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Feb 06, 2013, 11:22 pm
Hi guys,
I have been working on a little project that I'm planning on implementing in my house. I am using the ID-20 RFID reader to trigger a high output from the arduino. I have an electric strike that will be mounted in the frame of a door in my garage. The electric strike that i purchased from ebay is rated at 12V DC @ 450mA. I am using a 12V DC power supply (which is giving out 17V DC unloaded) that will be powering the circuit for the strike. I am using the LM7812 voltage regulator to output 12VDC and a TIP31C transistor which will act as a switch when the arduino outputs a High, which will allow 12V DC from the output of the regulator. I have designed the circuit and tested and it works when I'm using a workbench power supply. I have 15V DC as an input to the circuit, and 5V DC to act as a High from the arduino. With that setup, everything is functioning as it should. My problem here is when I connect the pin (BASE) from the TIP31C to pin 9 on the arduino, and I tap the RFID Card on the reader which triggers a high output for 5 seconds from pin 9 on the arduino, I only get a spike of 7V for one second and it begins to drop down and hover at 1V-900mV.
Im not sure if this is because the output current of the arduino isn't enough to drive the transistor or I'm using a wrong source resistor value :S
If anyone here has had similar issues and have resolved, can you please give me some suggestions, I've tried almost everything I can possibly think of.
Thanks in advance!
Re: Arduino output pins controlling Electric Strike
Feb 06, 2013, 11:28 pm
This is the circuit that is controlling the electric strike
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Re: Arduino output pins controlling Electric Strike
Feb 07, 2013, 01:33 am
It's a bit alarming that you are getting 7 volts at the arduino output. That's not good for it.
The solenoid coil of the electric strike has a fairly high inductance which is going to cause
problems when you turn it off, it shouldn't be a problem when you turn it on so much.
I'd use a relay module to turn it on and off, and use the arduino to activate the relay.
Depending on whether the relay module already has some kind of transistor to amplify
the control signal to the relay, you may or may not need to use another transistor.
Not sure that I would bother with the voltage regulator at all.
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Re: Arduino output pins controlling Electric Strike
Feb 07, 2013, 01:52 am
Some more bad advice: When the transistor is "on", the voltage across the base-emitter junction is going to be about 1 volt. Where are you measuring this voltage ? Between the transistor base and the resistor Rs, or between the resistor Rs and the arduino pin ? If the former, that's what you would expect to see. Doesn't really explain the 7V though.
The second thing is, you want to limit the current from the arduino to some small value like, say, 20 mA. ( go look it up ). Preferably less. When the signal is on, you will expect to see around 4 volts drop across the resistor. So your resistor needs to be something in the ballpark of 200 ohms.
Third thing is, transistors have some kind of "gain" which is the ratio between the controlled current and the controlling current. You want to control a current of half an amp with a 20 mA base current (say). That's a current gain of 25x. Is that a reasonable expectation with your transistor ? If it isn't, the answer is to use two transistors where the first one controls the base current of the second one. This is often called a "Darlington" circuit or device.
Fourth thing is, when you turn the transistor "off", the current flowing in the solenoid coil of your doorstrike needs somewhere to go. You need to connect a diode across the terminals in the reverse direction so this current has somewhere to go.
Re: Arduino output pins controlling Electric Strike
Feb 07, 2013, 02:02 am
Im not getting 7v from the arduino, the 7v that im reading is at the output of the regulator (the image I uploaded shows 12v out which is where the lock will be connected). Maybe I explained it wrong. The circuit works fine when im using power supplies, but the second I use the arduino to turn the transistor on I only get 7v instead of the 12v.
I am using a 220ohm resistor at the base of the transistor which gives me Ib of 22.7mA. The data sheet for the tip31c requires 1A at the base.
I was considering using a relay but I had these parts laying around so I thought I would use it...
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Re: Arduino output pins controlling Electric Strike
Feb 07, 2013, 07:47 am
OK well 450 mA is a fairly big current, thats why the voltage of your regulator drops.
Thats the same sort of reason why your "12V" power supply has 17 V with no load on it.
It won't harm the solenoid to have 17 V on it. I'd just have the power supply without having
a second regulator. Having two regulators isn't doing much for you except wasting power.
Saying the transistor need 1 A base current is strange. Is that an upper limit or a minimum requirement ?
If you need 1 Amp base current to get 450 mA through the solenoid, the transistor is not doing much good.
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Re: Arduino output pins controlling Electric Strike
Feb 07, 2013, 08:00 am
That 1 Amp on the base current is the maximum limit. Not a requirement to make it work. That transistor
is also good for 100 V but that doesn't mean you have to use 100 V.
The Base-emitter voltage is in the region of 1.2 volts. So your base current limiting resistor seems to
be about right 200 ohms, 220 ohms.
It's not shown on your diagram but I would think you would need the ground also connected to your arduino ground.
The gain of the transistor is rather low. You may not be getting enough current through your solenoid.
