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Introduction: Homemade Rc Car
this is my first instructable so please bear with me guys :)
I loved playing with rc cars when i was small so i thought of making one now when i have some knowledge of it.
moreover i faced some problems while making it and tried to solve those problems via different sources across the net.
thought of uploading it as it may help someone facing the same problems...
Step 1: GETTING STARTED
Gathering material
For the car you will need:
1.car chassis
2.caster wheel
3.two geared dc motors
4. 2x 1000uf capacitors(the more the capacitance the better it is)
5. ic ht12d
6.ic l293d
7.315mhz receiver
8.wheels for motors
9. pcb
10. 1x 51k ohm resistor for ht12d oscillator pins
11. 3x white leds, 2x 1k resistors, 16pin and 18pin ic base, female burg strips,double tape,some nuts and bolts to get the chassis together
for remote:
1. 2x dpdt switches
2. ic ht12e
3.315mhz transmitter
4. 1x megaohm resistor for transmitter oscillator pins
5. 1x red led and 1k resistor
6. battery connectors,female burg strips,18 pin ic base, pcb
you may use 16 gauge wire to make a small antenna for better reception,soldering rod ,soldering flux and soldering wire, and of course some batteries to power your car and remote and red and black wires to connect the circuit. 9v battery will be good enough to power remote and for the car i used two 4 volt batteries to give a combined voltage of around 8v.
Step 2: HT12D and HT12E ICs
these ics are used to encode and decode the data to transmitter and from receiver respectively.
both are 18 pin ics, the encoder is feed with our data in parallel to its four pins which is converted to serial form and transmitted through the transmitter.receiver receives this serial data and feeds it to the decoder ic which again converts it to parallel data.i have added images to show the pin configuration.
the following is a link to a video on these two ics which will offer quite an insight :video
Step 3: IC L293D MOTOR DRIVER
the motors need quite a good amount of current to run so we use this ic to which the output of ht12d is feed in its signal pins and power and motor are connected according to pin config ,since here we are not using any microcontroller the supply to 1,8,16 are the same.
here's a link to informative video :video
Step 4: REMOTE CONTROLLER
lets start with making the remote control.
place the required components on the pcb as you like and solder them ,i have uploaded an image of mine for reference.
as you can see i have placed the two dpdt switches at the end with 20pin ic base in middle (as i dint had 18pin base :D),from the three resistors one is for led and the other two combined make a resistor of approx. 1 mega ohm(value must be close no need to be accurate) for oscillator of HT12E,then i have placed 4 female burg in strips for my transmitter (place as much required because some have just three pins i.e vcc,data,ground. Here fourth pin is for antenna connection).i have made an antenna out of the 16 gauge wire by winding it over a pen,and finally you can see the battery connector in place.
EDITED:I have attached pcb schematics of the same and also an image of it for quick reference.
Now about connections:
The first 8 pins of ht12e are address pins(A0 to A7) which need not be connected i.e they can be left floating or else you may ground all of them,pin 9 has to be grounded.
In dpdt you will find a pair of 3 connectors (if you find more some would be internally shorted check it with a multimeter)join them as in fig using red and black wire.After doing so with both dpdt you will have four output wires, connect them to pins 10,11(from one dpdt) and 12,13(from other dpdt) of ht12e.
pin14 is transmission enable pin, when it is grounded only then the signals are transmitted so ground this pin.
pins 15 and 16 are the oscillator pins where you need to connect your 1 mega ohm resistor.
pin 17 is the data output pin of the ic which has to be connected to data pin of the transmitter,finally pin 18 is the vcc pin so connect it to the positive terminal of the battery.
if you want u can place a led light also connected to the battery terminals through a resistor.
finally connect the vcc and ground terminals of the transmitter to battery terminals.
Here battery terminals are the battery connector that i have used.
and you are done with the remote.I have attached a picture of the back side of the remote though it may not be much of a help but still :p...
Note:please try and use at least two different color wires and if possible use three(one for signal and other two for battery connections)as it would be easier to debug at the end which is the toughest part.
Step 5: ASSEMBLING THE CAR
place the components on the top of your pcb and solder them on it ,two led in front for headlight,one led is to show that valid data transmission has occurred between transmitter and receiver.See the attached image to place the components.4 female burg in strips are in front for receiver ,then we have the two ic bases for HT12D and L293D( 18 pin and 16 pin bases resp).out the three resistors two 1k resistors for headlight leds and one is 51k approx. for oscillator pins of HT12D.solder the two capacitors in parallel to increase net capacitance (more the capacitance the better it is).
EDITED:I have attached pcb schematics of the same and also an image of it for quick reference.
Now ,how to connect
firstly pins 1 to 8 of the ic HT12D need no connection or ground them if you have done so with the address pins of HT12E or else leave them floating.then pin 9 is grounded.pins 10,11,12,13 are the data output pins from this ic ,connect them to 2,7,15,10 of L293D resp. pin 14 of HT12D is data input pin which you need to connect to data pin of receiver,next up pin 15 and 16 are the oscillator pins so connect your 51k resistor across these pins (again i would say accurate value doesn't matter),pin 17 is the valid transmission pin connecting an led to it will show whether the data has been received or not,this pin remains active high and when the ic receives a signal it goes low,so connect the -ve pin of led to pin 17 and +ve pin of led to battery positive terminal.now whenever data is received the led will glow and otherwise remain off. finally pin 18 is vcc pin so connect it to positive terminal of battery.
we initially connected the pins 2,7,15,10 of L293D,now its time to connect its other pins also...
pins 1,9 are the motor enable pins when the are high only then motors will catch signal and run so connect these pins to positive of battery.connect pins 3,6 to one motor and 14,11 to the other motor,pins 4,5,12,13 are to be grounded,now connect pin 8,16 to positive battery terminal and battery ground is connected to all the ground pins of L293D.
capacitors act as glitch busters,connect their positive and negative to vcc and ground resp. of receiver and also connect the vcc and ground of receiver to the battery,in other words from both vcc and ground terminals of receiver we have two wires each one to suppy and the other to capacitors.
i dint had these caps in the beginning, so the car wasn't responding to the signals properly ,it will catch the initial signal only and keep on running on that signal until and unless i give signal being in very close vicinity of car.this happens because initially motors are at rest therefore the receiver is having an appropriate supply which enables it to catch the signal but when the motors run they draw a lot of current due to which insufficient amount of current goes to receiver and it fails to catch the signal ,so placing capacitors with it gives it a boost of current and receiver catches the signal.
And that's it we are done with the car too...
Step 6: TESTING AND FINAL WORDS
watch the video to see a test run of the car.
if anyone has any problem regarding the instructable please mention it in the comment section ,i will try to solve your problem. the schematic files are .fzz files and u will need fritzing software for it.
here is the download link: http://fritzing.org/home/
please leave your comments and review which would help me do a better job in writing instructables ,and thank you for bearing me guys :)...
Step 7: Rc Car V2.0
i have uploaded a new instructable on updated version of this car which you can check out here-rc car v2.0.
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196 Discussions
can I use 5vDc motors instead of geared motors?
