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SACRAMENTO — When the archives have been recovered and the names counted, the experts who made the decisions that climaxed with three dozen snapped steel bolts on the new Bay Bridge in March may fill an auditorium.
In a nearly three-hour grilling before the state Senate Transportation Committee Tuesday afternoon about the embarrassing engineering failure and a possible delay in the bridge's scheduled Sept. 3 opening, Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty pointed to a list of teams populated with federal, state and private engineers, and academic engineering institutions including the National Science Academy, who were involved in the decision more than a decade ago.
"We had a lot of expertise at the table," Dougherty testified. " … The decision (to use the type of high-strength steel bolts that broke) was reviewed by material testing engineers, corrosion experts, consultants and the engineers of record at T.Y. Lin and Moffatt Nichol. There was experience using these bolts. It wasn't risky."
Committee Chairman Mark DeSaulnier of Concord and Sen. Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, who is a licensed civil engineer, appeared unimpressed with the expertise argument and repeatedly asked for easier-to-understand explanations of who, what, when and where.
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"My frustration stems from my inability to tell my constituents from Contra Costa and Alameda counties, who are a large portion of the commuters on that bridge, that it will be safe and that it is a value well spent," DeSaulnier said. "Sitting here today, I don't know if I would vote for that design given the benefit of hindsight."
Caltrans, the California Transportation Commission and the Bay Area Toll Authority have been scrambling for more than two months to explain why 32 of 96 beefy steel anchor rods, 3 inches in diameter and from 17 to 24 feet long, broke in the massive pier east of the main span tower.
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To help bolster public opinion, the agencies have asked and the Federal Highway Administration has agreed to review its bolt testing process and the proposed repairs.
Technically, engineers blame the fractures on a well-known phenomenon in high-strength steel fasteners subject to high levels of tension, where hydrogen atoms invade the spaces between steel's orderly crystalline molecules and weaken it. The stronger the steel and the higher the tension, the more susceptible it is to hydrogen fractures.
Questions remain unanswered about why bridge designers chose to deviate from general industry and state warnings and use superstrong galvanized steel that is prone to this type of failure. That type of steel was used for 2,306 fasteners on the span.
The agencies are "hunting and pecking" for the written records of those decisions, Bay Area Toll Authority Executive Director Steve Heminger told the senators.
Many of the relevant documents were part of the first and subsequently aborted self-anchored suspension span bid that wasn't awarded when a single contractors' consortium responded with a bid for nearly double the state's cost estimate.
"This would have gone a lot faster if the records were computerized and available," Heminger said. " … But we are getting closer. In our report (for the May 29 Toll Authority meeting), we will provide a very detailed report of who was there, what decisions they made and for what reasons."
Heminger and his colleagues also explained to senators how they will retrofit the broken bolts — at a cost of up to $10 million — with a steel saddle secured with cables around the seismic stabilizers called shear keys. The shear keys help control sway during an earthquake.
Caltrans is also testing other steel pieces on the bridge, including rods in the main cable anchorage and elsewhere in the eastern pier. Technicians pulled a bolt from the bottom of the tower on Saturday for testing and will remove six pieces from the ends of the 31/2-inch diameter rods in the anchorage chamber, Caltrans spokesman Will Shuck confirmed.
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The couple has three children: Carla Vasquez, Steven Runkel and his wife Kena, and Shawn Runkel and his wife Naomi, all of Vandalia. They have nine grandchildren – Rob Fox of Vandalia; Samantha Fox of Arvada, Colo.; and Christopher, Levi, Megan, C.J., A.J., Terry and Macie, all of Vandalia – and three great-grandchildren.
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Nashville Predators and Team USA General Manager David Poile has undergone successful surgery after being hit in the face by a puck, the team said Friday.
Poile underwent a pair of procedures to repair a fractured eye socket and repair a deep facial gash at a St. Paul, Minn., hospital, sustained when he was hit by an errant puck during a Thursday practice session at Xcel Energy Center as the Predators were preparing to play the Minnesota Wild.
The 63-year-old GM will remain in the Minnesota city and won't immediately accompany the American hockey squad to the Sochi Winter Olympics.
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COVER- Make mine Virginia shine: Backwoods brew becomes big (and now legal) business
Known variously as "white lightning," "mountain dew," or just plain "firewater," there's no denying that moonshine has been a part of Virginia history for almost as long as there has been a Virginia. No less an august personage than George Washington operated a still at Mount Vernon. When Pennsylvania tried to impose a tax on the brew in the late 18th century, Scots-Irish farmers fled to the Blue Ridge hills to continue making their corn-based liquor unmolested. And during the era of Prohibition, it was the backwoods moonshiners who kept Virginia's whistle wet with their cheap, easy-to-make brand of booze.
Now, even as the clear, syrupy contraband continues to run down mountainsides throughout Appalachia, moonshine has seeped its way into places it's never been before: local ABC stores.
