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A woman in her 20s returns to her dentist for her twice-annual checkup, which she never misses. She takes good care of her teeth and hasn't had the slightest sign of a cavity.
A woman in her 20s returns to her dentist for her twice-annual checkup, which she never misses. She takes good care of her teeth and hasn�t had the slightest sign of a cavity.
Still, a dental hygienist drapes a lead apron over her torso and positions bitewings in her mouth for an annual round of X-rays.
Not so fast, some dentists would say. There�s a high probability the patient doesn�t need them.
X-rays provide a good baseline for tracking decay and can help dentists identify problems that can�t always be detected otherwise. And they deliver a radiation dose that�s one of the smallest among medical diagnostic tests: about 0.5 millirems per procedure, roughly equivalent to the radiation exposure you experience during an hourlong flight, according to the American Nuclear Society.
Dental radiographs account for about 2.5 percent of the effective dose from medical radiographs and fluoroscopies.
Still, new guidelines from the American Dental Association this month reiterate what dentists have long known.
�Imaging is not a benign procedure,� said Dr. Paul Casamassimo, chief of dentistry at Nationwide Children�s Hospital and a professor at Ohio State University�s College of Dentistry, who�s among dentists advocating a reduction in radiation. He said, for example, that patients in their 20s who receive routine dental care and show no signs of cavities probably could go five years between X-rays.
The approach too many dentists take is skewed by training they received decades ago when tooth decay was more prevalent, Casamassimo said. And then there�s �defensive dentistry,� fueled by fears that a dentist might miss something, no matter how remote the possibility.
And �there�s probably some economic basis� that prompts some X-rays, Casamassimo said.
The ADA�s new recommendations for dental X-rays � the first update in eight years � is part of an effort to reduce radiation exposure. The changes include updates to patient-shielding recommendations, a new section on how to limit radiation exposure during radiographic examinations, and new guidance on topics such as hand-held X-ray units.
The association cited a study of 490 patients that found that more-judicious use of dental X-rays can result in a 43 percent reduction in the number of radiographs taken �without a clinically consequential increase in the rate of undiagnosed disease.�
The association stressed that dentists remain in the best position to make decisions on whether to prescribe X-rays after an oral exam or after considering a patient�s health history.
Dentists, like other professionals, aren�t always quick to embrace new guidelines, Casamassimo said. But he said insurance companies could spur adoption of X-ray protocols recommended by the ADA. For example, he said, health insurers could increasingly require dentists to perform risk assessments to justify X-rays.
Dentists also can try to keep radiation dosages lower by switching from film to digital. According to the ADA, digital imaging can further reduce the radiation dose by 40 to 60 percent.
�We�ve gotten so much better with the technology at reducing the actual dose,� said Dr. Angelo Mariotti, a Columbus dentist and president of the Columbus Dental Society.X-rays remain the best way to find cavities between teeth, he said. �We don�t have anything better at this time.�
Predetermined scheduling of X-rays long ago went by the wayside at many dentists� offices, said Dr. Matthew Messina, a dentist in a suburb of Cleveland. �We have not had an established routine interval (for X-rays) for 20 years,� he said. �We�ve realized that you need to tailor patient care to the individual needs of that patient.�
Patients sometimes question the need for X-rays. Messina said dentists need to be prepared to share their rationale for an X-ray during those conversations and should be able to explain why they believe the benefits outweigh the risks.
�I want my patients to feel comfortable with this,� Messina said.


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The impact of Eva and Juan Perón extended far beyond the capital city, and was particularly strong in the Province of Buenos Aires, where Eva grew up. If you have soaked up all the Evita you can in the city, there's plenty more a short drive or train ride away. 12. QUINTA SAN VICENTE MUSEO DE 17 DE OCTUBRE AND JUAN PERóN MAUSOLEUM This country home of Juan and Eva Perón was built in 1947 in the well-to-do San Vicente suburbs, about an hour southwest from Buenos Aires. The interior dates to a renovation done in the 1970s, when Perón returned to power after being in exile for 18 years throughout Latin America and Spain. The museum contains his car collection and a car from the presidential train, as well as statues from a monument he planned to erect in Evita's honor on Avenida Libertador before the coup. The museum garden is the now the final resting place for Perón, whose body was moved here from Buenos Aires's Chacarita cemetery in 2006. A companion tomb was built for Evita, but her family will not allow her body to move here, saying it has been on too many journeys since her death.

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Firstly, do the top 150 overall players of the day get a chance at a collector or do the top 150 of each tournament collectively get a shot? The rules don't really specify. It just says the top 150 of the day which could mean either one.
Secondly, do you personally prefer Standard or Extended? Why?
UM_AaaBattery Moderator URBAN MADNESS Thursday 06/12/2012, 16:16
Top 150 per tournament go into the end of day prize draw but you can only be entered once in the Standard and once in the extended ones so if you get into the top 150 again you chances don't increase.
0ps kraksy Titan Time Conquers All Friday 07/12/2012, 17:07
If You enter twice or more your chances increase (but others also - just lower number of rivals for Cr)
ZacharyThomas Titan Harbingers of Ares Friday 07/12/2012, 23:21
Krasky pay attention, Dt lotteries don't work that way. You place 150 or above in any of the Daily tournies that day you get put into lottery for that day only ONCE. not on how many top places you can get.
I think what kraksy means is. if you entered twice in top 150 the your chance is increased but very small and that increase other chance to, even player who entered top 150 once. so no matter how many you got to top 150, your chance is still the same with someone who entered top 150 once.
let's just say:
kraksy and mafioso has entered top 150 once, and zach never entered before. after the 11th DT there are total of 1650 players who entered the lotteries for getting in the top 150. so kraksy's and mafioso's chance is 5/1650.
in the 12th DT, there are another 150 new players(outside of 1650 above) that entered top 150. and lets just say kraksy at 151th, mafioso didn't played, and zach at 150th. if the rank is stay the same until DT ends, their chance is 5/1800. kraksy got his 150th and zach down to the 151th, then kraksy's chance is super slightly increase from 5/1800(0.002777 to 5/1799 (0.0027793) and so mafioso too even he just entered the top 150 once. but zach of course didn't have any chance.
to put it more simple,
there are 50 players who determined to get the cr's and played 12 DT and got all 12 DT into top 150, so if other players entered top 150 once each player then there are 1250(100*12+50) total players in the lotteries. chance is 5/1250 (0.004)
but if there are 100 got all day top 150 in each DT and other players just once each, then total players who entered the lotteries is 700(50*12+100) players. it's 5/700 (0.007143) chance.
Shanks Guru Colossus E X C A L I B U R Monday 10/12/2012, 07:00
Well looks like you have been told already how the lotto works (1 top 150 a day counts multiple do not increase chances)
as for standard vs extended, standard is easier to get top 150 by a large margin
0ps kraksy Titan Time Conquers All Monday 10/12/2012, 14:27
Ok again, changes increase because if I enter multiple times (top150) there are less players for the same amount of prizes, so I and all other have bigger chance to win Cr.
the chances depends on the total players that entered top 150 a day, but all the players have equal chances.
the lesser the total players the bigger the chances is. when someone entered twice, it's N(total)-1, 5 times then N-4.
ya, instead of saying "your chances does not increase" let's just say "you not only increase your chance but you increase other players (top 150) as well)
0ps kraksy Titan Time Conquers All Monday 10/12/2012, 22:48
Thats right man!


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Starting with those open source packages, Fedora 11 comes with KDE 4.2, GNOME 2.26, Xfce 4.6, Xserver 1.6, Firefox 3.5, Thunderbird 3, Python 2.6, GCC 4.4 (all packages have been rebuilt with GCC 4.4 as well), and much more. Obviously, Fedora 11 also inherits all the improvements made in those projects.
