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Chicago has one of the nation's most stringent electrical codes, and with good reason: Ever since the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, anything related to fire safety has been taken very seriously. The city requires that all electrical work — even in residential settings — be protected by metallic conduit, with no exceptions. Contractors and electricians in other areas may view this as an unnecessary and expensive precaution, but running wiring in conduit — otherwise known as EMT — does in fact offer several advantages over nonmetallic sheathed cable (commonly referred to as NMS or Romex).
Chief among them, of course, is safety. Anyone who's been in the trades knows what happens when an errant fastener finds its way into an unprotected part of the cable. With conduit, the likelihood of that happening is dramatically reduced. Fasteners that come in contact with the pipe tend to simply bend or glance off the wall. Also, when conduit is used the building's entire electrical system is grounded — not by a lone wire, but by all the components: pipe, connectors, and boxes.
And then there's the convenience factor. Adding a circuit to a room fed by nonmetallic sheathed cable usually involves opening up walls to pull new cable. With a conduit-fed room, however, the job requires little more than pulling the new wire through the existing conduit and boxes. There's rarely a need to disturb existing finishes.
The same holds true when a whole building needs to be rewired. My company routinely does extensive renovations in old structures, and replacing old wiring is generally part of the job. When the building has conduit, this is a fairly straightforward task: After mapping out the conduit runs, my electrician simply ties new wire to the old and then simultaneously pulls the old wire out and the new wire in.
As part of our permitting process, we submit a detailed electrical plan along with the building-permit application and any other drawings. Once everything's been reviewed and the permit issued, we give the plan to our electrician — but only for general guidance; ultimately, he decides the best routes and locations for his pipe and boxes.
To begin, he secures the work boxes with screws or roofing nails, making sure to keep the front of each box flush with the stud or joist he's attaching it to. The galvanized-steel boxes most often used in residential conduit jobs — "1900 boxes," as local electricians call them — are about 4 inches square and 1 1/2 inches deep. On their faces are two screws for attaching either the plaster rings that receive the electrical devices or blank covers and extensions.
The 4-inch-square steel boxes used most often on residential projects are suitable for switches, outlets, smoke detectors, and light fixtures.
Various mounting brackets are available for face and side mounting on wood or steel studs. The boxes also come without brackets, for tight spaces and surface mounting.
They're usually attached with drywall screws or roofing nails.
Once the boxes have been secured, the electrician drills holes in the framing members for the conduit. Until recently, he did this by measuring up from the floor and making a series of marks on the studs between the boxes; then he'd drill a 7/8-inch hole through the center of the studs, which put the hole about 1 1/4 inches from the stud faces. Now he uses a laser hole locator from Stabila (800/869-7460, www.stabila.com).
After marking and drilling the first hole, he inserts the laser and clamps it to the stud; from there it projects a beam onto each successive stud as the holes are drilled.
A hole-locating laser makes it easy to drill a series of perfectly aligned holes. It's attached to the framing member through the first hole and projects the location of the next hole onto the adjacent joist or stud. With the on-board vial, the holes can be sloped 1/4 inch per foot for DWV piping.
Up until this point, rough-in is the same as it would be with Romex, but now the real artistry begins: The galvanized metal conduit needs to be fitted between the boxes and run to the service panel. On residential jobs, 1/2-inch conduit is used for the vast majority of the rough-in. Occasionally, 3/4-inch conduit is used when more wires are necessary — for home runs, say, or when a heavier gauge is required.
Even for seasoned electricians, bending conduit can be a challenge. Unlike plumbers, who rely on dozens of fittings to get their pipes from point A to point B, electricians have only a handful of fittings to choose from when they install conduit — and most of them are used to terminate the pipe into a box or to couple pipes. That leaves all the directional transitions for the electrician to do with his pipe bender.
The electrician uses a standard or tight-radius pipe bender to get the pipe to work around obstacles and change directions. Most benders have built-in degree scales, but knowing exactly where and how much to bend the pipe comes from experience.
Watching my electrician — who has more than 20 years of experience — bend pipe is like watching a sculptor at work. Most impressively, he uses only a few simple hand tools. In addition to the normal tools found in any toolbelt, the work requires a hacksaw, a couple of sizes of pipe benders, and a reamer.
The conduit is generally cut with a hacksaw or cordless recip saw.
A pair of conduit scraps duct-taped to a rung on the ladder help hold the pipe at a comfortable level.
Once it's cut, the inside is reamed so that the burr edge doesn't cut or chafe the insulation when the wire is pulled.
For each run of conduit, he measures the length of travel and the distance to the nearest bend or offset; then he marks the pipe accordingly and bends it with one of the pipe benders. The whole process of getting a pipe to fit a given space follows a plan that exists only in the electrician's head; he knows exactly where to bend the pipe and to what degree, an ability that comes from experience.
Using the conduit bender as a measuring aid, the electrician marks the location of a bend.
Then he holds down the pipe with his foot and pulls the bender until the pipe is at the correct angle.
By hanging the bender from the top of the ladder, he can tweak an angle without getting down.
Benders are size specific and come in normal and tight-radius versions.
After bending the pipe, he installs it. Different kinds of connectors of varying sizes can be used to connect conduit to boxes and other pipes; all clamp securely to both of the items they're connecting, for a continuous ground. Depending on how and where the pipe's being connected, he uses the following fittings:
• a pipe-to-box connector for attaching the pipe to the work boxes;
• a coupler for connecting or splicing together two pipes;
• a chase nipple — or box-to-box connector — for connecting two boxes either back to back or side by side;
• a greenfield-to-pipe connector for adapting rigid conduit to flexible conduit (used with lighting whips);
• a Jake — or offset — connector for spots where a tight offset is needed and can't be made by bending pipe.
