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Re: New Study Discusses Tablesaw Injuries
Legislation for Tablesaws? What's next a waiting period for buying a sharp chisel? Where the hell does it end. I dont want the government in my shop, telling me how to run a machine. It came with guards and a riving knife. both work good.
The Saw-Stop is a very nice, over priced, device that does work. When it doesn't who's going to sue them. They have been the basis for a lot of lawsuits, especially when a worker is put on a Table saw and told to run it with maybe an Hours worth of instruction. Of course the Contractor who hired the worker off the street didn't have any insurance, so suing him was out of the question, for these slip and fall lawyers.
Whatever happened to PERSONAL Responsibility. You bought the saw and if you refuse to use it as it was designed its your own damn fault.
Re: New Study Discusses Tablesaw Injuries
Legislation for Tablesaws? What's next a waiting period for buying a sharp chisel? Where the hell does it end. I dont want the government in my shop, telling me how to run a machine. It came with guards and a riving knife. both work good.
The Saw-Stop is a very nice, over priced, device that does work. When it doesn't who's going to sue them. They have been the basis for a lot of lawsuits, especially when a worker is put on a Table saw and told to run it with maybe an Hours worth of instruction. Of course the Contractor who hired the worker off the street didn't have any insurance, so suing him was out of the question, for these slip and fall lawyers.
Whatever happened to PERSONAL Responsibility. You bought the saw and if you refuse to use it as it was designed its your own damn fault.
Re: Homemade Slot Mortiser Has all the Right Moves
You know if you add, an X,Y,Z Servos you won't have to crank and move that thing by hand. LOL. Great set up.
Re: Patricks workshop
Great picture, thanks now I don't feel so bad, ...
Re: Does MDF Belong in Fine Furniture?
I want to know how long before the Government bans its sale here in the U.S. With all those 'dangerous' chemicals in it, it shouldn't be long. "Afteral its for our own good."
They banned French Polish made by Zinzer and now only sold in Canada.
Re: Help us design a workbench for power-tool lovers
Somebody asked about a 30 Amp circuit you can't get that in 120 volt not a receptacle. If you need that much then the machine should be rewired to 240 volts to reduce the current.
For my shop I ran a 40 amp service to a sub panel. I have the table saw on 240, all electric heters are 240, the lighting is configured to a 3 wire edison so that the breakers see 240 volts. Dust collector is 240 I can run all the heaters, the table saw and dust collector at the same time without a problem.
For 120 volt circuits I have 2 20 amp circuits to either side of the shop wired with 15 amp receptacle per strap. If you need a dedicated 20 amp then you will need a 20 amp rated receptacle on a single yoke.
Got to remember how many tools can you use at once. My shop is a one man shop and I keep it that way.
Even with the two 240 volt saw and dust collector and heaters running I am with in 80% capacity of the service. Which is quite acceptable.
If you are rewiring a shop make sure everything is grounded. And don't depend on a ground rod to trip the breaker in the case of a fault. on the 120 volt circuits it is required to use a GFCIs ahead of the down stream receptacles, its good protection. They are cheaper than the breaker. Two GFCI's 15amp 20amp feedthru.
Thats the way I'd do it. or you can bump it up to 100 amp and put in a 30 space panel with all the bells a whistles and at todays wire prices and breakers you are starting to get into some serious money.
Re: Who needs a saw? Just blow up the next tree you need to fell
I think I'll leave this to the pros or the X-perts. But you got to wonder, who looks for these videos, They too, got to be a few beers short of a 6-pak.
Re: More Details on the Carlos Osorio Tablesaw Lawsuit
I think I may have a defective Table saw. When I stand in front of the blade, it turns down into the table, but when I stand on the left side the blade turns clockwise and when I stand on the right side it turns counter clock wise.
Hey this might be worth a couple of hundred thou. That confused blade can't make up its mind which direction it's going.
But again frame of reference is important and if you change your frame of reference the rotation of the blade will neccessarily change too. We have shifted from personal responsibility to finding someone else to blame for something that's my fault.
Unbelievable. And the Trial Lawyers are making a fortune off companies who manufacture products people want.
Re: More Details on the Carlos Osorio Tablesaw Lawsuit
So call me a slow learner. I realize now this was a 'Work' related accident, not one in the basement. Being an Electrical Contractor for 20 + years, this is a whole new ballgame.
Osario was hired off the street to work for a flooring company. Which means he had no experience using a table saw. IF he did it was not much. That is what the prospective employer should assume. If there were no guards on the machine and obviously no other safety devices, ...where was the ever present OSHA, This was a clear violation of OSHA safety rules. Where was the State, county and city inspectors for this job, surely, they needed a permit for this job. If that contractor gave this 'New guy' a quickie lesson on how to use a table saw then this redistributes blame.
