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I purchased a phantom X helmet from a seller on fri 9/14 seller said he would ship next day didnt happen he has had minimal contact with me through text messaging text again on tues 9/19 said would have tracking # for me by end of the thethe day and that never happend and today not reply...just would like some directions on what to do about this?? And what are my options?? Thank you
your home sounds like paradise i am USPA rated Sigma TI
if you need any help, i would love to come visit
i have done 6 month motorbike around asia , i love it
please feel free to write to me any time .....verry nice :)
Never ordered brfore. Need a AAD. How do I know or how can I know the seller exists as a Skydiver and will send me the device after they get paid
I need information to coordinate a jump. Can't make contact with any one in Skopje. Thanks
I purchased a vigil from a person on dz.com and 3 weeks went by with minimal contact and no vigil...luckily i paid through paypal, filed a dispute, and got my 1000.00 back....how did you paY?
I recently sold a canopy on this site and it was great. I also bought a canopy last week and have not received it, nor will the sender contact me back now. Is there a way to track this guy or purchase ???
your that scared of me????
All you guys need to do, if you were so inclined, was to just ask. Instead you want to run with rumor and innuendo???
You could be more successful but instead you chose to run scared, well I guess it's your ball, so have fun. If ever anyone wants to play at being an adult, I'd imagine you can always find me.
One of my recommendations, or perhaps better said "findings" from researching many users of "Public" forums: Was that the "moderators" need to be extremely mindful of their comments and actions. No one appreciates having their comments deleted without explanation or reason. The recommendation was that the moderators be limited to just using the strike thru feature for most everything they do and in those instances where totally offensive words are used, to delete just the offensive word and in any event in each and every case a moderator does something, they need to explain why it is offensive or has been deleted. As it is; the current state of affairs, has created much derision amongst the users. Worth saying again the moderators need to explain fully their actions they need to be accountable to the users. Otherwise the perception, and rightly so considering the declining user numbers, is that the moderators have their own agendas and hidden motives. But of course many moderators here know better than the rest of us, which is why this site suffers as it does. Too many personalities, not enough public forum.
Other recommendations: were to limit the number of posts any user can make in a 24 hour period, (many "Power" users make over 15, ((meaningless)) posts a day.) and the moderators need to be mindful that many long standing users, don't actually provide any meaning-full contributions whatsoever, but use many of the topical forums for their own social gratifications. Folks, that is what places like Facebook are for! The net result is that just about any newbie to DZ.com is literally driven away! The idea that users must read and wait for "years" before asking anything and or contributing,...is just wrong! You have an opportunity to educate but alas the small minority of (tolerated) power users, regularly debase and lampoon as compared with educating.
And of course for those of you that suffer from internet addictions you can always seek help and I am always available to point anyone in a better direction. :)
Hi my name is Jeff Peterson been a member for many years and all has been wonderful. The last few times I have tried to contact a seller about a item my mail comes back to me saying Failure notice , ??? do you know why I am being blocked ??? thanks please get back with me.. I use AOL as my mail provider and nothing is blocked with them or my settings ?? thanks jeff
Thank you for helping me get my stolen gear back. Within hours of posting the information I was contacted by the staff of a skydiving facility that they had my gear and two bad guys were in custody.
I have repeatedly tried to reset my password bu't get a verification email send to my original account. I started a new acct but can't buy anything for 3 days. I was trying to get an altimeter and need it ASAP.... Can you help?
Please respond to email@example.com
Please allow clients to remove email addresses, phone numbers and anything they feel is personal in a thread they posted. I put my phone number and email address in a thread thinking it would make it easier for somebody to contact me. Now I would like to have it removed. The way your website is currently set up, I am unable to do this procedure.
my rig was stolen recently and ive got a good idea of the prick that stole it. Can you look up a members activity history? or should i just cry and get over it???
Jeez. How hard can it be ? 8) I came here, looking for a person from a google link I found about someone who might put me in contact with someone else from waaay back, old skydiver. I am myself an old fart by now, and I had to register and still can't even post a request in your forum, lol. Anyhow, the link that brought me here is someone with this addy: email@example.com
That's a googled link dating back to 2013, I sure as she is still alive and well and can get me in touch with Mitch Decatou ;p
Old Norwegian skydiver here from the days when this sport was birthed.
This is terrible I had posted a nice comment about my container system and it was never posted 😡
I wrote a review of my R-MAX 148 reserve a week ago and it is still pending approval...
I paid $250.00 for an altimeter from the email firstname.lastname@example.com
the paypal account belong to a Yuri Turci March 10th. There has been no contact since payment was sent. I'm afraid I've been ripped off by way of your site. Anything you can do on you end?
Seriously, my first gear posting and the same scammer that is well known to your site is trying to scam me!!! Now I am thinking that you at dropzone.com are the culprits behind stolen gear and ripped off skydivers. So far I am not pleased with your site. I am the real deal skydiver and do not appreciate scamming bitches or their scam websites. What do you have to say about the same scammers hunting on your site? What will you DO about it?
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GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) – Stacy Lewis will return to the LPGA ShopRite Classic later this month as more than the defending champion and No. 2 player in women's golf.
She'll also be coming back as somewhat of a hero for donating $20,000 in November to a local food bank after Superstorm Sandy.
Lewis was honored Monday with `Stacy Lewis Day' by the Galloway Township Council. She also was given a community hero award by the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce for her assistance after one of the biggest storms to strike the Northeast in a century.
Playing in Japan when the storm struck in late October, Lewis was moved after seeing the flooding and devastation near where she won last year's event. So she quietly opened her checkbook and sent money to people in need.
"I was just watching on TV and thinking, `Gosh, I remember walking on the boardwalk.' Just seeing the pictures, I couldn't imagine being that that situation,'' said Lewis, who had to be persuaded to let people know about her donation. "The volunteer in me wanted to come and see what I could do, but obviously I couldn't do that being across the world.''
The money allowed local officials to buy gas, rent trucks and move food and equipment to hard-hit areas.
Lewis said many people don't understand the relationships between the tournament communities and the players. The areas benefit and so do many of the not so well-known players, who get a bed to sleep in and somebody to make them feel at home.
"These communities are our home,'' said Lewis, who will begin defense of her title on May 31. "They may only be our home for a week, but they really are our home, and I just wanted to say `thank you for supporting our tour.' I just wanted to help them get back on their feet.''
Lewis' four-shot win at the Bay Course at the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club catapulted her into the No. 3 ranking in the world, and she took over the No. 1 spot earlier this season after winning in Phoenix, her second win this season.
It thrust her into the spotlight, and she acknowledges that being in demand was a new experience, especially for someone who less than two years earlier was not comfortable with the media.
"It's hard,'' said Lewis, who has seven top-10 finishes in nine events. "I got to No. 1 for four weeks and never got to enjoy it because I was so busy running around everywhere. You have to take advantage of that opportunity when it comes. I hope I can get back to No. 1 so I can enjoy it a little bit more. It's been tough. We've had to say no to a lot of things.''
Lewis hasn't said `No' a lot, but she does when it interferes with her game.
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"It's definitely strange,'' the tour's player of the year in 2012 said at a media day for the ShopRite Classic. "You kind of have to be on all the time. That's hard because you just can't be "Stacy Lewis the golfer'' all the time. It's different, but I am slowly getting used to it.''
