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Four experts taught at the Astoria StitchFest
Mary is a Knitter, Spinner, Writer, Designer, Teacher, Motorcyclist, Wife, Mommy and amateur Scottish Terrier Groomer. Not necessarily in that order. A native of the Pacific Northwest, a classically trained actor, a fiber artist, she lives with her husband and children in Portland, Oregon. There may also be a few skeins of yarn at their house. Mary is the author of The New Stranded Colorwork: Techniques and Patterns for Vibrant Knitters and Teach Yourself Visually Color Knitting. Her book, Fun and Fantastical Hats to Knit: Animals, Monsters and Other Favorites for Kids and Grownups was just published in June and Fun and Fantastical Slippers to Knit: Flora, Fauna, and Iconic Styles for Kids and Grownups is being released in Dec. 2014. Late summer/early fall she is leading a Follow the Leader Aran Knitalong (FLAK) through Ravelry using Janet Szabo's F.L.A.K. recipe with Janet's blessing.
102 - Knitting - Start to Finish
Begin your next knitting project by making decisions about how you will finish it before ever starting the knitting. Exclusive worksheet helps students determine the yarn, shaping, knitting techniques and blocking best for each project, and plan for them at the outset for a beautiful finish. For all skill levels. [3 hrs]
106 - Sassy Selbuvotter
Learn the history and traditions behind Norway's famous stranded colorwork mittens. Students will receive an exclusive class pattern. For Intermediate/Advanced Knitters. [3 hrs]
109 - Knitting Behind the Wheel - Introduction to Color Theory
Students receive a pocket color wheel, pattern and yarn kit for class project. Students complete a modular felted bag which functions as a living dictionary of the different color combinations explored in class. For all skill levels. [6 hrs]
Sivia has worked with fiber and art ever since she can remember. At 14 she had fiber pieces shown in the High Museum of Atlanta's gift shop and at 16 she was chosen to attend the prestigious Governor's Honors summer program in fiber art. By adulthood, she was a weaver, spinner and dabbler in dyeing and other modalities, but only became a knitter in her mid-forties. Almost immediately she began to design her own lace patterns and is now a well-known knitwear designer for her work with beads and lace. Sivia's teaching appeals to the creative spirit, and technique, though important, is a means to an end: the delight of following the joyful knitting muse wherever it may lead.
103 - Shapes of Lace
This class is a presentation of basic knitted geography. Ever want to knit half-circles, center-out squares, and everything in between? We delve into the fascinating world of knitted shapes, and we don't stop there. We start there and end up outside the box in an open-ended destination. We foray into inserting lace patterns into our chosen shapes with an eye to aesthetics and flow, and talk about modulation between patterns, graceful endings, borders, and edgings. Many samples of shaped lace garments are shown as inspiration. [6 hrs]
110 - Sideways Lace Design
Side-to-side crescent shaped shawls are great fun to knit and provide an easy introduction to designing. Choose between a few basic options to begin your crescent shape, then explore side-to side knitted lace edgings, choosing one to showcase in your shawl. We will discuss lace edgings, rates of increase and decrease, charts and also adding beads to lace, including choosing the perfect bead and placements for beads within a lace design. For Intermediate/Advanced Knitters. Must know how to knit and purl, perform basic increases and decreases including yarn overs, and be comfortable with working from charts. [6 hrs]
Michele has taught locally at yarn stores in Portland and Corvallis, and at the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival. She loves teaching and feels it's really important for knitters to know what they're doing, and why. "It's not just about making the motions of knitting; it's important to see how stitches are formed so you can reverse the process and undo them!" Michele designed Rosaria, the mystery knitalong shawlette for the 2014 Rose City Yarn Crawl, a local event in Portland in which 18 yarn shops participated.
104 - Cast Ons/Bind Offs
How many cast ons do you know? Why do you use the one that you use? Tired of running out of yarn with your long tail cast on? Come to class and learn some new tricks! We'll cover long tail, knitting on, cable cast on, crochet provisional cast on, and more depending on time. We'll also talk about when/why you might choose one over another, and some bind offs that go well with your new cast ons. [3 hrs]
Materials: Bring smooth, light colored worsted weight yarn, and straight or 24" circular needles in the appropriate size for your yarn. (It will be easier to learn with a thicker yarn and a slightly longer needle tip.) Materials fee: $2 for handout covering cast ons/bind offs.
107 - Athena Entrelac Cowl
Athena is an entrelac cowl knit in the round. We'll have an introduction to entrelac knitting and we'll even talk about purling back without turning your work! You will go home with all the skills you need to complete this project. [3 hrs]
Materials: 100g worsted weight yarn with a long slow color change, like Crystal Palace Mochi Plus, or 50g each of two coordinating colors if you'd prefer contrasting rows of entrelac. (Wind yarn before class, if purchased in hanks.) 16 inch (40 cm) US size 8 (5.0 mm) circular needle, or size that gives you a pleasing fabric with your yarn. Materials Fee: $5 for Athena pattern and flat entrelac handout.
111 - Slip Stitch Designing
Colorwork using slipped stitches can look complicated, but only one color is worked per row. In this class, you'll learn several slipped stitch patterns using two or three colors (but only one per row!). Play with color and texture and experiment with your own ideas, too. Next, design a cowl using simple formulas and the slip stitch pattern of your choice. You're the designer in this project!
Materials: Please bring two or three 100g skeins of worsted weight yarn in contrasting colors, one variegated if you'd like, but the others should be semi-solid or solid. (Wind your yarn before class.) 16 inch (40 cm) US size 8 (5.0 mm) circular needle, or size that gives you a pleasing fabric with your yarn. Materials fee: $5 for handout covering slip stitch patterns and pattern for cowls. [3 hrs]
112 - Blocking - It's Magic!
Most knits need some blocking to make them look their very best. We'll discuss why, when, and how to block your knits. Topics will include steam blocking and wet blocking, blocking swatches and blocking as you go, and tools needed for blocking. We'll have several hands on blocking demonstrations. You will be amazed at the difference blocking makes! [3 hrs]
Laurinda has been crocheting for nearly 30 years and has taught crochet for over a decade. Her designs have won awards at the Crochet Guild of America's annual design competitions, including the Grand Prize in 2012 for her Reversible Rowan Tree Vest. She has had published various designs and articles in various publications including Interweave Crochet, Vogue Crochet, Crochet Today and Crochet! She is the author of ReCrochetions Presents: Rowan's Learn to Crochet Sampler and Reversible Color Crochet, A New Technique, recently published by Interweave Press.
101 - Beyond Basic Crochet - Where to Stick It!
Are you ready for the next step after learning basic crochet? The hardest part about learning to crochet (and read crochet patterns) is knowing where to stick your hook! As you create a small Sampler Cowl, you will learn the many options: the back bump of a chain, front loop only, back loop only, in a chain space, in between stitches, front post, back post and you will be given tips on working evenly into the edges of a finished piece.
Prerequisite skills: Basic crochet stitches.
