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Connects2 AutoDAB Digital DAB tuner interface
Are looknig for an affordable, reliable solution to add Digital DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) tuner to your OEM or aftermarket radio? Look no further, the Connects2 AutoDAB is a revolutionary device that allows you to transform your OEM FM radio into a real digital receiver! AutoDAB receives the digital signal from a DAB antenna and modulates it to the OEM radio installed in your car. With digital radio, you can get all the digital stations bringing you extra news, sport, music, comedy, drama, children's programmes and more. There's such a wide selection you'll find plenty to suit your own particular interests. And you can also listen to your existing favourites, hiss and crackle-free, in crystal clear digital sound quality. BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 live, the World Service and most BBC local radio stations, for example, are available on DAB..
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DAB stations can be selected from the vehicles steering wheel controls, displays text on radio including song, artist information. Hide away design with no trailing wires giving seamless integration into your vehicle.
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Using the steering wheel access100's of new radio stations with voice prompt menu system for added safety. DAB / DAB+ and DMB supported.
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I bought an ugly xmas sweater off eBay the other day to wear to my company xmas party this year. Then, as a practice run I wore it to a friendly holiday get-together last weekend, and rather than chuckles and smiles I got winces and stinkeyes. Eventually someone admitted what everyone else was thinking: my funky xmas sweater made me look like a pedophile.
I don't see it. Is it the Snoopys riding candy canes? The peppermint piping? The feminine cut? The oversized fit? Maybe it's all in their own perverse minds, but now I'm nervous about wearing it to my work party next week.

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Gov. Scott: We are Building Up Florida Manufacturing Jobs
Gov. Scott eliminates taxes on the purchase of equipment
Today, Governor Rick Scott announced his commitment to Building Up Florida Manufacturing Jobs in the upcoming legislative session by eliminating taxes on the purchase of equipment to encourage manufacturing companies to grow in Florida. The Governor said building up the state's manufacturing sector is critical to strengthening the state's economy because it creates stable jobs for Florida families.
Governor Scott said, "We have 17,500 manufacturing companies in Florida today that employ more than 300,000 Florida families. In the upcoming legislative session, we are committed to building up Florida manufacturing jobs by eliminating the tax barriers on companies who purchase equipment.
"Florida's current policy puts our state at a competitive disadvantage because most states do not force manufacturers to pay taxes on the purchase of equipment or require them to adhere to regulations for tax exemptions. In order to build up our manufacturing jobs in Florida, we must remove these barriers to investment. We know that when manufacturers purchase equipment in our state, they are investing in Florida workers for years to come. We want more manufacturers to move to Florida, and our existing manufacturing companies to buy the equipment they need to grow and create more jobs to support Florida families.
"Eliminating the barriers on investment for our manufacturing industry will also benefit our ports and the many small businesses that support manufacturers. Manufacturing accounts for almost 90 percent of Florida exports that depend on our ports. Small businesses make up nearly 96 percent of the state's exporting firms and produce 67 percent of the state's total exports. Building up Florida manufacturing is about building up Florida jobs all across our state."
Governor Scott will propose legislation this session to fully eliminate an outdated "productive output" requirement, currently at 5 percent, required for businesses to receive a sales tax exemption on equipment. Until January 1, 2013, manufacturers were required to show proof of meeting a "productive output" requirement of 10 percent. Governor Scott reduced this 10 percent requirement down to 5 percent in the 2012 legislative session.
The Governor's commitment to Building Up Florida Manufacturing Jobs will also utilize Quick Response Training (QRT) funding to train workers to transition from other sectors of the economy, such as construction, into manufacturing. In November, Governor Scott announced that he would work with the Legislature to double QRT funding to $12 million.


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The Texas House unanimously passed a bill that requires police departments to submit rape kits to crime labs within 30 days of the evidence being collected.
Sen. Wendy Davis said the aim of her bill was to keep evidence from sitting in evidence lockers at police departments, instead of being submitted to crime labs for testing.
"Victims of sexual assault submit to these evidence kits with the belief that they will be tested and used as evidence on their behalf," Davis said. "While testing will not undo a horrific event, it could lead many of these cases one step closer to justice."
Victims advocates applauded passage of the bill.
"The thousands of rape victims who were courageous enough to endure a forensic exam deserve for the evidence to be processed," said Annette Burrhus-Clay, Executive Director of the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault.
While the bill will mandate that police departments clear out the backlogs of rape kit evidence in their lockers, it won't do anything to speed processing of rape kits at crime labs across the state.
The Houston Police Department crime lab has long had problems clearing its significant backlog of untested rape kits.
"I'm not sure it would really address the thing that was related to the Houston problem," said Assistant Harris County District Attorney Kevin Petroff. "I think the backlog is really on the fact that the crime labs, both HPD's and the Medical Examiners Office, are just inundated with requests for analysis."
Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith said "contact us when it becomes law… or if it becomes law."
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Stand by for a battle-royal over Alzheimer's disease (AD)-to take place in
the British High Courts of Justice, no less. Shortly, in a unique court case, NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence), the UK's National Health Service drugs watchdog, will be challenged to defend its decision not to fund Alzheimer's drugs intended for use in the early stages of the disease.
Ranged on the prosecution benches will be two big guns of the pharmaceutical industry, Pfizer and its marketing arm Eisai, aided and abetted by the Alzheimer's Society, a vociferous patient support group that equally loudly proclaims itself to have no ties with any drug manufacturers.
What's all the fuss about? Are the Alzheimer's drugs any good at all, and are there any alternatives? And what causes the disease in the first place?
Dementia and Alzheimer's
From near-obscurity only a generation ago, Alzheimer's disease is now probably, after cancer, the most feared disease of old age. Alzheimer's has been chillingly described as an affliction whose victims suffer the loss of qualities that define human existence.
Once considered a rare disorder, it is now known to be the most common type of senile dementia, defined as physical damage to the brain in old age that results in major changes to reasoning, memory, personality and behaviour. Until recently, the only way to distinguish Alzheimer's from other types of dementia was by post-mortem examination of the brain. A typical AD brain is found to be partly atrophied, with the brain cells clumped together in what are called 'neurofibrillary tangles' or 'plaques'.
The second major type of dementia is vascular dementia, where the interruption of the brain's blood supply, usually due to 'mini-strokes', causes brain cells to die. These two main types of dementia can now sometimes be distinguished from each other by brain scans using either magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron-emission tomography (PET).
Senile dementia is not as inevitable as many people might imagine: between 25 and 50 per cent of individuals over 85 are spared it. Nevertheless, dementia is on the increase, so the drug companies claim, because of the simple fact that we're all living longer. It is believed to be incurable.
Big Pharma's offerings
Any prolonged chronic illness that is only ended by death is, of course, meat and drink to the pharmaceutical industry. And yet, perhaps surprisingly, there are relatively few drug treat-ments available for Alzheimer's. First on the market was tacrine (marketed as Cognex) in 1993. Like virtually all of its successors, tacrine is a so-called cholinesterase inhibitor, which acts by artificially maintaining levels of acetyl-choline in the brain. This important brain chemical is known to be reduced by as much as 90 per cent in AD sufferers; it's also believed to be important for memory, so finding a drug that can preserve the chemical in the brain makes sense.