Please tell idea about rc control car using 434 mhz RF controll
Hii Abhishek , actually I want to fix wheels in the front n alps want to turn them. Can u tell me how can I do this
Hello Abhishek, your project is very good and appreciable, you can do many in your life. I want to talk to you about this project personally. If you agree, send me an email to email@example.com .
i have made a wired RC car and now I want to convert into wireless using receiver and transmitter but I don't how to connect it would u please help me
I can bring receiver and transmitter from market but how to connect into my RC car please reply asap
Also what is the RPM
Rotations Per Minute
.fzz file didn't support my phone
What is the rated voltage of your dc motor
Hey there!
I wonder why there is 2 capacitors on the car but only one in the .fzz file? Is it a mistake or am I missing something?
Have a good day!
hi there
the .fzz file is having one single capacitor of 2000uf but since I had 1000uf capacitors with me I joined them in parallel to give the same affect.
Why didn't you gave any clear circuit diagram? Not even a pencil sketch! The PCB (?) diagram images you gave are just awful.. The tutorial is good but designed in a bad way.
start appreciating others work and offer advice in a constructive way that might help you in the future...
I know how to appreciate, but appreciation only goes to who deserves it. BTW, I admitted already that your tutorial was nice. In addition I just mentioned some serious draw backs of the article. Your intolerance with criticism might not help you in the future...
Going to try make this as a project but I have no idea how to start!
Hello there!
Will this work with 2200 uf capacitors?
I have some and wondered if I could use them.
hi again,
I just found two 1000 uf capacitors, should I use them instead?
Also, I wonder if there is anything else I should think about?
just try both and see what works better for you
hey there ,
yes you can definitely use them more the capacitance the better it is ....


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Lukaku is currently in preseason training in Australia with the rest of Solskjaer's squad, but it's thought that he wants the negotiations to be completed pronto.
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Diego Costa could be set to make a return to the Premier League, but it would be no homecoming, as The Sun reports that the Atletico Madrid forward has his sights set on Everton.
The 30-year-old left England two years ago after falling out with Chelsea manager Antonio Conte, returning to the club the Blues had originally bought him from.
Costa's form in La Liga has been patchy at best, scoring only three goals in 20 games last season. Add to that the signings of Joao Felix and Alvaro Morata and it's not hard to see why the Spaniard might be looking elsewhere.
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- As for potential incomings at Emirates Stadium, The Mirror also says that Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha is edging closer to joining Unai Emery's side. The Gunners saw a £40m offer rejected, with Palace asking for at least double. Arsenal won't give up the fight, though, as they prepare to make another approach, this time a player plus cash deal, potentially involving Calum Chambers, Carl Jenkinson or Mohamed Elneny.


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- noun The adult leader in charge of a troop of Boy Scouts.
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- noun the leader of a troop of Scouts
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Ellington soon became known as a scoutmaster who wouldn't give up on kids.
Ellington soon became known as a scoutmaster who wouldn't give up on kids.
And if such turned out to be the case, wouldn't it prove that the scoutmaster was a wonder at guessing things that were
Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps
That this so-called scoutmaster led a hike up this same challenging trail in February -- wintertime -- when snow was still present, was sheer stupidity.
I'm glad you're going to stay, because you can be a kind of scoutmaster to both troops.
Tom suspected that here was just the kind of scoutmaster that the National Organization was after -- one with pep.
There were only five of them, one patrol, and the biggest one was a kind of scoutmaster and patrol leader rolled into one.
Alan wrestles with the guilt and gives himself no mercy even for his act of leading the head scoutmaster to the spot a few hours later, to a naked, bitten, bloody, parched Ernie Carlson, who had screamed himself into collapse.
The scoutmaster walked back and forth in front of the curtain, addressing his troop.
The scoutmaster shouted for order while he extinguished his shoe and checked for damage.


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The Apple iPad continues to prove itself a game changer for computer industry, as sales of Apple's popular tablet have pushed the company to the No. 1 spot over HP, Acer, Dell, and Toshiba in terms of mobile computers shipped in the final quarter of 2010.
All told, Apple shipped 10.2 million mobile PCs in Q4, says research from DisplaySearch. According to other recent reports, as many as 7.3 million of those machines were iPads. That means Apple outsold its own line of laptops at a rate of about 2.5 to 1. Sound impressive? Then also consider that Apple enjoyed overall higher-than-average laptop sales last quarter, according to Display Search
Were it not for iPad sales, in fact, Apple would not have made the list. DisplaySearch reports that HP shipped 9.3 million mobile PCs in Q4, Acer shipped 8.4 million, Dell cranked out 5.9 million, and Toshiba rolled out 5.1 million.
Further illustrating the market's hunger for tablets, mobile PC shipment growth increased by 8 percent quarter over quarter, according to DisplaySearch, and 17 percent year over year if you include tablets in the mix. Subtract tablets, and shipments were up just 4 percent quarter over quarter and 1 percent year over year.
Apple wasn't the only company to ship tablets last year, but it was the only one that made much of a splash. Samsung shipped its Galaxy Tab last year, but it came in a distant No. 2 after Apple in terms of sales. Dell started shipping the Streak, too, but the device suffered lackluster reviews and hasn't sold well. Additionally, HP started hawking its Slate 500 last year, but only built around 5,000. For the time being, Apple is the dominant force in the tablet space.
However, this battle is just beginning. Google has rolled out a new version of Android groomed for tablets instead of smartphones. That could level the playing field a bit. Notably, Android-based tablets already enjoyed a sales boost in Q4, according to market analysis firm Strategy Analytic. Android-based tablets represented 22 percent of total global tablet shipments in Q4, up from 2.3 percent in Q3.
Additionally, HP should, at long last, start shipping WebOS-based tablets this year; those, too, could put a dent in Apple's slice of the tablet pie.
For the time being, Apple is in an enviable position. Not only was it first to market with a tablet that users of the world truly wanted, but its rivals have been incredibly slow in mounting anything to counter the iPad.
This story, "iPad sales push Apple to top of the mobile PC heap," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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The 9 Best Truck Bed Tents
This wiki has been updated 22 times since it was first published in August of 2015. So you want to go camping, but you're not crazy about the idea of sleeping on a cold, hard ground that may be covered in bugs or other undesirable materials. If you've got a pickup, you can avoid all that by easily converting it into a comfortable and secure bedding area using one of these truck bed tents, which attach to your vehicle and serve as a temporary outdoor shelter from rain or sun. When users buy our independently chosen editorial choices, we may earn commissions to help fund the Wiki. Skip to the best truck bed tent on Amazon.
Editor's Notes
April 17, 2019:
We added the DAC Inc. Full-Size to this list for truck-owners who have a cab on the back of their pick-ups, and for it's versatility in working with other kinds of vehicles like full-sized SUVs. The Kodiak Canvas remained in the top spot for its roomy interior and watertight design, plus it has the most durable steel-tube frame. The Napier and Guide Gear choices are better suited to campers who prefer a tent with a floor and most of them are a little more budget-friendly.
Truck Bed Tents Versus Traditional Tents
Truck beds do, however, leave one vulnerable to rainfall, the wind, and other natural elements from which a full-size tent protects a camper.