Lewis didn't lose the No. 1 ranking because she played poorly. Inbee Park was phenomenal in taking it from her.
Park has won four times this year in eight events. The South Korean claimed the top spot a day after winning the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first major of the year.
Lewis thinks she is a better golfer than a year ago.
"I am more comfortable being in the lead, and I think that is the difference more than anything in the stretch,'' she said. "You know what to expect. You know how your body is going to respond and you know how to manage, where to position yourself for Saturday and Sunday.''
Battling Park for the top spot has added to the enjoyment Lewis said.
"It's fun to have a back and back for No. 1, where there are scenarios for passing each other, if one person wins or one person finishes third,'' Lewis said. "It's fun for the tour, (not) having a person who is No. 1 running away with it.''
ShopRite officials announced Monday that 97 of the top 100 players on this year's earnings list have said they plan to play in their tournament, including the top 10.


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RIAA Knows (But Tried To Hide) That Most 'Unpaid' Music Acquisition Comes From Offline Swapping
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One hopes that this doesn't presage more attacks on such person to person sharing either, but I wouldn't bet on it. Remember, we're talking about an industry which has regularly sought to plug the analog hole. When we see proposals in Congress that would effectively allow Customs officials to start searching hard drives and MP3 players, you have to wonder if the entertainment industry is really gearing up to go after this kind of sharing as well.
Of course, what would be much nicer (and a hell of a lot more effective) is if they finally woke up to the fact that this is a reality -- and that there are ways to deal with it on the product and business model sides, rather than on the enforcement side. If they put one-tenth the effort into helping out with that as they do for pushing for greater enforcement, the online music landscape would look so incredibly different and would be so much better for everyone.


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To NASA, USAPerhaps we can set up an crowdfunding campaign to get this kind of thing moving.
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Bent & Broken Dana 44 Axle Replacement OptionsPosted in How To: Transmission Drivetrain on June 1, 2010
We've had our '01 TJ in the fleet for 10 years now. Way back when we ordered it, the Dana 44 rear axle was the big thing to get. Historically, a Dana 44 was the last axle any Jeep would need, and we figured that would be the case for the TJ. When we ordered Red in 2000, not many had blown up or dissected the TJ Dana 44 rearend.
We now have about 150,000 miles on our TJ, and we've been fighting to keep the rearend together and leak-free for 100,000 miles of it. We have been through three different aftermarket lockers, countless axleshaft seals, and we recently blew the ring and pinion up. Our initial reaction was to rebuild it again, but after some quick measurements, we found the axlehousing was bent and that the price of a rebuild wasn't attractive at all. As it turns out, the TJ Dana 44s really aren't that much better than the Dana 30 and Dana 35 they replace. The big increase in strength comes from the ring and pinion and the carrier, but this strength is often negated by the weak housing and tubes. Much of that stuff probably popped because of the weak flexible housing.
Since this wasn't a newly-built Jeep, we needed to take what was already there into consideration. The front axle is stuffed with 4.56 gears and an ARB Air Locker. The wiring and most of the air lines are still present for the rear axle from a previous install, so it would be easy to put an ARB in the rear and our gear ratio was already chosen for us.
It became a game of whether to straighten the axle we had by retubing it or ordering a new one from one of many quality aftermarket vendors. Thinking there would be a big difference in cost, we considered several axle options. Here is what we found.
This Jeep is a daily-driver/weekend warrior and we don't really need Dana 60s in it, but we do need something better than a stock Dana 44. If we were to keep the TJ Dana 44, we'd need to beef it up. We'd re-tube it and then put a 3/16-inch TnT Customs truss with optional mounts and coil buckets on it to keep it from bending again. It would get an ARB Air Locker, 4.56 gears, and would need all new brakes and seals. Currie Enterprises does some good work rebuilding axles, so we'd drop the whole pile of parts off with them. This is what it would cost us to have Currie put our rear back to usable shape using TnT parts and bearings and seals from Randy's Ring and Pinion.
|Re-tube Axle
|TnT Customs Truss
|Install Truss
|ARB Air Locker
|4.56 Gears
|Master Rebuild Kit
|Gear and locker install
|New seals and axleshaft bearings
|New bearing install
|New brakes shoes and hardware
|New brake drums
Pros: •Making the most of what we already have on hand •Truss will fix the bending issue
Cons: •Basically the same Dana 44 axle we've already destroyed several times •Does very little for gear strength •The splines on our stock shafts already have a bit of the twisted-barber-pole effect
Mopar New-Generation 44
The Mopar Dana 44 is a great solution for the TJ owner looking for a bolt-in solution that comes with a warranty and can be purchased at your local Jeep dealership. It comes with 1.41-inch 32-spline shafts that are drilled for both the stock TJ bolt pattern and the JK bolt pattern. The tubes are 31/4-inch diameter 5/16-wall and the brackets are made from heavy-duty 3/16-inch steel. Compare that to the 3-inch-diameter, 1/4-inch-wall and 1/8-inch-thick bracket on the stock axle. The ring gear is bigger (up to 8.8 inches from 8.5 inches) and features a longer tooth profile.
The pinion is 1/4-inch larger in diameter and the pinion head is much larger for any given gear ratio. The longer tooth profile and larger pinion head diameter means way more tooth contact than on our current Dana 44. The axle includes the factory electric locker which solves our desire for a selectable locker. The unit is only available at your dealership with 4.10 gears (PN 51552527), but Dynatrac is an authorized Mopar dealer and can install any gears you want, at which point it becomes a Dynatrac Trail Series 44.
|Base axle price
|4.56 gear upgrade
|Total (MSRP)
Pros: •Dealer availability (free shipping!) •Larger shafts •121/2-inch disc brakes fit 15-inch wheels •Big strength increase over existing 44
Cons: •Potential locker disengagement problems •Only available in 4.10 gears from dealer
Junkyard 9-Inch Axle
It would be really easy for us to just go down to the local junkyard and nab a 9-inch axle out of '74-'86 Ford truck, which would get us 31-spline axle shafts, stronger gears, and an axle that is easily modified. Again, we'd have it narrowed and regeared at Currie Enterprises and we'd be out the door at bargain basement prices. Or so we thought. It turns out that the junkyard build would be right around the same price as rebuilding our 44. The lower pinion of the 9-inch would probably pose problems with our lifted TJ and going to a high-pinion housing throws the bargain-basement theory out the window. However, Currie Enterprises feels the stock sheetmetal housing leaves a little to be desired in the strength department, and we would still have to have the TJ suspension bracketry installed before we could bolt it in under our Jeep. As with the rebuild, these things can add up fast.
