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The Variation in Arrestees' Disclosure of Recent Drug Use across Locations, Drugs, and Demographic Characteristics
Golub, Andrew, Liberty, Hilary James, Johnson, Bruce D., Journal of Drug Issues
This study provides a comprehensive multivariate analysis of drug use disclosure among arrestees interviewed between 2000 and 2001 at 37 sites across the U.S. served by the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program. Rates varied widely by drug and across sites. The marijuana disclosure rate varied from 68% in Fort Lauderdale to 93% in Spokane. The cocaine/crack disclosure rate varied from 28% in Chicago to 70% in Kansas City. Moreover, covariates of disclosure differed across drugs. This wide variation in disclosure suggests extreme caution be used when comparing self-reports of prevalence across drugs, locations, and individual characteristics - certainly at least for arrestees.
An extensive literature continually examines the prevalence of illicit drug use and its variation over time and across different subpopulations. Much of this literature depends on self-reports of use. However, self-reports of drug use reflect both the underlying prevalence of use and respondents' accurate reporting of that use. The prevalence of self-reported use underestimates prevalence to the extent that respondents do not report their use. Furthermore, comparisons of the use of different drugs (e.g., marijuana and heroin) or the use by different subpopulations (e.g., males and females) will be biased to the extent that some respondents are more willing to disclose use. Hence, there has been continual research into the extent of drug use disclosure and its covariates (for reviews, see Harrison, 1997, and Magura & Kang, 1996). Much of this validity literature has examined drug use among high-risk populations including persons in drug treatment and in the criminal justice system. Administrators and analysts associated with these and related agencies hold great interest in drug use within these populations.
This study set out to systematically document the variation in disclosure of drug use among American arrestees over time and across drugs, locations, and respondent characteristics. The analysis was made possible by the extensive data collected by the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program (ADAM, formerly the Drug Use Forecasting or DUF Program). Starting in 1987, the program obtained urine samples and self-reports of drug use from arrestees at numerous sites across the United States. Since January 29, 2004, the ADAM program has been on hiatus as a Federal cost-saving measure (National Institute of Justice [NIJ], 2004). The combined 1987-2001 public-release dataset contains data from over 400,000 arrestees, and typically more than half the respondents each year are detected as recent users of at least one illicit drug. Hence, the ADAM data provides much opportunity to analyze disclosure and its covariates among the illicit drug users that come to the attention of the criminal justice system. As an exploratory analysis, the project ran several logistic regressions to identify covariates of disclosure using the complete 1987-2001 ADAM dataset. These analyses are not reported here due to substantial methodological and interpretive difficulties associated with the results. However, that analysis provided an initial indication that interview year and site were two of the strongest covariates of disclosure.
This paper focuses on the massive variation in drug use disclosure across sites. It also examines variation across drugs and demographic characteristics. We prepared a separate paper on the impact of nondisclosure on drug use trends (Golub, Liberty & Johnson, 2005). Local policy makers primarily concern themselves with drug use and its associated problems in their jurisdictions. Hence, they tend to be interested in local data. The massive variation across locations reported in this paper suggests that they may be poorly served by national estimates for drug use disclosure. Moreover, the value of nationwide prevalence estimates based on self-report data may be questionable given the extent of nondisclosure and its geographic variation. …


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An aperture provided in a bottom wall of an ink cartridge is designed to break the surface tension of the ink as the ink proceeds toward an outlet port. For example, serrated edges, tapering conformations, cruciform dividing walls, different diameter regions in the outlet passage, etc. are all designed to prevent the formation of large bubbles or preclude the migration of air bubbles to the region of the outlet passage where the print needle of an associated printer extends.
1. An ink cartridge comprising:
a housing having
a cavity for storing ink,
a first surface,
an aperture in the first surface
an outlet port communicating with the cavity via the aperture and adapted to receive an associated printer needle, the aperture having means for breaking surface tension of ink as it passes therethrough,
the means for breaking surface tension includes a serrated edge about the periphery of the aperture,
a recess in the first surface surrounding the aperture,
the recess includes spaced apart multiple projections throughout a majority of the recess extending upwardly from the recess.
2. The ink cartridge of
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9. An ink cartridge comprising:
a housing having
a cavity for storing ink,
a first surface,
an aperture in the first surface
an outlet port communicating with the cavity via the aperture and adapted to receive an associated printer needle, the aperture having means for breaking surface tension of ink as it passes therethrough,
the means for breaking surface tension includes a serrated edge about the periphery of the aperture,
a recess in the first surface surrounding the aperture,
a continuous rectilinear serpentine ridge in the recess, the ridge spaced apart from the aperture.
10. An ink cartridge comprising:
a housing having
a cavity for storing ink,
a first surface,
an aperture in the first surface
an outlet port communicating with the cavity via the aperture and a stepped outlet passage adapted to receive an associated printer needle, the aperture having means for breaking surface tension of ink as it passes therethrough,
the means for breaking surface tension includes a substantially cruciform divider disposed in the aperture.
11. The ink cartridge of
12. The ink cartridge of
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This application claims priority from provisional application Ser. No. 60/298,041, filed Jun. 13, 2001.
This application relates to an ink jet cartridge or cassette as used in an ink jet printer, and more particularly to an apparatus for reducing the introduction of air into the system. It will be appreciated, however, that the invention may find application in related environments and applications that encounter these same issues.
It is generally known in the art to form a cartridge housing or body having one or more cavities or chambers that hold a predetermined supply of ink. For example, a single color of ink may be provided in a single chamber cartridge. Alternately, multiple chambers may be provided, for example, each holding a different color ink stored therein for selective use in a color printer. It is also generally known to provide an ink absorbing member such as a reticulated polyurethane, melamine, or polyethylene foam (a hydrophilic foam) that fits within the chamber. In some arrangements, the ink absorbing member fills the substantial entirety of the chamber, while in other instances a portion of the ink supply is free ink and the remainder is stored in the ink absorbing member. In still other arrangements, the cartridge contains only free ink. One or more outlet ports communicate with the respective one or more chambers through outlet passages. The outlet passage proceeds through a first or bottom wall of the housing. A supply needle from an associated printer extends through the outlet port and thus conveys ink from the housing to a recording head or printhead.
Print quality can be adversely effected by the introduction of air into the ink cartridge, for example, into the chamber or outlet passage. Thus, manufacturers of ink cartridges are careful in the design and assembly, i.e., filling, to limit the potential for air introduction into the system. One area of potential air introduction is an aperture of the outlet passage where the outlet passage communicates with the ink chamber. It has been determined that by breaking the surface tension of the ink, air bubbles will be prevented from migrating and thus undesirably forming larger air bubbles in the outlet passage. This is particularly a problem in the outlet passage below the base wall aperture and around the printer needle. Introduction of air interrupts the capillary flow from the chamber to the printhead. Since air can result in print quality problems such as voids or ink starvation, a need exists to improve print quality and particularly limit the potential for air migrating into the outlet passage as it proceeds from the ink chamber to the outlet port.
