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The following students competed at the FCCLA regionals and placed in different categories. Superstar winners will advance to state competition in March.
Morehead State University's ROTC program had eight sophomore cadets compete and selected for summer deployments in support of the U.S. Army
Cadet Command Cultural Understand and Language Proficiency Program (CULP). The Cadets selected will be deployed to and support either Humanitarian Operations or Cadet English Language Training Team (CELTT) missions.
The local MSU Cadet selected was Eric Napier of Williamstown, who will be deployed to Paraguay.
Kayla Hisel is the Grant County High School Youth Performance Award winner for January.
She is a senior at GCHS and is the daughter of Rita and Richie Hisel. She holds a 4.3 grade point average with straight A's.
Extra-curricular activities: I participate in varsity soccer, National Honor Society MU Alpha Theta, senior mentor program and is the president of the National English Honor Society.
Community involvement: I am a member of the Knoxville Baptist Church and Grant County Jr. Fair Board.
The Youth Service Center Best Effort/Community Service Award Scholarship has been awarded to Grant County Middle School students Alyssa Scudder,
Dakota Stone and Faith Shelby. Each will be completing 18 hours of community service. The students were awarded $300 each. They will volunteer 30 hours of community service. The students will use their award to help finance their eighth grade trip to Chicago, Ill. In order to apply the student must have no unexcused absences and no behavioral issues for the previous semester.
Students from Grant County High School visited the Morehead State University campus, as part of the Early College Program recently.
More than 50 high and technical schools offered MSU classes during the fall semester with more than 2,000 high school students participating in the program.
GCHS Homecoming winter dance
The GCHS Winter Homecoming Dance will be on Friday, Feb. 7 immediately following the girls and boys varsity basketball games versus Carroll County and will end at midnight. Dance location is the GCHS cafeteria and cost for tickets is $7 in advance or $10 at the door. The dance is formal and the theme is "My Mardis Gras- Valentine.
Grant County resident students made the Dean's List for Fall 2013 at Georgetown College. The Dean's List honors undergraduate students who completed the semester with at least 12 credit hours and a 3.7 GPA, according to Rosemary Allen, Ph.D., Georgetown College's Provost and Academic Dean. The students are:
• Adam S. Campbell of Crittenden
• Matthew A. Cornman of Williamstown
• Devanny Paige King of Williamstown
• Matthew W. Lillard of Dry Ridge
• Johnathan T. Rogers of Corinth
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LARGO — Largo defenders went to bed Friday night, I imagine, with visions of Jefferson quarterback Deiondre Porter dancing in their heads.
The Packers contained him in the first two quarters, kept him from making his usual big plays, and shut down his big-play wide receivers.
But after halftime, not so much.
The Jefferson quarterback slipped through tackles, ran through holes and broke the backs of the Packers.
He scored three of his four touchdowns in the final two quarters, including one on a fourth-and-3 play that capped a 95-yard drive and gave Jefferson its first lead early in the final period.
The Dragons would not relinquish it.
"We couldn't stop him," said Largo coach Rick Rodriguez.
Porter had never rushed — or needed to rush — more than 21 times in a game until Friday, when he finished with 32 for 203 yards.
And it was the first time he had ever scored four rushing touchdowns.
After Largo opened the second half by recovering an onside kick and scoring on a deep pass to Raheem Harvey to open up a 17-6 lead, Porter got busy.
"I looked at him and said, 'You ready to be the man?' " said Jefferson coach Jeremy Earle. "He said, Coach, give me the ball. When you have that kind of guy, you gotta give it to him."
Gatorade buckets
1. The Jefferson defense was outstanding in the second half. After Donavan Hale connected on the pass to Harvey to make it 17-6, it forced Largo into five straight punts. The line got after Hale, and the defensive backs, led by Chavez Pownell, backed them up with nice coverage. Hale completed only 10 of his 35 passes.
"We couldn't get a first down," Rodriguez said.
2. The Jefferson offensive line — Gino Harrington, Zack Buchanan, Kenny Nelson, Josh Marrero and T.J. Williams — made sure the inside trap popped a few times in the second half and cleared the way for Porter. "They made holes for me, and I ran through them," Porter said.
3. Largo's plan was to play zone on the half of the field where there were three wide receivers, and leave Cordell Hudson on an island with whoever lined up on the other side. No help. Just Hudson. They called it Delly Island at practice, and after a few long pass attempts his way, he didn't see much action. He might even be a big part of the reason the Dragons went to the run game in the second half. It may have rained Friday night, but it was sunny on Delly Island.
The Packer stands were only about half full Friday, and that's pretty pathetic. The county's most consistent program, a perennial playoff team, and it appears the fans decided to bail on them.
Was it the threat of rain? The fact the game was on TV? Or did they figure the Packers couldn't win after the suspension and arrest of their two best players?
All three reasons, by the way, are poor excuses to miss a playoff game involving such a successful program.
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47 — total touchdowns Porter has had a hand in this season, with 28 passing and 19 rushing, and he's now over 4,000 combined yards from scrimmage as well.
3 hours, 15 minutes — the time it took to play Friday's game, which is one of the longer non-overtime, non-catastrophic injury games I've ever seen.
5 — straight playoff losses for Largo, which is now 1-5 since going to back-to-back state semifinals in 2007 and '08.


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Privately billed insurance claims related to oral cancer diagnoses rose 61% from 2011 to 2015, according to data on 21 million privately billed medical and dental claims examined by FAIR Health. The greatest increase involved throat cancer (malignant neoplasm of the nasopharynx, hypopharynx, and oropharynx). The second greatest was in tongue cancer (malignant neoplasm of the tongue).
"Oral cancer is a serious and growing public health problem," said FAIR Health president Robin Gelburd. "We hope that our data help inform the national conversation on this topic."
Also, 74% of oral cancer claims were for males while 26% were for females. Tongue and throat cancers in particular were more likely to occur in men than women. However, men and women had similar chances of developing gum cancer (malignant neoplasm of the gums) and an oral tumor that was benign but could become cancerous (neoplasm of uncertain behavior—oral). Tobacco use, excessive alcohol use, and human papillomavirus (HPV) are the chief risk factors.
Oral cancer claims occurred much more frequently among individuals age 46 years and older than in younger individuals, with increases among those age 56 to 65 years and decreases for those age 65 years and older. The American Cancer Society estimates that approximately 48,330 Americans will get cancer of the oral cavity or pharynx in 2016 and about 9,570 will die of the disease.
However, patients who are diagnosed in the early stages of the disease see 5-year survival rates between 80% and 90%. That's why the ADA recommends oral cancer screenings during routine dental checkups, particularly among patients who use tobacco or consume alcohol heavily. Still, FAIR Health reports, adult males were much less likely than adult females to seek preventive dental examinations and cleanings despite their greater risk for oral cancer.
According to FAIR Health, 2 dental procedures associated with oral cancer screenings have been increasingly performed from 2007 to 2015: CDT codes D0431, an adjunctive prediagnostic test, and D7287, an exfoliative cytological sample collection, or obtaining cells for microscopic study. Approximately 65% of these codes were filed for patients between the ages of 31 and 60 years, with the 41- to 50-year-old segment seeing the most codes at about 24%.
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A new regenerative scaffold made of biosafe collagen hydrogel and collagen sponge could retain fibroblastic growth factor-2 (FGF2) and stimulate periodontal tissue regeneration. Developed at the Hokkaido University Graduate School of Dental Medicine, the scaffold would improve the outcome of periodontal regenerative surgery and support to prevent tooth loss compared to exiting scaffold materials, according to the researchers.
In periodontal regenerative therapy, stable periodontal attachments including the cementum and periodontal ligament should be reformed on the instrumented tooth surface and stimulate alveolar bone regeneration. But periodontal attachment is difficult to reform because the rapid growth of the junctional epithelium and gingival connective tissue inhibit the growth of periodontal tissue associated with periodontal attachment.
