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Vacuum starter kit keeps frozen food fresh longer and prevents freezer burn. Delivers an airtight resealable bag every time. Easy to use. Dishwasher safe. Easy to store. Does not require batteries. Portable. Includes 1 pump and 3 quart size resealable bag.
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Ashton Kutcher Files for Divorce from Demi
December 21, 2012
Ashton Kutcher has filed for divorce from wife Demi Moore more than a year after the couple's high-profile split.
Pics: A Relationship In Photos - Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore Through The Years
Divorce papers were filed Friday Los Angeles Superior Court, according to People.com, with the 34-year-old Kutcher checking the ever-popular irreconcilable differences box. According to the documents, Kutcher isn't seeking any spousal support and he is not asking the court to deny the 50-year-old Moore any spousal support.
Kutcher has hired A-list divorce attorney Laura Wasser to represent him. Wasser's previous clients include Angelina Jolie, Heidi Klum and Britney Spears.
Related: Demi & Ashton Will Continue Joint Charity Work
Ashton and Demi began their May-December relationship in 2003 and married in 2005. In 2010, infidelity rumors about Ashton started to swirl, and on November 17, 2011, Demi took to Twitter to announce her plans to divorce her husband.
' More Sad Details Revealed About Robin Williams' Final Resting Place'(Fox News)
' WOW: 'Dating Naked' Is In Big Trouble'(Fox News)
' Katie Holmes Talks More About Tom Cruise'(Celeb Dirty Laundry)
' Are Taylor Swift and John Mayer Back Together?'(Celeb Dirty Laundry)
' What Is Really Going On With Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey?'(Hollywood Hiccups)


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MUMBAI: United Phosphorus, a global generic crop protection, chemicals and seeds company, may be given a clean chit by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in the monopolistic pricing of Aluminum Phosphide Tablets (APT) case, say sources.
CCI had levied penalty of Rs 252 crore on the company in April 2012, based on complaints from the Food Corporation of India. The penalty was levied on alleged monopolistic pricing of APT.


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WHEELING - Mother nature has not been kind to the Edgar Martin Beast of the East during its 25th playing.
To start, flash floods washed away five of the tournament's fields based in Moundsville, then on Friday afternoon showers made 28 teams run for their respective dugouts resulting in 16 game cancellations due to poor field conditions.
''Weather's always a problem,'' tournament director Bo McConnaughy said. ''We can't predict what's going to happen. We do a lot of things pretty well here, but we can't control the weather.''
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Photo by Jim Elliott
Moundsville's Ryan Walton dives in safely to third base prior to a tag by Base-A-Ball's Wyatt Back during their game Friday during their Beast of the East game Friday at Monarch Field in Glen Dale. Rain wrecked the rest of the day.
John Marshall, West Liberty and Brooke High lost all of their afternoon and evening contests, while crews at the I-470 fields as well as Patterson Field worked to salvage the grounds in order for teams to get in some playing time.
Still, McConnaughy noted out of 170 scheduled games, 154 were played, which is ''not bad at all'' considering the forecast called for inclement weather during the entirety of the tournament.
''It rained pretty hard, but it only lasted about 15 minutes,'' he said. ''It just came down enough to get the fields wet. Actually, we're pretty fortunate that the fields had dried the last two days because we didn't get the rain they were calling for.''
When the showers do come, it's also hard to tell which areas will be effected.
''Some spots get rain and others don't,'' McConnaughy pointed out. ''It's hit and miss. We don't know where it's going to hit and how much is coming down. All we do is hope we have enough (good weather) to get the games in. That's how baseball is. You roll the dice every day you go and play because you don't know if it's going to rain or not.''
Furthermore, the question remains as to if the weather will hold off long enough for the fields to dry out in time for today's games.
''I don't know what the forecast is and I don't want to look at it,'' McConnaughy admitted. ''I don't want to know what's going to happen because (Thursday) it predicted rain and we didn't get any. It was a beautiful, sunny day and all the fields were dusty. Now they're all moist and damp.
''We'll just have to go with the flow and see what happens. Hopefully, you'll have until about 8 (Friday) evening for the sun to hit (the fields) and the wind and those guys working on it. We're hopeful, but I don't know what's going to happen over night.''


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Looking for a set of decent tri-shoes:
Adidas Tri Sprint
Shimano SH-TR50
Looking for a set of decent tri-shoes:
Adidas Tri Sprint
Shimano SH-TR50
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I own the Shimano, they are good. I didn't try the adidas?
A year from now you'll wish you would've started today.
Go for Sidi's, the fit like a slipper. They are not cheap but man I luv mine.
Another vote for Shimano. I tried the Sidi's but they were too narrow for my feet.
Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you...but don't ever take sides, with anyone, against the family again...ever.
i love my specilized trivents but yeah cheaper than sidis, more expensive than the shimano
I'm female but I love my Sidis - got them on sale too. Sweet deal at Christmas time.
What is the difference with tri-specific shoes? I have a basic $30 pair of shoes with 2 velcro straps but dont really see much difference between my shoes and these ones.
Tri specific shoes usually have a single velcro strap that opens up to the outside of the shoe. It's supposed to make flying bike mounts easier out of T1 where you have the shoes already attached to the pedals and you slip your feet into the shoes as you ride out. Single strap makes for less work to get your foot in and secured and having the strap open backwards means it won't be hitting the bicycle and easier to grab.
my girlfriend has the shimanos and really likes them
I have the sidis and LOVE them
Sidis also have a loop in the back that make them easier to pull on and are made to be worn without socks.
road-Independent Fabrication custom campy record carbon
tri-Independent Fabrication custom Ultegra
fixie-converted nishiki
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My Shimano's fit me like a glove.
Some other differences with tri-specific shoes are added pull tab, 1 or 2 larger Velcro straps and additional ventilation.
Sidis were too narrow for my flat feet, even the megas. Shimano TR50 works great for me. Sidis have a great upper that do fit really well. The Sidi tri shoes are not as well made as the genius though. I'd say the Shimano is built better than the Sidi tri shoes. Shimano upper doesn't fit me as well as the Sidi, but I believe the TR-50 is also one of their heat moldable shoes (haven't found a place to have that done).
I may try on the TR50 at my LBS tomorrow
I'm in the same boat, looking for a tri shoe. I have narrow feet and tend to be hard to fit. The options in my neck of the woods seems to be the Shimano TR-30 and the Garneau Tri Air 2 (both in my entry level price range). Does anyone with a foot on the narrow side use either of these, and how do you like them?
Looking here also. I recently received an e-mail from Pricepoint. Their brand is Sette. On paper it looks like a great price but I can't find much information on them. Nashbar carries Exustar which seems to be in the same boat. (I did a search here and the Exustar threads are a year or two old)
Any information on either of these would be appreciated, however I have come to the conclusion that I'll probably end up with a well known brand with a proven track record. I'll be watching to see how this thread goes since I don't know a lot about these shoes either.
I too, am looking for my first pair of tri shoes...but am having concerns about walkability in them. Since this is my first tri, I really don't want to have to be worried about whether or not I'm going to wipe out exiting the T1 area while walking my bike out. I'm seriously considering wearing my mountain bike shoes for my first tri, just to get a feel for things. I've tried on several pairs of tri shoes including Shimano and Specialized. The Specialized ones had a carbon sole that was like walking on ice...and I imagine the Shimanos probably weren't much different. I'm not sure exactly how far the distance is that I will be required to walk/run with my bike out of the T1 area until the point where we can mount the bike...but I'd rather not make a spectacle of myself by wiping out in the process.
