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FORT NELSON TO RESOUND TO THE ROAR OF THE BIG GUNS - Friday, 14 June 2013
Fort Nelson will ring to the sound of guns from the Napoleonic period on Sunday, June 23, during two free gun-firing demonstrations and weapons inspections.
Uniformed gunners will fire the historic guns at 1pm and 3pm at the Royal Armouries Museum at Fort Nelson, home to the national collection of artillery – the big guns.
Re-enactors from Ubique Right of the Line will fire a British Bronze Six-Pounder gun, probably dating to the last few years of the 18th century, and most likely constructed by Henry and John King, Master Founders at Woolwich.
HMS Loire will also fire a French Imperial Bronze Six-Pounder, which was cast in Holland by Louis Maritz at The Hague in 1813 for the French Republic. This was nicknamed Le Fameux (The Famous).
Fort operations manager Nigel Hosier said, "Each demonstration will be followed by a chance for visitors to inspect the guns, and to ask the volunteer gunners for more information, and questions. Museum admission and parking are free and it's a fascinating day out for all the family."
Standing high on Portsdown Hill near Fareham, Fort Nelson showcases one of the world's finest collections of artillery and cannon, from across the ages and from all corners of the globe.
In 2011, this unique heritage attraction underwent a £3.5m redevelopment to create a museum for the 21st century, supported by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, complete with new galleries, state-of-the-art education centre and visitor facilities.
For more information and the latest news about the Royal Armouries:
Royal Armouries website
Royal Armouries newsletter
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Notes to editors
- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
- Admission to the museum is free. However, there may be a small charge for some special events.
- Open all year daily, 10am-5pm. Closed 24-25 December
- Information Line: 0113 220 1999
- Website: www.royalarmouries.org
- The Royal Armouries Museum should not be confused with Royal Armouries International plc, the private sector corporate hospitality business.
To find Fort Nelson, follow the brown Tourist signs from the M27. The Fort is open seven days a week, from 10am to 5pm.
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Student groups to host community at 6th annual Picnic in the Park
Students from Binghamton University will host the community at the sixth annual Picnic in the Park from 11 a.m - 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 25, at Recreation Park in Binghamton. Free food including hamburgers, hotdogs, veggie burgers, watermelon and cotton candy will be served. Free entertainment is also scheduled throughout the day including face painting, bubbles, balloons, improv comedy and bands.
Picnic in the Park is co-sponsored by the Binghamton University Senior Class Council and Off Campus College. Additional support provided by Sodexho. Among the volunteers are members of Alpha Phi Omega fraternity, the Senior Class Council and Off Campus College. The Senior Class Council worked with the Binghamton mayor's office and Office of Parks and Recreation to organize the event.
For more information, contact Maria Pendolino at 607-222-1401 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Best cert for practical experience in pen testing
I'll be looking for work in the next few weeks (Agilent Tech, major workforce restructuring!) in the UK. I have approx 10 years sys admin and 4 years as System/Security Test, mostly using Nessus, I have recently passed the Security+ (2008) and now looking for a cert which will give me additional practical experience as well as being recognised by an employer, as I'll be concentrating my job search on Pen Testing oppurtunities. I was looking at either the OffSec or the CEH. Any advice on which would eb the best as well as timescales to study/take. I'm on 'leave' as of now so have my days available for study.
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For some reason when I first saw this I expected it to be strong, or otherwise commanding. It really isn't, it's rather subtle and blends nicely. It's kind of a "background" scent - nothing that someone would notice from a distance, but definitely up close - which is what you'd want.
I'm going to "run it by" my wife this weekend without letting her know I changed colognes, we'll see what she notices.
Overall a very clean and light fragrance that is more professional and is unique.
Despite the name, not something to get noticed with, but something for someone to notice afterwards.


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AOL Launches GATHR
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Conservatively Speaking
State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth. Her Senate District 28 includes New Berlin, Franklin, Greendale, Hales Corners, Muskego, Waterford, Big Bend, the town of Vernon and parts of Greenfield, East Troy, and Mukwonago. Senator Lazich has been in the Legislature for more than a decade. She considers herself a tireless crusader for lower taxes, reduced spending and smaller government.
State Senator Lazich's Weekly Insight
Legislature's Joint Finance Committee
This week Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) representatives testified to the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) requesting release of $44.7 million dollars allocated to WEDC within the 2013-2015 state budget.
During May 2013, the Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) released a report outlining methods to improve transparency and accountability at WEDC. JFC withheld funding until WEDC submitted to JFC a report outlining WEDC's compliance with recommendations made by the LAB.
In addition to complying with the recommendations of LAB, WEDC also provided information to JFC indicating WEDC conducted an independent audit revealing "no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in WEDC's financial reporting." Testimony and reports submitted to JFC reveal WEDC complied with every recommendation made by the LAB. Once assured WEDC is compliant with the audit, JFC released $44.7 million to WEDC.
The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) requested JFC release $7.1 million to implement a multi-vendor student information system. The committee modified DPI's request by dividing the sum of the allocation to maintain a $3.4 million base for future budgets. Many of the committee's members, including myself, questioned DPI's lack of specificity and details about the type of student information DPI wants to collect.
The JFC committee approved mental health bills created as a result of Speaker Robin Voss Task Force on Mental Health. The package of bills provides increased resources for proactive mental health care across the state. Following JFC's approval of the bills on Wednesday, the bills were before the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services public hearing Thursday. The bills are expected to be approved by the Health committee and go to the Senate floor.
Federal Government Issues Waiver For Wisconsin's BadgerCare Program
The United States Department of Health and Human Service, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a waiver to Wisconsin's BadgerCare Program through December 31, 2018. According to the Wisconsin Department Health Services (DHS), the waiver will allow Wisconsin to provide health care coverage to childless adults between ages 19 and 64 with incomes that do not exceed 100% of the federal poverty level beginning April 1, 2014. Click here for information about the waivers.
State of the State
Governor Walker's 2014 State of the State address to the Joint Convention of the State Legislature is scheduled January 22, 2014, at 7 PM. The 2014 State of the State Address is scheduled to be live on the internet at http://www.wiseye.org/, Time Warner Cable Channel 363, Charter Cable Channel 995, and Wisconsin Public Television Stations throughout Wisconsin.
2014 Free Winter Fishing Weekend January 18 and 19, 2014
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced the 2014 Free Fishing Weekend is January 18 and 19, 2014. During Free Fishing Weekend, fishing clinics and ice fishing equipment are available without cost to the user at many Wisconsin state parks and Wisconsin DNR offices. Click here for more information about the 2014 Free Fishing Weekend.
Ray Cross appointed as the New UW Systems President
After this week's interviews, the University of Wisconsin (UW) Board of Regents appointed Ray Cross President of UW Systems. Cross is one of three candidates interviewed.
Cross will oversee operations and management of UW, including the System's administrative offices, and report to the Board of Regents. As President, The Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, Chancellors, and General Counsel report to him.
Prior to his appointment Cross served as Chancellor of University of Wisconsin Colleges and University of Wisconsin-Extension. While serving as Chancellor he worked with Governor Walker's Administration to launch the UW Flex Option. The Flex Options program is an online alterative for students to earn college credits, and gain workforce skills.
Public Hearing on US 45/HWY 100 Project The proposal includes adding an extra south bound travel lane at Edgerton Avenue, to create better traffic flow near the Greenfield I-43 ramps. A two-lane roundabout is proposed at the intersection of Janesville Road and Forest Home Avenue. Read the public hearing notice for a full list of proposed improvements.
A public hearing is scheduled Thursday, January 16, 2013 about the proposed US 45/ HWY 100, College Avenue to Layton Avenue project.
Public Hearing on US 45/HWY 100 Project
The proposal includes adding an extra south bound travel lane at Edgerton Avenue, to create better traffic flow near the Greenfield I-43 ramps. A two-lane roundabout is proposed at the intersection of Janesville Road and Forest Home Avenue. Read the public hearing notice for a full list of proposed improvements.
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World (Hardcover)
The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.
