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By Pam StevensManaging Editor
May 9, 2011
It reads like an oxymoron—"The depths of drug use —the good news" however, it is true that here in Lake Stevens our students seem to be well informed about what using drugs can and will do to them and their futures.
Within the walls of Cavelero Mid High School they have only seen a small percentage of tobacco and marijuana use. Harder drugs aren't tolerated and the students have gotten the message.
"We haven't seen it and we're pretty hard on them," Lake Stevens Police Officer Jim Barnes said. Barnes is the school's resource officer as well. "I know that has changed. The new administration has really cleaned things up."
At Lake Stevens High School, Intervention Specialist Steve Pitkin spends his day building relationships with students and helping them understand the effects of drug use. Pitkin received national recognition for his work with students in the area of substance abuse prevention when he was named "Teacher of the Year" last October by the Sundt Memorial Foundation.
The Foundation's mission is to influence the hearts and minds of kids by inspiring them to choose a natural high instead of turning to drugs.
Lake Stevens High School has done an excellent job ensuring that students know what can happen if they are caught using drugs.
Lake Stevens scored 10 points higher than the states average in terms of students being aware and getting in trouble at school.
"The school district has consistently enforced substance abuse policies, we've done an exceptional job keeping kids aware," Pitkin said. "There is also help at the schools and we have more access to help. I've been around here for a lot of years so the students know me."
Pitkin explained that in the 10th grade, 85 percent of the students say they know that the school punishes students who use drugs. He also said that it is eight points higher in terms of students knowing that there is someone available to help.
"What I'm seeing is that there are more students abstaining from everything but there are some using more heavily," Pitkin said. "In High School the level of methamphetamine use is only five to six percent at the highest. At the same time juniors and seniors are using inhalants twice as often. Most kids are not using. Drug use is not prevalent behavior."
Every other year the State Department of Health along with the Liquor Control Board and OSPI (Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction) performs a Healthy Youth Survey throughout high schools in the state.
The statistics that came out of the 2010 survey are promising to school staff and parents.
The sample is approximately 30,000 students statewide. In Lake Stevens, 402 seniors participated in the study as well as 505 sophomores.
It is interesting to note that heroin use was not even mentioned in the 2008 Healthy Youth Survey. However, with its resurgence the question of whether or not they have ever used heroin was on the 2010 survey.
Ninety-five point five (95.5%) percent of the students surveyed said they had never used heroin.
When it comes to methamphetamines only 5.5 percent of the kids said they had tried them and only seven percent of students have tried cocaine.
Students were also asked if they had ever used a painkiller like Vicodin, OxyContin or Percocet to get high. Eighty-nine point five (89.5%) percent said they had not.
The survey also showed that tobacco use was down from the 2008 survey. An overwhelming 79 percent of students have never smoked a cigarette and only 5.5 percent smoked in the last one to two days.
Marijuana and alcohol use was higher with 78.3 percent (marijuana) and 56.9 percent (alcohol) of students saying they had never tried them.
While these numbers are just a small portion of the survey, they are the actual results from Lake Stevens High School.
"The results do show that substance abuse at school is lower than the state," Pitkin explained.
In a majority of cases, genetics is a marker when it comes to substance abuse of any kind.
"Drug addiction is by and large a genetic issue," Pitkin said. "Twenty-five percent of the people have a genetic predisposition to addiction and 10 percent of those end up addicted."
Other factors can include environmental, financial and emotional situations as well as neglect and abandonment issues.
Ensuring that students are well educated on the effects of drug abuse and that they know they have a safe place to turn as well as continuing with a no tolerance policy remains a top priority at our local schools.
"I've been around here for a lot of years so the students know me and they have more access to help," Pitkin said. "I see over a hundred students a year. They know that we can be trusted because they have heard it's safe and so they choose to come in."
While some kids like Shea, from pat one of this series, continue to fight the depths of drug use, it is encouraging to note that most of our kids aren't falling into its grasp.
Shea's family continues to pray for her to overcome her addiction. She will be moved from rehab this week into a "sober house" where she can continue with her recovery and hopefully her education as well.
Still other families consistently pray that their children will abstain from the evils of drug use altogether.
An Attitude Tracking Survey conducted by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America in 1998 found drug use significantly lower among kids who've learned a great deal about drugs at home.
Talk to your kids about drugs and alcohol. Parents truly are the anti-drug.
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FLAGSTAFF - U.S. Senate candidates finished their series of televised debates with sharp assessments of themselves and their opponents Friday. Republican incumbent Jon Kyl repeatedly highlighted his experience in Congress and his understanding of national security matters, energy and other issues.
Kyl characterized Democratic challenger Jim Pederson as someone who has a shallow understanding of both the inner workings of government and of the political issues.
Pederson, the founder and chairman of a successful development company, described himself as a results-oriented businessman who won't put up with the status quo.
He painted Kyl as a political insider who is content to go along with Bush administration policies and who ignores constituent concerns in Arizona.
The debate at Northern Arizona University marked the final meeting between the rivals before they embark on political tours that will zigzag the Grand Canyon State before Election Day on Nov. 7.
The stakes are huge. Both campaigns have spent more than $10 million each in the hardest fought Senate campaign in Arizona in a generation.
The results will indicate whether Arizona voters are satisfied with Kyl's conservative Republican voting record and principles or if voters are ready for Pederson's moderate Democratic stance.
The candidates clashed on nearly every issue, even on national security, which they agreed was the top issue in the campaign.
The exchange got testy. Kyl said he believes keeping the United States safe begins in Iraq, where terrorists have chosen to engage U.S. forces. Pederson countered that Iraq is a mess, U.S. troops are getting killed needlessly and that the United States' involvement has made America less safe.
"Look at the growth of terrorist organizations around the world. Look at the growth of terrorist attacks around the world," Pederson said.
"I've heard a lot of tough talk. I haven't heard a lot of smart talk. But, you know what? I learned a long time ago in business the tough talkers usually have something to hide. What this administration has to hide is incompetence," the Democrat said.
Kyl differed sharply.
"The key challenge is winning this war against the terrorists, and you can't win the war by leaving the battle. That's the critical point here," Kyl said.
"As a member of the United States Congress, I haven't been talking tough — and by the way, viewers are going to have to determine who's been the tough talker here. Who's talked about specifics?" the Republican said.
He noted his work on the USA Patriot Act and other legislation, improvements within U.S. intelligence agencies and the detection of planned terrorist attacks on the United States since Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't know how you can say this is not progress in fighting the war on terrorists," Kyl said.
Things also got heated concerning oil and energy policy.
Pederson charged that Kyl has been a non-player in efforts to develop alternative fuels and has protected the interests of oil companies.
"Our people are way ahead of their elected leaders in recognizing this problem and willing to do something about it with a little leadership. But you can't have a senator that consistently votes in favor of the oil companies, that constantly votes against alternative fuels," Pederson said.
Kyl shot back that the energy bill that came before the Senate earlier this year contained both subsidies for oil companies and language to develop alternate fuels.
"Well, Mr. Pederson would put me in a very difficult situation — to vote both for and against a bill," he said. "So which one would I do, vote yes or no? Well, I voted against the bill notwithstanding the fact that those energy companies wanted it, because it did have about $80 billion in subsidies and tax breaks for oil companies."
The country needs to drill in the Gulf Coast and Alaska to get more oil in the short term, because it's impossible for the United States to conserve its way out of the problem, he said.
"Jon, listen to what you said. You said you can't conserve your way out of this problem." Pederson said. "Sure you can. That's the biggest potential."
Libertarian candidate Richard Mack was not invited to the debate that was arranged by Kyl's and Pederson's campaigns.
Jon Kyl: Work with Iraq to build a stable, pluralistic and effective national government. Train Iraqi forces to assume more responsibility for their own security. Foster conditions for a sound economy. The mission will be won in stages that are determined by conditions on the ground, not by arbitrary timelines.
