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CSUB's NSME Partners with Chevron for Summer Camps
June 22, 2016
California State University, Bakersfield's (CSUB) School of Natural Science, Mathematics, and Engineering (NSME) presents REVS-PUP -- Research Experience Vitalizing Science Pre-University Program -- four, one-week-long summer camps sessions in science and mathematics. Funded by Chevron, these sessions will run from June 20-30 in the Chevron Fab Lab at CSUB and target Kern County middle school students and their teachers.
"REVS-PUP is the natural extension of NSME's longstanding REVS-UP summer STEM research program for high school students. We felt, and Chevron agreed, that introducing even younger students to science research and the engineering design process would be a great way to inspire the next generation of STEM professionals and STEM-literate citizens," said NSME Dean, Anne Houtman.
The hands-on engineering experience is designed to pique students' interest in careers in the science and engineering fields. Throughout the sessions, students will become engineers and makers in CSUB's Fab Lab, (short for Fabrication Laboratory), a digital fabrication and rapid prototyping workshop. Students will learn not only about computer-aided design (CAD), but also will use various computer-controlled machines to make their own designs, which they will take home.
Each day will hold a different activity for the students. On the first day, they will make custom decals with vinyl cutters. On day two, they fabricate key chains and other similar-sized items on the laser cutters. On day three, they will make custom signs with the ShopBot CNC router, a computer-controlled cutting machine related to the hand-held router, using wood, aluminum, and other materials. On the fourth and final day of the week, students will make personalized finger puppets of themselves using 3D scanners and printers.
The CSUB Fab Lab is based on the MIT-designed model, which inspired MIT's popular class, "How to Make (Almost) Anything." Fab Labs are located throughout the world, and with the power of technology, the labs are able to communicate, create and collaborate on similar projects in different time zones and languages.
Spaces are already filled for the four sessions, which will take place during the weeks of June 20 (Monday through Thursday), and June 27, with an 8:30 a.m. and a 1:30 p.m. session each day. Local media are welcome to visit near the end of any of the sessions to view students' finished projects and designs.
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This Haiku is shared with Haiku Horizons - Balance.
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Sky And Waves
This Haiku is shared with Haiku Horizons - Balance.
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I read Archana's haiku on balance but loved yours more :)Superbly written :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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sky leaning on waves...is a new perspective...loved itReplyDeleteReplies
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Beautifully done. BastetReplyDeleteReplies
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I second Dattta .. IT'S a new perspective Amrit ..beautiful !ReplyDeleteReplies
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A perfectly balanced and beautiful haiku.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Even i learnt the balance from your haiku :) keep writing!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Lovely lines.ReplyDeleteReplies
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As usual. Short, crisp and beautiful!ReplyDeleteReplies
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very well done Amrit... and since Shweta has been kind to read mine, I hope you will make time to read too ;-) Cheers and write more often buddy!!ReplyDeleteReplies
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You must be meditating ! Such a love my haiku !ReplyDeleteReplies
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A balanced haiku as well 😊ReplyDelete
Lovely haiku to match a lovely photo.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Fascinating thought. Greetings to you.ReplyDelete
wow. interesting thought process. loved it!ReplyDeleteReplies
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The photo cleverly illustrates your though pattern. Good one !ReplyDeleteReplies
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In this novel by the Algerian writer (1928–1996) we plunge into the midst of life around independence of Algeria. The main character of this book is a young married man Bashir who took up arms to fight the colonizing power France, got wounded, was treated in Tunis and East Germany (DDR). After many years he returns to his homecountry. He does not want to get involved with the elite who has benefitted from independence. He travels to the wiped out village of his youth and his wife. They all have gone. He assumes his wife is dead.
He wants to be a teacher and he is transferred to a small village. This is what he wants to do: work for a year in a village, help the community to reach out to the future, get things done and a shift in paradigma and move to another village to do the same. We encounter him in his first year in his new village and new school. He is the only teacher and his predecessors have all left after just a short while. Bashir wants to hang on and get acquainted with the people.
In his attempts to change life in the village he clashes with the powers of the mosque and the powers of capitalism (rich landlord). His time in the DDR probably has given him the tools to think in terms of a socialist state and his socialist ideas are rife on the pages. The attempts of socialism to elevate people, but also to discard people who are an hindrance to the socialist elevation are to be found in this book. By now we know the end of the great era of socialism in the DDR.
Notwithstanding his fight against the forces of the past (mosque and capitalism) he pulls strings in high places where his friends lend him a helping hand to push on with his plans. This pulling of strings seems to me to be part of the past he wants to leave behind. Maybe tradition is stronger than admitted by this primary school teacher.
When schoolterm starts young children come to enroll in the school. One of them is a young boy Saïd who has been shepherding the flock of the rich landlord. When the boy gives his full names Bashir is in for a shock. He cannot handle this on his own, and he gets help from a trusted friend in the village.
The structure of the book has a peculiar twist. There are two endings in the book. Two final chapters with each a different plot. So you get somethhing to choose from and chew on.
I enjoyed the book eventhough at times the socialist optimism of Bashir was a bit too much.
Abdelhamid Benhedouga – Nihayat al-Ams – 1975


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Adults with Disabilities More Likely to Seek Care in the Emergency Department
Release Date: December 21, 2012 |
- People with disabilities, while making up just 17 percent of the working-age adult population, account for almost 40 percent of all emergency department (ED) visits.
- People with disabilities may seek care at an ED due to the complexity or urgency of their medical conditions, because they lack access to other accessible care or because they lack health insurance.
People with disabilities, while making up just 17 percent of the working-age adult population, account for almost 40 percent of all emergency department (ED) visits, finds a new study in Health Services Research.
"Both practical and medical reasons may explain the role of disability status in driving ED visits, including issues such as the availability of accessible facilities and equipment," says lead author Elizabeth K. Rasch, P.T., Ph.D., a staff scientist and chief of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Section at the National Institutes of Health.
People with chronic conditions and disabilities also have special issues, Rasch said. "They use a high volume of services and end up in the ED not just because they have no place to go, but because of a lack of access to primary care, the urgency of the medical needs, their ability to pay and the type of insurance they have."
Other factors include a lack of or gaps in health insurance due to higher unemployment among people with disabilities, even though some are covered by Medicare or Medicaid, said Rasch.
Because of their multiple conditions and a "thinner margin of health," state the researchers, the ED will always be a destination for care of adults with disabilities. Better management of conditions might reduce the frequency of those visits.
"The findings of this research demonstrate the importance of understanding service utilization patterns according to disability type," said Amanda Reichard, Ph.D., assistant research professor at the Research and Training Center on Independent Living at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. "This type of research also enables us to design more targeted prevention, treatment and policy strategies that more effectively meet the unique needs of subpopulations with complex medical profiles. The Institute of Medicine has endorsed this notion by suggesting that federal agencies need to invest in public health research specifically designed to address the unique needs of people with disabilities."
The study authors hope U. S. health care system reform will better address those needs.
"More working age adults have chronic conditions and disabilities," said Rasch, adding that 53 percent of the U. S. adult population has one or more chronic conditions or diseases. "It's a cumulative problem as people age and their need for coordinated care becomes greater. We must develop the same, better-coordinated care models for adults that were developed in the late 80s and early 90s for children with special health care needs."
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Students of the Methodist Central College wish you a happy vesak.
Happy Vesak
Vesak Greetings
Analog and Digital Signals
Analog Signal:
Represents data with continuously varying electromagnetic
Digital Signals:
Represents data with sequence of voltage pulses.
Continuous signal (Varies in a smooth way over time)
Dicrete signal (Maintains a constant level then changes to
another constant level)
Periodic signal (Pattern repeated over time)
A periodic signal (Pattern not repeated over time)
For getting a flavour to the school
MR/ Methodist Central College has been started in 1875. So it belongs to a long histry with about 135 years. There are 1000 students and 50 teachers in our school. ICT is taught for O/Ls and A/Ls, GIT is taught for A/Ls, Computer is taught for students in Grade 6, 7. Computer is learned as a subject of Practical Technology Skills by students in Grade 8, 9.
As co-curricular activities, Children and community are learning in the evillage program and after school computer courses.
Every student and parent of evillage has an email address and blogs. They update their blogs by means of school computer lab. Students make in photo editing using Photoshop and upload them in to their blogs and flickr site. Also they do in video editing and upload them into their blogs and youtube site.
Goto http://www.youtube.com/hakmanaevillage
Our school teachers also have email addresses and blogs. They add They add articles concerning with their teaching subjects. Most of teachers search information relevant to their subjects through the internet.
We have spread ICT all over the community. Parents also have email addresses and blogs. Goto http://www.hakmana.org/parentsblogs
Our current computer laboratory has been installed in 2003. So they are outdated, undergone with failure frequently. If there is a failure of computers, the children and teachers make them restore order themselves. We provide computer courses like Desktop publishing, Networking and web designing as after school segments.
We have a special feature in teaching not only ICT but other subjects. Our school uses wi-fi technology. It is seen that students exploring internet with their class room mini laptops sitting under shade of trees and on rocks. So now the Methodist Central College is named wi-fi hot spot.
Our IT club i.e. hakmana eVillage has a unique T-shirt. We have established a holding with the size of 10' x 5' in front of the school entrance.
Our IT club organized field trips, explorations, Propagandas, IT promotion programs, Media coverage for community requirements.
Our IT club is to appear in program "Vidasa" on ITN.