At the end of the seventeenth centuryan age of religious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of London when most people saw the world as falling apart, these earliest scientists saw a world of perfect order. They declared that, chaotic as it looked, the universe was in fact as intricate and perfectly regulated as a clock. This was the tail end of Shakespeares century, when the natural and the supernatural still twined around each other. Disease was a punishment ordained by God, astronomy had not yet broken free from astrology, and the sky was filled with omens. It was a time when little was known and everything was new. These brilliant, ambitious, curious men believed in angels, alchemy, and the devil, and they also believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical lawsa contradiction that tormented them and changed the course of history.
The Clockwork Universe is the fascinating and compelling story of the bewildered geniuses of the Royal Society, the men who made the modern world.
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"Dolnick's book is lively and the characters are vivid."
-New York Times Book Review
"A character-rich, historical narrative."
-Wall Street Journal
"Edward Dolnick's smoothly written history of the scientific revolution tells the stories of the key players and events that transformed society."
-Charlotte Observer
"An engrossing read."
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"A lively account of early science. . . . Colorful, entertainingly written and nicely paced."
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"[Dolnick] offers penetrating portraits of the geniuses of the day . . . who offer fertile ground for entertaining writing. [He] has an eye for vivid details in aid of historical recreation, and an affection for his subjects . . . [An] informative read."
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Hey all!
I know it's been a good long while since I posted anything. Work's been busy and because of rotten weather in my home town, finishing my Fett suit has been a bit of a distant dream. But things are starting to gear up and I thought I'd start off with a bang and share this with all of you!
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I divided the 3D model I made for the ESB Fett sidearm (some of you may recognize it as April Storm has been printing them out for people). If you have a 3D printer at home or know a place that does, these divided parts my be more digestible for smaller 3D printers. But, if you have a big one I have the blaster undivided on there as well if you don't want to bother with assembly.
JCFETT, if you're reading this, I replied to your PM. Check your inbox because, while I want to help you out, I need to know if you're still interested in me modifying the model as you specified before I actually do it due to how time consuming it will be. Thanks


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PR-B football team will have changes at key positions
Pine River-Backus football team has some key positions to fill after the graduation key players on offense.
"We have a lot of positions to fill after graduating two senior quarterbacks and our starting tailback and a number of linemen," said PR-B coach Tom Demars. "At this point it looks like sophomore Zach Struss will start at quarterback with junior Henry Krecklau taking some snaps. Krecklau will also be playing halfback."
Demars added that senior receivers Brandon Mager and Shane Flemming and tight end Jace Loge "all should make plays" for the Tigers.
"Senior returnees Weston Smith and Tony Brunhuber will also have big roles on the offensive line, and defensively as well," said Demars, who is staring his fourth season as head football coach. "Senior Jared Adkins will anchor the offensive backfield and linebacker corps."
Letterwinners include Brunhuber, Adkins, Travon Pederson, Loge, Mager, Trevor Johnson, Flemming, Smith, Hank Steffen, Nick Gravdahl, Krecklau, Henry Raph and Zach Semmler.
Others who could contribute are Jacob Harper, Caleb Peterson, Triston Rubner, Sam Pelkey, Shawn Brandon, Ben Remington, Jordan Philipson, Zach Struss, Tanner Smith, Conrad Bueckers, Nate Adkins, Austin Keep, Anthony Keeg and Coleman Larson.
"Right now we mainly need to take a good look at everybody and see how all the pieces are going to fit together," said Demars, who is assisted by Rob Johnson, Mark Gonnion, Terry Holden, Mike Dinnel and Travis Hoffarth.
Last fall, the Tigers finished 5-3 in the North Star East Conference and 6-4 overall.
PR-B lost to the Pillager Huskies 51-7 in the second round of the Section 6A playoffs. The Tigers had defeated Royalton 20-8 in the first round.


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May 14, 2013
Since the day that gun control died in the US Senate last month, we've been warning that this fight was not over.
President Obama made it clear that it was just the first step in a long process.
Vice President Biden said that, "...the political dynamic has changed. So I think we're going to get this anyway. I think this will pass before the year is out, within this Congress."
Many of you have called us and expressed anger at what President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are doing – while at the same time expressing confidence that this fight is already won because the House is controlled by the GOP.
We're here to warn you that that's simply not the case.
For weeks we've had suspicions that there was a deal in the making. After all, everyone knows that Speaker John Boehner is no staunch conservative and that he's already passed multiple bills through the House by obtaining votes from Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi.
This would be no different.
Republican Peter King (R-NY) has already submitted a House version of the "Manchin Toomey" bill – that gun owners were able to stop in the Senate last month.
H.R. 1565 already has over 150 cosponsors – including numerous Republicans like Congressman King!
Yesterday this threat took on a much more dangerous tone as The Hill.com, one of DC's most respected online news sources came out with a headline that ominously stated: "House GOP lawmaker: We are not backing away on [the] gun bill!"
Worse, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), who has control over King's bill, made it very clear that he's working hand in hand with Speaker Boehner saying, "...We have not backed away from trying to figure out how to improve that, but we've made no decisions yet about what to do."
Don't forget this legislation has three major components.
Expanded or even universal "background checks" (GUN REGISTRATION)
With these "background check" forms, President Obama and his pals can register, track and trace every firearm in America. In fact, it's the ONLY way they can enforce their universal "background check" scheme.
Do you really trust President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder enough to hand them every tool they need to create a national gun registry?
Anti-"Gun Trafficking" legislation
By imposing outlandish penalties on Second Amendment supporters for selling or giving firearms to "prohibited persons," this bill is designed to allow ATF agents to terrorize Second Amendment supporters into screaming FOR a national gun registry.
Since the list of prohibited persons includes many veterans and other law-abiding people, the only way for law-abiding gun owners to protect themselves is to ensure that every firearm transfer is first "approved" by the federal government with a national gun registry.
"Mental Health Restrictions"
Have you ever served in the military or experienced a traumatic family situation like a death in the family? If you're prescribed anything at all -- or even if you complain of stress to the wrong person -- that could be enough for you to lose your Second Amendment rights.
Former Surgeon General Steven Galson estimated that 46.4% of Americans experience some sort of mental illness during their lives!
To the gun-grabbers, disarming half of America for life with a simple mental health database within a year or two's time sounds like a dream come true!
And it's not just anti-gunners from the East Coast sponsoring this legislation.
Iowa Congressman Dave Loebsack has cosponsored this legislation, joining forces with notorious anti-gunners in the House like Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), and Maxine Watters (D-CA).
Congressman Loebsack is hoping that his involvement will stay quiet and he's hoping that grassroots gun owners don't find out that he's added his name to one of the most dangerous attacks on our gun rights in a generation.
But with bi-partisan support, a cooperative Committee Chairman, and a Speaker of the House who's made it clear that he's going to be taking up gun control this year, we can't assume that Loebsack is the only one who needs to hear from grassroots gun owners.
So please take a moment and sign our petition to Iowa's Congressional delegation insisting that they OPPOSE gun control in any form.
http://pages.iowagunowners.org/rep-oppo ... nnel=email
Last month grassroots gun owners proved what they could do.
With the President, virtually all national media outlets, and massively funded special interest organizations lining up against us to force gun control upon us, many had just given up – until grassroots gun owners got involved.
In state after state gun owners were mobilized and signed petitions, went to town hall meetings, called their Senator, and demanded that they vote NO to gun control – or face legions of angry voters during the next election cycle.
And it worked.
But this fight is not over as the gun-grabbers are working on a new tactic: the back-room deal.
Rather than come on strong this time, and try to force their agenda through, the anti-gunners are working feverishly to strike a secret deal with moderate Republicans.
We need to show the anti-gunners, like Dave Loebsack, that there is a price for this sort of behavior!
So please, sign your petition today to Iowa's Congressional delegation.
http://pages.iowagunowners.org/rep-oppo ... nnel=email
Make sure they know that you are opposed to gun control, whether offered by Republicans or Democrats, in the House or the Senate, whether they were bribed by President Obama or not!
We'll be delivering these petitions to your Congressional Representatives when this fight goes to the Floor for a vote.
P.S. Iowa Congressman Dave Loebsack has joined his friends Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Maxine Watters (D-CA) and over 150 others by adding his name as a cosponsor to the gun control bill making it's way through the House of Representatives in D.C.!
What's worse is that this bill was sponsored by Republican Peter King (R-NY), and Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) has announced that he's working behind the scenes with Speaker Boehner to bring gun control legislation up this year!
