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Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 1076642
Metadata Summary
Problem Reports
Data Access Policy
Narrative Documents
Project Information
Data Activity or Cruise Information
Fixed Station Information
BODC Quality Flags
SeaDataNet Quality Flags
Metadata Summary
Data Description
Data Identifiers
Time Co-ordinates(UT)
Spatial Co-ordinates
Problem Reports
No Problem Report Found in the Database
Data Access Policy
Open Data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: "Contains data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council."
Narrative Documents
Seapoint Turbidity Meter
The Seapoint Turbidity Meter detects light scattered by particles suspended in water, generating an output voltage proportional to turbidity or suspended solids. Range is selected by two digital lines which can be hard wired or microprocessor controlled, thereby choosing the appropriate range and resolution for measurement of extremely clean to very turbid waters. The offset voltage is within 1 mV of zero and requires no adjustment across gains. The optical design confines the sensing volume to within 5 cm of the sensor allowing near-bottom measurements and minimizing errant reflections in restricted spaces.
Sensor specifications, current at August 2006, are given in the table below.
Sensor Specifications
|Power requirements
|7 - 20 VDC, 3.5 mA avg., 6 mA pk.
|Output Time Constant
|0.1 sec.
|RMS Noise>
|< 1 mV
|Power-up transient period
|< 1 sec.
|Light Source Wavelength
|880 nm
|Sensing Distance (from windows)
|< 5 cm (approx.)
|< 2% deviation 0 - 750 FTU
|Sensitivity (mV FTU-1)
|Range (FTU)
** output is non-linear above 750 FTU.
Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.
Cefas SmartBuoy data processing
This document outlines the procedures in place at Cefas in August 2005 for processing and quality assuring SmartBuoy data.
Raw data files are processed and the data move through 4 levels, starting with raw data at level 0 through to level 3, where data are fully quality-assured and expressed in appropriate units. The application of the procedures at each level result in data deemed fit to progress to the next level.
Cefas Quality Assurance (QA) Protocols
At Level 0, raw binary data files from the loggers are transferred to the network.
Automated checks - Level 1
Level 1 involves applying automated quality assurance procedures to the data. These include the following steps:
- Burst data are loaded into memory for processing.
- Calibration data for all instruments and sensors used on the deployment are retrieved from the SmartBuoy database. These may be manufacturers' sensor calibrations or the most current laboratory calibrations. Instruments are returned to the manufacturer and re-calibrated at regular intervals.
- mV are converted to volts, where necessary.
- LiCor signals are converted from Volts to PAR irradiance in µE m-2 s-1.
- Salinity is derived from C and T using UNESCO 88 (PSS78) formula.
- Burst data maximum and minimum ranges are checked and flagged if they fail the checks.
- Burst means, result count, and result standard deviation are calculated from non-flagged burst data.
- If there are data from two PAR sensors at different depths, Kd (m-1) is calculated for burst mean data only as LN(PAR1m/PAR2m).
- Burst mean data maximum, minimum and rate of change checks are carried out and flags applied to any failures.
- Time stamped burst and burst mean data with default units are stored on SmartBuoy database.
The data are now at QA status = 1.
Manual checks - Level 2
Level 1 burst mean data are now ready for manual QA procedures in order to progress to Level 2. Deployment notes are consulted for any comments on sensor performance or malfunction and post-deployment photographs of sensors, if available, are examined.
Cefas use a data visualisation tool to examine the SmartBuoy data.
- A comparison is made between the end of one deployment with beginning of the next to identify possible drift and/or biofouling of OBS, Fluorometer, Salinity, PAR, and oxygen sensors.
- Battery voltages are checked for sudden jumps and, if present, other sensors are examined for similar jumps to determine whether there is a problem with the sensor or if the buoy was disturbed.
- Reference voltages on the FSI CT module are checked.
- The standard deviation of OBS is examined. A steady increase in standard deviation is a good indication of the onset of biofouling. It is also used as a rough indicator for fluorometers during summer, except during spring, when there are large fluctuations in chlorophyll.
- Li-Cor is examined for fouling, which could be indicated by a steady drop in daily maximum or a steady increase in standard deviation. If above-water Li-Cor data are available, they are used for comparison.
- Pressure is examined for sudden decreases, indicating when the buoy was taken out of the water.
- Roll and pitch are examined for any anomalies. It is expected that the spring/neap cycle will be present in the buoy tilt signal.
- Where possible, comparison is made between burst mean data from sensors measuring the same variable. This is in order to determine whether there is a systematic offset (drift) or sensor fault and whether biofouling is present.
- Comparison is made between burst mean sensor outputs from different variables as this can be helpful in determining the onset of biofouling. Any data that fail the checks are flagged with flags specific to the check that was failed.
Calibrations - Level 3
The combined information from Level 2 is used to determine the periods during which the data series are considered suspect. The data have now reached QA status = 2 and can progress to Level 3, where they will be fully calibrated with field-derived sample data.
- For salinity an offset is calculated as the difference between result output from logger and the result from a discrete sample collected at the same time.
- Calibration from regression analysis of field samples and logger output is applied to derive new parameters, e.g. chlorophyll calculated from fluorescence, suspended load calculated from OBS.
- Chlorophyll calibrations are determined from GF/F filtered water samples, which are extracted in acetone and measured for fluorescence using a Turner Designs Fluorometer.
- Suspended matter calibrations are determined from a known volume of water sample filtered through pre-weighed 0.4 µm Cyclopore filters. The filters are dried and reweighed to determine the weight of material per unit volume.
- Salinity is calibrated using water samples that have been analysed with a Guildline Autosal salinometer.
- Water samples from the Aqua Monitor are analysed for nutrients by colorimetric analysis of 0.4 µm Cyclopore-filtered samples.
The data have now reached QA status = 3 as time stamped, field calibrated burst mean data with parameter codes and units stored on SmartBuoy database with associated uncertainty or 95% confidence limits as appropriate. All SmartBuoy data banked at BODC have passed full Cefas QA procedures. Data that fail the Cefas QA checks are not submitted for banking.
SmartBuoy data processing by BODC
The following outlines the procedures that take place at BODC for banking Cefas SmartBuoy data.
BODC receives SmartBuoy data from Cefas after all quality checks have been passed and all possible calibrations applied. The data files are submitted as separate MS Excel spreadsheets for each parameter, i.e. there are separate files for temperature and salinity from the same instrument. An exact copy of the data is archived for safekeeping upon arrival.
Once the submitted data files are safely archived, the data undergo standard reformatting and banking procedures:
- The data files are reformatted using an in-house program into a common format, which is a NetCDF subset.
- Data files arising from the same instrument are combined into a single file.
- Standard parameter codes are assigned that accurately describe the data.
- Unit conversions are applied, if necessary, so that units are standardised. Oxygen concentration supplied by the originator in units of mg l-1 is converted to µmol l-1 by multiplying by 31.25.
- The data are screened visually and any spikes or instrument malfunctions can be clearly labelled with quality control flags.
- Comprehensive documentation is prepared describing the collection, processing and quality of each data series.
- Detailed metadata and documents are loaded to the database and linked to each series so that the information is readily available to future users.
Project Information
Oceans 2025 - The NERC Marine Centres' Strategic Research Programme 2007-2012
Who funds the programme?
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funds the Oceans 2025 programme, which was originally planned in the context of NERC's 2002-2007 strategy and later realigned to NERC's subsequent strategy (Next Generation Science for Planet Earth; NERC 2007).
Who is involved in the programme?
