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How and where to fish on the Narrow River
You want to fish or enhance your fishing on Narrow River, Narragansett. You've heard it yields a lot of fish with holdover striped bass much of the year. But where should you fish? Where are the sandbars and holes where bait and fish hang out?
You are in luck. You can get a bird's eye view of holes and sandbars on the Narrow River with exceptional drone photography and freeze-frame images from fly fishing and light tackle expert Capt. Ray Stachelek of Cast-a-Fly Charters.
Capt. Stachelek and three other club experts (Keld Olsson, Dave Pollack and Geno Rapa) will conduct a Rhody Fly Rodders seminar on fishing the Narrow River on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 6:30 p.m. at the Riverside Sportsmen's Association, 1 Mohawk Drive, East Providence. Experts will also review what to fish and when. And, you will have a chance to take a close look inside their tackle boxes.
For information contact Rhody Fly Rodders president Peter Nilsen at firstname.lastname@example.com or 401.245.7172.
First fly fishing show
The Marlborough Fly Fishing Show, the first show of its type this season in the Northeast, will be held January 18 to 20 at the Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough. The show will feature all-things-fly-fishing – for beginner to seasoned veteran – with seminars, casting demonstrations, fly-tying, destination films, Fly Fishers International (FFI) Learning Center, Fly Fishing Film Festival and the newest tackle and clothing in an already sold-out exhibition hall.
The Royal Plaza Trade Center, 181 Boston Post Road West, Marlborough, will host the annual three day show. Show hours Friday are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.; and Sunday, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Admission is $15 for one day, $25 for two days and $35 for three days. Children under age 5 are free as are Boy and Girl Scouts under 16 in uniform. Children under 12 are $5. Active military with an ID is $10. Parking is free. For class registration or a complete list of Destination Theater presentations, seminars, door prizes, fly tiers and casting demonstrations, visit www.flyfishingshow.com.
National Seminar Series comes to Providence
The 32nd Saltwater Sportsman National Seminar Series will be held Saturday, January 26 at Rhode Island College's Roberts Hall, 600 Mt. Pleasant Avenue, Providence. The hosts of the seminar will be George Poveromo – of George Poveromo's World of Saltwater Fishing on NBC Sports and Tom Richardson, noted local authority on fishing the coastal waters of New England and a prominent fishing writer and editor.
The National Seminar Series is the nation's longest-running and most popular educational course on recreational marine fishing tactics and techniques. The eight city tour is designed to review where to catch saltwater fish within that region, inshore, near shore and offshore. Teams of top local pros and nationally-recognized saltwater angling authorities serve as the faculty.
Local Captains that will headline the Providence seminar is a Who's Who in the charter fishing industry in Rhode Island. Joining Poveromo and Richardson in Providence will be:
Captain Chris Willi of Block Island Fishworks– Premiere Block Island guide who specializes in light tackle fishing for striped bass, fluke, bluefish, bonito, false albacore, sharks and tuna.
Captain Joe Pagano of Stuff It Charters – Veteran authority with 39 years of experience at catching trophy striped bass, tuna, sharks, sea bass and blackfish off Rhode Island.
Captain B. J. Silvia of Flippin Out Charters – Veteran Portsmouth-based charter captain and industry innovator, tackle inventor and boat set-up experts who is an authority on fishing the waters off Newport, Block Island and in Narragansett Bay.
Captain Jack Sprengel of East Coast Charters – Noted Rhode Island-based authority on fishing for trophy striped bass, plugging and jigging for tuna, and day dropping for swordfish.
Captain Andy Dangelo of Maridee Charters – Galilee-based skipper of the Maridee II and noted expert at catching tuna, sharks, striped bass, fluke and blackfish. Expert national faculty accompanying Poveromo in Providence are listed at www.nationalseminarseries.com.
Course offerings include: a variety of ways to catch striped bass including live bait, spinner-and-worm fishing, top water lures; diamond and flutter jigs, chunks and inshore trolling techniques; bluefish on surface lures; how and where to catch winter flounder and fluke; bottom-fishing for inshore table fare (flounder, black sea bass, blackfish); bucktailing for trophy black sea bass; and how to find offshore cod and haddock.
Deep jigging tactics, chumming and chunking for bonito and false albacore; a variety of bluefin tuna tactics including light tackle and artificial lures, cutting edge trolling patterns, how to create and troll deadly offshore teaser systems (dredges included), live-chumming and live-baiting, kite fishing for sharks and tunas, and hand-crank deep drop tactics as well as how to find along nearshore and offshore surface temperature breaks and offshore trolling tactics aboard mid-size boats.
The Seminar Series kicks off at 9:00 a.m. and will conclude by 3 p.m. Tickets are $55 for five hours of instruction, a course textbook, a one-year subscription or extension to Salt Water Sportsman magazine, one Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecast Analysis as well as a number of sponsor gifts and coupons, and chances to win thousands of dollars of door prizes. The Grand Prize at the conclusion of the Providence seminar is a Florida Keys fishing trip with a Super Grand Prize, to be awarded two weeks after the conclusion of the 2019 series, is a new Mako Pro Skiff 17 cc.
Register online for the Providence seminar at www.nationalseminarseries.com or call 800.448.7360. Rhode Island Boat Show committed to expand
Hats off to Russ and Debbie Wood of Wood Boat & Motor of Warwick for taking on the task of organizing a Rhode Island boat show this year. Without their efforts we would not have had one in Rhode Island this winter.
Debbie Wood, show organizer said, "Our aim is to build on the Show's success and make it a bit larger next year. We are focusing on boats, boating gear and supplies and trying to leave out the cookware."
Here's what a few of the exhibitors had to say about the new Rhode Island Boat Show:
Matt Bosgraaf, manager of the Kayak Centre in Wickford, who displayied a number of kayaks, paddle boards and gear said, "It was a successful show for us with a number of folks signing up for our spring demo days to try out our boats. These shows are funny, it will be mid-summer and someone will walk in and buy a kayak and say they saw us at the Rhode Island Boat Show in Providence." Visit www.kayakcentre.com.
Ramsey Chason, new Rhode Island SeaTow franchise manger (who owns SeaTow franchises on the Cape and Islands) said, "We are committed to enhance our fleet in Rhode Island. With boats like this 28' Zodiac tow boat (on display at the show). This renewed commitment to Rhode Island has been well received." Russ Wood, show organizer said, "On Saturday SeaTow had already sold more than they had at last year's show." Visit www.seatow.com .