Truck bed tents have become increasingly popular in recent years because they offer all of the benefits of a truck bed, and a full-size tent, with none of the downsides. Many people already enjoy driving their truck out to a camping site and simply sleeping in the bed of it. Unlike the other campers, those in truck beds don't need to lie on the hard ground, and risk having insects and other critters crawling into their sleeping bags.
Truck beds do, however, leave one vulnerable to rainfall, the wind, and other natural elements from which a full-size tent protects a camper. A truck bed tent solves both of these problems, delivering all of the protection of a tent, on the safe and elevated platform of a vehicle.
Truck bed tents typically take much less time to set up than a standard one, too. Full-size tents need to be secured into the ground via a hammer and pegs, but truck bed ones can usually just be tied to the vehicle. A truck bed is also far more stable than the ground, which can shift if it becomes damp, causing a regular tent's pegs to become loose. One won't encounter that issue with a truck bed tent.
Hazards like snake bites and poisonous insect bites are major concerns for campers. In fact, between 7,000 and 8,000 people in the United States are bitten by venomous snakes each year. Snakes can't climb up the side of a truck, so sleeping in a truck bed tent instead of on the ground could save a camper a trip to the hospital.
How To Match The Tent To Your Truck
Those who carry a lot of gear in their truck bed might want a floorless tent. These do not line the bed of the truck, so they don't require the user to clear the bed out to install them. Campers should ensure that their tent is the correct size for their truck bed. Some tents can comfortably accommodate three sleepers, so long as the truck bed is wide enough. Some people like the added protection of a solid truck bed cover and, fortunately, there are truck bed tents designed to work with those. Campers don't usually want to be confined to their truck bed during the day, so many tents have a flap that extends past the zippered entry, providing a nice shady place for people to sit.
Truckers should also look for a sturdy steel-tube frame that will hold up the shape of their tent.
Avid campers who spend a lot of time sleeping outdoors need to make sure that their truck bed tent has airtight zippers. Being regularly exposed to cold air can result in several health problems. Having a tent that is well-insulated can prevent some health concerns. Truckers should also look for a sturdy steel-tube frame that will hold up the shape of their tent. There is nothing more frustrating than a tent that collapses in the middle of the night, or in a wind storm. Those who camp in more extreme climates should look for a camp made from durable canvas that will not puncture easily.
Campers should take all of the right precautions to avoid bears while camping, and not attract them to their campsite. If a bear or any wild animal does, however, make it onto one's site, they will be grateful if their truck bed tent has a small window through which they can look so they know when it is safe to leave. Having a small window in one's truck bed tent is generally helpful for surveying the campground without having to exit the tent.
Additional Tips For Truck Bed Camping
When one's truck bed is also their sleeping area, they need to treat it with special care and keep it as clean as possible. Campers should take off their boots before getting into the bed, so as to keep mud and dirt out. Before driving to the campsite, ensure that all hatches and hardware on the truck bed are sealed so that rocks and debris don't fly up into it on the road. Drivers should also keep the windows rolled up on dirt roads since this can also dirty the bed. Keeping a battery-operated handheld vacuum in the car can also help keep the bed area clean.
Drivers should also keep the windows rolled up on dirt roads since this can also dirty the bed.
Floor space can become an issue when the bed of one's truck is also where they are sleeping. What once was a storage area becomes a giant bed. If you purchase a truck bed tent tall enough, you can fit a small cot inside of the bed. This will provide extra storage area beneath the cot, while still offering a clean space to sleep. For extra space, put gear inside of weather-proof bags and store them underneath the truck at night.
Campsites may not have running water or electricity. One should always bring more than enough water for the days they have planned in case they extend their stay or, due to severe weather, cannot make their way safely out of the woods. Campers should always keep a GPS on hand and charged, too, considering the number of people who get lost in the woods each year.
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Julius Schmeil aka Chita is a young German producer from Munich, born in 1997. He developed a passion for music at a young age and then began to learn how to play the guitar and the piano. To find new ideas and inspiration, he always implements his ideas by using the piano and the guitar before integrating it to his computer.
Chita started producing music in early 2013 and since then it has become
his life. He is inspired by producers such as: Martin Garrix, Zedd, Matisse & Sadko, Dubvision, Mesto and Mike Williams.
Chita's track "Moments", got signed by Hypnoz Records in 2016.
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ONE of Iran's best female soccer players won't compete in an upcoming international tournament because her husband, citing Islamic law, isn't letting her travel abroad, instead insisting she stay home and take care of their child.
Niloufar Ardalan — known as "Lady Goal" for her on-field triumphs and athletic prowess — told the Iranian website Nasimonline that she won't be playing in the Asian Football Federation Women's Futsal Championship because her husband hasn't given permission for her to travel outside Iran.
Islamic laws enforced in Iran dictate that a married woman must have her spouse's permission to obtain or renew a passport.
The 30-year-old Ardalan, who has captained Iran's national team, had hoped to participate in the futsal championship — an indoor version of the sport to be held September 21-26 in the Malaysian town of Nilai, according to Radio Free Europe.
"But my husband didn't give me my passport so that I can [participate] in the games, and because of his opposition to my travel abroad, I [will] miss the matches," Ardalan told Nasimonline.
"I wish authorities would create [measures] that would allow female athletes to defend their rights in such situations," the website quoted Ardalan as saying.
"These games were very important to me. As a Muslim woman, I wanted to work for my country's flag to be raised [at the games], rather than travelling for leisure and fun."
According to Iranian media, Ardalan said her passport expired and that her husband — sports journalist Mehdi Toutounchi — will not sign the paperwork necessary to renew it.
Toutounchi reportedly refused because he wants Ardalan to be at home for her 7-year-old son's first day of school on Sept. 23 -- though the man has not publicly responded to his wife's remarks.
Ardalan, meanwhile, is calling for such travel restrictions on female athletes to be lifted in Iran.
"Boys have the issue of military service [which prevents those who have not completed their compulsory service from travelling abroad]. A solution is found for them, and something should be done for women as well," she told the daily sports newspaper Goal. "What is the difference between us?"


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You may or may not know my birthday is coming up and I don't want to make this whole thing about myself, so what do I do instead? I make it all about my favorite people in the community. The ones that made my experience better, the ones that taught me things, the ones I admire and strive to be like. I decided to put 20 on this list but I definitely have more. Also, these are in no particular particular order.
What I love about her:
- She has such a fun, chatty, enthusiastic personnality. I LOVE IT.
- She's the first fellow Muslim blogger I've met and it was like a revelation haha.
- I fangirl with her A LOT over my latest bookish obsessions.
- I trust her recommendations because we have the same taste in books.
- She has a cutesy, girly blog (says the one with the bright pink blog. Okay *sigh*)
Noteable Posts:
- 6 Reasons WHY You should write Discussion Posts + Tips & Tricks to nail Them
- Should I Freak Out When Real Life Friends Read My Blog?
- Let's Talk About Diversity: My Thoughts & A Bunch of Book Recs!
- The Roles of Family in Young Adult Fiction // A LOT of Book Recommendations!
What I love about her:
- I've been in kind of an NA slump this year and she made me want to read it again.
- Talking of which, her reviews are great.
- Have you seen her Instagram pictures? Go. Now.
- Her graphics are very simple yet very beautiful and eye pleasing.
