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Match of the weekend: Everton v Manchester United
Wayne Rooney always gets a hard time when he goes back to Merseyside, but he will be in for an especially rough ride at Goodison Park this weekend. It's a fantastic ground to play at because the fans are right on top of you, the atmosphere is so loud and intense. Even when I went there with United the crowd were always up for it, but since Rooney left them for Old Trafford the fixture has taken on extra significance.
Everyone will be waiting for him to slip up, to lash out or to lose his cool. Even if he has a below-par game, people will be speculating about the reasons why, regardless of how good his two recent performances for England were.
But Rooney has to remember that tomorrow is not about him proving a point to the Everton fans or to the people who have been revelling in him being on the front pages all week. It's about doing the job for his team.
To that end, United will still have last season's 3-1 defeat there fresh in their minds. After Chelsea had lost at the same ground in the previous game, a win may well have helped seal the title.
Everton are notoriously poor starters, but this season has been worse than normal. They are really struggling for goals, as the performance against Aston Villa showed. They really should have come away with something. With Louis Saha injured and Yakubu out of shape, they may have to look to Jermaine Beckford to play up front. The striker may have made his name after scoring against United for Leeds, but so far he has not shown many signs that he can make the leap up two divisions.
But when a manager of David Moyes's quality sends out a team at home, you know they've always got a chance.
Upset of the weekend: Birmingham City v Liverpool
It's to Alex McLeish's great credit that perhaps it wouldn't be the biggest shock if his team grabbed a home win this weekend. To the casual observer, Liverpool losing at St Andrew's may look like a result from out of the blue, because of their status.
However, McLeish has built a side that are extremely tough to beat - they only lost twice at home in the league last season, and drew with Liverpool home and away.
With Roy Hodgson presiding over a transitional period at Liverpool, and given the style of play that brought him success at Fulham, he will also be looking to field a solid outfit. Despite his claims that his squad is "over-staffed", he has a dire lack of creative personnel.
With both bosses setting this match up to be a tight encounter, this is a match that could go either way, which speaks volumes for the relative conditions of the two clubs.
Under pressure: Avram Grant - West Ham United v Chelsea
This is a reunion between the West Ham manager and the team he took to a Champions League final, but the way the Hammers are playing at the moment you have trouble believing it's the same man.
They are playing with no fight, no passion, and no creativity. There must be many fans at Upton Park who are already resigned to the fate that they only narrowly avoided last season, because the way they have started this season has been abysmal.
Another former Chelsea man is Scott Parker, and if there is any hope for the Hammers it lies with him. The fact he signed a new contract this week is a rare ray of light for the club. He really should be somewhere better, but he will do his best to drag West Ham out of the mess they are in... unfortunately the way he plays means he will spend parts of the season out through injury and suspension.
Grant may be given more time by the owners because he is their man, but how long they will wait to see things turned around is anyone's guess.
Player to watch: Marouane Chamakh - Arsenal v Bolton Wanderers
With Robin van Persie, Theo Walcott and Nicklas Bendtner all out injured, there is suddenly a lot of pressure heaped on the shoulders of Arsenal's recent arrival.
Arsene Wenger will not have wanted it to pan out this way for him this early, but now we will see if the Moroccan is merely a decent addition to the team or whether he has the talent and will to be a leader from the front.
Under Owen Coyle, playing Bolton may not quite be what it used to, but as a tall forward he will be expected to compete aerially with Gary Cahill and Zat Knight. We will see just how big and brave he really is.
Of course, Arsenal thrive on playing football on the deck and their goals generally come from a number of different players. If Chamakh can fit into that style quickly and enable his team-mates to surge forward then Wenger and the fans can relax a little more about the responsibility he will have to carry for the next few weeks at least.


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Metal bowl certainly will help defend against fire, but you cannot see your fuel clarity or contaminants.
Which is it to be?
Make your choice.
Hi don't use electric pump on Yanmar the pump you have is e membrane when pressurizing before you're pump intake valve from pump will stay open and damage your membrane
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Although the Racor 500 series is grossly over rated for sail boat use, the advantage is it is a top loading filter and a filter can easily be replaced in few minutes, plus filter elements are widely available and comparatively cheap, a case of 12 can be purchased for cruising spares for $100.
When cruising, there is a chance of picking up bad fuel, trying to overcome this problem, far from the operating areas of the tow boat services and the US Coast Guard, the top loading filter is much easier to replace at sea while the boat is pitching and rolling. Even dual switchable filters cannot help for long in this situation.
Sounds like you've got a fair bit of water sitting in the bottom of your tank. That would be a good explanation for all the water showing up in the fuel/water separator and also why your fuel filters are clogging so quickly. Clean out the tank very thoroughly... and you should have far fewer problems.
Just to beat a dead horse, I think you've hit upon the winning formula. Once your tank is clean, and you are on a regular filter replacement schedule and are reasonably diligent about filtering your fuel as it goes into the tank, I don't think you will find the pressure gauge necessary. One was already installed on Aeolus, and I took it off and got rid of it because it was so unnecessary. Never budged. Seems to me a gauge is most useful if you like to live by the edge and wait for your vacuum to go up due to a plugged filter. Not cheap, and a pain to install. You might at least wait to install the gauge until you have done everything else and spin off your filter and see if it shows any sign of clogging.
I like risks more than most people, but not when it comes to safety gear on my boat. By not having the gauge, I don't have an excuse for laziness, so just consider my primary filter change as part of normal annual maintenance. I motor about 150 hours a year.
Again, best of luck and happy sailing.
Thanks all for the feedback and advice. My decision is now made. Do my best effort at personal tank cleaning and fuel polishing. Keep the spin-on filters. Buy a pressure gauge. And probably most important, keep the unlimited towing and a large supply of cold adult beverages.
Tx - I am going to admit that I considered upgrading to a turbine series (500,900), knowing that it was complete overkill from the 2GM20. Larger filtration area in the media, larger bowl, etc.
I ended up figuring that I could buy a lot of 120 spin-on filters for the $300 it would cost me to upgrade.
I empathize with you, cause I went down the same thought process here...but at the end of the day, I think you got a single batch of bad gas. Continue to use the Startron (great stuff) and keep an eye on the water bowl of the filter. Keep the 120 and spend the $$ on a vacumn guage!
Metal Bowl? Come on...
It is true that ABYC, even for diesels, expects a metal bowl on fuel filters. It is also true that it is outrageous that they want to charge you so much to see their regs. You can find the reference in Calder and Casey and other reference guides.
