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Well, its finally done!!! The new/old table that I've been making over is finished! It only took about five weeks from the day I got it. Really. It would have been done sooner if I could have worked on it more solidly. As it was, it went from this:
Not bad eh?
Ok. So here's the story. I've always dreamed of having a country kitchen. Our kitchen here is melamine heaven (ugh) and not really big enough for the big pine table I dreamed of. So I make do till I can afford to do the kitchen up. Up till now I've had my 60s kitchen table (and chairs as you can see above) in the kitchen and that worked fine. But I still wanted that timber table. I figure the rest of the kitchen will catch up one day soon...
As you know, I'm a tip shop/op shop addict. And on one of my trips I saw this table and thought 'hey... I can do something with that!'
It had a horrible, broken top, a wonky leg and nails all over the sides.
All I saw was that it was solid tassie oak and I was going to replace the top anyway. I had plans to use the offcuts from enclosing the mud room to create a new top, but then I looked around me and found this:
And old shed door. Too small to use as a front door but still... I thought it'd come in useful one day. :)
I put it on top of the table and thought 'eureka!'. I had my new table top.
I started by removing the bracing at the back of the door and the very old, very rusty hinges. I quickly found out that the slats were in pretty bad shape. I had to pull them apart, clean them up and re-glue them together. They still weren't all that solid.
I sanded off the paint. I wanted to use the front of the door with the grooves between the slats. The slats were bent and uneven due to years of exposure to the elements. I had to sand a LOT to get the door more or less smooth and even.
It had a nice solid oak frame which had originally held plywood covered with some kind of laminate which was long gone, only the glue remaining. I had to beat that out with a crowbar.
In the end I was left with the solid table top frame and the table legs.
I worked on straightening up the wonky leg and sanding back the peeling paint off the legs. I wasn't too fussy about getting it perfect. I'm after a country look after all. Worn and loved, not pristine.
Next came attaching the top frame to the legs with glue and nails, then the new top onto that.
And sanding.
Lots of sanding.
I got to use the new belt sander for the first time. That sucker sure can pull. Almost pulled me over the table top first time I turned it on.
Eventually, I got to where I thought I was finished. Then I sanded some more.
The table was only about 19-20mm wide with ragged edges. Even after I cut the worst of them off with my circular saw I still needed to edge it to make it look neat. Plus make it look thicker. Nothing like a nice thick table, right?
I got some pine strips as edging. They were 40mm wide. Great, but too much overhang underneath. I didn't want to risk anything catching onto the edge and pulling it off. So I had to cut down some strips of timber to put behind as extra support for the edging.
Sorry, no photos of that. It was dodgey looking.
Once the edging was on I had to sand it again cause my joins left a bit to be desired.
I learned to work with furniture from a guy who makes rustic pieces. I basically learned to sand using a grinder ... need I say more?
I used some clear silicone stuff to fill the big holes. Big mistake. Sure, it worked on the holes, but that stuff was horrible. I tried to fill the gaps with it (cause who wants to lose crumbs in cracks in the table?) and I got it all over the surface of the table. I got my fingers covered in it for one thing, but I couldn't remove it. And when I went to sand it off it only made a kind of greasy smear. Yuck.
Note the clever trick I picked up from a friend: use a balloon stretched over the tip to keep the silicone from drying out.
I had to find a way to get the smeared silicone off, or at least minimise the mess... so I rubbed some burnt umber artists acrylic onto the table around the cracks where the smears were. I like it. I love burnt umber. I use it to give my 'distressed' items a more distressed look.
Then I looked at the table top, before applying polyurethane, and thought 'Hmmm. It needs something.'
I found a graphic I liked on the Graphics Fairy website, printed it out but couldn't blow it up to the size I wanted to tranfer it onto the table. I had to do it freehand.
I ruled up lines, then drew the letters on with a pencil. I then used a brown marker to draw on the type. I ain't a signwriter. It came out ok, but not quite as authentic as I would have liked.
So I attacked it with the sander, rubbing it down, making it look like it had worn off. I probably went overboard with the rubbing, and perhaps the black marker would have looked better, but when I tested it on a scrap bit of timber the brown sanded better than the black.
Finally it was time to paint and lacquer the table. I sat the table up on some tap bits (like the skirts you put under tap fittings) so that I could paint the legs all the way to the bottom without having to worry about then sticking to newspaper (a tip off Pinterest)
I tried another tip I got off Pinterest: the elastic band to stop drips. Have I mentioned how much I love that site?
I had to do three coats of polyurethane, sanding lightly with 240 grit paper between coats (cause thats what the instructions said). I gave the legs 2 coats of a creamy white paint I mixed up using some leftover cream and a bit of Antique White USA. Once it was dry I gave the legs a light sand to show a bit of wear, then moved it into the kitchen!!!
Next project... the chairs!
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It makes me glad to be born in a time where I could enjoy it, and witness it. I've only seen Jimmy, John, and Jason..on separate tours. I know the presence of greatness when it affronts me on a stage.
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Scientists uncover a mechanism that may explain some resistance to the AIDS virus
By Tina Hesman Saey, 15:34 PM May 5, 2010
A new study suggests that a lack of education allows some people who have been infected with HIV to keep the virus in check.
Not education in the traditional sense; this inadequate schooling takes place in the thymus, where immune cells are taught to distinguish friendly cells from invaders.
People with one version of a protein called HLA-B*5701 have immune cells that never fully learn this task. A new study published online May 5 in Nature shows how these uneducated cells help keep HIV down...
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Twice per day is generally recommended, but I feed my cats canned food 3 times per day, because I believe that cats shouldn't go more than 12 hours without food. They eat full meals at 7am and 5pm, and a smaller meal at 9pm. This works really well for us. They are always eager to eat at mealtimes, and they don't ever seem like they're overly hungry. Your needs may vary according to your schedule and what your particular kitten needs to grow and maintain a healthy weight.
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Heart failure with concomitant pulmonary hypertension is a growing health problem with a high mortality rate, above all in older people. The cardiologist Diana Bonderman from the University Department of Internal Medicine II at the MedUni Vienna, as the author of a multinational phase II study, has demonstrated the effectiveness of a substance that sticks to the so-called nitric oxide pathway and makes the heart "softer." This demonstrably ensures a clearly improved quality of life. Heart failure is regarded as a "new" common disease; according to expert estimates, in Austria there are around 250,000 people suffering from this condition.
Says Bonderman: "The substance, a 'soluble gluanylate cyclase stimulator', causes the enlarged and calcified heart to become 'softer' so that it can beat more easily, after a heart attack for example. This means the pressure, which arises in the left half of the heart when the heart beats, is reduced and, consequently, the pulmonary pressure also no longer increases or is reduced. It widens the blood vessels and improves the heart's performance."
