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- Grethok the Controller yells: Intruders have breached the hatchery! Sound the alarm! Protect the eggs at all costs!
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With Windows 8, Microsoft is dreaming big, tasking the OS with changing everything, a revolution to overshadow Windows 95's role in making PCs ubiquitous. The company's dreams for Windows 7 were incontestably more modest seeing how the software giant needed mainly to recover from a failed "Wow."
Windows 8 vs. Windows 7 measuring contests are bound to highlight the distinct destinies of the two products, and Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live Division, revealed that the engineering process core strategies for the two platforms are inherently different.
"Whereas Windows 7 was about returning to roots, Windows 8 is about maintaining those roots while moving forward in a big and new way," he said.
The Windows boss is talking about sharing aspects of the Windows 8 development process with the public through the Building Windows 8 blog.
The same engineering challenges that come with taking Windows into a new direction compared to its predecessor are also impacting the way that Microsoft talks about Windows 8.
"This is especially the case for Windows 8 for two reasons. First, we're talking about a product used by a billion people. No matter how you slice it, that is going to create a very, very large number of perspectives and customers to serve. Of course there is very high value in serving a broad set of customers with one very open product," Sinofsky said.
"(…) Our job, which we view with deep responsibility, is delivering a product that spans customer scenarios and builds on the value of having a single product (for developers, IT administrators, PC manufacturers, hardware vendors, etc.)."
It should not come as a surprise that Microsoft continues to be committed to catering to the extremely diversified customers segments that have been running Windows for years and years.
The key challenge in this regard is tending to the needs of all users, especially those that have nothing in common.
At the same time, Windows 8's under-the-hood evolution is paired with enhancements on the surface, and yet again, the company needs to make sure that the operating system's next-gen UI will offer all customers the best UX possible.
Unfortunately, it's virtually impossible for Microsoft to share the Windows 8 UI experience with users using nothing but images, video and text.
"Second, we're changing the user experience model of Windows 8. As anyone who has done user interface work (and more importantly as anyone who has used an interface) knows, having an opinion on user interface is not difficult. Even mocking up static images of how things could look is not that hard," Sinofsky added.
"My inbox is filled with mock-ups and proposals of dialog boxes and toolbars. But it already was—we've been doing this process for a long time. The difficulty in talking about UI through static images is much like trying to summarize or review a movie based on only viewing a still. Our own testing uses dozens of images in sequence when we evaluate designs."
Revolutionary vs. evolutionary, this is in the end what comparing Windows 8 to Windows 7 will come to.

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Today we present the soon to release collaboration between Footpatrol and Converse on the Pro Leather Pack. The London store worked with the Converse First String line on the Pro Leather High and Pro Leather Low, each coming with premium leather uppers, embossed logo details and Mali print details on the tongue and heel. The low top colorway we find especially appealing for the summer months.
The Converse Pro Leather shoe is one of the most iconic sneakers of all time, so when Converse approached us on a collaboration on the Pro Leather Hi and Ox we said yes and so the design process began! We wanted to keep the silhouette as clean as possible with intricate detailing. After going through some designs, we were very happy with the final outcome. We used soft pig skin suede (grey hi/spearmint ox) on the entire upper on both models and the Converse chevron branding on the side panels. We're all great fans of cultural printed fabrics and wanted to incorporate that into the shoe, so we added a black & white Aztec inspired print to the Pro Leather Hi heel stripe and the tongue label. Also sitting on the heel is the embroidered FP collegiate logo, whilst the Gas Mask logo is de-bossed on the outer side of the shoe. The inner sole artwork features the black and white Aztec print with the Footpatrol bar logo on the right foot and Converse brand logo on the left. The Pro Leather Ox has a been given extra detailing with the use of the Mali print running through the entire tongue and a pig skin suede tongue label.
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If you have a digital camera, you probably have a lot of great digital pictures that you don't get to see that often. Either you don't get around to printing them all, or you choose one as your desktop background and then let months go by before you get tired of looking at it and decide to change it. Well, those days are over: with Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Movie Maker, and Windows DreamScene, you don't have to look at the same static image on your desktop. You can play slide shows that have your favorite pictures and make your desktop background come to life.
Windows DreamScene is a Windows Ultimate Extra you can use to play video that loops on your desktop background as you use your computer. The video you use for Windows DreamScene can be footage you recorded with a video camera and then edited; a video file you got from someone else; a video that is included in the Windows DreamScene Content Pack or Windows DreamScene Content Pack Favorites; or it might be another video you made, such as a slide show of still photos that's saved as a video file.
To install and use Windows DreamScene, your computer needs to be running Windows Vista Ultimate. To learn more about downloading and installing Windows Ultimate Extras, including Windows DreamScene, see How do I get Windows Ultimate Extras downloads and services?
For information about Windows DreamScene and how to use it, see About Windows DreamScene.
Windows DreamScene videos look really nice when you use widescreen photos and video (meaning the screen has a 16:9 aspect ratio like you'll find on newer plasma or LCD TVs rather than the 4:3 standard aspect ratio used on standard TVs). Many digital cameras take photos using the 4:3 aspect ratio). To turn your photos into 16:9 widescreen images, you can crop them in Windows Photo Gallery by doing this:
Select an image, and then click Fix.
Click Crop Picture.
For Proportion, click 16 x 9.
Drag the squares on the edges so the selection area covers the part you want to show, and then click Apply.
Click Back To Gallery.
Here's how you can quickly make a slide show in Windows Movie Maker.
In Windows Photo Gallery, select the images you want to use by clicking the first photo, holding down the SHIFT key, and clicking the last photo.
A good rule of thumb is to include a minimum of 6 photos that are each displayed for 5 seconds, which is the default duration for pictures that are imported and used in Windows Movie Maker. Your movie needs to be at least 30 second long for the photos to get added to the storyboard automatically (as described in the next step).
