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Archive for April 2010
New iPhone Case Themed by Darth Vader and Stormtrooper Helmet
Well, for those Star Wars fans, it's good news. but you have to have an iPhone. Star Wars official online shop has recently released latest two iPhone cases themed by Darth Vader and Stormtrooper.
iRock Handmade iPhone Dock Hard Enough
Do you want a iPhone dock, and need a special one? I just found out one. I think the iPhone and iPod dock called iPock should be special enough, of course also hard enough.
Gsou cute robot anti-peep USB webcam
That's a terrible thing if your computer are attacked by hacker. Because they can not only steal your data, but also control the webcam. Hope your computer wasn't in your bedroom. How to prevent your webcam from being used by the hackers? Gsou USB webcam brought us a fun and useful way.
Light Bulb USB Flash Drive
As we know, many of USB flash drives tell us through the built-in LED light they are transferring files. Obviously this method is out of date for geeks. perhaps the LED light bulb is more fashionable and bright than the LED light.
Princess Leia Car Wash Surround by Stormtrooper and Darth Vader for Charity
Undoubtedly these charming Leia girls were taken by the Stormtrooper soldiers and Darth Vader. What did they want the Leias to do? Let them wash car? Great, where is the spaceship of Darth Vader?
Battery Life Mug Integrated Temperature Sensor
Custom wooden iPhone case by Grove
As far as anyone knew, it's not difficult to customize an unique iPhone case for us. Many manufacturers offer custom service such as uncommon, case-mate, and etc. But obviously it's not enough. Grove brought us another more unique wooden custom iPhone case.
Clothespin Wooden USB Flash Drive
I really don't know what something else can be more eco-friendly than those wooden gadgets. Now we found another one: a handmade wooden USB drive.


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Aug 8, 2006
|Filing date
|Jun 18, 2004
|Priority date
|Oct 2, 2002
|Fee status
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|Publication number
|Morio Mizuno
|Original Assignee
|Mclaughlin Manufacturing Company, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (14), Non-Patent Citations (1), Classifications (9), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/263,154 filed Oct. 2, 2002, now abandoned the entire disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein.
Underground utility lines may emit passive electromagnetic signals for various reasons. An electric utility, for example, carries its own electric signal at 50–60 Hz. Other utility lines emit electromagnetic fields within a frequency range of 13 to 22 kHz responsively to ambient fields that induce signals on the utility. Gas providers typically place 100–120 Hz signals on gas lines to provide cathodic protection against corrosion. CATV lines typically carry signals at about 31 kHz. As used herein, any electromagnetic field emitted by a utility line, whether generated by signals carried directly by the utility or by signals induced on the utility by signals ambient to the utility, where the signal is not applied by a cable location system for the purpose of locating the cable, is considered a "passive" signal.
It is known to provide an above-ground portable locator having an antenna tuned to receive signals within a desired frequency range for locating the underground utility. Typically, the operator has a general idea of the underground utility's location. If so, the operator carries the locator so that the antenna is parallel to the ground and perpendicular to the expected line of the utility and walks generally perpendicular to the expected line. The operator views a signal intensity display on the locator and finds the position at which a peak signal appears. At that point, the above-ground position may be marked and a depth reading taken. Where the operator does not know the utility's general location, he may find the utility by walking in a grid pattern while carrying the locator so that the antenna is parallel to the ground. The operator first walks in parallel lines over the area. If he does not find a peak value, he may be carrying the antenna parallel to the utility. Since underground lines emit a generally cylindrical magnetic field, the magnetic flux lines are perpendicular to the coil antenna's axis in this orientation and do not induce a significant signal in the antenna. Thus, the operator then turns 90� and walks in parallel paths over the same area. In such a pattern, the antenna is more likely to be perpendicular to the utility and therefore more likely to detect a peak signal. Of course, the operator may not be exactly parallel or exactly perpendicular to the utility in either direction. By using the grid pattern, however, the operator should be able to cross over the utility with the antenna at such an angle that a peak can de detected. At such a point, the operator may rotate the locator about a vertical axis until the antenna is perpendicular to the utility and a maximum signal is measured. Thus, the locator's orientation notifies the operator of the utility's direction. An example of a system capable of locating existing underground utility lines carrying active or passive signals is described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,102,136, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein.
The locator may also be used to locate signals in other frequency ranges. Generally, the locator includes low pass and bandpass filters, which are configured to pass the respectively desired frequency ranges, in parallel with filters 16 and 18. The CPU selects the filter for a desired frequency range through a multiplexer.
In one known locator, three antennas are used to determine location and depth of underground utilities. A locator housing (not shown) includes three parallel horizontally-aligned antennas (not shown). The bottom antenna (hereafter "C1") is disposed in the housing so that it is parallel to the ground when the operator carries the locator during operation. The second antenna (hereafter "C2") is directly above the first antenna and, being parallel to antenna C1, is also parallel to the ground. The third parallel antenna (hereafter "C3") is directly above antenna C2 in the housing a distance equal to the distance between antennas C1 and C2. The distance between C1 and C3 is referred to herein as "d." The three antennas are connected to amplifier 14 through a multiplexer (not shown) controlled by the CPU.
In operation, the CPU repeatedly samples the signals on the three antennas and relies on the difference in signal strength between C1 and C3 (C1−C3=E1) and between C2 and C3 (C2−C3=E2) to locate an underground utility and determine its depth. In locating an underground utility, the CPU monitors and displays the value of E1, and the operator finds a point above the utility by finding the peak value of E1 in a manner as described above. Once finding such a position, the operator activates a button on the locator to determine the utility's depth, which the CPU calculates according to the function: depth=(d)(E2 )/(E1−(2(E2))).
The present invention recognizes and addresses the foregoing considerations, and others, of prior art constructions and methods.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved system and method for detecting passive signals emitted from underground utilities.
One embodiment of a system for identifying a passive electromagnetic signal emitted from an underground utility includes a portable housing, an antenna disposed within the housing and a control circuit. A frequency bandpass circuit is disposed operatively between the antenna and the control circuit so that the bandpass circuit receives measurement signals from the antenna corresponding to electromagnetic signals received by the antenna and passes to the control circuit a portion of the received measurement signals within a frequency pass band. The control circuit sequentially sets the bandpass filter circuit to a plurality of different frequency pass bands within a measurement frequency range expected to include a frequency of the passive electromagnetic signal. The control circuit receives the measurement signal portion corresponding to each frequency pass band set by the control circuit and selects at least one of the frequency pass bands based on a predetermined criteria applied to the corresponding measurement signal portions.
In an embodiment of a method for identifying a passive electromagnetic signal emitted from an underground utility, a portable above-ground antenna is disposed at a location at which the passive electromagnetic signal is expected. Measurement signals are received from the antenna corresponding to electromagnetic signals received by the antenna. The measurement signals are measured at a plurality of different frequency bands within a measurement frequency range expected to include a frequency of the passive electromagnetic signal, and at least one of the plurality of frequency bands is selected based on a predetermined criteria applied to the measurements.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate one or more embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
A full and enabling disclosure of the present invention, including the best mode thereof, directed to one of ordinary skill in the art, is set forth in the specification, which makes reference to the appended drawings, in which:
Repeat use of reference characters in the present specification and drawings is intended to represent same or analogous features or elements of the invention.
Reference will now be made in detail to presently preferred embodiments of the invention, one or more examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Each example is provided by way of explanation of the invention, not limitation of the invention. In fact, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit thereof. For instance, features illustrated or described as part of one embodiment may be used on another embodiment to yield a still further embodiment. Thus, it is intended that the present invention covers such modifications and variations as come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.
As noted above, the arrangement illustrated in
Referring to
Referring to
The CPU steps the clock frequency through predetermined levels (from 10.8 kHz to 34.4 kHz) so that the overall variable bandpass filter formed by mixer 44 and filter 40 consecutively steps through the measurement frequency range (9.6 kHz–33.2 kHz in the present example) at 0.4 kHz increments. For example, assume the operator stands above an underground utility that emits a passive signal at 9.6 kHz, disposes antennas 30 so that the antennas are perpendicular to the utility line, and activates the CPU to measure the strength of the signals received by the antennas. The CPU initially sets the frequency threshold of low pass filter 40 to 12 kHz. Due to high pass filter 88 and low pass filter 40, therefore, the mixer receives a measurement signal ranging in frequency from 9.5 kHz to 12 kHz. Since the utility is emitting a passive signal at 9.6 kHz, the measurement signal contains the peak signal.
The CPU also initially sets the clock signal to 10.8 kHz. As noted above, the signal output by the Mixer has a frequency equal to the difference between the clock signal frequency and the measurement signal frequency. Thus, when mixer 44 mixes the measurement signal with the clock signal, the signal output from the mixer has a frequency range of −1.2 kHz (i.e. a 1.2 kHz signal with opposite phase) to 1.3 kHz. Since the peak signal is at 9.6 kHz, the peak in the mixed signal is located approximately at 1.2 kHz, which is within the 1.1–1.5 kHz pass band of bandpass filter 46. That is, the 1.1–1.5 kHz pass band of filter 46 corresponds to a pass band of 9.3–9.7 kHz (limited by 9.5 kHz filter 88) in terms of the measurement signal frequencies, and this includes the peak signal at 9.6 kHz. Being the first measurement, the CPU stores and displays the signal strength and the approximate center frequency of the pass band in which the signal was detected, i.e. the clock frequency step (10.8 kHz) minus 1.2 kHz, or 9.6 kHz.
