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Anatomic Abstracts
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Adrenal cortical neoplasms in the pediatric population: an analysis of 83 patients
Adrenal cortical neoplasms in pediatric patients younger than 20 years of age are rare. The clinical manifestations and biologic behavior of these lesions can be distinct from their histologically similar counterparts in the adult population, making pathologic criteria for distinguishing benign from malignant tumors equivocal. The authors studied 83 adrenal cortical neoplasms to determine if adult clinical and histologic features can be applied to pediatric patients in an outcome-based analysis. Most of the patients (50 girls and 33 boys) presented with hormone-related symptoms that were present for a mean of 6.8 months. The tumors ranged in size from 2 to 20 cm (mean, 8.8 cm). Among the histologic parameters examined were capsular or vascular invasion, or both, extraadrenal soft tissue extension, growth pattern, cellularity, necrosis, cytoplasmic eosinophilia, nuclear pleomorphism, nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio, prominent nucleoli, mitotic figures, atypical mitotic figures, bands of fibrosis, and calcifications. Immunophenotypically, there was reactivity with inhibin, vimentin, and CK5, and focally with p53 and Ki-67. All patients underwent adrenalectomy, and 20 patients received adjuvant therapy. All patients with tumors classified as adenomas (n=9) were alive without evidence of disease (mean, 14.7 years), whereas 21 patients with carcinomas died with disease (2.4 years). Only 31 percent of histologically malignant tumors behaved in a clinically malignant manner. Features associated with an increased probability of malignant clinical behavior included tumor weight greater than 400 g, tumor size greater than 10.5 cm, vena cava invasion, capsular or vascular invasion, or both, extension into periadrenal soft tissue, confluent necrosis, severe nuclear atypia, more than 15 mitotic figures/20 high power fields, and presence of atypical mitotic figures. Vena cava invasion, necrosis, and increased mitotic activity (more than 15 mitotic figures/20 high power fields) independently suggested malignant clinical behavior in multivariate analysis.
Wieneke JA, Thompson LDR, Heffess CS. Adrenal Cortical Neoplasms in the Pediatric Population: a Clinicopathologic and Immunophenotypic Analysis of 83 Patients.Am J Surg Pathol. 2003;27(7):876-881.
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Colon cancer survival relative to the number of lymph nodes analyzed
The authors conducted a study to determine the relationship between survival and the number of lymph nodes analyzed from surgical specimens in patients with adenocarcinoma of the colon. Intergroup Trial INT-0089, a mature trial of adjuvant chemotherapy for high-risk patients with stages II and III colon cancer, was used. The investigators performed a secondary analysis of this group with overall survival as the main end point. Cause-specific survival and disease-free survival were secondary end points. Rates for these outcome measures were estimated using Kaplan-Meier methodology. A log-rank test was used to compare overall curves, and Cox proportional hazards regression was used for multivariate assessment of predictors of outcome. The median number of lymph nodes removed at colectomy was 11 (range, one to 87). Of 3,411 assessable patients, 648 had no evidence of lymph node metastasis. Multivariate analyses were performed on the node-positive and node-negative groups separately to ascertain the effect of lymph node removal. Survival decreased with increasing lymph node involvement (P=.0001 for all three survival end points). After controlling for the number of nodes involved, survival increased as more nodes were analyzed (P=.0001 for all three end points). Even when no nodes were involved, overall survival and cause-specific survival improved as more lymph nodes were analyzed (P=.0005 and P=.007, respectively). The authors concluded that the number of lymph nodes analyzed for staging colon cancers is, itself, a prognostic variable for outcome. The impact of this variable is such that it may be important enough to include in evaluating future trials.
Le Voyer TE, Sigurdson ER, Hanlon AL, et al. Colon Cancer Survival is Associated with Increasing Number of Lymph Nodes Analyzed: a Secondary Survey of Intergroup Trial INT-0089. J Clin Oncol. 2003;21(15): 2912-2919.
Reprints: Dr. Elin R. Sigurdson, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 7701 Burholme Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111
Avoiding misinterpretation of E
ECICas a primary cervical lesion
Misinterpretation of endometrial endometrioid carcinoma involving the cervix (EECIC) as a primary cervical lesion may lead to understaging of the endometrial tumor and improper therapy. In this study, the authors described 15 such cases from consultation material in which the nature of the cervical process was not clear or misinterpreted by the referring pathologist. Among the lesions that may be confused with EECIC are mesonephric remnant hyperplasia, tubal/tuboendometrioid metaplasia, endosalpingiosis, minimal deviation cervical endometrioid carcinoma, and cervical adenocarcinoma with cystic dilatation of glands. These lesions can have features that may overlap with those found at least focally in EECIC. In 12 of 15 cases, direct extension from contiguous carcinoma was confirmed. Immunohistochemistry for vimentin, carcinoembryonic antigen, and estrogen receptor had similar results in the cervical and endometrial tumors in cases in which this was done. These findings, along with morphologic similarity between the two tumors, helped in interpreting the cervical process as EECIC. The authors suggested that awareness of this phenomenon and rigorous sampling of the corpus and cervix can help in resolving this issue in most cases on careful analysis of routinely stained slides.
Tambouret R, Clement PB, Young RH. Endometrial Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma with a Deceptive Pattern of Spread to the Uterine Cervix: a Manifestation of Stage IIb Endometrial Carcinoma Liable to be Misinterpreted as an Independent Carcinoma or a Benign Lesion. Am J Surg Pathol. 2003; 27: 1080-1088.
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CLEVELAND, OHIO—The Rider University wrestling team will compete in its first Eastern Wrestling League Championship Tournament Saturday, hosted by Cleveland State.
"We are looking forward to competing in our inaugural EWL Championship tournament," said associate head coach John Hangey. "The tournament is an excellent tournament that will certainly prepare our wrestlers for the NCAA Championships in Oklahoma City."
Defending champion Edinboro is the favorite, while Bloomsburg and Rider are expected to give the Scots a run for the title in the seven-team tournament which will send 22 wrestlers to Nationals.
Leading the Broncs (14-8, 4-2 EWL) will be sophomore Robert Deutsch (Cherry Hill, NJ/Eastern Regional), senior Ramon Santiago (Sayreville, N.J./Sayreville), sophomore Conor Brennan (Brick, NJ/Brick Twp.), junior Clint Morrison (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cedar Cliff) and junior Chuck Zeisloft (Woodbury Heights, N.J./Gateway).
"We feel that we should have several seeded wrestlers, led by Deutsch, Zeisloft, Santiago, Brennan and Morrison," Hangey said. "This is what the season boils down to so we need all the guys to show up and wrestle the best they have all year. This is what they have trained for all year and we expect them to perform at a high level."
Deutsch (27-4, 21-1 duals) is 6-0 in EWL dual meets and is ranked first in the EWL and 14th in the nation among 125 pounders. Deutsch qualified for Nationals last year as the Colonial Athletic Association runner-up.
Santiago (17-12, 13-9 duals) is 5-1 in the EWL and is ranked second in the conference at 165 pounds. Santiago was a National qualifier last season as the CAA Champion.
Brennan (23-7, 18-3 duals) is 6-0 in the EWL and ranked first at 174 pounds. Brennan began the season as a 157 pounder but was forced into the lineup at 174 due to injuries.
Morrison (16-3, 15-3 duals) is 3-1 in EWL competition, missing much of the season with injuries and is ranked third in the conference at 184. Since returning from his injury, however, Morrison is 13-1 with five major decisions and two tech falls, and cracked the top 20 in national rankings.
Zeisloft (20-13, 12-10 duals) is 3-3 in the EWL and ranked second in the conference at 133 pounds. Zeisloft led the 2011-12 Rider squad with 23 wins and red-shirted last season with an ankle injury.
Other teams in the EWL include Lock Haven, Clarion, George Mason and tournament host Cleveland State.
