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5.0 out of 5 stars With rare exception, attitude determines altitude,
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This review is from: Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude (Hardcover)
Long ago, I became convinced that most human limits are self-imposed. This is what Henry Ford had in mind when observing, "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're probably right." In this volume, Mark Murphy is convinced that attitude usually determines how much a person can increase her or his "altitude" (i.e. how high one can ascend to higher levels of personal growth, professional development, performance improvement). As he explains in the Introduction to this book, "Most new hires do not fail on the job due to a lack of skill. My company, Leadership IQ, tracked 20,000 new hires over a three-year period. Within the first 18 months, 46 percent of them failed (got fired, received poor performance reviews, or were written up). And as bad as that sounds, it's pretty consistent with other studies over the years and thus not too shocking."
He goes on to point out, "What is shocking, though, is why those people failed. We categorized and distilled the top five reasons why new hires failed and found these results [i.e. deficiency]:
1. Coachability (26%)
2. Emotional Intelligence (23%)
3. Motivation (17%)
4. Temperament (15%)
5. Technical Competence (11%)"
Murphy wrote this book primarily to help those who read it "to select the high performers that will fit with and excel in [the reader's] unique culture." He does expect his readers to replace "the traditional, and generally failed approaches to hiring" with what he recommends. That will require them to make various changes ("both mental and physical") as they work their way through the narrative.
There are frequent references to a metaphor, "Brown Shorts," throughout the book whose meaning and significance Murphy explains as "the unique attitudinal characteristics that make your company different from all others. They are a list of the key attitudes that define your best people, but they also describe the characteristics of the people who aren't making it. When you ask your candidates to `wear' your Brown Shorts, you're going to learn a lot from how they respond." All this is explain thoroughly in the book, and I agree with Murphy that Brown Shirts "is a crazy name" but its relevance to his key points is direct and substantial.
I was especially interested in what he has to say about two categories of candidates that he discusses: Bless Their Hearts ("great attitudes but lousy skills"), and Talented Terrors (their exact opposite). Most candidates possess a combination of attributes of both in varying proportions. Murphy explains what desired candidates possess and offers a quick three-part test to assess whether or not sufficient Behavioral Specificity is being obtained during a "Brown Shorts Discovery" interview. In fact, he provides a wealth of information, insights, and recommendations. Whenever doing so, he reiterates two key points: (1) that each culture is unique and (2) that the selection process should therefore seek the best fit of candidate with the given culture.
There is one other portion of Murphy's material that also needs to be noted: Word Pictures, a technique that he thoroughly explains in Chapter 7. Briefly, "it can be used to turn what you learned in Hiring for Attitude into a method for teaching attitude in orientations and onboarding and as a foundation of performance appraisal, coaching discussions, and so much more." Details are best revealed in context. However, I feel comfortable when suggesting that mastering the skills of using Word Pictures effectively will indeed provide the
"revolutionary approach" to which the book's subtitle refers. The potential applications of that approach are almost unlimited.
Although Murphy's focus is primarily on the hiring process, I think the same core values and principles that guide and inform that process should serve as the foundation of an organization's HR policies and procedures. Ultimately, the success of recruiting, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and talent management/ development depends almost entirely on first understanding - I mean REALLY understanding - one's culture and its unique defining characteristics.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Helpful Guide to Hiring,
Ian Gordon Malcomson (Victoria, BC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude (Hardcover)
Contrary to what many of us have been taught, the ideal person for the job is not necessarily the one with the best technical expertise. Mark Murphy, CEO of Leadership IQ, believes that in order to continue prospering companies and businesses must adopt a more effective process by which to identify the best available employee prospects based on a wider range of personal skills that reflect the ability to work with others, problem solve, think creatively, take risks, and show commitment. Recruiting the ideal person that will help build the business requires accessing information before and during an interview. "Hiring for Attitude" is full of ideas on how this can be accomplished: on-line surveys, word pictures, charts, probing, and advertising. The main thing here is that recruiters should seek as much guidance as possible from within company ranks to build that profile of what an effective employee should look like. The 'brown shorts' metaphor, while amusing, is also instructive. Based on a current Southwest Airline recruiting campaign, wearing brown shorts is meant to identify oneself as a person of unique qualities that stand out in a crowd and allows people to more easily identify who you are, good or bad. The worst thing a company can do is hire someone who presents as neutral in their attitude. Hiring an unknown person, according to Murphy, is a sure recipe for having to repeat the process six months to a year later. Once again, I enjoy reading these kind of motivational, self-help books for what they say about life in general when it comes to building relationships and networking.
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I was on the hiring panel for an IT position. We were unanimous in our decision regarding the person we hired and did we ever get it WRONG!. Our only saving grace was that it was a temp position. In our search to find out why, we read Mark's book and it certainly answered our question, (how do you do everything right and get it wrong?). We ran a permanent competition for the same position. The person in the temp position (who had now been in the position for about a year) applied for the job. We employed the techniques from Mark's book and the person finished last in the competition. For the permanent position, yes, we got it right. Thanks Mark.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book. Highly recommended,
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The Walt Disney Co. said today it is buying longtime partner Pixar Animation Studios Inc. for $7.4 billion in a deal that could restore Disney's animation domination while vaulting Pixar CEO Steve Jobs into a powerful role at the media conglomerate.
Disney will buy Pixar in an all-stock transaction that makes Jobs Disney's largest shareholder. Jobs will also join Disney's board.
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No unilateral disarmament in the Senate: "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) sent signals Sunday that the option of a filibuster of Judge Sonia Sotomayor was on the table, without committing to exercising that option. McConnell echoed the measured words of other Republican lawmakers, but said Senate Democrats had established the precedent of filibustering judicial nominees during the Bush administration. 'I think it's entirely too early to tell,' McConnell said of the chances of a filibuster on CNN's 'State of the Union' Sunday morning. 'I think the precedent has been firmly established.'" Set by then Senator Barack Obama, in fact.
Others are discovering that looking at the "wise Latina" comment as part of the entire 2001 speech doesn't help Sotomayor. Steve Chapman: "On the contrary, it fit neatly into her overall argument, which was that the law can only benefit from the experiences and biases that female and minority judges bring with them. She clearly thinks impartiality is overrated."
Not an Onion headline: "Democrats differ on 'wise Latina' defenses." No really: her backers are "struggling to come up with a coherent line of defense." She was joking. No, she misspoke. Maybe she changed her mind? Oy.
