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A CCB License is required by all contractors using the Permits Online system. Then, each type of Trade Permit; Mechanical, Plumbing, and Electrical have specific license requirements of its own. Some specialty electrical license holders may purchase limited fixture types online.
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While trying to capture a smile from my Three year old this is what I find at home. I wonder were he learned how to hold out his hand instead of smiling? The lighting or lack of light has such a cool effect as the hand comes out to get you from the darkness..
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It is a great way the hand just is.
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Additionally, the corporation donated more than $25 million to nonprofit organizations in 2012, and to date, its employees volunteered more than 650,000 hours to worthy community organizations. Lockheed Martin annually commits its philanthropic contributions to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education; military and veteran causes; and local community programs.
"In 2012, Lockheed Martin employees generously donated time and resources to important community programs and initiatives," said Lockheed Martin's President and Chief Operating Officer Marillyn Hewson. "With more than 650,000 volunteer hours and counting, our employees are engaged in their local communities and helping those in need. I'm proud of their work, and I look forward to their continuing support in 2013."
Holiday giving included:
- One unique holiday partnership involved support for the U.S. Marine Corps' Toys for Tots program. In Georgia and Washington, D.C., employees helped load the Blue Angels' C-130 cargo plane, also known as Fat Albert, with more than 900 toys for children affected by Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey.
- In a separate hurricane relief effort, Lockheed Martin employees also made a special delivery of more than 1,900 pounds of food to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey. The food was collected by employees in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey and included everything from canned goods to baby supplies for those displaced by Hurricane Sandy.
- Another holiday giving opportunity involved care packages for troops. This holiday season, Lockheed Martin's facilities in New Jersey, New York, Virginia and California stuffed more than 6,200 holiday care packages to bring Christmas cheer to troops overseas. These packages were just a small part of the 19,000 USO care packages that Lockheed Martin employees prepared this year.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 120,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation's net sales for 2011 were $46.5 billion.


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Yamaha Arius YDP-163 WH
- Keyboard type: Graded Hammer 3 (GH3)
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The Department of Nursing at Hope College and the College of Nursing at Michigan State University have entered into a partnership to advance the education of baccalaureate graduates who are interested in pursuing a research career and entering doctoral study.
There is a need to encourage BSN graduates to consider doctoral education earlier than the existing pattern of waiting several years before returning to graduate school.
The specific aim of the partnership is to demonstrate an innovative model whereby faculty from both institutions encourage cohorts of eligible Hope College nursing students and alumni to consider applying to the MSU accelerated BSN to PhD Program.
Each academic year, MSU will designate two seats in the fast-track program for qualified applicants from Hope.
"The partnership is a unique opportunity for collaboration between a private and public research intensive institution," said MSU Nursing Dean Mary Mundt. "It will serve as a model for the development of similar future partnerships targeted at meeting the needs of the national nursing faculty shortage."
Nursing faculty from Hope and MSU has developed a pre-graduate school seminar for senior-level undergraduate nursing students and recent nursing graduates from HopeCollege. The seminar titled, "NURS 495: Advanced Studies in Nursing," will focus on research, while preparing students for graduate education. Faculty advising will be available and recruitment open houses will be held to help interested students prepare for the application process and transition to MSU.
Students who are accepted into the BSN to PhD program will take one year of master's level coursework prior to beginning their doctoral studies and continue to receive mentoring from Hope and MSU faculty throughout the program.
The goal is to develop a larger pool of highly qualified nurse researchers and scholars.
Directed by Susan Dunn, PhD, RN, a 2005 PhD alumna of MSU, the Department of Nursing at HopeCollege offers a traditional undergraduate nursing program.
Hope College is recognized as a national leader in collaborative faculty/student research, and the Hope nursing program is distinctive among nursing schools for its undergraduate research emphasis.
Established in 2000 and now led by Barbara Given, PhD, RN, FAAN, the MSU College of Nursing PhD program is nationally respected for graduating nurse researchers who have the capacity for high-level critical thinking. Graduates of the program have been published in well-respected peer-reviewed scholarly journals, presented at national and international meetings and have been granted esteemed national research awards.
"The future of nursing education will depend on producing more doctorally qualified nursing faculty," said Dr. James Boelkins, provost at Hope. "Hope's nursing students engage in research as part of their program, and are well prepared to enter a doctoral program. We value our relationship with MSU, one of the best graduate nursing programs in the country, and see this relationship as a win-win situation for all parties - MSU, Hope students, nursing programs and society."
The mission of the College of Nursing at Michigan State University is to enhance the health of the community by providing excellence in nursing education, research and practice that will advance the profession of nursing and serve as an advocate for optimal health care for all people. The college currently enrolls more than 500 undergraduate and graduate students. Its 80 faculty members represent a diverse blend of leading scholars and distinguished healthcare professionals who bring real world experience to the classroom.
Hope College is a four-year, co-educational, Christian liberal arts college affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, and during the 2008-09 school year had 3,238 students from 42 states and 30 foreign countries. Founded in 1866, Hope offers courses in 87 majors leading to a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. The department of nursing at Hope began in 2002, although nursing education at the college goes back another two decades. From 1982 through 2003, Hope and Calvin College operated a nursing program jointly before creating their own, independent programs.


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Thursday, 9 October 2008
Subjective safety outside cycling
I've argued in the past that increasing the subjective safety of cyclists is probably the most important thing that can be done to increase cycling. I'm sticking with this. It's easily the biggest difference in the experience of cycling here vs. the UK, and it's pretty obvious which place has most cycling.
It isn't only in cycling that subjective safety is important. The motor vehicle industry has for many years touted the safety of their products. For instance in the very clever Volkswagen ad shown here.
Never mind that a comparable number of people were killed by motor vehicles during the 20th century as in all the wars combined, the message is always that cars are safe. They've also managed to make people think that bigger and more expensive cars are safer, even if it's not always true.
The airline industry is even better at it. It's hardly surprising that many people have a fear of flying. There can be few things more unnatural, or a more inherent feeling of danger, than sitting in a hermetically sealed tube which is travelling several miles above the ground at an incredibly high speed. However airlines present it as something else. Airliners have subdued and relaxing lighting, they hide the nuts and bolts of construction and the necessarily thin pressure bearing walls of the aircraft by nicely decorated and smooth plastic mouldings. The staff speak in a reassuring and controlled manner so as not to alarm passengers. Aviation disaster movies (or anything else alarming) are not scheduled for in-flight entertainment.
And what is happening for cycling ? While what ought to be done is to control the source of the danger, the motor vehicle, the emphasis is all to often placed on cyclists and pedestrians who are expected to behave and dress in ways which attempt to increase their own safety, generally marginally, in a hostile environment. It's the wrong approach because it does not attack the danger, nor the fear of danger head on. The way to increase both safety and subjective safety of cyclists is already known.
Anyway, the motor industry is where we came in, and here's more from them. Relax and enjoy this film, and be reassured that your "living room on wheels" is the safest place in the world...
I have more examples of things concerning subjective safety. To see what it's like to cycle without safety concerns, visit Assen. The photo at the top came from here.
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- coco said...
Only this morning a 'walking bus' walked past my house, in its way to a nearby school. The 'walking bus' is an initiative designed to encourage people to walk, rather than drive, to school. But (and here's the link to your excellent point about subjective safety) in order to pre-empt health & safety issues, walking buses require every participant, child or parent, to wear these very bright reflective vests (they also require the parents who volunteer to undergo police checks). This is in broad daylight, walking on the pavement in a quiet residential street with very few, easy roads to cross!. The subliminal message for the kids concerned is "walking is hazardous - when I grow up I'll get an SUV like Dad's".
- 9 October 2008 at 11:47
- David Hembrow said...
Coco, I agree with what you've said. It sends a terrible message. Just how much of a special, dangerous activity can walking be made out to be ?
