text: Hi All. I'm actually a computer tech but I'm a bit new to media boxes and the tablet as I've never dealt with it before, never had to. I'm familar with mso tof the terminology obvously and to Android. I'm actually posting this question for my uncle. I, personally have a far less complicated setup. I stream my media from my PC to my TV through HDMI - bam! done HIS PROBLEM with SONY TABLET S: He has a Sony Tablet S and has it connected to his home wireless network. He wants to be able to browse his media (videos, movies) from his desktop PC or his laptop ON his Sony Tablet...then he wants to connect his Tablet to his TV, somehow. Basically, he wants to be able to access the media on his laptop by means of the wireless connection...get it up on the tablet..then 'throw' it to his TV. He wants it to display on his TV. He was thinking he could connect his tablet to his TV somehow. The guy at the Sony store mentioned him getting a media box, which I am familiar with. His TV has a few HDMI connections but that's part of the problem - the Sony Tablet lacks an HDMI port. His TV does NOT have any Ethernet or wireless devices built-in. He does have a Sony Blu-Ray player that has an Ethernet port and USB ports, which he uses all the time to connect an external Hard Drive to it, to playback downloaded media on his TV through the Blu-Ray player. I want to know how to achieve this, what apps I need to do it (if any) and if someone can suggest a low-to mid price range media box. A step by step direction would be great. Looking for some suggestions and recommendations with regard to a good media box. He also uses Netflix a lot. Is it even possible to 'throw' media from the tablet to a TV like this? When the TV is not DLNA capable? I'm guessing that's what the media box is used for, as the Sony guy said? Thanks in advance and sorry about the jumble of a post! EDIT: I was just thinking -- Why does he even need to use the Tablet for that anyway? He could just get, a WD media box (for example) and have that connect to his Wifi network....and all the media on his laptop could be played back on his TV, correct? If the WD box connects to the Wifi and the WD box also connects to the TV through HDMI...???


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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Niner RLT Build
I've decided to go back to school and need some cash. This frame is awesome and is really cool. If you are interested in purchasing this frame let me know. It comes with the frame, fork, headset, seat collar, and Chris King PF Bottom bracket. It maybe has a dozen rides on it. I can include some Force shifters/der's and tubular disc wheels as well.
Ok, back to the original post:
Ever since Niner revealed their plans to release a 'cross bike ("gravel grinder" sounds like I have to have a beard, some tattoos, and tour with paniers to ride one, so I'm calling it a 'cross bike) I've been intrigued. Needless to say I ordered a frame as soon as I could. I was tempted at first to stick with the more conservative Industry Grey color, but the flash of the "Colgate Green" (as my wife calls it) eventually drew me in. Despite my wife's constant quips ("so you're sponsored by Colgate now?") I actually really like the color and it looks even better in real life.
As I was planning the bike out, I was curious as to several details of the bike such as weight, geometry, accepted rotor sizes, etc. It took a while to find a lot of the information, which would be expected as the bike hadn't even been formally released yet.
The purpose of this post is to compile all the information on the Niner RLT I can into one spot. I'm a pretty big nerd and like to make spreadsheets when I build bikes, outlining every detail of the bike, including the price and weight of each component I'm planning on using. So on the off chance that there are any other bike nerds out there, the following will be a compilation of all the info I gather as I build the bike up. It'll be a work in progress as I complete the build, so feel free to check back for updated information.
First off, I'll start with some weights. (For a complete list see bottom of the post)
The bike will take 140-160mm rotors on the front and rear. I chose 140's to save a few grams on weight. The Avid BB7 SL road calipers I got mount to the frame and fork's direct post mounts with no need for adapters. Which is a nice advantage of the RLT over a few other frames that still have the brake tabs that require adapters.
A slight disadvantage of the direct mount rear caliper position is how the frame gets in the way of the allen wrench when you're trying to install or adjust the caliper. It would be near impossible to get to the rear caliper bolts with a quick tool on the trail due to the bulk of the tool in case you had to make any adjustments on the trail. I'll admit I haven't had to adjust my brakes very often on the trail, but the occasional rubbing rotor has warranted a quick adjustment a time or two. I haven't had any other frames with the direct mounts to the frame before, so I am not sure how this compares to the positioning of other frames, but it was a definite source of frustration while installing the rear brakes. I'll post pictures shortly.
Either way, this is what it looks like so far. It's got Stan's Iron Cross Pro wheels, Shimano Pro Evo Stealth handlebars, Chris King PF30 BB, Force 10sp cranks, Force shifters, Red front der, Force rear der, Panaracer CX tires, Niner's RDO seatpost, and a Selle Italia SLR saddle. Should be a pretty sweet ride once it's all put together. I'll get a final weight posted shortly.
I am very excited about this bike. The construction is solid, the geometry is great, the paint job is amazing, and it looks pretty freaking awesome. Nice work, Niner on another functionally kick-A piece of art.
Party on Wayne.
Frame: 1530g
Uncut fork: 620g (Update: cutting the fork dropped it 30 grams. Updated fork weight: 590g)
Headset: 69g (plus another 10-15 for the crown race)
Niner seat clamp: 21g
Seatpost (Niner RDO 27.2x400): 218g
Saddle: 118g
Handlebars (integrated Shimano Pro): 400g
Force Shifters: 320g
King PF30 BB: 102g
Force BB30 Crankset: 608g
Force Rear Der: 174g
Red Yaw Front Der: 74g
Sram Braze-on Adapter for F Der: 19g
Cassette (Red OG 1090): 167g
Wheels (Stan's Iron Cross Pro, with tape and valve stem): 1440
Skewers (Stan's Carbon) 78g
Tires (Panaracer CrossBlasters): 560g
Rotors (KCNC Razors 140mm): 124g
Brakes (Avid BB7 SL w/ti hardware): 368g
Pedals (Wellgo Mg8): 240g
Chain KMC 10sp: 240g
Cables/Housing: TBD
1 comment:
- Unknown said...
hi there-
i'm an old roadie. 1980's/steel. what is your opinion of building the rlt 9 as strictly a road bike? i'm looking for a safe, responsive road bike with disc breaks. i'm concerned about the aluminum. harsh for the road? i like the idea of slightly wider road wheels too. not too wide though.
i am looking to get back into cycling after many years. looking to do 30 to 40 mile road rides. good roads. lots of hills. up/down. i like the geometry of this bike for an old guy. lol
thanks for any opinions or reply!
- July 11, 2014 at 3:11 AM
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Caching is the art of hiding your preps and equipment secure storage spaces so that you can dig them up when you need them later. The best caches are easily recovered by the owner, but virtually impossible for anyone else to find.
The cache should be chosen for its subtlety and durability so that the goods it contains remain well-preserved and secure. Pay close attention to detail when recording the location and surroundings of your cache, because you'll need to easily access it when SHTF.
Burying is one of the cheapest and most secure ways of preserving your valuables. Simply put, hiding your precious supplies under a mattress or in your socks will not protect them from tornadoes, fires, hurricanes or burglars.
Safes are far from indestructible and can be compromised by an intruder. Even safety deposit boxes are not immune. They're expensive and banks will shut down during an economic collapse, you'll be left without access. Burying underground offers the ultimate protection from both human and natural disturbances.
Choosing a Site
If you decide to bury your cache along a planned evacuation route, be sure to avoid highways. When SHTF, masses of survivors will be making their way along major roads and highways and are bound to either discover or spot you digging up your cache.
If you use the highway as a landmark, make sure your cache site is well off the beaten track and nowhere close to areas with dense traffic. Remember that, depending on the nature of the catastrophe, familiar landmarks may be destroyed, leaving you disorientated.
If you learn how to use a topographical map, you'll be all set for manually determining grid coordinates. Once you have these, you'll be able to navigate your way back to a safe zone or campsite with the help of a compass and a map.
Forget GPS – satellites will be non-operational during a crisis. Your main route as well as your backup route need to provide camouflage such as rock formations, overhanging trees or dense brush so that you can come and go from your camp without being noticed by anyone else in the surrounding area.
Burying Your Cache
Stick to high ground and don't dig in a high risk flood zone. You cache site should look natural and as untouched as possible, so that curious hikers or other survivors don't accidentally discover it.
Consider a site close to home but far enough to be out of range. Wooded hilltops and ridges are good options.