"Context" on the Ricci case doesn't help Sotomayor either. As John McCormack observes: "Sotomayor may have not wanted unqualified firefighters to be elevated to the position of captain and lieutenant–she simply wanted less qualified firefighters to be placed in charge of the lives of other men in the interests of racial diversity."
Ruth Marcus has figured out that the president's spin on Sotomayor's speech is bunk.
Lindsay Graham strikes the right tone: respectful, skeptical and taking full note of the Obama precedent of filibustering Supreme Court justices. And, yes, he slyly suggests an "apology" is in order from Sotomayor on the "wise Latina" speech. But here's the rub: "As an Illinois senator, Obama voted against both of President Bush's Supreme Court nominees not because he did not believe they were not qualified but disagreed with their legal philosophy. Graham said if he used Obama's reasoning he would find it tough to vote for Sotomayor."
One for the "president's popularity doesn't mean his policies are popular" file: "Only 21% of voters nationwide support a plan for the government to bail out General Motors as part of a structured bankruptcy plan to keep the troubled auto giant in business. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% are opposed to a plan that would provide GM with $50 billion in funding and give the government a 70% ownership interest in the company."
Is it time for a "change" on our North Korea policy? "The U.S. is now working to secure a fresh U.N. sanctions resolution, and good luck making that stick. North Korea has never honored any commitment, or abided by any convention, or respected any international law. And until some very clear signal is sent by the U.S. and its allies that they will not be gulled again by the allure of negotiations, it never will."


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A week after President Obama's stirring remarks at the Tucson memorial service comes an important Civility Test for liberals.
ABC's Jonathan Karl reports that Democratic Representative Steve Cohen went to the well of the House and compared what Republicans are saying on health care to the work of the infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
"They say it's a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels," Cohen said. "You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like 'blood libel.' That's the same kind of thing. The Germans said enough about the Jews and the people believed it and you had the Holocaust. You tell a lie over and over again. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care."
In our post-Tucson world, I'm eager to see people like E.J. Dionne Jr., Dana Milbank, and Harold Meyerson of the Washington Post; George Packer of the New Yorker; James Fallows of the Atlantic; Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, and the editorial page of the New York Times; Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, and Ed Schultz of MSNBC, and scores of other commentators and reporters all across America both publicize and condemn Representative Cohen's slander.
Each of them will have plenty of opportunities to do so. I hope they take advantage of it. I hope, too, that reporters ask White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs what his reaction is. And I trust President Obama, who spoke so eloquently last week about the importance of civility in our national life, has something to say about this ugly episode as well. If the president were to repudiate Mr. Cohen quickly and publicly, it would be good for him, good for politics, and good for the nation.
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A gas regulator/valve device particularly for use in emergency escape breathing apparatus, and comprising a T-shaped regulator piston which is movable in a stepped bore and has a nylon seat for closing a jet which receives the input (high pressure) gas. Movement of the piston by the input gas from a cylinder (not shown) is balanced by a spring. An annular groove is located in the narrow section of the bore on the remote side from the input gas pressure of an O-ring seal. As cylinder gas is used up, the piston moves upwards and eventually will expose the groove to the input gas. Thereupon, gas flows through passages and actuates a whistle or a pressure transducer. A valve assembly for gas regulators is also described. This comprises a piston member which is releasable by means of a pin to move upwards, under pressure from the regulator output, so as to expose a passage which opens into the output port. The valve is intended to be difficult to close, having once been opened.
1. A gas regulator comprising a piston movable in a cylindrical bore in order to control an input flow of gas from a gas source, said regulator being characterized in that means are provided for monitoring movement of the piston and providing an output when the piston reaches a predetermined position within the bore, said position being indicative that the source of gas is empty or near-empty, wherein said monitoring means comprises a port opening into the wall of the bore, and which is exposed to the input flow of gas when the piston reaches said predetermined position within the bore.
2. A gas regulator as claimed in claim 1 wherein the output pressure of gas is set by a spring which acts on the piston, the arrangement being such that the input flow of gas tends to move the piston in one direction along the bore whereas the spring tends to bias the piston in the opposite direction in the bore.
3. A gas regulator as claimed in claim 1 wherein said port is normally exposed to ambient pressure.
4. A gas regulator as claimed in claim 1 wherein the piston is provided with a seal acting against said bore, and wherein said port is normally positioned on the remote side of said seal from the input flow of gas.
5. A gas regulator as claimed in claim 4 wherein said piston is provided with a further seal similar to and longitudinally spaced from the first-mentioned seal and wherein said port is normally positioned between said seals and is thus isolated both from the input flow of gas and the regulated output of gas.
6. A gas regulator as claimed in claim 5 wherein that part of the bore situated between the two seals is connected to ambient pressure.
7. A gas regulator as claimed in claim 1 wherein said port is formed as an annular groove formed in the surface of the bore, and wherein a passage leads from said groove to activate a transducer providing said output.
8. A gas regulator as claimed in claim 7 wherein said transducer takes the form of a pressure operated transducer which generates an electrical signal or sounds a warning.
9. A gas regulator as claimed in claim 8 wherein said transducer comprises a whistle.
10. A gas regulator comprising a piston movable in a cylindrical bore in order to control flow of gas from a gas source through the bore to an outlet port, said regulator being characterized in that an output in the bore is provided such that when the piston reaches a predetermined position within the bore, said output becomes in communication with the flow of gas through the bore, said position being indicative that the source of gas is empty or near-empty.
11. A gas regulator comprising a piston movable in a cylindrical bore in order to control an input flow of gas from a gas source, the output pressure of gas being set by a spring which acts on the piston to control the flow of gas through an orifice in such a way that the pressure of the input flow of gas acts in opposition to the force of the spring to achieve a balance condition in which the flow of gas through the orifice is controlled to regulate the output pressure of gas, said regulator being characterized in that means are provided for monitoring location of the piston and providing an output when the piston reaches a predetermined position within the bore, said position being indicative that the source of gas is empty or near-empty.
12. A gas regulator as claimed in claim 11 wherein the input flow of gas tends to move the piston in one direction along the bore whereas the spring tends to bias the piston in the opposite direction in the bore.
This invention relates to a gas regulator/valve device, particularly for use with breathing apparatus.
Known breathing apparatus generally comprises a source of breathable gas, such as a cylinder of compressed air, some form of hood or mask which is placed over the user's face or head and a tube connecting the two to supply gas from the source to the hood or mask. Generally speaking, the source of gas will be under a higher pressure than is necessary for supply to the user, and a regulator is used at the output of the gas source to reduce the pressure from that of the cylinder to that required by the user. Finally some form of valve is used to allow the supply to be turned on and off.