There's also a lot of other cool stuff in Fedora 11. For instance, ext4 is now the default file system for Anaconda-driven installs, which would mean speed improvements for Fedora users. The boot time target is now 20 seconds (it was 30 seconds for Fedora 10), which really puts into perspective just how much the Linux desktop has improved in this area over the past couple of years.
The Nouveau driver for NVIDIA graphics chips is now the default in Fedora 11, and with it comes kernel modesetting support for this driver. Improvements have also been made in the areas of DRI2, DeviceKit integration, support for fingerprint readers, PolicyKit integration with CUPS, and a whole lot more.
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The Irish nanny charged in relation to the death of Quincy baby Rehma Sabir has a violent past, according to court papers.
Several newspapers have reported that Aisling McCarthy Brady has been accused of violent behaviour previously.
The Boston Herald has seen court documents relating to the Irish woman who faces charges relating to the death of a one-year-old.
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Dorchester District court records also show that Brady was arrested, at 23 Sudan Street, in Dorchester, in February 2007, when she was accused of assaulting and beating another woman, described as her roommate.
Brady was arrested along with the roommate and claimed the two were in a fight. The charge was later dismissed.
The paper reports that the 34-year-old has had two restraining orders filed against her, including one filed as recently as March 2012.
David Furey, a former boyfriend, brought a restraining order against the nanny in August 2005.
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He claimed that Brady had threatened his female friends and had also attacked him in a bar because he was talking to a woman. Furey said that Brady hit him with closed fists and repeatedly scraped his face with her fingernails.
A second restraining order was filed in 2012 by Olive Scanlon of Dorchester.
Scanlon also claimed that she began receiving unsolicited phone calls from people looking to set up funeral arrangements for her.
She said Brady posted on a website that she had witnessed Scanlon beating children and claimed Brady harassed her in front of the Irish student.
McCarthy Brady is facing charges of assault and battery causing substantial bodily injury in the death of a child in her care.
Police arrived to the child's home on Ash Street, in Cambridge, on January 14, to find the child unconscious.
Doctors at the Children's Hospital, in Boston, found the child to be suffering from subdural and retinal hemorrhaging and cerebral swelling.
The child was pronounced brain dead and subsequently died two days later.
Police say the child had multiple healing bone fractures and injuries consistent with being thrown.
Some reports claim that Cavan native McCarthy Brady is undocumented and will be turned over to immigration officials after the charges are adjudicated but these have been denied.
Brady was ordered held on $500,000 bail at her arraignment in Cambridge District Court Tuesday on the charges related to the death of one-year-old Rehma Sabir.
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Reports say that since the baby died, charges are expected to be upgraded to homicide.
FoxBoston has also reprinted the affidavit's relating to the two restraining orders. They read:
On March 20, 2005 the defendant intimidated a lady friend of mine for speaking with me and told her to keep away from me or she was going to get hurt. My friend Caroline laughed at her and then she threw an empty beer bottle at her, missing her face. The bouncers then escorted her from the premises.
In May 2009 she made a threatening phone call to another female friend saying to stay clear of me as I belonged to her this person has now left the country. In April of this year she slander another girlfriend calling her a home wrecker and saying that she stole her husband and she was going to pay.
She told me in I think it was April or May of 2009 that I was making her life hell and that she was going to make my life a living hell, and since then every female I talk to gay or straight get abuse from talking.
On mid-June 2005 the defendant attacked me in a bar room for talking to a lady friend. This time hitting me and scraping me in the face with closed fists and her finger nails repeatedly.
I'm afraid of the day that it's going to be a beer bottle she hits me with or worse.
On or about 5th August 2011, the defendant texted me and accused me of taking her student that was arriving from Ireland in a week.
Sat. 6th Facebook page set up in my name
Sun. 7th Facebook page taken down
Monday 8th text msg from Aisling Brady saying sorry about Friday text msg and she tried to call me, but I didn't answer her call.
Thurs. 29th Sept. there was a posting on a web site called ******* saying she saw me abusing the kids in the playground.
Monday 17th Oct. 9:20 p.m. a marriage councilor called me to make an appointment.
Aug. 25th Magazine arrived in my name.
Sept. 18th she harassed me in front of the Irish student that were leaving to go home.
Nov. 1st My boss Michael got a harassing phone call about me.
Nov. 2nd she tried to call me and I didn't answer.
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The fusion of two nouns, "servant" and "leader," which form the catch-phrase "servant-leader," is generally used to describe a person whose thoughts, actions and life's work are imbued by a deep concern for others. The term was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in the 70's.
Two millennia before Greenleaf, Jesus Christ first offered his disciples insight into the radically new course He was laying before them. Jesus expressed strong disapproval for the prevailing style of leadership as practiced by the Romans.
In the Gospel of Mark chapter 10 and verses 35 through 45 Jesus first introduces the concept of suffering and service as a distinct mark which needed to be adopted and put into effect by those who claimed to be adherents to his teachings and later become his followers.
For centuries Jesus' example of leadership or the embodiment of legitimate power and genuine authority was assigned a place within the confines of religious instruction and practice; Greenleaf's grasping of the meaning and significance of these concepts prepared its entrance into the board rooms and halls of power in corporate America.
In the last 30 years, servant leadership has become the standard for service which highlights an increased focus on the human aspect of advancing a cause, a business or community goal. Servant leadership, as a philosophy for collaboration and teamwork, emphasizes that conscious choice to lead follows the natural and inborn desire to serve, rather than seeking to lead first, then serve.
Servanthood, also a noun, is easily confused with another term: servitude. The latter is a condition in which one lacks liberty, especially to determine one's course of action or way of life, or is subjected to a specified use or unpaid employment by another. It makes people think of slavery.
Servanthood, on the other hand, is the voluntary choice made by one person to forgo status, position or title, then followed by conscious choice to deploy his/her influence for the benefit of others.
Jerry Haak, in my estimation, was someone chosen by God to live and work in the Yakima Valley, and by affiliating himself with other groups affected an impact around the world at a time when our institutions, particularly Christian-owned businesses, are not fleshing out the owner's personal values in the marketplace.
Jerry found a way to make a profit, help his orchard employees and their families grow as individuals and become not just productive members of society but collaborators and team members. Through all these he modeled active faith often without citing a single verse from the Bible.
For a time, he did what he thought was the right thing to do. In summer 2007 he heard a speaker from Argentina say, "If you want to see things you've never seen before, you must do things you've never done before." These words resonated in Jerry's mind. Shortly thereafter, he and two other men started to invite people to pray about something only Jerry would apply himself and invite others to do: work at creating observable manifestations of God's kingdom being established in the Yakima Valley.
In early 2008 I met Jerry through a mutual friend. We both believed God had orchestrated our meeting, which blossomed into a relationship. We were "unlikely partners" he said once, because I had not gone to school here in Sunnyside, I am not a farm worker or farm in the region, furthermore, I did not attend the church he attended. At that point in his life Jerry had found the true term to describe his ideas, business ethics, feelings and behavior that showed his desire to help other people: Servant Leadership.
One day after one of the prayer meetings he asked me to meet him at a fast food restaurant for breakfast. Ed Werkhoven and Herman Te Velde accompanied Jerry that day. He envisioned the advent of an organization that would be a different type of organization, one that would break the rules for doing charitable work, focusing on efficient use of resources with a minimum of bureaucracy - one that would not be constrained by funders who did not believe in the power of applying and practicing servant leadership all around.
