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Pyrofest Delights Crowds At Hartwood AcresFireworks lit up the sky over Hartwood Acres Saturday evening at the country's largest fireworks festival.
Pyrofest Celebrates Memorial Day With FireworksMillions of Americans celebrate the Fourth of July with fireworks.
Pyrofest To Cause A Big Bang This Memorial DayThere are a lot of activities going on for Memorial Day throughout our area.
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Lights Stay Out At Hartwood Acres For Second Straight YearMore than 3 Miles of holiday lights once lead the way to the mansion at Hartwood Acres.
Best Off-Leash Dog Areas In PittsburghThe places on this list are some of the best places to cut loose with your favorite pooch.
Equestrian Instructor Sentenced To Jail For Sexually Assaulting TeensA former instructor at the Hartwood Equestrian center got 11-and-a-half to 23 months in jail for allegedly sexually assaulting two teens.
Ride A Hot Air Balloon At Food Bank Summer Fundraiser There are a lot of places you can go for a great view of Pittsburgh, like Mt. Washington or the West End overlook.
Crowds In Awe Of Fireworks Displays At PyrofestFor the second year in a row, fireworks lit up the sky over Hartwood Acres in Hampton Township for Pyrofest.
Hartwood Acres Prepping For PyrofestThe sky over Hartwood Acres will burst with color, sound and music Saturday afternoon and evening as Pyrotecnico presents what it calls America's largest fireworks festival.
Promoters Will Pitch Plan To Save Celebration Of LightsCovered in cardboard and wrapped in plastic are two million Christmas lights shipped here straight from China. The cost to county taxpayers is somewhere around $130,000 to $150,000 with a good chance they'll never be used.


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2004 Vote | For all his built-in advantages, South Dakota's Tom Daschle finds himself in the fight of his political life
After John Kerry, who is the second most-despised Democrat Republicans would like to see defeated on Election Night? Hint: It's not John Edwards, who's part of a package deal, after all.
Instead, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota is the No. 2 name on the GOP hit list. As the puppet master for 48 Democrats in the Senate, no one has done more to thwart the president's agenda on issues ranging from war to taxes to judicial appointments.
Small wonder that President Bush personally recruited Mr. Daschle's opponent, former GOP Rep. John Thune. An articulate, telegenic young conservative, Mr. Thune has already run several statewide campaigns, first winning the at-large congressional seat, and then, just two years ago, coming within 524 votes of unseating another incumbent, Sen. Tim Johnson.
As arguably the most powerful Democrat in Washington-and one with an $18 million campaign war chest-Mr. Daschle might appear to be a shoo-in for a fourth term. After all, not even his critics can charge that he fails to bring home plenty of federal bacon for his state's 750,000 residents. He also hit the television airwaves a full year in advance of his rival, who has managed to raise only two-thirds as much as the Democrat.
Yet for all his built-in advantages, Mr. Daschle finds himself in the fight of his political life. An Oct. 15 poll found the race dead even, at 49 percent apiece. Among the reasons: After more than a quarter-century in Washington, Mr. Daschle has drifted well to the left of most of his constituents, a point that Mr. Thune hammers home relentlessly. "Tom has had 26 years in Congress, but he's not listening to us anymore, and he's not leading the people of South Dakota," Mr. Thune charged during an Oct. 15 debate. "He is following his national party's agenda, and South Dakota is paying the price."
Furthermore, President Bush is tremendously popular in South Dakota, a state that he won by a whopping 23 percentage points in 2000-a better margin than in his home state of Texas. Republicans are hopeful that the Bush name at the top of the ticket will more than make up the 500-vote difference of 2002, when Mr. Thune had to carry the race all by himself.
Mr. Daschle, meanwhile, is trying his best to avoid talking about the issues-or the president-altogether. Instead, he constantly touts his success in winning federal perks for his constituents, sometimes sounding less like a senator and more like the manager of a national soup kitchen: "We need a leader who will put South Dakota's agenda on the national agenda, who will recognize that we need to be at the front of the line," he said in the debate.
No one really believes that a freshman senator-and a fiscally conservative one, at that-can match Mr. Daschle's clout in winning federal favors. So, in the final analysis, Mr. Thune is asking South Dakotans to make a tough choice, putting national interests above their own selfish desires for roads, bridges, and farm subsidies. The future of the Senate-and, by extension, the success of a second Bush term-may hinge on the outcome.


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Fair View Cemetery, Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ - Tallman Surname
All of the foregoing was taken from the Tallman family plot in Section BB.
Dr. Stillwell discusses the Tallman Burying Ground on Pumpkin Point, Shrewsbury, NJ as follows:
During the summer of 1903, Mr. George Douglass Tallman, acquainting few or none of Dr. Stephen Tallman's descendants, removed the tombstones, and such remains as could be found in this lot to Fairview Cemetery, Middletown, NJ. The natural obliteration of the bodies and the utter impossibility to locate those buried without stones, as for instance the wife and sons of Dr. Tallman, made such removal a farce. Surely more of the family was left behind than taken, and it is another instance of interference, lacking as much in sentiment as justice
He notes the following burials at the family burying ground in addition to those listed above:
Fairview Records indicate the following members of the Tallman family are interred there though we did not find their headstones:
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Gastric Bypass Cold and Flu Survival
What Can Be Taken
. Tylenol 650-1000mg every 4-6 hours as needed- body aches/fever
. Sudafed 30mg- 1 tablet every 4-6 hours as needed- decongestant
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Antibiotics are usually indicated when symptoms are accompanied by a fever of 101 or greater. The
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o Amoxil (chewable tabs and liquid available)
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Your timing couldn't be better! I came home from the hospital with a cold.
Thanks - I'll definitely keep this one!
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Thanks Janelle....you are so full of information. I love it. Danyelle
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This is really good information to have. I thought I could only take tylenol.
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Thanks Erika for your valid concern.
Turns out the virus was short-lived and I was able to knock the symptoms down with some liquid children's cold medicine for the couple of days it stuck around.
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Novell is now part of Attachmate. Should you care? Yes.
The deal closed on Wednesday, Apr. 27. "Novell, Inc., the leader in intelligent workload management, today announced that it has completed its previously announced merger, whereby Attachmate Corporation acquired Novell for $6.10 per share in cash. Novell is now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group, the parent company of Attachmate Corporation. "
Novell means lots of different things to different people. To me, the word "Novell" will always followed by "NetWare," just as surely as "Lotus" is followed by "1-2-3." (Yes, Alan is a dinosaur.)
To its more contemporary followers, Novell means two big open-source projects: SUSE Linux and Mono, an open-source implementation of the Microsoft .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime.
There are lots of other Novell products, to be sure – ZENworks, data center management tools, GroupWise, etc. See the big long list at http://www.novell.com/products/.
However, the only two that truly matter, from the software development perspective at least, and SUSE Linux and Mono.
SUSE is one of the Big Two enterprise-class distributions, along with Red Hat. (There are oodles of consumer-facing distros, like Ubuntu.) When it came to running on large hardware, I've always considered SUSE to the de facto leader. Given that Attachmate serves the same large enterprise customer base, I'm confident that SUSE will continue to evolve as a strong platform.
