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I used to go out in my wooded backyard and play. I would stay outside until my mom called for me to come in. She couldn't see me, so she yelled ... loudly. We washed our hands, ate and went back outside.
I waited at the end of the driveway for the bus in the dark, with no parent. I rode my bike to my friend's house down the street, by myself. Today's kids are different. Parents cannot let them out of their sight for fear something will happen. That's reality in 2013. They need to know they are protected by an adult, not hovering but protecting.
Parents need to feel that way, too, when their children are at a friend's house, at church, at school. Mr. Reynolds was quoted in the paper saying, "What can we do to try to engage the public (about the) disparity between perception and reality?" Reality is that hundreds of kids are being injured or killed in school buildings; thousands more are being scarred by those actions.
Reality is a registered sex offender was in the building of a Wooster city school. Reality is our mental health issues are far greater than we imagine. Funding is cut for many programs to help these children and adults, and reality is those unstable are harming others.
Perception, Mr. Reynolds, is you think this won't happen to our community. And I hope you're right. But this perception is clouding your reality.
Concerned parents and community members:
Amy Baxstrom, Jennifer Finn, Mara Padden, Gwen Covert, Christina Kostohryz, Lisa Likowski, Julia and John Mathys, Cindy Mullet, Lorri Pringle, Dale and Noreen Miller, Marcie and Brandon Craig, Susan Zimmerman, Sandy Sipes, Steve and Judy Crites, Denise and Jim McKeown, Brianna Smith, Heather and Kevin Browning, Brad and Betsy Seymour, Samantha Williams, Kim and Jeremiah Friend, Christine Hemmann, David and Amy Fath, Matt and Terri Babcock, Alicia Easterday, Amber Lamb, Melinda Hendrix, Rev. Matthew Wald, Jenn Rennecker, Paul Crystal, Liley Hunt and Craig Hunt
Unfortunately, I believe the media has sent that message to most people already and will contuibute to our society acting on emotions and not reality!
While I admit that I personally struggle with all of the concerns you list above, I also know that statistically the chances of them happening are very low. I would refer folks to the book "Last Child in the Woods" that discusses how those safety concerns have reduced children's exposure to outdoor activity. So, the question becomes how much in resources are we willing to reasonably invest to keep our children safe? What message do we send our children if we create a fortress at school? We want them to believe they are safe there, correct? I don't own any weapons and I believe my family is perfectly safe at home. Will they believe me that they are safe at school when the reality they see is a fortress? Don't misunderstand me. I don't have a problem with making some adjustments as they have with locking the doors, etc. I just believe we need to be careful how far we go because at some point instead of sending the message to children that they are safe at school, the message becomes that school is not a safe place.


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This is a discussion on Federal HST vs. Speer Gold Dot difference within the Defensive Ammunition & Ballistics forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by Archie I'm not sure what you mean by that. Yes, the loaded round is longer (taller?) than the bullet portion only. Yes, ...
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Decided to post them here in case anyone else has not seen these before. They are a couple of links I posted on another thread. Federal HST by far out perform every other bullet I have seen and studied. No matter what they are shot through or into hey are the most consistent performing and expanding round available. Before the election Ammunition To Go! used to keep a supply available at decent prices and excellent service. They still seem to get some in when other can't.Originally Posted by dbraves8
This first set are tests done by LEO and are downloadable PDF files
Los Angeles County - California
Riverside - California
Santa Clara - California
Fresno County - California
Kern County - California
Sacramento County - California
San Angelo - Texas
Pierce County Workshop - Washington
San Diego County Workshop - California
Portland Police Bureau - Oregon
The following are links to pages with pics from a two different sites
ballistics testing - round 1 - varied 9mm JHP's
ballistics testing - round 2 - varied 9mm JHP's
ballistics testing - round 3 - varied 9mm JHP's - shooting through tshirts
ballistics testing - round 5 - comparing 9mm JHP velocities
ballistics testing - round 6 - Federal HST 9mm vs 45 acp
ballistics testing - round 7 - shooting through denim - 9 mm, 45 acp, and 357 magnum
Terminal Ballistics .45 ACP
Terminal Ballistics 9mm
There is also a rather informative thread here with pics at Federal HST vs, Hydra-Shock pics
Below is a pic of my rather meager example of HST compared to some other common SD ammunition
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Very good LongRider! Point made, HST is the best. Got any in .40S&W? I can't find squat.
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As far as doing your own ballistics test I recommend stuffing wet newspaper into Milk/Water jugs. You only need to fill the first 2 jugs full of newspaper and water, then put 2 regular jugs full of water behind the front 2 jugs. Tape all 4 jugs together and shoot away. I did this and was able to put 3 shots into the jugs and all were recovered in the 3rd jug.
I did this test a couple of weeks ago with 45 ACP and 9mm. The Federal HST 45 expanded to almost 1" stopping in the 3rd jug after hitting the back of the 3rd jug and putting a crack in the 4th jug. I also tried Hornady TAP 45 and Federal Hydra-shok. The Hornady expanded nice but only about .70". The Federal Hydra-shok was disappointing as I failed to recover both rounds. The only thing i found was the jacket stripped in the 2nd jug, the core kept on going somewhere.
In 9mm I tried 124gr +P HST, Hydra-shok 147gr, and Speer 124 gr Gold Dot. They all performed similar stopping in the 3rd jug, with the HST (about .67") slightly bigger than the Gold Dot which was slightly bigger than the Hydra-Shok. I just bought some 230gr 45 Ranger-T T-Series and will see how they compare to the HST.
yea the 3 I want to compare is the 9mm hst, speer gold dot, and ranger T
124+P, 147, and 147+P.
I like the fast expanding gold dots better.Bigger holes are better!They have a good street rep to.I like the winchester sxt because they penatrate like hell.Men come in all sizes.Big and fat!Gold dots still rock!
If you want 'bigholes' then chose HST as it outclasses Gold Dot, especially after heavy clothing.
Both are excellent, but you have got to like how the HST rounds so consistently expand very well in any caliber I have seen tested. :)
And being bonded, the Gold Dots hold up especially well through barriers. Just in case...
The biggest difference I see is that I can consistantly find Gold Dot, but not HST.
I think we should rename "Defensive Ammo and Ballistics" to "Ask Archie".
Gold Dot For Me, Can find 50 Rnd boxes @ same price as 20 rnd, Plus they work in ALL my guns ; )
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Crap looks like I already posted most of those links already, did not re read the entire thread before posting. What a dork, anyway leaving it as there are a few new ones if you are interested. If not ignore the post
ATK Law Enforcement. ATK, Federal and Speer parent company sponsored the test but the PD's did the actual testing and reports.
Butte - Montana 5-27-09
Fort Collins 6-26-08
Aurora 6-24-08
Los Angeles County - California 7-30-07
Riverside - California 7-12-07
Santa Clara - California 5-8-07
Fresno County - California 5-9-07
Kern County - California 5-10-07
Sacramento County - California 5-24-07
San Angelo - Texas 3-9-06
Pierce County Workshop - Washington 11-19-03
San Diego County Workshop - California 10-2-03
Portland Police Bureau - Oregon 9-6-02
The test mirrored my own. All 200 rounds of 230 grain .45 HST consistently expanded to the diameter of a quarter with six wicked petals no matter what I shot it into or through. I have not seen any credible verifiable reports that contradict the above reports or my own observation. IMHO if you doubt the veracity of any of those tests or even if you don't, do your own tests. After all it is you life that is on the line. You need to be confident that your ammo will function as expected out of the gun you intend to use it in. Even the best ammo does not perform the same in every gun. So be sure it works in yours.