The present invention provides an ink cartridge having a housing with a chamber therein for storing ink. A first surface of the housing has an aperture that communicates between the chamber and an outlet passage. The aperture/outlet passage includes means for breaking surface tension of ink as the ink passes therethrough.
In an exemplary embodiment, the surface tension breaking means includes a serrated edge about a periphery of the aperture.
In another embodiment, the means for breaking surface tension includes a substantially cruciform divider disposed in the aperture.
In yet another embodiment, irregular shaped passages lead to the aperture.
The aperture may have a substantially constant cross-section throughout its length or a non-uniform cross-section. A tapering region decreasing in cross-sectional area as it proceeds from the cavity toward the outlet port also provides an alternate embodiment.
A primary advantage of the invention resides in the improved print quality that results.
Another advantage of the invention relates to preventing migration of air bubbles toward the print needle.
Still other advantages and benefits of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon reading and understanding the following detailed description. de
The invention may take form in certain components and structures, preferred embodiments of which will be illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is an exploded view of an ink jet cartridge.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of an assembled cartridge.
FIG. 3 is a plan view illustrating a first or bottom wall of the cartridge.
FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the bottom wall of the cartridge.
FIG. 5 is a bottom plan view of the cartridge.
FIG. 6 through 30 are views of alternate embodiments.
As illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2, an ink jet cassette or cartridge 50 includes a housing 52 having an internal chamber or cavity 54 (FIG. 2). As shown here, the housing interior is divided into two chambers 54 a, 54 b by a dividing wall 56. It will be appreciated, however, that the housing may have one chamber, or multiple chambers. For example, the cartridge may be partially free ink/partially foam design, or the cartridge may be a single color versus multi-color cartridge. The invention should not however be limited to a single or multi-chamber arrangement. In the partial free ink/partial foam design, a passageway 58 is provided in a base portion of the dividing wall 56 to allow ink to migrate from the free ink side to an ink absorbing member 60. The ink absorbing member is typically a block of porous material or foam such as a reticulated polymer foam or melamine foam, or other conventional ink absorbing member used to store ink within the pores thereof. As shown in FIG. 2, with the partial free ink/partial foam design, the ink absorbing member 60 substantially fills the entire chamber 54 a on the foam side of the cartridge. In other designs that do not employ free ink, the ink absorbing member will fill substantially the entire cavity or portions of a chamber. Again, the invention should not be so limited to any one of these designs.
A lid or cover 62 (FIG. 1) is received over a first or upper end of the housing and typically sealingly secured in place. For example, the cover may be ultrasonically welded along a peripheral portion to the cartridge housing to seal the components together. An ink outlet port 64 communicates via an outlet passage 66 with the chamber of the cartridge. In this manner, ink flows from the ink chamber through the outlet passage and ultimately reaches the outlet port 64. The outlet port receives an elastomeric grommet member 68 that is selectively pierced by a needle from an associated printer (not shown) to establish communication through the outlet port with the outlet passage 66 in a manner generally well known in the art.
As more particularly illustrated in FIG. 2, and in plan view in FIG. 3, a first or bottom wall 70 has a generally stepped configuration. The portion 70 a is primarily disposed beneath the ink absorbing member 60 and includes an aperture 72 that extends through the bottom wall in fluid communication with the passage 66 and outlet port 64. As perhaps best illustrated in FIG. 3 and the enlarged view of FIG. 4, the aperture 72 has a serrated edge 74. This breaks the surface tension of the ink as it passes from the ink chamber toward the outlet port. In addition, a groove 76 may be provided in the first wall to direct ink toward the aperture. Here, the groove 76 has a serpentine configuration so that it maximizes the collection area over which ink from the ink absorbing member is received in the groove and directed toward the aperture. Thus, the means for breaking the surface tension of the ink is defined, at least in part, by the serrated edge 74 in the embodiment of FIG. 1-5.
In FIG. 6, the means for breaking the surface tension of the ink is slightly different. Here an aperture 80 has a constant dimension and communicates with a stepped outlet passage 82, 84 before reaching the outlet port 86. Again, the variable dimension portions aid in preventing the formation of large air bubbles and the migration of smaller air bubbles toward a printer needle as the ink flows from the chamber 54 through the aperture 80 in the bottom wall 70 to the outlet passage 82, 84 before reaching the outlet port 86.
FIG. 7 illustrates a variation on the concept of the variable diameter portions. Here, aperture 90 through the bottom wall 70 has a slightly larger diameter than a first portion 92 of the outlet passage, but is slightly smaller than a second portion 94 of the outlet passage that communicates with the ink outlet port 96. In FIG. 8, the aperture has a tapering conformation that is largest at the bottom wall 70 and reduces toward a small diameter portion 102 of the outlet passage which opens into an enlarged portion 104 that extends to the outlet port 106. Thus, as illustrated in FIG. 8, the cross-sectional dimension of the smaller diameter portion of the taper is substantially the same as the diameter of the smaller portion 102 of the outlet passage. In FIG. 9, however, the taper conformation 110 of the aperture has a minimum diameter represented by reference numeral 112 that is greater than the constant diameter portion of the outlet passage 114. Thus, as the ink travels from the ink chamber toward outlet port 116, it migrates through varying diameters that break the surface tension of the ink, i.e., at the interface 112 between the tapered aperture 110 and the outlet passage 114.
A rectangular recess 120 is provided in the bottom wall 70 of the embodiment of FIG. 10. The recess has a depth dimensioned to receive a filter or screen that is often interposed between the ink chamber and the outlet passage. Alternatively, the recess may be provided simply to facilitate collection of ink from the ink absorbing member. The aperture 122 is illustrated as a constant diameter, leading from the recess that merges into the outlet passage 124 and outlet port 126. The variation in the diameters along the aperture, outlet passage, and outlet port path prevents air bubbles from migrating or forming into enlarged air bubbles around a printer needle.
The embodiment of FIG. 11 is substantially similar to that of FIG. 8, and further includes a recess 130. An aperture 132 has a tapering conformation that reduces in cross-section as it merges into a first portion 134 of a stepped configuration outlet passage. A second portion 136 has a slightly larger diameter that is closely dimensioned with the outlet port 138.
FIG. 12 is a combination of the embodiments of FIGS. 2 and 10. More particularly, a recess 140 provided in the bottom wall 70 of the ink chamber includes a serpentine pathway 42 that communicates with an aperture 144 having a serrated edge. The ink then proceeds into a larger diameter first portion 146 of the outlet passage which merges with an even larger diameter portion 148 or second portion of the outlet passage before reaching the outlet port.
In FIGS. 13 and 14, multiple tapered channels extend generally radially outward from aperture 160. Particularly, each channel portion 162 is comprised of sidewalls 162 a, 162 b that angle toward one another from the bottom surface 70 of the ink chamber toward the aperture. It will also be appreciated, that outer peripheral portions of the multi-lobed arrangement merge toward outer terminal points 164 and diverge outwardly along the edges 166, 168 as it extends toward the generally centralized aperture. The aperture, in turn, communicates with an outlet passage 170 before merging into or terminating into outlet port 172. As particularly evident in FIG. 13, twelve channels proceed radially outward from the aperture in the bottom wall. Six of the channels have a shorter radial extent, while the remaining six are substantially longer because of the rectangular conformation of the ink chamber. FIG. 15 illustrates a substantially identical arrangement where the outlet passage comprises two multi-diameter portions 174, 176.
