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Toffee Troubles
What sorts of things can go wrong with toffee making? Will humidity doom a toffee to failure, or could there be something more sinister at work?
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Candy is a delicate creature, unfit to survive creation out of captivity. Only with constant attention, experience, care, and the proper environment will it make it from its early ingredients stage to the confection we all know and love. Candy made for the holidays is even worse, because chances are you only make it once per year. I mean, you may make hundreds of batches at that one time per year, but it'll still be twelve months until your next attempt, so the skills fade.
Okay, I exaggerate. Yes, candy making requires experience and knowledge, but it only seems mysterious because you're trying to make something that, candy lovers claim, tastes so much better than anything else. And toffee, being one of the tastiest of candies, requires a bit more knowledge to ensure it works.
The short answer is "yes," humidity will absolutely affect candy making. I don't believe, however, that humidity was the problem with your toffee. Humidity is more likely to affect the texture of the toffee, taking away the crunch and making it limp or saucy. Also, unless you're adding an acid or some fructose, you're not likely to absorb all that much water.
The general goal with most candies is to create a sugar dissolved in a specific amount of water, with perhaps some other things thrown in for flavor or texture. Candy makers, being extremely clever, have come up with a couple of somewhat indirect ways of determining the ratio of sugar to water. The traditional way is to cause the candy to cool rapidly and see how it behaves, generally in water but I've also seen someone* just flick some at a plate and see what kind of strands it makes. The new fashioned way is to take its temperature.
As you've made this toffee before, it's not likely that temperature is the problem you're having, so I will not go into detail on the various stages of candy making. Yes, I know: it's brilliant how many things are probably not wrong with the toffee, but perhaps I could get to the point? Working on it.
When you have a high enough concentration of sugar in heated water, the sugar is going to want to get together and form crystals. Sometimes this is good, such as with rock candy or fudge. Sometimes this is bad, such as with hard candy or toffee. One method of preventing the crystals in toffee is to mix in a bunch of butter, which is great, but it presents potential problems that frustrate the toffee maker.
Problem one is that butter is a combination of water and oil, which means that you are increasing the water content of the mixture, and some butters will have different oil to water ratios. The water content shouldn't be a problem in and of itself, as you can't reach the right temperature of the solution without getting rid of the appropriate amount of water. On the other hand, if you use a butter with a different amount of water, then you are also using a butter with a different amount of oil, which will certainly throw things off. It's worth mentioning that if you usually use salted butter and used unsalted this time, or vice versa, that could cause the problem as well. So, if you might have changed brands of butter, this could be a cause of trouble.
Problem two is temperature. I know, I know, I wrote that I didn't think that the problem was temperature. I even put it in bold. More specifically, problem two is temperature measurement. Getting to the right temperature ensures that you have the appropriate amount of water in the solution, but it's possible that you might not be getting to the right temperature. If you are using a thermometer instead of the traditional methods, then you need to verify that the thermometer is accurate. To do this, put the thermometer into ice water and see if it reads 32°F / 0°C. Also, put it into boiling water and verify that it reads 212°F / 100°C. If it does, you're probably good. If not, you might not really be getting to the proper temperature, which could be trouble. Unless you're not at sea level, in which case verify what the proper temperature should be for your elevation.
Problem three is heat dissipation. It is vital that the sugar/butter/water solution be heated evenly. This means using a strong but temperature-neutral spoon. Wood is traditional, but I'm sure a serious silicone spoon will be fine. Also, it's recommended to use a burner that's larger than your cooking vessel, to ensure that the sides of the pan do not cool the mixture while the bottom is heating it. Heat imbalances kill candy.
Problem four is agitation. Yes, candy-making can really drive you nuts, but that's not what I mean. I'm talking about stirring. Stir slowly. Add ingredients slowly. If you dump a bunch of almonds into the mixture rather than pouring the toffee over the almonds just before the cooling stage, then be gentle with the mixing. Slowly. No, more slowly than that.
I've heard that adding a bit of salt will make life easier, and I've also heard that adding a bit more water may do the same. The success of these solutions (no pun intended) will depend on the particular toffee recipe you're trying, but are at best risk mitigation. If you have an otherwise good toffee recipe, which I believe you do, then they shouldn't be necessary.
Why is toffee such a pain, even more so than other candies? It's because toffee is a candy that is also a sauce. It's very similar to an article I wrote last month about the troubles with Alfredo Sauce. Not only do you have the whole "sugar likes to turn into a bunch of crystals" problem that plagues most candies, but you're suspending a bunch of oil in a solution of things that don't really play well with oil. You're expecting the sugar, which is temperamental at best, to keep oil from mixing with water, and we all know how well that's supposed to work out. But treat it with care, and everything should work out okay. If not, let me know and we can work on the other, less likely scenarios.
For those who don't have their own toffee recipe, or if you just want to try a new one, here is a toffee recipe that covers the advice that I mentioned plus a few other items that I didn't.
*- Sue Ashburn, creator of the greatest toffee in existence.
This post was originally hosted at FineCooking.com on Januray 8, 2009. This content is not available under a Creative Commons License.


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Cambridge, Mass. - For the fourth straight season, fans of America East lacrosse can voice their opinion on who the best player in the conference is. Voting for the 2012 America East Men's and Women's Lacrosse Fans' Choice Player of the Year awards is now open with voting taking place on the league's Facebook page for the first time.