As the gas cylinder empties, the high pressure within the cylinder gradually falls until the pressure within the cylinder is no greater than the output pressure from the regulator. At this point, the cylinder can be considered to be virtually empty, and requires charging. In certain applications, it is useful to provide a warning to the user that the cylinder is near-empty, or to initiate some automatic process for charging cylinders. For example in emergency escape breathing apparatus, the user has a very limited supply of gas, usually from just a single cylinder, so there is no question of changing the cylinder and carrying on. Rather, the purpose of such equipment is to allow the user, after donning the equipment, to escape to safety from a dangerous situation. In such circumstances, it may be vital to know that the cylinder is running out.
It is known, in these circumstances, to provide an audible warning, this typically being in the form of a whistle actuated by the gas supply. Such whistles are generally connected to the cylinder side of the regulator and thus monitor the high cylinder pressure. Means are provided, within the whistle body, for detecting when the cylinder pressure falls to a predetermined level, at which point a valve is opened to actuate the whistle by means of the remaining gas pressure. Such whistles are complicated and expensive.
Known regulators comprise a piston which is movable within a cylindrical bore and controls flow through an orifice at the output from the cylinder to regulate the supply from the cylinder.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, means are provided for monitoring the movement of said piston and providing an output when the piston reaches a predetermined position within the cylindrical bore, said position being indicative that the source of gas is empty or near-empty.
In a regulator utilising a piston, such as described above, the regulated output pressure is generally set by means of a spring which acts on the piston. It is a characteristic of such regulators that, as the pressure of the source gradually falls, so the piston slowly moves away from an arbitrary datum position, thus allowing the aforesaid valve to open wider and wider as the pressure falls. This movement is slight during the initial stages of discharging the gas source but, as the pressure of the gas source falls to a level approaching that of the regulated output of the valve, the movement markedly increases, causing an almost step movement in the movement of the piston. Once the piston has undertaken this step movement, regulation effectively ceases and the output pressure falls with the source pressure until the source is empty. The monitoring means of the present invention detects the step movement to enable a signal of some sort to be generated to indicate that the pressure of the source has fallen to substantially the same level as the regulated output pressure and that regulation has, in effect, ceased.
The monitoring means can take various forms, for example a magneto detector, a hall-effect sensor or a proximity sensor, all of which will provide an electric signal which can be used to initiate some automatic process or activate an alarm, or both. In an embodiment of the invention the piston itself acts as a valve member which, at a predetermined position of the piston, opens a valve to allow pressure to be applied to a transducer, which in turn generates an electrical signal in the manner described above, or direct to a pressure operated alarm, or whistle. For example, said monitoring means may comprise a port opening into the wall of the bore, and which is exposed to the input flow of gas when the piston reaches said predetermined position within the bore.
In certain applications, for example in emergency escape breathing equipment, it is necessary that the valve associated with the cylinder be difficult or impossible to close, once it has been opened. In emergency escape equipment, for example, it would clearly be undesirable to have the situation in which it was possible to use the cylinder for just short lengths of time and then leaving the equipment in a partially discharged state with no indication that the amount of gas remaining in the cylinder is less than would be expected.
In a second aspect of the present invention, such a valve is presented. In particular the invention provides a valve assembly for a regulator, said assembly comprising a cylindrical member which is slidably movable in a bore in a valve body, said bore extending from the outlet side of said regulator, and a valve for controlling the flow of gas from the output of said regulator, said cylindrical member being movable from a first position in which said valve is closed to a second position in which it is open, and the arrangement being such that the pressure of gas at the output to said regulator acts on said cylindrical member in such a way as to bias said member towards said second position and wherein means are provided for locking the cylindrical member in said first position against said bias.
The valve is operated by releasing the locking means, thus allowing the cylindrical member to move under the pressure of gas, thus opening the valve.
Subsequent closure of the valve can only be achieved by moving the cylindrical member back to the first position against the pressure of gas at the regulator output and re-applying the latching means.
The locking means may cheaply and conveniently take the form of a pin which extends across the aforesaid bore and prevents passage of the cylindrical member. Because of the bias felt by the cylindrical member and transferred to the pin, the pin will maintain its position without falling out. When the gas is needed, the pin can be pulled out, thus allowing the cylindrical member to move to the second position, thus opening the valve and allowing the regulator to start taking gas from the source.
In an emergency escape breathing apparatus, or similar application, the pin, or other latching means, can be automatically actuated by some external action such as the opening of the bag containing the equipment. A short length of cord attached at one end to the pin and at the other end to the lid of the bag can be arranged so that, as the lid is opened, the pin is automatically rewound, thus switching on the gas supply.
In order that the invention may be better understood, an embodiment thereof will now be described by way of example only and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a regulator/valve device according to the invention; and
FIG. 2 is a graph of piston movement against cylinder pressure when the device is delivering a near-constant flow.
Referring to FIG. 1 the regulator/valve device of the invention comprises a two-part housing comprising a body portion 1 and a head portion 2 which are generally cylindrical in shape and joined by a threaded connection 3.
The body portion 1 is formed with an axial bore 4 which is threaded at 5 and forms a standard connection for a gas cylinder (not shown) forming a source of pressurised gas. The internal end of bore 4 is narrowed at 6 and terminates in a jet 7. The jet is normally closed by a seat 8 of plastics material such as nylon which is fitted at the bottom end of the stem 9 of a T-shaped piston 10. The piston 10 is movable within a stepped bore having a wider section 11 formed axially in the head portion 2 and a narrow section 12 formed axially in the body portion 1. O-ring seals 13,14 are used to seal the head and stem of the piston 10 against the sections 11,12 respectively of the stepped bore. An axially-mounted compression spring 15 acts between the body portion 1 and the underside of the head of piston 10 and biases the piston in the upwards direction.
The piston 10 is formed with an axial bore 16 extending from the low pressure chamber 17 towards and into the stem 9 of the piston. The bore narrows at 18 and ends in a T-junction with a bore 19 which extends across the stem 9, opening at both ends into the intermediate chamber 20.
Operation of the regulator is conventional and will be understood without detailed explanation by those skilled in the art. Gas at high pressure, typically 200 bar, is supplied from the cylinder into the bore 4 and passes via the jet 7 into the intermediate chamber 20 and thence via bores 19 and 16 to the low pressure chamber 17 where it acts on the top surface of the head of piston 10 to tend to push the piston 10 downwards against the action of spring 15, at the same time tending to cause the seat 8 to close off the nozzle 7. During normal use of the regulator, when gas is being withdrawn from the low pressure chamber 17, the forces on piston 10 reach a balance condition in which the low pressure chamber is maintained at a substantially constant pressure, typically 10 bar.