Believe it or not, your hole can have style – horizontal or vertical. Most buried caches are placed in a vertical hole. In rocky or uneven ground, a horizontal (shallow) hole is better. It may also provide better drainage if there's heavy rain.
As a rule of thumb, you want your hole to have a lenght and width approximately 12 inches bigger than what you plant to put inside. The hole needs enough depth to allow you to cover your box or tub with a 20-inch layer of soil.
You'll need proper tools in order to bury your cache:
- a pickaxe, a spade, a hatchet (for slicing through roots) and a crowbar (for prying rocks).
- Measuring instruments, such as a wire, metal tape or a compass, will be indispensable in helping you to pinpoint your site.
- Bring paper and a pencil to record your data, a probe rod to find subsurface rocks.
- Finally, if you're doing the placement at night, bring a light. A headlamp is ideal because it will keep your hands free so you can do the digging.
Preparing the Concealment Site
A scavenger will have as good an eye as you for a concealment site, so keep this in mind when picking one. Often, the ideal site gives itself away by virtue of its perfection.
Such a site might be just as attractive to a local in the area who may stumble across your cache by accident while hiding his own stash.
Before you choose a site, survey the area and get to know the practices and customs of the locals.
The site you choose needs to be as easy to get to for the person burying the cache as for whoever will be digging it up later. Hiding your cache in a relative's home may be convenient, but not if someone gets to it.
Places where you can hide your preps include:
- in your back yard or garden
- memorials (such as monuments, crypts and mausoleums)
- caves, quarries and abandoned mines
- culverts
- abandoned buildings
- holes in walls concealed by loose bricks
- libraries
- sewers
- religious buildings.
Consider soil type if you're burying a cache. If moisture seeps in, your valuables don't stand a chance unless properly sealed, especially if stashed for long periods of time.
If your site is close to a river or swamp, make sure you place it well above the year round high water mark so that it stays protected from the effects of flooded river banks and shifting muck.
Pay attention to ground cover and vegetation near the dig site. Deciduous tree roots make digging tricky as they are very extensive.
Conifer roots are more compact. Usually, an area with many coniferous trees is also well-drained, so use these as indicators for a suitable site.
Inspect the vegetation for signs of recent movement. If you find recently-trodden paths and disturbed brush, others are around.
Make sure the earth and coverings can be restored to its natural condition. Tall grass is impossible to return to its natural state and will be a dead give away. A bed of leaves is better.
Sandy loam is your best bet when it comes to soil. It's fine, easy to dig and drains pretty well. Avoid clay soil because it absorbs water and becomes sticky and hard in dry weather.
There may be rocks and other obstructions just below the surface. Prod around with a rod or stake before digging.
The seasons of your cache site are critical. Aside from knowing the seasonal variations of the flora, you'll also need to play weatherman.
Know snowfall patterns and freezing and thawing cycles because frozen ground will slow down your digging. If you plan on leaving you cache for several years, know the frost line and dig as far below as possible.
If checking up on your cache annually, you could bury it at or above the line, but beware of of a phenomenon called 'frost heave'.
Extreme temperatures cause levels of condensation inside your containers that could crush them. Erasing your footprints in the snow near your site is impossible.
Submerging Your Cache
There are two important things for a cache box that is to be submerged. It must be weighted down to prevent it from floating and it should be moored, held in place so you can find it again.
The mooring is a type of handle to pull the cache box to the surface. If you cannot grab the actual mooring, then you should connect a line from a permanent object on the shore to the cache box. There are several types of moorings.
- Spider web mooring is a web of anchors placed around the container in a radiating circle. The container is buoyant, lifting the anchors off the river bed so that they can be secured by grappling. This works well in clear water, where the bed is smooth enough for the cache to be dragged along it.
- Line-to-shore mooring involves linking the weighted container to an immobile object on the shore via a line. Buoy mooring uses a similar method, running the line from the container on the river bed to a floating marker. This is only foolproof if the marker is left undisturbed and repainted every six months.
- Structural mooring also uses a line attached to a fixed structure, such as a bridge, to retrieve the container. It's best to fasten the line far beneath the lowest water mark. Weights are essential since most boxes will still float a little when full.
Test the container's buoyancy to ensure that the anchors are sufficient not only for keeping the container bedded down, but also preventing it from drifting along the bottom. More weight is recommended if there are strong currents.
The crush of water pressure increases with the depth of the water. This is why it's important that you first determine the depth of the body of water you've chosen as well as the pressure threshold of the container itself.
A stainless steel, for instance, will buckle at around 14 feet deep. Generally, 7.2 feet is the recommended depth. Because of changes in water level due to seasons or tides, it's crucial to test the container at the deepest level of water it could be subjected to throughout the years.
Know how deep the water will get so that you can make the mooring lines the correct length from the anchor to the box. Low-water and high-water marks are there to help you predict these variations.
Know how to manage low tides that could expose your cache or increased depths that might crush it.
The river bed is also crucial. A very smooth bed may cause the cache to sink into loose muck, become buried in sediment, or dislodge itself and drift away.
A rocky bed may cause the mooring to snag. Water is never static, so take its motions into account. Tides, currents and waves stress your cache and put strain on the moorings. Moorings should be durable, strong and hold up to rough waters.
Water temperature, clarity and saltiness are also important factors to consider. Clear water will require you to put some effort into camouflaging the box.
If it's murky, you will struggle to recover it. If your lake freezes over, it could be impossible to access your cache for several months. Saltwater is far more corrosive than fresh water and doesn't work for caches at all.
Of course, you can't simply submerge a cache in any body of water. You'll need a boat, first for your reconnaissance of the area, and second, for placement.
The seasonal changes to rivers, lakes and tributaries may cause serious problems, such as flooding or drying up. Keep this irregularity in mind when selecting a site and final reference points (FRPs).
Land-marking your Cache
Memorize the directions to your cache location, including landmarks. First list the easily recognizable points, such as city and state.
Then, identify an immediate reference point (IRP) that is an observable and distinct landmark. Include a description, such as the Catholic Church with the red-brick steeple.
The instructions should include a Final Reference Point (RFP) that is: a) identifiable by an exact IRP, b) a permanent object that will not vanish as long as the cache is in use, c) is not near the cache so as to be easily found by anyone with linear measurements, and d) related to the IRP by a simple route description from IRP to FRP.
Ideally, you should aim to merge the IRP and the FRP into one easily identified landmark, secluded enough so it is not confused with any other.
Preppers use a number of landmarks for this, including mile markers on low-traveled roads, war memorials, geodetic survey markers, telephone poles, cemetary headstones, small bridges and boundary markers.
Practice explaining site's location to a member of your survival team who has never seen it. It should be easy to locate with clear instructions. Identify more than one, unique and permanent landmark. You'll need two safe routes to take to and from the site.
Rocky outcrops and immovable concrete foundations are reliable landmarks. Some preppers even use props, such as artificial tree stumps, as markers. You can plant some ivy around the base and let it grow wild for extra camouflage.
Silence is golden. Don't share your cache site with anyone, not even your spouse or best friend. Write GPS coordinates down in a secret place or memorize them.
Avoid drawing a map, and to keep hackers in the dark, refrain from using your Garmin to travel to your cache site. Disable your vehicle's OnStar or TomTom, or your every movement is recorded! Leave all your devices behind, including your digital camera.
Think about the climate. Will there be snowfall or ice? Snow is telling, leaving tracks that cannot be easily erased, while frozen ground is hazardous, especially when you're bugging out in a hurry.
Filling your Cache
A cache contains the survival essentials: materials for building a shelter, water, medical supplies, tools for starting a fire and basic foodstuffs.
Think about what condition you may be in when you get to your cache site during a SHTF scenario. It's likely that you'll have just evacuated a disaster area with only the clothes on your back and your BOB, if you're lucky.
Separate caches are okay but each should have all the items you'll need for an extended period.
If you choose to bury food and water at one location, and weapons and ammo at another ten miles away, you may have difficulty recovering the full set of supplies.
Burying money is a tricky topic, many preppers advise against it. Paper money will eventually succumb to moisture, mold and mildew. If you need to bury money, opt for coins like Sacagawea or silver dollars.
