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Mercy softball coach Tony Calcagni, who led Mercy to a 23-5 record and a Class LL runner-up finish in his first year as coach at the Middletown school, has resigned after four games for personal reasons. "I've got a couple personal issues, family stuff, that will probably take some time to get through. They asked me to take a leave of absence, but I didn't think that was fair to the kids," Calcagni, a veteran coach, said Thursday. Calcagni said he will continue to be an assistant coach for the Mercy basketball team.


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This invention is related to application Ser. No. 288,660-Pending entitled "Firing and Milling Method for Producing A Manganese Activated Zinc Silicate Phosphor," which is filed concurrently herewith.
This invention relates to a method for producing a mangnaese activated zinc silicate phosphor wherein a source of colloidal silica of high surface area is blended with the starting components from which the phosphor is made. This results in reproducible production of high quality phosphor brightness. Moreover, blending time is reduced and there is greater flexibility in the Zn+Mn/Si mole ratio that can be used. This allows for more flexibilitly in formulation and blending and better reproducibility in manufacturing the phosphor. The invention relates also to coating the phosphor with an aluminum oxide coating to improve maintenance of the phosphor.
In the production of manganese activated zinc silicate phosphors, excess silicic acid with long blending times are used with fluxes and long firing times in order to achieve a good reaction. This phosphor requires a high manganese concentration that is necessary for high luminescence efficiency and it is difficult to achieve a good blend especially with the zinc component. Sometimes this phosphor manufactured by these methods results in a brown or yellow discoloration and very poor fluoroescent lamps. This is due possibly to minute traces of unincorporated manganese with the unreacted zinc component.
In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for reproducibly producing manganese activated zinc silicate phosphor particles, which comprises dry blending a mixture of components consisting essentially of zinc oxide, silicic acid, a source of manganese, ammonium chloride, ammonium fluoride, and silica, wherein the Zn+Mn/Si mole ratio is from about 1.95 to about 2.02, wherein the silica is colloidal and has a surface area of from about 50 to about 410 m2 per gram, and wherein the colloidal silica makes up from about 0.01% to about 1.0% by weight of the mixture, and firing the resulting dry blend of components in a nitrogen atmosphere at a temperature of from about 1200° C. to about 1300° C. for a sufficient time to produce the phosphor wherein the phosphor exhibits reproducible brightness.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the preferred steps in the process of the present invention.
For a better understanding of the present invention, together with other and further objects, advantages and capabilities thereof, reference is made to the following disclosure and appended claims in connection with the above described drawing and description of some of the aspects of the invention.
The phosphor produced by the process of this invention is manganese activated zinc silicate having the formula Zn2 SiO4 :Mn.
The first step in making the phosphor is to dry blend a mixture of the starting components which will be subsequently fired to produce the phosphor. The starting components are zinc oxide, silicic acid, a source of manganese, preferably manganese carbonate, and fluxes such as ammonium chloride, ammonium fluoride and tungstic oxide. Tungstic oxide improves the maintenance of the phosphor as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,728,450. A typical composition of this mixture is given in the example that ensues. The mole ratio of Zn+Mn/Si is from about 1.95 to about 2.02. In addition to the above components, a source of colloidal silica is added to make the mixture. The content of this silica in the mixture ranges from about 0.01% to about 1.0% by weight and preferably from about 0.03% to about 0.3% by weight. This range of silica content allows the resulting phosphor to have reproducible brightness when tested in fluorescent lamps. The silica is colloidal and characterized by a high surface area. The surface area is from about 50 to about 410 m2 per gram, preferably from about 100 to about 300 m2 per gram and most preferably from about 175 to about 225 m2 per gram. A preferred source of this type of silica is manufactured by Degussa, Inc. New York, N.Y. under the trade name of "Aerosil". According to a technical bulletin by Degussa, Aerosil® is a colloidal silica manufactured by a flame hydrolysis of silicon tetrachloride in the gas phase. Aerosil® is supplied in various surface areas as designated by the number after the name. Especially suited to the purposes of the present invention is Aerosil® which has a high surface area of about 200±25 m2 /g with a primary particle size of about 12 millimicrons. This is a very pure silica which has unusual electrical and optical properties.
The resulting blended mixture is then fire in nitrogen at a temperature of from about 1200° C. to about 1300° C. and preferably at about 1250° C. for a sufficient time preferably about 2.5 hours to produce the phosphor.
The phosphor is preferably subjected to light milling to clean the surfaces of the phosphor particles and to remove any surface manganese which is present. By light milling is meant that the duration of milling time is relatively short, that is, the duration is typically from about 20 minutes to about 30 minutes. The milling is done preferably by milling with citric acid, washing with water, filtering, drying and classifying such as by sieving to obtain the desired particle size for use in the application.
The addition of colloidal silica to the formulation blend as described above achieves a more intimate blend and results in reproducible and high quality phosphor lots when evaluated in a fluoroscent lamp. Table 1 exhibits lamp data on nine lots made with 0.1% by weight colloidal silica in the mixture. Over about 5,000 lumens at zero hours are achieved in six of the eight lots (1-1, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6, 1-7, and 1-8) with the remaining three lots achieving over about 4900 lumens at zero hours (1-2, 1-3, and 1-9). Table 1 also demonstrates that this high luminosity is achieved at lower NH4 F concentrations (1/2, 1/4), by drum blending half the normal time (DB, 8 hr) or by V-blending (a preferred blending technique). These results are contrasted with previous lots as listed on Table 2 that are formulated without collidal silica. These lots are inferior when evaluated in a fluorescent lamp and occasionally result in a brown fired cake. V-blending does not result in high luminosity phosphors as exhibited in lots 2-3 and 2-14, although this is normally a preferred blending technique.
TABLE 1__________________________________________________________________________Phosphor Formulated with 0.1% by Weight Colloidal SilicaFormulation Blending Firing Powder Lamp Data# NH.sub.4 F NH.sub.4 Cl Type Time Temp. wt Lumens__________________________________________________________________________1-1 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std 7.7 50231-2 1/2* Std DB 8 hr 8 min Std 8.2 49321-3 1/2 Std DB 8 hr 8 min Std 6.4 49781-4 Std Std DB 8 hr 8 min Std 7.6 51151-5 Std Std DB 8 hr 8 min Std 8.1 51091-6 Std Std VB 1 hr 8 min Std 6.1 50701-7 1/4** 2.12 ×*** DB 8 hr 8 min Std 8.9 51111-8 1/2 Std VB 11/4 hr 8 min Std 6.4 50731-9 1/2 Std VB 11/4 hr 8 min Std 6.4 4906__________________________________________________________________________ Std -- Standard concentration or standard temperature DB -- Drum blending VB -- VBlending *1/2 of Std **1/4 of Std ***2.12 × Std
TABLE 2__________________________________________________________________________Phosphor Formulated Without Colloidal SilicaFormulation Blending Firing Powder Lamp Data# NH.sub.4 F NH.sub.4 Cl Type Time Temp. wt Lumens__________________________________________________________________________2-1 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std -- 43262-2 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std -- 46992-3 Std Std VB 1 hr 7 min Std -- 44192-4 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std -- 46642-5 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std 8.3 48202-6 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std 9.7 47392-7 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std 10.6 45122-8 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std 10.6 45122-9 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std 10.3 45652-10 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std 11.5 47822-11 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std 11.7 46662-12 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std 12.0 48052-13 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std 11.9 47192-14 Std Std VB 1 hr 7 min Std 13.3 48262-15 Std Std DB 16 hr 7 min Std 10.1 4836__________________________________________________________________________
To demonstrate that the addition of colloidal silica improves the intimacy of the blend a test of reduced blending time is completed using a drum blender. The blending time is reduced from the typical 16 hours to about 4 hours when the colloidal silica is used according to the present invention.
Table 3 below shows the length of drum blending time with addition of Aerosil® on lamp performance.
