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All the reviews here by people who've claimed "this is junk", "threw it down the driveway", etc. are by people who apparently don't know how to assemble a...Read complete review
All the reviews here by people who've claimed "this is junk", "threw it down the driveway", etc. are by people who apparently don't know how to assemble a tool like this correctly. You assemble it fully and loose, square the bottom frame and tighten it, then true the upper frame after aligning the jack with the ram (this usually takes some turning some parts around, no big deal) and tighten that all down. I must stress this, it is ABSOLUTELY VITAL you have the jack axis inline with the ram axis as close as possible. With that done, you will get LOTS of use out of this press. I pressed out two old ball joints and pressed two new ones in, that job alone paid for the press. Nothing bent, nothing skewed, zero issues, and it was begging for more. I bought 8 feet of 1-1/2 x 1-1/2 x .125 angle iron, divided it into 4 pieces, drilled holes in them and put them in place of the stock lower pieces of the press to increase its throat capacity, THAT really made the tool! I love it, it was worth the money and extra effort to make it exactly what I needed out of it. Perfect for the DIY guy who owns small cars, motorcycles, boats, etc. Aside from the square cast iron arbor plates that come with it (they're not X-shaped like real ones, the only flaw), I recommend it without hesitation.
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i was looking for something that was basically a box of parts so i could build myself a light duty embosser kinda-sorta letterpress for my art studio. i read the reviews here and this...Read complete review
i was looking for something that was basically a box of parts so i could build myself a light duty embosser kinda-sorta letterpress for my art studio. i read the reviews here and this smaller press appeared that it would fit the bill. i haven't actually used it to press my projects, but i had to write this review after piecing this together. i'm using light materials, paper and letters, i know this will work. but i had to comment on the build of this item for people who might be thinking of pressing out bushing etc. first, as another reviewer said, huge patience is required to build this thing, because the directions are terrible and the parts are all "unique." Second, this should only be used for EXTREMELY LIGHT DUTY WORK. the build and quality assurance are terrible. let me repeat, TERRIBLE. i think whomever put my box together had just started. there was even an extra cross beam in my box. none of the header supports or uprights were cut evenly. to get this thing square is going to be a huge undertaking. again, for my purpose, not a deal breaker, but for pushing out ancient bearings or whatever, forget it. which, in that case, i recommend you NOT buy this particular press, as you would probably get very frustrated.this press is hobby level at best. it's not expensive and with the HF % off code it's a downright deal. but only if you want something that's not plastic for embossing and pressing. typically hobby level stuff like this is plastic and breaks. well, this won't break pressing your custom stationary and it's way cheaper than something like the Epic and other hobby level presses. so... in that respect this is great. but it's totally DIY and then some...i enjoy that. i can tell this is going to be more than enough for my purposes.... paper, material, leather, etc. but NO METAL bending, pushing, prying going on here.
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6 ton A-Frame does the job.
By TomL
from South Carolina
About Me Casual Do-It-Yourselfer
Comments about Central-Machinery 6 ton A-Frame Bench Shop Press:
I purchased a one ton arbor press to punch holes in items for a project. The one ton would not do the job. I returned the one ton and purchased a six ton press. It does the job with ease.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Love this thing
By gregg
from Spencer wv
Good piece of machinery. The problem i had was there was 4 nuts and 3 washers and 3 bolts was missing. Beckley shop is great. Clean, organized, nice people.
Usefull and Econimical Tool
By tgoat
from TN
About Me Avid Do-It-Yourselfer
Great small shop bearing etc. press.
Great addition to my shop
By coal 71
from Minot, ND
I received my 6-ton press yesterday, put it together in about an hour.There where no missing parts, all it took was a bit of common sense and patience.It well be ideal for my hobby and small engine repair shop.Now my 8 inch vice can be used as intended, not a press.All that is left is to make the dies that I need, my lathe well take care ofthat.VERY HAPPYHF has never let me down.
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Great Tool
By Steve
from Lake Havasu, AZ
Love it, used to make coin rings, works great, very satisfied.
Patience and more patience. But a steal
By Stefanj
from Milky way
I got this for making coin rings but can easily see it being used to press in races for my trailer hubs,wrist pins and roll pibs, and small bushung assemblies. The press takes patience to assemble but by carefully working from the bottom up and ignoring the diviations in the directions i was able to get it all assembled and squared up in about 4 hours. The jack in mine was full of air and has taken no less that 10 bleed cycles but that is par for the course. I actually like this jack as it has the threaded extension head which makes changing heights a snap and can allow for many future assembly dies to be utilized. Paint quality and welds were suprisingly well done and all the holes line up perfectly. This was a nice surprise as a lot of my hf assembly products are misaligned. Arbor plates are not the best but they work for what they are. I got this on sale with a coupon and it was well worth the $65 price tag. This will see years of use in my shop and i am looking for reasons to use this press. No its limits and take your time in assembly and this is a good press
(1 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
Great Press For The Price
By Montana Santa
from Scobey, MT
I use the press for my hobbies. Making Coin Rings is one such hobby. It works very well.The manual leaves a bit to be desired, but the diagrams help. Took longer than planned to assemble.I was missing a couple 4" bolts, washers , and nuts, but an email to HF service and they corrected the problem immediately to my satisfaction. Their service department is great.I do a fair amount of business with HF and they have always treated me well. Many of their products are not industrial strength. But for me, the hobbyist, they are super. And did I say low priced? Very affordable.Yes I will recommend this press to my friends,Thanks HF!!
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Great Value!!
By DIY Man
from Vancouver, WA
I'm using mine for auto repair and hobby work. I'm very happy with the functionality and durability of this little press for my needs.I noticed a few other commenters mentioning missing a couple 4" bolts. My instructions showed 2 4" bolts for the upper horizontal beam, but actually came with 4 1" bolts and nuts instead. Worked just fine!
