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Finish 2009 STRONG — no excuses
As we begin to wrap up 2009, it is important to reflect on the past 50 weeks and remind ourselves of just how far we have come this year. Most, if not all, of our athletes at CFWS experienced numerous "firsts" in 2009. How many of you got your first handstand in a loooong time? How fit were you at this point last year? Have you accomplished all of your goals for 2009? Will you be setting goals for 2010? How fit will you become in 2010?
Goal setting is a necessary part of seeking improvements in every aspect of life — including fitness. Without goals, we have no direction; we are unable to determine whether all our effort has been worthwhile when we have nothing to weigh our results against. In most of our workouts, the goals are implied — do more work in less time. This goal is constant. By increasing our average power output, we know we are increasing our fitness levels. How we go about increasing our work capacity, however, becomes more complicated. Increased work capacity requires improvements in our weakest areas of fitness.
If we are to objectively set goals and focus on improving our fitness levels, it is completely necessary to assess our current fitness levels across broad time and modal domains. In other words, we will need to test each of the 10 components of our fitness profile:
- Strength
- Flexibility
- Stamina
- Endurance
- Speed
- Power
- Accuracy
- Coordination
- Agility
- Balance
With so many variables in this profile, any assessment of our fitness will have to be multi-faceted to ensure that we are being thorough. Such an assessment has been created, and will be administered as a 5 part series beginning January 2nd, 2010. Think of this as your own personal CrossFit Games. You have each been entered to compete, and are expected to give it your all. Some of these assessments are already CrossFit benchmarks and others are unique creations that purposely focus on balance, accuracy, etc. While the specifications of the assessments are known by only one person at this time, one thing is certain… You will be tested thoroughly. Goal setting for 2010 will not be a problem once these assessments are through.
Today's WOD is a great preparation for the upcoming assessments. It goes as follows:
4 Rounds for time:
- 10 Deadlift (225, 155)
- 20 Ring Push Ups
Of course, there is a Strength component BEFORE today's WOD and, yes, it does involve pressing a weight overhead. Just remember… If it were easy, it wouldn't be CrossFit.


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17 Spiritual Lessons From the Dog Whisperer HTML version
This "great way" is simple and observable in all of nature. It is said in certain secret
traditions that there is a language of the world that is spoken by everything and everyone.
And if you understand that language, there is guidance for you directly from your Source,
or the Universe, or God on every step of your life. Unfortunately, most of the time we are
too preoccupied in our material pursuit to notice this guidance, and eventually we turn our
entire life into one great struggle.
But this guidance, or the great way, or language of the universe exists. And even if on a
small scale, I am a living example of someone who constantly follows that guidance or
pays attention to that language which shows you the right way at every turn of your life. I
am not saying this to boast, there is still a long personal journey for me before I can feel
that I have truly mastered this language, but I simply want you to know that this is the
truth. I have lived with this for years now and I would be lost if this guidance stopped
making itself known to me for some reason. That is just the fact.
Now what has all this got to do with a television show called The Dog Whisperer?
Patience my friend... If you have not already experienced my roundabout way of telling
stories, you might as well get used to it. Because I don't think I'm changing any time soon
So here is the relevance. One of the great realizations that came upon me right from the
beginning of my own personal transformations (incidentally through my professional
practice of hypnotherapy) is this: the world outside is a reflection of your inside. People,
circumstances, animals, relationships, success, failure, work, play etc are all reflections
of your inside. All these things and their relationship with you dynamically change
according to your own personal and spiritual development. As I keep saying over and
over to all my students: when you take care of the inside, the outside automatically takes
care of itself. The great way shows its guidance through everything and everyone. And
according to how the world is treating you, you can tell quite accurately what is
happening on your inside, and vice versa.
Now here is one of the best indicators of what is happening on our inside: our dogs! They
will always react according to your inner energy patterns. If you are frustrated and angry
and have a scrambled energy pattern within you, your dog will be challenging and
undisciplined and have a restless energy within them.
We have been living with our dogs for hundreds of thousands of years now. They have
walked with us as a committed friend since we lived in caves and hunted the prehistoric
animals. They are our personal direct communication module with nature. And they know
more about us that we'd like to admit. They cannot tell us in words what they know, but
they sure do express themselves which we most times misinterpret. But one man in
California, originally from Mexico, Caesar Milan, has decoded this language and brought
us some very valuable teachings through his TV show "The Dog Whisperer".
The Dog Whisperer is a show where Caesar rehabilitates some of the most impossible
type of dogs. The dogs that are sometimes so disturbed that they are flagged as "red
zone dog" meaning they can actually kill another dog or seriously harm a human being if
they get the opportunity. Caesar rehabilitates those kind of dogs and shows over and
over that nearly EVERY dog can be the perfect dog that you want them to be: disciplined,
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Well now that we are wrapping up a very busy day..all the dogs are sleeping peacefully. This was my GSD's first Thanksgiving with us:) She was quite interested in all the cooking I did...she has never seen me cook so much. She tried smelling everything:) I had about 12 people over and the dogs behaved nicely. They get excited when they see my family, but they calm down nicely. They do follow my dad, because he feeds them(he thinks he's sneaky and I don't know this). We put the GSD in a park it on the couch and she stayed there until we called her off...it was about 1/2 hour. All in all they did good, stayed out of the way when they were suppose to and cuddle with family afterwards. I attached a picture I got of my dad with the dogs...you notice he's alone?? The rest of the family finally told him to go in the other room if he wanted to feed the dogs...he did. I was very proud the GSD stayed put on the couch.
Everyone did well here. A few of our friends and family brought their dogs and everyone got along. The dogs had raw bones while we ate,but a few of them got extra snuck to them of course. After dinner we loaded all of the dogs up and took them to the lake to burn off the excess energy.It was a good time to go because nobody else was out there,but us.Considering that we had 39 people and a total 10 dogs here, everything went great.
my dog doesn't rush the kitchen when we're cooking.
pull out the ice tray, cucumber or cutting board
and he's in the kitchen with his tail wagging, mouth
open and lips smacking. did i tell you i forgot to bring
the turkey home in time for it to thaw?
yes, really.
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Hans enjoyed the Germanic fall weather, but we are so very ready to go back to Florida.
He loved playing and taking walks in the cold, and I got a couple of really nice fall pics of him.
He spent the day air sniffing the turkey. Poor guy only got some raw, but for his evening meal we saved some good leftovers for topping his meal.
So far no ill effects from the piece if raw neck he ate this morning.
We left him at the house and went to SIL's for dinner. Waiting for 9pm so he can eat his feast, then I am going to bed early because I want it to be tomorrow sooner so I can get outta here and go back to the pool and palms!
Hope everyone had a good one !
Took Stella to my son's house (at the request of all the kids). A lot of people there, some she never met before. She did just fine (but I kept an eye on her). I think her favorite part was going outside in the yard and playing hide and seek with the kids! I did take her back home at her dinner time....we just live down the road....and she spent some quiet time at home in her crate.
When I got home, we went out in the yard for a short session of fetch.
Now we are both plopped on a couch.
The only one in my family that doesn't like animals is my grandmother.
So, of course, Gable followed her around all day.
He behaved himself, otherwise, but it was funny. He wanted her attention so badly.
My crew did great! We drove out to my mother's house where the family was gathering. There were 16 of us... 4 being young kids. Also, a ferret and my mother's 14yr old golden retriever.
My 3 were very well behaved while out of their kennels. Everyone stayed calm and played nice with the kids! When they went in their crates while dinner was out... they were silent. You would have never known they were there! I'm very proud of them.