It might be a good idea to measure the resistance of the solenoid to see what the steady state current is
going to be. One would think, the resistance would be something like 12V/0.450 = 26 ohms maybe, but it might not be.
If the gain of the transitor is not enough, use two transistors or a darlington device. Or a relay.
Bear in mind also, there is a voltage drop across the transistor, maybe 3 volts, so if you are using a 12 V power
supply, the solenoid is only going to see about 9 volts.
If the voltage at the power supply outlet is dropping too much, that suggests an undersized power supply.
Also, feeding a 12 V regulator chip with 12V is not going to work. Because of the transistors or diodes or
whatever that make the regulator chip work, it needs an input voltage maybe 2 volts higher than the supposed
regulated output voltage. Thats the same reason, you need to supply at least 6 volts and preferably 7 volts to
the input power jack of your arduino.
I am not really a transistor expert. Someone in a different time zone may have better ideas.
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Feb 07, 2013, 03:14 pm
You need at least 2V of "head room" for the 7812 meaning that it wants at least 14V coming in. If you don't have a heat sink on the 7812, then it's probably getting pretty hot and possibly shutting down. You should add a .1uF cap on the regulator output in parallel with the cap you already have.
If it were me, I'd be tempted to see if a 1K (or so) resistor across the 12V supply output would load the 17V down to ~12V and skip using the 7812 altogether; either that or get a better regulated 12V supply.
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Re: Arduino output pins controlling Electric Strike
Feb 08, 2013, 05:07 pm
Don't worry about the 17V - the power supply is not well regulated, but in this application it will have no effect on the performance of the solenoid in the door strike. Hook the positive output of the power supply to your solenoid, the other side of the solenoid to your transistor and the ground side of your power supply to the emitter of your transistor and to Arduino Ground. Put a reverse biased diode across the solenoid to protect your transistor.
Don't add complexity where no complexity is needed. Under load the voltage from your power supply will drop - if it drops too low then you need a larger power supply.
Re: Arduino output pins controlling Electric Strike
Feb 10, 2013, 02:27 am
So you're saying to setup up like this?
My original setup works with a bench power supply... 15V in to the regulator for 12V out and another power supply as 5V to simulate an arduino digital out. But what i noticed is when i use the arduino to trigger the transistor, im getting 4v across the collector emitter and 8V at the output of the lock... Idealy, when the transistor is saturated, there should only be approx. 0.2V across the collector emitter, giving me 11.8V at the lock which is enough to trigger the solenoid.
Im assuming the arduino cannot supply enough current to saturate the transistor. Ive used a POT and measured the voltage across the collector and emitter until i got 0.2V but even that limiting resistor value was not enough to turn the transistor on.
If i use the setup that kf2qd suggested, is the diode in the right position? Im pretty new to the electric strike business and im not sure if terminals of the strike have any polarity. When i tested the strike and applied the positive lead of the power supply to either ends it still worked.
Another question, if i decide to use relays, im going to need two relays for this setup right? One thats connected to the arduino output pin which is turned on when the pin is set high and another 12v relay that will turn on when the relay connected to the arduino is on? Im sure the output current of the arduino wont be enough to trigger a 12V relay. If thats the case, what type of relay should i use? ive searched all around and there are so many different types of relays. DPDT, SPDT, SPST i dont even know where to begin :S .... if anyone here can give me some advice as to what i should use or can recommend one that would be greatly appreciated.
Ive also considered using opto-isolators... would that be any better?
Thanks everyone!!!
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Re: Arduino output pins controlling Electric Strike
Feb 10, 2013, 01:22 pm
You are over-complicating things. You only need one relay.
You will use the arduino to activate the relay. Either use your transistor to provide the
current to actuate the relay. Or if you relay had a built-in transistor circuit to enable it
to be driven by 5V logical input, you may not need it.
The relay will connect the power supply to the solenoid.
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Re: Arduino output pins controlling Electric Strike
Feb 10, 2013, 07:11 pm
Don't bother with a relay, the solenoid only needs 450mA so a relay is unnecessary unless there is a requirement for isolation (which there isn't if you are providing the power supply for the solenoid). Your schematic in reply #9 is OK. However, the strike may well need more than 450mA while it is moving, so you need to choose the transistor and base resistor carefully. Here are some options:
- The TIP31C might just be OK if you reduce the base resistor to 100 ohms (don't go any lower).
- A logic-level mosfet would be best. Use a 100 ohm series resistor between the output pin and the mosfet gate, and a 10K resistor between the output pin and ground.
- A high gain medium-current low-saturation-voltage transistor such as ZTX851 would also work well (use a base resistor of 100 to 220 ohms).
- A darlington such as TIP102 would be OK if you can tolerate its voltage drop (about 2V), also it may get a little warm. Use a 1k base resistor.
The diode in your schematic can be 1N4001 or similar.