With this bill having bi-partisan support and a cooperative Speaker of the House, it's vital that we send a loud message to Iowa's congressional delegation and make one thing perfectly clear: NO GUN CONTROL, EVER!


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Enduring to the End
Even today, in many parts of the world, professing Christians betray believers to the governing authorities. We do not know what the future may bring, but we do know that God's grace will sustain His people. Let us pray that ...Read More
The Servant Who Knows Us Inside and Out
Our Lord knows all of creation inside and out. For those who have not been reconciled to Him, that is a frightening thing, for it means that their sins are known and being counted for the day of judgment. For ...Read More
Bearing Witness to Christ
Today's passage, while it had an immediate fulfillment two thousand years ago, continues to have relevance for us today. It shows us that faithfulness to Christ may lead to our arrest and trial before the governing authorities. Are you prepared ...Read More
False Messiahs, Wars, and Natural Disasters
That Jesus said false messiahs and natural disasters were only the beginning of the signs of Jerusalem's end cautions us about drawing too many conclusions when we see such things in our own day. Natural disasters and false prophets are ...Read More
The Olivet Discourse
Difficult passages such as Mark 13 show us that we need to be careful when we read and interpret the Bible. Particularly with difficult passages, we must not jump to conclusions hastily, but we must think about the text thoroughly ...Read More
Crucified and Reviled
That Mark can describe the mocking of Jesus as blasphemy shows us how seriously we must take the name of Jesus. His name is not something that should appear on our lips or flow from our pens in a frivolous ...Read More
The Widow's Sacrificial Contribution
In his commentary Mark, Dr. R.C. Sproul writes, "God is not so much concerned with what we give as how we give." Above all, the Lord is looking at our hearts, and He esteems those who have ...Read More
Religious Men Who Prey on the Needy
None of us fully lives up to God's standards, but we are not hypocrites for trying. We are hypocrites only when we pretend to be holier than we are, when we present ourselves as humble when in fact our hearts ...Read More
David's Prophecy of Christ
The church's confession that Jesus is both truly God and truly man goes right back to the self-understanding of the Lord Himself. He proclaimed His humanity and deity; therefore, so must we. We are not preaching the whole Christ unless ...Read More
Jesus on Trial
Whether any of the authorities who put Jesus on trial ever came to saving faith in Him is uncertain. We do know this: Jesus' sacrifice is enough to cover even the worst of sins. To receive the benefits of His ...Read More


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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Rated: PG-13
In Theaters February 17th
Directed by: Neveldine/Taylor
Written by: Scott Gimple, Seth Hoffman, David S. Goyer and Marvel Comics (character)
Featuring: Nicolas Cage, Fergus Riordan, Ciarán Hinds and Violante Placido
Plot: As Johnny Blaze hides out in Eastern Europe, he is called upon to stop the devil, who is trying to take human form.
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Thanks Brian. And overflow and standpipe (with a sump) will do exactly the same thing. I just got jones for solving the "nothing you can see in the tank problem", and wouldn't let it go until I beat it.
And honestly, I didn't actually succeed completely. I do have a tube that protrudes out of the tank floor, with the bit of filter foam on the open end. It's small, and real easy to hide. But technically it is not "nothing" in the tank. But it seems a small compromise.
Thanks for the feedback!
Sweet system,
As I read this thread today I was thinking how to solve your problem, and by the end you had already got there. Great job. the only thing I would have done differently is to have the pressure transducer run the fill valve and reset upon the full state to eliminate the flutter problem. but you got it.
All of my tanks use an overflow and constant inflow to accomplish the same thing, but that requires a standpipe in the tank which is against your goals.
once again, nicely done
Conclustion to my problem
When I started this thread I was struggling to find a way to top off/refill a tank without putting visible equipment in the tank. And for me, that inlcuded running anything up the side/back of the tank that could be seen.
I experiemented with lots of pressure switches, but only the one from my last post worked well for me.
Here's a pic of it mounted under my tank.
It's a simple contraption really. I have a hole drilled in the bottom of my tank that has the PVC you see mounted under the bulkhead hardware attached to that hole. Above the bulkhead (in the tank) is a simple slip fitting nozzle with a bit of tubing attached. Over that tubing is a bit of hard filter foam. That keeps snails and such from going in the tubing.
Water pressure comes through that nozzle in the tank, through the hole in the glass, into the PVC you see in this picture. From there - as you can see - the water pressure can be detected by the little sensor shown.
The sensor has two wires that close a circuit when it detects a certain level of water. The level can be adjusted with a little trim screw that is just barely visible in the front of the sensor in this pic. It takes a tiny screwdriver.
And it's a PITA to set, because a tiny fraction of a turn of that screw, and you'll change the level of the tank by an inch or two. But once you get it set at the right level, it's solid as a rock.
Anyway, I've got a fill system that first opens a drain (on a soleniod) for a timed period every night. And then a different solenoid opens that allows water from my household tap into my tank lines. This continues on a timer for a set period of time. All that is controlled by an AquaController III.
When this sensor detects enough water pressure to know that the tank is full, the sensor closes the circuit. The two wires you can see in this pic run to the Aquacontroller, which senses the closed circuit. I've got logic in the Aquacontroller that says... "Even if the time to fill the aquarium is not finished, if you see that the circuit has closed, cut off power to the solenoid that's letting water flow into the tank."
Simple really. And the Aquacontroller has a hysterisis function that takes care of my old problem of people walking across the room, making the sensor go haywire if it was near a full condition - with ripples in the surface making it read "on/off/on/off/on/off... " in rapid succession. With the controllers hysterisis function, I've got it set so that if it detect a full condition (possibly caused by someone walking across the room) and closes the circurit, it stays in that closed condition for a full minute before it will turn on again.
A little complicated. But not too bad. And works like a charm - with two mechanisms working together, providing me redundent assurances that I won't over-fill my tank. First - the fill is on the timer I mentioned before. And just in case the fill time is too long, this little beauty of a sensor shuts the fill off if it gets too full anyway.
Problem solved! Automatic water changes every day, and no equiptment to be seen in the tank! Cool.
Thanks for all the help.
OK folks, heads up!
I know I haven't posted my full, functional setup plans. But it WORKS. Works like a charm in fact.
I'm posting now because I just got a notice from Digikey, the only people that I can find that distribute these little water pressure sensors in small volumes. Apparently they are being made obsolete.
So if you want one - get them now. I just bought 5.
Here's a link.
Get 'em before they are gone. At $15 you are never going to see an opportunity like this. I spent a couple of hundred on other sensors before I found this cheap, accurate little jewel. And now apparently they are disappearing.
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essabee - Sorry pal. By definition I'm trying to do something hard here. That's why it has its own thread.
hello1 - your friend's approach sounds fine. Thought about something like that myself. But it does not solve my problem. Your friend still had a float he had to hide. Actually, I had to hide something myself - the little open tube at the bottom of the tank. But a little tube at the bottom should be a lot easier to hide than a float on the surface.
PDX-PLT - Welcome to PT! Great first post too, IMO!
I thought about something like this early one, but could not really get my head around it. You have certainly clarified how something like that might work. Thanks. Good thinking!
This potentially eliminates the deadband problem. Cool! But unfortunately the size of the deadband seems also to correspond to the sensitivity of the pressure sensor. I didn't mention this earlier, but the sensors with large deadband also had large variance between the points they considered "full". So I really abandoned those not only because of the dead band size, but because of their lack of accuracy too.
Sorry. I should have mentioned that. Good solution though!
essabee - Sorry pal. By definition I'm trying to do something hard here. That's why it has its own thread.
This is too long I could not through it entirely
May I suggest a 'new' approach
First fill a fixed volume from a measured sump then drain to the desired top level.
The caged bear got bored walking to and fore, for a change he started walking fore and to.
I think this should work-no funning- easier to handle.
Greetings Steve!
First post on this forum. I've really enjoyed all your posts. A a techie myself this one particularly is very interesting.
I wonder if you could solve the "deadband" problem with a second solenoid, to "reset" the pressure switch.
In other words, one could have two drainage solenoids, in series. Solenoid #1 goes between the bulkhead and the pressure switch; solenoid #2 goes from the pressure switch to the drain (i.e, the pressure switch is on a "T" between solenoids #1 & #2).
