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- Iowa State will host its final home and final non-conference game of the 2014 season Tuesday at 4 p.m. when the Cyclones take on the Drake Bulldogs in their second match-up of the season.
- ISU will be looking to avenge its loss to Drake in Des Moines on April 9. The Cyclones stormed out to a 5-0 lead before Drake's first at-bat, but the Bulldogs went on to score 10 unanswered runs to move ahead 10-5. ISU scored four runs in the top of the seventh, but could not find the needed runs to move ahead and Drake left with a 10-9 win.
- Rachel Hartman has been on a tear for Iowa State in the last month. In ISU's last 15 games, Hartman is hitting .522 with 23 hits, 13 RBIs, 11 runs, seven doubles and two home runs. Hartman's season batting average of .393 ranks fifth in the Big 12.
- Brittany Gomez continues to be one of the most prolific lead-off hitters in the country, ranking sixth in the Big 12 with her .389 batting average. Gomez has 68 hits on the season, marking the third-60+ hit season in Iowa State history. The sophomore got one of those two seasons last year when she recorded 66 hits.
- During Iowa State's doubleheader against Northern Illinois, Gomez became Iowa State's all-time leader in career stolen bases. The sophomore, now with 53 steals to her name in her career, beat the record of 48 previously held by Adi Blackmon (2000-03). Gomez's 22 steals in 2014 puts her fifth in the Big 12 54th in the NCAA.
- Against Drake, Gomez became the first player in ISU history to record two seasons with at least 20 stolen bases.
- Lexi Slater came into 2014 with a career batting average of .248 in her first two seasons as a Cyclone. This year, the junior has become one of Iowa State's biggest batting threats, hitting .348 with a .613 slugging percentage. She leads the Big 12 with 15 doubles in 2014. Her eight home runs this season is the most in a single season in Slater's career.
- Sara Davison has been one of the most disciplined hitters in the country in 2014. Iowa State's career walks leader with 83 to her name, 20 coming in 2014, ranks 47th in the NCAA among batters that are most difficult to strikeout. The senior has only struck out seven times in 139 at bats in 2014.


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Students, faculty, and staff who are victims of sexual assault committed at or upon the grounds of the University, or upon off-campus grounds or facilities maintained by affiliated student organizations, are required by law to be advised of specified information, to include treatment, related campus procedures, referral options, and other assistance which may be available [California Education Code, Section 67385]. This policy is designed to provide the written procedures and information required.
Rape, including acquaintance rape, or any other form of sexual assault, will not be tolerated by California State University, Long Beach. Where there is evidence that campus-related sexual assault has been committed, severe campus disciplinary action will be initiated. Such campus disciplinary action may include, after due process, the possibility of dismissal, suspension or disenrollment. Additionally, where the victim initiates criminal action, the perpetrator is subject to criminal penalties which may include fines and imprisonment.
The term "sexual assault" includes, but is not limited to, rape, acquaintance rape, sexual battery, forced sodomy, forced oral copulation, rape by a foreign object, or threat of sexual assault [California Education Code, Section 67385(d)].
Rape is a criminal offense. "Rape" is generally defined as an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person not the spouse of the perpetrator, under specified circumstances. For example, it may involve the use or threat of force, violence, retaliation, or fear of or actual immediate and unlawful bodily injury. Rape also occurs when the victim is incapable of giving legal consent, for example, when: a) the victim has a mental disorder, or is developmentally or physically disabled; or b) the victim is prevented from resisting the assault due to intoxicating substances (e.g. alcohol or drugs); or c) the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act, and such condition was known or reasonably should have been known to the accused (Reference: California Penal Code, Section 261, and the following sections). Spousal rape is also prohibited under the "Spousal Rape" provisions of the California Penal Code, Section 262.
"Acquaintance Rape" is forced sexual intercourse undertaken by someone the victim knows, against the will of the victim or as a result of threats, force or fear.
"Sexual Battery" is defined as the touching of an intimate part of another person, if the person is unlawfully restrained and if the touching is against the will of the person touched, for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse [Reference: California Penal Code, Section 243.4 (e) (i)].
"Assault with intent to commit a sexual battery" is defined as an unlawful attempt, coupled with the present ability, to commit a violent injury (e.g., rape) or sexual battery on the person of another. (Reference: California Penal Code, Section 220; 240; 261; and following sections).
"Consent" is defined as positive cooperation in an act or attitude pursuant to an exercise of free will. The person must act freely and voluntarily and have knowledge of the nature of the act or transaction involved. A current or previous dating or marital relationship is not sufficient to constitute consent where, under specified conditions, consent is at issue [Reference: California Penal Code, Section 261.6; 266(c)].
"Unlawful Sexual Intercourse with a minor" is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person not the spouce of the perpetrator, where the person is under the age of 18 years (California Penal Code, Section 261.5).
Any person who willfully and lewdly commits any lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body or any part of a child under the age of 14 years with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the sexual desires or passions of either the child or defendant is guilty of a felony. Any person who commits any act in the previous sentence with a person 14 or 15 years old, and the defendant is at least 10 years older than the child is guilty of a public offense (California Penal Code, Section 288). Any person who intentionally gives, transports, provides, persuades or makes available to another a child under age 16 for lewd or lascivious acts is guilty of a felony, punishable by fine and imprisonment [California Penal Code, Section 266(j)]. Every person who annoys or molests any child under the age of 18 is punishable by fine and imprisonment, or both fine and imprisonment (California Penal Code, Section 647.6).
California State University, Long Beach views seriously its obligation to uphold the laws of the larger community of which it is a part. An association with the University does not exempt a person from local, state, or federal laws, but rather imposes the additional obligation to abide by all of the rules and regulations of the California State University.
A student charged with a sexual abuse or sexual assault or sexual battery violation which is campus-related may be subject to prosecution under appropriate California criminal statutes, as well as being subject to student discipline under the Student Conduct Procedures (Reference: Chancellor's Executive Order 970, "Student Conduct Procedures"; and Title V, California Code of Regulations, Section 41301-41302, "Student Discipline").
Employees charged with a sexual abuse violation which is campus-related may be subject to prosecution under appropriate California criminal statutes, as well as being subject to discipline under the California Education Code, Sections 89535-89540. Such campus disciplinary action for employees may include demotion, suspension, or dismissal.
Persons involved in, or possessing knowledge of, a campus-related abuse violation are strongly encouraged to notify University Police immediately. University Police may be contacted by:
An officer will be dispatched and will assist the victim to a medical facility for medical care and collection of evidence. An officer will assist the victim with a police report should the victim desire to make one. An officer will remain available to the victim until a friend or relative can be located.
The University Police Department can not hold reports of crime in confidence. Confidential reports for purposes of inclusion in the annual disclosure of crime statistics can generally be made to other CSU campus security authorities identified as the following:
1. Associate Vice President for Student Services
(562) 985-5587, Brotman Hall 377
2. Director, Counseling and Psychological Services
(562) 985-4001, Brotman Hall 226
3. Director, Student Health Services
(562) 985-4771, Student Health Center
4. Director, Staff Human Resources
(562) 985-4031, Brotman Hall 335
5. Director, Equity and Diversity
(562) 985-8256, University Student Union 301
6. Director, Judicial Affairs
(562) 985-5270, Brotman Hall 377
7. Director, Women's Resource Center
(562) 985-8576, Liberal Arts 3, Rm. 105
8. Director, Housing and Residential Life
(562) 985-4187, Housing Office
9. Director, Athletics
(562) 985-4655, Pyramid Annex
Alternatively, one may anonymously report a crime to the above listed campus authorities. Each respective unit or person contacted will be responsible for reports, as may require by law, to be filed for their respective unit, e.g. violations under the Child Abuse Reporting Law, Jeanne Clery Act or Meagan's law.
