, when all lights in Mumbai were switched off. The sirens are tested every day at 9 am and at 5 pm. They are controlled by the Indian Defence Services. Sirens are also used to denote a minute's 'silence' at special occasions.
Air-raid sirens used are typically sounded to warn of air raids or missile attacks on civilian population. The "all-clear" signal is used three times yearly to denote a moment of silence (of one or two minutes), once on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day and twice on Day of Remembrance. Israel has more than 3100 warning sirens and most of the sirens in urban areas are German-made HLS (supercharged) sirens, model F71 and ECN3000. All the other sirens are HPSS32 made by ATI Systems (Acoustic Technologies, Inc). The air-raid sirens are called אזעקה ("Az'aka", literally "alarm"), and consist of a continuous ascending and descending tone. The "all-clear" signal (called צפירת הרגעה, "Tzfirat Arga'ah") is a continuous single-pitch sound. However, in recent conflicts, use of the "all-clear" signal has been discontinued, as it was seen as causing needless confusion and alarm.
Singapore currently has a network of over 2000 stationary sirens named the Public Warning System which warns the entire country of war air raids, man-made and natural disasters (except earth tremors). On the first day of every month Singapore's sirens are tested. During the test, the sirens sounds a light but cheerful chime instead of any of its three signals, which led to the population's speculations of the sirens reminding them of the start of each month. The sirens look very similar to the ECN3000 Israel version pictured on the upper right.
Austria is fully covered with an operational air-raid siren system consisting of 8,203 devices (10/2012). They are tested weekly at noon on Saturday with the "Sirenenprobe" signal, a 15 second continuous tone. Every year on the first Saturday of October, the whole range of alarm signals is sounded as a system test and to familiarize the population with the signals.
Belgium tests its air-raid sirens every first Thursday of the trimester. When the air-raid sirens are tested, the message "proefsignaal" is pronounced every time the sirens work. There are 540 sirens placed all across the country.[27]
In France the emergency population warning network is called the "Réseau national d'alerte" (RNA). The system is inherited from the air-raid siren network (défense passive) developed before World War II. It consists of about 4,500 electronic or electromechanical sirens placed all over France.[28] The system is tested each month at noon on the first Wednesday.
In Germany, the "Warnämter" (warning authorities) were closed in the 1990s after the cold war threat did no longer exist and the need to alert the public was considered to be not necessary. As the civil defence sirens were also frequently used to alert volunteer fire fighters, many sirens were sold to the municipalities for a symbolic price. Others were dismounted. In the 2000s it was realized that a possibility to warn the public is not only necessary in cases of war, but also in events like natural disasters, chemical or nuclear accidents or terrorist attacks. Therefore, some cities like Düsseldorf or Dresden began to rebuild their own siren warning net. The majority of operational sirens in Germany are either electric- mechanical type E57 or electronical sirens.
The Netherlands tests its air-raid sirens once a month, every first Monday at noon, to keep the public aware of the system. There are about 4,200 sirens placed all across the country.[29]
Norway has about 1250 operational sirens (mostly Kockums air horn units rather than motorized sirens), primarily located in cities. Three different signals are used.
The "Alarm" signal is an intermittent signal for about a minute, the "all clear" message is a continuous signal for about 30 seconds, and the "critical message, listen to radio" is 3 periods with three signals, separated by one minute between the periods. The "critical message" signal is followed by a radio broadcast. The sirens are tested twice each year. The second Wednesday of January, at noon, the "critical message" signal is sounded, and on the second Wednesday of June, at noon, the "alarm" signal is sounded, followed by the "all clear" signal five minutes later.
The "critical message" is used in peace time to warn the population about major accidents, big fires and gas leaks.[30]
In Romania, civil defence sirens have been used since the early 1930s. Originally, each street had a small siren on top of highrise buildings. Each siren could be powered mechanically. During WWII, the sirens had a single continuous tone, that could be heard in the wake of an air strike.[31]
Throughout the Cold War, bigger sirens manufactured locally have been installed on various public buildings and residences.[32] The supercharged sirens were able to transmit a comprehensive variety of tones, each with a different meaning, such as a chemical disaster, an earthquake, a flood, an upcoming air/nuclear strike; each of these tones required the population to either move to high ground or an ABC shelter. An 'all clear' signal was played after the area has been deemed safe for the general public or decontaminated.
Since the 1990s, civil defence sirens have been replaced by electronic sirens and the procedure has been simplified. As of 2013, there are four playable tones; a natural disaster warning, an upcoming air/nuclear strike, an imminent air/nuclear strike, and an 'all clear' signal. Taking shelter is no longer a legal requirement, though ABC shelters are operational.[33]
The Swedish alarm system uses outdoor sirens as well as information transmitted through radio and television. Special radio receivers for the purpose are handed out to residents living near nuclear powerplants.
The outdoor signals used are as follows:
The outdoor sirens are tested 4 times per year, the first non-holiday Monday of March, June, September and December, at 15:00 local time. The test consists of the general alarm for two minutes, followed by a 90 second gap before the All clear is sounded.