|Junkyard axle
|Narrow housing and reinstall housing ends
|Shorten shafts
|Master Rebuild Kit
|ARB Air Locker
|4.56 gears
|Gear and locker install
|Currie heavy-duty TJ suspension brackets
|Install brackets
|Square tube truss and install
Pros: •Stronger gears •Common centersection parts
Cons: •Custom axleshaft lengths •Potential for low-pinion being too low •Still have hidden costs in rebuild, such as brakes and seals •Not all factory shafts are able to be shortened
Currie F9 Housing
The Currie F9 fabricated 9-inch housing is the next step forward in the evolution of the 9-inch axle. A press-formed and welded 3/16-inch steel plate housing combines with a 3/8-inch face and is way stronger than any stock 9-inch housing ever made. The first bend in the housing is at the centerline of the axletube, so unless you run your rearend with the yoke parallel to the ground, you will gain ground clearance by rotating it (up to 20 degrees). The F9 housing accepts up to 4-inch-diameter axletubes, and like all 9-inch rearends, is ultra-customizable. If you have a three-link, you can weld your brackets to this housing just like any other piece of steel. A truss can be added for the ultimate in bend resistance and it can be easily upgraded to 35-spline axleshafts for Dana 60-like strength in a much lighter and more compact package. The F9 housing for the TJ includes the heavy-duty Currie brackets, 3x0.250-inch-wall axletubes, both TJ and CJ bolt patterns, and is 61 inches wide overall. The prices below are for all new parts, but we could easily knock some coin off the bottom line by providing some junkyard parts we've got hanging around.
|Currie F9 TJ assembly
|Currie 9-Plus centersection with 4.56 gears, 31-spline ARB Air Locker
|11-inch Drum Brake Kit
Pros: •Lightweight •Good ground clearance •Can upgrade to larger axleshafts later if needed •Lends itself well to custom suspensions.
Cons: •Same low-pinion concerns as the junkyard axle •Can be upgraded with a high-pinion center section, but that impacts the price
G2 Model 44 Axle Assembly
The Dana 44 axle assembly built by G2 and sold by 4WD Hardware is a great alternative to rebuilding the stock axle. There is no assembly needed, just swap over your brakes and bolt it in. When you place the order you can request your choice of differential and gears (from 4.10 to 5.38). Differential choices include Detroit Locker, Detroit Truetrac, Auburn limited slip, Auburn ECTED, and ARB Air Locker. Shafts are 30-spline units by default, but can be upgraded to 33- or 35-spline for minimal additional charge. Not all locker choices are available in all spline counts. The base price below includes the ARB Locker and 4.56 G2 gears already installed. This housing is basically the TJ Rubicon Dana 44 housing, but there are thicker tubes and mounting brackets available for an additional $400 (price not included below). Since our brakes are shot, we are including those costs for an apples-to-apples comparison.
|G2 assembly with ARB Air Locker, 4.56 gears, and 33-spline axleshafts
|New brakes shoes and hardware
|New brake drums
Pros: •Lower cost than rebuild for all-new parts assembled •Larger axleshafts than stock for almost no additional money
Cons: •Still a TJ housing, so it is possible after abuse we'd have all the same issues we have now
Dynatrac Trail Series 60
Made in the USA, the Trail Series Dana 60 from Dynatrac provides a huge increase in strength with a minimal increase in price. The Dana 60 has a much larger 93/4-inch ring gear. The Trail series is Dynatrac's budget Dana 60, and though it is available with tons of options, once you start adding things, you could almost get into a ProRock 60 with its 30-percent increase in ground clearance and much beefier housing. That's not to say the Trail Series is a slouch, the Trail Series 60 comes with 35-spline, 11/2-inch-diameter axleshafts that won't even know our puny 35-inch tires are there. It is available in 601/2- and 631/2-inch widths and comes with 13-inch diameter disc brakes. Price below is a plain-Jane Trail 60 with no options except for an ARB Air Locker and 4.56 gears.
|Base axle price
|Total (MSRP, can likely be found cheaper)
Pros: •Hell-for-stout •Huge brakes help with stopping.
Cons: •Big brakes won't fit a 15-inch wheel •3/4-inch loss in ground clearance as compared to a Dana 44 which is like going from a 35-inch tire to a 33-inch tire •Heavier than a Dana 44 and has more parasitic drag, so it will take more fuel to move around
Currie Rock Jock 60
The Currie Rock Jock Dana 60 has a unique 60-degree angled cover to increase ground clearance and keep the cover from being peeled back by rocks. The Rock Jock is available in cast iron or aluminum to cut the weight closer to Dana 44 levels. Lubrication is provided by both an upper and lower oil valley to keep bearings and gears cooler. The same metal found in front-end loader buckets is used to fashion a skidplate for the housing and the housing runs a common high-pinion Dana 60 93/4-inch ring and pinion. The price below reflects a ductile-iron Rock Jock in an effort to keep costs down and make it more comparable to others in this story. That includes the Rock Jock centersection, 3-inch-diameter axletubes, 35-spline 11/2-inch axleshafts and your choice of brakes, differential cover options, and gearing selection. We added the 4.56 gears and ARB Air Locker for comparison's sake and picked the drum brakes. Explorer discs with a built-in parking brake and Wilwood discs are available and the online calculator makes it very easy to add and remove options until you've got a price you like.
|Ductile Iron Rock Jock for TJ
|Axle package
|ARB Air Locker
|4.56 gears
|Master install kit
|Setup labor
|11-inch drum brake kit
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SAGINAW (AP) - A teenager suspected of suffocating a 6-year-old neighbor girl and leaving her body wrapped in a tarpaulin on a street corner in their North Texas neighborhood now stands accused of shooting a police officer who was trying to arrest him.
Tyler Holder, 17, of Saginaw, already was charged with capital murder in the death of Alanna Gallagher. Now, he faces an attempted capital murder charge in the shooting of Arlington police Detective Charles Lodatto.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Lodatto, an FBI agent, and a Saginaw police detective went to Holder's house Tuesday, two doors down from the Gallagher girl's.
FBI Special Agent Andy Farrell knocked on the front door, announced themselves as police and came face to face with Holder.
The FBI agent asked to speak to the teen but was refused. When Farrell then told him he was under arrest, "Holder reached behind him and produced a handgun." Farrell grabbed for Holder and the gun and a struggled began. Holder shot Lodatto in the groin, then Saginaw police Detective Robert Richardson shot Holder in the head, according to the affidavit.
Holder remains hospitalized, but officials have refused to release his medical condition. Lodatto, the 2012 Arlington police detective of the year, was recovering Wednesday in a Fort Worth hospital.
The attempted arrest was the culmination of weeks of investigation and turmoil in the suburban Fort Worth neighborhood where Alanna lived, and it followed the discovery last week that someone had set fire to a makeshift memorial to the girl and torched a car owned by her family.
Authorities suspect that Holder sexually assaulted and suffocated his young neighbor, who was found with plastic bags taped around her neck, according to the capital murder arrest warrant affidavit. Holder's DNA matched evidence found on the girl's body and on a belt wrapped around the tarp, according to the affidavit.
Kimberly Holder lives at the home with her son but was not there Tuesday morning, police said. She referred calls to her attorney, Lance T. Evans, who said in an email to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that she was in shock and worried about her son's condition. Evans declined further comment.
Alanna had been missing for about five hours when her body was discovered July 1 on a street a mile from her house.


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Vasily Smyslov
|XIV Schach-Olympiade Leipzig, 1960
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Northrop Grumman Corp.'s information systems division was hit was lower sale in all three of its business areas, leading to a 9 percent decline in sales so far in 2012.
The company had $1.84 billion in information system sales for the first quarter of 2012. A year ago, sales reached $2.03 billion, according to a financial report released April 25.
For defense systems, agencies had less money to spend on programs due to in-theater troop drawdowns overseas. Officials also ended a program and the company completed several programs, the company said.