Materials: Bring a Size J or K crochet hook, 100g smooth bulky weight yarn, yarn needle, scissors, two 1 1/4 - 1 1/2" buttons, coordinating thread and a sewing needle. Materials fee: $5 for detailed handouts including pattern and all stitches taught. [3 hrs]
105 - Crocheted Cables Over the Edge - Edgeless and Reversible Cables
Most crocheted cables are worked on a background of solid stitches which certainly do not look the same on both sides. But what if you want just the cable, right up to the edge, no extra stitches on either side? What if you want a cable fabric that is truly reversible? We will begin with a basic understanding of how cables work in crochet, then learn how to break away from those flat boring edges to create cable scallops along the edges, and even make them reversible. You will learn how to use front and back post stitches to create edgeless cables of various sizes, and the trick for smoother cables along the edges that look good on both sides. You will make 2-3 Braided Cable Cuff Bracelets (or use as Coffee Cozies), and walk away ready to tackle any crocheted cable project. [3 hrs]
Prerequisite skills: Front and back post stitches in double crochet and treble crochet.
Materials: Bring a size H or I crochet hook, 50g dk weight yarn (solid or semi-solid), yarn needle, and scissors. Materials fee: $5 for detailed handouts including patterns and all stitches taught.
108 - Introduction to Reversible Intarsia Crochet
If you are frustrated by colorwork that only looks good on one side or want to avoid the little bits of the wrong colors bleeding between your color changes making your shapes blurry around the edges, then Reversible Intarsia Crochet is just the class for you. Using only half double crochet stitches, this class will teach how to avoid vertical stranding when changing colors between straight stitches before exploring how to create smooth diagonal lines between color changes, "late color changes", and when to carry the yarn to avoid diagonal stranding. We will discuss the basics of yarn management when working with multiple colors and applying these techniques to your own projects. [6 hrs]
Prerequisite skills: Basic crochet skills including how to join a new color in crochet.
Materials: Bring a size H or I crochet hook, 2-3 colors of smooth worsted weight yarn in a solid color, yarn needle and scissors. Materials fee: $5 for detailed handouts including all stitches taught.


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Session W20: Invited Session: Nuclear Power, One Year After Fukushima
11:15 AM–2:15 PM, Thursday, March 1, 2012
Room: 253C
Sponsoring Units: FPS FIP DCMP
Chair: David Wright, Union of Concerned Scientists
Abstract ID: BAPS.2012.MAR.W20.5
Abstract: W20.00005 : Nuclear Power in India
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M.V. Ramana
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India has ambitious plans for expanding nuclear power over the next few decades. A major accident in a densely populated country like India can be catastrophic and thus of concern. There are both technical and organizational requirements for safety of nuclear facilities. This talk will describe some of the organizational factors that safety theorists have identified and examine, from the publicly available information about incidents and failures at India's nuclear facilities to see if these requirements are met. It will also describe some of the reactions to the Fukushima accident from officials associated with nuclear energy in India.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2012.MAR.W20.5

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THE SHOOT • June 9th: 10 am – Noon
Join members of Boston's production community for an intense look at The Art of the Shoot. The discussion will illuminate feature, commercial, industrial and documentary considerations, with topics including: Producing, Directing, the DP's role, Choosing Technology, Camera Prep, Storyboards, On location responsibilities, Rates, Union and Non-Union issues, and more!
Speakers and Panelists:
• Bestor Cram – Executive Producer, Northern Light Productions
• Eric D'Amario – Producer, Redtree Productions
• Courtney Kilmartin – Stylist
• Richard Klug – Documentary/Commercial Director
• Stephen McCarthy – Cinematographer
• Chris O'Donnell – Business Manager, IATSE Local 481
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Bestor Cram – Executive Producer, Northern Light Productions
Northern Light Productions has been engaged in non-fiction motion picture production for more than 25 years. Today, they are admired for their creative excellence and technical innovation as designers and producers of museum media environments, interactive exhibits, and feature programming for television and theatrical release. Their interest in non fiction filmmaking is continuously expanding across boundaries- seeking to navigate this world through our imagination tempered by history, culture, science, arts and the humanities. http://nlprod.com
Eric D'Amario – Producer, Redtree Productions
Eric is a staff Line Producer and Head of Production at Redtree. While a good part of his work is bidding, landing & overseeing projects, he's spent the past 10+ years working on productions throughout the US, Europe/UK, and the Caribbean. Having produced live sporting events, in cranberry bogs, on cruise ships, as well as traditional commercial sets, his list of producing credits include clients such as Celebrity Cruiselines, Comcast/XFINITY, Ocean Spray, Volkswagen & Wendy's. Eric is also a 2nd AD with the Directors Guild of America. http://redtreeprod.com
Courtney Kilmartin – Stylist
Twenty years ago, Courtney walked onto her first commercial set and knew she had "found her people" – a group of smart, diverse, creative, problem-solving individuals all working in tandem yet with great autonomy. She was hooked – enough to turn away from a long coveted job at an ad agency in favor of being a self-employed wardrobe stylist and makeup artist in the film industry and loving (almost) every minute of it. Possessing an innate understanding that small details are integral to great stories and images combined with an unyielding passion for aesthetics, Courtney's work includes national commercials and print campaigns for Coca Cola, Volkswagen, McDonalds, TJ Maxx and Reebok to name a few.
Richard Klug – Documentary/Commercial Director
As a Director and Cinematographer of commercials, documentaries, short films and web content, Richard works with advertising agencies, corporations and non-profits to plan, create and implement visual communication strategies. He is a filmmaker with wide experience in interactive video, interviews, celebrities, locations, tabletop and high speed photography. 35mm film, 16mm film and digital high definition video. In addition to his work for 50 Eggs Films (Lemonade Stories, we are BlackRock, and Ten9Eight), Richard has shot commercials for Gillette, ESPN, Hummer, McDonald's, Hewlett-Packard, Volkswagen, and Ocean Spray. His work has won Gold awards at the One Show, Communication Arts, the Telly Awards, the International Film & TV Festival of New York, Boston's Hatch Awards, Hugo, Cindy and Cine Golden Eagle festivals, as well as Minneapolis' The Show. http://vimeo.com/richardklug
Stephen McCarthy – Cinematographer
Stephen is a director of photography with nearly thirty years of experience in non-fiction filmmaking. His work appears regularly in prime time documentary series including PBS's American Experience, American Masters, Frontline, Nova, Nova: Science Now and P.O.V. Stephen's recent credits include the Peabody- and Emmy-award-winning My Lai by frequent collaborator Barak Goodman, two seasons of HBO Family's Masterclass by Oscar-winning producers/directors Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, and Bill Haney's feature documentary The Last Mountain, which premiered in the documentary competition at 2011's Sundance Film Festival. Mr. McCarthy's photography has been featured most recently in Richard Gordon's Inside The Goat Rodeo Sessions – a behind-the-scenes documentary about recording the hit cross-over bluegrass album featuring Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan and Chris Thile; Clinton, a four-hour biography of the 42nd president – also by Barak Goodman – which joined American Experience's The Presidents series in 2012; Nova's Cracking Your Genetic Code and PBS's Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Stephen lives in Boston with his wife and daughter. http://imdb.com
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About"It was the party of a lifetime," "you took us into a new zone of celebration" and "the band absolutely rocked" are only some of the very common reviews Amsterdam receives. This powerhouse collection of seven musical prodigies is taking the social event scene by storm! With an all-star cast of hand-selected musicians from Philadelphia to Texas, Amsterdam is guaranteed to leave a lasting impression on you and your guests. Their youthful energy and all round "fun-factor" is absolutely unmatched and versatility is Amsterdam's middle name. Whether you love the sounds of a smooth sax solo, a beautiful piano ballad, or a rockin' DJ-Drum Duo, Amsterdam's multi-talented musicians and fantastic vocalists can make any of your musical ideas come to life flawlessly. No matter what type of event you are planning, Amsterdam is a must-see! Amsterdam's proud bandleader has an affinity for making each and every event perfect. Leslee truly understands attention to detail. It's the exact type of experience she and her team offer each and every guest of honor on their special day. From the first meeting to the last dance, Leslee makes the event planning experience exciting and unforgettable.