MR/Methodist Central College won the 1st place for the submission of maximum number of software in Southern Province in Educational software competition 2010. One of students got a merit reward. And teacher also got it.
We got the 5th place in Southern Province and National Excellency Award 2009
Our school has reached over the National level in ICT O/L results.
We have personally three websites for the school. http://www.methodistcc.sch.lk , http://www.evillage.lk/hakmana, http://www.hakmana.org. All the web sites are made with joomla. We are the first school used joomla.
But, Our current computer laboratory has been implemented in 2003. The performance of computers has worn out at present. UPSs and monitors are not working thoroughly.
Concerning above information, If your institute has old computers (can be used), please provide us a couple of computer. It will be great helpful to students and community.
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1. ABOUT US (description about the e-village, its geography, beauty, history, culture, weather, etc.)
2. CONTACT US – (contact details about the e-village)
i. POSTAL ADDRESS
ii. MAP
iii. GOOGLE MAP
iv. EMAIL ID
v. TELEPHONE
vi. IM ID (Skype, Yahoo chat ID)
vii. FORM (online comment form)
3. STATISTICS (most useful statistics of the village for an outsider or a villager)
i. POPULATION
1. CHILDREN (AGE 1-5) – Number
2. PRIMARY STUDENTS (GRADE 1-5) – Number
3. SECONDARY STUDENTS (GRADE 5-GRADE 13) – Number
4. SCHOOL LEAVERS (Unemployed -Below 30) – Number
5. School Leavers (Employed – Below 30) – Number
6. Adults (30-50) – Number
7. Adults (50+)- Number
ii. PROFESSIONS
1. FARMERS- Number
2. BUSINESSPERSONS- Number
3. FISHERMEN- Number
4. Government SERVANTS- Number
5. OTHERS- Number
iii. LAND
1. CULTIVATED LAND – no. of squre kms
2. UNCULTIVATED LAND – no. of squre kms
3. COMMERCIAL LAND – no. of squre kms
4. RESERVOIRS, LAKES, STREAMS – no. of squre kms
4. ICT (ICT related info about the e-village)
i. ICT COURSES (courses you are conducting at e-villages)
1. Microsoft Windows – Details (Time/Duration/Fees/Certificate, etc.)
2. Microsoft Office– Details (Time/Duration/Fees/Certificate, etc.)
3. Web Designing – Details (Time/Duration/Fees/Certificate, etc.)
4. Graphic Designing– Details (Time/Duration/Fees/Certificate, etc.)
5. Other – Details (Time/Duration/Fees/Certificate, etc.)
ii. ICT SERVICES (services you offer at e-village)
1. Selling computers, parts – Details (Prices, etc.)
2. Trouble shooting – Details (Prices, etc.)
3. Computer hardware repair – Details (Prices, etc.)
4. Web designing – Details (Prices, etc.)
5. Graphic Designing – Details (Prices, etc.)
6. Videoing – Details (Prices, etc.)
7. Photography – – Details (Prices, etc.)
iii. ICT FACILITIES (facilities you already have at e-village)
1. Number of PCs – Who donated
2. Number of Laptops – Who donated
3. Number of printers – Who donated
4. Number of scanners – Who donated
5. Number of video cameras – Who donated
6. Number of still cameras – Who donated
7. Internet Speed – Who donated/sponsors
iv. WISH LIST (what you want the donors to donate to you)
1. Laminator – Why you need it. How it can help e-village? What is the price? What is the model? Brand?
2. Photocopier – Why you need it. How it can help e-village? What is the price? What is the model? Brand?
3. Digital Still Camera – Why you need it. How it can help e-village? What is the price? What is the model? Brand?
4. Digital Video camera – Why you need it. How it can help e-village? What is the price? What is the model? Brand?
5. Generator – Why you need it. How it can help e-village? What is the price? What is the model? Brand?
6. Others – Why you need it. How it can help e-village? What is the price? What is the model? Brand?
v. E-LEARNING – Sites that students can use e-learning
vi. HIGHER STUDIES – Institutes for Higher Education in ICT
vii. JOB MARKET – Sites with job vacancies for ICT/English fluent youth
5. MOBILE 2.0 (What is Mobile 2.0/why it is important)
i. 2G – 2G networks available in the village
ii. 3G – 3G networks available in the village
iii. SMS ALERTS – News, sports, etc.
iv. M-BANKING – Banks and schemes that uses m-Banking
v. M-LEARNING – Sites that deal with m-learning
vi. E-CHANNELING – companies that provide e-channeling
vii. M-WEBSITE – useful websites that have mobile versions
6. AGRICULTURE (Agricultural background-what seasons, how many acres cultivated, up country- dry zone crops.)
i. CROPS – crops that are mostly grown in the area
ii. MARKETS – places within the village that buyers can buy the crops/ contact details
iii. PRICE INDEX – places to see check prices
iv. AGRO DEPARTMENT OFFICE – link to Agricultural Department website
7. FISHERY (fishing background, fresh water-sea fishery, etc.)
i. FISH – types of fish that are caught
ii. MARKETS – places to buy fish – contact details
iii. PRICE INDEX – places to check prices
iv. FISHING EQUIPMENT – places to buy fishing equipment
8. HEALTH (main health indexes, basic facilities available, etc. type of doctors available, etc.)
i. HOSPITALS (facilities available, contact details)
ii. DISPENSARIES (facilities available, contact details)
iii. INDIGENOUS MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS (facilities available, contact details)
iv. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN THE AREA
v. DISEASE PREVENTION
vi. HEALTH CLINICS (you can also invite donors to help special health clinics)
vii. BLOOD GROUPS (take a sample of 100 youth who offer to donate blood and put the information about the blood groups in the site)
9. INVESTMENTS – (investment opportunities that are available for an investor in the village.)
i. AGRICULTURE
ii. FISHERY
iii. LEISURE
iv. INDUSTRIES (making tiles, brick, furniture, etc.)
v. SERVICES (transport, telecommunications, etc.)
10. IMPORTANT INFO (essential information about the village – for outsiders)
i. GUEST HOUSES (facilities available, contact details)
ii. BANKS (facilities available, contact details)
iii. SCHOOLS (facilities available, contact details)
iv. HOSPITALS (facilities available, contact details)
v. GOVERNMENT OFFICES (facilities available, contact details)
vi. POLICE (facilities available, contact details)
vii. DIVISIONAL SECRETARIAT OFFICE (facilities available, contact details)
viii. GRAMA SEWA NILADHARI (facilities available, contact details)
ix. OTHER (facilities available, contact details)
11. USEFUL LINKS (links that are useful for the villagers)
i. EDUCATION
1. PRE-SCHOOL (pre-schools in the village)
2. PRIMARY EDUCATION (schools with the facility in the village and close by villages)
3. SECONDARY EDUCATION (schools with the facility in the village and close by villages)
4. TERTIARY EDUCATION (institutes with the facility in the village and close by villages, towns)
5. HIGHER STUDIES (institutes, universities outside village)
6. INFORMAL EDUCATION (institutes outside village)
7. DISTANT LEARNING (institutes, websites)
8. E-LEARNING (institutes, universities outside village)
ii. HEALTH – ( information www.happylife.lk, Family Planning Association, Ministry of Health, etc.)
iii. SPORTS (links to different sports websites)
iv. NEWS (links to different news websites – tri lingual)
v. SOCIAL NETWORKING (links to social networking sites FACEBOOK/NING/MY SPACE etc)
vi. RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
1. COMMUNITY PORTALS (links to decent community portals)
2. MATRIMONIAL PORTALS (links to decent matrimonial websites)
vii. ENTERTAINMENT
1. MUSIC – (links to sites with music news, notes, lessons, etc.)
2. CINEMA – (links to cinema related sites, ticketing sites, movie sites)
3. THEATRE – (links to different theatre related sites)
4. TV STATIONS (links to TV stations)
5. RADIO STATIONS (links to radio stations)
6. FINE ARTS (links to fine arts sites)
12. SUSTAINABILITY (description whether the e-village is self-sustainable. When to reach sustainability.)
1. BALANCE SHEET (monthly income/expenditure)
2. BUSINESS PLAN (plan to succeed as a business –long term/short term)
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INTRODUCTION: These instructions can also be used to make patch cables for networks with more complex infrastructure wiring.
The two most common unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) network standards are the10 MHz 10BASE-T Ethernet and the 100Mhz 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet. The 100BASE-TX standard is quickly becoming the predominant LAN standard. If you are starting from scratch, to build a small home or office network, this is clearly the standard you should choose. This article will show you how to make cables which will work with both standards.
LANS SIMPLIFIED. A LAN can be as simple as two computers, each having a network interface card (NIC) or network adapter and running network software, connected together with a crossover cable.
The next step up would be a network consisting of three or more computers and a hub. Each of the computers is plugged into the hub with a straight-thru cable (the crossover function is performed by the hub).
There are several classifications of cable used for twisted-pair networks. I'll skip right over them and state that I use and recommend Category 5 (or CAT 5) cable for all new installations. Likewise, there are several fire code classifications for the outer insulation of CAT 5 cable. I use CMR cable, or "riser cable," for most of the wiring I do. You should also be aware of CMP or plenum cable (a plenum is used to distribute air in a building). You may be required by local, state or national codes to use the more expensive plenum-jacketed cable if it runs through suspended ceilings, ducts, or other areas, if they are used to circulate air or act as an air passage from one room to another. If in doubt, use plenum. CMR cable is generally acceptable for all applications not requiring plenum cable.