Lots of stressful situations for a dog, and it didn't bother them!:D
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November 1998
BeschreibungiWanted: Woman to talk to. Three nights a week. Three hundred dollars a night. /ipiSkin Deep/i is about the unusual young woman who answers this ad. Martha Ward is twenty -eight, an ex-topless waitress, and part-time mother of an eight-year-old. She drives to Malibu for her new job and discovers she must dress entirely in blue --body, hand, hair, even face, completely covered-- and talk to a man named Dr. Hamilton. He wants to talk about beauty. pThis startling novel depicts the compelling and poignant story of a young woman's obsession with her looks. Defining herself by the reactions of the various and unforgettable men in her life --her father who speaks only in aphorisms and platitudes, her pyromanical stepfather, her dramatically different boyfriend-- Martha becomes more an more absorbed in the demands of being physically attractive. Through their eyes, she begins to see her life of solitude and independence as one of lonliness and desperate routine. pOnly in her nig
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Erscheinungsdatum: November 1998
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This custom screen porch patio cover was built as an addition to an existing home in the Sedgefield neighborhood of Greensboro, NC. Our client there chose an exposed rafter design with a shed type roof. The exposed rafter style really complimented the design of the existing home's cathedral wood plank ceilings.
A screened porch with pressure treated post and beam structure is the key to having a lasting beautiful outdoor room. The exterior is finished with the "screen tight" system including white vinyl trim and snap on tracks. The interior was painted and wired with outlets and a ceiling fan.
Custom Electric of NC, Inc. performed the high quality electrical work to make the ceiling fan and receptacles work and meet current code requirements. As with all electrical work, be sure to get a licensed electrician to install the breaker panel, wiring, and fixtures. This will keep your family safe and fixtures working properly for years to come.


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Watching Major Payne, and noticed Camp Pendleton is in Virginia? So I wasn't in California when I was at Pendleton? :0. More movie errors?
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Watching Major Payne, and noticed Camp Pendleton is in Virginia? So I wasn't in California when I was at Pendleton? :0. More movie errors?
Bruce Willis a Navy Seal in Tears of the Sun used a Backwards mounted Aimpoint.
SWAT Teams in SALT use backwards Eotechs!
Angie also doesn't need a rear site on her rifle in Salt.
Yeah its funny to see those. You just want to say man can't they just hirer a gun guy as a prop master?
In "Brave" when Merida is having her day out, the bird she sees is a Harris's Hawk. However, the Harris's Hawk is native to the central part of America, (southern North America down throughout much of South America) and wouldn't be seen in Scotland. Duh.
Ya I love the old westerns were they keep shooting their sixguns and not reload. Let alone any mag changes.
In Stand by Me, the kid fires the 1911n to get attention, then he cocks the hammer to prepare for the next shot.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. John Wayne goes into a small room to talk to Jimmy Stewart. He walks by some political signs standing in the corner. After the talk, they walk out together, past different signs.
I always love the cocking gun sound effect when the gun shown doesn't have an external hammer.
There is a website somewhere that lists a lot of these.
I just wish I could remember it.


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Saturday, May 05, 2012
The Complete History 1919-2003
We thought we'd go back to some video in these off-season weeks, and this is a long one that is quite interesting from the historical viewpoint. An official NFL Films presentation, we think you'll enjoy watching it.
Posted by Mr. Lambeau at 2:58 PM
Labels: Golden Era Players, Green Bay, Lambeau Field, Packers History, The Lombardi Era, The Mike Holmgren Era, The Olden Days
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Thank you SO much for posting this and the other videos. They are gems, and your blog is simply wonderful. Thank you for your service to Packer fans everywhere!!
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sweet! the rain stopped
so is this like a every sunday meet you guys have going? I wouldn't mind going but my car is riding on a spare tire right now . I don't want you guys to make fun of me. Plus the city owns my tires
I would love to come out but a burned out house needs to be demo'd by tonight I shall be out next sunday [IMG]http://*****************.com/smile/emthup.gif[/IMG]
how late you guys stay up there, i was up there with a few friends but didnt see anyone.
we were there till 7:30 we waited an hour and a half and no one showed so we went to get at drink at the Official GTG bar.
Elliotts Pour House
3728 Hudson St
Baltimore, MD 21224
And we hungout there til about midnight.
oh just missed you, we will deff be up there next sunday tho [IMG]http://*****************.com/smile/emthup.gif[/IMG]
the weither sucks 50 degress in may WTF I hope it gets better quick
weather is supposed to subside thursday ish
Hump Bump
so how many people usually show up?
on a nice day 10-12 cars....But thats because it just started.
As long as the rain stays away ill be out on Sunday.
01.5 B5 S4 - Stage 3....... Thanks to Daz and Country Dubs
13 B8.5 S4 3.0T - Daily
11 Touareg TDI - Family Truckster
yea hopefully, i'll be bringing like 5 cars
Still having G2Gs
Yeah Still going on
Hey Lou, what time does this usually go til?
I be glad when the weither gets better so I can fix my dam regulators and come out to a few GTG's
Aboout 8 then some of us go to the local bar
Bump for great weather tomorrow.
I think i may stop by for this again tonight.
I will be down for mothers day, from central pa. would like to check this one out! An show-off the BRIGHT... light up-grade on the 16v Rocco.
dinner usually runs late on mothers day but ill see if i cant make it
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The Smith family was the talk of the town for all of the wrong reasons earlier this year when the
Happy birthday, Maya Rudolph! Today, the funny lady celebrates her 42nd birthday. Rudolph, who first rose to prominence on NBC's
After a month of scrutiny and controversy, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith have been cleared by the Los Angeles County
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have always had an unorthodox way of raising their three kids. Their parenting methods
Tabloids exploded this week with news that the Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith were under investigation by the Los
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Entertainment moguls Jay Z and Will Smith have both signed on to executive produce a new comedy coming to HBO.
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Bill Belichick's complete Q&A with the media Thursday morning
|06.14.12 at 4:26 pm ET
Here's the complete transcript of Bill Belichick's Q&A with the media from Thursday morning at Gillette Stadium.
BB: It's another day here, another day of mini-camp; just trying to roll along through it. [We'll] wind things down a little bit here after today. I feel like we've gotten a lot done but we still have a long way to go. Hopefully we'll be ready to go to training camp, this is really what this is all about, to prepare all of us for the start of training camp in whatever it is five weeks, six weeks, depending on when they report.
Tom Brady was talking a little bit yesterday that he would remind his teammates that the next five weeks are not vacation ' will you impart the same type of words? 'Yeah, we've already been talking about it; definitely.'
Why do they not take the playbook with them? Is that a common thing? 'We'll make some revisions to it based on some of the things that have happened over the weeks. We'll make some modifications to it. The way the playbook is set up, it kind of changes every camp anyway because of the installation schedule.'
What were your thoughts on getting the AFC Championship rings yesterday? 'Bittersweet. Whatever it was last year, it was. It's time to move on.'
Saints interim head coach Joe Vitt said they are interested in possibly coming up for practice during training camp. What is your interest level? 'I'll talk to Joe, actually Joe and I have talked about it. [I'll] probably follow back up and see how that works out. I don't know. Right now, we're just trying to get through today and get the most we can out of that and then follow back up on the training camp logistics and our teaching schedule and that type of thing. We'll deal with that in the next few days or week or so, if it happens.'
Did you find that beneficial a couple years ago when you did it? 'We'll see, maybe. If we think so, then we'll do it. If not, then ' they play in the Hall of Fame game so it's a little bit of a tight schedule on their end so we'll see how it goes.'
Have you reached out to the other teams you'll play this preseason about the possibility of doing joint practices? 'That could be a possibility. Right now, we're really just focused on trying to get through this mini-camp here. We'll deal with training camp and the other scheduling and all that in the next few days here.'
What are some of your thoughts on Bobby Carpenter and his attributes? 'It's been good. Bobby has been here all spring. He's worked hard. Good athlete, runs well, smart guy, has some experience. He's done some different things in his career ' played inside, played outside, played in sub, played in the kicking game. He's been a pretty versatile player for a couple of different organizations, three [organizations]. He's fit in well; he's done a nice job. We've asked him to do some different things and he mentally, physically and experience-wise has looked pretty comfortable doing those. I think he's in good position to go to camp and we'll see what happens in training camp.'
What was his role with the Lions last year? 'Played more in their sub than in the regular defense, although he played some in there too. He's played, as I said, inside and outside, so he's played both middle linebacker and the Sam and Will, both on and off the line of scrimmage in a 4-3 and 3-4, going back to Dallas and Miami and Detroit was the 4-3 package with the off the line, three linebacker scheme, four man line scheme. He's done a lot of different things. He's a very versatile player and he's smart so learning really hasn't been a problem for him. He's been able to handle multiple responsibilities so far.'
