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Introduction: Building a New 20 Foot Gertee
In the spring of 2008 we built a 20x24' wooden platform for a whole new 20 foot gertee. The walls are 7 feet high, the center height is 12 feet, and there's a 4 foot wide roofring with a recycled plastic wndow covering the hole.
Some of the materials for this one were new, i.e. the white marine duck canvas outside wall cover and the 30' pool cover tarp used on the outside roof. Inside the roof is a layer of used parachute. In October I added an inside layer of painter's plastic and covered it with recycled and new RadiantGuard.
This gertee was Camp Redington's Alaskan Peoples Museum all summer. We began modifying it into a winter home in late September. The remodel is ongoing.
A special thanks to Tim Redington for his carpentry skills and especially for giving us a place to build our weird little huts. We never could have done this without his assistance. His quirky Alaskan pioneer's knack for recycling materials continues to amaze me.
This 20 foot model cost $600.00 in wood for the platform, $300.00 in lumber for the frame, approximately $300.00 for exterior coverings and another $300.00 in misc used and new materials. The cost of the recycled materials: priceless.
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Since you live in a yurt, I have a couple questions, is a 16 foot big enough to live in or should I consider a 20 foot yurt. I have written off the deck. May build a platform floor inside the yurt, but I guess not right away. If the door is traditionally on the south side, where would you put the wood stove, on the north side or the west side. The winds come in from the west, sometimes pretty strong. On the east side the ashes would blow away from the yurt. I am thinking of a solid wall for the chimney. I am also thinking about building yurts to sell, but that's down the road a piece. Most commercial yurts are made for people with the big bucks. I want to make something more for the not so rich people, but still have some elegance in the structure and it would be a little more permanent than a lot of the home grown yurts. I like making outdoor furniture, the stuff made out of 2x4's or 2x6's rather than delicate upholstered furniture. I got a lot of ideas swirling around in my head, so am trying to sort things out and bring some of them into reality
are you building these yurt-shaped structures yet?
I have some of the walls made, Khana. But I have several problems, our climate here in Maine is wet, not good for yurts. I would have to construct a platform for the yurt, a building permit would be required. My other problem is how to cover it. I need a building which can be heated in winter and kept dry. I am not sure if this yurt would meet my needs. I also wanted it to be somewhat of a permanent structure. I would have liked to buy a pre-made cover from one of the yurt companies, but most of them won't sell only the shell. Right now, I am on hold as far as a building. I need another building, but don't know what I will do. I am worried about dealing with building inspectors, as I have other possible violations here. If I can find a solution to those possible violations then I can move forward with the Yurt. Money is always an issue here. If you need advice about building a yurt, maybe I can help. I am hoping to move forward with my issues this summer. I will post more info, when I get ready to build the yurt.
nitepagn--- have you ever thought of a hogan like in the west. solid, made of logs or 4 x4's laid in an octagon shape. solid building, could have windows and regular doors etc. might be the answer to your problems. hunter
I am thinking about putting up a yurt. Would be seasonal at best. I want to put in a sand base with cement blocks around the edge for the yurt to stand on. I have some of the Khana made cut from 2x4's. The roof rafter might be furring strips, Ultra cheap wood. Would be 16 feet round. The covering would be canvas or awning material, maybe with window opening of some type for air. I would be following one of the pdf's that I downloaded from the net. If you need a copy let me know. The yurt would be used for an exercise room, heated with a pellet stove for fire safety. A wood stove can be used, but there are fire risks. A kerosene heater could be used, but had bad luck with trying to keep them working ok.
The difference between a 16 footer and a 20 footer is amazing. I think you'll find it much more livable in the long term to go with the bigger model. A wooden floor makes it feel a LOT more like a cute cabin and it doesn't need to be high off the ground. If there is air flow underneath you need to insulate it like any normal floor. Radiant heated floorboards would be superb. I ignore the traditional place to put the door, and highly recommend 2 doors as you may find it appealing to add a second yurt later on and it's a good fire exit. I'd love to have a solid wall for the stovestack and think it's a great idea. My door on this one faces northwest and I put my woodstove next to the doorway on the right because it's convienent for bringing in the wood supply. I also put my kitchen to the left of the door since it's easier to bring in my water. Building affordable and elegant yurts is a seriously worthy endeavor. Not only is it a viable aternative housing option for low income people, it also fits well within the green and sustainable lifestyle movement. You may find a lot of support for this project within your local community development agency. If you can design functional furniture to fit inside a round room you'd open yourself up to the entire yurt market, because fitting square edged furnishings into a round room is the most often heard complaint by new yurt owners. I've also found it's easier to place my heavy straight edged furniture in the center, using it to form my walls. This keeps the air flow on the outer walls and reduces inside wall condensation problems. My 20 footer is big enough to have 3 separate rooms, my kitchen and bedroom are on the left side (8x20') and the whole right side is the living/dining room (12x20') We'll be experimenting with covering the roof with moss this next summer, since ours is obviously becoming more of a permanent structure. We're also considering covering the outside walls with bricks or stones. I guess the best advice I have is to try anything you think is worth the effort. To me this is a great way to find out exactly what we need to be comfortable and safe, at the same time we're helping to save the planet by using as many locally harvested, recycled and produced materials as we can. Please be sure to keep us posted on your progress and any furniture designs you make! Too bad Maine's so far away, it would be fun to come help you with this. :)
Thanks for the info. I was afraid the 20 ' would be a great idea. Will have to do that. I can do walls and roof rafters for the cost of the wood, I have a table saw and router, so I can smooth out the wood. I'll set up a jig so it will be easy to run through all the pieces. The only problem is the work shed has limited heat which makes it hard to work in. My heater goes through a 1 lb propane tank every 6 hours. Temp is now around 30 F all the time now, so heat in the shed is a must.
The rigid panel for the chimney. I will use T-111, the one that is painted beige in color, is the best, cost about $20 a sheet. Will reinforce with 2x4's, insulate and put the T-111 on the inside too. I am also thinking about putting in slider window using the T-111 to give a sturdy wall section. Guess I would put the door on the East, stove on the North and the windows on the South. A Kitchen window and a living room window. I don't think it is wise to put a window on the windy west side. The wind howls in the winter. My trailer is aligned north and south and gets the wind broadside.
Behind the trailer is an open almost level field about an acre in size which I own. This is where the Yurt will go. I think a secondary yurt off the first would be a bathroom, shower, if I have running hot water and a composting toilet. I hope to eventually generate my own electricity with solar or wind energy. I want to also have a few sheep for wool, goats for milk and chickens for eggs. Will also need a garden for food. Still not sure how I will get water without electricity, maybe drive a point into the ground with a pitcher pump. Would be nice to have it inside the yurt. I'm dreaming again.
Are you aware of the coming Earth Changes and the big shift. One of the primary reasons for my interest in all this. If you want to know more go to http://zetatalk.comhttp://zetatalk.com. I can't tell you it is true or false, but I feel it will really happen. You have to decide for yourself. I also believe you are in a safe area.
One thing I haven't figured out yet is what to do about the open ring in the ceiling. I would like it open for sunlight and air, but also need to be able to close it for rain and winter weather. Maybe the canvas is the best solution. Where did you get your plastic dome for the top.
For furniture, the side toward the wall, keep it narrow 24' or less. for walls hang sarongs, if privacy is needed. Try to get wool felt for the roof, it will stay warm even if it gets wet. I think I would put the bricks on the inside of the yurt. Would help hold the heat in the yurt.
Winter is just starting, I will keep you informed and will tale a lot of pics.
I've been scoping the net looking at yurts or gers and I like how you did the roof. I hope to build one next spring here in Maine.
It's not in the slideshow but here's how we covered the roof: I cut the parachute from one outer edge to the top circle, then I pulled it up over the roof beams and wrapped it tight round the edge of the roofring. Then I laid out the 30' round pool cover, measured and marked the center hole with duct tape, then I cut out the center. I pulled it over the top lining up the cutout piece in the center. Since the plastic skylight was screwed to the roofring, Tim had to climb up on the outside and unscrew the plastic, tuck the tarp and parachute tight underneath it and screw it back down. We didn't know if the roofbeams would hold his weight so he put a 12' ladder under the roofring for support, and then he did this thing where he "thought light." I'll see if I can find where I filed the pics of him on the roof and add them. Another thing is the round pool cover is not a good waterproof tarp and the best tarps are the heavy duty reinforced thick ones. A square tarp works fine and can be trimmed once it's up. They're a bit hard to find and cost about $150. for a 24x24, but it's a worthwhile investment if you want to stay dry. Good luck with yours! Hope you take lots of pics abd share them with us.
Up here in Maine I own 2 acres and a trailer which I live in. Maybe you remember Roger Miller's song King of the Road. It's about Bangor, Maine. I am just outside of Bangor. Winter's a bit milder than Alaska. I want to build a real house with a wood stove and have settled upon a yurt. I don't have the $100,000 to build a real house, so a yurt is doable. I own my land, just have to get permission from the town. I have a small woodshop so will cut the wood from 2x4's or 2x6's. I can get some nice Douglas Fir as 2x10's. Am thinking that I will use that as it is nice and straight and has very few knots. It is also quite rot resistant, will treat it with Thompsons water seal, gives the wood a nice finish, too. Will tie the slats together with cording rather than nuts and bolts. Am trying to cut costs here. Want to use a steel cable to hold the rafters in place. The Door will be custom build and the roof ring will be solid, similar to the roof ring which you are using. I have decided to build a deck, which will be my big cost. The wall and roof coverings will need to be insulated, not sure on this stuff yet, will have to research that some more. Thanks for your advice.
Did you post instructions for the 20'? I have 4 children and would like to build a bigger yurt that we could stay in during the summer. My husbands job requires us to move a couple times a year and I thought a yurt would make a nice little home away from home. Last year we lived in a 30' camper with one small tip out and that was plenty of room. What design did you use for your roof ring? As for inexpensive materials I have saw one that was wrapped using old concrete blankets and left over billboard material.He has lived in his year round for at least two yars in Norther CO. Its what I am hoping to use as well. With a herd of kids ( lol ) that doesn't leave lots of extra $ to fund my adventure. Gonna be hitting up the culled lumber bins, craigslist, and freecycle along with habitat for humanity restores as much as possible. Good luck to everyone. What a great project!
This is awesome, looks like a really comfortable space. I like the slide show, it's great to see how actually living in a space can influence the design so much after construction. Unlike conventional housing, this is more like a flower that changes its appearance seasonally. If you ever decide to make a larger version, I would refer to Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Deployment Unit. Structurally it's different, but it's similar in form to what you have here, and could be used to inform programming (the purpose assigned to spaces).
Thanks shooby, I've already changed it around inside since these pictures were taken. It's beautiful that you liken it to a flower, the best I could come up with was changing your walls like your seasonal clothing. I've looked at those dome units before and they're pretty neat. I'd like to try living in one for sure.
hi, have you been living in your yurt structure yet? winters?
I looked at the pictures the Alaskan Tent Lady posted. Looks like pretty tough living. The roof covering has to be custom made. I have a sewing machine that might be able to handle the canvas. My idea was to connect several yurts together through the sidewall. I have also toyed with the idea of rigid walls made with lumber, which would make insulating easier and having permanent windows in the the walls. A wood stove or pellet stove would provide the heat. A pellet stove is the safest and only requires a small vent for the exhaust. A composting toilet would avoid the septic system hookup. The only outside utilities needed is water and electricity. Solar panels off the grid could serve the electric needs. A water system and cook stove would be needed to complete the package, I would put in propane for cooking and water heating. which will also require a pressurized water system. The water system is the biggest problem here. I have an artesian well, but would not want to use a well pump for the water, my current system has a 50 amp 240 line to the pump. Too big of an energy draw for solar panels. I currently am in a trailer, so building the yurt would allow for easily moving into the yurt. My purpose of building the Yurt is to use it for a workshop, heat is needed. I may build a movable platform, so that a permit will not be needed, a permanent deck is a permit item. A stone/ brick/ cement block patio would not need to be permitted and would work for a base for the yurt.
Yeah, me too. It's not often discussed, but the roof ventilation unit on Fuller's design actually rotates to face the wind, for constant optimal ventilation. Also, those things could be constructed in one day. What a guy.
hello where is the pdf?
Very Nice! I was wondering how they would hold up in weather extremes. What was the inside temperature when it was -50 outside? I imagine the radiant barrier made a huge difference. If radiant barrier had been put down under the floor it would also make a huge difference in comfort level. It looks like the slats are more substantial than some of the "camping " yurts. What are the dimensions of the wall slats? How many slats did it take to make the wall? What are the dimensions of and how many roof trusses? Also, what is the diameter of the roof ring? I would definitely need to do multiple pods with my family of 6, but bedrooms could be much smaller. I am much encouraged as other housing options require much more in the way of money, time, tools, skills, oh yes, and MONEY! Other options we were looking at were running into $20,000 that we just don't have. The string or zip ties are definitely a cheap, quick and easy way to go if you are just going to set it up in one location. String or twine can be scrounged almost anywhere around here. However, if a person is going to be moving it frequently the nuts and bolts method would avoid having to adjust the strings or zip ties every time you put it up. It would however add $75 to $100 to the cost as well as a need for a few tools and relative accuracy in drilling the holes to put them in. The tools could be borrowed, but it would be hard to scrounge that many nuts and bolts! You may not have a lot of step by step details, but you have done a great job of showing how easily and cheaply it can be done. You have also done a great job of sharing what it can be like to live in this type of simple dwelling. Thanks for sharing your experience!
I have had a yurt (gher, whatever) for about 12 years now. I use it for camping and burning man. I have an OLD web page for the 2G yurt (We are on 3G now) at http://www.connectcorp.net/~str8jkt/yurt.html .
In it's current incarnation, I have used zipties for the wall joins (much faster to install.) and the roof ring is now a cedar sandwich. I would not suggest bolts for the walls, as the yurt needs to flex. The strings on 2G did fine, don't use cotton, go synthetic, as the cotton will rot and is a pain.
Have you thought about insulateing (the outside) with hay bales? I love your yurt. and am going to build one myself using cut saplings and small trees for the walls and supports.


