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ALBANY, Ga. -- He's pursued Halley's Comet through the deserts of Peru. He holds an electrical engineering degree from Penn State University, is an artist who works in copper wire, a sharpener, an inventor and a federally licensed gun manufacturer.
His van has a radiation warning sticker on the back door, right above a bumper sticker that reads, "Ask me about U-235!" which is the fissile material in the first atomic bombs.
Bill Slugg, 58, is different, and he likes it that way.
Asked to describe himself, Slug replies, "I'm a putterer."
A former Level II process engineer at Procter & Gamble for 23 years, Slugg left the company in 1998 to pursue other endeavors. He's been the owner/operator of FSS (Fred's Sharpening Service) on Ledo Road for the past nine years.
But if not for P&G, Slugg doesn't know what would have happened to him -- and getting on at the plant took some work in the first place.
"I was not a very good student because I didn't apply myself until my junior year (at Penn State)," Slugg said. "I had a 2.07 GPA until I joined a work/study group and managed to bring it up to 2.77 at graduation.
"I graduated 63rd in a class of 68. Not great, I know, but when you consider more than 450 were in that class when we started, it makes things a little better."
Slugg knew that, because of his lackluster academics, getting a job at the P&G plant in Mehoopany, Pa., would be difficult at best.
"I knew I was going to have trouble interviewing because of my grades," Slugg recalled, "so I made a chart to take into the interview with me. The chart graphed my grades through school, and it showed a gradual decline followed by a sharp uptick at the end.
"When I was called back and offered the job, the guy told me I had the worst grades of any of the 100 people he had interviewed, but my chart showed I had the ability to recognize and correct a problem quickly."
Slugg's shop on Ledo Road is filled with sharpening machines, lathes, his copper art and varying degrees of somewhat hazardous material (for which Slugg says he holds proper licensure).
"I spend a huge amount of time just puttering around the shop," Slugg said. "I also spend a lot of time maintaining, repairing and modifying the sharpening equipment because sharpening pays the bills around here. It allows me to do my other stuff."
Much of his "other stuff" centers around weaving baskets and boxes out of copper wire.
"I love copper's color; it is soft and malleable. Copper and gold share those metallurgical properties," Slugg said. "I am hoping that my copper work will help finance my next big project."
Slugg's next idea is to make diamonds out of methane gas.
"The process is called chemical vapor disposition," Slugg said.
CVD is a chemical process used to produce high-purity, high-performance solid materials. In Slugg's case, diamonds.
"The diamond industry is afraid of this process," Slugg said. "We can
currently make diamonds using carbon compressed under high pressure, but they cannot match the purity of a CVD process, which will produce a flawless diamond."
In the meantime, Slugg will continue to putter around his shop and enjoy life.
"The best thing about what I am doing now is having the freedom to do what I want to do when I want to do it," he said. "It's very nice."
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Mississippi State University and its president may be added to a lawsuit resulting from an alleged cowbell assault at the Egg Bowl two football seasons ago.
On Monday, an attorney representing William Matthew Brasher filed a request in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court to add MSU and Mark Keenum, the institution's president, to the suit – which did not seek specific monetary damages – originally filed in November.
The plaintiff alleges Brent Vowell used a cowbell to assault him at the Nov. 28, 2009 football game between MSU and the University of Mississippi at MSU's Davis Wade Stadium. In the suit, Brasher says he suffered numerous injuries, including a 4-inch gash to his head, exposing his skull; permanent scarring; loss of consciousness; a concussion and loss of memory.
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An ex-trader is creating jobs, music — and hand-painted sneakers
At work, Rowan Richards — a former minor league baseball player turned Chicago commodities trader — was surrounded by millionaires.
From his apartment, he stared out at a community ravaged by crime and poverty.
That wasn't working.
So Richards left the trader life, which at times had earned him a six-figure salary, and started The Stewards Market, a Humboldt Park-based nonprofit that launches, develops and manages microsocial enterprises to create jobs that combat poverty.
Stewards Market has launched three enterprises: a recycling business, a streetwear apparel store, and a recording studio and artist management enterprise.
The ventures employ 10 people. Richards says Stewards Market will soon launch a venture to train and place 65 more workers in those enterprises, as well as at businesses with which Stewards Market plans to partner, including a catering company and a renewable energy business.
Stewards Market began in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood near where Richards lived when he first moved to Chicago. Initially, it provided financial education to adults and elementary school students and entrepreneurial training. It started with an invitation by a pastor at a Cabrini-Green church Richards attended, who asked him to help teach financial education to church members.
"We were having some success with some individuals making strides," Richards says. "But it wasn't enough [to] help families break the cycle of poverty. Individuals would say, 'I appreciate the lesson on how to make a budget, but I have no income. How do you budget nothing?' At that point I'm like we have to be creating work."
Richards, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he majored in business and marketing, launched Stewards Market's first enterprise, King Lizzy Apparel, in 2009. The business works with artists who create graphic designs for T-shirts, caps and the hand-painted sneakers it sells. King Lizzy Apparel features graphics that reflect stories of real people and that communicate the dignity and value of each person, he says. One T-shirt reads, "I'm not a piece of meat." Another reads, "I'm not angry, just hungry."
The business has a retail site on Division Street, where Stewards Market's SOAP recycling business and King Lizzy Music Group also are based.
SOAP collects discarded plastic containers of lotion, soap, shampoo and conditioner from five Chicago-area hotels, who pay a service fee. He says staffers retrieve the unused content and donate it to local nonprofits, including La Casa Norte and New Moms Inc., which provide services for homeless adults and adolescents.
Representatives at Westin O'Hare and Chicago Marriott at Burr Ridge, which contract with SOAP, say the partnership helps them reduce waste while assisting in community job development.
At the recording studio, rap artist Adam Nazario and others help manage the space in exchange for use of the studio to work on personal projects. Artists are encouraged to avoid profanity in their lyrics and create music that elevates the mind, Nazario says.
While Stewards Market's operations are currently microenterprises, Richards has his sights set on growth. He says that for every seven hotels SOAP adds, another job is created.
