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Pricing out chokes and a question came up. Hammond choke at 20H 600V is $44. Two Triad chokes at (C-7X) 10H 1500VRMS are $11. Was just wondering if, other than the increased resistance, would I be creating problems. Two chokes, same Henries, half the cost. Thanks for any input.
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If you're working with a voltage amp...probably not a big deal either way. If you talking about a choke input for a power amp, you want to keep the impedance as low as reasonable and that much inductance will probably have some frequency roll off issues....I'm think wet blanket issues:)granted, the critical current will be more accommodating but you probably won't like the sound. Let me know how it turns out...
It's for a CLC filter, I gave up the MVRs and moved to a GZ33.
in a dual m derived pi filter using oil capacitors then I'd follow that with a shunt regulator using gas tubes. Ray
"The gift of imagination is a gift of the Gods imparted to a few who receive innumerable kicks in the a$$ their entire life." Le Corbusier (Charles-�douard Jeanneret)
Doing the shunt regulator. Going to have to make up my mind on the chokes, I am cramming so many under there already I worry that I won't have the room to ensure that there are no interactions if I buy that many.
and OA3 gas tubes as a shunt regulator. It's early 50s vintage and was made for their recording studio mic preamps and pro radio station equipment. Output is about 380 volts. It used two 20H chokes and rather low value oil capacitors. Yes, space is always a problem for me too. I always choose a chassis that is too small. Ray
"The gift of imagination is a gift of the Gods imparted to a few who receive innumerable kicks in the a$$ their entire life." Le Corbusier (Charles-�douard Jeanneret)
I tend to use Hammond products for the the PS and Lundahl for the signal path. I acknowledge that the lines are blurred between the two but generally the Hammond products have served me just fine and they are from our Northern neighbors...
I have however had good experiences with DAC products from China as far as performance versus dollars...I have had to send a couple of units back because of failure...I'm a cheapo, so my first US made be DAC will made by ME..
The Triads are probably Chinese, thus the cheaper price. Aside from the fact that I don't trust or use Chinese parts, the two series Triads will yield 540 ohms DCR. A Hammond 193C is only 180 ohms. That's a significant difference.
Buy Chinese. Bury freedom.
The audio stuff not. But chokes perhaps as well?
To infinity and beyond!!!
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Not all in China, just simple items and no audio trans. Anyway, too bad!
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I probably spend thousands of dollars every year to buy products made in the West over Chinese imports. Despite US laws regarding labelling and disclosure of product origin, it's now reached the point where nearly everything I buy online has to be investigated first. That includes motorcycle parts, audio components, DSLR accessories, etc. etc. I can't even bid on eBay in many cases without first asking the seller where a particular switch or capacitor is made. It's worth the trouble to me, but the difficulty increases every year. In local stores such as Home Depot, I now frequently find tools made by companies like Bosch with no country of origin listed, and for which the retailer can find no information, even after calling the US rep. I suspect the day is coming when Western electronic components will no longer be available, or if they are, I won't be able to afford them. When that happens, I'll stop building.
Buy Chinese. Bury freedom.
That blows...I thought I was supporting a market up North...not just the higher ups that out source...it's getting bad...
"The gift of imagination is a gift of the Gods imparted to a few who receive innumerable kicks in the a$$ their entire life." Le Corbusier (Charles-�douard Jeanneret)
I acknowledge that this isn't the forum for this but, there's the school of thought that every man is an island that has gained an alarming amount of momentum in recent years.
I know that this school has always been there but the basic teachings of Christianity and other similar religions (and just good people) have always been able to keep it in it's place...
I'm afraid that we are close to the tipping point....The devil has gained the edge..$$$$$$$$$...The other interesting development has been the leveraging of the Religious Right as a means of progressing this school.
We have turned Christ into a long haired Lefty ;> ( WTF
Guys, I apologize for the last post...this is not the place.
If you listed the specs of each choke or at least both part numbers you would make it easier to reply.
Assuming I picked the right choke the Hammond is 181 ohms and 2 of the Triads would be 540. I think the Hammond is the better choice.
And thank you for the response. It has been noted!
You going to need to drill (2) extra holes in your chassis and the two choke are probably going to be taking up more space.
The orientation of the chokes will also be a concern because of the interaction of the magnetic fields.
Are you breadboarding your circuit before the final build?
If so, you can sort of move parts around if AC hum becomes an issue.
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Just wanted to say thanks to the people who have offered input here and below.
I am not planning on bread boarding, I only wish I had that kind of patience. I am thinking that an extra bit of money so that I don't have to worry about choke interaction and also have the lower resistance sounds good. My biggest concern now is the suggestion that I don't have enough Mu in the 76's to run a two stage amp and power the 45s properly. I will probably go ahead and build it with the 76s, but a switch to a tube with higher Mu is a distinct possibility down the road.
if you read some of the old wranlger posts you'll note he never "bread boarded" an amp. ;)
Yes, I am well aware that the concept of using breadboards is not something endorsed by our mentors, tube wrangler or drlowmu.
As I recall, Paully was being helped by his EE friend and seems to be constructing a "traditional/conventional" SE circuit.
I did not know if he was doing a final build up or experimenting with a breadboard or whatever.
IME, a breadboard can be helpful if you like to change things up a lot.
dt 667
Mentors? You speak for yourself!
I was responding to a comment posted by Rage, who happens to be a builder of "modern" SE tube amps.
Since he built a Medwin SE DC 2A3 amp, I could logically assume that Tube Wrangler and Drlowmu are two of his mentors.
And I am sure that Rage would be proud to cite them as an influence.
Have a nice day,
dt 667
The #1 influence. Great guys. Jeff helped me build one hell of a 2a3 amp for not a whole lot of money! It's the best amplifier I've built, no contest with anything else I've played around with.
He has been patient with my lack of knowledge and experience and always willing to help. Both guys are stand up good people.
There are other guys that have helped along the way... Kegger from AK has been a big help to me, SET12 from over there too... Douglas around here is probably getting tired of all of my inquires, but yet another great guy and great source of knowledge.
There are other guys around here on the more technical engineering side of things I consider to be a great resource too. They might not agree with Jeff/Dennis however I always try to carefully read what they put out there and consider it.
These guys might not all agree with each other however all of them have been indispensable to me. Lots of others around here like that too, I learn a lot on this site... and a good deal of it is from people that don't much care for subjective evaluations and marketing. ;)
I don't see either of these gentleman as a mentor in the full sense of the word.
I perceive Jeff as passionate, dedicated and very thorough but too lacking in technical knowledge and understanding to be a mentor. Jeff is generous, however, in sharing what knowledge he does possess in his desire to help others. I can well believe you have benefitted from his help.
Dennis, on the other hand, is boastful, invents his own arcane terminology as he goes along (e.g.transfer efficiency), talks in riddles and guards whatever knowledge he may have as if it were a state secret. I don't see that as particularly helpful and certainly not in any way acting as a mentor.
I believe a power supply should have less than 120 ohms resisistance including the chokes, transformer secondary & tube rectifiers feeding an amp requiring 100-140ma current at idle (no signal input). I design for a 50% current increase with 16ms voltage recovery. I hear no difference when compared to ultimate shunt regulated designs. I am also referring to SET amps that are more critical than class A push-pull amps.
