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Three-star linebacker Christian Russell continues to land offers. In the meantime, the 6-foot-0, 225-pounder is heading out to make a few unofficial visits.
"My newest offer is from Virginia," he said. "I'm up to nine or ten offers now.
"I know they've got new coaches, but I don't know much more about them."
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Meanwhile, Russell is trying to find out more on a few other schools.
"I'm making plans to visit North Carolina, Miami, Alabama and probably Wake Forest. I don't know when yet."
Three of the four have offered, what's the situation with Alabama?
"They are interested, but haven't offered," he said. "They want me to come to camp."
Nearing double-digit offers, does Russell like anybody?
"It's still kind of open I guess," he said. "I'm starting to look at narrowing it down, that probably won't happen till after the season when I make my final decision."
Russell is currently focused on the season and improving himself.
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OTTAWA - One of the loudest shots ever fired in the Battle of Ontario came from the left shoulder of Toronto Maple Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf on Oct. 8, 2011 at the Air Canada Centre
A slight Ottawa Senators rookie, playing in just his sixth NHL game, had accepted a Chris Phillips pass in the neutral zone and, upon crossing the blue line with his head lowered, was roughly introduced to the Ottawa-Toronto rivalry.
Phaneuf's clean hit put him down like he'd been thrown into a train. His helmet came off and his stick slid into the corner. Taking their objections to the Leafs defenceman were Daniel Alfredsson, then Nick Foligno and finally Phillips. The rookie skated to the Senators bench and sat there dazed as the TV cameras remained focused on him.


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In recording a deserved victory over Bamber Bridge, Clitheroe produced a performance which rekindled early season memories and reignited their play-off hopes.
Chris Dykes, Danny Mahoney and second-half substitute Isaac Kusaloka scored for the visitors after Brig, who saw Matt Mahoney dismissed in the first-half, had drawn level immediately after the break.
Lee Pugh was back after injury while Adam Birchall and Dykes were also restored to the starting line-up, with Will James playing alongside Jack Higgins at the back.
The hosts made a lively start and were almost ahead within seconds of kick-off as Daniel Wilkins struck a post from the edge of the penalty area.
Clitheroe recovered their composure and took the lead on eight minutes when Dykes' left-footed effort from the edge of the box found the net via the underside of the crossbar.
The lead was almost doubled after quarter of an hour as former Irongate favourite Danny Mahoney saw his goal-bound shot turned behind by Lee Dovey.
Mahoney again came close ten minutes before half-time only for his powerful drive to flash wide after a deep cross from Daley Woods was only partially cleared.
Moments later the home side were reduced to 10 men after an unnecessary flashpoint saw an already cautioned Matt Mahoney sent off.
The former AFC Fylde midfielder launched into a two-footed challenge on Pugh before inexplicably lashing out at the Clitheroe skipper with a red card inevitable.
In the opening stages of the second period, Matty Kay released Gregg Johnstone clear on goal only for Hakan Burton to stand tall and deny the forward.
However, from the resulting Ryan Thompson corner, a combination of Andy Bell – fresh from scoring a hat-trick the week before – and Chris Smalley forced the ball over the line.
Two minutes later Woods found himself bearing down on goal after latching onto Mahoney's forward ball and outpacing the Brig defence but he failed to beat Dovey.
The Blues restored their lead in the 53rd minute as the referee pointed to the spot for a push on Higgins as the centre-half attempted to connect with Smalley's cross.
Mahoney remained calm to smash the ball home and score his fifth goal for the club and the first since his wonder strike at New Mills in November.
Shortly before the hour mark, recent signing from GAP Connah's Quay Dean Canning came close to opening his Clitheroe goalscoring account but fired wide after a superb pass from Dykes.
The Blues looked much more like their usual selves after an indifferent couple of weeks and enjoyed some good periods of possession as the game wore on.
Kusaloka, who had replaced Woods, was the next to go close after 69 minutes, latching onto Birchall's clever pass before swivelling and shooting, only to be denied by Dovey.
Clitheroe continued to look comfortable as the match entered its final stages and substitute Chris Mason had a great opportunity to seal the points with a couple of minutes remaining.
Mason robbed Luke Atherton of possession and advanced on goal but could not apply the necessary finish.
The points were sewn up moments later as Kusaloka scored an excellent individual goal.
The 21-year-old picked up the ball just inside the Brig half and glided past Rob Henry before outwitting Atherton, cutting inside and lashing home.
Clitheroe seemed to recapture the spark which has been missing over the last few fixtures and manager Paul Moore will be hoping this result signals a run of positive form.
The Blues entertain Salford City on Saturday (kick-off 3 p.m.) and will look to stem the flow of three successive defeats at Shawbridge.
Clitheroe: Burton, Smalley, Pugh (c), James, Higgins, Birchall, Nangle, Mahoney (Dent 85), Canning (Mason 72), Woods (Kusaloka 66), Dykes. Subs not used: Calvert.
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FINDING just enough room in the post-rock landscape to call their own between the twin titans of Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky, Mono remain Japan's leading offering to the genre of intense, involved instrumental guitar compositions performed at punishing volume and extensive length.
