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I'm not a ham, but the idea has always interested me, and so I've decided to test my interest by building a radio receiver.
I'm not an electronics noob. It's been my hobby since I was a kid, and I've done a lot of things in digital electronics, including building a Z80 computer, and playing around with some microcontrollers. I've also built an EEG machine, which is basically the extent of my analog experience. I haven't done much with radio in the past (other than generally figuring out that it's hard) but it certainly shouldn't be something I can't do. I also once read a Radio Shack book about radio transceivers, which explained the whole super-heterodyne process (which is, interestingly, information that I've found useful for a lot of things despite not actually using it for radio yet).
I decided to build a 40 meter receiver because the frequencies are within range of my 20 MHz oscilloscope (thus avoiding questions like "is it oscillating or not?"), and because a few 40 meter receiver schematics were the first ones I happened to find on the internet. At first I tried following a schematic (a simple regenerative receiver) as closely as possible, but it didn't work (and I'm tempted to include "obviously"), and at the time I figured it was because I didn't have the exact toroids listed. So then I decided that if I could simply make an LC tank oscillate, then I'd be able to construct a suitable inductor and capacitor pair, and move on from there. That started my week-long mission to build an oscillator.
I have an air variable capacitor to use a tuner. I first spent a day or two trying to build an oscillator using it and an inductor as a tank circuit, with the intent of measuring the frequency in order to determine the value of the capacitor, but with no luck since I couldn't get it to oscillate.. Then I read on this forum about a "bridge circuit" and so I simply connected the output of a 4 MHz crystal oscillator to the variable capacitor, and subsequently decided it is variable between 15 and 450 pF, which is what I thought it was, but I never wrote it down and the web site where I bought it no longer exists.
I then decided to connect another capacitor in parallel to the variable capacitor, and used Wolfram Alpha to calculate what size that capacitor should be, and what inductor should be used, to make it tune between 7.0 and 7.3 MHz. I also solved for some larger ranges with 100 kHz and 300 kHz buffer spaces on each side of the band. I then tried again to build an oscillator, but again with no luck.
Then I decided the problem might be the solderless breadboard I was using. Too lazy to solder the whole circuit together, I instead simply soldered the tank circuit together. This made it work, and my oscilloscope confirmed I was near 7 MHz.
About this time I decided I should also play with one of my 74HC4046 phase-locked loop chips which I bought probably ten years ago and never even tried to use. I used an 82C54 programmable interval timer for the two frequency dividers, along with an AT89S52 microcontroller connected to a PC via an FT245RL to program the clock divisors. Getting that to work was actually rather easy, which made me wonder if I shouldn't skip the idea of building a simple receiver and just build a super-heterodyne receiver.
So then I decided to play with the LM1496 balanced modulator chips I'd bought at the same time and similarly ignored for the last ten years. I simply wired the thing up following one of the examples in the datasheet (or so I thought) and connected my oscillator (the first one, not the PLL) to it, along with a piece of wire for an antenna (being too lazy to build a pre-amp and just playing around) and connected the output to an LM386 audio amplifier. In order to have a signal strong enough to receive, I used my MP3 player to modulate the PLL signal, figuring that since the two circuits were right next to each other, it should be strong enough to be received, and without an antenna, it shouldn't radiate enough to bother anyone. To my complete surprise, this actually seemed to work. Even more to my surprise, I could receive other signals as well. Tuning the capacitor to the correct place, I could hear several streams of morse code at once, and tuning it elsewhere, I heard some Spanish radio, and somewhere else was my MP3 transmitter, though it was the worst signal of them all due to my modulation strategy being terrible. Strangely, the signals were receivable even after disconnecting the piece of wire I was calling an antenna. This was particularly strange with the Spanish radio station, as I can't imagine it being anywhere nearby.
The next day, however, it didn't seem to work at first, until eventually I powered on my PLL circuit as well, which is on a separate solderless breadboard, at which point it worked again. So I tried tuning the PLL to different frequencies, but it seemed to make no difference what frequency it was tuned to -- only turning the variable capacitor changed the tuning of the received signal. Then I noticed that I forgot two very important resistors from the LM1496 balanced oscillator IC, such that the chip technically wasn't connected to a power source, which just deepened the mystery of how this radio worked. So I connected the resistors, but then it no longer worked. ...but, for the moment, I decided to forget about it.
Instead I decided I needed to change the capacitor and inductor attached to the tuning capacitor. It was difficult to adjust the oscillator to receive a particular signal, and it would drift a lot. I considered attaching a large knob to it, something to make my movements more precise and remove the need for my hand to be anywhere near it when adjusting it, but I also decided I needed to remove the excess 300 kHz I'd designed into it both above and below the band. So I removed the capacitor and inductor, and attached a new larger capacitor and a new smaller inductor.
Once again, I could no longer get it to oscillate. I spent the last two or three days trying to solve this situation, by replacing the inductor and capacitor again (although with the same values), and twice attempting to build the entire oscillator as a soldered-together mess of components that isn't attached to the solderless breadboard. I also spent some time filtering even more 60 Hz from my power supply, and I also tried powering the circuit with batteries. ...but, no matter what, it just doesn't want to oscillate anymore.
