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To Rove, 30 Million Workers Isn't "A Lot"
In another attempt to cast the Obama administration's focus on income inequality as an Obamacare distraction, Fox contributor Karl Rove argued that raising the minimum wage "doesn't affect a lot of American workers." But raising the minimum wage would impact 30 million workers, or nearly 20 percent of the American workforce.
On the January 6 edition of America's Newsroom, Fox News contributor Karl Rove dismissed the Obama administration's efforts to raise the minimum wage as yet another attempt to distract from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and falsely claimed that raising the minimum wage "doesn't affect a lot of American workers" (emphasis added):
HEMMER: You know, I'm trying to figure this out, Karl. Do you see that as a new front to argue politics in America today in order to set up the debate for the midterm elections next November? Or do you see it as a distraction away from the issues of Obamacare? Is it A or B or is it a mix of both then?
ROVE: Well it's a mix of both but I thought it was interesting yesterday on the Sunday talk programs, Todd, from NBC talked about how he had talked to members of the administration, Chuck Todd said he talked to the people in the administration about the agenda for 2014 and the administration talked about everything but Obamacare. This is first and foremost an attempt to pivot away from something that is incredibly damaging to the administration, the so-called Affordable Care Act, and again, as I said, short run, there's a little bit of advantage here in the next couple of weeks or months in talking about raising the minimum wage and which doesn't affect a lot of American workers.
Rove seems unaware that raising the minimum wage [1] would impact 30 million American workers, or nearly 20 percent of the nation's workforce of 155 million [2]. According to the Economic Policy Institute, raising the federal minimum wage [3] to $10.10 per hour by 2016 "would lift incomes for millions of American workers, most of whom do not fit the prevailing impressions of low-wage workers as teenagers working part-time jobs for extra spending money."
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The RLC Circuit with Battery model simulates a resistor, capacitor and inductor in series with a battery and plots the time dependence of the voltage drops across each element. Users can vary the resistance, capacitance, and inductance and can toggle the battery voltage between two values.
The RLC Circuit with Battery model is a supplemental simulation for the article "Demonstrations with an LCR Circuit" by Yaakov Kraftmakher in The Physics Teacher 49(3), 168-170 (2011) and has been approved by the author and The Physics Teacher editor. The RLC Circuit with Battery model was developed using the Easy Java Simulations (Ejs) modeling tool. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the ejs_em_RlcCircuitWithBattery.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java (JRE).
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Flash back to DPS: Extrasolar planets, NEOs, asteroids, Titan, Pluto, and KBOs
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla
Since I only spent two days at the Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Orlando, I missed three days' worth of presentations. Darin Ragozzine, a graduate student working with Mike Brown and part-time worker for the Society was there and just sent me these notes. Thanks Darin! -- ESL
by Darin Ragozzine
I must apologize about this "old" news of talks at the Division for Planetary Sciences in Florida, October 10-12. Hopefully, Planetary Blog readers will still find the following highlights interesting. Do feel free to contact me with questions (through Emily). As you'll see, I started with the hottest of planets and will end with the coldest.
ednesday morning started with a session on extrasolar planets. One interesting discovery is a Spitzer space telescope measurement of the hottest planet (HD 149026b) which has been identified at a scalding 2,200 K or so (about 1,900 degrees Celsius or 35,00 degrees Fahrenheit). At this temperature, you can have titanium clouds forming, which really makes you wonder what these hot Jupiters would look like if you could see them up close. (Some simulations of that are shown off at the highly-recommended extra-solar planet blog Systemic.)
then jumped over to the session on asteroids. Spitzer has really opened our infrared eyes, detecting photons from extrasolar planets, measuring spectra of asteroid belts around other stars, and probing the early universe for galaxies and other cosmologically interesting phenomena. And sometimes you get more than what you're looking for. During one of these cosmology surveys, Spitzer would look at the same place in the sky several times, which is also a great way to find asteroids: they're the objects that move between successive images. (This on-the-sky motion is mostly due to motion of the Earth and the parallax effect; Earth moves faster than most asteroids.) It happens that, at their surface temperatures of roughly 200 Kelvin, asteroids glow in the near- and mid-infrared where Spitzer is looking, so Spitzer actually has the potential of seeing asteroids that are quite hard to see from the ground because they are so small and faint. Using this method, Bidushi Bhattacharya and her colleagues have identified dozens of asteroids from Spitzer; many of them are new. Most are in the main belt but some are Trojan asteroids (orbiting along with Jupiter), and many more are to come in the future. I think it's so cool when you can mine data taken for a totally different purpose (cosmology) and do something unique and interesting.
erek Richardson gave a talk on behalf of Patrick Michel on the most recent addition to asteroid collision simulations: now they are able to realistically model the shapes and spins of the hundreds of fragments created when two small rocky worlds collide. Before this, they were focusing on the dynamics and general outcomes of these impacts, but now they've added this new physics. I must say, that the movie that he showed was one of the coolest scientific animations I've ever seen. Derek is known for very professional looking animations (check out his webpage), but this animation was super-cool.
thers are working on asteroid mapping using Hubble data as well as Adaptive Optics imaging from large ground-based telescopes. For many medium-size (~200-kilometer) asteroids, we now have a pretty good handle on their shapes. For the largest asteroids, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, we not only know their shapes, but also are starting to detect albedo variations (bright/dark spots) on the surface. Presumably all asteroids have such albedo patchiness, but for smaller asteroids, you pretty much can't disentangle the effect of albedo from shape, so it will be a while before we know what they really look like.
ater in the afternoon, Robin Canup gave a talk with more details about the formation of the Moon. She's an expert in the field and has been doing new simulations using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (which also yields nice movies). Up until now, Moon-forming impacts have been modeled by a collision between a nearly Earth-sized body and a Mars-sized body, both not rotating. In this most recent study, she's added the effect of spin and finds that you can only make the Moon and the Earth have the right sizes and orbits ( i.e. angular momentum) if you start with the Earth initially spinning backwards (called retrograde) or not at all. If it's starts out spinning the same way it's spinning now (called prograde), then the Moon comes out too small. This is an interesting extension of the work on the formation of the Moon and just goes to show you that even though we are pretty sure about the basics of moon formation, there's still plenty of work left to do in this field. Of course, this is true of nearly all fields in planetary science and science in general.