When you come into T2, do the reverse--remove your feet from the shoes as you approach T2, and then run your bike into T2 barefoot, with your shoes still attached to the pedals.
That way, you never have to walk or run in your shoes! Also, this method (arguably) saves you time in T1 and (definitely) saves you time in T2.
In theory...that sounds like a great idea. However, this is my very first triathlon. I'm at the point where I'm just learning how to get comfortable using my clipless pedals, so I seriously doubt that I will be able to finesse the art of jumping onto my bike while simultaneously sliding my feet into my cycling shoes...LOL! I have enough trouble just getting clipped in and moving...let alone trying a stunt such as that. At least not this soon. Perhaps once I gain more knowledge and experience, I'll be able to graduate to something like that. But for now...I think I'll just stick with walking the bike to the mount line. Besides...I have some issues with one of my feet, and running barefoot (or even with socks on) isn't a great idea for me and would likely cause lots of pain.
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WHEELING - The first set was a marathon, and it did take a toll on the young players during the Linlsy-Bridgeport volleyball match Wednesday night on the Linsly campus. The Bulldogs (1-3) had enough energy left in them to take three straight sets after losing the first to secure the victory against the Cadets (0-1), 33-35, 25-19, 25-20, 25-12.
"It was a long match," Bridgeport coach Ron Kelly said. "It was hot, and the girls were fighting the heat. We played well at times which was evident, but overall I thought they played well enough to win, and that's the key to it."
In the first set, the score was 16-12 after Bridgeport hit the ball over to Linsly's side and thought it had a point after the ball hit the air conditioning vent. Linsly was smart as it did not hear a whistle blow and played it out. The Cadets read the ball perfectly and managed to get the point. The set went back and forth as the score was tied several times. In the end, after a marathon volley, Linsly was able to secure the first set, 35-33.
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Photo by Kyle Lutz/Bridgeport's Dakota Dobrzynski (center) sets the ball for a spike during a match against Linsly Wednesday in Wheeling.
"We didn't execute the ball, and we didn't of course attack like we needed to," Kelly said about the first set.
"If anything could go wrong, that is what happened," Cadets coach Michelle Runkle said. "We had someone who had to step up and stay in the whole time, so it kind of threw everybody off. Bridgeport stayed with them the whole time. I can't say anything bad on either side. It just went and went and went."
The next set looked like it was going to be the same way as the score was 18-18, but Bridgeport put up six straight points to gain the second set, 25-19, and were able to take the third (25-20) and fourth set (25-12).
"We are a team that needs to be hitting the ball more, which we do not do that as well," Kelly said. "That is one of the things that we need to work on, and we have been talking about that all year."
According to Kelly, his Bridgeport team is a rather young one as well. It is a rebuilding year for his program, with only four returning lettermen from last year's squad.
In 2013, Linsly won three games, and had no seniors on the team. Even with the loss, the Cadets showed a lot of heart and are determined to have a better season.
"We hope so," Runkle said. "Hopefully some experience can improve this season."
This year, Linsly has four seniors.
With it being the Cadets first game of the season, there was some nerves going into the match, according to Runkle. The Bulldogs already played three prior to Tuesday and had a slight advantage.
"We had our first-game jitters we needed to work out," Runkle said. "We have two freshmen, one sophomore, two juniors, and four seniors. This is the first time they all actually played together in a match. So was it a disadvantage? Yes."
For Bridgeport, Briana Massey had 17 digs, seven kills with six blocks and two aces. Vanessa Stanton led the Bulldogs in digs with 22 while Dakota Dobrzynski had 18 assists.
Miah Runkle led the way for the Cadets in digs as she totaled 14. Cari Ferguson had 16 assists.
Monroe Central
d. St. Clairsville
25-23, 25-14, 18-25, 25-19
WOODFIELD - Taryn Burkhart had 16 points, including two aces, 10 digs and a pair of blocks to lead Monroe Central (3-0) to the victory.
Katelyn Dimmerling added 10 points and 22 assists and Erin Miller eight kills and eight points (three assists) for the Seminoles. Allison Kuhn had 22 assists and Molly Schumacher five blocks.
Courtney Stover had 12 points, and five aces, along with eight assists and Kaley Garloch had seven points and 18 assists. Rebekah Sadlowski had 12 kills for the Red Devils.
Moore Medals for
CAMBRIDGE -Damon Moore carded a 4-over 39 to take medalist honors and lead Meadowbrook to a dual-match victory over Dover.
Meadowbrook, who also had 40s from Trey Singleton and Taylor Gandy, improved to 7-1 in dual matches and 28-13 overall.
Dover was led by Ashton Hall and Alex German with twin 43s.
River Wins Quad
River's Blaze Amos and Isaac Curtis fired 3-over 38s to help lead the Pilots to victory in a quad match at Clair Mar.
Bishop Donahue's Steven Gretchen was the medalist with a 1-over 36, continuing the senior's run of medalist vcitories.
Jarrett Cousby led runner-up Union Local with a 40, while Shadyside was led by Jake Gregan and Nick Ferrell, with 48 each.
Wheeling Central 3
John Marshall 1
WHEELING - Hannah Dieffenbaugher, Cate Calissie and Monica Minor netted goals to lead Wheeling Central victory.
Minor also had an assist in the contest for the Maroon Knights (2-0).
Marissa Tordella recorded the goal for John Marshall.
Steubenville 1, Weir 1
STEUBENVILLE - Steubenville and Weir played to a 1-1 tie Wednesday night at Harding Stadium.
Wednesday's game was the latest hard-fought contest between the two local rivals.
"It was a very intense game," first-year Weir (2-0-1) coach Jim Luevano said. "It was a hard-fought game by both teams.
"Neither team was going to make a mistake on the field. It was a very good game."
Frederico Torres scored for Big Red (1-1-1), and Chayton Luevano netted the goal for Weir. Both goals were unassisted.


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Angela Y. Lee, Dorothy M. Blakeslee, Cedric J. Powell, John R. Rumble, Jr.
Released: January 05, 2006
The first Web-based version of the NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Database (XPSDB) is described. The current database, built from a relational database management system (RDBMS), contains critically evaluated data with over 19,000 line positions, chemical shifts, doublet splittings, and energy separations of photoelectron and Auger-electron lines. It is available free of charge to the public through the Internet at http://srdata.nist.gov/xps/.
Michele Magrane, Rolf Apweiler
SWISS-PROT is a curated, non-redundant protein sequence database which provides a high level of annotation and is integrated with a large number of other biological databases. It is supplemented by TrEMBL, a computer-annotated database which contains translations of all coding sequences in the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database which are not yet in SWISS-PROT. Each fully curated SWISS-PROT entry contains as much up-to-date information as possible from a variety of sources and the high quality of the annotation in SWISS-PROT provides the basis for the procedure which is used to automatically annotate the TrEMBL database. The large amounts of different data types found in both databases are stored in a highly structured and uniform manner and this structured organisation means that SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL together provide a comprehensive resource with data that are readily accessible for users and easily retrievable by computer programs.
Changwon Suh, Arun Rajagopalan, Xiang Li, Krishna Rajan
The relationship between apparently disparate sets of data is a critical component of interpreting materials' behavior, especially in terms of assessing the impact of the microscopic characteristics of materials on their macroscopic or engineering behavior. In this paper we demonstrate the value of principal component analysis of property data associated with high temperature superconductivity to examine the statistical impact of the materials' intrinsic characteristics on high temperature superconducting behavior.
