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Yes, two common approaches are to sawcut the original slab to accept the heating cable, and to install the heating cable in a topping slab. Please call your local nVent Thermal Management representative for help with your design and installation details.
The basic calculation is: Power Output of the heating cable(Watts/ft) X the length of cable(ft) X the amount of time the system is on(hrs) You can use our Snow Melting and Deicing Calculator on our web site at http://www.nVentthermal.com/design-tools/online-tools/snow-melting-and-de-icing-cost-calculator/ to help with the calculations.
This is a frequently misunderstood issue. Article 300-5. Underground Installations, applies to wiring methods for buried cables and conduits. It does not apply to de-icing and snow melting applications. The requirements for RAYCHEM ElectroMelt applications are covered under Article 426 and state: With respect to scope: ARTICLE 426 -- Fixed Outdoor Electric Deicing and Snow-Melting Equipment A. General 426-1. Scope The requirements of this article shall apply to electrically energized heating systems and the installation of these systems. (a) Embedded. Embedded in driveways, walks, steps, and other areas. (b) Exposed. Exposed on drainage systems, bridge structures, roofs, and other structures. With respect to other Articles (including 300-5): 426-3. Application of Other Articles All requirements of this Code shall apply except as specifically amended in this article. Cord- and plug-connected fixed outdoor electric deicing and snow-melting equipment intended for specific use and identified as suitable for this use shall be installed according to Article 422. Fixed outdoor electric deicing and snow-melting equipment for use in hazardous (classified) locations shall comply with Articles 500 through 516. Specifically with regard to depth of burial: 426-20. Embedded Deicing and Snow-Melting Equipment (a) Watt Density. Panels or units shall not exceed 120 watts/ft2 (120 watts/0.093 m2) of heated area. (b) Spacing. The spacing between adjacent cable runs is dependent upon the rating of the cable, and shall be not less than 1 in. (25.4 mm) on centers. (c) Cover. Units, panels, or cables shall be installed as follows: 1. On a substantial asphalt or masonry base at least 2 in. (50.8 mm) thick and have at least 1½ in. (38 mm) of asphalt or masonry applied over the units, panels, or cables; or 2. They shall be permitted to be installed over other approved bases and embedded within 3½ in. (89 mm) of masonry or asphalt but not less than 1½ in. (38 mm) from the top surface; or 3. Equipment that has been specially investigated for other forms of installation shall be installed only in the manner for which it has been investigated. (d) Secured. Cables, units, and panels shall be secured in place by frames or spreaders or other approved means while the masonry or asphalt finish is applied. (e) Expansion and Contraction. Cables, units, and panels shall not be installed where they bridge expansion joints unless provision is made for expansion and contraction.
We do not have anything in writing saying that the cables will not have a detrimental effect on concrete, however, PYROTENAX MI heating cables have been installed many thousands of snow melting jobs over the past, probably, close to 50 years or longer. I personally have designed about 650 to 700 snow melting jobs per year for the past nine years, most of them for installation in concrete. I know of one contractor alone who has installed over 2000 snow melting jobs in the Toronto area over the past 15 years. One of our wiring sales persons, who formerly worked for a competitor said that they had tested their MI cable up to 45 watts/foot in concrete with no effect on the concrete. We run ours up to 30 watts/foot maximum in concrete, so I would have to assume that this lower wattage would have less of an impact on the concrete. Because of heat conduction into the surrounding slab, the sheath temperatures of heating cables embedded in concrete do not run much higher that the temperature of the slab itself, so the slab surrounding the heating cable should run cooler than the concrete during a hot summer day. If the slab is structurally sound to begin with, and the heating cables are installed as shown in Enginering Information Sheet H1, the cables and the slab should last a long time. This does not mean that concrete will not crack. Concrete cracks, period, due to stresses placed on the slab. Our 50 foot long snow melted front entrance has a crack about every four feet and the cables are still working fine, but this 50 foot long slab does not have any control or expansion joints. Expansion joints should be installed at least every 20 feet in any one direction to relieve these stresses. If this is not possible, then control joints (saw cuts) should be installed every 20 feet and crossed as shown in engineering sheet # H1 if using MI cable. Contact Technical Support at 650-474-7709 or emailto: firstname.lastname@example.com"> for a copy of engineering sheet # H1.
Yes. All self-regulating cables draw more amps at start-up, but not for long. This is why there are limits to the length of cable for a given circuit breaker size and voltage.
There is no minimum temperature, however, our RAYCHEM IceStop design guide has a minimum start-up temperature of 0¦F(-18¦C). The start-up temperature is a key element in determining the maximum circuit length for a given circuit breaker size. Keep in mind that roof and gutter ice melting systems should be started before the temperature falls below 32F (0C) for maximum protection against ice dams and icicle formation.
You can use RAYCHEM IceStop cable for a heated metal drip edge to keep icicles from forming. Or if you have a gutter attached, we recommend it be bent over the edge and attached to the gutter to provide a continuous drain path from roof to gutter. See our IceStop Design and Installation Guide for details at www.nVentthermal.com.
No, we do not have any approvals for installing heating cable under the roof.
A heating cable installed in the bottom of the gutter and in the downspout will provide a drainage path for water that makes it to into the gutter. Be sure to keep the leaf guard area clear of debris(leaves, twigs etc.). If the debris blocks water from getting the to gutter then you may form an ice dam.
Technically, he could use it the same way he would use RAYCHEM XL-Trace heating cable. He would use GT-66 glass tape to attach the heating cable to the pipe and the pipes have to be insulated. Now that I have told you that, he must be made aware that there are no approvals for IceStop installed on piping and there are no warranties when the cable is used in a manner not covered by the installation instructions for that particular heating cable. Additionally, if the control for the gutter system is a gutter sensor then the pipe tracing will only come on if it is snowing.
For your average 5 inch or less gutter, RAYCHEM IceStop cables are typically not fastened. They simply lay in the bottom of the gutter. If the gutter is 6 to 12 inches wide, then we recommend 2 runs held in place with our GMK-RC roof clip or GM-RAKE hanger bracket. For more information on these fastening methods, see our IceStop Roof and Gutter De-Icing System; Design, Installation and Maintenance Guide at www.nVentthermal.com.
Our RAYCHEM IceStop cables are for keeping drain paths open to remove melt-water. The IceStop guide does not address melting snow off a roof and/or reducing snow load. Call Direct Marketing at 1-800-545-6258 in order to get you in contact with a nVent Thermal Management representative.
Even if energized in the summer, RAYCHEM IceStop will not damage most roofing materials, since material in contact with the heating cable will see a maximum temperature of 136F when energized on a 77F day. Please call Direct Marketing at 800-545-6258 for additional data on component temperature.