Jerry's ideas for an organization suited for the 21st Century, ready to face struggles - spiritual, physical and financial, but wholly dependent and trusting God resonated in me.
He invited me to join him in the work of Transformation Sunnyside, as the organization would be called.
The following Monday I started working for the organization from a room in our family's apartment, me as Executive Director, Jerry as its Board President from his truck and home office. The visionary, futuristic and the contextual arranger had come together by God's grace to work on building a replicable model for inner and community transformation.
Several projects have been birthed, a few have become successful and become a standard for community projects.
Jerry's passing no doubt has left a huge vacuum, personally and organizationally. Jesus Christ is more than able to fill that spot abundantly. Something that eases my grief for the loss of a man of practical and active faith - someone who was committed to bring Hispanics and Anglos together in all areas, breaking barriers that limited their joined potential - is the fact that I knew about some of the things he wanted to do and have pledged to continue to work on, that would be my way of honoring his vision, life and work.
In my opinion, the best way for the people of the Lower Valley - those who were beneficiaries of Jerry's love for God and people, those who claim to have been influenced by him to think outside the box, those who sought his assistance to accomplish projects that enhance and protect the dignity of those who receive it, those who are motivated to emulate his work to some degree - is to honor his life and work through the adoption and practice of servant leadership, committing to not let physical limitations prevent you from serving, seeking to grow God's kingdom on earth which would be evidenced by the ending of poverty, establishment of justice and uniting people.
This occurrence would likely be seen as God's will on earth being done.
‑ Roberto Matus is executive director of Sunnyside Transformation Yakima Valley
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I made this simple top in a "busy" coral viscose. I tried matching the pattern at side and back centre seams, so the fabric pattern flowed all the way round.
For the photos, I teamed it up with everything that I had which was coral, but I think I would tone it down a bit when I actually wear it out…
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The Hyde Park Hair Salon, where President Barack Obama used to get his hair cut, has been visited by countless reporters, cameramen, and curious tourists.
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The crew interviewed the barbers inside the shop but has not yet said if any of them will be selected for the show.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Cleaning up WikiTree profiles
Another thing I've been spending some time on is specific to WikiTree. In case you're not familiar with it, WikiTree is an online, collaborative family tree project. I wrote more about it in a previous post. One difficulty in such a design is that when a bunch of people create their family trees, especially through GEDCOM imports, you end up with a bunch of profiles describing the same person.
I noticed that there's a group of people on WikiTree trying to clean up the duplicate profiles of European aristocracy, and decided to take on a similar effort myself. So lately I've been making lists of profiles of my Acadian ancestors, and planning out where merges should be made.
So far, I haven't really done any actual merging at all. The trouble is, I'm not the one in charge of all these profiles, and the people who are aren't very active on WikiTree, apparently, so it's been tough to coordinate things. I'm planning to request supervisor status, which will allow me to merge open profiles (which most of these profiles are, thankfully) without being on their trusted lists. So here's hoping that works out!
On a related note, I now have over 600 people in my family tree! I can't believe how much it's been growing lately! I've been adding a lot of descendents of my ancestors lately, and every time I do I hope that it will connect me to someone else who's working on their family tree and is my distant cousin. It's so exciting!
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Great post, Lianne! You're awesome.ReplyDelete
Did Tami invite you to this Google Group yet?
Even though the specific profiles might not interest you, the conversation is more generally about WikiTree style recommendations. How do you best handle these ancestors with thousands of descendants? Who should manage them? What name conventions should be use?
Any input from you (or any of your readers) would be welcome. It's an open group.
By the way, I noticed your note about being a WikiTree Supervisor. You've definitely earned that level of trust. This will enable you to edit all the general wiki pages and categories. But ... it won't enable you to merge Open profiles. At least not yet. That possibility is mentioned on http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Privacy but I'm not sure whether we'll do it. After Geni's merging debacle, I'm not sure we will.
Let's keep in touch about it. Maybe we can discuss it on Facebook, or in that Google Group.
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If the Profile Managers for those Acadian ancestors aren't being responsive, let me know.
Hi Chris, thanks for your comments! I got the invite for that Google Group. I'd seen it before, but assumed it was pretty specific to European aristocracy profiles. I'll definitely join the discussion. Name discussions are occasionally an issue with the Acadians too, because of names like "Michel Richard dit Sansoucy", plus lots of different spellings.ReplyDelete
Bummer about the no merging open profiles, though I can understand how that could cause problems.
I was planning on letting you know about one or two unresponsive profile managers. I'd feel bad, though, if that resulted in all their private data being deleted like it says on that page, unless that policy has since changed. There's one in particular who uploaded his GEDCOM a year ago and hasn't made an edit since, so I'd certainly like to take over a few of his profiles.
It's so awesome that you're always so on top of people's concerns! Thank you! :)


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St. Jude Medical Announces Public Offering of Senior Notes
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYS: STJ) today announced that it has priced an offering to sell $900 million of senior notes due 2023 (the "2023 Notes") and $700 million of senior notes due 2043 (the "2043 Notes"). The 2023 Notes will bear interest at 3.25% per year and, unless previously redeemed, will mature on April 15, 2023. The 2043 Notes will bear interest at 4.75% per year and, unless previously redeemed, will mature on April 15, 2043.
The company intends to use the net proceeds to redeem in full its 3.75% senior notes due 2014 of which $700 million aggregate principal amount is outstanding and redeem in full its 4.875% senior notes due 2019 of which $500 million aggregate principal amount is outstanding and for general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment of short-term indebtedness.
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You've heard of 16-megapixel DSLRs—how about a 16.2MP point-and-shoot? That's what Sony just introduced and the WX9 not only takes 4608 x 3456 pixel photos, but Full HD AVCHD videos which is a very unique combination. Let's see if this is finally the "best of both worlds" device we've been searching for.
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A quick glance at the DSC-WX9 with its Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 5x 25-125mm lens won't leave you super impressed. Available in silver, red or black (our review sample), the camera has the classic Altoids tin shape, although it's actually smaller and thinner than the candy carrier. Measuring 3.75 x 2.25 x .78 (WHD, in inches), it weighs 4.9 ounces fully loaded. In other words you can carry this around all day with your smartphone and still not be burdened. As a capture device, it's so much better than an iPhone, iPad or Droid it's ridiculous, but we're getting ahead of ourselves. The camera has a nice matte surface which is fine but there's too much text surrounding the lens and it could lose the "16.2 megapixels" nomenclature. Then again, there's nothing on the surface to let you know how much firepower is inside. Also on the front is the flash and AF Assist/self-timer lamp.
The top has the shutter with surrounding zoom toggle, on/off button and two pinhole mics for stereo sound.
The 3-inch LCD on the back is another strength—it's a 3-inch screen rated an excellent 920K pixels, a spec you'll usually find on much more expensive cameras. It has very good contrast and black levels—you'll like framing and reviewing your images since what you'll see is very realistic. The screen does wipe out in direct sunshine, so this is a bit of a negative, therefore we'll take perfection off the table. Unfortunately, adjusting screen brightness is buried several levels down in the menu system. How we wish manufacturers would make this important process more accessible. Naturally the LCD takes up most of the rear real estate but there are several key controls on the right. There's a main mode switch to move between camera, panorama and movie recording. There's also a red-dot button for quickly taking videos even if you're not in movie mode. Below these two is a very cool circular controller with a center set/OK button. Just turn it and your shooting mode options appear on the right side of the screen so you can quickly pick the one you want.
