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Granite column: Industry has recycled granite for decadesApril 07,2014
Image courtesy of Paul Wood Cross-section of a jaw (or vibratory) stone crusher with eccentric drive shaft (36), toggles (7), movable jaw (2), and gap-adjusting wedge (10).
Editors note This article, the latest in a monthly series on Vermonts granite industry, is provided courtesy of the Vermont Granite Museum.
By PAUL WOOD
A major market for crushed stone is railroad construction. The unevenness of unballasted rails is caused by the shifting of the earth beneath the ties in wet weather. During a rainstorm, the water settles under the ties and when a train passes rapidly over them each wheel depresses the tie, suddenly ejecting the water and mud and leaving a cavity underneath into which the tie sinks. This sinking is increased with every train. If the ties rest on crushed stone ballast, the rain water drains away from the ties and no cavities are formed. Thus the tracks remain level and railroad patrons enjoy a smoother ride and the rolling stock is spared much wear and tear.
Crushed stone that will pass through a 1½-inch-diameter ring is the most common railroad ballast. Crushed stone has superior durability and stability and drains well. It is more expensive and more difficult to handle than gravel but once the ties have become thoroughly bedded in the crushed stone it requires less maintenance for fast and heavy traffic lines. For Class A track, the crushed stone roadbed consists of a 12-inch deep layer of stone laid on a firm well-drained subgrade of soil sloped 1:24 toward ditches on each side. The ties are laid directly on the stone. In 1913, crushed stone ballast cost from 45 to 75 cents per cubic yard (fob) at the crusher.
The first crushers on Millstone Hill probably went into operation in the 1890s. The earliest known photo showing a crusher dates from circa 1904. Crushers were often part of larger quarrying operations on Millstone Hill. For example, in 1925 Rock of Ages had a small crusher close to their quarry. Wells-Lamson had the largest and longest running crusher operation. The exact construction date of the old Wells-Lamson crusher is not known but must have been in operation in 1927 since a report on an accident on October 26, 1927 involving a horse-drawn lumber wagon said: Near this highway the defendant maintained and operated a stone-crushing plant, with which and the noises made by it when in operation both Mrs. Johnson and the horse were familiar. Starting in the early 1930s, Wells-Lamson had the only crushing operation on Millstone Hill which ended only a few years ago when Pike Industries (that had purchased the operation) closed the crusher in Websterville. This crusher processed grout from the Wells-Lamson Quarry.
The old Wells-Lamson crusher plant had a small derrick close by that probably was used to handle pieces of grout that had to be broken apart to fit into the primary crusher. Crushing operations produced lots of airborne dust which, after 1937, had to be eliminated by either suction devices and dust collectors or by wet suppression (water sprayed on the crushed stone). Wells-Lamson Quarry Co. was still listed as a provider of crushed stone in 1949 by the Directory of Vermont Manufactured Products and Industries. The old crusher was probably torn down in the late 1950s or early 1960s after the new crusher that supplied material for the construction of Interstate 89 went into operation. The old crusher no longer appears in 1965 aerial photos of the Wells-Lamson quarry.
The Wells-Lamson crusher stockpiled the crushed stone material in piles close to the crusher. Starting in 1935, Wells-Lamson used one of their International trucks (acquired to replace their old and worn-out truck fleet) to transport the crushed stone to a long wooden ramp that had several gates in the center through which the stone was dumped. This operation is shown in the 1940 film Granite A Saga of Stone made at the Wells-Lamson quarry. A small powered shovel for loading the stockpiled material into trucks can be seen on a 1939 aerial photo available on the University of Vermonts Landscape Change Program website.
Combining granite block quarrying operations with crusher operations makes sense since all the stone quarried can be processed. However, quarrying for blocks produces large blocks that, if deemed unsuitable for monument production, are usually too large to be crushed. Quarrying for just crushed stone is normally done by blasting with high explosives. This yields smaller-sized pieces that can more easily be loaded by front-end loaders and are better suited for crushing without a preliminary breaking down. There were several small derricks in the immediate vicinity of the Wells-Lamson crusher that were probably used to lift grout boxes from the trucks to dump their content into the crusher hopper and to handle larger pieces in need of further breaking up.
In 1957, the Wells-Lamson Quarry opened a new $500,000 crushing plant. This was one of the largest stone crushing plants in New England and was set up to produce eight sizes of stone, ranging from individual 300-pound pieces down to fine dust for use in all phases of road- building. The companys grout piles, furnishing raw material for the plant, were estimated to contain from 3 million to 4 million tons of rock. Plant capacity was expected to reach 1,000 tons per day according to Maurice L. Kelley, president of Wells-Lamson. All the crushing equipment, including two Hydrocone gyratory crushers, screening equipment, electric motors, and V-belt drivers were furnished by the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee.
Between 1958 and 1962 Wells-Lamson produced crushed stone for the Interstate 89 project by processing granite from the old grout piles along the road leading past the Wells-Lamson Quarry. According to a circa 1959 Times-Argus article, iron wrecking balls weighing 9,000 pounds were dropped onto larger pieces to reduce their size. A front-end loader loaded the fractured stone into two 18-ton trucks that then transported the material to the crusher that could process blocks up to 3 feet in size. Whereas the old Wells-Lamson crusher could only load wagons and trucks, in order to transport the high volume of crushed stone for road construction projects such as Interstate 89, the new crusher was designed to load the material directly into railroad hopper cars.
The smallest stone from the operation of the new crusher was transported to the poultry grit plant where it was processed and bagged in four grades of poultry food additive a fine grade for baby chicks, medium grade for pullets, coarse grade for laying hens, and large grade for turkeys. The company charged 85 cents per ton for this stone. The Wells-Lamson poultry grit facility was an enlargement of the Websterville crusher plant that had produced various granite aggregates for road and building construction. The new facility was officially opened on Nov. 18, 1942. Besides the existing large crusher, a grinding room was constructed with three Allis-Chalmers stone grinders that could produce 100 tons of poultry grit in one eight-hour shift, as well as a sacking room, a loading room, and a storage building. Whereas the old large crusher broke up the grout between compressive steel jaws, the grinders employed rotating abrasive wheels to produce four grades of grit.