Currency is useless in economic collapse or civil war anyway. Burying documents like birth certificates, real estate deeds and passports are at risk of decay.
Choosing the Container
The container is critical. It should be completely airtight and watertight. It should not have extra pieces that rattle and clank when you handle it.
It should be shock and abrasion-resistant, durable, able to withstand pressure, acidic and alkaline soil, and be impenetrable to insects, bacteria or pests. The seal should be easy to open and close.
Exreme temperature changes result in condensation not even skillful waterproofing can prevent. A Coca-Cola bottle, rinsed and completely dried, will gather condensation in different environments.
Your ammunition, paperwork and firearms become soaked over the years. If a piece of steel wool in your cache rusts, you'll know that moisture has penetrated your container.
Stainless steel is pretty moisture resistant and containers can come in various sizes. A watertight instrument container is another sturdy option. Steel ammunition boxes can be purchased at military depots.
For the budget conscious, steel drums, glass jars, or large paint cans are typically water-proof, pressure-proof and bacteria-resistant.
Many preppers use six-inch PVC pipes with rubber endcaps as containers. Simply cut the pipe to size and seal one end with epoxy resin and a rubber endcap. Use Vaseline to seal the opposite end.
Mark the removable end. FoodSaver Vacuum Bags and Pelican cases, highly versatile and waterproof, are pricey.
Keep firearms and ammunition dry. You don't want moisture seeping in and damaging the steel and gunpowder. Wrap ammo in cotton cloth and seal in together with a moisture absorber. Use a beer coolor for insulation and bury below the frost line to better preserve your ammo.
Disguising your Cache
The game of disguise and diversion is critical in caching. Your goal is to make your cache appear to be something that it isn't.
Often, the simplest, most non-descript disguises are the most effective. You could hide weapons in a plastic bin labelled 'lucerne hay', or canned foods in a drum marked 'chicken feed'.
An old truck body can make a great cache. Simply remove the fuel tank, carve out the top and fill it with supplies. Then, fit the tank back into place and cover up the hole.
The cavity under the dash also makes a reliable hiding place. Now, your cache looks like nothing more than a rusty old truck.
After safely burying the real cache, plant a decoy nearby that is more easily found and include minimal supplies in it. Anyone who finds it will be tricked into thinking that's all there is.
Or bury your real cache three feet underground, and then slip the decoy on top covered by some roots and foliage.
Use a scrap metal pile or even half bury some junk metal or rebar plugs around it to hide your cache. This creates a false positive and makes a metal detector useless.
In most cases, thieves will give up, especially with night or a storm upon them. Really determined thieves may come back, so rehearse your recovery strategy carefully.
Recovering your Cache
Caching has two distinct stages: ingress and egress. Ingress refers to your journey toward your cache and egress is when you leave it. Always assume that roving eyes are watching you at all times.
A looter might watch you entering the woods with an empty sack and return with a full one, the gig is up. He'll know you've got a cache.
Never approach or leave your cache by the same route. This is where primary and alternate routes are useful. On both ingress and egress, watch your back.
Post someone at a lookout point to watch your movements and keep an eye out for any tails. Use an ow hoot or some other call, so your spotter can warn you of danger.
You'll need to consider ingress and egress very carefully. In the countryside, plant your cache a quite a ways into the woods, so that you can walk hidden beneath the tree canopy to reach it.
Come out of the woods in the opposite direction if possible. In urban settings such as an abandoned building, use at least two entrances and exits.
It may seem illogical, but cloud cover won't help you. Direct, unfiltered sunlight is actually a good concealer, so aim to visit your cache on clear days. The cover of night is best for stealth, but don't underestimate the dangers after dark.
Avoid using a pick to dig up your cache as it could pierce your container and damage supplies. Remove the cache, fill the hole with other objects and soil.Rocks and leaves should do the trick.
If there are none available, you should bring a substitute object of the same size and shape. Photograph yourself or family standing on the location for reference.
To save time and frustration, your directions for recovery should detail the specific spot where the cache is buried related to the final points of reference.
A concealment type cache is typically inside the FRP so a specific description of the FRP will lead you right to it. If a cache is submerged, note precisely how moorings are related to the FRP. Buried caches will work with any of these pinpointing techniques:
- Position your cache directly above or beside the FRP. This is the most straightforward method of positioning your buried cache in relation to an FRP. By specifying the exactly position of the FRP in a clear set of instructions, you can accurately pinpoint your cache.
- Bury the cache where measured lines cross. A bit of basic geometry comes in handy for this one. If there are two FRPs available within a short distance of one another, record the distance between them as your base line. Project imaginary lines from each FRP to the bury site.
To improve accuracy, make projected lines double your base line. Create two measuring lines matching the distance of your projected lines, your recovery team will need them.
- Sight your cache by projection. This is useful if your FRP has at least one flat surface long enough to act as a level to project a sighted line. Place your cache at a measured distance along the line. Ideally, choose two precise FRPs so you can project a line between them.
In both methods, your recovery instructions should estimate direction from one or both of the FRPs to the cache site. As the line of sight gets longer, small inaccuracies become more obvious. Bury your cache within a 50m sight line to avoid errors.
Like any good prepper, you always have a back-up plan. In fact, you may have two or three. Your cache is just one of these. Caches are an affordable, secure and virtually bombproof way of stashing your preps.
The art of caching requires stealth, savviness, and a keen awareness of your environment. You need to be an expert on your surroundings, well-versed in the threats, barriers, and advantages of your concealment site.
You can spread your cache territory far and wide, so you'll always have an emergency supply along your bug-out route and beyond.


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Jay and I spent one very excited morning designing her painting as we sat at table dwarfed by my sketchbook at one of my favorite coffee shops in downtown Asheville, the World Coffee Cafe on Battery Park road. Right across the street from Zapow!. It had been well over a month since she had first told me her vision and I had restrained from sketching anything about it. It was very important to me that Jay be part of the process and we see the painting form together. Nevertheless I did spend hours just thinking about how the vision would become a single frame on 2 dimensions.
When she had first told me the story and the path of the vision I almost immediately saw this layout, the bridge dead center, the mountain behind it, fire to the left, tree to the right. I didn't know the name of the guide at the time but since there were 3 distinct spots I wanted to bring attention to I figured I could put her in all 3 places at once. The story of fire, with fires and embers rising up I could see them easily turn to clouds, and wouldn't it be neat to have a cloud covered mountain and the cycle of water where the waterfall would appear as if it were coming from the clouds? From there there was a river created by the waterfall and a river running under a bridge.
I described to Jay my idea, a landscape with fire like a sunrise on one side bring in the new day on the other side of a Chinese inspired mountain. That's when she told me the guide's name was 3 Moons, It was perfect to put a moon above her head to illustrate her name and to have the moon in phases to represent the cycle of the vision. I asked Jay to tell me what part of the painting she wanted to highlight, she chose the moment at the tree and I was happy to take a figure that was dead center and make it the non-focal point. I love the subtlety of 3 Moons as if she is emerging from the mountain itself. Jay also helped me determine that the New Moon would be the greeting moon as the journey begins and the Full Moon would be at the completion of the journey.
Once I was allowed to sketch things out I could see the river from the waterfall flowing through the root of the tree like a filter and then flow under the bridge. To me it added more symbolism to the act of washing away negativity till it's literally water under the bridge.
Jay loved the idea of the 3 moons and the sparkles of waterfall spray easily transformed into stars under the canopy of the tree. This also made an easy focal point and a sacred haven for the two characters to be under. I love trying to subtly connect things, 3 Moons braid into the river, the waterfall like it could pour into her hands, the sparks to clouds, etc. The sketching helped make all the details more clear.
As we admired our handywork we talked about the cycle of things and the elements. I drew out the composition of the painting in a vertical circle to see how closely they might feed each other, fire, the mountain representing earth, tree, but what was the water? The clouds? The waterfall? We almost had a perfect cycle of water, from evaporation to condensation to flowing through the river but I didn't have a way to connect it to the fire. "A culvert!" I said as I drew one little curve to go beneath the fire so that the water flows beneath it. And with that the water element flowed through the other elements. All we were missing was metal and with one more excited scribble I added iron trusses to the bridge and we had a complete painting with the moons orbiting through the center.