201 sufferers were involved in the current study, which has now been published in the leading journal Circulation. According to the cardiologist summarising the result, an overwhelming majority stated that after the treatment their quality of life had clearly improved and everyday activities such as going shopping or climbing stairs were easier.
Heart failure and its concomitant pulmonary hypertension lead to a reduction in performance, circulatory disorders and often to shortness of breath when lying down. Without treatment it can lead to severe heart failure. The person affected finds it difficult to walk very far or to take part in normal daily life. Heart failure is the inability of the heart to move the amount of blood required by the body without an increase in pressure in the atria of the heart and, as a result, in the lungs as well.
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Brown Hopes To Revive Bill To Aid Manufacturing
In a conference call with reporters, Brown pushed a measure he introduced in August with four other senators. The so-called IMPACT bill would create revolving loan funds for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies to retool for or expand domestic clean energy manufacturing operations, and improving energy efficiency.
"Companies that make glass for truck windshields, they can make glass for solar panels," Brown said. "If they make gears for trucks they can make gearboxes for wind turbines. But they need help in the transistion, especially because of credit issues right now."
Brown cites a new study released by the advocacy group Policy Matters Ohio that claims the bill could create up to 52 thousand jobs in Ohio over 10 years. The report was prepared by the The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts.
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In May of 2013, I brought our 2003 Saab to Aamco Transmissions in Whitehall, PA, because our transmission was malfunctioning. The car would shift from 2nd to 5th gear (no other gears were available). Aamco diagnosed the problem and replaced the transmision with a six month/6,000 mile warranty.
In September 2013, the transmission again began to malfunction with approximately 88,000 miles. I brought the car to you and I was told that although the transmission was still under warranty, the problem was an output speed sensor that was not covered under the warranty. I agreed to repair and $500+ later, the car seemed to be driving fine. At this point, I have invested approximately $3000 (including rental cars) in the transmission.
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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is common. It can cause period problems, reduced fertility, excess hair growth, and acne. Many women with PCOS are also overweight. Treatment includes weight loss (if you are overweight), and lifestyle changes in addition to treating the individual symptoms.
Understanding ovaries and ovulation
The ovaries are a pair of glands that lie on either side of the uterus (womb). Each ovary is about the size of a large marble. The ovaries make ova (eggs) and various hormones. Hormones are chemicals that are made in one part of the body, pass into the bloodstream, and have an effect on other parts of the body.
- Ovulation normally occurs once a month when you release an ovum (egg) into a Fallopian tube which lead into the uterus (womb). Before an ovum is released at ovulation, it develops within a little swelling of the ovary called a follicle (like a tiny cyst). Each month several follicles start to develop, but normally just one fully develops and goes on to ovulate.
- The main hormones that are made in the ovaries are oestrogen and progestogen - the main female hormones. These hormones help with the development of breasts, and are the main controllers of the menstrual cycle. The ovaries also normally make small amounts of male hormones (androgens) such as testosterone.
What is polycystic ovary syndrome?
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a condition where at least two of the following occur, and often all three:
- At least 12 follicles (tiny cysts) develop in your ovaries. (Polycystic means many cysts.)
- The balance of hormones that you make in the ovaries is altered. In particular, your ovaries make more testosterone (male hormone) than normal.
- You do not ovulate each month. Some women do not ovulate at all. In PCOS, although the ovaries usually have many follicles, they do not develop fully and so ovulation often does not occur. If you do not ovulate then you do not have a period.
Therefore, it is possible to have polycystic ovaries without the typical symptoms that are in the syndrome. It is also possible to have PCOS without multiple cysts in the ovary.
How common is polycystic ovary syndrome?
PCOS is common. Research studies of women who had an ultrasound scan of their ovaries found that up to 1 in 4 young women have polycystic ovaries (ovaries with many small cysts). However, many of these women ovulated normally, and did not have high levels of male hormones.
It is thought that up to 1 in 10 women have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) - that is, at least two of: polycystic ovaries, a raised level of male hormone or reduced ovulation. However, these figures may be higher.
What causes polycystic ovary syndrome?
The exact cause is not totally clear. Several factors probably play a part. These include the following:
Insulin is a hormone that you make in your pancreas (a gland behind your stomach). The main role of insulin is to control your blood sugar level. Insulin acts mainly on fat and muscle cells causing them to take in sugar (glucose) when your blood sugar level rises. Another effect of insulin is to act on the ovaries to cause them to produce testosterone (male hormone).
Women with PCOS have what is called insulin resistance. This means that cells in the body are resistant to the effect of a normal level of insulin. More insulin is produced to keep the blood sugar normal. This raised level of insulin in the bloodstream is thought to be the main underlying reason why PCOS develops. It causes the ovaries to make too much testosterone. A high level of insulin and testosterone interfere with the normal development of follicles in the ovaries. As a result, many follicles tend to develop but often do not develop fully. This causes problems with ovulation: hence period problems and reduced fertility.
It is this increased testosterone level in the blood that causes excess hair growth on the body, acne and thinning of the scalp hair.
Increased insulin also contributes towards weight gain.
Luteinising hormone (LH)
This hormone is made in the pituitary gland. It stimulates the ovaries to ovulate and works alongside insulin to promote testosterone production. A high level of LH is found in about 4 in 10 women with PCOS.
Hereditary factors
Your genetic makeup is probably important. One or more genes may make you more prone to developing PCOS. PCOS is not strictly inherited from parents to children, but it may run in some families.
Being overweight or obese is not the underlying cause of PCOS. However, if you are overweight or obese, excess fat can make insulin resistance worse. This may then cause the level of insulin to rise even further. High levels of insulin can contribute to further weight gain producing a 'vicious cycle'. Losing weight, although difficult, can help break this cycle.
What are the symptoms and problems of polycystic ovary syndrome?
Symptoms that occur if you do not ovulate
- Period problems occur in about 7 in 10 women with PCOS. You may have irregular or light periods, or no periods at all.
- Fertility problems - you need to ovulate to become pregnant. You may not ovulate each month, and some women with PCOS do not ovulate at all. PCOS is one of the most common causes of infertility.
Symptoms that can occur if you make too much testosterone (male hormone)
- Excess hair growth (hirsutism) occurs in more than half of women with PCOS. It is mainly on the face, lower abdomen, and chest. This is the only symptom in some cases.
- Acne may persist beyond the normal teenage years.
- Thinning of scalp hair (similar to male pattern baldness) occurs in some cases .
Other symptoms
- Weight gain - about 4 in 10 women with PCOS become overweight or obese.
- Depression or poor self-esteem may develop as a result of the other symptoms.
