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Who's Got Next? Jarnell Stokes Volunteers, Torian Graham Confused And More…Posted by Josh Paunil on December 29th, 2011
Who's Got Next? is a weekly column by Josh Paunil, the RTC recruiting guru. We encourage you to check out his website dedicated solely to college basketball recruiting, National Recruiting Spotlight, for more detailed recruiting information. Once a week he will bring you an overview of what's going on in the complex world of recruiting, from who is signing where among the seniors to who the hot prospects are at the lower levels of the sport. If you have any suggestions as to areas we're missing or different things you'd like to see, please let us know at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Lead Story: Jarnell Stokes Commits To Tennessee, Will Enroll In January
Top-25 Senior Picks Volunteers Despite Late Kentucky Push. It's been a long road for Class of 2012 power forward Jarnell Stokes but the recruiting process for him is finally over. The 6'8″, 250-pound big man committed to Tennessee last Thursday after transferring to Oak Hill Academy (VA) over this summer, then changing his mind and transferring to Southwind Central High School (TN) where he was ruled ineligible to play his senior season of basketball. He will be joining the Vols in January and looks to help them in every phase of the game. Stokes is the type of player who can help Tennessee on both ends of the floor, especially in rebounding — an area that Cuonzo Martin's team could really use some help in. He picked UT over Memphis and a late push by Kentucky head coach John Calipari. Opposite of what many people many think, the difficult part of the transition for Stokes won't be the physical aspect, it will be the mental part given the fact that he'll have to face a sharp learning curve. His impact will be limited this year but he will still be a contributor and he'll get an early head start on making the jump from high school to college compared to everyone else in the Class of 2012. He was never going to be a four-year player anyway so the Vols are simply getting an extra semester out of the Tennessee native.
What They're Saying
- Senior Ricardo Ledo (Providence) on recruiting junior star Nerlens Noel and others: "If I could choose any player to commit to Providence, it would be [Class of 2012 power forward] Chris Obekpa and I'm also trying to help out with [Class of 2013 center] Nerlens Noel. I'm trying to get [Class of 2012 small forward] Jakarr Sampson on board and a couple more I haven't named. I just tell them about the Providence atmosphere and to try to start something new, don't try to be like everybody else and go to a school just because of the school's name. I just tell them to be your own man, set your own trend."


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Corporate and Foundation Grant Seeking and Proposal Development
Grant Seeking Process
In general, Foundations…
- May or may not use RFPs (requests for proposals) to seek proposals
- May accept proposals on a rolling basis or have strict deadlines
- Often preclude submission of unsolicited proposals
- Often favor programs and institutions already known for their quality
- Use additional information obtained by foundation staff and board members that does not appear in the proposal
- Use selection criteria not always clearly defined
- May or may not allow for feedback on declined proposals
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- Timeline, often the proposal charts this with the activities, roles and outcomes
- Activities, the proposal should tie these to who will do the work (roles)
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Halloween Candy Bark
Total TimePrep: 20 min. + standing
Makes2-3/4 pounds
- 2 teaspoons butter
- 1-1/2 pounds white candy coating, coarsely chopped
- 2 cups pretzels, coarsely chopped
- 10 Oreo cookies, chopped
- 3/4 cup candy corn
- 3/4 cup dry roasted peanuts
- 1/2 cup milk chocolate M&M's
- 1/2 cup Reese's Pieces
- Line a 15x10x1-in. baking pan with foil; grease foil with butter. In a microwave, melt candy coating; stir until smooth. Spread into prepared pan. Sprinkle with remaining ingredients; press into candy coating. Let stand about 1 hour.
- Break or cut bark into pieces. Store in an airtight container.
Nutrition Facts1 ounce: 152 calories, 7g fat (5g saturated fat), 1mg cholesterol, 84mg sodium, 21g carbohydrate (18g sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein.
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Such a fun recipe for kids to help with. The choices for candies are endless and you can use your families favorites. This is something even our youngest grandchild was able to help with and feel so accomplished! I used the fall M&M's and the Oreoes with orange filling!
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This was really a tasty and pretty treat. I think I will double the peanuts and leave out the Oreos next time.
Oct 6, 2013
I prepared this recipe for the first time and I used 14-oz. package of Make & Mold White Mint Candy Wafer Disks, 2 Tsp. butter for greasing the foil, 2 cups Utz's sour dough pretzels, broken into small pieces, about 1 cup miniature Oreo sandwich cookies, broken into small pieces, 3/4 cup INDIAN corn as I didn't have candy corn on hand, 3/4 cup dry roasted peanuts, 1/2 cup miniature M & M baking bits in place of the regular milk chocolate M & M candy. I melted the discs in a double boiler over boiling water until smooth, then I used a 14x10" baking pan to line with the foil. I put the balance of the butter IN with the meltedcandy wafer disks after greasing the foil. What I did was prepare the bark and then I refrigerated the candy to have it firm up. (FOR ME, I'd found that chilling the candy makes it firm and easier for me to handle.) I think the candy looked very colorful! I plan to take it to one of the depts. where I volunteer at the local hospital! Peggie Brott, thank you for sharing this recipe! delowenstein p.s. I omitted the Reese's pieces! But who knows? I plan to use this recipe again & will plan to purchase candy corn & Reese's pieces and perhaps a package of the Harvest mix (candy pmpkins, candy corn, Indian corn combination)! I sampled the bark and I found it to be tasty! I admit that the toppings did fall off and I think that I also WILL scale back on the toppings so that they don't come off! "Momoflandl"'s suggestion WAS a very good one-trimming down the quantities of the toppings so that they stay on the candy and don't fall off! DELowenstein
Aug 25, 2013
This was easy and a hit with the kids. I think all the toppings were good but just a lot of overall stuff on there. Next time I will trim the quantities down a bit so that the extras don't fall off.


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The term "in mould labelling" is directly derived from the technique where a pre-printed label is placed in a mould. This mould has the shape of the end product. IML offers a wide range of plastic packaging solutions, using different combinations of IML substrate, inks and lacquers.
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ChargePoint CT4027-GW1 Gateway Unit
The ChargePoint CT4027-GW1 Gateway Unit commercial electric vehicle charging station (EVSE) is the right fit for any business to offer convenient, fast, safe and reliable electric car charging to employees, customers and residents. The ChargePoint CT4000 series generates revenue, branding and sustainability opportunities while charging popular electric car models including Tesla, Nissan LEAF, BMW i3, Chevrolet VOLT, Ford Fusion Energi and more. Retain high value employees, customers and residents by keeping them charged up and coming back.