During the painting process I found a beautiful arched bridge which the refection made a circle, and as extra surprises Jay and her boyfriend both picked out a face peaking out beside the waterfall. Jay lovingly attributed this to a shyer guide that she hadn't told me about and Jay also loves to stand on the root of trees with her bare feet. When she had talked about sitting at the base of a tree she had always seen a grassier area. I am so happy Jay invited me to paint this vision. It was so beautiful and wonderful to bring it to life. I hope you like it.
Do you have any thoughts on the elements and the cycle of things? I haven't tried drawing any connections or making any shapes.


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So, I've been thinking about note taking. Not note taking by students. I think about that too sometimes, but at the moment I'm thinking about note taking in meetings by adults.
I am a note taker, generally speaking. I'm also a list maker. It's just what I do. I don't always look back at either one, although I'm not recommending that. In fact, I have resolved, many times in fact, to read over those notes that I take more often.
Anyway, I attend a lot of meetings as I am sure many educators do. I frequently take notes in these meetings. I have noticed that there are certainly others taking notes with me, but it is the non-note-takers that have caught my attention. I have noticed that some folks just never write anything down. Or, more accurately, they never write anything down in my presence. Maybe they scribble madly once I am out of the room, who knows.
Once I started thinking about this, I got to wondering a few things. Is nothing that these people ever hear worth writing down? Do they remember everything? Do they feel uncomfortable writing things in public? Are they worried they would make others feel uncomfortable? Are there some situations where note taking is upsetting or unnerving to others? Does it depend on your relative position to others in the group? Is it just a personal choice? Can someone really expect to remember everything from all those meetings and not write anything down?
So, my question is, is there some general rule about who and when note-taking is acceptable? In which of the following situations can or should an educator take notes?
- Teacher in parent teacher conference?
- Teacher in faculty meeting?
- Teacher in meeting with division head or supervisor?
- Administrator in parent meeting with or without teacher?
- Administrator in meeting with teacher?
- Division head in meeting with teacher?
- Division head in meeting with group or committee of teachers?
- Division head in meeting with parents with or without teacher?
- Administrators or division heads in meeting exclusively with other administrators or division heads?
I am a test group of 1; I need some more information. When and in what situation do you take notes or find it acceptable or unacceptable for other to do so?


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Loreal Taylor continued her streak of 20-point efforts, and Lathrop snapped its second three-game skid of the early season with Friday's 60-35 throttling of Johansen in the Tracy Breakfast Lions/Tom Hawkins Tournament at co-host Tracy High.
The 5-foot-9 Taylor, who is averaging a double-double, amassed 21 points and 13 rebounds while making 8 of 9 at the foul line. It marked the third straight game and fourth in the last five that she eclipsed the 20-point barrier.
"She's on a tear and she sat out most of the fourth quarter today," Lathrop coach Ed Fang said.
Scoring balance keyed Lathrop (3-7), which had relied almost solely on Taylor for offense during its losing streak. Sophomore point guard Lauren Collins chipped in 12 points, five steals and three assists; while junior forward Desiree Mendola finished with 11 points, five rebounds and five steals.
Even Danya Phillips contributed six points in her first varsity contest. She is the second Spartan to be called up from the lower levels in as many days. Lathrop, missing key contributors to injuries, expects to have veteran guard Brianna Fernandez (dislocated knee cap) back in time for Valley Oak League play.
"We talked about getting some balance in our scoring and they really stepped up," Fang said. "We needed that lift."
The biggest lift came from the all-around defensive effort. Lathrop outscored the Vikings (1-7) of Modesto 21-7 in the second quarter and led 33-18 at halftime.
"We made a lot of stops defensively in the second quarter and were able to get out on the break and run our offense," Fang said.
Lathrop takes on Mills in the consolation semifinals tonight at 7:30 at West High.
Mills 51, Manteca 48 (OT)
The Buffaloes (2-7) trailed by double digits early on and nearly pulled it out in overtime to set up an all-VOL showdown with Lathrop in the consolation bracket. Manteca outpointed the Vikings (5-5) from Millbrae 18-10 in the fourth quarter to force the extra period.
Allison Rachels accounted for seven of the Buffaloes' points in the fourth.
"I was proud of our girls," Manteca coach Cody Norman said. "We're still learning how to play together and as a team ... Mills played scrappy, which made our girls step up."
Mills was led by Madison Sui, who scored 27 points. Jessica Hasal finished with 13 to pace Manteca, and Abigail Behler turned in 11.
Manteca plays Johansen tonight starting 4:30 at West.
McNair 69, East Union 30
East Union (6-3) was simply outmatched by Division-I power McNair (9-0) in their winners-bracket quarterfinal.
Oklahoma State-bound Mandy Coleman tallied game-high 19 points for the Eagles, and Brandy Hornsby contributed 16. Freshman center Loretta Kakala had10 points to lead East Union, which encounters tourney co-host West at Tracy High today at 3.
"Their pressure defense really created a lot of problems for us," East Union coach Jim Agostini said. "Their overall team speed is something that we would like to get to. Just a really good basketball team."
Loreal Taylor continued her streak of 20-point efforts, and Lathrop snapped its second three-game skid of the early season with Friday's 60-35 throttling of Johansen in the Tracy Breakfast Lions/Tom Hawkins Tournament at co-host Tracy High.


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At present, would be space travellers are bound by the rules relating to commercial air travel, making it difficult for operators to launch rockets from this country.
David Willetts, the Science Minister, announced that the space industry would no longer come under the responsibility of the Civil Aviation Authority.
He ordered the UK Space Agency to: "Develop reforms which will remove restrictions which put UK operators at a competitive disadvantage, and prepare proposals for new regulation for space vehicles to promote tourism in the UK."
A spokesman said that the Government would work with the European Aviation Safety Authority to ensure that the next generation of space planes were safe for tourists to travel in.
Space tourism is a relatively rare activity, with only the Russian Space Agency providing regular opportunities for amateur astronauts to take to the stars.
The first space tourist, Dennis Tito, an American businessman, visited the International Space Station for seven days in 2001. Since then, six more people have paid to go into space.
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Calls to Suffolk police up 40pc on busy New Year's Eve
PUBLISHED: 09:22 01 January 2018 | UPDATED: 09:22 01 January 2018
Police received 40 per cent more 999 calls than average on one of the busiest nights of the year for emergency services in Suffolk.
The constabulary dealt with 355 emergency calls in its control room over 24 hours, compared to an average day's volume of 252.
The larger than average volume accounted for a period between New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
From 10pm on New Year's Eve to 7am on New Year's Day, 50 calls required urgent 'Grade A' responses.
Police said most of the offences dealt with overnight related to public order or domestic disturbance.
A total of 30 people were taken into custody across the county.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Progress - Friday Flash.
His left 'arm' was almost dead, but the right was holding up, as were the rarely-used, pincer-like helper limbs on his torso. The tracked lower chassis he'd salvaged from a construction site almost a century and a half earlier, and substituted for his legs, was growing temperamental. He would need to find parts soon or it would all be over.
Blind since his natural eyes had died, nonetheless he scanned the area in all directions at once using low powered radar to check for... what? There was never anything bigger than a monkey within his scanning range. Either there was nothing else out there, or it was keeping just ahead of his ability to detect. Switching to his crude, but necessary, visual sensors, he began searching for the clearly identifiable colours which would indicate fruit.
Marking a likely spread of patterns that suggested a fruit tree, he pulled up an infra-red overlay, and, as expected, found it to be heaving with bright, warm life-signs. The frantic contortions, the twining, twisting bumps and bumbles of more than a handful of the heat traces suggested that not a few of the little devils were fornicating. As usual. If he could only grab one of these gormless, little monkeys it would feed his digestion reactor for a month, but it had been years since he had been able to trap game, and in any event, he was now all but resigned to a vegan lifestyle. Even as his systems failed, he grew more resigned to his inevitable death, and more compassionate towards the life around him.
With a lurch he trundled towards the fruit tree, picking up speed at a painfully slow pace until he hit the tree with his reinforced lower front. Heat traces scattered, leaping to neighbouring branches in the canopy, those interrupted in flagrante delicto, no doubt cursing him with their chattering nonsense, but he had no energy to waste right now on his aural circuits. The scoop he'd adapted around his chassis caught the falling fruit, and he set one of his helper claws the task of collecting and feeding these into the bio-reactor.
