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SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boart Longyear Limited (ASX:BLY) – Boart Longyear's Board of Directors today announced the expected appointment of experienced mining and energy services industry leader, Mr Richard O'Brien, as President and CEO of the Company, effective April 1 2013.
Most recently serving as President and CEO of NYSE-listed Newmont Mining Corporation, one of the world's largest gold producers, Mr O'Brien brings 25 years of operational and financial experience in the natural resources, energy and power sectors to his new role.
Boart Longyear's Board said the appointment followed a comprehensive international search in which a range of strong internal and external candidates were considered. It said Mr O'Brien's background made him ideally suited to lead Boart Longyear at this time.
Mr O'Brien has served as Newmont's CEO for six years as well as its CFO prior to becoming CEO. Newmont Mining operates mines in North and South America, Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Africa. Prior to Newmont Mining, Mr O'Brien's executive roles included Executive Vice President and CFO of U.S. energy services company AGL Resources, and Chief Operating Officer and CFO at PacifiCorp, a western U.S. utilities company. He holds a Bachelor's of Arts in economics from the University of Chicago and a doctor of jurisprudence degree from Lewis and Clark Law School.
Mr O'Brien said, "I am honoured to be joining the Boart Longyear team and look forward to building upon the Company's remarkable heritage and innovative spirit to deliver increased value to Boart Longyear's customers and shareholders."
The Company will announce the terms of Mr O'Brien's employment when they are finalised following the completion of his employment with Newmont in March.
The Company also announced Barbara Jeremiah has been elected Chair of the Board effective March 1 2013. Ms Jeremiah, who has been a Company director since October 2011, assumes the Chair role from David McLemore, who will remain on the Board.
Commenting on Mr O'Brien's appointment, Ms Jeremiah said: "Mr O'Brien is exceptionally well suited to lead Boart Longyear. His experience leading Newmont for the last several years gives him unique insight into the opportunities and challenges facing the mining industry at large and Boart Longyear specifically. Richard's strategic focus, financial expertise and appreciation for the complexities of operating globally will benefit the Company and our shareholders. These attributes will be important in strengthening Boart Longyear's position as the leading drilling services, drilling equipment and performance tooling provider for the global mining industry."
Ms Jeremiah thanked Mr McLemore for his service as Chairman since August 2010 and Interim CEO since October 2012.
"Dave's leadership and dedication to his Board and interim leadership duties have been instrumental in re-focusing the Company's commitment to increasing shareholder value. The Board is grateful for Dave's willingness to step in as our interim CEO at a time of uncertainty in our markets. Dave has made many difficult decisions since October and has provided rapid responses to the changing dynamics in our industry. We thank him for his efforts and welcome his continuing role as a director on the Board," Ms Jeremiah said.
About Boart Longyear
With over 120 years of expertise, Boart Longyear is the world's leading provider of drilling services, drilling equipment, and performance tooling for mining and drilling companies globally. It also has a substantial presence in energy, mine de-watering, oil sands exploration, and production drilling.
Boart Longyear is a global company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney, Australia. Sales in 2012 were over US$2 billion, and the company employs approximately 8,500 employees worldwide. Contract drilling services are conducted in over 40 countries, and drilling products are manufactured in six global factories and sold to our customers in the 100+ countries where they operate.
More information about Boart Longyear can be found on the Internet at www.boartlongyear.com. To get Boart Longyear news direct, visit http://www.boartlongyear.com/rssfeed.


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I Didn't Know How Hungry I Was… Until I Was Being Fed
Then I discovered I was ravenous and wanted even more! I'm talking about the Peer Group Supervision experience I had on Saturday, April 10th, in California hosted by the gracious Dvora in her lovely Calabasas home.
Pull Up A Chair
Imagine having about five other astrologers listen intently while you tell them about a particularly difficult or puzzling reading you had with a client. A reading that left you feeling uneasy, guilty, puzzled, angry, or worst of all, incompetent and out of your depth. A couple of the astrologers ask you clarifying questions and then you sit back and listen to what each astrologer has to say about your experience. Braced for criticism, what you hear instead is encouragement, empathy, advice, confirmation, laughter. With each word, you feel a place inside you fill up that you didn't even KNOW was empty, and your whole body relaxes.
Then it's another astrologer's turn to tell about their uncomfortable client experience, and you have the deep pleasure of listening and giving back. The group leader, (Bob Mulligan in this case, who kept us all laughing and eager to learn more), keeps everyone on course, asks questions, makes comments, starts off the meeting with his own story, and guides the group to make sure everyone has a chance to share.
How Was I Fed?
First of all, I felt seen, heard, understood and...relieved. The suggestions I received were confirmation of many of my own thoughts, and a situation that had been bugging me for over a year was resolved. I even got a little "script" I could use with the particular client I had shared about. Furthermore, I was able to see what mistakes I had made with another client that I didn't even talk about. I felt more clear on what I did that WASN'T effective, what I did that WAS effective and had direction on what to do in the future, all of which boosted my confidence.
Finally, being able to give feedback to another astrologer was satisfying in itself, because I got a chance to use my own experience and expertise to be supportive, which brings up the point that it's a lot easier to see another person's issues than it is to see my own. Having other astrologers to talk to when I'm too close to something is invaluable.
Not Quite Enough
As practicing astrologers, we all know that doing readings, consultations, or sessions (pick the word you like), means connecting with the client in order to be helpful and effective, without the client or yourself being harmed in any way. Sometimes though, things don't go as well as planned and we really wish we had someone to compare perceptions with and to get some objectivity. Maybe it's not confined to one particular consultation with a client, but the relationship itself feels off. It could be you unintentionally crossed a boundary (the dual-relationship is an especially easy mistake to make), and are now having problems because of it, or maybe you feel manipulated by a client, and are not sure if it's just your imagination or how to handle it if you are being manipulated. Sometimes, in fact, being an astrologer and talking to clients about their lives, can feel pretty risky when we don't know for sure how to navigate the pitfalls. Clients often think we are god-like, or "psychic" and take anything we say very seriously (even if you ARE psychic, the client's expectation of what that means can be very different than the reality of it).
A Little Indigestion
I've had the uneasy experience of having a client tell me I said something to them that I don't even remember saying. It's even more disturbing to hear that what I don't remember having said, they've remembered and thought about for YEARS! Yikes. My point being, with this kind of responsibility, we can really use some support, and with little guidance available to us in the field, it's easy to make mistakes, to second-guess yourself constantly or get too stressed out to be effective. Though you may be solitary and fiercely independent by nature, having community that you can share your often lonely professional challenges with, is a deep blessing. The great thing is, the TYPE of astrology you practice matters not one whit, so there is no competing and comparing.
Table Manners
The format is simple:
- Talk only about readings that have already taken place, thereby preventing the meeting from becoming about getting free readings or free astrological instruction. We can help each other this way if we want to, of course, just not in this setting.
- You have to have at least a basic understanding of astrology and to be actively giving readings or counsel to people based on astrology charts.
- There needs to be a leader who has been OPA certified to keep the meeting on course, ask the right questions, and to make sure that everyone gets a chance to share.
- Everything about clients is strictly confidential, no names are spoken and the client names on the charts are blacked out. We even go so far as to not share a chart about someone who is a public figure that can be recognized by their chart. This part of the meeting is not ever recorded.
- The feedback we give each other is positive and helpful in nature. No attacking or belittling allowed. Suggestions and advice can be offered, but not forced on anyone.
- The group stays small, from 5 to 8 people, and it can be an open group or a closed group that opens up to new people once a year.
If you've ever been involved in a group process before such a Mastermind Group, Toastmasters, any of the 12-Step programs, or group therapy, you know how magically effective they can be. The group spirit takes over and every member grows faster and goes farther than they ever could on their own. With the Peer Group Supervision experience, a large portion of the pleasue is that you get to speak astro-babble as much as you want to and everyone gets it!
Is It To Your Taste?
If you're wondering if you and your practice could benefit from the Peer Group Supervision experience, don't take my word for it, try it out for yourself. You don't have to go back for seconds if you don't like it. But I believe that, like it did for me, it will fill you up as it whets your appetite for more. For more details on how it works and why this kind of model, go to Bob Mulligan's article about Peer Group Work.