Predictable periodontal regenerative procedures, then, require the development of compatible biomaterial against the periodontal stem cells, progenitors, and tissues. Collagen hydrogels cross-linked by an ascorbate-copper ion system exhibit high fluidity. To promote its operability, the researchers injected the FGF2-loaded collagen hydrogel into the biocompatible 3-D sponge-form collagen before implantation.
The combination of the collagen hydrogel scaffold and FGF2 exhibited good biodegradability of the scaffold and remarkably promoted periodontal healing, the researchers stated, involving the regeneration of cementum, periodontal ligament, and matured alveolar bone in beagles. Also, the FGF2-loaded hydrogel scaffold facilitated the formation of acellular cementum receiving insertions of Sharpey's fibers continuous to periodontal membrane fibers (true regeneration).
Regenerated periodontal tissue would be effective for resisting the force of mastication, the researchers concluded. They also believe that this technique could replace the preexisting polymer scaffold and artificial bone graft in periodontal surgical therapy. The study, "Collagen Hydrogel Scaffold and Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 Accelerate Periodontal Healing of Class II Furcation Defects in Dog," was published by The Open Dentistry Journal.
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Children who require both dental and non-dental medical procedures should have them completed during a single general anesthesia session whenever possible, recommends the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) based on research that will be presented at its Anesthesiology 2016 annual meeting this week in Chicago.
"While surgery and anesthesia are safer than they've ever been, limiting exposure is preferable, especially in children, because there may be sensitivities or a greater risk of anesthesia-related complications," said Vidya T. Raman, MD, director of pre-admission testing at Nationwide Children's Hospital and clinical associate professor at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
"In addition to improving patient safety, we believe combining procedures decreases costs and improves patient satisfaction," said Raman, who also was the lead author of the study.
Some children require general anesthesia during restorative dental procedures such as tooth extractions and capping. When possible, the researchers stated, these procedures should be performed with other interventions requiring general anesthesia such as tonsil removal, ear tube insertions, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which requires children to be still.
During the study, 55 children had a dental procedure combined with another non-dental medical procedure under one anesthetic. Only 7 of them (13%) saw complications such as vomiting, pain, fever, and pneumonia. Of those, 4 (7%) required unplanned admission to the hospital. Most of those patients were at increased risk of hospitalization because of severe systemic disease, Raman said.
Additionally, combining procedures saved an average of 30%, leading to a savings of approximately $165,000 for the 55 cases, the researchers said. The joint procedures also enabled these patients to be treated in a single visit instead of during the course of weeks or months.
Physicians can use electronic medical records to identify the recommended procedures that can be performed safely at the same time, Raman said. Everyone involved, including dentists, physicians, and parents, should be aware of all upcoming surgeries the child requires and communicate with all parties, Raman said.
However, she added, procedures that are more urgent and vital should be performed first to ensure safety without being combined, such as surgeries with an increased infection risk, spinal fusion, and heart surgeries.
"It can be logistically complex to schedule several procedures at once," Raman said, "but combining them can decrease costs and pleases parents because their children don't have to undergo multiple recoveries and can return to school and activities faster."
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Two research studies published by Lasers in Surgery and Medicine have demonstrated how the 1064-nm wavelength PerioLase MVP-7 dental laser system from Millennial Dental Technologies selectively destroys Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg). This keystone pathogen directs other gum tissue bacteria to become pathogenically active in the progressive destruction involved in moderate to severe gum disease.
Historically, Pg has been identified as a black pigmented species bacteria based on its visible color in lab cultures. Previous studies have shown that it is destroyed in human treatments following the use of a 1064-nm pulsed Nd:YAG laser. These observations led to conjecture that Pg also was pigmented in the body (in vivo) and that the 1064-nm wavelength kills the bacteria by targeting the visible (black) pigment.
The first study, "The Black Bug Myth, Selective Photodestruction of Pigmented Pathogens," demonstrated that the PerioLase MVP-7 destroys Pg regardless of the amount of visible pigmentation or complete lack of visible pigmentation in the bacterial. It also suggests that the laser kills Pg by destroying an invisible chromophore. Consequently, periodontal bugs don't need to be black or even visible to the human eye for the laser to eliminate them.
The second study, "Selective Photoantisepsis," focused on selectively eliminating pathogens at different depths within a tissue model by analyzing the differences between the absorption of light energy by pathogens and host tissues. It supports selective destruction of Pg and Prevotella intermedia (Pi) at depths of 3 to 4 mm using a 1064-nm pulsed Nd:YAG laser.
Unlike the 1064-nm laser, the 810-nm diode laser requires visible pigment to destroy the bacteria. The 810-nm laser also was lethal to the healthy tissue at an earlier stage. The model indicates no selectivity for the 2940-nm Er:YAG laser.
"These 2 studies add to our understanding of the reasons and mechanisms for the benefits of the PerioLase MVP-7 1064-nm pulsed Nd:YAG laser in reducing the periodontal pathogens associated with gum disease," said Robert H. Gregg II, DDS, co-inventor of the PerioLase MVP-7 and inventor of the LANAP protocol.
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To stem rising rates of tooth decay as well as obesity and type 2 diabetes, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for taxes on sugary drinks worldwide. According to WHO, an increase of 20% or greater in the retail price of these beverages would result in proportional reductions in their consumption.
Less consumption means less intake of "free sugars," or monosaccharides, such as glucose or fructose, and disaccharides, such as sucrose or table sugar, added to these beverages by the manufacturer, cook, or consumer.
"If governments tax products like sugary drinks, they can reduce suffering and save lives," said Douglas Bettcher, MD, PhD, director of WHO's department for the prevention of non-communicable diseases. "They can also cut healthcare costs and increase revenues to invest in health services."
According to WHO, populations face higher rates of dental caries when the intake of free sugars is greater than 10% of total energy intake compared to an intake of free sugars below 10% of total energy intake. Yet WHO believes that total free sugar consumption should be even less than 10%.
"Nutritionally, people don't need any sugar in their diet. WHO recommends that if people do consume free sugars, they keep their intake below 10% of their total energy needs and reduce it to less than 5% for additional health benefits," said Francesco Branca, PhD, director of WHO's department of nutrition for health and development. "This is equivalent to less than a single serving, at least 250 mL, of commonly consumed sugary drinks per day."
Today, 60% to 90% of children and nearly 100% of adults have dental caries, WHO reports. Globally, about 30% of people between the ages of 35 and 44 years have no natural teeth. Decreased sugar intake and balanced nutrition could prevent tooth decay and premature tooth loss, the organization states.
Furthermore, according to WHO, the oral disease burden is significantly higher among poor and disadvantaged populations, which often see increased rates of sugary drink consumption and tooth decay compared to populations with higher incomes. As a result, these people in addition to young people are most responsive to changes in beverage prices and will benefit the most from a tax.
Mexico already has implemented an excise tax on nonalcoholic beverages with added sugar. Hungary has imposed a tax on packaged products with high sugars, salt, or caffeine levels. The Philippines, South Africa, and the United Kingdom have announced intentions to implement taxes on sugary drinks. In the United States, a tax is in effect in Berkeley, Calif, with another launching in Philadelphia come January 1, 2017.
WHO notes that public support for these taxes can be increased if the revenue they generate is earmarked for efforts to improve health systems, encourage healthier diets, and increase physical activity. The Philadelphia tax, for instance, is expected to raise about $91 million each year for expanding prekindergarten, creating community schools, improving public facilities, and offering a tax credit for businesses that sell healthy beverages.
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Researchers from the New York Institute of Technology have developed computer simulations showing how lasers set at different wavelengths can attack oral bacterial colonies, suggesting that the benefits of using lasers in oral debridement include killing bacteria buried in gum tissue and promoting better dental health.
"The paper verifies or validates the use of lasers to kill bacteria and contribute to better health following periodontal treatments," said co-author Lou Reinisch, PhD, associate provost for academic affairs at New York Institute of Technology and an expert in laser surgery with a background in physics, optics, and calculus.