Access crime statistics for CSULB: These are mandated statistics known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. Hard copies of this brochure may be obtained from CSULB Police Department's main station located on the southern end of parking lot 11, 1250 Bellflower Blvd, or from the police substation located in the University Student Union room, 237. This report is also available on the University Police web site at http://daf.csulb.edu/offices/ppfm/police, and can be downloaded in the PDF format. This report is prepared in cooperation with the Police agencies surrounding our main campus and our alternate sites, Housing and Residential Life, the Judicial Affairs Office and the Division of Student Services. Each entity provides updated information on their educational efforts and programs to comply with the Act.
The following are among the options available to a victim and more than one option may be exercised:
In the event there are requests for information from the press, concerned students, parents, and others, prudence will be exercised, and when required by law, confidentiality will be maintained. When appropriate, only the Department Director (for matters strictly within the Director's purview), or the University Director of Public Affairs (for inquiries by the media), will respond.
Victims are advised that there could likely be a need to identify both the victim and the assailant in the course of investigation and hearings under University student disciplinary proceedings, as well as under employee disciplinary proceedings, or criminal prosecutions. In the case of student disciplinary actions against an assailant, the victim is required to be promptly notified by the Director, Judicial Affairs of the status of the proceedings, and the general terms of the disposition.
Persons are reminded of the importance of preserving such evidence as may be necessary to the proof of criminal sexual assault. With respect to sexual assault involving student discipline, both the accused and the accuser are entitled to have an advisor present during a campus disciplinary proceeding, and to be informed of the outcome of the campus student disciplinary proceeding. Student victims of sexual assault may request changes in academic and living arrangements precipitated by the offense where such changes are reasonably available.
Sexual assault violations often result in physical harm, psychological harm, or both. Even if the victim decides not to report the incident to authorities, it is urged that the victim seek medical and counseling assistance for potential emotional trauma and the possibility of sexually transmitted diseases.
• The University Counseling and Psychological Services provides crisis counseling as well as ongoing assistance to students who have experienced sexual assault; BH 226, (562) 985-4001, www.csulb.edu/caps.
• The University Student Health Center offers routine medical examinations, including pregnancy tests and tests for sexually transmitted diseases; (562) 985-4771.
• The University Women's Resource Center provides video tapes, books, and brochures for both men and women, and referrals to community services are also provided; (562) 985-5466.
• S.A.R.T (Sexual Assault Response Team) The University Police is an active participant of the Long Beach S.A.R.T. process. This process offers individual forensic exams to victims of sexual assault and child molestation. Coordination is with University Police, Long Beach Police Department, District Attorney's office, a forensic nurse and a rape crisis counselor. The police dispatcher activates the S.A.R.T process after the officers have connected with the victim. The University Police may be reached by calling (562) 985-4101 or 9-1-1. S.A.R.T. is located at Long Beach Community Hospital. A victim may be driven to Long Beach Community Hospital, 1720 Termino Ave., Long Beach, for the S.A.R.T. services. The emergency room staff will contact S.A.R.T. directly.
Additionally, referrals are available through the following non-university agencies:
Also, the center of Counseling and Psychological Services office maintain lists of referrals within the community which deal with the issues of rape and sexual assault crisis, including legal, medical, and therapeutic support services. The phone number for the University Counseling and Psychological Services office is (562) 985-4001.
A person who has sustained physical injury as a direct result of a crime of violence, or is legally dependent for support upon a person who has sustained physical injury or death as a direct result of a crime of violence (or, in the event of a death caused by a crime of violence, has legally assumed or voluntarily paid the medical or burial expenses incurred as a direct result thereof) may qualify for indemnification by the State of California for the out-of-pocket wages, medical and/or burial expenses incurred as a result of the crime (California Government Code, Section 13900, et seq.). Claims must be filed with the State Board of Control for the State of California. The Statute provides that, absent certain extenuating circumstances, a claimant has one year from the date of the crime to file his or her claim with the State Board of Control. For further information regarding this program, contact:
University Police - CSU, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840, Telephone: (562) 985-4101
Los Angeles District Attorney - Telephone: (800) 380-3811
Website: da.co.la.ca.us/vwap/roster.htm
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On July 7, 1956, a young radio disc jockey named Dick Clark made his first appearance hosting an afternoon TV show called Bandstand. Broad- cast from Philadelphia, the show had originally begun in 1952. Bandstand played the new rock 'n roll music and featured kids from local high schools dancing to the music. When it first began, the dancing was almost accidental, but local TV viewers called in saying they liked watching "those young people dancing." As the show's new host, Clark made the most of that novelty, and took Bandstand to the national level. The son of a radio-station owner in Utica, N.Y., Dick Clark had been a radio disc jockey as a student at Syracuse University. By 1951, when he landed a job at ABC's WFIL station in Philadelphia, he worked in radio, regarded as too youthful looking to be a credible TV newscaster. Clark's big break came when the station decided to replace former Bandstand host Bob Horn. A youngish-looking 26 when he took over, Clark quickly made the show his own. He featured musical guests lip-synching their songs and used his teenage audience to "rate" new records. Local audiences loved the show.
Bandstand at first was a regional show from Philadelphia. But it soon became the highest rated local daytime TV show in the nation, and that got the attention of network executives in New York. By August 1957, now called American Bandstand, ABC began broadcasting the show nationwide at 3 p.m. for an hour-and-a-half. Within six months of going national, American Bandstand was picked up by 101 stations. Twenty million viewers were now tuning in, half of whom were adult. The show was also receiving 20,000 to 45,000 fan letters a week. Teenagers came to Philadelphia from wide and far for a chance to dance on the show. Bandstand also became known as a place where new talent could be seen; a place where aspiring artists could get their start. On the November 22, 1957 show, for example, two young singers using the name "Tom & Jerry" appeared. The duo would later become known as Simon & Garfunkel. New dances were often introduced on the show. It was on Bandstand that Chubby Checker brought "the Twist" to the nation in the summer of 1960. Bandstand's "regular" dance couples approached daytime soap-opera fame, and in the 1950s and 1960s they were written about regularly in teen magazines, as was Clark and the show. It didn't hurt, of course, that Bandstand's WFIL-TV station was owned by the Walter Annenberg empire, which also included, among other media outlets, TV Guide and Seventeen magazine for girls. Seventeen had a regular column on Bandstand, "written" by one of the show's regulars. And TV Guide put Clark's telegenic face on its cover several times during the 1950s (see sample covers below).
Brokering Rock 'n Roll
American Bandstand also played another critical role — especially for mainstream culture and the music business. It helped make America more receptive to rock 'n roll, a music genre not then accepted as it is today. "From the time it hit the national airwaves in 1957," observes rock historian Hank Bordowitz, "Bandstand changed the perception and dissemination of popular music." The show helped make rock 'n roll more acceptable to many adults by bringing the music and the dancing kids into their homes every afternoon, with Clark providing the responsible, clean-cut adult supervision. Clark's income was soon approaching $500,000 a year.
"We built a horizontal and vertical music situation… We published the songs…, managed the acts, pressed the records, distributed the records, promoted the records… ." – Dick Clark
American Banstand also helped to open the doors to a new kind of music business. And along the way, Dick Clark became a wealthy man, buying into music publishing companies, record labels, and promoting "Philly sound" recording artiststs on those labels — stars such as Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell, and Fabian. Clark also became involved in managing the artists, formed a radio offshoot, and conducted live productions. He also made personal appearances as a DJ hosting live dance events called "sock hops" — as many as 14 a week. And he also packaged concert tours, taking the music on the road. He soon had a nice little musical empire in the making. "We built a horizontal and vertical music situation," explained Clark of his various businesses. ". . . We published the songs domestically and abroad, managed the acts, pressed the records, distributed the records, promoted the records. . . ."