Click Make a Movie.
The pictures you select are automatically imported into Windows Movie Maker and added to the storyboard—including transitions between pictures. You are already well on your way to finishing your slide show (and you didn't even have to click anything yet in Windows Movie Maker)!
You could use the photo slide show project as it is now, and it would make a pretty good DreamScene desktop background video. But you can make it even better by making some changes to your project in Windows Movie Maker. Here are a few tweaks you could make in Windows Movie Maker to make your Windows DreamScene video look a lot better:
Delete the two titles on the storyboard.
Click the Transitions folder in Windows Movie Maker, click Fade, and then drag it between pictures on the storyboard that have a different transition applied (for example, some images might have a Reveal transition between them).
For more information about adding transitions in Windows Movie Maker, see Add transitions and effects to pictures and video in Windows Movie Maker.
To avoid a jarring transition when the slide show ends and restarts, copy the first picture and paste it at the end of the storyboard so that the first and last frame are the same and will loop nicely when played using Windows DreamScene.
To copy and paste the first picture, right–click the photo, click Copy, right–click the first empty cell at the end of the storyboard, and then click Paste.
Drag a Fade transition between the photo you just pasted and the one before it on the storyboard.
On the timeline, trim both the first and last photo from five seconds to a little over two seconds. This will reduce the amount of time the first and last photo are displayed, which will give the slide show a more seamless appearance when it repeats. To learn how to trim clips in Windows Movie Maker, see Work with clips in Windows Movie Maker.
Here's what this project will look like in Windows Movie Maker.
Now, you need to publish the slide show project as a movie in Windows Movie Maker:
In Windows Movie Maker, click Publish Movie.
Click This Computer, and then click Next.
Type a name for your movie, and then click Next.
On the Choose settings for your movie page, click More settings, click Windows Media HD 720p (5.9 Mbps), and then click Publish.
This Windows Media HD setting only appears if your computer is running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate.
Click Finish.
Here's how to play your slide show video on your desktop using Windows DreamScene:
On the Choose a desktop background screen, click Browse, find the folder that you saved your slide show in, click your slide show video file, and then click Open.
Under How should the picture or video be positioned?, click Crop to fit screen, and then click OK.
Crop to fit screen is one of the two new positioning options that are added when Windows DreamScene is installed on your computer. You can use either of these positions even when you're not using Windows DreamScene.
Optionally, you can hide the icons on your desktop so they don't obstruct your view when the slide show is playing. To hide desktop icons, right–click the desktop, point to View, and then clear the check mark next to Show Desktop Icons.
Also optionally, you can pause the slide show so that the point you pause at is displayed as a still picture on your desktop. To pause, right-click the desktop, and then click Pause DreamScene.
If you have problems when using Windows DreamScene, go to Troubleshooting problems with Windows DreamScene.
The slide show you just created will look great, but that's just the beginning of what you can create for Windows DreamScene. For example, you can turn your digital pictures into an animated desktop slide show collage for Windows DreamScene by using a graphics editing program and Windows Movie Maker.
This set of steps works best if you use a graphics editing program that has the layers feature, such as Microsoft Digital Image Suite or Adobe PhotoShop (you can find many graphics editing programs online at the Windows Marketplace website. Because graphics editing programs are all a little different, the steps in the following procedure are written generally.
In your favorite graphics editing program, create a new, blank image that is 1280 x 270 pixels.
Open the digital pictures that you want to use in your collage, and then add each picture as a new layer in your new image.
Arrange each picture (one on each layer) in the way you want your pictures to appear. Try resizing and rotating pictures on the different layers to create interesting effects.
Hide each layer except for the background, and then save a copy of that image (with only the background showing).
With the background layer showing, show the next layer, and then save a copy of that image.
With the two current layers still showing, show the next layer, and then save a copy of that image too.
Do this for the remaining layers, and then import the new images into Windows Movie Maker. Make and save the slide show. (You can use the same steps described earlier in this article.)
The resulting video looks like an animated collage, where each picture fades in over time until all the pictures appear, and then each photo gradually fades out. Here is an example of what this will look like.


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Minutes 08.09.12
University of Virginia School of
Curriculum Committee Executive Management Group
Minutes 08/09/12
Pediatric Conference Room, 4:00 p.m.
Present (underlined) were: Peter Ham, Donald Innes (Chair),
Keith Littlewood, Nancy McDaniel, Bart Nathan, Casey
White, Mary Kate Worden, Guests: John Jackson,
Elizabeth Bradley, Debra Reed (secretary)
- A letter has been sent to Eugene McGahren, Surgery Clerkship Director responding to questions posed regarding the 2013 Clerkship schedule.
- E-mails went out to all SOM faculty seeking nominations for the at-large seats on the Curriculum Committee. Nominations have been received and will be forwarded to the Faculty Senate for vote.
- The Committee reviewed the final "Attendance Policy." This policy for attendance expectations in preclerkship activities will be published on the web 8/9/12.
Clerkship Evaluation Process. The Committee reviewed two forms for clerkship evaluations, the one used in the last evaluation process as well as a condensed version developed by Elizabeth Bradley. Elizabeth Bradley and Nancy McDaniel will meet and begin work to combine these two forms, explore the possibility of creating an on line evaluation form, and determine what information will be required for annual evaluations. The final evaluation form should be reviewed for LCME compliance by the LCME Accreditation Working Group before Clerkship Directors are asked to provide the information. Clerkship Directors will be asked to provide the information on their clerkship in early October.