I think it's quite interesting to read what David Engwicht, who invented the Walking Bus has to say on the subject.
He (correctly in my view) sees it as an intermediate step to win back confidence so that children can have independent mobility, and correctly says there is no need for it in countries where children already have independent mobility.
However, it seems to me that in the UK this really has not been taken to heart. The emphasis is sometimes on the walking bus almost as an excuse not to make conditions good enough for children ever to have independent mobility.
I've seen plans for a new development in the UK where the developers proposed to set up a walking bus as their contribution to making it a pleasant place to live. This really shouldn't be required in a well planned new development which emphasises walking and cycling as normal modes of transport, but of course the plans were not for a development like that, but rather for more of the same old motor oriented development.
- 9 October 2008 at 12:15
- Karl McCracken said...
My first job was with a company that made avionics equipment, and I always remember the poster on my boss's wall:
"Flying is inherently safe. It's just very, very unforgiving of mistakes, and the consequences of these are often fatal".
I just wish I could remember which airframe manufacturer had produced it!
- 9 October 2008 at 23:41
That advert could backfire in the same was as the 'strand' adverts...
Husband: I was thinking of getting a Polo..
Wife: WHAT?!??!
- 10 October 2008 at 11:24
- Surly Dave said...
Sorry, I've missed something. Could you point me to the statistic for the world road toll please?
- 16 February 2010 at 02:55
- David Hembrow said...
Surly Dave: I'm not entirely sure the roadpeace link above says what it used to say. It now gives a figure of 4000 deaths per day.
This source says that in 1999 there were between 750000 and 880000 people killed, refers to a WHO estimate of 1 M per year, and refers to expected growth to 1 to 1.3 million per year over the "next ten years" (i.e. about now).
China and India now seem to be vying for the grisly position of world leader in road deaths. A price has been put on the carnage at $500 billion per year.
However, a total for the number of deaths in the 20th century ? I found one when I first wrote this, but I'm afraid I can't find it now.
Any such total will of course be an estimate, as no-one is actually trying to count accurately. I think that in itself says a lot.
- 16 February 2010 at 08:07
- Mikael said...
I recall the airline industry doing tests that involved turning all the seats on airplanes around to face the back and implementing three-point seatbelts.
These two details would allegedly save many lives in plane crashes. They were never implemented simply because they would make people feel that flying was unsafe.
That's bad for sales.
- 29 May 2010 at 11:26
- Restlesstablet123 said...
Joseph Stalin once said that one death is tragic, a million is a statistic. Too right in how we view large numbers of casualties these days.
- 12 September 2015 at 03:32
- Cycling in Edmonton from the Eyes of a Teen said...
Thinking about planes, the reason they don't crash is because human error and mistakes are much less likely. Checklists that must be methodically done each time you fly, autopilot, and technology making it even possible to fly the plane without even seeing outside of the cockpit, there is usually a lot of time to rectify mistakes, and not routing planes into each other with large gaps in between have made flying among the safest in the world, possibly the safest. Roads are safest when the remove conflict and give large reaction times and make human error a smaller factor, for the same reasons.
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Apple's Warning Over The Two New iPhone 7's
Just yesterday Apple announced two new iPhone 7's and it comes with some noticeable changes.
Both phones no longer have a headphone jack and the Plus comes with two cameras on the back. Exciting stuff.
Most people think the best part is that the phones now come in Jet Black.
Now, there is some problem that Apple are warning people about with the new colour.. and that's that it scratches easily.
Even on their official shoot.. look at this...
So the official wording from Apple is ''The high-gloss finish of the jet back iPhone 7 is achieved through a nine-step anodization and polishing process. Its surface is equally as hard as other anodised Apple products; however, its high shine may show fine mic-abrasions with use. If you are concerned about this, we suggest you use one of the many cases available to protect your iPhone.''
That means, get a case because this will scratch.
There is not the same footnote for the 'black' colour as it's matte, so it's not likely to scratch as much.
The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are available to pre-order through Apple and all major Australian networks at 5:01 PM today.


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For production deployment on a server, you should use a regular IIS installation. However, if you are a developer working on a local Apex installation on your laptop, then the full IIS package is more than you need. Microsoft also offers a lightweight alternative in IIS Express:
IS Express (...) will run on Windows XP and higher systems, does not require an administrator account, and does not require any code changes to use.You might want to take a look at this nice video with lots of information about IIS Express.
Using the Thoth Gateway with IIS Express is in many ways similar to running the Apex Listener in Standalone mode. Here's how to use the Thoth Gateway with IIS Express on your development machine.
Download and Install IIS ExpressDownload the IIS Express installer from Microsoft's website.
Run the installer.
This will put the IIS Express software under C:\Program Files\IIS Express and the configuration files under C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\IISExpress (assuming you are running Windows XP and your username is Administrator).
Configure IIS ExpressOpen \My Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config and add a new site under the "sites" node:
Copy and paste the following:
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr2IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/i" physicalPath="C:\temp\apex_4.1.1_en\apex\images" />
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\temp\apex_4.1.1_en\apex\images" />
<application path="/web" applicationPool="Clr2IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="c:\temp\thoth_iisexpress" />
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation=":8090:localhost" />
Some points to note:
- This configuration sets up the virtual directories to serve the Apex images (in the "i" folder) and to run the actual gateway application (the "web" folder, which in mod_plsql is usually called "pls", but you can call it whatever you want). Both the images and the ASP.NET application are placed under c:\temp (but you can place them wherever you want).
- The port number is set to 8090.
- The traceFailedRequestsLogging has been disabled to improve speed.
For better performance with static files, you should also add a httpExpires value to the clientCache setting:
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<clientCache httpExpires="Sun, 29 Mar 2030 00:00:00 GMT" cacheControlMode="UseExpires" />
Download and Install the Thoth Gateway
Download the Thoth Gateway and unzip the file.
Instead of following the normal installation instructions (which assume a full IIS installation), simply create a folder (I've used c:\temp\thoth_iisexpress in the example above) and copy the web.config and the bin folder from the unzipped file to this location.
Create a shortcut to start IIS ExpressNow we just need a convenient way to start IIS Express whenever we want to do Apex work.
Create a batch file (I've called it start_iisexpress.bat) and put the following command in it:
"c:\program files\iis express\iisexpress.exe" /siteid:2 /systray:true
Create a shortcut to this batch file on your Windows desktop, and double-click the shortcut to start IIS Express.
As long as IIS Express is running, a console window will show each request:
That's it, you now have a lightweight, local web server for working with Oracle Application Express on a Windows machine.
If you need to troubleshoot the installation, you should enable the traceFailedRequestsLogging (see above). You'll find the trace files under \My Documents\IISExpress\TraceLogFiles. When you are done, disable this setting again for better performance.
Also note that all configuration changes to IIS Express require you to restart IIS Express before they take effect.


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Watched the 1st ep of The Returned. It was okay, not sure how long it will last. Mary Elizabeth Winsteadcrazed didn't appear til the 2nd half. Hey! my wife show have more on-screen time that what she had!
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The Returned is getting better & better.
Just watched iZombie for 1st time tonite. Excellent! Rose McIver is a hottie as the zombie lead. She was on Xena! She was the little girl in "Little Problems" 16 yrs ago! Now she's a hot babe!
If they redo Xena now she would make a good Gabrielle.
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The Returned needs some common sense. Ppl returning from the dead but no-one really questions them or even has them see a doc or
exhume their graves to see who if anyone is buried there. Still Mary Elizabeth Winsteadcrazed is in it & lookin hot so i aint complainin.
Speakin of xc wives, Rose McIvercrazed is smokin hot on iZombie. i might have to add her pic to the sig pic.
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iZombie is officially my fave current show.
Can't get enuff of Rose McIvercrazed!
The other xc wives are jealous but they'll have to get over it!
