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Frog Kata [1] | |||
Name | |||
Kanji | 蛙組手 | ||
Rōmaji | Kawazu Kumite | ||
Literal English | Frog Kata | ||
Viz manga | Toad Sage Fist | ||
English TV | Frog Kumite | ||
Debut | |||
Manga | Chapter #420 | ||
Anime | Naruto Shippūden Episode #156 | ||
Movie | Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison | ||
Game | Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 | ||
Appears in | Anime, Manga, Game, Movie | ||
Data | |||
Classification | Senjutsu, Taijutsu, Fighting Style | ||
Rank | C-rank | ||
Class | Offensive | ||
Range | Short-range | ||
Other jutsu | |||
Parent jutsu | |||
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The Frog Kata is a fighting style used exclusively by those who have mastered Sage Mode and trained with the toads of Mount Myōboku. The senjutsu chakra used during Sage Mode "activates" the body in various ways, enhancing the user's speed, reflexes, strength, stamina and durability. This allows a sage to achieve incredible feats which include leaping great distances, shattering sharp materials with their bare hands, as well as lifting objects several times their size.
When using Frog Kata, the natural energy used by the practitioner to create senjutsu chakra also surrounds the user in an aura of that same natural energy. This aura can act as an extension of their body and cannot be seen by anyone other than those who have trained in senjutsu. By utilising the aura, the user can extend the range and force of their physical attacks. Strikes that seemingly or would normally miss will actually make contact with the target. One punch has been shown to have enough force to cripple and completely finish off an opponent, not unlike Chakra Enhanced Strength.
In addition, the enhanced speed, reflexes and heightened chakra sensing from Sage Mode, combined with the skilful body movements of Frog Kata, allows the practitioner to evade enemy strikes at the last possible moment.[2]
Trivia Edit
- Kata is a martial arts term referring to a pattern of defence-and-attack.
- In the anime, Naruto used Frog Kata to break through Nine-Tailed Naruto Clone's Version 2 chakra cloak.[3]


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Anderson Silva is $50,000 lighter in the pocket after the UFC fined him for skipping an obligatory media event. / Felipe Dana, AP
LAS VEGAS â?? The UFC has fined middleweight champion Anderson Silva $50,000 for refusing to take part in a planned pre-UFC 162 media event.
Silva was scheduled to talk with a few of Los Angeles' largest media outlets on Tuesday but ultimately skipped the session and instead flew home to his native Brazil.
"We had a full media day set up for him in Los Angeles, and he just decided he didn't want to do it, so he's being fined $50,000," UFC President Dana White told USA TODAY Sports.
The media session was scheduled to coincide with this week's ticket on-sale date for UFC 162 in which Silva looks to defend his belt against Chris Weidman. The pay-per-view event takes place July 6 at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena. The annual Fourth of July weekend fight card is considered one of the promotion's cornerstone events and comes complete with a two-day UFC fan expo and a full slate of fan-driven activities.
"He doesn't like talking to the media, but it's part of his contractual obligation," White said. "Everybody wants more money, more money, more money, but nobody wants to sell the fight or go out and talk to the media. Talking to the media is part of your job, whether you like it or not."
Silva was scheduled to appear on local TV and radio stations, as well as a luncheon with more than a dozen Los Angeles-area newspapers and websites.
Silva is not the first high-profile UFC fighter to skip company-scheduled media appearances. In 2011 Nick Diaz missed a pair of pre-UFC 137 press conferences designed to promote a planned bout with UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. In a then-unprecedented move, White pulled Diaz from the headlining contest and replaced him with Carlos Condit.
White said he is not currently inclined to take similar action against Silva, and the bout with Weidman is still scheduled to serve as the UFC 162 main event.
"Nick Diaz didn't show up for the press conference," White said. "This was just a smaller media day, but it's still not acceptable, so we're fining him $50,000."
Silva's manager, Ed Soares, declined to comment on the matter.
John Morgan also writes for MMAJunkie.com, a property of USA TODAY Sports Media Group.
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I leave this product out on the bottom shelf of my countertop baker's stand; along with various other items, like our seltzer maker, quick blender, hot water dispenser, etc., this makes it easy to plug in, out of the way of main kitchen prep areas. Not sure that a small kitchen would be happy with its size; however, it does the job--quickly, very few 'widows' (if none at all), complete no-brainer. It did perplex us as to the amount that it should produce; I usually pop 1/3 C kernels for the two of us and the Popcorn Maker booklet says this will give 10 C finished product. It does not; it is closer to 6+. This is not a deal-breaker, just a curiosity.
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Phoronix: Valve's Steam Linux Beta: "Fairly Soon"
Valve's Steam Linux beta will be available fairly soon...
Just curious.
What games are going to be available in this beta?
Well, as of now only Left4Dead 2.
Maybe they will release some third-party steam games with linux versions. world of goo for example.
There is no "fairly" word in valve time. So we can expect it next year
As their L4D2 port is completed, I think other source based games should not take much time to come. May be with Steam beta only L4D2 and other ports following. So in lunch time Most Of the Source games.
I am hopping for Counter strike(Source and/or Global offensive) to come early.
I could bet in September or at worse case scenario, October.
I hope they will port dota 2 to Linux too
"Fairly soon" is an anagram of "Loafs irony".
Do the math!
Since it uses Source Engine too I think the chances are high that it get's ported
some time after Left 4 Dead 2. Very popular Free-2-Play games would be the best
way to pull people over to linux. Not everyone wants to pay money for a rather
old game (L4D2) and there are propably alot of people who aren't hardcore gamers
and just play 1-2 games regulary and if one of them is DOTA it's even easier for
them to switch to Linux.
Really looking forward to the beta test since they said that everyone who
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That comes as a big surprise but one that I welcome. I know this series isn't dark enough and the Christian religious allegory turns some people off but not me.
It appears that there is no way of keeping The Chronicles of Narnia on the shelf. The C.S. Lewis Company has partnered with The Mark Gordon Company to adapt and produce a live action version of the "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair." This is incredible surprising after the third installment of the franchise, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, made $400 million on a $155 million budget.
The difference here is that this time the C.S. Lewis Company now has Mark Gordon as a producer. The Gordon Company has produced such films as Saving Private Ryan, Wonder Boys and Speed. Though in comparison, the first two films did have Disney behind it so perhaps the fault lies with the product and not the producers?
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That comes as a big surprise but one that I welcome. I know this series isn't dark enough and the Christian religious allegory turns some people off but not me.
Im very excited about this news. i really hope to one day have the entire saga on film. Keep pushing through.
I assume they are going to lower the production value a bit in recognition of the decline of box office sales, but im sure they can still pull off an amazing film
I've loved all three of the other movies, as have my kids. I'm glad that they will be continuing the series. I hope that they can still use the same actors. Bring on more Narnia!
But can someone explain to me why making $400 million on a $155 million budget is bad? That's double the money. Was that box office only, or did that include DVD/Blu-ray sales?
Cap: I was wondering the same thing.
Should those numbers be reversed?
I thought the movies went steadily downhill, to be honest. I REALLY enjoyed the first one, thought the second was okay, and didn't really care for the third...but maybe a fresh set of eyes and a fresh direction will make a difference.