By locating an aperture in the bottom wall 70 closer to one end of the ink chamber than another, the number of radially extending channels or lobes are reduced. Here, FIGS. 16 and 17 illustrate seven such channels, two of them substantially shorter than the other five, due to the rectangular conformation of the ink chamber. An opposite portion at 180 has a tapered conformation since there is insufficient dimension for radially extending channels.
FIGS. 18 and 19 illustrate an aperture 190 disposed more closely adjacent one end of the ink chamber than the other. In order to maximize collection and directing of the ink toward the aperture, recess 192 formed in the bottom wall 70 of the ink chamber has discrete, planar taper regions 192 a, 192 b, 192 c, 192 d (FIG. 18). The embodiment of FIG. 20 illustrates the recess and may include multiple projections illustrated here as square pegs disposed in aligned rows and columns extending upwardly from the recess toward the height of the bottom wall 70. Again, as ink is collected in the recess 200, the projections 202 prevent air bubbles form forming into larger air bubbles as the ink migrates toward aperture 204 that has a serrated edge.
FIG. 21 illustrates that the serrated edges 206 of the aperture 208 may extend for a substantial length over the path toward the outlet port. Otherwise, the embodiment of FIG. 21 is not substantially different from FIG. 2, although the outlet passage has substantially the same diameter as the maximum diameter of the serrated edge aperture. FIG. 22 illustrates that the serrated edge aperture 210 may be combined with the tapered conformation and proceeds from the recess 212 to the outlet passage 214.
The embodiment of FIGS. 23 and 24 illustrates a slightly different concept for the means for breaking surface tension of the ink as the ink passes through the aperture. Specifically, a cruciform shaped aperture 220 is defined by intersecting diametrically extending dividers 222, 224. This divides the aperture into four pie-shaped quadrants having an irregular periphery that promotes breaking the surface tension of the ink. FIGS. 25 and 26 are similar and illustrate that the aperture has a tapering conformation 230 before the aperture communicates with outlet passage 232. Thus, the cruciform dividing walls 234, 236 proceed across only the aperture portion between the recess and the outlet passage. In FIG. 27, the taper portion 240 merges into a constant diameter portion 242 and the cruciform dividing walls 244, 246 extend over both the tapered portion 240 and constant diameter portion 242 of the aperture, but terminate before the outlet passage 248. FIGS. 29 and 30, on the other hand, illustrate the cruciform dividing walls 250, 252 located only in a constant diameter portion 254 of the aperture and not extending upwardly into the tapered portion 256 that merges into the bottom wall 70 of the ink cartridge. Thus, the cruciform dividing walls interrupt the surface tension of the ink as the ink proceeds from the ink cartridge, through the aperture, and into outlet passage 258. A slightly different conformation for the collection groove 260 is also provided with a portion 262 that merges into the tapering portion 256 of the aperture. This assures a continuous path for capillary flow of ink from the cartridge to the outlet passage.
The application has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments. Obviously, alterations and modifications will occur to others upon a reading and understanding of the specification. For example, the apertures, outlet passages, protrusions, etc., should not be dimensionally constrained and various combinations thereof will still achieve the same purpose of breaking the surface tension of the ink. This invention is intended to include all such modifications and alterations insofar as the come within the scope of the appended claims or the equivalents thereof.
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FORT PIERCE — Hector De Paula Arias, the former Fort Pierce city engineer who was instrumental in the reconstruction of State Road A1A and bringing roundabouts to the city, died Wednesday.
Funeral services for Arias, 74, will be 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Anastasia Catholic Church, 407 S. 33rd St. in Fort Pierce. Entombment will follow in White City Cemetery.
Born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Arias came to the United States in the late 1950s to attend Auburn University. He and his wife Maelia raised two children and have two grandchildren.
Arias worked for the city of Fort Pierce as city engineer for 22-plus years and retired in December 2006, but Fort Pierce Mayor Bob Benton started working with Arias years earlier at the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant where Arias was an engineer for Ebasco, the architect for the project.
"He was sort of indirectly my boss down there before he worked for the city," Benton said.
Benton said S.R. A1A in Fort Pierce is different today because of Arias' efforts.
"Florida Department of Transportation wanted just to pave A1A and we wanted it reconstructed," Benton said. "He really fought for the city. When Hector was in charge we usually came out on top."
City Engineer Jack Andrews agreed.
"Hector was very instrumental in taking over the design, in which the city did the design and the construction," Andrews said. "We're just wrapping up the construction now."
Arias was an honorary member of the Knights of Columbus and served as president of the Cuban American Club.
"He was one of the best employees you could ask for. He was his job and his heart was in it and his heart was in this community," Benton said. "This community lost a really good man."
Survivors include his wife of Maelia of Fort Pierce; children Michael and Martha; two grandchildren; and numerous nephews and nieces.
Arrangements are by Haisley Funeral Home and Crematorium Service. Online condolences may be expressed at www. haisleyfuneralhome.com.
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Leigh Ann Marshall joined the Parents Network in January 2014 after serving for several years in Baylor's School of Engineering and Computer Science. Leigh Ann is a Baylor alum, the daughter of Baylor alumni parents, and the mother of a former Baylor student. During her long career at Baylor, she has worked in various positions in both the administrative and academic sides of the University.
The Parent Relations Office was established in 1968 to keep the lines of communication open between parents and the university. The main focus of parent programming is to provide opportunities for parents to learn about Baylor and to be involved in the life of the university in meaningful and constructive ways. Parents Network keeps parents informed through periodic newsletters, a university calendar, the Parents Helpline and a web page. The heart of the organization is the network of Parents Network chapters across the country.
In her current capacity, Leigh Ann coordinates chapter activities, communicates with chapter volunteers and helps with chapter events. She represents the Parents Network at Baylor Premieres, Orientation, Family Weekend, and other activities, on- and off-campus.


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Rain causes construction delays, pushes opening date to April 28 for Hurricane Alley
New Corpus Christi waterpark will employ about 200; already hired 45 lifeguards
CORPUS CHRISTI - Several weeks of consistent rainfall has pushed back the opening date of downtown water park Hurricane Alley.
Doors are expected to open 10 a.m. April 28, two weeks later than planned, said Ashley Higson, Hurricane Alley public relations and communication manager.
"It wasn't that the rain was so bad," she said. "It just hit us at a critical point in our construction process."
Rain delayed pouring concrete in the park's lazy river and hanging the top level of a six-story water slide known as Cat 5. Construction at the park is about 85 percent complete, Higson said.
Hurricane Alley began accepting applications more than a month ago to hire about 200 employees. Higson said the human resources department has received about 600 applications and is accepting more.
The water park has hired 45 lifeguards who have been trained and certified to national aquatic standards. Other jobs will include work in the concession area, guest services and gift shop.
The water park is planned to be open about half of the year during the height of Corpus Christi's tourism season from April through September. For the first few weeks it will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends. Those hours will extend to seven days a week from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Park hours will return to weekends only before it closes Sept. 30.