(2 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
great for a small tool
By Bebop
from Catalina, AZ
Does a very good job, does get hot though with excessive use. I have 2 and I'm very pleased with them. excellent price.
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Simple work to assemble.
By Ironman
from Cochranton, PA
The only drawback I found is that there is very limited range in height. I have modified the angle iron sides with longer pieces.
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A UNITED STATES JUDGE has given Samsung permission to add the Iphone 5 to its ongoing patent lawsuit against Apple, while allowing Apple to pursue the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S3 but not Android Jelly Bean.
On Thursday US Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal gave Apple and Samsung the nod to add more products to their never ending patent lawsuit.
Samsung first sought to add the Iphone 5 at the beginning of October, claiming that the latest Apple smartphone infringes eight of its patents relating to wireless data technology.
Grewal said that Samsung acted with "reasonable diligence" in asking to add the Iphone 5 to the case, Reuters reports, a decision that Apple did not oppose. He always warned Apple to "think twice before opposing similar amendments reflecting other newly released products - e.g. the Ipad 4 and Ipad Mini - that Samsung may propose in the near future."
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Cast: John Strong, Blair LaFemme, Regan Starr, Chris Cannon, Racquel Devine, Aleksandra Nice, Pat Myne, Dave Hardman, Stephanie Swift, Nancy Vee
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For a couple of years before the World Cup, you could barely move for knowing football shrewdies tapping their noses and telling everyone that cared to listen, and indeed many who didn't, that Belgium and Colombia were the dark horses for Brazil 2014.
Of course, it wasn't long before so many people described those two teams as underrated that they became overrated, saturation coverage by those 'in the know' rapidly making it a mainstream opinion. The teams were no longer dark horses, but simply, well, horses.
Those that saw this coming long ago will presumably be quite satisfied that both teams find themselves in the quarter-finals, albeit facing the two giants of South American football and albeit with one making rather more stately progress to this stage than the other.
Belgium's path to the quarters has not really been flawless, bagging late wins over Algeria and Russia, a 1-0 dead rubber victory over South Korea and now needing a very nervy extra-time to beat the USA.
They of course battered the Americans for long spells, coming up against an inspired goalkeeping performance by Tim Howard, and a terrific defensive display by Omar Gonzalez, and it took them until the additional 30 minutes to finally break their opponents down, and once again required some help from the bench to do so, Romelu Lukaku coming on to set up one and score the other.
4 - Four of Belgium's six goals at the 2014 World Cup have been scored by substitutes. Crafty.
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Indeed, as our friend OptaJoe points out, four of Belgium's six goals have come from substitutes, indicating perhaps that coach Marc Wilmots has the magic touch, that he can see where a game can be changed and alters his team accordingly. However, another school of thought might suggest that he shouldn't need to lean so heavily on replacements.
There's a thing in cricket known as 'following the ball', which is often a way to weed out a not particularly good captain. If a skipper simply moves his field to cover where the ball has recently been hit, there's a decent chance that he's winging it and isn't really sure what he's doing.
There is a whiff of that about Wilmots' team selection, but instead of following the ball he's following the substitutes. In the first game against Algeria Dries Mertens and Marouane Fellaini came off the bench to score, and they started the next match against Russia. In that encounter Divock Origi got a late winner after coming on, and earned his place against the USA (the final group game against South Korea can't really be considered part of this pattern because they were already through so Wilmots changed two-thirds of the team). You can bet that Lukaku will find himself back in the starting line-up against Argentina after looking so dangerous and scoring against the Americans.
There is obviously a degree of logic to it. If a player is left out of the team but then shows he is worthy, then perhaps he should be rewarded. However it does suggest a manager who firstly isn't really sure what his best team is (not necessarily the end of the world in a squad game), but perhaps more importantly isn't really thinking about which is the best line-up to face certain opponents. It suggests Wilmots' planning isn't what it could be, and if Belgium really are to prove those 'know-alls' right, then that must improve.
Because sooner or later (and since they are facing Leo Messi and Argentina in the next round, it'll be sooner) Belgium will face a team good enough to work them out before Wilmots can turn to his bench. They have a 100 per cent record in Brazil, but in truth the teams they have faced – Algeria, Russia, South Korea and the USA – are not exactly in the top bracket of international football.
Reaching the quarter-finals with a young team that is probably a few years away from its peak is a superb achievement by Wilmots and his side, but unless he figures out an effective gameplan from the start, their World Cup will go no further.
