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Bill Leak
Bill Leak (born Desmond Robert Leak,[1] 1956) is an Australian cartoonist and painter, primarily of portraits. He is the daily editorial cartoonist on The Australian newspaper. He has won the Walkley Awards nine times.[2]
Leak has entered the Archibald Prize at least 13 times, and was hung 11 times. These included portraits of Donald Bradman in 1989, Malcolm Turnbull in 1994, Graham Richardson in 1995, Tex Perkins in 1997, Gough Whitlam in 1998, Sir Les Patterson in 2000 and Robert Hughes in 2001. He won the Packing Room Prize twice (for Tex Perkins and Sir Les Patterson) and also won the People's Choice Award for Malcolm Turnbull. In addition two paintings of him by other artists have also won the People's Choice Award: a painting by Josonia Palaitis in 1995, and one by Esther Erlich in 2000. He "is widely regarded by good judges as the best painter never to have won the Archibald prize, an omission many of them regard as one of the greatest travesties of Australian art".[2]
He was interviewed in the 2005 Peter Berner documentary about the Archibald Prize called Loaded Brush.
In 2007 he ran into trouble by portraying the then leader of the opposition Kevin Rudd as Tintin (accompanied by Snowy).[3] This was resolved by Leak promising to not profit from any sales of cartoons from this series.[4]
On 18 October 2008 he sustained serious head injuries in a fall[5] and, while his outlook was initially poor, he recovered.[2]
His TV series, Face Painting, in which he paints portraits of people who have died, went to air on the ABC in November 2008.[2] Portraits painted for this show include Australian actor June Salter, musician Bon Scott and Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins.
|Preceded by
Jennifer Little
|People's Choice Award
for Malcolm Turnbull
|Succeeded by
Josonia Palaitis
|Preceded by
Paul Newton
|Packing Room Prize
for Tex Perkins
|Succeeded by
Kerrie Lester
|Preceded by
Deny Christian
|Packing Room Prize
for Are you with me? - (Sir Les Patterson)
|Succeeded by
Paul Newton
- ^ 1001 Australians You Should Know, Toby Creswell, Samantha Trenoweth
- ^ a b c d Coombs, Roger (2009) "Bill Leak ode to the fallen", The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 November 2008
- ^ Blistering Barnacles! Tintin 'parody' threat, The Daily Telegraph, 2 June 2007
- ^ Wilson, Peter (2007-06-04). "Leak in the clear over Tintin". news.com.au. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
- ^ Cartoonist Bill Leak seriously injured in balcony fall, ABC News (Australia), Oct. 19, 2008
- Portrait of Bill Leak, editorial cartoonist, 1984, by Terry Mulligan
- Column 8 story on Bill Leak, breaking his toe
External links[edit]
- 1997 Walkely Award - Bill Leak for 'The Big Picture'
- 2002 Walkley Award - Bill Leak for 'Brown Nose Day'
- Three Cartoonists - transcript of Andrew Denton's ABC interview with cartoonist Bruce Petty, Bill Leak and Patrick Cook
- Drawing and quartering our pollies - Article includes comments by Bill Leak on his cartooning and the reactions he gets


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Pete Zielinksi, left, and Jim Collins star in the Stages at Camden County College production of the romantic farce "Boeing Boeing."
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convert roof shingles to driveway pavement
I am about to re-shinghle my roof and am trying to go as 'green' as I can in this day and age. I thought simce I'm getting my roof re-shingled this summer, why not save the shingles and have my dirt driveway surfaced by converting the shingles.
I was curiuos if anyone had an idea of how I coudl go about doing that or if it's even possible.
Cheers and hello from Nova Scotia!
You want to cover your driveway in shingles? Not too sure how you would go about doing that and make it look good.
Around here, any bituminous or asphalt type of material has to be recycled. Can't bury it nor otherwise hide it.
I think your heart is in the right place. But the green thing to do is to take it to a recycler. They'll chop it up and add it to road pavement.
You need as much overlap as you'd have on the roof or grass will grow through. Grass will also grow through the nail holes. They will move around until the hot summer sun sets them in place.
I got them free from a roofer, he was happy to let me dig through his dumpster because he has to pay to take them to the dump. They aren't recycled into anything around here. As with anything, use common sense.
Is the driveway at least a 3/12 pitch? :wink: :laughing:
Never thought of putting then in a driveway. If you cant waste manegment takes then to recycle.
I'm wondering if you could just chop them up and spread them like gravel, but I can't think of an easy way to do that offhand.
the nails that your sure to miss should provide nice traction too...win/win:thumbup:
Check with your Chamber of Commerce and see if there is a manufacturer of composite shingles in your area that would give you their 3-tab waste. It works, the only thing you have to do is take your own truck there (they were loaded into the trucks by a conveyor belt)and then shovel them out and rake them smooth at home before they have a chance to heat up in the sun and clump together.
It looked like asphalt after a few weeks.
Cheers from Dugly :cool:
My father has a camp in Pennsylvania and a guy at another camp did his whole dirt drive them 25 years ago. About 2 months after he put them in the county made him remove them. Said they are a fire hazzard and this was in the boonies. Would be like lighting a pile of tire on fire.
Using the shingle as a driveway may be "green" in some twisted way, but recycling is more prudent.
Dumping on the ground and driving over them is not really good for the environment considering what will be leached out.
Hi! Yes, it is possible! Shingles must be shredded to be used successfully for any road application such as driveway pavement. You may check this site for more details about recycling shingles. anr.state.vt.us/dec/wastediv/recycling/shingles.pdf
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Bangkok's seasons can be determined by the level of heat: very hot, really wet, warm and sticky, or reasonably hot. The high season from November through March claims the latter description. Many from the northern hemisphere swap winter for the Southeast Asian shores (with the requisite stopover in Bangkok). In general, Bangkok's high season stretches till May.
November evening skies sparkle with the brilliant displays of the Loi Krathong Festival of Light. Based on 13th-century Brahmin origins, locals give thanks to the Goddess of Water and seek forgiveness for naughty deeds. You'll find Thais and foreigners alike out by the Chao Phraya riverside setting candlelit floats into the water with a prayer. The festival is celebrated at various points along the river so that everyone has the chance to set his or her own krathong into the water.