Jim Pederson: Push for a plan that establishes measurable goals for stabilizing the country and concrete conditions to bring troops home. Make the Iraqis take responsibility for policing their communities. End no-bid contracts that waste taxpayer money. Fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Kyl: Increase oil exploration in the Gulf Coast and in Alaska to become less dependent on foreign imports. Cut back government requirements for "boutique" blends of gasoline that drive up costs. Encourage development and use of alternate fuels such as hydrogen and next-generation use of coal and nuclear power generation.
Pederson: Create a program to focus the attention and labor needed to develop clean-energy technology. Increase automobile fuel efficiency standards to 43 miles per gallon for cars and to 33 mpg for light trucks by 2012. Eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies, and implement federal gas price-gouging laws.
Kyl: Keep current policy that bars federal funding to develop new lines of embryonic stem cell lines. The current policy removes the incentive for research that destroys human embryos.
Pederson: Support federally funded embryonic stem cell research, a measure that offers hope for finding cures for Alzheimer's, diabetes, Parkinson's disease and other conditions.
Kyl: Taxes on income and investments must be kept low so Americans work, save and invest to keep the economy growing. Limit government spending and restructure entitlement programs like Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare. Reduce "pork-barrel" projects.
Pederson: Cut government waste and "pork-barrel" projects that waste billions of dollars annually. Stand up to special interests in Washington that pad their pockets with costly tax breaks. Allow the Medicare program to negotiate for lower drug prices.
Kyl: Increase minimum wage to $6.25 an hour, coupled with flex-time options for families and tax relief provisions for small businesses to help mitigate the effect of higher wages.
Pederson: Increase the wage to $6.25 an hour to lift full-time workers from below the poverty line.
Kyl: Hire 10,000 new U.S. Border Patrol agents and 1,250 new customs agents. Install new technology, such as cameras and sensors, along the border. Build new infrastructure, such as Border Patrol stations, checkpoints and detention centers. Strengthen tracking systems to better monitor immigrants who enter the country and fail to leave.
Pederson: Recruit, hire and train at least 12,000 new U.S. Border Patrol agents. Create a high-tech "virtual fence" along the border. Upgrade information systems. Expand capacity for detention facilities for foreign nationals.

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ZAGREB, Croatia (Bloomberg) -- Croatia, which is seeking new revenue to revive its economy, will publish a tender to explore the Adriatic Sea for oil and gas on April 2, a government official said.
Tenders will go out for 29 blocks of the Adriatic seabed and will be open for six months, Tomislav Cerovec, the Economy Ministry's spokesman, said in a phone interview in Zagreb.
The blocks were drawn after Norway's seismic-data company Spectrum ASA last year completed the imaging of 35,000 sq km (13,500 sq mi) of Croatia's seabed. The government opened a data room for possible investors on March 10.
Croatia, which joined the European Union in July, needs investment to revive growth after five years of economic recession. The country revised laws on hydrocarbon research in June, easing the process for gaining permits in a bid to tap more of its own resources and reduce dependence on Russian gas.
About 20 companies so far have applied for access to the data room, Cerovec said. Alexander Dyukov, the CEO of Gazprom Neft, expressed interest in the tender during his meeting with Croatian Economy Minister Ivan Vrdoljak on March 14 in Zagreb, according to Cerovec.
Croatia may hold as much oil and gas in the Adriatic Sea as Italy does in the same branch of the Mediterranean, Vrdoljak said on Oct. 29, citing initial results of the seismic mapping.
In an interview in April, Vrdoljak said Croatia has talked with Exxon Mobil Corp., ConocoPhillips and General Electric Co. on investing in oil and gas exploration in the Adriatic Sea.
INA Industrija Nafte d.d., Croatia's largest refiner, operates offshore platforms in the northern Adriatic with Edison SpA and Eni. Zagreb-based INA, controlled by Hungary's Mol Nyrt., has so far had a monopoly on exploration in Croatia.
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Dec 16th, 2012. ANDY'S UNPOPULAR OPINIONS. America is Drowning in a Sea of Its Own Bullshit.
The Mass Murder in Sandy Hook is ONE MORE SYMPTOM of an American that has STAYED on a Lot of Wrong Roads for TOO LONG. Sandy Hook is ONE MORE symptom of a Nation that is DROWNING in a SEA of its own Bullshit, and Driving young White males (in particular) Insane.
It is NOT a coincidence that ALL of the mass murders and shootings going back to the 1999 Columbine High School murders by Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold, they were all White Males, except for one young American-Asia male who thought of himself as White.
Back in 1960, I was a member of the NAACP when it was NOT fashionable or safe for a poor White Boy to be doing NAACP projects and protests. (My view of all of the current foaming at the mouth for "equality," smug, self righteous prigs, my view of them is that it's REAL EASY to fight in a War AFTER the war is over).
It was very easy and safe to be an anti-Hitler German in 1946. It wasn't so easy or safe in 1936.
I was on the correct side of history in 1960, and I'm STILL on the correct side of history today. I was unpopular then, and I'm unpopular now. In over a half century that has NOT changed.
"Civil Rights" became Fashionable in America, and then America went WAY DOWN a road that's a self destructive Dead End. America's Real Estate Disaster was (and is) in large part caused by idiots in Washington DC trying to PROVE that people who are genetic morons are really not genetic morons.
"Hay, if we give this Donkey a brand new Government paid for Rolls Royce the Donkey will turn into a Really Good driver." After a Million smashed up Rolls Royces Washington DC's answer is, "Hay, if we give this Donkey a brand new Government paid for Rolls Royce then the Donkey will turn into a Really Good driver."
Washington DC today is the know Universe's CAPITAL of, "Unable To Learn Anything."
"Civil Rights" in 1960 was NOT supposed to be ADDED RIGHTS coming from running down and insulting White Males. Civil Rights was supposed to be an EQUAL chance to succeeded given their talents. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who I had the great honor of marching with (and getting arrested with), never said or wanted Civil Rights to be a reverse Civil Rights. "Civil Rights" in 1960 wasn't supposed to be let's make people of Diversity look better by making While Males look worse.
Today the tables have been turned, and White Males are the ones who are discriminated against. This is the "WHY" of Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook, and the "WHY" of MORE Adam Lanzas, Eric Harris' and Dylan Klebolds in America's future. (Unless America changes, and that's NOT going to happen until AFTER America crashes and burns). Adam Lanza was a protestor sending a message that he know couldn't be totally marginalized and ignored.
The true terror of the Sandy Hooks of America is that the Enemy of political correct modern American Bullshit is INSIDE of the Walls. The "enemy" of bullshit insanity is Inside of Homeland's safe house.
As I've been saying since 1999, the REAL COST to America is NOT the one in eight million young males like Adam Lanza who are driven totally crazy and take a lot of people with them during their suicide. The REAL COST to America are the 300,000 out of every Million White Males who are driven only Half Crazy and become almost useless.
There are HUNDREDS of Examples of America Downing in a Sea of its Own Bullshit, let look at only a few:
THE BIGGEST COMEDY ACT IN THE WORLD are Ben Bernanke's trips to Congress. All of the Congressmen slobber over Bernanke like Jerry Sandusky slobbering over a naked 10 year old boy in the shower room, "On, Chairman Bernanke, we are SO very honored to have you here. We congratulate you for bringing unemployment down to 3%, and for America's booming manufacturing sector. Congratulations on creating enough inflation to bring Real Estate sales volume back up to 2005 levels, and saving the Trillions of Dollars of Queer Mortgages that you forced Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae into buying with tax payer money. Congratulations on bringing America's Balance of Trade back into positive territory. You are so wonderful, you are so good to the taste, you are the General Westmoreland of American economics. We CAN see the light at the end of your hole...slobber, slobber, slobber."
If there was any sanity in Congress they would have flushed the Failed FED turds down the toilet three years ago.
Out of the hundreds of examples of America's SEA of Bullshit, let's go to the TOP. President Obama's economic plan to save America.
