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Not related but I'm finding gunked up balance wheels as well.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Not related but I'm finding gunked up balance wheels as well.
NEVER let a sewing machine know you are in a hurry.
good mothers let you lick the beaters - great mothers turn it off first
Originally the problem of the thread coming out of the bobbin case tension only happened on a new full bobbin. Then it started happening all the time. I have double and triple checked the bobbin placement with the manual.
I did notice that on the bobbin case that comes with this machine I also have a problem getting the thread into the first opening. it just seems to glide over it and I have to really fiddle with it to get it into the opening to then pull it under the tension spring.
I don't have this problem with the bobbin case from the featherweight.
Disassemble the bobbin case spring. Remove it completely. Clean it underneath, in the thread slot and everywhere else. Make sure the grove the thread passes through is clear. Reassemble it with both screws loose. Then make sure the spring is not proud of the edge of the bobbin case and tighten the attaching screw all the way. Then run the adjusting screw all the way down, then back it out 1 turn and start adjusting it from there.
Once you get the bobbin case adjusted go up to the top tension. Look it over good. Make sure it's assembled correctly and all the way in the machine. I set them at "3" to start then sew a bit. If it needs adjusting do that.
If you can't get it the top tension needs some looking at. I've had more problems with top tensions than bottom and usually it's because I have the number ring set wrong. They are not overly complicated, but they do need to be adjusted correctly.
Have you looked at the instructions in the TFSR site? They are worth their weight in gold.
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Their instruction cover both top and bottom tensions very thoroughly.
What do you mean by this?
"Then make sure the spring is not proud of the edge of the bobbin case"
OK, you caught me. I made a boo boo. I was typing about 301 and that sort of bobbin case when I stuck in a blurb about class 66 bobbin cases. Duh ............... my bad.
To elaborate, sometimes on Class 66 bobbin cases I have found the tension spring sitting high with the top edge proud of the case body. Sometimes the edge of the spring will act as a knife and cut the thread. Hense not letting it be proud of the case.
The 221/301 and class 15s don't have that problem.


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APCNews 118 – Filipino men and telecentres, Bangladesh and culture
APCNews – April 15 2010 – Year XI Issue 118
The news service on ICTs for social justice and sustainable development
A new study on rural internet use in the Philippines has found that women use telecentres socially. They chat with friends and family abroad and look for friends and even potential husbands. Men prefer to use the internet for games and looking at pornography. As neither are allowed in Philippine telecentres, men in focus groups labelled those who do go to telecentres "sissies". However interestingly not all men feel the same way. Teenage boys go to telecentres when they need to focus on school work and male seniors go for computer training and afterwards to train their peers. They are more comfortable in telecentres than in commercial cybercafés. APCNews highlights two more experiences improving access to internet for both men and women and boys and girls using APC's gender evaluation methodology (GEM) – in rural Philippines and Bangladesh.
—NEWS —Why "real men" don't use telecentres in the Philippines
CALGARY (LC for APCNews) – While in Africa and Latin America telecentres are trying to cater to the needs of both sexes by making them more accommodating to women, telecentres in the Philippines are trying to make them more inviting to men. A study which looked at one rural and one fishing community using GEM – the APC's Gender Evaluation Methodology – has helped telecentre managers learn why men are staying away. APC talks to Angelo Juan Ramos of the Philippine telecentre network that carried out the study to find out how GEM uncovered surprising results that will help telecentres appeal to everyone.
Culture is a bigger barrier to Bangladeshi girls going online than lack of money or computers
CALGARY (LC for APCNews) – "If a boy wants to attend a computer course community members encourage him but if a girl wants to go elders ask her why she wants to complicate her life," says Dhaka-based Mahmud Hassan. In a country where one in every two males accesses information online yet only three in a hundred Bangladeshi women do, access for schoolgirls is not just about the availability of computers and classes. For girls, it requires the support of the entire community and flexible school schedules as revealed by a study using APC's Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM).
The end of GenARDIS small grants for rural women round III
JOHANNESBURG (LC for APCNews) – In March GenARDIS grant winners met for the last time after more than a year of innovative research and work to improve rural women's lives in countries like Ethiopia, the Dominican Republic and Zambia. With projects as diverse as community radio drama groups, pest control through information access and using technology to promote women's inheritance and land rights, projects were as diverse as the countries they came from. But as this third round of small grants winds down, participants are determined to scale up their work.
Impact 2.0? Experimenting with social networking for policy change in Latin America
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This roundup summarizes some notable recent items about scientific research, selected from news reports compiled in Sigma Xi's free electronic newsletters Science in the News Daily and Science in the News Weekly. Online: sitn.sigmaxi.org and www.americanscientist.org/sitnweekly
Content to Get Older
They say that youth is wasted on the young, and a new study adds evidence to this maxim. Data from the General Social Survey, a yearly interview done with more than 50,000 Americans since 1972, shows that older adults report being happier than younger people. Older adults were not always so cheerful; they report that becoming older conferred contentment. Although they are likely to endure physical ailments and the loss of family members, those of more advanced age have fewer financial, interpersonal or crime problems. Youth, in contrast, enjoy good health but generally experience predicaments in their finances, emotional relationships and professional lives.
Yang, Y. Social inequalities in happiness in the United States, 1972 to 2004: An age-period-cohort analysis. American Sociological Review 73:204-226 (April)
Pesticides Don't Smell Fishy to Trout
Although concentrated pollution has been eliminated from most waterways, low levels of pesticides and other chemicals still end up in streams. A new study replicated typical trace concentrations of 10 contaminants in water containing captive rainbow trout. After four days of exposure, although the trout could still smell, they could not detect changes in the level of an odor produced by predators, meaning they could not sense the distance to, say, a wading bear. Since salmon are close relatives of trout, failure to evade predators may be one reason for plummeting salmon stocks in North America.
Tierney, K. B., et al. Salmon olfaction is impaired by an environmentally realistic pesticide mixture. Environmental Science and Technology 42:4996-5001 (published online June 4)
Look Out Above!