TABLE 3______________________________________ Blending 0 Hr. Lamp Time Powder OutputSample (Hr.) weight Lumens Comments______________________________________3-1 4 6.5 50713-2 8 7.1 50153-3 10 7.4 50423-4 12 7.0 50653-5 14 6.6 50433-6 16 7.2 4928 Normal blending time Control3-7 -- 4.9 4367 Commercial phosphor- lamp control______________________________________
It can be seen that when Aerosil® is used reproducible brightness of over about 5000 lumens is attained with less blending time (a decrease from about 16 hours to about 4 hours). As previously demonstrated in Table 2, without Aerosil® a 16 hour blending time does not reproducibly achieve a high lumen quality.
The incorporation of the colloidal silica into the initial mixture of components results in greater flexibility of the mole ratio of Zn+Mn /Si than when this silica is not used.
Prior to the present invention, the mole ratio of Zn+Mn/Si is limited to 1.97 to achieve a high degree of reactivity and good quality brightness in a lamp. With the addition of colloidal silica according to the present invention greater latitude in the mole ratio is possible. For example, with colloidal silica, a mole ratio of Zn+Mn/Si of >2 such as 2.02, a brightness of >5000 lumens at zero hours is achieved when the phosphor is tested in a lamp. The brightness is high also at lower mole ratios of Zn+Mn/Si of, for example, 1.99, 1.98, and 1.95.
It is believed that the advantage of the incorporation of the colloidal silica into the mixture is that the reaction of the zinc with the manganese and the silicon is more complete as opposed to incompletness when the colloidal silica is not used. This incomplete reaction is indicated by a brownish color in the fired material or poor luminosity in fluorescent lamps. The brown material contains unreacted zinc oxide with manganese present.
Once the manganese activated zinc silicate phosphor is made as described above, the phosphor particles can be coated with a continuous coating of aluminum oxide. This coated phosphor exhibits increased maintenance or longer life than the phosphor produced absent the coating.
The advantages associated with the phosphor of the present invention are illustrated by the lamp performance of the phosphor when particles are individually coated with a continuous protective coating. Individually and continuously coated phosphor particles are prepared by depositing a contiuous, nonparticulate, conformal, aluminum oxide coating on the outer surfaces of the individual phosphor particles. Such coating can be applied by coating methods such as, for example, chemical vapor deposition or preferably chemical vapor deposition in a fluidized bed. Most preferably, the continuously coated individual phosphor particles are prepared by the method described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,585,673, Apr. 29, 1986. That patent is herein incorporated by reference.
The particles of the phosphor of the present invention are individually and continuously coated with a nonparticulate, conformal, continuous coating of alumina using the coating method of U.S. Pat. No. 4,585,673. Prior to coating, the phosphor is admixed with a fluidizing aid, such as aluminum oxide C (manufactured by DeGussa, Inc.) The admixture contains about 0.05% by weight fluidizing aid with respect to the phosphor. About two hundred sixty grams of the admixture are loaded into the reactor. The coating method parameters are:
______________________________________Carrier gas (N.sub.2) 500 cc/mmAlkyl bubbler flow (N.sub.2) 150 cc/mmOxygen flow 500 cc/mmOxygen carrier (N.sub.2) 50 cc/mmHot zone (Highest temperature) 500° C.______________________________________
The coating precurser material is trimethyl aluminum. The calculated aluminum oxide coating thickness is about 100 Angstroms. The surface area of the uncoated phosphor is about 0.39 m2 /g which is within the preferred range of 0.31-0.39 meters/gram. High resolution scanning electron micrographs of coated phosphor particles show that the aluminum oxide coating is conformal. The coating growth is enhanced where fluidizing aid particles adhere to the phosphor particle surface during fluidizing and the coating process. Augur analysis confirm complete coverage of the surface of the individual phosphor particles with aluminum oxide. "Continuous" as used herein to describe the aluminum oxide coating herein means nonparticulate, i.e., the aluminum oxide coating surrounding each phosphor particle does not consist of individual aluminum oxide particles.
The key features of the aluminum oxide coated phosphor particles of the present invention are: (1) the continuous, or nonparticulate, nature of the coating on each particle, (2) the conformal nature of the coating on each particle, replicating submicron features from naturally occurring on the uncoated phosphor particles, and (3) that each phosphor particle is individually coated.
These key features of the coated phosphor particles of the present invention are established and/or supported by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Augur analysis, reflection electron diffraction techniques, and BET measurements.
Scanning Electron Microscopy of the coated particles shows that the particles are individually coated, that the aluminum oxide coating on the phosphor particles is continuous and does non consist of aluminum oxide particles, and that the coating is conformal, replicating the submicron features of the underlying phosphor particle.
Augur analysis indicates that the coating provids substantially complete coverage of the outer surface of the phosphor particles.
Reflection electron diffraction shows the aluminum oxide coating to be noncrystalline, i.e., amorphous.
BET measurements support the conformal and continuous nature of the aluminum oxide coating the extent the surface area of the coated phosphor is not appreciably changed when compared to the surface area of the uncoated phosphor. If the coating were particulate in nature, the surface area of the coated phosphor would be significantly increased. BET measurements also support that the phosphor particles are individually coated.
The coated phosphor particles are incorporated into a 40 Watt T12 fluorescent lamp without conventional "milling", using wet-sieving techniques and an organic suspension system. The phosphor coating is applied to the inner surface of the lamp envelope and the lamp is otherwise processed using conventional lamp processing techniques.
The coated phosphor particles can be annealed in an air atmosphere at a temperature of from about 700° C. to about 850° C. for a period of from about 15 minutes to about 20 hours.
To more fully illustrate this invention, the following nonlimiting example is presented.
The following amounts of materials are weighted out:
______________________________________Material Mole ratio Weight (kg)______________________________________ZnO 2.00000 25.0620Silicic acid 1.07700 9.9650MnCO.sub.3 0.13170 2.3310NH.sub.4 Cl 0.0465 0.3830NH.sub.4 F 0.00400 0.0228WO3 0.00116 0.0248Aerosil ® 0.00432 0.0400 Total 37.8286______________________________________
These materials are addd to a 50 gallon drum with 12 kg of milling media. This material is drum blended for about 16 hours. The milling media are removed from the above blend. The blended material is fired in a continuous furnace in alumina crucibles at about 1250° C. for about 2.5 hours in N2. The firing is ramped up about to 1250° C. in 2.0 hours and the fired material is cooled to room temperature in about 3.5 hours. The fired material is then milled with citric acid, washed, filtered, dried and sieved. The results of this example are given as No. 6 in Table 3.
About 200 kg of Zn2 SiO4 :Mn phosphor are produced with the addition of Aerosil® according to the procedure described in Example 1 using production equipment. The resulting fluorescent lamp output with this phosphor at 0 hours is about 5237 and about 5113 lumens when evaluated in an organic or water base slurry system respectively.
