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For Grovetown's Kendyl Conner, there was really only one choice to be made when it came to choosing a college.
On Tuesday, she made that choice official when she signed to play softball at Georgia Regents.
"My dad played baseball at GRU when it was Augusta College," Conner said. "I've always loved the campus and stuff. It was relaxing to know I only had to apply to one college and I only had to get accepted into one place, so it was good."
Conner, a catcher, was a all-region second-team selection after batting .306 with 15 RBI and 18 walks.
Calling her a team leader, Grovetown coach Jeff Davis said Conner will be missed.
"I'm really happy for her, and I know she'll enjoy it there and be a good asset to the team. She's a team player," Davis said.
Alexis Schlein, of Evans, and Lindsey Stokes, of Harlem, signed with Georgia Regents earlier in the year, and Conner verbally committed to the Lady Jaguars about the same time. The wait for another legal signing period wasn't anything that made her anxious, rather the opposite.
"It's been kind of relaxing to know that it is a decision I've made and it's what I'm going to do for the next few years," she said.
Conner said she has a lot of friends at Georgia Regents and it was a good decision for her. Going with friends Schlein and Stokes is a plus.
"I'm excited. We've all been really close for a long time," Conner said. "I think we're going to live together next year on campus. We're all excited to do this thing together."


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Best Practices
As a volunteer administrator for a FamilySearch Genealogy Research Community you are in a position to reach thousands of individuals and provide helpful research resources. There are countless blogs and classes available online which are available to help define best practices for social media. These best practices can change on a regular basis as the tools we use for social media continue to evolve. The following resources and tips will help you stay up to date with this ever changing world.
- Read the Best Practices that Facebook admins should follow, outlined by Facebook themselves
- Get help from the Genealogy Research Community Admins Facebook group (membership in this group is included with volunteering as a FamilySearch Genealogy Research Community admin)
- Join the Genealogical Society Webmasters Facebook group
- Understand how Facebook and Skype can be used for genealogy
- Follow ✭FACEBOOK Experts & Resources! Interest List on Facebook
The following best practices are divided into the three responsibilities of volunteer administrators:
Responding to questions and posts
- Facilitate the asking of questions by asking questions that spark conversation. Be creative. This may include:
- Welcoming new members to the community
- Themed questions near special holidays or events (Christmas e.g.: Christmas is getting ever nearer and we're thinking of our families. What were some of your ancestors' Christmas traditions? Please share your favorite old Christmas photo and tell us about it.)
- Share an interesting photograph and ask a question (be sure to check for copyright before sharing photos)
- Pay attention to who is helping to answer questions on the page. Recognize them for their efforts by thanking them and making them feel welcome. Identify people in your community who want to reach out and share information. As you notice these people, feel free to ask them to be an administrator. Make sure you give them the information they need to decide. It could be as simple as giving them this link: https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Facebook_and_Skype_Community_Administrators
Sharing resources
- Find out what counties/parishes or specific topics your community members are interested in and share resources about those.
- Choose some blogs relevant to your community and follow them. GeneaBloggers lists over 2,500 blogs
- Use a blog reader like Google Reader to keep up on the blog posts that are written, or a Twitter aggregator such as TweetDeck or HootSuite
- Add resources to the FamilySearch Wiki so that there will be a place for these resources to be held
- Consider creating "Mini-lessons" -- little text post snippets that demonstrate how to use specific resources, etc. (example)
- Learn how to use Facebook Insights to determine which posts have had the highest influence in your community historically, and then keep up the good work.
Building community
- On the Administrator Responsibilities wiki page we learn to reach out to other organizations on Facebook. Now we suggest reaching out to other organizations in person. Let them know they are welcome to post when they have news-worthy things to share. Keep in mind that you are contacting individuals, not organizations--be careful that your contact not be mistaken for official FamilySearch communication. As volunteers we're not trying to build organizational partnerships, but simply to strengthen the grassroots genealogical community.
- You may also want to contact genealogy bloggers, and other genealogists interested in social media, to offer our page as a place for them to share appropriate resources
- Send a personal e-mail invite to friends to join a specific community or one that interests them. Provide a link to the community or the Join a Facebook Research Community page.
- Include a link to the Join a Facebook Research Community page in your e-mail signature. If you usually e-mail people about genealogy it might be useful to list that you are a volunteer for a certain community.
- Add a Userbox to your FamilySearch Wiki user page to show wiki users that you are involved. This could increase interest in the communities. Adding the userbox will add you to a list of community members.
- Encourage community members to share research successes
- Create Facebook events and invite your community members. This will create a more active community and provide a way to share more resources. Some event ideas include:
- Indexing hour
- Q&A sessions (can be held on Skype or another chat tool)
- Research sharing sessions

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Not long ago, I came across this project for a fun activity book for children called «Find The Cutes ~ Playtime». The book is drawn and colored by a talented illustrator named Vincent Noot and written by his wife Celestial. So I decided to help this terrific couple achieve their funding target by spreading the word.
This activity book is not an ordinary book, but rather a search book and it is for children of all ages that love exploring. It is based on the same concept as the other activity book that you probably know called «Where's Waldo?», but basically for children. It stimulates the imagination, educates, entertains and inspires.
The story is about a family of five children named the «Cutes». A funny detail is that all the kids' names begin with the letter "C". Their names are Carissa, Chaz, Cade, Cammy, and Cindy. The story started with the idea that, in large families, the oldest daughter often has to babysit her younger siblings.
With a total of 12 search pages and 4,785 characters, this kids' search book is for children ages 3 and up. It is hours of fun for the whole family. The Noots are planning to make it into a tablet game for iPad, kindle, and other devices. The entire series of 10 books will be family oriented. So stay tuned!
Each page took almost 100 hours to create and each character is hand-drawn as well as colored in Photoshop by Vincent Noot. Celestial Noot did most of the writing. Overall, the book took a year to complete.
You will find below a slideshow that I put together on Vimeo with some of the pictures taken from «Find The Cutes ~ Playtime». It will give you a pretty good idea about the excellent quality of drawings you can expect from the activity book.
If you want to show your support, you can like their Facebook page, follow their Twitter account and check out their pins on Pinterest. You can also visit their website, Find The Cutes, to learn more in depth about this colorful and educative activity book as well as have the opportunity to meet the Cute kids.
But to be able to complete the whole series, this inventive couple needs your help. Vincent Noot and his wife have put their project on Kickstarter in the hope of raising enough money. Each pledge is a step closer to the realization of the entire project. Below is the video that was created by the Noots to promote their Kickstarter project:
Interested in helping make this wonderful project happen? Click here to donate on Kickstarter, which is a website for entrepreneurs who want to raise money for their projects.
By going to their Kickstarter pledge page, you will also have the chance to read an interview where you will learn a little bit more about the creation of the book. There are also many great rewards depending on the contribution you are making.
So don't hesitate to go and make a pledge to help this extremely talented couple. But hurry up because the Kickstarter project ends on April 14th, 2014.


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Tower reschedules $160 million of debt
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LONDON Tower Semiconductor Ltd., the specialized foundry that trades as TowerJazz, has announced that it has signed an agreement with a number of Israeli banks to reschedule approximately $160 million of debt.
The debt $160 million of principal amount is now extended and scheduled to be paid in 10 quarterly installments commencing in the third quarter of 2013 and ending in the fourth quarter of 2015. The loans will bear an annual interest rate of labor plus 2.75 percent. As part of the agreement, the company has agreed to pay $30 million, on top of $20 million previously announced.
Oren Shirazi, chief financial officer said: "Following the previous announced $80 million bonds to notes exchange, the extension of the $45 million Wells Fargo credit lines, with due dates of 2015 and 2014 respectively, a conversion of approximately $30 million of Israeli bonds, and with this additional banks agreement, we have now refinanced/restructured more than $350 million of debt."