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"Payola" & Congress
In 1960, however, the "payola" scandal broke, a controversy involving prominent radio disc jockeys then implicated in playing records for payment to make them popular. Clark was investigated by Congress during the scandal, along with other prominent DJs like Alan Freed. But Clark, in his appearence before a Congresional committee, was cool and thorough in his testimony, and denied taking "payola." He emerged from the hearings without lasting harm. However, it was later revealed that Clark had been "given" royalty rights to more than 140 songs. ABC did require him to divest his outside ventures, more than 30 by one count, including a number of record labels. Still, Clark and American Bandstand held their popularity.
American Bandstand was broadcast every weekday through the summer of 1963. But in the fall of that year, it became a once-a-week show run on Saturday afternoons. By 1965, Dick Clark, then 35 years old, was making about $1 million a year. By February 1964, American Bandstand moved to Los Angeles, in part to facilitate Clark's expansion into other TV ventures and film production. It was also easier in L.A. to tap into the recording industry. By 1965, Dick Clark, then 35, was making about $1 million a year. Musically, the sound on Bandstand changed with the times, featuring the California surf sound in the 1960s, and a decade later, the '70s disco beat. Through it all, dating from the 1950s when Clark took over, Bandstand was one of the few places on television where ethnically-mixed programming could be seen.
In fact, Clark later claimed that he had integrated the show in the 1950s – a claim disputed by some. Clark did feature black recording artists as guests on the show in its early years. When American Bandstand first went national with ABC in August 1957, Lee Andrews and the Hearts appeared among the first guests performing their song, "Long Lonely Nights." In that year as well, other black artists also appeared, including Jackie Wilson, Johnny Mathis, Chuck Berry, Mickey & Sylvia, and others. Integration of the studio audience, however, appears to have been slow and controlled according to research by John Jackson in his 1997 book, American Bandstand, and also Matthew F. Delmont in his 2012 book, The Nicest Kids in Town. However, there are also reports that when Clark took black and white artists on the road to perform concerts in his "Caravan of Stars" shows of the 1960s – sometimes in towns where segregation was still practiced – he insisted on equal treatment of his performers at those venues, otherwise threatening to pull his show.
Changing Scene
In the 1970s, with the rise of disco, Bandstand began to become something of an artifact rather than a trend-setter, although still netting its share of popular guests. By the mid-1980s, with the rise of MTV and other music video channels, American Banstand's format became dated. In September 1987 Bandstand moved to syndication, and in April 1989 it ran briefly on cable's USA Network with a new host and Clark as executive producer. The show ended for good on October 7, 1989. Yet over its three decades, American Bandstand played a key role in the music business. Not only did it become the place where major record labels sought to showcase their songs and artists, it also generated millions in record sales each year, plus millions in advertising revenue for ABC. As for recording artists — with the notable exceptions of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones — most of the major rock 'n roll acts from the 1950s through mid-1980s appeared on the show.
Sonny and Cher made their first TV appearance on American Bandstand, June 12, 1965. The Jackson 5 made their TV debut on the show February 21, 1970, as did Aerosmith in December 1973. In January, 1980, Prince made his TV debut on Bandstand. By the mid-1980s, with the rise of MTV and other music video channels, American Bandstand's format became dated.Among others appearing during the show's 33-year run were: Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, James Brown, the Beach Boys, the Doors, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, the Temptations, the Carpenters, Van Morrison, the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Neil Diamond, Ike & Tina Turner, Pink Floyd, Creedance Clearwater Revival, George Michael, Rod Stewart, Bon Jovi, Gloria Estefan, Michael Jackson, and last but not least, Madonna, who appeared January 14, 1984 singing the tune "Holiday." But even after the show's on-air demise, American Bandstand did not die. In early 1996, MTV's sister network, VH-1 began broadcasting old Bandstand episodes, mostly from the 1975-1985 period. Within three months, these reruns — called the Best of American Bandstand, with taped introductions by Dick Clark himself — became one of VH1's top-rated programs.
Dick Clark's Empire
In addition to American Bandstand, Clark amassed a portfolio of other TV and movie productions, among them, numerous TV specials and awards shows. In the late 1960s he did various television series, talent shows, and also hosted TV game shows, culminating in the late 1970s with The $25,000 Pyramid. In the 1980s and 1990s, his Dick Clark Productions, Inc. turned out more than a dozen made-for-television movies, at least 60 TV specials, several Hollywood films, and radio shows. By 1986, Clark had made the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans. By 1986, Clark had made the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans. In recent years he continued his TV productions, landing a prime time TV series, American Dreams. That show was set in 1950s-1960s Philadelphia and used American Bandstand footage in its storyline. It ran for three seasons on NBC during 2002-2005. Clark also parlayed the American Bandstand name into other businesses, using it as a brand and capitalizing on its nostalgia cache. He opened a chain of music-themed restaurants using the name Dick Clark's American Bandstand Grill. Several of these have opened at airports — Indianapolis, Indiana; Newark, New Jersey; Phoenix, Arizona; and Salt Lake City, Utah. Two others are located in Overland Park, Kansas and Cranbury, New Jersey. In June 2006, Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater — which uses some now-senior performers from the 1960s era in its acts — was opened in Branson, Missouri. An American Bandstand Grill opened there as well. In 2007, Dick Clark's American Bandstand Music Complex, with restaurant, opened in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
Throughout his career, Clark kept one foot in the world of radio, and would later focus some of his business interests there, also using it as a platform for rock 'n roll nostalgia. In 1981, he created The Dick Clark National Music Survey for the Mutual Broadcasting System, which counted down the Top 30 contemporary hits of the week. Beginning in 1982, Clark also hosted a weekly weekend radio program distributed by his own syndicator, United Stations Radio Networks. That program focused on oldies, called Dick Clark's Rock, Roll, and Remember — also the name of a 1976 autobiographical book he wrote with another author. This radio program would also sell recordings of its shows, some of which involved Clark interviews with, and/or features on, current and former music stars. By 1986, he left Mutual Broadcasting to host another show, Countdown America. In the 1990s, Clark hosted U.S. Music Survey, which he continued hosting up until 2004, when he suffered a stroke. Although he recovered partially from his stroke, his public appearances since that time have been limited.
Bandstand Acquired
In June 2007, Daniel Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins professional football team and Six Flags amusement parks, and also a partner with Tom Cruise in a film venture, announced the purchase of Dick Clark Productions for $175 million. In the deal, Snyder became the owner of American Bandstand's entire library of televised dance shows stretching over 30-plus years. In addition, Snyder is also acquiring other Dick Clark assets, including the New Year's Rockin' Eve broadcast from Times Square, the Golden Globe Awards show, the American Music Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards, and the Family Television Awards. In 2007, Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, acquired Dick Clark Productions for $175 million including Band- stand's 30-year library of TV shows. The Dick Clark properties also include the Bloopers television shows and Fox's popular reality TV show, So You Think You Can Dance. Snyder, who will take over as chairman of Dick Clark Productions, said in a press release, "This was a rare opportunity to acquire a powerhouse portfolio and grow it in new directions." It was not entirely clear at the time of the deal's announcement, exactly what Snyder would do with the American Bandstand material, other than mention of possibly using it visually on television screens throughout Six Flags amusement parks while patrons were standing on line.
Other Bandstand stories at this website include, "Bandstand Performers, 1957;" "Bandstand Performers, 1963;" and "At The Hop, 1957-1958." Thanks for visiting — and please consider supporting this website. Thank you. – Jack Doyle.
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A documentary film entitled The Wages of Spin, focuses on the history of American Bandstand, the 1950s payola scandal, and Dick Clark. A preview clip from that documentary is available at YouTube and additional information is found at Character Driven Films.