Clerkship Intersession in August 2013. Nancy McDaniel asked the Committee to address the August 2013 planned intercession The date of this intersession coincides with Cells to Society/Orientation in the first year and will present major problems in obtaining both faculty and classroom space. The possibilities of allowing a one-week vacation in 2013 during this period, moving this intersession to November, or developing a shorter (perhaps 3-4 day) intersession was discussed. This discussion will continue at the full Curriculum Committee meeting on 8//16/12. Casey White will provide a previously prepared list of items that could be addressed during this intersession.
Access to System Web Sites. John Jackson spoke to the Committee on current plans for deactivation of the 2011-12 systems websites. MCM was deactivated August 1, prior to the start of the 2012 MCM course. Students were alerted by e-mail and asked to download any/all information that they might need to prepare for the USMLE Step 1 boards. Other systems will be deactivated August15 and students will be reminded to download that material prior to deactivation. The deactivation is required due to our Copyright Policy as well as to safeguard answers to problem sets/TBLs etc. Students are told about the deactivation with multiple e-mails and have ample time to download the material if they have not done so already.
Learning Objectives Across the Curriculum.
Learning objectives are in development for use across multiple areas of the curriculum.
The domains developed thus far include:
Common societal problems (abuse, etc.
Cultural competency
Diagnostic radiology
Patient confidentiality/ethics/professionalism
Quality and patient safety
Test selection and interpretation
Future Curriculum Committee agenda Items. Elizabeth Bradley will meet with the Curriculum Committee on August 16 to present the 18-month review of Systems and again September 6 for a review of CPD. Fern Hauck is scheduled for September 13 to review the Cultural Competency Curriculum. A schedule to review System and Clerkship Directors will be developed. Someone from the SOM Finance area will be asked to update the Committee. Members were asked to submit suggestions for agenda items.
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Born 7 May 1864 Antrim, Hillsboro, New Hampshire [1] Gender Male Died 21 Mar 1920 Antrim, Hillsboro, New Hampshire Person ID I6183 Nay Last Modified 21 Oct 2004
Father Samuel Nay, Jr., b. 19 May 1818, Sharon, Windsor, Vermont , d. 14 Sep 1900, Antrim, Hillsboro, New Hampshire Mother Nancy B. Vose, b. 12 Apr 1828, of Sharon, Windsor, Vermont , d. 28 Oct 1901, Antrim, Hillsboro, New Hampshire Married 13 May 1845 Family ID F2826 Group Sheet
Family Mary A. Ash Married 12 Apr 1889 Children 1. Nay, b. 24 Dec 1890 Family ID F2833 Group Sheet
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After two years of clearing cap space, Donnie Walsh now finds himself in a situation similar to when he first arrived at 2 Penn Plaza. He is capped out.
The Knicks' season this year could be deemed successful or not, based on your expectations from the beginning of the year. Nevertheless, any NBA fan knows the team-building mission in New York is incomplete.
Assuming the new CBA is similar to the one the league has now, the Knicks will be able to use their Mid Level exception this summer, as well as sign players to minimum contracts, which varies based on how many active years a player has in the league.
Below is the Knicks' current salary commitments, with a few fair assumptions being made, and assuming that Bill Walker's contract is NOT a team option, but actually fully guaranteed (Sham Sports, a leading player salary site, does not show that Walker is a team option.)
Do note however that the midlevel exception (roughly 10% of the salary cap under the current CBA) can be divided up among multiple players. Lastly, Ronnie Turiaf, a player whose career history is filled with injuries, has a player option for 4.6 million for next season.
So, what you can see is that under the current CBA, the Knicks can use the full MLE on one player to address a specific need or divide it amongst 2 or 3 players. They also have the 17th pick in this year's draft to fill a need, and also veteran minimum contracts.
Are there obtainable talented players with these restrictions? The answer would be yes, but the Knicks won't be the only attractive team with this financial situation. The Miami Heat's situation is nearly identical, minus the draft pick, but no state income tax and warm weather may make up for that.
Nevertheless, with Donnie Walsh allegedly back in the fold, the Knicks have an executive who operated Indiana teams that were able to improve record wise year to year while still being over the cap. Coming off of a finals run in 2000, Walsh saw the 2001 Pacers slide under new coach Isiah Thomas to a record of 42-40.
Following a first round playoff exit that year, Walsh didn't stand pat at the 2002 trade deadline. He moved key title run pieces in Jalen Rose and Travis Best to acquire Ron Artest, Brad Miller and Ron Mercer.
Next February, he'll most likely have the option to do something similar with Chauncey Billups expensive expiring contract.
So Knicks fans, have some faith if Walsh is back that the right guy can find the bargain basement pieces to turn this franchise around, but it won't be easy.
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Fun with EnumSet
Do you know EnumSet? No? Then you should take the time to look at this sample code. EnumSet allows writing of really eloquent Java source code. Run the following code and watch its result printed on the screen. Then check the below source code to find out how it works. The source code particulary makes use of (at least) the following features introduced in Java 5:
- enum keyword
- The enum keyword allows to define enumerations.
- enum custom methods
- Enumerations can have custom methods.
- enum toString()
- Enumerations provide an automatic implementation of toString() that returns the name of the enum value.
- EnumSet.range()
- This method returns a set of enumeration values created from a range of enumeration values.
- EnumSet.allOf()
- This method returns a set of enumeraton values that contain all values of the specified enumeration.
- EnumSet.clone()
- Create a complete copy of a set of enumeration values.
- EnumSet.removeAll()
- Subtract a set of enumeration values from another one.
- EnumSet.size()
- Gets the number of enumeration values in the set.
- EnumSet iteration
- You can iterate over a set of enumeration values using the for-each statement of Java 5.