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When we got her, she was so horrible looking, malnourished, not been handled. We have loved her, fed her, fattened her up and worked with her. She may never be more than a pasture pet as she isn't very big, maybe 13.2, and has a sway back.
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HONOLULU, January 9, 2012 – "Engaged, Empowered, Strong" was announced as the 2012-2013 theme of the American Farm Bureau Women's Leadership Program at the American Farm Bureau Federation's 93rd Annual Meeting. AFB Women's Leadership Committee Chair Terry Gilbert explained the new theme of the program during the annual business meeting of the AFB Women.
"By engaged, I mean that our program provides opportunities for women to get involved in an organization that represents all of agriculture," said Gilbert, a farmer from Danville, Ky., who raises corn and cattle. "'Empowered' describes how Farm Bureau Women use their training and knowledge to tell their stories in authentic, dynamic ways—to consumers, lawmakers, teachers, students and others."
Gilbert noted that Farm Bureau Women "really stepped up their social media game in 2011, forging connections with consumers and responding to questions about what we do on our farms and ranches to produce food." She urged members to continue consider using social media to help put a face on agriculture.
Elaborating on the final facet of the tri-part theme, Gilbert said, "'Strong' reflects how the AFB Women's Leadership Committee helps women build on their strengths, as agricultural professionals and leaders. This refers especially to speaking up and speaking out about agricultural and legislative issues."
A National Women's Leadership Conference coordinated by the committee every two years is open to all Farm Bureau women and provides ample opportunities for professional development. More than 600 attendees participated in the 2011 conference; the next one is planned for 2013 in Las Vegas.
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Committee members Isabella Chism of Indiana and Beth Pool of New Jersey were nominated for re-election to two-year terms on the committee. Denise Hymel of Louisiana and Lillian Ostendorf of Montana were nominated for election to two-year terms. The AFBF delegate body will vote on the nominations at the conclusion of the organization's annual meeting.
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A seniors lobby group is pressuring the federal government to provide free means-tested dental checks for those older than 64 years of age.
Marjorie Green from National Seniors raised the issue at last week's federal Community Cabinet event at Ipswich, west of Brisbane.
Ms Green says many elderly Australians cannot afford to see a dentist.
"For people living on a pension it's just not possible," she said, claiming this may cause malnutrition and many other chronic ailments.
"All these people end up in hospital blowing out the health budget," she added.
Ms Green said governments should be looking at preventative measures to reduce costs and waiting lists for treatment.
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This past Sunday my daughter graduated from the University of Vermont. It was a day, both sweet and mildly bitter.
For her, the day seemed a little anticlimactic as she was obviously thinking about graduate school and moving on. She will attend NYU in the fall and is chomping at the bit to get there.
Still, graduation from college is a moment in time for summing up what has been accomplished so far. It is also a time for looking back and for most parents, a time to marvel at how quickly their son or daughter went from diapers to knocking on the door of graduate school.
It does not seem that long ago that I was rocking her at night and driving her to school and planning our weekends. My house once filled with the pitchy sounds of girls, now quiet except for the occasional groans of my aging Golden Retriever. I knew that this day would come, as a family we have all worked together for this day and now it is here and it is history. I suspect that my wife and I will linger a bit to savor the journey so far as I suspect many parents will do at this time.
I guess milestones like these remind us just how precious and finite our time with our children is. My daughter is not looking backward as I am and I know that this is what I want for her. Would I want her longing for her childhood with mom and dad into her mid-twenties, of course not? Nor do I want her letting her parents influence her decisions very much anymore because I know that she can never be really happy until she is fully capable of making her own decisions and taking care of herself.
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Tarsus (Greek Ταρσός or Ταρσοί): capital of ancient Cilicia.
He had to cope with invasions from Babylonia, like the failed attack by king Neriglissar in 557/556 mentioned in the chronicle known as ABC 6. Later, however, the syennesis appears to have become a vassal of the Babylonian Empire - in 555, king Nabonidus marched through Cilicia without meeting any opposition.note[Nabonidus Chronicle, i.7.] The syennesis was certainly the vassal of the Achaemenid kings who had succeeded the Babylonian rulers of the eastern world empire. After 401, the country was ruled by a satrap, who resided in Tarsus. The city also served as a mint (e.g., for Pharnabazus).In 333, Alexander the Great occupied the city, and stayed there while recuperating from an illness (text). After the death of the Macedonian conqueror, Tarsus became part of the Seleucid Empire under the new name of Antioch on the Cydnus. Becoming hellenized, Tarsus started to claim that it had been founded by Perseus.note[Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman History 14.8.3.] In 171, the city unsuccessfully revolted because king Antiochus IV Epiphanes had given it as a present to his concubine, Antiochis.note[2 Maccabees 4.30.]
When the Seleucids went down in a series of dynastic conflicts, Tarsus was the capital of the northern part of the empire, until the Roman general Pompey the Great added Cilicia to the Roman Empire (66 BCE). The city got its old name again, although after the death of Julius Caesar, it was briefly called Juliopolis.note[Cassius Dio, Roman History 47.26.2.] It played a role in the civil wars and at some stage, all inhabitants were awarded with the Roman citizenship.This was the age of Tarsus' greatest prosperity, and it may be noted that Dio Chrysostom calls the city "the greatest of all towns in Cilicia and a metropolis from the outset".note[Dio Chrysostom, Oration 34.7.] A beautifully paved Roman street with an unusual drainage system, of which some 60 meters have been excavated, proves that there was money to spend. Envy of Tarsus' wealth may behind the description of the city in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius, which, in this section, is based on a text written by someone from Tarsus' neighbor and rival, Aegae:
note[Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.7; tr. Conybeare.]Apollonius found the atmosphere of the city harsh and strange and little conducive to the philosophic life, for nowhere are men more addicted than here to luxury; jesters and full of insolence are they all; and they attend more to their fine linen than the Athenians did to wisdom; and a stream called the Cydnus runs through their city, along the banks of which they sit like so many water-fowl.