Avalanches can happen quickly and with very little provocation. A new study finds that a major factor determining when the snow will go is a brittle, collapsible layer of icy grains that sits between a dense slab on top and a rigid base below. Scientists had thought that the critical crack size to start an avalanche would increase as the slope angle decreases, but this study found that the length was pretty much constant. Instead the investigators found that when the brittle middle layer collapses and leaves large cavities, these can form large networks of instabilities, meaning there is no minimum angle to start a slide. This result could explain why some cross-country skiers, when moving over flat snow cover, can still trigger a remote avalanche on a hill above them.
Heierli, J., P. Gumbsch and M. Zaiser. Anticrack nucleation as a triggering mechanism for snow slab avalanches. Science 321:240-243 (July 11)
The Ocean Eats Ozone
Halogens, such as iodine and bromine, are released by seawater in the form of spray, and destroy ozone. A new study has found that open ocean produces more halogens than predicted, suggesting that 50 percent more ozone is scrubbed above the tropical Atlantic Ocean than previously thought. The same process produces hydroxyls that may also pull methane out of the lower atmosphere at rates slightly higher than expected. Such data could be important additions to climate models. However, this natural mechanism for keeping these greenhouse gases in check may be overwhelmed by rising emissions.
Read, K. A., et al. Extensive halogen-mediated ozone destruction over the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Nature 453:1232-1235 (June 26)
Like Your Own Arm
In an advance that could lead to brain-controlled prosthetics, a new study has shown that monkeys can be taught to use only neural signals to make a robot arm grasp snacks and feed themselves. The rhesus macaques were fitted with a small grid of electrodes, about the size of a freckle, over a patch of cells known to signal arm and hand movement. The electrodes collected the signals from neurons, which were analyzed by a computer that then fed the electronic command to the arm. After several days, the monkeys were able to adjust the grip of the arm depending on the softness of the food, use the arm to push morsels into their mouths, and generally adopted it as if it were their own.
Velliste, M., et al. Cortical control of a prosthetic arm for self-feeding. Nature 453:1098-1101 (June 19)
Shunning the Dirt
Some materials are naturally attracted to water. These hydrophilic substances also tend to repel impurities in water, leaving a film of pure water along their surfaces. Researchers decided to exploit this phenomenon to build a water filtration system that requires no moving parts or disposable filters, making it simple and potentially inexpensive. The filter consists of a needle-sized tube made of a hydrophilic polymer, connected to two concentric steel tubes at one end. Water contaminated with tiny latex spheres, soil and bacteria flows through the tube and separates into two streams—one of pure water near the walls, another with contaminants at the center. The inner steel tube collects the dirty water, separating it from the purified stream.
Klyuzhin, I., et al. New method of water purification based on the particle-exclusion phenomenon. Environmental Science and Technology ASAP (published online July 11)
Rooted to Family
Plants may seem to be passive, defenseless organisms, but at least one species can sense if it's surrounded by relatives or strangers and respond accordingly. A study finds that the annual plant Cakile edentula, or Great Lakes sea rocket, when placed in pots with plants that are unrelated to it, will divert resources into root growth in order to escalate its competition with the invaders. However, if the plant is put in containers with siblings, it refrains from this behavior. This finding argues that the plant is able to recognize kin, something that not even all animals are capable of doing.
Dudley, S. A., and A. L. File. Yes, kin recognition in plants! Biology Letters 4: 69-70 (February 23)
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Norma Guerra (top) and
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Faculty receive mental health research awards
By Chris Johnson
UTSA Culture and Policy Institute
(July 17, 2006)--Norma Guerra, UTSA assistant professor and program coordinator in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, and Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles, UTSA assistant professor in the Department of Communication, were selected as the 2006 recipients of the South Texas Initiative for Mental Health Research (STIMHR) Summer Faculty Research Awards.
The research awards program helps faculty members develop competitive grant proposals to enrich mental-health research.
Among the selection criteria for the awards are the potential for studies to benefit the broad Hispanic population in South Texas, a strong theoretical framework and the potential for the project to secure future external funding.
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Guerra's proposed project, "Assessing Engagement Styles: LIBRE Model Development," will focus on advancing counselor-client communication. The LIBRE model is an emerging, cognitively based approach consisting of problem-solving training, practice and dialogue to efficiently resolve client complaints.
As part of the protocol, the clinician uses various communication styles to understand how a client will manage stress and their challenges and willingness to resolve the problem through a course of action the client proposes.
"LIBRE" represents the steps to the approach: L = listening to identifying the client's narrative, I = identifying the client's primary area of concern, B = brainstorming options to resolve the identified concern, R = reality testing of the options, E = encouragement in the development of an action plan skills. The model has shown preliminary effectiveness among low-income public housing, rural community, and undergraduate and graduate Hispanics and non-Hispanics.
By examining cross-cultural sensitivity in counseling sessions with its implications for access among Hispanics in further developing and refining the therapeutic framework, Guerra's study seeks to provide insight into the viability of the LIBRE model as a culturally appropriate intervention and assessment tool for counselors to use in problem resolution while communicating value and respect to the client in a safe, comfortable setting.
The project will assess receptivity to, client satisfaction and engagement in the counseling experience based on the LIBRE model during ethnically matched and cross-matched counselor-client dialogues.
Guerra will explore potential contributions and applications to benefit counseling centers and counselor training programs.
Health communication also is a research focus for Wittenberg-Lyles, who has conducted a variety of studies exploring interpersonal processes taking place in the context of death and dying in hospices. In line with this research, her proposed project, "Competently Communicating Bereavement: The Roles of Culture and Patient Location on Caregiver Impact," will examine the development of successful, culturally competent bereavement interventions among Hispanic caregivers.
Because the loss of a loved one often causes considerable and sometimes overwhelming psychological and social distress and since grieving processes and perceptions of death may be functions of socio-cultural beliefs, the goal of Wittenberg-Lyles' pilot study is to formulate culturally sensitive coping interventions among Hispanics in managing caregiver grief and decrease the mental-health burdens among many families.
According to Wittenberg-Lyles, attending to cultural competency, which recognizes the importance of culture and intercultural relations in tailoring service needs in health communication and, in the case of end-of-life care, making assessments and placement recommendations. In order to increase cultural competency, it is important to develop more effective caregiver mental-health and bereavement interventions that integrate these factors.
UTSA faculty members involved in mental-health research or who are planning to pursue the research are invited each year to apply for STIMHR research awards. The awards provide summer salary for one month and one course release in the fall semester. Award recipients then submit grant proposals to an extramural funding agency for funding of at least $50,000 per year.
