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Tyra Banks: I Don't Like The Label 'Plus-Size'
By Rebecca Adams
With waif-like fashion models filling the pages of magazines, it's easy to lose sight of the diverse spectrum of body types out there… and to stigmatize anything less than "perfect." It's also no mystery what this homogeneity does to a woman's self-esteem.
But the answer isn't to just toss in a second stereotypical "plus-size" body type to counteract the effect of the skinny one. Tyra Banks, currently on a campaign with Special K to ban fat talk and promote positive body image, told HuffPost Style that the labels that separate women are also harmful:
"I don't like the label 'plus-size' — I call it 'fiercely real.' On 'Top Model,' we call it fiercely real. I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it."
And she practices what she preaches. In 2008, Tyra crowned the "fiercely real" Whitney Thompson the winner of "Top Model" Cycle 10, with the press labeling her the show's first "plus-size" victor. Two years later, Tyra launched the "Fiercely Real Model Search" for plus-size teens. Incorporating more diverse body types "plus-size" and otherwise, should be the norm, Tyra says. "We just need to make sure it's not a trend and that it's something that's normal, because this stuff comes in waves and it would be nice to see it become constant," she told us.
Despite the increasing influence of plus-size models and curvier women like Kate Upton, use of the term "plus-size" remains a contentious issue. Jennie Runk, H&M's first plus-size model, believes that the term has practical function, explaining recently, "Clothing companies do this in order to offer their customers exactly what they're looking for, making it easier for people of all sizes to find clothes that fit their bodies as well as their own unique stylistic expression." But surveys have shown that many of the so-called "plus-size" women prefer the term "curvy."
At the end of the day, how we see ourselves is certainly influenced by bodies we see in media and the terms that come with them. The trick, Tyra says, is to stop comparing yourself to other women and find the positive ways to describe what your great attributes are.
"Not everyone can look like Kate Upton," she says. "Kate Upton's body, as curvy as she is, to a lot of people that's still thin."


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PADRES at BREWERS
Time: 5:10 p.m. Game 3 of 4
TV: Fox Sports San Diego
Radio: 1090-AM, 860-AM (Spanish)
Wednesday's matchup
Padres RHP Sean O'Sullivan (0-1, 6.43 ERA)
O'Sullivan will be making his second start of the season in the slot left vacant by the season-ending elbow injury suffered by Jason Marquis. O'Sullivan worked two innings in relief of Marquis last Friday night at St. Louis and allowed three runs on five hits in two innings. That was his second appearance as a Padre this season. He started against the Giants on July 12 and allowed two runs on six hits and three walks over five innings. O'Sullivan has never faced the Brewers. Before being promoted by the Padres, the Valhalla High grad was 7-4 with a 3.88 ERA in 18 starts for Triple-A Tucson.
Brewers RHP Kyle Lohse (6-7, 3.49 ERA)
Lohse is 5-1 with a 2.63 ERA over his last 10 starts. Lohse is 4-4 with a 4.69 ERA in 10 career starts against the Padres. His first victory with Milwaukee came April 22 at Petco Park when he held the Padres to one run on five hits over five innings. Opponents are hitting .259 against Lohse this season. The Brewers are 9-11 in Lohse's first 20 starts this season.
Looking Ahead
Thursday: Padres RHP Edinson Volquez (7-8, 5.73 ERA) at Brewers RHP Yovani Gallardo (8-8, 4.58 ERA), 11:10 a.m.

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We had to have a cat put down on Monday, and that made me want to explain the meaning of soul to Elliot. It's one of those cornerstone teachings, and I really wanted to get it right.
Beliefs are very individual, and I feel like they are best when they evolve over time. Our kitty was gone though, and I had to give him the news. The speech I gave Elliot would not have been sanctioned by Geoffrey Rush's character in "The King's Speech." What came out of me was a chunky collection of vocabulary words that Elliot only took as an obstacle to his upcoming request for juice.
You can try to pour on a religious or spiritual education early on, but it's a really big drink. When I was little, my mom told me God made everything. Everything? You can't see him, but you can see his son Jesus on this television special.
Are they killing him? Yes, my mother said. A few commercial breaks later I'm drinking chocolate milk on my parents' bed — still watching. Jesus is dead now? Yes, and it is time for bed, young lady. Jesus is dead? I asked again. Yes, but don't worry. He'll be alive again after this Palmolive ad. Nighty-night. Does God know about this, mom? God knows everything, sweetie. Say your prayers. Shouldn't I wait till Jesus is alive again to do that?
The summer after seeing Jesus of Nazareth for the first time, my friend next door got out her father's binoculars. "Let's hunt for ghosts," she whispered. I pressed them to my face and told her I only saw grass and the metal box put in her yard by Bell Atlantic. "Ghosts are invisible," she explained. Oh? I grabbed the binoculars to give the yard a more scrutinizing scan.
Our parents were chatting at a nearby picnic table and one informed us that there was no such thing as ghosts. We took that as complete BS, because we'd done the Scooby-Doo and Casper research on the subject. In fact, religiously, Tom and Jerry was the first to illustrate the angel and devil on a person's shoulders. It's where I first saw clouds and harps.