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From the research I did (scouring the Kodi forums), I found out a few key pieces of info about the Cannot download obb error:
- This is an ANDROID-related error. Not a Kodi error.
- Why? Because Android apps over 50MB are split up into multiple files (within the APK file – the APK file is similar to a zip file). So the OBB file acts as the "overage", essentially, so the 59MB Kodi APK file more-or-less contains a 50MB file and a 9MB file. The "Cannot download OBB" error may indicate that all of the Kodi files may not have fully installed to your Firestick / [easyazon_link identifier="B00XNQECFM" locale="US" tag="arizonacaorg-20″]Fire TV[/easyazon_link]. To try to fix this, reinstall Kodi.
- Users who install Kodi on Firestick / Fire TV using the ANDROID Sideload method experience the Cannot download OBB error much less than users who install it another way (Sideload using iPhone, for example). So, simply check to see if this is the case in your situation. Uninstall Kodi and re-install Kodi using a friend's [easyazon_link identifier="B014LA1M6K" locale="US" tag="arizonacaorg-20″]Android phone[/easyazon_link].
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French Montana Lied, 'MC4' Wasn't Pushed Back Due to Sample Clearance
Originally slated for release on August 19, French Montana's new album, MC4, will now be released on October 14.
According to Montana, the album is being delayed due to sample clearance issues, a hiccup many hip-hop artists have experienced right before their release date, but Epic Records chairman and CEO L.A. Reid tells a different story.
During a call into the Rap Radar podcast with hosts Elliott Wilson and Brian "B.Dot" Miller, Reid offered the following explanation:
"We still have some work to do. French is incredible and a beloved artist. He deserves a real moment of monster success. And that's what we're aiming for. And we didn't want a calendar to dictate that for us. We want it to happen organically and naturally."
So, basically, the label decided that Montana's new album didn't have enough buzz behind it and they were fearful that low first week numbers would be a PR nightmare.
Riding high off the success of DJ Khaled's No. 1 album and their magical charting trickery (compiling loosie single releases as a playlisted album), the label's decision to temporarily shelve the album (except at Target, oops) is understandable. The house that Reid rebuilt has had a tremendous amount of success in 2016, so if holding MC4 for seven more weeks will help it prosper then everyone involved, French included should support the move.
What's strange about this decision, though, is the perception there's no hype behind French. While the album's second single, "Lockjaw," only peaked at No. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song has to date racked up 14 million streams on Spotify and it's accompanying video has been viewed more than 35 million times. If by October 14, a new hit single and video have not been released, this move might just backfire.
What's a rap artist signed to a major label not named Drake, Kanye West, J. Cole or Kendrick Lamar to do? Well, there's always the Frank Ocean route.