To drain, you open both #1 and #2 simultaneously for the required period of time. When that time is up, close #1 only. This should reset the pressure switch, as it is exposed to the atmosphere, and turn on the fill pump. Then close #2 and open #1, and the pressure switch will shut off when the proper level is reached.
congratulations for making the replenishment control
i know its a DIY kinda project but i think u have spent a lot more than me on this, well ur work would be cool cause there will be practically nothing visible in the tank but one of my friend had automated his tank with transparent float switch and the single wire is going out through the bottom and is hidden in the plantation as the float switch goes down the fresh water tap fills the tank the sensor being lifted stops the flow its cool, and it costed him only 38 bucks, waiting for u to post the pics
Thanks for the link hello1. And welcome to PT!
But I think you are missing the point. There are hundreds of water level controllers on the market. Maybe thousands. I was looking for a control function that is fairly unique... one that can detect water depth WITHOUT any sensors in the tank, or be otherwise visible, and that can be afforded by mere mortals.
And I succeeded. Now I just need to post pics.
I also faced the same prob
Some time back i also faced the same problem i wanted to add 5g of water to my tank as it emptied on an average of 2.5 hrs and was looking for a solution badly but couldn't figure it out myself, i found a solution in this water level controllers, i dropped a mail to this website telling my problem and they replied me with a example movie diagram of installation and working and told me how i can custom arrange it according to my need i think i may save a lot of time and its pretty economical, 150 bucks i think the whole system is worth the money compared to the cost of the switches u installed this page has the installation and working movie at the bottom
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How have you been ?
Long time since I posted to you.
I think you are on travel somewhere this month.
Anyway, I have been reading you threads (I see you have been busy !), with great excitment.
I am in the process of getting my 90 G into setup. I have alll the stuff I need plus some. I will be going for a Discus tank also.
Yours looks great by the way !
I am very interetsed in you auto water changer with that pressure sensor.
Any updates on the design ?
I just got back, and really need to document my autowater change. It does work like I originally planned it - water pressure senor through the bottom of the tank, working as a shut-off to the fill process. It's pretty simple really. But I've been though a lot of iterations. Now it finally works great.
I had had an electrical junction box, sporting an AC socket in front, that you plugged the fill components into. And it had a airline tube (filled with water) that plugged into the pressure sensor in that box, with the other end plugged into a bulkhead mount on the underside of the tank. In my tank return lines I have two "T"'s - one to drain water, one to fill. They both are turned on and off by solenoid. And the solenoids are on times.
So, if the timers are set correctly, a couple of times a day the drain solenoid clicks open, and allow water to drain out for and hour or so. The timer snaps that closed, and another timer opens to allow tap water in. That too is on a timer. And it is set so that the refill time is just barely more than necessary - potentially bringing the water a small fraction of an inch higher than it was previously. That's were the sensor kicks in.
The fill solenoid was plugged into the aforementioned junction box with AC socket. And a minute or two before the fill solenoid is shut off by its timer, the pressure sensor can tell it's full, and shuts off the AC power to the socket, killing power to the fill solenoid, shutting the fill line.
This means that if I'm losing water to evaporation, those few extra fill minutes - that usually get cut off because the water is high enough - get accommodated for. The idea is to have the fill timer set so that if I didn't even use a pressure sensor for cut-off, the water level would only creep up a little bit every day. So you get a visual warning, even if the sensor fails.
As it is, the sensor keeps the water within a 1/4" or so of the same place - day in and day out. Between the fill timer and the senor, one of them is going to keep me from flooding the house.
There are several things in the system that complicate this. First water temperature. The water coming in is cold - too cold for discus. So I had to put a second hydor in-line heater on the tank. Before this system I could maintain discus temps with a single 250w hydor. But now I've got an additional 350 watt to keep water changes from chilling the tank.
Second, I have to do chlorine removal. That's easily done with a couple of in-line carbon matrix filters, set between the line from the tap, and the "T" taking tap water into the tank's return lines.
Third, draining is really slow. The diameter of my drain lines, coupled with the tiny 1/8" opening on my solenoid means my drain line has to be pressurized to flow decently. So when my drain timer turns on the drain solenoid, I also have to turn on an Eheim hobby pump (in line with the drain line) to boost drain pressure - otherwise it would take forever. This same narrow solenoid opening, and narrow fill lines is less of a problem on the fill side because the tap water is decently pressurized.
And fourth and last, hysteresis has been my major nemesis. As I understand it, hysteresis is that set of factors that limit/drive when the sensor switches power on and off. The first type of hysteresis problem is called "dead band". That is a pressure range that has to be exceeded for the state of the sensor to change.
In other words, if a pressure sensor had a deadband of 20% of the "set pressure" (a common deadband value BTW) it would mean this - if the pump is set to trigger at 30" (turning a circuit off for instance), then you could lower the water 1" or 2", and the pressure sensor would remain off. It would not turn your power on, even though the water level had dropped. A deadband of 20% setpoint means, in this example, that you have to drop the water AT LEAST 6" (20% of 30") before it would switch on again. So every water change has to be at least 6".
I got around that by finding a sensor that was very sensitive - extremely low deadband. So I've barely got to lower the water at all -1/64" maybe - before it is willing to flip the switch and raising it again.
But with a lower deadband sensor, I ran into a new problem - rapid cycling. So now I can do small water changes, but as the water reaches the full condition, someone walking across the room creates enough vibration that the sensor rapidly cycles through an on/off/on/off condition. And as the fill cycle approached a full point, as long as the fill timer was putting power on the fill process, this would be a problem. No one could walk across the room for the last few minutes of the fill process, without causing the sensor going nuts, trying to figure out if it was full or not. With a bigger deadband you don't have this problem. Once it senses full - even for a split second - it can't be convinced it's not full until you drain out a lot of water again. And that rules out small water changes.
At long last, I've got it all sorted out now. I had to buy an Aquacontroller Jr. though to make it finally work right. The AC jr. replaced my fill and drain timers. That's not such a big deal. But it also let me remove the electrical junction box that the drain solenoid plugged into.
Now I've got my sensor wired directly in to my AC jr. The AC jr times the fill and drain cycles, and turning on/off my fill and drain solenoids as required. And with the sensor wired to the sensor, the AC jr can now tell when the senor senses a full condition, and so the AC jr is programmed to shut off the fill solenoid when that happens. This would still be subject to the rapid on/off cycling problem from floor vibrations but the AC jr has a hysteresis function! That's one of the main reasons why I bought it. So now I can set the AC jr to a 1 minute hysteresis. In this case that means, if it turns off, then stays off for 1 minute before turning on again. In my case, that is enough for someone to have finished walking across the room. And if they are still walking around, that's cool too. It'll just keep turning on, and then off (from the vibrations) once a minute until the people stop walking around, or until the timer on the fill process stops. Now this could leave me a few tiny fractions of an inch from full. But because I have the timer set to fill just a bit more than needed, that tiny gap will be made up within a day.
Wow. Sorry for the long post. Now I need to follow up with pictures.
Works like a charm now - just like I always wanted - no crap in the tank, nothing hanging over the edge or at the top of the water, all the new equipment hidden in the stand, and allowing me to do multiple small water changes through out the day! Too cool!
I'll post pics soon I hope.
How have you been ?
Long time since I posted to you.
I think you are on travel somewhere this month.
Anyway, I have been reading you threads (I see you have been busy !), with great excitment.
I am in the process of getting my 90 G into setup. I have alll the stuff I need plus some. I will be going for a Discus tank also.
Yours looks great by the way !
I am very interetsed in you auto water changer with that pressure sensor.
Any updates on the design ?
Don't Need More Help On This One...
Just an update folks. I've got a solution. It's been working for months. But I'm still shaking bugs out. I've already written up the little problem associated with the rapid fire on/off fluttering caused by floor vibrations when the tank hits the full condition, but the timers are still powering the fill solenoid. There are other problems I'm working on too. I'll get it all worked out. But I'm finding that there are a lot of little gremlins out there, waiting to bite you just when you think you've got it.
So I'm holding off on my write up.
I have started to structure my how I hope to document what I've learned. Posted below is how it begins, based on what I've learned so far. It could be months before I'm ready to post the final stuff. So here is the teaser...