Reinisch created mathematical models based on the optical characteristics of gum tissues and bacteria. He then produced simulations of 3 different types of lasers commonly used in dentistry and their effects on 2 types of bacterial colonies of various sizes and depths within the gum models.
"One of the questions we asked is how deep could the bacteria be and still be affected by the laser light," said Reinisch.
The simulations indicate that 810-nm diode lasers, set to short pulses and moderate energy levels, can kill bacteria buried 3 mm deep in the soft tissue of gums. The 1064-nm Nd:YAG laser also is effective with similar penetration. Both lasers spare healthy tissue with minimal heating of the surrounding tissue. Minimizing thermal damage accelerates healing, said Reinisch.
"The findings are important because they open up the possibility of tweaking the wavelength, power, and pulse duration to be the most effective for killing bacteria," said Reinisch. "The doctors will look at this and say, 'I see there is a possible benefit for my patients in using the laser.'"
"The study reveals what's going on in the tissue, so I hope that we're educating the medical professionals by demonstrating that you can do a good job of killing bacteria with certain lasers," said co-author David Harris, PhD, director of Bio-Medical Consultants, which specializes in medical laser product development.
"When you do this treatment, you remove an infection and allow tissue to regenerate. Getting rid of the infection means the tissue can heal without interference," said Harris.
Dental lasers can cost from $5,000 to more than $100,000, Reinisch said, and healthcare professionals require extra training to use them. These costs are passed on to the patient, so Reinisch said there must be a definite benefit to the patient to justify these costs.
At least 25% of dental offices in the United States have laser dental capability for periodontal treatment as outlined in the paper, Harris noted, along with other soft-tissue surgical procedures and hard-tissue procedures like the removal of tooth decay. Harris also said that the video simulations demonstrate what happens when lasers hit buried bacterial colonies.
"This is a great way to present to the doctor esoteric scientific findings in a clinically meaningful format," Harris said. "The model is a great tool for making predictions of what can happen in the tissue. Our study confirms its use as a way to determine the most effective laser parameters to use clinically."
The study's methodology of simulating how laser light interacts with tissue has implications beyond dentistry. Physicians and surgeons user lasers in various treatments, including vocal cord procedures and dermatological treatments, including those for toenail fungus. Guided by the results in this study, Reinisch and Harris expect clinical trials will validate their findings.
The study, "Selective Photoantisepsis," was published by Lasers in Surgery and Medicine.
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Carestream Dental has sold more than 10,000 of its CS 8100 Family imaging systems as of September 2016. Introduced in 2012, the CS 8100 was designed to support the day-to-day panoramic imaging needs of small practices, such as segmented panoramic, temporomandibular joint, and maxillary sinus imaging.
"Over the past 4 years, we've built on the success of the original design concept of the CS 8100 by developing a 3-D imaging unit—the CS 8100 3D extraoral imaging system—and a scanning cephalometric unit—the CS 8100SC panoramic and cephalometric imaging system," said Ed Shellard, DMD, vice president of sales and marketing at Carestream Dental.
After Carestream launched the CS 8100, its engineers realized that dentists wanted the benefits of in-office CBCT without sacrificing office space. The company then introduced the CS 8100 3D in 2014 with the same footprint and imaging capabilities as the CS 8100 with the added benefits of 3-D imaging and 3-D model scanning.
"Some of my favorite features are its compact size, multifunction 2-D/3-D imaging, and easy, mistake-free acquisition. I've taken over 50 scans so far and have never missed the area of interest," said Peter Kapsimalis, DMD, of Summit, NJ. "Not only does the unit feature quick scan times and distortion-free images, it's also easy for my staff to position patients, and their comfort level really puts my patients at ease."
Carestream then introduced the CS 8100SC in 2015. According to the company, it offers the fastest scanning times of any scanning cephalometric unit on the market, as low as 3 seconds for an 18- by 24-cm image in fast scan mode. Also, its advanced imaging software recognizes anatomical structures and traces them automatically and can go from scanning to tracing within 90 seconds.
"When I decided to add cephalometric imaging capabilities to my new orthodontic office, I opted for a CS 8100SC, which enables me to perform both panoramic and cephalometric imaging without changing the sensor between scans," said Noam Green, DMD, of Green Orthodontics in Decatur, Ga. "Training on the system is almost unnecessary because of how straightforward and intuitive the user interface is."
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Henry Schein's Steve Kess Inducted As Fellow in the International College of Dentists24 Oct 2016
Steve W. Kess, Henry Schein's vice president of global professional relations and co-founder of the company's global social responsibility program, was inducted this past Friday as a Fellow of the International College of Dentists (ICD).
"I am grateful for the opportunity the ICD has given me, and for the support of Henry Schein, to help advance oral health around the world," said Kess of this honor. "As a Fellow, I am committed to identifying more opportunities to enhance access to care and to further support the ICD USA Section Foundation and the ICD Global Visionary Fund."
The induction ceremony took place at the Sheraton-Downtown in Denver, Plaza Ballroom - PZ Concourse.
For more information about Henry Schein and its events at the ADA meeting, visit henryschein.com.
The global dental implants market will total $6.81 billion by 2024, according to Research and Markets. The analyst company attributes this growth to road accidents and sports injuries, as well as to growing aesthetic awareness among patients, which is pushing people to explore more conservative treatment options.
Dental implants are considered the only restorative technique that preserves and stimulates natural bone, Research and Markets states. Owing to the growing number of edentulous people, the demand for prosthetics is increasing, which also is driving the market.
Research and Markets expects the highest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in the Asia-Pacific region due to its increasing economic stability and spending capacity. Growing healthcare dispensing power in countries like Japan will aid in the high cost of implant procedures. The increasing base of dentists and implantologists in China will contribute to growth as well.
Europe held the largest share of the market in 2015, with $1.5 billion, primarily due to its high geriatric population base. The presence of key companies also contributes to this market share. Furthermore, Europe in particular has seen a growing number of sports-related facial injuries, leading to growing demand for oral rehabilitation.
Titanium dominates the overall market because of various applications during surgical placements. One-stage and 2-stage titanium implants provide a cost-effective solution for dental implant treatments due to their long lifespan, Research and Markets states. However, titanium is prone to corrosion.
Zirconia implants will grow at a faster CAGR of more than 8.0% through 2024. The research company says that zirconia implants have enhanced the outcome of dental implant treatments. Zirconia also is a corrosion-free material, which is an added advantage.
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Oral cancer rates among adults continue to climb due to the spread of the human papilloma virus (HPV). Yet the HPV vaccine has shown early success in preventing the virus' spread among younger generations. Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is revising its guidelines to make its administration easier, recommending that 11- to 12-year-olds receive just 2 doses at least 6 months apart, rather than 3 doses.
"Safe, effective, and long-lasting protection against HPV cancers with 2 visits instead of 3 means more Americans will be protected from cancer," said CDC director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH. "This recommendation will make it simpler for parents to get their children protected in time."
Teens and young adults who start the series later, between the ages of 15 and 26 years, will continue to need 3 doses of the vaccine to protect themselves against cancer-causing HPV infections. Generally, preteens receive the HPV vaccine at the same time as whooping cough and meningitis vaccines. Adolescents who are 13 or 14 years old now also can receive the HPV vaccination on the new 2-dose schedule.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a panel of experts that advises the CDC on vaccine recommendations in the United States, voted on the new guidelines on October 19. Frieden approved the new recommendations shortly after the committee's vote. ACIP recommendations approved by the director become agency guidelines on the date published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The CDC now will provide guidance to parents, healthcare professionals, and insurers on the changes in the recommendations. On October 9, the US Food and Drug Administration approved adding a 2-dose schedule for 9-valent HPV vaccine for adolescents ages 9 through 14 years. The CDC encourages clinicians to begin implementing the 2-dose schedule in their practice to protect preteen patients from HPV cancers.
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I have a Lincoln pro 180 220 volt welder. I had problems welding with it and determined the problem was that serrated copper strap in the ground clamp. I repositioned it and it works for now but doesn't look like it will last.