That's right: after centuries of operating in secret to avoid the taxman, some moonshiners have gone legit– and consumers are buying up and drinking down the brew with newfound interest. Meanwhile, state and federal agents say illegal moonshine operations have become multi-million dollar businesses, with distribution networks that run from rural Virginia to Philadelphia, Atlanta, and beyond.
What has caused more and more people to take a shine to 'shine? Theories vary, but there's no doubting that moonshine is having its day in the sun.
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Moonshine's new social acceptance can be seen all over the Commonwealth.
Culpeper's Belmont Farms Distillery ships bottles of its Virginia Lightning corn liquor to state-run Alcoholic Beverage Control stores across the state, including most of Charlottesville's branches. So respectable has the company become that the Virginia Tourism Corporation– the same folks who remind vacationers everywhere that "Virginia is for lovers"– features the distillery on its website, the History Channel profiled it in 2005, and in 2006, Belmont Farms entered a category that even Virginia Gentleman bourbon can't boast. Unlike the brand's A. Smith Bowman Distillery in Lexington, Belmont Farms is allowed to sell its whiskey on its own premises, thanks to legislation passed by the General Assembly and signed by Governor Tim Kaine.
The formerly illicit beverage is even becoming part of kid-friendly fun. Endless Caverns in New Market is planning to build the Virginia Moonshine Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. No word on when the project will come to fruition, but a website currently pleads, "If you have memorabilia from the Prohibition Era that you would be willing to contribute for an exhibit, please contact us." A call to Endless Caverns about the venture was not returned.
Even schools are getting in on the action. Since "speakeasy" is a term students are required to know on this year's seventh grade Standards of Learning exam on American history, Buford Middle School teacher Laura Merricks turned her classroom into a 1920s-era underground watering hole for a day. A local public school celebrating moonshine's heyday with 12-year-olds?
"The speakeasy is an SOL," says Merricks. "We're really clear with the kids that they all know what it is. We think they're old enough to differentiate between that behavior and what we're doing."
Going straight
Native New Yorker Joe Michalek became exposed to white lightning in the '90s, when he was a 20-something marketing executive for North Carolina-based tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds. However, it didn't take long for him to observe that moonshine's effects in his new home went beyond a mere buzz.
"For my work at RJR, I went to a lot of concert festivals and a lot of stock car races, and everywhere I went, somebody would always pull the moonshine out," Michalek says. "Whenever the moonshine came out, some people really wanted to try it, some weren't so sure, but it always got everyone's attention."
As he watched this behavior grow increasingly frequent, Michalek started to see green in those clear mason jars.
"In marketing, it's so rare to see a product that has the kind of mystique that gets a reaction out of 100 percent of the people," he says. "I wondered why wasn't anyone selling this legally?"
It turns out that nobody had tried. So in 2003, after six years of endless paperwork and government compliance meetings, Michalek quit his job and founded Piedmont Distillers in Madison, North Carolina, just 20 minutes south of the Virginia line, the only legal distillery in the state. Using an old-fashioned copper still outfitted with space age gadgetry, he began making and manufacturing Catdaddy, a moonshine made with a blend of other ingredients to give it a sort of vanilla flavor. It sold well enough, but Michalek knew in order to thrive, he'd need to make a straight grain whiskey, and he'd need the help of a Tarheel legend who knows a thing or two about kicking a moonshine operation into high gear.
'The Last American Hero'
No living American is more famously emblematic of the moonshine culture's outlaw spirit than NASCAR legend Junior Johnson. In 1931, when he was born in the North Carolina hill country of Wilkes County, his father, Robert Sr., was coping with hard economic times the same way most poor farmers did during the Depression.
"Making moonshine was the only way for anyone to make any money," says Johnson. "So my father grew enough corn to feed his family, and what was left over went into making moonshine."
Of course, the only reason farmers could make a profit from moonshine was that they neglected to pay the taxes imposed by state and federal governments hurting for cash.
"The tax on a gallon of whiskey was $11, and in my early days you could get a gallon of whiskey for $2," says Johnson. "There was no way you could pay the taxes on it and make any money, because $2 was already more than a lot of people could afford."
Indeed, $2 in 1939, the year Johnson began helping his dad beside the kettle, equates to $27.67 today.
While Johnson's primary duties in the family business had been stoking fires and filling jugs, Johnson found his true calling in 1945 when, at the age of 14, he got behind the wheel of a '34 Ford and started crisscrossing the state every night delivering hundreds of jars of his father's homemade hooch. The government's "revenooer" agents were never far behind.
In a scene right of the 1958 Robert Mitchum classic, Thunder Road, Johnson describes the life of a whiskey runner.
"You're on pins and needles the whole night," he says. "I'd make four or five runs a night, which meant hundreds of miles. You get sleepy at the wheel, but you're also under a lot of stress because you might go to jail. Then in the morning you'd go to sleep, and around dark, you're ready to do it again."
These weren't just any cars Johnson was driving. In his decade of avoiding the revenooers, Johnson drove several Ford models, all of which looked like any other car. But under the hood, he had a car that could outrun any in the police fleet.