Mid-April signals the Thai New Year, or Songkran, a nonstop, three-day festival where revelers take to the streets with water guns and buckets—a modern-day interpretation of when a Buddhist monk sprinkled water on people as a token of good luck. This also comes at the start of the shoulder season—and the start of monsoons, reinforcing the fact that the high point of Songkran is getting wet (literally, like you have just spent the day at a water park).
The really rainy months of June through October indicate low season in Bangkok. Let's just say it seems like the Songkran on steroids during the monsoons. There have been recorded episodes of near-constant rains for two months straight. Lots of rain and humidity can make for a miserable combination for some people, but the Thais just let it roll off their backs. August and September generally get the wettest, sometimes with floods reaching knee-deep depths in busy town streets. Pack an umbrella and a light trash-bag-like poncho; the muggy temps will prove a heavy raincoat useless.


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Treatment of thoraco-lumbar curves in adolescent females affected by idiopathic scoliosis with a progressive action short brace (PASB): assessment of results according to the SRS committee on bracing and nonoperative management standardization criteria
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1 Orthopaedic Department, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Institute of Scientific Research, P.zza S. Onofrio, 4 - 00165 Rome, Italy
2 University of Cassino, Strada Folcara, 4 - 03043 Cassino (FR), Italy
3 Orthopaedic Department, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Institute of Scientific Research, P.zza S. Onofrio, 4 - 00165 Rome, Italy
4 Department of Orthopaedics, "A. Gemelli" Hospital, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - 00168, Rome, Italy
Scoliosis 2009, 4:21 doi:10.1186/1748-7161-4-21Published: 18 September 2009
The effectiveness of conservative treatment of scoliosis is controversial. Some studies suggest that brace is effective in stopping curve progression, whilst others did not report such an effect.
The purpose of the present study was to effectiveness of Progressive Action Short Brace (PASB) in the correction of thoraco-lumbar curves, in agreement with the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) Committee on Bracing and Nonoperative Management Standardisation Criteria.
Fifty adolescent females (mean age 11.8 ± 0.5 years) with thoraco-lumbar curve and a pre-treatment Risser score ranging from 0 to 2 have been enrolled. The minimum duration of follow-up was 24 months (mean: 55.4 ± 44.5 months). Antero-posterior radiographs were used to estimate the curve magnitude (CM) and the torsion of the apical vertebra (TA) at 5 time points: beginning of treatment (t1), one year after the beginning of treatment (t2), intermediate time between t1 and t4 (t3), end of weaning (t4), 2-year minimum follow-up from t4 (t5). Three situations were distinguished: curve correction, curve stabilisation and curve progression.
The Kruskal Wallis and Spearman Rank Correlation tests have been used as statistical tests.
CM mean value was 29,30 ± 5,16 SD at t1 and 14,67 ± 7,65 SD at t5. TA was 12.70 ± 6,14 SD at t1 and 8,95 ± 5,82 at t5. The variation between measures of Cobb and Perdriolle degrees at t1,2,3,4,5 and between CM t5-t1 and TA t5-t1 were significantly different.
Curve correction was accomplished in 94% of patients, whereas a curve stabilisation was obtained in 6% of patients.
The PASB, due to its peculiar biomechanical action on vertebral modelling, is highly effective in correcting thoraco-lumbar curves.


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Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax at Big 4
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But at Saturday's Big 4 concert at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, a different scene was set as thrash aficionados showed up to witness the convergence of metal titans Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, and Metallica.
Middle-aged men with cargo shorts, backward hats and Slayer muscle tees check their account balances at Bank of America ATMs. Twentysomething metalheads congregate in the halls of Motel 6 at 3 a.m., trying, in vain, to find just the right words to describe the drumming style of Slayer's Dave Lombardo. Record Alley at the Westfield Palm Desert mall suffers a complete pillaging of Anthrax shirts other than size small (metalheads, it seems, have little use for shirts of this cut). A group of motherly types in Slayer garb visit the DIY Bloody Mary bar at the Ace Hotel Palm Springs.
In full daylight, the North American metalhead may seem out of place. Yet, when contextualized with 49,999 devil-horn-raising compatriots, a metal head becomes the part of that mass in black poised in front of the stage.
Here, at the site that held Coachella's bikini-and-neon clad crowds just seven days earlier, the expansive lawn teemed with beards, jean shorts and band shirts. The Metallica Master of Puppets t-shirt appeared to be forerunner of metalheads' sartorial choices, followed by the iron eagle Slayer tee available at Hot Topics everywhere.
The crowd was about 30 percent female; 80 percent of whom appeared to be girlfriends. Hot dog burps stalked through the audience like smelly velociraptors, but no one seemed to care as Anthrax took the stage.
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Opening with their '80s thrash classic, "Caught in a Mosh," the gents delivered their punkified metal to the afternoon audience. With a 4 p.m. set time, concert goers were still trickling in from the distant parking lots, where serious tailgating may have had some affect on the punctuality of the crowd. By the time Megadeth began, the field had become packed with fans pumping their fists and chanting "Meg-a-deth" in unison.
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Mustaine changed guitars nearly every song and even wielded a double flying V (a flying W?) guitar at one point. He seldom moved around on stage and seemed at times to be a bit nervous. Opening for Metallica, the band he was famously kicked out of for drinking too much (!), may have been a moment of humbleness, but Mustaine has made a career of baring his soul flaws and all.
During "A Tout Le Monde," Mustaine's introspective lyrics about reflecting on life seemed to resonate with the audience, who sang the chorus back to him. Then just as an un-metal tear was about to be shed, Megadeth got back to shredding with the iconic "Symphony of Destruction."
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Slayer's momentum is unstoppable, it's an inertia that grows with each passing song. Yet, missing from the bands explosive chemistry was Jeff Hanneman, 47, who had been sidelined due to the most metal ailment of all--necrotizing fasciitis, aka the flesh eating bacteria. Gary Holt from Exodus flawlessly played most of the show, when unexpectedly, Hanneman came on stage to finish the show with "South of Heaven" and "Angel of Death." When they finished, a dedicated group of Slayer fans immediately left the venue, forgoing the Big 4's headliner.
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Playing only three songs from their last 20 years of music, Metallica focused on the high-octane, heady thrash that made their name back in the 1980s. Hetfield is a hell of a frontman, and even after 30 years of shouting "Hey!" at audiences, his voice sounds better than ever. He holds the attention of thousands and delivers powerful performance as though it as easy as giving a wedding toast.