Options here include Intelligent Auto, Superior Auto, Program, Background Defocus, Scene (14 options) and 3D. This is definitely an aim-and-forget camera, yet there is some panache. Intelligent Auto is like the Smart Auto found on most new digicams where the camera guesses the subject in front of it and makes the appropriate adjustments. We've found this works well in almost all instances and models. The WX9 takes it further with Superior Auto combined with HDR which takes 6 shots of your subject and quickly merges them to help cut down on noise and increase dynamic range. It slows things down a bit but the results are worth it. This is just one plus of the super-speedy CMOS chip; a 10 frames per second burst mode is another when you're in Program. Going beyond the ordinary is the Background Defocus option that blurs the background while leaving your main subject in focus (it combines two frames to achieve this effect). With 3D you can grab stills shot in the MPO format viewable on a 3D HDTV. You can grab single 3D frames and 3D Sweep Panoramas as well when you're in the Panorama mode. And finally you can shoot videos in the AVCHD format at 24 Mbps, better than many full-blown camcorders. Not bad for a $219 camera…
The control wheel not only lets you browse through shooting options but by pressing the four corners you can adjust the flash, self-timer, burst mode and display to adjust how many icons you want to appear on the screen. The camera has grid lines to keep your horizons straight. Also on the back are buttons to access the menu, to delete files and go into playback mode.
On the right is a compartment for a mini HDMI cable, the eyelet for the wrist strap while on the bottom is a tripod mount and Sony's proprietary output adaptor. This multi-connector used to drive us off the deep end as you needed a special Sony cable to watch stills and videos on your HDTV. Now with the mini HDMI out, this is a non-issue, praise be! While you still have to buy a mini HDMI cable, Sony supplies the special cable which also has a USB connector. You'll use this to download stills/videos to your computer and it charges the battery when connected to a PC. It also connects to the AC adaptor since you have to charge the battery in-camera rather than with a separate plug-in charger. This is another of the WX9's negatives since the battery lasts 210 shots–your camera will be out of action as it charges–there goes perfection again. In the battery compartment on the bottom is a combo slot for Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo or SDXC cards. We suggest 8GB high-speed editions as you'll quickly fill your cards, given the AVCHD video, 16.2MP bursts, 3D stills and Sweep Panoramas.


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Over the summer, the French government has published its transposition of the Telecoms Package. The Sarkozy regime has used a controversial manipulation of the legislative process to get the transposition into law without going through the French Parliament. It includes provisions which contradict the French government's stated objective of protecting net neutrality. Moreover, it includes a copyright obligation on ISPs to support France's 3-strikes law.Sarkozy even ignored the government's advisory committee on the digital economy, which explicitly came out against some of the provisions that were added. Of major concern is the fact that the required terminology being forced into ISP contracts, says that ISPs will restrict certain services for those accused of infringement. As the article notes, this could include things like blocking Skype, something that would go against basic net neutrality principles, which the French Parliament has said it supports. So, in yet another effort to put draconian copyright law ahead of all else, it looks like Sarkozy has routed completely around Parliament, slipped some extra rules into a Telecoms Package, and in the process made it clear that France officially has no respect for the principles of net neutrality.


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In what is the latest claim of possible political retaliation by Gov. Chris Christie's administration against an elected official, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop says a number of scheduled meetings with top state officials last July were abruptly cancelled after he informed Christie's team that he would not be endorsing the governor in his 2013 reelection bid.
Emails released Monday and obtained by NJBIZ speak to Fulop's claims, as on the afternoon of July 18 he received an email from his scheduler Nancy Warlikowski informing him that within an hour's time, she had received multiple phone calls from administration officials cancelling their appointments.
The cancelled meetings were all scheduled to take place on July 23 with the exception of a sit-down with the state's Business Action Center on July 29.
Within the next three days, anyone else who had been scheduled to meet Fulop also called to cancel. Among others, Fulop had been set to meet with Economic Development Authority CEO Michele Brown, state treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff and Port Authority deputy director Bill Baroni, who resigned last month amid the brewing George Washington Bridge scandal.
Fulop spokesperson Jennifer Morrill said Monday that Christie's team was informed on or before July 18, the same day of the majority of the cancellations, that the mayor would not be endorsing Christie in his reelection bid and instead supporting state Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Metuchen).
"There never was a conversation between Mayor Fulop and Governor Christie directly," Morrill said. "There were, however, multiple conversations from Fulop allies to Christie allies stating no endorsement would be forthcoming prior to and on July 18."
According to the emails, no explanations for the cancellations were provided to the Fulop administration.
Included in the newly released messages are exchanges Fulop had with ex-Christie deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly and former campaign manager Bill Stepien, both of whom the governor cut ties with last week after documents pointed to their involvement in the bridge scandal.
Stepien, according to the new documents, texted Fulop the morning after the Jersey City mayoral election results were in and congratulated him on the win.
"Needless to say, congratulations on a tremendous job," Stepien wrote to Fulop. "I know the Governor reached out last night to relay his own congratulations. Let me know if we
can help set up any meetings for you in Trenton as you enter transition with relevant commissioners, agency heads, etc."
Several emails then exchanged in June and July between Fulop, Kelly and Warlikowski arranged for the meetings to take place on July 23.
Stepien again texted Fulop on July 12 to acknowledge the volume of meetings that had been scheduled.
"I know the Gov is sending quite a contingent of his Cabinet up to you on the 23rd," Stepien wrote. "Let us know how we can continue to work closely together."
After all of the meetings were then cancelled in the days between July 18 and July 22, Fulop wrote an email to Baroni on Aug. 1 requesting a meeting and then again on Aug. 18 when no response was given.
In the Aug. 18 email to Baroni, Fulop questions whether political motivations led to the cancellation of the meetings.
"As a side note, I am not sure if it is a coincidence that your office cancelled a meeting several weeks back that seemed to be simultaneous to other political conversations elsewhere that were happening," Fulop wrote. "Prior to that you were always very responsive and I sincerely hope the two issues are not related as it wouldn't be in the PA, Jersey City, or the residents of the state's best interest."
In November, Fulop announced his plans to sue the agency for $400 million, citing "economic damages caused by the Port Authority's unfair and outdated tax agreements with the city."
Despite this, the email chain shows brief correspondence in December between Fulop and new deputy executive director Deb Gramiccioni, who replaced Baroni after his resignation, and talk of a meeting between the two resurfaced.
But another email dated Jan. 8 from Warlikowski to Fulop indicates a request for a meeting had fallen upon deaf ears.
In a statement Monday, Fulop said the emails "speak for themselves."
"Our administration has sought to operate in a professional and cooperative manner with the Christie Administration," Fulop said. "Whether cabinet officials meetings, Port Authority lease negotiations or reforming our municipal pension system; it is my hope that State decisions be based on the merits."
In his press conference last week on the bridge scandal, Christie did not give a specific reason for why the meetings were cancelled but added that with most political relationships in New Jersey, there's always some "back and forth."
On Monday, Christie spokesperson Colin Reed said that the governor's office has continued to work with Jersey City officials despite political differences and claimed that Fulop's claims "must be viewed through the lens of partisan politics and his attempt to advance his own personal agenda."
"Fulop's relationship over time with both the Governor and Democrats in the legislature has been inconsistent as he has made clear his future political aspirations," Reed said. "That doesn't change the fact that Governor Christie and everyone in his Administration will continue working on behalf of Jersey City and all its residents."
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Thread: My McDojo's "Point of No Return"
2/17/2005 8:27pm, #1
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My McDojo's "Point of No Return"
This is a long one...bear with me please...my questions are at the end. It'll probably make some of you laugh/cry for me.
