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I had a couple of instances during my high school year. One of my closest friends had 2 little sisters that had died at different times. 1 died when she was an infant and the other died (in the bath tub) when she was 8 years old. When I met him, in the 7th grade, he had a little sister, but she was adopted - I didn't know this at first. There was a family portrait in the living room with his family and his deceased sister, but I always thought it was "Joy", the sister I knew. Anyway, he lived a couple of houses up from me, and we carpooled to school from the 7th grade through high school. The first time I spent the night at his house (7th grade) we were sleeping on his screened in back porch. It was around 1 a.m. and we were up watching the TV before the station signed off for the night (remember those days?). I went inside to use the restroom, and it was dark but not pitch black. I didn't close the bathroom door, neither did I turn on the light. As I exited the bathroom I heard what sounded like a wimper or a very soft crying coming from the bath tub. It startled me slightly, but immediately my mind defined it as Joy must have been sleep walking and was in the tub. So, I told my friend and he checked on her, only to find her asleep in her bed (which was Starla's old room). It was at this point that he told me about his sister passing away in the bathroom. Evidently her mother had started her bath for her, and she got in and her heart stopped, she then slipped under the water. My friend told me that his mother had witnessed Starla before on a few occasions, but that nobody else in the family ever had. Fast forward to the high school years. At that point my friends family had put in a large in-ground swimming pool and a stand-alone 2 car garage with an apartment on the 2nd floor which my friend turned into his bedroom/livingroom. One summer his parents and little sister had gone to Myrtle Beach, he stayed home, and as was always the case, a few of us were there spending the night. During one of the days, his girlfriend (who later in life became my lawyer during my divorce from my first wife), was sunning herself by the swimming pool. A quick summer afternoon thunderstorm rolled through so she went inside to make sure the TV was turned off. It was at that time she claimed to see a "wet naked little girl laying in the bathroom floor". This girl was not someone prone to exaggeration or someone you would know as even being interested in things of the bizarre. The very next summer, the same type scenario took place. The family was back at Myrtle Beach, a few of us were spending the night up in the apartment. We were sharing a 12 pack of beer (between 4 of us). My friends GF was downstairs in the kitchen making some spaghetti (noodles and Ragu). It was the middle of the night, when she abruptly entered the room where we were upstairs and asked one of my other friends if he would please come down stairs with her. She was crying. Immediately, another friend and I figured she had seen Starla again. A little while later my friend Bryant confirmed that. She didn't want to talk about it at the time, but after a little while of calming down she did. She said that she was standing at the sink rinsing out the noodles and when she turned, she saw Starla (the little girl in the family portrait) standing in the door separating the living room and the kitchen. She said she was just looking at her and that she had the very slightest hint of a smile. She said they made eye contact before she simply was no longer there. The next morning my other friend Richard and I did our very first ghost hunt. It was around 11 a.m. This was WAY before ghost hunting was popular or we had even heard of such a thing, so we just made it up as we went along. We stood in the infamous front bathroom. I had drawn a pentagram on a piece of Mead notebook paper. We held it and asked if Starla was there and if she had something to say. We got the feeling (and it has been talked about many times on popular ghost shows) that the room became very "thick". I can't really explain it other than to say that the air was thick, like water. The sensation was somewhat numbing almost. I have always had what I consider a psychic sense, but not a very strong one, not one that I have ever refined but a natural one nonetheless, so I may be sensitive to these types of things, however, my friend that was with me witnessed this feeling as well. After a moment everything went back to normal, and the sense of anxiety that accompanied the sensation went away too. We took the piece of notebook paper and started walking through the house. We picked up the same feeling when we entered the formal living room (you know the living room that the family never sits in, it's the area just off from the front door for when company or strangers drop by). Anyway, just like before, the sensation subsided. It felt to both of us at this point, that we must be chasing her through the house. We started going down the hall to Joy's room (Starla's old bedroom). The closer we got to that room, the heavier the feeling got - to an extreme. Personally, I could not get within 10 feet of the room, my friend went all the way to the door. To me the feeling got so heavy that I felt I was about to pass out. I backed up to gather my senses, and my friend regrouped. We were standing back on the other end of the hall at this point, and I was explaining to him what I had just felt, it was as this point a very quick rushing sensation went between us. We both looked, simultaneously, into the family room. I said "did you just get the feeling" and my friend ended the sentence, "that someone just walked right in between us". I can only describe the feeling like this. The air being thick and numb, like water, add onto that the feeling of 2 magnets repelling from each other - that invisible force that when you have 2 magnets in your tigers trying to push them together and they won't attract. That is the closest I can get. We stopped our "investigation" at that point and decided to spend the night downstairs in the family room that night. There were 5 of us. Bryant slept in his old bedroom, leaving the rest of us. He had never seen or felt anything, had only heard his mother's and our testimonies, and he wasn't the slightest bit apprehensive about seeing anything if it were to ever happen - which it never did for him. After Bryant went to bed we stayed up talking about it. One of the guys got so afraid he had to go home - it was the middle of the night. We had to walk him out to his car and stand in the drive way while he backed out. That left 3 of us. We decided to sleep on the floor, next to each other. Nothing at all had happened up to this point. We were all laying on our backs, facing the same direction, getting ready to nod off, yet still talking just a bit. At this point a light pulsed in the room. It was about the size of a basketball; about 1 foot off the ceiling and 2 feet from the wall. I was looking directly at it when it happened. I can only explain the light as appearing to have life. For instance, the difference in turning a light switch off and on, between what