text: Expertise and rankings By Mayo Clinic Staff Print Orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons and rehabilitation specialists are all part of the brachial plexus team at Mayo Clinic. Experience. Mayo Clinic's brachial plexus surgeons are recognized nationally and internationally for their surgical technical excellence and innovative abilities to solve both straightforward and complex brachial plexus problems. Each year, we treat more than 270 people with brachial plexus injuries and have done so for more than 15 years. Mayo Clinic brachial plexus experts frequently are asked to travel worldwide to educate other surgeons and to provide insight into the latest operative techniques. Innovative methods. Mayo Clinic brachial plexus surgeons are at the forefront of new and innovative treatment options for nerve injuries and the accompanying loss of function that occurs after brachial plexopathy. Patient-specific surgical options combined with advanced pain management and rehabilitation protocols have helped our surgeons dramatically improve the lives of patients with these difficult and often complex problems. Mayo Clinic brachial plexus surgeons have an extensive depth and breadth of experience with advanced microsurgical techniques, have developed new muscle and tendon transfers, and are at the forefront in understanding nerve regeneration. New advances. Our surgeons and scientists collaborate in Mayo Clinic laboratories for microsurgery and regenerative medicine to develop new solutions that improve nerve healing, speed rehabilitation, and improve the outcomes for patients with brachial plexus injuries. Our constant, enthusiastic search for improvements in the ability to repair nerves, muscle and tendon has made the treatment of brachial plexus injuries progressively more reliable and reproducible for patients at Mayo Clinic. Team approach. The team approach is a hallmark of Mayo Clinic. For those patients with a brachial plexus problem, Mayo Clinic experts in orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation work together. The Mayo Clinic brachial plexus team seeks to first understand the full extent of your brachial plexus injury and then implements a treatment plan that ultimately maximizes your function. Consultations with doctors and testing often can be coordinated in a single visit. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., ranks No. 1 for neurology and neurosurgery in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Ariz., and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., are ranked among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery by U.S. News & World Report. Mayo Clinic also ranks among the Best Children's Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery. 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A stirring rally Colton Buege of Rogers fell short as he lost in the semifinals of the MGA Players Championship to Andy Jacobson of Willmar 2-and-1 at Windsong Farm in Indendence on Wednesday.
Jacobson, representing Eagle Valley Golf Club, went on to win the championship, beating Tim Hamm of Rush Creek in Maple Grove, 4-and-3, in the finals.
Buege, a sophomore-to-be with the Gophers, representing Fox Hollow Golf Club, was a semifinalist for the second straight year after winning twice on Tuesday and once on Monday. He was the only semifinalist from last year to advance this far again.
On the par 71 course measuring 7,346 yards, Jacobson, 32, led by five holes with seven to play. Buege battled back within two with four holes to go. Still down by two on No. 17, Buege almost picked up another but his eight-foot putt hung on the lip of the cup.
Jacobson had four birdies in the first 11 holes and led by five. Buege then drained a 20-foot putt to take No. 12, and added No. 13 when Jacobson landed an approach shot in the sand.
Buege hammered a perfect drive on the 450-yard, par-four No. 14 while Jacobson pulled his tee shot, after which Buege's approach landed 10 feet from the cup, and the hole was conceded. Two down.
Another excellent drive by Buege on No. 15 put more pressure on Jacobson, but Buege's approach sailed just wide of the green. That hole was halved, and so was No. 16 as Jacobson held firm.
On 17, both players hit the bunker on their tee shot. Buege knocked a 135-yard wedge to eight feet and kept his improbable comeback hopes alive, but the putt stalled a fraction of an inch short.
Buege earned 100 MGA player points for a great start to the 2012 season.
(Details supplied by Joe Buegge, Colton's father).

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Sandra Bernhard has never been one to mince words, which, over the course of her more than three-decade career, has proven to be both a blessing and a burden. Early on Bernhard was perhaps inaccurately classified as a comedian—and, to be fair, she is an extraordinarily gifted one, whose emergence as a brash, uninhibited female force on the comedy circuit of the late-'70s was like a great waft of oxygen in an increasingly claustrophobic and male-dominated field. Bernhard's work, though, isn't purely comedic, and, in fact, isn't all necessarily designed to be funny. Her infamous stage shows, which often careen between spoken-word stand-up segments and musical numbers, incorporate elements of theater, monology, and performance art, and she has been known to take on subjects both intensely personal (religion, sexuality) and highly political (sexism, the American Right). Even Bernhard's flirtations with the mainstream have been surrounded by a kind of insurgent energy. Her portrayal of an unhinged stalker-groupie in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), in which she starred with Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis, won her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Nearly a decade later she broke new ground with her run as Nancy Bartlett on the sitcom Roseanne, in which she played one of the first lesbian characters to regularly appear on a network television show. In the early-'90s she appeared in Playboy, and her 1997 stage show I'm Still Here . . . Damn It! was a hit on Broadway. Also during this time, as she recently told Howard Stern, she turned down the role of Miranda on Sex and the City, which ultimately went to Cynthia Nixon, because she thought the script was bad.
In one sense, whatever success Bernhard has achieved is largely the result of her willingness to take on lofty targets and make bold creative moves—not to mention her prodigious talent. But in another, her seemingly inborn compulsions to stand up for what she believes in, call out hypocrisy at every turn, and push the boundaries of whatever medium she is working in, regardless of the consequences—all tremendous assets to both an artist and a comedian—have relegated her to being the consummate outsider. It's a role, though, that Bernhard still relishes. Now 56, and the joint mother of a 13-year-old daughter, Cicely, with her longtime partner, Bernhard is as creatively active as she has ever been. Last summer she kicked off her latest one-woman show, I Love Being Me, Don't You? She has also served as a weekly commentator alongside host Andy Cohen on Bravo's late-night talk show Watch What Happens: Live.
Roseanne Barr, Bernhard's longtime friend and former co-star, recently met up with her at Jumeirah Essex House hotel in New York.
ROSEANNE BARR: So, my first question is: How would you define bravery?
SANDRA BERNHARD: I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out—you know, financially—and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture. And you do it no matter what the response is if it's an issue of compassion and true morality. Because what is morality? Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.
BARR: Why would you do that?
BERNHARD: People do it all the time, because they want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.
BARR: Do you feel driven to do what you do?
BERNHARD: Yes, I do. Constantly.
BARR: Why?
BERNHARD: I think it's a combination of things. I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of. I think I've been that way my whole life. I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up, you know? I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention. I think my mother was unsatisfied creatively—she was an artist. I don't think she would have ever gotten married had it been a different time. I mean, it was World War II, and my grandmother from the old country kind of orchestrated her marrying my father. They were totally mismatched; ridiculous when you saw them together. I don't even think my mom had interest in sex. She was kind of cut off from her sexuality. She really wanted to go to South America and hook up with this woman, an artist friend of hers. I mean, was my mom gay? [laughs] Who knows! I don't think she really ever looked too closely at it.
BARR: How old were you when you knew you were different from everyone else?
BERNHARD: I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing . . . When I was really little, I remember forcing my parents to watch me sing "(Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey" in their bedroom. They were staring at me like I was nuts. I had choreographed it and worked it all out. How many 6- or 7-year-old kids do that? Then we went to see Hello, Dolly! at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit with Carol Channing, and I was just totally overwhelmed. I was 8 years old and this was the biggest thing that had happened to me. We started driving back to Flint from Detroit and I was crying the entire way home because my parents had not arranged for me to meet her. I would lie in bed at night and have full-blown fantasies about taking my bows on stage on Broadway. It was so embedded in me that this was what I wanted. Then, later, at my cousin's bat mitzvah in Detroit, the band was playing "Hello, Dolly!" and the bandleader was singing. I thought he was doing a terrible job, so I went up and grabbed the mic and said, "Let me do this for you." He was like, "Beat it, kid." It was like a scene out of a Woody Allen movie. And my cousin Bernice went, "You let her sing this song." So I got up and sang and brought the house down! It was just where I belonged—you know, in front of a big crowd of Jews, performing. I loved being loved, and still do. Who doesn't love being loved?