We're supposed to believe that raising the tax rate on 5% of the income tax payers (who are ALREADY PAYING 60% of all Federal Income Tax), raising their tax rate from 35% to 39% according to President Obama is going to SOLVE America's problem of $86 Trillion Dollars (Trillion with a T) of liabilities. Sure! That's like saying, "I'll going to bail out the Pacific Ocean with a tea cup." That's like SINCERELY BELIEVING that it's possible to build a staircase to the Moon. It's insanity.
Total Federal Income tax collected each year is a little over ONE Trillion a year. Going from 35% to 39% might give the Gov maybe, MAYBE, an added $65 Billion a year in 2013 (because of the Lafler Curve it will NOT be much of an increase). An extra $65 Billion a year to pay down total Federal Liabilities of $86,000 Billion. Gee, an extra $65 Billion a year would ONLY take 1,323 YEARS to pay off the already $86 Trillion. By the year 3335 America would be home free.
BUT WAIT! Pres Obama wants the Republicans to APPROVE $60 Billion Dollars RIGHT NOW so it can be given to the Democrats in New York for storm sandy's damages. (Let's all pretend that a big part of that money WON'T be used to defeat the Republicans in 2014). Oh well, I guess we'll just have to extend the payments by a year, kick the can down the road again, and wait until the year 3336 for America's liability pay down?
The unwanted TRUTH is that for economics, the real President of the United States is a Bernie Madoff.
However, let's all keep telling ourselves that the insanity, the stupidity, the bullshit, lies, cultural dishonesty, and the US FED making poor people ALL OVER THE WORLD even poorer by RAISING World inflation. Let's all pretend that the upside down racism and insults against White males, America's endless religious wars against the Muslims of the world, America's support for West Bank slavery, repression and murder. Let's keep telling ourselves that in some magical way all of these MASSIVE MISTAKES are all COST FREE. So when the next Sandy Hook like Mass Murder happens, and for the same reasons as all of them going back to Columbine, let's all be just as surprised and ask, "What's going wrong? We can't figure it out."
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March 1 for submission of all application materials, with final decision of admissions by March 15. The program begins with a mandatory on-campus orientation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in early May, with classes starting in early June. In addition, students strongly encouraged to attend a day and a half on-campus orientation to the entire MSN program in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in early August.
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Last weekend was the opening weekend for the Mayfield Farm Corn Maze in Athens, TN. So I packed the van up, with my group and several neighbor children, and headed out.
The Good:
The children all had a great time, although it was a bit hot in the corn maze (fall-like weather hasn't made much of an appearance yet). Outside of the corn maze there were plenty of places to sit in the shade; a big plus! And there was plenty to do for all ages.
The younger kids didn't care for the maze itself as much as the older kids did, but they enjoyed the sandbox, the corn box, and the bird seed box, as well as the hay bale jump, the moon bounce, and "milking" the wooden cow.
There was a corn hole game set up, which would have been enjoyable, had the weather not been so hot, and a local Christian radio station was broadcasting live on this particular day. (Gator and Ant were THRILLED to have been able to speak live on the air).
The maze itself was different than I'd ever seen, as it had a Christian theme. At certain checkpoints throughout the maze, you could answer Biblical trivia. The correct answer would point you in the right direction. The environment over all, was Christian; very family friendly. Several of the workers appeared to be volunteers from various church youth groups.
The Bad:
The admission was a bit pricey at $10 per person (it is regularly $8, but there were Christian music artists performing on this date, so they were charging $2 more). I suppose if you only had a couple of children, this may not be a financial hardship, but for us… *sigh* Most places offer group rates for groups of 10 or more (that's us!) There were 17 of us in one group, but no discount.
Also for that price, I think all activities should be included, but they weren't. Pedal cars, corn cannons, cow train, and the pumpkin patch all cost more money. $1 each PER PERSON. Seriously? (You do the math). Obviously, much to the disappointment of the children, we sat these activities out.
The other complaint I have was that there were no water fountains anywhere. You could BUY water, for $1 a bottle, but you couldn't go to a fountain for a free drink.
Overall, though, I give the place 2 thumbs up, primarily because of the Christian environment it provides. A rare find these days.
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UTD Chuuk Lagoon Project Trip Report
By Andrew Georgitsis - Download the PDF to read offline
Chuuk Lagoon has always been known as the Mecca for wreck divers. For those that don't know, it is a group of islands surrounded by a barrier reef, making it a lagoon. The Japanese based the Pacific Fleet there. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America came in in Operation Hailstorm and devastated the islands and many of the Japanese navy ships the lagoon harbored. Ever since I can remember I have wanted to visit Chuuk, however have never had the opportunity. I have not been able to go for many reasons, including tough logistics and lack of availability of Helium.
Our UTD Korea instructors, in conjunction with the Korean South Pacific Ocean Research Institute, put together a proposal to work with the government of Federated States of Micronesia. They wanted to develop an ongoing project that included documenting some of the major wrecks through detailed photography and videography. This of course is no small task. This trip was an exploratory study of the feasibility of the project. I was invited as the Project Leader. To that end, I could not turn down the opportunity to both visit Chuuk and work together with our UTD Instructors to develop a long term diving and exploration relationship with FSM and KSORI.
The trip began after a massive amount of planning and preparation, especially by the UTD Korean Instructors. Ahead of time a container of gases, sofnolime and other diving equipment had to be shipped. After all, we will be using MX Rebreathers to dive the deeper wrecks, the Z-System side-mount system to penetrate the shallower ones, x-scooters to move around, canon d50 and nikon d700 to photograph, panasonic and Sony HD video cameras to film, and the new UTD Vision X video lighting to illuminate the subjects. That container arrived nearly a month before I arrived. UTD Instructor Russel Park and fellow diver Hicks flew into Chuuk several days early to get the container unloaded and prepared for our arrival.
When I complain about packing and carrying my 4 * 70lbs bags on the plane, it is really nothing compared to what Russel and Hicks had to do in preparation. To add to the complication, I was departing Las Vegas for Chuuk, or TKK as the airlines know it. The morning of my departure came and better half, Monique, was kind enough to get up at 4 am to have me at the airport and checked in for my almost 40 hour journey across the Pacific. First I flew to San Francisco, on to Japan, down to Guam, and then finally into Chuuk (TKK).
After a very bumpy and long drive out to the Research Station and the 40+ hours of travel, I now had to kick it into high gear and co-ordinate the setup of all the equipment for the following week of diving.
Setting up the MX Rebreathers was a cinch. I had brought our stainless frames and rebreather manifolds, so it was a matter of deciding on the size of backgas/diluent tanks needed, spinning off the valves, attaching our manifold and valves, and then attaching them to the rebreather frames. Easy as pie. Time to fill back gas/diluent tanks. Max depths for the project while using MX were going to be 200'/60m. So for backgas/diluent 18/45 and for bailout decompression bottle we were going to need 70'/21m and O2 bottles. Dives were expected to have bottom times of 60+ mins, with the appropriate deco schedules based on a 2:1 ratio.
Configuring the local Aluminum cylinders for the Z-side-mount system was even easier. We simply attached our travel side-mount harness to the bottom stages and the O2 bottle for decompression. This is where our approach to standardization and compatibility really shines. The regulators systems we use for MX rebreather bailout bottles are the same regulator systems we use for the Z-Side-Mount System - a first stage, QC6, OPV. This makes it really easy to conduct a first dive of the day, exploring the deeper wrecks using the MX mccr Rebreather, and then a or 3rd using Z-side-mount system diving for penetration. Because of the consistency and compatibility of equipment, and because the skill set to manage the system is consistent, switching systems is easy.
Day 1 of project.
This was a shake down day. Dives were to be conducted on the Fujikawa Maru. This is a gorgeous wreck that sank in 1944 during Operation Hailstorm. The wreck sits upright in 140'/39m of water. My first impression of our Captain is that he knows his oats. Navigating out through the mangroves and coral reef structure is no small task. Simply finding the wreck using his knowledge of land marks is amazing. I am starting to feel comfortable that this guy will be there when we get home :). Always an important thing. Ever since the greek captain abandoned us during a dive on the HMS Britannic in 1999 project, I have been nervous about these supposed "Captains" who cut and run at the slightest rough seas.