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The PowerSpray+™ Twin Turbo™ features six dual-source technology sprays that deliver a high-power experience unlike any other shower head. Two side-by-side turbo massage jets simultaneously deliver incredible massaging power with shoulder-to-shoulder coverage for twice the massaging action.
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October 2012
Final Weekend Summary
Three games to go in DC. Can the Phillies be total spoilers? We'll find out.
Cole capped the final weekend series with another stellar performance. He finished the season with six straight wins and wound up with 216 strikeouts in 215.1 innings. In 20 of his 31 starts, Cole worked seven or more innings.
J-Roll went over 100 runs scored for the sixth time. Only Phillies with more: Ed Delahanty and Sam Thompson (8), Mike Schmidt (6). All three are Hall of Famers.
Chooch is now tied with J-Roll for the RBI lead on the club (68). As has been mentioned, no shortstop has ever led the Phillies in RBI. Catchers, however, have led. The most recent? Lieberthal, Daulton? Nope, Benito Santiago, 85, in 1996.
For the second straight year, Ryan got hurt in his final home game. Fortunately, this year's broken toe is not as critical as the torn Achilles tendon.
Only Cole dent Sunday were two errors, pushing the Phillies season total to 100. Last time they reached the century mark was 2006, 104. Last time they missed the postseason, 2006.
The bottom of the eighth on Saturday night may go down as the craziest half-inning of the season. In case you missed it:
Strikeout, wild pitch, runner reaches first Walk Wild pitch Walk RBI single Double play, 2-1.
Yep, the old 2-1 DP…..batter struck out; ball got away from Chooch who recovered and tossed to Bastardo who tagged the runner trying to score from third.
New Alumni Feature
With October now here and the postseason to follow very shortly, Alumni were polled for their fondest person postseason memory.
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Strawberry Mousse in White Chocolate Cups
It's hard to believe a dessert this stunning requires only six ingredients! The adorable white chocolate cups hold a sweet strawberry mixture topped with sliced berries and a dollop of cream. Suzette Jury of Keene, California submitted the recipe.
Total TimePrep: 35 min. + chilling
Makes2 servings
- 3 tablespoons vanilla or white chips
- 3/4 teaspoon shortening
- 8 to 10 fresh strawberries, divided
- 5 large marshmallows
- 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/3 cup whipped topping, divided
- In a small microwave-safe bowl, melt chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Brush over the bottom and up the sides of two foil muffin liners. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, set aside two strawberries for garnish. Chop enough remaining strawberries to equal 1/3 cup; set aside. Crush enough remaining strawberries to equal 3 tablespoons.
- In a small saucepan, combine crushed berries and marshmallows. Cook and stir over medium-low heat for 3-5 minutes or until marshmallows are melted and mixture is blended. Remove from the heat; stir in lemon juice. Cool to room temperature, about 15 minutes. Stir in chopped strawberries. Cover and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
- Set aside 2 tablespoons whipped topping for garnish. Fold remaining whipped topping into strawberry mixture. Spoon into chocolate cups. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
- Just before serving, carefully remove foil liners from chocolate cups. Slice the reserved strawberries. Garnish cups with berries and reserved whipped topping.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 196 calories, 8g fat (5g saturated fat), 3mg cholesterol, 23mg sodium, 30g carbohydrate (13g sugars, 1g fiber), 2g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 starch, 1 fat.
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With smartphone penetration levels still spiralling, management technologies for the cellular market continue to proliferate in line with the market's wider growth. In what appears to be a response to this opportunity, appMobi has released the jQ.Mobi open source development framework for mobile. This mobile-optimized HTML5 rewrite of the jQuery framework promises to perform 2.5 times faster than JQuery itself. It also has a "particular focus" on delivering an identical user experience on both iOS and Android devices.
jQ.Mobi includes a query selector engine, a user interface (UI) library, and a collection of plugins. Its development team specifies that jQ.Mobi outperforms jQuery by 3X on Android and 2.2X on iOs. The JSPERF.COM test suite enables comparison of raw engine performance by testing the three most common functions: single query selector, create element, and append element — and this is the measure that has been used in this instance.
"The truth is, the single biggest issue facing mobile HTML5 developers is the lack of good user interfaces — and there is nothing more critical to the success of mobile HTML5 in general. Apple set the bar high with its Cocoa Touch mobile interface and until now, similar quality UX tools haven't existed for web-based mobile developers and that is why we've put this project into play. We've started this project with high expectations, focused around delivering speed, size advantages, and cross platform uniformity. We look forward to seeing where the open source development community takes it from here," said Sam Abadir, appMobi CTO and founder.
The jQ.Mobi engine weighs in at 3741 bytes, a mere one-tenth of jQuery and under half of Zepto. appMobi says that code size is important for user interactivity in mobile because heavier pages take longer to load and to initialize. The jQ.Mobi UI code is also fairly small, coming in at 15K gZipped. By comparison, jQueryMobile UI is 62K and SenchaTouch weighs in at 99K.
jQ.Mobi will be offered free of charge as an open source asset under the MIT X11 license starting with a short private beta testing period, which is in process now.


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BrettRob necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 32 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
2020 Security
Our company provides IP video surveillance technologies and services to a variety of customers and business partners. IP-based surveillance technologies are a huge improvement on current analogue systems due to much higher camera resolutions and the ability to utilise software to scan images etc. While the technology itself is evolving rapidly the companies providing it tend to have come from an analogue background and aren't giving IP technology the "push" and focus that it deserves. 2020 Security aims to change that with a "product + services" business model and a more modern "look and feel".
Our target audiences will include:
- potential end users browsing for information on IPVS
- potential business partners (i.e. resellers) looking to buy cameras and servers etc
- existing business partners who want to access a secure area in order to download pricing spreadsheets etc
The final site will be built using Joomla or Silverstripe. We want the home page to be visually-appealing, easy to understand and communicative. The primary components of the site will be:
- home page including relevant graphics, a small amount of text explaing who the company is, our unique differentiators etc
- links on the home page to a small number of PDF-based brochures and whitepapers etc
- Twitter feed widget, links to Twitter and Facebook profiles and "contact us" link on the home page
- about us section including a "the 2020 Security story" section and short biographies of the three company directors
- a blog which includes the ability to embed graphics
- a secure area accessed via logon ID and password for proving PDF-based pricelists, brochures etc
The overall design is up to you - we just want it to look good, not date too quickly and be modern, functional and easy to deal with (just like our company) :-)
Logo files are attached to this brief.