Most conduit runs are made with just a few fittings. Among the most common are the pipe-to-box connectors used to terminate the pipe at the work box.
Couplings for joining sections of tubing.
"Jakes" for very tight offsets.
While other, more specialized connectors are also available, the five mentioned above are the most common ones in residential installations.
The fittings used for box connections have a male end that fits into a box knockout and secures with a locknut. The other end slips over the conduit and secures with a set screw that tightens against the pipe. Compression fittings are another option, but most electricians I know prefer to use set-screw connectors because they provide a faster connection that's just as secure. Compression fittings are required in plenum ceilings and any other place that an airtight installation is needed.
While not as labor-intensive as installing conduit, running wire still requires careful planning so that all devices are fed properly and no conduits are overfilled — a definite red flag for inspectors.
Home runs are usually done first. Starting at the panel, the electrician feeds insulated copper wire (coated in different colors of PVC jacketing) back to the junction or splice boxes. On short or fairly straight runs, he often just pushes it through the pipe to a helper on the other end.
On longer runs, or ones with a lot of bends, he uses a fish tape: He threads it through the pipe, then attaches the wire to it by stripping the insulation from the conductors and feeding the wire through the hook on the tape. To prevent snags, he wraps the stripped conductors and the end of the fish tape with several layers of electrical tape. Next, he pulls the wire back through the pipe to its final location, and repeats the process until all the wire is pulled.
Once the wires are pulled and any necessary connections have been made, the box is ready for a plaster ring. Since one long pull is easier than several shorter ones, the electrician often leaves loops for making the connections and continues the pull.
There's nothing unusual about the wire itself. Depending on the load, it's typically either #14 for 15-amp circuits or #12 for 20-amp circuits. It comes in solid and stranded versions; each has its own loyal following among electricians. Stranded wire is easier to pull, according to its advocates, because it's more flexible; proponents of solid wire say that getting single conductors around device terminals is easier, making trimouts faster.
Available in various colors for easy identification, the THHN wire commonly used in conduit wiring is sold in 500-foot spools. Most electricians have a rack like this one for organizing and dispensing wire.
After all the wire has been pulled, any connections that can be made are completed inside the boxes. Ideally, splices are kept to a minimum; thanks to 500-foot spools of wire, long uninterrupted runs are possible. The splices that are necessary are done with wire nuts. Some electricians wrap the wire nuts in electrical tape for added insurance.
Next, the electrician "rings" the work boxes with plaster rings, which are essentially box adapters that allow a 1900 box to receive one or two devices — or a light fixture, a smoke detector, or the like.
Plaster rings come in one- and two-gang configurations, and in several thicknesses to match a variety of wall finishes. Three- and 4-inch round versions are used for mounting light fixtures and smoke detectors.
The rings come in various configurations and depths. For a drywall finish, either a 1/2-inch-deep or a 5/8-inch-deep ring is appropriate; on walls slated to receive tile or paneling over drywall, rings of up to 1 1/2 inches deep are used. Boxes can be converted in the future from one use to another simply by swapping the plaster rings.
Rough-in is now complete, outside of a couple of temporary outlets and perhaps some pigtail lights that still need installing. Wires are pushed as far to the back of the boxes as possible to keep them from getting hit by a drywall router.
During rough inspection, the inspector checks that the following conditions are in place:
• All boxes are securely fastened so they don't work loose over time.
• Pipes are securely connected at both ends and properly supported along their length. Sagging pipes can cause chafing of the wires and put undue stress on the devices, leading to shorts.
• All connectors are securely fastened to both the boxes and the conduit so the ground path isn't interrupted.
• Pipes and boxes are not overfilled. The concern is that heat generated by the wires won't be dissipated in an overloaded pipe or box, which can cause the wire's insulation to break down and, ultimately, lead to a short or even a fire.
• Connectors are installed correctly both at the panel and on the conduit. The panel itself needs at least one 10-foot ground rod and a bare copper wire run to the building's water-service entrance.
As with any other type of electrical installation, final trim-out takes place after most finishes are complete.
Greg Burnet owns Manor Services in Chicago.
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Since its inception in 1983, the Scooper Bowl has raised more than $4.1 million for adult and pediatric patient care and cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Scooper Bowl general admission is $10, $5 for children ages 3-9, and free for children under three. A three-day Scooper pass is $20. More information, a full list of flavors, and tickets are available online at www.scooperbowl.org. Tickets are also available at the door and at select Walgreens locations.


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Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is calling on Chancellor George Osborne to introduce a £10,000 personal allowance on income tax in the UK as part of new measures designed to ease the current financial pressures being applied to household budgets.
The proposal came as part of a speech to the Resolution Foundation think tank on 26 January, with Mr Clegg also noting that the current tax system is in need of reform."Only by changing the rules around tax in the UK, can we enjoy a system that rewards work and encourages ordinary people to drive growth".
In particular, Mr Clegg demanded changes that promoted fairness over avoidance. "The UK's tax system cannot go on like this, with those at the top claiming the reliefs, enjoying the allowances, paying other people to find the loopholes, while everyone else pays through the nose," he said.
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MLS All-Star Game – Ideas for Improvement
As I write this, I am basking in the glow of the City of Philadelphia being awarded the 2012 MLS All-Star Game. I will be able to go and watch the best players in our league do battle in a stadium that is about a half an hour from where I live. I will get to cheer for my favorite Union players as well as some of the men who make up our national team on my home field, and for that I am very thankful.