Mono is a concern. First, I'm not sure if Mono has a sustainable business model – or that it even has a business model at all. Second, Microsoft was a key behind-the-scenes player in Attachmate's acquisition of Novell – see my comments from last November. It's not in Microsoft's best interest for Mono to exist. After all, if you can run .NET applications on Linux, you're not locked into buying Windows Server.
My prediction: Under Attachmate, SUSE will flourish, and Mono will wither. I expect Mono to suffer intentional neglect, rather than a bold stroke, until it weakens, loses relevance, and fades away.
This is a depressing thought. It's almost as depressing as that Overstock.com purchased the naming rights to the stadium used by the Oakland A's baseball team and the Oakland Raiders football team. The idea of visiting "Overstock.com Coliseum" is somewhat nauseating.
Novell is gone, and yes, it matters. Here's why.
Novell is now part of Attachmate. Should you care? Yes.
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Skynet didn't take down Amazon Web Services
A few years ago, a multi-day power failure on Long Island left our offices in the dark – including the Microsoft Exchange Server in our server closet. After that experience, and a few others involving the local electrical grid, we moved our mail system into the cloud for improved reliability.
This week, a failure of some sort took down one of the best-known cloud services. As I write this on Friday morning (April 22), Amazon is still struggling to fix Amazon Web Services, which has big problems in its Northern Virginia data center. Some services came back online on Thursday, but others are still down.
As of the time of writing, Amazon has not provided any sort of explanation for the outage, or disclosed how many of its customers were affected. The best customer reports are on Twitter. But according to the AWS Service Health Dashboard, there are issues with the company's Electric Compute Cloud, Relational Database Service, Elastic MapReduce, Cloud Formation and Elastic Beanstalk resources in its US-EAST-1 region. The problems also include high latency and error rates, instance launches, API accesses, database connectivity… the list goes on and on.
Are/were you affected by the AWS failure? Probably. We were.
SD Times doesn't use AWS for any of our internal IT needs. We have some systems that use Google's Web services, but have nothing stored in Amazon, or that use the AWS APIs directly.
On the other hand, for our technical conferences (like SPTechCon for SharePoint developers and admins), we like to create funny promotional videos using Xtranormal. Those videos (again, as I write this) are down, and have been for 21 hours. As the company tweeted on Thursday, "Hang tight, peeps. Those pesky 'Amazon' issues you might have heard about this morning affected us as well."
The good news is that we know one thing for sure that Skynet – the global computer system in the Terminator movies – didn't take down Amazon Web Services. One of the company's support team, Luke@AWS, posted,
From the information I have and to answer your questions, SkyNet did not have anything to do with the service event at this time.
The bad news is that, with the exception of purely siloed enterprise IT systems, we're all using cloud computing, all the time. Even if we're not subscribing to those services ourselves, the chain of dependencies, thanks to APIs, Web services, RSS feeds, and external data providers, means that our IT is only as strong as the weakest link.
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Thinking back on MKS Inc., aka Mortice Kern Systems
I was surprised to read that MKS Inc. was being purchased by PTC (a firm I'd never heard of).
Most people today know MKS as a seller of enterprise application lifecycle management tools. The Waterloo, Ont.-based company's flagship is Integrity, an ALM suite that covers requirements, modeling, coding and testing. While I've never used Integrity, I've heard good things about it over the years.
To me, however, MKS will always be Mortice Kern Systems, makers of MKS Toolkit. The toolkit comprised a set of hundreds Unix-inspired command-line utilities for DOS – like grep and awk, but also essential tools like vi. The built-in set of DOS command-line tools was very minimal, and didn't come anywhere near the power and flexibility of what was available for Unix.
As a developer who used a PC during the early 1980s, the MKS Toolkit made a clumsy environment bearable. In fact, as a judge for the 2007 Jolt Awards, published by Software Development Magazine (no relation to SD Times), I wrote up a winner as:
MKS Toolkit 5.2
Mortice Kern Systems Inc.
Once you've used UNIX, you can never forget the power of a real command line. That's where MKS Toolkit comes in. MKS Toolkit is long known for bringing the power of UNIX to DOS and OS/2. Now version 5.2 brings the same benefits to 32-bit Windows workstations.
With MKS Toolkit, you get all the familiar UNIX commands like awk, grep, ps, tar, pax, cpio, make, sort, and the Korn shell. But with this new Windows version, you also get Perl, web (which lets you access web pages from the command line), and Windows GUI versions of vi and vdiff, and more.
If you don't know what those UNIX functions are, MKS Toolkit's not for you. But if you're itching for the command line--but find a Microsoft mouse instead--then this utility suite gives you the best of all possible worlds.
MKS ditched the "Mortice Kern Systems" name a decade ago, but still sells MKS Toolkit, albeit on a different website from its enterprise solutions. Integrity is at www.mks.com, but MKS Toolkit is at www.mkssoftware.com.
I haven't used MKS Toolkit in many years, but am glad that the product is still available. Let's hope PTC keeps MKS Toolkit going.
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What is UX? An overloaded operator!
I was recently at a party – okay, the speaker's party at iPhone/iPad DevCon last week – where it was obvious that the speakers neatly bifurcated into two groups. There were those who recognized Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells playing on the stereo, and those who didn't.
(You could also identify the Tubular Bells cognoscenti by the relative abundance of gray hair, compared to those grooving to the sounds of Girl Talk.)
Here's another litmus test: What does "UX" mean to you? The definition may be revealing about how our world is changing.
If you see UX and think Unix (or perhaps UNIX), then you belong to the world of classic IT. Maybe you're thinking about HP-UX, which is Hewlett-Packard's version. Or A/UX, which I actually had running on a Mac Quadra a billion years ago. Either way, until recently, for me UX==Unix.
If you see UX and think User Experience, not Unix, you're part of a newer generation. Perhaps you were inspired by Donald Norman's classic "The Design of Everyday Things." Maybe you're thinking about AJAX or rich Internet applications. UI is so passé – it's all UX now. They say there's an app for that.
Unix lived and died by the command line – and by the ubiquitous and essential man pages, which told you everything you everything. It was a world where a single mistake – forgetting an argument, making an argument upper-case instead of lower-case, putting parameters in the wrong order – would lead to disaster. If you knew what you were doing, you were a guru. If you didn't, you were doomed.
Today's User Experience-driven world is diametrically opposite. Android phones, Web applications and iPads have minimal controls. Everything should be modeless, whenever possible; everything should be obvious; pop-ups are bad; grayed-out options are bad. If it's not intuitive, you've failed. If you ever watched a child pick up an iPhone or an iPad for the first time, launch an app and start painting or playing, you've seen what UX is all about.
There are no man pages for mobile applications or modern interactive Web applications. In fact, often there's no help system or README.TXT or any end-user documentation whatsoever.
In object-oriented development, it's a bad practice to overload an operator or a method with one that does the exact opposite function. (It's like having to press the Start button to shut down Windows – it's silly and counterintuitive).
Yet that's exactly what we've done by overloading UX. We've taken an abbreviation for Unix, traditionally the operating system that requires the most up-front knowledge by its end users. And it now refers to goal of ensuring that users can simply figure out how to use a system intuitively, without any training or documentation or anything.