In its civil business, sales declined because of the sale of the San Diego County outsourcing contract. It contributed sales of $30 million in the first quarter of 2011. Also, the company finished the Enterprise Network Management contract.
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Home Page Chess Life Online Archives Nakamura Wins Tal Memorial Blitz & Signs With Silence Therapeutics
|Nakamura Wins Tal Memorial Blitz & Signs With Silence Therapeutics
|June 13, 2013
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Tal Memorial blitz tournament in Moscow with 7/9, ahead of World Champion Anand and World #1 rated player Magnus Carlsen.
In more positive news related to Nakamura, he just signed a sponsorship deal with Silence Therapeutics, a biotechnology company. Find full details in the PR.
The classical tournament (June 13-23) began today, and Nakamura lost his first game to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Follow live games on the official site.


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Arian Foster is out-touching Ben Tate 57-35. So why does he have just 21 more yards from scrimmage?
Film review reveals a player who isn't emerging from piles with as many extra yards as we're used to seeing. Houston's run blocking actually appears improved on it's down — by its standards — 2012, while Foster has been typically making the right reads. He simply isn't getting to the second level as easily as he once did. It's to be expected for a player who pushed his touch odometer past 1,000 the past three seasons, and led the league in carries in 2012. That being said, Foster hardly looks out of gas. In fact, he looked as good as he had all season in the first half of Sunday's loss to the Ravens, but didn't get a chance to get into a second-half groove and wear down the defense with Houston falling behind 24-9 early in the third quarter.
Truth be told, there hasn't been much difference between Foster and Tate since Week 1, where Tate looked shot out of a cannon against San Diego's terrible run defense and Foster looked tired. Since, Foster has actually appeared a tad more slippery, with Tate looking a bit sluggish, particularly Sunday. Since Tate's 60-yard scamper on his first carry of Week 2 — where he got run down by (admittedly athletic) Titans LB Zach Brown — Tate has averaged just 4.05 yards on 17 carries. Foster, meanwhile, has averaged 4.29 yards on 31 totes since Week 2. We're doing some serious cherry picking here, but the point is, the emerging narrative that Foster is on his last legs while Tate is being unjustly reduced to second fiddle is overblown.
What's not overblown are Foster's usage concerns. This is very much a committee for the time being, one that's running into the Seahawks' buzzsaw defense this weekend. With Foster-Tate in essentially a 60-40 timeshare, neither are particularly high-upside plays in a game where the Texans could again fall behind early. Foster is an RB2, Tate a shaky FLEX option. But Foster owners shouldn't give up hope. Perhaps his RB1 days are behind him. The film suggests he's going to hit fewer home runs than he did in 2010-12. What it also suggests, however, is that he still has plenty of useful football left in his 27-year-old legs. It just might not be elite.
Editor's Note: Rotoworld's partner FanDuel is hosting a one-week $30,000 Fantasy Football league for Week 4. It's just $5 to join and first prize is $5,000. Starts Sunday at 1pm ET. Click here to enter.
Week 4 Quarterbacks
QB Notes: Peyton Manning might as well build a beach house and putting green in the Eagles' secondary. This could get ugly. … Drew Brees has yet to throw for fewer than 322 yards in a game this season. A touchdown avalanche is coming. … Michael Vick is predictably taking a ton of hits, but has thus far been standing and delivering, both to his wideouts and fantasy owners. He's out-pointed every quarterback not named Peyton Manning. … Robert Griffin III's play has hardly warranted a top-five ranking, but he's been just good enough, and is facing a Raiders defense allowing a mind-boggling 76.5 completion percentage. Throw in Oakland's soft front seven, and all the ingredients are there for an RGIII breakout outside of garbage time. … Tony Romo is off to a slow-ish start, but eased by the Rams in Week 3 and is facing a Chargers defense that's allowed the most passing yards in the league through the season's first three weeks (1,022). Start him with confidence.
The Patriots' pass defense looks to be for real, but with Roddy White finally trending back toward full health, Matt Ryan remains a safe QB1. The game is at the Georgia Dome, where Ryan boasts a career 34-5 record compared to 23-19 on the road. … Russell Wilson's 9.10 YPA is third in the NFL. … After one week in the QB2 wilderness, Brady is back in QB1 territory. Is the promotion warranted? It's hard to say. He'd be no better than No. 11 were Aaron Rodgers and Cam Newton not on bye, while his 5.5 YPA is the worst in the NFL. Brady is coming off a good game against a great defense, however, while he finally appeared to be on the same page with rookies Kenbrell Thompkins and Aaron Dobson in Week 3. Throw in the possible return of Rob Gronkowski, and you have a future Hall-of-Famer who's not worth betting against in a dome versus an injury-decimated defense.
The Colts are likely to go run heavy against the Jaguars' league-worst run defense, but playing as sound of football as any quarterback in the league, you don't bench Andrew Luck against a team missing both of its starting cornerbacks. Luck's usage has been frustrating — his 93 pass attempts are 25th in the NFL — but talent always wins out. Luck shouldn't even need more than 25 attempts to put up QB1 numbers against the Jags. … Philip Rivers' numbers — 70.0 completion percentage, 7.98 YPA, 116.2 QB rating and 8:1 TD:INT ratio — are great, but it's easy to forget he's surpassed 200 yards just once in three games. That was against the Eagles, who should surrender 200 yards to most quarterbacks before halftime this season. Facing a Cowboys team on the road that's forced seven turnovers through three games, Rivers' hot start will be put to the test.
Quarterbacks never blame their supporting cast for slip ups or poor performances. That's Quarterbacking 101. But if Colin Kaepernick were allowed a moment of honesty? He'd probably say something like, "how am I supposed to guide this team to more than seven points when Vernon Davis is out and Kyle Williams is starting?" Outside of Anquan Boldin — who doesn't win with separation, but toughness — Kaepernick flatly didn't have a receiver capable of getting open last weekend, and the Colts responded by bearing down on the box and eliminating his running lanes. Kaepernick has been far from perfect the past two weeks, as his six turnovers would attest. But what's he supposed to do? Hole up in an Alex Smith-like shell as the 49ers defense gets embarrassed by Seattle and run all over by Ahmad Bradshaw? Maybe Kaepernick has been forcing the issue. It would be tough to pin all six turnovers on his teammates. But someone needs to try to make plays for the 49ers while they wait on Davis — who should be back this evening — and Kaepernick has continued to do so, perhaps at the expense of your fantasy matchup. Maybe he'll break back out tonight, maybe he won't. It's going to be tough in a short week on the road. But to suggest that defenses have figured Kaepernick out is a lazy assumption devoid of context. There are few better buy-low targets.
Terrelle Pryor (concussion) could be absent from these rankings by this time tomorrow if he doesn't gain clearance, but the early signs suggest he'll play against the Redskins, and the season-long signs suggest he'll shred them. Washington has allowed a hard-to-believe 1,464 yards through its first three games, and is 31st both against the pass (333 yards per game) and run (155). If there was ever a week to start Pryor in a one-QB league, this is it. … Jay Cutler is off to a strong, if measured, start under new coach Marc Trestman. 300 yards might not be in the offing against the Lions, but there are few stabler plug-and-play QB2s. … Eli Manning's 931 yards are sixth in the NFL, but coming off a game where he absorbed a preposterous seven sacks, he might not make it out alive against the Chiefs' league-leading pass rush on the road. … Maybe Ben Roethlisberger will survive the year as a solid QB2, after all. How he fares against the Vikings' shaky secondary and pass rush will be a huge indicator.