BARR: Some people just hate it, but it's so natural to us.
BERNHARD: It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all. You can't just try to be a performer, which is what totally boggles my mind about American Idol and, you know, whatever those stupid shows are.
BARR: The contest shows?
y whole point of view was, 'I'm not gonna change. i'm not gonna get a nose job. i'm not going to pretend i'm the girl next door.'—Sandra Bernhard
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BERNHARD: Yeah. I'm sure most of those people want to be performers, but I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star. And I'm not taking anything away from the years of work that some of those people have done, but I still feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.
BARR: Have you been on stage every night?
BERNHARD: Yeah! I started when I was 19 in L.A., and the first night I got up was at the Ye Little Club in Beverly Hills.
BARR: Did you move to L.A. to do stand-up?
BERNHARD: Well, I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer. I went through a lot of different phases, but then I went to the Ye Little Club, and met [comedians] Paul Mooney and Lotus Weinstock. I got up and did my first five minutes on a Monday night, and I wore a safari hat and safari shorts and a safari jacket and lace-up espadrilles, and I told my first joke: "I'm a medium . . . I understand you're a small, you're an extra-large . . . "
BARR: That was your first joke?
BERNHARD: That was my first joke. Joke-telling wasn't my thing. I'd kind of based myself on a combination of Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. You know, I loved doing characters, being really bawdy and crazy. I saw Bette Midler in New York when I came home from Israel after I'd worked on a kibbutz for six months. I paid a scalper on the street $20 for $5 seats in the balcony. I was with three friends. It was her first Broadway show at The Palace [Theatre]. It was, like, 10 years after I'd seen Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!, which was in 1963 . . . Anyway, I got up and performed, and Paul Mooney and Lotus took me under their wings. Mooney became, like, my black godfather angel and took me to all the comedy clubs. Whenever I was ready to throw in the towel, he was always there for me. He said, "Bernhard, never let them see you cry. That's what they want."
BARR: Did you cry a lot?
BERNHARD: Well, one night I was crying at The Improv, at the bar, and he walked in.
BARR: Why were you crying?
BERNHARD: Because in the old days they didn't have a schedule, and you would just come in and they put your name on a list, and I was just sitting there and sitting there, and, you know, it's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material, and all these men are getting on—
BARR: And they suck.
BERNHARD: Yeah. They're just saying the same shit over and over again, and they look at you like you're a freak. Those were the days when everybody was there. It was Jay Leno, it was Letterman, but there were also people who just weren't very good. So Mooney came in, and I was sitting at the bar, totally dejected and lonely. I was also working as a manicurist in Beverly Hills, so I was tired. You know, you work all day, and then you've got to keep yourself up late at night. I was 19, 20 years old, living by myself in an apartment in West Hollywood. I mean, I would never, ever allow my daughter to do what I did. Anyway, that was the only time I ever really cried in public, and Mooney just took me outside and made me pull it together. And, you know, every night I got up on stage, and there were maybe eight people in the audience but I always gave it my all. Some nights you didn't even get a laugh. Some nights you felt like, Where am I going to draw this energy from?
BARR: What was the point you were trying to make in your early stand-up?
BERNHARD: Well, the most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating. I had seen all these people before me who are great performers and were reflective of their time—Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers and Totie Fields and all the early comediennes—and it was always like, "I'm fat! I'm ugly! My husband has to put a bag over my head when he comes to bed!" I was like, "I'm never gonna do that."
BARR: I thought that same thing.
BERNHARD: My whole point of view was, "No matter what, you're going to respect me and love me the way I am, and I'm not gonna change. I'm not gonna get a nose job. I'm not going to pretend I'm the girl next door . . . But I do live in the neighborhood, so you better get used to me."
BARR: When I first saw you on TV, you came on like gangbusters, because you were something different. There was something very self-possessed about you and your comedy.
BERNHARD: Well, I wanted to take it to a new place. It was post-feminist. We'd gone through the civil rights movement, Roe v. Wade. You know, I grew up, as you did, looking at that, and that was just part of our conversation as women, like, Ms. magazine and Ms. Gloria Steinem. I was 12 years old when Robert Kennedy was assassinated. We were around all those tumultuous times—Watergate and the lying and Vietnam—and everybody was just tired of it, you know? We were just like, "Okay, we're here now. It's time to reap the benefits." I felt like I was a result of all that-that tumultuous fight.
BARR: What inspired this new show that you've been doing, I Love Being Me, Don't You? I love that title.
BERNHARD: Well, I first recorded a live show in San Francisco in 2010. It was another gay-comedy situation—drag queens were going on, all these crazy people were going on—and I just decided to totally improvise and be crazy. I was on a roll, so everything I said that night was very close to the bone. Then we put it out as an album, but I never listened to it. It's weird. I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it? The live show is different from the album though. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.
BARR: Do you take your clothes off in the new show?
BERNHARD: No.
BARR: I always loved that you do that. That's what I think is so fiercely brave. I just love that you had such comfort with your body after you gave birth to Cicely that you stripped at the end of I'm Still Here . . . Damn It!
BERNHARD: Yeah, I might do it again. I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature. I was always skinny and stayed thin. When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, I mean, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.
BARR: That's pretty revolutionary for this culture. Bernhard: Well, I think you can do a little bit of fine-tuning, like getting your haircut or whatever makes you feel good. But that's different than doing something because you look in the mirror and throw things at yourself and say, "God, I hate you because you're so ugly."
BARR: Have you ever felt that?
BERNHARD: I did after high school. I wanted to be "pretty," you know? I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier." But then you get through that, and you go, "Well, I'm not." So now what are you going to do about it? Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.
BARR: What do you think of Ellen [DeGeneres]? I mean, you were, like, 10 years ahead of all thatof comics being honest about who they are to the media. I feel like a lot of women comics owe you—you know, Wanda Sykes, Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen . . .
BERNHARD: The interesting thing is, people always ask me in interviews about my character on Roseanne, and I always tell them that it was never our intention to beat people over the head.
BARR: Well, the character on Roseanne was taken from your stage show, because I'd seen you and you were completely honest about who you were, and people were freaking out right and left because they had never heard of anybody being up-front about their sexuality. "Oh, I want to get married and have a few kids"-that was the bullshit thing they were slinging. But you weren't.
BERNHARD: Well, I was also just blurring the lines of sexuality and never saying, "Okay, well, I'm gay and I'm angry and I fought to be gay." I never classified what I was, and still don't. I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.
BARR: A lot of women were really pissed off at you though.
BERNHARD: Yeah.
BARR: A lot of lesbians.
BERNHARD: Exactly.
BARR: I hung out with my sister's friends, and they were all radical, and, you know, not my sister—she always loved you—but in that circle of women it was like, "Oh, she's too afraid to say she's a lesbian, so she says she's bi." I'd be like, "You don't even fucking get what she's doing!"
BERNHARD: No, they didn't.
BARR: Because they were a bunch of commies.
BERNHARD: Well, the straight people didn't get it and the gay people didn't get the nuances of it. It was like, "Fuck you, man. Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story." From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life. I'm not interested in being a part of a crowd or a group that accepts me. Like, don't do me any fuckin' favors.
BARR: What makes you laugh?
BERNHARD: Well, it's really a myriad of things, but usually it's something that's very organic. It's something that happens on the street.
BARR: Like fat people falling down?
BERNHARD: No, no . . . [laughs]
BARR: That really cracks me up. It's terrible.
BERNHARD: It's more subtle than that. It's those moments where you're driving down the freeway and you're on vacation and all of a sudden you pass somebody on the street who looks like they could be a serial killer, and somehow that becomes incredibly funny, because you realize that they're walking towards where you're going. Random things make me laugh.