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The Pasadena City College Speech and Debate team performed exceptionally well at the Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensics Association (PSCFA) Fall Championship tournament held at Cerritos College.
Students competed in rookie, novice, junior, and senior divisions of Parliamentary Debate and novice, junior, and senior divisions of NFA and Parli L/D, as well as a division of Readers Theater and 12 individual events. In total, 36 schools and 221 debate teams competed in 864 individual events.
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BLISS in St.Helens ?!
Posted 11 December 2012 - 03:26 PM
The whole thing is called BLISS (Better Lighting In Sustainable Streets). Here's some pictures ;-
I went and looked at one of their LED lit streets and it's very bright LED light, shining almost straight down, with almost none going onto the houses (houses are near dark).
Since there are about 40,000 street lights in our town of 180,000 people, and the scheme has changed maybe 1000 lights approx so far, there has been no detectable change in the night sky from where I am in the last couple of years that BLISS has been operating.
Since I was 13 and was given a cheap and nasty 60mm refractor that someone had got bored of, and I became interested in practical visual Astronomy, I have noticed that back then the sky from my home seemed to be noticeably darker, I remember seeing a blacker background in my 10x50 Pentax bino's when viewing the Pleiades / M45).
These days (I'm 38 now) I notice that the sky is really very bright at night when it's clear with no Moon, and quite orange to the South (over the centre of St.Helens) when it's clear. I have picked out a mag. 4.6 star at about 60 degrees altitude in the South West so it's not impossible to observe or anything, but it's a rediculously bright sky (compared to my dark garden!).
On Google Earth / Galleries / Nasa / Earth City Lights, my sky is only a shade off white compared to e.g. London and compared to the local St.Helens places of Blackbrook / Parr / Sutton. I'm in Hillbrae Avenue, Moss Bank, 2 1/2 miles to the North of St.Helens town centre, at 130 feet altitude, 1/2 way up a hill.
I notice that my friend Jon's house on the top of a hill at Billinge (400 feet elevation, 3 times higher than here) has a *very* noticeably quite darker Southern sky compared to where I am, even though his area is only a *very* slight shade less white than here on Google Earth City Lights. He is however maybe 2 miles North of me, further away from the lights of Pilkington glass (ironically, well it would be if they actually made any optical glass for telescopes, which they don't) and the centre of St.Helens.
Unfortunately the BLISS scheme and the dimming of lights would appear to be only a trial over 3 years approx (2009 - 2012) and only of a fairly small scale compared to the whole town. I have watched from here (where I get a good view of quite a large area of St.Helens) and not a single light dims after 10pm or midnight yet near where I am
I remember a few years ago the local substation transformer blew out with a BANG at the bottom of the hill, and all the lights went off for a couple of miles in every direction
BUT I was astonished to see that it made no difference whatsoever to the sky glow, the clouds over head where still lit up mid orange
A thought occured to me last night when I was trying to see M41 (which is quite a sizable, pretty cluster in my Meade SN102) below Sirius, 15 degrees above the Southern horizon, when I was depressed to see that the background sky was mid to bright orange, that in future with the LED white lights, the background sky will be white, and thus the contrast between the white stars and the background will be even LOWER!
YES I have gone and talked with the St.Helens Council, 4th Floor, Wesley House, Environmental Protection, and spoken to Mark Davies the Borough Lighting Engineer on 3 separate occasions over several years, attempting to make my views about unnecessary upward light and orange sky glow heard, and they were only partly sympathetic at the time (about 8 years ago). Also I have written e-mails to them since then and got replies but nothing much changed. There have been a few full cut off (i.e. glare reduced / uplight shielded) lights put in on several roads that I have seen, but it's very rare in St.Helens.
15 years ago the lights at the front of my house were Mercury Vapour, unshielded, cylindrical tall thing with flat top cap, emitting greenish light. Then they changed them all to SON-T 90 Watt (70 Watt + 20 Watt Electro-Mechanical switch gear) HPS Sodium. Recently (last few weeks) they changed them all again (but kept the columns this time) to Metal Halide or something (greenish glow) with 2 long tiger stripes along the road. AND STILL NO SHIELDED LIGHTS. Odd, I would have thought they would have used LEDS! Our road was not part of the BLISS scheme as far as I know. No dimming happens in our road.
I was rather hoping that the BLISS dimming was going to be extended borough wide, but it appears that the dimming is going to take quite a while to be implemented borough wide if at all.
I must admit the change in the street lighting in the BlISS trial has been quite staggering in some cases from the pictures, see ;-
http://www.apse.org....group/St Hel...
http://www.apse.org....Paul Sanders...
Posted 13 December 2012 - 02:00 PM
Recently (last few weeks) they changed them all again (but kept the columns this time) to Metal Halide or something (greenish glow) with 2 long tiger stripes along the road. AND STILL NO SHIELDED LIGHTS. Odd, I would have thought they would have used LEDS!
That would be very regressive if they really did go back to Metal Halide and not LED. I'd be really curious to find out just what type light they are.
That was a nice well written and informative "ramble" of a post! I like reading about the LP issues people are dealing with in different regions / countries. Interesting links too.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 04:16 PM
They had only installed them on the side of the road nearest my house when I took these 2 pix. I am standing outside the front of my house in the road. The new lights actually have a green tint to the eye, not the white that appears in these photo's (although they are a much "whiter" light than the old ones). You can see the old 70W + 20W control gear SON-T high pressure Sodium ones also on the other side of the road that they replaced the next night. The new lights are (I believe) Metal Halide. They are on the existing columns and even appear to use the same glass bowls (which hang down).
The old and the new lights are way overly bright and shine straight in my eyes when I'm driving from far away, like most of St.Helens' street lights, which is annoying.
Can't understand why people don't want just a soft, rather dimmer light, enough to see for driving but not glaringly stupidly bright.
Also the new lights should have been SHIELDED to prevent glare sideways and upwards. Note how you can see a large amount of upspilled light going into my camera lens (and into the sky) from the lights lower down the hill...
Don't be fooled by the "small" number of lights in the background of this picture with narrow field of view. If I look out of my front bedroom window and out of my landing window and out of my back bedroom window I can see a very large number of orange Sodium lights all across the North and West of St.Helens, even in the areas which are supposed to be a little rural. The level of light pollution is sickening. Especially from the glaring lights of British Oxygen Company (BOC) and Pilkington at Cowley Hill and in the town centre. I will take a photo of the night sky from here shortly to show what it looks like.
Just learned from this web page that the BLISS project for street light replacement / dimming will end in 2014 in St.Helens ;-
PS found another link for the project ;-
http://moderngov.sth... BLISS Stree...
Alistair G.
Posted 30 December 2012 - 12:17 AM
See sections below of the following PDF, plus look at section J ;-
"Lighting Schemes
3.2.3 The Capital Lighting Schemes are based on supporting the Better Lighting in Sustainable Streets (BLISS) project. The majority of the schemes in BLISS have now been completed and this year's programme of works completes the project.
3.2.4 The BLISS project researches how energy efficient lighting can be delivered, without impacting on crime and road accidents whilst still maintaining public
3.2.5 The project, which was approved by Executive on 24 June 2009, will have obtained ERDF funding of €1,500,936 over a period of 6 years (until April 2014), with
St Helens providing similar match funding.
3.2.6 The proposed street lighting schemes are included at Appendix I. They are selected due to their ability to deliver significant energy savings, efficiently and
satisfy social and demographic criteria. They also satisfy the outputs contained within the ERDF bid document.
3.2.7 The priority for selection of schemes is to gain energy efficient replacement, as early as possible. Improving energy efficiency will provide early benefits to the carbon management of street lighting."