Developers Innovative Leisure Partners, of Houston, and Corpus Christi's Durrill family broke ground on the project in August.
The park will include four lanes of racing slides, a three-story water slide called Momentum, a lazy river, a children's pool and concession areas.
A children's pool area will have misting palm trees and replicas of an aircraft carrier and Coast Guard ships. At the park's entrance, where Whataburger Field's Kieschnick's Korner is located, a baseball-themed spray area will greet visitors. People attending Hooks games can play in the area without paying to enter the park. The park's occupancy is about 2,200 people. Tickets for single-day admission will be $25 for adults and $22 for children. Season tickets start at $100.


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The popularity of the Wednesday night ski races at Lapham Peak State Park prompted organizers to try a summer version: the Prowl the Peak 5K race scheduled to start at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Proceeds from the run will support the Peak Nordic Ski Team, which has close to 100 youths that train, ski and race on the hills in the Town of Delafield.
One of the coaches, Roy Nilsen, concluded the lighted ski loop would be equally suited for nighttime running as nighttime skiing. He laid out the course, and added a bit of distance to ensure a full 5K.
"I erred on the side of a few more hills and distance instead of making it too easy," Nilsen said Monday.
Registration information can be found here. The entry fee on the day-of is $25 and the sign up starts at 8:30 in the Evergreen Shelter. You will need a state park sticker to enter the park, but no trail pass will be required.
The organizers of the Unnamed Epic mountain bike race followed their own "go epic or go home" creed and canceled the event after failing to develop a suitable course.
Jack Hirt announced the cancellation in an email to the registered riders, who will receive full refunds. Hirt will work to put together a 75-mile, point-to-point lay out for 2012.
The 2010 version was a brutal ride. Nearly 100 of the 240 entrants dropped out short of the finish line in Blue Mound State Park.
Still, riders and the organizers wanted a ride with more miles on tight single-track and fewer miles on roads or multi-use paths, like the Military Ridge Trail.
"I'd rather not throw a course together," Hirt said. "I'd rather create a phenomenal course for everybody."
Started in 1985 to re-create the Olympic experience for citizen athletes, the Badger State Games has reached its own finish line.
The nonprofit Wisconsin Sports Development Corporation announced Tuesday it would drop the games it organized for both winter and summer sports.
"It is time to yield to market forces beyond our control and explore new ways to serve the sports marketplace for the benefit of the state of Wisconsin," the WSDC interim president and CEO Dan Doyle said.
Participation in the games has dropped in recent years, revenue also declined and the WSDC has reduced its staff and budget in response to budget issues.
New Belgium Brewing's Tour de Fat drew nearly 1,500 cyclists and onlookers to Humboldt Park on Saturday and generated $8,921 for the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin, through donations and beer sales.
Cyclists ready their costumes for the parade ride through Bay View. Photo by Tom Held
Organizers estimated that 500 bikers participated in the parade through neighborhood streets.
The car-for-a-bike swap was another highlight of the event, and Katerina Rankovich, 24, will be riding a new Black Sheep commuter bike in exchange for her pledge to stay nonmotorized.
Arturas Zuokas. the pro-cycling mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, has become a much-celebrated man among American cyclists, thanks to the cyber spin of this video
Clearly staged, the aggressive protection of the bike lane appeals to pedalers who feel squeezed, while not exactly embracing the simple message - share the road.
A report in the Green Bay Press Gazette identifies a cyclist who died after a crash in the Town of Oneida on Monday as Kris Hanson.
The 56-year-old was riding on a tandem with her husband, Douglas Hanson, 59, who was injured and hospitalized.
News accounts differ on the circumstances of the deadly collision with a Corvette on County Highway EE. The Press Gazette reported the tandem collided with the car; a WTAQ radio report says the car hit the cyclists.
Both the tandem and the Corvette were reported to be heading in the same direction.
The Outagamie County Sheriff's Department did not provide details on the circumstances of the collision.
Kudos to Jeff Starck at the Wausau Daily Herald for letting readers know that Easton Shryne was more than a 22-year-old killed while riding his bicycle.
Starck talked to Shryne's mother, who shared her son's dreams of moving to California and becoming a successful artist. He also reminded everyone that the impact of a fatality like this is felt by the motorist, as well.
Cycling promoter Dave Schlabowske analyzed statistics from the National Safety Council and other sources to debunk the myth that taking the roads on a bike is an inherently life-threatening exercise.
Compared to driving a car, swimming or taking that trek to the basement, cycling results in far fewer deaths, Schlabowske writes in this blog post for the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin.
"To think of this in another way, let's look at cycling from a pure risk assessment perspective rather than comparing it to driving a car. Most everything we do has some risk associated with it, from taking a shower to riding a bicycle. In 2009, 630 bicyclists died on US roads (718 in 2008, 1,003 in 1975, see the trend?) while the National Safety Council reports that on average, 12,000 people die walking down stairs every year, with half of those fatal accidents occurring in the home."
Schlabowske chastises the press and the readers who comment on reports of cycling fatalities while touting two-wheeled exercise as an answer to a greater danger: obesity.
Gwen Jorgensen traveled to London for the first time this week and will race on Saturday to book a return trip for the 2012 Olympics.
In just her second year as a professional triathlete, the part-time tax accountant from Milwaukee is one five women from the U.S. invited to compete in the International Triathlon Union World Championship Series race. The top two U.S. women will qualify for the Olympic squad, provided they are in the top nine overall.
(Check Friday's Journal Sentinel for a feature story on Jorgensen by Gary D'Amato, the paper's veteran Olympics reporter).
The trip abroad offers Jorgensen, 25, a preview of the course for the Olympic triathlon and a chance to test her improving skills in open water swimming and biking.
"I'm looking at it as just another race," Jorgensen said before leaving for London. "We've all put our work in, and we will go out there and do our best."
"Why not suspend a bridge cantilevered off the side of the arch of the Hoan?"
In a recent guest column, Milwaukee County Supervisor Patricia Jursik proposes that fresh and serious idea for providing a bike and pedestrian lane on the Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge.
This piece in the Bay View Compass details the vision from Jursik, a long-time advocate for acommodating cyclists and walkers on the bridge that connects Downtown Milwaukee to her constituents in the suburbs to the south:
"A beautifully constructed and artistically pleasing bike ramp or spiral form will convey both pedestrians and bicyclists up to the cantilevered bridge that hangs from the arch, roughly parallel to Interstate 794. Beautiful vistas of the lake and Milwaukee skyline award the ascent with a breathtaking view of the Calatrava, Discovery World, and the Lakeshore State Park island. Cyclists and pedestrians would then pass through a fully encased trail, quite safe, and arrive on the other side of the cantilevered span at a second ramp/spiral bikecase that leads them back down to ground level on the north side of the Milwaukee River. Here, a freshly paved path skirts behind the Marcus Amphitheater and connects to the current Lakeshore State Park trail."
Jursik writes that engineers found the bridge concept possible to execute.