You will forgive my while I discuss the concepts with my tutor! I haven't seen any chokes at 20H with less than 181 ohms, but I wasn't looking that hard either.
I wonder how much of the class A problem (or challenge) is due to having the tube cross into A2 on signal peaks. Most of us probably have the tendency to over-drive our amps. A2 peaks will draw more current and thus cause voltage fluctuations with a high resistance power supply.
In A2 the 'extra' current is from the grid
so it is drawn from the driver not the plate.
Right, but it all comes from the power supply.
If I remember correctly - some have
joined 2 chokes together so that
their cores were in the same B field
making a choke of 4x the inductance.
That means the 2 Triads would make a 40H choke.
You would have to wire and mount them correctly
their B fields would cancel instead of multiply.
Hi Paully,
Is this a two stage amp, with the Type 76 driving the Finals?? If so, the mu of the Type 76 driver tube is probably lower than optimal.
Yes, the amp will pass a signal and all, it will sound nice, but it will only perform when pushed hard, and will be rather lethargic at lower levels of listening.
I am sorry if this is off subject, but it seems (to me) like it may become a wasteful build.
Jeff Medwin
Hey, sorry to get back so late, and I am not one who posts under other monikers. I don't know anything about the arguments going on here. I do appreciate the input. I think it is a two stage amp, from my understanding. At this point I have bought quite a few 76s. I am hopeful that my Bottlehead FPIII is high enough gain that the 76s will run with them well and still be able to feed the 45s properly. My buddy took some Paramours and converted them to 76 feeding a 2a3 and I thought they sounded pretty good. I am not as technical as I would like so I can't offer a good argument for or against it, as I am sure you can. I think, however, that if I am unhappy with the performance of the amp and it doesn't sound good at low levels, that changing the amp over to a higher Mu driver tube should be something we could accomplish, don't you think?
Thanks for posting and clearing up the hoax poster. I should have known better than to answer to someone who has no spine to post their name, nor any manners !!
Yes, you can always swap out a tube if you deem it necessary. I am not familiar with the specific circuit. If it is just two tubes, an input and a output, my comments apply at low level listening, otherwise, if three stage, a Type 76 is "loverly", one of my favs.
Jeff Medwin
There will be two tubes, an input and an output (plus a voltage regulator). I guess we will just see what happens! Thanks for the input.
This is getting silly and I do not accept you apology for trolling in advance. You left your minions floundering below pumping out your religious bilge, yet you remain silent in their defense of some facts that can easily be checked by a simple phone call. (Kimber on wire color)
Either put up, shut up or go away!
My, what a nasty response!! I note you don't have the ba**s to identify yourself or sign with your name or moniker.
Why are you mentioning a 12AX7 ? I did not specifically suggest that to you, did I ?? It is only usable in a DC amp. You were assumptive.
I just inferred "higher mu" than a Type 76. That driver tube choice is left to you, you may have a cap or transformer couple, so select wisely !
I personally do not need to defend black wire at all. That is not what this thread or my post is about. I mentioned black wire and said I don't use it. Others, notably, unclestu, gave us a good background.
I do not do religious writing. See your clergyman for that. I discuss audio up here in terms that make sense to me.
If you are Paully, whether you excuse my off topic comment or not, the amp with the two tubes you selected will likely need a redesign. That is what YOU should be thinking about now.
By the way, I think both the tubes you picked are glorious, among my all time favorites. Your future problem is, it will not work real WELL / OPTIMALLY as a TWO stage amp unless pushed hard, simply not enough gain ! You should address that before you build.
So, all this public Forum planning, bandwidth, time, and your out-of-pocket expense is wasteful IMHO.
Jeff Medwin
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I was thinking same thing about the 76 driver.
I tried a 6P5G (octal 76) with C4S on my old Paramour amps (SE cap coupled 2A3) and it was very sluggish compared to 12AT7.
I eventually went to a C4S'ed 6J5GT and that worked out just fine.
Of course, everyone must do what they feel is best for themselves.
dt 667
whats the bet the anon troll has a system full of high dcr sloppy amps and no money to upgrade them. So he would rather live in de nile
any way latterly I have been contemplating that the ax7 and el84 are the finest audio tubes ever built and given you where a great amp builder you shouldn't really need anything more.One day when I am bored of dht's I am going to build another el84 SE amp with the best power supply I can afford. It will have feedback and maybe even global feedback around the trans and it may even have 2 coupling caps and 2 ax7 driver stages. I once found a vintage jap rapar el84 amp for a friend. It had feedback 2 ax7 gain stages with tone controls. And we hooked that amp up and wow. 12ax7 el84 the ultimate desert island tubes and budget tubes too.
Those guys that made those tubes made them for audio with feedback and when used right they sure do sing.
I agree that the EL84 can be a great sounding valve. I don't agree that Global feed back is necessary to run them as Pentodes with pleasing results.
I have been implementing feedback between the OPT Secondary and the Cathode with very good results. I love the sound of a well tamed Pentode. I would not do this with a Triode mainly because it's not necessary secondly a 60 V bias voltage across the Secondary of your OPT is not especially safe...The Bias voltage of an EL84 and EL34 is relatively low...A cathode winding in the primary would be nice...I've not thrown the cash at one of these animals to date.
I think Jeffrey is the real troll here. The OP asked about chokes in series and rather than his expected LOW-FI drivel, he pops up off topic to address something completely unrelated.
Meanwhile only a few threads below, Where a quote by Ray himself states he uses black wire, Jeff remains hiding under the bridge even though only a few months ago he insisted things like:
Please remind Dennis on his next order that even Ray Kimber ceased using black colors in his products, and that Ray bought equipment to measure this.
So Mikey, consider offering double TCSS lead outs, its nicer and much easier when done at the time-of-manufacture !! Oh, and go to Clear or White in place of Black, even Ray Kimber did!
The only thing worse than a troll is a troll who beats his chest while armed with dubious facts.
Synonyms for dubious:
doubtful - uncertain - questionable - shady - equivocal
Ray states the wire insulation color is an element that does not contribute to performance and adds no appreciable improvement.
It's more than dubious that Ray ever bought a $100,000 piece of test equipment and proved that black wire insulation is bad.
Those facts aren't dubious, they're just false.
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
Hey, you best re-read my original post in this thread. I clearly state it is off topic. If that is "trolling" so be it. I was trying to help the builder, by addressing the bigger design perspective.
Is that too difficult for anyone to envision and see????
Also, any mention of "black insulation, and 12AX7s", was introduced to this thread by Paully himself, not me! Any previous posts I did on black insulation was the result of information posted by Unclestu, and I tend to still believe him fully on this subject. What you, or others want to do about black insulated wire is totally up to YOU.
My point is, IMHO, a single Type 76 is too low a gain ( mu of 13.5 as I recall) to drive the DHT finals optimally.
So far, only Deathtube 667 has contributed anything on the question of gain, where he states he found a 12AT7 was an improvement in musical presentation over a lower mu tube.
So... when do we stop this silly BS of YOU (and Paully) pointing fingers and making off-topic accusations, and return to the design idea that the gain with a single Type 76 front end might be too low for a two stage amp??