CPU 32 maintains this frequency band for about 0.5 seconds and then increases the clock frequency by 0.4 kHz, to 11.2 kHz. The variable low pass filter remains at 12 kHz. The mixer again receives a measurement signal having a range of 9.5 kHz to 12 kHz. Again, this signal includes the strong portion at 9.6 kHz. The mixer, however, changes the measurement signal's frequency to a range from −0.8 to 1.7 kHz. The signal peak is at 1.6 kHz (i.e. 11.2 kHz−9.6 kHz) and is, therefore, slightly beyond the filter's peak pass band of 1.1–1.5 kHz. In other words, the overall filter's peak pass band now ranges from 9.7 kHz to 10.1 kHz, which excludes the signal peak. The CPU compares the new signal strength with the previously stored signal strength. Since the new measurement is weaker, the CPU does not store the new signal strength or its measurement frequency.
The CPU increases the clock frequency by 0.4 kHz, to 11.6 kHz. At this step, the bandpass filter passes the measurement signal corresponding to the frequency range 10.1–10.5 kHz. Thus, the peak signal is again outside the pass band. The signal strength measured by the CPU is less than the stored value, and the CPU therefore maintains the previously stored signal strength and measurement signal frequency values in memory 50.
The CPU then consecutively increases the clock frequency, intermittently increasing the threshold level of low pass filter 40, as described in more detail below, to accommodate the increase in frequency range, and measures the signal strength at each step. Since each step moves the filter pass band farther from the 9.6 kHz peak value, the CPU maintains the signal values stored at the 10.8 kHz clock frequency step. Upon completely scanning the measurement frequency range, the CPU causes display 52 to display the approximate center frequency (9.6 kHz) of the measurement signal frequency range (9.3 kHz to 9.7 kHz) at which the peak signal was found.
Because the system correctly records the peak signal when the peak later appears in pass band 107, the apparent uncertainty regarding the center frequency is resolved as the clock frequency steps up through the operative range. Assume, for example, that the utility emits a signal at 11.9 kHz. The signal peak passes through low pass filter 40, which has a pass band at this step of 12 kHz, and the CPU stores the detected signal's strength in association with the 9.6 kHz pass frequency, i.e. in association with incorrect pass band. But when the clock frequency steps to 13.2 kHz, pass band 107 has a peak range from 11.7 kHz to 12.1 kHz, and the detector therefore again detects the signal emitted by the utility. Since the signal strength is equal to or greater than the stored signal strength, the CPU stores the newly-detected signal strength in association with the correct frequency, i.e. 12.0 kHz.
The overall filter also defines a harmonic set of pass bands 111 centered at 21.6 kHz when the filter clock frequency is at 10.8 kHz. Low pass filter 40, however, the threshold of which is set to 12 kHz, removes any signals received by the antennas that would otherwise be detected in this pass range. Thus, the system does not improperly respond to this or other higher order harmonics.
As the CPU steps the filter up through the operative frequency range, it intermittently changes the threshold level of filter 40. In the presently-described embodiment, the CPU sets the low pass filter threshold with respect to the clock frequency as described in the following table:
TABLE 1 Clock Frequency LP Filter Threshold Frequency <12 kHz 12 kHz >=12 kHz and <18 kHz 18 kHz >=18 kHz and <25 kHz 25 kHz >=25 kHz 33 kHz
It should be noted that at the clock frequency's last step, i.e. 34.4 kHz, the pass range of pass band 107 is 32.9–33.3 kHz. At this point, filter 40 is set to 33 kHz. Thus, the detector sees only signals in the early portion of pass band 107 (32.9–33.0 kHz) and does not see signals within pass band 109.
As noted above, CPU 32 also controls automatic gain control circuit 42 through control lines 112. More specifically, and referring to
At 120, the CPU measures the signal voltages on each of the three receiver coils. As described above, the three locator coils (C1, C2 and C3) are parallel and vertically aligned in the locator housing. The CPU adds the signal voltages measured on the bottom and top coils (i.e. C1+C3) and considers this value to be the measured signal voltage.
At 122, the CPU compares the measured signal voltage to the maximum voltage threshold corresponding to the analog-to-digital converter overflow. If the signal is below the threshold maximum, the CPU compares the measured signal voltage to the previously stored measured signal voltage (MAX_VOLT) at 124. If the measured signal voltage is greater than or equal to MAX_VOLT, the CPU stores at 126 the measured signal voltage as MAX_VOLT and stores the center frequency of the measurement signal frequency range at which the measured signal voltage was found. As described above, the CPU stores the measurement frequency through setting MAX_FREQ to the clock frequency at which the signal was detected. The CPU increments the clock frequency at 128 and returns to 118 for the next measurement. If the measure signal voltage is less than MAX_VOLT at 124, the CPU increments the clock frequency at 128 without changing MAX_VOLT.
If the measured signal voltage overflows the voltage threshold at 122, the CPU automatically reduces the gain by a factor of ten (as discussed above) at 130. Since this occurrence necessarily means the measured signal voltage is greater than the previously stored voltage level, there is no need for a comparison, and the CPU stores the measured signal voltage and corresponding center frequency at 126.
When the clock frequency incremented at 128, exceeds 34.4 kHz at 118, the last-stored center frequency is considered the frequency at which the peak signal was found, and the CPU therefore stores this final frequency at 132 (again, through storage of the clock frequency, which is understood to be 1.2 kHz offset from the measurement frequency), displays the final frequency at 133 and ends the frequency scan routine.
As discussed above, the pass range of pass band 107 (
It should be understood that the schematic and circuit illustrations in
The locator may be used to locate utilities emitting signals resulting from signals actively placed on the utility by the operator through direct connection to the utility or through a probe passed through the utility, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,102,136. In one presently preferred embodiment, these signals are generated at frequencies of 512 Hz, 9.5 kHz and 38 kHz. As noted above, a parallel band pass filter is provided for 512 Hz signals. When the operator selects the 9.5 kHz and 38 kHz frequencies, however, the multiplexer selects the path of filters 38 and 40. When detecting 38 kHz signals, filter 40 is set to a level above 38 kHz.
Similarly, the locator includes four additional bandpass filter circuits (not shown) in parallel with bandpass filter 46 to accommodate location of signals at the 50–60 Hz, 100–120 Hz, 512 Hz and 9.5 kHz/38 kHz ranges. Although a separate band pass filter is provided for the 9.5 kHz and 38 kHz signals, it should be understood that band pass filter 46 may instead be used for these frequencies. When the operator selects a desired frequency level, the CPU automatically selects the corresponding one of the four parallel bandpass filter circuits through a multiplexer controlled by the CPU.
When the locator is not executing an automatic frequency scan, the system operator may manually control the gain through an input interface provided as part of display 52. CPU 32 drives an indicator on display 52 that describes the magnitude of incoming signals as a percentage relationship to benchmark gain setting. Upon activation of a "Gain" button on display 52, the CPU determines whether the signal level from the A/D converter is at or above the converter's maximum threshold value. If so, gain is reduced by a factor of ten as described above. The resulting high (1) and low (0) levels of signals from the converter become the new benchmark levels, and the indicator at display 52 is re-set so that signals at these levels are displayed as a "70%" power level. The percentage power level displayed for any subsequent signal is determined relative to the 70% benchmark signal. Thus, a reading of 100% may indicate that the incoming signal might be too large, and the operator may therefore choose to again activate the Gain button. Additionally, the system provides an indicator on the display whenever the signal level from the converter is at or above the converter's maximum value that prompts the operator to activate the Gain button.
If, when the operator activates the Gain button, the signal level from the A/D converter is below the converter's maximum value, the high and low signal levels from the converter become the new 70% benchmark levels, but the system does not change the gain.
As described above, and referring to
Referring to
A "Power" button 80 activates the locator. The locator may be provided with a speaker to permit the system to issue audible alarms and to backlight the display screen. Accordingly, when the operator activates a "Mode" button 78, display 52 provides a screen (not shown) at 62 that provides sound and backlight options. From this screen, multiple activations of a "Gain" button 72 cycles the device through various sound level options, while a "Depth" button 74 cycles the device through backlight options.
Activation of Mode button 78 a second time allows the operator to put the locator in a "probe" mode, in which the locator is configured to receive signals emitted from a probe moved through the underground utility. In the present embodiment, the probe may emit signals at 38 kHz, although it should be understood that the particular frequency used may vary. The operator may put the receiver in or out of probe mode by activating a "Frequency" button 76. Activating the probe mode selects an appropriate band pass filter (not shown) in parallel with filter 46, as described above. The CPU selects filters 38 and 40, with low pass filter 40 being set to an appropriate level. Activation of the "Mode" button a third time returns the locator to location functions and the receiver is set to operate at 38 kHz.