The MLS All-Star match is unlike any other sport's all star game. Our best eleven matching up against one of the best clubs in the world. The last two years have seen the MLS All-Stars play against Manchester United. You wouldn't see an NBA all-star team take on Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketball League or an NHL all-star team take on Salavat Yulaev of the KHL, although the NHL used to play the Soviet Union's national team back in the 1970′s. And to some extent, it's helped spread the brand not only to England, but here at home as there are many people who root for Manchester United but don't follow the MLS.
Speculation is high on this year's opponent, with names of Europe's richest and best clubs being bandied about, such as AC Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal, Barcelona, Real Madrid, FC Bayern München… and yes Manchester United (again). Something struck me though – where are the Latin American clubs? Why are we insistent on bringing in a club that's on holiday when there are in form clubs right in our own backyard that we could bring in? Why are we even looking to bring in another club? If the MLS has improved the way the league office says it has, why not play our best players against one another? Here are some solutions (and I take no credit for these as I'm sure brighter people than myself have articulated these before):
- Bring in a Latin American team – Who wants to see the Man U guys who should be working on their tans (or their hairlines – right Mr. Rooney?) reassembling to play a non-competitive friendly against a team that's been together about a week? And this goes for any European team, not just the royalty mentioned above. In July, they'll all be on holiday and not exactly match fit. Let them rest. There are plenty of great teams in this hemisphere who are still playing. Why not bring in Brazilian club Santos, or Mexican Primera División champions UANL Tigres, or Deportivo Saprissa or América de Cali or Boca Juniors or any of the other world-class clubs from right here in the Americas?
The argument I hear most often against this is that it's all about ratings and no one knows a Santos or Tigres or the other clubs, and I would strongly disagree with that. Perhaps Eurocentric fans who only know the EPL don't know there are other teams outside of Europe. They don't know a team like Chivas de Guadalajara or Boca Juniors until you point out that Javier "Chícharito" Hernández played at Chivas before Manchester United bought him, and Manchester City's Carlos Tevez started at Argentina's Boca Juniors before heading north and east. A team like Chivas or Boca might not get the ticket sales of an EPL squad, but so what? PPL Park holds at most 20,000. The Union sell almost that much every match. Well, what about tv rights? The match is already being broadcast to between 130 and 140 countries, but think about it – half of the world will be asleep while we play the game. Most Europeans are 5 hours ahead of us and will be asleep for a match that will start at around midnight on Thursday for them. The folks in Latin America are between 2 hours ahead and 3 hours behind Eastern Daylight Time – much more comfortable to catch a match that starts here between 6 PM and 8 PM here in Philadelphia.
The biggest benefit of this as I see it would be something the MLS has been trying to do for a few years now, and that's reach out to the Hispanic communities here in the US. Bringing in Bimbo as a league sponsor has been huge, but there still seems to be a huge gap in the amount of Hispanic and non-Hispanic fans of the MLS. Bringing in a side from Latin America could help get some of these fans interested in our league here and more importantly, get some of these kids who play wanting to play for an MLS club. Of course every kid wants to play for Real Madrid or FC Barcelona or one of the Manchester clubs, but a lot of young kids in the US also want to play for Chivas or América or one of the great Argentine or Brazilian clubs. Tijuana, who play in Mexico's Primera División often have camps in Southern California to recruit kids to join their youth academy and have partnered with the Orange County (California) Soccer Academy. Why not try and show these kids that our talent can hang with the big boys, and that playing for an MLS team isn't just a retirement home for old Europeans but a dream for all kids to strive for?
- Bring in a Latin American all-star team – One of the arguments against bringing in an in-form team from Latin America is that if you put a team of guys who practice for about a week up against a high-powered machine like Boca Juniors or Chivas is that they'll get destroyed and it'll hurt our brand in the eyes of the Latin American and casual fans. And I agree to a point – getting blown out is never good, no matter who your opponent. So why not level the playing field a bit? Why not get with the FMF (Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación – Mexican soccer's governing body) and have them assemble an all-star team of their own? There could be a home-and-away series of friendlies that would have two groups of guys who have only been together for about a week battle it out. One game could be in Chester and the other in Tijuana or Mexico City or Guadalajara. This would benefit both the FMF and the MLS as fans on both sides of the border would get a first hand glimpse of the other's best talent.
- Have an all-MLS All-Star Game – Why not let our star power shine on it's own and have two opposing squads of MLS players go at it? You could do East vs. West or perhaps do like the NHL used to do and have the US and Canada play the rest of the world. I think this would be the most entertaining of all of the scenarios, however I get that not many people would watch this because we aren't there yet. We're not as talent-rich as the EPL or the Primera División or many other leagues, and we don't really have the star power for that to work with a national audience, much less an audience halfway around the world. But the MLS should not give up on this option – even if they just set a goal to reach this level of depth of talent and star power.
Again I am really looking forward to this, no matter who we play. Yes, even if it's Man U. again. But I wish Commissioner Garber and the league would at least consider these ideas. We need to stop looking west to Europe for everything soccer related and start looking south instead. There's plenty of great soccer right here in our own back yard.


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|The one performance – attended - that you will never forget:
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The bows were coming and my teacher, Miss Lisa was her name, asked me if I could be brave enough to go onstage and bow with her next to me. I agreed, and after my entire class had taken their bows I scurried onstage next to Miss Lisa. She took her bow, then gestured to me, and I took my bow, the bow we had practiced every day at the end of class. Applause!