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Re: Arduino output pins controlling Electric Strike
Feb 13, 2013, 02:16 am
Thank you guys very much! I have managed to come up with a design that functions the way I want it to.
I appreciate all you inputs.
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Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times: The B in BCS stands for boring. Instead of great matchups, we got New Year's Day BCS games that proved nothing.
Scott D. Pierce, Deseret Morning News: The Mountain West Conference TV picture is muddled further with CSTV being swallowed whole by CBS.
Dick Harmon, Deseret Morning News: Brigham Young has a hole in its 2008 schedule and is looking for an opponent. Any Southeastern Conference teams interested in a road game?
Dan Nakaso, Honolulu Advertiser: A blessing in disguise, perhaps. About 90,000 homes in Hawaii lost their cable feeds for the Sugar Bowl with Hawaii trailing Georgia, 7-3. When service was restored, the Warriors trailed, 24-3.
Mark Snyder, Detroit Free Press: The mother of Michigan quarterback Ryan Mallett says her son hasn't decided if he will transfer.
Jean-Jacques Taylor, Dallas Morning News: The cradle of quarterbacks? It has to be Texas.
Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press: The final days of Lloyd Carr's run as Michigan coach were a lot like other days. Dull.
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- gerry dorsey said...
nice half assed shot at the sec. a) the likelihood of an sec team having an open date matching up with byu at this point is pretty damn slim. b) did you actually read the article, or just post it so you could mention that sec shit?? b/c the article says in plain english "Athletic director Tom Holmoe is on record saying his first priority for replacing Nevada would be a similar opponent — not another BCS team"
- We Are...Penn State email list said...
Penn State and Texas A&M is not good theater.
This is a weak analysis. In reality the Alamo Bowl was excellent theater. PSU roared back from a 14-0 deficit and stuffed TAMU at the goal line late in the fourth quarter.
Truth be told, no college football game would have had good ratings when matched against the Patriots pursuit of perfection on three networks.


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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Senior Tar Heel safety Tre Boston was named a top candidate for the prestigious Jim Thorpe Award on Friday, adding the ninth preseason nomination for the UNC football team.
The veteran, Boston, grabbed honorable mention All-ACC honors from the coaches and media last season. He led the team with 86 stops, featuring 49 solo tackles. The senior from Ft. Myers, Florida also snagged a team-leading four interceptions, including one that he took back for a touchdown in the win at Virginia.
Boston will be competing with 48 of the nation's premier defensive backs, representing eight conferences and one independent, for the right of claiming the title of the nation's best in 2013.
The Jim Thorpe Award was established in 1986 and is named after a man largely considered history's greatest all-around athlete, Jim Thorpe. Thorpe excelled as a running back, passer and kicker on the offensive side of the ball, but also stood out as a defensive back. In addition to his legendary performance on the football field, Thorpe played professional baseball and won Olympic gold medals in both the decathlon and pentathlon.
Next up on the preseason award watch list docket are The Butkus (linebackers) and the Rotary Lombardi (linemen) awards. These lists will be released on Monday.


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The leader of a planned African American museum in Minneapolis is accusing a local community bank of imperiling the museum's existence by forcing it to rewrite the terms of a $1.2 million mortgage.
But a bank official said that the museum created the dilemma by winning a $1 million state grant that required it to redo the loan.
The dispute erupted as the Minnesota African American Museum and Cultural Center twice postponed its opening, first planned for summer 2011, then May 2012. Now it's scheduled for Sept. 15.
Roxanne Givens, the museum's founder, said the delays have been caused by the slow pace of fundraising.
But in sharply worded e-mails last month, Givens told museum board members that Franklin National Bank and its parent company, St. Paul-based Sunrise Community Banks, had engaged in "unrelenting harassment," treating people of color and black institutions differently than "middle-class" entities despite touting its commitment to communities and diversity.
"It is a sad day in history," Givens said last week. "Why would you place an African American museum, of all institutions, in jeopardy?"
David Reiling, CEO of Sunrise, said it was "completely wrong" to suggest the bank only focuses on the middle class, noting that it embraces community efforts and has increased its branch locations in low- and moderate-income areas that have been abandoned by other banks.
"We literally have hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the urban core of Minneapolis and St. Paul," he said. "These loans are small businesses, nonprofit organizations and affordable housing development."
The bank made the loan to the museum in 2009 to help with its plan to acquire and renovate a 19th century mansion at 1700 3rd Av. S. to display the museum's collection.
In 2011, the Legislature approved a bonding bill that included $1 million for the museum renovation, contingent on the museum's raising an equal amount separately from non-state funds. In May, the state concluded that the museum had met that requirement.
However, the state had another requirement -- that the museum be listed as collateral for the $1 million grant. "There is a statutory requirement that [the state] be in a first position in case there is a default," said Joel Ludwigson, a spokesman for the Minnesota Management and Budget agency. "If the project does not succeed for whatever reason, the state gets to be in the number one position to recover whatever it can."