The operator may also turn probe mode off and then re-activate the Mode button. At this point, or following power-up without going into probe mode, "Frequency" button 76 allows the operator to set the receiver for non-probe reception of signals at five predetermined frequency levels. Three frequency levels are used with signals directly or indirectly placed on the underground utility by an above-ground transmitter. In direct modes, the transmitter places a location signal on the utility through a cable that attaches to the utility or to a conduit encasing the utility. In the presently described embodiment, the signal is either a combination of 9.5 kHz and 38 kHz or a combination of 512 Hz and 9.5 kHz. Generally, 9.5 kHz is preferred for locating cables in areas congested with existing utilities and for power cables and tracer wires, while 38 kHz signal is preferred for CATV lines and metal pipes and cables. Thus, in such conditions, the transmitter applies the 9.5/38 kHz signal in direct connection or external connection mode, and the operator sets the locator to receive at 9.5 kHz or 38 kHz, as appropriate. The 9.5 kHz/512 Hz signal may be used for cable location but is preferred to detect faults. In the induction mode, the transmitter is placed on the ground above the utility and emits an electromagnetic field that induces a signal on the utility at 38 kHz. Additionally, the locator may be set to locate signals at 50–60 Hz (power frequencies) and 110–120 Hz (gas line signals).
Each of these five frequency positions (9.5 kHz, 38 kHz, 50–60 Hz, 110–120 Hz, and 512 Hz) is stored by the system CPU and memory, and the Frequency button allows the operator to cycle through the frequency options to select a desired range. Upon activating Frequency button 76, and referring to
Generally, the operator sets the receiver to one of these frequency settings in order to locate and determine the depth of a utility line that is emitting signals at the known frequency. Then, the operator searches for and locates the utility as described above.
Note that the operator may set the locator to 38 kHz reception either in probe mode or in cable location mode. While the receiver's filter settings are the same in the two modes for this frequency, the depth calculations are different.
Referring again to
If the frequency level of passive signals from the desired utility is known, or if the operator desires to manually search for the frequency level, the operator may manually change the CPU's frequency setting though "up" button 72 and "down" button 74. Each button activation moves the frequency displayed at 66 up or down 0.4 kHz, depending on which button is pushed. If the operator is moving the receiver to a known frequency level, the operator again activates RF Search button 64 upon reaching that level, thereby causing CPU 42 to set the bandpass filter to the desired frequency band. Frequency indicator 66 stops blinking, and the operator proceeds with utility measurements. If the operator does not know, or is not confident of, a utility's passive frequency level, the operator may step through several frequency levels using this manual method until finding a peak signal.
Alternatively, the operator may execute an automatic frequency scan as discussed above. After initially activating the RF Search button, so that frequency indicator 66 blinks, the operator starts an automatic scan by activating either of up or down buttons 72 and 74. If the operator presses up button 72, CPU 42 starts at the bottom of the operative frequency range (9.6 kHz in the present example) and samples upward in 0.4 kHz steps to the top of the range (33.2 kHz in the present example). If the down arrow is pressed, the CPU starts at the top of the frequency range and moves down. When searching down through the operative range, the measurement frequency is considered to be 1.2 kHz above the clock frequency, and the CPU displays the measurement frequency (clock frequency plus 1.2 kHz), at steps 117 and 133 (
While a 0.4 kHz frequency step is provided as an example, it should be understood that different step sizes may be used as desired. The frequency step size may depend, for example, upon the performance level of the CPU, for example a Hitachi HD64F3644H microprocessor operating at a 7.37280 MHz base clock. As should be understood in this art, increasing clock frequency and/or CPU efficiency may permit smaller step size, for example 0.3 kHz or 0.1 kHz.
As the CPU scans the frequency range in the automatic scan mode, frequency indicator 66 continues to blink. Bar graph 68 and numerical indicator 70 show the signal intensity currently stored as the strongest signal received by the system, and frequency indicator 66 blinks at the corresponding frequency. Thus, these indications change as the system finds stronger signals. Because smaller peak levels may indicate the presence of other underground cables in the area, the operator may note the frequencies at which such smaller peaks occur for later attempts to locate the other cables.
When the system finds the peak level, CPU 42 has stored the frequency level in memory 50. Indicator 66 stops blinking, thereby notifying the operator that the automatic scan is complete. Bar graph 68 and numerical indicator 70 show the signal intensity at the selected frequency, and the operator proceeds with utility measurements.
If an operator presses button 72 before actuation of another mode button, button 72 acts as a "Gain" button by which the operator sets the signal gain to 70% as described above.
If an operator presses button 74 before actuation of another mode button, button 74 acts as a "Depth" button by which the operator may use the locator to find the depth of the underground utility. The locator's three antennas (
During the "probe" mode described above, in which the locator is used to locate an underground utility through location of electromagnetic signals emitted from a probe in the utility, the CPU repeatedly samples the signals on the three antennas. The CPU relies on the difference between, and the sum of, the signal strengths on C1 and C3 (C1+C3=E1, C1−C3=E2) to locate an underground utility and determine its depth. In locating an underground utility, the CPU monitors and displays the value of E1, and the operator finds a point above the utility by finding the peak value of E1 in a manner as described above. Alternatively, the locator could display E2 in locating the utility. Once finding such a position, the operator activates button 74 to determine the utility's depth, which the CPU calculates according to the function: depth=(3/2)(d)(E1−E2)/(E2). Referring to
If the locator is set (through activation of "Frequency" button 76 as discussed above with respect to
If the locator is set to locate RF signals through the "RF Search" button, the CPU repeatedly samples the signals on the three antennas. E1 is again equal to C1+C3, and E2 is equal to C1−C3. In locating an underground utility, the CPU monitors and displays the value of E1, and the operator finds a point above the utility by finding the peak value of E1. Once finding such a position, the operator activates button 74 to determine the utility's depth, which the CPU calculates according to the following function: depth=(d/2)(E1−E2)/E2=(d)(C3)/(E2).
When locating an underground utility when the locator is set through the "Frequency" button, the operator sets the locator to the desired frequency and walks with the locator in the cross-wise or grid patterns discussed above or other patterns as desired. When locating an underground utility when the locator is set through the "RF Frequency" button, the operator may first place the locator near an above-ground exposure of the utility, or near an above-ground junction box or post to which the utility is connected, and execute either of the manual or automatic frequency searches discussed above to locate the peak frequency at which the utility emits passive RF signals. After activating the "RF Search" button a second time to set the locator to the peak frequency, the operator proceeds to locate the utility in the cross-wise or grid patterns discussed above or other pattern as desired.
While one or more preferred embodiments of the invention have been described above, it should be understood that any and all equivalent realizations of the present invention are included within the scope and spirit thereof. The embodiments depicted are presented by way of example only and are not intended as limitations upon the present invention. Thus, it should be understood by those of ordinary skill in this art that the present invention is not limited to these embodiments since modifications can be made. Therefore, it is contemplated that any and all such embodiments are included in the present invention as may fall within the literal or equivalent scope of the appended claims.
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The Wildcats fell in its first match of the tourney in a four set loss to Jamestown (25-19, 19-25, 19-25, 17-25) then rebounded for three straight wins over William Woods (26-24, 25-22, 25-15), Mayville State (25-13, 25-22, 25-14) and Briar Cliff (25-21, 25-17, 25-22).
Jamestown hit an impressive .263 on the day against the Wildcats and had two players with double-digit kills, as Sarah Becker had a team high 13 and Janna Johnson had 11. Becker hit .462 on the match with just one attack error. Hannah Bettge had 12 kills and Crystal Simon had 10 for the 'Cats. But Baker hit just .118 as a team.
In the second match on Friday, Baker rolled with the hot hand of defending HAAC Freshman of the Year Danielle French who had a match high 10 kills and hit .400. She also had a solo block and as a team Baker had six total team blocks.
The Baker defense held WWU to a hitting percentage of .113 and not one Owl had double digit kills.
In the win over Mayville State French had 19 of the Wildcats 46 total kills and Baker hit an impressive .346 as a squad. Bettge had 37 assists and Baker had eight service aces.
Sara Slater and Shannon McCarty each had three service aces and Kaysha Green had the other two aces. The Baker D held Mayville State to just .164 hitting and 18 attack errors, as a team Baker's offense only had nine attack errors.
The Baker defense saved its best match for last against Briar Cliff. Holding its opponent to a hitting percentage of .021 and 33 attack errors and had 11 total team blocks.
Baker will next host the Baker Invitational Tournament this coming Friday, Sept. 6 and Saturday, Sept. 7 at the Collins Center.
The Wildcats will face John Brown and Friends on Friday at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. respectively and then will face Benedictine and Sterling on Saturday at 1 and 7 p.m.


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IceCap Asset Management's Summary View On Capital Markets
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That was short, and can be summarised as buy gold, not that I dissagree :)
Welcome to Canada, your physical is welcome too.
We have fresh water, wide open spaces, wheat, beef, oil, fertilizer... You just don't want to live anywhere near where we get our oil, but other than that, it is a beautiful country, with millions of friendly people. Can't speak for all of them, though!