- Amsterdam's DJ has headlined for huge crowds at the biggest Atlantic City Nightclubs
- Amsterdam's musicians have opened for sell-out artists Beyonce Knowles, Green River Ordinance, Person L, Mae, The Ataris, Deas Vail, Matt and Kim and The Gym Class Heroes
- Amsterdam's vocalists have been featured on BET Television
- Each member of Amsterdam has been on national tours
Latest Reviews
Lorraine's Wedding
Dear Jonathan, I just wanted to let you know that Amsterdam was absolutely amazing. We can't thank you enough for a job well done. If you have contact with the band members please let them know how much we enjoyed them. Thanks again for your help along the way. Lorraine Photo courtesy of Faith West […]
Donna's Wedding
Jonathan, We had an amazing day and the band was great. Amsterdam was great to work with and I would definitely use Amsterdam in the future. I will be sure to recommend them to my friends. Thank you so much for your help. Donna Giosa Photo courtesy of Lafayette Hill Studios
Allison's Wedding
I am a HUGE review person and I base a lot of my decisions in life on reviews that I read. BUT, I have never written a review until now. Amsterdam and EBE will be my first ever review, so you know they must have been amazing. From my first conversation with Jonathan, I knew […]


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Watch Out for These 11 Types at Lollapalooza
Friends, Romans, dudes in bucket hats, lend me your vintage Tears for Fears t-shirts, for Lollapalooza is finally here!
This weekend, Chicago's Grant Park will be overrun by the hippest Chicagoans (and tourists) looking to drink expensive beer and get sunburned while watching some of today's hottest musical acts.
Since the only thing more exciting than the music will be the people watching, here are 11 types of people to look out for while pretending to enjoy Kings of Leon.
These are the dudes you usually see in Logan Square or Roscoe Village pushing strollers mid-day. They have shaggy hair and somehow gained five pounds of muscle after having a baby girl named Arya. And their band is totally going on tour again once she's in kindergarten, seriously, dudes.
Usually seen: With a model-hot wife in a sundress and a toddler dressed better than you
Although Enthusiastic Air Drummers can be both sexes, they are typically men. You will usually notice them due to their flailing arms or the fact that no one will stand next to them. Fun fact: they never know the music they air drum to, so make sure to watch them during the final few moments of a song. Their awkward "wind down" is food for the soul.
Usually seen: Carrying a freebie backpack from Marquette University filled with sunscreen, condoms and an EpiPen
Lollapalooza is covered heavily by fashion bloggers, whether they represent Elle.com or someone's well-designed Tumblr. Look out for people with multiple braids (Medusa-style) wearing Birkenstocks with socks. Yup, those are the cool kids now.
Usually seen: With a similarly dressed crew—aside from one normal-looking friend in a polka dot Forever 21 dress
These guys spend $250 on a weekend festival "just because," and also happen to be named Trey. Plus, they know all of the wrong lyrics to every song, and like to sing them directly into your ears no matter where you are standing.
Usually seen: Spilling three cups of beer on you while he pumps his fist during a slow song
Even though Chvrches is playing the fest, the Pseudo-Hipster came to Lollapalooza to see Childish Gambino ("the only rapper I like") and Foster the People. There is usually one thing "off" about an otherwise "hip" outfit.
Usually seen: Wearing a waist belt positioned too close to her bra-line, accompanied by a gang of guys in graphic tees
These kids travel in packs of 20 and only like rap music and Skrillex. They also have the best weed, so….
Usually seen: With an endless supply of cash and a gaggle of giggling teenage girls
Drinking vodka out of an Ice Mountain water bottle is the new rite of passage for today's teen. I once saw a 14-year-old in a tube top dress smuggle alcohol using the gap between her thighs. I think she's married to the president now.
Usually seen: Drunk and crying on her cell phone, saying, "where's Lisa?!"
These are the festival-goers who combined so many drugs that now they're just kind of neutral. Even though they might be covered in blood and hobbling around Walking Dead-style, they're completely harmless. Just push them in the direction of the First Aid tent and get yourself a celebratory lobster corn dog.
Usually seen: Staggering between stages with gigantic pupils
These kids travel in packs of 20 and only like rap music and Skrillex. They also have just-okay weed, so….
Usually seen: Bragging about jumping the gate to their rich friends
This is just a fancy term for "the most average-looking person you can think of." Expect Cold Toast to tell you his or her name three times and then try to ask you what your college major was. You won't notice Cold Toast, but you will feel their body heat as 5,000 of them press against your every pore. They're also the reason Eminem is headlining.
Usually seen: With other white people from Loyola University
The Bachelorette runner-up is from Chicago, works in sales, and wears pretty tight pants, so chances are he'll be there. He might even be ready to do "fiance-type" stuff again, just so long as you don't write "you'll find love again someday" on all of his Instagram selfies.
Usually seen: Holding a suitcase full of henley tees
Kristina Felske is a writer, actor and improviser currently living in Chicago. She is an editor and regular contributor to the humor site The Other Otter and has a performance-y resume posted on kristinafelske.com. You can tweet her @kristinafelske.


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I found this article to be quite fascinating. I have struggled for years with how to walk out my Judaism outside of Orthodox Judaism. I have never been interested in it and I am still not, but Reformed or Conservative Judaism, maybe. I live in Germany at the present time but will be moving to the United States within the next 6 months. I do not know where there closest congregation would be. Can you help me? I would not know where to begin.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.


text: In captivity the breeding season starts during September to October, marked by increasing displays of aggression between members of the same sex (Stephenson et al., 1994). Most births in captivity occur from November to January and in the eastern humid forest generally from late November to early December, coinciding with the early part of the rainy season, when food is plentiful. Information from field notes and observations in captivity suggest that one litter of two to three infants per year is the norm. Infants open their eyes at 28 days old (Stephenson et al., 1994).


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Glutamine. Do you crave sugar? How can you reduce your cravings for sugar and alcohol? The supplement glutamine (L-glutamine) is known to help reduce these cravings. I discuss sugar cravings. Glutamine also has benefits for muscle size.
Tip: Glutamine reduces sugar cravings. A nutrition expert recommends its use for weight loss diets.
Tip 2: It helps muscle growth. Scientific research shows it increases muscle development.
Tip 3: It is found in protein powder: Protein powders contain glutamine—check the ingredients. A separate supplement may be unnecessary.
Sugar cravings. I referenced the book "Living Low Carb" by Johnny Bowden, PhD. On page 307, we learn "glutamine is your secret weapon against carbohydrate cravings" and that glutamine "has a remarkable ability to curb the urge for something sweet."
Also: Glutamine is known as L-glutamine and it is commonly used as a bodybuilding supplement. Health food stores will carry glutamine.
As noted in Living Low Carb, glutamine can be taken in capsules or powders. In my experience, powders are more convenient because the powder dissolves well and does not taste terrible.
Dosage. Typically, the supplement package provides a suggested dosage. You can often take a teaspoon and simply mix a spoonful with some water and drink that. This is done either on a daily basis or when you have a sugar craving.