The Oceans 2025 programme was designed by and is to be implemented through seven leading UK marine centres. The marine centres work together in coordination and are also supported by cooperation and input from government bodies, universities and other partners. The seven marine centres are:
- National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS)
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)
- Marine Biological Association (MBA)
- Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Marine Science (SAHFOS)
- Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL)
- Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)
- Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU)
Oceans2025 provides funding to three national marine facilities, which provide services to the wider UK marine community, in addition to the Oceans 2025 community. These facilities are:
- British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), hosted at POL
- Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL), hosted at POL
- Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP), hosted at SAMS
The NERC-run Strategic Ocean Funding Initiative (SOFI) provides additional support to the programme by funding additional research projects and studentships that closely complement the Oceans 2025 programme, primarily through universities.
What is the programme about?
Oceans 2025 sets out to address some key challenges that face the UK as a result of a changing marine environment. The research funded through the programme sets out to increase understanding of the size, nature and impacts of these changes, with the aim to:
- improve knowledge of how the seas behave, not just now but in the future;
- help assess what that might mean for the Earth system and for society;
- assist in developing sustainable solutions for the management of marine resources for future generations;
- enhance the research capabilities and facilities available for UK marine science.
In order to address these aims there are nine science themes supported by the Oceans 2025 programme:
- Climate, circulation and sea level (Theme 1)
- Marine biogeochemical cycles (Theme 2)
- Shelf and coastal processes (Theme 3)
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (Theme 4)
- Continental margins and deep ocean (Theme 5)
- Sustainable marine resources (Theme 6)
- Technology development (Theme 8)
- Next generation ocean prediction (Theme 9)
- Integration of sustained observations in the marine environment (Theme 10)
In the original programme proposal there was a theme on health and human impacts (Theme 7). The elements of this Theme have subsequently been included in Themes 3 and 9.
When is the programme active?
The programme started in April 2007 with funding for 5 years.
Brief summary of the programme fieldwork/data
Programme fieldwork and data collection are to be achieved through:
- physical, biological and chemical parameters sampling throughout the North and South Atlantic during collaborative research cruises aboard NERC's research vessels RRS Discovery, RRS James Cook and RRS James Clark Ross;
- the Continuous Plankton Recorder being deployed by SAHFOS in the North Atlantic and North Pacific on 'ships of opportunity';
- physical parameters measured and relayed in near real-time by fixed moorings and ARGO floats;
- coastal and shelf sea observatory data (Liverpool Bay Coastal Observatory (LBCO) and Western Channel Observatory (WCO)) using the RV Prince Madog and RV Quest.
The data is to be fed into models for validation and future projections. Greater detail can be found in the Theme documents.
Oceans 2025 Theme 10
Oceans 2025 is a strategic marine science programme, bringing marine researchers together to increase people's knowledge of the marine environment so that they are better able to protect it for future generations.
Theme 10: Integration of Sustained Observations in the Marine Environment spans all marine domains from the sea-shore to the global ocean, providing data and knowledge on a wide range of ecosystem properties and processes (from ocean circulation to biodiversity) that are critical to understanding Earth system behaviour and identifying change. They have been developed not merely to provide long-term data sets, but to capture extreme or episodic events, and play a key role in the initialisation and validation of models. Many of these SOs will be integrated into the newly developing UK Marine Monitoring Strategy - evolving from the Defra reports Safeguarding our Seas (2002) and Charting Progress (2005), thus contributing to the underpinning knowledge for national marine stewardship. They will also contribute to the UK GOOS Strategic Plan (IACMST, 2006) and the Global Marine Assessment.
Weblink: http://www.oceans2025.org/
Oceans 2025 Theme 10, Sustained Observation Activity 11: Liverpool Bay and Irish Sea Coastal Observatory
Sustained, systematic observations of the ocean and continental shelf seas at appropriate time and space scales allied to numerical models are key to understanding and prediction. In shelf seas these observations address issues as fundamental as 'what is the capacity of shelf seas to absorb change?' encompassing the impacts of climate change, biological productivity and diversity, sustainable management, pollution and public health, safety at sea and extreme events. Advancing understanding of coastal processes to use and manage these resources better is challenging; important controlling processes occur over a broad range of spatial and temporal scales which cannot be simultaneously studied solely with satellite or ship-based platforms.
Considerable effort has been spent by the Proudman Oceangraphic Laboratory (POL) in the years 2001 - 2006 in setting up an integrated observational and now-cast modelling system in Liverpool Bay (see Figure), with the recent POL review stating the observatory was seen as a leader in its field and a unique 'selling' point of the laboratory. Cost benefit analysis (IACMST, 2004) shows that benefits really start to accrue after 10 years. In 2007 - 2012 exploitation of (i) the time series being acquired, (ii) the model-data synthesis and (iii) the increasingly available quantities of real-time data (e.g. river flows) can be carried out through Sustained Observation Activity (SO) 11, to provide an integrated assessment and short term forecasts of the coastal ocean state.
Overall Aims and Purpose of SO 11
- To continue and enlarge the scope of the existing coastal observatory in Liverpool Bay to routinely monitor the northern Irish Sea
- To develop the synthesis of measurements and models in the coastal ocean to optimize measurement arrays and forecast products. Driving forward shelf seas' operational oceanography with the direct objective of improving the national forecasting capability, expressed through links to the National Centre for Ocean Forecasting (NCOF)
- To exploit the long time-series of observations and model outputs to: a) identify the roles of climate and anthropogenic inputs on the coastal ocean's physical and biological functioning (including impacts of nutrient discharges, offshore renewable energy installations and fishing activity) taking into consideration the importance of events versus mean storms / waves, river discharge / variable salinity stratification / horizontal gradients; b) predict the impacts of climate change scenarios; and c) provide new insights to Irish Sea dynamics for variables either with seasonal cycles and interannual variability, or which show weak or no seasonal cycles
- To provide and maintain a 'laboratory' within which a variety of observational and model experiments can be undertaken (Oceans 2025 Themes 3, 6, 8, 9), including capture of extreme events
- Demonstrate the value of an integrated approach in assessment and forecasting
- Demonstrate the coastal observatory as a tool for marine management strategies through collaboration with the Environment Agency (EA), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Joint Nature Conservation Commmittee (JNCC), English Nature (EN), Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD), and Local Authorities, providing management information pertinent to policy (e.g. Water Framework Directive)
Measurement and Modelling Activities
- East Mooring Site: Bottom frame with full suite of physical measurements (high frequency Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), conductivity, temperature, turbidity and fluorescence), a Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) directional wavebuoy, and a CEFAS Smartbuoy collecting surface properties including salinity, temperature, turbidity, nutrients, irradiance and chlorophyll. All transmit data in real-time via Orbcomm. The Smartbuoy also collects daily water samples.
- West Mooring Site: Bottom frame with full suite of physical measurements (high frequency ADCP, conductivity, temperature, turbidity and fluorescence), CEFAS Smartbuoy.
- Spatial Survey: Four - six week intervals (determined by biofouling of optical sensors). Spatial surveys comprise of vertical profiles of CTD, suspended particulate material (SPM), some bed sediment sampling and surface and bed nutrients, phytoplankton, zooplankton.
- Ferry: The Birkenhead - Belfast ferry samples near surface (5 m depth) temperature, salinity, turbidity, chlorophyll, with data transmitted by Orbcomm. The route is scientifically varied passing through six completely different hydrodynamic regions, which significantly impact on their ecological function.
- Tide gauges: Real-time data are obtained from tide gauges operated by Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) and the UK tide gauge network.
- Satellite imagery: Weekly composite satellite data, Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sea surface temperature (SST) and ocean colour (chlorophyll and suspended sediment), are provided by the Remote Sensing Data Analysis Service (RSDAS) based at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML).
- HF radar: A phased array HF radar system (a 12-16MHz WERA HF radar) measuring surface currents and waves with maximum range 75km at a resolution of 4km for sea surface currents and for 2-D wave spectra.