Some of the crushed stone was needed for the quarry itself, including quarry road foundations, fill and ballast for quarry railroad beds, level surfaces around the quarry for block yards, and backfill for retaining walls. In the June 17, 1965 issue of The Times-Argus, an article on Wells-Lamson byproducts reads: Under this phase of the operations, the discarded granite goes into crushing, asphalt and transit mix plants producing well-known products such as Granite Crete, Granite Mix and Staymat.
They also made special aggregates for concrete mixes for precast concrete and exposed aggregates. Aggregates for exposed precast construction were shipped to Canada, New England and New York. Precast septic tanks and other precast products, including insulated Granite Crete sandwich panels for building construction, were also produced by the byproducts division.
Using granite grout to produce crushed stone has a long tradition in Vermonts granite industry, going back over a century. Todays crushing technology allows the processing of much larger pieces of stone and provides a solution for the over 80 percent of quarried granite that today has to be dumped because it does not meet Barres high quality standards. However, transportation costs still remain a stumbling block for wider use of crushed granite, just as they did 100 years ago.
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Stun guns need restraintMarch 23,2013
Theory better than practice
In theory, Town Meeting is a classic example of democracy in action. In practice, it leaves much to be desired. Many community members cannot afford to take an entire day off; a choice between exercising ones rights and putting food on the table is hardly balanced.
Why is Town Meeting Day NOT a state holiday? When agenda items are not on the ballot, even those folks who try to participate by voting are denied the right to participate in decisions which may affect them. This is neither democratic nor fair.
If town meetings are dominated by the same folks year after year because others cannot afford to spend a day, or are not allowed to do so by their employers, this is not really democracy.
Rick Levy
Stun guns need restraint
The research regarding Tasers, including the manufacturers own publications, caution that this weapon not be used on vulnerable populations, unless no other means are available to control a grave danger. The many categories of vulnerable populations include: serious mental illness or cognitive disorders; pregnancy; medical problems including cardiac and pulmonary conditions, pacemakers, epileptic seizures and sickle cell; drug or alcohol intoxication; and severe agitation, as well as those who are deaf, hard of hearing or slight of build. Nor should a Taser be shot at the chest. Yet, the research further shows that it is precisely at members of these vulnerable populations that Tasers are usually fired.
When the police seek to acquire this weapon, they reassure us with Trust us, well be well trained and very careful. But after they use it against a vulnerable individual, they take cover with, Oops, sorry, but how could we know? This oops defense is what the Attorney General and State Police are presently using to explain the death last year of Macadam Mason, an unarmed Thetford man who died immediately after he was tased. Mason was a member of the vulnerable populations in not one but several ways: He was in the throes of a severe mental health crisis and was threatening suicide. He had a history of epileptic seizures and had experienced seizures just the day before he was shot. He was also thin, and was shot in the chest.
Law enforcement cant have it both ways, and they lose the public trust in trying. To the extent we permit the police to carry this weapon, Tasers should only be deployed under the same standards as a firearm, which is to say, when there exists an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury. That way, they will only be used when there is truly no other public safety choice. Under such a standard, Macadam Mason would be alive today.
Tasers are too dangerous a weapon for public relations games. State law and police policies should allow Taser deployment only when no less-lethal weapon will meet and prevent a grave danger. That restraint on the use of Tasers means they will only save lives, not unnecessarily take them.
Jeffrey Dworkin
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Officially, this is the only Adam Sandler comedy I can stand. Golf could use a little more attitude.
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The kitchen at the YWCA Rock County women's shelter is getting a badly-needed renovation.
The kitchen is among the new upgrades that are pumping new life into the shelter, which is specifically for women who are seeking to rebuild their lives after suffering from domestic abuse.
Although the old kitchen was functional, the YWCA's development director said they wanted to make sure it continued to be a place of comfort to the women looking to start their lives over.
"For most of us a kitchen is probably the most important room in a house," said Jeff Bealles. "It's where people talk, people get together and interact, and it's important that's a nice functional area, and I'd say even more so in a shelter situation."
Carmen and her five children moved in to the apartments two months ago. They're working on their foosball skills while their new kitchen is being completed.
Carmen said she loves to cook and said that living in the apartments has given them an opportunity to come together around a table and meet other families in transition.
The kitchen was originally built in 2001. Now, after thousands of meals, the kitchen is getting new counter tops, new appliances, and a new floor.
About a dozen local contractors with the Southcentral Wisconsin Builders Association donated their time to the project.
"It's unfortunate the community has to have a battered women's shelter, but if it does, we'd like it to look nice," said project manager Chad Barnes. "This is what we do, this is what we could do as an organization to help Rock County."
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FBI agents tracked an American Airlines aircraft fueler before arresting Tulituafulu Maata on Wednesday.
Prosecutors say he used his security credentials to transport cocaine and meth for several years as an American Airlines fueler.
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A "ticket" meant a pound of dope.
Documents show Maata admitted he sold about 2-to-5-pounds of meth on six occasions to an FBI informant who had been using Maata as a supplier.
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Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study the dimmest stars in the cluster, astronomers uncovered three different age groups. Two of the populations are burned-out stars called white dwarfs. One group of these low-wattage stellar remnants (red circles) appears to be 6 billion years old, another (blue circles) appears to be 4 billion years old. The ages are out of sync with those of the cluster's normal stars, which are 8 billion years old.See the rest:


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After receiving his BS in criminology and corrections from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville Texas in May, 1978, Conklin worked as a probation officer in Houston and Corpus Christi.
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I'm sorry to hear that the doctor visits are undermining your confidence. She should not be bashing the quality of your breastmilk or discouraging you from using your expressed milk for supplemental feeds!