Did Jake Ballard arrive yesterday? 'He did, yes. He was here yesterday afternoon. I talked to him. We'll move along on his rehab and see how it goes. He seems to be doing relatively well for where he was at, February, whenever he had the surgery.'
Pop Warner has instituted new rules that limit contact in practices for concussions ' do you think that's a good idea? 'I really don't know enough about it. I think you'd have to talk to somebody that knows a lot more about that than I do. I'm just trying to coach a professional team.'
What have you seen from Britt Davis since he came in on the practice squad last year until now? 'He's been an interesting guy to work with; one of our bigger receivers. He has good size; [he's] a good target, he's had some experience in our system through Josh [McDaniels] and some familiarity. I think he's adapted well, he's shown up well here and he's put himself in good position to go to training camp. We'll see how the competition goes there. He's done fine.'
Andre Carter expressed some interest in coming back this season. Any update from your perspective? 'Nope. We'll see how it goes. The players who are here on the roster are on the roster. We're at 90 so if somebody comes on, somebody else will have to go off. Might happen, might not, I don't know. We'll do what we think is best for the football team. We'll evaluate whatever our options are. If we make a move, then there isn't a spot there to make it so somebody would have to move off if somebody moved on.'
Yesterday Ivan Fears said that conditioning was the most important thing a player could work on over the next five weeks. From your perspective, how important are the next five week in that regard? 'I agree. They're very important. I think overall these guys are in pretty good shape but I don't think they're in training camp shape, real football shape. That'll come again over the next few weeks, getting back to their offseason training, lifting and conditioning and doing things to really get them prepared for the bulk of the football season from the conditioning standpoint. We've done a lot of technique things, working on their skills and doing a lot of teamwork so that they can either actually execute or visualize the plays that happen relative to having somebody on the other side of the ball. That's something you can't simulate in your own personal workouts, you need a team setting to do that. We've tried to emphasize that. I think there's no question between now and the start of training camp, physical conditioning, cleaning up any little nagging injuries, making sure that they do a good job with all their aspects of the training: nutrition, hydration, rest, speed, strength, power, explosive movements, those kinds of things. That's all part of it, no question.'
I do not know if you would agree with the fact that there wasn't really a pure fullback on the roster last year ' 'I would agree with that.'
With Spencer Larsen and Tony Fiammetta joining the team this year, is this a sign that you'd like to consider getting back to that? 'We'll see. We'll see how it goes in training camp. With Eric [Kettani] there, we have three guys that kind of have some degree of fullback experience, a little bit of tight end experience, a little bit of running back experience, so there may be some crossover there. All three of those players have some value in the kicking game. We'll see how all that plays out. I think that's a possibility. That's why they're here. They're here to compete for that role on offense and that role in the kicking game. How that compares to what other players do, we'll just have to see. We'll have competition from that spot relative to linebacker, tight end, possibly running back and in the kicking game.'
For that spot to stick, is that what you are saying? 'It will be [those] players' values relative to the running backs, the tight ends, the linebackers and the kicking game and how big of a role those other players would have offensively or defensively as the case may be. It may change the composition of our team a little bit from what it was last year; it may not, we'll see. Those guys haven't really played for us. Eric [Kettani] was here but then he wasn't here so I think he's still a bit of an unknown quantity. We'll evaluate those three guys with everybody else and see how it goes.'
Do you have any exciting plans over the next five weeks you would like to share? 'No, not really.'
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Declines in Cigarette Smoking Rates Stall
September 7, 2010
AARC has received an early release copy of smoking statistics in the U.S. The CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report gives numbers on smoking rates and second-hand smoke exposure.
A number of statistics are available in the report, but one stands out: Previous declines in the smoking rate have stalled out in the last five years with the national rate of smoking remaining unchanged.
The smoking rate was 20.9% in 2005 and 20.5% in 2009.
Cigarette smoking remains highest among those living in poverty and with the lowest levels of education.
Second-hand smoke exposure rates continue to decline. The reports cites that 40% of those age 3 and under had exposure to smoke in the latest study. This compares to 88% of the 4 and under population in a 1988–1991 study. While second-hand smoke has declined, the report notes that 88 million children age 3 and under are still exposed to the problem.


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With everyone throwing darts at a calendar, trying to determine when the Google Nexus 5 will launch, a product reviewer for Amazon was writing about a case for the Nexus 5. On Saturday, the reviewer said that she had 6 more days until the embargo is lifted and she can write about the phone. Actually, she shouldn't even had made that comment if indeed she really is testing the model with an embargo (more on that later).
For those unfamiliar with the term as used in this context, an embargo is a period of time when someone with advanced knowledge of an announcement or product, cannot write or talk about it to others. Once the embargo is lifted, the information can be announced. According to this reviewer, the embargo on the Nexus 5 will be lifted on October 26. What we don't know is whether or not she is legitimate.
Yes, we wave our salt shaker around on stories like this one, especially when it comes to the launch date of such an eagerly awaited phone. On the other hand, before you start wasting anymore grains of salt, we need to look at the facts. The reviewer is listed as a "Top 100 reviewer" on Amazon. But most of her reviews are for books, not for tech gadgets. While she did review a case for the Nexus 5, why would she have been given the smartphone to test out? And usually when you are under an embargo, you do not go around and make a point of announcing it to the world. That would seem to defeat the purpose of the embargo in the first place.
Still, we have had a number of other rumored launch dates for the Nexus 5 including an invitation for an October 24th event that turned out to be a bust, animated chocolate that pointed to October 28th and the listing of an accessory on Amazon that hinted at an October 30th launch. Even though we have to cast a skeptical eye on the so-called October 26th embargo lifting, all of these dates seem to suggest that the Nexus 5 will hit Google Play sometime in the last few days of this month. As Tom Petty once sang, "the waiting is the hardest part". On the other hand, what does not kill us makes us stronger.
source: Amazon via Reddit, Phandroid


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Yet this beautiful sensory experience is also juxtaposed with economic extremes wealth and abundance, and nearly abject poverty -- in most cases, triggered by stark educational disparities, which have further exacerbated the cyclical nature of poverty in an otherwise beautiful nation.
It is here that the aesthetically and intellectually fascinating aspects of this South American giant ironically become burdens. The staggering size of the nation allowing it to host such wondrous natural diversity and an abundance of peoples coupled with the cornucopia of cultures and dialects have in turn, made access to proper education next to impossible for many.
Taking advantage of the fact that nearly all Brazilians have access to television, Canal Futura became Brazil's first television channel aimed entirely at educational programming. Airing educational programming around the clock, Futura reaches an audience of 33 million.
In a country where only half of the population reaches high school, Futura is providing access to educational resources to a population which never thought it possible.
The topics offered are broad, and programming is scheduled in a way so as to best reach its varying viewership, which is comprised of children and adults, alike. Futura names its target audience as children, young people, workers, housewives and teachers, and primarily the low-income population. In many cases, partnerships with local social or educational organizations create programs particularly geared at local populations providing them with knowledge that will serve them in day-to-day life and helping mobilize communities.
Topics include everything from teaching small business skills, to addressing human rights issues, to encouraging drug prevention, to creating environmental awareness, and of course, to standard educational programming for the various age groups tuning in throughout the day.
Canal Futura's mission statement says it best: bringing to the entire Brazilian population, especially to the children and working class, knowledge that can be applied on their daily lives, therefore, generating changes in attitude and behavior, which in turn will ensure a better chance to enter the job market and deal with family life, school life, and social life, consequently giving them a superior quality of life. Canal Futura's goals speak volumes -- and clearly, Brazil is listening.
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Patrice Bergeron says Tyler Seguin 'is going to learn'
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Bruins forward Tyler Seguin was the target of some tough love from management over the weekend when Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli shopped him and then called him out for not being professional enough. Patrice Bergeron weighed in Tuesday and seemed to acknowledge that there's room for improvement from the 21-year-old, but Bergeron had his teammate's back more than anything.