When all the fallen fruit had been collected, he backed up a dozen yards and took another run at the tree, repeating the harvesting process. But now when he tried to reverse, all he got in return was a grinding clunk, and the slow fade of dying signals from his tracked sub-assembly. He was crippled.
He took an entire minute to let this sink in. An eternity for a dying man. It was over. It might take weeks, months, or even years but he knew his death was as certain as if he had been struck by a meteorite.
Something struck him. Then there was another impact on his armoured shell. Seeing him trapped there, the monkeys had returned to their tree and, emboldened by his stillness, were pelting him with fruit. The beautiful little monsters were unwittingly doing him an enormous favour, buying him time to come up with a solution. And if there was a way out of this, a way to keep on living, then he, the last civilized being on this forsaken planet, would find it.
Long-Leap Scholar plucked another gawak fruit from the branch and, after a brief moral wrestling match, took a bite from it, as he mounted his lover, Tail-Sheen Joker, for the third time that morning. He dropped the rest of the morsel to the organic-metal hybrid below, as he slipped a thought into his paramour's mind. "I feel so sorry for it. Its people took the wrong road so very long ago."
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I actually liked the last paragraph. The "monkeys" are more civilized and advanced than the dying cyborg. I think there needs to be more of a tie in or hidden clue or something though.ReplyDelete
I really liked your writing style! The idea behind this story is great, and I like that you had the twist at the end.
Well done!
I thought the link between the two parts of this story were clear enough. No additions necessary. Thought-provoking stuff, a clever bit of speculative fiction.ReplyDelete
Well, Dan is definitely winning the comments thread so far, with Ganymeder in hot pursuit.ReplyDelete
Kat, drink your juice and let the grown-ups talk... :-p
Very interesting, Anton. Touch of Space Odyssey there. Keep on writing I look forward to reading more.ReplyDelete
I really liked it. I didn't have any problem with the ending and I liked the telepathic communication between the more evolved beings.ReplyDelete
Nice visuals. I felt sorry for the cyborg, but somehow hopeful that he'll go on......
I loved the ending...and it's probably going to go that way too. :) We took the wrong turn a long time ago. Great stuff!ReplyDelete
I really liked this story. And down the road, Charleston Heston comes along and...ReplyDelete
Tail-Sheen Joker? Awesome name for a parmour, heh!
Laura - nobody is watching the degus..ReplyDelete
They're just waiting to take over.
Marisa - thanks, we all need a Tail-Sheen joker in our lives.
Thanks for the link *looks at Anton drolly, one eyebrow raised* Now I have to watch for them too...ReplyDelete
The ending was great and not the least bit confusing. Also if evolution means we get to fornicate three or more times before noon while eating fresh fruit then I'm in.ReplyDelete
I enjoyed this, and must agree that your ending was great. Admire how that single last paragraph wrapped up so much commentary on the sad state of our dying human race ... we keep pursuing technology relentlessly, and I betcha those monkeys never sent a tweet, digg or stumble.ReplyDelete
Also if evolution means we get to fornicate three or more times before noon while eating fresh fruit then I'm in.ReplyDelete
Chris, I like you too, but I think you're taking things a little too fast for me.
Rosa - Exactly! But if they did tweet, digg or stumble, I'm pretty sure they'd do a better job of it than I've ever managed.
I really liked this! Funny, even as there is almost nothing left of his humanity physically, he still considers himself human and he still retained the human characteristic of valuing life more at the end.ReplyDelete
I also really liked the idea of the chimps (sorry, I can only imagine this kind of behavior coming from bonobos, not monkeys :-)
anyway...I love that they evolved with a conscience and telepathy. We sometimes concentrate so much on where our evolution is taking us, we forget the creatures we share this rock with are evolving, too.
Looking foward to reading more of you!
What a miserable life. Why would he fight to live? I'd spend the rest of my days trying to trick a monkey into killing me :)ReplyDelete
Interesting. Good twist at the end. I felt rather sorry for the robot/man. I would have thought monkeys would be more evolved by the time of this story. They already communicate by ESP, don't they?ReplyDelete
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AHA! You've fallen into the trap that thinking evolved = more things, Helen.ReplyDelete
Honestly, I wrote it assuming parallel evolution, with one branch of humanity embracing technology and the other eschewing it. Despite my horribly techie background, I think you can tell which I favour....
This is a very clever piece. You made me really feel for our mechanical friend.ReplyDelete
Very nice - the split branches of the tree of life was well done.ReplyDelete
I agree with most of the other comments. The final paragraph makes an interesting statement on evolution and who is really civilized and evolved. Great story!ReplyDelete
What a fantastic story. I love the idea behind it and the way you've written it. The blind optimism of the cyborg is particularly touching. And the monkeys make me think of Kom in 'A Monkey's Tale'.ReplyDelete
Enjoyed the story, Anton. As others have mentioned, the ending was top-notch.ReplyDelete
Had visions of the movie 'Silent Running' while reading this...remember Bruce Dern?
I love that movie. Even the hippy music!ReplyDelete
You've said so much about our current civilization in this story. It has a real "Planet of the Apes" feel to it -- and you trick the reader into empathizing with the cyborg. Thought-provoking and provocative, this is an excellent piece.ReplyDelete
Count me in for the three before noon and fruit.
Ray Kurzweil says the singularity will arrive by 2050, when man and machine will meld into immortal beings. Your story makes me think that might not be such a good thing.ReplyDelete
I have to admit that the transition to the end paragraph jarred me just a bit, but I think it was just because the name was so unusual I wasn't sure I was still in the same piece. But that feeling evaporated almost instantly, replaced by a deep sense of satisfaction.
"And if there was a way out of this, a way to keep on living, then he, the last civilized being on this forsaken planet, would find it."
Kind of ironic that he was developing more of an appreciation for the life around him as his own days are winding down, but still retains the arrogance of the species centric mindset that we are the only intelligent beings around.
Good thought provoking read.
"Count me in for the three before noon and fruit."ReplyDelete
Okay, Netta, let me check my diary...
Cheers JMS! I'm sceptical about the singularity, certainly within that time-frame. I was reading stuff in the 80s that suggested we'd all be immortal by now thank to nanotechnology. Godhood is always a few decades in the future.


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IsumaTV interviews Janie Jamieson, Six Nations
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Listen to JANIE JAMIESON, a Mohawk woman from Six Nations Grand River Territory (Southern Ontario), and daughter of a Residential School victim.
In February 2006, Janie and ten other women galvanized their community into stopping the ongoing encroachment of their lands by occupying an area called Douglas Creek Estate; land that had been illegally sold to a US-based developer to build a suburban housing development. This land, now called "Kanonstaton" (The Protected Place), is part of the Haldimand Tract (10kms on either side of the Grand River) and is the centerpiece of the communities land negotiations with the Canadian government. Janie and her community continue to stand strong, demanding a peaceful negotiated resolution despite the threat to send in the army and police forces.
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Bosco Sodi and studio assistant John Rohrer begin to build a wall
Students, USFCAM staff, and CAM Club volunteers help build Muro
At 6:00 am on Thursday, January 24, under an unseasonal Florida drizzle, the artist Bosco Sodi began to build a wall outside of the USF Contemporary Art Museum. Along with his assistant John Rohrer, student volunteers, staff of USFCAM and members of the CAM Club, Bosco began unloading crates of clay timbers, handmade by artisans in Oaxaca, Mexico, and lining them up in a neat row to set the foundation for what would become a 6 x 20 foot wall. A second row was laid out on top and perpendicular to the first row of timbers. The process continued and the wall took shape, brick by brick and row by row. After over two hours, the last brick was put into place by Don Fuller, New Media Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum, because he was the tallest person present.