One thing to remember about weight checks is that each one is subject to a variety of uncontrollable factors that may slightly impact the accuracy of that one reading. The best way to know that a baby is growing well is to look at the entire history of weight checks over several weeks, not just one number. And, of course, to look at the baby, to evaluate her behavior and developmental progress.
I would also caution against any simple measurement to evaluate the quality or nutritional content of your breastmilk. The fat content of breastmilk in particular varies substantially over the course of the day for many mothers -- if the one sample sent to the lab happens to be mostly foremilk, you could be told inaccurately that your milk is "too thin." A mother has to be seriously and chronically malnourished before the basic make-up of her breastmilk would be altered -- and even then, the problem would simply be too little milk, not "poor quality" milk.
I think you are wise to look for another doctor who is better educated and more supportive about breastfeeding. In the meantime, there may be a clinic or an IBCLC nearby who could help you do weight checks and, more importantly, help you evaluate the results of those weight checks. My one caution about using a home scale is to be wary of letting the scale come to define your entire breastfeeding relationship. Weight checks are just snapshots that reflect one aspect of a complex reality.
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America's demographics have changed dramatically over the past few decades, and there's two ways a political party can react to that. You can expand your appeal to a new field of voters by making their issues your issues or, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, you can pass voter ID laws that disproportionally affect Democratic voters — minorities, the young, the old and the poor. The young, the old, the poor and minorities are the Four Horsemen of the Democalypse.
As you well known, in-person voter fraud is an enormous issue, with exactly 10 documented cases of it in the entire country alone since 2000. That's .000000284 percent of all votes!
So you can see why Pennsylvania would want to enact a voter ID law that one study claims would disenfranchise more than 758,000 of Pennsylvania's lawfully registered voters, or around nine percent of the state's electorate. But that's the price you pay to prevent something that doesn't happen.
It's like how peanut butter is made with huge amounts of hydrochloric acid to dissolve any potential dragon bones that may have gotten into it during the manufacturing process. Will you lose some who die by eating hydrochloric acid? Of course, but isn't it worth knowing that your peanut butter is dragon bone free.
Of course this law created for specifically partisan purposes will be carried out in a non-partisan, evenhanded manner. Much in the way that Robosaurus, while created as an automobile-eating machine, will most likely valet park at your party with no foreseeable problems. Maybe I'm being too hard on Pennsylvania — as long as the voters are educated about the law in a nonpartisan way.
"The contract for the job of educating Pennsylvanians on the new voting restrictions was given to a man who has helped raise $30,000 for the Mitt Romney for President campaign. He's also the former executive director of the state Republican Party," Rachel Maddow reported on MSNBC.
As ridiculous as this voter ID business is, it's not like somebody is going to do something crazy like give Republican counties more time to vote than Democratic counties.
"The latest twist on this is Republicans in Ohio restricting early voting hours on Democratic counties, but extending voting hours in the Republican ones," MSNBC reported.
You might wonder how it's even possible for Ohio to divide up voting hours by how districts vote. Well, Ohio's county election boards each have two Republicans and two Democrats, and the guy who breaks the tie in establishing hours is Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican. Maybe Secretary Husted could explain how fewer people voting somehow enhances the democratic process.
"We try to make it easy, but we can't — I say we're not 7-Eleven — we can't stay open 24/7 and let anybody vote by any rule that they want to," Husted said.
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Changing the way people view BF'ing one baby at a time.
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Many students arrive at college eager to pursue a major that they hope will lead the way to a specific career. At St. John Fisher College, a wide variety of academic programs provide you with deep learning in specialized areas. But as a student in today's world, you'll need more. Employers are increasingly requiring broad knowledge and diverse skills that are the foundational elements of Fisher's Core Curriculum.
Career Success: More Than a Major
These findings from a recent large-scale survey of employers across the United States attest to the importance of the knowledge and skills that you'll obtain from the Core Curriculum.
According to the study, It Takes More Than A Major: Employer Priorities for College Learning and Student Success [pdf], employers:
- Agreed that "a candidate's demonstrated capacity to think critically, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems is more important than their undergraduate major."
- Agreed that, "every college student should acquire broad knowledge in the liberal arts and sciences" beyond their major.
- Said that more emphasis should be placed on diverse skills that cut across major areas of study, including: critical thinking and analytical reasoning; complex problem-solving and analysis; written and oral communication; and cultural sensitivity and awareness.
The Core Curriculum
The Core Curriculum is the educational experience common to all Fisher undergraduates. It is the manifestation of the College's rich liberal arts tradition, and it was intentionally designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills that employers require of today's job applicants. It also facilitates the development of values that encourage your personal and professional growth.
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A Study of Intravenous Zanamivir Versus Oral Oseltamivir in Adults and Adolescents Hospitalized With Influenza (ZORO)
This study has been completed.
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: October 28, 2010
Last updated: July 18, 2016
Last verified: July 2016
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Detailed Description:
The purpose of this study is to test the safety and efficacy of zanamivir given intravenously and how well it works at two different doses in hospitalized adolescents and adults with flu. Zanamivir will be compared with oseltamivir, which is used for treating flu.