E-mails show that in August, Franklin National Bank, which had issued a $1.2 million mortgage on the property, told the museum that if it was no longer going to be in first position, it needed a new "source of the collateral" on the outstanding loan balance, either in the form of cash as security or "another piece of real estate."
Reiling said that the crux of the problem is that the museum changed its request. "The museum did not disclose to us the requirements of getting the million dollar state bonding," he said.
He said that while he cannot go into details about the loan, speaking in a "hypothetical situation" if regulators saw that the bank was to move to the second position on a $1 million mortgage, "the loan would be considered unsatisfactory by the bank regulators, and the bank would be required to write it off as a total loss."
Givens declined to disclose what the loan balance is but said it was between $500,000 and $1 million. Givens predicted that the museum, through its capital campaign, can pay off the bank loan by the end of 2013.
The museum has already received $100,000 or more each from the Target Foundation, Wells Fargo, General Mills, 3M and Minnesota Humanities, she said.
The bank should be working as a partner to solve the problem, she said.
"At some point you do take a risk because you believe in that institution," said Givens, who spent decades as a developer of affordable homes, as well as doing extensive work in philanthropy.
Word has gotten around town about the museum's predicament. State Sen. Jeff Hayden, DFL-Minneapolis, said he was aware that the bank does not want to be at a second position on its loan. "Franklin Bank has long been a community-oriented bank," he said. "I will be extremely disappointed with Franklin Bank if we can't work this out."
Renovating the mansion is Tri-Construction, a minority owned firm, working with Knutson Construction as a mentor.
Germain Palmer, 39, a laborer with Tri-Construction, was hard at work Friday, sawing and removing sheet rock from the ceiling of the third floor of the former mansion.
"I am very proud to be working on this project," said Palmer, who is black. "I'm doing this for my kids and my family and other people's families so they can see what we've gone through."
He said he's heard about the problems with the bank but continues working, assuming that he will get paid.
The public had a first glimpse of the museum during a two-day program in June on black baseball in the Upper Midwest.
On Sept. 15, the first and second floors will open to the public, Givens said. The third floor will be completed by the end of the year.
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Trying to find a good internet marketing agency that focuses on search engine optimization (SEO) is not a difficult task. There are hundreds of companies offering internet marketing solutions, but not all of them offer the best SEO services. This is why there are certain services you should be looking for, helping your business grow and improve your online revenue in the long run.
One of the best SEO service and probably one of the most important is the security of your website. The big search engines are looking favorably on websites that have taken their security to the next level, which is HTTPS. Ensure that your SEO company provides you with this service, helping you get your website secure to assist you with your search engine ranking in the long run.
Next the best SEO services will ensure you have a mobile friendly website. With the rising number of people searching for products and services using their mobile devices increases, the top search engines are now improving the ranking of companies that have embraced mobile technology and have designed a mobile friendly website. A mobile friendly website must load quickly and be easy to use on a small smart phone touch screen.
From here you want to ensure that the best SEO services that you are paying for will also cover your page load speed times. Loading times are essential to your websites success, but it is also what keeps your potential clients on your website once they arrive here. Its a fact that any web page which takes more than a few seconds to load could result in your potential clients leaving your site to one of your competitor websites and chances are, they will never come back to your site again in the future.
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Disproportionate Portions: Thanks to those damaged intestinal walls that don't absorb nutrients, many with undiagnosed celiac disease can eat large portions of food without gaining weight. "Before being diagnosed, many celiacs become accustomed to eating more food than they need," says Alice Bast, founder and president of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, the Pennsylvania-based non-profit group devoted to improving education and awareness of the disease.
Once celiac disease is diagnosed and the diet undertaken, however, Wall notes that "it can be difficult for adults to modify their eating habits and reduce the quantity of food consumed in order to maintain a healthy weight."
Consider this: studies show that it takes an average of 11 years to get diagnosed with celiac disease. That's 11 years of going back for seconds or thirds without gaining a pound. It's not an easy habit to break.
Foods That Pack Extra Punch: Perhaps the most significant factor in weight gain on a gluten-free diet is unrestrained consumption of alternative foods. Twenty years ago, people with celiac disease had little choice but to banish all breads, cookies, cereals, cakes and crackers from their diets. Today, grocery stores across North America boast an ever-growing number of gluten-free packaged foods.
These foods are tastier than ever, convenient and allow those with celiac disease to enjoy foods like those they used to eat, helping them to feel more "normal."
Among the aisles of gluten-free products, shoppers can unquestionably find healthful, nutritious options. But to improve taste, many gluten-free packaged foods contain higher amounts of fats and sugars than their gluten-containing counterparts. And that means higher calorie counts in many cases. For example, Wall says gluten-free pretzels can have seven or eight grams of fat per serving, whereas standard pretzels might have zero to two grams.