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Matt Wakeham necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
SME IT is a small IT consultancy in need of a polish. We offer all manner of IT services to the small to medium size market and are growing quickly. Unlike many IT companies in our market we offer enterprise level services at small to medium company prices. We tend to go for the smarter solutions instead of just trying to sell on site visits. We also own 99% of our services rather than rent so we maintain complete control. We are moving closer to being able to offer clients fully hosted offices including VoIP and Citrix based Desktops. For us Solutions come second only to Security and Reliability.
Will be releasing some VoIP and Hosted desktop solutions to clients shortly (Will need more designs).
We're aiming at the small to medium size market. Clients without in house IT support or those who wish to lover costs or maintain a more constant support are our normal target. We give a clean, sharp and professional image and always innovate for new solutions and better ways to improve IT for our clients. Those who see IT as key to there business success and embrace technology but need the backup of a company who can make it happen.
In general we like the logo but feel it's just a bit flat and dated. We are after someone with the skills to bring this logo up to date, a bit more polished but keeping the essence the same. Orange and dark grey (Charcoal) are good colours within the whole design and need to be maintained but the logo must be able to show on both white and charcoal background. Slight colour changes would be acceptable to darken or lighten area's but orange and dark grey must still be key.
Ways to improve are the give the logo depth, shadow and other such ideas but that's where you guys come in.
The logo must be able to resized and supplied back in vector format.
We will be releasing more designs for brochures, flyers, stationary and websites once this one is complete. If you interested in continuing the theme design please let us know so you can be informed once release.
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A mother Magellanic penguin pants doglike in the afternoon heat, shading her newborn chick from the hot sun. But it's not enough. The chick's thick downy coat isn't designed for the heat, and its efforts to stretch out its wings and neck to cool off don't work. Despite the mother's best efforts, the youngster dies.
This sad story is becoming all too common among Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus), according to a 27-year study published today. Researchers have found that the species, which has lost 20% of its population globally since 1987, faces a growing threat from increasing numbers of torrential rainstorms and sweltering heat waves caused by climate change, which could accelerate the species' decline.
Named after Ferdinand Magellan, who spotted the birds in 1520, Magellanic penguins nest in burrows and under bushes in coastal Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland Islands. Like many other penguin species, the birds prefer temperate, dry climates. However, recently the climate has started to shift. Also, climate models predict the number of storms during the first 2 weeks of December, when chicks are most vulnerable, will roughly double by 2081. Newborn penguins are born with a fluffy down coat of feathers, but this layer isn't waterproof. Despite the best efforts of their parents, many storm-soaked chicks catch hypothermia and die. The same lack of waterproofing leads chicks to die from heat stroke on hot days, when a dip in the ocean is the best way to cool down but requires a waterproof coat. Climatologists predict air temperatures in the region will rise 2°C over the next century.
In 1982, a Japanese company sought the rights to harvest Magellanic penguins from a colony in Argentina. After Argentinians protested, the government drafted ecologist Dee Boersma from the University of Washington, Seattle, to survey the world's largest Magellanic penguin colony, located in Punta Tombo, Argentina. Even after the Japanese company silently withdrew their plans, Boersma continued her study. For the next 27 years, she tracked the population's ups and downs during the birds' September to February nesting season. Up to twice a day, Boersma and her colleagues strolled through the nesting grounds monitoring newborn chicks. When a chick turned up dead or went missing, they tallied the loss and investigated the cause.
In an average year, Boersma and her fellow researchers discovered that 65% of all chicks died, with most from starvation, predation, and disease. However, the team discovered the changing climate has taken its toll. Over the course of the study, the number of storms during the nesting season increased. In the most recent 3 years, an average of 7% of chicks died from chilling rainstorms and heat exhaustion, but during some years the number was much higher, the researchers report today in PLOS ONE. In 1999, a single storm killed 40% of all chicks, the same as all other causes of death that year combined, Boersma says. Calculating an overall trend in climate-related deaths is difficult due to the irregularity of severe storms, Boersma says, though the link between extreme weather and chick death demonstrates that as extreme weather increases in coming years, chick death will increase in turn. In addition, the penguins now tend to arrive at the breeding site later in the year, likely because the fish they eat are arriving later due to changing ocean temperatures. Chicks hatched later in the season are too young to survive the November and December feather-soaking storms, which Boersma thinks compounds the problem.
"This is not something that penguins can evolutionarily adapt to—it's too quick and these events are too extreme," Boersma says. "The weather has become a very important mortality factor and it didn't used to be."
Pablo García Borboroglu, president of the Global Penguin Society and an ecologist for the National Research Council of Argentina, says although the recent weather-related deaths are a growing factor in chick death, they're still not the biggest concern. "The lack of food for the species is still the key thing," he says. "Even if the recent climate change is human-caused, climate change can't be addressed in the short term. The lack of food is something we as human beings can immediately address."
Borboroglu and the Global Penguin Society are working with the Argentinian government to create a marine sanctuary for Magellanic penguins, an effort Borboroglu hopes will help increase the penguins' food supply and reduce chick deaths.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 112 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
FirstLight Partners LLC
The name of my consulting firm was chosen because I am originally from Maine, the first state to get the sunrise. In addition, I like the suggestion that the clients I will be partnering with to provide consulting services are receiving some light from me. I have been part of the management team of several hedge funds and am now setting out on my own to run a consulting business that provides clients with some of the same expertise I used to provide in my in-house senior roles.
The focus of the consulting will be on Human Capital (HR, recruiting, training and development, etc) and relationship management (the client firm's relationship with Wall Street and investors.)
The firm to start will be only me, but over time may grow to include other professionals providing similar consulting services to investment firms. I am a business person (have my MBA) but did my undergrad in studio art and art history, so I have a strong aesthetic sense as well.
The personality I am trying to get across is professional but at the same time a look people would want to embrace. Since the consulting I am doing is around relationships and people, I feel that the logo should be approachable but still business-like.
I will be working with and selling to CEOs and senior management teams at hedge funds, private equity firms -- senior investment professionals. Additionally, people that will refer business to me are Wall Street partners to these firms -- prime brokers and equity sales people, analysts, and other service providers to the investment community.
I prefer professional, stylish, clean and logos. I would like a couple of colors and a good font but not anything that is so involved that it is overly expensive to replicate.