But, as a warning, Canada's central bank is run by a former Goldman Sachs employee of 13 years, Mark Carney. So although we will do relatively well, expect our currency to be devalued along with the USD.
May I recommend the West Coast?
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Are not all Central Banks run by or influenced by the elite GS oligarchy ? They surely control and run the U.S. FED.
It's not like a US citizen can just move to Canada, right?
I am Not a US citizen :) but I am not planning to move to Canada nothing personla just like it a bit warmer
Its about 50 degrees Fahrenheit, for the start of winter I will take it!
Every region has its pros/cons. California has mudslides and wildfires. Pakistan and Bangladesh are fertile, but those same rivers pose a MASSIVE flood risk. If you are unlucky enough to be located in the Middle East, you may have to invade your neighbors just to provide enough water to allow your population to expand (*cough Golan Heights cough*). Some places experience extended periods of drought...
I guess what I am saying is, if I can go outside with out a hat or gloves, I don't consider it cold!
Yes, US citizens can "just move to Canada", set up residence etc..
If your interested these are good attorneys to chat with about this..
What city in North America has the most Candians?
One would think that the natural course of events would be rioting, but that's probably not going to happen. Civil unrest is not going to get much worse than it has already. A handful of civil servants and some students in the streets does not create any kind of meaningful change as has already been seen. Nothing significant will happen unless and untill the mainstream population gets upset and there's no sign of that happening, certainly not in the USA.
So what it all means is a slow grinding of the sheeple into serfdom. They get to keep their electronic toys, their Oprah, their paid days off, abundance of food at the super market, fuel at the corner gas station, their illusion of freedom and nobody gets too upset.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great
Something is gotta give at some point.
All commodities to the moon?
army of sheep bitchez.
They are certainly on the money about another disaster in Europe in 2011. Probably sooner than we think, like in January.
Nine 2011 Predictions
By David Chu
A Rense.com Exclusive
- 12-23-10
- 1. The U.S. will implement QE3/4 when the $600 billion of QE2 is not enough (already it is not enough as admitted by the Fed's chairman Benjamin Shalom Bernanke recently on CBS' 60 Minutes). Except it won't be called as such in the lamestream media. QE3/4 will be in the trillions of U.S. dollars (USD) of quantitative easing, i.e., fake digital money printing from the Fed to sop up unwanted U.S. Treasuries. The unstated and ONLY purpose of QE2 and QE3/4 is to buy up all of the U.S. Treasury debts that the foreign nations are beginning to refuse to buy while they are quietly dumping what they possess on the U.S. and world markets in exchange for real and tangible assets and resources.
- 2. The major export nations like China, Russia, Brazil, India, Argentina, and others will engage in and increase their non USD-denominated trading among themselves, as exemplified by the recent China-Russia trade agreements whereby they would start trading in Rubles and Yuans, and not use USD as is typically transacted in international trades for commodities and oil. This will put increasing devaluation pressures on the USD. So, look forward to the US Dollar Index to drop further from the low 80s now to the low 70s or even lower in 2011.
- 3. Retail food prices in the U.S. will increase in the low to medium DOUBLE digit ranges (10% to 40%) for everything from the junk/GMO "foods" served by corporations like McDonald's to healthy/organic foods supplied by companies like Whole Foods Market. This will take place noticeably in the first half of 2011.
- 4. The real estate market in Canada will finally begin its collapse suddenly after the new year celebrations are over, mimicking the real estate crash of the U.S. that began in late 2008. Over heated markets like Vancouver will suffer the most as the average house price there is around $1 million Canadian (the Canadian dollar is almost on par with the USD). The average homeowner in Vancouver is spending about 70% of its BEFORE-tax income on paying mortgages. This financial situation is totally unsustainable. To illustrate a parallel, past example why it is going to be the case: In 2005, the "median" California family spent almost 73% of their AFTER-tax income on their "median" California house ($477,700), and look what happened to the real estate market in California. A 50+% devaluation of the Vancouver real estate market is very likely over the next 1-3 years. But the crash will begin in early half of 2011.
- 5. The Chinese real estate market, the last investment vehicle in China for those Chinese with money, will also begin its collapse suddenly, hitting hard cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Fuzhou, etc. According to a very recent article by UK's Daily Mail Online, there are as many as 64 MILLION empty homes in China with no one occupying these brand new homes! This China real estate crash will have serious implications for the real estate market in Vancouver. There won't be m/any Chinese millionaires plunking down $1+ million CASH for buying real estate in Vancouver, as has been the case over the recent years.
- 6. Inflation will run rampant in China as it is already doing so with retail food prices. See my recent article (www.rense.com/Currency%20Wars%20For%20Dummies.pdf) as to the real causes of huge inflation in China. Unless China allows its Yuan to appreciate (increase in value) against the ever falling USD, rampant inflation in China will continue its course unabated. If China allows its Yuan to appreciate by any significant amount (7% or more), such an action will DECIMATE its export industries and manufacturers, because of the extremely thin profit margins that their exporters have to work with. China will raise its interest rates to try to stop inflation but that will not do the job. In fact, raising interest rates will only cause more foreign currencies to go into China in search of higher yields, unless China imposes strict restrictions on the importation of foreign currencies and investments.
- 7. The EU will continue its financial collapse, as nations like Spain, Portugal, and Italy will join Greece and Ireland in facing the stark choice between (Option 1) bailing out THEIR banksters or (Option 2) having THEIR nation go bankrupt. The IMF/World Bank model of "rescuing" these EU nations were perfected on the so-called Third World nations such as Argentina (viz., John Perkins' book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"). In 2001, Argentina defaulted on its IMF loans, i.e., it was forced to take Option 2, and its people suffered tremendously as the majority of its middle class was literally wiped out overnight. The Banksters in Argentina (with such strange and exotic names like JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, etc.) were able to fly out their billions of USD on private jets before the forced conversion and devaluation of the Argentina pesos/savings were implemented on the masses. Millions of Argentineans keep their savings as USD in their banks before the collapse. When the forced conversion and devaluation of those USD savings were imposed on its citizens, the banks were closed and ATMs withdrawals were limited to a few hundred pesos (less than $50 USD) per person per day. Overnight, Argentineans saw their savings lose over 75% in value (the peso went from 1:1 to 4:1, requiring 4 pesos to buy 1 USD overnight). And then the multi-national corporations came in like financial vultures and bought up the natural resources and public utilities for pennies on the USD. THAT is IMF's Option 2 for Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Option 1 is long term financial servitude and slavery for the citizens of the bankrupt country as is happening to Ireland.
- 8. Silver and gold will continue to climb in 2011. Silver will increase much more than gold in 2011, as the "Crash JP Morgan, Buy Silver" viral campaign started by Max Kaiser in early November will take off exponentially in 2011. Silver will breach $50 per ounce in 2011.
- 9. A major war will break out somewhere in the world in 2011 (if not in 2011 then definitely in 2012) involving the U.S. and/or one of its proxy allies, i.e., Israel, South Korea, etc. The very recent massive war exercises conducted by South Korea and the U.S. were meant to provoke a military response from North Korea. Fortunately, the North Koreans didn't take the bait. This will be the final American Bubble to inflate as the U.S. will try to use "shock and awe" on either North Korea or Iran or even maybe a country in Africa in a futile attempt to bypass and cover up the greatest economic and financial collapse in world's history.
re 1 and 7 above: there is (at least) a third choice to bankster bailout and national bankruptcy: organized debt restructuring with shareholder wipeouts, bonus clawbacks and bondholder haircuts but no defaulting on counterparties or depositors.
it could be done. will it? only if "we" will it.
Thanks for that third alternative, since the two mentioned were a choice between terrible and horrible.
The power that be are the only "we" that counts and they are NOT going to "fall on their own sword". Is it possible? Yes.. Is is PROBABLE? Highly unlikely......


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COMING UP: The Arizona women's basketball team (2-2) hosts the Mission Management & Trust Fiesta Bowl Classic this Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 3-4. The Wildcats face Lehigh (2-3) at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, in McKale Center. The other first-round game is Chicago State (4-1) vs. Tulane (2-0) at 1 p.m. Video, audio and live stats of this and every home game are available at www.arizonaathletics.com.
Viewing video requires a subscription to All-Access, Arizona's premium online multimedia service. Video webcasts will be available for all four Fiesta Bowl Classic games.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE WILDCATS: A three-point attempt by sophomore Jessica Arnold as time wound down was blocked and the Wildcats fell 66-63 to No. 20 Utah last Saturday. Arizona shot 41 percent from the field and 70 percent from the free throw line, but connected on just 14 percent from downtown on the game. Utah shot 49 percent from the field, 50 percent from beyond the arc and 71 percent from the charity stripe. The Utes also out-rebounded the Wildcats 38 to 32. Senior Natalie Jones led Arizona with 17 points, followed by junior Joy Hollingsworth with 14. Sophomore Ashley Whisonant and junior Linda Pace finished with 10 points apiece. Sophomore Ch?© Oh led the Wildcats with 11 rebounds.