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How Coaching is Different from Consulting
Learn The Difference and Select Which One You Really Need
When you teach your kid to ride a bicycle: you hold his coat while he peddles and covers some distance. You are there with him, running along side him, yelling out calls, cheering him on. This is coaching.
Coaching is different from consulting. In coaching, I come to your location and work alongside you. We meet together, plan together and use the same tools and technologies to get our work done. I'm a senior member of the team and the one you turn to when complications arise. Every moment is a teachable moment and I will stop us and guide us as each opportunity arises. The time I spend with your team is invaluable. All the books and articles you've read will begin to make sense and create numerous "ah ha" moments as we work alongside one another to produce a product.
Consulting is not like coaching. In an consulting engagement, your team may call me for a phone meeting or an online video chat. You'll be working on your own, making strides and then discover an issue for which you need guidance and clarification. Consulting can also be planned. In this case, we plan to talk once per week to review what you've done, are doing and any obstacles you're finding along the path. Depending on location, I can come for those meetings or we can hold them over the Internet for that face to face meeting (very valuable as you know in agile).
Now you know the differences between coaching and consulting. You can select the kind of assistance you need with your agile project and find the right person.
At SmitsMC, my Scrum Team Kick-Off Class uses a coaching approach. An experienced coach will work with you, leading your team through the important steps of using scrum to develop a product. The structure can vary, but here is a template that is often chosen because it provides a mix of learning, certification, coaching and delivering real product. Scum Team Kick-Off Classes take place at your training location. Learn more about the SmitsMC Scrum Team Kick-Off Class.


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ORLANDO, Fla. – Orange County sheriff's deputies are on the hunt for two drivers who witnesses say were shooting at each other along a busy stretch of road Friday night.
Deputies received numerous 911 calls reporting the shootout, which began near the intersection of West Colonial Drive and Powers Drive.
"We were fortunate today innocent bystanders weren't shot from the gunshots from both of those vehicles," said Orange County Sheriff's Lt. Spike Hopkins.
A deputy later spotted a Ford pickup truck believed to be one of the vehicles involved. As the officer tried to pull over the truck, the driver sped off, according to investigators.
Since the driver was putting other lives at risk, deputies said they began to chase the truck.
As the truck approached the intersection of Pine Hills Road and Old Winter Garden Road, it swerved off the road and crashed into a light pole, knocking the pole down, said investigators. The driver then took off running.
For several hours Friday night, the sheriff's helicopter and deputies on the ground unsuccessfully tried to locate the suspected gunman. Authorities are also searching for the other car involved in the shootout, believed to be a dark-colored Chrysler Sebring.