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Puerto Montt Things to Do
Stroll among the long-lived Alerce Trees
Nearby to Puerto Montt is Lahuen Nadi Park, home of the Alerce tree, the second longest living plant on earth. The Alerce is an indigenous conifer that can live several thousand years and thrives in moist climates. An understatement is this moist-love. When we visited the park as part of an excursion from our cruise ship, we viewed a 4,000 year-old...more
Colonization Museum fascinating find
Puerto Montt, established in 1853, was originally settled by German families who provided services to families going to the lake resorts. Settlers bring stuff, and a Chilean has made it a life's vocation and avocation to rescue everyday stuff. This includes farm equipment, cooking things, washers, clocks, musical instruments and other stuff....more
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The last lake in the crossing is Lago Nahuel Huapi which gives its name to the first national park in Argentina. You leave from Puerto Blest and travel along one arm of this huge lake to Puerto Pañuelos where another bus takes you to San Carlos Bariloche.The lake is much bigger and the scenery quite different. Unfortunately when I saw it the snow...more
Cross the Lakes to Argentina - Part 3
Lago Frias is the smallest of the three lakes in the lakes crossing. The ferry also is the smallest because people travelling this leg are crossing from Chile to Argentina or vice versa and not the day trippers that enjoy the return trip on the other two lakes.It is from this lake that you get the best view of Volcan Tronador.The journey ends at...more
Cross the Lakes to Argentina - Part 1
One of the best ways to cross into Argentina is by the famous Lakes Crossing. The trip starts in either Puerto Montt or Puerto Varas and goes through Vicente Perez Rosales National Park to Petrohue where a short visit to the falls is included. The fisrt leg is a boat trip to Puella across Lago Todos los Santos also known as the Emerald Lake because...more
Cross the Lakes to Argentina - Part 2
Part two of this amazing trip takes place on land and is where you actually cross the border. Stops are made to view Cascada las Mellizas and Volcan Tronador before arriving at Puerto Frias where you go through the border formalities.At the border you also leave Vicente Perez Rosales National Park and enter Nahuel Huapi National Park.At Puerto...more
Puerto Montt Hotels
Gran Hotel Vicente Costanera
The hotel gives you a warm feeling as you enter the stately lodge like atmosphere with large open...more
Hotel La Peninsula Marina Resort
Hotel La Península Resort & Spa Puerto Montt is rated as 5 star. While the accommodations are...more
Hotel y Cabanas del Lago
Calle Klenner 195, Puerto Varas, Lake District, Chile
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Puerto Montt Restaurants
German cuisine in Puerto Montt
Club Aleman is the best german restaurant in the area around of Puerto Montt. Just take a closer look at my photographs, it even looks like an average restaurant in Bavaria and it also smells the same. Take a look at my 3rd pic it shows the small "safes" for the personal beer-steins of the members of the Club, mostly descendants of the early...more
Autoservicio / Self Service
La comida no es lo mejor del barco , pero se puede "sobrevivir" los cuatro días .Como el barco estaba lleno se hacían dos turnos para las comidas Estos días comimos : Crema de choclo , espaguetis , lasaña , salmón...Además hay un bar , con sala para jugar cartas , leer..., donde casi todo el día te venden café , cervezas ,snacks...The food is not...more
Typical restaurants of Angelmo
This is a most typical site of Puerto Montt, Angelmo and the fish and sea fruits markets. There is possible dinning in the very typical restaurants.more
Puerto Montt Nightlife
Where did all the discos go?
Almost all of the guidebooks I've seen about Puerto Montt leave out any nightlife activity. And if they do include some tips, like Lonely Planet does, it's flat-out wrong (I discovered this one Friday night).
The only disco in Puerto Montt proper is located on the Plaza de Armas, close to the cathedral. To get to all of the other clubs (and there are a few) you should go to the collectivo stand near the Plaze de Armas and ask for a ride to the discos. The drivers will know what you mean, and you'll probably share a car with someone else going to the same place.
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Puerto Montt Transportation
getting to Puerto Montt by bus
There is a large bus-station in the very centre of Purto Montt, it is currently under total reconstruction and has a restaurant and restrooms inside, a large waiting-hall and some souvenir-stands. Within 5-7 minutes you are able to walk from that bus-station to the port-area, to the centre of town it is just 200 meters.For more informations and...more
Take a day trip from Puerto Montt
Some of the really beautiful spots around Puerto Montt can be reached by local busses from the bus terminus. The terminus is still in the process of being built, so this may change in the near future. If unsure, email me. If you come by ship, leave the harbour and turn to your right. The street is called Diego Portales. The bus station is about...more
Bussing into Puerto Montt
Arriving in a forreign city can be a little disconcerting if you don't know where to go next. This tip is aimed at helping you find some landmarks when bussing into Puerto Montt.There ia a new bus station being built at the moment but not yet finished. Long distance busses use the completed part of the new terminal and the local busses from a...more
Puerto Montt Shopping
the old shopping-mall
This shopping-centre is interesting for tourists for 2 reasons :1) it is an excellent collection of unique and special buildings dating back to the times of the first pioneers and settlers from Germany2) From the port you can get there easily within 3 minutes and you can even do so when you have just a few minutes left, when you come back from an...more
Tourist trinkets to take home for the...
This is a row of stalls about 5 minutes walk from the entrance to the cruise-ships tenders dropping off point.Get off your tender, go up the ramps, out the terminal building and when you are in the street turn left (away from the town! ) and walk for about 5 minutes. The stalls are there.The prices here are really cheap compared with Ushuaia, Ponta...more
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Puerto Montt Local Customs
The Lama wearing a hat
The owner of this Lama is living quite well on the $$$ he gets by the tourists, who take a photograph of his Lama, that is mostly wearing a small hat and looks quite funny. It is a pity I saw them too late, when I was queued up already for the tenderboat back to the ship, so I was able to take a photograph just from that large distance...more
waste-watchers in Chile
I saw this kind of carriage at many places in Chile, even in the centre of Santiago you will see them driving around with their horse-drawn carriage searching for things in the garbage that they might still be able to use. For tourists it is nice to take a photograph of them , but mostly I did it from a wide distance in order to avoid any bad...more
Black Forrest architecture in Puerto...
Many of the german settlers of 1852 had been from the Black Forest and so it is no wonder that you will see a lot of buildings reminding you of the special architecture there. On my main picture you will see such a building with a roof made in "Schwarzwald-style" and on my last picture you will see a wooden facade, made of wooden tyles, also made...more
Puerto Montt Warnings and Dangers
Who told you that size doesn't matter...
When taking a cruise to Puerto Montt it really makes sense to take a closer look at the size of your cruise-ship: giant ships like the Celebrity Infinity with 90.000 GRT are not able to dock in Puerto Montt and the tender-service will take away about a total of 2 hours of the precious time you could spend ashore.This giant ship with around 2000...more
Mareo - "Marianín" - Sea sickness
Cuando haces el viaje entre Puerto montt y Puerto Natale , todo el viaje es bastante tranquilo , menos cuando se llega al Golfo de Penas que es mar abierto y aquí el Pacífico se hace notar de verdad así que es conveniente tomar alguna pastilla como el "Mareamin" o probar otras soluciones como las pulseras para el mareo Este tramo tan sólo dura ocho...more
Low danger.