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Chapter I: The Reason
The office quiet above all things, lights were off all except the hallway with the office door half closed. The shifting of weight from one hand to the next and the scratching from the quill made it impossible to concentrate. Draco Malfoy sat trying to finish a report that was due the next day. He never got much hours of sleep during the night. It was only seven a clock in the evening, he didnt have much of a social life and he was visited frequently by his friends though he just never felt happy, at least not since
Daddy? she peered through the doorway of her fathers office.
Draco looked up from his work and motioned for his daughter to come in. She walked into his office and climbed onto his lap. What are you doing?
Work. He replied.
What kind of work?
You are doing this to annoy me arent you? he asked with a smile on his face.
Is it working? she asked.
Maybe. Draco said.
Can we go watch a movie now?
Not now Maddie, maybe later, Im busy.
Please dad. Madison Malfoy begged.
Im not going to fall for that look Maddie, please just let me finish this up and well watch a movie afterwards, okay?
Maddie sighed in defeat and nodded her head. She hated these days, these days where her father was too involved in his work to pay attention to her. She couldnt blame him though, being one of the top Aurors since the downfall of the Dark Lord, was a lot of work. Summer was getting shorter and shorter by the minute and then shed be off to Hogwarts for her second year. Last year shed been sorted into Ravenclaw, unknown as to why considering neither of her parents had been in that house. She was the only Malfoy, through generations of Malfoys who wasnt sorted into Slytherin, not that she minded of course.
She left her fathers office disappointed once again, and closed the door halfway. She walked through the empty halls of her home. She came into the living room, filled with luxurious couches, and a love seat, plush pillows and lovely decorated furniture set. She came across the fireplace with family photos placed on top. She took one photo down so she could look at it closely. She didnt even notice the tears spilling down her face until it was too late. It was a picture of herself with her mother and father, when she was only five years old. She was now twelve. It had been the last picture taken of her family before, before her mother disappeared.
Madison had never known why she left, or where she had gone but she hated her mother for it. Ever since that night Maddie and her father had to deal with life without the other family member there. She hated her mother for disappearing, leaving her dad heartbroken and having to care for her by himself. That was one of the reasons why her father always involved himself in his work, to avoid those emotions.
Madison wiped her tears away and put the frame back on the mantel. Even if her mother wasnt here for her anymore it didnt mean she couldnt look at her. Her dad always reminded her that she looked exactly like her mother. She had blonde curly hair and brown eyes. She was medium height for her age, considering how tall her father was. She was about to sit on the couch and turn on the television when the doorbell rang. She turned herself around and walked towards the front door. She opened the door, and smiled.
Pansy, Uncle Blaise!
Hey Maddie. said Blaise.
What are you doing here Uncle Blaise?
I cant come visit my niece?
Of course, but you didnt really come to see me did you? You came to see dad right? said Maddie with a smile on her face.
Alright, alright you caught me! I do have to speak to your father, but Pansy will be here to keep you company in the meantime, k?
Okay, come on Pansy, dragging Pansy with her to the living room and plopping a video in the VCR.
Blaise moved towards Dracos office at fast speed, he needed to speak to him immediately. He didnt know how Draco was going to handle the situation, hed been doing it for the past seven years and he wasnt sure if he could handle it now, only now there was evidence. Pulling out a plastic bag from his pocket, making sure it was still there, and tucked it back in.
Blaise knocked on Dracos office for he knew Draco would be there, he never left the room. He could hear the scratching and mumbling of Draco writing another report. Draco involved himself way too much in his work and not enough time enjoying life with whatever he had left in him.
Come in. Blaise heard from the inside of the room and pushed open the door.
Draco looked up from his work surprised to see his best mate in his home. Normally hed usually see him at work, so he wondered what was so important that Blaise had to visit him at this hour.
Blaise, what brings you here? he asked. Draco was about to ask another question until he saw Blaises face fall, whatever he had come here to say, wasnt going to pleasant he presumed. I take it you didnt come to have a friendly visit did you?
Blaise just nodded his head. Im sorry Draco.
Well what is this about then?
Theres theres been some evidence found.
Blaises voice was shaky and he couldnt quite get the words out, he didnt know if he could handle the situation any better than Draco could. Draco was always able to control his emotions unlike himself.
Which case we talking about Blaise?
Hermione. Blaise answered.
Draco sat there for a moment, and tried to compose himself. There was silence for the next few minutes until Draco decided to speak again. What, have you found?
Blaise could tell he was worried though you couldnt see it through his face. He took the plastic bag out from his pocket, and handed it to Draco, which he knew was sure to recognize what was inside immediately. Draco took the bag and opened it, taking what delicate thing he had of her in his hands. Any reminder of her was better than nothing. He held a golden chain, a bracelet he had given her on third anniversary. He had graved and styled perfectly in a way that he knew she loved it. Will always be together Love Draco. Is what he had written. Draco had no doubt that this was Hermiones bracelet. He stared at it blankly.
Where did you find it? he asked.
Blaise took a seat across from Dracos study. South of Germany, an abandoned cabin. I dont know how long it had been there, but we know one thing for sure is that Hermione, she- shes gone.
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Art dealer Ramon Cernuda, a prominent collector of Cuban art who in the past has identified stolen pieces, said he has uncovered 11 paintings in Miami that belong to Havana's National Museum of Fine Arts, believed to be part of a larger trove of purloined pieces.
"The museum has informed me that at this moment they have identified 95 stolen paintings, and they have not finished the inventory," he told Reuters on Friday.
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Anomalous Fatigue Behavior and Fatigue-Induced Grain Growth in Nanocrystalline Nickel Alloys
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- Boyce, B.L. & Padilla, H.A. Metall and Mat Trans A (2011) 42: 1793. doi:10.1007/s11661-011-0708-x
Fatigue failure due to repetitive loading of metallic devices is a pervasive engineering concern. The present work reveals extraordinary fatigue resistance in nanocrystalline (NC) alloys, which appears to be associated with the small (<100 nm) grain size inhibiting traditional cyclic damage processes. In this study, we examine the fatigue performance of three electrodeposited NC Ni-based metals: Ni, Ni-0.5Mn, and Ni-22Fe (PERMALLOY). When subjected to fatigue stresses at and above the tensile yield strength where conventional coarse-grained (CG) counterparts undergo low-cycle fatigue failure (<104 cycles to failure), these alloys exhibit exceptional fatigue lives (in some cases, >107 cycles to failure). Postmortem examinations show that failed samples contain an aggregate of coarsened grains at the crack initiation site. The experimental data and accompanying microscopy suggest that the NC matrix undergoes abnormal grain growth during cyclic loading, allowing dislocation activity to persist over length scales necessary to initiate a fatigue crack by traditional fatigue mechanisms. Thus, the present observations demonstrate anomalous fatigue behavior in two regards: (1) quantitatively anomalous when considering the extremely high stress levels needed to drive fatigue failure and (2) mechanistically anomalous in light of the grain growth process that appears to be a necessary precursor to crack initiation.