Jeff Medwin
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You're too much, Jeff! You hijack this thread to suit your own agenda and then have the gall to say: "So... when do we stop this silly BS of YOU (and Paully) pointing fingers and making off-topic accusations, and return to the design idea that the gain with a single Type 76 front end might be too low for a two stage amp??"
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The War went on and on and I collected every map that I could from the newspapers and assiduously followed the reports of the war correspondents on the desert campaign and the invasion of Italy, never dreaming that I would, in years to come, one day come to know Field Marshal von Kesselring, the German commander, personally. Then came the buzz bombs and the V2 rockets, which persuaded Mum & Dad that we should be evacuated from London. Strange that we could endure the London Blitz and almost four years of the war but because these weapons were unmanned and often unannounced we were to be evacuated. We were not alone as several of the parents on the estate made the same decision and we found ourselves one morning on St Pancras station ready to start a journey into the unknown.
For some reason my pal, Don Donnelly, who lived just two flats away from us, had been separated from his tomboy sister Veronica with her flame red hair and temper to match. So immediately we four boys vowed to stay together wherever we might be going and whatever terrors we were to face. We set off early in the morning and by evening found ourselves in a church hall in Leeds being viewed by potential substitute parents. As you can imagine nobody wanted four evacuees and we would not be split so gradually people came and selected the child or children that took their fancy and we were left, just four children in the hall. Then in came Mrs McGuiness and said that she would take us all. We were by then completely tired out and the house on the corner of the road seemed like heaven as we were introduced to Mr McGuiness and without further ado piled into bed and fell instantly asleep.
What this childless couple had in mind when they agreed to take four evacuees I do not know. Day one set the pattern for our short stay with the McGuiness household. We were awakened at a very early hour and Les was sent to collect some item or another from a local shop. It appeared that his performance was not satisfactory and he was told off by Mr McGuiness who, it transpired, worked nights. It was no surprise that, with our chores completed, we made a certain amount of noise playing in the yard. For this we incurred the wrath of Mr McGuiness and were sent off to find somewhere else to play. So we did and gave him the widest berth possible thenceforward. For some reason he always picked up on Les to get up at 5.30 each morning to fetch his paper from the shop and perform numerous chores and generally made his life a misery.
There was a piece of rough ground beyond the McGuiness's back garden, which was in the form of a little valley. We rapidly adopted a strategy which involved disappearing from the back of the house down into the valley, through a little wood avoiding the gypsies who camped there, into a deserted printing works and thence freedom for the day. Like most children of the time we made model aircraft, more often from a piece of scrap wood than anything resembling a kit but occasionally we obtained a piece of balsa wood. Acquiring paint for these models was a problem until we found the aircraft factory. At least that is what we imagined it was for there were no signs stating, "Aircraft made here", but there was a yard that took deliveries, which included drums of paint or 'dope', and here they collected the empty drums for exchange. Waiting until there was no one around we would sneak into the yard and empty the dregs from an empty drum into a jar and make off with enough dope to paint all our models. The only snag was that it was always grey!
One way or another we kept out of mischief and out of sight of Mr McGuiness but we were not happy. The only outing of any sort was a trip to the Easy Road cinema, where the films broke with monotonous regularity and the décor defied description and bore no comparison with the Queen's Cinema at home in Cricklewood. We wrote home, for there was no telephone and it would not have proved of much use if there was as Mum and Dad did not have one anyway. Our letters brought Mrs Donnelly to Leeds and she decided to take Don home. She explained that she did not have the authority to take us as well. About half an our after she and Don left a telegram arrived from my mother asking her to bring us back home if we were really unhappy.
We were indeed unhappy and we determined to do something about it. We had made friends with a local greengrocer, Mr Hall, whom we helped to display his fruit and vegetables and polish his apples. In return we received an apple and hung around his shop for most of the day getting to know his regular customers. His was the first real friendship we experienced in Yorkshire. One of his customers was a Mrs Ellis who knew of our situation and was willing to take one of us but could not accommodate three. However she had a daughter married to a Mr Falkingham who could take the other two of us, although she lived on the other side of the city in New Wortley. But nobody knew how to go about getting us transferred. So we went to the Billeting Officer who had an office on the ground floor of the recently built Quarry Hill Flats.
I cannot imagine that this sort of thing would be permitted today but at eleven years of age I explained our predicament to the Billeting Officer over a counter not dissimilar to that of a Post Office. The answer to our request was that they did not have other people wanting to take on evacuees so we would have to stay where we were. "But we do not want you to find a new billet", I explained, "We have found our own." I was then asked for the name and address of Mr & Mrs Ellis and Mr & Mrs Falkingham. That stumped me. Promising to be back we sped to Mr Hall's and waylaid Mrs Ellis. Armed with the addresses we returned triumphantly to Quarry Hill Flats and lodged the addresses with the Billeting Officer. Within days we had transferred to a new team. Les stayed with Mrs Ellis and Ron and I went to the Falkinghams. Whilst we were much happier than before, I did not settle well in New Wortley. I suppose that today it would be described as a culture shock. I could not understand how grown-ups could possibly not know where St Albans was in relation to Cricklewood. Of course, the Leeds folk had never heard of either place.
Amongst the scrapes into which I led us was a trip into Leeds City on the tram after I had been forbidden to go there. By an incredible piece of bad luck Mrs Ellis happened to be going in the opposite direction to visit her daughter, looked out of the window at the tram passing hers and saw Ron and me. The game was up and another talking to from Mr Falkingham loomed. They were a kindly couple but found me difficult to handle. Whilst I could not understand why Mr F thought it good for us to dip our faces in freezing cold water and open our eyes whilst our face was submerged, in general I liked him and we got along quite well. He took me to see Leeds United play Bradford Park Avenue at Elland Road and also to some unfathomable Rugby League game about which everybody seemed to get very excited. But he was a good husband and supported his wife who was a little hysterical on occasions, usually as a result of something I said or did, so I was often in trouble with him. I did try, though, and swallowed my pride when taken to a jumble sale for clothes. I suppose we were growing out of things but Mum had never relied on charities to clothe us.
Then came the crisis. Before I was evacuated I had passed my scholarship and was due to go to Christ's College. It appears that Leeds Grammar School had no place for me and I was to go the elementary school. But I had other ideas. The outcome was that Mum came to Leeds to sort things out. I remember we went to Roundhay Park and I fell into the boating lake, probably to the secret delight of Mrs Falkingham! It may have been during this visit that Mum met Mr Hall. Talking to him some thirty years later on a business visit to Leeds he told me how much he had enjoyed meeting her. The outcome was that Mum took me back to London. That railway journey seemed interminable. I stood all the way from Leeds to Kings Cross and the train took six and a half hours to travel 198 miles. I had spent six weeks in Leeds and it felt like a lifetime.
Ron stayed with Mr and Mrs Falkingham for another few months but was clearly homesick so he then came home but Les stayed in Leeds for almost two years and eventually came home with a wonderful Yorkshire accent. He had got along famously with the Ellis family and was a big favourite of their soldier son. I was amazed at the amount of food the men in this family managed to eat at Sunday dinner. We were familiar with Yorkshire pudding, which accompanied roast beef if we were lucky enough to get it but in this family it was something quite different. The Yorkshire puddings that Mrs Ellis made were not dissimilar to pancakes in shape, size and texture and were served with gravy before the main meal. Incredibly the Ellis men would eat seven or eight of these and then tuck into dinner followed by pudding and custard.