Wait, why are we surprised. It made hundreds of millions and we are surprised. Explain!
Because of diminishing returns. The first made over 700mill. Most investors try to get out on the way down not once or after you hit rock bottom.
Luckily for the second time it appears a second or third party has confidence in these films. The first 2 were done by Disney, the 3rd by Fox after Disney lost faith and now this group. I hope it pays off for them
@Tevii, I would love to have all 7 on my shelf someday.
New blood and new direction, but a really great story. I really enjoy the Silver Chair.
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 3: Study Tour |
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Unit chair: | C Chao |
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The unit Economics for Managers (Tour) is designed to provide current and future managers with sufficient economic understanding and analytical tools (including statistical tools) to effectively assist them in decision making in their workplace. These decisions relate to how organisations can best use scarce resources against the backdrop of the economic environment in which Australian and Chinese firms operate. This requires an understanding of introductory theory in both microeconomics, macro¬economics and statistics.
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It was the place to be as a teenager in the late 70's. Since there were no tanning beds, the girls would all show up with towels, tanning lotion, and a radio, and lay in the sun until the local DJ would give the cue to turn. The guys, on the other hand, would line up at the diving boards (which just happened to be by the girls) and take turns doing our best imitation of an Olympic diver. Unlike today, our swimming pool was equipped with both a high dive and a shorter one and there were always a couple of older guys who were willing to teach us younger ones the art of perfecting certain dives. I can remember learning full and half gainers, 1 1/2's, and of course all of the maneuvers that provided the biggest splash (These sort of determined male dominance among the girls and I was never the dominate male)
When I think about these special times, there are 2 things that come to mind. First, I always remember the line to the high dive being much shorter than the one to the lower one. And I also remember all the times I flopped, crashed, and burned, trying to learn a new dive. I can still feel the stinging sensation from a flip gone awry. But I can also remember getting back in line and doing it again, and again, and again.
Now, fast forward from the Bee Gees and Boston, to Buble and Beyonce. Fast forward from a skinny youth with no tolerance for quitting no matter how much pain, to a plumper older guy who tends to refrain from any activity that requires both learning and pain. Fast forward from a shivering boy on a high dive to someone who fights the temptation to linger around the lower, easier, and safer places of life. Some would say that I am older and wiser now, and that is true. But being older and wiser was never meant to keep me from scaling new heights and even from the occasional belly flop; but being older and wiser is only meant to help me determine which pools I am meant to be spending my time swimming in.
Gary Miller
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All Men Are Not Equal When Choosing a Provider
All Men Are Not Equal When Choosing a Provider
MANAGED CARE December 2005. ©MediMedia USA
The Declaration of Independence, that audacious document, contains the remarkable phrase: "All men are created equal." No one believed it for a moment, not even Thomas Jefferson, who quickly, in the next phrase, cites the "Creator" as the basis of this equality. Only in the eyes of God can this be true, for certainly, in the eyes of Charles Darwin and, today, in the eyes of any biologist or physician, it just isn't so.
The story of health care is a chronicle of just how unequally we are created. Genetics can now dig to scary depths to make that point. At the same time, the consumer-directed health care movement pretends that Jefferson was correct all along.
As our cover story points out, Darwin has not been silenced. The survival of the fittest applies to just how much control individuals can exert over their health coverage benefits. The story asks how can you expect the 90 million Americans with limited literacy to navigate the complex shoals of health care. Further, what will that ignorance wind up costing the rest of society in the long run?
Evolution is a blind machine that doesn't pause to ask questions. So, too, is the marketplace. Ready or not, consumer-directed health care is coming. Health plans and all other players in the system must figure out a way to break information choice down to the "See Spot run" level.
Meanwhile, we wonder. Did the dinosaurs of millennia past think, in any sense that a human identifies thought? Not too likely. They just looked stupidly at the sky as the streaking asteroid hurtled toward their home.
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36 Years Ago: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Release 'You're Gonna Get It!' Album
A year and a half after Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' self-titled debut album fooled some music fans into thinking that the Los Angeles-based classic rockers were maybe a New Wave act, the quintet doubled down. 'You're Gonna Get It!,' which was released on May 2, 1978, loaded up on Byrdsian jingle-jangle, classic-rock guitar crunch and a few meathead riff-based songs that made it clear that Petty and his band had little in common with the skinny-tie kids and their synthesizers.
Unlike 1976's 'Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,' 'You're Gonna Get It!' comes off as a straightforward rock 'n' roll album with few detours (except for those that turn back to the '60s). But where the debut bristled with new-band energy, the follow-up LP lags at times, barreling through some of its songs with a workmanlike thud. The heavy touring that accompanied the first album started to take its toll on the band, especially Petty who penned 10 songs that couldn't quite keep up with the best of the debut. Essentially, 'You're Gonna Get It!' doesn't get much breathing space.
Still, the band had generated enough buzz from its debut to fuel much of the second album's drive. The record – which was originally titled 'Terminal Romance' – was recorded in Hollywood through 1977 and early 1978. Fresh off the road, the group sounds tough and hard on 'You're Gonna Get It!' Their playing, song for song, is even better than on the debut; it's the songs that bring them down. Only the singles 'I Need to Know' and 'Listen to Her Heart' manage much identity among the somewhat faceless rockers.
'You're Gonna Get It!' still ended up reaching No. 23 – a better showing than 'Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers'' No. 55 peak. Neither single made it to the Top 40, but 'I Need to Know' almost did, stopping at No. 41. The album went gold, the band went back on tour and they came out swinging on 1979's 'Damn the Torpedoes,' their masterpiece. And in a way, they needed to make 'You're Gonna Get It!' to get there. You can thank or blame second-album nerves, or deadlines, or even the usual sophomore slump.
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Time for aircraft manufacturers to further increase their incentives for airlines to become launch customers.
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Time for aircraft manufacturers to further increase their incentives for airlines to become launch customers.
There have been remarkably few comments so far about the Airbus A350.
Could someone knowledgeable please tell us how much of the electrical system in the A350 is similar to that in the 787?
As for the wisdom or otherwise of being innovative, a certain Pope had a helpful comment nearly 300 years ago:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to cast the old aside.
Airbus thoughtfully took at least the first part of this advice to heart, cunningly making sure that the A350 would be flying several years after the 787.
(yes, irony intended, in case anyone wondered)
The electrical system of the A350 isn't nearly as ambitious as the 787. It still uses traditional bleed air and hydraulics for a lot of things the 787 uses electrical power for. It does have lithium-ion batteries, but fewer of them and from a different supplier. I don't know if the chemistry used in the batteries is different though.
Thanks for the info.
Steve Jobs proved the Pope's axiom to be wrong, by half.
/History majors, pay attention
looks like the US is running out of it's WW2 stock of german engineers. <:)
Bill Boeing, co-founder of the company, was the son of a German immigrant, but that was before WW1. Since those days the company mostly relied on American engineers.
Just a bit of fun there, mostly pointing to the fact that since the 70ies, the US appears too have lost a large chunck of the supremacy it enjoyed directly after the War in the engeneering department, when the world as we know it today was largely created.
And it does not appear to improve lately..
Since the batteries were designed and made in Japan i'm not sure where that leaves your train of thought.