I am in a debate about calling the business FirstLight Partners LLC (first word as one word) or First Light Partners LLC but am leaning toward the former. I have both names registered. I am open to counsel on this choice.
I do not want the logo to be specific to the services provided, but prefer a more stylized version of what the name suggests -- light, or something that looks professional and supportive, able to aid in the growth and development of my client.
I think the best logos are logos where the logo almost has its own personality -- the Nike swirl, the bank of America flag, Purina checks, etc.
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Date of Joke: Monday, 11th August, 2014
The Doctor said: "The good news is I can cure your headaches...The bad news is that it will require castration. You have a very rare condition which causes your testicles to press up against the base of your spine and the pressure creates one hell of a headache. The only way to relieve the pressure is to remove the testicles."


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Too Much "Sunny and Dry"
Sunny skies and warm temperatures feel great, and usually keep us smiling. We may, however, be getting too much of a good thing.
Parts of NW Arkansas - specifically, parts of Washington county - are in dire need of a good rain. In Fayetteville the rainfall total (year to date) is about an inch and a quarter short of where it should be. Although that is certainly not a staggering figure, we have little if any chance of rain in the forecast for the next several days. Sadly that simply means that with each passing "dry" day, we go further and further into the rainfall deficit hole.
Hard to believe that just a month or so ago we were dealing with rising flood waters.
This has certainly been an all or nothing rainfall year for us.
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So my extruder died at the beginning of the month. I have been busy with other things so I have only just got round to thinking about rebuilding it. Here is a list of things that failed :-
I got my extruder working in mid August. At the end of September it ejected its PTFE barrel from the clamp, breaking the heater wires. This is a common problem and stems from the fact that PTFE has the lowest coefficient of friction of any known solid material. I tightened it further and it didn't slip out again. However, when I came to dismantling it I noticed that the end that was in the clamp has been compressed by about 0.3mm. The 3.2mm drill that I made the hole with is now quite a tight fit so the hole may have shrunk slightly. I will drill it out to 3.3mm because some of my 3mm HDPE filament is slightly more than 3.2mm where it is a bit oval.
One curious thing is that it now looks to have a thread in the entry hole.
I am struggling to explain this. The only way I can think it may have happened is as follows :-
The filament has a thread cut into one side by the drive screw. Before I added my feed spool the filament used to rotate as it went through the extruder and had a thread cut all the way round. Perhaps it transfered its thread to the PTFE, which is quite soft.
The final failure mode was the nozzle jumping a couple of threads and leaking molten HDPE. It rammed the nozzle through the object being made and damaged the bed underneath.
The bottom end of the PTFE barrel has swollen by about 0.3mm. PTFE is known to creep, i.e. when subjected to a prolonged force it very slowly flows. It has no memory so it does not spring back when the pressure is removed. I think this is why the top of the barrel shrank and the bottom expanded. There is a lot of pressure in the barrel and it is close to PTFE's maximum operating temperature. PTFE melts at 327°C but it starts to degrade at 260°C. I have been running at 240°C which is a bit too close for comfort.
My barrel, at 12mm, is smaller than the current recommendation which is 16mm. This may have contributed to the failure.
The recommended solution is to fit a pipe clip, but I didn't have one small enough, so I pressed a short section of 15mm OD pipe over the end, which is a tight fit. It had the desired effect. When I first made the barrel the thread was a snug fit. When I dismantled it I noticed it had become quite sloppy. With the ring of metal in place it is now a tight fit. I will use some plumber's PTFE tape to seal it as well.
The other thing that was on the point of failing was the flexible drive shaft. Strands started breaking and the more that broke the more it flexed, so it was a kind of avalanche effect. I estimate that the shaft had rotated about 100,000 times so the flexing backwards and forwards must have caused metal fatigue. I probably have the most mileage on this part of anybody so far so it could be a sign of a design flaw. There are a couple of problems with my implementation which certainly won't have helped.
The first is that I used some 2.5mm cable I had to hand rather than the 3mm recommended. It doesn't seem like a big difference but I think the rotary strength is at least a cube law which would make my cable roughly half as strong. It was left over from a garage door installation but I don't think I have any worries there as 100,000 flexes is about 75 years use!
The other contributory factor is that the bearing lands on my drive shaft are a little bit eccentric. This stems from the fact that my watchmaker's lathe is not really big enough for this work. Fundamentally the hole through the headstock is not big enough to take the 5mm threaded rod.
Each time the shaft rotates it opens and closes the pump halves a little. This makes a big torque variation over a revolution because of the strong springs holding it closed. That caused the cable to wind up and unwind a little each revolution. It actually modulated the filament width and gave the objects a basket weave appearance. Here is a good example :-
I bought some new parts from www.bitsfrombytes.com, which wasn't an option when I first made the extruder.
That will allow me to give the flexible drive a fair test. If it proves to be unreliable then I will switch to direct drive. I found out from the core team that it is not required for any of the polymers currently used, only things like Field's metal.
Another thing that was starting to fail was the J-B Weld holding the heater wire to the nozzle. It is supposed to be rated to 315°C but it had started to crumble with my extruder running at 240C. The other problem I had with my J-B Weld is that it does not cure in the specified time at room temperature. I have to bake it to make it strong. I emailed J-B Weld but got no response apart from an automated reply.
David commented on my last post suggesting Thermosteel ,which is good for 1300ºC, so I will try that next. A couple of the core team use BBQ paint which handles 600°C so I will try that as well.
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Extruder postmortem
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Wednesday, 2 January 2008
If it's not one thing it's another!
The third post in a row about my extruder breaking, not a good start to the year!
Now that I am making solid test shapes rather than hollow ones the extruder is working a lot harder and all it seems to do is break down. The drive cable started to disintegrate this afternoon, I could hear the strands breaking :-
It was still limping on however when this happened :-
The brass nozzle started to come out of the PTFE heat barrier. This was ironic because it was only yesterday that I said I had not had this problem in a forum discussion. Others have had it happen and the collective wisdom is to use a pipe clip round the end of the PTFE to secure it.
And the JB Weld which insulates the heater wire has turned to dust :-
So some rebuilding to do!
Now that I am making solid test shapes rather than hollow ones the extruder is working a lot harder and all it seems to do is break down. The drive cable started to disintegrate this afternoon, I could hear the strands breaking :-
It was still limping on however when this happened :-
The brass nozzle started to come out of the PTFE heat barrier. This was ironic because it was only yesterday that I said I had not had this problem in a forum discussion. Others have had it happen and the collective wisdom is to use a pipe clip round the end of the PTFE to secure it.