Last Tuesday (Feb 8, 2005), two things happened that I somehow believed never would occur...although in retrospect I realise were inevitable.
1) I walked out of a class.
2) I realized that my dojo is beyond repair as a serious school.
My Sensei has recently been very busy with other aspects of his life and hasn't been around as much to teach. Fair enough, I don't begrudge him the need to support his 3 daughters and wife. He seems to do well enough for himself, so kudos to him for that.
Unfortunately, his absence has extensively affected the quality of instruction at the dojo. There is no clear leadership, nobody has real authority, and everyone wants to teach different things in the classes they choose to cover. The Aiki-JuJutsu / JuJutsu class is the only one of the three Arts that has a decent regular teacher anymore. (The other two are KF, which has always been a joke, and Goju Ryu which is excellent when being taught well, but has fallen to the wayside recently.) On this fateful Tuesday, the regular AJJ/JJ teacher was out of town, so my Sensei chose to take the class himself. He's an 8th Dan in his Jitsu art (Shindo-Ryu JuJutsu under the late Shintani-Sensei) and a very nasty grappler when he wants to be. He's getting older (mid 50s) so he doesn't get into the jutsu as often anymore.
I should've known there were problems the minute I walked into the building. He greeted me enthusiastically...in his gi and red-and-white belt (Master's Belt, he usually only wears it for seminars). I've had a rough time the last couple of weeks and I'd come in just to work out and hit bags and work off the steam...and told him as much. "Come into Jujutsu! I'm teaching it tonight, you'll want to learn this!" He knows my preference for grappling, so I agreed to join.
I haven't been in a JJ class there in almost 2 years now...I wore my old Green rank. I noticed a few things:
1) Everyone was either ranked Black, Brown, Yellow or White. Huh?!?!
2) There were WAY too many people in the class to be able to comfortably perform throws or roll very far.
3) There were a LOT of non-gi wearing people...and a few in their KF uniforms (which runs at the same time in the hardwood dojo).
My heart started to sink...he had combined the two classes together and had at least 3 "trial" students (read: potential membership fees) in the room. That explained the Master's belt.
Then the "warm-up" began. I need those quotation marks there, because without them it would suggest I actually at least broke a sweat. The warm-up consisted of the following:
1) Shaking out limbs
2) A series of one-armed push-ups done in groups...each group forming up next to their partners and the entire group trying to lift themselves off the ground. While he was counting this, he was crowing about how the group that gave up first would have to do extra pushups later. He sounded like a beligerent cheerleader rather than a Sensei barking orders.
3) Partnering up and doing 10 pushup over-unders (leap-frog over and then scramble back under through the legs, doing three pushups and then repeating). My partner ended up being some fat, soft, teenage kungfu kid who gassed after 5, whined about my fingers "digging into" his back during the leapfrogs, and asked "Is That 10?" after EVERY CYCLE following his 5th!
Apparently from there we were sufficiently warm to start transition drills for hip-throws. Not just any entry or transition, but the actual reversal of the hip-throw! We weren't to throw, just to the "lift". Alright...I hate hip throw and any other of those "turn your back" type throws...but I was game to try with my noob partner. They showed the technique 3 times. No explanation, no footwork breakdown. "Go until I say stop!" ummm....ok. Except my partner doesn't know how to hip throw (legs were spread so wide you'd think he was Paris Hilton!), doesn't know how to transition (kept kicking my knee as he passed me) and KEPT WHINING AT ME TO "WATCH MY KNEES!" He also kept going "whoa" when I started to lift him and would squirm, but jerked me around and actually accidentally dropped me at one point. I asked why he was even there if he couldn't handle being lifted or the techniques and he said "I don't want to be here, I was forced to be here, I do kung fu." I was at the point I was actually going to THROW him just to prove a point (he'd have probably quit the dojo right then and there...*GRIN*) Unfortunately, I'm not into hurting soft, fat kiddies so I just asked one of the blackbelts to work him into another group for me and moved to the back of the class. I still wasn't sweating, I was now pissed off, it was about half an hour into the class, and we were doing bullshit "basics" with no apparent build-up to a grappling game.
I moved to the back of the class and waited for the next technique.
"Ok, we're going to work from an attempted one-handed lapel grab to break grip and distract/interrupt."
Sure, it's basic, but it does lead to a variety of decent throws/controls...I'm cool with that so far.
"Step to the inside into cat-stance (neko ashi dachi), sweep the arm down, around and out of the way with your outside arm while striking open-palm up under the chin with your right."
I couldn't believe it. He was now placating the Kung Fu students who had been forced to be there! I couldn't handle it anymore, I didn't care if the rest of the class suddenly was the Best Class Ever Taught (which would've been a COMPLETE 180, which wasn't likely). I waited until he instructed people to partner up and practice the technique, moved to the exit, bowed out, and left to go change into my gym duds and work out during my precious little time left.
In the changeroom, one of the seniors came in "to check on me." (I found out later he was TOLD to find me when Sensei realized I wasn't around. I guess he planned to use me as uke for the class. I guess he likes using bigger people in front of new students for the impression it makes.) I was asked what was wrong, if I was hurt, why did I leave class?
"I didn't come here to do an hour and a half of hip throw and cat stances. I'm going to work out."
He silently stared at me for a second, obviously not expecting THAT answer, nodded and left. I went to the weight room to work out.
5 minutes later, Sensei shows up in the gym and tears into me (verbally). Ranted about disrespecting him and how what I did was simply inexcusable. (I conceded that I was in the wrong to simply leave his class without permission. You just don't do that in someone's school, and apologized. It was a tense apology, my blood was boiling over the Bullshido I'd just witnessed, but it was sincere.) Told me he was disappointed in me and walked out. I would've been ok with that except he turned around and told me that if I "pulled **** like that again, [he'll] have me thrown out of the dojo." Probably just words spoken in anger and for effect...but my first reaction was "BY WHO!?!?" That's when I realized the sad truth that there's only a handful of people who could cause me to break a sweat in the dojo, and none of them were stupid enough to obey blindly and touch me on someone else's say-so.
So now I'm faced with a problem. I recognize the absurdity of paying a place where I actively disdain the classes. However, the weights and bagroom are by far the best in the area and my blackbelt status there allows me to train basically whenever I want, so it flexs around my schedule. My MT and the potential grappling gym I'm looking are only open for a few hours during classes and have limited bag availablity/open time. They're basic, ghetto, but hard-training places. I can't afford them all, financially or time-wise.
My membership is up for renewal at the dojo. Blackbelts pay a flat yearly $550 (CAD, approx. $450 USD at current exchange rate) for full access. The other places cost $600-$800, which is definitely wortwhile on their own. I don't have $2000 to spend on memberships.
I'm not asking for people's opinions on what I should do...only I will decide this.
What I AM asking for are stories of when others had their "final straw" moment? What was it like to finally walk away from your first dojo? Was it under good or bad terms? If similar to mine, how did you handle it? Because no matter how much I rationally know that I must leave one day, there's a definite intangible hesitancy to finally close the door on "my first".
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2/17/2005 8:34pm, #2
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if you already have other places to train ... then all you're looking for is a gym with a heavy bag ...
a membership at such should cost around 400 a year ... so leave and save 150$ ...
simple ...totoro-san ... world sushi munching champion ...
2/17/2005 10:31pm, #3
You do not respect your teacher anymore, you should leave.
2/17/2005 11:32pm, #4
If the classes are useless, you can probably get a regular health club membership for less, and do your workouts on your own.Lone Wolf McQuade Final Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmrDe_mYUXg
2/17/2005 11:48pm, #5
The end part is hearsay but here goes.