Now whether anyone does that, or agrees that it is necessary, is another thing. I've yet to discuss this with any of my sailing buddies and find one who follows that recommendation. My view is that my fuel filter is 2 feet away from my engine and right next to my fuel tank and fuel lines. If there is fire raging near enough and long enough to melt the bowl on my filter and ignite the diesel, then I'm already either dead or far away from my boat. Gasoline is one thing, my 80% biodiesel is quite another. If I'm dead, fine. If I'm far away, then fine, because there is enough wood and rubber and other combustibles on any boat to ensure total disintegration if a fire is burning in the engine compartment.
If someone gave me a metal bowl Racor would I use it? Sure. But for my time and money, I'm way better off replacing all the old crappy wiring, installing fuses and eliminating other fire hazards than replacing my Racor.
This argument is sort of like an argument over whether it is safe to walk down the street. Depends on the person. I realize ABYC feels they must take the high road, and I'm glad they do, as I follow them religiously on electrical and other things. But this one issue has always struck me as ridiculous.
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I have read tha Canada Shipping Act regs as they apply to diesel and gas engine installations. They say that the filter must meet ABYC standard H24.5.7. ( by the way this seems to be an old standard as there are 2 or 3 supplements since 1975). But when I try to search for the ABYC standard, I find I can buy the appropriate section for $50 US. I am sure that not everybody installing a filter is following a reg that they have to pay $50 just to see! The filter in question is included in the West Marine catalog along with many others that apparently are not approved for use. If they want (demand) that you meet a standard they better make it available.
|What I did when I had the same was to put a cheap electric universal fuel pump in the line after the filter. them added a 10 foot {as needed} fuel line to the fuel pump. Then pumped all the fuel out into 4- 5 gal fuel jugs. when all the fuel was out I put back about a gallion in the tank then put the extended fuel line into the tank fill and let it run, Wiggled the line to flush all the tank. replaced the filters and when it ran clean I refilled with new.
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Adrienne Berry walks into the gaming store in a brown sweater and jeans. After a few moments of friendly chatter, she steps into the back room. When she returns her sensible autumn garb is gone, replaced by a pair of black leather pants, a sleeveless black shirt, a long black coat, and a pair of black, reflective sunglasses. Gone also is Adrienne Berry. In her place stands Laine Black, manipulator and vampiress.
Berry doesn't actually believe that she is a vampire, nor do the dozen or so other people who join her every Tuesday night at Gallant Games. But, as Missoula's local vampire impersonators are quick to point out, it's fun to pretend.
Berry and her friends are members of The Camarilla, a world-wide live-action role-playing organization whose members pretend to be vampires. Live Action Role Play (LARP) grew out of the more traditional dice and paper sit-down gaming, but is different in that the players stand up and physically act out what their characters are doing. It's a bit like those "How To Host a Murder" games popular at dinner parties, except the players have fangs.
While the idea of wandering around and pretending to be a vampire might seem a little odd, it appeals to many. The Camarilla boasts between 5,000 and 6,000 dues-paying members around the world, and is one of a handful of organizations that promote LARPing.
The Camarilla, however, is the official fan club of the gaming company that made the idea of pretending to be a vampire popular. White Wolf Game Studios, a role playing game maker based in Salt Lake City, created a sit-down game called "Vampire: The Masquerade," more than a decade ago, in which players created vampires, or "Kindred," as they like to call themselves. Since then, the game has gone through three editions, and has had more than three dozen sourcebooks printed outlining nearly every aspect of this pastime. As LARPing grew in popularity The Camarilla was created to give its players a world-wide organization for their characters to populate. This means that the actions of a character in, say, Brussels, could theoretically effect the unlife of a character right here in Missoula.
One of the problems that White Wolf ran into when they created "Vampire," was the fact that vampires, in modern times, don't make a heck of a lot of sense. The game designers solved this problem by creating a fairly compelling alternate history, dating back to biblical times, that explains why vampires can exist right under humanity's collective nose without anyone knowing about them.
As the story goes, vampires continue to thrive in an underground sect called "The Camarilla," named after the closets and backrooms the Kindred hid in during the Spanish inquisition.
After the inquisition came the Age of Reason, where old wives tales about vampires were seen to be nothing more than peasant superstition and stories to frighten children. Meanwhile, the secret masters, the vampires, continue to control the world from the shadows. This then, is the setting for the games that are played every night around the world.
Missoula has had a LARP of one stripe or another for almost a decade. The game has gone through more than half a dozen incarnations, and been under the leadership of more than two-dozen storytellers. It has met in public parks and gaming stores, private homes and condemned theatres, and numerous buildings on the university campus.
Berry, the aforementioned player of Laine Black, has participated in one game or another for about six years. But when she moved to Missoula for school, she had trouble finding her fellow travelers. This all changed when, on her way to a LAMBDA dance, she spied some LARPers on the university campus.
It took three trips by the building to convince her, but when, eventually, someone asked Berry and her friend, April Horinek, if they wanted to play, she dropped her dance plans and joined the fold. Horinek, who joined at the same time, remembers thinking, "Oh my god, they're going to eat me."
Neither Horinek nor Berry were eaten, although much of their free time since has been devoured. Virtually every member of the game says that their circle of friends is involved in the game in one capacity or another, and that the game in many ways doubles as a social club. This is apparently true, because both Horinek and Berry met their current boyfriends through the LARP.
The players in this game are varied in background and experience. Most, but not all, have role-played in one fashion or another. They range in age from 18-34 years old, and are employed everywhere from the Boy's and Girl's Club, to Domino's Pizza, to JC Penney. In character, they play eternal, blood-thirsty competitors who are each trying to outdo the other while gaining in power and prestige. While some might consider this childish escapism, its plots and schemes are nothing short of Machiavellian.
"The most satisfying thing about this game is watching a cunning scheme come to fruition," says McHenry Keith, the player of Helmut Messur.
But LARPing isn't just about revisionist history and a constant thirst for power and control. The local chapter, and the organization in general, promotes a strongly civic-minded, volunteer-oriented membership.
Most members of the local chapter give blood regularly, and each month there is a drive to give clothing, food, or some other necessity to a needy organization like the Poverello Center or Goodwill. In addition, members of the group have assisted in cleaning up local parks and the historical museum at Fort Missoula.
Admittedly, the players aren't doing these activities entirely out the goodness of their own hearts. Each time they perform some sort of service to the community, they earn points that ultimately earn them a more powerful and influential character.
Ryan Goble, the player of Jago Fenrir, is the chapter coordinator for the game. This means that he is in charge of the out-of-game, real-world aspects of the local chapter. He has been a member of this organization for about two years, and spends some 10-15 hours a week doing work for the chapter.
"I've spent a lot of time and effort making the organization work on a local level," he says. "It's a lot like a part-time job except for the fact I don't get paid."