"I didn't read or see his comments, but I think Tyler is a young guy still," Bergeron said. "He's got a lot to learn, but at the same time, he's improved a lot. At that stage, when you're learning like that it's going to happen. You need to make sure you learn from it though and find a way to get better. That's the main thing with him. It's just about him finding ways to battle through it and find ways and build some character out of it. He's a terrific player, a terrific person and sometimes you need to have some lows to get back up and feel better and play better."
That's a lot nicer than what Chiarelli said Sunday at the draft.
'He's got to commit his mind and focus to the one task at hand,' Chiarelli told reporters. 'He's got to become more of a professional. You know what? I can say that about a lot of 21-year-olds. I know he got criticized for playing on the periphery and all that stuff. He did. He's got to commit to being a professional and focusing on the game. Simple as that. He does that, we don't expect him to be crashing and banging. Just play your game.'
Seguin had just one goal in the playoffs and was demoted to the third line, but Bergeron went out of his way to compliment his linemate of the last two seasons.
"I thought he was really good, the way that he helped us," Bergeron said of Seguin. "He found a way, even though he wasn't scoring as much as he would have liked to, he was still battling hard and doing little details that you don't always see on the scoresheet that goes a long way. That wasn't gong unnoticed from us as players and as teammates. Like I said, he's a terrific young player, so he's going to learn."
The interesting difference between the two isn't the tone, but the content of the quotes. Bergeron says that Seguin was playing better than he looked, while the GM said that the criticisms that Seguin was being timid was warranted.
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With a stay at Contessa Hotel in Zakynthos (Argassi), you'll be minutes from Argassi Beach and close to Zakynthos Port. This family-friendly hotel is within close proximity of Agios Dhionysios and St. Dionisios Church.
Make yourself at home in one of the 92 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators. Bathrooms have bathtubs or showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and separate sitting areas.
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Polanyi points out ( Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy , 5) that the Copernican system had implications that Copernicus himself never knew, but adds that Copernicus and everyone who committed himself to Copernican theory expected "an indefinite range of possible future confirmations of the theory," an expectation that was "essential to their belief in the superior rationality and objective validity of the system" (5).
He doesn't hesitate to call this a prophetic quality: "One may say . . . that a theory which we acclaim as rational in itself is thereby accredited with prophetic powers. We accept it in the hope of making contact with reality; so that, being really true, our theory may yet show forth its truth through future centuries in ways undreamed of by its authors. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of our age have been rightly described as the amazing confirmations of accepted scientific theories. In this wholly indeterminate scope of its true implications lies the deepest sense in which objectivity is attributed to a scientific theory" (5).
Theory, in short, doesn't totalize, it is not an act of closure. Theories set a trajectory toward an open future.


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The $10,000 Mistake
We tore out the entire floor of our bathroom. The shower floor, the stone kickboards, the cement float underneath, everything. Why, you ask? Well, it all goes back to 2009...
We had finished the bathroom, and it was glorious. We had taken it from looking like this:
That junk pile sat in our bathroom for six years.
What happened in those six years??
- The economy collapsed.
- Home Expo went under, taking our designer and the archives of all we had ordered with it.
- I stockpiled stone tiles, picking whatever unchipped remnants I could find from the remaining stock at Solistone out in San Bernardino.
- I searched for the shower floor tile. Didn't know it's name. Didn't have a sample of it to take around. I searched in vain for -- not exaggerating -- two years? Finally got lucky and stumbled across a leftover remnant in our back yard. Found a match at Mission Tile West in South Pasadena.
- My contractor disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.
- I tried to sue my contractor but could never find him to serve the summons. Learned about statutes of limitation on claims against contractors (2 years).
- Got angry. Got frustrated. Got wide-ranging bids from other contractors to fix the problem ($3,500 on the low end, $10K on the high)
Then I finally found someone to help me chuck the albatross off the deck. Enter Benjamin, a contractor recommended by some good friends who regularly re-do houses. Benjamin was their man, and I figured that gave me some additional leverage. He wouldn't want to screw me and have it get back to my friends.
So we dove in at long last. We set out to rebuild the shower basin, raising it up, giving it a dam to keep the water in, and making a couple additional changes along the way.
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Southwest AK Scenarios Workshop - Feb. 22-25, 2011
Workshop Resources
Climate Change Scenario Planning helps prepare Alaska park managers and cooperators for impending changes and make informed decisions with the least regrets for future outcomes. We emphasize that Scenario Planning is not an end product in itself, but rather, a tool and process to inform our thinking and communication. This is the 2nd of six workshops that occurred between 2010-2012. Overview and detailed reports are available for all the workshops and a range of other communication and education products are also being developed.
Pre-workshop Webinars
A series of pre-workshop webinars provided the basis upon which the workshop was built. A brief description of each follows: Pre-workshop Webinar #1, February 2nd, 2011 - Title: Overview of scenario planning process; Webinar #2 - February 7th, 2011 - Title: Climate Drivers for Alaska; Webinar #3 - February 23rd, 2011 - Title: Alaska Climate Impacts for SW AK Parks.
The Workshop - Exploring Climate Change and its Implications for SW Alaska
Scenarios can be used as reference for parks working to identify plausible desired future conditions for General Management Plans, Resource Stewardship Plans and the like. Some resources are likely to change regardless of what we do. The no-regrets management actions and research needs that we've identified can also be used for updating short- and longer-term work plans and proposals for parks and cooperating groups. Presentation materials are available below.
- Plenary Presentation - Nancy Fresco, Scenario Planning
- Plenary Presentation - Nancy Fresco, Climate Science and Background
- Plenary Presentation - Nancy Fresco, Science, Drivers and Effects
- Plenary Presentation - Jeff Mow, Management Implications
- Plenary Presentation - Workshop Summary
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The Bachelor of Arts in Biology degree offers students a broad education in the biological sciences while still being firmly grounded in the liberal arts.
The Bachelor of Science in Biology includes the same biology requirements as the Bachelor of Arts but includes several additional supporting courses in chemistry, mathematics and physics. Most students preparing for graduate or professional schools elect to fulfill this major option.
The Bachelor of Arts in Life Sciences is designed to address the need for supportive courses in earth sciences which is required of students preparing for secondary school teaching licensure in Life Sciences.
The Bachelor of Science in Biopsychology is designed to give students an integrative perspective on the biological basis of behavior through a series of courses in both biology and psychology.
Graduation Skills
Graduation skills in Critical Thinking (CT), Quantitative Reasoning (QR), and Writing (W) are embedded throughout the offered courses and are met by completing the major. The graduation skill in Speaking (S) is met by completing COM 115 (preferred) or COM 111 or HON 130.
Transfer students must consult an advisor about potential adjustments to their course requirements to fulfill each of these skills.
Transfer course policy for majors and minors
All transfer courses, including ACTC courses, must be approved in writing by the department, subject to review by the chair. Only those biology courses successfully completed (2.0 or above) within the last 10 years will be considered. At least four upper division electives must be completed in residence (at Augsburg College).
Custom Biology Programs
Students who have completed BIO 151, 152, 253, 255 and at least one upper division elective may, in consultation with their advisor, seek approval from the department to complete major requirements with as many as four upper division courses from other institutions.
Departmental Honors
The awarding of Departmental Honors recognizes a student's outstanding achievement(s) in the Biology Major. Only students who have a major GPA of 3.5 or higher and an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher may earn Departmental Honors by successfully completing one of the following:
1. Continuation of a summer or academic year biology research internship via successful completion of BIO 297, BIO 399, BIO 497, BIO 499 or HON 499. Before registering for one of these options, students must submit a formal letter of intent to an Honors Committee of three biology faculty (to be determined by the mentor and student) at least 2 weeks prior to the registration deadline. This formal letter of intent will be composed of no more than one page of text providing the following: (1) Title of project; (2) abstract describing the project with special focus given to the questions that will be addressed, the methods to be used and the expected outcomes; (3) name and signature (with date) of your faculty advisor; and (4) list of the three Biology Department faculty who have agreed to serve as your Honors Committee. A decision whether or not to approve registration will be made by the Honors Committee within one week of submission. Successful completion of the Honors process requires a public presentation of your research and a written report in the style of a typical peer-reviewed biological discipline journal article. The written report will be accepted or rejected by the Honors Committee within 2 weeks of submission.