FIG. 2 is a graph of the upwards axial movement of piston 10 with respect to an arbitrary datum as the cylinder empties. It will be seen that the initial upwards movement as the cylinder empties is quite small. However, as the pressure remaining within the cylinder approaches the regulator output pressure, indicated in FIG. 2 as P2, the motion of the piston 10 with cylinder pressure reduction accelerates, forming quite a steep step, before the cylinder finally becomes empty.
This step motion of the piston 10 is used to actuate a valve which supplies air to a whistle 21 which is fitted in a lateral bore 22 of the body portion 1. The valve is formed by an annular groove 23 formed in the surface of the narrow section 12 of the stepped bore from which a lateral passage 24 extends into the annular spring cavity 25. The bottom of the cavity 25 is connected to the inner end of bore 22 by a passage 26. The groove 23 is positioned sufficiently high up the narrow section 12 of the stepped bore that, during normal operation of the regulator, it lies on the remote side of seal 14 and is thus at ambient pressure. However, when the cylinder pressure approaches the normal regulated output pressure, the piston moves upwardly, in the manner described above with reference to FIG. 2, so that the groove 23 eventually comes into communication with the chamber 20. As this occurs, gas passes through passage 24 into cavity 25 and thence via passage 26 to bore 22 where it is available to actuate the whistle 21 or a pressure transducer (not shown) which may alternatively be fitted in the bore 22. The whistle operates by flow of gas along a passage 27 across an edge 28 of the whistle body 29 to produce the required warning sound.
Low pressure gas exits from the chamber 17 via valve to an output port 30. The valve comprises a stepped axial bore 31 in which is slidable a cylindrical piston member 32. The piston member 32 is likewise stepped, and its lower, narrower, portion is sealed against the narrower portion of the bore 31 by means of an O-ring seal 33. The cylinder member also has a wider central portion which slides within the wider portion of the bore 31 and is sealed therewith by means of an O-ring seal 34. A lateral passage 35 extends off from the bore 31 and opens in the output port 30. An annular collar 36 is rotatably mounted at the top end of the bore 31 and has a flange 37 to limit its movement. The central aperture 38 of collar 36 is sized to receive the top end of the piston member 32 with a sliding fit. The collar is retained in place by means of a cap 39 fitted on the head portion 2 of the housing but is free to rotate with respect to the housing. A pin 40 extends laterally across the control aperture 38.
The valve is illustrated in FIG. 1 in its off position. In this position, gas in chamber 17 is unable to leave the chamber due to the fact that the bore 31 is blocked by the piston member 32. If the inlet connection 5 is attached to a source of pressurised gas, the regulator commences to operate, in the manner described above, until the pressure in chamber 17 forces the piston 10 downwards with sufficient pressure to close off the nozzle 7. Thus, no further gas can flow, and the cylinder is effectively shut off. The pressure within chamber 17 biases the piston member 32 in the upwards direction along the bore 31, but any movement is limited by the abutment of the piston member 32 against the pin 40.
To operate the valve, the pin 40 is removed, which allows the piston member 32 to move upwards along the bore 31 until its wider central portion buts up against the collar 36. By this point, the O-ring seal 33 has moved past the entrance to passage 35, thus allowing gas to pass from the chamber 17 via the bore 31 and passage 35 to the output port 30.
For ease of operation, the pin 40 may be adjusted in shape to suit the circumstances of operation. It may, for example, be formed with a ring pull. In the particular application of an emergency escape breathing apparatus, the pin may be provided with means for attaching one end of a cord, the other end of which is attached to the lid of a bag containing the gas cylinder. The arrangement is such that, as the lid is removed, or hinged away from the rest of the bag, the cord is pulled to automatically remove the pin to thus start the supply of gas. As already mentioned, the collar 36, and hence the pin 40, are rotatable about the body so that the pin can rapidly be rotated to a favoured direction for easy removal.
The valve is deliberately made easy to open, but much less easy to close. Closing the valve while pressure remains in chamber 17 involves pushing the piston member 32 back down the bore 31 against the pressure of the gas and then slipping pin 40 back into place once clearance for it has been attained. Also, because of the stepped bore/piston arrangement, the force required to close the valve is greater than that required to open it since, in the case of closure, the gas pressure in chamber 17 is acting on the wider central portion of the piston member 32.
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Gaydamaks million spending in Beitar Jerusalem are showing signs of improvement, when the team won the league in Israel last season. Like the hosts they arrive in this round. Out of the UEFA cup after 1-2 against Dinamo Bucuresti last season, but probably a bit stronger now.
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June Shannon and her daughter Honey Boo Boo may never need to cut out another coupon again!
The stars of TLC's runaway hit Here Comes Honey Boo Boo will be receiving a serious raise for the next season of the show, TMZ reports.
While some sources say the family brought in a collective $4,000 per episode during the first season, others put their earnings between $5,000 and $7,000 a show — either way, the clan's salary was chump change compared to the incomes of other reality TV families. Even the Jersey Shore crew made $5,000 a piece for each episode during their first season.
Now, however, network high-ups seem to understand that they have a megahit on their hands and have reportedly offered to give the family somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000 an episode. TMZ reports that the network has also offered to cover a range of other expenses, including a bodyguard and driver for Sugar Bear and a new home for the entire family (an offer that June swiftly declined).
The family has also reportedly received multiple offers from agents although June has turned them down since she worries she'll be forced to make various appearances that would take her away from her daughters.
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Swing weight help
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 10:41 AM
Hotmelt does add weight so good chance that's why it is on the heavy side. Don't think there is any way to undo that. Shortening can bring it down. The only other possibility is counter-weighting but I wouldn't recommend it because you'll be adding to the static weight quite a bit and (my personal opinion) that counter-weighting doesn't really make the club feel any lighter.
Posted 05 November 2012 - 10:42 AM
- If you can play it shorter, you "loose" 3 sw point for every 0.5 inch shorter
- You must remove some hot melt from the head - a messy job
If you plan to remove some hot melt, its done by heating up the head to make the hot melt "fluid" and poor it out of the hosel
Posted 05 November 2012 - 10:47 AM
Posted 05 November 2012 - 11:17 AM
Posted 05 November 2012 - 11:47 AM
Posted 05 November 2012 - 11:47 AM
bobcat, on 05 November 2012 - 10:47 AM, said:
A grip change will change the measured swingweight on a scale. It won't change the way the club "feels" during the swing.