1 Introduction
The origins of modern understanding of metal fatigue date back to the 1830s and 1840s when mine conveyor chain failures in Clausthal, Germany and a catastrophic locomotive axle failure in Versailles, France were linked to repetitive cyclic loading of metal components.[1] Since that time, researchers have been in search of metals that are either impervious or highly resistant to fatigue failure. The advent of nanocrystalline (NC) metals,[2] with their superior strength and hardness to conventional coarse-grained (CG) counterparts, offers the possibility of a new metallurgical pathway to improved fatigue performance.[3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] Indeed, published literature on the fatigue performance of NC metals clearly demonstrates improvements in fatigue strength over CG metals.[10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]
Aside from quantitative improvements in fatigue performance, NC metals also hold the possibility of new insight into the mechanisms responsible for traditional fatigue failure. In the recent past, studies on the monotonic strength of NC metals have not only revealed quantitative details regarding the Hall–Petch strengthening effect,[16, 17, 18] but also led to the discovery of mechanistic transitions in dislocation behavior. For example, while individual dislocation slip is still active in NC metals with a grain size in the range of 20 to 50 nm,[4,19,20] there is insufficient space for the collective dislocation interaction mechanisms found in CG metals such as pileups and subgrain formation. Instead, deformation is governed by dislocation nucleation and absorption at grain boundaries.[19, 20, 21, 22] In large-grained metals, persistent slip bands (PSBs) are responsible for the formation of surface extrusions and intrusions, which are the precursor for fatigue crack initiation.[23] This process requires the collective activity of many dislocations within a grain, which the literature indicates should be on the order of hundreds of nanometers in size.[24] While other researchers have previously noted that crack initiation susceptibility typically decreases with decreasing grain size in metals,[25] we further postulate that the persistent slip mechanism responsible for conventional fatigue crack initiation may be suppressed when the grain size is below a certain threshold, likely on the order of 100 nm or several hundred nanometers. This length scale threshold is between grain sizes that support collective dislocation activity and grain sizes that support individual dislocation activity. However, a survey of the available literature on the fatigue of NC metals reveals that fatigue failure still occurs for NC metals, often with nothing more than a modest improvement in performance over CG metals.[26,27]
Perhaps the explanation for the lack of dramatic improvements in fatigue performance is related to the instability of NC grain structures, which are known to evolve even during storage at room temperature.[28] Previous experimental observations of NC grain growth during plastic deformation,[29,30] indentation experiments[31] and as a result of fatigue loading[14,32] warrant serious consideration. The grain growth reported by Witney etal.'s[14] fatigue experiments on NC Cu presumably refers to modest overall grain growth, rather than discontinuous local coarsening observed in monotonic loading experiments by Gianola et al.[29] In addition, several numerical models predicted evolution in NC grain structures under both elastic[33,34] and plastic[35, 36, 37] deformation. These previous observations on room-temperature mechanically driven grain growth lead one to suspect that NC metals may evolve such coarse grain structures during fatigue loading, and that the fatigue mechanisms may be influenced more by the evolved grain structure than by the initial structure.
To investigate the relationship between deformation mechanisms and the fatigue behavior of NC metals, stress-life fatigue tests were performed on three Ni-based NC alloys with microstructural evaluation both before and after testing using focused ion beam (FIB) cross sectioning, electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).
2 Experimental Method
Three NC nickel alloys were fabricated by electrodeposition via the direct-LIGA lithographic micromolding process with varying solute content: nominally pure Ni deposited in a Watts bath,[38] Ni-22 wt pct Fe,[39] and Ni-0.5 wt pct Mn.[40] These alloys represent different metallurgical configurations: the Watts Ni contains only trace impurities, the Ni-0.5Mn alloy contains <1 pct alloying content,[41] while the Ni-Fe samples contain ≥20 pct alloying content. LIGA Ni alloys were deposited in a cantilever geometry for fatigue experiments (described in detail subsequently), while various dogbone specimens were also fabricated using similar dimensions for characterizing the stress-strain response. Dogbone-shaped Ni-Fe samples were electrodeposited separately in lithographically patterned molds for fatigue testing under pure tensile stresses. These dogbone samples were 10-μm thick with a gage length of 2000 μm and a gage width of 1000 μm.
While fatigue testing was performed primarily on as-deposited material, in a separate study, each alloy was subjected to annealing treatments to determine the thermal stability of the grain structure. As-deposited samples underwent annealing in a vacuum of 10−3 torr for 1 hour at 473, 623, 773, or 923 K (200, 350, 500, or 650 °C). Grain structures were examined by making FIB cross sections and viewing under channeling ion imaging conditions. Average grain sizes for the annealing experiments were measured based on ASTM standard E 112.[43] The results of these measurements show that Ni-0.5Mn is significantly more resistant to thermally driven grain growth than either Ni or Ni-22Fe.
Postmortem microscopy was performed on fatigue samples using FIB milling and ion channeling imaging techniques using an FEI Nova1 600 Nanolab and FEI Helios2 Nanolab. Additionally, electron transparent foils were prepared using FIB milling and low keV cleaning for subsequent EBSD and TEM using a TECNAI3 F30 ST operating at 300 kV. FIB cross sections and TEM foils were cut normal to the deposition direction (i.e., the X-Y plane described in Figure 4).
3 Results
If the grain size is increased, however, the exceptional fatigue resistance is diminished. The Ni sample annealed at 250 °C was tested in fatigue and is shown as a solid circle data point in Figure 5(a). The grain size distribution of this annealed sample (inset Figure 1(a)) contains a substantial fraction of grains with diameters greater than 100 nm. At a peak stress amplitude of 1.5 GPa, the annealed Ni sample failed at 105 cycles, whereas the as-deposited material had a fatigue life of >107 cycles at this stress level.
To examine whether fatigue-induced grain growth in these alloys could also be induced by static loading, we prepared two additional experiments: a constant bending stress experiment for Ni-0.5Mn (the alloy which had the strongest propensity for fatigue-induced grain growth) and a sustained-load microindentation of all three NC alloys. The loading fixture from the fatigue experiments was used to apply a constant peak bending stress of 750 MPa to an as-deposited test specimen of Ni-0.5Mn for 20 days (10 continuous days at + 750 MPa and 10 days at –750 MPa). This represented comparable peak stress levels and overall time duration of the experimental conditions, which resulted in the formation of coarsened grains, as shown in Figure 7(c). After holding the stress at each peak (+/–) for 10 days, the sample was subsequently dissected using FIB cross sectioning to inspect for grain coarsening, but no evidence of grain growth was found. Vickers indentation was performed on all three alloys with a peak force of 0.5 N, held constant for 8 hours. FIB cross sections underneath the indentation marks in all three NC alloys also showed no evidence of coarsening beneath the indentation. These results suggest that the cyclic nature of the fatigue process was responsible for grain growth, rather than a static-loading mechanism.
TEM micrographs of fatigued Ni-Fe tensile coupons are shown in Figure 11, showing the coarse grain aggregate at the crack initiation site. Evidence of CG aggregates in tension-tension fatigue is important, because it demonstrates that the mechanism is not dependent on the specific stress state of the test sample, as the NC LIGA samples were tested under fully reversed bending. Several of the tensile coupons were annealed at various temperatures to grow the grains and probe the fatigue behavior. One sample is shown in the cross section in Figure 11(b). This sample was annealed at 650 °C for 1 hour (resulting in grain sizes >>1 μm) and shows traditional dislocation ladder structures associated with persistent slip in the microcrystalline grains near the crack wake. These collective dislocation structures occur over micron-scale dimensions and intersect the top surface of the sample at the locations shown by red arrows. At these locations, the top surface of the grain exhibits marked surface depressions, or so-called "intrusions," coincident with the dislocation pileups. The micron length scale of the dislocation structures emphasizes the fact that truly NC grains cannot support persistent slip, because they are not large enough to contain such arrangements.