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Just months after stepping down as the president and chief executive of Moët -Hennessy, Christophe Navarre has taken on the role of an investor and board member of Vivino, the popular online wine community.
"I always said after 20 years, and I'm nearly 60, I think it is good to move to another life, which for me is the life of an entrepreneur," Navarre told Wine Enthusiast on the sidelines of a party for Vivino's Wine Style Awards. In 1997, Navarre joined as president and CEO of JAS Hennessy & Co. and then became CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy.
"When I joined Hennessy, it was not doing very well," he says, "but I was able to run it as if it was my own company during those 20 years and it became quite successful."
His former boss, Bernard Arnault, noted Navarre was able to strengthen Moët Hennessy's position "as one of the most iconic and profitable groups in its sector." In 2016, Hennessy sold 3.7 million cases and accounted for about two-thirds of the overall Cognac market.
Officially, Navarre left to focus on his investment fund, SCP Neptune International. The same month he stepped down from LVMH, he joined the board of directors of JetSmarter, which is like an Uber for executives in need of a private jet.
Navarre's investment fund led a $25 million Series B round of financing in 2016 for Vivino and he took a seat on the company's board.
Denying he was on an app-hunt, Navarre insists he wants to be an entrepreneur.
"And you know what an entrepreneur is? Entrepreneurs are people who risk their own money. And that's what I'm doing now. It's quite different from the corporate life," Navarre says.
The New Revolution
At 59, Navarre says he's not the oldest person when he walks into the San Francisco offices of Vivino, which has 27 million users who review millions of wines a year. It also links those users with merchants around the globe who stock the wines they want to try.
"I strongly believe in what we call the force in this revolution connecting people," Navarre says. "First, I'm learning a lot. I think this new generation, this new way of thinking, this new way of connecting people with some old recipes can probably generate something extremely interesting."
Asked why he decided to invest in Vivino, Navarre replies, "that this app, Vivino, as a company can become the biggest wine merchant in the world. I'm a businessman. And I think this app will generate a lot of business in the future."
Heini Zachariassen, Vivino's president and CEO, says having Navarre to turn to has "been really good. He is incredibly experienced."
The Danish entrepreneur, who is a generation younger than Navarre, says Vivino differs from Wine-Searcher because "they are focused a lot on the price data. They're pretty good at that, but we're catching up.
"But we are really good as a community, getting people to engage," he says. Two years after starting the business in Copenhagen in 2010, Vivino had about 6 million members. "Now we have 27 million." He prefers to compare Vivino with a wine magazine that rates on average between 15,000 and 16,000 a year. "Our community rates 100,000 wines a day. That's a shift that's coming to wine everywhere."
And Navarre has found the community's ratings helpful as he learns about New World wines. "At Moët -Hennessy, of course, I knew the wines we had and I was perfectly familiar with many other European wines, but I readily admit I was a novice when it came to the New World. Now, if a wine has a 4-star or 5-star rating by 1,000 people—well, the odds are very good I'm going to be having a well-made wine."


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Available for the first time ever, a selection of the photographic offshoots and out-takes discovered by JED will be for sale at The Outsider Art Fair opening on January 21st at The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street in New York City. Presented by Marion Harris, an exhibitor since the fair's inception 23 years ago, the work is a new addition to the Outsider field.
A variation on the genre of vernacular or "found" photographs, JED's images have been retrieved(with permission) after being deliberately discarded by their original makers over the last decade.
Inspired by the concept of "The Artist's Struggle", these abandoned photographic images and test strips are presented out of context exemplifying the historical search for the perfect photograph.
JED is the fictitious persona of a university professor and photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally and is in private and museum collections — a background that gives theviewer and collector an unusual insight into the authority behind the photographic edit.
It is, literally, the story as seen from the outside. The process of selection, curation and editing is a visual narrative told by JED.
First shown at Lyman Allyn Art Museum in Connecticut in 2008, JED's intent is to encourage a dialogue comparing the value of work by professional and untrained photographers.


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With the recent announcement that 3.8 million PS3's were sold during the holiday season, the future is looking very bright for the black behemoth. Many industry analysts, giving their predictions and forecasts for the upcoming calendar year, are giving the nod to the PS3; leaving its competitors, the Wii and the Xbox 360, in the dust. Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian, recently gave his predictions for the upcoming calendar year, with some very surprising forecasts.
"One key takeaway from the holiday period is that there is ample demand for console hardware at reduced price points. Not only did Nintendo's Wii benefit from a reacceleration in unit sales at lower price points ($149 in many stores), but PS3 sell-through is improving and the Xbox 360 is maintaining momentum. While not surprising that the Wii disproportionately sold more units in 4Q, as it remains a popular gift item, the recently reported 3+ million units sold in December exceeded our expectations. However, we remain cautious in modeling follow-on Wii sales in 2010.
"For the year, we are currently modeling a 10% increase in PS3 unit sales, Xbox 360 unit sales down 5%, and a 20% decline in Nintendo Wii unit sales. There is upside potential to our estimates with further hardware price reductions. At this point, we expect the console-installed base to increase by roughly 25% to 70 million units, and above the 57 million console units installed of the last generation platforms at the end of 2005."
Presumably, the potential fall in Wii sales can be attributed to a lack of interest in the hardcore gaming community, or the Wii, despite killing its competitors in the first three years of its existence, may finally have it its wall. The PS3, on the other hand, has a bright future. Sony is planning on concentrating the company's 3D efforts entirely on the PlayStation 3. And with a further price drop in the summer, the console will look very enticing to undecided buyers.
Hopefully we will see Sebastian's predictions come into fruition over the course of the year.


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With the holiday season approaching, many people are looking to get away for a little bit either during the holidays or right after for a well-deserved break. When a person wants to plan a holiday vacation, they're going to want to ensure they find the right place to stay, choose the right time to go, and have the right activities planned.
Finding the Right Place to Stay
A hotel is the normal type of place to stay on a vacation, but that doesn't mean it's the right option. In the warmer months, camping might be an excellent choice, but during the holiday season when it's cold outside a person might want to consider renting a cottage instead. They're cozy and perfect for a romantic getaway or a family vacation. The person can check out ones that are available right now as well as plan ahead to find the perfect one to stay in for their getaway.
Choosing the Right Time to Go
Traveling is common during the holidays. So, it's a good idea to plan a holiday getaway carefully to avoid much of the rush. A person might want to head out at least a week before the holidays or wait until a few days afterward to ensure they will have an easier time traveling. The days right before and right after Christmas are going to be the busiest, so it's a good idea to avoid traveling on these days and to plan to be at their destination before then or to wait until after to go.
Having the Right Activities Planned
A couple looking for a romantic holiday vacation might not want to plan as many activities as a family with young children might, but everyone is going to look into what they can do at their destination. This might help them choose the best destination. From walks in the snow to baking cookies or just enjoying the outdoors, it's a good idea to have a thought of what the person wants to do while they're away so they can ensure they'll have the time to do it.
If you want to get away for the holiday season, start planning your getaway now. Take a look at the UK holidays competition, the various lodging options, and the activities you might enjoy to start planning your next vacation today. With the right planning, you're going to have a fantastic time and you'll be able to do everything you want whether it's going to see sights or just relaxing in a cozy cottage.