UMBC's nominees are junior attackman Scott Jones on the men's side and junior midfielder Lindsay Cox for the women. Jones is tenth in the nation in with 2.82 goals per game and has scored 17 times in his last five contests. He has excelled in America East play, scoring four goals vs. Hartford, five time vs. Stony Brook and four more, including the overtime game-winning goal vs. Albany. Cox just reached the 40-goal plateau in UMBC's 7-6 win over No. 19 Johns Hopkins. She has scored four or five goals in a game on five occasions in 2012.
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Voting for the 2012 America East Men's and Women's Lacrosse Fans' Choice Players of the Year will go until 12 p.m. (noon) on Monday, April 30. The winners will be announced that afternoon via release at AmericaEast.com.

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President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) expressed confidence that Taiwan and the Holy See would strengthen diplomatic ties under Pope Francis' leadership, upon returning home last night after a three-day trip to the Vatican for the pope's inaugural Mass.
Ma and a five-person delegation, including first lady Chow Mei-ching (周美青), landed at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at 7pm. The president hailed the trip as a successful diplomatic overture in a brief speech at the airport.
"We have great expectations for the Republic of China's relations with the Holy See," he said.
The Vatican is the nation's only diplomatic ally in Europe and the two countries have maintained diplomatic ties since 1942.
Ma described Pope Francis as friendly and low-key. During his brief meeting with the pope, Ma said he offered his congratulations to the pope in Spanish, and then continued the exchange in English.
Earlier yesterday, during a press conference in the Vatican City, Ma dismissed concerns about China's urge for the Holy See to sever ties with Taiwan and called for a win-win solution to the matter.
"There are a lot of Catholics in both Taiwan and China, so the two sides should work together to avoid political confrontation over relations with the Vatican ... Cross-strait relations should be a virtuous circle of mutual benefit," he said.
Prior to the inauguration Mass, Ma also held brief exchanges with other heads of state and delegations, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Ma said he and US Vice President Joe Biden had discussed economic exchanges between Taiwan and the US, including talks under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement. Ma added that he also expected bilateral ties with Washington to be stronger in the future.
Separately yesterday, Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lin (林永樂) said Ma's attendance at the pope's installation was a powerful symbol of the amicable relationship between the Republic of China and the Holy See, and would help consolidate ties.
Lin said the demand by China that the Vatican cut ties with Taiwan did not mean much, because it was a reiteration of Beijing's previous stance.
The ministry hoped that Taiwan would continue to solidify ties with the Holy See, based on exchanges in the fields of culture and education, as well as in joint cooperation in humanitarian efforts, he said.
Lin said the biggest problem between China and the Vatican was the former's restrictions on freedom of religion, which has hampered progress in the two countries' relationships.
Earlier this week, at a meeting of the legislature's National Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Tsai Huang-liang (蔡煌瑯) said that the reason the Vatican has not yet appointed another cardinal to serve in Taiwan after Cardinal Paul Shan (單國璽) passed away in August last year had something to do with China.
In an e-mail to the Taipei Times, Monsignor Paul Russell, the Vatican's top envoy to Taiwan, said there were no politics involved in the matter.
"The pope himself chooses whom to appoint as cardinal and when to make the announcement of that appointment. It is the pope's own free decision. The most important responsibility of a cardinal, as we have seen in the last days, is to vote in the election of a new pope," Russell said.
"The pope freely chooses the cardinals who will elect his successor. The appointment of a cardinal is a religious and spiritual matter because it involves religious and spiritual responsibilities," he added.


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The new manager of Central Park's Tavern on the Green restaurant might not keep the decades-old, world famous moniker.
Restaurateur Dean Poll said that while the name "has history," a new one would be "fresh." It also could cost him a lot of money to use the old one.
Even though the city's parks department named Poll as manager of the restaurant on Friday, previous operator Jennifer LeRoy still controls the name.
LeRoy spokeswoman Shelley Clark says the name "has a future."
The LeRoys also own manage a Tavern on the Green in Florida.
Poll takes over the restaurant on Jan. 1. In his proposal, he said he would invest $25 million, and renovate using green technology.
The original building dates to the 19th century. It initially housed sheep.


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Charlie Sheen's cameo in the much-awaited sequel to 1987's "Wall Street" starts out compelling as the two stars come face-to-face with each other -- but is ultimately unsatisfying. While Douglas is back in full Gordon Gekko charisma, the scene ultimately lacks the chemistry between the two characters that sent the original to such great heights.
Sure it's only a scene, but Sheen feels out of place in that moment. A Los Angeles Times story from the set of "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" sheds some light on why it might not have reached the level many would have hoped.
Sheen, who played Gekko's protege Bud Fox (and who ultimately turns against his corrupt boss) appears at a gala benefit which Gekko attends after years in prison for his Wall Street trading crimes. Because of Sheen's "Two and a Half Men" schedule, he had flown in to do the shoot the night before and would leave in the afternoon.
"He is clearly disoriented by either the travel or the setting or both, and he curses through his continually flubbed lines," the Times reports.
Sheen himself addresses the discomfort.
"I'm just trying to get my bearings," he says between takes. "It's a bit of a ghost-like thing, showing up. I just got in last night, and in a nanosecond I'm face to face with Michael and there's Oliver grinning behind the camera. It's just so weird." Adds Stone, "He said that TV cameras don't get so close to your face. It's been tough on him."