- String.format(), including automatic calling of .toString()
- String.format() provides a cool way to format messages, and it automaticaly calls .toString() internally.
import java.util.EnumSet;
public final class EnumSetSample {
private enum Weekday {
public static final EnumSet<Weekday> WORKDAYS = EnumSet.range(MONDAY, FRIDAY);
public final boolean isWorkday() {
return WORKDAYS.contains(this);
public static final EnumSet<Weekday> THE_WHOLE_WEEK = EnumSet.allOf(Weekday.class);
public static final void main(final String... argumgents) {
System.out.println("Work Schedule:");
for (final Weekday weekday : Weekday.THE_WHOLE_WEEK)
System.out.println(String.format("%d. On %s you " + (weekday.isWorkday() ? "have to work" : "can relax") + ".", weekday.ordinal() + 1, weekday));
System.out.println("Do I have to work the whole week?");
System.out.println(Weekday.WORKDAYS.containsAll(Weekday.THE_WHOLE_WEEK) ? "Yes, unfortunately." : "Certainly not.");
final EnumSet<Weekday> weekend = Weekday.THE_WHOLE_WEEK.clone();
System.out.println(String.format("The weekend is %d days long.", weekend.size()));
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Separator support is missing. Suppose you define the tokens, ...
by javalenok - 2013-01-26 06:44
Separator support is missing. Suppose you define the tokens, some of which are keywords. You do it by
tokens = enum {LPAREN, EOL, __KEYWORDS_START_HERE__,
Now, you want to color keywords with special color. You do not want to iterate like
for (EnumSet.range(IF,NULL)) {
because suppose that somebody wants to add a new keyword. He immediately recognizes that he must put his keyword between __KEYWORDS_START_HERE__, and KEYWORDS_END. Suppose that he puts his keyword into the very beginning, before IF, or adds to the very end, after NULL. Despite this is very reasonable assumption, he will be surprised that his keyword is not highlighted because it is not in the IF-NULL range.
In VHDL, we have E'succ(x), E'pred(x) and E'leftof(x)/E'rightof(x), which exactly return the elements before and after x for the enum E. This is what I seem missing in the Java.
a caveat about EnumSet
by mcnepp - 2010-01-05 02:15Hi Mark, The JavaDoc for EnumSet advertizes it as a superior alternative to bitmasks.
Rather unfortunately, EnumSet is modifiable!
Therefore, declaring final static instances of EnumSet as a direct substitute for bitmasks cannot be recommended (as they could be modified by external code).
Instead, one needs to wrap the EnumSet in a "normal" java.util.Set like this:
public static final Set<Weekday> WORKDAYS = Collections.unmodifiableSet(EnumSet.range(MONDAY, FRIDAY));
Bitmask Cannot be modified
by uuk007 - 2010-04-25 23:36Hi, I am new to Java. So Can you please explain me why Bitmasks couldnt be modified? Regards Udhaya
Some classes just are not finished
by mkarg - 2010-01-23 08:13
You are right. It is a pity that there are some classes in the JRE that just seem to be not finished.


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Is she pulling down the sympathy votes? After all, earlier this week, it was revealed that her husband filed for divorce last month, not the other way around? (Such a shame — looks like she starved herself for a good couple months to fit in this thing.)
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Hypothesis: Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy is a safe therapy for treatment of patients with acromegaly in terms of both tumour control and biochemical remission
Radiation: fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy
|Study Type:
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Time Perspective: Retrospective
|Official Title:
|Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy in Patients With Acromegaly. Single Centre Experience
- Tumour control by pituitary MRI [ Time Frame: 7 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- biochemical remission [ Time Frame: 10 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Affection of other pituitary axes [ Time Frame: 10 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- withdrawal of somatostatin analogue and growth hormone receptor antagomist [ Time Frame: 10 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
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|January 2002
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|January 2008
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Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy
patients with active acromegaly
Radiation: fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy
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An audit was done on 34 patients with acromegaly (consecutive cohorte) treated with fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy in Rigshospitalet/National University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. All patients had MR control regularly to monitor tunour control, and biochemical control assessed by growth hormone measurements during an oral glucose tolerance test. Furthermore all other pituitary axes were tested for sufficiency and concomitant medication likewise registered. The 7 year interim analysis demonstrated an acceptable tumour control and biochemical remission profile, and most patient had subsequent withdrawal of somatostatin analogue- and growth hormone receptor antagonis therapy. The observational study will continue with a new update in approx 2 years
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34 patients with active acromegaly despite medical therapy
Inclusion Criteria:
adults active acromegaly pituitary tumour on MRI biochemical activity -
Exclusion Criteria:
pregnancy no visible tumour on MRI
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00934271
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|Copenhagen, Denmark, DK-2100
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|Responsible Party:
|Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen, Professor, chief Physician, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
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|NCT00934271 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 7, 2009
|Last Updated:
|October 26, 2014
|Health Authority:
|Denmark: Danish Dataprotection Agency
Keywords provided by Rigshospitalet, Denmark:
pituitary function
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Bone Diseases
Bone Diseases, Endocrine
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Hypothalamic Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Pituitary Diseases
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Isn't it true that Oxytocin does effect the brain? What if they administer it to mothers and it increases those levels but after it plummets?
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What kind of effects does Pitocin have on the mother's brain? Studies show that the baby's brain can possibly have adverse effects but why not the mother?
Isn't it true that Oxytocin does effect the brain? What if they administer it to mothers and it increases those levels but after it plummets?