Probably somewhere between Munich and Tokyo ;)
Internet, Personal Computers, UPC, Post-it note, iPod, Windows, Mobile phone, Catalytic converter, GPS, C (programming language), floppy disk, CD....
And my personal favorite, the Segway.
Windows is a product/brand name, Phil. The invention it relies upon is referred to as a graphical user interface.
Since when was Tim Berners-Lee considered an American?!?
The "modern" aeronautical and aerospace industries in the U.S. are run now like a gentleman's club for ex-military, where intelligence is of secondary importance to punctuality and reliability.
In addition to this, foreigners alone tend to be considered for the mathematical analysis jobs, especially those with Asian roots.
That's quite the recipe for such design disasters IMO...
Starting with factual errors in this article.
1. Replacing hydraulic controls with fly-by-wire is current state of the art in aircraft technology. The Concorde was the first passenger aircraft to do so 40 years ago.
2. Building all the structure from composite has been done before. Just to name a few: the B2, the Burt Rutan Voyager in the 90s...the first major structurals part in composite were for the F18 in the 1980s
3. Assembling bits of aircraft from different subcontractors spread around the globe has been around for two decades. It's how all aircraft are built today, because no one can stump up the cash otherwise. It's called risk-sharing partnerships.
So what was the problem?
1. Well for a start they chose the wrong sub-contractors, based on price only. I won't give names but the prime suspect originates from a country in the shape of a boot. (some things don't change)
2. Then they introduced a design process driven by schedules, not quality of the work. You move ahead in the design reagardless of whether you've finished the last task properly.
3. They were not innovative enough, relying on rivets to stitch together parts instead of advanced bonding. Sticking a rivet in composite is like putting a stud in a pair of jeans: that's where it rips.
4. Finally and more generally, too much reliance on computer simulations and not enough testing.
But they'll fix it. They cannot afford not to. The good thing about american companies is they know that if they don't get straigthened out, they'll go belly up. Not like some on the other side of the pond.
Disclaimer: this does not apply to banks.
Or GM
Or GM
The article isn't quite as wrong as Fox implies.
1. The Concorde had electric controls, yes, but subsonic large passenger planes are still usually built with hydraulic lines. BTW, the 787 saves a lot more weight though this "more electric architecture" than by simply replacing one type of battery with another. That's where the article is rather imprecise.
2. The first all-composite aircraft produced in large series was probably the Boelkow Phoebus glider of 1964 (made of glassfiber); but it's still a large way from there, or from a not-very-maintenance-sensitive B2, to making a revenue-generating airliner mostly from carbon-fiber composites. Part of the issue is airliner people are trained to think in metals, but there are also some design issues that don't apply to military or sports aircraft.
3. It's true all passenger aircraft these days have global supply chains. The issue with the 787 is what level of design authority and process ownership Boeing gave to their suppliers. In essence, they gave up more control than was done before.
The boot-shaped country company (Alenia) works on the tail - that is not where the problmes lie. Composites have been used for a long time in the aerospace industry, that is true, but never on this scale. Making a composite structure twice as large as another is not twice as difficult, it is four times more difficult. In other words, with composites things don't scale in a linear fashion. Composites have many more failure modes than metallic materials hence are able to produce surprises, compounded by large dimensions.
Half of the 20% fuel consumption saving comes from the engines.... Only 2% from the composite structure.
"I won't give names but the prime suspect originates from a country in the shape of a boot."
IIRC, the Yuasa batteries were sent to a hexagon-shaped country for assembly, not the boot-shaped one.
1. The 150 seater A320, 1980 vintage, is fly-by-wire. (As are the later A330/A340/A380)
2. The military needs certification as well. And they have to deal with bullet impacts on composite, not just luggage trolleys.
3. You can delegate, depends to whom. The wings are made by competent people. No problem there, thankfully. The batteries are just a side-show.
American companies know perfectly well when they are too big fail and it's not just banks. GM and Chrysler being notable examples. Boeing is in the same league.
@Mobert and @Complexity have already pointed to many of @ZeFox's imprecisions and exaggerations.
I will only add that Alenia (from the boot-shaped country), as far as I know, was not the main source of trouble in the 787 subcontracting fiasco.
It was Vought, a venerable and all-American company. They messed things up so completely that Boeing had to take over Vought management in order to avoid further delays.
Smugness and condescension towards Boeing's foreign partners won't help to fix the 787. The main burden must always fall on those who run the show (and choose the partners, in the end).
But Vought didn't build or package the batteries or their sub-assemblies, that WAS done by a foreign European partner with very close ties to its rival. @Anjin-San is spot-on!
While posters and author of the article point out to save weight that way is asburd, it seems the gamble to use that battery more a decision to prevent further delays than to reduce aircraft weight. The decision is more political and business than engineering. Whoever made that decision is ill advised.
Warren Buffet said: "We want not trade reputation for money." It has been said in video gaming industry - "Once a bad game, no updates can make it a good game". I hope Boeing understand what the above means. "We traded reputation and rushed a release to hope to get money, and we lost even more money!"
I will make the disclaimer that I am Boeing shareholder, and I am still confident about the 787. But really, this whole mess could have been managed a bit better - I would rather see this handled better in media, and would rather see patience in good engineering.
Lithium-ion batteries are chosen for energy density, not merely weight.
Since no failure cause has been identified in the separate investigations in Japan and the USA so far, one may begin to suspect that the common cause might not be in the as-built configuration of the battery units but in a mismatch between their design and actual operating conditions. The next logical step should then be to try and reproduce the failures by subjecting several new batteries to the same operating conditions - in terms of charging history, temperature, and pressure - as the affected units, and see if a failure can be observed. Failing that, the design should be considered as adequate to the load history seen by the failed units, so the failure would necessarily be in those parts that the investigations could not check, because they were burned; or in some manufacturing irregularities still to be discovered.
"The irony is that, in doing so, all it saved was 18kg (40lb) per plane—about the same, one expert noted, as a single piece of baggage."
Kudos to TE for corroborating even the smallest details by expert opinion. I too consider myself an expert on weighing suitcases and am glad to see this little known scientific field get some long overdue recognition.
Dear Sir,
Your comment is absolutely hilarious! Kudos - definitely the first time I burst out in laughter reading a comment in TE!
Dear Sir,
Your comment is absolutely hilarious! Kudos - definitely the first time I burst out in laughter reading a comment in TE!
For a revolutionary new aircraft, it looks remarkably like the other 50 year old wide body jets:
Tube and Cruciform Wing construction with underwing engines.
With supercomputer modeling, I was expecting a radical lifting body fuselage along the lines of the stealth bomber.
Computer controlled flaps which adjust 15 times a second to stabiliize an inherrently unstable shape.
Great wing loft, quiet floating smooth flight, exceptional fuel economy with a 50% gain compared to rivals.
Wide broad interior where you can almost have a full court basketball game.
Seating 500 passengers with a open sky interior, natural light and stars at night.
Maybe even 2 decks of passengers in amphitheater seating. And big screen movies like a theater.
The new 787 is hardly distinctive in exterior design.
It is evolutionary 1.71, not a game changer.
Boeing stuck to a conventional design and still fumbled it.