2. Selection for, participation in, and completion of the Mayo Innovation Scholars Program (including the final presentation).
3. Scoring above the national 90th percentile on the ETS Major Field Test in Biology.
A course sequence in general chemistry and five biology courses including BIO 151, 152, and three additional BIO courses (200 level or above). The majority of courses in biology must be taken at Augsburg College.
Other Requirements
In planning their courses of study, students are encouraged to work closely with members of the biology faculty. Biology majors must have an advisor in the biology department. In order to complete all major requirements in four years, BIO 151 and 152 and General Chemistry should be taken in the first year, and BIO 253, BIO 255 and Organic Chemistry (when appropriate) in the second year. Students should complete their math requirements early in their college careers. Students must earn a minimum grade of 1.0 and an average grade of 2.0 in BIO 151 and 152. Supporting course requirements in chemistry, mathematics, physics, and communication must be satisfied with a grade of 2.0 or higher to satisfy either major or prerequisite requirements. A grade of 2.0 or higher is required in BIO 253 and BIO 255 in order to fulfill major requirements and to fulfill the prerequisite requirements of several upper division biology electives. A grade of 2.0 or higher must be earned in all upper division biology courses applied toward meeting the requirements of a major. All biology courses applied toward the major must be traditionally graded. A GPA of 2.5 in biology courses is required for the life science major.
*Students completing majors in biology or life science will be required to take the ETS Major Field Test in Biology during their final year of the program. The exam will appear on the graduation checklist.
Biology for Health Sciences
Prerequisite requirements for health sciences vary with the program and the institution. Care should be taken to study the requirements for every program well in advance of making application. In general, the pre-medical curriculum includes a year each of biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, calculus and physics. Courses in biochemistry, statistics, advanced biology, and social and behavioral sciences are also important preparation for the MR5 Medical College Admissions Exam. Programs in physician assistant training, veterinary medicine, physical therapy, and such typically have a more extensive list of prerequisites. Students considering a post-baccalaureate program in these areas should consult early and often with health science advisors Catherina Kipper, Dixie Shafer, Dale Pederson, and Kelsey Richardson-Blackwell.
Graduate Training in Biology
Graduate programs in biological fields typically require two semesters of general chemistry, organic chemistry, calculus, and physics. Also required is extensive involvement in research through Augsburg Experience, internships, and/or independent study. Careful consultation with a biology advisor is recommended to select among coursework and research options.
Teaching Licensure Major
The State of Minnesota has specific licensing requirements for biology teachers, the science portions of which are satisfied by the Augsburg Life Sciences major only if BIO476 Microbiology and BIO481 Ecology are selected as two of the upper division electives. The state requirements may be subject to change after the publication of this catalog. Students should therefore consult with the Augsburg Department of Education to identify current Minnesota teacher licensure requirements. All upper division biology requirements for secondary licensure must be completed before beginning student teaching.
Post-Baccalaureate Teaching Licensure
Students who have earned a bachelor's degree elsewhere and seek life science teaching licensure at Augsburg are required to complete a minimum of two upper division biology courses at Augsburg with grades of 2.5 or higher. Required or elective courses are determined by the department following review of transcripts and prior to matriculation.
Beta Beta Beta
Membership in the Augsburg chapter of this national biology honor society is open to students who have completed at least one upper division biology course and have a GPA of 3.0 in biology.
Cooperative Education and Service-Learning
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In A Doll's House, Nora Helmer returns home on Christmas Eve with a Christmas tree that must be hidden from the children until it is trimmed. Indeed, hiding is a major theme in this play. Later in the first act, Nora plays hide-and-seek with her children, and she hides the macaroons that her husband, Torvald, has forbidden her to eat. A more dangerous secret is the fact that, years earlier, she had borrowed a large amount of money to pay for the sojourn in Italy that enabled Torvald to recover from a serious illness. She had borrowed the money illegally from a usurer named Krogstad, and she has secretly been repaying the loan out of the small sums that she is able to earn by copying documents or to save from her household budget. To spare her dying father, who was to have been her cosigner, she even forged his signature on the contract.
That something is wrong with the Helmers' marriage quickly becomes evident in the first scene: Torvald treats Nora more like a favorite child than a wife, and to please him she seems perfectly willing to pretend to be his little "skylark" or his "squirrel." In other words, she is content to live in a dollhouse. Nora's old school friend, Mrs. Linde, is one of those Ibsen characters who has married for money, not for love. The man she did love—and jilted—was Krogstad. Now a penniless and childless widow, she would be very happy to settle down in a dollhouse, but necessity forces her to beg Nora to help her get a job in Torvald's bank.
The plot hinges upon Nora's ignorance of three important facts: Krogstad holds a minor position in the bank of which Torvald is shortly to become manager; Torvald is so embarrassed by Krogstad's presumptuous familiarity that he plans to fire him; and forgery, no matter what the motivation, is a serious crime. Ironically, Torvald fires Krogstad and promises his position to Mrs. Linde. This act prompts Krogstad, who is trying to regain his respectability, to use his knowledge of Nora's forgery to blackmail her: If he loses his job, he will expose her and ruin Torvald. Nora's attempt to persuade Torvald to retain Krogstad precipitates the crisis: Torvald angrily dispatches the letter of dismissal. Her situation worsens when Krogstad delivers an ultimatum and leaves a letter exposing her crime. In desperation, Nora tells Mrs. Linde about the incriminating letter now locked in the mailbox and urges her to use whatever power that she may still have over Krogstad to persuade him to ask for it back unread. By the end of the second act, Nora sees only two possible ways out of her dilemma: Either she will save her beloved husband's reputation by committing suicide, or what she calls "the miracle" will happen, and he will magnanimously assume full responsibility for her crime. In an interview with Krogstad, Mrs. Linde succeeds in reviving his love for her, but she precipitates the final crisis by forbidding him to retract his letter.
Torvald's explosive reaction to Krogstad's letter shows Nora that the man for whom she was willing to sacrifice her life, the man capable of "the miracle," is a fiction. Discovering that he is self-centered, petty, and unfeeling, she can no longer love him. To challenge his outmoded ideas about marriage, she becomes a rebel and informs him that she is leaving him and the children. When he admonishes her that she is duty bound to remain, she says that she has discovered a higher duty: her duty to herself. She exits, slamming the door on a bewildered Torvald.
Part of the play's effectiveness on stage depends on Ibsen's suggestive use of props, costumes, and activities (for example, the Christmas tree, the macaroons, the game of hide-and-seek) to illustrate psychological states or to underscore symbolic meanings. In its day, A Doll's House was extremely controversial. While many applauded Nora's determination to "be herself," many more condemned her as "unnatural" for deserting her children. More than a century later, the play still raises questions that stimulate readers and spectators.
On the day before Christmas, Nora Helmer busies herself with last-minute shopping, for this is the first Christmas since her marriage that she does not have to economize. Her husband, Torvald, is made manager of a bank and after the New Year their money troubles are over. She buys a tree and plenty of toys for the children and even indulges herself in some macaroons, her favorite confection, although Torvald does not entirely approve. He loves his wife dearly, but he regards her very much as her own father did, as an amusing doll—a plaything.
It is true that she does behave like a child sometimes in her relations with her husband. She pouts, wheedles, and chatters because Torvald expects these things; he would not love his wife without them. Actually, seven years earlier Nora demonstrated that she had the courage of a mature, loving woman. Just after her first child was born, when Torvald was ill and the doctor said that he would die unless he went abroad immediately, she borrowed the requisite two hundred and fifty pounds from Krogstad, a moneylender. She forged to the note the name of her father, who was dying at the time, and convinced Torvald that the money for his trip came from her father. However, Krogstad was exacting, and since then she devised various ways to meet the regular payments. When Torvald gives her money for new dresses and such things, she never spends more than half of it, and she finds other ways to earn money. One winter she does copying, which she keeps a secret from Torvald.