Chile es una país bastante seguro respecto de algunos otros píses latinoamericanos. Como en todas partes la delincuencia ha aumentado. Te recomiendo nunca mostrar tu dinero. No muestres mucho tus cosas (camaras u otros electronicos). Siempre con bolsillos cerados en bolsos y mochilas. De noche hay bastante actividad en restaurants y pubs o bares....more
Puerto Montt What to Pack
pack warm clothings even for the summer...
When coming to Puerto Montt be aware of the fact that even though it might be the southern summer in December or january, it still might be quite windy and cold. In fact we had some fog every morning in that area, so it makes sense to have some warm clothings with you, when going there. Make sure that your hat has also a string in order to fix it...more
Rain Rain Rain
Pack a rain coat and be prepared to layer the weather is reminiscent to Seattle. The dampness of the ocean air can chill your bones at times. The humidity is high and many days include fog. However, when the sun pops through... ahhhhmore
Mareamin !!
If you take the boat, you can get really sick, above all when the boat sails in the Pacific Ocean. Two pieces of advice : take some Mareamin tablets available in any local Farmacia (be careful, it makes you sleep) and don't eat too much (prefer drinking water).Si vous prenez le bateau, vous pouvez avoir le mal de mer... Deux conseils : prenez...more
Puerto Montt Off The Beaten Path
Armada de Chile
There is a small exhibition of all sorts of Army-equipment in the park around of the Navy-headquaters and barraks in Puerto Montt. This is not really "my cup of tea" but it might be of some interest for you and this is why I mention it here.This place is just about 100 meters from the place, where you are leaving the port-area.more
cruising in the south of Puerto Montt
Cruising in the south of Puerto Montt is full of surprises and great and unique landscapes. Just click on my photographs to enlarge them and see the great details of that wonderful landscape. Unfortunatly I did not see any whales, although some of our passengers saw a group of whales coming up to get some fresh air next to the ship and diving...more
Collegio San Francisco Javier
Collegio San Francisco Javier is an old church and monastery-school in a sidestreet of Puerto Montt, unfortunately the church was locked, when I had been there, but at least the facade of the blue school-building looked great in the old architecture of the 19th century, when the german settlers started to cultivate the land, and monks helped to...more
Puerto Montt Sports & Outdoors
a half-pipe in Puerto Montt
I was quite surprised to see this half-pipe right in the centre of Puerto Montt, it might be a great place for your kids, while you are taking a closer look at the ancient steam-locomotives that are just a few meters from this place.Add to your Trip Planner
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Vistas Generales de la Ciudad
He aqui fotos recientes. Recent photos from the center town build. You see the streets and the bay in the sunny daymore
Alrededores de Puerto Montt
Si sales de Puerto Montt por la carretera Austral, hacia el este, camino costero te encontraras con playas angostas pedregosas, agua muy fria y pequenos villorrios que en verano celebran fiestas gastronomicas a base de mariscos, pescados, carne de cordero, y papas como vegetal principal.If you go out from Puerto Montt by the Austral highway,...more
Nuestros bosques
En esta region los bosque se denominan siempreverde. De aspecto similar a los bosques tropicale sposeen menos variedad de especies. Se supone que coresponden a bosques relictos de la ultima glaciacion que amparados por un clima templado aun sobreviven. Son muy hermosos. Se puede caminar en ellos sin peligro a animales venenosos. Son extremadamente...more
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Seattle Weekly staffer Philip Dawdy has a blog: Furious Seasons. It's actually a good read, and I was amazed to discover that Philip and I are in agreement about Scientology, pot, and some other issues. There are also lots of interesting posts about metnal illness. Furious Seasons doesn't have permalinks, so you'll just have to go read through the whole thing to get Philip's thoughts on these and other issues.
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I know I should be blogging about how the US Senate just passed a bill undoing all the mental health parity in the 35 states that have it, but I need a drink.
It's a not a stiff drink, but maybe a picture of a workstation at The Stranger will make Philip feel better about his workstation at Seattle Weekly. This is Bradley Steinbacher's desk. Brad's been with The Stranger for 13 years. So has his chair.


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Escaped convict"Terrible" Tommy O'Connor can rest a little easier.
The warped wooden gallows used more than a century ago to hang convicts in Chicago, beginning with those condemned for the May 4, 1886, Haymarket Square riot, has been bought at auction by Ripley's Believe It or Not museums for $68,000, Mastro Auctions said on Thursday.
Between 1887 and 1927, 86 men were hanged from the gallows built to execute those convicted of inciting the violence at the labor rally in which eight policemen died. Four of the supposed conspirators were hanged from the gallows.
The contraption had been kept disassembled in the basement of Chicago's criminal courts building awaiting the recapture of cop killer O'Connor, who was 31 when he escaped a few days before his scheduled execution in 1921.
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July 8, 2013
Guillermo Maldonado has trained thousands to operate in miracles worldwide. Now he has fresh revelation to help YOU do the things that Jesus said, and even greater.
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Co-Sourcing Improves Pharmaceutical Laboratory Productivity
Keep the Opportunities, Lose the Opportunists
Sequenom and its subsidiaries will purchase Illumina's HiSeq 2000 platform and consumables for use in developing a noninvasive prenatal test designed to detect an overabundance of chromosome 21 in pregnant women, a result associated with fetal Down syndrome.