The EWL will send 22 wrestlers to the NCAA Division I Championships in Oklahoma City, OK March 20-22. Rider sent four wrestlers to Nationals last year, two in 2012, three in 2011 and six in 2010. Rider sent four wrestlers to Nationals in 2009 and came home with its 13th All-American.


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A circuit breaker uses an electromagnet.
Explain why the current is cut off by a circuit breaker if it is larger than a certain value.
Actually, most household circuit breakers do NOT use magnets. Take one apart and investigate, they use a bimetallic strip which heats when excess current flows, bends, and trips a spring loaded latch holding the actuator arm On, moving it to the off position. It is amazing what one discovers when one looks.
There are some different types of large circuit breakers which do use electromagnets, or a combination of electromagnets and bimetalic strips. A small minority of these release the switch latch by excess current going through the electromagnetic coil. In nearly all cases the actuator lever is spring or hydraulic loaded to close.
Most circuit breakers do not use just an electromagnet, because current surges can trip those easily, and one doesn't want that very often.
The design challenge in circuit breakers is not the design of the tripping of the latch mechanism, any high school student could do that. The issue really difficult is that as the contacts are opened, and gap exists, wherein an arc developes. Arcs ionize air (Nitrogen,mainly), which then the ionized air makes a very easy path for electricity to travel (as in a lighting bolt). So even with the contacts open, electricty still flows easily across an "air" gap, when it shouldn't. So the design challence is to snuff out the arc as the contacts are opened. Usually this is done with a magnetic field which you know electricity flowing in a magnetic field has a force on it. So if designed correctly, the arc develops, and then that current flows through an electromagnetic coil, which creates a strong magnetic field perpendicular to the arc, and the arc is "blown" away from the contacts, and extinguished. Neat engineering goes into this, as it cannot ever fail, or the switch will never stop electric flow, even with the switch in the "off" position.
So all the engineering and thought is focused on the arc suppression, rather than the latch release mechanism.
Take apart a few circuit breakers, any electric shop has some old ones laying around they will give you.
Thanks for asking.
I don't particularly like circuit breakers tripping. It usually means I have a lot of work to do and money out the flare stack. Of course if it doesn't work then the fire department has work to do, and I have a lot of work to do.


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Roberto Cavalli offers his thoughts on his collection the way American editors in Milan want to be served Italian food at the end of a long day: generously and without interruption. "Is a movie. Is a dream. Every collection should make you dream. I don't know if you dream in black and white. I don't know if you dream in color. For me it depends on the day. I'm dreaming in color now because it's a very good time for me." Clearly. Before his show the designer was at the head of the runway, under several spotlights, mobbed by TV crews, journalists, and the occasional fan asking him to sign his memoir Just Me, which was released last week. It's probably pretty good being Roberto Cavalli. And at times, his life probably feels like a movie and a dream. So why not share some of that?
This season the designer did so in a collection filled with high-wattage glamour. He channeled old Hollywood in a way that was, if you can envision it, boho-rock-chick time travels back to the 1940s for a screen test. Picture a cast of a thousand models in intricately beaded chiffon dresses—from mini to floor-length, long-sleeve to spaghetti strap—with fur stoles dripping off their shoulders and long tassel necklaces. Then imagine chain belts slung low and python pattern beading. It's what happens when Cavalli meets Gatsby. And it was really quite nice, especially in the soft and romantic shades of seafoam and blush.
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In this summer-long series, National Post reporters and photographers take us to places with a claim to fame, obscure or otherwise. Read the complete Best of Summer series here.
My husband and I had been married a little less than two months when I broached the subject of a solo trip I had been planning.
"Did I tell you I'm camping in a campground in the city for a few nights?" I mentioned casually one night. "It's the only campground in Toronto."
I hadn't expected it to surprise him. After all, we had met while hiking for six months in the mountains of the western United States. But that was the true wilderness, where a GPS, a sleeping bag and a raincoat were sufficient protection against the elements. This camping trip, in a park on the edge of Canada's largest city, presented entirely different threats.
"I just think a woman camping alone near a big city sounds bad," he said. "How about you buying some pepper spray?"
"No," I answered.
"Then let's stop talking about this."
I was headed for Glen Rouge campground, part of the massive Rouge Park on the outskirts of Toronto. This wasn't a vacation. My plan was to spend five nights camping there during the week and take the nearby city bus to work.
In a country whose national identity seems inexorably tied to the outdoors, nature has nevertheless become something very much removed from our daily, largely urban, lives. For many urban sophisticates such as myself, connecting with the outdoors usually involves a multi-hour drive out of the city on a long weekend stuck in cottage-bound gridlock to get to some remote provincial park.
But what about the wilderness within our city limits? Toronto has 326 parks totalling 20,000 acres, three million trees and an entire city division dedicated to "urban forestry."
What could spending several nights in a designated "urban wilderness park" reveal about the connection between our bustling city environment and its rapidly disappearing green spaces?
Rouge Park is a barely tamed wilderness of cedar forests and rehabilitated wetlands on Toronto's eastern edge that spills into the neighbouring suburbs of Pickering and Markham. At more than 11,000 acres, it is the second-largest urban park in North America, smaller only than Phoenix's 16,000-acre South Mountain Park.
The park is home to deer, river otter, coyote, peregrine falcon and at least one bear (its sighting verified). It's here, amid steel-and-concrete urban sprawl that the most northerly of the Carolinian Forests taper out into Rouge Marsh, one of the largest marshes remaining on the northern end of Lake Ontario. The muddy waters of the Rouge River are canoeable to Lake Ontario, and from there, if one is brave enough, all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
But despite its vast network of forest trails, rivers, wetlands and beaches, Rouge Park has been virtually ignored by most of the seven million people who live within an hour's drive of it. In fact, speeding past the park's entrance on busy Kingston Road, it's hard to even fathom there is all that wild space hidden behind the surrounding fortress of subdivisions, shopping malls and the 16-lane Highway 401.
Park enthusiasts expect that to change with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's announcement in his June Throne Speech that Rouge Park is set to become Canada's first national park within an urban area, a boon to Parks Canada's outreach into the Greater Toronto Area.
"It's a massive park that very few people know about," said Glenn De Baeremaeker, a Toronto city councillor and member of the Rouge Park Alliance. "There was even discussions amongst the people who loved the area of do we really want to let people know about this because it's so precious. Maybe too many people will trample it and ruin it and turn it into an amusement park. But we said if we don't, it will be turned into a subdivision and there will be nothing left."
For $750 a month, you can park an RV in Glen Rouge campground from May until October. A tent costs $440. That has inspired a small group of regulars who treat the park as their summer home and live a life apart from the campground's more routine visitors: City-dwelling families out for a weekend getaway, tourists from Germany and Spain who have rented motorhomes for a tour of Canada and couples from Quebec on their first visit to Toronto.
"It's different down here. It's just a totally different way of life," says Mark Binger, who has a home in nearby Ajax, but has spent the past 10 years living in the park during the summer and commuting to his job at the Pickering nuclear plant. "A lot of people come here from the city of Toronto and they don't know their neighbours. Nobody talks to each other. But when you come down here, everybody changes. Everybody talks to everybody. Everybody is friendly. The mood changes. I wish this whole city was a park because then everybody would get along."
He notes that people leave their RV doors unlocked without break-ins, that half-million-dollar campers are parked next to grungy tents without much concern over the apparent income disparity and that the campground's teens seem to spend more time hiking than texting on their phones.
Last year, Dan and Barb Garrow sold their house in Bowmanville, Ont., an hour east of Toronto, after he retired from General Motors and she from Red Lobster. They bought a house in Aruba for the winter and this year have spent the summer in Glen Rouge to be near their children.