Bodybuilding. I use sports supplements. Physicians have found that these supplements are useful in helping patients in critical care. One supplement, glutamine, is used by bodybuilders in gaining muscle mass. Does glutamine increase muscle mass?
Note: Glutamine is helpful to bodybuilders. But it is unclear whether a supplement is necessary.
An unusual study. Some researchers in China injected glutamine and carbohydrates into duck eggs. The pectoralis muscle mass of the ducks that were injected with glutamine was much larger than in the other ducks.
The results of the present study suggest that in ovo injection of glutamine and carbohydrates improves small intestine development and pectoralis mass, which is probably due to sparing of breast muscle protein.Influence of in ovo injection of glutamine
Increase muscle mass. It is likely that glutamine plays some role in increasing muscle mass. This possibly carries over to humans as well. In humans, as in ducks, muscle is muscle.
Solid conclusions? We can't make any solid conclusions from the study I referenced above. However, glutamine could help people who want to gain muscle weight, such as bodybuilders, weightlifters and football players.
And: It seems like it would be a good supplement to use intermittently—with some caution, with reservation.
Muscle. In the research, glutamine supplementation was shown to help pectoralis muscle growth. But a complete training program and nutritional strategy in addition to glutamine would be more effective.
Tip: To get visible pecs, try doing parallel bar dips. Also try doing barbell squats.Parallel Bar DipsHeavy Squats
Story. In my early bodybuilding days, I used a glutamine powder. This was part of my supplement regimen—creatine monohydrate, glutamine, and whey protein. In retrospect, this was too many supplements.Creatine
As a bodybuilder, I should have focused on the whey protein and my diet. The glutamine was not helpful for me at that early stage. I was not an elite athlete. I was a beginner. Years later, I caution against over-supplementation.
Plus: The glutamine supplement tasted bad. It probably led to no extra muscle gains. It wasted my hard-earned money.
Summary. Glutamine is a useful supplement for people who are trying to reduce their sugar intake. By using glutamine supplements, you can reduce your sugar or alcohol cravings. There is also evidence that glutamine will help you gain muscle mass.


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So, in the coming months Google will be launching a HTML5 web development tool targeted at creative agencies and designers.
My geeky mind thought about that, remembered geocities and thought - boy we've come a long way.
My APEX mind read that and thought - I wonder how many similarities this may have with a tool like Oracle Application Express, and I wonder what we might be able to learn from it?
I wonder what sort of databases could be attached to it, or maybe a good API into further enhanced HTML5 storage capabilities will make other databases superfluous in this instance?
There are a number of tools out there today that probably do whatever Google is going to do, but with Google's brand and inertia, we might just give the crazies an even more effective tool for duping the masses.
I'm also interested what it might mean for bloggers...?


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Obama administration is using intimidation with shades of fascism
I have been politically active for most of my life. Never have I seen a more serious threat to our nation and our liberty than the current IRS scandal. This is government at its worst.
One can rationalize, apologize, theorize or legalize. There is no excuse for using the IRS, the FBI, or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for political intimidation. It is illegal with overtones of fascism and communism. There is no selective enforcement of the law for political purposes. There is no "nuance," as opined in The Vindicator last week.
For those who are willing to dismiss what has happened as just a tea-party thing, you should remember it was the Progressives who pioneered the use of 501(C)(3) and (4) organizations as political vehicles. The sanctity of donor lists as applies to these organizations dates back to the NAACP during the civil-rights movement. More recent examples include ACORN, Media Matters, Moveon.org, and the Ruckus Society (the Occupy Wall Street people).
The president's campaign committees from both elections have morphed into a 501(C) (4) called Organizing for Action. One hears of no IRS holdup or scrutiny for any of these groups. All of these organizations have used 501 (C) vehicles to promote a political agenda in the guise of community organizing, media research or social welfare. But let the tea party take a page from the Progressive playbook, and all hell breaks loose.
I support all public servants. The IRS has a thankless job. Most employees are good and honest civil servants trying to do good work. But something happened. You have to be off in space not to begin to connect the dots. These good employees could not and would not have come up with this on their own. Somebody had to tell them to do it. They achieved their goals. It helped swing an election.
Election campaign laws are neutral. It's the enforcement that is bad. The erosion of freedom comes slowly so it's not noticed. The current administration is walking a very thin Nixonian line.
It is corrupt to the core. Today they went after the tea party. Who will they go after tomorrow?
When it happens to you, it's not so funny. Government largesse or scrutiny is a door that swings both ways.
Atty. Mark G. Mangie, Canfield
Youngstown policeman enhanced visit to city for Pickler concert
On May 29, my daughter, sister and I headed to Youngstown and Stambaugh Auditorium to see country singer Kellie Pickler perform. The concert was great. Pickler and her opening act both put on a great show.
When we got to the auditorium, we saw a Youngstown police officer (Joe Fergus) who we stopped to ask about parking.
He was just so nice and went out of his way to show us the best place to park, and when we went to cross the street he helped us cross safely.
I just wanted to give a shout out to him as he went above the call of duty and made himself available to us twice that evening.
Melody Province, Sharon, Pa.
America must remain vigilant against acts of domestic terrorism
Should we as a nation become more aggressive in domestic surveillance after the Boston Marathon bombings?
As more and more people of interest come forward in this incident, these questions are asked: Could this have been foreseen?
Is our intelligence-gathering community missing key indicators, or are they hampered by political red tape?
Should we look at how intelligence is gathered and reviewed and what may slip through the creaks?
Great care must be taken, however, to ensure that the rights of the individual are never in jeopardy.
We have enemy combatants on American soil just waiting to get the phone call. A good example is the Anna Chapman ordeal of a few years ago, when the KGB was alive and well here in the United States.
Islamic militant groups are also a threat and are ever present both here and abroad. We must become ever vigilant to this growing threat to our security. A clear and present danger exists and must be addressed with all deliberate speed to identify these threats to our national security, both foreign and domestic.
Jim Eidel, Beaver Township
Concealed-carry permit holders need education on limits of use
Fox News recently reported that a young military veteran, in defending his home from a would-be break-in by a burglar, was arrested and in big trouble.
The news report made it sound as if this was a terrible injustice. They reported the home owner kept firing his gun at the assailant as he was running away. That is where the big trouble happened. Military training to the contrary, I hope the criminal-justice system cuts him some slack.
Any concealed-carry class will teach students that when the aggression against you or your family has stopped, your deadly response stops. While you can legally have a gun in your home for personal defense, you must know the rest of the laws covering its use.
Home ownership and concealed-carry permits for firearms are only that — to own and/or to conceal and carry.
If you fire or even brandish your weapon, there are other laws that cover those infractions, and you better know them.
Gun ownership for self-defense requires responsible and safe-handling knowledge. Concealed- carry classes are worth their weight in gold.
Tom Page, Boardman
All involved in Austintown schools helped district earn highest rating
Austintown Local SCHOOLS recently received the Excellent with Distinction rating from the Ohio Department of Education for the 2011-12 school year. As a past member of the Austintown Board of Education for 28 years, I congratulate the residents of Austintown, the parents of our students, the students, the teachers, staff, members of the Board of Education and our Superintendent Vincent Colaluca.
The Excellent with Distinction rating from the Ohio Department of Education is a great honor achieved with dedication of all involved with the education of our Austintown students.
This rating places the Austintown schools above many other schools in the United States and indicates that the Austintown schools are among the best in kindergarten through 12th-grade education standards. This is not an award that is given but an award that is earned by all involved.