Hollingsworth leads the Wildcats this season, averaging 17.5 points and 5.5 rebounds. Jones adds 15.3 points, while Whisonant averages 14.8 points and 6.0 assists per game. Oh rounds out the group of double-figure scorers with 10.5 points to go along with 7.8 rebounds per game. As a team, Arizona is shooting 41 percent from the field and out-rebounding its opponents 39.0 to 38.0.
Lehigh - Junior Sara Ellis buried a career-best eight three-pointers and tied a career high with 26 points as the Mountain Hawks snapped a two-game losing streak with a 64-45 win over Monmouth Monday. Lehigh nailed a season-best 12 three pointers and out-rebounded the Hawks 46 to 23 in the win. Junior Adrienne Blount added a double-double, finishing with 14 points and a career-high 14 rebounds. Emily Geosits added 11 points, while senior Jenny Callan grabbed 13 boards. Sophomore point guard Claire Sullivan finished with four points, six rebounds and a game-high eight assists.
On the season, the Mountain Hawks are led by Blount and Ellis, who average 14.6 and 14.4 points per game, respectively. Callan averages a team-high 9.8 boards to go with 12.2 points per game. As a team, Lehigh is shooting 41 percent from the field, 42 percent from three-point range and 73 percent from the free throw line this season.
Chicago State - The Cougars went on a 12-0 run early in the first half en route to a 68-50 win over Loyola on Tuesday. Chicago State scored 37 points off 31 Rambler turnovers. The Cougars shot 42 percent from the field and held Loyola to just 35 percent shooting. Chicago State also out-rebounded the Ramblers 41 to 36. Brandi-Janai Carter led the Cougars with 13 points, followed by Tina Hill with 10. Renada Blackburn led Chicago State with six rebounds.
On the season, the Cougars are led by Hill, who averages 11.6 points on 63 percent shooting. Blackburn adds 9.4 points, 8.2 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game. As a team, Chicago State is shooting 47 percent from the field and out-rebounding opponents 43.0 to 38.0.
Tulane - The Green Wave defeated UTEP 68-63 in both team's conference opener last Friday in El Paso. Tulane was out-shot 42 percent to 37 percent on the game, but drained 28 free throws to UTEP's 13 to win the game. For the second straight game, the Green Wave had four players in double-figure scoring, led by Jami Montagnino, who tied her career high with 14. Freshman guard Sasha Staidum tossed in 12, while sophomores Alendra Brown and Nikki Luckhurst each tallied 10. Luckhurst also recorded a career-high five steals to go with eight rebounds.
On the season, Tulane has five players average 10 or more points, led by Jennifer Sands, who averages 16.0 points and 8.5 rebounds. Staidum adds 12.5 points, while Kendra Barnes chips in 12.0. Montagnino and Luckhurst round out the group with averages of 11.5 and 10.5 points per game, respectively. As a team, Tulane is out-shooting its opponents 42 to 36 percent from the field and out-rebounding them 49.0 to 32.5.
Lehigh - This is the first-ever meeting between Arizona and the Mountain Hawks.
Chicago State - Arizona is 1-0 all-time vs. the Cougars. The Wildcats defeated Chicago State 70-50 on Dec. 19, 2004, in Chicago, in the two teams' only meeting.
Tulane - Should the Wildcats face the Green Wave on Sunday, it will be the first meeting between the two teams.
TOURNAMENT HISTORY: In the 14-year history of the Fiesta Bowl Classic, Arizona has won the tournament 10 times. Three times the Wildcats lost in the championship game, while in the 2001 tournament, Arizona failed to play in the championship game and actually lost the third-place game. Arizona has had 36 all-tournament team players, including 10 MVPs. Last year, senior Natalie Jones and sophomore Ashley Whisonant were both named to the all-tournament team.
INJURY UPDATE: Freshman Amina Njonkou has a stress fracture in her right foot and is out up to another four weeks.
HOLLINGSWORTH A JOY IN GAMES AS A WILDCAT: After sitting out last season due to NCAA transfer rules, junior Joy Hollingsworth finally made her debut as a Wildcat in the team's season-opening win over Loyola Marymount. In her four games at Arizona, the guard is averaging a team-best 17.5 points per game on 50 percent shooting.
THE DISH ABOUT WHISONANT: Sophomore point guard Ashley Whisonant, playing in a new position this season, is averaging 15.3 points, 6.0 assists and 2.5 steals per game. The Bowie, Md., native dished out a career-high 11 assists in Arizona's win over Furman on Nov. 22. She has a 1.5 assist-to-turnover ratio.
JONES SCORES 750TH CAREER POINT: Senior Natalie Jones scored her 750th career point in Arizona's win over Furman on Nov. 22 in her hometown of Anchorage. The senior is averaging 14.8 points per game for the Wildcats this season.
TROUBLE WITH THE THREE: Arizona is really struggling from three-point range this season. The Wildcats have made just 15-of-66 (23 percent) from downtown. Against Loyola Marymount and Utah, Arizona scored just two treys.
CATS PICKED TO FINISH SIXTH, SEVENTH IN PAC-10: Arizona was picked to finish sixth in the Pacific-10 Conference in the preseason coaches' poll. The Wildcats garnered 42 points, just one point behind fifth-place Oregon. In the media poll, Arizona was picked to finish seventh in the conference, receiving 59 votes.
GOING POLLING: Six of Arizona's 2005-06 opponents (Stanford, Maryland, UCLA, USC, Utah and Arizona State) were nationally ranked in the various preseason polls. Pac-10 power Stanford is ranked as high as No. 8, while Pac-10 teams USC and Arizona State are ranked in all four polls. Arizona received votes in both the Associated Press and ESPN/Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) polls.
STACKED PAC: As a conference, the Pac-10 finished last season ranked as the third toughest conference in the nation after sending five teams to the NCAA Tournament. Finishing ahead of the Pac-10 were the Southeastern Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference.
TOUGH SCHEDULE: The Wildcats have a challenging schedule that includes 12 games against eight teams (Arizona State, Maryland, Oregon, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, USC, Utah and Wisconsin-Green Bay) that made it to the NCAA Tournament last year. Of those teams, six advanced to the second round, while Arizona State made it to the Sweet 16 and Stanford to the Elite Eight.
CURRENT CATS ON UA CAREER LISTS: Senior Natalie Jones ranks sixth all-time at Arizona in free throw percentage (.762), eighth in three-point field goals attempted (268), and ninth in three-point field goals made (76).
WILDCATS ON THE RADIO: All of Arizona's games this season are broadcast on Tucson's Jolt, KJLL 1330 AM, the radio home of Arizona women's basketball. With Paul Johnson in his 11th year as the Wildcats' play-by-play announcer, the Jolt will broadcast every game, home and away.
WILDCATS ON TELEVISION: The Wildcats have four more games this season that will be broadcast on FSN:
Saturday, Dec. 31 - 4 p.m. vs. Washington (FSN Northwest)
Sunday, Jan. 8 - noon vs. USC (FSN)
Saturday, Jan. 14 - noon vs. Oregon (FSN)
Sunday, Jan. 22 - 1 p.m. (PST) at California (FSN)
In addition, the Wildcats' games at home against Stanford (Feb. 18) and at Arizona State (Feb. 25) are "wild card" games that could get picked up in the Pac-10 television package.
UP NEXT: The losers of the first-round games will square off at 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, in the consolation game. The winners of the first-round games will play for the tournament title in the championship game at 3:30 p.m. Sunday.


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This week we continue a featured series of some of my favorite innovation-related quotes. Please contribute your favorite innovation quotes in the comments and I'll feature the best submissions in next week's Innovation Quotes of the Week!
"Change is the law of life and those who only look to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."
- Irving Janus
"Industry revolutionaries take the entire business concept, rather than a product or service, as the starting point for innovation. Revolutionaries recognize that competition is no longer between products or services, it's between business concepts – when its most effective business concept innovation leaves competitors in a gut-wrenching quandry."
- Gary Hamel
"Companies do not fall primarily because of what the world does to them or because of how the world changes around them. They fall first and foremost because of what they do to themselves."
- Jim Collins
"Somehow I can't believe there aren't many heights that can't be scaled by one who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy, and the greatest of these is Confidence."
- Walt Disney
"Comic books had it wrong. It didn't take a trauma or cosmic rays or a power ring to make a super hero, just the perfect combination of optimism and naivety."
- From the Movie "Kickass"
"The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation."
- Robert Iger
"The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system."
- Kevin Kelly
"It's not about breaking the rules. It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether"
- Paul Lemberg
- Submitted by Bill Dobbins
"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
- John F. Kennedy
"We have a moral obligation to invent new technologies. What if Mozart had been born before the violin and harpsichord?"
- Kevin Kelly
"Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation."
- Steve Jobs
"Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling."
- Naveen Jain
"Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace."
- Ron Kind
"Senior leaders, who are typically charged with the efficient operation of the enterprise and rewarded as such, don't fully understand how specific practices produce or destroy the value of innovation. As a result they often put the wrong people in charge of their innovation initiatives."
- Jeff DeGraff
"Innovators need bold ideas and clear thinking that come from an engaged brain, and bold actions and confidence, as well as empathy, that come from a big heart. They need courage to confront all that faces them in an existing business as usual culture. They need determination to face the faceless but seemingly powerful corporate culture and the slings and arrows thrown by the people who don't want change or are afraid of change."