"You're actually sitting in our living room," says Barb as she invites me onto the outdoor patio furniture set up beneath the awning of their RV, flanked by a welcome mat in the grass. She gestures at the night sky, where the moon is out and a few stars not eclipsed by the ambient city lights have started appearing. A dozen campfires are glowing around us. "And this is your television."
It rains that night, and the sound of it drowns out the distant roar of the nearby highway and sends a sharp breeze blowing through the tent. In the morning I wake with the sun, shower in the campground, grab a coffee at Tim Hortons up the street and merge with the masses of public transit commuters.
How Rouge Park, some of the Toronto region's most prime real estate, was spared the bulldozer, owes much to both natural disaster and politics.
In 1954, Hurricane Hazel flooded the city's network of rivers, damaging and destroying 2,100 homes and killing 81 people. In its aftermath, the city expropriated much of the land along its river network to create a protected floodplain. Most of the buffer between the rivers and the subdivisions became parkland, including the Rouge valley.
In the late 1980s, the city of Scarborough, part of present-day Toronto, announced it was re-zoning 5,000 acres of rural land in the Rouge valley for development. To stop it, controller Joyce Trimmer told a group of environmentalists they would need to assemble more than the usual few dozen supporters.
"She said you're going to have to pack the [council] chamber if you want to save this land," Mr. De Baeremaeker recalls. "We did fill it with 250 people for the first planning committee meeting. We had 500 for another one. By the third meeting, I think there was 1,000 people."
Council voted 14-1 to keep the area as wilderness. Ontario designated the area a provincial park in 1994 and has gradually expanded it with another 5,000 acres of Crown land.
Some park advocates are now pushing for yet another 5,000 acres of neighbouring federally owned agricultural land to become part of the proposed national park. The move faces resistance from farmers who now lease the land, some of Toronto's last farmland, from the government. But Mr. De Baeremaeker argues the opposition is really just land speculators in disguise.
"There are people out there today who want to dismantle and destroy this park and they'll do anything they can to rip it to pieces," he says. "We've won many, many victories and suffered many painful defeats, but we're still fighting for this park and believe me the fight is not over."
So what would be lost if this park had been swallowed up by the city that surrounds it? On my last day at camp, I stumble on two sweat lodges built at the edge of the campground on the river banks. A group from Native Child and Family Services is readying for its final sweat of the season, heating stones on fire and placing them inside the wooden lodge. They tell me it's a way for the city's aboriginal children to reconnect with their traditions and understand something more of their culture beyond the stereotypes of the homeless native population on the streets of downtown Toronto.
The group has also constructed a large canvas teepee on the edge of the park that the campground's dozen or so children have been using for their "activity nights."
Tonight's activity, to which I have been invited, is a pet show that consists of forcing hamsters through plastic tubes and over a wooden plank balanced on a pile of rocks.
I duck out just as the children announce the start of Act Three. It has been raining again, but the rain has let up and the wood is dry enough to attempt a fire. I cook s'mores for dinner and watch the stars flicker into view beyond the waning summer moon.
That I have experienced all this not on a long weekend, in some remote wilderness in Northern Ontario, but in a campground accessible by city bus after a day spent at the office seems slightly magical.
Rouge Park is perhaps the only place within city limits where you can light a bonfire on public property and not get arrested. It is certainly the only public place where you can legally pitch a tent between a river and a park bench, not just for a night, but for an entire summer.
"You still get the stars here," says Dan Garrow as he offers me some of his firewood. "Even though I know you're in Toronto and I know it's hard to see, you still get the stars."
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Tile over Sheetrock
Hey guys, this is my first post here on this great forum. i did some searching on here but nothing answered my ?'s.
we have a gas fireplace that is a main focal point in our living room. it is surrounded by sheetrock that continues up 12' to a cathederal ceiling. we want to either use stone veneer or tile to cover the sheetrock surrounding the fireplace.
I have some ?'s, hopefully you guys can help:
1. would be ok to use some type of construction adhesive to install the veneer or the tile or neither?
2. if it ok, is there a particular adhesive i should use (ex. Gorilla Glue)?
3. if it is NOT ok, what would be the correct way to install the tile or veneer?
the reason i ask these ?'s is, i saw on a home theater website, a guy used construction adhesive to install the stone veneer (from this company)
here is what it looks like
it looks great and sounds easy to install this way, with it being inside and away from moisture, is it ok ot do this?
thanks for your help!
shouldn't be a problem. the only time you need to use the correct adhesive like thinset / backerboard is when moisture is involved.
construction glue will more than do the trick.
me, personally, i would still use thinset on the wall...seems it would be easier and quicker to put up the tile/stones.
thanks for the quick reply. is there a decent website or inof on here to using "thinset". i am pretty new to home improvements, but i can follow directions. thanks again.
Read up on using thinset and other tiling tips:
Thanks for the link Atlantic that Kerdi system is just what I have been asking around for but know one around here seams to know what I am talking about
If you need installation support, or have questions about Schluter products, their customer support is awesome.
Follow Atlantic's link to JohnBridge forum...the stuff you can learn from others is incredible, and it seems to be a pretty friendly group of people.
Liquid Nails is a construction adhesive. I believe most of those are polyurethane sealants, and they behave very differently from a hard glue designed for porous surfaces.
I would not put stone veneer on the sheetrock. It's an inappropriate substrate not strong enough to support the stone. You would need plywood with a diamond lath or cementboard.
thanks for all the help. i did some reading on those reccommended sites. it looks like we'll be using wall tile, some 1/4" backer board and some variation of thinset. now i just have to figure out which one we want. thanks again guys!
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I just substituted a 5V4G for the original 5U4G that was orinally designed for a Sun Audio amp. At the first initial turn on, there was momentary flashing. But it only happened ONCE when I used the 5V4G for the first time. It did not exhibit any flashing since then... What could've caused the flash? I also replaced a JAN Philips 6X4 with a Mullard in a preamp. The Mullard has strong initial flashing like a flashlight bulb, but unlike the 5V4G, it always does flash at every turn on....
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I a bit confused here... as you can tell. When you said that the 5V4 rectifier "flashed" once---but, never again, you meant that the 5V4 is still working, right? Or did it flash and die?
The 5V4 and the 5U4 have pretty close to the same PIV = 1500 volts. The big difference is the MAX current output per plate 275mA DC for the 5U4 and 175mA DC for the 5V4. Peak current per plate = 525 mA (5V4-GA) and 1000mA (5U4-GB).
Now, I know this sounds silly, but I've seen 5Y3GT in 5AR4 OEM circuits. And the amp sometimes runs into problems when it is really pushed and the power tubes demand so much current, that the current draw actually arc-welds the 5Y3GT. The power tranformers on these amps are usually the big over-engineered type.
But, I've yet to see a 5Y3GT (400 mA max peak per plate) fail, when it is replaced into a 5AR4 socket (750 mA) and the amp is simply turned on, under no load.
I use 5Y3GT in most 5AR4/GZ34 amps which I rebuild, to "form" new capacitors. This is because the 5Y3GT is directly heated and therefore the tubes "see" voltage from the first application of AC voltage from the Variac.
I don't keep the 5Y3GT in these amps, but I've yet to have an arcing problem, using them to form new caps, up to max 120 volts AC---where there is no input (volume at zero), speaker attached, power tubes at idle.
I know a lot of folk wince, but some guitarists will put the 5Y3GT into an amp which normally takes a 5AR4/GZ34 recitifer, to give the amp more "sag." Especially, those amps with undersized power transformers. DEFINITELY, not recommended. But, these amps actually work at volume.
Now, since you said that the Mullard 6X4 "flashes" all the time---I have a feeling you are talking about the initial glowing of the heater filament. Since the 5U4-GB has no separate heater filament, you see no flash. But, when you replaced it with that 5V4-G, you noticed the heater filament initial glow.
Does this sound close? Anyhoo... for peace of mind & to keep the rest of the amp happy, use the recommended rectifier in all of your units.