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Import prices rise in June
July 11, 2003
The U.S. Import Price Index increased 0.8 percent in June, as increases in both petroleum and nonpetroleum import prices contributed to the rise.
The petroleum index rose 4.7 percent in June after falling 5.4 percent in May and 18.7 percent in April. The price index for nonpetroleum imports also recorded a turnaround in June, increasing 0.5 percent after falling 0.3 percent in May and 1.0 percent in April. The June increase in nonpetroleum import prices was led by a 1.4-percent increase in prices for nonpetroleum industrial supplies and materials. Rising natural gas prices and a rebound in prices for unfinished metals led the increase in the nonpetroleum industrial supplies and materials price index.
Export prices fell 0.2 percent in June, after edging up 0.1 percent in May. Both major components of exports contributed to the June decline, as prices for agricultural and nonagricultural imports fell 0.8 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively. Corn, wheat, and soybean prices all contributed to the June downturn in agricultural export prices.
These data are from the BLS International Price program. Import and export price data are subject to revision. Learn more in "U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes - June 2003" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 03-370.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Import prices rise in June on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2003/jul/wk1/art05.htm (visited September 22, 2014).
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On Sunday, the opening of free agency, the Bruins took care of some housekeeping. They registered the contracts of Tuukka Rask, Chris Kelly, and prospect Alexander Khokhlachev on the first day they were eligible to do so.
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Chinua Achebe
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) is known the world over for having played a germinal role in the founding and development of African literature. He is considered among the most significant world writers. He is most well known for the groundbreaking 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, a novel still considered to be required reading the world over. It has sold over twelve million copies and has been translated into more than fifty languages.
Professor Achebe's global significance lies not only in his talent and recognition as a writer, but also as a critical thinker and essayist who has written extensively on questions of the role of culture in Africa and the social and political significance of aesthetics and analysis of the postcolonial state in Africa. He is renowned, for example, for "An Image of Africa," his trenchant and famous critique of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Today, this critique is recognized as one of the most generative interventions on Conrad; and one that opened the social study of literary texts, particularly the impact of power relations on 20th century literary imagination.
In addition, Professor Achebe is distinguished in his substantial and weighty investment in the building of literary arts institutions. His work as the founding editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series led to his editing over one hundred titles in it. Achebe also edited the University of Nsukka journal Nsukkascope, founded Okike: A Nigerian Journal of New Writing and assisted in the founding of a publishing house, Nwamife Books–an organization responsible for publishing other groundbreaking work by award-winning writers.
Selected Honors and Awards:
- The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, 2010
- Man Booker International Award, 2007
- 1st Living Author presented in the Everyman's Library collection by Alfred A. Knopf, 1992
- Rockefeller Fellowship, 1960
- UNESCO Fellowship for Creative Artists, 1960
- Margaret Wrong Prize
- The New Statesman Jock Campbell Prize
- The Commonwealth Poetry Prize
- Anthills of the Savanna (Anchor Press, 1987)
- A Man of the People (Anchor Press, 1966)
- Arrow of God (Anchor Press, 1964)
- No Longer At Ease (Anchor Press, 1960)
- Things Fall Apart (Anchor Press, 1958)
Selected Essays:
- "2009 Blessed Pope John XXIII Lecture Series" in Theology and Culture (University of Notre Dame, Forthcoming)
- "The Igbo and their Perception of God, Human Beings and Creation" (2009)
- "Education of a British Protected Child" (Alfred A Knopf, 2009)
- "Home and Exile" (Oxford University Press, 2000)
- Beyond hunger in Africa: Conventional Wisdom and an African Vision (Heinemann; J. Currey, 1990)
- "Nigerian Topics" (1989)
- "The University and the Leadership Factor in Nigerian Politics" (Abic Books & Equipment, 1988)
- "Hopes and Impediments" (Doubleday, 1988)
- "The World of Ogbanje" (Fourth Dimension Publishers, 1986)
- "The Trouble With Nigeria" (Heinemann, 1983)
- "Morning Yet on Creation Day" (Anchor Press, 1975)
- The Voter (Viva Books, 1994)
- Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (Heinemann, 1992)
- African Short Stories (Heinemann, 1985)
- Girls at War and Other Stories (Doubleday, 1973)
- The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories (Etudo, 1962)
- Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2005)
- Another Africa (Anchor Press, 1998)
- Don't Let Him Die: An Anthology of Memorial Poems for Christopher Okigbo (Fourth Dimension Publishers, 1978)
- Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems (Doubleday, 1973)
- Beware, Soul Brother (Heinemann Educational, 1972)
- The Flute (Fourth Dimension, 1977)
- The Drum (Fourth Dimension, 1977)
- How The Leopard Got His Claws (Third Press, 1973)
- Chike and the River (Cambridge University Press, 1966)


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Learning Necessary Note-Taking Skills (The Hard Way)
As a high school student, I rarely took notes and pretty much only carried my textbooks home for show. Honestly, I don't know who it was I was keen on impressing with my fake study habits, as my parents weren't in the habit of breathing down my neck and all of my friends knew damn well that I tended to do my homework at school the following day, usually in the hall five minutes before it was due.
In high school, my study habits and note-taking skills had little or no time to really blossom. If I had been under more pressure or had gone to a larger or more competitive high school, it's possible that I would have been ready to take notes as speedily and efficiently as my fellow freshmen could the first day of class at Cal State.