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Asset Management: General References
Asset Management (Comptroller's Handbook, December 2000)
Bank Supervision Process Handbook (Appendix C: Uniform Interagency Trust Rating System)
Legislative References
Fiduciary Activities of National Banks (12 CFR 9)
Fiduciary Activities of National Banks: Rules of Practice and Procedure (Federal Register, Vol. 61, No. 251, December 1996)
Transfer Agent Activities (17 CFR 240)
Trust Powers (12 USC 92a)
Authority of a National Bank Trust Company to Sponsor a Closed-end Fund and Investment in Fund Shares under 12 CFR 1.3(h)(2) (IL 1047, December 2005)
Authority to Hedge Investment Advisory Fees (IL 1037, August 2005)
Creation of a Trust to Hold Investments (IL 1031, January 1995)
Federal Trust Powers of a National Bank (IL 973, August 2003)
Fiduciary Activities in Other States (IL 1106, October 2008)
Fiduciary Activities in the State of North Carolina (IL 1103, September 2008)
Fiduciary Activities of National Banks, Questions and Answers (OCC)
Fiduciary Powers in Missouri (IL 1080, April 2007)
Indenture Trustee Pre-emption Issue (IL 1016, January 2005)
Insurance Subsidiaries & Risk Management Services (IL 967, June 2003)
Interest on NOW Accounts in Pennsylvania (IL 1017, January 2005)
International Payment Systems Risk (BC 235, May 1989)
Multistate Fiduciary Activities (IL 995, July 2004)
Supervision of National Trust Banks: Revised Guidance, Capital and Liquidity (OCC 2007-21, June 2007)
OCC Supervision of Operating Subsidiaries (IL 971, January 2003)
Waiver of Beneficial Owner Reporting under 12 CFR 12 (IL 1011, October 2004)


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text: Steph has played well. The Detroit loss was a loss to a better team. Steph played toe to toe with his counter part, Billups. Steph wasbeing more agressive but got no calls all game. The thrid quater was bad but look at the lineup. Frye, Butler, and Crawford were great. They really gettin done. Ariza still is behimd in his game. He plays great D but is O is questionale. But no doubt he brongs it. I was Lee would play cuz I think he's better than Ariza. Nate has his games, but better then much before. I just dont like when Steph improves he his due credit is very mum. When he does bad it is beaten to a pulp. Q is a liability, Rose cant take a jump shot, Lee can. Davis is only ggod use for direction, like when he plays with the young guns. This team is getting there. Game by Game.


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Clarkson University Selects Two Winners for Young Entrepreneurs and Innovators Competition
Clarkson University's Reh Center for Entrepreneurship and Shipley Center for Innovation have named two more Young Entrepreneurs and Innovators Program winners.
Through a unique business plan competition, which concluded earlier this month, five finalists presented their existing business plans and commercialization opportunities to a panel of experts. Two were invited to negotiate terms to exchange equity in their company for tuition at Clarkson.
The University is breaking new ground through the program to make higher education accessible to enterprising students, while also giving them a great return value.
Hanna Hladkikh, a Clarkson junior innovation and entrepreneurship major from Adams Center, N.Y., was named the winner of the Young Entrepreneurs Award.
Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School student Paul B. Hyman of Port Washington, N.Y., was named the winner of the Young Innovators Award.
Both students have been offered the opportunity to attend Clarkson without payment of tuition (Hladkikh, for the remainder of her undergraduate career), through a combination of merit-based financial aid and a purchase by Clarkson of 10 percent equity in their firm at fair market value.
The winners will receive specialized guidance and support from faculty and alumni mentors. They will also keep their businesses going in Clarkson business incubator office space, while pursuing their undergraduate degrees.
"This competition is aligned perfectly with the educational mission of Clarkson, which has a long-standing tradition of creating entrepreneurially minded business leaders who understand how to develop a successful business, harness innovative technologies and build opportunities for commercialization in the marketplace," says Clarkson President Tony Collins.
Prior to the competition, aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators submitted applications that included a completed business plan, a 90-second video and a brief description of their business. During the competition, the five finalists had 15 minutes to pitch their idea and 15 minutes of questions from the panel.
Hladkikh won the Young Entrepreneurs Award for her business idea Feels Like Home Inc., a Web-based company that will provide the international community living in the U.S. access to their favorite international products while living in small communities like Potsdam.
"Today, many students come to the U.S. to study for a few years, or even a semester, and many of them would like to expand their shopping choices in rural areas, which often have only a small international presence," says Hladkikh. "Feels Like Home will supply the value and comfort that will enable them to have products they appreciate and value while they are away from home."
"Hanna Hladkikh is perfect for the Young Entrepreneurs program," says Marc Compeau, director of the Reh Center for Entrepreneurship. "Hanna's energy and passion for her venture will keep us busy, which is exactly what we are looking for. Her international perspective will add to the experience for everyone involved as well."
Feels Like Home will begin selling online in May through http://www.feelslikehome.biz .
Paul Hyman was named the winner of the Young Innovators Award for Safety Technology Solutions, his company that designs innovative and creative technologies for emergency responders and improves home appliance safety. He will begin as a freshman at Clarkson in the fall.
"Safety Technology Solutions is dedicated to the utilization of innovative and creative technologies at not only the lowest possible cost, but also the highest standard of quality to ensure the safety of emergency responders and the victims of any incident, as well as to guarantee the utmost efficiency in action during any aided scenario," says Hyman.
Hyman currently has two products and several sub-products designed, including a fully integrated thermal enhanced-infrared (FITE-IR) self-contained breathing apparatus and dryer fire prevention system.
"Paul Hyman represents the definition of a Young Innovator at Clarkson and we are excited to name him as the first recipient of this award," says Matt Draper, deputy director of the Shipley Center for Innovation. "Innovation is about identifying a problem, creating the solution, and implementing that solution in the market. Paul identified a problem near and dear to his heart and invented a complete solution that we look forward to helping him commercialize."
The Young Entrepreneurs Award Program was established in September 2010. The innovative program was featured in Money Magazine's September 2011 issue as a strategy for paying for college.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The Tennessee Titans have a dangerous tight end in Jared Cook, but they're not taking advantage of him.
Cook played in just 25 of the team's 59 offensive snaps (42 percent) in Sunday's 19-13 overtime loss to the Colts, and he has played in fewer than 50 percent of the snaps in four of the first eight games this season.
It's a curious decision by coaches, considering Cook presents a difficult matchup for opposing defenses because of his size and athleticism. And when Cook is thrown the football, he catches it.
Still, Cook is third on the team in receptions at the halfway point, with 28 catches for 373 yards and two touchdowns. His 13.3-yard average per catch is second on the team, trailing only receiver Nate Washington.
Titans quarterback Matt Hasselbeck missed a wide open Cook as he ran down the middle of the field in the closing minutes of regulation in the team's loss to the Colts. It's a throw and catch that might've won the game. and it only brought more attention to a player who has been underutilized this season, on a team that has been looking for an offensive spark in several games this season.
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BSU Catalog Home | Theatre and Communication Arts Course Descriptions
(formerly Theatre and Speech Communication)
Department of Theatre and Communication Arts
College of Arts and Letters
Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex 218-755-3935
Dr. Carol Richards (Interim Chair; firstname.lastname@example.com), Mr. David Griffith, Dr. Kay Robinson
The importance of theatre in the cultural history of both the East and the West cannot be disputed. The theatre curriculum at Bemidji State University is designed to provide a broad general base of theatre knowledge within the context of a sense of how global cultures affect the ways in which people think, feel, and act. Theatre majors prepare for professional internships, entry-level work in the theatre profession, and/or graduate study.
Earning a degree in theatre at Bemidji State University offers far more than preparation for the work world, however. Because of the collaborative nature of theatre and because of the small size of the Theatre program at Bemidji State, students who study and work in Theatre here have multiple opportunities to work in all areas of theatre. Theatre production work is an important component of the Theatre major, providing the student numerous chances to connect theory with practice.
All Bemidji State University students are welcome to audition for and work on BSU's theatrical productions. They need not major or minor in theatre.
Understanding the nature of oral communication and acquiring the skills to be an effective oral communicator in a variety of situations is essential in the contemporary world. The Department of Theatre and Communication Arts is firmly committed to offering a number of communication courses (most of which are designated as Liberal Education options) to help students achieve oral communication skills. Particular focus is placed on public speaking, interpersonal communication, listening, and small group discussion.
Majors in the Department of Theatre and Communication Arts are urged to pursue at least one year of foreign language study.
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Tributes paid to 21 year-old girl killed as she cycled along Fenland road
PUBLISHED: 14:13 29 April 2014
Tributes have been paid to Lisa Wilson who died on Sunday night after being hit by a car.
Ms Wilson, 21, of Station Road, Warboys, was cycling along Ramsey Road, from Whittlesey to Pondersbridge, at about 8.30pm when she was in a crash with a Vauxhall Astra.