Hi Steve,
Sorry if I wasn't clear. The 5V4G is still working (although more brightly lit up compared to the stock Sovtek 5U4G), the flash only happened the first time I installed it. I actually saw a tiny bit of spark too (arcing). After that it seems to work fine at every turn on, there were no flashes anymore. I still have a large base Mullard 5AR4 that I tried in an Anthem preamp I sold years ago. I tried it in the amp, it gives a robust fast-full bass, with dark lower mids, but it laso gives a bit of fatigueing edge to the tone compared to the RCA 5V4G. BTW the stock OEM Sino 5U4G for the amp sounds brittle compared to both the Mullard 5AR4/GZ34 and the RCA 5V4G I recently acquired. I guess I really should just stick to the original designated rectifier (5U4G) to be on the safe side. Is the 5AR4/GZ34 an "okay" sub for the Sovtek 5U4G for the meanwhile until I get a good better 5U4G/GZ32? I forgot to mention that the Sun Audio stereo amp has a choke in the PS section.
The JAN Philips ECG is atcually 6X4WA that was replaced by a Mullard 6X4. The Philips never exhibited any flashing when it was the one in constant use, that's why I was wondering why the Mullard 6X4 does this all the time at every turn on. It sounds much open and airy than the Philips though. The only thing I considered is that every tube maker has a different internal structure eventhough they are direct replacements or the same types, so maybe that's why they have their own idiosyncracies (flashes at turn on)... BTW, the stock 6SN7GT drivers are now also replaced by 5692's, I know it also has diff. parameters, but they sound better than the stock Russians they replaced. There's also the Mullard ECC34 I kight try some day, it has slighty lower gain than a typical 6SN7, but reportedly sounds very good.
Derick, as Steve rightly points out, the 5V4 is NO sub for a 5U4G, and in a Sun amp, it pumps way too much current for a 5V4 to handle. The 5V4 is rated MUCH less than a 5U4. When you see arcing on startup, you are causing damage to the amp. Continued use of a 5V4 in this amp will cause power supply cap failure, and when they arc for the last time before blowing out, they may very well take the power tubes with them.
You should never do this kind of thing, subbing a wrong tube in is almost always a disaster waiting to happen.
In the Sun amps, you can sub a 5AR4 (only a NOS one) for the 5U4G, this will reduce the headroom a little and raise the operating point of the power tubes. It is also ok to sub a 5R4, this will drop the operating point a bit and give a slightly more open sound.
The Mullard 6X4 flash at startup is typical of genuine Mullard tubes and is no issue.
Thanx for advice Robert, I was naive and stupid about the current draw, and ignored it as they both are rated at 5V. I'll just use the Russian 5U4G for the meanwhile instead I guess. The large base Mullard GZ34 seems to lack headroom when I want more volume alright. And thanx for the reassurance that the Mullard 6X4's flashing is normal. I hope the amp is fine though *fingers crossed*.
Yeah, the voltage drop on the GZ34 is much less than a 5U4G, so that'll drop the headroom a bit much.
You can get some very good 5U4's for a reasonable price that will give you a big time better sound, look for Tungsol 5U4GB's - which are knock-out fantastic, also don't discount 1950's/early 60's GE 5U4GB's which are very good too, both can be found for a reasonable price.
Hi Robert,
I've seen GE 5U4GB's which have a straight glass compared to the coke bottle type typical of 5U4G's. Are these the 50's-60's types you recommend? Maybe there are Bendix type 5U4's too....
No, there never was a Bendix 5U4 type made. Bendix tubes can be variable in sound anyways, some are good, others not so.
There are GE 5U4GB's of every vintage imaginable. GB's are always straight glass. Don't get hung up on the fetish of believing the older coke bottle types are always superior, some are great - old Tungsol, Sylvania, for example, some are not so spectacular - the NU, KenRad come to mind. Some GB's are awful - later Sylvanias are one - but late 50's Tungsol, RCA or GE are very good.
There never was a good Euro 5U4 type, except the GEC U52 which is very good, and Mullard GZ series. There are some god-awful Euro types floating around with names like Ultron, etc. which are to be avoided.
I think your amp uses a single rectifier, if so, this is an advantage because singles pop up on Ebay all the time at good prices.
5V4s do not have (to my knowledge at least) any form of "instant- on" filament; this would be redundant as an indirectly heated rectifier solves the cathode stripping issue for output and front-end tubes. While an "instant on" might help the lifespan of the rectifier, the materials used for this special filament type will not bear the temperatures and electrical loads generated in a 2-3 ampere heater-- hence its' use in small signal tubes exclusively. (If power tubes could be made with it, the delayed ramp up of the DC w/ indirect rectifiers would be unecessary.) The flash you saw was an internal arc caused by the excessive voltage and current demands meant for a 5u4; it only did it once because (sorry) you damaged the emission capabilities of the tube. When subbing rectifiers, look in a tube manual for 3 critical ratings: 1. Filament Current-- a GZ34 is 1.9 amps and there are common rectifiers that draw 3+ amps 2. PIV (Peak Inverse Voltage) This figure is double the operational B+/DC of the amp. 3. Maximum capacitative load. The 5V4 and 5R4 are the lowest, at 10 and 20 (I think) respectively. If you wish to add more storage, add a small choke (1-3 henries, 200 ma or so-- Ned at Triode Electronics has them) and connect one choke lead to the small 1st cap (10 uf for a 5V4) and the other choke lead to a 100 uf or so electrolytic bypassed with a 10-20 uf Solen FastCap. If the bypass uf value is any less than 3-5% of the larger caps' uf value the benefits will manifest only in the extreme high frequencies. I have a computer modeling program that shows curves of various chokes and capacitors with and w/o bypasses; for example, a .1uf bypass on a 100 uf 'lytic will have no effect below 15,000 hertz. Chris
Compared to 5U4, the 5V4 is a light-weight tube and should not be used in place of 5U4. One reason is it will only drive 10uF of capacitance on the cathode. More capacitance than this and it will arc, maybe only occasionally but will finally fail. Check the data sheets.
The 5V4G is an indirect heated-cathode rectifier and the 5U4G is a directly heated cathode tube. Maybe the "flash" you see with the 5V4G is the heater element warming up.
When you said that you replaced the Philips 6X4 with a Mullard, you mean a Mullard 6X4/EZ 90? The 6X4 type is indirectly heated. So. once again, you may be seeing the heater filament light up, initially on fire-up.
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Modeling at the Global Scale
By Melanie Lenart | The University of Arizona | September 12, 2008
Advances in the past decade have given researchers more confidence in the coupled atmosphere-ocean Global Climate Models (coupled GCMs) used to make projections of future temperature and precipitation:
- Coupled GCMs have improved with computers and increasing knowledge about climate patterns
- "Ensemble" runs averaging results from multiple models consistently yield better results than individual models
- Other models are improving our understanding of processes beyond temperature and precipitation
On one hand, it's good news that people can trust the newer models more than previous versions. On the other hand, it means there's even more reason to believe projections that the Earth's average temperature will rise by 4 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit if carbon dioxide levels double compared to preindustrial values.
Coupled GCMs have improved
Several factors have combined to enhance today's models compared to those of previous decades.1
For one, an increase in computer capacity allows modern models to run at higher spatial resolutions (Figure 1). Many GCMs run at resolutions as fine as 1 degree latitude by 1 degree longitude. This means grid squares average roughly 4,000 square miles—about eight times the size of metropolitan Phoenix—at the equator, and increasingly smaller toward the poles. Some "spectral" models have similar resolutions, but with grids that minimize size discrepancies between the equator and the poles.
Many coupled GCMs also no longer rely on "flux corrections" to resolve problems. Earlier models required corrections of heat, momentum, and other fluxes to keep climate from drifting over virtual time to unrealistic states. Most of the current batch of models can run on their own without these artificial adjustments.