"I'd give it a bigger engine, bigger struts, bigger wheels, bigger tires," he says. "There wasn't much you could do to the interior to hide what you've got except take out the seats and stack the jars about six inches below the glass. Of course, if you stopped, you were caught anyway."
But Johnson knew mechanics alone wouldn't keep him out of jail. So when he wasn't making deliveries, Johnson was on a remote dirt road experimenting with new driving techniques.
"They'd set up these roadblocks," he says, "so I found a way to throw the car into second, turn the wheel hard, and do a 180. I practiced it a lot, perfected it, and then didn't worry about it no more."
Thus was born Johnson's famous "bootleg turn," the hallmark of Johnson's legendary speed and evasiveness. But as stories of Johnson's illegal exploits spread, so too did his reputation as the top man in a new league he and other moonshine drivers had helped to popularize– the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing or NASCAR.
Soon, budding journalist Tom Wolfe picked up the growing interest in the sport, and 1965 made Johnson, his moonshining days, and his 11 months in federal prison in 1956 (he was caught tending to his father's still, not while driving) the subject of a 20,000+ word Esquire magazine article, "Junior Johnson Is the Last American Hero, Yes!"
Eight years later, Jeff Bridges starred as a fictionalized version of Johnson in the 1973 movie The Last American Hero, and Johnson's reputation as the world's most famous moonshiner was set for all time.
By 2006, Johnson was 75 years old, and after a long career as one of NASCAR's most successful drivers and owners, he was content to look after his cattle on his Wilkes County farm. But moonshine newcomer Joe Michalek had other ideas.
"I had always wanted to do something with Junior Johnson," says Michalek. "I knew if I could, it would be huge."
"I wasn't sure at first," says Johnson. "If I put my name on it, it's got to be the best."
But after Michalek and company brewed up some test batches of Johnson's dad's original recipe– but using newer technology– Johnson was persuaded to allow Junior Johnson's Midnight Moon to be put on the market.
Johnson says Midnight Moon, with a taste closer to vodka than to wince-inducing traditional moonshine, is a far cry from the stuff he delivered in the old days.
"It's much smoother," he says. "You just can't buy a better drink in the liquor store."
Is the new product moving as fast as one of Johnson's race cars?
"We sell an awful lot of it," says Michalek, smirking as he avoids naming an exact figure. Even in its new age of legal sales, it seems moonshiners still have their secrets.
Drinking under the table
While Johnson's in no danger of being cuffed this time around, plenty of others are carrying on his illicit legacy, and turning a major profit. In 1999, ATF agents busted Ralph Hale Sr. of Franklin County and 26 others for a moonshine operation that moved an estimated 1.5 million gallons over a seven-year period and generated an estimated $52.5 million in revenue.
In 2001, the Virginia ABC uncovered Junior Moran and Darryle Johnson's Rocky Mount still, from which one million gallons had been sold over the previous 12-to-18 months, grossing approximately $25 million.
And less than two months ago, the feds arrested six people on 31 felony counts in connection with a still in Halifax County. With a sales network extending as far north as Philadelphia, and judging from the 1,726 gallons of moonshine investigators confiscated, it appeared they were doing business comparable to Hale, Moran, and Johnson.
According to Buddy Driskill, the Virginia ABC agent in charge of catching moonshiners, moonshine's appeal to black market consumers boils down to simple economics.
"A gallon of moonshine costs $25, and a fifth costs $4," he says. "You're not going to find anything cheaper than that in a liquor store."
So how does Michalek – with 750 ml bottles of Midnight Moon on the shelf for $21.90 at the ABC store near the Hydraulic Road Kroger– hope to compete with such prices?
"It's like the craft beer movement or the success of higher quality liquors like Grey Goose and Patron," he says. "People are looking for something better."
Still, if you want to try to better the taste of Michalek's mix and share it with a small group of friends, it's not likely that you'll attract the long arm of the law.
"We're going after the ones who make millions of gallons," says Driskill.
Home distillers should be careful of their tools, however.
"Between 1978 and 1998, the majority of lead poisoning deaths in this country were caused by moonshine," says Dr. Christopher Holstege, a professor of emergency medicine at UVA. "So in 2003, when we found there started to be a high number of lead poisoning deaths in the Atlanta area, we got curious."
In his investigation, Holstege found that of the samples the Commonwealth confiscated from 48 different stills, 43 contained lead, with 29 exceeding the concentration the EPA allows in drinking water, some by as much as 400 percent. He says it's the result of the crude way many makeshift stills are constructed.
"Lead solder is real easy to come by and very malleable," says Holstege. "So when the alcohol mixes with the lead and gets heated, the particles get released into the alcohol."
Still, Holstege says the shine-curious probably have little to fear.
"If you drink it everyday for years, you run the risk of getting lead poisoning," he says, "but if you go have a drink of it tonight, are you going to be poisoned? No."
Shine on?