Switzerland currently has 8500 mobile and stationary civil-defense sirens, which can alert 99% of the population.[34] There are also 700 sirens located near dams.[34] Every year, on the first Wednesday of February Switzerland's sirens are tested. During this test, general alert sirens as well as the sirens near dams are tested to see if they are in working order.[34] The population is informed of the test in the days before it by radio, television, teletext and newspapers.[34] The siren tests do not require the population to take any special measures.
The tones of the different sirens is provided on the last page of all phone books as well as on the Internet.
Every village, town and city in the United Kingdom used to have a network of dual-tone sirens to warn of incoming air raids during World War II,[citation needed] which were later put to use as warnings for nuclear attack during the Cold War. With the end of the Cold War, the siren network was decommissioned in 1993 and very few remain.[citation needed] These sirens, mostly built by Carter, Gents Tangent, Castle Castings, and Klaxon Signal Co., have 10 and 12 ports to create a minor third interval (B♭ and D♭ notes) and are probably the world's most recognized World War II "air raid siren" sound. In fact, recordings of British sirens are often dubbed into movies set in countries which never used this type of siren.
Where they do remain, they are mostly sounded on receipt of a severe flood warning for an area from the Environment Agency. Broadmoor Hospital has use of 13 sirens which are tested weekly.[35] Sirens are also used for public warning near gas or nuclear power plants, nuclear submarine bases, oil refineries and chemical plants. They consist of about 1200 sirens, a mix of older motor driven sirens usually from World War II, such as the Carter siren manufactured by Gents' of Leicester, and the Cold War and newer electronic sirens. They are tested once yearly between the months of August and September.
In Canada, a nationwide network of sirens was established in the 1950s to warn urban populations of a possible Soviet nuclear attack. This system was tested nationwide twice in 1961, under codenames Exercise Tocsin and "Tocsin B". The system was maintained until the 1970s, when advancements in military technology reduced the Soviet nuclear missile strike time from 3–5 hours to less than 15 minutes. Sirens can still be found in many Canadian cities, all in various states of repair. In Toronto, for instance, the network has been abandoned to the point that no level of government will take responsibility for its ownership.[36] A handful of sirens still remain in Toronto in older established neighbourhoods:
Sirens have recently been built within 3 kilometers of the Darlington and Pickering nuclear power plants in the province of Ontario. (Both plants are within 30 kilometers of each other.) These sirens will sound in the event of a nuclear emergency that could result in a release of radioactivity. Sirens have also been placed (and are tested weekly) in Sarnia, Ontario due to the large number of chemical plants in the vicinity.[37][38]
Many warning sirens in provinces such as Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan are now used as tornado warning instruments. Smithers, British Columbia uses an old air raid siren as a noon-day whistle. One of the warning sirens was even used as a goal horn for the Quebec Nordiques between the mid 1980s and 1991.
In the United States, there is no national level alert system. Normally, sirens are controlled on county or local level, or, in Hawaii, on state level. Sirens are usually used to warn of impending natural disasters, as well as threats of military attacks, which in the United States are rare. Throughout the Great Plains, Midwest, and South, they are used to warn the public to take cover when a tornado warning is issued. They are generally required in areas within a ten-mile radius of nuclear power plants. Coastal communities, especially in northern California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii use siren systems to warn of incoming tsunamis. In the South and East Coast (except from Texas, Maine, Florida and New Hampshire), they use sirens to inform people about approaching hurricanes. Also in Pierce County, Washington there is a system of sirens set up along the Puyallup and Carbon River valleys to warn residents of volcanic eruptions and lahars (giant mudslides) from Mt. Rainier.
Many cities in the US periodically sound their sirens as a test, either weekly, monthly or yearly, at a day and hour set by each individual city.
Some US volunteer fire departments, particularly in rural areas, use sirens to call volunteers to assemble at the fire house, but to a decreasing degree than in years past due to technological advancements. Some areas utilize their sirens as a last resort, relying more on cellular and paging technology; however, a decreasing number of rural brigades are outside the range of wireless communications and rely on sirens to activate the local volunteer brigade.
Many college campuses in the US, especially in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting, have begun installing sirens to warn students in the event of dangerous incidents.
A series of 98 electronic sirens, making up a large-scale public-address system (the "Sydney CBD Emergency Warning System") and including 13 variable-message signs, are installed in the Sydney central business district. While installed in the months preceding the 2007 APEC conference, they are designed as a permanent fixture and are tested on a monthly basis.[39]
Smaller-scale sirens are also deployed, like the Model 5 or Model A, used at fire stations for call-outs and at Sydney's beaches for shark alarms. Alarms are also used around prisons for break-outs and at many factories and schools to announce start and finish times.