Figure 1. The best geographic resolution of global climate models used in the IPCC's Assessment Reports have improved over time. The illustrations above are representative of the most detailed horizontal resolution used for short-term climate simulations. The century-long simulations cited in IPCC Assessment Reports were typically run with the previous generation's resolution. Vertical resolution in both atmosphere and ocean models is not shown, but has increased comparably with the horizontal resolution. Models used in the 2007 report include approximately thirty vertical levels in representing the atmosphere and ocean.
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Credit: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007
More computer power has led to improved understanding of climate processes by speeding up computations, thus allowing for more testing of how modeling equations relate to actual climate data.
The higher resolution and improved understanding, in turn, has allowed for a more sophisticated modeling of climate factors and related parameters. That was the conclusion of a pair of researchers who systematically compared 57 models developed over the decades based on their performance on up to 14 different factors, such as temperature, precipitation, sea surface temperature, winds, specific humidity, the fractions of snow and sea ice, and sea salinity.2
Based on comparisons to climate patterns of the 20th century, coupled GCMs have consistently improved in their ability to capture average seasonal conditions. While there's no guarantee that future climate will feature the same patterns as those of the historical past, such comparisons remain the best means of assessing a model's skill.
Figure 2. Multi-model means of surface warming (compared to the 1980–1999 base period) for the SRES scenarios A2 (red), A1B (green) and B1 (blue), shown as continuations of the 20th-century simulation. The latter two scenarios are continued beyond the year 2100 with forcing kept constant. An additional experiment, in which the forcing is kept at the year 2000 level, is also shown (orange). Linear trends from the corresponding control runs have been removed from these time series. Lines show the multi-model means, shading denotes the ±1 standard deviation range. Discontinuities between different periods have no physical meaning and are caused by the fact that the number of models that have run a given scenario is different for each period and scenario (numbers indicated in figure). For the same reason, uncertainty across scenarios should not be interpreted from this figure.
Credit: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007
Ensembles: Better than the sum of its parts
Researchers have found that the average of all available models—sometimes called the ensemble mean—almost always weighs in with more accuracy than any one model (Figure 2). Although the reason for this remains somewhat unclear, the finding recurs consistently through different model generations.
These findings from two assessments of GCM skill, both published in 2008, have given climate scientists renewed confidence in the 2007 projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The IPCC uses ensemble means when developing its projections of average annual temperature for the globe with doubled carbon dioxide concentrations compared to pre-industrial times, the period before people began burning fossil fuels such as gas, coal, and oil. Carbon dioxide is expected to reach double its pre-industrial value sometime between the middle and end of the century; exactly when this occurs depends on several factors—most notably, whether society takes action to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Incidentally, the current projected 4- to 8-degree temperature range for doubled carbon dioxide has made little advance in precision over the years, despite increasing confidence among scientists in its accuracy. In large part, the wide range relates to uncertainties over the future of clouds and other factors that could dampen or exacerbate global warming.1
Other types of models
The confidence applied to the results of coupled GCMs comes from extensive comparisons with actual climate conditions captured in historic records. Many other kinds of models exist in addition to the coupled GCMs, but few of them have been tested rigorously against historic conditions. Scientists thus have less confidence in their projections than they do in projections from coupled GCMs.
Given their complexity, coupled GCMs are rarely linked directly to models assessing factors beyond the atmosphere's interaction with oceans, sea ice, and land surfaces over time and space. Scientists employ less complex models when considering the potential impact of climate changes on vegetation dynamics, the carbon cycle, and ocean chemistry.
Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity, known as EMICs, include many of the same processes simulated in GCMs, but they operate at a coarser resolution than the typical modern GCM.
EMICs also rely more heavily on specified equations—or parameterizations—than GCMs do. While GCMs must resort to parameterizations for some factors, such as thunderstorms and other processes occurring at scales smaller than a grid cell, they derive their results largely based on dynamic processes.
Because the resolution of EMICs falls well below that of modern coupled GCMs, results from the intermediate models apply only at the large scales of the globe or a continent.3To get results down to the scale of a region smaller than a continent, scientists often apply downscaling techniques to coupled GCMs.
- Bader, D.C., et al. 2008. Climate models: An assessment of strengths and limitations. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, D.C.
- Reichler, T. and J. Kim. 2008. How well do coupled models simulate today's climate? Bulletin for the American Meteorological Society, 89(3): 303-311.
- Meehl, G.A., et al. 2007. Global climate projections. In Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and New York, NY, USA.


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Predators MMA Manchester, Home to Rob and Mick Sinclair Will Burke Phil Flynn and many more.
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Yeah, maybe 20 won't work. I really wanted to get names so I can check out their sites/competition records, then see where I'm at. I know the big names - Wolfslair, etc - but didn't want to miss anyone who might be about to turn out the next big name in MMA. The responses are much appreciated though, guys.
cant believe only one person has mentioned team titan. madness lol TEAM TITAN
three wins three losses need to get my arse back on winning ways
erm i dont know if this had been mentioned but ive missed it, but what about Team rough house? bushido is it called?
I understand that there is a bit of home bias here as everyone loves their own gym, but I can honestly say one of, if not the best club in Scotland is the one in Dundee, where Shootfighters train out of.
Coaches wise it has a group of respected and knowledgeable guys, who have spent years travelling about the place, including America, to further their knowledge of the sport. There is also a good mix of young and old, amateur, semi pro and pro fighters. With it being in Dundee, there is also students from America over there, last time I was up there was a huge lad who had wrestled for years in the states training.
The facilities are second to non, full size cage, matted area, fitness equipment, everything you need in a top notch gym.
There has also been, and will be some good guys coming from all over, with Dave Elliott doing a seminar recently and Robert Drysdale doing one this weekend.
Like most clubs, or even all clubs in Scotland though, the biggest problem is getting a big group of pro fighters consistently training in the gym, so it is difficult to compare it to the likes of Team Rough house, Shootfighters London etc. But in the grand scheme of MMA in Britain, it has to be right up there.
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I'd rather talk to guys who got into the training for fitness and have decided to have a fight than guys who've got their hearts set on getting into the UFC, if that makes sense. Also, I'd rather talk to blokes in their 20s/30s - sorry, fighting ladies and youngsters, but that's our target audience. And yes you get to be in the mag, but no you don't have to take your top off. Please PM me if you're interested...


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Robert Benson had the $6,500.00 Leica Noctilux 50mm f/1.0 lens and no body to put it on, so what did he do? He modified a Canon 5D Mark II to accept the exotic lens. "This has been my obsession for more than a two months, and its now complete. " he said "The camera above is (was) a Canon 5dmk2. I wanted to use Leica rangefinder "M" lenses on it, but of course you cant, because the Leica flange distance is really short – shorter than the Canon EOS – the Leica have to be mounted closer to sensor to work. So I ripped apart a camera, modified it, and now I have a camera better than the Leica M9, at a fraction of the cost."
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The Brazilian soccer federation released a video in which Neymar said he hoped to be back as soon as possible.
"I don't have words to describe what has been going through my head and my heart," said Neymar. "I just want to say that I will be back as soon as possible. When you least expect I'll be back."
"O sonho de ser campeão mundial não acabou" - @neymarjr #ForçaNeymar #OSonhoNaoAcabou #EmBuscaDoHexa pic.twitter.com/AlvRnb8xDE — CBF Futebol (@CBF_Futebol) July 5, 2014
After flying back from Fortaleza to Rio de Janeiro, Neymar was take by ambulence to the Brazilian national team's training center in Teresopolis about an hour away. After the interview, he flew by helicopter to his home in Guaruja about 40 miles from in Sao Paulo.
"My dream is not over yet," he said. "It was interrupted by one move, but it will continue and I'm certain that my teammates will do whatever possible so I can fulfill my dream of being a champion. I won't be able to fulfill the dream of playing in a World Cup final, but I'm sure they will win this one, they will become champions, and I will be there with them, and all of Brazil will be celebrating together."