CAT 5 wire is available in reel-in-box packaging. This is very handy for pulling the wire without putting twists in it. Without this kind of package or a cable reel stand, pulling wire is a two-person job. Before the advent of the reel-in-box, we used to put a reel of wire on a broom handle to pull it. One person would hold the broom handle and the other would pull and measure the cable. You will produce a tangled mess, if you pull the wire off the end of the reel.
Stranded wire patch cables are often specified for cable segments running from a wall jack to a PC and for patch panels. They are more flexible than solid core wire. However, the rational for using it is that the constant flexing of patch cables may wear-out solid core cable–break it. I don't think this is a real concern in the average small network. For example, I have one solid core cable going to my work bench. It has probably flexed and average person's lifetime of flexes from the many times I have connected customer computers to my network. Also, stranded cable is susceptible to degradation from moisture infiltration, may use an alternate color code, and should not be used for cables longer than 3 Meters (about 10 feet).
Most of the wiring I do simply connects computers directly to other computers or hubs. Solid core cable is quite suitable for this purpose and for many home and small business networks. I find it also quite acceptable for use as patch cables. You might consider stranded wire patch cable, if you have a notebook computer you are constantly moving around.
CAT 5 cable has four twisted pairs of wire for a total of eight individually insulated wires. Each pair is color coded with one wire having a solid color (blue, orange, green, or brown) twisted around a second wire with a white background and a stripe of the same color. The solid colors may have a white stripe in some cables. Cable colors are commonly described using the background color followed by the color of the stripe; e.g., white-orange is a cable with a white background and an orange stripe.
CONNECTORS: The straight through and cross-over patch cables discussed in this article are terminated with CAT 5 RJ-45 modular plugs. RJ-45 plugs are similar to those you'll see on the end of your telephone cable except they have eight versus four or six contacts on the end of the plug and they are about twice as big. Make sure they are rated for CAT 5 wiring. (RJ means "Registered Jack"). Also, there are RJ-45 plugs designed for both solid core wire and stranded wire. Others are designed specifically for one kind of wire or the other. Be sure you buy plugs appropriate for the wire you are going to use. I use plugs designed to accommodate both kinds of wire.
Modular Plug Crimp Tool. You will need a modular crimp tool. This one is very similar to the one I have been using for many years for all kinds of telephone cable work and it works just fine for Ethernet cables. You don't need a lot of bells and whistles, just a tool which will securely crimp RJ-45 connectors. Even though the crimper has cutters which can be used to cut the cable and individual wires, and possibly stripping the outer jacket, I find that the following tools are better for stripping and cutting the cable…
Universal UTP Stripping Tool (Eclipse). I recently bought one of these tools and it works slick, and it makes a much neater cut. I recommend that you purchase one if you will be making many cables.
Diagonal Cutters ("4 to 6"). It is easier to use diagonal cutters ("diags" or "dikes") to cut the cable off at the reel and to fine tune the cable ends during assembly. Also, if you don't have a stripper, you can strip the cable by using a small knife (X-acto, utility, etc.) to carefully slice the outer jacket longitudinally and use the diags to cut it off around the circumference.
The 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX Ethernets consist of two transmission lines. Each transmission line is a pair of twisted wires. One pair receives data signals and the other pair transmits data signals. A balanced line driver or transmitter is at one end of one of these lines and a line receiver is at the other end. A (much) simplified schematic for one of these lines and its transmitter and receiver follow:
Pulses of energy travel down the transmission line at about the speed of light (186,000 miles/second). The principal components of one of these pulses of energy is the voltage potential between wires and current flowing near the surface of the wires. This energy can also be considered as residing in the magnetic field which surrounds the wires and the electric field between the wires. In other words, an electromagnetic wave which is guided by, and travels down the wires.
The main concern is the transient magnetic fields which surrounds the wires and the magnetic fields generated externally by the other transmission lines in the cable, other network cables, electric motors, fluorescent lights, telephone and electric lines, lightning, etc. This is known as noise. Magnetic fields induce their own pulses in a transmission line which may literally bury the Ethernet pulses, the conveyor of the information being sent down the line.
The twisted-pair Ethernet employs two principle means for combating noise. The first is the use of balanced transmitters and receivers. A signal pulse actually consists of two simultaneous pulses relative to ground: a negative pulse on one line and a positive pulse on the other. The receiver detects the total difference between these two pulses. Since a pulse of noise (shown in red in the diagram) usually produces pulses of the same polarity on both lines one pulse is essentially canceled by out the other at the receiver. Also, the magnetic field surrounding one wire from a signal pulse is a mirror of the one on the other wire. At a very short distance from the two wires the magnetic fields are opposite and have a tendency to cancel the effect of each other out. This reduces the line's impact on the other pair of wires and the rest of the world.
The second and the primary means of reducing cross-talk–the term cross-talk came from the ability to (over) hear conversations on other lines on your phone–between the pairs in the cable, is the double helix configuration produced by twisting the wires together. This configuration produces symmetrical (identical) noise signals in each wire. Ideally, their difference, as detected at the receiver, is zero. In actuality it is much reduced.
Again, please bear with me… Let's start with simple pin-out diagrams of the two types of UTP Ethernet cables and watch how committees can make a can of worms out of them. Here are the diagrams:
Note that the TX (transmitter) pins are connected to corresponding RX (receiver) pins, plus to plus and minus to minus. And that you must use a crossover cable to connect units with identical interfaces. If you use a straight-through cable, one of the two units must, in effect, perform the cross-over function.
Two wire color-code standards apply: EIA/TIA 568A and EIA/TIA 568B. The codes are commonly depicted with RJ-45 jacks as follows:
If we apply the 568A color code and show all eight wires, our pin-out looks like this:
Note that pins 4, 5, 7, and 8 and the blue and brown pairs are not used in either standard. Quite contrary to what you may read elsewhere, these pins and wires are not used or required to implement 100BASE-TX duplexing–they are just plain wasted.
However, the actual cables are not physically that simple. In the diagrams, the orange pair of wires are not adjacent. The blue pair is upside-down. The right ends match RJ-45 jacks and the left ends do not. If, for example, we invert the left side of the 568A "straight"-thru cable to match a 568A jack–put one 180° twist in the entire cable from end-to-end–and twist together and rearrange the appropriate pairs, we get the following can-of-worms:
This further emphasizes, I hope, the importance of the word "twist" in making network cables which will work. You cannot use an flat-untwisted telephone cable for a network cable. Furthermore, you must use a pair of twisted wires to connect a set of transmitter pins to their corresponding receiver pins. You cannot use a wire from one pair and another wire from a different pair.
Keeping the above principles in mind, we can simplify the diagram for a 568A straight-thru cable by untwisting the wires, except the 180° twist in the entire cable, and bending the ends upward. Likewise, if we exchange the green and orange pairs in the 568A diagram we will get a simplified diagram for a 568B straight-thru cable. If we cross the green and orange pairs in the 568A diagram we will arrive at a simplified diagram for a crossover cable. All three are shown below.
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There are only two unique cable ends in the preceding diagrams. They correspond to the 568A and 568B RJ-45 jacks and are shown to the right.
Again, the wires with colored backgrounds may have white stripes and may be denoted that way in diagrams found elsewhere. For example, the green wire may be labeled Green-White–I don't bother. The background color is always specified first.
Now, all you need to remember, to properly configure the cables, are the diagrams for the two cable ends and the following rules:
- A straight-thru cable has identical ends.
- A crossover cable has different ends.
It makes no functional difference which standard you use for a straight-thru cable. You can start a crossover cable with either standard as long as the other end is the other standard. It makes no functional difference which end is which. Despite what you may have read elsewhere, a 568A patch cable will work in a network with 568B wiring and 568B patch cable will work in a 568A network. The electrons couldn't care less.
My preference is to use the 568A standard for straight-thru cables and to start crossover cables with a 568A end. That way all I have to remember is the diagram for the 568A end, that a straight-thru cable has two of them, and that the green and orange pairs are swapped at the other end of a crossover cable.
1. Pull the cable off the reel to the desired length and cut. I have a box of cable at one end of my shop and a mark on the floor 10′ away. For cable lengths which are a fraction of ten feet, I eye-ball the length as I pull the cable out of the box (also, my feet are about one foot long). For longer cables, I pull it out to the ten foot mark and go back to the box and pull the remaining fraction or another ten feet. If you are pulling cables through walls, a hole in the floor, etc., it easier to attach the RJ-45 plugs after the cable is pulled. The total length of wire segments between a PC and a hub or between two PC's cannot exceed 100 Meters (328 feet or about the length of a football field) for 100BASE-TX (and 10BASE-T).
2. Strip one end of the cable with the stripper or a knife and diags. If you are using the stripper, place the cable in the groove on the blade (left) side of the stripper and align the end of the cable with the right side of the stripper. This is about right to strip a little over 1/2″ of the jacket off the cable. Turn the stripper about one turn or so. If you turn it much more, you will probably nick the wires. The idea is to score the outer jacket, but not go all the way through. Once scored, you should be able to twist the end of the jacket loose and pull it off with one hand while holding the rest of the cable with the other. If you are using a knife and diags, carefully slit the cable for about an inch or so and neatly trim around the circumference of the cable with the diags to remove the jacket.
3. Inspect the wires for nicks. Cut off the end and start over if you see any. You may have to adjust the blade with the screw at the front stripper. Cable diameters and jacket thicknesses vary.