Is there any reason I can not replace that by taking a 1/2 inch copper pipe, crush it flat in a vise, grind off each side, which would give me two flat pieces of copper, take one of the flat pieces of copper and install it in place of the old serrated copper strap that keeps working loose?
None that I can think of..Sometimes we even bolt the ground lead to whatever we are welding..I have seen a C-clamp used as a ground clamp as well..
If it was me I would just throw away that ground clamp and spend 20-30$ and get a good tweco replacement.
I ve used copper pipe pieces for fillers. I have a fine wire wheel that I clean- buff parts with first, a little bit of invisible corrosion caused all kinds of problems with my old Tig welder. On welding tips and tricks.com Jody shows using a 1 ft long piece of bare stranded old ground cable as an extra ground, HE sometimes wraps it around the part and says he doesn't get the ground burn spot on the part. and says a lot of Mig problems can be caused by inadequate ground. I tried one of those HF magnetic grounds, it only worked for a while. It probably needs to be taken apart and cleaned,
Rebuilt old ground clamp
I went to the local welding supply and tried that Tweko ground clamp and the spring was so strong I could hardly squeeze it. I have arthritis in my hands so I wanted to rebuild my old one. I have installed the new copper strap and it works good, and I don't have to worry about it working loose.
I also had trouble with squeezing my ground easily, so I went another route. I welded a tab on an old pair of vise grips and bolted the ground cable to the vise grips. I can adjust the jaws for various thickness metal, and once clamped it stays put. Easy to release, and on small parts I can use the vise grip clamp to hold the part as I weld it too.
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The four "Easy exercises" and six (harder) "Problems" were here. This post gives the solutions to the exercises.
Lemma 1 Given any two MOLS of order \(n\) we can derive two MOLS with one in reduced form and the other having the first row \(1,\dots,n\)
Consider the superimposed array (like the example of order 4 in the earlier post). By permuting its columns and then its rows, we can get one of the Latin squares into reduced form. Then by permuting the symbols used for the other Latin Square we can get its top row to \(1,\dots,n\). This permutation preserves both its Latin property and its orthogonality to the other Latin square. \(\Box\)
E1 Show that it is impossible to construct two MOLS of order 2.
It is obvious that the only Latin square with top row \(1,2\) is \(\left(\begin{array}{cc} 1&2\\2&1\end{array}\right)\), but this square is not orthogonal to itself because the pair \(2,2\) appears twice and the pair \(2,1\) does not appear. \(\Box\)
E2 Show that there are at most \(n-1\) MOLS of order \(n\).
Suppose there were \(n\). For each square we can permute its symbols to get the top row as \(1,\dots,n\). This will preserve the Latin property and will not affect the squares orthogonality to the other squares. Now consider the first cell in the second row. If any two squares have the same symbol \(k\) in this cell, then they are not orthogonal, because they also have the same symbol \(k\) in the cell in column \(k\) of the top row. So all squares must have a different symbol in the first cell in the second row. That means one of them must have the symbol 1, but it also has the symbol 1 in the first cell of the top row, so it is not Latin. Contradiction. \(\Box\)
E3 Find all degenerate finite projective planes, in other words, finite sets of points and lines which satisfy (A) any two distinct lines intersect in just one point, (B) any two distinct points lie on just one line, but which do not satisfy (C) there are four points, no three of which lie on the same line.
Note that any configuration of points and lines satisfying (A) and (B) has a dual configuration obtained by interchanging points and lines, but preserving "incidence" (the property of a point being on a line). So if the original configuration has a point A and a line L, then in the dual configuration the line A contains the point L if and only if point A lies on line L in the original. A configuration is self-dual if it is the same as its dual.
All degenerate configurations fall into two infinite families :
(1) a point \(P\) not lying on a line \(L\) and \(n\ge 0\) lines through \(P\), each meeting \(L\) in one point (so a total of \(n+1\) points and \(n+1\) lines. For each \(n\) this configuration is self-dual;
(2) a point \(P\) lying on a line \(L\), \(n\ge 0\) additional lines passing through \(P\) and \(m\ge 0\) additional points lying on \(L\). Both \(P\) and \(L\) are optional, so the configuration includes as special cases: the empty configuration (no lines or points); a single point \(P\) with zero or more lines passing through it; and a single line \(L\) with zero or more points on it. Every configuration in (2) is self-dual or dual to another configuration in (2).
It is obvious that configurations in (1) or (2) are degenerate since they do not satisfy (C). If we require that at most two points lie on any line, then a configuration in (1) includes at most 3 points and a configuration in (2) at most two.
It is clear that the empty configuration, a single point, a single line, and a single point lying on a single line are all covered in (2). A single point and a single line which does not contain it is covered by (1).
If a configuration includes two points, then it must also include a line \(L\) containing them. Suppose all the points in the configuration lie on \(L\). If all the lines pass through one of these points, then we have (2). (Note that if there are just two lines, then this case is also in (1). If we want to make (1) and (2) disjoint families, then in (1) we must require \(n\ne 1\)). If not, then \(L\) contains two points \(P\) and \(Q\) each with another line through them. But these lines must meet at a point \(R\) not on \(L\). Contradiction. So that exhausts possible configurations with all the points on \(L\).
So suppose we have a line \(L\) containing (at least) two points and a point \(P\) not on \(L\). Then for each point \(A\) on \(L\) there is a line containing \(P\) and \(A\), so we have (1). If we add another point not on \(L\) and not on any of the lines \(PA\), then the configuration is not degenerate. So the only case we need to consider is adding a point to one of the lines \(PA\).
If \(L\) contains only two points \(A,B\), then adding one or more additional points to \(PA\) gives another configuration in (1) (relabel \(B\) as \(P\) and the line \(PA\) as \(L\)). But if we add a point \(Q\) to \(PA\) and a point \(R\) to \(PB\) then the points \(A,B,Q,R\) satisfy (C), so the configuration is not degenerate. Similarly, if \(L\) has at least three points \(A,B,C\) and we add a point \(Q\) to \(PA\), then the lines \(QC\) and \(PB\) must intersect in a point \(R\) and the points \(A,B,Q,R\) satisfy (C). \(\Box\)
E4 Suppose that a particular line in a finite projective plane contains just \(n+1\) points with \(n\ge 2\). show that: (1) every line contains just \(n+1\) points, (2) every point is on just \(n+1\) lines, (3) there are a total of \(n^2+n+1\) points and \(n^2+n+1\) lines.
Call the particular line \(L\). Take \(P\) to be any point not on \(L\) – such a point must exist to avoid degeneracy. Any line through \(P\) must intersect \(L\) and any two distinct lines through \(P\) must meet \(L\) in two different points. Conversely, given any point on \(L\) there is a line through it and \(P\). So the number of lines through \(P\) is the same as the number of points on \(L\). Hence there are \(n+1\) lines through \(P\). Moreover, any other point \(X\) (not \(P\) or a point on \(L\)) must lie on one of the lines through \(P\), because otherwise the line \(PX\) would meet \(L\) in an additional point.
At least one of the lines through \(P\) must have a third point to avoid degeneracy. So suppose the points on \(L\) are \(A_1,\dots,A_{n+1}\) and that the additional point \(K_1\) lies on \(PA_1\). Now every line through \(K_1\) must cut \(L\) in a distinct point, so there must be exactly \(n+1\) lines through \(K_1\). There is nothing special about \(K_1\), so every on a line through \(P\) (except possibly \(P\) itself or one of the points \(A_i\)) must have exactly \(n+1\) lines through it.
Each of the \(n+1\) lines through \(K_1\) must cut the line \(PA_i\) (for \(i\ne 1\)) in a distinct point, so each of the lines \(PA_i\), except possibly, \(PA_1\) has exactly \(n+1\) points. Now \(n\ge 2\), so \(A_2,A_3\) exist and \(K_1A_2\) must meet \(PA_3\) in a point \(K_3\). By the same argument as above there are exactly \(n+1\) lines through \(K_3\) and hence exactly \(n+1\) points on \(PA_1\).