Role-playing games have received a bad rap over the years. Concerned parents the world over worry their children, once they start playing these games, are headed down the road to becoming tattooed, pierced cult members. While most players in the local chapter joke about the fine line between fantasy and reality, or lack thereof, they are quick to point out the fact that gamer does not equal satanic cult member.
"I have a kindergarten education, I've seen Sesame Street," Goble says. "I know the difference between real and pretend."
Many of White Wolf's books deal with this problem by printing a small text-box in the front of their books labeled "Legal Disclaimer Necessitated by Stupid People." It reads:
Take a deep breath and repeat after me:
"I am NOT a Werewolf."
"I am NOT a Mage."
"I am NOT a Vampire."
"I do not drink blood, worship Satan, or kill animals or people in the name of a game that I play."
The Camarilla takes a slightly less smart-assed approach, and deals with this issue by only allowing people who are 18 or older to play in its games, and enforcing a fairly stringent code of conduct. This code includes the obvious concerns, that players may not drink blood or have physical contact with other players in an unsolicited way, but also bars players from attending game events while intoxicated. This substance-free approach to gaming is appealing to many of the local chapter's players.
"I don't do drugs and I don't go drinking at every opportunity," says Joshua Aronoff, the player Aman, "There are a lot worse things I could be doing."
Moreover, the experience of creating and pretending to be another person is a creative outlet that allows the gamers to look at portions of their personality that they would not have been able to examine otherwise. After all, vampires exist purely by feeding on the blood of humanity. They are essentially a social parasite. Playing a character whose existence requires the player to hurt and possibly kill others makes for a lot of introspection when the game is played. Players are forced, by necessity, to examine what it is, exactly, that makes their characters tick.
"This game helps you grow as a person," says Adrienne Berry, "because you have to take on someone else's persona, and what a character would do and what you would do are often quite different."
Gaming does bring with it a well-known social stigma. Almost everyone is familiar with the image of a 45-year-old man in gray sweat-pants and a t-shirt four sizes too small who won't shut up about Theldar the Magnificent, the barbarian he plays every night in his mom's basement.
Admittedly, there are plenty of gamers who look and act like this, but for every Theldar there is an Aman, or a Helmut, or a Jago, or an Onyx.
"Yeah, we are a little weird, but everyone's a little weird," says Kristina Beckard, the player of Onyx. "We all have our quirks, we just take pride in ours."
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Monmouth Park Racetrack is an American race track for thoroughbred horse racing in Oceanport, New Jersey.
Long Branch Racetrack
The original track was opened by the Monmouth Park Association on July 30, 1870 in Long Branch, New Jersey.[1] It was later bought by David D. Withers, George L. Lorillard, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., and George P. Wetmore after which Withers ran the facility for more than a decade during which time he helped found racings Board of Control, a predecessor to The Jockey Club. From 1882 to 1890, the track increased in popularity, but legislation proposed in 1891 and enacted in 1894 barred parimutuel betting in New Jersey, and the track closed its doors. In May of 1894, the Township Committee at Eatontown, New Jersey ordered the seizure and sale of the Monmouth Park Association's grandstand and other property for the payment of back taxes [2]and on May 7 was sold at a public auction. [3]
Some of the major races held at the Long Branch track included:
Monmouth Park Jockey Club
In 1946, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill providing for state regulation of horse racing. Spurred on by Amory L. Haskell, who led the legislative charge to once again permit wagering on horse racing in New Jersey and Philip H. Iselin, a New York City textile magnate, along with the backing of Reeve Schley, Joseph M. Roebling, John M. MacDonald, Townsend B. Martin, and James Cox Brady, Jr., the new Monmouth Park (organized as the Monmouth Park Jockey Club) opened on June 19, 1946 after a 53-year hiatus with 18,724 in attendance.[4]
The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority purchased Monmouth Park from its previous owners, the Monmouth Park Jockey Club, in 1985, in a deal valued at $45 million.[5] The NJSEA still retains the corporate name "Monmouth Park Jockey Club".
Monmouth Park's marquee event is the Haskell Invitational, named after Amory L. Haskell. The Haskell was first run in 1968 as a handicap, but was made into an Invitational Handicap in 1981. It is now a 1 1/8-mile test for three-year-olds run in early August. Monmouth Park also now showcases the Jersey Derby originally run at Garden State Park until its closure in 2001.
2007 Breeders' Cup World Championships
On October 26th and 27th, 2007, Monmouth Park hosted the Breeders' Cup for the first time in its history.[6]
The 2007 Event also marked the first time the event has been held over two days and also the creation of three new races held on Day 1 of the Championships.
Winners of Races:
Day 1
Filly & Mare Sprint-Maryfield
Juvenile Turf-Nownownow
Dirt Mile-Corinthian
Day 2
Juvenile Fillies-Indian Blessing
Juvenile-War Pass
Filly & Mare Turf-Lahudood
Sprint-Midnight Lute
Mile-Kip Deville
Distaff-Ginger Punch
Turf-English Channel
Classic-Curlin<p> The Classic was marred by a fatal injury suffered by George Washington, the 2006 European 3-year-old champion who had returned to training when his stud career was scuttled by fertility problems. He suffered a dislocated fracture of his right front ankle and was euthanized on the track.
Million Dollar Meet
In March 2010, it was announced that Monmouth Park would shorten its summer meet, conducting only 50 days of live racing (down from 141 total thoroughbred days in the state) for a total of $50 million in purse money. This was done due to the recent monetary losses of the racetrack industry in New Jersey and will make it the most lucrative race meet in history, surpassing Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, NY. Monmouth Park will also host a 21-day fall meet featuring purses of approximately $250,000 per day.
Physical Attributes
The main track is a one mile dirt oval with chutes for 6 furlong and 1 1/4 mile races.
The turf course is seven furlongs in circumference, with a diagonal chute for races between 1 mile and 1 1/8 miles. A re-design of the grass course for the 2006 season brought with it a new, second chute to accommodate 5 1/2 furlong sprint races. Turf races can be run along the hedge, or with the portable rail out 12 feet (dubbed the "Haskell Course"), 24 feet ("Monmouth Course") or 36 feet ("Lennox Course").
The Stable Area, located directly to the north of the back stretch of the main track, contains a total of forty barns and stables, twelve north of the New Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line (connected by its own service and access road) and twenty eight on the main complex.