I for one would not be very happy with an inherently unstable airframe. It would be impossible for human pilot to fly such plane in an emergency if computer controls failed.
That is somewhat unfair. They chose to innovate in the arena of materials and weight savings having judged (correctly in my opinion), that a lifting body fuselage was not yet ready for prime time.
I'd note that without the material innvations pioneered on the 787, your open interior lifting body would not even be practical.
Actually the materials innovations and the techniques to make large modulare pieces with carbon fiber is a significant breakthrough
I might be wrong, but it is my understanding that all the current 'fly by wire' planes like the recent Airbus's require the computer to fly at all ?
Well, yes, but the computer just converts pilot input to electrical impulses for control surface actuators. Most of the time the computer also supplies the primary input instead of pilot ("autopilot"), but if the autopilot part fails, a human pilot can safely take over. With an unstable airframe this would not be possible.
Computer-controlled aircraft have been around for quite some time (the F-16, F-117, B-2 and other stealth aircraft), and I have not heard of accident caused by the "autopilot", although there have been "flight upsets" due to this, something I personally would like to avoid. Anyway, it is just adding another possible mode of failure, and unstable airframe's main advantage is extreme maneuvrability, something you want in a fighter jet, but not necessarily in a passenger craft.
The problem is obviously overdischarge in current.
Instead of a common 7 cells in series (24v), the system uses 8 cells to get more power output.
LP65 has an overspecification of the output current rating of 5C (325A continuous current). Since the system requires a high output power, I guess that each cell is drawn close to 5C (325A). With high current discharge, internal resistance will increase as a result of heat, and high resistance will generate more heat. Thermal runaway will be a result. This is caused cell short circuit. Sometimes, BMS will failure to detect the fast rising temperature of the cell inside.
With a cell short circuit, overcharging of other cells will be a result when the total charging voltage unchanged. It will cause burning and melting of battery cells.
The solution: use bigger battery cell like 200Ah cell instead of LP65 (65Ah only).
Given the discussion, I am assuming they used lithium cobalt, like portable appliance batteries, as I haven't seen the actual chemistry stated anywhere. Why didn't they use lithium iron phosphate? It has lower energy density, but would have need less in charge management electronics. And the RC aircraft community has proven they are safer in rapid charge/high discharge applications.
I find it kind of scary that the FAA seems to place production delay ahead of passenger safety as a concern :s.
Absolutely. I'm sure I'm completely wrong and totally insane, but I was under the impression that safety of passengers (and bystanders on the ground) was the primary reason for the existence of the FAA, thereby making production delays an absolute necessity to ensure said primary objective.
This conflict of interest, the FAA championing the industry as well as regulating it for safety, has been noted frequently in the past. A prime example of regulatory capture in deed. Sadly, it'll take something pretty severe to change that.
Yes, you are wrong. FAA has to maintain the whole aviation system humming, even at the cost of some lives lost. The NTSB is the "safety "uber alles" agency.
Americans are brilliant engineers, I am sure they will over come the problems. Every new technology; machine, plant; hardware and software have problems which are soon sorted out.
he who dares wins. I'm unimpressed at grounding 50 planes for a couple of little fires: in years gone past other planes had far worse hiccups
apparently you did not fly in any of those other planes - time to catch up - are you dreamliner ready
The Dreamliner Chief Electrical Engineer must look @ the remarkable
Envia Systems batteries!
From the article:
"So far, air-safety investigators in both Japan and America agree that, in neither case, was there evidence of the batteries being overcharged. The flight recorders show their voltage was correct before the fires broke out. That would seem to rule out the charging system as the source of the problem. By the same token, it would suggest the battery-management system, which is used to keep the voltage within its prescribed limits, was working properly."
The question I have with this, is that it is an 8 cell battery. Is the flight data recorder keeping individual records on all 8 cells (actually 16 because there are two batteries)? Because if they are not, then a single battery voltage does not tell if it was overcharged or not. the cells could be unbalanced, where one cell was too high, with another one low.
Actually Reuters has a story since the 25th which quotes an inside source in the NTSB investigation of the JAL incident saying
"Circuit boards that control and monitor the performance of the plane's lithium-ion battery unit were charred and may be of little use to the teams investigating why the battery effectively melted,
One key question for safety investigators is how the battery's eight individual cells became volatile even though the overall voltage to the battery was steady and didn't exceed the 32-volt capacity, officials have said. That data is not recorded in the Dreamliner's "black box" flight-data recorder."
Therefore we cannot rule out the charging system.
But there are many other questions here:
Why is the charging circuit unprotected in the same box? Why is there no cell cooling system?
A crucial tool in this sort of work is a 'nervous system' of sensors and processing that can detect and record 'near-fault' events. After all, for every fault event that causes a fire, there were probably 100 'near-fault' events. Ideally you can notice when the distribution of such events shows where more safety margin is needed; failing that, when a problem does crop up, those records plus 20/20 hindsight can be invaluable.
I think your description of the control system of the 787 is a bit off. Here's a link to an authoritative document comparing the 787 to earlier aircraft:
Maybe the Airbus A350 will turn out better?
Boeing certainly screwed itself over when it outsourced so much of the manufacturing. All other things be equal, that itself made the process of finding and fixing unexpected issues much more complicated and time consuming.
Their batteries were always outsourced. The only serious problem so far is with the battery, which seems not to be a proven design.
Indeed, Boeing making its own batteries, rather than buying the best they can find on the market, would be quite counterproductive.
A fair point, though arguably the whole Dreamliner production scheme has itself been a serious problem. They were years behind delivering on orders before the planes were ordered grounded, even...
Delays in delivery of new aircraft are not unusual, however, and not unique to Boeing.
I am wondering if fuel cells would have been a better option (i.e. Vanadium redox battery) with an external wind generator as backup.
Energy density is even lower than lead-acid.
And there is an external wind generator already, it is called the RAT.
I believe the problem was with memory as much as power output(now equal to lead acid 30-40Wh/kg), but yes why was there no RAT (power output up to 70KW).
Boeing saved more than 40lb per plane by using Lithium. There are two batteries involved, each of which has weighs 48lb (excluding the chargers). Lithium batteries have at least three times the energy density of NiCad batteries. So the weight saving is closer to 200lb, which is a paying passenger plus luggage. This does not take account of the other benefits of Lithium ion, such as the space savings, and avoiding the use of Cadmium, which is a toxic metal.
Did you add in all the weight of the 4 layers of fire prevention controls and the additional system (which failed) to ensure smoke did not get into the cockpit if a fire started anyway?
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Windsong Acres
Step back in history as you tour one of Illinois' most beautiful and unique show barns, the 1912 Show Barn, or visit the artistic home studio of commercial artist Shelly Rasche. Take a pottery class, kick up your heels at a genuine barn dance, or take in a breathtaking prairie sunset.
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Golden Windmill
The Golden Windmill was built in 1872, and is the only smock mill that still has its original stones and gears in place. Today it is home to the Windmill Museum and gift shop.
The Jesus Tree
The life-size image of Jesus Christ holding a lamb in his arms has brought visitors from all over the world to see this birch tree.
Governor John Wood Mansion
The Governor John Wood Mansion is the restored home of Quincy's founder and 12th governor of Illinois. This building is the first example of historic preservation in the state of Illinois.