While the scene clearly came together, it lacked magic. This discomfort comes through on the screen.


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January 22, 2013
Advance Pharmaceutical Recalls one Lot (# 12G468) of Ferrous Sulfate Tablets, 325 mg, that may actually contain Meclizine HCl 25 mg tablets
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding the recall of one lot of Ferrous Sulfate Tablets, 325 mg, Lot 12G468 Exp. 07/14, UPC Barcode 0 0536-5890-01 3. The lot was manufactured and packaged in 100 count bottles by Advance Pharmaceutical Inc. under the label of Rugby NATURAL IRON SUPPLEMENT Ferrous Sulfate.
Advance Pharmaceutical Inc. initiated the recall on December 28, 2012 because they received a pharmacist complaint that a bottle of Ferrous Sulfate Tablets, 325 mg 07-2014, contained Meclizine HCl 25 mg tablets, NDC 0536-3990-01.
Taking Meclizine HCl 25 mg as Ferrous Sulfate 325 mg may cause serious side effects to those who consume alcohol or other sedatives, those with a pre-existing CNS disorder, those with imprinted kidney or liver function, the elderly, nursing infants of lactating mothers who received the drug and newborns of mothers who received the drug immediately before childbirth.
The full recall can be found at www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm336107.htm?source=govdelivery.


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Why Libraries Rock
August 31, 2009 2 Comments
In order to raise awareness not only of the plight of the Louisville Free Public Library but libraries everywhere I decided to participate in the Blogathon that Andy Woodworth got started.
So why are libraries awesome or rock or kick butt? All libraries rock because they allow free access to all information (be it print, audio, visual or world wide webable). We do a lot more than that but since each library focuses on different aspects of their community I thought I'd blog about why MY library rocks!
My library rocks starting at the top and it works it's way down through every staff member.
- Our Library Board is very supportive of what we do and sees that our mission & vision stays current and provides our customer base with what they expect.
- Our Executive Director and CEO has seen that we are not only aligned with but synonymous with education. Education is the corner stone of what we do. We educate all the time – whether it is a story time class, book promotion, or customer service staff helping a customer log into their account. Each interaction is based in educating, in training. This is just one of the many initiatives she has implemented since coming to Howard County.
- Our Public Relations department that produces an outstanding newsletter every quarter that highlights our classes, events, and seminars. They have created the Howard County Library brand and oversee everything from our flyers, to our signs, to our social web presence making sure we are consistently presenting the correct image and wording.
- Our Information Technology department which not only supports over 300 computers (and more coming) for our public to use (using a Linux operating system which allows us to save our tax payers money while providing a stable, secure environment on which to work) but also the staff desktops (in Linux, Mac and Windows). We also maintain the web site, catalogs, and databases so our customers may self-direct their education.
- Our Children's & Teen Curriculum – what can I say about all the wonderful classes our children's services provide? I've been privy to many (taking photos or just walking by) – the amount of energy, time, thought and fun (while learning) that goes into these classes is second to none. These instructors really have a calling and put our youngest customers on the path to lifelong learning. The teen events are no less spectacular. Making purses from old jeans, "Hogwarts Summer School" to celebrate the latest Harry Potter movie, Duct Tape flip-flops and gaming nights give our teens a safe environment to socialize, learn and interact.
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Forza banning and enforcement
Online games are at their best when everyone plays fairly and treats other players with respect. Forza Motorsport & Forza Horizon, like many online games, can enforce adherence to fair play by using game-specific bans.
This article describes multiplayer bans in Forza titles, including what behavior can trigger a ban, and the consequences of being banned from Forza title features and multiplayer gameplay.
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What is a ban?
A ban prevents an Xbox Live profile from using features of Forza titles. Bans are specific to a player's profile, so changing a banned player's gamertag does not eliminate a ban. Banned players will see a message stating the terms of the ban when they try to use features of the game.
Note A player can be banned from Forza titles independently of other Xbox Live enforcement actions. A user can be banned from this game but still be able to use Xbox Live and play other games online.
What counts toward a ban?
Generally, players are banned for repeated demonstrations of offensive behavior, cheating or unfair play. Players can also be banned for accessing content (saves, map packs, and so on) that is licensed to a banned profile. Examples of unacceptable behavior include:
- Violating the Xbox Live Terms of Use.
- Violating the Xbox Live Code of Conduct.
- Cheating or "griefing" (such as intentionally crashing into other players) in online games
- Playing on a hacked or modified a console or profile
- Sharing a console or content with banned profiles
How can I tell if I've been banned?
A message explaining the details of the ban appears when you try to access the affected feature.
Players who are banned because of hacking or mods receive a connection error when they try to access online features. A message explaining the ban is available in the Message Center, which is accessible from the pause menu.
What happens if I've been banned?
Most bans occur because of unacceptable behavior or content, such as lewd decoration on a car. On the first offense, a player receives a temporary ban from using that feature, usually of a few weeks. Subsequent offenses will lead to either another temporary, or even permanent, ban from that feature.
Banned players cannot access the specific game feature that is relevant to their ban (for example, vinyl customization). Bans for hacking or using a modified console blocks access to all online features of the game. These bans are always permanent, and there is no appeal process for bans.