I'm beginning to suspect that the problem is that some combinations of capacitor and inductor work better than others. Obviously, for any given target frequency, there's going to be a range of capacitance values and corresponding inductor values. Do they all oscillate equally well? I've been unable to turn up any information on this topic on the internet, despite searching on several occasions, as I've suspected some values work better than others since the beginning of this adventure.
So, trying to figure this out for myself... I can't imagine why, with ideal components, the particular values of inductor and capacitor should matter. With nothing to dissipate the energy, it should oscillate forever. So the problem must be in non-ideal aspects, and all of the stray inductance and capacitance just add to the tank circuit, and so the problem must be entirely with energy lost due to unwanted resistance. However, I've already been making the inductors with very thick wire, and the variable capacitor is rather thick itself. (This might, however, explain why soldering the two together originally made it work, since doing so got rid of numerous resistances due to connections on the solderless breadboard.)
I have thought of one other thing... Since P = I^2 * R, it would seem that reducing the current flowing in the tank would be far more important than reducing the resistance of the inductor windings. ...and, I think, that means that a tank circuit using a larger inductor and a smaller capacitor will work better, because a larger inductor's current will increase more slowly while a smaller capacitor will discharge more quickly, and the two together mean that the current is lower even though the frequency is the same. ...and, given that the I is squared while the R is not, using a larger value inductor should always work better, even if doing so requires using thinner wire. So I decided I'd try larger inductors and smaller capacitors and see if that helps.
So I calculated some new capacitor and inductor values, but this time assuming I'd put the capacitor in series with the variable capacitor, but the results (1 pF in series with the 450 pF variable capacitor) made me suspect the tuning range would be incredibly lopsided, and so I spent some hours trying to find some application / web site to graph it for me before giving up and writing a Perl script to output the graph in postscript. It was far worse than I imagined, even after picking less extreme values (22 pF in series) which actually result in a far larger tuning range (thus making my original problem even worse). So it seems there's no point in trying a capacitor in series with the tuning capacitor.
So I looked online, but I don't see anyone selling the things. Not even the cheap little plastic ones that come in those Radio Shack kits. I'm really not sure what exactly the things would be called. Been searching for "variable capacitor" and the like. The last ones I bought were from Ocean State Electronics, but they appear to have been out of business for years.
So, I have questions, obviously:
1. Any advice on building an RF oscillator? Obviously I've read web sites and books, but for the most part, all I find are schematics that don't work, schematics without labeled component values, and a lot of "amplifiers oscillate and oscillators amplify" almost as if to say "yeah, no one really knows why these things work," which doesn't really make sense since how they work is rather simple, at least as I understand it. ...and that does make me wonder if there just isn't something to it that isn't well documented, like this idea I have about the current flow being more detrimental than the circuit resistance.
2. What about this idea I have about the current flow? Do you think it matters? Is it an idea you've heard before? ...or am I way off and you can actually point me in the right direction?
3. Any ideas on how to use a 450 pF variable capacitor as if it were much smaller, like 20 pF or 100 pF, but in a way that doesn't result in a painfully exponential tuner?
4. ...or should I just forget about that, and instead try to build one? I do have quite a lot of double-sided copper clad board that I'll probably never use for anything. However, the required tolerances seem annoying (even if I make it huge) and that stuff is a PITA to cut, so I don't think I like this idea. I may see what I can build from cardboard and aluminum foil.
5 ...or should I just rip some plates out of my air variable capacitor to reduce the capacitance? I really hate to do this, as I've loved the things ever since I first saw one when I was like 10 years old. Something about the things just seems so awesome. However, if I'm right with my inductor/capacitor trade-off idea, then to have the things be of such a large capacitance would actually be quite pointless and so I might as well turn them into something useful. ...but I really hate to do this without being certain that they're useless in their current form.
6. ...or should I forget about tunable capacitors and build a tunable inductor instead? It's certainly fewer moving parts, but I imagine difficulty with respect to getting linear performance out of it, e.g. I might glue an inductor core to a screw, thus allowing me a lot of turns to move the core a small distance, but if, as it turns, it wobbles closer and further from one side of the coil, the results may suck a lot. I'll have to search the internet for ideas on this one.
Also, I'm curious just how easy I should expect reception of some 7 MHz activity to be. I live in New Paris, Ohio, if checking a map will help to figure this out. So far I've just been using a ten foot wire as an antenna. I know from my experience with CB radio that using such an antenna wouldn't pick up any transmitter that was further than a mile away, but I've also heard that the ham bands aren't nearly as noisy, and I once had a CB that could tune a little bit of 28 MHz, and IIRC there is a huge difference in the noise floor between the two bands. There's also that morse code and spanish radio I heard, though honestly I have no clue what frequencies those actually were since I have no clue why that circuit worked at all, and so I don't know if I should expect 7 MHz to be so easy to receive that I don't even have to know what I'm doing, or if that was some other band and 7 MHz will actually be very difficult to receive without building a 1/2 wavelength dipole outside (which I don't believe my yard is even large enough for, nevermind that I just don't want to buy the materials).