Secondly, Was this guy hired in the parking lot of Home Depot ? Is English this guy Osario's first language ? Is he an "undocumented Worker"( to be PC) who may have not understood the instructions, if he didn't it was his responsibility to say so and get further instructions on what to do. If anybody should have been sued it should have been the flooring contractor it was his employee, who he trained to run a table saw. But of course the contractor is samll potatoes compared to Ryobi.
This gives a good case for Unions. They would never allow an apprentice to run that machine on his first time on a jobsite and especially without proper safety equipment. On this, I agree with the Union .
After that contractor bought that saw it was his, I don't see how Ryobi can be held responsibile, he was sold a saw, a saws function is to cut wood, it did. And why didn't the contractor hire someone familar with construction tools and equipment?...Like say, a Carpenter. Because, he was a small contractor and couldn't afford to hire a qualified worker.
Also we didn't hear anything about what Workmens Compensation had to say about this, they too should be involved, after all governments want to regulate every aspect of our lives.
When we did a job on a site, anything pertaining to the electrical end of it, the Electrical Contractor was responsible. Even extension cords. We would(shall) supply them, if some trade showed up with an unapproved cord, we would get the fine from OSHA. That was the case when there was an option of approved grounding means as opposed to GFCIs. That may have changed with the new code, but regardless. The contractor has ultimate responsibility on the jobsite. Not the manufacturer of the equipment.
Re: More Details on the Carlos Osorio Tablesaw Lawsuit
He made the cut without Rip fence, no guard, or splitter, I didn't know they rewarded stupidity. But he's only 35% responsibility. There was somebody else in the room holding a gun on him to run that saw. We have reached the bottom of the barrel. We have gone from a Nation of Laws to a nation of victims, it doesn't matter what you do it's not your fault, just find a good 'slip and fall' lawyer and he'll prove the it wasn't your fault.
Also Ryobi is suppose to retro-fit his saw with a flesh stop. How absurd. He obviously bought the Saw before they came out or he refused to pay the extra money for that feature. NOW, who can they blame for that...Ryobi, of course... they made it so expensive he couldn't afford the extra bucks for that particular safety feature. Boy, oh boy you can't argue with that kind of convoluted logic.
Re: Miracle Shield Blocks Kickback
He said this thing is better than a Flak-Jacket, they never stopped bullets. I guess the new Kevlar's do but the originals didn't. 85F/S is almost 60 miles/hour.
I guess they removed the guard for demonstration purposes, ONLY, eh ? Can anyone imagine using a 2 foot Push Stick that has got to be awkward too.
This must be the cheap version of the Saw Stop Brake. Like using 5kv rated gloves on a 20kv line.
Re: Man Wins Big Money in Tablesaw Lawsuit
It seems like the industry of Making Machines are striving to make every machine Idiot proof. Only problem is only idiots can't get hurt. For example, on punch presses, they now, or for a long time now, have what they call to initiate the sequence, 'Hands out of Dye' operation. The part is placed into the dye, gates are closed, and two start buttone on either side of the dye have to be pressed together in order to start the machine. One cycle, part comes out new one is inserted. Hence Idiot proof ...Right.
Until from lack of maintenance, age or maybe a corrosive atmosphere, one of those buttons develops a short and it is always clsoed the operator soon discovers that and is now running the machine with one button.
On repetitive work or cuts on the table saw it is up to the operator to know his limitations without losing concentration. With rotating machinery they are a constant hazard. The watch word should always be caution. I've seen an operator turn a machine off and just before the motor stopped the machine started back up by itself, a defective start stop switch, had a defective spring in the operator mechanism and didn't completely disengage the start button. This was on a newer model Table saw.
When mechanical relays were used to control machines contacts were famous for welding themselves shut requiring the operator to shut the whold machine down by disconnecting the power to the machine. A lot of the time the control voltage was 480 volts the same as that which fed the motors. This was finally changed in the 70's. But even now with computer control, Lightniing strikes or even a line transient can screw up the computer and virtually change the logic and they can have similar problems.
These new Table saws are great, however, I'd be willing to bet after replacing the first blade and trip mechanism, which are not cheap, someone some where will find a way to defeat them.
Again the watch word is ultimately the Operators responisbility to be alert and be familar with the machine he is operating.
Regardless what Bells and Whistles come with the machine to guarantee safety there is no guarantee for safety, just caution.
Re: Man Wins Big Money in Tablesaw Lawsuit
Dr. Hacker summed it up. Personal responsibility. The first job I had after service was in a Steel mill. I worked second shift. There were over head cranes and to guys on the floor who would hook up the Coils of steel to move from the slitting machine to a shipping bay.