I trained at a school for 9 years. Now most of it was before the internet so, there was really no way to check. We had full contact sparring once a year and hard contact 4 days a week. We had a 45 minute warm up and the last hour was training techniques and sparring. Well, 7 years went by great. The school grew we had about 100 students. The great part was if someone got hurt sparring my instructor never blinked. The worse we had was 2 broken wrists from people panicking from falling. Well, my instuctor left due to family problems. When the new instructor started teaching sparring became basically point sparring.
Well, we had a hardcore group so as BB we sparred hard against each other. Then the workout shrank. Then the sparring shrank. Then the high ranking members started leaving. Then suddenly special classes were required for passing to the next level. Talking and promoting these classes took up more time. Then a rank that took me just under three years to reach was reduced to as little as 10 months. I moved out of state so I was considered still a member. I have a really good friend who still trains. Went out to visit my parents and good friend. Jumped into class some 3 year BB was running class who couldn't spar at all before I left.
Light contact and these people were whining. People would finish their Belt Rank requirment that night and the instructor would pressure them to test.
That was a wasted monthly fee. Luckily my perspective is weeding my friend out. As I was leaving he told me he was in class one day, listening to the "special class" lecture. Well , the instructor, says all those people who were sparring hard had no control. They thought they were skilled but it was just brawling. I laughed so hard, this is the same guy who broke his shoulder going to hard. That is what made my freind start thinking about quitting. I said who but you and me remember what Old School sparring is like? He said "you and me". Well what was the benefit of bringing that up if not to chastise you? This conversation had happened before I came out for a visit.
2/17/2005 11:58pm, #6
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I remember my "last straw" point with WTF pretty well. But first, the context.
I was a senior in high school. Mind you, our school was pretty decent as far as TKD goes. But as time went on, membership increased so drastically that classes had to be combined. That's right, I eventually had to train with TKD moms and little dragons. In addition, it seemed like people were getting promoted too quickly and fighting at tournaments was being deemphasized.
Anyway, I remember doing a drill that consisted of running to the other side of the dojang and doing a jumping front snap kick as high as possible. That's a metaphor for TKD at its worst right there. Do the highest, coolest, flashiest, yet completely non-functional move possible. I was happier doing roundhouse drills on the bag and calisthenics. I thought to myself, this a fucking bullshit drill. After that, I just showed up for sparring nights and then when my membership expired that was it. The terms were basically indifferent, I'm sure they have enough customers anyway. It was a relief to quit the BS but at the same time I didn't know quite what do next.
2/18/2005 12:06am, #7
Going into college I was leaving my TKD school on good terms. College is where I met the guys I train with personally in MMA, and what got me to sign up at Straight Blast Gym the next summer. The rest is short history.Tough is not how you act, tough is how you train.
2/18/2005 1:17am, #8
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I haven't personally came across a school I didn't like the teacher, in fact all of them had been really good, there were some jiffs I had about the schools I went, but not enough to really want to leave. But due to time constraint, I had to drop alot of classes and focus only on sanshou.
Based on what I have read in this thread, I would recommend leaving the school at the best appropriate time, which would mean finding the next best alternative. I find a home gym is soemtimes the best thing to plug the gaps that might be missing out in your MA scene. Just don't go overboard and start getting stuff off the web to fill up your gym because you think it is innovative, stick to the basics
I go about with a medicine ball, a banana bag, skip rope and a small mat area of about 9 square metres if you can afford the space.
2/18/2005 6:01am, #9
CT, welcome to my world.
In my case, my shift was also prompted by something else, namely an instructor eloping with another instructor's wife. Both instructors happened to be good friends of mine.
I couldn't really face the one that eloped. The other one closed his club. :(
Interesting how the eloper always liked to talk about ethics and martial arts... while he wasn't hitting up on the young female students anyway.
2/18/2005 10:39am, #10
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Your story somewhat reminds me of mine, only worse, because my school sucked more. We didn't have any heavy bags, weight equipment, or really anything in general.
But anyhow, what happened at my school was I stopped doing Karate (kept missing the damn promos for one reason or another and just stopped caring because people I know I could have beaten up were higher then me, pfft). So then I got extremely lucky an amateur boxing club started up very close to the bus station downtown so I started going there. I would go from there straight to Jiu Jitsu, at first it was...alright, but the day I failed to break a sweat (we weren't really doing much) AFTER going there from boxing was the day I lost all faith in it. Luckily my decision to stop going coincided with my payment, so it was all good.
I know what it's like to 'lose' your first school, but I have to say, it is kind of nice to experience new things. Wish you luck, make sure you do what 'you' want to do.


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Old World monkeys are primates and are more closely related to humans and apes than any other living nonhuman primate group. The Smithsonian Institution's Division of Mammals (http://vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/) houses many Old World monkeys in its scientific collections.
This specimen, USNM 241022 (http://collections.mnh.si.edu/search/mammals/?irn=7284095), is a male northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) from Thailand. This individual was collected in 1924 by H. M. Smith near Pak Jong.
This is a CT scan of the cranium of USNM 241022. These three-dimensional scans are made publicly available through the generous support of the Smithsonian 2.0 Fund, provided from the annual gifts of the Smithsonian National Board to the Secretary to use at his discretion (http://smithsonian20.si.edu/fund.html), and the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
The main goal of this joint initiative between the Human Origins Program and the Division of Mammals is to make the NMNH's scientific collections of our closest living nonhuman primate relatives available in 3D for education and research.


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A native Texan, Kristi Coggins comes to ETSU after a highly successful 23 year career coaching at The University of South Carolina from 1994 until her retirement in 2008, and prior to that at Texas Christian University from 1985 to 1994.
Coggins directed the Gamecocks to 10 trips to the post-season as a team, highlighted by eight NCAA Championship appearances and an SEC title in 2002. For her efÂforts, Coggins was honored as the 2002 SEC Coach of the Year.
In addition to the team's success during the Coggins era, three of her players have qualified for the NCAA Championships as individuals.
With a cumulative grade point average of 3.752 for the 2004-05 academic year, Coggins' team was recognized as the inaugural recipient of the National Golf Coaches Association All-Scholar Team G.P.A. Award. They won that same honor the next two years to complete a three-peat.
Coggins has coached 17 individuals over the years who have gone on to professional golfing careers, including Kris Tschetter, Ellie Gibson, Siew Ai Lim, Clarissa Childs, 2004 Dinah Shore Trophy winner Adrienne Gautreaux and 2003 SEC Player of the Year Kristy McPherson.
In total, she has tutored seven All-Americans and 11 different individuals who have garnered 20 All-SEC and All-SouthÂwest Conference honors. Twice named Coach of the Year in the Southeastern Conference and the Southwest Conference, Coggins' 2002 team won the SEC championship, while current LPGA and Solheim Cup member, Kristy McPherson won back-to-back individual titles in 2001 and 2002.
In 2004, Gautreaux was awarded the prestigious Dinah Shore Trophy, presented by the LPGA Foundation. The Trophy honors a female collegiate golfer based on her outstanding achievements in academics, natural leadership style, dedicated community service work and extraordinary golf ability. Gautreaux was also named a CoSIDA first-team Academic All-American in 2004.
Kristy McPherson earned her third All-American honor in 2003 and was named as the 2003 SEC Player of the Year. In 1995, Siew Ai Lim was also named as the SEC's best golfer under Coggins' watchful eye.
Coggins led USC to its highest ranking ever --seventh -- near the end of the 1995 season and a ninth-place finish at the NCAA Championship, marking a school best showing. South Carolina finished in the top five in nine tournaments during Coggins' first year after accomplishing the feat only twice the previous season.