Pyrotechnics accompanied the Motorhead-on-meth style "Fuel," and a mock warzone erupted onstage before the epic anthem "One." But it was the early songs that were most successful. The power of those songs from the 1980s will never lose their luster as stars by which metal navigated for the next 20 years. Metallica can put on a memorable show in their sleep, and as Big 4's headliner, they satisfied all expectations.
When the band returned onstage for an encore, something special was in the works. "We are just waiting on the world's slowest roadcrew," Hetfield passive-aggressively joked. Then it happened, all the members of the Big 4 bands came on stage to perform "Am I Evil?"
It was musical meatloaf, as all the bands smooshed onto the stage. No song can benefit from four bass players, four drummers, three singers (no Araya), and countless shredders. The seemingly made-for-tv moment of Hetfield and Mustaine onstage at the same time, "putting their differences behind them" as their press release would eventually read, felt a bit half-baked. When they left the stage, Metallica went back to doing what they do best: Melting faces.
Anthrax Set List:
Caught in a Mosh
Got the Time
Among the Living
Fight 'Em Till You Can't
Metal Thrashing Mad
I Am the Law
Megadeth Set List:
In My Darkest Hour
Hangar 18
Wake Up Dead
Poison Was the Cure
She Wolf
Sweating Bullets
Head Crusher
A Tout Le Monde
Symphony of Destruction
Peace Sells
Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
Slayer Set List:
Word Painted Blood
Hate Worldwide
War Ensemble
Raining Blood
Dead Skin Mask
Silent Scream
Circle of Beliefs
Seasons in the Abyss
South of Heaven
Angel of Death
Metallica Set List:
Creeping Death
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ride the Lightning
Fade to Black
All Nightmare Long
Sad But True
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Master of Puppets
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Am I Evil? w/members of Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth
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Ralph Nader was interviewed by Amy Goodman about controlling corporations for the public good. The multinational corporation has grown… read more
Ralph Nader was interviewed by Amy Goodman about controlling corporations for the public good. The multinational corporation has grown in power from being a tool to becoming the dominant institution in the global political economy. Other topics included the importance of oil, the Defense Department budget, labor unions, lobbying, breaking up corporations, and the definition of fascism as 'private concentrated economic power taking government away from the people.'
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This is the tour failure of the year.
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Yeah, probably either this or Gigantour.
A friend of mine does security for Live Nation and works a lot of gigs at Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto. He was able to get the gate numbers for both of these shows as well as Mayhem.
Gigantour: 3,240
Mayhem: 2,809
Uproar: 6,691
I didn't go to Gigantour or Mayhem but did go to Uproar, and by the time Jane's started playing I thought it looked like there were a lot more than 6,700, since most of the lower level seats were filled and the lawn looked pretty well attended (at least compared to that in the picture by OP). He's informed me that that includes tickets scanned throughout the night. Molson Amphitheatre fits about 16,000 people (7,000 on the lawn and 9,000 in the seats). So maybe that includes if the lawn is jam packed. I don't know, I'm getting off topic here.
Now, 6,700 people on its own is pretty damn good. It's obvious AIC was the reason going to this tour for a lot of people, so a being able to pull that many people is nothing to sneeze at. In fact other than BlackDiamondSkye was there ever a time they were headlining huge arenas and amphitheatres? So that many people, which is enough to fill a lot of smaller arenas and then some, is pretty good for a band as "heavy" as AiC. Yeah they have a lot of radio hits, but outside of Metallica I can't think of a lot of hard rock/metal bands that can pull those kind of crowds these days. I just think a lot of these tours are being over ambitious when it comes booking the venues. Unfortunately it's not really a solvable problem since the only places they can do these kinds of all day festivals are at amphitheatres which hold 15,000+ people because of the space for the side stages and necessary amenities offered at these bathrooms. In a lot of cities the next best option is like a mid-sized theatre which would be too small to host something like this and don't provide stuff like food or necessary space for signings and sponsor booths and stuff. Gigantour went the large club/small arena route in 2008 and 2012 I think, so i don't know why they didn't do the same thing this time around, since I think those start more late afternoon and not early afternoon since they generally only have 4-5 bands now.
So....yeah....there's that.
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$$$ never gonna happen. and i fully think that games designers will make changes to get the most out of the processor, but i was leaning towards problems like, we can only have levels of a certain size becasue of a lack of harrdrive. so limit the levels to that sort of thing on both consoles. otherwise it would be a different game.
plus, all this stuff about the ps3 being hard to program for, well boo-hoo. the ps2 was no walk in the park, but they dealt with it and produced far superior games later on in the lifecycle.
just lookat a game released in the first 6 months of the ps2 to a one created towards the end, the differences are striking. with a brand new processor, it takes time to build up a good set of libraries for set tasks, but once they are there, you can spend more time being creative.
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Google Android and the Dream Phone
Google's software for mobile communication, Android, is scheduled for release in November along with the Dream ''GPhone."
News about the software is based on official announcements on the developer's platform, and speculation about the hardware is based on test results published by the American testing body, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The mobile platform Engadget first called attention to the simultaneous timing of the software and hardware releases when the company discovered that the mobile telephone ''DREA100,'' from Korean manufacturer HTC, had been granted permission to sell in the U.S. after being tested by the FCC.
The Google handset, which the media nicknamed the GPhone, should reach American stores by November 10, just in time for the holiday rush.
Ironically, a secrecy clause in the FCC document drew attention to the product in the first place. The FCC should have kept the information under wraps until the release. Documents published by the FCC include construction plans that show a so-called "jogball" as the main operating device, similar to the Blackberry.
The German telephone giant T-Mobile, currently the fourth largest telecommunications provider in the American market, is partnered with HTC and Google.
Software intended for the handset has been released by the Google developers as a Beta version, Number 0.9 SDK, and the final version 1.0 is planned for the last quarter of this year.
Dan Morrill, one of the developers, lists some of the more important changes and additions on his blog. "First and most obviously, the new Home screen is included, along with a ton of UI changes for 1.0. Some new applications are included: an Alarm Clock, Calculator, Camera, Music player, Picture viewer, and Messaging (for SMS/MMS conversations.) Several new development tools were added, such as a graphical preview for XML layouts for users of Eclipse, and a tool for constructing 9-patch images," he writes.