Like one of Girl Talk's mashups, an app with a great UX should simply get you moving. What's not to like?
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If you can't innovate, litigate
The lawsuits flying around Silicon Valley are getting ridiculous.
• Microsoft is suing Barnes & Noble because Microsoft says that Android infringes Microsoft patents, and B&N's Nook e-reader is based on Android. Thus, B&N must be forced to license Microsoft patents.
• Oracle is suing Google because Oracle says that Android's Jalvik Java Virtual Machine infringes some of Sun's JVM patents.
• Apple is suing Amazon.com because Apple says that "App Store is an Apple trademark, and thus Amazon must not use "Amazon Appstore" for its Android, well, app store.
• Microsoft is suing Apple because Microsoft says that Apples "App Store" trademark uses generic English words, and thus shouldn't be trademarked. Of course, Microsoft has rigorously defended its trademarks of Windows, Word and Office.
• And recently, Microsoft filed a European antitrust complaint against – guess who – Google.
The latest Microsoft complaint reveals that as worried as Redmond has been about search, it's also concerned about Windows Phone. According to this post by Brad Smith, Microsoft's General Counsel, there are six allegations:
1. Google's search engine has an unfair advantage over Microsoft's Bing and other search engines when it comes to crawling YouTube content.
2. Google refuses to allow Windows Phone to access YouTube metadata, but allows Android and iPhone devices to do so.
3. Google is attempting to block access to content owned by book publishers by seeking exclusive rights to scan and distribute so-called orphaned books – those still under copyright, but for which the copyright owner can't be found.
4. Google unfairly restricts its advertisers' ability to use data and analytics in an interoperable way with competing search platforms, specifically Microsoft's adCenter.
5. Google contractually requires European websites that use a Google search box from also using a competing search box. Microsoft says this not only freezes out Bing directly, but also blocks web publishers from using Windows Live Services, which embeds a Bing search box.
6. Google discriminates against its own competitors (like Microsoft) by making it very expensive for them to buy good ad positions using Google's ad tools.
Is there any truth to these allegations? That's for the European Commission to decode. But what it all comes down to is: Microsoft can't compete, so it's going to the courts. The company has the right to sue, of course.
But I hope that if Microsoft succeeds in overturning Apple's "App Store" trademark, the decision is broad enough to overturn Windows, Word and Office as well. Fair is fair.
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About Me
- Alan Zeichick
- Co-founder and editorial director of BZ Media, which publishes SD Times, the leading magazine for the software development industry. Founder of SPTechCon: The SharePoint Technology Conference, AnDevCon: The Android Developer Conference, and Big Data TechCon. Also president and principal analyst of Camden Associates, an IT consulting and analyst firm.


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Macomb, IL – Rich Egger's guest is Janine Cavicchia, Director of the Western Illinois University Women's Center. Cavicchia previews some of the events and activities taking place during March, which is Women's History Month.
The celebration begins with an opening reception for the art exhibit "Women's Art: Women's Vision." It takes place March 1, 3:00pm to 5:00pm, on the second floor of the WIU Multicultural Center. The exhibit will remain on display through the end of the month.
The first week of the month concludes with a luncheon hosted by the Macomb Feminist Network. Cavicchia says four local women will be honored for their contributions to the community. The luncheon will be held Saturday, March 6, 11:00am at the WIU Multicultural Center.
Cavicchia says the organization plans to make the honoree luncheon an annual event.
Cavicchia says a number of other events are also scheduled to take place throughout the month.


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That is fast. I just don't feel video does it justice. I would have had to be there to really appreciate that kind of speed.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
-- Albert Einstein
That's a truely awesome video, thanks for posting that!
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Amazing. And the record for an up right bike is 47 or 49 MPH and it has not been broken in about 20 yrs:-)
I wonder what makes that noise? Do you suppose it is the chain on the cogs? Then other bikes did it also.
It's the tires that make that hum. Sam goes so fast and is otherwise so smooth that the tires give off a distinctive hum. Other bikes do not sound like this, and besides, the drivetrain is completely enclosed.
That evening was absolutely perfect conditions for a record run- it was about 80 degrees and the wind was fairly calm for a couple hours beforehand. Usually it's pretty blustery until about 5:30PM, then the wind dies off. That day it was quiet most of the day.
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The other bike videos on the page where this one was all have the same noise, differing frequencies tho, probably related to speed.
I guess you had to be there.
The sound that Sam's Varna (and Freddy's, too) is distinctive. It may be that it's part of all the sensations that go with witnessing all of them go by. The sound, though, goes something like this:
Larry Lem / Tom Amick in the Goliath II : WhiiiirrrrRRRRRrrrroooo
Warren Beauchamp in the Cuda-W : WhiiiirrrrRRRRRrrrroooo
Barclay Henry in the Black Trike: Whhhiiiirrrrrrrrr
Ron Layman in the Primal: Whiiiirrrroooooorrrroooo
Aaron Williams in the Athena: WhiiiirrrrRRRRRrrrroooo
Sam Whittingham in the Diablo III: SsssssssoooOOO WHOMPP!! ooooooooo
Fred Markham in the Mephisto: SsssssssoooOOO whompp! ooooooooo
I know that Sam "only" did 1/10 the speed of sound, but there's a definite shockwave when he goes by. Maybe it's the massive intake of breath from the spectators.
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Being familiar with machines of many types the noises were all similar. I think it was chain and sprocket noise, not the tires. No matter what made it, the noise represents an energy bleed.
I agree that the noise represents lost energy. That's why I'd like to see an alternative event held near Burns, Oregon. Same altitude, same weather, extremely smooth pavement. Sam reported that the ride was so smooth that he was discovering all sorts of "new" problems- but they were things that he could never hear before.
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Interesting... My experience does not include a bike shop. But it does include lots of chain drives under power. The rollers hitting the sprocket make a similar noise.
My bike experience is all shade tree except for 4 years in a real old fashioned "service" station where we fixed kid's bike tires for free and the kids knew it. I started the "bike service" when a kid filled his own tire like he saw us fill car tires and blew it up. The boss liked the idea of always filling them ourselves and/or with supervision so it became policy. He was an old softie and did not want to see a kid hurt. You would be surprised how many $ from regular customers that saw us fixing bikes flowed into the patch fund. We were sort of a bike "teaching hospital". The kids could watch us repair their tires and we always explained every move we made and why. Once they had seen it done a time or two they got to help... We also made adjustments and lubrication. The bike shop down the street about 5 blocks probably hated us but they charged the little kids just for looking at a bike. Parents would come in and have their cars serviced or filled and thank us. It was good advertising on our part.
That blows my mind. I can't imagine 81 mph. I've gone 38 mph on my Sun EZSport...down hill. That's plenty fast enough for me.
Not to take sides, but to me it sounds like tires on rough-textured pavement. It even drowns out the normal hollow 'whoosh' that streamliners usually make.