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Rigid proponents of the storm-swell delayed guitar sound and quiet-loud song-structure, and perhaps more apt to preach post-rock's pretensions to being a kind of modern classical music, the Tokyo quartet were a picture of austere seriousness as they brought their sixth studio album For My Parents to Glasgow. Black-clad to a fault, stool-bound guitarists Takaakira Goto and Hideki Suematsu, long hair draped over their faces, flanked dreamily swaying bassist/keys player Tamaki Kunishi, while drummer Yasunori Takada walloped away behind them (behind him was a large Chinese gong).
Goto's one concession to showmanship was an occasional motion that resembled the eccentric wave of an invisible conductor's baton. That and practically pile-driving his guitar into the floor at the furious dénouement of the very beautiful Pure As Snow (Trails Of The Winter Storm).
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BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. - The Broward Property Appraiser's Office is cracking down on people claiming adverse possession on vacant and foreclosed homes.
Sylvio Savidis bought a $2 million fixer upper in Hollywood in December. He arrived home last Thursday to find it crowded with strangers having a party.
"There's people everywhere. There's a party going on," he said. "They came up to me cursing at me, 'Who the F are you?' they said. I said, 'Am I hearing this right? Am I at the right house? This is the house.' At the point, I lost it. I went blank."
The squatters had removed the realtor's sign, broke open the back gate of the waterfront home, and were living inside. When Hollywood police responded, the squatters produced paperwork showing they owned the home.
"They had paperwork from court saying they were allowed to be here," said realtor Johanna Levy. "I was in shock."
"These people had more right than we did," added Savidis. "We weren't allowed on the premises when they were here."
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"They're trying to throw people out of their own homes. That's not going to happen," said Ron Cacciatore, who heads the Broward Property Appraiser's Office's investigate unit.
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An Athens man reportedly was threatened at gunpoint that he would be killed if he snitched about the burglary of a retired police officer's home in Jackson County.
The 28-year-old man said he was at a car wash on Mitchell Bridge Road on Wednesday when the suspect pulled a gun and said he would kill him if he spoke to police about the break-in, according to an Athens-Clarke County police incident report released on Friday.
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- Introduction: Stand Up and Be Counted
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- Featured Wilderness: A Hike into Tennessee's Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
- Spotlight On: 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act
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The Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness stretches across eastern Tennessee into western North Carolina, encompassing 17,394 wooded acres in the Nantahala and Cherokee national forests. This area embodies the rare beauty of old growth, virgin forest—an oasis of ancient trees that escaped the human blade. These woodlands have remained untouched for hundreds of years, with trees now as tall as 150 feet, and represent a unique and extremely diverse type of forest found only in the Appalachian Mountains, including yellow pine, hemlock, sycamore, basswood, dogwood, beech and oak.
The wilderness is named for Alfred Joyce Kilmer, a New York Times reporter from 1913 to 1918 but more notably the author of the poem "Trees" ("I think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree."). Kilmer died in action in World War I, and this memorial was created after a group of veterans petitioned the government to honor him. It is fitting that this remnant forest has arguably the single most impressive growth of eastern virgin forest in the United States.
In 2004, recognizing the great importance of this area as a habitat corridor, the U.S. Forest Service recommended an additional 1,836 acres for wilderness designation, just across the Little Tennessee Gorge. With its wide variety of terrain and elevation ranges, the area is popular with hikers and horseback riders who frequent the Benton MacKaye Trail, which runs through it.
Tennessee Wild, a local coalition, is working to get this addition designated as wilderness along with about 18,000 more acres, as part of the Tennessee Wilderness Act. Introduced by both of Tennessee's senators, the measure passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last November with bipartisan support.
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"Hikers should be prepared for a very strenuous hike if they tackle this gorgeous loop. They should carry the map and a compass and know how to use them both," says Jeff. "This is wild country; however, the reward is definitely commensurate with the energy expenditure."
If you hike this loop clockwise you will use the Stiffknee Trail, Slickrock Creek Trail, Big Stack Gap Branch Trail and the Fodderstack Trail back to the Farr Gap trailhead.
The Stiffknee Trail portion (3.4 miles) borders the proposed wilderness addition and leads into the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness before a steep descent ending at the headwaters of Little Slickrock Creek. Crossing the creek a number of times, you may see where portions of the trail follow an old railroad bed.
The second leg of the loop trail, Slickrock Creek Trail (3.1 miles), follows the creek with eight water crossings, and hikers can dip into the plunge pools at Wildcat Falls. A half-mile from the falls begins the third portion of the hike, Big Stack Gap Branch Trail (1.8 miles). This trail includes a climb away from the creek until you reach the ridge and connect with the Fodderstack Trail (3.7 miles). The Citico Creek Wilderness will be on your left, and the Joyce Kilmer Wilderness on the right. This final leg of trail is relatively flat, following the ridge line back to the trailhead.