During the Empire, the city was an important center of the cults of Mithras and the emperor, but it also appears to have been open to cult reformers like Apollonius of Tyana. Tarsus' most famous son was the apostle Paul, a Pharisaic Jew who converted to Christianity and spread the Gospel to the Pagans. The well that is nowadays shown to tourists as "Paul's Well" is of course fake.
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Dumb Starbucks is a prank by Comedy Central's Nathan FielderAdd to Favorites | Nathan for You
After Dumb Starbucks, a parody coffee shop, appeared in Southern California on Saturday Feb. 8), many assumed it was a TV stunt of some kind. Those people, it seems, were right. It was revealed at a Monday news conference that the person behind the shop is "Nathan For You" star Nathan Fielder.
During his appearance at the store, Fielder wore a Dumb Starbucks apron and said they would soon be expanding the brand to Brooklyn, KTLA reports. However, an hour later the location was shut down by Los Angeles County health officials for operating without a proper license.
As for why Starbucks hasn't been able to close the business, the store meets the minimum requirements for being considered a parody by placing the word dumb in the name. Fielder says this allows him to use the name, drinks and logo of the popular coffee chain. Outside of the above video and the news conference, Fielder hasn't addressed Dumb Starbucks.
The parody certainly isn't Fielder's first time messing with the general public. He's also well-known for his Twitter pranks, including asking his followers to "accidentally" text their parents looking to buy drugs.
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Congratulations to Randy Newman for winning the 2011 Academy Award for Best Original Song! You can hear the winning song, "We Belong Together", on the CD Toy Story Favorites. Disney has not released a CD of the soundtrack for the movie Toy Story 3, although it is being sold as an MP3 Download. Randy Newman may not be "good television" but he sure can write a song!


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The mineral or gemstone chrysoberyl, not to be confused with beryl, is an aluminate of beryllium with the formula BeAl2O4. The name chrysoberyl is derived from the Greek words chrysos and beryllos, meaning "a gold-white spar". Despite the similarity of their names, chrysoberyl and beryl are two completely different gemstones. Chrysoberyl is the fourth-hardest natural gemstone and lies between corundum and topaz on the hardness scale. Chrysoberyl is a mineral consisting of ordinary colorless or yellow transparent chrysoberyl, cymophane (chrysoberyl cat's eye), and alexandrite.
An interesting feature of its crystals are the cyclic twins called trillings. These twinned crystals have a hexagonal appearance, but are the result of a triplet of twins with each "twin" taking up 120 degrees of the cyclic trilling.
There are three main varieties of chrysoberyl: ordinary yellow chrysoberyl, cat's eye or cymophane, and alexandrite. Although yellow chrysoberyl was referred to as chrysolite during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, that name is no longer used in the gemological nomenclature.
Ordinary chrysoberyl is a yellowish-green, transparent to translucent chrysoberyl and has often been referred to in the literature as chrysolite due to the common olive color of many of its gems, but that name is no longer used in the gemological nomenclature. When the mineral exhibits good pale green to yellow color and is transparent, then it is used as a gemstone.
Alexandrite, a strongly pleochroic (trichroic) gem, will exhibit emerald green, red and orange-yellow colors and tend to change color in artificial light compared to daylight. The color change from red to green is due to strong absorption of light in the yellow and blue portions of the spectrum. Typically, alexandrite has an emerald-green color in daylight but exhibit a raspberry-red color in incandescent light.
Cymophane is popularly known as cat's eye. This variety exhibits pleasing chatoyant or opalescence that reminds one of an eye of a cat. When cut to produce a cabochon, the mineral forms a light-green specimen with a silky band of light extending across the surface of the stone.
If the pegmatite magma was rich in beryllium, crystals of beryl and chrysoberyl could form but for alexandrite to form, some chromium would also have had to be present. Since beryllium and chromium are extremely rare elements in rocks, this is the only known process which could have concentrated these unusual elements in an environment where crystallization could occur.
The high water content of the magma made it possible for the crystals to grow quickly, so pegmatite crystals are often quite large and this is of course important for gem specimens. Chrysoberyl is always accompanied by quartz. It occurs in granite pegmatites and mica schists and in contact with metamorphic deposits of dolomitic marble. It is also recovered from river sands and gravels in alluvial deposits with corundum, spinel, garnet, and tourmaline.
Chrysoberyl has high-enough specific gravity that it will concentrate with black sands in active or paleoplacer stream deposits and concentrate with other relatively heavy minerals such as cassiterite, diamond, corundum, topaz, and garnet. When found in placers, it will have rounded edges instead of sharp, wedge-shape forms. Much of the chrysoberyl mined in Brazil and Sri Lanka is recovered from placers as the host rocks have been intensely weathered and eroded.
Chrysoberyl deposits can be divided into three types, excluding rare dolomitic hosts. These include chrysoberyl in pegmatites intruded into ultramafic rocks, chrysoberyl hosted by pegmatites intruded into aluminous rocks, and chrysoberyl found as a primary mineral in REE-pegmatites.
There have been very few research projects on the genesis of chrysoberyl due to its rarity in primary host rocks since most chrysoberyl is recovered from placers. However, it may be hypothesized that in order to produce chrysoberyl, metamorphic overprint of some beryllium- and aluminum-rich pegmatites may be necessary.
Chrysoberyl was discovered in 1789 and described and named by Abraham Gottlob Werner, in 1790. Werner worked at the Freiberg School of Mining from 1790-1793 and was well known as one of the most outstanding geologists of his time. He is best known today as the loser in the battle of the Neptunists and Vulcanists that raged in the 1780s.
Chrysoberyl is normally yellow, yellow-green, or brownish with its color being caused by the presence of iron. Spectroscopic analysis will usually reveal a strong band where the violet takes over from the blue. As the color darkens from bright yellowish-green to golden-yellow to brown, this band increases in strength. When the stone has a strong color, two additional bands can be seen in the green-blue. The most common inclusions are liquid-filled cavities containing three-phase inclusions. Stepped twin planes may be apparent in some cases. Some very rare minty bluish-green chrysoberyls from Tanzania owe their color to the presence of Vanadium.