I have ridden a bike and coasted at some speed. 35+ over rough pavement and smooth both asphalt and concrete. I have also coasted in a vehicle at high speeds. The large auto tires with a more aggressive tread and a large footprint make noise, the bike tires just make a hiss with a buzz from the freewheel. Of course vehicles with a very aggressive tread make a huge amount of road noise. Listen to one of those lifted trucks... I still think the major noise is chain noise having heard it first hand on my own bike, and machines without tires or engines, just motors. Unfortunately that noise represents an energy bleed. Has anyone ever used a belt drive for a high speed run? A belt makes a similar noise but much more subdued due to an elastomer impacting the sprocket rather than a hard steel ring.
If your chain is making noise when you're pedaling, it's probably worn or lacking lubrication or both. My bikes are silent when parts are new or newly lubricated, growing progressively noisier as they age and accumulate gunk.
Belt drives have been tried, most notably on Matt Weaver's Cutting Edge II:
(belt drive parts visible on the left side of the frame)
From: http://www.speed101.com/gallery/cutt...eII_june22.htm
Unfortunately, belt drives aren't compatible with derailleur-style gear changing, and roller chains are 90 to 95 percent efficient. It's very hard to come up with an overall better drive system than a conventional bicycle chain.
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Roller chain always makes noise even new and bathed in lubricant which is why they have "silent" chain but silent chain is an entirely different device. Some of the major manufacturers also have low noise chain but it is still not silent.
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Roller chain ALWAYS makes noise. It is the nature of the beast, if you think it is silent you need your hearing checked.
I go that fast on my urban commute ride every day on my BikeE AT...ok, maybe I'm a little slower.
The slow down is accelerating
They're probably running knobby tires in case they hit a mud patch up there.
"be careful this rando stuff is addictive and dan's the 'pusher'."
Here's a couple more vehicles:
The Orion trike
The Goliath back-to-back tandem (two drivetrains, twice as many chains)
The Speedhawk
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Sew-ups definitely have a "ripping fabric" sound to them due to the supple casing. If you've ever used sew-ups, you'd recognized that sound at speed in a second.
What kind of gearing was he using? Does that bike have the standard drivetrain with derailleurs?


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I don't think Rossi and Ducati will ever gel and I buy the looks of it there won't be a factory Honda or Yamaha next year. Hayden showed potential today on that Ducati so I think by Assen Rossi will be ahead of Hayden again, he doesn't GEL with Silverstone!


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Listing for abstract view: USPTO application #, Title, Abstract excerpt,Patent Agent. Listing format for list view: USPTO National Class full category number, title of the patent application. 04/26/2012 > 14 patent applications in 12 patent subcategories.
20120099344 - Control device for a resonant converter: A control device controls a switching circuit of a resonant converter having an output direct current. The switching circuit includes at least a half-bridge of at least a first and a second transistor connected between an input voltage and a reference voltage. The half-bridge is adapted to generate a periodic... Agent: Stmicroelectronics S.r.l.
20120099345 - Soft-start control system and method for an isolated dc-dc converter with secondary controller: A DC-DC converter for supplying a gradually increasing voltage via a soft start circuit from a first powered domain to a second unpowered domain. The powered domain may be connected to a primary winding of a first transformer, and the unpowered domain may be connected to the secondary winding of... Agent: Analog Devices, Inc.
20120099346 - Converter and an electronic equipment provided with such a converter: A converter for converting AC to DC or DC to DC comprises a first transformer (10) having a secondary winding connected to a DC-load side of the converter, semiconductor switches connected to a primary winding of the transformer, a drive circuit configured to control the semiconductor switches to switch so... Agent: Seps Technologies Ab
20120099347 - Frequency converter assembly: A frequency converter assembly including an input for supplying electric power having an input frequency into the frequency converter assembly from a supply network, a direct voltage intermediate circuit having capacitor component, and at least one controllable switch. The switch being electrically positioned between the input and the direct voltage... Agent: Abb Oy
20120099348 - Power converter with high efficiency in operation: A power converter includes a main switch to which a capacitor is connected through a sub-diode. A primary coil of a transformer and a sub-switch are joined parallel to the capacitor. A main diode is coupled in series with the main switch. A sub-diode and a secondary coil of the... Agent: Denso Corporation
20120099349 - Three-level active rectification pulse width modulation control: An active rectification system includes a three-level active rectifier and a pulse with modulation (PWM) control portion. The three-level active rectifier includes at least three switches, the at least three switches are selectively switchable between an upper state, a center state, and a lower state. The PWM control portion is... Agent: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
20120099350 - Method and apparatus to select a parameter/mode based on a measurement during an initialization period: An integrated circuit includes a threshold detection circuit that is coupled to measure a signal from a first resistive external circuit coupled between a fourth external terminal of the integrated circuit and a first external terminal of the integrated circuit during a duration of an initialization period after the fourth... Agent: Power Integrations, Inc.
20120099351 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus having reinforced power saving and safety functions, the electronic apparatus may include: a power supply which converts alternating current (AC) power input from an AC power source to direct current (DC) power to be outputted; an AC power switch provided on a first AC power input line... Agent: Samsung Electonics Co., Ltd
20120099352 - Power generation system: A power generation system is provided that implements an efficient, labor-saving system interconnection in which an engine generator system, an external power supply system, and a capacitor are connected in parallel to each other, without the conventional practice to change the configuration of the engine generator system or provide an... Agent: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
20120099353 - Power converting apparatus: A power converting apparatus includes a main inverter having a high-voltage DC power supply that operates at a low frequency employing SiC MOSFETs having a high withstand voltage exceeding 600 V and a sub-inverter having a low-voltage capacitor that operates through high-frequency PWM employing Si MOSFETs having a low withstand... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
20120099354 - Circuits and methods for alternating current-to-direct current conversion: An AC-to-DC converter for converting an AC voltage to a DC voltage includes a first converter, a second converter, a sense circuit, a controller, and an enabling circuit. The first converter converts an AC voltage to a first DC voltage. The second converter converts the first DC voltage to a... Agent:
20120099356 - Power conversion apparatus and method: According to one embodiment, power conversion apparatus includes a converter and a controller. A converter receives an AC power as an input, and outputs a DC voltage by turning on and off a first switching element which operates when the AC power is positive, and a second switching element which... Agent: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
20120099355 - Power supply circuit: A power supply circuit includes a voltage regulating circuit, a control circuit, and a switch circuit. The voltage regulating circuit receives an AC voltage signal from a live wire output terminal and converts the AC voltage signal to a control signal. The control circuit receives the control signal and turns... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
20120099357 - Power converter: A power converter includes an input terminal configured to be connected to a power supply, an output terminal, and a first switching element coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal. The first switching element includes a semiconductor multilayer structure formed on a substrate and made of a nitride... Agent: Panasonic Corporation04/19/2012 > 22 patent applications in 18 patent subcategories.
20120092894 - System for regulating a load voltage in power distribution circuits and method for regulating a load voltage in power distribution circuits: The present invention refers to a system for regulating a load voltage (C) in power distribution circuits comprising at least: a regulation transformer (2) the secondary winding of the regulatory transformer (2) being operatively arranged in series between a power source (F) and the load (C), the power source (F)... Agent:
20120092895 - Circuit and method for potential-isolated energy transfer with two output dc voltages: A circuit for potential-isolated power transfer from a primary side to a secondary side with two secondary-side output DC voltages, wherein the absolute value of the first output DC voltage is higher than the absolute value of the second output DC voltage. The circuit comprises a transformer, which has first... Agent: Semikron Elektronik Gmbh & Co. Kg
20120092897 - Power supply control device, power supply system and eletronic device: An electronic device (100) includes a power supply system (1) and a load circuit (2) connected to the power supply system (1). The load circuit (2) mutually switches between the first mode and the second mode. In the first mode, the load circuit (2) operates with electric power supplied from... Agent: Rohm Co., Ltd.