Kids don't understand the grander concepts, and taking things at face value gets pretty interesting. I began compiling what I'd learned like so. Hell is down. Heaven is up. But where is Oz? Is over-the-rainbow Heaven? After all, it was a beautiful place, had a powerful all-knowing man, and appeared to be easy living. Plus, Dorothy came back just like Jesus.
You hear how kids are so open, and it is adults who shut down their inherent connect to spirit. I attempt not to do that. I encourage Elliot to tell me about "the jingles" in his dreams. As far as I can gather, these friendly people live in the forest, wear red and purple, and have wings. "They were being good to me," he said and went on to say they'd done a magic trick for him.
My family wasn't religious, but I grabbed a copy of the Bible like the phone book my mother kept in a low kitchen cabinet. Jingles, Jingles, Jingles, let's see. Nope. Do Jews have Jingles, I asked a friend of mine. He told me he thought not. Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim jingles may be out there, but I've yet to find out. Should you find out that your own faith has them, I would appreciate a call.
My idea for explaining the soul is to use a balloon. Fill it with air, and explain that the air is like the soul. Opening the balloon lets the air go somewhere else, but it is still air. As he's able to understand, I could incorporate different balloons for body types. A toy store near us used to sell those huge balloons on rubber bands that you could dribble like a basketball. I'd grab them and those long tubular ones — plus a few Mylars that last forever. They'd be Brighter Day shoppers, the healthy sort who hold their souls in the longest.
My only wish is to create possibilities for Elliot. I want him to be eager to discover and learn. I want him to have his own spirit binoculars and enjoy his journey. Yesterday, he brought home a colored picture of Silas and Saul "praising God in jail." As far as death goes: We have five more cats to get this right.
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San Diego Padres pitcher Andrew Cashner's first start against the team that drafted him didn't go the way he wanted.
The Cubs' first pick in 2008 suffered a 6-2 defeat to Chicago on Wednesday night.
Cashner (1-2) lasted four innings and gave up five runs, six hits and four walks. He was dealt to San Diego in January 2012 for Anthony Rizzo, who was 1 for 4.
The San Diego right-hander, who was victorious in his previous start April 26 against San Francisco, had trouble from the beginning and gave up runs in Chicago's first four innings.
"It felt like I was fighting the whole time tonight," Cashner said. "I never really got in a groove out there and didn't really execute very well."
Cashner was asked whether his wildness was caused by pitching against the Cubs at Wrigley. He said "no."
Instead, Padres manager Bud Black said consistency was the problem.
"There were a couple of at-bats where it looked as though he might find it, but he could never get in a groove from really I thought, the first inning on," Black said.
As Black said, Cashner's problems started early.
The Cubs took a 1-0 lead in the first on Starlin Castro's RBI single that drove in Julio Borbon. Cashner eventually loaded the bases on a walk to Nate Schierholtz, but got out of the jam when he tagged Rizzo out at home after a pitch got away from catcher John Baker.
Chicago doubled its lead in the second when Darwin Barney scored on pitcher Scott Feldman's double to right. It was Feldman's first hit in nine at-bats with the Cubs and his second career RBI. The Cubs added two more runs in the third when Rizzo and Castro scored on Dioner Navarro's two-run double off the wall in right-center.
"I was bad. I didn't command my fastball very well," Cashner said. "When I was missing it was just off the plate instead of going after guys. I really never got a feel for my secondary stuff in the strike zone."
While Cashner was struggling, Feldman was having a career night for the Cubs.
Feldman (2-3) pitched his first career complete game, allowing two runs and three hits while walking one. After Chase Headley singled with two outs in the first, Feldman retired the next 18 batters and didn't allow another base runner until Carlos Quentin reached on an error by third baseman Luis Valbuena.
Feldman struck out the side in the third and fourth innings, ending up with 12 strikeouts to set a career high.
"He was as good as anyone I've seen this year," Headley said.
Feldman took his shutout into the eight but Jedd Gyorko hit his first career home run, and Headley then followed in the ninth with his third.
"I was glad to get it over with," Gyorko said of his first homer. "Hopefully it doesn't take another 100 at-bats to get my next one."
Those two homers were only blips for Feldman, who lobbied Cubs manager Dale Sveum for a chance at his first career complete game.
"It's something I've been wanting to do for a while," Feldman said of the complete game. "Always seemed like my pitch count got up or got taken out a little before that could happen."
Feldman was supported by an offense that had little trouble against Cashner. Sveum started six left-handed hitters, plus Feldman.
Sveum said that was going to force Cashner to throw more breaking balls. And the result was his wildness.
"When you have seven left-handers in a lineup you can't keep pumping fastballs," Sveum said. "That's why I always say the importance of having left-handed bats against right-handed pitching is it's just hard to go through left-handed bats."