Back in Cricklewood, the air raids continued at night but not with the same frequency as during the blitz. One evening around nine o'clock I was in our living room with Dad and Mr Strutt who were about to go out fire watching when Dad literally threw me under the table as a bomb whistled overhead and exploded with an enormous bang between the Estate and the railway. This was the closest we came to a high explosive bomb although we did have a problem with a huge land mine that landed in a tree in Farm Avenue on the other side of the estate. This was eventually partially disabled and detonated without major damage but not before our negotiating skills had once more been called into play. Ron and I were making our way home up Cricklewood Lane on a Sunday around 1.00 pm after a trip to Kilburn with Dad. He had stopped off for a pint of beer leaving us to complete the journey home. As we reached Lichfield Road we were stopped by police at a barrier put up to prevent people entering the area. We had to persuade them that we were a special case. As I recall they were intransigent so we solved the problem by turning right along Lichfield Road and cutting through the back way past "The Italian's" or more accurately Mr & Mrs Merino's general store.
With hindsight I feel quite sorry for the Merino family who were probably not Italian at all. The estate children must have made their life a misery at times with their rather cruel taunts and songs like "Talianos sells fish, three ha'pence a dish, cock your leg up, pull your drawers down, Talianos sells fish." Of course the fact that the Merinos did not sell fish was irrelevant. One can understand Mrs Merino's wrath, especially if my assumption is correct that she was not Italian anyway. I suppose that in the end she had the last laugh as the shop prospered and I suspect her family ended the war with greater wealth than any of those responsible for the taunting.
I recall my mother describing a much worse situation concerning bakers called Reims, a family of German origin, who were located in Kingsgate Road in Kilburn diagonally opposite to her home in Lowfield Road. Despite the bakers being well established for many years, the Kilburn locals broke the shop windows early in the Great War and the family were driven out and, I believe, interned for the duration. It was such a sad effect of war and the jingoistic propaganda of the times.


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Tuesday, December 20 at 10:45 PM ET
It is very important to us to be transparent and honest about our picks. I always try to recap each football weekend. With the addition of the TrendFinder database, the blog will focus more on topics beyond performance. Our performance is now as transparent as it can possibly get. We will still do our best to note areas of strength, while acknowledging areas of weakness - honing in on what this means to subscribers as it applies and touching on other, "big picture" topics in the process.
With less than 10% of the college football bowl games in the books, coming off of an extremely light "finals week" college basketball slate and with an NBA preview in the works that will launch on Thursday, this blog will focus almost exclusively on the NFL including deeper discussions in NFL Playoff Probabilities, the announcement of the Week 16 Fantasy Football FREEROLL open exclusively to PredictionMachine users on daily fantasy sports site DraftDay and a quick recap of Week 15 in the league. Also, as many of you have probably already noticed, you can now search all previous blogs using the Blog Search box in the upper-right-hand corner of this page.
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With the loss by the Packers and win by the Colts, our weekly projection section has been split up. In addition to the usual section on team and player milestones, we will expound on the NFL Playoff Probabilities we just updated for each team, and analyze one additional scenario for each team that is still alive in its quest for the playoffs.
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NFL Performance:
Week 15 in the NFL was a below .500 ATS week for the Predictalator - just the second week in the last 19 weeks that was the case. And while performance did not live up to our expectations (though one may say that 17 .500 or better weeks out of 19 is exceeding our or anyone's expectations), we did clearly warn of undervalued home underdogs that would/should ultimately become the story of the week. We just did not know to what degree they would score headlines (nor that Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos would not be included amongst them). We really liked Kansas City (+14 on Wednesday, +11.5 closing), Indianapolis (+6.5 on Wednesday and closing), St. Louis (+6.5 on Wednesday, +7 closing) and Denver (+6 on Wednesday and +7.5). Those picks went 2-2 against-the-spread, with St. Louis also pushing against the closing line (and Denver keeping it a game - more below).
More notably and importantly, those big home underdogs went 2-2 straight-up with Indianapolis and Kansas City pulling off significant upsets. In our numbers, we gave the Colts a 36.4% chance of winning and the Chiefs a 21.6% chance of winning - for a likelihood that both would win of 7.9%. That chance may not sound great, but consider that a parlay payout on $100 wager for just those two teams winning outright would have been $2,780. An 8% chance (i.e. 1 in about 13) to return 28 times the money sounds like some great value. In retrospect, it's easy to point to this example because it net significantly positive returns, but only one play like that out of every 27 needs to hit for that specific strategy to be profitable.
The general takeaway is that, while most players think that money-lines should be played for any underdog pick that is +1 to +2.5 or when the underdog is assumed to be the favorite (the latter being mostly valid if this assumption is backed up by our numbers), the value can often be greater when taking more significant underdogs, especially when the pick information we provide has a strong opinion on the home team in the NFL. In actuality, money-line odds on +1 lines (generally -105 to +100) are not going to aid the value of the pick and teams that are actually close tend to have the much high likelihood of a 1 or 2 point win by the favorite than teams that are not as close. The Customizable Predictalator is a great way to analyze money-line value, even in parlays, as long as it is understood that money-line and parlay success odds are typically less than 50%, making the strategy more conducive to the long-term approach than the short-term.
This graphic (which may make your brain explode), is all that anyone really needs to know about what was ultimately accomplished this week in the NFL. The "any given Sunday" cliche' may actually be more reality than perception. Very few circumstances exist in this league where the road team warrants being a double-digit favorite and no team has had less than about 15% chance to win straight-up at home all season. This is why no one hits 100% straight-up or against-the-spread and why 60% ATS (our accuracy over the past 19 NFL weeks) is so rare in this industry.
Not only was Week 15 subject to some fluky victories and general NFL chaos, injuries and turnovers plagued many of the teams that we specifically were counting on to perform better. For example, while Ben Roethlisberger did play, he clearly was not close to 100%. If the coaches are running him out there and he says he is ready to go, there is not much we can do to an injured player's numbers other than to generalize at what percent his playing (a slippery slope and one for which we are conservative).
Turnovers, as well as in-game injuries, game-changing special teams plays, weather shifts, power outages and defensive scores can have a far greater impact on the game that is played once than we could ever assume when the game is played 50,000 times. Fortunately, that evens out over time and our numbers win out in the long run. Unfortunately, these instances have plagued our teams in uncharacteristic fashions in the most high-profile games this season. It is what it is, but if the Denver Broncos had won a game in which the New England Patriots turned the ball over three times, yet out-gained Denver by more than a half a yard on a per-play basis, including more than eight yards-per-carry, the loss would have been more universally blamed on bad luck (or divine intervention). Instead, the opposite happens and the Patriots are applauded, while the Broncos are beaten down. Denver was the right side in that game... Just like Alabama vs. LSU (the first version) and recent others like them.