The guys hooking up the steel were called, "Hookers". Usually a 72 inch wide coil of steel would go through a slitter which cut the steel into different sizes which was fed to a take up reel that had spavers for how many ribbons of steel the job called to cut.
One night there was a horrible accident one of the 'Hookers ' got his hand caught in the take up reel and cut four 4 fingers off right there on the spot. He wound up suing the company, the State and on and on. It was thrown out of court because, the Hooker didn't mention he had been drinking before the accident(at that time it was common preactice most of those guys were virtually drunk on the job) and that was enough to kill the case. If a Union Steward said he was working on a case, he wasn't talking about and Arbitration suit. The drinking was a standard practice at that plant and a lot of accidents as a result.
The man that got that huge reward, nothing was said, how it happeded but they blamed the machine. This kind of non sense has put us into a Nanny State.
Most accidents happen for a reason, carelessness, drinking while working with a power saw or a rotary machine but mostly familiarity breeds contempt, but in the end the user is the victim.
Re: Having Trouble Finishing? Here's a Great Product
I have used the wipe on poly and didn't like it.
Want a wipe on finish that is really quick. Use 50% Sherman-Williams fast dry gloss varnish, or any other fast dry varnish, mixed with 50% Naptha. Start wiping it on in the back and by the time you reach the front of the project the back is already dry. No dust, dirt or anything else to worry about. Plain paper towels work fine as an applicator, single sheet folded into a rectangle or square whatever you prefer. Use a small squeeze bottle to apply. If the dry time is too fast use less naptha or mineral spirits. Plain ordinary Naptha, not the High Flash too much sulphur in it.
You can re coat in an hour. 3 coats in a day. I have re-coated in as quick as 10 minutes.
Re: 10 Ways to Avoid Shop Fires
This is where Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters and Arc Fault Interrupters come in handy. Either would have opened the circuit immediately. The breaker didn't trip? Then faulty breaker, or too big for the job, or the run is too long for the wire, not allowing enough current to pass through the breaker to trip it.
Don't rely on a single ground rod to clear a fault. The grounding conductor, the bare, green must be run all the way back to the main panel,also it should be isolated in the sub-panel, from the neutral. if the one in the shop is a sub panel. Either way that ground must be tied to the Grounded Conductor (white/Neutral) at the point of Service attachment, usually at the Main Service Panel (some states allow the meter socket to be the grounding point). This is what clears the fault for any breaker in the system.
GFCI's don't even need to be grounded to work effectively. They have a comparator inside that samples the current leaving the Hot and compares the return current on the Neutral if the imbalance if greater than 4-6 miliamps the circuit will open protecting the machine but more importantly personnel and property.
The GFCI came out in 1970, only recently, last 5 years or so, has it been discovered that Lightning can wipe out the electronics in a GFCI. You can push the reset button and the power comes back on but the circuit has no protection, the electronics are toast. The good news the NEW ONES , once it takes a lightning hit, they can not be reset and must be replaced.
Also remember even if you have Air-Terminals, Lightning Portection, that is not a failsafe against Lightning strikes, it does strike trees and other wooden objects.
The trouble with electricity is, it almost always works, But when you have a fault you want it off ...NOW.
They also make GFCI's for 240 volts, great for machines and safe, one less thing to worry about.
Re: Cache boite electrique
Gee, that's a bit much to cover a Service Panel Where's the door that's spose to come with it?
Re: 10 Ways to Avoid Shop Fires
To Ray Russel Sr. Your shop sounds almost fire proof. It sounds like you were sold a bill of goods on that EARTH Ground. Unless that Earth Ground is bonded to the main Service panel. Then it is virtually useless. This is recommended for the discharge of static electricity. This has been tried before and a Rod 8-10 feet long just doesn't to rid stray voltage. Ask once that static electricity gets to the ground rod where does it go ? It meets 25 ohms resistance, it could bleed off and eventually go to the earth or not.
Testing has shown without bonding to the service panel, that Earth ground has between 25-50 ohms resistance. And that depends on your soil and really how much rain you have had. The Earth is a terrible conductor. Primarily the Earth is used for Lightning strikes and can not function to clear a fault, a short, a partial short or even a ground fault. The purpose of a circuit breaker is to clear the fault quickly with in a 1/10 of a second to prevent fires. GFCI's and the New Arc Fault breakers are not a bad idea for a shop with a lot of wood dust The Arc fault breakers AFCI's are expensive but they can detect a parallel faults and a series fault, In other words, a line to neutral of a broken hot that is intermittently arcing or an open neutral that is carrying current that is arcing.