Quincy Art Center
The Quincy Art Center, a museum of the visual arts, is located on the grounds of the Lorenzo Bull Mansion, now the Women's City Club.
Granite Bank Gallery
The Granite Bank Gallery was named for the pink Missouri granite used for the building's façade and for its long-reaching roots in Quincy's history. The historic structure invites you through the lobby of an historic bank and into a beautiful example of architectural renewal in Quincy's central business district.
Private Home Tours of Quincy
Groups of 20 or more can now enjoy "Private Home Tours" of some of Quincy's finest mansions. Contact the Quincy Area Convention & Visitors Bureau to arrange a private tour at 217-214-3700 or 1-800-978-4748. Over 20 homeowners are participating in this unique venue that allows group tours inside magnificent homes and gardens throughout Quincy.
Quincy Community Theatre
This state-of-the-art community theatre far outshines and outperforms many professional theatres. The Quincy Community Theatre's first production was in 1929. The theatre seats 498 people and is complete with a thrust stage and full orchestra pit. Six different performances a year attract sell-out crowds.
Dollhouses Then & Now
Museum that houses over 70 vintage furnished doll houses from the 1920's- to current. The architectural designs and fashions depict and present the evolution of homes and furnishings from then to now. The Then and Now gift shop is complete with collectable doll house furnishings for sale. Children enjoy playing the scavenger hunt and viewing the 1949 "Disney House" and the 1924 Tootsie Toy house furnished with Tootsie toy pieces. Located inside Taylor's Furniture Store, along the square in Quincy's downtown business district.
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Open since 1976, Irene's features dancing to live DJs, drag shows and live entertainment.
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Villa Kathrine is a unique example of Mediterranean architecture in the Midwest. Located on the bluffs of the Mississippi, Villa Kathrine houses Quincy's tourist information center.
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Dedicated in 1886, the Illinois Veterans' Home is one of our nation's largest and oldest veterans home. It has often been labeled "the city witin the city" because of its size and unique set up. It is equipped with its own post office, bank, chapel, cemetery, television station and utility system. Also on the grounds is the All Wars Museum, which has 10,000 artifacts and exhibits spanning from the American Revolution to the War on Terrorism.
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Prime waterfront land that sits east of Templeton Landing near the entrance of the Erie Basin Marina has been vacant for decades, while City Hall has entertained various proposals and conducted intense bidding wars for the chance to develop it.
Now, within a week of Mayor Byron W. Brown's announcement that Carl P. Paladino's development company has a plan to construct a 14-story building with a hotel, office space, apartments, restaurants and parking ramp on the land, the Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency has granted the company exclusive development rights.
Ellicott Development didn't win a bidding war for the parcel, and one of the developers who previously tried to put up a four-story hotel there says he hopes the new plan gets some further scrutiny.
"We saw the potential there, and obviously, that location is prime, it's a prime spot, and it deserves scrutiny," said James W. Pitts, who was selected by the Urban Renewal Agency to be designated developer in 2008, beating out a proposal from Ciminelli Development.
Fillmore Council Member David A. Franczyk, who represents the area, is hoping for a rigorous examination of the project by city lawmakers.
"Every project should get scrutiny," he said. "I'd like to see the whole plan submitted to us."
Thursday's 6-0 vote by the agency is just the first step in a long process, the Brown administration said, noting that a formal land-sale agreement between the city and Ellicott Development must be negotiated and approved by the Urban Renewal Agency. In addition, a public hearing and vote must take place in the Common Council before the sale can be executed.
The project, though different in many ways, shouldn't be entirely new to the public, because many of its elements were proposed as part of Paladino's entry in a bidding contest for the Webster Block, north of First Niagara Center, the Brown administration said.
The Buffalo Sabres won that competition, and HarborCenter, a hockey-themed complex, is in development.
"All along, because the Ellicott Development proposal was so strong, we wanted to try to secure that development and that investment in the community as well," Brown said.
So the city began showing the company other parcels that would work for the concept, and last week Paladino said the Waterfront Village land is more suitable for its plans than the Webster Block.
The city doesn't need to solicit bids to sell property it owns, said Brendan R. Mehaffy, the city's executive director of strategic planning, but does so, as it did for the Webster Block, when it wants to see serious proposals.
The agency's vote Thursday allows Ellicott Development to conduct environmental testing on the site and to meet with the neighbors about the project. Those meetings will take place in the next month, company officials said.
The one-year designated developer agreement begins today and requires the company to pay $1,000 monthly, which can be applied to the purchase price for the land.
The proposed 14-story complex, dubbed The Carlo, is estimated to cost $75 million and would be built on two acres of a surface parking lot at Erie Street and Wilkeson Way, with an estimated opening date of late 2015. A second phase consisting of small-scale, lower-density buildings is planned on greenspace and part of the parking lot that is north of where the complex will be. A timeline for the second phase has not been estimated, said William A. Paladino, CEO of Ellicott Development.
The 574,298-square-foot tower, named in honor of Carl P. Paladino's grandfather, would include 138 hotel rooms, 32 apartment units, 100,000 square feet of office space, a spa and fitness facility, a green roof on the sixth floor for banquets and outdoor parties, two restaurants, a 602-space parking ramp and a 40-space surface parking lot.
The parking will meet requirements for existing uses and those associated with The Carlo, company officials told the Urban Renewal Agency. The company is considering an extended-stay hotel, which would be unique to downtown.
North Council Member Joseph Golombek, who is an Urban Renewal Agency board member, questioned the need for more hotels downtown, but company officials said that they have studied the issue and have determined that the market is not saturated.
"With the investment being made in Canalside, in the [Seneca Buffalo Creek] Casino, the Sabres organization, Benderson's development downtown, we feel the momentum here is good, and we'd like to continue that momentum with our project," said William A. Paladino.
In 2007, several developers bid to develop a parcel that would be the site for the second phase of Paladino's project, which calls for one- to three-story commercial and retail buildings that could include second-floor residential units.
Pitts' hotel plan won that competition, but opposition from residents and others derailed it, and his one-year designated developer agreement with the Urban Renewal Agency ran out.
"For whatever reason, the opposition was vigorous, but I moved on, and I'm happy to see that other things are happening in the area," Pitts said.
Pitts hopes the new project brings people and services to the area and maintains public access to the waterfront, something Brown has said is a priority of his.
Ellicott Development is also the Urban Renewal Agency's designated developer for a parking lot at 50 Court St.
Company representatives said litigation has slowed development of that parcel, but they are working on securing a federal tenant.
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Tony Cairoli and Jeffrey Herlings made it a memorable day for the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team at the MX1 and MX2 GPs of Russia at Semigorje both notching perfect 1-1 moto results to take a firm hold on both GPs and their respective championship leads.
Both Cairoli and Herlings leave with the red plates firmly in their grasp while at the same time, KTM was able to celebrate overall third places in both the MX1 and MX2 thanks to fine rides by Ken de Dycker and Jeremy van Horebeek respectively.
After a stunning first moto victory and impressive opening laps in the second MX1 moto, Cairoli stopped hearts when he crashed and sacrificed around six seconds in lap three of the second race. With the overall win now up for grabs the Italian focused all his efforts on hunting down the two riders that had sipped past him, his two biggest rivals for the title, Christophe Pourcel and Clement Desalle.