Under their three-year supply agreement, Sequenom and Illumina said they will work collaboratively toward a submission for regulatory approval of an in vitro sequencing-based diagnostic product for detecting fetal chromosomal abnormalities.
"This agreement is an important step in bringing our proprietary trisomy test to market, giving us the scalability, speed to market, and supply chain necessary to address the commercial opportunity of our noninvasive prenatal test for trisomy 21," states Sequenom chairman and CEO Harry F. Hixson Jr., Ph.D.
Last month Dr. Hixson said at a healthcare conference that Sequenom plans to submit a PMA application to the FDA for its SensiGene® Trisomy 21 (T21) test by the end of 2012. Sequenom representatives began talks with the FDA in January about the preclinical and clinical studies it would need to gain premarket approval.
Also in June Sequenom said it secured a $30 million credit facility—a $20 million term loan plus a $10 million revolving line of credit—to support the development and commercialization of new laboratory developed tests (LDTs).
Sequenom announced in May that its molecular diagnostics reference laboratory, the wholly owned subsidiary Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, completed testing samples from the pivotal Sequenom-funded Women and Infants clinical validation study to evaluate the clinical performance of its LDT. Study results are expected to be announced later this year following their submission and publication in a yet-to-be determined peer-reviewed journal.
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Question 1> Should I check NULL in the following case?
public interface INewClass {}
public class NewClass : INewClass {}
public void FunMeA(INewClass obj)
NewClass n = (NewClass) obj;
... // Should I check (n == null) here?
// call methods defined inside INewClass (updated from NewClass to INewClass)
A concrete example,
public void FunMeB(IAsyncResult itfAR)
AsyncResult ar = (AsyncResult) itfAR;
... // Should I check (ar == null) here?
// access ar.AsyncDelegate
Question 2> I just start to transfer to C# from C++. When coding in C++, I know when the checking should be done. However, I am totally lost in the C# world. So the question is: is there a general rule that can tell me when I MUST check for NULL?
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Waterbury police make massive heroin seizure
34,600 bags taken off streets
The street value of the confiscated narcotics is at least $350,000, but it could be much higher. The seizure -- one of the largest in city history -- marks the second time this year that police have recovered large amounts of the narcotic from a motor vehicle on city streets.
Police say they pulled brick after brick of the tightly bundled drugs out of the trunk of a car being driven by 23-year-old Traci Basta.
Police say the Toyota Camry Basta was driving was spotted on Monday on Grove Street at about 1 a.m. Basta wasn't wearing her seat belt when Sgt. Timothy LaMontagne saw the car turn onto North Main Street. She also didn't signal, police said.
LaMontagne stopped the Camry a short time later and found that Basta was wanted for failing to respond to a traffic ticket issued in Wolcott. Basta was detained without incident.
Officer Christopher LeBeau and Sgt. Kenneth Keroack arrived to help with the traffic stop. In the trunk, LeBeau found a plastic shopping bag with 14 plastic-wrapped bricks of heroin that each held 1,000 bags of the narcotic. In a separate backpack in the car trunk, LeBeau found another 20 bricks of the drug.
Each of the 34,600 bags of the narcotic was stamped with the words "Secret Window," according to police. Basta told police a friend had lent her the car, according to police.
The bust marks the second time this year that police have seized large amounts of heroin from a motor vehicle. In February, police found 10,000 bags of the drug in a secret compartment of an SUV that was stopped near the Brass Mill Center.
In that case, police said a couple from New York was driving a Jeep that also was carrying about $12,000 in cash. A drug-sniffing dog alerted police to a 4-foot by 1-foot compartment in the SUV that was hidden under the center console.
Basta, of 66 Burr St., was charged with possession of more than an ounce of heroin and illegal possession near a school zone; she also was ticketed for the motor vehicle infractions. Police are continuing to investigate.
Records show that Basta, who also has an address in Wolcott, was arrested twice in 2011 for driving while intoxicated in Cheshire and disorderly conduct in Winsted. It's unclear how those cases were resolved.
Basta is being held on a $200,000 bond and is due in Waterbury Superior Court on June 24.
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Ruminations on Marriage
Click the arrow above to listen to this powerful composition by Palomar Music faculty Madelyn Byrne. The source material for this composition was over 11 hours of recorded audio interviews with Palomar faculty and staffon the subject of marriage. Madelyn culled the interviews down and added many layers of music and sound to create this remarkable 7 minute composition.
The composition was presented with live choreography by Molly Faulkner as part of Between The Silence, PerformingHeArts OUT Loud.
Amidst the Complexities, Love Transforms: Notes From Bluefish Cove
Last Summer At Bluefish Cove is not only a beautiful and inspirational play about love, loss and liberation, it is significant as the first major American play to feature lesbian experience in a positive light. While the situation of the play involves the specific circumstances of lesbian and feminist characters in the late 1970's, the subject matter leads us to universal truths about the nature of love, relationships, identity, fulfillment, life and death.
The Bluefish Cove of the play is a summer haven for lesbians. It is the one place where they can shed the mask of conformity to a hetero-normative world and simply be themselves. The metaphor of the cove suggests a protected shoreline, safe from the rough violence of the open sea; still, the tides come in and go out. The receding tides carry away the traces of the past while the rising tides bring in the new, the mysterious, the world of possibilities.
The journey of Eva, who accidentally happens on Bluefish Cove while retreating from a hollow marriage, echoes the crisis of American Housewives in the mid-twentieth century. Betty Friedan's seminal book, The Feminine Mystique, had exposed "The problem that has no name." An unspoken emptiness afflicting women in the post-war era who were saturated with the message that their ultimate fulfillment could be achieved by serving their husbands, raising their children, keeping their houses and looking beautiful while sublimating their own ambitions and desires. For Eva, as the tide of her own experience carries her away from that life, it mysteriously washes her ashore in a protected cove of free souls where she encounters the possibility of realizing her own identity. Of course, this process is only achieved through risk and sacrifice.
