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|2nd November 2008, 11:28 AM
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Car amp design, differential input, ground
I have some question regarding car amplifier design.
I understand that, on a vehicle, HU ground and AMP ground (heavy gauge wire attached to chassis ground) have, of course, different voltages; I think mainly because of the small gauge wire which the HU uses and the big current of HU integrated amplifier.
Right now I am using a self-made car amplifier for a rear speaker built around a TDA1557 chipamp. This chipamp has a proper pin for the signal ground.
The RCA shield coming from the HU is attached only to signal ground. If I try to tie together signal ground pin and power ground pin the amp emits strange loud noises and does not function at all.
So this means that sgnd and pgnd are not connecte internally. So this is a differential amp?
But then why TDA1556 chipamp is said to be differential (looking datasheet) while TDA1557 is not?
|2nd November 2008, 11:33 PM
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The 1557 has a common reference for both channels (for an unbalanced input signal). It does not have differential inputs. The amplifier amplifies the difference between the input signal and the reference voltage.
The 1556 has differential inputs. It can accept a balanced signal as well as an unbalanced signal. The amplifier will amplify the difference between the two inputs for the channel.
The head unit and amplifier have different ground potentials because the ground conductor has resistance and there is current flowing through the ground conductor.
Why do you want to tie the signal ground to the chassis ground?
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|3rd November 2008, 12:34 AM
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You may couple signal ground to power/chasis ground at high frequencies through a 1nF to 10nF capacitor, and at low frequencyes through a medium value resistor, say 1K to 10K.
This usually prevents RF pickup problems and signal ground is kept at a safe potential when nothing is connected to the input.
Another common practice is to use one or two pairs of clamping diodes (just 1N4005) to prevent signal ground from floating more than +/-0.5V or +/-1V from power/chassis ground. This is to prevent damage to the input circuit.
The great voltage differences found between different ground locations in cars are not only due to resistance and DC currents, but also due to wiring loop inductance and AC currents from the alternator and other systems. Always place +12V and ground wires together to avoid the latter.
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|3rd November 2008, 08:42 AM
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Thank you for your replies.
I know this issues about ground has been asked many times, but I want to go a bit depper as I found next to nothing about car amp ground design without using an isolated SMPS.
So basically you are saying that the amplifier is not true differential because the signal ground could only be different by the actual power ground by a low voltage (let's say 0,5V?). While true differential, I guess, could float between power gnd and vcc, right?
|3rd November 2008, 02:12 PM
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This depends a lot on how the input stage and the PSU are designed.
Some PSU use optocouplers and allow the output ground to float even +/-100V with respect to input ground. Other PSU couple the signals directly and only allow the output to float a few volts. In other circuits like yours there is no ground isolation.
Same happens for inputs, some balanced ones with op-amps may handle over +/-25V of ground swing while others (mostly built into ICs) are intended to handle only +/-0.5V or +/-1V, which is usually enough.
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|3rd November 2008, 07:45 PM
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I tried to tie together sgnd and pgnd because I thought it would only force the ground potential to be the same and the current through the rca shield wouldn't have been much (and in fact it is not much, some mA!), but it happens that it mess up something:
right now the amp powers a speaker with a lowpass built in the HU set to 80Hz, when I connect the grounds, the filter doesn't work anymore and the speaker reproduces also the mids... sounds strange, doesn't it?!
Some more questions:
1) Wouldn't having different signal ground and power ground cause a degrade of sound quality?
2) What would happen if I connect sgnd through a capacitor instead of DC coupling?
3) Let's say I want to make a discrete amplifier which behave as my IC, e.g. with signal ground and power ground (usually schematics meant for home hifi don't have different grounds). Does it simply mean that I should have all the ground of the preamplifier/input section named "signal ground" and the ground of power stage names "power ground"? Doing so the signal ground (RCA shield) carries all the current required for the preamp section, if, as you say, I mustn't link together the two ground on the amp side...
4) In the case I want to use a truly differential amp, I have to couple both signal and signal ground through small capacitors. I read somewhere that these capacitor must be perfectly matched to keep good cmrr, true?
Thanks in advance, friends!
|9th November 2008, 10:37 AM
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|9th November 2008, 04:55 PM
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1. Not necessarily.
2. Try it.
3. Home equipment has a transformer that floats the secondary ground (much like many car amplifiers). If you're going to build a car amp, you would probably use an isolated secondary (assuming that you would use a switching power supply) to prevent forming ground loops. The secondary center tap of the transformer would be the audio ground.
4. Ideally, you want the caps to match but in most cases, using capacitors from the same batch is good enough. The resistors used in the differential input circuit are more critical than the capacitors.
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|10th November 2008, 03:02 PM
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Thank you, but as regard question 3) I mean WITHOUT an isolated PSU. I mean a discrete circuit which behaves as the IC...
|10th November 2008, 05:46 PM
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If your discrete amp has differential inputs, you don't need two grounds at the amplifier.
When the signal is produced at the head unit, the output signal is referenced to the shield ground. The amp has to use that same reference (the RCA cable shield) when it takes in the signal.
On the differential input amp, it can use one of the independent inputs for each channel as the reference.
On the 1557, the input references are tied to a common point and that common point is used as the reference for both channels. If you connect the reference (the shield -- which is connected to the head unit ground) to the chassis ground at the amplifier, you will get noise because the shield ground potential is different than the ground potential at the amplifier. The reference will be a combination of the ground potential at the head unit and the ground potential at the amp.
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- Amara Darboh dropping a pass that hits him on the hands on 3rd and 4 with under 6:00 to go in the 4th quarter and Michigan ahead 17-14.
- Michigan accumulating five yards of offense in the fourth quarter.
In the 4th quarter against Michigan State in 2015, Michigan ran 19 plays for 24 yards and one first down. 1-6 on 3rd down.
In the 4th quarter against Iowa in 2016, Michigan ran 22 plays for 62 yards and five first downs, none of which came on their final possession.
In the 4th quarter on Saturday, Michigan held the ball for under four minutes, completed zero passes, and ran five times for five yards.
More and more often now, I find myself thinking back to this:
In 2008, Arizona visited Stanford. One of the Wildcats' coaches had made a comment during the week that Stanford wasn't very physical. Few things will anger Harbaugh as much as questioning his toughness. So before kickoff, he told the team: "There's gonna come a time in this game where we're going to line up in the same formation and run the same power play and dictate." As former Cardinal assistant Brian Polian remembers: "He had so much resolve. You can say what you want about us, but you're going to question our toughness?"
In the fourth quarter, down 23-17, Stanford took over. On 10 of 11 plays, the Cardinal called inside runs. On the last one, Toby Gerhart scored the game-winning touchdown with less than a minute left. It was one of the gutsiest and coolest things the staff had ever seen.
"We bludgeoned them to death," Polian says.
Jim Harbaugh lusts for the day where this can be done at Michigan. There may well come a time where Michigan finds itself leading Michigan State or Ohio State in the 4th quarter, and they call run after run after run and suddenly seven minutes have bled off the clock and the game is over. But that moment has not arrived yet, because we are still saddled with the remnants of what Brady Hoke left behind on the offensive line. Here's a reminder of what became of Hoke's fabled 2012 and 2013 offensive line classes (AKA the guys who would be 4th and 5th year players - starters - on this team):
Kyle Kalis: A career of blown assignments and getting dominated. Managed to mask a lot of it in his 5th year; still got his shit pushed in in both losses in 2016.
Erik Magnuson: An entirely average player also prone to getting turnstiled. For a top 100 recruit from California who had offers from every Pac-12 school, that's close to a bust.
Ben Braden: A lead-footed "bulldozer" who rarely bulldozed. Forced to play out of position after Grant Newsome's leg was destroyed.
Blake Bars: A non-entity.
Patrick Kugler: A non-contributor who was derailed by injuries. Possible starter as a 5th year senior in 2017?
Kyle Bosch: Probably came closer to suicide off the field than success on the field here. He and his family needed one meeting with Harbaugh to realize it was over. He's been a starter for WVU this year; I'm just glad he seems to have straightened his life out. Another top 100 bust at Michigan.
David Dawson: Another complete non-contributor. Another possible candidate to finally see the field in 2017? I wouldn't count on it.
Chris Fox: Non-contributor due to injuries.
Logan Tuley-Tillman: A disgusting sex pervert who should've been processed from his recruiting class. He was garbage as a player by the time he signed with Michigan. Completely gave up after his junior year of HS.
Dan Samuelson: A non-contributor who left.
It's a testament to Tim Drevno's ability as an OL coach that he was able to cobble together a semi-competent offensive line considering what he had to work with. Ben Bredeson looked overwhelmed for most of his true freshman season this year; a redshirt would have been nice - if there had been anyone worth a shit able to play. But there wasn't. So this is what we had. It wasn't a "bad" offensive line, we've seen enough of those recently to recognize them (2008, 2009, 2013, 2014). But it was still a far cry from both the Michigan lines of lore and the dream that Harbaugh has in his head. Progress usually involves the anguish of close-but-no-cigar.
On the bright side, Don Brown is the guy. The same players who got freight-trained into a fine powder in their own building last year went into the Horseshoe and spent the huge majority of 60 minutes pistolwhipping the Buckeyes into a pulp. That the end result leaves the foul coppery taste of sucking on a mouthful of pennies should not prohibit us from acknowledging their progress, and feeling giddy for the future once more. It took one year for Harbaugh to erase the gains Dantonio and MSU made on Michigan - the jailsexings of 2013 and 2014 turned into the harrowing once-in-a-lifetime miracle of 2015, and the "Hello darkness my old friend" moment of 2016. It took an extra year for the gap to be closed against Ohio State, but closed it is, to the point where one year after giving up 42 points to OSU for the third straight time, this time around Michigan fans feel outrage and indignation, while OSU fans feel the relief of dodging a bullet and getting away with something that shouldn't have been theirs.
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Borla exhaust systems look great, sound terrific, and improve your car's performance.
Most car and truck manufacturers leave plenty of room for improvement when it comes to horsepower and torque. That's not to say that these vehicles are poorly made, but many companies will choose the least expensive alternative when it comes to items such as exhaust systems.
An aftermarket performance exhaust can free some of the power in your engine. These systems allow for a quicker, more efficient path for exhaust gases to escape. This means your engine "breathes" better, so spent fuel and air exit the combustion chambers faster. That means more fuel and air can be burned to create more power.
There are several other good reasons to add an aftermarket exhaust system. One of the most noticeable is the subtle, but distinctly aggressive, change in exhaust note. Many of the better systems are only slightly louder than your stock exhaust at idle, but they deepen to a low "growl" during acceleration.
There are two types of bends used in making exhaust systems, and the type used makes a difference in the way air flows. The typical factory-made systems, as well as some aftermarket systems, use a "crush-bend" technique. This type of process creates a crinkled area in the pipes, which decreases the diameter and slows the exhaust gases. A "mandrel bend," on the other hand, is smooth, so the pipe remains at a constant diameter through the bend. That means there's less resistance, so you get more efficient airflow and better performance.
A "crush bend" creates the crinkled area seen above. This techique restricts airflow, which slows the exhaust gasses.
Mandrel bends, like the ones seen on this Borla system, will give you the best performance and sound gains.
Another factor to consider is the material used to make the system. Most factory exhaust systems are made of mild steel, so they have a tendency to deteriorate over time. The better aftermarket systems are made using aluminized steel or stainless steel. Aluminized steel offers slightly better longevity than stock systems, while stainless systems are designed to last much longer — usually for the life of the car or truck.
When researching exhaust systems, it's important to think about how you use your vehicle. Most aftermarket systems add to your car or truck's appearance, with larger tips and highly polished mufflers that provide a more refined, aggressive look. There are also many aftermarket systems that look stock, but still provide performance gains.