Don Fuller places the final brick
Muro (Spanish for "wall") is at once a temporary public artwork, participatory performance, and free sculpture multiple. The concept of Muro, Bosco's first public artwork, began at his Casa Wabi Foundation in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. Bosco was producing large scale artworks constructed from clay timbers assembled into large cubes. Workers involved in the project would often speak of their plans to emigrate from Mexico to the United States and their concerns about their ability to do so. These conversations led Bosco to envision a new configuration of the clay timbers, a wall made by Mexicans of Mexican materials. Bosco first staged Muro in Washington Square Park in New York City on September 7, 2017, two days after President Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. On July 7, 2018, Muro was constructed and disassembled in front of London's National Theatre as part of Art Night, a one-night contemporary art festival. The London version of Muro was installed shortly after the Supreme Court upheld President's Trump ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, during the height of outrage surrounding family separations at the southern U.S. border, and during a time of particularly tense Brexit negotiations in the U.K. The installation at USFCAM on January 24, 2019 took place on the second to last day of a U.S. government shutdown resulting from an impasse between President Trump and Congress over funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Clay Cubes, 2017 at Casa Wabi Foundation
Bosco's wall was completed at USFCAM at around 8:30 am. People came throughout the morning to view Muro and tour the exhibition of which it is part, The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility. In the early afternoon, students from Howard W. Blake Visual and Performing Arts Magnet High School arrived at USFCAM to tour the exhibition and view the installation. Dismantling of Muro began with Bosco taking the first brick, then Blake students were each able to take a brick, which could be carried in a custom-printed bag and was accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Students and families from the Hispanic Outreach Center in Clearwater also visited USFCAM for the Muro installation, receiving bilingual tours of the installation and exhibition from Deputy Director Noel Smith and Curator-at-Large Christian Viveros-Fauné.
Students from Blake High School begin to dismantle the wall
Students and families from the Hispanic Outreach Center tour The Visible Turn
Students and families from the Hispanic Outreach Center with their piece of the wall
Disassembly of Muro continued apace, with groups of USF students, staff, community members and more coming together to collectively take down the wall. As Bosco stated, "I did it to encourage people that with civic and social action, we're able to dismantle any kind of wall, whether physical or mental, and remind them that it's the people who make these kind of decisions—it's the people, not the government, who rule."
At 6:30 pm, Director Margaret Miller introduced Christian Viveros-Fauné, the curator of the exhibition. After speaking briefly, he turned over the mic to Bosco Sodi, who gave a short talk about the project.
The Visible Turn, and especially Muro, captured the attention of press, including a review of the exhibition and promotion of Muro by the Tampa Bay Times, CENTRO Tampa, Creative Loafing, and USF's newspaper The Oracle. A Spanish language digital magazine of contemporary art based in Chile called Artishock featured the exhibition with a focus on Muro. On Friday, January 18, WMNF's Art in Your Ear interviewed Bosco Sodi (listen to that episode here). Fox 13 Tampa Bay was present on site during the event and highlighted the project with a brief interview with Bosco on the news that evening. A number of local blogs also profiled the project including Bay Art Files and the Ybor City Stogie.
Despite the ephemeral nature of the project, Muro lives on virtually as the time-lapse documentation of the project is now on view as part of The Visible Turn exhibition through March 2. The USF History Department's Institute for Digital Exploration even scanned the Muro installation on site and created a 3D model of the wall to enable digital visualization of the installation. The concrete impact of Muro is ongoing as participants disperse the bricks, gifts of the artist, into their own personal spaces. Certainly the deepest impact took place among those who were involved in the joyous, positive and inspiring energy around the project, demonstrating Bosco Sodi's message that through unity and collective action any barriers or obstacles can be dismantled.
Artist Bosco Sodi at USFCAM


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Patricia M Thomas
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Incident Date: 12/25/1994
Agency: Aurora Police Department
City: Aurora
Date of Birth: 12/15/1932
County: Arapahoe
Date of Death: 12/25/1994
Agency Case #: 1994-69393
Age: 62
Judicial District: 18th Judicial District
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Officers responded to a call to 2781 S. Lansing Way, on December 25, 1994, on a death invesigation. They arrived on the scene and found that Patricia Thomas was deceased on the couch. The victim was strangled to death. Anyone with information regarding this case, is asked to please contact the Aurora Police Department.
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Article updated and reviewed by Edward B. Feinberg, MD, MPH, Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine on May 2, 2005.
Diabetic retinopathy is damage to the blood vessels in the eye caused by diabetes. It is the leading cause of visual loss among American adults aged 20 to 65.
Diabetic retinopathy is caused by diabetes. It affects the retina - the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye that transmits visual messages to the brain. . If you think of your eye as a camera, the retina would be the film in the camera. If the retina is damaged, the result will be visual impairment or blindness.
Diabetic retinopathy is broadly classified as non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy and proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
Nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy is characterized by changes in the blood vessels of the retina. The walls of the blood vessels become weaker and more porous. Some small blood vessels called capillaries may become blocked.
Proliferative diabetic retinopathy is characterized by the growth of new and abnormally weak blood vessels from the retina into the vitreous gel that fills the eye.
Early diabetic retinopathy begins with a few blocked small vessels and small bulges of blood vessel walls called microaneurysms. These bulging areas leak excess fluid into the retina which disturbs the retina's ability to process light images into nerve impulses. The blocked vessels may also deprive parts of the retina of adequate oxygen, and this too contributes to a disturbance in the retina's ability to process images. This non-proliferative form of retinopathy may cause mild to severe blurring, but does not cause blindness. In many people it never progresses beyond mild changes which cause little or no blurring of vision, while others will develop severe blurred vision. The visual center of the retina is called the macula, and fluid accumulation in the macula is called "macular edema". When this accumulation of fluid is severe enough to require treatment, your doctor may call it "clinically significant macular edema" (CSME).
Some, but not all, patients with non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy will begin to develop new vessel growth on the surface of the retina and move into the category of proliferative diabetic retinopathy. These fragile new vessels can easily rupture and bleed into the vitreous gel which fills the eye, blocking vision. Both the abnormal vessels and the blood clots from them may form scar tissue. This scar tissue shrinks and may pull on the retina, creating a form of retinal detachment called "traction retinal detachment". This happens only in a small minority of people with diabetes, but may cause severe vision loss, or even total blindness.
Approximately 40 percent of all people with diabetes have at least mild diabetic retinopathy. About 3 percent suffer severe visual loss because of this disease. In general, the longer one has had diabetes, the greater are one's chances of developing diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy generally takes at least eight years to develop in juvenile onset diabetes, but may be present at the time adult onset diabetes is first diagnosed. High blood pressure and high cholesterol in the blood are additional risk factors that your doctor will address.
Patients with diabetes are also at greater risk for other eye diseases such as cataract and glaucoma. Your doctor will include evaluation for these problems in your examination.
Early diabetic retinopathy causes few, if any, symptoms. Characteristic signs of retinal changes may be seen during examination of the retina. Severe retinopathy may develop prior to noticeable vision loss, with late sudden onset of vision loss with hemorrhage or retinal detachment.
Because diabetic retinopathy can begin and get a foothold before it causes symptoms, all patients with diabetes should have an eye examination with pupils dilated at least once a year. Often your doctor will take photographs of your retinas. A dye, called fluorescein, may be injected in the blood stream to show further details of the circulation in the retina. This is called fluorescein angiography.
Proper treatment of diabetic retinopathy can cut the risk of vision loss by over half. Treatment before diabetic retinopathy causes severe loss is much more effective than later in the disease. For this reason, early diagnosis is critical in order to prevent visual loss and blindness.
Laser treatment may prevent visual loss in many people with diabetic macular edema. In this treatment, called photocoagulation, precise beams of light from a laser are aimed at leaking retinal blood vessels near the macula. The goal of treatment is to seal the vessels and prevent further leakage. In many patients, this treatment halts the decline in vision or even reverses it. Injection of steroid medication is an important new treatment that may supplement laser treatment.
Proliferative retinopathy is also treated with a laser. The abnormal vessels may be cauterized directly, but more often the abnormal vessels are near the nerve carrying vision from eye to brain, and cannot be treated directly. In these cases, the part of the retina that gives peripheral vision is heavily treated. This part of the retina secretes a chemical that triggers the new vessel growth and the treatment decreases this chemical and stops the new vessels over half the time.
A few diabetic retinopathy patients - including some who have had photocoagulation - will develop severe bleeding and scarring despite adequate laser treatment. Many patients with this problem can be treated with surgery to remove the blood and scar tissue.
Following vitrectomy, patients can often see well enough to move around on their own. Occasionally, vision in the operated eye recovers enough for the patient to resume reading or driving.
There are ways to prevent or lessen the risk of eye damage caused by diabetes.