Week 16 and Week 17 often provide instances where the aforementioned concerns regarding injuries and mistakes (in this case due to apathy) grow due to the wear and tear of the season and motivation (or lack there of). For Paul's Picks in Week 16 (which will be the top three plays on SATURDAY as well as the top play from Sunday or Monday), we will clearly note any foreseeable pitfalls due to potential roster changes. And, as we did last year, for Week 17, we will highlight which games have two teams with reasons two win (considered to be the games where our confidence will be the strongest), two teams with no postseason related reasons to win and with one of each. Everyone on either side of this industry has added uncertainty in Week 17. We'll do our best to find value. Tread lightly otherwise.
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TAQA Bratani reported late Wednesday that it has received approval from the UK government for its development plan for the Cladhan field in the North Sea.
The initial phase of development of the field – which is located on Blocks 210/29a and 210/30a in the northern North Sea – will consist of two producer wells and one injection well. Cladhan is expected to produce over 17,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day initially with first oil expected in the first quarter of 2015. Production will be tied back to TAQA's Tern Alpha platform which lies some 11 miles northeast of the Cladhan field.
TAQA Bratani Managing Director Leo Koot commented in a company statement:
"The Cladhan development is the third field that TAQA has developed and the largest project to date. Developing Cladhan as a tie back to Tern supports TAQA's strategy to invest in our infrastructure as we recognise the crucial part it plays in allowing us to maximise recovery from the northern North Sea."
TAQA current has a 40.1-percent stake in the Cladhan field but an agreement to acquire further equity in the field from Sterling Resources could see its interest increase to 52.7 percent.
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The agora was the central square in the Greek polis, the setting for political meetings, markets, cults, public entertainment, and civic commemoration. The root meaning of the word is political, derived from the verb agoreuein, to speak in assembly. As a designated space the agora is likely to be as old as the Greek polis, for even the small populations of very early settlements required a central meeting place. The first references occur in epic poetry, where the word denotes an urban space held in common and frequented by male citizens (Odyssey 2.6–257). In its physical form this Homeric agora consisted of a level area brought to life by human activity, and when buildings were added to the agora in later times, the free space continued to be essential. In Homer's description of the scenes on the shield of Achilles, a city's elders decide a dispute in the agora while sitting on stones that are arranged in a circle around the two contesting parties (Iliad 18.497–508). The poetic image of a circular political gathering place probably reflects the real existence of such spaces, for several round meeting places of later date have come to light (Metapontum, Paestum, Acragas). Yet even in Homeric times the agora was a multivalent gathering place, not just a political center. In the Odyssey, Homer locates the agora of Scheria , the imaginary polis of the Phaeacians, at the harbor where it would have been a center of maritime commerce, and the same space is also the setting for athletic contests (Odyssey 8.1–198).
The primary use of the agora was political; the frequent translation as "market" is therefore inadequate. The agora in most cities was, in fact, a place for public speaking: there met the ekklēsia or citizen assembly, the boulē or council, and law courts. As cities grew larger and the need arose for magistracies and record keeping, the agora also became a natural location for buildings containing civic offices, including that of the agoranomoi charged with supervision of the agora itself. Associated with political institutions were altars of various deities. Zeus, god of justice and oath swearing, was widely invoked, often as Zeus Agoraeus (Metapontum, Athens, Selinus, Erythrae, Thasos, Morgantina). The agora was also the setting for altars of other locally important gods and heroes, and major temples and sanctuaries often arose nearby, as at Corinth (Apollo), Athens (Hephaestus, Demeter), Priene (Zeus), and Magnesia (Artemis).
The agora provided a convenient setting for the conduct of public and private business and for economic activity, including open-air markets for agricultural produce and commercial shops. The potters' quarter in Athens undoubtedly benefited from its location adjacent to the city's agora. In the Classical period bankers made their appearance, and over their tables or trapezai were conducted the new practices of lending, deposits, and exchange. In the Hellenistic era, cities and kingdoms created their own banking institutions; a building at Morgantina has been identified as such a public bank and may be typical. Among the practical functions of the agora was the provision of water, for both drinking and cleaning; a well was found in the earliest-known agora at Megara Hyblaea, and fountain houses fed by underground aqueducts are common later.
The open space and centrality of the early agora rendered it ideal for public performances. A space for choral dancing (orchēstra) existed in the Athenian agora, where early dramatic performances were also given in a temporary theater with wooden seats or bleachers. As in Homer's Scheria, athletic competition is indicated by running tracks at Corinth and Athens. Dramatic performances eventually moved into the new architectural form of the theater, which was often located on sloping ground outside the agora; athletic contests migrated to outlying gymnasia, where nudity was more appropriate. Some forms of spectacle remained: at Athens the Panathenaic apobatēs event, in which armed men leapt in and out of moving chariots, probably continued to take place in the public center.
At least from the late Archaic period the agora became a place of civic commemoration. Pausanias saw an Archaic statue of the athlete Arrichion at Phigalia, an early public sculpture. Better known were the bronze statues at Athens of the political heroes Harmodius and Aristogiton, installed in the agora after 507 bce , then replaced thirty years later after the original group was carried off by the Persians. These are the progenitors of the many sculptures of notable individuals that now began to collect in the city center, joined by images of local heroes and, in Athens, even historical paintings protected in a roofed portico. The emergence of the agora as a civic cultural center made it an appropriate spot for intellectual discourse, public lectures, and even classrooms.
The necessity of an agora is demonstrated by its regular inclusion in newly founded cities. The earliest-known example belongs to the polis of Megara Hyblaea in eastern Sicily, founded in 728 bce and so roughly contemporary with Homer. Occupying about 41,440 square feet (3,850 square meters), the small polygonal agora is located at the juncture of the two different grid systems of the unusual city plan. The recently discovered agora of Megara's daughter-city Selinus, founded in western Sicily a century later, is far larger—about 323,450 square feet, or 30,050 square meters—and more functional, yet still located at the intersection of two grid systems.
From circa 600 bce new cities were generally laid out with a single grid plan that allowed a number of undeveloped city blocks to be designated an agora. At Metapontum in southern Italy (c.600 bce ), the large agora consists of such a reserved space within the street grid, facing inland toward the city's farmland. Here the agora must have served in part as a market square for agricultural produce. At Camarina in Sicily, founded 598 bce , the agora is similarly laid out, but it faces the sea as in Homer's Scheria.
The planning solution adopted at Metapontum and Camarina became the norm. At Morgantina (c.450 bce ) the huge agora occupies six city blocks. With an area of about 323,000 square feet (30,000 square meters), the space may have been designed for a larger population than the city ever achieved (it reached a maximum of about six to seven thousand); public granaries indicate the agora's use as a center for food storage and distribution. Later carefully planned urban spaces are found at Cassope in northwest Greece and at Priene on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor (both c.350 bce ). Whereas the public space of Cassope is placed at the city's periphery between the residential blocks and the city wall, at Priene the small rectangular agora (about 56,000 square feet, or 5,200 square meters) is located at the very center of the city, occupying the space of two residential blocks. Though a central agora like that at Priene is not typical, it does reflect the functional and symbolic centrality of the agora in the Greek polis, also making it convenient to a greater number of citizens. Priene is often cited as a formal model for the Classical Greek city.