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Shashastra Seema Bal (SSB) will publish the admit card of ASI telecom & HC telecom. The written exam date is not fixed yet. Meanwhile the expected date for SSB telecom recruitment written exam is August, 2013. The SSB Telecom admit card/ hall ticket 2013 will be published soon. The official website of www.ssbrectt.gov.in .
SSB Telecom ASI Constable PST PET Exam 2013 Admit Card
Candidates will have to quality the various phases for selection. The all documents of candidates will be varified in the first stage. Physical standard test will be followed. The next stages of selelction are PST and PET.
Requirement of Physical standard Test
Candidates are required to meet the following standard for selection.
- Required height : 170 cms
- Chest unexpanded : 80 cms
- Chest expanded : 85 cms
The weight and height standard are different.
Candidates should have good eye sight without colour blindness.
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Kent State joins other in raising tuition
KENT, Ohio (AP) — Kent State University officials are raising tuition by 1.5 percent, joining most other Ohio public colleges that will slightly raise rates for the upcoming school year.
Trustees at the northeast Ohio university approved the hike Thursday — with all of the money going back into financial aid.
Kent was one of the last of Ohio's tax-supported universities to set tuition for the coming school year.
The University of Akron, Youngstown State and Bowling Green increased undergraduate tuition by 2 percent. Ohio University announced a 1.6 percent hike, and Miami University 1.5 percent.
Cleveland State announced a 2-percent increase that will be rebated yearly to students who stay on track to graduation.
Ohio State, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Toledo are freezing tuition for the coming year.
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Selphie Tilmitt
|Side Quests
|Selphie Tilmitt
|SeeD Student/Member
Selphie Tilmitt is one of the main playable characters of Final Fantasy VIII. Brought up in Trabia Garden for as long as she can remember, Selphie transferred to Balamb Garden to take part in the SeeD exam. Throughout the game, she keeps the party's spirits up with her cheerful and perky personality. Although seemingly cute and ditzy, her clear talent with computers and vehicles, and excellent organizational and motivational skills betray a fine mind, and a deeper nature and intelligence than is immediately obvious. Selphie sometimes displays a much darker sense of humour than the other characters are comfortable with, and in a few scenes, it seems that her cheerfulness is born of desperation - out of a fear of allowing herself to acknowledge unhappiness.
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Selphie meets up with Zell and Squall when she has to deliver a message to their leader during the SeeD exam. Despite the orders she was set to deliver, she allows herself to join Squall and Zell when Seifer decides to take it upon himself to take out the Galbadians that have assaulted the Dollet Communication Tower. From that point on she becomes a permanent and valuable member of your team.
Selphie was originally raised in Edea's orphanage, until the founding of Garden, by Headmaster Cid. Then, she was sent to Trabia Garden, while Irvine, her best friend, was sent to Galbadia Garden. The rest of the group remained in Balamb Garden, close to Cid. There is no explanation for this.
A scene at the end of FFVIII involves Squall and Ultimecia going back in time, to the time when five of your main party members lived in Edea's orphanage. There, Edea took Ultimecia's powers into herself, in order to, in her own words, prevent one of the children becoming a sorceress. Selphie's powerful spells may indicate that she was the most likely candidate for this risk - however, bear in mind that Quistis is also a powerful mage (judging solely by limit break, since other stats vary depending on junctions), while Ellone has powers of her own.
[edit] Limit Break
Although random, her limit break Slot allows her to cast powerful spells such as Firaga, Thundaga, Blizzaga, Ultima, and Demi long before the rest of your party. She also has four unique spells in her limit break;
- Full Cure - Completely heals the party
- Wall - Casts protect and Shell over your team
- Rapture - Removes enemies from the battlefield (may miss).
- The End - The most powerful spell in any Final Fantasy game. Although random and rare, The End can defeat any monster (including the final boss, but excluding the undead) instantly.
The inclusion of The End makes Selphie the single most powerful magic user in the group - more so even than sorceresses Edea and Rinoa - and the most powerful fighter out of your entire group. Unfortunately, The End is so rare that it is almost useless.
[edit] Other Appearences
[edit] Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
Selphie appears as a Legendary character.
[edit] Kingdom Hearts
Selphie is one of the six children who plays on the Destiny Islands. She helps Sora train, using a jumprope instead of her nunchaku.
[edit] Kingdom Hearts ReCoM
Selphie returns as a figment of Sora's memories. Her design is the same as her Kingdom Hearts design.
[edit] Kingdom Hearts II
Selphie is seen only once, asking Kairi about going to the Island. She pronounces Tidus's name as TIE-dus, confusing fans.