4. Spread and arrange the pairs roughly in the order of the desired cable end.
5. Untwist the pairs and arrange the wires in the order of the desired cable end. Flatten the end between your thumb and forefinger. Trim the ends of the wires so they are even with one another. It is very important that the unstripped (untwisted) end be slightly less than 1/2″ long. If it is longer than 1/2″ it will be out-of-spec and susceptible to crosstalk. If it less than slightly less than 1/2″ it will not be properly clinched when RJ-45 plug is crimped on.. Flatten again. There should be little or no space between the wires.
6. Hold the RJ-45 plug with the clip facing down or away from you. Push the wire firmly into the plug. Now, inspect the darn thing… before crimping and wasting the plug! Looking through the bottom of the plug, the wire on the far left side will have a white background. The wires should alternate light and dark from left to right. The furthest right wire is brown. The wires should all end evenly at the front of the plug. The jacket should end just about where you see it in the diagram–right on the line. Aren't you glad you didn't crimp the plug?
1. Try to avoid running cables parallel to power cables.
2. Do not bend cables to less than four times the diameter of the cable.
3. If you bundle a group of cables together with cable ties (zip ties), do not over-cinch them. It's okay to snug them together firmly; but don't tighten them so much that you deform the cables.
4. Keep cables away from devices which can introduce noise into them. Here's a short list: copy machines, electric heaters, speakers, printers, TV sets, fluorescent lights, copiers, welding machines, microwave ovens, telephones, fans, elevators, motors, electric ovens, dryers, washing machines, and shop equipment.
5. Avoid stretching UTP cables (tension when pulling cables should not exceed 25 LBS).
6. Do not run UTP cable outside of a building. It presents a very dangerous lightning hazard!
7. Do not use a stapler to secure UTP cables. Use telephone wire/RG-6 coaxial wire hangers which are available at most hardware stores.
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The stakes are high as the UMBC Retrievers (20-10, 11-4 America East) play the regular season finale at Hartford (18-11, 11-4 AE) on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Tip-off time is slated for 7:00 p.m. at Chase Family Arena and the game will be broadcast on ESPN3.
The winner of the contest will secure the No. 2 seed in the America East Playoffs and a second guaranteed home game should they advance in Saturday's quarter-final round.
Retriever Update: For the first time in 32 years of NCAA Division I play, UMBC has posted back-to-back 20-win seasons, as the Retrievers surged late past UMass Lowell, 83-75, on Saturday's Senior Day at the UMBC Event Center.
For the ninth consecutive time this season, the Retrievers posted a victory after suffering a setback and improved to 20-10 overall and 11-4 in America East play. It was a non-senior, junior forward Joe Sherburne (Whitefish Bay, Wisc.) who led the way, posting his first double-double of the season with 21 points and 10 rebounds.
UMBC found the range from behind the arc, converting 12 of 24 attempts, besting the double-digit mark for treys for the first time in eight games.
Graduate student guard Jairus Lyles (Silver Spring, Md./DeMatha) added 16 points, six rebounds and six assists. He continues to lead America East in scoring at 20.6 points per game. Senior guard K.J. Maura (San Juan, P.R.) added 11 points, with six helpers and just one turnover and moved up to 17th nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.94). Senior guard Jourdan Grant (Bowie, Md./Archbishop Spalding) broke UMBC's school record by competing in his 123rd game and added nine points, including three treys.
A Glance at the Hawks: Hartford (18-11, 11-4 America East) has America East's longest winning streak at four straight and the Hawks have won seven of their last eight games. They were selected eighth by league coaches in the pre-season poll. UH has actually been a better road team than at home this year, winning 10 of 15 away from home and going 8-6 at Chase Family Arena.
Hartford rallied from a halftime deficit to defeat a desperate Binghamton squad, 67-57, on Saturday. Forward John Carroll had a monster game with 23 points and 15 rebounds.
Junior Carroll leads UH with 15.2 points and 6.4 caroms per game. Classmate and sharpshooter Jason Dunne (14.9 ppg) leads America East with 85 made treys.
The Series: The Hawks hold a 17-14 overall lead in the series, but UMBC has won two of the last three after a five-game winning streak by Hartford.
A year ago, at Chase Family Pavilion, UMBC triumphed, 84-68, snapping a five-game slide in West Hartford. Overall, Hartford has enjoyed great success over UMBC, capturing 10 of 14 meetings.
Up Next: UMBC will host either No. 6 New Hampshire or No. 7 UMass Lowell in the America East quarter-finals at the UMBC Event Center on Saturday, March 3. Tip-off time is set for 1:00 p.m


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International news gets real on the Lee family dispute
To some people, the Lee saga might seem like a 200-episode long soap drama focused on the conflict over a family inheritance.
Yes, there are some dramatic events in the dispute that mirror that of a soap opera: plans that manifest at the opportune time of 2am in the morning, a respectable father and his last dying wish, sibling rivalry and the need to leave a country out of fear.
International news outlets however, are able to distinguish between a family feud that should have stayed private and an issue of national concern. And they have reported it as such.
Here's a look at how international media reports differed from our local mainstream media.
1. Selective usage of quotes
International papers have been lifting particularly explosive quotes directly from Lee Wei Ling and Lee Hsien Yang's statement itself.
Daily Mail. Source
Reuters. Source
International media hasn't been afraid to focus their stories on the allegations against PM Lee, choosing to lift direct quotes from the statement.
The Straits Times. Source
16th June Update: We originally reported that the words "official power" were not used together. We were wrong. These words were indeed used by Lee Wei Ling. Not in the original statement but in her Facebook post the next day. We've since updated the below paragraph for factual accuracy.
In ST's article, they selectively used the quote Lee Wei Ling made the next day instead of in the original statement. It had the word "official", to make it sound more warranted.
At no point did the original statement have the words "official" and "power" placed together. A simple control+F in the 6 page document will reveal the word "official" only appears once, and that is in reference to Ho Ching. However, that quote was not reported in the press but it was carried over international media.
2. Not Mentioning Implications This Has On Singapore
Financial Times. Source
Malaysiakini. Source
Instead of just reporting on what had happened, international news went a step further to explore what this could mean for the future of politics in Singapore.
Bloomberg. Source
At least one news agency provided an optimistic outlook.
It's good to have a postulation, be it bright or bleak, much better than having none at all.
Channel NewsAsia. Source
This was the only quote picked up by local news – an assurance that everything will be fine.
3. No Mentions Of The Politicising Of The House
Malasiakini. Source
Most international news have quoted the allegation by the siblings on the use of late MM Lee Kuan Yew's legacy to reinforce political dominance.
Meanwhile, we pored over various local reports, and although many of them talked about the house, the alleged politicising of it was strangely left out.
4. Subdued Headlines
CNBC. Source
Financial Times. Source
While CNBC and Financial Times have chosen to flesh out "feud" in their headlines, indicating making reference to the war of words that has erupted among the Lee siblings.
The Straits Times. Source
The Straits Times has chosen to reveal how PM Lee Hsien Loong felt about the whole saga – "saddened" and for more effect, "deeply saddened". This is not new to Singaporeans though. In the past, many of us would be able to recall how the word 'ponding' was carefully used to underplay the severity of flash floods in Singapore.
With little mention of "feud" in any of the local news, the magnitude of the situations have been downplayed.
The Straits Times. Source
In an attempt to acknowledge the wide media coverage of the saga, The Straits Times has chosen to quote a rather mild headline from the South China Morning Post.
5. Lack of Video Coverage
Video has become a very popular format and mainstream media have learned how to create interesting videos to cater to the social media generation. Despite news reports from Channel 5 and Channel 8, it seems Channel NewsAsia is the only mainstream local news source to have uploaded any related videos on their Facebook page — 24-second video of Acting PM Teo Chee Hean's comments — right beside a two-minute plus video of wild boars at Tuas.
6. No mention of the Ho Ching allegation
While local news have only briefly mentioned Ho Ching, international news outlets have dedicated some column space to her.
CNBC subtly mentioned Ho Ching's background. Source
Malaysikini includes this from the siblings' statement. Source
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Astro AEC, a Taiwanese news agency, has even spent a good 20 seconds or so – between 1:20 and 1:54 of the clip – exploring Ho Ching's involvement in this. In a blatant fashion, they've stated that "Ho Ching should learn to be like her late mother-in-law", and stay in the periphery of political issues.
That is not to say the local news tried to include subtle mentions of political ambition but "ambition" still holds a rather positive connotation.
Channel NewsAsia. Source
7. Selective use of cover images
International news puts the Lee siblings together, seeming to hope that everything would be resolved soon and everyone would live happily-ever-after.
Financial Times' attempt to put the siblings together. Source
Reuters. Source
In an praise-worthy attempt, Reuters put a nice family photo.
Meanwhile, The Straits Times chose to use the exact same picture for two separate articles. Almost as if because they may have had to seek careful approval of which pictures to use. And surely these two public figures have more flattering pictures then the ones used.
The Straits Times article dated 14 June 2017. Source
The Straits Times article dated 15 June 2017. Source
TODAY tried using photoshop but failed to do any justice to their pictures as well. Just look at that horrendous shade of pink behind LHY.
8. Not highlighting international views of Singapore
This is general perception of Singapore in the words of international news:
Financial Times. Source
They've also included a warning for dissidents:
Screenshot from Daily Mail. Source
The Guardian. Source
Is There Press Freedom in Singapore?
It's no surprise international news has covered the saga very differently from our local media.
