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ASHBURN, Va.—When Brandon Meriweather was with New England, he had a three-year stretch in which he intercepted 12 passes and made two Pro Bowls.
And then he was done.
Now he's looked at as someone who could save the Redskins' secondary. But that could be a tough task for any individual, especially Meriweather, who likely will play his first game this season Sunday.
There's no doubt he'll add speed over Reed Doughty and probably a little passion. One thing the Redskins miss in Brian Orakpo's absence—in addition to his every-down skill—is his on-field leadership and passion for playing the game. There's little excitement seen on the field by the defense.
But the Redskins' defense surrenders too many big plays and Meriweather is considered a freelancer. A gambler. It's among the reasons New England released him and why Chicago didn't re-sign him after last season. If that's how he plays starting Sunday then nothing will really change. Besides, it's not as if Doughty was the only defensive back to blame for the secondary's struggles.
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College Sports' Ugliest Fan Tattoos
September 17th, 2012| by Lost Lettermen
West Virginia: Leave No Doubt
College fans across the land have a tendency to memorialize their favorite teams with tattoos — a practice Lost Lettermen has the penchant for reporting on a lot. We take a closer look at 20 of the most outrageous ones.
The owner of this West Virginia Mountaineer tattoo can't be confirmed, but it looks a lot like the one that Matt Ridgeway posted on his MySpace page a few years back. (The placement on the arm seems to differ though, so perhaps it's just the same tattoo artist with multiple WVU fans for clients.)
The "Leave No Doubt" inscription is pretty cool in light of the magnanimity of the late Bill Stewart's pregame speech before the 2008 Fiesta Bowl. But shouldn't such a resonant phrase be done in a font that doesn't look like the titles for a 1980s teen flick?
We like the details on the mountaineer below the slogan: The rifle, the buckskins, even a satchel. But the face makes the man resemble a zombie dressed in a mountaineer's outfit. Or maybe this fan wanted a two-for-one special and pay tribute to WVU and Mothman in the same tattoo.
Ohio State: Rival Punishment
If this Ohio State fan was, in fact, sober when getting inked with this, how awkward must the tattoo parlor conversation have been? "What I really want is … our mascot forcing himself upon our biggest rival's mascot from behind! Yeah, that'll be awesome!"
We'd like to extend our gratitude to Deadspin tipster Kyle for introducing this to the world in July of 2011. And how fitting that it came just over a month after an Ohio State scandal involving tattoos led to the resignation of Jim Tressel.
We'll keep the jokes about this tattoo to two: 1) Is this worth more or less than an autographed Buckeyes placekicker jersey? 2) Do you really a tattoo that endorses bestiality from OSU fans?
Arkansas: Hog from Hell
Summer's sunny weather is a double-edged sword. While it lends itself to days chilling at the pool, it also means the potential to be horrified by tattoos that should really be covered up (and normally are).
Which is what Bliss Burton (@missblissbee) discovered in mid-August during a sweltering Arkansas day. It feels like the pig's demonic green eyes are staring at you, regardless of your vantage point. And the smoke coming from its nostrils makes us think it's going to charge at us from out of this man's back.
Is the script "Arkansas" running across his shoulders really necessary? What other school are we going to think of when we see this?
Alabama: Roll Moobs
Not to discriminate against heavyset folks, but it makes sense that this overweight Crimson Tide fan would abide by the belief, "You can't have too much of a good thing."
Hence a upper half of his body that includes (deep breath) a Heisman Trophy (smack in between a set of Terrance Cody-esque moobs), a giant Alabama-style "A," a national title ring, what looks like a cross between a spray-tanned Bear Bryant and Freddy Krueger, the years for all of Alabama's national titles (missing 2011) and "Roll Tide" spelled out across his shoulder blades.
Maybe if this fan got into better shape these tattoos wouldn't look so bad. Then again, maybe not.
Arkansas: Pig-Headed
Jon Swanfeld lives 2-3 hours west of Fayetteville, in either Tulsa or Stillwater (provided his Twitter profile is up-to-date). Nonetheless, he apparently has a talent for spotting ridiculous Arkansas tattoos.
Swanfeld tweeted the photo of the "pig-headed" Hogs fan to Darren Rovell last August. When the then-MSNBC (now ESPN) personality published the pic to yfrog, it started spreading like wildfire.
We particularly like how this gentleman's bleached Mohawk makes it look like his hair is standing on end on account of how fearsome his Razorback tattoo is. Maybe that's the point?
Kansas: KU's Tatt Kat
There's an unconventional practicality to Kat Steward, a Wichita native and lifelong Kansas fan. As she explained to ESPN's Pat Forde for an ESPN.com front page story in January 2011, "I don't need to buy KU shirts. I have it on my skin."
The centerpiece is a tattooed replica of Allen Fieldhouse, which was initially coupled with a Jayhawk bird, a basketball and flowers during a 15-hour session with Kris Harness at Wichita's "The Elektrik Chair." When Kansas won the NCAA title in 2008, Steward had "2008 National Champions" inked across the base of her neck in another three-hour session at Elektrik.
How far back does Steward's devotion go? Her first word was "Jayhawk" and she used to cry every single Senior Day as a young girl. Rock Chalk!
Florida: The Gator Within
As with anything in life, tattoos are one part idea and another part execution. This Florida fan's ink is decent in the first regard and just plain embarrassing in the latter.
From an art perspective, it's not terrible. The alligator scales and epidermal tearing is very life-like. Where it fails is placement — it would work better on the chest, where the fan could pretend to rip off his skin a la Clark Kent disrobing to become Superman — and, most egregiously, shape.
If the first thing you think of when you gaze upon this is a Georgia O'Keefe painting and/or a certain female body part, you're not alone.
Alabama: The Super Fan Special
When you're nickname is the "Alabama Super Fan," you're expected to live up to that reputation. In which case, we salute you, Nathan Davis. Let's sort his tattoos by where they are on his body.
Left arm: Kenny Stabler from the '67 Sugar Bowl, Bear Bryant's "price of victory" quote, an elephant's head with "Crimson Tide," the Alabama "A" and "Rammer" and on the outside of the forearm, "Roll" on the tricep.