a firefly looks like when it's tail lights up. It looked more like the fire fly. There was no apparent source for the light. It only happened once, and it was shocking. The weird thing too was, as happens so many times I would later learn, we all just tried to explain it away, then went off to sleep. Quite the contrary actions for 3 people that had just witnessed something so bizarre. The next instance is even crazier. I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but it was some years after those instances. I was dropped off at Bryant's by some other friends. He was not home (nobody was home) it was the middle of the day. I would NEVER go into the house by myself, but I had never been afraid to go upstairs in the apartment over the garage as it was not actually connected to the house, and it was broad daylight. Inside, there were very thick curtains on a large double window in between 2 beds. The curtains totally blocked out the sunlight. They were parted by about 2 inches, so there was a very bright shaft of light beaming into an otherwise very dim room. I sat on one of the beds and was smoking a cigarette. As I exhaled, I blew the smoke toward the shaft of light. It made a very interesting swirl pattern as it hit the light. If you have ever been to a concert and seen lasers with smoke swirling in them, that is the effect I am talking about. As I did this, I tried to focus on the smoke on the other side of the beam of light. It appeared to go through it, and swirl into a ball. At that point it looked like it would circulate into a ball and then drift back towards me. As I watched this I noticed the ball of smoke seemed to take a form. It turned into a giant fist. As this fist drifted back towards me it would open up and a would be an open hand - palm up - drift by my face. As I continued to watch, i noticed fingernails, lines in the "skin" everything. I was petrified. I could not even get off the bed and go 15 feet to the door to get out of there. I was scared stiff. Needless to say I didn't blow another puff of smoke. There was a phone next to the bed (rotary dial). I called the friend that had "chased" the sensation through the house with me, and explained what I was witnessing. It took that for me to break the fear hold and burst out of there. Since that day I have never been in any room of that house without someone else. And I don't think I could even now. Fast forward. The year was 1994, I was married and my son had been born. Up until this point I had been working at an advertising agency in Spartanburg and my commute took an hour to and from work. I got a job closer to home at the local weekly newspaper, The Tribune Times, building ads and laying out the pages of the paper. It was not the ideal job or pay, but it was only a few miles from my house. There was a little old lady that worked with me, she was a proof reader. Her career had been as an English teacher and she was meticulous. She was the salt of the earth type, her and her husband both. Very southern and very Christian. They did not own a television - they never cared for one. The little lady's name was "Exie". We called her Sexy or Sexy Exie as a pet name. Sweetest lady you could know. She and her husband both passed away years ago. At some point I had told her of the experiences we had at Bryant's house. She relayed to me an experience she and her husband had that yielded proof, which I was lucky enough to hold in my hands. The story went like this… She and her husband had some land behind their house which contained an old house they used for storage. This old house was the house that her husband had grown up in. The time had come when they wanted to clear the land and demolish the house. They called in the local fire department to have a controlled burn. Evidently that is a normal thing to do in some instances, I had never heard of it. Anyway, during the burn, the husband took pictures of the event. There were picks of the firefighters standing around and the house burning from start to finish, etc. It was in 2 pictures that you can clearly see a woman standing in one of the windows looking out. In one picture she was fuzzy and translucent, but in another she was much more well defined. She was wearing a light blue blouse it appeared (though you could only see her from the midsection up). She had dark hair which was pulled back off her face. You could not make out any distinct features on her face. Nobody ever saw the lady during the burning. As well, this was before digital cameras. The pictures were taken on a standard 35mm camera and the film developed at a local facility. This woman was Exie's husband's mother. He brought the pictures up to my work one day and showed them to me. At the time I did scan them into the computer, but I have long since lost the scans - what I would do to still have those pictures. Maybe one day I will get off my ass and try to track down next of kin or something to see if they are still around. Those are my "ghost" experiences. I have had many more occurrences of the bizarre, which would fall into maybe paranormal - not sure, but these are the ones I attribute to the ghost phenomenon. As I said I believe that I have some innate psychic ability which has never been focused, yet still works in spite of me. This ability has manifested itself in other ways from feeling energy, to psychokinesis, "knowing", astral projection/extreme visualization and to even a full scale visitor experience. All these things have been life long, but they were most active during my mid teens through my early twenties. I guess that is why I am so adamant about God. Because I use to be on the fence, then agnostic. These things were the equivalent to pulling the rug of security out from under my feet. The knowledge that we can barely perceive all that is actually around us, and that these things can interact with us and have an impact on our immediate environment , made me a believer in a divine being. And I do believe that divine being is aware of each of us, and cares for each of us. I think that divine being has made it evident to me personally that He/She/It cares for me, regardless of what I have done. And it is my hope that everyone enjoy a relationship with that being. To me, God is the only thing stable in this chaotic experience we call life.


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Mountain West Roundup: Week 2
— Robert Kuwada, Fresno Bee
Quarterback Taylor Graham had a difficult debut in his first start since his senior year at Wheaton (Ill.) North High in 2009. He attended Ohio State for three semesters and redshirted at UH in 2012.
Against USC, Graham was 16 of 41 for 208 yards, with his one touchdown pass — a 60-yarder to freshman Keith Kirkwood — coming on the Rainbow Warriors' final offensive play of the game. Graham was intercepted four times and sacked seven times.
The Warriors expanded their pro-set offense, opening with a five-wide formation. Graham also called several plays without a huddle and, a few times, the Warriors were aligned in a pistol formation. Still, the Warriors struggled for rhythm. There were six dropped passes. Two of the interceptions occurred when receivers ran incorrect routes.