Influenza, Human
Drug: Zanamivir
Drug: Placebo to match zanamivir
Drug: Oseltamivir
Drug: Placebo to match oseltamivir
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase III International, Randomized, Double-blind, Double-dummy Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of 300 mg or 600 mg of Intravenous Zanamivir Twice Daily Compared to 75 mg of Oral Oseltamivir Twice Daily in the Treatment of Hospitalized Adults and Adolescents With Influenza
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Flu Flu Shot
Drug Information available for: Zanamivir Oseltamivir Oseltamivir phosphateU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by GlaxoSmithKline:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Time to clinical response in subjects with confirmed influenza [ Time Frame: Up to 42 Days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Changes in the Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) score and time to return to pre-morbid level of activity [ Time Frame: Baseline up to 42 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Mortality rate at Day 14, Day 28 and end of study [ Time Frame: Day 14 and day 28, up to 42 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Disease progression and complications of influenza [ Time Frame: Up to 42 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Summary of ventilation status [ Time Frame: Up to 42 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Duration of hospitalization and ICU (intense care unit) stay [ Time Frame: Up to 42 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Time to improvement of vital signs [ Time Frame: Baseline up to 42 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Time to reduction in viral load and percentage of patients with undetectable viral RNA obtained from upper and lower respiratory samples [ Time Frame: Baseline up to 42 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Changes in viral susceptibility [ Time Frame: Baseline up to 42 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Pharmacokinetics of IV Zanamivir as measured by minimum or maximum serum concentration [ Time Frame: Up to day 4 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Safety and tolerability as measured by the incidence of adverse events and laboratory abnormalities [ Time Frame: Up to 42 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- ECG(electrocardiogram) data [ Time Frame: Up to day 4 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Combined analysis of time to clinical response and time to improvement in respiratory status [ Time Frame: Up to 42 daus ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Incidence and duration of clinical symptoms of influenza [ Time Frame: Up to 42 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Intravenous (IV) Zanamivir 300mg Twice Daily
300mg of IV zanamivir infusion twice daily plus oral oseltamivir placebo twice daily
Drug: Zanamivir
Zanamivir aqueous solution, 10 mg/mL, will be provided as a single use, sterile clear, colorless preparation in 20 mL clear glass vials.
Other Name: RelenzaDrug: Placebo to match oseltamivir
Placebo to match oral oseltamivir will be provided as capsules with a common excipient of appropriate quality.
Experimental: Intravenous (IV) Zanamivir 600mg Twice Daily
600mg of IV zanamivir infusion twice daily plus oral oseltamivir placebo twice daily
Drug: Zanamivir
Zanamivir aqueous solution, 10 mg/mL, will be provided as a single use, sterile clear, colorless preparation in 20 mL clear glass vials.
Other Name: RelenzaDrug: Placebo to match oseltamivir
Placebo to match oral oseltamivir will be provided as capsules with a common excipient of appropriate quality.
Active Comparator: Oral Oseltamivir 75mg Twice Daily
75mg oral oseltamivir twice daily plus intravenous placebo zanamivir twice daily
Drug: Placebo to match zanamivir
Placebo to match IV zanamivir will be provided as a normal saline solution of a matched volume.Drug: Oseltamivir
Oseltamivir will be provided as over-encapsulated 75 mg capsules.
Other Name: Tamiflu
Detailed Description:
The recent influenza pandemic has highlighted the need for alternative formulations for anti-influenza therapies. This will be an international Phase III, double-blind, double-dummy, 3-arm study to evaluate the efficacy, antiviral activity and safety of IV zanamivir 600 mg twice daily compared to oral oseltamivir 75 mg twice daily, and 600 mg IV zanamivir twice daily compared to 300 mg IV zanamivir for 5 days in hospitalized subjects with laboratory confirmed or suspected influenza infection. For a given subject, the initial 5-day treatment course may be extended for up to 5 additional days if clinical symptoms or patient characteristics as assessed by the investigator warrant further treatment. Alternatively, if the investigator considers that a subject is failing to improve clinically on their randomized treatment, the investigator can choose to initiate the switch/rescue option (600 mg IV zanamivir twice daily) on any day from Day 6 through Day 10 for up to an additional 5 days of treatment. On switching treatments, subjects complete a maximum of 14 days of treatment and are followed-up to Post-Treatment +28 Days.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|16 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Male or female aged 16 years; a female is eligible to enter and participate in the study if she is:
- of non-childbearing potential (i.e., physiologically incapable of becoming pregnant, including any female who is post- menopausal); or,
- of child-bearing potential, has a negative pregnancy test at Baseline, and agrees to use protocol specified methods of birth control while on study.
Vital signs criteria defined as 3 or more of the following at Baseline:
Presence of fever [oral temperature of 38°C or equivalent] at Baseline. However, this requirement is waived if the subject has a history of fever within in the 24 hours prior to Baseline; or, if the subject reported symptoms of feverishness at some time during the 48 hours prior to Baseline.
AND at least 2 out of the following 4:
- Oxygen saturation <95% on room air by trans-cutaneous method or need for any supplemental oxygenation or ventilatory support, or increase in oxygen supplementation requirement of ≥2 litres for subjects with chronic oxygen dependency. For those subjects with a history of chronic hypoxia (without supplemental oxygen), an oxygen saturation of at least 3% below the patient's historical baseline oxygen saturation will satisfy this criterion.
- Respiration rate >24 breaths per minute. For those subjects who require ventilatory support or oxygen supplementation, this requirement is waived.
- Heart rate >100 beats per minute.
- Systolic blood pressure <90 mmHg.
- Onset of influenza symptoms within 6 days prior to study enrolment. Symptoms may include cough, dyspnea, sore throat, feverishness, myalgias, headache, nasal symptoms (rhinorrhea, congestion), fatigue, diarrhea, anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
- Clinical symptoms of influenza with positive influenza diagnostic test result or strong suspicion of influenza illness based on clinical symptoms and local surveillance information.
- Subjects willing and able to give written informed consent to participate in the study and to adhere to the procedures stated in the protocol, or legally acceptable representative willing and able to give written informed consent on behalf of the subject for minors, unconscious adults and those incapable of consenting themselves due to their medical condition, or included as permitted by local regulatory authorities, IRB/IECs or local laws.
- Severity of any medical illness that, in the Investigator's judgement, justifies hospitalization of the subject for treatment and supportive care
- French subjects: In France, a subject will be eligible for inclusion in this study only if either affiliated to or a beneficiary of a social security category
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects who have taken more than a total of 3 days (6 doses) of approved anti-influenza therapy in the period from onset of symptoms and prior to enrolment.