Posted 05 November 2012 - 12:51 PM
ragweed10, on 05 November 2012 - 11:17 AM, said:
The only way to know for sure is to try it - you can do this by choking down. Some people might loose a little distance, some might actually gain some due to more consistent contact on the sweet spot, and some might not see any change in distance.
bluedot, on 05 November 2012 - 11:47 AM, said:
grip changes are usually +/- 5-10 gms max so you're not far off. However, general counterbalencing, in this case would require about 25gms of weight added to the butt. That usually will change how the club feels BUT the important thing is that for the OP - for most folks - D3 w/ +25 gms at the butt will not feel the same as getting D3 by shortening and neither will feel the same if he could get D3 by removing head weight (if even possible since we don't know how much hot-melt was added to the head).
What we feel is a combination of both static weight and weight distribution and the SW scale is a very imperfect way of measuring the last. Which is best for the OP? - trying and comparing is the only way to tell.
Edited by Stuart G., 05 November 2012 - 07:11 PM.
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ragweed10, on 05 November 2012 - 11:17 AM, said:
By theory we use 2 mph club speed for every 0.5 inch shorter, BUT ONLY if your smash factor is maximized
For every mph club speed a PGA player gets 2,4 yards carry, so on paper you might loose 4-5 yards, but in most cases you will improve, not loose.
Take a white board pen and make a dot on the ball and face it against sweet spot at adress. Hit the ball and look for the impact mark on the face. If its heel side, go shorter, if its toe side, DONT. In the middle of the face = perfect shaft length.
If you play standard length irons, you will fit to play a driver between 43.50 to 44 and your 3W should be 1 inch shorter than your driver.
Counterweight is good for some, bad for others. It DO influence on the feel of head weight, but in this case it will take 25 grams grip side, and that will off cause influence on feel of total weight.
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Heard this place was good so went for a meal there tonight. My wife and I ordered two compltely different dishes (bean curd in spicy tea sauce & shrimp with mixed vegetables) but both tasted exactly the same; both had the same gloopy salty sauce, the same bland vegetables, only the main ingredient was different. The vegetable dumplings may as well have been made of rubber the skin was so thick on them. I would not recommend it.
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Marine Fisheries: Does Local Protection Mean Local Benefits?
by Matt Miller, senior science writer
If a community protects a portion of its fishing grounds, will it actually benefit them?
Or will the young fish produced in protected areas just move hundreds of miles away and benefit communities that played no role in protecting the resource?
These questions were the focus of researchers working in Manus, Papua New Guinea who investigated whether community protection efforts for the squaretail coral grouper (Plectropomus areolatus) actually benefited the community by providing more fish.
Their results, published today in the journal Current Biology, clearly show that local management of this species provides local benefits.
"For years, we've been preaching that community-based conservation is a key component to protecting reef fisheries," says Rick Hamilton, senior scientist for the Conservancy's Melanesia program and one of the coauthors of the paper. "The idea has been that if we protect some areas, large female fishes will be left undisturbed. They would then produce millions of larvae that spill over into nearby areas open to fishing. But until now that assumption has largely been faith based."
In Manus, as in many parts of the world, people essentially own the coral reefs near their village. They decide when, where and who can fish in these areas. Some of these areas have no formal designation, but fishers know these customary boundaries. Local communities can thus enact and enforce management and protection efforts.
One of the most important fishes for commercial and subsistence harvest for Manus communities is the squaretail coral grouper. It is also highly susceptible to overfishing. This is in part due to the fact that they form spawning aggregations, where huge numbers of fish congregate in one spot to spawn at predictable times. This makes it easy to overharvest the reproductive population. At night, the aggregating coral grouper sleep in shallow water, making them easy targets for spear fishers.
Since the squaretail coral grouper is a key part of the local culture and an important, vulnerable commercial species, it was the ideal fish to study.
The sites where coral groupers gather to spawn are what Hamilton calls "no brainers" for conservation. "It's like protecting a beach used by sea turtles for nesting," he says. "It just makes so much sense."
However, marine fish produce tiny larvae that spend weeks to months in the open ocean. If they don't return to areas near the reef where they spawned, protecting the spawning area would not benefit the local community.
Fortunately, that's not the case. Researchers used genetic parentage analysis to determine that over half of the coral grouper larvae produced from a protected spawning aggregation settled on reefs less than 14 kilometers from the place they were born. Furthermore, many larvae settled just a few kilometers from their parents and ended up on reefs owned by the same community that protected the aggregation, providing direct fisheries benefits.
Hamilton says that by working together, communities can design networks of small, marine protected areas that protect key habitat for species like the coral grouper while also sustaining their fish harvest.
Local fishers in Manus embraced both the research and results. "The really cool thing is that we could not have completed the study without the support and buy-in of the local communities," says Hamilton.
Literally hundreds of fishers assisted in various ways, including capturing adult and juvenile fish. "Their local knowledge ensured we caught fish," says Hamilton. "Without local knowledge, we would have never known about the spawning aggregations. Those aggregations are like pinpoints in the ocean, and if you're there too early or too late, you won't find any fish."
Hamilton and other researchers are now beginning to look at other important fish species, demonstrating that small protected areas benefit not only fish, but livelihoods and communities.
"Before we commenced this research, local communities were telling us that after protecting their spawning aggregations, they were seeing a lot more juvenile coral groupers on all of their inshore reefs," says Hamilton. "When I first heard this, it almost sounded too positive. But it turns out the data back up what we were hearing. Small, local marine protected areas do work, for fish and for people."
Almany, G.R., Hamilton, R.J., Matawai, M., Bode, M., Potuku, T., Saenz-Agudelo, P., Planes, S., Berumen, M.L., Rhodes, K.L., Thorrold, S.R., Russ, G.R. and Jones, G.P. (in press). Dispersal of grouper larvae drives local resource sharing in a coral reef fishery. Current Biology (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.03.006
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Thanks Matt …. and it works the same here in Idaho … either do not disturb spawning browns in late fall or rainbows in the spring or catch and carefully release.
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The Paradox of American Democracy by John B. Judis
The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of the Public Trust
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Pantheon. 320 pp. $26.00
Have special interests conquered American politics and government? Several leading presidential candidates insist that they have—and seek political advantage from the charge that their rivals are in the grip of contributors and lobbyists. Innumerable schemes for "campaign-finance reform" assume that John Q. Public has been bloodied by the clawing of fat cats—and that tighter government regulation is the only way to overcome the resultant political apathy and voter ennui. As for the media, they seem to take the accuracy of this charge for granted.