- Meteorology station: With web camera, located on Hilbre Island at the mouth of the Dee Estuary
- Operational models: The Coastal Observatory uses Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Modelling System (POLCOMS), which is part of Oceans 2025 Theme 9.
More detailed information on this Work Package is available at pages 32 - 35 of the official Oceans 2025 Theme 10 document: Oceans 2025 Theme 10
Weblink: http://www.oceans2025.org/
IACMST., 2004. The Economics of Sustained Marine Measurements. IACMST Information Document, N0.11, Southampton: IACMST, 96 pp
Data Activity or Cruise Information
Data Activity
|Start Date (yyyy-mm-dd)
|End Date (yyyy-mm-dd)
|Organization Undertaking Activity
|National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool
|Country of Organization
|United Kingdom
|Originator's Data Activity Identifier
|Platform Category
|moored surface buoy
COBs Site B SmartBuoy deployment LB2_040/1103
Deployment and recovery
This mooring was deployed in a collaboration between Cefas and the POL Liverpool Bay Coastal Observatory. The rig was deployed in July 2010 during RV Prince Madog cruise PD21/10. The rig was recovered in September 2010 during RV Prince Madog cruisePD36/10.
Rig Description
The SmartBuoy carried a suite of Cefas instruments mounted just below the surface, as well as instrumentation belonging to POL upto 15 m deep. Further information is given in the table below.
The single point mooring was composed mainly of 0.5 inch long link chain, marked by a 1.8 m diameter toroid and anchored by a half tonne clump of scrap chain.
The following instruments were connected to a Eco System Monitor;
depth (m)
Length (days)
|MiniTracka Chlorophyll Fluorometer
|Aanderaa Conductivity Sensor - Type 3919B IW
|Druck 5 bar Pressure Transducer
|Seapoint Turbidity Meter
The following instruments were stand alone sensors;
depth (m)
Length (days)
|Sea-Bird 37 MicroCAT
|Sea-Bird 37 MicroCAT
- Cefas - The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft (UK)
- NOC - The National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool (UK) (formerly the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool (UK))
Related Data Activity activities are detailed in Appendix 1
|Cruise Name
|Departure Date
|Arrival Date
|Principal Scientist(s)
|Phil J Knight (National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool)
|RV Prince Madog
Complete Cruise Metadata Report is available here
Fixed Station Information
No Fixed Station Information held for the Series
BODC Quality Control Flags
The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:
|Below detection limit
|In excess of quoted value
|Taxonomic flag for affinis (aff.)
|Beginning of CTD Down/Up Cast
|Taxonomic flag for confer (cf.)
|Thermometric depth
|End of CTD Down/Up Cast
|Non-taxonomic biological characteristic uncertainty
|Extrapolated value
|Taxonomic flag for single species (sp.)
|Improbable value - unknown quality control source
|Improbable value - originator's quality control
|Improbable value - BODC quality control
|Null value
|Improbable value - user quality control
|Replacement value
|Estimated value
|Interpolated value
|Control value
|Excessive difference
SeaDataNet Quality Control Flags
The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:
|no quality control
|good value
|probably good value
|probably bad value
|bad value
|changed value
|value below detection
|value in excess
|interpolated value
|missing value
|value phenomenon uncertain
|value below limit of quantification
Appendix 1: LB2_040 / POLRIG1103
Related series for this Data Activity are presented in the table below. Further information can be found by following the appropriate links.
If you are interested in these series, please be aware we offer a multiple file download service. Should your credentials be insufficient for automatic download, the service also offers a referral to our Enquiries Officer who may be able to negotiate access.
|Series Identifier
|Data Category
|Start date/time
|Start position
|Fluorescence or pigments
|2010-07-08 08:00:00
|RV Prince Madog PD21/10
|Hydrography time series at depth
|2010-07-08 08:00:00
|RV Prince Madog PD21/10
|Hydrography time series at depth
|2010-07-08 08:10:00
|RV Prince Madog PD21/10
|Hydrography time series at depth
|2010-07-08 08:10:00
|RV Prince Madog PD21/10
|Hydrography time series at depth
|2010-07-08 08:10:01
|RV Prince Madog PD21/10
|Hydrography time series at depth
|2010-07-08 08:10:01
|RV Prince Madog PD21/10


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Sacramento State will spend a day in Asia during "Facing East: Global Learning and Conversations," a symposium running 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 19 in the Gallery, Japanese Tea Room and Garden, and Petris Room of the University Library.
Co-hosted by the University Honors Program and Sacramento State's Omicron Chapter of Phi Beta Delta, the honor society for international scholars, the event will focus on the art, education and history of China, Japan, and South and Southeast Asia, as well as experiences of Asian-Americans.
Topics will include Confucianism, Southeast Asian Art, Sikhism, martial arts and opportunities for studying overseas.
There will be contributions from Honors' students, students who have studied in Asia and students of Asian art history. Faculty members will discuss their work and research in Asia, and guest speakers will include Valerie Soe and Russell Jeung from San Francisco State's Asian American Studies Department. Soe and Jeung produced The Oak Park Story, a film about three Oakland tenement families who band together and win a landmark settlement against their landlord.
"Our goal is to promote opportunities to learn about Asia through not only experts in this field, but also our students," says Sacramento State lecturer Vanessa Arnaud.
Scholarly works aren't the only focus of the day. Sacramento State student Kaori Matsuzawa, a former world-champion unicyclist, will perform on the mono-wheeled vehicle in the Library Quad at 12:30 p.m.
For more information, call (916) 278-5379 or visit www.csus.edu/honorsprogram/news.html. For media assistance, call Sacramento State's Public Affairs office at (916) 278-6156.

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You'll need to provide us with a delayed baggage report from the carrier and original receipts for expenses incurred, so when you purchase the essentials make sure you keep the receipts.
Essential medication
We will cover the cost and assist you to arrange the replacement of essential medication if it's stolen, damaged or delayed. It must be prescribed by a medical practitioner and be essential for your health for us to cover the cost. It's a good idea to leave a list of all medications and from where they were dispensed with someone at home in case you need to replace these in a hurry.
Lost or stolen items
If you lose something or it gets stolen and is unrecoverable, we want to help you get those items replaced. For no additional cost:
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- Jewellery and watches are covered to a maximum combined total value of up to $2,500 per journey
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If you intend on travelling with jewellery, watches or electronics worth more than the dollar values above (and you want to have them covered on your policy), you'll need to specify the items and pay an additional premium when you purchase your policy. We'll confirm they are covered under your policy on your policy certificate, so you can relax and enjoy your travels.
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We consider an unexpected event to be a cause or event that happens during your period of insurance that was sudden, unforeseeable or unintended, was outside of your control, and could not reasonably have been anticipated or avoided.
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"Gold or nothing!" For Hardware Master TaPaKaH
Author: TheMadDutchDude
When you are looking at a particular piece of hardware, you will most likely come across the name "TaPaKaH" at some point. As of this moment, TaPaKaH, or Sam as some of us know him, has quite a few cups to his name. Well, a few is a serious understatement. He currently holds 616 golds, 296 silvers, 151 bronze and 167 medals for his overclocking efforts.
Sam is currently ranked 3rd in the Extreme league, and he is the king of the Hardware Masters at present. Here's a brief snapshot, and I really do mean brief, of some of his top earning scores. The silver which you can see in this particular screenshot below is actually a joint first position with another member, "The Mutt," who got the score first and thus earned him a gold cup, putting Sam second as a result. However, it's not all bad as he got the same points for the submission (due to the tie). The maximum amount of hardware points you can currently earn in any one benchmark is 49.9, which is dependent on how many participants benchmark both that test and that piece of hardware.