The Nation Electrical Code in Article 426 requires all exposed deicing and snow-melting equipment be used with ground fault protection. RAYCHEM IceStop heating cables must be installed with ground fault circuit breakers. This insures that the circuit breaker will trip should the energized cable contact a metal roof. We do not recommend using water that has been in contact with IceStop cables as potable water.
RAYCHEM IceStop has a tougher fluoropolymer (Tefzel) jacket. RAYCHEM WinterGard Wet employes a less rugged polyolefin (thermal plastic rubber) outer jacket. IceStop has been approved by UL, CSA and FM for deicing in Ordinary and Classified Areas. The RayClic components have also been approved by the same agencies for Ordinary and Classified Areas. WinterGard Wet is approved by UL and CSA for Ordinary Areas only. IceStop can be run on longer circuit lengths than WinterGard which reduces the number of circuits required and greatly reduces the overall installed cost. IceStop is warranted for 10 years whereas, WinterGard is warranted for 2 years. IceStop is a "specifiable cable" and is used in the Commercial Construction and Industrial projects by architectural and engineering firms. The ratio of heating cable per foot of roof edge is the same for IceStop and WinterGard. The tables use a different tracing height which makes it seem as though more IceStop is required. The table for WinterGard Wet states that for a 12" overhang 2 feet of cable are required for an 18" tracing height. The table for IceStop states that for a 12" overhang 3.1 feet of cable are required for a 24" tracing height. The difference between the length of cable per foot of roof edge is 1.1 feet. The 24" tracing IceStop height requires 1.1 feet more cable to cover the extra 6" of height vs. 18" for WinterGard Wet.
Data sheets on RAYCHEM IceStop and the controllers can be found on our web site at
"RAYCHEM RayClic power connection kits are designed to be hard-wired to a branch circuit from a circuit breaker panel. This is usually done with rigid or flexible conduit connected to the 1/2 inch hub on the component. The component cold leads are fed through the conduit to a junction box where they are connected to the branch wire with wire nuts. The National Electrical Code in Article 427-22 requires all electric heat tracing cables be protected with a ground-fault circuit breaker. Assuming the contractor installed a thermostat; the best way to test the heating cable would be to energize the circuit and set the thermostat to turn on below the ambient or pipe temperauture. If the thermostat is a fixed-setpoint (AMC-F5) type, the sensor will have to be cooled with ice or cold water. If a thermostat was not used, as soon as the cable is energized it will start drawing current regardless of the ambient temperature. The current will initially be high but will decline as the cable and pipe warm up. The cable will feel warm to the touch but the best way to determine if it is working is to use a portable amp probe and measure for current flow. If it does not heat up, check that the screws inside the RayClic-PC have been fully tightened. To check if they have, measure the resistance between the 2 black conductors that exit the RayClic-PC. If you have an ""OPEN"" circuit then they are not tight enough "
This is controlled by inspectors on the local level. Our policy is to make each component accessible for testing and trouble shooting the system. However, this is not always possible due to structural or esthetic restrictions. We recommend you contact your local electrical inspector to see what their interpretation of the code is.
Our published circuit lenght is 250 ft (76m) of sensor cable. Our test data shows that it will work with up to 330 ft/100 meters of sensing cable jumper cable is not counted as part of the circuit length. However, if that much sensor cable is required, it is advisable to use additional TTC sensing circuits, or a TRACETEK TTDM-PLUS or -128 alarm module that detects and locates.
The sensing cable operates at low voltage, and when driven by intrinsically safe output circuits, may be located in Class I Division 1 (C1D1) hazardous locations. The alarm module is normally located in an ordinary area. Consult the product data sheets for specific approvals information on each product.
No, you must replace the section that detected the leak.
Two years from date of purchase on cables, modules and components. This can be extended to five years by completing the Extended Policy Form at http://www.nVentthermal.com/application/warranty-10-Year/index.aspx
Yes. We make cables that can be powered in a voltage range of 208V-277V and we also make cables that can be powered at 120V. To identify the voltage a cable can be powered at, you will find a 1(120V) or a 2(208V-277V) in its catalog number. Examples; the 120V RAYCHEM XL-Trace catalog number would be 5XL1-CT or 8XL1-CT. The 208V-277V RAYCHEM XL-Trace catalog number would be 5XL2-CT or 8XL2-CT. RAYCHEM WinterGard Plus 120V cable is H612 and 208V-240V cables are H622. Never power a 120V cable at 220V, it will produce about 400% more power and be quickly damaged. A 208V-277V cable powered at 120V will only produce about 25% of its rated power.
In most cases the heating cable will be installed along the pipe in a straight run. Extra cable is required at heat sinks, like valves, flanges and pipe supports. In some cases the cable may have to be spiralled around the pipe or may need to be double-traced, if the heat loss from the pipe exceeds the cable's per-foot wattage. We have several design and installation manuals that show how to install the heating cables. These manuals can be found at
As long as the design is done properly and the contractor follows our installation instructions correctly, there should not be any problems. The correct RAYCHEM XL-Trace cable must be selected for the type pipe, type and thickness of insulation, minimum ambient temperature and voltage. The contractor must test the insulation resistance of the cable according to the installation instructions and it must pass the minimum resistance requirement of 1000 megohms at 2500Vdc. EPD 30mA GFI circuit breakers must be used to comply with the NEC code. The cable should also be tested annualy with an Insulation Resistance test meter.
Never twist the bus wires together! Our self-regulating heating cables are a parallel heating circuit. The ends must be terminated with the end seal provided in the kit or ordered separately and must be the end seal designed for that particular cable. The wires are left parallel and the outer jacket and ground braid must be stripped back to the dimensions listed in instruction sheet. Twisting the bus wires will cause a short circuit that could damage the cable and trip the circuit breaker.
The easiest way to determine the circuit length of RAYCHEM XL-Trace is to use the Capacitance Method. This is done by connecting a capacitance meter, set to the 200nF range, to the bus wires and braid of the heating cable. If you do not have access to a capacitance meter, a Fluke 87 multimeter has a built-in capacitance meter that can be used to calculate the cable length. Take the capacitance reading obtained and multiply it by 5.8 to calculate the cable length.
The National Electrical Code requires a ground fault protection device for any electrical heating cable circuit. nVent Thermal Management strongly recommends the use of these devices. There are two basic types of ground-fault protection; one for personnel protection with a 5 to 8 mA trip level, and the other for equipment protection with a trip level of ~30 mA of leakage. The N.E.C. specifies equipment protection for heating cable systems. You can use a GFEPD circuit breaker with a 30mA trip level (120V or 208V-277V). nVent Thermal Management RAYCHEM WinterGard product offering includes our RAYCHEM H908 120V Plug-in Power Connection Kit, or the RAYCHEM H921 120V Ground-Fault-Protected Junction Box Kit meant for use with the RAYCHEM H900 Power Connection Kit. Also, if using our preassembled RAYCHEM Gardian heating cable, the RAYCHEM H931 Plug-in GFCI Adapter is available. The Frostex system for residential use has a built-in equipment protection device in the Flexfit 9800 Plug Kit.