- Subjects who, in the opinion of the investigator, are not likely to survive beyond 48 hours from Baseline.
- Subjects who are considered to require concurrent therapy with another influenza antiviral medication.
- Subjects who are known or suspected to be hypersensitive to any component of the study medications.
- Subjects with creatinine clearance ≤10 mL/min who are not being treated with continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).
- Subjects who require Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) at Baseline
- Subjects who require routine/intermittent hemodialysis or continuous peritoneal dialysis (due to inability to provide appropriate dosing schedule for oseltamivir) at Baseline. CRRT modalities are allowed.
Liver toxicity criteria based on local laboratory results obtained within 24 hours of Baseline:
- ALT or AST 3xULN and bilirubin 2xULN
- ALT 5xULN
- Underlying chronic liver disease with evidence of severe liver impairment.
- History of severe cardiac disease or clinically significant arrhythmia (either on ECG or by history) which, in the opinion of the Investigator, will interfere with the safety of the individual subject.
- Females who are pregnant or are breastfeeding.
- Treatment with investigational parenteral anti-influenza drugs (IV peramivir, IV zanamivir or IV oseltamivir) in the 4 weeks prior to Baseline.
- French and Korean subjects: the French or Korean subject has participated in any study using an investigational drug during the previous 30 days.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01231620
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Keywords provided by GlaxoSmithKline:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on December 09, 2016
|Responsible Party:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01231620 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|October 28, 2010
|Last Updated:
|July 18, 2016
|Health Authority:
|Brazil: CONEP - National Committee for Research Ethics
New Zealand: Medsafe
Slovakia: State Institute for Drug Control
Colombia: INVIMA
Czech Republic: Státní ústav pro kontrolu léčiv, Oddělení klinického hodnocení
Spain: Agencia Española del Medicamento y Productos Sanitarios
Mexico: Secretaría de Salud
Taiwan: Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Executive Yuan
Hungary: National Institute of Pharmacy
Poland: Centralna Ewidencja Badań Klinicznych Urząd Rejestracji Produktów Leczniczych, Wyrobów Medycznych i Produktów Biobójczych
Belgium: Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, FAMHP
Thailand: Food and Drug Administration
United States: Food and Drug Administration
Argentina: Administracion Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnologia Medica
Netherlands: Centrale Commissie Mensgesbonden Onderzoek (Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects) Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands
Norway: Norwegian Medicines Agency
Russia: Russian Ministry of Health
South Korea: Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA)
United Kingdom: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Hong Kong: Department of Health
South Africa: Medicines Control Council
India: Ministry of Health
Canada: Health Canada
Germany: Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte
Denmark: Danish Medicines Agency
France: Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits de Santé
China: Food and Drug Administration
India: Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI)
Australia: Therapeutic Goods Administration
Greece: National Drug Organisation
Keywords provided by GlaxoSmithKline:
Seasonal Influenza
Orthomyxoviridae Infections
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype
Enzyme Inhibitors
Influenza, seasonal
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Pharmacologic Actions
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Neuraminidase inhibitor
Influenza B virus
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Influenza, Human
Orthomyxoviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Respiratory Tract Infections
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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February 20, 2013
It's not too late to cast your vote for People's Choice Award for your favorite Prairie Grass Film Challenge film. Voting is open through Monday, February 25, and the winner will be announced on the Film Challenge website on Wednesday, February 27.
2013 Winners
480-Hour Challenge
Best of Show: Roboy and Rogirl by Rhosgobel Rabbits
48-Hour Challenge
Post-College Best of Show: Love in the Dust by Udo Velvet Productions
48-Hour Challenge
College Best of Show: My Brother's Deal by Providence Productions
48-Hour Challenge
High School Best of Show: The Story of Alan by Bravo Productions
Runner-Up: What's in a Name by Hand-Crafted Productions
Best use of Character: Everyday Heroes by Food Fight Club Productions
Best use of Prop: I Love Will by Hot Void Productions
Best use of Line of Dialogue: Heart Shaped Cereal by Wombat Productions
Judges for the 48-Hour Film Challenge
Thomas Ritchie (Iowa), Jacob Hall (Iowa), Dan Donovan (Iowa), Caleb Stern (Virginia), Danielle Roos (Tennessee).
Judges for the 480-Hour Film Challenge
Matthew Berkenpas (Colorado), Brad Dykstra (Minnesota), Laura Groen (California), and Greg Veltman (Michigan).
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Vermont students honored by delegationAnthony Edwards / Staff Photos
More than two dozen Vermont students, nominated to attend U.S. service academies, attend a recognition ceremony with their families Saturday in the Cedar Room at the State House in Montpelier. Top left: Sen. Bernard Sanders praises the students during the ceremony. Top right: Benjamin Starer of Castleton stands for a photo with Vermonts congressional delegation.
MONTPELIER Citing their bravery and commitment to country, Vermonts congressional delegation on Saturday celebrated 27 Vermont high school students they have nominated for coveted positions at the nations service academies.
The nominees include students from Rutland High School, Mill River Union High School, Fair Haven Union High School, Burr and Burton Academy and Vermont Academy.
The students have received one or more nominations from Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Bernard Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch to the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy or the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
Candidates must be officially nominated by an authorized nominating person to compete for admission to the academies, and most are nominated by a member of Congress their U.S. representative or one of their U.S. senators. The students are expected to learn early next year if they have been accepted by the academies to which theyve applied.
Securing a nomination is an honor already, however.
At the ceremony Saturday at the State House in Montpelier, Welch noted that the students have already shown leadership skills and academic achievement.
You have lived a life that is already punctuated with significant accomplishment and dedication to your fellow Vermonters and to your fellow Americans, Welch said. So, I salute you and wish each of you the best of luck.
He also recognized the work of parents in helping their students succeed early in life.
You must be relieved, Welch said. Youve got kids that have done really great in high school with a lot of ambition and a desire to serve and have gone through this gauntlet to get nominations to these academies. All of us who are parents know that getting to here from there was not necessarily a totally smooth journey.