Babara Namyslowska-Wilczynska, Artur Wilczynski
Results applying ordinary kriging and cokriging techniques as well as the turning bands simulation method to the survey of heavy metal pollution of the superficial layer (at the depth of 0-20 cm) of soil in a selected mining region of Upper Silesia (S Poland) are presented. The multivariate structural analysis, estimation and conditional simulation was performed on data coming from the regional monitoring of soils. Based on estimated and the simulated cadmium and zinc heavy metal soil concentrations, the most polluted zones and places in the Dabrowa Górnicza region, where environmental monitoring should be instituted again, were determined.
Adolfo G. Navarro S., A. Townsend Peterson, Alejandro Gordillo-Martínez
The present contribution is a case study of the possibilities of using data from world scientific collections to understand the distribution and conservation of Mexican birds. Information was gathered on specimens from Mexico housed in 40 scientific collections in Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Europe. This information was compiled in a centralized database and various analyses were developed to address historical patterns of ornithological investigations in Mexico: current and potential distribution areas of the species; patterns of species richness, endemism and seasonality; and conservation applications.
Brian McMahon
A recurring theme during the CODATA 2000 conference (Lake Maggiore, Italy, 15 - 19 October 2000) was the increasing convergence in data-rich branches of science between the storage and retrieval of data and the publication of conclusions drawn from the data. Web publishing technologies facilitate access to publications and data through the same interfaces and tools. For crystallography, the ability to deliver the experimental data alongside the research commentary offers tremendous advantages. A structured file format has been developed that allows not only submission of a research article accompanied by a complete supporting data set, but also automated validation of the description of the crystal structure reported in the article against the accompanying data. Such validation is an important component of the review process, and encourages better-quality publications. The adopted format is different from XML, but shares some of the properties of that markup language; and suggests the improvements in quality that might result in other subject areas from the adoption of similar methodology. The International Union of Crystallographyfully exploits the convergence of publishing and data-handling technologies in its online journals and associated Web site.
Fabio Grandi
In this paper we survey the recent activities and achievements of our research group in the deployment of XMLrelated technologies in Cultural Heritage applications concerning the encoding of temporal semantics in Web documents. In particular we will review "The Valid Web", which is an XML/XSL infrastructure we defined and implemented for the definition and management of historical information within multimedia documents available on the Web, and its further extension to the effective encoding of advanced temporal features like indeterminacy, multiple granularities and calendars, enabling an efficient processing in a user-friendly Web-based environment. Potential uses of the developed infrastructures include a broad range of applications in the cultural heritage domain, where the historical perspective is relevant, with potentially positive impacts on E-Education and E-Science.
Peter Murray-Rust, Henry S. Rzepa
Recent developments on the World-Wide Web provide an unparalleled opportunity to revolutionise scientific, technical and medical publication. The technology exists for the scientific world to use primary publication to create a knowledge base, or Semantic Web, with a potential greatly beyond the paper archives and electronic databases of today.
M Pintore, K Audouze, F Ros, JR Chrétien
A data set of 412 olfactory compounds, divided into animal, camphoraceous, ethereal and fatty olfaction classes, was submitted to an analysis by a Fuzzy Logic procedure called Adaptive Fuzzy Partition (AFP).This method aims to establish molecular descriptor/chemical activity relationships by dynamically dividing the descriptor space into a set of fuzzily partitioned subspaces. The ability of these AFP models to classify the four olfactory notes was validated after dividing the data set compounds into training and test sets, including 310 and 102 molecules, respectively. The main olfactory note was correctly predicted for 83 % of the test set compounds.
F Murtagh, M Louys, J.L. Starck, F Bonnarel
A review of issues in image compression is presented, with a strong focus on the wavelet transform and other closely related multiresolution transforms. The roles of information content, resolution scale, and image capture noise, are discussed. Experimental and practical results are reviewed.
STMML is an XML-based markup language covering many generic aspects of scientific information. It has been developed as a re-usable core for more specific markup languages. It supports data structures, data types, metadata, scientific units and some basic components of scientific narrative. The central means of adding semantic information is through dictionaries. The specification is through an XML Schema which can be used to validate STMML documents or fragments. Many examples of the language are given.
Oliver Curé
This paper proposes an overview of the IMSA application, a patient-oriented medical information system. IMSA stands for Interactive Multimedia System for Auto-medication and aims to provide a health-care Internet tool for the end-user. This system proposes an environment that integrates on-line health information, medical and pharmaceutical databases and a knowledge-based system for medical diagnosis. The implementation process focuses on cognitive science, knowledge representation and human-computer interaction.
Lionello Pogliani
Modeling of the solubility of amino acids and purine and pyrimidine bases with a set of sixteen molecular descriptors has been thoroughly analyzed to detect and understand the reasons for anomalies in the description of this property for these two classes of compounds. Unsatisfactory modeling can be ascribed to incomplete collateral data, i.e, to the fact that there is insufficient data known about the behavior of these compounds in solution. This is usually because intermolecular forces cannot be modeled. The anomalous modeling can be detected from the rather large values of the standard deviation of the estimates of the whole set of compounds, and from the unsatisfactory modeling of some of the subsets of these compounds. Thus the detected abnormalities can be used (i) to get an idea about weak intermolecular interactions such as hydration, self-association, the hydrogen-bond phenomena in solution, and (ii) to reshape the molecular descriptors with the introduction of parameters that allow better modeling. This last procedure should be used with care, bearing in mind that the solubility phenomena is rather complex.
T Kunisawa
Complete genomic sequence data are stored in the public GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ databases so that any investigator can make use of the data. This report describes a comparative analysis of codon usage that is impossible without such a public and open data system. A limited number of bacteriophages harbor their own transfer RNAs. Based on a comparison between T4 phage-encoded tRNA species and the relative cellular amounts of host Escherichia coli tRNAs, it is hypothesized that T4 tRNAs could serve to supplement host isoacceptor tRNA species that are present in minor amounts and thus enhance the translational efficiency of phage proteins. When compared to their respective host bacteria, the codon usage data of bacteriophages D3, φC31, HP1, D29 and 933W all show an increased frequency of synonymous codons or amino acids that correspond to phage tRNA species, suggesting their supplemental role in the efficient production of phage proteins. The data-analysis presents an example in which the availability of an open and fully accessible database system would allow one to obtain comprehensive insights into a fundamental problem in molecular biology.
Satoru Miyazaki, Hideaki Sugawara
The WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM) was set up more than 30 years ago as a data center of the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC). It published the World Directory of Collections of Cultures of Microorganisms when it was established and now provides a portal site for microbial resource centers and their customers by fully utilizing Internet technology. This paper introduces international initiatives on biological resources centers together with the activities of WDCM.
Li Zehui
China's Natural Resources Database (CNRD) is a comprehensive database, developed to support the research on natural resources, social sustainable development and environmental security in China. This paper intends to introduce the background, contents, characteristics and application of the CNRD.
Enrique Canessa, Carlo Fonda, Sandro M. Radicella
We present an overview of the VL approach to promote research and education in developing countries and to help reduce the technology gap of the digital divide. We discuss software tools for instrument control, data sharing and e-collaboration and communications with special attention to low-bandwidth networks. We analyse the tentative costs involved in VL and the skills needed for VL administration. We conclude by identifying some VL strategies for development.
A.F. Cutting-Decelle, A.M. Dubois, J.E. Dubois
This paper presents the SYDOX/MATCOMP/Xi project, funded by the French Ministry of Industry. The goal of the project was to provide the construction professionals with an on-line aid for component specification and selection at different levels of the construction life cycle. This two years project started in 1997 and involved several partners. This paper describes the main features of the information system: databases, query and communication systems. SYDOX(SYstème de DOnnées compleXes) is aimed at defining and demonstrating a prototype to access information about MATerials and COMPonents used in construction, implemented on a WWW server. Though the objective is general, the work was focused on a restricted sub-section of the construction domain. We describe the domain and the scope of the project, the starting point and the lessons learnt from the development of the prototype. We also propose some important ideas on which this research is based.