Coming to South Carolina following nine highly-successful seasons at Texas ChrisÂtian, Coggins took over a program which had finished in the lower division of the SouthÂwest Conference in 1985, and proceeded to guide the Lady Frogs to nine consecutive upper-division finishes in the SWC. Coggins led TCU to three runner-up finishes in the Southwest Conference Championships (1988, 1989, 1993), with the squad finishing third or better in all but one season.
Coggins led TCU to five NCAA appearances, with three of her squads advancing to the NCAA finals. Her 1989 team ranked as high as third in the nation at midseason, earning Coggins Southwest Conference Coach of the Year honors. All of Coggins' TCU squads finished the season ranked 26th or better in the nation.


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Do you know the special grounding requirements involved in bonding to steel?
When you think of grounding, you may visualize ground grid conductors, electrodes, interconnections -- all buried in the soil. But, many of the currents these components must carry and dissipate enter the below grade ground system from an above grade structural member. Bonding the ground conductor to the building structure seldom gets adequate planning or execution. And this reduces grounding integrity.
Bonding to steel is one of the toughest types of grounding connections. Two applications typically require bonding to steel: (1) grounding indoor and outdoor structures, reinforcing bars (rebar) in concrete construction, fence and gateposts, steel enclosures, etc. (2) power; signal and power bonds to railroad rails and bonds on crane rails.
You can make connections with mechanical lugs, crimp or compression lugs, or exothermically welded lugs. For good connections, follow these rules:
• Use two-hole lugs, rather than one-hole lugs. If jarred, a one-hole lug may twist and loosen the connection to the steel.
• Always use a tinned lug. Tinned copper lessens the corrosion cell between the copper lug and steel.
• Use the proper hardware -- don't try to second-guess the connector design.
• Properly torque bolts for sufficient clamping without warping.
• Clean and dry the surfaces (lug and steel). Corrosion increases resistance.
• Periodically inspect all mechanical bonds throughout the lifetime of the equipment, system, or facility. Test and maintain to assure continued performance.
Mechanical connections. Mechanical lugs have two bimetallic interfaces. One is between the conductor and the lug: The other is between the lug and the steel surface.
No metallic surface is perfectly smooth. When two surfaces contact, they touch only at the tips of the peaks (asperities). Thus, the actual contact area for current flow is much smaller than the apparent area of contact. This creates contact resistance between the mating surfaces of mechanical connections.
Since grounding conductors are usually copper, and grounding clamps are usually copper alloy or steel, you make a bimetallic couple (copper and steel) when using a clamp. In the presence of moisture, a corrosion cell occurs in which the steel corrodes to protect the copper. No matter how tightly you bolt the connection, the bimetallic interface still exists; and so does the corrosion, which increases the connection's resistance.
Mechanical connections come in two styles:
• The device captures the conductor within the connector and holds the surface of the connector against the structure.
• The device holds the conductor against the structure.
Within these styles are many shapes. Clamps to a round surface, such as a fence post, use a U-bolt around the post.
Exothermically welded connections. The exothermically welded connection eliminates the conductor-to-steel bimetallic interface. A welded connection has no mechanical interface in the electrical path between the two dissimilar metals. Therefore, no bimetallic corrosion can occur in the current path.
Connections to rebar present a special situation, due to deformations on the bars. Unless you grind off the deformations, a mechanical connector will contact the rebar in only a couple of "high" spots. This results in a high-resistance connection. An exothermically welded connection doesn't require you to grind off the deformations.
Surface preparation. Regardless of the type of connection, you must remove all insulating material (paint, grease, etc.) on the steel and any rust or mill scale to ensure a good connection. Exothermically welded connections require extra cleaning on galvanized surfaces. You must remove all heavy layers of galvanizing. On an electro-galvanized surface, you need only to brush to a bright finish.
Putting it all together. While neither the exothermic weld nor the bolted connection is superior to the other for all applications, each has its place. To make either connection work properly, you must have clean wire, clean connectors, and clean surfaces when you make the connection. Plan your connections carefully, and ensure you are routing and supporting the wiring for the least amount of mechanical stress.
Switzer is a Senior Staff Engineer, ERICO, Inc., Solon, Ohio.
Sidebar: Bolted or Exothermic
Both bolted and exothermic connections have their place. For example, you need bolted if you want to facilitate removal or replacement of the bond or steel item. Or maybe you just want to ground a steel equipment cage so it does not build up a charge -- resistance is not critical. In other applications, you need an exothermic weld because maximum grounding system performance is critical -- such as for the lightning protection systemof an air traffic control tower or a substation grounding system.
For many installations, the performance of bolted connections is fine. For others, it's not. The big advantage of the bolted connection is low initial cost. Whether this is low lifetime cost compared to exothermic depends on such factors as maintenance costs, quantity of connections, and how much resistance your system can tolerate in each connection or the connections in aggregate.
When you use exothermic, you buy a mold even if you make only one connection. However, it's a reusable mold, and you recover some of the fixed cost of the mold with each connection. So, you must look at the quantity of each kind of permanent connection you are making before you can do an accurate price comparison. In most installations, you'll probably use some combination of these kinds of connections -- just as you will use both screwdrivers and wrenches in your work.


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Ross Mullooly wants people to turn out Dec. 15 for his run to beat cancer.
Ross Mullooly wants people to turn out Dec. 15 for his run to beat cancer.
Mullooly, a Nicholls State University student, is in his second bout with colorectal cancer and has created a nonprofit called The Ross Mullooly Project to support organizations like the American Cancer Society's Patrick F. Taylor Hope Lodge, which helps cancer patients and their families.
Mullooly's upcoming event is called The Ross Mullooly Project: Outrunning Cancer. To kick it off is a 5k run hosted by the Bayou Runners Association. Registration for the run/walk will begin at 9 a.m. Participants will meet at the Houma Courthouse Square and start the run at 10 a.m.
The cost of the run/walk is $20 per person and $15 for children age 12 and under. All participants who register by Dec. 1 will be guaranteed a shirt.
Following the run, people can participate in a blood drive, silent auction and raffle while enjoying a live performance from Bandit with complimentary food and drinks.
Those who donate blood will also receive a free T-shirt. Ochsner Health System will give $10 to the Hope Lodge for each blood donation.
Raffle tickets will be available for $5, and winners will be announced at 1 p.m. All proceeds will be donated to Hope Lodge, the Children's Miracle Network and other charities.
"I found out my cancer has reoccurred, so I won't be able to go to school again. I just wanted give back to the people that have helped me. The organizations that will benefit from this, they truly help, and they need to be around for years to come," Mullooly said.
Mullooly said if it wasn't for his mother and the community, this event wouldn't be possible.
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Henderson County had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate of North Carolina's 100 counties in July, with a rate of 6.4 percent, according to preliminary data from the N.C. Department of Commerce.
That is 1.2 points lower than a year ago, according to statistics released Wednesday.
The statewide unemployment rate for July was 9.1 percent. Unemployment rates for July decreased in 81 North Carolina counties, including Henderson, where July's rate was 0.2 percent lower than in June.
"We are staying strong," said Marilyn Williams, local office manager for the Henderson County Career Center, formally known as JobLink.
The career center, operating under the N.C. Division of Workforce Solutions, focuses on empowering people with the tools they need to prepare for the workforce.
Locally, people seeking work at the center has dropped off a lot, Williams said. Two years ago, she saw an average of 60 to 80 people a week, and now there are between 25 and 35 jobseekers seeking assistance through the center.
In general, there has been an uptick in job positions in the hospitality industry, as well as manufacturing, Williams said.