Ground rods by themselves, can cause a myriad of problems by them selves, and a potentia above ground i.e., shock hazards, they can cause stray voltages to be floating around on metal parts. This is why it is so important to home run a wire from the ground rod to the main Service panel. All grounds in lighting fixtures, receptacles and any other device available shall be home run to the service panel.
It was once said, we spend an awful lot of time terminating wires( the groundwire) in hopes it will never have to be used.
Since I have been into woodworking, I have found that machines wired with 120 volts, both the Hot and Neutral are both switched, I even called the manufacture on it and they blew me off, but if the neutral opens on a machine like that and you energize that machine, it could become hot to the touch. Obviously manufactures don't follow the NEC (National Electrical Code.) A lot of these machines are made in China and they follow one plan, color coding is wrong too, so one must be careful when checking connections.
Another thing is, if you have water lines and gas lines running to the shop they too should be ground/bonded to the service panel.
One last thing Electricity doesn't take the shortest path to ground it takes all paths back to the source, the transformer...not to ground.
I apologize for the length of this but there are many things related and preventing fires, and personnel safety and especially with little kids in the shop at times, safety is of prime concern.
Re: Dovetailed drawers are overrated
I agree Justin. Where would furniture production be without machines. No question. I made my first drawer at age 15, my step-father was a Trim carpenter, from Denmark, for the next three years I spent summers installing kitchens, cabinets countertops the whole 9-yards. The drawers were over lap drawers held together with 3 no.6 coated box nails per joint, and when he was done it was a beautiful job. He called them Swedish dowels.
If it works fine do it if it suits your purpose. But I have never seen so much complaining, and, yes, attacking one type of joinery. As I said below I just learned how to make Dovetails with a chisel and saw. I had the same ideas everybody else did, don't need them , too tough and on and on take way too much time. Unless you are under time constraints, have a schedule to meet, is not the purpose of woodworking: supposed to be, fun, relaxing, change of scenery from the "ball and chain", a shop in the woods. But I see people going to great lengths to convince us or themselves that dovetails are not worth the effort, fine, you know whatever 'floats yer boat' but as a joint if it had no merit it would NOT have lasted for a couple thousand years.
Did you know Dovetails date back to before Written history. They have found them in the Pyramids. I have even read that dovetails are antedeluvian, before the flood. So my friends they are not going away, any time soon.
It is what you might call where we came from as woodworkers. Its part of our history.
Re: Dovetailed drawers are overrated
Melamine for kitchen drawers ? If anyone even considers buying that ought to pay an extra 3000 for that. I've never known anyone slapping a "set of Dove tails" on anything, hand cut dove tails take time, alot more that the machine.
So anyone who bothers to learn to cut dovetails is either Vane, a purist or an Elitist. And that from a Carpenter, ergo, it must be so and the self congratulatory pat on the back. Talk about an elitist attitude ? So you've done your apprentiship and you are done learning, that is a sad place to be.
Semper Fi, Buddy.
Re: Dovetailed drawers are overrated
Stress?... Now I've heard everything, woodworking is suppose to be fun, creative and relaxing. But Stressful, we are not navigating through Shark infested waters in a Birchbark canoe.
To each his own, Pinned joints are fine. Hell, you can use No.6 sinkers (box nails and call'em Swedish Dowels.) to pin the joints together. I read the article on drawers without dovetails and it is a quick and easy way to put them together, they even recommend trimming off a 1/16 on the bottom to create part of the reveal.
But trying to pass the pinned joint off being as good as dovetails, like comparing a Chevy to a Beamer, it just can't be done the aesthetics just aren't there.
Re: The Mysterious Case of the Exploding Shellac Can
Afterall, it is an alcohol base and after 5 years, maybe it had started to ferment. Stranger things have happened.
Re: Dovetailed drawers are overrated
I have a Dovetail jig with all the bells and whistles, it can make different size tails but you are screwing around with the setup, practice cuts adjust this knob the move that one and maybe you'll be close. That I think is more frustrating than making a bad cut with a Dovetail Saw, or missing completely and running the Dovetail saw across your finger requiring, time out to get stitches.
Hand cut Dovetails are the essense of Woodworking. They take time to master but with patience it comes. I finally broke down and took a two day class on nothing but Hand cut Dovetails and it was worth every penny. I just finished 7 shop cabinets all the carcases are dovetailed, you can go nuts with sizes and designs on width. I used Roof flashing(aluminum, cuts easy to make templates) The feeling of satisfaction of putting them together with your fist is a true feeling of knowing you have really accomplished something.
Thats how I see it.
Re: Bench Cookie Giveaway
Cookies ? What kind are they Chocolate ?
Re: Townsend Inspired High Chest of Drawers
That is nice.