In fact, the theory is fine-the trouble is the side-effects. After just a decade on the market, tacrine began to be no longer actively marketed after reports of severe liver toxicity. As much as 60 per cent of patients found the drug's side-effects to be intolerable at high doses. The final nail in tacrine's coffin was that, after all this, it really doesn't work (JAMA, 1998; 280: 1777-82).


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The Royal Ballet has received nine nominations in this year's National Dance Awards. The awards, which are now in their 13th year, are presented by the Critics' Circle – a collection of 50 professional dance writers and critics - and celebrate the very best of dance and ballet in the UK.
Chairman of the Dance Section, Graham Watts said:
"It has been a bumper year! Collectively they have put forward over 250 dancers, choreographers and companies for consideration and so the final shortlists are already very much the elite of 2012."
This year's nominees include Royal Ballet Principals Edward Watson, and Marianela Nuñez, First Soloist Yuhui Choe and Soloists Paul Kay, Beatrix Stix-Brunell and Dawid Trzensimiech. Former Royal Ballet Principal and now Director of English National Ballet Tamara Rojo is also nominated for her work at Covent Garden.
Choreographers recognized include Royal Ballet Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon and Alastair Marriott, both nominated in the Best Classical Choreography category for Trespass, which formed part of Metamorphosis:Titian 2012. Our Associate Company Ballet Black are nominated in the same category for Storyville, as well as in the section for Best Independent Company.
Arthur Pita is shortlisted for Best Modern Choreography for The Metamorphosis, which premiered in the Linbury Studio Theatre in 2011. The production returns to the Royal Opera House in March 2013, with Edward Watson reprising his role as the unfortunate Gregor Samsa.
The winners of the National Dance Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Monday 28 January 2013. See the full list of nominees.


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Recovery from sun damage
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I was at the Penn melanoma conference and Dr. Elenitsas showed two slides of the dermis. One was damaged by the sun, and the other one did not have sun damage. My question is: does the dermis have the ability to recover from the damage of the sun? For instance, I have practiced safe sun habits for 5 years: protective clothing and sunscreen. Unfortunately, before that time, I was a sun worshiper (I am now in my 40's); does that mean it is too late for my skin to recover?
Thank you for your time.
Keith T. Flaherty, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), responds:
The damage that sun causes to the deep layer of the skin (the dermis) is cumulative over the course of one's life. The term ?solar elastosis? is used to describe the appearance of these changes when a skin biopsy is examined under the microscope. The severity of these changes is clearly related to sun exposure reported by patients who have had these biopsies. So, there is general agreement that a pathologist can determine the accumulated sun damage in a skin biopsy. Having said that, it is often possible for a dermatologist to determine the extent of sun-induced damage by a simple office examination. There are certain non-cancerous skin growths that are closely related to the total amount of sun exposure, particularly actinic keratoses.
With regards to the risk of developing skin cancers, such as squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma, there is a very clear relationship between the total amount of sun-induced damage and the risk of these cancers. So, every increment in sun-induced damage is associated with an increase in the risk of these cancers. Therefore, safe sun habits will benefit you in relation to these cancers and things like actinic keratoses.
For melanoma, the relationship is a bit more complicated. For some people, it is clear that this same type of relationship exists. For those people, avoiding future sun damage will likely reduce the risk of developing melanoma. However, there are several studies which show that a history of severe sunburn early in life (childhood or teenage years) may be a more important risk factor for melanoma than total sun exposure over the course of one's life. That data suggests that, for some people, the damage is done early, and avoiding sun exposure later in life may not substantially reduce the risk of melanoma. The real problem in counseling people about sun exposure is that we don't know how to determine who the people are for whom life-long sun exposure is more important and who the people are for whom severe exposure early in life is more important. So, we advise parents to protect their children from severe sunburns, and we advise all adults to minimize their cumulative sun exposure.
It is safe to say that all skin cancers (taken together) will be reduced my minimizing lifelong sun-induce skin damage. For melanoma, the connection between early severe burns, cumulative sun-induced skin damage, and melanoma is less clear. It is likely the case that certain genetic factors determine the risk of melanoma for each type of sun exposure. Melanoma researchers are trying to learn what those factors are so that people who are at very high risk can be targeted for prevention.


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From Behind the Bar: On Drinking Alone
Tales from our resident bartender.
About the Author: You may have seen Michael Neff behind the bar at New York's Ward III and The Rum House. He stops by on Wednesdays to share insights on cocktails and the life of a barman.
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There was a time when I left New York, and left bartending altogether, not certain if I would ever return to either. The months that ensued contain stories for another day, but when I did come back to the city it was pretty clear that the craft and trade of tending bar had once again called my name.
When I arrived I needed a job, and the owner of a bar I had spent some time in got in touch and asked if I could give them a month or two. Against my better judgement I agreed, and found myself back at a joint where I had spent some of the best and some of the most miserable moments of my life.
When I walked back into that bar, that remembered misery seemed mutual. What had been a popular little East Village college-bar/hip-hop club was now a dingy memory of its former glory. A once-vibrant place had fallen to seed, and my memories of dancing crowds and drinking throngs were juxtaposed with empty stools and a persistent aroma of mildew.
This kind of thing happens to bars. The most timeless gain a life of their own, and live on through decades of punters, owners, managers, and fiends. Other places, usually those that were opened in response to some trend or other, eventually fizzle out and die. Maybe the lease expires and the building owner decides he doesn't want his place filled with drunken college kids. Maybe business drops, and the operators can never figure out how to get it back. Maybe times change, and the bar doesn't adapt.
The place I found myself working, however temporarily, was on its way out. It was clear to me the second I walked in the door.
I opened that bar at four in the afternoon, and for the next ten hours, not a single soul walked in. Sometime around two in the morning, I heard the hinges of the door squeal. I looked up from my book—by this point I was long out of cleaning duties—and a man dressed up in a loose black dress, white face paint, black eyeliner, and wild hair wandered in and sat down at the bar.
He was a German tourist who had read on the internet that this joint played eighties music, and he was dressed to look exactly like Robert Smith of The Cure. I asked him what he'd like to drink, and he ordered a beer. A moment passed, both of us sitting in silence while he contemplated an empty bar and I wondered how a man could go through life in the guise of a faded icon. He paid, thanked me, and left. That was that.
I often think of this moment when I see people sitting alone at my bar. I'm not talking about someone waiting for their date to arrive, but a person who is all alone, and walks in to a public house knowing that they might walk out again without speaking to another soul.
There is a stigma attached to people who drink alone in bars, but I don't share it. Some of my happiest memories are from the days when I could buy the Sunday paper and spend hours lingering over every article and a few glasses of wine. Sure, I could have done this in my house, but being out in the public made the utterly unrushed moment more poignant, and more memorable.
I don't often have the luxury of those moments these days, but I always appreciate encountering someone who does. Sometimes it's a tourist who wants to soak in the zeitgeist of a strange city. Sometimes it's a woman who wants to sip a nice bourbon as she finishes the last pages of a good book. Sometimes it's a man who hopes to walk in by himself and walk out with a friend. Sometimes it's a visitor looking to relive an era and a city that no longer exist. I'm not one to judge. Sometimes we just want to be in the same space with other people as the minutes of all of our lives tick by.
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Now in its 21st year after its first "run through the city centre" Belfast Pride has a week of activities (and a growing set of events on the fringe) surrounding the Saturday afternoon parade through Belfast city centre.