n the afternoon, I went to a session about our understanding of Kuiper belt object (KBO) surfaces. This is done by taking detailed spectra (usually in the near infrared) and trying to identify signatures of the expected ices: mostly water, methane, and ammonia (although we did hear about ethane on Quaoar and propane on Sedna). Though this sounds simple, it's hard to get good spectra of these faint objects and there are definitely ambiguities. Emily Schaller's talk pointed out that a feature previously thought to be due to ammonia on Quaoar is actually much better described by methane. Joshua Emery's talk indicated that Spitzer spectra might help, though, again, these objects are quite faint and sometimes not even seen. We also heard on Friday from Marla Moore about new better laboratory spectra of ammonia-related ices, so the work on this topic is clearly moving forward.
didn't go to the talk by Alan Harris on the NEO impact hazard, but I actually had already heard it at the Workshop on Binaries in the Solar System about a month ago. Alan Harris is known for doing calculations about the probability of death by asteroid impact. As mentioned in the link, he computes the highest average probability of death comes from large impactors (>~1 kilometer) that have global consequences. For example, even though globally catastrophic impacts only happen every million years, if a billion people die than the expected number of average deaths per year is approximately 1,000 people. This is the largest contributor to the asteroid risk; even though there are many smaller objects, the damage is "only" local so the cumulative amount of deaths per year is quite low. (Apophis falls in between a global and local catastrophe.)
t the conference last month, Al presented two new results. The first is that, from the most recent and best understanding of the observations (of which he is one of the world's experts), there is actually a dip in the number distribution of asteroids at sub-kilometer sizes. That is, previously a single power law has been assumed and extrapolated to the smallest objects to determine their abundance. Though there has been some inkling of this in past studies, but now it seems clear that the number of sub-kilometer asteroids is a few times less in some size ranges. So the previously used power law extrapolation overestimated the number of small near-Earth objects. Propagating this forward to the potential impact hazard, the number of deaths per year from these small impactors drops by a factor of three from previous estimates.
he second result was about the larger impactors, the ones that pose the most time-averaged risk. Based on the number of discoveries and orbits characterized, this risk has gone down by a factor of 10. Basically, Spaceguard (and NEAT, etc.) worked: we've identified the vast majority of NEOs larger than 1 km. We've also calculated their orbits and found that none of them will impact in the near future. So, the probability of an impact (in the next ~100 years) has gone down substantially since we've eliminated many of the unknowns. Our work isn't necessarily done, but the point was that the effort to find and characterize globally hazardous NEOs has been largely successful. With this knowledge, the probability of dying in an asteroid impact (of all kinds) in now down to about 1 in half million or 100 averaged deaths per year.
hope that the public reaction to this info will not be to completely ignore asteroids and their remaining potential threat (though small). Hopefully, they will recognize that we can feel more safe now is because of the research and survey work that the community and The Planetary Society have been pushing for the last decade or so.
Finally, on Friday, we've moved all the way to the edge of the solar system. In the session on Pluto, a few teams presented on their results of studying occultations of Pluto passing in front of a distant star. Pluto is currently crossing the galactic plane (as projected on the sky), which explains the multiple occultations per year. (Unlike other KBOs, which are hard to discover when they are in the star-filled galactic plane, and which haven't moved significantly in their sluggish centuries-long orbits around the Sun.) One of the goals of these occultations is to try to understand Pluto's atmosphere better. Since one of the occultations crossed over the southwest United States, where there are many excellent telescopes, these occultations are revealing quite detailed structures in Pluto's atmosphere, which appeared about the same as in 2002 and 2006. Since Pluto is currently drifting further away from the Sun (perihelion passage was in 1999), scientists anticipate that eventually it will get too cold and the whole atmosphere will just freeze into a surface frost (as appears to be the case on Eris right now, since it is at nearly its furthest from the Sun). But this will probably take several years and may be well after New Horizons passes by the Pluto system in July 2015.
nother goal of these occultation measurements would be to identify the radius of Pluto, which is actually not well known. It seems like this would be easy... when the light from the star totally cuts out, then that's the surface of Pluto. Charon's radius was recently measured this way. However, it turns out that you cannot measure the actual surface radius of Pluto using occultations essentially under any circumstances. Even if the occulted star is directly behind Pluto, light is refracted (bent) through the tenuous atmosphere in such a way that it obscures the measurement of Pluto's surface. These occultations do give information about the temperature structure of the middle and upper atmosphere. I always figured this could be used to estimate the radius of Pluto based on the surface pressure. But it turns out that the surface pressure of Pluto is completely controlled by the precise vapor pressure of the Nitrogen... which is extremely sensitive to temperature. If you get the temperature wrong by less than a fraction of a degree, you can change the estimation of Pluto's radius by several kilometers!
So occultations won't work directly, but Elliot Young spoke about how the radius of Pluto could be teased out of information from the mutual events with Charon. Back in the late 1980s, Pluto and Charon passed in front of one another as viewed from Earth and also cast shadows on each other. Since we learned the precise radius of Charon in 2006 (from an occultation; Charon has a negligible atmosphere), combined with some of what we know from Pluto's atmosphere, we can go back to this old data and try to see if the radius of Pluto can be determined. He admitted that this method is fraught with potential errors, but did give a radius of 1,150 +/- 7 km as his current best guess (which I notice is ~20 km different than the abstract). I'm sure the New Horizons team would like to know exactly where to point their cameras, so hopefully his analysis works out.
nother unknown target for New Horizons' cameras are Nix and Hydra, the two small moons of Pluto discovered in 2005. Marc Buie and Dave Tholen talked about their recent observations of these moons. The results are somewhat preliminary, but they do feel like they know the orbits of all three moons pretty well. This is no trivial calculation since (by Newton's third law of actions and reactions) all four bodies are constantly gravitationally tugging on each of the others. Nix and Hydra are pretty small, so they don't affect Charon too much, but there seems to be a perceptible change in the orbits due to the presence of all four bodies. It appears that we'll definitely have good pointing information when New Horizons flies by.