Re: Still don't have a workbench? This one is easy
I built it and it is great. In a word very sturdy. In my area I couldn't find 4 x 4's untreated so I used the treated work out fine. The other day when at my favorite lumber company, what do I find untreated 4 x 4's, go figure. The nice thing about this bench if it gets a little loose just tighten it up.
I just added another 144 square feet to my workshop to spread out a bit, was getting a little cramped with a 12 x 16, so now it up to 12 x 28 should be nicer.
Re: Who Begot Who? Comparing Planes from Lie-Nielsen, Wood River and Stanley
Ok...So maybe my approach was all wrong. What are the salient features of the Lee-Nielsen. June 13, I'm taking a Wood working class in Philidelphia, Dove-tails, they recommend Lee-Nielsen, Tite Mark, Two cheerys and so on.
I am a Master Electrician by trade, for 40 years I bought nothing but the best but now I am retired, so I have gotten cheap. Reading the posts above, especially the one about the 'Knock-offs' really brought it home. For example, just about everything that has a screw connection, needs to be torqued to a specification provided by the manufacture. Of course. the higher the voltage the more critical the torque spec., I had just bought a Craftsman screwdriver and the first twist the tip twisted, My Kleins never twisted, disgusted I threw the screwdriver away. Sure I could take it back, but being in business I didn't have the time to waste to drive all the way to Sears for a replacement.
So bottom line, I see the error of my ways.
Re: Who Begot Who? Comparing Planes from Lie-Nielsen, Wood River and Stanley
Chabber, 1/1000 of an inch eh ? Hehehe...
The implication is that Woodcraft took proprietery information and created a cheaper look-a-like plane. In most states that is a serious Offense, with jail time attached. When I worked for E.W.Bliss, all our drawings had a proprietery statement stamped right on the drawings. At one International Trade Show in Chicago, at McCormack Place, the standing rule was nobody took pictures of the other guys machines, etc, out of courtesey to that company and to the ethics of the trade. There were a lot of 'Asians'(there were probably others but the Asians were the most blatant about it) running around with cameras, and even sketch pads trying to get an edge on their competition.
There's an old saying, 'You get what you pay for', but where is that fine line where you are getting your money's worth and actually getting 'ripped-off' for what you're paying. I guess if I were a professional Woodworker I might consider paying $1000 dollars for two planes, but if you are just out of trade school and starting your own business, that's an awful steep price.
As far as China goes get use to it. They just about own this country, and if they decide to get rid of US as a financial burden we will be in really bad shape. America use to be a great competitor until the Government realized they couldn't pay for all it's social programs without first taxing the socks off Big companies that made quality products, hence they moved over seas.
Lee-Nielsen is one of the last quality company's and it shows but I can't afford his prices and buy wood at the same time. And soon it will cost about $1.50 everytime I start my tablesaw.
Re: Who Begot Who? Comparing Planes from Lie-Nielsen, Wood River and Stanley
Can anyone explain why Lee-Nielsen's are so much better than the original Stanley No. 7 or whatever the number is. I know better steel, but at what point are you paying for the name rather than a quality product.
Do the more expensive, (like 500% more that the normal price), Lee-Nielsen ever need to be sharpened ? Or do they last forever, Never Needs Sharpening...But there isn't a piece of steel made that is used for a cutting tool that doesn't need to be sharpened.
So how does anyone justify a $500 dollar bill for a number 7 Jointer or 150 bucks for a simple block plane. We are talking hand tools here and planing wood, not a CNC precision tool machining titanium Airplane parts with a tolerance of +/- .005 of an inch or better.
Another thing is parts ever since Henry Ford most tools and machines with more than one part have replacement parts readily available. If you break a trunion on your table saw do you go out and buy another table saw ? No of course not you buy another trunion.
We are doing the same job our Grand-fathers did 100 years ago planing wood, He made some really nice furniture with the tools he had available and he knew how to take care of them and keep them sharp, regardless who made them.
Re: SHAKER PIE SAFE
That looks great. what kind of finish ?
Re: The Not So Big Workshop
Hey Kevin, look at it this way, it is yours. Your young, You have a shop, a family, a home. You live in Pittsburgh, and the Steelers are in the playoffs and one game fromt the big show. So grab a Rolling Rock and enjoy.
All good things take time.
Re: Woodworking as brain-food
I was really jazzed about your article until you mentioned
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After immersing ourselves in FFG's X-wing game, and running a campaign in that system in which all but a "GM" player took the role of Rebel pilots (starting at 21pts and getting points for kills, mission completion, etc.), there's a murmur in the RPG ranks to have a campaign powered by EotE where the players take on the role of pilots for the Rebellion. This brings up a few questions:
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I thought the Jamie Foxx film was contrived garbage.