Capt. Hal Records of Wickford was at the show introducing a new product… Pivyt Post which provides a new way to launch and haul boats on and off trailers in an easy, safe and dry way. Capt. Records said, "This is the first show we have ever attended. Our patent for Pivyt Post was just granted last month. We have sold product at the show and just as import introduced the Rode Island boating community to our exciting new product." Pivyt Post is a gravity powered positioning mast that places the winch hook where and when it is needed to make launching and hauling boats easier. Visit www.pivytpost.com . Captain Dave Monti has been fishing and shell fishing for over 40 years. He holds a captain's master license and a charter fishing license. He is a RISAA board member, a member of the RI Party & Charter Boat Association and a member of the RI Marine Fisheries Council. . Contact or forward fishing news and photos to Capt. Dave at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit his website at www.noflukefishing.com. #


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6 ft. Tall Double Sided Parisian Street Room Divider
6 ft. Tall Double Sided Parisian Street Room Divider
- Fine quality, sturdily crafted kiln dried wood frame panels, covered with hardy, poly-cotton blend canvas
- Beautiful, carefully rendered reproductions, with warm, rich color and texture, printed with state of the art commercial printers
- The layers of printed canvas, create a lightweight, portable, practical privacy screens as well as a lovely decorative accent
- Lovely vintage art and a fine quality room divider for less than the cost of many wall art prints
- Turn of the century France is a subject many painters captured in a wide variety of artistic mediums and motifs
- Mount flat on the wall for a huge, eye catching piece of colorful, unique wall art
- Great for dividing space, redirecting foot traffic, hiding a messy desk, or a unique spot for a plant stand or pedestal
- Note that we offer over half a dozen Paris street scene paintings blown up and reproduced on this popular line of attractive and unique room dividers. Our selection of reproductions of famous paintings from Van Gogh and Monet, as well as lesser known paintings like this one, lend a little of the charm many of us seem to find in images of the streets of Paris, as well as in photos of the Eiffel tower and Arch de Triomph
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Shipped custom boxed and fully insured for complete reliability from our warehouse via FedEx Home Delivery.
- Quality Control: Your order is inspected prior to shipping to eliminate any problems or defects.
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A pregnant teen who sued her parents, claiming they were coercing her to have an abortion, will be able to give birth to her baby.
Attorneys representing the 16-year-old girl were granted a long-term injunction against the girl's parents in Texas family court on Monday, according to court documents.
The teen is 10 weeks pregnant and the injunction will last for the duration of her pregnancy.
As part of the order, the girl will be able to use her car to go to school, work and medical appointments. Her parents had taken away the use of the car as part of their effort to force an abortion, court papers stated.
The teen's parents will be liable for half of the hospital bill when she gives birth, unless she is married to the baby's 16-year-old father.
"We are extremely happy with the judge's decision today and we are very proud of our teenage client for being strong enough to stand against her parents to save her unborn child's life," Greg Terra, president of the Texas Center for Defense of Life, said in a blog post on the group's website.
Attorneys filed a lawsuit on the teen's behalf earlier this month arguing that her parents "are violating her federal constitutional rights to carry her child to term by coercing her to have an abortion with both verbal and physical threats and harassment."
The teen, identified in the lawsuit only as R.E.K. since she is a minor, was "beside herself" when she called the center for help, her lawyer Stephen Casey told ABCNews.com last week. The group claims it has previously represented teens in similar situations and won their cases.
"These girls are in a bind, particularly in a situation where their parents are forcing them to do something they don't want to do," Casey said. "Regardless of the [situation], that's her parents and she should expect support from them in this situation, not resentment and anger."
When the pregnancy was confirmed, the teenager's father allegedly "became extremely angry, was insistent that R.E.K. was not having the baby, and that the decision was not up to her, according to the lawsuit. He stated he was going to take her to have an abortion and that the decision was his, end of story."
The teen claimed in the lawsuit that her parents had taken away her phone, pulled her out of school, forced her to get two jobs and took away her car in an effort to "make her miserable so that she would give in to the coercion and have the abortion."'


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Decline of the euro against the dollar
Decline of the euro against the dollar today after a speech to near and Spanish Economy Minister Elena Salgado said there were no plans on the table to increase the size of the euro zone rescue fund two trillion euros. The euro dropped 0.23% to 1.3488 dollars from 1.3530 dollars around after hitting a session low at 1.3478 dollars earlier. The single European currency has gained some support from speculation that policy makers will … Continue reading


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My Ears Hear Music Differently Now…
I believe this is because throughout my life, during my lowest times, it has always been music that sustained me. Music was the only thing I ever felt I could fully rely upon for support when I was grounded to my bedroom for a month; when I was in an uncertain or extremely stressful situation; when I was praising God in the choir; when I first really "made out" with someone; when I fell in love and when that fell apart, there was always a song in my heart. Now I actually find ways to fit lyrics to my pain. So I listen to music with my heart-break effecting my ears and find myself personalizing and redefining the meanings within.
I suppose we all do that. You can ask ten people what the meaning of a song or poem is and you will likely get ten different answers. (I think this is what angered me so in my college English courses; teachers want to assign definite, rigid meaning to a writers words, not allowing a reader to personalize the subject matter. In my opinion this is no way to experience any art). I recall a discussion I had late at night with my former spouse. He told me he received a poor grade in a literature class for not "realizing" a poem called (?)(I think) "Naming of the Parts" was about sex. He said the poem was about taking apart a firearm. I digress, my point is that it is normal to try to apply the meaning of art to something within the individual audience members experience. So now, everywhere I go I am reminded of the pain of my divorce in places where no painful memories or emotions existed before.
Pink Floyd has always been one of my favorite bands. I could listen to them all day. Here is an excerpt from "Two Suns in the Sunset" from "The Final Cut" album.
Like the moment when the brakes lock
And you slide towards the big truck
"Oh no!" "[scream] Daddy, Daddy!"
You stretch the frozen moments with your fear.
And you'll never hear their voices
And you'll never see their faces
You have no recourse to the law anymore.
And as the windshield melts My tears evaporate
Leaving only charcoal to defend.
Finally I understand the feelings of the few.
Ashes and diamonds
Foe and friend
We were all equal in the end.
I used to think these words were about death in an automobile collision, now I think the wreck is a failed marriage and the loss of "two Suns" feels like death. Much like the loss of my 4 kids feels like a quadruple homicide in which their once deep love for me has been cut out like my beating heart.