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i'm thinkin bout startin an iZombie thread. Yay! it was renewed for 2nd season! Yay!
The Returned will also return for another season. It has season finale tonite.
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iZombie best show out there me-thinks.
The Returned gone til next season. It was good but coulda been better.
i'm startin to watch the Flash to see what all the hubbub is about.
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Seen two Flash eps and it's okay
i dun see why it's so popular
then again i was never big on DC superheroes
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Beauty & the Beast new season has started but i still gotta watch it
Still gotta see the season finale of iZombie
Then Under the Dome starts in a couple weeks- a couple xc wives therein!
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Been watchin the Flash which is okay.
Still gotta see Scream tv show but i dunno if there are more eps or what as i only have one show taped.
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i seen some previews of Supergirl tv show and it looks pretty good. She might be the next xc wife.
Superxcwife! yay!
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i'm watchin the Flash regularly now. It does get good when it has changes.
Beauty & the Beast is at it's worst now. i may have to give it up. i usually fast-forward thru it in about 10 min.
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Hey they're gonna have an Evil Dead tv show on starz or encore starring Bruce Campbell, and i hear Lucy Lawless will also be guesting in it.
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i still have season 3 of New Girl to watch. i hear next season Zooey won't be on it much. i doubt i buy that season on dvd.
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Under The Dome gonna have another season!?!? yeah it has it's own thread but since no one else posts in this sub-forum i don't see the point.
Oddly beauty & Beast has gotten better as the season is ending.
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i was wrong aboot Under The Dome. It won't have another season it's gonna end this week! yay! But i gonna miss Julia *sigh*
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Beauty & the Beast had it's season finale & it was the best ep all year (figures). Just like Under the Dome, it's crap all yr until the very end!
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Wonder when Supergirl gonna be on? i is waitin!
i seen most all the Flash eps now & likin the show even more, esp. as an xc wife is in the show.
Very soon starts the Blacklist, Sleepy Hollow & iZombie- yay!
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Sleepy Hollow is back again. Seems better than most of last season but have to keep watchin.
Blacklist was okay, hope they get back to normal storyline soon
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Gonna start watching iZombie soon.
Didn't care for how Flash ended last season. i hope they don't get dopey & ruin things.
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iZombie season premier was awesome.
Flash season premier was pretty good.
Sleepy Hollow getting more interesting after it's 2nd season was kinda dull & contrived.
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Yay! Got my iZombie season 1 dvd set in the mail. Lookin forward to the extras & bloopers & stuff.
Ash & Evil Dead starts soon on SHO or Starz or wherever. Should be interesting.
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Haven't seen Blacklist for a couple weeks but have it taped.
iZombie keeps getting better.
Flash- i dunno, seems like it might be getting in the same ol same ol rut.
Sleepy Hollow has some nice subplots going, should be interesting to see how it develops.
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iZombie is definitely my fave show of the last couple years- hope it gets another season.
Supergirl starts this week and then Ash Vs the Evil Dead next Saturday/
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ETSU defends 6-0 A-Sun record and nine-match winning streak with a pair of weekend duals
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 5, 2012) – Winners of nine-consecutive matches, the ETSU men's tennis team puts its perfect Atlantic Sun record on the line when it takes on Mercer and Kennesaw State this Friday and Saturday at the Buddy Hartsell Tennis Center.
ETSU (9-8, 6-0 A-Sun) begins the series on Friday when it meets Mercer (4-9, 1-4 A-Sun) at 11:30 a.m., before wrapping weekend play on Saturday at noon against Kennesaw State (10-9, 1-4 A-Sun).
After putting itself in a 0-8 hole, ETSU has rallied to win every match since earning its first victory of the season against Appalachian State, 6-1, on Feb. 25. The Bucs put their record above .500 for the first time this year on Tuesday, earning their second victory against a ranked opponent by shutting out No. 73 Radford, 4-0. ETSU's other win against a ranked team came against then-No. 71 Stetson, 5-0, on March 23.
On Tuesday against Radford, senior Sander Gille (Kuringen, Belgium) ended Nicholas Sayer's 13-match winning streak with a convincing 6-2, 6-4 victory at the No. 1. Jesus Banders (Caracas, Venezuela) and Roger Ordeig (Gurb, Spain) also came away with singles victories in the No. 2 and No. 6 matches, respectively, as ETSU earned its fifth-consecutive shutout. The rest of the singles points went unfinished after the match was moved to the Bristol Racquet Club because of rain.
Gille and senior Jeremy Bonnevalle (Keerbergen, Belgium) lead the Bucs in most consecutive wins, having won each of their last nine matches.
Mercer just recently ended a five-match losing skid with its first A-Sun victory of the season by defeating Kennesaw State, 6-1, last Friday. Before the win against KSU, Mercer had suffered three of its five losses by scores of 4-3, beginning the losing streak with a, 6-1, loss to Wake Forest on March 10.
Kennesaw State has its brief three-match winning streak ended with the loss to Mercer. The Owls had defeated Lipscomb, Young Harris and Jacksonville State in three home matches before being tripped up by the Bears.
Gianni Kubin and Louis Theodor share KSU's best singles record at 11-7 this spring. Kubin has played the majority of his matches at the No. 4 where he is 7-4, while Theodor competes mostly at the No. 2 where he is 6-5.
Last year, the Bucs ended the regular season in Georgia with a, 7-0, sweep of Kennesaw State followed by a, 6-1, defeat of Mercer.
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Sorry, Chandler. Today in studies I completely disagree with, UK social researchers have discovered that while funny guys are often the first to get laid, they're the last to be chosen to, say, meet her mom or pick out shower curtains with her at Crate and Barrel. That is to say: Ladies don't want to get serious with dudes who are funny, according to Metro UK. Boo.
The study filmed 40 psychology students — half men and half women — answering a basic hypothetical question. Nineteen students whose answers contained humor were termed "actors," and their videos were played for the following students, who were asked to rank them in terms of suitability for a short-term relationship (as short as a one-night stand, in fact) or a long-term one. Based on the answers, the researchers determined that male wit "nurtures an impression of not being serious or willing to invest in a mate." :-|
Personally, I shudder to imagine being stuck in a serious relationship with a guy who's not funny. If anything, I'd go for the duds in the humor department for a casual relationship. Especially a guy who can't send charming text messages. The whole charmless "ok" and "haha" deal you often get from guys over text message is a total deal breaker for me, and many other girls I know.
How much do you guys value sense of humor in serious relationships? I'd say it's in my top three.
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Boulder's City Attorney Tom Carr has written a memo to the City Council of Boulder, recommending they ban non-medical marijuana sales, this memo coming three weeks after Boulder voters approved Amendment 64 by a two-to-one margin (Daily Camera, Dec. 2). Before the City Council accepts his advice, they should consider carefully Carr's history with citizen votes and marijuana prohibition.
Before coming to Boulder, Carr was city attorney in Seattle. Voters there adopted a resolution instructing Seattle to make arrest and prosecution of marijuana cases its lowest priority. The Seattle Police complied, and arrests sharply declined. Tom Carr, however, actually increased the percentage of marijuana arrests he chose to prosecute. In 2009, Seattle voters rejected Carr's bid for reelection, favoring by a 27 percent margin his opponent who vowed to respect the will of the people and end marijuana prosecution. Carr's loss was one of the worst defeats ever suffered by an incumbent in Seattle.
A few months later and a thousand miles away, the Boulder City Council offered Carr a shot at redemption, and hired him as Boulder City Attorney. Now, after only two years at his new job, Carr is confronted with another citizens' marijuana initiative he disapproves of. City attorneys are appointed, not elected, in Boulder, and thus Carr will not need to answer directly to the voters of Boulder if he flouts their will with respect to ending marijuana prohibition. He may feel that here in Boulder he has a freer hand than he did in Seattle.