Right arm: "Jammer" on the forearm's outside (to go along with "Rammer" written on the left one), another Alabama "A," the state flag (along with year of induction and motto), Bear Bryant's face, "Tide" on the tricep (pairs with "Roll" on the left one).
What Davis calls "the masterpiece" is on his back: A startlingly realistic picture of Bryant leaning against a goal post. As if that's not enough, Davis shows up on game days shirtless with his face covered in war paint, wearing a kilt and a houndstooth hat in a cross between Bryant and William Wallace.
Clemson: "Clemons" University?
When you go over the top with your tattoo, make sure to account for proper spelling.
Otherwise you'll wind up like this Clemson fan. His salute to Tigers football comes complete with a cool silhouette of the animal, players touching Howard's Rock, the clock tower at Tillman Hall and a tiger's paw with the animal staring out from it over the year of the school's founding.
All applause-worthy … until it's ruined by the university being misspelled as "Clemons." This faux pas is all on the tattoo artist. Maybe he was listening to a saxophone solo on a Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band album at the time and got distracted.
Alabama: Ride the Wave
Perhaps jealous of all the attention Alabama Super Fan Nathan Davis was getting, Zack Smartt plopped down $1,700 to get his own back-based work of art.
There's a majestic looking Big Al walking through a literal crimson tide a la Moses parting the Red Sea (although it kind of looks like the innards of a vampire that's been staked on "True Blood"). We applaud Mike McMahon of Atlanta's "All or Nothing Tattoo" for his back-breaking work (10.5 hours over three sessions).
Think Smartt and Davis have started a club of 'Bama fans with back tats?
Ohio State: Brutus Smash!
Barton Simmons focuses on the national recruiting scene for 247sports.com. Our question to Barton: Recruiting for football or for biker gangs?
During a stop in Columbus in August, Simmons snapped a photo of a heavily-inked Buckeyes fan sitting in the stands of Ohio Stadium. There's Satan as he would appear wearing an Ohio State helmet on his left bicep (kudos for the detail paid to the Buckeyes helmet stickers). On his leg is Brutus stomping on a Michigan "M" and strangling a wolverine.
If Robert De Niro's Max Cady from Cape Fear were an Ohio State fan, this is how he would ink himself. We just know it.
Auburn: War Eagle Tramp Stamp
The faux pas count with this mistake is at no fewer than three:
This is a tramp stamp tattoo. Ink in this position always leaves itself open to "criticism." This is a tramp stamp on a guy. If you're going to ignore faux pas Nos. 1 and 2, at least get the rallying cry of your team in a more inspiring font.
This probably seemed like a great idea in 2010 as Auburn was about to embark on a BCS title-winning season. Now, with Gene Chizik on the hot seat, not so much.
Alabama: Room for More
The thing with tattoos is that they're normally hard to update in accordance with new life events. Richie from Dauphin Island, AL, found a way around that.
Richie's leg art has a picture of Big Al's face above numerous elephant's feet, each of which contains the year of an Alabama national title. (We assume that it has been updated to include the Tide's 2011 championship since this original photo was taken.)
Those elephant's feet, however, look like something a second-grader could draw. Word to the wise: Don't waste your money on a tattoo of something that a second-grader could draw. It's not worth it.
Kentucky: Bleed Blue
In 2010, a Wildcats fan approached "Mike the Freak" at Atomic Tattoo Shop in Clearwater, FL and asked for something that would show devotion to Kentucky.
"Mike the Freak" went literal, deciding to show that the fan "bleeds blue" for UK.
If you look closely, you'll see blue droplets of blood seeping from the wound opened up on this man's upper left chest (perhaps a wildcat wound?). The blood/skin details are pretty impressive, as is the shadowing used on the UK logo below/within it.
Chances are excellent that, if this fan has attended a Wildcats game shirtless, at least one other patron in the stands has asked him if he was injured and in need of assistance.
LSU: "Geaux" and "No"
This is a story of two tattoos saluting the Bayou Bengals.
In the outrageous-yet-original department we have the right bicep tattoo in the upper half of the frame. A tiger's claw is seemingly reaching out of his arm, tearing away the flesh. And the "S" in "LSU" is replaced with the Superman logo, a nice nod to former LSU star Shaquille O'Neal's fixation with the superhero.
His bald-headed fellow Tigers fan, on the other hand, was just lazy. Or cheap. Or both. He had the LSU athletic department's standard logo stamped onto the back of his head, without color.
The first tattoo psyches us up. The second one looks like letterhead.
South Carolina: Cock of the Walk
When you compare this to the actual Gamecocks logo, the attention to detail is pretty stunning. The tattoo artist even accounted for the two feathers coming out of the bird's plumage at the top.
But then there's what Cocky Talk commentor reddot8481 pointed out after this was posted in October 2009: What's up with the tail? If this fan really wanted a yin-yang tattoo, he had many other places on his body where he could have placed it.
Tennessee: Far From (Rocky) Top-Notch
Tyler Bray's "name in lights" tattoo running across his back up by his shoulders was at least original and colorful. Neither of those descriptors applies to the subpar effort by this Vols fan.
The whole "if a child can draw it, don't get it" tattoo principle laid out earlier in this slideshow applies again. And having "University" run by itself above the "T" and "of Tennessee" below it is just an awkward separation of words.
That said, we're not suggesting this fan consult Bray for tattoo advice. If he wants a player's input, he should go with former Vol Malik Jackson.
LSU: Bleeding for the Bayou Bengals
At first glance, the size of the tattooed tiger's claw cutting into the shoulder of this man looks scaled to actual size. It looks at least as big as a placekicker's shoulder pads.
The same principle of the aforementioned Kentucky tattoo applies here, too. If you cut him, this fan literally bleeds LSU's purple and gold. (For further proof of his devotion to the state of Louisiana, look no further than the fleur de lis pattern below his left arm pit.)
Also, we guess that the Bayou Bengal is a special breed of tiger with purple claws.