My first week of college was an excruciatingly eye-opening one for me. The professors all started right in with the lecturing, no first-day coddling and explaining and handing out of textbooks, just some syllabi and immediate lectures. This caused me to have big, wide, freaked-out eyes that looked around the lecture hall in a panic as I realized everyone else was as ready to start the lecture-giving, note-taking, student-teacher relationship as the professor was.
I was not ready, and would get so behind writing down one all-important professorly sentence that I'd totally miss the next few crucial statements or explanations, and would only know that I'd missed something that was probably pivotal to my understanding of the whole concept, but I'd have no clue exactly what the precious bit was. And you can really only ask the person sitting next to you "What did he just say?!" once, or you risk pissing everyone off and looking like an idiot (which I was, as I hadn't used my four years of high school wisely and learned how to effing learn before I waltzed into the post-secondary phase of my education.
Once I'd made it past the academic probation hurdle, I got to bask in the crushing defeat of realizing that while I may have been just smart enough to have gotten away with not having to apply myself in high school, I possessed nowhere near the intelligence it would take to glide through college without fine-tuning my study skills. Trial by fire sucks, but it is effective. I didn't enjoy having to tell my parents that I'd just blown a semester's worth of their hard-earned money, nor did I take any pleasure in having to admit to myself that I was going to have to work my ass off in college just like everyone else.
The end result of many years of college-level note-taking and learning was this: First of all, I was never going to excel at the freakishly quick and complete note-taking style a lot of other students seemed to have; it was like they all went to some secretarial school at night and learned shorthand, unbeknownst to me. Also, I only have time to listen to a lecture once, so no audio-recording lectures and re-listening to them for me. Which meant that I had to figure out how to listen to the whole lecture, not lose chunks of pertinent info while struggling to write verbatim every line that spilled from the professor's lips.
My perfect solution was to take limited key-word notes in class. I'd read the chapters that were to be covered before class so I had an idea what the instructor was talking about and what I was or wasn't clear on. What the lecture didn't illuminate further, I'd jot down. My lecture notes were basically like a shopping list of stuff to look up in detail and learn completely later. And by "later" I mean that same day, as soon after class as possible.
I learn information best by having a question, reading about it, writing down the info, and reviewing it later. Anything I couldn't grok through the text, the lecture, or my own research (I inherited my Grandfather's science reference library, and all the stuff not written in German is quite helpful) I'd force from the brain of the professor during office hours. If they didn't explain it so I could understand it in class, I'd make them do it again on paper until it made sense.
It's such a waste to have spent a few years getting really good at something, and then to never again have a reason to use it to that same degree. The learning how to learn I'll use for the rest of my life, but not so much with the note-taking. It's all right—it was satisfying to have learned how not to suck at being a student and to never again have to feel like the least prepared doof in the room.
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2. Breakfast was 'okay' but it didn't meet the standards of the rest of the stay. There needs to be separate serving utensils for each food group. Having one spoon for beans and tomatoes and for black pudding and sausage just isn't good practise. Also the only sausages available were the 'herby' sausages. I understand that some people like them but I don't and would prefer a choice of a plain sausage especially at the price that I was paying.
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Hotel public areas does not feel upside in any way. Not at all worthy of a Crowne Plaza. Every Holiday Inn is better.
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Polio (also called poliomyelitis) is a contagious, historically devastating disease that was virtually eliminated from the Western hemisphere in the second half of the 20th century. Although polio has plagued humans since ancient times, its most extensive outbreak occurred in the first half of the 1900s before the vaccination created by Jonas Salk became widely available in 1955.
At the height of the polio epidemic in 1952, nearly 60,000 cases with more than 3,000 deaths were reported in the United States alone. However, with widespread vaccination, wild-type polio, or polio occurring through natural infection, was eliminated from the United States by 1979 and the Western hemisphere by 1991.
Polio is a viral illness that, in about 95% of cases, actually produces no symptoms at all (called asymptomatic polio). In the 4% to 8% of cases in which there are symptoms (called symptomatic polio), the illness appears in three forms:
People who have abortive polio or nonparalytic polio usually make a full recovery. However, paralytic polio, as its name implies, causes muscle paralysis — and can even result in death.
In paralytic polio, the virus leaves the intestinal tract and enters the bloodstream, attacking the nerves (in abortive or asymptomatic polio, the virus usually doesn't get past the intestinal tract). The virus may affect the nerves governing the muscles in the limbs and the muscles necessary for breathing, causing respiratory difficulty and paralysis of the arms and legs.
Polio is transmitted primarily through the ingestion of material contaminated with the virus found in stool (poop). Not washing hands after using the bathroom and drinking contaminated water were common culprits in the transmission of the disease.
In the United States, it's currently recommended that children have four doses of inactivated polio vaccination (IPV) between the ages of 2 months and 6 years.
By 1964, the oral polio vaccine (OPV), developed by Albert Sabin, had become the recommended vaccine. OPV allowed large populations to be immunized because it was easy to administer, and it provided "contact" immunization, which means that an unimmunized person who came in contact with a recently immunized child might become immune, too.
The problem with OPV was that, in very rare cases, paralytic polio could develop either in immunized children or in those who came in contact with them. Since 1979 (when wild polio was eliminated in the United States), the approximately 10 cases per year of polio seen in this country were traced to OPV.
IPV is a vaccine that stimulates the immune system of the body (through production of antibodies) to fight the virus if it comes in contact with it. IPV cannot cause polio.