Two laps of hard work by KTM's Italian rider followed while Cairoli got his KTM 350 SX-F in position to slip by Pourcel leaving only Desalle who had gained several seconds advantage while Cairoli and Pourcel had been battling it out. With just two minutes and two laps to go, the wily Italian went for the gap and took the lead. Cairoli then put down the hammer and quickly extended his lead to take the second race by eight seconds to secure his 49th career GP victory!
It was also a good weekend for KTM's Ken de Dycker who finished second to Cairoli in the opening moto and started well in both races. After finishing 1-2 with Cairoli in the first race de Dycker worked hard in race two to move up to fourth, sat behind Pourcell and slipped into third place to have another potential podium in his lien of vision. De Dycker held his nerve and position and his 2-3 result for the weekend put him on the podium in third to complete a very strong day for the Red Bull KTM factory team.
Tony Cairoli: "I like the track when it's rough like it was here, it suits my riding style. Yesterday it was raining and I thought we would have another wet GP but today was great, the track was dry and there were many lines. I got two good starts in both races and it was fun to be fighting with my teammate (de Dycker) and to be 1-2 in the first race. I hope we can do it again and both finish on the podium again. It would be great."
Ken de Dycker: "It looks like things are getting better for me each week and I am even getting good starts now and that makes it easier. But I was sick during the week and today I felt a bit weak so I will try to work on my fitness next week and be better prepared for the next races."
Top performance by KTM's Jeffrey Herlings
Meanwhile it was a red-letter day for Jeffrey Herlings who got the jump in both motos on his KTM 250 SX-F and completely ran away with both races. It was the Dutch teenager's fourth double moto victory this season and as his teammate Jeremy van Horebeek remarked in the finish area, "Jeffrey was on another planet today". Van Horebeek also had another great result finishing on the podium in third from his 2-3 result, just being displaced for second by UK rider Tommy Searle who slipped past him in the final laps to steal it with a 3-2 result. The third factory team member Jordi Tixier who this weekend scored his first ever pole position came away with a 6-6 result and overall sixth.
Jeffrey Herlings: "I'm very happy, my riding was good and I took two holeshots. That's what I wanted to do. I managed both times so that made it easier for me. I made eight more valuable points and I now have a 50 points lead over Tommy (Searle). I know anything can still happen but with five GPs to go things are looking good."
Jeremy van Horebeek: "Yesterday I had a big crash in the rain but I got back to thirteenth, which was an okay position for today's start. I had two good starts and was in the top three in both motos. The first moto I was second the whole race and in the second moto I was pushing with Jeffrey but I felt a bit sick last night and by the end of the race I was a bit weak and had to slow down in the last couple of laps."
Jordi Tixier: "Yesterday was great for me when I won my first qualifying race but today the track was quite different and very dusty. I had two good starts and my speed was not so bad because I was twice sixth. I was quite satisfied with my riding but I have to find a bit more speed. I will work with Stefan (Everts) on this an we will see what happens in the next GP."
This was the first time the MX Grand Prix circus had visited Russia since 2002 and organizers gave official attendance figures at 47,000 packed into the Semigorje Russia, about 400 km north of the capital Russia. The crowd rose to the occasion, the weather played a positive role creating an atmosphere similar to that in Brazil.
MX1 Results
1. Tony Cairoli (I), KTM
2. Clement Desalle (B), Suzuki
3. Ken de Dycker (B), KTM
4. Christophe Pourcel (F), Kawasaki
5. Evgeny Bobryshev (RUS), Honda
Other KTM
8. Kevin Strijbos (B), KTM
13. Davide Guarneri (I), KTM
MX1 Championship Standings
1. Cairoli, 442 points
2. Desalle, 422
3. C. Pourcel, 393
4. Gautier Paulin (F), Kawasaki, 376
5. de Dycker, 341
Other KTM
6. Strijbos, 304
15. Guarneri, 136
16. Matiss Karro (LAT), KTM, 112
MX1 Manufacturers Standings
1. KTM, 492 points
2. Kawasaki, 463
3. Suzuki, 433
MX2 Results
1. Jeffrey Herlings (NL), KTM
2. Tommy Searle (GB), Kawasaki
3. Jeremy van Horebeek (B), KTM
4. Joel Roelants (B), Kawasaki
5. Jake Nicholls (GB), KTM
Other KTM
6. Jordi Tixier (F), KTM
9. Glenn Coldenhoff (NL), KTM
10. Jose Butron (E), KTM
16. Romain Febvre (F), KTM
MX2 Championship Standings
1. Herlings, 478 points
2. Searle, 429
3. van Horebeek, 417
4. Roelants, 344
5. Tixier, 309
Other KTM
6. Nicholls, 289
8. Butron, 218
11. Coldenhoff, 175
MX2 Manufacturers Standings
1. KTM, 521 points
2. Kawasaki, 499
3. Yamaha, 310
Results EMX250
1. Mel Pocock (GB), Yamaha
2. Stefan Kjer Olsen (D), Yamaha
3. Mike Kras (NL), Suzuki
4. Alessandro Battig (I), Yamaha
5. Brian Bogers (NL), KTM
Other KTM
6. Vsevolod Brylyakov (RUS), KTM
8. Maxim Nazarov (RUS), KTM
13. Brent van Doninck (B), KTM
15. Arnaud Aubin (F), KTM
16. Robin Kappel (F), KTM
EMX250 Championship Standings
1. Pocock, 150 points
2. Olsen, 124
3. Kras, 103
4. Jeremy Seewer (CH), Suzuki, 89
5. Tim Gajser (SLO), KTM, 68
Other KTM
7. Bogers, 62
8. Brylyakov, 62
10. Aubin, 49
11. Kappel, 43
14. van Doninck, 38
EMX250 Manufacturers Standings
1. Yamaha, 150 points
2. Suzuki, 120


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The Buffalo Chapter of Ducks Unlimited will hold their 30th annual membership banquet, dinner and auction on Feb. 8.
DU works to meet the needs of waterfowl in Wyoming by creating and enhancing wetlands and associated upland habitats.
The evening will include dinner, raffles and an auction.
Auction items available will be wildlife art, firearms, sculptures, antique wood decoy, gift certificates, dinner and lodging packages, a battlefield tour, fishing and hunting trips, golf packages and more.
Tickets are $35 per person if purchased by Feb. 1 and $45 per person or $80 per couple after Feb. 1.
Tickets are available at The Sports Lure, the Bank of Buffalo or by calling Dean Knauer at 684-5621.
The evening commences at 5:30 p.m. at the Bozeman Trail steakhouse and seating is limited. The steakhouse is located at 675 E. Hart St., Buffalo.
The fourth annual Sheridan College Rodeo Banquet will be held Feb. 8.
The event is a fundraiser benefitting scholarships and operating costs for the men's and women's student-athlete rodeo teams.
The evening will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m.
Silent and live auctions will be held and live entertainment will be provided by Justin Beasley and After the Rodeo.
Tickets are $50 per person and must be purchased in advance.
Tickets are available at the SC information desk, the SC Foundation or through the rodeo teams.