Automatic Water Change - A Structured Approach
To be continued in a few months. I suppose the only reason I'm tossing this out now, is because if you are considering building such a solution, and you do not fully understand the "critical attributes" for your system, you're potentially headed for serious trouble. They are bear understanding before you start. I've learned that the hard way.
jdb416 - Man! I hate that you went to all that work! I mean, I DO appreciate it! Thank you. It's just that it doesn't help.
It's a good design. It would work IMO. But early on I rejected any solution that required an external column of water like that. And that solution has some other problems that I've discovered, I just haven't written up yet. Thanks for posting that though!
styxx1 - You are right pal, those solenoids are great. I am absolutely not worried about those failing. My discus took a while getting used to that "snap!" sound. It is loud in a quiet tank. But they do work very, very well.
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Playbook: A Culture of Winning and Cheating
Winners always prosper and there is something about cheaters and how they never do but sometimes the two are mutually exclusive and what happens then?
Okay, folks. It's time to talk again about the crude nature of winning and the importance of being earnest, and wild and free and young, like a thunderstorm holed up and waiting to crack over a dead Texas sky. Up until last night we had no reason to believe the great ageless Spurs had any reason to worry about losing a game, about the wily, untamed brood from OKC, and why would they? They had won 20 in a row dating back to the regular season and swept two good teams clear from the postseason without ever missing a beat or a basket or a last-second blocked shot to seal the win. They were up 2-0 and they were good. They were the old boys looking to make one last run at immortality and we didn't talk about age; we talked about experience. We didn't say they were old; we said they were smart. They were basketball people with high hoops IQs.
These are the things we will always say so long as the last basket falls and the score is settled comfortably at ten points above the spread. It is the language of winners, which the Spurs most certainly were until last night's line score and 20-point drubbing at the hands of Durant and Westbrook and a relatively unknown little guard named Thabo Sefolosha, who had four steals in the first three minutes of play.
That's not what you would call a wrench in the plans, it's a rape of them, and Sefolosha didn't get them because he's a great basketball mind, two steps ahead of everyone else on the court, like Kobe or Michael or Magic or Bird. He got them because he is young and his bones don't creak with every sudden move. He got them because he doesn't wobble, he weaves, and he doesn't worry, he wins, and winners take what they want. The Thunder are still perfect at home and are certifiable winners in most sports books taking bets on Game Four.
Which is more than can be said for the Celtics, who head back home to the Garden in a hole after being handed two definitive losses by the traveling South Beach Circus. Another advantage of speaking the up-and-down language of winners is that certain words and motions are simply not part of the lexicon: words like travel, which is usually accompanied by a violent spinning of the arms, simply do not exist. Flagrant and technical and foul are words not widely associated with winners, which opens up the floor to a little more leeway and a little more winning. Why stop the play when LeBron takes three or four steps to the basket? He's a winner and winners always prosper and there is something about cheaters too and how they never do but sometimes the two are mutually exclusive and what happens then? What happens when two incompatible worlds collide?
Nothing, really. In fact, this was a good week for cheater/winners. Roger Clemens and John Edwards are both walking on a mistrial; Barry Bonds showed his face at a baseball stadium and Manny Ramirez is done serving what was supposedly a 100-game suspension after only 50 days. Indeed the sporting gods are just, so long as you're a winner.


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I agree with others, go for it.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I agree with others, go for it.
Four things you can't recover: The stone.....after the throw. The word......after its said. The occasion.....after its missed. The time......after its gone
My living room was turned into my studio about two years ago and I have never regretted it for a second. I spend much more time sewing, designing, and creating than I ever did before. The room is open, bright, comfortable, and a real joy to be in. I work with less stress, fewer mistakes, and more enjoyment of the whole process. As a result, I think the quality of my work has improved...and I'm certain that the quality of my time has.
The Earth without art is just "Eh".
It is your space to use as you like. I have sort of taken over our dining room - I can pull the door closed. I like the big table and need some of the chairs, but there is no place else in the house for the rest of the chairs where they wouldn't be in the way. So far, any company has been happy to eat in the kitchen. And if they aren't happy, well, then, there's my answer!!
Sometimes I feel that my living room is one big craft room, since I not only sew, quilt but am an avid knitter also; therefore I always a project or two (or four or more) lying around......my thoughts are, IT IS YOUR APT, not a show room and you should do what makes you happy !
I agree, use the space the way you want to use it. I almost did the exact same thing, but instead I turned my master bedroom into my office/sewing room. It works really well for me and I love it.
My Den is my sewing room and the only disadvantage is that I have to put everything away once a month when we have our family birthday party and I have 15 to 20 people here for lunch. The light is good. I have my Juki in front of one of the windows so the light is just right coming from the right side. I can see what is going on outside, etc. I say "go for it".
I changed my sewing room in the small bedroom into my master bedroom and now I don't have sewing stuff scattered all over the house. I live alone too.
Its hard, I'm down to my bedroom from a 3 bed home that I had taken over completly after kids left, but when new home gets built a small 1 bed room, lr and kit with a screened back porch, can't wait, already told Son he will need to widen back porch, he's complaining because it will change roof pitch, oh well he's gotta make be happy. lol
So many times people don't use their space to it's maximum. I think it'd be fun to have a sewing space like that..And just the enjoyment of sewing in a place you like is great
I also say do what works best for you. I did that in a small house I had and it worked great.
SMILE- it will make everyone wonder what you are up to.
Stay strong and keep looking up.


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#11 Thu 07 Jun 12 10:56am
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Re: sometimes I feel I'm terribly late
With the weeks of rain & dull, grey skies, the only plants to grow like mad are the weeds here!
Terribly Late???? You bet I am............so many neighbours & friends have told me that the early seeds they planted never came up, but rather just rotted where they lay in the soil.
There is a saying.........'More haste, less speed'..........& this year it has proved true for us.
The seeds I didn't get time to sow when everyone else did, were put in later & are sprouting up nicely now.
Yes, they will be later, but better late than never!
#12 Thu 07 Jun 12 12:02pm
Re: sometimes I feel I'm terribly late
that's so true Minni, I told you already maybe, and like a nonna I'll repeat, there was a man selling plants seed packets and vegs at the market, I went there with my children asking for french haricots(??) very early in spring and he kept telling me "No sta v� premure di devent� vece!" do not hurry to become old
the best tomatoes were the last sown, last year
#13 Thu 07 Jun 12 3:53pm
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Re: sometimes I feel I'm terribly late
..............then have another cuppa, & wander around the garden with me..........dodging the spots of rain, marvelling how quickly a break in the weather sends seedlings shooting up, & tweaking out a weed or two here & there.
All too soon it will be time to put away the trowe,l & sit by the fireside with seed catalogues & dreams of the early crops we shall plant next year!
#14 Fri 08 Jun 12 1:50pm
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Re: sometimes I feel I'm terribly late
I know exactly what you mean. I have always brought tomato plants, but this year my sunshine wanted to grow them from seed. So although they aren't as big as the ones I would buy in a nursery I think they will taste better for the love they were planted with!
#15 Fri 08 Jun 12 2:42pm
Re: sometimes I feel I'm terribly late
siete tutti fantastici
#16 Sat 09 Jun 12 2:20am
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Re: sometimes I feel I'm terribly late
When we had a big garden we lived up in the mountains so the seasons tended to be cold for longer, I used to have a table in the house next to a sunny window and start the seeds off in trays there, then plant out when the frosts stopped. We always had wonderful fruit and veg from that garden even with the short growing season.
I guess where ever there is a will there is some way of doing it. You should keep up with the seeds they are so rewarding.
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#17 Sat 09 Jun 12 8:59am
Re: sometimes I feel I'm terribly late
thank you all tips are useful and encouragement much more than anything, to fight against the faces of someone disturbed by my little pots with growing plants wandering around the terrazza looking for sun
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#18 Sat 09 Jun 12 5:05pm
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Re: sometimes I feel I'm terribly late
We grow all our veg from seed, we bring them on at home and then plant them out in the veggie planting area in our field when they have started to sprout. It can take a little time but its so so worth it. Alot of seed can go straight in the ground but we do do it this way with the ones that cant.