The Wolf Hill Farm, which served Monmouth Park as a private stable and practice facility, is located adjacent to and immediately west of the main complex. Wolf Hill, owned and operated by the Valentino Family from the nearby City of Long Branch, New Jersey featured barns, stables and a practice track featuring a dirt oval and turf course identical to that at Monmouth Park's main facility only built to 50% scale. The Valentino Family sold Wolf Hill Farm to the Monmouth Park Jockey Club in 1963 which then became part of the greater Monmouth Park Complex. It was transferred to state ownership in the 1986 takeover by the NJSEA and was eventually sold to the Monmouth County Park System in 1998 which now operates the site as a passive recreation park. While Wolf Hill ceased operating as a farm following the 1963 sale, owners and trainers continued to use Wolf Hill's practice track well into the 1990s. Remnants of the practice were clearly visible on the site until after the 2009 meet. After the 2009 meet, construction began in the Wolf Hill area, eliminating the last of the practice track.
TV Personalites
- Caton Bredar (1995-1998)
- Barbara Foster (1995-1997)
- Jennifer Burke (2000-2004)
- Carolyn Conley
- Brad Thomas (?-present)
- Thomas Cassidy (?-present)
- Larry Collmus (1994-present)
- Mike Curci
- Gordon Richards
- Matt Carothers (1998)
The Park is served by New Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line during the racing season.
A special train called the "Pony Express" was discontinued after the 2005 racing season. This train operated between Hoboken Terminal and the racetrack, terminating on a rail siding near the grandstand entrance. It was often scouted out by railfans due to the variety of equipment that were used on the train in recent years, ranging from the 1970 vintage Pullman Standard Erie Lackawanna Comet I cars to modern Alstom Metro-North Comet Vs.
Racing [7]
- Grade 2:
- Grade 3:
- Boiling Springs Stakes (Turf)
- Ungraded stakes
- ↑ New York Times - July 31, 1870 "Inauguration of the New Monmouth Park Race-Course"
- ↑ New York Times - May 3, 1894
- ↑ New York Times - May 8, 1894
- ↑ "RACES START TODAY AT MONMOUTH PARK; First Flight and Mesl Among Eleven in Colleen Stakes-- 30,000 Fans Expected Building Schedule Disrupted First Race at 2 P.M.", The New York Times, June 19, 1946, Sports, p. 34.
- ↑ "MONMOUTH PARK TRACK SOLD TO N.J. STATE SPORTS AGENCY", The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 11, 1985. Accessed October 8, 2007. "The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, operator of the Meadowlands Race Track, tentatively agreed yesterday to buy Monmouth Park for about $45 million."
- ↑ Associated Press. The 2007 Event also marked the first time the event has been held over two days. "Curlin Is Favorite for Haskell", The New York Times, August 3, 2007. Accessed October 8, 2007. "It is a pivotal one-and-one-eighth-mile race for 3-year-olds with the Breeders' Cup World Championships being held at Monmouth for the first time Oct. 26-27."
- ↑ Monmouth Park 2010 stakes race schedule
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MICB-612 Immunology
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The course will focus on the cells, organs and molecules of the immune system and how they contribute to discrimination of self from non-self. The paradigm used in the course will be the host response to infectious agents. Hypersensitivity, autoimmunity, graft rejection and tumor immunity will be considered as variations in the basic protective function of the immune system.
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Starting an outbuilding - plans, permits?
Hello, I would like to build a shop / well plumbing building. I bought a set of plans that will work for what I need. I will need to build this on a slab with a brick exterior (for subdiv requirements), which means that I need an additional ledge on the slab. I'm calling concrete contractors to get estimates. Some of them are telling me that I need to have my plans redrawn by an engineer for them to give me an estimate. I'm going to build this myself, except for plumbing, electrical and the slab. My question is; can I use the plans that I have for getting permits or will I need to have them redrawn? Or can I redraw them myself using some home design software? Are these contractors sending me on a snipe hunt? Thanks!
BTW, this in Hays County, Texas
Maybe you r just dealing with larger contractors that are used to using prints, many of our jobs for outbuildings are just like yours; homeowner has an idea with a crude drawing and wishes and we build it to wht they want. This includes any electrical and plumbing to the building.
Typical process for outbuilding:
Go to planning and zoning and see what restrictions you have to deal with as far as how large you can go, where on the property it will sit. See what your allowed to do first.
They will give you a piece of paper for a site plan. You will make a topical drawing of your ENTIRE property with measurements from lot lines to existing buildings and proposed building, dimentions in between the existing building and new building, you'll literally measure every point on the property on the paper. Once this is done, resumbit it to zoning. They will quickly look it over, make sure it falls within requirements and sign off allowing you to purchase building permit.
You'll take your site plan that's been signed off on over to the building desk and get a permit for your build. You will need a general permit for the struture and if running electrical and plumbing out there this requires seperate permits as well so your looking at a total of 3 permits.
If your building it, your the general contractor and it will be your job to be sure yuou have footings if needed (building office will tell you) and making sure the placement of all plumbing rough in's are where they need to be prior to placing concrete. You will need to get a inspection prior to pouring footings and covering up rough plumbing to main sewer and main water hook up. Once footings are okay by inspector it's full speed ahead and a race to the rough in electrical and plumbing inside the standing structure.
Every place is different so talk with building officials first before spending any money. In all the years I've been doing this I've never had an engineer looking at "building plans" prior to a build for an outbuilding. Even did a house based off homeowners imagination on a piece of notebook paper.
I agree!:)
I built my own garage at my place with plans I did up on graph paper!
You could probably do a monolithic slab down there, it's easy for the concrete guys to add a brick ledge while forming. (well not real easy, costs more, but can be done). :)
Like josh said check with your building dept. if you can get a permit with your plans, anyone that knows concrete should be able to put in the foundation. :)
whenever you are in doubt about local codes and zoning issues talk with your local officials. do not take the risk of building something because a vendor siad it would pass or not pass, go straight to the official source.
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Discussion in 'Fantasy Sports Central' started by Darth Tater, Jul 6, 2008.
Aren't we on weekly boss? oooooh, I get it.
The pressure is ALL on YOU Wood head. 1st place and the bye that goes with it. No pressure on me at all. Just a 4th place team that already made it through the first round. Now...here is a little fact about my teams... It's all or nothing for me. I've missed out on the playoffs before, I've been in the playoffs and come away empty handed... But I have never, in any fantasy sport, won a trophy for or . I have 6 golds but not bronze or silver cups. I have no clue why this happens, and I certainly hope to break my streak if I can't take home the gold this time. I figure 3 of the 4 teams still going for :winner_first_h4h: will win some kind of trophy, so I would be happy with any hardware to show for my efforts. You outnumbered me by a slew (your team is like locusts) for the week so I made some adjustments to my lineup due to injuries and numbers. Now I am only down 4 player games for the week. I figure that makes us even since you suck so bad anyhow. You will use most of that advantage tonight so use it well grasshopper. OOps, did I just step on something?
Woody can't answer your call right now. He is at a senior's center competing in an apple sauce tasting contest. Man, the best part about being out, is I have nothing to lose by talking trash. Stick it Taterhead!