BARR: Were you pissed that you never got another role that topped The King of Comedy? Or do you feel you did?
BERNHARD: No, I don't feel like I did. I feel like I deserve another great role, and I'm wondering where it is. The thing that I keep getting when I'm up for stuff is, "She's too recognizable. She's too . . . something." And I don't understand what that means. It's like, everybody is recognizable. Meryl Streep is recognizable. I mean, we're all recognizable. We're in the entertainment business. So what does that mean? I interpret that as meaning "She's too political."
BARR: "She has baggage."
BERNHARD: Well, not baggage, just, you know . . .
BARR: I think they look at anybody with an opinion as baggage.
BERNHARD: Well, it's just too much. They don't want to deal with it. They'd rather have somebody come in who is a clean slate, who isn't controversial. It's the controversy that freaks people out.
BARR: Yet look at all these guys who are controversial.
BERNHARD: They work nonstop . . . Well, maybe they're really not. I don't know. I try not to get paranoid. I try not to get into that kind of feeling, like I've been screwed and ignored and overlooked, because maybe the right thing just hasn't come along, but it's just around the corner.
BARR: Or maybe you have to write it yourself.
BERNHARD: Well, I do! And I continue to write stuff, but sometimes you can't get that done either.
BARR: Let's talk about Kabbalah. You were one of the first people in a certain world . . .
BERNHARD: Yes, I was one of the first celebutantes to get into Kabbalah.
BARR: And you got a lot of other people into it, too.
BERNHARD: You know, I'll tell you, I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career. I was tired of feeling lonely. I was also looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time, my friend Luis, who is from Brazil—he wasn't even Jewish, but he had been studying with Ruthie and Moshe [Rosenberg], and he was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.
BARR: How has it changed you?
BERNHARD: It has definitely helped me stop myself before I freak out, and if there was nothing else that I needed to get from it, that was the lesson. I used to just go on these, like, totally self-indulgent tears, like screaming and yowling "My life is horrible!" and not seeing the bigger picture. There are still times when I get frustrated. It's not that my career isn't where I want it to be or that I get bored and restless, but I always have that kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I got from just the basic tenants of spirituality.
BARR: Looking back on your whole career, how would you put it all into perspective? If you were to write your own epitaph, what would you say about your whole run?
BERNHARD: Well, what I would say about my whole run to date is that I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself. Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan-you know, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix. I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film. But I think I'm kind of at the point now where I want that, because I really do want and need to make a certain amount of money . . . [laughs] If that sounds crass or craven then so be it.
BARR: Do you think you've lived your life as an artist? That was always one of my dreams—to live my life as an artist.
BERNHARD: Yes—and I think that you have, too. We both have, absolutely. What I think that people don't understand is that you don't need to be famous to do it. People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.
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pensum wrote:If you believe that the world and beings are deities, you stray into Mantra.
What is the use of meditation practice without knowing how to cut through these strayings!"
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I understand what Guru p is saying. Also, I don't think it't that bad to stray into mantra, as Guru P himself encourages it, just like ChNN does at times.


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OK So i bought soe more toys and will be installing a bunch of power realted things FINALLY. What i was wondering today...Do you prefer a ground distibution box or just run straight wires to each item?
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I usually run ground wires for everything including my HU and 2nd battery.
Whether to use a single ground is another issue. It's often beneficial or required for audio interconnects, and often required for certain sensors (eg, high impedance types used for ECUs etc).
For power wiring it's usually not required, but it is essential to have good engine-body/chassis-battery- ground bonding (the "BIG 3" refer). The engine to battery- is essential for the starter motor (heavy current, typically 100-300A). The alternator also requires good bonding to the battery- for correct voltage sensing (alternator voltages are designed for battery charging & life), and also the body/chassis to ensure voltage drift does not occur - ie, in many systems, a bad alternator (engine) to body/chassis ground can cause voltages in excess of 16V which will damage most electronic equipment.
I have never used a ground distribution box, though I have fitted multiple spade-connector "breakouts" for convenient addition or removal of grounds, though most of my added grounds are multiple eyelet crimps sharing a suitable chassis/body screw or bolt. However my HU and 2nd battery grounds go to the battery- terminal.
When your devices are sharing a common electrical path you really need to have them all using the same ground point. Doesn't really matter HOW you do it. A distribution block for ground is just to make things pretty. Distribution blocks for +12 makes sense if it allows you to fuse each wire separately.
Factory wiring have a very limited number of ground points for the same reason.
Since ground is using the body of the car there is a possibility of different ground potentials which can end up showing up as differing voltages. In an audio system these differing ground potentials show up as static or hum.
Anything not dealing with the audio path and "going on its own" isn't as sensitive to a single ground point. Although with sensors etc you still have to be weary of noisy OEM equipment. If you have noisy OEM equipment it can make a security sensor appear to be bad or inaccurate.
When dealing with audio if you have a fiber optic cable that connects from your radio to a processor and then from the processor to your amplifiers then it would NOT be beneficial for the items at either end of the fiber to be connected to the same ground point. Probably won't hurt but the point of using fiber is to transport the clearest audio to your processor and you also isolate your amplifiers etc from your audio source.
You also have to be careful of where you ground because some OEM devices are very noisy and can interfere again with your audio.
I think I will get a ground distrib. box. Clean up the install. heres a stupid question. I bought a 12 v distrib. box and wanted a ground box that looked the same but apparently they don't make a ground box that looks the same. I don't really think there is a difference right? I could probably use the same box as a ground distrib right?
And now I am thinking about getting another stretch of wire and hooking my ground right to the battery...what ya'll think?
Yeah - a dist box is a dist box. The only difference is that the +12V dist box needs to be chassis insulated, and it's probably red. But they should be the same electrically - just don't connect the two together!!.
Arguably it makes good sense to mimic the same "electrical" dist box for GND as for +12V as that should ensure at least a matching GND capability.
Some make the unfortunate and often expensive error of beefing up +12V cables but leaving undersized GND cables. It is not uncommon to have heavier grounds (and they are usually cheaper being shorter lengths) or even redundant (extra) grounds because the one circuit you DO NOT want to break is GND - that can often lead to electronic destruction and other burn outs.
The only drawback is that you will get a similar voltage drop along the GND wires as you get in the +12V distribution, hence doubling your voltage drops. But if you also GND the loads locally...
IMO there is nothing wrong with using chassis/body GNDs however some reckon modern cars have light metal work and poor panel bonding.
However with the exception of aforementioned audio and signal, IMO there is nothing wrong with adding full-load capable GND wires back to a good GND point (battery- or engine, or a compromise point). That can only improve the GND path - ie, lower its resistance and hence any voltage rise it might experience (and hence effect audio, sensor signals, etc).
As I said, I trust my vehicle's metal body & chassis grounds. (A 1960's ute with rubber mounted tub/tray).
However, my HU is grounded and powered direct from the main battery -ve & +12V (to ensure a cleaner supply), and I chose to connect my tub-resident 2nd battery via a dedicated fig-8 cable to the main battery (with (UIBI!) isolator and TWO fuses/circuit-breakers of course!) though in part that's because I had good telco twin-core DC distribution cable and also wanted chassis/tub GND independence to be able to move the battery elsewhere.Last edited by OldSpark; 01-19-2013, 01:16 AM.
Also realize that with the larger power wires you will want to carry them larger than you need. There is a resistance in every wire which increases over a distance. If you consider the power feed wires as if they were pipes there is friction inside of them against a flow. To reduce this friction you go with bigger wire. This is a good reason for a distribution block. If you run your wires to the battery you will likely want to go with 1-2 sizes bigger than you would other wise do. There is no such thing as too large of a wire with the power feeds. Another consideration is that when wires do run parallel that they tend to cancel out any noise because it comes on both of the wires. One of the best low level audio cables I have used was simply taking two 16 gauge wires and using a drill to twist them together and adding my own connectors on the ends.