Any kind of info regarding these types of questions is appreciated! By: Cheri
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It's weird sometimes how right after you learn something new, you find a use for it. I have just returned from Australia where I heard a talk by Dr. Sarah Buckley on the topic of hormones during labor. I knew a little about this before, but this is an area of special interest to her. Here is what she says about oxytocin:
Oxytocin is released from the pituitary gland, which lies deep in the brain, during sexual activity, orgasm, during labor and birth and the delivery of the placenta, during breastfeeding, through touch, and when sharing a meal. In addition to causing rhythmic uterine contractions, high oxytocin levels make us feel loving, positive, calm, and connected. For this reason, it is called "the hormone of love." The baby also produces it. Levels peak in the baby at the time of birth and are elevated for at least 4 days following it. Oxytocin levels are enhanced in both mother and baby by skin-to-skin and eye-to-eye contact and by the baby nuzzling the breast and suckling. Oxytocin is also present in breastmilk. Oxytocin may also act as a pheremone or have its effects transmitted through smell. Animal studies show that oxytocin administered to one animal has effects on its untreated cage mates. This may explain the positive feelings that may be engendered in birth helpers who are with a woman birthing with peak levels.
But here's the catch: oxytocin produced naturally by the pituitary circulates within the brain in the cerebrospinal fluid, but oxytocin cannot cross the blood-brain barrier. This means that women get none of these positive effects when synthetic oxytocin (Pitocin or "Pit"; Syntocinon or "Synto") is given intravenously. This, of course, explains why women don't like labors that are induced or augmented with oxytocin. They may get stronger contractions but none of the beneficial mental effects that help them tolerate them or feel good about themselves, the labor, or the baby.
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Hello again. Thank you for your response. I have been doing some heavy research on the effects of Pitocin and possible effects on the brain of the mother (or child). Here is some info. I found:
Messing with the balance
Researchers are just beginning to think about how modern medicine might influence hormones' effects on behavior and mood--including possible side effects. Among those researchers is Binghamton University psychologist Diane Witt, PhD, who started this fall as program director for behavioral neuroscience at the National Science Foundation. She's concerned about how alopathic medicine may be messing with women's natural hormonal balance through cultural norms and medical interventions. For example, as many as 73 percent of American women who give birth get pitocin--a synthetic form of oxytocin--to induce or speed along labor. Doctors even give the drug to women who have a Caesarean section to promote contraction of the uterus.
"This is a hormone that we know from animal research is implicated in all kinds of behaviors including learning and memory, sex, social behavior and feeding behavior," says Witt. "We may be changing the mother's or baby's brain when we give oxytocin."
Doctors have long contended that the drug, given intravenously, does not pass across the blood-brain barrier into the mother's brain. But no one knows for sure, says Witt. And until we do, we should be more cautious.
Indeed, Swedish researcher Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg, PhD, finds that exposing animals to extra oxytocin during early life permanently reduces their stress reactivity and lowers their baseline blood pressure. And the University of Illinois's Carter finds that male prairie voles exposed to extra oxytocin on the first day of life tend to form pair bonds more quickly in adulthood. In contrast, males exposed to a single shot with an agent that blocks the effect of oxytocin--something used to prevent premature labor in women--were less parental than normal as adults and, in fact, were aggressive toward pups.
Some of these could be good changes, says Witt, but, she adds, "more is not always better. For a chemical to work, it needs receptors and we know you can downregulate receptors by overloading them. So, if, for example, oxytocin is important for the initiation of maternal behavior, and we blast away that system at the time of labor, we could really be affecting subsequent expression of maternal behavior."
So far, this is all theory. But there's enough suggestive data now that people are starting to take notice. And, say researchers, hopefully that means more funding will follow.
Regarding the blood-brain barrier:
Stress Weakens the Blood-Brain Barrier-Study
Stress can dramatically increase the ability of chemicals to pass through the blood-brain barrier , the complex system of blood vessels that protects the brain from toxins circulating in the bloodstream. During the Gulf War, to protect themselves from chemical and biological weapons, Israeli soldiers took a drug called pyridostigmine. Nearly one-quarter of them complained of headaches, nausea, and dizziness – symptoms which occur only if the drug reaches the brain. Pyridostigmine molecules generally can't get into the brain, so why had the side-effects increased during combat? An Israeli biochemist and physician wondered whether the stress of war might somehow have increased the permeability of the blood-brain barrier. The two researchers took a group of mice and stressed some by dunking them in water. They then injected the rodents with a dye and measured its intensity in the autopsied brains. They found that the dye had passed much more readily into the brains of the stressed animals. The fact that stress can dramatically increase the ability of chemicals to pass through the blood-brain barrier has enormous implications, since many drugs are developed under the assumption that they will not enter the brain.
Stress Compromises the Blood-Brain Barrier
Stress can dramatically increase the ability of chemicals to pass through the blood-brain barrier. During the Gulf War, Israeli soldiers took a drug to protect themselves from chemical and biological weapons. Normally, it should not have crossed the BBB, but scientists learned that the stress of war had somehow increased the permeability of the BBB. Nearly one-quarter of the soldiers complained of headaches, nausea, and dizziness – symptoms which occur only if the drug reaches the brain.
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This is only the tip of the iceberg! I have dozens of other medical files and research that shows basically that the medical community does NOT know if it crosses the blood-brain barrier (and that stressful/painful induced labors can break down this barrier). This is very unnerving to me since so many women are induced by this drug (even in cases where it isn't needed)
If you are interested in more I am compiling my research and will send you my final when it is ready. By: Anonymous
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My email is [login to unmask email] By: Cheri
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As Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating." You might also want to send your compilation of it to Dr. Buckley. I'm sure she has a contact link on her website.
-- Henci By: Henci Goer
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A great article
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Hello I am back....years later. The reason for my initial research on Pitocin and it's after effects on mother and child were due to my own severe postpartum depression after my 3rd child. After my 2nd trip to the hospital with contractions coming minutes apart the midwife asked my permission to break the bag of water so that I would be allowed to be admitted in spite of only being dialated 4-5 cms. After my water was broken, about 15 minutes later I was brought into the delivery room and given an IV and the anesthethiologist was called for an epidural. However, after the IV was placed my contractions started coming rapidly and with great force. So much so that it was only minutes before my son's head was crowning and the midwife barely got into the room to deliver him.