Two things we wonder: Wouldn't your own favorite team's mascot killing you suck? And couldn't this individual find a better tattoo artist? It looks like he tatted himself.
Ohio State: Bathroom Break
We're sensing a theme here with Ohio State fans: A good Buckeyes tattoo has to denigrate the University of Michigan in some form.
Instead of beastiality or choking a Wolverine, this Buck Nut decided to go with a tat of Brutus urinating onto the head of a Michigan football player. Hey, at least Brutus had the decency not to exposure himself while going to the bathroom.
Ole Miss: Colonel Reb Returns
Colonel Reb was retired as Ole Miss' mascot in 2003 over concerns it was a racist mascot.
That doesn't seem to bother this Ole Miss fan that has a massive Colonel Reb tattooed on his bicep. Further shunning political correctness, the tattoo of Colonel Reb has his own tattoo with the Confederate flag on Reb's bicep.
We're guessing this fan won't be getting a tattoo of the new mascot, the "Rebel Black Bear", on his other bicep.
Clemson: Head Strong
A recently arrested man, presumably in South Carolina, had a Clemson Tiger paw logo tattooed on the side of his head that paired very nicely with his orange jumpsuit.
Don't get ahead of yourselves, South Carolina fans. Gamecocks diehards aren't immune from this body ink choice, either.


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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Chad Pennington threw four touchdown passes and reserve running back Llow Turner ran for two scores as No. 13 Marshall beat Northern Illinois 41-9 Saturday.
Marshall improved its winning streaks to 12 games overall and 29 straight at home, both tops in Division I-A. The Thundering Herd (5-0 Mid-American) is off to an 8-0 start for the second straight season.
The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for Northern Illinois (4-5, 4-2).
Northern Illinois, which routed Kent 50-7 a week ago, was held to three field goals by Kent Baker and did not advance past Marshall's 20-yard line.
Pennington completed 26 of 33 passes for 288 yards, while Turner turned in Marshall's first 100-yard rushing effort of the season.
Turner entered on the game's second play after starter Doug Chapman hyperextended his knee and did not return. Turner finished with 104 yards on 16 carries.
Marshall scored on three consecutive possessions starting midway through the third quarter to break open a close game. An interception by sophomore Michael Owens set up Turner's 29-yard touchdown run for a 21-6 lead.
James Williams followed with his second TD catch of the game, a 6-yarder from Pennington, for a 28-9 lead with four minutes left in the quarter.
On a kickoff return early in the fourth quarter, Williams appeared to be hemmed in at his own 15. He changed directions and outran a half-dozen pursuers down the right sideline to the Northern Illinois 15. That set up tight end Greg Kellett's first career TD catch, a 3-yarder from Pennington.
Pennington added a 12-yard scoring pass to John Cooper in the fourth quarter to finish the scorer.
After entering the game for Chapman, Turner gained 43 yards on the opening 81-yard drive, capping it with a 3-yard TD run.
Later in the quarter, Williams sprinted past cornerback Chauncy O'Neal and Pennington found him for a 71-yard score and a 14-0 lead. It was the Thundering Herd's longest pass play of the season.
Marshall's offense fell silent for the remainder of the half. Pennington threw two second-quarter interceptions while Northern Illinois crept back on a pair of field goals. Baker's 49-yarder in the second quarter was the second-longest in school history.
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• Symptomatic osteopenia accompanied by subclinical hyperthyroidism developed in three women who were receiving excess thyroid hormone medication. Excessive thyroid replacement therapy resulted in mild hypercalcemia, hyperphosphatemia, and hyperphosphatasemia associated with diffuse skeletal demineralization and multiple fractures. Nondecalcified sections of double tetracycline-labeled iliac crest bone showed an accelerated rate of bone turnover with marked osteoclastosis and resorption of the cortical as well as the trabecular bone, typical of endogenous hyperthyroidism. Since thyroid hormones are among the most frequently prescribed medications, bone loss caused by exogenous hyperthyroidism may be more common than previously recognized.
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Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera opened their "Justified & Stripped Tour" with a three-night stand at Los Angeles's Staples Center this week, and critics taking in the performance were not particularly kind.
The tour is scheduled to play 45 cities eventually, down from an original 60, and sluggish ticket sales are said to be forcing the show to move from arenas to smaller theaters.
Then there is the critical reaction to the show. After dismissing Aguilera, 22, altogether and calling her act "tedious" and her stage persona "uncertain," longtime Los Angeles Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn actually had some good words for Timberlake, 21, considering "him born for the stage (with) the savvy instincts to put together a show that works.
"Rather than make himself the constant center of attention, he was comfortable enough at times simply to be part of a talented ensemble," says Hilburn.
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As for Timberlake: "More and more he seems to be the new George Michael ... Justin had two modes -- all white (and ready for a workout) and all black (and ready to rumble) -- while his stage show ran out of ideas after 20 minutes."
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"In celebration of Mim"
As you drive down Susquehanna Avenue towards the college, you pass a section where one of the residents mowed his yard on a rope and pulley. These houses have very steep front yards. Mom says she was born in one of them. She was not sure which one but she stated proudly she was born at home. I had thought of trying this once but was glad afterward I didn't; my pregnancy ended on a complicated note. I was glad my grandmother had a less complicated time or at least that it all ended well. Mim's life journey started on July 23 in 1932 at home.
When we drove through Mill Hall she would point out some of the houses she used to live in; sometimes she would tell me stories about them.
As we passed a certain house she would tell me her brother fell out of the second story of that one. Slowly, after waiting for my reaction, she would add that he landed in a snow pile and was unhurt. We would often discuss how my son fell from her front porch when he was trying to be Spider Man and The Incredible Hulk. He did not have a snow bank to soften his fall and carried the scar to remind us. Once in a while she would urgently ask me to stop - we would always be in front of a house her father had lived in - then she would realize the man was not her father and she would wave me on. I think she really missed him.