We gear up to shake down the MX rebreathers, bailout deco bottles, scooters, and video systems, and finally enter the water with this massive amount of gear. Immediately I notice my camera housing starting to flood. I disconnect my E/O from my vision video lights heads and send the camera back up to the boat deck. The support team decides it is a no go on the camera and they will deal with it later. I get my backup Vision Led Head out of my pocket, attach it to the E/O and off we go. Gotta love the interchangeable and compatible vision lighting system.
The wreck is simply massive and just amazing to see. We scooter the general perimeter getting a feel of the layout, see the bow, the stern, the prop, and the rear anti-aircraft guns. I stop to pose for pictures at the various important spots :). As I work my way down the decks and around the ship, I can't help thinking about how amazing it is to finally be here...my Mecca. After 60 mins bottom time, sadly we must return to deco. No worries, we will get to do this again. Hopefully the next time we can penetrate. Total gas used: back gas/diluent 100psi/7b (5 cft / 154l) O2 700psi/50bar (9cft/300l). Got to love a fully closed Rebreather.
The second dive that day, we go to Shark point to do a shake down of the Z-side-mount system. It's really nice to have a nice light load, especially when you can put all of the cylinders and equipment on the tag line, jump in with the Z-System on, attach your cylinders, grab your scooter, and off you go. Really sweet. I am always amazed at how incredibly free you feel in a Z-system. Side-mount diving really offers some amazing ease of movement, incredibly stable in any position or attitude, especially after the morning MX dive with twin al80's on. We get to play, swim and enjoy a wide variety of sharks, including black tips, white tips, and grey reef sharks. What a treat. One hour at 100'/30 passes in a flash when you are having fun...then back to deco. I tell you this one hour BT limit I placed on the team sucks. I might have to change that later.... :).
Day 2 of project
Time to start the collage photography of the deck of the Fujikawa Maru and videotape some penetration dives into the engine room. Russel and Atom are assigned the task of carefully photographing each square meter of the deck in a systematic approach. This is when the BT time limit becomes so important because you can get so carried away in your mission that you lose track of time. Of course while they are on the MX Rebreathers, gas or deco is not really the issue. The logistics, team support and so on are of more importance. Paying attention to a restricted Bottom Time is very important. Jason Park and I will penetrate the various holds and areas of the wreck, with the engine room in mind. This time the camera is sorted out and not leaking, so finally we are going to get some footage of the inside of the Fujikawa. We unfortunately can only publish a little bit of footage, as the majority will go to the FSM and be used as archive footage. I was able to make a 10 min video from this dive. Anyways, glad to finally be going inside and filming. We first penetrate the forward hold, examining the wreckage and fuselages of the airplanes, then work our way back to the engine room. This is an old wreck with loads of silt. The MX rebreathers are a good choice of tool, due to the lack of bubbles. Therefore the roof does not come down on us. Open circuit would certainly disturb the roof and the rusticles would fall, silting out the engine room. Their size and profile is definitely larger than Z-side-mount system so we are slightly more restricted in what we can penetrate. The inside of the ship is large enough to accommodate what we want to do, especially in the areas that we will be working. The engine room is an impressive area with the 6 cylinder pistons clearly visible. The remnants of a japanese gas mask are found on-top of one. As we approach the end of the bottom time, the memory card on the camera runs out. I put away the video system, unplug the vision video lighting system, plug in my spare primary vision LED head that I stow in my right pocket, and away we go. Now I have a primary LED light for the remainder of the dive and exit. As we exit this area, we retrieve the scooters and back to deco. What an exhilarating dive.
Up on the surface we find a tropical storm has moved in, dumping buckets of rain. There are high seas and no land in sight. Wow, what a change from our entry. I tell Jason, "Now the captain really gets to earn his keep." After loading all the divers and gear on the boat, he points to the boat in what I hope is home direction. Off we go. How in the hell is he doing this? No compass, no GPS, just his given natural instinct. After a 1.5 hours of a hellish boat ride we finally arrive at the entrance to the coral reef structure outside KSORI...a very narrow path, about 10'/3m across, about 100'/30m long, marked by two sticks, sticking out of the water about 3'/m high. He pushes the boat through the shallow narrow reef like a pro and finally we find dry land....well not dry, but land none the less. Diving operations are stopped at this point. Time to clean the gear and sit out the storm. Total gas used for this dive: back gas/diluent 100psi/7b (5 cft / 154l) O2 700psi/50bar (9cft/300l). Total gas so far is 10cft / 300l of 18/45 and 18 cft / 600l of O2.
Day 3 of Project
After several days of local fun reef diving, and sitting out some major storms, we finally get back to work. We plan the morning dive with the MX Rebreather on the San Francisco Maru. The expected max depth of the dive is 200 ft/60m. Duration will be 1 hour bottom time followed by the appropriate deco needed depending on average depth. Jason and I are paired up in front of the video camera, while Russel and Atom are behind. Russel runs the Sony HD system and vision video lights are mounted on an X-Scooter CUDA. This is his first dive using the vision video lights, and he is instantly amazed by how much light these low profile LED video lights put out. "As much as my 50 watt HID's" he remarks. "...but without the size, bulk and huge video reflectors that act like drag dishes hanging out in the breeze while I am scootering." I smile and say "we have come a long way with lighting technology."
As we drop down, I notice the visibility is this area is really improved over the previous days. Probably 70'/21m +. As the ocean floor comes into visibility, we turn the scooters towards the wreck, following the anchor chain well well below us but insight. Out of the darkness she slowly starts reveal herself. The San Francisco Maru. As a side note, it has always been one of my more favorite moments in life, waiting for the outline of the ship to appear from the darkness. We arrive at the bow and clearly visible and prominent is the anti- aircraft gun. This is an amazing sight. After 5 or so minutes of poking around, we head down the port side of the ship. I lead the way. Following me is Jason, with Russell and Atom taking up the rear. Soon, we arrive at a "miniature" tank. Yes miniature :). These really existed...little mini one man jungle tanks used by the Japanese. I had heard about them and seen pictures, but had never actually been up close and personal with one.
Wow they really are tiny. On top of the tank we find a pair of binoculars and other remnants of the Japanese Navy armed forces. Jason and I set up for the video shots. The idea is to give the viewer a persecutive of just how small these tanks really are. Later, we head over the starboard side and get a view of two more tanks, one stacked on top of another. How cool is that. One of the tanks has the top open and I am able to see inside getting a glimpse of just how small these miniature tanks really are inside. Amazing...some poor soldier actually fit in there. Russell then gives us the "go" sign and we head for the wheel house area finding all kinds of cool artifacts to check out. Then we continue back to the ammunition holds in the stern. Wow, thousands and thousands of bullets, big and small, scattered everywhere. Some still in their original wooded boxes. Time is running short. We will be back tomorrow for stills, so we push on to shoot video of the stern, around the buried prop and rudder. All in all, a fantastic first dive on this ship. We got some excellent video and then back to deco upline at 60 mins bottom with an average depth of 170/ 51m and max of 193'/58m. Now for a long and somewhat uneventful deco. Total gas used for this dive: back gas/diluent 150psi/10b (7.5 cft / 220) & O2 1000psi/70bar (13cft/420l). Total gas so far for the project dives is 17.5cft / 520l of 18/45 and 31 cft / 1020l of O2.