[edit] Quotes
|"Super-Duper-Mega-Bummer!!" (FF8)
|"You should feel honored that a very, very cute girl sat on your bed, you know!" (to Zell, FF8)
|"It's so romantic~! I gotta try it sometime!" (Kingdom Hearts)
|"Only an idiot like you would not notice if you had food on your face!" (to Wakka, KHReCoM)
|"Tidus and Wakka are all wrapped up in their silly ball game, and they won't go with me!" (to Kairi, KH2)
|Final Fantasy VIII Characters
| Squall | Rinoa | Zell | Quistis | Selphie | Irvine
Laguna | Kiros | Ward | Seifer | Edea | Ultimecia | Adel
Angelo | Biggs | Cid | Dr. Kadowaki | Dr. Odine | Ellone | Fujin | General Caraway | Julia Heartilly | Ma Dincht | Mayor Dobe | NORG | Raijin | Raine | Vinzer Deling | Watts | Wedge | Xu | Zone


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The internet collective known only as Anonymous has been trying to warn us for weeks now.
They've uploaded previous messages decrying the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
(UPDATE: The Day of Action has been moved to February 3 2012)
They have stated that eventually there would come a time when Americans take back their civil rights. Anonymous says that time is now.
The group has uploaded a new message declaring that "Operation Blackout" is now engaged. They've declared January 3, 2012 to be a "Day of Action".
What do you think? Will you participate, or is Anonymous going too far?
Check out the video and transcript below.
This message is an immediate call to a day of action against SOPA, NDAA, and the United States Government.
Citizens of the United States,
We are Anonymous.
This message is an immediate call for a day of action. On January 3rd, the collective is calling upon the citizens of the united states to protest against the new sections in the national defense authorization act that were passed a short while ago. While we cannot force the american people to protest, we must tell them that this law will strip away any rights they thought they had including, but not limited to, Free speech, Free press, Free access to information, and the right to protest, assemble, and bear arms. This law cannot be changed according to the Feinstein Act.
Sections Ten thirty one and ten thirty two of the national defense authorization act have been passed and ratified. It grants unlimited powers to the executive branch of the government to indefinitly detain suspects, even American citizens, without trial. All a person has to do is to commit a belligerent act.
What is a belligerent act? Is protesting a belligerent act? Is being Anonymous a belligerent act?
This is where we draw the line. This is when we leave our computers. This is when we take out our masks and defy the corrupt rule of law.
This is when we revolt.
The time has come for you to accept the truth and join us in overthrowing yet another corrupt military regime.
Operation Blackout, engaged.
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
we do not Forgive.
we do not Forget.
To the United States government, you should've expected us.
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- Congress Sneaks SOPA Back onto Next Week's Agenda, Anonymous Is Not Pleased (VIDEO) (blippitt.com)
- CODE RED: White House Drops Veto Threat on National Defense Authorization Act (VIDEO) (blippitt.com)


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About 340 current and former students have complained to a Kansas military school, saying they were beaten, hazed, harassed or abused over the past five years.
Twenty-one said they were branded.
The numbers surfaced last week in the latest documents filed in a federal lawsuit brought by 11 former cadets and their families against St. John's Military School.
The document makes public for the first time the extent of abuse that the plaintiffs claim is part of the culture at the Salina boarding school.
The school says the number reflects its concern for student safety because it investigates and records every complaint, no matter how minor.
School president Andy England also said in an email to The Associated Press that some students see branding as "a badge of honor."
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I've never been in the military. But I've known a few good men and women who have served our country. And I know that when they are putting their life on the line, the comforting prayer or counsel from a military chaplain has made a huge difference. That's why I was disturbed to see last month that Americans United for Separation of Church and State sent a letter to the United States Military Academy at West Point. AU wrongly claims the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is offended whenever military chaplains solemnize an event with an invocation or benediction, which only occurs at a handful of events each year. Alliance Defending Freedom responded by sending a letter to West Point on behalf of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, confirming that West Point's practice of solemnizing events with invocations or benedictions is completely constitutional. Here's why.
The United States Army has offered soldiers the opportunity to hear solemnizing prayers since the Revolutionary Days. General George Washington asked his chaplains to pray for the troops during those critical days at Valley Forge. West Point has offered invocations and benedictions at important events in cadet careers since its founding in 1802. In fact, before the ratification of the First Amendment, Congress authorized the appointment and use of commissioned chaplains, in part to offer solemnizing prayers at crucial moments in a soldier's life and our Nation's history. If this tradition was established before ratification of the Establishment Clause, then the Founding Fathers clearly didn't think it was a problem.
The purpose of West Point's prayers is to allow military chaplains to partner with the academy's leadership in the development of future leaders of character and offer words of encouragement in support of the particular event's intent. The invocations and benedictions are opportunities to dignify milestone events in a cadet's career, not moments to advance one religion over another. Moreover, cadets are not compelled to participate in the prayers, or even listen to them. But the prayers offer them time to reflect on the significance of their education and training.
One of West Point's tasks is to help cadets learn how to celebrate the religious diversity in the Army. This is done not by stripping "the public square of every last shred of public piety," as a federal court of appeals said. Learning to celebrate the religious diversity in the Army is accomplished by providing a positive view of America's rich religious diversity. West Point's acknowledgement of religious and non-religious practices of various kinds aligns with the non-establishment philosophy embodied in the First Amendment.
We hope West Point doesn't capitulate to AU's demands, but continues this vital tradition for future soldiers.


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With her pixie crop and channelling the layered look
There's only two days left until we get to see what Emma Watson is wearing on the red carpet for the premiere of the final Harry Potter film.