Oh, coolization. A dead guy is talking to me from the beyond!!
I didn't realize you could still trash talk if your team stunk. In that case, I did happen to compare how my team would have done matched up against Mikhail or Roscoe if we had played last week. Gee, I would have beaten them both. Have a nice day.
I am alive and well. I finally get revenge on Tater from two years ago when he first introduced the dreaded "tatering", where he continuously switched out his team so as to have the maximun number of players every day. I still almost beat him. Now, this year, he's doing the same thing again as he mentioned above. The only change is the weekly lineups which now limit him from cheating. Likely, he'll still find some way to do it. My team is not playing as well as earlier. Particularly my goalies. Nevertheless, LET'S GET IT ON!!!
You aren't my type you nasty old goat. And put your forked tongue back in your mouth lizard breath!
I was thinking back to my previous playoff encounters with Roscoe. Then I realized I didn't have any. Odd, I've played Jammer two or three times, Bill's kid twice, bezeach, Woody. Max, Warty, Webz twice, Slippy, and a couple others I can't recall off the top of my noggin. So why no Roscoe? He's been in almost every league I've been in. What a coincid...Oh dear....wait...Oh...I guess...Oh, now I feel so darned bad. I should have realized it is so rare that he makes the playo...Oh... I better delete this before I accidentally push the wron...
Hey Tater!!! I really appreciate your having Fleury on the bench pitching a shutout!!! Good Call.
Yeah, that hurts but my other goalies were doing better for me. It's not like one category would matter at this time anyhow, lol. Fleury gives up 5 goals whenever I put him in so I can't really kick myself on this. My other guys lost 2-1 in shootouts & overtime. You had really outnumbered me until today but my guys disappeared tonight anyhow. Plus, you're number one so this was supposed to happen...although my numbers on the year were every bit as good if not better than yours. It's not over, but if I lose this one, I'll just shoot for the bronze.
Looks like one of my goalies got a shut out tonight Woody. Once again, against your goalie (who got the hook early)...but this time I played the right guy. :P
Yes, and one of my guys got a shorthanded goal.
Really? Uh oh. I was thinking a SHG or SHA might be the determining factor.
I hope Dart and Woofy both lose. I want Mikhail to go all the way, that way I can say I lost to the champ.
I DON'T! Since I'M playing Mikhail this week and YOU are playing Bezeach!
Congratulations Woody. That was super close. Final score is 5-5 so you advance based on the first tiebreaker (goals). Gold & Silver round =Jammer vs. Woody Bronze round= Mikhail vs. Darth
What about the 7th place game?
Sorry Bill...I actually DID intend to mention that You and Reds will be playing for 7th place in the consolation bracket.
Darth, for a big time kosher wiener, you are a decent Commish.
ARE YOU SURE???? I don't have statwacker so I've been trying to figure out what happened. Lidstrum got a shorthanded assist to tie one of Tater's guys. And Backstrom won his game to tie another Tater win. And then all the other stuff was too much for my feeble brain. I guess I better "Tater-up" my team and get ready for Jammer. The finals are two weeks long. I'm not sure my nerves can handle the stress. There are too damm many Canadians. They just keep comming, and comming, and ....
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Multiple sclerosis is a degenerative disease that affects more than 400,000 people in the US alone. MS is in fact the most common disabling neurological disorder in young adults. Symptoms of the disease can include problems with balance, walking, fatigue, weakness and vision. Over 85% of people with Multiple Sclerosis have problems walking. This can cause them to fall or have a constant fear of falling. To prevent falling, MS patients rely on equipment, such as walkers and canes. These costs can cause financial difficulties for MS patients and families.
A significant problem that is only recently being studied is the relationship between falling and MS. Recent studies have shown that MS patients fall more often than those without MS, and also fall more than the elderly population. The consequent fear of falling is also an important problem, as those worried about falling will probably change their daily habits to lower their risk. This can mean keeping from certain physical and social activities or even staying indoors. Thus, falls and fear of falling can have negative medical, physical, psychological, and social consequences for the patient.
Improving patients' walking may help reduce falls and the fear of falling. Treadmill training has been shown to improve walking in patients with MS and to lower their risk of falling. One way to train patients on a treadmill is with the use of robots that can help move their limbs in a more normal way. This kind of robot-assisted treadmill training may provide even greater benefits than treadmill training alone.
The study is expected to last 6-7.5 months. One group of participants will receive weekly telephone calls and will be asked questions on other physical activities, falls, and activity limitations the patient had during the week. Participants assigned to robot-assisted treadmill training will receive twice weekly training session for 8 weeks, for a total of 16 sessions. Each session will last about 65 to 90 minutes.
The goal of this study is to see if robot-assisted treadmill training will reduce falls and fear of falling in patients with MS. Robot-assisted treadmill training has been shown to be effective in reducing falls and fear of falling in Parkinson's disease patients. This type of training has not been tested in patients with Multiple Sclerosis. The proposed study will help to address this gap and also provide additional data on other possible improvements due to robot-assisted treadmill training including ambulation, social participation, fatigue, and balance.
|Multiple Sclerosis
|Device: Lokomat
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Gait Rehabilitation for Multiple Sclerosis Using Robot-assisted Body-weight-supported Treadmill Training (Lokomat)
- Frequency of Falls [ Time Frame: 6-7.5 months ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Arm 1
Body-weight supported treadmill training
Device: Lokomat
Body-weight will be supported using a harness, which suspends the subject above a motorized treadmill (Lokomat, Hocoma, Zurich, Switzerland). The system also incorporates a robot-driven gait orthotic, called the Lokomat, which will be secured to the subject's lower extremity and pelvis using adjustable cuffs and pads. The Lokomat uses computer-controlled motors to drive the hips and knees toward more normative kinematic patterns for gait.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of MS by McDonald criteria
- Ability to clearly understand written and oral direction in English
- Self-reported gait problem
- One or more falls in the past 6 months
- The ability to walk 25 feet with no more than a cane for assistance (The subject must be comfortable using a cane)
- Age 18-70
- Written informed consent to participate in the study
- Approval from subject's primary care physician for physical activity
Exclusion Criteria:
- No relapse within the last 3 months
- No more than two relapses within the past 12 months
- Recent myocardial infarction
- Uncontrolled hypertension or diabetes
- Symptomatic fall in blood pressure when standing
- Vascular claudication or pitting edema
- Cognitive impairments that limit comprehension of protocol instructions (assessed by Comprehension Test of Consent Form)
- Body weight over 150 kg
- Lower extremity injuries that limit range of motion or function
- Joint problems (hip or leg) that limit range of motion or cause pain with movement
- Unstable fractures
- Pressure sores with any skin breakdown in areas in contact with the body harness or the robot-driven gait orthotic apparatus
- Currently enrolled in an alcohol or drug treatment program
- A complicating medical condition that would prevent completion of the trial
- Enrolled in or planning to enroll in another interventional research trial using procedures proposed to enhance or limit the function of the upper or lower extremities (such as adjuvant rehabilitation or Botox injections) during the 24 weeks of participation
- A difference of more than 2cm between subjects' right and left leg lengths
- Unable to be properly fit into the harness or Lokomat device
- Hypertonicity or spasticity that it interferes with a proper fit into the Lokomat
- Pregnancy at enrollment, as determined by a home pregnancy test kit at screening visit
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00766272
|United States, Rhode Island
|Providence VA Medical Center
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02908-4799
|Principal Investigator:
|Albert Lo, MD PhD
|Providence VA Medical Center
|Responsible Party:
|VA Office of Research and Development
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00766272 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|October 2, 2008
|Last Updated:
|September 19, 2013
Keywords provided by VA Office of Research and Development:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Multiple Sclerosis
Pathologic Processes
Demyelinating Autoimmune Diseases, CNS
Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System
Nervous System Diseases
Demyelinating Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 23, 2017


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The Green Bay Packers announced today that they have matched the Tennessee Titans' offer sheet on restricted free agent cornerback Jarrett Bush, a transaction that retains his rights for next season.