In an effort to eradicate all polio, including those cases associated with the vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decided to make IPV the only vaccine given in the United States. Currently, the CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend three spaced doses of IPV given before the age of 18 months, and an IPV booster given between the ages of 4 to 6, when children are entering school.
If you're planning to travel outside the United States, particularly to Africa and Asia (where polio still exists), be sure that you and your kids have received a complete set of polio vaccinations.
Although the acute illness usually lasts less than 2 weeks, damage to the nerves could last a lifetime. In the past, some patients with polio never regained full use of their limbs, which would appear withered. Those who did fully recover might go on to develop post-polio syndrome (PPS) as many as 30 to 40 years after contracting polio. In PPS, the damage done to the nerves during the disease causes an acceleration of the normal, gradual weakness due to aging.
During the height of the polio epidemic, the standard treatment involved placing a patient with paralysis of the breathing muscles in an "iron lung" — a large machine that actually pushed and pulled the chest muscles to make them work. The damaged limbs were often kept immobilized because of the confinement of the iron lung. In countries where polio is still a concern, ventilators and some iron lungs are still used.
Historically, home treatment for paralytic polio and abortive polio with neurological symptoms wasn't sufficient. However, asymptomatic and mild cases of abortive polio with no neurological symptoms were usually treated like the flu, with plenty of fluids and bed rest.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is working toward eradicating polio throughout the world. Significant strides have already been made. In 1988, 355,000 cases of polio in 125 countries were reported. By the end of 2004, there were just 1,255 cases.
Four countries (Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan) still have polio circulating, and the virus could be introduced to other countries. If the polio virus is imported into a country where not enough people have been immunized, there's the risk that it could spread from person to person. That's what has happened in some countries in Africa and Asia. So until it has been eliminated worldwide, it's important to continue vaccinating kids against polio.
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The 30th annual Miracle Makers fundraising special aired on KOMO 4 TV on June 6, 2014. The special takes us on a journey through the hopes, fears, victories and challenges facing patients at Seattle Children's. Cosponsored by Costco Wholesale and KOMO 4.
In the spirit of the holidays, patients, parents and doctors share inspirational stories of healing and hope. From surviving heart failure and a near-death drowning to battling a flesh-eating disease, witness how the impossible became possible thanks to the care patients received at Seattle Children's Hospital.
Miracle Season, hosted by Steve Pool and Molly Shen, aired Dec. 8, 2013, on KOMO 4 TV. The annual holiday special celebrates the remarkable lives of Seattle Children's patients.
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SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO-AM) On Wednesday, January 8, 2014, at 3:30 p.m., the City Council Transit Task Force will hold its third meeting at Carnegie Town Hall (235 West 10th Street). The Task Force will discuss strategies for non-profit coordination, and also the formation of subgroups to consider the task force's other priorities such as travel training; coordinating paratransit public transportation; and expansion of the fixed-route transportation system. Citizens will also be invited to provide testimony if time allows.
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Got this as part of a sampler, and tried it after 4 months rest. The rich, full smoke just filled my mouth, and kept billowing out. Flavor was full but smooth. Minor burn issue which self-corrected. This was the first cigar I truly nubbed -I just couldn't put it down!Brian in Honolulu, Hawaii August 25, 2011
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Journalism and librarianship are twin professions in many ways. Both professions share the goal of providing people with information, and both deal with issues of intellectual freedom, objectivity and accuracy. And we're both always trying to anticipate the interests and needs of our readers. We look at trends, events in the news, local situations, seasonal changes, everything, and wonder, "What will this mean to our readers? What will they want to know more about?" [from an earlier post]
And for all the same reasons, both journalism and librarianship are in a period of great change, facing dramatic challenges and perhaps great opportunities. New ideas, and new models for gathering, evaluating and distributing information are clearly needed. That's why I was really interested to read about the Knight News Challenge. The Knight Foundation has supported journalism for over fifty years, primarily through grants to established journalists, but with the continuing decline in newspaper readership, they decided it was time to try a more adventurous approach.
According to an article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Alberto Ibargüen, President of the fund, said the Foundation was looking for ways to help the industry transform itself to stay relevant and wanted to open up as the widest possible pool of potential grant recipients.
"We in philanthropy talk a lot about risk taking. Then we go back and often fund things that are not terribly risky and are not terribly new."
On the Awards website, Ibargüen is explains:
We want to spur discovery of how digital platforms can be used to disseminate news and information on a timely basis within a defined geographic space, and thereby build and bind community.
The Foundation used unconventional methods to seek applicants for the awards, including this video on YouTube:
The awards are being given to a variety of individuals and organizations. The largest, five million dollars, is going to MIT to fund a Center for Future Civic Media to develop, test and study new forms of high-tech community news. MTV will get $700,000, to develop a a corps of "Knight MYJos," mobile youth journalists who will cover the 2008 presidential election and other important issues. An award that may be of special interest to libraries went to journalist/web developer Adrian Holovaty, creator of chicagocrime.org, who received $1.1 million to create a series of city-specific web sites devoted to public records and other local information.
In the next round of the Awards, which begins in July, the foundation is looking for more applicants outside the United States, and is reserving 10% of the awards for people under the age of 21.
I'd love to see someone give grants for similar creative projects involving libraries, or see libraries and library organizations participate in this grant process. The goals are defined broadly enough here to encompass libraries — we certainly need to develop better digital platforms to disseminate information and build communities within geographic areas!


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Changing default moxi configuration?