After the fast delivery the nurses were cleaning me up and disconnecting my IVs and the empty IV bag was laid on my bed which I read as "Pitocin". Not only was I aggravated at the fact that I knew I was already in labor when I came to the hospital and my subsequent pregnancies were without interventions, I headed into a deep postpartum depression/anxiety mainly with panic attacks and not feeling comfortable sitting in one position (or bonding) with my newborn. As I read more and more of the studies I was and still am pretty convinced that the synthetic hormone had some share to do with it. Especially when I read how the "fight/flight" response is connected. It also concerned me how it this hormone affects the mother's thyroid gland.
Finally, I sent most of my research to the hospital that I felt administered me Pitocin against my knowledge, want or need. They responded by telling me they administered Pitocin for the expulsion of the placenta and that it was "standard" to do so. Though, I am still skeptical about that claim (knowing my how my previous labors went), it still concerned me that administering Pitocin to the mother at any time (pre or post partum) should never be a standard. In my opinion these are synthetic hormones that have the potential to adversly affect the mother's post partum health and/or the health of her new child/family. Until the research evidence is more conclusive about these hormones I don't think it should be a readily accepted "standard" and used for last resort situations.
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I'm sorry your 3rd child's birth triggered severe PPD and hope you have now made a complete recovery. I can tell you that it is common to administer Pitocin routinely as part of a policy known as "active management of 3rd stage" (the time from the birth of the baby to the delivery of the placenta). I agree that no woman should be administered any drug or undergo any procedure without giving her informed consent (or refusal).
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"We demand only one thing: Facebook should be blocked in the entire country because it openly popularizes homosexuality among minors," Roslyakovsky is quoted as saying.
The campaign was reportedly organized by an Orthodox community in the city of Saratov in southern Russia.
The group first demanded that Facebook cease "flirting with sodomites" and that it remove all content the group had deemed to be promoting homosexuality.
The group then sent an ultimatum to the social network's international office in Russia and gave the company 24 hours to respond under threat of being sued. Facebook ignored the threat and now the campaign seems to have escalated, with the group now reportedly calling for a return of anti-gay penal code regulations as well as a complete ban.
This marks a further worrying development in the human rights landscape faced by LGBTs in Russia after several local governments, most infamously the St Petersburg government, have moved to institute a ban on the so-called "promotion" of LGBT identity in the public square, supposedly to protect children. There are now efforts to create similar nationwide ban.
Eight gay rights protesters were arrested last weekend for supposed violations of the propaganda ban. The ban is being used, it would seem, to stop any kind of gay rights affirming demonstrations.
Related Reading:
First Russian is Convicted Under Gay Propaganda Ban
Rainbow Flags Get 17 May Day Marchers Arrested in Russia
Siberia Passes Anti-Gay Propaganda Law
Read more: facebook, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, human rights, lgbt europe, lgbt Facebook, lgbt Russia, lgbt St Petersburg, russia
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Not on facebook and really think the Russians do a lot of bad things, even since the cold war ended.
Maybe we straights have an ally in the Soviet Union!!!!!
Michele H. In case no one has informed you this site is for people who care and part of caring is supporting gays, being a homophobes goes against the basic human rights.
I wish all these ignorant bigots stop proclaiming they are boycotting and just leave.
And honestly, posting a facebook status that you are boycotting facebook because you are a bigot is just plain dumb.
No friends for them !
I sincerely wish that they do sue services which provide access to Facebook.
One presumes that then they will also want to ban Google for their support of marriage equality, and Apple, and Microsoft, and pretty much any company from the [civilised and enlightened part of] the rest of the world unless they plan to sue them too.
For it would be interesting to see these multibillion dollar companies rebuttals and the stand that they make.
It is amazing that they are demanding that 'Facebook should be blocked in the entire country because it openly popularizes homosexuality among minors, as if that would ever happen!
Given that Russias morons have laws already against homosexuality, I dont see many Russians updating their Facebook with gay marriage icons. Do you?
It has always been my humble opinion that it is via companies that aid and facilitates our technology and our information and the age we live in, that we shall be able to finally obtain, equality and irradiate homophobia and discrimination.
Russia would be a good starting point.
For it is giants like Googol , Yahoo and Microsoft and Apple , who unrestricted by treaties of nations and diplomacy can influence, demand and force uncooperative countries that are homophobic or have appalling records on human Rights and towards LGBTs, to improve their stance.
Living in an ever increasing information and technologically dependant age, countries may be able to ignore the demands from the UN
Don't let the door hit ya on yer way out {from Facebook}.....
Actually, Blocking, or attempting to have the Russian Govt Block, Facebook, rather than Boycotting, is the worrisome issue.... not much chance, tho, the Russian wealthy have too much tied up with Western business......
I'm sure that FB is simply miserable about this.... NOT.
Facebook sucks.
Good for them. It's about time someone stands up to this ridiculous movement.
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Cecilie Surasky of Jewish Voice for Peace
CECILIE SURASKY is the Deputy Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, a national 60-plus chapter grassroots organization which advocates for a US foreign policy based on democracy, human rights and equality in Israel/Palestine. Cecilie is a videomaker and former newspaper columnist who has also worked in movements supporting the rights of migrant farmworkers, low-income residents in gentrifying communities, women, and LGBT people. Cecilie's analyses of Israel-Palestine politics have appeared in numerous media outlets around the world, and she has led various efforts to promote the inclusion of Palestinian and progressive Jewish narratives in the public discourse.