If you look at the IASCA numbers they come up with what seem like crazy sizes but they work. I ran 1/0 gauge wire in one of my vehicles but it was designed to use a dual feed Alternator that put out a warm and cold rated 130 amps. Was also using cheater amps that allowed me to get rated at 500 watts but would actually be about 3000 watts. And especially when using unregulated amplifiers the power source is one of the most important things.
I used nice looking distribution blocks that were plated. Realize that unless your connectors are gold plated any plating will be a resistance against the power cable. If you are doing it for looks it is almost better to have a copper block machined to how you want it and hide that behind the scenes and display a fake plated block with wires connected to no where. But up to you. The voltage drop from a good quality plated connector is likely hard to measure as long as you are not using a bunch of them in the line.
The Battery is a large Capacitor as well so it works to filter out some of the noise in the system. Other then the potential voltage drop OldSpark already mentioned, as long as you are using good quality, over sized cables you are probably providing the best power source for your system to go directly to the battery. I also agree with the ground wires being at least 1 size larger than your positive lead. A second battery is always a good thing if you have the room for it. And due to the off gassing I would strongly suggest mounting it under the dash. You SHOULD separate the batteries electrically if you do have two batteries. And they should be the same or very similar model of battery. When I was at Metra's installer school they showed us how trying to start a car with two almost dead batteries in parallel was impossible. However each of the batteries on its own was able to start the car.
You can use a passive (diode) isolator such as one available at an RV shop. These are cheap and hard to break. But they will lower your voltage by about a volt and some installers tell you that you may want to raise the voltage on your alternator to make the charging system work properly. I have used these and have had no issues with it other than the voltage drop.
You can also use a constant on solenoid, these are also cheap and are available at RV shops. These are a standard starter type solenoid that is intended to be on all the time unlike a standard short duty starter solenoid. With these they really only isolate the batteries when the power is off so you can play your auxiliary battery and not drain your main battery. Since the solenoid doesn't engage until you have the car running this is not a bad solution.
With either of the first two if you turned your car off and left your lights on you can jump yourself by jumpering the power. The first one you have to jumper between the outputs with a heavy gauge wire, the second all you need to do is engage the solenoid.
The third style I am aware of is more expensive than the first two but is totally digital and most of these are more flexible than either of the previous two but can be significantly more expensive depending on the quality of components.
Also for the wire you should use high grade, multi strand wire. The more strands the better and you want high purity copper wire if possible. It will last longer, generally be easier to work with because it will be more flexible, and will be smaller.
Actually straight parallel wires will usually have more noise induced as compared to a single wire. But twisting is different, and counter-twisting cancels noise from EMI sources and each other (viz Cat-6 cable, AC distribution, etc).
Introducing a distribution block adds more resistance and unreliability than using a straight cable. But DBs are often more practical, and for grounds can mean emphasis on a good grounding point rather than a collection of suspect body screws etc.
Both the above can be argued, but it often depends on the situation.
Bearing in mind those pedantic issues, redheadedrod and I agree, except for diode isolators. IMO they are expensive, large, and wasteful, and can be problematic in dual-battery systems - ie, which battery do you sense the voltage from? (And non-remote sensing alternators are totally unsuited to diode type isolators!)
Diode systems are a legacy from the pre-alternator days (mid-1960s) and for systems that needed to ensure battery independence when the engine was running but undercharging (eg, idling older vehicles, or modern vehicles with higher than normal loads). But these days even emergency vehicles like ambulances with patient-critical equipment tend to use relays/solenoids with extra battery monitoring (eg, current sensing else maybe voltage sensing).
But you can't parallel the batteries with a diode isolator unless you fit a relay (solenoid), so why then bother with the diode isolator? Just energise the relay using the charge light signal (ie, the "UIBI") or even a spark sensing circuit if desired for parallel cranking (which should increase battery life if at a similar %age of capacity). [I recently obtained an Audi fuel-pump relay which is the typical VAG spark-sensing type. It is merely a 555 circuit triggering a relay.]
I think the 3rd type redheadedrod mentioned is the voltage-sensing aka "smart" isolator. They are not digital per se, but may use digital processors (uPCs, PICs etc) for circuit simplicity or cheaper production. IMO they are flawed or inferior for various reasons which I have often discussed elsewhere, but they are the common system used for fixed rotor aka "stator" alternators (ie, no regulator with charge-light circuit, as found on marine systems, and some RVs, motorcycles, etc).
And when using an automatic battery isolator, the age and model of the batteries is irrelevant. They need only be matched when connecting in series, or if permanently connected in parallel. The only proviso is that neither of the batteries should be in poor condition ie, collapsed cells etc, and of course they both need to be 12V lead-acid types (wet, gel, AGM).
[ Keep in mind that the batteries are only interconnected whilst charging. Hence no discharging of one into the other etc. ]
The cheapest isolator should be the mere charge-light controlled relay. Decide what capacity you need. $3 for 30A, $10 for ~100-150A, and say $20 to $50 for 200-400A etc. Larger relays may require a smaller (eg 30A or less) buffer relay or other circuit so as not not overload the alternator's charge light circuit.
Voltage sensing or smart isolators are ni principle the same relay plus the added circuitry which typically adds usually ~$50 but can be up to $300.
Of course any voltage-sensing isolator can merely drive the relay of your choosing if it does not have the required capacity, or if you want to isolate multiple batteries.
Diode isolators or their newer MOSFET counterparts are usually over $100 for a dual-100A capacity. But they suffer voltage drops usually around 1V and higher for higher loads, and they hence get hot. (2x100A @ 1V = 200 Watts of heat.) And surges, voltage spikes and bad batteries can blow them. (Relays are far more robust, cheaper, have negligible voltage drop, and only "waste" 3W to maybe 25W of power.)
BTW - venting batteries should not be used in a cabin - it's usually illegal to have a vented battery internal to the vehicle (ie, cabin, van, or boot/trunk). Hence AGM batteries are used, else vented (wet lead acid) batteries enclosed in a sealed externally vented enclosure. (Not that AGMs can't vent hydrogen, but I'm merely talking legalities and accepted practices.)
Batteries should be mounted under the hood.. Not under the dash... Sorry about the typo..
Diode Isolators can work but from my experience are only desirable if you want something dependable that isn't going to burn up. Otherwise I agree with what oldspark says here. I have NO experience with the third type of isolator.
In general, most professional RV shops can help you choose a good isolator for your vehicle if you are unsure.
As to the batteries, I disagree with OldSpark about the batteries not needing to be the same. At least when using a solenoid style system where the batteries are directly connected. In a Semi truck or similar multi battery systems you will never see them have one battery in a pack a little different. They will always be the exact same battery. The only time you will see anything different is when you have a cheap operator that doesn't want to do it right. We also have multi battery systems with a bunch of our larger generators at work and for the same reasons they never use different batteries. If one goes bad they replace the whole lot.
The reasoning is this. When you are sharing a charging system and you have different batteries in the system. Each battery will have a slightly different charging rate, a little different capacity, a little different internal resistance. What this generally means is that one battery will be prone to be more charged than the others and it can reduce the lifespan of some of the batteries. You may also overcharge some of the batteries in order to get the weaker ones charged. This is a bigger problem the more different the batteries are. So if you use the factory battery that works great and is 3 years old and you pair it up with an optima yellow top battery that you commonly run down you may find that you go through the factory battery quickly. Or if you have a 1200 cold cranking amp battery and a 650 you may run into problems. The 650 will charge faster than the 1200 and the 1200 may never reach full operating voltage. Unless of course the 1200 has lower internal resistance then it may try to charge faster and the 650 may never fully charge. Either way, you don't want to mix batteries any more than you have to if you are using a solenoid style charging system. With a diode isolator or one of the other style "intelligent" isolators they generally don't have issues with different batteries like this.
