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A gear is a component within a transmission device that transmits rotational force to another gear or device. A gear is different from a pulley in that a gear is a round wheel which has linkages ("teeth" or "cogs") that mesh with other gear teeth, allowing force to be fully transferred without slippage. Depending on their construction and arrangement, geared devices can transmit forces at different speeds, torques, or in a different direction, from the power source.
The most common situation is for a gear to mesh with another gear, but a gear can mesh with any device having compatible teeth, such as linear moving racks.
A gear's most important feature is that gears of unequal sizes (diameters) can be combined to produce a mechanical advantage, so that the rotational speed and torque of the second gear are different from that of the first. In the context of a particular machine, the term "gear" also refers to one particular arrangement of gears among other arrangements (such as "first gear"). Such arrangements are often given as a ratio, using the number of teeth or gear diameter as units. The term "gear" is also used in non-geared devices which perform equivalent tasks:
The interlocking of the teeth in a pair of meshing gears means that their circumferences necessarily move at the same rate of linear motion (eg., metres per second, or feet per minute). Since rotational speed (eg. measured in revolutions per second, revolutions per minute, or radians per second) is proportional to a wheel's circumferential speed divided by its radius, we see that the larger the radius of a gear, the slower will be its rotational speed, when meshed with a gear of given size and speed. The same conclusion can also be reached by a different analytical process: counting teeth. Since the teeth of two meshing gears are locked in a one to one correspondence, when all of the teeth of the smaller gear have passed the point where the gears meet -- ie., when the smaller gear has made one revolution -- not all of the teeth of the larger gear will have passed that point -- the larger gear will have made less than one revolution. The smaller gear makes more revolutions in a given period of time; it turns faster. The speed ratio is simply the reciprocal ratio of the numbers of teeth on the two gears.
(Speed A * Number of teeth A) = (Speed B * Number of teeth B)
This ratio is known as the gear ratio.
The torque ratio can be determined by considering the force that a tooth of one gear exerts on a tooth of the other gear. Consider two teeth in contact at a point on the line joining the shaft axes of the two gears. In general, the force will have both a radial and a circumferential component. The radial component can be ignored: it merely causes a sideways push on the shaft and does not contribute to turning. The circumferential component causes turning. The torque is equal to the circumferential component of the force times radius. Thus we see that the larger gear experiences greater torque; the smaller gear less. The torque ratio is equal to the ratio of the radii. This is exactly the inverse of the case with the velocity ratio. Higher torque implies lower velocity and vice versa. The fact that the torque ratio is the inverse of the velocity ratio could also be inferred from the law of conservation of energy. Here we have been neglecting the effect of friction on the torque ratio. The velocity ratio is truly given by the tooth or size ratio, but friction will cause the torque ratio to be actually somewhat less than the inverse of the velocity ratio.
In the above discussion we have made mention of the gear "radius". Since a gear is not a proper circle but a roughened circle, it does not have a radius. However, in a pair of meshing gears, each may be considered to have an effective radius, called the pitch radius, the pitch radii being such that smooth wheels of those radii would produce the same velocity ratio that the gears actually produce. The pitch radius can be considered sort of an "average" radius of the gear, somewhere between the outside radius of the gear and the radius at the base of the teeth.
The issue of pitch radius brings up the fact that the point on a gear tooth where it makes contact with a tooth on the mating gear varies during the time the pair of teeth are engaged; also the direction of force may vary. As a result, the velocity ratio (and torque ratio) is not, actually, in general, constant, if one considers the situation in detail, over the course of the period of engagement of a single pair of teeth. The velocity and torque ratios given at the beginning of this section are valid only "in bulk" -- as long-term averages; the values at some particular position of the teeth may be different.
It is in fact possible to choose tooth shapes that will result in the velocity ratio also being absolutely constant -- in the short term as well as the long term. In good quality gears this is usually done, since velocity ratio fluctuations cause undue vibration, and put additional stress on the teeth, which can cause tooth breakage under heavy loads at high speed. Constant velocity ratio may also be desirable for precision in instrumentation gearing, clocks and watches. The involute tooth shape is one that results in a constant velocity ratio, and is the most commonly used of such shapes today.
The automobile transmission allows selection between gears to give various mechanical advantages.
An external gear is one with the teeth formed on the outer surface of a cylinder or cone. Conversely, an internal gear is one with the teeth formed on the inner surface of a cylinder or cone. For bevel gears, an internal gear is one with the pitch angle exceeding 90 degrees.
Helical gears offer a refinement over spur gears. The leading edges of the teeth are not parallel to the axis of rotation, but are set at an angle. Since the gear is curved, this angling causes the tooth shape to be a segment of a helix. The angled teeth engage more gradually than do spur gear teeth. This causes helical gears to run more smoothly and quietly than spur gears. Helical gears also offer the possibility of using non-parallel shafts. A pair of helical gears can be meshed in two ways: with shafts oriented at either the sum or the difference of the helix angles of the gears. These configurations are referred to as parallel or crossed, respectively. The parallel configuration is the more mechanically sound. In it, the helices of a pair of meshing teeth meet at a common tangent, and the contact between the tooth surfaces will, generally, be a curve extending some distance across their face widths. In the crossed configuration, the helices do not meet tangentially, and only point contact is achieved between tooth surfaces. Because of the small area of contact, crossed helical gears can only be used with light loads.
Quite commonly, helical gears come in pairs where the helix angle of one is the negative of the helix angle of the other; such a pair might also be referred to as having a right-handed helix and a left-handed helix of equal angles. If such a pair is meshed in the 'parallel' mode, the two equal but opposite angles add to zero: the angle between shafts is zero -- that is, the shafts are parallel. If the pair is meshed in the 'crossed' mode, the angle between shafts will be twice the absolute value of either helix angle.
Note that 'parallel' helical gears need not have parallel shafts -- this only occurs if their helix angles are equal but opposite. The 'parallel' in 'parallel helical gears' must refer, if anything, to the (quasi) parallelism of the teeth, not to the shaft orientation.
As mentioned at the start of this section, helical gears operate more smoothly than do spur gears. With parallel helical gears, each pair of teeth first make contact at a single point at one side of the gear wheel; a moving curve of contact then grows gradually across the tooth face. It may span the entire width of the tooth for a time. Finally, it recedes until the teeth break contact at a single point on the opposite side of the wheel. Thus force is taken up and released gradually. With spur gears, the situation is quite different. When a pair of teeth meet, they immediately make line contact across their entire width. This causes impact stress and noise. Spur gears make a characteristic whine at high speeds and can not take as much torque as helical gears because their teeth are receiving impact blows. Whereas spur gears are used for low speed applications and those situations where noise control is not a problem, the use of helical gears is indicated when the application involves high speeds, large power transmission, or where noise abatement is important. The speed is considered to be high when the pitch line velocity (that is, the circumferential velocity) exceeds 5000 ft/min. A disadvantage of helical gears is a resultant thrust along the axis of the gear, which needs to be accommodated by appropriate thrust bearings, and a greater degree of sliding friction between the meshing teeth, often addressed with specific additives in the lubricant.