4 Discussion
The preceding results establish several important facts, the first of which is that these NC Ni alloys possess exceptional fatigue resistance, with S-N behavior far exceeding existing commercial alloys. The endurance limit of NC Ni and Ni-22Fe is quantitatively anomalous when scaled by the ultimate strength: whereas conventional Ni and its alloys typically have an endurance limit that is ~35 pct of the ultimate tensile strength, the Ni and Ni-22Fe alloys presented here exhibit endurance limits >60 pct of the ultimate tensile strength. The average grain size of these alloys is well below 100 nm, and when stress levels are raised enough to cause failure, the fatigue process results in grain growth associated with crack initiation. TEM analysis of coarse grains suggests that the length scale of traditional dislocation-based mechanisms such as PSBs requires several hundreds of nanometers or even microns to operate. The fatigue behavior of these alloys represents an interruption of traditional fatigue failure processes analogous to the breakdown in Hall–Petch scaling associated with transitions in dislocation mechanisms.[18]
The importance of small grain size in achieving high fatigue performance is demonstrated most clearly by comparing the performance of NC Ni and NC Ni-22Fe to the Ni-0.5Mn and annealed Ni alloys. While the maximum grain sizes of the former are approximately 150 and 75 nm, respectively, the Ni-0.5Mn and annealed Ni alloys contain grains several hundred nanometers in size. Grains this large located in regions of maximum stress would be more susceptible to persistent slip because of their ability to sustain collective dislocation structures necessary to form surface intrusions and extrusions. A more subtle point is that both the Ni-0.5Mn alloy and annealed Ni fatigue samples showed distributed microcracking, whereas the NC Ni and NC Ni-22Fe only contained a single crack. The presence of multiple microcracks points to the fact that many regions in the material were similarly susceptible to crack initiation. While the NC grained materials may suppress the traditional crack initiation process, this fine grain structure offers little resistance to subsequent crack propagation. Once a single crack initiated in a NC alloy, the flaw would propagate and cause failure before any other coarsening and initiation could occur.
4.1 Adiffusional Grain Growth
Grain growth is typically thought of as a diffusive thermally activated process. Most metals and alloys are stable at low homologous temperatures due to limited diffusional boundary mobility, which decreases exponentially with decreasing temperature.[48] An estimate of grain boundary velocity supports this assertion: in aluminum,[49] for example, the estimated velocity of nanoscale grain boundaries drops from 40 μm/s at 0.7Tm to only 10−9 μm/s at room temperature.
The existence of athermal grain growth in NC metals is supported by observation of coarsening at cryogenic temperatures[31] and by many other observations at ambient temperatures.[14,28,29,50,51] Molecular dynamics studies on Ni grain boundaries has predicted that ~25 pct of the grain boundary types can undergo nonthermally activated motion.[52] In the present investigation, there is indirect evidence that athermal coarsening may be present in the NC Ni alloys; of the three alloys considered in this study, the Ni-0.5Mn exhibited the least resistance to fatigue-induced grain growth even though this same alloy showed the best resistance to annealing-induced grain growth.
Stress-driven boundary motion has been observed experimentally,[29, 30, 31,50,53,54] as well as predicted by simulations[33,34] and theory.[55] Recent experimental results by Rupert et al.[30] confirmed much of this theory in NC aluminum, although for monotonic tensile stresses. Independent simulations[33] predict that elastic stresses result in a significant driving force for boundary motion even greater than if plasticity occurs concomitantly. In such cases, stored elastic strain energy can exceed the local curvature driving force, resulting in rippled boundaries during grain growth, qualitatively similar to the wavy grain boundary shown in Figure 10. The elongated nature of the grains along directions of maximum shear, most evident in the Ni-22Fe example in Figure 8(b), is further evidence indicating that the shear component of the stress tensor is important to the coarsening process.
The observed mechanically induced grain growth process may be related to the well-known process of dynamic recrystallization (DRX); however, there are several features of the microstructural evolution that distinguish the observed phenomenon from DRX. Grains that have dynamically recrystallized have been observed due to high temperature fatigue in Ni,[56] with similar boundary shapes (serrated grain boundaries and preferential growth along planes of maximum shear stress). However, the present experiments were run at room temperature (homologous temperature T < 0.2Tmp), whereas previous work on the DRX process is associated with much higher homologous temperatures (T > 0.4Tmp). Dynamic recrystallization also typically involves the nucleation of new grains through the formation of high-angle subgrain boundaries. This process necessarily involves the formation of dislocation cells, a collective process that is not possible due to the extremely fine starting grain size of these Ni alloys. Therefore, the presently observed room-temperature fatigue-induced grain evolution appears fundamentally distinct from the DRX process.
Well-established metallurgical principles of grain stabilization against normal grain growth suggest that the incorporation of either pinning particles or solute content will impede boundary motion; however, current research on this exact phenomenon in NC metals suggests something quite different, that solute encourages abnormal grain growth.[57] The three alloys examined in this study represent three distinct metallurgical scenarios in this regard: Ni with only impurity content, Ni-0.5Mn with a small solute content, and Ni-22Fe with a large solute content. Ordering of these metals by alloy content, however (Ni, Ni-0.5Mn, Ni-22Fe), does not correspond to their vulnerability to fatigue-induced coarsening (Ni-0.5Mn, Ni-22Fe/Ni). More detailed analysis of the effect of impurity content, which is beyond the scope of the work presented here, may shed light on this issue.
Grain orientation can also have profound effects on growth behavior,[52,58] from elastic mismatch accentuating the elastic driving force[33] to causing local variations in boundary mobility.[59] Comparison between the as-deposited and evolved coarse grain textures reveals that while Ni and Ni-0.5Mn coarse grains maintain the parent texture, Ni-22Fe coarse grains develop a preferred \( \left\langle {110} \right\rangle \) texture along the Z direction, which is notably absent from the as-deposited texture (Figure 3). In the NC Ni and Ni-0.5Mn alloys, texture does not appear to play as strong a role in the boundary mobility. Inspection of the EBSD patterns for the Ni-22Fe coarsened grains also reveals that the grains have the \( \left\langle {1\bar{1}2} \right\rangle \) pole aligned with the stress axis (X direction). This texture happens to be the well-known orientation that any fcc single crystal rotates toward during uniaxial deformation[60] to take full advantage of available slip systems. NC grains in these experiments would behave quite differently than a single crystal under uniaxial tension, although collective grain rotation was observed in both experiments and simulation.[7,35,61, 62, 63, 64] Evidence of this is suggested by the grain orientation map for Ni-22Fe (Figure 8(b)). Examination of the elongated coarse grains reveals that they contain several low-angle sub-boundaries, which may be remnants of smaller grains. This structure is reminiscent of a mechanism suggested by experiments[7] and simulation[61,65] in which neighboring grains under an external stress rotate to a common orientation, eliminating high-angle grain boundaries between them and allowing collective dislocation mechanisms to occur. Unfortunately, a clear conclusion on this topic cannot yet be drawn from the available data, and additional work is needed to identify the precise mechanism of fatigue-induced grain growth in all three alloys.