She is also observing another trend.
"The pendulum is swinging back to where people with secured work are looking for something better," Williams said. "It is very positive than what it was a couple of years ago."
Henderson County labor force estimates for July show 52,387 people employed and 3,364 unemployed. The previous month there was a slightly higher number of employed at 52,395, and the unemployed tallied at 3,484.
Department of Commerce data also revealed that the Asheville metropolitan area, which includes Hendersonville, recorded the lowest jobless rate among the state's 14 metropolitan areas, at 6.8 percent. Rocky Mount had the highest jobless rate at 13.3 percent.
Polk County dropped from 6.9 percent unemployment in June to 6.5 percent in July. That is also an improvement compared to the 7.8 percent rate in July 2012.
In Transylvania County, unemployment rates for July fell 0.4 points to 8.4 percent from the previous month. That is significantly lower than in July 2012, when the Department of Commerce said the county's unemployment rate was 9.6 percent.
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Henderson County had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate of North Carolina's 100 counties in July, with a rate of 6.4 percent, according to preliminary data from the N.C. Department of Commerce.


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Bjørn Lindeijer (programmer, script writer and graphics artist)
Frode Lindeijer (graphics artist)
Georg Muntingh (map maker, graphics artist and script writer)
A Cave Adventure, made for the Spring 2003 MiniRPG compo. After washing down a river, Frode (the main character) falls down a waterfall but just manages to reach out for a branch that was hanging about halfway down. Incidently, swinging towards the rock side, there happens to be an entrance to a cave behind the wall of water. Frode has the choice between either falling drop dead on the rocks below the waterfall or entering the cave to face the perils within. Naturally, in the spirit of bold exploration, he enters the cave...
Read the readme.txt, especially when you are planning to fiddle with the config file settings.
Graphics: All done within contest, except for the player and a single tile.
Engine: Was nearly finished, has been enhanced in some places.
Scripts: Almost all done within contest, except for generic scripts for handling sequences, animations and conversation windows. The real-time combat was done from scratch within the contest.
Maps/story/dialogue: Thought up and created within the contest.
Bugs: Some fixed after the compo deadline (see below)
29 april, 20:00
While playing the game and getting killed, I noticed I made an error while merging the game-over screen Frode created. That fixed makes for another new download. As this and the previous updates haven't added anything to the game's content but are basically bug fixes, I've updated the main download.
29 april, 11:45
Well after the compo deadline, we found an obstacle bug, a sequence bug and two difficulty bugs. So we've uploaded an updated version.
29 april, 2:30
Today lot's of things got solidified. Things like player control, character animation, startup and gameover screens, etc. Now, the game has been uploaded and preface to the game has been written down. Waiting for judgement. :-)
27 april, 23:45
Well, it was supposed to be only two hours before the deadline now. We were still optimistic about finishing this little game, leaving some of the cool things we had planned alone, but now we might even have time to add some of that stuff. Real-time combat is in, we just need to add the animation frames for the dead monsters. We won't have any levelling though, as the balancing would take too long and the game is too short for it to make much difference anyway. We had to let go our plans for having music and sound. For now, on to the new deadline!
27 april, 0:45
Well, we made it to the end of the day, though we are behind schedule. One map is nearly finished, but no objects have been added yet. We are using few previously drawn graphics (only one tile and the player), but we've got a cave set and two baddies completed now. Meanwhile, the engine is being extended a bit to adjust to new demands. The game is still in the Action genre, as we're planning to have real-time on-map combat. This is still to be implemented though.
Georg just went home, and should be back at 10:00 tomorrow, completion day. :-)
26 april, 11:05
Bjørn: Woke up an hour ago, had some breakfast, waiting for Georg to arrive. Frode has started drawing the first baddy and a skeleton of the mini-story has been thought up. We will be using an enhanced version of the engine we were using last time, for Sauerkraut.


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That was the release of bests flat kite. Best now says that their 7,9 and 12's will be released mid feburary.
3 months.
Hello, thats a season, a quarter of a year, 12 weeks, ~90 days. Best is all talk and no walk.
I wouldnt have wanted to have sold my kites 3 months ago to by a waroo only to wait this fucken long.
wd best.
next time actually have some gear before you talk it up.


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10. After 5 weeks it seems for me anyways I just cant get over the hump. Hanging around .500 for the year is something I not use to. You guys have seen my work on here for years now, by now, I'm already separating and having another successful season. But one thing is true. I'm not gonna get excited, Ive been doing this for a long time and I feel confident in my abilities. If there is one person on this website that will stay focused it's me. One thing I have done much better this year is handle the " haters ". I am not letting them get to me. I do think it's funny that people are so obsessed with me and what I do and say on here that they have to make alias just to try an put me down. But for every " clown " so to speak on here, there are tons of great people. Guys, dont give up on me. The Best is yet to come.
Excellent read as usual Boom
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Another scene of devastation is unfolding in Southeast Asia as residents of the Philippines assess the damage of Super Typhoon Haiyan. The storm, which was equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane, is estimated to have killed at least 10,000 people and destroyed 200,000 homes. As of Nov. 12, however, much of the extent of the devastation still wasn't known, and relief organizers feared the estimated number of fatalities only will grow.
What is known, though, is that in this particularly vulnerable part of the world, Filipinos need help picking up the pieces. The storm, which packed 195-mph winds, hit land with the impact of a tornado just four weeks after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked the central part of the archipelago. The October disaster alone destroyed nearly 9,000 homes and damaged another 26,000.
With emergency supplies already depleted following the earthquake, the biggest need after the typhoon has been for food and water. Though relief agencies like Caritas Internationalis and the U.S. bishops' Catholic Relief Services began mobilizing aid even before the storm struck, the country's already difficult-to-navigate streets were made even more impassable by debris and, horrifyingly, human remains. The obstruction made it difficult for aid workers to get help to the worst areas of devastation. In the hard-hit city of Tacloban, a chapel became a makeshift morgue as the dead were collected off the streets.
Shortly after the typhoon hit, Pope Francis sent his condolences and assurances of prayers via a telegram signed by Archbishop Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state. In it, he expressed "heartfelt solidarity" with the people affected.
"He is especially mindful of those who mourn the loss of their loved ones and of those who have lost their homes," Archbishop Parolin wrote. "In praying for all the people of the Philippines, the Holy Father likewise offers encouragement to the civil authorities and emergency personnel as they assist the victims of this storm. He invokes divine blessings of strength and consolation for the nation."
The pope also encouraged both concrete and prayerful assistance for our suffering brothers and sisters. He, too, sent $150,000 to the Philippines through the Pontifical Council Cor Unum for human and Christian development. The Catholic bishops in the Philippines called for a novena of charity and prayer, and the U.S. bishops, as they convened in Baltimore, discussed their own contribution to the cause.
Our Sunday Visitor wholeheartedly echoes these pleas for prayers and monetary assistance. According to CRS, a donation of just $8 provides a family in need with a water kit. Fifteen dollars equals an emergency shelter kit. And $22 provides supplies for the household, such as blankets, utensils, plastics, sleeping mats and a cooking pot. Other Catholic organizations accepting donations include Cross Catholic Outreach and Catholic Medical Mission Board.
As those of us in the United States prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, we naturally take stock of our many blessings. We gather around the dinner table with family and friends, often taking for granted the roof over our heads, and the clean food and water at our disposal. As we thank God for his goodness, let's especially remember those in the Philippines and elsewhere who are without the basic necessities of life. Let our prayers of thanksgiving join with prayers of supplication for the relief of their suffering, and for their healing and peace.
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