"Most of the shots are still, which is lame to me because – with the exception of the intimate camera work in the drinking scene – most of the movie doesn't take advantage of the fact it was shot in digital"
And this critique is straight bullshit. If he wanted the film to be mobile with steadicam shots, it would have been mobile with steadicam shots. A film doesn't NEED to ever take advantage of technology, and if it does apparently do that, then the intention of the piece, as a film, becomes muddled.
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Yang Yongliang's landscape artwork is served with steaming bowls of cloudy mountains and bodies of water. The pieces are titled A Bowl of Taipei. Taipei City is the capital of Taiwan, so in other words, Yang has placed parts of this stunning city into oriental dishes.
Unfortunately, the artwork is not edible, but it is certainly something special to feast your eyes on. Yang has done a fantastic job in combining the landscapes with the bowls. Using excellent fading techniques and photo manipulations, both elements flow seamlessly.
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Edinboro University will host 4th Annual Northwest Pennsylvania STEM Conference
05/14/2012EDINBORO, Pa. – Educators, higher education professionals, business and industry representatives and others will come together Tuesday at Edinboro University for the 4th annual Northwest Pennsylvania Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Conference.
The "STEM" Conference will focus on this year's theme: "STEM Skills for Today: Economic Vitality for the Future." The conference sessions will address a diversity of topics focused on the importance of developing competence in critical STEM areas.
Beginning at 8 a.m. in the Frank G. Pogue Student Center, topics covered in the conference will be current research-based information designed to address various interests within the STEM disciplines.
The conference features keynote speakers Jim Brazell and Dr. Jerry D. Valdez. Brazell, a member of the Thornburg Center for Professional Development and the Society for Design and Process Science STEM team, is a technology forecaster and strategist focusing on innovation and transformation. Valdez is Director of the Central Valley Science Project, a University of California professional development network of science faculty, professional developers and teachers of science, K-through-12. Dr. Valdez is also a contributing author to a National Academy of Science project and will present recent research titled "Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Grades K-12."
According to conference organizers, the keynote speakers will deliver their presentations at 9 a.m. at the Pogue Center, and during lunch at Van Houten Dining Hall.
The Northwest Pennsylvania region STEM network is one of five networks in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania working to create regional STEM strategies for its stakeholders. The Northwest Region is composed of individuals from Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Forest, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango and Warren Counties.
Conference registration costs $199. College and high school students have been encouraged to attend at a reduced registration rate fee.
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Nov 19, 2013 12:35 AM by Bill Halter
Righetti High School graduate Molly Schlemer scored 28 points and hauled down 17 rebounds as the Cal Poly women's basketball team defeated New Mexico State, 72-64. The reigning Big West player of the year made 13 of 21 shots from the field as the Mustangs improved to 1-3 on the young season. The Aggies dropped to 1-3.
Cal Poly trailed 33-31 at the half but started the second half with a 25-11 run. The Mustangs went up 64-50 with 7:25 to play. The Aggies pulled to within five with 3:40 to play but Cal Poly responded with scores on three straight possessions to put the game away.
Senior guard, Jonae Ervin scored 11 points to go along with six assists. Junior guard, Ariana Elegado scored 10 points with seven assists. Redshirt freshman, Maddison Allen scored four points and had 10 rebounds. Morro Bay High School graduate, Hannah Gilbert chipped in with two points, one rebound and one assist in seven minutes off the bench. The true freshman is averaging three points and one rebound per game.
Monday's game started a stretch where the Mustangs will play five of six games at home. Cal Poly hosts Nevada on Thursday at 7:00.
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2009 signaled many changes for Kundiman, an organization dedicated to providing a nurturing space for Asian American poets. Like other arts organizations, Kundiman experienced cuts in funding in the economic downturn. In particular, organizations that foster marginalized communities and in the arts, no less, are often the first castoffs for a pool of limited resources. With this knowledge, current and alumni Kundiman fellows nationally began to organize...
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The Lone Mountain Anthologyfeaturing the work of poets from the University of San Francisco's MFA program
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"Across & Between the Void" features poems by Thai poet Padcha Tuntha-obas and an essay by Alysha Wood entitled: "Translation as strategy within the work of Padcha Tuntha-obas and other poly-lingual texts."
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"a doubtful light fastidious vague disquietude deserted * and without a fire winter tree-cutting and proceeding : a certain wrong * in being born..."