#19 Sat 09 Jun 12 11:35pm
Re: sometimes I feel I'm terribly late
some plants like tomatoes, peppers and aubergines even grow better once you transplant them, putting then a little deeper in the ground, if I do not bind tomatoes for a few days they grow like mads everywhere especially after a rain followed by warm humid weather, I felt like in a sauna today in my campo
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#20 Mon 09 Jul 12 1:14pm
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Re: sometimes I feel I'm terribly late
we keep growing from seeds and the originals were once gathered by my deceised grandpa, continued by granny and then my mom took over. like cucumbers. that particular sort of cucumbers has by fact died out. it is my granny cucumber now.
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the woman in the butterfingers snackers commercial her character is a good example. the Bitch wont share and was a bitch to her "friend" she is a Southern Bitch
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I've made pots like this. It's made for pouring gravy which has oil floating on the top. Often it's difficult to de-grease a sauce/gravy and this design provides a solution.
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Pass me the scalpel, I'll make an incision
I'll cut off the part of your brain that does the bitching
Put it in formaldehyde and put it in the shelf
And you can show it to your friends and say "that's my old self"
-Adam Yauch/Beastie Boys, from "Make Some Noise"
ADAM YAUCH, a/k/a MCA, was likely inspired to pen those words, that appear in a tossed off couplet in the middle of what would wind up being one of the band's final singles, by his immersion in the world of illness. He passed away last Thursday after having lived with cancer since 2009; I don't want to say "after having fought cancer" or "battled cancer," a semantic distinction I learned from an old colleague of mine who, as it turns out, also passed away this week after having lived with cancer for many years. Like Yauch, she also leaves an amazing legacy, of impressive career accomplishments and a beloved family; and like Yauch, she was taken from us far too young.
The rhyme couplet speaks of shedding one's old self, of self-improvement, of looking back and honestly assessing the old you. It's something that Yauch and Co. were remarkably adept at; Beasties Boys, at several key junctures in their rise to prominence, were able to cut out the parts of their prior persona that no longer worked and re-shape the group into something that held more promise for the future-- whether it was their shift from lo-fi punk to rap in the mid-'80s to their late-'80s embracing of sampled-out psychedelia to their '90s live instrument punk/jazz/funk hybrid, the band wasn't afraid to take a scalpel to their old self in pursuit of a more acceptable musical identity.
What's remarkable to note upon Yauch's passing is the universality of his group. Here in 2012, 30 years after the group's inception, once can query music fans young and old, black and white, whose tastes run the gamet from metal to country to whatever, and somewhere in the grey matter of almost anyone is that moment where the Beasties got to them. Their legacy was one of uniting rather than dividing, of pulling more and more people into the fold versus veering into self-imposed obscurity. The Beasties were that rare thing, a musical act beloved by pretty much everyone that wasn't bland and boring and predictable.
It wasn't always that way, of course; their early years were spent frantically trying to find a way to make an impression and/or start a confrontation. They eventually hit paydirt (for the first time) in 1986 with the release of their Def Jam debut, Licensed To Ill, a bratty collision of rap and arena rock with a lingering punk whiff. In subsequent years, the Beasties sought to distance themselves from their early period, writing it off as frat-rap; this back-turning was all part of the moral ascension of the Beasties, particularly Yauch, who became a practicing Buddhist in the '90s, starting the Milarepa Fund in 1994 to promote Tibetan independence. In "Sure Shot", the band's massive 1994 hit single from fourth LP Ill Communication, Yauch rhymes "I want to say a little something that's long overdue/The disrespect to women has got to be through/To all the mothers and sisters and the wives and friends/I want to offer my love and respect to the end"; it was a clear message to the band's bratty early selves to grow the fuck up.
It's important, however, to place Licensed To Ill and the brat-attack of the early Beasties in the proper historical context: as a logical outcome of a number of bubbling '80s cultural movements, most notably rap, heavy metal, the rise of both urban and suburban culture, and the re-assessment of the nerd in pop culture. That last one is especially crucial to understanding the Beasties; although in the "Fight For Your Right" video they posit themselves as the opposites of the stereotypical nerds whose party they famously crash, the entire career of the Beasties is formed on a nerdish attention to details and facts and figures and references. That they were able to, in 1987, make geekish movie references and sly allusions into the most badass punk/metal/rap music around, all while sort-of kidding, was a testament to their subversive power.
In the early to mid-'80s, pop culture in America was having a renewed love affair with the concept of science. Maybe it was the success of our space program and the first wave of home computing; perhaps it was the slow acceptance of the synthesizer as the axe of a new age of rock star. In any case, the evidence is abundant: from "She Blinded Me With Science" to Weird Science to Misfits of Science, the early '80s fetishized the concept of the brainiac. As Huey Lewis would eventually croon in his '85 hit, it was hip to be square.
But something crucial was missing in the science-obsessed nerd-fest: the idea that nerds were bad-ass, that they "rocked." At the same time that synthesizers and British people on television were taking over the airwaves, a burgeoning anti-New Wave sentiment was building in America, culminating in the mid-'80s hardcore and thrash movements that would come to define punk and metal in the decades to come. But the first major beacon for nerd badassery appeared in 1984, in the form of the film Revenge of the Nerds. Ostensibly a raunchy teen sex comedy in the vein of scads of similar hormonally-charged films of its ilk, Revenge managed to stand apart from its peers in the way that its protagonists, nerds and social pariahs, were able by the third act to give the straight world their comeuppance, in part through being horny goofballs willing to out-prank the normal guys. Or to put it another way, everybody loved them once they proved that they could rap about their devious deeds.
Like most kids my age, the first time I saw Adam Yauch was at the beginning of the "Fight For Your Right" video; I didn't know it, but he was slapping himself in the head with a gigantic dildo.My thought at the time was that with his Don Johnson stubble and black leather jacket, he was basically the group's Booger.
Which he kind of was; when he would make boasts in song like "I'll steal your honey like I stole your bike," I not only thought that he sounded like the bully I had had to deal with a few years before, but he also kind of had the voice of the older brother I never had. In fact, all three Beasties were kind of older-brother rap for a generation of suburban losers, introducing us to transgressions we didn't know were forthcoming. Porno mags and rolling woolers, smoking and drinking and sniffing glue, rhyming and stealing in a drunken state, rocking our rhymes all the way to Hell straight.
They also made a pastiche of the things that our world was made of, the junk food and bad tv that were inescapable in those times. The inimitable music writer Chuck Eddy caught on in 1987, having this to say about the band's lyrical preoccupations in his essay "Lay It Down, Clowns": "Wiffleball bats and swirlies and Phyllis Diller and Kentucky Fried Chicken and Budweiser and Rice-a-Roni and angel dust are things we live with in this world, and sometimes even things we talk about in real life, but I'll be damned if anybody else has ever written songs about them, and even if somebody has, they never wrote a couplet as unpretentiously jocular as 'My pistol is loaded, I shot Betty Crocker/Delivered Colonel Sanders down to Davy Jones locker' or 'Went to the prom, bought a fly blue rental/Got six girlies in my Lincoln Continental.' It's all about specificity, I reckon." (Eddy was early to catch on to the band's brilliance, which of course meant that he was early to being punk'd by the future Buddhists; here he is, for instance, getting pranked by the Beasties, if "pranked" means "being doused with cold water as one sleeps in a hotel bed":)
As I said, it was nerd music made into badass posing in a way that captivated a mass audience. If it doesn't seem nerdy or seem particularly badass now, it is merely a testament to how thoroughly the that period of the Beasties' reign has been folded into our subsequent musical culture. Prior to License, rap was party music based on disco and meant for a dancefloor (to at least some extent) and rock and rap never ever ever ever mixed in any real way. That the Beasties melded all of this together and then found a way to convey this bratty image to a truly pop audience (especially when they opened for Madonna's The Virgin Tour) says something about their aesthetic inclusivity; that this was but one of many poses the band would take on their way to rap enlightenment is a testament to the band's genius.