Despite the similarity of their names, chrysoberyl and beryl are two completely different gemstones. Members of the beryl group include emerald, aquamarine, and morganite while members of the chrysoberyl group include chrysoberyl, cymophane (cat's eye), and alexandrite. Beryl is a silicate and chrysoberyl is an oxide and although both beryl and chrysoberyl contain beryllium, they are separate gemstone species unrelated in any other way. Because of the confusion between chrysoberyl and beryl, chrysoberyl is relatively unknown in its own right and the alexandrite variety is much more widely recognized. The only well-known natural gemstones harder than chrysoberyl are corundum and diamond.
According to a widely popular but controversial story, alexandrite was discovered by the Finnish mineralogist Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld, (1792 -1866) on the tsarevitch Alexander's sixteenth birthday on April 17, 1834 and named alexandrite in honor of the future Tsar Alexander II of Russia. Sometimes, Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld is confused with his son, Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld (1832–1901), also a famous Finnish geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer who accompanied his father to the Ural Mountains to study the iron and copper mines at Tagilsk in 1853. However, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld was only two years old when Alexandrite was discovered and only ten years old when a description of the stone was published under the name of Alexandrite for the first time.
Although it was Nordenskiöld who discovered alexandrite, he could not possibly have discovered and named it on Alexander's birthday. Nordenskiöld's initial discovery occurred as a result of an examination of a newly found mineral sample he had received from Perovskii, which he identified as emerald at first. After the discovery of emeralds in the roots of an upturned tree, the first emerald mine had been opened in 1831, not long before Nordenskiöld had received this particular sample.
Confused with the high hardness however, he decided to continue his examinations. Later that evening, while looking at the specimen under candlelight, he was surprised to see that the color of the stone had changed to raspberry-red instead of green. Later, he confirmed the discovery of a new variety of chrysoberyl, and suggested the name "diaphanite" (from the Greek "di-", twice- and "aphanès", inapparent).
The name of the first person to actually find this stone has been lost in the mists of time. However, the first person to bring it to public attention, and ensure that it would be forever associated with the Imperial family was Count Lev Alekseevich Perovskii (1792-1856.)
The finest alexandrites up to 5 carat are being found in the Ural Mountains, but the largest cut stones are in the 30 carat range, though many fine examples have been discovered in Sri Lanka (up to 65 cts.), India (Andhra Pradesh), Brazil, Myanmar, and especially Zimbabwe (small stones usually under 1 carat (200 mg) but with intense color change). Overall, stones from any locale over 5 carats (1 g) would be considered extremely rare, especially gems with fine color change. Alexandrite is both hard and tough, making it very well suited to wear in jewelry.
The gem has given rise to the adjective "alexandritic", meaning any transparent gem or material which shows a noted change in color between natural and incandescent light. Some other gem varieties of which alexandritic specimens have been found include sapphire, garnet, and spinel.
Some gemstones described as lab-grown (synthetic) alexandrite are actually corundum laced with trace elements (e.g., vanadium) or color-change spinel and are not actually chrysoberyl. As a result, they would be more accurately described as simulated alexandrite rather than synthetic but are often called Czochralski Alexandrite after the process that grows the crystals.
Synthetic alexandrite is used as an active laser medium. Alexandrite laser crystals tend to be round, with a pale brown tint.
Genuine alexandrite is one of the most expensive gemstones available commercially, with the stronger color changes being more highly valued. The following are average retail prices for alexandrite in December 2004 from The International Gem Society:
|Faceted (Alexandrite)
|0.5 to 1 carat
|1 carat plus
|Top Red/Green
|$5,000 to $15,000/ct
|to $100,000/ct
|Medium Red/Green
|$3,000 to $9,000/ct
|to $60,000/ct
|Slight Red/Green
|$100 to $2,500/ct
|to $6,000/ct
|Other colors
|$1,100 to $8,000/ct
|to $10,000/ct
|Cabochon (Alexandrite)
|0.5 to 1 carat
|1 carat plus
|Strong red/green
|$500 to $2,500/ct
|to $30,000/ct
|Cabochon (Cat's Eye)
|0.5 to 1 carat
|1 carat plus
|Strong red/green
|$1,500 to $5,000
Translucent yellowish chatoyant chrysoberyl is called cymophane or cat's eye. Cymophane has its derivation also from the Greek words meaning 'wave' and 'appearance', in reference to the chatoyancy sometimes exhibited. In this variety, microscopic tubelike cavities or needlelike inclusions of rutile occur in an orientation parallel to the c-axis producing a chatoyant effect visible as a single ray of light passing across the crystal. This effect is best seen in gemstones cut in cabochon form perpendicular to the c-axis. The color in yellow chrysoberyl is due to Fe3+ impurities.
Although other minerals such as tourmaline, scapolite, corundum, spinel and quartz can form "cat's eye" stones similar in appearance to cymophane, the jewelry industry designates these stones as "quartz cat's eyes", or "ruby cat's eyes" and only chrysoberyl can be referred to as "cat's eye" with no other designation.
Gems lacking the silky inclusions required to produce the cat's eye effect are usually faceted. An alexandrite cat's eye is a chrysoberyl cat's eye that changes color. "Milk and honey" is a term commonly used to describe the color of the best cat's eyes. The effect refers to the sharp milky ray of white light normally crossing the cabochon as a center line along its length and overlying the honey colored background. The honey color is considered to be top-grade by many gemologists but the lemon yellow colors are also popular and attractive. Cat's eye material is found as a small percentage of the overall chrysoberyl production wherever chrysoberyl is found.
Cat's eye really became popular by the end of the 19th century when the Duke of Connaught gave a ring with a cat's eye as an engagement token, this was sufficient to make the stone more popular and increase its value greatly. Until that time, cat's eye had predominantly been present in gem and mineral collections. The increased demand in turn created an intensified search for it in Ceylon. Early 20th century prices could go up as high as $8000 for a cut stone.