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Chess may have been used in the past to teach war strategy where the winning move would change history, but psychologists are ready to release a study later this month whose results claim that gaming with others may rub off into real-life outside of the screen.
Listening to the verbal cesspool that is Xbox Live! may say otherwise, but as gamers that live and thrive in multiplayer know, working together as a team to survive the next Locust wave on Gears of War 2 or patching up friendlies in Team Fortress 2 can make all of the difference in winning or losing. And now it looks like it may actually mean more than an in-game achievement.
The main article follows below.
Study Finds Prosocial Video Games Can Teach Helpful Behavior
Playing prosocial games encourages players to be more helpful and comforting towards others.
(MINNEAPOLIS) According to a new international study to be published later this month, psychologists have found that video games can produce greater cooperation and helping behaviors.
Children and young adults from three countries, the United States, Japan and Singapore, participated in studies involving prosocial video games, where characters help each other. Results from the studies showed that gamers who played prosocial games were more likely to
behave in a manner that benefits others, such as helping, sharing and comforting others.
Highlights from the study include:
An experimental study of 161 American college students found those who were randomly assigned to play prosocial games exhibited more helpful behavior toward another student in a subsequent task, than those who played neutral or violent games. Students who played violent games engaged in more harmful behaviors toward other students.
A survey of 727 middle-school students from Singapore found those who play prosocial games cooperate more and have greater empathy for others.
In a longitudinal study of 780 fifth-grade, and 1,050 eighth- and 11th-grade students from Japan, prosocial game play predicted later increases in prosocial behavior over a 3- to 4-month time span.
The study, titled "The Effects of Prosocial Video Games on Prosocial Behaviors: International Evidence From Correlational, Longitudinal, and Experimental Studies" was led by Douglas Gentile, an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State and director of research for the
Minneapolis-based National Institute on Media and the Family. Previous research by the same researchers has found that violent video games can produce an increase in aggressive behavior.
"This research confirms video games can have both positive and negative effects," Dr. David Walsh, president of the National Institute on Media and the Family said. "Positive prosocial games can help kids learn sharing and cooperation; violent games can bring out aggression."
"This set of studies helps to complete the picture about video games. We knew from other studies that practicing aggression in games can increase aggressive thoughts and behaviors, but there hadn't been studies showing how practicing helping behaviors in games can increase
cooperative and helping behaviors," said Gentile. "This demonstrates why it is so important that parents monitor their children's gameplay. Games can have many benefits, but parents need to help choose the games that are most likely to get the maximum benefits."
Results from the study will be published in a future issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The complete paper is available online through the journal at http://psp.sagepub.com/pap.dtl.
About the National Institute on Media and the Family
The National Institute on Media and the Family is an independent non-partisan, non-sectarian, non-profit organization whose mission is to maximize the benefits and minimize the harm of media on the health and development of children and families. For more information, visit www.mediawise.org on the Web or call 1-888-672-5437.


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Shrimp Po Boy Sandwich
|1 Pound
|Catfish filets
|Shrimp & fish fry mix
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|All purpose flour
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Sea salt
|1 Tablespoon
|Creole seasoning
|2 Tablespoon
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Canola oil/Vegetable oil
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|French bread
|Shredded lettuce
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Sliced dill pickles
|2 Tablespoon
The Seafood: Prepare your Shrimp by peeling completely and slice the top open to remove the dark vein. Prepare Catfish by cutting into strips somewhat like chicken tender strips.
Seafood Batter: Prepare the egg wash by breaking an egg into a mixing bowl. Wisk in some milk (maybe a cup). Squeeze in a wedge of lemon or lime juice. In another mixing bowl, pour in the Shrimp & Fish Fry mix. Add ½ cup of flour, 1 tablespoon Sea Salt and 2 tablespoons Tony's. Stir altogether well.
The Oil: Using a heavy bottom deep pot, skillet, or electric fryer, pour in fresh canola or vegetable oil. Always be careful to leave 2-4" from the top to leave room for the oil to bubble up. Optimal temperature is 350 to 375 degrees. An electric fryer either has an automatic temperature setting or a button to help you. If you are using a regular pot and do not have a thermometer, drop a small amount of the frying batter into the oil. If it bubbles up quickly, the oil is ready.
Battering Seafood: Using your left hand, drop several pieces of shrimp or catfish in the egg wash and cover completely. Pull out and drop in the Shrimp & Fish Fry mixture. With your right hand, toss the seafood around to fully coat with corn flour. Shake off excess and place on a platter. Continue this process until all seafood is coated.
Deep Frying: Once the oil is properly heated, carefully drop seafood into the oil. Be careful not to overcrowd the pan. Seafood should freely move around. Seafood will be ready in just a couple minutes. It should be golden brown and probably will be floating to the top of the oil. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain excess oil on layers of paper towels.
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African-American-centric talk and music WMCS-AM changes formats
WMCS-AM (1290), the station whose talk and music format has served the African American community for twenty years is changing formats, it was announced Tuesday.
The format change was described as a "business decision" by Bill Hurwitz, vice president of the Milwaukee Radio Alliance, a partnership of Willie Davis' All Pro Broadcasting and Times Shamrock Inc. The group also owns WLDB-FM (93.3) and WLUM-FM (102.1). »Read Full Blog Post(42)
Packing House's brunch switches from buffet to entrees
The Packing House, the steakhouse at 900 E. Layton Ave., recently switched from serving a buffet brunch to brunch entrées.
Some of the new menu items are steak and eggs, served with a 10-ounce New York strip ($13.99), bananas Foster French toast ($9.99), and crab Benedict ($12.99). »Read Full Blog Post
Niki Johnson to talk about condom portrait of pope on CNN
Artist Niki Johnson will be interviewed about her portrait of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, crafted from thousands of condoms, on CNN Sunday morning. The segment is slated to air at about 7:30 a.m. Central time.
Johnson will talk about the work, which was inspired by the former pope's 2009 comments about condoms while in Africa. He suggested condom use could increase the spread of AIDS. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Chamber Theatre blossoms again with lighthearted 'Jeeves in Bloom'
Given the miserable spring we've been having, I probably don't need to explain the appeal of a play titled "Jeeves in Bloom," the second of Margaret Raether's three stage adaptations of the P.G. Wodehouse stories and novels featuring Bertie Wooster's ever-capable valet.
Under Tami Workentin's direction, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre produced the first of these light comedies, with Matt Daniels as Jeeves, in 2010. In "Bloom," Workentin again directs and Daniels returns as Jeeves. The remaining characters and actors are all new, as is the setting. »Read Full Article
Haydn blurred, other MSO pieces enhanced by Basilica's acoustic
It's a given that performing music in the live acoustic of the Basilica of St. Josaphat will be a challenge.
What's not a given is how well a given piece will work in the space, as evidenced by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's Friday evening installment of its Basilica series. »Read Full Article(2)
Present Music explores passion, harmony in 'Judgment of Midas'
Which kind of art is better - passionate, heart-pounding exuberance or balanced, elegant harmony?