- Jeffrey Phillips
And here a few of the many thoughts that I added to the conversation during the week on Twitter and elsewhere:
- "Innovation is a team sport and everyone is innovative in their own way. Hopefully when you look at The Nine Innovation Roles it reinforces that you too can contribute to innovation success and that the lone innovator myth is just that – a myth."
- "Organizations seeking to create a culture of continuous innovation must realize that the transformation will not happen overnight. People can only absorb so much change at once. The transformation will likely have to be broken up into separate phases with discreet goals (don't try to do it all at once)."
- "To innovate continuously, you need to be open to receiving great ideas from anywhere in the company, and must have systems and processes to manage idea gathering, evaluation, and development. Often this requires a financial and personnel investment."
- "For whatever reason it may be easier for humans to ascribe innovation to one person (Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Bill Gates, etc.), but it is not necessarily helpful to the success of innovation in organizations to popularize this myth. Instead when it comes to creating more innovation in organizations, we must DESTROY it."
What are some of your favorite innovation quotes?
Add one or more to the comments, listing the quote and who said it, and I'll share the best of the submissions as future Innovation Quotes of the Week!
And to all the innovation consultants out there, submit something clever you've said and maybe we'll run it next week.
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Braden Kelley is a popular innovation speaker, embeds innovation across the organization with innovation training, and builds B2B pull marketing strategies that drive increased revenue, visibility and inbound sales leads. He is the creator of the Nine Innovation Roles Group Diagnostic Tool and author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons. He tweets from @innovate.


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Nov. 13, 2010
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TIDE WEAR NIKE PRO COMBAT UNIFORMS: The University of Alabama football team took the field for tonight's game against Mississippi State wearing the 2010 version of the Nike Pro Combat uniform, featuring the lightest football uniform Nike has ever created. The materials and fabrication elements, which debuted in 2009, are incorporated into the Crimson Tide's traditional uniforms and includes a houndstooth pattern incorporated into the uniform's numbers – a tribute to legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. Also, to honor veterans of the armed services, the Alabama uniform featured an American flag patch on the right sleeve. The flag was featured with the stars facing forward (to the right) per military protocol. Nike worked closely with coaches and administrators at Alabama to capture a look that not only is dynamic but is also true to the Crimson Tide's tradition for the uniforms.
MISSISSIPPI STATE SERIES: With the win, Alabama holds a 73-18-3 record in the series (one forfeit and one vacated win by Alabama are not included in the listed record). The Tide have won three straight in the series and eight of the last 10. The Tide also boasts a 40-9-1 (.810) record against the Bulldogs in Tuscaloosa, winning six of the last seven games at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Alabama's record against MSU in games played in the state of Alabama is 51-11-2 (.825).
HOME WINNING STREAK: Alabama has now won 19 consecutive games at Bryant-Denny Stadium dating back to the home opener against Tulane in 2008. It is the third-longest streak in school history at Bryant-Denny Stadium and is just one win shy of the second-place mark of 20 set from Nov. 1, 1941, to Nov. 11, 1950. The longest winning streak at Bryant-Denny Stadium is 57 games from Oct. 26, 1963, to Nov. 13, 1982. During the current streak, the Crimson Tide is 11-0 against SEC competition and 5-0 against top 25 teams.
Longest Winning Streaks at Bryant-Denny Stadium57 Oct. 26, 1963 - Nov. 13, 198220 Nov. 1, 1941 - Nov. 11, 195019 Sept. 6, 2008 - Present18 Sept. 28, 1929 - Sept. 28, 193516 Nov. 23, 1957 - Oct. 12, 196316 Nov. 9, 1935 - Oct. 12, 1940
BEATING THE BEST: With the win, Alabama is 13-4 against the Associated Press Top 25 over the past three seasons. UA had reeled off nine straight wins against top-25 teams until the loss at South Carolina. Alabama is 4-1 against the AP Top 25 this season.
QUARTERBACK SACKS: The Alabama defense put constant pressure on Mississippi State, recording five sacks on Saturday. The five sacks are the most this season, more than doubling the largest output of 2010. The five sacks are the most since the Crimson Tide tallied five against South Carolina (Oct. 17, 2009) last season. Alabama recorded five sacks on three different occasions in 2009.
DEFENSIVE LEADERS: Sophomore defensive end Damion Square recorded a career-high two sacks on Saturday night against Mississippi State. He had one career sack coming into the game (earlier this season vs. Mississippi). Square's sacks accounted for a loss of 15 yards. True freshman linebacker C.J. Mosley and junior safety Mark Barron both recorded career highs in tackles. Mosley accounted for 12 stops, eclipsing his previous high of nine tackles vs. Tennessee and LSU. Barron notched 11 tackles, matching his career high of 11 set earlier this season against Florida.
SCORING DEFENSE: Alabama has been extremely stingy at home this season, allowing just 12 first-half points in five home contests and just 32 points overall in Bryant-Denny Stadium this season, including three in the first half against Mississippi State and 10 overall.
McELROY OVER 5,000 TOTAL OFFENSE: Senior quarterback Greg McElroy surpassed the 5,000-yard mark for career total offense tonight. With 247 total yards against Mississippi State (227 passing 20 rushing), McElroy became the sixth player in Alabama football history to break the 5,000-yard barrier. McElroy has 5,010 total yards for his career, 4,935 passing and 75 rushing.
McELROY'S CAREER TD PASSES: Senior quarterback Greg McElroy had two touchdown passes against Mississippi State, the 33rd and 34th of McElroy's Alabama career, ranking fifth on the UA career touchdown passes list. He has 15 touchdown passes in the 2010 season.
TOUCHDOWN PASSES – CAREER47 John Parker Wilson.................................................................................... 2005-0841 Brodie Croyle................................................................................................... 2002-0535 Andrew Zow..................................................................................................... 1998-0135 Mike Shula......................................................................................................... 1983-8634 Greg McElroy........................................................ 2007-present
TOUCHDOWN PASSES – SEASON18 John Parker Wilson............................................................................................. 200717 John Parker Wilson............................................................................................. 200617 Greg McElroy............................................................................................................ 200916 Mike Shula.................................................................................................................. 198516 Brodie Croyle............................................................................................................ 200315 Greg McElroy...................................................................... 201014 Brodie Croyle............................................................................................................ 200514 Walter Lewis............................................................................................................. 198314 Gary Hollingsworth............................................................................................. 198914 Jay Barker.................................................................................................................... 199414 Freddie Kitchens................................................................................................... 1996
McELROY ON CAREER LISTS: McElroy ranks high on several individual season and career lists at Alabama through tonight's game. A summary follows:
PASS ATTEMPTS – SEASON462 John Parker Wilson (255 comp., 2,846 yards)........................ 2007379 John Parker Wilson (216 comp., 2,707 yards)........................ 2006341 Brodie Croyle (182 comp., 2,303 yards)....................................... 2003339 Brodie Croyle (202 comp., 2,499 yards)....................................... 2005339 Gary Hollingsworth (205 comp., 2,379 yards)......................... 1989325 Greg McElroy (198 comp., 2,507 yards)....................... 2009302 Freddie Kitchens (162 comp., 2,124 yards).............................. 1996282 Gary Hollingsworth (140 comp., 1,462 yards)......................... 1990266 Scott Hunter (157 comp., 2,188 yards).......................................... 1969264 Andrew Zow (148 comp., 1,799 yards)......................................... 1999
PASS ATTEMPTS – CAREER1,175 John Parker Wilson (665 comp., 7,924 yards)........ 2005-08869 Brodie Croyle (488 comp., 6,382 yards)....................... 2002-05852 Andrew Zow (459 comp., 5,983 yards).................. 1998-2001706 Jay Barker (402 comp., 5,689 yards)............................... 1991-94 680 Freddie Kitchens (343 comp., 4,668 yards).............. 1993-97672 Scott Hunter (382 comp., 4,899 yards).......................... 1968-70 621 Gary Hollingsworth (345 comp., 3,842 yards)......... 1989-90 591 Greg McElroy (384 comp., 4,935 yards)..... 2007-present578 Mike Shula (313 comp., 4,069 yards).............................. 1983-86 504 Walter Lewis (286 comp., 4,257 yards)......................... 1980-83 494 Tyler Watts (284 comp., 3,540 yards)..................... 1999-2002
PASS COMPLETIONS – SEASON255 John Parker Wilson (462 att., 2,846 yards)............................... 2007216 John Parker Wilson (379 att., 2,707 yards)............................... 2006205 Gary Hollingsworth (339 att., 2,379 yards)................................ 1989202 Brodie Croyle (339 att., 2,499 yards).............................................. 2005198 Greg McElroy (325 att., 2,507 yards)............................ 2009187 John Parker Wilson (323 att., 2,273 yards)............................... 2008182 Brodie Croyle (341 att., 2,303 yards).............................................. 2003157 Scott Hunter (266 att., 2,188 yards)................................................. 1969152 Freddie Kitchens (302 att., 2,124 yards)..................................... 1996148 Andrew Zow (264 att., 1,799 yards)................................................ 1999