A chemical vapor deposited (CVD) aluminum oxide coating is applied to manganese activated zinc silicate phosphors produced using colloidal silica, utilizing a fluid bed coating technique. As shown in Table 5, a blend of about 300 g to about 375 g of the phosphor and about 0.05% by weight of a fluidization aid such as Aluminum Oxide C is loaded into a fluid bed column comprising a 4 mm ID quartz tube having a quartz frit fused to the bottom acting as a distributor plate. A 32 mm quartz agitator disc is positioned inside the quartz tube. the agitator disc is attached to a vibromixer agitator. About 50 mm from the base of the agitator a series of five holes of about 20 mils in diameter (about 0.5 mm) are circumferentially located. The agitator disc itself is located about 25 mm above the quartz distributor. A series of about 61/4 inch copper coil windings are located immediately around the frit located at the bottom of the quartz tube such that one coil is below the distributor and the remaining five coils are above the distributor plate. The total length of the coil assembly is about 55 mm of which about 45 mm are above the distributor plate. In addition, there is a copper foil of about 70 mm which is sandwiched between the cooling coil and the quartz tube to provide improved heat transfer. In addition there is insulation located above the copper coil to further reduce heat transfer between the heated and the unheated portions of the tube. This insulation comprises about 50 mm of 1" Fiberfax roll insulation. The edge of The Fiberfax insulation matches exactly the level between the unheated and heated part of the 3 Zone Lindberg furnace, that is, below the bottom and center zones of the furnace. The furnace zones are 6", 12", and 6" in length, and a spike thermocouple is located at the midpoint of each zone. The operating conditions for the fluid bed CVD aluminum oxide coating of the phosphor are shown in Table 4. The height of the phosphor bed is from about 300 mm to about 400 mm. The amount of phosphor charged into the column is from about 300 g to about 375 g. The external thermocouple is located against the outside wall of the quartz column level with the 5 holes in the agitator shaft where the oxygen/inert gas mixture enters the fluidized phosphor bed. The temperatures recorded by the external thermocouple during the coating operation range from about 342° C. to about 435° C. as shown in Table 4. The first two furnace zones are set for about 500° C. and the last zone is shut off. The flow rates shown in Table 4 ranging from about 250 cc/min of an inert gas such as nitrogen, argon, helium, neon, or mixtures thereof for the bubbler and from about 350 cc/min to about 400 cc/min of the inert gas for the carrier are the flow rates that pass through the distributor plate at the bottom of the quartz column. A fluidized phosphor bed is formed by passing the inert gas upwardly through the phosphor particles in order to suspend the particles in the inert gas stream. In addition to supporting the phosphor particles in a fluidized bed, the inert gas functions as a carrier gas for the vaporized trimethyl aluminum. The inert gas is passed through the bubbler containing liquid trimethyl aluminum at about 30° C. and the liquid trimethyl aluminum is vaporized into the inert gas before passing through the distributor plate into the fluidized phosphor bed. The vaporized trimethyl aluminum envelopes the fluidized phosphor particles. A continuous protective aluminum oxide coating is formed on the surfaces of the individual phosphor particles when the vaporized trimethyl aluminum is exposed to oxygen and a temperature sufficient for a reaction between oxygen and the vaporized trimethyl aluminum to occur. The oxygen as an inert gas/oxygen mixture is introduced into the fluidized bed through holes circumferentially located on the shaft of the vibrating mixer above the vibrating disc. The coating times range from about 5.67 hours to about 7.5 hours as indicated in Table 4. Once the phosphor particles are coated with a continuous coating of aluminum oxide, they are transferred into a quartz boat and annealed at about 750° C. in static air and held at that temperature for about 4 hours in a Rapid-Temp furnace. There is about a one hour linear ramp and cool down time programmed into the annealing heating cycle. The annealing temperature can be from about 700° C. to about 850° C. and the period of time held at temperature can be from about 15 minutes to about 20 hours. After the annealing step, at least one layer of the phospor is coated in a 40W-T12 lamp using a conventional water base suspension system. In addition, at least one layer of a blend of phosphors one of which being the phosphor of this invention can be coated in a 40W-T12 lamp. The coated 40W-T12 lamp is then processed into a finished 40W-T12 lamp. The coated phosphor exhibits improved maintenace at high lumen output as opposed to uncoated phosphors.
TABLE 4__________________________________________________________________________Process Conditions for CVD Aluminum Oxide CoatingOf Phosphor Particles Flow rates (cc/min)Bed Height Bed Ext. T.C. To Distributor To Agitator CoatingNo at Temp. Loading °C. Bubbler Carrier O.sub.2 /N.sub.2 Time__________________________________________________________________________4-1 300 mm 300 g 370-380 250 400 500/50 7.5 hr4-2 320 mm 300 g 380-413 300 350 500/50 6.25 hr4-3 320 mm 320 g 400-413 300 350 500/50 6.58 hr4-4 300-350 mm 315 g 365-405 350 300 500/50 5.67 hr4-5 330 mm 300 g 342-356 300 350 500/50 6.25 hr4-6 400 mm 375 g 390-435 350 300 500/50 6.75 hr__________________________________________________________________________
While there has been shown and described what are at present considered the preferred embodiments of the invention, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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The Government's bonfire of the quangos was designed to save the taxpayer money but deals for the heads of abandoned quangos is expected to cost the public purse £60 billion.
Eight Regional Development Agencies were scrapped at the end of last month with the average pay-out to staff working out as £33,000.
But a number of chief executives received far more despite walking straight into new roles, according to the Daily Mail.
Final accounts for the RDAs show a total redundancy bill of £61.2 million for more than 1,800 staff including senior officers.
Among the biggest beneficiaries was Ian Williams, deputy chief executive at One North East, who received £374,542 when he left at the end of last year. The deal was more than three times his salary.
Elsewhere, Mark Pearce, the corporate director at Advantage West Midlands, took home £312,147 and a £13,500 bonus after taking early retirement. He then took on the position of managing director at Hereford Enterprise Zone.
Oona Muirhead, chief executive of the South East of England Development Agency, had already started a new job as a director at a defence industry body ADS when she took £282,054 in early retirement at the end of last month.
Former Tory Cabinet minister John Redwood told the Mail: "I find it very worrying that payments are being made on this scale, particularly in the case of the RDAs.
"We said in opposition that we didn't want these agencies, that we would shut them down and that people should not expect to have their contracts paid.
"Ministers and officials should be negotiating a good deal for the taxpayer, not showering people with so much money that they never have to work again just because they happen to have been lucky enough to have a public sector job."
Earlier this month, the Telegraph reported how staff at the East of England Development Agency awarded themselves £1,000 as a bonus for overtime as they closed down the body.
The National Audit Office refused to sign off the accounts after finding the unauthorised pay-outs.
A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills spokesman said the RDA deals were paid out against the £200 million a year spent on administration.
He added 515 RDA staff had been transferred to other agencies and were not made redundant.


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Can you transfer songs from an iPhone 4 to an iPod nano?
- Asked by Jessica L from Vincent
3 Answers from the Community
YES you can.. If you pirchased songs on iphone you just need to transfer your purchases from iphone to itunes (google how to do that). If you got songs on any other way you need to transfer them on your computer and then on ipod search google for program called "iexplorer" with that you can transfer songs from iphone to pc or mac :)
- Answered by Jozica K
- Apr 18, 2013
The easiest way to do it would be to load all the songs from your iPhone to iTunes (if you haven't done so already), and simply load that content on your iPod. iTunes can walk you through the whole process.
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- Apr 18, 2013
using itunes on your computer yes u can
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Control Engineering's Process Instrumentation Enewsletter -- October/November 2000
In this issue:
- Here we go again!
- Instrumentation & Control 2001
- Truly fine environmental citizen
- Measuring density
- Rising gas prices got you down?
- Increasing use of digital valve positioners
- Archive
Here we go again!
Welcome to the sophomore effort of the Instrumentation and Process Sensing newsletter. I have heard from a number of readers and, quite frankly, I welcome all comments. Nothing is tougher on an author than thinking information is being sent into a vacuum. Let me know you're out there!
Instrumentation & Control 2001
Got some extra frequent flyer miles? The first ever Confederation of Indian Industry Instrumentation & Controls 2001-an international exhibition and conference-will be a focused business fair during India Expo 2001. It is scheduled from February 15th to 19th at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The show, which is expected to draw 300,000 visitors, will feature 2,500 exhibitors from over 50 countries. Instrumentation & Control 2001 will cover a wide range of instruments and systems for testing, analyzing, and measuring of physical, chemical, and biological properties. Instrumentation for monitoring process parameters such as temperature, pressure, flow, and level will also be showcased. More information is available online at www.ciionline.org or email email@example.com .
Truly fine citizen
Levittown, Pa. -Not all sources of industrial atmospheric discharge are potentially polluting or toxic. However, they can raise flags with neighbors as to the environmental friendliness of an operation. Remaining a good environmental citizen often requires performance verification of process equipment using periodic opacity testing. Datatest Inc. offers a portable opacity monitor that is intended for performance checks of precipitators and baghouses. It can be also used to periodically check multiple stack sources. The lightweight (14 lb) microprocessor-based device features a pulsed LED transceiver with probe. Its control unit has an 80-character backlit LCD with keypad for programming and instrumentation operation. The unit comes with a recorder and serial port interfaces. A purge air blower with hose in optional.
Measuring density
Many industrial processes require continuous measurement of density to operate efficiently and guarantee product quality. According to Jonas Berge of Smar Singapore Pte Ltd. (Houston, Tex., Sertaozinho, Brazil), this includes sugar mills, breweries, wineries, dairy and other beverage industries, chemical and petrochemical industries. In many process industries, density is one of the best indicators of product composition.
Density is traditionally measured by determining the differential pressure between two points with a known vertical separation. Density is directly proportional to differential pressure in this instrument configuration. Because differential pressure is measured, the effect of level or ullage pressure is canceled out and it does not matter if the vessel is open or closed. The level cannot fall below the upper diaphragm, however, if this method is to work. Mr. Berge points out that Smar produces a single integrated density transmitter based on this principle. The single unit reduces process penetrations and potential leak sites, can normalize actual density to a reference temperature condition, and internally and accurately computes density values in °Brix, °Gay-Lussac, °Plato, percent concentration, and other units control engineers may have forgotten about after Chemistry 102.
Rising gas prices
got you down, bunky?
Here in the Midwest gasoline prices have enjoyed an unprecedented hike over the past couple of months. In fact, the Chicago Metro area-my home base-has taken the brunt of the increase. Even with the prices finally moderating, local media continues to cover the latest 'gas crisis' and the reasons for it ad nauseum. At the heart of the story is inadequate refinery capacity, an out-of-commission pipeline, numerous gas taxes, possible price gouging, reformulated gasoline, etc., etc.
No matter how this situation plays out, one thing is for sure-low-sulfur reformulated gasoline does exist and can be accurately analyzed. Used by gasoline analysts to monitor for sulfur contamination, the Model 9000S Total Sulfur Analyzer manufactured by ANTEK Instruments Inc. (Houston, Tex.) uses patented combustion/fluorescence technology. The device is said to providefast analysis time and both application and calibration versatility. The 9000S complies with all apparatus requirements specified in the recently revised ASTM D-5453-00 test method to provide reliable sulfur measurement.
Gosh, I feel much better knowing one cause of the controversy is rooted in fact. They don't call me Dick 'Grassy Knoll' Johnson for nothing.
Increasing use of
digital valve positioners
Dedham, Mass.-According to its 'Control Valve Worldwide Outlook' study, the ARC Advisory Group has determined that the worldwide digital valve positioner market will nearly triple by the year 2005. Senior analyst, David Clayton concludes, 'manufacturers in the process industries are realizing the numerous benefits offered through the integration of intelligent positioners with Plant Asset Management systems.' The study sees digital valve positioners as the key to creating a predictive maintenance environment, expanding the 'health monitoring' that has been used with pumps and motors for years. Mr. Clayton says, 'The recent flood of digital valve positioner products is the leading force driving growth in the worldwide control valve market.'
Archive, or 'Honey, I'd
Like to Shrink Those Instruments.'
Reported in Control Engineering magazine 45 years ago. 'Highlight of the recent Electronics Components Conference held in Los Angeles was a spirited after dinner debate on whether or not 'Transistors will soon replace vacuum tubes.' Some sample quotes include:
Dr. Louis Ridenour (International Telemetering): 'The electronic tube is a monstrous and improbable device that burns out quickly.'
Dr. W.R. Baker (General Electric): 'Tube costs will be reduced by use of automation in manufacturing.'
Dr. Harper Q. North (Pacific Semiconductor): 'The cost of transistors is going down so rapidly that there might be a period of temporary overshoot in which manufacturers would pay users to take transistors.'
Major General C.S. Irvine (Air Material Command): 'Transistors are like a new baby that has just learned to say 'goo.''
'At the end of the contest, the applause meter (using vacuum tubes) favored the anti-tube faction. A visiting debating professor's report stated that 'both sides showed complete lack of timidity, failed to get to the point, contradicted themselves, and frequently agreed with the opposition.' He gave the negative fewer demerits. Dr. Simon Ramo (from Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., the moderator) called the results 'debatable.''
Hooray for the eventual electronic component miniaturization that followed this debate!
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Fernan Lake health advisory lifted
Thu., Nov. 7, 2013, 9:21 a.m.
Water in Fernan Lake is again safe for fishing, other recreation and domestic water supplies.
The Panhandle Health District has lifted an earlier blue-green algae advisory issued for the lake near Coeur d'Alene.
The algae can produce toxins harmful to people and animals. Officials from Idaho Department of Environmental Quality have been monitoring the lake and they now confirm the concentration of the blue-green algae in Fernan Lake is no longer a health concern.


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HOUSTON — Former Oak Ridge Trojan and current Cal Berkeley freshman Kyle Porter posted career highs in innings and strikeouts Sunday night to pitch the Bears to an 8-0 victory over Baylor in the NCAA Houston Regional playoffs at Reckling Park.
Earlier Sunday, Cal eliminated eighth-ranked host Rice 6-3 to set up a rematch with Baylor, which upended the Bears 6-4 to open the tournament.
Porter got the call to keep the Bears' season alive and he responded with six and two-thirds innings of shutout ball. The left-hander allowed just three hits while striking out nine to improve to 5-0 on the season. Cal gave Porter a 1-0 lead with a run in the sixth before exploding for seven in the eighth to put Baylor away.
"The performance of the tournament," is how Bears' head coach David Esquer labeled Porter's effort to the Cal online press release following the game.
Porter could get a shot to pitch again as the Bears pulled out a dramatic last-inning 9-8 win over Baylor Monday night. The victory advanced Cal to the Super Regionals to host Dallas Baptist in a best-of-three series beginning June 11 at Santa Clara's Stephen Schott Baseball Stadium.
The first two games will be televised on ESPNU and if necessary, the final can be seen on either ESPN2 or ESPNU.


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Research Topics
Dennis J Scotti
Affiliation: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Country: USA
Detail Information
- Best practices for preempting payment denialsDennis J Scotti
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, N J, USA
Healthc Financ Manage 57:72-80, 82. 2003....
- Links among high-performance work environment, service quality, and customer satisfaction: an extension to the healthcare sectorDennis J Scotti
Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, USA
J Healthc Manag 52:109-24; discussion 124-5. 2007..Theoretical and practical implications of our findings, including suggestions of how healthcare managers can implement changes to their work environments, are discussed...
- The relationship between patient satisfaction and inpatient admissions across teaching and nonteaching hospitalsDaniel J Messina
CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, New Jersey, USA
J Healthc Manag 54:177-89; discussion 189-90. 2009..The article concludes with a set of recommendations for strengthening patient satisfaction and organizational performance...
- Cognitive predictors of satisfaction with hospital inpatient service encounters among the elderly: a matter of trustDennis J Scotti
Center for Health Care Management Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, USA
J Hosp Mark Public Relations 14:3-22. 2003....
- Satisfaction with medical care among elderly patients: a review of research findings with implications for management practice and future inquiryDennis J Scotti
Center for Health Care Management Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, USA
J Hosp Mark Public Relations 15:3-32. 2005..Implications for management practice and directions for future research are discussed...
- Structural relationships between work environment and service quality perceptions as a function of customer contact intensity: implications for human service strategyDennis J Scotti
Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA
J Health Hum Serv Adm 32:195-234. 2009..In both contexts, managerial attention to high-performance work systems and customer-orientation has the potential to favorably impact perceptions of service quality, amplify consumer satisfaction, and enhance operational efficiency...
- Effects of high-involvement work systems on employee satisfaction and service costs in veterans healthcareJoel Harmon
Center for Action Research, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA
J Healthc Manag 48:393-406; discussion 406-7. 2003..2 million in savings for an average VHA facility...


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Justice Department today announced that on March 7, it will monitor primary elections in Brazos, Ector, Hale and Travis Counties, Texas, to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act.
Under the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department is authorized to ask the Office of Personnel Management to send federal observers to areas that are specially covered in the Act itself or by a federal court order. Federal observers will be assigned to monitor polling place activities in Ector County pursuant to a federal court order entered on August 26, 2005.
The observers will watch and record activities during voting hours at polling locations in the county. A Civil Rights Division attorney will coordinate the federal activities and maintain contact with local election officials.
In addition, Justice Department personnel will monitor elections in Brazos, Hale and Travis Counties.
Each of the monitored counties has an obligation to provide voting information in Spanish pursuant to Section 203 or Section 4(f)(4) of the Voting Rights Act. Jurisdictions covered by these provisions must provide all election information, ballots and assistance in the language of each minority group for which they are covered. The observers and monitors will gather information concerning compliance.
Each year, the Justice Department deploys hundreds of observers and attorneys to monitor elections across the country. In 2004, a record 1,463 federal observers and 533 Department personnel were sent to monitor 163 elections in 105 jurisdictions in 29 states. This compares to the 640 federal observers and 103 Department personnel deployed in 2000.
To file complaints about discriminatory voting practices, including acts of harassment or intimidation, voters may call the Voting Section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division at 1-800-253-3931.
More information about the Voting Rights Act and other federal voting laws is available on the Department of Justice website at www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/index.htm.


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Novak Djokovic of Serbia won his 17th straight match at the Australian Open, beating Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-3, 7-5...
Djokovic win streak at 17
Novak Djokovic of Serbia won his 17th straight match at the Australian Open, beating Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 in the third round Friday.
Djokovic, the two-time defending champion at Melbourne Park who also won the title in 2008, is hoping to become the first man in the Open era to win three consecutive Australian Open titles.
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In other third-round matches, fifth-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany celebrated her 25th birthday with a 6-2, 7-5 win over American teenager Madison Keys.
Sixth-seeded Li Na of China also advanced to the fourth round with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Sorana Cirstea of Romania.
Fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland won her 12th match in a row with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Britain's Heather Watson.
In a late match Thursday, Roger Federer's 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win over Nikolay Davydenko of Russia set the Swiss star on course for a third-round match against Bernard Tomic, the last remaining Australian in the men's or women's draws of the Australian Open.
McIlroy, Woods struggle
With Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods struggling, fifth-ranked Justin Rose of England and unheralded Jamie Donaldson of Wales had 5-under-par 67s for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship in United Arab Emirates.
McIlroy, playing with new clubs following the Northern Ireland star's multimillion-dollar sponsorship deal with Nike, finished with a 75 and risks missing the cut. Woods shot an even-par 72.
Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark and Pablo Larrazabal of Spain finished one stroke behind the leaders.
Mickelson opens with 72
Phil Mickelson opened his season with an erratic even-par 72 at the Humana Challenge in La Quinta, Calif., leaving him nine strokes behind the first-round leaders.
Jason Kokrak, Roberto Castro and James Hahn topped the leaderboard at 9-under 63.
Russell Henley, the Sony Open winner Sunday in Hawaii in his first start as a PGA Tour member, had a 64.
Former Husky Richard H. Lee shot a 66 and Kyle Stanley of Gig Harbor had a 67. Jeff Gove of Seattle, Andres Gonzales of Olympia and former Husky Troy Kelly all shot 73s.
Schilling's bloody sock
going up for auction
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling — whose video-game company underwent a spectacular collapse into bankruptcy last year — is selling the bloodstained sock he wore during the 2004 World Series.
Chris Ivy, director of sports for Texas-based Heritage Auctions, said online bidding begins around Feb. 4. Live bidding will take place Feb. 23. He said the sock is expected to fetch at least $100,000, though he described that as a conservative estimate.
Nats sign Soriano for 2 years
The NL East champion Washington Nationals have signed right-handed reliever Rafael Soriano to a $28 million, two-year contract that includes $14 million in deferred money.
The former Mariner had 42 saves for the AL East champion New York Yankees last year while filling in for injured closer Mariano Rivera, who plans to return from a knee injury in 2013.
In other player signings, reliever Joba Chamberlain and the Yankees agreed to a one-year contract worth $1,875,000, avoiding salary arbitration; the Boston Red Sox and catcher Mike Napoli agreed to shorten their deal to a one-year contract worth $5 million, with bonuses that could raise his 2013 income to $13 million; the Red Sox and catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia agreed to a $4.5 million, one-year deal, a raise of $2 million; outfielder Carlos Gomez and the Milwaukee Brewers agreed to a $4.3 million, one-year contract; outfielder Will Venable and the San Diego Padres agreed to a one-year contract worth $2,675,000; right-hander Matt Garza and the Chicago Cubs agreed to a $10.25 million, one-year contract; and right-hander Jeff Karstens and the Pittsburgh Pirates finalized a $2.5 million, one-year contract.
Report: Damage to Rodriguez's hip was minimal
A person familiar with the diagnosis said Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was found to have relatively minimal cartilage damage in his left hip during surgery.
In other baseball news, Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter and Dan Duquette, the team's executive vice president of baseball operations, received contract extensions through 2018.
Farrell 1st overall pick
Louisville defender Andrew Farrell, 20, was selected by the New England Revolution with the top pick in Major League Soccer's draft.
Connecticut midfielder Carlos Alvarez from East Los Angeles was taken by Chivas USA with the second pick. Toronto then selected Kyle Bekker, a Canadian midfielder from Boston College, and Vancouver drafted 18-year-old forward Kekuta Manneh.
College football
O'Brien wins Bryant Award
Penn State coach Bill O'Brien won the 2012 Paul "Bear" Bryant College Coach of the Year Award, beating out five other finalists. O'Brien led the Nittany Lions through an 0-2 start and NCAA sanctions to an 8-4 finish in his first season at Penn State.
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His latest plug-in also follows its own path. Cthulhu has two roles: it's a chord creator and arpeggiator. Each is a MIDI-generating module that shares one plug-in interface—arpeggiator at the top, chords at the bottom. You can use each individually or run them together, in which case the chord module feeds the arp. Deactivating one module folds it away, keeping the interface tidy. Solely a MIDI-generating plug-in, Cthulhu requires you to route its output to an instrument. How you do this varies from host to host (see below). However, it also includes its own sawtooth reference tone as a functional fall-back.
Let's look at how the chord module works. A single incoming note can trigger an output chord of up to eight notes, and each keyboard note can be assigned its own chord. That means you have up to 128 specific slots at your disposal. Used key slots are indicated in blue above the keyboard, with inactive ones in grey. Cthulhu provides two options for displaying and editing each chord's notes: one uses the keyboard, and the other uses the chord panel area just above. Over to the left the thought bubble also turns the current notes into a chord name. The chord panel allows you to scale the chord's notes against the incoming MIDI note trigger (0% to 200%), so your chord has its own velocity spread.
There's also the option to lock one or more of the chord's eight notes as you shift from one chord to the next. This could help if you're trying to hold a particular note as a pedal note, for example. Cthulhu can learn played-in chords in a number of ways, assigning chords sequentially to key slots. You can also copy and paste between slots or generate random chords using the "WTF" button. Once set up, there are various further options for sorting and batch processing your chords—making all chords suspended, for example. If this all seems a little theoretical, there's also around 150 chord presets sourced from the masters (Bach, Mozart, Debussy, et al.), so you have an abundance of chord progressions. Each preset includes a chord cycle laid out sequentially on the keyboard.
Moving onto the arpeggiator, you'll see that it's grid-based—a graph, as they like to call it. Use the graph tabs to select the current parameter, and individual steps are selected for editing (and deactivated if required) along the bottom. Note that the number of steps can be different for each of these tab parameters. Some of the graph tab parameters, such as octave, velocity scale and gate, are pretty self explanatory. However, there are some less obvious additions such as "harmony," which outputs an additional harmonised note, and "late," which adjusts the individual timing of a step. You can also use "random select" to set a degree of note randomness. The pitch tab is particularly interesting, as it lets you select which scale degrees (I, IV, V and so on) will be shifted.
However, the most significant settings are made using the note select tab. Here you'll find a host of typical arpeggiator behaviours (down, up, down/up, up/down, down and up, up and down) as well as the less commonplace "fingered top" and "fingered bottom." These last two replace every other note with highest and lowest chord notes respectively. You can also specify particular notes from the chord using the numerical option. Finally, you can also set a pattern reset on any step or tie steps (these show up as green arrows). It's worth noting these options are all selectable per step if required. Like the chord module, Cthulhu has a bunch of arp presets, and each includes up to 12 separate arp patterns, which are assigned to the letters at the bottom (A to L).
As noted, although Cthulhu loads as an instrument, it requires routing to a sound-generating synth. In Logic this requires you to use the IAC bus, and should you want to play it from a MIDI controller, you'll also have to set up a further routing in Logic's environment. Cthulhu's manual explains this clearly, and I found it easy to set up. Even so, there are still some eccentricities to how the IAC bus operates. (Once I'd found the arp pattern or chords I wanted, I recorded the MIDI part to the instrument track itself and muted Cthulhu.) In Ableton Live you can use the VST version of Cthulhu. This allows for simpler routing, and I found this an all round more enjoyable experience. Cthulhu is still in version 1.0, but there's already a beta update available with some new features. The most useful is drag and drop to DAW for both the currently selected chord and the currently active arp bar.
Cthulhu is one of those unsuspecting plug-ins that you probably don't think you need, but that produces some surprisingly creative results. The step sequencer approach is incredibly powerful, and very quickly I found inspiration from the chord library. Even though I know my way around a keyboard pretty well, being able to focus on rhythmic ideas rather than chord notes is surprisingly refreshing. Also great is the link between the two modules, with chords feeding the arpeggiator. The only slight fly in the ointment is the IAC bus requirement for Logic—not Xfer's fault, of course, but clunky all the same. Even if you only use it on occasions when you're short of inspiration, it's still money well spent.
Cost: 5/5
Versatility: 5/5
Sound: 5/5
Ease of use: 4/5
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Doom 3
Started by Nitros Oxide, Apr 17 2005 04:56 PM
14 replies to this topic
Posted 17 April 2005 - 04:56 PM
I got this game the day after it came out for Xbox. This is one of the most amazing games I've ever seen. I didn't find a topic for this on the first page, so I thought if theres one on the next page, theres no way for a resurection. Anyway, just wonderin if anybody else here plays it for Xbox, or computer...
Posted 17 April 2005 - 06:12 PM
I had it on PC, and although the graphics were great, the game got old pretty quick. I hear they changed a few major things for the Xbox version which made it better...although I wouldn't go out and buy it as I completed the PC version, I might give it a rent.
Posted 17 April 2005 - 06:23 PM
I was really wanting to buy this game, so i couldn't wait till the day it was released. But as i was going to buy it, i diverted my attention to MC3, and bought that instead. I may be buying Doom 3 this week though for my Xbox.
Posted 17 April 2005 - 07:05 PM
I played it for p.c and i though it rockeed. The graphics were the sh*t. And the play was fun
Posted 19 April 2005 - 09:45 PM
I haven't played it yet, but I'm looking forward to, though.
Posted 19 April 2005 - 10:07 PM
doom3 runs like sh*t on my desktop. cant wait till i get my laptop next week and play it so it actually runs. then i'll go and get the expansion, of which i've heard great things about.
Posted 19 April 2005 - 10:45 PM
MY computer is such a piece of crap that if I get too close to those invisible demons my comp starts to lag. And that's on the OLD Dooms!! Ya, I bought the Collectors Edition of Doom, it comes with Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom. I've about halfway through Doom II now.
I wish I could run Doom 3, or had an XBOX
I wish I could run Doom 3, or had an XBOX
Posted 20 April 2005 - 01:33 AM
Nothing special once you've finished it, its just a brainless scary shooter that gets too predicatable torwards the end. A good game but not as much as they hyped it to be. I am referring to the PC version which isn't that much different from Xbox I'd assume. I hear you get versions of Doom and Doom2 on the disc that you can play on your Xbox?
Posted 20 April 2005 - 03:26 AM
|QUOTE (GTA3Freak-2001 @ Apr 19 2005, 17:33)
|I hear you get versions of Doom and Doom2 on the disc that you can play on your Xbox?
That would be neato.
I tracked down a copy of final doom to play on my ps2, having doom and doom 2 would be kinda neat on the box.
Not very hard to get on the pc though either, meh rent.
Posted 20 April 2005 - 03:29 AM
Doom 3 is good. The graphics are kick-ass, though the replay value is kinda low...
Posted 22 April 2005 - 11:24 AM
If antbody thinks that the gameplay gets a bit boring after a while downloads some mods and maps 4 it. A good site 4 Doom 3 mods would have to b: Doom 3 MODS
Posted 22 April 2005 - 11:29 AM
Its the same old gameplay on a badass engine, alright for a quick blast now and then but I got bored.
Prefer HL2 anyday.
Prefer HL2 anyday.
Posted 22 April 2005 - 12:45 PM
I'd play Half Life 2 ... Doom 3 didn't scare me once; whereas Half Life 2 managed that multiple times.
Posted 22 April 2005 - 09:38 PM
The scary environment and enemies is what make this game interesting, otherwise it would get boring pretty fast. I completed it, but I'm not that interested to play the add on.
valkyr, you're braindead if doom 3 didn't scare you once.
valkyr, you're braindead if doom 3 didn't scare you once.
Posted 22 April 2005 - 10:14 PM
Anyone got anyone cheats for the xbox verion of Doom 3 (besides Inf heath and Level Skip) (to lazy to look myself)
I perfer HL2
I perfer HL2
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While tattoo artists are quite talented at creating fine art, not all of them are able to translate this art into other mediums the way Scott Campbell can. In Campbell's first art exhibition, 'Make it Rain,' the tattoo artist will showcase his papercut, sculpture, paintings, photography, and drawings.
As you can see from the gallery above, Scott Campbell's artwork is heavily inspired by tattoos, and it's precisely this edginess that makes each piece shine. I'm particularly taken with his immaculate papercut pieces made from books and dollar bills.
Scott Campbell is the owner of Saved Tattoo in New York City. His 'Make it Rain' exhibition will be at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery in Miami from April 11.
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The city gets its own Margaritaville casino
Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" is more than just a song: It has spawned a restaurant chain, retail shops and casinos. On June 20, the third Margaritaville Resort Casino opens in Bossier City, right next to the Louisiana Boardwalk Shopping Center. Why it's exciting: Buffet himself will be playing at 5 p.m. July 3 in the casino's Paradise Theater.
The new Bossier City outpost is the largest Margaritaville yet, with a casino, restaurant and resort in one. It even tops the Las Vegas location in size at 30,000 square feet. The first new casino in the area in over a decade, it encompasses a 395-room hotel and four dining spots. Rooms — available June 20 — can be booked now. Packages that include breakfast start at $169.
About that Buffett concert: Tickets started at $200 and sold out in a flash. A limited number will be available via radio giveaways, including on Dallas' KZPS (92.5 FM). Better tune in.
Contact: ticketmaster.com; margaritavillebossiercity.com, 855-346-2489
Take a Rockies trip to hear the DSO
You could listen to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra play at the Meyerson — or you could hear them live with the Colorado Rockies as backdrop at the Bravo! Vail summer music festival, which runs June 28 through July 3.
The DSO is set to perform six programs: on June 30, Garrick Ohlsson, a former winner of the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition, joins in to play Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2. On July 1, Italian pianist Alessio Bax joins DSO artistic director Anne-Marie McDermott in performing Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos.
Antlers at Vail hotel is offering joint concert and overnight packages June 27 through July 3. A $399 per night option includes a two-bedroom condo and four lawn seating concert tickets, while a $549 per night package includes a two-bedroom condo and reserved amphitheater seats. Both include wine vouchers and access to a Bravo! Vail rehearsal.
Also playing at Bravo! Vail (which runs through Aug. 3): the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Orchestral tickets start at $27 each; performances are held at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater. Check the website for schedule and show times.
Contact: bravovail.org, antlersvail.org, 1-888-268-5377
Get a behind-the-scenes tour of the home that inspired artist Georgia O'Keeffe
Sure, you might have strolled through Santa Fe's Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Now, you have the chance to tour the artist's home and studio in Abiquiú, which is about an hour north of Santa Fe.
The 5,000-square-foot Spanish Colonial home O'Keeffe purchased in 1945 is worth a swing-through. Visitors will see her work space (with the items she left behind), her library and a fallout shelter she had constructed, and pass through a patio door to the room that inspired her to buy the home. It's where she prepped canvases and was a subject she painted multiple times.
Behind-the-scenes tours start at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays through Aug. 28, and cost $60. Tours are hosted by the museum, which now owns the home. Daily tours can also be reserved.
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Stroll down Route 66 or watch a national roller-skating competition
Albuquerque's summer calendar is packed with to-dos. We spotted these two events on the city's July calendar:
July 13 through Aug. 4: Albuquerque is the host city for the 2013 USA Roller Sports Speed, Figure and Rink Hockey National Championships at the Albuquerque Convention Center. The first week of the three-week event focuses on speed skating and rink hockey championships, while the second and third weeks include figure-skating events. usarollersports.org or itsatrip.org
July 20: Pay tribute to a historical stretch of street at the Route 66 Summerfest, which runs from 2 to 10 p.m. The city's Central Avenue will be closed to traffic and filled with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, car shows, children's activities, sidewalk sales, and beer, wine and food. You can also take tours of historic Nob Hill, right in the heart of the old route. Admission is free. itsatrip.org/events


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DraftExpress has updated their mock
Parker moved into 3rd with Exum dropping to 4th. Noah Vonleh (Freshman at Indiana) gets added out of the blue (don't know if there is new info on his intentions).
Fun note: 2nd round PG Shabazz Napier of UConn. This has to mark the first time in the history of all sports that back to back drafts featured a player named Shabazz.
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It's still way too early to read into mock drafts really.
*Good for looking up names if you want to research them as fans, but that's about it.
SI's prospect watch on Marcus Smart and others.
"At 6-foot-4, 220 pounds, Smart is built like a combo guard and can score like a shooting guard. He lit up Memphis' athletic wing players last Tuesday for 39 points on 11-of-21 shooting. That's in addition to four boards, four helpers and five steals.
The sophomore guard can defend any player on the wing with his long arms and sturdy frame. Smart's slew of skills makes him hard to peg with a current NBA comparison.
He's a table-setter and scorer like James Harden but actually has an interest in playing defense -- and is really good at it. He can slash, finish and affect the game in every facet like Dwyane Wade but isn't quite as athletic as Wade was in his prime. "
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Chad Ford: KenPom Offensive Rating for potential No. 1 picks: Wiggins (134.2), Parker (125.4), Randle (118.3), Smart (116.9) http://kenpom.com Twitter @chadfordinsider
Chad Ford's prospect ranking update:
Randle and Exum swap places (now 3 and 4 respectively)
Noah Vonleh +9 to #9
Gary Harris +3 to #10
Rodney Hood +15 to #11
Jahii Carson +6 to #19
Doug McDermott +4 to #20
Jerami Grant +2 to #21
James Young -2 to #12
Wayne Selden Jr. -2 to #13
Andrew Harrison -5 to #14
Montrezl Harrell -2 to #16
Glenn Robinson III -5 to #17
Mario Hezonja -2 to #18
Sam Dekker -5 to #22
Mitch McGary -4 to #23
Willie Cauley-Stein -4 to #25
Alex Poythress -8 to #28
Adreian Payne (24), Jabari Bird (26), Nik Stauskas (29), Spencer Dinwiddie (30)
Julius Randle has more games with at least 13 rebounds than Anthony Davis did during the entire 2011-12 regular season. It's November 25.
— Not Jerry Tipton (@NotJerryTipton) November 26, 2013
Jabari Parker is killing it. 25pts on 8/11 shooting. 9/10 from the FT line. 5min left in the game.
Randle with another double-double for UK.
Pangos w/ 34pts for the Bulldogs. 7/8 from behind the arc. Not bad eh?
I'd rather have Gus Johnson tbh, but Shulman is excellent as well.
Whatever we need to do to get Nik Stauskas and Kevin Pangos must be done
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I am not going to lie, when i came back from school today i was jumping around but its sad he had to resign i would've rather him ride it out and resigning shows just how much of a headache the situation was. In a weird way im going to miss him since it has been 4 years he has been here and feels weird that he is leaving.
Dolan is blaming the coach, said a source with knowledge of the Knicks locker-room dynamics. Tyson [Chandler], Baron [Davis], Amare [Stoudemire] guys who came to play for Mike or that system are pissed. [Jeremy] Lin isnt happy either.
they couldn't take it anymore....lol
I don't blame them at all...
Village idiot brooms himself!!! Don't let the door hitya Damnphonny!!!!
Under .500 with as much talent as is on this roster you gotta go
you're probably right, iSaYughh . But I'm so delirious right now it dosen't even matter. lol my bad, and thanks for the correction
Dolan manned up and seen that long term DanKony was a prick to the players who couldn't adjust to his system and his stubborn ways would lead to our team collapsing and underachieving. We gave him a great roster and he gives us 18-24. Melo doesn't go from best scorer in the league, to a guy no one wants shooting the ball, its insane.


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As part of the Faces in the Void project (see interview), poet Jane Liddell-King and photographer Marion Davies travelled to the Czech Republic and met survivors and the relatives of survivors of the Holocaust. There, Marion took photographs of the people and the surrounding area while Jane transmuted the interviewees' accounts into poetry.
We present below one such poem and three photographs, taken from the Faces in the Void book. The subject here is Alice Sommer-Herz, a successful pianist who was deported along with her husband and her six-year-old son to the ghetto-transit camp Terezin in 1943, where she was put to forced labour. Her husband was deported to Auschwitz where he died. Despite the horrific conditions in Terezin itself, which led to 33,000 people dying there, the prisoners managed to keep up an extraordinary cultural programme in an effort to maintain a sense of normal life. Alice herself gave over 100 concerts during her time there.
Marion Davies described for us the experience of photographing Alice Sommer-Herz:
As far as photographing Alice…she has the most astonishing positive attitude of anyone I have met. And we have met some amazing people during this [and my other ] projects. She has an enquiring mind, is interested in other people and has taken on the traumas she has suffered and moved on.
I first met her on my own and her main concern was that it was her son, now sadly deceased, who should be photographed. [Her son was Raphael Sommer, the internationally acclaimed cellist who sadly died in 2001 at the age of sixty-five.] I therefore made sure that several pictures included the wall on which a large photo of her son was displayed.
I asked her if I could photograph her playing. At first she said that she didn't really want to play. So I asked if she would mind sitting by the piano. I held my breath and slowly she started to play some Beethoven. For about 20 minutes I didn't move and then I thought to myself, well I'm here to take some photos, and so I did. Magical.
For this project I tried to take photos that allowed viewers an immediate connection with the survivors. Jane and I often had very long conversations with the people we met before I even picked up my camera to take a photo. None of the photos involved long portrait sessions, but I did sometimes ask the person to look at me for some brief moments.