At one time she lived at The Children's Home while her mother trained and worked as a nurse. The rules for nursing have changed a lot since then. Today nurses are allowed to have families and live normal lives. The home is now a day care, and her great-grandson used to go there. At one time it was a nursing home; she was on duty there during the flood in '72. She tells about watching the water rise in the river far below. At that time she lived across the river in her favorite house with her husband, Bill Martin, on the banks of the beautiful Susquehanna, her little piece of paradise. She tells me her father helped build the house. You may remember her as Mims Martin, an anti-diker. She fought a good fight and still says, "If you choose to live on the river you need to remember that when you build." She built for the river but lost her house to the dike-levee anyway. We keep a picture of her river paradise in her new living room. She liked to remind me, "The dike was only guaranteed for one flood... The river will rise again, build for the river or get wet... If it uses electricity, don't plug it in until it is dry! A snow shovel will move a lot of mud but it is more fun to use the hose."
After living all over Mill Hall her mother moved the family to Jersey Shore where my mother attended the high school that is now a mall. Here she won a typing contest and earned a job working for the Pentagon. This is how she met my father, Newt Hemphill, an Airman, and started her next adventure as an Air Force wife.
I was born in Riverside, Calif., as were my sister Donna, brothers Newton (known as Jim) and Douglas (known as George). There in sunny California she introduced us to snow when a trucker dumped the ice from his refrigerator trailer in the park. I remember stories about snow deeper than I was tall but did not get it until we were transferred to Plattsburg, New York. There I watched Mom shovel the car out each morning so Dad could get to work. Our brother Bobby Joe (known as Bob) was born and the snow was always deeper than he was tall. Daddy was from Alabama, Mom did the shoveling, as I remember it. Brother Tommy (known as Tom) was born in Pennsylvania. He now lives near Bob in Colorado where they both shovel a lot of snow. Jim works for the Space Program in California where he can ride his motorcycle all year. Donna lives in Wichita Falls, Texas where it rains a little and may snow once in a while.
Mom became a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) and worked for Susque-View for more than 35 years. When she retired, she did so with an unbeatable record of never missing a day of work and hardly ever taking any of her vacation days. Her work ethic was one to be admired. Many of you may remember the bells on her shoes at Christmas or the balloons in her blouse at Halloween. Dolly Parton, look out, here comes Mims. Mom seemed to enjoy her job. When she retired I remember her saying something about how her feet used to hurt, but this did not keep her from transiting from the working force to retirement by putting a new roof on her house. She did hire a roofer but it was him and her on the roof until I put her grandson Larry up there too.
Mom did not find retirement retiring. She walking three miles or more a day with her friend and neighbor, Ruth. She slowed down a bit after her first stroke and a broken hip but went on to marry Ralph (Barney) Kime. Viola Kime was her co-worker and friend who moved with her husband to West Virginia. They wrote to each other for years; as she lost her vision to diabetes, her husband Barney wrote for her. When she passed on he asked if she would mind if he continued. Writing to Mim was part of his weekly entertainment. Eventually the floral deliveries started and we noticed Mom was getting a little secretive about her weekends. The wedding took place after she recovered from her hip surgery. A few years later we laid him to rest in Renovo.
Mim had six children with her first husband, and two step children came with Barney. I was 50 when she provided me with the big brother I'd never had, and a new little sister. She had nine grandchildren and more with her step children Dave and Barb. She also had many great-gran's some of whom she never met. They live all over the country and are involved in many interesting activities and jobs from football star to missionary.
She was preceded in death by two sisters, June Capps (Tennessee) and Grace Mary Yocum (Maryland), and brother Elwood Swartz (Mill Hall).
Her two surviving sisters, Nancy Eiswert (Linden) and Ruthel Peterson (Clarion), and her surviving children, Joyce Boudwin (Lock Haven), Donna Ross (Texas), Jim Hemphill (California), Bob Hemphill (Colorado) and Tom Hemphill (Colorado), and the rest of the family would like you to remember her with a smile and a good story once in a while. She requested that there be no viewing or funeral and that donations be given to the Wright Street Church of Christ in Flemington.
Mim died at home on November 26, 2011. she lived an interesting life of creativity, diversity, and adversity.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Donald G. Walker Funeral Home, Flemington.


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My NTM 3000kv motor seems to have a ton less power than it used to. Why?
I have this NTM motor that I use on my radjet. I use a 5.5x4.5 prop with a HK 60 amp ESC. I've used both 4s and 3s LiPos.
I used to be able to fly my radjet with 1/2 throttle using the 3s and have unlimited vertical and I remember the crazy sound the plane made on full throttle. Very high pitched and it sounded awesome Sorry, haven't done any watt meter tests.
Now, couple months later, the motor seems to have a problem providing me even with enough thrust to fly. With a 3s I couldn't get unlimited vertical on full throttle and using a 4s, it still was struggling. Yes, it is winter now but even indoors the crazy sound the motor once made isn't that high pitched.
Any ideas why it would be like this? To be honest, I haven't done a throttle calibration for awhile and I don't have any measurements except for my feel of the plane and motor. Thanks.
I'm almost positive I haven't. The only times I've used it with 4s have been after it started acting up, and with a 3s, well, my LiPo or 60 amp ESC would die before the motor. And after each run, the motor hasn't been hot, just warm.
Wattmeter. Get one. Use one.
Have you been flying the plane for the past couple months, or has it been sitting around doing not much of anything? If that's the case... Did you happen to charge the batteries up after you last used them and then put them on a shelf for a few months?
with a 2800kv in my FJ Im around 60 Amps in air, sometimes more like 70A...with the same prop as you... so I guess a 3000KV motor could be as much as 80Amps,,,, you could have fried it, the magnets...
Cant think of another reason of motor suddenly lose power, except the bearing gone bad totaly, but that you could feel by turning it by hand..
If we apply the 3w/g rule of thumb to your 87g motor we get about 260W... that's 25A or so on 3s, and less than that on 4s! Most motors can safely dissipate about 1W/g-1.5W/g of waste heat... if you are pulling >60A at 75% efficiency... that is a LOT of waste heat.
Rad jet has tons of air cooling for the motor.
My vote is for "dead Lipo". I'd say your lipos are used and abused and dead and can't pull the high 'c' it once did.
same thing happened for me on my stryker. After 3+ years, my stryker stopped screaming and I sorta got used to it. Then I bought some 40c Lipos and that thing is screaming again.