Where the oppositely angled teeth meet in the middle of a herringbone gear, the alignment may be such that tooth tip meets tooth tip, or the alignment may be staggered, so that tooth tip meets tooth trough. The latter type of alignment results in what is known as a Wuest type herringbone gear.
With the older method of fabrication, herringbone gears had a central channel separating the two oppositely-angled courses of teeth. This was necessary to permit the shaving tool to run out of the groove. The development of the Sykes gear shaper now makes it possible to have continuous teeth, with no central gap.
Bevel gears are essentially conically shaped, although the actual gear does not extend all the way to the vertex (tip) of the cone that bounds it. With two bevel gears in mesh, the vertices of their two cones lie on a single point, and the shaft axes also intersect at that point. The angle between the shafts can be anything except zero or 180 degrees. Bevel gears with equal numbers of teeth and shaft axes at 90 degrees are called miter gears.
The teeth of a bevel gear may be straight-cut as with spur gears, or they may be cut in a variety of other shapes. 'Spiral bevel gears' have teeth that are both curved along their (the tooth's) length; and set at an angle, analogously to the way helical gear teeth are set at an angle compared to spur gear teeth. 'Zero bevel gears' have teeth which are curved along their length, but not angled. Spiral bevel gears have the same advantages and disadvantages relative to their straight-cut cousins as helical gears do to spur gears. Straight bevel gears are generally used only at speeds below 5 m/s (1000 ft/min), or, for small gears, 1000 r.p.m.
A crown gear or contrate gear is a particular form of bevel gear whose teeth project at right angles to the plane of the wheel; in their orientation the teeth resemble the points on a crown. A crown gear can only mesh accurately with another bevel gear, although crown gears are sometimes seen meshing with spur gears. A crown gear is also sometimes meshed with an escapement such as found in mechanical clocks.
A worm is a gear that resembles a screw. It is a species of helical gear, but its helix angle is usually somewhat large(ie., somewhat close to 90 degrees) and its body is usually fairly long in the axial direction; and it is these attributes which give it its screw like qualities. A worm is usually meshed with an ordinary looking, disk-shaped gear, which is called the "gear", the "wheel", the "worm gear", or the "worm wheel". The prime feature of a worm-and-gear set is that it allows the attainment of a high gear ratio with few parts, in a small space. Helical gears are, in practice, limited to gear ratios of 10:1 and under; worm gear sets commonly have gear ratios between 10:1 and 100:1, and occasionally 500:1. In worm-and-gear sets, where the worm's helix angle is large, the sliding action between teeth can be considerable, and the resulting frictional loss causes the efficiency of the drive to be usually less than 90 percent, sometimes less than 50 percent, which is far less than other types of gears.
The distinction between a worm and a helical gear is made when at least one tooth persists for a full 360 degree turn around the helix. If this occurs, it is a 'worm'; if not, it is a 'helical gear'. A worm may have as few as one tooth. If that tooth persists for several turns around the helix, the worm will appear, superficially, to have more than one tooth, but what one in fact sees is the same tooth reappearing at intervals along the length of the worm. The usual screw nomenclature applies: a one-toothed worm is called "single thread" or "single start"; a worm with more than one tooth is called "multiple thread" or "multiple start".
We should note that the helix angle of a worm is not usually specified. Instead, the lead angle, which is equal to 90 degrees minus the helix angle, is given.
In a worm-and-gear set, the worm can always drive the gear. However, if the gear attempts to drive the worm, it may or may not succeed. Particularly if the lead angle is small, the gear's teeth may simply lock against the worm's teeth, because the force component circumferential to the worm is not sufficient to overcome friction. Whether this will happen depends on a function of several parameters; however, an approximate rule is that if the tangent of the lead angle is greater than the coefficient of friction, the gear will not lock. Worm-and-gear sets that do lock in the above manner are called "self locking". The self locking feature can be an advantage, as for instance when it is desired to set the position of a mechanism by turning the worm and then have the mechanism hold that position. An example of this is the tuning mechanism on some types of stringed instruments.
If the gear in a worm-and-gear set is an ordinary helical gear only point contact between teeth will be achieved. If medium to high power transmission is desired, the tooth shape of the gear is modified to achieve more intimate contact with the worm thread. A noticeable feature of most such gears is that the tooth tops are concave, so that the gear partly envelopes the worm. A further development is to make the worm concave (viewed from the side, perpendicular to its axis) so that it partly envelopes the gear as well; this is called a cone-drive or Hindley worm.
A right hand helical gear or right hand worm is one in which the teeth twist clockwise as they recede from an observer looking along the axis. The designations, right hand and left hand, are the same as in the long established practice for screw threads, both external and internal. Two external helical gears operating on parallel axes must be of opposite hand. An internal helical gear and its pinion must be of the same hand.It is used to get high velocity ratio.
A left hand helical gear or left hand worm is one in which the teeth twist counterclockwise as they recede from an observer looking along the axis.
A rack is a toothed bar or rod that can be thought of as a sector gear with an infinitely large radius of curvature. Torque can be converted to linear force by meshing a rack with a pinion: the pinion turns; the rack moves in a straight line. Such a mechanism is used in automobiles to convert the rotation of the steering wheel into the left-to-right motion of the tie rod(s). Racks also feature in the theory of gear geometry, where, for instance, the tooth shape of an interchangeable set of gears may be specified for the rack (infinite radius), and the tooth shapes for gears of particular actual radii then derived from that. The rack and pinion gear type is employed in a rack railway.
In an ordinary gear train, the gears rotate but their axes are stationary. An epicyclic gear train is one in which one or more of the axes also moves. Examples are the sun and planet gear system invented by the company of James Watt, in which the axis of the planet gear revolves around the central sun gear; and the differential gear system used to drive the wheels of automobiles, in which the axis of the central bevel pinion is turned "end over end" by the ring gear, the drive to the wheels being taken off by bevel gears meshing with the central bevel pinion. With the differential gearing, the sum of the two wheel speeds is fixed, but how it is divided between the two wheels is undetermined, so the outer wheel can run faster and the inner wheel slower on corners.
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A point of contact is any point at which two tooth profiles touch each other.
A line of contact is a line or curve along which two tooth surfaces are tangent to each other.
The line of action is the path of action for involute gears. It is the straight line passing through the pitch point and tangent to both base circles.
The plane of action is the surface of action for involute, parallel axis gears with either spur or helical teeth. It is tangent to the base cylinders.
Zone of action (contact zone) for involute, parallel-axis gears with either spur or helical teeth, is the rectangular area in the plane of action bounded by the length of action and the effective face width.
The path of contact is the curve on either tooth surface along which theoretical single point contact occurs during the engagement of gears with crowned tooth surfaces or gears that normally engage with only single point contact.
Length of action is the distance on the line of action through which the point of contact moves during the action of the tooth profile.
Arc of approach is the arc of the pitch circle through which a tooth profile moves from its beginning of contact until the point of contact arrives at the pitch point.
Limit diameter is the diameter on a gear at which the line of action intersects the maximum (or minimum for internal pinion) addendum circle of the mating gear. This is also referred to as the start of active profile, the start of contact, the end of contact, or the end of active profile.