K Nakata, T Takai-Igarashi, T Nakano, T Kaminuma
Various receptor data were collected, edited and integrated into an Integrated Receptor Database (IRDB). The data stored includes structural data (amino acid sequences, their secondary-structure and three-dimensional structure), functional data, binding affinity, cell signaling data etc. The purpose of this database is to allow structural biologists, drug designers and toxicologists to analyse and elucidate receptor-ligand dockings and the resultant post-binding signal transduction pathways. IRDB is available on line (http://impact.nihs.go.jp/RDB.html)
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Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2012 R3 update for the U.S. versions of QuickBooks. Here is an overview of what the update contains. There is an extensive list of changes, which is not unusual with the R3 release of any version of QuickBooks. Some are bug fixes, some are enhancements, and there is at least one new "feature".
I've been able to test some of these changes, but certainly not all. Also note that I was looking at a pre-release of R3 for most of my evaluations, and sometimes Intuit changes things (or drops them) at the last moment, so my apologies if I mention something here that you can't find (if that happens, ask me about it!). There are a LOT OF CHANGES here, I hope that I got them all!
At the time I'm writing this, the release is available as a manual update from the Intuit support web site. If all goes well with the manual update you can expect this to go out as an automatic update in about a week.
Note that there is a "file conversion" when you open a file that used the R1 release. No big deal, I just want to mention it. I assume that this means that you can't go back to an R1 release from R3 (I didn't try it), but I don't see a reason why you would want to.
Updated 10/20/2011 to add information.
Updated 10/25.2011 to correct some information on the Calendar feature.
Some Bugs Of Note
I'm going to mention a few special issues that were fixed – this is not all, it is the ones that have some impact on R1 users.
- Changing the sale price or cost of one item, then viewing another item, no longer changes the price of the second item. Big, big problem, glad they fixed it.
- The 1603 error, which I believe usually was an issue when converting files (sorry, don't recall the details), is fixed. This started in QuickBooks 2011 R8 (when will they fix it THERE?).
- This release fixes the problem where you would see "Another user has made changes to this invoice or a transaction that is linked to it", which was driving a bunch of people crazy because it happened randomly when nobody else was making changes.
- Lot Tracking: There was a big bug in R1 where you could not enter a quantity in a transaction that was greater than 999 if you used lot tracking. This has been fixed!
Accountant Related
- Client Data Review: QuickBooks should no longer crash if you apply a credit memo to a credit card charge in the Client Data Review.
- Accountant's Copy: You should no longer get a Runtime Check Failed error when special characters are in some of the transactions, when doing a View Changes.
- Changing the quantity on checks linked to a purchase order will now save correctly. Before this the transaction was not saving the changed quantity.
- In the Item List, if you had filters for active inventory and assembly enabled, you would get a no data to print message when trying to print the list. This is fixed.
- If you edit an item that existed in a prior version of QuickBooks, the edit item window will no longer show a zero value for the markup price or percentage.
- The markup percentage will now show two numbers past the decimal.
- In Enterprise there is an Inventory menu, and it has options for New Inventory Item and New Assembly Item. In R1 these options would open a generic Add Item window. In R3 these options will now open the appropriate item window for the item type chosen.
- The Inventory Activities option is removed from the Inventory menu (Enterprise), it is replaced by the individual inventory options.
- There are a couple of nomenclature/labeling fixes at various places.
- You will no longer need to click the Build & Close button twice to save an assembly build.
- The Notes area in the Inventory Center is no longer hidden by the Transaction History.
- The Change Item Prices Mark All behavior has been improved. I don't know what that means, exactly, but it must be good?
- The Inventory Center will now display assembly transactions even when an item filter is used.
- The Inventory Item QuickReport will now use the correct unit of measure.
Advanced Inventory
This is an additional-fee feature available only in Enterprise. There were a LOT of new features this year, some that were very complex, so I'm not surprised that there are a number of bug fixes here.
- The Inventory Center will now show the correct information for the selected site if the results are showing information from that one site.
- QuickBooks will no longer close unexpectedly when creating duplicate transfers from saved transactions.
- "Turn On Advanced Inventory" will no longer display in the Inventory menu when it has been activated.
- Test Data: The sample Advanced Inventory.qbw file will no longer fail on verification.
- You don't have to close open transactions or reports when you enable FIFO costing.
Lot and Serial Number Tracking
- Serial and Lot Number Reports will no longer include items without serial or lot numbers (this should cut down on the size of reports). In addition, these reports are now accessible from the Report Center.
- Pressing the Return key after selecting "Add Multiple" or "QuickView Serial Numbers" will now open a window to select serial numbers.
- If you use the add multiple serial number option to add a large number of serial numbers, QuickBooks will no longer close unexpectedly.
- When viewing PDF forms the Serial Numbers column will no longer display, the contents will display in the description column.
- When there are no serial numbers present for an item, the Select All button will be disabled from the serial number dropdown.
- QuickBooks will now inform you when you use invalid characters in serial numbers.
- You cannot edit and save transactions with lot numbers with negative quantities.
- The Transaction List by Serial Number and Transaction List by Lot Number reports will no display the correct signs when referring to an increase and decrease in quantities.
- Duplicate Serial Numbers are no longer visible in the Qty on Hand Serial Number QuickView when opened from the Inventory Center.
- If you delete lines items in Serial or Lot Number Adjustments they will no longer display when saving the transaction.
- The Lot Number by Site report will now open in the sample company file.
- The Transaction List by Serial Number report will no longer display the modified filters when clicking the Cancel button (before, it made you think that you were saving the report filters).
- Warnings for blank serial or lot numbers now work correctly based on the preferences set for the company file.
- If you build an assembly and you have Serial Numbers enabled, but sites NOT enabled, you couldn't enter a serial number for the assembly in R1. This is fixed in R3.
- If you build an assembly with serial numbers enabled, and you don't enter a serial number for the components, you only get ONE warning now, rather than a separate warning for each component part like you did in R1.
Enhanced inventory Receiving
- Enabling this feature will no longer close QuickBooks (that didn't happen to me, so I'm not sure what was going on here). Instead, it will close all open windows, which is appropriate.
- Bill Credit fields are now editable when switching between Bill and Bill Credit when Enhanced Inventory Receiving is enabled.
- The "Select PO/Item Receipts" button in the Enter Bills form now says "Select Related Transactions" when using Enhanced Inventory Receiving.
- Purchase Orders: You can now bill more than you ordered after changing the quantity on purchase orders.
- "Multiple" is no longer shown as an option when you add additional lines to an existing bill with a reference number.
- Purchase orders received in full with negative quantity line items will now convert correctly.
Doc Center
There should be a number of small "user experience" improvements here, but I don't have a list at this time.
- The Doc Center support for TWAIN compliant scanners has been improved (wish they supported Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners!!!).
- If a user has view only permission that user can no longer delete attached documents (through the QuickBooks user interface, that is).
- There are some fixes relating to problems with attached documents when upgrading from QuickBooks 2011 to 2012.
- Performance in the Doc Center was improved when you have a large number of documents.
Send Reports to Excel
- There were some problems with saving formatting that have been resolved.
- Column headers will no longer shift when you re-send a report to Excel. Also, if you change a column heading in Excel, that change is preserved.
- If you send a report to an existing workbook you can now use the Select Sheet dropdown.