Like others have said, buy a watt meter and crank it up and watch the voltage drop when you WOT. Chances are you're dropping wayyyyy down when you WOT.
@all others saying that the heat has killed the motor
I realize that I have a too large prop but I have been very careful with my throttle. The radjet was too quick for me at 3/4 throttle using 3s and I've only gone to 4s after I realized that there was a problem with power.
I'll buy a watt meter because it seems like a must-have tool.
This motor to 32600rpm consume 69A, 1000watts minimum.
Is necessary battery over 2650-3000ma.
If the Kv is larger, then the scenario is worse for the engine.
It is very common that these engines have one greater than advertised Kv.
In an atmosphere of much air flow, with low capacity batteries, motor can consume 600-800 watts.
Still will not last long and the batteries either.
I also believe that in this case the batteries are the first problem.
A full charged battery, discharged at 20C should be given at least 3. 66V by cell after 30 seconds.
Otherwise, the battery may be exhausted.
To 3s Llipo the correct propeller. 38A and around 24750 for 400 watts of consumption.
less than 5 watts per gram.
Engine will not last throughout life, but will serve for many flights 1 or 2 seasons.
Nanotech batteries give many problems download above 23 c.
I don't think the motor's high Kv value is as much of a problem as it seems.
I flew a lot of flights with a TowerPro 3850Kv heli motor (actual Kv was more like 3500 according to Jacko) on 3S packs and APC 5x5 or 4.75x5.5 props. It would draw around 51A static with either prop and hit upwards of 550W (~10.9V) on the ground, but the prop would unload a whole lot in the air. I don't have any in-flight numbers, but based off similar systems I might easily have been below 40A WOT in flight.
All components would come down cool or just slightly warm. It might sound very much "against-the-rules", but nothing in that system was being pushed harder than it could handle. This effect isn't isolated to that one setup, either. I've noticed that most drive systems on the ragged edges of what's conventionally considered "safe" will often tend to be less hazardous than they seem.
The 3000Kv NTM motor is around the same size as mine. Even allowing for a 15% variation in stated Kv, it would still be "less motor" than what I was running. I think the 5.5x4.5 prop is a fairly reasonable 3S choice for that motor in a RadJet.
The surefire sign of a motor with "shot" magnets is a very hot motor after flying. If you can touch it after landing or use an IR temperature meter, check out the temp. Be careful, if it is case of weak magnets the motor will be hot enough to burn your fingers.
Might need some oil on the bearings?
Can you measure the voltage of the packs?
What is the voltage of the packs after flying?
If the Kv is larger, then the scenario is worse for the engine.
It is very common that these engines have one greater than advertised Kv.
Interesting that you should mention this, Manuel. I tested a Turnigy 2836-2350 motor (essentially = NTM) and it came out at ~2800Kv. I wonder what the Kv of this 3000 really is?
Brucce Abbot, says that until the +/-10% difference can be found in an engine
It is good to test the engine before use, and measure the Kv.
With this problem, would only be necessary to measure and should be more high,
show my an engine with demagnetization by heating problems.
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April 28, 2013 - Robert Collias
Sports editor Brad Sherman just got off the phone with former Baldwin and UNLV linebacker John Lotulelei, who signed with the Seattle Seahakws as an undrafted free agent today. Lotulelei said he also talked with the Bears, but noted that they have seven-time Pro Bowl pick Lance Briggs, and drafted two linebackers (Jon Bostic out of Florida in the second round and Khaseem Greene out of Rutgers in the fourth round).
Lotulelei also spoke with the Redskins, and was intrigued by the idea of learning from three-time Pro Bowler and 15-year NFL veteran London Fletcher, but Lotulelei said he felt the Seahawks ultimately made a better offer.
The Seahawks' linebackers coach is Ken Norton Jr., who was the linebackers coach at USC when Kaluka Maiava, another former Baldwin LB who is now with the Raiders, was there. Norton played in NFL for 13 years, and played on three consecutive Super Bowl champions — the Cowboys in 1992 and 1993, and the 49ers in 1994.
NOW SOME QUOTES from Lotulelei in his conversation with Sherman:
—"It was exactly like college recruiting. It was a pressuring experience. I've never really been recruited like that, though, out of high school or junior college, so it was a nice experience."
—"After the draft, coach Norton was trying to convince me to sign. He coached Kaluka. He's had a lot of experience. He's played linebacker. He has three rings. He's been to Pro Bowls."
—"I kind of prepared for the worst as the draft got to the end, and I then I tried to look at what teams are a good system for me."
—"When it came down to rounds six and seven, some teams' linebacker coaches were calling me, but they were also saying that they don't really have any pull, that it's the GMs who make the decisions."
—"After the draft, it was an advantage to see what system will be the best for me."
For some cool links, click here. Sherman's breaking news story is here.
Read our complete coverage in tomorrow's paper.
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From the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Note: This article was delivered on 9 September 2009 as an invited presentation at the National Academy of Sciences Workshop on the Handling of Missing Data in Clinical Trials.
Acknowledgment: The author thanks Laura Guay for insights about retention procedures in the HIVNET 012 trial, Scott Emerson for his important insights shared during many discussions about this topic, and Gary Layton and Mike Oakes for providing access to their creative analysis of the pulmonary arterial hypertension data.
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The reliability and interpretability of results from clinical trials can be substantially reduced by missing data. Frequently used approaches to address these concerns, such as upward adjustments in sample sizes or simplistic methods for handling missing data, including last-observation-carried-forward, complete-case, or worst-case analyses, are usually inadequate. Although rational imputation methods may be useful to treat missingness after it has occurred, these methods depend on untestable assumptions. Thus, the preferred and often only satisfactory approach to addressing missing data is to prevent it. Procedures should be in place to maximize the likelihood that outcome data will be obtained at scheduled times of evaluation for all surviving patients who have not withdrawn consent. To meaningfully reduce missing data, it is important to recognize and address many factors that commonly lead to higher levels of missingness.