Whilst he doesn't possess anywhere near the amount of cups that Norwegian overclocker "knopflerbruce" has to his name, Sam definitely has his fair share.
There's a vast amount of knowledge that is required to master so many platforms, and he seems to do it with ease. Aside from the knowledge aspect, you have to go through a process that we overclockers call "binning" in order to obtain the best chip, and sometimes that can take a hundred CPUs until you find the one that you're looking for. This not only costs a small fortune, it also takes a lot of pre-testing and dedication to pull it off. Some of us have pot luck, and we win the silicone lottery with an absolute gem (quite rare these days), and sometimes we strike out for months on end. That is story for another day, though.
Congratulations on your recent cups from what is a very heavily contested set of processors that you've used in recent days, Sam. From all of us at HWBOT, keep up the good work and most importantly, keep pushing!


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- What are the advantages and limitations of this car?
What are the advantages and limitations of this car?
By: Kushant on 21 february 2015
4 Answers:
|Very advanced features such as 4 Zone automatic air conditioing, Ambient lighting, Audi drive select, Dynamic steering, Quattro with sport differential, Rear seat entertainment, Rear seat executive package, Two piece panaromic sunroof, Matrix LED headlamps, electro mechanical power steering, air inoniser, LED rear lights with dynamic turn indicators, 360 degree camera, heads up display, park assist with display of surroundings, Bang and olufsen advanced sound system and lot more adds to the value of the car. Only limitation is equally high price tag suiting the features offered.
TeamAutoportal 2015-02-21
Audi A8L is fun to drive and offers a nice handling experience too. The cabin has been fitted with advanced features and offers maximum comfort. The build qulaity is also excellent. On the flip side, Audi A8L is heavier on the pocket. Also, the electronics inside the car are prone to malfunctioning.
Sanya 2015-03-12
Audi A8 L is a highly spacious sedan. Its external design is quite flamboyant and looks quite premium. Audi has loaded A8L with many comfort and safety features. Both the 4 Ltr. petrol and the 4 Ltr. diesel engine performs equally well. Customer also has the option of 6.3 Ltr. diesel engine which is more powerful and punchy. The major factor that can dent its sales is the higher cost of ownership. Audi spares are also costly and you do not find authorised workshop in every city. The Lower ground clearence may also trouble on bumpy roads.
Naman 2015-06-02
I do agree with the above views. One of my colleagues owns the Audi A8 L 50 TDI. This car is no doubt made for people who can afford it easily, however, the lower fuel efficiency is definitely a thing that pinches everybody no matter who he is. My colleague complains that his Audi A8 L gives only around 8-9 Kmpl in city rides and he has hardly touched 12 Kmpl on highways. However, he enjoys the punchy 3.0 Ltr. diesel engine's performance on long rides. This car is fitted with pretty much everything which one can expect.
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SMS too much? You may get 'text neck'
Too much texting and tilting your head down while looking at mobile devices may give some people a 'text neck', experts warn.
"People get so focused on these devices that they end up holding their neck and upper back in abnormal positions for a long period of time; enough that other people coined the phrase 'text neck', which is essentially referring to postural pain," said Chris Cornett, orthopaedic surgeon and spine specialist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation.
The term, text neck, was first coined by a chiropractor in Florida. It's defined as overuse syndrome involving the head, neck and shoulders, usually resulting from excessive strain on the spine from looking in a downward position at hand held devices such as cell phones, mp3 players, e-readers and computer tablets.
"When you hold your body in an abnormal position, it can increase stress on the muscles, cause fatigue, muscle spasms and even stress headaches," Cornett said.
"With every degree of motion to the front or side that you move your head, the stress on your neck is magnified beyond just the weight of the head," Cornett said in a statement.
He added that what we assume, but do not necessarily know, is whether or not this is causing long term increased stress on the other structures in your neck, such as the discs and joints.
Cornett has seen patients who have complained about this sort of discomfort and has even experienced it himself.
"We see it as a frequent complaint, and I would estimate that more and more people over time, as technology use continues to expand, will experience this kind of discomfort and injuries from text neck," he said.
Cornett suggested a few ways to help alleviate or avoid 'text neck'.
Modify the position of the device, instead of having the device in your lap or causing you to lean your head down, find a way to hold the device at a neutral, eye level, said Cornett.
Taking breaks while using devices and remaining physically fit will also help you avoid pain in the neck area.


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It's not often that a new style appears in American prose, but this is what happened with John Haskell's first book, a collection of short stories called I am not Jackson Pollock. The title indicated Haskell's interest in unhappy celebrity (Pollock, Orson Welles, Glenn Gould, the doomed actress Capucine, the electrocuted elephant Topsy) as well as his preoccupation with the matter of style: Pollock, after all, has the most recognizable idiom of any American painter, and you don't evoke him without drawing attention to your own brush strokes. Haskell's method was and is very far from Pollock's lyrical turbulence. His stories might concern rare and remarkable people, but they consist of recycled language ("Paris, it's been said, is the city of lovers") and deliberate banality ("First she was born, then she grew up") delivered in a tone conversationally flat. On the feelings of Keats–preternaturally eloquent Keats!–for his adored Fanny Brawne: "There's the admiration and friendship and respect, but there's also this other thing, the sexual thing, and that was the thing he was feeling, walking along with Fanny in the north part of London."
Plenty of writers have used clichés and degraded language to satirical effect. Yet Haskell wasn't deadpanning, wasn't mocking xeroxed expressions or hand-me-down emotions. Not Jackson Pollock, this was–Andy Warhol. Indeed the stories had the ghostly cool, the flattened affect and of course the morbid fascination with celebrity of Warhol's silk-screens of Mao or Marilyn. They were also moving, a little, because Haskell tended to depict his iconic figures in situations of isolation or failure, often in extremis. (Capucine climbs out a ninth-floor window, Pollock runs his car into a tree.) It was as if Haskell's intentionally inadequate language mirrored these characters' helplessness. It was even as if through the medium of the anonymous, washed-out prose the celebrities were dissolving out of fame and cherished idiosyncrasy into plain common suffering.
Still, if you remember John Haskell's Orson Welles it's mostly because you remember Orson Welles. Haskell attained a genuine stylistic originality by appearing to avoid style altogether, but his reliance on ready-made phrases together with biographies of the stars and classic movies made it an originality of the already familiar, the minor originality of an age of mash-ups, remakes and novels about famous novelists. It was once supposed that as history progressed, children would be born older and older, until they emerged from the womb with white hair. In the arts something like this has proved true and, like many debuts, I am not Jackson Pollock seemed awfully wrinkled and creased with cultural history.
American Purgatorio, Haskell's first novel, is different. Here, his style has become the singular property of a Brooklynite named Jack whose wife has vanished from a New Jersey gas station. The blank, seemingly ingenuous, almost abstract prose now expresses one man's condition of bewildered grief. Before, Haskell wore an air of coolness like a pair of sunglasses; now he's achieved an authentic dark vision. Jack is dazed (and then bleakly renewed) by loss, and that is how he sounds.
Upon returning, by foot, to his and Anne's apartment, Haskell's narrator discovers in a drawer a map of the United States with Lexington, Kentucky; Boulder, Colorado; and San Diego circled on it. Neither reasonably nor unreasonably, he decides to follow this itinerary westward in search of his missing wife. A novel that begins at a "service station compound," with its narrator buying "a protein-style candy bar, and a so-called energy drink," tempts us to mistake it for satire or at least realism. Likewise when Haskell's narrator pulls off the Interstate in his new car to eat lunch with the hitchhiker he's picked up: "He was religious about his yoga, which is why, when we stopped at a roadside Kuntry Kitchen restaurant, while we were sitting at a table by the window waiting for the check, Alex slid out of the bench seat, stretched out on the smooth blue carpeting, and began a series of salutations to the sun." But Haskell's narrator isn't burlesquing either Kuntry Kitchen or sun salutations performed on its floor. His tone signals acceptance of all that's in the world. It's what is absent from the world, namely Anne, that afflicts him.