With health risks like these for the illegal brew and only recent demand for bottles with the ABC stamp, how long can white lightning makers stay in the black? The market will ultimately decide. What's for sure is that whether moonshiners are risking their necks in an age-old contest with lawmen or betting their savings on a new gimmick, only a few who get into the business will come out ahead.
"Most people don't have the guts to live the life I've lived," Johnson says, "and most people who have the guts don't have the sense."
President Reagan pardoned NASCAR legend and staunch Jimmy Carter supporter Junior Johnson for his 1955 federal moonshine conviction in 1985. Even with a racing career that included winning the Daytona 500, Johnson calls the pardon "the biggest thrill of my life."
Joe Michalek quit his job with tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds to found Piedmont Distillers and start making and selling moonshine legally.<
By law, Piedmont Distillers must keep recent samples available for government agents to test for impurities and alcohol content. Despite the use of lots of high tech gadgetry to make their moonshine, Piedmont still keeps its samples in mason jars.
Will legal, more expensive moonshine sell? "It's like the craft beer movement or the success of higher quality liquors like Grey Goose and Patron," says Michalek. "People are looking for something better."
Johnson has a word of advice to prospective moonshiners: "Most people don't have the guts to live the life I've lived, and most people who have the guts don't have the sense."


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Finance Minister Bill English says there will be practical measures in Thursday's Budget to tackle poverty that have come out of the ministerial committee on poverty, which includes Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia.
He said the Budget would outline changes to the distribution of social housing and confirmed there would be more measures to address housing affordability, besides the accord the Government signed last week the Auckland Council on land supply.
"We don't believe there is a solution to poverty in general,'' he told reporters at Parliament "so I wouldn't expect any large scale intervention".
English said the Government already spent hundreds of millions on disadvantaged families now and it had undermined the ability of families to take responsibility for themselves.
Too often in the past services had tried to generally support people who were disadvantaged but there was a small number of people who were in significant deprivation.
"They need to be found, they need relationships built, trust built and, in a lot of cases, hope rebuilt. It's a complex process and there aren't easy solutions."
Some of the increases for programmes would be new spending from the $800 million new operating allowance and some would be from savings from other programmes.
On social housing he could not comment on the overall numbers of state houses but said there could be different distribution.
The Government wanted to see more organisations providing houses. Churches, non-Government organisations wanted to get access to the same subsidies as Housing Corporation.
"There will be no reduction in subsidy - in fact probably an increase - but they will be distributed a bit differently."
He said he was not signalling any change in the accommodation supplement.
Asked about food in schools, Prime Minister John Key said the Government had been working arrange of organisations (Fonterra, KidsCan, and the Fruit in Schools programmes) that worked with schools and hinted there could be a boost in the Budget.
He said there was risk that the message might be parents did not need to take responsibility.
"The message from Government is that you absolutely do. But in the end, if a youngster heads off to school and doesn't have food or whatever it might be, isn't properly cared for by the parent, for whatever reason, then we can leave that child on their own but in the end they become a victim."


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GLENS FALLS, NY -- A little more than a month after police arrested two men who had broken into lockers and stolen credit cards and other belongings from members of the Glens Falls Area (NY) YMCA, Glen Falls police are searching for a third man.
Security cameras, which the Y installed last fall after a string of break-ins began last April, captured an image of a man that police say may be involved in more thefts at the Y.
Glens Falls Police Chief Joe Bethel told Capital 9 News that police want to know if the man in the photograph is the man who broke into lockers, stole credit cards and, within minutes, started using them. The image has been broadcast on local media outlets.
"This person uses the credit cards in stores in the area to make purchases before the victims are aware that the credit cards are even gone," Bethel says.
The recent thefts are similar in nature to the thefts from last month, police told the TV station. They say that whomever is responsible is using a tool to cut through locks in the locker room.
In response, the YMCA has changed its sign-in procedures for anyone who enters the building, making everyone—members, program participants, vendors, volunteers and guests—sign in. The Y also recently changed its day-pass policy, photographing all non-members who purchase a day pass.


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The letters in HVAC stand for heating, ventilation and air conditioning. An HVAC system enables you to regulate your home or building's internal temperature (thermal control) for comfortable living and working. You can bring heat levels down in the summer and up in the winter, keeping your home or office livable year-round. HVAC systems can also help with humidity levels and regulate indoor air quality in a home or office. There are many types of HVAC systems and technologies available.
Many homes have a forced-air HVAC system. Both the heating and the central air conditioning units share a ductwork system where they either push in or pull out warm or cooled air. There are also heating and cooling systems that don't require ductwork — such as ductless mini-splits — but work on the same principles of heat exchange. The national average to hire an HVAC specialist is $2,920-$3,670, with costs varying depending on the work you need done and the equipment you are installing.
How many years does HVAC last?
The number of years an HVAC system lasts depend on the type and brand of components that make up your system. The lifespan of an air conditioner averages between 15 and 20 years. The life expectancy of a tankless water heater is approximately 20 years, while a storage water heater is closer to 10-15 years. Ducts may need replacing within 10-15 years. Your equipment will have a longer life if you have regular tuneups and maintenance to keep everything in good working order. If you're having repair problems and your HVAC system is over 10 years old, it's a good time to consider the costs and benefits of repairing vs. replacing. Energystar.gov provides the following tips to help you decide whether to repair or replace:
- Your HVAC system needs frequent repairs and your energy bills are increasing.