One of the "free" souls she encounters there is Kitty Cochran. Within the fictional world, Kitty is the equivalent of Betty Friedan, author of the seminal book 'The Female Sexual Imperative' and figurehead of the growing feminist movement. But Kitty's soul is not nearly as free as one might expect. As the leading voice of the feminist movement, her credibility would be destroyed if the public found out that she is a lesbian. Thus, she is the most threatened by the presence at the cove of a straight woman who might reveal her secret to the world.
The complexities and contradictions with in Kitty's character point to the promise and the problems of the feminist movement at that time. From our 21stcentury point of view we can also observe that the characters are all white and middle class – a critique often leveled at early feminism. But within the class and race homogeneity of the characters we find an interesting spectrum of gender dynamics and social roles. Each couple in the play replicates, in some way, the traditional butch-femme power relationships of bread-winner and house wife, boss and secretary or sugar daddy and kept woman. Rae, who has been 'married' to the renowned artist Annie Joseph for nine years, tells Eva:
"I like to make a home. I like to shop, cook clean. When my kids (from her previous marriage) act up or Annie and I have a fight, I like to get down on my knees with a scrub brush and wash that kitchen floor until it squeaks."
But the difference here is that these roles are chosen and respected without reinforcing the patriarchal system of oppression.
Today we widely acknowledge that gender is not a binary phenomenon but each of us contains a unique balance of testosterone and estrogen and along with it a unique blending of qualities that have traditionally been relegated to male or female behavior. In the seventies, this concept was just beginning to be examined. One of the remarkable qualities of the women of Bluefish Cove is their ability to live fluidly and confidently in the uncertain gender spectrum. One example is the most charismatic character, Lil. She integrates traits traditionally associated with men. She loves to fish and she is a 'Casanova' who shies away from commitment so she can play the field. She is strong willed and can be aggressive. Yet she is also compassionate, wise and tender.
Ultimately, the most transformational power comes with flowing and ebbing tide of love. Both Eva and Lil are transformed by it. In the process, Eva receives an education about the dangers of coming out as a lesbian, and Lil realizes the depth of meaning that commitment can bring. Finally the irresistible tide of circumstance leads Eva to the precipice of true independence. For her, end of the play is just the beginning of her life's adventure.
Sample Assignment from Bill Jahnel
The PerformingHeARTS project at Palomar College this year is doing a set of events based on Gay and Lesbian issues and history. Last Summer at Bluefish Cove was one of the first major American plays produced about lesbian issues. This play will be performed during the weeks of April 13-22. (You can find ticket information at: http://www.palomar.edu/performingarts/index.htm) By attending the play, you may write a 2-3 page summary of your experience discussing how the views of women and lesbianism presented in the play might be historically different or similar to issues today. This will be worth 1 point towards your final grade.
Now, for ALL the marbles, you may also go to the Performing Hearts blog at http://www2.palomar.edu/performinghearts/ and contribute intelligently and with at least a paragraph or two of reasoned analysis, discussion, or inquiry at least 5 times to the threads, that too may count as a point of extra credit. (Please see me about receiving credit for this assignment if you decide to post under a pseudonym.)
That's right: This assignment gives you the possibility to get 2 of your 3 extra credit points!
What does marriage mean to you?
How do you define marriage? What makes it sacred? If marriage = a loving couple committing to each other for the rest of their lives, who else should be part of the equation? Some people believe a marriage is only valid if done in church by a priest, while others are content to be legally married in a courthouse. Some couples want to have a ceremony to involve all the people they love as witnesses of the solidifying of their union. Some couples already feel committed to their bond but want the law to acknowledge their bond for tax, insurance, and other legal purposes such as having the rights of a family member in emergency matters surrounding their beloveds. What does marriage mean to you, and what could possibly threaten that meaning?
Is Homosexuality a Lifestyle Choice?
Some people believe that discrimination against one's sexual orientation is completely different from discrimination against race because people are born into their race, but homosexuals choose to be attracted to people of the same gender. Those who discriminate against homosexuality claim that such relationship choices are not natural; while studies show that about 10% of the population of every sexually reproducing species in nature develops homosexual bonds. Also, many homosexual people have recalled being attracted to the same gender from as far back as they can remember.
What do you think? Is homosexuality a choice? If you do think it is a choice, do you think others should be able to justify discriminating against same gender relationships because it is a choice?
On Gay Marriage, Bluefish Cove Was Ahead Of It's Time
One of the first things that surprised me about Last Summer at Bluefish Cove is the way "marriage' amongst these lesbian couples is talked about quite casually. My expectation from a 1970's play was that marriage would not even be mentioned. This was 30 years before the LGBTQ community even considered legal marriage a possibility. Yet the women of this play frequently refer to themselves as married and consider their committed relationships as marriages. I think the world is ready to catch up with the women of Bluefish Cove.
Connecting Classrooms Program
Palomar Coffee Talks invites teachers and students to participate in this integrative learning project. Pablo Picasso famously described art as, "A lie that reveals the truth." We offer performances and public gatherings that provide an occasion to analyze aspects of our society and the human condition from the multiple perspectives provided by differing academic disciplines. For the Fall of 2015, we are focusing on two questions raised by Bertolt Brecht's provocative play THE GOOD PERSON OF SETZUAN: What does it mean to be a 'good' person? Is it possible to be good and stay good in our society?
Ways of participating include but are not limited to:
• Add your class to the list of participating by clicking here..
• Join us for our Coffee Talk on October 8th following the 4PM performance of The Good Person of Setzuan.
• Offer extra credit for attending the Coffee Talk and or a performance.