You can put RAYCHEM WinterGard Wet in a drain pipe as long as the power connection and end seals are not immersed in water, which means they have to be brought out of the pipe. Also, the drain pipe can only contain water and cannot be pressurized. Circuit lengths for cable exposed to water, such as in a drain line or on a roof are shorter than standard pipe freeze protection circuit lengths. Assuming a 40°F startup temperature on a 120V - 30A circuit, WinterGard Wet can be run 150 feet. On a 240V - 15A circuit WinterGard Wet can be run 250 feet.
RAYCHEM HWAT-R2 heating cables are UL, FM and CSA approved for use on hot water pipes for temperature maintenance. RAYCHEM XL-Trace heating cables should be used for 110°F oil maintenance. HWAT-R2 should be able to maintain 110°F on a 2" line with 3" of fiberglass insulation powered at 208Vac with a 0°F ambient. The heat loss is 3.9W/ft and the cable produces a minimum of 5.2W/ft at 110°F.
The circuit length table for HWAT-R2 cables can be found on the data sheet at http://www.nVentthermal.com/Images/EN-RAYCHEMHWAT-DS-H57512_tcm432-26305.pdf. The ECO controller uses 2.5W of power.
We have two SR heating cable that can go inside of roof and gutter drain pipes. They will provide a path for water to flow through the pipe, they might not keep the entire pipe open. The approvals are limited to roof and gutter drains. The only way a heating cable could be installed on the outside of the pipe is if the pipe is insulated and waterproofed. There are no approvals for heating cables installed on the outside of any pipe that is not insulated and weatherproofed. Plus, the heating cable would be heating the concrete more than it would be heating the pipe is concrete is a good heat transfer medium.
You can connect the LE to any voltage from 100V to 277V to test it.
Yes, we carry UV ratings for our XL-Trace and IceStop products. Weatherometer testing is part of the agency requirements for heating cables installed outdoors, even ElectroMelt was tested for UV stability. The outer jackets on all of our self-regulating heating cables are the same jackets so they are all UV stable. The bright orange color or even the black jackets can fade slightly with exposure, but it does not change the stability of the jacket.
The heating cable can only replace the heat loss through the insulation. You cannot maintain 15°C without insulation. Use the outside diameter of the double-walled pipe to calculate how much cable you will need for that section.
Use only UL Listed or CSA Certified 3/4 in. (1.9 cm) or 1 in. (2.5 cm) rigid galvanized steel, rigid aluminum, or rigid PVC electrical conduit. Consult your local electrical code for any other specific requirements.
A timer is not recommended since it might not have the heating cable energized when it is needed. The cable needs to be energized any time there is snow on the roof and the temperature is around freezing or below freezing. If ice is allowed to form around the heating cable, it will not provide enough heat to melt the ice.
Yes, AT-180 aluminum tape is run continuously lengthwise over the heating cable. In addition to holding the heating cable to the pipe until the pipe is insulated, it increases the power output of the heating cable and helps to distribute the heat. A self-regulating heating cable on a plastic pipe does not produce as much heat as the same cable on a metal pipe. This is because the plastic does not transmit the heat away from the heating cable as well as the metal does so the cable starts to self-regulate. Adding the aluminum tape helps to offset some of this.
The IceStop heating cable has FM approvals for CID2 areas specifically for roof and gutter de-icing. The heating cable has a rugged fluoropolymer outer jacket to better withstand the environment.
Adhesive cannot be used to attach metal roof clips to tile or slate roofs. Unfortunately, roof tiles and slate are not as strong as adhesive and therefore when snow slides off the roof, it takes the heating cable, roof clip, adhesive, and the chunk of tile attached to the adhesive with it! A mechanical attachment method, such as the heating cable hanger manufactured by Alpine SnowGuards, must be used on tile and slate roofs.
We do not have a good method of doing this. We have looked at this carefully and there is no way to attach a heating cable so the heat will transfer across the stair.
The TTSIM modules through a TTDM-128 can be set to a most sensitive 25kΩ setting or lowest sensitivity of 12kΩ for a leak alarm. The normal sensitivity to create a leak alarm is 18kΩ.
Any time the cable will be installed in a Class 1 Division 1 location, you must install the Zener Barriers between the TTSIM and the classified area. Zener barriers are not necessary for CID2 areas. Use the TT-ZENER-BARRIER-7767 with all TTSIM-1A and TTSIM-2 applications, and select either the TT-ZENER-BARRIER-7767 or the TT-ZENER-BARRIER-7764 for any TT5000 applications.
The overall length of a RayClic connection kit is 9.95 inches. The height is 1.9 inches. The width for the power connection and splice kits is 2.5 inches and for the tee and cross kit it is 4.2 inches.
The default value is NC. If a change is required please press "Shift" and then "Enter". Scroll down until you see "Alarm Output" press "Enter" scroll down until you see the desired value and press "Enter"
The max number of C910 controllers is 8 per ProtoNode
In both our UL and FM approvals, the cables themselves are not specifically approved/Listed components, but approved for use in a leak detection system. The TTXXXX is generically described, and could represent the various sensing cables (ie. TT1000, TT3000, TT5000, TT5001)that are used for the different applications.
We have not tested TT3000 to see how long it can be exposed to 100% glacial acetic acid before failing due to corrosion. Our guess however based on the materials used to make the cable, is that it is likely able to withstand several hours of exposure before failure. The polymers used to coat the signal wires and sensor wires are fluoropolymers and are resistant to attack by acids. However, since the polymer coating on the sensor wires is conductive, we cannot spark the wire jacket for pinholes. Pinholes could be present. If the acid finds a pinhole, then it will corrode the metal conductor underneath the jacket and cause the cable to fail. TT3000 can be used to detect acids (but it will not differentiate between water or any other conductive liquid). But for the reason above, we recommend that any section of TT3000 exposed to acid be replaced.
You can run the cable the length of the sidewalk as long as you maintain the spacing required and do not exceed the maximum circuit length. Another consideration is expansion joints. If you are installing MI cable, try to avoid them. If this is not possible, follow the instructions below. If you are installing ElectroMelt cable, use the Expansion Joint Kit to cross them.