The diameter of the pipes is another thing to keep in mind, especially if you're adding more aftermarket performance parts. Most cars and trucks benefit from slightly larger piping, but if you go too big, you can actually hurt your vehicle's performance. On the other hand, if you are adding a turbocharger or supercharger, you'll want to go much larger than your stock exhaust
The Borla system's polished tips give this Honda Accord a more refined look
No matter what direction you choose, an aftermarket exhaust is sure to add to your car or truck's performance, appearance, and sound. Whether you're looking for more power, show-quality looks, or both, the right exhaust system can change your car or truck for the better.
cynthia from kingstonPosted on 9/10/2015
Can a better affter market exhaust system improve mieage
Robert from Riddle orPosted on 9/28/2015
2012 dodge avenger 2.4 L. I just put got rid of the suit case muffler and disconnected the battery and put it back together to restart the computer and it runs great. It has a nice deep tone and the mileage has improved some. I like it! lol
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I just want to rumble on down the road
John from JamaicaPosted on 11/17/2015
i have Nissan pick-up truck, and am running a K24 Gas engine. I wonna put (2) 5' x 1 1/2" chrome tips under my chrome bumper. I need a little looks, and a little more power and sound. whats the best size pipe i should used?
Roy from North TonawandaPosted on 3/28/2016
After installing a performance muffler on my GMC pick up 5.3 in there any change that needs to be done.?
Sergio from RustenburgPosted on 1/24/2017
My car had 3 silencers, got rid of one and I installed a smaller one at the back... It sounds great but didn't do much on performance, do u think I should change the whole exhaust system?...
Mike from ColtonPosted on 10/4/2017
To the people who are choosing to disconnect mufflers and exhaust components. You might think it sounds good or runs better, but I got news for you. Not only did you just de-tune your vehicle, but it sounds like crap. I don't know what it is, but it is some sort of trend here in southern California for kids to disconnect their exhaust system. It sounds terrible and it is not cool. It is annoying, they make all this noise and the car isn't going anywhere.


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He doesnt even have to be in great shape, hes an immediate upgrade over Douglas and Bibby. The Knicks will need a 3rd player to consistently step up. Douglas is an every other game streaky type of player, Bibby is old. Shumpert is a rookie but as I mentioned in my other thread I believe hes the most likely to step up until BDiddy is healthy. I originally said Douglas but I changed my vote. Harrelson looks like he can be really good eventually. I dont know what to expect from Fields
If Davis is more selective with his shots and looks to set up other players most of the time the Knicks fan can go deep. He could have a huge impact on this team and I hope he realizes how big of a role he can have


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To develop the solution, Yes Bank sourced technology from the Linux Foundation-led open-source blockchain project, Hyperledger. The blockchain solution made use of smart contracts developed by Fintech startup Catenia Technologies to deliver a vendor financing solution for major Indian electrical equipment manufacturer Bajaj Electricals.
Bajaj's business interactions that include discounts and disbursal of funds to its vendors will be digitized over the blockchain, allowing for faster, more efficient record keeping and increased transparency. Yes Bank's anchor client (Bajaj Electricals), will see automatic debits from its account at the bank, as a part of the automated smart-contract enabled blockchain transaction.
The blockchain implementation was heavily facilitated by technology partner IBM. Hosting the blockchain over its "Hybrid Cloud" platform, Yes Bank also leveraged IBM's "Watson Conversation" a cloud-based cognitive service to further enhance the user experience of participants (bank, the vendor and borrowers or purchasers) in the blockchain.
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I am 23 and I am watching the TV show Lost and thinking how lucky these people are... I day dream so much these days about living different lives...
I am consistently addicted to a new video game or tv show playing or watching for hours and I think I am just hiding from reality in my mind.
I am recently married with no regrets and I love my wife very much. I think its time that I need to grow up and get involved with whats real making a "real" life but the harder I try, the more my mind wants to retreat out of reality.
I am a college student studying Physics and I find myself going from one addiction to another... first it was school, then it was movies, then it was tv shows, now its mindlessly violent video games that involving shooting everything in sight.
Everything has become so boring and pointless, reality is making less and less sense everyday and I have no idea whats wrong with it. When I was younger, I was told that I was just told that I was too smart for my own good and that I wasn't challenged enough in public school. I have been diagnosed with depression or bipolar from time to time, but they have had so many different opinions and so many different drugs to try that I have lost faith in their diagnosis. I believe there is something really wrong with my mind and I have no idea how to bring peace to it and be content with my responsibilities. Otherwise, I am never going to experience my potential, and be just like every immature kid.
Can someone give me help on how to grow up or just ideas in general how to get excited about life like everyone else seems to be?
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Twelve-year-old girl tossed perfect game in Bayonne, N.J.
By Anthony DiComo / MLB.com
"I've had a lot of them the past couple days," Mackenzie Brown said, grinning through a set of braces.
Then again, she had reason to feel at home. This past week, Brown accomplished something that Johan Santana never has -- she threw a perfect game, setting down all 18 hitters she faced on Tuesday in a Bayonne, N.J., Little League game.
"Everybody's been asking me how I did it," Brown said. "I don't know. I can't believe I did that."
Her reward? A trip to Citi Field to meet the Mets -- particularly David Wright, her favorite -- and to throw out the first pitch of Saturday's game against the Nationals. It was a daunting task even for Brown, considering that Little League pitching rubbers are only 46 feet away from home plate, compared to more than 60 feet on a Major League mound.
Yet Brown, used to practicing on regulation-sized diamonds with her 14-year-old brother, strode up to the top of the mound and fired a fastball to Mets catcher Omir Santos behind home plate.
For Brown, that pitch capped what has been a whirlwind week. Between signing autographs for teachers and classmates and making appearances on national television programs -- along with watching highlights of her perfect game on ESPN -- Brown hasn't quite been able to let what's happened sink in.
"Everybody's just been treating me different," she said.
Her ultimate thrill came just prior to Saturday's first pitch, when Brown, a sixth-grader at the Henry Harris Middle School in Bayonne, met her idol, Wright.
Little League Baseball estimates that 50 to 60 perfect games are thrown each year, though there's no telling how many are thrown by the roughly 100,000 girls that play across the country, at an age when most children -- including Brown -- are throwing just fastballs and changeups.
Most girls have switched over to softball by the time they hit middle school, though Brown and one other girl in Bayonne stuck with baseball. Now that she's had her moment of celebrity, Brown plans on making the switch herself next season, in preparation for a potential softball career in college.
Yet even a wildly successful transition might be hard-pressed to match this.
At a Mets game at Shea Stadium last season, Brown recalled daydreaming about how much she would like to throw out the first pitch at a game. Now, she has.
"It's a little different than anything I'm used to," she said.
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Concrete work talk under way in Oak Creek
Oak Creek Town Board asks contractor to repair community center
July 24, 2010
Oak Creek — The cracked, broken surface of the South Routt Community Center will cost between $20,000 and $24,000 to fix, according to early estimates. But the Oak Creek Town Board is exploring the possibility of the original contractor fixing the work before the board spends the money to repair the surface.
From the original budget of about $136,000 dedicated to the resurfacing, the Town of Oak Creek has retained about $35,000 from the contractor.
During the Oak Creek Town Board meeting Thursday night, Trustees were told that Public Works Director Bob Redding planned to meet with contractor Don Worsley on Friday to talk about the possibility of fixing the concrete.
Town Clerk Karen Halterman said the meeting was to "determine if the contractor is going to be willing to tear that up and replace that at his cost, or if we will be hiring an outside contractor to come in and tear it out and replace it."
Town Board member Bernie Gagne said the damage apparently was caused by the settling of the ground.
Worsley and Redding were not available for comment Friday.
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The Town of Oak Creek also is getting warranty work completed from K.R. Swerdfeger Construction after the town noted some faults in the company's work on sewer lines. The problems primarily are related to ground work at places where Swerdfeger workers dug across streets and alleys, and problems with homes not being reconnected to the new sewer main after it was installed.
The town had a $1.87 million contract with the company for sewer-related work, but voted to withhold a payment of $447,765.75 at a meeting in May. The Town Board later agreed to pay the money as long as Swerdfeger completed the work.
"To the best of my knowledge, we are satisfied Swerdfeger has performed all work-related obligations," Gagne said.
Gagne said Swerdfeger also has donated asphalt to the town that Public Works crews can use to repair the streets.
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Oak Creek Police Department officers reported that there have been an increase in crimes as the weather warms up.
Officer Lance Dunaway said that while the number of animal calls — 17 — tops the number of calls in the past month, he and fellow officer Eileen Rossi have been spending most of their time on investigative work.
"I would say we had a little bit of an increase in more serious calls," he said. "The rest of them have probably stayed the same."
He said that crimes against people take the most time to investigate because they require several follow-up interviews.
"If we have one call that requires four or five interviews and requires collecting some evidence, it may be one call, but it takes most of our time between the two of us."
There were two reports of domestic violence between June 25 and July 22, and eight suspicious incidents. There also were 18 recorded follow-ups.
He said it's not an overwhelming caseload but is keeping officers busy. He added that many of the cases officers work in Oak Creek don't show up in the Steamboat Pilot & Today's daily record because they do not go through Routt County Communications' dispatch center. He said a majority of cases come from people directly calling the officers or stopping into the police station in the back of Oak Creek Town Hall.


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Toyota announced it's planning to build 9.42 million cars in 2007, enough to make it the biggest automaker in the world. So we turn to the question: Is bigger really better? Alisa Roth reports.
President Bush says he's willing to consider Democrats' proposals for saving Social Security — including tax increases. Commentator Steve Moore thinks that if that idea becomes reality, the party's over.
U.S. hub-and-spoke specialist Mesa Airlines is cashing in on the business world's Holy Grail — China — in a deal with Shenzhen Airlines. Steve Tripoli explains why both sides want this to work.
One of the regions hit hardest by the 2004 tsunami was the Sumatran territory of Aceh. The economy now depends on reconstruction. But people are starting to think about what to do as that effort ends. Jocelyn Ford reports.
Reporter Nate DiMeo takes us back to the early 1920s when radio first found a mass audience, and a few powerful corporate players used music to take control of a brand new American industry. Part of an American RadioWorks documentary.
At Marketplace we get a lot of boxes and baskets this time of year full of chocolates, popcorn, candy and the like. We can't complain, but we started to wonder how much it all costs.
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Origin, Development, and Disintegration of the German Colonies near the Black Sea, with the Example of Kandel from 1804 to 1944Entstehung, Entwicklung und Auflösung der deutschen Kolonien am Schwarzen Meer am Beispiel von Kandel von 1808 bis 1944
Anton Bosch und Josef Lingor
Published in the German language by the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, Stuttgart, Germany, copyright 1990, 548 pages, in German language
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This book is scholarly yet easy to read. The German authors, who were born in the village of Kandel, Kutschurgan Enclave, researched historical material thoroughly and wrote in-depth about the German colonies by the Black Sea. This academic work adds new dimensions, viewing the colonist villages in South Russia within the context of Russia and world-wide immigration. New discovery of information reveals the reasons why 1) some emigrants traveled the land route vs. the way by the Danube River, 2) the use of American horses for breeding purposes, 3) how the Black Sea region and its colonists were perceived beyond the 'borders' of present-day Ukraine. Such details and insights makes reading interesting.
Anton Bosch and Josef Lingor begin by tracing geographical history almost 2000 years back, thereby giving a clearer insight defining this land and its people. They describe in detail the geography, soil condition, and agricultural customs of this region so vividly the reader can imagine himself vicariously there in that historic era.
Industry and trade, as well as a brief history of Odessa, do not disappoint either. They outline a very interesting chapter on the water supply. The economic achievements of the German colonists are emphasized again and again. Their prosperity allowed many Germans to hire Russians or Ukrainians as a labor force. This relationship provided mutual benefit for both sides, but none foresaw events of today.
The book includes chapters on the religious life and on the dialect which was able, in spite of many adversities, to survive to this day. Some short stories traditionally told on long evenings are included to compare the peculiarities of the dialect language. One letter of correspondence expresses:"...awwer bei uns hat der ärmscht Kolonischt meh als der reichste Landwert bei eich d'haam..." Some rare or unusual photographs, maps of how the refugees fled, and maps of village plats are also included.
Anton Bosch and Josef Lingor have authored a major scholarly publication in the German language to the literature of the Germans from Russia. Since his retirement in 1996 in Nürnberg, Anton Bosch continues his studies in Germany for his doctorate specializing on East European history and the Germans from Russia. He is an active member of the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, Stuttgart.
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The flu vaccine will be administered to children ages 6 months to 17 years on Friday.
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TORONTO - Canada is going back to the Rugby World Cup in 2015.
But while Saturday's 13-11 test victory over the United States had no shortage of intensity or sense of urgency, you could probably find better execution in a high school game.
"It was ugly," Canadian coach Kieran Crowley said. "But it was a test win and we're in the World Cup now."
The crowd of about 7,000 provided a lot of atmosphere, but was witness to a slew of dropped passes, dropped balls, and every kind of mistake imaginable.
The game was even decided by missed penalty kicks.
"We got our game going twice or three times." Crowley said. "Give the States credit; they threw everything at us."
Nonetheless, this victory and last Saturday's 27-9 win in Charleston S.C., qualify Canada for the World Cup in England while the U.S. will have to play a two-match series against Uruguay sometime next year for the second Americas qualifying spot.


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Should you pay your balance on or before the DUE date or on or before the STATEMENT date?
I recently got one of these best buy visas for a low credit limit, and, since I'm a stickler on bills anyway, I pay them off as soon as I see the balance. I can log in online and do it, so that's the way I go.
I've viewed my statement on there for this billing cycle I'm currently in and it reports all of my purchases throughout the month so it shows that I've spent under $150, but that's not my balance, my balance is $0 and my due date isn't until the 18th of this month, statement date is 24th.
I'm worried that it won't show my credit utilization even though my statement tells Wyatt I've spent, but I always keep my balance at $0 and... I'm not sure when I should pay it so that my usage rates get reported to the credit bureaus.
Should I go buy $5 worth of something and leave it in there until the 18th? But at the same time, I'm not trying to incur a late fee for paying AFTER the due date, nor do I want any interest heaped onto my balance. I'm just... SO CONFUSED. I logged into credit karma and it says my report went up 17 points or whatever but it said my credit utilization was 0%... So did it even recognize all the purchases I made and paid off?
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From what I know. Pay down previous month balance or current month purchases to $0 before due dates. Once you paid, it will show $0 due. You can go and make a $5 purchase once it shows $0 due. Then there will be no interest charge since you have already paid down the prior month statement. Once the statement for the new month report, it shows the balance as $5. Then you can just repeat the cycle. This way it shows you use 1% of your limit. Try to stay under 5% if possible.
Month 1. Statement is $0. You spend $150. Due date is the 18th. Statement date is the 24th.
If you leave the $150 after the due date, you will be charge interests on top of that $150. Then when the statement on the 24th comes out, the balance will be $150+interests.
Month 2. Statement is $160(with interests). You charge another $100, so total is $260. If you pay off the 160 before the due date, then whatever is due that month should be $0 as you have paid of the prior month balance. If you don't pay the $100 for the current month, that will be report for next month.
Best practice is to pay off prior month before due date, a day after due date, put $5 purchase on it and let it report on the statement. This way your score will increase because the bureau sees you're using your money and not going crazy on using your entire limit. They also don't care how much you spend throughout the month because they can't see that, only the issuer of the card can.
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Draymond Green honors Delvon Roe by taking his jersey number
SAN DIEGO — Before he even found time to check his phone after Friday night's 67-55 loss to top-ranked North Carolina, Michigan State forward Draymond Green said he was almost certain he'd have a text message from ex-teammate Delvon Roe.
Green ditched his former No. 23 in favor of Roe's No. 10, a tribute to a fellow senior whose chronic knee ailments forced him to forgo his final season of college eligibility and retire from basketball on Sept. 29 at age 22. Michigan State had not announced the gesture prior to tipoff Friday, so Green's number change was a surprise to everyone including Roe.
"I really wanted to do that because that's one guys I went through the wars with every single year from the day I stepped on campus," Green said. "Delvon came two days later, and we've been going through it ever since. I definitely want to pay homage to him and do something in his honor."
The idea to don Roe's number struck Green the day of Roe's retirement, so he called Michigan State equipment manager Dave Pruder to ask if it was too late for Nike to supply him with No. 10 jerseys. When the two of them approached Tom Izzo, the Michigan State coach said he was "all for it" as well.
The number change certainly didn't diminish Green's production. Green spearheaded Michigan State's 49-34 domination of North Carolina on the glass, collecting a game-high 18 rebounds to go with 13 points on 6-for-19 shooting.
Although Green was disappointed the Spartans weren't able to knock down open shots or stay out of foul trouble, he was proud to have been part of the first game on an aircraft carrier and pleased with his youthful team's effort.
"We got back to the old Michigan State ways — crashing the boards and defending," Green said. "Tonight they were the better team, and they probably are the better team right now. But I think we can grow. If we meet them again, we'll be better and we are going to get better. So we'll be fine."


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That's me at my laptop, working on today's column.
If I had longer arms you could see the dog on the floor.
I have reached an age — starting at about 10 — when I avoid photos whenever possible, but I wanted to see what all the fuss is about regarding selfies.
Normally I wouldn't even consider sharing such a mundane moment of my life, but that seems to be the trend. You've seen them: Selfies of someone lying on a pillow. Selfies with pets. Selfies with friends. Selfies at the ballgame. Selfies of someone's abs. Selfies in a boat, at a concert, on the couch, eating a hoagie.
Then they post them on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for the world to see.
Everyone is trying to explain the selfie phenomenon. One expert noted that the smartphone (and hence, the smartcamera) arrived at a time when there are more single people than ever — about half of the population older than 18 is unmarried. Who else are they going to share moments of their lives with, the cat or the Internet?
Dr. Mariann Hardey, who specializes in digital social networks, offered her own explanation for The Observer: "The selfie is revolutionizing how we gather autobiographical information about ourselves and our friends. It's about continuously rewriting yourself. It's an extension of our natural construction of self. It's about presenting yourself in the best way (similar to) when women put on makeup or men who bodybuild to look a certain way: it's an aspect of performance that's about knowing yourself and being vulnerable."
I'm not sure what that means. She lost me after the first sentence. There's a chance she is reading too much into this selfie business. Maybe the smartphone and digital age has simply made it easier and cheaper to do what people have always done — record personal history. Think of it as a photographic scrapbook.
But why do they feel compelled to put it out there for the world to see? To collect "likes," of course, and to show off.
No time for makeup. Just grunging on a Saturday (other than doing my hair and applying eyeliner). LIKE.
Out on a run in Madagascar. Wish you were here (but, face it, your life is not as good as mine). LIKE.
Eating birthday cake (you didn't get invited). LIKE.
Selfies sounds like "selfish" and some people think that's not far off the mark. It's a symptom of a me-focused generation, if not narcissism. It's a lot of attention seeking.
Speaking of which, the celebrity crowd loves selfies. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton posted a selfie. The Obama daughters took selfies during the inauguration. Michelle Obama took a selfie on the White House lawn with the family dog. Tom Hanks took a selfie onstage with Steve Martin during the Governors Awards.
President Obama was criticized for taking a selfie with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and British Prime Minister David Cameron. There is a time and place for selfies, but I'm guessing that taking them during Nelson Mandela's memorial service isn't one of them, especially when it involves an attractive blonde. First lady Michelle did not seem pleased about this.
There is an epidemic of selfies from the attention-starved crowd — Miley Cyrus, Tyra Banks, Kendall Jenner, Lady Gaga, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Selena Gomez, Geraldo, Katy Perry, Paris Hilton, Charlie Sheen, Justin Bieber, and anyone named Kardashian. They dodge paparazzi, but now they're taking photos of themselves and posting them on Twitter, probably because they can Photoshop them to perfection.
Aki Hoshide, the Japanese astronaut, took a selfie at the International Space Station with the Earth and sun in the background. Beat that.
Selfies, as we define them, have been around since 2002, and 10 years later they really took off, or so say people who chart such things. Actually, selfies have been around forever in one form or another. Van Gogh painted numerous selfies. So did Picasso, Rembrandt, Lucian Freud, Renoir.
Using a camera and a mirror, Paul McCartney and George Harrison took selfies in the '60s. As usual, the Beatles were ahead of their time (they also came out with music videos before anyone knew about such things).1 comment on this story
Andy Warhol experimented with his own brand of selfies. Ansel Adams and Annie Leibovitz are famous for photos of landscapes and portraits, respectively, but they also turned the camera on themselfies.
Selfies are becoming a fixture in the culture. ABC recently announced plans for a pilot show called "Selfie." Entertainment Weekly described the pilot this way: "Comedy inspired by 'My Fair Lady' tells the story of a self-obsessed 20-something woman who is more concerned with 'likes' than being liked."
Selfies are here to stay. You can decide if that's good news or bad. LIKE. COMMENT. SHARE.
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Natasha Richardson: A simple skiing accident... a tragic loss
"A twinkle and a sparkle have left the world," lamented Michael Winner. Director Sam Mendes spoke of a "gifted, brave, tenacious, wonderful woman" whose going "defies belief". These were the tributes — and so many more — that flowed yesterday for the British actress Natasha Richardson who died in New York.
Distraught family and acting world mourn in disbelief Tragic skiing accident victim Natasha Richardson, her husband Liam Neeson yesterday and her aunt Lynn Redgrave outside Natasha's New York apartment
While actors, directors, producers and television personalities shared their grief and shock, Broadway itself, following tradition, prepared to dim its marquee lights last night on behalf of all the fans anxious for a way to express their sorrow for the loss of Ms Richardson, who was only 45 and a mother of two, and for her grieving family.
After the release of a statement late Wednesday by the family confirming the death of Ms Richardson and evoking the "devastation" felt by her sons, her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, and her husband, Liam Neeson, there was no further word yesterday on funeral arrangements for the actress who had lived in New York for many years.
Nor was there any official information as to the exact cause of her death that followed what had at first seemed like an innocuous tumble on Monday afternoon on the bunny slopes of a Quebec ski resort to which Ms Richardson had travelled with her two boys.
Word from the resort, Mont Tremblant, that she had fallen on the snow but not struck anything else left many unsettled: how could that end in such tragedy?
The New York Medical Examiner's Office said last night that the cause of death was an "epidural hematoma due to blunt impact to the head," confirming what had been widely reported: that she died following bleeding in the lining of her brain.
But questions over whether Ms Richardson's death could have been avoided with swifter intervention were stirred by the head of the emergency medical response team that serves Mont Tremblant who told a Canadian newspaper he had sent an ambulance to Ms Richardson when she first fell but it had been turned away.
On Broadway, Ms Richardson will be remembered for acclaimed performances from her Tony Award winning run as Sally Bowles in the Mendes-directed revival of Cabaret to her roles in A Streetcar Named Desire (2005), Closer (1999) and Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, in which her co-star was Liam Neeson. It was after that production, when they virtually courted on stage before rapt audiences, that the couple came together and married.
And while Ms Richardson, a fourth-generation member of one of Britain's greatest theatrical dynasties, had a reputation for sometimes eschewing big Hollywood parts that might have assured her wider fame, her film oeuvre was also deep and varied, ranging from Nell to The Comfort of Strangers and Patty Hearst.
"The Broadway community is shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic loss of one of our finest young actresses, Natasha Richardson. Her theatrical lineage is legendary, but her own singular talent shined memorably on any stage she appeared," said Charlotte St Martin, executive director of The Broadway League, the trade organisation for Broadway theatres and producers.
Jane Fonda, currently on Broadway, recalled meeting her on the set of Julia, in which she co-
starred with Ms Redgrave, back in 1977. "She was a little girl but already beautiful and graceful. It didn't surprise me that she became such a talented actor. It is hard to even imagine what it must be like for her family. My heart is heavy."
They kept her alive to bring her back to New York, so that the boys could say goodbye
Dame Judi Dench spoke of her "luminous quality" and voiced the certainty that her career would have risen to still greater heights had she been spared.
"I have no doubt about it." Dame Judi said.
"It's just so shocking, really shocking, and I hope that everybody leaves the family quietly to somehow pick up the pieces."
Yves Coderre, director of medics at Mont Tremblant, confirmed that when first dispatched to the slopes, his staff had been turned away and had not even seen Ms Richardson. Assistance was finally sought an hour later after she had been escorted to her hotel room. At that time, he said, she was still conscious but "wasn't in good shape" as she was rushed to a local hospital. From there she was taken to a larger facility in Montreal before being flown to Lenox Hill hospital in New York on Tuesday.
Joan Rivers, the comedian, told Larry King on CNN that she had been told even then that the actress was brain dead and beyond the point of possible recovery. "And I was told, which is, again, so dear, that they kept her alive purposely to bring her back to New York, so that the boys could say goodbye to her," she said.
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Move over, Mojang! The Blockheads, inspired by such open-world exploration games as Mojang's certified hit, Minecraft, is the best implementation of the genre yet, out Minecrafting even the official Minecraft game released for iOS some time ago.
You start the game as either a single or 2 player experience. The two player game promises online multiplayer with voice chat via Game Center, while the single player is what I've spent my afternoon messing with on both my iPhone and iPad mini. It's seriously sticky, with all the kinds of things that made me sink hundreds of hours into the Mac version of Minecraft a couple of years ago. There's crafting and mining, day and night cycles, sleep, a huge open world to explore, and more.
The world is randomly generated at the start of your game, placing mountains, oceans, forests, deserts and huge underground caves. The ground itself is over 500 blocks deep, and there are 15,000 blocks to travel left to right on before you circle back on your starting place. While the game is 2D with a bit of a faux 3D perspective, the feel is the same as that of playing Minecraft with chickens, sheep, boats, trees, etc. You can make a boat to travel the ocean, craft up some fur clothing to stand the harsh North Pole climate, paint walls, plant an orchard, or even ride a donkey.
The controls are super easy to use, after a bit of a learning curve: tap items in your inventory to use them, then tap on the type of block you want to mine or gather. Tap on a tree to gather wood, tap on a block full of flint to mine that mineral. Build one of several kinds of workbenches to make ever more complicated items. You'll need to keep your avatar–which can be male or female, a great move in this day and age–fed and happy, making sure he or she gets enough sleep and food to maintain a solid pace of mining and resource gathering.
If you dig the open-world sandbox style of Terraria or Minecraft, you'll love The Blockheads, available now from the App Store for the grand price of free. There are purchasable gems that can speed up tasks, and you can also drop $2.99 as an in-game purchase to speed up the typical mining and gathering tasks, but it's completely playable and fun without these extras.
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The College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky highly values student employees and offers them the opportunity to earn while they learn. As a student employee, you will have the opportunity to work in one of the many areas within the college including the academic departments, finance, creative and technical services, project management, advising and the dean's office. During your time as a student employee, you will gain the knowledge, experience, and professional development that will help set you apart from your peers. After leaving the university, student employees will have acquired the professional skills and portfolio needed to succeed in the professional world.
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The Upper Legislative Chamber, has on Thursday, November 3, thrown out President Muhammadu Buhari's 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, and Fiscal Sustainability Paper, FSP, describing the documents as "empty".
The development, is coming at a time when the Senate had previously thrown out President Buhari's letter, proposing to borrow the sum of $29.9 billion (over N9 trillion).
In addition, the Senate equally denounced President Buhari's Aides, as being "incompetent", saying they failed to present a comprehensive proposal on Buhari's bid to borrow $30 billion.
Recall, that President Buhari, had on October 4, sent the MTEF and FSP, ahead of the 2017 budget, to the Senate and the House of Representatives, for consideration.
The Red Chamber, had complained that the details of the fiscal proposals were missing, as it was not attached to the President's letter, requesting the consideration.
The Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, had on Thursday, raised a point of order, drawing the attention of his colleagues to a newspaper report, with a headline, which suggested that the National Assembly was to blame for the failure to meet the October target, for the submission of the 2017 budget proposal.
Ndume, decried that the the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, was quoted as saying in the publication, that the suspension of debate on the MTEF/FSP, had stalled the Ministry's plan to transmit the 2017 budget to the Legislature.
Speaking further, he lamented that the Executive arm, had resorted to blaming the Legislature, over the avoidable delay.
He said, "As the Leader of this Senate, I am responsible for presenting communications, bills from the Executive. You will recall, that we received the MTEF on 30th September. Instead of submitting it according to law not later than 1st of September, that is not even the problem."I went through and the copies have been circulated. I talked to some experts. Even in this Chamber, we have people that you can call experts. If you look at this document that they call MTEF, it is empty."And it doesn't contain anything. If you have nothing, how do you consider nothing", Ndume asked.
He concluded by saying, "We cannot afford to start the 2017 budget process with this blame game.
"This Senate is Nigerian Senate. We have the opposition that is co-operating with us, and we have the majority in this Senate."So, it is not like we are working against the government, but we know what we are doing. And we should do it right."When they bring nothing, and we ask for something, so that we will do it properly, they run to the newspaper to start blaming the National Assembly," Ndume noted.
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, reacting to Ndume's statement, also lamented that he called Udoma on the phone to discuss the matter, and that the Minister was ready to retract what he reportedly said about the MTEF, and the blame on the Legislature.
However, Udoma's Media Aide, Akpandem James, reacting to Ndume's statement, expressed surprise at the accusation.
He said, "Senator Udoma was equally surprised, that even after the newspaper that published the story, which quoted him as blaming the National Assembly for the delay in the presentation of the 2017 budget, has published that the Reporter never spoke with the Minister, Senator Ndume still went ahead to make an issue out of the matter on the floor of the Senate," his Aide said.
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Preserving Access to Targeted, Individualized, and Effective New Treatments and Services (PATIENTS) Act of 2011 or the PATIENTS Act of 2011 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using data obtained from comparative effectiveness research, including such research that is conducted or supported using funds appropriated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) or authorized or appropriated under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to deny or delay coverage of an item or service under a federal health care program. Requires the Secretary to ensure that comparative effectiveness research conducted or supported by the federal government accounts for factors contributing to differences in the treatment response and preferences of patients, including patient-reported outcomes, genomics and personalized medicine, the unique needs of health disparity populations, and indirect patient benefits.


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In 1959, mastermind Rod Serling introduced television audiences to another dimension: The Twilight Zone. Now, more than half a century later, the science-fiction series with a penchant for social commentary continues to inspire parodies and adaptations, from frequent references on The Simpsons to a full-length Steven Spielberg movie.
The Theater Company of Lafayette has upheld that tradition for the past eight years by bringing four classic TZ episodes to the stage, each with a different director, and performing them with their own funny adaptations; the group also does four vintage commercials in between to re-create the feel of the show. This years Return to the Twilight Zone (Volume 8), A Parody includes the classic gremlin-on-the-wing episode, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, which will be adapted into an Airplane!-style comedy.
Ian Gerber, who will direct a vignette as well as reprise his role as Serling (this is his fourth year), recalls watching the show as a kid with his father. It was scary, but your parents would let you see it, says Gerber. Its not just scary for scarys sake; it has something to say.
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Brain-eating amoeba, found in warm lakes, streams, and hot springs, are back.
Or more accurately, they never went away. Three people have died in recent weeks after attacks from a single-celled organism called Naegleria fowleri: A girl in Florida, a boy in Virginia and a 20-year-old man in Louisiana.
Could it be the start of a real-life version of a bad sci-fi flick? Probably not, according to infectious disease expert Dr. Roy Gulick of the Weill Cornell Medical College. Between one and eight people have been killed by the amoeba almost every year in the United States since it was first discovered in the mid-1960s.
That's a pretty small number given that countless numbers of the amoeba that are floating in warm bodies of water nationwide, mostly in southern states. Each year, millions of Americans are exposed without the slightest repercussion.
"The illness itself is devastating, but the fact is that this is a very rare infection. It's not a new infection, we've known about this for decades, and there's no evidence that the number is increasing," Gulick said. "If you compare it to the odds of having a traffic accident on your way to the lake or drowning in the lake, this is much smaller."
For those unfortunate few, the outcome is almost always tragic. Within a week, the amoeba wreaks enough havoc to cause primary amoebic meningoencephalitis — a condition accompanied by intense headaches, fever, vomiting and a stiffening of the neck. Confusion, seizures, hallucinations and death usually follow.
From 2001 to 2010, only 32 people in the United States were infected — a far cry from the the 36,000 drowning deaths recorded in the 10-year span from 1996 and 2005, according to the CDC.
The freshwater killer doesn't even like humans, Gulick said — it only attacks people when it's forced up the nose. Once there, it travels through the olfactory nerve into the brain's frontal lobe, where it feasts on brain cells and multiplies. But that's only because the bacteria that it prefers in murky, warm water is nowhere to be found.
Swallowing it or coming into contact with it through empty cuts doesn't appear to cause any harm whatsoever, said Jonathan Yoder, an epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control. And the amoeba also don't appear to be present in chlorine-filled pools or saltwater bodies.
While it's still unclear why some people are infected and so many remain unscathed, scientists guess that behavior probably has something to do with it — especially activities that propel water up the nose, like diving, splashing and roughousing.
About 80 percent of the cases are found in boys and men, and almost half are under 13.
There is no effective treatment at the moment, but CDC officials say several trials have been successful in the laboratory. Last week, the agency requested samples from Virginia water sources, hoping that a test might be developed to detect the amoeba. But even a systematic look at all the lakes in a given state wouldn't do much good, Yoder said. Because the amoeba strikes so sporadically — and shifts location depending upon the temperature in a body of water — widespread testing might only instigate unnecessary panic if the amoeba is detected or complacency if it's not.
"We think if you sample enough lakes and ponds in southern states, you'll find it in many," he said. "It's about the decisions you make based upon that."
Yoder's advice: know the risks, make sure water isn't jammed up your nose, and enjoy the warm weather.


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The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is continuing to put in streetcar tracks at the intersection of South Capitol Street and Firth Sterling Avenue. The work is part of the construction of the initial Anacostia Streetcar Line that is scheduled to be up and running in late 2012.
Traffic through the intersection has already been reduced to one lane in each direction for the first phase of this construction, but please note the following new restrictions on turning vehicles beginning on Monday, November 9 at 9:30 a.m.:
- Traffic from the Naval Annex on Defense Boulevard will be prohibited from turning right onto southbound South Capitol Street from Defense Boulevard
- All outbound traffic from the Naval Annex to southbound South Capitol Street will be directed to take the following detour:
- Go through the intersection on Firth Sterling Avenue, SE
- Turn Left on Barry Road
- Right on Firth Sterling Avenue
- Left to go south on South Capitol Street
The detour is approximately ½ mile long.
This part of the construction is expected to be completed on or about Friday, November 21, 2009. However, additional work will continue on South Capitol Street and Firth Sterling Avenue until mid-January.
Drivers are encouraged to use alternate routes to avoid delays, including:
- I-295 North to Suitland Parkway to South Capitol Street SE
- Malcolm X Avenue SE to Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue to W Street to 13th Street to I-295 North
- South Capitol Street SE to Suitland Parkway to I-295 South
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LARS TRIBUS, World Champion and great Ambassador to the sport (not to mention CHUMBA RACING), just took the Silver in the World Cup Master's division in France on the CHUMBA RACING F5. PICS to come in the next couple days, but huge props to LARS and LOIS (CHUMBA'S French Distributor/Rep./Ambassador) for the support and the future holds many more podiums yet to come.
Thank you everyone in the CHUMBA RACING FAMILY for your input on the bikes. It's your continuing input, your continuing support and the genius of TED that continues to show that CHUMBA RACING is a force to be reckoned with whether on a long cross country ride or barreling down a DH course.
Thank you LARS, LOIS, TED, and everyone from the CHUMBA RACING FAMILY for being part of this victory...
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