inally, in the last session of the conference, we ventured past Pluto into the orbital structure of the Kuiper belt. The talks highlighted our current understanding of the number of KBOs on different kinds of orbits and clues on the formation of the Kuiper belt are starting to peek out. For example, it has been known for a while that there seems to be a difference between KBOs that orbit near the plane of the planets (less than about four degrees inclination, called "classical") and the KBOs that have larger orbital inclinations. Keith Noll did a survey using Hubble to look for KBO binaries: objects with moons. He clearly finds that the low-inclination objects have a much higher fraction of binaries than the higher-inclination objects. It is this kind of information that gets theorists thinking: what could cause such a big difference in two populations that are basically in the same place?
ne new theory about the formation of the Kuiper belt that appears to explain its architecture pretty well is the possiblitiy of a "rogue" planet. This study was presented by Patryk Lykawka and makes a big prediction: we'll discover a new planet soon. This planet would be about the size of Mars and would currently be on an orbit where it would have been pretty hard to find, but future surveys (like PanSTARRS) are likely to find this planet, if it exists. The planet originally formed between the giant planets, but got thrown out when they got big. It stayed in the Kuiper belt region for a while, stirring things up (for instance, creating the high-inclination objects) and then got thrown out to a relatively distant orbit (somewhere between Eris and Sedna). So, keep your eyes open in the next few years for the discovery of another "planet". (Planet X? Planet IX? The Large Dwarf Planet?) Note that there are other theories of the formation of the outer solar system that do an excellent job of explaining the facts, but do not require another planet (such as the "Nice" Model). This planet would be extremely cold all the time, in a great contrast to the vaporizingly-hot HD 149026b that I mentioned at the beginning.
ll in all, it was a nice conference. It's always fun to get together with other planetary scientists and talk about our exciting field!
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Good to Go Organics hot-dog carts specialize in organic, grass-fed beef franks and locally sourced toppings. For many Manhattan moms, they are good enough to break the no-street-dogs rule. [NY Times]
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LinkedIn and Facebook will celebrate the anniversaries of their IPOs just a few days apart this week. But their experiences as publicly traded companies couldn't be more different.
LinkedIn Corp. promotes its service as a stepping stone to a more enriching career. As it turns out, the professional networking company's initial public offering was a great place to start a rewarding investment portfolio, too. LinkedIn's stock has nearly quadrupled in value from its $45 IPO price on May 20 two years ago. On Monday, it closed at $175.03 per share. In contrast, Facebook's stock is hovering around $27 per share, down 29 percent since debuted on May 18, 2012 at $38.
LinkedIn is emerging as the standout performer among its cohort of hotly anticipated IPOs from Internet companies that connect people with common interests. The company is growing faster and yielding far better shareholder returns than the rest of a class that includes online deals maker Groupon Inc., Web game maker Zynga Inc. and business review site Yelp Inc., as well social networking leader Facebook Inc.
With the exception of Yelp, the stocks of all those other companies are stuck well below their initial public offering prices. Although Groupon and Zynga have fared worse, Facebook has been the highest-profile disappointment.
But for all its success, LinkedIn still hasn't immersed itself into people's lives and reshaped technology as profoundly as Facebook has. Although LinkedIn has been attracting more frequent visits since its IPO, people still spend far more time on Facebook and share more of their lives there. Unlike Facebook, LinkedIn hasn't become a hub for other online services, ranging from games to music.
Even among its fans on Wall Street, LinkedIn is seen as little more than an online hunting ground for opportunistic employers on the prowl for talented workers.
But that could change if LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and Executive Chairman Reid Hoffman realize their ambitions. As the 10-year-old company heads into its second decade, its two top executives want to establish its website as an integral part of the global economy.
"It would be a representation of every economic opportunity and every skill required to attain those opportunities," Weiner said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. "We would have a digital profile for every company in the world and a professional profile for every one of the 3.3 billion people in the (worldwide) workforce. We would then be able to overlay professionally relevant knowledge for each one of those individuals and each one of those companies."
LinkedIn still has a long way to go before it's that pervasive. The service currently has profiles of some 225 million people and 500,000 companies.
But the odds of LinkedIn fulfilling its aspirations may be less of a longshot than the one Hoffman faced when he first started pondering a professional networking service in the midst of the dot-com bust in 2000.
At the time, Hoffman was worried about losing his job as a top executive at online payment service PayPal. The company had just burned through most of its cash, prompting Hoffman to mull other ideas with PayPal co-founders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin during a retreat at his grandparents' house in Gualala, Calif. along the Pacific Ocean's coastline.
A rough concept for LinkedIn came up then, but Hoffman didn't pursue it at the time because PayPal started to thrive.
After eBay Inc. bought PayPal for $1.5 billion in 2002, Hoffman plowed much of the money that he made from that deal into LinkedIn. He started the company in May 2003 with several former colleagues from his pre-PayPal days — Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly and Jean-Luc Vaillant. The group debated several potential names, including Netra, Wellconnected, Bizrep and Connex, before settling on LinkedIn.
Hoffman's gamble paid off. As LinkedIn's controlling shareholder, his stake in the company is currently worth $3 billion.
LinkedIn now has market value approaching $20 billion and employs about 4,000 people. It's expanding so quickly that it is running out of space at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters located down the block from the home of Google Inc. There will be space for nearly 3,000 more LinkedIn workers once construction is completed on its new corporate campus in nearby Sunnyvale next year.
Things might not have worked out so well if Hoffman, 45, and Weiner, 43, hadn't been introduced to each other at a technology conference in early 2008. They hit it off immediately, something Hoffman remembered a few months later when he began thinking of replacing Dan Nye as LinkedIn's CEO.
Hoffman had been LinkedIn's CEO during the first four years of the company's existence, and he knew it wasn't something that he wanted to do for another extended period — an aversion that differentiates him from other Internet visionaries such as Google's Larry Page, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Salesforce.com Inc.'s Marc Benioff, who all relish running the companies they founded.


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MMA returned to Nottingham, in the form of Norfolk based promotion Bushido Challenge. Having held a successful event in their home town for the first show, a more central location was selected for their second outing.
The people in attendance would have gone home feeling they had certainly got their money's worth, as this was a fantastic show. A very strong card for only their second show, and very well ran. No long breaks, no ridiculous interval, and great support and respect shown to every fighter from the audience.