-- FIFA spokesperson Delia Fischer said the FIFA disciplinary committee is studying the play that led to Neymar's injury. Colombia's Juan Zuniga kneed the Brazilian star in the back in the 88th, culminating an ill-tempered match that featured a World Cup-high 54 fouls.
"The spirit of fair play is very important," said Fischer, "and we want to avoid difficult things on the field of play."
BRAZIL MEDIA CHIEF BANNED. Rodrigo Paiva, Brazil's team spokesman, wouldn't be doing any more media duty after FIFA disciplinary committee imposed a four-match ban and fined him 10,000 Swiss francs ($11,180) for shoving Chile substitute Mauricio Pinilla as the teams left the field at halftime of the Brazil-Chile round-of-16 match.
CILLESSEN KEPT IN DARK. The decision of Dutch coach Louis van Gaal to insert backup keeper Tim Krul into the match against Costa Rica for the shootout was a planned move, but the Dutch coaching staff didn't tell starting keeper Jasper Cillessen of its plans for fear it would affect his performance.
"We always felt that Tim Krul would be the most appropriate player to stop penalties," said van Gaal. "He has a long reach and we prepared Costa Rican penalties. He dove into the right corner time and time again. We are a little bit proud that this trick has helped us through."
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2002: Brazil, 2-0 (final)
1974: Netherlands 4-0 (second group stage)
1978: Argentina 3-1, OT (final)
1998: Netherlands 2-1 (quarterfinals)
2006: Tie, 0-0 (group stage)
DI MARIA OUT. Real Madrid winger Angel Di Maria, who left Saturday's match against Belgium in the first half, will miss the rest of the World Cup with a thigh injury. He injured himself taking a shot blocked by Vincent Kompany.


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Blog: Russian men's hockey team treating every game like it's the final
Published Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:36AM EST
Up until now, the Russians have been quietly competing here at their Olympic Games.
No major breakout moments, not much over the top bravado, no domination of unexpected events. But yesterday, the Russians finally put their cards on the table.
Just like all of the other men's hockey teams here at the Games, the Russians held a press conference in the Main Press Centre.
While the Canadians, Americans, Fins etc. had four or five players sit and answer questions, the Russians decided to make a statement.
They marched in the entire Olympic hockey team. The players, the coaches, the head of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation.
What did they say?
"Every match is the finals for us… it is the final match, it doesn't matter who plays us."
Translation: We plan on winning this tournament. We are the ones to beat.
If you are Canadian, you understand what it is to be a hockey fan. Most of us in Canada remember being allowed to stay up past our bedtimes to watch the end of the Western games on Hockey Night in Canada. We also remember watching Canada at the Worlds, the Juniors and the Olympics. Living and dying with every goal, every penalty, every big hit.
You might think we are the only ones who are that hockey crazy. Well, we aren't.
While we were winning in 1972 – the hearts of Russians were breaking. When the U.S. had their "Miracle Moment" – the Russians were ashamed. When Canada won on home ice in Vancouver – they were preparing for Sochi.
Alex Ovechkin, Russia's best player by far, isn't one to say too much more than the sports cliches. But Wednesday, when asked about losing in 2010, he surprised the room saying: "When we lost to the Canadians it was a huge blow to us, it was a big failure, it was a big blow to everyone in Russia."
Talk to the men and women on the streets in Sochi and they have their own memories of hockey supremacy.
For our Ken Dryden, they have Vladislav Tretiak. We have Paul Henderson, they have Valery Kharlamov. Viacheslav Fetisov, Anatoly Firsov, Sergei Fedorov, Vsevolod Bobrov, Pavel Bure and the list goes on and on and on.
So while the Canadian men's hockey team walks in as the Defending Olympic Champions, supported by 33 million hockey-mad fans back home, the Russians are coming too!
And they have 40 years of upsets and disappointments fueling them. Plus, just as many, if not more hockey fans waving the flag of the Russian Federation!
How do you think the Russians will do in Sochi?


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Nov. 22, 2012
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ---- The UAB men's basketball team returns to the hardwood to continue play in the South Padre Island Invitational on Friday by taking on Illinois State at 5 p.m. CT at the South Padre Island Convention Centre.
UAB defeated Navy and Prairie View A&M at home in the first two games of the tournament and will turn around and play either TCU or Northwestern on Saturday in South Padre Island, Texas, following Friday's matchup with the Redbirds.
UAB (3-1) vs. Illinois State (4-0)
Date: Fri., Nov. 23, 2012
Time: 5 p.m. CT
Location: South Padre Island, Texas
Venue: South Padre Island Convention Centre
Radio: WUHT-FM 107.7
Talent: David Saltzman (pxp), Steve Mitchell (analyst)
Live Stats: GameTracker (UABsports.com)
Inside The Series
UAB leads, 1-0.
Last Meeting: UAB 71, Illinois State 60 (12/29/90)
The Blazers and Redbirds only previous meeting came in 1990 at the All-College Tournament in Oklahoma City, Okla.
The Coaches
UAB: Jerod Haase (Kansas, '97)
Record at UAB: 3-1, first season
Career Record: 3-1, first season
ISU: Dan Muller (Illinois State, '98)
Record at ISU: 4-0, first season
Career Record: 4-0, first season
Last Time Out For UAB
UAB 76, Prairie View A&M 70 (Bartow Arena)
Rod Rucker poured a season-high 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the Blazers to victory over the Panthers. Rucker made eight of 12 shots from the floor and he recorded his second double-double in as many games.
UAB struggled shooting from the floor, making just 33.3 percent of its shots. However, the Blazers made up for their off-shooting night by draining 28 of 37 foul shots, including 26 of 34 in the second half.
On The Blazers
• UAB (3-1) has proven that a balanced scoring attack is key. UAB is averaging 80.8 ppg and in all three of its victories, four or more players have reached double figures in the box score in points.
• Rod Rucker has been a workhorse for the UAB front court, topping the Blazers in both points (15.7) and rebounds (10.5) per game.
• Jordan Swing (12.8 ppg) and Fahro Alihodzic (12.0 ppg) are also averaging double figures as eight UAB players are averaging more than 7.5 ppg for the season.
• The Blazers lead Conference USA in assists (19.75) and tied for the lead in steals (10.0) per game. UAB is also the second-best foul shooting team (78.8 percent) and posted the second-most rebounds per game (43.5) in the conference.
• Friday marks just the second road game of the season for UAB. The Blazers are a perfect 3-0 at Bartow Arena with UAB's lone loss on the season coming at then No. 13 Creighton.
• UAB is led by first-year head coach Jerod Haase, who spent the previous 13 years on coaching staffs under Roy Williams at Kansas and North Carolina.
On The Redbirds
• Illinois State enters the tournament with a perfect 4-0 record, with commanding home victories against Delaware State and Fairleigh Dickinson as part of the South Padre Invitational.
• The Redbirds feature one of the top post players in the Missouri Valley Conference in Jackie Carmichael. A MVC Preseason First Team selection, Carmichael leads ISU in points (18.3) and rebounds (6.0) per game.
• As a team, ISU is averaging 91.0 ppg and shooting at a 54.9 percent clip from the floor. The Redbirds' defense has been equally as impressive as the offense, keeping opponents to only 65.5 ppg and shooting 41.0 percent.
• Friday's tilt will mark just the second game away from home for ISU, where the Redbirds sport a perfect 3-0 record at Redbird Arena. The lone away game for ISU came at Drexel, which the Redbirds prevailed 86-84 in overtime.
• ISU is led by first-year head coach Dan Muller, who spent the previous 12 years on staff at Vanderbilt under Kevin Stallings.