- She's just all around an awesome and funny person!
Noteable Posts:
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- Unboxing: The Mystery Book Box October's box was pumpkilicious!
- #Crityourfaves: Unhealthy Romance in Colleen Hoover's Books
That's it until next time!
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TheBoyWithOneEye wrote:Looks like its been burnt down if you look at the tops of whats left of the tunnel
TheBoyWithOneEye wrote:Ahhhh ok. I really doesnt look like your going to fit through the tunnel
Rob-TT wrote:Looks really bad. Would have been better to replace the roof.
@THORPEPARK: Loggers will still be closed for redevelopment this season.


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Four years ago my good friend Matt Wright and I set out to hike The Batona Trail in the Pinelands. We were on assignment for New Jersey Monthly—me as writer, he as photographer—and incredibly excited for the opportunity. And while I was really pleased with the way the story turned out in the magazine, I was a little bummed that so many nuanced anecdotes and asides had to be left on the cutting room floor for the sake of magazine page count. Writing this essay was a labor of love filled with all of those writerly tidbits and flourishes us writers are always so sad to see cut (despite the obvious necessity), and it's always been my intention to present the unedited manuscript to readers of Twenty Pounds of Headline. And so, lo these many years later, I bring you my Batona: The Director's Cut!
A Walk In The Pines: Four Days on the Batona Trail
By Nick DiUlio
It was about two hours before sunset on our first day in the Pine Barrens when it occurred to me that Matt and I had made a terrible mistake. I didn't want to say anything to him just yet, so instead I quietly hiked a few paces back on the sandy trail and engaged in a bit of silent, dread contemplation. With more than five miles still to go before we reached camp, we were soaking wet, bedraggled, and exhausted. The situation was not looking good.
After about five minutes of listening to the increasingly dragging swish amble of my hiking boots against the South Jersey soil, it became undeniably clear that yes, our ambition had indeed trumped our common sense. The mid-October night was fast falling upon the Pines and I honestly didn't know how the hell we would make it to camp before dark.
Neither of us saw the moment coming. We'd been planning this thru-hike of the Batona Trail for weeks—years really, if you count the myriad times we'd made hypothetical promises to one another that we'd eventually make the trek—and throughout early September the two of us were tireless in our preparations.
Matt, a far more experienced backpacker, was to be not only my traveling partner but photo essayist as well. When I called to tell him we'd gotten the assignment from New Jersey Monthly, he immediately scheduled a trip to REI, where he'd help me gather the gear I noticeably lacked. Waterproof hiking boots, for instance. A decent three-season sleeping bag to replace the one I'd been using since my elementary school sleepover days. A headlamp, multi-tool, and, oh yeah, a backpack.
We also spent the weeks leading up to our hike pouring over state park maps of the Batona and strategizing how we'd like to tackle its 50-plus miles of Pine Barren wilderness. Rather quickly—and without any trace of skepticism—we decided we could do it in three days.
It would all begin early on the Friday morning of October 14. Shortly after 8 a.m. Matt's girlfriend would drop us off at Ong's Hat, an apparition of a Pine Barrens ghost town off Route 72 in the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest that serves as the trail's northernmost entry point. From there Matt and I would hike the Batona's 49.5 miles over the course of three glorious days, carrying everything we needed on our backs, nourishing our friendship with the waters of adventure, spying some of New Jersey's most diverse flora and fauna, and arriving at all sorts of profound realizations while surrounded by positively Thoreauian solitude.
I imagined us winding our way down through the massive 122,463-acre Wharton State Forest like a modern day Lewis & Clark, whistling past the historic village of Batsto, and generally digging some of the most secluded and undisturbed environs in the Garden State before eventually finding ourselves at the trail's end inside Bass River State Forest (less than two miles northwest of Exit 52 on the Garden State Parkway, if you can believe it). We'd complete our journey just in time to be picked up in my girlfriend's Subaru and head home to a piping hot Sunday dinner back in Medford.
Being young and fit and adventurous, Matt and I figured three days was more than enough time to complete the journey. After all, the Batona is a mercifully flat trail that most hikers under the age of 75 would surely describe as "easy." And 17 miles a day didn't really seem like that big a deal.
We were wrong. So very wrong.
In the weeks before setting off on our sojourn, I found it remarkable how few of the people I talked to had ever heard of the Batona Trail. Growing up a mere fifteen minute drive from Ong's Hat, the Batona was as recognizable to me as the Jersey Shore; a staple of many elementary and middle school field trips as well as short backpacking adventures during the few desultory weeks I spent away at Camp Ockanickon each summer. It's rich diversity of wildlife, unchallenging terrain, and multiple access points makes it ideal for these types of adolescent educational excursions. A Pine Barrens Greatest Hits, if you will.
Still, unless I was talking to someone who graduated from Shawnee High School or worked for the State Parks Service, the response I typically got from Jerseyans and non-Jerseyans alike when mentioning my impending hike was some variation on, "Sounds cool. What's the Batona?"
Well, since you asked…
The Batona Trail is the longest hiking trail in South Jersey, and the fifth longest in the state. Since Matt and I set out in October, the Batona has undergone a few re-routing changes that have increased its length by about 2.5 miles, bringing the total mileage somewhere in the neighborhood of 53 (although a new official tally has yet to be made).
Surprisingly, a precise and detailed history of the trail is somewhat difficult to come by. The literature you find on state maps and websites provides a vague, broad genesis story that lets hikers know the trail was started in 1961 by the oddly acronymic Back To Nature Hiking Club of Philadelphia. BAck TO NAture—get it?
More specifically, the trail was the conception of Dale Knapschafer, a Batona Hiking Club member who first conceived of it in late 1960. Originally, the idea was to construct a continuous 20-mile footpath through the Wharton and Lebanon (now Brendan T. Byrne) state forests. And it's not too difficult to understand why this might be an appealing notion. At the time, New Jersey contained about 1,000 people per square mile (we're up to about 1,200 today), and smack dab in the middle of that population frenzy was the Pine Barrens, an impossibly vast and improbably secluded wilderness just begging for exploration.
"In the central area of the Pine Barrens—the forest land that is still so undeveloped that it can be called wilderness—there are only fifteen people per square mile," wrote John McPhee in his celebrated 1968 book The Pine Barrens. "This area, which includes about six hundred and fifty thousand acres, is nearly as large as Yosemite National Park. It is almost identical in size with Grand Canyon National Park, and it is much larger than Sequoia National Park, or, for that matter, most of the National Parks in the United States."
Almost a decade after McPhee's book was published, the entirety of the Pine Barrens was officially protected by Congress in 1978 and called the Pinelands National Preserve, encompassing about 1.1 million acres covering 22 percent of New Jersey's land area. According to state literature, it's the largest remaining body of open space on the Mid-Atlantic seaboard between Richmond and Boston. Sounds like the perfect place for a trail, no?
The notion excited Batona club president Morris Bardock, who took it upon himself to spearhead the effort. On January 20, 1961, Bardock wrote a letter to State Commissioner Salvatore A. Bontempo of the Department of Conservation and Economic Development, explaining the plan and asking for his endorsement.