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Stawell is a historic goldfield that produced 2.7 million ounces of gold between 1853 and 1926 from both alluvial and hard rock sources. There was little mining activity in the Stawell area from 1926 to 11th March 1976 when Western Mining Company (WMC) Resources Ltd was granted an exploration licence over the Stawell Goldfield.
In 1981 SGM was reopened by the WMC/Central Norseman Gold joint venture with commencement of the Magdala decline. By 1984 the operation had expanded with the construction of a processing facility and subsequent commencement of an open cut operation at the Wonga mine (2 kilometres south of Magdala). A number of historical tailing dumps were retreated during this period. Towards the end of mining of the Wonga open cut (1987) the Davis open cut operation was commenced. The Davis open cut exploited the oxide material on up dip projection of the Magdala deposit. The Wonga Open Cut operated from 1984 to 1987 and produced 778,847 tonnes recovering 69,159 ounces of gold. The Davis Open Cut operated from 1987 to 1989 and produced 154,525 tonnes for 8,992 recovered ounces of gold.
In December 1992 the operation was acquired in a 50/50 joint venture by Mining Project Investors (MPI) Pty Ltd and Pittston Mineral Ventures (Pittston). At this stage the Magdala decline was approximately at 410m RL, while the Wonga decline was at 180-200m RL. With the acquisition there was a clear direction to increase expenditure on resource definition drilling and near mine exploration. The joint venture continued until 2004 during which time there was a record of continued exploration success with discovery of additional mineralized deposits that were subsequently mined.
In February 2004 MPI acquired the Pittston 50% share of the project. Exploration continued in the Golden Gift area during 2004 with the commencement of the Golden Gift South surface exploration program. In November 2004 a de-merger of the MPI gold business came into effect, and Leviathan Resources Ltd was floated in December 2004. The resource drilling into the Golden Gift initially identified seven areas of mineralisation offset from each other due to late faulting. Conversion of these areas of mineralisation into ore blocks wasn't universal but was successful in a majority of cases. The further drilling of the fault blocks also identified other mineralised surfaces previously unknown due to the faulted nature of the Golden Gift. From the increased geological understanding of the Golden Gift deposit, it was clear in the mine planning process that two declines were required, the GG5 and GG3 declines, to access the ore zones for continuity of supply.
In January 2007 Perseverance acquired Leviathan Resources Ltd. Perseverance was acquired by Northgate on the 18th of February, 2008. Northgate was acquired by AuRico in October, 2011. Crocodile Gold completed their acquisition of Stawell Gold Mines from AuRico on May 4th, 2012.
Stawell Gold Mines is located in the Australian State of Victoria, 250km northwest of Melbourne and 2km from the township of Stawell (Figure 4-1). Stawell is a rural township of approximately 6500 people and is within the Northern Grampians Shire.
Stawell Gold Mines is easily accessible from Melbourne via the Western Highway. Access closer to the mine site is provided through a network of sealed bitumen government roads. Roads within the mine site are unsealed and regularly maintained. The main Melbourne to Adelaide rail line passes through the town of Stawell, which is also serviced by a local sealed airfield.
The town of Stawell is located within the southern part of the Wimmera where the climate is described as semi-arid, allowing for exploration and mining activities all year round. Since 1996, Stawell has recorded an annual daily average temperature of 20.5°C. An extreme maximum of 43.6°C was recorded on the 25th of January, 2003, and an extreme minimum of 3.7°C on the 4th of August 1997. Mean annual rainfall is 480.2 millimetres with 70 days per year on average recorded as having rain.
Stawell Gold Mines has been in operation for over 25 years, developing a highly experienced workforce. Many contractors, also having a long association with the mine, are available in the township of Stawell and surrounding regions. Due to the mines close location to the town of Stawell many facilities are available. Within the township is a police station, hospital, schools and shops. Mains Electricity and water is also accessible.
Stawell Gold Mines facilities are extensive and representative of a modern gold mining operation. On the surface facilities include the gold processing plant, offices, core shed, laboratory and workshops. Larger infrastructure onsite includes a tailings dam, covering 96 Ha and receiving 100% of gold tailings from the processing plant. Three freshwater dams occur throughout the mine lease. The mine purchases electric power under a two year contract from Origin Energy Australia that expires in Dec 2012.
The Magdala mine is accessed by a decline from a portal located adjacent to the mill. The mine access development and services are located mainly within basalt. Ground conditions are good and there is no history of major seismic activity. Development follows the Magdala Lode system down plunge and between 470RL and 786RL the decline splits into a north and a south decline to access the Golden Gift ore bodies. To facilitate ore access, extraction levels are developed at approximately 20m to 25m vertical intervals. The mining areas currently extend over approximately 3km of strike to more than 1,500m below surface, measured from the top of Big Hill.
The mining method used in the Magdala mine was bench stoping with cemented rock fill pillars in primary stopes, and rock filled secondary stopes. The mining method used in the Golden Gift and narrow Magdala ore zones is retreat open stoping with either cemented rock fill (CRF) if full extraction or combinations of CRF and rock fill or all rock fill stope with pillars. In the Magdala ore body, stope sizes typically range from 2,000 to 10,000 tonnes. In the Golden Gift area where the width and tenor of the reserves have so far been of higher quality, generally larger stopes up to 15,000 tonnes are expected. Stope ore is recovered using loaders under direct or remote control of an operator, with haulage by 60 tonne trucks.
The gold processing facilities utilised at SGM comprise a standard Carbon-In-Leach (CIL) gold recovery circuit following crushing and grinding and sulphide flotation. Current processing capacity is 1.0mm tonnes per annum.
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High Condition Census 1879 Washlady Half1879 50C Washlady Half Dollar, Judd-1597, Pollock-1791, High R.6, PR66 Cameo NGC.