• Commit to at least one class discussion on the two questions and how they relate to your discipline.
• Create some expression of the discussion that can be shared with other participants on our website, facebook, twitter feed #goodperson, or Right Here On Campus (see next bullet).
• Contribute your expressions to a sculptural display at the entrance to the theatre in the Performing Arts Courtyard.
• Some possibilities:
o What is a good person? – in eight words or 144 characters. Make lots of these.
o Characterize the discussion in 8 words or 144 characters. Make several of these.
o Share a simple statement or conclusion that came from the discussion. Whole class or small groups.
o Generate a list of related questions specific to your discipline.
o Describe, express or articulate some of the pressures to act 'badly' or questionably that you have experienced. Individual or small groups.
o Help us create a site-specific public art piece in the Performing Arts courtyard – that will evolve throughout the semester.
o Share a response on our Tumblr page. Words & Images accepted.
Connect Your Classes
Respond to Pride Fest
This is the place to share your experiences and analysis of Palomar's Pride Fest.
Respond to Keynote Address
This is the place to share your experiences and analysis of the Keynote Address.


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July 27, 2016, 11:37 am
Mr Steve Harvey is "Too Funny" ....This rags to riches funny man is amazing as is his humor.
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July 26, 2016, 12:13 pm
Bride falls off scooter, husband keeps driving. What's you caption for this video?
Dang! Who knew she should have been wearing a biker helmet!?
July 25, 2016, 11:07 am
Occasionally we get down to just a few pets needing foster care, so our coordinator may take one or two home sometimes to foster!! It's a job perk. Haha. Like these two pups in the video...
July 21, 2016, 1:31 pm
A dermatologist in California commissioned a batch of cupcakes designed to celebrate her affinity for popping pimples.
Dr. Sandra Lee, perhaps better known as "Dr. Pimple Popper" on...
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Girl where did you come from? Of course she's a Florida girl that's red hot!
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If you've always wanted a "Pet Duck" ?? Nearly 100 ducks were left abandoned outside a mall in New Jersey over the weekend.
The khaki campbell ducks-- 92 of them to be exact-- were...
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Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, addressed the Republican National Convention taking place in Cleveland, on Monday night. This was the first time the model and fashion designer has given...
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Fans attending Gwen Stefani's second This Is What the Truth Feels Like tour stop in Virginia over the weekend got a special surprise.
Her boyfriend, Blake Shelton , decided to...
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These beautiful ruby glass water goblets were made by Wheaton Glass Co. and sold by Avon from 1976-1990. The intricate pattern is called Cape Cod. The pattern first issued in 1975 was discontinued in the late 1990's. It is highly collectible and found in reference guides for collectibles. The water goblets are in excellent condition, except that one has a few light scuff marks on the inside bottom of the bowl visible when tilted under bright light. They measure 3.5" wide at the rim and 6" tall. Price is for a set of two.
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Willson 120: Time to get your shots
While trying to find my immunization records, I discovered that I had none. It had been many years since I'd had any, so I had some catching up to do.
How Do You Say "Motorcycle" in Spanish?
More important than wrenches, spare parts, waterproof bags, or GPS units, COMMUNICATION is going be the most used tool during our trip through South America.
Willson 120: How To Raise Money For Your Dream Ride
While we could have created a Kickstarter campaign or put feelers out for sponsorship money, that just didn't feel right to us. This is our dream trip, an extended vacation if you will, so we didn't feel it was right to ask for anyone to pay for it but ourselves. As for ways to save up enough money for a 4-month trip, here are a few of the things we did:
RIDER ALERT! Pre-Order the TKC 70 Dual-Sport Tire NOW!
The new Continental TKC 70 tire is finally available for pre-order at Touratech-USA! The TKC 70 fills the gap between the Trail Attack and the TKC 80 by giving riders a 60/40 option tire that should last a long time on the pavement without giving up too much traction in the dirt.
Touratech Releases Black Expedition Skid Plate for F800GS
Touratech has expanded on its successful line of Expedition Skid Plates for the BMW F800GS, Adventure, F700GS, and F650GS-Twin, with a new black anodized edition.
DriRide Breathable Seat Technology
Stay dry with Touratech's exclusive breathable seat technology. Your riding gear is designed to allow moisture to escape your body but it can't do its job in the most important area unless you have a seat that breathes.
Simon & Lisa Stories - The Roof of The World
The tires of our heavily-laden bikes bite into the freshly fallen snow that blankets the ground. We cautiously pull past the weather worn sign on the outskirts of Ushuaia which proudly reads "Bienvenidos a la Ciudad mas austral del mundo", or " Welcome to the southern-most city in the world."
Simon & Lisa Stories - South by Southeast
We travel South on the margin of civilization, deep within the disputed territories of the Western Sahara, a vast uninhabited and inhospitable stretch of barren desert, long fought over, with Morocco and Mauritania laying hostile claim. To our left the Sahara silently reaches out, shifting sand lit by the fast rising sun. It is 9:00am and already 100 degrees.
Touratech & MotoDiscovery Copper Canyon Ride - Day 3
Today's ride is one of the longer ones, but the roads are twisty, and the scenery is breathtaking as we wind our way up to the upper Sierras.
Weekend Weigh-In Results
Curious what a fully outfitted adventure motorcycle weighs? We wondered the same thing and have since strapped a variety of ADV motorcycles to the digital scale here at our shop in Seattle.


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Why GetHashCode is not a property like HashCode in .NET?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
I don't think there's any good reason. Any implemention of
Probably because it requires computation, and exposing it as a propery might imply that the hashcode is already available for free.
Edit: Guidelines on this: Properties versus Methods
"The operation is expensive enough that you want to communicate to the user that they should consider caching the result."
Perhaps GetHashCode is expensive enough in some cases.