- Additional formatting features are now saved, including fill color, font color, percent, currency symbol and border lines.
- If you have a Quickbooks 2011 report in Excel and it is updated for the first time by a send from QuickBooks 2012 you will get a message saying that this is the first time.
- If you are exporting a list to Excel and you choose CSV, after selecting "existing workbook", you will no longer be prompted to specify the file.
- When exporting a report to Excel the program will remember the Excel file name you used the last time, based on the company file, for this same report.
- Excel will no longer crash when you export a report when the Office Live Plugin is installed.
- Reports saved in Excel will now retain custom column widths the first time the report is used in Excel.
- This release fixes an issue that caused year to date transactions to not show in the Calendar view.
- There was a problem with Batch time sheet updates that affected move than the selected employees. It has been fixed.
- Sick and Vacation hours can now be entered with a negative value.
- Editing a pending paycheck will now correctly update Sick and Vacation balances.
- The normal QuickBooks keyboard shortcuts for selecting dates have been added to the Calendar feature.
- Invoices with Pending Status will no longer show in the Calendar.
- Vehicle Mileage Transactions, timesheets and YTD adjustments will now show on the Calendar (10/25/2011).
- You can now create a To Do from the Calendar Daily View. A green "plus" symbol was added to the upper right corner in that view.
- The status of a Bill will now show "Paid" or "Unpaid" in the Calendar, rather than "Open" or "Closed".
- The Calendar will now show both past due and upcoming items (10/25/2011).
- A Calendar Preference has been added, to let you control some features.
Lead Center
Several improvements here, which isn't surprising as it was a new, new feature.
In the R1 release, in the lead center, on the To Do List tab, you had a button at the bottom to Add To Do. Now we have two menu buttons, To Do and Reports. With To Do, you can now edit or delete the To Do from this point, which is helpful. This feature is ALSO added to the To Do List window.
For reports, there is only one report here.
Up at the top of the Lead Center screen there is an Excel button that gives you several Excel exports that you may find useful.
Right click on a lead in the Lead Center list, and you get a popup menu (wasn't there in R1), and there are a number of options.
BIG IMPROVEMENT: I complained about this in my original article on the Lead Center, and now it is fixed! If you convert a Lead to be a Customer, your notes convert to the customer. Very helpful fix.
- 1099 Forms: If you add data to the 1099 Vendor screen you will no longer see "unnecessary characters" added to the address.
- Also, for 1099's, there is a BIG change to the format of the Print/E-File 1099 menu option. In R1 it was a bit of a clunky user interface. Click a button and get a report window, click a button and get the preferences window, click another button get another report, kind of clunky. Now we have a "wizard" that leads us through the steps in a more user-friendly (and visually attractive) process. I didn't spend a lot of time with this, so I can't really give a full opinion on how the process worked, but I think this is a nice improvement.
- The QuickBooks backup counter will now reset when a backup is created, which prevents the backup reminder from displaying when a backup was just created (this has been a problem for awhile, it is not just a 2012 problem).
- There have been some changes to the To Do List. If you add a new To Do from the Calendar, or from the To Do List itself, you now have more options. Before we didn't have the "With" feature that lets you select a customer, etc., but now you do. In addition, the time portion of the date/time setting is optional, you can un check the "time" box. There are also options to edit and delete To Do's, as I describe above in the Lead Center.
- Tax forms and auto-archived PDF tax forms will not be included in the QuickBooks backup.
- Asset accounts added during Express Start will now be available in the Chart of Accounts.
- The option to delete transactions created by condensing the company file is now only available in QuickBooks Accountant and Enterprise Solutions.
- Condense can remove time and mileage activities outside the dates set during the Condense Data wizard.
- There were several options available only to users of Enterprise Accountant – they are now available to all editions of Enterprise. I'm not sure which options at this time.
- QuickBooks no longer warns that Budget data may be removed at the beginning of the Condense Data process.
- A report of transactions that could not be removed by condense is now available to QuickBooks Accountant and Enterprise users.
- New company files sometimes had a problem where they could not "verify". This is resolved.
- There are a couple of fixes in the Help system, correcting information as well as adding back and forward buttons.
- If you add a new Sales Tax Group you can see the Make this item inactive check box – it used to be hidden a bit.
- Mileage rates have been updated.
- A problem with a change in the Company name not being reflected in the Send Invoice view (PDF) has been resolved.
- If you launch memorized reports from the Reports Center instead of the Reports menu they will no longer have an extra Date filter added.
- There are performance improvements for the Shared Reports feature.
- The T5018 Canada sales tax report is no longer shown in the U.S. versions.
- A new Find Report permission is available. This allows you to restrict a user from viewing or printing results from the Find menu. There are several improvements here.
- Mozilla Thunderbird should now be an option when setting up email integration. I didn't see this, but it might be that it only shows up if you have it installed? I could be wrong on this one, sorry.
- There are some fixes for passwords when sending a reports using QuickBooks web mail.
- There are several improvements in the Report Center for showing categories, and the favorites menu.
- "Sent" invoices will no longer show in the list of invoices to send in the forms using the File/Send Forms function.
- A user can be switched between the Pro or Premier product to a Pro Plus or Premier Plus subscription model just by calling Intuit, rather than having to uninstall and reinstall the program.
- The Online Payments option (Intuit PaymentNetwork) has been improved so that you can turn off the links for all unsent invoices that have already been created when the option was on. You also lose the links in invoices that you resend, if they had them before. In addition, there are some changes to the text in the email that goes out if you DO use this feature.
According to Alex Hood, Group Product Manager for QuickBooks Desktop, their goal has been to try to reduce the in product advertising that has been in QuickBooks. There have been lots of complaints about that issue over the past year or so. With the R3 release of QB 2012 Alex estimates that they have reduced this kind of advertising by 80%.
QuickBooks Easy Saver
This is a feature that was seen in some of the early test versions of QuickBooks that was pulled from the R1 release. It's baaaaaccck! With improvements and fixes.
A few things to note:
- You might not see this because they are rolling this out as a pilot program, so only a subset of the 2012 R3 users will see this.
- I hope to have a more detailed article on this in the next week or so – because the R3 beta test didn't have all features activated. If I took screen shots from the pre release they will most likely change on the official release date.
- This is an OPTIONAL feature that you can turn off, and there is no cost to you.
EasySaver is a new feature where Intuit will negotiate discounts with select vendors (since they can offer the "combined purchasing power of millions of QuickBooks customers"). The program then examines your previous purchases and then makes recommendations that might save you money.
You can add items to a "shopping cart", and then make your purchases through your account in the Intuit AppCenter.
More on this in a future article.
Wait, What About the R2 Release?
We just had the R1 release, now we have the R3 release, did we miss R2? Well, not really. I believe that Intuit reserves the "R2" release designation in case there is a really, really bad problem in R1 that has to be fixed right away. An R2 release would have just the fix for the major bug that destroys files (or something like that) and they don't want to get it mixed up with the first "regular" update. So, if you see an R2 update, you know that it is really, really urgent. If we go directly from R1 to R3, all is normal.
Are There Still Bugs?
Yes, the R3 release doesn't fix all of the bugs we know about. Will they be fixed in R4? Will there BE an R4? When would it come out? Well, I am not allowed to say anything about this in advance, all I can say is "keep your eyes here" and I'll let you know as soon as something comes out.
I don't have a comprehensive list of all the bugs in QuickBooks, specific to 2012 or bugs that are older. Too many to catalog and track! I do know that there is a problem with the Lot Tracking feature of Enterprise 12 where you can't enter a quantity in a lot that is greater that 999. That isn't fixed in R3, but Intuit is aware of it. Correction – this IS fixed in R3. That was a last minute correction. Great!