The Warriors are hopeful running back Joey Iosefa, who missed training camp because of a foot fracture, will be available for Saturday's road game against Oregon State. The Warriors netted 23 rushing yards on 31 carries. Receiver Bubba Poueu-Luna, who gained 19 yards on a reverse, was the leading rusher.
David Griffin, a transfer from Mesa Community College, and Leo Koloamatangi, who redshirted in 2012, are expected to have expanded roles on the offensive line this week. Both are regarded as tackles, although Koloamatangi also can play guard.
The UH defense played well, with senior Brenden Daley leading the way with 10 tackles, including four in the USC backfield.
Next game: at Oregon State, 5 p.m. PT Saturday (Pac-12 Networks)
Notable: Left tackle Sean Shigematsu, who departed in the second half because of a bone bruise in his right ankle, is expected to play. … Safety Marrell Jackson, who has an undisclosed injury, also should be included on the 64-player travel squad. … Linebacker Lance Williams and tight end Jordan Pu'u-Robinson will miss their second consecutive game because of injuries. … The Warriors will take four quarterbacks to Corvallis. Ikaika Woolsey, the fourth-string QB, doubles as the holder. … Scott Harding, a 27-year-old former Aussie rules player, was used as a receiver, punt returner and punter against USC. He did not begin playing American football until he signed with UH in 2011. In Aussie football, the players do not wear pads or helmets.
— Stephen Tsai, Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Nevada played two very different halves of football against No. 21 UCLA on Saturday at the Rose Bowl, and while coach Brian Polian is focused on getting better in key areas, he's also choosing to look at the good that came out of the game.
The Wolf Pack trailed 17-13 before giving up two quick touchdowns to start the second half, the second on a 4-yard return of a blocked punt, and the rout was on. The Bruins outscored the Pack 41-7 in the second half and won 58-20.
"My gut feeling coming off of the field (at halftime) was what it was. We were in great position at halftime," said Polian, who was named Chris Ault's successor in January and coached his first game. "We were going toe to toe with a team that I think is better than No. 21 in the country.


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Morelli's chairman, Fred G. Luke, said that after eight months of negotiations, a "fairly straightforward transaction" had become "incredibly complex" and that he and Air Vegas President James Petty had reached an impasse. He said the two often were too busy with their own companies to talk with each other about the deal.
Morelli, which went public in 1989 as a deli-fresh pasta and sauce maker, had offered to buy 53% of Air Vegas with the intent of building it into a low-cost regional carrier.
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text: Comments (5) + Add comment Comments (5) Featured Bleucrunch + 961d ago I am having difficulty understanding how a game that comes out every year with rehasing after rehasing can get such high scores from reviewers....Please people use your brains and realize that this is the same thing every year with Call of Duty. Gamers should not excuse this irrefutable fact. The games they are pumping out every year are not $65 bucks worthy man...COME ON@ #1 Agree(1) | Disagree(6) | Report | Reply Blues Cowboy + 960d ago I don't really enjoy CoD, but I think you might be 'excusing the irrefutable fact' that Blops 2 does things very differently, and is from a totally different developer from Modern Warfare. Actually, the branching storyline is ace and completely new, as is the futuristic setting (that sadly gets under-used IMO). #1.1 (Edited 960d ago ) | Agree(3) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply lastofgen + 960d ago I honestly think it's just the hype. I mean, just look at modern warfare 3's metacritic score. We all know what a broken and unpolished game that was, and some of the campaign levels were even recycled from previous modern warfare maps and campaign areas. A good amount of cod players even despised the game. There was no innovation of any sort....... AND ....yet, it has an 88 on Metacritic, 6 perfect scores and the lowest score is just a 70. It's the hype. #1.2 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply BlackTar187 + 961d ago well this game doesn't deserve a 9/10 on the lack of zombie content alone. Highly disappointing in the small maps and almost non existence of exploring in the zombie maps. LET DOWN 9/10 is a joke 8/10 fine more like 7.5/10 #2 Agree(1) | Disagree(3) | Report | Reply BX81 + 960d ago HmmHere is my mp review. Crappy servers, quick scoping sadly is still in, 90% of what you run into is some sort of smg over powering any other weapon. What a joke. At least zombies is fun. #3 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Add comment You need to be registered to add comments. Register here or login Username Password Remember Rules & guidelines Login


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Well, what can I say? I've had plans for this place for a while. Like before I got full mod while. XD Anyway, how about we take a grand tour of our new
forumcategory. Yes, CATEGORY, we've got our own RP category now!
First, lets head into the new and improved, Roleplay Games forum. Take a look at the new layout:
:: Roleplaying Games
::: Sign-Ups Threads
::: Start-Ups Threads
::: Private RPs
::: Non-Pokemon RPs
::: The Metronome Forum
:::: RPG Discussion
:::: RPG Archival
:::: RPG Administration
Now, lets break this down step by step. The main Roleplaying Games forum (the one we are currently in) will house all our general policies and stuff like that. Official stuff, that everyone should, read before even venturing into the lower forums. Sign-Up Threads and Start-Up Threads are pretty straight forward, what do you think goes in there? ;3 Private RPs, well thats pretty straight forward as well, as is Non-Pokemon RPs. Now, the Metronome Forum, this is where it gets a bit odd. Most of your social threads and other odd stuff like that go here. RPG Discussion is where you can post an OOC thread for your RP, as to not clutter things up ;3 The RPG Archival is where we'll send old threads off too everyonce in a while, locked so you can't post and revive them for no reason and stuff. RPG Administration... this is the forum that you want to have access to if you're a great RPer with a level head.