Face advance is the distance on a pitch circle through which a helical or spiral tooth moves from the position at which contact begins at one end of the tooth trace on the pitch surface to the position where contact ceases at the other end.
There are several outcomes of gear shifting in motor vehicles. In the case of air pollution emissions, there are higher pollutant emissions generated in the lower gears, when the engine is working harder than when higher gears have been attained. In the case of vehicle noise emissions, there are higher sound levels emitted when the vehicle is engaged in lower gears. This fact has been utilized in analyzing vehicle generated sound since the late 1960s, and has been incorporated into the simulation of urban roadway noise and corresponding design of urban noise barriers along roadways.
A profile is one side of a tooth in a cross section between the outside circle and the root circle. Usually a profile is the curve of intersection of a tooth surface and a plane or surface normal to the pitch surface, such as the transverse, normal, or axial plane.
The fillet curve (root fillet) is the concave portion of the tooth profile where it joins the bottom of the tooth space.2
As mentioned near the beginning of the article, the attainment of a non fluctuating velocity ratio is dependent on the profile of the teeth. Friction and wear between two gears is also dependent on the tooth profile. There are a great many tooth profiles that will give a constant velocity ratio, and in many cases, given an arbitrary tooth shape, it is possible to develop a tooth profile for the mating gear that will give a constant velocity ratio. However, two constant velocity tooth profiles have been by far the most commonly used in modern times. They are the cycloid and the involute. The cycloid was more common until the late 1800s; since then the involute has largely superseded it, particularly in drive train applications. The cycloid is in some ways the more interesting and flexible shape; however the involute has two advantages: it is easier to manufacture, and it permits the center to center spacing of the gears to vary over some range without ruining the constancy of the velocity ratio. Cycloidal gears only work properly if the center spacing is exactly right. Cycloidal gears are still used in mechanical clocks.
Undercut is a condition in generated gear teeth when any part of the fillet curve lies inside of a line drawn tangent to the working profile at its point of juncture with the fillet. Undercut may be deliberately introduced to facilitate finishing operations. With undercut the fillet curve intersects the working profile. Without undercut the fillet curve and the working profile have a common tangent.
Pitch is the distance between a point on one tooth and the corresponding point on an adjacent tooth. It is a dimension measured along a line or curve in the transverse, normal, or axial directions. The use of the single word "pitch" without qualification may be ambiguous, and for this reason it is preferable to use specific designations such as transverse circular pitch, normal base pitch, axial pitch.
Transverse circular pitch is the circular pitch in the transverse plane.
Axial pitch is linear pitch in an axial plane and in a pitch surface. In helical gears and worms, axial pitch has the same value at all diameters. In gearing of other types, axial pitch may be confined to the pitch surface and may be a circular measurement.
The term axial pitch is preferred to the term linear pitch. The axial pitch of a helical worm and the circular pitch of its wormgear are the same.
Base pitch in an involute gear is the pitch on the base circle or along the line of action. Corresponding sides of involute gear teeth are parallel curves, and the base pitch is the constant and fundamental distance between them along a common normal in a transverse plane.
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Numerous nonferrous alloys, cast irons, powder-metallurgy and even plastics are used in the manufacture of gears. However steels are most commonly used because of their high strength to weight ratio and low cost. Plastic is commonly used where cost or weight is a concern. A properly designed plastic gear can replace steel in many cases; It often has desirable properties. They can tolerate dirt, low speed meshing, and "skipping" quite well. Manufacturers have employed plastic to make consumer items affordable. This includes copy machines, optical storage devices, VCRs, cheap dynamos, consumer audio equipment, servo motors, and printers.
Circular thickness is the length of arc between the two sides of a gear tooth, on the specified datum circle.
Transverse circular thickness is the circular thickness in the transverse plane.
Chordal thickness is the length of the chord that subtends a circular thickness arc in the plane normal to the pitch helix. Any convenient measuring diameter may be selected, not necessarily the standard pitch diameter.
The rack shift is the displacement of the tool datum line from the reference cylinder, made non-dimensional by dividing by the normal module. It is used to specify the tooth thickness.
Span measurement is the measurement of the distance across several teeth in a normal plane. As long as the measuring device has parallel measuring surfaces that contact on an unmodified portion of the involute, the measurement will be along a line tangent to the base cylinder. It is used to determine tooth thickness.
Stub teeth are those in which the working depth is less than 2.000 divided by the normal diametral pitch.
Countries which have adopted the metric system generally use the module system. As a result, the term module is usually understood to mean the pitch diameter in millimeters divided by the number of teeth. When the module is based upon inch measurements, it is known as The English Module to avoid confusion with the metric module. Module is a direct dimension, whereas diametral pitch is an inverse dimension (like 'threads per inch'). Thus, if the pitch diameter of a gear is 40 millimeters and the number of teeth 20, the module is 2, which means that there are 2 millimeters of pitch diameter for each tooth.


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Prior to joining the faculty at UC Davis, Professor Horsley held research and development positions at Dicon Fiberoptics, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and Onix Microsystems. His research interests include microfabricated sensors and actuators with applications in optical MEMS, communication, displays, and physical and biological sensors.
Professor Horsley is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the UC Davis College of Engineering's Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
Professor Horsley received B.S. and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992, 1994, and 1998 respectively.
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The PocketFinder personal device will provide GPS location information as long as it's not in sleep mode - regardless of whether or not it's in the charger. Some customers have purchased 12 volt vehicle chargers and plugged them into their vehicle's cigarette lighter to charge their device. While this is not a recommended course of action, the device should still locate as long as the car is in motion.
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Final Battle is Ring of Honor's Wrestlemania. Which is why I decided to do this as a booking challenge. I havn't done an ROH booking challenge in some time, which is why it is now time to give some love to ROH. 10 match limit max as always. So you know how this works, give your best card possible as usual. For those who don't understand the point of the booking challenge, please read the explaination
Several people have mentioned that news/results don't belong in the blogs section. With their thoughts in mind from now on I'm going to compile the weekly news and put it in one, maybe two posts per week. That way the news will still be on the site, but won't clutter things up sorta speak.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention yesterday that Hiroshi Tanahashi was elected into the 2013 Wrestling
Updated 11-12-2013 at 04:19 PM by SUZUKI-GUN
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11/9, Bodymaker Colosseum Osaka. 6,400 in attendance. Sold out!
Dark Match. Yujiro Takahashi, YOSHI-HASHI, Forever Hooligans vs. Captain New Japan, BUSHI, KUSHIDA, Manabu Nakanishi - Nothing match. The big spot was Nakanishi doing a plancha. That got a big pop even though it looked terrible. The Hooligans hit the Contract Killer
It is that time of the year again where I hand out awards to the superstars who deserve it. It is the WWE Slammy awards 2013! This has been happening yearly on Raw since 08. Not every award given we agree with. This is my chance to speak my opinion. Give my view on the Slammy's!! Here is Slammy awards 2013:
Superstar/wrestler of the year: Daniel Bryan-No superstar has made an impact
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NJPW held a press conference yesterday and announced that they will be returning to the Yokohama Arena for the first time in 11 years on May 25, 2014. The arena has a built-in seating capacity of over 11,000 with the possibility to add another 6,000 in floor seats. Of course that number will change due to a ring and entrance
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Korakuen Hall Tokyo, 6/11. 1,950 spectators (sellout!)