In movies I can give you a prime example of a meaning changed for me forever. The Tom Cruise version of "War of the Worlds" to me has become a metaphor of a family struggling to work out custody, a step-father, a rebellious teenager and a helpless little girl are all issues faced by the Cruise father figure. His arrival at the home he once shared with his wife and children is so descriptive of the divorced home; an airliner has crashed into it nearly obliterating any resemblance of the home's prior comfort, desperate, he is forced to spend the night there with his confused, scared, saddened children…
So you see, divorce, especially one as terrible as mine, changes your view of so much…
Leah Talley


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Is my classroom environment safe?
The Healthy School Environments Web pages are intended to serve as a gateway to on-line resources to help facility managers, school administrators, architects, design engineers, school nurses, parents, teachers and staff address environmental health issues in schools.
For more information:
EPA's Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools Kit shows schools how to carry out a practical plan of action to improve indoor air problems at little or no cost using straightforward activities and in-house staff.
For more information:
The goal of Clean School Bus USA is to reduce both children's exposure to diesel exhaust, and the amount of air pollution created by diesel school buses.
There are roughly 450,000 public school buses in the United States; 390,000 are powered by diesel fuel.
New standards set by EPA will go into effect over the next 2 to 5 years resulting in cleaner bus engines. However, it will take time for these new cleaner buses to replace the existing fleet of public school buses.
Children are vulnerable to the effects of diesel emissions which can cause respiratory disease and exacerbate long-term conditions such as asthma. Implementing EPA's Clean School Bus Program will result in substantial health benefits including: fewer cases of lower respiratory symptoms in healthy children; fewer cases of upper respiratory and asthma symptoms in asthmatic children; and fewer cases of acute bronchitis.
School buses that leave their engines idling while standing, often very near schools, create indoor as well as outdoor air pollution problems.
About 67% (260,000) of the diesel school buses were manufactured between 1990 and 2002. These buses can be made much cleaner by upgrading or retrofitting their existing emission control systems.
About 33% (129,000) of all diesel school buses are pre-1990 buses. These buses are the heaviest polluters and are good candidates for early replacement.
Students, educators and school administrators can all play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
For more information:
Ask your school administrator to use integrated pest management as a safer and often less costly alternative to regularly scheduled spraying.
For more information:
Overexposure to UV radiation can lead to serious health effects, such as skin cancer, cataracts, and immune suppression. EPA's SunWise Program can help you protect yourself and your students from overexposure to the sun through the use of classroom-based, school-based, and community-based advisories.
For more information:
Whether you are a teacher or a student in kindergarten, or doing postdoctoral research, EPA has many educational resources to offer you when you visit our educational resources web pages.
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EPA's "Environmental Indicators Initiative" seeks to improve the Agency's ability to report on the status of and trends in environmental conditions and their impacts on human health and the nation's natural resources.
For more information:
EPA's Toxics Release Inventory database provides information to the public about releases of toxic chemicals from manufacturing facilities into the environment through the air, water, and land. Our "Search by Zip Code" page allows you to find zip code-based information from numerous EPA databases about facilities, watersheds, enforcement actions, and other searches.
For more information:
Laws often do not include all the details needed to explain how an individual, business, state or local government, or non-profit might follow the law. In order to make the laws work on a day-to-day level, Congress authorizes certain government agencies - including EPA - to create regulations. Regulations set specific requirements about what is legal and what isn't. For example, a regulation issued by EPA to implement a law called the "Clean Air Act" might explain what levels of a pollutant - such as sulfur dioxide - are safe. EPA's site provides basic information about how we write our regulations. Moreover, Regulations.gov enables you to search, view, and comment on regulations, topic-by-topic, that are being proposed from all federal agencies.
For more information:
- Basic information on laws, regulations, guidance, and dockets
- How We Write Regulations: An Online Brochure
- Regulations.gov
Enjoy the environment with images of the earth, rivers, wetlands, and other natural scenes as "wallpaper" or "desktop" images for your computer.


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MORENCI CROSS: Morenci's lone entry in the state cross country finals fell short of her goal Saturday, but still turned in a decent showing.
Bulldog sophomore Tatyana Pless finished 62nd in the Div. IV run Saturday on the grounds of the Michigan International Speedway.
She crossed the line at 20:53.
This wasn't her first time at the state finals, but it was different from a year ago.
"Tatyana was very nervous going into the race," said Morenci coach Brad Brown. "Not having her teammates in the race with her added to her anxiety and she put a lot of pressure on herself to run better than she did her freshman year."
With hard work, Coach Brown expects to see a better showing a year from now.
"Now that she's been to the finals twice, hopefully she'll become more comfortable with being there," he said.
"She belongs in the finals and with more summer mileage, I look for her to break the 20-minute barrier regularly next year."
The Div. IV race was won by a Breckenridge runner who easily out-paced her competitors. She crossed the line at 18:02. Four Div. IV girls finished under the 19-minute mark.
FOOTBALL FINAL: Morenci's freshman ball carrier led the football team season statistics in rushing, pass reception, scoring and all-purpose yardage.
Austin Sandusky was the Bulldogs' leading rusher with 590 yards and an average of 5.5 yards per carry. He hauled in 22 catches from quarterback Cody Powell for 242 yards and an average of 11 yards per catch.
He added 313 yards on punt returns, and 91 on fumble returns for a total of 1,236 all-purpose yardage.
Gemonte Gibson finished the season with an average of 8.8 yards a carry on five tries and KC Clegg averaged 7.5 yards on 48 carries. Max Gautz finished with an average of 4.5 yards a carry.
Powell completed 58 of 124 passes for 812 yards, averaging 14 yards per attempt. After Sandusky, Jeffers was next in pass success with 186 yards and an average of 26.6 yards per reception.
Hayze Wolf tallied 196 yards in pass receptions with an average of 17.8 yards. Wolf scored four touchdown passes.
Gautz and Sandusky both tallied more than 300 yards in punt returns and each returned three for touchdowns. Gautz finished the season with 578 all-purpose yards.
Lucas Hollstein led in tackles with 109, followed by Wolf with 76 and Jacob McVay with 72. Jeffers had 69 tackles, Powell had 64 and Jay Howard was in on 63.
Howard led in interceptions with five, and Sandusky pulled down three. Jeffers and Gibson each had two interceptions.