Their website is: http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
The local chapter is at: http://jvp-pdx.org/
Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights, the Portland State University group that brought her to Portland, is at:https://www.facebook.com/PSUSUPER
- Title: Cecilie Surasky of Jewish Voice for Peace
- Length: 56:12 minutes (51.45 MB)
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A conversation with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on five decades of activism and scholarship
From the book's Introduction: "Writing US history from an Indigenous peoples' perspective requires rethinking the consensual national narrative. That narrative is wrong or deficient, not in its facts, dates, or details but rather in its essence. Inherent in the myth we've been taught is an embrace of settler colonialism and genocide. The myth persists, not for a lack of free speech or poverty of information but rather for an absence of motivation to ask questions that challenge the core of the scripted narrative of the origin story. How might acknowledging the reality of US history work to transform society? that is the central question this book pursues."
"This may well be the most important US history book you will read in your lifetime."--Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
"An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a fiercely honest, unwavering, and unprecedented statement, one which has never been attempted by any other historian or intellectual."--Simon Ortiz, Poet and Professor of English and American Indian Studies, Arizona State University
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for over four decades. From 1967 to 1974, she was a full-time activist living in various parts of the United States, traveling to Europe, Mexico, and Cuba. She is also a veteran of the women's liberation movement. Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years outlines this time of her life, chronicling the years 1960-1975. After receiving her PhD in history at UCLA, she taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at Cal State, Hayward, and helped found the departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies. Her 1977 book The Great Sioux Nation was the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indigenous peoples at the United Nations in Geneva. She is the author or editor of seven other books, including Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico. She lives in San Francisco.
See her website: http://www.reddirtsite.com/ and for her book: http://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-United-States-P1041.aspx
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NW fossil fuel corridor & climate change: citizens fight back against proposed gas export terminals
Guests will include:
Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/
Oregon LNG (Warrenton Liquified Natural Gas project): http://www.oregonlng.com/
Jordan Cove project (Coos Bay): http://jordancoveenergy.com/
Local press on Pembina propane project:
See also previous shows on the "Methane Time Bomb": http://kboo.fm/content/itsmuc0 and the Pembina Propane Terminal: http://kboo.fm/content/propose
- Title: NW fossil fuel corridor & climate change: citizens fight back against proposed gas export terminals
- Length: 38:07 minutes (52.35 MB)
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It's much later than we think: the methane time-bomb is ticking
Robert Hunziker (MA, economic history, DePaul University) is a freelance writer and environmental journalist whose articles have been translated into foreign languages and appeared in over 50 journals, magazines, and sites worldwide, like Z magazine, European Project on Ocean Acidification, Ecosocialism Canada, Climate Himalaya, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Comite Valmy, and UK Progressive. He has been interviewed about climate change on Pacifica Radio, KPFK, FM90.7, Indymedia On Air, and the World View Show/UK, as well as Thom Hartmann's Big Picture, and Norman B's Life Elsewhere, 88.5 WMNF. http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/author/robert-hunziker
Here are some of his recent articles:
The opening clip of Dr. Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics at the university of Cambridge was from December, 2013, replayed at a press conference by the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (http://ameg.me/) at the UN Conference on climate change in Lima, Peru in December, 2014. You can find the video of that press conference here:
- Title: It's much later than we think: the methane time-bomb is ticking
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Arresting Power- Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon: Interview with the filmmakers
The documentary "provides a historical and political analysis of the role of the police in contemporary society and the history of policing in the United States. It provides a context for the systemic racism in Portland, with its history of exclusion laws, racial profiling, red-lining and currently active gentrification practices.
It also provides a historical outline of resistance movements that have been active throughout the past 50 years, from the Portland Black Berets and Black Panther Party to police observation organizations like Portland Copwatch and Portland Community Liberation Front.
Most importantly, the film explores alternatives to the current system of policing and considers strategies for keeping communities safe from harm without the threat of constant surveillance and ubiquitous violence." (from the filmmakers' Kickstarter site)
In the current context of a nation-wide uprising against police violence, and the local group Don't Shoot/Portland doing regular actions and gaining high visibility, this film will have particular relevance and resonance and should add an important historical dimension to the ongoing activism and discussion over the role of the police and the possibilities for real accountability and civilian oversight.
The Portland Premiere of Arresting Power is this Thursday January 15th, 2015 7pm at the Northwest Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Avenue.
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Proposed Propane Terminal at the Port of Portland across from West Hayden Island
The Pembina Corporation, a Canadian oil company with heavy investments in the Alberta tar sands,announced plans in the fall of 2014 to build a propane (LPG) export terminal at the Port of Portland's Rivergate Terminal on the Columbia River opposite West Hayden Island. This export terminal would require that a pipeline be built crossing a fragile riparian area along the Columbia River which is zoned as a conservation area. In order for the proposal to move forward, the city's zoning code prohibiting hazardous materials from being transported through conservation zones would have to be modified. Once modified, this zoning change would set a precedent that could allow additional fossil fuel infrastructure to be constructed in many other sites in the region.
In this program, host Paul Roland speaks with Daphne Wysham and John Talberth.
There will be a hearing on this issue on Tuesday, January 13th at 2:30 p.m. A rally will start at 1:30.
- TESTIFY: To deliver testimony in person (2-3 min long), sign up to testify at 12:00 Noon, Jan. 13, at 1900 SW 4th Ave, Suite 2500A. Tips on effective testimony available here.
- Title: Proposed Propane Terminal at the Port of Portland across from West Hayden Island
- Length: 56:22 minutes (129.03 MB)
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"More Than a Score:The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing" with Jesse Hagopian from Seattle
He teaches history and is the Black Student Union adviser at Garfield High School in Seattle, site of the boycott of the MAP test in 2013, which helped ignite a nationwide movement. He is editor of the newly published book, "More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing." He is also an associate editor of "Rethinking Schools," a founding member of Social Equality Educators, and winner of the 2013 "Secondary School Teacher of Year" award from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. He writes regularly for Truthout, Common Dreams, Socialist Worker, Black Agenda Report, and the Seattle Time Op-Ed page.