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From North Carolina, USA:
I have been controlling my blood glucose levels through diet and exercise, but lately my fasting level is between 120 and 130 [6.7 and 7.2 mmol/L]. Do I need medication to lower these fasting numbers, or what can I do to lower them? I try to eat very few carbs for dinner and typically I do not have a snack after 7 pm. If the numbers are in the normal range the rest of the day, should I be concerned about this fasting number?
It is not uncommon in early Type 2 diabetes to see elevations in fasting blood sugar levels as you are describing. This is a result of increasing insulin resistance (the hallmark of Type 2 diabetes) and a resulting rise in liver glycogen release during the pre-dawn hours. While insulin-sensitizing medication (such as metformin) may be a consideration to lower your slight rise in fasting glucose, you may wish to try other options at this point, particularly as you are reporting that your blood sugar levels throughout the day are within normal range. To assure that this is indeed the case, I would first encourage you to know your blood sugar range 1-2 hours after a meal. Look at both low carb choices, and higher carb choices (i.e., a pasta meal) to understand your body's response to various food types. Keep good records, and discuss your findings with your healthcare team (physician, diabetes educator, dietitian), as these will play into the consideration for medication therapy.
Another point of interest is to understand when your blood sugar rise is occurring by using your blood glucose meter to check blood sugar at bedtime, once during the middle of the night (2-3am) and again upon waking. This should give you and your physician a feel for what your overnight blood sugars are doing. Repeat this experiment both with a bedtime snack and without. Vary the type of snack (carb only, carb & protein, protein only) - in this way you should find what works best for you in managing your overnight and fasting blood sugars. In addition, with the help of your physician and pharmacist, look at whether you are on any medications for other conditions (such as hypertension) which may be affecting your morning blood sugar control. You may also have heard the recent research about cinnamon in the diet benefiting those with pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes. Try adding a 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon to your daily diet, and watch your own sugar levels for similar benefits as those that researchers are reporting, including a 30% reduction in fasting blood sugar. Other factors which should also assist in improving blood sugar control include, of course, weight management and exercise. You may wish to obtain the assistance of healthcare professionals such as dietitians, exercise physiologists, and/or certified diabetes educators to optimize your approach if you feel there is room for improvement. Wishing you best of success in your efforts!
[Editor's comment: Regarding the reference to cinnamon, see Cinnamon Improves Glucose and Lipids of People With Type 2 Diabetes. JSH]
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Side By Side Unveiled
In recent years, the programming goals of The Cadets have centered around concepts that can be understood in one viewing, and yet call for the audience's return; they exist as much for enjoyment as for the opportunity to see what lies beneath the surface. With this in mind, Side by Side is a marching music presentation that centers around the possibility of presentation.
From field positioning to tempo interpretation, and from instrumental contrast to the potential multiplicity of visual ensemble conceptions, Side by Side creates a varied tapestry of contrasting notions.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
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Monday, April 19, 2010
3rd Sunday of Easter
I like God. I like how God takes care of us. As various accusations have been made in the press concerning Pope Benedict, they were made during the most important mysteries of the Christian calendar: Holy Week and Easter Week. While I gave you bulletin articles and announcements, my homilies have been focused on the most important events of our faith. Today, coinciding with these dates in the Pope's life, our readings speak of the papacy as well. I like God.
Today's gospel from John speaks of the origins of the papacy. Aside from Matthew 16, when Simon Peter is entrusted with the keys of the kingdom, John 21 is where Simon Peter is instructed with the mission of guiding and protecting the flock of Jesus Christ. "Feed my lambs, feed my sheep," says the Lord. When a man is ordained as a deacon, priest, or bishop, this is no guarantee of his salvation. Pope Benedict is no more guaranteed of eternal life than you or I, but what is guaranteed is that God will judge him for how he guides the Church.
With that mind, the first thing to say about current news is that all abuse is wrong. It is both sinful and criminal. The cooperation in such abuse, especially the tacit cooperation of covering it over, is sinful as well. Anyone who has suffered in such a way deserves justice and healing. In this regard I am grateful for those within and without the Church who have made us aware of violations in this regard. I am grateful for media members who have exposed the clergy's failures to protect and guard the flock of Christ. The truth sometimes hurts but the truth is always good.
When the truth is found and embraced, the pain that sometimes accompanies it brings great fruit as we convert. Think of Simon Peter in today's gospel. As Jesus asks of his love three times, imagine Simon Peter's pain on remembering his threefold denial. Do not forget that the other disciples were sitting right there. We encounter the same pain ourselves in our spiritual and personal lives. Studying for calculus, training for race, or even going to confession might hurt in their own way, but the growth is good.
At the same time, pain encountered within a lie is not fruitful. Back in October I first said to you that the spirit of the world is happy to let us say whatever we want about God but will not stand for the Catholic vision of humanity. It is because Pope Benedict promotes and proposes the Catholic vision of humanity that he is the subject of unfair attacks. Why are these recent attacks unfair? In each case so far, the mainstream media has painted with broad strokes and failed to understand technical language of Church documents and culture. The Church does not run on the American corporate structure- we've been around a little longer than GE, Ford, and Dow.
It is worth the time to speak briefly on each of three cases that have made the rounds these past weeks. First, consider the case of a Milwaukee priest. The actual abuse took place in the 1950s to 1970s at which point it was manifested and neither Church nor civil authorities acted decisively. 1996 found new concern over these cases and questions made to the office in Rome manned by then Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict. The New York Times, who broke the story, was so confident they posted their sources on the web for all to see. The problem was that their "smoking gun" was written in Italian and they had not received an accurate translation. See Jimmy Akin's fine article. The Times has not addressed the claims made by the judge in this case who has spoken out as well. Looking less like a cover up.
The recent case of a California priest's case from 1985 again involves confusion on the media's part and little effort to correct themselves. Already disciplined and removed form ministry, it was the priest himself who was writing and petitioning Rome to be released from his priestly ordination promises. Even though he had been suspended he was still held accountable to his sacred vows of celibacy and constant prayer- from which Cardinal Ratzinger refused to release him.
Finally, the case in Munich, Germany from 1980. There the press says that he allowed a abusing priest to remain in ministry. In reality, he was a priest from another diocese sent to Munich for psychotherapy (back when psychologists thought pedophilia could be cured). This priest was allowed to live in a rectory during his therapy and then went back home with the psychologists thought he was done.
On a positive note, the Catholic Church in the United States is the most transparent of any institution, public or private, when it comes to the abuse of children. We have the largest comprehensive study of any U.S. group by the John Jay College of Law. We publish annual reports and every volunteer who works with young or vulnerable individuals must go through training to be aware of the signs of abuse as well as the law. Despite the sins of some in the past, never allow someone to claim the Church remains complacent in the face of this horrible crime.
At the conclusion of the Gospel, Simon Peter receives the promise of the first and every faithful pope that follows. He isn't promised glory, power, wealth, or even salvation but rather a death that would glorify God. For Peter and many who followed it was a martyr's death, shedding blood in witness to Jesus Christ. For Benedict and many others it is a hundred little deaths each day. Knowing all of this, Peter, Benedict, and you are left with the same words of Jesus Christ. "And when he had said this, he said to him, 'Follow me.'"