I have never heard of it being illegal to have a battery inside a car. Some cars actually have the battery installed under the back seat or in the trunk from the factory. It is a bad idea to have the battery in the vehicle because as it charges it can vent hydrogen gas. Hydrogen gas in a car with a spark and the proper mixture makes the car go boom. If you DO have an automotive battery of ANY type inside your vehicle it is a good idea to use a battery box that is designed to vent any gases to the exterior of the vehicle and then make sure to vent to the outside of the vehicle.
Before you tell me I am crazy...
Models of BMW, Mercedes, VW bug, Olds Aurora, Buick LeSabre and many other cars have the battery mounted under the backseat or in the trunk. But in all cases these are well ventilated and it is imperative that the venting system is fully operational.
Here are my ideas -
1. Ground each device itself as I add - I jut think this wouldn't be as clean of an install.
2. Distribution block - ground everything to that which would be connected to the chassis through the distrib. box right where its mounted
3. Distribution block - ground everything to that connected to chassis via cable to the nearest good ground
4. Distribution block - hooked to the battery ground post
In reply to redheadedrod's last reply...
No - I am correct about parallel batteries being able to be different. What you are talking about are series connected batteries (24V) and permanently connected parallel batteries (whether 2x12V for extra grunt, or 2 parallel strings of 2 series batteries (with "diagonally opposed +ve & -ve power tale offs) and I specifically exempted them - they are not the isolatable parallel batteries we are discussing.
What you say for those systems is correct. In all those systems, you must replace ALL batteries with matched model and new batteries. To replace just one compromises the life of the lot (though replacing a failed new monoblock/battery is often acceptable).
But that is irrelevant when discussing isolated parallel batteries [which could themselves be series batteries of different capacities etc, only the battery in each string needs to be matched with its series battery(s)].
Even if one battery is at 90% SOC (state of charge) and the other is 70% SOC (hence maybe ~12.5V & 12.3C OC terminal voltage), as soon as they are connected together they get >13V from the alternator, usually 14.2V etc.
They both start charging independently as if they were each connected individually to the same voltage and they charge at their individual rate.
That is actually the fastest way to recover total charge. I mention that because many voltage sensing systems mention "priority charging". That is bullsh - they all have a delay before energising their relay after any disconnection; that is a requirement of their operation. Though that is a temporary dedicated charge to the main battery, it is merely time delay - it has NOTHING to so with the SOC of the main battery.
They can't sense the SOC of the main battery anyhow - that'd would require current sensing else somewhat sophisticated AC injection and analysis, and none of them have that AFAIK.
Besides, why delay the 2nd battery's charge if the quickest total charge recovery is as I described?
Some argue to limit the strain on the alternator. I argue that alternators should not feel any strain and that alternators are self limiting etc (though I know many that blow with faulty batteries or excess short-term loads, but that should not happen; but I dumped Bosch and went back to Japaneses alternators for that reason and I heard some GM alternators do the same, as do many many rewired boosted alternators).
Ironically the best isolator is the charge-light controlled relay. It is also the cheapest and is usually easy for a DIY. A better one would be a proper charge-controlled relay, ie current sensing.
In some rare cases voltage sensing isolators may be more suited and better, but the charge-light isolator (dubbed the UIBI in my more recent writings) wins in almost all typical and common installations. And the UIBI does not have the problems inherent in voltage sensing systems like whether or not to drop out due to a dip or transient, nor the delay each time it (re-)connects. (Some would argue that is a hazard - connecting a fully charged main battery to one that isn't. EG - search google "site:www.mp3car.com simbalage". In one epic thread, Simbalage argues for diode isolators despite his differing voltage problems but he does a good job of shooting down his own statements.)
The UIBI or charge-light controlled system is also easy to extend with switches (and didoes) to disable and manually connect (for jump starting or heavy loads).
Search google for "oldspark uibi" to find my other writings.
And adding a voltmeter should alert to any UIBI issues as it does in standard battery and vehicle charging scenarios. (And we all have a dash voltmeter or alarm systems don't we?)
Re both batteries under the hood, that reminds me of an audio forum twit that reckoned the same "because that provide the maximum battery capacity" from the hotter batteries! So they heat their batteries to extract maybe 20-30% extra capacity and replace them probably 8 times as often due to the heat (not to mention their increased resistance which they all seem to concerned about)!
But batteries should be mounted as cool as possible. And for big loads, as close to the load as possible (hence in the boot for audio systems etc).
Venting wise, it is a common Regulatory requirement that internal "non-engine bay" batteries are sealed whether AGM or gels, or wets in a sealed (externally vented) container.
That applies to the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, etc.
Vehicles that have internal batteries etc are a different issue. They are covered by the approvals granted to OEM vehicles and hence are not necessarily subject to the aforementioned Regulation(s). But as you say, in all cases they are well vented which is consistent with what I wrote previously.
But in general we agree and I like your examples. They explain well the problems that can happen. And as usual, much more can be written. (Like how fuses should arguably not be placed above batteries (just in case), or how batteries vent hydrogen from ALL cells - not just "its +ve terminal" etc.)
But reconsider the situation you explain with trucks (with which I totally agree!) as opposed to "our" isolatable system.
And diode isolators and "intelligent" isolators have no less issues with differing batteries than the UIBI etc. Arguably they have more - diode isolators are more likely to fail hence requiring full replacement (more so with a faulty battery though) whereas the others merely require relay replacement if that were to occur (though fuses should prevent that).
And as I wrote, "intelligent" aka smart isolators (which are generally voltage sensing types with 3 terminals - the heavy main & aux +12V and signal ground) do not determine battery capacity (as in AH) nor SOC.
Also, batteries usually charge at a similar rate wrt SOC. Bigger batteries usually will take more charge (lower resistance), but their %age capacity recharge rates tend to be similar. That does assume similar battery characteristics, but that does not matter anyhow. Each battery charges as fast as it can given whatever voltage it gets. And in the case of relay type isolators, that voltage is essentially the same for both batteries unlike diode types where the voltages can differ and hence have under- or over-voltage issues on the aux battery.
But see my other threads, I'm just repeating myself here.
OK I am not trying to be a jerk here...but the question I started this this thread will is not much about what is being talked about. Seems more of people dicussig a 2 battery system which I find interesting and kind of helpfull in some ways it is not what I was asking. I as asking about ground distribution blocks


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I have a few Aviar P&A discs that have collapsed flight plates (domes). The tops of all have "sunk in" for lack of a better term. All of these were purchased at the same time...at the same dealership...the problem was not present at the time of purchase. I've only used these in practice sessions.....putting only.
Has anybody else experienced this phenomenon with P&A's?
How would this effect the flight characteristics on longer throws?
What could be the cause?
Is there a way to restore them to the original position?
I recently purchased an Omega Super Soft and am using it for putting in rounds.


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Take a look at the picture from last weekend's gun buyback in Trenton, N.J. Does one of these things seem ... not like the others?
N.J. Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa says a shoulder-fired rocket launcher was turned in among 2,600 other weapons.
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Live from Bethesda!
25 Years of Progress in Lupus Research Highlighted at NIAMS-NIH Anniversary Symposium
Scientists and grateful patients packed into an auditorium on the NIH Bethesda, Maryland, auditorium on Monday afternoon heard about advances in science—and lupus—as part of the Improving Lives Through Discovery symposium marking the creation of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) by Congress in 1986.
Lupus was among the several areas of significant research progress highlighted in the limited time available, noted NIAMS Director Stephen I. Katz, and was selected in part because the science is poised for such major advancements.
Lupus Research Institute President and S.L.E. Lupus Foundation Executive Director Margaret Dowd sent greetings and congratulations to Dr. Katz and his entire staff on "this landmark occasion marking scientific accomplishments and advances across so many fields."