There are many features of the game that are still available to banned players:
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Tech sits in 10th place
SAPPHIRE, N.C. – Greg Kitts fired a three-under-par 69 in Monday's first round at the Hummingbird Intercollegiate, good enough for a spot in fifth place among 93 golfers at Tennessee Tech's final tournament of the fall season.
Kitts, a sophomore from Caryville, Tenn., was the lowest Golden Eagle finisher on the first day of play, leading Tech into 10th place out of 17 teams, a field which includes top-25-ranked UAB as well as highly-ranked Vanderbilt.
The Golden Eagles shot a 12-over 296 at the tournament, which was delayed several hours Monday morning due to heavy frost on the course. The Golden Eagles sit one stroke back of Furman in ninth place and four strokes back of Jacksonville and Appalachian State in seventh.
Behind Kitts, Travis Ramsey shot a three-over 75 and was the second-lowest Tech finisher. The rest of the Golden Eagle contingent was made up of Mason Griffin (76), Lee Maxwell (76) and Tyler Cassetty (78).
Gardner-Webb leads the Hummingbird Intercollegiate with a two-under 282, five strokes ahead of second-place UAB, which sits three-over-par at 287. Samford is in third at 290, followed by Francis Marion, Wofford and Vanderbilt in a three-way tie for fourth place with scores of 291. Behind Tech, the rest of the field consists of Western Carolina (298), High Point (298), IPFW (298), Radford (298), Elon (298), Guilford (299) and Colgate (311).
Tuesday's second and final round will tee off at 9 a.m. CDT rather than the originally slated 8 a.m. time due to the threat of frost. Results will be posted at TTUSports.com when they become available.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Missing three of their top five scorers for the second game in a row, the Brandeis University men's basketball team was unable to pull a second-straight comeback as the Judges fell to host Case Western Reserve University, 56-47, in Horsburgh Gym today. With the loss, the Judges fall to 16-6 overall, 7-4 in the University Athletic Association. The Spartans even their record at 11-11 overal, 4-7 in the UAA.
While the Judges welcomed back junior guard Gabriel Moton (St. Petersburg, Fla./St. Petersburg) , who missed Friday night's game at Carnegie Mellon, they were still without classmates Alex Stoyle (Goffstown, N.H./Tilton School) and Ben Bartoldus (Hillsborough, N.H./Proctor Acad.), who were out due to illness and an injury suffered at CMU. Brandeis then lost guard Derek Retos (No. Attleboro, Mass./Brimmer and May School) – who had played all 40 minutes two nights earlier – after just three minutes of action today. The three missing players were averaging between 9.1 and 10.1 points per game.
Brandeis led, 12-7, at the 14:16 mark on a jumper by senior center Wouter can der Eng (Alphen aun der Rijn, Netherlands/Kimball Union Acad., Vt.), their largest lead of the game. The Judges were still ahead, 14-13, with 12:27 on the clock when they hit a cold spell, going nearly eight minutes without scoring. Case scored 10 unanswered points in that span, and the Spartans closed the stanza on a 13-4 run to take a 26-18 lead into the halftime. Back-to-back 3-pointers by Tim Chung helped the hosts pull away before the break. Chung and Dane McLoughlin matched Moton with seven points each in the first half. Case shot 42.3 percent from the floor in the first half (11-26), while the Judges were just 25.8% (8-31).
An 8-3 stretch for Case to open the second half established a double-digit lead that the visitors were never able to recover from. The Spartans led by as many as 21 points with 2:35 left in the game before Brandeis scored the final 12 points of the contest from beyond the 3-point arc for the final nine-point margin. Senior Jay Freeman (Dorchester, Mass./St. Marks School) hit three in a row from downtown, with junior center Youri Dascy (Fall River, Mass./St. Andrews, R.I., School) connecting for his first career trifecta with eight seconds left.
Dascy finished with a team-high 16 points, but he hit just 5-of-16 from the field. Moton added 12 points on 5-of-17, while Freeman's late flurry gave him nine points. Dascy added 11 rebounds to lead all players and register his second double-double of the season and the seventh of his career. Freeman and Moton had two assists each. The Judges' 47 points were their fewest since their season-opening loss at Rhode Island College, while shooting a season-low 29.5 percent from the field (18-61), well below their previous low of 37.9%. Earlier this season at home, Brandeis had shot nearly 30 percentage points higher against Case, 59.1%.
The Spartans were paced by 15 points from Austin Fowler, 11 of which came after the break. McLoughlin finished with 12 points, while Julien Person also registered a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Jimmy Holman led all players with five assists, while David Thompson blocked four Brandeis shots.
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Following these guidelines and installation practices can help keep you from getting too rough when roughing in and trimming up data cabling
Roughing in communication cables is similar to roughing in electrical cables. However, you must use extra care when installing them because communication cables have far less copper than electrical cables. This means the tensile strength of the cable is proportionally less. Of course, you must precisely follow the manufacturer's instructions to make sure you use the right connectors and fittings. There are many different types of data cabling, and their placement is crucial to the final equipment connections.
Roughing in the cables. Like power wiring, you install data cabling in two primary phases: roughing in the wiring and then trimming it later.
During the rough-in phase, make sure to put all of the cables in the proper places, and be careful not to bend too tightly, pull too hard, skin, or otherwise damage the cables during installation. At this time, consider the routing of the cables, especially if they are unshielded. You should never place unshielded copper cables too closely to sources of electromagnetism, such as motor windings, transformers, ballasts, or the like. Also, keep the locations of fire barriers of the structure in mind, and yield proper allowances when crossing them.