Looks like this is going to be a very slow process with little change until I am maybe another 25 years older
On the up side, my Aunt Yvonne and Uncle John just came back from staying at my Cousin Jacqueline's house at Broughton Beck, Cumbria, near Ulverston. I asked my aunt if she had ever looked up when she was at Jacqueline's house and did it have the orange glow in the sky that St.Helens has? And can you only see a few stars against an orange sky?
She said no, there is no orange glow there, it is all black sky at night, and there are a ton of stars visible. I suddenly felt sick in the stomach with rage and sadness and jealousy
I've never seen a dark sky before ever in my life, I have got to see one soon otherwise I may go mad...
Alistair G.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 04:11 PM
The photo's track from left to right i.e. starting by looking out of the Southern facing landing window and then looking round to the right and the last pictures are about NNW and are out of the back bedroom window. Believe me, you don't want to see the view out of the front bedroom window, the street lights are horrendous.
Exposure is 0.3 sec, ISO 1600, F3.5 widest iris opening on the standard 18-35mm lens (at 18mm, widest angle setting). You can see the white glow on the 1st picture which is the rugby stadium at Langtree park in the town centre of St.Helens, and the amount of bright orange light that Pilkingtons at Cowley Hill is giving out upwards into the sky (if I was to take the photos from the top of the hill, you would see the white lights streaming towards you from Pilk's at Ravenhead)
Finally, THIS IS HOW THE CAMERA CAPTURED IT (RAW). To my eyes it's way brighter. But if I use a longer shutter then I can't manually hold it without burring. So later I have adjusted some pic's in a new later album to show what it actually looks like to the non-dark adapeted eye! But in the meantime here's the raw unedited pic's ;-
Notice how the sky dramatically drops in light pollution as I pan round from South (towards St.Helens town centre) to North (across open fields and hills)...
Just after I took these pic's I went outside and looked and it was a clear sky in all directions.
I have seen a mag. 4.6 star with my unaided eyes at 45 degrees altitude on a good night, towards the South, ironically. Maybe mag 4.8 at Zenith then, I suppose.
Alistair G.
Posted 08 January 2013 - 04:30 PM
Posted 08 January 2013 - 04:49 PM
Very much like the skies in my location. Time to get into Planetary imaging I think
Unfortunately the above is how the camera captured it (raw). To my eyes it's way brighter. But if I use a longer shutter then I can't manually hold it without burring. So later I have adjusted some pic's in a new later album to show what it actually looks like to the NON-dark adapted eye!, and here they are ;-
As Jeremy Clarkson would say of the orange sky (if he was an astronomer LOL) "Now that's annoying". And as to putting a shield over every light so the light goes downwards, "How hard can it be?", as he also says!
Alistair G.
Posted 09 January 2013 - 09:16 AM
To my eyes it's way brighter. But if I use a longer shutter then I can't manually hold it without burring
If you haven't got a tripod put the camera on a wall or similar. Most cameras have a timed delayed shutter (to take pictures of self) and a max shutter of 30 seconds so you should be able to to take steady long duration images. If you can set the ISo value try ISO 400 or 800 other than the stock ISO 100
Posted 20 January 2013 - 10:37 PM
(ignore the "Brussels, Belgium" part, it's only about St.Helens. The project is being administered by Europe!)
I have used the classique.kml in the link that you follow to below to see that the light pollution from here where I am is quite a bit worse than at my friend Jon H's house where he has an 8" LX90 at Newton Road, Billinge, St.Helens, UK, about 1.5 miles away, since he is in a deep magenta area and I am in a grey area and my Southern sky (where the interesting stuff is!) is grey-white and his Southern sky is deep magenta color coded on the map! (.kml is a Google Earth link) ;-
(under the "donate" button)
Alistair G.
Posted 07 March 2013 - 02:30 PM
Alistair G.
Posted 30 March 2013 - 08:55 PM
They want to replace some of them with "white light energy efficient bulbs" (Metal Halide) or LED's. Oh dear. I can't filter those out.
This is a 1.7Million Pounds scheme, so that may cover a large proportion of those 23,500 street lights that are still using orange / yellow Sodium lights.
Maybe St.Helens Council will do the smart thing and replace the old unshielded lights with new ones so the light doesn't stream up into the sky? I doubt it.
I simply must contact the Council and see what they have to say about the shielding and get some more details about the scheme. Will report back if I hear anything useful.
This is in addition to the BLISS scheme, it seems.
Alistair G.
Posted 31 March 2013 - 07:05 PM
They want to replace some of them with "white light energy efficient bulbs" (Metal Halide) or LED's. .......Maybe St.Helens Council will do the smart thing and replace the old unshielded lights with new ones so the light doesn't stream up into the sky? ..... Alistair G.
I bet that they do use shielded light fixtures. I don't think that they can just replace the bulbs, and all the new LEDs are shielded. If they're smart, they'll also reduce the number if lights, or reduce the brightness to the level needed.
As for color…. You can discuss that with them, but just cutting the amount of light going up will help a lot.
Posted 01 April 2013 - 06:46 PM
They want to replace some of them with "white light energy efficient bulbs" (Metal Halide) or LED's. .......Maybe St.Helens Council will do the smart thing and replace the old unshielded lights with new ones so the light doesn't stream up into the sky? ..... Alistair G.
I bet that they do use shielded light fixtures. I don't think that they can just replace the bulbs, and all the new LEDs are shielded. If they're smart, they'll also reduce the number if lights, or reduce the brightness to the level needed.You can discuss that with them, but just cutting the amount of light going up will help a lot.
Wow I can't wait for them to implement it. I used to see the Milky Way from here about 15 years ago but haven't seen it in a long time now due to the sky brightening.
I just found a St.Helens Council document detailing more about the changes here ;-
http://moderngov.sth...eport 6 Febr...
On the primary routes *through* St.Helens, they are going to change to "Extended life luminaires" (LED? - sounds like it) and a CMS ("Central Management System) to enable the lighting to be controlled remotely and for the levels to be adapted to road user requirements and road conditions" like they have already done in BlackBrook on one of the roads there where the lights dim according to traffic flows.
...and on the secondary roads the "Replacement of lamps with "white light", designed to current lighting standards" and "Installation of electronic ballasts to reduce energy consumption" because a heck of a lot of lighting columns in St.Helens are using Electro-Mechanical 20W control gear!!
and "Replacement of 35/55w sox units" (low pressure Sodium) "with LED units designed to current lighting standards" (oh dear, can't use a Nebula filter on those!)
Alistair G.
Posted 09 July 2013 - 09:12 PM
...going to examine it to see what they're up to. The Light Pollution tonight was terrible, worse than I have ever remembered it being (clouds near horizon, clear overhead, sky very obviously bright orange to the South, very nasty looking, could hardly see Corona Borealis or even Mizar and Alcor combo). They need to do something about this.
EDIT: After reading, it seems I can't find any thing about schemes for 2013 as part of the Bliss project. Also, I look out over a good few miles of the West and South of Moss Bank towards St.Helens town centre, and I can still see hundreds of street lights which are still orange and where light is shining upwards from the lamps (otherwise I wouldn't be able to see them from 1/2 way up Moss Bank hill where I am). So I don't know yet where *any* of this new 1.7 Million Pounds is being spent in this street light upgrade, it can't be happening much near where I am yet?
Best Regards,
Alistair G.
Posted 16 July 2013 - 01:49 PM
we bought our still current house 40yrs ago I returned at night to check the sky and it was 'acceptable' with summer Milky Way visible. Now MW all long gone but I honed my imaging technique to cope from my garden obsy :-)
Posted 16 July 2013 - 05:57 PM
All for your safety, of course...
Posted 17 July 2013 - 08:58 AM
the multitude of surveillance cameras need plenty of light to function.
We are very modern in the UK these days and use more and more IR surveillance cameras - these don't need street lighting - just warm bodies!