In the Hellenistic period, larger agoras are found in the Ionian cities of Asia Minor, with grandiose examples at such places as Miletus, Ephesus, and Magnesia. Here we can see the influence of the unexcavated centers of the great capitals of Alexandria and Antioch. Characteristic are one- and two-story porticoes with shops, defining the sides of the huge rectilinear spaces, and also smaller adjacent areas given over to civic cults, specialized commercial activities (fish and meat markets), and purely political functions.
The public centers of the major cities of the Greek mainland were not shaped by regular city plans, and consequently their boundaries have not always been identified. In some cities the agoras may have been located at intersections of major roads (Corinth), or near important central sanctuaries (Corinth, Athens).
The extensively excavated agora at Athens was in use for a millennium and has provided the greatest quantity of evidence for the history and use of a public center. Most of the building types associated with the Greek agora are represented here. Over time the Athenian agora was transformed from an irregular space into a more formal one bordered by stoas, under the influence of cities elsewhere with regular plans; the process required several centuries. The west side was occupied from early times by buildings of political nature (prytaneion, bouleutērion); the precise form of these has been controversial. Of particular interest in Athens are the Stoa of Zeus, an elegant building with wings at the extremities, at the northwest corner of the space (fifth century bce); on the north side the Painted Stoa, or Stoa Poikile, containing major historical paintings on wooden panels (also fifth century bce); and on the east side, the large Stoa of Attalus, a two-story portico of Pergamene type rebuilt in the 1950s (second century bce).
Also noteworthy are the public centers of older cities in Asia Minor where in the Hellenistic period landscape features were taken into account in the irregular placement of buildings; the agora of Assos is a striking example. Older rectilinear spaces could be redesigned in the new style, as at Morgantina.
Buildings in the agora were almost always located along its edges, leaving unobstructed the free space at the center. The most characteristic building type was the stoa, a freestanding portico often of great length with a colonnade facing the central space. Entered from any point along its facade, a stoa provided a refuge from sun, wind, or rain, a place where business could be conducted, conversations continued, meetings held. When rented as shops, the rooms in a stoa produced civic income presumably amortizing the cost of construction—unless the building was a donation to the city, like the large stoa given to Athens by Attalus II of Pergamum.
As the necessity arose for more specialized building types, these, too, were placed along the periphery, sometimes masked by porticoes that provided them with a uniform facade. Among the most important were large roofed halls (bouleutēria) for the council, sometimes constructed, because of their late adoption, on private land adjacent to the agora; meeting places for magistrates (prytaneia); and courtyard buildings for offices or banks. Open meeting places for the civic assembly in built form are known at Metapontum and Acragas (round) and at Morgantina (rectilinear); theaters often served the same purpose. Other buildings appearing within agoras include theaters and granaries.


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In many ways, Richard Kelly and Nicolas Cage might just need each other like the desert needs the rain that suddenly turns into water portals, thus beginning the apocalypse. Both the Southland Tales director and the actor who somehow was not in that movie, even if he was made for delivering dialogue like, "Pimps don't commit suicide," seem to have a complementary, glorious disregard for internal logic, so it's perhaps inevitable that they would find each other. Yet oddly, and perhaps disappointingly, they've first chosen to collaborate on the true-crime tale Amicus, a film in which Nicolas Cage plays a real-life lawyer who does not, according to the synopsis, have a split personality or stumble upon a secret society of people attempting to manipulate time by training schools of fish to swim backwards. (Or whatever.) Instead, Cage will be fighting not sinister fish people, but rather the publishers of a manual for wannabe hit men that led to actual murders, when a former Motown exec hired a killer who used it as a guide. Which is a strange story, but not entirely a "Richard Kelly directs Nicolas Cage" kind of strange, so maybe keep an eye out for fish people in the third act.
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Conflicting Identities and Social Pressure - Effects on the long-run evolution of female labor supply
Over the last half-century female employment rates have increased significantly in many countries. This change has partly been attributed to a change in gender norms. The purpose of this paper is to present a dynamic model within which the evolution of female labor supply can be analyzed. Drawing on psychological literature, we let individuals define themselves in terms of different social identities, each of which prescribes a certain type of behavior. These prescriptions may imply conflicting incentives which provide agents with a motive to continuously revise the importance they attach to a given identity. Applying this approach within the context of a dynamic model of labor supply, we are able to make some novel predictions about what may cause labor supply to change over time. Our results suggest that the fear of becoming an outsider in society may have prevented a complete transition of women from housewives to breadwinners. In addition, we show that the discrepancy between personal and social norms may have interesting implications for labor supply: an increase in the hours of work prescribed by a working norm need not necessarily lead to more hours of work. Finally, our analysis shows that not recognizing that the weights attached to different social identities are endogenous may imply that the long-run effects on labor supply of a higher wage may be underestimated.
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Premier Bob Carr has a blunt message for the hundreds of Sydney lawyers out of work because of his Government's law reforms: "Get retrained and start another job."
He was unmoved by the report that the entire 14th floor of Wardell Chambers in Martin Place, employing 23 barristers and support staff, will close its doors on December 31.
Offering no apology for the jobs shake-out in law practices following his legislative assault on "the culture of litigation", Mr Carr said: "The fact is there will be fewer jobs for lawyers, but with their education they are well placed to go into retraining.
"In this modern day and age a lot of workers have had to be retrained.
"Lawyers are not a protected species, and their habits of over-litigation were adding to the cost of doing business in NSW.
"We couldn't have allowed it to go on."
Mr Carr claimed that while excessive litigation had lined the pockets of lawyers, it had resulted in the closure of community events, the wrecking of the workers' compensation system and could have put thousands of people out of work.
Over the past 18 months the Carr Government has introduced a series of major reforms on public liability to reduce the financial impact on insurance companies and to slow down the escalating rate of premiums.
The Civil Liability (Personal Responsibility) Act and its amendments introduced caps and thresholds on compensation and shifted the balance towards greater personal responsibility to avoid long and expensive court cases.
The result has been a sharp drop in casework for solicitors and barristers specialising in personal injury cases.
"We reformed it," Mr Carr said. "But I make no apologies for cleaning up this culture of over-litigation, of reining it in.
"Everyone was suing everyone and trying to get a pot of money at the end of the rainbow.
"And it was just bankrupting Australia, so we cleaned it up.
"Now workers are getting more out of the workers' comp system and they are going to continue to get more," he said. "But it does mean less going to lawyers. I know where I prefer it to go."
NSW Bar Association president Ian Harrison, SC, said last week that a quarter to a third of all barristers would disappear or have their practices adversely affected within the next six to 18 months.
The Wardell Chambers floor closure is linked directly to the winding up of the NSW Workers Compensation Court this month and restrictions on injury claims under the Government's reforms.
NSW Law Society president Robert Benjamin said 30 to 40 per cent of the state's 18,000 solicitors were involved in personal injury and compensation work and would be hit by the Carr Government's law changes.
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Fox Chapel Authority head earns recognition for service
For his commitment to public service, Mark Nicely has earned an Excellence in Local Government Award after two decades running the area's water distribution system.
At the helm of the Fox Chapel Authority, Nicely oversees service for more than 5,400 residents in Fox Chapel, O'Hara, Indiana Township and Harmar.
"I'm honored and a little bit surprised," Nicely said, from his office along Alpha Drive in RIDC Park, O'Hara.
