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Morning sun shimmers on the West Branch of the AuSable River for the start of the second annual Conservation Day at Intervale Lowlands, a 160-acre private nature preserve in Lake Placid.
A team of teachers, led by sixth-grade science teacher George Bailey and high school environmental science teacher Tammy Morgan, are bringing their students out for a day of experiential science activities that will bring their classroom studies to life and bring students into intimate contact with Adirondack ecology and ecologists. Lake Placid Advanced Placement Environmental Science students are paired with pods of sixth-graders as they make their way around the preserve to six different stations where teachers and an exceptional team of expert ecologists share firsthand experiences with stream fauna, mammals, plants, birds, amphibians and invertebrates.
I wander from station to station, reveling in the view and reflecting on the engagement of the students (big and small), and find George Bailey and his group on the back porch of the LEED-certified house with plant ecologist Jerry Jenkins. The group huddles around a picnic table on which jars full of twigs are arbitrarily placed. Jenkins, using the Socratic method, gradually gets the students to organize the twigs based on characteristics that might be used in a dichotomous key.
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From left, sixth-grade student Gregory Suzanne, entomologist Ezra Schwartzberg, and chaperone Katie Morgan examine the contents of a sweep net.
"Let's get all the needle trees down at my end (of the table)," he suggests. While jars were being rearranged, he asks, "What are the leaves for?" After some shy silence, and rephrasing of the question from their smiling teacher who knows they have the answer, the students relax into a series of answers that demonstrate they understand the basics of light gathering and sugar making in leaves. Finally, Jerry's beautiful picture keys are dispersed to pairs of boys and girls, and they grab jars and wander off to identify the plants one at a time.
For Bailey, finishing a distinguished 30-year career as a sixth-grade science teacher, Conservation Day is part of a "watershed unit" he and team teacher Julie Weinstein developed 20 years ago. Over the years, the format of the watershed unit has varied, but it has always integrated the concept of a watershed with identifying and mapping them.
"This is nice!" Bailey says. "We get a lot of bang out of this day. This trip is the best organized event for the children to get a broad exposure to environmental science."
Weinstein shares her hope that being made to pay attention to little things, like the shapes of leaves, might lead to students being more mindful of nature and might just "spark a career path interest" for one of her sixth-graders. Stepping back even further, Bailey adds, "It has always been one of my goals to teach my students that they live in one of the last great places on Earth and that they should learn to apply the principles of stewardship to their local environment."
The stream sampling station run by Tammy Morgan and her students fits particularly well into the sixth-grade watershed unit. Morgan and Bailey have long realized the value of having the older students mentor the young. As I approach the river, Morgan is wading and looking for a sampling spot while her students are instructing sixth-graders on the dos and don'ts of wearing waders, and explaining the value of sampling these bottom dwelling river creatures.
"Bugs can tell you a lot about their environment," Lake Placid High School junior Cody Barry explains and then continues to talk about things like turbidity, bio-indicators and long-term monitoring for climate change.
This is the second sampling trip to Intervale for the high school students. To follow up this day, they will compare the stream and invertebrate data to that which they collected in the fall. It's impressive the way Morgan confidently leaves her students to the business of being role models and teachers to the younger students, while she tries to make sure there will be bugs to see in the next "kick" sample.
Just before they all get into the water, the blackflies become a teachable moment.
"So where are they coming from?" Morgan asks to begin a discussion about insect larvae.
After a brief introduction, it's time to get into the river.
"Somebody grab a net! Somebody grab a bucket! And we need a stick! Don't take if off a living branch!" the high school students remind their charges.
Judging from the time they put into working with Lake Placid Central School District teachers to organize and staff this event, it's clear that preserve owner and zoologist-conservation biologist Dr. Larry Master and ecologist-entomologist Dr. Ezra Schwartzberg are committed to ecological education and the community. Walking up to the invertebrate station, I come upon Schwartzberg and a young protegee peering intensely into the bottom of a sweep net. Suddenly, something flies away.
"Whoa! That was cool. We gotta go back to that spot!" says the entomologist.
"What was it?!" asks the excited sixth-grader.
Entomologist: "A cool parasitic wasp!"
Protogee: "What does it do?"
Entomologist: "It stings other bugs and lays its eggs in them!"
Protogee (appropriately): "Eeeeewwwww!!"
"This is my very favorite day of the year out here," Master confides as we walk between the invertebrate and amphibian stations. "I'd like to get more school groups out here in the future," he says and then adds with a doubtful smile, "but it might be hard to get this caliber of experts out here all together on more than one day a year!" I agree. Along with Jerry Jenkins, the team of ecologists includes Dr. Michale Glennon of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Dr. Nina Schoch from the Biodiversity Research Institute, Wendy Hall from the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge in Wilmington, Chelsea Radell from The Wild Center and Intervale intern Anastasia Dierna - not to mention Ezra and Larry. What a day! Environmental education at its finest!


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|For the gamemode in GTA Online, see Deathmatches (GTA Online).
- "Deathmatch. It's kill or be killed, capitalism style. Kill the other players as many times as you can. The player with the most cash when the game ends wins. Remember to graciously loot the cash dropped by dead players."
- ―In-game description.
Deathmatches are a type of game mode in multiplayer Grand Theft Auto IV, The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned.
The standard free-for-all in many online shooting games, players' only goal is to kill as many opposing players as possible. Players can also pick up money from deceased players. The player with the most money at the end of the match wins. There must be at least 2 players in the match, and no more than 16. The players can play a similar Deathmatch in both GTA IV's Free Mode and Party Mode. While no specific score is capped, Free Roam unlocks the whole city, lots of vehicles and guns. Party mode follows a similar principal. From both Free Roam and Party Mode, Deathmatch can be found.
The Host can change a number of factors including
- A Time limit or a money limit
- Auto Aim allowed or disallowed
- The area the players will play in
- The type of weapons available to players
- The Weather and time of day
- Either the map will show blips of all players, far players, near player, or no blips at all
- The Respawn time and the amount of distance from other players when the player spawns
Money is awarded in Deathmatch by following ways:
- Each kill grants you $100
- Each suicide (kill yourself by explosives, fall damage or pedestrians) subtracts $100 from your money. If you have less than $100, your money will go to zero.
- You can pick up money from fallen players. The money ranges around $10 to $30.
- Your reward at the end of the match consists of the players you have killed, the money you have picked up and the suicides you have made. For instance, if you kill 7 players, pick up $62 money and suicide once, your reward will be $662.