Lace Joe Flacco up against the league's most injury-ravaged defense, which permitted 11.4 yards per attempt to Geno Smith last Sunday. … The fantasy numbers aren't quite there yet for Ryan Tannehill, but the peripherals (66.4 completion percentage, 7.73 YPA) suggest they soon will be. He needs to stop fumbling and taking so many sacks, however. Only (vastly) improved protection will ensure that. … Sam Bradford: Pretty Sam Bradford-y thus far in 2013, though — as usual — he's been hurt immensely by drops. Per Pro Football Focus, his pass catchers have already muffed 12 passes. … Alex Smith: What quarterbacking at 55 miles per hour looks like. … Game-manager Matt Schaub has watched his yardage totals go from 346 to 298 to 194. Don't be surprised if he sets another new low vs. Seattle this weekend. … Although they're both coming off strong fantasy efforts, start Geno Smith and Brian Hoyer at your own risk.
Don't forget, for the latest on everything NFL, check out Rotoworld's Player News, or follow @Rotoworld_FB or @RotoPat on Twitter.
Week 4 Running Backs
RB Notes: Looking stronger every week, Jamaal Charles might finally blast back into the fantasy stratosphere against the Giants' walking-dead defense. Charles' 18 catches are tied for the league lead amongst running backs. … The NFL hasn't found an answer for LeSean McCoy through his first three games in Chip Kelly's offense, but Denver's top-ranked run defense — 43.3 yards per game, 2.3 yards per carry — will be by far the toughest challenge he's faced. … The most surprising part of Doug Martin's so-so (but still solid) start? He's caught just four passes through three games after snagging 49 as a rookie. That should change in a big way going forward. Although new Bucs QB Mike Glennon is known for his big arm and big frame, he was also known for checking it down at NC State. With the Bucs lacking a capable slot threat or pass-catching tight end, you better believe the Muscle Hamster will be racking up targets, restoring the receiving threat that helped make him third in the NFL in yards from scrimmage last season.
Matt Forte's 363 yards from scrimmage are fourth amongst running backs, while his 18 catches are tied with Jamaal Charles for the running-back lead. … Alfred Morris is averaging 5.6 yards per carry. So why does he have just 40 of them? Because the Redskins have spent the entire season playing from behind. Astonishingly, Morris has gotten the ball once while Washington's had a lead. That should finally change this weekend with the Redskins taking on an opponent more their speed in the Raiders. … DeMarco Murray is a good player. Perhaps a great one. So take this amusing, but mostly pointless, statistic with a grain of salt. For his career, Murray has averaged 4.8 yards on his 383 carries. If you take out his 51 totes against the Rams, however? His YPC plunges from 4.8 to 4.3. Murray gets a run defense almost as soft as the Rams' in San Diego this weekend.
Squeaky wheel, is thy name Frank Gore? For many reasons, the answer is almost certainly "yes." Rightfully upset after he received just 11 carries in Sunday's blowout loss — despite averaging 7.45 yards per tote — Gore reportedly had some "choice words" for coach Jim Harbaugh. Gore has since downplayed the situation, but all signs point to a much bigger workload against the Rams. St. Louis is fresh off getting torched by DeMarco Murray, while the 49ers have proven utterly incapable of moving the ball through the air since Week 1. It all adds up to re-emphasizing the run game against a division rival in a must-win game, and to fantasy owners finally getting a big week out of their pseudo RB1. … Ray Rice (hip) expects to play Sunday, but could end up a game-time decision for the second consecutive week. If the Ravens declare him ready to go on Friday or Saturday, however, he'll be a must start RB1 against the Bills' battered run defense. If Rice ends up again sitting out, Bernard Pierce will be a plug-and-play RB2 in a far juicier matchup than the one he ran into last Sunday against the Texans.
Darren McFadden's first three games by carries/yards/YPC: 17/48/2.8, 19/129/6.8 and 12/9/0.8. The boom-or-bust trend is set to continue for another week against the Redskins' saloon-door run defense. DMC will be bumped down, though, if Terrelle Pryor (concussion) can't go. Thus far, the running lanes opened up by Pryor's scrambling ability appear to be the difference between DMC's 2012 and 2013. … Fresh off a terrible matchup in his abbreviated first week as a Colt, the opponent for Trent Richardson's second game in blue-and-white couldn't be more inviting. To date, the Jaguars' overmatched front seven is allowing 167.7 yards per game on the ground, and 5.2 yards per carry. The Colts' coaching staff is intent on making things complicated, however, with head man Chuck Pagano saying Wednesday his running back rotation would remain the same as it did in Week 3's upset win. Ahmad Bradshaw touched the ball 22 times against the 49ers, with T-Rich taking the rock 13 times. Do we really expect Bradshaw to get the ball nine more times than Richardson for the second consecutive week? No. Is it a fluid enough situation to keep Richardson out of the ranks out of the RB1s for at least one more game? Unfortunately, yes. T-Rich could end the timeshare by doing what he's expected to do against the league's worst run defense.
Update: With Ahmad Bradshaw (neck) now declared out for Week 4, Trent Richardson has been bumped into the top 10.
Bilal Powell is short on talent, but he's suddenly long on volume in an offense that's missing Chris Ivory and rediscovered the run in Week 3. With so many question marks across the running-back landscape, Powell is a legit RB2. … Is Bill Belichick the new Mike Shanahan when it comes to seemingly arbitrary use of his backs? Stevan Ridley's owners seem to think so, but the answer is a flat "no." Ridley easily led all Patriots backs in snaps and touches last season, and is going to do so again in 2013. His uneven first three weeks — mostly the result of two fumbles and two tough run-game opponents — aren't going to change that. Start him confidently against Atlanta's injury-smoked ground unit. … Don't let Montee Ball and Ronnie Hillman's garbage-time carries fool you: Knowshon Moreno remains the unquestioned leader of Denver's running-back carousel. … David Wilson was two holding penalties away from a 13/70/1 day in Week 3. He's getting closer, but is a decidedly boom-or-bust option against Kansas City's apparently elite defense. … Joique Bell will be bumped down if Reggie Bush (knee) keeps trending in the right direction, moved up if it doesn't.
A struggling and gimpy Daryl Richardson (foot) is an uncompelling option against the 49ers' run defense, even though it's missing Aldon Smith and Patrick Willis. He's a desperation FLEX play. … A 50-percent player by snaps for the first time in Week 3, Giovani Bernard continues his effortless kick past BenJarvus Green-Ellis on the depth chart. … Keep your expectations low for Le'Veon Bell's debut. Perhaps he'll be immediately thrust into an every-down role, but it seems unlikely after he's missed so much time. He is a solid FLEX play, however. … Avoid the Browns backfield. … Take a flier on Isaiah Pead.