Main Event: Welterweight Title
Danny Mitchell Vs Eugene FedioraDoncaster's Danny Mitchell has been tearing up the domestic welterweight scene in style recently and came in to the fight at 8-0. His opponent, Team Kaobon's Eugen Fediora has been making name of himself with an equally impressive record of 7-0. Someone's '0' had to go and on the night it was the valiant Mitchell who lost his unbeaten record.
One thing I will say is that Danny Mitchell has balls. Big balls! Having received a nasty broken nose in the first exchange of round 1, it was clear to see that his breathing was in a bad way, as he tried to go for plan B, which included a brief single leg take down in the second round. Fediora is no push over though and managed to impose his will throughout the fight and use his size and strength to escape out of some decent submission attempts from Mitchell.
This was the way the fight went for the best part of three rounds, until Mitchell found himself being held down in what from my view looked like some sort of crucifix hold in the third round. UFC referee Marc Goddard didn't rush to jump in, but he and the the crowd knew that Mitchell was taking unnecessary blows to the head. As Fadiora rained down more left hands from above, Goddard called an end to the bout. Mitchell will be back, and I look forward to seeing who steps up to challenge Fediora next.
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James Doolan V Artemij Sitenkov
This is a fight that will go down in UK MMA history, as one of those fights that had to be seen to be believed. No sooner had both guys felt each other out, Lithuania's Artemij Sitenkov had crawled up and under, then over again to submit Dinky Ninja team member Doolan. The move which ended the fight in 34 seconds, can only be described as 'Monkey-Like BJJ'. How he did it so quickly remains unanswered, but it was certainly something I imagine I will never see for many years in a Pro MMA bout.
Alex Enlund V Dino Gambatesa (Enlund via RNC 2.58 of Rnd 1)
Although not a title fight, this bout deserves a mention. At only 22 years of age, Enlund knew that facing Cage Rage veteran Gambatesa was going to be a big step up in class. Any jitters or nerves flew out of the venue as Enlund went straight in for the double leg and put put the Welsh fighter on his back. a full scale grappling match ensued with Enlund managing to maintain the dominant top position, throwing the occasional right hand, and successfully passing the guard on more than one occasion.After about a minute of the first round Enlund seemed to take a split second to breathe but this was all it took for Gambatesa to get out from under Enlund and go for the RNC. Gambatesa was like lightning but this was going to be Enlund's night. The North East based rising star shook off any danger and made a full recovery to reverse the action and take control, as well as Gambaseta's back, to get the tapout.
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John Cullen V David Hill (Hill via RNC 4.20 of Rnd 2)
Alex Enlund V Dino Gambatesa (Enlund via RNC 2.58 of Rnd 1)
Sham Haque V Karl Harrison (Harrison via TKO/GnP 28secs of Rnd 1)
Leeroy Barnes V Nasef Alganga (Barnes via Guillotine choke 2.53 of Rnd 1)
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Effects of Statin and Ezetimibe Association on Kinetics of Artificial Chilomicrons
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Effects of statin and ezetimibe association on kinetics of artificial chylomicrons in men with stable coronary heart disease (CHD).
The rate (kinetics) of chylomicrons removal from circulation have been correlated with the incidence and severity of atherosclerotic lesions; a number of studies demonstrated lower plasmatic clearance of chylomicrons in patients with CHD compared to patients without this condition. It was also demonstrated a correlation among LDL-C levels and removal of chylomicrons remnants by a technique employing artificial chylomicrons.
The investigators also know that higher doses of more potent statins are more effective in chylomicrons removal than lower doses or less potent statins; nevertheless, the effect of the isolated use of statin has not been completely studied up to now.
Study design:
The investigators propose to study 26 outpatients volunteers with chronic CHD, followed at the Heart Institute - INCOR - of the School of Medicine, University of São Paulo.
Following a period of six weeks of washout from any cholesterol reducer, the kinetics of chylomicrons removal by a technique of emulsion of radiolabeled artificial chylomicrons will be evaluated. Lipid fractions, hepatic enzymes and CK will be measured. Initially patients will be randomly allocated to receive simvastatin 20 mg /day (n= 13) or ezetimibe 10 mg/day (n=13) for six weeks. At the end of this period, kinetics of chylomicrons removal and laboratorial measurements will be repeated (Period 1).
In the next period (Period 2) patients will receive simvastatin 20 mg/ ezetimibe 10 mg (n=13) or simvastatin 80 mg (n=13) for additional six weeks; at the end of this period, the evaluations will be repeated (third and last evaluation).
The aim of this study is to further understand chylomicrons metabolism in patients with chronic coronary disease receiving cholesterol reducers at different dosage regimes.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Coronary Heart Disease |
Drug: Simvastatin 20mg plus ezetimibe 10mg Drug: ezetimibe Drug: simvastatin 20mg Drug: Simvastatin 80mg |
Phase 4 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Effects of Statin and Ezetimibe Association on Kinetics of Artificial Chilomicrons in Men With Stable Coronary Heart Disease. |
- Cholesteryl Ester Fractional Clearance Rate [ Time Frame: 6 weeks ]
- Low Density Lipoprotein [ Time Frame: 12week ]
- Triglyceride Fractional Clearance Rate [ Time Frame: 6week ]
- Alanine Aminotransferase [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
- CPK [ Time Frame: 12 week ]
- Total Cholesterol [ Time Frame: 12 week ]
- High Density Lipoprotein [ Time Frame: 12 week ]
Enrollment: | 25 |
Study Start Date: | June 2007 |
Study Completion Date: | January 2010 |
Primary Completion Date: | January 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: group1 ezetimibe
6 week wash out, followed by 06 week ezetimibe 10mg once a day e then 6 week ezetimibe 10mg plus sinvastatin 20mg for more 6 week.
Drug: Simvastatin 20mg plus ezetimibe 10mg
simvastatin 20mg plus ezetimibe 10mg once a day for 6 week.
Drug: ezetimibe
ezetimiba 10mg once a day
Active Comparator: group 2 simvastatin
6 week simvastatin 20mg once a day followed by 6 week simvastatin 80mg once a day.