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Design. The Charles Barber Society Lady design, popularly called the Washlady, although it is an unfortunate misnomer. Liberty's lush hair is piled atop her head, with IN GOD WE TRUST above and stars seven left, six right. On the reverse a perched eagle holds an olive branch with seven leaves. Three arrows pass behind the wing. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and HALF DOLLAR are at the rim, with the Latin motto in a wide inner arc above the eagle. Struck in silver with a reeded edge.
Commentary. USPatterns.com notes that the Washlady moniker apparently takes its source from the April 1891 sale of the Doughty Collection by Harlan P. Smith and David Proskey, adding that it is considered "today to be one of the most beautiful designs" ever made by the U.S. Mint. Although not quite in the same league as the Amazonian, Shield Earring, or Schoolgirl patterns, the Washlady coinage is nonetheless truly attractive and quite desirable. The Washlady half dollars, as the population data below attest, have an added benefit: While still quite rare, they are somewhat more available than those Big Three patterns, and most of the survivors, when found, are attractive and high-grade.
Physical Description. Mostly brilliant, the peripheries show occasional dappled shades of cinnamon, amber, and ice-blue. Both the strike and subsequent preservation are impeccable on this Premium Gem proof, with much field-device contrast and even more eye appeal. NGC Census: one PR63, two PR66, one PR66 Cameo (this piece), one PR67 Star Ultra Cameo. PCGS Population: one PR62, two PR64, one PR65, two PR66, one PR66 Cameo (10/08).
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From The Lemus Collection, Queller Family Collection Part Two. (PCGS# 61975)
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Edmonton, AB---Edmonton Rush General Manager/Head Coach Derek Keenan announced today following the first training camp session the team has released forward Scott Evans.
"Releasing Scott was not an easy decision but I need to do what I think is best for the future of the Edmonton Rush." states Keenan.
"Scott Evans has been a good player in the NLL for many years but the direction of this team is to be younger and more athletic and we needed to make room on our roster for younger players on the right side of our offense."
The Edmonton Rush thank Scott for his contributions to the club over the past 2 seasons and wish him the best of luck in the future.
The NLL 2012 Western Division Champs completed the first weekend of training camp and resume the 2013 Training Camp December 8-9, 2012.
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To cook the endive, combine the butter, sugar, salt, and 10 1/2 cups water in a large pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to maintain a steady simmer. Add the endive, cover, and cook until very tender, about 45 minutes. A knife should be able to pierce through with no resistance. Use a slotted spoon to transfer the endive to paper towels. Reserve 1 1/4 cups cooking liquid. When cool enough to handle, squeeze out as much liquid as possible from the endive.
Wrap each endive with slices of ham. Arrange the endive in a shallow baking dish that holds them snugly; you don't want any space between the endive.
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
To make the béchamel, melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat until golden. Add the flour and cook, whisking constantly, until the mixture smells nutty, about 2 minutes. Continue whisking and add the milk, then the reserved endive cooking liquid in a slow, steady stream. Bring the mixture to a boil while whisking. Continue whisking until thickened, about 5 minutes. Whisk in the nutmeg and pepper.
Pour the béchamel over the endive and spread to cover them evenly. Sprinkle the cheese evenly over the top. Set the dish on a rimmed baking sheet and bake until bubbly and golden brown on top, about 15 minutes. If you want the top more browned and crusty, broil for a minute or two after baking. Serve hot.
Reprinted with permission from Home Cooking with Jean-Georges: My Favorite Simple Recipes by Jean-Georges Vongerichten with Genevieve Ko. Copyright © 2011 by Jean-Georges Vongerichten; photographs copyright © 2011 by John Kernick. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten is one of the most influential chefs in the world, having single-handedly redefined haute French cuisine, lightening and refining it by adding select Asian accents. He is the chef-owner of dozens of restaurants in fourteen cities around the world. His flagship restaurant, Jean Georges, at New York's Columbus Circle, is one of six restaurants in the United States to have been awarded three coveted Michelin stars; it received four stars from the New York Times. The winner of multiple James Beard Foundation awards, he lives in New York City and Waccabuc, New York, with his family.
Genevieve Ko is a cookbook author and the senior food editor at Good Housekeeping magazine. She has written for Martha Stewart Living, Gourmet, and Fine Cooking and lives in New York City with her family.


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Freeway Complex Fire
|Freeway Complex Fire
Freeway Complex Fire along the 91 Freeway near Yorba Linda
|Southern California
|$16.1 million (2008 USD)
|November 15, 2008 at 9:01 AM – November 25, 2008 at 8:00 AM
|Burned area
|30,305 acres (12,264 ha)
|Ignition source
Freeway Fire source: Faulty catalytic converterLandfill Fire source: Faulty power lines
|Land use
|Mixed; residential and wilderness
|Injuries (non-fatal)
|14 firefighters
The Freeway Complex Fire was a 2008 wildfire in the Santa Ana Canyon area of Orange County in the US state of California. The fire is notable for the extensive property damage in Anaheim Hills and Yorba Linda. 314 residences were destroyed or damaged in those two communities.
Freeway Complex Fire, also known as the Triangle Complex Fire or Corona Fire, began 9:01 a.m. PDT November 15, 2008, along the Riverside Freeway (California State Route 91) in the riverbed of the Santa Ana River located in Corona, California.[1] Coordinates: 33°52.9′N 117°39′W / 33.8817°N 117.650°W The fire spread west and north into the hillsides of Yorba Linda and south into Anaheim Hills, where multiple businesses and residences were destroyed. It also burned homes in Olinda Ranch along Carbon Canyon Road in Brea, burned through much of Chino Hills, then spread north into Diamond Bar.
The Landfill Fire, also known as the "Brea Fire," was reported at 10:43 a.m. PDT on Saturday, November 15, 2008, and started near the 1900 block of Valencia Avenue in Brea, just south of the Olinda Landfill. It quickly spread West and eventually jumped the Orange (57) Freeway.