Symptoms typically begin in the late teens or early 20s. Not all symptoms occur in all women with PCOS. For example, some women with PCOS have some excess hair growth, but have normal periods and fertility.
Symptoms can vary from mild to severe. For example, mild unwanted hair is normal, and it can be difficult to say when it becomes abnormal in women with mild PCOS. At the other extreme, women with severe PCOS can have marked hair growth, infertility, and obesity. Symptoms may also change over the years. For example, acne may become less of a problem in middle age, but hair growth may become more noticeable.
Possible long-term problems of polycystic ovary syndrome
If you have PCOS, over time you have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, diabetes in pregnancy, a high cholesterol level, and possibly high blood pressure. For example, about 1 in 10 women with PCOS develop diabetes at some point. These problems in turn may also increase your risk of having a stroke and heart disease in later life. These increased health risks are due to the long-term insulin resistance (and also being overweight which is common in women with PCOS).
If you have no periods, or very infrequent periods, you may have a higher than average risk of developing cancer of the uterus (womb). However, the evidence for this is not conclusive and, if there is a risk, it is probably small. A sleeping problem called sleep apnoea is also more common than average in women with PCOS.
Are any tests needed?
Tests may be advised to clarify the diagnosis, and to rule out other hormone conditions.
- Blood tests may be taken to measure certain hormones. For example, a test to measure testosterone and LH which tend to be high in women with PCOS.
- An ultrasound scan of the ovaries may be advised. An ultrasound scan is a painless test that uses sound waves to create images of structures in the body. The scan can detect the typical appearance of PCOS with the many follicles (small cysts) in slightly enlarged ovaries.
Also, you may be advised to have an annual screening test for diabetes or prediabetes (impaired glucose tolerance). A regular check for other cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure, and blood cholesterol, may be advised to detect any abnormalities as early as possible. Exactly when and how often the checks are done depends on your age, your weight, and other factors. After the age of 40, these tests are usually recommended every three years.
What is the treatment for polycystic ovary syndrome?
There is no cure for PCOS however, symptoms can be treated.
You should aim to lose weight if you are overweight
Losing weight helps to reduce the high insulin level that occurs in PCOS. This has a knock-on effect of reducing testosterone. This then improves the chance of your ovulating, which improves any period problems, fertility, and may also help to reduce hair growth and acne. The increased risk of long-term problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure, etc, are also reduced.
Losing weight can be difficult. A combination of eating less and exercising more is best and even a moderate amount of weight loss can help.
Treating hair growth
Hair growth is due to the increased level of the hormone testosterone .
Unwanted hair can be removed by shaving, waxing, hair-removing creams, electrolysis, and laser treatments. These need repeating every now and then, although electrolysis and laser treatments may be more long-lasting.
Treating acne
The treatments used for acne in women with PCOS are no different to the usual treatments for acne. The combined contraceptive pills often helps to improve acne.
Treating period problems
Some women who have no periods, or infrequent periods, do not want any treatment for this. However, your risk of developing cancer of the uterus (womb) may be increased if you have no periods for a long time. Regular periods will prevent this possible increased risk to the uterus.
Therefore, some women with PCOS are advised to take the contraceptive pill as it causes regular withdrawal bleeds similar to periods
Fertility issues
Although fertility is often reduced, you still need contraception if you want to be sure of not getting pregnant. The chance of becoming pregnant depends on how often you ovulate. Some women with PCOS ovulate now and then, others not at all.
If you do not ovulate but want to become pregnant, then fertility treatments may be recommended by a specialist and have a good chance of success. But remember, you are much less likely to become pregnant if you are obese. If you are obese or overweight then losing weight is advised in addition to other fertility treatments.
Metformin and other insulin-sensitising drugs
Metformin is a drug that is commonly used to treat people with type 2 diabetes. It makes the body's cells more sensitive to insulin. This may result in a decrease in the blood level of insulin which may help to counteract the underlying cause of PCOS - see above.
Preventing long-term problems
A healthy lifestyle is important to help prevent the conditions listed above in 'Possible long-term problems of polycystic ovary syndrome'. For example, you should: eat a healthy diet, exercise regularly, lose weight if you are overweight or obese, and not smoke.
- Polycystic ovary syndrome, Clinical Knowledge Summaries (October 2009)
- Balen AH, Rutherford AJ; Managing anovulatory infertility and polycystic ovary syndrome. BMJ. 2007 Sep 29;335(7621):663-6.
- Long-term consequences of polycystic ovary syndrome, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), 2007
- Lord JM, Flight IH, Norman RJ; Metformin in polycystic ovary syndrome: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ. 2003 Oct 25;327(7421):951-3. [abstract]


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Dr. Antonio Valenzuela, Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy Dept
With SAHP since 1989
Proud Alumni: PTA 1998, MPT 2007, DPT 2008
Our School is a place where dreams can become reality, where students come without clinical skills and leave with a wealth of knowledge and ready to thrive in a clinical setting.
The future of Physical Therapy is bright. There is currently so much need for our services and the needs will just increase as our Baby Boomers begin retiring and joining the geriatric population.
I enjoy most working with bright minds. Our students are the best because they have chosen to be here, they want to be here, they have a goal in mind and they work hard to attaining their goals.
I enjoy traveling, meeting new people, seeing new places, eating new foods. I also love cooking and experimenting with new dishes and cooking for large groups.
There are two events that I look forward to attending every year. Graduation so we can celebrate our students hard work and accomplishments and then a week later the welcome night for new students and their families where we present the path to their dreams and aspirations and how it is possible to reach their goals.
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MESA COUNTY, Colo. - A small airplane that went missing Thursday in Mesa County has been found. The sheriff's office says all three people on board, a pilot and two passengers, were killed.
The plane was found around 9:30 Thursday night in Porter Creek, east of Collbran.
The plane was reported overdue on its scheduled return to the Mesa Mack Airport on Thursday evening. Its route and destination are unknown.
The aircraft's Emergency Locator Transmitter beacon was activated. The Civil Air Patrol and the High-Altitude Army National Guard helped with the search from the air. Mesa County Search and Rescue Snow Skippers responded to the crash site once the plane was found.
The cause of the crash is unknown at this time. The sheriff's office says it expects the FAA to investigate the crash. Recovery efforts are expected to last all day.


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Fran O'Rourke's What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?: Philosophical Essays in Honor of Alasdair MacIntyre is a collection of essays from a 2009 University College Dublin conference assessing and responding to the achievement of Alasdair MacIntyre's moral philosophy. As one would expect from a conference on MacIntyre, the essays are remarkably wide-ranging.