NOTES: Cubs LF Alfonso Soriano was given the night off. He played in the Cubs' first 26 games, hitting .263 with one home run and two RBIs. ... Padres pitcher Tyson Ross worked 1 2-3 innings of relief Tuesday night in a rehab assignment with Triple-A Tuscon, allowing three hits, three runs and two walks while striking out two and throwing 43 pitches. Ross has been on the disabled list since April 20, retroactive to April 18, with a subluxation in his left, non-throwing shoulder. ... Cubs pitcher Matt Garza threw 2 2-3 innings Wednesday in a rehab assignment with Double-A Tennessee, allowing one hit and two walks on 42 pitches. Garza hasn't pitched for the Cubs yet this season after suffering a strained left lateral muscle during spring training. ... Thursday's pitching matchup is San Diego's Eric Stults (2-2, 5.67) against Chicago's Travis Wood (2-1, 2.25).


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Secure Group Key Management for Dynamic Sensor Networks
As sensor networks edge closer toward widespread deployment, security issues have became a central concern and are increasingly important. In fact, sensor networks cannot be used in practice if they are not secure, for example, in applications like emergency rescue and battlefield communication; if no security mechanism is used, an adversary can easily thwart the network establishment. Symmetric key systems are still the major tools for communication privacy and data authenticity in most networks. To provide secure communication for any group of nodes using symmetric key cryptography, these nodes need to share a common secret key.
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Oh people please you make me laugh (hear me? ). Why would you try to waste my time? You people would get smoked like a....*censoring for kids* cigarette.
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08-03-2006 #51adamba4eGuest
08-03-2006 #52
I don't hear you. Talk/laugh a little louder.
08-03-2006 #53adamba4eGuest
Do you people here really want to battle me or are you just talking?
08-03-2006 #54TribunalGuest
This is the most alive I've seen adam in forever. Look at him, he's so excited.
08-03-2006 #55
We're getting threats from Adam but no actual proof,
Keep your mouth shut or like the fairies, i'll snatch your tooth.
08-03-2006 #56adamba4eGuest
Originally Posted by Sash
08-03-2006 #57
I just did. Keep it at two for now, quick paced battle?
08-03-2006 #58Originally Posted by Tribunal
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08-03-2006 #60Originally Posted by Sash
08-03-2006 #61TribunalGuest
Originally Posted by Sash
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08-03-2006 #63adamba4eGuest
Originally Posted by Sash
3 Votes in a row = a KO and win
Best out of 5 = Win
Anything over 30 Bars and under 50 Bars (2 lines = 1 Bar)
No biting
No recycling
No riding votes
No hate votes
Vote on these categories
Opener -
Worth one point
Multies -
Worth two points
Personals -
Worth two points
Metas/Similes -
Worth two points
Closer -
Worth one point
Definitions for the people who don't know
Opener: Who's opener is better
Mulites: Words rhymed more then once in a single bar.
Personals: Lyrics directly insulting the competitor
Metas/Similes: Metaphors and Similes if you don't know what they are your too young to be voting.
Closer: Who's closer is better.
08-03-2006 #64
I know what a meta/similie is. I've been in English class for a long time now.
08-03-2006 #65
Hmm...you're more challenged (sorry, i meant challenging) than I thought.
What about wordplay, dude?
08-03-2006 #66Yo, I am a good guy
Buy dont push me
I have many thing to clarify
and a lot of things to jusify
I know I havent been a good person
Im horrified I cant sleep at night
Everyone telling me life goes on
Everyone telling me I am the phenomenon
Trying to make a name for myself
A legacy for when im gone
Maybe my album will be on your shelf
I wonder where we will go?
***** I dont need your sympathy
You are my mutha***** enemy
They say the enemy of my enemy is my friend
Is he the one God sent?
My rhymes are cruel
Maybe you should read the rules
You are the **** clan clown
Trying to steal my crown
You know im a self made millionaire
All my enemies listen to me, beware
All of you that back stab me when I wasnt aware
To all of you mutha***** the war I declare
I challenge Tribunal to a Midwest Battle Royal!
08-03-2006 #67adamba4eGuest
Originally Posted by Sash
08-03-2006 #68
What I meant was, what about there being a voting on wordplay?
08-03-2006 #69adamba4eGuest
Originally Posted by Sash
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08-03-2006 #71adamba4eGuest
Originally Posted by Sash
08-03-2006 #72
Lol. No, I was just clarifying.
Uh...I seriously am not backing out or anything right now...but I've been told to go to sleep cos its late (4am). If you dont believe me, fine, never-the-less this battle is still happening. So yeah, goodnight. And dont worry, you'll get a verse tomorrow.
08-03-2006 #73
Dangit! I turned of my game in anticipation of this battle.
08-03-2006 #74adamba4eGuest
Originally Posted by Sash
08-03-2006 #75
Haha funny guy...
I dont bite, I've caught out a few people that did though.
Anyways, later.
And KJ, get back to your game.
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Pinch-hitting proves to be Inglett's strength
Pinch-hitting proves to be Inglett's strength
MILWAUKEE -- Somebody remind the Brewers' Joe Inglett that pinch-hitting is supposed to be baseball's toughest task. Inglett's Major League-leading 15th pinch-hit was a two-run home run Friday night, and a few minutes later Inglett was the first man out of the dugout to celebrate Prince Fielder's game-winning single. Inglett improved to 15-for-46 (.326) off the bench this season, and he's a big reason that the Brewers pinch-hitters lead the Majors with a .291 batting average (39-for-134) and a .375 on-base percentage. "Just grind through," Inglett said of his approach to the role. "[Batting practice] is my game, so I really have to take it that way so I'm ready for the game. That's really my approach."
And he's been very good at it. As a midgame sub, Inglett is 19-for-56 (.339). But in his 12 starts, he's 8-for-41 (.195). "He got to play a week in a row and didn't get a hit, so I don't know," manager Ken Macha said. "He's better suited for pinch-hitting, which is unusual." So Macha is trying to maximize Inglett's strong suit, and that usually means pinch-hit at-bats against right-handed pitchers. Inglett is hitless in 19 plate appearances against lefties this season with three walks.


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Match Report written by Trevor Green.
On a day of cold driving rain and gales, Nomads dominated this strange match but somehow lost by three goals to nil, which allowed Aberystwyth back into the race for the Welsh Premier League Top Six place. I was envious of those back on Deeside sitting in the warm watching on the telly.
We picked up possession of the ball from the off and the chances came and went with regularity, as Alan Hooley blasted wide when very well placed early on and Jamie Petrie fired over from a good position out on the right. Despite almost constant possession, our best chance to score could have come from a penalty for a blatant handball that was missed by the referee and his Assistant. The full back deliberately scooped the ball away from goal with his hand for a corner. The TV cameras missed it, but referee Harrington saw the incident, paused, and awarded a corner instead.
Carroll shot narrowly wide for Aber and Nomads Rhys Healey had an effort blocked, then in1st half injury time an Aberystwyth corner was played over everyone to Cledan Davies, who smashed home a shot that John Rushton tried to stop with his foot but only succeeded in diverting into the net.
Nomads trooped off unable to believe that after complete dominance they were behind.
Nomads played on the sodden pitch in the second half, with the gale into their faces and continued to commit men forward. Though the football was very good, Nomads left huge gaps behind them which Aber players succeeded in hitting long balls into. After another neat Nomads move had broken down on 50 minutes, a long punt down the left wing found Aberystwyth's Davies who drove the ball goal-wards. Nomads' keeper John Rushton saved the shot but spilled the greasy ball and after a 2nd attempt to gather failed, Jordan Follows drove the ball into the Nomads net.
Nomad, Rhys Healey tormented Wyn Thomas and Stuart Jones all after-noon and had endured them kicking out at him, dragging him down and pushing him with little protection from Referee Harrington, however after two fouls in two minutes from sub Barri Hogan, the official finally did book the offender. A turning point in Nomads fortunes may have come after Healey tricked Thomas in the box and was brought down. It was clearly a foul but the penalty wasn't given. Moments later Healey limped off and perhaps Nomads hopes went with him.
Another Aberystwyth punt out of defence found Follows who beat the defenders and pulled the ball across for Carroll to score. In injury time a penalty was finally awarded to the visitors for a slight push by Stuart Jones, but Robert Jones penalty was saved by home keeper Mike Lewis, who fainted right before making a left handed save.
Our style of all-out attack was a joy to watch and rarely can any side in the WPL have enjoyed such total domination of possession and lost. In hindsight, trying to play like Barcelona in those conditions was probably a a bit ambitious and losing to a side that got everyone behind the ball and hit us with three long balls in to the flanks and three crosses aquaplaning across the turf was probably predictable. But long may it continue.
Cledon Davies(45)
Jordan Follows(50)
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Unanswered: enter parameter value problem
i have a datasheet that lists invoices and their details, and when you double click the invoice number, it uses the following code to open a form and populate it with that invoices data.
Private Sub InvoiceNumber_DblClick(Cancel As Integer)
DoCmd.OpenForm "_frmDetailedRequest", , , "[InvoiceNumber] = " & Me.InvoiceNumber
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the code worked before when i was using RequestID as the primary key, and used it wo find the record. the funny thing is, when i double click the invoice number, it pops up the dialog box asking me to enter parameter value, right above the textbox where i enter the value, it lists the invoice number. all i do is retype what it has listed, and press okay and it goes right to what it needs to.
why would the actual invoice number value try to be the parameters name? anyone know why this might be happening? thanks.Unique like everyone else,
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First try renaming your textbox item to txtInvoicenumber and use this one to reference to.
if you are using a list reference the listbox using lstInvoice.column(1) for example. Remember that 0 is the first column in your list;
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Actuator calculation spreadsheet.
I have made the actutator calculation spreadsheet from Gerhard Ringel available for download. Here is a direct link:
Here is Gerhards instructions for use:
"Here is the spreadsheet. to use, just put in the inside diameter of the coil into H2, the outside diameter into I2, the length (width) of the coil into J2, it will show you the weight of the (copper in the) coil in K2, and the average length of each turn in L2.
You can then determine the Ohms and number of turns form your wire size. I have listed the common American wire gauges and a few wires by mm thickness."
"I have added a formula as you suggested on page 2. You can enter the wanted Ohms in M2, the inside diameter in N2, and the width of the coil in O2. It will calculate the total length of the wire, the Outside diameter of the coil, the number of turns required, and the weight of the copper in the coil.
Note that all this is based on just the copper. Actual wire will include the lacquer insulation, so the actual OD and the actual weight will be a little more.
To get the values for other wire sizes, you can input the diameter of the wire in mm in any of C29 or C30 or C31 or C32 and it will do all the calculations for that wire size.
I am not familiar with the standard wire sizes for metric.
Of course I would be happy if you could post this information on your web site. I want this to be available to as many as want to see it.
I have also added a column for the maximum current for a give wire size. I came up with a formula based on various information I could find on the web and some experiments. This is approximate and some folks may want to be a little more aggressive, some a little more conservative."
Thanks a lot to Gerhard for sharing this spreadsheet If anyone has suggestions for improvement or would like to have additional features, just post it here.
Graham or Gordon, please add this thread to the Useful Threads.
Thanks for posting this Michael, I was actually working on something similar because almost every wire chart that I found was a little different.
I was having trouble finding suitable magnet wire, and was going to go ahead and order some 42.5 AWG (smallest they have) from http://www.brigarelectronics.com/ until I found out a 200 Ohm coil with this size magnet wire would weigh almost a gram!
The best one I found so far is based on NEMA standards for magnet wire.
It has a lot of other info like MIN, NOM and MAX for bare copper wire, single build, heavy build and triple build magnet wire as well as resistances and winding tensions.
It has sizes from 24 AWG to 44.5 AWG. It has higher sizes but says "45-58 AWG Theoratical bare wire diameter by resistance".
Last edited by Dindea; Nov 23, 2003 at 07:35 AM.
You can get some wire from Wally World. The cheapest single setting timer has enough for 15 - 200 ohm coils. I can send you some for a few actuators.
Thanks for the table.
Maybe we could add a torque estimate somehow if the same weight magnet as wire is used. Hasnt someone stated a formula for that? Maybe it depends on magnet strength though.
I'll rephrase. Thanks for sharing Gehard's table with us Michael.
It is very useful. I did know that though. Looks like I can wind a 200 ohm coil with .03mm wire at around .05g if then I add a magnet that weighs around .05g, I will have a close to .1g actuator if my bobbin or straw weighs next to nothing. This is good news. I bet I could even make 2 close to that weight with thinner wire and smaller magnets. Let me check.
Thank you for posting the spreadsheet! ( I would not have known how)
If you make an actuator that small, you may not get any useful torque out of it. In the spreadsheet, on page one, there is a hidden column, column "L". You can see it if you select cloumns K and Q, right click the mouse and then select 'unhide'. This column will give you an indication of relative torque.
By measurement, I found that with a NdFeB magnet of about 200mg, a value of 40,000 in column L gives a torque of about 1.4 gcm.
Using the values you gave above, with a 50mg magnet, and assuming you can make the coil inside diameter 4mm, your expected torque would be less than 0.1gcm.
Is that enough?
Maybe I'll add a column with the expected torque based on the weight of the magnet.
P.S. you must have very small fingers!
Probably so I have no grasp on the torque figures yet.
It will be used on planes 6" - 8" span weighing from 5 to 9g.
Anywhere from 12 " ^2 area or less on up.
I have heard of actuators this small being able to control small planes so I am only guessing it will be enough.
I tried unhiding the L column but it did not work.
I'll download again.
I got it to work
for some reason you have to click shift to get it to unhide.
This spreadsheet is great.
I used to wind a 100 or 50 turns or so then
measure resistance and then calculate how many turns
I would have to do to get the desired resistance.
This is a lot better the calculation is done in the spreadsheet.
Thanks again.
Thanks Michael and Gerhard for making this available
I may be wrong but the equation for number of turns seems to be incorrect. In does not include the length of the coil as a variable, how is this possible?
I also see you have calculated the OD by using the volume of the copper required for the wanted resistance and then effectively assumed the wire has a square cross-section to work out the OD. Any idea how much of an error this introduces?
I think this is a really handy idea. I tried to do similar last year and did manage to make an errorlessish equation for the OD and number of turns but I seem to remember there had to be full layers of the coil for it to mean anything. Ah, perhaps I was calculating R from the number of turns. Anyway it involved thinking of the coil as a really long cone. The additional diameter you get per layer was just spread out as a steady gradient. The point is it was a little useless and I decided a proper computer program would be needed to get the results correctly, at least with my mathematics skills.
Hi Graham,
I call it the width of the coil, you call it the length, it has to be entered in J2. It is definitely used in the formulas.
You are right about my assumption that the entire volume of the coil would be occupied by copper. It does not introduce much of an error for the weight, only for the actual outside diameter of the coil. That is typically not critical.
Actually, think of the wire as being hexagonal. Except for the edges, it will pack in completely. a hexagonal wire with the same small diameter (measured from face to face) as the round wire, packs in the same as the round wire, but fills up all the volume in the coil. the difference in cross section beween them is as 2*sqrt(3) to PI, or about 1:1.10, 10 percent. So the actual volume of the coil will consist of 91% copper, and 9% air, so the outside diameter will be about 4.5% larger than expected from a completely packed coil.
Another source of error is not accounting for the weight of the laquer or enamel insulation. I do not think it weighs more than 5% of the total, maybe much less, but I am not sure.
to get the total length of the coil, I just assume that all the turns are the same as the average based on the average diameter of the coil (ID+OD/2). This is actually accurate. Trust me, I have a Master's degree in Math.
Even if there is a small error in the outside diameter, the error is small, probably less than the manufacturing tolerance of the wire.
The most accurate methode of getting the wire size I found is to take a known length of wire, putting a known current thru it, and measuring the voltage drop. you can then get the Ohms per meter, and look it up in the table.
But you already knew that, huh.
Wouldn't it be (inner circumference + outer circumference) /2?
I may be wrong here but for a 6mm ID x 4mm wide coil wound with 652 turns of .03mm wire should be about 200 ohms. I will have to measure the AWG or m to make sure but this is what I wound and I got 200 ohms I think it is from memory so I will go look it up and measure.
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Detrended fluctuation analysis of intertrade durations
The intraday pattern, long memory, and multifractal nature of the intertrade durations, which are defined as the waiting times between two consecutive transactions, are investigated based upon the limit order book data and order flows of 23 liquid Chinese stocks listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2003. An inverse $U$-shaped intraday pattern in the intertrade durations with an abrupt drop in the first minute of the afternoon trading is observed. Based on the detrended fluctuation analysis, we find a crossover of power-law scaling behaviors for small box sizes (trade numbers in boxes) and large box sizes and strong evidence in favor of long memory in both regimes. In addition, the multifractal nature of intertrade durations in both regimes is confirmed by a multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis for individual stocks with a few exceptions in the small-duration regime. The intraday pattern has little influence on the long memory and multifractaility.
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Studying the science of the paternal instinct in those animals could provide insights into humans.
In an online chat Thursday on the ScienceNOW Web site of the journal Science, researchers Kelly Lambert and Karen Bales talked about their research into those good animal fathers, which include prairie voles, California deer mice, titi monkeys and marmosets, the siamang ape and wolves.
Almost all of those species are monogamous, and that might be where the paternal change starts, said Bales, an associate professor of psychology at the University of California-Davis and the unit leader for Brain, Mind and Behavior at the California National Primate Research Center. Two important chemicals involved in bonding with a mate – oxytocin and vasopressin – are also involved in the parental response, she said.
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We've been annual pass holders at the Sealife Adventure Aquarium in Southend for about six months now. At first I wasn't sure about joining it. The Toddler's first visit has been very brief with his main interest being in the penguin shaped bins. Nothing wrong with penguin shaped bins at all (actually, they rock), but I'd rather hoped he's be more interested in the fish. However as he's got older, now reaching the Big Boy age of three his interest in it has grown and it's become a great place to have on our doorstep.
Obviously the penguin bins are still a big deal (he hugged them today. Nice.) but now The Toddler is also starting to show an interest in other things and managed to listen to a whole talk about seahorses as well as watching them being fed. Who knew their digestive system worked quite that fast? We watched puffs of 'smoke' shoot out the backs of their heads!
Despite it being quite small (in fairness this is Southend, not a big city) there seems to be enough that we're still finding new things each time. How on earth did we miss this crocodile?!?
As well as hugging bins and watching seahorses go to the toilet, one of our favourite things there is the interactive floor next to the turtles. In all honestly this bit is a nice rest for me, I sit with Baby Girl while The Toddler 'chases' crabs, splashes through water or (our favourite) jumps on bugs which then squish on the floor. If it's not too busy there I like to join in too!
Obviously there's also plenty of fish to look at, with little sharks, piranhas and pretty much the entire cast of Finding Nemo being among our favourites. The staff are also really friendly and there are lots of talks throughout the day to help you learn more, we really like getting to stroke a crab or a starfish which is a great way to get children more interested in what they are looking at, gotta love a multi-sensory experience!
Being on the seafront and being popular with locals, it obviously gets busy during weekends and holidays, we visited during half term and were able to park right outside the entrance when it opened at ten, have a mooch and a cake but as we left at mid day it was getting rather manic so go early, leave early is as normal my parenting mantra for visiting places.
It's not the cheapest day out, but we often go round twice in one visit and the annual pass makes it a bit of a bargain if you live nearby. And on a rainy or gloomy day by the seaside its a little bit of a lifesaver.
Southend Sealife Adventure Aquarium is located on Eastern Esplanade, Southend. It has a council run car park directly outside it, the most amazing baby changing area ever inside (honestly, go take a look), a nice cafe and a gift shop. It's right on the beach so you can have a paddle and throw stones in the sea. For up to date information on pricing and opening hours, check out the Sealife Adventure website here.


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Photographer's Note
"We all live in a green submarine, a green submarine..."
This is the S 56 Submarine, a part of the museum & memorial to the 'Fighters for the Soviet Power' in the Russian Far East. It's on the Vladivostok waterfront, & if you're so inclined, you can pay to go inside. I didn't.
Some other shots, I found on the web, to compare with:
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And a workshop, with a fake blue sky, for Matthew.
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syd1946 (18663) 2008-01-03 1:26
Ηello Chris,
You choose the best point to enjoy the perpsective through the green submarine straight to the clasic building.Very good lines and shapes as a composition!
Best wishes for the 2008!
siolaw (38294) 2008-01-03 1:30
Hi Chris,
I think the yellow one was more fun to be lived in, nevertheless this one looks impressive! Size is emphasized by the perspective between lamps and sub... Good sharpness and although the weather didn't make you any favors, colors came fine.
Happy 2008 to you and family!
snunney (113572) 2008-01-03 1:33
Hello Chris,
I like the point of view and long perspective in the submarine that draws the eye to the interesting building in the background. Excellent clarity.
ambar_81 (673) 2008-01-03 1:54
Great POV to capture the whole submarine.
Gustaw (21670) 2008-01-03 2:59
Hi, my friend!
Nexy good and interesting photo. I like your monument! Interesting submarine. Russia / east / must be very interesting place!
dip (23892) 2008-01-03 3:21
Hi Chris,
very interesting image,great perspective and POV,good framing too,well done!
danos (105238) 2008-01-03 3:31
Hello Chris,
nice this huge exhibit in front of the museum of Vladivostok.I like the perspective and the POV.I imagine that the building in the background is the museum.Well done Chris.
Have a Happy New Year,Danos
jhm (167678) 2008-01-03 4:32
Hello Chris,
You chose a very nice angle, we see the submarine on a very lovely part green on a place where his is not dangerous.
Nice perspective and very real colour, very well done.
Thanks for sharing.
Best regards,
Budapestman (82620) 2008-01-03 5:22
Hi Chris,
Very spectacular premiére for this submarine with impressive composition. The perspective is very effective, details are interesting. Note is superb, Very well done! Have a nice day
Uhu (8609) 2008-01-03 5:24
I heard and read about this museum, some interesting vessels are gathered there. But it's little too long way to see it from my Uttermost West of Russia (St-Petersburg) to Uttermost East of it (Vladivostok), 11 000 kilometers, ha! :)
Great shot, thanks to you from all the guys in black and golden (submariners)!
UnTrained (0) 2008-01-03 5:55
Hi Chris,
please "greenish" to keep the syllables. :-)
Good POV for a long shot of good details and a pity but reality for the sky. The red flag creates a good contrast to the overall green.
Lieben Gruss, Ulf
Cormac (26565) 2008-01-03 8:25
So this is the famous green submarine! I like the close in wide angle, which really makes the nose of this submarine look huge, and gives some interesting diagonal lines. There is not much you could do about the sky, but I don't find it too disturbing. Nice work!
berek (50508) 2008-01-03 10:49
Hi Chris,
interesting submarine my friend good angel and point of view. take care.
Burak Erek
danyy (0) 2008-01-03 15:21
Les fameux sous-marins russes, ils ont donné du fil à retordre lors de la guerre froide.
Une belle photo documentaire assortie d'une note bien humoristique.
Best regards.
Matthew-Watt (5934) 2008-01-03 16:08
Hello Chris,
Yes, I was saddened when I was not able to see the fab four looking through those portals! Technically, I am not greatly impressed with the photo because of the completely blank sky; it really needed some definition, texture or colour to complete the image. I know that your intentions were to photograph the subject itself and not the surrounds, and also acknowledge that the lighting situation was not ideal. DO you think more could have been done to enhance the sky, or were the conditions just not favorable (looks to be solidly overcast)? What I do like is the angle you have taken this at, the length becomes a good feature and the angled symmetry of the lights is effective. The distant car provides scale. A good piece, but it could have been better...
bakes888 (18499) 2008-01-03 22:53
Hi Chris. Well composed image, the size and scale is made obvious but the POV and camera angle. Good sharpness and detail also. Oh and good blue sky WS ;-). Thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Paul.
alainh (33209) 2008-01-05 0:06
hello Chris
astonishing colour for a submarine !! an ecologist one, certainly ;-)))
but the occasion to make a very good capture.
all my best, Chris, for the newu year !!!
pablominto (53746) 2008-01-05 11:19
Hello Chris,
A dynamic composition with this most unusual subject, not many full size submarine images around!
Well I guess this is not the most advanced submarine...
Well composed and good details!
Pablo -
jemaflor (108461) 2008-01-07 10:33
Hi Chris,
Good angle and very interestinf depth for your shot, well done, interesting subject.
Hi Chris, I like this one very much. Well composed and not easy to fit it all in. Interesting part of history behind this photograph. TFS. Murray.
mafegan (8626) 2011-12-21 17:04
Hello Chris
I am surprised to see that I never commented on this image earlier as I was well of it before I ever visited Vladivostok. In fact it probably inspired us to go on a tour inside the submarine. We clambered through the round pressure doors and peered up a periscope but mostly we saw military items and photos with cyrillic descriptions only. We were only there for one day as we were on a cruise which began in Tiangin and ended in Vancouver. What motivated me to go on our first cruise ever was the possibility of visiting Vladivostok. In retrospect I can say it probably wasn't the highlight of the trip. I will have to return again to sample the pizzas and milkshakes. By the way your white sky resembles the white sky of our visit. Tfs, Marlene
ikeharel (84968) 2016-07-28 21:40
Hello Chris,
Not as yellow as the song goe's, but a monumental remnant from the Soviet era.