Because data cables are more delicate than power wiring, be sure to protect them during construction. This is critical in situations where there will be a long lag time between your cable installation work and final termination work. If the cables acquire any damage during this time, you may not know it until you get a tester on them. And like power wiring, it's important to leave enough extra cable at each outlet point. The recommended lengths are a minimum of 3 m in the telecommunications closet for both twisted-pair and fiber cable, 1 m for fiber, and 30 cm for twisted-pair cable at the outlet. (Notice when you move from power wiring to data cabling, the units of measurement switch from English to metric.) Also, remember to check your specifications on every job, as some owners may require extra cable.
In other situations, such as when you have a complete raceway system to use, there may be very little time between the cable installation and wiring of the jacks.
Trimming the cables. Trimming data cabling is pretty much the same as trimming power wiring. First, you strip the cables. Then you install the devices and plates (and so on). The difference is in the amount of required testing. When trimming power wiring, we generally test by flipping a switch or hitting the outlet with a "Wiggy." Either power is present, or it's not. Testing data cabling is not so simple. Remember, you need to test not only for the presence of the signal, but also for the quality of the signal. Plan on spending a generous amount of time testing the cables you install and documenting those test results.
Wiring layouts. In Part 2 of this series, on page 56F of the February issue, we explained topology-the patterns in which data networks connect computers. If you remember, topology decides how your cables are run. In most cases, this will be a star pattern, meaning every data outlet gets its own home run. (EIA/TIA Std. 568, Commercial Building Telecommunications Wiring Standard, recommends this configuration, which almost all new computer networks follow.)
Under this system, a Cat. 5 (or now, perhaps level 5e) cable runs from each computer station (node) to a communications closet (the communications equipment is typically in a telephone closet). This can cause space problems, especially in preexisting buildings. During your estimating and planning stages, remember the closets may be overcrowded.
At the wiring closet, your cable home runs will connect to a punch-down block. The standard method of connecting communications conductors is at a multi-terminal assembly of self-stripping, crimp connections. We call this component a punch-down block, 66 block, or 110 block. Punch-down block is the generic name, 66 blocks are for voice conductors, and 110 blocks are for data conductors.
From the punch-down block, you run short patch cables to a patch panel, and from there to a hub. A hub is an electronic device that takes the signals from each of the cables, and puts them into a backbone cable, which runs between floors of the building, and connects several hubs together. You may also hear hubs referred to as concentrators.
We use patch panels and punch-down blocks to facilitate testing and provide for additions and modifications to the cable plant (cabling system). The outlet itself is almost always one or two RJ-45 jacks you mount on a single-gang plate. (The RJ-45 is the 8-pin modular phone plug. Universally, we use it for data networks.)
Cable colors. While the color coding of data cabling is not as popular as the color code for power conductors, color codes do exist and you should follow them. Telecommunications Cabling System Administration (EIA-606) lists the colors and functions of data cabling as:
• Blue (horizontal voice cables)
• Brown (inter-building backbone cables)
• Gray (second-level backbone cables)
• Green (network connections and auxiliary circuit cables)
• Orange (telephone cable from central office or demarcation point)
• Purple (first-level backbone cables)
• Red (key-type telephone system cables)
• Silver or white (horizontal data cables; computer and PBX equipment)
• Yellow (auxiliary, maintenance, and security alarm cables)
Minimum bending radius. According to a draft version of EIA/TIA Standard 568, the minimum bend radius for UTP cable is four times outside cable diameter, or about 1 in. For multi-pair cables, the minimum bending radius is 10 times outside diameter. The minimum bend radius for Type 1A Shielded Twisted Pair (100 Mb/s STP) is 7.5 cm (3 in.) for nonplenum cable, and 15 cm (6 in.) for the stiffer plenum-rated kind.
For an optical cable not under tension, the minimum bend radius is 10 times its diameter. For cables under tension, the requirement is no less than 20 times cable diameter. The standard goes on to state that you may not bend optical cable on a radius less than 3.0 cm (1.18 in.).
A different standard, ISO DIS 11801 (a parallel standard to the one mentioned earlier), lists three different minimum bend radii for 100 ohm and 120 ohm balanced cable. For copper cables, the minimum radii for pulling during installation is eight times cable diameter, six times for riser cable, and four times cable diameter for horizontal runs. For fiber optic cables, the requirements are the same as those stated above.
Manufacturers' recommendations differ, so it is worth checking the spec sheet for each cable you plan to use.
Code requirements. National Electrical Code (NEC) Art. 800 covers communication circuits, such as telephone systems, computer networks built around telephone-style cables, and outside wiring for fire and burglar alarm systems. Generally, you must separate these circuits from power circuits and ground them. You must also provide such circuits running out of doors (even if only partially) with circuit protectors (surge or voltage suppressors).
Art. 725 of the NEC covers a few types of network cabling. Most Cat. 5 cables, however, fall under Art. 800, rather than under Art. 725. The requirements of Art. 800 cover:
Conductors entering buildings. If the same pole supports communications and power conductors, or run parallel in span, you must meet the following conditions:
1. Wherever possible, you should locate communications conductors below power conductors.
2. You shall not connect communications conductors to cross arms.
3. You must separate power service drops from communications service drops by at least 12 in.
You must meet the following clearances regarding communications conductors for above roofs:
1. Flat roofs: 8 ft.
2. Garages and other auxiliary buildings: none required.
3. Overhangs, where no more than 4 ft of communications cable will run over the area: 18 in.
4. Where the roof slope is 4 in., rise for every 12 in. horizontally: 3 ft.
You must separate underground communications conductors from power conductors in manholes or handholes by brick, concrete, or tile partitions.