My understanding is that the City Council is in general quite pleased with Carr's work for the city to date. I think this is all the more reason to show their employee a little tough love. His longer-term prospects for public service will definitely be damaged if he is allowed to self-destruct over this issue. His getting a third chance will not be so likely. Far better for Carr if the council members thank him for his input, reject his memo, and firmly tell him to roll up his sleeves and do the people's will.
I expect he will comply; if not, he is free to leave Boulder and look for employment in a municipality where ignoring voters goes over better.
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The extraordinary tale of double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius has taken a dark turn
We thought we knew Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee from South Africa who, despite his disability, put on carbon-fiber blades and ran not just in last summer's Paralympic Games, but also, historically, in the 2012 London Olympic Games.
He had the cool nickname: "Blade Runner." Other names and descriptions followed him to London: he was called an inspiration, a role model, a hero.
Never did we think we would hear the South African police call him a murderer.
But, on Thursday, police in Pretoria charged Pistorius, 26, with murder after his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a model, reality TV show contestant and law school graduate, was shot and killed at his home.
There is much more to learn about this alleged crime, but as the news broke early this morning in the United States, you couldn't help but be struck by the incongruity of it all. Pistorius seemed to personify only good things last summer. His was a story of perseverance, taking chances, inclusion and giving hope to others, especially the disabled.
Now, the authorities believe it's also a story of violence, of killing his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.
When the sports world goes bad, it really goes bad.
STORY: Pistorius charged with murder
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We always think we know sports stars. We don't, not at all, but we think we do. How many more Tigers, Marions, Lances, Oscars, etc., do we need to tell us that we have no idea who these people really are? The downfall (and potential rise again) of Tiger Woods is a far different tale than the disgrace and jail time suffered by a cheating Marion Jones and the utter destruction of Lance Armstrong, all self-induced, of course. And all of their stories are far different than the terrible reports coming out of South Africa today.
But there's a theme here, and it's time for all fans and observers to heed it: There is so much we don't know and will never know about the male and female athletes so many adults and children idolize.
In an earlier time, Pistorius had been accused of being a cheater, as if he ever had any say over the fact that he was born without fibulas and had both of his legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old.
But all of that evaporated over one glorious month last summer, when he made it to the semifinals of the men's 400 meters and ran on South Africa's 4 x 400-meter relay team at the Olympic Games. He didn't win a medal, but he was given the honor of carrying the South African flag in the closing ceremony.
A few weeks later, he came back for the Paralympic Games and won gold medals in the 4 x 100-meter relay and 400 meters, his fifth and sixth gold medals overall across three Paralympic Games.
When he departed the world stage, Pistorius left in glory. Today, he has come back in an entirely different, awful way.


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Ravens coach John Harbaugh had plenty to say about the league's injury-reporting rules. In response, the league is saying nothing.
Asked if the NFL has any comment in response to Harbaugh's questions and criticisms of the injury-reporting rules, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello had a one-word reply: "No."
That may not be good enough for Harbaugh. "If a guy goes out there and doesn't miss a practice, doesn't miss a game, and doesn't wanna be on the injury report and we have to put him on the injury report, I want the league's answer on that," Harbaugh said. "I'm looking forward to hearing that."
He'll need to keep waiting. And there's a chance that, in lieu of an answer, he'll end up with another fine.
None of this changes the fact that Harbaugh raised some good points. But it's hard not to wonder, as at least on PFT commenter pointed out, whether Harbaugh is complaining about the rule only because he was caught violating it.


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Welcome to the EventPhone forum for iPhone/Ipod Touch. Feel free to post any bugs, comments, suggestions here!
I promise to make any bug fixes as fast as I can and suggestions for improvement are always welcome!
4.1 Release Notes
- Fixed some odd issues with iOS 3 and 4 reported by users
4.0 Release Notes
- Recompiled for iPhone OS4.0 and tested
1.4 Release Notes
- UIRequiresPersistentWIFI flag so your WIFI radio does not autmatically turn off after 30 minutes even if you are using it.
- Using new Apple Reachability API the app reliably waits until you have a WIFI connection before trying to reconnect after sleep
- Added new setting called Allow WWAN which if you leave OFF then EventPhone will only work on a WIFI network which is how 99% of people should use it. It will wait for WIFI connection is established before trying to connect. If you turn it ON then you can use 3G/Edge WWAN to connect to it from outside the home but the results are unpredictable and use at your own risk.
1.3 Release Notes
- Automatically re-connects to the server when you wake from sleep or unlock the device.
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- Proximity Detector option now if you want to conserve battery by turning the screen off but leaving the application running
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Type 67 silenced pistol, bolt is locked open, the return spring guide rod is exposed above the barrel level.
The Type 67 silenced pistol is a further development of a Type 64 pistol. It provides the users with the same combat characteristics, but at the about 2/3 of the weight of the earlier pistol. Apparently, the Type 67 pistol replaced the Type 64 pistol in Chinese service.
Type 67 pistol is a blowback operated, integrally silenced pistol, with the slide lock mechanism, inherited from the Type 64 pistol. It also fires the same Type 64 7.65mm ball cartridge.


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Is Microsoft really trying to compete with FLOSS?/
So Microsoft announced this week that it would stop updating it's core "enterprise" search product on Linux and Unix. So when you have a mixed environment, like most medium and large corporations do, how is a solution without a linux or unix option still an enterprise solution. Really how do you call this an enterprise search solution? Easy you promise to support though not update the existing code for the next ten(10) years and help people setup Windows options. If you are wondering why your Microsoft stock never seems to go up this would be a prime example.
By comparison to this most search solutions in the FLOSS world do offer and support Windows. So does this mean that Microsoft has just decided it can't compete? Hard to believe that the folks in Redmond can't seem to figure out there is money in software for Linux and BSD. Controlling the entire stack just isn't that important anymore is it? I guess they think so.
So does FLOSS get the win in this competion? What do you think?


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When I ordered Edward Creeden's service records from NARA, I got a few surprises. The paperwork confirmed that he had enlisted in the US Army in 1904 and the US Marines in 1910. He was a sharpshooter and some of the paperwork showed that his marksmanship records from the Army were transferred to the Marines. He seemed to have a good military career going until he mysteriously disappeared from his Marine barracks on October 13, 1911. First a notice was posted on October 16, about a $10 reward for turning in Edward as a "straggler" from his post at the Navy Yard in Puget Sound, Washington.
A letter in his file from his commanding officer shows that they were puzzled by Edward's disappearance. The letter stated that they could find no reason for Sergeant Creeden's desertion and that he had been an excellent soldier in every respect.
On May 10, 1910, he was warned about carelessness in performance of duty. He was absent for 44 hours on May 14, 1910 and served 5 days confinement. He was absent again for 23 hours on May 18, 1910 and given a month's restrictions. It seems like something was going wrong for him.
Details given on his final desertion showed that he left all clothing in good condition at his post and no reason could be found for his desertion.
There was no followup in the paperwork about what happened. The next record I found for Edward had him enlisting in the Army on January 19, 1912. This was only a few weeks after his desertion and was in Vancouver Barracks, Washington. So, Edward hadn't traveled too far. The records for his second stint in the Army didn't mention his Marines service, so I wonder if they were even aware of it. He was honorably discharged in 1915.
Edward followed up his Army service by enlisting in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in 1917. He served in WWI in England and France until he was wounded on April 9, 1918 in Arras, France. His right leg was amputated below the knee and he was sent back to Canada to recover. He was eventually discharged as medically unfit for duty in 1919.
Edward died alone and seemed to be estranged from his family. I still have a gap to investigate from his discharge in 1919 to his death in 1937.
Whatever happened with the Marines, he sacrificed a lot to fight with
the Allied Forces in WWI and served honorably for several years in the US Army. It seems that he redeemed himself after his desertion and can certainly be considered a WWI hero.