The Landfill Fire merged with the Freeway Fire at 3:30 a.m. PDT on November 16, 2008. At approximately 7:00 a.m. PDT the two fires were officially renamed the Triangle Complex Fire. Around 12:45 p.m. the "Triangle Complex Fire" had been renamed again to the "Freeway Complex Fire" still using the OCFA incident number CA-ORC-08075221.[1][2] According to the final cause report released by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection on January 4, 2010, the cause of the Freeway fire was a faulty catalytic converter, which the State of California requires in every motor vehicle for the purposes of cutting down emissions.[3]
The preliminary cause of the Freeway Fire was thought to be the result of a vehicle exhaust system igniting roadside vegetation. The fire investigation report was completed by the end of March 2009. According to the final cause report released by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection on January 4, 2010, the cause of the fire was a faulty catalytic converter.
The Landfill Fire was investigated by the Brea Police Department, along with investigators from the OCFA. The fire was determined to have been caused by inadequate maintenance of power lines supplying electricity to equipment in the Brea-Olinda Oil Field. The electrical lines were owned by the BreitBurn Management Company in Los Angeles. Investigators believe arcing or a discharge of electric current from the power lines caused the brush near the lines in the fields northeast of Valencia Avenue and Carbon Canyon Road to ignite.
Structures Damaged or Destroyed [4][edit]
- 187 residential structures destroyed (includes multi-family residences)
- 127 residential structures damaged
- 2 commercial properties destroyed
- 2 commercial properties damaged
- 11 outbuildings/other destroyed
- 32 outbuildings/other damaged
Burn Areas[edit]
It was calculated that 30,305 acres (12,264 ha) were burned,[5] including 90% of Chino Hills State Park.[6] The calculated acreage burned would make the fire the fourth largest fire on record in Orange County History behind the 1967 Paseo Grande Fire, Steward Fire of 1958 and the Green River Fire of 1948.[7]
About 40,000 were evacuated. Areas under mandatory evacuation during the fires included:
- Yorba Linda - East and South of Village Center to the County Line (Released by 1730 November 16, 2008)
- Brea - east of State College & Brea Blvd/Brea Canyon Rd., north of Imperial Highway, west of Prospect
- Anaheim - West of the 241 freeway, south of the 91 Freeway, north of Canyon Rim Rd., and west of Deer Canyon Park and Fairmont Park including SAVI Ranch. (Released by 1730 November 16, 2008)
- Carbon Canyon - East of Valencia to the County Line including Olinda Village, Hollydale.
- Chino Hills - Sleepy Hollow, Carriage Hills, Oak Tree Downs, Vellano Estates and Golf Course, Los Serranos Ranch, Butterfield Ranch (up to Soquel Canyon Road), Ridgegate Estates & Western Hills Estates
- Diamond Bar - The Country, Falcon Ridge, Chirping Sparrow, Hawk Wood, Running Branch, Fair Wind & High Bluff
There was also an evacuation in Corona.[8]
Freeway closures[edit]
The Freeway Complex Fire forced the closure of the Riverside (91) Freeway, the Chino Valley (71) Freeway and the 241 Transportation Corridor. The Landfill fire (a.k.a. Brea Fire) temporarily closed the Orange (57) Freeway in northern Orange County.
School closures [9][edit]
- Anaheim Hills Montessori
- Brea Olinda Unified School District
- Calvary Christian School
- Chino Valley Unified School District
- Diamond Bar schools in the Walnut Valley Unified School District
- Esperanza High School
- Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District
- St. Angela Merici Catholic School
- St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School
- St. Joseph Catholic School and Preschool
- Vineyard Christian Preschool and Elementary School
- Walnut Valley Unified School District
Other Fires in the Southland[edit]
Preceding this fire was an outbreak to the northwest, the Sayre Fire in Sylmar (November 14). Both were fires were preceded by an unrelated fire along the Pacific Coast, the Tea Fire in Santa Barbara and Montecito, which had ignited on November 13.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Orange County Fire Authority. "Freeway Complex Fire Report". Retrieved 29 November 2008.
- ^ CAL FIRE NEWS. "Landfill Fire". Retrieved 29 November 2008.
- ^ NBC Southern California. "Catalytic Converter Started Freeway Complex Fire". Retrieved 7 January 2010.
- ^ CAL FIRE. "CAL FIRE Freeway Complex Fire Information". Retrieved 29 November 2008.
- ^ Carpenter, Eric; Irving, Doug; Robbins, Gary (November 16, 2008). "150 + homes destroyed; Fire threatening 1,000 residences". The Orange County Register.
- ^ California State Parks. "2008 Chino Hills rain threat" (PDF). Retrieved 29 November 2008.[dead link]
- ^ OCFA Board of Directors (April 23, 2009). "Freeway Complex Fire After Action Report" (PDF). Freeway Complex Fire After Action Report. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
- ^ OCFA. "OCFA 2008 News Releases". Retrieved 29 November 2008.
- ^ OCFA. "OCFA 2008 Press Release #17" (PDF). Retrieved 29 November 2008.
External links[edit]
- Freeway Complex Fire After Action Report
- Freeway Complex Fire After Action Report Addendum
- Orange County Register Fire Central
- CA-ORC-Freeway Complex
- CAL FIRE Freeway Complex Fire Information
- NASA - Natural-color image of the burned area
- CBS slideshow of the fire
- Catalytic Converter Started Freeway Complex Fire | NBC Southern California


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We just cleared another major hurdle in the almost-completed journey toward passing comprehensive health insurance reform. The U.S. Senate just passed the reconciliation package - 56 to 43 - after rejecting 24 hours worth of occasionally-absurd Republican amendments to the bill.
"The American people have waited for this moment for a century," said Majority Leader Harry Reid after the vote. The only Democrats to vote against the reconciliation package were Sens. Lincoln and Pryor of Arkansas, and Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
After months of missed deadlines, it appears that the Senate and House may be on a path toward a reconciliation of their own. Today's vote represents a positive development in the Senate's ability to conduct the people's business. Let's hope this spirit of working together continues.