(for Alice Sommer-Herz)
So why should I die
at 104 why should I go gently
or furiously
at midnight or between the hours of two and four a.m.
or later the same day
or any day soon
today I don't have time
I am far from ghostly
I'm remembering Franz
Kafka to you of course
such loud brown eyes
and a mouth at the edge of a smile
picture myself and Marianne
at seven
walking him into the forest
some July afternoon
too warm for socks or sleeves
our slight fingers locked in his
making for the blue green cool of pines
and a log to perch on
and then he
squat on a stone
took us out of story into story
where he took a late night ride on the shoulders of a stranger
and told us
laugh more softly
there's a beetle sleeping under the leaf mould
xxxxyou wouldn't want to wake
and he ran Marianne's shuddering finger tip over its hard skin
see how its eyes catch the light
it is as if each lens takes in a different bit of leaf
xxxxxand melds the pieces
before it can take a bite
don't polish it off
while I remember the rise and fall of his voice
though I know he didn't know what to do with himself
xxxxxoutside the story
if he could kiss Dora
and not take her to the Chuppah
(his skin was not so hard)
considering all this
why should I die
October 1944
the day they sent my husband East
and the same day I had to tell my son of 7
xxxxxthere was nothing more to eat
but would he please not chew the mattress
imagine 4.00 a.m.
imagine his lips blue against his pink tongue
imagine leaving him
my Brundibár sparrow
to scrub linen and my hands
imagine him saying into the mattress
into the dark
Tonight I'll be alone
I know you'll follow papa
I put a finger to his lips
and promised him a gift
a nice surprise
that day Ludwig raged inside my head
putting my fingers to his latest longest keyboard
opening arpeggio on arpeggio
on the monstrous silence of a friend
another person not to talk to
believe me
I saw him walking the Vienna woods
the sunlight lavish on rocks and pines and streams
and still I heard him howl
and then quite suddenly compose himself
note after touchy note
sonata apasionata
I heard him growl
this is no music for cowards
and you know
when I walked into the room after 16 hours washing clothes
my son stood absolutely still
and his face was
should I say
and I said tonight I will play for you
xxxxxxx piano e pianissimo
and you will see
there is
xxxxxxx no time
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to die


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U.N. nuclear agency chief Yukiya Amano said Sunday's visit to Tehran was useful and that he was very glad to hear a firm commitment from Iran to resolve all outstanding issues through cooperation between the two sides.
Amano's trip came ahead of an Aug. 25 deadline for Iran to provide information relevant to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) inquiry into what it calls the possible military dimensions of the country's disputed nuclear programme.
"This has been a short visit, but a useful one," Amano said in Tehran after talks with President Hassan Rouhani and other senior Iranian officials, according to a statement issued by the IAEA in Vienna.


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Cosplayer Omni > Costume of Bubblehead Nurse (Silent Hill)
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- 10-20-2012
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- Construction Details:
The dress is just an old Nurse's uniform thrifted from Salvation Army. Then it was tea stained and other dirtying up.
The mask is made of liquid latex, gauze wrap and paper towels and painted.
The bald cap is made of liquid latex and painted.
The shoes are somewhat inaccurate as I couldn't find one of the shoes, I orginally planned to wear. So I just wore a pair of shoes, I had worn for a zombie bride costume at a Halloween party.
- Personal Thoughts:
- A couple years ago, I had found a nurse's dress at a Salvation Army. I bought with the thought of some day, I will use this for cosplay. I thought about doing Hello Nurse! from Animaniacs. But then a couple years later I found out about an old abandoned church in Gary Indiana.
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Verona Yeehaw Black Sandal
$ 98.95
Heel-strap sandal in Yeehaw Black leather.
- Three adjustable buckle strap allowing for a custom fit.
- Cork, memory foam and polyurethane footbed creating a 'perfect fit' by forming to the natural contours of your foot.
- Removable footbed (you can even insert your own orthotics!)
- Mini rocker outsole with a thinner, lower profile for increased flexibility.
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This sculpted side table was designed and built by us but heavily influenced by the design and joinery techniques of Sam Maloof.
Built from solid Walnut, all joints have been reinforced with internal screws or dowels. The legs and table support have been sculpted into a main center post.
We initially wanted to make the drawer pulls carved out of the drawer face, but decide on these ones to use a round knob, I like the dark knob best.
The drawers have reinforced rabbits and a dado, they have 2 2'' long screws at each joint plugged with ebony.
Features Include:
Sculpted center pedestal
Maloof style Joinery
Reinforced drawer joinery plugged with Ebony
Solid wood drawer bottom
Floating removable top
Hand rubbed oil / resin finish
Dimensions – Length 22'' – Width 22'' – Height 24''
For more detailed shots or to see any of my other work please visit my website Custom rocking chairs and tables
-- Paul Lemiski, Ontario Canada, Custom Wooden Rocking chairs and tables http://www.canadianwoodworks.com
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#1 posted 08-30-2010 01:12 AM
VERY nice!
-- If you don't work, you don't eat!.....Garland, TX
#2 posted 08-30-2010 04:01 AM
Beautiful! Awesome craftsmanship!
-- Z, Rockwall, TX
#3 posted 08-30-2010 08:08 AM
#4 posted 08-30-2010 02:02 PM
Beautiful work Paul. You sir are a true craftsman.
-- Dan ~ Texarkana, Tx.
#5 posted 08-30-2010 06:14 PM
Thanks for the nice comments everyone, We really enjoyed making them!
-- Joel Savard, Acton, Ontario, Canada - http://www.canadianwoodworks.com/
#6 posted 08-30-2010 07:43 PM
Those are cool! Nice set, unique, "WELL" done…...........
-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.
#7 posted 08-30-2010 09:11 PM
I love the smooth round corners of the top. I just want to touch it.
#8 posted 08-30-2010 11:15 PM
You do some very nice work Paul, Great job
-- Paul--- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
#9 posted 01-06-2011 06:14 AM
Really Nice. They look awesome !!!
-- If you work you eat - If you don't work, you eat, drink, and sleep.
#10 posted 01-06-2011 06:49 AM
These are one of our favorite pieces, just something about them, they turned out just right!
-- Paul Lemiski, Ontario Canada, Custom Wooden Rocking chairs and tables http://www.canadianwoodworks.com
#11 posted 10-08-2013 01:31 AM
I really love these tables. Is there any kind of internal slides for the drawer?
#12 posted 10-08-2013 01:41 AM
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It is only when Zanella introduces 'Dozen Matter' that the band not only sounds proficient, but interesting. The complete band starts to take off, shakes off the dust, and gets a bit wild. They lose their inhibitions and the results are impressive. It's a crazy dance with horn dissonance and sly, fanciful piano-work grounded by a strong percussive presence. It's a marvelous combination that could lead into an extended, swirling jam.
Likewise, 'How Insensitive' starts with an ominous bass line by Michel Donato, then swiftly merges into a gorgeous melody performed by Zanella on saxophone. Pianist James Giefand offers a sweet and passionate touch to 'you and i.'
There is a touch of subversive humor in 'The last parade of Minishtov.' The piece is a mordant, slightly anarchic march of absurdity. It has a Gogolesque sense of wit and satire. It's a very innovative performance by Zanella and drummer Paul Brochu that is the antithesis of being bland.
By introducing Guy Thouin on tabla on 'Mother Tree,' the result is both elegant and exotic. It's a wonder that a tabla isn't more a part of the jazz spectrum. This title track is an exquisite bucolic meditation.
Jean Pierre Zanella and his band have a lot to offer to the jazz repertory when it dares to be unconventional. "Mother Tree" is worth the effort to track down.


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Qatar's Barwa Al Khor Company, a subsidiary of Barwa Real Estate Company, plans to carry out the development of Al Khor Resort project whose cost is put at between QR4.5bn and QR5bn.
Barwa Real Estate Company has signed an agreement with Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company for the purchase of its plot of land for the Al Khor Resort project, the Peninsula reported.
The project will feature hotels and marina with residential apartments, boutique hotels with leisure and residential units, beach chalets, sports facilities and bungalows.
[1] http://www.albawaba.com