And the JB Weld which insulates the heater wire has turned to dust :-
So some rebuilding to do!
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BOONE COUNTY - The Boone County Fire Protection District made a Facebook post on Feb. 10 stating some consumers had called the district to say they had seen or heard sales pitches from a smoke detector company claiming its product is endorsed by Columbia and Boone County fire departments.
Fire departments encourage consumers to research and purchase smoke detectors. But Capt. Martina Pounds at the Boone County Fire Protection District said that doesn't mean they endorse any one brand of detector.
"It's not illegal for us to do that, but in general, we are a government agency and we don't endorse any private enterprise like that," Pounds said.
Pounds said she had not heard of this issue before.
"This is the first time we have heard about it," Pounds said. "Sometimes, companies will say the fire department recommends that, and that happens frequently."
Pounds said the Boone County Fire Protection District and Columbia Fire Department have received "five to six" phone calls asking about the product and if the departments knew anything about it. She said the brand cited is Crossfire, whom she said offers an expensive product.
"For us, it seems to be a little bit of a pricey product," Pounds said. "If people really want to spend that much, then I really would encourage them to really research that specific company and the advantages or anything they would have different than your standard smoke detector equipment that you can buy at the hardware store."
Pounds said she talked to one consumer who said they paid around $4,500 for 12 Crossfire smoke detectors. That means each smoke detector costs $375.
KOMU 8 News contacted local hardware chains like Lowe's and Home Depot in Columbia to see what their prices were for smoke detectors. A Lowe's representative said that store's detector prices range from $9-$50.
Ray Crafton, the electrical department supervisor at Home Depot, said the store's price range is around the same.
"The price range for smoke alarms starts at five dollars for your basic battery operated smoke alarm and runs up to $50 for a lithium ion battery smoke alarm," Crafton said.
But there's one detector from a company called Nest that costs $129. That detector also detects carbon monoxide and has many capabilities, including wireless connection to a mobile device, voice commands, and the ability to wave off an alarm.
Any technical specifications about the Crossfire smoke alarms can be found on the company's website. At the bottom of that site, the company states, "Crossfire is not endorsed by any local Fire Department. Fire Departments should not endorse any particular brand of fire detection product." The company responded to KOMU 8 News in an email and said it does not know of a salesperson making the endorsement claim.
"We cannot think of any reason why anyone would state otherwise," a Crossfire representative wrote. "This is the first occasion on which we have heard that any salesperson has stated or suggested that the alarms are so endorsed."
As the alarm manufacturer, the company said it is not involved in marketing of the product. It claims to sell the alarms to independent authorized dealers who resell them to homeowners, as well as handle installation and service.
KOMU 8 News contacted one of those dealers in Columbia, Accurate Home Safety. Tim McCarson from Accurate Home Safety said in an email that employees at the dealership know the facts about endorsement from fire departments.
"Every person associated with this dealership knows that none of our products are approved or endorsed by any fire department," McCarson said.
McCarson also said the Crossfire product is very good.
"It is the best alarm on the market using rate of rise heat sensors, fixed temperature, optical smoke chambers and carbon monoxide sensors," McCarson said.
KOMU 8 News also spoke to a representative from Accurate Home Safety over the phone to get a better idea on the pricing of Crossfire alarms. He said the company determines pricing after coming out to a prospective buyer's home or business and basing it on the size and needs of the building.


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The last post about the Linuxulator where I explained the Linuxulator from an user point of view got some good amount of attention. Triggered by a recent explanation of the Linuxulator errno stuff to a fellow FreeBSD developer I decided so see if more developers are interested in some more info too…
The syscall vector
In sys/linux/linux_sysvec.c is all the basic setup to handle Linux "system stuff" in FreeBSD. The "system stuff" is about translating FreeBSD errnos to Linux errnos, about translating FreeBSD signals to Linux signales, about handling Linux traps, and about setting up the FreeBSD system vector (the kernel structure which contains all the data to identify when a Linux program is called and to be able to lookup the right kernel functions for e.g. syscalls and ioctls).
There is not only one syscall vector, there is one for a.out (struct sysentvec linux_sysvec) and one for ELF (struct sysentvec elf_linux_sysvec) binaries (at least on i386, for other architectures it may not make sense to have the a.out stuff, as they maybe never seen any a.out Linux binary).
The ELF AUX args
When an ELF image is executed, the Linuxulator adds some runtime information (like pagesize, uid, guid, …) so that the userland can query this information which is not static at build-time easily. This is handled in the elf_linux_fixup function(). If you see some error messages about missing ELF notes from e.g. glibc, this is the place to add this information to. It would not be bad from time to time to have a look what Linux is providing and missing pieces there. FreeBSD does not has an automated way of doing this, and I am not aware of someone who regularly checks this. There is a little bit more info about ELF notes available in a message to one of the FreeBSD mailing lists, it also has an example how to read out this data.
Linux and FreeBSD do not share the same point of view how a trap shall be handled (SIGBUS or SIGSEGV), the corresponding decision making is handled in translate_traps() and a translation table is available as _bsd_to_linux_trapcode.
The values for the signal names are not the same in FreeBSD and Linux. The translation tables are called linux_to_bsd_signal and bsd_to_linux_signal. The translation is a feature of the syscall vector (= automatic).
The values for the errno names are not the same in FreeBSD and Linux. The translation table is called bsd_to_linux_errno. Returning an errno in one of the Linux syscalls will trigger an automatic translation from the FreeBSD errno value to the Linux errno value. This means that FreeBSD errnos have to be returned (e.g. FreeBSD ENOSYS=78) and the Linux program will receive the Linux value (e.g. Linux ENOSYS=38, and as the Linux kernel returns negative errnos, the linux program will get ‑38).
If you see somewhere an "-ESOMETHING" in the Linuxulator code, this is either a bug, or some clever/tricky/dangerous use of the sign-bit to encode some info (e.g. in the futex code there is a function which returns ‑ENOSYS, but the sign-bit is used as an error indicator and the calling code is responsible to translate negative errnos into positive ones).
The Linux syscalls are defined similar to the FreeBSD ones. There is a mapping table (sys/linux/syscalls.master) between syscall numbers and the corresponding functions. This table is used to generate code ("make sysent" in sys//linux/) which does what is necessary.