4.2 Future Work
There are several questions that these experiments raise that cannot yet be fully answered. One issue is whether locally coarsened grains form in uncracked specimens. The presence of cracks provides a fiduciary mark pointing to the location of coarse grain regions, but without such a means to find these grains, the search for CG aggregates becomes a "needle-in-a-haystack" exercise. In an effort to survey large regions of material for coarsening prior to failure, other methods of inspection are possible including the use of XRD. Such a study, however, is beyond the scope of this work. Another question to be answered by additional research is whether there is a threshold stress amplitude below which the coarsening process does not occur. The present results do suggest the existence of such a threshold for grain growth; such a threshold stress may be the source of the observed endurance limit in the absence of dislocation-induced thresholds. Further study is also necessary to understand why cyclic loading drives the growth process, while similar levels of static stresses do not. There is experimental evidence of cyclically driven local coarsening in ultra-fine-grained Cu[66] and NC-twinned Cu;[32] however, in those cases, there was no evidence of anomalous fatigue performance. In neither this study nor other local coarsening studies does there emerge a clear mechanism distinction between cyclically driven and monotonically driven coarsening.
5 Conclusions
In conclusion, we have examined three NC Ni alloys in high-cycle fatigue and found evidence of exceptional, quantitatively anomalous performance. The most striking result is the apparent suppression of fatigue crack nucleation and failure by prevention of collective dislocation slip through the preservation of a NC grain structure. In cases when the stress is increased, leading to failure, thorough examination reveals that crack initiation is always preceded by the formation of a region of highly coarsened grains. Postmortem microscopy of these coarsened regions appears consistent with published literature, which suggests an adiffusional shear stress driven growth process. Analysis of several fatigued samples indicates a potential mechanism for fatigue failure in which grains coarsen to a size that supports collective dislocation activity, allowing PSBs to initiate a fatigue crack. Once the crack traverses the tougher, coarsened grains, the less ductile NC matrix presents little propagation resistance.
The authors thank Drs. T.R Christensen and S.H. Goods for supplying the various electroplated alloys used in this investigation, as well as Dr. E.A. Holm for helpful discussions and guidance regarding grain growth phenomenon. The authors also thank Dr. P.G. Kotula, Dr. B.G. Clark, Dr. J.R. Michael, M. Rye, and B. McKenzie for electron microscopy support, as well as Dr. M. Rodriguez for XRD support. This work was performed, in part, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a United States Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, user facility. This work was funded by the United States Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract No. DE-AC04-94AL85000.


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Rivka's death certificate identifies her parents as Morris (Moricz?) Kahn and Sarah Brown (Braun?). Her matzeva identifies her father as Mordechai Mendel. According to various records she was born in Sziget, Maramaros, Hungary probably in 1845. Could Mordechai Mendel have been Mordechai ben Daniel KAHAN from Huszt? I have not been able to find any reference to Rivka's parents in vital records from Maramaros. All suggestions will be welcome.
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BALTIMORE (Stockpickr) -- Mr. Market's looking especially strong right now -- which is all the more reason to load up on "crash stocks."
Worldwide, stocks have managed to turn out a prodigious rally in the last week. At home, the S&P 500 has climbed more than 8.7% in those last five trading sessions -- a push higher that looks like it'll continue as of this morning's open. As a result, it's likely that we'll get a test of the upper bound of the price range that's constricted stock movements in the last quarter. That's a crucial resistance level to break through for this rally to continue.
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The added uncertainty factor is why I'm advocating "crash stocks." First, a little bit on what a crash stock is -- and what it's not.
I'm not talking about buying up the traditional boring names to get defensive. Instead, a crash stock is a company that sports the combination of a discounted fundamental valuation and bullish momentum and relative strength trends -- that combination makes these six stocks better-suited to defend your portfolio from a bear raid. And it also means that these crash stocks are primed to big beneficiaries if this rally can push through to new ground.
Without further ado, here's a look at the crash stocks.
Philip Morris International
As the world's second-biggest tobacco company -- and one of TheStreet Ratings' top-rated tobacco stocks -- Philip Morris International (PM) owns approximately 16% of the tobacco market outside of the U.S. That's an important distinction; the firm split off from former parent Altria (MO) in early 2008, a move that gave PM the rest of the world while Altria focused on tobacco sales stateside. That left Philip Morris International with a portfolio of incredibly strong brands (such as Marlboro, L&M, and namesake Philip Morris) and access to some of the world's biggest growth markets.
It's that growth -- particularly in markets such as Eastern Europe and Asia -- that makes PM such an attractive name. More-established markets in Western Europe provide a dynamic that's more like the U.S., giving PM the best of both worlds. This name isn't without its flaws, however. Earning revenues in everything from yuan to euros and reporting in dollars means that recent strength in the dollar can really take a bite out of PM's earnings.
Still, that problem is likely to be a larger problem in the short term than it will be further out. This stock is clearly a solid choice for income investors. With a 4.72% yield at present, investors looking for both return on capital and return of capital should be buyers of PM.
I highlighted Philip Morris recently in "5 Stocks to Trade for End-of-Month Gains" and "8 Dividend Stocks Increasing Payouts."
Digital Realty Trust
Datacenter REIT Digital Realty Trust (DLR) is a niche firm that owns approximately 16.8 million square feet of space used by datacenters, internet gateways and other technology firms -- a specialization that puts the firm in a higher class of defensive income-generation assets. Demand for datacenter capacity has been on the upswing in recent years, particularly as new tech trends such as cloud computing and smartphones overwhelm the locations that are currently available. That factor helps ensure that tenancy rates are high for DLR.
Because DLR's facilities are both specialized and located around prime geographic areas, tenants' switching costs are high and competition among new tenants is likely to keep prices for space high as well. The firm currently holds more than 2 million square feet of space for future development; with rates currently at record lows, DLR should be able to expand that available space in the near-term with a very low cost of capital.
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Many investors have a misguided view of what a REIT is. DLR isn't a way to get portfolio exposure to real estate trends. Tenants sign long-term triple-net leases, which insulate the firm from the day-to-day moves of its property portfolio. Instead, this is an income-generation tool that's much more impacted by datacenter trends. With a dividend yield scraping against 5% at current prices, investors shouldn't ignore this name right now.
Another tech name on this list of "crash stocks" is Apple (AAPL). The mammoth computer and mobile device firm has been the center of attention lately with this week's release of the iCloud service and iOS 5 today, the iPhone 4S later this week, and the untimely passing of the firm's visionary CEO, Steve Jobs, last week.
Jobs' passing has brought a lot of questions about the future of the firm -- but an executive team that shares his vision, and the creation of Apple University, an in-house training program conceptualized by Jobs himself to keep his way of thinking at Apple, should help to continue the magic that's been coming out of Cupertino since the iPod was released in 2001.
Investor ennui has been a major problem for shares of Apple -- Wall Street has been underrating this stock lately. A perfect example comes from analysts' complaints about the new iPhone 4S, followed by record-breaking sales of the device last weekend.