Week 4 Wide Receivers
WR Notes: Calvin Johnson scored his third touchdown Sunday. He scored his third touchdown on November 18 last season. … The Eagles' defense misses tackles for a living. Demaryius Thomas breaks them for a living. You do the math. … Julio Jones leads the NFL in receiving yards, and is third in yards from scrimmage. His 157 yards after the catch lead the league. … DeSean Jackson's 18.9 yards per catch led all receivers with at least 10 receptions, while his seven grabs of 20-plus yards are tied for first with Antonio Brown. … Pierre Garcon's 39 targets are third in the league behind Cecil Shorts and Jimmy Graham. He's caught at least seven passes in all three games.
Worried Torrey Smith doesn't have a touchdown? You shouldn't be. Baltimore's No. 1 receiver has cleared 85 yards in all three games, and has six catches of 20 yards or longer. He's overdue to get loose for a score, and Buffalo's forest fire of a secondary provides the best opportunity for pay dirt he'll see all season. Smith is a WR1 for Week 4. … Antonio Brown was frustrated heading into Week 3, but wasn't exactly struggling. He's caught at least five passes in all three games, and is now squaring off with a Vikings secondary that got torn up by Josh Gordon in Week 3, and Brandon Marshall in Week 2. Headed across the pond, the Steelers aren't going to mess with the formula that brought them their first offensive success of the season. … Larry Fitzgerald (hamstring) is as healthy as he's been since Week 1, but a showdown with shutdown CB Darrelle Revis curbs his WR1 appeal.
A game-time decision headed into a rough matchup, Andre Johnson (shin) has the potential to tumble down the ranks. Johnson's durability is again an issue. … Josh Gordon's 19 Week 1 targets were the most for any receiver in a single game this season. It's a number he's unlikely to match again in 2013, let alone Sunday. Needless to say, however, he proved his WR2 bonafides against the Vikings. Gordon could be a WR1 in relatively short order. … Hakeem Nicks correctly observed that he "can't throw the ball to (himself)" after his Week 3 doughnut. Expect Eli Manning to overcorrect this week. Not to placate his frustrated wideout, but because he has to if the Giants are going to avoid an 0-4 start. … Coming off three straight underwhelming efforts, Marques Colston isn't a particularly strong breakout candidate against Brent Grimes and the Dolphins. … By the grace of garbage time, Cecil Shorts is the most targeted player in the league through the first three weeks. With Blaine Gabbert back at the controls for Week 4, not even garbage time may be enough to save Shorts from his hopeless situation.
Dwayne Bowe's problem? He's too good for Alex Smith, who doesn't like looking more than 6-8 yards beyond the line of scrimmage. Bowe likes to do his work deep, which might as well be 20,000 leagues under the sea to Smith. The Chiefs are going to have to start manufacturing touches for their $56 million receiver closer to the LOS, but until they do, he's a middling WR3, and a wasted talent. … Coming off a season-high snap count, Roddy White might finally be ready to erupt, though the Patriots' secondary is officially legit. Playing through a high-ankle sprain, White has just seven catches on 10 targets. … T.Y. Hilton is shaping up as a boom-or-bust WR3, but the boom potential is high against the Jaguars' undermanned and overwhelmed secondary. … With Danny Amendola (groin) still out indefinitely, Julian Edelman remains a PPR superstar, but a standard-league "meh."
Even against the Seahawks' tough secondary, DeAndre Hopkins will be bumped up the ranks if it becomes clear Andre Johnson (shin) will be on a snap count. … Consider Miles Austin (hamstring) iffy with a touch of doubtful. His injury history makes it hard to believe he'll play, but for now, Dallas is insisting he will. … Tavon Austin has 18 grabs through his first three games, but is averaging just 6.6 yards per catch, and has a long of only 14. Sam Bradford isn't getting Austin out into space. He's a WR4, albeit one with room to grow. … The two touchdowns looked nice last week, but Kenbrell Thompkins still managed to harness just 3-of-7 targets, making him 9-of-28 on the season. Thompkins has made strides, but isn't yet a legit starter. … Monitor Ryan Broyles this weekend.
Week 4 Tight Ends
TE Notes: Julius Thomas seems due for a dud. He especially seems due to get held out of the end zone. But those aren't compelling enough reasons to bet against him as he takes on a team with two struggling inside linebackers, and an even worse safety duo. … With Miles Austin (hamstring) looking shaky, Jason Witten could be in for his first 10-plus target afternoon of the season. … Rob Gronkowski would already be the No. 2 tight end if we knew for sure he was going to play, but with the Pats, we might not find out until inactives are announced. That's a problem since New England is playing in the Sunday night game. For now, pencil Gronk in — it's something you have to do if there's a chance he'll play — but have a contingency ready for the fourth consecutive week.
Jordan Cameron's 31 targets are second amongst all tight ends, while his four touchdowns are tied for first. He's one or two more big weeks away from cementing himself as the every-week No. 3 overall tight end. … If Vernon Davis (hamstring) is active, you start him and don't look back. … Tony Gonzalez's slow start is officially a bit of a concern. He failed to take advantage of a juicy Week 3 matchup in the Dolphins, and will now be squaring off with a Patriots team that routinely eliminates tight ends. Thus far this season, no team is allowing fewer fantasy points to tight ends than New England, though they've yet to square off with a talent better than Scott Chandler. It would be an excellent sign for Gonzalez going forward if he could finally have something like a 5/60/1 night.
Martellus Bennett's involvement in the game plan appears poised to vary week to week, but he's still one of the best tight-end bets to find the end zone on a weekly basis. He's Kyle Rudolph with more volume. … Jared Cook's talent is keeping him among the TE1s, but the Rams' unimaginative offense is limiting his upside. Sound familiar? … Low-upside TE1 Brandon Myers has a tough matchup in a Chiefs defense that's thus far been making the middle of the field a tough place for tight ends to roam. … Expected to have his snap-count restrictions removed in his second week back, Heath Miller has serious upside against a Vikings defense that's gotten absolutely scorched by enemy tight ends so far in 2013. … You should be able to do better than Owen Daniels against the Seahawks.
Coby Fleener is an upside chase until further notice. He hasn't had much consistency at the NFL level. … For now, Charles Clay is still only a bench stash, but he's still one of the more intriguing TE2s. … Per Pro Football Focus, Kyle Rudolph is averaging just 0.97 yards per pass route run, putting him behind the likes of Scott Chandler and Delanie Walker, to name a few. He's touchdown-or-bust. … Zach Miller is a particularly desperate touchdown chase. … Marcedes Lewis (groin) is finally set to make his 2013 debut. Blaine Gabbert figures to make it forgettable. … With two scores in three weeks, Joseph Fauria remains someone to keep an eye on near the bottom of the ranks.
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What is a cord of wood?
Firewood is sold by a measurement called a "cord." A
cord must equal 128 cubic feet. To be sure you have a cord, stack the
wood neatly by placing the wood in a line or a row, with individual
pieces touching and parallel to each other. Make sure that the wood is
compact and has as few gaps as possible. Then measure the stack.
Multiply the width times the height times the length of the stack and if
it equals 128 cubic feet, you have a cord of firewood.
A cord, like other measurements such as a foot, gallon,
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as "truckload," "face cord," "rack," or "pile" because these terms have
no legally defined meaning and, therefore, you have no way of
determining how much firewood you are actually receiving. If a seller
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When you buy firewood make sure to get a receipt which
shows the seller's name and address, as well as the price, the amount,
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What should I do if I think a wood seller cheated me?