- Your cooling or heating equipment is less efficient.
- Rooms in your home are too hot or too cold.
- Your heat pump or air conditioner is more than 10 years old.
- Replacing your system with an Energy Star-certified unit could save up to 20 percent on your heating and cooling bills.
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- You may choose to replace your system with an Energy Star-certified furnace (which is 15 percent more efficient than a conventional furnace) or an Energy Star-certified boiler (which is 5 percent more efficient).
- Your home has humidity problems.
- Your home has excessive dust.
- Leaky ducts can pull particles and air from attics, crawl spaces and basements and distribute them throughout your house. Sealing your ducts may be a solution.
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- You could have an undersized duct system or a problem with the indoor coil of your cooling equipment.
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- That means your home energy use is above average and you're probably paying too much for your utilities.
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If you're ready for a new air conditioning unit, it's time to start exploring HVAC prices. The price will vary depending on the type of air conditioner you buy and its cooling capacity. Window units, which require minimal installation, are one of the most affordable options on the market. If you're purchasing from a big-box store, you can expect to pay approximately $120-$1,000 for a window unit. Window units are appealing for their quick setup and relatively low cost, but they can use more energy over time than central air and only cool the room in which they're installed. Portable air conditioners don't have the cooling power of a window unit, but they do have the perk of being transportable from room to room. Expect to pay between $225 and $800 for a portable air conditioner, on average. For a whole-house air conditioning system with coils, condenser and line (not including installation or ductwork), the cost from a big-box store can range from approximately $2,000 to $4,000 or more. If you don't have (and don't want to put in) ducts, a ductless mini-split air conditioner is a good option, although pricey up front. Pricing can range from $650 to $4,250 per unit on average; you'll need one unit for each room in which you want temperature control.


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AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION BY OPTICAL METHODS OF THE PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF TRANSIENT PLASMA IGNITION By Scott James Pendleton A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHYSICS) December 2012 Copyright 2012 Scott James Pendleton
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|The use of nonequilibrium plasma generated by nanosecond discharges to ignite fuel/air mixtures, known as transient plasma ignition (TPI), has been shown to effectively reduce ignition delay and improve engine performance relative to spark ignition for combustion engines. While this method is potentially useful for many engine applications, at present the underlying physics are poorly understood. This work provides a review of previous engine implementation work as well as previous experimental work seeking to provide an understanding of the physical and chemical mechanisms of TPI. Work on producing the pulses needed for TPI, both engine testing and optical diagnostic is presented. The emission of TPI is analyzed in order to determine the spectral, spatial, and temporal behavior of the discharge. Temperature mesurements of TPI using optical emission spectroscopy (OES) show that the temperature in streamer discharge and afterglow increases, though it is difficult to quantify the increase with this method. The results of coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy temperature measurements are reported and discussed, with temperature increases up to 1500 K above ambient observed in the discharge afterglow in fuel/air mixtures. The impact of this temperature increase on TPI and the possibility of thermal ignition is considered. In addition, CARS measurements show that generation of vibrationally excited states of nitrogen is inefficient during the discharge in air but that generation occurs at a high rate roughly 5 μs following the discharge; with the addition of fuels vibrationally excited states are observed during the discharge but an increase in population is still seen at 5 μs. Possible mechanisms for this behavior are discussed. Additionally, this work uses two-photon absorption laser induced fluorescence to measure oxygen atom concentrations in streamer discharge afterglow in a variety of fuel/air mixtures in order to account for the oxygen pathways in transient plasma ignition. It is demonstrated that oxygen atoms are generated in high quantities with lifetimes on the order of hundreds of microseconds, but that fuel chemistry alters the oxygen pathways even without the presence of sustained combustion. Finally, future experiments are proposed to continue developing an understanding of the combustion improvements of TPI.
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Similar to snowdicking, q.v., the act of doughdicking involves shaping uncooked bread dough into the shape of a penis, with or without scrotum. Doughdicking is an occasional pastime for young males at bakeries and anywhere else there is bread dough.
It was a slow and boring day at the local bakery, so Mark and Denny decided to engage in doughdicking. The result was....let's say, small.
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Academic Initiatives: New Modified Major and Ph.D. Innovation Program
Thayer School recently initiated two groundbreaking academic programs: an Engineering and Public Policy modified major for undergraduates and an Innovation Program for doctoral students.
Introduced in September, the Engineering and Public Policy modified major is a joint offering of Thayer School and Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center. It combines engineering with areas of knowledge that are essential for policymaking, including economics, electronic journalism, ethics, governance issues, and policy analysis. The modified major is intended both for engineers who want to influence public policy and for students interested in public policy careers who want to boost their effectiveness by gaining a working understanding of technology. Thayer School Dean Joseph Helble, who spent a year in Washington as a science advisor in Senator Joe Lieberman's office, is the advisor for engineering students pursuing the modified major.