"We are of course particularly grateful for your personal leadership in helping to advance lupus research over the past decade," she indicated. "Our progress and work together continues to be most gratifying and truly outstanding for people with lupus."
At the symposium, Dr. Katz noted that the diseases and conditions that NIAMS works on affect nearly every household in the nation. He thanked all the stakeholder groups involved with the Institute for their support and participation in the research process over the years.
Looking Ahead
In welcoming remarks to the crowd, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins noted that "While a lot of research progress has happened in the past 25 years, you ain't seen nothing yet!"
In addition to starting a "National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences" to accelerate research that bring benefits to patients more quickly, Dr. Collins noted that the NIH will soon increase to 60 the number of "Clinical Translational Science Award Centers" around the nation.
These and other efforts, he said, will take advantage of the scientific momentum that's begun.
Crucial to Success: the Research Participants
NIAMS Director of Musculoskeletal Diseases, Joan A. McGowan, PhD, movingly thanked clinical trial participants in the auditorium as well as the countless others across the nation who have taken part in research over the decades—and in so doing enabled invaluable breakthroughs and advances to occur.
Jane Salmon, MD, of the Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Research at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York outlined key advances in lupus research and understanding over the past 25 years.


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Retail purchasing behavior is proof that dairy welfare programs are important.
Last year, Purdue University researchers asked 1,000 households about their perceptions and preferences for dairy products and the importance of dairy product attributes. "The attributes ranked the most important by participants were fat content and protein content, followed by 'produced on farms with animal welfare and handling standards in place,'" says Melissa McKendree, a graduate student in the department of agricultural economics at Purdue.
On-farm dairy welfare evaluations and welfare audits do more than assure customers that your animals are treated humanely. Here's a look at other benefits that producers have gained from these programs.
How did we overlook that?
Aurora Organic Farms, based out of Platteville, Colo., has been welfare-certified since 2006.
The reason Aurora went through an assessment and auditing program offered by Validus, a third-party auditor, was really quite simple.
"We wanted to verify that what we were currently doing for our cows was right for our cows and our animals," says Emily Prisco, director of farm resources.
The assessment didn't reveal any major animal welfare issues, she says, but it did draw attention to some basic things that are easy to overlook during the day-to-day running of a dairy.
One of the areas scored during the initial assessment was the cleanliness of the cows' water supply. A score of 1 is equivalent to saying you or I would drink out of the trough. A score of 2 means there is room for improvement, and a score of 3 is a red flag — nobody would drink out of that trough.
Aurora originally scored a 2 in water supply cleanliness. It taught them to look closely at the little things and gave them a renewed commitment to monitoring for opportunities in easy-to-overlook areas.
Something like this isn't that difficult to correct, and the end result is a reflection of your commitment to animal care.
"We went from having 2's to having 1's," Prisco says. "It's just a really good process to go through to verify you really are doing what's right for the animals."
Put those SOPs in writing
About a year ago, Jim Reid of Jeddo, Mich., went through the National Dairy FARM Animal Care ProgramTM. FARM is a voluntary program managed by the National Milk Producers Federation.
Member representatives from Reid's cooperative, Michigan Milk Producers Association, came out to the farm to do the evaluation. During the evaluation, they went over a checklist with Reid. It opened his eyes to the importance of keeping written standard operating procedures — a practice often talked about, but not always implemented.
"Now I realize I need to create a binder on any procedure that we do throughout the farm," he says. "We want to make sure it's done the same every time, regardless of who is doing it at the time."
Eric Hillan of Ladysmith, Wis., also went through the FARM program. His take-away from the experience concurs with Reid's.
"We have a lot of information at our fingertips, but it's not always organized like it should be," Hillan says. "(It) made us more aware of organizing information so that non-owners can access that information in an emergency."
It's useful not only in an emergency, but also when training new employees, Hillan says.
The evaluation process also made Hillan rethink how they do certain things on the farm, like animal handling and using the concepts of point of balance and flight zone to move animals.
"If you've done things a certain way, there might be a better way to do it," he says.
Get more out of your consultants
Karen Jordan, a veterinarian in central North Carolina, has gone through training to be an evaluator for the FARM program. Even though she helped develop the FARM documents, the training gave her an even deeper understanding of the program and she hopes that will benefit her clients.
"To me, we're kind of doing those evaluations every time we're on the farm," Jordan says.
Being able to use the results of an informal or formal evaluation to help clients make management decisions and develop protocols is a big reason why she did the training… "just so I could be another asset, or another tool for my clients," Jordan says.
There are two types of dairy welfare programs — on-farm welfare assessments and on-farm welfare audits. They are similar, yet different.
An assessment or evaluation can be done by anyone, certified or not, explains Jim Reynolds, veterinarian and professor of bovine medicine and animal welfare at Western University College of Veterinary Medicine in Pomona, Calif. Results of an evaluation provide an opportunity for education and discussion about the welfare of animals on your farm.
"Welfare assessments are very powerful tools for farmers and veterinarians to determine what is going well on farm and what could be improved," Reynolds says.
An audit, on the other hand, determines whether a farm is meeting specific animal welfare standards or not. It is not an educational tool, per se, but rather a way to determine if management is meeting animal welfare targets or goals. Operations that pass an audit become certified.
Here is an alphabetical list of some dairy welfare programs that exist in the United States:


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How can you be mindful while reading?
This is something that I've never quite understood, for a number of years now. I'm a social policy researcher, so I have to munch piles of academic texts every day for my work. Reading is also a thought/thinking-intensive activity, which also makes it a bit harder to be mindful of.
I've never found the right strategy or approach. Sometimes, I open myself up to all things that I experience while reading and take a panoramic/global approach, sometimes I hone in, ultra-close on the text and continually bring myself back, as in meditation, when I felt my attention drifting away. Sometimes, I pay attention to the text and watch the mental images, questions, thoughts or whatever that arise. But none seem to feel right.
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HEAVY rain is anticipated across the county for a second day.
Gloucestershire Highways has already put additional response crews in place to respond to incidents as they arise, with gully unblocking teams on standby.
But, as rain and high winds are expected across the county, motorists are being encouraged to stay safe.
The main advice is to reduce speed, drive carefully and considerately, and avoid making journeys if they aren't necessary.
The heaviest of the rainfall is anticipated between 3pm and 8pm. Commuters are advised to make their journey earlier or later to avoid the rush hours if at all possible.
Drivers are also being given the following advice:
• Listen to local radio bulletins for road closures before setting off
• Leave extra time for a journey if it is necessary
• Don't drive into floodwater – you don't know how deep it is
• Make sure you're prepared if you get caught in a traffic jam – with enough fuel, your mobile phone battery fully charged, and food and drink
• Be wary of high winds and the extra risks they may bring
• Take extra care if driving through standing water alongside pedestrians or cyclists
Jason Humm, Highways Manager at Gloucestershire County Council, said: "Gloucestershire Highways and our colleagues at Fire and Rescue are fully prepared to respond to incidents as they occur, but we would urge drivers particularly to take special care before venturing out, and driving carefully and responsibly."
If you have any problems on the roads, please contact Gloucestershire Highways on 08000 514 514.
Traffic information can be found on the Highways Agency website: http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic-information/
Gloucestershire Police are in regular contact with the Met Office and have plans in place, both for public safety and that of their officers and staff.
Superintendent Neil Mantle said: "As we saw yesterday standing water across the county is causing some roads to be impassable, and whilst the major routes were free flowing again some hours later the anticipated turn in the weather this afternoon could cause similar problems.
"We'd urge people to follow the advice but also ask that drivers only use the 101 phone number to report incidents and not to ask about their route home.
"Yesterday we had more than 100 calls regarding the weather, some of which were reporting incidents but many were drivers asking whether a particular road was closed and we would like to keep our lines free for those in need of help and assistance.
"We understand it is frustrating when your journey is delayed and so we will be keeping the local media and our Twitter feed up to date with closures to key routes as and when appropriate."
Geoff Sallis, Deputy Chief Fire Officer, said: "Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service has planned for and is ready to respond to any incidents that occur during the anticipated bad weather this afternoon and evening. We have also added extra capacity to deal with both weather and any other incidents."
Meanwhile, residents are asked to call the Environment Agency Floodline number on 0845 988 1188 or check the website for more information about what to do if they think their homes are going to flood.
The County Council will be monitoring conditions closely in the coming hours and days, keeping an eye on Environment Agency flood alerts and river levels in the county.
No school closures are anticipated, but please check www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/closedschools/<http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/closedschools/> for any updates.
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Get an overview of this hotelSuburban luxury three miles from downtown D.C.
Popular property highlights
Convenient to Metro
The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City is conveniently located 3 miles from Downtown DC and just 1.5 miles from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Work or work out
Guests can enjoy a fitness room with an indoor lap pool, sauna, and steam room.
Seven layers of luxury linens
Guestrooms at this Ritz-Carlton feature spacious work areas, high-speed Internet access, marble baths, and featherbeds dressed with seven layers of Frette Egyptian cotton linens.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Proximity to public transit and shopping
- Helpful staff
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Hotel Amenities
The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City has a private entrance to Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, home to 170 stores in a four-story, sky lit atrium. The Pentagon is 0.5 mi from the hotel. Washington, D.C. attractions are within 3 mi.
Refined guestrooms at this luxury hotel feature TVs with premium channels, marble bathrooms and 400-thread-count bed linens. Suites feature separate living rooms with pull-out sofas. Club rooms provide access to a lounge with complimentary food selections, beverages.
Culinary options include a fine-dining restaurant and lounge with American cuisine. Amenities also include an indoor pool, sauna and steam facilities, a fitness center, business center and event spaces including 2 ballrooms. Indoor access to the Metro also available.
- Number of floors - 18
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of meeting rooms - 12
- Year Built 1990
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour front desk
- Fitness facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Conference space
- ATM/banking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fireplace in lobby
- Computer station
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms 9
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 365
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Sauna
- Shopping on site
- Smoke-free property
- Steam room
- Indoor pool
- Wedding services
- Valet parking (surcharge)
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- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
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- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Hair dryer
- Bathrobes
- Premium bedding
- Iron/ironing board
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Designer toiletries
- Free toiletries
- Bidet
- Slippers
- Shower/tub combination
- Pillowtop mattress
- In-room safe
- Satellite TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Espresso maker
- In-room climate control (heating)
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Wired Internet access (surcharge)
Where to Eat
fyve Restaurant Lounge – Modern American cuisine enhanced with Mediterranean influences. Casual warm ambiance. The restaurant also features a bar with happy hour offers and live music.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at 4 PM
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 18 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 40 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: USD 28.00 for adults and USD 14.00 for children (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 9.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room wired Internet: USD 9.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: USD 39 per day (in/out privileges)
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 40 per night
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Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
- The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City is listed in the 2016 Travel + Leisure 500.


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Liberty Bowl: Iowa State (6-6) vs. Tulsa (10-3)
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These two teams have already tussled once this season. In the season opener, Iowa State defeated Tulsa, 38-23. The Cyclones' signature win came against TCU, when they snapped the Horned Frogs' 12-game winning streak. The Cyclones have been sporadic this season, but holding Baylor to 21 points showcased their defensive capability. They'll likely face Tulsa with a different quarterback than the first meeting, as freshman Sam Richardson took over late in the season. Tulsa won Conference USA with a 33-27 overtime victory against UCF. Quarterback Cody Green powers the Golden Hurricane offense that is 11th in the nation in rushing and that ran a whopping 69 plays in the win over UCF.
NFL prospect to watch: A.J. Klein, ILB, Iowa State. He's is a gritty blue-collar tackler who has shown good range and playmaking skills for the Cyclones. That will appeal to several coaches as a late-round flyer.
SN's pick: Iowa State. The Cyclones have seen the Tulsa offense week after week in the Big 12. One difference: Tulsa doesn't have the same athletes as other Big 12 teams.
Instant replay: In 1969, Colorado's Bob Anderson set a Liberty Bowl record with 254 rushing yards in a 47-33 win against Alabama. Teammate Jim Bratten added 111, giving the pair the NCAA bowl record for combined rushing yards by teammates. The mark has been topped just once since.


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How would you visualize the Gallatin Valley and your neighborhood in 10 years? How about 20 years? Or 50 years?
As we construct this hopeful vision of where we live, it is vital that we are knowledgably engaged with each other, with our neighbors, with our decision makers and politicians, with the hope of shaping the sort of future we want, rather than letting it shape us. —Opening remarks, Lucia Stewart
About 150 people attended the first community conversation in the Gallatin Valley Speaker Series Wednesday night in the Hager Auditorium of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman. The event, "Shaping the Future of the Valley: Our Growing Challenge," was organized by NewWest.Net/Bozeman and the Gallatin Grassroots Forum.
NewWest.Net/Bozeman editor Lucia Stewart moderated the discussion, which included speakers from a broad mix of backgrounds. The speakers addressed five main issues affecting growth in the Gallatin Valley: agriculture; community design and growth management; housing and real estate; water and air quality; and economic vitality.
Their presentations provided information to what are the current transformations going on in the Gallatin Valley and its importance to how we grow our place for the future.
Walt Sales, a fourth-generation Gallatin Valley farmer, opened the discussion by stressing the multi-faceted importance of agriculture. Sales emphasized agriculture's contributions to open space; wildlife habitat; river flows; revenue; and, of course food.
"Ag is worth saving," Sales urged. "If nothing else, you all like to eat."
Sales recapped the previous three generations of agriculture producers in the Gallatin Valley, highlighting the immense changes each generation saw. From homesteaders having to worry about basic survival in addition to farming to later generations enduring a barrage of technological advances.
"The third generation…went from horse-drawn equipment to tractors to tractors with cabs to tractors with GPS [global positioning system]," Sales said. "Some of these folks would just as soon go back to the horse system…When they [technologies] work they're great, but when they don't that horse looks awfully good."
Sales said one of the most unfortunate effects technology has had on agriculture is that efficiencies have steered farmers away from a reliance on each other, or a "community need" as Sales described it.
"Technology was supposed to free us up…but it's pushed us into tighter time restraints," Sales lamented. "Technology resulted in more time in the field to pay for those technologies."
Sales said agriculture gives much and asks very little. For every dollar in agriculture we send in, farmers require 25 cents in services as opposed to $1.45 in services required by residential use, Sales said.
The way of life agriculture produces is also an extremely important point to be considered, Sales argued, saying many people are willing to pay money just to come share that way of life. Still, this way of life is threatened by outside pressures, Sales said. The disconnect between people and their food and high property taxes are just two of the threats to agriculture, Sales said. This creates financial stress for farmers, which makes the practice less appealing. Fewer and fewer children are choosing to stay on the farm, so farmers are eventually faced with selling their land to capitalize on high land values in western Montana.
"My hope is that bringing us together and understanding these changes and effects, understanding history…is a great opportunity to not necessarily nip it [growth] in the bud, but meet it head-on and make some changes," Sales concluded.
Bozeman Director of Planning and Zoning Andy Epple spoke next under the issues of housing and real estate. Epple became the city planner in 1987. He recapped the immense changes seen in Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley since then. Epple said the city has been and is still working to keep development focused around existing city services using annexation as an effective tool.
"Compact urban development is the best way to prevent unchecked urban sprawl," Epple asserted.
Epple spoke to the steadily rising cost of living in the Bozeman area saying developers and realtors will generally cite the cost of land as the single biggest factor influencing the rising cost of housing. Epple argued "low interest rates also have helped stimulate the housing market more than any other factor."