Drug: simvastatin 20mg
simvastatin 20mg once a day
Drug: Simvastatin 80mg
simvastatin 20mg for 6week and then simvastatin 80mg for the next 6week.
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 30 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Stable coronary heart disease.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Renal and Liver failure
- Hypothyroidism
- Diabetes mellitus
- Neoplasia
- Heart failure.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00481351
Study Director: | Raul D. Santos, Physician | University of Sao Paulo |
Principal Investigator: | Otavio C. Mangili, Physician | University of Sao Paulo |
Study Chair: | Raul C Maranhão, physician | University of Sao Paulo |
Study Chair: | Ana Carolina M Gagliardi, nutritionist | University of Sao Paulo |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Otavio Celeste Mangili, MD, University of Sao Paulo |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00481351 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
1068/06 |
Study First Received: | May 30, 2007 |
Results First Received: | January 7, 2011 |
Last Updated: | January 7, 2011 |
Keywords provided by University of Sao Paulo:
artificial chilomicrons kinetics ezetimibe plus statin lipid lowering therapy |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Heart Diseases Coronary Disease Coronary Artery Disease Myocardial Ischemia Cardiovascular Diseases Vascular Diseases Arteriosclerosis Arterial Occlusive Diseases Simvastatin |
Ezetimibe Anticholesteremic Agents Hypolipidemic Agents Antimetabolites Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Lipid Regulating Agents Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors Enzyme Inhibitors |
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In the early 20th century, many a Southern housewife relied on weekly cooking column of one Henrietta Stanley Dull.
Mrs. S. R. Dull's recipes in the Atlanta Journal were so popular they were first published in 1928 as the book Southern Cooking. The book of 1,300 recipes has been reissued by the University of Georgia Press.
Mrs. Dull died in 1964 at the age of 100, which means her life and career spanned a time of great societal change. Just think of how kitchens changed during those 100 years. Damon Lee Fowler writes in the foreword: "Family lore holds that Mrs. Dull cooked her first corn pone on an open hearth at the tender age of six, and she cooked her last one, nearly a century later, on a modern range."
Of course, books about regional Southern cooking are plentiful. One recent favorite is A Gracious Plenty by John T. Edge. How do these books compare? Mrs. Dull's book contains an amazing 1,300 recipes and is valuable for its breadth but also for its history — the language of the text and the types of dishes reflect an earlier day. Edge's collection, though smaller, contains heritage recipes in a more colloquial vernacular. Its dishes are on the rural side, while Mrs. Dull's book has a slight city edge. Both, however, have worthy places on the bookshelf.
When Southern Cooking was originally published, some households still employed cooks, but more wives were learning to make their way in a kitchen. Mrs. Dull's book, then, would've been an authoritative companion for a new cook of any age. As such, it begins with a discussion of kitchen organization, utensils, caring for the refrigerator and other appliances. Considerable attention is given to the importance of learning how to prepare a meal so that all dishes are finished on time.
This book is charming as well as useful, and will make for fine reading and tasty meals.
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Blood pressure readings are a double measurement of the force of the blood against arterial walls. The two measurements indicate how much pressure builds up in the arteries as the heart beats and between beats. The first, higher number is the systolic pressure, which indicates the heart's pumping force. The second, lower number is the diastolic pressure, which indicates the amount of stretchability, which is worse when the arteries stiffen due to age or cholesterol buildup.
The higher the blood pressure, the more resistance there is to blood flow. A blood pressure level with the systolic less than 120 and the diastolic less than 80 is considered optimal. If the systolic is 120 to 139 or the diastolic is 80 to 89, this is called prehypertension regardless if one of them is normal. If the systolic is 140 or higher or the diastolic is 90 or higher, this is called hypertension (high blood pressure) regardless of whether one of the readings is normal or in the prehypertensive range.
To make a diagnosis of prehypertension or hypertension, your doctor will measure your blood pressure over several visits, or you may take your blood pressure at home. If the pressure is usually above 140/90, then the diagnosis of hypertension is made. If the majority of the readings are between 120/80 and 139/89, then the diagnosis of prehypertension is made. Hypertension is a sign that the heart is working too hard to pump blood through the circulatory system because of narrow and/or inflexible arteries.
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It seems smart to set a complicated and difficult-to-guess Windows XP password to ensure the security of our computer. But sometimes we may forget Windows XP password, and thus losing access to our computer and all work documents, family pictures, important contacts, etc., which is really annoying. Good news is that this article details 3 efficient and frequently used methods dealing with Windows XP password crack, when you forgot password on Windows XP user account
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Most passwords, though complicated they may be, are often inspired by the people, places and things in our daily life. What you should do is try hard to remember the forgotten password: Could your Windows XP password have anything to do with the birthday of someone you love, your home or office address, a pet name, your favorite food, or maybe a combination of some of the listed things. It works more effectively if you've set a good password hint which could help you recall the forgotten password.
It is likely that you have another user account which has admin privileges, in this case using "lusrmgr.msc" or "Command" may help you with "Windows XP forgot password" problem.
You should notice that this method could be of some help if you lost password Windows XP, whereas it may make you lose access to all encrypted files, stored passwords, and personal security certificates in your computer.
If the first two methods do not solve your Windows xp user password forgotten problem, using a third party software may be the last straw. Thus it's of great importance to choose reliable and powerful software. You could have my recommendation and download Windows Password Recovery Tool, a tool designed for users who forgot Windows XP password and other Windows passwords. And it could help users find Windows password accurately and easily with no need to reinstall the system. All that need is a USB flash drive or a CD/DVD and another computer from which you could download the software and copy an ISO image of this software to a USB flash drive or CD/DVD. Steps to use are quite simple:
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This week's home video releases are anchored by the final installment of the popular "Twilight" franchise.
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I just completed my first Ironman in Florida a week ago. It was awesome and life changing. And while I won't be doing a full until 2014 I plan on a couple halfs etc this upcoming season. What are some good off season maintenance plans? I am someone who needs structure and variety.
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WASHINGTON — Raising prospects for a major election-year ruling, the Obama administration launched its Supreme Court defense of its landmark health care overhaul today, appealing what it called a "fundamentally flawed" appeals court decision that declared the law's central provision unconstitutional.