The answer, of course, has always been that we need both - just like sweet and salty, summer and winter, yin and yang. »Read Full Article


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Blackmagic lowers prices, debuts new products at IBC
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Blackmagic at IBC
Blackmagic Design today made several announcements at IBC in Amsterdam, including its dual rate SD/HD-SDI capture card (DeckLink HD Plus), a new broadcast quality routing switcher (Workgroup Videohub), a new lower on its full HDTV 4:4:4 monitoring system (HDLink), a DeckLink HD Pro Software Update, a new all-in-one converter and breakout (DeckLink Multibridge), lower prices on DeckLink HD and DeckLink HD Pro, and a new single link 4:2:2 version of DeckLink HD Pro.
Blackmagic Design has introduced a single link 4:2:2 only version of capture card to $2,000.
The company also said it will preview a new software update for DeckLink HD Pro cards that features a new broadcast quality HD down conversion allowing simultaneous HD and down converted standard definition output, DVCPRO HD hardware acceleration, as well as high quality 14-bit 5x over-sampled composite NTSC/PAL analog output. It is expected to ship in November as a free update for all DeckLink HD Pro users.
Blackmagic Design also announced a new lower price of $700 for HDLink, its solution for dual-rate HD and standard definition monitoring on DVI-D based computer monitors. HDLink connects post production quality SDI video directly to any supported DVI-D based LCD computer monitor for true HDTV resolution video monitoring.
Blackmagic's Workgroup Videohub is a professional routing switcher that features low-cost, dual-rate HD and SD compatibility. It eliminates manual cable patching by connecting everyone together into a fully featured professional routing switcher. It offers 12 fully independent dual rate SDI inputs and 24 independent SDI outputs that auto-switch between HD-SDI and Standard Definition SDI. It is available for $5,000.
The new all in one converter and breakout box called DeckLink Multibridge is "the first time someone has developed a converter with 14 bit digital to analog conversion, that also has dual link HD 4:4:4 quality as well as standard definition, and full digital and analog audio conversion," according to the company. The single-device solution also features processing and memory for down conversion and other processing functions.
DeckLink Multibridge handles all YUV video conversion in/out as well as composite NTSC/PAL including 4 channels of analog XLR professional audio in & out and 8 channels of AES/EBU audio in/out. It can connect analog decks such as Betacam SP to SDI, or it can be added to any editing and design workstation.
"Finally there is a solution to the mess of adding little converters for video and audio, because DeckLink Multibridge combines all audio and video conversion plus HD down conversion into the single product." Said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design "Combined with the quality of Dual Link 4:4:4, and dual rate standard definition and high definition support, DeckLink Multibridgetm is a perfect solution to our customers converter and break out box needs, and will easily become one of those industry changing products!"
Other features include 14-bit digital to analog conversion, conversion between SDI and analog audio and video (as well as analog to SDI, simultaneously), a large 64 MB memory buffer, both analog and digital audio conversion, powerful realtime video processing (e.g., HD down conversion), digital-level adjustments controlled via USB, reversible rack mounting, and more.
DeckLink Multibridge ($2,000) is dual rate and operates in both Standard Definition and High Definition, while DeckLink Multibridge SD ($1,500) is a lower cost model that operates in Standard Definition only.
Finally, the company announced DeckLink HD Plus, a new generation card that adds genlock and HD Tri-Sync input as well as AES/SPDIF digital audio input and output. The company says that DeckLink HD Plus is the first uncompressed 10-bit video PCI card priced under $1,000 that can do both standard definition SDI video, as well as full HDTV video formats and includes genlock for integration with large broadcast facilities. DeckLink HD Plus can instantly be switched between SDTV SMPTE-259M SDI video and HDTV SMPTE-292M/296M SDI video for 1080i/1080p/720p video editing and design. DeckLink HD Plus features a single HD/SD-SDI video & audio input and output, AES/SPDIF digital audio input output, genlocked AES wordclock output as well as a Sony compatible RS422 serial deck control port.


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Phillies won't ask for three from Lee; turn to Blanton in Game 4
Oct 30, 2009, 3:53 PM EDT
Manager Charlie Manuel announced Friday that Joe Blanton would start Game 4 for the Phillies on Sunday, essentially setting his rotation for the rest of October.
The guess going in was that the Phillies would try to get away with using Cliff Lee in Games 1, 4 and 7. Blanton still figured to start Game 5 in that arrangement, since the team wouldn't want to use both Pedro Martinez and Cole Hamels on short rest.
But no one in red will start on short rest now. After Lee pitches in Game 5, it's safe to assume that the Phillies will go back to Martinez in Game 6 and Hamels in Game 7 on normal rest.
Since the Phillies have bared their hand, we'll have to wait and see if the Yankees follow suit. The assumption was that the Yankees were leaning towards pitching CC Sabathia on short rest in Game 4 and going to Chad Gaudin in Game 5, with A.J. Burnett following on regular rest in Game 6.
The Yankees could back down now and choose the same cautious route that the Phillies have selected. That would involve starting Gaudin in Game 4 and following with Sabathia, Burnett and Andy Pettitte, all on normal rest.
- BIGBRUCE11047 - Oct 30, 2009 at 10:01 PM
I think the Phillies should use what is working in this the last series of the season. Lee shutdown the Yankees' offense in Game 1 so let him get a chance to do it again in Game 4. Then, if the series goes 7 games he could come back for the deciding game. Not to say that Blanton won't shut down the Yankees but with Lee, you have seen that he did it before. I pick the Yankees to win the series in 6 games even though I'm a National League fan.
- Antonio Fernandez - Oct 31, 2009 at 1:16 PM
OK Phillies you'r the boss get out there and do your stuff,we are watching you and know what you have and what you can do so don't be afraid of them
You are playing against a show team,note they jump and dance when they play against one of the weakest teams in the league and win. so go for broke flying Hawaiian, you'r looking gooe PHILLIES
- Bree - Oct 31, 2009 at 3:11 PM
To that horse's patoot Rupert, who made the cogent, insightful comments about female Phillies fans:
Do you know anything about baseball???? Nothing like people speculating about what a jerk you probably are and then opening your mouth and removing all doubt! GO PHILLIES!
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I'm developing a PopUp window for Android, and it's working, I added a EditText and a Button on that, when running on ADV this work properly, while running on device, when I focus on the EditText this throws a weird Exception.
android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window - - token android.view.ViewRoot&48163b18 is not valid; is your active running?
I don't know if it matters, but I'm running on a Galaxy Tab with Swype input.
Now I read the specs of the Window.showAtLocation
public void showAtLocation (View parent, int gravity, int x, int y)
Display the content view in a popup window at the specified location. If the popup window cannot fit on screen, it will be clipped. [...]
parent a parent view to get the getWindowToken() token from
The problem is just in that token, but how do I pass the Activity token to it?
I also wrote a small code to reproduce the error.
PopupWindow window = new PopupWindow(activity);
EditText text = new EditText(activity);
text.setText("Dont touch, this crash!");
window.showAtLocation(arg0, Gravity.NO_GRAVITY, 10,10);
Running on AVD all works fine, while on device this crash and throw the error I mentioned.
I discover something new, when I'm in landscape mode this errors don't occurs.