Li Shengwu speaking out on Facebook. Source
Even Li Shengwu, son of Lee Hsien Yang has spoken out, stating the Singapore news is heavily controlled by the government. He also responded with a link to the 2017 World Press Freedom Index, where Singapore is ranked #151, below Malaysia and sandwiched in the fine company of Ethiopia and Swaziland.
Here's where we stand.
And to end this article, here's an important quote from Reporters Without Borders, the people behind the rankings.
"Freedom of information is the freedom that allows you to verify the existence of all the other freedoms."
-Win Tin, Burmese journalist
Read the full story here.


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The Right Age For Training Your New Puppy.
Nowadays, many people attempt to have a clean home. If you own a dog, a large component of keeping your home clean is having a well-trained dog. A lot of dog owners do not know how to train their puppies and get frustrated quickly when they do not get results. Tips like the ones in this article should help you do that.
By training your dog, you are helping him to become a rule follower. A lot of times owners thing training is a one time event. But dogs can become complacent just like their human counterparts. Dogs, much like kids, do best when they have limits and rules.
Take caution when near an unfamiliar dog and offer them a chance to sniff your hands. This gives the dog an opportunity to learn your scent. After the dog knows your scent, he is unlikely to fear you and may be more willing to heed your command.
If you want your do to be house trained, you must make sure that he follows a regular elimination and feeding schedule. This will help you know when you have to take your dog outside, before he ruins your carpet. Being consistent will teach the dog to hold it until it is time to go outside.
The daily training sessions with your dog should be fun. Playing with your dog helps build a stronger bond between dog and human, which encourages the dog to respond positively during training. Training is fun for your dog, but it doesn't always have to be about learning something new. Play for the sake of playing.
Wearing a puppy out by overloading it with information and training is counterproductive. Brief, simple, positive training sessions are well-suited to the limited supply of energy and attention a pup has to work with. If you try to do too much, the puppy will probably not remember much except that it was an unpleasant experience, and that will make it more difficult when the time comes for the next training session.
To avoid making your pet overweight, watch the number of treats you hand out in a day. These treats are often ignored when considering calories, and yet they have an impact on the diet and health of your pet.
If you want to train a new puppy to walk on a leash, the first step is to put a collar on the young puppy while you are playing with him. Having the puppy get comfortable wearing the collar is important not only so that you can properly use a leash but also that your puppy has the proper identification tags in case he or she takes off.
Make sure you know your dog's grooming needs based off his or her breed. Certain breeds may require lots of weekly grooming; however, others may need very little or no grooming. A groomed dog is happier, cleaner, and healthier.
Whenever you make use of your dog's name within the context of a reprimand or warning, make a point to then use it positively as well. Your pet needs to understand that his name can represent something good. He should not be afraid to come to you when he is called.
Be aware of how you are reacting to your dogs behavior. Laughing at bad behavior, even if it is funny, will encourage your dog to repeat it. This can seriously slow your training program, and cause considerable frustration for you. Consistency is the key to accomplishing your goals when training your dog.
The previous information should be helpful in training your dog so that you can help maintain a clean home. Form strategies you can use every day, and watch as your dog becomes the perfectly trained pooch.
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Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.
Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.
"And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left."- Isa 30:21
ON the Sabbath before last we spoke concerning "the still small voice." After the thunder and the fire and the earthquake had passed away, for the Lord was not in them, there came a still small voice unto Elijah, which reached the prophet's heart, and brought him back to his former condition of communion with God. This hopeful morning we shall hear that same "still small voice" actually speaking a warning and teaching word, and we shall see how it operates upon the sinner, reaching both his ear and his heart. God calls to the rebellious, and by his gentle word they are brought to his feet with repentance, turned from their evil wandering, and led in the way of obedience.
The word behind us which is spoken of in the text is mentioned as one among other covenant blessings. No "if" or "but" is joined to it. It is one of those gracious, unconditional promises upon which the salvation of the guilty depends. There are many comforts of the new life which depend upon our own action and behaviour, and these come to us with "ifs"; but those which are vital and essential are secured to the chosen of God without "but" or "peradventure." It shall be so: God declares it shall, and he has power to carry out every jot and tittle of every promise that he makes to his people. I shall ask you at this good hour mainly to admire the free and sovereign grace of God in making such a promise as this to anybody, and especially in making it to a people whom he speaks of as "a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord." He severely upbraids them, and then in great patience he says to them, even to them, "Your ears shall hear a word behind you." God's grace is marvellous in itself, but its most marvellous point is the singular channel in which it chooses to flow: it runs down into the Dead Sea of sin and makes the waters pure.
I. I invite you to notice first of all THE POSITION OF THE WANDERER to whom this special blessing comes. How does God find men when he declares that they shall hear a word behind them? First, he finds them with their backs turned to him. This is clear enough, if you remember that the word is to be heard "behind" them. The sinner has gone away from God, and God calls after him from behind. He has turned his back upon his true Friend, his best Friend, his only capable Friend, but that Friend does not therefore change his temper and resent the insult; nay, he is provoked to a love more pleading and persuasive than ever, and calls to him to come into the right way. After having transgressed wilfully and wickedly, the rebel now distinctly turns his back on God and truth; according to the Lord's complaint, "they have turned unto me the back, and not the face." He turns his back on the law, on the gospel, on mercy, on eternal life. He turns his back on the adoption of the great Father, on pardon bought with the blood of Jesus, on regeneration which can alone be wrought by the Holy Spirit: he turns his back upon holiness, happiness, and heaven. He turns away from sunlight, and wanders down into deeper and yet deeper night, striving to get away from God and holy influences. Yet the Lord follows him, and with a voice of touching love and tender compassion he calls to him, "This is the way, walk ye in it." The word of warning, instruction, and entreaty follows the wanderer, and with ever-increasing pathos beseeches him to turn and live. Again and again the wise, earnest, personal voice assails his ear, as if love resolved that he should not perish if wooing could win him to life. The wanderer seeks not God, but his God seeks him. Man turns from the God of love, but the love of God turns not away from him.
What matchless grace is this, that God should thus call after sinners when they openly renounce his rule, and flee from his mercy. Oh, if the Lord had turned his back on us, where had we been? If he had given us up to our own devices, and left us to ourselves, then our eternal ruin would want but a few more days and months to consummate itself, and we should be driven for ever from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. Have we not said unto God, "Depart from us: we desire not the knowledge of thy ways"? If he had replied to us, "Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting fire in hell," it had only been the echo of our own words. When we said to him "Depart," suppose he had turned round and said, "Depart, depart yourselves." But instead of that, while we turn ourselves deliberately away from God, he still calls after us; he will not let us go. We have a freedom of will, but it is by that freedom of will that men are damned, since they will not come unto Christ that they might have life, but they will to follow the devices and desires of their own hearts. Free-will, thus held in chains by evil lustings, becomes the most destructive agency in the world; but, blessed be God, he has freedom of will too, and that freedom of sovereign grace will not have its hands bound nor its lips closed, but it will act and speak in omnipotent love. So when the Lord sees us in the wantonness of our wickedness, dead in trespasses and sins, his great love wherewith he loves us seeks us out, and from the lips of that love come tender accents bidding us return to God, saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it."
Observe that these persons had not only turned their backs on God, but they were going further and further away from him. Of course, when you have once turned your back upon the right, the further you travel the more wrong you become. They were not content to be near to God, even with their backs to him, but they hastened away. They are eager and quick to escape from their own mercy. Like the prodigal, they are not satisfied till they get into "a far country": they cannot rest in the same land with their God: they journey with all speed away from the Lord, and the greater the distance that they can set between themselves and their Father the more are they at ease. In forgetting God they find a horrible peace: the peace of death, a peace which will stupefy them into eternal destruction. Now, it is while they are thus going hot foot away from God, further and further every day, madly rushing along the downward road, never satisfied with the sin to which they have attained, flying from God as if he were their terror and would be their destroyer, it is even then that the word sounds behind them and they are startled into thought. They have a powerful voice pleading with them thus,-"Turn ye, turn ye; why will ye die, O house of Israel? This is the way, walk ye in it. The way you are now pursuing is not the way to peace and safety; return at once, for this is the way, walk ye in it." Here again I admire the overflowing riches of the grace of God, that he should call men to himself when they are altogether taken up with other things, when every thought, and every word, and every act is in rebellion against him. Paul saith, "Doth God care for oxen?" but here is a far greater wonder, "Doth God care for worthless revolters?" When a chosen man is desperately set on mischief, determined to destroy himself, God is yet more determined to save him. The two determinations meet, and we shall see which of the two will prove itself the stronger one. We soon find that the determination of God overcomes the determination of man. The iron breaks the northern iron and the steel. "Thus saith the Lord; your covenant with death is broken, and your league with hell is disannulled:" for there was a prior covenant, a covenant of grace made by God himself, which stands fast for ever; and there was a prior league which God made with his Son on our behalf, and that league shall overthrow our league with death and hell. Glory be to God that even when the sinner is still rebellious, and shows no signs of repentance, nor is conscious of any wish to turn from the error of his ways, even then, while his heart is black as night, and his spirit is choke-full with rebellion, God calls to him, "Return, O backsliding children." "They shall hear a voice behind them, saying, This is the way."