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Divine Mercy Sunday
Each year that I have been a priest, toward the end of Lent, people approach me and complain about how their Lent wasn't what it could have been. "I didn't do enough, Father, I could have done more!" "I was hoping to make some real strides this Lent, Father, but I kept stumbling." But isn't that the point of Lent? Isn't the point of Lent to realize our own failures and weaknesses so we might come to new knowledge of our need for Jesus Christ?
You might be thinking right now, "If that's the case Father, I had a pretty good Lent!"
If that is the case, that Lent should remind us of our weakness and our need for Him, we need these 50 days of Easter- from Easter Sunday until Pentecost. If we do not observe these 50 days of Easter, then there is a serious risk for us. We risk thinking that our weakness is the end of the Christian message.
The fulfillment of the Gospel is not that you are sinner. The fulfillment of the Gospel is not that you are weak and unworthy of heaven. This is true, but it is not the final word. The fulfillment of the Gospel is that Jesus Christ has power over sin and death- He is mighty to save us. God is full of mercy for all of our weakness, all of it. He bled to heal our own wounds.
This Sunday is also a feast in honor of His Divine Mercy. We understand mercy in a limited scope- myopic and short sighted. Mercy is a parole or a break in interest rates. Mercy is stopping tickling someone after 5 minutes instead of 10. Mercy is a final over 5 chapters instead of 10. This is no mercy at all compared to His Divine Mercy.This past Thanksgiving while visiting family one cousin, who isn't Catholic, said to me: "Father, you wouldn't know what to do with me if I came into confession." It about broke my heart. Clearly aware of his sins, a decent man who doesn't go to Church, but he had no faith in the strength of God to heal and save him. If only he knew the goodness of God and who was inviting him to receive mercy as he acknowledged the truth of his weakness.
When everything is given, nothing is lacking. What did Jesus Christ hold back from us on the cross? Nothing. What was not healed when Jesus Christ rose from the dead? Nothing. We must never forget our weakness, yes. We also must never forget His strength, His strength in the Sacraments, in Scripture, in fellowship, and in prayer. We spent 40 days focusing on our weakness but we should spend every day of our life focused on His strength.
Friday, April 9, 2010
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'Beginnings' from Hannah Rarity - decidedly beautiful and captivating(January 26, 2017)
Listening to Hannah Rarity's gently intoxicating voice is one of those simple pleasures that you'll want to repeat, safe in the knowledge that listening to her glorious vocals can do you nothing but good. Her debut EP 'Beginnings' offers six tracks from interpreted tradition through lovingly rendered cover to self-penned originals ... and the result is a decidedly beautiful and captivating piece of work.
Traditional tracks, arranged by Hannah and her band, include the many-versioned tale of a Highland Scot mistaken for an Irishman 'Erin Go Bragh', the oft-sung 'Miller Tae My Trade' and 'Pretty Saro' an English song rediscovered in America. Hannah delivers an incredibly exquisite interpretation of Andy M. Stewart's 'Where Are You Tonight' coupled with two original compositions ... the perfect reassurance of 'Anna's Lullaby' and richness of 'Stevenson's'.
As stated on many occasions, if an EP leaves you wanting more, the artist has achieved their objective. The minute 'Beginnings' finishes you have to hit 'replay' ... because Hannah has a voice that you must hear again. How long to wait before the album arrives? Not too long I hope. Playing on 'Beginnings' alongside Hannah Rarity (vocals) are Innes White (guitar, keys) Sally Simpson (fiddle, viola) and Conal McDonagh (whistle).
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L.A.-based publicists Mark Pogachefsky and Rachel McCallister have formed a new joint venture, Pogachefsky/RMc, to handle feature film publicity in Gotham.
The new company formalizes a loose alliance between the Pogachefsky Co. and Rachel McCallister & Associates, which have shared office space in Los Angeles since 1992.
Pogachefsky and McCallister have teamed on a number of successful specialized campaigns, including "Muriel's Wedding," "Big Night" and "The Pillow Book," with Pogachefsky handling L.A. press and McCallister handling New York.
"Our New York office will now mirror the Los Angeles' office ability to serve the film, television and interactive industries through three boutique agencies," said McCallister, who also is president of high-tech P.R. firm KillerApp Communications.
McCallister senior VP John Murphy heads the New York office for Pogachefsky/RMc. Nathan Nazario serves as director and Diana Peters is account supervisor for the new venture.
"This joint venture underscores our ability to provide unified film publicity services in both cities and establishes a Pogachefsky presence in New York," said Pogachefsky.
The two companies will continue to operate as separate entities on the West Coast, with Pogachefsky concentrating on film and corporate publicity and McCallister focusing on television and general entertainment.


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A sad time
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A couple of nights ago one of the cottages a couple of miles along the road burnt down. The elderly woman, who lived alone, was inside. There are less than a dozen permanently occupied houses along a seven mile long stretch of single track road and while incidents like this happen all over the country it has really affected the mood of the area.
I did not know her very well. In fact I dont know any of my neighbours well, a situation I was already wanting to change this year. However I knew her to say hello to, and wed had a few conversations. When she was younger she used to live in my house with her aunt, who was the estates gamekeeper. If I saw her out in the garden I would stop and pass the time of day, or if I saw her on the road (she was a couple of miles nearer the village than us) I would stop and give her a lift. She didnt have a car and frequently walked the few miles to the village and back again to collect her pension and get shopping or catch the bus to elsewhere.
The alarm was raised by the local farmer who saw the flames before he went to bed. By the time he got there the house was engulfed in an intense fire. No one knew to start with whether she was in there or not, but most suspected she was. Investigations are ongoing into the cause, but it has come as quite a shock and I am sad that I wont have the opportunity to speak to her again.


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International cruises are great fun when you plan ahead to take them. They allow you to experience various parts of the world for a fraction of the cost of flying and paying for hotel accommodations. These cruises are great if you take the time to find the one for your desired travel destination. However, there are some things that you need to consider before you take your next cruise. Safety issues, illnesses, prices, and other factors come into play for anyone who wishes to take a cruise. Here are some more specific things that you should consider before you book your trip.
An illness has the potential to ruin a perfectly good cruise. It causes problems for the whole family, and it makes life difficult for other passengers as well. One of the key things to do is to pack plenty of medication to help ease the symptoms associated with severe illnesses. While a sickness like the flu virus might not be a big deal on land, it can cause misery on a cruise ship. It will also spread to each person quicker. Dehydration is a major fear for people who suffer from the flu and other illnesses while cruising. Make sure that you have a plan to deal with illnesses before they ruin your trip.
Safety is another major issue to contend with. Although there are plenty of safety guidelines in place to prevent passengers from getting hurt or killed, this does not mean that they always follow them. Recent news stories have shown that more people fall from cruise ship railings than previously reported. When a person does fall off, there is little chance for survival because most people do not even realize that the person fell overboard until it is too late. Children should always be accompanied by an adult to prevent a tragedy. Remind them of the dangers of climbing on the rails to prevent them from falling off, and do not allow them on deck at night.
In addition to safety and illness issues, you must also decide how long you want your cruise to be. A lengthy cruise is preferable for someone who has plenty of time to use. If you do not have enough vacation time, however, then you must select a cruise that is only 2 weeks long or less. These cruises do not offer all of the great features of longer cruises, so you must choose wisely.
Online searches are certainly the best option when it comes to locating the best cruise to meet your needs. Conduct searches for review websites. This allows you to see which cruises are worth the money. It also allows you to see which ones provide the best features and rates for different seasons. A quality cruise does not have to set you back many thousands of dollars if you simply do the research necessary to get the best deals. There are vouchers and discounts on social media that you should look into as well.