MORENCI VOLLEYBALL: By DAVID GREEN
Morenci's volleyball squad never had the chance to take on the No. 5 ranked team in the state because they first fell to No. 8.
Then, on Saturday morning, No. 8 wiped out No. 5 for a district championship.
The Bulldogs managed to get only a single win Thursday against North Adams in the Rams' gymnasium. North Adams kept its tournament hopes alive by dropping Lenawee Christian School in four games to take the district championship on Saturday.
"North Adams' defense is outstanding and that type of team has given us trouble this year," said Bulldog coach Dennis Owens. "I knew going in that we were playing a good team and playing in their place would add to our task."
North Adams—ranked eighth in Class D—eked out a 25-22 win in the opening game that stayed close throughout.
Morenci recovered from a five-point deficit to tie the game at 17-each on a tip by Brooke Bovee. Hannah Jeffers scored a pair of aces during the turn-around.
Jessica Storrs scored an ace and Bovee made another kill to close the gap to 20-22. Chelsea Phillips made it 22-24 on a kill, but a Ram attack finished it off.
Missed serves were a factor all night, including in the opening game.
"We missed 10 serves that night after not missing one against Pittsford," Owens said. "You just can't give good teams free points."
The Bulldogs missed three serves in the first game and lost the game by three.
"That really gave them momentum and we didn't respond well in game two."
Little went right for the Bulldogs in the second game, losing 13-25, but it was the Rams' turn for a collapse in the third game when they fell 25-12.
Morenci looked like it might be on its way to tying up the match in the fourth game as they moved to an 8-3 lead. Storrs scored another ace, Bovee placed a kill just inside the back sideline, and Matea Garcia scored on a short attack.
The North Adams coach called for a timeout and the Rams soon had a 12-10 lead. Morenci tied the game at 13-13 after a kill and an ace from Phillips and a kill from Garcia, but North Adams had the lead for the remainder of the night.
A kill from Jeffers and another from Taylor Schisler brought Morenci to within three points, 17-20, but that was all the closer they got in the 19-25 loss.
"We played well in game three and pretty well in game four, but our serving and their great defense were too much to overcome on that night," Coach Owens said.
Lenawee Christian School won the first match of the night, defeating Jackson Christian in three games, and the Cougars were cheering for a North Adams win against Morenci. They got their wish, but then the Rams eliminated No. 5 ranked LCS in the district finals, 3-1.
Bovee served 14/15 with nine points and 20 kills, 13 assists, 12 digs and two blocks. Garcia was 12/14 serving with six points, 18 assists, 12 digs and 10 kills. Phillips served 10/12 with three aces and eight points, along with eight kills and six digs. Jeffers was 13/15 serving with eight points, 16 digs and eight kills. Carolyn Blaker was 8/8 serving with 13 digs.
In the first round of the tournament, Morenci defeated Pittsford in three games, 25-11, 25-23 and 25-7.
"We didn't play very well," Coach Owens said, "but we got accomplished what we went there for."
It wasn't until the final game that the Bulldogs seemed to reach their rhythm, he said.
In the other opening round contest, Jackson Christian defeated Waldron in three games, 25-9, 25-9 and 25-11.
Jeffers led the Morenci offense, going 20/20 from the service line with 15 points and five aces. She also had 15 digs and four kills. Bovee served 10/10 and added 16 kills, 12 digs, eight assists and four blocks. Garcia was 12/12 in serves with nine points, three aces, 16 assists and five kills. Storrs was 14/14 with 10 points and two aces. Phillips had six kills and two blocks.


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Gap announced this week that it plans to reduce the size of many of its stores, and suspend the opening of new U.S. locations. In particular, many of its 12,000 square foot stores will shrink to somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 square feet. Now, Gap has struggled mightily this decade; thus, it's not surprising that they are undergoing such changes. However, one could argue that we could be seeing the start of a trend in retail.
Over the past two decades, retail formats have gotten larger and larger, with superstores cropping up everywhere. It's not just the mass merchandisers such as Target and Wal-Mart, but a whole array of other specialty retailers as well. These giant stores perhaps made sense in an era of $25 oil, but executives will have to rethink the notion of optimal store size given oil prices in excess of $130 per barrel.
Heating costs represent a largely fixed cost. As they rise, the breakeven point for a retail store suddenly rises as well; in short, you need far more revenues to cover your fixed costs today. Given near term pressures on sales, companies need to rethink their cost structure. Reducing variable costs such as labor may be one option, but retailers do not want to cut too deep in that area, for fear of harming customer service. They may find that shrinking the size of the store helps bring down the breakeven sales figure, while also helping to improve inventory turns. Slower moving items can simply be sold on-line today, something that wasn't possible two decades ago. Overall, retailers may lose some revenue from shrinking their floorplans, but they could more than make up for it in higher asset efficiency (more sales per square foot, greater inventory turns, etc.).
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These are the commands available so far, extracted from RA_wifi.cpp:
/wifi - simple internal webserver
/rxy - override relay where
y=0 - mask off
y=1 - mask on
y=2 - auto
/mbx - read memory location (byte size) where
x=memory location
/mbx,y - write memory location (byte size) where
x=memory location
y=value to be written
/mix - read memory location (int size) where
x=memory location
/mix,y - write memory location (int size) where
x=memory location
y=value to be written
/mr - returns a string with all memory values in hexdecimal
/mrx,y - returns a string with memory values in hexdecimal between x and y location
/v - dev libs version
/dhhmm,MMdd,yy - sets date/time where
hh=hours of the day, including leading 0 if hour<10
mm=minutes of the hour, including leading 0 if minutes<10
MM=month of the year, including leading 0 if month<10
dd=day of the month, including leading 0 if day<10
yy=last 2 digits of the year
/sr - returns XML with all parameters
/sa -same as above
/bp - call joystick button press
/mf - call feeding mode
/mw - call water change mode
/mt - clear ATO timeout flag
/mo - clear Overheat flag
/ml - clear Leak flag
/pox,y - override dimming signal where
x=override id
Valid ids:
2-Dimming expansion channel 0
3-Dimming expansion channel 1
4-Dimming expansion channel 2
5-Dimming expansion channel 3
6-Dimming expansion channel 4
7-Dimming expansion channel 5
8-Aqua Illumination - White Channel
9-Aqua Illumination - Royal Blue Channel
10-Aqua Illumination - Blue Channel
11-Radion - White Channel
12-Radion - Royal Blue Channel
13-Radion - Red Channel
14-Radion - Green Channel
15-Radion - Blue Channel
16-Radion - Intensity Channel
y=value to be overwritten. Values <=100 enables override and values > 100 disables it
/boot - force reboot
/cvarx,y - set custom variable (byte size) where
x=custom variable index
y=value to be written
/calx - starts the calibration where
x=parameter id
Valid ids:
0 - pH
1 - Salinity
3 - pH Expansion
4 - Water Level
Wifi attachment commands
Related to the development libraries, released by Curt Binder
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was there a pre-post to this that explains how we might use this? Thx in advance.