The Packers had up to a week to decide if they wanted to match the offer, which was submitted by the Titans late last week.
Bush was assigned the low tender of $1.01 million by Green Bay. As an undrafted free agent, the Packers wouldn't have been entitled to any draft-pick compensation if they had decided not to match.
Bush played in every game last season and finished second on the team with 17 special-teams tackles.
"Jarrett has been a solid player for us," Packers General Manager Ted Thompson said. "We are pleased to have him remain a member of our team."
The Green Bay Packers announced today that they have matched the Tennessee Titans' offer sheet on restricted free agent cornerback Jarrett Bush, a transaction that retains his rights for next season.
ACDC84 says: Mar 16, 2009 6:51 PM
Noooooo! No no no no no no no. What's next, we're going to re-hire Bob Sanders away from Buffalo? So much for addition by subtraction.
If this is the Packers' ace-up-the-sleeve in playing hardball with Tramon Williams, Williams and his agent must be on the floor laughing right now at such a poor bluff.
packerswin says: Mar 16, 2009 6:53 PM
TitanPride says: Mar 16, 2009 7:10 PM
Thank you for keeping him
red14 says: Mar 16, 2009 7:12 PM
good grief
ted should have been doing back flips because someone was willing to take him from us
bush is horrible
myasylum says: Mar 16, 2009 7:14 PM
My support for Ted is dwindling. I thought this would be the year he'd make some moves. He's done nothing.
jyernberg says: Mar 16, 2009 7:15 PM
JimmySmith says: Mar 16, 2009 7:17 PM
The guy sucks, he is a penalty flag waiting to happen on any given play. As a DB, he sucked so bad they pulled him out of dime packages. Plus, he is dumber than dirt, not even of average intelligence, we are talking Childress-level dumb.
I don't know what the Titans offered but the packers should have offered to pay half just to haul his sorry ass away.
This ranks right up there with cutting the 4th best statiscal punter in the NFL to sign Derrick Frost who was just God awful.
Its hard to defend the indefendsible, this just might be start of Ted Thompson's slide out of town.
sparky says: Mar 16, 2009 7:18 PM
A wasted week. What are they thinking…I could have made that decision in 7 seconds, not seven days. This makes me feel good…NOT.
SpartaChris says: Mar 16, 2009 7:20 PM
Seriously, WTF.. Are there no better options or something?
Morgan says: Mar 16, 2009 7:25 PM
Classic, every Pack fan has posted that they are very happy to see Bush go to say the least. Well its time to welcome him back to cheese head stadium. I love it.
zod says: Mar 16, 2009 7:30 PM
Why not???
You sound like a FF geek. We have real coaches on that side of the ball and on ST. Then and only then can you judge his true talent.
wowbaka says: Mar 16, 2009 7:30 PM
I understand that we tend to remember the bad plays more than the good plays, but that guy has made many bad plays that really stung. Aside from special teams, Bush only played sparingly as backup CB – not sure if he's worth getting paid more than $1 mil/yr.
pacoweaz says: Mar 16, 2009 7:41 PM
no guarantee he stays on the team through camp. But if Williams will be an extended holdout then I can see why they signed him. Not happy about it, but it's not like we're paying him like a top CB.
Jim_R says: Mar 16, 2009 7:46 PM
texas says: Mar 16, 2009 7:50 PM
After the Favre fiasco, I stood by and supported the GM.
After he failed to get Randy Moss, I still brought up his great drafting skills.
After TT finishes offseasons without signing anyone, I tell everyone that its okay because he knows better than any of us.
After a disappointing season, I dont put the blame on him. We lost several close ones and our defensive coaching was abysmal.
I'd have to say I was definitely pro-TT.
But this is the move that officially puts me back in the neutral category, maybe the TT- Hater category. Why do we keep this guy? He is terrible. In a game against the niners in preseason, he singlehandedly gave up 280 yards and 4 TDs. Singlehandedly, meaning whoever the guy was that he was covering racked up the points and yards.
He must have some photos somewhere of Ted Thompson doing some compromising things.
lancelow4 says: Mar 16, 2009 7:50 PM
OMG! You have got to be kidding me. Every time that complete numbskull (TT) does something, my stomach knots up. Bush is the worst player on the Packers team. I finally thought they were able to get rid of him. I don't think he'd make 90% of the teams in the NFL. Good one TT. Keep on showing us how smart you really are. Choke. Look…even a Titan fan here is thanking the idiot. Wow.
Please ..please..please..someone for once and all get him (TT)away from my team!!?!?
DCViking says: Mar 16, 2009 7:52 PM
I just hope he lives in Green Bay during the offseason, does work in the community, speaks to the local media, and stays out of jail.
Mark Troy says: Mar 16, 2009 7:52 PM
Effen great.
Now the 3-4 will be successful. Great offseason moves Tightwad Ted.
Bob_Nelson says: Mar 16, 2009 8:09 PM
The Titans will get him cheaper during the roster cuts than now.
I was wishing the guy well and hoped he could see the field occaisionally with the Titans.
He will not be on the Packers opening day roster so he will not cost anything.