Paramedics from the East Anglian Air Ambulance and the East of England Ambulance Service treated Ms Wilson at the scene before taking her to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
A 17-year-old, also from Warboys, was cycling with her and suffered slight injuries.
Bernadette Vose said on Twitter: "Sleep tight Lisa Wilson, life is so unfair at times; my thoughts will always be with you."
Olivia Morgan also tweeted: "Taken far too young, RIP Lisa Wilson."
The driver, a 68-year-old woman from Yaxley, was not injured.
Police would like to speak to anyone who saw the cyclists or the car prior to the collision.
INFORMATION: Anyone with information should call PC Pete Bimson in the roads policing unit on 101.


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Raspberry tea by far. It's one of the few teas I can start drinking hot and if I forget about it and it gets cold it's still good. XD Lemon tea is the same way. As for green tea I use to drink those gallon Arizona ones in a day. But I dislike it warm.
What's green tea chai like? I've had chai and I hated it (make me think of pumpkin pie stuck in a blender) but my friend got me a box of the green tea type.
I have never had green tea chai. Where can I get it?
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tension tamer rocks!!! it just helps me when i get loaded with h.w and im up all night....either that or caffeine... lol
tension tamer rocks!!! it just helps me when i get loaded with h.w and im up all night....either that or caffeine... lol
um say what?
oops, sorry, h.w is homework
wht is tension tamer?
I just bought a new flavor a few days ago. . . Raspberry Green tea! It's so yummy! :mrgreen:
thanx sugarbear =]
My fav is Chai Vanilla and Spice. I also love Plantation Mint tea. It has garden mint in it, and it is soothing.
I love Peach Tea, I get it from Sonic's everytime I go by there
Chai tea is awesome with milk and honey! And Sonic's peach & raspberry tea is great! :mrgreen:
I love just about all the drinks from sonic except for the Oceanwater .blah.
I drink a ton of diet green tea in the summer time, we travel a lot with work and it keeps us going!
I bought a new flavor of tea tonight: Honey Chammomille Green Tea (decaff), and it is so yummy! :mrgreen:
I love iced tea, here in KY, it's so sweet it will knock you down! I guess it's a (semi) southern thing.
my favorite is anything with berry flavor
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I really actually dont like tea, but I got this import Chai tea from india or japan or some close exotic country, and it was AMAZING it was pure tea mixed with cream and natural herbs and it was all home-made/grown. It was a vanilla-ey taste with cinnamon and ooooh im watering jsut thinking bout it! Has anyone tried that???
i love white tea its made befor normal tea on he production line, it feels like your drinking silk. mmm gonna make one now, hold on..
Love...Love...Love Tea!!!
Herbal tea for me...
I just check out Lipton variety pack for herbal tea and i am so in love with their peppermint tea and ginger tea..
wow, gloria geans is HUGE in Aust, there everywhere, i only know of 1 starbucks and it's hardly ever busy, its not even in town, its at the b each..
There is a Starbucks on every corner here. And they all stayed REALLY busy...
As hot as it is in AUS, do you drink a lot of coffee or hot tea?


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Lost Finale Theories from Someone Who Has Never Seen Lost
So, it seems like we are the only website on the Internet today not covering the highly anticipated series finale of Lost. This is because your two weekend editors have never seen the show. But we still have some theories!
Yes, here are 9 theories about the upcoming Lost finale from someone who has never seen even a single episode of the show:
1) The island is an alien spaceship, but on the alien's world all islands double as spaceships so it's essentially just an island.
2) Doc Jensen gets the Man In Black under a bright light and it turns out he's actually the Man In Deep Purple.
3) The question of whether Locke is the Man in Black will be answered once and for all after viewers send a self-addressed envelope and four UPCs from any Kelloggs' products to the address flashed on the screen after the finale.
4) The Man in Black's name is literally "Themaninblack." (it's Norwegian.)
5) Right before the closing credits, Hurley reveals he was holding his breath the entire episode. Then Locke reveals he did the same thing in season 3, episode 4.
6) Every single character is gay except the Smoke Monster, who is bicurious.
7) The candidates were chosen based on a timed essay they completed three minutes before the series started: Write no more than three pages on why you want to be a candidate.
8) The HD episodes of Lost weren't actually in HD. They were Standard Definition but just stretched out to fit an HD TV.
9) One of the commercials is going to be for Old Spice.


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Breeding Facilities
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Any way you look at it, building a barn is a major undertaking. Doing it right the first time, to avoid headaches later, is the smart approach. In addition to the usual considerations of location, aesthetics, cost, and convenience, if you're building a facility to house breeding stock (broodmares, foals, yearlings, and/or stallions), there are other factors to take into account. Are all your fixtures as safe as possible, especially in terms of the unpredictability of young horses? Are your stalls of sufficient size to house mares with foals at foot? Are you able to disinfect your foaling facilities properly, or isolate a sick horse from the rest of the herd? Can you safely handle your stallion, and provide him with an opportunity for turn-out and exercise? Do you have the proper facilities for the type of breeding you wish to do? These are just a few of the many considerations you'll have to take into account.
Safety and hygiene are of heightened importance on a stud farm, where opportunities for the spread of infectious disease, and for accidental injury to horses and personnel, are everywhere. Young horses are volatile creatures; so are stallions. And while a gravid broodmare normally might be a placid creature, she needs plenty of room to maneuver.
Because horses frequently are shipped in and out of breeding facilities, the chance of viral or bacterial disease being introduced from an infected arrival is a constant threat. Respiratory viruses can be disastrous to foals, and equine herpes virus (also known as rhinopneumonitis or "rhino") can move through a broodmare band in an "abortion storm" with devastating results. All of these factors have to be taken into account when you are designing a farm for breeding stock.
A Segregated Community
While smaller breeding operations might, by necessity, all be housed within one structure, most larger farms find that the ideal setup is one where broodmares, yearlings, and stallions are housed in separate barns. This allows for the setup of paddocks for each group (barren, maiden, and pregnant broodmares in one group, mares with foals in another, yearling fillies and colts separated, and stallions turned out individually) as well as limiting the spread of disease. If one horse in a given setup becomes sick, it is likely that all the other horses in that barn have been exposed--but that barn can be quarantined from the rest of the farm, so it doesn't put the entire operation at risk.
The chance of disease being spread also can be minimized by keeping each barn small (for instance, two six-stall broodmare barns rather than one 12-stall setup), each outfitted with its own equipment, and sometimes, each barn with its own staff. Some larger breeding farms, for example, have one broodmare barn for "visiting" mares which come to be bred, then ship out again, and another for the farm's own band, which is managed separately. The building of a separate quarantine barn, removed from the other horses on the property, is another option.
Even when horses are vaccinated religiously for equine herpes virus (EHV1), meticulous attention must be paid to management and housing. The virus can be acquired through direct contact, from the air (although it has a limited range), or indirectly through the use of items that have been in contact with an infected horse (buckets and brushes, for example). Other viruses of particular concern to breeding farms include rotavirus, which can cause severe foal diarrhea (scours), and Rhodococcus equi, which can cause life-threatening pneumonia in foals.
When mares and stallions come together, there also is the risk of sexually transmitted disease, such as equine viral arteritis (EVA). Just as in humans, the symptoms of these diseases might or might not be obvious--so painstaking attention to hygiene is crucial for mares and stallions. Not only should both be washed thoroughly before coming in contact with each other, but the wash facility should be built so it easily can be disinfected and scrubbed.
Other basic hygiene details include avoiding the use of moldy feed, bedding, or hay, keeping feed storage facilities clean, and avoiding a "deep litter" system of bedding. Straw generally is considered the best bedding for a foaling mare, because it is non-abrasive. Shavings can become drawn into the vagina during the foaling process. But otherwise, shavings, shredded newspaper (if printed with vegetable inks only), or peat moss might be better bedding choices for a breeding operation, as straw usually has a high dust and mold quotient. Ensuring adequate ventilation in the barn is another way to help cut down on airborne pathogens, not to mention discouraging the molding of bedding and feed materials. Beware the heavily insulated barn with condensation droplets on the ceiling, for such a structure is a prime breeding ground for respiratory problems among its tenants.