Sanders, meanwhile, praised the nominees for their noble choice to serve and for their willingness to do something that in some ways is becoming out of fashion in America.
In some ways we have become a culture where its all about me, he said. Ive got to make as much money as I can and to heck with everybody else. The young people in this room have made a very, very different decision for their lives.
He added, They have made a decision that they are prepared to put their lives on the line in the future, that they are prepared to undergo very, very rigorous academic and physical efforts in order to serve their country.
Leahy, whose office organized Saturdays ceremony, said he was impressed with each of the students after reviewing their backgrounds.
Wouldnt the country be better if every single one of you could join our various military academies? Leahy said.
He noted the abundance of Vermonters serving in the military that he has encountered in his travels.
Im always so proud to see Vermonters who have done so well and to see so many of them who have done the various academies. So, Im proud of you. I wish you all very well, Leahy said.
At a time when people seem to be thinking only of themselves, isnt it wonderful to have people think of the country first and think of their community first, and how much better off this country would be if everybody would do that?
John Basa of Montpelier received nominations to the U.S. Military, Naval and Air Force academies. He is hoping to attend West Point.
I thought it was a way to make myself unique, Basa said. Its just a way to make myself something special.
Basa said the process of being nominated was like applying to college. He said he filed forms, wrote an essay and gathered letters of recommendation.
Vermont nominees to service academy classes of 2018:
Brian Bardin of Middletown, Mill River Union High School
John Basa of Montpelier, Montpelier High School
Alexander Benckert of St. Albans, Bellows Free Academy
Connor Brown of Springfield, Vermont Academy
Joshua Cann of Jericho, Mount Mansfield Union High School
William Colomb of Williston, Champlain Valley Union High School
Cory Cudney of Norwich, Hanover High School
John Dabagian of Milton, Milton High School
Haley Drury of Essex, Essex High School
John Dwyer of Shelburne, South Burlington High School
Jacques Fordy of Norwich, Hanover High School
Bethany Forte of Clifton, VA, Centreville High School
Russell Owen Fox of Hinesburg, Champlain Valley Union High School
Owen Hudson of Williston, Champlain Valley Union High School
Jordan Isham of Colchester, Colchester High School
Austin Kemper of South Londonderry, Burr and Burton High School
Carl Kolon of Underhill, Harrow International School, Beijing, China
David Koonz of Middlesex, U-32 High School
Grady McIntyre of Bomoseen, Fair Haven Union High School
David Sargent of Chittenden, Homeschool
Alex Schirling of Burlington, Burlington High School
Claire M. Schmelzenbach of Wallingford, Mount St. Joseph Academy
Hudson Seman of Essex Junction, Essex High School
Dylan Shattuck of St. Albans, St. Johnsbury Academy
Benjamin Ayers Starer of Castleton, Rutland High School
Glade Taylor of Essex, Essex High School
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|2012-11-25, 04:29
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This episode was so damn bad, so many things just pissed me off here.
I'll start off by saying the Suguha being interested in Kirito is basically okay with me on an evaluative standpoint. Let's casually pass by the retarded tentacle scene that was so pointlessly shoved in for...whatever.
Starting with the villain, I've given up on giving any credit for the villain, who's about as dumb as an already dead goldfish. While he does have a few other things on his agenda, the big plan was to marry Asuna in a week, yet he leaves her unwatched with two pointless tentacle scientists as guards (probably just luckily caught her), with a perfectly accessible cube with no password that could log her out. Don't give me that bullshit that it would have rejected her, there were no filters and the one scientist logged out immediately after. If it's a year or something, it could be very tedious, but he controls the game. Put about 100 armed guards in between her and that cube, then keep changing the password for the terminal every day for one week. ONE WEEK.
And you know what? I think I WILL rant about the tentacle scene. Am I watching a hentai series or something? Last time I checked, this was Sword Art Online. I had a bad feeling the second I saw the whatevers, but I actually didn't think they'd stoop this low. This wasn't implied sexuality, it WAS sexual. There was NO point to it at all either, or I wouldn't be here.
Finally, if someone can explain this to me: Lyfa just finished explained that flying up the tree was impossible since they patched it. So, why is Kirito trying it the following scene?
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|2012-11-25, 04:56
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Spoiler for tiny spoiler:
to answer the above... I'd say Sugou was just over confident like a typical villain who thinks everything is according to plan; the dude is a corporate worker, not a villain master mind after all.
I can't really say anything about the tentacle part, except that they make good constricting medium...
and the last part about Kirito flying to the tree, that was him overwhelmed by the knowledge that Asuna is indeed on top of the tree. there's no confirmation about it until Yui told him at that point, so he just want to rush it. Don't forget that the main reason he play AOL is to find Asuna. and now that goal is really close...
I'd say that's a very plausible reaction.
|2012-11-25, 04:57
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I've about just had enough with all the moral-rage too, I'll just let someone else deal with it.
|2012-11-25, 05:05
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That was my guess on the Kirito flying scene, thanks for corroborating it. I'm just desensitized from the actual plot because they screwed around for so long.
It sounds like I don't want Asuna to escape, but that's not the case. It's just that as a spectator, she's going to get out with no resilience, and that ruins the point of Kirito even coming to get her.
And by turning your back to the matter, are you implying that there's nothing wrong at all with how the direction's been taken? There are moral-rages here I will admit, but some things are just plain baffling to me. Plus, you can't disagree in saying that the show's been degrading since the start, am I wrong?
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|2012-11-25, 06:13
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Besides, it doesn't apply in this case since as mentioned Sugou is more of a businessman.
My standard explanation that I use for all the quirks in the VR setup is that they're borrowing legacy code, and hence it may not be easy for them to make the underlying SAO engine do exactly what they want. Plus Sugou seems like the type who'd take shortcuts.
|2012-11-25, 06:44
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Wow, this episode made me rage more! Do I have for Asuna to be saved on the next episode because I can't take it anymore!