That's right ladies the second installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is nearly upon us with the UK premier happening on Thursday.
Whilst we can't wait to watch the film, we're also extremely excited to see what Ms Watson will be wearing, after all, her style is always spot on.
For the first installment of the film Emma decided to wear a feathered lace number in the UK, before going for a long slinky black Calvin Klein frock for the New York premiere.
However, she always looks glam on the red carpet showing off either floaty long numbers or super short frocks. She's also a fan of the casual look going for shorts and knitted numbers.
See her latest looks in the gallery above.


text: In my opinion, that's exactly what happened the second time around as well. Bunch absolutely dominated the first match something like 4-0,5-0 then Humphrey made some adjustments and Bunch wrestled to Reece's strengths. Humphrey wrestled really well in the third match, but Bunch looked almost broken at that point. I'm sure it's frustrating to compete against someone you're so used to wrestling and who knows exactly how to beat you, but he has no excuse to have those mental lapses if we expect him to win medals for us at the world level.


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Doobie Brothers To Replace Aretha Franklin At Ottawa Jazzfest
The Doobie Brothers are stepping in to replace the ailing Aretha Franklin as a headlining act at this year's Ottawa Jazz Festival.
The Doobies are in the middle of an extensive United States tour, but a June 26 Ottawa stop at the Jazz Festival fits perfectly in the band's six-day gap between gigs in Spokane, Washington, and Atlantic City, New Jersey
Festival programming manager Petr Cancura admitted that some disappointed ticket-holders have already sought out refunds, but the loss is "not as big as we thought."
Though some fans are disappointed in the switch, the Ottawa Jazz Festival will still play host to performances from Wynton Marsalis, Nikki Yanofsky and Willie Nelson, just to name a few.
The jazz festival runs June 20 to July 1; the main stage is at Confederation Park.
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An Online Resource for Information on Arsenic in Rice
In July 2014, the CODEX Alimentarius Commission, a working group of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization, approved a recommendation from their Committee on Contaminants in Foods (CCCF) to establish a maximum level (ML) for inorganic arsenic in polished (white) rice of 0.2 mg/kg, along with the future development of a code of practice for growing rice.
For more information, click here to read USA Rice Industry Action Summary. Click here to read FDA's September 2013 statement on testing and analysis.
Rice is a wholesome, nutritious and affordable food that has supported half the world's populations for hundreds of years.
There is no documented evidence in the United States that links rice consumption to human health problems.
The overall arsenic content of U.S. rice is similar to rice grown in other parts of the world, according to the World Health Organization's food safety standards body.
FDA says there is no scientific data to support dietary changes.
The U.S. rice industry is committed to maintaining the safety of U.S. grown rice and supports the FDA's examination of the issue to better understand the science of arsenic in food.
The rice industry is conducting research to determine the impact of agronomic practices and processing on arsenic uptake in rice and documenting the known health benefits of rice consumption versus perceived risk.
Independent laboratory analysis using the FDA's arsenic testing method found the arsenic content of U.S. rice within the range of international rice samples.
In the Sept. 6 data release, FDA determined that "the amount of detectable arsenic is too low in the rice and rice product samples to cause any immediate or short-term adverse health effects." FDA also noted that "rice is a life-long dietary staple for many people" and does not recommend changes by consumers regarding their consumption of rice and rice products. The results confirm those released one year ago and FDA is once again assuring consumers that rice should be part of a well-balanced diet.
"During my more than 25 years of clinical practice, I have never seen any of my patients become ill or suffer a health condition due to arsenic in food, not even foods that consumers eat on a daily basis."
– Dr. Keith-Thomas Ayoob
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"In general, although more rice intake seems to mean more arsenic exposure, populations with the highest rice intake actually have lower, not higher, rates of cancer than ours in the U.S. The presence of a contaminant in a food does not necessarily mean there is a problem."
– Dr. David Katz
Yale Univeristy Prevention Research Center
"I think the best thing to do is go on with what you're doing and realize that [the risk] was a little overstated. The levels are low, and there are many other foods that have this."
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Banner Good Samaritan Poison & Drug Information Center
New Test Results Show Arsenic Levels in US Rice Lowest among World Health Organization Codex Countries
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In Vitro Assessment of the Bioaccessibility of Arsenicals in Rice
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The XCOR caravan makes its way past the "bone yard" for another hot fire.
Yesterday we went through initial morning activities that surround the day of a hot fire test, rolled out the flight weight fuselage and engine truss. We started to fuel LOX and kerosene around 7AM.
Cut to two hours later…
Around 9AM, after the kerosene and LOX fill is complete, and after running through check lists and various pre-rollout processes, we tow the engine test stand and truss out to the XCOR Test Bunker on the other side of the Mojave Air and Space Port.
The caravan of vehicles include the F-150 pickup truck with which we tow the test stand, a Hummer we use to tow the gas bottle trailer (a rolling stand filled with high pressure gases, such as helium and nitrogen, which we use for tests), and up to two more vehicles holding additional crew and equipment.
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April 14th, 2008 #1
Going back to school?