But \(P\) was any point not on \(L\). We are given that \(L\) has \(n+1\) points. Any other line must meet at least one of \(PA_1,PA_2\) in a point not on \(L\) and the argument above shows that any line through that point has exactly \(n+1\) points. That establishes (1).
We have already shown that any point \(P\) not on \(L\) has exactly \(n+1\) lines, so to establish (2) we need only show that each \(A_i\) is on exactly \(n+1\) lines. But there is a one-one correspondence between lines through \(A_i\) and points on \(PA_j\) for \(j\ne i\), so there are exactly \(n+1\) lines through \(A_i\). That establishes (2).
We have already shown that all the points line on one of the \(n+1\) lines through \(P\). Each such line has \(n\) points apart from \(P\), so the total number of points is \(n(n+1)+1=n^2+n+1\). Similarly every line apart from \(L\) itself meets \(L\) in one of the points \(A_i\). \(n\) lines (apart from \(L\) itself) pass through each \(A_i\), so there are a total of \((n+1)n+1=n^2+n+1\) lines. \(\Box\)


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Studying International Business and Trade can provide you a diverse set of highly marketable skills, whether you are just starting out on your career path or wanting to advance in your current job.
Job titles and salaries range widely according to the size of company and your continued education. Salaries also vary widely by industry. An entrepreneur just starting out may earn little or nothing in the first year of business, while representatives for defense, maritime shipping, construction or oilfield equipment earn top salaries in this diverse career field.
Though official certification is not required for most jobs,
NASBITE International administers a widely recognized Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP) credential. Richland College is one of five nationally recognized training centers for the CGBP certification.
Those who can benefit from an education in International Business and Trade include:
The majority of jobs in international business involve sales and marketing, whether as a salaried employee, contractual consultant or entrepreneur. Competing in the international business arena requires a unique set of skills.
An International Business and Trade degree will introduce you to vital topics that include:
By the end of the program, you'll be far ahead of graduates who have not been exposed to a global-focused curriculum.
How will your training translate into concrete jobs in international business? Possibilities are as extensive as today's global business market and include:
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Don't know if we're "allowed" to discuss earnings, but I'm just curious how people are doing so far this September in terms of sales/referrals. I think just knowing what is possible would be great motivation for those that haven't sold much yet (or anything).
PS – I'll wait to hear from a moderator if I can post my earnings or not
I'm going to take a guess that there are no rules on posting earnings, since you could easily see how much people have earned by adding their sales together.
I've had 49 sales, earning $1,615 – of which I've made $524.50
As for referrals, I've had 255 clickthroughs & 5 registered members. Unfortunately none of those had deposited any money.
I've had just over $1000 worth of sales and my cut is about $315, so not bad. Similarly to Dan I've had 4 Registered Members but non have added cash to their accounts. I've earnt more though on tweaks to templates than actual sales though, so in September I've made maybe about $700 – $800 from ThemeForest, and very glad I got in on the action early.
I've had 52 sales since submitting my first template nearly 3 weeks ago and have made $610, of which I take $152.50.
I haven't gone exclusive though because I run my own template site and don't think I'd find the time to design templates exclusively for ThemeForest as well as for my other website whilst working fulltime! such a shame.
Who knows, maybe one day ThemeForest will bring in enough cash for me to go freelance fulltime and then I could just work on templates all day lol
It's fine to post your earnings. People can figure it out either way. Keep at it though, we have some mammoth promotions coming up that will really give a boost to the site. It'll be exciting to see how much you guys are bringing in this next year.
Okay, cool.
I've made over $1,500 (I take $500) so far, from 87 sales and 3 referral deposits. I just can't believe how well the month has gone and I can't wait to get more templates up. I can't imagine the sales figures when I have 20+ decent templates on here. It's so motivating!
Awesome, keep up all the great work everyone.
Only $60 ($240.00 worth of sales) for me so far. But my second theme was only approved today so thats ok.
But when I look at the long term… i'm sure the hard work will be worth it.
My $12 theme "Gaius" sold 10 copies (total of $120), earning me $30. I've been pretty busy, so my second theme has been delayed, but I'll get it up soon
I've earned $9 with 3 sales ($36.00 worth) Also had 33 Clickthroughs but 0 Registered Members. Hope it will change soon
I've made $0 from 0 sales of 0 themes
But I'm working on some biggies if I can only grab the time to give them the focus they deserve.


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One of our favorite quotes, provenance unknown, is "You don't really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." But how many of us tried explaining social media to non-users, such as our older relatives, or even the C-suite of our companies, and failed to do justice to all its benefits? The challenge is underestimated, since the definition of social media is in the state of constant flux.
Nowadays, no type of social media is completely isolated from others, as major networks adjust their functionalities to offer more services to their users—recent examples of this include Facebook's announcement of Place Tips, as well as Pinterest's acquisition of new advertising technologies. To help you distinguish different types of social media, we highlighted the primary capabilities of different online services, and illustrated each with examples of major players.
8 Types of Social Media and How Each Can Benefit Your Business
Relationship networks
You can't talk about types of social media without first mentioning major networks such as Facebook. While personal relationship networks aren't the oldest type of social media, they can be called the most defining of them all. These channels were one of the first ones to offer public mini-sites, which later became known as profiles, with extensive information about the user, and most often require them to register with their real name. Relationship networks allowed us to keep all our communications in one place, on our Walls, Timelines or private messages, and share updates with our entire networks in one click. They vary from professional relationship networks that help you find work, connect with other professionals in the field, and share recommendations, to romantic relationship networks that help you find single users in your area.
Relationship networks also offer a unique chance for brands to connect to their users on a personal level. These days, it is necessary for most brands to have a Facebook Page or a Twitter account, in order to reach out to their audience online and answer any customer service queries that may arise.
Media sharing networks
This type of social network is defined by the primary type of media shared among users. Facebook and Twitter have amazing video and image-sharing capabilities; however, the majority of posts shared on these channels contain text. For channels such as Flickr or Instagram, however, images are the main focus—users have to choose, upload and edit image files before proceeding with anything else, such as captions or mentions of other users. Similarly, with sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, or apps like Vine and Snapchat, video is the primary mode of communication.
When determining whether or not your business needs to establish a presence on a media sharing network, it's important to consider your available resources. If there's one thing the most successful brands on platforms like YouTube or Instagram have in common, it's a thoroughly planned mission and carefully designed media assets, usually following a certain theme. To increase your business's chances of success on media sharing networks, consult our extensive library of resources.
- 8 ways to get more likes and followers on Instagram
- Which social video platform is right for your business?
- A guide to social video, and where it fits in your marketing plan
- Instagram or Tumblr? Choose the right photo-sharing network for your brand
- How to build the perfect YouTube channel
Online reviews
Location-based review services such as Yelp and Urbanspoon are getting more traction as personal social networks adopt geolocation, and more users choose to consult the Internet along with their friends for recommendations of best dining spots. There are sites to review anything from hotels, restaurant or your latest employer—and user reviews have more weight than ever before. Sites like Airbnb and Uber, the biggest service providers in the emerging sharing economy, rely largely on host and driver reviews, respectively, to determine who benefits from the service.
It's vital for your brand to have the ability to leverage user reviews, whether positive or negative, to maintain client relationships. The Internet is a huge collective knowledge base, and more and more consumers choose to consult the public opinion online to determine whether the brand is worth their business. In order to do this in a cost-effective way, select a customer success team member to address reviews on sites relevant for your business. Entrust them with answering any questions or concerns from clients with average or dissatisfactory experiences, and see if there is anything that can be done on your end to turn a possible detractor into a fan. For more on this topic, read our blog posts on how to respond to negative reviews and online reputation management.
Discussion forums
Discussion forums is one of the oldest types of social media. Before we connected to our first university friends on The Facebook, we discussed pop culture, current affairs, and asked for help on forums. Perhaps it's that unquenchable desire to get a share of collective knowledge that accounts for the wide reach and numerous users on forums such as reddit. "The front page of the Internet," as well as other forums like Quora and Digg, seldomly require the person's real name to register and post, allowing for complete anonymity, if desired.