A siren is located at the Kwinana BP plant south of Perth, which is tested every Monday. It is used to evacuate the plant in case of an emergency and can be heard in Kwinana and certain parts of Rockingham. It can also be used to warn of severe weather and potential dangerous emergencies on the Kwinana Industrial Strip.
In South Australia a number of Country Fire Service stations have a mechanical siren on, or near the station. These are only activated when the brigade are responded to bushfire or grassfire events and for testing, they are not activated for every call out as they are used as public alert to bushfires.
In Queensland Whelen Vortex 4 sirens have been installed as part of the Somerset Regional Council Flood Warning System. At nearby Grantham, a Whelen WPS2906 which features both warning tones and pre-recorded messages provides early warning in the event of flooding.
Lower Hutt,[40] Napier,[41] Wanganui,[42] and the former Waitakere City area of Auckland[43] each have a network of Civil Defence sirens. The networks in Lower Hutt and Napier are bolsted by fire sirens pulling double duty as Civil Defence sirens. Lower Hutt's network is further bolstered by selected industrial sirens pulling double duty as Civil Defence sirens. In the Western Bay of Plenty several fire sirens pull double duty as civil defence sirens and there is a dedicated Civil Defence siren at the Bay Park Raceway in Mount Maunganui; in the South Waikato the Tokoroa, Putaruru and Tirau fire sirens pull double duty as Civil Defence sirens and Tokoroa also has a dedicated Civil Defence siren; and Whangamata has two dedicated Civil defence sirens and the fire siren pulls double duty as a civil defence siren.[44] In the years following the tsunamis of the Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004, Meerkat electronic sirens were installed in all populated areas of the west coast lower than 10 metres.
Warning sounds vary from area to area, including rising and falling notes and Morse code sirens. Communities with volunteer fire brigades use a continuous note on all sirens for civil defence, and a warbling siren on the fire station siren only for fire callouts. Civil Defence uses a distinctive "sting" siren that is used by all radio stations nationwide, but is currently only used for civil defence sirens in Wanganui.
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Next, we placed a large wooden block under the perch on the right-side axletube and another block under the left-side axletube where the perch used to be. Because of the one-inch difference in leaf-spring spacing between the A-Body and B-Body, we had to locate each of our new perches inward 1/2 inch on each side from the factory location. We placed a new perch between the left side axletube and the wooden block and positioned it 43 1/2 inches from the right-side perch. (Measuring from the inside edge of one perch to the outside edge of the other yields the same reading as measuring from center to center, and it's a lot easier.) Using wooden blocks or cinder blocks, and doing one perch at a time assures that the new perches will be angled at the same orientation around the axletube as the original ones. This way, the rear U-joint angle will remain the same when finished. We scribed the perch's location on the axletube and then welded it to the tube. Next, the right-side perch was removed, and the new one positioned 43 inches from our left-side perch, again using the wooden blocks. Once we marked its location, it too was welded on.
With our new perches properly positioned and welded in place, it was time to reassemble our axle. Upon completion of our rear axle swap, we had a pair of 14x5 1/2-inch Rallye wheels widened 2 1/2 inches to the inside. Then we mounted and balanced a pair of P245/60R14 tires on our new 14x8-inch wheels. They fit nicely within the narrow confines of the Dart wheelwells.
Although we chose to widen the Rallye wheels, the availability of aftermarket wheels is excellent these days. if we had chosen to go that route, we simply would have ordered wheels with the desired offset. If we were working with a Duster, Demon, Dart Sport, or a '67 through '69 Barracuda, the open rear wheelwells would have afforded more space, and the clearance wouldn't have been as much of an issue as on our Dart. Once the axle is installed, the rear U-joint angle should be checked with a driveshaft angle gauge.


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The Miami Heat are looking like their dominant selves once again in the postseason as their Game 1 loss against the Pacers seems more like a fluke than anything else. But while the Heat are up 2-1 in the series, they can't truly get totally confident until they push the Pacers up against the ropes and to the brink, which is what they can do in Game 4 tonight in Miami.
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Date: Monday, May 26th
Start Time: 8:30 p.m. ET
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TV Info: ESPN
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Series Record: Heat lead series 2-1
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- Game 4: Monday, May 26 @ Miami, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)
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I've been considering changing my front brake from cantis to a new long-reach caliper by Tektro, the R556. The reach distance on my steel fork is just under 60mm, which was too long for previous "long reach" brakes, but these ones go from 55-73mm.
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Nike Air Max 90 – Metallic Silver – Varsity Red – Ultraman – Available
March 9th, 2010 by Aaron Hope | 4 comments
Sneaker News HD brought you a look at the Nike Dunk Low Ultraman in our 'Classics Revisited' feature in January. Someone in Beaverton musta read the article and got a longing for this iconic colourway, cos here's a new Nike Air Max 90 that bears a pretty strong resemblance. While the Dunks were more evenly split between red and grey, these are mostly metallic silver with red accents. One of the best AM90s so far this year, they're available from abckicks on eBay.
Style: 309299-062
Color: Metallic Silver/Varsity Red-White