I found it:
Roscoe's Reefs - Starting Over Again:
Building new 29g Nano after landlord went berserk over my 4 75 gallon tanks, Multiple RA's, Water mixing stations, etc. Your help welcomed in remembering all I've forgotten.
To use the commands, all you need to do is browse to your controller with your favorite internet browser.
For example:
You can use any command above after the port number.
This is what the Portal and apps use underneath the pretty user interface
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Quick question, is there a schema for the data that /sr or /sa will return?
They are both the same
/r99 is also the same thing.
XML formatted data with the parameters your RA is monitoring/controlling.
Does anyone have insight into how to read the /mr information? I want to populate some variables to display on a web page.
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This should give you some insight. From RA_Wifi.cpp
It goes through all the locations, one by one and prints out the hex value for them. The function read() only reads a byte value. So you should plan on 2 digits per memory location. Your code will need to know the start and stop values (which can be obtained from the Globals.h file). Then you will also need to know if you are dealing with 1 or 2 memory locations (2 or 4 digits in the string).
I don't personally use this string in the Android app. I think the Client Suite uses it. I also think Roberto uses it for something otherwise he wouldn't have created it.
Hopefully that helps you out.
Yeah that helped. It looks like /mr only prints the standard values, so I'm going to have to add a function. More work to do if my ReefAngel doesn't blow up when I finally load my code I'll be pretty impressed.
I'm gonna try this
I add /mc to access it.
And now I found another Relay.Write I have to consider for my override mask gonna be a challenge to get that back into git.
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Just a note: I never had an issue with rust or anything like that after shooting Russian ammo. Nothing that would make me think there was anything acidic. I lived in a very humid climate at the time as well and none of it ever bothered the rifle with signs of corrosion.Brenfan, all of those loads should be ok. Lighter commercial loads extend barrel life too.Don't worry too much. By the time you've shot a barrel out with those light US commercial loads, you'll probably be in a position to pay someone to custom make you a new barrel or three.
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A draft of Pope Francis' new papal encyclical on the environment leaked Monday, outlining a sweeping vision for how the Catholic Church should respond to the issue of global climate change. The official version is set to be released this Thursday, but as journalists and theologians scramble to discern the finer details of the papal document, many others are wondering: what exactly is an encyclical, anyway?
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What is an encyclical, really?
Generally speaking, a papal encyclical is one of the highest forms of official teaching a pope can produce. It is second only to an Apostolic Constitution, which is issued far more rarely and usually only to solidify really, really important theological ideas: For example, Pope Pius IX's Ineffabilis Deus, an 1854 constitution that defined the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception, represents one of only two universally agreed upon instances where papal infallibility was invoked.
Encyclicals are usually addressed and delivered to a group of bishops or bishops at large, but sometimes — especially in the modern era — they are designed to reach a broader audience (i.e., these days they are published on the Vatican website where anyone can read them). They clarify a theological issue or question of Catholic doctrine, and can often be used to help end debate over a contested subject. In practice, this means encyclicals either examine specific spiritual concerns, or clarify the appropriate Catholic response to an issue plaguing society.
A similar but lower form of papal letter is an "exhortation," which does not define church doctrine per se but encourages a Catholic community (or Catholics at large) to undertake a specific action. Pope Francis issued one of these, entitled Evangelii gaudium, in 2013, where he outlined a deeply progressive vision of economics and called on believers to do more to help the poor. If you're keeping track, that means that, yes — in terms of the importance of the medium — Francis' encyclical on the environment is actually more authoritative than his papal letter on poverty, although the new document focuses heavily on how climate change impacts the poor.
Has Francis written an encyclical before?
Just one so far, with the environmental encyclical making it two. He published Lumen fidei in June 2013, a few months after ascending to the papacy. Although published under Francis, the first draft was actually written by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, with the new pope simply finishing the effort and adding a few details. It focused on faith as a theological virtue, complementing two other encyclicals on charity and hope penned by Benedict during his tenure.
How often do popes issue them?
It depends. Some popes serve for long periods of time and can be especially encyclical-happy. Pope Pius IX, who became pontiff at age 54, issued 38 during his reign from 1846 to 1878, and Pope John Paul II wrote 14. Others are more hesitant, such as Benedict XVI, who only got around to writing three before retiring from his 8-year-run as pope in 2013.
Do they actually accomplish all that much within the Church?
Encyclicals can put intellectual teeth behind a Catholic position, often expanding a vague idea into a robust, academically rigorous platform. This frees up Catholics all over the world — and the pope himself — to advocate for specific policies using any number of well-funded church advocacy arms. Thus, while encyclicals rarely make significant alterations to Catholic teaching, they have to power to energize the church around an issue at least during a pope's reign — and possibly for centuries afterwards. Pope Leo XIII published his Rerum novarum during the early era of the Industrial Revolution, for example, investigating the awful working conditions faced by lower classes and endorsing labor rights such as the freedom to form unions. The document inspired a generation of Catholic theology and activism around labor issues, and is still cited by many union activists as crucial to their work.
Other papal encyclicals reaffirmed conservative theological positions that went on to become political rallying cries for right-wing Catholics in the United States. The most famous examples are probably Casti connubii and Humanae Vitae, two encyclicals written by different 20th century popes that cemented the Catholic Church's rigid opposition to both contraception and abortion. That stance continues to impact American politics to this day: in 2010, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposed the Affordable Care Act because it would require their institutions to provide contraceptives to employees, paving the way for the government to create a special exception for religious groups (although even that workaround has been challenged by some Catholic orders as insufficient).
Is this new encyclical really that great on the environment?
If the leaked version is any indication, then yes, it's amazing. It covers all the basics and then some: the need to care for the earth, the fact that humans are contributing to global warming, the fact that climate change disproportionately impacts the poor, etc.
So what impact will this have?