There are studies devoted to aspects of MacIntyre's work. Joseph Dunne examines Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues , Kelvin Knight assesses MacIntyre's debts to Aristotle, Hans Fink explores MacIntyre's use of the neglected Danish thinker Knud Ejler Logstrup, and other essays deal with MacIntyre's response to emotivism and his Thomistic Marxism. Steven A. Long takes the opportunity to lament the collapse of Thomistic notions of nature and the unfortunate rise of de Lubacian versions of Thomism.
I was most taken by William Desmond's essay, "Ethics and the Evil of Being," which takes its cue from the famous end of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory , where MacIntyre poses the moral alternatives as Nietzsche v. Benedict, and says we await another, very different, Benedict. Desmond's essay is less an examination of MacIntyre than a Demondian exploration of the modern sense of the "evil of being."
He begins with the observation that despite the diversity of current ethics, nothing has really changed since Kant: "the presiding god of modernity still sits on its throne - autonomy" (423). Even Nietzsche, for all his panache in attacking idols, toppled this one. Against Nietzsche's definition of nihilism as "the inversion of the highest values," Desmond proposes that nihilism is "the cultural sovereignty of counterfeit doubles of the highest values." The fact that there are counterfeits allows us "to preach about the highest values," but they have been hollowed out by "the god autonomy," which has "become itself god, its sovereignty now announced, now incognito, as it passes over all human things." Nihilism doesn't mean the twilight of gods, but "the hyperactive secretion of new counterfeit doubles of God" (425).
Whatever we say about "nihilism," Desmond suggests that modernity is characterized by "a pervasive sense of the valuelessness of being as such ." We have values, but these are imposed by autonomous us on "a valueless whole" (427). The result of this "divorce of being and the good" is that our claims that reality is neutral are haunted by the secret worry that being may be evil (426). Desmond sees this most dramatically in aesthetics, where beauty has been debunked as a reassuring bourgeois myth and ugliness has come to be our primary aesthetic value: "Beauty is bland. The ugly arouses the thrill of something visceral, charges the beholder with a shot of energy, be it in disgust or in recoil, in dismay or in glee" (427).
After excursions into Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, Desmond ends where MacIntyre did: If we are to affirm the good of "to be," "must we not . . . open again, with St. Benedict rather than Nietzsche, the question of God as the endowing source?" (456).


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Global greenhouse gas emissions could rise 50% by 2050 without more ambitious climate policies, as fossil fuels continue to dominate the energy mix, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says in a new report.
Unless the global energy mix changes, fossil fuels will supply about 85% of energy demand in 2050, implying a 50% increase in greenhouse gas emissions and worsening urban air pollution," the OECD said in its environment outlook to 2050.
The global economy in 2050 will be four times larger than today and the world will use around 80% more energy but the global energy mix is not predicted to be very different from that of today.
Fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas will make up 85% of energy sources while renewables, including biofuels, are forecast to make up 10% and nuclear the rest.
Due to such dependence on fossils, carbon dioxide emissions from energy use are expected to grow by 70%, the OECD said, which will help drive up the global average temperature by 3 to 6 degrees Celsius by 2100 – exceeding the internationally agreed warming target of within 2 degrees.
In terms of what is required in the energy sector – Europe would say total decarbonisation by 2050 – just switching from coal to gas, that probably is not going to be achieved.
So how to deal with those emissions in the medium term coming from a still heavy form of fossil fuel, even if it is a gas based economy?
The answer is to prevent the worst effects of global warming, international climate action should start in 2013, a global carbon market should be set up, the energy sector should be transformed to low carbon, and all low-cost advanced technologies should be explored such as biomass energy and carbon capture.
Furthermore the world is on track for around four degrees Celsius of global warming under current carbon emissions trends, a trajectory that some scientists say risks a planetary mass extinction event.


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Rockstar have posted a lengthy new article on their Newswire page, going into some detail about what players should expect from Grand Theft Auto Online when it's released.
In addition to an explanation of the mode's features - which centre around multiplayer open world activities, including exploration and criminal exploits - Rockstar also suggest fans should expect some glitches during the launch window.
"There will be the typical growing pains for an online game, including but not limited to crashes, glitches, crazy bugs, gameplay modes and mechanics that need re-balancing and other surprises," they wrote.
"Even in GTAV Story Mode, some of you may have seen a few odd and even amusing little glitches out there last week. This sort of thing is inevitable in a massive open-world game and there'll surely be lots more unexpected oddities like this in the Online world next week - rest assured we'll be monitoring and actively doing all we can to smooth such things out as they happen, but we need your help to find them, as well as your feedback to help fine tune all of the game's systems so everything is perfectly balanced."
The expected glitches compound those users are already experiencing, including problems with garaging customised cars and server capacity issues in relation to the game's companion "iFruit" app on iOS as well as some Social Club services.
"We are working around the clock to buy and add more servers," Rockstar explained in today's update, "but this increased scale is only going to make the first few days even more temperamental than such things usually are".
The company also confirmed Tuesday's rumour about microtransactions in GTA Online, stating:
"You can either quickly accumulate cash through profitable activities like knocking over armoured cars, winning street races, doing stick-ups or a host of other cash-making endeavors - or if you're the completely instant gratification type, you can choose to buy denominations of GTA$. You will have the option to purchase GTA$ through the in-game Store.
"The game and its economy have been designed and balanced for the vast majority of players who will not buy extra cash. There is no in-game paywall and nothing that should disrupt the balance of the game. You don't have to spend real money to attain the cars, guns, clothes, flash and style of a high-roller in Los Santos, but can if you wish to get them a little quicker.
"The economy is balanced differently from the single player economy, and cash earned in one cannot be taken over to the other. Most players will earn cash much faster Online than in Story Mode."
Finally, Rockstar went to great lengths to explain that the mode we see at release is just the start of Grand Theft Auto Online. They've got plans for where they want to take it, but they're also actively encouraging feedback from fans and they're planning on using this feedback to guide the direction of GTA Online's future development.
Content planned for release in "the first few weeks" of Grand Theft Auto Online, all of which will be free to download:
The Content Creator: The Content Creator will launch with tools to tailor and publish your own Deathmatches & Races.
The Beach Bum Pack: Featuring four new amazing beach fun vehicles, over 300 new items of incredible down tempo leisure wear and 2 new but not remotely relaxing weapons.
Capture the Flag: GTA Online's take on the classic CTF mode including the ability to make your own using The Content Creator.
Heists: This update will introduce full-on cooperative Heist missions that will require careful planning, teamwork and sharp execution - along with the Heist Planning Board for your apartment
Grand Theft Auto Online is expected to become available on Tuesday, although exact timing of the update (beyond "two weeks after launch") has yet to be detailed by Rockstar.
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help me analyze my Scandinavian loss
I lost this 90 min over the board game as Black mostly because I got into time trouble and blundered. I stopped writing when I had three min remaining and my opponent had about seven.