Destined from the start for a high court showdown, the health care law affecting virtually every American seems sure to figure prominently in President Barack Obama's campaign for re-election next year. Republican contenders are already assailing it in virtually every debate and speech.
The administration formally appealed a ruling by the federal appeals court in Atlanta that struck down the law's core requirement that individuals buy health insurance or pay a penalty beginning in 2014.
At the same time, however, the winners in that appellate case, 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business, also asked for high court review today, saying the entire law, and not just the individual insurance mandate, should be struck down.
The Supreme Court almost always weighs in when a lower court has struck down all or part of a federal law, to say nothing of one that aims to extend insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans.
The bigger question had been the timing. The administration's filing makes it more likely that the case will be heard and decided in the term that begins next week.
Repeating arguments it has made in courts across the country in response to many challenges to the law, the administration said Congress was well within its constitutional power to enact the insurance requirement.
Disagreeing with that, the 26 states and business group said in their filings that the justices should act before the 2012 presidential election because of uncertainty over costs and requirements.
On the issue of timing, their cause got an unexpected boost from retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who said voters would be better off if they knew the law's fate law before casting their ballots next year.
The 91-year-old Stevens said in an Associated Press interview that the justices would not shy away from deciding the case in the middle of a presidential campaign and would be doing the country a service. "It would be better to have that known about than be speculated as a part of the political argument," Stevens said in his Supreme Court office overlooking the Capitol.
Though the Atlanta appeals court struck down the individual insurance requirement, it upheld the rest of the law. The states and the business group say that would still impose huge new costs.
In another challenge to the same law, the federal appeals court in Cincinnati sided with the administration.
The law would extend health coverage mainly through subsidies to purchase private insurance and an expansion of Medicaid. The states object to the Medicaid expansion and a provision forcing them to cover their employees' health care at a level set by the government.
The individual insurance mandate "indisputably served as the centerpiece of the delicate compromise that produced" the law, according to the states, with Florida taking the lead.
The administration said in the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the law's changes in the insurance market, including requiring insurers to cover people without regard for pre-existing health conditions, would not work without the participation mandate.
The insurance requirement is intended to force healthier people who might otherwise forgo insurance into the pool of insured, helping to reduce private insurers' financial risk.
Both appeals stressed the importance of resolving the overhaul's constitutionality as soon as possible, which under normal court procedures would be by June 2012.
While a decision in that time frame would come in the midst of a heated presidential campaign, the NFIB said it is more important to resolve uncertainty about costs and requirements than drag out consideration into 2013 or beyond.
"When you talk to our members and other small-business owners about what is the biggest problem they're facing, they say uncertainty," said Karen Harned, executive director of the NFIB's legal division. "When you ask what, one of first answers is the health care law."
Stevens, who retired last year, said his former colleagues would not be affected by the potential impact of their decision on Obama's re-election chances.
"They'll decide it on the law. I'm totally convinced of that," he said.
Obama appointed Stevens' successor, Elena Kagan.
Stevens said that if he still had a vote on the court on timing, he would cast it in favor of hearing the case sooner rather than later. He would not say how he would vote on the issue of the law's constitutionality, although he said the court's 6-3 decision in a 2005 case involving medical marijuana seems to lend support to the administration's defense of the law.
Stevens wrote the opinion that held that the Constitution allows federal regulation of homegrown marijuana as interstate commerce. A central dispute in the health care case is over Congress's power under the Constitution's commerce clause to mandate the purchase of health insurance.
In addition to the competing rulings on the law's validity, a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled that it was premature to decide the law's constitutionality. Citing a federal law aimed at preventing lawsuits from tying up tax collection, that court held that a definitive ruling could come only after taxpayers begin paying the penalty for not purchasing insurance.
The administration suggested that the Supreme Court should consider that issue because of the appellate ruling.
The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., also heard arguments in yet another lawsuit against the overhaul last week. That court has no timetable for its decision.
The other states aligned with Florida are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
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"Don't ask me why."
One of Billy Joel's own lyrics might answer anyone baffled that he hasn't been recognized by the Kennedy Center Honors until now. As the 40th-anniversary year of his seminal album "Piano Man" draws to a close, the singer-songwriter of numerous hits of wide-ranging styles is among those saluted for his contributions to the performing arts as CBS airs the 36th annual special Sunday, Dec. 29.
"I was surprised," six-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Joel recalls to Zap2it. "I honestly, really thought there were a lot of people who were deserving before I was going to get this … jazz musicians, classical musicians, just other people. I've had so much fun, it's like I'm getting an award for doing something I love. Which is an award in itself."
Taped Dec. 8 in Washington, D.C., the Glenn Close-hosted event sees four other entertainment legends also feted by friends, colleagues and admirers including President and Mrs. Obama: Oscar and Emmy winner Shirley MacLaine; two more music icons, Herbie Hancock and Carlos Santana; and opera great Martina Arroyo.
"It's a really good lineup," Joel says. "I'm still kind of 'Wow!' because I admire all those people. I'm happy I don't have to speak at this; I'd just be, 'Homina-homina-homina,' like Jackie Gleason."
Joel performed when sometimes tour mate Elton John was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient in 2004. Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks and Don Henley are among those appearing for Joel, who is aware of how such occasions work in television terms.
"I know they like to get that same face when people win or lose the Oscar," he says. "And I had to get new clothes; I don't have clothes for this kind of thing."
Nevertheless, the artist who has given untold numbers of listeners classic tunes from "She's Always a Woman," "Just the Way You Are" and "An Innocent Man" to "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me," "Tell Her About It" and "Only the Good Die Young" has deep respect for what the Kennedy Center Honors represent.
"I guess it's our version of knighthood," Joel reasons. "It would be kind of cool if you could kneel before the president and get tapped on the shoulder with a sword and receive a helmet and a banner. It's fine, though."
The timing of Joel's honor is significant, and not just because of "Piano Man's" four-decade mark. "Next year will be my 50th year in show business," he notes, "and we're starting to do some gigs, so I guess it's all just kind of dovetailing."
One of those gigs for the Bronx native is a New Year's Eve show at Brooklyn's Barclays Center. Then, starting in January, he becomes a "franchise" of Madison Square Garden in a unique arrangement that will see him perform one concert there per month, for as long as both he and audiences want that.