For more information call 674-6446 extension 4006.
The Holiday Inn is located at 1809 Sugarland Drive.
Sheridan College is located at 3059 Coffeen Ave.
The seventh annual Fireman's Ball will be held Feb. 15 at the Historic Sheridan Inn.
From 7-11 p.m. entertainment will be provided by the Teka Brock Band, appetizers will be served, a silent auction will be offered and a wine ladder and Harley will be raffled off.
A cash bar will be available.
For the Harley raffle, 250 raffle tickets will be sold prior to the ball for $100 each. Each purchase includes two free tickets to the event. The grand prize will be a "Firefighter Edition" Harley Davidson. Runner-up cash prizes will also be granted.
Professional photos of attendees in fire fighter outfits will be taken by FFF Photography and available for purchase.
Proceeds from the Harley raffle will benefit a scholarship for an area student. Proceeds from the event and photos will go toward the installation of a firefighters statue in front of the station.
Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchased at the station, Red Velvet Bakery, Sheridan Stationary and Twisted Hearts.
For more information call Greg Luhman at 751-8588 or email at email@example.com.
The inn is located at 856 North Broaway.
SHERIDAN — The annual Pheasants Forever Banquet and Auction will be held Feb. 22.
The fundraising buffet banquet benefits the Sheridan/Johnson County chapter of Pheasants Forever and will be held at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall from 5:30-10 p.m.
Tickets are $60 each or $90 per couple and purchases include a membership in the organization.
Raffle tickets for a Can-Am 500 four-wheeler and a raffle for 10 special guns will be sold separately for $20 each.
Raffle tickets and banquet tickets are available now at Parker Glass, located at 125 W. Brundage St., and Sheridan Stationery located at 206 N. Main St.
For more information call Matt Parker at 674-7515.
The fairgrounds are located at 1753 Victoria St.
SHERIDAN — Warehouse 201 will host the next Thankful Thursday event on Thursday.
From 5:30-8 p.m. Sheridan Foster Parents Exchange will be honored with the fundraiser.
Admission is free, a silent and live auction will be held, live music will be played by Terry Garrison and all proceeds will benefit the organization.
Tickets will be sold at the door for $25 and will offer 10 percent off purchases made throughout the evening, a $250 cash give-away, door prizes and other surprises.
For more information call Carla Trier at 310-977-6101.
The restaurant is located at 201 Broadway St.
The Best of the West BBQ Fest committee will host a Fat Tuesday celebration to kick-off their fundraising season. On Tuesday at 6 p.m. complimentary appetizers and music by the Teka Brock Band will be provided at the Black Tooth Brewery. "Sundae cups" of coleslaw, baked beans and BBQ pork will be sold with all proceeds supporting the Best of the West BBQ Fest competition. The competition will be held Sept. 5 and 6 at Whitney Plaza. For more information about the competition or the Fat Tuesday party see www.bestofthewestbbqfest.com or call Tye Bach at 751-1600. The brewery is located at 312 Broadway St.
The 2014 Wild West Wine Fest is coming March 7 to Warehouse 201. This annual primary fundraiser for the Downtown Sheridan Association will serve heavy hors d'oeuvres throughout the evening and present over 100 wines, beers and spirits to taste. Tickets are available now for $50 per person, which includes food, alcohol tastings, a complimentary tasting glass, a tasting booklet and a bidding number for the auction. The event will run from 6:30-9 p.m. at 201 Broadway St. For more information, to purchase tickets or to make a donation contact the DSA online at downtownsheridan.org or by calling 672-8881.
The United Methodist Women will host the annual Spring Salad Luncheon on Thursday. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church "March Gladness" will serve an all-you-can eat lunch for $7 a person. The proceeds will benefit the UMW mission projects. The church is located at 215 W. Works St.
The Volunteers of America Northern Rockies will host their annual Empty Bowl Event Thursday. The fundraising event serves attendees a simple dinner emulating what one might eat at a soup kitchen served in a handcrafted bowl and accompanied by music from Canary Joe, a silent auction, face painting for kids and more. Attendees keep their dinner bowls as reminders about homelessness. The event will run from 5-8 p.m. at the Sheridan County YMCA. Tickets are available at the door for $25 per family, $10 for adults, $5 for kids and children under five are free. All proceeds benefit the Sheridan Community Homeless Shelter. For more information call Angela Lockard at 672-0475. The Y is located at 417 N. Jefferson St.
A Stroke Awareness fundraiser on behalf of Troy Winder of the Sunset Cafe will be held at Tongue River Middle School on Friday. From 4:30-8:30 p.m. in the cafeteria a soup and chili dinner will be served, a silent auction will be held and basket raffles will be offered. The cost of dinner is a suggested donation of $5 for adults and $3 for children ages 5 and younger. For more information call 751-4526. TRMS is located at 1251 Dayton St., Ranchester.
The Sheridan County 4-H club will host their annual carnival fundraiser on March 15. From 3-7 p.m. at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall a chili supper, cake walk, dunk tank, duck darts, treasure hunt, and more food and activities will be offered. There is no cost to attend and all optional activities carry individual costs which will benefit the 4-H club. For more information contact the Sheridan County Extension Office at 674-2980. The hall is located at 1753 Victoria St.
The Big Horn Mountain Eagles #4169 Ladies Auxiliary will host a breakfast on Sunday. From 8-10 a.m. sausage gravy and biscuits, ham, eggs, fruit and beverages will be served. Breakfast will cost $7 per plate and $3 for children under 5 and proceeds will benefit the Eagles charities. For more information call 763-3518. BHME is located at 1760 Commercial Ave.
The Dog and Cat Shelter will host a "Spring-FUN-Raiser" event March 29th. From 5-8 p.m. at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall, food and fun for the entire family will be offered. A taco bar catered by Qdoba will be served as well as homemade cookies, coffee, soda and a cash bar. A silent auction, live auction and bucket raffle will be offered. Children's games will be played with a kid's only bucket raffle for prizes. Other activities will include live music, a "Dog House" to which you can consign friends, chair massages, face painting and more. Live auction items include a NASCAR Package, a fly fishing trip for two, a Minnesota Vikings package, a one week stay in two bedroom 2 bathroom condo downtown Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, a stocked wine fridge and more. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for children ages 12 and younger and include food, non-alcoholic beverages and a bucket raffle ticket for adults. For more information call the shelter at 674-7694. The exhibit hall is located at 1753 Victoria St.
A colon cancer awareness event will be held March 29 at the Historic Sheridan Inn. "Bottoms Up Bash!" will commence at 7 p.m. and will feature country rock band Narrow Gauge from 8 p.m. to midnight. Attendees must be 21 or older and are invited to "wear blue and dance until they're blue." Admission is $10 and will include hors d'oeuvres and give-aways. A cash bar will be available. The Inn is located at 856 Broadway St.
SHERIDAN— Habitat for Humanity presents "On the Foundation", an evening of one-act plays, music, dessert, wine and beer 7 p.m. this Thursday at 1774 Poplar Trail. Tickets are $40, available at Sheridan Stationery, and all proceeds benefit Habitat for Humanity.