Multiple achievements/trophies can be obtained during Deathmatches.
- Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie: Kill a Rockstar Employee. This can usually be done when you do your first Deathmatch.
- Cut Your Teeth: Earn $1000 or more when on rank 0 to get rank 1.
- Top of the Food Chain: Kill 20 people or more with a Pistol in one game. Can be done when Weapon Choice is 'Pistols'
- Wanted: Get to Rank 10 in Multiplayer.
Grand Theft Auto IV and The Lost and Damned
- Liberty City - One of the four major islands are randomly selected. The whole city will go into madness when 16 or 32 (PC) people are shooting.
- Algonquin: A big island for a big shootout. Will Star Junction's lights go out from gunfire?
- Alderney: Another big island for a big shootout. Nothing to popular here to destroy with the RPG.
- Dukes / Broker: Two boroughs put together for many people to have a reasonable Deathmatch.
- Bohan: This borough is better than the others because of its size. SMG's are a good choice here, but look out for gangs.
- Happiness Island: A small island for a big shootout. Lady Happiness will have a lot of blood on her clothes after a Deathmatch.
- Colony Island: A small island for a shootout. Why couldn't the Old Hospital not be old?.
- Charge Island: A reasonable sized island. Get the baseball bat for a day at the bloody park.
- Alderney State Correctional Facility: The guards have somewhat disappeared, so what a better way to celebrate than to kill the other inmates (i.e. your foes).
- Francis International Airport: LC has allowed us entrance to the airport. People from Los Santos and Vice City probably wish they didn't board the plane.
The Ballad of Gay Tony
In The Ballad of Gay Tony, all locations are set up in small areas, such as the Libertonian Museum or the construction site, entire islands wont host Deathmatches anymore. Also, spawns are random, respawn invincibility has been removed, people respawn with full health and full armor (Except when players begin the game, they spawn without armor), and no gun remains that can have the trigger tapped on multiplayer.
- Trespass is set in the abandoned Sprunk Factory. With such high roofs and several floors, there is tons of space to hide. In a game set at this location, get onto the roof or catwalk, it provides a good vantage point.
- Auld Reekie is set around the warehouse in Waste Not Want Knots. Try to avoid being caught in the middle, and stay out of the warehouse. Try to get on the roof to get a good vanatge point especially with the Advanced MG in your hands.
- Ziggurat is set at the construction site near Helitours. It is the largest map in TBOGT and an Advanced MG is very good on this map. If you got the Advanced Sniper, get on the cranes. The knife can also work well for whatever reason.
- Xero In is set in the abandoned warehouse in Hostile Negotiation. There are about 4 floors and SMGs are useful in this conflict.
- Academically Challenged is set at Vespucci University. This map is perfect for small games. The size of the map makes the Advanced MG a good weapon.
- Global Domination is set at the Civilization Committee building, and is one of the larger maps. A sniper is very useful on this map, as is the Assault SMG.
- Battle Station is set at a the Lynch Street Subway Station in the middle of Dukes, and is an OK map. SMGs are good for this one and its also one of the only maps were a player can win with only a knife.
Grand Theft Auto IV and The Lost and Damned
- Melee - Fists, Knife, Baseball Bat and Pool Cue (TLAD)
- Weak - Includes Pistol and Micro-SMG
- Medium - Includes MP5, Desert Eagle, Pump Shotgun, AK47 and Sniper Rifle
- Powerful - Includes MP5, Desert Eagle, PSG-1, M4 and Remington (Combat) Shotgun.
- Pistols - Includes the Glock Pistol and Desert Eagle (IV). The Auto 9mm (TLAD)
- SMG's - Includes the Micro-SMG (Uzi) and MP5.
- Assault Rifles - The Assault (AK-47) and Carbine (M4) Rifles.
- Shotguns - The Pump and Combat Shotgun (IV). The Sawed-Off and Street Sweeper (TLAD).
- Sniper Rifles - Includes both Sniper Rifles.
- Launchers- The RPG-7 on and the Grenade Launcher on IV and TLAD
- Projectiles- Includes the Grenades and Molotovs. The Pipe Bombs (TLAD)
- Biker Weapons1- Includes the Auto 9mm, Grenade Launcher, Sawn-Off Shotgun and Street Sweeper.
- Episodic Weapons2- Includes all weapons from The Ballad of Gay Tony
- Automatic Weapons2- Includes the Assault Rifle, Advanced MG, Gold SMG and Assault SMG.
- Explosives2- Includes the Sticky Bombs, Explosive Shotgun, Advanced Sniper and Grenade Launcher.
- Sticky Bombs2- Includes only the Sticky Bombs.
- Fists and Knife are back-up weapons that you automatically get and use when you have no other weapon.
1 - Only available in TLAD 2 - Only available in The Ballad of Gay Tony
The Ballad of Gay Tony
- Pistol .44- Despite the slow rate of fire, small magazine capacity, and long reload, the extreme power and great range makes this an acceptable weapon.
- Gold SMG- This gun has an incredibly high rate of fire that is perfect for combat or drive by shootings. The reload is a problem though.
- Assault SMG- This is not a bad gun, but it can not be used during drive-bys has slower firerate than the Gold SMG. On foot, however, this is better than the Gold SMG.
- Advanced MG- This is arguably the best gun in the game. The rate of fire, power, accuracy, and magazine capacity of this weapon can turn 1 player into a moving turret.
- Sticky Bombs- These are an oddity, as these are useful as in they can stick to objects and detonate remotely, rather than on a fuse, but have the same explosive force as grenades or pipe bombs. They can be used for trickery, as in placing sticky bombs on a vehicle, giving it to an enemy, and as soon as they get in, blow it up.
- Automatic/Explosive Shotgun- While automatic shotgun is similar to Combat Shotgun, the explosive shotgun is a whopper. It will destroy cars, people, helicopters, or pretty much anything that can attack you.
- Advanced Sniper- This is the likely the best sniper rifle in the game. It has explosive rounds, making helicopters that much easier to bring down. It's also very effective against people and vehicles.
See Also
- Liberty City Survivor - GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Chinatown Wars equivalents.

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2015 Global 100 methodology
Determining which companies are "sustainable" and which are not is a challenging enterprise. Not only is there no single, universally accepted definition of "corporate sustainability," publicly traded companies are exceedingly complex institutions, often spanning multiple geographies and industrial sectors.
Against this backdrop, our approach is simple – we unpackage "corporate sustainability" into its component parts, and stick to the numbers.