More than this, however, is true. They had turned their backs on God, and were going further from him, though they were warned not to do so, and they were pursuing their course in spite of warning. Read the twentieth verse: "Thine eyes shall see thy teachers": there they stood, good men, right in the way, entreating their hearers to cease from provoking their God and destroying their own souls. Hear them cry, "Turn ye from your iniquities, for this way leads to death: turn ye, turn ye." They can see their teachers stretching out their hands with eager importunity, pleading even unto boiling tears, persuading them to turn from the way and the wages of sin. Still they push on, as if eternal destruction were a prize to be sought rather than a doom to be dreaded. Was it not so with many of us in the days of our unregeneracy? Mother and father endeavored to block up the evil road: in them our eyes beheld our teachers. How they taught us: how they prayed with us: how they laboured if possible to turn us from the error of our ways! But we persevered with obstinate resolve. It is hard going to hell over a pleading mother, and equally hard to destroy one's self by pushing aside an earnest father's good advice; but we seemed resolved to do so. Then perhaps followed Sunday-school teachers, full of intense love to us; and how they pleaded! How wisely they set the case before us, and how tenderly they pleaded: our eyes did see our teachers, but still our eyes would not see the right way, nor would our hearts desire it; we were determined that we would by hook or by crook land ourselves in hell. Our soul was given to her idols, and after those idols we resolved to go. We loved the wages of iniquity, the pleasures of the flesh, the pride of life, the conceit of self-salvation: we loved anything better than our God; and though our teachers were before us, ready to help and eager to teach we made small account of them. In after-life it may be our teachers were earnest pastors, who could not preach dull, dead sermons, and would not suffer us to sleep ourselves into perdition. They cried aloud and spared not: they were in anguish about us: they gave themselves no rest until we would turn from our iniquities. We could see our teachers, and we had a loving respect for them too, yet we cast their word behind our back: it was of no use to us: we loved iniquity, and that way we would go, come what might of it. Yet even then, when we were despising God's prophets and paying no regard to all the words of warning, the Lord was still loving us, looking after us, and crying after us, and saying, "This is the way; this is the way: walk ye in it. Come back, come back, come back: you are destroying yourselves: return unto your Father and your God." Why did he not throw the reins on our necks, and say, "Let them alone; they are given unto idols: I have hewed them with the prophets, I have ploughed them with men of God, but all has come to nought; they have stiffened their necks, they have hardened their hearts, they have made their forehead like unto an adamant stone; therefore let them reap the result of their transgressions"? But it was not so, for God had made this word an unconditional promise of his covenant, "They shall hear a voice behind them."
One more mark of the ungodly condition of those whom God would call was this, that they had many ways in which to wander. Sometimes they roamed to the right hand, at other times they wandered to the left, but they never turned face about. Hear ye the way to heaven; it is right about face then keep straight on to glory. Nay, but we will turn this way, we will turn that way, we will turn any way except to God. Some men have right-hand sins, respectable iniquities which challenge little censure from their fellows; not black, but whitewashed sins. Such men are not thieves, they are not licentious, they are not drunkards, but their sins take a quieter form; they mock God with their self-righteousness, and insult him with their prayers, which are no prayers, but only pretences and fictions, and not the real prayers of God's elect ones. Others have left-hand sins; they plunge into the sins of the flesh; no vice is too black for them. Only propose to have a little pleasure and they will plunge into any vice to gain it: ay, and almost without pleasure, altogether without present profit, they will sin, as if for sin's own sake. When they have burned their finger in the candle they will after that hold their arm in the fire; when they have brought disease into their bodies by sin they will return to the evil which caused it; when they have beggared their purse by their extravagant lusts yet still they will go on playing the profligate; when they have filled themselves with despair till they are as a bucket running with gall and wormwood, and this has been emptied out for them by God's grace, they will fill it up again, for they are infatuated with sin; they find a delight in it and they will not, they cannot give it up. Shall the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may they that have been accustomed to do evil learn to do well. Alas, such a miracle has not happened to them. They choose all shapes of evil, but the good they will not have. I say their right-hand sins, their left-hand sins, sins of their life, sins of their heart,-they will follow all these eagerly, but unless God by his own omnipotent voice shall call them back they will not come to him, to Jesus, to grace, to holiness, and heaven. Tell it, tell it, tell it; sound it forth beneath the sky for ever and ever, that the Lord does call to himself such wanton wanderers. "Go and proclaim these words toward the north, saith the Lord: Turn, O backsliding children; for I am married unto you." Oh, the pity of God, not only for the miserable, but for the wicked; it surpasses thought. "In due time Christ died for the ungodly." Favour to the guilty is the choicest of favour. We come not to preach salvation to the righteous-for where shall we find them?-but we proclaim it to the unrighteous and to the ungodly. "The whole have no need of a physician; but they that are sick"; and Christ has come after the sick, calling, not the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Oh, if anything will touch the heart it should be this word of free grace, this fact that God doth bid men return to him. Mercy is full of patience; it bears and forbears, and still it cries, "This is the way, walk ye in it"; oh, who would be so cruelly ungrateful as to close his ear against its pleadings?
Thus I have spoken sufficiently upon the position of the wanderer.
II. Now, for a little while, we will dwell upon THE CALL OF MERCY. "Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee."
Notice, it is a call that is altogether undesired, and comes unsought to the man who has gone astray. He hears the inward call whose voice is "Return:" he looks for a moment, and then puts his foot down to pursue his journey. "Never," he says, "will I alter my course," and he boldly hastens on, though before him lie death and hell. As he is persevering in his ruinous course the same word again bids him "Return." He hears the admonition, but still he pushes on; he must not and will not return from the way of evil. If he could reach a spot where such disturbing voices would never trouble him how gladly would he hasten towards it. Hence so many altogether forsake the place of worship: they prefer the stagnant pool of stupid obstinacy to the sweet river of the water of life. So far from desiring to be warned, if they could voyage to a distant Tarshish, where voices of warning would never reach them more, it would be a delightful journey; and if ship could be taken, they would, like Jonah, pay the fare to the shipmaster, and secure a berth in the next vessel. I have heard of one in the backwoods of America who was unloading his furniture, and while doing so up rode a Methodist minister. "Confound you," said he, "I have moved half-a-dozen times to get away from you Methodist fellows: I am never comfortable where you are. I will put the things on the cart again, and find a spot where I shall be free from you." On they went to another clearing, but when they reached it the first thing that happened, before the man took up his lodging, was the appearance of a Methodist minister. "Where shall I go to get away from you Methodist preachers?" "There is nowhere I know of," said the minister, "that you can go, for I am afraid if you go to hell you will find some of them there, for preachers have been lost. The very best thing you can do is to yield at once, and let me hold a service to-night in your camp." That was sound advice; and so some of you will be pestered and worried as long as you live if you will not come to Christ. Omnipotence has servants everywhere, and these are all charged to warn you of your peril. I knew one who would not go to a place of worship, and turned every Bible out of his house; but he found a copy of the holy Book in his house, and as he cursed and swore he learned that it was the property of a daughter whom he loved too much to scold, and he was obliged to let the sacred volume rest where she had placed it. A Bible in a house where it is forbidden to be read is a splendid power for good, as he soon discovered. In a house where it is outwardly honoured the Bible may have little influence, but if it gets where it must not be allowed, everybody reads it. If you can make God's Word to be forbidden fruit, Eve will feed on it, and Adam will follow her. Thus the grace of God came into the house, and it would never be expelled. Down by Mitcham, when the lavender is growing, if you take a house there you will discern a smell of lavender; you may shut the windows and close the doors, but when any persons enter a whiff of lavender enters with them, you cannot help it; and if you live where the gospel is preached at all you will be sure to hear it, and made to know of it. It is God's intention that you should. It is a voice that comes unasked and undesired, but come it does.
"A word behind thee"; it is the voice of an unseen caller whose existence has been almost forgotten. It is not the teachers that speak in this powerful way. The teachers you have seen with your eyes, and they have done you no good; but someone calls whom you never saw and never will see till he sits on the throne of judgment at the last great day; but still he utters a word which cannot be kept out of your ears. It will come to you mysteriously at all sorts of hours crying, "Return, return, return." It will sound often at dead of night, and make the chambers of conscience ring with its notes. I have known it to wake a man out of his slumbers: I have known it sound in his dreams till he dreamed of hell, and woke up and felt the torment in his own conscience. Though he has done all he could, has been off to the theatre, to the gay party, to the entertainment, to deeper sin, yet still even there the word has haunted him. I recollect one who in this very city plunged into all manner of gaiety to try to get rid of this word, yet God met him in a play; words were used in the performance which touched his conscience, and he fled from the playhouse as from a burning building, fell on his knees, and sought and found the Saviour. This call of mercy is the word of a hidden One: you cannot see who it is that speaks, yet you cannot shut your ears to his admonitions nor refuse reverence to his warnings.
This voice pursues and overtakes the sinner. Do you see him running,-with all his might rushing to his own destruction? The word comes, at first, rather feebly-"Return." He scarcely looks back, but on he flies. Lo, the voice follows. He runs faster from it to show his determination to carry out his own will. The voice still follows him, saying, "Return." Then he stops a minute, but being desperately enamoured of his transgressions, he again takes to his heels to fly away from God; still the word pursues his footsteps, and in pleading accents cries,-"Return, return, return, return;" till at last he is constrained to sit down and listen to the word which comes from he knows not where. He cannot understand how and why it comes so home to him, but it is a fulfillment of the promise; it is the word behind him saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it."
