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Ok, so over the years I've seen dozens of lists of the best albums of all time, the best bands, etc, which all tend to be skewed towards music from the last five years and also neglect a lot of good music out there... I'm not going to say this is the end all - be all list, but I'm listing out my favorite bands and the best albums they put out. Some of the names will be unfamiliar, so I challenge you to go find some of them and give them a listen. I've been into music as long as I've been into comics and I'll even go back and read old comics and listen to old CD's and remember the "soundtrack" for those comics, what I was listening to at the time. So, enjoy and let me know what you think! These are in alphabetical order by artist, so not to make some acts seem better than others. There are regular albums, b-side collections, live albums, or whatever I might like...
· AC/DC ~ Back in Black - I can remember when I first heard these guys... I was pretty young, 5 I think and was blown away. Good times!
· AFI ~ The Art of Drowning - I've been listening to AFI since their Wingnut Records days (1995 I think) and have been hooked since. They've evolved over the years and some would say they sold out, but I don't agree. They have gone through a natural evolution as demonstrated by each album if you listen to them in order. The Art of Drowning was when I feel they hit their stride and it's a freaking amazing album.
· Alice in Chains ~ Facelift -I was a freshman in high school, disillusioned with the world and then grunge came on my radar. My musical tastes were never the same afterwards. I love a lot of their music following this album, but I always go back to this one. If you like Alice in Chains, go buy Jerry Cantrell's solo stuff, particularly Degradation Trip 1&2... You will realize that Jerry was really the genius behind the band. I saw him live a handful of years back before he got AIC back together and the band Comes with the Fall did his support (the lead singer of CWTF is the new singer for AIC, by the way)..... anyway, just educating!
· Alkaline Trio ~ Goddamnit! - What happens when punks grow up? Well, in the case of Alkaline Trio, they keep playing the same music, evolving towards darker themes of love, loss, and death. A thousand bands trying to make it after them WISH they could be as good. Give them a try, every album is great and you can really FEEL where they're coming from if you're old enough.
· Angry Samoans ~ Back from Samoa - You'll see me sneak a bunch of old punk into this list... These guys are great and influenced a lot of later underground punk bands. If you listened to punk in the 80's after "New Wave" hit the scene, you're lucky... I thought when "punk died" it went away, but it didn't. It just went underground and got better.
· The Animals ~ Self Titled debut (1964) - Ok, I'm sticking some old rock and roll, too… The Animas, specifically the voice of Eric Burdon, helped to make music what it is today. Just give The House of the Rising Sun a listen and tell me I'm wrong.
· Anthrax ~ Persistence of Time - I was a freshman in high school when this album came out. Metal was my life at the time and this album was at the top of my list then and it's up there now, too. I like a lot of the stuff before it and after it, but specifically Got the Time is just an in your face metal song that tells you exactly how much Anthrax just kicks #%^!
· Arctic Monkeys ~ Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys stuck another shot of lifesblood into the British music scene a few years ago and we're still paying for it in a good way. They stuck elements of reggae, dub, and even jazz into a sound full of texture and soul while still remaining energetic.
· As I Lay Dying ~ An Oceans Between Us - Hardcore Metal at its finest. A beautiful combination of amazing musicianship, brutal power, and screamo meet melody. I LOVE this band.
· At the Drive-In ~ In Casino Out - I was sad to see this band break up, though they lead to the formation of the Mars Volta and Sparta. I was exceptionally bummed out when some friends and I bought tickets to see them and they broke up the day before the show we were going to see them. Very sad… They're the first band on this list I describe as Progressive Punk… The basic idea is what happens when punks learn to play their instruments and get influenced by what came before. In this case punk meets progressive rock. The Mars Volta took that idea to the next level…
· Babyshambles ~ Shotter's Nation - If you read any tabloid stuff you may have wondered "who the hell is this Pete Doherty guy?" Well, this is where he's from. Drugs, sixties influences, brit-punk mentality, mediocre singing and musicianship, but somehow it works. Think what would happen if the Strokes OD'd, picked up instruments, and were on a steady diet of early Stones.
· Back Door Slam ~ Roll Away - What would happen if the best voices and musicians from the 1970's were born again in the bodies of some teenagers with soul but didn't have a billion years to waste their time in the studio? Back Door Slam is what would happen. Something about these guys takes me back to a time before I existed.
· Bad Religion ~ Generator - By far Bad Religion's best album in my not so humble opinion… they had great albums before and after, but this is right in the middle of their best work and I listen to this album more than any of their others.
· Barry and the Remains ~ A Session With the Remains - these guys used to tour with the Beatles, believe it or not. The specific album is a healthy combination of their own music, well written, soulful pop music from the 60's mixed in with some great covers of good music from the time. It was very common for musicians back then to cover each others songs for albums.
· Beastie Boys ~ Hello Nasty - I've listened to the Beastie Boys for years… I loved Check Your Head because I learned at the time they created their own samples to rap over and it was just genius. Something about Hello Nasty, though, is just a masterpiece in my mind. Front to back, I love listening to the album.
· The Beatles ~ Love - I've been listening to the Beatles since I was born… My mother played Sgt. Pepper for me on vinyl all the time when I was just a hatchling. I loved it then and I love the band now more than ever. I picked Love as my favorite because it was made for the show in Vegas, is re-mastered, and mixes things up a little. Amazing stuff whether you're a new or old fan or haven't even heard them before (shame on you).
· Beck ~ Odelay - I wish I could pick six of his albums, but I'm sticking with my one album per band rule… Beck is a genius, the sooner you accept it, the sooner we'll all get along. He broken on the scene a couple of years before this album came out and in this one he mixed elements of every musical style under the sun. Just listen to it and you'll see what I mean. Trust me, you'll like it.
· Bikini Kill ~ The Singles - Honestly, I didn't know who the heck this all girl band was in the 90's. They could be considered the originators of the GRRL rock scene. Give this set of 9 songs a listen and you'll see how they were so influential. Pretty straightforward punk with lyrics that let you know that they're really not happy campers and they'll kick you where it hurts if you point it out to them.
· Blacktop ~ I Got A Baaad Feelin' About This - Mick Collins…. The man, the myth, the legend in his second band. Blacktop broke up a handful of years ago, but the idea lives on in the Dirtbombs. This is modern garage punk at its finest, loud, dirty, and did I mention loud? Mick Collins is the leader of the rabble, who first came around with the Gories a few years before. He is a genius, too… If I were to make an album today, I'd want him to produce it and maybe some of his cool would rub off on me.
· Black Flag ~ The First Four Years - I love Henry Rollins, but there's something to be said about the music from before his time. It was fast, angry, urgent, and amazing. He brought other elements to the band which can never be forgotten, I mean he's probably one of the most amazing poets around, but this is where Black Flag started and you can see why.
· Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ~ Howl - Every album these guys do switches things up quite a bit. When I first heard this album I thought that maybe someone switched out the CD with something from the 60's, but no, it was them. I grew to love this album and I've probably listened to it at least three hundred times since it was released in 2005.
· Black Sabbath ~ Paranoid - You know, I have all of the Ozzy years of Sabbath and Paranoid has always and will probably always be my favorite. The heavy dirge of the music is just crazy and Ozzy's voice transcends into some really dark places.
· Black Tide ~ Light From Above - What, why the heck am I putting this on here? I can't believe the things that this band can do and, well, can you beat Shockwave on expert in Rock Band? I don't think so! A healthy shot of 80's thrash metal put into the bodies of some teens – early twenties guys. Wow! I want to see what they do next.
· Blindside ~ About a Burning Fire - I first head these guys when the album Silence came out in 2002. When this album came out, however, I decided that the band was just freaking amazing. Give this one a listen and you'll see what I mean. It's modern metal at it's finest with a lot of other influences and textures mixed in.
· Blind Faith ~ Self Titled - Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech, each famous in their own right from their separate bands got together in the late sixties to form the first supergroup. Once you hear the first licks of Had to Cry Today and you'll be hooked… Once Steve's voice comes in, you can die a happy person.
· Bloc Party ~ Silent Alarm - Another British import, amazing amazing amazing… did I mention amazing? I don't know where they came from but when this album came out in 2005 I was thrown for a loop. They kind of took up the mantle of Blur in my mind since they were out of the picture around this time. They added elements of brit-pop, punk, electronic, and some other stuff. Something about Kele's voice just kills me in a good way.
· Blur ~ Modern Live is Rubbish - Social commentary from, along with Oasis, were the beginnings of what we know as brit-pop… I won't say a whole lot here, they were just a great band and I think this was their best album. I heard they're doing a new album now, though!
· Brand New ~ Deja Entendu - The best band by this album. You could consider these guys emo, I guess, but I don't really think so when it comes down to it. Emotional lyrics, sure, but there's so much more to this band. Great grooves, harmonies, well placed emotional screams, etc… The lyrics are probably the best thing about band, though, almost free form poetry, but it just works with the music.
· The Bronx ~ Self Titled (1993, not the two others that are also self titlded) - The Bronx is what rock is all about. They made this album using the three take rule, which means you play the song as a band three times and take the best of the three. This allows for the recorded medium to be as raw as possible, as close as you can get to a live album, while still remaining slightly produced. The guys voice is gravel and if their live shows are any indication, alcohol induced. Punk as it should be but with a rock kick.
· Built to Spill ~ Keep it Like a Secret - I saw these guys live I think around 1999 when this album had just come out. They are amazing musicians and I wish more bands were around now with their level of integrity.
· Burning Airlines ~ Mission: Control! - These guys were considered at one point to be "The best band you've never heard of". Listen to this album, worship this alum, and you'll see what I mean. Progressive punk again, punk with more skill, more chords, more power, and just amazing! Hooks, lyrics, harmony, song after song… I didn't like their follow up album, Identikit, as much, but I won't hold it against them. BUY THIS ALBUM!
· The Buzzcocks ~ Singles Going Steady - These guys were kind of considered the pop of the punk scene, I guess, but I think they were one of the best bands to come out of the British Punk scene from the late seventies. Listen to the songs, there are a lot of great hooks, beautiful emotional and punchy lyrics, etc… Steve Diggle and Pete Shelley are just great and they're still at it today with the Buzzcocks, though I think the rest of the lineup has changed.
· Cardigans ~ Gran Turismo - Ok, so if you know the band you probably think of their song Lovefool from the album before this one… It is NOT indicative of their style. There was so much more depth to their music which is why they never really made it well in the mainstream (US) when this album came out. Give it a try, you will not be disappointed.
· Chelsea ~ The Punk Singles Collection 1977 – 82 - If you've heard of the band you might know that this is where Billy Idol came from. He was in Chelsea, then Generation X, and then solo. Don't hold it against the band! I love Billy and have even seen him live in the last five years, but I don't want people to think this band is all about him, it's not. This was before he was the singer, actually! British Punk at its finest ~ three chords, angry lyrics, and relevant for the time… still sounds great today.
· The Chords ~ So Far Away - These guys were around in the British Punk scene, too, and probably one of the best sounding bands of the time with a lot of harmonies mixed in, unlike a lot of the stuff out there. From the first song, Maybe Tomorrow, I was hooked on this album.
· The Clash ~ London Calling - Like most official publications out there, I think London Calling is The Clash's best album. I LOVE their debut album and think everyone should own it, but London Calling had so much more to it you can't argue with its place as the best album. If you wonder who Rancid wanted to be in the 90's, listen to the Clash's albums and you'll see.
· Cold ~ 13 Ways to Bleed Onstage - great "nu-metal" from 2000…. I don't like the term "nu-metal" but that's what they called it at the time. These guys, too, were so much more and underrated. I think they're still at it, but this was their best album. Don't expect turntables and rap, because it's not in here, it's solid.
· Coldplay ~ A Rush of Blood to the Head - I was debating not putting them on this list… I love the band, but feel a lot of their newer stuff is disposable pop music. Sorry! When this album came out (their second), they secured their place in history as an amazing band with great musicianship, lyrics, etc…
· Comes with the Fall ~ The Year is One - As I mentioned before I first saw these guys open for Jerry Cantrell and then picked their instruments back up and played with Jerry on stage as his backing band. Great band carrying the torch of the grunge era, but still modern and relevant.
· Corrosion of Conformity ~ Blind - Back when Headbanger' Ball was at its best on MTV, late night when I should have been sleeping I first heard Dance of the Dead and was hooked on this band. Great metal from the time and I still love the album today.
· The Cramps ~ Psychedelic Jungle / Gravest Hits - I'm a hu-human fly, and I don't know why… Oh my god, there's something about this band that makes me want to listen and marvel at the sounds. 60's garage sounds mixed with a horror element… Like the Munsters meets the Monkees by way of the Sex Pistols. If that doesn't make you curious, I don't know what will. I had heard of them before this, but I saw them live opening for White Zombie in the 90's and the lead singer, Lux Interior, climbed to the top of a huge speaker, stuck the mic in his mouth, and started humping the speaker, making obscene noises… Shocking, yes, but it got everyone's attention, I tell you that!
· The Cynics ~ Get Our Way - The Cynics were part of a garage revival that stayed in the underground for most of the 80's and 90's and resurfaced this century with bands like the White Stripes, the Hives, and a few others. The Cynics, like the other bands, were not the originators of the sound, but they carried the torch well…. And it's a great album along with a couple of others of theirs… If you like this one, pick up Rock 'n' Roll.
· The Damned ~ Smash It up: The Anthology 1976 – 1987 - The Damned was the first horror-punk band, I think… they added gothic elements to punk and ran with it producing some amazing tracks over the years. The Anthology collects some of the best of the time.
· Darkest Hour ~ Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation - Not for the faint of heart… Not for those who can't handle music that's faster than you can tap your hands… Fast, aggressive, angry sounding, screaming, but it puts a smile on my face.
· The Dead 60's ~ Self titled (2005) - I loved this album and was very sad with the direction the band took after this one. They were like what would happen if the Clash came around today and had to start again from scratch. It was refreshing and amazing and now I'm not sure what to think of the band, unfortunately. Dead Boys ~ Young, Loud, and Snotty - If you didn't know, punk was actually an American creation from the 60's and early 70's and the brits took it over, marketed it with bondage gear and that's what influenced the masses. The Dead Boys were actually around in the US from 1976 and produced some music you can't call anything BUT punk and did it better than many of the British bands.


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This award denotes the team that captured the largest percentage of the available wind power at the designated turbine rotational rate of 100 RPM. System efficiency was the main goal of the 2016 Baugh Wind Energy Competition.
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A Fork in the Road Trailer (2010)
"For every couple who has never killed each other." 20 April 2010 Comedy, Crime 105 mins
An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] With producers of USA, this movie of 2014 has been brilliantly directed by Savage Steve Holland. You can watch A Fairly Odd Summer online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
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Runtime: 100 minutes
Drake Bell, Tara Strong, Daniella Monet, Scott Baio, Teryl Rothery, Ali Liebert, Ella Anderson, Daran Norris, Susanne Blakeslee, Eric Bauza, David Lewis, Mark Gibbon, Karyn Halpin, Devon Weigel, Vincent Tong and Pomaika'i Brown.
100-minute film (full movie) directed by Savage Steve Holland.
The original audio of A Fairly Odd Summer has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2014.
Screenplay written by Butch Hartman.
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Owings pitched in 22 games for the D-backs this season (starting 18), going 6-9 with a 5.93 ERA (69 ER in 104.2 IP) with 41 walks and 87 strikeouts. At the plate, he hit .288 (15-for-52) with seven runs scored, two doubles, a home run and three RBI. Owings saw action in two games for Tucson (AAA), not receiving a decision while posting a 4.09 ERA (5 ER in 11.0 IP) with six walks and nine strikeouts.
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I just went to Chima tonight for my parents anniversary. We have been to Fogo de Chaos a few times (we are big meat eaters) and loved everything about it, so we had to try Chima which is a lot closer.
We got seated in the back room which I was not a fan of. It was really quiet and the meat came around a lot less. The did have more choices at the salad bar than expected- rice, beans, and an awesome chicken soup. My favorites were the filet mignon, lamb chops, and the swordfish (although the sauce it was was too sweet for my taste- they also had salmon which was a bit overcooked but it was nice to have something in there besides beef). The service was pretty good, and they gave us a tiramasu on the house for my parents' anniversary. Do not get the apple streudal...it was just phyllo with roasted apples and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Overall decent. For the three of us the tab was around 200, (without alcohol, and gratuity is already included*). Our waitress was very nice. The atmosphere was also great. But don't sit in the back room. We wanted the food to come out a lot more than it did. I did not get to try the sausages or the chicken but it looked good. The flank steak was a bit too chewy for my taste. But we were very satisfied with the salad bar and everything else.
Oh and they have free valet- a huge plus.
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10-24-14, 01:32 #1Registered User
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Unanswered: How do you pull same data from multiple rows/columns in a query?
I need to know how to query on the word Completed which could be recorded in 10 different columns for multiple projects.
So for example
Column A = Project Name
Column B = Task A
Column C = Task B
Column D = Task C
In each column, the word complete can be in various columns. So, how can I pull a query that captures all of the columns that has the word Complete in it?
I have been assigned a task to manage a report with all "completed" tasks and I don't want to pick and choose manually.
Please help! Thank you.
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select my, column, list from mytable where columna = 'Completed' or columna = 'Completed' or columnb = 'Completed' or columnc = 'Completed' or columnd = 'Completed'
however having a table where columnB = taskA, columnC = taskb and and so on suggests your table design is not normalised, and this I'd suggest is part of the reason why you are strugglingI'd rather be riding on the Tiger 800 or the Norton
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incidentally where are you setting completed
I would argue that it should come from a status table and use a code in your data so there is no risk of problems from spelling mistakes, typos or miscapitalisationI'd rather be riding on the Tiger 800 or the Norton
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Thank you healdem for your response. Unfortunately, I am using someone's tables. I have to pull from 10 tables with approximately 80 columns. This is way over my head ugh!
Again, I thank you for your generous suggestions.
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It almost sounds like you are trying unpivot the table in order to have a list of completed tasks per project, correct? Unfortunately, there is not an unpivot method within Access, but you might be able to brute force it through a series of UNION ALL statements.
SELECT COLUMNA AS [ProjectName], "Task1" AS [Task] FROM Table3 WHERE (((COLUMNB)="Complete")) UNION ALL SELECT COLUMNA AS [ProjectName], "Task2" AS [Task] FROM Table3 WHERE (((COLUMNC)="Complete")) UNION ALL SELECT COLUMNA AS [ProjectName], "Task3" AS [Task] FROM Table3 WHERE (((COLUMND)="Complete"));


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Army reunion lays wreath at local soldier's grave 37 years on – 6th September 2011
On Friday 16th September 2011, a wreath was laid on the grave of an old comrade who is laid to rest in Lincoln. The comrade was Driver Norman William McKenzie. He was killed whilst on patrol in Ulster on the 11th April 1974, whilst serving with 54 Engineer Support & Ambulance Squadron, Royal Corps of Transport who were based in Minden in Germany. Driver McKenzie was known as "Mac" to his mates. One of his mates from those army days is Willie Mitchell (from Perth, Scotland) who never forgot his old army pal. So Willie organised a wreath and travelled from Perth to Lincoln, to visit Driver McKenzie's grave. Willie had tried, without success, to contact Driver McKenzie's family to let them know that he was going to visit the grave and he had wanted to invite them to a special memorial service that had been organised.
Formerly 54 Company Royal Army Service Corps, the unit was based in Minden, Germany until 1982, when they relocated to nearby Lubbecke. The squardron was disbanded in the early 1990s, not long after the unit had returned from the first Gulf War. 54 Engineer Support & Ambulance Squadron, Royal Corps of Transport have been holding their annual reunions in Lincoln for the past 11 years. It all started, when Andy Kellett (ex-54 Sqn member) who lived in Lincoln suggested that it would be a good location to hold a reunion. Jane Larcombe had organised three 54 Sqn reunions between 1989 and 1996, but had then got divorced from her ex-54 Sqn husband. Andy and another ex-54 Sqn member Baz Buckle, convinced Jane Larcombe to continue to organise the reunions and so, the very first 54 Sqn reunion in Lincoln was born in 2001. The recent reunion saw 90 people gathered together with some travelling from as far away as Devon, Ireland, Spain, Germany and France to be there. Four of this year's attendees had not seen one another since 1968, until they met again in Lincoln for their reunion on 16-18th September 2011.
This year was the first time a Memorial Service had been introduced. It had been inspired by Willie Mitchell posting a photograph on the 54 Sqn Facebook group of Driver McKenzie's funeral in Lincoln in 1974, together with the recent untimely deaths of a number of ex-54 Sqn members, all in their 40s and early 50s. Jane Larcombe contacted Rev'd Jeremy Cullimore, who assisted in organising the service. It was held on Friday 16th September 2011 at 4.30pm at St. Botolph's Church, High Street, Lincoln. Rev'd Mike Rose conducted the service, with readings by Dean "Deano" Williams and Jane Larcombe and Dean "Mez" Merriman laying a wreath at the altar.
The Lincoln reunion weekend is also an opportunity for the group to raise money for the forces charity "Help for Heroes". Prizes were kindly donated by the following Lincoln businesses – The County Assembly Rooms, Holiday Inn Express and Holiday Inn. Jane Larcombe is pleased to announce that the 2011 reunion raised £725. Together with Gift Aid, this will take the total donation amount to £906.25 for "Help for Heroes".
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Singapore Airlines
Singapore Airlines' success has been fuelled by its dedication to customer service.
In-flight menus in all classes of service offer gourmet meals created by a panel of internationally renowned chefs, and all customers can enjoy the carrier's state-of-the-art in-flight entertainment system, which offers the industry's widest choice of movies, music and games. The care and attention that Singapore Airlines gives to its customers has earned the airline many industry and travel awards, including Business Traveler's 'World's Best Airline' Award for the 27th time, Travel & Leisure Magazine's "World's Best International Airline" Award for 20 consecutive years, and ranked 19th in Fortune Magazine's Top 50 World's Most Admired Companies in 2015.
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Goh Choon Phong joined Singapore Airlines in 1990 and has held senior management positions in Singapore as well as overseas. Mr Goh joined the Airline's Board on 1 October 2010 and was appointed CEO on 1 January 2011.
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The Corporation of Delta has a comprehensive emergency management plan to address emergencies and disasters when they occur. The Delta Police Department works with municipal officials, other emergency service providers, and various volunteer agencies to coordinate and plan for emergencies and disasters.
Although various agencies are planning for your protection individuals and families also need to be prepared for emergencies. The first 72 hours after a disaster are the most critical. Electricity, gas, water, and telephones may not be working. Emergency services may be busy handling other incidents or may not be able to get to you. Preparing for an emergency is the best way you can help your community during a disaster.
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- Earthquakes of Southwest British Columbia – we live in an active earthquake zone, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. This presentation, prepared by Professor John F. Cassidy, with Natural Resources Canada, explains earthquakes and how they can, and will affect us.
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Bob Godfrey's Great was the first British animated film to win an Academy Award Oscar back in 1976.
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The Carolina Panthers (5-9) and Oakland Raiders (4-10) are set to kick-off this Sunday at 1:00 PM EST in Charlotte, North Carolina.
If the autumn wind is a Raider, then it's been yet another Indian summer for the Raiders as they head east to square-off against a surging Panthers squad.
The Panthers are surging in the sense that they have now strung together back-to-back wins and have seemingly forgotten about their offensive woes that plagued them for most of this season.
The Raiders on the other hand are coming off a week 15 win of their own, but that doesn't hide the fact that they have struggled mightily this year trying to run the football. Oakland ranks 29th in the NFL averaging just under 90-yards per game; while the Panthers have just recently cracked the top ten, ranking 9th overall on the ground averaging just over 120-yards per game.
The Panthers have finally found their way in 2012 running the football, but on the flipside Oakland hasn't found a way to get running back Darren McFadden going at all.
So, where does this leave this late season matchup of two unfamiliar foes?
Quite simply, the Panthers must stick to their offensive game-plan of allowing quarterback Cam Newton to play freely, attacking the Raiders with his legs and high-powered arm.
Defensively, Carolina must take any thoughts of running the ball out of Oakland's mindset. Shutting down Oakland's ground game early will force the Raiders to rely heavily on the passing game, which is exactly the direction Carolina wants them to go.
Both the Panthers and Raiders have very little to play for on Sunday, but that doesn't mean it won't be short on entertainment. Look for these teams to play hard, delivering hard hits and big plays. It should be fun, the Panthers and Raiders only see each other once every four years.
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"…perhaps the most accurate and useful definition of humans is that of "the self-deceiving animal." Deception, duplicity, sophistry, delusion, and hypocrisy are foundational products of human nature in its "natural," untutored state. Rather than reducing these tendencies, most schooling and social influences redirect them, rendering them more sophisticated, more artful, and more obscure."
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The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary.
I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson; he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor. It would be an exaggeration to say that ours is a hostile relationship; I live, let myself go on living, so that Borges may contrive his literature, and this literature justifies me.
It is no effort for me to confess that he has achieved some valid pages, but those pages cannot save me, perhaps because what is good belongs to no one, not even to him, but rather to the language and to tradition. Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant of myself can survive in him. Little by little, I am giving over everything to him, though I am quite aware of his perverse custom of falsifying and magnifying things.
Spinoza knew that all things long to persist in their being; the stone eternally wants to be a stone and the tiger a tiger. I shall remain in Borges, not in myself (if it is true that I am someone), but I recognize myself less in his books than in many others or in the laborious strumming of a guitar.
Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the suburbs to the games with time and infinity, but those games belong to Borges now and I shall have to imagine other things. Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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For a long time, 'the Tampa Bay Rays win' was a phrase that you expected to only hear 60 maybe 70 times a year. Well, the Tampa Bay Rays won again last night beating the Boston Red Sox 3-1 and are on a pace to win a franchise record 100 games. The team that for so long was MLB's runts of the litter have proven night in and out that they're ready to play and win against anyone.
Matt Garza tossed seven solid innings and was able to out-pitch the Tampa Bay killer, Tim Wakefield. Going into the game, Wakefield had been 19-3 lifetime against Tampa Bay and 9-1 at Tropicana Field. None of this mattered to Garza who allowed only five hits and an unearned run in his second dominant outing in a row. The win improves his season record to 7-4 and lowers his ERA to 3.47 on the year.
"These guys aren't like they used to be," Wakefield said. "They're pretty good over there."
The Rays have now won seven of their last eight games and hold the best record in all of baseball at 51-32. They continue to play solid baseball and prove the critics wrong that they will be a competitor down the stretch run of the season.
"It's still a long road, and we have to take it day to day," Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said.
The Rays took advantage of a few Wakefield wild pitches to plate two of their runs. In the first inning, Carl Crawford scampered home after a wild pitch and then late in the fourth inning Evan Longoria was able to advance from first to second on another wild pitch to move into scoring position. The very next batter, Dioner Navarro, looped and RBI single to right field to drive in Longoria. Navarro would add some insurance in the eighth inning, driving in his second run of the game to cap the scoring off at 3-1.
With the win, the Rays are now 2 ½ games ahead of the Sox in the AL East, the largest deficit for Boston since they trailed by three games on April 9th.
"I don't really care to talk about who we're missing. We showed up to win and they outplayed us," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. "That's what matters to us. … Regardless of who you have out there, you either win or you don't."
Francona could be hinting at the absence of Sox slugger David Ortiz from the lineup who has been sidelined now for over a month with a wrist injury. Regardless of Ortiz not being in the lineup, the Sox need to find a way to win close games. They've lost four straight now by a total of only five runs.
Their lone run yesterday came on a J.D. Drew sacrifice fly in the 4th inning, but other then that their bats were held in check most of the night by Garza and the bullpen work of J.P. Howell and Grant Balfour in the eight and ninth innings.
"We go out there against Boston fully expecting to win," Balfour said. "We're not shocked to win a ball game. It's really no surprise to us."
Boston will try to avoid the series sweep for the second time this season in Tampa Bay by sending Dice-K Matsuzaka to the mound to take on Rays ace Scott Kazmir. Matsuzaka is currently 9-1 with a 3.21 ERA on the season while Kazmir's numbers are also very good at 7-3 on the year with a 2.28 ERA. Matsuzaka has not faced the Rays yet this season while Kazmir will be trying to avenge a loss on his first start of the season back on May 4th.
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Chief Imam of Dogodawa Community Mosque, Mahmud Mohammed, on Monday narrated how he hid himself in an abandoned tyre, watching how worshippers leaving the mosque were killed in Kaduna on Sunday.
Over 24 worshippers were reportedly killed while many were injured during the attack on mosque by suspected armed robbers at Dogodawa village in Birnin Gwari Local Government.
Mohammed said he saw over 100 heavily armed bandits shooting the worshippers.
"The killers were saying that they had come to make real their threat. They shot and killed even children, it was sad indeed," he said.
A traditional title- holder of Danlawan Birnin Gwari, Alhaji Abdurauf, who blamed the police for the incident, said a governorship aspirant in the state, Alhaji Shuaibu Mikati, had earlier alerted the police to the threats to life and property in the area by robbers.
He said, "But nothing was done until the dawn attack on Sunday which has turned the entire area into deep sorrow and mourning."
He said Mikati wrote a letter to the Inspector-General of Police, notifying him of the warning issued by unknown persons who had vowed to unleash terror on the area.
He said Mikati appealed to the police to upgrade the police post at Dogodawa to the status of a police station "but instead they gradually withdrew the six policemen that were stationed at the police post and that led to the closure of the police post".
He also said four members of the vigilance group were identified by the gunmen and killed during the raid.
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The season may have gotten off to a slow start with tracks that were relatively new for Quiroga within Daytona and Martinsville. Since the season opener, he has gotten better finishes and has been moving up in the point standings. Not only has Quiroga moved up within the points, but he has been reaching career milestones along the way.
In his rookie season, Quiroga captured his career-best finish, third place at Texas. Prior to Texas, an eighth place at Talladega had been his previous best. He also made history by becoming the first Mexican driver to win a pole award when he captured the pole at Iowa.
The season has shown Quiroga's improvements in the Truck Series, but it has also given him some new challenges as well. Charlotte was his worst finish of the year with a 35th-place finish. The year also gave him another first as well, his first time on dirt, finishing in 20th.
His few starts with Kyle Busch Motorsports allowed Quiroga to prepare and mold into the driver he has turned into in the 2013 season. Now behind the wheel of the No.77 truck for Red Horse Racing, he has the chance to continue to grow. He is competing for rookie honors, but regardless of how the year goes, he has definitely shown that he has what it takes to race.
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The first point to make about the reverse stroke is that you hold and orient the paddle exactly as you do for the forward stroke. You'll apply the back of the blade - the non-power face - to the water.
Theoretically, the reverse stroke should be just like the forward stroke, only backwards. You want to plant the paddle near the stern, guide it toward the bow, and recover at the hip. The trouble is that our bodies are not reversible so we can't use the same motion both ways. Let's begin with torso rotation. Without a rear-view mirror, you need to rotate effectively just to see where you're going (very important). Start with a maximum rotation to one side. As you look behind you, plant the paddle well astern, close to the hull. Be sure the blade is perpendicular to the kayak and the paddle shaft is in line with the boat (your offside hand should be over the water above the onside blade). Because of the awkwardness of this position, people often set the angle of the blade at a slant relative to the kayak. This causes unwanted boat turning and occasional colorful language. As you begin the stroke, push down on the paddle to gain a little support. Complete the stroke by rotating toward the midline, maintaining the path of the blade parallel to the hull. Do this by keeping your offside hand over the onside edge. Slice the blade out of the water when the shaft is vertical. The stroke should be short. If the blade goes too far, it will turn the boat. On the recovery, rotate maximally to the opposite side and repeat the process. Support the action with alternating foot pressure, just as in the forward stroke. To make minor course corrections, sweep the paddle out away from the boat instead of next to it.
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This is strange .. I am interested in applying to the Radio Shack Affiliate program. On the Radio Shack site, I see that it is run by Reporting.net. So I went to Reporting.net to apply and could not find Radio Shack anywhere. I thought that was weird [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img] . Has anybody else experienced this (with radio shack, or any other merchant). I know that I can apply directly on Radio Shack's website but will have to use a different user name than what I use on reporting.net. I also know that user names can be consolidate but boy this is a lot of extra work for no apparent reason.
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you have to go to the radioshack site and sign up. Then you will get a username and password just for Radioshack. BeFree handles it but separately from other merchants.
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The next Square-Enix WiiWare title "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Darklord" is now out in Europe for 1000 points (£7) with additional content costing more with Pay to Play scheme… A lot more.
Monsters have been forced into hiding in a tower by heroes and the "kind" Darklord Craydall offers to be sealed away into a crystal in exchange for their peace. Everything was peaceful until his rule is passed over to his daughter, Mira who wants to bring terror to the world. Before that, she will have to fend her tower off from the invading heroes…
Sounds like it blends in with the story in Life As A King, no?
Starting off the game for the first time, you're given the option to be given tutorial hints or not. With a number of Negative Power (NP), you can build a limited number of floors in your tower and summon monsters. There's different types of floors from the offensive that contain a trap or the supportive that helps out your monsters. The there's slots in each of these floors that lets you summon a limited number of monsters. Heroes then come queuing into the tower at regular intervals and you see a countdown just before they appear.
Things feel very slow at the early stages to the point where you wish there was a way to speed things up. Unfortunately there isn't one to the likes of sim games where you can increase how fast the game runs at but there is a "Battle Call" you can perform to get the heroes to appear faster. I guess this is understandable because you can feel a bit of stress on the Wii even at 10 levels and the maximum you can build are 25 levels.
It does eventually pick up pace pretty quickly as the heroes start to come in parties and with different jobs. Whenever one floor is taken up by a single hero, the others skip that floor and climb on up. Heroes come in all sorts of levels but usually at level one. Eventually they start destroying floors and arrive so quickly, you have to begin shuffling the floors around, rebuilding the destroyed ones and summon the right monsters to counter the heroes so you won't find yourself sitting idly. There's quite a number of rooms to build ranging from the offensive swinging iron balls to the support rooms that only allow one monster to be positioned.
You'll most likely lose a number of times – Especially in the side levels. Once they reach the dark crystal at the top, it's game over so it's crucial setting up the floors and summoning the monsters correctly. Every unit has their own strengths and weaknesses basically such as melee are weak against magic.
Then at the end of each stage, you earn Karma which allows you to increase the number of levels you can build your tower to or upgrade your monsters' levels.
As with My Life As A King, you can select which stage to challenge on a map and the story unfolds from there except this time, there are multiple worlds to play through.
The game doesn't quite make a good impression with the plain black screen at the start unlike My Life As A King where the camera scrolls over the kingdom with the civilians walking around. As you'll expect from a Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles title, the character designs are cutely super deformed. You can zoom in to crop the camera to an entire floor for a closer look at all the action. All the familiar enemies such as bombs and goblins are there.
However, despite having a map where you can choose which level to play, there isn't much variation visually although you do get to see the cycle between day and night in the background. For the most part of the game you'll be seeing the same monsters and heroes but the animations are smooth, lighting effects are spectacular and the textures look sharp – Especially the ones used for big heart shaped balloon at the top of the tower.
Mira has the original Japanese sound effects such as the "Saa! (Come on!)" and "Mou! (Geez!)". As cute as they may sound, they is repeated so often for every stage it gets pretty irritating.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Darklord is a quick paced strategy game that offers quite a bit of replay value with its core package if you like to perfect your strategy. However, if you want extra content such as more stages, costumes and monsters, you're going to end up forking out an extra £40 at least which is pretty absurd on Square-Enix's part… Even just the two extra set of stages (with no new rooms or monsters) will cost you the same price as the core game. Funnily enough, the full set of downloadable content seemed to be made available on the same day the game was released but later disappeared… Perhaps they'll re-consider the costs?
Time Finished 18 hours
- Getting the tower just right is challenging.
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- Can skip tutorial.
- Repetitive Japanese voice effects.
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|Jun 9, 1981
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|Feb 21, 1979
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|Feb 27, 1978
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|Reijo Vihko
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|Reijo Vihko
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (5), Referenced by (24), Classifications (9)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention concerns a discardable reaction receptacle for use in immunological assay and intended for accomplishing the reactions between the substance to be measured, a labelling substance and the antibody, and which carries affixed to its surface, antibody serving to bind the reaction products to the reaction receptacle.
Immunoassay procedures are employed to determine quantitatively the compounds contained in serum samples obtained from patients, in hospital and research laboratories in particular. By the aid of the determinations information is gained concerning the diseases, if any, which are present in the patient, or such determinations may be part of examinations associated with the monitoring of pregnancy, for instance. Nowadays the most important immunological analytic method consists of the radioimmunological method (RIA), which is based on the use of a radioactively labeled substance. Other, non-radioactive labelling procedures are also possible in principle, but for the time being, at least, their significance in practice is minor, owing to their lower sensitivity.
Immunological methods of analysis are based on a reaction taking place between the substance to be measured, which is obtained from the patient, and an antagonistic agent, for instance between a so-called antigen and a so-called antibody, and in which reaction an insoluble complex is produced as its result. In the role of radioactive label, molecules almost identical with those of the substance to be measured or with the antibody are used, which have usually been labelled with iodine-125 or with tritium. The labelling has no effect on the chemical properties of the molecule, and the result of the determination is obtained by recording the radiation emitted by the label which participated in the reaction. Numerous substances occurring in biological samples may be considered as substances to be measured, including hormones, proteins, drugs and vitamins. The antibodies are then protein molecules, which are manufactured with the aid of experimental animals, such as rabbits, for instance. The particular advantage of the radioimmunological method is its high sensitivity, which renders possible the accurate and specific analysis of substance quantities even as small as on the order of 10-12 g.
In practice, radioimmunological determinations are carried out, using ready-made reagent sets containing, among other things, the antibody and the labelling substance. The substance to be measured is obtained in the patient's blood sample, from which are separation of the red blood cells the serum is transferred into a reaction receptacle. If the label is chemically equivalent with the substance to be measured, it is added into the reaction receptacle together with the antibody. On the other hand, nowadays such test tubes are also used as reaction receptacles in which the antibody, for instance, has already been fixed on the inside of the tube. In that case the serum contained in the substance to be measured and the label substance are introduced in the test tube and the complex compounds formed as reaction products will be bound to the walls of the tube, the radioactivity of this wall being measured after the label which did not react has been removed. If a radioactively labelled antibody is used as labelling substance, the reactions have to be carried out in two steps, in that the substance to be measured is first allowed to become fixed to the tube, and in the next step labelling substance is introduced into the tube and this substance is further bound to the substance under measurement.