There is, of course, something to it. Anyone who observed Congress earmarking the budget surplus for fiscal year 2000 saw plenty of pork being grilled. And anyone who follows the doings of state legislatures, county councils, and school boards cannot help noticing that many decisions are made (or avoided) because of pressure from sundry interest groups.
The picture, however, is not so simple. When does a worthy cause become a vested interest? When does a guardian of one's own welfare turn into a "lobbyist"? And are lobbyists per se really a bad thing? After all, ours is a large and complex polity in which nobody can possibly represent himself in every forum or personally monitor the positions and votes of every elected official. By closely tracking affairs of state on behalf of our interests and enthusiasms, effective lobbyists, it might be argued, enable the rest of us to devote our energies to earning a living, raising a family, mowing the lawn, reading magazines, and making whoopee.
A thoughtful book seeking balance in such matters would be a welcome, if not particularly electrifying, contribution to public enlightenment. A one-sided screed, however, while apt to raise the voltage, can only subtract from our understanding. That, unfortunately, is what John Judis has produced. An often perspicacious journalist who has moved some distance from his past affiliations—now a senior editor at the New Republic, he was once an activist in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an editor of the radical publication Socialist Revolution—he appears, to judge by this disappointing book, to be returning to his roots.
The thesis Judis adumbrates in The Paradox of American Democracy is that our governmental institutions are gravely undermined and our politics besmirched by a single genre of special interest: "K Street." That is his code phrase for the Washington-based representatives of major corporations and their sundry organizations. Bent on securing wealth for themselves and their shareholders, they sweep the public interest before them like leaves in a typhoon.
Things, in Judis's telling, were not always thus. In the 1960's, American politics witnessed a kind of "populist pluralism"—a decade of "true reform" akin to the Progressive era and the New Deal. Thanks to a coalition encompassing everyone from trade unionists to feminists, we succeeded for a time in widening "the scope of politics . . . to include consumer protection, environmental regulation, and the guarantee of sexual and racial equality."
By the 1970's, however, trouble descended in the form of a conservative "business counteroffensive" that, although riven by inner tensions of its own, established durable barriers to the spirit of reform. In chapters with titles like "The Frustration of Reform" and "Sleepwalking Toward the Millennium," Judis regales us with tales of influence-peddling and other forms of covert and overt private intervention whose cumulative effect has been to subvert the workings of our democracy.
What to do? The rot, having been caused by corporate might, can only be eradicated by government. To that end, contends Judis, echoing the Progressive-era founder of the New Republic Herbert Croly, we need strong, multifaceted federal institutions that set rules, impose limits, and interpolate themselves into nearly every sphere of society. Only thus will we ensure that the "betrayal of public trust" is brought to an end.
Judis's diagnosis of the American condition and his remedy for it are clear enough, and their echoes can be heard in the stump speeches of Al Gore, Bill Bradley, and John McCain. Unfortunately, his analysis is at least as superficial as theirs, if also much more extreme.
Without question, business is a powerful force in American politics. But it is by no means the only huge, policy-blocking concentration of power and self-interest in the land. In the field of education, for instance, it is not corporate America that keeps poor children trapped in rotten urban schools; it is, rather, mainly the teacher unions (the largest of which is headquartered not on K but on M Street in Washington), school-board associations, and myriad other groups that live off tax dollars.
This other face of special interests is visible in many spheres of our public life, yet Judis is all but oblivious to it. At the same time, there is still another concentration of interests for which he has nothing but praise—which, indeed, he refuses to recognize as interests at all: these are the various "disinterested elites," as he calls them, that in his judgment serve as balance wheels in our political machinery. He associates these elites with such organizations as the Council on Foreign Relations in the 1950's, the Brookings Institution of the 1960's, and the Ford Foundation in the 70's.
In Judis's estimation, all these places were fonts of wise and dispassionate public-policy counsel until they too were captured by corporate interests in the Reagan years. Complicit in that takeover, he adds darkly, were the media, which in the 1980's began to treat the ideas generated in right-wing organizations like the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Heritage Foundation "with the same respect" as those issuing from politically "disinterested" sources like the Brookings Institution, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and university economics departments. In one of this book's more astounding passages, Judis complains that the press
accepted the canard that different views simply reflected different ideologies and that to be fair, both Left and Right, liberal and conservative, had to be represented. Once this concession was made, the conservatives triumphed, because in the late 1970's and 1980's they had far more money than their rivals with which to broadcast, publish, and promote their opinions.
For John Judis, in short, there is only one kind of special interest in America—the kind represented by corporations and their lackeys in conservative think tanks. Other voices in the national debate, i.e., the leftist kind, are really "disinterested," having only the greater good of the nation at heart. From this premise flow ineluctably his balmy belief that the Brookings Institution's experts are somehow more "disinterested" than those of AEI, his notion that it is the job of the press to adjudicate between Left and Right by favoring the former and delegitimizing the latter (it will surely come as news to many journalists that they have been remiss in their performance of this particular duty), and his delusion that conservatives have "triumphed." On this last point, one need only consider the record of how the Ford Foundation has dispensed its largesse over the past 25 years, funding one cutting-edge countercultural project after another, to assess Judis's bizarre claim that that giant institution has been "emasculated" by capitalists.
But the most alarming aspect of Judis's book is not its analysis but its prescription: that the way to free American politics from the grip of special interests is to return to the antics of the 60's. A true child of that era, Judis cherishes "popular movements" rooted in a "mobilized base outside of Washington" and defined by "their ability to disrupt the normal patterns of life—whether through strikes, demonstrations, marches, or boycotts." He positively rhapsodizes over the tactics employed by his own erstwhile political movement, SDS (including its violent "Weatherman" faction), along with summer riots in major cities, the Black Panthers, and other bygone glories.
True, he admits, some of the revolutionaries of the late 60's eventually went too far. But more than the chaos, destruction, and death for which they were responsible, what Judis mainly regrets is the conservative reaction they triggered—the elections of Ronald Reagan as governor of California in 1967 and Richard Nixon as President in 1968. Defending the movements of the 1960's, including their "radical wing," he writes glowingly that they
helped force the Nixon administration to withdraw from Vietnam and . . . provoked Congress and the administration into pouring money into cities and into adopting a strategy of affirmative action in hiring and federal contracts. During Nixon's first term, spending on Johnson's Great Society programs and on welfare and food stamps dramatically increased, while spending on the military went down.