One might encounter salamanders, a variety of birds and even a black bear along this loop trail, as was the case on Hunter's recent hike. Morgan Simmons, a reporter for the Knoxville News Sentinel, was along for the day and wrote, "About a mile from the car, we walked upon a very sizeable black bear that had climbed a tree near the trail. At our approach, the bear simply let go and dropped some 20 feet, hitting the ground with a resounding thud before disappearing through the underbrush."
"I have hiked in wilderness areas all over the southeastern U.S., and the Slickrock Creek Trail, to my eye, is the prettiest trail in the region," adds Hunter.
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While they remain in prime position to make the playoffs, the
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Considering their success against the NL this season,
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"We're running out of tomorrows and we need a sense of urgency,"
reliever Sam LeCure said. "We'll see what we're made of here coming
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Todd Frazier is 0 for 28 with 10 strikeouts in his last nine
games while Shin-Soo Choo is 2 for 20 over his past seven.
Matt Latos (10-3, 3.38) has gone 2-0 with a 2.41 ERA in his last
three starts. He didn't get a decision his last time out, giving up
two runs in six innings of a 4-2 loss at San Diego on Tuesday.
Jed Lowrie is 4 for 5 with two home runs off Latos.
Josh Donaldson, homerless in 16 games since the All-Star break
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Oakland owns a 10-4 advantage in the all-time series, outscoring
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Adam Bagdasarian's first book, Forgotten Fire , was a finalist for the National Book Award and won a slew of other awards along the way, garnering the distinction of being one of the Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults in 2000 by the American Library Association. Now, Bagdasarian has released a second book, entitled First French Kiss (and other traumas) , a collection of short pieces that recount episodes from an imaginary childhood.
Partway through the second piece, I realized that something was dreadfully wrong. The book was written with the saccharin idealism of a child but with an older narrator looking back on this time of childhood, which provides a subtext of irony, but no real narrative wisdom, so to speak, to put these episodes into some larger perspective. Furthermore, the more I read, the less these "pieces" seemed like stories. They seemed more like anecdotes, the kind of cartoonish, exaggerated slices of life that are told at parties or around friends.
This is a very hard book to pin down. Put out by Melanie Kroupa books, who is a children's book editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the book is not listed on Farrar, Straus and Giroux's website and Melanie Kroupa books does not have a website. The book itself does not have a listing for category, and the description alternately characterizes these pieces as "stories", "tales" and "episodes." The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data summarizes the book this way: "The author recounts humorous, sad, traumatic, romantic, and confusing episodes from a fictional childhood." A few library and pre-publication websites listed the book as for a "middle-school" age and for "young readers" but then went on to assert that they were for adults, too. I guess the themes of the stories are supposed to have universal appeal, even for older readers.
The problem is, of course, that writing for a younger audience necessarily entails a more accessible writing style. We don't have the brilliant separation of child / adult that we would have, say, in a story like Alice Walker's "The Walker Brothers Cowboy." Let me say, unequivocally, that this book is for younger readers. I don't know why it is being marketed so ambiguously, unless to try and make it a crossover or breakout book, which it is not. Why not say "early teen" on the book? Why not add that designation to the Cataloging-in-Publication data? There is no way that this would be a book that an adult reader would buy, nor would it be one to recommend to adult friends. It would, however, be interesting to hear the author read from these pieces: I suspect that the lively prose and the feel of these pieces as childhood anecdotes would go over well with an audience.
Let's look at the book more from the perspective of a younger reader. The themes of these pieces do reflect events that happen in a young male's life: first make-out session, getting yelled at by your dad for not eating your vegetables right, moving, and getting in a fight, to name a few. And there are some funny passages, like this one, in which the fictional Will discovers that making out is more difficult and clumsy than he imagined:
Around this time I began to wonder how long we had been kissing. I knew I did not have a chance of breaking the record, but I wanted to make at least a respectable showing; so while we made noises together and turned our heads interminably from side to side, I determined how long ten minutes was in seconds and began my long count to six hundred.
A book like this could make you realize, as a young person, that you are not alone in the world, that others feel as you do, and for this point, this is a good book. There are petty sibling fights, unfair parental judgments, and a sense of time passing with your having little control over it. This book does show how we grow into adulthood with very little control over how time changes us. We do the best we can with what we have and trust that goodness will prevail. The prose, though highly idealistic, is written in a way that would challenge younger readers to contextualize words they've not heard before. For younger readers, as well, the brevity of the pieces would be engaging.
In short, this would be a good book for a middle school reader, and for that audience I recommend it. Don't believe the hype, though, about it being a book for adults as well. It's not.


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OK so I'm having this discussion about aileron differential with SDR and I thought I had it right in my mind but he's questioning me. So I go back into the RCG archives and I see a lot of people are just as confused as I am because they answer it both ways. Don't you set the differential with more down than up or do I have it backwards?
Differential is usually more up, less down. Typically, the downward-deflected aileron creates more drag than the upward-deflected one, which causes adverse yaw (that is, the nose moves opposite the intended direction of turn). Aileron differential can help with this, but proper use of the rudder is more effective. Aileron differential is also used in hand launch (which most often uses full-span flaperons) to eliminate pitch changes with roll input. A lot of pilots flying rudderless airplanes are using reverse differential (more down, less up).
Last edited by Mr. Wiz; May 01, 2012 at 11:32 AM.
Way back when, I built a kit that called for more down than up. That's where I got my idea of how it was suppose to be.
The way I set mine up is to fly the ship at a moderate speed and roll the wing back (pure ailerons, no rudder) and forth and see if the nose drops or raises. Adjust the differential until the nose stays level when you rock the wings. This is the starting point. Now when you initiate a turn with rudder and ailerons the nose should stay level. When you are in a thermal and need opposite aileron to hold the turn you should not need additional elevator to hold the turn.
G_T wrote a fair bit about aileron differential in the Initial programming of a DLG thread, particularly this post.
Yes, particularly if a pilot is not already expert at reading the air from the plane response. If someone is still having difficulty or questions about that (in other words, if it is not an automatic skill) then I recommend setting differential for no pitch response for small quick rocking motions of the wing.
This makes it easier to read the air when flying along in straight line flight. Finding the lift and getting into it quicker is worth more than whatever perceived benefit one might get for various settings for turns.
Beginners and intermediate pilots have issues with finding and centering lift. Make that job as easy as possible.
Experts generally don't have issues with finding and centering lift, except when the air is tricky. Experts are also often quite good at the sticks. They can set differential however they want and it is up to them to deal with it. But IMO novices/beginners in particular should really avoid pitch-inducing differential settings, and intermediate pilots would be better served by avoiding it as well.
Slightly OT warning ...
Many pilots really can't fly their planes. By this I mean that if they try to do anything beyond the simple flight motions they routinely do in a flight, they can't. They don't have the skill at the sticks.
Many have even developed mental blocks against certain maneuvers.
You see this in the pilots who only ever turn to the right (or is it the left - I forget). They have to always have a straight line approach to landing. They have to always land straight upwind. They can't dodge people on landing approach. They can't do a turn-and-burn of the various flavors.
Loops? Fly inverted? Inverted thermalling? Fancier stuff?
If this description fits you, then you need to do some flying.
But first, tighten up the springs on your transmitter sticks. If the sticks are anywhere near their factory settings, then they are too loose for you to feel where the sticks are located. If you can't feel it, you can't fly it. So fix that first. IF you have been using differential and/or dual rates, then remove or disable those settings at the same time. You'll very likely find you don't need them any more. Often DLG pilots use them essentially as a correction for not being able to feel where they are holding the sticks. But our planes really have a small speed range so differential doesn't make as much sense, not for thermal flying. And expo results in having less control of pitch/roll during banked turns so it is harder to fly them smoothly. Life is easier if the response during turns is the same as the response in level flight and you will not get that with expo.
Get out there and fly. Get some altitude, and bang the sticks around. Do rolls. Notice that wacky pitch response when inverted? I bet your CG setting isn't anywhere as close to neutral as you think it is!
Do loops. See how the plane rolls off some as one continues loops? That means the plane is actually flying in a small sideslip. Adjust the aileron and rudder trims to eliminate it - or fix the warps in your wings/flaperons! Or if you have slop in your flaperon setup, set your camber positions when holding the plane upside-down. Then the loading on the flaperons is the same direction it is in upright flight. Or better, get rid of the slop.
Get comfortable turning both directions. Fly figure-8 turns. This is where you'll learn if you really know how to fly turns. You should be able to do them keeping the fuselage horizontal - at least if you have a rudder. You should be able to do them in the same horizontal plane, regardless of rudder or not.
Landing approaches. Start doing some catches while the plane is in a turn. When I used to fly by myself - when I had time and a convenient field - I'd often be practicing low level thermalling close by. Too close and too low to really set up approaches. I'd often catch the plane literally out of a turn without leveling the wings. Rather fun actually.
Practice flying turns close to the ground. Practically scrape the grass (if you have any) with a wingtip. Of course, don't hit, or you'll be doing a fair bit of repairs. But get comfortable flying lower so that attempting to thermal out from ground level no longer seems like a big deal.
Practice some ballistic flying. Launch, leave it in speed mode and push over way early. Or dive down to get speed. Fly around fast, doing smooth graceful turns and other maneuvers. Learn to make microscopic smooth corrections to the sticks.
Get some music, grab the sticks, and make that plane dance!
Go out as the sun is setting, trim for float, and see how smoothly you can persuade the plane to go where you want. This is persuade, not drive. Move the sticks no more than perhaps 5mm, and never in a jerky fashion. The plane may take several seconds to respond. That is all right. Really focus on the plane and fly it super smooth. Watch for any signs of improvements to air in one area or another. Any signs of drift in the air, or any motion of the plane at all that wasn't directed by you. Repeat - really focus on the plane. Study its flight and how it reads even the tiniest change in the air.
When you feel comfortable flying the plane in any attitude at any speed, then you are becoming an expert on the sticks.
If you have to think about what to do, then you aren't doing it yet. Practice will help! This is flying, not thermalling. But being good at flying helps with all the rest.
Then, go out on an active air day, and practice reading the plane while blistering along in speed mode. It is good for scouting before a round and it is good practice.
Also go out on some low wind day and pick some random direction (but not downwind as you know too much about what is going on there). Launch and head out until you've lost half your launch height (hint, don't launch super high or you may be testing your vision as much as your flying). Now you have to find some lift to get back. Get comfortable doing it, and knowing you can do it. You are not going where you have a read based on ground signs. All your reads will come from what your plane is telling you out there. Get good at reading it.
Do some practice flying your plane while looking elsewhere. Put it in a turn, not too far away and not overhead. Feel where you are holding the sticks, and freeze the position. Look away for a second, spot and notice something else. Then look back. Work on that until you are still nicely in your turn. Then look away longer. Look over your shoulder. Look at someone elses plane. Study their plane and read their air. Get good at this, and you won't be relying on your timer nearly as much for reads.
PS - I'm remembering all the things I'm getting lousy at by not getting out to practice these last several years.
First off, I'm not one that has any difficulty banging the sticks. I'm coming from pattern flying to DLG flying. Inverted flying, no big deal... Inverted thermaling? I've never even considered it. My camber settings go the wrong way but now that you mention it I'll have to give it a try.
For me, stiff springs on the sticks are a must. Ive switched my SD-10G to the stiffest springs I can buy and dialed in about half of the tension. That's plenty stiff for me to feel the centers but not so stiff as to cause fatigue. Each person is different in this regard but the mushy stock spring settings just don't get it. Most people never adjust this so they never know what what I'm talking about even when I hand them my TX to feel it. You really have to try it to see the difference it makes.
As for your comments about dual rates and expo. I don't agree. I use dual rates to set up my servo travel limits and not the servo travel functions themselves. If you dial down the travel with that function your servo steps become coarse. At least that's how it's been explained to me. So I crank my servo throws up to 150% and then tame them down with dual rates. That's the method the pattern guys use. Now I also like a lot of throw for getting out of trouble or doing aerobatics so I don't tame the throws down too far. Doing that can get you into trouble when you need to make swift corrections.
Expo is something I absolutely love. Why? For several reasons but here is #1. Smooth flying is what we all want. Ever see a guy that can bang the sticks like mad but cant fly a nice straight and level line to save his butt? His throws are set up for wild stuff but at those settings, just the pulse through his fingertips gets translated to his plane. This is particularly true with elevator and many times with aileron input too. But when I need full throws to whip the plane around fast or make a correction in tough conditions I want that authority there. With expo, you can have the best of both worlds. Just don't over it. I generally run 20%-30% on ailerons and elevator. Only 10%-15% on rudder. Play with it to see what works best for you. Also, we were talking about stiff springs on the sticks. The stiffer you like them, the more you're likely to shake a little as you hold the sticks deflected. Even if you like a twitchy plane 10% expo on everything can smooth out your flying.
Now any and all of this discussed is personal taste. I like a plane that is very easy to fly smoothly because for me, being smooth is the hard part. Just a little example here, one day several years ago I attended a local pattern contest and there was this old guy that told me he built Andrew Jesky's pattern planes. To look at the quality of the fit and finish of his own plane, I believed him. As I recall, he was flying in Advanced and I was flying Sportsman (Novice). He looked like he was experiencing the beginnings of Parkinson's disease and his hands shook all over the place but his plane tracked like it was on rails. He had beautiful execution, cross wind corrections and all. I couldn't see any flaws in the old guys routine. So I asked him. He said, said he has a ton of expo dialed in to counteract the shaking. He went on to tell me that most people set up their planes to be too touchy around center. They do it for that time when they need a lot of throw to perform a maneuver. The trick he said, is to set it up with just the right amount of throw to perform the needed maneuver and nothing more. Then set in a little expo to really put the icing on the cake. That's what I've done ever since and the minute I did it people thought I'd really improved my flying skills. Nobody will ever convince me that setting up a touchy plane is the right way to go... unless you happen to be wanting to fly torque rolls down on the deck and even then there is such thing as too much.
So now you have my secret to smooth flying. I'm still not as smooth as I'd like to be at times with the DLG but I'm learning and I'm improving every time I go out.... cept when I crash on the first flight cause I forgot to connect the radio. Dont ask.
Last edited by Mr. Wiz; May 01, 2012 at 01:54 PM.
Oh... and remember, touchy on the controls does not mean that plane signals lift any better. You're not suppose to be hard on the controls when looking for lift, right? You just want smooth inputs when you make them. That's all expo and dual rates does. Well anyway, there is one man's opinion on the subject but like everything in this hobby, your mileage may vary.
With the non linier servo horns we use, expo does have a place in all RC flying. Usually an expo rate of about 25 (JR) gives you a linier movement of the control surface. This of course can vary with the type of control setup. Dual rates can help when you switch between flight modes. Thermal mode does not need lots of aileron movement so why not tone it down with dual rates? I agree that when trimming out a new ship, zeroing out the expo and dual rates is the way to go but after you have it trim I use these option to make the ship feel the way I want for the mode I'm in. With the huge ailerons on DLG's having expo will smoothout the center of the stick throw. This is a good thing. When I roll my ships I want half roll rate at half stick deflection and full roll rate at full deflection. I adjust the expo to get this. Same goes with elevator. I have flown many ships that have 70% of the roll rate (or loop diameter) in the first 1/4 of stick deflection. This is not taking full advantage of the radio's capabilities.
Last edited by davidjensen; May 01, 2012 at 02:21 PM.
I don't play with different expo or dual rate settings on my DLGs between flight modes. I want the same control response regardless of where my camber settings may be. But again, that's just me. If it works for you, who is to say its wrong?
I start with a zeroed out model when I first start programming but I don't have zero rates for the first flight. For me the rates are nothing more than a servo travel tool. I set up the max throw I want right in the beginning. Expo is usually started out at 10% on everything but usually adjusted up a little from there. The only planes that I don't start out with like that are ones that are so docile to begin with that I'm afraid I might not have enough control response to get me out of trouble. DLGs so far aren't that docile. I did however over do it a little on my B3. I initially had the elevator max set too low. I cranked up the throw and dialed in a little more expo and then I got a smooth flying plane that can turn on a dime if I want it to. Keep this in mind as well. Our planes indicate thermals better with a rearward CG, right? A rearward CG also causes a sensitive elevator. Move the CG back to get a good thermal indicating plane and then dial in some expo to counter act that elevator sensitivity around center on the stick.
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Judge Jeanine Pirro made it clear to Americans that the responsibility for their protection and safety now falls in their hands.
"Get a gun. Because this government ain't in a position to help," she said on Saturday night's Justice With Judge Jeanine, while also advocating for those on terror watch lists to lose their Second Amendment rights.
"It's real simple. You don't like America. You want to cheer as the World Trade Center comes down. You want to meet with a known suicide bomber? OK – then you've given up your rights at the altar of American freedom," she said. "If there is a terror investigation on any level – you lose your right to fly, your right to buy a gun and your right to privacy."
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Pirro said the federal government needs to do more to assure the safety of all Americans, from greater collaboration and less competition, to a greater willingness to take a jaundiced view of what suspects say.
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After noting that the FBI interviewed Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen three times, she said, "Mateen told them his anti-American comments were simply a response to what he perceived as anti-Muslim comments. He was turning the tables on us while basically tapping into our politically correct Islamophobic guilt."
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"I don't want to hear there's nothing the FBI could have done differently, especially when they keep telling us more terror attacks are coming. So you just sit back and say we couldn't stop it?" she said.
She said that people on a watch list should be watched and face curtailed rights.
"And pray tell why does the FBI even remove people from a terror watch list? If there's no probable cause to make a criminal case, then don't arrest the guy," she said. "But don't use our freedoms as a rationalization to free people up who want to kill us and take them off the list. … Why can't you have a list? You're not locking them up, you're not convicting them of a crime, you're not jailing them. You are simply stopping them from buying a gun."
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She was born Dec. 27, 1922, as the second child to William Edward Parks and Carmen Earcle Phillips Parks.
Pauline will be remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, friend and aunt. She worked as a young lady helping her father make molasses, saw milling, farming and served as midwife to several ladies of the community.
In 1945, she married Charles Ernest Earls and they had five children together. She raised the children until they all reached school age and then started her public work history as a cook at the Dardanelle Elementary School. Later, she worked at Dardanelle Nursing Home, Frontier Hotel and Senior Companion.
Pauline was a lifelong member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, attending Sulphur Springs as a child and Gum Springs where she and Ernest raised their children.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ernest; daughter, Mary Earls Clopton Shorey; brother, Clarence Parks; and sister, Learene Threadgill.
Survivors include one son, William Earls (Kay) of Malvern; three daughters, Martha Coker of Conway, Marie Earls of Atkins and Margaret Davenport of Dardanelle; six grandchildren; grandsons, Kevin Earls (Ashley) of Whitesboro, Texas, Waylon Earls (Kristy) of Derby, Kan., Chris Davenport of Dardanelle, Daniel Coker (Kathy) of Conway and Corey Earls (Jamie) of Russellville, and granddaughter, Tamara Hartwick of Atkins; six great-grandchildren, Drake, Brooklyn, Jackson and Colton Earls, and Hayla and Daniel Coker Jr.; four sisters, Ruby Gilbert and Earcle Sides of Dardanelle, Ruthie Dean of Lubbock, Texas, and Faye Adkison of Hemet, Calif.; one brother, Charles Parks of Dardanelle; best friend and honorary sister, Jewell Hancock of Dardanelle; and numerous other family and friends.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Special Olympics Area 17, 1073 Maple Springs Road, Russellville, AR 72802 or Arkansas Children's Hospital, 1 Children's Way, Little Rock, AR 72202.
A celebration of her life will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at Cornwell Chapel in Dardanelle. Burial will be in New Hope Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. today.
Pallbearers will be Corey Earls, Kevin Earls, Waylon Earls, Daniel Coker, Edward Parks and Dwayne Millsaps.
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OTTAWA - Mark Stone was just about to call it a night when he got the telephone call that made his day.
The Senators winger was headed for bed to prepare for Binghamtons New Years Eve visit by the Norfolk Admirals when he received word from coach Luke Richardson to pack his bags to head for Ottawa.
As the Senators took the ice Tuesday at the Bell Sensplex, Stone was skating on a line with Zack Smith and Colin Greening after Chris Neil suffered what the Ottawa Sun has reported is leg muscle injury that will likely keep him out at least a week.
I was getting ready to go bed, getting ready for the game in Binghamton and I got the call. I was pretty excited, said Stone, who made the four-hour drive Tuesday morning.
Thats been my goal since I got drafted is to play in the NHL.
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Closing Bell: Sample Park Slope's Best Restaurants at Taste of Fifth
Park Slope's annual Taste of Fifth festival will bring 40 of 5th Avenue's bars and eateries to one place next week and raise money for local charities. Restaurants like Al Di La, Grand Central Oyster Bar, Bogata Latin Bistro and Luke's Lobster will be serving up their cuisine at Grand Prospect Hall next Wednesday.
Attendees also get to enjoy live music and complimentary wine and beer at the festival. Tickets cost $45 online or $50 at the door, and $20 of each ticket goes towards one of 14 Park Slope charities of your choice. The 5th Avenue BID has a full list of charities and vendors that will be at the event, which will take place April 9 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at Grand Prospect Hall at 263 Prospect Avenue.


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Neb. Abortion-Clinic Signage Bill Sparks Debate
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Abortion foes and supporters are at odds over a Nebraska bill that would require clinics to post conspicuous signs saying women can't be pressured into having the procedure.
Abortion opponents say the bill would make clear to women that the law protects them from coercion by boyfriends, husbands, parents and others. The Legislature's Judiciary Committee heard testimony Thursday from women who say the signs might have made a difference when they had abortions decades ago.
Abortion-rights supporters say it raises free-speech concerns, and note that women already undergo counseling to ensure they aren't being coerced.
The bill by Sen. Bill Kintner, of Papillion, would impose a $10,000 fine for each day a sign is not posted.


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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] PubMed abstract: large-scale changes on the Y
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:36:41 -0700
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What do you mean "RIa is the most derived ......."? That there are the
longest chain or/and bush of discovered SNPs in the R1a branch or area?
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> This is a big and important paper, BUT ... the important part for us is
> They discovered 94 SNPs in 80 kB of the Y chromosome, but do not report
> these actual results. Interestingly, R1a is the most derived and their
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Edmonton was not welcomed back to the Western Hockey League with trumpets, a red carpet and a path of rose petals.
But junior hockey is back in town!
More importantly, it's back with a chance to thrive and survive.
Edmonton yesterday was awarded a conditional franchise in the Western Hockey League to begin play in 2007-08.
And this time - for the first time since the Oil Kings left for Portland when the Oilers came into existence - it has a chance, a very real chance, to succeed.
The new franchise required two thirds majority -14 votes - and had them. Barely.
The votes in favour came because the owners believed Edmonton would be successful.
Some of the votes against, ironically, came largely for the same reason.
"There are concerns about greater disparity between the smaller markets and the larger markets," said WHL Commissioner Ron Robison.
The Heartland of Hockey also supplies more junior players to the other teams than anywhere else in Western Canada. Now many of them will want to stay home. Which, come to think of it, should be the No. 1 reason to support a major junior team in the first place.
But there are two major reasons why the decision made yesterday at the league meetings in Calgary will result in a successful Edmonton franchise this time around.
1. It has nothing to do with Northlands.
2. It has everything to do with the Oilers.
Northlands involvement and the use of the AgriCom, one of the world's worst designs for a hockey rink, was one of the major reasons the Edmonton Ice flopped before moving to Kootenay and becoming an exceptionally successful franchise.
Northlands parking charges chased a lot of fans away and Robison warns that's a concern which put the "conditional" in the announcement of the granting of the franchise yesterday. The cars still have to park in the same place.
"Parking is going to be a concern. Very moderate pricing is our philosophy."
With the new team to play in Rexall Place, a building the Oilers wouldn't allow the Ice to cross 118th Avenue to play a single game in the last time around, it's a whole different deal. The NHL team is there to give it all the help in the world instead of all the opposition in the world as was the case the last time around.
"The conditions are entirely different," said Robison in a telephone interview moments after making the announcement at the league meetings in Calgary.
"I believe the new Edmonton franchise will be as successful as the Calgary Hitmen and the Vancouver Giants."
The danger is in competing against yourself. I'm convinced a great many of the empty seats in the Saddledome in the remarkable run of seasons the Flames missed the playoffs were partially due to fans getting more bang for their buck going to the junior games. It isn't a problem when the NHL team is going strong, as Calgary proved last year.