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Passed Out In CO & Washed Up In UT!!! Big Bikes Conquer The Elements Of The West!!!
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Passed Out In CO & Washed Up In UT! Big Bikes Conquer The Elements Of The West!
DAY 9: 2013 KTM Rally, Steamboat Springs, CO
Day 3 of the Rally
After eating like Kings and Queens for breakfast, there was plenty to discuss.
We met up with the UT riders we met last night.
(I'm so sorry guys! My bad, I totally forgot to write down your names
And they were able to pinpoint on their maps the section of the UTBDR that was closed when they had passed through a few days ago.
They also provided us with their bypass routes. Thank you so much guys! You are awesome!
I hope you are reading this and chime in and let us know how your ride home went and you made it ok!
We lucked out with the weather and got to ride through Dinosaur Monument, a bit muddy in certain spots, but fair riding conditions overall - stay tuned for later post on that day.
Today would be touristing day, for me. Russ was going to be doing some riding lessons with Jimmy Lewis while Jeremy and Mike did the Kremmling Loop on their own.
Here are pics from their ride...
A "little" bit of mud...
Some downed trees...
Wow. Seriously? I researched
why this is so
- fascinating!
And why is there a military helicopter on display at a high school?
Pretty cool though.
Thanks, Mike! For remembering to take a pic of your food in Kremmling. I love food porn!
They didn't get too many pics as it was raining and the trail conditions were a bit sketchy and slick, but I was thankful for the pics they were able to get.
In the meantime, I was playing tourist all day and did about a total of 10 miles hiking and walking all around town. I first started at the Visitor Center and planned my stops from there.
Neat covered wagon at the Center.
I went to hike at Fish Creek Falls. Highly recommend. Close to town and the trails are well maintained.
Very cool antique tractor/trailer/tiller? being used as lawn art on someone's front yard.
Then I went to the Botanical Garden in town. This place was awesome! Small but packs a punch! Excellent collection of flora and trees.
Well maintained landscape. I wish I had brought a picnic lunch!
Here are some of the highlights. If you'd like to see more of this garden, you can find more pics I took
I was able to snap pics of these huge moths that behave like hummingbirds. Very cool!
I then had a delicious lunch at The Boathouse with a wonderful view.
I had to walk off some of the food from lunch and prior meals and just walked around town.
Hilarious gum wrappings at Fuzzywigs!
If you'd like to see more pics I took around town, you can find them
After my day tour, I headed back to The Grand, cleaned up and met up with the guys for dinner for our Last Supper!
It was Awards Dinner Night and it was going to be atop the mountain via Gondola ride.
I missed the Gondola Ride in Telluride, so I was extra excited about this one. I love Gondola Rides, even though I have a fear of heights.
Spectacular view of the sunset!
Dinner, drinks and dessert were delicious and non-stop!
Time to pass out The Awards!
Congrats to Joel for winning "The Tourist" Award for taking the most pics other than the KTM Photog and me!
Congrats to Wolfy for winning Mr. Social, although he claimed, at the mike, to be anti-social.
Congrats to all the other Award Winners. You can find their pics
Other prizes would be given as well!
During the Rally, we were each given a punch card with your name on it containing the names of all the vendors.
When you visited each vendor, they would hole-punch the card next to their name.
Once you had all the holes punched, you turned it in and it would be placed in a drawing bowl.
During the Awards Dinner, cards would be drawn and various prizes given.
On the second from the last prize drawing, a KTM Tank Bag and Vest was being award.
As soon as it was announced, the first thing out of Jeremy's mouth, "I want that babe. I really need a new tank bag."
Next thing you know...
I guess, "ask and ye shall receive".
Jeremy kept the tank bag and Mike got the vest.
To cap off a great day and evening... REMATCH!
Mike still dominated in hockey. And Russ, well, he most definitely did not want to play with me anymore!
Not sure how they roped me into getting on this saddle, but I must have felt bad about playing well against the guys
, so I indulged.
Thank goodness it was not mechanical! Although... that might have been a little fun!
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." ~ Mother Teresa
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Bursting with beneficial antioxidants, pecans were the sole nut cited in the list of "Top 20 Fruits, Vegetables and Nuts" that were named as the Best Sources of Food Antioxidants, by a 2004 USDA study. The study reportedly is the largest, most comprehensive and most complete analysis of the antioxidant content of commonly consumed foods conducted to date.
In addition, this marked the first data on nuts, as well as spices, compiled by USDA researchers. While findings determined the antioxidant capacity of the foods, further research is needed to better understand how the body absorbs and utilizes these compounds to combat cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's, officials noted.
Research released by Loma Linda University in 2006 revealed how adding a mere handful of pecans to a healthy diet could help control "bad cholesterol" that can build up and lead to clogged arteries.
Those findings are "consistent with the Food and Drug Administration's qualified health claim that states, 'Scientific evidence suggests, but does not prove, that eating 1.5 ounces of most nuts, such as pecans, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol may reduce the risk of heart disease.'"
"Pecans are a natural way to get more protein, fiber, healthy fats and vitamin E into your diet and if you control the portion size, they can help satisfy hunger and manage weight. Adding a handful of pecans into your meal plans is a great way to add taste, texture and good nutrition to dishes from sweet to savory," suggests Zelman.
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Confusion above--The Canon EF is (confusingly) an FD-mount camera, not an EF mount camera.
If you're invested in FD lenses, the EF is a neat camera. It's built on the old F-1 chassis, is the only camera in the FD line with a Copal Square vertical travel shutter (which gives a 1/125 s. X-sync speed), has MLU, and the meter has a voltage regulator, so it is possible to use it with 1.5 v batteries in general, though when I had one, I found that if the batteries were very fresh, they might be over the rated voltage and wouldn't work properly (in which case I'd leave them in a drawer for a few months to age, use Weincell zinc-air cells in the meanwhile, and they'd be fine).


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Here I'm offering my hiking maps for Garmin GPS devices for free download. The maps will be permanent refined and updated irregular. Inside the ZIP archive there is (among other stuff) the map itself ("gmapsupp.img"), the TYP file and the TDB file. Normally just the file "gmapsupp.img" has to be transfered to the GPS device. The map is optimized for the average hiker, contains contour lines as separated layer, and isn't routable. I emphasise that I do not at all adopt liability for functionality or suitability.
From Kassel up to Denmark.
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Large area from Koblenz to Lausanne and from Luxembourg to Passau (parts from 8 countries).
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England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
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The resourcen are limited (and I promise you nothing here), but a enquiry charges nothing ;) Please use the formular on the bottom of this page.
Most of the map is self-explanatory (and on your GPS you can click onto the map elements to get more informations). So here are only the most important informations:
|strets with car traffic are yellow styled
|a so inked way is explicit marked as hiking trail and/or scenic
|here you can expect a real comfortable way even on rainy days
|here you can expect a good way
|smaller or slightly worse way or path
|beattrack, bad way or unknown condition
|ambitious mountain hiking
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The reason the dx8 looks good vs dx9 is they had HDR turned off. Nvidia does not support this so they turned it off for both ATI and Nvidia SS.
In the actual game with HDR in full dx9 mode the difference is suppose to be stunning.