Keep communications conductors at least 6 ft away from lightning protection system conductors.
Circuit protection. Protectors are surge arresters designed for the specific requirements of communications circuits. They are required for all aerial circuits not confined within a city block. Make sure you install them on all circuits with a block that could accidentally contact power circuits over 300V to ground. Also, make sure they are listed for the type of installation.
Grounding requirements. You must ground or interrupt metal sheaths of any communications cables with an insulating joint as close as practicable to the point where they enter any building (such point of entrance being the place where the communications cable emerges through an exterior wall or concrete floor slab or from a grounded rigid or intermediate metal conduit).
Grounding conductors for communications circuits must be copper or some other corrosion-resistant material, and have insulation suitable for the area where it exists.
Communications grounding conductors may be no smaller than No. 14. You must run the grounding conductor as directly as possible to the grounding electrode, and make sure it's protected if necessary. If metal raceway protects the grounding conductor, bond it to the grounding conductor on both ends.
Grounding electrodes for communications ground may be any of the following:
1. The grounding electrode of an electrical power system;
2. A grounded interior metal piping system;
3. Metal power service raceway;
4. Power service equipment enclosures; or
5. A separate grounding electrode.
If the building being served has no grounding electrode system, you can use the following as a grounding electrode:
1. Any acceptable power system grounding electrode (see Sec. 250-81);
2. A grounded metal structure; or
3. A ground rod or pipe at least 5 ft long and half-in. in diameter.
You should drive this rod into damp (if possible) earth, and keep it separate from any lightning protection system grounds or conductors.
Make connections to grounding electrodes with approved means. If the power and the communication systems use separate grounding electrodes, you should bond them together with a No. 6 copper conductor. You may bond other electrodes as well. This is not required for mobile homes.
For mobile homes, if there is no service equipment or disconnect within 30 ft of the mobile home wall, the communication circuit must have its own grounding electrode. In this case, or if the mobile home is connected with cord and plug, you must bond the communication circuit protector to the mobile home frame or grounding terminal with a copper conductor no smaller than No. 12.
Interior communications conductors. Keep communication conductors at least 2 in. away from power or Class 1 conductors, unless they are permanently separated from them or unless the power or Class 1 conductors are enclosed in one of the following:
1. Raceway.
2. Type AC, MC, UF, NM, or NM cable, or metal-sheathed cable.
You may place communication cables in the same raceway, box, or cable with any of the following:
1. Class 2 and 3 remote control, signaling, and power-limited circuits;
2. Power-limited fire protective signaling systems;
3. Conductive or nonconductive optical fiber cables; or
4. Community antenna television and radio distribution systems.
You may not install communication conductors in the same raceway or fitting with power or Class 1 circuits. Raceways may not support communication unless the raceway runs directly to the piece of equipment the communications circuit serves. Seal openings through fire-resistant floors, walls, etc. with an appropriate firestopping material. Make sure any communication cables you use in plenums or environmental air-handling spaces are listed for such use.
Sidewall pressure carries the risk of damaging the insulation of the individual conductors, putting the product's performance at risk. Follow these general rules to maximize safety.
• Do not exceed a pulling tension of 20% of the ultimate breaking strength of the cable (these figures are available from the cable manufacturer).
• Lubricate the raceway generously with a suitable pulling compound. (Check with the manufacturer for types of lubricants that are best suited for their products.)
• Use pulling eyes when working with manhole installations.
• For long underground runs, pull the cable both ways from a centrally located manhole to avoid splicing.
• Use pulling eyes on each end of the run. Do not bend, install, or rack any cable in an arc of less than 12 times the cable diameter.


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Nowitzki, Mayo lead Mavs past Denver 108-105 in OT
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DALLAS (AP) – Dirk Nowitzki scored 22 points, O.J. Mayo hit tie-breaking 3-pointers late in regulation and overtime, and the Dallas Mavericks denied Denver a franchise record in wins with a 108-105 victory over the Nuggets on Friday night.
Mayo's shot in regulation could have won the game, but his turnover in the final seconds led to a tying layup by Corey Brewer, who was among three Denver players with 18 points.
The loss kept Denver at 54 wins, which the Nuggets have reached twice previously. The last time was with Carmelo Anthony leading the way in 2008-09, when the Nuggets beat the Mavericks in five games in the second round of the playoffs.
Mayo put Dallas ahead 104-101, and the Mavericks, playing two nights after getting eliminated from the playoff race for the first time since 2000, held on in a frantic final minute of overtime.
Mayo finished with 20, while Vince Carter had 22 points and 12 rebounds.
Wilson Chandler and Andre Iguodala joined Brewer with 18 for the Nuggets, and Kenneth Faried had 11 points and 10 rebounds.
Dallas was nursing a 106-105 lead when Brewer was called for a foul on Nowitzki with 0.5 seconds on the shot clock and 6.1 seconds left in the game. The Mavericks threw a long inbound pass to Darren Collison, who avoided being foul until there was just 1.9 seconds left.