Today's vote could not have happened without the involvement of SEIU members and health care activists everywhere. In December of 2009, preceding the historic Christmas Eve vote in the Senate, SEIU members and supporters phone-banked voters in Connecticut, Nebraska, Arkansas and Louisiana to talk to folks about their Senator's position on reform. Our "Adopt-a-State" campaign generated thousands of calls, and helped apply pressure to Senators wavering on reform. The reconciliation vote is the final action in a marathon of phone calls, emails, letter writing, in-district visits and townhalls to encourage Senators to support fixing our broken health care system. It feels good to finally cross the finish line in the U.S. Senate.


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ELIZABETH — Pre-dawn storms that raked Indiana Wednesday spawned a small tornado and damaging winds, uprooting trees, downing power lines and flattening barns and other structures.
The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF-O tornado touched down in the Harrison County town of Elizabeth about 3 a.m. Meteorologist Mike Callahan said the tornado packed winds of up to 80 mph as it cut a half-mile track through the area along the Ohio River.
Elizabeth resident Teresa Campbell told WLKY-TV that the twister heavily damaged a barn and old school house on her property and stripped shingles from her home.
"Things were flying, you could hear it and it sounded like a big suction, like a vacuum just sucking," she said.
Her neighbor Matt Marion, who lost a shed, also said it sounded like a vacuum cleaner.
Near the Castleton area of Indianapolis, four large pine trees lay sprawled atop the home of Charles Winternheimer.
"It could have been worse," the 82-year-old Navy veteran told The Indianapolis Star. "I could have been sitting on the commode upstairs reading the newspaper. That's right where a big limb punched right through the roof."
In Greene County west of Bloomington, Emergency Management Agency Director Roger Axe said 15-20 homes in the Solsberry home sustained moderate to severe damage. The weather service blamed straight-line winds of about 70 mph.
The weather service said straight-line winds of 70-75 mph also hit near the southern Indiana city of Salem, imploding the roof of a double-wide mobile home.
Before the storms arrived, Indianapolis set a record high for the date of 65 about 1 a.m. and Fort Wayne had a record high of 64, the weather service said. South Bend had record rainfall of 1.94 inches Tuesday.


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Defensive tackle Henry Melton said his goodbyes to Chicago on Twitter. And he also announced he'll be joining the Dallas Cowboys after looking at multiple teams in free agency.
"Thank you chicago for the best 5 years of my life!," Melton wrote on Twitter Tuesday night. "I can't wait to begin the next chapter of my life… With a star on my helmet."
Melton's odds of staying with the Bears decreased as the days passed and others were signed. The Bears brought back veteran defensive lineman Israel Idonije on a one-year deal earlier Tuesday and had already re-signed Jeremiah Ratliff and Nate Collins.
Last week, general manager Phil Emery said the "clock is ticking" on Melton and that he was waiting to hear back from his agent, Jordan Woy, after he completed his visits.
Melton, 27, visited the Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams and Seattle Seahawks after free agency opened.
Melton, who is from Texas, leaves the Bears after four seasons. He was a Pro Bowler in 2012, but spent most of last season on injured reserve with a torn left anterior cruciate ligament. Melton played under an $8.45 million franchise tag in 2013 after a long-term deal could not be reached.
In Dallas, Melton will be reunited with former Bears defensive coordinator/line coach Rod Marinelli, who runs the Cowboys defense. He had 15.5 sacks over four seasons with the Bears.


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A vasovagal episode or vasovagal response is a malaise mediated by the vagus nerve. When it leads to fainting, it is called vasovagal syncope, and is the most common type of fainting.
There are a number of different syncope syndromes which all fall under the umbrella of vasovagal syncope. The common element among these conditions is the central mechanism leading to loss of consciousness. The differences among them are in the factors that trigger this mechanism.
The autonomic nervous system's physiologic state (see below) leading to loss of consciousness may persist for several minutes, so:
Regardless of the trigger, the mechanism of syncope is similar in the various vasovagal syncope syndromes. In it, the nucleus tractus solitarius of the brainstem is activated directly or indirectly by the triggering stimulus, resulting in simultaneous enhancement of parasympathetic nervous system (vagal) tone and withdrawal of sympathetic nervous system tone.
This results in a spectrum of hemodynamic responses:
One account for these physiological responses is the Bezold-Jarisch reflex.
In addition to the mechanism described above, a number of other medical conditions may cause syncope. Making the correct diagnosis for loss of consciousness is one of the most difficult challenges that a physician can face. The core of the diagnosis of vasovagal syncope rests upon a clear description by the patient of a typical pattern of triggers, symptoms, and time course. It is also pertinent to differentiate lightheadedness, vertigo and hypoglycemia as other causes
In patients with recurrent syncope, diagnostic accuracy can often be improved with one of the following diagnostic tests:
Treatment for vasovagal syncope focuses on avoidance of triggers, restoring blood flow to the brain during an impending episode, and measures that interrupt or prevent the pathophysiologic mechanism described above.


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The above AFR plots look suspect. There's no way that the stock bike is that lean at 3000 RPM. And you'd really like to know the torque down to 2K RPM with some accuracy. It looks as if the stock bike is better there but I think that's an anomaly due to measurement technique.
The kind of thing I'd like to know is this. You're on the road, in 4th gear, 2500 RPM. You open the throttle 1/3 to 1/2, what is the rate of acceleration before and after? Or, what is the lowest RPM you can run in 6th gear that won't buck when you open the throttle. Or, at what low RPM does the torque start to fall off at. Each of these things can be measured pretty easily with a GS-911 or even observed by riding. A simple richening of lambda at the O2 sensor improves them all.
As we have been discussing this for a good long while now, I simply cant help seeing some bias here. I mentioned that the stock bike had an upward of 18 afr as we spend some time driving on the dyno. You mentioned back then that was impossible. I saw it..... Here we are again, and you say it is an error. I say it is there, weather you like it or not ( not trying to pick on you....I am really not) but I trust the dyno, and the results it yields. You seem to put all your eggs in the gs-911 basket, but I will trust the dyno any day over the gs-911. I will admit to that you know more in depth, and the inner functions of the BMSK, than me.... hands down, but I think it is wrong to discredit dyno results that has been so clearly illustrated.
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