Qualifying Global 100 companies are scored on a percent rank basis against their global industry peers on a list of twelve quantitative key performance indicators that run the gamut from energy and water use, to employee compensation and corporate tax strategy.
Because the indicators are quantitative and clearly-defined, the results of the Global 100 are objective and replicable. The Global 100 follows a rules-based construction methodology and is more akin to a financial index than many other "sustainability" indices.
The Global 100 index is maintained by maintained by Corporate Knights research group.
The Global 100 starting universe
All publicly traded companies with a market capitalization of at least US$ 2 billion are automatically considered in the Global 100 starting universe. Market capitalization data is taken each year on October 1st.
First Screen: sustainability disclosure
The first screen eliminates companies that are not keeping pace with the sustainability reporting trends in their specific industry. Companies that fail to disclose at least 75% of the "priority indicators" for their respective GICS Industry Group are eliminated at this point in the project.
A priority indicator is any of the 12 key performance indicators (KPIs) that are disclosed by at least 10% of all large companies in a given GICS Industry Group. Large companies are defined as those with a market capitalization of at least US$ 2 billion.
For example, if there are 250 large companies in the Automobiles & Components GICS Industry Group, and 25 of these companies are found to disclose energy use, then Energy Productivity becomes a priority indicator for companies in the Automobiles & Components Industry Group.
Companies classified in Industry Groups where all 12 KPIs are priority indicators will need to disclose at least 9 (12 x 75% = 9) KPIs in order to pass this screen.
The list of priority indicators for each GICS Industry Group for the 2014 Global 100 ranking can be found here.
The list of priority indicators may change in the future as disclosure practices evolves.
Second screen: F-Score
The Piotroski F-Score consists of nine individual tests. Each test scores one for a pass and zero for a fail. The tests are:
1. Net profit is positive;
2. Operating cash flow is positive;
3. Net profit ÷ total assets at beginning of year, minus the same number for the previous year is positive;
4. Operating cash flow is greater than net profit;
5. Long term debt ÷ by average assets has not increased;
6. The current ratio has increased (the change is more than zero, so even a negligible increase passes the test);
7. No raising of ordinary (common) equity over the previous year: this test is passed if the company did not issue any ordinary shares (excluding shares from dividend reinvestment plans);
8. Gross margin has improved over the previous year; and
9. Asset turnover has increased.
Companies have to score at least 5 to pass this screen.
Third screen: product category
Companies with a GICS Sub-Industry classification equal to "Tobacco" are eliminated. Companies with a GICS Sub-Industry classification equal to "Aerospace & Defence" are revenue tested; if a company derives a majority of its revenue from its Defence business group (e.g. weapons manufacturing), it is eliminated.
Fourth screen: Sanctions
Companies that remain in contention after the first three screens are subjected to the sanctions screen, which looks at the dollar amount that companies have paid out on a trailing one year basis in sustainability-related fines, penalties or settlements.
If the total amount of a company's fines, penalties and settlements as a percentage of total revenue during the 12 months period prior to October 1st of the year is found to be in the bottom quartile compared to GICS Industry Group peers, the company is removed from the Global 100.
The sanctions screen only considers monetary fines, penalties and settlements that are definitive i.e. the company has reached a point where all possible options have been exhausted and it has no other choice but to pay the set amount. Therefore, amounts associated with legal claims are not considered.
For example, Company X was originally fined US$ 1 million in June 2010 for violating environmental laws in the United States. The United States courts rejected Company X's appeal in November 2012 but agreed to reduce the fine to US$ 500,000. In that situation, it is definitive that Company X will have to pay the fine of US$ 500,000.
If Company X's total revenue for the 12 month period from October 2012 – September 2013 was US$10 million, the fine of US$ 500,000 would represent 5% of the company's total revenue in 2012. This ratio would then be compared against the figures for other GICS Industry Group peers. If Company X's ratio is found to be in the bottom quartile, Company X will be removed from the Global 100 process.
The only exception to this analysis is that companies that were part of the most recent Global 100 ranking are subjected to this test on a trailing two year basis.
Previous year Global 100 constituents
Global 100 companies from the previous year are added if they are not in the bottom quartile of their GICS Industry Group on the Fourth Screen (Sanctions).
The Global 100 shortlist
Companies that successfully pass all four screening criteria form the Global 100 Shortlist. It is at this point in the process that the 12 KPIs for which the Global 100 is known are introduced. All companies on the Shortlist are scored on a percent rank basis against their global industry peers on the priority KPIs for their respective GICS Industry Group.
Each company in the Shortlist is assigned an overall score, which is an average of the scores on each priority KPI. If a company does not disclose the required data fields for a priority KPI to be calculated, the company scores a "0″ on the priority KPI. This creates a scoring incentive for companies to disclose all of the priority KPIs for their respective GICS Industry Group.
The Global 100
The Global 100 consists of the companies with the top overall score in each GICS Sector. In order to match the industry composition of the benchmark, each sector is assigned a fixed number of slots in the Global 100. For instance, if 10% of the MSCI ACWI consists of Financial sector companies (on a market capitalization-weighted basis), 10 positions in the Global 100 would be reserved for Financial companies.
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Ms. Green was the recipient of numerous awards and nominations from Alabama State University. She was also awarded an Artistic Fellowship in 2005 at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has taught various lectures on arts management, directing, and costuming. She has participated in various improvisation, playwright, stage movement, and characterization workshops throughout the country. These various workshops include training with Tim Miller(Professional actor, author and activist), Dr. Tommie Tonea Stewart( Professional Theater and Film Actress "A Time to Kill", "In the Heat of Night" and Professor) and many more.
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FoTW My piece last week on a chance encounter with the film Cockfighter didn't go down to too well with one anonymous animal lover.
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For promoting cockfighting, I hope Lester Haines entire body gets riddled with cancer and dies a slow and horrifically painful death.
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A new study, published Monday on the website of the medical journal Cancer, reports that men who have testicular cancer are twice as likely to have smoked marijuana before they were diagnosed than control subjects. The association existed only for nonseminomas, the more dangerous form of testicular cancer that is harder to treat.
In the study, carried out in Los Angeles, a team of researchers enrolled 163 men who had been diagnosed with testicular cancer between 1986 and 1991. They also recruited a larger group of control subjects who were matched to the patients on such characteristics as age, ethnicity, and what L.A. neighborhood the subjects lived in at the time they were diagnosed—a localized approach to controlling for socioeconomic status.