PASS ATTEMPTS – CAREER488 Brodie Croyle (869 att., 6,382 yards)..................................... 2002-05478 John Parker Wilson (820 att., 5,651 yards)...................... 2005-07459 Andrew Zow (852 att., 5,983 yards)................................ 1998-2001402 Jay Barker (706 att., 5,689 yards)............................................. 1991-94 384 Greg McElroy (591 att., 4,935 yards)............. 2007-present382 Scott Hunter (672 att., 4,899 yards)........................................ 1968-70345 Gary Hollingsworth (621 att., 3,842 yards)....................... 1989-90 343 Freddie Kitchens (680 att., 4,668 yards)............................ 1993-97313 Mike Shula (578 att., 4,069 yards)............................................ 1983-86286 Walter Lewis (504 att., 4,257 yards)....................................... 1980-83
HIGHEST COMPLETION PERCENTAGE – CAREER(Minimum 200 Completions)64.9% Greg McElroy (384 of 591)........................ 2007-present57.5% Tyler Watts (284 of 494)................................................... 1999-200256.9% Jay Barker (402 of 706)............................................................. 1991-9456.8% Scott Hunter (382 of 672)........................................................ 1968-7056.6% Walter Lewis (286 of 504)....................................................... 1980-8356.6% John Parker Wilson (665 of 1,175)................................. 2005-08
YARDS PASSING – SEASON2,846 John Parker Wilson (255 of 372)............................................... 20072,707 John Parker Wilson (216 of 379)............................................... 20062,499 Brodie Croyle (202 of 339).............................................................. 20052,507 Greg McElroy (198 of 325)....................................... 20092,379 Gary Hollingsworth (205 of 339)................................................ 19892,303 Brodie Croyle (182 of 341).............................................................. 20032,231 Greg McElroy (170 of 246)....................................... 20102,188 Scott Hunter (157 of 266)................................................................. 19692,124 Freddie Kitchens (152 of 302)..................................................... 19962,009 Mike Shula (138 of 229)..................................................................... 1985
CAREER7,924 John Parker Wilson (665 of 1,175)................................. 2005-086,382 Brodie Croyle (488 of 869)..................................................... 2002-055,983 Andrew Zow (459 of 852)....................................................... 1998-015,689 Jay Barker (402 of 706)............................................................. 1991-944,935 Greg McElroy (384 of 590)........................ 2007-present4,899 Scott Hunter (382 of 672)........................................................ 1968-70
LONGEST PLAY OF INGRAM'S ALABAMA CAREER: Junior running back Mark Ingram took a Greg McElroy pass 78 yards for a touchdown with 2:17 left in the second quarter to give Alabama a 20-3 lead over Mississippi State. That play is the longest gain of Ingram's Alabama career, surpassing a 69-yard pass play against Florida in the 2009 SEC Championship Game. Ingram's longest career rushing play is a 70-yard run for a touchdown against Mississippi State in 2009.
BIG NIGHT FOR MAZE: Despite having an 81-yard punt return for a touchdown erased by a penalty, junior wide receiver Marquis Maze enjoyed a fine all-purpose yardage game for Alabama. Maze accounted for 166 total yards in the game. Maze caught five passes for 89 yards and a touchdown, very close to matching his single-game highs for receptions and yards. Maze's single-game high for catches is six (vs. LSU, 2009) and his single-game best for receiving yards is 96 (vs. Florida, 2009). He also returned three punts for 36 yards and returned two kickoffs for 41 yards in the game.
LESTER GRABS TWO INTERCEPTIONS: Sophomore safety Robert Lester added two interceptions to his 2010 total against Mississippi State. He ended State's first offensive possession by intercepting a pass at the Alabama 6-yard line and then added another theft in the second half. The native of Foley, Ala., has seven interceptions this season to lead the SEC. Lester entered the game tied for fifth nationally at .56 interceptions per game. As a team, Alabama entered Mississippi State game tied for sixth nationally with 15 interceptions.
JONES MOVES UP CAREER RECEPTIONS LIST: Junior wide receiver Julio Jones caught three passes for 41 yards against State. He is second on the Alabama career pass receptions list with 159 for 2,319 career receiving yards. On the season, Jones has caught 58 passes for 799 yards and four touchdowns.
NEXT GAME: Alabama plays its first Thursday night game in nine years as Georgia State visits Bryant-Denny Stadium Nov. 18, for a 6:30 p.m. kickoff on ESPNU. It is the first year of existence for the Georgia State program under the direction of former Alabama head coach Bill Curry (1987-89). The Panthers are 6-4 on the season with victories over Shorter, Campbell, Morehead State, Savannah State, North Carolina Central and Lamar.


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I'm Leigh Klotz, and I work for Xerox on the DocuShare product, and my primary area of responsibility is the architecture for the user interface and web-based client interface. I work with a great team of other people and I'm sure you'll be hearing from them in the future here. You can read a little more about me, or read on for some of my professional interests.
In the coming months, I'll be focusing here on our use of web technologies across the board, and bringing those to bear on both user interfaces and non-user interfaces. I work hard to close the semantic gap between the models that have users have and the models that developers have, so that what works out to be natural for one is easy for the other, and vice versa.
Some of the technologies and standards we use are REST, RDFa, XForms, XML, XBL, XSLT, XQuery, WADL, and RelaxNG. I'll be exploring the benefits we get from them here, and will show how you can use them to your advantage as well, both with our DocuShare product and in your own systems and solutions.
We also make great use of some open-source implementations of these technologies including Restlet, AgenceXML XSLTForms, Saxon, and Guice. For each of these, I'll be covering some of the uses we make, and again showing how you can take advantage of them as well. Occasionally I'll be highlighting our contributions, which are usually the prosaic but essential bug reports, API change requests, and feature support use cases. You might also see me make postings on the various support forums for these projects.
Finally, this past year I became the co-chair of the XForms standards committee at the World-Wide Web Consortium (XForms) and I'll be highlighting our use of XForms, and giving examples and tutorials on how to make use of XForms both in DocuShare and in other contexts.
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Honey-Lemon Glazed Grilled Chicken Wings
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 30 mins
A tangy and sweet change from all those 'hot wings' we've been eating.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 lbs chicken wings, sections
- 1⁄4 cup Old Bay Seasoning
- 1 lemon, juice and zest of
- 1 1⁄2-2 cups homemade stock or 1 1⁄2-2 cups canned chicken broth
- 2 green onions, chopped
- 1 -2 garlic clove, chopped
- 1 teaspoon canadian steak seasoning (the dry shake kind)
- 1 tablespoon steak sauce
- salt (go easy, the broth may be salty, you can always add more later)
- black pepper
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (omit for milder sauce) (optional)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1⁄4 cup honey
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- GRILL 2 lbs of wings:
- Season liberally with 'Old Bay' seafood seasoning and
- grill over medium heat turning frequently for 30 to 40 minutes.
- making sure they're cooked through and starting to get crispy.
- Wisk all sauce ingredients together, except corn starch, in a saucepan and bring to a slow simmer for 10 minute.
- Thicken slightly with 1 tbs corn starch dissolved in 2 tbls water:.
- Add thickening a little at a time while bringing the mixture up
- to a full boil. When it is thick like pancake syrup it's done, thicken no more.
- Turn off heat and let rest, it will thicken more as it cools.
- Toss grilled wings in a large bowl pouring Honey-lemon glaze over and serve.
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- About MCS
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MCS provides many opportunities for students to showcase their artistic abilities. From the time students enter Primary as 3 year olds, they engage in song and dance in the classroom. They perform with their class or as a group (combining with other classes) at assemblies throughout the year. Whether singing our school song "Planting the Seeds of Peace" or dancing the "Virginia Reel", our smallest performers are always a hit with parents, faculty, and older students who come to watch.
In Elementary, students also perform in assemblies, singing and dancing as well as showcasing various talents at after-school Coffee Houses throughout the year. Students in the 4th through 6th grades perform in two choir concerts each year, while our 1st through 3rd graders share their songs in all-school assemblies. They also have the opportunity to perform at special events on campus.
The Jazz Club also offers an opportunity for aspiring dancers. Practicing once a week throughout the year, this group performs two outstanding shows in our gym for the MCS community to enjoy.
Middle school students put on one major performance each year after winter break. This year, they will perform "Shakespeare in Hollywood" at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro. Past performances have included "Into the Woods", "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Tempest," "Macbeth," and "Memoriam". In addition, the ukulele ensemble performs at our annual graduation ceremony.


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Kill those who join other gods with God wherever you may find them.
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Those who believe fight in the cause of God.
-- Holy Qu'ran, Sura iv, 76
Say to the Infidels: if they desist from their unbelief, what is now past shall be forgiven; but if they return to it, they have already before them the doom of the ancients! Fight then against them till strife be at an end, and the religion be all of it God's.
-- Holy Qu'ran, Sura viii, 39-42
Let those who fight in the cause of God who barter the life of this world for that which is to come; for whoever fights on God's path, whether he is killed or triumphs, We will give him a handsome reward.
-- Holy Qu'ran, Sura iv, 74
Your wives are a tilth for you, so go into your tilth when you like, and do good beforehand for yourselves.