The password for Level 1 and Level 2 are visible by viewing the Modbus Register Map through a software tool like ModScan. There's no approach to reset the password from the TTDM unit. The customer will need to access register 9 and 10 (Function Code 3) to view and/ or change the password that is currently held in memory. If the customer doesn't have the ability to access unit via Modbus, the customer should send the unit to the factory and we will reset the password to its default values.
You will have to test a cable with the chemical at your facility. We can send you a short length of test cable. You will need to borrow a sensor interface module and leader cable from your local representative. Test instructions can be sent to you by Tech Suport by contacting us at PTM-tech firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling us at 650-474-7709. The document number is H80979. We would like to know the test results so we can add them to our TRACETEK Chemical Sensing List.
Check that the image is no greater than 3500x2000 pixels. If this is okay, check the properties of the image file you are trying to upload and make sure that the Read Only AND the Archive Attributes are not checked. The file will give you error messages if both of those settings are checked. If only one of those attributes is checked, then you will not see the error and the file will be copied to the Maps folder on the TS12.
The TT-ZENER-BARRIER-SET (495329) comes with 2 MTL765AC safety barriers mounted inside an enclosure. The TT-ZENER-BARRIER-7767 (P000000553) is a MTL7767+ that is ready to be mounted on a DIN Rail, but does not have an enclosure. The electrical specification differences between the MTL765AC and the MTL7767+ can be found in the datasheets . The main differences are the fuse rating and resistance.
The maximum length per reel of TT-JC-BLACK is 2000 ft (600m).
The longest continuous cable length we can make today is 240 meters (787ft.). Anything beyond that requires a splice.
In reality the accuracy is a percentage of the cable length and dependent upon the SIM used. It doesn't matter what cable is used. The SIM-1 will provide accuracy to +/-0.1% of the overall cable length up to 1500 meters. So at the maximum cable length, the accuracy is +/-1.5 meters. The SIM-1A and SIM-2 will provide accuracy to +/-0.6% of the overall cable length up to 150 meters. So at the maximum cable length, the accuracy is +/-0.9 meters.
This is acting like a sensing cable with shorts to ground. The fact that nothing is visible at 64' implies that this location is the result of two ( or more) ground faults on the Yellow/Black loop. I suggest that they move the end termination to the first 50 foot cable and re-check sense current leakage and location. If no leakage current, connect a temporary wire from the "red" SIM terminal to ground and re-check leakage and location. If a location is displayed for either of the above tests, check for grounded cable. If no leakage or location, connect the next 50 foot section, terminate and repeat the tests above. Continue testing all cable sections until all ground faults are located and removed.
Yes, the sensor cable may be extended to a maximum of 100 ft (30 m) using a 2 wire (twisted shielded pair plus ground) with wire gauge size of 20 AWG or larger.
If your customer chooses to use our TT1000 sensor cable at a temperature outside of the datasheet specification, then they do so at their own risk and our warranty would be void. However, you can share the following information to help them make a decision. The polymers used to make the cable are a type of fluoropolymer that melt at around 140C. The mechanical properties such as tensile modulus decease as temperature increases, in other words the material becomes softer with increasing temperature. If the cable is installed with minimal mechanical stresses at the temperature indicated by the customer (82C), it is likely that the cable will function normally. Another factor to consider is the actual temperature that the cable is exposed to. Depending on where the cable is installed within the interstitial area, it may be at a lower temperature than the heated fluid.
The TTSIM-2 has only one relay. The relay can be programmed to change state on a single alarm event or as many as three alarm events as described below. It would take two relays working independently to annunciate separate alarms for a leak and fault alarm. It sounds like you want to display the leak location using the TTSIM-2 so the alternatives for having two relays is the TTDM-128 or networking a TTNRM module to the SIM-2. I have attached data sheets on these units.
We do deliver the end of the MLC with a heat shrink sleeve installed, and then crimped which makes it wider at the end. You could just cut off the portion with the heat shrink tubing so that it fits through the strain relief, and then strip the outer jacket and individual wires as needed. Or, if you have a heat gun, you could score the circumference of the heat shrink tubing a short distance behind the crimped area, and then score it again down the middle along the long axis of the cable, and when they heat up that area with a heat gun the heat shrink tubing in the crimped area should be easy to pull off. This would preserve some of the heat shrink tubing that the strain relief gasket could tighten onto. But if you don't have the heat gun available or don't want to go through the hassle, then it is OK to cut that area entirely off as discussed above. We place that heat shrink tubing to prevent water ingress in outdoor applications. But since the TTC-1 is typically installed indoors or covered, it should not be a problem to remove the heat shrink tubing. The TTC-1 itself is not water-tight.
The MJC-BLK outer jacket is Polyurethane, and it's typical minimum operating temperature is -40C. However, the individual wires underneath the jacket are insulated with polypropylene, and it's minimum operating temperature is only -10C, because it will start to become brittle. I'm afraid they can't use it at -41C.
The issue is that the NEC doesn't say you can put the cables in sand, which often is the medium under the pavers. If the cables are going in concrete, under the pavers, then no problem, the only concern will be the depth, which can cause delays in the getting the surface temp up above 32F quick enough. However, the local AHJ will have to bless the use of cables in another medium, and if in sand or other, the power output of the cables must be limited since the density of the medium is not a compact as concrete and will not dissipate the heat away from the heating cable fast enough and may damage the HDPE jacketing of the MI cable.
The BMS would have to have a separate port to send voltage to each ECO for changing temperatures and alarm ports for each ECO to monitor alarm conditions.
It can be done a couple of ways. There is a heater cycle switch for each unit that must be manually actuated at each controller. It runs as long as the cycle time selected. Or, there is also an override option that is controlled by an external relay or switch. It's typically used for BMS applications. It's always best to just let it run in automatic mode unless there is a BMS involved.
We do not have any test data at temperatures below -20C, and therefore cannot make any comments about the possible side effects if the cable is exposed to -41C. However, just FYI, here are a few known effects of using TT5001 at subfreezing temperatures: 1) The response time will be slower. As a general rule of thumb, the response will double for every 10C drop below 20C. 2) If the sensor cable is encased in ice due to the sub-freezing condition, then the ice may form a barrier that would block the Toluene from reaching the cable and it will not sense a leak. Once it is thawed, it should work properly. 3) We have heard anecdotally that if the cable was in water and then the water freezes and thereby expands when it turns into ice, then it may press the conductive jacket into the sensor wires and cause a false alarm. It should work properly after it is thawed.
Assuming this is not a C910-485 you are referring to; there is a DC signal input on terminals 6 & 7. It appears that it can be done via Modbus too.
The sensor wire can be extended up to up to 500 ft (152 m) using 18 AWG 3-wire jacketed cable or up to 2,000 ft (609 m) using 12 AWG 3-wire jacketed cable.