20120092896 - Switching power supply device: A system simplification can be achieved by reducing the number of sensors required to detect currents and voltages when an output current is estimated. a switching power supply device 6 includes a current transformer 12, a switching circuit 13, a rectifying circuit 15, a smoothing circuit 16, an input voltage... Agent: Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.
20120092898 - Alternating current to direct current power conversion: An alternating current to direct current (AC to DC) power conversion system is provided. The system includes a rectifier configured to convert an input AC voltage to an initial pulsating DC voltage. The system also includes an inverter configured to convert the initial pulsating DC voltage to a converted AC... Agent: General Electric Company
20120092899 - Dynamic converter topology: Methods and apparatus of dynamic topology power converters are provided. One method includes monitoring at least one variable of the power converter and based on the at least one monitored variable, using a converter topology selected between at least a full-bridge converter topology and a half-bridge converter topology to achieve... Agent: Intersil Americas Inc.
20120092900 - Controller with punctuated switching control circuit: An example controller for use in a power supply includes a zero crossing detection (ZCD) circuit and a punctuated switching control circuit. The ZCD circuit is coupled to generate a ZCD signal in response to a zero-crossing of an ac input voltage of the power supply. The punctuated switching control... Agent: Power Integrations, Inc.
20120092901 - Power management in an electromagnetic transponder: A method for managing the power in an electromagnetic transponder in the field of a terminal, including the steps of: evaluating the power consumption of the transponder circuits; and if this power consumption is below a threshold, evaluating the current coupling factor between the transponder and the terminal and, according... Agent: Stmicroelectronics (rousset) Sas
20120092902 - Phase angle measurement of a dimming circuit for a switching power supply: An example controller for a switched mode power supply includes a zero-crossing detector and a drive signal generator. The zero-crossing detector is coupled to generate a zero-crossing signal representative of a phase angle of a dimmer output voltage for a half line cycle of the power supply. The drive signal... Agent: Power Integrations, Inc.
20120092903 - Power transfer between independent power ports utilizing a single transformer: An example power delivery network includes an energy transfer element, a main power port, and a main port interface. The energy transfer element includes multiple windings, where a first power converter transfers power between a first power port and a first winding, and a second power converter transfers power between... Agent: Power Integrations, Inc.
20120092904 - Coordinated control of multi-terminal hvdc systems: Multi-terminal HVDC systems and control methods therefore are disclosed. Methods for controlling multi-terminal HVDC systems having a plurality of converter stations may include receiving a plurality of measurements from a plurality of measurement units disposed on the HVDC system, identifying from the measurements a disruption within the HVDC system, monitoring... Agent: Abb Research Ltd.
20120092905 - Method and systems for converting power: A power conversion system includes a first converter coupled to a power source, wherein the first converter includes an input side, and an output side electrically isolated from the input side. The power conversion system also includes a second converter coupled to the power source, wherein the second converter includes... Agent:
20120092906 - Arrangement for exchanging power: An arrangement for exchanging power with a three-phase electric power network comprises a Voltage Source Converter having three phase legs with each a series connection of switching cells. The three phase legs are interconnected by forming a delta-connection. The arrangement also includes a control unit configured to calculate a value... Agent:
20120092907 - Power supply and system: The invention provides a power supply comprising a switch, a voltage detector and an SPS stage. The switch is coupled to an AC source. The voltage detector detects a voltage of the AC source. The SPS stage is coupled to the switch and outputs a DC voltage. When the voltage... Agent: Wistron Corp.
20120092908 - Multi-level parallel power converters: Multi-level power converters are disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-level power converter includes an input for receiving an input voltage and a converter output for providing a variable output voltage. The multi-level power converter includes a plurality of switching circuits. Each switching circuit is connected to the input in parallel... Agent: Astec International Limited
20120092909 - Power conversion apparatus: According to one embodiment, a power conversion apparatus determines a peak value of circuit current in each pulse cycle and a lower limit value lower than the peak value, from a corrected output voltage value obtained by subtracting a predetermined reference voltage from an output voltage detected, and an input... Agent: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
20120092910 - Switching power supply apparatus: A switching power supply is provided to supply an AC input voltage. The supply includes a control circuit configured to detect a voltage of the AC power source in a voltage waveform, and switch elements in a synchronous rectification switching mode in synchronization with polarities of the voltage waveform when... Agent: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.
20120092911 - Power conversion apparatus and method: According to one embodiment, a power conversion apparatus determines a peak value of circuit current in each pulse cycle, from a corrected output voltage value by subtracting a predetermined reference voltage from an output voltage detected by the output voltage detector, and an input voltage detected by the input voltage... Agent: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
20120092912 - Commutation method of an electronic power converter phase with reverse-conducting igbts: The invention relates to a method for commutating from a reverse-conducting IGBT (T1) operated in the diode mode to a reverse-conducting IGBT (T2) operated in the IGBT mode. According to the invention the reverse-conducting IGBT (T1) operated in the diode mode is turned off only at the instant a current... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
20120092913 - Pfc booster circuit: A power factor correction booster circuit for connection to an alternating current (AC) power source including a first circuit portion arranged to be active over a first AC half cycle of the power source, the first circuit portion including: a first AC input node in connection with a source node... Agent: Eaton Industries Company
20120092914 - Switching branch for three-level rectifier and method for controlling switching branch for three-level rectifier: A switching branch for a three-level rectifier and a method for controlling a switching branch for a three-level rectifier are provided. The switching branch includes a first diode and a second diode connected in series, a third diode and a fourth diode connected in series, a first controllable switch connected... Agent: Abb Oy
20120092915 - Power conversion apparatus: A power conversion apparatus including: a three-level inverter including bridge circuits each including a first semiconductor switching device and a second semiconductor switching device connected in series, the bridge circuits being connected to a positive terminal and a negative terminal of a DC power supply, and switch circuits having bidirectional... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation04/12/2012 > 15 patent applications in 14 patent subcategories.
20120087153 - Indirect d. c. converter with a switching frequency being dependent on the load and the input voltage and a dead time depending on the switching frequency (also known as control circuitry, voltage converter, method, and computer program): A control circuitry for controlling operation of switches of a non-regulated DC-to-DC converter is disclosed. The converter comprises a transformer having a primary winding, which is arranged to be excited by means of electricity provided through the switches, and an output connected to at least one secondary winding of the... Agent:
20120087154 - Voltage supply device for a load: A voltage supply device for a load, in particular for a network, has an energy store that can be connected to connection terminals and a voltage transformer with at least one electronic switch. A reverse polarity protection is in contact with the connection terminals and is designed to convert voltage... Agent:
20120087155 - Ac-dc converter: An AC-DC converter is disclosed. The AC-DC converter includes an OFF-time clamping circuit. The OFF time clamping circuit outputs a triggering signal when a main switch circuit of the AC-DC converter is switched from ON state to OFF state. When an input AC voltage is too small, and a terminal... Agent: Delta Electronics, Inc.