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To The Editor
We read with interest the excellent article "Addressing Missing Data in Clinical Trials" in the January 18, 2011 issue of AIM which calls attention to the problem of missing data in clinical research. Historically, patient withdrawal from clinical trials has not received the attention it deserves as a potential source of bias. Many trials have made insufficient attempts to retain patient participation in clinical trials after study treatment has been discontinued, compromising the integrity of an unbiased efficacy analysis. Many trials have made insufficient attempts to retain patient participation in clinical trials after study treatment has been discontinued, compromising the integrity of an unbiased intention-to-treat efficacy analysis. As Dr. Fleming notes, there is a need to draw a distinction between nonadherence, when patients have discontinued study article, and nonretention, when patients refuse to participate further in the observation schedule. The latter should be decreased as much as possible in order to allow for an unbiased intention to treat analysis under minimal assumptions.
However, the phenomenon of missing data will remain an issue even if Dr. Fleming's advice is strictly implemented. There will always be clinical situations in which patients will change their minds about compliance with study procedures. For example, patients with malignant may become discouraged if their own disease seems to progress and no longer wish to go through the extra time and effort it takes to remain a study patient. There are many other clinical indications that have traditionally suffered from high withdrawal rates, such as psychiatric disease and obesity.
Fortunately, there are methods being developed that improve the ability of the statistician to account for bias introduced by missing data that avoid the simplifications assumed by traditional regression methods. Techniques employing causal inference and semiparametric targeted estimation have been shown to provide unbiased and efficient estimators of the desired treatment effect under much less stringent assumptions than the assumptions current methods rely upon (1-5).
Finally, although encouraging continuing participation of all patients to continue participation to completion in clinical trials, it may become an ethical issue for the study physician who must not be seen to be too coercive in such attempts.
It is likely that the problem of missing data will remain an issue in clinical investigation which should be addressed with all the tools available to the clinical research community.
Mark van der Laan, Ph.D. Professor of Biostatistics, U.C Berkeley
Todd J. Lorenz, M.D. Clinical Research Consultant
1. M. Hernan and J.M. Robins. Causal Inference. Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2011.
2. J. Pearl. Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2nd edition, 2009.
3. A.A. Tsiatis. Semiparametric Theory and Missing Data. Springer, New York, 2006.
4. M.J. van der Laan and J.M. Robins. Unified Methods for Censored Longitudinal Data and Causality. Springer, New York, 2003.
5. M.J. van der Laan and S. Rose. Targeted Learning: Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data. Springer, New York, 2011.
Dr. van der Laan has no competing interests. Dr. Lorenz is a Clinical Research Consultant for Portola Pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson.
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2011 Australasian Association for Theatre Drama and Performance Studies
28th June-1st July 2011, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
This conference seeks to act as a forum to explore, bring together
and/or set in opposition inter-, intra and cross-cultural performances,
performativities, receptions of performance, visions, borrowings,
understandings, practices, theories and ethical ponderings about
We welcome papers on any of the following topics:
* transcultural flows
* transnational performances and theatre
* cultural translations
* inter-, intra- and cross-cultural performance practices and reception
* discussions, critiques or defences of ways of seeing, documenting or
analysing performance across cultures.
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Ong Keng Sen (TheatreWorks, Singapore)
Professor Helen Gilbert (Royal Holloway College, University of London)
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participants and their institutional affiliation
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(ADSA) is the peak academic association promoting the study of drama in
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We talk about networking, and social media, and referrals and recommendations. But when asked to provide a resource, do you know how to make the most out of this simple but powerful document?
- Establish the friendship immediately.
- Understand the asking party's need. Support your champion in few words.
- Step out of the way.
- Let the referral happen.
- Reconnect later in the real world.
We all need referrals. We all need other specialists and experts to help us solve today's business problems. It's likely that someone in your network would be perfect for someone else in your network. You want to be the guy they ask. "Hey do you know someone that can help one of my client's with their page conversion metrics?"
LinkedIn is nice, but it's just a Facebook for Business until you actually use your network. The first time you ask your LinkedIn network for a referral you might be surprised what responses you get. You might be underwhelmed that no one responded. (Hmmm. How good is your network?) You might get more responses than you can process. And you might get the one HOMERUN referral that has you picking up the phone or immediately clicking "reply" on the intro email.
Either way, you need to make sure you're seen as one of the people with connections, contacts, and experience in your field. And if you know about your field, you've surely got someone who know's about this or that nuance.
Making introductions is a way of life for some lucky consultants. They are match makers, and they take a percentage of all completed work. That's not my business model, but I hope to find a way to make it more of my business network.
I don't want money from these friends. What I want is for them to be successful. I genuinely want you and your business to succeed. That's what I do.
Maybe there's a beer or a cup of coffee on the backend somewhere, but that's more about catching up and saying hello to these good friends.
In business, you are only as strong as your connections. And if your referral network is dusty or non-existant, you might want to put a few processing cycles into shoring up your network. It's called reestablishing the drumbeat of your tribe. In social media we can get lost in too many tasks and too many emails. Without our tribe it can be a lonely and isolating career path. But with our alive tribe, it can be a wonderful thing indeed.
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Female professors are rare at research universities. Although women earn more than half the PhDs awarded in the United States to U.S. citizens, they leak from the pipeline at every stage. More women and people of color are getting doctorates, but they're not as successful at getting tenure, partly because the tenure system is so rigid.
Advancing workplace flexibility in all sectors is a goal of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Noting how many PhDs choose to work in industry over academic jobs, in 2003 Sloan began a grant to the American Council on Education (ACE) for the project Creating Options: Models for Flexible Faculty Career Pathways.
Project goals are to raise awareness, initiate a national dialog and generate tested approaches to increase faculty flexibility. The initial focus is on tenured and tenure-track faculty at research universities.
Dr. Gloria Thomas, associate director of the Office of Women in Higher Education (OWHE) at ACE, is associate di-rector for the Center for Effective Leadership/Sloan projects. Doctoral student Jean McLaughlin works with the project as an ACE intern. They spoke at the CUWFA conference in March, together with Dr. Patricia Hyer, associate provost at Virginia Tech.