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Achiote Seeds, Summer 2007with poems by Alfred Arteaga, Marina Garcia-Vasquez, Oscar Bermeo, and Dolores Dorantes, and translations by Jen Hofer
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Has anyone had this same problem? My left knee cap swells up to the size of a golf ball and feels like it is full of jello and then I have leg cramps from the back of my leg to my butt. I am on Tramadol and pain pills now. The tramadol was working then it stopped helping. The doctor said it is arthritis but I need to see a specialist but I don't have any health insurance and can't get any because of the things I all ready have, unless I want to pay an arm and a leg and a real high deductable!
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- Posted by two.25acres (My Page) on Wed, Sep 1, 10 at 9:18
I am in the same boat, I've dealt with the severe leg cramps most of the summer. I've tried Olive leaf extract, calcium/magnesium supplements and black strap molasses. Right now the combination of supplements and black strap molasses is working for me. Most of my cramping is front and back of the lower leg-at the same time. Upper thigh is the most severe. I do find that when I have them for a couple of days in a row, I swell. More me though, hands down it is the black strap molasses that helps. I find when I miss a day or two, the cramps come back. |
- Posted by catherinet (My Page) on Wed, Sep 1, 10 at 16:40
I have a bad knee. It sometimes gets fluid in it and I have horrible spasms around my calf and back of the knee. xrays showed that my meniscus is worn down and my bones are rubbing on each other. Ice is VERY important. Ice your knee several times a day. The doc says I need a knee replacement, but I'm going to try physical therapy first, to strengthen the muscles around the knee. Please do an internet search on how to strengthen the knee, and do those exercises faithfully. Can you take something like ibuprofen or Aleve? I was unable to even walk on my leg for about a week and a half. I'm doing better, but still can't do everything. I'm doing the exercises and icing my knee. Look up "The Arthritis Foundation" online and they give lots of good info on how to handle osteoarthritis. |
- Posted by oilpainter (My Page) on Wed, Sep 1, 10 at 20:38
I'll put this succinctly: Gluciosamine-plumps up the cartiledge that is there Chondroitin--builds new cartiledge Celadrin--Lubricates the joint These are all available at your pharmacy. I was diagnosed with arthritis of the knee, but had to wait 6 months for my plan to cover physio. I made the appointment for then. I had heard about Glucosamine so I headed for the pharmacy--sceptical but willing to try anything to stop the pain. The pharmacist recommended Glucosamine with Chondroitin. I started taking the recommended 3 pills a day. By the time my physio appointment rolled around I was completely pain free. I told my friend who has bad arthritis about it and she started taking it too--the full dosage. She can now move joints she hasn't been able to move in years. I told a lady on this site and she tried Glucosamine and celedrin. She posted back a week later that it was helping. You will see lots of things on the internet that says things like it is only a placebo affect. All I know is that I started taking these pills with an attitude that it probably wouldn't work but I was willing to try it and it did work for me and others. |
- Posted by catherinet (My Page) on Thu, Sep 2, 10 at 12:26
Glucosamine and Condroitin really messes up my GI tract, so I can't take that, unfortunatley. Hopefully it will work for you all. |
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With a combination of science, math and creativity, anything is possible, guest scientist Hunter Lloyd told an audience Friday evening at Montana State University Billings' Petro Theatre.
The award-winning professor of robotics and his robot, Looney, took the stage at 5 p.m., kicking off the 25th annual Billings Clinic Research Center's Science Expo.
He presented a problem to the crowd of hundreds of aspiring scientists and science enthusiasts that he must solve: His wife asked him to shovel the driveway and hang Christmas lights in a matter of 30 minutes. Each task, he estimated, would take 30 minutes. The real problem was that a football game he wanted to watch started in 30 minutes.
"What should I do?" he asked the crowd.
The solution was simple. "Hire a robot," kids shouted. They answered correctly.
The focus of this year's expo is "Rise of the Robots." As a guest speaker, Lloyd and his robots demonstrate that anything is possible.
Lloyd, a professor at Montana State University in Bozeman, and his students claimed high honors along with their Montana MULE robot that outperformed robots from Carnegie Mellon and Harvard to capture the 2010 NASA Robotics Championship.
"I like to think we won because we Montana kids know how to use duct tape," Lloyd joked. Lloyd combines his skills as a robotics engineer with comedy to inspire young people to follow their dreams in math and science.
The Billings Clinic Research Center's Science Expo 2013 runs this weekend at Montana State University Billings' Alterowitz Gymnasium and will feature 463 first- through-12th-grade students from 30 schools showcasing 403 science projects.
The expo is the largest Intel International Science and Engineering (ISEF)-affiliated fair in the state, providing a venue to educate youth about scientific careers and encourage scientific interest, said Marietta Reviczky-Dolan, the expo's coordinator.
"Science, math, technology and engineering are such important aspects of the educational system," Reviczky-Dolan said. "These fields are their future careers, and this experience helps build a solid foundation for their futures."