The researchers, led by Victoria Cortessis of the USC, quizzed the participants on a range of medical and lifestyle factors, including drug use. They found that marijuana use before they were diagnosed was linked to a two-fold increase in testicular cancer risk. Even with this increased risk, the likelihood of developing testicular cancer remains relatively low: According to the American Cancer Society, a normal man's likelihood of developing the disease is about one in 270. The risk of dying from the disease is even lower, at one in 5,000.
Nevertheless, the study did find an increased risk of testicular cancer from marijuana use, and the results square with the findings of two previous studies, which also found a link between testicular nonseminomas and marijuana use. But it remains unclear just why marijuana use would lead to an increase in cancer risk.
The authors of the new study speculate that THC, the active component in marijuana, may be interfering with androgen signaling in the testis, particularly signaling by testosterone. But they say more biological data are needed to definitively determine the mechanism responsible for the increased cancer risk—and to rule out an unseen factor that may be biasing the results of the three epidemiological studies.
The scientists also found another hard-to-explain relationship in their data: Cocaine use appeared to significantly reduce the risk of developing testicular cancer. The researchers point to evidence that cocaine slows testicular cell growth in animal models and may even lead to cell death, both of which would likely also slow tumor formation.
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YOU AND ME: The Story of Cosmo and Dibs
Cosmo and Dibs first appeared on the screen in 1981. Over thirty years ago. You and me, me and you, Lots and lots for you to do, Lots and lots for you to see, Me and you, you and me … The music fades as the camera moves through the cluttered stalls of a street market. Behind one of the stalls are Cosmo and Dibs.
The puppet characters Cosmo and Dibs were created by producer Richard Callanan for the popular BBC Schools' TV programme YOU AND ME. They were on the screen for pre-school kids from 1981 until 1992. Inspired by the direct and down-to-earth approach of 'Sesame Street', each programme featured a four-minute sketch on just about anything that a child might identify with: sharing, eating, arguing, bullying, sleeping, dressing up, being silly, having a row, make-believe, making poetry – the sky was the limit, as long as the sketch was relevant and useful to the target audience.
The scripts didn't patronise: they informed, educated, and entertained – and the high quality of the writing deliberately saw the world from a child's point of view. A successful group of sketches dealing with 'Safety' included the tricky subject of child abuse – making YOU AND ME something of a trail-blazer. It was welcomed by the charity, Kidscape, and featured on the national news. Songs and stories were always included, with an emphasis on cultural diversity – YOU AND ME was one of the few programmes of the time to do this.
The enthusiastic production team was committed to the ethos of the programme in its new form. In previous years, YOU AND ME had been fronted by characters such as Crow and Alice, Mr Bits-and-Pieces, Duncan the Dragon, and Herbert the Handyman. The advent of Cosmo and Dibs took away the safely middle-class element of the show, introducing a rougher edge – an edge reflecting the world that a modern child might experience every day.
Documentary features brought along a wealth of subjects ranging from the colour and exuberance of the Notting Hill Carnival to the mud and hard graft of farming. Henry the Kangaroo – with his catchphrase 'I'm looking for the words in my book again' – introduced simple social sight words (Stop, Go, Bus, Train, Station, etc.) to Ellie and her Dad and the audience. Cartoon Henry was animated by Mike Hibbert, and voiced by Nigel Lambert.
The theme music was also given a facelift. Gone was the jangling that had always accompanied an array of animated building blocks. Instead, viewers were treated to a line of children (again animated by Mike Hibbert) dancing to a reggae version of the title song, re-imagined and recorded by UB40.
Now, the programme featured human presenters that were a cross-section of ethnic backgrounds. Among them were Jeni Barnett, Charubala Chokshi, Harry Towb, Larrington Walker, Liz Smith, Gary Wilmot, Annette Badland, Sheila Chitnis, Mike Grady, Isabelle Lucas, Michael Balfour, Michael Snelders, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Bharti Patel, Indira Joshi, Yasmin Pettigrew and Bill Owen. Clive Mason also joined the cast for programmes relevant to the deaf community.
Cosmo and Dibs themselves were puppeteered and voiced throughout by Frances Kay and Francis Wright. The puppets were made by Muppet maker and performer Tim Rose, and the scripts were written by members of the production team and cast. Over the years, producers and directors came and went. Richard Callanan remained with the show for its first three series, leaving to join ITV schools. His place was taken by Nicci Crowther, who later developed a successful career as an independent producer and film maker, working until her early death in 2008.
Producer/directors Sue Aron, Adrian Mills, Diane Morgan, Pat Farrington, Claire Elstow, Julie Callanan, and Cas Lester were among the regular names to feature on the credits, while behind the scenes Jill Wilson, Noreen Hunter and Hilary Hardaker were the production assistants most often to be found either in the studio's control gallery or office, armed with stopwatch or typewriter as occasion demanded. The set, based on a street market in London's Shepherd's Bush, evolved steadily over the years under different designers: Mark Savant, Rosemary Hester, David Bevin and Rory Mitchell were among those who brought the market stalls to life.
Robert Checksfield was the studio Floor Manager most often to be heard relaying the director's instructions to cast and crew. Assistant Floor Managers numbered Wendy Pedley, Gary Boon, Simone Dawson, Terry Pettigrew, Sally Bates, Christine Crow and Donna Rolfe among their ranks. The first series of twenty programmes was begun at the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, part of which overlooked Shepherd's Bush Market. It was completed at BBC Television Centre in Wood Lane, which became the show's regular home for all but the last series.
Changing times and changing trends dictated that YOU AND ME too would change. A sour letter from a school intimated that 'our kids need therapy to turn on the telly' – and suddenly everything had to be more 'fun!' Two additional puppet characters joined Cosmo and Dibs for the last two seasons, and the street market disappeared in favour of a brightly-coloured domestic setting. In 1992, an independent production company took the helm, and at the dawning of the Age of Teletubbies an element of middle-class cosiness was brought back to the programme for its final airing.
© Francis Wright, 2011
The pictures are courtesy of BBC TV. Note – Frances Kay's debut novel 'Micka' was published by Picador in July 2010. The central character is, like Cosmo, a Geordie. Her second novel 'Dollywagglers' appeared in June, 2014. Published by Tenebris Books it is a bleakly funny futuristic work about puppeteers in a world devastated by disease and other nasty things.
Richard Callanan, creator of Cosmo & Dibs, and producer of their first three series, died on 13th May, 2015, aged 70. His was a remarkable talent. R.I.P.