This year only one group has registered a protest with the Parades Commission. So unless the normal protest from Sandown Road Free Presbyterian has merged in with the Stop the Parade Coalition, they must be staying at home this year. (Or else planning to protest illegally!)
This year's Pride programme features, films, talks, music, and faith.
The annual Pride Talks Back debate moves to Parliament Buildings at Stormont at 2.30pm on Monday 25 July. Politicians from all the major parties have been invited (the DUP didn't turn up last year) along with panellists from the LGBT sector. Tickets available from talksback AT belfastpride DOT com.
There's a Northstar Science Fiction Night in the Europa Hotel on Tuesday 26 at 7.30pm.
Laramie Project – a powerful play chronicling the aftermath of the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming – will be performed in the Lyric Theatre on Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 at 7.30pm. £3 tickets available from Lyric Theatre.
The Pride Parade leaves Custom House Square at 2pm on Saturday 30 and will tour the city centre before returning for the rest of Party in the Square music, dancing and costumes. New for 2011, Families in the Square will be a calmer venue based beside the Lagan Lookout with a community market place, bouncy castle and face painters.
Practically, the Rainbow Project have teamed up with the Royal Hospital to offer two walk-in sexual health clinics. Pipeworks Sauna (Union Street) on Friday 29 between 5.30pm and 8pm; the Rainbow Project Tent in the Families in the Square area on Saturday 30 between 3pm and 6pm (offering a simple blood test for HIVB, Syphilis, Hepatitis B & C and vaccinations for Hepatitis A & B).
From a faith perspective, the festival offers a number of events.
Two consecutive talks will be hosted in All Souls' Church, Elmwood Avenue at 7pm on Sunday 24.
- Jonathan Loved David - "Andrew McFarland [Faith + Pride] will look at the compelling reasons to believe that David (who became the greatest King of Israel, and wrote many of the Psalms) and Jonathan (the son of the first king) were in a same-sex relationship.
- Oy Vay I'm Gay – "Paula Rita Tabakin will explore homosexuality from a Jewish reform perspective, using texts and traditions.
Hymn or Us? will debate whether LGBT and Christianity can co-exist in the Europa Hotel (Glengall Street entrance) on Thursday 28 at 7.30pm. Panellists include Rev Chris Hudson (All Souls' Non-Subscribing Presbyterian), Rev David McIlveen (Sandown Road Free Presbyterian) and Dr Mike Davidson (Core Issue). Chaired by William Crawley.
£2 (in advance), £3 (on door). Now free.
Annual Pride Church Service is at 3pm on Sunday 1 August in All Souls' Church, Elmwood Avenue. The programme indicates that "everyone is warmly invited to attend, and will be made welcome, regardless of orientation, gender, denomination or faith".


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The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) Noyce Scholarship Program recently awarded its second round of scholarships to fourteen students at five universities, bringing the total number of scholarships awarded under the program to nineteen. Four scholars from the first round were awarded a second year of support, and ten new scholars joined the program this year. The PhysTEC Noyce Scholarship Program is led jointly by APS and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) as part of the larger PhysTEC project, which funds selected universities to develop their physics teacher preparation programs and increase the number of qualified physics teachers they graduate.
The 2010–2011 scholars attend Ball State University, Cornell University, Seattle Pacific University, the University of Arkansas, and Western Michigan University, all of which have received funding under the PhysTEC project. Six scholars will be seniors in 2010 - 2011, and eight will be post-baccalaureate students. Each will receive a $15,000 scholarship to pursue his or her goal of becoming a physics teacher, and in turn has made a commitment to teach in a high-need school after graduation. Now that the PhysTEC Noyce Scholarship Program is in its second year, we can reflect on what we have learned, and where we believe the project is headed. This article will discuss the general outlines of the program, our strategies for recruiting teachers, and our vision for the future.
Program overview
In 2008, the APS and AAPT won a $750k award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarships to around thirty future physics teachers at PhysTEC-funded institutions over the next five years. Six institutions - the five listed above as well as the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill - signed on to be PhysTEC Noyce sites. Typically the National Science Foundation, which runs the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, gives grants to faculty members at universities, who then grant scholarships to applicants from all science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors. The PhysTEC Noyce award is the first given to a professional society, as well as the first to focus on a single science discipline. According to NSF Program Officer Joan Prival, "The PhysTEC Noyce project is providing a unique implementation of the Noyce program, and we are very interested to see how the project will benefit from the involvement of a professional society working with a consortium of institutions."
For APS and AAPT, the project has two major benefits. One, it allows us to award these scholarships entirely to future physics teachers, which are among the hardest teachers for schools to hire in any math and science field. And two, it ensures that PhysTEC graduates who take the Noyce scholarship will be teaching in the underserved communities where they are needed the most. Specifically, recipients commit to teach for two years in a high-need school district for every year of scholarship support, where "high-need" is defined as any district in which at least one school has a high proportion of low-income students or out-of-field teachers, or a high teacher turnover rate. This is actually a very broad category that includes a significant fraction of US districts, and Noyce teachers typically have little problem finding a position where they can fulfill their commitment.
The Noyce program began in 2002, and received a major boost from Congress in the form of a 2008 supplemental appropriations bill that dramatically increased its budget. The increase was a direct response to the call for increased preparation of more STEM teachers in the National Academies ' influential Rising Above the Gathering Storm report. As of 2009, the program had made 249 awards that supported 2587 future teachers. The philosophy of the program is to provide an incentive for STEM majors to go into teaching, a field typically offering lower salaries than many other career options available to those with a technical background.
We have found that the financial support does indeed make a big difference to students who are considering whether they can afford to go to school to become teachers. According to Gay Stewart, a University of Arkansas physics professor and PhysTEC Noyce site leader who also administers an independent Noyce project, "The Noyce scholarships allow my students to spend their time learning to teach instead of working or worrying about loans. We have an award-winning Master of Arts in Teaching program, but it is full-time and students don 't get support or have time to work. We should not ask our students to choose teaching over higher-paying professions, and then tell them they need to go into debt to become a teacher." Vera Lyman, a Noyce Scholar and graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, echoes this, saying, "Student teaching is a particularly hard time financially for teachers who are just going into education, so to have that scholarship when I was student teaching was really helpful."
Recruiting teachers through Noyce
The success of the PhysTEC Noyce Program depends on effective recruiting of talented students who may be interested in teaching. To this end, we have designed posters and brochures to advertise the program, and sent them to the six project sites each fall to be put up around the physics department and science building. In addition, we have a website and we recently produced a video promoting physics teaching careers, which can be viewed at www.PhysTEC.org/video. We are in the process of producing a version of the video specifically aimed at potential Noyce applicants, which will be ready by the 2010 NSF Noyce Conference. Posters and brochures may pique students ' initial interest, but that is just the beginning of the process. In fact, the most important thing we have learned about recruiting physics teachers is that it is individualized encouragement, advising, and mentorship that makes the real difference. There is no substitute for hearing from a respected professor, "You know, I think you would make a great physics teacher." Becoming a teacher is a commitment of many years if not a lifetime - first to an educational track that leads to teaching certification, and second to service in the classroom and ongoing professional growth to become an expert teacher. Some people are on the teaching track from an early age, but as we see over and over again in the data, very few of these people get physics degrees. Likewise, many students discover and pursue a passion for physics, but not nearly enough of them are drawn into teaching the subject they love.