Remember, rap in the mid-to-late-'80s was a disreputable genre, with the general consensus amongst most in the industry being that it "wasn't music". The band aped this in their genius "No Sleep Til Brooklyn" video, of course, but part of the joy of being a fan of the band at the time was in even being able to conceive of three guys without instruments who couldn't conventionally sing as a "band" in the first place."You're the band? Where's your instruments?""Yo dude, like, I think we're the band?"These were the days when desktops in schools across the country were festooned with scrawled shrines to Led Zeppelin and other classic rock icons, as new musical styles increasingly had to fight for their right to exist amongst a strong coterie of old bands buoyed by the overpowering commercial success of the recently-developed "classic rock" radio format. But the Beasties sampled Zep and Sabbath and AC/DC, proclaiming "If I played guitar I'd be Jimmy Page, the girlies I like are underage"; since I was 14 when I heard that song, both of those statements were true for me too. They found a roundabout way to make rap music palatable to the rock fan, by making rap that rocks made by rock fans for rock fans. Within a few years, no one asked them where their instruments were, the same way no one cared about synthesizers and samplers anymore. These tools and styles allowed our pop stars to be seemingly-regular people just like us, and Yauch and Co. seemed like just a trio of normal guy best friends, except that they seemed amazingly cool and smart and with-it. By the '90s alterna-assault, the revenge of the nerds prophesied in the early '80s was complete.
The Beasties would go on to be the ur-rap group, able to please the most unpleasable rapophile while also being the only rap album in plenty of people's record collection. Ultimately it had to do with the band's generous spirit, a childlike reverence for sounds and rhymes and getting out there and doing it that permeated their every wax offering. Yauch, initially the louche grump of the group, became the spiritual core of the Beasties, kind of like if Ringo had become George before Revolver; amazingly, everyone went along for the ride as the band matured in every sense of the word. Their induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month may seem bittersweet in retrospect, but it is indicative of the way-across-the-spectrum appeal the band was able to sustain for their entire career. If the music world seems a lot sadder this week, it is entirely due to the tragedy of seeing a heartening trio of friends reduced in number far far far too soon.


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The internet and other communications technologies can be a double-edged sword where women's equality is concerned. A woman may feel safer going out at night with a mobile phone to hand but a jealous partner can use it to check up on where she is and what she's doing. The internet is a prime venue for pornography but also one of the only outlets some oppressed communities have to express themselves. The APC women's programme has just launched two initiatives, one to continue their work to use technology to fight violence against women on and offline and the other looking at how sexuality is really lived on the internet. Read on…
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MONTEVIDEO (APC WNSP for APC) -What is "harmful content" on the internet? The definition is contestable, subjective and open to a range of interpretations, and the majority of interventions to combat it are mostly concerned with obscenity and child pornography. Sexual rights workers are troubled by the growing role of conservative forces – supported by religious extremists – and their attempts to encourage new legislation that would treat all online sexual exchanges as sexual predation and all adult content on the internet as pornography. This protectionist approach overshadows other important aspects of the internet that directly impact on internet users' lives and their ability to access to vital information on sexuality, sexual health and sexual rights. EroTICs, an exploratory research just starting at APC, aims to narrow the gap between political assumptions and a better understanding of content and "harm" based on women's real experience of sexuality online.
Background to EroTICs – a new research project on sexuality and the internet
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BUFFALO, N.Y.-- Raymonda Shallowhorn, 36, of Buffalo, New York, pled guilty in U.S. District Court today to two felony counts of student loan fraud and making false claims for income tax refunds, U.S. Attorney Kathleen M. Mehltretter of the Western District of New York announced. The maximum penalty for each charge is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The restitution amount payable to the IRS and the Department of Education will exceed $130,000. The guilty pleas were entered before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul J. Campana said investigators from the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division and the U.S. Department of Education uncovered the fraudulent tax refund and student loan application scheme that Shallowhorn perpetrated from 2002-2008. The prosecutor said Ms. Shallowhorn submitted more than fifteen federal income tax return, making false claims of more than $86,000 in tax refunds. Shallowhorn caused the tax returns to be filed in the names of several different persons, sometimes with their knowledge and sometimes without. All the tax returns were false. Shallowhorn received an additional $45,000 in proceeds from fraudulent student loans. The student loans were applied for by Shallowhorn on behalf of at least five different persons. The loan applications were made over the Internet for correspondence courses that were attended by neither Shallowhorn nor the nominal applicants.
The tax returns prepared by Shallowhorn or with her assistance would feature one or more types of false claims. On some returns, the person in whose name the return was filed would claim income from a child care business when Shallowhorn knew that person never operated such a business. On other returns, the tax filer would file a false W-2 supplied by Shallowhorn and claim to have worked at a job, when in fact the person had not worked. On both kinds of returns, there would be false claims for the Earned Income Credit. The Earned Income Credit is a refundable credit an eligible taxpayer can receive regardless of whether any tax is owed or has been paid. The Earned Income Credit, however, can lawfully be claimed only by taxpayers with modest incomes who actually received earned income during the tax year. Finally, on other tax returns, Shallowhorn arranged for tax filers to list children as dependents who did not in fact live with and were not supported by the tax return filer during the given tax year. On these returns, the false claims were for the Earned Income Credit, the child tax credit and/or the child care tax credit. Shallowhorn received all or part of the tax refund and student loan checks.
Chief Judge Arcara scheduled sentencing for February 18, 2010, at 12:30 pm. Judge Arcara allowed Ms. Shallowhorn to be released pending sentencing
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Hi my name is Rose, British but I live in Mexico.
I have at my disposition a piece land on the coast. It's desert, hot and dry, with a natural spring which I will have to build into a well, and possible an irrigation system, as the land is on a slope with the water at the top. I want to grow coconut, mango and papaya trees. For now there are white, green and gold trees, and lodes of different cacti and flowering plants many of which have nutritional and medicinal benefits. There are areas on the land with shade most of the day and a sea breeze.
I would like advice as to which species of bee I should start with and the problems of bee keeping in the desert. There are many red ant colonies for instance, I'm guessing they would be a problem. Some one told me I could use ground up sea shells on the ground around the hives. Hungry birds and snakes, a rattle snake made me scream the other day, I think I gave it a fright as it fell off the wall . The heat could be a problem, friends tell me it's like a oven in the summer.
A few years ago I read 'The man who planted trees' by Jean Giono. I was inspired, that's exactly what I want to do, bring life to a desert with slow and careful love and understanding.
Thank you for any advice and thoughts you might have. I have photos and video of the area on my facebook and web site... not sure if I should give that out here thought.
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Rob Nelson
Oct 2007
In a recent roundup of Mexican movies on DVD, Village Voice critic J. Hoberman began by asking if cine Mexicano predates the likes of Del Toro, Iñárritu, and Cuarón. Obviously the question was rhetorical—and satirical as well. Here's another in the same vein: Do Mexican cineastas need global distribution and Oscar nominations to be considered nuevo? Put it this way: If you say the French New Wave is…
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A driving force behind cultural awareness and diversity programs inside one of the world's largest corporations, Cecilia Stanton, assistant vice president of diversity at Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, sat down with Walker film/video curator Sheryl Mousley to discuss Allianz Life's support of the Women with Vision festival. Sheryl Mousley: Given the size of your organization, you…


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Half moons, beaches and hellboys
Hantsuki's ending was not too bad, but it could use a little more impact. I'm pretty sad for Rika that she's not gonna stay for long, but at least Yuuichi grew a spine already, so he's out of the "Wimp Zone". Overall, a good short and touching series, only lacking in impact. Didn't really made me shed much tears unlike Narcissu.Looking forward to Momo now.
Kashimashi 07.…. ahhhh yes… the beach episode. They also seemed to have combined in the curry cooking episode into this as well. I have to say…. bikini's + aprons = t3h WIN! Asuta's on the short end of the stick here again, but I'm happy that at least he did get more screentime than in the manga. Seriously, he's one guy I'd like to see being stuck in a harem situation. He could really sue Hazumu for unintentional *sekuhara* :P. Next one seems to be the *kimodameshi* episode, and I'm looking forward to see Hazumu in *chou-moé* form ;).
As for Jigoku Shoujo 20…. it deserves honourable mention for the WTF-ness factor. The string-puller this episode is really over the top and Mr.Hellboy is like… sooo lame. Ai-chan wins for gothloli outfit and for throwing Hellboy to hell. I'm really worried at how they're going to end this series though :P.