A convincing argument—at least to anyone who applauds the bitter racial polarization fostered by affirmative action, the establishment of an all-but-ineradicable culture of dependency and an all-but-permanent underclass thanks to Great Society programs, and the abandonment of South Vietnam to Communism.
In the end, this flimsy attempt to maintain that American democracy has been undone by corporate greed tells us far less about the genuinely important subject of interest groups and how to regulate them than it does about certain characteristic intellectual habits that, having somehow survived the destruction they helped to wreak, evidently stand ready to try all over again.


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Friday, July 12, 2013
Kitchen Update - or not.
I've been wanting to post pictures of the kitchen cabinets now that they are done (!!!!), but damn if it hasn't rained every day since June 20 (I'm not exaggerating!) and provided me with NO natural light to work with! My kitchen is already pretty dark thanks to being in the center of the house, and because we're not done updating the lighting situation anyway, that makes it even worse!
The next few days are supposed to be AWESOME, so I'm hoping for a few minutes in the late morning to grab some SUNNY pictures of the results!
So anyway, this is my un-update!
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Pinterest recipe: cleaning
So I'm sure you've all seen the pins on Pinterest and probably on some of your favorite blogs, about using regular household products to make "miracle" cleaners.
We're lucky (insert eye roll) enough to have well water at home, and even though we have a softener and shock our well with bleach every so often, we still have yellowish stains in our tubs, sinks, and around our faucets - so I'm always on the lookout for a better cleaning solution.
The one I've seen the most is blue Dawn (they all swear that the blue works best) and heated white vinegar.
I really hate the smell of vinegar, and don't normally use blue Dawn, but was intrigued, so figured I'd give it a shot sometime.
This past weekend I got a wild hair, and whipped up a batch following these directions:
Heat 1/2 cup of white vinegar (I used Heinz Cleaning Vinegar that I came across at Walmart - I guess it's stronger than regular white vinegar) in the microwave for 90 seconds.
Add 1/2 cup of Dawn detergent to a spray bottle and then add the warm/hot vinegar.
Gently shake the bottle to mix.
I sprayed my master bath shower/tub combo until I - a. couldn't stand the vinegar smell and b. thought I'd gotten a good layer of BLUE on everything. I left it for an hour or so to sink in (other people have left for an hour and even longer).
I came back with high hopes, and with a scrubby brush, began to scrub the areas and then rinse. Unfortunately, it really made no difference.
This is my before AND after - nothing really changed!
Don't think I gave up and left it looking nasty like this - I used my trust Kaboom and Magic Eraser combination, and that did the trick.
Ah well, back to the drawing board, aka Pinterest!
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Pics of randomness.
And stuff.
Just a hodge-podge of what we've been up to over the past week, which unfortunately doesn't include finishing the kitchen.
Last night, I finally got Chuck to put up the last of the trim, and then found out the caulk we thought was new, was in fact, 10 years old. Oops. Hopefully we'll be finishing that up tonight and then this weekend I can put the finishing touches on the paint!Then we move on to the lighting... and then the backsplash... It never ends!
Anyway, so this past weekend we went to Cincinnati to visit some of my friends from high school, and on our way back Sunday morning, we stopped into
Caesar Creek flea market
and found a few miscellaneous things, to include some gorgeous blue mason jars:
Oh yes, all 4 of these puppies for $3.00. Nice.
And we harvested our first veggie from our garden - a HUGE zucchini! Can't wait to eat it!
Sunday afternoon was hot & humid, so we invited some friends over for some pool time - my first dip in the pool this season! And also our first time flying the pirate flag at the pool deck - good times ahead! :)
Pirate flag and an island girl...
(Kenny anyone?)
You can see the
awesome new deck stain
here, too!
One last highlight of the week, at least for me (and the cats) has been the kickass cat tree I found at Costco (who knew?) for $68.00. I've never bought one before because they were so damn expensive, but figured for $68.00, it was worth it. The sucker is huge!
Chuck barely got it in the front door before 2 of the cats claimed their spots!
(Sammie in the middle, Audi on the bottom)
We haven't decided where we want it to go permanently, so for now it's in the living room, backed up against the couch so they can leap from the couch to the middle tier. Only Sammie has made it to the top yet (it's kind of a big jump with not a whole lot of clearance below), but all 3 of the adore it.
And last but not least, I picked a few random flowers from the garden (some pink carnations, Stella D'Oro lilies, and some wild flowers) and enjoyed them for a few days in the kitchen.
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Upcoming project: Potting bench
Not that we don't have enough stuff going on right now with the
kitchen cabinets
, and eventual new backsplash, but Chuck dragged home this pile of wood from his family's old farm (it's old, old wood, and I'm sure it's lead paint on it... joy) and swears he can make me something cool from it.
What I've been wanting is a potting bench, kinda like this one from
Ana White
I think he has his work cut out for him, but hopefully in a few weeks I'll be writing a post all about it!
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
New kitchen lighting
Well, at the time I'm writing this, we are 75% done with the
kitchen cabinet painting ordeal
that we started almost 3 weeks ago. We had some humid days that weren't right for painting in the garage, and plus we've had some days where we both came home from work and didn't leave the couch. Oh well.
What we did make some headway on is picking out some new lighting. We have 3 out of the 4 fixtures in our possession, and will hopefully get them installed in the next week or so.
Here's the situation.
We have can/recessed lighting over the sink and over the long row of cabinets/counter on the opposite side of the kitchen, then a totally nasty fluorescent light box thing in the center, and then a stupid looking way-too-close-to-the-ceiling light over our breakfast nook.
While we haven't found a track light we both agree on to replace the center thing, we're going for something like this (but we think we need 4-5 lights, and we'll install it running longways across the space):
(Hampton Bay 3-Light Linen Glass Linear Track Kit Matte Black)
Or maybe this:
(Eurofase Vortex Five Light Track Kit in Satin Nickel)
And to replace the 2 can lights above the fridge, I took a field trip down to Ikea (about 2 hrs away) and bought 2 of these:
(10" FOTO Pendant lamp)
And ALSO got it in the 15" size for over the breakfast nook table. I really love the industrial look to it and it's simplicity, but just hope that it doesn't clash too bad with the track light we eventually purchase!
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Summer flowers & veggies
Just wanted to share a few pics I've taken of some of the flowers we have blooming around the yard right now.
(Of course the sun went behind a cloud for this one!)