It lay calmly, but just think what mission it had back in time.
We do not see many photo from Vladivostok on TE, bravo for this one.
Have a nice weekend,
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- Copyright: Chris Jules (ChrisJ) (126607)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2007-07-31
- Categories: Nature
- Camera: Pentax Me Super, Pentax A 28mm
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- Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
- Date Submitted: 2008-01-03 1:21
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"There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect." — Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States.
In my last column, I related a story of a local person who, in her mind, had erected a severe limitation, and once she stretched herself she found out the barrier was indeed all in her head.
So it is with all of us. Getting past the mental controller is a mounting challenge. This is when "Just do it anyway" may come in handy because the internal editor works 24/7.
Hey, you're ugly.
Now that I have your attention, do you give little credence to compliments you receive but perk up when you are being criticized? It's natural for most of us. Darn — that praise takes us outside our comfort zones every time!
This week, pay attention to the times someone says or does something nice. It doesn't have to be an outright compliment, but maybe something as small as waiting for you to go before them or holding the door at the grocery. See if you can allow yourself to soak in those nice words or gestures for a moment rather than offering a quick thank you and moving on. When you can enjoy the nice aspects of life, pat yourself on the back. You've moved beyond your habit. These small everyday actions may be a step outside your comfort zone and could be huge in the long run.
For some, a trip outside the zone every now and then becomes a game and not much more.
"Let me see if I can do this. I haven't been outside my CZ for a while."
The purpose of getting outside our comfort zones is to stretch enough to be able to stay there, making that our new residence. This is not possible if we visit the area once in a while. Remember, the directions on how to stay outside the box are written outside the box where change takes place and where we need to be.
Someone told me last week that we are outside our comfort zones all the time. I had to disagree because I know people who go to great lengths to stay inside their comfort zones. I used to be one of these people. Some of us require constant reminding to continue spending time outside the zone. Some of us need a two-by-four over the head to get the message.
Some of us simply don't care.
As a teacher, I believe learning is not possible anywhere but outside our comfort zones.
My mother's favorite saying was, "Good, better, best, never let it rest. Get your good better and your better best."
It would have been super if she had helped me understand about getting outside my comfort zone, since her words were instructing me to continue growing, learning and stretching. But she made sure we were tucked nicely inside our comfort zones all the time.
So, what does it take to stay outside the zone, to live life to the max every day? To so eagerly anticipate waking each morning that it's difficult to go to sleep at night? What are you doing right now that makes you a little uncomfortable?
Someone told me it takes too much energy to stay outside the zone. "Being excited all the time is tiring."
This person has watched others experiencing the amazing gifts outside their zones and made a judgment. Getting outside your zone requires passion to live, to grow, to inspire, but it doesn't require bursting energy all the time. It is who you allow yourself to be minute to minute. Your next minute is a blank page and you can fill that page with anything, or nothing.
Can you identify what takes you outside your comfort zone? Is it the desire to make a change? Could it be a dare? Curiosity?
It is different for everyone. Focusing on what motivates you to move outside your comfort zone will take you there more often and it's like anything else — practice, practice, practice. We think nothing of our favorite football team (Broncos) practicing the same plays over and over all week long so they can blow the socks off the opposition, but it seems to be asking too much of ourselves to practice something in order to get better at it.
As Nick Seitz, editor of Golf Digest says, "The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition."
In our case it's the CZ.
I've seen a product for dogs and cats called "Comfort Zone" (cool name!). Its purpose is to infuse the air with a fine mist that the animal inhales, and I quote from the material, "his stress level is reduced making his behavior more desirable." In other words, he is back in his comfort zone. I wonder if it has the same effect on humans. Have you stayed outside your comfort zone long enough that your behavior has made someone else uneasy? Ah, this may be where the true problem lies: others' views of us.
This week, focus on what it is that motivates you to get outside your comfort zone. Whatever it is, see if you can make it a part of you. Carry it in your pocket, tattoo it on the inside of your eye lids, whatever it takes to stay outside your comfort zone, stretching yourself. The Broncos beating the opposition is nothing compared to what you can do.
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"The Lazarus Effect" belongs to the subset of horror movies that slap down scientists for playing god and messing with the natural order of things, a lineage including "The Fly" and other classics as well as a veritable cottage industry of B and C-grade pictures.
It sure isn't one of the memorable ones, despite some quality casting (Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Donald Glover, Evan Peters, Sarah Bolger) and an efficient, no-frills approach that wraps things up in about 80 clean minutes.
Duplass heads a university research team doing what dastardly research teams do: developing some sort of gobbledygook way of raising the dead.
Their method works on a dog, who suddenly becomes very, very moody. So we know what's coming when circumstances demand that it be used on Wilde's Zoe.
There's just not enough to the movie, directed by David Gelb ("Jiro Dreams of Sushi") and written by Luke Dawson and Jeremy Slater. It goes through the motions without even generating sufficient energy to raise your pulse, let alone produce the kind of scares that constitute a memorable horror movie.
There are some bland chases through the darkened corridors of the underground lab, a very halfhearted attempt to raise the film's psychological profile by giving Zoe a tortured backstory.
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