The 2 feet below grade is to protect the pipe from shovels and other gardening implements more than anything else. If you are sure the pipe is not someplace where it might be damaged by anything, then a lesser depth should not be a problem. I know we have done designs where the pipe slopes from grade to some depth below grade in the past.
If the pipe is sloping down at all, then the end seal should be off of the pipe to ensure that no water will travel down into the end seal. This is just a typical electrical practice that we adhere to even though our end seal is rated for occasional submersion. Therefore steps should be made to elevated the end seal off of the pipe. If the pipe was doing a gradual rise, it would not be an issue.
For these calculations, plastic is plastic. The reason we care that it is plastic is because plastic is not a very good conductor of heat and therefore we have to derate the power output of the heating cable to compensate. If you said one part was metal and the rest was plastic, then we might have to make some adjustments. We always use our AT-180 fastening tape on plastic to increase the power output slightly and that is another reason why we need to know if the pipe is plastic; so the correct adhesive tape is selected. But whether the pipe is schedule 40, 80, or some other plastic all together, does not make enough of a difference for it to be a concern.
The red one is TT5000 hydrocarbon sensing cable. The orange one is a TT3000 water sensing cable.


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Last summer in Austin, Cedric Benson got into a bar fight that we'll rate 0.2 Jordan Jeffersons. He shoved some workers and threw a punch, and was arrested for misdemeanor assault. Today he paid the piper, pleading no contest and being sentenced to 20 days in jail.
Here's how this works for the busy schedule of an NFL running back. On Monday, October 17th, the day after the Bengals' week 6 game against Indy, Benson will travel to Austin to turn himself in. The next Sunday is Cincinnati's bye. With good behavior, he should be out in about a week - plenty of time to report to practice for week 8. No fuss, no muss.
And since Roger Goodell seems to have forgotten how to suspend players, no missed games.
Benson receives 20 days in jail for 2010 assault in Austin [Cincinnati Enquirer]

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Claude Lemieux—who is 43 and hasn't played an NHL game is six years—will suit up for the San Jose Sharks tonight. Ahh, the memories.
Lemieux retired after the 2003 season, but decided last fall that it was time for him to get back in the game. His comeback started in China (seriously) before signing on with the Sharks Worcester affiliate in November. Then yesterday he got the call every young player dreams of. He was going to The Show.
Interesting, isn't it that he joins the Sharks as they suddenly find themselves in the midst of a budding rivalry with the Detroit Red Wings. The teams are separated by three points in the conference standings, but will play only one more regular season game (at Detroit on February 25th.) It's hard to imagine what skills Lemieux has left, besides his ability to agitate and annoy, but does that ever really go away?
So will he stick with the club through February, or better yet, the playoffs? And will the Wings remember—specifically Kris Draper, who got his face rearranged by Claude all the way back in 1996 and Darren McCarty who took his revenge a year later? Both are still on the Wings roster. (McCarty is on IR.)
"I don't blame the guy for trying to make a comeback," Detroit's Kris Draper said Monday. "You're gonna play this game as long as you can. The older you get, the more you realize you just try to stay in as long as you can. He's back. I wish him luck.
"I understand. It was big. The whole city rallied around it. I know as soon as the game gets close, there's going to be a lot of people who want to talk about it again. I guess I'll get my cliches ready for that one as well."
Kirk Maltby was equally unimpressed.
"I think a lot of fans in general hold on to things a lot longer than the players do."
Yes. Yes, we do. But certainly someone on the team must be aggrieved after all this time....
It was a long time ago," Draper said. "I've played a lot of hockey since then."
Drat. You guys are no fun.
Claude Lemieux joins Sharks' lineup [Mercury News]
Draper remains a class-act in discussing Lemieux's comeback [Snap Shots]


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AAA PICTURE VEHICLES necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Damon is the main name that will represent our companies. In essence, we will have DAMON PICTURE VEHICLES, THE DAMON GROUP, DAMON ESTATES...ETC. We do everything from broker luxury real estate to brokering cars into the film industry in Los Angeles. Please feel free to see our sites (two of many) where the logo we choose will be placed( as the site will not change, but the logo/company name will) http://www.aaapicturevehicles.com and another example http://www.damonwinkler.com (user name: entertainment pass: entertainment)
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LOS ANGELES, May 9 (UPI) -- Vidal Sassoon, founder of a beauty-product and hair-salon empire, died at his home in Bel Air, Calif., after a battle with leukemia, his representatives said.
He was 84.
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed his Wednesday death appeared natural, but no specific cause of death has been disclosed.
The famed British hairstylist rose to prominence in 1960s London where he made the "wedge" the must-have haircut.
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A prominent Stanford researcher has designed a novel microprocessor he claims could power a range of mighty yet less costly scientific computers. Whether the Merrimac CPU, unveiled at the recent Supercomputing 2003 conference, will see the light of day is a question that goes to the heart of a brewing controversy over how the small but highly strategic supercomputing sector will deliver next-generation petascale systems.
Merrimac flies in the face of the current practice of building up supercomputers from thousands of low-cost, off-the-shelf-often X86-CPUs. Such systems dominate the latest list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, but fall short of the needs of the most-demanding scientific and government apps, some say. Intel Corp. announced last week that it is plowing $36 million into a three-year program to push such cluster systems to the next level.
In a paper presented at SC-2003 here, William Dally, a professor of computer science at Stanford University, said today's CPUs are inefficient because they spend too little time performing calculations and too much time waiting for memory. Merrimac attempts to shift microprocessor design by rewriting applications as so-called streams that expose the parallelism of multiple arithmetic units on the Merrimac CPU and provide mechanisms to handle more calculations without going to off-chip memories.
"There are many problems with today's off-the-shelf processors, including the fact they squander the bandwidth," Dally said in a panel here on petaflops architectures. "Petaflops don't matter. Bandwidth, not flops, is the issue."
The Merrimac design contains a cluster of sixty-four 64-bit floating-point multiply-add units fed from a hierarchy of registers and supervised by separate on-chip controllers. Dally estimates a 90nm chip measuring 10-by-11mm could deliver 128Gflops, yet would cost only $200 to make and would dissipate about 31W. A 96-port router chip of a similar size would connect up to 16 Merrimac nodes on a single board or 512 nodes in a cabinet.
The resulting system architecture could deliver a 2-Tflops workstation for $20,000 or a 2-Pflops supercomputer for $20 million, according to Dally's paper.
His Stanford team has hand-coded three streaming applications to demonstrate a simulation of the processor. However, the group has yet to design a compiler for the system and is still tinkering with the organization of its register files to optimize performance.