And this was actually taken a week or two ago, so 1. there are more on the vine now, and 2. I weeded. I promise.
But I love how small and scraggly the plant is (Roma tomato bush) and how large the tomatoes are already!
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Adventures in stain Part 2: Adirondack chairs
Back when we lived in the condo, we couldn't decide what sort of patio furniture to use on the small concrete slab we had out front. Chuck and his buddy got the idea to build themselves each a set of Adirondack chairs connected by a table in the middle. Unfortunately, I have no plans/instructions for this as it was done at his buddy's house when I wasn't around. Sorry! But anyway, what I do know is that it's made from cedar planks purchased at Menard's. You're welcome.
(keeping it classy with a Coors Light umbrella that may have come from Quaker Steak & Lube. Or not.)
Anyway, the chair served it's purpose well on the patio, and moved with us to the new house a few years later where it found itself out on our pool deck. Unfortunately, after a few years of being out in the weather, the cedar grayed and it got a little rough around the edges.
And then, we had a derecho (in case you're not in the Midwest where this term has become HOT over the past 2 years or so, a derecho is a straight line wind storm that can produce hurricane-force winds). And the 80+ mph wind gusts we got that day FLIPPED this heavy-ass chair over on the pool deck, and slammed it up against the deck railing. It also did this to our gazebo:
(listing pic)
Womp womp.
Anyway, so that being said, the Adirondack chair had seen better days and needed some help before pool season this year. So we dragged it to the garage (we actually balanced it on the back of our Gator!) and gave it a good powerwashing, leaving us with this:
Here's some of the damage from the storm:
(sorry for the blurry iPhone pic!)
Anyway, Chuck took a planer (I think that's what this is called!) to these 2 spots to try to get some of the large chunks smooth, and then we went over it with both medium and smooth grit sandpaper with our Mouse sander (LOVE that thing!).
(after - MUCH better!)
We purchased Cabot semi-transparent deck & siding stain from Lowe's and had it tinted to "Burnt Hickory," a greenish-grayish color that we thought would compliment the red/cedar tone we stained the pool deck (and also matched the pillows I already have - but of course, forgot to pull out for the after shot).
We busted out the BIL's paint sprayer (hoping he never asks for this thing back - it's AWESOME - it's a
Graco Magnum X5 airless paint sprayer from Home Depot
) and gave it 1 good coat (2 in some spots if it was thin), using cheap paint brushes to backbrush any splatters or heavy areas.
It covered really well, without completely taking away from the grain of the wood, and it masked the light (damaged) areas where we sanded the hell out of it, so they blend in perfectly.
And what we didn't realize, is that we picked a color that matches the patio furniture we already had!
Linking up!
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We do not know precisely how the young Abyssinian girl ended up for sale in Makkah. We do not know her 'roots', who her mother was, or her father or her ancestors. There were many like her, boys and girls, Arabs and non-Arabs, who were captured and brought to the slave market of the city to be sold.
A terrible fate awaited some who ended up in the hands of cruel masters or mistresses who exploited their labor to the full and treated them with the utmost harsh ness.
A few in that inhuman environment were rather more fortunate. They were taken into the homes of more gentle and caring people.
Barakah, the young Abyssinian girl, was one of the more fortunate ones. She was saved by the generous and kind Abdullah, the son of Abd al-Muttalib. 'She became the only servant in his household and when he was married, to the lady Aminah, she looked after her affairs as well.
Two weeks after the couple were married, according to Barakah, Abdullah's father came to their house and instructed his son to go with a trading caravan that was leaving for Syria. Aminah was deeply distressed and cried:
"How strange! How strange! How can my husband go on a trading journey to Syria while I am yet a bride and the traces of henna are still on my hands."
Abdullah's departure was heartbreaking. In her anguish, Aminah fainted. Soon after he left, Barakah said: "When I saw Aminah unconscious, I shouted in distress and pain: 'O my lady!' Aminah opened her eyes and looked at me with tears streaming down her face. Suppressing a groan she said: "Take me to bed, Barakah."
"Aminah stayed bedridden for a long time. She spoke to no one. Neither did she look at anyone who visited her except Abd al-Muttalib, that noble and gentle old man. "Two months after the departure of Abdullah, Aminah called me at dawn one morning and, her face beaming with joy, she said to me:
"O Barakah! I have seen a strange dream." "Something good, my lady," I said.
"I saw lights coming from my abdomen lighting up the
mountains, the hills and the valleys around Makkah." "Do you feel pregnant, my lady?"
"Yes, Barakah," she replied. "But I do not feel any discomfort as other women feel." "You shall give birth to a blessed child who will bring goodness," I said.
So long as Abdullah was away, Aminah remained sad and melancholic. Barakah stayed at her side trying to comfort her and make her cheerful by talking to her and relating stories. Aminah however became even more distressed when Abd al-Muttalib came and told her she had to leave her home and go to the mountains as other Makkans had done because of an impending attack on the city by the ruler of Yemen, someone called Abrahah. Aminah told him that she was too grief-striken and weak to leave for the mountains but insisted that Abrahah could never enter Makkah and destroy the Kabah because it was protected by the Lord. Abd al-Muttalib became very agitated but there was no sign of fear on Aminah's face. Her confidence that the Kabah would not be harmed was well-founded. Abrahah's army with an elephant in the vanguard was destroyed before it could enter Makkah.
Day and night, Barakah stayed beside Aminah. She said: "I slept at the foot of her bed and heard her groans at night as she called for her absent husband. Her moans would awaken me and I would try to comfort her and give her courage."
The first part of the caravan from Syria returned and was joyously welcomed by the trading families of Makkah. Barakah went secretly to the house of Abd al-Muttalib to find out about Abdullah but had no news of him. She went back to Aminah but did not tell her what she had seen or heard in order not to distress her. The entire caravan eventually returned but not with Abdullah.
Later, Barakah was at Abd al-Muttalib's house when news came from Yathrib that Abdullah had died. She said: "I screamed when I heard the news. I don't know what I did after that except that I ran to Aminah's house shouting, lamenting for the absent one who would never return, lamenting for the beloved one for whom we waited so long, lamenting for the most beautiful youth of Makkah, for Abdullah, the pride of the Quraysh.
"When Aminah heard the painful news, she fainted and I stayed by her bedside while she was in a state between life and death. There was no one else but me in Aminah's house. I nursed her and looked after her during the day and through the long nights until she gave birth to her child, "Muhammad", on a night in which the heavens were resplendent with the light of God."
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