Often it is not possible to define a HashCode for a class that makes since:
Therefore it is common to make the GetHashCode() method throw a NotImplementedException. This would course all sort of problem if HashCode was a property, as most people (and debuggers) assume it is always valid to get the value of a property
Besides that a property is nothing else than a getter and a setter method, from a design perspective a property should never contain any computations other than initializing or validation, eg:
GetHashCode() does not contain extensive computations, but it could contain such long running operations (just from the fact that it could compute the hashcode of an object in a complex manner), this is why its a method instead of a property.
properties should only be used if the computation behind them is really fast or cached
besides most of the time the only logic in properties should be validation
You have to remember that the .NET Framework is designed to be accessed by a wide variety of languages.
In theory you could create a compiler that is incapable of correctly overriding properties. While that would make for a pretty crappy compiler, it would not necessarily be illegal. (Remember properties are just methods with some meta data)


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Let's put this mess in a little perspective.
This isn't the Black Sox.
This isn't The Strike that Ate the World Series.
In many ways, in fact, this probably isn't even as scandalous as the late, great Collusion Fiasco back in the 1980s.
But now that we've got that out of the way, there's still no denying that baseball's latest ride on the rampaging Steroid Express has sent this sport tumbling over the side of a cliff it has seen coming for a long, long time.
On this very Web site, at last look, more than 80 percent of sports fans who were polled about Barry Bonds' BALCO revelations said this story didn't change their opinion of him -- because they "always thought he used steroids."
So if that many people are regarding what seems like one of the blockbuster sports stories of modern times with a big fat "what-else-is-new?", then how much damage can it really be inflicting on the sport itself?
Meanwhile, over in the Jason Giambi car of the Steroid Express, just 10 percent of fans polled said they were either "surprised" or "shocked" by Giambi's testimony before the BALCO grand jury.
Even if you throw in the 12.9 percent who said they were angered, you're still talking about a smaller percentage of the population than thinks we should rip Alexander Hamilton's mug off the face of the $10 bill.
So that's a scandal? An embarrassment, maybe. But a scandal? Not in our dictionary.
What Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds did for baseball this week was present it (and themselves) with a public-relations nightmare. But it's not a new nightmare. It's just a new spin on the same old nightmare.
We know that because, in the same set of polling, more than 93 percent of fans surveyed said steroid use "taints the game."
So the people have spoken. But they've spoken before. And what they said this week is no different than what they said last week. Or last month. Or last year. Or last century.
They don't exactly look at steroids and baseball as the sports world's cutest couple. When they look at this scene, they see Sharon and Ozzy, not Nick and Jessica.
So what have people really made of the developments they read about and heard about this week? They didn't need shock therapy -- because they knew this stuff was looming, just over the horizon. Who the heck didn't?
Sooner or later, some week or some month or some year, some big-time baseball name was going to get caught testing positive for illegal steroids.
Or, as happened in Giambi's case, some once-beloved slugger was going to climb onto a witness stand and admit he took what he took and he did what he did and he knew it wasn't right or fair or legal.
Giambi just had the misfortune to be the first. So he gets to wear the scarlet letter.
Now his team wishes he would just go away. His sport would love to find a way to make an example of him. And only the might of the players' union will keep the Yankees from voiding his contract.
If ever other players needed a deterrent not to use steroids, forget fines. Forget suspensions. The example of poor Jason Giambi is all the deterrent they should ever need.
After seeing how he's been treated for being Victim No. 1, who would ever want to put himself at risk of being Victim No. 2?
Meanwhile, Bonds did an excellent job of covering himself legally by saying he didn't know he was using a steroid. But will the sports fans of America actually believe that? Sure doesn't look that way.
Nearly 85 percent of people who voted on this site didn't believe him. Then again, only 7 percent said they did before this story broke.
That's our man Barry. He's reached the unique place in our hearts where folks don't believe his admissions or his denials. Hard to do.
But Bonds could have far more trouble ahead. There are many miles to travel on this BALCO Highway. And it's hard to imagine Barry enjoying the ride.
With every leak, every headline, every twist in this case, his chances of being regarded as one of the shining lights in the history of his sport shrink like Giambi's biceps.
So that, really, is where this mess turns tragic. What Barry Bonds has done these last five years is totally unprecedented. He has hit more home runs since his 35th birthday than Roger Maris hit in his whole career. Which is amazing.
It is that power explosion which has turned him from a great player into a man who has either broken or threatened the most romantic records in this, or any, sport. But if it turns out to be steroid suspicions that stain the breaking of records that magical, then baseball has broken the pact any sport makes with its fans.
That pact isn't real complicated, either. What a sport owes its fans, more than all else, is the promise that what they're watching is real.
But because of steroids, we have reached a point in baseball where many fans no longer believe that. They have convinced themselves that steroids equal cheating. Period.
That's a vast oversimplification of a complicated issue. But it's where we are. And it's where we have been for a long time now. But because it's where we are, baseball has no choice but to get its act together and do whatever it can to reassure its fans that it has its sport back under control.
The executive board of the Players Association will meet next week. Sources say the steroid issue will be a major topic of conversation, as well it should. If players push for a better, tougher, more effective program, we expect their union will agree to negotiate one.
It probably won't be the zero-tolerance, stay-clean-or-take-a-hike program Bud Selig is lobbying for. And it probably won't be in place by spring training, as Selig has vowed.
But any step is a positive step for a sport that has a responsibility now to calm down the masses before they reach the summit of Mount Hysteria.
What unfolded this week in the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle, and then reverberated through living rooms from coast to coast, wasn't a scandal, just as it wasn't a shock. But it was a wakeup call.
Now it's time for baseball to hear that alarm -- and do the right thing.
Jayson Stark is a senior writer for ESPN.com.