That voice when it comes to sinners is generally most opportune, for according to the text they are to hear this voice behind them when they turn to the right hand or to the left. A man may go steadily plodding on in his course of ungodliness and hear no such word of pleading, but how often it has happened that there has been a temptation of a more than usually forceful character, and the traveller was about to turn to the right, and then, at that precise moment, he has heard the word of God behind him giving him warning. His feet had almost gone; his steps had well-nigh slipped, but the word of the Lord upheld him, and he went not into the deadly sin. Or it may be it is what I have described as a left-handed sin: the man was carried on to an action which, if he had actually performed it, would have involved his sure destruction; but just as he was about to turn down Deadman's Lane there came a voice behind him, "Return, return." Often it is so, and even if the man does not return and seek the right way, but keeps steadily on as carelessly as ever, still he is slackening his speed, and he dares not take that left-hand turning into gross sin which he would have followed if the word had not checked him. Even where the Spirit of God does not save a man it keeps him from many a sin; and when men rebel against the light and will not yield to it, yet still that light has a restraining influence over them of which they may be unconscious. Those who watch them know that if that bit and bridle had not been supplied by the word they would have gone to an excess of riot which would have been dangerous to others as well as totally destructive to themselves. Blessed be God for the opportuneness of the word of mercy. Men delay to come, but God does not delay to call.
And you see, to close this second point, that it is absolutely necessary that the potent word should be spoken and should be heard. For the man had seen his teachers, but they had not wrought him any good. How often the Lord seems to put us ministers right up in the corner with our faces to the wall, till we are little in the eyes of our hearers and little in our own eyes. He does so with me, and while I can glorify his name and bless him abundantly for the many that are brought to Christ, yet I never take the slightest congratulation to myself about it, for what am I but the driest and most barren stick that there is in all my Master's garden apart from his watering? If sinners had nothing to save them but us poor preachers, not one of them would be brought up from death and hell. Sinners would laugh at us as simpletons if God were not with us: they do so as it is, and I do not wonder at it, because there is enough in us that deserves to be laughed at. They are ready to despise us, and we cannot be broken-hearted if they do, for we ourselves used in former days to despise the servants of God, and if we do not do so now, it is because the grace of God has made a change in us: we cannot expect better treatment than we ourselves rendered to better men when they pleaded with us. The word behind us is needful, that "still small voice" which no mortal man can speak, but only God himself, that inward monition of the conscience, that touching language of the heart which is as much beyond the power of man as to make a world or breath life into an image of clay. Therefore pray ye mightily to the blessed Spirit that he may breathe on men and save them, and that the word of God may still follow and pursue them till they turn from the way of transgression.
I leave that point. You have seen the position of the rambler, and the grace of God in the call of mercy.
III. But what was THE WORD OF THAT CALL? It is stated at full length, "This is the way, walk ye in it." That is the word of the call. It contains within itself, first, specific instruction. "This is the way." There is a kind of preaching which has nothing specific, definite, and positive in it: it is a bit of cloud-land, and you may make what you like out of it-God's grace or man's merit, faith in Christ or faith in self. You need to be your own instructor, and then like the child looking into the fire you will see whatever your own eye chooses to create. Too much preaching is of a kind so mixed that it reminds me of the showman when his visitors asked, "Which is Wellington and which is Napoleon?" "Whichever you please," said he; "you have paid your money and you may take your choice." So it seems to be with many preachers as to doctrine. You may have what kind of doctrine you like so long as you pay your pew-rent. "Cleverly put," cries one, when he had heard a smart sermon. Is not that enough? I answer, it is not enough: we want the sure testimony of revelation, sealed in the heart by the Holy Ghost. Cleverness is not God's way of blessing men. Conjectures and loose opinions are not worth the breath which is expended in expressing them. The Lord lays down a definite pathway, and he says, "This is the way." "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved; this is the way. Repent and be converted, every one of you; this is the way. To leave sin, to quit self, to trust in Christ: this is the way." Something definite is laid down before those who desire to be taught of God, and they are told what is to be done, what is to be received, what is to be given up. "This is the way." Definite instruction is given. This may not suit the Broad School, but it is exactly what the anxious seeker needs.
This definite instruction may also be said to be a special correction. When the voice behind says, "This is the way," it does as good as say that the opposite path is not the way; for there is only one way to heaven, and there never will be two; and when men hear a voice saying, "This is the way," it does in effect remind them that the opposite is not the way. If ye are going the reverse of the right way, turn ye from it, and ye shall live. How much we ought to bless God that the gospel comes in as a corrective, kills the false and introduces us to the true. May falsehood be slain within us, and truth reign there for ever. May we leave all other roads, since the Lord has said of one road only, "This is the way."
It is also a word of sure confirmation. "This is the way." When that is heard many times,-"This is the way," "This is the way," "This is the way;" when, according to our hymn,
"We hear our Saviour say,
'Come hither, soul, I am the Way,'"
if we have already believed it to be the way we are strengthened in that conviction. Hearing the mysterious word declaring again and again, "This is the way," men grow to believe the truth of God's word, and out of that by-and-by there is begotten a living faith in a living Saviour. Oh, this is a great mercy, to hear the same thing many times, to hear the voice proclaim again and again and again, "This is the way," "This is the way." "Other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, Jesus Christ, the righteous." May the repetitions of the Spirit effectually preserve us from the deadly shadow of doubt, and fix us as a nail in a sure place.
This is followed up by a word of personal direction. "Walk ye in it." Do not merely hear about it, but "walk ye in it." Be not content to be critics, thinkers, and considerers, but become doers of the word. "This is the way,"-here is the doctrine: "Walk ye in it,"-there is the practice. Well is it when the Lord by his Spirit speaks to the runaway sinner and tells him what he is to do and to believe; then he makes the way and the walk to be vividly present,-"This is the way, walk ye in it" without delay.
This takes the form of encouraging permission. Some think they may not come to Christ. They actually ask the question, "May I believe in him? Is there salvation for me?" Why, saith the text, "This is the way." Do not sit looking at it: "walk ye in it." "But I am so big a sinner." "Christ is the way; walk ye in it." There is room enough for big sinners in Jesus. "But I have been so long coming." Never mind: this is the way, "walk ye in it." Never mind if you have been seventy years coming if you have come to the way at last, "Walk ye in it." "But I am afraid my feet are so polluted that I shall stain the way:" "This is the way, walk ye in it." You are not told to stand on one side and wait till something shall happen to you which shall persuade you to come, but here is the king's highway, walk ye in it. Walking is the simplest of all exercises. There is no great artistic skill required in order to walk, but walking is all that is wanted. Come to Christ,-come to him anyhow. Oh soul, tumble to him somehow; trust him as best you can: and if you cannot do it without question, trust him because you must trust him, since you have nobody else to trust to. Throw yourself into Jesus' arms; swoon away on the bosom of Christ. It is the essence of faith, to die into the life of God in Christ Jesus. This is the message which comes behind many a runaway sinner,-"This is the way, walk ye in it."
IV. According to our text success is promised to the word. "Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it." Notice, THE SUCCESS OF THE WORD,-thine ears shall hear. God not only gives us something to hear, but he gives us ears to hear with. Oh, the mercy of God! he spreads the table, and then he gives the appetite; he furnishes the garments, and he gives us the sense of nakedness, and so leads us to put them on. Everything that is wanted to bear a man from the gates of hell to the gates of heaven free-grace provides. Nothing is left out: the catalogue is complete: he that sends the tidings also opens the ears. "Thine ears shall hear." This is effectual grace. Teachers cannot make men hear. They can appeal to the external ear, and after that they have no more that they can do; but God can make men hear. Without violating the freedom of their wills he can get at their hearts, at their consciences, at their understandings, and he can press the truth home to their souls. When the Lord does it, it is done. When we do it, it is often so done that afterwards it is undone, but verily I know that what God doeth shall be for ever. All that is of nature's spinning will be unravelled one day; but when God spins, it will last throughout eternity.
I take it when we read here, "Thine ears shall hear," it means first, that the message of divine love shall come to the man's mind so as to create uneasiness in it. He is jauntily traversing the road to destruction: he has chosen the path, and he delights in it. It often looks to him to be a flowery way, a pleasant road. So he walks on, and he would be very happy but for that word behind him crying, "Turn ye! turn ye! turn ye!" Just as he was turning down that glade in the wood to the right, where all the flowers of spring are found in profusion, that call troubled him again! He would sooner have seen a serpent hissing in the pathway, or heard a lion roar from the thicket, than have heard that word. The man says, "I never can be quiet: I can see other people going to amusements and pleasures, and they heartily enjoy themselves; but the fact is, the more amusement I have the less I am amused, and I am never more miserable than when everybody else is laughing. Why am I thus?" He thinks he is hardly done by, and is the special object of God's hatred. Everybody else is jolly, but he is gloomy. They can look on the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright, when it giveth its colour in the cup; and so could he once look into the rosy depths, but now he sees that serpent at the bottom of it, and he is afraid to touch it lest the draught should turn to venom in his veins. He almost curses the arrangements of heaven which have made him so ill at ease. He wishes he had never heard the parson preach the sermon which bothered him so; he wishes he had never had a godly mother at all, that he might have gone straight away into sin, and have been as merry as a cricket; but now there is that voice again behind him, boring its way into his tingling ears. For a moment he had forgotten it, but there it comes again-"Turn! turn! turn! turn!" He stops his ears; but it bombards his soul with worse than cannon balls; as if the word of God pounded him with shells, he hears the thunders of the cannonade,-"Return! Return! Return!" What can he do? He longs to escape from the divine rebuke. The word has made him quiver and quake. So far so good. We shall see next what will happen to him.