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The hybrid hypercar battlefield is getting crowded, with the wraps finally coming off Ferrari's new LaFerrari and McLaren's P1 this month at the Geneva motor show.
And the reaction to both - and Porsche's already-public 918 Spyder have dispelled any doubts that the supercar buying public would drop a cool couple of million for what is essentially a Prius for the go-fast set.
That's not to say the planet is going to be entirely thrilled by this new breed of machine - there are still some potent engines involved, and those types who move into the fast lane when they see approaching cars at over the posted limits will utterly hate them. But they're a hateful bunch.
The car is an absolute stunner, and the only thing that's really copped any criticism is the name. Imaging telling somebody at a party that you drive LaFerrari - you might as well own a LaCodpiece. But that's irrelevant when you look at the bigger, much faster, picture.
Ferrari had quietly drip-fed the world with info, in an interesting little stand-off with McLaren as it did the same with its P1. At the Paris Motor Show last year, Ferrari was rumoured to be ready to show the car, as would the Brits, but when Ferrari put nothing more than the car's carbon tub on display, McLaren showed theirs without opening the bonnet, or giving much spec away.
But they're all in the wild now, and Ferrari's hypercar looks like it will live up to the hype.
The rapidly-beating heart of this machine is based on the same mid-mounted direct injection 6.3-litre V12 that was fitted to the no-holds-barred F12 Berlinetta. That's hooked up to a dual-clutch gearbox and an electric motor. Packed in Kevlar and tucked under the two seats is 60kg worth of lithium ion batteries, with 120 cells. The V12 smashes its way to 9250rpm, making 589kW, and the electric motor tops it up with another 119kW. For the record, the everyday hybrid benchmark - Toyota's awkward-looking but rather trendy Prius - makes about a third less power than the electric gear alone, and the cars' weight is about the same at 1300-odd kilograms.
LaFerrari, and McLaren, Porsche et al, have redefined what hybrid means to most motoring enthusiasts, dragging it from being an almost-derisive insult to being an object of abject desire. The LaFerrari's 0-100km/h time is under three seconds, and it's good for over 320km/h. It laps Ferrari's celebrated Fiorano test circuit a full five seconds quicker than the legendary F60 Enzo.
Electric power has given the white coats in the Ferrari lab a bit of leeway with the drive system - it supplements low-end torque, which means the boffins get to let the V12 really breathe at the top-end.
A V12 at over 9000rpm is impressive, in anyone's books.
This car is packed with firsts, and one of the major achievements is getting HY-KERS - the system that the F1 team uses to recapture lost kinetic energy - into one of its production cars.
With braking and cornering forces used to feed power to the batteries, the system reduced emissions by about 40 per cent (it still only achieves 330g/km of CO2) and gave the V12 an extra 10 per cent.
By eschewing aluminium for an exotic mix of ultra-high end carbon fibre, the production of LaFerrari got even more complicated.
It's all hand laminated, with the suspension pickups and seats as part of the central tub structure, and the gull-wing doors made out of the same extraordinarily expensive carbon that the Scuderia's nosecones is created from.
The pedal box is movable, the seats aren't.
At the risk of sounding like a cliched automotive press release, fighter jet tech has been used in the aero development, and includes active aerodynamics that were hand-picked from the company's FXX concept. There's winglets at the front, and a retractable rear wing and spoiler with inlets and ducting all over the bodywork to pipe air into brakes, the two slanted radiators and generate lots of downforce.
The big question on hypercar fans' lips is whether the Ferrari will beat the McLaren or the Porsche.
That's one hybrid head-to-head that we'll definitely be waiting for.


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When you can boast the tallest building in the world, it makes sense that you should have the world's fastest, most expensive police cars as well.
As much as something like that can ever make sense.
However, sense has never been as important as blatant demonstrations of wealth in Dubai, and in keeping with that, the blingiest emirate in the UAE has purchased a fleet of Lamborghini Aventadors for police to patrol the main tourist sites.
According to Major General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina of the Dubai police, "The aim is to reflect the reputation of the emirate and the high stature it achieved. It will also help promote tourism and showcase the security role the Dubai police play in safeguarding the city."
Plus it is an awesome way to show every other country in the world that you have more money than them.
The vehicles will be deployed at the downtown area near the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa tower, as well as the cafe- and restaurant-lined walk of Jumeirah Beach Residence, one of the state's most popular waterfront developments.
Hot Wheels go retro
Let's face it: Hot Wheels cars are cool.
Its versions of classic movie and television cars are even cooler.
The legendary maker of 1:64 models has announced a Retro Entertainment series of vehicles from classic shows of the 60s, 70s and 80s, including Batman (the classic 60s Batmobile), Knight Rider (KITT and KARR), Magnum PI (Ferrari 308 GTS, the Island Hopper helicopter and a VW van), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Ferrari 250 California), Ghostbusters (ECTO 1) and The A-Team (GMC van, Face's Corvette). There are also a few oddities, including a Cylon Raider from Battlestar Galactica, a 71 Plymouth Satellite from The Brady Bunch, a school bus from The Muppets and the Mystery Machine van from Scooby Doo.
There are 35 cars and while there has been no official announcement about local availability, we would put money on them appearing here.
And no doubt we'll will spend quite a bit on them too ...
Bugatti still fastest
Last week we told you how the good people at Guinness World Records had taken the title of world's fastest production car from the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport because it didn't qualify as a production car. Bugatti had de-activated the speed limiter fitted to customer cars from the vehicle used in the record-setting run.
Following a review of the definition of a production car, it seems the record holder is now ... the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.
Guinness' rules stated the record-setting car must be identical to the one customers can buy. Five of the 30 Veyron Super Sports sold were unrestricted World Record Editions, with the other 25 having the 415km/h limiter. So you could really slide whichever way you want to on this one, really. Or argue it over a glass of the black stuff.
As if just to drive the message home that it makes the most pointlessly fast production car in the world, Bugatti fired off another quick record: fastest open-top car. A - yep - special WRC (World Record Car) edition of the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse clocked 408.82km/h at Volkswagen's Ehra-Lessien proving grounds.
Schumacher does ... something
Following his second retirement from Formula 1, seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher has announced what he will be doing next. Sort of.
Schumacher and Mercedes-Benz revealed the former champ will be doing, er, something vaguely to do with "topics relating to the future, in particular the further development of the Mercedes-Benz safety and comfort systems Intelligent Drive, and represent them as an ambassador".
Everyday motorists will be pleased to know that he is "actively placing his expertise at the service of road users by searching for the best solutions for safety on the roads together with Mercedes-Benz".
"The future interests me much more than the present and past. During my Formula 1 time I always believed that you must not allow yourself to rest on your laurels, but that you must continuously try to improve. In so doing I was very often able to rely on the help of all the technologies available to me in the car and use them to my advantage. That is why I am a declared supporter of driving assistance systems both in the racing car and in the road-going car," Schumacher said.
But then he was always a master of stating the obvious. The press release notes, "As a racing driver Schumacher's motto was 'If you don't go forwards, you go backwards'." No kidding?
We are the world
* A General Motors powertrain assembly plant in Detroit was evacuated for a short time after a worker threatened to shoot himself. With a starter pistol. Loaded with blanks. Apparently the man had complained about working conditions at the plant and had decided to take matters into his own hands. Sort of.
* Getting annoyed at television coverage of your favourite sport is nothing new, but a man in Charlotte, North Carolina, took his frustration to the extreme when he stripped naked and ran riot in the offices of the Speed Network, a US motorsport channel. The man entered the building on Monday morning and started "tearing papers off the walls" before moving on to throwing rubbish bins and trophies around. He made a run for it when he realised the police had arrived, but the general lack of naked people on the streets of Charlotte made him relatively easy to find. No word on whether he is facing charges, or his reasons for doing it.


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@2 Rare Mountainsmith 2005 Ghost LT (large) Backpacks. This is the last year this pack was manufactured. These packs are in very good condition having been lightly used. Panel loading, 2750ci, will carry up to 30lbs but more comfortable at max of 25lbs, and weighs about 1000 grams. Reviewed on BPL as well as others: http://www.backpacking.net/hotgear-ghost.html
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- Makawao, Maui
A rural, artistic community on the slopes of Upcountry Maui, Makawao is home to the Paniolo, or Hawaiian cowboy.
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