From what we can tell, there isn't much in the new encyclical that challenges traditional Church teaching. The truth is that the Catholic Church has actually been pretty great on environmental issues for some time, and the pope's willingness to take on climate concerns — similar to his campaign to address global poverty — is mostly just a passionate rehashing of a long-held Catholic position, theologically speaking.
That said, Francis' document can crank up the volume on how the Catholic Church talks about — and advocates for — environmental policies. This matters, because the Church has proven itself capable of marshaling a pretty effective political apparatus when it wants to. Just here in America, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops pumped gobs of money into a campaign to defend "religious liberty" in 2012, and the Church has been an influential supporter of immigrant rights for years. And more importantly for a global issue like climate change, Pope Francis is known to have a knack for making miracles happen (metaphorically speaking) in international politics, having successfully brokered a deal to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba and even getting leaders from Israel and Palestine to sit down together in the same room. This means that the Vatican could begin simultaneously pushing for climate-conscious polices at the local, national, and international levels, a trick few countries or advocacy organizations can pull off at such a scale.
Granted, the Catholic Church has been losing a lot of political battles of late, and the once roughly unified "Catholic vote" in the United States is now known to be split on many issues. After all, several Catholic lawmakers still don't even accept climate change, much less want to do something about it.
But the wild popularity and global moral clout of Pope Francis could turn the tide(s), or at least help keep them from rising. It's notable that the encyclical dropped in June — just three months before the Pope visits the United States, where he will speak to both Congress and the United Nations. Francis will likely address climate change during both speeches, a move that could convince a few Catholic Republicans — who, ironically, are the ones who invited him in the first place — to change their minds. (Well, that, or at least leave them racked with Catholic guilt.)
Arguably the most important impact of the new document will be how it encourages priests to discuss climate change with their congregants. A 2014 study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found a strong correlation between priests who preached about climate change and parishioners who express support for policies that help the earth. Here in the United States, where elections matter, changing the hearts and minds of individual Catholics could go a long way toward electing candidates with sound environmental polices, and, ideally, slowing our warming climate. What's more, Francis is also well-liked by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, allowing him to influence far beyond the walls of Catholic cathedrals.
Sounds like this thing is pretty great, huh?
Definitely a good thing for the environmental movement, yes. Unless you're a climate denier, of course.
Well, what if I am a climate denier?
Then we will pray for you. Well, Pope Francis will, anyway.
The final version of Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment was released Thursday morning. According to the New York Times, it "almost exactly matched" the leaked version.


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This picture was taken at Lake Tahoe in close proximity to one of the nude beaches. We hiked a trail close by as a hiker came around the bend with nothing more but sandals, a baseball hat and a pack back. Well, hello there, I don't think that I even managed to say hello hahaha. I was totally unprepared and our meeting came unexpected and surprising. But I surely got my composure back in time to shoot him in the back with this picture. Hahaha.
The actual pictures are two frames merged together with added bubbles. One picture of the nude hiker and another rotated picture of a piece of wood reflecting in the water. It formed some sort of arch and I placed the hiker in a bubble as if walking the earth. A personal quote completed the look and memorized this experience for all times.


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In a line of direct continuation from my last post, here's another solo album from a former member of a late 90s/ early 00s Scottish band that I have been hugely enjoying of late. Following on from his mates Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat, we now have former Delgado Alum Woodward. His former band split in 2005, and since then Emma Pollock has established a solo career, Paul Savage has played house-husband for Emma, whilst keeping his hand in with the band's Chem19 studios. Indeed, he crops up playing drums here on Woodward's debut album as Lord Cut-Glass.
Three things to say (I'm in full day job mode at the moment) about this self-titled debut.
1. It's not exactly been very prominent. I'm not sure if this is a problem with the UK PR, or just the fickle music press not bothering with an oldster like Alun in favour of bright young things like er, the Mercury Prize nominees (hey, it's the year of the girl, folks!), but the first I heard about this venture was in an email from an American PR company. All the best to them - hopefully the record will make more of an impact over there, but on this side of the Atlantic, the press has been largely Lord Cut-Glass feature and review-free. Shame.
2. For someone who's taken their name from Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, has an album cover depicting a 19th century cavalry charge, and has appeared in photshoots dressed as some sort of military officer from the same period, you'd be expecting some sort of grandiosity about the music. And sure enough, it's there. So much so that it startled me. The record is chock-full of sweeping strings, parping brass, sweet harmonies and lilting piano. It's all quite lush, even the quieter ballads aren't exactly stripped down affairs. It doesn't always hit the mark but you can't fault the man's ambition. In a way, it's a continuation from The Delgados' grander moments (Hate, The Great Eastern), but with more a pop sensibility. Songs like Look After Your Wife rattle along at a pace that you'd be justified in calling jaunty. Now that really is a progression.
3. Given that Alun is friend and regular collaborator of Aidan Mofffat's it's perhaps no surprise that they shame similar lyrical themes. Sure, the Lord doesn't quite have his pal's lyrical flair and his songs aren't quite so focused on the seedy underbelly, but there's plenty of bitterness, lost love and relationships gone wrong on display underneath the orchestration. On album opener Even Jesus Couldn't Love You (the clue's in the title) has Woodward spitting spitefulness as the strings glide and military drumming picks up pace. And in doing that pretty much sets the pattern for the rest of the album. It's a terrific record, which deserves much more praise than it has got. But still, maybe that'll keep Alun's misanthropic tendencies sharp enough to give us a cracking follow-up.