"The Back to Nature Hiking Club of Philadelphia desires to make hiking a popular past time for more people," Bardock's letter began. "One contribution our club can make towards this goal is the laying out and maintenance of a hiking trail in an area accessible to a large number of people. We are considering a trail connecting the Wharton Tract and Lebanon State Forest since these areas have many visitors. Also, South Jersey has few if any developed trails: therefore, our project, we feel, would serve a function for the Forestry Service with no cost to the State."
Bardock went on to write, "The Back to Nature Hiking Club is thirty-two years old and the most active in Philadelphia. The trail work will be done by competent out-of-doors people who have been hiking for years. We are conservation minded and can assure you that no damage would be done to any trees or vegetation."
Bontempo liked the idea immediately and the Batona Club was given official permission by the state to begin blazing the trail just a few months after receiving Bardock's letter. Then, during February, March, April, and May, Bardock and fellow Batona Club member Walt Korzniak made exploratory trips out to the Pine Barrens almost every weekend to layout the trail's eventual route. Finally, on September 16, 1961, with the help of several volunteers, the trail's first 30 miles were completed, connecting the Historic Village of Batsto—a former hub of bog iron mining and glassmaking—with Carpenter Spring in Lebanon State Forrest to the north.
A 2.5-mile extension to Ong's Hat was added in 1978, with another 9-mile addition coming later that year, linking Batsto with Evan's Bridge at the edge of Wharton. Finally, another nine miles was tacked on at the southern end in 1987, bringing the trail into Bass River State Forrest, where it remained untouched until this past spring's reroutes.
At 72, Paul Piechoski can still recall what it was like working on the trail's formation during that summer of 1961.
"It was all about a love of hiking," says Piechoski, who remains a Batona club member but admittedly doesn't get out to the club's namesake trail much these days. "They knew it was a unique area, as far as the flora and fauna are concerned. And it was a labor of love, putting a trail in and having people enjoy it. I know it sounds corny but it's true. You do something like this to hand down to future generations."
When Matt and I arrived at Ong's Hat at 8:37 a.m. on October 14, we were both afire with the trail's history and future promises. The weather was sunny and breezy, just a bit humid, and what few morning clouds rolled in rolled out just as unceremoniously. Matt's girlfriend took a snapshot of us leaning coolly against a large wooden map of the trail, and then we picked up our respective 30-pound packs, said our goodbyes, and set out on the Batona.
What's most exciting about starting this trail is that you immediately feel the embrace of its original intent—namely, to get you back to nature. The gentle hum of Route 72 fades with every step you take on the sandy soil, plunging you inexorably deeper into one of New Jersey's most enduring natural treasures.
Sure, the Batona may lack the supreme vistas of more elevated trails like those around the Delaware Water Gap, the inherent dangers of monster thru-hikes like the Pacific Crest, or the international reputation of behemoths like the AT, but it's the Batona's simplicity as much as its seclusion that charms the heart.
Not everyone feels this way. On more than a few message boards I read before taking off, some were so bold as to call the trail boring. One disgruntled hiker, on a website called Backpackinglight.com, wrote, "If you like hiking flat sand trails and don't mind tics, or mosquitoes, then go for it….For me, it was too much of the same scenery everywhere you looked. I think next time I'm going to put the mountain bike out there and just go fast."
Not only does this betray the entire spirit and intention of the trail's creation (and by the way, mountain bikes aren't allowed on the Batona) but it's also incredibly disingenuous. The Pine Barrens, despite the forest's misleading nomenclature, is anything but desolate. It's positively teaming with diverse life, and most of it can be seen right from the Batona Trail for those who are patient enough to look.
For instance, 23 kinds of orchid grow in the Pines Barrens, along with an assortment of any horticulturalist's dream lineup, including the bog asphodel (which you can't find anywhere else north of the Carolinas), the Pine Barren gentian, swamp azaleas, prickly pears, cassandras, wild magnolias, and the curly-grass fern, which was discovered in the pines and grows almost nowhere else on the planet.
In his chapter devoted entirely to Pine Barrens ecology, McPhee quotes former University of Pennsylvania botany professor Edgar T. Wherry, who was responding to the possibility back in the late 60s of a large jetport being built in the Pine Barrens. "'To have all this destroyed by a jetport, or by anything else,'" says Wherry, "'would be an ecological disaster.'"
In addition to its grand diversity of plant life, the Batona also affords hikers several chances to spot wildlife that range from white tailed deer to timber rattle snakes and even the occasional coyote. Later in our hike Matt and I stumbled upon a hunter deep in the woods who said he had been out there since five o'clock that morning.
"Saw about 15 coyotes in a pack down the road before sunrise," he said. "Got within about 40 yards of 'em. If you keep an eye out for their scat you'll think it's from a dog at first. But when you look closely you'll see deer fur in it. They're out there."
There are also many smaller creatures as well.
"You should really go during the spring time when the Pine Barrens tree frogs are calling," says Russel Juelg, Pine Barrens educator and land steward with the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, which manages a short stretch of the Batona between Brendan T. Byrne and Wharton State forests. "There are all kinds of different frogs out there, and if you get acquainted with them you can hear them call while you're hiking, especially in the morning or evening."
Juelg points out that hikers will also hear and see other critters, including turtles, otters, beaver, hawks, owls and myriad songbirds, including whippoorwills that whoop and whip all night long. All told, the Pine Barrens is home to more than 80 different kinds of songbird as well as native species like yellow-billed cuckoos, hummingbirds, Baltimore orioles, brown thrashers, turkey vultures, screech owls, and yes, even bald eagles.
And then there's the black bear, which has been encroaching ever southward throughout New Jersey over the past decade and is known to show up in the pines every now and then. Chances aren't great that you'll run into one, but it's fun—and important for safety reasons—to be on the lookout nonetheless.
"To tell you the truth, I kind of like rattlesnakes and bears," says Juelg. "They remind us there still is wilderness around us. We tend to think of civilization as a safe zone, and that's a total fallacy."
Throughout our first several hours on the trail, Matt and I talked endlessly about the wildlife we were hoping to encounter. And while we didn't come across any particularly exotic animals, we were startled by the varieties of mushroom we had stumbled upon by lunchtime, at least four different species, including a perplexingly beautiful lavender button topped with a spot of bright yellow.
Above all, Matt and I were simply delighted to be out in the undeterred and, at times, seemingly infinite expanse of nature. It takes a little while to get there—the first three or four miles of the trail often intersect with paved roads and sometimes runs just a few hundred yards behind private backyards—but by the time you've plodded eight miles to Pakim Pond (a great lunch destination with gazebos, very well-kept bathrooms, and potable water) you'll feel like you've truly stepped into another world entirely. And the longer you hike the more you will find it nearly impossible to accept that the rumbling bustle of the Atlantic City Expressway and Garden State Parkway border your newfound wilderness like some steamy, seething Goliath serpents to the south and east.
"It's just awesome out there," says Rosemarie Mason, a member of the Outdoor Club of South Jersey, which has recently taken over much of the trail's maintenance from the aging Batona Hiking Club. Mason, 58, works at The Borgata casino in Atlantic City and has thru-hiked the trail three times. "There's such a simple beauty to it. Amazing little streams and wildflowers and it's all so unlike anything most people come in contact with day-to-day. It's an incredible place."