This is not so bad Packer fans. It costs nothing now and he can be cut later.
gbp78 says: Mar 16, 2009 8:54 PM
Aaron, couldn't the headline have been
Then I could have said,
"thats what she said"
777 says: Mar 16, 2009 9:25 PM
danpaul says: Mar 16, 2009 9:52 PM
I made a user name just for this comment. I'm a Packers fan. That being said, I hate Jarret Bush. He's only a special teams player and has no other significant potential. I understand that special teams is a crucial third of the game, but his defensive play is atrocious. I'd prefer that if the outrageous Ted Thompson sign a cornerback that he can actually play the position… Is that too much to ask?
jimicos says: Mar 16, 2009 9:55 PM
I wish I could get a million dollars for sucking at my job. Oh well. At least he's not Ahmad Carroll.
Pantherfan105 says: Mar 16, 2009 10:21 PM
Wish Carolina kept this guy around. Hes a pretty solid 3rd/4th option. I dont know why everyones crying
Lead_Farmer says: Mar 16, 2009 11:26 PM
"Piss, piss, piss. Moan, moan moan." – typical 2009 Packer fan.
It saddens me that all you jerks freak out at a signing of $1.01 million for Jarrett Bush. Is this how bad things have gotten to the once great reputation we have as Packer fans? This re-signing clearly shows what the Packers think of him. Now, I am as little a Jarrett Bush fan as anyone, but really people? Freaking out over this?
You will b*tch and complain about absolutely anything the Packers do. I used to think that as a Packer fan I was with some pretty savvy company, and would make fun of Jets fans, for example, for completely going nuts when the team did anything unexpected.
Well, congratulations. The majority of Packer fans are now worse than Jets fans. They are the biggest bunch of fair-weather idiots that can root for a team. I am sick of this crap.
I can't wait for the draft for more of the same from supposed Packer 'fans.'
Rick In Cali says: Mar 16, 2009 11:46 PM
I too am becoming very disenchanted with Thompson.
I could spot better Bush out hoggin' with a twelver in me…..and at least all it would cost is the price of a Trojan….
employer says: Mar 17, 2009 1:04 AM
Now I understand why Packer fans are so hard on the Vikings. They need something to do when their not shredding one of their own.
I watched this guy play last year and he was a solid special teams contributor. No, he's not going to take you to the promised land but he's not friggin' Waswa Serwanga.
I can hardly believe I'm going to say this, but, I agree with Bob Nelson on this one. Bring him in, throw him in the mix, cut him if you have to. No harm, no foul.
Sniveling cry baby's.
zygi milf says: Mar 17, 2009 8:57 AM
I think Ted Thompson is doing a wonderful job. I hope he is employed by the Packers for years to come.
At the very least, it gives us Vikings fans hope that his ineptness is greater than Childress/Spielman's.
Strick says: Mar 17, 2009 9:10 AM
You idiots are hysterical… Z0MG!!! Bush stinks!! TT has teh SUXX0R!
Get a grip. Did you ever think – do you ever suspect – that the coaches and staff on this team just MIGHT be in a better position than you to judge a player's worth? That maybe, just maybe, they're better at it? And maybe that's why they're getting paid good money to do it, while you're sitting in front of your computer pissing and moaning about every decision that doesn't make immediate sense to you?
No amount of watching football on television or reading the latest popularist tripe in the internet could ever count more than spending time on the field, working with a player.
Just because Ted Thompson doesn't do everything like you would, that doesn't make him an idiot.
Do you want to know why we matched the offer? I'll tell you, and it's pretty simple. Bush also plays safety. And right now – today – he better at covering a receiver than any other safety on the Packers' roster.
Gosh… maybe they WON'T get killed by every second-rate tight end they see this year. Wouldn't that be nice?
Sterling says: Mar 17, 2009 9:17 AM
Ted Thompson has been at the helm of the Packers for 4 seasons; only one of those has been a winning season.
This decision to keep Jarrett Bush is a prime example of why the Packers will never be a contender until they get rid of Thompson.
Lead_Farmer says: Mar 17, 2009 9:43 AM
Excellent post, Stick.
jimicos says: Mar 17, 2009 10:47 AM
Terrible posts, Stick and Lead. Absolutely terrible.
Sterling says: Mar 17, 2009 2:12 PM
Hey, Strick: If Bush is so great at covering WRs, why didn't he JUST DO IT this past year? Bush is a big reason why the Packers' D had so many holes in it. The D isn't going to be better b/c he's there; he's BEEN there, and was part of the problem last year.
In 3 years – 46 games played – he has only 51 tackles total. Last year, in 16 games, he had only 11 tackles total. Also, he has NO interceptions in 46 games. None. Nada.
Yeah, great contributor, that guy.
And just to be clear to the person who posted that Bush was getting $1 mill. The contract match is actually a 3-year, $4.5 million deal. So Pack fans are stuck with this bozo for 3 more years.
Johnny2k says: Mar 17, 2009 4:06 PM
Death, taxes, and "penalty, #24, kicking team." I think the kid who gave me a coke with a cracked cap and no napkins last night at the drive thru deserves at least $500,000/yr.
gbp78 says: Mar 17, 2009 6:57 PM
What people may not realize is that Bush is not our nickle back, our nickle back is Tramon Williams, who i believe is making half of what Bush is now making. Bush is a average special team player, a liability in coverage, and prone to stupid critical penalties. We cut Tracy White our best special teams player last year, now we resign Mike Montgomery, how is this team getting any better?


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The victim said someone threw a plastic bottle at her from a vehicle, hitting her squarely in the chest. The vehicle was described as a yellow-colored Mitsubishi Lancer. Analysis of the contents in the bottle indicated that it was filled with urine.
•Police were dispatched to Farmer's Country Market, 800 W. Hobbs St., Sunday, after a cashier took a counterfeit $100 bill.
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Police completed a report of larceny on RPD property, Saturday, where someone forced entry into the bike cage and damaged the lock. The property officer will complete an audit to see if anything is missing.
•A woman surprised a burglar in her home, Saturday. The victim returned to the Stacy Drive address to find the back and west gates open. Just as she was about to enter the residence, an unknown male opened the door from the inside. He shouted and ran through the front door through the neighbor's yard and down the alley. The subject is described as a light-skinned teenager, about 5-feet, 9-inches tall, wearing a "Torques short, saggy pants and a black hat." The victim noted electronics and jewelry valued at $865 were missing.
•Police responded to an alarm call in the 1400 block of South Sunset Avenue, Sunday.
Although they found no signs of forced entry, the victim noted that all the bedroom drawers had been pulled from the dresser and the bedside stand and placed on the floor.
The victim was unsure if anything had been taken.
•Police were called to the 1500 block of Riley Drive, Sunday, after the resident returned home to discover a Ruger Mark II .22 caliber pistol, a Ruger .22 caliber rifle, a pair of Nikon binoculars, and a camouflage backpack, along with assorted contents had been removed from his vehicle. Estimated value of missing items is $650.