Krogstad, who is in the employ of the bank of which Torvald is now manager, is determined to use Torvald to advance his own fortunes. Torvald dislikes Krogstad, however, and is just as determined to be rid of him. The opportunity comes when Christina Linde, Nora's old school friend, applies to Torvald for a position in the bank. Torvald resolves to dismiss Krogstad and hire Mrs. Linde in his place.
When Krogstad discovers that he is to be fired, he calls on Nora and tells her that if he is dismissed he will ruin her and her husband. He reminds her that the note supposedly signed by her father is dated three days after his death. Frightened at the turn matters take, Nora pleads unsuccessfully with Torvald to reinstate Krogstad in the bank. Krogstad, receiving from Torvald an official notice of his dismissal, writes a letter in which he reveals the full details of Nora's forgery. He drops the letter in the mailbox outside the Helmer home.
Torvald is in a holiday mood. The following evening they are to attend a fancy dress ball, and Nora is to go as a Neapolitan fisher girl and dance the tarantella. To divert her husband's attention from the mailbox outside, Nora practices her dance before Torvald and Dr. Rank, an old friend. Nora is desperate, not knowing quite which way to turn. She thinks of Mrs. Linde, with whom Krogstad at one time was in love. Mrs. Linde promises to do what she can to turn Krogstad from his avowed purpose. Nora thinks also of Dr. Rank, but when she begins to confide in him he makes it so obvious that he is in love with her that she cannot tell her secret. However, Torvald promises her not to go near the mailbox until after the ball.
What bothers Nora is not her own fate but Torvald's. She imagines herself already dead, drowned in icy black water, and pictures the grief-stricken Torvald taking upon himself all the blame for what she did and being disgraced for her sake. In fact, Mrs. Linde, by promising to marry Krogstad and look after his children, succeeds in persuading him to withdraw all accusations against the Helmers. She realizes, however, that sooner or later Nora and Torvald will have to come to an understanding.
The crisis comes when Torvald reads Krogstad's letter after their return from the ball. He accuses Nora of being a hypocrite, a liar, and a criminal and of having no religion, morality, or sense of duty. He declares that she is unfit to bring up her children and that she might remain in his household but will no longer be a part of it. When Krogstad's second letter arrives, declaring that he intends to take no action against the Helmers, Torvald's attitude changes, and with a sigh of relief he declares that he is saved.
For the first time, Nora sees her husband for what he is—a selfish, pretentious hypocrite with no regard for her position in the matter. She reminds him that no marriage can be built on inequality and announces her intention of leaving his house forever. Torvald cannot believe his ears and pleads with her to remain, but she declares she is going to try to become a reasonable human being, to understand the world—in short, to become a woman, not a doll to flatter Torvald's selfish vanity. She goes out and, with irrevocable finality, slams the door of her doll house behind her.


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The Top 75: Partners+simons
The Boston-based agency's expertise spans several healthcare sectors, which are served through a single health practice created by the merger of its healthcare and life sciences units this year.
Take healthcare-technology outfit Proventys, an engagement which Simons says typifies the work of his firm. The agency completed brand identity and website development highlighting Proventys' personalized-medicine tools and diagnostic capabilities, all within a seven-week time frame. "The whole go-to-market imperative is so strong in this economy that nobody can afford any wasted motion," he says.
On the managed-care side, Partners+simons is deploying a number of campaigns for existing clients. These include a B2B print campaign for Horizon BCBS of New Jersey and a TV campaign for Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, of Albany, NY. Among other active clients are Agilent Technologies, for which the agency recently launched the second version of a metabolomics lab website designed to educate the scientific community on this type of analysis.
The 60-person shop also focuses on the hospital business. Tufts Medical Center and its primary teaching hospital last year called on the agency for a rebranding effort designed to enhance promotion of certain clinical specialties, and a campaign for Tufts' Obstetrics practice debuted in the spring.
Simons reports no AOR account losses, although some projects have simply run their course, as was the case after the agency built a website for CRO Charles River Laboratories.
Simons prefers long-term assignments and has been successful in bringing some on. His crew is handling professional communications for three Genzyme brands—adhesion-barrier product Seprafilm and osteoarthritis treatment Synvisc, as well as its orphan drug Myozyme for Pompe disease—as well as for veterinary medicine firm Putney. Senior-level staffer Deborah Hernandez joined recently as director, health professional marketing, deepening the practice's savvy in that area.
While he remains wary of what he calls the "diminished appetite for spending" on marketing, the imperative to demonstrate accountability arouses Simons' concern more.
"Where we have chosen to concentrate is on being able to demonstrate, quantitatively, that our clients spend more efficiently in comparative measure to companies with whom they compete," he explains. "We're really trying to get down to spending efficiently, whereas the market is coming at this strictly from the standpoint of measuring campaign performance," which he terms soft measurement.
To get the hard data, one kind of comparative survey the agency does contrasts Nielsen spend data with changes in awareness. According to Simons, metrics focused more tightly on business impact puts the agency ahead of the pack and in a good position for when marketers' appetites are restored. "A lot of marketers are waiting for things to return to the normal to which everyone had been accustomed," he says. "Yet we see this as a passage to a new normal where successful agencies are going to have to do a fundamental reset in their entire offering."


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Installing rear drum
I am changing the rear brakes on a 2003 focus and Cant seem to get the drum back on.. I compressed the cylinder and have the clips in place.. I tried pounding it on and caused slight damage to the outside of the pads so i am fearful of continuing to force it on.... any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
You have to adjust the bar or "adjuster" to the smallest distance, Then put the drum on and pull the parking brake a few times to set the shoes out to the drum. Make sure to torque the spindle nut properly so you dont waste the bearing.
I had the same problem. I ended up camfering the edges of the pads to get them started. Then I tapped the drum on opposite sides to get them on.
How is this accomplished? Is this why i cant seem to get the drum on?
He just said so, if you are going to question it you won't get much more help...............
Nothing personal but if you can't figure it out you don't belong working on brakes.
You swing the 1/4 circle shaped quadrant on the bar with the little spring on it one way or the other to make shoe setup wider or narrower. Can't make it any clearer than that.......
After that one or two times pushing down on brake pedal will adjust it if you put it together right.
I honestly don't understand the animosity. Forums are here for people to learn and share from what I know everyone on this forum used to know nothing about cars cut him a break. Bdah I found it easiest to adjust this by taking a thin flat head screwdriver and lightly tapping it to get it to close, sometimes if its old it'll get jammed a little and take some finesse to get the teeth moving. Also just as whynot said make sure to torque the nut correctly. I believe the procedure is 10 turns counterclockwise while torquing the nut down to get it to seat the nut on the bearing properly. If you don't you'll be replacing the drum in like 6 months from the deafening humming you'll get (been there its quite obnoxious lol) good luck
As for why the drum won't go on the adjuster in the drum style brake acts similarly to the piston in caliper brakes. It keeps the shoes/pads close to the contact surface so when you depress the pedal the pads do not have to travel far to creat contact. Just like how you must depress the piston in calipers to get them back over the pads and rotors you must bring the adjuster back to close to put a drum back on. This is why "pumping" the brake system after service is necessary to push the pads back to where they almost touch the metal
Trying to be patient..........
Don't know where you got the '10 turns' thing from but it is totally and absolutely worthless. The torque is around 200 ft.lbs. on the nut, anything else and bearing is scrap.
Your last post says absolutely nothing. There is NO ADJUSTING THESE when brake goes back together, you make them way too loose so drum goes on easy and first time brake is worked they adjust automatically if you put it back together right.
Reason for animosity is that you are working on brakes, anything else is moot. Brakes can KILL YOU and SOMEBODY ELSE too, if you are not 100% clear on what to do you should not be touching them.
Forgive me for being a jerk.
It would be nice if people actually knew our rear brake set up before they started spouting a bunch of useless info about a different drum setup.
Adjust the cam on the bar to the shortest position. The drum will go right back on. Firmly push the pedal once after its all back together and its adjusted where it need to be.