That's probably thanks to the wild growth that this firm has experienced during and after the biggest economic implosion in most investors' memories. Still, the fundamentals are there. I've talked about Apple's fundamental status in the past, but here's a quick refresher: With more than $76 billion in cash and investments on the firm's balance sheet, more than $80 of this stock's share price is cold hard cash. That means that right now, the firm is actually trading for a TTM cash-adjusted P/E of 12 right now.
That's staggeringly low for a firm that's currently experiencing white-knuckle growth.
Apple, which shows up on a recent list of 7 Low-PEG, High-Momentum Stocks, was also featured in "5 Stocks With Big Downside Potential."
CPFL Energia
Now onto a more traditional defensive name: CPFL Energia (CPL), an $11 billion Brazilian electric utility. Utility stocks have a reputation for being boring, but that's not been the case lately -- relative strength for the industry has been dramatically outperforming any other industry component of the S&P. Historically, that's an indication that outperformance is likely to continue.
And CPL is a bit more exciting than most. This Brazilian firm serves more than 6 million customers, providing in excess of 10% of the country's electric distribution demand. That exposure to one of the strongest economies in Latin America, coupled with legal monopoly status, makes CPL's growth trajectory all the more impressive.
While there have been some concerns about Brazil -- and depreciation in the real lately -- the concerns are more about a slowing path to growth than a reversal of fortunes. The industrial sector remains a huge driver of both Brazil's economy and electricity demand in the country. The lack of exposure to the U.S. and a 6.3% dividend payout that's not denominated in dollars makes this power utility a strong diversification name.
CPL is one of the highest-yielding utility stocks.
Another power play on our crash stock list isn't a utility -- instead, it's ABB (ABB), a $43 billion power and automation efficiency firm. ABB's products are all designed to increase efficiency and save costs for customers, who tend to be utilities or industrial firms that have significant power needs. By reducing power consumption and redundancies at customer firms, ABB has carved out a nice economic moat for its niche.
This is another name that has dramatic international exposure on its income statement. Emerging-market sales are quickly becoming the most important geographic segment of revenues -- and their fragmented nature means that ABB isn't becoming beholden to the economic fortunes of any particular company for growth.
A global trend toward investing in power infrastructure bodes well for ABB. Because the firm lays claim to some of the best intellectual property and expertise in the industry, its ability to generate efficiency savings outpaces most of its peers and makes the firm's offerings the first choice for most potential customers.
ABB, one of the top-yielding industrial stocks, is also one of Ken Fisher's top holdings.
Procter & Gamble
Finally, there's Procter & Gamble (PG) -- the name that's probably the most traditional defensive name on our list of crash stocks. But PG's popularity as a defensive name is there for a reason; this consumer non-cyclical is well suited to performing at a high level even when the economy and the stock market aren't.
That robustness is the result of an unmatched portfolio of consumer brands that includes names such as Tide, Gillette and Charmin -- products that consumers are less likely to cut back on even when their purse strings are tightened. After all, cutting back on toilet paper is unlikely to be a cost-savings measure in the average American household. That said, private label brands have been increasing competition for PG, particularly in commoditized products where the firm sells the higher-priced offering.
Marketing is the biggest and best way to combat that pressure -- and PG has been pretty adept at proving its value case to consumers through a big promotional budget. At the same time, the company is pursuing meaningful growth through exposure to international markets. A recession-resistant product base and a history of returning value to shareholders make this a solid, if obvious defensive play.
PG, one of TheStreet Ratings' top-rated household products, shows up on a recent list of 10 Top Warren Buffett Dividend Stocks.
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Saving an old entry door
Q: I bought and old house (1911) and it has this great arched top entry door that is solid oak. Of course, some time ago, some idiot thought that it would look much better covered with a few coats of ugly, brown paint so I am left with the decision to strip and restore or replace in kind. There are a few issues that go along with restoring it and I'd like to get some opinions: 1. First of all, it is obviously not insulated although the thickness is 1-3/4"; 2. Second, someone cut a mail slot in it that is ugly and does a great job of cooling the house in the winter when the mail person stuffs in the mail and leaves it in the opening with the cover opened; 3. It has the old motise lock; 4. The window is single pane glass.
My approach would be to plug the mail slot and cavity for the mortise lock (I don't like the look of modernization kits for the lock and I don't think that they'd be compatible with the lockset that we've chosen anyway). The window opening would be upgraded to double pane tempered glass that I would need to glaze myself (never done that before!).
So, the big question is, given the amount of work that is involved (which doesn't bother me as woodworking is one of my hobbies and restoration instead of contributing to landfills is my preference), is the fact that the door will still be uninsulated a big enough reason to simply toss it?
Thanks in advance for any input!
If your up to doing the refinish then I would say save it for sure!
Things built in 1911 are a lot better than today. Wood is not a bad insulator.. Steel and fiberglass etc. are used today just because of manufacturing time and cost. And a whole door/frame rework to look like what you already have would be costly.
Baldwin Hardware makes some nice restoration mortise hardware [ a little pricey] if you want to keep it period looking. Or you could mill up an edge filler for the mortise lock cut and then adapt the door to a modern key in knob. A copule of nice brass plates [maybe with address numbers on the outer plate] could take care of the mail slot issue.
I agree on the modernization plates.. We use em where I work but the look a little gawdy..
Good luck!
Because it is uninsullated would not be a reason to toss it.
There are probably hundreds of thousands of beautifully restored older homes with uninsulated doors on the front.
My suggestion: If you feel you can bring this door back to it's old glory...go for it.
... And make sure you get some before and after pics and post them on the gallery forum. :wink:
In addition, I'm in the process (as I type) of demolishing a faux brick fireplace/entire wall in my living room (my wife is yelling at me to get back to work, BTW!). Is this gallery just for woodworking or carpentry work in general? Pretty much everything in this house is going to get reworked and I'd love to share my progress.
So far, I've found newspapers from 1953 but they're so brittle, they litterally disintegrate when I try to unfold them to see what the headlines were. Pretty neat but when you consider that the walls are balloon framed, there are no fire stops and they are filled with 60 year old newspapers, I shudder to think of how quickly this placed would go up in flames if it ever caught fire!
Thanks for your opinions. I was kind of leaning toward restoration, but I wanted to know if y'all thought that I was crazy (for this, anyway).
The PROJECT SHOWCASE is for 'projects'; they are for any projects on your home, garage, yard, shed, deck, etc... that members would like to post and share.
Pictures are also helpful to the members of this forum:
1.) They can help other members here learn the best process to use in working on their own projects.
2.) They can serve as an encouragement to tackle some of their own that they have been putting off....when they see the great final results.
Go to the home page (Main page) and look for the Project Showcase forum under DIY repair. Or simply click on this to go right there:
If you need help on how to post a pic, let us know.
Make sure to post some before and after pic's!
Never know what you'll find behind some old walls...
I helped renovate a house oustide Washington D.C. back in the 70's...
Part of the walls had been covered with portions of one of those big maps you see in the old war movies that they pushed tanks/ships around on with a long stick.