His website is: http://iamaneducator.com/
Find out more about his book here: http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/More-Than-a-Score
Other organizations/websites mentioned on the show:
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing: http://fairtest.org/
Teachers of Conscience: http://teachersofconscience.wordpress.com/
Decoding Dyslexia Oregon: http://www.decodingdyslexiaor.org/
Providence Student union: http://www.providencestudentunion.org/
- Title: "More Than a Score:The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing" with Jesse Hagopian from Seattle
- Length: 56:57 minutes (52.14 MB)
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Today's guest is Seattle Pastor John Helmiere of the Valley and Mountain community
Links from this program:
Article about John's lawsuit:
His reflections on the police beating incident:
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Should we pipe fracked gas through Oregon to a terminal in Coos Bay and export it to Asia?
Host Paul Roland talks with Ted Gleichman of the Sierra Club by phone from Roseburg, where he participated in a public hearing on the Jordan Cove Liquified Natural Gas export facility and pipeline yesterday.. He is the editor of a new report called "Climate Impacts of Natural Gas Production and LNG Export: A Synopsis of Current Science." You can find it here:https://orsierraclub.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/climate-impacts-of-natural-gas-production-lng-export-edition-1-3-november-2014.pdf
Another Sierra Club report on the LNG issue can be found here:
Groups working on this issue:
http://oregon.sierraclub.org/ 503-238-0442
http://columbiariverkeeper.org/ Dan Serres 503-890-2441
- Title: Should we pipe fracked gas through Oregon to a terminal in Coos Bay and export it to Asia?
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Thomas Linzey on Community Rights, electoral politics and the legal structures that entrap us
He will be a speaker at the "Earth at Risk" conference coming up in San Francisco, November 22-23, along with Chris Hedges, Alice Walker, Vandana Shiva, Stan Goff and many others. http://www.fertilegroundinstitute.org/
His group's webiste: http://www.celdf.org/
From the CELDF website:
CELDF was formed in 1995 in Pennsylvania by Thomas Linzey and Stacey Schmader, Administrative Director, to provide free and affordable legal services to community groups. Over the first several years, we assisted hundreds of communities in Pennsylvania facing unwanted corporate development projects such as incinerators and quarries.
We assisted these communities to try to stop the projects by appealing corporate permit applications through the state's environmental regulatory system. We were very successful appealing permits, finding the holes and omissions that would render them incomplete. As such, the state Department of Environmental Protection's Environmental Hearing Board would toss out the permits, and our communities would celebrate their "victory," believing the system of law had worked.
However, the corporation could and would simply file another permit, this time filling in the holes and omissions we had cited. Once the corporation filed an administratively complete permit application, the state was automatically required to approve it. The communities would ask us to appeal the permit again, but there was nothing left for us to do. We couldn't help them. The law in Pennsylvania, as in every other state, works the same way. The state legalizes an activity – such as mining, or commercial water withdrawals, or factory farming – and communities are legally prohibited from saying "no" to it.
After experiencing how the regulatory system operated over several years and seeing our communities lose time and time again, we determined that in order to help them, we would need to do our work differently. This led to an evolution of our thinking and our work.
Beginning in 1998, we began to assist communities to draft legally binding laws in which they asserted their right to self-govern. Initially, our work focused on communities facing corporate factory farms and later the application of sewage sludge to farmland. Communities across Pennsylvania adopted our anti-corporate farming and anti-corporate sludging laws.
To accommodate the growing interest in our work, with calls coming in from across the country, we launched the Daniel Pennock Democracy Schools in 2003, which have become a critical tool in our grassroots organizing. Communities facing other corporate threats – such as uranium mining in Virginia and commercial water withdrawals in New England – began to take on this work.
The Legal Defense Fund has now become the principal advisor to activists, community groups, and municipal governments struggling to transition from merely regulating corporate harms to stopping those harms by asserting local, democratic control directly over corporations.
- Title: Thomas Linzey on Community Rights and the legal structures that entrap us
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Last night woke up to my pressure relief valve leaking water onto the floor in the utility closet. I turned the temp dial all the way down and turned off the water supply to the water heater and it stopped after a minute.
Is it new water heater time? Or could it just be the pressure relief valve that is bad? How do I test it to find out?
You can replace the T&P valve pretty easy. Just turn your water supplies off, drain the water off a little and thread it out. Ace sells them so I'm sure you can find them @ any hardware store. The only variable is the length of the valve, make sure to bring the old one with you as there are about 3 or 4 different lengths. Under 20 bucks should get it done.
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Is it a slow leak that is dripping out and maybe a bad seal?
We have had issues with our water heater when the wife takes a bath. The only thing that I can figure out is the pressure relief valve somehow opens and sprays water all over the basement. I can't figure out why it only happens when she takes a bath and not a shower or the clothes washer or dishwasher is running.
The water heater is only a little over 3 years old so it shouldn't be going bad I wouldn't think. I will probably try to call someone this week to see if I can figure out what is going on, but if anyone here has any ideas, let me know.
So I replaced the relief valve and it seemed to fill up and heat up ok. Then I noticed another problem. There was a leak on the ball valve for the cold water inlet. By the looks of it, it had been leaking a while. So I goto the store and get a new one. Shot off the water to the house, and disconnect the valve then the water heat starts leaning. That pipe was supporting the water heater because the base was completely rusted out. Ran out to menards and grabbed a new water heater and it is now installed and I have hot water.
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Regular season openerA heat win & a breakdown in the feature. Sounds like 04
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First year for Gopher 50 at Deer Creek -some pics from the North grandstand - the only good view of this track - it was crowded, dirty and an exciting Mod race
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