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The EWS changes that need to be made to the basics script are to the Propertyset that is used in the FindItems Operation. A PropertySet in EWS basically tells Exchange which properties you want to be returned. So to make this script as efficient as possible we want to restrict Exchange to just returning the Size and DateTime the messages where received or created. So these are the only changes that are needed for the EWS side
$ivItemView = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ItemView(1000) $ItemPropset= new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.PropertySet([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.BasePropertySet]::IdOnly) $ItemPropset.Add([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ItemSchema]::Size) $ItemPropset.Add([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ItemSchema]::DateTimeReceived) $ItemPropset.Add([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ItemSchema]::DateTimeCreated) $ivItemView.PropertySet = $ItemPropset
When your reporting on the age of Items your basically aggregating the part of the Date/Time a Message was received. To do the aggregation in this script I'm just using a Hashtable which there is a good description of at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692803.aspx . The way I'm using them to aggregate the number of Messages and the size of the messages for the Year a Message was received in. To get the Year a message was received in the item enumeration section of the script I'm using this simple function
$dateVal = $null if($Item.TryGetProperty([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ItemSchema]::DateTimeReceived,[ref]$dateVal )-eq $false){ $dateVal = $Item.DateTimeCreated }
Once we have this value its just a matter of firstly using the Year property of the (DateTime) Class and then we aggregate this value with the Hashtable. In the Values collection of the HashTable I'm using a Custom object (see https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh750381.aspx) that does the aggregation part. eg
if($rptCollection.ContainsKey($dateVal.Year)){ $rptCollection[$dateVal.Year].TotalNumber += 1 $rptCollection[$dateVal.Year].TotalSize += [Int64]$Item.Size } else{ $rptObj = "" | Select Year,TotalNumber,TotalSize $rptObj.TotalNumber = 1 $rptObj.Year = $dateVal.Year $rptObj.TotalSize = [Int64]$Item.Size $rptCollection.add($dateVal.Year,$rptObj) }
At the end of this we can just write the HashTable Values collection back to output Pipeline using write-object taking advantage of the sort-object cmdlet to make sure the values are sorted descending by Year
Write-Output $rptCollection.Values | Sort-Object -Property Year -Descending
I've put a copy of this script on GitHub here https://github.com/gscales/Powershell-Scripts/edit/master/GetItemAgeFromItemsInFolder.ps1
An example of running this script would look like


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That's "Richard Lee", better known as...
Don't all cars in Florida have bullet holes?
So is Deltona the place you end up if you try to move to Daytona and don't read the map right?
I don't see a problem with this.
With all due respect, Mr. Vice President, we all know he should've used a shotgun instead.
...so we now know what an illiterate, concerned citizen does when he wishes to do his civic duty...and can't read a license plate.
Exactly my thought, EvilScientist.
He saw the guy running away, had no idea why he was running (perhaps he'd left the oven on) and joined in the chase.
If that doesn't define Florida, what does?
Seems legit.
The stand your ground beef law is to blame.
You just know the NRA is going to be all over this affront to the second amendment.
Nice shoot'n Tex!
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After one month it's become clear that I've been subconsciously hoping that I was, at soul, fluent. That after a few weeks of verbal stumbling along one day I'd open my mouth and all this forgotten language would gush out with perfect accent, perfect pitch and I'd be witty and interesting in Wolof and French. It didn't happen exactly that way so, onward language lessons ahoy. I am finding them adventurous somewhat and I do enjoy learning but I'm impatient because there is so much to do, and more easily done if I could communicate better, or at all. I long for the future of cyberpunk when I can lie back, plug in and upload a language program directly into my brain, a la the Matrix, or have a memory chip inserted like Hiro Protagonist. But I begrudgingly guess the reward is in the struggle and muddle and study until you finally have that aha moment, that epiphany, the hard shell cracking before you in all its pearly glory.
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It lives in the lining of blood vessels and is transmitted to people mostly by fleas or ticks or lice, causing an array of diseases in both humans and animals.
That much was known about the bacterium Bartonella.
A new project from the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine fills in many of the blanks.
The research answers lingering questions about Bartonella and Bartonellosis, the group of infectious diseases it causes. A comprehensive survey of dogs across North America, the study identified that non-neutered male dogs and mixed breeds are more likely to be exposed to Bartonella. Bartonella was seen in almost every state in America and in southern Canadian provinces.
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This is a unique opener for Northwestern on Thursday night in West Lafayette. It's the first opener against a Big Ten foe since 1984 – which could either fuel the team to hit the ground running (following a combined 3-5 record in the first four games of the last two seasons), or leave them with a devastating loss in a season with little margin for error.
Northwestern defeated Purdue handily the last 4 years, but that doesn't stop them from being considered the underdog this year. There's speculation that Purdue head coach Jeff Brohm has turned the Boilermakers from an afterthought into a rising competitor. Furthermore, there is ambiguity around who will be the starting quarterback for each side: in addition to the uncertainty that Clayton Thorson will be under center, Purdue has kept quiet about whether David Blough or Elijah Sindelar will be running the offense (although Sindelar seems to have the edge).
While Brohm's first season at Purdue was certainly successful, the Wildcats have the edge when it comes to coaching. Head coach Pat Fitzgerald has firmly established himself as one of the best coaches in the Big Ten, if not the country. This talent could come in handy towards the end of the matchup, where the Wildcats last year won three consecutive times in overtime.
This game is an important indicator of what's to come for both sides, so the energy level and motivation will be high. That energy will be complemented by a prime-time football atmosphere in a packed Ross-Ade Stadium, as opposed to an empty Ryan Field; the Boilermakers were 4-2 in West Lafayette last year while the Wildcats were 3-2 on the road.
With kickoff just hours away, NBN Sports takes a look at where Northwestern stands on both sides of the ball – in the context of the Big Ten as well as how they stack up against the Boilermakers.
When five-star Clemson quarterback Hunter Johnson made the decision to transfer to Northwestern this offseason, it was a tremendous sign of promise for a program that has been actively working toward elite status in the college football world. However, this intriguing future will have to wait until next season.
Instead, all eyes will be on the hopeful return of senior Clayton Thorson, whose last memory with the Wildcats was lying on the field in pain during the Music City Bowl. But, since then, ACL surgery has come and gone, and the stability of this season rests on his health. Last season wasn't perfect for Thorson (15 touchdowns and 12 interceptions) and he isn't in the same Heisman Trophy conversation as Big Ten signal-calling peers Trace McSorley and Shea Patterson are. However, the team will rely on him as a veteran leader for an offense without Justin Jackson.
As foreign as it will seem to be without The Ballcarrier, devoted fans will recognize the name replacing him: Jeremy Larkin. Last season Larkin gained 530 yards off of 84 rushes (6.3 yards/carry), production that had greater "efficiency and explosiveness" than Jackson, according to SB Nation's Bill Connelly. The team returns last season's two leading receivers in Bennett Skowronek (644 yards) and Flynn Nagel (489), but will also look to players like Riley Lees and Cameron Green to perform against Purdue and throughout the season.
The Wildcats' offensive line returns most of its components from 2017, when it allowed 2.38 sacks per game, worse than around two-thirds of Division 1 teams. For Thorson to feel secure in the pocket post-surgery, the O-line is going to need to set the tone against the Boilermakers. Purdue lost a lot of defensive contributors from last season, something that made ESPN weary in their preseason power rankings. Northwestern's offensive matchup versus the Boilermakers should be favorable so long as Thorson is protected by his linemen and can play like his old self.