"It's been helpful that we've been working with very seasoned leaders," Thomas told WIHE. Former OWHE director Dr. Claire Van Ummersen, president emeritus of Cleveland State University and now head of ACE's Center for Effective Leadership, told them advancing career flexibility works only if leadership comes from the top. Sign-off by the president and provost isn't enough; it needs to be a real priority for them.
Heeding that advice, ACE used the first grant for a national awareness campaign. Ten university presidents or state system chancellors spoke at events around the country and helped create An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track Faculty Careers (ACE 2005).
Among its suggestions:
- Create re-entry opportunities, such as post-docs for PhDs who want to return to academia later in life.
- Abolish hiring penalties for family-related career gaps.
- Develop ways for full-time faculty to go part-time for defined periods of up to five years.
- Create flexibility in the probationary period for tenure, allowing up to 10 years without changing criteria or standards.
- Reduce resource competition among units by giving colleges and departments block grants to meet their productivity goals.
Copies went to every university president and provost in the country. ACE gets several calls or emails a week requesting guidance.
Meanwhile the Sloan/ACE project moved to a second phase: $250,000 grants to selected universities to accelerate their already successful policies, programs and practices. After a rigorous application process to identify leadership and commitment, grant winners were the universities of Florida, Washington and California (UC Davis and UC Berkeley split a grant), and Lehigh and Duke.
Now Thomas and McLaughlin are analyzing the data from the award winners and other applicants. They described the challenge and the promising results.
Overcoming bias avoidance
Family is a serious barrier to academic career success for women. Among tenured faculty, "married with children" describes only 44% of women but 70% of men.
Women's family status contributes to leaks in the pipeline, especially early in a career. A woman PhD is 21% less likely to enter a tenure-track position if she's married and 28% less likely if she has a baby. Once on the tenure track, women are 27% less likely than men to become associate professors. Past that hurdle, they're 20% less likely to become full professors within 16 years.
What family-friendly policies are common at the universities that applied for the Sloan awards?
96% Tenure clock stoppage
91% Disability for serious illness or injury
86% Paid leave for biological mothers
75% Partial relief from duties
73% Part-time appointment with budget line protected for their return to full time
71% Written policies on workload for part-time faculty
63% Benefits for same-sex partners
62% Paid leaves for adoptive mothers
61% Memo stating expectations during leaves
60% Paid leaves for adoptive fathers
58% Paid leaves for biological fathers
Although flexibility policies have been on the books at the University of California for 20 years, faculty have been unaware of them or afraid to use them for fear of repercussions.
UC Berkeley and UC Davis used their grant for a big awareness and acceptance campaign. Berkeley created an online newsletter called UC Families as part of the Berkeley Parents Network (http://parents.berkeley.edu/ucfamilies/), with an interactive blog and links to policies and programs.
Davis expanded to all 10 UC campuses its model of central funding for replacement teaching costs during parental leave or Active Service Modified Duties (ASMU). Departments are more receptive to replacement teachers when it doesn't come out of their budget.
Both campuses introduced extensive training. Davis holds a daylong workshop and brownbag series for new faculty and a mandatory two-day training session for new department chairs. Berkeley developed a comprehensive online train-ing and information resource, Creating a Family Friendly Department: Chairs and Deans Toolkit.
Creative award programs encourage usage of flexibility policies. The University of Florida makes awards to department and unit leaders who take effective steps to promote an atmosphere of acceptance for career-friendly accommodations.
Lehigh University PA rewards faculty for participation, making automatic $6,000 grants to all tenure-track faculty who take family and medical leave for dependent care. This helps them maintain visibility, attend conferences or take other steps to stay connected and ease their re-entry.
"The point is to make cultural shifts so faculty can take advantage of what's available and still thrive," Thomas told WIHE.
Husbands, partners, kids
Dual careers and childcare came up again and again. "These are big issues that we're still tackling," she said. Traditionally thought of as women's issues, they're of growing interest to men as well, especially younger faculty.
Academic careers have long challenged scholar couples who both want a job. The first transition was from stay-at-home wives to career women. In a more recent shift, today "more often than not, it's the woman who's the first appointment," she said.
Duke collaborates with neighboring schools—University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central Univer-sity and North Carolina State University—to help place spouses or partners. Most are hired on a trial basis, with the first three years' costs split among the two universities and the hiring department.
More than 160 companies in the nearby Research Triangle Park offer potential jobs for highly skilled workers. Duke partnered with the Research Triangle Park and the Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill Chambers of Commerce to host a conference for faculty partners, in shared hopes of attracting two-career couples to the area.
Lehigh participated in a regional consortium to share information about professional opportunities throughout New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. Lehigh also offers its alumni career services to faculty partners and spouses.
Grandparents or other relatives provide much of the childcare in the U.S., but research university professors rarely have that resource because they're hired from all over the globe. Most live far from their extended family.
Shortage of childcare spaces threatened faculty recruitment and retention at the University of Washington. They reserved paid childcare spaces in existing area facilities and beefed up their resources and referral service, including a list of nanny agencies. They also partner with developers to include childcare centers in the architectural plans for faculty housing.
Just starting a program isn't enough. Jean McLaughlin emphasized "the importance of tracking who's using these initiatives and what are their individual outcomes."
Virginia Tech, not a Sloan grant recipient yet but a leader in faculty flexibility, builds monitoring and tracking into its systems. Associate provost Dr. Patricia Hyer said culture change at Virginia Tech is not just about women or young faculty. It's about attracting and retaining talent regardless of gender and providing flexibility throughout their academic career.
After increasing central funding for dual-career recruitment/retention and hiring a dual-career coordinator in 2005, Virginia Tech has kept track of cases and outcomes: faculty, staff or temporary employment, local employment not at Virginia Tech, accepted with no job for partner, etc. The self-reported experience of partners using dual career services was very positive for 41%, somewhat positive for 38% and negative for a handful.