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Over the last week I've been slowly reading Sally Mann's autobiography "Hold Still." It feels right to savor it, waiting for those moments where I can really immerse myself, rather than rush through. Several quotes and passages about making photographs (particularly the unique experience of shooting large format) have stood out.
"You wait for your eye to to sort of "turn on," for the elements to fall into place and that ineffable rush to occur, a feeling of exultation when you look through that ground glass, counting ever so slowly, clenching teeth and whispering to Jessie holdstillholdstillholdstill and just knowing that it will be good, that it is true."
"Many pictures came to me in that lucky rush of exultation, the ones for which I had time to shoot only one, one sheet of film, those where I sank to my knees after shakily replacing the dark slide, eyes shut tight in thanksgiving and fear, fear that I'd screw it up in the developer, fear that the fraction of a second I saw was not the one on film..."
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Maus Subohm Tank by CCI • 0.2 & 0.5 • 4ml top filling
Introducing the Maus SubOhm Tank by Cloud Chasers Inc!
The Maus Sub Ohm Tank by Cloud Chasers Inc is simple, but performs with great expectations and will surely be one of your all day vapes. Featuring an extremely convenient top fill design and massive adjustable airflow holes, the Maus provides a suprisingly smooth and dense vape. To assist with heat dissipation, a spacer is added to the bottom of the base to reduce heat that is transfered to your mod. In addition, all 510 drip tips are compatible with the use of the supplied Stainless Steel 510 drip tip adaptor. Although, the Copper 510 pin non-adjustable, it protrudes out far enough to use on any of your devices (Including Hybrid Mods). Of course, always check your atomiser resistance before using in a hybrid situation.
- Airflow Control
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Richmond Badminton Club is based in Richmond, North Yorkshire. We are members of the Darlington and Distict League and compete in a number of leagues and Competitions.
Our club nights are held at SFX School from 7pm till 10pm on Wednesday evenings during the school term. For club night dates, please see the Club night Page.
On Monday nights from 6.00 - 7.30 at SFX school in Richmond we have our Junior Club. Please see the Junior Club page for more details.
We also have our Home League Matches at SFX school after the Juniors on Monday Nights
Everyone is welcome to come down for the Wednesday club night, just click on the contact us link and we can give you more details.
Our club players range from Juniors through to current county players.
We currently enter 6 teams into the Darlington League. 2 Mixed Teams, 3 Mens Teams and 1 Ladies team as well as entering various teams and players into local league competitions and tournaments. We also enter a Mens team into the Tees Active League


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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Since the movie is out now I thought I'd do a drawing of one of my favorite characters of all time growing up. Not that Hollywood version. I hate that watered down clown. The real deal baby!
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woman warrior
A woman warrior is a role of interest to historians and scholars of anthropology and feminism.
The portrayal of women in literature and popular culture as warriors has been studied in literary, film, feminist and cultural studies. In fictional works, the character type often refers to a strong female personality, determined in pursuit of her goals and often eager to take on typical "man's work" like fighting wars or performing manual labour to accomplish those goals. This type of character has become a stock character, and stands in contrast to the "damsel in distress" archetype . When of a royal background, a woman warrior may be called a warrior princess.
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Ruffles make this dress effective in presenting youth and beauty. The plush sweetheart and the rhinestone adorned fit waist is amazing but the high hem on the front and the low hem at the back makes the dress beautifully modern. The bows on the court train at the back are what every bride must flaunt on their wedding day.


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Eight community organizations in the Kansas City area will share $100,000 in grants from the General Motors Foundation.
The announcement was made at an event at GM's Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas City, Kan., that included company management and leaders of Local 31 of the United Auto Workers.
Through the foundation's Plant City Grants program, the donations will be distributed to the American Cancer Society; Blue River Watershed; Communities in Schools, Kansas; Harvesters Community Food Bank; Kansas City, Kansas, School Foundation for Excellence; Heart of America Stand Down; Make-a-Wish Foundation, Kansas; and United Way.
"The local charities receiving grants continue to make our community a better place," said Bill Kulhanek, the Fairfax plant manager.
This year the GM Foundation will provide $1.6 million to 200 organizations in 45 cities where GM operates plants and employees live and work.
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Nunavut's Jordin Tootoo will soon leave the Red Wings for good
Other NHL teams have until June 30 to pick up his contract
Jordin Tootoo's time with the Detroit Red Wings is officially up.
On June 18, the general manager of the Red Wings placed Tootoo on waivers, for the second time this season, for the purpose of doing a compliance buyout.
"Jordin wants to be back in the NHL. This gives him an opportunity," Red Wings' general manager Ken Holland told Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press.
This means Tootoo is put on waivers until June 30. Until then, any team in the National Hockey League may pick up the rest of his contract. Tootoo has a one-year, $1.9 million contract left on his original three-year, $5.7 million deal with the Red Wings.
But if no team picks him up by June 30, then the Red Wings must buy out his $1.9 million contract for a fraction of the price. That buyout does not count against the Red Wings' annual salary cap.
After that, Tootoo is a free agent and can sign with any team in the NHL, other than the Detroit Red Wings.
Tootoo, 31, was the first player from Nunavut to play in the NHL. He is also the only Inuk NHL player.
According to capgeek.com, Tootoo has racked up total career earnings of $10.6 million.
Tootoo suffered a difficult season with the Red Wings. He only played 11 games with the team before being sent down to the Red Wings' minor league affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins.
The Red Wings originally placed Tootoo on waivers before reassigning him to the team's American Hockey League affiliate.
But no other team in the NHL wanted to pick him up.
At the Griffins, he played 51 games in the regular season, scoring six goals and 12 assists. He also racked up 104 minutes in penalties.
Tootoo scored three goals and notched six assists in two seasons with the Red Wings.
Tootoo is currently on his annual northern tour of Nunavut with the Nunasi Corp., promoting positive living to youth.


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Google and Facebook would have failed in Sri Lanka: FM
Nov 17, 2017 10:50 AM GMT+0530 | 2 Comment(s)
ECONOMYNEXT - Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera has severely criticised Sri Lanka's lending institutions saying that they would not have funded the founders of Google and Facebook if they were to start up in the island.
Addressing parliament at the final second reading of the 2018 budget on Thursday, Samaraweera said Sri Lanka's lending institutions were not geared to funding young entrepreneurs and had not kept pace with changing needs of customers.
"The next Google or Facebook could be developed in Sri Lanka, but in today's capital market, it will probably go unfunded," the minister said. "This is why we need reform - we need to fix systems that are not working."
The Enterprise Sri Lanka credit scheme, the SME guarantee fund, the Development Bank, will work together to mend Sri Lanka's "dysfunctional capital markets," he said.
He said he intended to drive reform through his maiden budget.
"Capital market liberalisation does not mean unfettered opening up of markets. In the past, successive government's role in financial markets has been in owning and operating numerous banks and financial institutions.
"A young entrepreneur with an exciting innovation will struggle to find a financial institution who will lend him or her money without asking an arm and leg in collateral," he said
"Most of these have failed to provide access to affordable capital for our SMEs and entrepreneurs," he said.
He said the government did not intend to run businesses and noted that state owned enterprises had accumulated a debt of 1.4 trillion rupees.
"Sri Lanka must move on from the shackles of excessive state controls and return to its roots of vibrant free enterprise," he noted.
He said the government will also reform labour laws.
"Today's labour laws dictate and restrict working hours of our women and men. They do not reflect modern working conditions including technological innovations that enable work from home or remote work.
"Our labour laws do not even include most contemporary jobs. We intend to modernise these laws to enable our men and women to have more choice in their working conditions and how they work," he added.