The recognition is part of the 17th Annual Governor's Awards, given this year to eight municipal leaders and 12 communities, and made available through the Department of Community and Economic Development.
Specifically, it honors dedication shown to strengthen communities and better serve residents.
Nicely was nominated by Douglas Bilheimer, executive director of the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association (PMAA).
"He is a worthy candidate," Bilheimer said. "For his tireless commitment to public service, I was honored to offer him as a nominee."
In addition to his work in the Lower Valley, Nicely is former chairman of the state section of the American Water Works Association and a member of the PMAA executive committee. He currently leads PA WARN, the state's Water/Wastewater Agency Resource Network.
"It's a mutual aid group of utilities helping utilities," Nicely said. "When a manmade or natural disaster happens, we can help each other more quickly than the government can."
The PA WARN was founded after lessons learned in Hurricane Katrina, Nicely said.
"We found that the state and federal governments don't have the specialized knowledge that we do, and that we need, to get back on our feet," he said.
In the event of a disaster, Nicely has trained to work in the state's emergency operating center with other responders.
An engineer, Nicely graduated from Penn State University before working in finance and management at an environmentally-geared engineering firm. He managed Hampton Township Municipal Authority for a dozen years and Richland Township Authority for four years before coming to O'Hara.
"(Nicely) has actively served statewide and community organizations dedicating his time and expertise for the betterment of state communities," Bilheimer said.
Lt. Governor Jim Cawley said Nicely is among those who show an immense responsibility to provide solutions that make the community a vibrant place to live.
"This is recognition of your dedication to public service, and a celebration of leadership and innovation," he said.
Tawnya Panizzi is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-782-2121, ext. 2, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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NSA Data Debate: A Glossary and Who's Who
The National Security Agency's monitoring of Americans' data became the source of debate following a government contractor's disclosure to The Guardian and the Washington Post of an order by a secret U.S. court for Verizon' Communications Inc.'s phone records. People familiar with the NSA's operations told The Wall Street Journal the initiative also encompasses phone-call data from AT&T Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp., records from Internet-service providers and purchase information from credit-card providers.
Here is a list of terms discussed in the debate over the NSA's data-collection program as well as a who's who of the players involved:
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA): The statute, signed into law in 1978, spells out the circumstances under which the government can eavesdrop for the purpose of gathering foreign intelligence. The standards have been loosened since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: The secret court designed to review applications for surveillance. It is composed of 11 U.S. District Court judges selected by the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1979 through 2012, the court has rejected 11 of the more than 33,900 surveillance applications by the government, according to annual Justice Department reports to Congress. Of 1,856 FISA applications the Justice Department made in 2012, the court denied none but modified 40, the Justice Department reported.
Prism: The National Security Agency's previously undisclosed data-collection effort to process information collected on foreign targets from Internet companies. James Clapper, director of national intelligence, said Saturday that Prism is not a data mining or collection tool, but a government computer system "used to facilitate the government's statutorily authorized collection of foreign intelligence information from electronic communication service providers under court supervision."…


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The kids were playing outside today with neighborhood children here in Oxford, our most recent stop. All three of my children and a very sweet four year old neighbor boy (who, incidentally, has not yet gone off to school) began a game of making underground "houses" by digging wide holes into the ground, about 6 inches in diameter and an inch or two deep, one for each child. Their holes were in a rugged area on the edge of a large field near our apartment building where the grass is already pat … [Read more...]
"Ruining a Patch of Nature"
The Gift of Hospitality
Some ladies are said to have "the gift of hospitality": Lady Lovely's home is tidy and tasteful and most of all welcoming, her food and drink fit each occasion, kings and commoners and strangers and friends feel at home with her, she facilitates meaningful and merry conversation, she rarely breaks a sweat (unless it's from laughter or Scattergories), and her guests leave inspired by their time in her home.I dearly love the Lady Lovelies of my world. And I'm not quite one myself. Instead, I rea … [Read more...]
Celebrity Weddings
Fresh off the press... a moonlit bench in Prospect Garden at Princeton, one lovely lady and one magnanimous gentleman, a family diamond from him, a sweet and certain "yes" from her, and they're headed to the altar.Here's to you, lovebirds, with all our love and many blessings. The best is yet to come. … [Read more...]
Dream On
Joseph and Samuel of the Old Testament, St. Joseph, and other heroes of our faith received crucial, divine messages through dreams.So far nothing of that magnitude for this dreamer.However, everyday dreams can have an enormous positive or negative impact on my emotional life.In a recent dream of mine, my husband and I (along with all of you dear college friends) had just reached the end of junior year at Princeton and were saying goodbye for the summer. Of course none of us were married yet, but … [Read more...]
Spoken like a True Sanguine
Any of you who share my fascination with the four temperaments will appreciate this.Me (hyperventilating at the sight of the pieces of five 60 piece jigsaw puzzles mixed up and strewn about the floor of our tiny living room): "I'm not interested in who did this, but I need everyone get to work cleaning it up immediately."Bella (age 5, whose blood runs sanguine): "OK Mom, of course, but I prefer when the room is messed exactly like this because all the colors on the floor make me cheerful."Lord … [Read more...]
Farewell to a Faithful Stroller
Well my friends, this is the first goodbye to a beloved stroller in the life of our young family. The narrow sidewalks and high curbs of France finally snapped the frame beyond repair. Goodbye, fair stroller. (With a grin and a double wink : ))ODE TO OUR STROLLER (sung to the tune of "Danny Boy")Peg Perego, your days with us were numbered. Four years you've been our car, our guard, our friend. The European cobblestone plus 75 pounds of children-- Your final triumph was your tragic … [Read more...]
Building Cathedrals Goes Mediterranean
How's this for exotic?AWOL Mommy and I spent much of this Tuesday and Wednesday together in Bella Roma, along with our families, feasting in our apartment, attending an audience with Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square, and picnicking at the playground behind the Castel Sant'Angelo (pictured above). How delightful it was to share family adventures with our dear friends AWOL and Mr. AWOL and their loving, creative, fun children!Wish you all could have been here.(The kids watching Ratatouille … [Read more...]
La Dolce Vita
Dear friends, we are in week #2 in Rome. The kids are thriving on all the sunshine and good Italian food (there's my happy boy enjoying Nutella pizza outside St. Peter's Basilica), we are filled with grace from our daily visits to holy pilgrimage sites, and we are reveling in all the unique aspects of family life in Italy.There are fewer comforts and conveniences, but people take life more slowly and seem to embrace it more here. Things like line-drying our wet clothes in the sun, eating the … [Read more...]
"Contraception and NFP: What's the Difference?"
For a refresher on the difference between contraception and NFP, click here to view the full text of this excellent document put together by my lovely, recently-married, hoping-to-be-a-mom, passionately-Catholic, darn smart friend. Thanks, Mrs. C., for keeping my brain sharp on this fundamental truth. … [Read more...]
You're Excused
Gone are the days of "my dog ate my homework" and other lame excuses. As a mother with young children, I find that my excuses in everyday situations are thoroughly believable because they are way too far-fetched to have been made up: "I'm sorry we can't return the Transformer toy that you let us borrow yesterday. Spiderman apparently trapped him in a web (the chain that opens and closes our radiator vent) and there's no way to untangle him. As soon as we can get our hands on a pair of wire c … [Read more...]