White's 2.e5?! allows black to get a type of French defence where the light squared bishop is out of the pawn chain. It's pretty much an equal game however, white is rated +1800 and i'm around 1680, so it's not surprising that he won in an open position with the clock expiring. Anyway, hope you could help me out and post an opinion. Thanks.
I thought the old answer for 2. e5 was 2...c5, keeping d4 under control and stranding the e-pawn way out in the center.
I think if anything because your bishop was out of the pawn chain you had the advantage something like a french advance on blacks perspective and you probably shouldn't have captured on d4 so soon and kept the tension. My guess is 7...Be4 threatening to remove one of the d4 pawn defenders
Strange question in a way as jumping to the final position you don't seem at first glance to be losing. 61. Rh2, Kg7... now what?
I've only flicked through but my impression is that you misplaced your knight 9..., Ng6. Your opponent was quite accommodating in letting you come to f4 but what if dark-squared bishops aren't exchanged or he simply plays g3 at some point? My instinct would be to try and free up f5 for the knight and start ganging up on the pawn on d4. Maybe you originally put the knight on g6 to pressure white's pawns with f6?
Im in no way an expert on this opening but i do play the Schandinavian/Icelandic Gambit. What i have discovered is that after white pushes e5 and black plays bf5 you trade off the light squared bishop ASAP. Because what happens as in your game, your left with the light squared bishop wityh all of your pawns on light squares, and your opponents pawns on dark squares.
Can someone explain why the final position is a loss? It looks like no progress can be made.
is it zugzwang? any rook move except rd2 hangs a pawn, then if rd2, then Qe3 wins a pawn, right? a queen move either gets mated or hangs material. thats crazy! im convinced there is no move white can make without making his position worse.


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New Super Luigi U coming to retail in August
Nintendo reveals standalone version of Luigi-themed New Super Mario Bros. U DLC coming to stores this summer for $30; content alone will be available June 20 for $20.
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A packaged standalone version of the Super Luigi U downloadable content for New Super Mario Bros. U will launch in North America at retail on August 25, Nintendo announced today.
Gamers will not need New Super Mario Bros. U to play New Super Luigi U, which will cost $30.
Those who own a copy of New Super Mario Bros. U already can pick up the Super Luigi U DLC when it launches through the Wii U eShop on June 20 for $20.
The news came during the latest Nintendo Direct today, where Nintendo president Satoru Iwata showed a new gameplay trailer for the content. He also revealed that Nabbit, a creature from New Super Mario Bros. U, will be a playable character in the content.
Nintendo announced the Luigi-themed DLC in February, calling it "large-scale" and "similar to the development of full software." It features updated versions of the first game's 82 courses with Luigi leading the way, instead of Mario.
The news comes a day after Nintendo revealed that New Super Mario Bros. U, a Wii U launch title, has now sold 770,000 units in the United States alone. It is a sequel to the original Wii's New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which has sold close to 28 million units life-to-date.


text: Wesleyan choral group about to go on tour By Staff reports December 6, 2013 Story Share BUCKHANNON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Wesleyan College choral group Concentus Vocum will embark on a tour of West Virginia and Washington, D.C., Dec. 11-15.The ensemble will visit and work with high school choral programs throughout the state and offer performances at host churches in the evenings.The tour will begin at Parkersburg South High School. A choral program will be presented at 7 p.m. Dec. 11 at Cook Memorial Baptist Church in Pineville.On Dec. 12, the group will visit Greenbrier High School in Lewisburg, and a concert will be presented at 7 p.m. at Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley. On Dec. 13, the group will visit Woodrow Wilson High School and present a concert at 7 p.m. at Perry Memorial United Methodist Church in Shady Spring.The tour concludes Dec. 15 with a 3 p.m. concert at Vienna Baptist Church in Vienna, Va.Concentus Vocum is one of three choral ensembles offered at West Virginia Wesleyan College. A select chamber vocal ensemble, the members of Concentus Vocum are chosen from the larger Concert Chorale. The ensemble performs works selected predominantly for smaller chamber choir settings.For information about this tour and the choral ensembles at West Virginia Wesleyan College, contact director R. Daniel Hughes at email@example.com. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 WV groups hope study leads to end of mountaintop removal mining 2 WV Sens. Manchin, Capito concerned about Trump's budget 3 Kanawha Commission OKs Shawnee Multi-Sports Complex 4 50 years ago, team from tiny Normantown High set still-standing international record 5 Gulf in WV budget talks widens as special session continues Statehouse Beat: Only 1 bid to house inmates Previous Story Tomblin orders flags lowered through sunset Monday Next Story


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NSA Revelations Present Business, Ethical Challenges in Silicon Valley
A little more than a month ago, The Guardian revealed the NSA was collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon Wireless customers. Since then, it has been revealed that Silicon Valley companies like Microsoft made data accessible to the security agency too.
Yesterday, The Guardian released a follow up showing the extent to which Microsoft worked with the NSA to make data from Outlook, Hotmail and Skype accessible.
They also highlight the complicated business and ethical problems Silicon Valley executives ran into while trying to make their products security-compliant.
Steve Blank, author of "The Secret History of Silicon Valley," joins us to explain Microsoft's role in circumventing the encryption process, and the business and ethical problems Silicon Valley executives have to address.
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I was purchasing a Precious Moments figurine for a family member for a birthday. (I am not familiar with Precious Moments but the family member collects them.) I went on Amazon.com and searched. The product came up with this re-seller. The price was extremely expensive (nearly $200) but it was something the family member really wanted.
I had more than 30 days until the birthday in question. I purchased the figurine and waited. The figurine was not shipped for 30 days. I contacted the re-seller and inquired why it was taking so long. I was referred to the "fine print" which indicated that they (Action Packaged, Inc.) had up to 30 days to ship any order. This was entirely my fault for not reading the fine print.
Then it was shipped 3rd class, ground. (I did not purchase expedited shipping as I had ordered it with more than 30 days lead time.) The package, after shipment, took 13 days to arrive. The birthday was completely missed.
When I presented the gift, I inquired how much comparable figurines sell for. The answer was $60.
I began to researching other websites and found that, yes, everywhere else this exact figurine was available for less than 1/3 of what I had paid and I would have had it within a week.
The re-seller never "closed out" my order, so I was never able to leave negative feedback on Amazon.com.
MY SUSPICION: This re-seller (Action Packaged, Inc.) takes order on Amazon.com for merchandise it does not have and a large mark-up. When an order comes in, they go out and buy it at retail prices and re-ship. They act as a middle-man. They did not update my order status for over 90 days...so I was not able to leave feedback. (If you notice, they have 18,000 5-star ratings and nothing else.)