1) Super Jr. Tag Tournament 2013 - Semi-Final: Gedo & Jado vs. Matt & Nick Jackson
Winner: Nick (9:31) via pinfall on Gedo.
~ The Young Bucks advance to the final match.
(2) Super Jr. Tag Tournament 2013 - Semi-Final: Valiente [CMLL]
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This is the card for the 11/6 ''Road to Power Struggle'' iPPV from Korakuen Hall in Toyko. It's will have the semi-finals and final for the Super Jr. Tag Team Tournament and is the go home show for the ''Power Struggle'' iPPV on 11/9. The show will be available on www.ustream.tv/njpw for $15 live, and will be replayed for a couple of
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Gifu Industrial Hall, 2000 in attendance.
(1) Jushin Thunder Liger & Yohei Komatsu vs. Valiente & Sho Tanaka
Winner: Valiente (10:06) with the Valiente Special on Komatsu.
(2) KUSHIDA & BUSHI vs. Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov
Winner: Romero (10:06) following the Contract Killer on
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New Japan Pro Wrestling are currently looking for an English announce team to commentate a new show that will be airing in Singapore. At this time there's no word if the iPPV"s will be available in English as well.
***I doubt this means we'll be seeing NJPW on North American TV anytime soon, but I gotta think this will broaden their
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10/27, Sumo Hall, Tokyo. 2563 in attendance.
1. Kenso pinned Mr. 450 (who wrestled as Mr. 450 Hammett in Puerto Rico and Chicago indies) in 3:43.
2. Masao Inoue & Hikaru Sato (Pancrase) beat Kazushi Miyamoto (Tenryu Project) & Nobutaka Araya (just coming out of retirement) in 10:06 when Inoue pinned Araya.
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Spurned SEAL visits Washington
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama also renewed his vow to help the country's veterans.
"We will keep faith with our veterans – investing in world-class care, including mental health care, for our wounded warriors; supporting our military families; and giving our veterans the benefits, education and job opportunities they have earned," the president said.
Since the SEAL's account was published Monday morning, a number of media outlets, including Stars and Stripes, have questioned why bin Laden's killer lacked health insurance. The VA offers the option of virtually free medical care to all honorably discharged Iraq and Afghanistan veterans for the first five years after their discharge.
On Tuesday afternoon, Tommy Sowers, the VA's assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, tweeted his thanks to Stars and Stripes national reporter Megan McCloskey, who wrote a blog challenging the claim that the SEAL didn't have access to health care.
CIR has since issued a correction, expanding on the availability of health care during the five years after discharge: "The Department of Veterans Affairs offers health care during that period and not just for service-related injuries."
According to Bronstein, the SEAL told members of Congress that he was not aware of the benefit, which does not extend to family members. Nationwide, VA documents show that nearly 681,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans discharged from the military have not sought health care from the VA. According to a study last year from the Urban Institute, 291,000 are uninsured – with neither private health insurance nor VA coverage.
Since the story ran Monday morning, CIR has received more than 200 emails from individuals offering help to the SEAL and his family. They ranged from a reader in Washington state who offered the man use of a home outside Seattle, to a job offer from a captain in the Bakersfield, Calif., fire department, to an opportunity to be part of pit teams at NASCAR races.
But bin Laden's killer made it clear he hopes to raise awareness about the straits faced by other special operations veterans but does not want any handouts.
"I think that's cool, but this is not about me," he said of the many offers.
On Tuesday afternoon, Sowers, the assistant VA secretary, tweeted his willingness to help the SEAL, who still is waiting for the agency to approve his disability claim. Sowers is a former Green Beret, deployed twice to Iraq.
"If 'Shooter' wants direct help from me," he tweeted, "DM (direct message) me."
Bobby Caina Calvan contributed to this story from Washington.
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Recently, Runway Boutique presented its new renovations with a look party and fashion show.
The boutique, located on Highway 12, next to Umi, has been open for a little over a year. They offer fashion forward trendy apparel, shoes and accessories at affordable prices.
MSU Fashion Board was there to model their latest shipments and fall trends.
After the show, food and wine was served and the store was open to shop the latest looks.
Philip Vanderleest was there to play the perfect soundtrack for the party and fashion show.
Chelsea Renee Rice, daughter of Leo and tanya Rice of Starkville, has been selected as a finalist in the Pre-Teen Mississippi Scholarship and Recognition Program to be held this weekend at the Summit Center in Tupelo.
Rice is a student at East Oktibbeha County Elementary School. She is the granddaughter of the late John Tate Sr., Della Tate, the late Leo Rice Sr., and Annie Rice.
Mr. and Mrs. David McGee of Starkville are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Candace Lynne McGee, to James Donald Feazell of St. Martin, son of Mr. Scott Feazell of St. Martin and Mrs. Emily Best Feazell of Ocean Springs.
Candace is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McGee of Starkville and Mr. and Mrs. Don Hall of Brandon.
Emily Jean Rose and Mac Alan Blaine were united in marriage in an afternoon ceremony on the twenty seventh of February at Luckett Lodge Chapel in Brandon, Mississippi.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Rose of Starkville. She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Irene Ray and the late Mr. Elbert Ray, Sr. of Sturgis and the late Peary and Alma Rose of Starkville. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mac Blaine of McCool. He is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. James K. Godfrey of McAdams and the late Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Blaine of McCool.
Curtis and Flora Moore are happy to announce the engagement and upcoming wedding of their daughter, Latasha Shanet Moore to Donald Bernard Taylor, son of Nelia Mae Taylor and Tom Hibbler.
The wedding is set for 3 p.m. August 7, 2010, at Sand Creek Chapel Church in Starkville.
Mann and Mandy Conrad of Starkville are happy to announce the birth of their son, Sawyer Mann Conrad at 1:38 a.m. June 28, 2010, at OCH Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 lbs. 3 oz. and was 20 inches long.
He is welcomed home by his big sister, Piper Conrad.
Grandparents include Tommy and Donna Gladney of Eupora, Phillip and Paulette Lewis of Eupora and Terry and Laura Conrad of Ripley, Tenn.
Shannon and Erin Hammett of Starkville are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Kendall Reese Hammett on June 29, 2010, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Golden Triangle. She was 6 lbs. 12 oz. and was 20 inches long.
She is welcomed home by her big sister Katelyn Hammett.
Grandparents include Wendell and Liz Ladner of Madison, and Donnie and Beverly Hammett of Starkville.
Great-grandparents include Mary Ladner of Madison, Lois Donaldson of Columbus, and Emma Hammett of Grandbury, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Burtt of Ocean Springs are pleased to announce the engagement of Mrs. Burtt's daughter, Lindsey Morgan Phillips, to Andrew Mark Abernathy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Abernathy of Starkville.
Phillips is also the daughter of Preston Phillips of Ocean Springs.