Management of horses always is simpler when basic behavioral needs are satisfied. Lots of turn-out provides both exercise and socialization for broodmares and youngsters, as well as minimizing the barn chores. Depending on the climate in your part of the world, your broodmare band might be able to live outside for a good part of the year, coming in only when close to foaling. Yearlings also can live outdoors in segregated herds (fillies with fillies, colts with colts), provided there is adequate shelter for rough weather. Two- to 2 1/2-acres per horse is considered adequate grazing space in most circumstances. The fencing should be maintained carefully in order to offer enclosures that are as safe as possible (most farms consider oak board, high-tensile PVC, or small square or diamond-mesh fencing the best choices for breeding stock). If your horses are stabled much of the time, try to construct your stalls so that some visual and physical contact between horses is possible--open bars at the tops of stalls at least allow horses to see and smell each other, and Dutch doors (or those that have an open window at the top) can go a long way toward preventing horses from developing neurotic vices when indoors.
It almost goes without saying that your animals' grazing instincts should be satisfied by providing adequate forage (pasture or hay), and that your barn should have enough windows and artificial light that it doesn't resemble a dungeon.
Details, Details
John Blackburn, a Washington, D.C., architect whose company has designed breeding facilities from Kentucky to Texas, says that most farms consider 12 feet by 12 feet a standard size for a box stall suitable for a yearling or an "open" mare, although many Thoroughbred farms err on the side of generosity with 14 by 14 stalls. Mares with foals might need more room, however, particularly if the foal is going to stay with his dam six months or so; some builders recommend 14 by 16 feet or even 16 by 16.
If breeding your mares early in the year is a consideration, you might have to resort to artificial methods to induce estrus. Photoperiod (number of hours of exposure to daylight) is the primary factor governing ovulation in mares, so when sunlight is scarce, breeders can "fool" the mare's system into responding by rigging up extra lights in the barn. Standard light bulbs or fluorescent tubes in each stall will do the job. Extending the "daylight" to 14-16 hours per day in late November and December usually will prompt a mare to ovulate in January. Or you can expose her to 2.5 hours of extra light after sundown, or one hour of exposure nine to 10 hours after sundown (easily done with plug-in timers)--any of these strategies will work. As with anything electrical in a barn, make sure that cords and wires are well out of horses' reach.
Foaling stalls can be either specially constructed, or converted by removing a wooden partition between two regular stalls. In either case, a foaling stall should be located toward the center of the barn, near the office or a place where the foaling mare can be observed unobtrusively by the farm staff. Hygiene is of paramount concern in a foaling stall, so it should be constructed of materials that make it easy to clean and disinfect. Walls made of raw wood or concrete block are porous and notoriously hard to clean; but wood treated with wood filler (to fill in knots) and two to three coats of varnish is a good approach, as is concrete block painted with three coats of enamel paint. Floors can be coarse asphalt or limed clay, and thickly bedded. Foals born in the early winter months are susceptible to hypothermia, so concrete floors, which are cold and unyielding, should be avoided. (Many farms install quartz-halogen radiant heat lamps in the ceiling of their foaling stalls; if you do so, make sure the wiring is well out of reach of horses.)
A note on disinfectants: pine oil, while it smells nice, is not an effective germicide. Look, instead, for phenolic compounds such as Lysol or Tek-Trol. The active ingredients on the label should have a -phenol or -phenate suffix. Use according to the manufacturer's directions, scrubbing down the foaling stall before and after each foaling. (For further information on disinfection see Getting The Germs Out in The Horse of November 1997)
Stallions, Too, Have Special Housing Needs
"The stallion stalls we design are often 16 by 16 feet," says Blackburn. "A stallion is usually a bigger animal, as well as a little more rambunctious, so he needs a little more room to move around."
In addition, most stallions get limited turn-out, usually on their own in a paddock isolated from the sight of mares or other stallions. If a stallion stall must be constructed in a mixed-housing situation, Blackburn recommends placing it at one end of the barn, somewhat isolated, in order to keep stress levels (for both horses and humans) to a minimum.
The type of breeding you are doing will dictate the other amenities your facility will need. Farms breeding by live cover usually construct some sort of breeding shed, either as a separate building or attached to one end of the stallion barn. (On a small farm, the breeding "shed" is often just a designated corner of a riding arena.)
"Breeding sheds are different on every farm," says Blackburn, "because farm managers each have their own preferences."
Two essentials, however, are adequate room for the handlers of the mare and stallion to work safely around the animals, and some sort of non-slip footing, which can range from shavings to rubber mats to synthetic bricks.
If your horses are bred by artificial insemination, some sort of "phantom" mare will be required for the stallion to mount. These can range from elaborate, custom-made designs with adjustable angles and heights, to "homemade" models created with a couple of logs or a 50-gallon drum and a wrap-around mattress or padding. In addition, it's valuable to build a padded barrier behind which an in-season mare can stand. Her scent will help incite the stallion to be collected. (Such a barrier also can be used as a teasing board to detect estrus in mares.)
Although they are rare on Thorough-bred farms, many Standardbred operations have found it useful to install a set of breeding stocks on the property. Stocks are made of padded steel pipe and are designed to hold a mare relatively immobile for palpation or insemination. They can be particularly valuable when a handler or veterinarian must work alone, since they make it very difficult for a mare to kick. The pipe must be set in concrete, but non-slip footing (usually a rubber matting) within the stocks is a good idea.
Any farm that is dealing with cooled or frozen semen will want to build a lab immediately accessible to the breeding shed. The setup within can be as basic or elaborate as your needs and budget will allow, but cleanliness is crucial--something that is sometimes difficult to control in a barn situation! Consider a set of double doors, almost an "airlock," to help keep the normal dusts of a barn environment from invading delicate equipment.
Blackburn notes that many larger farms consider their stallion barns the showcase of the property.
"In terms of the layout of the barn and the fittings, the stallion barn is where the money, and the thought and energy tend to go," he says.
A broodmare barn, while perhaps not as elegant, must be carefully designed, as well. Inconveniences and forgotten details can often be difficult to correct after the fact, but a well-planned, thoughtful, and functional layout will be a pleasure to work in for years to come.
About the Author
Karen Briggs
Karen Briggs is the author of six books, including the recently updated Understanding Equine Nutrition as well as Understanding The Pony, both published by Eclipse Press. She's written a few thousand articles on subjects ranging from guttural pouch infections to how to compost your manure. She is also a Canadian certified riding coach, an equine nutritionist, and works in media relations for the harness racing industry. She lives with her band of off-the-track Thoroughbreds on a farm near Guelph, Ontario, and dabbles in eventing.
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Adrian Gonzalez an All-Star to local kids
Padres first baseman is sure to give back in two nations
Adrian Gonzalez does good deeds on both sides of the border.
The San Diego Padres first baseman, who has roots in both the United States and Mexico, has quickly become as active off the field as he has in becoming the Padres' top offensive and defensive player.
While most of his charitable work is based on the San Diego side of the border, the Adrian and Betsy Gonzalez Foundation helps needy kids in Tijuana as well.
It's a unique situation for Gonzalez, who has blossomed as a star in his hometown after being acquired by the Padres in a big deal in January 2006.
Gonzalez, though, is happy simply to be able to lend a hand.
"Just being able to help in general," he said. "It doesn't matter where you help, just being able to help the kids that really need it."
Gonzo's various charitable pursuits raise money to help underprivileged children in the areas of sports, education and health.
"They're our future," said Gonzalez, who last year was selected to his first All-Star Game and won his first Gold Glove Award. "I want to see them grow up with a chance to live up to their potential."
He established the Adrian and Betsy Gonzalez Foundation last year. It is affiliated with the San Diego Foundation.
He holds a dinner, a bowling event and a golf tournament to raise money for groups such as the Boys and Girls Clubs, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the YMCA and other organizations.
Gonzalez also supports the baseball program at his alma mater, Eastlake High in suburban Chula Vista. He and older brother Edgar, an infielder with the Padres, held a baseball clinic at PETCO Park in December, and a portion of the proceeds were donated to San Diego-area youth baseball leagues.
As an ambassador for the San Diego Chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, he greets children suffering from life-threatening illnesses once a month during the season at Petco Park. He's a celebrity spokesman for Big Brothers and Big Sisters and did a public service announcement in both English and Spanish.
The Gonzalez brothers were born in San Diego, although the family lived in Tijuana at the time. They moved north of the border in 1990. All the while, the Gonzalez boys watched the Padres and idolized Tony Gwynn.