Collison hit both free throws and Iguodala was short on a desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Denver point guard Ty Lawson returned after missing five games with a right plantar fasciitis tear, but didn't play half of the fourth quarter and overtime because he was limited to 20 minutes. He scored the first seven points of the fourth quarter and finished 13.
The Nuggets lost their last chance to finish as the No. 2 seed and will remain in a battle for home court in the first round with Memphis and the Los Angeles Clippers over their final three games.
The Mavericks had a 99-97 lead and the ball with 10 seconds left in regulation when they inbounded to Mayo, who turned it over trying to dribble across midcourt. Andre Miller got the ball to Brewer for a layup and a 99-all tie with 3.9 seconds left. Mayo then missed a potential winning layup at the buzzer.
After Mayo put Dallas ahead 99-96 with a 3-pointer in the final minute, Miller was fouled on a drive and the referees ruled goaltending against Brandan Wright before overturning the call on video review.
Miller missed the second free throw, and Mayo found Wright, who was fouled as he barely missed a layup. Wright missed both free throws, but Iguodala missed a contested jumper before Mayo's turnover gave Denver another chance to tie.
In the third quarter, the Mavericks went on a 15-0 run that gave them their first lead at 63-61 on a short jump hook by Wright. Six different Dallas players scored during the run before Brewer stopped it with a long jumper.
Iguodala, who hit a game-winning layup to beat the Mavericks in Denver and was coming off a triple-double against San Antonio, hit back-to-back 3-pointers to close the first half, with Denver leading all the way and taking a 55-48 lead to the locker room.
The Mavericks pulled even at 45-all on a layup by Shawn Marion when JaVale McGee was called for goaltending before the Nuggets finished the half on a 10-3 run. The only bucket for Dallas was a 3-pointer by Nowitzki, who scored 16 in the first half.
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No vaccine for the scaremongers
Millions of deaths are prevented by vaccination every year, yet public anxieties and vaccine scares that ignore rigorous science continue to hamper immunization programmes. Jane Parry reports.
For most children in the developed world, immunization against a range of infectious diseases is a form of health protection often taken for granted. These children benefit from vaccines against more than 20 diseases, while new vaccines continue to be developed, most recently for rotavirus and human papillomavirus.
In developing countries, however, getting routine vaccinations to the people who need them remains a key public health challenge, with the lack of health-care infrastructure, high costs and delays between their introduction in developed countries and their rollout in the developing world cited as the main barriers.
Despite these barriers, global vaccination has evolved as a result of rigorous scientific research. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund's (UNICEF) 2007 Immunization Summary, more than 2.5 million deaths a year are prevented in all age groups owing to vaccination against four diseases diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP) and measles. Global coverage of infants with the DTP vaccine reached 79% in 2006, up from 20% in 1980, while the uptake of several under-used vaccines, including hepatitis B, rubella and yellow fever, is increasing.
Smallpox has long been hailed as the ultimate vaccination success. It was declared eradicated in 1979, the only disease affecting humans to be eliminated deliberately. Polio has been eradicated in WHO's American, European and Western Pacific Regions, while the number of countries where polio is deemed a serious public health problem has dropped from 125 in 1988, when the eradication drive was launched, to only four Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan where the disease remains endemic.
There have been many other successes, such as the 99% reduction in the incidence of bacterial meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae in the United States of America (USA) which introduced vaccination against the disease in 1988, according to its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Republic of Korea, with 99% vaccination coverage for measles, declared the killer disease eradicated in 2006.
Despite these successes, vaccine anxieties continue to periodically impede this highly effective public health measure. In certain industrialized countries, most notably the USA, public concern has shifted its focus from the diseases vaccination can prevent, to the risks of the vaccines themselves. The Internet has become a significant channel for anti-vaccination views. The popular video-sharing web site YouTube offers a plethora of anti-vaccination clips. The Internet has also become a forum for alternative medicine practitioners to present their anti-vaccination ideas and promote alternative products.
While parents in developing countries have, for example, first-hand experience of measles and welcome vaccination against it, the uptake by parents for the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in many developed countries has yet to recover almost 10 years after a study linking it to autism, even though the original study has long since been discredited and there is overwhelming scientific evidence that refutes the link.
A similar scare linking the mercury compound vaccine, thiomersal, to autism led to its elimination from most USA and European vaccines that contained it, despite the lack of scientific evidence to support this measure. Indeed, five large-scale studies failed to find a link between thiomersal and autism, and, according to some studies, the incidence of autism has risen after discontinuation of thiomersal use in vaccines.
Anti-vaccination scares can have lasting, harmful effects. Pertussis (or whooping cough) vaccination was halted in Japan in the mid-1970s owing to public concerns over adverse neurological effects. At that point, Japan had brought the disease under control after introducing immunization in 1947. Pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory disease and one of the leading causes of vaccine-preventable deaths worldwide, causing 300 000 deaths a year, predominantly among unvaccinated or partially vaccinated infants, who go on to suffer vomiting, dehydration and malnutrition.
Dr David Sniadack, medical officer with the Expanded Programme on Immunization in WHO's Western Pacific Regional Office, says: "With less than 10% coverage among infants in 1976, [there] followed a resurgence of pertussis cases. A pertussis epidemic involving 13 000 cases and 41 deaths occurred in 1979. Pertussis incidence returned to very low levels with the introduction of DTP vaccinations in 1981."