Posted 22 July 2013 - 02:39 PM
http://www.mouchel.c...ainable Stre...
Alistair G.
Posted 30 August 2013 - 11:58 PM
The meeting is on Thursday, September 5 at the Robert Foulkes Centre, Brook Street in Whiston, starting at 6.15pm.
If I attend I would feel like a gatecrasher LOL since I am from St.Helens and not Prescot. But interesting for me to see that Prescot is altering presumably many hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of street lighting soon as well as St.Helens.
Prescot is however NOT known for it's use of glare shielded lights or full cut off lighting as they are properly called, I know from driving and cycling through Prescot many many times at night, the dominant lighting there is very bright 90W High Pressure Sodium on Cobra head style fitting with the glass bowl hanging down and the street lights glaring into my face from far away when I am trying to see to drive...
Posted 25 December 2013 - 06:11 PM
His sky was partly cloudy and partly clear, the Moon was not set to rise for another 4 hours, and he looked and told me it was GREY with a bit of BLUE. Local time was around 9pm.
Wierdness Since from here in St.Helens NW England, and from his old house in Billinge, both of us have always seen nothing else than orange. He said he didn't see ANY orange from where he was. His sky was "reasonably" dark he said but much brighter towards the horizon. He could see the outline of clouds very easily.
I found it very odd that his night sky is a completely different colour than mine. Maybe in the South where they are more properous, they change the street lights a LOT more often than up here, and that the majority of street lights within a 30 mile radius of his house are the newer LED or metal halide type?
Talk about a North-South divide! But not in the way I was expecting!
Alistair G.
Posted 26 December 2013 - 10:14 AM
Be aware that your eye's colour receptors (cones) cease to function below a certain brightness threshold and your dim light black/white receptors (rods) take over, then the sky will look some shade of grey.
Your friend should put a camera on a tripod and run a 30 second exposure of the sky to determine the actual sky colour. Human eyes are not good devices for colour measurment under dim light conditions.
Btw the Hailsham location is about 4 miles from Herstmonceux which was the old Royal Observatory site. The orange skies are one of the reasons it was closed down and the scopes moved to the Canary Islands
Posted 14 January 2014 - 04:57 PM
Posted 05 April 2014 - 04:29 PM
A skybeam :foreheadslap:appeared last night and it's there tonight also. I have just e-mailed my local St.Helens Star newspaper and I have just written a note to Environmental Protection at St.Helens Council about this ;-
Dear Sirs,
I would like to bring to your attention the skybeam that has appeared over the South of St.Helens over the last two
nights. Last night (4th April 2014) at approx. 10 pm I was observing through my telescope in my back yard when
I noticed a dancing set of white light beams over in the South direction from where I live, about 45 degrees up in the
sky and with a very large spread (about 30 degrees from left to right) and quite bright, the beams were moving
constantly over a large area of the sky. I also saw the very same lights / skybeam in the same place tonight at 9:30pm.
I don't know who is responsible for this but I thought that projecting dancing lights into the sky was outlawed on
Enviromental Grounds (the reason that I am contacting you) or illegal and at the very least it adds to the already
frankly terrible Light Pollution problem that the town centre of St.Helens has (the night sky is very bright orange tonight
although it's cloudy admittedly).
Also on a personal level I VERY strongly object to the use of the natural night sky being used for these
local "advertising" purposes.
At least the skybeam seemed to be switched off at midnight, but for people who want to enjoy the view of the sky
earlier in the evening it is a BLIGHT.
I would like to know a) what / who is responsible for this problem and b) what steps your department is going
to take to tackle this issue.
PS on another note, I would like to congratulate you for your efforts on the local street lighting in Queensway,
the FULL CUT OFF lights (fully glare shielded) are excellent and are very pleasing. Well done. I find the
road now to be easier to drive down since the lights are not all brightly glaring into my eyes simulateously
and it also does not needlessly waste energy and light up the natural environment of the night sky.
Yours Sincerely,
I tried walking up to the top of our hill with a camera and set of binoculars to see if I could see the source of the offending local skybeam but it was obscured and it appears to be emanating from the town centre or maybe Sutton Manor (I suspect the Dream sculpture, they tried and failed to get permission for a skybeam type thing a few years ago and the Highways Agency objected on road safety grounds - it would distract drivers on the local M62 motorway).
Well this sucks.
Alistair G.
Posted 05 April 2014 - 09:32 PM
You rarely see one now-a-days and I'm so glad.
I hope they take note of it over there.
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Are you trying to run QCAD as user 'root' or was that just for the strace?
Running GUI applications as root might not work as root might not have access to your X server.
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During Harris' two day trial, evidence was presented showing she conspired with co-defendant Ashley Drummond at a southern Illinois hospital to steal identity information from elderly patients and try to open credit cards in those names.
Court documents state Drummond transported patients at the hospital and would steal information from their charts.
Drummond pleaded guilty to her role on November 19, 2012 and said that after she stole the information she would call Harris to talk about which accounts they should open with the information obtained.
Harris was caught on a retail store surveillance camera using one of the credit cards she opened with the identity of a 90-year-old woman who lived in an assisted living center.
Sentencing for Harris is scheduled for March 25, 2013. She faces up to 20 years in prison, a fine up to $250,000, three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment for the mail fraud conviction.
For the identity theft conviction, Harris faces up to two years in prison consecutive to any other sentence, one year of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.


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Who would have known it? China is buying Made in the U.S.A. Many sectors and states from across the country are selling more to China these days. In fact, between 2003 and 2012 total exports to China rose 294%, an increase of nearly $81 billion. Forty-two states have achieved triple-digit export growth to China since 2003, and four states experienced quadruple-digit growth over the same period – Alabama, Nevada, South Carolina, and Vermont. Last year, American exports to China came from a broad range of American sectors, including crop production, transportation equipment, electronics, chemicals, and machinery. All told, the Chinese bought $109 billion in 2012, an increase (again) of 6.5%.
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I will always respect Horton for his clutch play as a Bruin, especially in the playoffs. But come on, isn't the whole idea of being in the NHL playing for the Stanley Cup ? He leaves a team that will most likley contend for years to come to join a team that has never won a playoff round in their existance, give me a break. Being in the spotlight comes with the territory of being an NHL'er, suck it up Horton that's what you signed up for when you made the big leagues. This " I want to go to a quiet non traditional hockey market " talk is him being a p*ssy ! So what if he gets a litttle attention on the streets after a game or is asked to sign an autograph here and there, it's all part of being an NHL'er and he should be proud. I don't know about the rest of you but wouldn't you want your players on your team to not shy away or be afraid of the bright lights of the NHL and have the go get'em attitude ? Have fun flying under the radar and rotting in Columbus !!
You know I never saw a quote from Horton saying he wanted a non traditional market. What I saw was a tweet from Lebrun saying he guessed that's what Horton would be looking for. He talked to the Wings among other teams and eventually settled on the team that offered him the most years. Job security is important for everyone.
I realize that Dez but wouldn't you think that since he has had a taste of one championship that he would at least be open to the idea of returning for the opportunity to win multiple cups regardless of contract length ? He didn't even give P.C. a sniff, it seems like he already had his mind made up immediatley following game 6 of the finals. Let's face it there will be no cups in Columbus !


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The lawsuit says Signature Designs was authorized by the schools to sell license products until September 2008, but that the company still continued to sell clothing, pillows, jerseys and other goods with the designs.
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Lindsay Davenport's Olympic hopes were dashed today when she pulled out of singles competition with the recurring knee injury she sustained at Wimbledon. The American baller, who's still hoping to play doubles with Liezel Huber, told the press,
I've been resting it since hurting it at Wimbledon for the purpose of being here and being able to do my best. For me it's a thrill to be back no matter what happens. It's the Olympics.I think this will be the last time we see Lindsay in any form of professional tennis since the Olympics was her main reason for coming back.