The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial proved that careful control of blood glucose levels may prevent the development of diabetic retinopathy.
Regular eye examinations are especially important for children who have had diabetes for 5 years or longer, for adults at the time of diagnosis, for those who have difficulty controlling the level of sugar in their blood, and for diabetic women who are considering becoming pregnant. All of these people are at increased risk for diabetes-related eye problems.
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Can Texas end Jimmie Johnson's "highly frustrating" struggles?
Two years ago, Jimmie Johnson's performance so far this weekend at Texas would be an excellent forecast for a victory.
Throughout his Hall of Fame worthy career, good Fridays have typically turned into good Sundays for Johnson, including seven victories in his NASCAR Cup Series career at Texas Motor Speedway.
Already this weekend, Johnson was fastest in Friday's lone practice session, won each round of qualifying and the pole for Sunday's O'Reilly 500 and had the fastest average speed in Saturday's final practice among those drivers who ran at least 10 consecutive laps.
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In the heyday of his career, no one would bet against another win being the likely next step, but these are different days for Johnson.
He is immersed in a career-worst 65-race winless streak, having not scored a victory since winning at Dover, Del., in spring 2017.
While Hendrick Motorsports has struggled with performance as a whole in recent seasons, the victory drought shines brightest on Johnson, in part because of his record-tying seven series championships and 83 career Cup victories.
One week after struggling at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway – one of his most successful tracks – it appears Johnson may have sharply turned the corner.
"I'm thankful to have just raw speed in the car and I think it's that. And we'll have to see how it works in traffic," Johnson, 43, said. "I think at Las Vegas we had a car capable of really performing well on Friday and we got in race conditions and dirty air and we didn't have exactly what we needed.
"The work that went into these cars and the work that's gone into, honestly the last 36 months; and we're not out of the woods yet. But this is a very good weekend for us to really build on our 1.5-mile program. And I think we're off to a great start."
Winning the pole is no small matter for Johnson, who has struggled at times in qualifying over his career. In fact, this weekend's pole at Texas is his first since the 2016 season even though it's the 36th of his career.
"It's crazy that I have had so many more race wins than poles. Fridays and trying to squeeze out that last half of tenth (of a second) has never been my strength as a driver," he said.
"It's always been racing and other drivers … but to keep chipping away at it is really cool and this one came at an important time for our company and my racing needed a nice shot in the arm."
Johnson's No. 48 team took part in the preseason test at Las Vegas in late January with the new aero package and came away fairly encouraged.
Unfortunately, as the season has started, his best finish in the three races which predominately featured the package was 17th at Auto Club Speedway.
Once the West Coast swing was over, HMS went to work to make adjustments from what they learned in the early-season races. So far, that work has translated into speed on the track.
"I feel like Atlanta was the track that was kind of an outlier; but Vegas was really the first true test in my opinion. And what we had there didn't work and we're totally different here," Johnson said.
"We still have the race ahead of us. We'll see where that pans out. But our struggles have been highly frustrating just because of the effort that's gone into it. Thankfully we're having a car shine on certain weeks and we're able to learn from that and find our way."
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American male sprinters way behind Jamaicans - Maurice Greene
André Lowe, Senior Staff Reporter
American male sprinters have been playing catch-up to their Jamaican rivals in recent years. And as far as United States (US) great Maurice Greene is concerned, the current crop of US sprinters have a long way to go before reclaiming the sprint crown.
"It's going to take a couple of years to get back to really compete with Jamaica," said Greene during an interview with The Gleaner. "It's going to take a lot of work and a lot of years, but more importantly, it's going to take a lot of athletes who really want to work and get better."
Eight Jamaican men ducked under the 10-second barrier in the 100m last season, compared to six Americans, while five Jamaican men ran below 20 seconds in the 200m, with only one American doing likewise.
Additionally, the five fastest times recorded in the 100m in 2012 were posted by Jamaicans, who also accounted for nine of the top 10 times registered in the 200m over the period.
Jamaica also swept the medals in the 200m at the London Olympic Games and won the top two medals in the 100m. In fact, of the 36 medals on offer in the men's 100m, 200m and 4x100m relays at global meets since the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, Jamaica won 15 compared to the eight won by Americans.
"It's hard for American sprinting now, and I say it all the time that America has been lucky to always have the success that we have had and to always have a group of young athletes coming up.
"Now the time has changed where this new era of athletes is not the same," said Greene, a former 100m world record holder, Olympic 100m champion and World Championships 100m and 200m champion.
"Especially in America, the athletes expect it to come a lot easier than it is, and that's wrong. They never see all the hard work that we put into it, they just saw us performing and people loving us and I think that's what's wrong with US sprinting today," added Greene, who reigned during one of the most dominant spells for US sprinters.
Now a popular television pundit and coach at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Greene weighed in further on the situation.
"It's a big turnaround, and it used to be the other way around, but it's going to take a few years and a lot of work ... before the US can really compete with Jamaica again," Greene added.
Greene won nine medals - including seven gold - for the United States at the Olympics and World Championships.


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The visit to Services Secondary School was special because it was the crew first visit to a school to implement the organization's mission. The date was November sixteen of two thousand sixteen on a sunny Wednesday morning just prior to the student assemble starting we made our way to the principal office. Students scattered all around the compound as they stared with intense curiosity with respect to the team wearing mission t-shirts and carrying cameras. We received a warm welcome from the principal followed by a brief discussion of our cause, and the witness of the priceless moment when she (the principal) learned that the founder attended Services at eleven years old.
We were farther introduced and directed to build a communication channel with the lead teach Mrs. Massaquor who we would coordinate our efforts with. With excitement our team gladly jumpedon the offer to take a first day tour filming. Assisted by another teacher we visited with many of the students in classrooms and informing them of our purpose and the process of which we're to abide by in selecting the right students to fund their education.
The advisory board of the organization laid out the guidelines of how students should be selected for funding by our sponsors. We conducted a survey questionnaire with 190 students, and based off of how each individuals answered the questions would be how they're eliminated or considered to represent our cause. Out of this amount surveyed we collectively analyzed each student answers and selected 20 of the students whose answers fell within the set guidelines of the board. These group of students were also subjects for our case study "City Pieller: Life and Times of a Young African Student". A documentary in which the film crew visits with students and their families at home, to interview and experience some of their challenges in such an under-resourced (poor) country for the youth.
Located in Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone, Services is a historical school with connections and support from the military barracks of Wilberforce Freetown. The building structures are between two entry driveways going up and around the military hospital and exiting on the other end like a parabola. Just like its uniform color for students, the structures are colored in and out with blue, green, and yellow.
The buildings existence came from a long period of when the school was polarized with girls and boys primary school classes from 1 through 6. In present day however stand a restructured school that has evolved into a secondary school that produces college entry-level students. With such a relentless school with the ideals of empowering school children to become great contributors to society could use all the help it can get in renovating the inside and outside of the classrooms. The Murhero Foundation non-profit aim is to gather and allocate resources from our supporters in the United States and donate to Services to help our efforts in curing the challenges in classroom renovation.
"Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me" (A.P.J. Abdul Kalam). As India's 11th president and a space scientist, Dr. Kalam understood and upheld education to the highest esteem so young Indian students too can understand the value of what it meant for teachers to devote their lives to teaching. Our organization embrace these educational principles of teaching as we collaboratively worked with the teachers at Services Secondary School. One of the first thing we noticed was the interactions between teachers and students, the teachers each held small canes that resembles small sticks look-alike which were meant to discipline the students to pay attention to what the founder had to say. Whips being utilized to discipline these students may seem like an unorthodox tactics to us in the West, but to the Sierra Leoneans culture this is an effective disciplinary act for the greater benefit of the students' education.
Mrs. Massequor and the rest of the other teachers were superb in assisting our team to effectively survey, select, and distribute donations to students. Without the smooth communication channel and the constant updates between the lead teacher and our logistics director, maneuvering and conducting events at the school would've been much difficult to achieve. But on each occasional meeting event at the school we saw nothing but passionate teachers towards their students and experienced nothing but kindheartedness towards our staffs and efforts. The foundation gained tremendous awakening about how much far less teachers are undervalued in developing economies like Sierra Leone compared to rich economies. We fully intend to give encouragement that will continue to fuel the passion that teachers have towards the development of their students through an incentive program for good teaching.