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No, I'm not talking about how tired I am (though there are many days I feel like the walking dead). 😉 I'm actually referring to the TV show, "Dead Like Me." Jody and I started renting episodes from Netflix about a month ago and have been enjoying it ever since. It's our little thing to do together a few evenings a week after the kids have gone to bed.
DLM, which focuses on the afterlives of a handful of grim reapers – namely a girl named "George" – is quite entertaining. I didn't think I'd like it at first since it is, after all, about death, but it's a dark comedy and there's so much more to it than just the death aspect.
You can read about the show here.
I thought I was going to go watch another episode tonight, but it's too late and I need sleep soon.
I got in one of those "MUST de-clutter the house NOW" moods today and listed four things on freecycle. All four things have been spoken for and three have already been picked up. I love it when I can get the stuff out of the house ASAP, without throwing it in the trash. Of course there is still a ton of stuff floating around that I need to sell and/or give away – it's overwhelming to think about really – but if I can do little bits here and there, it will all add up eventually.


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Michael Seman is Director of Creative Industries Research and Policy at the University of Colorado Denver College of Arts and Media. He holds a doctorate in urban planning and public policy.
Denton, Texas, is a small city home to two universities in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metropolitan region. Several years ago, Chris Flemmons, a long-time resident and singer/songwriter for the Sub Pop band The Baptist Generals, decided he wanted to stem the annual exodus of his friends who went looking for jobs in cities outside of Denton. He thought the best way to do this was to leverage what he saw as the city's "best export" – its music scene.
Considering that Denton has well over 100 active bands in a city of just over 110,000 residents, it wasn't a stretch of reasoning. The city serves as home or launching pad to bands as diverse as Midlake, Bowling for Soup, Eli Young Band, Neon Indian, and Sarah Jaffe. Even the local polka band, Brave Combo, has appeared on The Simpsons and won two Grammy Awards. Musical genres represented on any given night in the rehearsal spaces, house parties, and venues that fill Denton range from hip hop and doom metal to experimental folk and noise rock.
The result of Flemmons' efforts is 35 Denton, a "walkable 4-day music festival programmed in the heart of downtown."
"I was hoping the festival would be an anchor that could spur a better economy here, maybe better jobs would show up and people would decide to start businesses here," he says.
Flemmons launched the idea as a day-party during the 2005 SXSW music festival in Austin (four hours south of Denton) while slowly establishing relationships with City of Denton employees and representatives. In 2009, he enlisted a group of volunteers and situated the festival in the venues surrounding Denton's historic square to highlight the walkability of the town with hopes of "people getting out of their cars and staying out of them." The inaugural Denton edition was a modest success, with approximately 2,000 attendees taking in shows by mainly local and regional bands.
In 2010, an opportunity to secure the Flaming Lips as headliners transformed the festival into an event with a national profile. The all-volunteer "core staff" (which included Flemmons) enlisted an army of additional volunteers to help and attendance increased by ten-fold, resulting in a substantial economic and fiscal impact on the city (Full disclosure: I volunteered at 35 Denton while working on my Ph.D. and organized all of the daytime programming for 2010 and 2011. I received no compensation, but learned a lot about stress management).
In the years since the Flaming Lips played, 35 Denton remains volunteer-driven, routinely receives national and international press, registers attendance in the 10,000+ range, and books globally recognized acts like Big Boi, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and Built to Spill. The festival also keeps a tight focus on acts from Denton and the surrounding region. This past March, 244 bands played both the official festival and the unofficial day-parties coinciding with it. Of those bands, 103 were from Denton while 38 claimed other cities in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metropolitan region as home.
35 Denton is also emerging as the catalyst Flemmons envisioned. Kevin Roden, the city councilmember whose district contains 35 Denton's footprint, views the festival as a low- to no-cost national branding tool for the city, helping make it attractive to a younger demographic.
"We are seeing an increased interest in the downtown area," Roden says, adding, "It's hard to remove what's going on with 35 Denton and the energy it's put into downtown venues that host music throughout the year."
Roden additionally offers that 35 Denton is a common topic in discussions with those responsible for the new commuter rail line connecting the city to Dallas as well as developers interested in reshaping the downtown area with music as a foundation.
Josh Berthume, co-founder and creative director of Swash Labs, an advertising agency located in downtown Denton, cites the festival as the overriding reason he chose to remain in the city after founding the agency just over a year ago. "We had clients all over the country… I could have gone anywhere," he says. "35 Denton showed me a real role-model of what was possible in Denton and it encouraged me to keep my address here." Swash now has 26 clients, employs eight people, and recently became the festival's agency of record.
A similar story is found in the two young, yet seasoned volunteers who recently took the reins after Flemmons decided to focus on other creative endeavors. Both Kyle La Valley and Natalie Dávila chose to remain in Denton because of the festival and now they are its first paid employees.
Somewhere in Denton, a band is playing right now while work on next year's 35 Denton has already begun.
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Portal A videos appeal to young voters
Three East Bay pals since elementary school have created funny online videos, from "Don't Stop Believing," an homage to the 2010 San Francisco Giants' World Series run, to "Ed Lee is 2 Legit 2 Quit," the video backing Lee's run for San Francisco mayor that married the charms of the rapper Hammer and bearded Giants closer Brian Wilson.
Now the twentysomething principals at the Haight-Ashbury firm Portal A are in growing demand nationally to create other viral political ads, largely because their irreverent tone doesn't sound as sonorous or strident as many of the other ads being created.
Their rise shows the political value in sounding different from the 72 hours of video that is uploaded to YouTube every minute. That's increasingly valuable in a tight election year when the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case has created a torrent of unlimited corporate, union and individual spending on political ads.
"The old way is to interrupt someone with a 30-second ad and spew your message at them," said Dan Greenberg, CEO of Sharethrough, a San Francisco video advertising platform.
But Portal A is on the cutting edge "of creating content that you want to share with other people. People, particularly young people, don't want to share most political ads," said Greenberg, lauded as an industry leader by both Ad Age and Forbes magazines.
Getting a buzz on
The video makers' fans include hyper-connected Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway and San Francisco billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, who are tapping Portal A for upcoming campaigns that want something a little irreverent to create buzz.
Exhibit A was a line from the Lee video. Few old-school campaigns would describe their candidate as "only 5-foot-5, but he gets s- done."
"What these guys have figured out is not only how to create political ads that are worth sharing, but how to share them to a wide audience through Facebook" and other social media, said Theo Yedinsky, a veteran national social media strategist who has worked with Portal A through Oakland's North Social firm.