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I attended a new musical reading recently where I had the great pleasure of meeting the show's unlikely writers. You may have heard of them – Stephen King and John Mellencamp. First of all, congrats to these incredibly talented artists for taking a stab (pun intended) at musical theater with their new show Ghost Brothers […]
Were you bitten by the musical theater "fame monster?"
November 7, 2012
Inspiration from an Icon: Legendary Lyricist, Don Black
October 31, 2011
I had the great pleasure of having dinner recently with the legendary British lyricist, Don Black. Besides being known for some of musical theater's most eloquent and memorable lyrics in shows ranging from Sunset Boulevard and Tell Me On a Sunday to Bombay Dreams and Bonnie and Clyde, he's also responsible for 100's of pop […]
The Collaborative Art of Musicals: How to get on the same page
March 16, 2011
Spending secluded weeks in the woods up at Running Deer Musical Theater Lab with musical writing teams, gives me a unique perspective on the inner workings of show creation. Believe me, I hear it all – the moments of brilliance and the inevitable conflicts.


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Promises to Keep
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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Jay is a teenage witch vampire hunter who doesn't really fit in with the other witches. Jay has a sidekick Lynx which he can talk to also. It could be because he has a habit of befriending vampires and even donating himself as a snack – a major death sentence should the witches find out. Acting alone, he decides to attend the Heathen Holiday Bash, held by Kendra the vampire empress, and before the night is out he is coming to the aid of two unsuspecting people that his kind shouldn't be mingling with, a vampire with mental issues and a shapeshifter just lying on the forest floor. Being Jay, he just has to involve himself, but will this time cost him his life?
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385741928, Hardcover)The compendium of creations (SingleEarth, the Bruja guilds, the Midnight empire) intertwine in an exciting, unsettling plot featuring happenings both accidental and deliberate that will forever change the alternate landscape inhabited by vampires, Tristes, shapeshifters et al. It all begins with a wrong turn and a crashed party, and from there it's an epic clash of elements and the promise of more chaos still to come. At the center of the storm is Jay, a young vampire hunter that no one would ever have predicted might be earth's best bet to thwart the rise of a vampire-controlled slave empire called Midnight. Teens will find themselves drawn to Jay, who struggles to prove his worth even while he has his own fears that those who have written him off may be right to do so.
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No. 17 Missouri Downs Tech, 8-0
April 9, 2005
LUBBOCK, Texas - Missouri sophomore catcher Kathy Masterson went 2 for 3 at the plate with three RBI to help lead the Tigers to a 8-0 win over Tech in six innings at Rocky Johnson Field Sat. afternoon. The Red Raiders are now 22-12 on the season and 2-3 in Big 12 as Missouri advances to 30-6 overall and 4-3 in conference.
Both teams went scoreless till the third inning when Missouri scored three runs. Sophomore Leanne Bowers hit a homerun to left center scoring sophomore Sarah Stringer who walked. The third run was scored when red-shirt freshman Micaela Minner as she reached on an error by first baseman Jennifer Corkin and junior Jessica Roening was able to score on the play.
The Tigers advanced the score to 6-0 in the fifth inning as they posted three more runs. Masterson tripled down the left field line scoring freshman Jen Bruck and Amy Henke and then Masterson scored on the throw. They scored their two final runs in the sixth inning as Minner hit a homerun to right center scoring Roening.
The Red Raiders got their first two hits in the fourth inning from lead-off hitter sophomore Ashley Parker as she placed the ball right over shortstop and by senior Natalie Enderlin as she dropped the ball right behind the pitcher. Sophomore Brandy Moulin got a hit in the fifth inning as she singled to shortstop and sophomore Natalie Kula got Tech's fourth hit in the sixth inning as she laid a bunt down right in front of the plate.
Junior Erin Crawford started in the circle for the Red Raiders as she pitched three innings with one strikeout and one walk. Crawford gave up three hits and three runs and received the loss for Tech making her record 13-6. Freshman Sarah Losleben pitched 1.2 innings of relief with two hits, three runs, five walks and two strikeouts. Senior Keely Tucker closed the game for Tech with 1.1 innings pitched, two hits, two runs and two strikeouts.
The Red Raiders will look to split the series with Missouri at 1 p.m., Sun., April 10 at Rocky Johnson Field.


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On a humid August day in Rio de Janeiro, USC Dornsife alumna Dawn Powell boarded an un-air-conditioned bus bound for Luís Eduardo Magalhães, an agribusiness town in western Bahia. An hour into the trip, the Fulbright scholar stood on the roadside in heels and business casual attire watching the bus driver patiently negotiate with a group of protesters blocking the road.
Knowing she would now be late for her appointment with government officials, the San Diego, Calif., native took a deep breath and did what Brazilians would do in this situation — she practiced the jeitinho, a street-smart method of social navigation that comes from a Brazilian expression meaning "find a way." It means using one's charms to circumvent an obstacle. Powell calmly called the government official who was waiting for her and in fluent Portuguese asked to push back their meeting. He agreed.
"I used to get stressed out and then I observed how the Brazilians don't yell, they don't get upset, they just smile and talk their way through difficult situations," said Powell who graduated from USC Dornsife in 2010 with a bachelor's in international relations and minor in Spanish.
The interview was part of Powell's year-long investigation into how Sino-Brazilian economic relations affect Brazil's development. Using information gleaned from interviews with economists, academic and trade experts, researching scholarly publications and Brazilian newspapers, attending conferences on the topic, and talking to people in the community, Powell concludes that Brazil must re-examine its current views toward China.
"Brazil is blaming China for Brazil's own problems on competiveness, which isn't going to get them anywhere," said Powell, who hopes to have her findings published by next year.
"Brazil needs to learn how to adapt to its changing global economic environment. Brazil has many problems such as a weak infrastructure, and the cost of doing business here is very high. The country would be better off trying to chip away at its own problems and doing a self-evaluation rather than putting up protectionist barriers against China."
In 2009, China surpassed the United States as Brazil's largest trading partner, a position the United States had held since the 1930s. As the Brazilian economy continues to expand, trade between the largest South American economy and China has increased by 58 percent since 2009, bringing the total flow of commerce between the two nations to $56 billion in 2010, according to the BBC.
Tensions in Brazil have grown in recent years over this new relationship. As Chinese-made consumer goods flood the Brazilian market at growing levels, Brazil's exports to China remain overwhelmingly comprised of commodities. The increase in consumer goods imports from China preventing the creation of 46,000 manufacturing jobs in Brazil is one major concern, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Powell has concluded that domestic interest groups in Brazil are pressuring the Brazilian government to embrace a more protectionist policy towards China. This decline in the Sino-Brazilian relationship is problematic because Brazil must leverage opportunities extended by Chinese investment and trade relations to further its own development. Based in Rio de Janeiro, Powell's Fulbright year ends Nov. 30.
"Dawn is absolutely flourishing as a Fulbright," said Carol Wise, associate professor of international relations, who traveled to Brazil in June 2011 jointly interviewing top economists and former ambassadors with Powell. "She is on her own and doing really well in terms of developing her own research style and skills."
In October, Powell's case study about Chinese investments in the Brazilian soy industry was published online in the Financial Times. She wrote the article after interviewing Chinese soy investors in Barreiras, a city located in the western region of the state of Bahia. Many Brazilian news outlets publish stories about China's move to buy farmland in Brazil to grow soybeans and maize, but Powell was the first researcher to actually visit the site of the soy complex proposed by Chinese investors, those she interviewed told her.