Stopping the tenure clock for new parents, dependent care and extenuating circumstances has been available on the books for more than 20 years. Over the past six years 55 women and 34 men have requested stopping the clock. Bias avoidance may have kept many more women from asking; colleagues might see dedicated parenting as a sign of weakness in women but admirable in men. Now a one-year extension is automatic for new parents.
They also monitored tenure outcomes for faculty who stopped the clock any time in the last 11 years. So far 13 women and three men got tenure; three women were denied tenure; and three women and one man left the university. The rest haven't yet reached the mandatory year for a tenure decision.
Tracking outcomes can alert the university to bias avoidance or unmask which units regularly penalize faculty for using available options. It provides guidance on which programs to keep, change or drop. It builds evidence for continuing successful programs when funding is threatened.
"You have to have the numbers supporting you and not just stories," Thomas said. "It may be costly up-front but retaining faculty brings high return on investment."
What's next?
Another round of Sloan/ACE faculty career flexibility awards announced in January gave $200,000 to each of six master's degree granting schools: Boise State University ID, Canisius College NY, Santa Clara University CA, San Jose State University CA, Simmons College MA and the University of Baltimore MD. They're hoping for a third round of grants for liberal arts colleges.
Issues differ at each level, in part because of stark contrasts in resources. Master's universities generally have far less money than top research universities. Liberal arts colleges range from the well-endowed to those scraping by on tuition.
Meanwhile data collection continues from the research universities. They plan to create an Academic Career Flexibility Resource Kit as a portal on the ACE Web site. "We have grand visions for this toolkit," McLaughlin told WIHE, including guidance for administrators and tips for graduating students about what to ask in an interview.
It's an opportune time to address these issues. The professorate is aging and the pool to replace them includes more PhD women and minorities than ever before. The new generation of faculty candidates is looking for work that's compatible with having a life. To attract the best and brightest to the shrinking number of tenured and tenure-track positions, higher education needs to accelerate progress in building flexible career options for all faculty.


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The Kimmel Center's rooftop garden will be crowned with a new glassy box.
At the corner of Broad and Spruce Streets, the little-loved black granite cube has been marked for demolition.
An open-air restaurant with windows opening onto Spruce is on the way - plus more bathrooms and, possibly, an inventive answer to those escalators patrons have been asking for.
A vast menu of improvements has been assembled into a major renovation of the Kimmel - shared this week with The Inquirer - just a decade after Philadelphia's $275 million answer to Lincoln Center opened its doors.


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TOWANDA - After two and half hours Friday, the jury deadlocked on a decision on the fate of Steven Carl Colegrove, convicted Wednesday of murdering his parents and brother in August 2007.
Following testimony from several witnesses brought by the defense, the jury went into deliberation late Friday, but were unable to come to agreement, said District Attorney Daniel Barrett.
"Sentencing will be held at a later date because of the late hour," Barrett said.
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Steven Carl Colegrove is lead into the Bradford County Courthouse Friday by Sheriff's deputies for the penalty hearing that decided his fate.
"One or more jurors may have felt that the mitigating factors could have outweighed the aggravating factors," he added.
Colegrove was convicted of three counts of first degree murder in the shotgun slayings of Joseph, 60, Marlene, 56, and Michael Colegrove, 36, as they slept in their Tuscarora Township home Aug. 8, 2007.
Bradford County Judge Maureen Beirne, told the jury to weigh aggravating and mitigating circumstances before deciding on the penalty.
In opening statements, Bradford County District Attorney Daniel Barrett told the jury that Pennsylvania has asserted aggravating factors and had no reason to call witnesses to prove it.
But the jury couldn't agree on the appropriate penalty for Colegrove, partly because of public defender Helen Stolinas' plea to "listen to what we have to say."
"You have already decided he will die in imprisonment," she said in her opening statement.
The first witness, Louise Luck, sociologist and psychiatrist, said a teacher, Carl Whitehead, described Steven in tenth grade as "a slow learner, quiet and withdrawn," even though he has an IQ of 116, smarter than two out of three people.
Also Michael and Robert's teacher Whitehead said Robert exhibited the most anger, and Michael had some sort of disability, Luck said.
"He said Steven was more of a loner than other students, and needed more attention. I always got the impression he wanted more attention," Luck said Whitehead told her.
A friend described Colegrove as "a strange bird" and told of how his living conditions included a toilet in the living room without any enclosures that was used by the family even when other people were present.
According to Dr. Frank Dettillio, clinical and forensic psychologist, Colegrove was the "odd man out" in his family.
"He had a lot of internal strife about rejection. His mother ran hot and cold, she was
a difficult individual," he said, adding "and he caught wind of the statement made by his mother that he should have never been born and that was the icing on the cake for him. Everything he dreaded in his life came true. He really should have never been born."
He was asked by Barrett if Colegrove suffers from any recognized mental disorder.
"Yes, I believe he does. I didn't write it in my report, but under personality dynamics, I spoke to the fact that there was depression, paranoia and anxiety," he said.
Dr. Robert Johnson, professor of justice, law and society at American University, Washington, DC. said someone like Colegrove would be a useful citizen because he does feel he can be helpful to others.
"Part of his identity is to be a helper, people like that are valuable and pretty rare," he said.
Tiffany Tracey, of Johnson City, N.Y., cried as she told the jury that Colegrove offered her a "shoulder to cry on, someone who will listen to you without interrupting."
Her sister, Tara Tracey, also of Johnson City, N.Y., also cried as she called Colegrove "a very good friend of mine."
"He always made me laugh, and was a shoulder to lean on. He was someone I could trust. There are very few people in this world I tell anything to and he was one of them," she added.
Linzee Jones, Kate's daughter, had a positive relationship with the defendant. "He was a father figure to me and to my brothers," she said. "He was just there for me and my family. Stepped up whenever anyone needed him."


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There are two levels of debugging, both being activated in config.php.
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Please Note It is not a good thing to activate debugging on a live site, because error display could provide some critical information, such as the phpBB absolute path or about a broken mod, that could later be used by some malicious mind to hack your forum more easily.
But it is a good thing to activate both on your local / test servers to make sure that no error occurs before you go online, and even more when installing mods.