In order to determine if you have been cheated, the wood
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How often does the County Weights and Measures Department check
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The Yuba County Department of Weights and Measures
inspects these devices annually. When a device successfully passes
inspection a seal (or sticker) is placed on it which has the date it was
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I have an 18 gallon gas tank, but the pump says I put 18.5 gallons
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higher or lower than the stated capacity. If you still feel that you are
being cheated, contact the County Department of Weights and Measures to
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What is tare weight?
This is the weight of all wrapping, packaging, or any
other material used to contain or transport the product. Items must be
sold by net weight (the weight of the product itself). Selling a product
by gross weight (net weight plus tare weight) is illegal.
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gas. If at a store write down the check stand number or the aisle number
where the item is located and the address of the establishment. Gather
any other information you think might be pertinent. Call the County
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information will assist in the investigation, however, you may remain
anonymous if you wish. Complaints are vital to our department. We take
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The cost of high-technology lighting is widely acknowledged as a barrier to the greater use of advanced sources in retail and other commercial lighting applications. Compared to the first cost of basic halogen display lighting, state-of-the-art metal-halide (M-H) and fluorescent lighting systems can increase initial costs by 300% to 500% with payback periods often exceeding five years.
Meanwhile, there are a lot of stores out there where track lighting is the only option. Offering an inexpensive and flexible design approach, track and track fixtures have been popular for decades, especially when energy was cheap (prompting many store owners to fill their tracks with PAR-38 and R-40 incandescent flood lamps). But with a ceramic M-H track light with integral ballast costing more than $200, the low-cost track option was just about wiped out.
It would seem that a practical solution to the problem would be some sort of self-ballasted lamp that could be screwed into existing track lighting systems. After all, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) with integral ballasts and medium screw bases are a well-established concept for residential and hospitality lighting — but not so for general commercial and retail lighting (especially for directional and display lighting). CFLs lack the punch needed to create dramatic retail lighting — largely because screw-based products were developed for the residential market, and the lamp characteristics were optimized for this use. As a rule, most products today are low-cost, moderate efficacy consumer products that produce warm-toned blobs of light. Until now, retailers either had to pay the high price of lighting fixtures or the high price of energy to power these systems.
However, exciting new PAR-38 screw-based lamps have been introduced within the last year that you can install in low-cost track lighting systems, saving retailers about half of the energy normally used by standard halogen lighting systems. In fact, you can install a combination of self-ballasted ceramic M-H and CFLs in low-cost track luminaires for 60% to 65% less than regular HID and fluorescent track lighting equipment. Depending on electric utility rates, payback periods in most areas of the country can be quite a bit less than five years.
The self-ballasted HID lamp
In 2005, a revolutionary new product — the 25-watt, self-ballasted PAR-38 ceramic M-H lamp — was introduced. Its comparatively low cost of about $60 in moderate quantities makes a competent and efficient modern display luminaire out of ordinary, low-cost track or recessed lighting. Compared to a conventional M-H track system, this lamp creates a display lighting system for less than half the cost.
For general display lighting, the objective is to raise the light level on merchandise to about 30 to 50 footcandles above the ambient light level. For special displays, 70 to 100 footcandles are needed. For feature displays and special items such as jewelry, 200 footcandles or more are expected. Table 1 (click here to see Table 1) shows that the 25-watt ceramic M-H lamp can meet many of these retail display lighting requirements. In other words, the 25-watt lamp is a good option for retail and display lighting, including jewelry, as long as the object is not too large or the distance is not too great.
The problem with these lamps is that they are not really suited for general and ambient lighting. Unless being used for display, a softer and wider spread lamp is needed. Fortunately, the new PAR CFL lamp is a perfect mate.
The professional-grade PAR-38 self-ballasted CFL lamp
Rather than using an inexpensive reflector lamp, these "professional" lamps employ a PAR-38 aluminum reflector, which improves the appearance and the performance of the lamp, offering better heat dissipation for the internal ballast. Table 2 (click here to see Table 2) compares the performance of the ceramic M-H "wide flood" to the professional-grade PAR CFL and consumer-grade CFL.
While the M-H lamp is good for highlighting, the CFLs excel at ambient lighting, general lighting, wallwashing, and other lighting applications where a broad beam of light is desirable. Visually, the effect of either CFL is extremely similar to a 75-watt reflector lamp, with comparable candlepower and lumens. Between the two fluorescent options, the advantage of the professional lamp is efficiency; you're able to use about one-third fewer fixtures and fewer watts to achieve the same footcandle level. From a life-cycle cost standpoint, the less expensive reflector lamp will cost more than the PAR lamp in added energy, relamping, and fixture costs.
When used for general lighting, you can install all lamps on track in low-cost lampholders. Very comparable results occur: At about 1 watt per square foot, a relatively even ambient light of about 30 to 35 footcandles is achieved, which is suitable for many different uses. The rooms, however, look a lot different. The M-H lamps tend to create more pools and shadows while the CFLs produce a softer and more even wash (Fig. 1).
When used for wallwashing, the technical performance of the lamps is also very comparable. As rendered in Fig. 2, with track luminaires mounted about 30 inches from the wall and 4 feet on center, both lamps produce average light levels on the wall (not including ambient contribution) of about 20 footcandles, average in the critical area between +42 inches and the ceiling with uniformity of about 6:1 (max:min). But again, the visual appearance is much different. The M-H wash is striated and spotty while the compact fluorescent wash is smooth and even.
Given that the performance of the two lamps is technically similar in these two common uses, the CFL offers several key advantages over its ceramic M-H counterpart: significantly lower cost; smoother, more even effects; immediate start and restrike; choice of color temperature; and dimmable version of CFL available.
The complete solution
A good lighting design would generally use a combination of lamps — the CFLs provide fill light and washes, and the various ceramic M-H lamps provide feature/general display lighting. Major advantages of the mixture include lower first cost and having a majority of the system capable of coming right back on after a power "blip."
What's important about this pairing is the ability to provide high-efficiency display and general lighting from ordinary track or consumer-grade can lights. Because both lamps offset 60-watt to 75-watt tungsten sources, you can literally screw in a responsible display lighting system operating at about one-third the original wattage to existing PAR-38 fixtures. Assuming a 50/50 mixture of CFLs and ceramic M-H lamps, the payback period could be as short as one year in 24/7 businesses, and less than two in those with more conventional hours. For energy code compliance, you can also use these products on track lighting systems with inline current limiters to achieve cost-effective retail lighting systems.
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Sidebar: Weighing Wattage
Can a self-ballasted ceramic metal-halide (M-H) lamp be made using a higher wattage lamp? After all, if the 20-watt ceramic M-H can out-perform 50-watt MR16 and even 60 watt HIR lamps, then a 40-watt ceramic M-H lamp could be used instead of 80-watt to 100-watt halogen lamps.
Unfortunately, the answer is probably not. The 25-watt lamp package allows the integral ballast to operate at sensible temperatures, but a higher wattage lamp and ballast will probably get too hot and fail prematurely. For the present time, the low-cost, self-ballasted M-H PAR lamp for all intents and purposes appears to be limited to 25 watts.
Sidebar: What About LEDs?