So far, Dally, who helped design the Cray T3D and T3E systems, has not found anyone among the top five computer makers he has visited willing to build the chip, which is aimed at applications with lots of data parallelism. "Most of these companies want to build database servers and just sell them as scientific machines," he said. But in Dally's view, "It's silly not to build a custom processor for supercomputing."
The SC2003 panel at which Dally spoke included executives from Cray Inc. and Sandia National Labs. The two organizations are currently building the so-called Red Storm system from thousands of Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processors at an estimated cost of $100 million.
"Red Storm is a custom system, but they won't spend the extra $10 [million] to $12 million to build a custom processor," Dally said in a conversation after the panel. "This conservative approach is actually more risky than building custom processors, because they take the really expensive thing-bandwidth-and they squander it."
There are plenty of reasons for conservatism in today's high-performance computer market. "The whole technical-computing market is too small even for IBM to develop a [fully] custom system for it," said Earl C. Joseph, a VP of research for International Data Corp.
The sector, which comprises some 60,000 systems, slipped 7.2 percent to $4.7 billion in 2002, its second annual decline after 15 years of steady growth. IDT blames the downturn and the rise of clusters for the slide. Of that total, about 250 systems were supercomputers worth $1 million or more each, for a market totaling $1 billion a year and generally holding steady.
Other economic factors are tightening the screws on R&D. "For over 20 years, the venture capital community invested $2 billion to $3 billion in 15 to 20 companies," said Steven J. Wallach, VP of technology of router maker Chiaro Networks and a founder of one such startup, Convex Computer, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co. "Over the last five years, that VC investment hasn't happened, and it won't happen going forward. What's more, we have had a consolidation in microprocessor architectures. These two things have had a big impact on supercomputing."
In a town hall meeting, a panel of experts said they will attempt to address the perceived lack of adequate incentives to drive supercomputing innovation. Members of the Committee on the Future of Supercomputing, commissioned by the National Research Council, will file a report at the end of next year.
"The recommendations will be about the ways government spends money on supercomputers and the levels of its spending," said Marc Snir, co-chair of the committee and head of the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A separate interagency report already filed to White House budget makers recommends the United States more than double its current spending on supercomputers. However, people associated with the report expressed doubts about how it will be received in the current budget climate.
Nevertheless, Cray, IBM Corp., and Sun Microsystems Inc. are gearing up separate projects to deliver novel petascale computers by 2010, buoyed by about $50 million each in grants from the government's High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) project. All three are keeping mum on the details of their plans, but many involve new SoC, interconnect and software architectures.
Cray has recruited Dally as an adviser for its HPCS design, called Cascade, although the company will not use Merrimac. "We think streaming will be very important, but we will do it in a different way," said Burton Smith, Cray's chief scientist. The tension between off-the-shelf clusters and specialty systems like Cascade, he said, is "going to increasingly differentiate the two kinds of supercomputers out there, and that's wonderful for us."
IBM's system aims to be compatible with the PowerPC and to adapt to different technical and business work loads, said Mootaz Elnozahy, who runs the company's HPCS program. "We will have a new microarchitecture. It's not a conventional core. The notion of a core [in this time frame] becomes fuzzy."
Elnozahy said the IBM team is "pushing some aggressive ideas, but it's tough. I wake up every day needing to justify continuing this R&D program. Meanwhile, what I am scared of is that someday we are going to be able to configure a supercomputer at the Dell Web site."
Intel's new Advanced Computing Program is hoping to drive the technology in just that direction. Details of the program, seen as a reaction to the HPCS efforts, are still scarce. But Rick Herrmann, a marketing manager in Intel's high-performance computing office, said it will focus on a variety of systems and software projects, including programming models for multithreaded CPUs, power and thermal packaging for small-form-factor systems, and interconnects such as Infiniband.
"We want to accelerate the use of volume technologies in high-performance computing," Herrmann said.
Others hope to take a stepwise approach to petascale systems by evolving their current architectures.
Jim Tomkins, Red Storm project leader at Sandia, said that a petaflops system could be designed by 2010 using 25,000 processors built at 45nm design rules. By that time, the chips should have four symmetric-multiprocessing CPUs on a die running at 10GHz and delivering 40Gflops per chip. "I think we can build a petaflops system with similar level of complexity to systems today, but using four or five times as many processors," Tomkins said.
Similarly, Fujitsu Labs may take an incremental approach. Kenichi Miura, a Fujitsu fellow, sketched out the possibility of pushing the company's Sparc processors to 4GHz with two cores on a die and as many as 256 nodes, each equipped with 128 processors, on an optical net to get to the petascale milestone.
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From the Pacifica Quartet, a great night of Beethoven at DU's Gates Hall
It's always fascinating to try to discern and articulate exactly what makes a string quartet – or any ensemble – stand apart.
In the case of the Pacifica Quartet in Sunday afternoon's Friends of Chamber Music program at Gates Concert Hall, a synthesis of chemistry, dynamism and artistic sensibility among its members made for the most meaningful interpretation of Beethoven in recent memory.
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Happy America Recycles Day! America Recycles Day (ARD) is a project of Keep America Beautiful, a nonprofit volunteer-based community action organization dedicated to recycling, waste reduction, litter prevention and simply keeping our communities beautiful for generations to come.
Keep America Beautiful (KAB) is launching the Recycling at Work Initiative in honor of America Recycles Day 2012. The initiative encourages businesses, government agencies, schools, hospitals and other worksites to commit to increasing workplace recycling by 10 percent by 2015. The initiative is the result of KAB's 2012 Clinton Global Initiative partnership with Alcoa and the Alcoa Foundation.
"The environmental impact from recycling remains critically important as a measure of sustainable economies and vibrant communities," said Matt McKenna, KAB president and chief executive officer. "To increase our national municipal recycling rate from its current 34 percent level, the increase will come less from national initiatives and more from locally-driven efforts. Engaging individuals to take the action to recycle at home, at work and at play is the linchpin to increasing recycling rates." Source: KAB
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For example, the City of Chandler, Arizona is hosting a free backyard compost workshop at 9:00 am on Saturday, November 17 at City Hall. A local high school, Corona del Sol, is hosting a weeklong event: No Impact Week.
"Our campus will feature a recycling drive with United Fibers, and an e-waste drive. Bring your old towels, sheets, rags and clothes so they can become insulation in an area home, or bring your old broken electronics to help the school clubs earn money and keep those items out of the landfill."
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(CNN) -- Assuming Pope Benedict XVI steps down as planned at the end of February, his tenure on Twitter will have been fleeting.
The pope has been active on the social-media platform for only two months. During that time he has sent just 34 tweets -- 33 if you don't count one that corrected a typo in a previous message.
The spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Catholics stunned the world Monday with the news that he will resign February 28 "because of advanced age."
Most of the pope's messages to his 1.5 million followers have promoted Catholic doctrine and teachings, although he has also occasionally commented on current events, condemning violence in Nigeria and Syria. One tweet asked followers for suggestions on how to be more prayerful when "we are so busy with the demands of work, families and the world?"
The first Catholic pope to use Twitter, he tweets under the handle @Pontifex -- meaning "bridge builder" in Latin.
All his messages have been retweeted by thousands of followers, although others have used Twitter to criticize the Catholic Church over sexual abuse by priests, its stance on gay marriage and other issues.
Here are Pope Benedict XVI's five most popular Twitter messages, as ranked by the number of retweets:
Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart.— Benedict XVI (@Pontifex) December 12, 2012
Offer everything you do to the Lord, ask his help in all the circumstances of daily life and remember that he is always beside you— Benedict XVI (@Pontifex) December 12, 2012
We can be certain that a believer is never alone. God is the solid rock upon which we build our lives and his love is always faithful— Benedict XVI (@Pontifex) December 12, 2012
May Our Lord bless you and watch over you in the new year.— Benedict XVI (@Pontifex) January 1, 2013
Everyone's life of faith has times of light, but also times of darkness. If you want to walk in the light, let the word of God be your guide— Benedict XVI (@Pontifex) December 19, 2012


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A child's birthday often is one of the most anticipated days of the year. Kids' birthday parties offer an opportunity to share a child's special day with friends and family. A theme helps determine the location of the party and ties together each party element, such as activities, decorations, invitation, cake style and party favors. It also allows the birthday boy or girl to express personal preferences and share those with the guests.
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Zoo party. Many zoos offer party packages for kids' birthday parties. A zoo party theme works great for kids who are in elementary and middle school. Children younger than 6 years old need more adult supervision than older kids need. Plan for at least one adult helper for every two kids. To plan a zoo party, contact your local zoo and ask for package information and pricing.
The Brookfield Zoo, located outside Chicago, Ill., offers Wild Birthday Bash packages that include zoo admission, carousel coupons, a buffet lunch, zoo-themed party favors, a birthday T-shirt for the birthday boy or girl and more.
Favorite character. Most kids have a favorite character. It might be a superhero, literary character such as Harry Potter, or an animated character from television and the movies. Centralizing the birthday party theme around the honoree's favorite character is a great way to involve the child in all the party planning. Allow him to suggest decoration ideas, help choose the cake design and select the games for the party. Check for character theme ideas through sites such as Pinterest and PBS.org.
Tea party. The idea of a tea party theme may conjure images little girls in frilly dresses eating dainty sandwiches and cookies at a formally decorated table. Some young girls may enjoy a traditional tea party theme, but there are ways to build upon that idea to create a unique tea party birthday party without the frills.
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Nicollet-Central Modern Streetcar
On October 4, 2013, the Minneapolis City Council approved a resolution recommending that the locally preferred alternative for the Nicollet-Central Transit Corridor be modern streetcar running between Lake Street and 8th Street SE on Nicollet Avenue, Nicollet Mall, Hennepin Avenue, 1st Avenue NE and Central Avenue, using the Hennepin Avenue Bridge to cross the Mississippi River.
The project is estimated to cost approximately $200 million and carry over 9,000 daily riders. The project would be funded in part through the value capture district that the City of Minneapolis established for the project in June 2013; other federal, regional and local funds were also be pursued.
The decision followed over a year of technical analysis and public engagement through the Nicollet-Central Transit Alternatives Study.
In 2014, the City of Minneapolis and the Metropolitan Council worked together to do further planning for the project, including completing an Environmental Assessment for the project.
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NEW figures show attacks on firefighters are increasing - and it could be putting lives at risk, South Wales Fire and Rescue (SWRS) said.
Fire crews train to help people during fires, floods and traffic accidents but now they are also having to contend with members of the public.
There were 12 attacks on firefighters in South Wales the year to March 2013.
But between March and December last year there had already been 14 attacks in the area, six of them in Gwent and Caerphilly.
Attacks range from spitting, hurling bricks and bottles at crews, punching and kicking and verbal abuse, a spokeswoman for the service said.
Some elsewhere in the UK have even been shot at or stabbed while responding to an emergency.
One attack took place on October 18 last year, after a crew responded to an alarm going off at the Severn Bridge Social Club in Chepstow.
When they arrived, the "heavily intoxicated" occupier would not let them in and was "verbally abusive", a South Wales Fire and Rescue spokeswoman said.
Staff requested police back-up and the police had to "forcibly remove" the man to let the fire service get inside.
He was then charged with obstructing emergency workers and pleaded guilty at Caerphilly Magistrates Court on February 27, where he was fined £370 and ordered to pay an extra £85 in costs and £37 victim surcharge.
There were also two attacks in Abergavenny, one in Abertillery, one in Abersychan and one in Caerphilly between March and December last year.
Chief Fire Officer Huw Jakeway said: "It is absolutely beyond belief that our firefighters are being attacked so viciously while responding to emergency incidents and trying to save lives. Attacking our fire crews has very serious consequences and it cannot and will not be part of anyone's job to face abuse, threats or attacks."
The service has now launched the campaign "We can't protect while we are under attack" to make people aware of the "devastating consequences these attacks can have".
The fire service urged anyone witnessing an attack on a fire crew to report it by calling the police or the SWRS fire crime unit by phoning 01443 232000 and asking to be transferred.


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Norseman full-iron starts in 7 hours.
My favorite part about traveling and about doing events (or adventures!) is putting myself in some unique situation and taking in all the ups and downs of the experiences the new situation produces. This race has been on my mind for over a year; those who know me know that is much longer than I am usually capable of thinking about something. Spending 3 days at race headquarters has given us the opportunity to feel the excitement build. It is very real now. It`s not the first time I`ve said, `this is going to be the hardest thing I`ve ever done.´ But that is not why I am here.
A friend of a friend asked me before I left, `Why something so extreme?´ And I never thought of it that way (seriously- despite the word `xtreme´in the name of the race). How did I answer? That as you approach the difficulty of something like this it`s feasibility becomes real. Suddenly it is a reason to go to Norway and a time to put myself in a very unique situation indeed. The `hard` part of it is harder than anything I`ve done, but not by leaps and bounds. During the lows I have an adequate bank of experiences to draw upon for motivation and during the highs I can experience something like never before. All this in one of the most beautiful environments I`ve ever been in. And with friends who traveled hundreds or thousands of miles to help make it happen.