I'm posting this here, feel free to move it if necessary.
A bit of advice possibly from people who are in my situation or had been in this situation.
I went to college for communications, I have a 9-5 job in which I spend all day in a cubicle, have you seen office space, umm yea. The job is fine, unsatisfying to say the least, but it has allowed me to pay back the Corvette size debt I had in loans. I've loved art in some facet for as long as I can remember.. For foolish reasons, I never really saw art as a potential career, I lacked confidence in my work, which as I see now was due to a lack of dedication to the craft.
Well things have changed. More and more I find myself hunched over my laptop scratching away on my tablet till the wee hours in the morning, forgoing the bars and social scenes that would occupy my Saturday nights. Creation, discovery, and seeing the progress is the greatest drug, and I am addicted.
I would consider myself an "intermediate artist" and would like to go back to school, I WANT TO LEARN! Thank god for places like concept art and I try to absorb as much information from this site as possible, and the results can be seen. Should I start from scratch? Do i really need all those 100 level art classes? Should I try and pick which classes to enroll in ie. color theory, life drawing? Would just taking individual classes that I am interested in be benifitial, or as a self taught artist would I be lost in the terms and theories that were taught in previous classes? Or should I just keep chugging along painting and practicing teaching myself, albeit in many cases the "wrong way"?
Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.
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I just looked at your sketch book. Did you teach yourself all of this or have you had some classes? Your work shows a good feeling for the human form and has a sense of energy.
The benefits of school are only benefits if you go someplace that really teaches traditional skills. One can teach oneself, but access to models, casts, skeletons and, if it's a good school, direction, are hard to come by. It can take much longer to put everything together on your own. If you attend a good concept art program, in addition to fine art training you should also have access to industry professionals who will teach industry specific courses, such as environment and level design. Again, you can teach yourself or take assorted courses to get the range of skills you'll need. You definitely can get there, but it may take longer. If your foundation is strong, you won't need year one courses. If it isn't, it's worth taking the time to build skills. However, i gather that it's difficult to find programs that teach traditional fine art and illustration skills.
If you do decide to go to school, do your research!
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April 14th, 2008 #3
I appreciate the advice Maxine,
The last art class I took was sophmore year of highschool,everything I know was from practice, trial and error, and seaking out tutorials and information by means such as the library, fellow artists, and the web. Growing up I read tons of comics, and I would read them based on if I liked the art or not. I would study my favorite artists such as: Jim Lee, Simon Bisley, Sam Keith, and my favorite Cam Kennedy.
There are many fundamentals I need extensive work on. For example a class on perspective would help me immensely. My enviro's are weak, and my understanding in perspective is mediocre at best. Growing up the pencil and pen were my main tools, subsequently color theory and how color can make or break a piece is something I would love to get stronger on. I can emulate or follow by example no problem, however strategic placement of color and there effect to a piece of my own is a different story. Composition, Kev Ferrara has a great thread in another part of this site, where he is having a discussion about all the hidden nuances that a good artist puts into achieving a good compostion. Excellent read, but a bit over my head. A semester long class that would talk extensively about this would be very benefitial.
A good amount of research and asking these types of questions to potential schools would be the best bet, however I'm worried they'd tell me anything to get that tuition check which is why I turned to you guys for advice.
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April 15th, 2008 #4
I don't think you need an art school unless you want to learn technical stuffs such as terms, softwares, pipelines, or business stuff. You should probably find some local artist groups to be "in the environment" and in touch, but if you've come this far just by teaching yourself all you need is advices and pointers you can get from people here.
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Well, I'm the Director of Max the Mutt, and, speaking for us, we've built our school on our reputation for integrity. I was out of touch with what has happened to education, even though I'd been teaching art part time at Sheridan for years (I taught painting in the Illustration program, and life drawing in the animation department and spent most of my time in my studio painting).
Max the Mutt happened, and we ended up with a school because we cared about a skill base we felt was disappearing - traditional fine art and animation skills. For me it was the love of figure drawing, anatomy and painting. For Tina Seemann, it was cartooning and character design and a real love and understanding of good film making. Like minded people were attracted to us and what we were trying to do. We wanted to make a fair living doing what we love. We've been growing ever since.
It wouldn't be worth doing and it wouldn't be satisfying if we didn't all care. There are people, you know, who want to spend their time doing something they care about. Not everyone is motivated more by $ than anything else.
When I was young, by the way, we trusted the schools we applied to. We never questioned their interest in educating us. Colleges and universities weren't perceived primarily as "businesses" with a profit motive.
Now the whole system seems distorted to me. Including education loans which shouldn't be in the hands of companies or banks that are profit driven. Hopefully reform is on the way.
The cynicism about education makes it very hard for me on these forums. Of course we are looking for good students, and of course we need a certain number of students, but what would be the point of misleading people? What makes a school work is the passion and dedication of everyone- faculty, students and support staff. That's what gets you through the hard work and frustration, and, especially this year, the long winter. We need students who are a good fit for us and vice-versa. Without good students - and by "good" I mean passionate, hardworking and motivated to learn - even good teachers can't teach well. We are all dependent on each other... so why wouldn't we be interested in letting people know we exist and hoping they'll at least look into what we offer?