While I do not think it's illegal, it is certainly unethical. I was not expected business to be conducted like this on Amazon.com, so I was not as suspicious as I normally am. Nor did I do my due diligence.
Since technically they fulfilled their contractual obligations and there was nothing wrong with the figurine, I was not able to return it for a refund. (Nor would I have, as it was a gift that I was eager to give to a family member.)
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Are Fedex Pilots Flying Into A Rage?
For trained pilots, landing a job at Federal Express Corp. has long been like getting accepted to the Ivy League. The highest-paying of all courier companies, FedEx starts pilots at $3,310 a month; veterans earn up to four times that. Other benefits, such as pay for time spent away from home, have traditionally been among the most generous. And in return for great treatment, pilots have showed remarkable loyalty to FedEx and its brash founder, Frederick W. Smith. Many have bragged that their blood ran purple, the color of the express-mail giant's logo.
Now, however, that loyalty is wearing thin. In the face of rising competition and sharply reduced margins, FedEx is trying to rein in its high-cost pilots. But in March, angry airmen rejected a proposed contract backed by their own union leadership, and rumblings of a possible work stoppage are on the rise. Worse, the problems with unhappy pilots could spread to other workers. For a company whose gung ho esprit de corps has long been central to its success--and its high service levels--that could mean trouble. "There was a trust relationship that has deteriorated," says pilot Kevin Scheiterlein, a nine-year veteran and one of 1,322 pilots who voted against the new contract. "A lot more guys are not willing to give 100%."
STANDOFF. FedEx officials downplay the difficulties. They refuse to discuss the specifics of the pilots' situation, saying only that the next move is the union's. Smith--who has long made a point of fostering good relations with his workforce--declined requests for an interview. A company spokesman disputes that workers are unhappy, citing annual surveys filled out by 97% of employees.
Still, the issue is unlikely to go away. Pilots complain that FedEx is offering only a 4% increase for the first year of the pact and an 11.4% raise over its four-year term, even though pay has improved little since 1990. Their anger has been fueled by the 23% raise and more flexible scheduling their counterparts at United Parcel Service Inc. won in March.
But pay isn't the only issue steaming FedEx pilots. Under the proposed contract, the flexible work schedules that had been a FedEx hallmark could become as rare as extra legroom in coach class. The pilots are particularly unhappy with proposed changes in work rules that would trim the amount of pay they get for downtime when away. The proposal also would allow FedEx to subcontract work to nonunion pilots flying leased planes.
Add it all up, and FedEx has one unhappy group of flyboys--and 'girls--on its hands. Some pilots are even openly discussing possible work slowdowns. "The only tool available to us is to impact reliability and service," says 25-year veteran pilot Richard D. MacGibbons. That could seriously threaten on-time deliveries at the company, which relies on airborne freight for most of the 3 million packages a day it delivers. "The company doesn't function without the pilots," says analyst Paul R. Schlesinger of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc.
Maybe not, but FedEx may have little choice but to clip the pilots' costly wings. Stiffer competition, rising costs, and a move into lower-margin businesses have trimmed its operating margins from 11.5% in 1987 to 6.1% in 1997.
Moreover, FedEx now has the highest cost structure of its major rivals, Schlesinger says. Even after the big raise UPS pilots gained, veteran FedEx captains still make more--$13,689 a month, vs. $13,195 a month at UPS, according to pay consultant Air Inc. "FedEx is realizing that it can't afford to pay high wages and fly expensive planes when its competitors are flying older planes and paying pilots less," says David F. Hoppin, a principal at air-cargo consultant MergeGlobal.
UNION BID. For now, however, talks are on hold. FedEx says it can do little until the union sorts itself out. Union head Michael Akin has surveyed members on why they vetoed the deal and asked to restart talks. "We want to make sure [the pilots] get exactly what they feel they deserve," says Akin. But many pilots say they remain unhappy with the union and fed up with Smith's perceived lack of action. "The company doesn't want to sit down and look at what's right," says veteran Don Wilson.
Of course, FedEx' silence may be little more than a bargaining tactic. "All we're seeing here is a tough negotiation process," says Keith A.
Patriquin of Loomis, Sayles & Co., which owns 99,000 FedEx shares. Still, FedEx is clearly paying a price for its toughened stance. Over the past two years, membership in the union has grown from 45% of pilots to 82% today.
Dissatisfaction may be spreading. Though FedEx says workers can receive annual pay raises as high as 7%, some ground workers get much less. Efforts by the Teamsters to capitalize on the pilots' unhappiness in its bid to unionize FedEx' 100,000 ground workers appear to be bearing some fruit. "Watching what the pilots are going through is making me think more about the Teamsters," says a nine-year FedEx courier in Tacoma, Wash. Still, the Teamsters effort is in the early stages.
So far, customers have not been affected. Having suffered through last year's UPS strike, they can only hope that remains the case.


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Six Sigma quality improvement for small manufacturers set April 10-11 in Lincoln
LINCOLN, NEB.--With typical savings exceeding $100,000 per project, it's easy to understand why small manufacturers are eagerly participating in Six Sigma, 'a fact-based, data-driven philosophy of quality improvement that values defect prevention over defect detection,' according to the American Society for Quality.
Plant operations and quality managers, and process and quality engineers will have that opportunity April 10-11 in Lincoln when "Implementing Six Sigma in Small Manufacturing Organizations" is offered at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's (UNL) Main Student Union, 1400 R St.
Dr. Ram Bishu and Bret Gengenbach, both certified Six Sigma Black Belts, will provide small manufacturing representatives with an overview of the benefits and achievable costs, as well as a road map for Six Sigma implementation. Bishu, is a UNL professor, with 37 years of experience in Quality Control, Manufacturing, Information Systems and Ergonomics whose experience includes product/process evaluation, and use of sophisticated statistical techniques. Gengenbach, quality manager at Molex Incorporated in Lincoln, has 25 years of experience working in manufacturing quality and five years training Six Sigma and Automotive Core Tools. He has a Master's Degree in Engineering Management from UNL.
Two Fortune 500 companies, General Electric and Motorola, have developed and implemented Six Sigma strategies that have saved billions of dollars and helped them surge ahead in market shares. Small manufacturing companies also can achieve Six Sigma benefit levels without black belt structure that help them identify key customer needs and focus on key business practices using proven problem-solving tools.
To access the registration form, go to http://www.asq-1302.org
Registration deadline is April 4.
The seminar is sponsored by Section 1302 of the American Society for Quality, and the Nebraska Manufacturing Extension Partnership.


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R-Patz says he didn't like the script of the first film!
It seems Robert Pattinson wasn't a fan of the Twilight movie that started his career!
In an interview with Italian Vanity Fair, Rob, 24, says he didn't understand the appeal of the vampire series when he auditioned for the part!