Originally posted by aapo
You all have seen the HL2 benchmark screenshots, and there is a minimal difference between DX9 and DX8 - which tells us that DX8 shaders are at least almost as good as DX9.
If I've understood right, the only effect that can't be done properly with DX8 in HL2 is the high dynamic range light effects, because like the name says, there needs to be high range of intensity values in the shader code, which only DX9 FP numbers can offer.
I bet this is why things are generally more shiny and the water is 'brighter' in DX9 effects, there is more dynamic range available. But in the HL2 screenshot the DX8 actually looked better to me, the water was too shiny in DX9. In AquaMark3 the scenery with Radeons looked better and it had more dynamic range judging by the screenshots, IMHO, so mebbe the real DX9 is good for something after all.
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Good morning all,
We have set up several virtual servers, onto which one was placed our Backup Exec 12.5 server. We were halfway through setting up a backup for the vmdks when the SAN failed and has lost all of the metadata for the vmdk files for around 60% of our servers. Meaning we have lost our backup exec server, all of the backup to disk folders are stored on 2 x DX80s. I have now rebuilt a backup exec server but need to know how to bring the backups back into this new server. Is it possible and what is the routine please?
Any help would be very much appreciated!
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Hi VJware,
Thanks for that, we had already done that when we set up the backup to disk folders, we then carried out the inventory and clicked on catalog for one of the 20GB folders, so far we are showing that the job has been going for 16 hours and the byte count is nearly 3 TB, (there are around 12TB of backups on one of the arrays).


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Latest GDP numbers show Indian economy cruising at 7.3 per cent%, but there is lot below the headline numbers that show pockets of weakness. ET takes a look at the numbers
According to the article, the final report had shown inflated numbers. India recently revamped the way it processes economic data.
China is expected to surpass the US in terms of nominal GDP by 2026 - aka in 11 years, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit.
"According to our calculations, a deficient monsoon, if it comes true, will shave off 0.50% from our GDP forecast of 7.9% for fiscal 2016," it said.
GDI measures the value of the production of goods and services in the US as the costs incurred and the incomes earned in production.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance also said the reply on authenticity and creditability of new series is also "vague".
Policymakers were flummoxed by the statistical transformation, particularly as the revised data was released without a historical series.
The surprisingly strong data bolsters the case for the Monetary Authority of Singapore to hold off from additional monetary easing later this year.


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It's a simple formula: aged Angus beef expertly prepared and pasta cooked to perfection. This restaurant serves about every cut of beef you can imagine, from a huge porterhouse to a petite fillet to succulent prime rib. The menu here changes frequently, and has recently moved to more sustainable ingredient sourcing. Adventurous diners can find options like kangaroo, rattlesnake, ostrich, and black-bear meat on the menu. If red meat isn't what you're looking for, there's also a variety of fresh fish entrées.
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I'd say it's even.
I live in a small town with one McDonald's and one ShopRite. Right next to each other, actually.
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Classic Cassoulet With Italian Sausage
|Bacon slices
|Seasoned dry bread crumbs
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Italian sausage
|1 Pound, cut into 1-inch- thick slices (Hot Or Sweet)
|1 Medium, cut into 6 wedges
|3 Clove (15 gm), finely chopped
|Canned sliced carrots
|16 Ounce, drained (1 Can)
|Canned zucchini
|16 Ounce, drained
|Canned stewed tomatoes
|8 Ounce
|Chopped celery
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Beef-flavored instant bouillon granules
|1 Teaspoon
|Dried parsley flakes
|1 1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Bay leaf
|Canned butter beans
|30 Ounce (Two 15 Ounce Cans, 1 Can Drained, 1 Can Undrained)
Sauté bacon in large skillet, turning until crisp and browned, about 8 minutes.
Remove with slotted spoon to paper towels to drain.
Set aside skillet with bacon drippings.
Combine 2 tablespoons of the bacon drippings with bread crumbs in small bowl.
Set aside.
Sauté sausage, onion and garlic in skillet with bacon drippings until sausage is no longer pink, 12 to 15 minutes.
Drain off fat, leaving sausage mixture in skillet.
Stir carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, celery, bouillon, parsley, bay leaf and 1 can drain butter beans into skillet with sausage.
Add can of undrained butter beans.
Bring to a boil; lower heat and simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes or until mixture is heated through and celery is tender.
Remove bay leaf.
Place sausage mixture in one 2-quart or 6 individual broiler-proof casseroles.
Crumble bacon over top; sprinkle with bread crumb mixture.
Broil 5 inches from heat 1 minute or until crumbs are golden; be careful not to burn crumbs.
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The rear window wiper may not fully contact the rear window. Our technicians tell us that replacing both the wiper blade and wiper arm will generally correct this issue.Google+
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Ford Explorer Rear Window Wiper May Not Fully Contact Rear Window
Ford Explorer Problem
Model Years Affected: 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006
Average Mileage: 128,898 mi (12,900 mi - 279,000 mi)
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wiper doesn't contact window correctly.wiper get's caught at bottom of rearwindow
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Rear wiper blade wasn't working, found it to be stuck on something at the bottom of the window. Turned it on and gently pulled it up, now it works fine, but does not connect with the window except for a small bit on the driver's side. Replaced the blade, but that didn't really help. Plan to eventually replace the arm to see if that fixes the alignment.
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Rear wiper doesn't touch the rear glass but in one small area in the lower right area of the glass.
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My windshield wiper all of a sudden stopped making contact with the rear hatch window.
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rear wiper doesn't fully make contact with window. Plan to change blade and arm to see if it makes a difference.
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Hatch wiper don't touch in the center area. Shaft coming out at the motor seems warped.


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Marks and Sparks launch bedstead with built-in TV
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The bedstead, which comes complete with TV option, is a real leather bedstead that holds a 26-inch or 32-inch flat screen TV.
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Our friends Red76 hosted us this Summer as part of their Open Field residency at the Walker Art Center. A couple of pix, and a video by Juana Berrio, below. Thanks Sarah Peters, Juana Berrio, Sara Shaylie, Chloe Nelson of the Walker, and Sam and Gabriel of Red76! The Floating Academy was launched in Minneapolis' Lake of the Isles. Video of the first class discussion, a wrap-up of Red76's investigations into the Commons, Pop-Up BookRead more
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There were tears. But that was to be expected. A mother's pride can only manifest itself in so many ways, so when Yvonne Upton sat down beside her older son B.J. while her younger son, Justin, was announced as an Atlanta Brave, she could be forgiven a dab or two around the eyes. "This is the greatest day for us," Yvonne said after the press conference. "It's wonderful, a dream come true." B.J. Upton was acquired by the Braves in November. When Justin was picked up last week in a trade with Arizona, the family was overjoyed to have them on the same team. "I was in Arizona and had already gone to bed when the call came because I was on east coast time," the Upton's father, Melvin, said. "Justin came in and woke me up about one in the morning to tell me. Needless to say, there wasn't any sleep after that." The Uptons had always hoped that the brothers would wind up together on a Major League roster, but they never figured it would come this early or on a team like the Braves, ...
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