What a way to go out...
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Lindsay withdraws from singles in Beijing - is this her last hoorah?
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- AnonymousAugust 8, 2008 at 11:08 AM
i know it's not lindsay's fault, but i am not loving the US delegation outfit at all. what's up with those white hats? and the dark blazers--boring!ReplyDelete
blame Ralph Lauren anon - it's all their faultReplyDelete
haha, i like the outfits a lot. i thought lindsay looked really good in it (white hat and all)!ReplyDelete
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Paint Chip Repair - Fix Your PaintWritten by Jeff Smith on February 20, 2007 You Can't Show It Off And Rub It With A Diaper Until You Learn How to Fix Paint Chips - We Show You How
They are like butt-ugly zits on your paint job. They might be evidence that your machine is driven and not just another garage queen, but regardless of how you view those chips, they are blemishes on what could otherwise be a great paint job. We have had a bunch of self-imposed paint scars on our El Camino courtesy of 18-wheeler pot shots we received on the Hot Rod Power Tour(tm) several years back. It finally got to the point where all we saw were those three big dings in the paint every time we looked at the car. Something had to be done.
Rather than make a bad situation worse with our custom flame-job skills (the movie Edward Scissorhands was really about us), we decided to go back to the source, our buddy Pete Santini, owner of Santini USA Paint & Body. This was actually not the first time we'd talked to him about the chips in the El Camino. "Man, that's tough," Santini said. "The chips are in the fogged section of the paint where it's tough to match because of the yellow fade."
"You can do it," we said, "You're the man!" Little did we know how right we were. After we assured Santini we wouldn't take his 440 'Cuda hostage if the paint fix didn't match, he agreed to help. Then we told him he only had four hours to do the whole job, but we waited until we got there to spring that one on him. Despite our urban guerrilla ambush, Santini showed us the tricks he's learned over the last 30 years of doing this stuff. That's why he keeps us coming back.
The Quick Fix
When those of us not comfortable with a professional paint gun in our hand think of paint-chip repair, we think of the classic "just jab some paint in there with a match stick" routine. As you might imagine, there's a little more to it than that. We'll take the easy route at this stage and assume you're dealing with a chip in a solid-color paint job that's a color base with a clearcoat. We asked Santini if those little paint-chip bottles really match to factory paint and he just snorted and said, "Maybe one out of ten will be close." This means if you don't have paint left over from the paint job, you're probably going to have to paint-match your color. Work with your local paint supplier, but assume it will be expensive. Santini says he paid $424 for a gallon of standard color that was not a custom mix.
To fix the small chip in the solid red quarter-panel on our El Camino we used the paint-dab approach. Start by smoothing the edge of the chip with 1,000- or 1,500-grit wet/dry sandpaper. To apply the paint, Santini says the best approach is to use a fine-tipped brush, but he's seen guys use a soft leaf off a tree in a pinch. Dab the paint and let it dry before adding more. The idea is to fill in the crater to just slightly above the original paint level. If you add too much, you will probably sand through the surrounding clearcoat. You want to avoid that. It may take an hour or so between fill attempts for the paint to dry, and if you have to take three or four shots at filling in the chip, this process could take most of one day. Another approach is to do one shot at filling in paint per day, which also allows the paint to fully cure before you add more.
Once the paint is properly filled in, Santini suggests 1,500-grit wet sandpaper wrapped around a short length of paint stick to sand the small bubble down smooth. Work slowly here to remove only the material necessary. Finish this off by buffing the area with a fine polish and you're done.
The Paint-Chip Challenge
The paint chips in the leading edge of the hood of our Santini-flamed El Camino all occurred in the white portion of the flame job, but all three seemed to have different hues. Santini tried the paint dab trick, but even custom-mixing the paint didn't work. Several attempts at dabbing paint only made the repair look worse than the original chips. "I knew this was going to happen," Santini said. "We're gonna have to spray these out." We acted grateful.
The difference was worth the effort. Santini quickly filled in the offending chips with a filler, lightly scuffed a larger area around the chip, then masked the flames and the hood trim. With a small HVLP detail gun, he used the same paint mix that he had used to dab the chips, and instantly the flaws disappeared. He followed that up with a clear that had to sit for several days before it could be lightly rubbed out and buffed. It was literally that easy. Even before the repair was rubbed out, we could not tell that there had been an ugly chip there. So chips are not the end of the world, even for a flamed cruiser like ours. Oh, and just for the record, Santini is the man.
The Clear Advantage
After spending the better part of the day watching Santini fix those nasty chips in the leading edge of the hood on our El Camino, it occurred to us that maybe there's a way to prevent these problems from occurring again. Our El Camino is like driving a barn door through the wind, and it seems like every bouncing projectile and rock aims right for the leading edge of the hood. Then we remembered hearing something about a clear plastic mask you can apply over existing paint that protects it from rocks and other abusive projectiles.
3M offers a product called ClearMask that is just that-a very thin plastic mask that adheres like a large see-through decal. The ClearMask decal can be purchased as a kit for '00-up year cars, or you can buy a 10-foot-long by 2-inch-wide strip for $18.50. The plastic is a total of 0.008 inch thick and will protect your paint from all those nasty little heat-seeking Bouncing Betties that are always attacking your paint. We also priced a custom kit for an '02 Camaro that would cover the leading edge of the hood, both front fenders, and the mirrors for a mere $68.75, with upgrades that could total $97.02. It might be worth looking into if you're ready to try something new.
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There are several techniques for fixing paint chips, depending on how much time and effort you're willing to exert.The first step is to lightly sand the offended area to remove the sharp edges of the "crater." Then use a fine-tipped brush to lightly dab paint into the chip.Since we were in a hurry, Santini used a heat lamp to encourage the paint to dry faster. For the backyard chip fixer, you can use a hair dryer. Ideally, allow the paint to air-dry for an hour or two between coats.Once the paint has cured and there is a very slight material bulge above the normal paint surface, wet-sand the area lightly with 1,500-grit paper and a short length of paint stick to act as a solid sanding surface. Work slowly.As you can see, as a spot repair, even the matched paint still didn't come close. Santini says that's because the paint is metallic. Attempting to spot-fill the chips made them look worse, so Santini abandoned that approach.To repair the chips, Santini first scuffed them to remove their sharp edges using 1,500-grit wet sandpaper. He likes to scuff an area roughly four to as much as ten times the size of the chip to get an adequate blend. This was not possible because of the proximity of the flames.Next, Santini used 11/48-inch-wide tape to mask the edge of the flames along the pinstripe line and then followed that up with wider tape and paper that also covered the hood chrome trim.
Using the same paint mix he used when attempting to spot the paint chips, Santini used an HVLP detail gun to fog in the white paint. To our eyes, the chips almost immediately disappeared. He then came back with a slight bit of yellow to make the flames appear as they did before the repair. Finally, he hit this same area with a light coating of clear.


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Toby Keith's Bar and Grill
Rock concert breaks out at country bar
It was a magical night at Toby Keith's Bar & Grill in Folsom, California as singer, songwriter Rachel Steele and country band Road 88 were joined by the venerable rocker Jeff Keith, lead singer for the rock band Tesla.
Keith joined forces with Steele and her band to celebrate the release of his new CD "Jeff Keith and Country Music Friends." The Album is the result of a side project Keith's been working on with friends Kent Goodson and Pat Boone from The George Jones band. Pat Boone is not the really old guy who likes to drink milk, but the not-so-really old guy who likes country music.
When Steele was halfway through her set Keith, donning a cowboy hat and blue jacket, jumped up onstage singing several songs from his new album. As if that wasn't enough to get everyone on their feet, Tesla's Troy Luckketta (drums) and Frank Hannon (guitar), who were there in support of Keith, joined him to perform Tesla's hit "Signs," followed by a fantastic rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama." Only Brian Wheat (bass) and Dave Rude (guitar) were missing from Tesla.