In Calgary and Vancouver, the number of corporate ticket sales is far greater than in Edmonton. The average fan can still go to Oiler games and the dollars are still relatively reasonable.
The bottom line is that getting the junior team puts even more pressure on Kevin Lowe and his hockey side of the operation to be successful. It also puts pressure on the hockey side to hire good people to make the junior team successful.
Edmonton will play in a six-team Central Division. Swift Current will move to the East Division to create a six-team division on that side, with Kootenay moving over to join Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge in the Central.
"A lot of teams, quite frankly, don't like the unbalanced conference scenario," said Robison of the teams left on the other side of the mountains in B.C. and the U.S.
But enough votes were there to make it happen. This time I think it will succeed. And maybe, just maybe, this was the final piece of the puzzle to make the 2009 Edmonton-Calgary joint World Junior bid a winner.


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Scottie was abandoned at a vet's office by his owner. He's a very laid back cat, likes to sit up high on cabinets and survey his surroundings in the lobby of the vet's office greeting patients and furry friends arriving for appointments. He also prefers to sleep in his own bed all curled up. He is not high energy but would like a lap or couch to sit on. He has long fur so will need regular grooming. Scottie seems to get along with everyone and is not scared of noises or people. His ears are crimped so it looks like a "Scottish Fold." Due to a severe ear infection one ear will stay more crimped up than the other. He does not seem to mind that his ears aren't long and pointy. He likes toys and will play, which will help him to be more active. He has been around other cats and dogs.
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The Obama administration is issuing the first-ever national standards to control air pollution from gas wells that are drilled using a method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, but not without making concessions to the oil and gas industry.
The regulation is expected to be officially announced later Wednesday.
President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address strongly backed natural gas drilling as a clean energy source, and recently announced an executive order calling for coordination of federal regulation to ease burdens on producers. But he has come under criticism by the industry and Republicans for policies they say discourage energy development.
Much of the air pollution from fracked gas wells is vented when the well transitions from drilling to actual production, a three- to 10-day process which is referred to as "completion." An earlier version of the rule limiting air pollution from gas wells would have required companies to install pollution-reducing equipment immediately after the rule was finalized.
Administration officials who briefed The Associated Press in advance of Wednesday's announcement said drillers now would be given an additional two years to employ technology to reduce emissions of smog- and soot-forming pollutants during that stage. The Environmental Protection Agency will require drillers to burn off gas in the meantime, an alternative that can release smog-forming nitrogen oxides, but will still reduce overall emissions.
Industry groups had pushed hard for the delay, saying the equipment to reduce pollution at the wellhead during completion was not readily available. About 20,000 wells a year are being fracked, a process where water, chemicals and sand are injected at high pressure underground to release trapped natural gas.
"We believe that industry was correct in that we needed to have a ramp-up period," said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity since the announcement wasn't yet official.
Besides the new standards for oil and gas wells, the EPA also on Wednesday updated existing rules for natural gas processing plants, storage tanks and transmission lines that will reduce amounts of cancer-causing air pollution, such as benzene, and also reduce methane - the main ingredient in natural gas, but also one of the most potent global warming gases.
There were other changes made since the EPA proposed the rule last July under a court order that stemmed from a lawsuit brought by environmental groups.
Wells drilled in low-pressure areas, such as coalbed methane reserves, would be exempt because they release less pollution during completion. And companies that choose to re-fracture wells using the pollution-reducing equipment prior to the January 2015 deadline would not be covered by other parts of the regulation.
Since companies could capture the natural gas and sell it, the EPA estimates that they would save about $11-$19 million a year starting in 2015.
The American Petroleum Institute, the main lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, said that much of the industry was already doing that.
"We don't need (the EPA) to come and tell our members we will save you money," said Howard Feldman, the institute's director of regulatory and scientific affairs. "Their business is natural gas. They get it that they are trying to capture as much gas as they can."
The reaction from environmental groups was mixed on Wednesday, in large part to the two-year delay on requiring companies to perform so-called green completions.
"This concession only promotes wasteful drilling," said Jeremy Nichols of WildEarth Guardians, an advocacy groups which sued the EPA in 2009 to force regulation. But, he said, "these rules promise to safeguard our communities and keep the dirty process of drilling in check."
Hydraulic fracturing is largely responsible for a natural gas drilling boom, but the technique has raised environmental concerns for its toll or air and water.
Last March, pollution from natural gas drilling in the Upper Green River Basin in western Wyoming triggered levels of ground-level ozone, the main ingredient in smog, worse than those recorded in Los Angeles, one of the smoggiest cities in the U.S.
In Dish, Texas, a rural town northwest of Dallas, the state's environmental regulators detected levels of cancer-causing benzene, sometimes at levels dangerous to human health, likely coming from industry's 60 drilling wells, gas production pads and rigs, a treating facility and compressor station.
At the same time, a state study in Pennsylvania of air quality near Marcellus Shale drilling sites in four counties found no emissions at levels that would threaten the health of nearby residents or workers.
EPA's final rule: http://1.usa.gov/nBqF2h
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