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Monday, January 2, 2017
Some random American history.....
Always the Happy Warrior, Humphrey said he didn't mind being out-gunned or out-glamored, but he couldn't forgive the "ruthlessness and toughness" displayed by the Kennedys, and most of all Bobby. One upsetting instance was "Bob Kennedy's peddling the story that my campaign was being financed by Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa," Humphrey complained later. "Both he and Jack knew the story was untrue and could have stopped it." Equally infuriating were anonymous anti-Catholic mailings sent across the state - mainly to Catholic households - which ensured a turnout of angry Catholic Democrats along with Catholic Republicans who crossed over. The apparent culprit in both cases was Paul Corbin, a Kennedy aide famous for his whimsical and deceitful tactics. "If you have a job and you want to get it done," said campaign aide Helen Keyes, "send Paul Corbin out to do it." Corbin was sufficiently devoted that he eventually converted to Catholicism so that Bobby and Ethel could be his godparents. Bobby loved him back, above all for his outrageousness. Humphrey was right that whether or not Bobby ordered up the dirty tricks, he did nothing to stop them, and their success ensured they were a fixture of U. S. campaign culture from then on.
Jack beat Humphrey by a comfortable 12 percentage points, but it was shy of a knockout blow in the eyes of a skeptical press and an angry opponent.
-Larry Tye, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon. This excerpt concerns the Wisconsin primary leading up to the nomination of John F. Kennedy as the Democratic candidate for president in the 1960 election. The history major in me is fairly certain that dirty tricks did not originate with this election.
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Get Carter Movie Review
Sylvestor Stallone has done some awesome action movies in his time, but has his fire faded? He showed spark in Cop Land, but that wasn't exactly an action flick, and his last major success was Cliffhanger, and that was a long time ago.
So Get Carter is here to revive his career. Yeah. Right.
First off, I don't understand Hollywood's obsessions with redoing old flicks. Sure, sci-fi films like Planet of the Apes can be remade as many times as they want, and we can watch new Star Wars films and war films, but why remake a 1971 action film that no one has heard about? I just don't understand.
Michael Caine was the original Jack Carter, and somehow the British Oscar-winner got transformed into Sylvestor Stallone. Now, don't get me wrong - I like Sylvestor Stallone... as an action hero. With exception to Cop Land, he's not that great of an actor, and he doesn't need to be. But Get Carter is trying to be something it isn't, a blend of action and drama.
The movie is about a hit man who returns to town after his brother was killed in a car accident, only he doesn't think that it was a car accident that killed his brother. He begins to investigate and, sure enough, he stumbles across some interesting facts. Along the way, he gets to know his now fatherless niece.
The problem with Get Carter is... just about everything. The drama isn't good. The script isn't good. The acting isn't good. The action isn't good. Nothing is good. Even the directing isn't good.
Get Carter is 104 minutes long. If it had about 90 minutes more of action, it might have been a worthwhile flick, but instead it has about ten or fifteen minutes of action, which just isn't satisfactory considering that this film was advertised as an action flick starring Sylvestor Stallone (I read it as a possible comeback film). Most of the action scenes are inconclusive, and the only worthwhile moments are the few car chase scenes, but even those end up without much closure.
To make things worse, the plot sucks. I was confused for a lot of the time, but I think even if I hadn't walked into the kitchen ten times to get drinks I wouldn't have gotten any more of it. When the plot finally does click together, you realize that it probably was better being a mystery.
Sylvestor Stallone will have to wait some more for his comeback.
Review by Erik Samdahl unless otherwise indicated.


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Imagine that you are your healthy, mobile self one day… and can barely speak or walk the next. All due to a hate crime.
That's what happens to writer Robert Drake in Pamela Drynan's documentary, Where I Am, after he is suddenly brutally attacked in his apartment in Sligo, Ireland over ten years ago. Now, Robert is paralyzed.
The film takes us through Robert's journey back to Ireland. Drynan intersperses pictures of the former Robert, giving us glimpses into the life he had versus the one he has now — which requires a personal assistant, Butch, and a wheelchair.
Through it all, we get to know Robert's essence: a charming man who still makes jokes and does not pity himself or his situation.
The only question that haunted me in the film was: What exactly happened to Robert? What did the attackers do? I imagine a reenactment of it may have been too much, and tonally, a different film, but I wanted more detail. Also, I would have liked to see even more of the old Robert. But these points are minor compared to all of the major notes the story hits.
Where I Amis an eye-opening tale of living life to the fullest. And of love, like between Robert and those around him, i.e., between Robert and Butch. The men who attacked Robert may have taken away his walking and talking ability, but his will to live and wit are still there – he can still think for himself, converse, and write, and is currently working on a memoir of his recovery.
Afterwards, Drynan, Robert, and Butch were on hand to speak to the audience.
Drynan said it was such an "amazing project, I couldn't not do [it]… Robert had to learn to talk again… It was important to me that Robert talked to us all [on camera]… I wanted him to tell his story from the inside." Drynan said she resisted subtitling Robert's lines for a long time, but then decided she did not want viewers to miss anything he said, so she added them. And having voice-over done by someone else was not an option.
With the large amount of material they gathered, Drynan said, "It was really important to have a really good editor." I would agree. Editor Janice Toomey pieced together the film beautifully, reeling us into Robert's world from the get-go.
As an audience member said after the screening, we all have moments of paralysis in our lives, but that does not limit what we can achieve. For some inspiration, see Where I Am.


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How to register for Year 7 in 2021
Entry to Bournemouth School or Poole Grammar School in Year 7, September 2021
There is one set of selection tests for Bournemouth School, Bournemouth School for Girls, Parkstone Grammar School and Poole Grammar School (the 'Consortium'). This will save children whose parents wish them to be considered for admission to more than one selective school in the Consortium from taking multiple tests for those schools.
The tests will be taken at the school with whom the parent has registered their child. All applicants to a Consortium School must complete a Registration Form to be eligible to sit the entrance tests. The Registration Form is available here until 12:00 midday on Friday, 11 September 2020.
Boys will sit the entrance tests on Saturday, 26 September 2020 at either Bournemouth School or Poole Grammar School. The tests may only be taken once by any boy. Details of the tests and arrangements for the day will be sent to parents and students by the 18 September 2020. The results of the tests may be used to establish your son's eligibility for a place at both Bournemouth School and Poole Grammar School.