Some LED products have been promoted as an alternative to halogen display lamps. However, at present, there are no inexpensive LED products that perform well in comparison to the CDM and CFL lamps discussed here. Moreover, heat-related issues of LED lamps with present technology prevent a practical, PAR-38 LED with comparable lumen output and candlepower to either of these lamps.
For the foreseeable future, the only real competition to these PAR-38 lamps will be from fixtures with separate lamps and ballasts, but it will take some clever packaging and much lower component prices before they can compete economically with these screw-in based lamps. However, things are changing rapidly. Within the next year, a practical LED product may be introduced.


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Cap and Trade
"Cap and trade" is a quota system designed to regulate carbon emissions in order to slow global warming. It has been promoted by the Obama Administration, and passed the House with liberal votes in 2009.
Steven Milloy wrote:
- Through heavy-handed regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and other industrial sources, cap-and-trade would kill the coal industry that provides about one half of our nation's electricity. This would send energy prices skyrocketing which, in turn, would send millions of American jobs overseas, cripple our economy and make us less energy-independent. [1]
Estimates of the cost vary widely. A 15% cut in carbon emissions would cost the average American household about $1,600 a year, according to March 12, 2009, Congressional Budget Office testimony. Climate legislation passed by the House in June offsets most of the cost to consumers by returning some of the revenues to offset any significant spike in electricity costs.
Environmentalists are pushing the proposal, but industry is opposed and prospects for final passage have dimmed, as the Recession of 2008 and the huge federal deficit make additional burdens on the economy problematic. The Democratic Caucus is split over the bill, with coal-, oil- and manufacturing-state Democrats raising concerns that a cap-and-trade system would disproportionately raise electricity bills for consumers and business in their states.[1]
Politically safe alternatives have been proposed. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved energy legislation with bipartisan support in June 2009 that mandates utilities provide 15% of their power from renewable sources by 2021. This legislation could furnish a bipartisan energy bill that leaves out cap and trade.
- "Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket," Obama said in Jan. 2008. "Coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers." [2] Obama emphasizes that some of the costs will be offset by new "green jobs." Van Jones, Obama's Green Jobs czar was fired in September 2009, and the program lacks a spokesman.
How it works
In a "cap and trade system," a regulating authority (the government) sells permits to companies for the right to emit pollutants. The cost of the permits would be shared by consumers (through higher prices), the companies (through lower profits) and the economy (through inefficient misallocation of resources.)[3] A company may emit pollutants up to the permitted amount (the "cap"). Companies have a financial incentive to restructure their operations to pollute less, so they can sell permits to other companies (the "trade" part).
Each source can design its own compliance strategy to meet the overall reduction requirement, including sale or purchase of allowances, installation of pollution controls, implementation of efficiency measures, among other options. Individual control requirements are not specified under a cap and trade program, but each emissions source must surrender allowances equal to its actual emissions in order to comply. Sources must also completely and accurately measure and report all emissions in a timely manner to guarantee that the overall cap is achieved.[4]
Over time, the permits decrease the amount of pollution allowed, with the goal of reaching some set level of carbon emissions for an entire nation or region.
As with any increased cost of business, the costs of emission permits are passed on to the consumer or the shareholders. For this reason, critics of cap and trade maintain the system amounts to a tax increase on the middle class and the poor.[5]
Spain has a cap and trade program in place which led to 31% increases in the price of electricity and energy. Dr. Gabriel Calzada, a professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid told reporters, "It has cost billions." Obama claims that part of his strategy will result in good paying 'green-jobs' but Calzada said for every green-job, 2.2 jobs in Spain were lost.[6]
The biggest controversy over "cap and trade" is its motivation. The policy exists as a response to belief in man-made global warming. By presuming that global warming is caused entirely or mostly by human activity, it would follow that environmental benefits might ensue from regulating human carbon emissions. This belief has been endorsed by Al Gore, Barack Obama and John McCain, but many have serious doubts.
The primary fault with this belief is that global warming is caused by human activity. As explained in detail on the global warming article, it is far more likely that solar activity and natural climate variations explain any temperature fluctuations observed in recent decades. Furthermore, the average temperature of the world has been in decline for years,[7] bringing into question the existence of global warming at all.
A secondary fault with the belief described above is in the efficacy of the cap and trade system. Even if global warming were proven to exist, and to be a man-made phenomenon, it is highly questionable whether "cap and trade" would have any effect other than to create an expensive and intrusive bureaucracy.
- ↑ see Lisa Lerer, "Vital signs weak for climate bill," Politico Sep. 17, 2009
- ↑ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jun/11/mike-pence/pence-claims-obama-said-energy-costs-will-skyrocke/
- ↑ The Cap and Tax Fiction, Wall Street Journal Online, June 25, 2009.
- ↑ http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/cap-trade/index.html
- ↑ Who Pays for Cap and Trade?, Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2009.
- ↑ House Republicans Hold 'Energy Summit' to Blast Cap-and-Trade Legislation CNSNews, May 06, 2009
- ↑ http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/07/june-2009-global-temperature-anomaly-update-000-deg-c/
See also
External links
- Video: Cap and Trade - Will It Save The Earth?
- No Cap And Trade - The Facts


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Arabic Wikitravel Expedition
The Arabic Wikitravel Expedition is an expedition to create an Arabic-language version of Wikitravel.
For more information on multilingual Wikitravel policy, please see Wikitravel:Language version policy.
Arabic is a language spoken in almost all Middle East and North Africa countries. There are 422 million native speakers worldwide. These travelers would be well-served by a Wikitravel travel guide in their language.
In addition, contributions in Arabic would help the other Wikitravel language versions. Many Arabic-speaking areas are major travel destinations; having locals update information in their native tongue (which could then be translated to other languages) would make for better information in all the Wikitravel guides. Arabic-speakers are also frequent travelers and would have a lot to contribute on other destinations and topics.
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Mumtaz! Let's try to get this set up before Wikimania 2008 in July. Jpatokal 10:01, 23 June 2008 (EDT)
See also Wikitravel:Language version policy for more information about the procedure of forming a French Wikitravel.
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To get this project started, we need at least 3 Arabic-speaking users willing to contribute to Arabic Wikitravel.
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I agree to forming the Arabic Wikitravel and am willing to contribute:
If there are no objections, Mohamed Nour, the person who started this Expedition, has volunteered to act as go-between for this new language.
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Language interface file[edit]
MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikitravel, uses a language interface file to make the links and names and prompts and stuff readable in other languages. We need to customize a new version to work for Arabic Wikitravel.
We can collaboratively do this at LanguageAr.php. It's started off with the Wikipedia language file, and we can use the English en:Wikitravel:Language.php file as a reference for things that need to be changed. It's mostly just changing the name of the site (Wikipedia -> Wikitravel), the name of the license, and the names of some important pages.
The framework is up! There is a problem with the homepage that the tech team is working on. In the meantime, you can use the right navigation to move around. If you have feedback, please report it here or on my userpage so that I can easily get it to the tech team. Thank you and away we go! JuCo 19:04, 8 July 2008 (EDT)
User:Aude has volunteered to watch over AR as an admin, this user is also an admin on the English Wikipedia, and I'm quite sure will be helpful – cacahuate talk 12:32, 26 September 2008 (EDT)