The bride-elect, a graduate of the University of Mississippi, is the managing editor of At Home Tennessee magazine in Memphis, Tenn.
There is absolutely nothing as beautiful and as showy as one single sunflower... except a whole field of hundreds of flowering Sunflowers right here in Oktibbeha County, Starkville, Mississippi State University. Sunflowers are like people cause "sunflowers stand out!'
HATTIESBURG – Paige Watson, representing Starkville/Oktibbeha County, met with Dr. Martha Saunders, President of the University of Southern Mississippi, during the MissHospitality Welcome Party held at the president's home on Monday, July 26th. She was one of 29 contestants who are taking part in the 61st Mississippi Miss Hospitality Pageant, July 25th – July 31st at the Saenger Theater in downtown Hattiesburg.


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I purchased this to use at nights with my Blue skincare line. Oddly, when I use this after my astringent, it balls and rolls up leaving little pieces of rolled up moisturizer on my face. If I use this product, then I cannot use the astringent before it.
I recently purchased the Ultra Facial Oil Free Lotion and Blue Astringent Herbal Lotion. The lotion seems to react and leaves clumps all over. Should I exchange the toner/astringent or lotion?
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Week 7: As I Lay Dying
1) "As I Lay Dying" is written from the perspectives of 15 different characters. From this, we sometimes see conflicting opinions or interpretations of a single event or character. How does this add more depth to the novel?
2)From Question 1, try and find a moment where characters describe the same event or character in a different way. Briefly explain the situation, then tell us what you think the "real truth" is. Why do you think so?
3) Take one character from the novel and write an in-depth description: what do you think of them? What are they trying to accomplish in the novel? What is their opinion of the other characters? etc?
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Join Miss Kristine and Miss Alex every Wednesday for quality time with your baby or toddler. Enjoy songs, stories, fingerplays, games, and so much more during this lapsit program. Duffy the Storytime Bear is looking forward to meeting you under the parachute. Older siblings are welcome to stick around for Family Storytime right after.
We'll be learning to count this spring. Can you count to four?
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Join Miss Kristine and Miss Alex every Wednesday for a fun-filled hour of stories, songs, and crafts. This program is geared toward a wide range of ages, including families with toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary-aged children.
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Top Gear drives Sebastien Loeb*
*In actual fact, a cardboard cut-out of him. In honour of his 9th WRC title, relive our drive in his old C4
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"Don't worry about any of these buttons on the steering wheel. To start it, flick this ignition lever forward then press that button. Make sure you're in neutral. The display's up there. Pull back this lever to go up a gear, push away to go down."
This is all said to me in a thick French accent. It belongs to Sebastien Loeb, five-time World Rally champion, and he's explaining his own Citroen C4 WRC car to me, just before I head out and drive it on a gravel stage in southern France.
I'm terrified. We arrived here five minutes before, a man has driven me once around the stage in a Citroen van, I've had time to put on some overalls, the head of Citroen Racing PR has given me the 'please don't crash our car' chat, and then those instructions from Sebastien.
"That's it?" I ask incredulously. A Gallic shrug, a smile, he leans in quickly to check the handbrake is off, then slams the door shut. Oh dear.
It's the lack of knowledge that's scary. What's the clutch like? Does the C4 turn over quickly? Do I dare try and figure out how that handbrake works? Having Loeb standing there watching me trying to remember what order to press the buttons in doesn't exactly help.
It won't fire instantaneously and I can report that the clutch is, well, a sod. Really, really sharp biting point and you need more revs than you'd think. It's not the smoothest getaway I've ever managed as the car lurches from too much right foot to too little, but it's rolling without stalling.
Now where? Someone points to a bush. Beyond that is the stage. So in a £750,000-plus rally car, my first significant act is to drive over a shrub.
But I'm mightily honoured to be sitting here. I'm in the most successful rally car in history, at its most technologically-advanced point before rule changes make it simpler, with the world's most successful rally driver watching. Nerves, though, are forgotten as I lean on the accelerator for the first time - there's a purity to the power delivery that shocks, but oddly the engine isn't what sets this car apart. The 2.0-litre turbo-charged motor manages an impressive 315bhp, but some road cars are more surprising in raw pace.
No, it's all about the ride in this C4 - the way this thing soaks up all the bumps is astonishing. It flows silkily over them. Of course, the brakes are superb (even on ice you can generate about 1g of braking) and I never get anywhere near locking them up, but the amount of feel coming back from the chassis is wonderful. I've driven historic racing cars on tarmac where I've got less idea of what's going on underneath me than I did pootling around on gravel in this C4.
Understeer never even crosses my mind. Nor does changing gear present too many problems, it's a clinical process with a no-questions-asked reaction from the car. You command, it obeys - just pull or push the lever next to the steering wheel. This takes a bit of getting used to. The first time I went for a downshift I tugged at fresh air on the left-hand side. Like you would in a normal car. Panic. Curse. Can't believe I've forgotten how to work this thing already. Pull the only lever to hand. That's changed up a cog. Push it away. Better.
But once you've figured this out, everything about the C4 is so intuitive you can just get on with driving. Brake in a straight line, one cog down on the gearbox, turn in, apply the power, feel the back end step out slightly, immediately correct. I emerged after two laps thinking that no driving experience could ever better this.
But a career in world rallying doesn't beckon. Why? A masterclass from Loeb as he jumps in the driver's seat and shows me the real potential of the Citroen.
The comfort level isn't quite the same. My neck aches after a while and the belts are having to work hard to keep me held in place. Sebastien is flat out, and tells me later on that he was close to ultimate pace, yet he glances across to make sure I'm OK, tightens his own belts.
The high-speed stuff is what amazes when Loeb is driving. There's one particular corner where the car goes light over a crest and there's an adverse camber, but you never feel like the Citroen will break away. Loeb's faith that the C4 will stick when he launches it into that section is awe-inspiring. There's no hesitation and his input movements on the steering wheel are calm.
He's not fighting the car. Malcolm Wilson, boss of the Ford team, told me a while ago that Loeb is the smoothest driver in the championship. "If you throw around a modern WRC car, you'll be slower. It's why McRae wasn't as fast towards the end of his career, because the cars didn't suit his style." Sebastien is sideways, butnot drifting sideways. Enough to get around the corner quickly, but not so much that it's too spectacular. It looks brutish from the outside, but inside is tranquil.
Loeb's feet dance on the pedals in places and are harsh elsewhere. His left-foot braking is so hard I'm thrown against the belts, his hands whirl the wheel, but they're not hurried. He's not throwing himself around in the seat and his body is remarkably static considering how fast we're going.
Remarkably, there's a strong impression of delicacy and sensitivity to Loeb's driving. Not in a metrosexual way - he is French, after all... but he's gentle with the C4. The way he controls the clutch at pullaway is verging on tender. Tiny adjustments. When he pulls the handbrake to induce a slide, he only tweaks it.
To be able to witness Sebastien Loeb, the world's greatest rally driver, in his office doing what he does best, can never be topped. You can't sit next to an F1 driver in an F1 car. Afterwards, Loeb shakes me by the hand. "Thank you not crashing my car. What did you think of it?" I swoon slightly and try to sound knowledgeable. Sebastien Loeb has just asked for my opinion. Now I can retire from WRC happy.