"When I first read [the Twilight script], it didn't appeal to me," Rob says. "I couldn't understand what was so special and why everybody was so into it."
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Women's Experiences During the Holocaust HTML version
Women's Experiences During the Holocaust –
New Books in Print
Dalia Ofer and Lenore Weitzman, eds., Women in the Holocaust, New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1998, VII + 402 pp.; Judith Tydor Baumel, Double
Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust, London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998, XIX,
292 pp.
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Rochelle G. Saidel
In 1999, for the first time in twenty-nine years of conferences, the Annual
Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches presented a plenary
on women and the Holocaust. As co-chairs of this plenary, Dr. Myrna
Goldenberg and I decided to feature recent scholarly books on the subject
and to entitle the session "Women's Holocaust History: Books in Print." The
occasion was historic beyond the fact that the subject was deemed important
enough for a plenary, because, by early 1999, a core of "books in print" had
made possible a session with such a title.
While some women's diaries and first-hand accounts have been available in
English since the late 1940s and 1950s,1 in 1998 there was an unprecedented
crop of more analytical publications; and even more began to appear in 1999.
Two out of the three finalists for the 1998 National Jewish Book Awards in the
Holocaust category were about women and gender: Between Dignity and
Despair by Marion A. Kaplan2; and Women in the Holocaust, edited by Dalia
Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman. The Ofer-Weitzman book and another by
For example, Mary Berg, Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary (New York: L.B. Fischer,1945); Kitty Hart,
I Am Alive (London: Abelard-Schumann, 1946); Olga Lengyel, Five Chimneys: The Story of
Auschwitz (Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1947); Gisella Perl, I Was A Doctor At Auschwitz (New York:
International Universities Press, 1948); Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (first published
in English in 1952) which was most recently published as The Diary of a Young Girl: The
Definitive Edition (New York: Doubleday, 1995), and Gerda Weissman Klein, All But My Life
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1957), republished in 1992.
Marion A. Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1998).
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I also finished this cathedral windows pincushion. It has another window in the Katie orange basket weave. I had some leftover windows from Zoe's cathedral window quilt.
I finished Anna's quilt, but since it's cloudy and Mr. Happy isn't around to help, he has big arms, I'll share next week. I also have a camera bag idea that I thought would so much better in Amy Butler than the black one I saw on Amazon. And... costumes for Halloween...
But oops... We won't be around next week since Amy at Amy's Creative Side is hosting the fall quilt festival.
I think I am going to share my grandmother's quilt, it's influence on me and show my first quilt. What are you doing?
We also have a school fall festival thing this Friday at the elementary school. There are supposedly hayrides, games and food. Doesn't that sound like a good night?
And just because I am a spoiled fabric brat... I added a few more cuts to my Meadowsweet stash this week.
It most definitely pays to take on extra tutoring students. :)
(Thanks again to everyone who offered to help me find mermaid fabric. I traded some things and got the blush HR I needed.)
Let me know what you think. Don't be shy! I would love to hear from you. Make sure to visit Amy's Sew and Tell this week and be inspired.
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Your cherry quilt is lovely as well as the pin cushion, you do wonderful work.ReplyDelete
Just love love love your fabrics.
Love the cherry, and kudos for hand quilting it! I love the meadowsweet fabric. :)ReplyDelete
The cherries quilt is just delightful. So scrappy and wonderful!ReplyDelete
The cathedral windows pincushion is awesome. I wouldn't have thought of that!
Love your stash additions.
Ack! I'm going to miss the Bloggers Quilt Festival. I'll be on the road to Kansas.
Your cherry quilt is so pretty! (I feel like I say that about everything you make, but it's the honest truth!)ReplyDelete
Looking forward to seeing your cherries quilt when its finished. It looks so pretty. i also might have been stash building this week. the aussie dollar was nearly equal to the US dollar. Great shopping for us aussies. I have been out photographing my quilt forthe quilters festival before the storm hits. Its one of my older quilts.ReplyDelete
Loving the pin cushion!!!!ReplyDelete
Love all your pretties! I'm waffling between two different quilts for the quilt festival - I need to get on the ball and make a decision! Your idea sounds great though - inspiration and perspiration!!ReplyDelete
Your cherry quilt is coming along nicely...love the pincushion!ReplyDelete
Your cherry quilt is just stunning! I just love it!ReplyDelete
The cherry quilt is really beuatiful as well as the quilting. Love your cathedral window pincushion.ReplyDelete


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I was crying, again. I had cried several times in this race. The first tears fell when I descended the "Wall of Death" where Beat made a picnic for me during last year's race; returning to that spot made me think about how much he meant to me. The second tears came as I climbed over an ice shelf on the Susitna River and glimpsed the pink light of the setting sun splashed across the mountains of the Alaska Range. Now I was crying over the Northern Lights. Three times during the Sustina 100 I had reduced myself to a blubbering mess, and the race was only half over. And yet, I was halfway into this incredibly difficult hundred-mile foot expedition, and the only emotion that had gotten the better of me was extreme happiness. Instead of suffering and pain, beauty had become the one thing I could scarcely endure.


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Prop Russell Packer has been released from the final year of his Warriors contract, freeing him up to join the Newcastle Knights on a four-year deal.
The 23-year-old endured a difficult season, playing only nine games because of biceps and hamstring injuries and he also grabbed unwanted attention and a A$15,000 fine for the club when he urinated on Suncorp Stadium immediately before the Warriors 56-18 hammering of the Broncos.
He played only once more for the first-grade side after that incident, spending the rest of the year with the Vulcans or in the treatment room.
Packer played 110 games for the Warriors after making his debut against Canberra in 2008 as an 18-year-old.
He was seen as one of the most promising props in the game and made his test debut against the Kiwis in Newcastle in 2011. His only other test was against England in the Four Nations later that year.
"While he had injury issues this year, Russell has given us good service in his six seasons after coming to the club as a young player with potential,'' Warriors general manager football operations Dean Bell said.
"We appreciate what he achieved with the Vodafone Warriors and wish him all the best as he looks to make a new start in the NRL.''
The Knights had been in the market for a prop and had initially targeted Melbourne youngster Mitchell Garbutt, a Newcastle junior who played in their under-20s in 2008 and 2009, but Packer offers both youth and experience.
The Warriors have plenty of propping options, with Suaia Matagi, Charlie Gubb, Sione Lousi, Sam Lousi and Albert Vete in the frame to join Ben Matulino, Jacob Lillyman and Sam Rapira in the first-grade side.
"I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the Warriors since joining the club in 2007 but to have the opportunity to play at the Knights and to be coached by Wayne Bennett is special,'' said Packer, who will relocate to Newcastle with his young family ahead of pre-season training in November.