I am proud to be a resident of Austintown and proud to say that our schools received the Excellent with Distinction rating, a designation that does not come easy.
Congratulations to everyone for a job well done.
Joyce Pogany, Austintown
Atty Mangie As long as Obama keeps giving the people FREE stuff, they feel why should they work. So they will keep voting in Dumbocrats until all the money is gone. Let's face it Obammy doesn't have the B@!!s or the brains to fix any of this countries problems. If he did they would have been fix by now. I know the dumbocrats will be saying its the republicans fault. Well the way I see it they should open up their eyes before its too late.
@natureman Unemployment is still 7.8% , millions of dollars spend on useless projects, fast and Furious etc. But if these are okay with you then it just shows how naïve you are. Or you are one of the WELFARE MOB who has gained a lot under his leadership The national debt has risen to twice as much as when he took office. Maybe you should take off the rose colored glasses before its too late. We are losing our rights almost daily under this socialist pig. Then again maybe you are one of the 99% who feel that the Gov't has to take care of them .for life
"In carrying its work, OFA will operate as a "social welfare" organization within the meaning of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code."
There is your proof right there, right off Organizing for Action's website. You can read about it in its "About" Section, or you can read about it on Wikipedia.
So either they are a 501(c)4, or they are not and they are holding themselves out to be one. Which one is it?
While they might have two years to fill out the paperwork as they claim, the fact they are still soliciting funds under the guise of the 501(c)4 framework to me seems about on par with how the Obama Administration does business.
To me, that is a pretty shady move, but given everything this administration claims not to have been involved in the last five years, I am not surprised they would operate in this manner.
A new word has been discovered - INEPTOCRACY - A system of govt. where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, & where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods & services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Yes Cathy, with all that is going on in this country, Obama is AWOL - MIA.
No answers - no leadership - ZILCH.
When Obama wanted to relieve the world of Osama, he sent the NAVY SEALS to accomplish it. When the NAVY SEALS needed help in Benghazi, Obama let the NAVY SEALS down.
Obama - AWOL - MIA
REMEMBER, everything Hitler did was legal.
Those wer prices when Obama took office.
Hitlers genocide. Atrocity.
Saddam Hussein gassing Kurds. Atrocity.
IRS looking closely at a 501(c)4 application...
Um, Cathy, did anybody die? Did the IRS kill anybody? Actually, did they break any laws? Eh, you got your best man Darrel Issa on it, give him few more months to find something. Ya got 3 more years. What else does he have to do, besides his job.
Right on henry. The conservative entertainment complex plays these loons like a piano, all for a profit. Now i see that Sarah "("i dont know where Africa is") Palin is back on Fox as an expert foreign policy commentator.
parlayhenry hit the nail on the head. The head of the IRS was appointed by bush a mainstream republican. Who is it that the teabaggers hurt? The answer is mainstream republicans because no one with a half of a brain would vote with the teabaggers. If you're looking for who would benefit from going after the teabaggers look at the guy bush appointed not Obama. The teabaggers are defective and irrelevant but I hope they never go away because they will keep a Democrat in the White House as long as they exist.
Fantastic letter zz3. 85% of youngstowners have no idea what is going on in this country.
Three former great cities, Cleveland, Detriot, and Youngstown are in the dumper. Can cambridge or thinktalk tell me when was the last time any of these cities, had a Repub mayor?
One of the commentators called TEA party members "loons". I don't understand that. Their position (the Tea Party) is that the Federal Government is out control, that we pay too much in taxes for programs that don't work (apart from outright waste) and that the taxpayers should have greater control as to how their (hard-earned) money is spent.
Now, if That is "Lunacy", then, I guess, I prefer lunacy to so-called "Sanity" (defined by the Liberals) any day!
Furthermore, the Tea Party position and attitude is very close to that of the Patriots who founded this country: the original Boston Tea Party which resisted British oppression. If they had "knuckled under" to central authority, we'd still be British Subjects. Remember, Our Constitution gives us, the People, the right to overthrow a government which becomes oppressive (Liberals don't like to hear that- which is why they hate the Constitution- except where it suits their purposes).
If the Tea Party members remind me of Boston Patriots, it's equally true, Liberals, most of them, remind me of Bolsheviks. They preach class envy and hatred in exactly the same way. And we know what the Bolsheviks did to the Russian People- subjected them to 70 years of tyranny and impoverishment.
For PH- Nice rant! So, whose the Looney? All I said is that Tea Party supporters reminded me of Boston Patriots and Liberals (most of them) reminded me of Bolsheviks. I stand by my statement.
And, by the way, none of this (at least for me and, I believe, the overwhelming majority of Conservatives is RACIAL) the race issue is just a "red herring" thrown out by Libs to deflect attention from the real issues.Bottom Line: Obama is a nice, highly intelligent African-American man with a nice family with whom I disagree on issues. Jimmy Carter was a nice, highly intelligent Southern Caucasian man with a nice family with whom I disagreed on issues. Get it? Both Liberals- with similar values- and my opposition to them is based on their values, not their skin color and, I believe, the majority of Conservatives feel that way. So, who is the real racist?
By the way, Liberals- Democrats in general- haven't done a hell of a lot to benefit African-Americans in a long time- if they ever did. Look at their actual record- discounting the stump speeches. Makes pretty sad reading. Only an Ostrich with their head in the sand would continue supporting that party.
zz3 just needs to use a spell check program and clean up his grammar a bit- I know what he's getting at though.
PH's attack- in it's viciousness- reminds me of a sadistic school teacher ridiculing a student for grammatical errors in front of the whole class. Reading her post (I assume it's a woman- they're usually the cruelest), I detected a number of errors which I won't enumerate.
P.S. I imagine, anyone reading my posts would find a lot of mistakes, too. As far as I know, only one perfect human being (and He was half-God) ever existed- Jesus Christ.
Benghazi - Fast & Furious - IRS - Fox - NSA - AP. WOW, what a fine liberal record. All this plus a welfare state.
President Obama's trip this month to Africa, with the first family tagging along, is projected to cost taxpayers as much as $100 million, sparking criticism as the federal government scrimps along during sequester-related budget cuts.
Among the related costs will be fighter jets; hundreds of Secret Service agents; a Navy ship with a full trauma center; and military cargo planes to bring 56 vehicles including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bulletproof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay. The details were reported by The Washington Post, based on a confidential planning document.
The trip to sub-Sahara Africa runs from June 26 to July 3.
And, young children cannot visit the Whitehouse because of the sequester.
Chuck Grassley: IRS To Pay $70 Million In Employee Bonuses
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Sign Up ..Follow:Video, Internal Revenue Service, Chuck Grassley, Chuck Grassley Irs, Grassley, irs, Irs Bonuses, Irs Employees, Politics News .WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator.
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees' union on Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the White House budget office.
The directive was written by Danny Werfel, a former budget official who has since been appointed acting IRS commissioner.
"The IRS always claims to be short on resources," Grassley said. "But it appears to have $70 million for union bonuses. And it appears to be making an extra effort to give the bonuses despite opportunities to renegotiate with the union and federal instruction to cease discretionary bonuses during sequestration."
The IRS said it is negotiating with the union over the matter but did not dispute Grassley's claim that the bonuses are imminent.
Office of Management and Budget "guidance directs that agencies should not pay discretionary monetary awards at this time, unless legally required," IRS spokeswoman Michelle Eldridge said in a statement. "IRS is under a legal obligation to comply with its collective bargaining agreement, which specifies the terms by which awards are paid to bargaining-unit employees."