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For the music industry, DRM might have started out being an antipiracy measure, but these days, it's becoming increasingly clear that it's used by the labels as a way of manipulating the market. The labels have largely prevented Apple from offering DRM-free music via iTunes, apparently because they are concerned with Cupertino's dominance of the download market, but have granted that right to Amazon. Meanwhile, the music licensing company SoundExchange has offered DRM as an escape clause for the increased royalties on Internet streaming; the new fees may be pushing Internet radio companies out of business. Now, word has come out that at least some streaming services are getting away with sending mildly obfuscated MP3s to their users.
The situation is detailed by Fred von Lohman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. von Lohman has tracked how data is provided by two different streaming services, and found that both of them ship raw, unencrypted MP3 data direct to the user's machine.
One of the sites, imeem, is an ad-supported social media site that, along with hosting blogs and video, streams songs to their registered users. Those songs, which are packaged up in Adobe Flash format, apparently get saved in the operating system's temporary items folder. These files get purged quickly or overwritten by the next song downloaded, but interested users can quickly copy them out before this happens. Extracting the sound portion of a Flash file is not technically challenging, either.
The other site mentioned, Lala, offers a variety of music services, including basic purchases of DRM-free music. But it also offers browser-based streaming of songs for a low fee of $.10—simply pay once, and you can load it up in the bowser whenever you want. Or not. A quick check of network activity shows that it's simply sending raw MP3 data along with some wrappers that compel the browser not to cache it. Getting access to that is probably a bit harder than cracking open a Flash file, but still not exactly rocket science.
These companies have not always gotten along well with the labels, but currently have licenses for everything they stream. This doesn't mean that the record companies necessarily condone this DRM-through-obscurity approach—although von Lohman concludes that they do, and reads this as a sign that streaming DRM is dead. At the least, it suggests that the labels don't care enough to check whether the companies are implementing a significant barrier to piracy.
In either case, it's clear that the labels aren't viewing these relatively low-profile streaming companies as either a major contributor to piracy, or a major strategic threat, so they apparently don't care enough to make sure that DRM is actually being enforced. Which, as we noted at the outset, is another indication that DRM is no longer about piracy, but all about a marketing strategy.


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Last week Raj Patel wrote – intelligently, of course, as he does – that passing the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill must not come down to a choice between feeding children and feeding families. A current version of the bill that has been passed by the Senate plans to fund an improved (healthier) school meal program in part by cutting $2 billion in funding for SNAP –the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program otherwise known as food stamps.
Food stamps, of course, are often the last line of defense for Americans that don't have consistent access to sufficiently nutritious food (according to the USDA there were over 50 million of them, including more than 17 million children, in 2009). Patel argues that the Government should expand both SNAP and school meal programs, and that robbing a family's dinner to pay for a child's lunch is deeply misguided economic and social policy:


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It's a medical device that looks like a baby harp seal, and someday it just might be your best friend.
Which leads to some interesting questions. Like, Why would you want to hang out with a medical device? And, Is this a good idea?
The device is called Paro. It's cute and cuddly, with soft white fur, big bright eyes and — awww! — a pacifier to suck on. Casual observers could easily mistake it for a typical stuffed animal toy.
But Paro is no plaything. It's a robot specially designed to provide comfort and companionship to the elderly.
Evidence to date suggests that it works. This raises the hopes of many people concerned about the best way to care for a vulnerable population.
And raises the hackles of others.
The elderly have serious needs that often go unmet, says Maja Mataric, co-director of the USC Robotics Research Lab. "Robots aren't a panacea, but if they help people, if they can make their lives better, then what's wrong with that?"
What's wrong, others believe, is that robots are inherently deceptive.
"Robot companions are not companions," says MIT's Sherry Turkle, who studies the ways people interact with technology. "They are not competent to be companions."
Opinions on both sides converge on one point: Rapidly advancing robot technology presents challenging ethical issues for the healthcare community. At heart, it's a question of how the technology is used, says Dr. Tia Powell, director of the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics in the Bronx. "Every human tool can be used wisely or poorly."
Why make a robot that looks like a baby harp seal? Takanori Shibata, a research scientist in Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, was going for adorable when he designed Paro in 2003. And very young harp seals are definitely that, with spectacular snow-white coats to go along with irresistibly winsome faces. Mystery solved.
(Paro also sounds like a baby harp seal. Some find the strange squeals a baby harp seal makes quite resistible indeed, making this design choice rather less obvious.)
What can robots do?
Robots aren't just about being smart anymore. Paro, which was designated a Class II medical device by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2009, is only one of a growing category of robots classified as "social" because they're designed to interact with people instead of, say, trouncing them at Jeopardy.
Paro, available for $6,000 from Paro Robots U.S. Inc. in Itasca, Ill., is built to behave as though it's a real animal — maybe not a real baby harp seal, but a real baby of some species that lives indoors and craves being held and fussed over by humans. You can name it whatever you want, and it will "learn" that that's its name. It will also respond to how you treat it, acting happy when you're nice to it and unhappy when you're not. If you pet it, it will remember what it was doing beforehand and do it again (and again). But if you punch it or yank its tail (what kind of monster are you?), it will avoid doing whatever seems to have prompted that punishment.
These sorts of people skills are intended to make Paro a good companion for elderly patients in hospitals and extended care facilities, helping them feel less lonely, isolated, anxious and agitated.
Just ask Eve Anthony, chief operating officer of the Athens Community Council on Aging in Athens, Ga. The council uses a Paro named Bentley with individuals and groups in its adult day health center.
One client there is often so agitated that the staff has a hard time taking her blood pressure or even getting her to eat. "But we'll just hand Bentley to her, and it really calms her down," Anthony says. "She'll sit with him a long time and just pet him and love on him."
It takes data to really assess how much help robots can provide, of course, and a number of small-scale studies have made attempts at figuring this out. For example, a 2005 study published in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation found that residents of a nursing home spent more time in the common areas and socialized more if a Paro was there too. Urine tests of the residents showed that their stress proteins went down after being around the little seal.
In another study, published in 2009 in the Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, nursing home residents interacted with Paros more than nine hours a day for a year. Afterward, researchers found that residents communicated more and had stronger ties to each other.
A 2008 study in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Assn. tested how nursing home residents responded to another companion robot, Sony Corp.'s canine-styled Aibo (no longer in production). Some residents got a weekly 30-minute visit with Aibo while another group got the same amount of time with an actual dog named Sparky and a third group didn't spend time with any sort of four-legged creature. After seven weeks, the residents who had been hanging out with Aibo or Sparky were less lonely than those in the control group. Moreover, there was no statistical difference between the benefits Sparky provided and those of Aibo.
"They could pet him, and he would wag his tail and respond to his name," says Dr. John Morley, a professor of geriatric medicine at St. Louis University and the medical director of one of the nursing homes where the study was done. "Aibo could do what a real dog can, but without pooping, and that's a major advantage in a nursing home."
But small studies like these can only be suggestive. Larger clinical trials that randomly assign patients to experimental and control groups are needed before anyone can be sure how much good companion robots can do and how best to use them, Powell says. At least one such trial is underway in Denmark.
But experts say they aren't particularly surprised that the early results have been promising. And that includes Turkle, who has serious reservations about using robots as companions for the elderly. "It's not hard to get attachment," she says. "But I'm saying, attachment at what cost?"
An OK substitute?
While companion robots for the elderly may fill an important social need, they're not necessarily the best way to do that — or even an acceptable way.
"Are we simply letting ourselves off the hook? That's always a concern," says Clifford Nass, a professor of communications at Stanford University and author of "The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships." "On the flip side, what do you do for people who have no other option?"
Turkle believes the temptation is great to salve our consciences with robots. "If you leave your mother staring at a wall, you feel terrible," she says. "If you leave her staring at the TV, you still feel terrible, but a little less. If you leave her talking to a robot that acts like it understands her, maybe you don't feel great, but better."