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Interfaces of HEIDENHAIN Encoders
As defined transitions between encoders and subsequent electronics, interfaces ensure the reliable exchange of information.
HEIDENHAIN offers encoders with interfaces for many common subsequent electronics. The interface possible in each respective case depends, among other things, on the measuring method used by the encoder.
Incremental signals
|Sinusoidal signals
|HEIDENHAIN encoders with 1 VPP interface provide voltage signals that can be highly interpolated.
|HEIDENHAIN encoders with 11 μAPP interface provide current signals. They are intended for connection to ND position display units or EXE pulse-shaping electronics from HEIDENHAIN.
|Square-wave signals
|HEIDENHAIN encoders with TTL interface incorporate electronics that digitize sinusoidal scanning signals with or without interpolation.
|HEIDENHAIN encoders with HTL interface incorporate electronics that digitize sinusoidal scanning signals with or without interpolation.
Position values
|The EnDat interface is a digital, bidirectional interface for encoders. It is capable both of transmitting position values as well as transmitting or updating information stored in the encoder, or saving new information. Thanks to the serial transmission method, only four signal lines are required.
|Company-specific serial interfaces
PROFIBUS is a nonproprietary, open fieldbus in accordance with the international EN 50 170 standard. The connecting of sensors through fieldbus systems minimizes the cost of cabling and reduces the number of lines between encoder and subsequent electronics.
PROFINET IO is the open Industrial Ethernet Standard for industrial communication. It builds on the field-proven function model of PROFIBUS-DP, but uses fast Ethernet technology as physical transmission medium and is therefore tailored for fast transmission of I/O data. It offers the possibility of transmission for required data, parameters and IT functions at the same time.
|The absolute position value beginning with the Most Significant Bit (MSB first) is transferred on the DATA lines in synchronism with a CLOCK signal transmitted by the control. The SSI standard data word length for singleturn absolute encoders is 13 bits, and for multiturn absolute encoders 25 bits. In addition to the absolute position values, incremental signals can be transmitted.


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DOOMED TOUR: Tickets Now Available for Milwaukee Reading
Further tour details continue to spill out for Chuck's upcoming novel Doomed. Today we have ticket information on Chuck's October 12th event in Milwaukee, WI.
- The event will be held at the UWM Bookstore in Milwaukee, WI.
- No signing at the event
- General admission is $24.95 and includes a pre-signed copy of DOOMED
- You can purchase tickets here - hhttp://chuckpmke13.brownpapertickets.com/
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Skip to comments.Will Rep. Paul Broun be Karl Rove's first 'unelectable' target? (Tokyo Rove alert)
Posted on 02/07/2013 5:29:49 AM PST by jimbo123
Karl Rove may be trying to quell conservative concerns that his new political group is really an effort to crush the tea party. But actions will speak louder than words and already, Mr. Rove's group may have a test case on its hands.
Rove's Conservative Victory Project has a stated goal of making sure only electable candidates emerge victorious from GOP primaries. But he told Fox News Tuesday: "This is not tea party versus the establishment."
So what is it? The campaign of Rep. Paul Broun (R) of Georgia, who on Wednesday filed paperwork to run for the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss, could provide clues.
He is exactly the kind of candidate that, in theory, Rove's group would want to weed out. Ultra-conservative on both social and fiscal matters, Congressman Broun has amassed a reputation for making inflammatory and controversial statements during his time in Congress.
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I wonder how much damage Rove will have to do to the GOPe before they decide to shut him down themselves.
Never forget how he took out Sen. Thomson, Gov. Palin,
and EVERY conservative candidate for a decade.
I'm pretty sure Broun will never bend and kiss reids' dirty ring like Saxby Chambliss does. That, alone, make him unelectable in the eyes of rove.
Tokyo isn't going to have much luck effing around with Paul Broun in the state of GA. He is one of our best. I am planning to vote for him in the Primary. Its going to be a tough choice if Tom Price and Karen Handel both jump in. They are all good but Broun is the most conservative.
Brown will need some money bombs. After I get my AR upper, I'll be in better shape. Screw Rovie.
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In April 2016, John Stopford, Head of Multi-Asset Income at Investec Asset Management, met with Dale MacMaster, chief investment officer at the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo). AIMCo is a crown corporation (previously a government department) which manages over C$90 billion for 26 Canadian public-sector pension, endowment and government funds. John spoke about how AIMCo is changing its portfolio strategy to address a low-return world. Dale has been with AIMCo for 18 years.
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- Dale MacMaster, Chief Investment Officer at the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo)
- John Stopford, Head of Multi-Asset Income at Investec Asset Management
Dale MacMaster: The two biggest challenges today are low-to-negative interest rates and low growth. It's a real dilemma for pensions that have traditionally had as much 50% fixed income. Fortunately, our clients have been moving away from fixed income for some time, many into illiquid asset. Infrastructure looks attractive if the alternative is negative interest rates, despite the liquidity and credit risk that come with that.
John Stopford: How do your clients describe a mandate to you? What kind of objectives are they setting you?
Dale MacMaster: In essence, we're an asset manager with 26 clients. They present us with an asset mix and ask us to deliver beta at the lowest possible cost, then add value over that. We're aiming for top-quartile performance with bottom quartile fees and risk. We can't control the absolute returns since we're given wide ranging asset mixes, yet we have delivered 10-12% for the last seven years.
The last 7-8 years of double-digit returns have restored our clients' pension funding to between 90% and 95% and they're generally pleased with that. However, they're concerned about the potential for another huge equity market correction. We've have seen three 50% corrections in equities in the last 15 years – the credit crisis in 2008, the tech bubble in 2001 and the 1998 Asian currency crisis. They're trying to figure out how to immunise themselves from another crisis like those.
A lot of the opportunities today are in alternative asset classes. Many investors are constrained by rules and regulations, but we have the freedom to invest across the spectrum to deliver absolute returns and immunise our clients from equity risk.
John Stopford: How do you integrate that into beta requirements that clients have?
Dale MacMaster: We've put together a pool of hedge funds that are uncorrelated with our other assets. These include credit, multi-strategy, life settlements, volatility, reinsurance and catastrophe reinsurance. We're looking for absolute return, overlaid with passive equity to delivery beta plus 4-7%. We've done that consistently with a stable of long-standing hedge funds.