Seattle Pacific University (SPU) has made its Learning Assistant program the cornerstone of its recruitment strategy. Site leader Lane Seeley describes his department 's efforts to create an environment that emphasizes teaching and learning, "From their first day in a physics class at SPU, students are expected to fully participate in a community of physics learners, taking responsibility for their own learning as well as the learning of their peers. Students who were drawn to the intellectual challenge of science begin to recognize science teaching as a uniquely complex intellectual pursuit. The SPU Learning Assistant program consistently recruits some of the university 's most accomplished students, who are drawn to the challenge of helping others construct physics understanding. For them, the Noyce Scholarship represents both an affordable plan and call to conviction. The decision to apply for a Noyce Scholarship is also an opportunity to transform their interest in physics teaching into a firm plan. One lesson we have learned at SPU is the importance of paying personal attention to individual students. A strategic teacher recruitment and preparation program is important, but there is no substitute for one-on-one mentorship. When we sit down with our students and tell them why we think they would be a great physics teacher they really take it to heart." The success of Seattle Pacific 's efforts to engender in their students a desire to teach is evident in the fact that seven SPU students were awarded scholarships this year.
Another master of the personal touch is Gay Stewart, whose success in advising and mentoring prospective teachers have led to national recognition for Arkansas ' physics teacher preparation program. Stewart says, "Even when you have gotten a student interested in a career teaching physics, there are many roadblocks and distractions that can easily divert them from the teaching track. I work with all my future teachers every semester to make sure they are taking the right courses, getting the right experiences, and staying on track to graduate with the preparation they need to be successful. The Noyce scholarship is a huge help in that it removes the major distraction of how to pay for school, and the expectation of teaching in a high-need school also helps solidify my students ' commitment to the teaching career."
What comes next
It is abundantly clear by now that mentoring and professional development for beginning teachers is as important to their professional success as is their undergraduate preparation. Because the first cohort of PhysTEC Noyce Scholars are only just now completing their scholarship term, the project does not yet have any teachers in the field. But as these teachers begin to graduate and enter the classroom, we plan to support them through a variety of measures. After each of their first two years of teaching, all PhysTEC Noyce teachers will receive funding to attend a one-day professional development program before the AAPT Summer Meeting, as well as the meeting itself. The project also plans to provide opportunities for teachers to attend longer professional development workshops, such as those offered by the Modeling Instruction Program. In addition, the project has offered funding to its sites to hire part-time Teachers-in-Residence to help mentor recent graduates as well as current scholarship recipients. Beyond their cohort in the PhysTEC Noyce program, we expect our graduates to become part of the growing network of Noyce Scholars from around the country. Noyce scholars who are now teaching cite this network as one of the principle benefits of participating in the program. As Shelly Stachurski, a Noyce Scholar and graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, says, "I can attend a conference and inevitably I will run into a Noyce scholar. We will have that connection and immediately we can start talking about how having the Noyce scholarship and this network influences our teaching practice. We share resources, we share stories, and we share email addresses and stay in touch."
Ultimately, the PhysTEC Noyce project hopes to support around 30 teachers over the next five years. But the larger goal of the project is to create not just teachers, but teacher leaders, who will have an impact that stretches beyond their classroom to their fellow teachers, as they take on leadership roles within their districts and professional organizations. As Valerie Otero, PhysTEC site leader and Noyce program administrator at the University of Colorado at Boulder, says, "Noyce Scholars are the future teacher leaders of this country. They are going to be the ones who figure what the education of tomorrow looks like."
Gabriel Popkin works on education projects for the American Physical Society He graduated in 2003 with a B.A. in physics from Wesleyan University.


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Dear Gov. Jindal: I commend you for pushing to repeal the state income tax.
That was the theme of my campaign for governor in 2007.
Dear Gov. Jindal: I commend you for pushing to repeal the state income tax.
That was the theme of my campaign for governor in 2007.
Evidently we now agree that the most prosperous states do not tax income.
We also agree that Louisiana's century-old severance tax on oil and gas should be repealed as well.
There are better ways to pay for state government than collecting an extremely high tax of 12 1/2 percent of value on oil produced in Louisiana.
Unfortunately, doing away with income and severance taxes creates a $4-billion hole in the state budget, and you have promised to make your tax proposal "revenue-neutral."
Where we disagree is on your plan to make up the lost revenue.
You would raise sales taxes to as high as 16 percent by some estimates, including local taxes.
I would not put that burden on the people of Louisiana nor put at risk our retail and tourism industries.
There is a better way.
A 4 percent tax on all the oil and gas processed in Louisiana, including the vast quantities brought in from offshore wells and foreign countries, would raise $4 billion a year.
A hydrocarbon processing tax would recognize Louisiana's evolution from producer of oil and gas to processor, a change that has made the severance tax obsolete.
A processing tax would, for the first time ever, obtain income for the state from an offshore oil industry that is responsible for easily half the destruction of our coastal wetlands.
The best part of this plan is that since the severance tax is in the state constitution, replacing it with a processing tax on oil and gas would require a vote of the people, which I welcome.
The major oil companies say they will leave Louisiana if we tax oil and gas processing. But we have what they want — oil and gas product and the infrastructure to process it.
Gulf of Mexico production is back to its pre-BP-spill levels and expanding.
Oil wells off our coast produce hundreds of thousands of barrels a day.
Our shale formations hold vast sums of oil and gas.
Louisiana has 50,000 miles of pipelines, a host of large oil refineries and a skilled workforce.
We have the Mississippi River to ship product in and out.
Oil companies aren't leaving, but people are, as shown by the stagnation of our population and loss of a congressional district.
If you weigh down Louisiana with a 16 percent sales tax, the outmigration will only get worse.
You are right to propose repeal of income and severance taxes.
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You can meet your goals and balance the budget without creating new problems of inequality.
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With its assets, Louisiana should be the most progressive state in the South.
Instead, we compete with Mississippi for last place.
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I mean it would get rid of all those threads from 6+ months ago. It has the potential to be very annoying though, I'd imagine.
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Instead of just replying we could open up a new thread for each response. It might take a while to get used to the layout, but we could probably clear the front page in a few days.
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Let's have one thread with everything in =4 and then a separate thread about those fucking dead Albanians or whoever.
But I'll give it a shot.
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Developers continue to leak details of Apple's iPhone OS 3.0, which is currently still in beta. The operating system, which is widely speculated to have a release date sometime in June, was first seeded to developers in March and has since gone through several updates. Today, AppleInsider brings us the leak with details on four new features. While these aren't groundbreaking, they will make the operating system that much more polished. If you are expecting an upgraded Springboard functionality and don't deal with disappointment well, though, just stop reading now.
The first of the features is something I've wanted for some time now: the ability to close all inactive open tabs at once in Mobile Safari. In OS 3.0, when you get that annoying "can't open a new browser window because you already have eight open" dialog, you will be able to close all the other tabs, leaving the one you have open untouched.
Second in the quartet of highlighted features is the ability to view battery status as a percentage. I have no issues with the way the current OS handles displaying battery life, but there are those of you out there who apparently want a percentage. It's difficult to tell just how the percentages will be displayed, but hopefully they'll be more elegant than a number between zero and nine as the image posted by AI infers.
Next, there are new push preferences that allow the user to select just which kind of notifications they want to receive. These notification types include sounds, alerts, and badges, and can be disabled or enabled individually. It is unclear whether or not the preferences are global or if they will be available for each application.