Russell Ellwanger, chief executive officer of Tower Semiconductor (Migdal Haemek, Israel), added: "Servicing the reduced remaining principle with the associated due dates of all banks and bonds debt, falls easily within the operating models of the company, for a wide range of scenarios."
Related links and articles:
MRAM firm Crocus names Cambou as CEO
TowerJazz posts loss, sales up


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How and when did CSR get started?
Beginning with an internal equipment grant to the Sociology and Government and Foreign Affairs Departments for a calling lab, Professors Thomas Guterbock and Steven Finkel drew up detailed plans for a survey research center in February 1988. CSR's first projects involved conducting class polls within the two academic departments. CSR was constituted as a separate service unit within Arts & Sciences at the University in September 1989, with Mr. Guterbock appointed as directors. From there it developed into a full service polling facility. More recently, CSR expanded into new office space at Old Ivy Road. We now have a 23-station calling lab and are a unit of the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Where is CSR located?
CSR is located on the second floor of 2400 Old Ivy Road in Charlottesville, Virginia with other units of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Our mailing address is:
Center for Survey Research
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P.O. Box 400767
Charlottesville, VA 22904
What kinds of projects are done at CSR?
CSR has conducted a wide range of projects. We have worked on behalf of academic researchers, government agencies, private foundations, businesses, and non-profit organizations.
CSR is experienced with an array of contact modes:
CSR has recently purchased Quatlrics which allows for the creation and implementation of sophisticated, user friendly online surveys. Qualtrics can be used to schedule both reminder and thank-you emails based on completion of the survey.
What services does CSR provide?
CSR is a full-service research facility. We offer customized project design, professional interviewing, and data collection using the latest survey technologies, as well as data analysis and report preparation.
How much does it cost to do a survey?
CSR's rates are competitive with other academic and commercial survey organizations. Project costs can vary widely depending on factors such as the scope of services you require, the survey methodology used, the number of respondents, the nature of the sample, etc. Costs can range anywhere from $5,000 to $150,000. So while typical projects have been in the $20,000 to $50,000 range, we have also done smaller and larger projects. We invite you to contact one of our senior staff to discuss the scope of your project and factors that govern cost.
What's the best way to collect data for my project?
CSR can advise you on the most productive and cost-effective method for collecting your data: telephone, mail, electronically, or in-person. CSR ensures scientific validity of your study by helping specify procedures for selecting respondents within households, securing cooperation, and following up incomplete interviews or questionnaires.
Who writes the questions for my survey?
CSR can write the question for you or can assist you in writing your own. We will help you determine the best question formats to measure people's opinions, experiences, attitudes, and behaviors. We can advise you on the proper sequencing of items, a critical design feature for maintaining objectivity and ensuring that respondents understand your questions.
Can I get a copy of one of your old reports?
Most are available for a nominal fee. Contact Ila Crawford for details and specific costs.
Can I work at CSR?
Periodically, CSR offers part-time employment for various projects. We frequently utilize employment through UVA temporary services. Full-time University of Virginia students may apply either through the Student Employment section of the Human Resources Department or directly to CSR. All other personnel must apply through the University of Virginia Department of Human Resources.
Whom do I contact about employment opportunities?
Contact Deborah Rexrode at (434) 243-5229 for research project and office management positions. Contact the CATI Lab at (434) 243-5226 for telephone interviewer positions.
Survey research is most simply defined as research that involves systematically asking people questions. Usually, surveys involve scientifically drawn samples of respondents. Here are some useful links for AAPOR and other survey institutions of note.
What is AAPOR?
American Association for Public Opinion Research
What is Qualtrics?
Qualtrics is the web-based software used at CSR to conduct surveys via the web. Qualtrics allows for the creation of sophisticated surveys in a flexible, easy-to-use design. The software also stores all the response data and allows for easy download in multiple different formats.
What is RDD?
Random-digit-dialing is a method used to give all phone numbers in a selected region an equal chance of being dialed. By adding a random number 4-digit number to a given prefix, a complete telephone number is created. This allows us to reach those telephone numbers that may be unlisted.
What are CATI and CAPI?
Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) is a method of telephone interviewing in which questions appear on the computer screen in programmed sequence as the interviewer presses the keys on the keyboard to record the respondent's answers. Accurate, instantaneous data entry is assured by the system. The computer system stores the database of telephone numbers and is used to control the sampling process, dial each sampled number, schedule callbacks, and record the disposition of each attempted call.
Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) uses similar technology except that the answers are recorded on an individual laptop or other portable device and then later compiled and aggregated. This is used for in-person or face-to-face interviewing.


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KATY, Texas, March 16 (UPI) -- Shamir Davis' 19 points Saturday led Northwestern State into the NCAA Tournament with a 68-66 Southland Conference tourney win over Stephen F. Austin.
James Hulbin sealed the win with a late steal for the second-seeded Demons (23-8), who earned their third overall trip to the national event and first since 2006.
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The top-seeded Lumberjacks (27-4) were led by Desmond Haymon's 23 points.
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Diacetyl has a pretty bad rap as a constituent of beer. Its butterscotch flavor is generally regarded as a fault. It is true that many people find its taste objectionable, and that it can be detected in relatively small concentrations, but I think it only fair to point out that some of the objections against diacetyl reflect indoctrination rather than judgement. This is because most of the research involving testing of diacetyl's effects was done using high-production pale yellow lagers as a base. As a matter of fact, beers with high non-malt adjunct levels tend to have high diacetyl levels. One study showed that increasing adjunct levels from 20% to 40% doubled the diacetyl concentration in the beer. Further, in such beers, which are not meant to have much in the way of flavor, that butterscotch flavor does stand out and spoil the brewer's designs for the beer's palate.
A result of this is that beer aficionados often look specifically for diacetyl when they taste a brew rather than looking at its overall palate. Not surprisingly, some of them find diacetyl even when it isn't present. Some tasters also forget that diacetyl flavor is not necessarily objectionable to all drinkers, and that that dreaded butterscotch flavor can actually add to — and help to round off — the palate of more complex beers. I remember my first taste of Samuel Smith's Bitter when I lived in Yorkshire in England back in the 1970s. It had a flavor quite distinct from most other bitter ales, one which I enjoyed and later found out was due to the presence of diacetyl, which was not removed during fermentation in Yorkshire Stone Square vessels. Perhaps you don't believe me? Well let me refer you to the December 2010 issue of BYO in the "Tips from the Pros." John Lyda, Brewmaster and VP at Highland Brewing Company in Asheville,
North Carolina discussed Cold Mountain Winter Ale and said, "We also intentionally leave in some diacetyl to help with the overall roundness of the beer."
Well, now that my little rant is over, let's get down to more practical things. Some people do not like diacetyl in beer, and it does have a very low taste threshold. A quick check of the literature reveals this with two very well-respected brewing texts quoting a) 0.1 –0.14 μg/mL and b) 0.5 μg/mL, both for lager beers. Translating to more sensible numbers, the higher figure represents 0.5 mg/L or 0.5 ppm.
Whatever unit you use, it is a small concentration, so ensuring that your beer does not contain too much of it can be a little tricky. But, what is it and how does it get into your beer?
A little light chemistry
Diacetyl, perhaps more properly called 2, 3-butanedione, is a vicinal diketone, which means it has two carbonyl groups situated on adjacent carbon atoms. It is produced during fermentation by decarboxylation and oxidation of alpha-acetolactate (a yeast metabolite).
This is a chemical reaction (as opposed to an enzymatic one) and occurs outside the cell. It's a relatively slow reaction, but is accelerated both by higher temperatures and by lower pH.