And, young children cannot visit the Whithouse because of the sequester.
The NSA didn't stop Benghazi or the Boston bombers.....Maybe they're only interested in the Tea Partiers.
The IRS spent 50M on "line dancing" & gets a 70M bonus. Maybe, next year, if they spend 100M, on line dancing, they will get a larger bonus.
And, the poor kids cannot visit the Whitehouse,
Only in America.
Right on Parlay Henry! I hate them right back!
So Tea Party members are mostly white, what does that prove? It has nothing to do with any of the issues they raise. I can think of other organizations- NAACP, Urban League, Junior League, Opera Guild, etc. etc.- you name it- that are mostly one race or gender or socioeconomic group or whatever- and that fact proves absolutely nothing- it's a statistical artifact.
The fact is, anybody- of whatever race who wants to go to a Tea Party Rally- would be welcome and treated with respect. (I saw news footage of their rallies and that fact was clearly in evidence, which is more than can be said of the "Occupy Wall Street" lefto-rallies: public defecation, rape, anti-Semitic rants, etc: a kind of deranged, debased, corrupted "Woodstock".)
For that matter, talking about race and gender statistics, most African-Americans and most Women vote for Democrats (90 per cent in the case of Blacks, unbelievable considering the racist history of that party). The only thing I can say to that- as Rush Limbaugh likes to say- these are "low-information" voters. Anybody knowledgeable- especially in history- couldn't possible support that corrupt gang.
P.S. For evidence locally, look at the Mahoning Valley: what has exclusive Dem Control for 70 years done for, or, more specifically, TO us all this time? Study the record. And cry in your beer.
"We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world, including my own country....."
Barack Hussain Obama
Recent NSA wiretap between Bob & Jim:
Bob: "Did you hear about the Obama administration scandal?"
Jim: "You mean the Mexican gun running?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean SEAL Team 6 Extortion 17?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the State Department lying about Benghazi?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the voter fraud?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the military not getting their votes counted?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the president demoralizing and breaking down the military?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the Boston Bombing?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the president wanting to kill Americans with drones in our own country without the benefit of the law?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the president arming the Muslim Brotherhood?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The IRS targeting conservatives?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The DOJ spying on the press?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The NSA monitoring our phone calls, e-mails and everything else?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's ordering the release of nearly 2,000 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons and falsely blaming the sequester?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's threat to impose gun control by Executive Order in order to bypass Congress?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's repeated violation of the law requiring him to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate's advise-and-consent role?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "HHS employees being given insider information on Medicare Advantage?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "Clinton, the IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "I give up... Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65 million low-information voters stuck us again with the most corrupt administration in American history?"
Bob: "THAT'S THE ONE!"
Dems: Do you really think its okay for Obama to be a liberty-stealing, war-mongering power abuser just because George Bush was? I get it, Republicans annoy you because they loved a mediocre GOP president and ignored all his obvious shortcomings. Can you not see that you are doing the same thing? I sure remember a lot of outspoken freedom/privacy/peace loving Democrats back during the Bush era. Where are your voices now?
Reps: Seriously, you can't complain about Obama if you were defending or supporting Bush. You just can't.
Everyone: Ditch the parties because they are manipulating you. Republicans suddenly want immigration reform just like Obama suddenly changed his mind on gay marriage (at age 50). It wasn't sympathetic immigrant stories or seeing Sasha's and Malia's friends with gay/lesbian parents that sparked these changes of heart, it was votes.
Study the Constitution and history - then make your own decisions and please stop blaming the other side.
Margaret Thatcher's Funeral:
You probably already know this, but in case it slipped your mind, here's a reminder of some recent history....
President Obama was a no-show at Margaret Thatcher's funeral despite being invited to attend and thus snubbing England's invitation as a representative of the American people.
Joe Biden also refused, as did Hillary Clinton. (By the way, former Secretary of State George Schultz went to the funeral……)
The British took note of the fact that the Obama administration chose not to send a single senior member of the Cabinet.
In fact, no actively serving, elected Democrat attended Lady Thatcher's funeral.
The Obama Administration did, however, send a formal delegation to the funeral of Socialist Dictator Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died last month.
Need any more red flags???
Atty Mangie, You have to remember one thing about all the criminal activity of these gub'mint organizations in the last 5 years. MAObama the so-called smartest man-child to ever step foot in the Oval Office, "found out about them while reading the paper". Just like all of us!
Show me a democrat and I'll show you someone with their hands out. Gimme, gimme, gimme. It's no surprise this town is full of democrats, because 9 out of 10 people have their hands out, living off the hard work of people like me. It's enough to make me sick. And this stupid talk about Bush. I can't believe there's enough cool aide for all these dopes to drink. If it wasn't for the non-democrats in this country, we'd go broke in a week. But this country is getting better and better all the time under Obama. We just haven't figured out how. Thank god he's in Africa instead of here f'ing up something else.
Obama loves poor people - that's why he created so many more of them.
Obama's Net Worth
In 2007..............$ 1.3Million
In 2013..............$ 12.2 Million
That's an increase of 838%
He's doing great - Are you?
The only thing TRANSPARENT in Washington, DC, is the CORRUPTION.


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Correlate the understanding of the rules of engagement with the limited war ideology and its assumptions as seen through the perspective and experiences of the individual soldiers in the field in Vietnam.
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From the perspective of the individual, low-level soldier out in the field in Vietnam, the limited war ideology had little meaning. Individual soldiers, particularly at the enlisted level, are typically more interested in doing the job right in front of them and in staying alive than they are in issues of grand strategy or world politics. This makes a lot of sense. To them, it is small consolation to know that there is a good geopolitical reason behind the fact that their friends are dying.
The limited war ideology caused the higher levels of the chain of command to institute rules of engagement that were rather limiting. These rules made the job of the individual soldier rather harder. They were forced to have to worry a lot about doing the right thing as they fought. They also tended to feel as if they were not being allowed to fight as effectively as possible. This would be problematic for individual soldiers. The rules of engagement would make it harder for them to stay alive. It would feel as if their lives were being put at risk to satisfy the geopolitical visions of people in the higher echelons of power.
Thus, the individual soldier would have experienced the rules of engagement dictated by the limited war ideology as a problematic set of policies that made their own lives harder and put their lives at risk.
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Six months ago, 58-year-old Marty Vick quit his job at an auto parts plant and took a position as a machine builder for local solar startup company Xunlight Corp.
After 40 years making vinyl for vehicles at Textile Leather in North Toledo, leaving the only job he'd ever known was a tough decision. But with the auto industry in tatters, Vick saw the writing on the wall.
Last month, Textile Leather closed its doors for good, laying off 60 remaining employees.
"I knew it was coming," Vick said, as he stood next to shelves of photovoltaic solar panels in Xunlight's squeaky-clean plant on Nebraska Avenue. "I was lucky. The only one that's working now is me. Everyone else in unemployed."
Vick's seamless career transition may be an exception to the rule, but his story is by no means unique. At Xunlight, about half of the firm's 90 full-time employees previously worked in other industries, such as auto production and glass manufacturing, said CEO Xunming Deng. Their skills can be transferred to making solar panels and the machines that produce them.
"Toledo is an industrial town and there are a lot of people familiar with building equipment," Deng said. "Now, these people are working side by side with solar experts."