We actually purchased a hedge fund in New York that specialise in collateralised loan obligations. We now have a dedicated platform to provide that at reduced cost. By lending our name to the firm, it can also attract third-party assets and grow. This allows us to generate attractive returns at a low cost by buying firms that give us access to certain marketplace niches. We have done this in a couple of other places and I think there's room for more of that. Despite our size and growth rate, Alberta is not a financial centre. It's difficult to attract people here. Buying niche firms gives us efficient access to a pipeline of niche product.
John Stopford: You mentioned private markets. How much of your personnel resource is geared towards that now? Has that evolved over time? What challenges you're managing on behalf of long-term institutions? How do you factor liquidity and illiquidity into your investment return thinking and manage it over time.
Dale MacMaster: Pension and endowment funds need very little liquidity and that's one of our advantages. We're long-term, evaluating illiquid private market securities over 15, 20, 25 years. There's no call on that capital. Private equity firms rollover those funds every five or six years, but we don't which gives us a great advantage.
Volatility and illiquidity are linked with the regulatory changes in banks, capital requirements, liquidity requirements, Dodd Frank, banks exiting businesses and not allocating capital in the same way. Portfolio managers need to rethink the way they look at their portfolio. We found that the perceived liquidity we thought was in middle market assets (ranging from highly liquid sovereign government bonds to less liquid higher yielding bonds) really doesn't exist. Instead, why not barbell a portfolio of completely liquid securities and then completely illiquid securities? In other words, should we pay for non-existent liquidity?
The other trend has been ETFs, which people perceive as liquid, but they entail hidden cost. If you look at recent market corrections, ETF prices unhitched from their underlying NAV. If investors demand liquidity when the market is illiquid, there's going to be a price to pay. We see this as an opportunity for pension funds to step in.
John Stopford: Are you finding enough things where you think you are being compensated for being insensitive to that liquidity? Are you being paid a premium return on those kinds of assets?
Dale MacMaster: Yes, definitely. We have completely restructured our portfolio to a culmination of highly illiquid securities and then private debt, levered loans, private mortgages, structured credit. We have also found opportunities to enter businesses that the banks are looking to partner with, for example trade receivables, supply chain financing, warehousing of mortgages, commercial mortgages. All of these pay an illiquidity premium.
John Stopford: With yields in the safest parts of the capital market decimated and growth harder to come by, is it your sense that expected returns are being eroded or are there still opportunities out there?
Dale MacMaster: I've been saying for a few years that returns are going to be lower. You have rates at 1 or 2% for a large portion of fixed income assets. We have been telling clients the last few years to expect lower returns. The market does present opportunities, but you have to be tactical.
John Stopford: You mentioned catastrophe bonds, which are a function of the reinsurance cycle which goes through ups and downs ...
Dale MacMaster: We don't consider ourselves catastrophe insurance experts, so a specialist reinsurer manages that for us. Once a hurricane hits the price spikes and then collapses. They're the experts at playing that cycle and it has delivered a solid return for us that is not well-correlated with our other assets.
John Stopford: What is more valuable to you, the return or its ability to diversify risk? What do you find harder to find, a decent return or a less-correlated position?
Dale MacMaster: Our portfolio is not close to its active risk limit, leaving us plenty of flexibility to add more risk. Over the last few years we have earned a very high return with a low level of active risk. Our information ratios were quite high and I think one of the dynamics that worked is minimum variance.
We've had a portfolio that has 65% of the benchmark risk, yet outperformed it and that's not sustainable. On performance measurement we've moved to a sort of absolute return benchmark CPI plus 450 or 650 basis points. On the risk side we're moving towards risk factors to emulate risk.
John Stopford: You mentioned portfolio barbelling earlier, having super-liquid and illiquid components. I guess some of that is linked to clients' cash needs. But maybe it comes back to this idea of being be tactical, that if you don't have any liquidity in the portfolio, you can't take advantage of opportunities that come along?
Dale MacMaster: Sure. We have made some changes to dealing in the new environment, creating lines of credit within asset classes, for example, or doing more repurchase agreements. We have created a liquidity desk which will globally manage our assets, our collateral, our margin, our liquidity. In the past each manager looked after for their own liquidity. Now we're looking to maximise our illiquid exposure while still having enough liquidity to meet our requirements and exploit opportunities.
We're pushing the envelope in terms of how illiquid we can be and still manage. I think we have had too much liquidity but we're being paid adequately for it. We're now being much more cautious and careful about wringing as much from a dollar as we can.
John Stopford: Public sector clients are increasingly thinking about things like ESG (environmental and social governance) issues and building it into processes and return expectations. How does that fit with the approach that you have taken?
Dale MacMaster: We built ESG into our thinking and investing very early. We were early signatories on UNPRI. We have a team that's dedicated to responsible investing. We have put them under the CIO in order to embed it into the investment process. We have a ton of oversight in terms of having our own board. Our clients will have their own boards with their own consultants. The government is also overseeing us. AIMCo has a lot of oversight – Auditor-General audits and internal audit.
From a governance standpoint, we were always there, doing business the right way, to the right standard. Social environmental has come along as the world has evolved and we do have some restricted securities, like tobacco, but our model has been to engage. We would rather engage with the company, vote our proxies, meet with management to try and elicit change rather than abandon it.
Our responsible investing team is at the forefront of getting a better understanding of our carbon footprint, which has been front and centre with the Paris Treaty. We have even invested in software which allows us to rate companies on ESG scores, but it remains to be seen whether that has investing value. We believe in this and it's important to our clients as well. We produce an annual responsible investing report that we distribute to our clients and it's part of our quarterly reporting.
John Stopford: Communication with clients when there's so much change and new opportunities must be quite a big challenge. I assume that at least some of the people you're communicating with are manager trustees or not hugely sophisticated. How much of a challenge is bringing your clients along with you on this and convincing them that what you're doing is appropriate?
Dale MacMaster: Indeed, our boards do consist of lay board members, like firemen, nurses or policemen. They also turnover every few years. Likewise, with changes in government and even within a government that's sitting in-house, there could be changes in the finance minister on average every two years. It's just something we have built into the model. It's a never-ending challenge and we must educate constantly.
Some of our larger clients have employed a full-time investment expert to liaise with us. They come and meet with us to understand our strategies and then report back to their boards. This model has helped a great deal, but communication will always be a challenge.