Still, if Sugou has some cunning skill, he could have kill Kirito, rape and kill Asuna, take over the company and screw everyone. Unfortunately, he's such a wannabe compared to effin' Seiji Noumi!
|2012-11-25, 07:25
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|2012-11-25, 07:29
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|2012-11-25, 07:44
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I'm starting to feel really bad for Suguha/Lyfa. I almost dun wanna see how she will react if she knew who Kirito really was.
So far till this episode, amazing adaption, poor source material. That really sums up this series as a whole, I think.
|2012-11-25, 07:52
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|2012-11-25, 09:45
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Let's also add that a lot of times, people in positions of power aren't there because they're almighty geniuses. Many times they're there by sheer luck; because they've been stepping on other people's back; they're manipulative psychopaths or because he has an awesome team covering his back.
So far he has shown jealousy towards his senior Kayaba Akihiko which one might interpret as him feeling or really being inferior to Kayaba. And he's a manipulative psychopath from his interactions with the Yuuki family and how he has reached his position as VP. I could add more but they'd be considered spoilers.
|2012-11-25, 10:30
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|2012-11-25, 11:20
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This was better than last ep...
The fact that there's a little-sister-in-love-with-bro plot is annoying, but Sugu is at least being written fairly well for a character lumbered with that plot. Some of her reactions are realistic. She's not actually considering a romantic relationship with him and has realised it's not going to go anywhere, but is still having to deal with her feelings. Poor Sugu, she's likely to think of Kirito in the game as being a healthy option for getting over real-life Kirito! Although Yui did mention a "Mama" so with a bit of luck she'll realise that Kirito is taken too.
The scenery this ep was nice, too. I'd have liked to see more of the city, but oh well. It's also nice that Kirito's taking things seriously now and not running off to do side quests. Asuna's scenes in this ep were a mixture of good and bad.
The good: she did, very nearly, escape and save herself. Her decisions were sound, she was cautious, and she swore to save those other trapped people. Although she got thwarted, she was at least able to grab the keycard, which may be of use later. This is better than many characters get when they're locked up and stuck as a damsel in distress.
Sugou's a very boring villain IMO, but it's interesting that it didn't cross his mind to have Asuna monitored in any way. I suppose he would have been confident that she couldn't escape. But, you know, he should have been able to anticipate that Asuna would at least attempt to find the right combination and put her hours of boring captivity to use. He was arrogant and lax, leaving her with keypad access and no monitoring, no matter how small he thought the odds of her getting the combination were.
The bad: The creepy as hell tentacle molestation scene. There's really no excuse for it. Fanservice has been ramping up in this story arc, and now it's even at the point of having an eroticised tentacle scene. It sucks that much of Asuna's role in this arc has been to be helpless and take part in scenes consisting of various levels of threatened molestation. Okay, so she needs to be a captive for the sake of the plot, but this other stuff is gratuitous and unnecessary.
|2012-11-25, 11:29
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Well cool episode , i guess ?
The end kinda escalated quickly and i can't stop laughing at the kirito's sister
Jesus christ , looks like she have some really mental issues after all.
She can't even discover that the dude is her brother.
The next episode would be funny about that.
I also wonder why people wich do forbidden experiments in order to make a path in science are tagged "bad guy"
I mean , way before , some people used dissection on human bodies in order to make things move , they were considered like criminals / terrorist / against god /whenever
It would be funny if for a change some bad scientist brings this up to explain their actions.
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July 2, 2013 —
DAMASCUS, PA — Casey and Sally Halma of Beaver Lake in Damascus Township, PA stopped by The River Reporter offices last week wanting to share their photos of a peaceful encounter with a mother black bear and her two cubs. It happened on Friday, June 21 in early afternoon in their yard when the bear came right up to their porch steps. They saw her scratching in the grass where a bird feeder had spilled over.
"We didn't even know the two cubs were there," explained Casey, "until she stood up and scratched at the tree, and we saw two cubs climb down."
"These are the first bears we've seen this year," he added.
He told how one year they watched as a mother bear was showing her cubs how to get berries from a blueberry bush. "She was bending down the bush for them to reach the berries, and they were standing up eating."
And even though the Halma's have seen bears many number of times over their 11 years living in Damascus Township, "It's always exciting no matter how often we see them," Sally reported.
"We also have a new fawn and mother this year," Casey said. "And last year we had a hen turkey with 12 young ones."
Ah, life in the country!
A call to the PA Game Commission northeast region resulted in some advice about encountering bears.
"We want people to minimize the opportunity for bears to be attracted to your area. We want them to stay in the woods, not in your back yard," said William Williams, information and education supervisor.
"They're notorious for raiding bird feeders, and they love black sunflower seeds better than just about anything," he continued. "When people do have a bear encounter, we ask them to cease feeding the birds for a while until the bear moves along." Bears also love trash that's left overnight and outdoor grills.
"Generally, black bears are good natured," Williams said, although he acknowledged that they're big enough to hurt you. That said, "We haven't had a fatality since prior to 1900 in Pennsylvania, when we started keeping records."
He addressed what he called the "myth" that mother bears are any more dangerous when they're with cubs. She might false charge you, he indicated, but that's probably all. Usually, a bear is more dangerous when it's agitated, perhaps in an encounter with a barking dog.
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The knife works is a subsidiary of Culpepper and Co., a renowned knife handle maker, whose production facility overtakes the majority of the Macon County building.
"The way you make a knife hasn't really changed much from the ways of the past," she said. "Yes, there have been modern technological advances, but it's still the basic principle of a person forging a tool for use. It's a skill and a tool that will always be useful."
A Franklin native, Culpepper found herself immersed in the cutlery industry when she met her future husband Joe in high school. Joe's father, David Culpepper, had moved his family from Florida to Macon County in 1973. At the time, David was an acclaimed knife maker who traveled from show to show selling his wares and honing his craft. He soon found a need for quality, handmade knife handles, and thus Culpepper and Co. was created in 1976.