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Judith Kay Miller, 70, of Fifty Lakes died on Sept. 10, 2013 at her home. She was born on Dec. 5, 1942 in Houston, Minn., to Oren and Madonna (McNabo) Loken. Judy was a member of the Immaculate Heart Catholic Church in Crosslake; the Minnesota Citizen Concerned for Life and a former Crow Wing County Chairperson. She was a retired postal clerk at the Fifty Lakes and Manhattan Beach Post Offices. Judy was an avid gardener both at home and at Our Ladies Garden at the Immaculate Heart Catholic Church and the Nisswa Garden Club.
Survivors include her husband Michael Herman; two sons, Dan (Debbie) Miller of Crosslake, Chris (Marine) Miller of Portland, Maine; two step sons, Matthew (Jennie) Herman of Elk River and Christopher (Sarah) Herman of Princeton; one brother, Butch (Barb) Loken of Holman, Wisc.; three sisters, Cathy (Milt) Willigallie of Lakeville, Becky (Randy) Savey of Jenkins and Vicky (Kevin) Flagal of Austin, Tex.; three grandchilden, Marissa, Allie and Emeric Miller; six step-grandchildren, Mikela, Madison, Nash, Ethen, Cole, Kegan Herman.
Preceding her in death are her parents and first husband Donald G. Miller.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013 at the Immaculate Heart Catholic Church in Crosslake. Burial will be at the Pine Ridge Cemetery in Emily. Friends may call one hour prior to the services at the church on Friday.
Judy touched many lives she will be sadly missed by her family and friends.
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For at least six years, the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association (BPPA) has published a boldly bigoted official union newsletter, the Pax Centurion. Full of screeds against minorities, women, progressives, gays, Muslims, and even crime victims, its pages have long drawn ire from activists and union members alike. Last week, though, the mostly obscure paper finally broke into the spotlight: Mayor Tom Menino called the Pax "garbage," Boston Police Superintendent Ed Davis condemned the rag on Twitter, and several big-brand advertisers yanked their sponsorships.
(Hours after this story went to press on Tuesday morning, the .pdf archives of Pax Centurion – which had been publicly hosted on the BPPA website, suddenly disappeared, without explanation. We are republishing the files on our site so that the public can scrutinize Pax Centurion's twisted legacy.)
These recent developments show that neither the general public nor the paper's corporate underwriters had previously realized the breadth of its proudly vile content. The Phoenix reviewed the newsletter's archives, finding countless spiels that read like a Klan fanzine scribbled by a chimp pushing a crayon. A few examples (see "Conduct Unbecoming: The Worst of Pax" for more):
ON PREGNANT HOMELESS WOMEN: "And now the city, in its infinite wisdom, will be acting to enable these little trollops to have exactly what they want simply by getting knocked up."
ON MURDER VICTIMS: "I'm so sick of hearing how each gang member that gets shot is 'turning his life around' . . . because I have never actually seen one turn his life around."
ON MUSLIMS: "They want to kill you. Do you understand? THEY WANT TO KILL YOU."
In one editorial from 2010, Pax managing editor James Carnell attacked the mother of Manuel DaViega, who died in a police shootout that April. Carnell wrote: "All due respect to motherhood and fully understanding a grieving mother's attempts to put blame anywhere but where it belongs, but your son was a maggot and a scumbag."
The tirade incensed black and Latino community leaders, as well as officers of color like detective Larry Ellison. "I have to brace myself to read [Pax] every time there's a new one," said Ellison, the president of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers (MAMLEO).
The powder keg finally popped soon after the release of the May-June issue of Pax, which features, among other highlights, a rant against "racial huckster" Deval Patrick, and an article slamming "Disgusting J.P. Liberals." But it was an evisceration of an Occupy Boston activist that seems to have lit the fuse. As Carnell's latest carnage bounced around the Internet — even making its way onto jezebel.com — offended Occupiers and their allies alerted the tract's many advertisers, among them such major companies as Merck, Converse, Safety Insurance, Harvard-Pilgrim, and Legal Sea Foods. Some sponsors have already backed off, claiming that they were unaware of the newsletter's toxic content. Others told the Phoenix they are investigating, trying to figure out how their logo wound up funding so much race-baiting and gay-bashing.
UPDATE: The BPPA responds; provokes questions about Pax Centurion funding
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EXOTIC CREATURES Tomorrow is an exciting day, we are leaving in a couple of hours to New York city and I must admit that I am extremely excited. First of all because it has been years since my last trip to the US. Plus, I can wait to assist to all the fun event regarding the fashion week. As you might have noticed in my last post, I have been very tired lately ( too tired actually... my brain stopped working for a while) and I really wanted to say sorry for my lack of posts. I truly needed to take some time away from the computer and rest even though I must say that I missed the blog each day. I do feel better now, but not good enough yet so I really hope that this trip will reload my batteries. I have spend a couple of hours yesterday by James's place which is full of little animals. After checking a bit my blog, I played with his strangly creepy but still so adorable gecko, can't remember his name but I think Karl fits him quiet well. I am going to bed, early flight tomorrow morning!
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Ask any local, and as the saying goes, they came for the Winter and stayed for the Summers. And it's true. This majestic landscape offers summertime brilliance and a plethora of activities to compliment the backdrop.
When we aren't busy being Ski Town USA®, we're Bike Town USA®!
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Steamboat has 500+ miles of singletrack, the downtown core trail and is home to businesses like Moots Cycles, Eriksen Cycles, Honey Stinger, Big Agnes, Boa and Smartwool.
BMX, Mountain Biking, USA Pro Cycling challenge or just tooling around town on your one speed, this town was born for bicyclists.
Emerald Mountain is around the corner, with 24 miles of non-motorized multi-use recreational trails. These trails have been planned and constructed for the public to enjoy and allow two-way traffic for pedestrians, bicyclists, and equestrians.
Fish Creek Falls is a fantastic destination for any ability level. 283-ft. Cascading waterfall is a winter's worth of snow melt, crashing over a cliff into the canyon creek below. Beautiful!
The Yampa Rive Botanic Park is a place of serenity, free and open to the public from May-October. See More
The Romick Rodeo Arena features the Pro Rodeo Series, every Friday and Saturday night from June through August.