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ESPN insider Adam Schefter has reported that return specialist Devin Hester has agreed to terms on a three year deal with the Atlanta Falcons. The former Chicago Bear has spent time as a defensive back and wide receiver in his career, but has primarily become a return specialist. He had career highs in kick returns (52) and kick return yards (1,442). Both numbers led the league in 2013. Hester is the all-time NFL leader punt returns for touchdowns with 13, and combined kick/punt returns for touchdowns with 18.
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|As my washer is attempting to spin, I begin to smell an electrical heat smell. A small amount of "smoke" appears and the tub does not spin at previous full speed. The tub will spin slowly. Also, the water is not draining as fast as usual. Everything seems to be in slow motion. The machine also begins to make an unusual "squeeling" sound.
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|I am from Georgia also. Thanks for the quick reply. The pump turns freely by hand, and the motor has a good deal of free play to move from left to right. The drain line had no kinks. I have removed the front and side panels in order to have easy access to whatever might be going wrong. All three pulleys underneath seem to have a lot of small black pieces of debris. It seems that the belt has been suffering while in operation.
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if your smelling electrical and seeing smoke, where is the smoke coming from, the belt or the motor. try pumping water out of the machine and check the flow of water coming out ( should be a solid forceful stream of water)
at this point it sounds like either your motor is going out or something is wrong with the pump ( I have seen the pump turn freely but the impellers inside not work properly)
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The LEED rating system recognizes the importance of commissioning with a prerequisite and offers the ability for project teams to gain five additional points for implementing a more comprehensive commissioning process. Commissioning was one of the few positive outcomes of sick building syndrome. Because of the expense, engineering firms had relinquished the responsibility for verifying the post-construction accuracy of systems' operations, which left a significant void between anticipated and actual performance. When occupant health declined, people took notice. Commissioning authorities bridge the gap between design and operations by reviewing how the systems operate independently, and how they interact together. These specialists employ a systematic approach to confirm that the systems were installed and function to design specifications. In the best-case scenarios, they also ensure that staff know how to operate the systems correctly. commissioning levels of leed Within the LEED framework, commissioning generally refers to the energy-using systems: Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC), lighting controls, domestic hot water and renewable energy systems when incorporated. Outside of LEED, commissioning may include fire and life safety systems, the complete electrical system, plumbing and the building envelope. In a LEED-CI project, the systems reviewed usually refer to the sub-systems that affect the tenant's domain, such as the fan coils and the variable air volume terminal units that deliver the building air and regulate it for the space. Fundamental commissioning of building energy systems is an Energy and Atmosphere Prerequisite in LEED-CI. To meet the requirement, every project must have a commissioning authority involved. Commissioning authorities attend a meeting during design development to coordinate the commissioning process and may assist with the creation of the Owner's Project Requirements (OPR) and Basis of Design (BOD) documents. Commissioners review the OPR and BOD documentation for completeness and clarity. They then develop commissioning specifications for incorporation into the construction documents, and develop and implement their commissioning plan. The "field work" near the end of construction includes verifying equipment installation in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions and documenting performance of the systems to meet the design intent. A summary commissioning report is developed and submitted to the owners at each project's completion. Enhanced commissioning is a more holistic approach that offers project teams five points under LEED-CI. In addition to all the elements required for fundamental commissioning, authorities perform a commissioning design review of the OPR, BOD and design documents before halfway in the construction documents phase. During construction, commissioners review the contractor submittals for compliance with the OPR and BOD, and distribute review comments to the design teams and owners. During enhanced commissioning, authorities conduct an operations and maintenance review, and develop a systems manual informing future staff on how to efficiently operate, calibrate and maintain the systems. Commissioners verify that adequate training is in place, so staff won't need to consult a manual or construction drawing to find, for example, a valve when a water pipe breaks. In fact, if the authorities attend these training meetings, they can assure that the contractor is actually there—not just a product representative who has no idea of where the valves and circuits are located. Commissioners also return to each project within 10 months of installation for another systems review during the warranty period. Depending on the time of year a tenant improvement is completed, a six-month timeframe may provide the opportunity to see how the systems operate in opposite seasons. If problems exist—and invariably something goes awry—many can be fixed on the spot. For others that require more attention, commissioners must write a plan to direct staff how to resolve the issues. owner advocates LEED requires each commissioning authority to have documented commissioning experience in at least two building projects. Under the fundamental commissioning process, project team personnel can serve as commissioners. But enhanced commissioning is more stringent, requiring that commissioning authorities not be involved in the design and construction work, and not be employees of the design or construction firms. Commissioners may be contracted through the design firm (but not the construction firm), and are allowed to be qualified employees or consultants of the owner. These enhanced requirements make sense, as the purpose of a commissioning authority is to offer an independent third-party review. As owner advocates, they can do the best job if they bring a non-biased opinion to the process. Commissioning isn't just a LEED prerequisite; it's also financially sound advice for your client. In the October 2003 study titled "The Costs and Financial Benefits of Green Buildings—A Report to California's Sustainable Building Task Force," by Gregory H. Kats, he calculated that the premium for LEED buildings ranged between $3 to $5 per square foot. Decreased operating costs provide the clearest return on investment, and the study found that commissioning LEED buildings combined with the energy and water savings generated $1.16 per square foot of annual savings, which equates to a 20-year present value of $14.77 per square foot, based on a 5 percent discount rate. The savings make a strong case for commissioning. finding the right commissioning authority So how do you know what to look for in a good commissioning authority? The first qualification should be experience in the project's specific industry sector—namely, tenant improvements. If commissioners have a lot of experience in new construction but none in TIs, they might miss critical elements related to achieving your client's goals. For example, they might assume that because the building's HVAC system works, it's not worth checking. 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A panel at industry gathering Cinemacon seemed to support the idea of allowing or even encouraging texting during a movie. David Lieberman reports on Deadline that some theater chains believe that today's ticket buyers are so attached to their devices it does not make sense to expect them to sit through a movie without staying in touch to share their thoughts.
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Tim League, CEO of Alamo Drafthouse — a small chain that makes a point of throwing out customers who talk or text during a film. "Over my dead body will I introduce texting into the movie theater," he says. "I love the idea of playing around with a new concept. But that is the scourge of our industry. … It's our job to understand that this is a sacred space and we have to teach manners." He says it should be "magical" to come to the cinema. But [Regal Entertainment CEO Amy] Miles shot back that "one person's opinion of magical isn't the other's."
I find it rude and distracting when movie-goers take out their smart phones and iPads in the theater. But I could see a "Sing-along Sound of Music"-style special screenings of cult films like "The Room" and "Rocky Horror Show" that encourage texting and even show the running commentary across the bottom of the screen, something like a cross between "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and "Pop-up Videos."


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