A comprehensive list of changes and additions and the free software are available on the Android Developer website.
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Play hopes to stimulate discussion on 'discovery of love'
Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre producing artistic director Andrew S. Paul is always on the lookout for plays that can stimulate an audience, electrify conversation and create a buzz.
When he saw Sarah Ruhl's Pulitzer finalist play "In the Next Room or the vibrator play" in a 2010 production at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, Calif., he thought it would arouse and satisfy ticket buyers.
But not in the ways you might expect from its title.
Ruhl's comedy was inspired by Dr. Rachel P. Maines' 1999 book "The Technology of Orgasm: 'Hysteria,' Vibrators and Women's Sexual Satisfaction."
"I don't think it's sensational at all. ... It's not pornographic or titillating," Paul says. "The play is about a subject (playwright George Bernard) Shaw would have embraced,"
Yes, the action of the play takes place in 1880 and focuses on a young doctor who treats his female patients' "hysteria" with a recently developed medical breakthrough -- an electric vibrator.
It's a period when Edison and Westinghouse were creating electrical and mechanical breakthroughs and women were discovering their sensuality.
Doctors of the period, unversed in the concept of female sensuality, used the vibrator as a legitimate treatment that was remarkably successful.
But while the doctor in the play may be satisfying his patients, he's less successful at making a connection with his wife.
Paul was eager to include a play by Ruhl whose works include "The Clean House" and "Dead Man's Cell Phone," which have been produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, Calif.
"She's a young writer not seen much in Pittsburgh, but an up-and-coming playwright," he says.
Paul also expects it will be a good fit for both his core audience -- those who prefer classics and serious dramas -- and young, single-ticket buyers who turned the company's recent productions of "Race" and "The Mask of Moriarty" into financial successes.
He also knows some people will avoid it because they think it will be pornographic.
"I wish those people would read the play," he says.
There's nothing crude or salacious about the play, says Alan Stanford, who is directing the production.
The women are being given a medical treatment, Stanford says. It's like going to the dentist for a routine treatment or having a boil lanced at your doctor's office.
"It's not a play about electrical devices. (That) is the mechanism about how discoveries are made -- what the human heart can do better than a machine," Stanford says. "The humor of the play is about sensuality. It's about love, the sensuality of love, a discussion of love. It's about a woman who cannot find a channel of love for her child or her husband. The journey of the play is the discovery of love."
It is a play for women. "But they should also drag their husbands, kicking and screaming," Stanford says. "And of course, my production will be done in the best possible taste."
At the movies
In May, movie audiences can explore the same topic from a different perspective when the romantic comedy "Hysteria" is released. Hugh Dancy stars as Mortimer Granville, the Victorian-era doctor who invents an electrically powered vibrator with the help of his wealthy friend, Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe, played by Rupert Everett. As Granville and his fellow physician Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce), find their London female patient list growing, Granville also discovers himself falling for Dalrymple's daughter, Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal).Additional Information:
'In the Next Room or the vibrator play'
Produced by: Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre
When: Today through May 5 at 7 p.m. Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays and May 5
Admission: $25-$48; discounts for seniors over 65 and youths under 26 with ID
Where: Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, 4301 Forbes Ave, Oakland
Details: 412-394-3353 or www.picttheatre.org
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"A weekend of peace and nature in the beautiful Dwingeloo, heart of Drenthe"» Read more about Hampshire Hotel - Wesseling
Hampshire Hotel - Wesseling is situated between two national nature reserves on the beautiful Brink van Dwingeloo. You can't get more central in the Province of Drenthe. The hotel is in the middle of the village of Dwingeloo, proclaimed the greenest village in the Netherlands in 2011 and greenest village in Europe in 2012. In Café Hotel Wesseling's conservatory, you can enjoy the beautiful view across all that greenery and the famous Siepeltoren of the Sint Nicolaaskerk.
There are wonderful walking and cycling routes around the Hampshire Hotel - Wesseling. You can hire a bicycle at the hotel. There are lots of options for fun family outings including Verkeerspark in Assen, Dierenpark Emmen, Plopsaland in Coevorden or the Drents Museum. Those seeking a culinary feast can enjoy this in the hotel. Brasserie Wesseling hotel restaurant has a menu that varies with the seasons and always offers surprising finds from head chef, Jelle Schepers.
Brasserie Wesseling
This à-la-carte restaurant has a fantastic kitchen. The head chef knows how to continuously surprise guests with delicious creations and seasonal menus. Perhaps as a starter you'd like rib-eye steak and sweetbread, goose rillette, crème brûlée of goats' cheese or a crab tart? And that's just for starters! Brasserie Wesseling also has an extensives wine menu.
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Hampshire Hotel - Wesseling is the ideal place to stay overnight when you're doing business in Drenthe. It's located centrally in the Province of Drenthe and is easily accessible by car via the A28 and A32. The hotel also has extra facilities, such as free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel, breakfast possibilities before 7:30 a.m., free parking, room service, packed lunch service, laundry, restaurant, café and lounge.
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Randy Paralympians run out of condomsComment on this story
While the athletes have been scoring on the fields, roads, tracks, arenas and courts of play at the 14th Paralympic Games, it has emerged that many of them have been scoring just as often during their down time.
The Paralympians have apparently almost worked their way through 11 000 condoms. More have had to be ordered, tweeted Gareth Davies, a Paralympics correspondent for the Daily Telegraph on Saturday: "Condoms: seven boxes of 1 600 each have already been supplied to the Village. A re-order was made yesterday. That's elite sport @owenslot!" His tweet was in response to a column by Owen Slot of the Times yesterday, in which he debated the concept of the Paralympics as an elite sport.
"Vast numbers of the Paralympians here in London are elite athletes," wrote Slot. "But some of them are not. And that is not a criticism. It is just the way it is."
And having lots of sex seems to be the way it is, with some former Paralympic athletes suggesting Davies was a little shy in his calculations as to how many condoms are being used. Writing for Channel 4, the host broadcaster, James Ballardie, did his maths and came up with a total of almost 43 000.
"The 4 280 Paralympians competing at this summer's Games make up 28.571 percent of the 14 700 total number of athletes competing at the Olympics and Paralympics combined. That means they'll have ploughed through an impressive total 42 857 condoms by the time of the closing ceremony – with an impressive condom per athlete ratio of 10.2 condoms each."