The trouble, of course, is that the robot doesn't really understand your mother. "Not everything that makes us feel good is actually good," says Turkle, whose books include "Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other."
It's not that she has a thing against robots. "I love robots," she insists. "I think they have a tremendous role in elder care." But she believes that role should be fairly mundane — reaching for things, cleaning things, calling for help.
Robots can only pretend to be companions, she says. We may choose to pretend that they are too. Or not. "Every technology is an opportunity to confront our human purposes."
Mataric of USC agrees that robots push some ethical boundaries but thinks that they present a reasonable alternative to parking nursing home residents in front of a TV for hours on end.
"At least a robot would make them feel good." she says. "And if they're deceived into thinking it cares about them, I don't think that's necessarily bad." After all, people in the prime of their lives have been known to form attachments to their Roombas, "and that's just a vacuum cleaner."
It's a medical device that looks like a baby harp seal, and someday it just might be your best friend.


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Penny Martin: When did you first move into your studio?
Preen: We moved into the studio in June 2004.
Penny Martin: What made you choose it?
Preen: It's big, airy and compartmental.
Penny Martin: What are the different roles of the people working in your studio?
Preen: Designers, production, research - basically everything!!
Penny Martin: Please describe what happens there on a typical day.
Preen: Chaotic creativity. No typical day.
Penny Martin: How did the appearance/décor of your studio come about? Did it evolve spontaneously, or was it designed?
Preen: We designed it.
Penny Martin: Is there something about your studio that inspires your work or is it purely a practical space?
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SKF Solid bronze bushings are available in metric sizes as straight (fig. 1) or flanged (fig. 2) bushings. This robust bushing material is suitable for a wide range of applications. These bushings are applicable for oscillating movements in both radial and axial directions or for applications where rotating speeds are low.
Solid bronze bushings can be lubricated with oil or grease, whereas the lubricant not only improves the sliding properties, but also reduces wear and prevents corrosion. Those bushings with a bore diameter d > 14 mm have an an axial lubrication groove in its sliding surface and are indicated by the designation suffix G1.
All surfaces of a solid bronze bushing are machined.
SKF sintered bronze bushings are available in metric sizes as straight (fig. 3) or flanged (fig. 4) bushings. These self-lubricating and maintenance-free bushings consist of a porous bronze matrix impregnated with a lubricant. The oil impregnation enables very high sliding velocity and makes these bushings suitable for rotating applications.
SKF does not recommend machining or grinding of the sliding surface of a porous sintered bushing due to the risk of closing the bushing pores.
SKF wrapped bronze bushings are available in metric sizes as straight (fig. 5) or flanged (fig. 6) bushings. They are wrapped from strips and calibrated. These bushings are an excellent solution for dirty environments where high levels of contamination make relubrication necessary. They are resistant to shock loads and vibrations at slow speeds.
The diamond-shaped lubrication pockets in the sliding surface (fig. 7) need to be filled initially with grease. A good quality lubricant reduces friction and wear by separating a bronze bushing from its shaft. To protect the bushing and lubricant in highly contaminated environments, SKF recommends using seals.
SKF PTFE composite bushings are available as straight bushings (fig. 8) in metric and inch sizes, as flanged bushings (fig. 9) in metric sizes. These bushings are self-lubricating as well as maintenance-free and due to their low friction provide a long service life. Despite of their compact design, they can accommodate heavy radial loads and are suitable for relatively slow rotational or oscillating movements. They also have good dimensional stability and thermal conductivity.
PTFE composite bushings consist of a sheet steel backing on which a 0,2 to 0,4 mm thick porous layer of tin/bronze is sintered (fig. 10). Furthermore, by a rolling process the pores of the sintered layer are filled with a mixture of PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) and molybdenum disulphide additives. This additional 5 to 50 μm thick running-in layer provides an optimum combination of the mechanical properties of the sintered tin/bronze and the good sliding and lubricating properties of the PTFE mixture.
Running-in period
During a short running-in period, minute amounts of the PTFE material from the running-in layer are transferred to the counter surfaces. After this transfer has taken place, the characteristics low friction and wear properties of these bushings are reached.
SKF POM composite bushings are available as straight bushings (fig. 11) in metric and inch sizes. Pockets in the sliding surface make these bushings suitable for applications that require minimal maintenance under difficult operating conditions, for example in contaminated environments where lubricant cannot be supplied continuously or frequently. Therefore, the grease reservoirs should be filled prior to installation. Despite of their compact design, POM composite bushings can accommodate heavy radial loads and are less sensitive to misalignment. They are suitable for slow rotational or oscillating as well as linear movements.
POM composite bushings consists of a sheet steel backing on which a 0,2 to 0,4 mm thick layer of tin/bronze is sintered. The principal characteristic of these bushings is their relatively thick (approximately 0,25 to 0,45 mm) covering layer of acetal resin (POM – polyoxymethylene) with additives. This covering layer has pockets to retain grease and is firmly attached to the sintered tin/bronze layer (fig. 12).
The thickness of the covering layer makes these bushings less sensitive to misalignment and the edge loading associated with that misalignment.
SKF PTFE polyamide bushings are available in metric sizes as straight (fig. 13) or flanged (fig. 14) bushings. These cost-effective, self-lubricating and maintenance-free bushings are designed for dry operations. However, a lubricant can improve the performance. Despite of their thin-walled design, PTFE polyamide bushings are wear-resistant and can accommodate moderate loads. Their compact design provides good heat dissipation and, therefore, relatively high sliding velocities.
SKF filament wound bushings are available as straight bushings (fig. 15) in metric sizes. They have excellent dry sliding characteristics and the low friction sliding surface does not require additional lubricant. However, a lubricant can protect against contaminants and has no negative effect. These bushings are developed to accommodate heavy loads, vibrations and provide maintenance-free operation even under those extreme conditions and in corrosive environments.
However, filament wound bushings have only a limited capacity to accommodate solid particles embedded into the filament wound material. Therefore, SKF recommends protecting the sliding surface against the ingress of contaminants (Design of bushing arrangements) when the bushing is to be used in highly contaminated environments.
SKF filament wound bushings, which are often dimensionally interchangeable with solid bronze or steel bushings, can be machined using normal methods on all surfaces, except for the sliding surface. To facilitate mounting, the bushing may be split lengthwise into two halves by using a diamond coated grinding wheel. Sufficient cooling fluid should be applied as well to avoid excessive temperatures, as they can destroy the bushing.
SKF filament wound bushings are manufactured by a winding technique from a self-lubricating composite. The unique sliding surface layer consists of high-strength polyester and PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene). The backing consists of wound high-strength tensioned glass fibres. Both layers are manufactured by winding endless strands in a criss-cross pattern (fig. 16) and are embedded in an epoxy resin matrix so that they are firmly attached to each other.


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Pad See-Ew Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
These wide rice noodles are cooked over scorchingly high heat, imparting them with a salty smokiness. Other than sweet dark soy sauce, every ingredient to make pad see-ew is readily available on supermarket shelves. With a little searching, dark soy sauce won't be too hard to find. It's worth the trouble, trust us.
- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:30 minuters
- 4 ounces boneless chicken, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 4 teaspoons light soy sauce, divided
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons rice vinegar
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- Vegetable oil
- 8 ounces flat rice noodles
- 1 1/2 cups broccoli florets, sliced
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons sweet dark soy sauce
In a medium-sized bowl, toss the chicken with 2 teaspoons of soy sauce and the baking soda. Set aside.
In a second medium-sized bowl, whisk together the oyster sauce, 2 teaspoons soy sauce, sugar, rice vinegar, and garlic clove.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the rice noodles and cook according to the directions on the packaging. When done, remove noodles with a pair of tongs and drain in a colander. Toss with a tablespoon of oil so the noodles don't stick together.