Thayer School's new Innovation Program offers Ph.D. candidates the entrepreneurial training they need to turn doctoral-level complex research into innovative applied technologies. It is the first such doctoral program in the nation.
Modifying Thayer's doctoral curriculum — and adding about six months of work to it — the Innovation Program includes courses in new venture creation, finance, accounting, patent law, and organizational behavior, and provides students with the opportunity to complete a three- to six-month internship in a startup or other entrepreneurial enterprise. Thayer School anticipates adding five to six Ph.D. students a year to the Innovation Program, with the first new group beginning in Fall 2008.
The curriculum for the program got underway in September with the inauguration of ENGG 300: New Venture Creation, taught by former Thayer School dean and successful entrepreneur Charles Hutchinson. Modeled in part on Thayer's signature project-centered introductory undergraduate course ENGS 21: Introduction to Engineering, New Venture Creation exposes students to the entire entrepreneurial process, from idea to prototype.
The new program addresses the nation's growing need for people with both technical and entrepreneurial know-how. As pointed out in "Innovate America," a 2004 report presented to the National Innovation Summit by the nonpartisan Council on Competitiveness, the nation's technological and economic leadership depends on investment in the next generation of innovators.
Both the Innovation Program and the Engineering and Public Policy modified major reflect Thayer School's commitment to serving humanity through engineering.
"Society needs more than technical skill from engineering graduates today," says Dean Helble. "We need graduates with the ability to apply those skills to solve society's most pressing problems in critical areas such as energy, communications, the environment, and medicine."
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OK, I realize that sometimes I seem a little sarcastic, dark, perhaps even twisted. Or maybe I seem schizophrenic: one minute writing about Karate techniques and values, and the other putting Itosu Sensei in a time machine.
It is just that I meet many people, some of whom are the best Karate people you could possibly hope to meet, and some who are... colorful in their interpretation of Karate. The people I meet are part of the pallet with which I write.
I will try to stay more on the positive path because I realize that writing about bad situations -- such as the over commercialization of Karate -- accomplishes very little. Traditional people tend to get together and talk about the woes of commercialism and commercial people probably get together and take about how "old fut" and weak the traditional people are. Neither position is entirely correct.
And I am sure that if Itosu Sensei did appear today in my dojo, he would wonder about out Pinan and Naihanchi kata. I am certain that he would ask who changed them. My friend and senior, Sensei Pat Nakata, learned from Chosin Chibana who learned from Itosu Sensei. When I observe Nakata Sensei's Naihanchi and Pinan, I am pretty sure that they have changed very little from Itosu Sensei's time. Chibana Sensei learned from Itosu when Itosu was elderly and Nakata Sensei learned from Chibana Sensei when Chibana Sensei was elderly. Chibana Sensei and Nakata Sensei tried very hard to preserve their kata.
My own kata have taken a less direct path through more generations of Karate teachers since Itosu Sensei's time. Some of my own teachers have been know to experiment with techniques -- so have I. If my Sensei tells me to change a movement in a kata, I will do so until he tells me to change it back. No problem. The kata are not like the Ten Commandments to me. I will experiment with kata for movement's sake, but not for tournment's sake. I care about how a kata "moves", not how it looks to other people.
And I also interpret each movement in a kata as representative of a range of movements... not just a single movement with a single interpretation. Each kata movement represents a range of movements, each of which has a range of interpretations.
So who is modern and who is traditional? Compared to Nakata Sensei, I must seem very modern. And yet, I think of myself as being very traditional (or at least I am trying to be so). It all is relative. Traditional or modern, commercial or teaching for free.
We all are practicing Karate.
I don't have a time machine and cannot summon Itosu Sensei. Fortunately, I have many senior friends who can share their interpretations and those of their teachers.
I will try to write more positively... at least a little.
Charles C. Goodin
Sorry 'Bout That
OK, I realize that sometimes I seem a little sarcastic, dark, perhaps even twisted. Or maybe I seem schizophrenic: one minute writing about Karate techniques and values, and the other putting Itosu Sensei in a time machine.
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PRDC shows up in many different pork production systems with varying management styles and health statuses.
Other contributors to PRDC are environmental and management practices. Large temperature swings, poor air quality, overcrowding and poor nutrition are all factors.
Diagnostic Tools Veterinarians, producers and diagnosticians have all been frustrated pursuing a consistent, definitive diagnosis of PRDC. The presence of multiple pathogens makes the conventional approach of doing individual postmortems change depending on the day, week or month.
Improved diagnostic tools, including serology, helps us more definitively diagnose and identify primary vs. secondary pathogens.
We use serology to help clarify the involvement of the three primary pathogens involved in PRDC: Mycoplasmal pneumonia, swine influenza virus (SIV) and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS).
Serology also improves our ability to detect diseases crucial to vaccine timing and recommendations. Serology is combined with postmortems using specific lung tests and other diagnostic procedures.