However, while anonymity may be an attractive feature for some users, we don't recommend that brands adopt it. This defeats the purpose of being present on such a network; your best bet at promoting your business on a forum is by sharing content relevant to a discussion, and participating in as many discussions as possible. Be very careful to avoid explicit self-promotion—if you can, leave promotion of your brand to your brand ambassadors. Both moderators and users on networks such as reddit are sensitive to advertising disguised as a post, and this can seriously damage the perception of your brand. The best strategy is to offer expertise in your field by joining an existing discussion and linking to an article hosted on your official blog or a how-to video tutorial, for example. You can also go the General Electric route and share cool moments from behind the scenes of your workday, as they did in this cool video.
Social publishing platforms
Social publishing platforms consist of blogs and microblogs, where long and short-form written content can be shared with other users. These platforms range from real-time interaction networks such as Twitter—which, while still officially placed in the category of microblogging platforms, is not normally included in the blogging category by most users—to Medium and Tumblr, which are battling it out for the title of the best interactive social publishing; to more traditional blogging platforms, such as WordPress and Blogger.
While the benefits of Twitter for business are too obvious to recount, a blogging platform is a different story. If your promotion strategy includes content marketing (and if it doesn't, you might want to consider it), your business can gain visibility by keeping a blog. Not only does a blog help increase awareness of your business and generate more engaging content for your social channels such as Facebook, it can also help carve out a niche for your brand as a thought leader in your industry. If you find the idea of starting a blog as scary as scaling a mountain, here are some steps to help you get to the top:
- How to start a blog
- How to promote your blog on social media
- Content marketing idea: customer success stories
- Let your customers tell the story with user-generated content
Bookmarking sites
In the early days of the Internet (think "Hosting your own site on Geocities" era), content discovery online was a difficult task. Nowadays, there is a plethora of interesting, useful and enlightening content online, and sifting through all of it on your own is simply impossible. Of course, search engines like Google come in very handy when you know what to look for, but when you only have a vague idea of content you'd like to read or watch, there's bookmarking sites. These are web services like StumbleUpon, Pinterest, and Flipboard, where users collect content from elsewhere on the Internet, and save it to their account on the platform. This content can be private or public, and shared with other users. Often, these bookmarking sites will then suggest content similar to the links or images you have already saved on the network.
First and foremost, businesses can benefit from making their website bookmark-friendly. This entails optimizing the headlines and images on your blog or website for RSS feeds, making them easier to access and read for your audience. Your brand might also benefit from ensuring the articles or videos can be pinned with Pinterest's browser extension. Finally, pay close attention to the images featured on your site or blog—these are the window displays of Pins, so you want them to be good representations of your content.
Secondly, bookmarking sites are great tools for content curation. You can create your own Pinterest board or Flipboard magazine to sort through the most engaging content on your topic of choosing from third-party sources, and showcase content from your own blogs. If your brand uses Hootsuite, you can then add content to your RSS feeds or bookmarking sites such as Pinterest or Flipboard right in your dashboard! Dive into some of our resources if you're not sure where to start with your Pinterest or Flipboard strategy.
Interest-based networks
One of the most wonderful opportunities presented by social media is the ability to find people with common interests, no matter how niche these hobbies may first appear to be. In addition to Facebook and LinkedIn Groups and Google+ communities, there are whole networks dedicated to exploration of interest—such as Last.fm for musicians and music lovers, and Goodreads for authors and avid readers.
Keeping an account on one of these interest-based networks may not be a wise use of your brand's resources—you don't want to end up with a neglected social media account. However, it's another story if your customers and social audience all share a common interest, and you know this simply due to the nature of your business. Such is the case for publishing houses, for example, and their book-loving clients. A hobby or interest-based network is a good place to keep up with current trends among fans of a particular industry or its products.
Last but not least, a big trend emerging across all types of social media is the ability to view and purchase desired goods with a click of a button. Sites such as Polyvore aggregate products from different retailers in a single online marketplace, and services like Etsy allow small businesses and individual crafters to sell their products without an existing brick-and-mortar location. Over the past year, e-commerce elements have been adopted by many networks whose primary functionalities place them in different categories, such as Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook.
Many consumers, especially Millennials, are researching and making their purchases online. If the size of your brand allows is, an online store, or, at the very least, an online catalogue is essential to attract Generation Y clients. E-commerce sites and sites with e-commerce capabilities, such as Pinterest, can be a good solution for brands who aren't currently hosting an online store as part of their website. If your business doesn't have an e-commerce partnership with a major distributor like Amazon, you may soon be able to incorporate Buy buttons into social networks like Twitter.
Original story published on HootSuite Blog. By Olsy Sorokina
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text: Obama v Romney: Lena Dunham, Meat Loaf, Joss Whedon and the top ten celebrity endorsements Watch video of the best – and worst – attempts by entertainers to influence the race to the White House Comments Written By Jack Seale 6:11 PM, 29 October 2012 1. MEAT LOAF (Mitt Romney)Who really cares who's in the White House come next January? If this astonishing video is anything to go by, we know someone who does: Mr Meat Loaf. He cares a lot. Even Mitt Romney, previously thought to be a man who was absent without leave when God was handing out the ability to be embarrassed, looks slightly uncomfortable here as Loaf screams America the Beautiful. Romney would do anything to get elected, but he won't join in with this bizarre performance. 2. LENA DUNHAM (Barack Obama)The super-cool creator of HBO comedy Girls caused ripples, and several hundred thousand hits on YouTube, within hours of her Obama endorsement going up online. Dunham addressed first-time voters, encouraging them to give their electoral cherry to the sitting Potus. "Your first time shouldn't be with just anybody," Dunham told young female voters. "It should be a guy who cares whether you get health insurance and specifically whether you get birth control. You want to do it with a guy who brought the troops out of Iraq." A few extreme-right commentators in the US tried to interpret this literally as Obama offering to squire the electorate. 3. JENNA JAMESON (Mitt Romney)Bored of political spin and double-talk? The US porn industry doesn't go in for all that. Award-winning actress Jenna Jameson cut to the chase in August. "I'm very looking forward to a Republican being back in office," Jameson said, addressing reporters from the VIP room at a San Francisco strip club. Why? "When you're rich, you want a Republican in office." 4. JOSS WHEDON (Barack Obama)The Avengers Assemble has made a video supporting Mitt Romney! Really? No, not really. But it does have zombies. More on this one here. 5. CLINT EASTWOOD (Mitt Romney)This has gone down in electoral and entertainment folklore: at the Republican convention in Tampa, Clint Eastwood took to the stage for an extraordinary 11-minute performance. Clint interviews an empty chair, pretending Barack Obama is sitting on it – a rare foray for the Million Dollar Baby director into improvised comedy. Eastwood has now contributed to a much straighter Romney advertisement. 6. MADONNA (Barack Obama)Obama's campaign suffered a blow this weekend when Madonna endorsed it during a gig in New Orleans. There were more boos than cheers as Madge told fans that she didn't care who they voted for, as long as it was Obama. Possibly gig-goers were wary of Madonna's political statements, following her previous on-stage backing of Obama in September, when she ironically but confusingly referred to him as a "black Muslim". Or perhaps the boos weren't just for the politics, but for the four minutes of senseless rambling when she could have been doing Borderline. 7. KELSEY GRAMMER (Mitt Romney)The Frasier star is a long-term Republican supporter, but seems to be struggling to drum up much enthusiasm this time round. "Romney... I mean he'll probably do a pretty good job," the actor said when Romney was on the verge of selection as the GOP candidate. Mocked by chat show host Jimmy Kimmel for his lack of enthusiasm, Grammer said: "I felt the same way about Obama four years ago. I felt well, yeah, whoever." Grammer did say, however, that he loves being one of the few conservatives in Hollywood. "I've never been a big government guy. That's just the way I am. I've always been a rebel in my own life. Tell me to think a certain way, I'm bound to go in the other direction. For me, there's only one choice in Hollywood: be a Republican." 8. HARVEY WEINSTEIN (Barack Obama)The heavyweight film producer, who famously inspired Peter Capaldi's portrayal of top TV ballbreaker Malcolm Tucker, has stirred up all sorts of anger by co-producing a TV movie about the mission to capture and kill Osama Bin Laden. The National Geographic channel will air Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden to its 85 million households this Sunday, two days before Americans go to the polls. Republicans claimed Weinstein had recut the movie, which mixes interviews, archive and reconstructions, to give Obama a much bigger role. This has been denied but one thing's for sure: all the attention will have reminded a few swing-state voters that Obama and Osama are not in fact the same person. 9. KID ROCK (Mitt Romney)Romney totally rocks! He's got Meat, and he's got Kid. Rockin'. "I am very proud to say that we elected our first black president. I'm sorry he didn't do a better job," Kid Rock told a Romney rally in Michigan. "I really wish he would have, I do. But, the facts are the facts, and we just saw them come to light in the last debate. With no outside BS, no biased media involved, no interruptions, and negative political ads every five seconds, and most importantly no damn teleprompters. Yeah, I enjoyed it so much I think I might throw a kegger for the Ryan-Biden debate." 10. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (Barack Obama)But wait! Obama hit back this weekend by rolling out The Boss at a Democrat activists' rally. "Idealism takes a pretty hard kick ... during the election cycle," Broooooooooce told supporters in Oakland. "But it's at the seed of why we are here today... You have to believe the world is open to change, open to petition, open to argument." Attendees arrived at the gig to find an envelope on their seats containing the phone numbers of eight local people who might benefit from a rallying call. The activists were encouraged to ring up there and then, turning the gig into a gigantic call centre. 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Southern Seasonal Beekeeping Insights
By Dennis Brown, Lone Star Farms, www.lonestarfarms.net
Author of Beekeeping: A Personal Journey and Beekeeping: Questions and Answers
Here in Texas and many other parts of the South, beekeepers depend on the tallow tree for their main honey flow this time of year. Unfortunately, the state of Texas lists the tallow tree as an invasive species and does its best to remove it when possible. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, during my commercial beekeeping days, the tallow tree was very abundant south of Houston all the way down to the gulf coast. Today, you might find 10% of the tallow trees left in those areas. The tree has been removed for agricultural needs, residential building and of course from the state's crack down on the tallow species.