Now we get to see the outcome of everyone's hard work. The opening of the first year show is tomorrow night. The graduate show will open May 30th. I'm totally exhausted which explains my endless rambling in this reply.
I know there are other schools that have integrity, real interest in students, and love for the arts they are teaching. You definitely will be able to tell what's going on: look at the year end shows, try to speak with current students and graduates. Look for schools that have working professionals teaching. When most of the work is good, when the general level is high, it's a good indication that the program is good.
You have very important qualities: you are really interested and curious and able to work independently. You really have achieved a lot on your own. A good school would be helpful, but make sure it's a good school.
If you take a series of individual classes, use the same criteria. I'm sure, whatever you decide, you'll find the way to achieve your goals.
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The portrait above was depicted on a war diary website, as an example of Francis Marion's guerrilla warfare during the American Revolution. I put it here because I was inspired by a man named Ron who called in to Mark Levin's radio program last Friday.
Ron pointed out that we need to change tactics, as conservatives, and he zeroed in on the language.
But the vision that his words conjured was of just this painting.
We, as conservatives, have been following the rules of proper political warfare for far too long, and taking direction from subversives within the Republican party as well.
We certainly do need to change tactics, and fast.
But first, it would help if we got out of our slump, and our depression, and remembered who we are.
The following is transcribed from Mark Levin's radio program from 11.30.12
We are the American People. We founded a nation. We created the most prosperous nation on the face of the earth. We did it without the New Deal, we did it without the Great Society, we did it without Obamacare and the EPA, we did it without any of them.
The most successful, the most powerful, the wealthiest nation on the face of the earth, long before Franklin Roosevelt became President, and obviously, long, long before Barack Obama became President.
We've allowed the daily, incessant media reporting of what government does and how important government is, to change who we are.
We've allowed the politicians to string us along, decade after decade, taking our money and then giving it back to us in smaller pieces, as if we can't survive without it(government)? Many people can't survive because of it(government).
Ladies and Gentleman, we don't need this big government. We don't need these hack politicians. We don't need two million bureaucrats. We don't need all these regulations, we don't need all this spending. We don't need all these taxes.
We are self-sufficient individual human beings. We're not the upper class, we're not the middle class, we're not any class. We're Americans.
We're not jealous of our neighbors who may make more money, good for them! If anything, we want to know how they did it, maybe we can do it too!
We're not a jealous people, we're an industrious people.
Look at what these politicians are trying to turn us into! Animals! Fighting over crumbs, constantly growling and gnarling at each other. That's not who we are.
We're the resistance! We resist this.
The fate that Obama and his party seek to impose on us and every future generation is neither acceptable nor tolerable.
We reject the perversion of our Constitution, our law, our economics and our language in the pursuit of absolute centralized power by Obama and his party in Washington D.C.. We reject it, in all of its forms.
We are tens of millions strong. We did not vote for our individual and societal suicide, and no politician, no President has the authority to under our Constitution to destroy this nation from within, I don't care how many people voted for him.
This President and his party have ceased to be virtuous. They are a direct threat to our liberties and our rights. They are a direct threat to our well-being and our property.
We refuse to accept the Marxist Propaganda of the rich and the poor and the middle class. We believe in free-market capitalism. We believe if you work hard and you make a billion dollars, good for you! Who cares!?
It's time, folks, to get our priorities in order.
We the people come first!
We have unalienable rights, not government!
The following is a partial transcription of a caller from Mark Levin's radio program on 11.30.12 that I have labeled, "Language is Key."
We've got to change tactics. During the American Revolution, we were losing every traditional battle that we fought against the British. But then when we started picking off their leaders, because you know the leaders always got dressed up more than the infantry.. If they could get at the leaders, it would cause dissension among the ranks, that's just one way of changing the tactics.
What we need to do to defeat the left is to understand their use of the language. They use language in a different way than we do. They have certain key words that mean the opposite.
(Listen to the rest of the call using the player at the bottom of this post.)
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Exactly what rhetoric change is going to restore Constitutional literacy? When I hear a Levin caller attempt to discredit the republican House majority by stating that the total plurality of the vote for the majority is less than what the minority received you have to wonder how rhetoric can fix dumb? Or is it Constitutional disrespect? It does not matter because the desire for the President to break down what remains of fiscal competency by asking for unlimited authority to spend without regards for what he knows is illegal tells you what the President, at the top of the chain, thinks about the incompetent media and a public too dumb to know it. But most of all it tells you that what remains of our Constitution is in serious trouble. And now we have to wonder if Speaker Boehner is up to defending the very easy task of what is left.
Desert Rat
It's obvious that our elected politicians cannot and will not comply with a conservative agenda. Boehner, Cantor, and McCarthy are feckless, and talk a big game, but in the end, ultimately cave in to the left. They cower in fear about what the Obama compliant media will call them for standing up against the Marxist regime that is currently running the show in D.C. Since I have zero confidence in the GOP and their leadership, I have decided in the past few years to become personally pro active, and conduct my own form of "guerrilla" warfare to battle our adversaries.