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Sam Lutfi is broke. Who saw that coming?
While nobody, including Sam Lutfi, thought his lawsuit against Britney Spears and her parents was for anything but money, TMZ has uncovered information that shows Sam is up to this douchebeard in debt:
According to documents obtained by TMZ, a lien was slapped on Lutfi's condo back in April. Lutfi never paid the debt, which grew to $18,507.58 by November.
The lien was filed by a debt collection agency on behalf of the homeowner's association where Lutfi has a condo.
According to docs, Lutfi has until February 10 to pay up or the condo could be forced into foreclosure.
And Lutfi has other financial issues. A bank that issued Sammy boy a Discover Card filed a lawsuit against him last month, claiming he owes $7,966.98.
Of course, legal eagle here has an iron-clad case with his alleged text from Britney Spears that reads "Sam, so that's fine, I want you to be my manager. You were right it's 15 percent of my money but for 4 years not 5." Because it's not like anyone could prove in court he had access to her phone while she was off her Frappucino rocker. Oh, wait.


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Zhumell LensPen
- The FLIR Scout TS24 Thermal Monocular provides unparalleled field performance and value along with excellent image quality. An expanded array of six models with differing resolutions and optical performance, field-swappable batteries, and available image and video capture make the TS-Series perfect for expedition leaders, wildlife management professionals, and ranchers. Powered by the same advanced technology used by military and law enforcement, Scout TS is a powerful thermal imaging camera affordable enough to give those who love the outdoors the unsurpassed, practical advantage of full-resolution thermal imaging night vision.
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- Detects heat signatures up to 1200 yards away, depending on model.
- High speed 60Hz or 30Hz frame rate displays lifelike thermal video.
- Crisp, clear 640 x 480 display screen.
- Easy-to-use buttons: Power, color palettes, E-Zoom and screen brightness.
- Fast startup extends battery life by eliminating need for standby.
- Shuttered eyepiece keeps light from coming out of the viewfinder and avoids alarming animals.
- Rugged design is built to withstand the demands of day-in, day-out rugged outdoor use.
- White Hot, Black Hot, and Instalert palettes provide image detail in different environments.
- Single hand operation
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- Small, rugged, and ergonomic, Scout TS provides direct push-button access to all of its controls, and weighs less than a pound and a half. Built around FLIR's cutting-edge thermal night vision technology, Scout creates video images from heat, not light, and displays this video on its built‐in LCD eyepiece so you can experience the world as it happens, day or night. Plus, the TS-Pro series gives you the added convenience of recording straight to a removable SD card.
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- FLIR Systems, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes technologies that enhance perception and awareness. FLIR brings innovative sensing solutions into daily life through their thermal imaging systems, visible-light imaging systems, locator systems, measurement and diagnostic systems, and advanced threat detection systems. FLIR products improve the way people interact with the world around them, enhance public safety and well-being, increase energy efficiency, and enable healthy and entertained communities. Pioneers in thermal imaging, we were founded in 1978, originally providing infrared imaging systems that were installed on vehicles for use in conducting energy audits. Today our advanced systems and components are used for a wide variety of thermal imaging, situational awareness, and security applications, including airborne and ground-based surveillance, condition monitoring, navigation, recreation, research and development, manufacturing process control, search and rescue, drug interdiction, transportation safety and efficiency, border and maritime patrol, environmental monitoring, and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives threat detection.
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Monkey Nut is a story about sharing, something that we are talking about a lot in this family at the moment! When two little creatures find a monkey nut they both want it, that is until something larger comes along!
The story is mainly told through the illustrations, and there are very few words. This was brilliant for Harry (just 4). He can't read, and this was the first time that I have observed him sit down with a book and 'read' it to himself using the pictures, which was wonderful to watch. This book also appealed very much to Mia (20 months). She's never really been one for books, although I do try, and this was the first ever book that she brought over to me to read to her.
I have read it to one or the other over and over, and I'd really recommend it for both toddlers and pre-schoolers, I think that it appeals to young children of all ages.
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Black Sea Boundary Delimitation
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its decision in the maritime boundary dispute between Romania and Ukraine. The parties have disagreed over the boundaries of their respective continental shelves and exclusive economic zones in the Black Sea to the south and east of Serpents' Island since the Ukraine became independent. The ICJ basically split the difference between the contending claims. Romania v. Ukraine, General List No. 132 (ICJ, 3 February 2009). (Source: Holland & Knight)
Coast Guard Forces Back Illegal Mexican Fisherman
A patrolling Coast Guard aircrew spotted, pursued and compelled a lancha across the U.S./Mexican border, Friday, after the lancha was spotted poaching in U.S waters. At 2:30 p.m., a Coast Guard aircrew aboard an HU-25 Falcon aircraft spotted the 25-foot lancha fishing 45 miles offshore of Port Isabel and 7 miles north of the U.S./Mexican border. The aircrew immediately notified Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi, and pursued the vessel south, forcing it across the border
Icebreakers Break into Action
With ice forming at a rate that suggests the first "normal" winter shipping season in several years, Coast Guard officials have icebreakers working in disparate locations this week, according to a report on www.sooeveningnews.com. For now, two Bay-Class tugs, Katmai Bay and Biscayne Bay are working the ice in largely unfamiliar waters at Thunder Bay, Ont. and at Serpent Harbor, Ont. located at the northern end of Georgian Bay. Biscayne Bay, based at St
New "Robot Boat" Family Debuts in Abu Dhabi
Today Al Seer Marine and 5G International announced the introduction of a new family of unmanned surface vessels, a family ranging from the 3m Sea Serpent to the 11m monohull Eclipse. The USV family is designed to rapidly penetrate a vibrant Middle East defense market and to offer affordable, dependable USV options for commercial operations. Set to debut at this month's International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi
Mexican Fishermen Forfeit Boat, Catch, to Coast Guard
Coast Guard crew seizes a lancha, 297 illegally caught fish, & detain crew of 4 Mexican nationals apprehended fishing in US waters in the US Exclusive Economic Zone. The cutter's crew spotted the lancha 10 miles north of the U.S./Mexico border. The crew launched a small boat to pursue the lancha, which stopped and was boarded. The crew was able to determine that the four Mexicans onboard had been fishing illegally, having caught 272 red snapper, four mackerel and 21 blacktip shark.
South Texas Coast Guard Receives Response Boat
U.S. Coast Guard crews at Station South Padre Island have completed the qualification and trial run process, Tuesday, for the new 45-foot-Response Boat-Medium that was delivered to the station in late February. The training focused on acclimating the crews to the boat's advanced response capabilities. With twin diesel engines using water-jet propulsion, the RB-M can respond faster than previous boats of similar size and has a top speed in excess of 40 knots.
A USV Franchise Grows Strong in Abu Dhabi
As the evolution and integration of robotics in maritime vehicles continues to reshape missions and capabilities inland, near-shore and at sea, Maritime Reporter & Engineering News last month was on hand in Abu Dhabi for the unveiling of a new Unmanned Surface Vessel family. If it delivers as designed, it will revolutionize marine robotic vehicle applications for both military and commercial purposes. Robert J