John Stopford: I'm guessing they don't ask as many hard questions when the performance is good? The time that's more challenging is perhaps when the performance background is less favourable-
Dale MacMaster: That's quite right, but the other challenge, is that they have a lot to do besides overseeing us. They have got so much other work to do worrying about liability and funding levels that they don't have much time to spend on investing. That's why we run lunches and breakfasts covering one of our asset classes. We also run an annual symposium where we invite our clients to spend a full day off-site, much like an investment conference. We work hard at it but it's a never-ending challenge.
John Stopford: You mentioned performance has been good but you have got some concerns about equity beta. How often do clients review the objectives that they set for you? Is that something that is slow-moving or do they change those quickly?
Dale MacMaster: It seems that with 26 clients and a number of pension funds, you're in a perpetual state of studying their asset liability picture. Completing an RFP, hiring a consultant, reviewing the asset mix against the liabilities, coming out with a new mix, informing us and implementing it takes time. It seems like by the time we finish implementing the change, the process starts over.
There's a tendency to get caught up in the latest fad that comes and goes, like commodities, small cap or emerging markets. Currently it's minimum volatility. Pension funds should try not to over-think it. If you're putting an asset mix together versus long-term liabilities, you have to let it run long-term and resist the tendency to tweak it. Thankfully, our clients give us wide tolerances within that asset mix so we're not too constrained. We have also relaxed the buckets if you will. Ten years ago, it was like a cafeteria with this long menu that they could choose from, like small cap, emerging markets, large cap, value and growth. Today it's just broadly equities and fixed income.
John Stopford: Is that a function of just having long-term, established relationships and delivering for clients? They trust you more and give you greater latitude?
Dale MacMaster: Definitely. When we delivered the results, they felt more comfortable, allowing us to select the strategies, but they still need good reporting and transparency. Our Global Equities bucket might include 60 different strategies that we're tactically moving around. They want to see what we're doing and have comprehensive attribution.
John Stopford: Can you outline one or two opportunities that you see today, along with a couple things that keep you up at night?
Dale MacMaster: We currently find infrastructure very attractive. After many years of government saying it wants to invest in infrastructure, it looks like it's going to happen. There's a need for infrastructure all around the world and we have capital. We should find a way to marry these up in a way that's mutually beneficial. The Alberta government intends to build infrastructure and create jobs at a point where the economy is weak. You run a deficit, you build the infrastructure, take the opportunity when the costs are low, the labour is available. Marry that up with the pension clients' need for the asset and everyone could win.
We also think there could be opportunities in private equity. Years ago we saw the Japanese diversify into other assets like the purchase of Pebble Beach and Rockefeller Centre. The Chinese follow that example. There's trillions of dollars of capital and we expect to see this capital move into Europe and North America. This may lift valuations across private equity and perhaps real estate.
Risk wise, I'm not too concerned in the short term, but medium term I'm worried about low growth and interest rate normalisation. Some investors have taken on more risk than they understand, but they have been rewarded for it, reinforcing that behaviour. Every time you leverage yourself up to buy another asset – equity, real estate, infrastructure among others – there's been trouble. Previously, monetary policies have come to the rescue and created another risk-on environment. At some point that will stop. Investors think they will be able to get out before everybody else. It could be ugly and investors are going to need liquidity and shouldn't extend themselves too far. So we're slightly overweight equities but nowhere near where we might be.Return to Investment Institute


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Isaac's quiet nature is one biblical example of the maxim: "Our greatest strength is also our greatest weakness." Peter's eagerness to make himself heard also manifests this principle (Matt. 16:13–23). Take time today to consider that aspect of your personality ...Read More
The Lord Favors Isaac
If you have made a foolish decision out of fear, know that God can redeem the situation for His glory if you repent and trust in Him. There is not one of us who will go through life without making ...Read More
The Promise to Isaac, Part 1
As we have said repeatedly, our obedience does not earn us a place in the kingdom, it only shows that we possess the faith that lays hold of salvation (James 2:14–26). Redemption's greatest blessing is the Lord's presence (Gen. 26:3), ...Read More
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Matthew Henry comments: "The gratifying of the sensual appetite is that which ruins thousands of precious souls." If we claim to be in Christ, we must be on guard lest the lusts of the flesh become settled in our hearts ...Read More
Jacob and Esau
At the end of the month we will spend some concentrated time on the doctrine of election, which is found illustrated in Genesis 25. For now, be reminded that if you are in Christ, God knew you from the foundation ...Read More
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Large hole investigated behind Pine Hills home, fire officials say
PINE HILLS, Fla. – Orange County sheriff's deputies said the possible sinkhole that opened up behind a home in Pine Hills is a ground depression.
Fire Rescue said the hole, which is 8 feet wide and 9 feet deep, is located on the south side of a home on Lake Horseshoe Drive.
The sinkhole investigation was reported just before 3 p.m. at the home, which has been evacuated.
Fire Rescue said cracks were showing in the home but has not grown, therefore nearby houses were not evacuated. The sinkhole is located 3 feet from underneath the house and swallowed up a swing set in the backyard.
A geo-technical engineer will confirm if it is an actual sinkhole, but building inspectors have deemed the home unsafe.
A lieutenant with OCSO later said the hole is called a "ground depression" and is not a sinkhole because it it not deep enough to be classified as one.
The family will be removed from the home for at least a couple of days, deputies said.
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Parents, pediatricians, and other health care professionals are encouraged to work together so that all of the medical and nonmedical needs of children and youth are met. This partnership is at the core of what the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) calls the medical home. Medical home is an approach primary care practices can use to provide comprehensive and compassionate care. This approach helps coordinate the medical care and other services your child needs into an integrated overall plan for your child's health. Because of the effectiveness of this approach and the benefits that patients receive under this care model, the AAP and other medical organizations have endorsed the medical home as an important part of caring for individuals with lifelong conditions. It is important for families and clinicians to feel like they have a constructive partnership for the care of the child.
Studies have shown that the presence of a family-centered medical home leads to more effective treatment of conditions. In a family-centered medical home, the pediatrician maintains patterns of communication with the family that help ensure routine care is achieved, such as immunizations and other preventive activities.
Many children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) see a variety of specialists, such as developmental and behavioral pediatricians, neurologists, and gastroenterologists, to manage certain medical conditions. Your child's pediatrician and these specialists can provide your child with the best and most efficient care when they communicate with each other and are able to have their recommendations integrated into an overall plan for your child's health and wellness. A medical home can help provide this support.
Families are also more likely to be effectively connected with community agencies and services and receive more support from such agencies as well as from other families in similar situations. Children are more likely to receive services and treatments that the pediatrician or specialty practitioner has recommended.
