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|February 7, 2000, 04:28 PM
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I'm looking for some .45 Colt BP loads. I'll be using Pyrodex Select (FFg equilant).
One of my reloading manuals list a load of 37 grs. It says this is max load. Anyone know if this is a compressed load.
What I am going to do is use this as a base starting point on working up some BP .454 Casull rounds. The only other BP I've loaded is my .45-110 Sharps.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
|February 8, 2000, 01:24 AM
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Yes 37 grains by volume is about all you can get in a modern .45 Colt case even with a drop tube. All bp loads must be compressed unless you use the Pyrodex pellets which are already compressed. Very bad dangerous results if not compressed. Elmer Keith always told new reloaders to start with BP cause you can't go wrong just filling up the case and seating the bullet.
And really that's what you must do. If you want lighter loads or to use bigger cases like the .454 with the same load, you've got to use wads to take up the space. Cabela's and Dixie Gun works both sell vegetable wads you can use to reduce the load and protect the bullet base. If you use wonder wads, dry them with paper towels first or excess lube will "kill" some of your powder. Hang fires! The Hodgdon Power Co web site has a lot of info available. If you use real BP you need to check out SPG lubed bullets. If you shoot standard lubed bullets, stick to Pyrodex or Cleanshot. DON'T mix shooting smokeless and BP rounds without cleaning. Results will vary with every variable you introduce. My favorite way to load BP 44-40 or .45 Colt rounds is to drop a .44 Pyrodex pellet in a standard primed case, seat a standard lubed lead bullet and crimp. The pellet will rattle but it's already compressed and will give you a load equal to 30 grains of Pyrodex RS.
More info can be obtained from the real BP experts who abound on various forums.
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|February 8, 2000, 07:38 AM
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Thanks Joe,
Already knew all that (i.e. compressing loads, lube, etc). I just wanted clairification before I entered the unknow world of BP Handgun.
My BP measure goes from 70 - 120 grains. Doing some calculations (until I get a smaller measure) I believe the .454 will hold about 50 grains of BP. We shall see.
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|February 8, 2000, 09:56 AM
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Sorry if I over simplified but I go from the basics just to be sure. I appreciate when people do that for me. The Select grade didn't really show any advantage over RS to me in the smaller pistol caliber cases. My best accuracy and least fouling came from using the pellets or slightly reduced loads of pyrodex P under a dried out wonder wad. I've used these methods at EOT, Winter Range, and Mule Camp in varying climatic conditions. So my point of view is shooting targets within the context of a match without being unduly hampered by fouling induced gun failures. Shooting from within prop buildings with even these loads you notice quite a concussion. The hits on target are sharp and the velocity is such that the hit comes while the boom is still rolling. The .454 case should give you a load that would be very effective on game, too strong for SASS.
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|February 8, 2000, 08:50 PM
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No appoligies needed. Glad you did. I should have explained that I have some (mind you limited experience) loading BP... my fault.
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For those that might be interested.. the Lee powder dippers work pretty good for black powder, especailly when you load BP in different amounts, or calibers. I pretty much shoot smokeless in the main stages but load BP in some of my 12 gauge, all of my 10 gauge, 38 S&W, 32 S&W long, and 32 ACP. That's right, I have a Davis derringer in 32 ACP that I load a moly coated lead bullet over BP. It works great!!
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Repeat Testing Common among Medicare Patients
November 21, 2012
In a new study, up to half or more of adults on Medicare who had a heart, lung, stomach or bladder test had the same procedure repeated within three years, says Reuters.
- Those tests typically aren't supposed to be routinely repeated, researchers said.
- For some of them, such as echocardiography and stress tests for heart function, there are recommendations specifically against routine testing.
Extra testing can burden the health care system with costs and may lead to incidental findings and unnecessary treatment for patients, says Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, lead author of the report from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in Hanover, New Hampshire.
- He and his colleagues looked at the use of six kinds of test -- echocardiography (ultrasound of the heart), stress tests, lung function tests, chest CT scan, cystoscopy (examination of the bladder with a scope) and upper endoscopy (examination of the upper GI tract) -- among 743,478 older adults with fee-for-service Medicare coverage.
- All of those tests are diagnostic, meaning they would typically be done on people with symptoms to help doctors make a diagnosis.
- They range in price from about $200 to over $1,000.
- Between 2004 and 2006, anywhere from 7 percent (cystoscopy) to 29 percent (echocardiography) of the Medicare beneficiaries in the study had each of those tests at least once.
And those exams were all commonly repeated:
- Thirty-five percent of the people who had an upper endoscopy had another within three years.
- Of those who had an echocardiogram, 55 percent had a repeat echocardiogram.
- Repeat rates for the other tests fell somewhere in between.
- The average time between multiple tests was anywhere from four to 14 months.
Welch says the only time repeat tests make good medical sense is when patients develop a new set of symptoms that doctors want to check out after the first test. But for physicians, financial incentives typically support more frequent testing, no matter what the purpose. His team also found that metropolitan areas that did more of the initial diagnostic tests to begin with also had higher rates of retesting.
Source: Genevra Pittman, "Repeat Testing Common among Medicare Patients," Reuters, November 19, 2012.
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Can't find the question you are solving.i have downloaded the revision notes.
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Sorry.i have seen the lectures.
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Please assist , how to calculate the "Closing Stock" using marginal Costing/Variable Costing and Absorption costing
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Have you watched our free lectures?
Closing inventory in marginal costing is valued at the total variable production cost. In absorption cost it is valued at the total production cost including fixed overheads of production.
(I trust you have watched the full F2 lectures where we go through the syllabus in detail. These revision lectures are just meant to be quick revision of the main points.)
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This too :
A company uses standard absorption costing. Its fixed overhead absorption rate is $8 per machine hour and each unit of production should take 3 machine hours. Last year there was an opening inventory of finished goods of 4000 units. They produced 30,000 units and sold 25,000 units. The actual profit last year was $526K.
What profit would have been earned under a standard marginal costing system?
(the answer is $406K)
my workings are : 4K + 30K – 25K = 9K x $8 = $27,000. $526,000 – $27,000 = $499K. I do not know where did i go wrong.
John Moffat says
Please ask questions like this in the F2 Ask the Tutor Forum – not as comments on lectures.
The only difference between marginal and absorption costing profits is the fixed overheads in opening and closing inventory.
Here, the inventory increases by 5000 units. The fixed overheads per unit are 3 x $8 = $24.
So the profits will be different by 5000 x $24 = $120,000.
Because inventory is increasing, absorption profit will be higher than marginal profit, so the marginal profit is 526,000 – 120,000 = $406,000
Erica says
So here, we totally don't look at opening inventory of finished goods 4000 units?
John Moffat says
You are only interested in the change in the inventory.
Erica says
Sir, how do you work this out?
A company uses standard absorption costing. Its fixed overhead absorption rate is $8 per machine hour and each unit of production should take 3 machine hours. Last year there was an opening inventory of finished goods of 4000 units. They produced 30,000 units and sold 25,000 units. 90,000 machine hours were used for production, and the total fixed overheads were $700,000. What was the amount of the over or under absorption of fixed overheads?
(answer is 20,000 over-absorbed)
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Please ask questions like this in the F2 Ask the Tutor Forum – not as comments on lectures.
As you will know from the lectures, the over or under absorption is the difference between the actual fixed overheads and the amount absorbed (i,e, actual hours x standard cost per hour).
The amount absorbed is 90,000 hours x $8 per hour = $720,000.
The actual overheads were $700,000.
So the amount over-absorbed is $20,000.
Erica says
So there's nothing gotta to do with the opening inventory, production and closing?
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Yes it has. It is the change in inventory that is relevant.
If they produce more than they sell, the inventory will increase. If they sell more than the produce, then inventory will decrease.
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sir can you please tell me that when inventory level decreases marginal gives a higher profit but will the valuation of inventory also give a higher value then absorption costing?
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@faaezam, The value of inventory is lower with marginal costing than with absorption costing (because the absorption cost includes fixed overheads whereas the marginal cost does not)
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@Sindy, download the revision lecture note
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.sidebar {position:fixed !important;width:220px; left:50px;}
this will fix the position, set the width to 22px and leave a gap of 50px between the left edge of the browser window and the sidebarFebruary 7, 2012 at 9:27 pm #62521
Is it possible to fix the position of the background gallery so that it won't overlap with the menu when the browser window isn't full size? Ideally it would be great if a horizontal scroll bar could be used to navigate the site when the window isn't full size, instead of all of the content overlapping.February 8, 2012 at 1:07 am #62522
I tried adding this to my custom.css but no luck. Any other ideas?
avia_fullscreen_slider canvas{
display: block;
position: fixed;
z-index: 1;
}February 8, 2012 at 9:57 am #62523
I position fixed my sidebar with a margin and padding of 0 so my sidebar is on the upper left of my screen. This is what I want. But when I go to a page with a content block and a slideshow fullscreen behind it, my sidebar goes to the right with 50px. Why is that and how can change it so my sidebar is always at the left of the screen.
ThanksFebruary 9, 2012 at 9:19 am #62524
.sidebar {position:fixed !important;}
this works for me! remember to clear your browser cache or the result might not show instantly.February 10, 2012 at 11:30 pm #62525
I am so confused on how to edit my custom css. Can someone please explain?
aaronFebruary 13, 2012 at 10:14 am #62526
In your WordPress dashboard > Flashlight > Styling at the buttom you can enter the .css code (simply copy/paste into it). If you want more control and overview you must download the custom.css file with the help from a ftp-client (i.e. filezilla). Ftp-clients makes it possible to manage your files on the server (host). When downloaded you can see the code in a simple texteditor or in a programme as adobe's dreamviewer. Here you can add, edit and change the custom.css which represents all aestethics of your webpage. When changed, you need to save the file with the same name (custom.css) and replace the old custom.css on the server with the new one you just edited.
This is the best I can do. Remember to always backup your custom.css files. Good luck!February 13, 2012 at 7:27 pm #62527
I didn't respond earlier because the solution(s) provided are all valid.
All styling can be added to your Quick CSS in your control panel OR you can add it to your css/custom.css file which you'll need to access through the FTP and then overwrite it with your modified version. Adding things to your Quick CSS has the same effect as adding it to the custom.css.February 14, 2012 at 5:04 am #62528
Thanks for the clarification. The quick CSS edits did something, but still not locking the menu. Without the edits, the menu will scroll up or down depending on the photo that is in the slideshow. I would really like a locked menu. When I place either of the two above edits into the quick CSS edit, the menus gets entirely screwy. It will move to the right sometimes, or center depending on which page I select and how far I scroll down on each page. I truly do not have the confidence to download my custom CSS from a ftp client like "areaofintere" mentioned. Is there another fix for this issue? One more thing, I also reset me entire browsing history on Chrome.
aaronFebruary 14, 2012 at 6:54 am #62529
Try to add following code to the quick css field:
.sidebar.sidebar_absolute {
left: 50px !important;
position: fixed !important;
}February 14, 2012 at 11:16 pm #62530
How did you do that? Great work!
Thank you,
AaronFebruary 15, 2012 at 9:43 am #62531
I still got a strange problem. I made a container div to center the site. The sidebar was 50px to the right so I fixed that with:
position: fixed;
left: -50px !important;
But it only works with a single background with no-repeat. When I use a fullscreen slideshow the sidebar flips. I have no idea why and I must fixe this for a client.
Who can help me out! Thanks a lot!February 15, 2012 at 1:57 pm #62532
Did you try 0px instead of 50px? The standard value is left: 50px – this pushes the sidebar 50px to the right. However if you use -50px the sidebar will move 100px to the left instead of just 50px.February 20, 2012 at 12:43 am #62533
It seems we have another issue. On a smartphone or smaller screen when using the "fixed" menu position code from above, viewing the lower half of the menu is not possible. Also, on my macbook pro 15 due to the screen size the "f" and "t" icons can't be seen unless there is a page selected with more content to scroll down with. I have deleted the "fixed" code and I would like a code that would allow scrolling of the menu regardless of the amount of content on a page. This would allow smaller screens the ability to scroll to see the lower portions of the menu as well. Additionally, when the slideshow is moving in the background, it has different effects on the menu's position. One picture will allow a scroll down on the page and the next will place the menu in the fixed position…FYI. If you would like to suggest a solution as well I would be interested.
Thanks again,
aaronFebruary 20, 2012 at 6:48 am #62534
I'd like to add as a possible solution. Can I have all of the menus automatically re-size more according to the screen space being used.
aaronFebruary 21, 2012 at 5:08 am #62535
Dude, I added this style per your advise
.sidebar.sidebar_absolute {
left: 50px !important;
position: fixed !important;
Menu sidebar works great, but now right side bar with Calendar hides behind the left sidebar, could you help please?February 22, 2012 at 4:21 am #62536
Anybody….? Help?February 22, 2012 at 8:20 am #62537
Try to use following code:
.sidebar.sidebar1.sidebar_absolute {
left: 50px !important;
position: fixed !important;
instead of:
.sidebar.sidebar_absolute {
left: 50px !important;
position: fixed !important;
}February 22, 2012 at 6:52 pm #62538
Thank you Dude,
This fix doesn't solve the issue on a smaller screen like a smartphone or a laptop. On the smartphone, when zoomed in, the menu is in the way of content. To be quite honest, it's actually great in stock form but I would like to menu to stay scrolled up when the background slideshow is running. As I said earlier, every other slideshow image will fix the menu position and the other will let it go. That's the fix I'm looking for.
aaronFebruary 24, 2012 at 4:45 am #62539
Do you know, but if I could only scroll the main menu to it's top and bottom (from the logo to the social media buttons) and have it locked within those parameters, that would be Golden!
aaronFebruary 28, 2012 at 1:10 am #62540
Dude, Chris, Kriesi,
Please take a look at my website http://www.inseeds.com and select the "questions" or any other longer page menu tab. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and change to the next image with the image scroll at the bottom and watch the menu bounce up and down with each image. If I lock the menu with the provided code, then when on a smaller resolution screen, the bottom menu selections can not be seen nor selected.
Simply, a menu that is not locked consistently would resolve my problem. Ideally, I would like a menu that scrolls up and down to see every selection and then stops at the top or bottom of itself while letting the pages continue scrolling.
Also, it doesn't seem like this theme is very smartphone friendly so perhaps I could use one of your simple smartphone themes. Is there a way to have a default mobile theme load while on a smartphone?June 7, 2012 at 5:30 am #62541
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TinyMCE is the name of the visual editor that comes with WordPress, which can be used to edit post and page content. It comes with a variety of buttons, but it is also possible to add your own buttons to the editor toolbar, and otherwise change the editor's behavior. A powerful way to do this is by adding a "plugin" to the MCE editor, and this article demonstrates how to set up a WordPress plugin to do that.
This article assumes that you are already familiar with the basics of Writing a Plugin and the Plugin API of hooks and filters. Also, the MCE plugins themselves are written in JavaScript, so you will need to be familiar with JavaScript and the MCE editor conventions, as well as PHP programming.
Note that the instructions below apply only to the "Visual" editor. To add buttons to the "HTML" editor as well you must use the Quicktags API.
A common use-case for custom TinyMCE plugins is the need for buttons that generate custom styles used in a site's theme, beyond the default HTML tags like Blockquote and Strong. This need is accounted for by the built-in (but hidden in WordPress) 'styleselect' button in TinyMCE and the ability to register custom formats that users can insert using it.
See TinyMCE Custom Styles for information about adding a pulldown menu with custom styles to TinyMCE.
Also see add_editor_style() which is used to register a custom CSS file for TinyMCE that will make the Visual editor display post content the way it will be shown on the frontend of the site.
In implementing TinyMCE WordPress chooses to avoid a messy editor by not display many of the available buttons. In some cases creating a custom MCE button is unnecessary because a button already exists that does what you want and you just need to add it to one of the rows of buttons to have access. Common examples include the hr (horizontal rule), sub (subscript) and sup (superscript) buttons, as well as the powerful styleselect button mentioned above. See the full list of buttons on the TinyMCE site.
As of WordPress 3.9 and TinyMCE 4.0 sup has been renamed to superscript and sub has been renamed to subscript.
Hidden buttons can be enabled by filtering the array of buttons for the row you wish to edit. The filter for the second row is mce_buttons_2, while mce_buttons_3 will create a new third row of buttons.
function my_mce_buttons_2( $buttons ) { /** * Add in a core button that's disabled by default */ $buttons[] = 'superscript'; $buttons[] = 'subscript'; return $buttons; } add_filter( 'mce_buttons_2', 'my_mce_buttons_2' );
The first step in adding a plugin to the MCE editor is to define your plugins's behavior, by creating an MCE plugin (JavaScript) file. You can get some ideas on how to do that by looking at the existing editor plugins distributed with WordPress, which are in the /wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins directory. Or, check the Further Reading section at the bottom of this article for documentation on how to write MCE plugins.
The result is that you will create a JavaScript file, and perhaps also a CSS style file and HTML file that define your MCE plugin. The next sections show how to make your MCE plugin get loaded into the editor in WordPress, from within a WordPress plugin.
In order to hook an MCE plugin into TinyMCE you need to hook into the following filters:
| ) to insert a toolbar separator. See TinyMCE button list
There are also a couple of details covered in sections below, such as how to deal with languages.
Here is an example of how these filters might be used in a plugin:
// add new buttons add_filter( 'mce_buttons', 'myplugin_register_buttons' ); function myplugin_register_buttons( $buttons ) { array_push( $buttons, 'separator', 'myplugin' ); return $buttons; } // Load the TinyMCE plugin : editor_plugin.js (wp2.5) add_filter( 'mce_external_plugins', 'myplugin_register_tinymce_javascript' ); function myplugin_register_tinymce_javascript( $plugin_array ) { $plugin_array['myplugin'] = plugins_url( '/js/tinymce-plugin.js',__FILE__ ); return $plugin_array; }
Note: when using the mce_external_plugins filter, the url should point to the actual plugin file, as in the example above.
The language codes are only ISO 639-1, which is just the first 2 letters from WordPress locale, like "de", "fr", "es", etc. TinyMCE will look for a sub-directory named "langs" in the directory where my_plugin.js is located. It will load langs/[lang].js when a plugin is loaded and if the plugin has a popup, it will load langs/[lang]_dlg.js when the popup is opened.
All default TinyMCE strings are translated to all languages available in WordPress. A plugin can use any of these strings; check the tinyMCE.i18n js object when TinyMCE is loaded to see how to reference them within your js plugin.
Help for writing TinyMCE plugins can be found on TinyMCE's documentation site:


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WASHINGTON (AP) The Agriculture Department has tightened its import restrictions on Japanese meat because of a suspected case of mad cow disease.
USDA already banned the import of Japanese livestock and most meat products because of foot-and-mouth disease. New restrictions announced Tuesday would block import of cooked beef and sheep products, said Ed Curlett, a spokesman for USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Report: Data insufficient on chronic fatigue
CHICAGO (AP) Research on chronic fatigue syndrome indicates that behavior-based therapies, including exercise, may be among the most effective treatments, but data are deficient and scarce, a review suggests.
While evidence on medications is less conclusive than behavioral approaches, research into treatments has been hampered by a lack of consensus on what causes the disease and even who is afflicted with it, according to the review.
The review appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
A JAMA editorial said the review may be interpreted as confirming the bias that chronic fatigue syndrome is psychological in nature.
But Dr. Anthony Komaroff, a professor of medicine at Harvard University medical school, noted that behavioral therapy also has been used to treat physical illnesses such as heart disease and multiple sclerosis.
Rollover suit settled
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) Just after jurors were selected for a trial, Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it reached a settlement in a lawsuit involving a rollover accident of a Ford Explorer with Firestone tires. Specifics of the agreement were not released.
Margarita Gonzalez, 59, died last year when the Explorer she was in crashed near Kerrville after a tread separated on a rear tire. Her son, Alfredo, who was driving the vehicle at high speed, was left brain damaged.
Her husband, five children and mother were seeking unspecified damages for wrongful death, malice and gross negligence.
The family had settled with Bridgestone/Firestone.
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Reporters Without Borders today called on the authorities to abandon a libel prosecution against the opposition weekly Le Renouveau after a court ruled on 11 February that the prosecution case was incomplete.
Journalist Houssein Ahmed Farah, the brother of Le Renouveau managing editor Daher Ahmed Farah, was released provisionally on 10 February after three days in detention and appeared in court the next day on the charge of libelling the national bank governor, President Ismaël Omar Guelleh's brother-in-law, in an editorial.
The judge ordered an adjournment until 18 February after discovering that the prosecution case file contained no copy of the issue with the offending editorial.
It is unclear on what legal grounds Houssein Ahmed Farah is being prosecuted instead of his brother, who is currently out of the country. Daher Ahmed Farah, who also heads the opposition Movement for Democratic Renewal (MRD), told Reporters Without Borders his brother did not write the editorial. "It was an article without a byline, and in such a case it is the managing editor, myself, who assumes responsibility."
The printing material which the police took from the newspaper has not yet been returned. As a result, the newspaper is still unable to appear.
08.02.2007 - Weekly editor's brother kept in custody, but three others released
After spending 24 hours in police custody, journalist Houssein Ahmed Farah was taken today before the state prosecutor, who ordered that he remain in detention. He is the brother of Daher Ahmed Farah, the managing editor of the privately-owned weekly Le Renouveau, which did not appear today as the police have seized its printing material.
Hared Abdallah Barreh, who is in charge of distributing the newspaper and who is a member of Daher Ahmed Farah's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Renewal (MRD), and Farah Abadid Hildid, the president of one of the party's federations, were released during the day yesterday, while Daoud Farah Iyeh, one of Daher Ahmed Farah's cousins, was freed last night.
07.02.2007 - Police arrest brother and cousin of opposition weekly's managing editor
After being sought by police for five days, Houssein Ahmed Farah was arrested today and taken to the criminal investigation department, Reporters Without Borders has learned from his brother, Daher Ahmed Farah, managing editor of the privately-owned weekly Le Renouveau and head of the Movement for Democratic Renewal (MRD), an opposition party.
One of his cousins, Daoud Farah Iyeh, was arrested yesterday for unknown reasons, the same source said. As the police have seized its printing material, the newspaper can no longer be produced.
"This is an operation aimed at silencing the only small newspaper that still resists," Daher Ahmed Farah told Reporters Without Borders. "With Le Renouveau reduced to silence, the gagging of press freedom and free speech is complete, after 30 years of absolute rule, suppression of the opposition, poverty and social tension - all this under the eyes of western democracies such as France and the United States, which have a military presence in Djibouti."
The newspaper has been formally accused of libel in an article published on 1 February about a businessman who reportedly paid an indemnity to the national bank governor, who happens to be President Ismaël Omar Guelleh's brother-in-law.
05.02.2007 - Authorities again harass opposition weekly Le Renouveau
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the government's renewed harassment of the staff of the privately-owned weekly Le Renouveau, including its managing editor, Daher Ahmed Farah. The newspaper is the mouthpiece of one of Djibouti's main opposition parties, the Movement for Democratic Renewal (MRD).
"After three years of relative peace, Le Renouveau is again the target of government hostility," the press freedom organisation said. "Rather than setting the police and judicial authorities on one of Djibouti's few dissident publications, the authorities should realise that it is archaic to try to control news and information."
Reporters Without Borders added: "Those who work for Le Renouveau and Farah's family and associates must be left in peace as they are being hounded over an article of which the sole shortcoming was to have irked the regime."
The police raided Farah's home without a warrant on 2 February claiming they were looking for Farah's brother. Farah is currently out of the country. The next day, the police arrested Hared Abdallah Barreh, an MRD member who is in charge of distributing the newspaper, and Farah Abadid Hildid, who heads one of the party's federations.
The two men are currently being held at the headquarters of the police criminal investigation department. MRD vice-president Souleiman Farah Lodon and MRD secretary-general Souleiman Hassan Fadal were meanwhile interrogated successively by the state prosecutor and the police, and then released. The police raided Farah's home again on 4 February and seized a computer.
The police raids and arrests have been carried out as part of a judicial investigation into an article published by Le Renouveau on 1 February. Headlined "Omar Aïdid incurs the wrath of the authorities," it was about the arrest of a businessman involved in a dispute with the national bank president, who is President Ismaël Omar Guelleh's brother-in-law.
The Guelleh regime has had Farah in its sights for more than a decade. He was arrested four times in 2003, spending a total of 90 days in prison. His brother Houssein spent nine days in prison in June 2004 for allegedly endangering the First Lady's life when he braked sharply in his car to avoid her passing motorcade. He was covering a street demonstration at the time.


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As you all know, I still troll leftists sites. It helps keep the bayonet sharp. One thing I hear at those sites is that I need to shut up. I hear that my people and I have lost. They say that we have to succumb. That we have been vanquished. That we have been defeated and everything we stand for is in the ash heap of history. They believe that what happened on election day is winner take all and that by supporting the winner, they get to take all.
I correct them in, shall we say, the strongest terms. While the side I wanted to win lost by a small margin, it doesn't mean that we lost the argument. It just means our candidate lost the election… barely.
Leftists seem to seem to think that losing an election means that we have to hang our heads in shame and kiss the boots of the people who won. It doesn't, however, work that way. Jim Crow won every election in the south until the Civil Rights Movement but all that simply demonstrated was that the majority can be wrong. Jim Crow proved that winning an election doesn't make you right.
Being in the majority is not the same as being right. The majority voting bloc in the United States gets to put their president in the White House but that doesn't necessarily make the majority right. In fact, I believe the majority is profoundly wrong. As much as the left wishes otherwise, we are not defeated, we are not vanquished, we are not beaten and we are not giving up.


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Been wanting to ride all weekend but got a poxy cold whilst in the states, streaming nose, eyes and hacking cough and no energy, time for another lemsip now, real shame as it's been dry too....
Hope next weekend is still dry and I fell better.
Still got some in the house jobs done and relaxed a little but even so really wanted to ride, I don't think I've had a cold for over year.
Anyone else not ridden through illness this weekend?
Or post a picture from your ride to cheer us up


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Why Marcos Rojo Is the Solution to Liverpool's Left-Back ProblemJuly 29, 2014
After 24 years of fruitlessly trying to lift England's top football prize, Liverpool proved once more to be so near and yet so far in 2013/14. A dynamic side coached by Brendan Rodgers led the Premier League for large stretches of the year, only to fall short in the final weeks and allow Manchester City to sneak home for the title.
There was no shortage of reasons the Reds could not break that drought of almost a quarter-century. But looking back over the 38 games, defensive fragility and inattention in key games have to rank as principal culprits.
Liverpool conceded 50 goals over the course of the season, an average of well over one per game and 13 more than their title rivals allowed.
And who can forget the spectacular collapse that followed a 2-0 reverse to Jose Mourinho's men, the result that really put the title out of reach? Cruising 3-0 up against Crystal Palace, Liverpool somehow conspired to draw the match with 10 minutes to play, putting Manchester City in the driving seat.
Such mistakes cannot be tolerated again if Rodgers, this time without inspirational goalscorer Luis Suarez, wishes to go one step further.
This is where the modest, unassuming Marcos Rojo comes into the picture. Few commentators had positive words to say about the Argentina international prior to the World Cup. But a series of tough, uncompromising displays on the left-hand side of defence raised the Sporting man's profile tenfold. It no longer seems fantastical to speak of Rojo as the solution to Liverpool's defensive woes.
Much of the fragility last season was caused by a crisis out on the left flank. Spanish full-back Jose Enrique suffered a nightmare campaign. He appeared just seven times, as injury robbed him of minutes on the pitch.
In Enrique's absence, Glen Johnson, Jon Flanagan, Aly Cissokho and even centre-back Daniel Agger were chopped and changed in that position, with no candidate doing much to prove he could be a long-term solution.
That defensive Achilles' heel could be forgiven while Liverpool racked up thrilling 6-3, 5-3 and 3-2 results across what was an excellent season at Anfield. But in the really tight games, points were squandered that could have made all the difference late on.
It would be a wild stretch of the imagination to present Rojo as some sort of magic bullet, although the signing of Dejan Lovren, as per Dominic King of the Daily Mail, is a step in the right direction. But the 24-year-old does have many of the qualities needed by Rodgers.
Having played alongside the likes of Lionel Messi, Sergio Aguero, Angel Di Maria and Gonzalo Higuain, Rojo is no stranger to featuring in a team in which the defensive arts are diminished in favour of goal-scoring capacity.
His appearances at the World Cup demonstrated how effectively he defends high up the pitch, pressing the winger as soon as he receives the ball.
No other left-back shackled the Netherlands' Arjen Robben so effectively in his bursts off the right, and even the unstoppable German attacking machine was kept quiet for large periods of the World Cup final before finally prevailing in extra time.
The immense figure of Javier Mascherano in the middle was crucial, of course, but alongside El Jefecito, Rojo kept his flank quiet, forcing teams to cut inside and face the wrath of the Barcelona man.
Tall and strong in the air, Rojo has the legs to play on the flank and the physical capability to move inside as part of a central pairing or the left side of a back three. Versatile, young and full of enthusiasm, he could be just the player Rodgers needs to strengthen his defensive ranks ahead of an assault on the Premier League and Champions League in 2014/15.


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Frame Rating: Comparing Haswell, Trinity and Richland Integrated Graphics
Light – DiRT 3
DiRT 3 (DirectX 11)
A continuation of the Colin McRae series, but without his name, DiRT 3 is one of the top racing games in the world and offers stunning imagery along with support for features of DirectX 11.
Actual settings for our testing today was 1920x1080 at the LOW preset with No MSAA enabled.
DiRT 3 is another older title that should provide interesting results for us. Again, there is very little difference between our FRAPS based results and the capture-based performance metrics meaning that there aren't any runt or dropped frames to be found. That's good news. The AMD Richland system is again the best performer, pulling in an average frame rate of 50 FPS, followed by the Trinity system at 33 FPS, the MBA with HD 5000 at 31 FPS and then the Core i7-4702MQ + HD 4600 at 30 FPS. But again there are definitely smoothness and frame time differences to account for.
The Frame Times graph clearly shows that the Richland desktop APU and the MSI GE40 with the HD 4600 graphics result in the smoothest gameplay in DiRT3 thanks to faster CPU performance to go along with it. Both the Trinity and MBA / HD 5000 performance shows higher variability with differences between frame times over 4 ms. The A10-4600M (Trinity) is by far the worst in this manner though with frame time variance crossing 8 ms at about the 93rd percentile.
Again, this indicates that even though the HD 4600 results in a lower frame rate than the HD 5000, the experience of the former is smoother and more consistent.
Good reviews Ryan and as you say in the (Performance per Watt and Final Thoughts) section : (Clearly we need to get in a Richland based notebook to see where it stands for the mobile market).
I couldn't agree more will be interesting to see them results.
Good work.
Nice article Ryan, quick question though; On the Methodology page should the following sentence have the word "NOT" in it where I inserted it (capitalized for ease in finding it)?
"It might not stand out initially, but testing on the integrated panels was NOT possible with this testing; in order to get a capture of the graphical output from the system we need to intercept the signal from the GPU to the display and record it."
With 2 out of the 3 laptops, that I own, never get Intel HD graphics Driver updates from the OEM's [who customizied the Intel HD graphics drivers, then never update the graphics drivers!]. Intel lets the OEMs customize their Intel HD graphics drivers, Once these Intel HD Graphics drivers are customizied by the OEM, Intel can not update them, it becomes the OEM's responcability to update the OEM modded Intel HD graphics drivers! 2 of the 3 laptops that I own will never get updated graphics drivers. The big question here is What good is Intel graphics without updates? Intel's record here, thorugh letting laptpop OEM customizie the Intel HD graphics, and OEMs never updating their customizied Intel HD graphics drivers, is Piss Poor! Intel needs to make the laptop OEMs use Intel generic HD graphics drivers, which can be updated by Intel, or Intel needs to require laptop OEM's to keep the OEM customizied Intel HD graphics drivers updated on a regular basis! Without proper graphics drivers, and graphics driver update support, Intel graphics can not be trusted for gaming, no matter how good Intel's graphics hardware is!
"And to be completely fair to Intel, I think that it was able to hold its own in terms of performance per watt of TDP." --HAHAHA as if ANYONE needs to be fair to INTEL!!!
So ryan, what's better for a budget game box?
A10-6800k vs a low end dedicated GPU such as GTX750 for 19x10 gaming?
Well the 750 will be faster, but it's a bigger configuration and will use more power / create more heat.
I think if you are going to put up a graph on performance/watt then you should put up a performance/price graph as well. These two graphs are the main points of any hardware comparison and go hand in hand with each other. You can't have one without the other. All your hardware reviews should have performance/watt and performance/price graphs included in them. Those are the best scales to use when comparing hardware. I usually have to make my own graphs because most don't do that and when they do its only with a couple pieces of hardware. Another suggestion would be to include older hardware in benchmark comparisons because most who are buying new components are upgrading from something older. There is no point really not to include older hardware because the end-user can't tell how much faster the new card is over theirs. I think the best comparisons for benchmarks should include one from each team of a high-end, mainstream and low-cost part from the current components back at least 2 generations. There are so many benchmarks of hardware of the same generation and there are plenty of places to find it but what is hard to find is how a new component is going to perform over someone's old component. Just a thought.
@ryan:I did not follow the whole series of article,my question.
I believe one angle wasn't covered that might affect result.pre-msi,post-msi and latest msi-x (message signal interrupt)
From what I read msi-x or newest possible is recommended.but I can't find one mono that does not hybridize .(use pre-msi and msi-x or MSI.could you suggest a mono that do 100% msi-x.if your bored it would be a nice article to do.since it should definitely alter most result you had so far (if you didn't think about interrupt!)
Not mono but motherboard
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Colic is a serious health concern for horses recovering from a variety of surgeries, illnesses, or injuries. Researchers are working to understand which conditions pose the biggest colic risk and to identify associated risk factors. Recently researchers took a closer look at colic in ocular disease patients.
Ceri Sherlock, BVetMed, MS, Dipl. ACVS, MRCVS, and colleagues at the University of Georgia (UGA) College of Veterinary Medicine, recently completed a study aimed at identifying the prevalence of and potential risk factors for colic in horses hospitalized for ocular (eye) disease.
Sherlock, who is currently a resident in diagnostic imaging at Bell Equine Veterinary Clinic and The University of London in England, explained that any hospitalized horses are likely at risk for colic development due to changes in management, exercise, and diet associated with hospital care and recent transport to the clinic.
"Horses with ocular disease commonly require prolonged treatment and often receive medications such as sedatives, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and topical atropine (used to dilate the eye), all of which have been associated with changes in gastrointestinal motility or colic," she added.
To that end, the team identified 337 equids (317 horses, 19 ponies, and one donkey ranging in age from 1 month to 34 years) admitted to the UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital from Jan. 1, 1997, to Dec. 31, 2008, for ocular disease treatment; of those, 72 (21.4%) suffered one or more colic episodes during their hospital stays (a high percentage of horses when compared to the 2.8% to 8.8% of horses that develop colic after non-abdominal surgical procedures, the team said). Key findings of the case review included:
- Colic was considered mild in 43 equids (59.7%), moderate in 21 (29.2%), and severe in eight (11.1%);
- Veterinarians treated 63 of 72 animals medically with a combination of mineral oil and/or fluid and electrolyte therapy administered via a nasogastric tube, systemic NSAIDs, intravenous fluid therapy, antispasmodic drug administration, and gastroprotectants;
- Nine horses underwent colic surgery when medical treatment proved unsuccessful; and
- Sixty-seven horses survived to discharge, while five died or were euthanized in the hospital.
The team identified two risk factors during their data evaluation and analysis: age and hospitalization time. They found that horses were significantly more likely to develop colic during ocular disease treatment if they were younger than 1 year or older than 20 years than if they were ages 2 to 20. Further, the likelihood of developing colic increased if the animals were hospitalized for eight days or more than if the equids were discharged after one to four days.
The team noted that the exact reasons a longer hospital stay increases the odds of colic development, but "it may be associated with the severity of the ocular disease, a more prolonged change in management, or an increased administration of medications over a longer duration of time," Sherlock relayed.
"Findings in the present study may assist clinicians who treat equids with ocular disease to identify potential risk factors for the development of colic, which may lead to the implementation of aggressive prophylactic (preventive) measures," she noted.
The team noted that further research is needed to "enhance our ability to decrease the incidence of colic in equids hospitalized for ocular disease," adding that a prospective study would be beneficial for evaluating specific factors, such as patients' pain scores.
The study, "Risk factors for colic in equids hospitalized for ocular disease," appeared in June in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. The abstract can be viewed online.
Disclaimer: Seek the advice of a qualified veterinarian before proceeding with any diagnosis, treatment, or therapy.


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|Rebecca Hudson hitting balls on the driving range at Golf Las Américas
The competitors in the Tenerife Open de España Femenino who were at the Ricoh Women's British Open last week are enjoying vastly different conditions at Golf Las Américas than at Royal Liverpool after they swapped wind and rain for glorious Spanish sunshine.
Whereas Hoylake in England experienced torrential rain and winds gusting 40 miles per hour last weekend, temperatures hit 35C in Tenerife on Monday and good weather is forecast for the rest of the week. Sunday's forecast is for 32C with a gentle breeze.
|Rebecca Hudson playing at Royal Liverpool
The clear blue skies, palm trees and panoramic scenes across the Atlantic Ocean have put many of the players in a lighter mood.
"I love coming to Tenerife: beautiful weather, beautiful golf courses; it's great to be back," said Rebecca Hudson, the 2008 Tenerife Ladies Open champion.
"Sunday and last week, we expect British weather, but that was pretty brutal and just to get on the plane and come out here and leave the water proofs at home, it's only good.
"You know you're going out and you don't have to fight the conditions. You can just play golf and hopefully this week we'll see some fantastic scores and the golf course is looking good."
The 2009 Tenerife Ladies Open winner Felicity Johnson echoed those sentiments when she said: "It's great to get some sunshine on the back and be back in Tenerife.
"Obviously Tenerife is always going to be a special place for me, getting my first win here.
"We can't quite treat it like a holiday; maybe the odd day here and there. It's great to be here. Last week wasn't ideal but they are two ends of the spectrum, last week and this. I think we are all feeling the effects of the sun so we'll keep drinking water and keeping hydrated but we're not going to complain about that.
|Felicity Johnson
"This time of year is perfect. What is it, 24 degrees the whole of the year? That's the tourist line, but it is perfect and I love it here. We've not had anything this hot for a little while so it takes a bit of acclimatising but after a few days you're ready to go.
On the Golf Las Américas course, Johnson said: "It suits my game pretty well. Obviously I've got a decent record in Tenerife. It's more kind of target golf, which I enjoy, as opposed to more linksy style, so I enjoy it. Have a target; fly it straight at it, which I enjoy. I'm looking forward to this week and the course is looking good so looking forward to tomorrow now."
Melissa Reid, celebrating her 25th birthday on Wednesday, is the defending champion having won the Open de España Femenino at La Quinta Country Club on the Costa del Sol 12 months ago.
The Solheim Cup player will be amongst the favourites even though she has never previously played on the Golf Las Américas course.
|Melissa Reid
"I've not been playing great this year but I'm hoping for a great result this week," said Reid.
She was playing the first nine holes only in the Pro Am on Wednesday as this week the Pro Am takes a different format whereby each amateur team is playing with two professional golfers over 18 holes.
Although Reid wasn't playing the full 18, she felt confident that her caddie Johnny Scott would be able to guide her around the course as he caddied for Laura Davies in the Tenerife Matchplay event at the same venue last year and she didn't play a practice round before teeing up in the Raiffeisenbank Prague Golf Masters in June.
"I didn't play Prague and won there. I played that course blind. Sometimes it's for the best because you don't know where everything is. Johnny's been here before. That's all you really need," said Reid, who is joined by former winners Laura Davies, Nikki Garrett and Becky Brewerton in the 126-woman field.
The 72-hole tournament gets under way from Thursday on the 6403 yards / 5855 metres par-72 course and entry is free for spectators. After two rounds there will be a 36-hole cut to the leading 60 professionals and those tied.


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September 8,
2004, was a watershed moment for Log Cabin Republicans. On
that day the group for gay and lesbian members of the GOP
released an unusually long—five
pages—press release announcing that its board of
directors voted 22–2 not to endorse George W.
Bush's reelection, largely because of his
support of a constitutional amendment seeking to bar
same-sex couples from marrying.
This was the
first time since Log Cabin opened its national office in
1993 that it had not endorsed the Republican nominee for
president, having backed Bush in 2000 and Bob Dole in
1996, moves that caused a strong backlash against Log
Cabin among many prominent gay and lesbian activists.
The charge at the time was that Log Cabin was more
interested in making nice with GOP muckety-mucks than
advancing gay equality.
But that all
changed in 2003 when Log Cabin hired Patrick
Guerriero—a Massachusetts native and moderate
Republican who had served as a state legislator as
well as mayor of his hometown of Melrose—to be the
group's second executive director. Recently,
Guerriero's title was changed to president.
Guerriero has
brought political skills as a former elected official, but
also a new philosophy, one that allows Log Cabin to speak
out against the antigay forces within its own party.
With Guerriero at the helm and a new, more diverse
board in place, the decision not to endorse Bush was
not wholly unexpected, despite fears of repercussions from
inside the GOP.
remains a lot of anger inside the party from those who
wanted Log Cabin to give them cover for supporting the
Federal Marriage Amendment," Guerriero tells
The Advocate. "There are some who consider
our decision to be a disloyal act, and that will take
some time to heal. But if you allow yourself to be
stepped on time and time again, you have no
credibility in Washington. Over time, in part because we
stood up for ourselves, feelings will flip back in our
direction. We want results. I don't need to be
invited to every GOP cocktail party. And yes, I've
been invited to fewer GOP cocktail parties since the
decision. So be it."
Guerriero goes so
far as to place Log Cabin clearly on one side of a
"battle" brewing inside the Republican Party,
pitting moderates and "traditional
conservatives" like U.S. senators Lincoln Chafee of
Rhode Island and Gordon Smith of Oregon against
"theocrats" like U.S. senators Rick
Santorum of Pennsylvania and Bill Frist of Tennessee.
"Log Cabin
used to be much too apologetic for bad Republican
behavior," says Chuck Colbert, a freelance
journalist and activist who lives in Cambridge, Mass.
"But under Patrick, Log Cabin is much more willing to
take on fellow Republicans. Log Cabin was absolutely correct
in not endorsing Bush last year. If they had, they
would have been dead meat in the gay
One of
Guerriero's first official acts when he assumed the
lead of Log Cabin was to reach out to other gay and
lesbian political groups. "I wanted these other
groups to know that Log Cabin was willing to carry its
weight. I also wanted to stop the infighting with other LGBT
groups," says Guerriero, who also instituted a
new policy inside Log Cabin: "If you speak ill
of another LGBT group, that is grounds for
Birch—then–executive director of the Human
Rights Campaign—welcomed Guerriero's
call on his first day on the job. "Patrick has
reached out extensively to Republicans and Democrats alike.
He has been among the most principled leaders of our
movement for equality," Birch says.
"Patrick is a person of good character and does not
ever take the easy road. He stood up to the profound
failure of Bush with integrity. He takes the heat but
stays the course."
Guerriero showed
his bipartisan roots when he returned to Massachusetts
earlier this year to aid in the successful lobbying effort
to kill that state's constitutional amendment
banning same-sex marriage.
was instrumental as a Republican, and as a gay Republican,
in talking with his former colleagues on this
issue," says Marty Rouse, campaign director of
MassEquality, the group spearheading opposition to any
move to rescind marriage equality in the Bay State.
"As a former state legislator, he understands
that a lot of important work gets done behind closed
doors and not quoted in the press. In order to achieve
success, we need Republican support and behind-the-scenes
work, especially for Republicans, who are, generally
speaking, more opposed to gay equality and marriage
That said, Rouse
says that Log Cabin could be even more effective:
"They need to find pro–gay rights people
to run against homophobes in their party. They should
be proactive rather than just reactive. Yes, they have
to keep a foot in the door of the party, but they need to
keep moving forward as well."
In truth, Log
Cabin has been moving forward under Guerriero's
leadership, particularly in shifting the
group's focus outside of the Beltway and
building the organization on the grassroots level.
The day after
Guerriero spoke with The Advocate, he was off to
North Carolina to help build new chapters in the Tar Heel
State. During the past three years, Log Cabin has
grown more in conservative "red states"
than in liberal "blue states."
"For the
first time in history, young gay and lesbian conservatives
are meeting with elected officials," he says.
"We are giving young gay and lesbian
conservatives a safe place to come out to themselves, their
families, and their legislators." Guerriero says that
such discussions with Republican lawmakers in
conservative states is vital because they have largely
never taken place before. Guerriero is also hoping to mentor
the next generation of openly gay Republican lawmakers.
Under Guerriero,
the number of recognized Log Cabin chapters has nearly
doubled, from 29 in January 2003 to 50 in October 2005.
Total membership has increased almost fivefold,
growing from 3,750 in December 2002 to 18,462 in
October 2005. The annual budget has also ballooned from
$350,000 in 2002 to $1.9 million in 2004.
Bill Brownson of
Columbus, Ohio, who is serving his third year as chair
of Log Cabin's board, gives Guerriero credit for
helping grow the organization. "He is a gifted
leader, and we are blessed to have him, not just as a
leader of our organization, but that extends to the greater
gay and lesbian community through collaborations with
other organizations," Brownson says.
Brownson also
stands by his board's decision not to back Bush last
year. "Our perspective and mission transcends
any single party leader or administration," he
says. "That decision is in line with our mission over
the long term. The Federal Marriage Amendment restricts
liberty constitutionally and is the antithesis of
conservatism." The Republican National
Committee did not respond to The Advocate's
requests for comment.
But is taking
such a firm stand with fellow Republicans a winning
strategy? "Confrontation gets your group more
attention but less influence," says Larry J.