Central High School students Libby Harris, Becca Shipp and Elliot Hagan, all 11th-graders, put their science skills to the test this year as they explored whether low levels of chemicals leaked by hydraulic fracturing have harmful effects on organisms. The group used segmented worms for their research and found that a low level of methanol was harmful to the regeneration of stem cells.
"We suspected this would be the outcome, but we didn't think it would be as drastic as it is," Harris said Friday.
The students' biology teacher, Dr. Deb Wines, said her only requirement with her students' projects was that they would answer a question relevant to the "real world."
"This project is really timely and compelling," Wines said. "We need our students to be active in real science. They are learning skills that will prepare them for their future."
The awards ceremony for science projects will be held Saturday beginning at 3 p.m. at the Lincoln Center Auditorium, 415 N. 30th St.
More than $20,000 in prizes will be awarded. Projects are primarily judged on how well students use and understand the scientific method along with their creativity, craftsmanship and artistic merit.
The winning individual or team in the high school division will advance with an all-expenses-paid trip to compete at Intel ISEF 2013 taking place in May in Phoenix.
The top 10 percent of projects in grades six through eight will be nominated to further competition at the Society for Science & the Public Broadcom MASTERS competition.
"This event is great practice for the younger students for when they become eligible to compete at national and international levels," Reviczky-Dolan said.
In addition to the science fair, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Physical Education Building, 20 local organizations will showcase interactive exhibits of the most advanced science.
The public is also invited to two showings of the chemistry magic show in the MSUB library, Room 148. The first show is from 11 a.m. to noon. The second is from 1 to 2 p.m.
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Opening statements begin in trial of El Cajon man accused of murdering his wife
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This week, Kassim Alhimidi, 49, an Iraqi man accused of murdering his wife in El Cajon, is on trial. The death of Shaima Alawadi made national headlines two years ago because initially the incident was thought to be a hate crime.
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A mix for Garrett and the musical community. First song was a joke because this mix took 5 hours to upload.
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Longboard/ Chill Mix for Matt by Reality Outercore
A little bit of everything in this, enjoy on a longboard in the sunny evening threw a city, or chilling in your room high as fuck, or in a forest tripp...
electro, electronic, chill, drugs, rap
March Break Party/Chilling by Reality Outercore
March break is 23 days away and i cant wait! going to listen to these songs partying and long boarding and chilling on the beach.
hip hop, electronic, rock, surf rock
A Little Bit of my Collection by Reality Outercore
Some songs I thought you may like!.
indie rock, alternative rock, beach music
Straight Up Ambient #2 by Reality Outercore
A "sequel" to my most favorited mix "Straight Up Ambient" .
ambient, dark ambient, drone, drugs, trippy


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Frédéric Mitterand (centre) with his guests
On the fifth day, much to their astonishment, they are invited to join a guest whose identity is completely unknown to them. Their mystery host is none other than Frédéric Mitterand, Minister of Culture and Communication. To celebrate France's first national day of gastronomy on Friday, 23 September, the Minister has decided to invite the four cooking aficionados to a dinner he has prepared at a very special location, the Ministry of Culture.
The Minister, who of course is not in the competition, can be seen on the show preparing his courses, cooking, setting the table and receiving his guests with a great deal of humour and pleasure.
Frédéric Mitterand preparing the dinner
Un Dîner presque parfait's special week with Frédéric Mitterand starts on 19 September 2011, from Monday to Friday at 17:35.


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Boss discusses January market and players returning from injury.
Under-21s boss proud of fight displayed in 3-3 draw.
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A rundown of the latest injuries and suspensions affecting the senior squad.
Huge demand means we've created new off-site package.
Dine with Roberto Martinez at this exclusive event.
Take a step inside the world-renowned Everton Academy.
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Details on our forthcoming coaching camps for youngsters.
An interactive journey through our illustrious history, from 1878 to present day.
Learn all you need to know about the men who have sat in the managerial hotseat.
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Info for the Chelsea, Young Boys and Leicester games.
Barkley discussed in Tuesday's media.
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Sierra Providence East Medical Center groundbreaking expansion
Sierra Providence East Medical Center will break ground on a $67 million expansion, that will further the hospital's mission to provide high-quality care to the eastside community.
The project includes the construction of a four-story tower and the expansion of the hospital's existing patient tower and emergency department.
The new four-story tower, "Tower Two", will add 145,000 square feet that will include 30 surgical beds and 30 medical beds.
The project also includes the addition of a 12 bed cardiovascular intensive care unit and will increase the emergency department capacity from 21 beds to 31 beds.
The construction will also expand the cafeteria, add classrooms for community education and relocate the administrative offices.
Project completion is scheduled for the end of 2014.