20120087156 - Method and apparatus for limiting maximum output power of a power converter: An example power converter includes an energy transfer element, a switch, a controller, and a current offset circuit. The controller switches the switch between an ON state and an OFF state to regulate the output of the power converter and is adapted to terminate the ON state of the switch... Agent: Power Integrations, Inc.
20120087157 - Dc-to-ac power inverting apparatus for photovoltaic modules: The disclosure provides a DC-to-AC power inverting apparatus for photovoltaic modules, which comprises two stages: a first stage including a resonant circuit in series, an isolating transformer with three windings, a full-bridge DC-to-AC converting unit operating in a high-frequency switch mode so as to reduce the transformer volume, and a... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute
20120087158 - Method and apparatus for controlling an inverter using pulse mode control: A method and apparatus for controlling an inverter includes operating the inverter in a one of a normal run mode or a pulse mode depending on one or more criteria. When operating in the pulse mode, the inverter generates a sinusoidal output pulse waveform including a plurality of pulses having... Agent: Solarbridge Technologies, Inc.
20120087159 - Quadrature-corrected feedforward control apparatus and method for dc-ac power conversion: An apparatus and method for controlling the delivery of a pre-determined amount of power from a DC source to an AC grid includes an inverter and an inverter controller. The inverter includes an input converter, an energy storage capacitor, and an output converter. The inverter controller includes an input converter... Agent: Solarbridge Technologies, Inc.
20120087160 - Power factor correction circuit: There is provided a power factor correction circuit capable of correcting a power factor of a power converting module through increasing an input current by switching a main switching element of a power converting module on the basis of a first reference wave having a slope based on a first... Agent: Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd.
20120087161 - Power supply connected in parallel with a power switch for the control circuit thereof: A power converter circuit for generating a supply voltage for a power semiconductor switch. A series circuit formed of a diode unit having diodes connected in reverse and a protection circuit is connected in parallel with the power semiconductor switch. The diode voltage generates a feed voltage that is transformed,... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
20120087162 - High voltage power supply: A high voltage power supply includes a frequency signal generation unit, a voltage generation unit, and a voltage amplifying unit. The frequency signal generation unit generates a frequency signal. The voltage generation unit generates an input voltage according to the frequency signal generated by the frequency signal generation unit. The... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
20120087163 - Power supply apparatus: A relay contact is connected between positive power supply input terminals of first and second inverters, and a relay contact is connected between negative power supply input terminals of the inverters. A positive DC power supply terminal is connected to the positive power supply input terminal of the first inverter,... Agent: Sansha Electric Manufacturing Company, Limited
20120087164 - Contactless interface: Power extracted from an antenna inductively coupled to an alternating magnetic field is regulated to provide voltage supplies. In some implementations, a first voltage supply (e.g., 3.8 volts) provides regulated voltage to analog circuits and a second, lower, voltage supply (e.g., 1.4 volts) provides regulated voltage to digital circuits. The... Agent: Inside Contactless S.a.
20120087165 - Apparatus and method for controlling a power inverter: An apparatus and method for controlling a DC-to-AC inverter is disclosed. The DC-to-AC inverter may be configured to convert DC power received from an alternative energy source to AC power for supplying an AC grid or load. The inverter may determine whether the power presently supplied by the alternative energy... Agent: Solarbridge Technologies, Inc.
20120087166 - Cam-controlled electromechanical rotary power inverter: The cam-controlled electromechanical rotary power inverter converts a plurality of DC source voltages to an AC power output by an electromechanical mechanism that includes a rotating assembly of cams intermittently contacting a series of brushes connected to the DC source voltages to sequentially add the DC voltages and then sequentially... Agent:
20120087167 - Power conversion device: Disclosed is a power conversion device which achieves reductions in switching loss due to a reverse recovery current and heat generation loss. Specifically disclosed is a power conversion device provided with a cascode element configured by electrically connecting a normally-on switching element and a normally-off switching element in series and... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba04/05/2012 > 13 patent applications in 11 patent subcategories.
20120081927 - Isolated switching power supply apparatus: An isolated switching power supply apparatus includes a direct-current input power supply, a power transmission transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding, at least one main switching element configured to perform switching control on a direct-current voltage applied to the primary winding of the power transmission transformer, a... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
20120081928 - Flyback converter with an adaptively controlled rectifier arrangement: A flyback converter includes input terminals and output terminals. A transformer with a first winding and a second winding are inductively coupled. A first switching element is connected in series with the first winding and a first series circuit with the first switching element, the first winding being coupled between... Agent:
20120081929 - High efficiency and low cost high voltage power converter: A low cost, high efficiency, high voltage DC to DC power converter that operates from batteries to provide support to products using Electric Field Effect Technology to generate aerosols.... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute
20120081930 - Method and apparatus to limit maximum switch current in a switching power supply: An integrated circuit for use in a power supply includes a drive signal generator, a short on time detector, and an oscillator. The drive signal generator generates a drive signal in response to a clock signal. The short on time detector provides an output indicating that consecutive on times of... Agent: Power Integrations, Inc.
20120081931 - Method and apparatus to control a power converter having a low loop bandwidth: An example controller includes a feedback sensor circuit that receives a feedback signal representative of an output of a power converter. A feedback sampling signal generator is coupled to generate a feedback sampling signal. The feedback sensor circuit samples the feedback signal in response to the feedback sampling signal. A... Agent: Power Integrations, Inc.
20120081932 - Control method and system for reducing the common-mode current in a power converter: The invention relates to a control method and system intended to reduce the common-mode current in a power converter which comprises a rectifier stage (1, 1′) connected to a number of input phases (R, S, T) and an inverter stage (2, 2′) connected to a number of output phases (U,... Agent: Schneider Toshiba Inverter Europe Sas
20120081933 - Photovoltaic power conditioning units: We describe a photovoltaic (PV) panel power conditioning circuits, in particular for a PV panel with multiple sub-strings of connected solar cells. The power conditioning unit comprises a set of input power converters, one connected to each sub-string, a shared dc link to provide a common dc bus for the... Agent:
20120081934 - Photovoltaic power conditioning units: We describe a photovoltaic (PV) panel system comprising a PV panel with multiple sub-strings of connected solar cells in combination with a power conditioning unit (microinverter). The power conditioning unit comprises a set of input power converters, one connected to each sub-string, and a common output power conversion stage, to... Agent:
20120081935 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device includes rectifying elements which are connected in series and has a rectifying function from a first input terminal portion to an output terminal portion; a first wiring and a second wiring, which are connected to a second input terminal portion; and a boosting circuit including a plurality... Agent: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
20120081936 - System and method for converting an ac input voltage to a regulated dc output voltage using a z-type converter with rectified switches: An AC to DC converter for converting an AC input voltage to a regulated DC output voltage using a Z-type converter and rectified switches. The Z-type converter includes first and second inductors, a capacitor, two rectified switches and a load device coupled in a cross-coupled configuration. The Z-type converter may... Agent: Intersil Americas Inc.