After a while there gets to be a desire in his heart. It is only a faint and spasmodic desire,-nothing very strong or constant-but there it is, and it cannot be quenched. "I wish I could get right somehow: for in my present condition I am in an evil case; I am sailing in the wrong boat; I wish I could land somewhere, and take the return boat and get to my home. I do not feel at all easy; I wish I knew what to do to be saved. I do know it somehow, for I have heard it every Sabbath day, but yet I do not understand it; I cannot get hold of it; I wish I could, for I am anxious to be forgiven, to be renewed in the spirit of my mind, to be made a new creature in Christ Jesus." "Do you know," he says to someone, "that voice I could not bear, that used to wake me up at nights, that kept me out of pleasure? There is a kind of music in it now; I like to hear it: I wish I heard it so that it had an effect upon me, for I am afraid I shall go down to the pit, and be lost under accumulated responsibilities for having neglected the call of divine love. Oh, help me to come to Christ, for I am anxious to reach him, but I feel as if I could not come. I do not feel as I ought. I am told to believe, but I do not know what it means, or I cannot do it.
"I would but can't believe,
Then all would easy be.
I would but cannot, Lord, relieve:
My help must come from thee."
He is getting on all right, friends. We shall have a better bulletin concerning him directly. He is wonderfully improving: a great deal of the fever of pride has gone out of the man; we shall have him yet in perfect health. He could not rest because he heard too much of the word behind him, and now he cannot rest because he cannot hear enough of it: he desires that it may penetrate his soul and change him from darkness to light.
What shall happen next? As that voice continues to sound, it pulls him up, and leads to resolve. The word of the Lord has put a bit into his mouth and a bridle between his jaws; he does not dare go any further; he sits down to consider. I think I saw him on his knees too, and he is resolved if heaven is to be had he will have it; if mercy is to be found he will find it; he will rake the world over, but he will gain the pearl of great price. I think I heard him say he would not go to sleep till he found Jesus. I am glad he has come to that pass. Friend, you are just like the prodigal when he said, "I will arise and go to my father"; only take care you do not end in resolutions. Let it be said of you as of that same prodigal, "He arose, and came to his father"; for all our resolutions are not worth the making unless they be most earnestly and speedily carried into effect. Observe the effect of the word behind the wanderer. Cannot you see the man who was running so fast? He has pulled up. He sees a line drawn across his path, and he must not go over it. He feels that if he goes further he may never have another call of mercy, and this makes him pause. Did not we sing this morning,
"Soon that voice will cease its calling"?
The man is anxious to obey while he may. He is not yet resolved to go back, but he dares not go further.
Watch him, for the voice is calling again, and he is every now and then turning his ear round as if he wanted to hear it. "Return, return, return." He smites upon his breast and cries, "Would God I could return; I will return, for I cannot perish; I cannot let things go as once I did; I cannot leave everything to take its own way while I take my chance. No, I must have Christ or else I die, and I must have him soon, or else I shall seal my eternal destiny, and prove a castaway for ever. O God, call again, call again; keep on calling, till I come; for lo, my spirit answers, 'Draw me, and I will run after thee.' When thou saidst unto me, 'Seek ye my face,' my heart said unto thee, 'Thy face, Lord, will I seek.'"
What will be the last stage of this inner work? Since the man dares not go any further in this wrong way, what is he to do? He cannot turn to the right or to the left, for God has hedged up his way with thorns. Now, listen to what he will say, "I will return unto my first husband, for it was better with me then than now." This poor soul looks on him whom he pierced. He did not know he was piercing his Redeemer; but now he sees it all, and while his eyes begin to stream with tears, he turns unto this Christ upon the cross, and finds life while looking at him. See him get up and feel as if he did not know what to do with himself as he cries,
"Blest cross; blest sepulchre; blest rather be
The man that here did shed his blood for me."
Now he enquires, "Which is my way? Speak, sweet voice; speak, sweet voice; tell me which is my way." And now the voice moves and speaks in front of him; for shepherds go before their sheep. The man looks and sees the Crucified One with pierced hands and feet leading the way, and he delights to follow him: ay, and he shall follow him until at the last he shall see his face in glory everlasting. Redeemed by blood and rescued by power eternal, and brought home to the great Shepherd's fold, to go no more out for ever, the sinner shall be filled with gladness. Listen, then, listen, ye that have turned your backs on God! Infinite mercy woos you, boundless compassion entreats you to be saved. Turn ye; turn as you are, all black and filthy and bemired; tarry not to mend or wash, but come to Jesus all unholy and unclean, without a single sound speck upon your leprous frame, utterly lost and ruined. Christ died for such as you. I say again, tarry not to improve yourselves, but come now, while mercy's voice incites you, while the Holy Ghost not only entreats, but sweetly constrains. Come and welcome, sinners, come. The Lord bless you. Amen.
PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON-Isaiah 30.
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Despite drawbacks, Miller Park's retractable roof still is dependable
Heavy rains caused Miller Park's retractable roof to spring a leak during Saturday night's Brewers-Pirates games, Milwaukee sports business writer Don Walker reported.
It wasn't the first time water seeped through the closed roof of a stadium entering its 14th season of operation, and it most likely won't be the final occurrence. The design of the fan-shaped roof was never intended to provide an airtight seal, according to ballpark officials, and they are in the process of making minor repairs to areas between the roof panels that need maintenance or replacement.
Since Miller Park opened in 2001, there have been multiple leaks during baseball events, including the Home Run Derby, one day before the infamous 2002 MLB All-Star Game that ended in a 7-7 tie after both teams ran out of available players.
Some superstitious types point to a tragic accident during stadium construction and say it put a curse on the roof. In July 1999, a 1,400-ton crane lifting a 400-ton roof piece 200 feet in the air collapsed, killing three ironworkers. Others say the alleged curse is nonsense and point to the stadium's dependability and a retractable roof that has saved MLB teams more than once after they were forced to relocate games due to weather-related issues in their respective markets.
In April 2007, the Indians moved an early-season series against the Angels from Cleveland to Milwaukee after a foot of snow fell on Jacobs Field. One year later, in September 2008, the Astros played two home games against the Cubs in Milwaukee after Hurricane Ike postponed the original dates at Minute Maid Park. Of course, Cub fans remember the Sept. 14 game after pitcher Carlos Zambrano threw a no-hitter against the Astros in the first game of a two-game set. It was the Cubs' first no-hitter since 1972.
In that respect, all baseball fans, including those cheering for the Brew Crew, know they can count on games being played at Miler Park regardless of the weather. It's a guarantee most other MLB teams can't provide to their patrons, a distinction that sticks out in the minds of those buying tickets for baseball games in Milwaukee. For them and for the Brewers, the roof is a difference maker.
"These things are really pretty reliable," said Scott Jenkins, former Brewers' former vice president of stadium operations, who was recently hired to run the Atlanta Falcons' new retractable-roof stadium opening in 2017.
"They're a great feature to have but it's a huge movable piece of equipment and they certainly come with complications and require effort to maintain and make sure it operates," Jenkins said. "Even your cars have to get repaired every now and then. But even when you have severe weather events with heavy rain and high winds, and you get some leakage, like what just happened in Milwaukee, the bottom line is you're playing the game, so thank goodness for that."


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Advantages Of Conservatories Auckland
When it comes to home improvement, one of the most significant investments is a conservatory. There are a number of benefits of investing in a conservatory. Here is a list of some of the major benefits of conservatories Auckland.
Benefits of Conservatories Auckland
A conservatory is a highly desirable feature and adds a lot of value to a home. Since a conservatory requires a significant investment, potential buyers often prefer to buy a house that already has one instead of buying a house, and building one on their own.
As far as the valuation is concerned, it will depend on the type of conservatory. In simple terms, it can be said that you will get much more value by adding a conservatory to your home as compared to the amount of money spent on building the conservatory. Also, you will get to enjoy the additional space for the years you continue to live in your house.
A conservatory not only adds significant value to your home but also adds more space to your house. It is like an extra room in your house but it doesn't end there. It offers you a number of options as you can extend your living room or kitchen in the conservatory area. You can also have large open spaces in your home instead of smaller spaces. A conservatory is one of the best ways to add extra space to your home.
The conservatory not only adds more space but also allows a great deal of natural light into your home. Natural light is always desirable, and is good for working as well as entertaining guests in your home. You don't need to switch on the artificial lights in your home to freshen up your mood. Also, you get a healthy dose of vitamin D without stepping foot out of your home.
A conservatory is part of your garden which means you get to enjoy the benefits of the garden without the negatives associated with it. You can use the conservatory for a variety of purposes including dining, working and various other purposes with the additional benefit of having natural light, a sky backdrop and green surroundings. Most people who choose to build a conservatory in their house often consider it the best room in their house, especially during the summer times. A conservatory keeps the house warm all day long as well as through the night.
While there are a number of benefits of conservatories Auckland, it is important to ensure that the plans are right to get maximum value out of the project. This is the reason you need to choose the right contractor for your project. One of the most well-known companies that offer conservatories Auckland is Window Factory.
It is a family owned business that has been working in this space for more than three decades. They have a lot of experience in building high-quality conservatories. Addition of a conservatory to your home not only adds more space to your home but also allows you to enjoy the outdoors without any negatives. Your conservatory will quickly become your favorite space in the home to relax and enjoy after a long day at work.
Call Window Factory today to get a no obligation quote for your conservatory project.