•Police were dispatched to the 1600 block of South Sunset Avenue, Sunday, after subjects removed an in-dash JVC flip-face 5-inch touch screen television valued at $1,500 from a vehicle.
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SAP is a paying a substantial premium to acquire SuccessFactors, a leading SaaS performance and talent management vendor. The press release of December 3, 2011 states that the deal price of $40 per share is a 52% premium over the Dec. 2 closing stock price. Even more startling is that SuccessFactors has a revenue run rate of roughly $300 to $330 million for 2011, and the acquisition price of $3.4 billion is more than 10 times revenue! Why then did SAP make this move?
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|23rd April 2004, 05:43 AM
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By email, I received an excellent technical rebuttal of my recommendations on this subject. I believe we can all learn from this, so I am posting it here. Real world experience is always a necessary complement to theory.
I suggest you pay particular attention to the recommendations for usage of cascoded bipolar out put stages and to the conservative output stage design for voltages below 65v. I for one will take this information to heart in future design work.
Dear Slowhands,
I disagree with some of your thoughts concerning BJTs. We have used
them successfully in very high powered class A/B amps with no failures.
The biggest problem is that a lot of hobbyists and manufacturers do not
look carefully at the SOA of the devices used. Mosfets are expensive and
need lots of idling current to keep THD down. They require a tert.
supply to fully turn them on. They do have SOA problems since they have
limitations on their dissipation but they do not suffer from secondary
breakdown problems.
We have used both TO-3 and TO-3 plastics in our designs. We do not use
the TO-3s anymore as their mounting is a pain. We use exclusively
Toshiba 2SC5200/2SA1949 plastics. We temp. derate them to 80 deg C and then
calculate SOA data at these temps. Typically temp derating is about 62%
at 80 de g C.
One large problem with high powered amps is that the secondary
breakdown region on the SOA curve is violated due to the high rail voltages
used. When we go above +/- 75 volt rails we use series connected output
stages with no problems. Yes there is more saturation problems with a
series stage but then we simply add a few volts of rail to overcome this.
We also use glass G which basically does the same thing as the series
in terms of SOA. If one examines the SOA curve of high power bipolars
we see that current capacity is good below the 60 to 70 volt region
(assuming similar types to the Toshibas) and above that the current
capacity drops.
We used a +/- 130 volt rail in a 1.5Kw /ch 4 ohm amp we did but we used
a 3 stage class G supply so [the most] each output tranny ever saw was +/-65 v on
peaks (the 3 stage was a dumper type with only 2 devices ever in
The big Toshibas at +/- 65 v had no problem with SOA. Used 6+6 (SOA
tables read 3+3) but we required absolute reliability. Have never had an
amplifier failure with that product todate.
Stephen Mantz
Zed Audio Corporation
Los Angeles
|23rd April 2004, 10:35 AM
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I think, it depends on what kind of quality you aim...
If you absolutely want low crossoverdistortions in AB, always
use BJTs, if you are looking for an amp that gives much current
with ease and want a simple design, than mosfets might be a better
In addition, the mosfets are very robust, it seems to me that the
only way to kill these is to overheat them (>170deg). I only once
killed a mosfet by accidently using a quiscent current of ~10A,
after 5 seconds it burned up.
(powerdissipation 200Watt, TO220AB on a small sink)
That was a IRF540n, costing 80 cents at reichelt...
I had a hard lesson with 2nd breakdown on BJTs, i once tried to
build an amp with mje15030/31 in the outputstage, these exploded
2 seconds after powering up, adjusted to qc of 100ma...
|23rd April 2004, 12:18 PM
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for an efficient MosFet output stage driving low impedance
loads IMO does not not qualify as a simple design, though I
admit adding the extra rails is not complicated.
Without the extra voltage rails MosFet performance into low
impedance loads in terms of power output is very mundane
compared to BJT's.
IMO most MosFet "simple" designs are far too simple and BJT's
would in most of these cases provide better overall performance.
I have a hard time seeing the justification for MosFets as a good
solution for "standard" class aB amplifiers, i.e. most amplifiers.
|23rd April 2004, 02:48 PM
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On the amps I've built, I've seen MOSFETs show greater distortion into low loads than BJTs, in roughly equivalent circuits. This isn't particularly surprising, given the shape of the Vgs/Id curve.
Also, in most (non-bootstrapped) configurations, the MOSFET amp will clip sooner than a BJT amplifier, given the same rail voltages.
All in all, this points at bipolars for driving 'awkward' loads. I'd agree with previous comments about (some) MOSFETs having reliability advantages at higher temperatures, though.
|23rd April 2004, 03:20 PM
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What about the previous stages?
What is the most suitable device for differential and VAS? J.Curl uses Fets for differential, many uses TO92 bipolars, Mr.Pass uses TO-220 mosfets. What is really good for differential?
As for VAS, almost all uses bipolar. But I see it because the ease to use in mass product (dont need to match or using different R). If we are talking about DIY, what is the most suitable device for VAS?
|23rd April 2004, 03:27 PM
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I have used mosfets for differential pairs. typically I use medium power mosfets (~1amp Ids).
I have always loved to use mosfets for VAS as well, especially driving mosfets output devices directly (no driver utlized). I tend to use to220 mosfets running 10-40ma (usually 20-40ma), with heatsink. Those are usually 1amp Ids to 5amp Ids devices.
|23rd April 2004, 04:42 PM
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I would say, definitely small BJTs in the VAS, at least in spice-simus,
the results with BJTs are much better, as the FETs have much less
gain. Of course, if you want a lowfeedbackdesign, jFETs might
be interesting.
For differentialamps, i prefer jfets, because of their ultrahigh
inputimpedance. This high impedance gives a much more exact
feedback, and a better DC-stability. But the FETs for DAs needs
to be matched, or you use a dual-jfet.
|24th April 2004, 07:29 AM
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Amp man will surely rely on IRF VERTICAL N_CHANNEL MOSFETS ONLY FOR PROFESSIONAL STANDARD AMPLIFICATION
|24th April 2004, 03:07 PM
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About vertical and lateral mosfet
I have built amp with K1058 pairs, it is lateral mosfet. In the manufacturer's datasheet it is definitely for audio use. But why I feel that with vertical mosfet (IRF) the sound just seems tobe have more character?
There is also controvercy about a certain device is good or bad for audio, like 4558 opamp.
Is it if a device is said for audio it is not automaticly that it will sound good?
|24th April 2004, 03:27 PM
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That could mean, that the "Audio"-devices had in fact a lower THD
than the vertical devices, as "character" in the sounding is
normally produced by harmonics. (Not all harmonics are bad)
Thats why i once made the statement, that a zero THD amp might
sound boring...
Somehow i like the sound produced by IRF's.
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