Alpine Slide:
Brave the Howler alpine slide or go for a horseback ride at the Howelsen recreation area. During the winter months this location is where the Olympic ski jumpers train.
With the Yampa River flowing through the heart of downtown, this is the perfect destination to get started in trout fishing. And within a half hour of town, budding anglers can explore countless other mountain lakes and streams.
Where to start? Walk out the back door with your own gear, or ask the experts! The family owners of Bucking Rainbow would love to show you the way...
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Our understanding of spectrum has changed a great deal since Marconi first spanned the Atlantic with his "wireless telegraph message". In 1902, he used the whole spectrum available at the time to send a few bits per second over thousands of square kilometres.
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Marconi was later able to build a transmitter that could restrict emissions to just a range of frequencies, and a receiver that could be "tuned" to a particular frequency range. This allowed many users to transmit in the same area (space) and at the same time. This process of assigning different frequencies to different users became known as Frequency Division Multiple Access or FDMA. With FDMA, radio became a practical means of communication, and the only technology capable of reaching ships in open seas.
National agencies were created to coordinate allocation of frequencies to different users. Since radio waves are not stopped by national borders, however, international agreements were also needed. The international organization that had been created to regulate the transmission of telegrams among different countries was commissioned to allocate use of electromagnetic spectrum. Today, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), is the oldest United Nations agency, and issues recommendations for frequency use to 193 United Nations (UN) members.
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Thanks for letting us know how you got on, Moon. It sounds like that inspector was very helpful to take the time to talk you through all those legal requirements.
Thanks for letting us know how you got on, Moon. It sounds like that inspector was very helpful to take the time to talk you through all those legal requirements.
No problem, yeah the inspector was a really nice guy and very informative. Pretty cut and dried on what I needed to do and was more then happy for me to call him if I had any questions or wanted him to swing back by to see how I should set my honey house up. I don't have the money to insulate, rock, install sinks, and run water out to my shed this year so I think I'll just extract and bottle everything and the sell direct to consumers at craft shows (which according to the inspector is 100% legal, I just can't use a 3rd party). Lesson learned in any case.
We the willing have done so much with so little for so long we can now do anything with nothing
sounds like my states rules almost exactly. I'm guessing much like my state theres enough loop holes that you can do what you really want to do.
We the willing have done so much with so little for so long we can now do anything with nothing
1st party you, who made a honey; 2nd party is who purchased bulk honey from you with intention to re-sell it to the 3rd party, store etc. If you sell directly to the store, there is only two parties - you and store manager. I am just thinking if there is loophole in your inspector logic? It looks like if you sell directly to the store, 3-party rule may not be used. Is this right? Also - if you have a stand in the store and sell by yourself - it is only one party - again, you should be OK.
Regarding sanitary rules - I think it is reasonable to require to have clean facility for eatable product.
Серёжа, Sergey
If he sold to the store (1 and 2 parties) the third party would be the consumer that buys the honey from the store.
Two party is him selling directly to a customer.
Now if he was to sell a bucket of honey to a customer and that customer bottled it and sold it, would that be considered a third party sell?
What if the said seller didnt know that the customer had intentions of "cutting" and reselling the honey?
Coyote Creek Bees
As for the idea of how you are harming other businesses argument. I woudl actually ask her to set down and explain to me in detail exactly how I can do that. In fact if I could I would make it impossible for anyone and everyone to be able to sell one drop of honey. It is called competitions. and I would pay big bucks to be that good at it. Many would pay me really big bucks to work for them being that good at it. I find that when people want to claim I am inconsiderate and hard hearted. showing them just how heartless I can be is educational for them. Would I run Mom and Pop out of business? You bet I would. I would make selling honey on the same scale of someone thinking of making the next ipod type technology. very few would even consider trying.
Once I had this woman unquestionably believing I desire to run every mom and pop out of business. I woudl then drop hints that since it doesn't really look like i can do that. maybe I will take up selling soaps as well. Maybe just running her out of business will be satisfactory.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Seems like what you discovered is the basics of a commercial kitchen. Did he talk about proper procedure for cleaning utensils and safe food handeling? Good info!
Maybe not having a third party involved leaves the liability trail directly in your lap. There is no one else to blame a problem on!
All this information is available but you have to work hard to find and understand what is appropriate for what you want to do and where you want to do it.
- I quess, it is called capitalism, making money from money, not creating additional product... nothing personal.Now if he was to sell a bucket of honey to a customer and that customer bottled it and sold it, would that be considered a third party sell?
Серёжа, Sergey
Basically you have to sell to the end user, its the same where I live. I know beekeepers who hire people to sell at farmers markets for them as there representative.
You just can't sell it for someone to re-sell it. Or sell wholesale which is the same thing.
No the third party isn't the consumer. The Consumer is always the second party. I being the first party, selling to the consumer being the second party. If I were to use another party to sell to the consumer the consumer is still the second party they are just going through a middle man (i.e. the third party) to purchase the product. Hence the term, using a third party to sell my product. The sell doesn't become the second party and the consumer the third (they do if you're looking at the chronological time line in which the product is sold) they are simply the middle man overseeing the transaction and subtracting small fee for mitigating it. As I am to understand it.
We the willing have done so much with so little for so long we can now do anything with nothing
I have been looking into this extensively here in Oregon. We have a 20 hive rule that says that less than twenty hives you can bottle and sell retail without any sort of commercial kitchen. Wholesale production and over twenty hives require commercial kitchen and food producer lisence, but even the people from the state agency that oversee it admit that there is contradictory language currently on the books. The lady I spoke to flat out told me that they really don't have any interest in policing small honey producers at the farmers market.


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All Battlestar Galactica productions share the premise that in a distant part of our galaxy, a human civilization has extended to a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol. The Twelve Colonies have been engaged in a lengthy war with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons, whose goal is the extermination of the human race. The Cylons offer peace to the humans, which proves to be a ruse. With the aid of a human named Baltar (an inadvertent aid in the 2003 version), the Cylons carry out a massive attack on the Twelve Colonies and on the Colonial Fleet of starships that protect them. These attacks devastate the Colonial Fleet, lay waste to the Colonies, and virtually destroy their populations. Scattered survivors flee into outer space aboard available spaceships. Of the entire Colonial battle fleet, only the Battlestar Galactica, a gigantic battleship and spacecraft carrier (analogous to an aircraft carrier), appears to have survived the Cylon attack. Under the leadership of Commander Adama, the Galactica and the pilots of "Viper" fighters lead a fugitive fleet of survivors in search of the fabled thirteenth colony known as Earth.
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Re: st: AW: RE: re: question on XTOVERID
Davillas Apostolos <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: AW: RE: re: question on XTOVERID
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:31:56 +0200
Really many thanks!
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:28:18 +0100, "Martin Weiss" <email@example.com>
> <>
> " Baltagi's
> textbook on panel data econometrics has a short exposition of the
> Hausman-Taylor model and includes a description of what the test of
> overidentifying restrictions after a H-T estimation actually tests."
> Yes, in sections 7.4 and 7.5, in particular page 135, around equation
> (7.46). Having worked with -xthtaylor- myself
> 06) I have to say that it is not an easily explored panel data command,
> because all sources in the literature use the same example, so
> literature does not yield much insight for beginners...
> Martin
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: email@example.com
> [mailto:email@example.com] Im Auftrag von Schaffer,
> Gesendet: Montag, 22. März 2010 16:17
> An: firstname.lastname@example.com
> Betreff: st: RE: re: question on XTOVERID
> Apostolos,
> A quick addendum to what Kit has said: if I'm not mistaken, Baltagi's
> textbook on panel data econometrics has a short exposition of the
> Hausman-Taylor model and includes a description of what the test of
> overidentifying restrictions after a H-T estimation actually tests.
> Best wishes,
> Mark
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: firstname.lastname@example.com
>> [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Kit Baum
>> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:05 PM
>> To: email@example.com
>> Subject: st: re: question on XTOVERID
>> <>
>> > I am interesting in performing a Hausman-Taylor estimation
>> in stata (using
>> > -xthtaylor command).However, as an attempt to test the
>> assumptions required
>> > to get consistent estimators (that the most, except from
>> the endogenous
>> > regressors, are not correlated with the time-invariant
>> error term), I did
>> > following:
>> > xtahylor y x z e f x, endog(z) /// note f, x and z time invariant
>> > variables
>> > estimates store xt
>> > xtreg y x e, fe
>> > estimates store fe
>> > hausman fe xt
>> > In other words, I test the differences between the
>> co-efficients from the
>> > two models. If the H0 of no systematic difference was not
>> rejected, the
>> > instrumentation of the z variable is sufficient to remove
>> any correlation
>> > between the time-ivariant error term and the remaining regressors.
>> > I am wondering what the -XTOVERID, after the -xtahylor
>> command, could
>> > exactly does? Reading the stata help file, I did not find
>> any specific
>> > reference for the case using the command after the xtahylor
>> (except from
>> > the calculation of the dof).
>> There are two different sets of assumptions here. If you look
>> at the example in -help xthtaylor-, and rerun that model
>> as a FE model, the -hausman- test will not reject its null
>> there either. But that hausman test is run under the
>> maintained hypothesis that the FE model is consistent. If it
>> was consistent, why would you be using an instrumental
>> variables approach such as H-T?
>> The hausman test has no power if the maintained hypothesis
>> (that the first model is consistent under H0 and Ha) is violated.
>> If you run the example in -help hausman- and then do
>> -xtoverid-, you get a strong rejection of the null that the
>> overidentifying
>> restrictions are satisfied. In the case of H-T, the
>> assumption is that some of the variables are correlated with the
>> individual effect (rendering RE inconsistent) but that this
>> can be dealt with using H-T. The second assumption is that ALL of the
>> variables are suitably independent of the idiosyncratic error
>> term. This is being tested by -xtoverid-, and the rejection
>> in this case
>> means, I believe, that the assumptions required for validity
>> of the H-T estimates are violated. That could be true for many
>> reasons, as in the usual IV case; e.g. omitted variables or
>> wrong functional form. If you apply -xtoverid- after a RE
>> model, for which the assumption is that X is indep of the
>> individual component, a rejection means that RE assumptions
>> do not hold.
>> I believe the inference here w.r.t. H-T is the same.
>> Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin |
>> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
>> An Introduction to Stata
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SunPower Spikes 15%: Leaked Q1 Rev, EPS Beat
Briefing.com just now reported SunPower (SPWR) earnings presentation materials have leaked out ahead of the company's Q1 report this afternoon.
The materials appear to indicate that the company made $575 million in revenue and 22 cents per share in net profit, which would be easily ahead of the consensus estimate for $510 million and 10 cents per share.
The stock has spiked by $1.39, or 11%, at $14.40.
Update: The official release has hit the wires, showing GAAP revenue of $635 million, a 29% year-over-year rise, and a GAAP net loss of 46 cents, down from the year-earlier 67-cent estimate.
On an adjusted, non-GAAP basis, the revenue did, indeed, come in at $574.63 million, and EPS came in at 22 cents.
SunPower's CEO Tom Werner remarked that the quarter's results were "strong," in particular in North America and Japan, while there was some improvement in the European solar market:
In our power plant business, we started initial construction of the 579-megawatt (MW) Antelope Valley Solar Projects (AVSP) for MidAmerican Solar and reached 90 percent completion on the California Valley Solar Ranch (CVSR) project owned by NRG Energy. With installation at CVSR expected to be finished by the end of the second quarter, we are on plan for full project completion by the end of the year. Demand in the residential lease business remained solid and once again exceeded our finance capacity in the first quarter. Additionally, demand in Japan remains very strong as Toshiba and Sharp accounted for approximately 25 percent of total first-quarter shipments. Finally, in Europe, we saw modest improvement in industry conditions during the quarter and are on track to return to profitability in the region by the end of 2013.
The company did not provide a forecast, instead saying it plans to discuss its outlook at its analyst day event in New York on May 15th.
SunPower will host a conference call with analysts to discuss the results at 4:30 pm, Eastern time, and you can catch the webcast of the event on the company's investor relations Web site.
The shares are now up $2.01, or over 15%, at $15.01.


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In the last few decades, the only answer to the question of escalating crime and violence was to "lock 'em up and throw away the key."1 Policymakers are now acknowledging that the old approach did little to improve public safety, and was not fiscally sustainable in the long term. Under the strain of billions of dollars in budget shortfalls, a package of proposals has been introduced at State and local levels, to divert thousands of nonviolent lawbreakers from the prison system to community supervision. Despite this shift toward community supervision, several key components toward preventing recidivism seem to be lagging. The American Probation and Parole Association warns that we are setting ex-offenders up for failure by pushing them out of prison with fewer interventions, such as drug treatment, housing or job assistance to support them, and the people to supervise them.2 The Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) intends to address this issue by creating a conceptual program model for offenders to use the time between release and employment to complete their educational goals and upgrade their skills in the community while on community supervision. While far-reaching, this project will demonstrate a strategic, cost-effective plan for improving re-entry and transition success.
The model, built upon sound research and expert experience, offers educators, advocates, and program providers a foundation for building a correctional education program.
Project Milestones
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Final publication, May 2012
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2Johnson, Kevin. "USATODAY.com." News, Travel, Weather, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, U.S. & World - USATODAY.com. 09 Feb. 2011. Web. 14 Feb. 2011. http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20110209/probationviolators09_st.art.htm
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Discussion in 'The Coffee Shop ~ Chit Chat' started by LowFlyer, Mar 31, 2005.
I pay over $2.10/gallon in Spokane, WA. That's nutty.
Gas is like $1.95/gallon in Tulsa. I thought that was expensive!
It's about $2.05 here now in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. :-(
In Charlotte NC we are up to $2.10 a gallon. On a positive note for how big Tahoe / Yukons are I think they get respectable gas mileage...
Just filled up yesterday for $2.19 per gallon.
I think I paid $2.25 last fill-up and I thought that was cheap.
Here in Des Moines, IA mid-range corn gas (ethanol) is ~$2.15 right now. It is upwards of $2.30+ in some rural parts of the state. We have less taxes on ethanol so it is actually the cheapest gas to buy here. 87 is about 10 cents more and premium is about 20-30 cents more.
I never get anything except for the 87. I just gassed up for $2.24/gallon on Saturday. :-?
I didn't even bother checking what my gas cost last time I filled up. I just check the total bill. It was like $60, that's all I care about anymore. That's pretty sad, I know. :-(
Filled up last night. 87 was $2.17, 89 was $2.07, and 91 was $2.27.
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Australian law dean to speak on international law of the sea
DETROIT (March 3, 2011) – Wayne State University Law School's Program for International Legal Studies and the International Law Students Association are pleased to host a lecture by Natalie Klein, dean and professor at Macquarie Law School in Sydney, Australia, from 12:15-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, in the Law School's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. In her lecture, "Protecting Whales under International Law: Australia's Case against Japan before the World Court," Klein will discuss Australia's effort to stop scientific whaling in the Southern Ocean.
"This case is the first opportunity for the World Court to address Japan's highly controversial whaling program," said Law School Professor Gregory Fox, director of the Program for International Legal Studies. "We're delighted to have a prolific scholar like Natalie Klein visit Wayne Law to explore the many complexities of Australia's claim and Japan's staunch defense of its program."
Klein teaches and researches in various areas of international law, with a focus on law of the sea and international dispute settlement. She is the author of Dispute Settlement and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She regularly provides advice, undertakes consultancies and interacts with the media on law of the sea issues. Prior to joining Macquarie, Klein was counsel to the Government of Eritrea and a consultant in the Office of Legal Affairs at the United Nations. She received a bachelor of arts and bachelor of laws from the University of Adelaide, and a master of laws and doctor of laws from Yale Law School.
The event is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided. Parking is available for $4.75 in Structure #1 across from the Law School on West Palmer Street in Detroit. For directions to the Law School and a campus map, visit www.campusmap.wayne.edu/location/LAW.
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Wayne Law created the Program for International Legal Studies in recognition of the breadth of the faculty's international engagements and expertise and the fact that nearly all aspects of law now have an international component. From regulation of cross-border financial transactions to controlling pollution that recognizes no boundaries to human rights treaties that regulate how governments treat their citizens, law is now an interconnected global phenomenon. The program coordinates all activities at Wayne Law related to international law. These activities include hosting the Speaker Series, sponsoring conferences and symposia featuring leading international scholars and practitioners, promoting research on international and comparative law topics, and providing important resources for Wayne Law students, alumni and friends interested in international law.
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BINGHAMTON, NY – Binghamton Enactus, a University student-led organization that seeks to use entrepreneurial action to solve needs in the community, will host the third annual Art Safari, at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, in downtown Binghamton.
This event, which is free and open to the public, will start at Twin River Commons at 45 Washington St. where attendees will be provided with an Art Safari map to local art galleries. Once participants have visited every location on the map, the map can be turned in as an entry to a raffle for prizes.
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Common Core Teaching Tips for "Waiting for Change":
Support close reading by following these steps.
Read for understanding
Read the article together, stopping to discuss important facts and details along the way. Ask: Why do some people think the United States should stop using the penny? Why is Jarden Zinc Products fighting to keep the penny? What is the meaning of positive seigniorage?
Analyzing evidence
Have students in pairs reread the article and classify each point the author makes into one of three categories: pro-penny, anti-penny or neutral. (For students who need more support, use this activity (PDF))
Go over students' findings. Ask: Based on these findings, do you think it is possible to determine the author's point of view? If so, do you think the author supports or opposes the use of pennies? Why?
Language study
Draw students' attention to the headline and subheading Waiting for Change and Two Sides to the Coin. Have students explain the use and meaning of each expression. Then challenge them to come up with their own penny-related puns to describe the content of the article.
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Using information from TFK, have students write a paragraph or an essay expressing and defending their opinion on pennies. Remind students to back up their reasons with facts and details.
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Jann Mardenborough arrives in Invercargill for this year's Toyota Racing Series with a unique sporting story. The Cardiff teen began his life in motorsport as a video gamer.
In 2011, Mardenborough won the Nissan-Sony Playstation Gran Turismo gaming competition, giving him the opportunity to attend the GT Academy. Coming out trumps there gained him a season of British GT racing last year, where he acquitted himself well on the real - as opposed to the virtual - track.
Mardenborough already has a tasty record in sports cars. He's won a race, been on the podium several times and put his car on pole.
The single-seater racing of the TRS is a new game, but the bloke appears to have all the tools required to feature.
Since its first season in 2005, the series has won a reputation as a proving ground for young drivers.
Such is its popularity around the world that only three of the 18 cars on the grid for this weekend's opening round at Teretonga will be piloted by Kiwis.
Last year's champion, New Zealander Nick Cassidy, is back from his European foray to defend his title with fellow locals Damon Leitch and Michael Scott.
This year he has moved from the successful Giles Motorsport team into a six-car entry from M2 Competition with new crew around him. That adds to the challenge.
"One thing every race driver has to know is how to relate to their engineer and mechanics," says Cassidy, "and to be able to communicate what the car is doing clearly to them."
Cassidy competed in several Formula Renault Eurocup races after FOR JANN, THIS IS THE REALITY THING
Jann Mardenborough on the track and - below, sitting on the left - with other graduates of the GT Academy.
winning the TRS title and tested a GP3 car. Back home, he substituted for the injured Greg Murphy in the V8 SuperTourers, winning his first outing in the big bangers at Taupo.
Leitch, from Invercargill, is on home ground for the opening round and will be keen to start as he did last year when he took an early points lead. This year he'll be looking to push on when his team hits the North Island tracks and improve on last year's third place.
The third Kiwi is 18-year-old Michael Scott from Te Puke, who has made the step up from Formula Ford.
The 15 overseas drivers are gunning to become the first series winner from abroad, and some have the pedigree to take the title.
The international drivers returning for a second bite of the cherry will be the biggest challenge for Cassidy and Leitch. They include Brazilian Bruno Bonifacio, Puerto Rican Flix Serralls, Brit Alex Lynn, Austrian Lucas Auer and Tanart Sathienthirakul from Thailand.
Serralls finished third in the British Formula Three championship, Lynn won the Formula Renault 2.0 UK championship in 2011 and recently took pole at the Macau Grand Prix Formula Three race, finishing third on debut. Auer finished second in last year's German Formula Three championship and Bonifacio finished third in the Formula Abarth European championship.
Sathienthirakul competed as a rookie last year's series after several years in European karting and raced in the Formula Renault 2.0 series.
Colombian Tatiana Calderon is the second female driver to mix it with the boys, coming fresh from a strong campaign in last year's European Open F3 series.
With Mardenborough, other newbies include 16-year-old Malaysian Akash Nandy, Norway's Dennis Olsen, also 16, Brazilian Pipo Derani, Australian Spike Goddard, Canadian Nicholas Latifi, Steijn Schothorst from the Netherlands, Singaporean Andrew Tang and Norwegian Dennis Olsen.


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I'm a big Warre fan but I wonder if Warre would disagree with his own ideas if he were alive today? Warner's principles were based on making the most cost effective, suitable environment for bees he acquired for free in a simpler time.
If the new paradigm is $200 bees and hives are quite expensive, would warre say if money were no object and bees are precious and hard to acquire, what would he do differently?
It is not unheard of to have $800+ into a modified warre, stand, fence, pad to place it on, feeder, frames, foundation, etc. seeing how far that is to the economy people's hive, I wonder if there is a better version of a Warre to be made at that price point?


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Re: O'day Tempest keel / hull joint
Pretty intense. Your cracks must have been much worse than mine. I used the Marinetek epoxy and filled it in. So far (knock wood) she has been in the water for 2 seasons. She even got knocked of her stanchions during Sandy. I'll bet your keel will look like it just came off the O'day line when you are done! Can you post a pic?
Re: O'day Tempest keel / hull joint
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I have a very similar with the same boat, an O'Day Tempest.
Having just purchased the boat and sanding it for bottom paint I found a poor faring job between the keel and hull that let water in. A couple of blisters were detected too so this is my plan to fix it:
I've chosen to use all Interlux to ensure there are no unintended chemical reactions and yes, I plan to take at least 5 to 7 working days to get the done as I do not want to have to revisit this problem again.
Any old Salts out there with thoughts on the plan and/or products?
What advice would you offer?
So, that set back and a couple of overseas trips ended my 2011 boat work. I didn't touch the boat at all in 2012 but I'm back at it in 2013.
I'll have some pics to post in the coming days.
Re: O'day Tempest keel / hull joint
I didn't work on the boat at all last year but got back on it this year.
This past weekend I finished the keel joint repair and thought I'd list out the steps I took here in case someone else goes about the same challenge:
First, background:
There was a shoddy repair of this joint that seemed to retain water better than a camel.
The repair consisted of the use of 5200 in the joint, encased with a very light fairing compound on top of bottom paint on both the hull and the keel. That was surrounded by a couple of wraps of fiber cloth with epoxy, more light faring compound, an thick barrier coat topped off with VC17.
My repair consisted of:
1) Grinding out the old repair. (I chipped all the 5200 I could get to, I figured if I couldn't get it out after 3 days then Neptune intended for it to stay.)
2) Removing all bottom paint.
3) Sandblasting the keel.
4) Wetting out the join with epoxy and putting a coat of epoxy on the entire keel.
5) Using 406 filler with epoxy and filling the joint.
6) Applying 4 more coats of epoxy on the keel.
7) Using 407 filler with expxy as a faring compound. << This is the step I am at right at this moment.
I plan on adding a couple of coats on any area that seems to have a thing gel coat or where I may have sanded through.
I then will fair the keel and the hull smooth.
And finally apply Interprotect as a barrier coat and apply VC17m.
How does that plan and repair sound?
Gary M and Sailingfool:
Thanks for your input! Much appreciated. I like Gary's story, too!
Any quick ideas on what product I can use as a sealer/primer/barrier before the Marina paints the bottom? ....and once again, thanks, all input is appreciated.
hey dm,
I see you are getting as intense about it as I planned to! Unfortunately I realize that I don't have the time to do as much as I originally planned. My boat is on the hard at the Marina and they are starting to put them back in real quick. Plus, Spring was a real bear here in the North East. Luckily the weather seems to have finally broken and I think I am going to fill my keel Tomorrow. I am planning to use the marinetek. I have heard a few people give it the thumbs up. Nothing against West System Epoxy, just I don't think I need that much as their smallest can. I will probably sand it out and prime / or seal the repair patch. Then I am going to turn it over to the Marina and have them skip sand the bottom and put a coat of paint on it. Good luck and take a couple of before and after photos, I'd like to see how it turns out!
I just got off the phone will West Systems and they suggested their G-Flex epoxy with their 407 Additive for both the filling and fairing...
Just a little confused here but I'll give it a try.
You mentioned West Systems:
For straight epoxy are you suggesting 105 Epoxy Resin with 206 Slow Hardener? Giving a 20 min pot life, 90 min working time and a 10 hr cure.
Could I also assume you would suggest the same Epoxy with the 406 Colloidal Silica filler to fill the area?
Sorry to get specific, but I don't like to make a shopping mistake
As far as faring compounds, what would you suggest? I see West Systems also has a low density filler as a faring additive. 407 Low-Density Filler.
Would you suggest that or another faring compound?
I'll still like to go with the InterProtect 2000e barrier coat all around with VC-17M regardless of the epoxy, fairing and filler underneath unless there is something I'm over looking.
Your thoughts and insights would be greatly appreciated.
|I would use straight West epoxy on the keel after grinding it to bright white metal. Put five coats on, then do whatever fairing you want. Straight epoxy has worked for me on steel keels, I do not think the Interprotect is strong or hard enough to coat steel for the long run. Also Watertite is a bear to sand and fair, and I dont believe is intended to fill large voids, use it for underwater divots, not above the waterline. I'd use an epoxy/silica mix for the keel joint. be neat as it is also a bear to sand.
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I think you guys are on the right track. I am a big fan of Marinetek to fill the void.
My first boat was a Tempest, met my wife while working on the keel before my first launch. That was 34 years ago last month.
I have a very similar with the same boat, an O'Day Tempest.
Having just purchased the boat and sanding it for bottom paint I found a poor faring job between the keel and hull that let water in. A couple of blisters were detected too so this is my plan to fix it:
I've chosen to use all Interlux to ensure there are no unintended chemical reactions and yes, I plan to take at least 5 to 7 working days to get the done as I do not want to have to revisit this problem again.
Any old Salts out there with thoughts on the plan and/or products?
What advice would you offer?
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WOLCOTT >> A Waterbury woman involved in a deadly crash last month turned herself in to police Monday morning on a manslaughter charge. Police said she was texting and driving when she crashed into a motorcycle. The driver died a few days later.
Her lawyer says she's remorseful, but police say a life was lost in a situation that should have never happened. Now, 24-year-old Stephanie Clavell could spend time in jail, and the victim's family and friends are left heartbroken.
A sign on Meriden Road in Wolcott that says "Texting Kills" sits at the sight of a crash that took the life of Terrence Doyle in his hometown, where he was a popular electrician.
Police say Stephanie Clavell of Waterbury, was spotted texting and driving by a police officer just feet away, when she crashed into Doyle on his motorcycle.
"We had other witnesses behind her that said she never hit her break lights," said Chief Edward Stephens, Wolcott police.
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[quote user="dezzzR"]Dont get me wrong, bjs the man but hes not getting it done and i feel like hes going to hurt one of our guys when he does that.
So it's Jacobs' fault when the o-line doesnt make the hole the play calls for? I dont think anyone is asking him to make a juke to the outside when the play calls for a smash up the middle. lol
thats more of a speedy back's kind of play.
[/quote]no not at all, but dont run into your lineman back like you would an opposing linebacker. haha


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When it comes to human rights defense and the basic ideal of citizen rule, the United States has room for improvement. The racial inequalities of police persecution and criminal sentencing, our reliance on capital punishment, abuses against immigrants, the denial of labor rights, and the controversies surrounding the basic mechamisms of our democracy reveal the urgency for reform.
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Crews are continuing their efforts to contain a massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. The energy company British Petroleum (BP), has inserted a tube into a well that has been gushing oil for almost a month. The mile-long tube is funneling some of the oil from the leak to a tanker ship where it is collected. Yesterday, engineers finished guiding robots to insert the tube into the 21-inch pipe.
Since yesterday, the tube has fed about 42,000 gallons of oil into the tanker, BP executive Doug Suttles told CNN. However, the tube cannot capture all of the oil from the leak.
A Big Mess
Oil has been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico since April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. (An oil rig is a large, offshore platform that is used to house workers and machines needed to drill oil wells in the ocean floor.) The rig caught fire and sank two days later. Eleven people were killed. The U.S. government estimated the spill at 210,000 gallons a day. Some scientists fear the amount could be far greater.
The oil slick has spread across much of the northern Gulf of Mexico, with balls of oil washing up onto the shores of Mississippi and Louisiana.
Researchers have found huge underwater plumes of oil, said Samantha Joye. She is a professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia. A plume is a vertical body of fluid that rises or expands. Measurements taken of one plume, says Joye, showed that it is 10 miles wide and several hundred feet deep.
Researchers say the plumes could poison sea life both on the surface and below it. To make matters worse, tiny organisms that eat oil are sucking up vast amounts of oxygen. "This can interrupt the food chain at the lowest level," says Joye, "and will trickle up and certainly impact [higher] organisms. Whales, dolphins and tuna all depend on lower depths to survive." It could take decades for the ecosystem to recover, according to Joye.
Researchers now fear that the oil may have seeped into a major ocean current that could carry the oil to the Florida Keys and up the East Coast of the U.S. A boat will be sent later this week to collect samples and learn more.
Stopping the Oil Leak
BP has made several failed attempts to stop the leak. Remote-controlled submarines have been unable to shut off the well. BP also tried to contain the oil leak by lowering a 100-ton box over the gushing well, but the attempt failed when ice-like crystals formed on the box. On May 2, workers began drilling a relief well to reroute the oil, but that could take months to complete.
In the meantime, engineers plan to shoot heavy mud into the well, and then permanently cover the leak in concrete. If that doesn't work, crews plan to shoot golf balls and knotted rope into the nooks and crannies of the leaking valve to plug it.
So far, the tube has been the only successful way to stem the leak. But top U.S. officials warned that the tube "is not a solution." "We will not rest until BP permanently seals the wellhead, the spill is cleaned up, and the communities and natural resources of the Gulf Coast are restored and made whole," said Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar in a joint statement.