"Visiting the soy complex site was very important for my research," Powell said. "I found out so many interesting details about the roadblocks the Chinese encounter when trying to invest in Brazil. However, I learned that on a state level, Brazil is trying to attract investments from China, which presents a sharp contrast to the fear of Chinese competition on a national level."
After interviewing Jairo Vaz, Bahia's superintendent of agribusiness who is based in Salvador, Powell learned of the state's interest in attracting investments from China by giving China the land for a soy oil processing plant. The mayor of Barreiras negotiated with a local landowner and business to donate the land required for the construction of the plant, according to Powell.
Powell also interviewed businesspeople, trade experts in the region and community members to get their opinions on the China-Brazil trade and investment policy.
She notes that in August 2010 Brazil signed off on changes to its trade and investment law to make it harder for foreigners to buy farmland in Brazil. But the changes scared away U.S. and European investors in cellulose and agribusiness that Brazil now says it wants to attract, Powell said.
Another change to the law under discussion would specifically ban Chinese investors from buying any land in Brazil, which could have negative consequences for China-Brazil relations, Powell said.
Post-Fulbright, Powell plans to return to Rio to begin work at a private equity firm. She hopes her hands-on international business experience will prepare her to pursue a graduate degree in business and eventually work in microfinance, international development or social enterprise.
"I definitely want to make a difference, but I want to do it in a smart kind of way," Powell said. "Hopefully with some business acumen I'll be able to create social change on a greater scale and in a sustainable way."


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Ok, first off, I have to say that I'm so happy I found Wilbur. Knowing that what I'm trying to do is even possible has been like Christmas every day since I started working on this project again!
So there's a long way to go, but I thought I'd share what I've learned so far.
I had two methods for creating my map. I could have hand drawn a heightmap, and brought it into Wilbur and gotten pretty good results. I should never have looked at NASA's heightmap of the earth. It was super detailed, and I could zoom right in and look at all the flowing, sweeping land forms, and I really didn't think I could get such diversity in Wilbur.
So, I went on impulse and made my heightmap from bits of Earth, overlapped them, warped, skewed, flipped, rotated them until it looked different enough.
(just a test, still exciting)
But it wasn't really Pern, it was Earth and that was bugging me.
So I blurred it and got something like this...
Then in Wilbur generated something like this,
Not bad, but I decided to keep the detail and made this from a non-blurred piece,
I'm excited about this stage because it's really become it's own planet. Any parts that looked hodge-podge are fully merged. Still playing with different techniques to get the size of mountains and rivers I want though. Lots of trial and error.
I plan to overlap these, and use some pieces from each to make the final version. I'm going to do the oceans separately and overlay it. To make the mountains and sea level areas more dynamic, I may use curves to select only certain ranges in Photoshop to darken them or lighten the grayscale heightmaps. Then I can bring it all into Wilbur one more time and raise lower a little more. Hold on to your butts!


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Elmhurst , Ill. — The Wheaton Thunder football team defeated Gustavus Adolphus 42-21 in the first game of the 2004 season for both teams. Wheaton starts the year with a 1-0 record and extends its school-record regular season winning streak to 20 with the victory. Wheaton will host Greenville College next Saturday afternoon at 1 PM, while Gustavus Adolphus (0-1) will host Hamline on Saturday.
Wheaton tailback Garrett Granberg ran for a career-high 190 yards on 21 carries and scored two touchdowns to pace the Thunder offense. Senior tailback Mark Hamstra carried the ball 10 times for 76 yards. Freshman quarterback Jeremy Chupp completed 25 of his 34 passing attempts for 231 yards with three touchdown tosses and one interception. Senior Brad Musso caught 13 passes for 138 yards with one touchdown grab, while fellow senior receiver Colin Sinclair made eight receptions for 54 yards with two catches in the end zone for touchdowns. Junior placekicker Andrew Day connected on field goal attempts of 28 and 30 yards.
Tailback Drew Stifter led the Golden Gusties' offense with 78 rushing yards and one touchdown run, also adding a team-high of 55 receiving yards on four catches. Quarterback A.J. Bouquet started the game for the Gusties with nine completions on 15 passing attempts for 115 yards, while Jordan Stolp saw considerable time under center with five completions on 13 attempts for 88 yards with one touchdown.
Junior safety Muhammad Weusi made a team-high eight total tackles to lead the Thunder defense. Linebackers Jeff Grandy and Jared Heckendorn each made six total tackles, as did senior cornerback Caleb Walters . Heckendorn and senior defensive end Tim Cryer each made a team-high 1-1/2 tackles for lost yardage, as Cryer also collected five total tackles.
Defensive back Wade Wietgrefe led the Golden Gusties' defense with 12 tackles and a team-high two tackles for lost yardage and two pass deflections. Defensive back Tyler Rinquist made 12 tackles and forced two fumbles for the guests. Senior linebacker Isaac Sieling made 11 total tackles and Brian Evans collected seven tackles with one for lost yardage.
Wheaton amassed 549 yards of total offense with 318 rushing yards and 231 passing yards. The Thunder averaged 7.1 yards per play on the day. The Golden Gusties totaled 318 yards of offense with 203 passing yards and 115 rushing yards.
The two teams battled back and forth for much of the game, as Wheaton started the scoring when Granberg broke free for a 42-yard touchdown run with 4:32 to play in the first quarter to give Wheaton a 7-0 lead. Gustavus Adolphus tied the game at 7-7 with 14:05 to play in the second quarter when Sifter scored on an 18-yard touchdown run. Musso scored on a 22-yard touchdown reception from Chupp with 11:35 to play in the second quarter to help Wheaton regain the lead 14-7. The Golden Gusties tied the game at 14-14 with 9:26 to play in the first half when Sean Smith caught a 14-yard touchdown pass from Stolp. The Thunder took the lead for good when Sinclair caught an 11-yard fade pass in the end zone from Chupp to give the hosts a 21-14 lead with 5:05 left in the first half. Wheaton took a 24-14 advantage into halftime thanks to a 28-yard field goal by Day as the first half ended.
Gustavus Adolphus cut into Wheaton's lead when Bouquet scored on a five-yard touchdown run with 9:27 left in the third quarter for a 24-21 Wheaton lead. The Thunder advantage increased to 27-21 with 1:41 left in the third quarter when Day connected on a 30-yard field goal attempt. With 10:37 left in the game Sinclair caught a two-yard touchdown pass from Chupp and the duo connected on the ensuing two-point conversion to increase Wheaton's lead to 35-21. Granberg secured the win for the Thunder with a 16-yard touchdown run as 4:57 remained in the game to insure the 42-21 final advantage for Wheaton. (Story courtesy of Brett Marhanka, Wheaton Sports Information Director)


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OK I need some advice from some experience zephyr II builders. I've studied the various blogs here and youtube builds but I want to see the best way to position all the equipment and I guess every build is a bit unique so here are my details. I will paint it yellow and then laminate it.
Here's what I need to put in but the question is where is the best placement?
APM1 with mag and gps and airspeed sensor.
Ritewing Zephyr II came with 150gr 1300 kv motor 60A esc
came with plastic gopro mount. I would prefer the wood case I saw at blacksheep but this will do for now.
I will use the gopro with this RMRC-600XV 600TVL WDR CCD (NTSC)
ImmersionRC 600mW 5.8GHz A/V Transmitter with 5.8 GHz Bluebeam Whip Antenna Set (RHCP)
EZUHF 8 Channel Diversity Receiver
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2 of Turnigy nano-tech 3300mah 4S 35~70C Lipo Pack
Remzibi OSD with it's own GPS
Turnigy Voltage Protector 550000uf (1.4sec) (for BEC 5v line)
So my questions are:
Where to best position for the equipment?? If I embed anything in the wing, I want to be able to see the equipment from the top of the wing for status lights and maybe use a clear hinged cover for protection or just use the laminate and cut if off when necessary. Also will have to consider cooling for the components that get hot like the OSD, ESC, BEC.