Even edgier was the ad Portal A created this spring for Proposition 29, the California ballot measure that would have created a $1-a-pack tax on cigarettes primarily to fund treatment of tobacco-related illness. Tobacco companies spent more than $40 million against Prop. 29, which failed.
In a bare-knuckled, satirical tone, several Californians explain why they back Big Tobacco. One, an overalls-wearing farmer, looks into the camera and deadpans: "I support Big Tobacco because they killed my wife. And that's one less mouth to feed."
Sitting in Portal A's office recently, managing director Zach Blume smiled slightly and acknowledged, "Yeah, that was pretty close to the line."
Young voters in particular want authenticity, not just the same tired partisan rhetoric. "People my age," said the 27-old Blume, "don't watch political ads."
Creative director Kai Hasson, 28, said some people were critical of the Lee ad because it didn't spell out his policy positions.
"That's fair," said Hasson, who has been friends with Blume and executive producer Nate Houghteling, 28, since they were in kindergarten at Prospect Sierra School in El Cerrito.
"But that's not what we're trying to do," Hasson added. "It was more, 'Let's have a good time.' If you look at all the political commercials, why does it all have to be boring or negative?
"Creatively, we try to have an attitude that we're not going to get bogged down in the rules that were set up by the political system," he said. "We stick to what we like."
Videos to votes
If young voters do interact with political video content, studies show that they are more likely to talk about the issue and ultimately vote, said Abby Kiesa, a researcher for Tufts University's Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, which studies youth voting.
"A quirky video could spark a conversation," Kiesa said. "Or it could encourage someone to research the topic more."
Investor Conway, who was an early backer of Google and other tech firms, was looking for a viral video last fall when he was working with the independent group backing Lee.
He didn't tell Portal A what to say. Twitter founder and Lee backer Biz Stone suggested that the ad use the campaign's "Fear the Mustache" theme.
With that, Conway offered Portal A some viral video chum: "We have access to Hammer."
"I'd have been happy with 50,000" viewings on YouTube, Conway said. The Lee video has been viewed more than 480,000 times there and stirred a national buzz about the video and about Lee.
This summer, Portal A will release a video in support of San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, the fledgling advocacy group of 300 technology firms that Conway chairs.
Portal A also has agreed to create a series of videos in support of the Steyer-backed Proposition 39, which would require multistate businesses to calculate their California income tax liability based on the percentage of their sales in California.
Commercial ads, too
Politics is only one of the firm's interests. It recently drew national attention for its Banana Republic fashion ad, which was shot on an airplane. With Microsoft, Portal A just created an online, behind-the-scenes documentary series on a San Francisco technology startup called "Behind the Launch."
"People are coming to us constantly and asking for a 'viral video,' " Blume said. "It's an interesting dynamic for us. It isn't as simple as 1-2-3, make a viral video."
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Explainer: The 8 lowest-paying jobs in America
The United States may soon have to replace the expression, "the land of opportunity," with "the land of low wages."
While the job market may still look grim for those looking to replace their good-paying office or manufacturing jobs, opportunities are expected to abound for a host of jobs paying less than $10 an hour, everything from cashiers to home care aides.
"If you look at the job growth distribution of the last two recoveries, it suggests we're going to see growth of a lot more lower-income jobs," said Peter Creticos, president and executive director for the Institute for Work and the Economy. He said that the lowest net growth was among middle-income jobs, such as manufacturing or office jobs, in the prior two recoveries. It remains to be seen what will happen with this recovery, he added, but "there is no indication this recovery will be any different."
Low-wage jobs have always been part of the economic landscape, but wages have been suppressed for many years now. Part of the reason is supply and demand, Creticos said, as the huge baby boomer labor pool flooded the job market and, thanks to the bad economy, are working longer, many past retirement age.
Creticos calls this phenomenon the "down-waging" of American jobs.
Many of the lowest-paying jobs were once seen as the domain of younger workers who were first starting out in the work world, but increasingly these positions are survival jobs for midcareer folks who have been downsized, said Randall Hansen, a workplace expert with Quintessential Careers.
Here's a rundown of the eight jobs that are among the lowest-paying in the nation, from the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics: (All the wages on the list include the mean, or midpoint, hourly rate.)
1. Food preparation and serving workers, including fast food
Alas, this job category has the not-so-great distinction of being the lowest-wage gig in the country, bringing in a measly $8.71 an hour, or $18,000 annually. Most of these jobs require minimal education and many are part time.
Despite the small paycheck, long hours, and hard work, lots of people hold these jobs. The occupation is now the fourth largest in the country with 2.7 million workers.
This kind of work, which the BLS projects will increase by 10 percent in the next decade, is often seen as a dead-end job. However, if you have plans of one day going into hospitality management, it's a good idea to spend some time in the trenches, advised Quintessential Careers' Hansen. But not too long, he added, or you'll risk being seen as a grunt worker in the eyes of management.
2. Dishwashers
There are roughly half a million dishwashers in the United States, and they earn about $8.81 an hour.
The state with the most dishwashers is Florida, with 42,000. That state also pays among the lowest hourly wage for the job, $8.62, while Nevada pays the highest at $11.29 an hour.
Training is minimal to nil, but dishwashing jobs are often seen as a stepping stone to jobs as servers in restaurants or other food-service establishments.
When he was 12, Michael Dell — who went on to found Dell Computer — got a job as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant and quickly was promoted to maitre d'.
3. Cashiers
Cashiers can be found everywhere from fast-food shops to clothing stores.
The job is No. 2 on the BLS's list of biggest occupations with a workforce of about 3.3 million, behind only retail sales people with 4.2 million.
But unfortunately, the pay is crummy. Cashiers make $9.15 an hour, or $19,000 annually; about half of those who work cash registers are part timers.
Even though most cashiers are trained on the job, they typically need some understanding of math, and many employers prefer applicants with high school diplomas, according to the BLS. Background checks are often required for these positions because workers handle money.
The profession has a high turnover rate, and the government expects the outlook for this job category to be good, although it's expected to grow at only 4 percent in the next decade.
4. Hosts and hostesses
You may never think to tip your host or hostess when you go out to eat. Well, maybe you should think again.
These jobs bring in $9.23 an hour, compared to $9.80 an hour for waiters and waitresses.