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DAVIS, Calif., June 12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (NASDAQ:MBII), (MBI) a leading provider of bio-based pest management and plant health products for the agriculture, turf and ornamental and water treatment markets, today announced that three MBI active ingredients are now legal for use on cannabis crops in the California market.
Inclusion of these ingredients of products developed and owned by MBI on California Department of Pesticide Regulation's newest posting of "Legal Pest Management Practices for Cannabis Growers in California," (http://marronebioinnovations.com/wp-content/uploads/delightful-downloads/MC-mgmt-practices-092916-DPR-Cannabis-Approved-List.pdf) has made four MBI products with proven track records in many of California's conventional and organic food crops, available to cannabis growers in California.
"We are pleased to meet the demand by the fast growing number of cannabis growers in California and many other states," said Dr. Pam Marrone, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Marrone Bio Innovations. "We are also currently working with industry experts around the country to develop cannabis-specific 'special local need' labels in states where it is currently legal to market and sell medicinal and/or adult use cannabis. Where allowed by state governments, these labels will provide product use information that is more detailed to cannabis cultivation practices."
Marrone added, "We have seen the cannabis industry quickly emerge as an important segment for MBI. Our products are transforming cannabis production through the reduction of toxic chemicals and pesticide residues that are harmful to both the environment and to people."
Natalie Darves, CEO of Cougar Acres Consulting and Lead Outdoor Horticulture Instructor, Oaksterdam University, commented, "California cannabis growers strive to produce a high quality and safe product. Since MBI products on the new CADPR listing are tolerance exempt, use of these pest management tools will help minimize crop rejection. Proposed cannabis testing standards prohibit unsafe pesticide residues from unapproved uses of synthetic pesticides. Since MBI products do not contain live microbes as active ingredients, I have been able to significantly reduce crop rejection. Most microbial pesiticides residues will not pass the stringent microbial contamination testing standards that exceed standard food safety testing. These various testing standards are the forefront of policy issues affecting California cannabis growers today. The MBI products approved for use on cannabis are valuable and welcome new tools for California growers."
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Gospel Clarity and Conviction – In 1 Cor 15:3, Paul refers to the gospel as that which is of "first importance." As far as Paul is concerned, the meaning of the substitionary death and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ are absolutely essential to anything that can be called Christian. To say that the gospel is of "first importance" is to say that, without it, we don't have a church. If the UMC is to be revitalized, then we must come to grips with the absolute centrality of the gospel. It is the foundation upon which all of our ministry is built. I dare say that Claremont's decision to train leaders of non-Christian religions is a public denial of the gospel. The church's task is not to solve the world's problems working along with other religions. The church's task is to preach the gospel to the nations as the means of grace through which the Holy Spirit of the only Living God has determined to regenerate the spiritually dead and bring them into his family, his church, and his kingdom. The church's task then is to teach these converts to obey everything Jesus commanded. I hear some talk about the gospel in the UMC. What I don't hear is a clear and biblical articulation of the gospel. If we abandon the gospel of grace for a so-called gospel of social transformation to fix the world's problems, then we may very well find our denomination under the curse of Galatians 1:6-9. No church can get the gospel wrong and be successful. Without gospel clarity and the Spirit enabled conviction to declare the good news to the nations, we will not be revitalized.
A Renewed Confidence in the Truthfulness and Authority of Scripture – Some parts of the UMC have thoroughly abandoned the authority of scripture in favor of their own preferences. This is perhaps most apparent in our denomination's debate over human sexuality and marriage. In the Old Testament, when the people of God neglected the Word of God, they lost it. God withdrew his Word and his presence and sent them into exile in a foreign land. Ultimately, when they rejected the Incarnate Word of God, they were likewise judged by God and fell to the Roman Empire in 70 AD. If we in the UMC do not recover our trust in the veracity of scripture and its authority, we should likewise fear that God will withdraw his life-giving Word from us as well. I long to see United Methodist pulpits all over the nation and world aflame with a passion for God and his Word. Without that, we have no hope for denominational vitality.
Clarity of Mission – One of the main problems in the UMC is the separation between the people in the pews and the denominational Boards and Agencies. Many in these boards and agencies are basically running their own personal lobbying groups that do not necessarily reflect the mission, values, and discipline of the UMC. When Annual Conferences send petitions to the General Conference that might interfere with the particular interests of the Boards and keep them in check, they dispatch full-time people to undermine the effort in order to maintain their personal preference regardless of how well it fits with the denominational mission. In these challenging times, the UMC will have to trim down and be clear on what we are about. All the extra pet projects of Board staffers will not be sustainable. The Boards need to be evaluated on how well they are advancing the mission of the denomination, which is "to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world." If we don't trim off the excess and focus on the mission, we may not see a day of revitalization.
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Back to your observation about what is happening with the Claremont School of Theology Matt, We can learn something from this too; and that is that we are not to go about like the witless hypocrites, failing to recognize the sign of the times. Some measure, of just under 27% of God's word is specifically provided to help us to reckon this propetically. Jesus wanted his disciples to recognize the season from the emergence of Christ-likeness, as a result of his ministry. The discussion Jesus had with his disciples lead to the parable of the fig tree and a lesson on how the season could be determined from what happened to the tree.
Look again what Jesus said in [Mark 13:28], but this time don't look at what he was saying to the generation of budding branches who could not know of anything but their own season. Rather look instead at what he was saying to later generations, for though Jesus was speaking to his disciples when He spoke, He was looking at us! This is the generation when the branch is shrivelling and shedding its leaves again. See its meaning.
A seal limited what that previous generation could know [Acts 1:7] to the recognition of the first stages of summer, when the Holy one of Israel redeemed His people and His worship began. But that seal was broken when He ascended into heaven and broke it [Rev 5:1-10]; we are now much more advanced in the times, and those particular restrictions in [Acts 1:7] have been removed when the lamb broke its seals [Revelation 6:3,5,7,9,12] (Look especially the fifth and sixth seals which deal with the tree that is shaken by the mighty wind (starting at [Rev 6:9-]).
By looking at examples such as this Christian theological school, it is reasonable to conclude that when the branch gives off its leaves, winter is most certainly near; which is a sense of where in the season we are. This is as certain – as the foundation that is Christ.
Matt, in Christendom, there appears to be a massive falling away of faith, or else how could these things be explained?
Yes, there is this business with the Claremont School of Theology. The Anglican Communion (which includes the American Episcopal Church) is also ripping itself apart over issues of human sexuality and notions of Gospel fidelity. The Roman Catholic Church is experiencing wide-spread (almost global) shockingly common bouts of public outrage its priests have long abusing children. Churches everywhere are reporting collapsing attendance. Globally the religion is growing, but not necessarily the faith. It is all disappointing, but not entirely unexpected [Isa 9:16][Jer 12:9-10][Hosea 4:6] et. esp. [Jer 50:6][Matt 15:13-14] for this is what happens when the teachers are blind.
For example, consider what Jesus says in [Mark 13:28]; the parable of the fig tree teaches us that when her branches are yet tender, and puts forth leaves, we are to know that summer is near [Mark 13:29]. Jesus ties this knowledge and the parable specifically to faith in the Kingdom of God in [Luke 21:29-31]. Not to put too fine a point on it but notice what he says to the blind teachers in [Luke 12:54-56] about discerning events in the kingdom of God.
In [Luke 12:54-56] Jesus represents the significance of his mission as a 'season' to be discerned (also [Mark 12:2][Gal 6:9]). This works well with the Kingdom representation as; a vineyard [Isa 5:1,3-7,7]][Isa 1:8][Matt 20:1-2,4,7-8], a tree [Psalm 1:3][Psalm 52:8][Psalm 92:12][Pro 11:30][Isa 17:6][Isa 24:13][Matt 3:10][Matt 7:17][Rom 11:17,24][James 3:12], and vine/branches [Eze 19:10][Isa 34:4][Isa 36:16][Isa 17:10][Isa 32:12][Jer 8:13][John 15:1][John 15:4-5] etc.
Scripture is so full of this kingdom metaphor, saying its meaning plainly ([Isaiah 5:7][Jer 2:21][Jer 6:9][Hos 10:1][Hos 14:7]) that it is difficult to understand how anyone could miss it at all. Yet the hypocrites of [Luke 12:56] could not discern the prophetic season of His mission despite its clear and unambiguous reference in scripture [Hos 14:7][[Eze 17:4-9][Isa 4:2][Isa 32:12]. But Peter, James, and John, also did not understand [Mark 13:4][Luke 21:7].
In [Mark 13:28] He instructed them to recognize the season by starting with a parable that related the emergence of their faith (and Christ-likeness) to his ministry which had been predicted by the prophets. Jesus pointed out that summer was near because the branches had becomes tender and put out their leaves. We know from from [Hos 10:1][Jer 2:21][Jer 6:9][Isa 5:2][Isa 24:7][John 15:1,3,5,8,12] what the branches were and who the vine was. Likewise, we know that the leaves are evidence of Christ-likeness within the assembly of the elect from [Matt 7:17,20]. When Jesus engaged in his ministry, true faith in God sprouted and grew like leaves in spring.