Case Study No. 1 I was called to a farm experiencing PRDC. The pigs were about 18 weeks old and had been in the finisher for 10 weeks. Pigs were coughing, had high fevers and were off feed. These symptoms plagued the last three groups that had gone through this finishing barn.
We decided to try serum profiling. Ten blood samples were collected from pigs that were 6, 10, 14, 18 and 22 weeks of age.
The blood samples were tested for PRRS, mycoplasma and SIV (both H3N2 and H1N1). All of the PRRS samples were positive by 10 weeks of age; 25% of the SIV samples became positive by 22 weeks. The mycoplasma test showed 20% of the pigs tested positive in the 6-week-old group and 80% of the pigs were positive at 22 weeks of age.
At this same time, we sacrificed pigs and sent them to a diagnostic laboratory. Multiple bacteria were isolated, including Streptococcus suis, Pasteurella multocida type A and Haemophilus parasuis. Histopathology lesions indicated that mycoplasma was involved.
In combining all of the diagnostic information, I felt that mycoplasma was the primary contributor. The fact that mycoplasma titers were low or nonexistent in early phases, but were highly positive at 22 weeks of age, and the fact that histopathology lesions were positive, all led us to focus on mycoplasma as the primary control point.
In response to the mycoplasma diagnosis, we placed Lincomycin (Pharmacia & Upjohn) in the feed at 100 grams/ton for three weeks, starting at nine weeks into the finisher. In addition, future groups of finishing hogs were vaccinated for mycoplasma.
There were no control methods put into play to control PRRS or SIV on this farm. The combination of Lincomycin and mycoplasma vaccination has helped eliminate problems on this farm.
Case Study No. 2 Pigs at this farm, too, were experiencing PRDC symptoms - severe respiratory problems through late finishing. Multiple diagnostic methods had shown mycoplasma, SIV (H3N2), PRRS and bacteria such as Streptococcus suis, Haemophilus parasuis and Pasteurella multocida type A were all present at various times.
The producer knew he couldn't vaccinate for all of these problems. He asked me to help pinpoint which bug was causing the most problem.
A serological profile was implemented. Ten blood samples were taken at 6, 10, 14, 18 and 22 weeks of age. The laboratory testing allowed us to develop a composite picture and graph to help prioritize which pathogens were causing most of the problems.
Swine influenza and mycoplasma were the two pathogens that had significant increases in blood antibody titers following the clinical disease outbreak. The traditional methods of diagnosis indicated multiple organisms were present. But this serological picture helped us emphasize that mycoplasma and SIV were the two pathogens we would attempt to control.
A mycoplasma vaccine and an autogenous SIV vaccine were used. A pulse medication program was set up utilizing Lincomycin and tetracycline in the finishing phase.
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Its fine to delete the kdesvn-build page. I will merge my content into the existing page. Also, I will also modify the link from the Getting Started page to point to the existing kdesvn-build page. Kunalthakar 19:51, 7 November 2007 (CET)
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Hi, Dhaumann, thanks for links fixes. I had fixed the link you were talking about. Thanks a lot. --Powerfox 19:15, 31 July 2007 (CEST)
Thank you a lot for fixing the links of galician tech base ;).
Thank you for explaining me. I misunderstood the previous message of yours. Thanks again for pointing me to the right direction :)
Why did you manually move (to sort) the stuff in the feature list? It totally breaks the history... :(
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Additional school safety measures cannot wait until a new state budget is passed or the state sells its liquor stores, area educators and politicians said Tuesday.
Additional school safety measures cannot wait until a new state budget is passed or the state sells its liquor stores, area educators and politicians said Tuesday.
The tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 students and six adults were murdered, happened more than two months ago.
"The further we get from the tragic event, I don't want to see people lose interest," state Rep. Frank Farina, D-115, said at a forum at Mid Valley Secondary Center. "We are all vulnerable right now."
The forum was one in a series started by Olyphant Mayor Jayme Morano and Dickson City Mayor Anthony Zaleski. Tuesday's event was attended by about 50 community members, including school administrators, law enforcement and day care providers.
State Rep. Kevin Haggerty, D-112, has proposed legislation that would allocate $90 million a year to place a school resource officer in every elementary school in the state.
If the state sells its liquor store system, Gov. Tom Corbett claims $1 billion would be available to schools over a four-year period for school safety and other initiatives. That money would be available starting in 2014-15.
Schools cannot wait that long, Haggerty said. Instead, the state should borrow from its general fund and replace the money when the liquor sale goes through, he said.
"It's the most important thing for all of us," Haggerty said. "This issue hits at the heart of us as parents."
Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati, R-25, is proposing adding $10 million to fund school safety measures, but that is not enough, Haggerty said.
To place an officer in every elementary school in Scranton would cost about $550,000 a year, Superintendent William King said.
James Tallarico, principal of the Montrose Area Junior/Senior High School, spoke about the safety challenges of a rural school district, including a longer police response time.