"David started to cut different materials, like shells, to put on his knives," Kristi said. "He became very prolific in that aspect and soon began to revive the older techniques of dying and designing bone from the turn of the 20th century."
In 1995, Kristi and Joe bought the company outright from David. They continue the unique styles and lost art of knife handle making that has largely disappeared from the mainstream cutlery industry.
"People are still drawn to the natural materials. Plastic may be cheaper, but our customers want quality, they want the exact pieces their grandfather had and used," Kristi said. "We offer a lot of components between the websites and the store, and can help out any specific needs. People will bring in their projects and we'll measure out what they need."
It's about quality, not quantity, though sales numbers have steadily increased over their tenure with the business. On a good year, the company will top over a million components manufactured in Franklin – sent across the country and around the globe. Some production order contracts will be 50,000 components, while in-store purchases can be as small as one item.
"We'll sell materials for knives that are worth $3 up to $20,000," Kristi said. "Our handles make it a lot easier to sell these knives because we have the first-hand knowledge about the pieces, which comes natural to us due to all of the experience and interaction we've had with customers and those in the industry. Feedback is the number one thing in doing this."
The couple travels the world in search of the ideal materials, from black mother of pearl in Thailand or Indonesia, to cattle bones from Argentina or rare pieces only found in Mongolia and China. It's about finding the perfect item and bringing it back to Macon County, where the handles will then be sold to renowned knife companies like Case, Bear & Son, Queen, and Kershaw, among others.
"There's only one other facility that does this type of large-scale production, and that's Case in Pennsylvania," Kristi said. "But, they only do in-house production, whereas we're the only company of our kind that offers this particular method of dye and design, which can make for dozens of different combinations and patterns."
In 2009, when a company contracted Culpepper and Co. for more material than they could pay for, the couple decided to trade for finished knives. Now with a stockroom full of merchandise, they decided to open the facility to the public with the establishment of Old School Knife Works. Since that time, business in the retail store has tripled, with folks from every direction wandering into the building in hopes of tracking down that final piece to their cutlery puzzle.
"There are people who have built whole cottage industry businesses on repairing and restoring old knives," Kristi said. "People will find an old knife at a flea market, come in here and find the part they need to make it back into an operational tool. It's repurposing something, bringing it back to life, which is something we value in the South."
Looking toward the future, the Culpeppers want to keep their consistency in the market, expand Old School Knife Works, and hopefully start offering workshops and classes in knife making.
"It's like blacksmithing, gun making or being a brick layer, people just aren't familiar with those skills anymore," Kristi said. "We want to keep these things alive, where it's about knowing how to use your hands to make something."
It's all in an effort to keep the tradition alive, exposing more and more of society to the history and endless possibilities in their industry.
"It can be a daily struggle doing this, but we do it because we believe in it," Kristi said. "This business could be anywhere in the world, but we chose to be here, in Macon County. I was raised here, and maybe people can take this area for granted, but the people here are like nowhere else — they're generally concerned for each other, and we all look out for one another."
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Culpepper & Co. and Old School Knife Works are located at 8285 Georgia Road in Otto (south of Franklin on U.S. 441). They're open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.


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Specifications of another Asrock notebook – MultiBook G12 – are not clear, but it can be expected that the unit will have 12" display and will not support internal optical disk drive.
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Great build so far! I can't wait to see the finished SMG.
Great build so far! I can't wait to see the finished SMG.
damn kids with their droppin stuff and not to mention that horrible water! soakig our work. lol i hope this build goes well.
Excellent work on this though sorry to hear your little un had his wee way, as well as the stock getting soaked :/ I look forward to seeing the rebuilt version on here soon mate
Excellent work! I was thinking of doing something very similar to this for my smg. The deatail you get with the cardboard is incredible. Can't wait to see it done.
that thing is awesome! i want to see it done!!!
Thank you all for your interest in this build. First off, I can say that I have no patience at all in trying to finish this. You can tell by the lack of quality in my work. This was an experiment and I wasn't expecting this to be perfect. Plus, it was a toy for my kids on the Halloween.
Here I present you the final painted SMG. Not exactly the right size.
Over the years I experimented with other kind of build. Here is a pepakura M6A that I did last year. This was actually destroyed by my son, again. I was able to salvage most of it and finished it up with a fresh coat of paint. Note that the trigger is missing.
Two months ago I tried the cardboard method. Here is the results.
Here are the 3 guns with 3 different build methods. The method I prefer is using cardboard. It requires a lot of planning and scratch building, but I can put more details in it. And if I plan correctly, the gun is the right size with the right details.
omg omg omg omg you are pro as man keep it up with the good work and such especialy with the m6d (favouite gun) and ma37 way better than mine
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Home List of Titles Disagreement between correlations of quantum mechanics and stochastic electrodynamics in the damped parametric oscillator
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- Disagreement between correlations of quantum mechanics and stochastic electrodynamics in the damped parametric oscillator
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- Intracavity and external third order correlations in the damped nondegenerate parametric oscillator are calculated for quantum mechanics and stochastic electrodynamics (SED), a semiclassical theory. The two theories yield greatly different results, with the correlations of quantum mechanics being cubic in the system's nonlinear coupling constant and those of SED being linear in the same constant. In particular, differences between the two theories are present in at least a mesoscopic regime. They also exist when realistic damping is included. Such differences illustrate distinctions between quantum mechanics and a hidden variable theory for continuous variables.
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- 2000
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- Computer simulation; Continous variables; Damping; Electrodynamics; Electronic density of states; Frequencies; Ground state; Hidden variable theory; Magnetic couplings; Nonlinear coupling constant; Nonlinear optics; Parametric oscillators; Photons; Quantum optics; Quantum theory; Random processes; SED; Stochastic electrodynamics
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