When you are armed with facts, truth, logic and a huge dose of common sense you have the tools necessary to totally disarm a liberal. My goal is to win as many local, "small" skirmishes that I can. This means challenging county commissions, the local media, and winning any personal confrontations that I have. I highly recommend calling a liberal a "liberal." They detest this term. We need to be on the offense, and always frame the argument. Our "conservative" leaders never do this, and always end up on their heels, and act defensively. I have found out that when they start to call you names (racist, hater, denier), I have won the battle. I wear their name calling as a badge of honor.
As we can all plainly see, trying to "work across the aisle," and "compromise" has gotten us nowhere. How much worse off can we be, by using "non politically correct" language, and call things as they are? In the end, I may end up going down, but I am making every attempt to at least make my "enemies" as uncomfortable as possible, and at the best possibly effect change in public policy, and discourse. Game on!
If there was and antidote to the post election depression syndrome Boehner, Cantor, and McCarthy are not it. The Egyptians are doing a better job against Mursi.
if it unfortunately requires populism to rewrap conservative principles, for a politically illiterate voting majority, then this article addresses how: http://www.nationalreview.com/author/79836#
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My House:
Our split-level stucco house was built in 1931. It has one architectural feature that I absolutely hate. On the far right side of the house there is a gable (the rest of the roof is hip) and it has vertical wooden panels that extend about 10" past the point where the roof starts to narrow. So it's essentially a pentagon of vertical wood siding on an otherwise stucco house. This is the only place on the house that has this type of feature and it looks unbalanced.
The roof is brown and the stucco is Benjamin Moore's Texas Sage. Windows are Coastal Fog, but there isn't much painted area on them.
My Project:
I want to minimize the "triangle." I considered doing Coastal Fog, but it's pretty light and I had the triangle a creamy white before when the house was blue and it really stuck out. I am considering the next darker shade down from Coastal Fog, which is Brandon Brown, or perhaps a blend of the two. On the left side of the house are two wood features: a large pillar on the corner of the porch, and four beams under a small cantilevered bump-out. They used to be a darker version of Texas Sage, but that looked bad so I changed it to a dark brown which I like.
- What color were these "triangles" originally? (Several houses in my area have them.)
- Should I paint it Texas Sage even though it's a different material than the stucco siding, and if so, should it be the same flat sheen as the stucco, or a low-lustre? If not, what color should I paint it?
- If it's not Texas Sage, should the pillar and beams be the same color as the triangle, even though I like them and want to highlight them?
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Jackie Craven, About.com Architecture, says:I like your idea of painting the front gable (the "triangle") the same color as the stucco siding, but with a low-lustre sheen. The difference in sheen will provide some contrast, but the sameness of the color will make the gable seem less prominent.
I'm not sure whether your window sashes are wood or aluminum. If they are wood, consider painting them the same dark brown color you've used on your porch pillars. Whatever you decide, be sure to preview your choices. Use a free home color software program or other photo editing software to try out color ideas.


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The album will be released on June 16th. In the meantime raise your skinny fists to heaven and give praise for album preview track The Drive.
"Greg and I became good friends while both living in Berlin, around 2009 to 2013. We spent countless late nights playing records for each other, dreaming the dream of good music. We talked a lot about collaborating and even put in quite a few hours at each other's studios . . . but for some strange reason we never seemed to finish anything. Maybe we were just busy enough with our other projects and didn't feel in any rush. But we certainly had it in mind that we'd like to finish something one day. And we are very proud to say that day is finally here!
Primarily inspired by mine and Greg's recent obsession with dub music, Greg Gives Peter Space is a mini album comprised of six tracks filled with – you guessed it – spacey sounds, created with the help of Greg's ever-growing collection of synthesizers, tape delays and reel-to-reel machines. In the true spirit of dub music, many of the mixes were made live, both of us hovering over the mixing board, dancing around and following our intuitions, processing the sounds with live effects while the music bounced down to tape., We are extremely excited to release this record in the summer time and to celebrate with a few select shows around Europe. We've enlisted our dear friend Martyn Heyne to help us perform the music live, and we plan on bringing as much of the original gear from the recordings as possible. After years of playing fairly quiet music for an often seated audience, we can't wait to get on stage and bounce around to some groovy rhythms, heavy bass and spacey synthesizers. Prepare for take-off! " – Peter Broderick, April 2014
Peter Broderick (1987) is an American born multi-instrumentalist and singer. In his later teenage years he became entwined in the Portland (Oregon) indie folk scene, recording for the likes of M. Ward, Laura Gibson and Dolorean. 2007 saw him moving across the ocean to Denmark, where he began a long collaboration with the band Efterklang, touring the world with them for the next five years. Meanwhile he recorded several albums of solo material, ranging from sparse classical compositions (Float) to homemade folk music (Home), constantly experimenting with different musical genres, and also being commissioned to write music for several films and contemporary dance works. He then lived in Berlin for several years where he met and collaborated with Nils Frahm, Dustin O'Halloran and several others. He now lives back in America, near where he grew up, and continues to travel the world performing solo concerts and collaborating with a vast array of different musicians and artists.
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