The third incarnation of the operating system will also bring with it "Data Detectors" to several Apple applications. There are two examples in the provided screenshot, one being a phone number and the other an e-mail address in the Notes application. With the new detectors, the two pieces of data dial a phone number or create a new mail message when selected, respectively.
There is a fifth feature having to do with audio scrubbing, but I'm not sure of its authenticity. Supposedly, the features allows you to scrub through the currently playing track at a variety of different rates including "Hi-Speed" and "Quarter Speed." I can't put my finger as to why I question the feature—perhaps it's the fact that the on-screen directions seem un-Apple-like.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today that it will launch a limited-run channel showcasing the extensive lineup of SiriusXM's exclusive "Town Hall" series, intimate gatherings with iconic musicians, entertainers and figures sitting down with studio audiences of SiriusXM listeners for an in-depth fan/listener-generated Q&A session.
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"Town Hall Radio," channel 142, will launch on Monday, January 14 at 6:00 am ET with a special presentation of SiriusXM's first ever "Town Hall:" "SiriusXM's Town Hall with Bruce Springsteen." The "Town Hall," recorded live in the SiriusXM studios, originally aired on Bruce Springsteen's SiriusXM channel, E Street Radio, in November, 2010.
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Editor's Note: This story was first published Aug. 12, 2012.
For years in a desert compound east of Los Angeles, dozens of managers for the Church of Scientology endured an unusual trial by fire. The church called it "ecclesiastical discipline," part of the religion. But some managers came away with stories so troubling they attracted the attention of the FBI. They tell of violence and abuse in a place called "the Hole." The church says their stories are lies and exaggerations.
This is the most detailed account yet of what happened inside the Hole. It is based on numerous interviews with a dozen former members of the church's religious order, the Sea Org, and on information found in church materials and court testimony.
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To outsiders, it may have appeared the Church of Scientology was humming along nicely in the mid-2000s. Church officials spoke of a Scientology "Renaissance." Years of strife over the death of a Clearwater Scientologist, Lisa McPherson, had ended.
At big church events, chairman of the board David Miscavige strode smiling to the podium, awash in applause from thousands of parishioners.
Only a few on the inside saw another Scientology storm raging at the church's International Base.
In 2003, Miscavige grew increasingly upset with the performance of the church's top managers. He began consigning many of them for weeks and months at a time to a small office building made of double-wide trailers.
The staff called it "the Hole."
As the decade wore on, it became a place of confinement and humiliation where Scientology's management culture — always demanding — grew extreme. Inside, a who's who of Scientology leadership went at each other with brutal tongue lashings, and even hands and fists. They intimidated each other into crawling on their knees and standing in trash cans and confessing to things they hadn't done. They lived in degrading conditions, eating and sleeping in cramped spaces designed for office use.
All were ministers, members of the Sea Org.
Scientology bills itself as a bridge to "a much higher level of existence — a brighter, happier world." But that was hard to see from the grim environs of the Hole.
Many defectors told the Times that the daily indignities they saw and suffered made them doubt Miscavige and question the cause to which they had given most of their lives.
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Conditions at the "Int Base" had been deteriorating since the early 2000s.
Miscavige always had a temper but now it seemed to hit new levels. To hear him talk, everyone around him was incompetent and he was constantly having to set things right.
At times he could give a compliment or a thoughtful gesture, but fury and domination became the prevailing winds.
Anything could trigger his profane, belittling rants — a hitch in planning for a big event, a video he thought could have been better, any hesitation in answering his questions, a facial expression that hinted at defiance.
At meetings, he flicked open water bottles at fearful staffers, dousing their heads and upper bodies.
Former church spokesman Mike Rinder said Miscavige became angry in 2003 and 2004 after large church events — always painstakingly choreographed — went badly. Miscavige called Rinder and other top leaders "suppressive persons." SPs are considered enemies of Scientology. It's a deep wound to anyone who has pledged to serve the church for a billion years.
Miscavige sent them back to the base for discipline. The second year, they were ordered to sleep in an old house where wayward staffers served out punishments under guard.
By day, they were ordered to a conference room in a small office building where the church's international management team worked. Miscavige said they were to do their "A to E steps," a kind of penance SPs can perform to return to good standing.
He told them to get each other's confessions: Who among them was defying him and sabotaging Scientology with their incompetence, their twisted little secrets?
At first the room held 15 to 20 people. But Miscavige began adding more and the crowd spilled into other parts of the building.
The room devolved into a star chamber, with interrogations carried out by dozens of people at a time, screaming at the person in the middle:
What are your crimes? What are you hiding?
Admit it: You stole money. … You defied orders. … You had an affair.
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As part of their code, Sea Org members promise to always be competent, never make excuses and demand the same of their peers. Like all Scientologists, they believe that keeping transgressions secret burdens a person and weakens those around him.
"A clean heart and clean hands are the only way to achieve happiness and survival," Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote.
Even when staff members had done nothing wrong, they admitted to things they hadn't done, hoping to satisfy the group or just stop the screaming.
Some were allowed out to attend fancy church events. They pulled on smiles and tuxes, only to be sent back to detention later.
In 2004, high-ranking staffers who had done time in the Hole started to run away.
Miscavige ordered John Brousseau, a longtime staffer at the base, to put bars on the doors. Brousseau found several chrome-plated steel bars in the maintenance garage and cut them to fit. He screwed them across three of the building's four exit doors. He also fastened wooden blocks into the window tracks, preventing them from opening more than a few inches.
Nori Matsumaru, a longtime Sea Org member and one of hundreds working in nearby buildings, saw Brousseau working and objected. The bars could be seen by any outsider coming onto the base. "Don't do that," he said. Brousseau said he had his orders.
A few weeks later, Brousseau noticed someone had removed the bars. But the doors were locked and the windows remained blocked. And life in the Hole began to get worse.
Security guards manned the front door around the clock, and the number of occupants ranged from 40 to 70. Violence became routine as colleagues threw each other into walls and attacked each other with punches, pushes, slaps and kicks.
Members of Scientology's brain trust spent their nights in sleeping bags and cots, crammed together on the floor. Meals from the mess hall arrived on golf carts and the managers had 10 or 15 minutes to eat.
For showers, they were marched two abreast to a small locker room in the maintenance garage.
Many were important men and women, pillars of the church for decades. Their names were known and revered by Scientologists around the world.
The French-born Guillaume Lesevre expanded Scientology in Europe then rose to executive director international, the top management official in the church.
Heber Jenztsch, a former actor, was the church's president and a vocal leader in its ongoing fight for respectability.
Top executives Marc Yager and Rinder joined the Sea Org in their teens and worked under Hubbard in the mid-1970s as he ran Scientology from a ship named Apollo.
Now, as Brousseau watched them shuffle to and from the showers, they looked thin, pale and shaken. Their once-vibrant personalities had gone dim, he said. "Like prisoners of war."
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With many of Scientology's leaders in the Hole, Miscavige summoned Debbie Cook to California in 2005 to help out. Cook had run the church's worldwide spiritual headquarters in Clearwater since 1990 and was one of the most recognizable faces in Scientology. She later testified under oath about her experience.
In 2006, Miscavige gave her a tour of the Hole, telling her the dozens of executives inside were incorrigible and had to be separated from the rest of the staff.