For those of us who have depended on the tallow tree for needed surplus honey, we are currently moving our bees into the tallow areas. The flow in our area usually starts around the 20th of May and will last around three weeks if the weather conditions have been good.
We will spend most of June pulling the honey surplus off the hives and getting it extracted. For the small operator, this tallow flow is what they depend on for their beekeeping income for the year. If they don't make a good tallow surplus, they will have to wait until the next year and try again. The larger operator will truck their bees out of Texas after the tallow flow to other parts of the country. They usually chase the different honey flows around the country to maximize their income.
With good beekeeping skills, good weather and a good nectar source, beekeeping can be fun and profitable. Enjoy your bees.


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I will reach for my firearm only if I'm ready to kill someone.
If I touch my firearm, someone is going to die.
This is a discussion on Noticing a new trend within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by chiefjason Does it matter? Of course it matters, it's what sets the whole encounter in motion. The one thing we can never ...
because you never know the next time might be the exception. I think I have the sense and intelligence to know when something doesn't feel right.
Again SA is key.
Someone who comes running up to you and says, "I'm gonna kill you, man!" and get's shot can't suddenly claim it was a big joke and he didn't intend to do any harm. His actions and what he says is going to have an impact on what happens. If he truly did not intend to hurt anyone then he shouldn't have been making those kinds of threats.
Now, if you know the person and he says, "Hey, man, I'm gonna kill you," and you know it's a joke then, yeah, you are the idiot but those things are important.
As the saying goes, it takes two to tango. If someone doesn't want to be perceived as a threat they shouldn't be acting in a threatening manner. I think there is a shared responsibility between the individual in question and the CCer.
Certainly the CCer has a much graver responsibility but it doesn't mean there isn't some placed at the feet on someone acting like a fool.
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Situation: I am wearing a hoodie at night walking down a street in a not so good neighborhood. I am looking down with headphones on. GG sees me approaching looking like I am on drugs from bobbing my head with the music, my hands are in my pocket. I do not hear is command to stop because of the music. Now, whose responsibility is it to not cause a misunderstanding? If the GG got nervous enough to display a firearm, even if it was just touching the butt of the weapon then I would have to think I am in trouble and jump the guy. Otherwise if the GG did nothing or caused seperation becasue they felt a threat then nothing would happen. That is what I meant.
In Bold: It is not against the law to act like a fool. Your example is a bit different. There is a threat becasue it was voiced, not percieved. I am talking about percieved threats and what actions folks do.
but I'm not going to tell someone they were wrong for brandishing a weapon when they reasonably felt they were being threatened even though no weapon was present.
My point exactly. There is a large gap between a girl scout selling cookies and a thug approaching you. The girl scout gets a break, the thug, not so much.
I'm talking about scenarios where there is or has been questionable actions that could be reasonably conceived as threatening and that is why the GG is even considering drawing their firearm, not just drawing their gun because....
If someone is not acting threatening at all then there should be no reason for him to fear being unjustly drawn on. On the other hand, people should not be drawing their firearms on someone who is not showing any signs whatsoever of being a threat and I, personally, have not seen any posts indicating such.
Now, could there be a guy who just willy-nilly walks up to you, hands in pocket, buds in ears and IS a threat? Certainly. He could be using the buds in his ears as a decoy to make you question whether or not he is hearing your commands. In truth he could have zero music playing and he's very alert to what is going on. But, in that case you would have no choice but to wait until a threat presented itself before you were justified because, as you said, a man walking down the street in a hoodie does not a criminal make.
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Lima I agree with your points however I feel murphy's law will kick in at some point and everyone has their own ideas about what bothers them.
When I am home I ride Harleys. Up until last month I did not own a car just my Harley's so I ride no matter what the weather and so on. I have a shaved head, bushy mustache, tattoos and on occasion I wear shirts like James Yeager but anyways the point is I look like what I am, a biker. Since I ride all the time I sometimes wear a hoodie under my leather jacket. When I get off the bike I may have my beanie pulled down and hoodie up. This bothers people for whatever reason.
I have no ill will towards anyone, leave me and mine alone and I will leave you alone, I do not have a racist bone in my body but due to appearences I am tagged as some redneck, skinhead, racist. Some people are intimidated by this I have had them crossover to the other side of the sidewalk or wait for me to walk by them before proceeding.
If someone felt threatened by my appearance and made a furtive movement to draw or display a weapon what Suntzu described could probably happen.
Now hopefully they would be smart enough or rational enough to give some kind of "warning" so to speak but as others have stated I don't have to listen to anything they say I can walk where I want when I want in a public parking lot however I am also smart enough that should I see one of these nervous nellies ready to draw their master blaster 500 yes I would comply and go around. It would be up to me to avert the potential problem as they have already made their mind up.
My point being is this. What bothers some or puts their spidey senses on super high alert may not bother me at all. In fact when I am home I have to change my SA to a different type of awareness to deal with the hometown enviroment. I have been over here so long with the gunfire, rocket attacks, car bombs and rounds being fired in my direction does not bother me anymore. I have to actively seek out and look hard for what could be a threat to me in my home enviroment and have to lower my guard so to speak to identify and be ready for potential problems.
MadMac you are absolutely correct we are already behind the power curve that is why we have to be better trained and prepared than the other guy. Even if he is ahead of you in the curve that is no reason to consider yourself dead already. You are not dead until the good lord says you are. Yes you may get cut or shot but fight back anyway, shoot to slidelock and then either reload or beat him to the ground with your empty gun but don't count yourself out.