There's also the issue of density. Many gluten-free foods have a dense texture, resulting in smaller average portions when compared to gluten-containing foods. For example, if you're used to filling your bowl to the top with your old cereal and you're still doing so now with gluten-free cereal, you're probably eating more servings than you were before, even though the bowl is filled to the same spot.
That said, "it's important to feel normal and eat a sandwich," says Bast, who was diagnosed 18 years ago, back when "gluten-free" labels were hidden in small print and were essentially a euphemism for "tastes horrible." Bast, who cried when she ate her first piece of gluten-free bread, is more than aware of the importance of quick and convenient foods for families. "I know how difficult it is for parents," she says. "They are looking for convenience."
In some ways, this amounts to a narrow-focused version of the challenge of all North Americans: how to maintain a healthy weight despite the growing availability of convenient tasty treats. But there's one key difference. In people with celiac disease, achieving a healthy weight is usually secondary to getting the disease under control. After all, a few extra pounds are nothing compared to a daily onslaught of symptoms including diarrhea, cramping, bloating or flatulence.
What's more, according to the University of Maryland's Center for Celiac Research, untreated celiac disease can lead to osteoporosis, organ and gynecological disorders, and even certain types of cancer.
"I think healthy eating habits are important," notes Bast. But for anyone with celiac disease, "before anything else, make sure you are gluten free."
Related Reading: Top 5 Gluten-Free Weight Tips


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April 29: Police began assisting an outside agency with a drug investigation.
April 30: Officers opened an additional drug investigation. Police were called to Peabody-Burns Elementary school to assist with a juvenile situation.
May 1: Police assisted with a civil case involving motor vehicles.
May 2: A case was opened involving child physical sexual abuse.
May 3: Police took a report and completed an investigation for the city of Peabody on street damage. A subject was arrested for driving with a revoked driver's license.
May 5: A subject was arrested for aggravated domestic battery. Officers assisted with a juvenile situation and provided transport to a medical facility for medical screening.


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Did a rundown of some BAK batteries from Xeccon. From my understanding, there are even different grades of new BAK batteries. BAKs in Xeccon and Magicshine batteries should be the same grade, but I cannot confirm that. My feeling is, the Xeccon ones are slightly better.
All batteries in this rundown are Xeccon supplied BAK batteries. The set up and results:
- 2 x MJ-808E connected via a Y cable to a 6600 - 2 hr 27 mins when over-discharge protection kicked in. Will explain this later.
- 2 x S12 U2 via a Y to a 4400 - 1 hr 32 mins
- MJ-880U to a 6600 - 2 hr 24 mins
- MJ-872 to a 6600 - 4 hr 30 mins
Time [email protected] secs on the Replay XD record which light done what when. The purpose of this test was to subject the batteries to various draw currents including overloading them with 2 light heads' draw. Surprise result was how long the MJ-872 went for. [EDIT: Wrong diagnosis. The problem was not over-discharge protection just bad coincidence - there was a weak solder joint with this battery.] The battery will not charge with the broken circuit but will the moment a finger is used to push the connections back together. [EDIT: This unusual solder failure is fully covered by warranty.]
So not all is lost in an emergency if your battery suffers a protection cut out in the woods. The good question is, even in a normal low battery shutdown deep in the woods (with a pen light to work), are you able to by-pass the circuit to give you "reserve" power? It will damage the batteries no doubt but life is priority. How much longer will it go for?
BAK cells from Xeccon are easy to identify. The wrappers are Aqua Blue with "BAK A 02" and a barcode printed on. Build quality is good. Inter-connections and finishing is also quite good. My only concern is there are no rubber or silicone boot for 6600mAh batteries to date. Hope to have this remedied soon. Currently, to ensure further waterproofing, suggest using duct tape to seal up the battery completely before putting it into the neoprene pouch.
I was going to tear up the battery pack and show the cells in the raw then noticed the protection circuit can be remedied for my personal use. If anyone wants me to go that step further, let me know. I will sacrifice it.
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Anderson County resident Bill Rose, a kicker on the Kentucky State University football team, has been named to the All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference second team, according to a news release.
A junior who transferred to Kentucky State from Murray State, Rose hit on 5-of-8 field goal attempts with a long kick of 37 yards.
Rose also hit on 12-of-13 extra point attempts for the Thorobreds, who finished the season on Nov. 7.
Anderson County High School graduate Jacob Russell broke his own school record as he passed for 426 yards to lead Campbellsville University to a 42-34 Mid-South Conference win over Pikeville Saturday afternoon in Campbellsville.
Russell connected on 29-of-42 passes with two interceptions. He threw for four touchdowns, the longest being a 54-yard strike to Tyus Alcorn. Russell also ran for 42 yards and a score.
Campbellsville improved to 4-2 on the year.
Georgetown 14, Bluefield 0
The University of the Cumberlands took the Mid-South Conference Women's Golf Championships, held last week at Bardstown Golf Club at Maywood.