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When you stay at Los Angeles Athletic Club, you're ideally situated to some of the most popular destinations in downtown Los Angeles. If you're in the mood to visit some museums, check out some of these famous museums in the area.
The Broad is currently one of the most popular museums to visit in Los Angeles. Opening in LA just a few years ago, this newer art establishment features contemporary pieces, many of which cannot be seen anywhere else. Perhaps the most famous part of work in the museum is Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room - The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away. Step into a room housing a seemingly endless LED light display. It is indeed an immersive piece of art that should not be missed. Also, admission to The Broad is FREE. Just be sure to go online and reserve your ticket beforehand. Visit the official website for more information.
MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, is a congregate of three separate art museums located in LA. In downtown LA you'll find the MOCA Grand Avenue, which features artwork since the 1940s. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is perhaps the most famous MOCA museum. This location houses large-scale multimedia projects, electronic installations, sculptures and more. Finally, MOCA at the Pacific Design Center is the home for emerging artists as well as various programs sponsored by the museum. If you enjoy contemporary art, visit any of the three MOCA locations today!
If music is the art form you love, then a trip to the Grammy Museum located at L.A. Live is the place for you. The museum strives to celebrate all types of music from the creative process to the technology of the recording process to the artists who perform. At the museum, learn about the history of music and learn about various genres from rock to country, jazz to Latin, classical to hip-hop and more. There are also always new exhibits to explore as well. Stop by the Grammy Museum today.


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We are launching a new social ride on the first Saturday of the month starting this weekend. Designed to complement the existing Easy Rides, Easy Riders Plus! rides provides a more gentle step up to longer rides with a distance of 25 miles. Same easy pace, no one left behind, but the chance to explore a little further in good company. The rides will start at the same time and place as Easy Riders so you can turn up and choose the ride you'd prefer, short or a little longer.
Our first ride is on Saturday 3rd October starting at 10.30am at Roundhay Park car park, opposite Canal Gardens. We're going to Wetherby with a coffee stop there before heading back to Leeds. If you want to see the route you can find it at http://ridewithgpshttp://ridewithgps.com/routes/7511563.com/routes/7511563
All are welcome and please come along and support this new ride.
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Even though The Flash is only in its third season, the grueling 22-episode broadcast schedule makes it feel like it's been on much longer. As much as I love the show, it has started to feel a little bit like it's in a rut, which means it's a great time for it to take a field trip. Some of my favorite episodes of the series so far were when Team Flash travelled to Earth-2 in Season 2. It not only presented us with a very cool alt version of Central City, but it gave our characters the chance to explore a different environment (and in most cases, get to be their polar opposite as we met Earth-2 dopplegangers, which was delightful).
Last year at the TV Critics Association press tour, I spoke to Flash EP Andrew Kreisberg about whether or not we would see the return of Grodd in Season 2. At that time, he said that the show really wanted to take the time to give Grodd a good, two-episode arc in Gorilla City, which would likely happen in Season 3. And so here we are! The gang is traveling to save Wells 2.0 in the "Planet of the Apes" (as Julian insists). A new extended trailer teases more, check it out below:
Who is Grodd? Oh you know, just a giant, telepathic ape with rage issues as Cisco reminds us. He was amplified by Harrison Wells 1.0, who was actually Eobard Thawne, and Grodd has a lot of daddy issues related to this. So him capturing Wells 2.0 and imprisoning him is surely related. But the best part of the trailer is seeing Julian go complete Indian Jones for the journey, which should be great fun (I hope!)
Newly released images for the new episode also tease some scenes between Caitlin and Julian, who I have been rooting for as a couple since he came on the show (do they have a couple name yet?) Of course, someone should probably warn him about the fate of all of her other serious boyfriends …
The Flash airs Tuesday nights on The CW — though it is taking a break this week. It will be back for its Grodd-centric episodes on February 21st.


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Fri 13th Nov : 6:00 pm - Sun 15th Nov : 3:00 pm£50 – £150
We're not sure yet whether this event will go ahead online or in person at the Centre, as we're currently closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, with partial re-opening planned for 1st September. We're updating the site regularly so please come back and check frequently, and join our mailing list to stay up to date with new and changed events.
Women from the Manchester Sangha come together for a weekend of talks, discussion, meditation and ritual. More info to follow
Who is the Retreat for?It's for Order members, Mitras and Centre regulars who have completed a Buddhism Going Deeper course. Please get in touch if you're not sure.
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Northeast Fisheries Science Center Reference Document 07-10
Northeast Fisheries Science Center
44th Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop (44th SAW) Assessment Report
National Marine Fisheries Serv., Woods Hole Lab., 166 Water St., Woods Hole, MA 02543
Web version posted May 25, 2007Citation: 44th Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop (44th SAW): 44th SAW assessment report. US Dep Commer, Northeast Fish Sci Cent Ref Doc 07-10; 661 p.
Information Quality Act Compliance: In accordance with section 515 of Public Law 106-554, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center completed both technical and policy reviews for this report. These predissemination reviews are on file at the NEFSC Editorial Office.
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The stock assessments which are the subject of this document were peer reviewed by a panel of assessment experts known as the Stock Assessment Review Committee (SARC). Panelists were provided by the Center for Independent Experts (CIE), University of Miami. Reports from the SARC panelists and a summary report from the SARC Chairman can be found at /saw.
Introduction (p. 1-13)
A. Assessment of Ocean Quahogs (p. 14-284)
- Text (p. 14-63)
- Tables (p.64-99)
- Figures (p. 100-164)
- Appendix A1. Survey sensor package data from the 2005 NEFSC clam survey (p.164-169)
- Appendix A2. Clam survey tows with poor performance (p. 170-174)
- Appendix A3. Original and smoothed position data (p. 175-197)
- Appendix A4. Goodness of fit and likelihood profile plots for ocean quahog depletion experiments (p. 198-216)
- Appendix A5. Technical description of the KLAMZ stock assessment model (p. 217-240)
- Appendix A6. Location and size of northern ocean quahog survey catches (p. 241- 244)
- Appendix A7. Location and size of Mid-Atlantic ocean quahog catches (p. 245-248)
- Appendix A8. Stock assessment for ocean quahog in Maine waters (p. 249-284)
B. Assessment of Northeast Skate Species Complex (p. 285-547)
- Text (p.285-317)
- Tables (p. 318-352)
- Figures (p. 353-547):
- TOR 1. Characterize the commercial and recreational catch including landings and discards
- TOR 2. Estimate fishing mortality, spawning stock biomass, and total stock biomass for the current year and characterize the uncertainty of those estimates
- TOR 3. Either update or redefine biological reference points, as appropriate
- TOR 4. Evaluate current stock status with respect to the existing BRPs, as well as with respect to updated or redefined BRPs
- TOR 6. Examine the NEFSC Food Habits Database to estimate diet composition and annual consumptive demand for seven species of skates for as many years as feasible
C. Assessment of Atlantic Surclam (p. 548-661)
- Text (p. 548-574)
- Tables (p. 575-596)
- Figures (p. 597-653)
- Appendix C1. Invertebrate Subcommittee (p. 654)
- Appendix C2. Analyses of tows with poor dredge performance (p. 655-657)
- Appendix C3. Comparison of surfclam and ocean quahog catches (p. 658-661)


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Posted by Brett Haldane on 23rd Jun 2017
It has been 51 years since Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon won the 24 hour race at Le Mans driving the original bit of Kiwi "Black Magic" – a black with silver stripe Ford GT40.
This weekend two Kiwis again stood on the winners podium. Congratulations to Brendon Hartley and Earl Bamber from New Zealand, and German driver Timo Bernhard on their epic win in this weekend's 24 Hours of Le Mans. Their Mobil 1 equipped Porsche, part of a global alliance of Mobil 1 and Porsche, recovered from a serious mechanical problem early in the race, losing an hour, and returning 18 laps behind the leaders and in second last place to come through and take the win.
For Allied Lubricants, the occasion is doubly special; we are a proudly kiwi-owned business, and Exxon Mobil's local partner, for the distribution of its quality range of oils and greases – including Mobil 1.
Congratulations again to the Brendon, Hartley and the rest of their Porsche team.


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