Is there away to change the default moxi configuration? The default couchbase and membase packages install moxi and run it when you start couchbase. I can see this configuration by running ps aux:
/opt/moxi/bin/moxi -Z port_listen=11211,default_bucket_name=default,downstream_max=1024,downstream_conn_max=4,connect_max_errors=5,connect_retry_interval=30000,connect_timeout=400,auth_timeout=100,cycle=200,downstream_conn_queue_timeout=200,downstream_timeout=5000,wait_queue_timeout=200 -z url=http://127.0.0.1:8091/pools/default/saslBucketsStreaming -p 0 -Y y -O stderr
I am worried that our downstream_conn_max might be too low, since we're sometimes unable to make a connection to the memcached vbucket. I would like to play around with these settings but it seems I can't find the correct configuration file. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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Zack Claiborne was sluggish after battling the flu and tangling with offensive linemen. And there was the sore knee that took away a bit of his burst.
And still, Claiborne dominated his position Saturday. Imagine if the Oak Ridge defensive end were healthy? As it stands, the 6-foot-1, 190-pound senior had as good a defensive effort in a playoff game as any Trojan in school history.
He had 4 1/2 sacks in a 24-6 victory over previous 12-0 Burbank in a Sac-Joaquin Section Division I semifinal, thrusting the Trojans (12-1) into the D-I final for the first time.
Oak Ridge has won four D-II section crowns and is in the D-I field for just the second time. Oak Ridge plays defending champion Granite Bay, which has won nine games in a row and has a strong offensive line and more challenges for Claiborne.
"What a great game and player," Oak Ridge defensive lineman and teammate Jacob Proul said. "Can't block him."
Claiborne has a state-leading 25 sacks. His teammates call him "Freak" for his ability to race past bigger tackles and for his weight-room prowess.
Claiborne remains low-key by nature, but he is also playing with a heavy heart. Claiborne's grandfather John Salsedo is battling cancer and was too sick to attend Oak Ridge games this season.
"I play for him," Claiborne said. "He means a lot to me. I was scared of him when I was little because he was a big guy with this big beard, but then he'd take us out to play football. We became close."
Big on Beau The defensive leader for Granite Bay this season has been 6-2, 230-pound Beau Hershberger. Depending on the scheme, Hershberger plays defensive end or outside linebacker, nimble enough to drop back in coverage.
"That guy right there incredible player," Grizzlies coach Ernie Cooper said, eyeing Hershberger.
Hershberger works hard in the weight room and in the classroom. He has been motivated and challenged by his father, Greg Hershberger, a weight-room buff himself who was a receiver for Chico State under coach Mike Bellotti in the 1980s.
Beau Hershberger, a senior, has received recruiting interest from Sacramento State, UC Davis, Army, Navy and Air Force.
"I work very hard at it," Hershberger said of his current 4.0 grade-point average, adding he would like to get into the criminal justice field. "It's very important to me. I put a lot into it."
"Bear" facts Vista del Lago defensive end Chris Grunsky is called "Bear" by teammates, family and friends. He had a team-high 13 tackles and three sacks in a 28-21 D-III semifinal victory over Inderkum to put the Eagles into a title game for the first time. Vista plays Oakdale on Friday.
Grunsky's nickname comes from his parents, who used to call him "Cub" since he hibernated so much as a child. Since then, the "Cub" has grown into a "Bear" and a player.
"He's really grown into the position and had some great games for us," said Vista coach Chris Jones, adding that Grunsky transitioned from receiver and defensive back.
Oh, Canada Elk Grove defensive end Bwon Canada had hoped to receive medical clearance to play against Folsom on Saturday in the D-II title game with a broken left forearm. Instead, he had surgery Monday to have a plate and two screws inserted, ending those hopes.
Elk Grove will miss what coach Chris Nixon calls Canada's "endless motor."
The Thundering Herd faces Folsom quarterback Jake Browning, who has passed for 4,763 yards and 58 touchdowns.
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Beef Roast With Mushroom Gravy
4 tablespoons herb garlic butter
8 oz whole baby portabellas, quartered
1 (3-oz) package shallots, thinly sliced
3 lb boneless NY strip loin roast
2 teaspoons zesty garlic/herb seasoning
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups reduced-sodium beef broth (14.5-oz can)
CALORIES (per 1/8 recipe) 290kcal; FAT 13g; CHOL 105mg; SODIUM 400mg; CARB 7g; FIBER 1g; PROTEIN 35g; VIT A 4%; VIT C 4%; CALC 2%; IRON 15%
Leek-Potato Gratin
2 medium leeks (well rinsed), thinly sliced
1 (3-oz) package shallots, thinly sliced
1/4 cup fresh Italian parsley, finely chopped
1 (24-oz) package refrigerated mashed potatoes
3 tablespoons herb garlic butter
1/2 cup white wine (or chicken broth)
2 cups Alfredo sauce
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs
CALORIES (per 1/8 recipe) 380kcal; FAT 29; CHOL 90mg; SODIUM 640mg; CARB 22g; FIBER 2g; PROTEIN 7g; VIT A 30%; VIT C 10%; CALC 15%; IRON 8%
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Phnom Penh street food: Bai sach chrouk
Breakfast-time in Phnom Penh starts around six in the morning, but the street food stands don't start really hopping until seven. Most of them serve until they run out at around nine. One of the most popular breakfasts — in addition to Khmer noodles — is bai sach chrouk, or pork with rice. This is … read the full post


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Accusing of an opponent of cheating out of frustration over your tactics being anticipated. Based on the somewhat infamous PlanetSide 2 community member Bensam1234 who insisted on opposing player ScourgeOfTheServer using wallhacks to anticipate his approach inspite of this player streaming his gameplay at the time and obviously not cheating.