Facing The Missouri Valley's Best
Through the early portion of UAB's non-conference schedule, the Blazers will have faced two of the premier teams in the Missouri Valley Conference. Back on Nov. 14, the Blazers lost to No. 13 Creighton, 77-60. Creighton was picked to win the MVC, while Illinois State finished second in the league's preseason coaches poll.
Coaching Staff Connections
UAB and Illinois State have multiple coaching connections between staffs. UAB assistant coach Jeff Wulbrun spent four years as an assistant at Illinois State from 1993-97 and while with the Redbirds, coached now current ISU head coach Dan Muller. At ISU, Wulbrun saw the Redbirds compete in the NIT twice, NCAA Tournament once and capture the Missouri Valley Conference regular season title in 1997.
ISU assistant coach Torrey Ward is another link between the Redbirds and Blazers. Ward, a native of Birmingham, was a four-year letter winner for UAB from 1997-2000, where he played in 110 games and started 74 during his time as a student-athlete. Ward recorded nearly 800 points and was the C-USA Defensive Player of the Year runner up to Cincinnati's Kenyon Martin back in 2000. Ward earned his degree from UAB in 2001.
Back In Texas
Three Blazers are back in the Lone Star State after playing in Texas prior to coming to UAB. Terence Jones was at nearby Texas A&M Corpus Christi for four years, playing for three seasons, while earning his undergraduate degree. Jekore Tyler, a native of Port Arthur, Texas, and Alexander Scotland-Williamson, each played junior college basketball at Lee College prior to coming to Birmingham.
Excelling At The Foul Line
The Blazers have been in the zone at the foul line so far this season, shooting 78.8 percent (63-for-80), which ranks second in Conference USA. In all of C-USA, only eight players are perfect from the foul line with at least four attempts, and three of the top four foul shooters are UAB players: Jordan Swing, Fahro Alihodzic and Preston Purifoy.
1. Jordan Swing, UAB 15-15
2. Max Guercy, Rice 12-12
3. Fahro Alihodzic, UAB 10-10
4. Preston Purifoy, UAB 9-9
Cashing In At Charity Stripe
In the 76-70 victory against Prairie View A&M (11/20), UAB made it count at the foul line. The Blazers shot just .333 (22-for-66) from the floor, but were able to get to the line 37 times and make 28 shots (75.7 percent). In the second half vs. the Panthers, the Blazers only made eight field goals, but sank 26 of 34 foul line attempts to help secure the win.
Rucker Brings A Ruckus
Forward Rod Rucker has made his presence felt in his first year with the Blazers. Rucker is coming off a 25-point, 12-rebound effort vs. Prairie View A&M, marking his second double-double in as many games. For the season Rucker ranks fourth in the conference in rebounding average (10.5) and his 17 offensive boards are tied with UCF's Keith Clanton for most in the league. In addition, Rucker is shooting .571 percent from the floor, tied for eighth-best in C-USA.
Surprising Top Stealer
Fahro Alihodzic, who has started at center in each of UAB's four games so far in the 2012-13 season has found an unexpected knack on defense. Most would suspect the 6-foot-10 post player from Bosnia to be amongst the C-USA leaders in blocks. However, Alihodzic actually leads the Blazers and is fifth in the league in steals per game (2.3). Through four games, Alihodzic has totaled nine steals, including four swipes in a win vs. Prairie View A&M.


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Steven Tyler and Joe Perry to join Songwriters Hall of Fame
London: Aerosmith stars Steven Tyler and Joe Perry have both won places in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The rockers will be inducted as part of the class of 2013 along with Foreigner stars Mick Jones and Lou Gramm, reported Daily Express.
Other inductees for 2013 are Holly Knight, the songwriter behind Bonnie Tyler and Tina Turner`s classic hit `The Best`, The Eagles collaborator JD Souther and Tony Hatch, who wrote Petula Clark`s `Downtown`.
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Validation of vibration testing for the assessment of the mechanical properties of human lumbar motion segments
Engelen, S.J.P.M. van and Ellenbroek, M.H.M. and Royen, B.J. van and Boer, A. de and Dieën, J.H. van (2012) Validation of vibration testing for the assessment of the mechanical properties of human lumbar motion segments. Journal of biomechanics, 45 (10). 1753 - 1758. ISSN 0021-9290
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|Experimental modal analysis is a non-destructive measurement technique, which applies low forces and small deformations to assess the integrity of a structure. It is therefore a promising method to study the mechanical properties of the spine in vivo. Previously, modal parameters successfully revealed artificially induced spinal injuries. The question remains however, whether experimental modal analysis can be applied successfully in human spinal segments with mechanical changes due to physiological processes. Since quasi-static mechanical testing is considered the "gold standard" for assessing intervertebral stiffness, the purpose of our study was to examine if the mechanical properties derived from vibration testing and quasi-static testing correlate.
Six cadaver human spines (L1–L5) were loaded quasi-statically in bending and torsion, while an optical system measured the angular rotations of the individual motion segments. Subsequently, the polysegmental spines were divided into L2–L3 and L4–L5 segments and a shaker was used to vibrate the upper vertebra, while its response was obtained from accelerometers in anteroposterior and mediolateral directions. From the resulting frequency response function the eigenfrequencies (ratio between stiffness and mass) and vibration modes (pattern of motion) were determined.
The vibration results showed clear eigenfrequencies for flexion–extension (mean 121.83 Hz, SD 40.05 Hz), lateroflexion (mean 132.17, SD 34.80 Hz) and axial rotation (mean 236.17 Hz, SD 81.45 Hz). Furthermore, the correlation between static and dynamic tests was significant (r=0.73, p=0.01). In conclusion, the findings from this study show that experimental modal analysis is a valid method to assess the mechanical properties of human lumbar motion segments
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Washington Post, please define "unsubstantiated"
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The Beltway press coverage of the still-unfolding U.S. Chamber of Commerce story continues to be quite timid and overly deferential toward the powerful, pro-business lobbying group. Legitimate questions have been raised about some of the money the Chamber has raised and whether it's being used as part of a massive $75 million attack campaign targeting Democrats this year. The question is, does some of the Chamber money come from overseas, and if so why is the Chamber using foreign dollars to influence U.S. campaigns?
As noted yesterday, today's timidity stands in stark contrast to the Clinton `90's, when the press corps ran itself ragging, eagerly chasing similar allegations about overseas dollars being spent to influence stateside elections. Back then when the charges were lodged against Democrats, they were taken extremely seriously. So, if that was the standard then, why are so many in the press basically playing the role of stenographers today and simply dictating the Chamber denials, and why aren't reporters doing original work to advance the Chamber story? (For now, that task has been left solely to ThinkProgress.)
The nothing-to-see-here-folks message is impossible to miss in recent coverage.
From the WashPost [emphasis added]:
The GOP expenditures have come under increasing criticism from Obama and other Democrats, who have focused on the big-spending Chamber of Commerce and the two Crossroads affiliates, which were formed with the encouragement of Republican political guru Karl Rove. The attacks have included unsubstantiated allegations by the Democratic National Committee and others that the chamber might be spending foreign donations on U.S. elections, an accusation the business lobby denies.
This is just weird. How can there be "unsubstantiated allegations" about something that might happen? ThinkProgress has clearly suggested, based on its investigative work, that the Chamber might be using some foreign money to bankroll its massive anti-Democratic ad campaign this year. ThinkProgress has substantiated exactly how that could be happening.
I understand why the Chamber would claim ThinkProgress' allegations were "unsubstantiated." (And no, that doesn't explain why the Post would rush in and preemptively dismiss the pending allegations.) And I understand if ThinkProgress had made flat-out claims about the Chamber, but didn't have the evidence to support it, that the Post would go ahead and described them as "unsubstantiated." But Think Progress has made well-supported, logical claims about what might be happening, so how is the Post in any position to categorically claim the allegations are unsubstantiated?
Meanwhile, I assume there are scores of former Clinton staffers chuckling mordantly these days as they read dispatches like the one from today's Post, wondering where were these uninquisitive journalists in the `90's, and why didn't Beltway scribes rush out to dismiss anti-White House fundraising claims as being "unsubstantiated allegations"? Truth is, back then places like the Post did every thing they could to hype those (hollow) charges.
But for some reason when conservatives at the Chamber are under scrutiny about foreign funding, the newsroom rules of engagement change drastically.
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Just because poultry meat is generally mild flavored doesn't mean that turkey sausage has to be bland or uninteresting.
This is a recipe that I adapted from a low-fat breakfast sausage idea I found online a couple of years ago.
The starting point was a fresh sausage, but I wanted to add the distinctive flavor of wood smoke. I guess the only thing that really survives from the original recipe is the use of the turkey and the fruit, but my version is now a favorite at our house.
I have tried using fresh apples and apricots, and the sausage still turns out good, but I much prefer the more intense flavors imparted by the dried fruit called for here.
5 lbs boned white and dark meat turkey (or chicken) with skin included.1 cup finely chopped fresh onion or 2 tablespoons onion powder (I much prefer the fresh).3/4 cup chopped dried apples1/2 cup chopped dried apricots1 tablespoon dried sage1 tablespoon kosher salt2 teaspoons ground black pepper1 teaspoon ground nutmeg1 teaspoon dried red pepper flakes1 teaspoon cure (Prague powder #1 or Instacure #11 cup dry nonfat milk powder
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Rhythm of the Home | Interview with Erin Barrette Goodman
The beautiful new Rhythm of the Home website launched this week and I am honored to be featured in their Autumn Issue. I will be honest and say that this interview pushed me a bit out of my comfort zone. (I'm usually the one *asking* the questions!) But it was such a wonderful exercise to really stop and reflect on each question and to answer fully and honestly from my heart.
Elizabeth Sniegocki | Thoughts on Birth
"My girls are delighted and excited by birth. A few years back, on a kindergarten field trip to a local dairy farm, Selby and I witnessed the birth of a baby cow! It was so amazing we happened to be at the farm at just the right time. They allowed the school kids to gather a ways back and quietly watch. I was surprised that some parent chaperones were uncomfortable, pulling their kids out of sight of the birth . . ."
Emily Walker | Confessions of an Imperfect Girl
"I stopped blogging for a long time, and even before I stopped, I went from frequent blogging to sporadic to not at all. A big reason for this was that I began to feel like blogging had turned into some adult version of show-n-tell. Suddenly, I didn't need to flip through magazines filled with pages of beautiful people in beautiful homes living beautiful "perfect" lives to feel inadequate – all I had to do was read blogs . . ."
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"Bravery is a muscle, like love. You have to exercise it constantly or it will turn flabby. When I am depressed, it's very easy to fall away from bravery. But because I'm working harder and harder to stop avoiding things, when I tell you about my depression, it's because I have something to tell myself, and I just want you to hear so you can think about your own personal bravery . . ."
I left a comment on Chris' very honest and very brave post about his depression.
It was my first brave step in beginning to talk publicly about my own depression.
Sharing part of what I wrote on Chris' blog with all of you is my second brave step.
"I live with depression (and anxiety and ADD). It's part of my genetic make-up, it's interwoven into my personality and it's a big part of what makes me so damn good at what I do . . ."
This is really scary stuff for me to talk about publicly.
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'"It's always tough to leave the place you started and Tampa did a lot of good things for me," Conacher said after taking a pregame skate for the first time with his new team, the Ottawa Senators. "I have to give them a lot of credit for the success I've had so far this year. At the same time Ottawa is a team on the rise and they've been finding ways to win with all the injuries they've had this year. They have a lot of young guys and it will be a fun experience for me to play on a Canadian team, to be close to home."'
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Activision, Tencent Take Call of Duty To China
Santa Monica-based Activision Blizzard said Tuesday that it has reached a deal with Chinese gaming giant Tencent Holdings Limited, to bring Call of Duty Online to the Chinese game market. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Activision said that Tencent will gain a two year, exclusive license to operate Call of Duty Online in mainland China. Tencent said it believes that the move will attract "tens of millions" of fans in China. The two are planning a new version of Call of Duty Online for China, designed specifically for the Chinese market.


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Kate Winslet and new hubby Ned Rocknroll are enjoying a late honeymoon in Scotland.
The couple, who married in New York last month, were there to see in the New Year with a traditional Hogmanay celebration.
Kate's uncle, Mark Bridges, 62, of Earley, Berks, confirmed yesterday: "They're in Scotland now. We don't know any more about what happened at the wedding because none of our family were there."
The Mirror reported last week how Kate's parents, Roger and Sally, of Reading, Berks, only found out about her nuptials at Christmas. But Mr Bridges, older brother of Sally, said that the Titanic star's family were thrilled for the thrice-married actress.
"I didn't know anything about it until Boxing Day," he said. "I think the whole family was only told about it recently. It was a surprise for everyone."
Roger missed out on walking his famous daughter down the aisle. The honour went instead to her best pal and Revolutionary Road co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.
Mother-of-two Kate, 37, turned to jewellery designer Charles Goode, a close friend, to oversee her wedding and engagement rings.
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So Gordon Brown scraped home on 42 days' pre-charge detention tonight after all that fuss and with a bit of help from Ian Paisley's block of Democratic Unionist MPs. 315 votes to 306, around 37 Labour rebels - yes, the DUP seems to have made the difference.
Brown was making phone calls until the last minute, text messaged appeals for loyalty were sprayed around the system, gloomy government loyalists hung around the corridors, predicting defeat, as they always do - win or lose.
Will it do him much good? I doubt it. The price of a narrow victory on shaky grounds is usually disputed, as this will be. Rebel peers will feel emboldened. So will those uppity judges.
This feels like where I came in.
No, I am not talking about the battle John Major fought in the early 90s to pass the Maastricht treaty bill in the face of a divided party and crumbling public support after sterling's ejection from the European monetary pact. That was during my second term in the press gallery at Westminster.
No, what the past few days has reminded me of was Jim Callaghan's rearguard action in the turbulent late 1970s, no majority at all and often dependent on what could be squeezed from the then-dominant Ulster Unionists to get his legislation through.
Either way, these are not happy comparisons. When a government loses its authority it is hard to regain it, opinion polls all now remind us. Why should the DUP MPs support a failing government like ours, a chum heard a senior minister mutter. Because they can win tactical advantages by horsetrading, that is why. Callaghan and Major found that out.
The sense that Brown's team has failed to make the case, practical, intellectual or moral, for the increase from 28 to 42 days - let alone persuade MPs or the media that the safeguards will either work or be upheld in the courts - hung over today's debate.
It happens that both Brown, better than usual against David Cameron at Commons question time, and Jacqui Smith, the embattled home secretary, both performed well under fire. Smith, an ex-chief whip in her first department - what a scary one - is finding her voice and authority. She made one more concession: compensation for anyone wrongly detained for 42 days. The taxpayer will fork out for errors.
The pair had some supporters, including Keith Vaz, chair of the Commons home affairs select committee. But the weight of opinion and the weightier figures were overwhelmingly against them in the day's debate. Starting with David Davis, Smith's Tory shadow, Chris Huhne, his Lib Dem shadow, a long list of solid members spoke out against the measure; not least Hendon's Andrew Dismore, a fierce foe of Islamist militancy, but also chair of the joint committee on human rights.
We do not yet know what price Brown paid to woo the DUP, perhaps none, but probably something. The larger price paid is that ministers have pulled all the stops out on a measure which does not command respect among the opinion-formers.
Smith is right to say another bomber will get through - sooner or later. Then perhaps, the public, which likes tough anti-terror measures, may reward Brown's tenacious stubbornness. Maybe, maybe not. Jim Callaghan and John Major knew they were struggling against too powerful a tide.