The medical home primary care practice team plays an important role in the child and family's life and will work together with parents to create a written care plan for each child. A care plan includes the child's treatment plan, which is made up of educational services, therapies, medical issues, family supports, and emergency crisis plans. A care plan is not a substitute for the treatment plans developed by your child's school, speech therapist, or other involved professionals or agencies. A care plan includes all of these aspects of your child's care and identifies ways in which clinicians and agencies can work together on common goals. While a care plan cannot guarantee that every issue will receive all treatment or support needed, it does help ensure all of your child's needs are identified and addressed as much as possible.
Care notebooks can be used to track your child's ongoing care and services—who was seen for what purpose and when, and so on. They also are valuable in helping families communicate with various doctors by serving as a ready place to write down questions or concerns to bring up with a doctor, or information to transmit from one doctor to another. It is recommended that families bring their child's care notebook with them to all appointments and on all trips to keep doctors up to date as well as to have information available in case of emergency.
There are many different ways to develop your child's care notebook (see Resources).
Visits to your child's medical home may take a little longer to identify and address all the issues pertinent to your child and family situation. Parents and the medical home care team should schedule appointments that are long enough to discuss all of their concerns. You need to let the office know that you have additional questions so they can schedule enough time. Bringing toys, snacks, or another adult to appointments is often very helpful. Parents know their child best and over time, they often become experts concerning their child's disability. Parental knowledge and opinions are recognized and respected in the medical home. Parents are encouraged to seek information, ask questions, and trust in their intuition.
American Academy of Pediatrics HealthyChildren.org: www.HealthyChildren.org
Autism Speaks Family Services Resource Guide: www.autismspeaks.org/community/fsdb/search.php This resource guide links families to a variety of resources and contact information in their own communities. Families can enter their zip code and a range from 5 to 500 miles away to identify services such as early intervention, applied behavior analysis, health care practitioners, dentists, and respite care.
Family Voices: www.familyvoices.org/states. From this site families can identify the Family Voices organization in their state and available family-to-family activities, such as parent- to-parent groups and conferences.
National Center for Medical Home Implementation: www.medicalhomeinfo.org. This resource is for health professionals, families, and anyone interested in creating a medical home for all children and youth. The Web site has information for families and professionals. Of special interest and use to families are "Building Your Care Notebook" (www.medicalhomeinfo.org/for_families/care_notebook) and "How to Partner With Your Physician" (www.medicalhomeinfo.org/for families/partner_with_physician.aspx).
Family handout from Autism: Caring for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Resource Toolkit for Clinicians, 2nd Edition, developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on Children With Disabilities Autism Subcommittee (ASC).
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- American property tycoon Donald Trump has won permission to build a $1.6 billion golf resort in Scotland.
U.S. property tycoon Donald Trump has won permission to build a $1.6B golf resort in Scotland.
The plan to build a resort featuring two golf courses, as well as a hotel and homes at Balmedie and Menie, outside Aberdeen, has provoked heated debate between business and environmental groups.
The plan was called in by the Scottish Government after an Aberdeenshire Council committee rejected it.
Trump welcomed the decision.
"We are greatly honored by the positive decision and believe that the people of Scotland will be extremely happy with the final product," he said.
"It will be a tremendous asset and source of pride for both Aberdeenshire and Scotland for many generations."
Finance Secretary John Swinney backed it after a public local inquiry. See pictures of the plans for the Trump International Golf Links resort »
"The Scottish Government called this application in for determination last December as it raised issues of importance that required consideration at a national level," Swinney said.
"As a result, I ordered a public inquiry so that we could give proper consideration to this major application which has been the subject of widespread public interest."
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text: HyperGear 9 Posted January 11, 2014 (edited) It has been 5 years since my last developments in SR20det turbochargers. Which was sadly unsuccessful during the time, from lack of experience, skills, as well as general acknowledgement in modifications. Understanding few members might have issues withour discontinued turbochargers sold between 2006~2009, those are mainly the imported TR25, TR28 and TR28KAI models. I have been sorting and still happy to offer discounted repairing services. All turbochargers of ours now are build in Australia with all engineering work done by qualified and experienced local engineers. During those years most of my time and efforts has been spent in developing and building RB based turbochargers, mainly in the field of high flowing and bolton applications. We have made couple of very good turbos, the venture is on going, successful, with lots of experiences earned. Our SAU RB based turbocharger development thread is at: http://www.skylinesa...vice-continued/ Back to topic. The level of performance on my current T2x based turbochargers are to be improved, more specifically in working with SR20dets engines. The goal is creating a bolton replacement, that can produce reasonably good power and response working with ordinary engines using commonly available mods. Ensuring a successful out come, I have purchased a S14.5 with engine hardware built by Forced Motorworx and body restored by Motorware. Because SR20det's output can vary significantly due to the type of cams used as well as other generalized mods such as exhaust, intercooler, induction and so fourth. Results and comments below are only referring to what I currently have, my performance related modifications are: BC Stage 2 cams, VCT has been cancelled. Drift Exhaust manifold (low mount) RAS (rocker arm stoppers) CP pistons BC rods Garrett 30-71 Turbocharger in .64 rear housing. Note this is the proper GT3071 with a 60mm turbine, not the Cropped 56mm version. 700cc Nismo injectors Nistune chip Custom air box with K&N filter PWR radiator and intercooler (intercooler is inside engine bay so no chassis cutting) Spit fire coil packs Varex exhaust system 100cell race cat Z32 Air Flow Meter Gizzmo boost controller The GT3071 might have been a choice for members whom's targeting outputs between 230~260rwkws. This particular one has maxed at 257rwkws peeking 21psi of boost on P98 fuel. Even thou the peek power is acceptable for the size of this turbocharger, I found it is horribly laggy to drive. So it has been replaced with a turbocharger that I've engineered earlier for RB20det motors: The ATR43SS1 Billet version. A T2x turbine housing was selected for the OEM manifold and dump, knowing the standard .64 rear might be restrictive, a .86 A/R sized housing with a large 38mm internal gate has been machined to suit. Car was dynoed again very soon after. Making 258rwkws peeking 22psi. Not much gain in power, how ever the boost response is now improved, so is the down low power and torque: The car is now better to drive on the road compare to what it was. I'm in the process of further evaluations with a customized T2x turbocharger based on my opinions in improving its current performance. Results in addition will be uploaded once evaluations conducted. Edited January 12, 2014 by HyperGear Share this post Link to post Share on other sites