All very interesting, but do you as a brewer need to know this? Perhaps not, but it indicates two things, firstly that diacetyl can be removed by a reduction reaction (yielding 2,3-butanediol, which is neutral in beer flavor terms). Secondly, it may not be enough just to remove the diacetyl if its precursor, α-acetolactate is still present in significant concentration as it may later be converted to diacetyl. In short, you need to reduce both of these fermentation metabolites. Of course, the simplest thing to do would be to prevent the formation of α-acetolactate in the first place, wouldn't it? Well unfortunately that does not appear to be an option, for as yeast goes about its merry way converting carbohydrates to things that we like, such as alcohol and carbon dioxide, it insists on producing these two compounds that we don't want!
Away with it!
So how do we remove diacetyl and α-acetolactate? Well, we don't — the yeast does. Our friendly fungus, bless its little cotton socks, having put these nasties there in the first place can remove them later on. As fermentation comes towards its end, the yeast can absorb diacetyl into the cell and there reduce it enzymatically to 2,3-butanediol. If the green beer is held under the right conditions both diacetyl and its precursor can be removed by the yeast. Those conditions are simple enough, for the beer needs to be held at a reasonably high temperature in the presence of active yeast. Reasonably high temperature means around 65–70 °F (18–21 °C), which is enough to ensure full conversion of α-acetolactate to diacetyl, and with enough yeast present to reduce the diacetyl. You can't expect much in the way of diacetyl level reduction during secondary fermentation, because you have racked the beer off of most of the yeast. For practical purposes this "diacetyl rest" is best done in the primary fermenting vessel.
It should be obvious from this where the problem with diacetyl in lager arises. Primary fermentation at, say, 40–45 °F (4.5–7.2 °C), followed directly by lagering will probably remove little of the α-acetolactate and diacetyl formed earlier. This is likely to result in diacetyl levels well above the taste threshold when the beer is drunk. And that is why most (if not all) commercial lager brewers take the green beer through a diacetyl rest by taking it up to a warmer temperature after the primary stage.
It should also be obvious that there is less likely to be a diacetyl problem in ale brewing because of the higher temperatures used in the primary stage — providing you allow the beer to "sit" on the yeast once the vigorous stage of primary fermentation has ceased. But if you rack the beer right after this, there may not be enough active yeast present in the secondary to remove all the diacetyl. With most yeast strains this is unlikely to occur, but it can happen if your strain is highly flocculent. And of course this is a good argument for never rushing things — give the beer a little time in the primary and secondary stages. If you use a good strain and a sufficient quantity of active starter your ale may have reached finishing gravity after only two or three days. Don't be fooled by that into thinking that you can then rack it directly into your keg using isinglass or gelatin finings to ensure clarity. Unless of course you are one of those drinkers who loves the taste of diacetyl! If the latter is the case, think about using a yeast noted for diacetyl production, such as the Ringwood strain.
So let's go over the procedure to ensure a low level of diacetyl in detail. I am assuming that you are not trying to control diacetyl to a specific concentration as they do at Highland Brewing, which is very difficult without sophisticated analytical techniques, or without a very good knowledge of what to expect from the yeast strain you are using. I should also point out that Jamil Zainasheff discussed this on p. 22 in his "Style Profile" column on German Pilsner in the December 2010 issue of BYO. I have no problem in going over this again, as control of diacetyl levels is of concern to many people and the procedure is not always well understood.
Lager brewing is the area of most concern. Carry out the primary at your chosen temperature, say 40–50 °F (4–10 °C), then bring the beer temperature up to 65 °F (18 °C). Hold it there for two or three days then cool gradually to the desired lagering temperature. Ideally you want to start the diacetyl rest slightly before reaching finishing gravity so that there is still active yeast suspended in the beer. In practice this is difficult to determine, and you need to look for a slowing in vigorous fermentation to start the rest. Look for when the yeast head has collapsed back into the beer and relatively few gas bubbles are coming to the surface, but before the beer shows visible signs of clearing.
Ale brewing is much simpler. All you need to do is to maintain the beer at primary fermentation temperature (65–70 °F, 18–21 °C) for two to three days after the vigorous stage has ceased (this should take three to five days with a good, vigorous yeast starter). Do not be in a hurry to rack the beer to the secondary, although diacetyl levels can still be lowered in the secondary, depending upon how much of the yeast is carried over.
But wait, there's more!
The above deals with diacetyl produced by yeast, but that may not be the only cause of its presence in beer. For it can be produced by certain bacteria, notably Pediococcus, and to a much lesser extent Lactobacilli. This can take place in the finished beer, after fermentation and after most or all of the yeast has been removed. Pediococcus is capable of taking diacetyl levels up to 3ppm, well above the taste threshold for this chemical. There is nothing you can do to prevent diacetyl formation if the bacteria are present.
Like many beer-spoilage bacteria, the reaction would be expected to occur only slowly. That is because there are usually only very low levels of Pediococcus bacteria in the beer after fermentation and it takes some time for them to grow to high enough levels to do any damage. However, I know one example where it happened quite rapidly. My fellow brewers and I were taking a cask of pale ale from Brü Rm@BAR (in New Haven, Connecticut) to a local festival, and carefully racked off the beer from its serving tank (that is after filtration) into the cask. We checked it out as we did so, and found it clean with no signs of any contamination. The next day it was set up at the festival and connected to a hand pump for serving. We tasted it again, only to find it was loaded with diacetyl!
What had happened was obvious after the fact. We had been in somewhat of a hurry and had not checked out the hand pump, which had been sitting around on a back shelf for some time. Clearly it had developed a significant amount of Pediococcus, enough to raise the diacetyl level of the beer almost on contact. What was worse was that we had no way of cleaning the pump, and no time to do it before the festival opened. Luckily, it turned out that after drawing off more of the beer it became clear of diacetyl and we were saved — at the expense of throwing away a few pints of beer and of enduring some unexpected stress. But it was a lesson to us, and shows that even self-proclaimed experts can make elementary mistakes!
You cannot normally cure a beer infected in this way; prevention of infection is the only answer. A brewer is first and foremost a cleaner, and if you scrupulously adhere to hygiene in the brewery, you should avoid this problem. Note that the most likely place for such an infection to occur is in serving lines used in dispensing the beer from a keg. Do not leave picnic or other taps full of beer connected to the keg. Remove and clean them frequently and thoroughly and you should have no problem with this particular source of diacetyl.
Terry Foster is a frequent contributor to Brew Your Own and writes "Techniques" in every issue.


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Much ado about flooring
November 11, 2009
CHICAGO — A survey recently commissioned by Tornado® Industries Inc. asked 110 facility managers if they are more likely to install hard-surface or carpeted floor coverings, according to a press release.
When asked which type of hard-surface flooring is most often installed, 43 percent selected ceramic tile, 29 percent chose laminates like linoleum and 28 percent picked vinyl tile, the release stated.
According to the release, when asked if their facilities had been installing more hard-surface flooring instead of carpeted floors in recent years, 43 percent of survey respondents said yes; 57 percent indicated no.
Twenty-five percent of survey respondents said both types of floor coverings "require about the same amount of time and attention," about 17 percent said hard-surface floors take more time to clean than carpeting, 42 percent said carpeting takes more time to clean compared to hard-surface flooring and 17 percent were indifferent, the release noted.
The survey, which found that managers were evenly divided as to whether a hard or soft covering was more environmentally friendly, did not pinpoint why one type of covering is more popular than another, the release added.
Jolynn Kennedy, marketing manager for Tornado, said: "[Trends in floor care selection] are like a pendulum swinging from right to left. For a while, one type of covering is popular, and then it moves in the opposite direction. We also asked the [facility] managers what their two biggest hard-floor cleaning challenges are. At the top of the list were concerns about costs (38 percent). This was followed by concerns about slip-and-fall accidents (33 percent) and grout cleaning (29 percent), which can be a real challenge if the right tools and equipment are not used."
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School trips generally take place on Wednesday and Thursday, and often you'll find the majority are in May and June. Whilst it's probably going to break an hour I wouldn't be too worried so long as you go just before the schools break up. Your best bet is probably Monday the 3rd or Tuesday the 4th!
Also keep in mind Ghost Train is fairly decent with queues and can drop down to even 30 minutes on busy days so it's an idea to use the Thorpe Park app which allows you to track the queue times!


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Cool treats come to farmers' market
The Rosemount Farmers' Market will have a new vendor this year with a pretty neat story.
JonnyPops is a company started and run by four St. Olaf College students.
The company sells gourmet frozen bars made in Northfield. Since the company started in 2011 it has seen steady growth and is turning a profit. That is pretty impressive considering the business run and operated by four young men who will start their junior year of college this fall. The team includes CEO Erik Brust, Kilian Wald, Connor Wray and Andrew Sather.
Vice president of operations Wald said the four principal owners of the company started it the summer after their freshman year.
"We built it from the ground up," said Wald.
JonnyPops uses fresh fruit, real cream and cane sugar to makes its pops, said Wald. The company currently offers three flavors: Coconut Pineapple Paradise, Merry Mountain Berry and Summer Strawberry. Wald said several more flavors will be available soon, including chocolate and coffee.
As often as they can, the company uses local produce including berries from Lorence's Berry Farm. To make the pops, the company rents an industrial kitchen in Northfield and Wald said they hire college students as employees.
"We want to be seen as a community company," said Wald.
Running a business and being a college student can conflict at times, but Wald said they make it work. He added that St. Olaf College has been supportive of their business and they have even received help from professors and grants through the college.
"We have been very careful to avoid the pitfalls that a lot startups fall into," said Wald.
Currently the company is busy trying to build its brand. The company offers its products at a number of retail locations and at farmers's markets throughout the Twin Cities. JonnyPops will be at the Rosemount Farmers' Market, which runs from 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays in the Rosemount Community Center parking lot.
From the start
CEO Erik Brust came up with the concept for JonnyPops with his cousin Jonathan Jeffrey. Before they could start a company of their own, Jonathan died as a result of drug addiction. Convinced it was a good idea, Brust started the business and named it after his cousin's childhood name. To further honor Jonathan the company donates a portion of its profits to The Hazelden Foundation for drug treatment.
For more information on JonnyPops visit their website at jonnypops.com.


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North Face Metropolis Jacket
Warm, stylish, and everything you would expect from a North Face jacket. Especially like the lined pockets and collar. Highly recommend for city folks in humid, cold environments, i.e Chicago or Madison, WI.


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I am going to be honest with you guys: When it comes to gaming on any mobile platform, sometimes the simplest concept is the best one. I think this is a perfect way to begin discussing JSplash Apps' Hyper Ball. Hyper Ball feels like a perfect blend of the old games that we used to play on our TI-84 graphing calculators (do they still do that in high school?) and modern classics like Jetpack Joyride.
The concept is simple but effective. You are given control of a hyper ball that's falling toward its demise. During the freefall you must balance the hyper ball from block to block by either tapping the sides of the screen or tilting your device to navigate while collecting coins and hammers that are essential to your survival. The hammers can be used to break blocks when you get stuck or need some extra coins. Meanwhile, the coins are used to purchase new hyper balls with different abilities or in-game powerups, like starting with three extra lives instead of two.
What I really enjoy about Hyper Ball is that the game always feels fresh. While the concept of the game never changes, you are never given the same pattern of blocks to fall on, making it impossible to memorize any certain level. Every time you restart, the game begins casually and then builds up to an amazing freefall that will take all of your concentration to control. It's this play style that makes Hyper Ball extremely addictive.
The game's only real fault is when it interrupts gameplay to ask if you'd like to remove ads from the game. I know that I was playing the free version, but this became really frustrating during my longer rounds.
I know that I mentioned that Hyper Ball has a simplistic nature about it, but that doesn't mean it isn't polished. In fact, I was very pleased with the overall presentation quality of the mobile game. The music and sounds are fitting and the game is right where it needs to be graphically. I was also very happy with the different menu options available to the player. One that stood out is the player's ability to turn on a "Replay" option that allows users to watch their last run and then share that video footage with friends on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. It's good to know that developers are still trying to keep the social aspect of gaming alive.
The Wrap-up:
The Good: Great look, great sound quality and a cool sharing option.
The Bad: I could use a few more options for in-game upgrades, and the intrusive dialogue box asking me to remove ads become a nuisance while playing the free version.
The Verdict: What can I say? Hyper Ball is fun and addicting. It has an easy-to-understand concept that isn't trying to be more than what it is. I would like to see the usage of the ad removal dialogue box reduced, and perhaps more in-game unlockables added in, but I am having a great time playing Hyper Ball. For anyone that owns some iOS hardware and is looking for a simple yet addicting game, check out Hyper Ball on the Apple App Store.
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Published on December 30th, 2013 | by indee4
Convertible "Office-Island"
We needed a new meeting table in our office…something we could stand next to and that gives us space to put some things in it. It also needed to be moveable and flexible to use. So we decided to do some kind of "Office-Island" on wheels.
Shopping List:
2x BESTA, Shelf unit (120x40x64 cm | 47 1/4×15 3/4×25 1/4″)
2x BESTA VARA, door (60×64 cm | 23 5/8 x 25 1/4″)
2x BESTA, Rail for sliding doors
5x BESTA, Casters (Package contains 2 pieces)
6x INREDA, Drawers
4x CAPITA, Brackets (Package contains 2 pieces)
2x LINMON, Table top (120×60 cm | 47 1/4×23 5/8″)
2x "Clamp Locks" (don't know the english word for it – you can see it on the last picture)
- Build BESTA shelf with the casters as described in the manual.
- Add the rails for the sliding doors. (don't mount the doors or drawers yet – you later will have to drill holes into the BESTA)
- Mount the CAPITA brackets to the lower side of the LINNMON table top – 4 brackets per table top for stability reasons. Be sure to mount the square part as close as possible to the border of the LINNMON because wood is only used for the frame of LINNMON. The rest is filled with paper.
- Turn around the LINNMON around and place it on your BESTA shelf. Be sure sides and back are aligning with BESTA borders. The front side of LINNMON juts out over the BESTA shelf.
- Mark the points where CAPITAs threads point at the BESTA and drill holes (CAUTION: BESTA is filled with paper too!)
- When ready put the table top into the holes and tighten the screws of the CAPITA brackets (not too tight —> paper .
- Now it's time to add the INREDA drawers and the BESTA VARA door as described in the manual.
- Repeat 1 – 7 for the second one.
- Add the "Clamp locks" to keep them holding together.
That's it……
Greets from Austria
4 Responses to Convertible "Office-Island"
looks great! – and very practical – the capita brackets make the whole unit very stylish
For the "clamp locks" I believe table leaf "latches" are perfect for this project.
Not knowing the height of the casters, what's the final height of the unit? I'm wondering if this might work for me as a standing desk.


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February 18, 2015
Afroman has caused a storm of controversy after punching a female fan in the face for interrupting his guitar solo.
The musician, who is famous for singing the song "Because I Got High" had begun to perform the solo when a female fan approached him on stage and started dancing with him. As Metal Injection notes, he reacted by turning around and punching the fan with full force.
A report from Billboard notes that the woman was bleeding and crying after the incident. While Afroman continued to play his solo, the house lights were brought up and Police took him away and handcuffed him outside the venue. The musician's rep claimed that his reaction was an involuntary reflex:
"This was a completely involuntary reflex reaction to people infringing on his stage space. It was uncharacteristic behavior that was initiated by outside uncontrolled forces."
The rep went on to blame lack of security at the venue for the incident.
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You may want to take a look at http://sourcelink.cadence com solution 1832229 (SLK) Why Is There A Positive dBc/Hz Phase Number Displayed When Plotting Pnoise?
ADE figures the "phase noise" by taking the amplitude of the oscillation from the noise free pss simulationand dividing it into the noise levels calculated from a pnoise simulation. The "output noise" plot is just the raw, unscaled, noise levels at the oscillator output, that is the raw results of the pnoise simulation.If you plot both on a log plot, then they should differ by a constant, and that constant should be the level of the oscillator output.ADE produces the "phase noise" output, which is normalized by the carrier amplitude. However, that normalization does not generally give 0dBc at 1Hz. For that to happen the noise level would have tobe exactly the same as the oscillation level at 1Hz, which need not be the case.
Phase noise levels greater than 0dBc do not make sense, since the noise has more power than the actual oscillation, so they decided to disregarddata for values less than the cross-over frequencies.The cross over frequency is simply the frequency where the ADE output is 0dBc. In other words, the frequency where the power in the carrier is the same as the calculated noise power.
The bottomline: disregard/discard phase noise values greater than 0dBc, as they are non-physical.


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Businesses are invited to show their entrepreneurial skills by turning £50 into charity cash for the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance.
The Big £50 Business Challenge will see firms given £50 which they can invest in way they want - to try and raise as much money as possible for the charity. The £50 will be handed over by the Challenge's sponsor, Direct Engineering and Site Support Ltd, and teams will be given until the end of January to raise the money.
To find out more and get involved with the challenge visit www.theairambulanceservice.org.uk


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Practical Guide to Free-Energy Devices
Patrick J. Kelly
The purpose of this web site is to provide you with an introduction to a series of devices which have been shown to have very interesting properties and some are (incorrectly) described as 'perpetual motion' machines.
What's that you say – perpetual motion is impossible? My, you're a difficult one to please. The electrons in the molecules of rock formations have been spinning steadily for millions of years without stopping – at what point will you agree that they are in perpetual motion?
So, why don't electrons run out of energy and just slow down to a standstill? Quantum Mechanics has shown that the universe is a seething cauldron of energy with particles popping into existence and then dropping out again. If E = mC2, then we can see that a tremendous amount of energy is needed to create any form of matter. Scientists remark that if we could tap even a small part of that energy, then we would have free energy for our lifetime.
The Law of Conservation of Energy is undoubtedly correct when it shows that more energy cannot be taken out of any system than is put into that system. However, that does not mean that we cannot get more energy out of a system than we put into it. A crude example is a solar panel in sunlight. We get electrical power out of the panel but we do not put the sunlight into the panel – the sunlight arrives on its own. This example is simple as we can see the sunlight reaching the solar panel.
If, instead of the solar panel, we had a device which absorbs some of the energy which Quantum Mechanics observes and gives out, say, electrical power, would that be so different? Most people say "yes! – it is impossible!" but this reaction is based on the fact that we cannot see this sea of energy. Should we say that a TV set cannot possibly work because we cannot see a television transmission signal?
Many people have produced devices and ideas for tapping this energy. The energy is often called "Zero-Point Energy" because it is the energy which remains when a system has its temperature lowered to absolute zero. This presentation is introductory information on what has already been achieved in this field: devices which output more power than they require to run. This looks as if they contradict the Law of Conservation of Energy, but they don't, and you can see this when you take the zero-point energy field into account.
The material on this web site describes many different devices, with diagrams, photographs, explanations, pointers to web sites, etc. As some of the devices need an understanding of electronic circuitry, a simple, step-by-step instruction course in electronics is also provided in Chapter 12. This can take someone with no previous knowledge of electronics, to the level where they can read, understand, design and build the type of circuits used with these devices.
This is a very interesting field and the topic is quite absorbing once you get past the "it has to be impossible" attitude. We were once told that it would be impossible to cycle at more than 15 mph as the wind pressure would prevent the cyclist from breathing. Do you want to stay with that type of 'scientific' expert? Have some fun – discover the facts.
There are many, many interesting devices and ideas already on the web. This site does not mention them all by any means. What it does, is take some of what are in my opinion, the most promising and interesting items, group them by category, and attempt to describe them clearly and without too many technical terms. If you are not familiar with electronics, then some items may be difficult to understand. In that case, I suggest that you start with Chapter 12 and go through it in order, moving at whatever speed suits you, before examining the other sections. I hope you enjoy what you read.
Note: When you have finished reading any of the sections shown below, use the 'Back' button of your browser to return to this page. You will need Version 7.0 or later of the Adobe 'Acrobat' reader to display these sections. It can be downloaded free from: here
The main information on this web site has been gathered together into a standard book format. You can download the main set of information, including the patents, as an eBook, using this link eBook Release 18.4. The document contains some 2,200 pages and has a file size of about 32 Mb which means that it will take some time to download. It is also possible to use a background download from fileFactory. Alternatively, you can pick individual chapters as you wish. May I suggest that you store anything you download on your local drive as web sites do not remain in place for ever. The last few updates to this document are listed here. This eBook gets updated once per week on average, so I suggest that you download an updated copy say, once per month.
Contents eBook Index: An explanation of the background followed by a general index, an index of devices and an index of the people and devices mentioned. HTML
Introduction Newcomer's Introduction: A quick guide to what Free-Energy is all about, explaining the basics. HTML
Chapter 1 Magnet Power: The Wang magnet motor, the Ecklin-Brown motor-generator, Howard Johnson's magnet motor, the 'Carousel' magnet motor, Robert Tracy's magnet motor, Ben Teal's electromagnetic motor, the Jines magnet motor, Stephen Kundel's magnet motor, Charles Flynn's magnet motor, the Steorn magnetic device, George Soukup's magnet motor, Dietmar Hohl's magnet motor, the Muammer Yildiz magnet motor patent, Steele Braden's magnetic track, Emil Hartman's magnetic track, Howard Johnson's magnetic track, the shielded twin-rotor idea, Don Kelly's magnet motor patent and Mike Brady's 'Perendev' Magnet Motor. size 1.0 Mb, 14 Mar 2011 HTML
Chapter 2 Moving Pulsed Systems: The Adams motor/generator, the Phemax self-powered motor/generator, Raymond Kromrey's No-drag Generator, Teruo Kawai's motor, self-powered 800 watt generator, the Muller motor, the RotoVerter, Raoul Hatem's free-energy rotor system, Phil Wood's energy pick-up, Phil Wood's DC motor RotoVerter modification, the David Kousoulides energy pick-up system, Mark Wesling's five-rotor generator concept and Art Porter's magnetic motor system. size 1.3 Mb, 6 Jan 2011 HTML
Chapter 3 Motionless Pulsed Systems: Graham Gunderson's Solid-state Electric Generator, Charles Flynn's magnetic power enhancement system, Lawrence Tseung's magnetic frame, Thane Hines' dual toroid magnetic frame, Dietmar Wehr's Y-frame motionless generator idea, the Annis/Eberly Motionless Generator, the Richard Willis COP>1 generator, TheGuru2You's self-powered electrical generator, Floyd Sweet's VTA, Dan Davidson's acoustic generator, the Pavel Imris optical amplifier, Michael Ognyanov's self-powered power pack, the Meyer-Mace Isotopic Generator, the Colman/Seddon-Gilliespie generator, Hans Coler's passive device, Don Smith's "Resonance Energy Methods", Kwang-jeek Lee's power amplification system, Tariel Kapaladze's self-powered electrical generator, Meguer Kalfaian's Electron-spin power generator and Stan Meyer's Particle Generator patent. size 1.9 Mb, 15 Mar 2011 HTML
Chapter 4 Gravitational Pulsed Systems: Lawrence Tseung's pulsed wheel, Lawrence Tseung's Impact gravity wheel, Chas Campbell's pulsed flywheel, John Bedini's pulsed flywheel, James Hardy's water-jet generator, the Magnetic Pendulum, Jerzy Zbikowski's Chain Drive, Gravitational Effects, Mikhail Dmitriev's gravity wheel, the Dale Simpson gravity wheel, the Veljko Milkovic pendulum/lever system, the Dale Simpson hinged-plate system, Amr Al-Hossary's gravity wheel and the Murilo Luciano gravity chain. size 1 Mb, 21 Mar 2011 HTML
Chapter 5 Energy-Tapping Pulsed Systems: Frank Prentice's electrical power accumulator, Dave Lawton's cold electricity water-splitter cell, John Bedini's pulsed battery charger, the Tesla Switch, Dave Lawton's cold electricity lightbulb, Bob Boyce's COP=12 energy tapping toroid, Don Smith's devices, Steven Mark's TPU, a Nikola Tesla patent, the Ed Gray power tube, Radiant Energy waves, Nikola Tesla's experiments, Don Smith information, the Alberto Molina-Martinez generator, Alfred Hubbard's device, Joseph Cater's device, Floyd Sweet's VTA, Rosemary Ainslie's heater design, Joseph H. Cater's self-powered generator and Dr Oleg Gritskevitch's 1.5 MW generator. size 1 Mb, 15 Mar 2011 HTML
Chapter 6 Battery-Charging Pulsed Systems: John Bedini's pulsed systems, battery information from Ronald Knight, Ron Pugh's battery charger build, a self-charging battery pulser, the fan pulse charger, the automotive pulse charger, the self-charging motor, the Alexkor battery charger, the one-battery pulse charger and the Tesla Switch. size 841 Kb, 9 Mar 2011 HTML
Chapter 7 Aerial Systems: Nikola Tesla's Aerial Plate System, a recent replication of Tesla's Aerial Plate System, Thomas Henry Moray's system, Moray King's circuit suggestions, Hermann Plauston's systems, Roy Meyer's device, Raymond Phillips' RF to DC aerial system and the 'Alexkor' aerial system. size 342 Kb, 9 Mar 2011 HTML
Chapter 8 Fuel-less Engines: The energy in air, Bob Teal's compressed air engine, Scott Robertson's thoughts on putting low-pressure air into a tank of high-pressure air, the Leroy Rogers compressed-air vehicle engine adaption, the Vortex Tube, the Eber Van Valkinberg compressed fluids engine, the Clem engine, Vortex analysis by Prof. Evert, the Josef Papp engine, the Robert Britt engine, the Michael Eskeli turbines, the water-jet generator and the Cahill / Scott generator. size 474 Kb, 2 Aug 2010 HTML
Chapter 9 Passive Systems: Hans Coler's device, Thomas Trawoeger's pyramid, Karel Drbal's pyramid, James Brock's pyramids, Verne Cameron's pyramid transmission technique, the Pancake coil, Peter Grandic's patent, Les Brown's pyramid information, Joseph Cater's explanation of how all pyramids work, Pier Ighina's passive energy devices, the Joe Cell, Bill Williams' design and recent analytical advances, co-ax cable electrets and Joseph H. Cater's free-energy box. size 1.1 Mb 17 Oct 2010 HTML
Chapter 10 Vehicle Systems: The HydroStar and HydroGen designs, running an engine on water alone, Hydroxy Boosters, electrolyser design, the 'Hogg' electrolyser, Pulse Width Modulation current control, Dave Lawton's replication of Stan Meyer's Water Fuel Cell water-splitter, Dave Lawton's circuits and construction details, pipe-tuning details, Dr Cramton's low-power water-splitting, Stan Meyer's water injection system, Peter Lowrie's hydroxy system, mpg improvement through cam timing, the Firestorm spark plug, Ted Ewert's Vortex Turbine, Water Vapour Injection systems, the Ram Implosion Wing, Fuelsavers, high mpg carburettors, Vortex fuel reformers and the weird nature of water. size 1.4 Mb, 15 Mar 2011 HTML
Chapter 11 Other Devices: Nikola Tesla's power from air system, Dr. Harold Apsden's Electrical Power Generating Apparatus patent, Our Energy Future, Paulo and Alexandra Correa's conversion of Longitudinal Electromagnetic Waves to ordinary electricity, Prof. Constantin Meyl's scalar wave information, Nikola Tesla's MHD device, the effects of the Zero-Point Energy field, John R. R, Searle's self-powered garvitational device, construction details for Dave Lawton's gravity wave detector, the Butch Lafonte motor/generator, the Joseph Newman motor, the differences between Maxwell and Heaviside, Daniel Cook's electrical generator, Michael Eskeli's work-free heater design, Karl Schapeller's Device, Condensation-induced water hammer, William Hyde's COP=10 electrostatic power generator and Joseph Cater's scientific information. size 1.5 Mb, 9 Mar 2011 HTML
Chapter 12 Electronics Tutorial: Simple descriptions of Voltage, resistors, capacitors, current flow, multimeters, transistor circuits, sensor systems, relays, diodes, transistor testing circuits, Power Supply Units, AC, DC, rectification, the SCR, the triac, the opto-isolator, LEDs, chokes, transformers, the Schmitt Trigger, solenoids, RF detection, coil impedance, the diode bridge, multivibrators, inverters, truth tables, the 7414 chip, NAND gates, latches, bistables, gating, the 4093 chip, prototype construction, the 4011, the Darlington pair, using a gate as an amplifier, the 555 chip, the 741 chip, op-amps and comparators, a simple, versatile, Schmitt inverter signal generator, the CD4022BC chip, the CD4017B with divide-by-25 example, programming the PIC chip, capacitors, AC current in coils, resonance, constructing prototypes, test equipment and how to build it, and 'the weird stuff'. size 847 Kb, 13 Jan 2011 HTML
Chapter 13 Doubtful Devices: Paul Baumann's Thestatika, Michael Faraday's Homopolar Generator (or the N-Machine), the Borderland Science AC version of the N-machine, the Romag and Mini-Romag, Cold Fusion, Moller's Atomic Hydrogen Generator, Muammer Yildiz's 'Ocean Star' electrical generator, Jesse McQueen's 'Internal Energy-generating Power Source', the 'D18' Nitro Cell, the HydroStar and HydroGen systems, Hydrogen from Aluminium, Francois Cornish's system, Ultrasonic Water-splitting, Tom Bearden's Motionless Electromagnetic Generator, Dave Lawton's assymetric MEG and Valeri Ivanov's Motionless Generator. size 689 Kb, 12 Oct 2010 HTML
Chapter 14 Renewable-Energy Devices: Efficient solid-fuel burners, Stan Meyer's hydroxy gas burner system, the Kim heaters, the Eugene Frenette heater, the Eugene Perkins heater, the multi-disc heater, the Peter Davey heater, the simple home-build windmill design from Dan Bartmann and Dan Fink, Frank Herbert's high-efficiency windmill, the 'Power Plant for Caravans' from Claude Mead and William Holmes, the easy-build Solar Funnel cooker, water and milk pasteurisation, the Solar Funnel as a Cooler, the Solar Puddle, the 'Easy-Lid Cooker', drinking water systems, solar sills, Elmer Grimes' high-volume drinking water from air, the Chalice Courneya water from air system, Toribio Bellocq's well-pumping system, Richard Dickinson's well-pumping system, Arthur Bentley's well-pumping system, the self-powered Ram Pump, wave power systems, solar icemaking, Einstein's refrigeration through heating and solar panels. size 1.4 Mb, 5 Dec 2010 HTML
Chapter 15 The current situation: why free-energy devices are not yet on sale in your local shop. How to get out of debt: the situation in the UK, the deception of "Joinder", the deception of "Notice", the deception of "Includes", the deception of "Summons", the deception of the "Name", the deception of the "Birth Certificate", the deception of "Registration", the "Government" is actually a company, meet your "strawman", what the police can and can't do, the situation in America, economic hit-men and their actions, the techniques used against you, the resulting consequences, research material and the practical situation and what you can do about it. size 287 Kb, 9 Mar 2011 HTML
Chapter 16 A selection of Questions asked by readers and the Answers provided. Topics: What Should I Build? with opinions expressed on more than 90 devices, Electrolysis, Magnet Motors, Don Smith's Devices and General Queries and magnetic heater details. size 515 Kb, 6 Feb 2011 HTML
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In Pictures: Belfast Titanic light show
As part of the Titanic Festival, 30,000 people gathered close to the new Titanic Belfast building on Saturday night to watch a spectacular lights show.
The iconic building was used as a platform for a combination of 3D graphics and pyrotechnics, set to music.
The audience was wowed by a display which traced the history of the Titanic from its construction to its final resting place at the bottom of the Atlantic.
The event was organised by Belfast City Council and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board who said it had been a tremendous success.
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Morning Minute – August 12th, 2013
August 12th, 2013
Get your office in the running for the 3 dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts for this Friday's 8:10 winner announcement.
Join us at 8:15 when Mr. Bill Walton joins us in studio with Moon Pie Ice cream Cakes.
There are 141 days left in 2013 and 19 days until Alabama football kicks off.
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This is the second time I've relied on Metsuki for my Raybans. The city high streets just don't compete for price. They have the same lead times and apart from some nuances of fitting, they don't offer anything extra. Be in touch in a couple of years for another pair or two.


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Ammonias Swell Statistics, Janeiro: All Swell – Any Wind
This picture shows the range of swells directed at Ammonias through an average January. It is based on 2372 NWW3 model predictions since 2007 (values every 3 hours). The wave model does not forecast wind or surf right at the shore so we have chosen the best grid node based on what we know about Ammonias. In the case of Ammonias, the best grid node is 37 km away (23 miles).
The rose diagram shows the distribution of swell directions and swell sizes, while the graph at the bottom shows the same thing but without direction information. Five colours illustrate increasing wave sizes. Blue shows the smallest swells, less that 0.5m (1.5 feet) high. These happened only 100% of the time. Green and yellow show increasing swell sizes and biggest swells greater than >3m (>10ft) are shown in red. In either graph, the area of any colour is proportional to how often that size swell occurs.
The diagram indicates that the most common swell direction, shown by the largest spokes, was SSW, whereas the the prevailing wind blows from the ENE. Because the wave model grid is out to sea, sometimes a strong offshore wind blows largest waves away from Ammonias and offshore. We group these with the no surf category of the bar chart. To simplify things we don't show these in the rose diagram. Because wind determines whether or not waves are good for surfing at Ammonias, you can view an alternative image that shows only the swells that were predicted to coincide with glassy or offshore wind conditions. In a typical January, swells large enough to cause clean enough to surf waves at Ammonias run for about 0% of the time.
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Inspectors General: Obama Administration Obstructing Justice
Just a minute after the Liar in Chief took office, he pronounced his administration would become "the most open and transparent in history." And recently Obama touted, "This is the most transparent administration in history." But six years into his scandal plagued presidency, critics blast the administration for its lack of cooperation during investigations and the DOJ's contempt for established oversight procedures.
And it's not just critics and Republicans who are calling the Obama administration the most corrupt group to ever hold the office. As The Daily Signal Reports:
47 of the federal government's 73 inspectors general, many of whom were appointed by President Obama, sent their letter to Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA), Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.), and the ranking members of the House Oversight and Government Reform and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees — essentially pleading with Congress to help the IGs do their jobs uncovering waste, mismanagement, fraud, and corruption within their respective agencies.
In the letter, the IGs complain about the "serious limitations on access to records that have recently impeded the work" of IGs at the Peace Corps, the EPA, and the Department of Justice. Administration lawyers have construed laws related to privilege in "a manner that would override the express authorization contained in the IG Act" and seriously impede the "ability [of the IGs] to conduct our work thoroughly, independently, and in a timely manner."
According to the letter, the Justice Department withheld "essential records" in three different reviews, despite the fact that such records had been produced for the DOJ IG "in many prior reviews without objection." Michael Horowitz eventually got access to the files, it seems, but not because Department officials realized they were misinterpreting the IG law in withholding access. No, Horowitz got the records only after DOJ leadership decided that "the three reviews were of assistance to the Department of Justice's leadership."
The U.S. was founded on rule of law, not rule of men; yet Obama clearly enforces only those laws that fit his agenda and turns a blind eye when laws that would otherwise impede his "progress" are broken.
Our government was formed specifically to put "checks and balances" on all branches of government to prevent corruption and tyranny. And in this letter by the inspectors general, it is obvious the Obama administration is actively refusing to follow such oversight.
This statement couldn't ring more true… "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupt absolutely." Obama is consolidating power and usurping traditional forms of oversight in order to advance his liberal agenda regardless of its lawlessness.
In all honesty, the corruption surrounding the Obama administration makes Nixon look like a saint.
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On screen, the two principal actors in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey become firm friends, united in a quest to slay the dragon Smaug, but yesterday the pair sparred over acting technique.
Sir Ian McKellen, who plays the wizard Gandalf the Grey, described Martin Freeman as "a rather shallow actor" for saying that he acted on instinct. Freeman, who plays the title character, was asked whether he rehearsed his expressions in a mirror for scenes when his face would occupy the entire screen.
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Hands Across Buffalo event set for Saturday
People supporting Buffalo's unity and diversity are asked to turn out Saturday to create a human chain the entire length of Ferry Street, both the east and west stretches, from Bailey Avenue to Niagara Street.
Organizers estimate 7,000 people will be needed to cover the 4.4-mile length, an effort to demonstrate the community's unity and diversity called Hands Across Buffalo. The forecast calls for pleasant weather, so hopes run high for the event at 11 a.m. Saturday.
"This particular event is an expression of how we are all connected," said Renita Shadwick of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County, a sponsor.
The gesture was the inspiration of Dale Zuchlewski, executive director of the Homeless Alliance of Western New York.
He said organizers hope to recreate locally the experience of the original Hands Across America demonstration in 1986, which also was intended to draw attention to people's common needs for food, housing and education.
About 3,500 people have already registered to participate. Registration is not necessary and there is no fee to join in.
"It is all absolutely free," said Zuchlewski, a former Common Council member. "Just show up on Ferry Street at about 10 a.m."
Volunteers in orange vests will hand out buttons and help people line up. The welcome kickoff will begin at 10:30 a.m. in front of the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. The plan is to hold the chain for 15 minutes beginning at 11 a.m. while the event is streamed live nationally at handsacrossbuffalo.com.
After the chain breaks, people are invited to join in any of the many workshops, performances and open houses to be held along the route to celebrate the event. Locations include the Vive Open House at 50 Wyoming Ave.; "We are Women Warriors" at Frank E. Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson Ave., with African drumming, poetry reading and a DVD screening; art exhibits and performances at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, Masten Avenue at East Ferry Street; a "Dialogue on Diversity" at H.O.M.E., 1542 Main and Ferry; salsa dancing lessons at the West Side Bazaar, 25 Grant St., south of West Ferry; and performances at the Richmond Ferry Church, with the Slyboots Drum Ensemble.
For a complete list of workshops, locations and places to park, go to handsacrossbuffalo.com.
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SAN DIEGO - After the way they were pounded here on Monday, the Atlanta Braves will gladly head home with a 3-3 record on a West Coast trip.
Rookie Jason Heyward drove in two runs on a pair of doubles and Martin Prado homered to help the Braves win 6-2 Thursday and take two of three from the San Diego Padres.
"It turned out to be a good trip," manager Bobby Cox said.