Dive 2 was Z side-mount penetration dive on the Fujikawa Maru. Again, Jason and I would be in front of the camera while Russel films as much as he can and Atom support dives. The idea is of course to penetrate some areas that the camera system probably won't fit. We start by entering into the bow hold. Not a very tight area but certainly a lot of overhanging snag hazards. Then we push on to the forward hold area, taking a second look and capturing more video of the plane wreckages - fuselages and components of the war planes. Then Jason and I remove our tanks and push through a small opening in the firewall between the hold and the engine compartment. Russel and Atom have to remain in the hold, exit, and head towards the stern to meet us later. Jason and I in the mean time examine and push through some tiny areas in the engine room, enjoying the freedom of side-mount and the lack of bulky back mount equipment. We often disconnect our bottom bolt snaps of the tanks and push the tanks through ahead of us. We pass through some major restrictions. This takes a little wiggling but we get through. I can hear Jason giggling as he enjoys the pushing, wiggling and exploring some likely unexplored areas, due to the need for side-mount only. Upon exiting, we find Russel and Atom taking more video of the stern area. 60 mins is up already. How? We head back to deco. Avg. depth. 100'/30 bottom time 60 mins.
Day 4 of Project.
As this was the final day of diving before we pack-up and fly home, the objective was to do a single dive, revisiting the San Francisco Maru. Only this time we needed to shoot stills, both for the "collage" and for some cool stills of the team on the deck. The captain (local fisherman) once again continued to amaze me. Today was just too much. We are cruising at 30 knots or so, the water is like glass, just beautiful. He swerves to the right, looks back and then to the left a little, looks back again, then continues straight for another minute or so. He pulls back the throttle slightly slowing us down to about 15 knots for about 10 secs - ahead of us is ocean, next to us is ocean, behind us is ocean. All of a sudden he pulls the throttle all the way back and allows us to glide to a stop. All of a sudden the deck hand, who is standing on the bow, yells and points his finger. "Got it," the white submerged marking buoy 20 ft /6m underwater. It is right in front of us off the starboard side. How does he do it?.....I will never know. Just incredible.
We jump back in the water today with the full exploration getup. MX Rebreathers, x-scooter, bailout deco tanks, and so on. After our buddy checks and bubble checks we head down the upline and follow the anchor back out to the ship. Once again, just beautiful to be revisiting her. Jason and I spend the next 60 minutes posing for the canon d50 camera and search and explore all kinds of fun areas. I have included some pictures for your enjoyment. Pictures are truly worth a thousand words, so I will spare you the details. After a somewhat boring deco, we are back on the boat. Russel and I compare gas usage for the project. I used: back gas/diluent 160psi/11b (9 cft / 242l) & O2 1000psi/70bar (13cft/420l). Total for the project is 26.5cft / 762l of 18/45 and 44 cft / 1020l of O2.
Russel made an interesting comment to me. He said that since he switched his Meg eCCR over to the MX mCCR configuration, he uses far less gas than when he was running his Meg in the fully electronic mode. He said that even while he was shooting video and stills, rushing around setting up the shots, the MX was superior at allowing him to do as he needed to get the shot. I have never used a eCCR rebreather so I cannot comment on his statement. What I can say though is that for 4 deep project dives in which we used the MX mCCR Rebreather, an almost 600 mins of diving at depths that average 170'/51m on the bottom plus the deco, we used next to nothing in gas. A total of 26.5 cft / 762l of Trimix. Wow that is impressive. The hardest part is bleeding the mix to pack up and leave. I bled off 2400 psi in my twin al80's/11l tanks. Ouch.
All in all, this was a fantastic exploratory project and a dream come true for me. Although the trip to Chuuk was long and the return even longer, the staff at KSORI were incredibly gracious and I want to thank them for their hospitality. I also want to give special thanks to the UTD Korean instructors for both inviting me and participating in the project. Most of all, I want to thank Jason Park and Russel Park from Divers Republic, for putting on such an incredible start to what we hope is going to be an ongoing project. Let's hope our findings and documentation are satisfactory to FSM and that they will welcome further expeditions, development, and knowledge of this area's heritage.
Check out the UTD Chuuk Project Album for more photos.
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:26 PM
1. Gaelle Baumann
2. Jean Robert Bellande
3. Andy Bloch
4. Viktor "Isildur1" Blom
5. Liv Boeree
6. Justin Bonomo
7. Doyle Brunson
8. Olivier Busquet
9. Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates
10. Mohsin Charania
11. Joseph Cheong
12. Shaun Deeb
13. Jonathan Duhamel
14. Tom "durrrr" Dwan
15. Eli Elezra
16. Antonio Esfandiari
17. Will Failla
18. Andy Frankenberger
19. Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond
20. Matt Glantz
21. Barry Greenstein
22. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
23. Jennifer Harman
24. Brian Hastings
25. Isaac Haxton
26. Phil Hellmuth
27. John Hennigan
28. Maria Ho
29. Phil Ivey
30. Faraz Jaka
31. Kyle Julius
32. Eugene Katchalov
33. Phil Laak
34. Ben Lamb
35. Andrew Lichtenberger
36. Matt Matros
37. Mike Matusow
38. Jason Mercier
39. Greg Merson
40. Michael Mizrachi
41. Chris Moneymaker
42. John Monnette
43. Chris Moorman
44. Carlos Mortensen
45. Daniel Negreanu
46. David Oppenheim
47. Greg Raymer
48. Vanessa Rousso
49. Rob Salaburu
50. Matt Salsberg
51. Nick Schulman
52. Huck Seed
53. Erik Seidel
54. Scott Seiver
55. Joe Serock
56. Mike Sexton
57. Sam Simon
58. Dan Smith
59. Justin Smith
60. Jason Somerville
61. Jennifer Tilly
62. Yevgeniy Timoshenko
63. David Williams
64. by Vid-Saver">WSOP.com Qualifier
Personally I thoroughly dislike all forms of tournaments. Just too much luck-boxing going on. Just look at this field: Jungleman & Isildur stand out a mile. Haxton, maybe Durr & Ivey are next in line. After that there is a huge gap imo. Sit any of these names down in heads up cash with Isildur or the Jungleman for a few k of hands and they will be badly r**ed. Yet one of them will likely win this thing. It's just wrongness. Heads up is the purest form of poker but not with this one buy-in knockout structure. If they all had say 5 buy-ins each game (or something resembling the structure for the recent online HU challenge) then the cream would have a much higher chance of rising to the top. As it stands it's just muck & bullets and the one who wins 4 flips in a row will take this down. I just can't take it seriously tbh as any kind of guide to skill level.
Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:38 PM
It's an invitational for television. It doesn't mean the winner is the best HU NLH player ever. Unless the winner is Isildur...:Whistling:
Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:44 PM
Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:49 PM
They are on another planet to 90% of this field at HU NLH. It really is true.
Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:50 PM
curry_dan (2013-01-19) Just because they don't all play online, doesn't mean they can't hold their own.
It's an invitational for television. It doesn't mean the winner is the best HU NLH player ever. Unless the winner is Isildur...:Whistling:
Exactly. NBC doesn't put on this event to determine who the best HU player on the planet is. Everyone knows its a single elimination sng format and winning it doesn't make you a great HU player. Some pretty terrible players have won it before.
As far as poker exposure on a network TV station, this is as big as it gets. It is shown in the middle of the day on the weekend instead of at 2am on weekdays like PAD. They didn't have it last year, I thought it was gone for good, it's a very positive sign that it's back.
To justify the time slot and attract a wider audience, they invite who they think people want to watch, not the best HU players. Catering to a wide audience instead of a poker obsessed one is a common theme in poker programming, but it doesn't stop people here from complaining about it every time.
We should be grateful. If they invited the 64 best HU players in the world, no one but people like us would watch. Sure, it'd be great TV for us, but it wouldn't be on in the middle of the day and it wouldn't attract any new players, which is what we should all want.
Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:52 PM
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onlyamonkey (2013-01-19) In before burger luckboxes through the entire thing.
With his made for TV burger advertisment champion all-American douche cheeze grin
Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:56 PM
keiko79 (2013-01-19) When does it start?
Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:58 PM
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gamera (2013-01-19)
onlyamonkey (2013-01-19) In before burger luckboxes through the entire thing.
With his made for TV burger advertisment champion all-American douche cheeze grin
lol +1
Posted 19 January 2013 - 08:22 PM
I say all with the exception of probably Haxton & Durr and possibly, only possibly, Ivey.
This is absolute fact. No way would any of them do it.
So then. Press the pause button and think about it. Why wouldn't they do it? Press the pause button again. Why might they not do it?
Posted 19 January 2013 - 08:33 PM
For example, Isildur can complain as much as he want that people don't 3x it and limp the button, but cannot leave.
Posted 19 January 2013 - 08:35 PM
They would be r**ed and they know it.
Posted 19 January 2013 - 08:57 PM
Sure they would probably beat them 4 tables HU but live these guys have been at the tables for 20 years picking up tells and experience. 1 table man to man vs. online geek infront of computer, im going with experience. Huck for the win.
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 09:20 PM
Canumakemefeelgood? (2013-01-19) in b4 Isildur1 vs Hastings fixed match.Do you imagine the tension between them if they play together?
probably none, there both millionaires
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Draft of a piston-less pressure driven engine
Emin Gabrielyan
Updated on 2010-05-12 ← 2010-05-12
Draft of a piston-less internal combustion engine.
Constant velocity ratio gear engine
Two cogs engaged cycloid gears
Three cogs engaged cycloid gears
Four cogs engaged cycloid gears
Combating sliding and gas leakage
Alternating velocity ratio gear pressure engine
Cycloid gears provide a constant velocity ratio (in contrast to example of the section "Alternating velocity ratio gear pressure engine"). The teeth of such gears have shape of cycloids obtained by rolling (without sliding) an imaginary small circle on a circumference of a main circle. A curve traced by a virtual point fixed on a small circle forms a cycloid. If the small circle rolls outside of the main circle its point will trace an epicycloid and if it rolls inside, the curve will be a hypocycloid.
The below image show an epicicloid (in red) and a hypocycloid (in blue) obtained by rolling a circle of a radius 2 on a circumference of a circle of a radius 12. The red curve is traced by a point of a small circle, when it rolls outside the main circle, and the blue one is traced by its point when it rolls inside.
Here are two separate images, the first one showing only the epiciclyoid and the second one only the hypocycloid.
By interleaving the epicycloid with the hypocycloid at their intersection points (on the main circle), we obtain a cycloid gear shape.
Below we show three animations of engaged gears in rotation:
If the mechanical engagement of gears is ensured only by shapes shown above, then a gas leakage cannot be avoided due to a possibility of an independent rotation of one of the gears in wrong direction. The first image below shows a correct engagement of two gears, but in the second image, the 2nd gear (on the right) is rotated by -5 degree with respect to its correct position.
A half cycle later (60 degree rotation of the first gear on the left), such a -5 degree error (of the first gear) is not be possible anymore. The first image below shows a correct engagement at this new position, and the second image shows an attempt of rotation of the 2nd gear by -5 degree (not possible anymore as otherwise shapes must intersect).
This gives us an idea of combining two engagement modes in parallel. The above images represent a top view along the Z axis. As the constant velocity ratio is provided, we can have another engagement in a parallel surface deeper in the Z axis, were the two parallel gears are also engaged correctly, but with the +60 degree rotation of the first (left) gear. The parallel counterparts are fixed on the same rotation axis. Such a double engagement protects from independent sliding of any of the pair. Whenever a negative sliding is possible in the top layer, it is impossible in the bottom layer and visa versa. Again, note that such a parallel layers of gears engaged at different degree is mechanical possible only thanks to the guaranteed constant velocity ratio.
We can imagine also more than 2 layers smoothly changing the rotation degree from 0 to 60 along the Z axis. This shall explain why in the picture below (apparently for a gas counter) the blade looks inclined.
Finally, we can consider also involute shaped engagement.
[ems] (an emachineshop.com file)
I am not sure if it is desirable for this purpose due to a constant friction between teeth.
[gif] (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involute_gear)
Blower rotors
Roots blower
Gear pump
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Today, May 12, 2010, 16:51:34
I present here a part of a draft of a piston-less engine. I got this idea first time when was in the school. At that time I had no access to a machine that can manufacture such shape, but now seems a prototype can be created easily with emachineshop.com.
The two 3-thooth cogwheels shown below are to be placed in a chamber with not more than 60 degree opening on one side (page top) for exit of gases and a supply a pressure on the other side (page bottom). This draft is not complete.
There is a sliding problem to be solved. A feasible method would be an extension containing fine granularity gear profile on each (cylindrical shaped) contact surface. A tooth profile offering constant velocity ratio (e.g. cycloid or involute) is to be used. The constant ratio is respected during each of the two cycles with two different ratios. The fine gear profile can be implemented outside the chamber if pressure escape issues may arise.
Sadly, the idea is not revolutionary as the multiple references show below. Testing such a device with emachineshop.com remains a challenge.
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The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department is investigating a murder suicide in Hayden, Idaho.
Lieutenant Stu Miller with the sheriff's department said that a man called 9-1-1 Thursday morning around 11 a.m. and told authorities he had just shot his wife and was going to shoot himself.
When deputies arrived at the man's residence, located in the 900 block of West Sheridan Avenue near Reed Road, they heard a single shot from the home.
Deputies went inside and found two people dead inside the residence. The victim, a woman in her 40s, was found dead in the living room from an apparent gunshot wound, while the husband, also in his 40s, was found in a back room.
The husband appears to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The couple was identified by authorities Thursday afternoon as Daryl Clark, 43, and his wife Tina Clark, 48. Their family has been notified. They leave behind an 11-year-old son, who was not at home at the time of the shootings Thursday morning.
Authorities have now begun the process of trying to figure out what led to the murder suicide.
"The detectives, at this point, are just starting their investigation and delve into the couple's history," Lieutenant Miller said.
Autopsies on the couple will be performed on Friday.
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by Jane Lange
I've been playing with different dyeing techniques. The main part of this is based on ice dyeing. I chose a pattern with uber flattering black side panels to allow the print to take center stage (and to give an illusion of an hourglass figure). I made this in a size 10, but had to take in the sides a lot to get a more fitted silhouette. The side parts are stretch denim, so it was possible to get a pretty close fit without too much trouble.
The second dress was a muslin for this one.
Dress 1: Dyed cloth is a hemp-cotton blend. Side panels are a black stretch denim, sleeves are a lightweight denim.
Dress 2: Cotton poplin, and green denim
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I love it!
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I got hooked on ice dyeing! I love the unexpected effects! Your dress is beautiful on you and I love the center panel.
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I know, it's kinda tempting to turn my entire apartment into an ice dyeing enterprise:)
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Nicely done…like the dyeing on the first dress
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Wow! Its a fantastic dress! the dyeing has come out great and the pattern is superb! Love the whole dress, pattern, fit n everything!
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Access & Parking: parking by the house. All-season motor access to the house. Car recommended, footpath 5 m, stepped path with 4 steps. Situation: on the outskirts of Bad Mitterndorf, in the district of Neuhofen, quiet position in the countryside, in a residential area. View from the apartment of the mountains, the garden, the forest and the countryside.
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Have you always been interested in fashion or did it began after you start modeling? Do you buy/wear designer clothes on your free time?ReplyDelete
thanks. :)
- AnonymousJune 27, 2010 at 12:25 PM
As long as you are happy with what you're doing .ReplyDelete
I would like to see some picture of ceesie stomping the runway , but of course I am also glad to know you have been enjoying yourself and working in Tokyo .
Ultimately as long as you know how to stay positive in the business :D .
As for the shows , I am quite fond of the Jean Paul Galtier menswear this season
rest is necessary!;)ReplyDelete
with new forces in the fight in next season!;) hehe
- AnonymousJune 27, 2010 at 9:24 PM
I think its much better not to do the shows. I also really liked the YSL. The shorts in the YSL are hilarious!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 2:32 AM
and im sure most of the other models wished they were in your shoes!ReplyDelete
living the life in japan!!
Really lucky that you got to spend the time at Japan instead!I'm sure it's awesome!ReplyDelete
Haha George Barnett at the last pic:)
- AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 3:23 PM
Well guess you an't be everywhere at the same time...ReplyDelete
You don't need to be disappoint for not beeing chosen for a catwalk. It happens to all of us not to have everything and sometimes is just a bit of luck and you don't have to ask why...
Enjoy that trip to Japon everybody can earn money but not everyone can visit such places
Nice outfits seriously ;)!!!
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Ceesie, have any male models hit on you? ;)ReplyDelete
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Former Towson Title Company Employee Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Returns after Embezzling More than $382,000
Baltimore, Maryland - Collette Snyder, age 42, of Timonium, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to filing false tax returns in 2007 and 2008, after she did not claim over $382,000 she embezzled from her employer, Maple Leaf Title.
The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Special Agent in Charge Barbara Golden of the United States Secret Service – Baltimore Field Office; and Acting Special Agent in Charge Jeannine A. Hammett of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation, Washington D.C. Field Office.
"Mortgage fraud adds to the underground economy that erodes the integrity of our tax system and threatens the financial health of our communities. IRS Criminal Investigation is committed to 'following the money trail' to ensure that those who engage in these illegal activities are vigorously investigated and brought to justice," said IRS - Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Jeannine A. Hammett.
According to her plea, beginning in 2005 Snyder worked at Maple Leaf Title (MLT), a real estate title agency located in Towson, Maryland, processing the recording of deeds and other post-settlement requirements at courthouses throughout Maryland. In order to accomplish her duties, Snyder was granted signature authority over MLT's operating, settlement and recording accounts, among others. Beginning in 2007, Snyder began embezzling money from MLT accounts by depositing MLT checks into her personal bank account. She made checks payable to her husband, without his knowledge, then forged her husband's signature and deposited the checks into an account she controlled. She also made checks out directly to herself and deposited them. In the memo section of some of the checks Snyder embezzled from MLT accounts, she would falsely claim the checks were for "payroll," even though she had already received her salary from MLT. Snyder embezzled approximately $149,560 in 2007, and $232,968 in 2008, using the funds to purchase jewelry, antique furniture, clothing, a BMW, home improvements, travel and tuition payments to a private school, among other things.
Snyder did not report this income on either her 2007 or 2008 tax returns, resulting in a tax loss of $115,529.37.
Because of the embezzlement from MLT's escrow account by Snyder and by Anthony Weis, MLT's president, MLT did not have sufficient funds to pay off existing mortgage loan notes on properties for which MLT had performed settlement services. As a result, Weis directed MLT employees in 13 real estate closings conducted in 2009 to withhold the payoff checks from institutions that held the existing mortgage loan notes on the properties. Because the existing mortgages had not been paid off, clear title could not be passed to the new lender and borrower. An insurance company that had issued title insurance policies to the borrowers guaranteeing clear title ultimately paid out $3.9 million to financial institutions that held mortgage notes.
Weis pleaded guilty to wire fraud, was sentenced to 78 months in prison and was ordered to pay restitution of $4,007,705, which includes the loss to the title insurance company and the expenses of the individual victims.
Snyder faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a fine of $250,000. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake has scheduled his sentencing for February 3 , 2012 at 11:00 am.
This law enforcement action is part of President Barack Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein thanked the FBI, Secret Service and IRS - Criminal Investigation for their work in the investigation. Mr. Rosenstein praised Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gregory R. Bockin and Stephen M. Schenning, who are prosecuting the case.
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Statistical parametric mapping of (99m)Tc-HMPAO-SPECT images for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: normalizing to cerebellar tracer uptake.
Soonawala D., Amin T., Ebmeier KP., Steele JD., Dougall NJ., Best J., Migneco O., Nobili F., Scheidhauer K.
For a quantitative comparison of images obtained during (99m)Tc-hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (HMPAO) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), brain activity values are usually normalized to a reference region. In studies of Alzheimer-type dementia (ATD), the cerebellum is often used as a reference region, assuming that it is spared any major pathological involvement. Statistical parametric mapping (SPM) may enhance the evaluation of SPECT scans in ATD patients. However, current SPM software only allows scaling to average whole brain activity (i.e., global normalization). The aim of this study was to develop an easily applied, objective, and reproducible method for determining average cerebellar tracer uptake so that images can be scaled specifically to cerebellar activity prior to the performance of SPM analysis. We also investigated whether cerebellar normalization increases the sensitivity and specificity of SPM analysis of ATD patients compared with global normalization.


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Give Credit Where Credit Is DuePosted by Fredric Koeppel under Meditation and Contemplation , The industry
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Jim Barrett, founder of Chateau Montelena, deserves all the praise he has received in the tributes and obituaries published in magazines and newspapers and online since his death on March 14 at the age of 86. A successful attorney with a particular vision about what chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon wines should be, in 1969 he acquired a long-abandoned Gothic-style winery built in 1882 near Calistoga, in the northern part of Napa Valley, worked to restore the building and the property's vineyards and, while the estate vines were too young to produce viable grapes, sought reliable vineyards as sources. The event that brought Chateau Montelena and California (and Stag's Leap Wine Cellars) to the astonished attention of the wine world was the famous or infamous Paris Tasting of 1976, organized by Englishman Steven Spurrier, at which Montelena's Chardonnay 1973 — notice that the wines was a blend of grapes from Napa Valley and Alexander Valley — and the Stag's Leap Cabernet Sauvignon 1973 placed first in competition with the best of white Burgundy and red Bordeaux. Though there has been been a great deal of controversy over the scoring methodology of the '76 "Judgment of Paris," the fact remains that, in this blind tasting with prestigious judges from the French wine, restaurant and publishing industries, the California wines involved performed extremely well, gratifying Americans, when the news came out, and embarrassing the French.
I have read many of the notices of Barrett's death, and they refer, consistently, to his chardonnay that won the Paris Tasting. In the sense that he owned Chateau Montelena and was its guiding spirit, that assessment is correct. Only one writer that I have seen, though, S. Irene Virbila of the Los Angeles Times, noted the fact that the historic Chateau Montelena Chardonnay 1973 was made by Mike Grgich, and that by rights the wine should properly be referred to as his chardonnay. I don't mean to denigrate or diminish Jim Barrett's accomplishment in shaping Chateau Montelena nor that of his son Bo Barrett, who became winemaker with the vintage of 1982 (and became CEO of Montelena at his father's death). I'm a fan of the Montelena wines and their combination of power and elegance, and I look forward to tasting and writing about them with every vintage. However, the neglect of Grgich's contribution in this area reflects a general neglect in the media of winemakers below the celebrity level. It's symptomatic of this issue that Grgich was also ignored in the movie Bottle Shock (2008, directed by Randall Miller), which purported to tell the story of Montelena and the '76 Paris Tasting, but actually sensationalized it. Of course Grgich went on to partner with Austin Hills to establish what is now the venerable Grgich Hills Estate.
My point is that I receive press releases many times a day from marketing firms and wineries that extol the virtues of new releases and the glorious histories and geographies of the wineries, the wisdom and passion of their owners and proprietors, urging me to accept samples for review, but never mentioning the name of the winemaker. Isn't that like publicizing a book without naming the author or a movie without mentioning the director?
In line with giving credit where credit is due, I try to be consistent in giving credit for the images used on this blog. So, the image of Mike Grgich is from intowine.com; the photo of Jim Barrett (at top) and the label of the Montelena Chardonnay 1973 are so ubiquitous, however, that's it's difficult to tell whence they originated.


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I agree 100% "Sara Gilbert did an awesome job" WOW! that was hard story to do for sure!
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Revenue up 13 Percent as Reported, 11 Percent Excluding Foreign Exchange
MURRAY HILL, N.J., Apr 24, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- C. R. Bard, Inc. (NYSE-BCR) today reported 2007 first quarter
financial results. First quarter 2007 net sales were $528.2 million,
an increase of 13 percent over the prior-year period. Excluding the
impact of foreign exchange, first quarter 2007 net sales increased 11
percent over the prior-year period.
For the first quarter 2007, net sales in the U.S. were $373.9
million and net sales outside the U.S. were $154.3 million, up 14
percent and 12 percent, respectively, over the prior-year period.
Excluding the impact of foreign exchange, first quarter 2007 net sales
outside the U.S. increased 6 percent over the prior-year period.
In the first quarter 2007, the company completed its previously
disclosed plan to withdraw from the synthetic bulking market and
discontinue the sale of the Tegress(TM) synthetic bulking product,
which was formerly reported in the Urology product group.
Consequently, the company will account for this withdrawal as a
discontinued operation for all periods referred to in this release.
For the first quarter 2007, income from continuing operations was
$101.6 million and diluted earnings per share from continuing
operations were 95 cents, both up 25 percent as compared to first
quarter 2006 results. Adjusting for certain items that affect
comparability between periods, first quarter 2007 income from
continuing operations and diluted earnings per share from continuing
operations were both up 16 percent as compared to first quarter 2006
results. Adjustments to the first quarter 2006 results included an
item detailed in the tables below that decreased net income by $6.3
million (after-tax), or 6 cents per diluted share.
"We are pleased to begin Bard's centennial year with a quarter of
healthy revenue and earnings growth. Recent new product introductions
and increased demand for many of our existing technologies helped
drive solid net sales growth in each of our four businesses," said
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Timothy M. Ring. "We continue to
be pleased with the execution and productivity of our strategic growth
initiatives. Looking ahead, we see ample opportunity to expand our
investment in market-leading technologies."
C. R. Bard, Inc. (www.crbard.com), headquartered in Murray Hill,
N.J., is a leading multinational developer, manufacturer and marketer
of innovative, life-enhancing medical technologies in the fields of
vascular, urology, oncology and surgical specialty products.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
which are based on management's current expectations, the accuracy of
which is necessarily subject to risks and uncertainties. These
statements are not historical in nature and use words such as
"anticipate", "estimate", "expect", "project", "intend", "forecast",
"plan", "believe", and other words of similar meaning in connection
with any discussion of future operating or financial performance. Many
factors may cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated
results including product developments, sales efforts, income tax
matters, the outcomes of contingencies such as legal proceedings, and
other economic, business, competitive and regulatory factors. The
company undertakes no obligation to update its forward-looking
statements. Please refer to our December 31, 2006 10-K/A for more
detailed information about these and other factors that may cause
actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.
C. R. Bard, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income
(in thousands except per share amounts, unaudited)
Quarter Ended March 31,
2007 2006
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Net sales $528,200 $465,900
Costs and expenses:
Cost of goods sold 206,500 178,100
Marketing, selling & administrative expense 153,700 142,300
Research & development expense 30,100 38,300
Interest expense 2,900 4,700
Other (income) expense, net (7,400) (7,700)
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Total costs and expenses 385,800 355,700
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Income from continuing operations before tax
provision 142,400 110,200
Income tax provision 40,800 28,700
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Income from continuing operations 101,600 81,500
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Loss from discontinued operations, net of tax
provision --- (400)
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Net income $101,600 $81,100
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Basic earnings per share from continuing
operations $0.98 $0.79
Basic loss per share from discontinued
operations --- ---
Basic earnings per share $0.98 $0.78
Diluted earnings per share from continuing
operations $0.95 $0.76
Diluted earnings per share from discontinued
operations --- ---
Diluted earnings per share $0.95 $0.76
Wt. avg. common shares outstanding - basic 103,300 103,800
Wt. avg. common shares outstanding - diluted 106,700 107,000
Product Group Summary of Net Sales
(in thousands, unaudited)
Quarter Ended March 31,
2007 2006 Change Currency
------------- --------- -------- ------------
Vascular $127,700 $113,700 12% 9%
Urology 155,200 132,700 17% 15%
Oncology 127,800 111,000 15% 14%
Surgical Specialties 97,100 88,100 10% 9%
Other 20,400 20,400 --- -1%
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Reported Sales $528,200 $465,900 13%
FX Impact --- 8,100
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Con. Currency $528,200 $474,000 11%
============= ========= ============
Reconciliation of Income From Continuing Operations
Comparison of Quarters Ended March 31,
(in millions, except per share amounts, unaudited)
Income from Diluted
Research & Tax Continuing Earnings
Development Provision Operations Per Share
------------ ---------- ----------- ---------
GAAP basis $30.1 $40.8 $101.6 $0.95
============ ========== =========== =========
Income from Diluted
Research & Tax Continuing Earnings
Development Provision Operations Per Share
------------ ---------- ----------- ---------
GAAP basis $38.3 $28.7 $81.5 $0.76
Items Impacting
Comparability of
Results Between
Purchased research &
development (10.4) 4.1 6.3
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Total $(10.4) $4.1 $6.3 $0.06
------------ ---------- ----------- ---------
Adjusted basis $27.9 $32.8 $87.8 $0.82
============ ========== =========== =========
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income
-- For the first quarter of 2007, there were no items that met
the criteria described below that affected the comparability
of results between periods.
-- For the first quarter of 2006, research and development
expense included payments of approximately $10.4 million
pretax ($6.3 million after-tax; $0.06 diluted earnings per
share) for purchased research and development.
This press release contains financial measures that are not
calculated in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting
principles ("GAAP"). These non-GAAP financial measures are reconciled
to their most directly comparable GAAP measures in the tables above.
This press release includes net sales excluding the impact of
foreign exchange. The company analyzes net sales on a constant
currency basis to better measure the comparability of results between
periods. Because changes in foreign currency exchange rates have a
non-operating impact on net sales, the company believes that
evaluating growth in net sales on a constant currency basis provides
an additional and meaningful assessment of net sales to both
management and the company's investors.
In addition, this press release includes the following non-GAAP
measures: (1) research & development expense excluding payments for
purchased research and development; (2) income tax provision excluding
the tax effect of the item in (1) above; (3) income from continuing
operations excluding the items set forth in (1) and (2) above; and (4)
diluted earnings per share (EPS) excluding the items set forth in (1)
and (2) above.
The company excluded the items described above because they may
cause certain statement of income categories not to be indicative of
ongoing operating results, and therefore affect the comparability of
results between periods. The company therefore believes that these
non-GAAP measures provide an additional and meaningful assessment of
the company's ongoing operating performance. Because the company has
historically reported these non-GAAP results to the investment
community, management also believes that the inclusion of these
non-GAAP measures provides consistency in its financial reporting and
facilitates investors' understanding of the company's historic
operating trends by providing an additional basis for comparisons to
prior periods. Management uses these non-GAAP measures (1) to
establish financial and operational goals, (2) to monitor the
company's actual performance in relation to its business plan and
operating budgets, (3) to evaluate the company's core operating
performance and understand key trends within the business, and (4) as
part of several components it considers in determining incentive
Management recognizes that the use of these non-GAAP measures has
limitations, including the fact that they may not be comparable with
similar non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies and that
management must exercise judgment in determining which types of
charges or other items should be excluded from the non-GAAP financial
information. Management compensates for these limitations by providing
full disclosure of each non-GAAP financial measure and a
reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.
All non-GAAP financial measures are intended to supplement the
applicable GAAP disclosures and should not be considered in isolation
from, or as a replacement for, financial information prepared in
accordance with GAAP. For a reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures
to the most comparable GAAP measures, please see the tables above.
SOURCE: C. R. Bard, Inc.
C. R. Bard, Inc.
Investor Relations:
Eric J. Shick, 908-277-8413
Vice President, Investor Relations
Media Relations:
Holly P. Glass, 703-754-2848
Vice President, Government and Public Affairs
Primary Media Relations Contact
Scott LowryVice President and TreasurerC. R. Bard, Inc.730 Central AvenueMurray Hill, NJ 07974
Tel: 908-277-8365


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