SHERIDAN— Join the Wyoming Wilderness Association for the Spur Ranch Fest Sunday for biking, live music, beer, and more. The event will run from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. at 86 Peno Rd. and is a $10 entry free for adults, and children under 10 get in free. All proceeds will benefit the Wyoming Wilderness Association and Red Grade Trail Project. For more information call 672-8459.
SHERIDAN— The Never Flinch annual Summer Slam will be on Saturday, August 2 at 8 a.m. at the Sheridan YMCA. The annual Summer Slam is a 3-on-3, co-ed grass volleyball tournament that will help raise funds for the Weston Johnson Memorial Scholarship. The entry fee is $100 per team, and you can register up until 7:30 a.m. on August 2. For more information, please call Liz Dearcorn at 763-2614.
SHERIDAN— The Elks Lodge will hold a fundraiser for Harold Johnson to help raise money for his cancer challenge. From 4-6p.m. on Saturday there will be a dinner, live music, and an auction. The cost is $10 and the lodge is located at 45 W. Brundage St. If you can't make it, you can send donations to the Harold Johnson Fund, PO box 5082, Sheridan, WY 82801. For more information please call Terry Jurosek at 686-7755 or Sara Silla at 461-1442.
SHERIDAN— The Sheridan Memorial Hospital will have a blood drive Thursday, August 7. There is a critical need for O negative and O positive blood types. From 11 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. in Conference Room B, Sheridan Memorial Hospital, 1401 W. Fifth St. Appointments are strongly recommended, but walk-ins are welcome. To schedule an appointment log onto www.bloodhero.com. For more information call Mike Frigon at 800-365-4450 ext. 3054.
SHERIDAN — In celebration of their fourth anniversary, the Kula Space will host "Flavor of the Week," a weekly free class on Thursdays this summer at 5:30 p.m. Some of the free classes will request optional donations to support a local cause and suggestions of local causes to support are welcome. This week's class will be Barre Body with Michele. Sign-up is required and it is limited to 12. Donations will benefit The Food Group. For more information or to nominate a cause to promote contact Michele Fritz or Evelyn Ferrante at email@example.com. The studio is located in Journeys Center of Wellbeing at 37 S. Main St.
SHERIDAN— Help the Sheridan Jaycees raise funds to prevent malaria in Africa. On Thursday, August 7, there will be family fun at Kendrick Park starting at 6 p.m. There will be live entertainment from the Boot Hill band, dance lessons, silent auction, food vendors, and adult beverages. This is a fundraiser for Nothing but Nets, an international organization that supplies bed nets to African families. The event is free, but donations are appreciated. For more information call Michelle Edwards at 371-1460.
SHERIDAN— The NSI Academy presents their fall fest Friday August 8 and Saturday August 9. On Friday there will be a Pig Spit BBQ and live music by The Craft Brothers starting at 6 p.m. On Saturday at 9 a.m., there will be a 5k Color Run that you can register online for. There will also be a lunch and a duck race. Both days will feature musical performances by the student body and inflatables for the whole family. This event is free and open to the public, but donations are welcome to establish a performing arts program at NSI Academy. The NSI Academy is located at 5 Lane Ln. For more information call 674-6878.
SHERIDAN— The North Main Association presents a Taste of Sheridan, Sunday, August 10. Come try foods from ten different vendors at Thorne-Rider park from 3-7 p.m. Ten tickets may be purchased at the entrance for $20 and there is a beer and wine garden, kids' games, and live music performed by Canary Joe, Instagators, and Side Track. For more information or if you'd like to volunteer, call John at 763-2541.
SHERIDAN— Pedigree and GreaterGood have teamed up to give selected shelters across the nation a makeover.
The Sheridan Dog and Cat Shelter has been selected to receive renovation, and needs volunteers to help finish the project.
The renovations will begin Aug. 23 and 24 at 9 a.m.
Volunteers can sign up online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sheridandogandcatshelter.
For more information call Katie Volney at 612-333-1723.
SHERIDAN— Blacktooth Brewing will host a non-profit event on Tuesday from 5:30-7:30 p.m. For every pint sold, one dollar is donated to the Matthew Perkins Memorial Scholarship Fund. The Matthew Perkins Memorial Scholarship Fund is money that helps to subsidize educational travel opportunities for Sheridan High School and Fort McKenzie High School students. 50/50 tickets will be sold and Thrivent Builds will provide free hotdogs. Music by Canary Joe. For more information call Blacktooth Brewing at 675-2337.


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text: Student Central: Student Services Welcome to Student Central, your one stop for student services! Twin Cities Campus • LaSalle Hall 158 612-238-4566 • toll-free 866-437-2788 • fax 612-728-5121 email@example.com • www.smumn.edu/studentcentral Blackboard | Webmail | WebTools Check your Saint Mary's email account for all official communication from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. New Student Orientation Your introduction to services at Saint Mary's!+ More Twin Cities Campus and other Metro Locations New Student Orientations (NSO) are available online through the Blackboard portal, click on the Student Central tab for further information, or in person at our Twin Cities campus. We recommend students either check out our New Student Orientation resources online or attend the next on-campus orientation. Policies Procedures Financial Aid Student Services including Blackboard and WebTools Library Writing Center Map & Directions Rochester Campus New student orientations are available by request by contacting Kate Utterback or Ceitlynn Mackenzie at (507) 285-1410. Bookstores Textbooks may be purchased online or at one of our campus bookstores.+ More Twin Cities Campus, Apple Valley, Oakdale and Rochester Students taking classes at these locations may purchase their books at the campus bookstore or buy them online at the Twin Cities Saint Mary's Barnes & Noble website. Winona Campus Programs and courses at the Winona Campus may visit the campus bookstore or purchase books online at the Winona Saint Mary's Barnes & Noble website. Libraries & Writing Centers There are libraries located on the Twin Cities campus and Winona Campus. Writing Centers on both campuses offer resources for students at all levels.+ More Twin Cities Library Twin Cities Writing Center Access journals, find books, and chat with a librarian at the Twin Cities Library, located in La Salle Hall at 2500 Park Avenue, Minneapolis. The Twin Cities Writing Center, located in LaSalle Hall, assists students with writing assignments, APA and AMA style guides, resumes, and word processing. Services are available both online and in person. Winona Library Winona Writing Center The Fitzgerald Library serves graduate students in programs administered from the Winona Campus. The Winona Writing Center, located in Griffin Hall and accessible through the lower level of Saint Mary's Hall, offers services for undergraduate and graduate students. Make an appointment or just drop in! Metro Bus Pass We are pleased to now offer the Go-To College Bus Pass for purchase through Student Central! + More The Go-To College Bus Pass is good 24/7 for all transit and light rail within the Metro Transit system (the only exception is for the NorthStar Commuter Train, you would need to add additional fare money to their card). You may use it any time, not just commuting to school. Be sure to have your Saint Mary's student ID card with you! 2012-2013 Dates and Costs: Fall Semester, August 15 – December 31, $175.00 Spring Semester, January 1 – May 31, $175.00 Summer Semester, June 1 – August 14, $ 90.00 Please bring your student ID and a check/money order (no cash or credit cards accepted) to Student Central located in LaSalle Hall at our Twin Cities Campus between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. What's nearby? View Twin Cities Campus: Food, ATMs, Gas Stations in a larger map