Benjamin Tolerico, principal of Holy Cross High School, discussed several safety incidents, including the evacuation of a Mid Valley and Holy Cross basketball game on Feb. 4, after a threat was posted on Twitter.
The group has formed a committee to meet regularly, and Farina said his office is working on developing a standard school safety code that could be implemented statewide.
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Centrifuging bacteria - (Oct/17/2013 )
Hi guys,
I am busy planning an experiment to prepare M. tuberculosis for electron microscopy analysis (ultrastructural analysis). Before fixation, I will need to centrifuge my cells to remove culture media and add fixation media. How many g's should I centrifuge my culture at to obtain a nice pellet with minimal damage to my cells?
I was thinking of using between 500 - 600 RCF's.
You could spin that slowly but you'll need to spin for longer (30min +). I've spun at 1500 x g for 10 minutes before and gotten good results. How important is yield (is it okay if you only recover say 70% of the cells?)? If yield isn't an issue then it shouldn't be a problem.
Yield shouldn't be too much of a problem. Ok cool, I'll give that a try. I was also thinking of centrifuging cells at a low speed that have grown to a McFarland 3 to get a nice pellet.
SEM or TEM?
If it's for SEM you may have it easier using poly-L-lysine coated slides so you don't even need to centrifuge
McFarland 3 is quite a lot of bugs :)
By the way, after recovering cells how do you prepare them? do you embeed in agar/agarose to make a plug ? I may do something about TEM in the future but I have limited knowledge about specific procedures
TEM. For SEM I have found doing the whole fixation and dehydration protocol works great using 0.4um filter membranes and a 1ml syringe.
Yes, after fixation and centrifuging, remove the supernatant and add a very small amount of 1 % w/v agar dissolved in 1 x PBS. Then immediately centrifuge again and remove any excess agar from the bacterial pellet. It's important to only add the agar when it is around 50 degrees Celsius. If you can, heat up the rotor of the centrifuge to 50 as well.
If you need specific protocols for what you need to do, you can send me a message and I will help you out.


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The families of three American hikers detained in Iran said Wednesday they were hopeful the three would be released and return home soon after Iran's president said he would ask the country's judiciary to be lenient in their case.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is in New York City to speak to the United Nations later Wednesday, said in an Associated Press interview on Tuesday that he would ask the country's judiciary to expedite the process and to "look at the case with maximum leniency."
Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, all graduates of UC Berkeley, have been held in Iran for 53 days after apparently straying into the country while hiking in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region in late July. Since then, their families have had no information other than that the three were being detained somewhere in Iran.
"To just sit and wait -- that's where the helplessness is," Shourd's aunt, Karen Sandys said. "But there's so much power working for their release."
Shourd's mother and aunt wrote a letter to the Iranian president, hoping to win over his sensitive side.
"We're calling on him as a father, a parent. He certainly must know how we feel," Nora Shourd said, wearing a T-shirt stamped with "Free the Hikers." "We're saying 'be compassionate towards our children, be considerate.'"
In a joint statement, the families said that Ahmadinejad's "expression of compassion raises our hopes that the day they return to us will not be far off."
"Our immediate concern now is to know that our children are well," said the statement from the families, who have been keeping in daily contact with each other. "We hope the Iranian authorities will allow our children to speak to us without delay and grant them their right to consular access."
A candelight vigil is planned for Sept. 30, the two-month mark of the trios' captivity. The family hopes that vigil will turn into a joyful celebration of their return.


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Many of you have already seen and commented on our new Facebook Timeline, which went live March 12. Thanks for your support!
Facebook recently announced that it was moving all brand pages to its new timeline by March 30, 2012. Among some of the changes are:
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- Ability to add "milestones" to our organization's history
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However, we appreciated all your submissions, and you can still view the "Faces of CFCA" photo album anytime.
We'll probably continue featuring these once a month on our blog, and you can continue submitting a photo for our Facebook album anytime. Simply email a .jpg photo file (the higher the resolution, the better) to [email protected].
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On Jan. 10, 2013, I appeared on "Rock Center with Brian Williams" where I shared my personal story about how my father became one of thousands killed in crashes involving distracted teen drivers. On June 17, 2010, my father was walking on the shoulder of the road when a teen driver who was texting struck him with her vehicle. He passed away later that day after surgery to stop internal bleeding failed. After his death, I wanted to become involved in teen driving issues and work to help end cell phone distracted driving.
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She choked on tear gas while I ate my sandwich. It was noon at the Subway in Oshawa where I'm attending a social media conference, but night in Egypt - and I just couldn't break away from her frantic tweets.
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Her anger at the density of tear gas used.Her concern for the people run over by police in front of her.
Her panic at the young man who was beaten severely nearby and needed an ambulance.
Her fears for friends and pleas for information from other Twitter users in the crowd.
Her twitter handle is @nadawassef and for 40 minutes I was scrambling through the streets of downtown Cairo with her. The contrast couldn't have been more stark.
My human rights have been secured through not much effort on my part.
She's still working on hers.