Another Clearwater executive, Mark Ginge Nelson, went along for the tour and didn't like what he saw. When he said so at a meeting in Los Angeles, he was instantly disciplined.
Cook watched as Miscavige's assistant physically attacked Nelson and two other Sea Org members took him into an adjacent room. Cook heard the sound of fists meeting skin behind the door. Nelson was made to lick a bathroom floor for 30 minutes.
Another time, Cook watched as Miscavige punched Yager, the longtime executive, and wrestled him to the ground. The church says Miscavige has never physically attacked anyone.
By 2007, occupants of the Hole were dreaming up new ways to elicit more lurid confessions. They took turns seizing the roles of chief inquisitor and drill sergeant. Some sought to survive by showing Miscavige how tough they could be on their fellow SPs, even if it meant betraying friends.
Rinder found it much like the TV reality shows where contestants claw and scratch to stay in the competition. Only this was not for the cameras.
They made their colleagues stand for hours in plastic trash cans, letting them know they were garbage. They poured cold water over their heads and shoulders. They hung demeaning signs around their necks and screamed in their faces.
Those in control made Rinder and others crawl around a large conference table with their pant legs rolled up for 10 to 15 minutes at a time. They kicked their colleagues in the rear if they stopped or tried to cover their scraped knees.
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In May 2007, it was Cook's turn to experience the humiliations of the Hole. She was on the phone with Miscavige when two men came to her office at the Int Base, impatiently banged on the door, then broke in through a window. "Goodbye," Miscavige said over the phone, and the men took her away.
Cook spent the next seven weeks in the Hole.
By then, more than 100 people were crowded in there, eating, sleeping and confessing. Meals were a slop of mystery meat and other leftovers.
That summer, Miscavige suspected that Lesevre and Yager were homosexuals. He ordered three others — Lisa Schroer, Jennifer Linson and Angie Blankenship — to get the two executives to confess.
With Schroer taking the lead, the scene intensified. Dozens of church managers descended on the two men, slugging, slapping, throwing them against walls.
As always, anyone who tried to intervene and stop the madness risked being targeted by the mob. When Cook stood up for Lesevre and Yager, the group turned on her. They put her in a trash can with a sign "Lesbo" around her neck. They screamed at her to confess she was gay and poured cold water over her head.
The ordeal continued for 12 hours.
Another time, Miscavige became convinced Cook was keeping secrets and ordered his assistant to break her finger. She bent Cook's pinky back hard but did not break it.
In another meeting, he ordered an assistant to slap Cook when she couldn't answer one of his questions. She fell into some chairs.
Once, Miscavige stormed around the table, screamed at her and shook her shoulders.
Cook thought about leaving the Hole but it didn't seem possible.
The windows were blocked and church guards manned the only door out. Security fences surrounded the sprawling compound. Surveillance cameras captured every angle and motion sensors triggered bright lights along the perimeter.
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With enough bravado, staffers could push their way past the guards and march away. But most never got that far in their thinking.
Many in the Hole had toiled in the Sea Org for all their adult lives. They had learned to ignore physical discomfort and focus on Scientology's long-term goals.
You'd be abandoning the group if you left. You would jeopardize your spiritual salvation. Your Scientologist family members and friends would disown you.
You'd be admitting you made a huge mistake, wasted your life.
You had little money and little experience outside the church, not good if you hoped to survive in the scary world beyond the fence.
For many, it was easier for doubters just to take it — "to sit on the side of the road idly and sort of freeze," Brousseau said, "white-knuckled at the wheel, wondering which way to turn."


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One bright spot that has persisted amidst our current troubled global economy is growth of Internet services. And fortunately, it seems as though there are still great growth opportunities online; as global Internet penetration rate is still just barely above 30%, we clearly have a long way to go in this trend. What's going to be the key technology that drives us there?
Specifically, here are 10 ways the cloud has changed the way business is done:
1. Push Prices Down
At its core, the cloud is a cost-saving technology: it enables data to be more easily shared, which in turn allows resources to be allocated more efficiently (companies like AirBnb or GetAround are examples of services that use cloud technologies to push prices down and improve allocation of assets). Most notably, a study conducted by the London School of Economics concluded that cloud computing makes it easier and cheaper to innovate. Cost reduction enables many other transformations, such as…
2. Greater Entrepreneurship
Just as clouds have enabled businesses to dramatically lower their cost of operations, they have by extension lowered the cost of starting a business — and thus spurred entrepreneurship. And thanks to cloud technologies and the degree of data sharing they enable, independent businesses can share their collective infrastructure costs via the cloud. Rackspace, is using our cloud technology to promote entrepreneurship via their Startup Program.
3. Small Business Partnerships
Of course, the cloud doesn't just dramatically reduce the costs of starting a business — it also reduces the cost and difficulty of partnering with other businesses by making it easier to use APIs of other applications. Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, has said that APIs enable a new form of business development for small businesses that makes meaningful collaboration more possible for all organizations, big and small.
4. Build a Modular Organization
Running parallel to the idea that cloud technologies facilitate small business partnerships is that they enable larger companies to create a modular organization. Prabhakar Gopalan notes that this is a manifestation of Conway's Law, in that modular communication systems built on cloud technologies will ultimately yield modular organizations as well. Basically, cloud technology enables better participation across small teams — which in turn enables organizations to be less hierarchical and more modular, which reduces the organization's risk against collapse of any single department of its unit.
5. Reduce Technical Barriers
Consistent with the basic theme that cloud technologies enable sharing is that they also, by extension, enable collaboration and specialization. As such, cloud technologies enable non-technical individuals to participate in and lead information systems. This is especially a focus of ours at Rackspace, and hence why we made our mission to bring fanatical support to the cloud technologies that we provide.
6. Facilitate International Business
To put it simply, the cloud makes it easier to share data. This makes it easier for the same data to get to computers all over the world faster than ever before, which in turn makes international business easier. Take for example, Rackspace Cloud Files and it's built-in CDN using the Akamai technology. End users can access your web content faster by retrieving data cached content from servers closest to them, rather than from the origin.
7. Work on All Computing Devices
Thanks to the cloud, businesses can more easily reach their customer regardless of what computing device they are using. Clouds enable an organization 's offerings to be re-packaged and customized via APIs by independent third parties with their own audience, and for an organization's own workforce to collaborate more easily regardless of how they are connecting to the Internet. And so we organizations are transforming into …
8. Mobile Workforces
Because the cloud enables greater collaboration on any computing device from anywhere in the world, it is leading us to a world characterized by a mobile workforce: business travel for building deeper bonds based on the loose bonds created by cloud-based collaboration is becoming more common.
9. Always On
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The cloud is also enabling organizations to transform themselves into learning centers that create a workforce more educated and informed than ever before.
"The most significant benefits of cloud-based learning are that it enables accessibility from multiple devices (e.g., computer, tablet, smart phone) and allows for both formal and informal learning with a wide network of individuals, one that is not limited to a specific institution," writes Marci Paino of Clomedia.
The cloud enables greater productivity and efficiency than ever before. That's how it's become an essential technology that's transformed our world.
Simit Patel is a trader, writer, and technology entrepreneur. Simit blogs via Contently.com. This is a guest post and the opinions of the author may not reflect those of Rackspace.


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The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the team has signed captain Adam Foote to a one-year contract for the upcoming 2010-11 season.
"Adam's veteran leadership has been and will continue to be a big part of our success," said Avalanche General Manager/Executive Vice President Greg Sherman. "He provided stability last season and set an example for our young players right from the start of training camp. We are pleased to have our captain back for another year."
It was clear that Foote had lost a step or two last season, but even though he may not be a top 2 or even 3 or 4 guy anymore, the intangibles and toughness he brings would have been missed in the Avalanche locker room had he retired.
The Avs need to get younger and faster on D, and hopefully Foote's signing means that Avalanche fans will be spared another year of Brett Clark and Ruslan Salei.


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Scenario: Ken, a millwright, suffered an eye injury, minor burns, bruises, and abrasions as a result of an accident he suffered while testing a hydraulic motor. Surprisingly, when the accident occurred he was following the test procedures that were included in the troubleshooting section of the machine manufacturer's service manual.
Ken had received a report that a conveyor stopped unexpectedly and would not respond to the start/stop control switch on the operator's console. During his initial examination of the equipment, he noticed that the operating temperature of the oil had risen from a normal of 110° F to approximately 170° F. He also noticed that oil was leaking from the shaft seal in the motor.
He then referred to the troubleshooting section in the machine manufacturer's service manual for guidance. It stated that shaft-seal leakage is a symptom of excessive internal leakage, and gave general instructions on how to test for such leakage. Here are the recommendations given by the manufacturer to perform the test:
1. Disconnect the case drain line from the port at the motor housing.
2. Hold the open end of the drain line in a receptacle.
3. While holding the line, operate the machine through a load cycle.
4. If a small amount of oil exhausts from the line, the internal leakage is satisfactory, so only the shaft seal needs to be replaced.
5. If a large volume of oil exhausts from the line, leakage is excessive. The motor should be replaced.
Next, Ken locked out the machine in accordance with his company's lockout policy and proceeded with the test. He first disconnected the hydraulic line that was connected to a port in the motor housing, but the case drain line was approximately 75 feet long, and not readily accessible, so he fabricated a (temporary) shorter length of hose and connected it to the motor. He placed the open end of the hose in an empty 5-gal oil container.
Now he was ready to perform the test, so he removed his lock from the breaker. Holding the hose in the neck of the container, he called the operator on his 2-way radio and asked him to run the machine through a load cycle. When the test commenced, the conveyor was unloaded.
As the motor began to turn, the millwright pulled the hose away from the neck of the container so he could see any leakage, Figure 1. A stream of oil began to exhaust from the hose, into the container. At first the leakage appeared to be minor. Then, without warning, the oil began to spray out of the hose with such intensity that it jerked the hose violently, tearing it out of his hand. It jerked back and forth rapidly; the oil struck him in the face, knocking his safety glasses off as the hose pulled away. As it twisted back the other way, it struck him against the chest, knocking him backwards and over the edge of the platform on which he was standing. He fell approximately 3 feet to the ground. The operator shut the machine off when he noticed the low-oil-level warning light flashing on the instrumentation console.
Ken was taken to a hospital and treated for minor burns and abrasions and had to have hydraulic fluid flushed from his eyes. He was thankful that he was wearing his safety glasses, because the oil exhausting from the hose hit his face with such brutal intensity that the rims of his safety glasses bruised the perimeter of his eye sockets.
What caused the flow to increase so dramatically?
First, you must remember two fundamental principles applicable to hydraulics. One, pressure is a function of resistance to flow. Two, the greater the pressure difference across an opening, the greater the flow rate.
When the test commenced, the conveyor was running unloaded, so the system pressure was relatively low. Thus, even if a motor was worn or damaged, the leakage could be minor. However, when the load was placed on the conveyor, the pressure immediately increased to meet the load demand. High-pressure differential can force a large volume of oil through excessive clearances caused by wear or damage.
This is precisely why testing any hydraulic component to atmosphere can cause severe injury, death, or substantial property damage — it should never be done!
How this accident could have been prevented
This motor test is probably one of the most simple, straightforward tests for hydraulic components. It can be executed with the highest degree of safety. Here is an outline of how a motor case flow test should be conducted:
1. Install a suitable flow meter in the case drain line, Figure 2.
2. Operate the machine (if possible) until the oil temperature is normal — approximately 130° F.
3. Operate the machine at no-load (nominal pressure), and record the no-load flow and pressure.
4. Operate the machine at full load (maximum pressure), and record the full-load flow and pressure.
5. Check the no-load flow against the full-load flow, and see that it is within recommended specifications. A good go/no-go rule-of-thumb is that if the full-load flow exceeds the no-load flow by approximately 25%, the leakage is excessive.
Note: using case flow tests exclusively to determine wear in hydraulic pumps and motors is not recommended. It does not detect wear between the barrel and the port/wear plate, and can therefore mask a significant amount of leakage that is not detectable in the case drain line.
Training — Training is the most significant vehicle for improving safety in all walks of life. As you will witness through this series of articles, ignorance is the root cause of almost all accidents associated with hydraulics. The fact that this test procedure was actually published in a service manual — and probably found its way into the hands of unsuspecting people (possibly all over the world) — is testimony to the fact that ignorance in the fluid power industry is far reaching.
Safety information — It was inevitable that someone following this procedure would get hurt. However, the recommendations neglected to mention additional crucial safety information which, although not directly related to the task at hand, should always be reinforced:
• lockout and tagout — critical
• safety glasses — critical
• proper diagnostic tools — critical
• proper skills — critical, and
• names of contacts for technical assistance — important.
Do not compromise — Machinery and equipment manufacturers sometimes assume that the customer will not have the proper tools to do the job. Consequently, they may offer a compromise. For example, remove a hose and "see" the flow, instead of using a flow meter. Or, crack a line to "see" for pressure, instead of using a pressure gage.
Manufacturers should state emphatically in their verbal and written communication, that if a person does not have the proper training and/or tools, they must not attempt to do the test. They should also point out the consequences of failing to follow safety recommendations.
Job safety breakdown — Machinery and equipment manufacturers should provide detailed Job safety breakdowns for the machinery they design and build.
Lead by example — Technical representatives from machinery or equipment manufacturers are extremely influential people. If they set a good example for safety in the field, others will follow. Not only must they abide by their own safety rules and procedures, but they must also respect those of their customers.
If they service a customer's machine, they must have with them the proper diagnostic tools and equipment. If they are working with a customer's personnel, they must continuously reinforce safety and tell what they are doing and why. The hard-working people in our plants and factories need all the help they can get — if you learn and know, share it with the world!
Technical schools and colleges— The greatest incubator for safety is where minds go to learn — the classroom. Fluid power instructors themselves must learn how to execute safe test procedures so they can help others do the same.
Stress safety every day and for each and every step taken in a job— and never give up! Demonstrate that you really care about safety, and you may save a few lives. What can be more important than that?
Rory McLaren is president, Fluid Power Training Institute, Salt Lake City. For more information, call (801) 908-5456, email [email protected], or visit www.fpti.org.
Caution: Rory McLaren and the Fluid Power Training Institute do everything possible to ensure that the information and drawings contained in these reports are accurate and that the suggested procedures are deemed safe and reliable. However, these are general recommendations only and might not be applicable to all situations. You must have your engineering and service departments read these recommendations and make the necessary changes for your specific conditions.
The Fluid Power Training Institute is not responsible for actions taken by untrained or unauthorized persons. All hydraulic system service, repair, and troubleshooting should be conducted only by trained, authorized personnel.


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- Winning Time28.78s
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Thailand's celebrity baby panda Lin Ping is almost 4 years old now. It's time to move to China, find a mate and have cubs.
BANGKOK (AP) � Thailand's celebrity baby panda Lin Ping is almost 4 years old now. It's time to move to China, find a mate and have cubs.
The move won't be permanent, however, thanks to a deal hammered out between the two countries that will cost Thailand $1 million a year, the Thai foreign minister said Friday.
Once the star of a Thai reality show, the panda's future has been a topic of high-level negotiation for months. Last year, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra asked then-Chinese premier Wen Jiabao to consider extending the panda's loan contract which ends on its 4th birthday, May 27.
A breakthrough was announced Friday, when the Chinese Embassy informed Thai authorities that Lin Ping can stay in Thailand until October, said Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul. Lin Ping will then relocate to China, where authorities will find her a male partner, and the two will be allowed to return to Thailand to mate, he said.
"Normally every baby panda born overseas must return to China to breed," Surapong said, but the Chinese made an exception due to close bilateral ties with Thailand.
Lin Ping was born in Thailand's Chiang Mai Zoo to two adult pandas that were on loan from China. Her birth was front-page news in Thailand and the panda family starred in a much-loved but lethargic reality show that broadcast live from the pandas' zoo habitat for almost three years.
China has not set a date for Lin Ping's return to Thailand but will try to ensure it is within a year, Surapong said. She will be allowed to remain in Thailand for up to 15 years, at a cost of $1 million per year, said Surapong.
"The new fee is four times higher," he said. The old contract called for a $250,000 panda loan fee. "But (we) can accept that."


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LONDON -- WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange said Saturday that hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents leaked by the website showed the 'truth' on the Iraq war.
"This disclosure is about the truth," Assange told a news conference in London after WikiLeaks released 400,000 documents which give a grim snapshot of the Iraq war, including showing the abuse of Iraqi civilians by Iraqi security forces.
"The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends," Assange added. Profile of the WikiLeaks founder
"We hope to correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war and which has continued on since the war officially concluded."
WikiLeaks' spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson told the same news conference that it would also soon release a further batch of 15,000 secret files on the war in Afghanistan.
The heavily redacted files released Friday contain graphic accounts of torture, civilian killings and Iran's hand in the Iraq war, giving a grisly picture of years of blood and suffering following the 2003 US invasion to oust Saddam Hussein.
The Iraqi government said the documents "did not contain any surprises". Related article: Wikileaks files held 'no surprises'
Many of the documents, which span from January 2004 to December 2009, chronicle claims of abuse by Iraqi security forces, while others appear to show that US troops did nothing to intervene to stop the abuse.
The documents comprise the second such release from the controversial website, which accused the United States of "war crimes" and earlier released some 92,000 similar secret military files detailing operations in Afghanistan.
WikiLeaks made the files available to selected newspapers and TV channels and then, just before their publication, invited journalists for a three-hour lock-in preview in London. Facts about WikiLeaks
In one report, US military personnel describe detainee abuse by Iraqis at a facility in Baghdad that is holding 95 detainees in a single room where they are "sitting cross-legged with blindfolds, all facing the same direction."
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It says "many of them bear marks of abuse to include cigarette burns, bruising consistent with beatings and open sores... according to one of the detainees questioned on site, 12 detainees have died of disease in recent weeks."
Other reports describe Iraqis beating prisoners and civilian women being killed at US military checkpoints.
The Guardian newspaper said the leak showed "US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers whose conduct appears to be systematic and normally unpunished."
It added that "more than 15,000 civilians died in previously unknown incidents," going on to say that "US and UK officials have insisted that no official record of civilian casualties exists but the logs record 66,081 non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities."
The Guardian said WikiLeaks is thought to have obtained the electronic archive from the "same dissident US army intelligence analyst" who leaked 90,000 logs about the war in Afghanistan this year. WikiLeaks has not revealed its source.
Al-Jazeera concluded that major findings of the leaked papers included a US military cover-up of Iraqi state-sanctioned torture and "hundreds" of civilians deaths at manned American checkpoints.
On Iran's role in the conflict, the secret US files show Tehran waging a shadow war with US troops in Iraq, with a firefight erupting on the border and Tehran allegedly using militias to kill and kidnap American soldiers.
The documents describe Iran arming and training Iraqi hit squads to carry out attacks on coalition troops and Iraqi government officials, with the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps suspected of playing a crucial role, the Times and the Guardian reported, citing the files.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned "in the most clear terms" the leaks of any documents putting Americans at risk, while the Pentagon warned that releasing secret military documents could endanger US troops and Iraqi civilians.
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said the documents were "essentially snapshots of events, both tragic and mundane, and do not tell the whole story."
A spokesman for the Iraqi rights ministry said: "The report did not contain any surprises, because we had already mentioned many things that happened, including at Abu Ghraib prison, and many cases involving US forces."


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Bay Weekly's movie reviewer joins prestigious Washington DC Area Film Critics Association
After what she calls a "long history of being a really annoying amateur film critic," Bay Weekly's own Diana Beechener is now a member of the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.
The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association keeps its membership select with "stringent" criteria. Its critics must have history — at least 50 reviews in a year. Their publication must have scope: 50,000 readers a month for print.
Beechener joins critics who write for The Washington Post and The New York Times, as well as bloggers who get more space and leeway to go in-depth than paper critics usually do. Beechener says she's excited to meet and talk film with her 50 peers. Another perk of membership is that she now gets free passes to film screenings.
Her membership also means that Bay Weekly has influence at year-end awards. Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics is among a group of critical organizations around the country whose awards are credited with influence on the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
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Now that you've eaten your fill, its time to get down to serious business - Lamar County playoff football.
Here is Kenny Green's preview of Lamar County's quarterfinal matchup with the Jefferson Dragons…
Lamar County (12-0) will host defending state champion Jefferson this week in the quarterfinal round of the GHSA Class AA state playoffs. The Dragons are 10-2 and the #2 seed from Region 8-AA.
When and Where:
Friday 7:30 p.m. at Trojan Field.
Trojans Lawrence Austin (1) and Quay Searcy (6) will lead the Trojans against the Jefferson Dragons Friday night in the quarterfinals of the Class AA state football playoffs.
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The Ohio University Alumni Association (OUAA) invites alumni and the Athens community to join them for an event that will be a "hole-in-one" for all. The "Play on the Green" Golf Outing, part of OUAA's inagural On the Green Weekend May 29-June 1, is an opportunity for alums and community members to show off their golfing skills and win prizes.
The event takes place on May 31 at 2 p.m. at the Ohio University Golf Course and is hosted by OUAA's Thomas Ewing Society. For a registration fee of $65, contestants get nine holes of golf, a cart, and can compete in three different contests: closest to the pin, longest drive and best team. Golfers can also purchase mulligans, kicks, throws, and skirts. Winners of each contest will be awarded with gift certificates to the OUAA Bobcat Store. Golfers who are able to score a hole in one will be awarded two season tickets to the upcoming Ohio Bobcat football season. Prizes will be awarded at a reception that follows the event. All proceeds from the event support the OUAA Legacy Scholarship.
Registration closes May 22. Visit www.ohio.edu/alumni/onthegreen for more information and to sign up. For questions, contact the Alumni Association at 740-593-4300.


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