Ballardie quoted Team GB powerlifter Ali Jawad, who was born without legs, but seems to have all of his other faculties intact: "We'll probably use about 90 percent of the condoms because we're crazy. We get excited very easily. That's why I'm going to the Paralympics, why I've worked so hard for four years, for the free condoms."
The Paralympic motto is "Spirit in Motion", which was changed after the 2004 Athens Games from "Mind, Body, Spirit". Motion might be the appropriate word here, according to Giles Long, who swam at three Paralympics for Great Britain and is now a TV expert for Channel 4 at these Games: "Disabled people sometimes find it harder to get sex at home, but when they get to the Games, all that can change. There's a lot to be said for shared experience. If you're at the Games, you don't have to explain to someone what it's like to not be able to see or walk properly or whatever. You're well past that 'Oh! You've got a disability!' stage of getting to know someone."
Ballardie interviewed Dr Tuppy Owens, who runs a sex and disability helpline called Outsiders. "It must be amazing at the Paralympics," she says. "One thing they say about people who become disabled is that they get to know their bodies much more. They may be more likely to use the condoms because they are used to looking after themselves, and they'll go to great lengths to do so," Owens said.
"Also, I have noticed that people of small stature are often highly sexed and I have a theory that this is because they have, out of proportion to the rest of their bodies, large heads and genitals, thus probably have a higher proportion of testosterone whizzing around their bodies. I don't know if this could raise the number of condoms used. Anyway, I've never been able to persuade any scientist to test this out…"
There is a legendary story told of sex at the Paralympics in which an athlete saw two wheelchairs sitting outside a car one evening. The athlete took the chairs inside, thinking someone had left them there by accident, as you do with wheelchairs.
The next day she returned to find two Paralympians stuck in the back of the car. Minds in motion indeed. – Sunday Independent
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Elegant, refined and a perfect way to start a meal.
200g/7oz caster sugar
30g/1oz butter
1 tbsp fresh thyme, leaves only
6 small chicory heads, quartered
4 x 123cm/5in circles ready-rolled puff pastry
100g/3½ oz Stilton
1 garlic clove, crushed
50g/2oz Dijon mustard
50ml/2fl oz white wine vinegar
200ml/7fl oz extra virgin olive oil
salt and freshly ground black pepper
handful walnuts
handful mustard cress, to serve
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas mark 6.
Heat the sugar and 50ml/2fl oz water in a saucepan until the sugar melts and the caramel is golden-brown. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the butter until smooth. Divide the caramel between four x 13cm/5in ovenproof dishes.
Sprinkle the sea salt and thyme over the caramel and lay the chicory heads on top. Press the pastry circles onto the chicory and trim the edges to fit. Place the dishes into the oven and cook for 20 minutes, or until the pastry is crisp and golden-brown.
For the vinaigrette, blend the cheese, garlic, mustard and white wine vinegar in a food processor. With the motor on a slow setting, gradually add the oil and seasoning and blend until smooth and well combined.
To serve, invert the tarts onto serving plates and drizzle over the vinaigrette. Sprinkle over the walnuts and mustard cress.
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Poker tourney to aid visiting Moroccan artists
April 30, 2013
By Staff
A charity Texas Hold 'em Poker Tournament will be held May 10 to help bring artists from Chefchaouen, Morocco, to Issaquah.
The Lake Sammamish Elks Lodge No. 1843, the city's Sister Cities Commission and the American Moroccan International Exchange is hosting the event to bring home some of the arts and culture from Issaquah's sister city. During Salmon Days, the organizations hope the visiting artists will share their talent with local schools and the community.
The tournament will take place at 6 p.m. at the Lake Sammamish Elks Lodge, 765 Rainier Blvd. N. Register at the door beginning at 5 p.m., or pre-register by calling the Sister Cities Commission at 837-3000.
The buy-in is $40. Donated prizes will be awarded.
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Zalesky Auction - Bill Zalesky EstateDate: Sunday, July 29, 2012 Time: 9:30 am Phone: 402-826-0370
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MM manure spreader, 4x9 -- Drive on front end trailer lift
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Silage wagons, (2) -- Flair box trailers, (3) -- Barge wagons (3)
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Areas of expertise
- Levelized cost of energy (LCOE) analysis
- Wind turbine and plant component costs
- Assessing wind turbine performance
Primary research interests
- Developing transparent cost models for wind energy
- Assessing wind technology impacts on LCOE
Education and background training
- M.S. in mechanical engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2010
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- Energy Analyst, Cleantech Solutions, Boulder, CO (2007-2008)
- Associate Drafter/Designer, LoBianco Consulting, Sunnyvale, CA (2006-2007)
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Saur, G.; Maples, B.; Meadows, B.; Hand, M.; Musial, W.; Elkington, C.; Clayton, J. (2012). Offshore Wind Plant Balance-of-Station Cost Drivers and Sensitivities (Poster). NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory). 1 pg.; NREL Report No. PO-5000-56132.
Tegen, S.; Hand, M.; Maples, B.; Lantz, E.; Schwabe, P.; Smith, A. (2012). 2010 Cost of Wind Energy Review. 111 pp.; NREL Report No. TP-5000-52920.
Maples, B. (2012). U.S. Balance-of-Station Cost Drivers and Sensitivities (Presentation). NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory). 14 pp.; NREL Report No. PR-5000-56480.
Maples, B.; Hand, M.; Musial, W. (2010). Comparative Assessment of Direct Drive High Temperature Superconducting Generators in Multi-Megawatt Class Wind Turbines. 40 pp.; NREL Report No. TP-5000-49086.
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text: Doctor: Clinton Shows No Sign of Brain Injury Even Gingrich pounces on Karl Rove's comments By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff Posted May 14, 2014 4:54 AM CDT | Updated May 14, 2014 7:39 AM CDT STORY COMMENTS (95) (Newser) – After Karl Rove hinted Hillary Clinton had brain damage—then denied doing so—a top neurologist in the capital has weighed in to say many people who suffer blood clots like the one Clinton had after a fall in 2012 have gone on to have a "fabulous recovery." The clot was technically in a vein, not the brain itself, and in all her public appearances since, "I don't see a hint that there's anything of a brain injury," the neurologist, who wasn't involved in Clinton's treatment, tells Politico. As for Clinton's suitability for the presidency after the injury, Ronald Reagan had surgery for a blood clot on his brain "and he served several more years as president," the neurologist says. Clinton's press secretary called Rove's remarks a "desperate attack" and said what he's doing "is its own form of sickness." Even some Republicans, including Newt Gingrich, strongly criticized Rove, reports the Washington Post. "It's a terrible thing for Karl to do," said Gingrich. "It's petty. It's personal. It's negative. It eats up time and space with things that make no difference ... We are never going to beat her with this kind of stuff." Hillary Clinton speaks after receiving the 2013 Lantos Human Rights Prize during a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file) All Rove "wants to do is inject the issue into the echo chamber, and he's succeeding," Clinton's press secretary says. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) ADVERTISEMENT(Click Prev or Next to continue viewing images.) « Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow Politico (Source Grid ») Washington Post (Source Grid ») Politics Hillary Clinton • Karl Rove • brain damage CLICK BELOW TO VOTE 39% 5% 5% 16% 6% 30% RETURN TO THE STORY To report an error on this story, notify our editors.


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BLUE REIGN, the inside look at the Mavericks' championship season
Originally, the release of BLUE REIGN was supposed to coincide with opening night of the NBA season.
We all know how that turned out.
But while the season remains on hold, the new book about the Mavericks' first championship season is available now on Amazon. Here's the link: http://amzn.to/s6OAEm .
As a beat writer who would be entering his 10th season covering the Mavericks, assuming there is a season, I included plenty of behind-the-scenes stuff on the title run and a few vignettes that were never publicized elsewhere.
And there's an in-depth look at Dirk Nowitzki, plus sides of Jason Kidd and other Mavericks that people rarely get to know.
All for the bargain price of $9.99.
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5 Responses to Bittersweet Technology
I've also had some wakeup calls in this area recently. There are only so many hours in the day, and I've added some very important and very serious, arduous work to my life outside of my job. I realized that 20 minute detours onto the Internet every after 20 minutes of work means my four hours of work in the evening after I get home from work is really little more than two hours. No wonder I wasn't getting as much done as I thought I could.
The very first thing I do in the morning is check e-mail on my phone, and it's the very last thing I do at night. I check e-mail on the phone at every stop light while in the car or when sitting in traffic. It's become a habit to click on Google Reader just to see what's there even if I just checked it three minutes prior.
Point: I truly GET your point on this. Technology is a tool; it's not supposed to rule our lives. It's only supposed to make it easier — it's meant to complement rather than complicate.
I feel ya. It's amazing how much of my time is devoted to technology. I wish I could break away from it! Although this past week without power did allow me some time off, I missed it and hate this feeling of being "behind" with the blog and with commenting. I too need to find some balance.
Val I hear ya! I feel the same way and it scares me sometimes. While we are on the subject of emails did you ever get my response to yours about dates and time to discuss my responses? Haven't heard from you in awhile..I know you have been busy. School started today so now I am going to be checking those emails also. Makes me nervous I want more real just like you! Real verbal communication with friends, collegues and administrators. Let me know when we can get together in person and discuss "stuff". Love your honesty!
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Oh I totally related to the CONS comment regarding needing to put a screen in front of your face as soon as waking when most of the messages didn't even matter anyway! Haha!
I've heard of people being addicted to technology and needing to go cold turkey from it for a while. Sometimes I have been place in situations (on holidays etc) where I haven't had as much or if at all connection to the outside world, and whilst it sounded scary to begin with, it was quite liberating!


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Northbrook Sports Center—Figure Skating
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For over 40 years the Northbrook Sports Center's Skating School program has adhered to the international standards established by the Ice Skating Institute. This program allows skaters to progress at their own rate, moving up levels as they develop the fundamentals to master more difficult maneuvers.
Our program offers classes for all ages, from beginner through Freestyle 10 levels, as well as specialty classes and private lessons to enhance a skater's abilities for future successes. Learn from our experienced staff of professionals in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere to begin a lifetime of health and wellness.
Our Philosophy
Classes at the Sports Center are modeled after the Ice Skating Institute's Learn to Skate Program. We uphold our high standards by enhancing certain levels with additional skills. Classes are held once each week. Students are encouraged to add practice time into their schedules and/or add private lessons if quicker progress is desired. Lace 'em up and get on the ice for a great experience!
Discover the artistry and sport of ice skating at the Northbrook Sports Center. We offer classes year-round for both recreational and competitive skaters of all ages and levels and have more than 50 skaters in our upper-level classes. All skaters receive the highest level of instruction from our elite and experienced staff.
Is Your Child Ready For Skating Lessons?
For the first-time skater, ages 3 years and older, we offer a free skating class. Skaters are evaluated by our staff instructors for placement in our skating school.
Skating School Testing Information:
Two test sessions are held each semester and are conducted by the Skating Coordinators. Recommendations to test are given out by the class instructor several weeks before the scheduled test sessions. Students are also evaluated halfway through each session to inform the parents of their child's progress within that level.
Skating School Curriculum & Testing Requirements
Toddler I—Falling down/getting up, marching while standing/moving, dip, backward wiggles
Toddler II—Push and glide stroking, gliding dip, introduce forward swizzles
Basic I—Falling down/getting up, marching while standing and moving, dip, 2-foot jump, backward wiggles
Basic II—Push and glide stroking, gliding dip, forward swizzles, introduce snowplow, stops, 1-foot glides and backward swizzles
Intermediate—Forward swizzles with movement and flow, 1-foot glides (both feet), forward stroking, backward swizzles, snowplow stop
Advanced—Forward stroking with longer glides, forward crossovers (both directions), introduction of 2-foot turns, backward swizzles with movement and flow, backward pumps on the circle
Pre Alpha
Pre-Alpha I—Beginning skaters learn basic skills while incorporating some elements from higher levels. Pre-Alpha I skills: Falling down/getting up, 2-foot glides, 1-foot glides, forward swizzles, introduction to backward swizzles
Pre-Alpha II—This class prepares skaters for more advanced forward skating. Pre-Alpha II skills: Longer 1-foot glides/straight line and on the circle, 1st and 2nd position on the circle (both directions), forward swizzles with movement/flow, backward swizzles, introduction to snowplow stops
Alpha I—Skaters learn forward stroking, forward crossovers in both directions and snowplow stops
Alpha II—Skaters perfect forward stroking, forward crossovers in both directions and snowplow stops
Beta I—Skaters are introduced to backward skating. Skills include backward stroking, backward crossovers in both directions, and t-stops with both feet
Beta II—Skaters perfect backward stroking, backward crossovers in both directions, and t-stops with both feet
Forward outside 3 turns (left and right), forward Mohawks (left and right), forward edges (outside and inside), hockey stops
Forward inside 3 turns (left and right), introduction to backward outside and inside 3 turns (left and right), forward and backward edges (outside and inside), bunny hops, lunges and/or shoot the ducks
FS I—Waltz jump, 1 half-flip, 2-foot spin, forward pivot, forward spiral, backward edges.
FS II—Ballet jump, 1 half-toe walley, 1 half-lutz, 2 forward spirals on edges, 1-foot spin
FS III—Salchow, toe loop or toe walley, change foot spin, backward spiral on an edge, back pivot (outside or inside)
FS IV—Flip jump, loop jump, 1 half-loop, 2 backward spirals (different feet), sit spin
FS V—Axel jump, lutz jump, camel spin, combination spin, back scratch spin
FS VI—Double salchow, split jump, split falling leaf, jump combination, combination spin, layback or sit-change-sit spin
The following levels must be tested by an ISI District 8 panel of judges:
Freestyle Advanced
FS VII—Double toe loop or toe walley, 2 walleys in sequence, spin combination, flying camel, jump in the opposite direction
FS VIII—Double loop jump, double flip, split lutz, flying sit or axel sit, jump combination, illusion or camel-jump-camel
FS IX—Double lutz, axel-double loop combination, arabesque/ bauer/spread eagle combination, axel in the opposite direction or double axel, jump combination, flying camel into a jump sit spin, spiral sequence
FS X—Double Axel-double toe loop combination, triple edge jump, death drop, 4 alternating axels or triple toe, double jump L and R or triple toe-double loop, 3 Arabian cartwheels or butterflies, footwork sequence.
Freestyle Skating
The Northbrook Sports Center offers Freestyle ice seven days a week, when competitive and recreational skaters can practice their skills and competition routines and schedule private lessons.If you would like to receive weekly freestyle updates, send your email address to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Freestyle updates and schedules.
Call ahead to check on ice availability as many of our after school sessions have already filled after our preregistration process. For more information, call 847·291·2993.
Getting The Edge: Summer Training Program
The Northbrook Sports Center offers a summer program for skaters in FS 1 and above who are interested in specialized training to help develop their skating skills. Participants will experience 90 minutes of freestyle ice, one on-ice specialty class and three off-ice specialty classes each day. Fee includes a shirt, yoga mat and drawstring bag.
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Getting The Edge: Summer Training Program information.
Northbrook Competitive Figure Skating Team (NCFST)
NCFST is a unique organization that offers skaters the opportunity to participate in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.
Did you know―while you earn your place individually―your scores add to the Northbrook Park District's overall placement? The Northbrook Competitive Figure Skating Team (NCFST) can help you earn more points for yourself and the team.
For Northbrook skating school students who want to take their competitive skating to the next level, NCFST offers Friday afternoon ice times from September through March to practice routines, enhance interpretive skating skills and receive critiques from the talented Northbrook skating staff―all while enjoying a social and encouraging environment.
The organization is not-for-profit and powered by parent volunteers.
Skaters who are at least 6 years old and at the Pre-Alpha level or higher are welcome to join. Supervised Friday afternoon ice times are divided by skater level.
If you are interested in joining NCFST, contact Sandy Wolff at 847·691·8247. Become a part of our team for fun and friendship, on and off the ice!
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Geelong Technology Precinct
At the Geelong Technology Precinct, advanced knowledge drives advanced technology to advance Victorian Industry.
The GTP provides the integral link between technological innovation and advanced performance outcomes.
It achieves this through integrating high-level research capabilities with specialised research equipment and industrial scale infrastructure.
The precinct focuses on Deakin's core research capabilities in materials, biotechnology, chemistry, and environmental engineering, along with regional strengths in manufacturing and agri-processing.
It offers significant opportunities for collaborative and contract research. The GTP also provides tenancy for technology-oriented businesses and enables 'proof of concept' and 'industrial prototyping'.
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What do you do when the one you love is in love with someone else?
Know that it is a test for your love to be unconditional. They are giving you an opportunity to be unconditionally in love.
You can use it for your benefit to become stronger and grow in love, or you can get upset, angry, frustrated and jealous.
What would you prefer? To grow in jealousy and get all those jealous feelings inside of you; feel bad, upset and spoil your vibrations, or to be happy for someone else, wish the best for the person you love!
I know the second option is difficult, but the first is not easy either. It is even more difficult to bear the jealousy and walk around with it, isn't it? Think about it.
Anyways, life is short. Everything is going to finish one day. Think about it, you will have more peace.
Whenever anything disturbs you, you feel injustice, uncomfortable, or you feel you can't sleep or can't handle it, remember it is all going to end! Everything is going to finish, and you will be gone from here. You will be able to sleep well. Again, this is dispassion.


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The country's top court marshal on Wednesday defended his subordinates against criticism for their role in the demolition of cottages in the local Rechnik settlement, saying they were merely carrying out their duty to execute court orders.
Artur Parfyonchikov, head of the Federal Court Marshals Service, said his marshals committed no violations in razing 20 cottages in Rechnik and that any complaints should be addressed to the courts that issued the orders.
City authorities have come under fire from the public and officials for demolishing the homes, with even state-owned federal television channels giving ample airtime to the village's outraged residents, who deny the city's claim that their homes were built illegally.
Earlier this week, Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov, whose ministry oversees Parfyonchikov's service, said that in some regions court marshals are used as a "truncheon" against citizens, though he did not elaborate.
No further demolitions would be carried out until an investigation by the Prosecutor General's Office into the Rechnik conflict is completed, Parfyonchikov said. He also addressed speculation about the fate of the historic artists' colony Sokol in northern Moscow and the posh Fantasy Island development that includes homes owned by senior government officials. Parfyonchikov said his service had no orders to tear down the two settlements, but added that it planned to raze part of another luxury neighborhood, the Virazh yacht club in northwestern Moscow. About five buildings are to be demolished at the yacht club, Parfyonchikov said.
Having accrued considerable powers to enforce court orders in recent years, court marshals have faced public criticism for purported abuses. Parfyonchikov said he is trying to increase transparency in the service. Authorities last year opened 618 criminal cases against employees of the Federal Court Marshals Service last year, up 16 percent from 2008, he said.
"We need to get citizens' attention both for our good deeds and our misdeeds," said Parfyonchikov, who worked as a prosecutor before joining the court marshals service in 2008.


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so when to work on new presets?, hold old is 3.90.3? 3 years?
so when to work on new presets?, hold old is 3.90.3? 3 years?
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haha, there goes the purpose of ubernet (maybe).. they use alt-preset standard as if their life kinda depends on it you know.. so they are going to have to change the "uberstandard" and all that..I know where that line came from. It's hilarious. Well, at least the dolts who thought it up tell people that it's *just what they think sounds best*.
while we are at the topic of switches.. what is the best non-preset switch to use that will compare very well with cd quality, for the highest percentage of CD's? someone recommended this:
-V 2 --vbr-new -q 0 --lowpass 19.7 --cwlimit 10.7 --scale 0.99 -b 96 --athaa-sensitivity 1
any other suggestions would be appreciated. =)
btw im using 3.96.1 stable right now
You see, the one thing which shows better than anything else how little these guys know about writing commandlines is the "--lowpass 19.7"
Lame only lowpasses in increments of 0.5kHz, so telling it to lowpass at 19.7 kHz is nonsense. You ought to tell it to lowpass at 19.5kHz or 20kHz, to be certain that it's doing what it ought to be.
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I'd like to know where does this come from...
An interesting parameter is cwlimit, which simply does nothing since 3.94
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This Battery Monitor Measures:
Battery Volts, Amps, Amp-Hours, Battery Percent Full, and Five Other Data Functions
Size : 4.5 x 4.75 inches.
Shown in optional "double gang" box.
If your home, R/V or boat depends on batteries for electrical power, here's why a battery monitor should be part of your electrical system.
Helps save valuable energy by letting you see how much you're using
Provides information you need to protect your battery investment.
Helps locate system problems when they occur.
"BATTERY PERCENT FULL" display shows how full the battery is by the most accurate method: measuring amp hours expressed as a percentage of a full battery.
AMP HOURS FROM FULL shows how much energy has been taken out of a full battery.
EASY TO UNDERSTAND FRONT PANEL AND CONTROLS All display and RESET functions are explained on panel. The six less used functions are easy to access, yet easy to ignore if not needed.
Push SELECT to cycle through these:
Battery Volts: Reads 8.0 - 35.0 volts accurate to ±.08 volt including "digit resolution" accuracy. An optional adapter extends this to 70 volts for 32 or 48V systems and delivers lightning protection too. Please see accessory section for additional information.
Battery Amps: Measures amps into and out of battery, accurate to ±1% ±1 least significant digit. Or the meter may be set up to measure only incoming amps from solar array or other energy source, or only load amps if desired. Resolution and maximum amps depends on choice of shunt. With the 100A/100mV shunt: measures 0.01 to 250 amps. With 500A/50mV shunt: measures from 0.1 to 1000 amps. Shunt type is programmable, so amps always display correctly. Speed of response one second time constant.
Battery Percent Full: This number is based on net-amp hour reading divided by the user programmable value of battery capacity. This is more reliable than other methods which do not use amp hours to compute battery energy content (for example less expensive monitors which rely only on battery voltage to estimate energy content). There is a (user programmable) choice of two ways to display this result: (1) an exact, literal reading from 0-100% in increments of 1%, or (2) a more "honest" display which shows in steps of 5%, and displays "FUL" when above 92%, and "LO" when below 27%. Although the meter amp hour measurement accuracy is ±1%, this option is intended to reflect the fact that the system accuracy in determining how much energy content in an actual battery system, (assuming the batteries are recharged fully at least every week) is more honestly stated as ±5%. The assumed BATTERY CAPACITY, upon which this display is based, can be programmed from 10-2550 amp hours, in increments of 10 amp hours.
Display Off: The display may be turned off (for lowest current draw of 16 ma.
How the TriMetric Determines that Batteries are Charged: When the TriMetric senses that batteries are charged, it resets the "days since charged" display to 0.00 and (at user option) resets the "amp hours" to 0.00 and the "Battery % Full" to 100%. The TriMetric determines that the batteries are "charged" when the battery voltage rises above a user programmed "charged voltage" (adjustable from 10.0-35.0 volts within 0.1 volt) and the charging amps goes below a user programmable "charge current criteria" (adjustable from 1-100 amps within 1 amp). This condition must remain for 20 seconds.
User Selectable Efficiency Factor: Amp hours may be monitored without an "efficiency factor," meaning that the "charge" and "discharge" current for the "net amp hours" reading are both accumulated at exactly 100% rate. Or a "charge efficiency" factor may be manually set from 60% to 100% in 1% increments. This means that the discharging current will subtract from amp hours at 100% rate, where as the charging current accumulates at the lower specified rate, to approximate the "charge efficiency" of the battery. This compensates for the fact that you don't get quite as much charge out of a battery as you put in.
The Same Reliable, Proven Measurement Circuit: This TriMetric Battery Monitor circuit has proven accurate and reliable for over three years in production. All programmed information retained when meter unpowered.
Remote Locatable: Up to 55 feet with four #22 ga. wires. Up to 150 feet with #18 wire. Longer distances are possible with larger wire size.
Bright Display With Low Current Draw: Requires about 30mA with display on-about 16mA with display off.
Size: The battery monitor is designed to fit into a standard "double-gang" electrical box mounted 90 degrees from the usual position. See accessories section (on the back) for suitable enclosure. Panel size (inches): 41/2 x 43/4 x 13/4 deep.
Warranty: The Bogart Engineering warranty policy is to repair at no cost any of their products that develop a problem not due to customer misuse.
TM2020 Battery Monitor Operational Information:
Hold the SELECT button down for two seconds, release, then push SELECT again to cycle through these six functions. The data alternates with identifier letters which are shown on front label.
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