Northwestern defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz will return a unit not lacking in star power - but perhaps wanting in proven depth - at several key positions, including at linebacker, corner, and safety. The 'Cats return seven of eight lineman and five of seven linebackers, and the strength of the front seven will determine whether or not the unit can take the next step up to become one of the most feared defenses in the Big Ten.
Last year, the front seven's forte was containing the run; the team finished 9th in the nation with 107.7 rushing yards allowed and 20th in rushing S&P+. Led by returning ends junior Joe Gaziano (35 TOT, 9 SAC) and sophomore Freshman All-American Samdup Miller (8.5 TFL, 5.5 SAC), the 'Cats should be able to generate pass rush, but somebody needs to step up in the interior alongside senior Jordan Thompson to replace the departed Tyler Lancaster.
Look for Alex Miller (22 TOT) to fill that void. If Alex Miller and Thompson don't shore up the run D, the pressure will be on All-Big Ten linebackers junior Nate Hall (79 TAC, 16.5 TFL) and sophomore Paddy Fisher (team-leading 113 TOT) to stunt the run with little interior support. Luckily, Hall and Fisher are bona fide rocks at linebacker; if the two can stymie ballcarriers like Wisconsin's Jonathan Taylor or dual-threat quarterbacks like Notre Dame's Brandon Wimbush and force teams to throw the ball, they will lessen the pressure on the interior D-line and allow Samdup Miller and Gaziano to rush the quarterback.
Outside of these two, the third linebacker in Hankwitz's 4-3 is up in the air. One of Blake Gallagher, Nathan Fox, or Khalid Jones will be first in line, but with Hall and Fisher set in stone, the last linebacker doesn't need to be special for linebacking corps to succeed. Questions abound at the secondary, as the 'Cats will rebound from a string of injuries outside of presumptive starter and top cover man Montre Hartage (57 TAC, 3 INT). A second corner needs to emerge from returners Trae Williams, Alonzo Mayo, Roderick Campbell, and Brian Bullock. Williams, Campbell, and Bullock all spent time injured last year, and the latter two missed the entire season after early injuries.
At safety, the loss of stalwarts Godwin Igwebuike and Kyle Quiero will leave big shoes to fill, with senior Jared McGee (27 TAC) and sophomore J.R. Pace (2 INT) the presumptive starters. Secondary depth will remain an issue until the underclassmen get serious game time and prove they can fill in for Hartage, Williams, McGee, and Pace. Given the fact that Northwestern's run D will be a strength, opposing quarterbacks will target the secondary often. Northwestern should have the starting personnel to handle most offenses, but if injuries deplete the corps similarly to last year, the underclassmen will need to be ready to assume a starting role.
The Boilermakers return the majority of their offensive contributors from last season, and will test the Wildcat D with their strong line play and solid ground game. Markell Jones, DJ Knox, and Richie Worship form a solid trio of backs. Of these three, who each topped 50 carries from last year, none had below a 4.8 YPC. Quarterback Elijah Sindelar is projected to start after leading Purdue to 4 consecutive wins following previous starter David Blough's broken leg. Sindelar threw for over 2000 yards and 18 touchdowns, but he lost a few weapons in the passing game, including top receiver Anthony Mahoungou.
Purdue retains number three receiver Jackson Anthrop, as well as their two top tight ends in Brycen Hopkins and Cole Herdman. Purdue can ride its offensive line to churn yardage on the ground, while Sindelar has the arm to air it out against the relatively unproven Wildcat secondary. The key for the 'Cats can be if Hall, Fisher, Samdup Miller and Gaziano can force enough pressure to limit Sindelar's ability to beat the secondary long and force the Boilermakers to play to the Wildcat D's strength by focusing on the run.
Overall, NBN Sports is optimistic about Thursday night and sees this game as a bright spot in a daunting season. Behind a healthy Clayton Thorson, 100+ yards from Jeremy Larkin and a couple key turnovers, Northwestern comes out on top and vaults themselves into the AP Top 25.
Jono Zarrilli: Northwestern 27, Purdue 17
Jacob Munoz: Northwestern 30, Purdue 27
Shreyas Iyer: Northwestern 24, Purdue 20


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A built-up roof is composed of three elements: felt, bitumen and surfacing.
The felt—which are made of glass, organic or polyester fibers—serve much of the same purpose as reinforcing steel in concrete. The felt are necessary as tensile reinforcement to resist the extreme pulling forces in the roofing material. Felt is installed in a layering fashion, which allows more bitumen to be applied to the whole system.
Bitumen—either coal-tar or asphalt— This acts as the "glue" that holds the felt layers together. It is also the waterproofing material in the built-up roof system.
The surfacing, normally applied to built-up roofs, are composed of either smooth, gravel, slag, or a mineral-coated cap sheet. Gravel or slag may be embedded into the still-fluid flood coat. Gravel and slag serve as an excellent wearing surface to protect the membrane from mechanical damage. On some built-up roof systems, a mineral coated cap sheet is applied on top of the plies of felt.


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Thank you message from Bjorn28 04 2011
Abbasite have posted a special thank you message from Bjorn for all the Birthday wishes sent to him from ABBA fans.
THANK YOU Bjorn for this, it means a lot to many fans.
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Linda Ulvaeus – The Author!17 04 2011
Linda Ulvaeus has debuted as an author of children's books in collobration with illustrator Johanna Lundqvist and actress Suzanne Reuter (Reuter is Linda´s neighbour.) The books are called "Leja Li och busbullen" and "Leja Li, pappan och fisken". They come as sets of traditional books and CD books. Lundqvist has illustrated the books and multimedia and Reuter is the voice on the CD.
Linda wrote the books during a one month period at the end of her pregnancy. She was still feeling very creative but felt she was unable to work as an actress because of her size during the pregnancy, so she sat at the computer and started writing. The work ended up as four books. Two have now been released and the remaining two are planned to be released in the autumn.
Björn Ulvaeus even attended on of the book readings in Stockholm.
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Zermatt Unplugged Press Conference 201115 04 2011
The press conference for "Zermatt Unplugged 2011" was presented at the new hotel of Heinz Julen "Back stage hotel"
Loads of picture can be seen here Video here (frida @ 3:30 approx)
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