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Indoor: Bettered all of her previous personal-bests ... placed ninth at the C-USA Championship with a PR time of 9:57.87 in the 3,000 meters - the fourth-fastest time on UAB's all-time list ... finished ninth at the Vulcan Invite with a personal-best mile time of 5:01.98 ... raced to a 5,000 meter time of 17:02.98 to place 15th at the Meyo Invite ... crossed the line in seventh place in the same event with a time of 17:20.67 at the C-USA Championship. Outdoor: Set a career-best in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:36.95 at the Samford Invite ... took first in the same event at the Alabama Relays with a time of 4:38.53 ... finished fifth in the 5,000 meters with a time of 16:55.39 at the C-USA Championship ... ran to a time of 36:10.99 in her first-ever 10,000-meter race at the Mt. Sac Relays ... placed sixth in the same event with a time of 36:30.24 at the C-USA Championship.
Indoor: Redshirted. Outdoor: UAB's top finisher in the 5,000m (17:45.03) at the Alabama Relays ... placed third in the same event with a time of 17:32.09 at the Mt. SAC Relays ... won the 3,000m at the Vanderbilt Invitational with a personal-best time of 10:06.02 ... top finisher for the Blazers at the C-USA Championships in the 5,000m, running a personal-best 17:12.65.
Indoor: Ran an indoor-best 3,000m at the C-USA Championships (10:07.32). Outdoor: Ran an outdoor-best 5,000m at the Mississippi Open (17:47.85) to take the event title ... placed ninth in the 1,500m at the LSU Alumni Gold (4:50.85) ... crossed the line in 18:16.21 in the 5,000m at the Sea Ray Relays to place 12th.
Indoor: Ran to an eighth-place finish in the 5,000m run at the Houston Opener (18:21.97). Outdoor: Ran the 1,000m run in 5:05.66 at the Alabama Relays to finish in 26th place ... placed 32nd in the 1,500m run at the War Eagle Invitational (5:09.38) ... recorded a season-best time of 4:57.34 in the 1,500m run at the Ole Miss Invitational.
Attended I.E.S. Félix De Azara in Zaragoza, Spain ... coached by Jesús Romero ... placed fourth in the 1,500m at the Indoor Spain Championships ... came in eighth at the Cross Country Spain Championship ... placed fifth in the 1,500m at the Outdoor Spain Championship.
Full name is Clara Cid ... born Feb. 16, 1990 ... daughter of Juan Carlos Cid and Ángela Oreja ... majoring in business.


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This is a discussion on Which is more important in ballistics? within the Defensive Ammunition & Ballistics forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by 40Bob I believe it is a combination of ME and KE . We know it takes energy to do work. We know ...
Don't make the mistake of thinking a small person cannot be an effective fighter. While weight does matter, it is not the main determinant. Your antagonist that night in El Paso just wasn't choosing the right targets. Boxing is not fighting, it is a game. Although some of the training is useful, it conditions the practitioner to avoid hitting the most disabling targets while denying him the use of the entire hand and the rest of the body's weapons.
As we used to teach in the spook business, carry a 25 if it makes you feel good, but do not ever load it. If you load it you may shoot it. If you shoot it you may hit somebody, and if you hit somebody - and he finds out about it - he may be very angry with you. -- Jeff Cooper
HOLA 40 bob: Ya big --XXX--- - , heheh, agreed, But you will have to admit that if those hits had been directed to yer family's jeweles, your throat, or even open fingers to your eyes, it might have been far different. Me, chicken, I hurt too easily, soooo I rely upon the universal equalizer.
You also posted -->You can throw all the mosquito legs and postage stamps you want, but it does not matter.
That was in answer to the ballistic question, which does not include the physical placement of the projectile.
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If you can read this thank a teacher. If it is written in English thank a Marine.
If the handgun could deliver the energy and the velocity of a rifle then the hydraulic shock alone will take the fight out of the BG.
None of it matters if you can't hit your target.
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Smaller lighter bullets need speed. Bigger heavier bullets dont.
Muzzle energy information is the scientific mathematics to make small bullets act like big ones.
" Blessed is that man, who when facing death, thinks only of his front sight"
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My rifle and pistol are tools, I am the weapon.
And Lord, if today is truly the day you call me home
Let me die in a pile of empty brass."


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Global and Local
by Cecil M. Robeck Jr.
Cecil M. Robeck Jr. who teaches at Fuller Theological Seminary, is a frequent interpreter of Pentecostalisin in ecumenical meetings and is former editor of Pneuma, the journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. This article appeared in The Christian Century, (March, 7, 2006, p. 34.) Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation: used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock.
As the message of Pentecost spread, it adapted to fit existing cultures. Korean Pentecostals, for instance, frequently climb "prayer mountains" for pre-sunrise prayer services, a reflection of a pre-Christian past. At Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, reputedly the worlds largest church, parishioners recite the Apostles Creed, pray or sing the Lords Prayer, and pray for the reunification of Korea every Sunday, reflecting something of the old Presbyterian majority. Preachers are expected to take off their shoes and don special slippers when they preach, for they stand on "holy ground." More pragmatically, during the service people are encouraged to pray aloud en masse in "concerts of prayer," but prayer stops the second a bell is rung. American Pentecostals would find such things almost unthinkable.
In much of Central and Eastern Europe, mirroring the practice of Orthodox Christians in the region, the men at Pentecostal services sit or stand on one side of the congregation while women sit or stand on the other, often with their heads covered. Some of them make the sign of the cross, and they share a common communion cup. While ample room is given for manifestations of tongues, interpretation and prophecy, frequently the congregation also sits through two or even three sermons in a single service.
In Scandinavia, the vast majority of Pentecostals are members of what amounts to a national Pentecostal church (of Norway, Sweden, Finland, etc.), in which each congregation is viewed as autonomous, though in recent years these churches monopoly has been slightly altered as newer groups have emerged. The situation becomes more complex, however, when one realizes that Pentecostals often hold dual membership in a state church (the state Lutheran Church, for example) in order to avoid marginalization in society. In Italy, many Pentecostals have aligned with the Communist Party because it is one of the few places where their influence can be measured over against that of the Catholic Church.
In Latin America, Pentecostals share a common culture with Roman Catholicism, out of which many members have come. The parallels at the level of personal piety and popular religion are abundant. One Pentecostal scholar has noted that in Latin America there are Catholics who honor the pope and Catholics (read: Pentecostals) without a pope, though many local pastors exercise more power among their people than any pope. While many Pentecostals in Latin America distance themselves from Catholicism, most of them remain close to the concepts of suffering and sacrifice seen in the Jesus figures on display in caskets, such as are found in Catholic churches in Mexico, or in the crucified Christ who appears on crucifixes. Some Pentecostals pray to Mary and the saints, avail themselves of "holy water," and leave the equivalent of milagros in crutches, braces, and wheelchairs as testimonies to Gods healing interventions. On a visit to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City, I watched as women prayed while brushing their babies against fully dressed statues of the Virgin, bringing to mind the use of "healing handkerchiefs" among Pentecostals (see Acts 19:11-12). Some of the newer, indigenous Pentecostal denominations have embraced the "prosperity" gospel proclaimed by independent North American televangelists, but link their emphasis on prosperity to the "blood of Jesus," thereby aligning it with the more traditional Catholic theme of suffering.
In Africa, Pentecostal manifestations are even more diverse, Healing crusades, which have gone on for half a century, continue unabated. Independent megachurches led by gifted African pastors are common. Even among the poorer churches meeting in fields and forests, self-help programs, educational programs, computing classes and feeding programs are common. In postapartheid South Africa, churches that had been separated along racial lines have made progress toward integration, though any time spent with these people suggests that incredible pain remains for people of color and that racial tensions remain. Investment in the poor by those with more remains a begrudged priority. Still, there are a number of large, independent churches in and around Soweto that could teach American Pentecostals a thing or two about social concern. For them, this aspect of mission has been a matter of survival.