Sabato, director of the University of
Virginia's Center for Politics. "On the other
hand, Log Cabin has set a standard for the 2008
presidential contest, and it looks like they will have
a number of social moderates from which to choose."
For Guerriero, it
all boils down to what kind of organization Log Cabin
wants to be. "The culture war exploded in 2000, and
Log Cabin had a choice to make," says
Guerriero. "Are we first and foremost a Republican
organization, or are we first and foremost a gay
organization with a role to play inside the Republican
Party? The board and I made a conscious decision on
the second, and that has affected everything we have to do
and continue to do."


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Levers and Biomechanics of the Joints
A lever is any elongated, rigid object that rotates around a fixed point called the fulcrum (fig. 9.15). Familiar examples include a seesaw and a crowbar. Rotation occurs when an effort applied to one point on the lever overcomes a resistance (load) located at some other point. The part of a lever from the fulcrum to the point of effort is called the effort arm, and the part from the fulcrum to the point of resistance is the resistance arm. In the body, a long bone acts as a lever, a joint serves as the fulcrum, and the effort is generated by a muscle attached to the bone.
The function of a lever is to confer an advantage— either to exert more force against a resisting object than the force applied to the lever (for example, in moving a heavy boulder with a crowbar) or to move the resisting object farther or faster than the effort arm is moved (as in swinging a baseball bat). A single lever cannot confer both advantages. There is a trade-off between force on one hand and speed or distance on the other—as one increases, the other decreases.
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The mechanical advantage (MA) of a lever is the ratio of its output force to its input force. It can be predicted from the length of the effort arm, LE, divided by the length of the resistance arm, LR; that is, MA = LE/LR. If MA is greater than 1.0, the lever will produce more force, but less speed or distance, than the force exerted on it. If MA is less than 1.0, the lever will produce more speed or distance, but less force, than the input. Consider the elbow
Resistance (load)
Resistance arm
Effort arm
Figure 9.15 The Basic Components of a Lever. This example is a first-class lever.
What would be the mechanical advantage of the lever shown here? Where would you put the fulcrum to increase the mechanical advantage without changing the lever class?
joint, for example (fig. 9.16a). Its resistance arm is longer than its effort arm, so we know from the preceding formula that the mechanical advantage is going to be less than 1.0. The figure shows some representative values for LE and LR that yield MA = 0.15. The biceps brachii muscle puts more power into the lever than we get out of it, but the hand moves farther and faster than the point where the biceps tendon inserts on the ulna.
In chapter 10, you will see that several joints have two or more muscles acting on them, seemingly producing the same effect. At first, you might consider this arrangement redundant, but it makes sense if the tendinous insertions of the muscles are at slightly different places and produce different mechanical advantages. A runner taking off from the starting line, for example, uses "low-gear" (high-MA) muscles that do not generate much speed but have the power to overcome the inertia of the body. A runner then "shifts into high gear" by using muscles with different insertions that have a lower mechanical advantage but produce more speed at the feet. This is analogous to the way an automobile transmission works to get a car to move and then cruise at high speed.
Physicists recognize three classes of levers that differ with respect to which component—the fulcrum (F), effort (E), or resistance (R)—is in the middle. A first-class lever (EFR) is one with the fulcrum in the middle. Each half of
Low mechanical advantage Low power High speed
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Low mechanical advantage Low power High speed
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Lr 35 mm
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Figure 9.16 Mechanical Advantage (MA). MA is calculated from the length of the effort arm divided by the length of the resistance arm. (a) The forearm acts as a third-class lever during flexion of the elbow. (b) The mandible acts as a second-class lever when the jaw is forcibly opened. The digastric muscle and others provide the effort, while tension in the temporalis muscle and others provide resistance.
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Physiology: The Unity of Companies, 2003 Form and Function, Third Edition a pair of scissors, for example, acts as a first-class lever with the screw as its fulcrum (fig. 9.17a). An anatomical example is the atlantooccipital joint of the neck, where the muscles of the back of the neck pull down on the nuchal lines of the skull and oppose the tendency of the head to tip forward. Loss of muscle tone here can be embarrassing if you nod off in class.
A second-class lever (FRE) is one in which the resistance is in the middle (fig. 9.17b). Lifting the handles of a wheelbarrow, for example, causes it to pivot on its wheel at the opposite end, and lift a load in the middle. The mandible acts as a second-class lever when the digastric muscle pulls down on the chin to open the mouth. The ful-
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crum is the temporomandibular (jaw) joint, the effort is applied to the chin by the digastric muscle, and the resistance is the tension of muscles such as the temporalis that is used to bite and to hold the mouth closed. (This arrangement is upside down relative to a wheelbarrow, but the mechanics remain the same.)
In a third-class lever (FER), the effort is applied between the fulcrum and resistance (fig. 9.17c). A pair of forceps, for example, consists of two third-class levers joined together. Most levers in the human body are third-class levers. The mandible acts as a third-class lever when you close your mouth to bite off a piece of food. Again, the temporomandibular joint is the fulcrum, but
Fulcrum (a) First-class lever
Resistance R
Fulcrum (b) Second-class lever
(c) Third-class lever
Resistance Resistance w
Figure 9.17 The Three Classes of Levers. Left:The lever classes defined by the relative positions of the resistance (load), fulcrum, and effort. Center: Mechanical examples. Right: Anatomical examples. (a) Muscles of the back of the neck pull the skull downward to oppose the tendency of the head to drop forward. The fulcrum is the occipital condyles. (b) To open the mouth, the digastric muscle pulls down on the chin. It is resisted by the temporalis muscle on the side of the head. The fulcrum is the temporomandibular (jaw) joint. (c) In flexing the elbow, the biceps brachii muscle exerts an effort on the radius. Resistance is provided by the weight of the forearm or anything held in the hand. The fulcrum is the elbow joint.
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310 Part Two Support and Movement now the temporalis muscle exerts the effort, while the resistance is supplied by the item of food being bitten. At the elbow, the fulcrum is the joint between the ulna and humerus; the effort is applied by the biceps brachii muscle, and the resistance can be provided by any weight in the hand or the weight of the forearm itself (see fig. 9.16a).
The classification of a body part changes as it makes different actions. For example, the forearm is a third-class lever when you flex your elbow but a first-class lever when you extend your elbow.
Before You Go On
Answer the following questions to test your understanding of the preceding section:
8. What are the two components of a joint capsule? What is the function of each?
9. What types of joints are described as monaxial, biaxial, and multiaxial? Give an example of each and explain the reason for its classification.
10. Name the joints that would be involved if you reached directly overhead and screwed a light bulb into a ceiling fixture. Describe the joint actions that would occur.
11. Where are the effort, fulcrum, and resistance in the act of dorsiflexion? What class of lever is this? Would you expect it to have a mechanical advantage greater or less than 1.0? Why?
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