Sutzu I guess I have come to the conclusion that you are not all bad in an ex army, yankee kinda way. (sarcasm)
Lima, a pregnant woman, with a 2 y/o, car trouble in the heat........I am one of those good people who would help you, but would keep a wary eye on you. That is a scary combination.
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By the time it takes you to do all that......they would have been on you.....as soon as you percieve the threat....the gun goes into the hand.....no BG is going to report you to LE for Brandishing.....and they have already displayed a threatening posture.....by the little we're being told......10:45PM Dark Out and alone.....you bet I'm ordering them to halt.
No threat.....answer question.......holster your weapon and be on you way.That is just two on one thread. There are plenty others. Anyway, all I am saying is it seems to me I have been seeing a lot more of them that is all.anyone approaches within 5 feet of my space gets a view of my gun. to hell with brandishing. Its code yellow immediately.
I live close to the getto.
Brandishing is not ok. There are likely laws against brandishing in darn near every city in the US. If you draw be prepared to fire. I am not saying you MUST fire if you draw, but to brandish implies that you are drawing with no intent of firing. Do not draw with the intent of scaring the assumed assailant into backing down. Take it seriously. IF you are going to carry, don't half-ass it.
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And, as you said, you're smart enough to know that if someone is overly nervous and starts commanding you to get away you are going to back down to as not start anything. I would do the same thing and, I suspect, most GGs would as well. GGs don't start fights. Even if they know they look a little scary, the accept that fact and get used to the nervous nillies who think they are big and bad and don't let it bother them.
Now, if you didn't back down and got in someone's face and started saying, "What's your problem!?!" and getting all confrontational then, in my lay opinion, you would share some responsibility in whether or not the situation progressed to violence.
It's hard to convey, through written word, on the internet, the level of nonverbal communication going on and what some might consider a threat.
But I think you hit the nail on the head when you said that as a GG you are not going to escalate matters if someone perceives you as a bad guy. And, I should hope that a GG isn't going to go drawing a gun on someone who hasn't showed ANY signs of being a threat. Those things combined should = no problem for anyone.
PS.. I'd happily accept your help!!
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I would help you out also Limatunes
I guess I'm looking at the bolded text there... I'm assuming that the poster has (as they said) perceived a threat.. that's different than just drawing on someone for nothing.By the time it takes you to do all that......they would have been on you.....as soon as you percieve the threat....the gun goes into the hand.....no BG is going to report you to LE for Brandishing.....and they have already displayed a threatening posture.....by the little we're being told......10:45PM Dark Out and alone.....you bet I'm ordering them to halt.
No threat.....answer question.......holster your weapon and be on you way.
And as to the second one, well, good luck to them...lol.
I certainly don't get to all of the threads but I don't see a lot of people advocating brandishing just because. Certainly doesn't mean it doesn't happen, for sure, but I don't see a lot of it.
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"Sentiment That Matters," with Augie Ray
"Social media departments still hang on every little detractor event and still focus on posting photos of puppy dogs to get likes. Most do not understand these efforts have little to no impact on the brand." So said Augie Ray, director of Social Media Strategy at a Fortune 100 financial services firm and a speaker at Wednesday's Sentiment Analysis Symposium held in New York.
Ray's talk was titled "Customer Affinity Meets Brand Vectors: Sentiment That Matters." After the Symposium, we caught up to get his own sentiment on a few questions:
SMT: You mentioned Taco Bell and Progressive as brands that didn't receive as much benefit from positive sentiment around their campaigns, though they were well-received. Do you know of any brands that played similar strategies to success? If so, what might have been an important difference? And are there certain brands (or categories) that do benefit from being "stuck in mind"?
AR: That's a very valid question, and it is tough to give an easy answer. The problem is that brands rarely brag openly about success--they want to keep the lid on successes and repeat them rather than broadcast case studies so that everyone else can repeat the recipe. One example that comes to mind is the well-known Blendtec videos--no one knew who they were, so the company produced funny and edgy videos everyone wanted to see and succeeded in building great awareness. Another one that comes to mind is the "Let Her Jump" campaign by Secret deodorant, which increased purchase intent and consideration.
There's nothing wrong, of course, with a brand wanting to be "stuck in mind," but it is important to remember that awareness is only the first step in the consumer brand journey. Consumers do not jump from awareness to purchase (at least not in any category with reasonable consideration), and my concern is that many brands don't do more to move consumers up the value chain (which is the essence of my brand vector argument in my presentation at the Sentiment Symposium).
SMT: How much do social media departments understand that positive or negative sentiment may not matter as much as one would think? Did data ever suggest that it might, or was it never quite analyzed enough?
AR: To be clear, I think sentiment matters a lot--but most brands are worrying about spikes in negative sentiment when they ought to worry about the everyday grind of negative brand experiences that drag down brand perception, consideration and loyalty. Conversely, many marketers do facile social media marketing to create spikes in positive sentiment, but these are much less powerful for increasing brand consideration than simply improving the product experience and allowing trusted consumer WOM to carry the brand message.
To specifically answer your question, social media departments tend to hang on every little detractor event and still focus too much on posting photos designed to get likes rather than to make a brand impression. Most seem not to not understand these efforts have little to no impact on the brand. In part, this is because they are focused on bad metrics that are not tied to business results (such as the number of likes and retweets) and in part because social media departments do not have the power to change what matters most--customer service, product quality, packaging, etc. Right now, many social media professionals are working around the edges rather than at the core where change is needed, but you do see some exceptions--USAA, American Express and Home Depot come to mind. These are companies that have dedicated themselves to the customer, and social is considered an essential component rather than something to be bolted-on to business as usual.
SMT: Before social media, were brands harmed when they did something so bad as to attract news coverage? Is it possible that the mere act of getting to vent grievances online and in a public forum is enough, and customers can feel satisfied that they're heard? (Especially if they weren't personally harmed by a brand.)
AR: The difficulty in answering this question is that one has to separate what is merely newsworthy from those events that truly have a detrimental business impact. For example, the speaker who preceded me spoke of the impact of the BP oil spill, but that wasn't a social media or PR crisis--it was a REAL crisis that effected lives and the environment, and it had a very serious impact on costs and revenue. The fact BP's stock suffered was not due to social media but because the situation cost them billions of dollars and thousands of customers. Contrast that to the social media eruption over the Applebee's server being fired, and it is easy to see that the Applebee' issue was a tempest in a teapot with little serious business impact.
I do agree with you that people love to vent and be heard, and the way the company responds matters. At the Sentiment Symposium, I had to shorten my deck and I missed one of the points I hoped to make. Brands must be prepared to deal with social PR events, but do so as a normal matter of their jobs rather than treating them as CRISES! I sometimes use an analogy to make this point: Broken bones are serious medical situations that demand attention, but when you go to the hospital, the doctors don't consider it a crisis, call a code and take out the crash cart. They treat it--calmly and professionally. That's the attitude we in the social business have to adopt--not that these social PR events are DISASTERS that bring brands to their knees but that they are situations that must be detected, handled and resolved in a composed and skilled manner.
SMT: Were there other speakers at the symposium you found to be at odds with what you were saying?
AR: I worried that my message might stand out from other speakers, but I didn't hear much that alarmed me or that disagreed with my presentation. Others reinforced the need to know what is on the mind of the customer and, if negative, deal with it. The important thing is that brands have to listen and act every day and at scale rather than waiting for the rare "PR events" to spring into action.
With the growth in usage and power of social media, brands not only need to execute marketing programs in social channels but also recognize the power of brand experiences, offline and online. Consumers have more of a voice today, and that means the actual brand experiences matter more. Rather than tweeting pictures of puppies or waiting for the next crisis, brands must listen to what is important to consumers (which is the sentiment that matters) and fashion products and services that resolve real challenges and exploit real opportunities.
I did not intend to convey a message that sentiment is unimportant, but I want to urge brands to focus even more attention on the sentiment that matters and not on what is facile and easy to measure. Ten thousand "likes" for a puppy picture is not worth a dozen customers getting their real problems resolved because brands listened and acted.
For more by Ray on the topic, check out his post, Social Media Crises Aren't Crises
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