The hub is a sealed bearing. No need to turn the drum while tightening the hub nut to seat the bearing like you have to do with tapered bearings. The hub nut is torqued to 173ft/lbs IIRC
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First off, we're asked about how many pushups do we ultimately want to be able to do in a row. To let you get an idea, there's a range up to 125, so if you haven't kept fit recently it'd be better to choose the minimum (50)
Then it asks you how many pushups you can do in a row and the app presents a set to do. Reviewing this app we said we can do ten in a row and our goal was the herculean feat of doing 50. It set on something like 5-4-6-5 with a 75" rest between each row. When we ended the app asked if we felt it was a easy, so-so or hard workout so it could adjust the exercise regimen based on how taxing you think the number of push ups were and then it kindly remembered us to take a day of rest before the next workout.
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MIne are: Big Bang Theory, Top Chef, Chopped, Glee, Restaurant Impossible, and Ink Master
Pretty Little Liars, Dance Moms, Switched at Birth, Criminal Minds, Survivor, Catfish
Big Bang Theory, Roseanne, Everybody Loves Raymond, Judge Judy, People's Court
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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/15/western_antarctic_melting_nothing_unusual/
Antarctic ice sheet melt 'not that unusual', latest ice core shows
Warm slushy spells like the 1990s have happened before
Posted in Science, 15th April 2013 11:14 GMT
The latest ice-core analysis from the Antarctic shows that nothing unusual in terms of melting is occurring.
In research published yesterday, a large team of scientists used a deep ice core from the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide to produce records going back some 2,000 years. Their analysis shown that recent melting in that area, which has caused a good deal of hysteria* in climate alarmist circles, is in fact normal.
"If we could look back at this region of Antarctica in the 1940s and 1830s, we would find that the regional climate would look a lot like it does today, and I think we also would find the glaciers retreating much as they are today," comments Eric Steig, a senior earth-sciences boffin at the University of Washington and the lead author on the new research.
Ice loss in recent times from the Western Antarctic - considered to be one of the main places to worry about, if you worry about sea-level rises - may just "not be all that unusual", according to Steig.
The problem, as with many climate change issues, is that conditions in the Western Antarctic vary so much over short time scales that it's hard to work out if any long-term change is actually happening.
"The magnitude of unforced natural variability is very big in this area," Steig comments.
Another major ice study recently came to similar conclusions regarding the likewise much-discussed Antarctic Peninsula: that recent melting there is not unprecedented, and indeed that various large bits of ice in that area - which today are still intact - probably broke off or melted at times in the pre-industrial past.
Stieg and his colleagues' paper is published in Nature Geoscience. ®
* For instance the hippies at Greenpeace (it is compulsory to be a hippie at Greenpeace) have this to say:
"... melting of ... the Western Antarctic ice sheet could ultimately raise sea levels by anything up to 13 metres or so (43 foot) if we do not drastically curb our greenhouse gas emissions, even the small fraction of this predicted by 2100 would be an economic and humanitarian disaster ...
"... London, Bangkok and New York, Shanghai and Mumbai will be among a number of cities which will eventually end up below sea level ..."
Actually though, that small fraction by 2100 is really tiny even under the standard alarmist case - which is itself looking very unlikely.


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William E. Dangers Sr.
IRON HUB - William Edward Dangers Sr., age 92, of Iron Hub, died on Jan. 30, 2011, at the Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby.
He was born on Dec. 2, 1918, in Rabbit Lake Township to Fred and Dora (Gruenhagen) Dangers. Bill married Laverne Marie Greenhagen on April 15, 1950, in Aitkin. He was a W.W. II Army veteran. He was a retired employee of Pickands Mather Co, Hanna Mining and Pittsburg Pacific. Bill was also a former Scorpion Inc. employee and was a lifelong farmer. He was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Iron Hub and served as a past chairman on the church board. He also served on the Rabbit Lake Township board for many years. Bill was an avid hunter and card player and he loved his four wheeler.
Survivors include three sons, William Jr. "Bill" (Vicky) Dangers, Jerry Dangers and Don Dangers all of Iron Hub; one daughter, Linda (David) Danielson of Iron Hub; two granddaughters, Jill Dangers and Jennifer (Chris) Orpen; one great-grandson, Owen.
Preceding him in death are his parents; his wife, Laverne in 1998; one brother, Fred C. Dangers; five sisters, Martha Goede, Dorothy Fellerman, Lydia Fellerman, Marie McCormick and Esther Peterson; and one brother, Arthur "Sam" Dangers.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 3, at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub. Burial will be at the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Iron Hub. Friends may call on Wednesday at the Koop Funeral Home in Crosby from 4-7 p.m. and at the church one hour prior to the services on Thursday.


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Tatiana Norkina, analyst at FBS
The U.S. dollar is showing signs of weakness due to the absence of major market participants from the U.S. and the UK who are celebrating national holidays. The dollar index has fallen by 0.15%, while stock indexes are showing a positive trend, adding about 0.38%.
Against this background, the EUR/USD pair has compensated for its Friday's fall, returning to the 1.3650 level. The GBP/USD currency pair keeps trading below the 1.6850 resistance. The dollar is weakening against the franc as well: USD/CHF has decresed to the 0.8940 area, correcting after a three-weeks growth. The rate of USD/JPY has also tumbled, to the 101.80 support area. However, the short-term trend gives hope for further growth.


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The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron led the way with their project to built a fleet of 10 of the Elliott designs, and use those to create its highly respected Youth Program. Led initially by multiple America's Cup PRO, Harold Bennett, the program offered a great option for youth sailors to receive two or three years of solid training, and many top match racers and America's Cup sailors and helmsmen came through its ranks.
Elliott expanded his thinking in that area, producing several editions of the quick sportsboat cum youth trainer in the 5.9 to 7 metre length range including the Olympic Elliott 6 Metre.
He's got a simple design philosophy: 'I'm an enthusiast - it's been the racing side of things that has kept me in there. And naturally fast hull shapes has been a big thing for me.'
He's not big on rating rules - the way he pronounces the acronyms IOR, IMS and IRC is the give-away. Like biting a sour apple.
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'During all this time, I just been designing fast boats', he adds. He admits to doing a couple of designs aimed at the IMS rule. 'They were pretty competitive, actually. I had about six of the 40fters like Sassy, which represented New Zealand in the Kenwood Cup - we won that year - the first time for a while.'
'They were fast boats, but at the end of it all the rule wasn't fast enough for me.'
The Coastal Classic has been long regarded as the drag race of New Zealand sailing - at 120nm it is a good speed test. At one stage Elliott designs held the records at all overall length levels. Enough said.
'Now I hold only one record - with a 30fter which also has the 35 and 40ft record as well', he notes.
Jumping up to the 140ft Trans Atlantic record holder, Mari-Cha IV, Elliott says the principles remain the same. 'I've always been in the lightweight monohull camp'. A 50ft schooner Elliott Marine was the forerunner for the Mari-Cha project. 'And if you look at them - the 50fter and 140fter - they are essentially the same boat'.
'We did all the testing at 50ft, and it scaled up very well.'
Elliott was involved for five years on that project - being the first designer signed, and did all the conceptual design, deck layouts, wind tunnel testing (five weeks ) and tank testing (two weeks). All told there were five involved in the design process.
'But in the end we got the result for the owner - the TransAtlantic record for manually (winch) powered yachts. I struggle to think that her record will be broken,' he adds. 'We also hold the Pacific Cup record of five and a half days from San Francisco to Honolulu.'
The focus on easily driven designs transfers well into Elliott's cruisers. 'Cruising boats to me are about safety, comfort and speed. Once you have sailed what I call the Tourer version, you'll never go back.'
Here it is about layout which marks the distinction of the Elliott design stable. Instead of climbing down into the 'bear-pit' a feature of so many cruising boats, Elliott likes to keep people high in the boat - so you can walk through from the cockpit into the cabin, and keep involved with what is happening outside, from the comfort of within.
'I've borrowed all the good things from racing boats, they have good keels and rudders and right through to the rigs. It might not be as big a market as some of the other caravans that get sold, but I like to have good things.'
The Tourer range starts at a 1250 (12.5metes long) and goes up through the sizes, until the 1750 and bigger which are pretty well one off's. Production moulds exist for some of the smaller sizes.