"That's my favorite room in the world," maintains Joel, whose songs fueled an episode of Fox's "Glee" in November. "It's a world-class venue, the sound is great, and the audience has always been great for us there. And it's New York City, which is the most exciting city in the world."


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Some flowers will have grown out of the soil, or something. ;P
'Lord Sargeras, sweep your molten fist through this world, so that it may be reborn in flames and darkness!'
'So the light's vaunted justice has finally arrived.'
'Boldly said. But I remain...unconvinced.'
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Scientificly, it would be huuuuge. That you jest about it without knowing the extreme weight of it all shows you are ignorant of what it would really mean.
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Not sure why you're in this thread proclaiming that you don't care. Several times.
Please stop pooping on the party.
1) If you are a random guy, it doesn't. If you are a scientist, it may.
Different chemical base perhaps? Non-carbon-based life? Or non-oxygen-based? Possibilities are infinite.
2/3) It's not only about oxygen - ultraviolet radiation, space rays, elements brought to surface by meteorites, great daily temperature swings, seasonal pressure swings. While we can emulate all of those conditions in labs/space stations, seeing their effect on long-time life in natural conditions is quite different.
4/5) Someone once compared the chance of life forming from the organics to a hurricane over a scrapyard accidentally creating a fully-operational Boeing. We don't even know how the life first appeared. We may very well be alone in at least a million nearby galaxies, if not alone in the universe.
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I've only just started a three-year course in biotechnology, with no previous knowledge in the subject, just extreme interest in this field. My thought on the matter is that they have maybe microbial life. But if you ask me, I think microbial life will be very common in the universe, it's complex life that will be more difficult to find, if you consider that there's a kind of bacteria and even complex life that lives in extremely hostile conditions here on earth in the present and mostly in the past. I think it's not far stretch to assume there will be life on any planet with a slight atmosphere, mars and venus seem to be the closest candidates.
I suspect it's a PR stunt, like the one a while back when they found some bacteria are able to live in very acidic conditions here on earth. Technically that's also one for the history books but it was a bit of a letdown considering the way they announced it.
first one: not carbon based life?...i don't think so
2/3 alright, there are alot of different possibilities...i'll give you that.
4/5 that guy probably also believed in a earth that was 6000 years old and speaking snakes and stuff...
and @ creamyflames. good job on giving me one example...this shows exactly how much you know about this topic...about as much as me.
i am aware of it being a bada boom for astrbiologists etc...but you as a person wouldn't notice jackshit.
nothing would change here on earth, except of maybe a little increased funds for space related science for 5 years, then we'd be back to normal.
lay down your pink sunglasses.
I'll wait for the results rather than speculate, the reason they triple check everything is because quite often first impressions can be false.
One cannot simply quit wow his way into Mordor.
No it doesn't. Nothing changes really. Life on Earth is at least 3 billion years old. We find meteorites from Mars and other bodies in the solar system all the time. So all discovering microscopic life on Mars would mean is that it got there from Earth by a meteorite.
But I bet it's probably more along the lines of "oh my gosh, we discovered a rare clay that forms only above this and that latitude at a much lower latitude" or something boring like that..
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I don't know what would be HUGE about that? I thought they already said there was signs of water on mars?
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This was one of the funniest comments on MMO-C in a while. Thank you for that.
Could be so many things, there's really no point in guessing.
That guy was a scientist. Can't find the quote atm, though.
Just imagine, the chance that all the required elements and substances get together at the same moment, and some unknown catalyst is also there and causes it all to "come alive" and it also somehow develops a complicated structure, feeding instincts and ability to split into progeny. Kinda... improbable?
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i'd love it to be like a martian sand worm or some kind of prehistoric fossil that suggests life evolved on mars at the same time as on earth, but then the atmosphere destabilised or something and everything died - like what wiped out the dinosaurs, but had a more drastic effect on the planet than it did on earth
but it's probably just gonna be news of water + fertile soil or something allowing for manned missions to mars.
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Prothean ruins!
Prothean artifact of course, what else?
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I've tried going down this road a few times. I've tried the free Presonus software, the Ableton software that came with my interface, the trial of Reaper, and played with Logic on my bassist's computer.
They're all cool in their own way, but have a hell of a learning curve compared to Audacity. If you're just looking to do some simple multi-tracking with minimal effects, Audacity is actually pretty badass.
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I've got a ton of copies of Cubase LE. It seems to come with everything. Go buy something you need that doesn't cost much that comes with Cubase and you'll have that. Or you can download reaper, use it for free for a while and then pay for it, it doesn't cost much and it's nice.
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Wonder what happened with that orb-like Nexus thing? Had a bunch of wires coming out the back, making it resemble those squid machines from The Matrix films. All the Android people were waxing all sorts of hypothetical lyrical about it a year ago. Did it ever catch on, or did Google kill it or something?
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Is this single-rear-axle truck the type of medium-heavy-duty model that Mack should have brought out first? I asked that question two years ago when I saw the initial offering, the tandem-axle Granite MHD. I figured other than the tandem, it was just right for municipal fleets and others who don't need high carrying capacity.
I asked it again of Stu Russoli, Mack's marketing product manager for construction, during our drive in a new MHD around Allentown and other communities in the Leheigh Valley of northeastern Pennsylvania. We did this early on a mild summer morning from Mack's Customer Center, formerly its technical center, where the truck was waiting for us out back.
Russoli briefed me on it, and we both familiarized ourselves with the controls for the Henderson stainless steel dump body, because later we'd have to offload the sand that had been poured aboard to weigh down the rear end.
He didn't know the answer, but even with a tandem-axle, the Baby 8 MHD with its Cummins ISL9 diesel was a less costly alternative to full Class 8 Granites, which come with large-bore Mack Power diesels and equally strong drivetrain components. Now with the less expensive single drive axle, the latest MHD can be presented to city, township, county and state fleets whose needs are closer to medium- than full heavy-duty.
An MHD can be outfitted as a Class 7 truck, and the basic version is rated right at 33,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, one pound under Class 8. Some commercial customers, such as landscapers, pool installers and others who need a lighter dump truck, might choose it that way to avoid the 12% federal excise tax.