Place the pot back over high heat and return to a boil. Place the marinated chicken in a large strainer and dip into the water. Cook until the chicken looks white. When done set the chicken aside in a large bowl.
Pour enough oil into a large work to just coat the bottom and turn heat to high. When just starting to smoke, add the broccoli. Stir-fry until broccoli turns bright green and becomes tender. Transfer broccoli to the large bowl and set aside.
Carefully rinse out the wok and then dry it. Pour in two tablespoons of oil, and turn heat to high. When just starting to smoke, crack in the eggs. Using a wooden spoon, scramble the eggs. When set, add the noodles. Toss well to separate the strands, and then let them cook for a minute.
Drizzle on the sweet soy sauce, toss well, and then let cook undisturbed until the noodles start to brown, about one minute. Add the broccoli and chicken back to the pan. Toss well. When everything is warm, pour in sauce. Stir fry until everything is coated. Turn off the heat and serve immediately.


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Anonymous said...
I would love this machine, but I think I would like the oven that doubles as a fridge. I have no idea what brand it is, but it would be great if I could put something in the fridgoven in the morning when I go to work, and not worry about the food sitting out when it only needs to cook for an hour. What a time saver.
Also on the new washer/dryer I noticed you said it had a countdown to completion timer, that would be WONDERFUL!
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This is a compensated review from BlogHer and Samsung Home Appliances
My heart just about jumped out of my chest when BlogHer asked me to chose which brand new SAMSUNG appliance I would like to review (and OWN)! Are you serious?!?!? I made Joe re-read the email over and over to make sure I was translating it correctly. YEP!
And YES--SAMSUNG! They dominate at everything else electric, so why not appliances?
We, the Steece family of 6, are now the proud owners of the Samsung, top-o-the-line, extra large capacity, front loading washer (model: #WF448AAP)
and dryer (model: #DV448AEP)--complete with pedestals!!!
Out with the old...(I'm gonna miss you, 'ole buddy 'ole pal...we've been through LOADS of baby spit up together)
...and in with the brand, spankin' new!
LOVE Mr. Delivery Man's face---"YES! They are quadruplets!" (notice the quad-crowd watching from above?)
Well...whadya think, guys? (The kids were in awe of the giant machines!)
Ben: "OOOOOOOOoooooo!!!"
But enough gawkin'...Mama has work to do! You see, I saved up on laundry so that I could run several different loads in the new W&D! (Yah right...who am I kiddin'...this is Mom & Dad's laundry on a GOOD week!)
Time to sit down and read through those user manuals (Yes! I am THAT particular and thoroughly read through each and every instruction booklet before setting up new gadgets, don't you?) The booklets were very easy and concise.
Samsung Washer Model WF448AAP (isn't she beautiful?!?!)
Click on the image below to view a detailed description of features.
Here are a few of my favorites:
1. EXTRA LARGE CAPACITY!- it can wash a king sized comforter or up to 28 bath towels in a single load! Which is awesome in a house full of 6--the laundry adds up VERRRY quickly! By washing fewer loads--I save time, money, water, and energy! (Ethan checking things out)
2. VRT (Vibration Reduction Technology)- performs smoothly at top spin speeds while minimizing noise and vibration. (Fantastic for sleeping kiddos!)
3. Stylish Design- heck ya! Funny how the most exquisite part of our house has now become our laundry room!
4. Diamond Drum- Tiny little holes that are 36% smaller than conventional drums which prevent fabrics from getting caught or damaged
5. LCD Display & Center Jog Dial- it is SO easy to use and I love how the screen lights up in the dark as well! Look at all of those different cycles! I also love the countdown to completion.
The child lock button will also come in handy with 4 curious kids sneaking in and out of rooms they shouldn't be in! Just press the "Soil Level" & "Signal" buttons simultaneously.
6. Silver Care Sanitation Cycle- 16 million trillion silver (widely known for its antimicrobial properties) ions are released during this particular cycle which does NOT use HOT water---This, in turn, uses 92% LESS energy while killing more than 99.9% of bacteria.
Things to take into consideration:
- Expensive: From what I have researched, this is the "top of the top of the line" when it comes to washing machines and averages around $1400. This particular washer is among the most highly rated front-loading washers in professional appliance testing (Consumer Reports & Good Housekeeping) and I believe it! It is amazing!
- Silver plates must be replaced after 1,000 Silvercare Cycles have been run. If you push the signal button and the silver care button simultaneously, the total number of silver cycles run will be displayed...so it is easy to keep track.
Samsung Dryer Model DV448AEP
Click on the image below to view a detailed description of features.
Here are a few of my favorites:
1. Fuzzy Logic Algorithm- What's this you ask? Sensors measure the degree of dampness and automatically set the drying time! Talk about super energy efficient! I love that it automatically shuts off when it detects that the clothes are perfectly dry to the particular level you choose (5 different drying levels: very dry to damp dry) and not a second longer---no more crisp clothes that have been blown to bits!
2. Mixed Load Bell- When laundry contains various types of cloth which vary in weight and drying time, a bell will alarm when the average dry level is 80% dried---perfect for taking out those polos that Joe doesn't want dried all the way and wrinkled! (I LOOOOVE this feature!)
3. Extra Large Capacity- Again, I am amazed at the amount of laundry I can fit into the washer & dryer! They are HUGE!
4. Refresh or Steam cycle- Say you want to wear something that has been hanging in your closet, smushed and wrinkled---simply throw it in the dryer under "refresh cycle" and it will spray a small amount of water while tumbling with heat. It reduces bad odor and wrinkles! Awesome.
5. Wrinkle Care- It is a button you can push with any cycle-- a small amount of water is sprayed into the drum to release wrinkles from items that have been left in the dryer too long and will continue for up to 90 minutes. I was completely amazed as I pulled load after load out of the dryer and the clothes were hardly wrinkled at all!
6. Rack Dry- Items such as stuffed toys, sweaters, foam rubber pillows, shoes, etc. can be dried on a drying rack so they won't be tossed around. Very COOL!
Things to take into consideration:
- Expensive: Average price is around $1300. (But you definitely get what you pay for and you end up using less energy so it all evens out, right?!)
And now, without further adu---are you ready for the contest???
How would you like to win a $200 Best Buy gift card?!
To enter, leave me a comment below and tell me:
"Which Samsung appliance would make your life easier (refrigerator, microwave, range, dishwasher, or W/D)?"
- Or you may leave a link to your post on your own blog in the comments below. The contest will begin at 10/5/2009 @ 7pm CST and will end 11/15/2009.....Make sure that the e-mail address you leave is correct!
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This giveaway is open to US-Residents, age 18 and older
Winners will be selected via random draw, and will notified by e-mail.
You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
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THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH BLOGHER AND SAMSUNG!!! WE CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH WE LOVE OUR NEW W/D! WASHING LAUNDRY HAS NEVER BEEN SO FUN (but don't tell Joe I said that! ;)


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Defibrillator, London, England, 1970-1980
Designed during the 1950s, modern defibrillators are used to give an electric shock to the chest of a person who has a ventricular defibrillation – this is where the muscles and the electrical signals of ventricles in the heart become chaotic, causing the heart to stop beating effectively. This example, made by Cardiac Recorders Ltd, has a rechargeable power pack so it could be easily transported around hospitals to where it was needed. The defibrillator was donated by St Thomas' Hospital.
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Friday, September 20, 2013
Narendra Dabholkar murder: Month later, police yet to make any breakthrough
It\'s been a month since the brutal daylight murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in this Maharashtra city. The police, however, continue to grope in the dark for the killers.
Police released sketches of a couple of suspects and questioned dozens of people, but have yet to make any significant breakthrough in their investigations.