Indeed, while mass layoffs and high unemployment dominate news headlines, Toledo's burgeoning alternative energy industry has become a rare bright spot in an otherwise dismal economy.
Xunlight, which began pilot production of its thin-film solar products nine months ago, has tripled its work force in the last year, said Liwei Xu, Xunlight's co-founder and Deng's wife. Another 15 positions have yet to be filled.
In Perrysburg, two other solar firms are also hiring.
First Solar, which is based in Arizona, but manufactures all of its U.S. panels here, is expanding production at its Perrysburg plant, creating at least 134 new jobs to add to the current workforce of 700.
Willard & Kelsey Solar Group LLC, a new company set up by veterans from other local alternative energy firms, has announced plans to begin mass commercial production of solar panels in the coming months. The operation is expected to employ 400 people by the end of the year, with wages averaging $21 an hour.
Already, 6,000 people in the Toledo area are employed at firms contributing to solar cell development and manufacturing, according to the Regional Growth Partnership, a nonprofit economic development group.
While this number pales in comparison to the thousands of lost manufacturing jobs, area officials are optimistic that the expansion of Toledo's solar industry is a sign of greener things to come.
Kenneth Fallows, who leads the Environmental Council for the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, said the success of the existing solar firms here is helping to bring other companies to the area. UT's photovoltaic research facilities are another big attraction, he said.
"I think that Toledo really is on the threshold of being a leader in solar technology and solar manufacturing," Fallows said. "It's only one element, but it's one element that could attract other elements and parallel industries and manufacturers to support it."
Ryan Reiter, assistant for economic development to Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, said solar panel makers are not the only alternative industries to show promise. Toledo's manufacturing expertise and advantages as a distribution hub are attracting "green" entrepreneurs of all types from around the country, he said.
"Over the last two or three years, it's really started to pick up," Reiter said. "A lot of these guys are coming from the East and West Coast. These guys are known for their innovation, but they don't have skilled labor out there."
Among the startups that Reiter is working with is a firm interested in producing cellulosic ethanol, and another that makes lightweight materials for cars to improve their energy efficiency.
"I think this spring and summer is going to be very interesting," Reiter said. "We're close to brokering some good deals with some alternative energy companies."
Challenges to the development of full-fledged green jobs market remain, however. For new alternative energy companies to prosper, money is needed to get them off the ground, according to Dan Slifko, business development manager for the Regional Growth Partnership.
"A lot of this requires a tremendous amount of research and development, which means you have to come up with a tremendous amount of money on the front end of this," Slifko said.
Finding the money is particularly difficult at a time when access to credit has all but dried up. Nevertheless, companies, such as Xunlight have been able to take advantage of government grants and loans for alternative energy development. Willard & Kelsey is also seeking $100 million from the federal stimulus package to fund its expansion.
Ultimately, a real takeoff in the solar power market will depend on the consumer. Currently, virtually all of the solar panels produced in Northwest Ohio are shipped overseas or to other parts of the country. Solar power makes up only a tiny percentage of energy usage in the United States.
"That's where education comes in," Slifko said. "Our job is to get the information out: the technology's there, the research and development is there. We might not be ready to slap up a solar panel on every single house in this country, but clearly at some point in time, every person's going to have to play a part in this."
To Vick working at the Xunlight plant, the future for the solar industry, and his job, looks bright.
"This is going to be big," he said, confidently. "I'll retire from here, there's no doubt."


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Are you finding yourself so distracted by HOW Glee is going to make Season 4 work that you can hardly focus on the here-and-now?! You're not alone! We know we should be thinking about prom and graduation (and Quinn [Dianna Agron] walking! OMG!), but under the surface we can't help but freak out a lil' over all of the unknowns….
But never fear! Cory Monteith (Finn) is here to quell your fears. Cory tells E! "It's going to be Glee, but it's going to be a lot different."
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As E! points out, we've got a handful of those "geographical areas" on the radar already – among them the big one, NYC, along with L.A., Louisville and good ol' Lima. So how exactly will that work?
Entertainment Weekly has an update, though it's not exactly what we were hoping for. At the 2012 Upfronts, FOX president Kevin Reilly confirmed that Glee will, indeed follow a "show within a show" format — but he only mentioned locations in Ohio and New York City specifically. Does this mean that L.A, Yale, and all the other locations are out? Things aren't looking too good for Quinn, Puck (Mark Salling) and Mercedes' (Amber Riley) futures on the show.
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A drain pan for radiators and cooling systems includes a base panel which is molded or otherwise formed into a coffer shape defined by upstanding sidewalls extending continuously about the perimeter of the base panel. The base panel includes upwardly extending shoulders raised slightly above the base panel to support a grid formed of a plurality of upwardly extending panels. The shoulders define an X pattern on the base panel in addition to shoulder portions spaced inwardly of the sidewalls and extending parallel thereto. The upstanding panels are equally spaced and oriented parallel to perpendicular axes to form a rectilinear matrix. The base panel includes concave recesses at the corners of the coffer to accommodate wheels or rollers affixed thereto.
1. A drain receptacle for receiving effluent from a vehicle, comprising a pan having a base panel, a plurality of sidewalls extending upwardly from the perimeter of said base panel and formed integrally therewith, said side walls extending continuously about said base panel and defining therewith an upwardly opening coffer, said base panel including shoulder portions extending upwardly into said coffer and disposed in longitudinal fashion along said side wall, lattice means disposed in said coffer for attenuating and arresting wave motion in and spattering from liquid contained in said coffer, said lattice means impinging on and supported by said shoulder portions, wherein said base panel includes a plurality of corners, and a plurality of upwardly extending concave wall members, each disposed at one of said corners and extending between the sidewalls converging thereat.
2. The drain receptacle of claim 1, wherein said lattice means includes a plurality of upwardly extending panels disposed in spaced apart, intersecting fashion, said upwardly extending panels being substantially equal in height to said sidewalls.
3. The drain receptacle of claim 1 further including a plurality of wheeled assemblies each secured in subjacently depending fashion from one of said corners.
4. The drain receptacle of claim 1, wherein said base panel includes a resealable drain port extending therethrough.
5. The drain receptacle of claim 1, wherein the height of said sidewalls is substantially less than the lateral extent of said base panel.
6. The drain receptacle of claim 1, wherein said shoulder portions extend diagonally in said base panel, defining an X configuration to support medial portions of said lattice means.
7. The drain receptacle of claim 1, wherein said shoulder portions extend adjacent to said sidewalls and support a plurality of edges of said lattice means.
8. The drain receptacle of claim 7, wherein said shoulder portions are raised slightly with respect to said base panel to define a narrow, laterally extending open flow space between said base panel and the lower edge of said lattice means.
9. The drain receptacle of claim 1, wherein each of said sidewalls includes a lip at the upper distal portion thereof, said lip extending outwardly from said sidewall.
10. The drain receptacle of claim 9, wherein said lip also includes a subjacently depending portion extending substantially parallel to said sidewall.
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 06/104,009, filed Dec. 17, 1979, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,315,561.
The following United States patents comprise the closest known prior art:
U.S. Pat. No. 1,554,589
U.S. Pat. No. 1,568,830
U.S. Pat. No. 1,802,426
U.S. Pat. No. 3,410,438
U.S. Pat. No. 3,920,144
U.S. Pat. No. 4,054,184
U.S. Pat. No. 4,114,644
As shown in the references cited above, there is known in the prior art a plurality of receptacles and drains for flushing automotive radiators, cooling systems, and the like. These receptacles generally comprise containers having a low height profile to enable them to be placed under a vehicle to receive and retain the effluent from the vehicle cooling system. Some of these devices include interior chambers which store the liquid, as well as drain means for disposing of the liquids in a proper manner.