But most will be built with higher-capacity axles, and this one definitely was.
Being a plow truck, our "muni" demo unit had an 18,000-pound steer axle set close to the bumper to bear the 2 tons or so of the hefty mount and a heavy steel plow. Add the 26,000-pound drive axle, which is there more for durability than actual carrying capacity, and the GVW rating was 44,000 pounds.
Government agencies are exempt from the FET, so the Class 8 threshold doesn't deter them from ordering what they need, though it probably wouldn't anyway. Managers backed by elected officials can also afford to choose what holds up best. Here a Mack shines, as anybody who works for the Bulldog brand will tell you, including Russoli. "It's a premium truck and it will command a premium price," he said, "but there are ways to take out cost" to lower a bid price. A money-saver
The midrange-size, heavy-duty Cummins ISL9 is a major cost reducer, saving several thousand dollars over a bigger MP7 or 8 diesel. The Allison 3000 RDS automatic transmission lists at $12,000 to $15,000 over a manual, but would cost thousands more if it were a 4000 series needed to handle the output of a bigger engine. (Allisons are virtually standard in municipal fleets because they save more in wear and tear on drivelines and people than they cost.)
Another money-saver is the interior trim. This truck had the base-level Purebred trim package, so its seats and the door and wall panels were covered in vinyl – but it neither looked nor felt cheap.
And certainly premium were the basic items from the heavier Granite line: a stout Cornerstone chassis that's stiffer than many competitors'; a rugged, galvanized steel cab with doors that go "thunk!" when slammed; a large, two-panel dashboard with more-than-adequate gauges and nicely designed switches and controls, including big rotary knobs for the HVAC that are easy to see and quick to use; and a big-rig-style composite hood that housed the engine and its accessories yet tilted easily for servicing and repairs. The drive
The MHD felt rugged – and rode like it. There's only so much that beefy leaf springs can do to soften blows caused by bowed and broken concrete and undulating asphalt, so the truck bounced over them. On smoother surfaces it rode decently, and with a heavy plow hitched to the mount up front it'd probably settle down. Likewise for a heavier load; there were about 5 tons of sand in the stainless steel body, far less than what the truck could haul.
The powertrain was a smoothie, though. The 8.9-liter Cummins was lively and readily revved to 1,900 and beyond when I put my foot into the pedal, and the Allison automatic shifted positively but without any harshness. This one was a 5-speed, so had just one overdrive gear and that, along with the 5.38 rear axle ratio, caused the engine to spin busily at highway speeds, though well within the bounds of a relatively high-revving midrange-size diesel. Still, if I were the fleet manager, I'd try to sell the folks on the city council or township board on a 6-speed to lower revs and save some fuel.
All in all, the Granite MHD with the Allison was more like wheeling a big pickup around town. Punch D for drive or R for reverse and go where you have to.
The truck was short and looked official enough that I didn't worry about going through residential areas, though I saw no restriction signs on the streets we traveled. With the short, 180-inch wheelbase it turned easily, and with big windows and good mirrors it was easy to maneuver and back up.
By the way, this is a show truck, which explains some of its bright-metal trim. Why white paint, though? Shouldn't a muni truck be Omaha Orange or maybe yellow or red, especially if it's going to plow white snow? It could easily be repainted after it's done making the rounds at trade shows. Whichever municipality ends up owning it might do that, but either way, it will still have a rugged and capable piece of equipment.
Looks like the ideal plow truck for our WI. winters which are just around the corner. Would think air ride would smooth out that ride and be less expensive in the long run. Love to drive one with A/R.
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- - Let's see those those fun clip jobs, Soon that time to bring your clippers out!
Let's see those those fun clip jobs, Soon that time to bring your clippers out! I am on my iPad, so it won't let me upload pictures on this website, but tomorrow I'll post some clip jobs I did last year! So post your pictures I guess from last year! Maybe give some people fun ideas for this year!? |
1 Attachment(s) Zephyr, thats why the Z is there :) |
1 Attachment(s) Ok that Z is too cute!!! Mine's not quite so original, just a boring ol' trace clip ;-) |
Love all your ribbions!!! Your clip jpb looks so neat and tidy, last year was my first time evr clipping a horse, let alone my own haha! I am tryuingto come up with a few fun ideas for this year with my new horse! BUMP! Post your pictures from last winter so we can all get ideas for THIS year! |
haha thanks! My trainer actually did the clip job for me ;-) And this year I plan on pawning it off onto someone again, since I don't have any good clippers! |
Probably a stupid question but why do you clip your horses like that? Is it for fun or a certain type of showing? And what time of year is it done?...thanks :/ Posted via Mobile Device |
Usually only body clip in the wint when your working your horse a lot. And really you can do any clip with any patterns or letters. It's always fun! |
Oh so you'd only do it if your horse was blanketed and stalled in the winter right? It looks fun wish i could do it :) Posted via Mobile Device |
Yep you got it BJB, they have to have extra blankets on too if you would normally blanket them. My boy was blanketed all winter (Australia, opposite seasons) and I did clip him, so had to add another blanket underneath. My clip was a hunter clip and wasn't done that great but it worked ok. It's now mid-spring and the clip is still totally visible... I think I blanketed him a little TOO well? I probably won't bother next year though unless I decide to enter some show hack classes, he doesn't grow a lot of coat if I rug him well enough for him to be happy, except on his legs and head where the cold could otherwise get to (which are areas I like to leave hairy anyway, being a jumper/eventer rider). I am, however, in the process of clipping my dog, to keep prickles out of her coat. That's fun, and it's my first time with the clippers (had someone clip Monty for me) so I'm not expecting it to look any good AT ALL... but it does appear to be an ok clip job so far! |
BJB--The lesson barn I ride at still turns horses out during the day (nice days) all winter, then bring them in for the night. By clipping the horses, it means less time cooling out, and the horses aren't put away wet. Not all of the horses get clipped, only the ones that get sweatier. Clip jobs also vary per horse, with some just getting their neck/chest clipped, some trace clips, and some body clips (leg and face hair left). Blue eyed-Some horses take longer to shed out then others, so it might just be that he is holding onto it more this year. A shedding blade helps a lot, and frequent brushing. The past few years, hearts have been the "in" thing at our barn. |
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