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InHouse Group is a modern family business in the interior design industry. InHouse Group has a large assortment of rugs, carpets, wallpaper, textiles and other flooring products.
Furthermore, InHouse Group is the distributor of Owatrol. The company is strongly rooted in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, through its sales companies, who have the local knowledge of the marketplace. This ensures optimal service and support in each country – to the individual customer. Thus, InHouse Group is a supplier to leading customers in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
The objective of InHouse Group is to run a healthy and profitable business – "with the customer in mind", which is based on a close collaboration with reliable and professional manufacturers and suppliers. We aim to develop a close collaboration with our customers and provide – where it's possible – a real partnership, focusing on providing expertise to the value chain that can create competitive advantages.
Responsible, Ambitious, Loyal, Competent, Value Creation
These five values are the foundation of our business – and our operations – every day.
For our customer, we want to make the experience simple, easy, flexible and at the right price. We are going to add competence to the value chain, which for us means high quality, maximum service and with a focus on the customer.
We want to be the innovative partner, the solution-oriented partner for our customers and suppliers. We want to make a difference, and create long term solutions and relationships – which creates growth and value.
CSR – Corporate social responsibility – is a term that's popular these days. At InHouse Group, CSR has always been an important part of our identity and strategy. Therefore, InHouse Group has always found it important to treat our employees with respect, by giving them the opportunity to improve their everyday life and life in general. Based on this came the idea of a school project that offers free schooling to the children of our weavers, in order to secure their families long term through education and development. We want to actively contribute to safety and social welfare for our weavers and their families.
Child labor can occur in countries where InHouse Group products are being manufactured. InHouse Group does not accept child labor at our suppliers or their sub-suppliers. We also conduct frequent checks with our manufacturers to make sure that the work environment, working hours, and wages are complied with. InHouse Group uses the SA 8000 certification in this effort.
In April 2010, chairman and owner Erik Brennmoen opened a school on the outskirts of Bhadohi in India. For the village, the school does not only mean employment, but also a future for the children. The school is built together with our longtime collaborator Indian Art Gallery. During the school's first year, nearly 400 students attended the school. We want to actively contribute to the safety and social welfare for the weavers and their families.
470 students graduated last year | 12 classrooms, 2 offices etc. | 4000 m2 land / 1600 m2 buildings | Ages 3 to 15 years old | 15 teachers of a total of 19 employees
InHouse Group AS is located in Hellenvegen 15, 2022 Gjerdrum – only 20 minutes drive from Oslo Airport, Gardermoen


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Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends. May today be a mere microcosm of the tribulation you've been experiencing this year and in the four years to come
In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn't until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.
Some Native Americans and others take issue with how the Thanksgiving story is presented to the American public, and especially to schoolchildren. In their view, the traditional narrative paints a deceptively sunny portrait of relations between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people, masking the long and bloody history of conflict between Native Americans and European settlers that resulted in the deaths of millions.
Thanksgiving is particularly ironic this year in light of the protests at Standing Rock in North Dakota where Sioux are trying to stop the progress of the Dakota Access Pipeline through their sacred territories and the brutal and harsh treatment they have received from private security forces and State Police.
Also ironic this year is the rhetoric surrounding the issue of immigrants coming into the US. The violent and vitriolic opposition to the idea of letting those who are not white or Christian into the safe harbour of America while they flee their war-torn homelands is somewhat at odds with the national celebration of the time that the original peaceful inhabitants of America fed and sheltered a group of starving immigrants.
So, here`s hoping that the day goes relatively peacefully. Enjoy your turkey and your pie and your football and may the ravages of indigestion not be visited upon you.