Bozeman has grown a city the size of Livingston on its boundaries in the past 10 years, Epple noted. In 1983 the city approved 93 building and new dwelling unit permits compared to 526 by Sept.1 in 2007 alone. Epple said the city is on track to top 700 units this year.
Montana State University Professor Ralph Johnson presented on community design and growth management. Johnson, worked with the Sonoran Institute to publish "Building from the Best of the Northern Rockies," and focused on many issues covered in the book. Johnson's talk centered on "circumstance and conditions."
"If you don't know where you've come from, you'll have trouble knowing where you'll be," Johnson stated.
Johnson spoke of the "six percent factor," which says if you leave six percent of your money in the bank for 11 years it will double. Johnson said Bozeman has been struggling to meet a six percent growth rate, which Johnson explained is "almost impossible for infrastructure to keep up with…the community can't effectively absorb that."
Johnson presented slides on structures in the greater Bozeman area from 1905 to 2005 and included projections through 2025 based on current growth trends. The slides showed a dramatic rise in development in rural areas. Johnson then presented pictures of a wide array of different density developments in the Gallatin Valley.
"I really hate subdivisions named after what used to be there," Johnson quipped.
Johnson emphasized the importance of planning and clustering to preserve the area's open space amenities.
"Density doesn't necessarily produce the visual effects of a blighted community," Johnson argued. "In fact, it can be quite appealing…Density can become a very positive attribute to communities."
Johnson closed by urging the community to get involved in helping Bozeman and Gallatin County officials encouraging density in the urban nodes; cluster development in the rural environment; and preserving beauty and productivity in the landscape.
Montana State Representative JP Pomnichowski discussed air and water quality in the West. She urged the audience to remember the Earth's limited resources and stressed the importance of keeping air and water clean in the higher elevations like Montana. Consistent temperature inversions keeping pollutants close to the ground and Montana's role as a source for freshwater for the continent should be paramount in planning, Pomnichowski argued.
Sonoran Institute Economist Joe Marlow spoke on the West's steadily changing economy, citing Gallatin County as a "poster-child" for the West's new economic trends. The structural change in the local, regional and global economies—led by a huge boost in the services sector—along with migration from urban to rural areas, demographic changes and tourism are the predominant changes affecting the West, Marlow said.
Marlow explained the services sector does not simply include the stereotypical "burger-flipping" jobs, but encompasses a global phenomenon including consumer, health and production aspects of the services sector. Marlow explained the baby-boomer retirement and the mobile ability of business to follow where people want to live is largely responsible for the booming growth the Gallatin Valley is seeing.
Because of Bozeman's and Gallatin County's high quality of life, open space and public lands, excellent transportation linkages, Montana State University and an educated workforce, Marlow said this area is particularly poised to capitalize on these new economic trends.
Several audience members raised the issues of preserving and using local, organic agriculture; planning for water usage in the face of booming growth; holding developers responsible for substandard building practices and enlisting greater community participation in city and county planning.
For more detailed information on what's going on currently with county and city-wide decisions and meeting, including updates and details on the Transportation Plan, 2020 Growth Plan and the County Growth Management Plan, visit the Gallatin Grassroots Forum.
This was the first of the speaker series. Check back with NewWest.Net/Bozeman for upcoming events, or sign-up for our newsletter here.


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ATHENS, Texas — Anglers contributed two lunker largemouth bass to the Budweiser ShareLunker program over the weekend, bringing the number of fish entered into the program this season to 12.
Mark LeBlanc of Orange caught a 13.59-pound bass from Sam Rayburn Reservoir about 10:00 a.m. Saturday. Roger Frazier, Jr., of The Colony took a 13.9-pounder from Ray Roberts Lake the next day.
Le Blanc was fishing in 5 feet of water with a Senko plastic bait in a watermelon red/green flake pattern. His fish measured 25.5 inches long and 21 inches around.
Frazier's fish hit a fluke in two feet of water in the north end of Ray Roberts. The fish was 25.5 inches long and 20.75 in girth. Both fish showed light to moderate hemorrhaging of the fins and appeared to have spawned.
The Le Blanc fish was the first ShareLunker caught from Sam Rayburn since 2002 and only the third since 1998. That lake has contributed a total of 21 fish to the Budweiser ShareLunker program. Frazier's fish was the first ShareLunker taken from Ray Roberts since 2000 and only the fourth in that lake's history.
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Our Vision is to create a community where 100% of the adoptable animals find loving homes and no animals will be euthanized because of pet overpopulation.
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League, Humane Society of the Palm Beaches, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and does not receive funding from city, county, state, or the federal government, or local organizations with similar names. We rely solely on the generosity of individuals, foundations and corporations to provide quality programs and services to the community. Your donations directly support the services and programs in place to help animals in need.
Our mission is to provide shelter to lost, homeless and unwanted animals; to furnish medical and other services for the care of companion animals; to care for, protect, and find quality homes for homeless and neglected animals; to advocate animal welfare, community involvement and education to further the bond between people and animals, for the mutual benefit of both.
Our goal is to help you find the perfect pet based on your personality, lifestyle and what you are looking for in a pet. Our team members and volunteers work with the pets everyday so that we may give you detailed information about the pets personalities. It may take you several trips to the shelter to find the perfect pet.
When you arrive at our shelter, we suggest you visit our Dog & Cat Adoption Rooms. Once you see a pet you might be interested in adopting, remember that pet's name and come to the main lobby in the Grace Pavilion. We can help you find the pet that best fits your lifestyle.
Once you meet with an Adoption Coordinator, they will bring the pet to meet you and to see if it's a match. You can then spend time with the pet and learn much more about bringing the pet into your home. Feel free to ask for recommendations. Don't forget, we work with our pets every day and may know the perfect one for you.
Weekends are very busy. Please be patient, we want to make sure we find the perfect pet for you.
We recommend you bring your children to visit with the pets you are interested in. We may also schedule a dog visit to bring your family dog if you are looking for an additional dog. Please set up an appointment with an Adoption Counselor for the dog meet. We do not recommend cat-dog visits or cat-cat visits. All dogs who visit our shelter must be on a leash and be up to date on all vaccinations.
Adoption is a lifetime commitment including the training, emotional commitment and future medical care. Our most successful adoptions are to visitors who take their time in finding an appropriate companion. Every day, new pets are received at the League and made available for adoption, so if you don't find an ideal companion pet immediately, keep visiting.
Please remember once you adopt we are here to support you. If you have questions, concerns or need assistance you can call our behavior help line at 472-8815.
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The Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League encourages senior citizens (age 65 and older) to participate in our Senior to Senior program, where we match you with a senior pet (five years or older). Research shows that having a pet helps people lead healthier lives, and the benefits are many: companionship, lowered blood pressure, stress relief, sense of purpose and responsibility, the list goes on. We think pets are so important to keep our seniors healthy and happy we'll pick up the tab! Please visit us to meet your match.
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EUGENE, Ore. - Kids frolicked in the mist at the spray play area in Washington park Friday as temperatures climbed above seasonal averages.
Forecasters said the American West faces a week-long heat wave, with temperatures in the Willamette Valley likely to crest 90 by early next week.
The spray play area was popular with parents and kids looking to beat the heat while enjoying the sunny weather.
"I don't want to hide out in the air conditioning all weekend, so hopefully well get some day camping in and get in the pool, and it should be fun," said Jamie Schack.
For folks who want to escape the heat, relief is a short drive away on the Oregon Coast.
"We love going to the river and to the ocean, head over to the coast and hide from the heat when it gets too hot," said Amy Ayrsman.
After a few days of rain, including a deluge Wednesday, the clear skies had people talking - but not too much.
"It's pretty unbelievable to not have any clouds in the sky," Ben Casiano said, "but we try not to talk about it too much and jinx ourselves. Don't wanna do that. No no but well try to stay positive."