Indeed it is. Even when it rains.
Here's a bit of advice I caution you not to ignore: If you plan on taking a backpacking adventure, even if it's just overnight, buy a pair of hiking pants. Good lord, save yourself a world of suffering and buy a pair of hiking pants. Almost every other piece of clothing is negotiable—with perhaps the exception of well-made boots—but the pants…no sir. They're critical.
Having wracked up an REI bill well north of $500 before leaving on our trip, my buyer's remorse gene was working its way out of a massive hangover. So when Matt suggested I invest another $60 and get myself a pair of nylon hiking pants that conveniently convert into shorts with a quick unzip, I laughed as though he were asking me to buy a gold-plated water bottle. Seriously? Pants are pants, right? My cotton cargo shorts from American Eagle will do just fine, thank you very much.
Then it rained, and I would have gladly spent twice as much for even one leg of those gloriously light, water-wicking nylon covers if it meant I could once again hike in peace.
It was shortly after leaving Pakim Pond that the skies opened up. At first the rain fell with light, mystical ambition. It was even quite beautiful in a way, weighing down whatever deciduous foliage the newly descended autumn wind and cold had yet to claim. In some of the more thickly wooded areas, the Pine Barrens in the rain took on a strange, sinister, electric gloom, an ancient melancholy that gives one pause to consider, "Oh right. Now I see why the Jersey Devil was born in these parts."
Rain on the trail also allows you to reflect on one of the Pine Barrens other magnificent traits: it's incomprehensible water retention. Back at Pakim I came upon a plaque affixed to an old wooden bridge that crosses the pond's feeding tributary. It contained some remarkable facts:
"Half the rain water falling on the 1,250-square-mile Pine Barrens region seeps through the porous sand soil into the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer. This 17-trillion-gallon aquifer supplies most of southern New Jersey's potable water. South Jersey residents consume an estimated 200 million gallons every day for drinking, washing the car, irrigating the lawn and garden, and many other uses. Surface runoff and seepage from this aquifer are also primary sources for all of Southern New Jersey's rivers."
And so, while getting soaked by the rains, I was doing my best to accept that this was all part of the grand universal plan, and that my growing discomfort paled in comparison to the ecological importance of what was taking place all around me. Still, it eventually became a major bummer.
Next to jeans, a pair of cotton shorts is the most tragically inhospitable article of clothing one can wear while hiking in the rain. They get heavy. Real heavy. And they chafe, rubbing indiscriminately against every contact of skin and reminding you with each step that you made a terrible, terrible choice.
Still, we trudged on in the rain, which fell intermittently for the next three hours. At one point during a particularly aggressive deluge Matt and I came upon a seemingly abandoned conversion van in the middle of the woods. I walked up to with the thought that perhaps it might provide shelter. But when I got closer I saw that other vehicles in a similar state of disrepair surrounded the van. Rusted pickup trucks. Camp trailers on cinder blocks. Other vans with the windows cracked or blown out entirely. And their placement didn't look random or unintentional. It looked planned, sinister, like some little makeshift village designed by the backcountry folk who still roam the Pine Barrens. They're called Pineys, and it's usually a good idea to keep your distance.
So Matt and I retreated and got back on the trail, suddenly more eager than ever to get to camp before dark.
If the Batona has one significant drawback, it's the sparse number of campsites available to thru-hikers. Between Ong's Hat and Bass River, there are five places to stop and spend the night, and only one of those—Batona Camp—is actually on the trail itself. The rest require you to leave the trail and hike sometimes as much as two miles before arriving at a place to pitch a tent.
Technically it's illegal to camp anywhere except official sites, but if you wanted to you could set up somewhere in the backcountry (and more than a few people do) without drawing too much attention to yourself.
As darkness began to fall—and with our destination of Batona Camp still more than five miles away—Matt and I discussed this option many times. But we needed potable water (which all camps except Lower Forge provide) and the peace of mind that comes with arriving at a formal destination. Besides, we had set a goal for ourselves. We were supposed to hike 18.7 miles that day, and by golly we weren't going to give up, no matter how exhausted and wet and miserable we had become.
Things were getting ugly and shutting down. Fast. In addition to the chaffy prison of my khaki shorts, my feet ached and sloshed with water inside my brand new boots, my 30-pound pack might as well have weighed 1,000, and my legs, which had never in their 30-year history, traversed 14 miles in a single day, were all but screaming for surrender.
A glorious moment of respite and awe came about two miles later when we arrived at Apple Pie Hill. Boasting a whopping elevation of 205 feet above sea level, Apple Pie is the highest point in the Pine Barrens. As one character in McPhee's book describes it, "Apple Pie Hill is a thunderstriking high hill. You don't realize how high until you get up here. It's the long slope of a hill that makes a high one…"
Accenting the hill's unlikely elevation like a one-year birthday candle is a tall, metal fire tower, and climbing its steps affords hikers an impressive sight. The view—undoubtedly the best in the Pine Barrens—is uninterrupted and majestic, and I'm not exaggerating when I tell you that on a clear night or day one can just make out Philadelphia to the west and Atlantic City to the east. Old timers will even tell you that in the days before so much ubiquitous light pollution, one could even see the glow of New York City's skyline from the fire tower's perch.
When Matt and I arrived there was a small tour group finishing its visit, and as they climbed down the tower's steps I overheard the guide relaying an interesting anecdote. He said that the fire lookout who used to sit in the tower would perch himself on a stool, with each of the four legs resting in a shot glass.
"That way, in case there's a freak strike of lightening," the guide said, "he'd be insulated against the shock."
When the tour group left, Matt and I climbed the tower—scribed now by countless years and layers of vibrant, colorful graffiti—and surveyed the vast expanse of wilderness that surrounded us, getting a good look for the first time at the prehistoric sweep and solitude of the pines. Burdened by a slight fear of heights, I could only remain up top for a few minutes before vertigo began setting in, but Matt stayed for several more minutes, snapping photos in all directions and hooting with excitement into the earth's perfect yawn of time and distance and ancient perfection.
Meanwhile, I changed out of my soaking shorts, socks, t-shirt and boots into a fresh set of clothes. Unfortunately these included my only backup pare of pants—blue jeans. And the only thing worse than hiking through a wet forest in cotton cargo shorts is hiking through a wet forest in blue jeans.
So it was that life took one final dip into the humbling absurdity of our situation, and as Matt and I set up camp at Batona that night—arriving as we did about 45 minutes after sunset—we both agreed that it had been many, many years since we had ever felt this sore and exhausted. At one point I turned to Matt inside our tent and said, "If my body had a battery icon like a cell phone, it would be reading about three percent."
In the darkness Matt boiled water for our instant meals while I took notes on the day's activities, which, save the last six or seven rain-soaked miles, was an incredibly enjoyable experience. That being said, as we huddled together and ate our beef stroganoff like two famished Dickensian orphans, we mutually shuddered at the thought of doing another 16 miles tomorrow—and then 18 miles the day after that. No sir. Not gonna happen. Unless you are in phenomenal hiking condition, the Batona is a four-day backpacking adventure for sure.