Dabholkar, a campaigner against superstition and witchcraft, and a mild-mannered medical doctor, social worker and journalist, was shot at close range and killed while out on a morning walk near his residence in Pune, near the Omkareshwar Temple, Aug 20, around 7.30 a.m. The murder created a nationwide furore.
Of at least four bullets fired, two found their target in Dabholkar\'s neck and back. He succumbed shortly afterwards at the government-run Sassoon Hospital.
A stunned Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan immediately announced a reward of Rs.10 lakh for information on the killers but still there has not been any breakthrough.
Soon after the incident, Home Minister R.R. Patil vowed that the killers would be nabbed at the earliest.
Dabholkar\'s funeral was attended by top dignitaries including Chavan, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, R.R. Patil and top officials.
A rationalist, known for his boldness for over three decades, Dabholkar had rubbed many the wrong way and had reportedly even received threats, which his son said he refused to complain about, claiming that he needed no weapons in his cause.
In 1989, he founded the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS), with a few like-minded people and raised cudgels against all types of superstition, irrational practices, blind faith and beliefs, confronting dubious tantriks, babas and buas - people who claim to have supernatural power - who preyed on gullible masses.
Dabholkar was instrumental in pushing the state government to frame an anti-superstition law, finally approved and passed as an ordinance a day after his murder.
The new law seeks to eradicate black magic, blind faith, superstitious beliefs, rituals and sacrifices to drive out evil spirits or ensure a male progeny - perpetrated by self-styled godmen, witchcraft and wizardry practitioners - often with the intention of cheating gullible and unsuspecting people.
As no progress was reported on nabbing those involved in Dabholkar\'s murder, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray Thursday wondered whether it was \"a state-sponsored murder.\"
\"Since there is no breakthrough in the murder case, the needle of suspicion is pointing towards the state government. There is growing suspicion whether it was a state-sponsored murder,\" Thackeray alleged, after meeting the late activist\'s daughter Mukta Dabholkar at his Mumbai residence.
Thackeray contended that if the state government had cleared the anti-superstitions bill earlier, Dabholkar\'s murder might have been prevented.
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Fans should appreciate Suarez - Rodgers
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers believes English football fans should enjoy watching controversial forward Luis Suarez while they can.
The Uruguayan, whose career has been marked by a series of controversies, hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons in the wake of his handball goal that helped the Reds beat non-league Mansfield 2-1 in Sunday's FA Cup third-round tie.
"He is a wonderful professional. I think in this country we need to enjoy it whilst he is here because he is a brilliant talent," said Rodgers. "He is a good man as well, a good family man, and as a manager, he is someone who wants to come in and work."
Rodgers added: "He has had seven yellow cards this year, but he hasn't warranted all seven. He wanted to start yesterday's game, even though he has really been my only striker for the last six months.
"Yesterday was a game he was up for because it was street football for him, he enjoys that type of game. But I can only talk about his talents. I always try to educate the players, with regard to every aspect of their life. As I've said, he's very receptive, and we go forward with him."
Since moving to England he has served an eight-match ban for racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra before refusing to shake Evra's hand in the next meeting of the sides last February, and has been accused by some managers of going to ground too easily to win free-kicks and penalties.
Despite the furore surrounding Suarez's goal and the debate as to whether he should have owned up to his indiscretion, Mansfield striker Matt Green knows he would have done the same if in that position.
Green set up a pulsating finish with a 79th-minute goal that arguably should have been the equaliser if referee Andre Marriner and his assistants had deemed Suarez's 19th of the season as a deliberate handball.
Green, who described his own strike as a "dream come true" and "something (he would) remember for the rest of (his) life", said of Suarez's goal: "Obviously, as a goalscorer you don't care how it goes in the net.
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CHICAGO (AP) Manu Ginobili scored 22 points and Tony Parker had 20 as the league-leading San Antonio Spurs beat the Chicago Bulls 104-96 on Tuesday night.
Kawhi Leonard added 16 for San Antonio, which won its seventh straight and 10th in its last 11. The Spurs (47-16) maintained their hold on the NBA's best record, staying ahead of Oklahoma City and Indiana, who both started play Tuesday a half-game behind the Spurs.
San Antonio jumped out to a big lead early, taking a 61-33 advantage into halftime, including 18 from Parker. That helped them improve to 24-6 on the road, the NBA's best mark away from home.
D.J. Augustin led the Bulls with 24 points and Jimmy Butler had 23.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – David West scored 24 points and Andrew Bynum grabbed a season-high 10 rebounds in his Pacers debut, helping suddenly struggling Indiana pull away late for a win over Boston.
Indiana (47-17) ended its longest losing streak of the season at four. Paul George added 12 points as the Pacers extended their Eastern Conference lead to 1 1/2 games over two-time defending champion Miami in the East.
Boston (22-42) was led by Jared Sullinger with 17 points and Kris Humphries with 15 as its two-game winning streak ended.
Bynum played just 15 minutes but his first basket gave Indiana a 16-14 lead and the Pacers never trailed again.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Kevin Durant scored 42 points to help the Oklahoma City Thunder defeat the Houston Rockets.
Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook scored 24 points and got the best of nemesis Patrick Beverley. During last year's playoffs, Beverley dived for the ball and ran into Westbrook's right knee as a timeout was being called, causing the injury that ended Westbrook's season and cost him about half of this season. It was their first meeting since the incident.
Serge Ibaka had 12 points and 16 rebounds for the Thunder, who had lost two straight.
Former Thunder guard James Harden scored 28 points.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) – Josh Smith scored 24 points and Rodney Stuckey added 23 to lift the Detroit Pistons over the Sacramento Kings.
Andre Drummond added 15 points and eight rebounds for Detroit, outscoring DeMarcus Cousins in a matchup of two of the NBA's top young big men. Cousins had 13 points and 14 rebounds but shot 5 of 15 from the field.
Detroit trailed 54-52 at halftime but outscored the Kings 20-11 in the third quarter.
Rudy Gay scored 20 points and Isaiah Thomas added 19 points and eight assists for Sacramento.
The Pistons snapped a three-game losing streak and pulled to within three games of Atlanta for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Kevin Love had 27 points, 10 rebounds and six assists and J.J. Barea broke out of a horrid shooting slump to score 19 points to lift the Minnesota Timberwolves over the Milwaukee Bucks.
After going 5 for 25 in his previous three games, Barea hit 7 of 10 shots to help wake the sluggish Wolves up and Kevin Martin scored 26 points to help them finish a four-game homestand at 2-2.
Brandon Knight scored 21 points for the Bucks (13-51), who led at halftime and were looking for their first set of back-to-back victories this season. But after scoring 61 points in the first half and leading by 11 points in the second quarter, the Bucks were outscored 19-4 to start the fourth quarter.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Marc Gasol scored 19 points, Zach Randolph added 18 points and 12 rebounds and the Memphis Grizzlies solidified their hold on the final Western Conference playoff spot with a victory over the Portland Trail Blazers.
Mike Conley added 17 points and Courtney Lee finished with 16, including helping the Grizzlies extend their lead in the third quarter. Mike Miller had 14 for Memphis, which won its third straight.
Damian Lillard led the Trail Blazers with 32 points.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Jordan Crawford scored 19 points, Andrew Bogut had 15 points and 10 rebounds and the surging Golden State Warriors routed the Dallas Mavericks for their fifth straight win.
Klay Thompson added 14 points to help the Warriors go ahead by 24 points early in the fourth quarter and create more space behind them in the crowded Western Conference standings. Golden State (41-24) is sixth in the West, three games ahead of Dallas (38-27) and Memphis (37-26).
Former Warriors fan favorite Monta Ellis scored 15 points, and Dirk Nowitzki had 12 points and six rebounds in a disappointing display by Dallas. The Warriors outshot the Mavericks 51.2 percent to 36.6 percent and outrebounded Dallas 46 to 40, showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon.