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by jaykoehler, published
Tired of painful exacting bed leveling? Try this for a quick painless method. All parts are available from your local radio shack for less than 15 dollars.
Use with thing 97151 to get your bed just right.
You will need:
1. Piezo buzzer 3-20v pn 273-059
2. Gator clip (large enough to attach to your hotend)
3. PCB (copper clad board) cut into four pieces
4. 22 ga wire (8 -12 ft)
5. 4.7k ohm resistor
6. power source (9v battery or molex 4 pin for atx power supply connection. I prefer a 9v battery as some ATX power supplies will trip the breaker shutting down your power supply)
7. power supply connector depending on your preference of power supply. I personally use small gator clips to allow multiple options for power sources.
8. 4 bulldog clips (if you use a glass bed you already have the ones you need.)
1. Cut PCB (copper clad board) into four 1â€x1†squares.
2. Solder a length of wire (12â€) to the top of each PCB square.
3. Combine all four wires together and attach to a fifth length of wire (2 – 5 ft).
4. Solder piezo buzzer to opposite end of fifth wire.
5. Solder second wire from piezo buzzer to power supply connector.
6. Cut sixth wire to approximate length of first wire assembly.
7. Attach gator clip to sixth wire.
8. Solder 4.7k ohm resistor to opposite end of sixth wire.
9. Solder opposite end of resistor to second power supply connector. Polarity matters here so test the connection by switching + and – for loudest buzzer sound first. You'll know when you have it right.
10. Attach power supply connector to your chosen power supply
11. Test by touching gator clip to each PCB square.
12. Attach gator clip to metal section of hotend.
13. Using bulldog clips, Mount the four PCB squares to the corners of your heat bed. Make sure the PCBs sit flush to the heat bed.
14. Very important!! Clean the bottom of your hotend tip with a cloth and acetone to remove all filament. Only the lowest part of the tip matters. Do not file or sand the tip of your hotend unless you want to alter it's performance.
15. Move your hotend and heatbed to center tip above first PCB square. Adjust your spring retaining nut until the buzzer sounds. Go corner to corner and adjust your leveling springs until your bed is right where you want it. It may take a few times around to get it just right. I find that using this technique gives me an accuracy of 0.004mm. As good as it gets for me in less than 5 min. I recommend doing this with your heatbed at temp. You would be surprised at the difference. Also remember to orient your glass the same way each time. Its all about the details. Enjoy the rest of your day printing rather than fighting your heatbed using mechanic methods.
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thats a good article. guess I'm a year behind so I better get at it. I made a similiar tool for my cnc mill using mach3 . It will automatically home x/y then z till the cutting bit makes contact with the pcb. it will subtract the thickness of the the pcb and set the z height making tool changes easier than without. I have no doubt a program could be written to run prior to printing to repeat what mach3 does times 4 and calculate the exactly position of the corners. Just need a little collaboration as my programming skills lack in this area. Anyone want to assist?
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Might be able to use Aluminum duct tape in the corners and just leave it there if the solder and tape glue will hold up to the bed heating cycles.
I was trying to think of a way of doing this using the contact of the hot end. I had all sorts of elaborate ideas about self levelling. But this way is much simpler, well done!
A multimeter with a audible continuity detector could also be used.
I would probably also wire the pads in series to reduce the length of copper wire I had to use.
But as I have an aluminum headed hotbed I might just as well just hook up the wire to it :)
I personally use the "a sheet of paper has to have the same friction under the hotend method", but this seems more elegant.
If everyone stuck to the old paper method, we'd be reading books instead using computers. With any luck, someone will automate my tool and save all of us alot of trouble. One small step at a time.


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'Now, few of us see genocide or stoning as moral, so Christians and Jews pass over those parts of the Bible with judicious silence.'
What rubbish - stoning was a part of the 'justice system' of the ancient world. We now have death by lethal injection and the electric chair - are these any more barbaric?
People look on biblical ways as archaic and savage, but they conveniently forget that death in the modern world is a far more menacing and vast spectre than it ever was back then. With the untold numbers of Depleted Uranium rounds used in Iraq now blowing across the Middle East in the form of radioactive dust particles, the cancers, tumours and deformities caused by this are only now starting to appear.
'Death' in today's world is an out-of-control juggernaut that threatens life as we know it.
Let he who is without sin drop the first WMD!
'Further, the idea that morality is divinely inspired doesn't jibe with the fact that religiously based ethics have changed profoundly over time.'
Of course it does, because the very nature of man is to go against God, and do things his own way. Man always assumes that he knows better - to his own detriment of course!
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Go to: "The Stroke of Luck that Led to Life on Earth Exists Elsewhere in the Universe" --Richard Dawkins
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Ooooh 'magic'! This is what's called illusion, people. Oh sorry, I forgot, no one here believes in real magic, even though Hermeticism and its dark arts have been a force to be reckoned with since the time of Ancient Egypt, and responsible for more diverse human progress than nearly any other movement in history.
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The Jam struggled shooting the ball, only knocking down 39 percent of their shots through the first three quarters. However, the Jam caught fire late, connecting on 14-26 from the field in the fourth. Bakersfield pulled off a 21-2 run during the fourth quarter to get back within striking distance.
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Trey Johnson, the leading scorer in the NBA D-League, had a game-high 38 points for the Jam in the losing effort.
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Gettysburg, Antietam, Manassas, Fort Sumter are all names of historic Civil War battlefields familiar to many Americans. It was these hallowed grounds that saw the bloodiest war our nation has ever fought. It is on these hallowed grounds that the most tragic history of our country was written.
In 2010, the country was losing battlegrounds at a rate of 12 hectares per day. To counter that, the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) is working to save these important lands by giving grants to help states and local communities acquire and preserve threatened Civil War battlefield land outside the boundaries of National Park units.
On January 22, 2013, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced the award of more than $1.8 million in grants to help with 310.79 acres of land acquisition at six Civil War battlefields.
"We are pleased to provide this grant funding so that our state, local and private preservation partners can protect these important American landscapes in their communities," said Director Jarvis. "The preservation of Civil War battlefields will allow future generations of Americans the opportunity to understand the important role these sites played in our nation's history."
ABPP grant projects can be fee simple or easement purchases. Fee simple transactions are when the land changes ownership, either by sale or donation. A conservation easement is a legal agreement between a landowner and an eligible organization (qualified land trust or state entity) that limits activities on the land to protect its conservation values. The landowner still retains ownership of the property, but the permanent easement protects the land from future development.
The sites chosen to receive funds are: Mansfield, Louisiana (.79 acres/fee simple/$40,900); Appomattox Court House (49 acres/fee simple/ $139,528); Virginia; Cedar Mountain, Virginia (4 acres/fee simple/$129,309); Chancellorsville, Virginia (81 acres/fee simple/ $289,999); Sailor's Creek, Virginia (126 acres/ easement and fee simple/$106,042); and Buckland Mills, Virginia (50 acres/ easement/$1,160,000).
Consideration is given to battlefields listed in the National Park Service's Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields (CWSAC Report). The money was made available by the Appropriations Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-74), which appropriated $8,985,600 for the Civil War battlefield land acquisition grants program. The funds were awarded based on the property's location within CWSAC-defined core and/or study areas, the threat to the battlefield land to be acquired, and the availability of required non-Federal matching funds.
Applications for the balance of the funds are accepted at any time. Criteria to consider in the applying for the Civil War Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants include:
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—Each grant requires a dollar-for-dollar non-Federal match.
—Grants are available for the fee simple acquisition of land, or for the acquisition of permanent, protective interests in land at Civil War battlefields listed in the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission's (CWSAC) 1993 Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields.
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Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson is a famous American football player. He has played for the New England Patriots, Miami Dolphins, and Cincinnati Bengals. He is a wide receiver known for his immense level of talent and he is, therefore, adored by legions of sports fans.
When he is wearing his football uniform, you would not know that Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson has any tattoos, but he really does have a few underneath it all. Continue reading to learn what his ink is and what it all means.
A Leg Tattoo for a Very Special Lady
Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson decided to get a very interesting tattoo on the outside of his right leg. It is a portrait of Evelyn Lozada, his wife who is trying to divorce him. The reason why she wants to get as far away from him as possible is because he grew violently angry with her and actually head butted her. He must be feeling a lot of remorse over his loss of control and his abusive nature because he went ahead and had her face inked onto his leg in black ink in an effort to prove how much he loves her. It does not seem, however, to be doing the trick, as Evelyn still wants to go through with the divorce despite this attempt at proving that he will love her forever with this very large tattoo of her face.
A Lot of Arm Tattoos
Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson is no stranger to tattoos, and Evelyn's face was not his first. His entire left arm is covered in a sleeve of tattoos that actually begins by covering the top of his hand. It then extends up to the top of the shoulder. Though the black ink is difficult to decipher, there is the unmistakable image of Jesus Christ's face found covering the entire lower part of his bicep.
More Religious Designs
Clearly, Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson is a religious man because he has a lot of tattoos that are focused on Christian themes, including imagery of characters from the Bible. In addition to his arm tattoos, more religious tattoos can be found on other parts of his body. For example, on the right side of his chest, there is a portrait tattoo of the Virgin Mary. The phrase "Psalms 23" is also tattooed on as part of that design, above the portrait.
A dove is found above the "Psalms 23" line, and next to that there reportedly is the image of Christ on the cross alongside the other two men with whom he was crucified.
There is also a tattoo that is very large that runs down the left side of Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson's abdominals on the left side of his body. It begins just underneath his chest. While it is large and you can see it from afar and in photos, it is difficult to make out what the image is composed of. We would not be the least bit surprised, however, if it were more tattoos with a religious theme.


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Fr. James Martin, SJ, a popular Jesuit writer, recently posted this on his Facebook page. I spent some time looking at the comments that I thought he might be referring to, but since I can't figure out the full context, I'm going to take some liberties. I hope you all don't mind.
The behavior Fr. Martin is trying to curb here is certainly a bothersome one. I think Father is correct in identifying these cries of "bad Catholics" as judgements, and judgements are dangerous things. Full judgement, that is, judgement of the soul, is reserved to God alone. I'm not saying that pragmatic judgements regarding a person's actions should never be made by the proper authorities; after all, Jesus said, "Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven." (Matthew 18:18). That's a responsibility of the Magisterium, and the hierarchy of our Church must point out errors that go against the Good News. Call it tough love if you wish; simply put, we need people who spend their lives studying the Word and can point out transgressions against that Word: we call this the the Magisterium.
On the other hand, we can't all call other people "bad Catholics." It's not our place to make such judgements. The Church is a hospital for sinners, and we all have the stain of Sin on us. Some people have unique and tiresome burdens they must carry; sometimes, these people quite visibly stumble. Even people who have generally saintly lives sometimes falter; such is the taint of Original Sin. It's easy to shake your head at the drunk, until you consider that perhaps his family has a history of alcoholism and he doesn't know a healthy way to deal with the troubles of life that others might be able to shrug off. Instead of calling him a bad Catholic, perhaps it would be better to encourage him to go to AA meetings so that he can improve his life, and support him on the road to abstinence. Of course, he might fall off the wagon a few times on the road, but such is the stubborn nature of sin. He also might refuse your help, but you should be willing to extend a hand if you get the opportunity.
Paul's letter to the Galatians offers some guidance in this matter: "Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens; and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ." (Galatians 6:1-2).
|Dear Galatians: Be nice. I'm trying to convert the Mediterranean, and I'm hearing about your antics all the way over in Jerusalem. You're not making this easy.
I think that it's important to note that I'm not saying you should see an alcoholic friend vomiting on the steps of your dorm and think, it's not my place to judge other people, and then go and leave him there. There's a huge difference here. One is not judging a person because you simply can't know the fullness of the load they must bear. The other is refusing to help a person in need.
I think it's also important to point out that some people use this lack of judgement as a license to misrepresent Church teaching. Some prominent Catholics take advantage of mercy and make false claims about Church teaching, saying that their membership in the Church allows them to make claims statements what is authentically Church teaching and what isn't.
[ Update: Several lines in this paragraph were badly-worded, if not completely incorrect. See comments section. A synopsis of what I was trying to say: Sometimes Catholics in prominent positions misrepresent Church teachings. While everyone is entitled to opinions, the Magisterium has final say in doctrinal matters, and we should take their guidance seriously. Since we live in a democracy, it is our duty to oppose certain policies according to our consciences informed by sacred truth with the guidance of the Magisterium. That isn't to say that I don't think reform is ever needed, or that you should disobey your conscience after you've properly formed it. Sorry if I gave such an impression. Thanks for the comment, Bob!]


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Virtually all of us are solidly locked into our lifestyles, which often means many of the things we'd like to enjoy or take part in are simply not on the menu.
This weekend is the time to try your hardest to break away from that situation and visit Roberts Park – starting tonight or any time Saturday. You definitely won't regret it and the experience will be enriching.
The annual 'Relay for Life' fundraiser to combat cancer is set to go, giving family members and friends of the many victims of cancer-caused deaths a chance to slap back at the dreaded disease.
The popular event gets rolling at 6 p.m. this evening with a survivors' dinner, with a walk by cancer survivors and caregivers scheduled to begin about 7:30. 'Relay for Life' will conclude about 6 p.m. Saturday, according to event chairman Mike Wenta.
Along with walking laps in a specific area of the park, members of more than 30 teams also will raise money by selling various food items and sponsoring numerous activities that will take place near the John Miller Community Center.
Some of the activities and events planned include a dunk tank, a bounce house, face painting, and an opportunity to be photographed with 'Abe Lincoln.' There will be silent auctions at some of the booths.
The St. Gabriel Church and school team will offer a variety of food items at its stand, including hamburger and hot dog meals, tacos, cookies, cotton candy and snow cones.
The popular luminary ceremony will begin at 9 p.m. tonight. Luminaries – white paper bags illuminated by candles as a symbol to honor cancer survivors – can be purchased at the park.
Numerous events will take place Saturday, beginning at 8 a.m. with a pancake breakfast in the Miller Center. The breakfast is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is being held in honor of Bob Southard.
At 9 a.m. Saturday, local and area fire departments will square off in a waterball contest in the parking lot north of the Miller Center.
Other activities scheduled include:
An aqua zumba class presented by Nichole Kelsey, from 9 to 9:45 p.m. tonight in the park pool. The Relay for Life committee will host a luau party at the pool from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. The cost is $5 per person.
A flatbed stage near the Miller Center will feature two singing events Saturday: Trish Nicholson Crowe will perform from 2 to 3 p.m., with The Gospel Revelers performing from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
From 4:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, The Beauty Bar will offer complementary styling services for all Relay for Life participants.
Golf outings at Willowbrook Country Club are scheduled for Sunday. Tee times are 1 p.m. (an 18-hole event) and 9 p.m. – a nine-hole event that will feature fairways lighted by luminaries that lined the roadways in the park on Friday night.
Seldom Surreal, an Indianapolis-based, 1960's-style rock band, will play at Willowbrook at 6 p.m. Sunday. There will be a $10 cover charge for individuals who did not participate in the golf outing. The American Cancer Society will receive all of the money raised by the event.


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Great place - clean, roomy and a great location.
If you want to stay in real China, this gets you there, without sacrificing comfort.
It was my first Airbnb experience, and it was great. The flat was clean, lovely, and conveniently located.
Jacopo was not in town when we were there, but his friends made sure that everything was ok, and they were very attentive to our requests. Their cleaner was also a charming lady.
I can definitely recommend the flat to others.
Cozy apartment - exactly as pictured and in a great neighborhood! Perfect for one person or a couple looking to spend a few days exploring the city.
I actually ended up staying in one of Jacopo's other apartments in Shanghai (not sure it's listed on airbnb yet). It was located very close to Anfu Rd, which I was told is one of the prime locations in Shanghai and seemed like a great area to live in. The apartment was lovely, very cosy, nicely decorated (everything was brand new), and very quiet. Jacopo (and the people who work for him) were all extremely friendly and helpful and went out of their way to make sure everything in the apartment was working correctly. Jacopo also showed me around the city at the beginning of my trip and is very knowledgeable about Shanghai. I highly recommend his apartments and will definitely contact him again should I visit Shanghai again in the coming months.
Wir haben einen sehr schönen Aufenthalt in Mailand verbracht. Das Loft hat eine super Lage und war sehr sauber und ordentlich. Leider war die Kommunikation eher schwierig, da der Gastgeber nicht anwesend war, ansonsten hätte man sich besser zwecks Schlüssel, Sicherung und Heizung absprechen können.
Had a very nice stay. The apartment I very we'll located in the best area in Milan. Great apartment, Jacopo was a very nice host
I am so glad I stayed at Jacopo's rather than spend another night at a hotel. After traveling all over China, it was nice to finally sleep on a bed that was not hard as a board, have warm water, have access to wifi (some hotels have wifi in the lobby only), wash my clothes and be able to talk to someone in English. I also loved the French Concession area where you can walk everywhere.
Superb location in the middle of the French Concession, great apartment with cosy private room and bathroom. Jacopo is super friendly. Will book this place again for sure.
My first Airbnb experience and it was great thanks to Jacopo. Though he was not in the city when I arrived he manage so I had no trouble. He replied all my emails and requests very fast and was always very helpfull.
On top of that it would had been great to meet him but I left before he was back of his trip.
Regarding the apartment it was perfect for me. I had a very bussy schedule and it was clean and perfectly located for me. I could go walking to Exhibition Center and all around the French Concession. Many interesting places arround. Lots of restaurants and shops.
There was another host in the apartment call Donovan. He was also very nice person and helpfull.
Thanks Jacopo! I hope to meet you next time!
Very cozy apartment located in nice area and convenient area. It's easy to go around the city. There're taxi just right at the gate, convenient to go anywhere. Close to disgner boutique, small restaurants and bars. It's good to wake up in such great apartment!
Great guest. Highly advise anyone to host Jacopo and his family.
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Completed in 1964, J. Wilhelm Ylvisaker (pronounced "il-vuh-soccer") Hall is named after the fifth president of Luther College. Renovated in the summer of 2002, the hall contains large study and recreation lounges on the east end of the building.
- Houses 256 students
- Two-person rooms
- Designated quiet floor
- Designated wellness floor
- Recreation room with ping-pong table and TV
- Five study lounges
- Laundry room
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- Adjacent to sand volleyball court
- One CAT6 network connection per person in each room
- Wireless network coverage throughout the building
- Newly remodeled and refurnished student rooms and lounges
- All rooms have tile floors (you may bring carpet remnants or rugs—no carpet tape or duct tape)
- Kitchen including microwave, sink, stove, and refrigerator
- No lofts allowed in any rooms, bed rails are available upon request.
- No smoking allowed anywhere in the hall
Ylvisaker Room Dimensions and Furnishings
All rooms are 10-feet-10-inches by 15-feet-2-inches and contain the following moveable furniture for each student: twin extra-long bed, desk, desk chair, wardrobe, and 4-drawer dresser. Beds are bunkable but may not be lofted.
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Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy—spending time with her friends in the city, attending balls in fancy gowns with plunging necklines, and dallying with the handsome Lord Denby. Yet amid these distractions, her visions intensify—visions of three girls dressed in white, to whom something horrific has happened that only the realms can explain.
The lure is strong, and soon Gemma, Felicity, and Ann are turning flowers into butterflies in the enchanted world that Gemma takes them to. To the girls' great joy, their beloved Pippa is there as well, eager to complete their circle of friendship.
But all is not well in the realms—or out. Kartik is back, desperately insisting to Gemma that she must bind the magic, lest colossal disaster befall her. Gemma is willing to comply, for this would bring her face-to-face with her late mother's greatest friend, now Gemma's foe—Circe. Until Circe is destroyed, Gemma cannot live out her destiny. But finding Circe proves a most perilous task. . . .
This sumptuous companion to A Great and Terrible Beauty teems with Victorian thrills and chills that play out against the rich backdrop of 1895 London, a place of shadows and light . . . where inside great beauty can lie a rebel angel.
Libba Bray is the author of the New York Times bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, comprised of A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing. She is also the author of Beauty Queens and Going Bovine, which won the Michael L. Printz Award. Libba lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, son, and two cats. Visit her at libbabray.com.
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For its 10th anniversary, the festival celebrates those who have dared to stand 'on the edge,' risking their careers, and sometimes their lives, to speak out for their art and beliefs. Join us for a wide range of events, including debates, one-on-one conversations, participatory workshops and performances in venues throughout the city. Use the code PEN14 (use PEN2014 for events at The Public Theater) and receive a 20 percent discount on most events. www.worldvoicesfestival.org


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Applications are due by April 3rd, 2014 to the Chamber.
Youth Leadership Douglas gives high school students the opportunity to acquire and broaden their knowledge of not only social & business etiquette but also of local government, business and civic activities through a 4 month leadership program.
The program has been recently redeveloped and will provide students with personal and professional development opportunities that cater to each individual. The program will allow students to embrace the changes of technology by submitting their assignments through various social media outlets and also to select their assignments based on their personal interests.
Youth Leadership Douglas has an spring deadline for application, and applications must be submitted to their local HS counselor. The program will consist of a Fall and Spring session. The Fall class will begin its new program in August 2014 and end in December while the spring class run from January to May of 2015.
Rising juniors from each Douglas County high school (both public and private) are eligible. These students will then be interviewed by the YLD Program Coordinators. Students must apply and qualify through an application and interview process, which is under the direction of the individual school. There will a maximum of 15 students selected for each session.
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During the race Teamwork
The No. 5 Farmers pit crew is comprised of two groups with slightly different areas of responsibility. The first team is responsible for getting the car through practice and qualifying and ready for race day. The second team, which goes over the wall during the race, travels only on race day, allowing them additional time in the gym for training and at the shop for pit practice. The Farmers team also has several backup pit crew members who serve as tire runners and fuel runners during the race.
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The pit crew serves as both the offense and defense for the team during the race. Six crew members consisting of two tire changers, two tire carriers, a gas man and a jackman, all go over the wall once Kasey pulls into the pit. A typical stop involves changing tires, making necessary adjustments and fueling the car. The crew works diligently to gain positions while on pit road, with the average length of a pit stop being between 12 and 13 seconds.
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Each pit stop the crew executes is filmed by a video camera mounted directly above the pit box. While reviewing tape before and after a race is important, it's even more beneficial for the team to review their stops on the monitors located in the pit box. Once Kasey has returned to track, the team immediately analyzes their stop and identifies areas where they may be able to improve.


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Fabricio Oberto visited San Antonio earlier in the year and had a great sit down with Gregg Popovich, talking about Pop's scoring in his playing days, "pounding the rock", foreign players and so much more.
Our favorite Argentinean Sebas Adúriz (aka Palomba) is in Mar del Plata for the FIBA Americas tournament this week and was kind enough to file the following report along with the accompanying...
Off-Topic Theater is an NBA Lockout series that will address/manufacture literary and cinematic parallels for the duration of the labor nastiness. Welcome to the second edition, dealing with the story of Javale McGee
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The Wizards almost got their first road win of the season tonight. Now if they can just win their next 19 straight road games...
Sad news out of Portland today as former Wizards forward Fabricio Oberto had to announce his retirement due to a recurring heart condition. Oberto was known as a great teammate throughout the...
After yet another terrible performance, the Thunder are 2-2 and have to face the Trailblazers in Portland on the second end of a back-to-back. Sigh.
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Squeeze are an English band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s. They are known in the UK for their hit songs "Cool for Cats," "Up the Junction," "Tempted," "Black Coffee In Bed," "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)," and "Hourglass." Though not quite as commercially successful in the U.S., "Tempted", "Hourglass" and "853-5937" were all American chart hits for Squeeze, and the band have a dedicated following there and continue to attract new fans. All of Squeeze's hits were written by band members Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford.
The group formed in London in 1974, and first broke up in 1982. Squeeze then reformed in 1985, and broke up again in 1999. The band has reunited for tours through the United States and United Kingdom in 2007 and 2008.
Squeeze confirmed during an interview at the V Festival in 2008, that they plan to write a new record of material in 2009, during and after another tour of the United States.
First incarnation: 1974???82
The band's founding members in March 1974 were Chris Difford (guitar, vocals, lyrics), Glenn Tilbrook (vocals, guitar, music), Jools Holland (keyboards), and Paul Gunn (drums). The group played under several names, most frequently "Captain Trundlow's Sky Company" or "Skyco", before selecting the band name "Squeeze" as a facetious tribute to The Velvet Underground's oft-derided 1973 album of the same name.
Gilson Lavis replaced Gunn on drums and Harry Kakoulli joined on bass in 1976.
Squeeze's early career was spent around Deptford in SE London, where they were part of a lively local music scene which included Alternative TV and Dire Straits. The group's early singles and debut EP, 1977's Packet of Three, were released on the Deptford Fun City Label.
Squeeze's first EP and most of its self-titled debut album (1978) were produced by John Cale for A&M Records. Ironically, Cale had been a member of Velvet Underground from whose album Squeeze took their name. However, the debut album's two hit singles ("Take Me I'm Yours" and "Bang Bang") were produced by the band themselves, as the label found Cale's recordings uncommercial.
In the United States and Canada, the band and album were dubbed U.K. Squeeze due to legal conflicts arising from a contemporary American band called "Tight Squeeze". The "U.K." was dropped for all subsequent releases. In Australia, the same name change was used due to legal conflicts arising from an existing Sydney-based band also called "Squeeze". Albums in Australia were credited to U.K. Squeeze up to and including Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti.
The band's second album, Cool for Cats (1979), contained the band's two highest charting UK singles in "Cool For Cats" and "Up The Junction", both of which peaked at #2. John Bentley replaced Harry Kakoulli on bass in 1979 following the release of the LP.
Argybargy (1980), the band's third album, was also a UK hit. It was additionally a mild breakthrough in North America, as the single "Another Nail In My Heart" was a #56 hit in Canada, and second single "Pulling Mussels From The Shell" received airplay on U.S. rock radio stations.
Keyboardist Jools Holland left the band for a solo career in 1980. Keyboard duties were taken over by highly-rated singer-keyboardist Paul Carrack, a former member of British soul-pop band Ace, who scored a major international hit with the song "How Long." Carrack had also been a member of Roxy Music.
In 1981 the band cut perhaps their best-known album, East Side Story. It was produced by Elvis Costello and Roger Bechirian, and featured Carrack's lead vocals on the radio hit "Tempted". Carrack himself left after the release of East Side Story, and was replaced by Don Snow. This line-up recorded the Sweets From A Stranger LP in 1982. Negative reviews, the stresses of touring, and conflict between band members led Difford and Tilbrook to break up the band later that year, after releasing a final single, "Annie Get Your Gun".
Difford and Tilbrook years: 1983???84
Difford and Tilbrook continued to work together, and released one self-titled album as the duo Difford & Tilbrook in 1984. Although it is not officially a Squeeze album, to many fans Difford & Tilbrook is considered a "lost" Squeeze LP because Difford and Tilbrook were themselves the only constant members of Squeeze. Several Difford & Tilbrook tracks have been featured on officially-sanctioned Squeeze compilations.
The duo also contributed to a musical written and staged in Deptford during this period, entitled Labelled with Love and based in large part on the music of Squeeze.
Second incarnation: 1985???99
Squeeze re-formed to play a one night charity gig in 1985, with all five members from the 1980 Argybargy period -- Difford, Tilbrook, Holland, Lavis, and Bentley. The performance was such a success that the band unanimously agreed to resume recording and touring as Squeeze. Searching for a different sound, the band replaced Bentley with bassist Keith Wilkinson from the Difford & Tilbrook sessions. This line-up released the 1985 LP Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti.
The new LP featured complex double-tracked keyboard parts which could not be duplicated by a single keyboard player in a live setting, so Jools' brother Chris Holland played a few gigs as a second keyboardist in 1985. However, Chris Holland was quickly replaced by an official new member Andy Metcalfe of the Soft Boys and The Egyptians. A bassist in those groups, Metcalfe would play keyboards with Squeeze. His tenure as the band's sixth member would last until 1988.
In 1987, the sextet recorded the album Babylon And On. A successful release on both sides of the Atlantic, this album contained the band's only US top 40 hits in "Hourglass" and "853-5937"
Metcalfe left the band in 1988, leaving the Difford/Tilbrook/Holland/Wilkinson/Lavis line-up to record 1989's Frank. The LP was a commercial disappointment that spun off no charting singles in the UK, and the band was dropped from their long-time A&M label.
Adding a new second keyboard player in the person of Matt Irving, the band issued the live album A Round And A Bout on I.R.S. Records in March 1990. Jools Holland left Squeeze again in early 1990, and was not immediately replaced. In his stead, the band used session musicians such as Irving (who was no longer an official band member), Snow, Steve Nieve, Bruce Hornsby and Carol Isaacs for the 1991 release Play, which came out on the Reprise label. This release again spawned no UK hits, although in the US the singles "Satisfied" and "Crying In Your Sleep" received significant airplay on modern rock stations, and in Canada "Satisfied" was a top 50 hit. However, Reprise dropped the band after this one album. Then drummer Gilson Lavis was let go in 1992, and replaced by Nieve's fellow Attractions band mate Pete Thomas. Paul Carrack also returned to the band in 1993, although by this point Squeeze was not so much a band as it was a trade name for Difford and Tilbrook plus sidemen.
Squeeze re-signed to A&M in time for 1993's Some Fantastic Place. After a period of commercial decline in the UK, lead single "Third Rail" hit #39, becoming Squeeze's first UK Top 40 hit in six years.
Squeeze's lineup during the mid-1990s changed constantly. Though not an official Squeeze member, Aimee Mann was featured on vocals and guitar at many Squeeze shows during 1994. Thomas also exited the band that year, and Carrack doubled on snare and keyboards for a few gigs before session drummer Andy Newmark was brought in. Then - still in 1994 - Carrack left, which allowed keyboardist Andy Metcalfe to return to the band for a short spell, playing on some live dates. Drummer Kevin Wilkinson (no relation to bassist Keith), formerly of The Waterboys, was also added around this time, replacing Newmark. He lasted through the 1995 album Ridiculous, which was recorded by the quartet of Difford, Tilbrook, Wilkinson and Wilkinson. The album spun off three minor hits in the UK: "This Summer", "Electric Trains" and "Heaven Knows". ("Heaven Knows" was used as the closing song in the 1995 film Hackers starring Angelina Jolie.) As well, a minimally remixed version of "This Summer" became a #32 UK hit in 1996, a year after the original version peaked at #36. Despite this, A&M once again dropped Squeeze from their roster in late 1996.
Following the release of Ridiculous, Don Snow (now known as Jon Savannah) returned to Squeeze yet again as their touring keyboard player, but by 1997, the Squeeze line-up had officially dwindled down to just Difford and Tilbrook. That year the duo, billed as Squeeze, released the non-album single "Down In The Valley" as a fundraising single for Charlton Athletic F.C. Tilbrook formed the Quixotic label for this and future Squeeze-related releases, as well as releases by other artists.
For the 1998 album Domino, the band was again a quintet consisting of Difford, Tilbrook, bassist Hilaire Penda, ex-Del Amitri drummer Ashley Soan, and yet another returning keyboardist in the person of Chris Holland. Nick Harper often performed with this version of Squeeze, providing additional guitar and vocals. In January 1999, just days before a planned tour, Chris Difford suddenly announced that he was taking a 'hiatus' from Squeeze. The last venue for Squeeze with Chris was The Charlotte, Leicester, England. The band subsequently continued as a quartet led by Tilbrook, with Jim Kimberley replacing Soan on some tour dates, and Chris Holland exiting in the autumn to be replaced by Tilbrook's other frequent writing partner Chris Braide.
On 27 November 1999 in Aberdeen, Scotland, Squeeze played their final gig before breaking up again. Difford and Tilbrook embarked on separate solo careers shortly thereafter.
Solo years: 2000???06
In 2003 Difford and Tilbrook collaborated on a song for the first time since Domino. The track, "Where I Can Be Your Friend," appeared on Tilbrook's well-reviewed second solo album, Transatlantic Ping Pong. In 2004 the pair worked with music journalist Jim Drury on the retrospective Squeeze: Song By Song. In this book they declared they had become better friends since breaking up the band than they ever were while Squeeze was together.
However, a 2004 attempt by the VH1 show Bands Reunited to reassemble the mid-1980s line-up of Squeeze (Difford, Tilbrook, Holland, Wilkinson and Lavis) ended in failure. While bassist Keith Wilkinson was favourable to the idea and drummer Gilson Lavis expressed some interest, Jools Holland felt he was too busy with current projects to participate, and, crucially, both Tilbrook and Difford expressed reservations about working together in a band context at that point in time.
Still, Difford and Tilbrook's friendship continued, and in December 2005 Difford sat in for a few songs at a Glenn Tilbrook solo gig in Glasgow.
Third incarnation: 2007-present
In early 2007 it was announced that Difford and Tilbrook would reform Squeeze for a series of shows throughout the latter half of the year, in support of Universal and Warner's re-issuing of the band's back catalogue and the release of a new 'best of' album, Essential Squeeze, on April 30th. Jools Holland and Gilson Lavis were unable to take part in the series of shows, as they were touring under the "Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra" name for most of the year. However, John Bentley re-joined on bass for the first time since Squeeze's last reunion show in 1985. The rest of the lineup was fleshed out by members of Tilbrook's touring band, The Fluffers: Stephen Large (keyboards) and Simon Hanson (drums).
On 7 July 2007, at the "Return to the Summer of Love Party," at Hawkhurst, Kent, Difford and Tilbrook, each singing and playing acoustic guitars, played a seven song set. They played, in order, "Take Me I'm Yours," "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)," "Is that Love?," "Tempted," "Labelled with Love," "Cool for Cats," and "Up the Junction." The first actual full-band Squeeze show since 1999 took place less than a week later at their old haunt, "The Albany" (Deptford) on Thursday 12th July which was actually billed as a "warm up" gig prior to the upcoming US tour, this was then followed by GuilFest 2007. They toured the U.S. in August 2007, supported on various dates by Fountains of Wayne, Will Hoge, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, and Cheap Trick.
In November 2007, the band released Five Live: On Tour in America, a live CD consisting of recordings from the American tour. The title referred to the number of people in the band, not the number of tracks on the 19-song CD. Television appearances and live shows in the U.S. and UK followed throughout 2008, including a headline appearance at Beautiful Days on 15 August. After the success of the 2007/8 tours (and successful sales of re-released Squeeze records and the Five Live: On Tour in America album) it was confirmed that the current Squeeze line-up will record a new album through 2009, where they already have a tour of the States planned.
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Sci. Signal., 29 September 2009
Immunology Sweet Talking
John F. Foley
Science Signaling, AAAS, Washington, DC 20005, USA
Pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs), such as Toll-like receptors (TLRs), enable dendritic cells (DCs) to sense a range of pathogen-associated molecular patterns from infectious organisms. Signaling from PRRs triggers the production of distinct cytokines in DCs that help to determine the T cell response to the invading pathogen. The C-type lectin DC-SIGN is a PRR on DCs that binds to mannose- or fucose-containing carbohydrates. Signaling through DC-SIGN can either enhance or inhibit TLR signaling in DC cells in a pathogen-specific manner, but the mechanisms involved are unclear. Gringhuis et al. found that, in unstimulated DCs, DC-SIGN was part of a signaling complex (signalosome) that consisted of the scaffold proteins LSP1, KSR1, and CNK1. These proteins were required for the constitutive recruitment of the kinase Raf1 to DC-SIGN. Mannose-containing ligands or mannose-bearing pathogens stimulated the recruitment to the signalosome of upstream molecules, including RhoA and the guanine nucleotide exchange factor LARG, that resulted in the activation of Raf1. This process was required for the mannose-dependent enhancement of TLR4-dependent cytokine production in DCs in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS). In contrast, fucose-containing ligands or fucose-bearing pathogens inhibited the production of most of the cytokines induced by LPS, and this effect was independent of the activity of Raf1. In addition, binding of fucose-containing ligands to DC-SIGN disrupted the signalosome such that only LSP1 still bound to DC-SIGN. The authors suggest that binding of different carbohydrate moieties may induce specific conformational changes in DC-SIGN that determine which signalosomes are made. Together, these data suggest that a single PRR can modulate its responses to multiple ligands by assembling distinct signaling complexes and thus differentially affect signaling from other PRRs.
S. I. Gringhuis, J. den Dunnen, M. Litjens, M. van der Vlist, T. B. H. Geijtenbeek, Carbohydrate-specific signaling through the DC-SIGN signalosome tailors immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, HIV-1 and Helicobacter pylori. Nat. Immunol. 10, 1081–1088 (2009). [PubMed]
Citation: J. F. Foley, Sweet Talking. Sci. Signal. 2, ec318 (2009).
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Justin Timberlake Not Here For THe Kanye Tantrums – SNL Shade
Last night, Justin Timberlake hosted Saturday Night Live for the fifth time, joining a small but elite SNL class of actors and comedians. The whole night was mostly uneventful, but leave it to us bloggers to find that moment of controversy. About two weeks ago, Kanye West threw a tantrum on stage at his concert in London. During the now infamous rant, Kanye decided to throw some not so subtle shade at Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z for their Suit & Tie collaboration. I believe his words were on the lines of , "I got love for Hov, but I aint effing with that Suit & Tie."
Well Justin Timberlake is not the one Sir Kardashian! During his performance on SNL, Mr. Timberlake, dressed in his suit and tie, changed the lyrics to his song– just enough to gives us life.
sh-t so sick, got a hit and picked up a habit" to "My hits so sick, got rappers acting dramatic." {via Necole Bitchie}
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Beyonce & Jay-Z Spotted At The Breakfast Klub (H-Town)…
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Take it from someone who knows Apple inside and out: The Mac can't do it all.
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