And that's what it eventually became for us, as Matt and I agreed we would not be able to complete the journey in the timeframe we originally intended. Instead, we took the next day—a gloriously cool and clear specimen of autumn in the wild—and hiked about 10 miles south to Mullica Camp. We spent the afternoon there in leisurely fashion, setting up our tent on the edge of the mighty Mullica River, gathering surrounding wood for a fire, and awarding ourselves to some well-earned relaxation.
At nightfall we sat around the fire and shared stories and laughed about our previous day's missteps, suddenly realizing the foolishness of what another friend would later call, "Taking the car you drive to the grocery store and suddenly trying to race it in the Indy 500."
The sky was also spectacular. Camping in one of the deepest parts of Wharton State Forrest means seeing stars that most New Jersey residents are only treated to in cinema. And this too is what hiking the Batona is all about. You find yourself getting in touch with wonders that often escape you in the day to day living of life. Sure, there are times when I'll step outside and think, Wow, the moon is really bright tonight. But we're all indoors for such a large majority of our lives that we fail to see the gradual shift of the moon or how its light changes throughout the night and adds new and interesting dimensions to the world around you. This is why you hike the Batona.
For the rest of our trip Matt and I continued to spontaneously philosophize about the purpose of doing a hike like this. Sure, there are moments when walking through the Pines may strike some as repetitive, desolate, perhaps even a bit lonely. But that, as Matt pointed out on our fourth and final day of hiking, is sort of the point.
"I think one of the reasons some people may be turned off to this type of backpacking," he said, "is because it's not destination oriented. It's not like we're going to arrive at some enormous vista or the Grand Canyon or a grove of redwoods at the end of this trail. We're just out for the sake of being out here, aren't we?"
Exactly, I said. Exactly.


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Engagement and Performance Management
Performance management is broken, such is the conclusion from Deloitte's Global Human Capital Trend 2014 research:
'Only 8 percent of companies report that their performance management process drives high levels of value, while 58 percent said it is not an effective use of time.'
Many Leaders, HR and Employee Engagement professionals worldwide echo the findings of this research and fear that 'new-age' initiatives such as employee wellbeing and digital enablement will not get off the ground if more fundamental issues such as effective performance management is not championed by leaders and embraced and implemented by managers and employees alike.
Our Purpose: We will explore the failings of current performance management processes and to understand why performance management itself seems to be 'underperforming' businesses, particularly in the UK.
Our activity: We will:
- look to correlate the relationship of best practice examples of performance management to high levels of employee engagement.
- identify and create a framework of best practice tools, case studies and behaviours to enable organisations to fully harness the potential benefits of effective performance management to share with researchers/ academics and practitioners.
- review the most frequently used performance processes, platforms and tools to identify common flaws and failings, as well as examples of what has been proven to work exceptionally well, and put forward new processes based on the outcomes of the above.
- research the human component in the failure of performance management processes, as well as the behaviours that seem to underpin success. These could include, but not be limited to:
- Understanding the link between the process and organisational performance
- The impact of on-going change on the individuals concerned
- Communication and engagement skills
- Management focus
- The behaviours being modelled by leaders, etc.
- identify methods and create recommendations to measure the effectiveness of revised approaches to performance management
This Group is led by Frazer Rendell, Director of E-Trinity Consultancy. Join this Group by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com


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Artist: DESTRUCTION
Album: "SPIRITUAL GENOCIDE VINYL (LP PIC)"
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Legendary German thrashers DESTRUCTION have just released their 30-years-anniversary album "Spiritual Genocide" on November 23th.
When Rock Hard Germany calls the anniversary album »Spiritual Genocide« "the most diversified DESTRUCTION record of the post-re-union phase", it doesn't only reflect the overall press reception perfectly, which ecstatically sways between joy at the presented trademark aggression and surprise in view of the atmospherically grooving parts, but also takes the exact line that Schmier and his band mates had in mind.
The press agrees:
Metal Hammer (D), Rating 6/7Rock Hard (D), Rating 8/10Legacy (D), Rating 14/15Metal.de, Rating 8/10Stormbringer.at, Rating 4/5Lords Of Metal (NL), Rating 91/100Metal Factory (CH), Rating 9.5/10
Be assured: When DESTRUCTION sound the charge once again before the end of the year, no thrash metal disciple will be able to escape from the fanned inferno. No matter how fast you'll run – the Mad Butcher will eventually get you all!
Seite A:
01. Exordium 02. Cyanide 03. Spiritual Genocide 04. Renegades 05. City Of Doom 06. No Signs Of Repentance
Seite B:
01. To Dust You Will Decay 02. Legacy Of The Past (Guest Version) 03. Carnivore 04. Riot Squad 05. Under Violent Sledge
Schmier | vocals, bassMike | guitarsVaaver | drums


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Johann Gottfried Zinn
Quick Facts
Johann Gottfried Zinn (/ˈtsɪn/) (December 6, 1727 – April 6, 1759) was a German anatomist and botanist and was a member of the Berlin Academy.
Johann Gottfried Zinn was born in Schwabach. Considering his short life span, Zinn made a great contribution to the study of anatomy. In his book Descriptio anatomica oculi humani, he provided the first detailed and comprehensive anatomy of the human eye.
In 1753 Johann Gottfried Zinn became director of the Botanic garden of the University of Göttingen, and in 1755, professor in the medical faculty.
In 1757 Zinn described the orchid genus Epipactis that belongs to the family Orchidaceae.
He died in Göttingen.
Botanist Carl Linnaeus designated a genus of flowers in the family Asteraceae native from Mexico as Zinnia in his honour.
He coined the anatomic terms:
- Zonula ciliaris Zinnii, now called Zonule of Zinn
- Anulus tendineus communis also known as Annulus of Zinn (or Circle of Zinn).
- A description of the flora around Göttingen 1753.
- Descriptio anatomica oculi humani iconibus illustrata 1765.


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The ubiquitous and persistent environmental contaminant 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) has been linked to developmental neurotoxicity in humans and experimental animals. TCDD, the most potent dioxin, mediates toxicity via binding to the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), a ligand-activated member of the bHLH/PAS transcription factor superfamily. These transcription factors serve as environmental sensors and transducers of physiological signals, particularly during development. The endogenous functions of AhR remain unknown. Certain bHLH/PAS proteins have been implicated in the regulation of cell fate determination, proliferation, and differentiation during neurogenesis. Therefore, it is conceivable that AhR plays similar roles. TCDD, through its high affinity binding and activation of the AhR, causes numerous biochemical and pathological abnormalities, particularly following developmental exposure. Deficits in cognitive function, locomotor development, and sexual behavior are some of the most sensitive endpoints associated with perinatal exposure to dioxin-like chemicals. However, the regional, cellular, and gene targets of AhR-mediated TCDD neurotoxicity remain unclear. Our laboratory has determined that cerebellar granule neuron precursors (GNPs) express high levels of transcriptionally active AhR during a critical period of cerebellar neurogenesis. The proposed studies are an extension of our previous work toward understanding the neurotoxic impact of AhR activation by TCDD in GNPs during cerebellar development. One approach will explore the manner in which inappropriate AhR activation by TCDD disrupts cerebellar neurogenesis. A second strategy will investigate the developmental role of AhR by defining the effects of AhR deletion on GNP maturation in mutant mice. Behavioral correlates of cerebellar function will be assessed in both of these models. Our preliminary studies demonstrate striking effects of TCDD on GNP proliferation, early differentiation, survival, and also on gene expression patterns associated with those processes. We have additional evidence that cerebellar growth is abnormal in AhR-/- mice. Together, these observations raise the intriguing hypothesis that TCDD disrupts cerebellar maturation by impeding AhR actions during GNP development. The primary hypothesis of the proposed studies is that AhR intrinsically controls the balance between GNP proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis during cerebellar development. It is postulated that AhR alters cell cycle regulation, transcription factor activity, and programmed cell death by modulating gene expression in immature GNPs. Consequently, TCDD exposure disrupts endogenous AhR-mediated spatiotemporal gene profiles associated with the proper formation of cerebellar cytoarchitecture, which, in turn, adversely impacts behavioral function. The findings from this research will be important to further our understanding of transcriptional and cell cycle regulation during GNP differentiation, which may lead to the identification of factors that contribute to the anatomical and functional deficits following exposure to dioxins.