-- Holy Qu'ran, Sura ii, 223
When you meet the unbelievers, strike off their heads; then when you have made wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives.
-- Holy Qu'ran, Sura xlvii.4
Ibn Warraq: Islam Itself is Not Moderate
"To pretend that Islam has nothing to do with Terrorist Tuesday is to willfully ignore the obvious and to forever misinterpret events.
"Not all Muslims or all Arabs are terrorists. Nor are they implicated in the horrendous events of Tuesday.
"There may be moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate. There is no difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalism: at most there is a difference of degree but not of kind."
-- Ibn Warraq, "Statement by Ibn Warraq on the World Trade Center Atrocity" (September 21, 2001)


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There's a terrific alternative for those not particularly interested in Super Bowl revelry this Sunday, when Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will offer a final viewing of a rare and groundbreaking collection of Chinese color prints.
Though Japanese woodblock prints generally get the lion's share of attention by graphic art fans (think geisha girls, sumo wrestlers and scenes of Mount Fuji), it's the Chinese who not only invented printing in general, as early as the eighth century, but who pioneered the printing of color images, and that's what this small but superb exhibition highlights.
On a recent tour through the presentation, Cultivating Nature, Printmaking for Painting in 17th Century China, which is displayed in a discreetly lit and humidity controlled room that the Museum devotes entirely to Chinese paintings and prints, Colin Mackenzie, senior curator of Chinese art, spoke with enthusiasm.
"This [exhibit] is a moment in time—the seventeenth century—when the Chinese gained interest in doing something unique that hadn't been done before," Mackenzie said.
He refers to the douban printing technique, which uses multiple cut wood blocks to produce a range of colors and impressions, allowing the artist to render a subtle painterly effect unavailable up to that time. In fact, a case might be made that the douban technique, which came about in a time of political turmoil (as the Ming dynasty was collapsing), but also of economic advance, represents the birth of modern graphic arts.
The exhibition explores the two earliest examples of the douban technique, The Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (ca. 1633) and The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual (1679–1701). "They [the manuals] were both really…conceived as painting manuals, it was designed to teach you how to paint," Mackenzie said.
Culled from an early Museum curator's collection, the manual's pages have been separated from their bindings for exhibition. There are lovely depictions of palms, orchids, weather-sculptured rock formations and serene human figures.
And although the goal of these manuals was the instruction of painting techniques, "The irony is that although this is supposed to be teaching you how to paint, actually, they're already developing a woodblock style. It's much more graphic, it's simpler," Mackenzie observed of the prints. "You begin to get the sense of very subtle shading…the way inks slightly merge and slightly fade away."
Indeed, in our hyper-graphic, overly-wrought visual culture, it's all too easy to overlook such subtleties, to forget that all the pictorial madness thrown our way via an increasingly complicated web of technical devices had to start somewhere, had to be invented. And that's the real genius of this exhibit—this is where it all began.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is located at 4525 Oak Street, KCMO, and is open Wednesday through Sunday, with varying hours. Admission is free. Phone (816) 751-1ART (1278), or visit the Museum's website for more information.


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There are gobs of eBook readers on the market today ranging in price so there is something that will fit most budgets. Most of them are pretty much the same. A new eReader called the EB710 has surfaced that looks very cool.
The eReader has a color 7-inch TFT LCD with a resolution of 800 x 480. Power comes from a 2100mAh battery and the device has a touch key and five other buttons for navigation. It supports a wide range of music, image, and movie formats including MP3, JPEG, and H.264.
The device also covers a wide range of text formats including PDF documents. Other features include a calendar and optional FM radio. Pricing, manufacturer and availability are all unknown.


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For more information about this meeting, contact Sergei Tabachnikov.
|Signatures of Hermitian forms and unitary representations
|Department of Mathematics Colloquium
|David Vogan, MIT
|Suppose G is compact group. The representations of G - the possible ways of realizing G as group of matrices - provide a powerful and convenient way to organize the investigation of a wide variety of problems involving symmetry under G. When G is noncompact, there may be no such realizations using finite matrices, and those involving infinite matrices are too general to be useful. Stone, von Neumann, Wigner, and Gelfand realized in the 1930s that replacing finite matrices by unitary operators on Hilbert spaces provided a happy medium: that any group could be realized by such operators, but that the realizations could still be controlled in interesting examples. Gelfand's "unitary dual problem" asks for a list of all the realizations of a given G as unitary operators. I will describe recent work of Jeff Adams' research group "Atlas of Lie groups and representations" on an algorithm for solving this problem when G is simple Lie group.
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King Abdullah receives Palestinian President Abbas
August 4, 2010
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz received visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his palace in Jeddah this evening. During their meeting, the Palestinian leader praised King Abdullah's efforts to facilitate Arab reconciliation, as evidenced by his tour last week of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. President Abbas also expressed his gratitude for the constant attention given by the Saudi monarch to the plight of the Palestinian people. Subsequently, the discussion focused on the derailed peace process and the importance of establishing a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
The meeting was attended on the Saudi side by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Nizar bin Obaid Madani. President Abbas was accompanied by a delegation that included Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization; Saeb Erekat, a member of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Negotiations Affairs Department; Jamal Al-Shobaki, Palestinian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for the Palestinian Authority.


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Adele performs in The Current studios
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At just barely 20 years old and still living at home with her mom, Adele has a debut album that has already hit number one in England. With a strong, crisp voice that was perfected at her rock-and-roll high school, she got a record deal based on the first song she ever wrote, "Hometown Glory."
After her show at Theater de la Jeune Lune, she stopped by The Current to talk with Mark Wheat about her recent fame, her take on playing festivals, and what's next.
Songs played: "Right As Rain," "Hometown Glory," and "Chasing Pavements."
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$80,000 in stolen dogs, with one dog alone worth $50,000, was the take of a burglar who broke into a breeder's home this week. Police figure that the person or persons who took a prize French bulldog and two litters of French bulldog puppies had the dogs in mind when breaking into the home, according to The Inquisitr on Jan. 3.
A Miami dog breeder came home from a New Year's Eve party to find his prize show dog and two litters of puppies gone. The canines combined were worth close to $80,000 to the breeder, but that wouldn't be the same case for the person who took the dogs. The criminal couldn't get anything close to that amount for the dogs because they don't have their papers.
A dog's worth diminishes greatly without their pedigree papers when it comes time to make a sale. The American Kennel Club spokesperson Lisa Peterson said:
"These criminals figure they'll steal these dogs, sell them below market value, and make a quick buck."
The person or persons who took these dogs were picky or maybe they just didn't have the manpower to carry all the dogs out of the breeder's home. They took the two most expensive litters of puppies, leaving a third litter behind. CBS Miami reports that there were a total of 16 dogs taken. This includes the adult dog with 15 puppies from the two litters.
They also took the champion dog, the one that is worth $50,000. Police deduct from the crime scene that the puppies were put into pillow cases and carried out of the house. The person or persons who committed this crime knew what they were going after police believe. This wasn't just a random burglary, these criminals wanted the dogs.
Jewelry, TVs and other valuables weren't touched in this break-in. The only thing missing besides the dogs were the victim's mother's pillow cases, which police believe were used to carry out the dogs.


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The slender and sexy Jason Crew can't wait to show off Brady Penn, a baby-faced stud with a plump bubble butt. "Is he sexy, or what?" Jason asks us as he ogles his boy-toy. From the beginning, he can't keep his tongue away from Brady's pink hole; Jason eats the cutie out while the bottom runs his lips along Jason's hard, 10-inch cock. Jason is an aggressive top: once he's ready for a full blowjob, he straddles Brady's face and pumps his mouth. All Brady can do is swallow every inch while staring into our eyes. But it's Brady's ass that's the true prize, and it doesn't take Jason long to fully focus on it. With Brady on his back, Jason shows us the bottom's puckered anus. "You want to watch me fuck him, don't you?" Jason asks with a devilish grin. Soon after, Brady sits on his top's lap -- Jason teases the boy's hole a bit before all 10 inches of his monster cock slip inside of Brady's plump bubble butt. The typically shy Brady is no longer so quiet as Jason pumps his ass -- he cries out as Jason stuffs him full of all 10 inches. After a long session of Brady riding Jason like a wild animal, the bottom gets onto his back so Jason can fuck him missionary until he sprays his hot, gooey load all over Brady's face and mouth! As Jason cums, Brady stares into the camera, his eyes begging for more.
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Meaty, muscle-twink Brady Penn loves boating, working out, and partying -- but more importantly, he loves sex! His favorite place to fuck is, "anywhere out of the ordinary." So far he has done it on a WaveRunner in the middle of the ocean and on a Ferris wheel at the fair! Brady Penn has a smooth bubble butt that loves to take a hard pounding. His ideal fuck buddy would be masculine, blonde, and a surfer. California boys apply here!
West Coaster and kite surfer extraordinaire Jason Crew has appeared in Rapture Inn, Flatiron Fuckers, FARTS!, Flip This, and now Return to Fire Island. This time around, he left his model profile blank, so we'll just let his work speak for itself.