He tried to get the drop on his opponent by going over the roof and dropping down, but his opponent heard and killed him so he pulled a Bensam.
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- § 288a. Senate Joint Leadership Group
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- § 288e. Intervention or appearance
- § 288f. Immunity proceedings
- § 288g. Advisory and other functions
- § 288h. Defense of certain constitutional powers
- § 288i. Representation conflict or inconsistency
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- § 288k. Attorney General relieved of responsibility
- § 288l. Procedural provisions
- § 288m. Contingent fund
- § 288n. Travel and related expenses
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29 U.S. Code § 1389 - De minimis rule
(a) Reduction of unfunded vested benefits allocable to employer withdrawn from plan
Except in the case of a plan amended under subsection (b) of this section, the amount of the unfunded vested benefits allocable under section 1391 of this title to an employer who withdraws from a plan shall be reduced by the smaller of—
(1) 3/4 of 1 percent of the plan's unfunded vested obligations (determined as of the end of the plan year ending before the date of withdrawal), or
reduced by the amount, if any, by which the unfunded vested benefits allowable to the employer, determined without regard to this subsection, exceeds $100,000.
(b) Amendment of plan for reduction of amount of unfunded vested benefits allocable to employer withdrawn from plan
A plan may be amended to provide for the reduction of the amount determined under section 1391 of this title by not more than the greater of—
(2) the lesser of—
reduced by the amount, if any, by which the amount determined under section 1391 of this title for the employer, determined without regard to this subsection, exceeds $150,000.
(c) Nonapplicability
This section does not apply—
(1) to an employer who withdraws in a plan year in which substantially all employers withdraw from the plan, or
(d) Presumption of employer withdrawal from plan pursuant to agreement or arrangement applicable in action or proceeding to determine or collect withdrawal liability
In any action or proceeding to determine or collect withdrawal liability, if substantially all employers have withdrawn from a plan within a period of 3 plan years, an employer who has withdrawn from such plan during such period shall be presumed to have withdrawn from the plan pursuant to an agreement or arrangement, unless the employer proves otherwise by a preponderance of the evidence.
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Michael L. Kreidstein MD
About the Practice
Practice Philosophy
Do unto others as you would have done unto you.
Practice Specialization
Facial Cosmetic Surgery, Breast and Body Contour Surgery, Liposuction.
Background & Certification
Board Certification
Dr. Kreidstein is certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Plastic Surgery.
Professional Background
Michael Kreidstein, MD, MSc, FRCS(C) entered medical school at the University of Toronto on scholarship in 1983. He began specialist training in Plastic Surgery in 1988 and began private practice in Cosmetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in 1995. In 2010 he was appointed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) to serve as a Physician and Premises Inspector of private surgical clinics for the Out of Hospital Premises Inspection Program. In 2011 he was appointed by the CPSO to serve as a Plastic Surgeon Peer Assessor. He is committed to excellence in Cosmetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery.
Affiliations & Memberships
Hospital Affiliations
The Scarborough Hospital
Society Memberships
American and the Canadian Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Your Consultation
$200; applied towards cost of surgery. Elective surgery available to Canadian Residents only.
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Private office facility, including over-night stay. Accredited by the CAAASF.
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Morphing software used for rhinoplasty
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The annual Maui Fil-Am Heritage Festival will be held on Saturday, October 13, 2012 at the Maui Mall from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Get to taste authentic Filipino food such as adobo, pansit, lumpia, desserts and more! Enjoy the back-to-back entertainment featuring Filipino dances, songs, and music. Special events include the Master P-Noy Chef Cook Off® featuring Chefs Sheldon Simeon, Geno Sarmiento and Joey Macadangdang; the Speedy Balut Eating Contest®; and The Filipino Fashionista®, an attire contest sponsored by Noble Travel. Plus historical displays, martial arts demonstrations, and arts and crafts for sale. And you may be lucky to win airfare to the Philippines. All to celebrate October as Filipino-American History month. For more information, www.mauifilipinochamber.com; or www.facebook.com/mauifilipinochamber; or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The ship is beautiful and the facilities are good. Food very good and a wide choice.
The destinations on this cruise where excellent and shore excursions well planed.
Shows are poor until the last night of the cruise and that one was very good.
On the down side they have introduced a 15% surcharge on everything from the bar so a small glass of beer is nearly 6 Euros and you still have to pay a compulsory gratuities payment on top of the surcharge. The Officers only talk to you if you are below 20 years of age and partly dressed, and talking of dress on the gala night I only counted 5 couples who dresses for dinner some of the Italian guests even wore T-Shirts. The crew had a attitude problem for example if you met one in a corridor you had to give way for fear of being knocked over.That attitude was all over the ship and the guests where even worse than the crew, try to get out of a lift they just push in before the lift empties. The examples of rudeness are as long as my arm, every English speaking person said they had the same problems that we experienced.
If you are a none smoker forget it the guests are mainly Italian and they smoke everywhere even in the lifts. Children are not allowed in certain areas for example the large Jacuzzis but they treated them as there private swimming pools if you tried to get in you where jeered at and the security guard who's job it was to keep them out just laughed.
One final note I have spent many happy holidays in Italy so I don't have a downer on Italians but this lot were just rude and in great numbers. One of the staff said when she approached a guest and said bon giorno if you replied back "hello" she felt as though the next 2 minutes the guest would be polite and courteous, but if they replied bon giorno she had a fight on her hands to say polite.
I could go on but I think I've made my point.