We`ve already met lots of people, Norwegians are very excited that we came all the way from California to be here. They ask how long I have been a triathlete and how many times I`ve been here to do the race. I tell them that I never considered myself a triathlete and that I slept on couches for two months to save money to come here to do this race. They appreciate that we sleep in the gym and cook all of our meals.
Pre-race concerns are the obvious ones: Did I swim enough? Cycling is my strength, but did I ignore it too much to swim and run? Have my two weeks of traveling before hand make me soft? Will the stiffness in my left knee get better as the day goes on?
Goal 1: Finish the swim. Period. Goal 2: Make it to the mountain checkpoint before the cut-off (if the weather is bad, you cannot finish on top of the mountain and you finish out the run on flat). Last year all but a handful made the cut-off, the year before only the leader finished on the mountain top! It depends on the weather.
Am returning to this post now at 930pm, before I go to sleep. At the pre-race meeting this afternoon they announced that they had to move the swim deeper into the fjord due to some international triathlon governing-body rule about water temperature minimums. Now the bike is 12 miles longer! I don`t mind so much, but man, it`s already going to be a long day. The race starts at 5am local time, 8pm Friday night in California. Think of me before you go to sleep and again when you wake up!


text: Translating research into better healthPalmer is at the forefront of chiropractic researchSummer 2008 Home article > a message from Dr. Burt Staying in touch with alumni is an important part of Palmer's Alumni Office. That's why Assistant Director of Alumni Lisa Walden and I log a lot of miles each year to visit the same events that you and other Palmer graduates are attending. On a number of these trips we're accompanied by Dr. Tom Milus from the West Campus or Dr. Ed Pappagallo from the Florida Campus. Their input and hard work make it possible for us to be a resource on all three campuses and allow us to attend association events from Florida to British Columbia, Canada. This winter's Palmer Destination Success Continuing Education Cruise gave us, as well as College administrators, faculty and staff, a wonderful new setting in which to sit down and talk to alumni. The more we understand the needs of our alumni, the better we'll be at providing you with the programs that meet your needs. For those of you who haven't had a chance to meet with the Alumni Office, we encourage you to visit www.palmer.edu. On the "Alumni" home page, click on "Contact the Alumni Office" and you'll instantly have the opportunity to ask questions about the new alumni program or tell us your latest accomplishments. Plus, by providing us with your e-mail address, we can notify you when our office and the Development Office will be traveling to a town near you. It also allows us to update you on the latest Palmer news through Palmer Highlights, the twice-amonth e-blast. One area in which Palmer has consistently made the news is research. Check out this issue's cover story to find out about the breakthrough chiropractic research being conducted by Palmer College through the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research as well as by faculty clinicians on all three campuses. Palmer is carrying out the type of research that chiropractors can use every day in their practices. Palmer is also taking the lead in providing chiropractic students the entrepreneurial skills they will need as chiropractors through the Palmer Center for Business Development. For a story on this innovative program, the first of its kind at any chiropractic college, turn to page 5. To find out firsthand what's going on at Palmer, I encourage you to attend Homecoming at a Palmer campus near you. You can register online at www.palmerhomecoming.com. This year's theme is "Our Time is Now." Talk with faculty, staff and students. See the advancements Palmer is making in research and in providing students with the tools they need to succeed. If there was ever a time to be proud of what our alma mater is doing, that time is now. article >


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I Won't Have What She's Having
Caution. This one's a gross out. But if you're looking for calorie suppression after your turkey feast, then by all means, read on.
My last post hinted at the culinary delight of discovering hair in one's food. That led my brain down an undesired pathway. What other gross things have I found in my fare?
I won't bore you with the times I've spotted a hair nestled in my solids and sauces—that flowerbed's already been trampled. Instead, I will impress you with other fine finds. Impressive not only because of what I've discovered, but impressive because I'm still able to eat.
Is That An Ice Crystal In Your Shake?
As a college student, I didn't own a car, which in North Dakota can prove challenging. Therefore, I rode my bike everywhere, for as long as the weather would allow. Beyond that, it was the bus and the kind acts of my work buddies, including my future husband, who was undoubtedly my favorite ride.
In the summer, after a long biking trek across town, I'd often treat myself to a Dairy Queen. One day, while hot and sweaty, the need for a vanilla shake consumed me. After paying for my frozen delight, I leaned against my bike and sucked and slurped until the last drop. But in that last drop, something tickled my tongue. An ice chip, perhaps? But ice would dissolve in the heat of my mouth, wouldn't it? This tiny morsel did not.
I spit the bit into my palm. Well, what do you know? A fingernail! Maybe from the Dairy Queen herself.
Hey, I Said No Black Olives!
During my residency, my husband and I maintained our strength by consuming large amounts of Mexican food. We couldn't get enough of the stuff. But while we both fancied burritos with all the fixings, Mr. Rubin declined the black olives.
On one occasion, however, an olive slipped into his tortilla. Or at least, what appeared to be an olive. If olives have wings, eyes, and legs, then an olive it was. If they don't, then my dear husband almost swallowed a fly.
Something For Your Boo Boo?
Other than a butt-load of calories, one wouldn't think chicken Marsala and mashed potatoes would be dangerous. At least I didn't think so when I ordered the dish off the menu one day. But apparently they are, because my entrée came with a safety net. In the form of a band-aid.
Well, wasn't that thoughtful? Who cares if it was already used?
Bon Appétit!
What fun items—living or otherwise—have you found in your food?
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This was enough to make me want to homestead!
Oh my gosh, I just closed the computer screen after the fingernail bit..how awful!!! I have only had the misfortune of an odd hair in food and nothing worse than that. But I was at a Japaense restaurant when something ran over my hand. Out of the corner of my eye, I watched a cockroach race up and behind a framed photo. Lunch was over at that point@ never been back either!
I ate a worm once…well half of one. You seem to have exceptionally bad luck with food. Remind me never to eat with you.
The blog looks great!
UGH to all of those. God, I don't think I could ever eat again after that. A used band-aid?? That should be illegal.
Love the look of your new blog. Umm, glad I didn't have a snack with me when I started reading this post. Those are pretty terrible stories. My question has always been why would a restaurant offer a replacement of the same food in these kinds of situations? Just take the offending item off my check and give me a free drink. A strong drink. Then I'll keep my cool.
I love the new look of your blog. Colorful, inviting, and slick. Nice job!
Firstly, YAY for pretty new site! LOVE IT! ❤ Also, gorgeous picture annnnnd ewwwww! Gross but well written post! haha ❤
So glad I haven't had breakfast yet! And I once found a hair in my soup at a restaurant and tried to discreetly remove it and set the soup aside before my father and his weak stomach noticed, but it was too late. He ran outside to the front of the restaurant to yack in the bushes. Fun times!
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