They headed off to Florida after the 2000 MLB First-Year Player Draft. Adrian was the No. 1 pick overall by the Marlins out of Eastlake High. Edgar, who had played at San Diego State, was taken the next day in the 30th round by Tampa Bay.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text: Tucker Hardy, Belleville, Penna., was honored November 5, 2011 as the winner of the National Jersey Youth Production Contest with Sniders Future Fenola. The contest drew 88 entries from 52 Jersey youth across the United States. Rankings are made in two divisions. Division I includes first lactation records, provided the cow calved for the first time before 30 months of age. All other records are ranked in Division II. The cow with the highest dollar value is then declared the contest winner. Cash awards and certificates were presented to the top 10 juniors in each division at the Junior Banquet held in conjunction with The All American Jersey Shows & Sales in Louisville, Ky. With an MCP value of $5,962.53, "Fenola" was the Division II winner. She produced 28,500 lbs. milk, 1,671 lbs. fat and 1,055 lbs. protein in a 290-day lactation beginning at 7 years, 8 months of age, for an m.e. of 30,143-1,808-1,111. "Fenola" is scored Excellent-94% and was the 2008 Junior All American Aged Cow. Lawtons Dawson Elizabeth, owned by Nathan Lawton, Newark Valley, N.Y., topped Division I with a dollar value of $5,081.83 and an m.e. of 29,263-1,445-974. Actual production was 21,880 lbs. milk, 1,103 lbs. fat and 724 lbs. protein, calving at 1 year, 10 months of age. For complete story including all rankings and link to picture, see http://www.usjersey.com/News/11_NR_NJYProductionContest.doc 12.12.2011


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Yes, they call it Arsha or Ardha-Magadhi.pulga wrote:Pali does seem to be quite close to the Jain Prakrit of the Acaranga Sutta. Do the Jains believe that Mahavira, the Buddha's contemporary, spoke Magadhi as well?
The first extant inscription in a language very similar to Pali has been made by a Jain:
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A known scholar of Pali, Wilhelm Geiger wrote in the introduction to his book
"Pali Literature and Language":
"A consensus of opinion regarding the home of the dialect on which Pali is based has therefore not been achieved. Windish therefore falls back on the old tradition - and I am also inclined to do the same - according to which Pali should be regarded as a form of Magadhi, the language in which Buddha himself had preached. This language of Buddha was however surely no purely popular dialect, but a language of the higher and cultured classes which had been brought into being already in pre-Buddhistic times through the needs of intercommunication in India. Such a lingua franca naturally contained elements of all dialects, but was surely free from the most obtrusive dialectical characteristics. It was surely not altogether homogeneous. A man from Magadha country must have spoken it in one way, and a man from the districts of Kosala and Avanti in another, just as in Germany the high German of a cultured person from Wurttemberg, Saxony or Hamburg shows in each case peculiar characteristic features. Now, as Buddha, although he was no Magadhan himself, displayed his activities mainly in Magadha and the neighbouring countries, the Magadhi dialect might have imprinted on his language its own characteristic stamp. This language could have therefore been called Magadhi even if it avoided the grossest dialectical peculiarities of this language. As Windish has rightly pointed out, after the death of the master, a new artificial language must have been evolved out of the language of the Buddha. Attempts were made to retain the teachings of the Buddha in authentic form, and to impose this form also upon those portions which, although derived from the monastic from the monastic organizations in various provinces, were gradually incorporated in the canon. In connection with the designation of the canonical language as Magadhi, Windish also refers to Aar.sa, the language of the Jaina-suttas. It is called Ardha-Magadhi, i.e. "half-Magadhi". Now it is surely significant that the Ardha-Magadhi differs from Magadhi proper on similar points as Pali. For Ardha-Magadhi too does not change the r into l, and in the noun inflexion it shows the ending -o instead of Magadhic -e at least in many metrical pieces. On the other hand, as I believe to have myself observed, there are many remarkable analogies precisely between Aar.sa and Pali in vocabulary and morphology. Pali therefore might be regarded as a kind of Ardha-Magadhi. I am unable to endorse the view, which has apparently gained much currency at present, that the Pali canon is translated from some other dialect (according to Luders, from old Ardha-Magadhi). The peculiarities of its language may be fully explained on the hypothesis of (a) a gradual development and integration of various elements from different parts of India, (b) a long oral tradition extending over several centuries, and (c) the fact that the texts were written down in a different country.
I consider it wiser not to hastily reject the tradition altogether but rather to understand it to mean that Pali was indeed no pure Magadhi, but was yet a form of the popular speech which was based on Magadhi and which was used bu Buddha himself. it would appear therefore that the Pali canon represents an effort to reflect the Buddhavacanam in its original form. This theory would have been refuted if it could be proved that the Pali canon must have been translated from some other dialect. Sylvain Levi has tried to prove this. He points out a number of termini such as ekodi, sa.mghaadisesa, etc., in which a sonant appears in the place of a surd. From these data he infers the existence of a pre-canonical language in which the softening of intervocalic surds was the rule. I do not consider Levi's arguments to be convincing. Firstly, because all these etymologies given by Levi are uncertain. Secondly, because the softening of the surds takes place not only in the "termini" but also in a large number of other words. Moreover, in my opinion, no special case should be made out of this phonological phenomenon. For they merely represent one of the various dialectical peculiarities which are also met with in Pali. Thus, for instance, we find equally frequent cases of the opposite process (hardening of a sonant) as well as various other features which considered together prove the mixed character of tha Pali language.
If Pali is the form of Magadhi used by the Buddha, then the Pali canon would have to be regarded as the most authentic form of the Buddhavacanam, even though the teachings of the master might have been preached and learnt from the very beginning in the various provinces of India in the respective local dialects. The conclusion has been drawn -- wrongly, in my opinion, -- from Culavagga V.33.1 = Vin II.139. Here it is related, how two Bhikkhus complained to the master that the members of the order were of various origins, and that they distorted the words of Buddha by their own dialect (sakaaya niruttiyaa). They therefore proposed that the words of Buddha should be translated into Sanskrit verses (chandaso). Buddha however refused to grant the request and added: anujaanaami bhikkhave sakaaya niruttiyaa buddhavacanam pariyaapu.nitum. Rhys-Davids and Oldenberg translate this passage by 'I allow you, oh brethren, to learn the words of the Buddha each in his own dialect.' This interpretation however is not in harmony with that of Buddhaghosa, according to whom it has to be translated by "I ordain the words of Buddha to be learnt in _his_ own language (i.e.Magadhi, the language used by Buddha himself)." After repeated examination of this passage I have come to the conclusion that we have to stick to the explanation given by Buddhaghosa. Neither the two monks or the Buddha himself could have thought of preaching in different cases in different dialects. Here the question is merely whether the words of Buddha migth be translated into Sanskrit or not. This is however clearly forbidden by the Master, at first negatively and then positively by the injunction beginning with 'anujaanaami'. The real meaning of this injunction is, as is also best in consonance with Indian spirit, that there can be no other form of the words of Buddha than in which the Master himself had preached. Thus even in the life-time of Buddha people were concerned about the way in which the teaching might be handed down as accurately as possible, both in form and in content. How much more must have been the anxiety of the disciples after his death! The external form was however Magadhi, thought according to tradition it is Pali."
Professor Rhys Davids in the introduction to his Pali-English Dictionary says:
"the Pali of the canonical books is based on that standard Kosala vernacular as spoken in the 6th and 7th century BC..... That vernacular was the mother tongue of the Buddha".
Even K.R. Norman admits that:
"is is not impossible that there existed in India in the third century B.C. an unattested dialect of Middle Indo-Aryan that had all the features of Pali"
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Optimizing PCIe SSD performance
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Server-side solid state drive (SSD) deployment in the enterprise market is growing by 55% per year and is expected to reach nearly 10 million units annually over the next several years according to Gartner Research. In applications such as transactional processing, data search, and data mining, the higher performance of SSDs offers tangible, real-world benefits. The cost of NAND flash has been moving steadily downward, and the number of companies servicing this market has been increasing. Because of this, differentiation on value (rather than price) is becoming more difficult, but value is the primary mechanism for storage solution providers to win and sustain their business.
Server and storage systems vendors can add value to what they provide to their customers in the form of performance, scalability, and reliability via their software and hardware architecture. In order for these complex systems to function at their peak, however, two of the largest contributors to these added valuesthe SSD controller and interconnectneed to be matched and tuned. At the most fundamental level, component vendors need to share a common vision of how a system should be designed and deployed. One of the most important decisions is the interconnect used to get the data from storage to host. PCI Express (PCIe) is rapidly becoming a key interconnect in enterprise SSD storage, and is expected to account for more than one-third of the server SSD market by 2015, according to Gartner.
Lets look at why PCIe-based SSD storage systems (see figure 1) are being deployed, and why it is important for interconnect and flash controller suppliers to work together to achieve the best results.
One key factor governing system performance is latency. A common misperception is that data and storage are the same; they are quite different. The only data that is actually being processed by an application at any given time is the active dataset in host memory. All other data is just storage, whether the medium is an SSD or a hard disk drive (HDD). With modern servers possessing powerful multi-core CPUs and including plentiful DRAM, a common bottleneck is the latency of moving data from the persistent storage device to system memory (see figure 2). When the processor has to wait to get the data it needs, cycles are wasted and cannot be recovered.
SSDs enable 100 times lower latencies compared to electromechanical hard drives when the data is transferred from the storage medium to host memorytypically in the tens of microseconds compared to many milliseconds for disk drives. This substantially reduced latency in the storage medium needs to be matched with an appropriate interconnect, and PCIe, which offers latency on the order of 150 ns per switch hop, emerges as the optimal pathway. The latency advantage for PCIe is even greater in that there is a direct connection from the host to PCIe. If the SSD controller vendor works with the switch provider by putting a direct PCIe connection onto the controller, then not only is any other interconnect mechanism rendered unnecessary, but such alternatives require additional bridges that increase latency and reduce efficiency.


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By By Ernie Stephens | December 1, 2011
|This Howard County (Md.) Police helicopter is typical of many Bell 407s equipped for police work. Under its belly are a nose-mounted video/forward-looking infrared camera system, a digital downlink antenna mounted amidships, and an aft-mounted searchlight. Photos by Ernie Stephens
Next to helicopters that are used for air medical operations, no other non-military rotorcraft feature as much special mission equipment as law enforcement helicopters do. What began with an officer hanging out the door of a Bell 47 with a pair of binoculars and a hand-held radio in the 1960s has now become a high-tech man-and-machine system with an impressive array of equipment. From forward-looking infrared to radios capable of communicating on thousands of frequencies, the choices of what to equip a helicopter with are nearly endless.
Rotor & Wing checked in with several law enforcement outfits to see what they were flying, and how their ships were equipped. The below agencies were representative of the average city, county, state and federal departments that provide services to diverse communities across the U.S.
Of course, larger police departments with bigger budgets have more equipment, but the size of the fleet and the quality of the equipment load-out were also driven by the crime rate in that jurisdiction. (It's just a fact of life that the fewer the problems, the lower the priority to fund police operations in general, and airborne assets in particular.) Add those factors to fluctuating financial resources, public interest, and the ever-changing political climate, and any inspection of a department's helicopter fleet will be, at best, only a here-and-now snapshot.
With that said, the following is a quick look at seven police helicopter operations, and their airborne law enforcement assets.
With one Bell 407 in the hangar and two Bell 429s due for delivery by January 2012, the Fairfax County Police in Northern Virginia cover an area of 407 square miles just west of Washington, D.C., plus provide medevac services to critically injured citizens. The crew's new aircraft will be equipped as follows:
• Police Radios: Technisonic TDFM 7000 and TFM 550
• Forward-Looking Infrared: L3 Wescam MX10
• Searchlight: Trakkabeam M800
• Moving Map: Aerocomputers
• Night Vision Goggles: ITT 4949 Pinnacles
Operating one MD520N and one MD500E, the Honolulu Police work a variety of patrol missions in a geographic environment that includes everything from ocean shoreline to lush, green mountains. With just five aviators, the Helicopter Section finds the following equipment a reasonable fit for their purposes:
• Police Radios: Ericsson Digital Trunking
• Forward-Looking Infrared: FLIR 7000
• Searchlight: Spectrolab SX-16
• Moving Map: Aerocomputers
• Night Vision Goggles: ITT 4949 Pinnacles
According to the popular travel ads, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." But while it's happening, the Las Vegas Metro Police will be keeping an eye on it from one of its airborne assets, which consists of a Bell 407, two Bell HH 1H Hueys, and four MD Helicopter MD500Fs. The unit's mission equipment includes:
• Police Radios: Harris Open Sky
• Forward-Looking Infrared: Stark Aerospace POP300
• Searchlight: Spectrolab SX-16
• Moving Map: MetaMap
• Night Vision Goggles: ITT Pinnacles
|Today's modern police helicopter has an impressive array of equipment. The large color monitor on the left side of this Texas Department of Public Safety Eurocopter AS350B3 can display images from its L-3 Wescam video camera (shown) and forward-looking infrared, or its Aerocomputers moving map system.
With three Eurocopter AS355N Twin Stars and one EC135 flying out of three bases around the region, the Massachusetts State Police is the only police agency in the U.S. that routinely patrols in twin-engine helicopters. Their crews use the following mix of technology:
• Police Radios: Technisonic TDFM 7300
• Forward-Looking Infrared: one Star Sapphire and one Star Sapphire HD
• Searchlight: Spectrolab SX-16
• Moving Map: Aerocomputers
Serving the undisputed home of American country music, the Metro Nashville Police patrol 528 square miles of city and waterways aboard two MD Helicopter MD500Es, four Bell OH-58s and one McDonnell-Douglas OH-6. The fleet is equipped with the following gear:
• Police Radios: Technisonic 648
• Forward-Looking Infrared: FLIR 8500
• Searchlight: Spectrolab SX-5
• Moving Map: Avalex
Texas Department of Public Safety
With the second largest state in the U.S. to serve, it comes as no surprise that the Texas DPS has 15 bases located across more than 268,000 square miles of both densely populated and urban territory. The fleet consists of 14 Eurocopter AS350s, one EC135 and six Bell 206Bs. The most common equipment load-out is as follows:
• Police Radios: Technisonic TDFM 6000, TDFM 7000, and Motorola XTS 5000
• Forward-Looking Infrared: L-3 Wescam DS and TS series
• Searchlight: Spectrolab XS-16 (some with in-flight change-over NVG filters)
• Moving Map: Aerocomputers
• Night Vision Goggles: ITT 4949 Pinnacles
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Phils to lead clean energy movement
Club purchases 20 million kilowatt hours of renewable energy
By Andy Jasner / Special to MLB.com
In order to offset the carbon footprint created by the club's utility power usage at Citizens Bank Park, the Phillies announced on Wednesday afternoon that they have purchased 20 million kilowatt hours of Green-e Energy Certified Renewable Certificates (RECs). According to the Environmental Protection Agency, this is the largest single purchase of 100 percent renewable energy in professional sports and is equivalent to the planting of 100,000 trees.
The Phillies are the first Major League Baseball team to join the EPA's Green Power Partnership program, which is a voluntary program encouraging organizations to buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with purchased electricity use. The EPA pointed out that the Phillies are now the third-largest Green Power Partner in Philadelphia and the seventh-largest Green Power Partner in Pennsylvania.
This initiative was announced jointly by Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter., Phillies president David Montgomery, John McHale, Jr., executive vice president, administration & chief information officer for MLB, Don Welsh, regional administrator for the EPA and Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist for the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
"This is such an important initiative and will benefit everyone involved," Rendell said. "It's so vital to preserve our environment and make it stronger. Think about all the ketchup and mustard packets, for instance, that people use and throw away into the containers every night. We're going to replace those packets with dispensers. With 81 home games and all the food consumed, that will save so much. I think the Phillies are a shining example of how to step up and take the lead here."
Additionally, this initiative also reinforces MLB's "Team Greening Program" and its commitment to support and coordinate the many environmentally sensitive practices at each ballclub, created in partnership with the NRDC.
"It's a huge announcement, very huge," said Hershkowitz. "The Phillies' commitment we hope will set a major example for all people in Philadelphia to follow what they've done here. There are so many threats connected with global warming that the average person may not fully realize. By the Phillies doing what they did [Wednesday], it's a huge step in the right direction."
McHale echoed similar thoughts.
"It is a huge announcement," McHale said. "It's a great thing the Phillies are doing and I wouldn't be surprised at all to see some of the other clubs follow similar steps."
Some of the steps involved in the initiative include:
The recycling of frying oil to be used as bio-diesel fuel; recycling glass, plastic and cardboard generated from game day preparation and sales; recycling of cardboard, paper, fluorescent lamps, plastic, aluminum and glass bottles; utilizing environmental-friendly cleaning products as well as a bio-enzyme which eats grease trapped in kitchen drain pipes; and re-using rain run-off water for landscaping and field irrigation.
The Phillies will continue to build fan awareness by having the players wear green caps for Wednesday night's game against the Padres.
"The green caps look good, don't they?" Rendell said. "I like them."
One hundred fans arriving at the ballpark were scheduled to receive Red Goes Green cards, a one-year credit to secure clean renewable energy for their home consumption, compliments of the Phillies and WindStreet Energy. Fans are invited to go to www.phillies.com/redgoesgreen for tips on how to make the environment a better place. Green tips will also be posted on the scoreboard during each game at the ballpark.
"The impact this will have is monumental," Hershkowitz said. "This is just the start of an initiative which will be so positive for so many people. It's needed, which makes it even better."
Montgomery wouldn't divulge a dollar figure associated with the initiative, but he called it "significant."
"It is a significant number, but we don't exactly know what it is," Montgomery said. "We're not sure how much it's going to run. When you're in, you're in. We decided it's the right approach to take. We're excited to join MLB in bringing the awareness to fans about the environment and how to be more conscious about it.
"This is only the beginning, and we hope we can continue to find ways to raise awareness and help in any way we can to make the environment more friendly, especially for fans who come to the ballpark. We take a lot of pride with a project of this magnitude."
Andy Jasner is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Arkansas Tech men's basketball team picked up its first win under head coach Mark Downey this past weekend during the Hillmyer-Tremont Tipoff Classic in Fort Myers, Fla.
But Downey said Saturday's 81-71 win over Palm Beach Atlantic had less to do with getting the first win of his career and more to do with getting the first win of the season.
"It wasn't really about me," he said. "It was more important for our guys to get that under their belts. ... Guys weren't confident, they didn't know how to win, so it was good for them to get that."
The Wonder Boys (1-3) finished the three-day event 1-2, including a 69-58 loss to Puerto Rico-Bayamon on Friday, during which Downey's squad committed 39 turnovers.
Tech closed the tournament with an 86-80 loss to host team Florida Gulf Coast on Sunday. The Wonder Boys trailed 41-20 at halftime but exploded for 60 points in the second half and made a game of it.
Downey saw Saturday's win and Sunday's second half as signs his players are starting to buy what the new coach is selling.
"We talk about playing hard and pushing the ball, trying to get quick, but good, shots," he said. "If we could have just made one or two more plays, that game [Sunday] could have come down to the last possession.
"There's a buzz that the guys finally get the system, they get what we're trying to do. We're not overly talented, and we're not huge. But we can shoot the ball, and we're quick. As long as the effort is there, I think we can be very successful playing that way."
Downey said his team appeared hesitant during the opener against Puerto Rico-Bayamon, which featured the long-awaited debut of junior point guard Terrance Whiters.
Whiters, a transfer, sat out Tech's two exhibition games and a season-opening loss at Southwestern Oklahoma State because of NCAA Division II's 2-year nonparticipation rule.
He was expected to make an immediate impact, and he did. But he was also a little rusty, Downey said, having not played in two years.
"He got two quick fouls and had to sit down for a while," Downey said. "He scored four or six points, and everybody's like 'Here we go,' and then he has to sit down."
As a result, Tech's offense never really got into a rhythm, Downey said.
"[Whiters] hasn't played in two years," he said. "We figured he would probably have a game like that at some point. We just didn't respond as a team."
Still, the Wonder Boys were in the game well into the second half. They tied the contest 44-44 with 12:33 to play but went scoreless over the next 5 minutes, allowing Puerto Rico-Bayamon to pull away.
"We still had a chance to win," Downey said. "It was unfortunate. We probably should have won."
The coach said it was good for the team to get right back on the court a day later.
"We watched the film, figured it out and went right back at it the next day," he said.
Downey said the Wonder Boys were sparked Saturday by former Danville standout Josh Danner, a freshman walk-on whose work ethic allowed him to crack the starting lineup for Tech's final two games of the Classic.
Downey said Danner's teammates fed off the youngster's hustle.
"He's not the most talented guy, but he's got a lot of heart," Downey said. "He plays hard and gets us going. He gave us a lift [Saturday]. Everybody picked up on it and started playing extremely hard. It was contagious."
Downey said the trip to Florida helped his players come together, which should serve them well as they delve into next week's stretch of four games in eight days.
The Wonder Boys will play at Northeastern (Okla.) State on Saturday before their home opener Monday against North Alabama. They'll host Central Baptist on Tuesday and travel to Jonesboro four days later to face Arkansas State on Dec. 9.
"We've got four games we need to go get," Downey said. "Big, big week."


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Grandpa likes it. It's cheap. Safe place to take the cousins from Indiana.
I agree- the prices aren't real high. The steaks are all right- but the sides are so basic and in desperate need of updating.
The atmosphere is good and for old movie fans, there's enough memorabilia on the walls to enjoy.
What I do like about El Corral- it's what I consider to be a Safe For Grandma restaurant. We have older out of town guests and the meat/potato/veg/roll routine reduces mealtime anxiety ("Is it SPICY? Because I forgot my Prilosec!").


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Roenicke won't rush Segura back
By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers are prepared for the possibility that All-Star shortstop Jean Segura has played the final game of a fine season.
Segura was out of the lineup as expected on Thursday, sidelined by a right hamstring strain he suffered while scoring from second base the night before. The strain is mild, but with only 10 games in 10 days left on the schedule after Thursday, time is running short.
"He's day to day. He's sore today," manager Ron Roenicke said. "And I say day to day, but that doesn't mean tomorrow. … We're not going to be dumb about this. I'd like to get him back out there, but not at the risk of putting him out there too early."
If Segura is able to play again, it might be during the team's final series against the Mets in New York.
Or, he could report for duty on Friday feeling great, Roenicke said.
Segura's injury could cost him a chance to be the first Brewer to lead the National League in stolen bases since Scott Podsednik in 2004. Segura has 44 steals this season, five more than the Mets' Eric Young Jr. entering Thursday. Carlos Gomez was fourth on that list with 36 steals.
Segura is batting .296 with 12 home runs and 49 RBIs, though he's hit just .245 with one home run since representing the Brewers in the All-Star Game.
"He should [be happy] with the bases, the defense," Roenicke said. "The only thing is, he is going to get better driving in runs. I'm not satisfied, he's not satisfied with where he is on that. If you're strictly a leadoff batter, it's different, because your opportunities are less, but he was second in the lineup this year and he's had some opportunities."
Jeff Bianchi played shortstop in place of Segura on Thursday. Yuniesky Betancourt is also an option while Segura is down.
Hart willing to take pay cut to stay with Crew
MILWAUKEE -- Free-agent-to-be Corey Hart made clear Thursday that he wants to re-sign with the Brewers and would take a significant pay cut to make that happen. He expressed optimism that the only franchise he's known will take a chance on a player coming off double knee surgery.
"I've told them I would be very generous to stay here," Hart said. "I wouldn't sit there and ask for anything that is outlandish. I would take a discount to stay here, because I think I owe it to them to stay here and be a cheaper player, because -- nobody wants to play for free -- but I've basically sat there and watched all season. I think I owe it to them and the fans to come back. That's kind of what we're hoping for, but at the same time, you don't know what's going to happen."
He added: "If it's up to me, I would stay here. I think we're leaving it up to them -- if it's something they want."
Hart's health remains the most significant question mark. He averaged 29 home runs and 83 RBIs per season from 2010-12, but missed all of 2013 after undergoing surgery on his right knee in January and surgery on his left knee in July for an issue that developed during rehab.
He has a follow-up appointment next week in Los Angeles with Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the Dodgers physician who performed Hart's second surgery, during which Hart expects to get clearance to begin running. He is aiming to be back in baseball shape in November, before December's Winter Meetings, so he can send video of his workouts to teams or try out for clubs interested in seeing him perform in person.
Doctors have told Hart, who will turn 32 before Opening Day, that he will make a full recovery and could play 5-6 more years if he chooses.
Hart's strong preference is to re-sign with the Brewers, who drafted him as a first baseman in the 11th round in 2000. He subsequently moved to third base, then to right field, becoming a Brewers mainstay midway through the 2006 season and making National League All-Star teams in 2008 and '10.
In 2012, Hart moved back to first base to help the Brewers overcome injury issues, and he hit 30 home runs. He earned $10 million in 2013 and was supposed to be the everyday first baseman before his knee issues arose.
"We've not really had any discussions, but I've told them numerous times that obviously I'll be healthy and I'd like to stay a Brewer and help this team out," Hart said. "They have a lot of good young players, but this team needs a veteran presence, and I'd like to be one of those guys. I've told them, and I think they want me. I just don't know where that's at. They've hinted, but it's early, and coming out of knee surgery, I'm sure they want to see me run first before they actually talk to me."
First base appears wide open for the Brewers. They traded for Juan Francisco in June and he flashed promising power, but entered Thursday in a brutal slump (seven hits in his last 56 at-bats, with 29 strikeouts). Mat Gamel is enduring a second straight season lost to ACL surgery. Budgetary restrictions could hamper a run at a free agent like Mike Napoli or Justin Morneau.
Hart dropped by Miller Park this week to visit teammates. He conceded that if the Brewers go in a different direction at first base, this could be his final visit to the home clubhouse.
"At the same time, I'm pretty optimistic I'll be back," Hart said. "That's what we're hoping for. If I'm not, I'll see these guys again, but at the same time, I'm kind of going forward as [if] I'll be healthy and I'll be back."
Last call
• The Brewers on Thursday claimed right-hander Josh Ravin off waivers from the Reds. To make room for Ravin, they designated catcher/first baseman Blake Lalli for assignment. Ravin, a fifth-round Draft pick of the Reds in 2006, had an ERA over 5.00 in each of the past three seasons, but he is a hard thrower in the Joe Nathan mold who touches triple digits at times. The Brewers view him as a change-of-scenery candidate, and have had success with more "advanced" pitchers in recent seasons (John Axford, Jim Henderson ). Ravin -- pronounced like the black bird -- will be 26 in January.
• Outfielder Khris Davis was available to pinch-hit on Thursday, but did not start because of lingering weakness in his left wrist, according to Roenicke.
"I told him I want him to play when he feels right," Roenicke said. "We saw a few swings yesterday -- he gets fatigued at the end of games."
• The Brewers are exploring ways to limit the effect of shadow and glare at Miller Park, and four different window tints were installed in test areas before this homestand. One of the samples is effective during day games, but too reflective at night and could create a new problem. None of the samples are ideal, according to Roenicke.
• Hart identified one positive to an otherwise dismal year.
"I've never really missed extended time before, [so] I really got to sit back and see how blessed I am," Hart said. "A lot of players don't get to see that until they're done. They don't get to be with their family because they're always busy. I got to have a summer with my kids. I'm rehabbing every day, but I'm done early enough that I get to do things I would have never been able to do.
"It's been up and down, because I love being able to spend time and do things I don't normally get to do. At the same time, I miss the competitiveness."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:23 pm
Post subject: Testing Leaf Shutter Speeds
I came up with my own shutter speed tester that measures what counts; to me, that is. Shutters are supposed to let light through them for a given amount of time. Leaf shutters inside lenses have a transit time between their closed and full-open positions. For a given shutter speed, I think a lens with a smaller f/stop will have a longer "open" time than what a larger f/stop has. So I wanted a method to show the actual amount of light that gets through the shutter during its cycle time. Here's what I came up with.
Most electric motors turn at about 1750 rpm. They'll make one turn in about 1/30th second. If you put a black round thing (pulley?) on it with a white spot at its edge then take a picture of it spinning, that spot will make a circular blur on the image plane while the shutter's open. Each end will have light fall off as the shutter opens and closes. To see exactly what your motor turns that pulley in 1/60th of a second, use a decent digital camera to take a picture of it. Here's what my pulley looks like; a reflective white square's at the edge spinning at about 1750 rpm using a digital SLR's speedlight:
Here's the pulley picture taken at 1/60th second with the same camera; note the grey blur starting at the top then ending about 162 degrees clockwise:
The spot's arc should have been about 175 degrees at 1750 rpm. As the arc's only about 162 degrees, that translates to about 1890 rpm.
This is how I calibrated the motor speed using a very accurate 1/60th shutter. Comparing a test picture using the shutter under test to this one will show how accurate it is. A drill press spindle spinning at a lower speed will work for shutter speeds below 1/60 second. Plans are to get a really flat black paint (or something else) so there's better contrast between the white spot and the pulley.
I'm working on the setup to test my Graflex 1000 shutter. Plans are to use the DSLR to photograph the Super Speed Graphic's ground glass in a dark environment showing the bright-light illuminated reflector making traces. Grade school math can be used to determint acutal shutter speed by how many degrees rotation the spot has.
Comments, suggestions are welcomed.
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:28 pm
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bartbob wrote:
Most electric motors turn at about 1750 rpm.
Seems to me that one cannot make such an assumption without knowing the voltage and motor characteristics (size, windings, etc.). The best source would be a manufacturer's label on the motor: "X" r.p.m. @ "Y" volts [AC or DC, as applicable].
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:37 pm
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Henry wrote:
Seems to me that one cannot make such an assumption without knowing the voltage and motor characteristics (size, windings, etc.). The best source would be a manufacturer's label on the motor: "X" r.p.m. @ "Y" volts [AC or DC, as applicable.
I agree; name plate on this old motor says "1750" rpm, 110 VAC." Voltage at the plug used was 119.1 (+/- .1 or so) VAC on a digital meter when tested. 119.1 is about the same percentage higher from 110 VAC as 1890 rpm's is from 1750.
I'm reasonably sure Nikon's electronic shutter in their D40 DSLR's are accurate to very few percentage points. 'Tis easy to figure out to the same accuracy how fast that pully's turning by seeing how many degrees of arc that white blur has. Most photo editing software allows 1 degree or finer rotations of digital images. I'll do the same tests with my D700 to see if there's any difference.
Editing this response later. Seems I forgot something that may be crucial to the issue.
If Nikon's shutter electronics in their D40 is exact double/half from a given full stop setting starting from 1 second, setting the shutter to 1/60th would be 1/64 second. At 1750 rpm, that dot will travel about 164 degrees. Which now convinces me that my reasoning was a bit flawed before. It's probably the same thing as f/stops where only f/2, f/4, f/8.... and doubles thereafter are exact. Apertures of f/4.5, f/5.6, f/11, f/22.... are not exact, but just easy things to remember for settings inbetween the exact ones.
There's easily a 2 degree error in my measuring techniques for that arc of grey shown in the picture. It's a fluke that the difference I thought was caused by an outlet voltage to spec'd on the motor would cause the same error.
My reasoning's got a lot of scar tissue on it. It's been flawed many times over the years. What's another one or two...........
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:02 pm
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hey all
I know that some people have used old LP turntable to test shutter speeds
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:23 pm
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At 33-1/3 rpm, a phonograph tt's degrees of rotation would barely be detectable at higher shutter speeds, although perhaps meaningful at slow speeds. Do the math: 33-1/3 revolutions per minute = .555 revolutions per second (33-1/3 ÷ 60), or say 200 degrees of rotation (.555 x 360 degrees = 199.8 ), easy enough to measure visually. But at 1/100 sec., the platter would move through only 2 degrees of rotation (200 ÷ 100). That's why you really need a *rapidly* rotating disc of known speed, as bartbob's posts indicate. (NB: check my math reasoning, since I am not an engineer or mathematician; as a musician I usually had to count only to four
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:30 pm
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Henry wrote:
(NB: check my math reasoning, since I am not an engineer or mathematician; as a musician I usually had to count only to four
I almost pursued a musical career after high school, I thought I could count to four. But as things worked out, I didn't make it as a musician. I ended up working on computers 'cause I could only count to 2.
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:04 pm
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If we are looking for an accurate repeatable motor speed a synchronous motor such as used in the older electric clocks (those with a dial & hands) had speeds that were either 3600 rpm or even fractions of that speed. One that turned at either 3600 RPM (1 full rotation in 1/60 sec) or 1800 RPM (180 degrees in 1/60 sec.) would be useful with this method of testing faster shutter speeds. BTW a synchronous motor's speed is governed by the AC frequency not the voltage supplied. My statement applies only to those motors designed for and run on 60Hz AC current!
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:01 am
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C. Henry wrote:
BTW a synchronous motor's speed is governed by the AC frequency not the voltage supplied. My statement applies only to those motors designed for and run on 60Hz AC current!
Right. I think the old one I've got had a rheostat controlling the voltage level to it for speed. It's label says nothing about being synchronous.
And yes, a faster rpm would be best for the faster shutter speeds. I'm planning on using my drill press spindle with that pulley on it. It'll go up to 3000 rpm.
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:03 am
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There's a dandy website for Telechron clocks:
Highly recommended! See especially the Helpboard; there are some very knowledgeable folks who can address just about any topic having to do with electric clocks, and Telechrons in particular.
My 1H1308 Telechron Commercial wall clock is watching over me as I type this.
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:32 pm
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The turntable Idea seems to be the best way to test Iris shutter speeds, especially if you can find an older turn table that runs at 33-1/3, 45, & 78 rpm. In order to Make seeing the timing mark easier paint a radius line on the turntable mat. When doing the tests make sure that the lighting is diffused enough to avoid hot spots, and photograph the turntable in black and white.
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