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On how Gioconda Belli lived her first year in the United States:
I began to understand that one of the more salient aspects of American middle-class culture was privacy, the nuclear family as a tiny, protected haven from the outside world. In big, anonymous cities, many people don't have the reference point of a common history, of a long road of family friendships passed down from generation to generation. Lots of them were as foreign as I was in that city. After the long working day, people in our kind of neighborhood didn't have the time to chat with each other or forge bonds of friendship. This social dispersion, this lack of community and collective living, was another, second exile for me. I realized that in the United States, too often you enter into society as if entering a hostile, highly competitive territory. You leave your home dressed in armor, with your heart shielded, well protected.
This exile - the lack of intimacy with others, the lack of belonging, the absence of a common purpose - was the most difficult one for me.
-Excerpted from the author's autobiography, The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
I love this passage. I love how, being here, I can see what Belli means. I know that feeling, of leaving the house shielded in armor, of perceiving so acutely that sharp distinction between being inside the home and outside of it. No, I don't know what it's like to be an exile, but I do know how it feels to see that certain lines, in other countries, are much softer. I appreciate what little I can see of the interconnection she speaks of. I miss my family, my friends, and my girlfriend, but I am afraid nevertheless for the day I come home. I do not miss the closed doors, the competition, the coldness you grow to expect in the face of a stranger.


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Effect of Er:YAG laser cavity preparation on the bond strength of 2‑hydroxyethyl methacrylate‑free and 2‑hydroxyethyl methacrylate‑rich self‑etch adhesive systems: An in vitro study
Background: Despite many advantages of lasers and reduction of the risk of surface bonding
errors with newer self‑etch systems, they have not been thoroughly researched. This study was
done to evaluate the effect of Er:YAG laser cavity preparation on the microtensile bond strength
of 2‑hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA)‑rich and HEMA‑free one‑step self‑etch adhesive systems.
Materials and Methods: In this in vitro study, eighty freshly extracted human premolars were
collected. Cavities were prepared in 40 teeth with carbide bur (Group 1) and in other 40 teeth
with Er:YAG LASER (490 mJ and 15 Hz) (Group 2). Subgroups of twenty teeth each were made
according to the adhesive systems used. After placement of restoration, the mean values of the bond
strength were calculated using universal testing machine. Data were then tabulated and analyzed
using descriptive statistics (Significant at P < 0.05).
Results: The overall microtensile bonding strength was higher when the cavities were prepared
with bur compared to those with Er:YAG laser. Mean bond strengths of single‑bottle self‑etching
seventh‑generation dentin bonding agents to bur‑prepared cavities were higher than those to
laser‑prepared cavities irrespective of the adhesive system (P = 0.01). No statistically significant
difference was observed between HEMA‑free and HEMA‑rich self‑etch adhesive systems.
Conclusion: The effect of Er:YAG laser for cavity preparation did not show improved performance
when evaluated using microtensile bond strength with seventh‑generation bonding agents, Adper
Easy One and G‑Bond. More studies are required to assess the effect of lasers.
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Our understanding of American history is incomplete without the Irish dimension, just as Irish America is a critical component n the course of Irish history. The Archives of Irish America is a repository of primary research materials at New York University that aims to transform our understanding of the Irish migration experience and the distillation of American Irish ethnicity over the past century.
On this site, you can:
- Find out what archives are;
- For a list of our collections and collection policy;
- Listen to excerpts from the Ireland House Oral History Collection;
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- View Records of the Irish Immigration Reform Movement
- View our current exhibits;
- View images and transcriptions of selected Primary Documents;
- Find out more about Irish American Studies at NYU;
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UPDATE: CNN reports that Murray's case was assigned to a new judge at today's procedural hearing. The hearing which was to decide whether Murray's medical license would be suspended has been postponed.
A representative for Dr. Conrad Murray's legal team categorically denies TMZ.com's report over the weekend that the physician plans to argue that Michael Jackson injected himself with a fatal dose of Propofol. "That is in no way indicative of what we are going to be presenting in court," Miranda Sevcik, a spokesperson for Murray and his attorney Edward Chernoff, tells EW. "I don't know who [TMZ's] sources are. They did not name them." (TMZ cited "multiple sources familiar with the strategy" for its report.)
Murray has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges resulting from Jackson's death. "What we are saying at this point is that it's premature to announce what our defense strategy is going to be when we haven't even gotten to the preliminary hearing yet," Sevcik added, noting that Murray's legal strategy will be based on the evidence presented by the prosecution. A brief procedural hearing in the case is expected this afternoon, at which a date will likely be set for a preliminary hearing.


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Billed as "Dead Space meets God of War in Hell," Electronic Arts' videogame adaptation of Dante's Inferno sure doesn't sound anything like The Inferno itself.
When Electronic Arts first announced its game adaptation of Dante's epic poem and showed a cryptic teaser, we were all understandably skeptical. How do you make a game out of a poem about a sad guy walking around Hell looking at other even sorrier guys suffer? My guess was that the game would find protagonist Dante on "some sort of Kratos-esque mission to make it through Hell and kick some demon ass along the way." It turns out that I was even more right than I was hoping to be. PSM3 has revealed the first details on the Inferno game, and it sounds pound-for-pound like an action game in the vein of God of War.
"Button-for-button the controls are identical to GoW's - from using the right stick to evade, to regular and heavy attacks being mapped to Square and Triangle," PSM3 wrote. Enemies even drop mana and health orbs, just like in Devil May Cry and God of War, and you can also collect mana from chests which you open by holding down Circle, just like in - you guessed it - God of War. Also, "holding R1 and pressing Square lets you knock enemies into the air Devil May Cry-style and keep them hovering with a volley of rapid, light attacks."
The game will also be chock-full of everyone's favorite crutch: quick-time events. PSM3 describes one where Dante climbs onto the back of some gigantic monster, kicks off the demon who's piloting and steals the ride for himself. I haven't read Inferno since high school, and I do remember the scene where Dante and Virgil climb up the devil's back, but I don't think I remember that part.
Still, the magazine maintains that the game has its own flavor. "What really sets this apart from God of War is the setting," they wrote. "Dante's trip through hell is altogether more unpleasant, twisted creatures burst from doorways, lava spews from inverted crosses and bottomless fiery pits yawn deep beneath your feet."
EA Redwood Shores, who are handling this, certainly proved themselves with Dead Space last year. And the God of War formula is undoubtedly fun when it's done well. So it could be a good game, that's for sure, but just don't forget to leave your literary credentials at the door when you come in.
[Via CVG]