The Patriots posted a three-day total of 922 (302-306-314) to win their fourth consecutive conference tournament crown. Campbellsville finished second with a 945 (306-323-316) with Cumberland (Tenn.) placing third with a 949.
Cumberlands secured the MSC's automatic bid in next month's NAIA Championship, to be held at Pooler, Ga.
Anderson County High School basketball player Austin Cummins has committed to Anderson University, an NCAA Division II program locate in Anderson, S.C.
Cummins, who finished as the second leading scorer in Kentucky during last season, committed during a trip to the school last week.
No. 2 UConn swept the season series from Cincinnati with a 96-36 win in women's college basketball last Wednesday in Storrs, Conn. The Huskies had beaten the Bearcats by 65 points earlier in the season in Cincinnati.
Anderson County resident Makenzie Cann was scoreless but had two rebounds in 23 minutes of action.
South Florida 75, Cincinnati 36
South Florida (19-4) rolled to an easy win over Cincinnati Saturday in the Sun Dome. Makenzie Cann totaled 10 points and five rebounds for Cincinnati, which fell to 6-17 on the year.
The Central Kentucky Mudcats' 14-and-under softball team finished as the runner-up in the NSA August Blowout, held at Anderson County Community Park over the weekend.
The Mudcats, a travel team made up largely of girls from Anderson County, finished 3-2 in the 10-team tournament, losing to the East Kentucky Slammers, of Ashland, in the final.
"Overall, it was the best weekend of the summer as the girls face strong pitching and very solid teams to come in second," Mudcat coach Chris Copenhaver said.
Campbellsville University cheerleading posted a score of 8.24 Friday morning to win the NAIA Challenge Cup and earn a spot in the NCA Cheer Championship finals Friday afternoon.
Campbellsville went on to finish sixth in the finals with a score of 8.168, according to a news release.
CAMPBELLSVILLE – You might say that several Anderson County athletes are doing just what their college promised.
They are finding their callings at Campbellsville University.
The campus, tucked away in this south-central Kentucky town, is not one frequented by ESPN. Local media and an occasional visit from the big boys in Lexington or Louisville, both over an hour away, might have to suffice.
The University of the Cumberlands women's golf team took the championship of the Mid-South Conference Spring Tournament at Cattails Golf Course in Kingsport, Tenn., last week.
Anderson County resident and Cumberlands golfer Taylor Gillis shot a two-day total of 174 (32 over) to finish in 18th place individually, according to a news release. Cumberlands posted a 307-309 two-day team score to defeat second place Campbellsville by 10 strokes.
Ryan Ratliff cleared 6-04.25 to tie for fourth place in the high jump at the Rod McCravy Invitational track meet at the University of Kentucky on Saturday.
Ratliff, a freshman at UK, has cleared the same height in both of his meets for the Wildcats.
Kentucky will be traveling to Notre Dame for a meet on Friday and Saturday of this week.
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IQVIA Key Account Manager - Biosimilars - Italy in Fermo, Italy
IQVIA™ is the leading human data science company focused on helping healthcare clients find unparalleled insights and better solutions for patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness the power of healthcare data, domain expertise, transformative technology, and advanced analytics to drive healthcare forward.
New Team Build
IQVIA are looking for Key Account Managers to increase engagement of all key stakeholders in the biosimilars and oncology market place. We are partnering with a global company to help them in their mission to make medicines more accessible and faster.
Our dedicated Key Account Engagement Manager will be true experts in their fields providing customers detailed information about company and disease area developments and collect information about a variety of facts which are influencing the actual and future biosimilar market.
Our Key Account Manager will be challenged by developing their region from scratch covering a large variety of stakeholders including :- Prescribers, Nurses, Hospital pharmacists, Hospital administration, Tender authorities, Payers (and other budget holders), Purchasing organizations, Policy makers, Industry associations, Scientific associations, Patient associations.
To support these activities and interactions an allocated a marketing/activity budget to organize or participate in events like Advisory Boards, Congresses will be provided.
The principal accountabilities include:-
Interactions with the customer targets on national, regional and local basis
Scientific discussions, Presentations, Data Exchange and Education
All workers are expected to dear to Company SOPs and Manuals, Industries code of practice and external regulatory framework at all times.
Knowledge and Experience
Interactions with the customer targets on national, regional and local basis
Scientific discussions, Presentations, Data Exchange and Education
Life Science or Business degree
Certificate to perform field service in the pharmaceutical industry (where legally required)
Perfect written and spoken English
Pharmaceutical industry experience in customer facing roles
Excellent communication and an inspirational presenter with experience of influencing large groups
Existing network within the target group desirable
A passion for influencing customers through compelling insight
A good understanding of topics beyond the commercial function within a pharmaceutical company like product development, manufacturing, supply, medical, regulatory
Willingness to act like an entrepreneur in proactively searching for the appropriate targets
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Join Us
Making a positive impact on human health takes insight, curiosity, and intellectual courage. It takes brave minds, pushing the boundaries to transform healthcare. Regardless of your role, you will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve outcomes for patients.
Forge a career with greater purpose, make an impact, and never stop learning.
At IQVIA, we have a vision. Where every healthcare decision is based on evidence. Where data science and human science come together to improve global health. Where new and creative solutions aren't just possible – they are expected.
Thank you for your interest in growing your career with us. It takes insight, curiosity, and intellectual courage to transform healthcare. The 56,000+ employees of the IQVIA family of companies, including Q2 Solutions, are reimagining a world without the consequences of disease. We are brave minds bringing powerful ideas to reality. At IQVIA, you can truly make an impact in an environment where you're supported to succeed.
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John Force (Funny Car) and Doug Kalitta's (Top Fuel) qualifying times from Friday held up Saturday February 22, 2014 at the 30th annual Carquest Auto Parts NHRA Nationals at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Arizona. Both will start Sunday's eliminations in the top qualifying position in their respective categories. (Will Lester/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
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Google is revamping its Chrome OS platform with a new desktop environment and window management system. We took a close look at the user interface improvements earlier this week in a detailed hands-on report. In our review, we explained how advanced users can install the experimental new interface on a Chromebook by enabling the developer update channel.
Of course, that only works if you have a Chromebook. After we published our review, we heard from many readers who wanted to test the latest experimental version of Chrome OS on conventional hardware. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install a third-party build of Google's operating system in a virtualized environment or on a bootable thumb drive.
Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system that largely consists of open source software. Independent developers can download the source code from a public repository and compile their own builds of the platform. Google uses the name Chromium OS to distinguish the underlying open source project from the commercial version of the operating system that is shipped by hardware manufacturers.
A third-party build that is based on the code from the open source software repositories is technically called Chromium OS, and is branded accordingly. That's what we are going to be working with in this tutorial. When you get it up and running, you will notice that the browser icon is blue instead of the usual red, green, and yellow.
Google provides detailed instructions that explain how to download the source code, compile all of the components, and generate a bootable system image. The process is a bit involved, however, and isn't really intended for enthusiasts who just want to try the software. Fortunately, somebody else has already done all the work.
Liam McLoughlin, who is known as Hexxeh on the Internet, routinely generates up-to-date builds of Chromium OS and publishes them on his website for people to download. He offers two separate flavors of the operating system: vanilla and lime. The vanilla builds are more closely aligned with upstream whereas the lime builds include broader hardware support and additional components, such as a Java plugin.
McLoughlin generates new builds every day using the very latest code from the Chromium OS project. That means his recent builds include the Aura-based user interface and other new features that we looked at in our review. In addition to a standard disk image that is suitable for writing to a USB thumb drive, he also supplies a VirtualBox disk image that can be used to easily set up a virtualized Chromium OS environment.
Before we begin, it's worth noting that running Chromium OS on a regular computer is not the same as running Chrome OS on a Chromebook. There are some distinctive hardware features in Chromebooks that you generally won't find in regular netbooks and laptops. One key difference is that Chromebooks have a verified boot mechanism that checks at startup to make sure the operating system hasn't been compromised.
That feature requires specialized hardware and a signed kernel that is supplied by a hardware manufacturer. It's obviously not a feature that you are going to get when you run Chromium OS on a regular netbook. It's also worth noting that these Chromium OS builds aren't as tightly locked down as the standard Chrome OS. You get a full shell and have broader filesystem access.
Testing Hexxeh's Chromium OS build
The process of obtaining a Chromium OS disk image and writing it to a USB thumb drive is different for each operating system. Hexxeh supplies a utility for Mac OS X that largely automates the entire process. The tool will download the Chromium OS build specified by the user and then write it to a USB thumb drive.
A similar tool is currently being developed for Windows, but isn't available yet. Windows users will have to download a disk image from Hexxeh's website and then use a third-party tool to write it to a USB thumb drive. Hexxeh recommends using Image Writer for Windows, which has a pretty self-explanatory user interface.
Linux users will have to use the
dd command at the command line to write the disk image to a USB thumb drive. For reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, the user-friendly USB disk creator tool that comes bundled with Ubuntu seems to consistently fail with the Chromium OS disk image. The
dd command, which is the method that Hexxeh recommends, works perfectly. Please note that
dd is unforgiving and can do nasty things to your hard drive if you feed it the wrong parameters.
To download the disk image manually, which you will need to do on Windows or Linux, visit Hexxeh's website and click the USB thumb drive icon next to the latest build. I chose to use the vanilla flavor, which ended up working pretty well on my hardware. The disk image is compressed in a zip archive, with a total download size of 256MB. Hexxeh recommends installing it on a USB storage device that is at least 4GB.
After you write the image to a USB thumb drive, you can get a complete Chromium OS experience by booting from the device. The vast majority of modern PCs natively support USB booting, but you may need to jump through some hoops to get it to work. On most computers, it's a simple matter of activating a boot device selection menu during startup. On some computers, you might need to go into the bios and manually configure the boot device order.
I tested Hexxeh's Chromium OS builds on my HP netbook. When the HP logo appears during startup, I have to press the escape key to get to the boot menu and then F9 to get to the boot device selection list. The list lets me choose between booting from the built-in hard drive or the USB thumb drive.
Booting from a USB drive is obviously a lot slower than booting from an internal SSD, so it's going to take a bit longer than it would on a Chromebook. The process is still pretty fast, however. You will see the Chromium OS logo on the screen for a few moments while the system is booting. When it finishes, you will be presented with the platform's initial setup wizard. It will walk you through the steps of setting up your WiFi network and user account.
You only have to go through this setup process the first time that you boot the operating system from the USB thumb drive. On subsequent startups, you will instead see the login screen. After you get past the setup or login screen, you will see the Chromium OS desktop in all its Aura-enabled glory.
Hexxeh's vanilla build worked mostly as expected on my HP netbook, but I encountered several minor hardware problems. The Synaptics clickpad on the netbook proved especially problematic and couldn't handle click-and-drag operations reliably. I also encountered some difficulty getting the system to resume from a suspended state during my tests.
I had no trouble with WiFi, however, which worked perfectly out of the box. You might see different results, depending on your hardware. If you encounter serious hardware problems, you might want to check and see if your system is better supported by the Lime build.
As noted above, Hexxeh provides VirtualBox disk images alongside the USB images. The VirtualBox images are useful if you want to test Chromium OS in a virtualized environment instead of running it natively on hardware. The image is supplied in a VDI file, which is VirtualBox's standard virtual disk format.
When you create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox and reach the step where it prompts you to specify a virtual hard disk, click the "Use existing hard disk" option. Next, click the folder icon to the right of the disk selection list. You will see a file selection dialog, which you can use to select the VDI file.
The vanilla Chromium OS build works well in VirtualBox, though you won't be able to take advantage of the VirtualBox features that require guest additions. I had some minor issues with cursor control and had to select the option to disable mouse integration from the
Machine menu.
Hexxeh's builds are currently aimed at supporting conventional x86 hardware, but he's also exploring other possibilities. In a recent Twitter post, he demonstrated an ARM build of Chromium OS booting on the $35 Raspberry Pi Linux computer. It's possible that the enthusiast community will bring the platform to a variety of other hardware devices and form factors.
Using the instructions in this article, you should be able to get a taste of what Google is going to offer with the next generation of Chrome OS, including the much-improved user interface. Although running a third-party build on conventional hardware probably isn't practical for day-to-day use, it's an easy way to explore the capabilities of Google's operating system without having to purchase a Chromebook.


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Love One Another
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As I have loved you,
Love one another.
This new commandment:
Love one another.
By this shall men know
Ye are my disciples,
If ye have love
One to another.
Words: Luacine Clark Fox, 1914-2002
Music: Luacine Clark Fox, 1914-2002; arr. by Jo Marie Borgeson Bray, 1925-1998
© 1961 by Luacine C. Fox. Copyright renewed 1989.
Arr. and obbligato © 1978 IRI. This song may be copied for incidental, noncommercial church or home use.
See also Hymns, no. 308.


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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, leave the Newtown Municipal Building on Friday before heading to visit with families of the victims of last month's Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who has campaigned for stricter gun laws since being shot in Arizona two years ago, is visiting the Connecticut town where a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle massacred 20 children and and six school staffers.
Giffords, who was left partially blind by the 2011 attack at a campaign event, met with local officials at the municipal building in Newtown, Conn., Friday afternoon and was to see victims' families at a private home later in the day.
"What drew her was the shared experience — our 26 victims and survivors, and what she experienced in Arizona," Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra told the Newtown Bee.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, and other local officials spoke with the ex-congresswoman about "what we as a society feel, what difference can we make given the horrific things that have happened," Llodra said.
"We talked about gun control, mental health, and society's desensitization to violence," she said.
"We need to use our voice to make a change ... We have to leverage that experience, and the world will listen to us, but we have to move quickly."
Giffords was accompanied by her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, who tweeted about the need for more gun control the day Adam Lanza carried out his bloodbath at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"20 - 5 year olds gunned down in their own classroom. When will we address this problem as a nation? The time is now," he wrote.
State worker accused of showing Adam Lanza's body to husband
On Wednesday, Kelly and Giffords met with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, founder of a group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Giffords was greeting constituents outside a Tucson grocery store on Jan. 8, 2011, when Jared Loughner opened fire, killing Arizona's chief federal judge and five others, including a 9-year-old girl. Twelve people, including Giffords, were wounded.
Loughner, who used a 9mm Glock, has since pleaded guilty and been sentenced to life in prison. Giffords, who can't use her right arm and has trouble walking, resigned her House seat a year ago.
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