France still has low rates of hepatitis B vaccination compared with other countries in Europe as a result largely of misinformed public opposition to the vaccine. Dr Patrick Zuber, group leader of the WHO vaccine safety team, says: "From all the data we have, hepatitis B is as benign as any other vaccine but it has been associated in rumours with autism, multiple sclerosis and leukaemia. All the solid epidemiological studies have not been able to confirm any hint of an association."
An 11-month hiatus in the immunization campaign in Kano and other northern Nigerian states in August 2003 resulted in a resurgence of polio, which then spread to 13 other African countries, and from the Sudan to Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and then on to Indonesia.
Dr Bardan Jung Rana, medical officer with WHO's Expanded Programme on Immunization in Jakarta, says: "After a 10-year interval of no polio cases, on 21 April 2005, the National Polio Laboratory in Bandung reported a wild poliovirus isolate. Genetic analysis of the virus showed it to be similar to recently isolated viruses in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. After the detection of the case, Indonesia conducted two rounds of mop-up in the three provinces surrounding the case and followed it up with five National Immunization Days (NIDs) and three Synchro-NIDs."
While most anti-vaccination scares are not supported by scientific evidence, public concern about the safety of new vaccines is understandable. American infectious diseases expert and vaccinologist Dr Paul Offit traces public distrust of vaccines to the so-called Cutter incident during the 1950s, when thousands of people in the USA developed vaccine-induced polio as a result of being given vaccine containing live polio virus from Cutter Laboratories. In his 2007 book entitled The Cutter Incident, Offit recalls that of 220 000 people infected including about 100 000 children 70 000 developed muscle weakness, 164 were severely paralysed and 10 died.
Dealing with vaccine anxieties requires a multi-pronged approach, including engagement with governments in affected countries and disseminating scientific evidence on vaccine safety, Zuber says. He cites the successful response to opposition to vaccines in Nigeria. "WHO met with the national authorities and other local leaders. They listened to their concerns, which were based on a fear about vaccine safety." However, the authorities were eventually reassured and acceptance of the vaccine was re-established following intensive dialogue.
As with disease itself, the prevention of anxieties about vaccines is better than cure. It is the task of WHO's Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety to address the misinformation that undermines vaccination efforts by constantly monitoring and reviewing vaccine safety and providing accurate information on any adverse events. The committee's 14 members, recruited for three-year terms to offer expertise in a range of related fields, including epidemiology, pharmacology, infectious disease and drug regulation and safety, are also charged with providing scientific recommendations on vaccination. The committee, along with other members of the health and development community, have played a major role in tipping the balance in favour of reliable information. WHO's Vaccine Safety Net lists web sites that contain vaccine safety information and are considered credible.
Zuber says: "Immunization programmes are already extremely successful but the potential impact is even greater. It would be technically possible to prevent a further four million deaths each year due to influenza, pneumococcus, rotavirus, rabies, cholera, typhoid, epidemic meningitis and Japanese encephalitis. All of these diseases are significant health issues but they all have safe, effective vaccines."


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Janet Wardley very kindly sent us the following photographs...
They all look very pretty :)
"Here are a few pictures of Joel Lane Methodist Church Flower Queen Gee Cross in the late 60s"
Many Thanks, Janet.
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Joel Lane Methodist Church Flower Queen
Posted by Hydonian at Tuesday, February 05, 2013
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This is something that was special that we have lost. Losing a pub is nothing compared with losing a Sunday School or a church.
- Tuesday, 05 February, 2013
Very true but they are all parts of the community that are sadly fast disappearing.
- Tuesday, 05 February, 2013
I don't think Kathleen is right in what she says. To those people who wouldn't dream of going into a church, the pub is probably an important focus for fellowship and support, and to lose it could be traumatic.
- Wednesday, 06 February, 2013
Many thanks to Janet for sharing these photos, they have brought back happy memories. From Denise - the girl in the photo holding the red cushion.
- Sunday, 28 July, 2013
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This past Tuesday I wrote a little about my maternal grandfather, Charles Guokas Jr. As the article on the left from the June 15, 1933, Dallas Morning News notes, he was appointed secretary to Texas Governor Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson about that time, serving until the end of her term in January 1935. Below is a picture of the Governor and her staff taken sometime in that time frame. This is a scanned and cropped image of my mother's copy of the picture, which is also part of the Ferguson Collection at the Bell County Museum in Belton, Texas.
The picture also appears on page 192 of Miriam: The Southern Belle Who Became the First Woman Governor of Texas, by May Nelson Paulissen and Carl McQueary. The same page quotes a January 15, 1933, Dallas Morning News article that states that "J. H. Davis, Jr., a banker of Temple...has been appointed secretary to Mrs. Ferguson. Assistant secretaries are John Wood of Shelby County; Mrs. Gladys Little of Bosque County and Miss Kathleen Trigg of Temple. Miss Cora Langston of Milam County was appointed stenographer..."
Governor Ferguson is seated at the desk, with her husband Jim "Pa" Ferguson, governor 1915-1917, seated next to her. I'm assuming the ladies mentioned above are those standing in the photograph, and the tall gentleman with glasses is probably Mr. Davis. My grandfather, who replaced John Wood in June 1933, is standing at the right. According to family stories, he was her appointments secretary - you could not see the Governor without seeing him first.
More later on my other connections to Ma Ferguson.
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Sentimental Sunday: My Connection with a Governor (part 1)
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