I think it's impossible to use the battery bay in the center because I will need that space for the APM or can I put the APM embedded in the wing with a clear cover? Does it need to be over the COG or can it be to the side. Is the Zephyr more stable with the batteries in the front like I have in the picture?
I think I prefer the idea of mounting the batteries on the front. This gives me the center battery bay for APM, BEC and maybe Remzibi OSD. I will gorilla glue down a piece of 3mm plywood to help reinforce the center or can I use similar thickness balsa to save weight? I hear this is the weak point in the zephyr II according to blacksheep and I don't have their battery box.
Do I need to have a cooling channel for these two center compartments? The ESC will go by itself in the back compartment.
Or can I put the APM to the side of the battery compartment and use the original battery compartment for the batteries. Does the APM need to be near the center?
Do I need to mount the ezUHF receiver out near the wing tip. I'm going to be dealing with 900MHz xBee, 400Mhz UHF, 2 x GPS, 5.8GHz video. I think what is going to have the most bulky cable is the ezUHF depending on how many channels I will use. If I can just use the signal wires and one power connection from the APM to the ezUHF then it wouldn't be so bad but I dread digging too many long distance cable channels in this sleek airfoil :) If I can put the ezUHF with the APM in the standard battery bay then that would make for less cable clutter but I don't want to create any interference problems.
The vTx should be on the wing tip?
What about shielding? Do I need to shield any of the wires or will twisting them and / or use ferrite rings deal with any noise? I know xBees can cause interference.
I've laid out all the equipment and also laid a roll of laminate to get an idea of the weight and it came in at 2.1 kilos which seems lighter than my similarly equipped soon to retire skywalker. It still should be hair raising to launch, especially considering it's my first wing.
I'm not seeing a parameter file for the zephyr. Anyone have some good PIDs for it?
Found some parameters here from İlhan Başçuhadar. Maybe I will start with those.
Where should the center of gravity be so I can make sure the placement doesn't unbalance it.
I'm going to have an experienced pilot do the initial trimming in manual mode but what is the best way to launch them using the APM? Stabilize mode (that is what I use on the skywalker) or FBW A or FBW B or Alt Hold? I launch into a valley so the ground isn't a problem right away :)
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Lots of questions and lots of options.
Launching the ZII in FBW mode works out great (I do not have an airspeed sensor). Apply fullish throttle, full elevator up, and do a Frisbee like toss. It climbs out very controlled.
Parameters, default ones worked great for a start. Minor adjustments so far: reduced cruise speed, increased max climb angle.
CG, As ritewing recommends: CG is located on the bottom 9 3/8'' to 9 1/2'' from the nose back. Of course that is before you cut off the nose ;)
I put my video transmitter close to the wingtip, the Vee andtenna on the winglet. RC receiver/antenna is in the middle of the other wing. 3DR radio module is on the midsection, close to the APM (did not make a longer cable yet). The GPS is under clear wrap just off the main compartment (so I can see the blue light).
On the first flight I had the ESC inside the back compartment. It melted the foam. Now I strap it on top of the cover and it gets cooled by the airflow.
I would recommend building a plywood box for the main compartment. The nose is a weak spot, especially when you cut the nose for the camera.
Thanks Andreas. I'm installing things today so will post pictures soon.
I'm getting stuck on how to wire up the APM1.4 to the EzUHF Rx.
I'm using a JR9503 and have ch1 going to Throttle pin3 on AP Inputs
ch2 not used
ch3 going to pin1 Roll/Aileron
Do I also need to set switch 4 on the oilcan like it says here?
And does anyone know how to set the mixing on the JR9503 so I have proper manual mode.
OK I think I might have manual mode working. At least it looks like the flaperons are responding correctly but it's my first wing, so not sure.
I have wingtype set to Flaperon and have
ch1 of ezUHF going to Throttle on AP input 3
ch2 of ezUHF going to Roll Aileron on AP input 1
ch6 of ezUHF going to Pitch Elevator on AP input 2
autopilot I will put on combo gear / flap channel and connect to AP input 8
Do I need to do any special mixing? I know that APM will handle it in stable mode but I want to have manual mode fall back working first and for initial trimming / balancing.
How can I check if I have it right?
It seems so few cables compared to my arducopter so the simplicity is causing me doubts :)
you can check it in the mission planner under the configuration tab select the setup tab and select elevon mixing on the check boxes below and you,ll need to have elevon mixing setup on your transmitter too the best way is to set it up before you install the apm
THanks. I got that resolved some days ago.
Ferrite rings. Where do I need them before I start laying down the wires.
I'm not using the BEC in the ESC so I will not have any noise coming from that. Do I need one on the castle 10A BEC or is it clean? What about the vTx power line? What about the OSD power line? I don't want to over do it with ferrite rings so need to understand WHERE to put them.
put them as close to the object you are powering as you can and you might not need them at all if you twist all your wires just make sure they don't short something out !
I did twist all wires but also put a ferrite near the vTx on the power leads. I will maiden this weekend and see if I get any video noise.
Final doubts!
I think this is the placement I will settle on. I put the vTx on the left. I don't need to go to the tip right? I prefer to run all cables inside the foam so don't want to go long distances if I can avoid it. I hate cables so will avoid all sight of them and tighten up as much as possible.
ezUHF I put on the opposite side. Also ok to not go all the way to the tip?
xBee 900MHz I really can't decide on. I don't want it close to anything because I hear it can be loud in the RF band. Am I being to paranoid? ANYONE see a good placement for it before I grab the xacto knife??? :)
GPS on either side of middle bay and will be visible so I can see any status light. I installed super caps on them to keep GPS for a few days. If I can find room in the main bay is there any reason to keep the two GPS away from APM or other components in main bay? I'd prefer to not go to the trouble of burying them if there is no reason.
The rest that will go in main bay -- AttoPilot voltage sensor, Remzibi OSD, Castle BEC, 550000uf capacitor bank for 5V line will all go with APM in main bay.
I cut my 4s 4000s into the wings, parallel with the line of flight.
Line the front interior edge and floor of the battery bay with ply.
I have survived multiple nasty crashes and I have been very happy with battery placement.
APM1 right where you have it.
I think a nasty crash would rip those batteries right out of the leading edge.
My .02.
I'm glad I saw your message before I cut 8-) Good tip about the batteries. I've seen blacksheep put them their but I guess that was the zephyr I and maybe is ok there. So you put them in line with flight. I think that will be stronger and I will put wood on the bottom of the battery compartments also. I've already put 3mm ply with gorilla glue on the main bay and embedded 3 nylon standoffs to receive the APM which fits perfectly there now. Can you look at this picture and see if I have the batteries right now. I'm thinking to cut them last so I can figure out the COG first. I'm using 3300 but I will try some 4000's also. You think it would lift 2x50004S? With 2x3300-4S I'm at 2.1kg. Now to decide where to put the xBee.
What would be most sensitive to xBee noise? I also want to get good xBee reception so don't want anything interfering with it also. I'm just not sure what to stay far from and if I need to shield it's cable also. I've heard they are noisy but with my quadcopter I've never noticed a problem. With this I will be going further distance so don't want to mess up my 5.8GHz 600mW vTx. 900Mhz should effect that or is there a harmonic there that can cause trouble?