20120081937 - Converters and inverters for photovoltaic power systems: A power system includes a plurality of DC/DC converters and a DC/AC inverter. The plurality of DC/DC converters having outputs electrically connected in parallel for supplying a DC voltage bus to an input of the DC/AC inverter. The plurality of DC/DC converters each include a maximum power point tracker (MPPT).... Agent: Astec International Limited
20120081938 - Discharging a capacitance provided at the output of an inverter: A method and device to discharge a filter capacitance at the output of an inverter for feeding electrical power from a generation unit into a grid via a grid connect switch is disclosed. The grid connect switch has a generation unit side and a grid side, and via AC grid... Agent: Sma Solar Technology Ag
20120081939 - Arrangement for exchanging power: An arrangement for exchanging power, in shunt connection, with a three-phase electric power network includes a Voltage Source Converter having at least three phase legs with each a series connection of switching cells. Each switching cell has at least two semiconductor assemblies connected in series and having each a semiconductor... Agent:Previous industry: Illumination
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Bankruptcy Law
Bankruptcy Law Questions? Ask a Bankruptcy Lawyer Now.
You are correct that if most of your debt is not "consumer debt," then you do not have to pass the means test (11 U.S.C. sec. 101(8)). As for the reason why your attorneys have allegedly ignored this issue:
1. They don't know the law on the subject matter;
2. They have a rationale of which neither you nor I are aware;
3. They don't want to hassle with "difficult" bankruptcy cases, because the client won't be able to pay the bill for the additional requred litigation.
My opinion is that #3 is likely the answer. Consumer bankruptcy attorneys know that the client is on the ropes financialy, and so they seek to minimize the potential legal issues. A means test calculation is easy if everything is consumer debt. But, the dividing line between consumer and nonconsumer debt is amorphic and subject to potential litigation -- and the typical bankruptcy attorney may simply tell the debtor to do something to remove the likelihood of this litigation issue -- in anticipation that if the debtor cannot do so, then he/she will just go away, leaving the attorney with easier cases that will generate the same amount of revenue.
I know of bankruptcy attorneys who will automatically turn away any case where there is a business component, because their experience is that the debtor will never pay the attorney's fees, due to their ever-mounting costs.
Hope this helps.
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The Regis Ranger men's soccer program triumphed 4-0 over the Colorado Mesa University Mavericks. Four separate men scored one goal each for the Rangers, while the team had eight shots on goal and five assists.
The Rangers put one on the board in the third minute of the game when defender Taylor Diem passed the ball from the top of the Ranger 18 yard box to forward Ben Buhler who was breaking just past the midfield line. Buhler managed through his defenders, got a clear shot, and sent the ball to the back of the net.
The second Ranger goal came from Diem in the 43rd minute of play. Sophomore midfielder Justin Ortinau started the play with a corner kick. Off the kick, Diem scored to the right side of the net. Diem stated "It was a great ball by Justin; I just happened to be open in the back post." He continued "A lot of mess usually goes to the front post, so it left me wide open in the back."
"It was a good win," Diem finished. "We're starting to piece things together, but we're still having a couple of breakdowns so hopefully we can solidify everything for the big games coming up."
In the 50th minute, the Rangers struck with their third goal of the match. Forward Kyle Emge passed to forward Martin Maybin, who was at the top of the 18 yard box. Maybin one-touch passed to midfielder Ben Fredrickson who scored.
The final goal came in the 71st minute. The play started with Ortinau taking a free kick from a foul right above the middle right side of the Mesa 18 yard box. He tapped to midfielder Stephen Reed who ripped the ball into the left side of the goal bringing the score to 4-0 in the Ranger's favor.
"I'm very happy," head coach Tony McCall stated. "This is a team we normally have issues with and haven't matched up with them well in the past."
"I thought today, that we were comprehensive winners in all facets of the game" he continued. I think that once we stay focused and were able to execute and do what we're supposed to do, we are a very talented group. The hard part is we have some young players who are very inconsistent and it takes a little time to get them to play at a level that is a little more consistent."
Mesa had a final attempt at the Ranger goal in the 81st minute of play. CMU forward Brandon Burton beat his Rangers defenders and earned a hot on goal. Goalkeeper Chris Couperus anticipated the shot well enough to make a close save on the attempt.
"Overall, the team played well," McCall finished. "We scored four goals against a decent team and dominated. We are happy with that."
The Rangers will play at home Sunday, October 9th against the Adams State College Grizzlies. The game will take place at 2:00 PM.


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Tuck-and-roll automotive upholstery
Two ways to craft this classic look
UpholsteryJournalMag.com | February 8, 2012
By Claudette Sandecki
Tuck-and-roll refers to hand-stuffed channels that are typically used to form a decorative panel in automotive interiors. Classic tuck-and-roll is time consuming to fabricate because it entails hand stuffing individual channels. The result is a luxurious crown, and a seat with extra cushioning.
Faux tuck-and-roll takes less time to make because there is no channel stuffing involved. Instead, face fabric and padding are sandwiched together and pleated, resulting in a flat pleat with minimal cushioning.
Materials for faux tuck-and-roll
- Leather, vinyl or woven face fabric
- Scrimback foam or sew-foam. Scrimback is foam that's available in sheets one-quarter or one-half inch thick that are glued to a non-stretchy backing. Sew-foam is glued to tricot backing. For heavy-duty applications, you can construct your own pleat-filler by adhering a sturdy material, such as canvas, to a sheet of foam.
Materials for classic tuck-and-roll
- Leather, vinyl or woven face fabric
- Muslin or light canvas
- Cambric
- Cotton or padded felt
- Two large spring clamps
- Aluminum or wooden yardstick
Faux procedure
Scrimback accommodates pleats of any reasonable length, as long as the foam/face fabric sandwich doesn't become too unwieldy to sew straight. Shorter, narrower panels are easier to manipulate; a width of 24 inches or narrower is the easiest panel width to fabricate. Size is limited by whatever size roll of scrimback fits easily under your sewing machine arm.
To ensure straight, smooth pleats, use pencil-drawn lines and a carpenter's square to square face fabric, as well as all other fabrics used in this project, before cutting or sewing.
Determining panel width
Measure the size you'll need to cover with your faux panel before patterning.
For a panel 10-inches-by-14-inches wide that contains seven pleats, each two inches wide, allow a one-half inch seam allowance for each pleat on either side of the panel.
Add one inch of width just in case, for a total panel width of l9 and one-half inches.
To determine panel height, add one inch to the up-and-down length of pleats. You will end up with a total height of 11 inches.
Cut a scrimback rectangle that's 11 by 19 ½ inches.
Starting from the left edge of the foam, use a pencil or felt-tip marker to draw parallel stitching lines that are parallel to each other, and to the left and right sides of the panel. In this example, the stitching lines are parallel to the 11-inch dimension. The first line should be three-fourths of an inch from the left edge, then every two inches across the width of the panel. Set scrimback aside.
To calculate face fabric dimensions, give each pleat a three-fourth inch stitching allowance.
In addition, allow a three-fourth inch seam on either side of the panel.