As Pentecostals celebrate their centennial, they are still far from realizing the potential of the movement as a truly global power. While many Pentecostals in Latin America and in Africa are becoming politically active, they continue to remain committed to historic understandings of the Christian faith. Issues such as abortion and the ordination of homosexuals that have become church-dividing for so many historic churches will not emerge as issues among Pentecostals in the foreseeable future. Their independent, entrepreneurial spirit will continue to be both their greatest strength and their greatest weakness as they seek new ways to connect with one another.


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Highway to Hel
The Mother of All Ancestor Questions
Last week I answered some of the most common questions that I receive about doing ancestor work well. During the course of writing that article, I received one question that seemed important enough to warrant its own column, a question that is actually three questions in one:
- How do you honor ancestors with whom you had a complicated and not always good relationship in life?
- What do you do with ancestors whose actions in life (for instance, like being instrumental in genocide) are actions that you completely disavow?
- Moreover, what do you do when some of your ancestors were the victims of atrocity, and the others were those who perpetrated those self-same atrocities?
Light stuff, right?
These questions are so involved and so very complex even to an ancestor worker like myself that I actually called my colleague Laura Patsouris (without a doubt the most gifted ancestor worker I know) for a consult! We hashed out what we would advise in such a situation and that's the advice that I'm going to give here, but in truth there's no easy, pat answer. I don't know what I would do really, until I were faced with that situation and did the necessary divination (or, if I weren't a diviner, sought out someone to do so for me) and prayed to my Gods and Disir (ancestral guardians, powerful female ancestors) for guidance. Still, this might give you a working game plan, should you find yourself in this situation with no one nearby to consult.
Question A
This is actually the easiest of the questions to answer. It's really not all that uncommon a thing. It's important to remember that relationships can continue to grow and evolve and even heal after a relative's death. In a situation where the relationship in life was unhealthy or hurtful, you have a couple of options. You can call upon your other ancestors to help you repair the relationship or you can begin a series of elevations to help heal that ancestor.
It might take time, but it is possible to work through a great deal of hurt and anger and to turn such a relationship into a strong ancestral bond. There has to be willingness on both sides, though. If the living relationship was so abusive and so hurtful that even contemplating an elevation is a horror, then there is no need to do so. You can always appeal to older, stronger ancestors, to your Disir, to the guardians of your ancestral line (we all have dead who take this role) to keep that person away. What you do depends on the nature of the relationship and its history. There is no one answer here.
Question B
There's a big difference between dealing with an ancestor who may have been personally hurtful in life, or who may have been an asshole (we all have those people in our lines somewhere), and dealing with an ancestor who was a sociopath, a war criminal, the willing participant in genocide or someone who committed a massacre, or who might have been a serial killer, etc. What do you do then?
I have to admit, this question really left me at a loss. It's one that I knew I'd have to address sooner or later, but I'd been trying to make sure it was "later" rather than now. Still, people are asking and it deserves an answer. What do you do if, for instance, your grandfather was Josef Mengele?
The author of several books on the Northern Tradition, Galina Krasskova is a Heathen priest, shaman, and devotee of Odin. She blogs at Gangleri's Grove.
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Trial to Assess the Impact of PrEP to Tenofovir Gel on the Efficacy of Tenofovir-containing ART on Viral Suppression (TOAST)
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic remains among the investigators greatest public health challenges. In the absence of an effective vaccine, focus has shifted to other prevention strategies such as pre-exposure prophylaxis. Tenofovir, with potent activity against retroviruses [1], was developed for oral use as Viread®, which is widely used for HIV treatment. The efficacy of Viread® has been demonstrated in treatment-experienced and naïve patients [2,3]. In antiretroviral-naive patients, the combination of tenofovir with lamivudine and efavirenz has been classified as a preferred regimen in the Department of Health and Human Services treatment guidelines[4], and has been adopted by the South African Department of health as the first line regimen in treatment-naïve HIV infected patients since April 2010. The durability of antiviral response, favourable resistance profile, once daily dosing, and excellent long term safety profile of tenofovir [5], makes this drug an attractive option in both treatment and prevention regimens and its long half-life [6], made it an ideal choice as the first antiretroviral drug to be formulated as a microbicide gel.
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|Antiretroviral Treatment Outcomes
|Drug: Tenofovir, lamivudine and efavirenz
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: No masking
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Open Label Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Impact of Prophylactic Exposure to Tenofovir Gel on the Efficacy of Subsequent Tenofovir-containing Antiretroviral Therapy on Viral Suppression
- The Antiretroviral Treatment Failure Rate at 12 Months. [ Time Frame: 12 months post ART intiation or until time of death ]Treatment failure is defined as viral load > 50 copies/ml, antiretroviral regimen changes for treatment failure or death
- Change in CD4+ Cell Count From Randomisation to 12 Months Post-randomisation [ Time Frame: Measured at 12 months post ART initiation ]Difference between 12 months and randomisation CD4+ count was calculated and then summarised
- Tenofovir Resistance, Defined as Presence of K65R, K70E or Any of the TAMS Mutations [ Time Frame: From randomisation until either time of termination or time of death ]
- Reported Adverse Events With Severity Grades 3 and 4 Based on the DAIDS Toxicity Grading Tables [ Time Frame: From randomisation until either time of termination or time of death ]
- Cellular and Humoral Immune Responses [ Time Frame: 3 years ]We will assess whether exposure to tenofovir gel at the time of HIV acquisition alters the subsequent humoral and cellular immune responses following antiretroviral treatment initiation
- Genital Viral Shedding (Viral Load on Tear Flow) [ Time Frame: 3 years ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|November 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Tenofovir, lamivudine and efavirenz
Drug: Tenofovir, lamivudine and efavirenz
Tenofovir, 300mg daily, lifelong Lamivudine, 300mg daily, lifelong Efavirenz, 600mg daily, lifelong
|Active Comparator: Zidovudine, lamivudine and efavirenz
Drug: Tenofovir, lamivudine and efavirenz
Tenofovir, 300mg daily, lifelong Lamivudine, 300mg daily, lifelong Efavirenz, 600mg daily, lifelong
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 years or older
- Previously enrolled in the CAPRISA 004 or CAPRISA 008 study - placebo or active arms
- Able and willing to provide informed consent to be screened for, and to enrol in, the study
- Able and willing to provide adequate locator information for study retention purposes
- Confirmed HIV infection in the CAPRISA 004 or 008 trial
- Agree to adhere to study visits and procedures
Exclusion Criteria:
- Currently on antiretroviral therapy (including PMTCT prophylaxis)
- Has any other condition that, based on the opinion of the Investigator or designee, would preclude provision of informed consent, make participation in the study unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving the study objectives.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01387022
|South Africa
|Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 4000
|Principal Investigator:
|Nivashnee Naicker, MBChB
|Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa
|Responsible Party:
|Dr Salim S Abdool Karim, Director, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01387022 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 21, 2011
|Results First Received:
|January 30, 2017
|Last Updated:
|March 23, 2017
Keywords provided by Dr Salim S Abdool Karim, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa:
Antiretroviral treatment
Drug resistance
Treatment outcome
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Anti-HIV Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B6 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers
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