Road 88's guitarist Billy Haggard and Hannon brought the house down with a killer battle of guitars, with Hannon finishing off the battle playing the guitar using a beer bottle up and down the neck of the guitar.
It gave more than a few people the goosies!
Road 88's members include Scott Prentice (guitar, vocals), Billy Haggard (guitar), Charlie McGimsey (drums), Todd Prout (bass), Paul Southerland (lap/pedal steel, dobro) and Maggie Keith (backup vocals).
So how did Keith get mixed up in all things country?
Apparently Goodson and Boone met Keith after a Tesla concert in Canada and the next thing you know, the three of them are paddling around in a pontoon boat somewhere in the middle of Nashville, slamming down sasparillas, and singing country songs – go figure.
The album is solidly in the country genre with song titles like "Same Ol' Cowboy," Oklahoma Bound," and my favorite "Oh Hell." You can read the complete review here.
Keith also wants to assure all of his Tesla fans that he's not quitting his day job – or would that be his night job? He remains with Tesla and they are currently planning out their 2013 schedule, including the Monster of Rock Cruise in March.


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Thinking of making a flat...
Posted 03 January 2014 - 12:04 AM
With the water method, a collimated source of light is needed but how can I make this source of collimated light and how accurate does it need to be. I haven't decided on a flat size yet but say I go for 8", if I need to buy a precision lens at least that size to get my collimated light then that could be a real issue. Especially if it needs to be a significant amount more accurate than the flat I want to make.
The Texereau method uses testing one piece next to another - basically comparing errors. I'm sure it works out in the end but it doesn't give me a warm fuzzy having to judge how good my end product is by comparing it to a potentially imperfect reference.
So which is the best way to go to make a flat that I can be confident about it's quality?
Posted 03 January 2014 - 12:43 AM
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Posted 03 January 2014 - 07:44 AM
Check out Advanced Telescope Making Techniques Vol 2. Articles by Browne and Cox show the use of a smaller spherical mirror, (Ritchey-Common) which I have determined works well. Still, I used three 8" disks for the grinding, and a precision straightedge.
As Kfrederich asks, what's it for? For autocollimating, it needs to be smooth, not exactly flat.
A smaller ref flat will be useful in checking edge via fringes. Maybe you can borrow a flat?
Posted 03 January 2014 - 08:34 AM
For the water test the collimator doesn't need to be anything precision, I use the center section of a fresnel lens from an old big screen projection TV and it works just fine. I would avoid too fast an F number lens as many fresnels are however. You could use a plano-convex lens or a telescope mirror as well, SA doesn't matter.
Posted 03 January 2014 - 08:06 PM
Ed, thanks for the info. Is it necessary or usefull to use a slanted piece of 50/50 glass so the fringes are viewed 'on axis' similar to other light boxes I've seen people build for interference testing? Also what would you consider to be a cutoff point for f/# if I happen to come across a fresnel?
Posted 03 January 2014 - 10:41 PM
Light boxes with slanted glass don't usually have a collimator which is required for the water test. However if you are making a flat for an autocollimator you can use a light box. Without a collimator a true flat will show some rings of power depending on the water thickness, viewing distance and mirror size. You could use fringe analysis software to correct to absolute flatness but a collimator is easier.
For testing diagonals you wouldn't need so big a collimator. How fast is too fast? Not really sure, I'd like 4:1 but maybe faster would still work?
Posted 04 January 2014 - 01:11 AM
Posted 04 January 2014 - 03:11 AM
As I said, you can test with a flat without the colliamitng lens if you observe at a distance equal to at least 10 diameters of the mirror being tested. Thus, for a 10-inch mirror, a distance of 100 inches or 2.5 meters (or 8 feet). To observe the fringes, use a camera with a telephone lens, or a small finder scope.
The collimator only allows you to view the fringes closer, by removing the parallax effect which is made negligible by increasing the viewing distance.
Posted 04 January 2014 - 08:21 AM
Unfortunately you are correct only for contact testing of flats. Not using a collimator for the water test would result in a non-flat optic unless you do fringe analysis.
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Posted 07 January 2014 - 03:27 PM
you can test and return it in 14days if its not flat...
it could always be a good pressing flat.
Posted 07 January 2014 - 04:26 PM
I recommend using a round blank then cutting it elliptical if needed. I'm starting to hate working with (Newtonian)ellipses. The sides aren't even vertical. How much is gained using an ellipse than a round one? 3% light loss and contrast?
Far better to start elliptical, and block up pieces of 'junk' glass surrounding it, making a rough circle of larger diameter. The buffer thus provided eliminates turned edge. It's rather easier to get good flatness on a *portion* of a larger construct. It might be initially attractive to cut out your piece from a larger single one, but the risk of damage is present, not to mention the possibility of some strain relief and hence warping.
Posted 07 January 2014 - 04:33 PM
Ed, you're right I should have made that distinction, but since I don't use liquid water flats (I find the test too "fluid" if you know what I mean) I didn't think of it.
Unfortunately you are correct only for contact testing of flats. Not using a collimator for the water test would result in a non-flat optic unless you do fringe analysis.
Posted 07 January 2014 - 06:37 PM
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Posted 07 January 2014 - 06:53 PM
a 6.5" x1" thk flat for $89
you can test and return it in 14days if its not flat...
it could always be a good pressing flat.
This is most likely an optical window, not quite the same as a flat
Posted 07 January 2014 - 07:19 PM
I got a 4" piece of glass for a laser and its at least 1/8~ for $40.
Posted 08 January 2014 - 02:36 AM
Ed, I can't tell which is the true shape of the fringes, as they move incessantly. It's not about usefulness, but preference. If I didn't have a reference flat, I would use the Ricthey-Common test with a spherical mirror simply because I prefer a steady image. .
The fringes do wiggle around but it's not a big deal. Take a look at this video of a 4 1/4 diagonal tested on the water test. It doesn't detract from the usefulness of the test.
Posted 08 January 2014 - 10:14 PM
The fringes do wiggle around but it's not a big deal. Take a look at this video of a 4 1/4 diagonal tested on the water test. It doesn't detract from the usefulness of the test.
Ed, So is that flat convex?
Posted 08 January 2014 - 10:47 PM
You were looking for a glass project, how about a reference sphere?
Just like in toolmaking, you make your own tools, and build from first principles. First a sphere..can test it reliably to impeccable quality and then use it to make a larger flat of impeccable quality...to make a paraboloid of impeccable quality, etc. How about a 6 or 8" sphere, f/12-15 of 1/40 wave? If nothing else it will make a fine planetary scope for someone.
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So is that flat convex?
Actually it's been a while, I can't remember, I tested this flat for an Ohio Club. The important point was that it wasn't flat.


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The 4 Rules of Regifting: Etiquette Guru Explains When It's OK
Regifting: Lots of us do it, and many of us feel a bit guilty about it, even though polls show people are generally OK with receiving regifts. But does regifting really pass the holiday season etiquette test? We asked Jodi R.R. Smith of etiquette consultancy Mannersmith.


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How can I compare directory trees of huge size?
I am thinking a free tool to make a snapshot of the filesystem structure (listing of files and directories, their size & timestamps) would be ideal so I could compare the snapshot to another one made later.
Treecomp would be great for that but with a huge tree (I mean really huge!) it crashes because it tries to keep it in memory (4GB of memory are not enough)...
I worked around the problem by splitting the snapshots into pieces and compare these pieces. But that's tedious, and the problem can for sure be solved better.
Is there another free (best also open source) tool that I can try out? Or is there another way to do this that I am overlooking?
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