Words: Piers Ward
Photography: Stephen Perry/ Citroen Racing
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DRP grant boosts Friar's faceliftBy Gordon Dritschilo
Staff Writer | February 02,2013One of developer Joseph Giancolas buildings is the latest beneficiary of the Downtown Rutland Partnerships facade grant program.
While the previous grants have gone to active businesses, the former site of Friars Tavern at 56 Strongs Ave. is vacant.
Hes fixing it up to be able to market it, Michael Coppinger, DRP executive director, said of the $5,000 award. His plan is that a much-needed facelift will help attract a new tenant.
The partnership created the program with $30,000 of the $100,000 it was paid by Green Mountain Power as part of the utilitys merger with Central Vermont Public Service Corp. The latest award means $16,440 has been claimed from the facade fund.
Giancola said the grant made a difference in his decision to pursue improvements to the building, which has been vacant for about six months.
I had a couple people who rented it, he said. It would be open for a month or two and then they closed it. The grant is about a third of the cost. It helps. It makes me want to do it it convinced me to do it.
Previous grants went to Teds Pizza on State Street, Bloomfo Website Design on Cottage Street and the Paramount Theatre.
Grants of up to $5,000, requiring a 50 percent match from the recipient, are available for work on building exteriors in the downtown special benefits district. Work on the Strongs Avenue building will include new paint, new windows and a new front door along with repairs to the cornice on the storefront.
There used to be beautiful windows in there, Giancola said, noting that the building was originally a grocery store. Now, you cant look in the thing. Its like a prison. Itll look like a historic building like the rest of downtown.
While the facade program got off to a slow start, Coppinger said interest has steadily increased.
Every time we announce weve awarded another one, my phone and email jam with inquiries, he said. Now that were in a new year and the warm weather isnt far off, I expect well see more.
Coppinger said the partnership may try to find a way to continue the program beyond the GMP donation.
Well re-evaluate and look to see if we can allocate funds from somewhere else once these funds are spent, he said.
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A fruit machine is the UK equivalent of a USA slot machine.The concept is the same; you spin the reel and try to make a winning combination by matching up symbols on the pay-reel. Some combinations will also reward you with features such as free spins, which give you a free, no-risk bet on the reel, and multipliers, that will multiply your original bet x2, x4, x10 and so on.
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There are a number of important differences between fruit machines and slot games. One of the most appealing things about UK fruit machines is that you are given a lot more influence as a player on the spin's outcome. Fruit machines come with features that let you control the reels, which gives you more of an input into the game. This heightens not only the experience of playing but also the chances of winning. The rewards themselves are also very attractive, as you are frequently given more chances to increase your payout by playing fruit machines and to get your hands on some of the 'super jackpots' on offer!
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white, subacid, peento; GGC; fruit skin tears at stem end; delicious and aromatic; nice white flesh; tip better than Galaxy
Plant Patent #17118, 2006. Galactica was selected at Jackson Springs, NC in 1998 by D.J. Werner and L. Snelling. It originated from the 1995 cross of North Carolina breeding selection NCN-4 x Hangchow. NCN-4 originated from a 1987 cross of Contender peach x Fantasia nectarine. Hangchow is a low acid, white flesh saucer (flat shape) peach. It was derived as a seedling selection from a Chinese saucer peach of unknown origin. Fantasia is a high quality, yellow flesh, freestone nectarine released by the USDA-ARS in Fresno, CA in 1974. Fantasia was chosen as a parent based on its high quality fruit, bright red skin color, and high fruit firmness. Contender is a high quality, cold-hardy peach released by the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service in 1987. Seedling progeny from these crosses were grown out and evaluated at the Sandhills Research Station, Jackson Springs, NC. Galactica was tested for 5 years in advanced trials at the Sandhills Research Station in Jackson Springs, NC. Galactica ripens about July 2, about 2-3 weeks before Contender. Galactica blooms about 1 week before Contender; the chilling requirement to satisfy flower bud endodormancy is about 800 hours below 4C. Although Galactica flowers earlier than many commercial peach cultivars, it has cropped well 5 of the 6 years of evaluation. A grower trial in the mountains of North Carolina has also confirmed its consistent cropping ability. Fruit of Galactica are very large, with many fruit commonly attaining three inches in diameter when properly thinned. Because of its moderate to high flower bud number, heavy thinning is required in years of little natural fruit thinning from freeze events. Fruit demonstrate the flat (peento) shape (Figures 1 and 2). Galactica fruit are white fleshed and have moderate flesh acidity, lower than typical commercial peach cultivars. Flesh color and quality (texture, flavor, and aroma) are excellent. Fruit are firmer than most white fleshed peach cultivars, similar to China Pearl. About 80% of the fruit exterior is covered with a bright red overcolor. Foliage of Galactica is relatively susceptible to bacterial spot disease incited by Xanthomonas campestris pv. pruni. Control measures may be necessary under conditions favorable for disease development. Trees of Galactica show a growth rate and form typical of most commercial cultivars. Flowers are pink and showy. Pollen is abundant, and trees are self-fertile. Leaf glands are reniform. In summary, Galactica will provide growers with a consistent cropping, early to mid-season ripening cultivar with a novel flat fruit shape and excellent flesh quality . Its novel fruit shape, white flesh, and moderate fruit acidity should provide growers with opportunities for marketing Galactica fruit as a specialty crop, particularly to Asian and Hispanic consumers. Currently, almost all saucer peaches are commercially grown in California. They command a premium price in supermarkets and specialty produce stores. Few saucer peaches are grown in the southeast due to lack of an adapted cultivar. The apparent cold hardiness and high flower bud density of Galactica should make it an appropriate choice for peach growers in North Carolina. Galactica will also be valuable for commercial production in other peach growing regions of the U.S. that receive sufficiently cool winter temperatures to satisfy bud endodormancy. Galactica is one of the few commercial cultivars of peach that was derived in part from germplasm outside of the Chinese Cling genetic base. Thus, this cultivar will serve to broaden the genetic base of commercial peach production in the U.S., and it will serve as an important source of germplasm for breeders elsewhere. The name Galactica is suggested for this selection because of its novel fruit shape. The North Carolina Agricultural Research Service is planning to negotiate a non-exclusive license agreement for production and marketing of Galactica. Nurserymen having an interest in Galactica will be given the opportunity to be licensed by the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service for production and marketing.
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Things I liked:Gun looks really good, weaver rails, nice fit and finish, i bought the wood model, even tho its plastic it looks really good.
Things I would have changed:Maybe add a little weight to the gun
What others should know:Im gettin really good groups at 30ft with this gun. I use it for target shooting when i cant get outside to shoot, a real good inside trainer. I get half inch or less groups with a 2x7-32 AO scope, bought this gun refurb and couldnt be happier, i never worry about buying new or refurb from pyramyd.
Things I liked:looks ligit & it is the real size/weight of a real .22
Things I would have changed:I would make it more durable
What others should know:the paint chips too easily beware !!! ANY WERE FROM 6 MONTHS ON A SLAM FIRE PROBLEM MIGHT OCUR
Things I liked:Looks like a real gun, even plastic wood stock is nice! Very powerful gun shoots though both sides of medium strength cardboard box.
Things I would have changed:Nothing
What others should know:Not very accurate shoots all over the place @ 15 yards will try other ammo.
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We first walked the land in late October 1997. It was raining. It was cold. We wore rubber boots and wool sweaters and still we felt the chill. Even the trees looked cold: The maples rooted in the rich Vermont soil had shed most of their leaves, and the birches looked like tall bones against the gray of the day.
The land sloped gently to the southwest, a rectangle of 40 acres. At its height lay eight acres of overgrown pasture; below that, another 30 or so of black cherry, fir, birch, maple, poplar, spruce, beech, and cedar; a few oak trees, stately and elegant. Across the valley, we could see the long, low barns of dairy farms and the patchwork of fields rimmed by stone walls and dotted with Jersey, Holstein, and Black Angus cattle.
We'd been looking for the right piece of land for more than a year, a search complicated by the paucity of our finances. We knew what we wanted: At least a dozen acres, with at least five of them cleared for gardens and animals (we didn't yet know what sorts of animals). We'd been shown two-acre lots so choked by trees we had to walk sideways. And we'd seen pastoral, 30-acre hayfields, heartbreaking for both their beauty and our inability to afford them.
But now, for the first time, we were exploring a piece of land we could love and afford, and before I'd even turned to Penny and whispered "I love it," I'd seen how wide her eyes had gotten, seen that she loved it too, and I knew we'd make an offer that night. Indeed, we did.
There was a catch, of course. There's always a catch. And here it is: The driveway was, well, not exactly there. Not so daunting but for one simple fact: The driveway we'd have to create would need to cut across 1,300 feet of densely wooded right-of-way; a quarter-mile driveway. If you think about it, there are really only two types of people who have quarter-mile driveways: the wealthy, who can afford to build and maintain them, and the poor, who can afford only such hyper-rural property. We were not the wealthy.
Our quarter-mile driveway is critical to this story for this reason: Our separation from the road and the network of power lines that trace it demand a level of self-sustenance we might never have demanded of ourselves. If we'd built on the road, or even near the road, we would have connected our home to the utility grid and never looked back. As it was, after converting our life savings into 40 acres of northern Vermont field and forest, we simply couldn't afford to bring power back to the house site, a $20,000 endeavor. So we borrowed two small solar panels and a couple of used batteries, and bought the inverter necessary to convert the solar electric DC current into common 110-volt AC household current. We installed this modest array on a sunny August afternoon; that night, for the first time since we'd moved into the drafty shell of our unfinished house, we didn't need to light candles.
When you live off the grid, you become a worshipper of the sun on a level most people can't appreciate. It's not about the tan, or the simple pleasure of its warmth on your skin; it's about the things it lets you do: run a vacuum cleaner, or a washing machine, or even, on those hot, humid August nights, a window fan. (There's no air conditioning when you live off the grid; air conditioners drink electricity like there's no tomorrow.) There's an almost giddy pleasure to be had from watching photovoltaic panels soak up free electricity, and if you get close enough to charging batteries, you can hear the water inside them bubble. It sounds a little bit like laughter.
Over the years our system has slowly grown. We started with two 50-watt panels–enough, over the course of a cloudless summer's day, to generate about half a kilowatt hour. To put that in context, it might be helpful to know that the average American family of four uses nearly 30 kilowatt hours per day. To put it into more context, a kilowatt hour in Vermont currently sells for about 14 pennies. In other words, our electricity supply, under the sort of ideal conditions that are all too rare in northern Vermont, amounted to one-sixtieth of the U.S. average–and was worth about seven cents.
We lived within the constraints of this system for nearly two years, before upgrading to a pair of 300-watt panels. Now we could make nearly three kilowatt hours per day. We celebrated by plugging in an extra table lamp and making shadow puppets on the wall until midnight. We now had three functioning electric lights. We felt drunk with power.
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Dude, Im a wrestler. Im the best wrestler in MMA. Wrestling IS, was and always has been the most dominate form of mix martial art on the planet. Thats all there is to it. We all know it, some people want to fight it, some people want doubt it but wresters rule the MMA world. -
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Why does anybody want to hear how you scored the fight when we all already know how blinded you are, every time something with a wrestler occurs? I'm surprised you even gifted Maia a round, since Shields came out for all five. At this point, I'm surprised you hadn't scored Davis/Machida 30-24 for Davis. When I see your posts, regardless of the context, if its about a wrestler, I'm prepared for some bullshit, which I think is a waste of time.
Explain to me how Maia won that fight? Tell me what three rounds did Maia win to win that fight? I will even give you the 1st and 4th round. Can you even make a legit argument for him winning the 2nd, 3rd or 5th round?
Sorry but you coming off as a pissed off fan boy because wrestlers have been knocking off all your favorite fighters.
Dude, Im a wrestler. Im the best wrestler in MMA. Wrestling IS, was and always has been the most dominate form of mix martial art on the planet. Thats all there is to it. We all know it, some people want to fight it, some people want doubt it but wresters rule the MMA world. -
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Regardless of whether its a live discussion of a fight like last night or some comment made by a wrestler, you ALWAYS nuthug the wrestlers so consistently, no matter the situation. Now you want to posit that maybe the first was "close", but you aren't coming from a place anywhere near objectivity, you never do.
I'm not a pissed of fanboy, I'm pissed off that you never seem to look at any other perspective and instantaneously side with the wrestler. If the fight wasn't as close and say, Maia got screwed on a pretty far and away victory, you'd still have found some backdoor bullshit way to score it for the wrestler, I've seen you do it countless times. I'd respect and appreciate your affinity for wrestlers so much more and take your comments with so much more weight, if you once and a while came across as a pseudo-objective viewer. You're by no means an ignorant poster, but your posts are so difficult to take seriously since they always follow a strict party line for wrestlers and thus normally merit an eyeroll, which is silly.
Who gave round 1 a draw? RD 5 was a draw if there ever was one. Both landed a few strikes, neither got a take down and pretty much nullified each other. If anything Maia should get it based on TD.
Maia vs Shields was really boring, nothing really to say here. Shields is maybe the most broing fighter in the UFC right now.
Erick vs Stungun was very entertaining and the KO was very nice. Erick obviously did not see it coming at all.
Thiago Silva overall did a good fight but he looked in bad shape. He had considerable amount of extra fat and looked very heavy.
And also it amazes me how he could not finish Hamill in the 3rd round. Hamill could barely satnd, he had his hands absolutely down and he was rocked. Thiago had a lot of time to land a beautiful high kick that could have finished the fight and he just prefered to continue destroy Hamill's legs. Anyway it was a solid performance.
Maldonado vs Beltrán, for me judges had it wrong. Beltran won round 1 and 2.
Maldonado tried his best to copy the clowning stuff of Anderson Silva and I do not know if that somehow infuenced the judges in the first round.
Dillashaw vs Assuncao was another bad call IMO. Dillashaw looked very good in the first round and won the 3rd, it was a close round because none of them did anything special, but Dillashaw was a bit better.
Palhares vs Pierce. Well very nice submission but unfortunately Palhares got cut for holding it an extra second.
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The human eye can discriminate millions of colors. Today's consumers of color are increasingly looking for options that have a fresher, cleaner appearance. They are also seeking a broader range of the spectrum to enjoy color in more interesting ways.
The designer's challenge is bringing order to the myriad colors available through an understanding of the psychological and physical ways to manipulate colors intelligently. Working with a color organization system makes this task much easier.
The Munsell color wheel
The most well-known and widely used color organization system was developed by Albert Henry Munsell, an American artist. Munsell's color wheel incorporates three dimensions of color: hue, value and chroma.
Hue refers to the various individual colors in the color spectrum. Munsell's system is based on five principal hues and five intermediate hues – red, yellow-red, yellow, green-yellow, green, blue-green, blue, purple-blue, purple and red-purple – all arranged equally spaced in a clockwise manner. Value indicates the lightness or darkness of a hue, as it compares with a neutral gray scale. Chroma indicates the saturation, or brightness, of a color.
Conventional color wheels, like those often used in art class in grade school, typically have three primary colors – red, yellow and blue – and three intermediary colors – orange, green and purple. So, on conventional color wheels the primary colors are located at the corners of an equilateral triangle. On the Munsell color wheel they are located on the corners of an isosceles triangle. Whereas conventional color wheels may be easier to use, the Munsell system accurately reflects the visible color spectrum.
The Munsell system also allows color to be visualized in three-dimensional space, because it uses three dimensions for identification. And Munsell's use of numbered scales to evaluate hue, value and chroma means that individual colors are precisely identified, eliminating the confusion of names, such as sky blue or lime green.
Color wheel color basics
While many color wheels sport bright colors – colors, perhaps, less likely to be specified by a designer – don't dismiss them. They are valuable tools of the trade. The color wheel nicely illustrates several color characteristics to share with clients.
Colors of similar visual temperatures lay adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Because of this arrangement, it is easy to contrast the differences: the warm colors – the reds, oranges and yellows – appear opposite the cool colors – greens, blues and purples.
Color wheels also make it easier to apply classic color theories to a design project. Monochromatic, analogous, triadic and complementary color schemes are used most often. Monochromatic schemes utilize one hue. Analogous schemes use two hues that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Triads use three hues that are equidistant from each other on the wheel. Tetrads are four hues evenly spaced on the color wheel.
Color systems like Munsell's are particularly helpful in monochromatic and analogous schemes, where value and saturation variables provide variety and contrast, rather than multiple hues.
Complementary colors are located across from each other on the color wheel. These color combinations offer warm and cool colors and provide the best contrast. Other complementary schemes include: split-complementary, where a hue is combined with the two colors adjacent to its complement; analogous-complementary, where two adjacent colors and the complement of one of those two are combined; and double-complementary, which combines two hues and both complements.
Color wheels provide solutions to potential color difficulties, too. For example, monochromatic color schemes may cause a problem with successive contrast, also called after-image phenomenon. Say a room is all in greens – a very relaxing color, indeed – but when you leave the room, your eyes automatically see red, which can make a light blue hallway look violet. This effect occurs because the receptors in the eye become fatigued when they are exposed to the same color for a period of time. If after-image is an undesirable result, a color wheel will easily help identify complementary colors, which will help eliminate the after-image effect.
Evaluating color systems
Even with a color wheel in hand, in the every day design world, specifiers are bombarded with color names and various color organization systems. Paint manufacturers routinely name their colors and have their own color tools. What's a serious designer to do? Find a color organization system that works well, and use it consistently. Be sure the system has a good balance and representation of the color spectrum, from red to violet.
Ensure that the system incorporates various values of the hues represented. From light tints to medium shades to dark accents, having value steps at the ready will be – invaluable.
Evaluate the levels of color saturation represented – there should be at least four. At the lower end of the saturation scale you need a range of subtle colors with a neutral quality, such as tans, gray-greens and gray-mauves. The next step up you should see more color, yet not intense hues. These colors represent rich, elegant color options. Moving upwards in saturation, there should be the vibrant colors. Finally, a full range of bright highly saturated colors should be represented – from clear pastels to intense accent colors.
Finally, the system should also have a good selection of neutrals – blacks, whites and grays. These non-colors aren't found on a color wheel, but they are important because they provide visual relief in a color scheme without changing the relationships the colors have with each other. Like true hues, these neutrals also can vary in value, from light to dark.
Saturation... or family?
Designers who are immersed in the creative process find color fan decks and color files to be useful tools when it comes to exploring color concepts for a project. Both organization systems – by saturation and by color family – are used today, with the ideal system being primarily a matter of personal preference.
When colors are organized by saturation level, they build from subdued to bright tones. Most spaces and projects end up with either a sophisticated, low-key look or make a very bold statement. By being able to see the palette develop from neutral to bright, color organized by saturation helps the designer narrow the color direction or theme for the project.
Sometimes a designer is interested only in a specific selection of colors that are all similar in hue. Perhaps the fabrics, floor coverings and furnishings have already been selected, and the designer is interested in rounding out the project with paint colors that blend well. In this situation, using a color selection tool – whether that's a fan deck, color file or color library – that's organized by color family works very well. Instead of being organized by hue saturation, this system calls for colors to be organized by category – for instance, all the greens will be together. This allows the designer to hone right to a specific collection.
If you are using several hues, you can link them in your color scheme by using similar values of those hues. Too much contrast tends to make the eye jump from color to color. Similar intensities also can be used to unify a scheme composed of several hues. But be careful of monotony. Overall, variations in hue, value and saturation achieve the most pleasing results.
As in nature, all colors go together. Knowing how to combine them for successful results is simple with the basics of color theory and the right tools.
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The language of color
Hue - The name of a specific color family, such as blue or yellow.
Value - The lightness or darkness of a color, as compared to a neutral gray scale.
Chroma - Indicates the saturation, or brightness, of a color.
Primary colors - Hues that cannot be made by mixing other colors together - red, yellow and blue.
Secondary colors - Hues made by combining two primary colors - orange, green and purple.
Adjacent colors - Colors that appear next to each other on the color wheel, such as yellow and green-yellow or blue and purple-blue.
Monochromatic - A color scheme that uses various values and chromas of one hue.
Analogous - A color scheme that uses various values and chromas of two hues that are next to each other on the color wheel.
Diad - A color scheme that uses two hues that are located two colors apart on the color wheel, such as yellow and red or blue and purple.
Triad - A color scheme that uses three hues that are equidistant on the color wheel, such as red, yellow and blue.
Tetrad - A color scheme that uses four hues that are equally spaced on the color wheel.
Complementary colors - Hues that appear opposite each other on the color wheel.
Split-complementary - A color scheme that combines a hue and the two colors adjacent to its complement.
Analogous-complementary - A color scheme that combines two adjacent colors and the complement of one of those two hues.
Double-complementary - A color scheme that combines two hues and both of their complements.


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