Leading 3-2, the Braves gave themselves a cushion with three straight run-scoring hits with two outs in the eighth. Yunel Escobar singled, Heyward doubled into the left-center gap and pinch-hitter Eric Hinske singled.
"It's nice to see," Tim Hudson said. "There's nothing more that puts a dagger in the other team than when you get some two-out RBIs when you're only up by one."
Atlanta lost 17-2 on Monday, surrendering 19 hits to the Padres. In the next two games, Atlanta held San Diego to three runs on 12 hits.
Hudson (1-0) held the Padres scoreless on three hits through five innings before the Padres broke through in the sixth. Will Venable hit a leadoff homer, his third, and Everth Cabrera singled to bring in Matt Stairs, who hit a two-out double.
The Padres loaded the bases with two outs in the third and fourth innings before Hudson got out of the jams.
"I got into some trouble and was able to make some pitches whenever I needed to," Hudson said.
"You've got to give them credit, too. They laid off some pretty good pitches to work some walks and they got some pitches to hit after working the count a little bit. Dancing in and out of trouble, for the most part I was able to go out there and give us a pretty good chance to win. I came out with the lead and the guys picked me up and put some runs on the board late."
Hudson was chased by Cabrera's single in the sixth. He allowed two runs on six hits, walked five and had no strikeouts.
Prado's homer came off Mat Latos (0-1), who allowed three runs and six hits in 4 2-3 innings.
"I frustrated myself," Latos said."I felt a couple of pitches in the first couple of innings could've gone the other way, as far as being called balls and could've been strikes. I kind of let that affect me a little bit. I got a little aggravated and started to overthrow. That's not my game plan. That's not me. I'm better than that."
Manager Bud Black said Latos' fastball command "was really erratic. He would throw one really solid fastball, and come back with one up. He just couldn't consecutively make pitches in the first couple of innings."
The Braves built a 3-0 lead on Prado's first homer of the year, Heyward's RBI double in the fourth and Brian McCann's RBI double in the fifth.
Heyward worked the gaps in spacious Petco Park.
"He's a good-looking young player," Black said. "In a short look, he is everything that everybody said he was."
Said Cox: "He's a good athlete and he has his head on straight. He hits the ball real good the other way."
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LOS ANGELES — Suddenly, microconsoles comprise a very crowded market. This new gaming sector, which uses cheap hardware to power smartphone-like games on televisions, has multiple startups and established corporations all jumping in to find an audience.
Hardware and peripheral company Mad Catz just announced its Project M.O.J.O. microconsole last week. The box is similar to Ouya and Gamestick, and Mad Catz is showing it off at the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show going on now. I went hands on with it and talked to Mad Catz product manager Richard Neville.
I walked away wanting M.O.J.O. over an Ouya or GameStick for a very specific reason.
"Companies like Ouya and GameStick use a closed approach with their own proprietary stores — they don't have Google Play," Mad Catz product manager Richard Neville told me. "Where that's all we're going to have."
Ouya and Gamestick both have curated stores that developers need to specifically submit their games to. These stores will essentially compete with Google's official one, Google Play. Android users that have an investment in games through the Google Play market won't automatically find their purchases on those systems. With M.O.J.O., if you already own Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for your HTC One, for example, then you can play it without any issues on Mad Catz's console.
I already own games like Riptide GP, Grand Theft Auto III, and Carmageddon on Google Play. That means I already own those titles on Project M.O.J.O. The system is backward compatible with my Galaxy Nexus, which it has nothing to do with.
This is a distinct advantage for Mad Catz. The Android platform is massive, and gamers might find it easier to accept a microconsole that uses a reputable market like Google Play — especially if they will already own their own games for it.
Savvy gamers could install an unofficial version of the Google Play store on the hackable Ouya or Gamestick systems. That's something I could probably figure out, but why would I waste my time if M.O.J.O. will work with it out of the box? Neville also promised me the system will launch as the most powerful Android microconsole on the market.
At the same time, Ouya and Gamestick are launching their consoles at $99 and $79, respectively. They can afford that price because they plan to make money through their unique online stores. Mad Catz cannot rely on any revenue from game sales. Neville told me that this will force the company to price the device higher than those competitors.
The fact that Mad Catz doesn't have to worry about selling games could also present one more issue. Ouya and Gamestick have a vested interest in improving gamers' experiences so that they buy more games. That should lead to updates to the interface and operating system. Mad Catz might just fire and forget M.O.J.O., leaving its adopters behind.
So I'm split on M.O.J.O at the moment. I player Riptide GP on it, and it ran well. The controller felt comfortable but a little cheap. The system's app-store solution is enticing, but I like to know that a hardware company is invested in the success of software.


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LINCOLN, TEXAS. Lincoln is eight miles northwest of Giddings in central Lee County. The town was named for a circuit rider named John A. Lincoln who lived on a nearby farm and frequently led revivals in the area. The earliest settlers arrived before the Civil War, and by the 1880s a small community had developed there. A post office was opened for the settlement in 1886. During the 1890s the Texas and New Orleans Railroad bypassed nearby Old Evergreen, and most of its residents moved to Lincoln. For a time the town served as a shipping point for stores in Dime Box, Fedor, and Manheim. By 1890 Lincoln had two cotton gins, a corn and saw mill, a general store, and a Lutheran church. A school was constructed there around 1895, and during the 1905–06 school year it had an enrollment of forty-one. In 1904 the town's estimated population was 148; by 1925 it had grown to 200. A new one-room schoolhouse was constructed in 1926, and a second room was added in 1932. In 1940 the town had a reported population of 350 and eleven businesses. After World War II Lincoln began to decline. In 1945 its school was annexed by the Giddings Independent School District. From 1970 to 1990 its population was estimated at 276. In 1970 the town reported five businesses, in 1988, three, and in 1990, eight. By 2000 the population was 276 with fourteen businesses.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:Lee County Historical Survey Committee, A History of Lee County (Quanah, Texas: Nortex, 1974).
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What is RFI versus QRM?
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I am using the terms "RFI" and "QRM" in trying to distinguish between local generated interference (RFI) and other noise received in a receiver (QRM). The latter can be man made too, offcourse, but is more distant.
The question is, if I have a lot of noise on the band, how can I find out what it is? The assumption here is that with RFI I might be able to do something about it, with QRM it is out of my hands and I have to live with it.
Any comments?
|Apr 9th 2012, 11:35
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QRM is a term that is used to describe interference from another transmitter, typically another ham.
QRN is a term that is used to describe noise from lightning.
RFI ig geneally a term that is used to indicate interference from a man-made noise source other than transmitters, although it is sometimes applied to interference from unlicensed transmitters such as WiFi devices.
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|May 11th 2012, 00:41
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|I think it all depends on the context. In simplest terms, RFI is Radio Frequency Interference. QRN and QRM are "operating terms" to describe what's happening to you at the moment. During my military days working issues in Europe, we added EMI/RFI for ElectroMagnetic Interference. The idea is that EMI doesn't have to be associated with radio, broadcasting, etc, but could also be applied to solar effects, storm noise et al.
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I have a puzzle about interference of some sort I'm getting. I setup this evening ready to checkin to the SCCARA Monday net but could not get through the extreme noise on the frequency at 146.985. Our 2M repeater is located at Alum Rock Park in East San Jose CA which is pretty much a straight shot from my QTH at Lexington Reservoir south of Los Gatos. Last week I had a clear signal and got along just fine. The previous 2 weeks the noise was again too severe to even hear Net Control let alone check in. The odd thing is, about 20min prior to the Net start, I heard a clear and clean signal from the USS Hornet ARC at 146.880 based in Alameda. Their repeater is located in Oakland. So it doesn't appear that I have any local RFI being generated unless it just perversely started up right at 7:30. Any ideas as to why this is happening and how to clean it up?
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