The width of the face fabric will be three-fourths plus three-fourths plus (seven by two and three-fourth inches), for a total of 20 ¾ inches.
Determining panel height
Panel height is the same as for scrimback. Cut a rectangle of face fabric 11 inches by 20 ¾ inches.
Turn face fabric face down. Beginning on the fabric's right-hand edge, pencil a parallel line one-half inch to the left of, and parallel to, the cut edge. Proceed leftwards, drawing lines every 2 ¾ inches.
Sewing pleats
The first step is to make a sandwich of scrimback and face fabric. Begin by placing the left side of the fabric face up on top of the left side of the scrimback. Align the top left side of the fabric with the top left side of the scrimback.
Stitch a line from top to bottom, one-fourth inch from the cut edges. (Note: If too bulky to fit under the machine arm, turn the sandwich around and stitch this first line from bottom to top.)
Fold the fabric to the left on its first pleat line. Align this fold along the next line on the backing. Topstitch one-fourth inch to the left of the fold. This seam width keeps the machine foot from sliding off the face fabric.
Stitch successive pleats. Sew any remaining fabric flat to the scrimback, keeping the stitching line near the right edge of the scrimback. You now have a panel.
Stretch the panel, if necessary, to match the 11-by-19 ½-inch dimension you are aiming for. Stitch across top and bottom ends of pleats, three-eighths of an inch from the panel's cut edge, and your panel of faux tuck-and-roll is complete.
Classic procedure
This calls for one inch rather than one-half inch seam allowances on either side of the muslin backing, and the addition of two inches rather than one inch to the panel's length.
Face fabric measurements remain the same as for faux tuck-and-roll. The only procedural change, other than sewing face fabric to a muslin backing instead of to scrimback, is the way in which pleats are filled. Pleats are more properly called channels in the classic method because they're individually stuffed.
Make a test strip to determine how much cotton you'll need to create a pleasingly plump pleat. Doing so will also tell you the width of cambric required to encase the yardstick and cotton in a roomy enough space so that the cotton will not tear as it moves along the channel. Once you have a satisfactory test strip, cut one strip of cotton to those dimensions for every channel. Cut a strip of cambric for each channel, too, but note that the cambric strip must be six to eight inches longer than the strip of cotton, for a reason that will be explained shortly.
Stuffing Channels: Clamp the bottom of the sandwich to the edge of your work table, by placing one clamp on either side of the channel you're going to stuff.
Move clamps and muslin slightly together to enlarge the channel. Use a yardstick (one to two inches wide, depending upon the width of the pleats) as a spatula to convey the cotton into the channel.
Load a cotton strip on the yardstick, flush with the leading end of the yardstick. Swaddle the cotton and yardstick with a strip of cambric, lapping six to eight inches of cambric over the leading end of the ruler. If you're using a wooden ruler, tap a tack through the cambric into the leading end of the yardstick to secure the cambric.
Scrunch the sides of the cotton to fit on the yardstick, snug the cambric to the underside, and push the yardstick into the channel until it exits at the top of the pleat. Remove the tack if you tapped one into the yardstick. The channel should be uniformly padded. If not, pull the padding out and start over.
Remove yardstick. If necessary, adjust padding by tugging cambric up or down. Leave cambric in the channel. Stuff remaining channels. Instead of cambric, you can encase cotton and yardstick in plastic, such as a strip cut from one side of a shipping tube. But removing the plastic from the channel—a must—can prove difficult.
Tuck in or tear off excess cotton at both ends of the channels, and sew across the panel from side to side, three-eighths of an inch from the panel's cut edge, while stretching the panel to its original backing measurements.
Claudette Sandecki is a retired upholsterer in Terrace, B.C., Canada.
Comments are the opinion of individual posters and do not reflect the views of Upholstery Journal or Industrial Fabrics Association International.
Love-itLove-it. The pictures are great. I use that technique every week. Wanna see some pics? People love the look and feel of e channeled seat and back. POST more! Great job.


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The Palme d'Or is unquestionably one of the most prestigious awards a filmmaker can win, but unlike the Oscars, it's nearly impossible to predict. The decision comes down to a jury comprised of eight artists from around the world. This year, they're led by Italian filmmakers Nanni Moretti, the first non-American jury president in two years. As screenings of the competition films wind down, culminating with Saturday's awards ceremony, many Cannes attendees have embarked on the uncertain process of predicting which movies stand the best chance at the top prize. Unlike some years at the festival, the current edition has no single top contender. However, a handful entries have been routinely mentioned as the most likely contenders, for the reasons explained below. Of course, come Sunday, anything could happen.
"Amour" ("Love")
WHY IT MIGHT NOT: Haneke won the Palme d'Or for "The White Ribbon" just two years ago, a factor that could figure into the jury's decision if they decide to single out a less acclaimed filmmaker. It's also possible that the jury will decide the film's chief strengths come from its two lead performances and award one or both of them while sharing the love by giving the Palme to someone else.
"Holy Motors"
WHY IT MIGHT NOT: Some viewers found "Holy Motors" too gimmicky and illogical; it's this year's "Uncle Boonmee" slot, but that surreal Thai movie won the Palme d'Or when Tim Burton was president of jury and not a politically-charged director of Italian comedies. It's hard to say if Moretti likes the film but certainly possible that the jury as a whole doesn't quite know what to make of it. Instead of the Palme, they could award Carax with the festival's directing prize and/or single out Lavant's performance.
"On the Road"
WHY IT MIGHT NOT: It's a star-studded, unambitious road trip drama that doesn't build to a major emotional payoff or contain an advanced filmmaking approach. It could win the screenplay award instead.
"Like Someone in Love"
WHY IT MIGHT NOT WIN: Because the big picture remains elusive. Hardly the big hit of the festival, "Like Someone in Love" is a tough sell for anyone unfamiliar with the filmmaker's work and there are far more uniformly accessible films in competition this year.
"Rust and Bone"
WHY IT MIGHT NOT: Not everyone responded so warmly to the film's familiar type of sentimentalism, and the plot is largely predictable by the end of the first act. While skillfully made, it's not an audacious achievement. The jury could also single out Cotillard or Schoenaerts for acting prizes.


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Cal Harris goes on trial in September for a third time in connection with his wife's disappearance in Tioga County in 2001.
Monday night, Harris gave an interview to CBS's "48 Hours" to discuss the case, and publicly denied any involvement in her disappearance.
"I'm being put in a position that no one should be put in," Harris told CBS's Erin Moriarty. "That is, I'm having to try and solve this case to save myself, so I can be with my children."
Michele Harris disappeared in September of 2001, and her body has never been found.
A third trial for Cal Harris will be held in the eastern part of the state in Schoharie County, because of the media attention the case has received in our area.
Also on Monday's show, Cal Harris' children talked about their belief that their father was innocent. Back in March, Harris and his kids held a news conference in Owego to announce the creation of a tip line for anyone with information about the disappearance of Michele Harris.
The family of Michele Harris also spoke to CBS for the show.
"It's been 13 years almost of hell," said Greg Taylor, Michele's brother. "We had the first trial — he was found guilty. The conviction was thrown out. Finally had a second trial. He was found guilty again, and the conviction was overturned."


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