In many situations in which such a device is to be used, it is important to collect all of the effluent from the cooling system with spillage, spattering, and the like. For example, professional mechanics usually try to maintain their work space in a tidy condition, for safety and convenience as well as for professional pride. Likewise, do-it-yourself auto mechanics who work at home also wish to prevent spillage of cooling system effluent, due to the fact that these liquids often contain rust and anti-freeze substances which will stain driveways and garage floors. There is a an apparent deficiency in the relevant prior art, that deficiency being the lack of a drain receptacle which prevents spillage and spattering yet which is sufficiently portable to be moved from an effluent-receiving position beneath a vehicle, to a disposal position some distance away.
The present invention generally comprises a portable drain receptacle which is particularly adapted for receiving effluent from vehicle systems such as radiators, cooling systems, or the like. Its most salient features include a low height profile and supporting wheels or casters which permit the receptacle easily to be disposed beneath a vehicle, and to be rolled to a disposal facility. The invention is also particularly adapted to prevent spattering during reception of the effluent from the vehicle, and to prevent spillage of the effluent while the receptacle is being translated to a disposal site.
The drain receptacle includes a coffer formed of a generally rectangular base panel, and sidewalls being formed integrally therewith and extending upwardly from the perimeter thereof. The base panel includes a shoulder portion extending upwardly into the coffer and raised slightly above the base panel. The shoulder portions are spaced slightly inwardly of the side walls and extend therealong. In addition, two diagonally disposed shoulder portions intersect medially to define an X configuration. A salient feature of the invention is the provision of a matrix of othorgonally disposed, spaced apart panels which are supported at their distal ends and at medial portions by the shoulders and which extend upwardly approximately to the height of the sidewalls. The panels define a plurality of adjacent chambers which arrest spattering when liquid is drained into the coffer. The orthogonal panels also act to attenuate wave action in the effluent contained in the coffer, so that the receptacle may be turned, translated, or otherwise manipulated while full of liquid without spilling any of the contents.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the drain receptacle of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the drain receptacle of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the drain receptacle, shown without the lattice of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional elevation taken along line 4--4 of FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken along line 5--5 of FIG. 2.
FIG. 6 is an enlarged cross-sectional elevation showing the function of the drain receptacle of the present invention.
The present invention generally comprises a drain receptacle which is particularly adapted for use in draining and flushing vehicular radiators, cooling systems, and the like. As shown in FIG. 1, the drain receptacle of the present invention comprises a generally rectangular coffer 11 which is provided with a low height profile to facilitate free access for the receptacle in the low height clearance beneath vehicles. The coffer 11 is provided with wheels or casters 12 secured in subjacently depending fashion from the corners of the rectangular coffer.
With reference to FIGS. 3, 4, and 5, the coffer 11 is formed of a base panel 13 which is provided with the desired rectangular configuration. The coffer includes two pairs of opposed side walls 14 and 16 which extend in integral fashion from the perimeter of the base panel and are continuous about the perimeter. The base panel 13 is provided with upwardly extending shoulder portions 15 spaced inwardly of each side wall and extending parallel thereto. The base panel also includes shoulder portions 17 disposed in X fashion and extending diagonally in the base panel.
Each of the sidewalls 14 and 16 includes a lip 18 exending outwardly from the distal edge thereof. The lip 18 includes a depending portion 21 which extends generally parallel to the sidewall continuously about the periphery and is spaced outwardly therefrom. The lip 18 and portion 21 provide substantial structural rigidity to the receptacle. The depending portion 21 adds strength to the outer rim of the device 11, and also forms a convenient handhold to facilitate manipulation of the receptacle.
With reference to FIG. 6, the base panel 13 is provided with a drain hole 22, as is also shown in FIG. 3. The drain hole 22 includes a plug 23 which is selectively removable to permit disposal of effluent collected in the receptacle 11.
A salient feature of the present invention is the provision of a matrix or lattice of panels 24 and 26 disposed in orthogonal relationship and received within the cavity of the coffer. The panels 24 and 26 extend upwardly, and are supported at their medial portions and at their distal ends by the raised shoulders 15 and 17 of the base panel. The height of the panels is substantially equal to the distance between the shoulders 15 and 17 and the upper extent of the lip 18 of the sidewall.
It may be noted that the lattice arrangement of the orthogonally related panels 24 and 26 defines a plurality of rectangular chambers 27 which are open at their upper and lower ends. The lower ends of the chambers 27 are in open flow communication with the generally flat flow space 28 extending between the base panel 13 and the lower edge of the lattice. The flat flow space 28 permits the liquid retained in the coffer 11 to achieve a common liquid level among all of the chambers 27. The discontinuous shoulder portions do not interfere with the open flow in the space 28.
With reference to FIG. 6, the chambers 27 serve to prevent spattering which may otherwise occur when a stream of effluent 29 is directed into the coffer. The spatters and flying droplets which are created as the stream 29 strikes the base panel 13 or the liquid surface thereabove is attenuated and arrested by the upwardly extending surfaces of the panels 24 and 26. These flying droplets might otherwise attain sufficient velocity and trajectory to soil the surrounding workspace.
Another important function served by the lattice of panel 25 and 26 is the attenuation of wave motion in the liquid entrained in the coffer 11. As is known in the prior art, shallow drain pans which are substantially full of liquid are difficult to translate laterally, due to the fact that any slight motion of the drain pan will create sufficient wave action in the liquid stored therein to cause spillage over the sides of the drain pan. However, in the present invention, any significant amount of liquid retained in the coffer 11 will have a surface level disposed between the upper and lower extents of the panels 24 and 26. Due to the fact that wave motion is substantially a surface phenomenon, any wave front established in the liquid will almost immediately impinge upon the vertical surfaces of the walls 24 and 26, and be attenuated. As a result, the lattice prevents propagation of wave fronts across the surface of the liquid retained within the receptacle of the present invention. The outstanding benefit of this feature is that the receptacle 11 may be translated laterally; for example, the receptacle may be translated from a position beneath a vehicle to a disposal facility little or no risk of creating sufficient waves motion to cause spillage from the receptacle. Of course the wheels or casters 12 aid in this effect by providing smooth lateral translation of the receptacle.
With reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, the present invention provides concave recesses at the corners of the coffer 11 in which the wheels of casters 12 are secured. A concave panel 31 extends between the converging sidewalls 14 and 16 adjacent to their apex at a corner of the coffer 11. The lip 18 of the sidewalls is broader in width at this point in the structure. In the recess formed by the concave wall 31, and the depending portion of the portion 21, a block 32 is secured. Screws 33 or the like are received in the block 32 to secure the wheel or caster 12.
To employ the receptacle of the present invention, it is first rolled beneath a vehicle and disposed to receive effluent from a radiator, cooling system, or the like. The vehicle system has been opened to permit drainage therefrom, and the drain receptacle fills with the effluent from the vehicle's system. When the vehicle system is completely drained, it is resealed, and the drain receptacle is rolled from its position beneath the vehicle. At this point the drain receptacle may be rolled or otherwise transported to a disposal site where the plug 23 is removed from the drain hole 22, and the contents of the receptacle are released. Of course, the receptacle may be reused indefinitely.
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