:: Roleplaying Games < Policies, rules, announcements, ect...
::: Sign-Ups Threads < Sign-Ups
::: Start-Ups Threads < Start-Ups
::: Private RPs < Private RPs
::: Non-Pokemon RPs < Non-Pokemon RPs
::: The Metronome Forum < Everything that doesn't have a forum; like character discussion
:::: RPG Discussion < OOC threads for RPs
:::: RPG Archival < RP Archives
:::: RPG Administration < Where you eventually want to have access to
Second, lets glaze over a few new policies that we're going to have in place.
:: All sign-up threads will go in the Sign-Up Threads forum.
Well, I should hope no one violates such a simple rule but we know there will be some people that will. Breaking this rule won't result in an infraction, but repeated infractions of the rule will, which will be at the moderator's discretion.
:: All start-up threads will go in the Stat-Up Threads forum.
Same as above.
:: NEW RESTRICTION!!! You must "sign-up" for private RPs via a thread that will be stickied in the Private RPs forum.
Basically, to help me keep track of all of the RP's that are going on right now.
:: All cleared private RPs go in the Private RPs forum.
:: NEW RESTRICTION!!! You must "sign-up" for non-Pokemon RPs via a thread that will be stickied in the Non-Pokemon RPs forum.
Basically, to help me keep track of all of the RP's that are going on right now.
:: All cleared non-Pokemon RPs go in the Non-Pokemon RPs forum.
:: IMPORTANT NOTE!!! What if there is a private, non-Pokemon RP? Well, it would go in the Non-Pokemon RP forum. HOWEVER, you would still need to get them cleared, for these, I'd prefer if you would just PM me about them though.
Just a clarification :D
:: The RPG Directory [V 2.0] - Refer to this thread for more information on this.
::: Insubordination - Is there this kid that just doesn't quite get what you're telling him to do but you know he really does? Well, report the newest post that is problematic and I'll evaluate the situation. The base point value for this is two points.
::: Repeated posting of OOC content in an IC area without important signifigance - Basically, we've given you VM's, PM's, AND an entire forum for OOC threads for you to talk to your people, use it. The base point value for this is one point.
::: Posting of inappropriate content - Did someone just write a rape scene for someone AND post it? Well, this infraction is for them. This would also cover repeated posting of sign-ups in the Start-Up Threads forum, and the like.
Well, dearies, that about concludes our little tour of the new Bulbagarden Roleplay District, just got a few minor things. First, KPU and Fizzy Bubbles have of course not been modified. Second, Pokemon Ultra RPG, our latest Bulbagarden forum-hosted RPG is set to open on April 15th. We hope to see a vast turn out in registrations. Last, but not least, I hope that everyone keeps having fun RPing and we do have some more things that we're probably going to see come about in the next year probably, so be prepared.


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It was opening day of the trout fishing season Saturday and anglers flocked to Valley Falls Park in Vernon, one of the state's designated trout parks, to try their hand at catching a big one. The state DEEP (Dept. of Energy and Environmental Protection) Fisheries Division has stocked 381,000 trout this season and was on hand to stock more fish with the help of the children Saturday morning. In photo, Megan Cruz, left, of the DEEP Inland Fisheries Division, helps Ethan Lafontaine, 5, of Manchester guide a trout out of the bucket into the pond.
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as being old (84) I had trouble bending down in my old fridge with freezer on top. This is so easy to just open the door and there everything is stored where I can see the items comfortably. it is so quiet, I hardly know that it's there. I had a ice maker installed and it works great, also. buy it! you will love it!
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I bought this recently because it fit the small footprint I have in my 1928 Craftsman Bungalow. It works well and is easy to find things, but I would have liked it to be a little taller to accommodate more square feet inside. Also I would like more flexibility with shelves to make room for tall bottles or celery stalks.
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Purchased in April 2015. We had issues right away with frost buildup due to ice forming on the rails and therefore not letting the freezer door close all the way. We had to call a third party service repair (doesn't any appliance seller cover their own products?) They replaced the seal around the door. The drawers for the fruits and veggies seem very flimsy, a lot less sturdy than the may tag we had before. We are waiting to see if it continues to run properly.
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We purchased it two weeks ago and it is excellent quality.
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This refrigerator has the same footprint as our old fridge, but the space is more usable (I love the fridge-wide meat/cheese drawer). Best features: the freezer drawer (at last we can see what we have without being contortionists, & it's so much easier to organize), and noise level - this refrigerator is much quieter.
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Team Blake's Cassadee Pope took a risk by singing a song her coach co-wrote on The Voice Season 3 live show on Nov. 19, 2012, but she delivered with a truly personal rendition of Miranda Lambert's "Over You."
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Whenever a sports legend leaves a city during his career, it's pretty typical of said legend to take an ad out in the newspaper thanking fans. Steve Smith, having recently departed Carolina for Baltimore, is no different.
Smith took out a full-page ad in Saturday's Charlotte Observer thanking Panthers fans for his time in Charlotte and telling them he'll "always consider myself a Carolina Panther.'
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Now filming in Virginia, Steven Spielberg has added another cast member to the extensive ensemble that is his Lincoln. Deadline is reporting that David Oyelowo has joined the project as a cavalryman.
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Hey guys just a second note, the boxes that contain the role film, are the actual dark boxes, there are no metal cans contained within these boxes. I assume this is to keep costs down and because it's a special run you wouldn't make large cans for each individual size or anything so it makes sense that these are just in box form. There is of course the standard black plastic bag to keep the film safe from any kind of stray late, but I just wanted you guys to know not to open up the boxes in broad daylight, there's no warning on the outside of the box that let you know about this and so since I'm probably one of the first people to do it in daylight I wanted to warn everyone else. I suppose it was foolish of me but I was just really excited, I'm sure it's fine because like I said there's still another bag inside, but I just wanted everyone to know to be careful.
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Tomato Crown Fish
24 Jul 2010
|Vegetable oil spray
|Fish fillets
|1 1⁄2 Pound
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|Fresh lemon juice
|2 Tablespoon
|Black pepper
|To Taste
|2 Large, sliced (Fresh / No Salt Added Canned)
|Green bell pepper
|1⁄2 , minced
|Minced onion
|2 Tablespoon
|Plain bread crumbs
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Vegetable oil
|1 Tablespoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Rinse fish and pat dry.
Lightly spray a baking dish with vegetable oil.
Combine water and lemon juice in a bowl.
Add fish, cover and refrigerate for 10 minutes.
Then place fish in prepared baking dish.
Season with black pepper and arrange tomato slices, bell pepper and onion over fillets.
In a small bowl, combine bread crumbs, oil and basil.
Drizzle evenly over fish and vegetables.
Bake uncovered 10 to 15 minutes.
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The Vikings are staying in downtown Minneapolis for at least another year. Today (WED) is the deadline to give the NFL written notice of any plans to move, but Vikings Vice-President Lester Bagley says the team is staying put for now. That means they will play at least one more season in the Metrodome while officials continue to work on a deal to build a new stadium.
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PR: The same goes for the financial market and the dairy market:
There must be clear rules! A proposed solution for European milk supply
Hamm/Berlin, 19.1.2012: The international finance and debt problems make it clear: free market forces create dangerous turbulence, plunging the sector deep into crisis. The same goes for the dairy market. It is now in a state of frenzy, and the planned deregulation measures – such as the abolition of the quota in 2015 – will push it even further towards ruin. The trend is towards rock-bottom prices that fluctuate dramatically and the milk producers' greater dependency on dairy groups and banks. Clear rules are needed that guarantee the operation of a healthy market.
The financial sector cannot operate without efficient financial supervision, transparency and the outlawing of dangerous speculation. In the dairy sector, too, severe structural deficits necessitate far-reaching measures. In the current situation farmers have no bargaining power and so are unable to adjust their supply to consumer demand in a targeted way.
Lessons and solutions for the dairy market
To strengthen their bargaining position vis-à-vis the processors, members of co-operatives and producers that supply private dairies must be given the opportunity to join a producer organisation that negotiates on their behalf. Such a producer organisation must be able to become as strong in the market as a dairy.
Moreover, a monitoring agency has to be set up to enable supply to be adjusted to demand across the markets. Its remit is to gather key data such as production costs, prices, and the volume of supply and demand. On that basis it calculates volume adjustments, i.e. works out how much has to be produced so that a) supply is geared to demand and b) a cost-covering farm-gate price is achieved for the producers and c) a fair milk price is achieved for the consumers.
Dangerous speculation
Speculation has caused the financial sector to fluctuate with disastrous effects. It is not clear whether the market can recover. It is irresponsible for foodstuffs like milk to be the subject of speculation. According to the World Bank, the so-called silent tsunami – as world food experts call dangerous price rises in staple foods due in part to speculation on food in futures markets – plunged 44 million people into poverty between June 2010 and April 2011.
The financial sector and the dairy sector must be restored to functionality. People's trust in the markets has been shattered. In future it must be proven that the markets can operate in the interest of our society. And that is only possible with clear rules!
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Greetings Writer's Workshop/Bulbagarden, and a Merry Christmas to you all!
You may have noticed that there was not a Christmas competition mentioned for the writer's on the forum when everything else was released. But your wait is over - The Writer's Workshop has decided to organise our own little event to celebrate the festive season, and it is time for everyone to get to work!
Santa's Writer's Workshop is a chance for everyone on the forum to put all of their Christmas spirit and joy to words by writing a Pokemon based Christmas fiction. This could be in any format, whether it be a short story, diary entry, letter, poem, anything you want to really, but the only condition is that is must be directly about Pokemon and Christmas (this means you can't just vaguely write something that briefly mentions a character playing a Pokemon game). There is no minimum length, but we ask that you aim to not go above 5,000, with anything that greatly exceeds this limit being ignored due to time pressure.
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Hello! Craftan99 Founder of the Men of war Fan Club here, I'm currently in need of French tanks, in the article I have written the french tanks I am in...
Zombie mod needs modeler and cooder. We are trying to add own models
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Peopel like him destroy this community, stealing moddels and saying that he made them
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Not, but its suck when somebody else's mod shown in a newspaper with your work. Or you accused by stealing your own work. An idiot reported me because he saw my Bsg add-ons cylon. Nearly everyone stole it, and he thought I too, and uploaded as mine work.
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Hello everybody. This is my first post. I'll share some of my works.
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Looks great! We get far too many idolized female forms shoved in our face, good to see a more realistic woman.
www.findphil.com for a look at my older stuff
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An environmental protection device with manually operated latching mechanism is described. The device includes a rigid hook and flexible latch on opposite peripheral edges of the device with cavity halves therebetween capable of fitting together upon the latching of the hook and latch to form an enclosure around an elongate substrate such as a coaxial cable splice or a cable to tap port connection upon the closing of the device and the locking of the latch and hook members. The device is preferably filled with a gel sealing material having an elongation of at least 100% and a Voland hardness from about 1 to 50 grams.
1. An environmental protection device for an elongate substrate passing therethrough and/or there into, said device comprising:
a hinged body which includes a longitudinal flexible latch member adjacent an aperture formed in said body and extending along a peripheral edge and a rigid hook member on an opposite peripheral edge of the device, first and second cavity halves therebetween capable forming a cavity to enclose around an elongate substrate upon the closing of the device and the latching of the rigid hook and flexible latch member through said aperture, at least one edge including an elongate ridge capable of being received in a trough on an opposite peripheral edge, said ridge and trough assisting in the closing of the cavity halves wherein the latch and hook have a mating force and release force which are less than the holding force of the latch and hook when mated.
2. The device according to claim 1 wherein the latch and hook receptacle members hinge about a living hinge between cavity halves.
3. The device according to claim 2 wherein the cavity halves are filled with a sealant material selected from the group consisting of a polyurethane gel, a silicone gel, a thermoplastic elastomer with plasticizing oil gel, or a polyurea gel.
4. The device according to claim 3 wherein the body is fabricated from a material selected from the group consisting of polypropylene, nylon, and polyetheylene.
5. The device according to claim 4 wherein the gel has a Voland hardness of from about 10 to about 50 grams and an ultimate elongation of at least about 100%.
6. The device according to claim 5 further including passages through opposite peripheral edges of the device to provide means for securing members to pass therethrough upon the closing of the device.
7. The device according to claim 6 wherein the interior of the cavity halves includes a surface treatment to enhance the adhesion of the gel thereto.
8. The device according to claim 7 wherein the surface treatment is selected from the group consisting of chemical etching, glow discharge etching, and a plurality of ribs molded therein.
9. The environmental protection device according to claim 5 further including a second hingeable body having first and second cavity halves and a hook and latch mechanism on peripheral edges wherein the hook of the second body mates to the latch of the first body and the latch of the first body mates with the hook of the second body to seals parallel coaxial cable splices passing containing coaxial cable passing therethrough within the mated cavity halves.
10. The device according to claim 5 further including two coaxial cable connectors spliced together across a coaxial cable splice and sealed within the cavity of the cavity halves.
11. The device according to claim 4 wherein the latch flexes about a living hinge.
12. In an environmental protection device for coaxial cable, coaxial cable connectors, splices and/or tap or splitter signal ports, the improvement which comprises:
a rigid hook and a flexible latch along opposite edges of the coaxial cable, coaxial cable connector, tap port or signal port protection device, said hook and latch exhibit a holding together force upon connecting together which is greater than the force required to unlatch the hook and latch, said latch adjacent an aperture formed in said device and flexes towards a body of the device for unlatching from the hook which extend through said aperture.
13. The device according to claim 11 wherein the gel has a Voland hardness of from about 10 to about 50 grams and an ultimate elongation of at least about 100%.
14. The device according to claim 13 wherein the latch flexes about a living hinge.
15. The device according to claim 14 wherein the cavity halves are filled with a sealant material selected from the group consisting of a polyurethane gel, a silicone gel, a thermoplastic elastomer with plasticizing oil gel, or a polyurea gel.
16. The device according to claim 1 wherein the periphery of the trough adjacent the rigid hook restricts the outward movement of the rigid hook member so as to retain the device closed in the absence of the flexing of the latch member towards the body.
This invention relates to environmental sealing and protection devices. More specifically, this invention relates to hinged sealant filled environmental sealing devices. In particular, this invention relates to gel filled environmental sealing closures for coaxial cables splices and/or cable connector to radio frequency source tap ports, and the like.
When an elongate substrate such as a coaxial or telephone or electrical cable is spliced or otherwise terminated and connected to a housing or device, it is necessary to protect the cable connectors including the exposed interior conductors, the connector body and the port or splice to which the connector may be attached or the signal will be adversely affected. More specifically, when a coaxial cable is spliced both the exposed interior of the cable and the connection must be protected from moisture ingress to permit a high quality signal to be transmitted across the spice or transferred to the interior of the splitter box or amplifier or extracted from the splitter or V amplifier.
Within the past several years, gel materials such as silicone gels, polyurethane gels, polyurea gels, thermoplastic elastomer gels such as Kraton� or Septon� based polymeric materials and extender oils, and the like have been used to seal elongate substrates. Both of these thermoplastic systems are various configuration of triblock copolymers such as styrene-ethylenebutylene-styrene, styrene-ethylenepropylene-styrene, and mixed midblocked styrene-ethylene-butylene/ethylenepropylene-styrene polymers. The silicones are generally derived from either lightly cross-linked polyorganosilixane materials and/or extended polyorganosilixane materials where the extender is generally of lower molecular weight non-reactive silicone such as a silicone oil or fluid. These gels most effectively seal for reentry when the elongate substrate is sealed under compression and not potted by the gel around the substrate. More specifically, the gel is generally cured apart from at least a portion of the substrate and thereafter brought into contact with the complete substrate and in the preferred embodiments, placed under compression to seal the substrate through either a spring or a restraining the displaced movement of the gel with an enclosure. Suitable examples reciting gels and/or enclosures are illustrated in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,610,730; 4,909,756; 4,859,809; 4,600,261; 4,634,207; 4,942,270; 4,639,284; 4,595,635; 4,777,063; 4,716,183; and 4,998,894. The complete disclosures of each of these patents are incorporated herein by reference for all purposes. Optionally, the gel may be fragmented material as taught by U.S. Pat. No. 5,229,058 and/or 5,286,516, the complete disclosures of which are also incorporated herein by reference for all purposes.
An earlier hinged gel-filled security and environmental protection device was taught in WO 92/22116 (U.S. Ser. No. 07/712,320 filed Jun. 7, 1991 and a CIP thereof Ser. No. 07/988,050 filed Dec. 7, 1992), the disclosures of these applications are completely incorporated herein by reference for all purposes. Although effective, especially for sealing coaxial cable splices, these devices had a tendency to pop open if dropped and/or oversized connectors were inserted into the device. In addition, it was often considered cumbersome to insert a screwdriver or other splitting means to open the device. Thus, it would be highly desirable to have a manually opening device as well as one which has a tendency to remain closed even if the craftsperson selects a slightly oversized connector to be sealed within the unit.
The invention provides for the previously recited desirable features as well as many other features obvious to the ordinary skilled artisan. More specifically, the device can lock around an elongate substrate such as a coaxial cable splice or over the end of a coaxial cable connector and a splitter or amplifier port to protect the coaxial cable, the connector and device to which it is attached. The device may be removed by flexing the latching mechanism. The latching mechanism of the invention provides a positive locking latch that holds the device together at higher loads than the previously described WO 92/22116 devices. However, a unique aspect of the locking latch system permits a low mate and release force in comparison to its high holding force so that it can be mated and demated with no tools. Additionally, the design of the preferred device permits two of the units to be put together in a reverse fashion to provide for sealing parallel cables, connectors and splices. In this embodiment of course the hinge between the units is not used due to the planar configuration of the two halves abutting together but a tie-wrap or other member can secure the abutting central hinges, if necessary.
FIG. 1 illustrate an angled perspective view of an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates an angled perspective view of the opposite side of the embodiment of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 illustrates a cross-sectional view of the embodiment of the invention in FIGS. 1 and 2 in the open position.
FIG. 4 illustrates a cross-sectional view of the embodiment of the invention illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2, and 3 in the closed position.
The invention will be described with particular reference to the appended drawings. FIGS. 1-4 should be viewed together to understand the preferred illustrated embodiment of the invention. More specifically, the preferred environmental protection device is illustrated as 100 in each of the figures. All the figures should be viewed together when referring to a particular numbered element for an overall view of the various perspectives and positioning in the preferred described embodiment.
The environmental seal and locking device 100 includes two halves 10a and 10b joined by a living hinge 14 such as a thin piece of the same plastic as halves 10a and 10b to hold the device 100 open during gel filling and curing while permitting the opposed halves 10a and 10b to fold thereabouts to lock into the enclosure about the substrate to be sealed.
Optionally, a breakable web, not illustrated, as taught in WO 92/22116 can be used to assist holding the device open during sealant filling operations.
Halves 10a and 10b include compartments 12a and 12b formed by closing the ends of the two halves with thin sections 16a and 16b and 20a and 20b. Each section has a more rigid outer shoulders 18a and 18b and rigid sections opposite thereto for thin sections 16a and 16b. These rigid sections strengthen the overall enclosure. The thin sections 16a and 16b and 20a and 20b collapse and/or stretch upon the closing of the device around a coaxial cable, cable connector or cable tap splice. Suitable materials for the device 100 are polypropylene, nylon, polyethylene and the like or any suitable impact resistant and weather resistant non-corroding material which has hinging properties to the material. Optionally, not illustrated, the hinge 14 can be a standard molded hinge of plastic metal or other suitable materials rotatable about a central pin member. Under this option, the body material 100 need not have living hinge/flexing properties.
The device 100 further includes the main cavity formed upon the closing of the device as illustrated by the preferred semi-circular partial cavities 10a and 10b. The collapsable/stretchable end seals 16a and 16b and 20a and 20b provide ends pieces which restrain the gel upon the filling of the cavity 12a and 12b. A suitable sealing material substantially fills the cavity such as a silicone gel (such as a polyorganosiloxane gel), a polyurea gel, a polyurethane gel or any suitable gel sealing material. Preferred gels have cone penetration perimeters as measured by ASTM D-217 of about 100 to 400 (10-1mm) preferably between about 200-350 (10-1mm) an an ultimate elongation as measured by ASTMD D-638 of greater than about 100% and preferably greater than about 200% and most preferably greater than about 400% as measured at the higher test speed.
The gels/sealants may also be characterized by a Voland/Stevens texture analyze. It is preferred that the gel have a hardness of from about 1 to about 50 grams, preferably 5 to about 30 grams and especially 18 to 28 grams having a stress relaxation of between 1 to 55%. Although not believed to be a critical aspect of this environmental closure, the gel has preferably a tack from about 5 to 40 grams and preferably 9 to 35 grams. The hardness, stress relaxation, and tack is measured using a Voland/Stevens texture analyzer model LFRA having a 1,000 gram load cell, a 5 gram trigger, and a 0.25 inch (6.35 mm) ball probe as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,079,300 (Debrow et. al.) the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. More particularly the hardness is measured using a 20 ml glass scintillating vial containing about 10 to 12 grams of gel. The vial is placed in the analyzer and the stainless steel ball probe is forced into the gel at a speed and 0.20 mm/second to penetrate a distance of 4 mms. The gram force necessary to penetrate 4 mm is the hardness. Higher numbers are harden gels.
More generally, although gel materials within the perimeters previously described are preferred, any suitable sealing material which can wrap around the cable tap port and/or the cable splice and seal out the ingress of moisture is suitable for use in the invention. Gels are preferred because as extended solid systems they do not flow the way greases do upon high temperature thermal cycling.
Particularly preferred materials are gels by Raychem Corporation under having name Gel Tek� gel, tough silicone gel number T894, preferably T854, or a silicone based gel number 612 sold by the Germany Warker or a Dow Corning gel called Sylgard�527.
Alternatively, a thermoplastic elastomer can be used such as a mixture of a Kraton� or Septon� polymer with sufficient plasticizer oil to form a Kraton� or a Septon� based thermoplastic gel. The Kraton� or Septon� gels are polymers of the styrene-ethylene butylene and/or ethylene-propylyene-styrene configuration. The gels are from about 3-5% maybe up to 20% polymer and from 80-97% plasticizer oil. The 3-5% polymer percentages extended 95-97% by a napthenie oil are preferred. In the event that the sealing material is a thermoplastic elastomer gel then the collapsable end pieces 16a and 16b and 20a and 20b are optional because the thermoplastic nature of the gel permits the enclosure be filled with the end portions blocked in a mold and upon cooling the gel remains in place.
The enclosure 100 includes a latch 22 and a rigid hook 24 with interdigitated raised portion 26 closer to an edge than the hook 24 and a channel 30 on the latch side to receive the ridge 26. The latch side also has a ridge 28 which is received in a channel in the hook side, These ridge and channels restrain movement of the hook and latch in the vertical direction of FIG. 4. The use of a rigid hook 24 and flexible latch 22 which is the opposite of the common mechanical configurations, provides a positive locking latch that holds together at higher loads before releasing. However, the latch has a low mate and release force in comparison to its high holding force so that it can be demated with no tools, i.e. demated by hand. More specially, the latch is sized for an enclosing and RG 59/RG6 connector and will hold loads of up to 20 lbs force while releasing at a force less than 10 lbs. The movement of the latch 22, illustrated by the arrow 36 in FIGS. 2, 3, and 4, provides the hook releasing mechanism. The selection of a plastic with a living hinge property permits the flexing of the latch along its hinge line in a likewise manner to hinge 14. The ridges and channels 26, 28, and 30 interlock to add additional strength and rigidity to the device upon closure as illustrated in FIG. 4.
Optionally, the device includes apertures 32a and 32b and 34a and 34b which upon closing of the device permit the additional adding of tie wraps or like items for an even more positive and firm closing.
A further unique feature of the device is that because of its uniform overall nature two separate halves can be reversed and snapped together to create an enclosure having two cavities if parallel lines of coaxial cables need to be sealed.
The present enclosure provides an even more positive locking mechanism and higher locking forces than described in WO 92/22116 the specification of which is completely incorporated herein by reference for all purposes as well as U.S. application Ser. Nos. 07/712,320 and 07/988,050 likewise incorporated herein by reference for all purposes.
The interior of the semi-circular cavities 16a and 16b may optionally included ribs or be glow discharge treated during manufacture to enhance the affinity of the sealing material to adhere thereto. The roughened surface treatment, EDM texture within the parts optionally also allows for increased surface area and the microscopic undercuts which further improve the gel adhesion to the shell. Although the device has been described with respect to particularly preferred embodiment and sized to use with an RG59/RG6 cables splices and tap ports, it can be sized to accommodate any cable connection. Modifications which would be obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art are contemplated to be within the scope of the invention.
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Ash is heading back to Austin, TX next month to mark their return to SXSW after a seven year absence coupled with several US headlining dates around the annual music festival. The band -- Tim Wheeler, Mark Hamilton and Rick McMurray -- is thrilled to return on the heels of their 20th anniversary together which was marked by the US release of their famous A-Z Series. Out stateside in November 2012 on Noyes Records, the series was released as a Special Edition Colored Triple-Vinyl with a card to download the digital version (plus bonus content) and the entire A-Z Series was made available via all Digital Service Providers for the first time in the US. The original three piece hit the road in the US this past fall to coincide with the A-Z release, kicking things off with Weezer in Florida before heading up the East Coast for several headlining dates.
From their earliest gigs on the Belfast club scene, Ash built a rep for churning out punk-fueled power pop with a harder edge than the ubiquitous Britpop of the day. Their first official single, "Jack Names the Planets," won them quick recognition in the UK; two years later, the British press was near-unanimous in its praise for the platinum-selling 1977, which led to a supporting slot with Weezer and their first trip to the states. (The self-funded film Teenage Wildlife, narrated by actor Ewan McGregor, documents the riotous escapades of that insane year on the road.) By the end of the '90s, guitarist Charlotte Hatherley had joined the band, and in 2001, they had another UK hit on their hands with "Shining Light," from the number one album Free All Angels. After 2004's moody Meltdown, Ash stripped down to a trio again and took up residence in Manhattan at their newly minted Atomic Heart Studios. Twilight of the Innocents, the band's fifth full-length studio album and last for a major, really made Ash rethink the way they were releasing music and found them wanting to break away from the album-tour-album cycle they'd been in with their recording contract. "That's where the idea for A-Z came from," Wheeler says, describing the band's daunting mission to record and release a new song every two weeks for a year. Starting in May 2009, Ash delivered "Return of White Rabbit"- the precursor to what was to follow, 26 straight singles, now collected for the first time in the special edition triple-vinyl package released this past November.
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