He said reforms will not undermine the rights of the workers. "We will empower our workers with more freedom and more choice."
Sri Lanka is currently facing a serious labour shortage and many sectors have asked the government to allow them to import workers from neighbouring countries.
(COLOMBO, November 17, 2017)
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Rich November 17, 05:03 AM
This SME Bank will be used by our politicians to give loans to their catchers (like BOC and PB etc). When will Sri Lankans learn...
Truth November 17, 04:18 AM
I, humbly salute, for him being one of those people in the parliament, who's talking about logical economic policy.Free market is what we need


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There is a word you cannot escape in London as the autumn/winter 2014 menswear collections begin in the city. Forget fashion's favourite catchphrase, "luxury"; in London it's all about "austerity".
The shows dawned with George Osborne, chancellor, warning of £25bn cuts after the next election, creating a conundrum for designers: how to communicate aspirational clothes while also reflecting the reality of Great Britain?
For Jonathan Saunders, one of London's brightest stars, the answer was casualwear. "It's the elegance of trackpants," he said in front of an array of models in thin knits patterned in vivid colours. These knits were multiple and varied, and of particular note was a diamond red-on-white print, or a vertical stripe that looked like thin shutters partially open.
Savile Row, by contrast, addressed austerity by going global. Though Gieves & Hawkes makes its home on the Row, its view today is international, with a particular focus on Asia (natural since owners Trinity Group are based in Hong Kong). What matters to the brand are contemporary updates of British traditions that can lure a broader audience – see creative director Jason Basmajian's focus on making country clothes feel city-appropriate, his favourite look a Donegal tweed suit worn with a cashmere tie.
"I love the country colour palette worn in the city," he says, "to me it's quite urban." And maybe, in these pared-down times, a way for city men to be slick without looking vulgar. What's clear at Gieves is that Mr Basmajian is being given the freedom, and budget, to create a globally valid vision of 21st century tailoring, and that has value.
Still, in austerity Britain, the young have to fight for what they believe, and have to do so with clarity and force of vision. Prime example is Craig Green, The designer is only in his third catwalk season but has already been nominated for a British Fashion Award and is stocked in uber-boutique Dover Street Market, both in London and its just-opened New York outpost. Mr Green's was one of those rare fashion shows that are a sheer pleasure to witness, his succession of hand-painted outfits featuring complex spiral patterns invigorating to see.
Backstage he explained the process of each garment, involving painting, folding to squidge the lines, baking to fix them and then another layer of paint. What he did not explain was his belief that dresses are de rigueur for men, or his silhouette, with an audacious dropped shoulder finishing not far off the elbow. No matter; he's clearly committed to his cause no matter the price.
Also notable from the younger names was recent graduate Liam Hodges' show of grey layers inspired by band roadies and their utilitarian clobber, and Astrid Andersen and her luxury sportswear, which is building an obsessive global fan base. She's Danish, and so she has no problem with using fur like any old cloth. Here she used real pelts for parkas printed in wild colours, then faux astrakhan for tracksuits. Both will sell in droves.
Much of London Collections: Men is bankrolled by Topman, especially the NewGen Men scheme through which many young designers get their break. The high street behemoth also shows its own more pricey Topman Design collection, and in it they hit a workwear note that marched well with the overall mood.
Duffel coats had leather patches, and a pinstripe greatcoat looked made for someone trying to get a job. It was not the only workwear on view either: Lou Dalton sent out an excellent collection inspired by the farmhands she remembers from her childhood. Denim of jeans and jackets was bleached out, the cord of a shirt softened as if from years of wear, the outerwear padded internally for working the land. There was luxury – a long black coat in a cashmere mix – but Ms Dalton is gaining a following of men who want affordable contemporary clothes with a fashion edge. They will find much of worth here.
And yet at least one designer on the London fashion scene dared to shrug in the face of austerity. Richard Nicoll is a designer who makes the kind of clothes that his contemporaries – thirtysomething men – love to wear. So there were sweet coats in shades of blue, cut with sweaters printed with words such as "brutal" and "discreet" and hinting at the hidden codes of men. The government may say austerity, but fashion says carry on.
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Everybody likes chicken fingers. Kids like them. I like them. Ismail likes them. The guy who comes by every two weeks to do our ironing likes them (he didn't tell me but I know he does). Nobody could say no to a basketful of hot, golden, crispy and succulent fried chicken, in any form. With fries on the side. And lots of ketchup. *Sigh*.
True to form, I bake my homemade version in an attempt to keep down the fat factor, but sadly that ends up affecting the yum and crunch factors as well. So I started playing around with various coatings. Everyday breadcrumbs? Too soggy. Crushed cornflakes? Can break a tooth when they get cold. Flour? Not very bakeable.
Then I discovered Everyday Maven. That really, really great person suggested using crushed melba toast (melba toast is basically dry toast) to coat the chicken. So I did. And continue to do. And it's deliciously, crunchily perfect in every way.
1 pound chicken, sliced into "fingers"
I package plain melba toast (white or whole-wheat)
1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 ½ teaspoon black pepper
½ Tablespoon salt
1 egg
¾ cup milk
1 Tablespoon flour
The first part's the fun part. Give the melba toast a whiz in the food processer.
Don't make it too fine or you'll just find yourself with plain old breadcrumbs. Leave some larger bits in there.
Add the spices.
Get your chicken ready. I seasoned mine to intensify the flavour.
Put the milk, flour and egg in a bowl. I added a dash of black pepper in there too.
You're ready. Start by dipping a chicken finger in the eggy milky floury batter.
That's me with the plastic gloves. I'm not a big fan of slime.
Now shake off the excess wetness and coat it well with crumbs. Press on it and make sure it's totally covered.
At this point you can do one of two things; you could arrange the chicken fingers on a baking sheet and bake them, or you could arrange the chicken fingers on a baking sheet and freeze them overnight, pack them in a freezer bag and save them for a day on which you're craving chicken fingers but have less than no desire to mess around with raw eggs and melba toast.
Spray with oil.
Bake at 200 degrees Celsius until they're golden brown. Keep an eye on them because they don't take long.
Look at that.
- 1 pound chicken, sliced into "fingers"
- I package plain melba toast (white or whole-wheat)
- 1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ½ Tablespoon salt
- 1 egg
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 Tablespoon flour
- Oil
- Pulse melba toast in food processer until it turns into crumbs but make sure they're not too fine.
- Add spices to toast crumbs.
- Put the milk, flour and egg in a bowl. Add some spices to this too if you like.
- Dip chicken fingers in the eggy milky floury batter.
- Dip chicken again in toast crumbs. Press well so the coating sticks to the chicken.
- Arrange coated chicken fingers on baking sheet and spray with oil.
- Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200 degrees Celsius until they are golden brown.
Put the baking sheet with arranged chicken fingers (do not add oil) in the freezer overnight and then then put the frozen chicken in a freezer bag. Bake the frozen ones a bit longer but follow the same directions.


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DuWop Reverse Eyeliner
DuWop Reverse Eyeliner is a colourless eye pencil that cleverly reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and stimulates the production of collagen for younger looking skin. Can also be used as an eye makeup primer.
Why you need it:
DuWop Reverse Eyeliner is a colourless matte pencil that helps to hide and reduce fine lines and wrinkles while holding your eye makeup in place. Macadmia Oil and Vitamin E hydrate, while Bioxilift™ and Matrixyl™ Peptides stimulate skin's production of collagen to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and promote firmer, fresher, younger looking skin. Can be worn over, under or without makeup - apply wait 15 minutes to see the full fabulous effect!
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To conceal fine lines, apply to the very edge of your lower lash line and extend outwards as needed.
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