The results from these studies will be important for understanding the adverse effects of dioxin and related chemicals on brain development. Dioxins have been associated with neurological deficits in children who have been exposed during the perinatal period. Moreover, the observations from these studies will offer insight into the cognitive and motor impairments that arise following exposure to dioxin, which is a widespread environmental contaminant.
|Dever, Daniel P; Adham, Zachariah O; Thompson, Bryan et al. (2016) Aryl hydrocarbon receptor deletion in cerebellar granule neuron precursors impairs neurogenesis. Dev Neurobiol 76:533-50
|Latchney, Sarah E; Hein, Amy M; O'Banion, M Kerry et al. (2013) Deletion or activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor alters adult hippocampal neurogenesis and contextual fear memory. J Neurochem 125:430-45
|Dever, Daniel P; Opanashuk, Lisa A (2012) The aryl hydrocarbon receptor contributes to the proliferation of human medulloblastoma cells. Mol Pharmacol 81:669-78
|Latchney, Sarah E; Lioy, Daniel T; Henry, Ellen C et al. (2011) Neural precursor cell proliferation is disrupted through activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. Stem Cells Dev 20:313-26
|Fox, Donald A; Opanashuk, Lisa; Zharkovsky, Aleksander et al. (2010) Gene-chemical interactions in the developing mammalian nervous system: Effects on proliferation, neurogenesis and differentiation. Neurotoxicology 31:589-97


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Tell It to the World by C. Mervyn Maxwell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The beginnings and the early development of the Seventh-day Adventist church spans continents and over a century that sees a handful of disappointed believers grow into a worldwide church with millions of members. Tell It to the World is a popular history by Mervyn Maxwell who used his long career teaching students to write church history in an engaging way.
The history begins with William Miller beginning his ministry about the coming of Christ in 1843-44 and how for years he remained in small towns until events brought his message to a much wider audience. The events in the United States and around the world at the same time that contributed to the Great Second Advent Movement before the Great Disappointment gave background not only to the times but the individuals who would soon shape the Seventh-day Adventist church. The aftermath of the Great Disappointment brought about division among Millerites and one small group formed what would become the Seventh-day Adventist church through Bible study and the Voice of Prophecy. The slow process of organizing the church along the concurrent beginnings of missionary work first around the nation and then across the world are interwoven together to show how both helped and harmed one another until a more centralized structure brought things into place. But this only took place after 16 years of crisis that brought reforms to the structure of the church that would allow it to continue to grow into the 20th Century.
Though the text is only 270 pages long, Maxwell packs a lot of information and anecdotes into the 32 chapters of the book that many Adventists would appreciate. Being a popular history, this book shies away from scholarly prose but Maxwell's professionalism makes sure that footnotes are peppered throughout the text so those who question statements or wanting to know more could examine his sources. As stated above Maxwell used his long career in teaching to write so his students would enjoy reading and because the book was first published in the late 1970s, the ease of reading holds up very well.
Tell It to the World gives readers an ease to read history of the beginnings and early development of the Seventh-day Adventist church that is informative and riveting. Mervyn Maxwell's book brings to focus a lot of Adventist history that many lifelong and new members of the church will find inspiring and instructive. If you're a Seventh-day Adventist and haven't read this before, I encourage you to do so.


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Morgan Young
Kokomo's CEO Program facilitator is Morgan Young. Morgan has been part of Kokomo's business community since 1984. His background includes business management, leadership, teaching, public speaking and entrepeneurship. In addition to his pastoral responsibilities at Northview Church, he and his wife, Sandra, launched Kokomo's award-winning Main Street Café in the fall of 2012. His podcast, The Good Table can be accessed on iTunes or here.
Morgan loves any opportunity to influence Kokomo's bright future, especially building into the next generation.


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I just begin to work with metabox.
I am able to add a metabox to pages in WP admin.
In this metabox, I need to:
1/display the list of all child pages of the page the user is currently editing, is possible using a tree
2/select pages in this tree, and if possible, by checking an item, sub items should also be checked
3/save the checked pages as metadata of the current page
Which pre built WP functions are best suited for each point?


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Lorry Driver Tricked Wife And Family Into Believing He Was SAS Hero
A lorry driver managed to trick his wife into believing he was a SAS hero.
Mike Izzard kept up the lie for 15 years and his wife Tracey never discovered the truth – she died of cancer in 2012, still believing he was a war hero.
He told her made-up stories about his miliatry service in the first Gulf War, Bosnia and Iraq, where he claimed he'd been tortured and had his knee-cap blown off, The Telegraph reports.
Izzard, from Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, was finally exposed by a vigilante group known as the Walter Mitty Hunters Club, who spend their time unmasking civilian imposters trying to steal valour from real life soldiers (these fakers are known as 'Walter Mittys' in military circles).
He came to the groups attention after posting several pictures online that claimed to show him 'in action'.
One stolen picture, supposedly of him 'flying on first HALO jump', is actually of a real life paratrooper called Lee Crichton. And in another one where he appears to be in uniform, he's actually wearing a fancy dress beret and holding a BB gun.
Izzard's stepdaughter Jemma Gyoury told the Sun she grew up believing her stepfather's lies:
He said he was in the SAS and claimed he had a metal knee. He would say he has seen his mates blown up and he claimed he had been tortured.
Apparently Ms Gyoury, along with her brother, became suspicious when they found a letter addressed to 'Corporal Izzard' in some paperwork which purported to be from the SAS base in Hereford.
It listed his 'service history', and claimed he was a 'class 1 sniper', but the Ministry of Defence confirmed they didn't have any record of Izzard ever being in the Armed Forces.
Ms Gyoury said:
It doesn't even have a letterhead. He used to get Mum to open his post. Maybe he posted it to himself so she could open it.
I felt betrayed. It made me think what Mum would have done. It would have been very embarrassing for her. It's a big thing to lie about.
Izzard is now employed by Jewson tool hire, and he tried to play down the lie when speaking to the Sun, saying: "It started off as a joke in the pub with a bird years ago. I put some pics on Facebook and the next thing I know I'm getting death threats."
Don't think anyone's going to believe that, mate…
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