Maybe they don't do the kind of heavy lifting the wait staff does, but it's not only about greeting you when you get to the restaurant or lounge door. They also take reservations, direct you to the bathroom, and sometimes they act as cashiers. And they have to do all this, typically, wearing a nice outfit — or at least as nice as they can afford on a salary of $19,000 a year. Forget the Armani.
5. Amusement park attendants
Florida and California, lands of amusement wonder, top the list of the most people employed in this profession, with 30,410 and 40,640 workers respectively.
In California, workers in this category make $9.57 an hour; but in Florida, land of Disney World, the wage is $8.90 an hour. Alas, Mickey Mouse isn't spreading the joy to workers' pockets. Wages there for these jobs are below the national mean hourly wage of $9.35 an hour.
These employees, who typically get on-the-job training and are expected to have good customer service skills, do everything from collecting tickets when you wait in line to ride the latest roller coaster to removing unruly patrons who have had too much cotton candy.
6. Movie theater ushers, ticket takers
If you're a movie buff, you're in luck. The BLS expects jobs for ushers and ticket takers to jump nearly 12 percent in the next 10 years.
Watching all the movies you want is a great benefit, especially given the wages you'll be bringing home — $9.43 an hour.
But getting a job as an usher at your local theater doesn't mean you'll end up in Hollywood. The job is listed under the BLS' "movie picture and video industries," but even the government doesn't give it much credibility.
From the Labor Department website: "Most jobs are entry-level positions that require little training and are not covered in detail in this statement."
7. Farm workers
Often cited as the job Americans don't want, farm workers make $9.51 an hour, and most of the work is seasonal, strenuous and dangerous. About seven in 10 agricultural workers are born outside of the United States.
The bulk of these jobs, nearly 150,000 out of the total 233,000 jobs, are in California, and workers learn quickly while in the fields.
As for the outlook for this category, the BLS said, "Job opportunities for agricultural worker occupations should be abundant because large numbers of workers leave these jobs due to their low wages and physical demands."
8. Personal and home care aides
The job opportunities in this profession are expected to skyrocket by nearly 50 percent in the next 10 years, above and beyond the 630,000 people doing the work right now. The government expects the huge jump because of the graying of the population and the care they'll need to deal with escalating health problems they'll face. As a result, they'll need help if they're going to remain at home.
The work can be grueling and unpleasant, according to the BLS, including tasks "such as emptying bedpans and changing soiled bed linens. The patients they care for may be disoriented, irritable, or uncooperative. Although their work can be emotionally demanding, many aides gain satisfaction from assisting those in need."
If only these physically demanding jobs paid a bit better. At $9.75 an hour, workers doing this job — which has a high rate of work-related illnesses and injuries — won't be able to put much money away to take care of themselves in their golden years.
Eve Tahmincioglu writes the weekly "Your Career" column for msnbc.com and chronicles workplace issues in her blog, CareerDiva.net.
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J Class National Championships
Well, the first day of racing at Mystic with the J boats was nothing short of spectacular. The wind settled on SSW after some pretty large shifts and then built well into the low and middle teens by 3pm. Lots and lots of photos were taken so there will be plenty to share.
These boats are truly amazing. They are so powerful and gracful and when you have 8-9 boats on the line being driven by skilled helmsman, it is a sight to see. These guys are not afraid to get close to each other and mix it up.
After 6 races, the top three look like this.
Still lots in store for tomorrow and it looks like it will be another great day at Mystic.
Day 2 had the winds out of the West most of the time with some huge shifts that would hold long enough to get you thinking about a course change and then they would swing back. Speeds ranged in the 5-8kt range with some long periods of 10-13kts. The sun was shining bright and there were very few clouds in the skys. The courses were not as good as Thursday but they worked.
A total of 20 races were completed to finish this event. The fleet dwindled down into the single digits and the fleet was combined into one.
The finish positions are as follows
1-Ramos/Luscomb Shamrock 26pts
2-Dave Brawner Shamrock 39pts
3-Eric Reno Endeavor II 54pts
4-Kevin MacLellan Shamrock 74pts
5-Gerhard Kelter Ranger 91pts
6-Mark Fleckenstein Shamrock 100pts
7-Nick Mortgu Shamrock 119pts
8-Biff Martin Endeavor 149pts
9-Gary Mueller Ranger 152
10-Rob Hill Ranger 163
11-Colin Mosgrove Shamrock 174
12-John ODell Endeavour 174
13-Rick West Shamrock 179 (DNC on Sunday)
Ramos and Luscomb shared the boat swaping racing on Thursday. Ramos returned to Annapolis on Thursday night to attend a parents weekend at the Naval Acadamy so Luscomb completed the event solo on Friday. Unique to the J Class is the ability to have more than one skipper. The scoring follows the boat, not the skipper.
Full report to be filed shortly...
EC 12 Region 1 Championships
Day 3 of Mystic had the EC12s taking to the water. 14 races were completed with an unsettled SSW wind that kept the lead changing. 16 boats on the line made for some interesting mark roundings as the fleet stayed pretty compact.
The top 3 at the conclusion of racing were...
1-Bruce Walton
2-Chuck Poindexter
3-Chuck Luscomb
The final day of racing was a complete wash out. A drenching rain populated the Doppler Radar in Mystic and on most everyones cell phones. That was the bad news. The good news was that no one was very upset about not sailing in the rain and most were thrilled to get an early start home. Scores were tallied after 14 races WITH 2 throw outs and the final scoring looked like this. Congradulations to Bruce Walton for sailing an excellent regatta.
1-Bruce Walton 34pts
2-Chuck Luscomb 42pts
3-Chuck Poindexter 45pts
4-Rick West 60.6pts
5-Jake Leo 72pts
6-Al Dion 74pts
7-Kevin MacLellan 78pts
8-John Bottensek 79.4pts
9-Bob Greer 86pts
10-Dave Branning 91pts
11-Phil Tonks 95pts
12-Gib Losel 115pts
13-Tim Stone 133pts
14-Nick Mortgu 145pts
15-John Skerry 157pts
16-Ken Koehler 180pts
Thank you to all who made the trip to Mystic this year and made it an excellent regatta.


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I think we should all pitch in a couple dollars towards Penny's new CN....after all, she is our adopted rat loving child. Anyway, here's mine. I'm giving it a good cleaning tomorrow, so I'll put more pics then. These are the most recent I have. Home to 3 little ladies.Bottom halfTop HalfThat cube has been chewed to smithereens, so it's been replaced with a pocket hammock.
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