When questioned as to the target crew size for one of the Tourers, we didn't think we heard right. 'One' is the repeated reply.
'They are designed to be sailed by one person. All the controls lead down aft, and can be handled from the wheel. With a decent auto-pilot you can sail by yourself. that's what you do when you are cruising - even with a family.
'The gear is angled and set up to sailed single handed or with two people. But they are not race boats and are not designed to be sailed off the rail.'
A benefit of the Elliott layout is that all the big items - engine and tankage - are located under the cockpit floor and are central in the boat - for optimum weigh distribution and ease of access.
'It gives the boat a much better motion at sea. We have started to bring water ballast into it - the 1350 has two 900ltr tanks built into either side. Normally you'd only fill one tank and then take it across. Having 900kg of water on one side of the boat works well', he adds.
A 1350 Tourer is currently being finished and will be on display at the Auckland International Boat Show later in September this year.
On the racing side a new 57ft fast cruiser/racer is under construction in Germany. She is a canting keelboat and is due to launch in August. There's a new project about to get underway - a 30ft racer.
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In the second part of this series we talk about the Olympic keelboat decision, the Elliott 6 and other aspects of the sailing scene.
For more on Elliott designs and projects see: www.elliott-marine.com
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I saw this today on Thomas Fuchs'
twitter: Allow noSuchMethod
implementations. It's
an issue raised for v8, asking for
noSuchMethod support.
The issue references a Bugzilla SpiderMonkey
bug that
successfully raised the issue and got it implemented, despite it not
being in the ECMAScript standards.
If you haven't seen such a method before, it's quite simple: a
"catchall" method is run whenever a method can't be found within a given context. This is a major technique for meta-programming in ruby, and is
used in other languages as well. This will execute in Rhino:
function ExampleClass() {
ExampleClass.prototype.print = function(message) {
print("ExampleClass.prototype.print: " + message)
ExampleClass.prototype.__noSuchMethod__ = function() {
this.print("No such method, maybe you should try reading the docs?");
example = new ExampleClass();
There are some encouraging comments in the thread:
I would say that both the C-based Spidermonkey JS engine and the Java-based Rhino engine have implemented noSuchMethod and, for us ex-Smalltalkers, having a 'doesNotUnderstand'
like functionality is very empowering :).
+1 for this feature. As dachev pointed out above, this will be huge for server-side JS at least for the moment. May be big for the client as well in some time. (FF already does this, AFAIK).
However, the v8 team try to keep compatibility with Safari which doesn't
current support such a method. Given the growing popularity of projects
like node.js, I think it's likely that Safari and v8 will get support.
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Philadelphia grabbed a 3-1 win over Boston on Tuesday, as Cliff Lee was credited with a win at Fenway Park.
The Phillies were a +123 underdog in the win. The combined score dipped UNDER the total, which closed at 8.5.
Philadelphia got 8 innings from Cliff Lee, who gave up 1 earned run on 4 hits, while striking out 8. He earned the victory, while the Phillies got 1 RBI from Michael Young in the win.
Boston got a 7-inning outing from Ryan Dempster in the loss. He gave up 2 earned runs, 3 walks and 6 hits in his time on the mound, while Jacoby Ellsbury had 1 hit in the loss for the Red Sox.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs spent time Wednesday talking about who chose Miley Cyrus's We Can't Stop as a post-game celebration song, which has become an issue partly because they are hearing its lazy, soulless faux-Rihanna autotune drone so often. It seems Tyler Bozak may be to blame, and there are grumbles, if not a rebellion. These are, after all, the salad days. Toronto is off to a 6-1 start despite injuries, despite suspensions, despite everything. Well, a reasonable percentage of everything, anyway.
"I think again, we've been fortunate enough to come back and get points, but it's a nervous time in the coach's office, because of the number of shot differential, and the quality of chances that we're giving up," said Leafs coach Randy Carlyle, whose team defeated Minnesota 4-1 Tuesday night while being outshot 37-14.
"Obviously, we need to ramp up the quality of our play."
Coaches always say that, but Carlyle has numbers to back him up. Shots aren't everything, but they help, and the Leafs have been outshot five times in seven games, and won four of those. Minnesota was the extreme: the Wild threw 68 shots at the net to Toronto's 30, and at even strength that number was 38-14. Minnesota possessed the puck, and Toronto saw it on weekends and holidays. The Leafs made the most of their chances, and got goaltending, and escaped unscathed.
But the so-called advanced stats, which don't actually stray far beyond addition and subtraction and probability, say this habit will probably become a problem. A lot of the time, the worse you get outshot — or out-attempted, anyway — the worse you do. Goaltending matters, obviously, as do finishing and special teams. But when measuring percentage of shots attempted for and against at even strength, the Leafs ranked 24th going into Wednesday night's games, one notch behind 1-6 Philadelphia. (Toronto was dead last in 2012-13.) The worst two teams in this category this season, by the way, are Buffalo and the New York Rangers.
Still, the Leafs lead their division, in these early days. The morning of the season opener Carlyle told a few reporters he wanted the Leafs to become more of a puck possession team. Has he seen signs of improvement?
"Not at all," Carlyle said. "Right now it's one of those things — when we review and review and review, there's just some areas that we're really absent in. That's our job as a coaching staff, is to continue to find ways every day to improve our play without losing sight of the fact that we've had some success. But we know that that's going to turn against us at some point if we continue to play to the level that we're playing."
The players, meanwhile, acknowledge that improvements need to be made, but as Carlyle says, "You can hide behind 6-and-1. And 4-1. Rightly or wrongly, that's what athletes do." He talks about "pleading for people's attention," and that "sometimes it has to come from them, the look in the mirror, sometimes you don't like what you see." He talks about asked for "individual preparation, their focus, their work ethic, do a little bit of self-evaluation." The message would probably resonate a little more if not for the won-loss thing.
"There's a lot of things we can do better, offensively, defensively," said winger Joffrey Lupul, who has 93 points in his last 89 games in Toronto. "We're going to continue to work on those things and get better, but it's not like we can be too upset with 6-and-1. So it kind of goes both ways. You don't want to come in here and say we're playing perfect hockey, because we're not, but 6-and-1 is 6-and-1."
"We can play better, but when you're winning, how can you complain?" asked Phil Kessel. "You're obviously doing something right to win the games, because it's not an easy league to win in."
When we review and review and review, there's just some areas that we're really absent in
He's not wrong, of course; the question is how long the good times last. Carlyle's job is to worry, regardless of record or situation. Lucky for him, he has a reason.
"Six-and-1 is only a stat," he says. "And we do know the body of work has to improve. We're happy to take 6-and-1, but there's a 'but'."
Carlyle pays no attention to the numbers that actually measure possession — Corsi, for even-strength shots for and against, or Fenwick, which does the same but excludes blocked shots — though he does know that Corsi is named for Buffalo Sabres goaltending coach Jim Corsi. "His study's his study," Carlyle said. He just wants the Leafs to be better — at puck recovery, at getting the puck out of their own end to their forwards, at not turning it over, at getting point shots deep, at winning puck battles, at all the little details of the game that add up to having the puck, getting shots on net, and trying to play the longer-term percentages. Not an easy collection of things to change.
"There's lots of factors," he said. "[We] just don't have the puck enough. And that's one thing that … we can't just sit here and ignore it … We believe when this staff was put together that this team had to change from just being a rush team. We had to continue to build more of a team based on controlling the puck more, not just dump-and-chase, and rush." He wants to play more like Detroit, he said before the season opener.
"[Detroit's] a frustrating team to play against, especially for guys like myself," Lupul said. "We all want to get the puck and play offence, and the most frustrating thing is if the other team just has it the whole game. When you're a winger you don't really have that much of a role in the defensive end to go get it back, so you're just playing the waiting game."
So, too, is his coach. The schedule will turn, and the season will stretch out, and the Leafs will probably either improve at possessing the puck, fail to improve and defy the percentages as they did last season with goaltending and special teams and offence, or fall victim to the math. We Can't Stop is a nice idea, and maybe it's even true. But every song stops playing, eventually.