Antibodies appropriate for use in immunological determinations are characterized by very high specificity, that is the capacity of reacting only with a given substance, that which is the object of measurement. Similarly, each particular substance to be measured requires its own reagent set, and in instances in which one desires to measure a great number of different substances, the number of determinations to be carried out will be high. The object of the present invention is to eliminate this drawback by rendering possible the simultaneous determination of several substances, whereby the diagnoses and other examinations carried out by laboratories are speeded up altogether decisively in this respect. The invention is characterized in that the reaction receptacle consists of components detachably joined together and the surfaces of which carry different antibodies so that several substances to be measured are simultaneously determinable from one and the same sample held in the reaction receptacle. Different substances will then be bound to different parts of the reaction receptacle, in accordance with the antibody affixed to each particular part; after the reaction has taken place, the parts are detached from each other for measurement of radioactivity. It is, for instance, possible in the monitoring of pregnancy to determine the well-being of the foetus, congenital diseases, if any, or potential twin pregnancy on the basis of certain substances present in the mother's blood, and all these substances may be simultaneously determined when the reaction receptacle of the invention is used.
A favourable embodiment of the invention is characterized in that the reaction receptacle is composed of tubular sections. The reaction receptacle may then comprise consecutive tubular sections, of which the inner surfaces have been partly or totally coated with various antibodies. A reaction receptacle of this type resembles a common test tube, and its use is just as convenient. It is possible, on the other hand, to compose the reaction receptacle of concentric components, the inner surface of the outer, tubular component and the outer surface of the inner component carrying different antibodies.
The invention is described in the following in detail with the aid of examples, with reference being made to the attached drawing, wherein:
FIG. 1 presents a reaction receptacle composed of consecutive tubular parts,
FIG. 2 shows the reaction receptacle of FIG. 1, its parts detached from each other, and
FIG. 3 shows, partly sectioned, a reaction receptacle composed of components placed within each other.
Referring now to FIG. 1, this presents a discardable reaction receptacle 1 for use in radioimmunoassay, this receptacle consisting of four consecutive tubular sections 2 through 5, which are detachable from each other as FIG. 2 shows. The parts join each other integrally by the joint members 6, which are part of the components 3-5, and by the annular grooves 8 in the inner surfaces 7 of parts 2-4. The reaction receptacle is preferably made of plastic material, which ensures that the sections 2-5 are easy to pull apart.
The reaction receptacle of FIG. 3 consists of two components, 9 and 10, disposed within each other and the reaction taking place in the volume 11 remaining between the two. The components may be attached to each other, for instance, by means of joining members stretched between the inner surface 12 of the outer, tubular component 9 and the outer surface 13 of the inner component 10, although no such members have been depicted in the figure. The most important consideration in such connections is that the detachment of the components, 9 and 10, from each other shall be easy and convenient.
Radioimmunoassays are in the first place based on the reactions taking place between the measurable substances present in the blood, their specific antibodies and radioactive labelling substances. A reaction receptacle as shown in FIG. 3 may be used to carry out simultaneous assays of two, and the receptacle of FIG. 1, even up to four different substances to be measured. In the receptacle of FIG. 3, two different antibodies have been made adherent to the inner surface 12 of the outer component 9 and to the outer surface 13 of the inner component 10, respectively, each binding to itself a specific antigen and label. Upon completed reaction, the components 9 and 10 are detached from each other and the radiation emitted by each is separately recorded. Similarly, in the reaction receptacle of FIG. 1 the different antibodies have been affixed on the inner surface 7 of the receptacle so that of the sections 2-5 each binds its own antigen.
As examples of such combinations of substances in the assay of which the reaction receptacle of the invention may be used, there may be mentioned: estriol (E3), the lactogenic placental hormone (HPL) and alfa-feto-protein (α-FP), on the basis of which the well-being of the foetus is assessed; thyroxin (T4), triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), which form a basis for assessment of the thyroid function; and phenytoin, carbamazepine, phenobarbital and ethosuccimide, which enable the therapy of epilepsy to be monitored.
It is obvious to a person skilled in the art that various embodiments of the invention are not confined to the examples presented in the foregoing but may vary within the scope of the claims following below. For instance, the substances and combinations of substances suitable to be the object of assay are by no means confined to those mentioned above: any other substances may be equally considered which are immunologically determinable. It is further possible to make such arrangements that the substance affixed to the surface of the reaction receptacle, which has been generally specified as "antibody" in the claims, may as well be an antigen.
The invention is not confined to radioimmunological assays (RIA) either and it may also be employed in immunoradiometric assays (IRMA), or even in such procedures in which the labelling agent is not radioactive. The reaction receptacle itself may also deviate from that which has been presented above. For instance, the number of detachable parts belonging to the receptacle is not confined in any way. It is possible in the design of FIG. 3, if desired, to compose the outer as well as the inner part of detachable sections carrying various antibodies on their surfaces. The inner part need not either be such as shown in the figure: for instance rod-like or annular pieces may also be considered, of which any desired number may be placed in the reaction volume defined by the outer tube.
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|May 9, 1985
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|Ultra Diagnostics Corporation
|Immunoassay method, device, and test kit
|Mar 6, 1986
|Sep 6, 1988
|Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission
|Device for detecting antigens and antibodies
|Dec 24, 1986
|Feb 7, 1989
|Ultra Diagnostics Corporation
|Competitive immunoassay method, device and test kit
|Mar 31, 1988
|Dec 12, 1989
|Starr Ross T
|Measurement of total iron binding capacity
|Jul 7, 1987
|Jan 9, 1990
|Bioprobe International, Inc.
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|Feb 16, 1988
|Jul 30, 1991
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|Luminescence reaction test apparatus
|May 25, 1990
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|Method and kit for screening for apolipoprotein b or calculated ldl cholesterol
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|Oct 5, 1995
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|Mar 2, 2001
|Sep 5, 2002
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|Adapter for holding a sample container to facilitate sensing of liquid level in the sample container
|Jan 4, 2006
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|Valeo Systemes Thermiques S.A.S.
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|Jan 4, 2006
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|May 8, 1986
|Jan 7, 1988
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|May 2, 1997
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|422/402, 422/913, 422/429
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification