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Powrmatic NVx Gas Fired Unit Heaters
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Powrmatic NVx Gas Fired Unit Heaters
The Powrmatic NVx range of heaters has now been superseded by the Powrmatic LNVx range.
Limited stock is now available. Please click here to view the new LNVx range of heaters.
The Powrmatic NVx range of gas fired unit heaters currently comprises of 11 different models, with heat outputs ranging from 10kW to 140kW. The unit heater is designed to be suspended directly in the work space that it will heat. Ducted versions are available with an up rated centrifugal fan option to overcome ducting resistance. The NVx can be supplied for use with Natural Gas (standard) or LPG (option). Various burner control options allow for basic on/off operation, high low fire or fully modulated heat outputs.
Prices shown are for Powrmatic NVx F (Standard Axial) units. Please contact us for factory options.
Current Models Available In The Range
• NVx F – Axial Fan Crossflow Units
• NVx Duo – Axial Fan Bi-Directional Units
• NVx V – Axial Fan Downflow Units
• NVx C – Centrifugal Close Coupled Fan Units
• NVx D – Ducted Heat Module (no fan)
For The Installer
• New compact model offers reduced installation profile and safer handling
• Down flow & Bi-Directional models available for increased air distribution options
• Flue fan can be easily rotated to offer rear exit flue or top exit flue
• Easy horizontal flue with wall terminal eliminating roof work
• Vertical flue where roof exit is required
• Fan assisted flue and full fresh air options available
• Upgrade option to centrifugal main fan for ducted applications
Powrmatic Guarantee
• Powrmatic – More Than Sixty Years Experience in Warm Air
• Made And Fully Assembled In The UK
• Two Year Parts And One Year Labour Guarantee
• Ten Year Heat Exchanger Warranty
• Proven Track Record, Exceptional Reliability
The Powrmatic NVx gas fired unit heaters are built around minimal fuel usage, efficiency and reduced flue gas emissions. The entire range meets or exceeds current Building Regulations and additional control options are available. Hi/Low fire offers a two stage operation and a fully modulating 0-10v control option is also available, ideal for use with enhanced time and temperature control stations or links to building management systems.
The heater chassis contains separate modules, one to contain the heat exchanger tubes and a second insulated compartment holding the main operating components including the gas valve, safety thermostat, combustion fan and burner assembly. The cabinet is finished in a heavy duty stove baked epoxy powder paint.
The Powrmatic NVx heat exchanger is of exceptionally modern design. Each tube comprises of four full passes through the air stream and each is carefully mechanically bent with swaged and crimped ends to eliminate welding and thus associated issues during the manufacturing process. Custom heat exchangers can be produced in 409 and 316 grade stainless steel options for increased life in rough service conditions. A ten year sliding scale warranty as standard on the heat exchanger.
The NVx utilises in-shot burners, carefully designed and matched to fire directly into each heat exchanger tube. The specialist burner assembly uses a manifold to hold the gas injectors and are supplied from a single gas valve. Separate ignition and ionisation probes are utilised and a Brahma safety gas control provides an exceptionally high level of operational safety. The NVx heaters are supplied for use with natural gas (G20) as standard with an LPG Propane (G31) option available with a factory or site conversion.
Air movement is provided by a standard axial fan arrangement with larger models utilising multiple fans. Adjustable louver sections on the front of the heater allow the discharged heat to be directed to the required location in the work place. Additional horizontal louvers can be added for even greater air control.
The duct mounted version of the NVx heater is supplied with a heavy duty centrifugal fan fitted directly to the heater. The front discharge grill is replaced with a heavy duty duct spigot to allow direct mounting to the air distribution duct.
The entire range of Powrmatic NVx heater is supplied with automatic ignition and flame safety monitoring, high limit overheat protection and separate control of heat and fan to allow a summer operation mode. The NVx unit heater can be interfaced to almost any control station including the Powrmatic Powrtrol, MC200, MC300 (forthcoming) and the Heatmiser IQ+ controllers.
Powrtrol stations provide basic time and temperature options whilst the MC200, MC300 and Heatmiser IQ+ provide the optional signals for hi/low operation and 0-10v modulating control when required. Control stations are not supplied as standard and require onsite installation.
The range of Powrmatic NVx heaters are type tested to meet the stringent requirements the Gas Directive and are CE approved.
UK normal delivery charges are INCLUDED within this price, excluding Scotland & Ireland (contact us for additional costs). Lifting equipment is required to unload product at destination and should be arranged before delivery. Tail Lift delivery can be arranged at an additional cost if required.
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Augustana presents The Big Music Roll-Out
SIOUX FALLS, SD – The Department of Performing & Visual Arts at Augustana College announces The Big Music Roll-Out. The Music program kicks off the season with five music events November 3-8. The events include original compositions, a world premiere, intimate recitals and enormous explosions of sound.
Faculty Voice Recital—Tuesday, November 3 at 7:30 p.m. (Kresge Recital Hall)
Dr. Lisa Grevlos will present a Faculty Voice Recital. All of the music being performed was written by members of Augustana College, including the world premiere of "The Colors of Lorraine" by Deanna Wehrspann and Ivan Fuller, inspired by the paintings of Lorraine Sack. The program will also include "Songs of Soulmates" by Christopher Stanichar and "The Powers of the Pawn" by John Pennington. Guest performers include: Christopher and Kristi Stanichar, John Pennington, Deanna Wehrspann and Eric Wassenaar. Cost for the recital is $5 for all adults and free for students K-12.
Faculty percussion and Trumpet Recital—Wednesday, November 4 at 7:30 p.m. (Kresge Recital Hall)
The second event features Dr. John Pennington and special guest, Stephen Dunn (associate professor of trumpet at Northern Arizona University). This concert was conceived with the idea of the two performers presenting a program of all new material both composed and arranged by the duo, with the exception of one piece "Awakening" which was commissioned (from composer David Crumb, of Eugene, Oregon). This recital was recorded by the duo and presented this summer at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Amherst, Massachusetts. Original composition from both performers will be presented with music of Piazzola, Bach, and Ravel. Cost for the recital is $5 for all adults and free for students K-12.
Augustana Faculty String Quartet—Thursday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m. (Kresge Recital Hall)
The Augustana Faculty String Quartet features four associate members of the South Dakota Symphony: Christian Zamora (violin), Justyna Lutow (violin), Pei-Ling Lin (viola) and Kathryn Hufnagle (cello). They will be performing works by Haydn, Bartok and Webern. This special recital is free for all audience members.
Augustana Band Fall Concert—Friday, November 6 at 7:30 p.m. (Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center)
The Augustana Band Fall Concert will take audiences on a trip around the world as they explore music from Ireland, Italy, Canada and New York City. They will be joined by guest trumpet soloist, Stephen Dunn. Performing in the concert will be the 85-piece Augustana Band, the 45-piece Augustana Wind Ensemble and the 120-piece Augustana College and Community Band. The concert will be conducted by Dr. Bruce Ammann. Cost for the recital is $5 for all adults and free for students K-12.
Augustana Orchestra Concert—Sunday, November 8 at 3:00 p.m. (Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center)
This program will be a completely French program with music by Massanet, Faure, Ravel and Bizet. The highlight of the concert will be the South Dakota premiere of Faure's incident music for the play "Peleas and Melisande" compiled and edited by the orchestra's conductor, Dr. Christopher Stanichar. This part of the program will include performances by Julia Bennett, Ivan Fuller, Lisa Grevlos, Rob Oliver and John Pennington. French music contains "amazing colors and harmonics that are seldom heard in this area," according to Dr. Stanichar. Tickets for this special concert are $12 for adults and $8 for seniors and students.
Tickets for all of these events can be purchased in advance by calling the Augustana Box Office at 605.274.5320 or online at www.augietickets.com.
Ivan Fuller
Professor, Theatre
Augustana College
Phone: 605.274.5334

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Principal CEO to receive top industry award
The chairman and CEO of Des Moines-based Principal Financial Group will receive the top award from one of the retirement savings industry's leading nonprofit research organizations.
Larry Zimpleman will receive the Lillywhite Award from the Employee Benefit Research Institute on Oct. 29 at an industry conference in San Francisco.
The award is named for Ray Lillywhite, a pioneer in the pension field. Established in 1992, the award acknowledges the contributions of individuals who have had distinguished careers in the investment management and employee benefits fields and whose service enhances Americans' economic security.
Zimpleman, who began working at Principal in 1971 as an intern, became chairman in 2009. He will be recognized for his longstanding advocacy of retirement savings and financial literacy.
Principal is a leading provider of 401k retirement plans.


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[Intro: Lil Wayne]
Remix baby!
[Hook: Juicy J] (x2)
Bandz a make her dance, bandz a make her dance
All these chicks popping pussies, I'm just popping bandz
Bandz a make her dance, bandz a make her dance
These chicks clappin', and they ain't using hands
[Verse 1: French Montana]
Bands a make her dance, 20's make her glance
50's make her flip, 100's make her give me head (head)
Cheeks clappin', she don't use no hands
All this pussy poppin', I'm just poppin' bands
I just pay the mortgage, I just pay the note
Hurricane Katrina, bitch you need a boat
Bitch you need to float, show me what your twerking with
20 bottles, 30 models, 40 burners bitch!
[Verse 2: Lola Monroe]
She like, "What the fuck is a dollar bill?"
Ass pound like Impala wheels
3 wheel motion, grippin grain
Fuck the motion just get the change
I don't know what you thinking man
I take your money and get the brain
Them other bitches ain't build the same
He say, "You can't be real who built your frame?"
Ever seen a stripper go right, left?
Make it really wanna go pipe, that
But you ain't really gonna like, that
She fuck your brain, no mic, check
Money, money, bet you brake it off
You see that ass, you see that cash, bet she take it off like..
[Verse 3: Wiz Khalifa]
I brought some bandz so won't you dance?
Do a stack, you on 2 hands
Another stack now that's 2 bandz
Brought a friend now that's 2 fans
Gettin' trippy now that's 2 Xans
Double that now that's 4 bandz
Juicy J, he got more bandz
Trappin' hard like Snowman
Smokin' loud, I know the grow man
Been gettin' money since a young nigga
But they respect me now cause I'm a grown man, ooh
Condo by the ocean, forgot my watch now that's a Rolex
Hit the strip club and spend more bread
And spill champagne on her for head
Smokin' and sippin
I'm talkin' that rich shit hopin' that broke niggas listen
Shorty keep poppin' it, strippin
I got to reach into my pockets to keep tippin
Seen her with the team, that's my bandz chick
Got rich off the internet so it's safe to say that's my bandwidth
[Verse 4: B.o.B]
Bandz a make her dance
It'll get her wet, it'll make that ass go ham
It'll get her heels high for the sky
It'll make them 2 lips kiss the floor when she land, damn
That outta do it, if I'm with a bitch then she probably hood
Gin on the rocks, gon' off the kush
She gon' off the bean she in Mollywood
She dance for my bandz like it's homecoming
She ain't working gettin' money, she at home cuming
I stake the facts, I brake her back if I drop a grip like it's snow money
I see broke niggas watching, cause they ain't got no paint
It's a lot of niggas saving hoes but Bobby Ray can't
I say what's going broke, can y'all reminds us?
Lost in the money can't y'all finds us?
Tasha and Nicole sliddin' on a pole
Booty going dumb like Alzheimer
I say what's going broke please y'all remind us?
Self made niggas no co-sign us
Tasha and Nicole sliddin' down a pole
Booty going dumb like Alzheimer
[Verse 5: Juicy J]
Bank tellers, bad bitches, paid niggas, they love me
Stripper hoes, married women, I be wherever the bub be
Met a dancin chick named Porsche, with a stallion ass like a horse
In V.I.P, at KOD, I'm gettin' oral intercourse
Twerking for bandz, I be on xan
She gon' keep popping them racks on your hand
Juicy stay making it rain in the club
And I ain't leaving until that bitch flood
Rolling like it's nothing and I don't give a damn
I would say no to ratchet pussy but I just don't think I can
In the suite with a stripper sipping lean and tweakin'
Poppin' molly and that ass, watch her get freaky
Gotta get some brain man, see what she thinkin'
Shawty don't spit, she like to keep it
White girl on that oxy, I'm on Bombay in that KK
Got major bread like Mitt Romney
Bandz a make her dance


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Sony and German memory chip maker Qimonda plan to form a joint venture chip design house to develop DRAM (dynamic RAM) for consumer and graphics devices, the companies said this week.
The 50-50 joint venture, called Qreatic Design, will open in Tokyo by the end of this year, the companies said in a joint statement. It will focus on high-performance, low power, embedded and customer specific DRAM chips.
Qimonda is one of the world's largest DRAM makers, while Sony has its own internal chip design teams working on a wide range of products. Sony and its affiliates are also major purchasers of specialty memory chips. The PlayStation 3, for example, uses Rambus' high powered XDR memory for a variety of purposes, including graphics support.
A number of companies are working on using DRAM technology in new devices due to its high performance and low cost. DRAM is the primary RAM used in PCs. Often referred to as "on-screen memory" the chips hold data as it is being used and manipulated on a screen, but lose the data once power has been shut off. Its use in PCs make DRAM the cheapest memory chip available, due to the huge volume of chips produced globally each year.
Samsung Semiconductor, for example, has been selling Mobile DRAM chips aimed at handsets and other small devices. The chips use a lot less power than standard DRAM made for PCs, and they work better than other kinds of memory because they run faster and can handle more operations. As users continue to demand that their mobile phones and other gadgets, such as multimedia iPods, perform more functions such as handle spreadsheets, surf the Web, play music, take pictures, run videos and more, the memory chips inside will have to be tweaked to work harder and do more.


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Scarlet Kingsnake
Scientific name: Lampropeltis elapsoides (HOLBROOK 1838)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Coluber elapsoides – HOLBROOK 1838
- Calamaria elapsoides – HOLBROOK 1842
- Coluber doliatus – LINNAEUS (fide COPE 1860)
- Coronella doliata – HOLBROOK 1842 (fide COPE 1860)
- Ophibolus doliatus – BAIRD & GIRARD 1853
- Coronella doliata – DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854
- Lampropeltis doliata – COPE 1860
- Calamaria elapsoidea – COPE 1888
- Osceola elapsoidea – COPE 1888
- Lampropeltis triangulum temporalis – COPE 1893
- Ophibolus doliatus triangulus – LARGELAMB 1907
- Lampropeltis triangulum virginiana – BLANCHARD 1920
- Lampropeltis elapsoides elapsoides – ALLEN 1932
- Lampropeltis triangulum doliata – TAYLOR 1951
- Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides – CONANT & COLLINS 1991
- Lampropeltis elapsoides – HARPER 2006
Description Average adult size is 14-20 inches (35.5-50.8 cm), record is 27 inches (68.5 cm). Adults are tricolored, displaying red, black, and yellow rings that encircle the entire body. Both the red and yellow rings are surrounded by black rings, thus the red and yellow rings do not touch. The snout is red. The belly pattern is the same as the dorsal color - red, black, and yellow. The scales are smooth, and there are 19 dorsal scale rows at midbody. The pupil is round. Juvenile colors are like those of adults, but the yellow rings may be white.
A. Side of the head
B. Front (face view) of the head
C. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
Range: It is found throughout Florida. There have been 2 specimens reported from the Florida Keys, one from Key Largo and one from Key West. Outside of Florida, it is found from eastern Louisiana to southern New Jersey.
Habitat: Locally abundant, it is found in pinelands, and hardwood hammocks.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous), and reluctant to bite. The Scarlet Kingsnake is active primarily at night. It is mainly a terrestrial burrower, yet it can climb extremely well. Although rarely seen due to its fossorial behavior, it can be found under rocks, inside logs, and under tree bark on dead, standing trees.
It feeds on small lizards (especially skinks), rodents, and other snakes. It lays eggs. Breeding occurs from March-June. Usually 2-9 eggs are laid between May-August. Newborns are very small, from 3-3.5 inches (7.6-8.8 cm) in length.
Comparison with other species: The Scarlet Kingsnake is frequently mistaken for the venomous Eastern Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius) or the non-venomous Scarlet Snake (Cemophora cocinnea), but it really is easy to distinguish between the three species. A mnemonic rhyme may help you distinguish the Eastern Coral Snake from the two similar harmless species:
'If red touches yellow, it can kill a fellow' (Eastern Coral Snake)
'If red touches black, it is a friend of Jack' (Scarlet Kingsnake or Scarlet Snake)


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Dennis A. Dougherty is George Grant Hoag Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. Eric V. Anslyn is the Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin.Anslyn, Eric is the author of 'Modern Physical Organic Chemistry', published 2005 under ISBN 9781891389313 and ISBN 1891389319.[read more]
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Hey Guys,
Registration for QDM is open as of today! Registration and swag prices go up on 4/4 and the MINIs on the Dragon Folks are drooling over our block of rooms, so register and book your rooms early. When you register as a driver, you get an event t-shirt, keychain, sticker, lanyard, sponsor swag and banquet meal.
What is Quattro de Mayo?
Quattro de Mayo is a gathering of Audi (and other European car) enthusiasts from across the Southeast. Each year, we spend as many as four days driving some of the curviest roads in the country, and spend the evenings making new friends.
This event began 7 years ago when a group of Audi Club members from Ohio took a trip to East Tennessee to drive a stretch of road named the Tail of the Dragon, which packs 318 curves into 11 miles. But the Ohio crew was not alone that weekend, as a group from Tennessee had also organized a drive and the two groups soon crossed paths. So, they decided to make it an annual event, and dubbed it "Quattro de Mayo". Each year, the event has grown bigger, and the friendships have grown deeper.
Come for as few or as many days as you please, and drive some of the most amazing roads in the country (not just TOTD) with some really cool people!
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Pearl Jam Dedicate The White Stripes' "We're Going To Be Friends" To Teachers
Watch the cover and Eddie's touching speech here
August 9, 2018
"I feel like a waiter with too many tables, I wanna make sure everyone's happy," frontman Eddie Vedder noted while pausing to admire the crowd at Pearl Jam's August 8 Seattle show.
Related: Pearl Jam and Jack White cover Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World"
After casually chatting with fans and calling out some adorable kids, Eddie introduced a The White Stripes cover with a touching speech. He praised both the audience in general and gave a special nod to teachers before diving into the performance.
Watch his full speech and Pearl Jam's rendition of "We're Going To Be Friends" here:


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I have an OpenGL-ES app, where i am using EGL along with the opengl library. I want to render content on the screen through Pixmap surface/pbuffer surface.
I know that i can do it by creating an EGL window surface, render my content and then cann eglSwapBuffers after each frame.That is straight forward.
But because of some limitation, i want to do it using Pixmap surface/Pbuffer surface.Can any one please guide me.Is there a significant performance difference between the two approaches of Windows surface and pixmap/pbuffer surfaces?


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Although inherited and chosen layers of identity will be as "authentic" as conventional categories of citizenship and nationality, one category possibly will continue to stand out. Islam will remain a robust identity. Sectarian and other differences within Islam will be a source of tension or worse. The challenge of Islamic activism could produce a more intense backlash of Christian activism. Nigeria, Ethiopia, and other places in Africa will remain battlegrounds in this sectarian struggle.Well, we are 15 years away from 2025, but Nigeria is already in the midst of a sectarian struggle since 1999 when Sharia was imposed in 12 northern states. There have been some instances of sectarian violence in Ethiopia since 2006 but, thankfully, none on a scale witnessed in Nigeria. Is it possible that Ethiopia can experience a large scale sectarian violence like Nigeria? Sure, it is possible.
What was intriguing to me about the NIC quote was that one of its authors, Johnnie Carson, would later become the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, a position that is largely responsible for most of the US policy towards sub-Saharan Africa. Ambassador Carson was the main Africa expert at NIC at the time the report was published.
I am inclined to think that this quote gives a clue as to how the US policy towards Ethiopia might evolve in the Obama Administration under Carson's guidance. The clue, I think, is this: the Obama Administration could conclude that the causes of the main political problems in Ethiopia are ethnic and sectarian related and, therefore, may determine that the US foregn policy making apparatus should not be used in sorting out "internal" issues.
If this comes to fruition, then I think that the Obama Administration will have made a serious error in judgment and would leave Ethiopian human rights and democracy advocates out in the cold just like its predecessors did.
Here below is Ambassador Carson being interviewed by VOA's Tizita Belachew in the Spring shortly after talking office. His lackluster answer to Tizita's pointed question about a revision of American policy towards Ethiopia is telling.


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Meletius IV (Metaxakis) of Constantinople
His All-Holiness Patriarch Meletius IV (Greek: Μελέτιος Δ' Μεταξάκης), born Emmanuel Metaxakis (Greek: ), was the 261st Successor to the Apostle Andrew and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1921-1923.
Early Life
He was born on September 21, 1871 in the village of Parsas on the island of Crete. He entered the Seminary of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem in 1889. He was tonsured with the name Meletius and ordained a hierodeacon in 1892. He completed the theological courses at Holy Cross and was assigned as secretary to the Holy Synod in Jerusalem by Patriarch Damianos in 1900.
Meletius was evicted from the Holy Land by Patriarch Damianos, along with the then administrator Chrysostomos, later Archbishop of Athens in 1908 for "activity against the Holy Sepulcher." Meletius Metaxakis was then elected Metropolitan of Kition in 1910. In the years before the war Metropolitan Meletius began successful talks in New York with representatives of the Episcopal Church of America, with the intention of "expanding relations between the two Churches."
After the death of Patriarch Joachim III on June 13, 1912, Meletius was nominated as a candidate for the Patriarchal Throne in Constantinople. However, the Holy Synod decided that Meletius could not canonically be registered as a candidate. Instead, he would serve as the Archbishop of Cyprus until 1918 when, with the support of his political allies and acquaintances, he was uncanonically elevated to the position of Archbishop of Athens in 1918. This would be a termporary measure, for after a series of political changes he was later deprived of his see.
Metaxakis was one of the most fascinating characters in Orthodox church history. He was the only man successively to lead four autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Churches: those of Cyprus, Greece, Constantinople, and Alexandria. On the basis of a 1908 decree of the Ecumenical Patriarch that the independent "trustee" Greek parishes in America should receive episcopal oversight from the Church of Greece, Metaxakis journeyed to America in the summer of 1918 to survey the situation. Three months later he returned to Greece and appointed Bishop Alexander of Rodostolou as his resident American legate. Alexander was charged with the unenviable task of initiating canonical order among the independent Greek parishes throughout North America.
In the Greek elections of 1920, however, Venizelos was defeated. The king returned to power, and Metaxakis was deposed as Archbishop of Athens. His place was taken, on December 10, 1920, by the rightful canonical candidate, Theocletos, who had previously been deposed as Archbishop. While Meletius was still Archbishop of Athens, he along with a group of like-minded persons visited England where he conducted talks concerning the union between the Anglicans and the Orthodox Church. Like so many other political refugees, Metaxakis fled to the United States (February, 1921). Still recognized as the legitimate head of the Church of Greece by his American legate, Bishop Alexander, Metaxakis presided over the organization of some Greek parishes in North America into a formal "Greek Archdiocese" on September 15, 1921.
In yet another surprising reversal of fortune, the exiled Metaxakis was elected Ecumenical Patriarch only two months later (November 27, 1921). Meletius, however, was not about to give up his American creation. In one of his first acts as patriarch, Metaxakis repealed the 1908 Tomos, in effect transferring jurisdiction of the new Greek Archdiocese from himself (as Archbishop of Athens) to himself (as the Ecumenical Patriarch). Metaxakis justified the move by reference to canon 28 of the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451), which he claimed granted the Ecumenical Patriarchate jurisdiction over Orthodox Christians in all "barbarian lands." Metaxakis appointed his old friend Bishop Alexander to lead the new archdiocese.
On December 17, 1921, the Greek Ambassador in Washington sent a message to the prefect at Thessaloniki stating that Meletius "vested, took part in an Anglican service, knelt in prayer with Anglicans, venerated their Holy Table, gave a sermon, and later blessed those present."
In effect, this was the first step towards the establishment of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, which was incorporated in 1921, and officially recognized by the State of New York in 1922.
Unfortunately, the hopes of the immigrant Greek community that their long canonical disorder in America would be settled were not realized. The royalists in Greece rejected both the creation and subsequent separation of a "Venizelist" Archdiocese in America. Metropolitan Germanos (Troianos), a royalist partisan, was sent from Greece to challenge Alexander for control of the new archdiocese. Spurred on by the two New York Greek language dailies, the royalist Atlantis, and the Venizelist National Herald, the fledgling Greek Archdiocese rapidly disintegrated into violently opposed factions. It would remain bitterly divided for almost a decade (1922-1931).
When Meletius was elected Ecumenical Patriarch Meletius IV in November, 1921, one of his first official decrees on March 1st of that year was to restore the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. This was formalized on May 11, 1922 when Patriarch Meletios declared the Church of America as an Archdiocese appointing the Rt. Rev. Alexander Titular Bishop of Rodostolon , as his Patriarchal Exarch.
Under pressure from Meletius, the Patriarchate of Constantinople accepted the validity of Anglican orders in 1922 — an act which even Rome protested against. Then, in 1923, Meletius initiated the "Pan-Orthodox" Congress (May 10–June 8). On June 1st, clergy and laymen dissatisfied with the innovating Patriarch held a meeting which ended in an attack on the Phanar with the goal of deposing Meletius and expelling him from Constantinople. On July 1, 1923, on the pretext of illness and the need for medical treatment, Meletius left Constantinople. On September 20, 1923, under pressure from the Greek government and through the intervention of Archbishop Chrysostomos of Athens, Meletius retired as Patriarch.
Meletius Metaxakis died on July 28, 1935, and was buried in Cairo, Egypt.
A known supporter of Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos, he served as Bishop in Cyprus, until he was elected Archbishop of Athens following King Constantine I's abdication, replacing Archbishop Theocletus I, a known Royalist. Two years later King Constantine I was restored to the throne, Archbishop Meletius was ousted, and former Archbishop Theocletus I was reinstated. In 1921 he was elected Ecumenical Patriarch. He resigned in 1923 following the defeat of the Greek Army in Asia Minor.
Some years later he was elected Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria. He died in 1935.
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With a few household ingredients and a couple of days, you can make a jelly that flames — although you shouldn't try and eat it. With this fiery jelly from Hell, you can impress your friends and terrify all those who oppose you!
Strap in for the best possible lesson in chemistry — the kind that ends with something on fire. Hopefully not you.
Top image: Charles Haynes/Flickr.
So you want to make jelly that flames. That's understandable. Who doesn't? There's an easy way to make it, using ingredients you already have at home. All you need is vinegar, antacid tablets, and rubbing alcohol. Get the type of antacid tablets that are extremely high in calcium — you want 1000 milligrams of calcium carbonate per tablet. Grind up a few tablets and add about ten milliliters of vinegar. It'll fizz for a while. Stir it up, and then wait until the liquid in it evaporates by half. Add about twice as much rubbing alcohol as slurry, and stir it around. You'll notice it hardens into a semisolid gel that you can pick up.
Pick it up if you want to. They're not my fingers. But remember to put it down on a nonflammable surface in a well-ventilated area, with a fire extinguisher nearby, before you hit it with a lighter. It'll burn merrily away.
Alcohol burns. There's no mystery there. So what's special here is the vehicle that got the alcohol to a semisolid state, while still allowing it to burn. That vehicle is calcium acetate. It's a calcium salt that people causes alcohol to gel, as some people noticed long ago. It's behind a few of those edible burning foods that some chefs make. (This experiment uses rubbing alcohol. It goes without saying that you shouldn't eat it, but if lawyers get involved, I do want it on the record that I said this.) The only problem for the home sterno maker is how to make calcium acetate, and that isn't much of a problem at all. It happens when vinegar hits anything from egg shells to limestone to antacid tablets.
All of the solids mentioned above are made of calcium carbonate. It's made of a calcium atom, a carbon atom, and three oxygen atoms. When the acid in vinegar hits it, it gets ripped apart.
CaCO3 + 2CH3COOH = Ca(CH3COO)2 + H2O + CO2
As you can see, its calcium atom gets taken by the vinegar, turning it into calcium acetate, while the remaining atoms get split between water and carbon dioxide. Add a little alcohol, and light it up. The only problem is, this can be a persnickety recipe. If you don't get the right amount of everything, it'll sputter and the flames will stay low. Try to get 99% alcohol, and experiment with different antacid tablets and different amounts of vinegar. Soon, you'll be able to light up any jell-o mold in town.
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July 9th, 2012 | By QGODFEAR
The NEW FULL HD, Music Video by QGODFEAR and animated by the talented Kelly Brown, titled "GOD BE WITH ME" took a total of 4 1/2 months to complete, which is a rather short time in comparison to the years it took Disney/Pixar to create "Toy Story" or "Finding Nemo". This GODFEAR MOVEMENT independent project was truly a journey into the intricate & arduous world of Cartoon Video Animation.
I actually thought this would be easier than doing a LIVE music video and boy was I wrong.
Coming up with the storyline that would grab the people's attention,then deeply impact their lives from the start was a challenge. Mentally seeing, then creating characters in such full detail(Clothing, Voices, Movements, etc) that the audience I felt would relate too was not an easy task, all while driving a come to the light message. This project truly stretched my creativity and took great patience" – QGODFEAR
Major illustration talent, Mr. Kelly Brown brought QGODFEARs vision to virtual life by animating the video while QGODFEAR wrote, conceptualized, assisted with sound effects, and performed all voices. The eclectic "GOD BE WITH ME" track (taken from QGODFEAR's latest SOUL MUSIC CD on itunes) was Produced by Ty Tha Artist, which is also the designer of www.QGODFEAR.com
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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, today announced its fourth US Tech Summit for Accelrys customers with IT responsibilities. This free-to-attend event, taking place October 16-17 at the Hyatt Morristown in New Jersey, will provide the opportunity for enterprise architects, software administrators and software developers to better understand how to manage, support and integrate the Accelrys Enterprise Platform and other Accelrys products into existing IT environments, improving the efficiency of both information technology professionals and the end users they support.
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"This year's US Tech Summit will address IT-related topics such as performance, upgrades, administration, integration and preparation for the next versions of many of our products to support improved scientific innovation lifecycle management for organizations of all sizes across the industries we serve," said Anil Thakur, senior vice president of product development at Accelrys. "We will take a deep technical dive into Accelrys solutions and address IT best practices focused on the Accelrys Enterprise Platform, Accelrys Isentris, Accelrys ELN (previously Symyx Notebook by Accelrys) and Accelrys Lab Execution System (previously VelQuest SmartLabs)."
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Finally bluetooth is working. After downloading SP2RC2 and waiting around 40 mins for an install and one reboot later, bluetooth works!
I am using a stereo sony bluetooth receiver and all the functions work, Play, Stop, Forward etc.
I also didn't come across any issues with missing drivers like some others.
Although the uninstall will be a pain when the official SP2 is released (you need to uninstall RC2 to install the official SP2) if you are in need of working bluetooth devices I would recommend installing this ASAP.


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Only the fortunate few say goodbye with confetti and streamers flying in the breeze; hearing big brass bands, standing atop Olympus, hoisting a trophy, wearing a medal, guilty of making the world stop and gasp at their confounded audacity.
Muhammad Ali's career came to a sad, sordid end on a steamy night in Kingston, Jamaica, taking a pummeling in a half-empty stadium, a cowbell found nearby used to sound the rounds. Wayne Gretzky was still moderately productive in the spring of 1999, by the time he finished in Gotham, but only a faint glimmer of the unparalleled luminosity remained.
Babe Ruth hit .181.
Shadows. Facsimilies. Even, in the most cruel of instances, caricatures.
Jeremy Wotherspoon's Olympic speed skating career came to a close Wednesday night at the Richmond Olympic Oval, on the one stage he has never been able dominated, with the sound of adulation washing over him. No, he didn't win that elusive medal to cap the storybook comeback. But he left every once of try on the ice.
He may still skate one or both of the remaining two World Cup stops. The enticement of the finale being back here in Richmond may convince him to give it a go.
"We'll see. I'll know in a few days or a week,'' said the Spoon, a 14th place in Wednesday's men's 1000 metres his swansong to Olympic long-track speed skating. "I want to feel motiviated. I don't want to show up and just go through the motions. There's no fun in that.
"I'm not happy. I'm not sad. When it's over, it's over.
"I felt like I came here to race. And I did that.
"It's tough to keep pushing yourself past a certain point in your career. I've been thinking about race itself and this Olympic experience specially. But I haven't sat down and thought about my entire careeer too in depth. And I don't know if I ever will condense it, summarize it in my head.
"It felt good, hearing the roar here in Canada. Great crowds. Great support. After the races I felt people were showing their appreciation for what I've done in my career. That was nice. A great way to cap off my Olympic career, definitely.''
Wotherspoon admitted the physical toll of the last decade competing had taken a toll and that rebounding from the year off because of a broken left arm was exacting.
"In the first part of the race I felt okay. the last part ... I was suffering at the end. This ice isn't forgiving, the air isn't forgiving. When you're losing speed it's amplified on this track. It wasn't the finish I was hoping for.''
The Olympic 'failure' - not merely a hole in his career, but a chasm, a canyon - has in the minds of many succeeded in wiping away the very considerable achievements Wotherspoon has stockpiled. A single silver medal to show, that 12 years ago at Nagano, in four trips to the big five-ring dance for an individual who hoarded 67 World Cup wins (a record), four World Sprint titles and 13 World Cup over-all 500-metre championships.
He knows the can't-win-the-big-one tag will follow him. At least until the broad range of his career is assessed.
"I don't think Canada realizes what an amazing athlete he truly is,'' defended sprinter Shannon Rempel.
"People just don't understand. If (coverage) was all season from all media outlets, not just TV, then people would understand, a bit. I explain, whenever I get the chance, when people say 'Oh, Jeremy can't pull it out at the Games.'
"It's more than that.''
All those closest insist his glory should be greater than his guilt.
"When Jer is 'on','' said mentor Michael Crowe, a product of the U.S. speed skating coaching program, "nobody touches him. Sometimes you look at him out there and wonder if he's even trying because he looks the same breaking a world record or if he's not ... quite ... there. He makes it look so easy. A beautiful thing to watch.
"When everything's working, he's the best skater I've ever seen.''
Teammate Kristina Groves, bronze medalist in the women's 3000 on Sunday, believes Wotherspoon's legacy is assured,
"I think he will be remembered as the best sprint speed skater. Ever. Within the speed skating community, he is, without doubt, one of the very, very best. I watch him skate and it still gives me goosebumps at how technically perfect he is.''
Crowe will long carry with him the memory of the Monday's 500-metre pre-race build-up.
"Being in the locker room with Jeremy and other three guys on team, feeling that champion attitude, that champion preparation. Out of respect to Jer and what he's done, right? It was really special. Everyone in there gave their best effort, knowing it was his last 500.
"That in itself was tribute to Jer.''
Jeremy Wotherspoon may not have left on golden terms. But he did go out on his own terms.
"I can't change anything in the past,'' he said. "I can't change what happened today. Or Monday. So I'm not going to regret anything. There are things I regret in the past, things I know I did well and other things did poorly because I didn't know any better. And you can't regret a mistake when you didn't know any better.''
When asked if the Olympic disappoints would haunt him, he smiled: "I hope not.''
"I just think everyone's got things they have to fight; their own demons, even Olympic demons,'' said Crowe in summation. "But I'll tell you, in the 500 (Monday) there were no Olympic demons in that locker room or on the ice. Jer went out and skated with his heart and his head.
"He got past all that. He made his peace.
"I'm proud of that.
"He's good with it.
"So I think we all have to be good with it, too.''


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Minu is friendly and sociable, open and communicative. She is an extrovert who is thrilled to be alive and doesn´t mind who knows it. She is an individualist and is prepared to make a lot of effort to accomplish her goals: her will-power and ambition are unshakable. She is incredibly sensitive, and can appear to be shy and reserved (especially if she was born on a 2nd, 11th, 20th or 29th). There is no doubt that the 11 (which tends to expresses itself on reaching adulthood) can - for the time being - be lived at the vibration of the number 2 - representative of vulnerability, passivity and fragility. It is usually only on reaching maturity that her great strength and sense of responsibility will make an appearance, along with enormous determination and the ability to support and guide others. Perceptive and intuitive, she doesn´t miss a thing, and is just as capable of being an attentive friend as a concerned and sober counselor. Nevertheless, she should be very careful not to abuse the influence and authority that she has on others in order to impose her own personal views. Independent, original, honest and headstrong Minu is a character in her own right, no doubt about it. As a child, she masterfully manipulates all of the other humans around her, bullying them shamelessly. A creative activity would be highly recommendable (theatre, dance, drawing...). She is swift, shrewd, dynamic, adaptable and very clever with an insatiable thirst for knowledge.
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Diane von Furstenberg sat for a portrait with Chuck Close six weeks after a skiing accident left her with a broken nose and fractured bones in her face. "I gave up on my looks a long time ago," says the designer. In fact, she wishes Close could have taken this color Polaroid closer to her accident. "I should have come here when my face was blue. There was a time when there was a lot of blue but no swelling." Aging doesn't trouble Diane von Furstenberg. "I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older I would take it as a compliment."
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Queen of Swords
Make your own decisions. Exercise as much independence as you know you can handle.
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General Meaning
Representing the energy of a Queen, this feminine power was traditionally known as a widow, crone or divorcee. In modern times, she can be viewed as a model of self-sufficiency, independence and intelligence. She often has extremely high standards due to her subtle sensitivities, which can be perceived by those around her as being critical or hard to please. Her true motive is to refine the world, to upgrade peoples' understanding -- so that everyone can have the space they need to become fully themselves.
She is not interested in conforming. She is too intelligent to be confined to the role of housewife or nursemaid, although she is perfectly competent in those areas. She chooses her associations (or her solitude), and is seldom caught up in dependent relationships -- at least not for long. Her intelligence is not always the most comfortable to be around, but she can be counted on to see through superficiality and point to the truth of a situation.
In the Reversed Position
When the Queen of Swords is reversed, it indicates a propensity for denying your deepest feelings. Somewhere you decided that speaking up for the emotional truth is selfish and unattractive. As a result, you are prejudiced against your own needs.
It is not a flaw to have a heart; it is a flaw to ignore it. Show some compassion for yourself, and in so doing help your loved ones love you better. Don't isolate yourself. Have compassion for yourself. Serving your own feelings and needs is appropriate and necessary.
In the Advice Positon
The Queen of Swords in this position advises that you refrain from remaining dependent on others at this time. Instead of placing too much confidence in the promises people have made, harbor only those ambitions you know you can accomplish yourself.
The Queen of Swords does not want to wait and see what others would think, say or do. She knows what she wants and how to get it. She doesn't ask permission or even subject herself to much influence. There are times in life when no one can take care of you as well as you can. Leave sentimentality behind and take action. Make important decisions for yourself because it's up to you. You are the final judge.
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Roberts, considered the current face of the franchise, and Tejada, a four-time All-Star who was traded a day before the report's release, were among 19 current or former Orioles mentioned in former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell's 20-month investigation on steroid use in the sport.
"It's not a very good day for baseball," Orioles manager Dave Trembley said. "Obviously, but obviously let's get it behind us, learn from it, move forward and make the 2008 season a better one."
Roberts was included in the report after former Orioles teammate Larry Bigbie told investigators that Roberts admitted to him that he had "injected himself once or twice with steroids" in 2003. Roberts, who has repeatedly denied using steroids, didn't return several phone calls yesterday. His agent, Mark Pieper, said last night that his client wasn't commenting on the report.
Roberts and outfielder , who admitted earlier this month to using human growth hormone after he was assessed a 15-day suspension from Major League Baseball, were the only current Orioles mentioned in the report. No new information on Gibbons was cited aside from a 2003 e-mail correspondence between Los Angeles Dodgers officials that stated: "Gibbons is a guy [we] would have interest in but juice involved there."
Gibbons said yesterday that he was never contacted by Mitchell's committee and saw no point commenting on a topic that he has already addressed.
"I've already dealt with the issue," he said. "There's nothing new here."
Orioles owner Peter Angelos and president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail didn't return phone calls seeking comment.
The list of past and present Orioles mentioned in the report included current Toronto Blue Jays catcher Gregg Zaun, the nephew of former Orioles catcher and coach Rick Dempsey, and relievers Todd Williams and Jason Grimsley, the latter of whom was with the club for 1 1/2 injury-marred seasons.
It ranged from players such as pitchers Darren Holmes, Ricky Bones, Kevin Brown and Kent Mercker and catcher Tim Laker, whose stays were brief, to first basemen Rafael Palmeiro and David Segui and utility player Howie Clark, who returned to the Orioles later in their careers for second stints.
Also cited were infielders Manny Alexander and Jerry Hairston and outfielders Jack Cust and Gary Matthews Jr. The latter two now play key roles for the Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels, respectively.
Segui said earlier this week that he expected to be in the report and acknowledged to The Sun that he had experimented with anabolic steroids. Segui's relationship with former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski, who is awaiting sentencing on steroid distribution charges, provided a prominent foundation for Mitchell's report.
According to the report, Segui introduced other teammates and friends to Radomski, including Bigbie and Roberts, two young Orioles whom Segui mentored. Bigbie, a former top Orioles prospect whose faltering career has landed him in Japan, was one of the most cooperative players in the investigation during interviews attended by federal prosecutors and law enforcement agents.
Segui didn't return calls last night, and Bigbie was unavailable for comment.
In the report, Bigbie recounted how Segui introduced him to steroids and injected him while they were teammates from 2001 through 2004. Bigbie also said Segui put him on cycles of steroids and testosterone that the first baseman supplied at no charge, and later gave him anti-estrogen once he stopped using steroids. Bigbie also implicated Roberts, who was a close friend of his and was even invited to Bigbie's wedding earlier this year, in the following excerpt of the report:
"Roberts and Bigbie were both rookies in 2001. According to Bigbie, both he and Roberts lived in Segui's house in the Baltimore area during the latter part of that season. When Bigbie and Segui used steroids in the house, Roberts did not participate.
"According to Bigbie, however, in 2004 Roberts admitted to him that he had injected himself once or twice with steroids in 2003. Until this admission, Bigbie had never suspected Roberts of using steroids. In order to provide Roberts with information about these allegations and to give him an opportunity to respond, I asked him to meet with me; he declined."
Roberts, who had said several times in the days leading up to its release that he hadn't given the report much thought, had previously been implicated in the steroid scandal in 2006 when The Los Angeles Times reported that he was accused of using performance-enhancing drugs by Grimsley in a federal affidavit.
At the time, Roberts said: "His accusations are ridiculous. We've had steroid testing, and I've taken all the tests."
Tejada, who was traded Wednesday to the Houston Astros for five players, was also reportedly mentioned in the Grimsley affidavit. His inclusion in the Mitchell Report came after former Athletics teammate Adam Piatt told investigators that he provided the shortstop with testosterone and hGH through Radomski. Piatt emphasized that he didn't know whether Tejada actually used the substances.
The report included copies of checks that Tejada wrote to Piatt for $3,100 and $3,200 in March 2003. Tejada, who has repeatedly denied using steroids, signed a six-year deal with the Orioles after the 2003 season.
Below is an excerpt that details Tejada's alleged involvement:
"According to Piatt, Tejada asked specifically if he had any steroids. Piatt believed that Tejada asked him because Piatt was in good shape and generally friendly with him. Piatt had several conversations with Tejada before a transaction occurred. Piatt admitted he had access to steroids and human growth hormone and agreed to obtain them for Tejada. Piatt recalled that he provided Tejada with testosterone or Deca-Durabolin, as well as human growth hormone.
"Radomski recalled receiving a call from Piatt during which he said he needed extra testosterone because 'one of the guys wanted some.' In a later conversation, Piatt told Radomski that the testosterone was for his teammate, . Radomski never spoke, or sold performance enhancing substances, directly to Tejada."
Like Roberts, Tejada declined to meet with Mitchell investigators and has repeatedly denied using steroids. He didn't return calls seeking comment yesterday.
In September 2006, Tejada told The Sun in response to Grimsley's reported allegations: "I know that I've never had a problem with that. I know that I've never used that, and I know I am clean. ... I'll get checked out for anybody, any time, any moment - whenever they want."
MacPhail said Wednesday that the timing of Tejada's trade to the Astros had nothing to do with the impending release of the Mitchell Report. He also said that the two sides had no discussions about nullifying the six-player deal if one of the players was named in the report.
"That really didn't have anything to do with it," MacPhail said. "It was a function of trying to add as many talented young players as I could possibly get for a very talented player that can help somebody win now."


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Scalextric Digital - ARC PRO
Scalextric ARC PRO (App Race Control) is a revolutionary digital slot car system that allows users to wirelessly create and manage races with a handheld smart device, such as a smartphone or tablet. Download the ARC app, then connect your smart device via Bluetooth to the new ARC Powerbase, unlocking unique features and control of your Scalextric races.
Make it personal!
Scalextric ARC PRO Sets allow you to customise your race for a truly personal experience
Choose your race type
Quick Race - Practice - Grand Prix - Endurance - Tournament - Drag Race- Arcade - Pace Car
Choose your race conditions
Fuel Usage - Tyre Wear - Number Of Laps - Driver Penalties - Variable Weather Conditions - Race Incidents - Qualifying - Start Type - KERS - Yellow Flag
Post your best times on social
Show your competitve edge and post your race stats onto Facebook and Twitter!
Getting started
It's so simple to get started!! Download the ARC app, connect your powerbase to your Smart Device, select from various race scenarios and you're ready to race.
Download the ARC app on your Smart Device
Connect via Bluetooth to the ARC Powerbase
Select from 8 race modes and choose your race conditions
Thrash your opponent in the ultimate racing experience!
ARC PRO (App Race Control) Overview
The ultimate digital slot car race control system is here! App Race Control (ARC) introduces real racing excitement to Scalextric!
With Digital capability, race your car on any lane and change lanes to cut up your rival and overtake
Race up to 6 cars at once for the ultimate battle
Feel the thrill of the race with vibrating wireless hand controllers
Wireless controllers plus a braking button for more control
Let weather conditions affect your race for a realistic race experience
Collect power ups for a competiive edge over your opponent in arcade mode
1. Quick Race
This mode allows you to create a number of custom events of any type which can be accessed quickly in the future.
2. Practice
This is a non competitive mode in which drivers try to achieve the best lap time over a number of set laps.
3. Grand prix
Competitive mode in which drivers race over a set number of laps.
4. Endurance
Competitive race mode in which drivers race for set amount of time.
5. Tournament
Competitive mode in which drivers race head to head over a set number of laps or for a set amount of time.
6. Drag Race
Competitive race mode in which drivers race on a long straight. The pit exit on the powerbase represents the finish line and the drag strip can be as long as you want.
7. Arcade
8. Pace Car
Lap Counting & Timing
See your current and remaining lap times
Tyre Wear
Add another dimension to your race by monitoring your tyre wear and choosing the right time to pit
Fuel Usage
When your car runs out of fuel pit stops will be required - miss the pits and risk disqualification
Jump Start Penalty
This allows you to define the number of seconds a jump starting driver will be penalised
Race End Type
This defines when the race will end. standard ends the race once every driver has crossed the line after the winner. All finish will only end the race after each driver has completed the full race distance.
The ARC system is currently available in a choice of three versions...


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OTTAWA - Two groups opposed to the possible purchase of the F-35 say the single-engine jet fighter would be too dangerous for the Canadian military to use over remote stretches of the country, particularly the Arctic.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Rideau Institute released a new report Monday that argues whatever jet replaces the country's CF-18s should have two engines.
The study, by defence expert Michael Byers, follows a report months ago that questioned the enormous cost of the Lockheed Martin stealth fighter.
Public Works Minister Diane Finley told the House of Commons on Monday there's been no decision on whether the government will stick with the controversial F-35 or proceed with a full competition.
A market analysis, which looked at alternatives and was compiled by a panel of independent experts, is still being assessed.
Defence insiders say the study does not make a specific recommendation for cabinet to consider, but rather lays out the capabilities of each aircraft and their availability.
Byers argued Monday that cabinet needs to consider the safety aspect of operating a single-engine fighter and he compares the F-35 to the CF-104 Starfighter, which also had a single engine.
The Starfighter was used by the air force for 26 years — from the 1960s to the 1980s — and was involved in crashes so often it was nicknamed "The Widow Maker" by pilots.
Byers said about a quarter of the jet's 110 crashes were attributed to bird strikes, which resulted in engine failure. A total of 39 pilots died flying the CF-104s.
"We learned that lesson in 1980" when the Trudeau government chose the twin-engine CF-18, Byers said. "It seems now that the government may be forgetting that lesson. And I would not want the F-35 to be Canada's next widow maker."
A spokeswoman for Finley dismissed the analysis Monday night.
"Independent third party experts, with access to all of the real facts on this file, have worked to ensure that the reports prepared by DND are rigorous and impartial," said Alyson Queen.
The debate over whether a single — or duel — engine fighter was appropriate given the country's vast geography has raged in fits and starts since the Harper government elected to pursue the F-35 in the summer of 2010.
Government officials argued at the time there were no statistics that showed one type of aircraft was safer than the other, but Byers points to U.S. air force data that demonstrates single-engine jets have crashed more often.
The manufacturer and the government have argued that improvements in technology have made the F-35's engine more reliable and safer than its predecessors — a notion Byers dismisses by pointing to incidents involving commercial airliners.
"The single-engine versus twin-engine issue has not been resolved by improvements in the reliability of jet engines," the report said.
"Engine failures will still occur, and when they do so away from an airport, a second engine is the only thing that can prevent a crash."


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How much do you trust companies with your personal information? When it comes to Microsoft, past answers to that question have been mixedanyone remember its ill-fated Hailstorm initiative? The software company is reiterating its commitment to taking customer privacy seriously and is demonstrating it by making its newly adopted internal privacy guidelines public with the hope that other developers will adopt them.
The 49-page document, called "Microsoft's Privacy Guidelines for Developing Software Products and Services," details how Microsoft believes developers should handle sensitive customer information. Development groups within Microsoft have been following some of the principles outlined in the document for some time, but the company has recently made company-wide adherence to the guidelines mandatory.
Starting out by admitting that customers "are getting increasingly frustrated with software and Web sites that do not clearly communicate the behaviors that impact customer privacy and the controls available to them," the document focuses on how developers should treat personally identifiable information.
Microsoft outlines nine different scenarios and details how developers should treat customer data in each instance. Those scenarios include transferring personally identifiable information to and from the customer's system, transferring anonymous data, installing software, deploying web sites, and storing and processing user data at the company.
Two themes running through all the scenarios are those of notice and consent, and security and data integrity. Developers should always give the users notice of what data they are going to process and store and explicitly get consent for doing so. The developers should then store only the minimum amount of data to achieve their business purposes. For instance, if a serial number will do the job of uniquely identifying a customer, there is no need to retain names and addresses.
Overall, the guidelines appear to be well-thought-out and balanced, even if the company hasn't always followed them itself. The recent dustup around Windows Genuine Advantage phoning home without users' knowledge and consent could have been avoided had the company followed this set of guidelines. As Microsoft says, setting a "high bar" for respecting customer privacy will result in greater trust from customers.


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Get ready for Teddi 38 with our 100 Day countdown!
Date: November 6, 2019 - November 6, 2019
Time: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Location: Campus Center Atrium
Hosted by the Teddi Dance for Love Committee
Celebrate 100 days until Teddi by donating your hair to Children with Hair Loss. Hairstylists will be on campus giving haircuts for free. Walk-ins welcome, but sign ups are preferred. The minimum to donate is 8 inches. Sign up:
If all the time spots are filled, you can also donate at the 38th annual Dance for Love or at a local salon. Bring in your hair secured and in a plastic bag with your name on it.
All hair will be donated to Children with Hair Loss, an organization that makes wigs for children affected by cancer, alopecia, or other illnesses that lead to hair loss. These wigs are free for those who need them.


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Jim Benning is returning to the Vancouver Canucks.
The former NHL defenceman will be named the club's next general manager, according to multiple reports. An announcement is expected Friday.
Benning, who played nine seasons with the Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs, has been an assistant GM for the Boston Bruins since 2006.
Following his playing career, he served as a scout for the Anaheim Ducks and Buffalo Sabres. He was also named Buffalo's director of amateur scouting.
The move comes after Canucks president Trevor Linden fired GM Mike Gillis last month and head coach John Tortorella in early May.
According to TSN, Barry Trotz is high on the Canucks' list of head coach candidates. He was let go by the Nashville Predators in April after 15 seasons with the organization.
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Audra McDonald Is Married
The Private Practice star and five-time Tony winner weds actor Will Swenson
Actress Audra McDonald is a married woman. On Saturday night, the former Private Practice actress exchanged vows in an Esosa dress with Broadway star Will Swenson at their home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
Both Broadway veterans, the two met in 2007 and got engaged this past New Year's while on vacation in Puerto Rico.
"Well that was just the best day ever #SadieSadiemarriedlady," McDonald, 42, Tweeted late Saturday.
This is the second marriage for McDonald, 42, and Swenson, 38, who have children with their former spouses. McDonald is mother to one daughter, Zoe Madeline, 11, and Swenson is father to two sons, Bridger, 11, and Sawyer, 8. The couple tells PEOPLE that they look forward to their new life together as husband, wife and "wee posse of three."
After four seasons playing Dr. Naomi Bennett on ABC's hit medical drama Private Practice, McDonald returned to Broadway in January of this year, starring in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. The show recently completed a historic 322-performance run. For her portrayal of Bess, the Juilliard-trained singer and actress won a record-tying fifth Tony, placing her in the illustrious company of Broadway legends Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury as the only people in Tony history to win five performance awards.
Will Swenson was most recently seen as Tick in the critically acclaimed Broadway production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. He is currently in rehearsals for Manhattan Theatre Club's Murder Ballad, a new rock musical opening on Nov. 15 at City Center Stage II.


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Pamela Johnson Parker
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"Being a poet is one of the unhealtheir jobs—no regular hours, so many temptations!" – Elizabeth Bishop
"Sit there until you get there." – Pamela Johnson Parker
Photos courtesy of Jon Erickson, Vanderbilt University
M.F.A., Creative Writing
Murray State University
M.A., English
Murray State University
B.A., History
Murray State University
A Walk Through The Memory Palace. Phoenicia Publishing, 2009.
Other Four-Letter Words. Finishing Line Press, 2010.
Highlighted Publications
Best New Poets 2011, as judged by D.A. Powell
Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed. Upstart: A Journal of Renaissance Studies. Clemson University: 11 Aug 2014.
Poetry: Anti-, Oranges and Sardines, Poets and Artists, Ocho, Iron Horse Literary Review, Alligator Juniper, Centrifugal Eye, Fried Chicken and Coffee
Broadsides: Blue Fifth Review, Broadsided
Creative Nonfiction: Muscadine Lines: A Journal of the South
Anthologies: The River Anthology, Poets on Painting
Areas of Specialization
Contemporary American Poetry
Creative Writing
Ekphrasis and Literary Pictorialism
Forms of Fiction
Courses Taught
Composition and Research
Forms of Fiction
Introduction to Creative Writing
Introduction to Poetry
Special Topics: Late Twentieth-Century Poetry
Awards and Distinctions
Finalist, Sarabande Prize, 2013
Alligator Juniper Poetry Prize Selection, 2013 and 2014
Runner-up, the Linda Bruckheimer Award, Sarabande, 2010
Winner of the Qarrtsiluni Chapbook Contest for A Walk Through The Memory Palace, 2009.
Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writer's Conference
Pushcart Nominations: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
Best of the Net Nominations, 2009
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Serena Software has ended its period in the wilderness with a new process-driven approach to application delivery that introduces a new ALM solution strategy focused on federation and orchestration. After a couple of years of mixed corporate messages with the company attempting to reinvent itself as a mashups specialist, the company appears to have come back to its configuration management roots with a total offering that focuses on automated end-to-end application delivery.
Analysts generally agree that delivering applications that power revenue generation or lower cost structures is the key to creating a compelling competitive advantage, especially given that virtualization and the cloud are commoditizing run-time environments.
Given the stakes, Serena has built its orchestration approach around the application of process automation to the application delivery supply chain, potentially allowing software developers to work more effectively and reduce the challenges of siloed project teams working with multiple development tools and methodologies.
Serena claims that its orchestrated ALM solution provides built-in traceability and auditability and also addresses another enterprise concern: the need to support the various tiers of today's applications running on Linux, Windows, and mainframe.
"Orchestration is the key to enterprise-class application delivery success," said David Hurwitz, SVP of worldwide marketing at Serena Software. "Our customers need to streamline workflows, leverage their valuable talent, and exploit their existing infrastructure. They've overwhelmingly told us that flowing work and insight to developers, analysts, executives, operations managers, and everyone else involved in the application lifecycle is the right approach. No ALM vendor has stepped up to this challenge, until now."
"By creating a 'software supply chain,' companies can increase efficiencies around globally distributed software and provide an end-to-end, integrated approach to software development," said Thomas Murphy, research director at Gartner.


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Composite submarine camels win with long-term durability
U.S. Navy wisely opts for more expensive submarine moorings that maximize lifecycle cost efficiency.
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This story begins with an unlikely premise: the U.S. Navy needed to solve a problem, and it was willing to spend more money up front on a solution if that solution promised net savings in the long run. The problem? Poor durability of its deep-draft submarine camels. These large and mostly submerged metal or wood structures are attached to a mooring structure and fitted with rubber bumpers to provide a buffer between the Navy's submarines and the waterfront where they are berthed. The camel deflects or compresses with vessel movement and prevents damage to the hull, diving planes, screws, fairings, special skin treatments and other equipment by absorbing the sub's energy — which is considerable, given the 560-ft/171m length and 17,000 tons of water displaced by berthed vessels, including the Ohio class submarine, the heaviest in the fleet.
Given the saltwater environment in which they work, metal and wood camels require removal every two years for inspection and repair, which can be substantial if corrosion has begun. The other challenge the Navy faced was that it had 17 unique camel designs in ports around the world. Each camel was designed to accommodate a specific submarine type, which, in addition to the Ohio, includes the Los Angeles, Virginia and Seawolf classes.
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Design and engineering firm Whitman, Requardt & Assoc. (WR&A, Baltimore, Md.) and composites manufacturer Composite Advantage (CA, Dayton, Ohio) were tasked with developing a universal composite camel that would meet that challenge and accommodate any U.S. Navy sub type, anywhere in the world.
The Navy's criteria for the new camel included not only the ability to absorb the energy generated by a berthing submarine, but also the freeboard (how much of the camel would sit above the waterline), the list and trim angles, and the overall flotation stability requirements. The Navy's request for proposal (RFP) specified that the level floating position of the camel must be maintained within a 1-inch/25.4-mm tolerance side to side and front to back. Further, the freeboard must be maintained within a 1-ft/0.3m tolerance.
"We were dealing with a unique shape and the criteria were somewhat at odds with each other in that if we designed to meet one requirement, issues surfaced with the other criteria."
The RFP also stipulated that the camels must meet performance requirements in three load scenarios: berthing of a submarine, mooring of a submarine and lowering and lifting the camel into and out of the water. Berthing assumes a submarine velocity of 0.4 ft/sec (0.12 m/sec), which is approximately 200 ft-kip of energy. Mooring loads — caused by waves, wind and other forces — are, by comparison, smaller than berthing forces. The load path for berthing and mooring are horizontal, but the load path for lowering and lifting the camel into and out of the water is vertical; discrete lifting points on the camel, therefore, would be required and would have to withstand an anticipated mass in excess of 45 metric tonnes (100,000 lb).
"We were dealing with a unique shape and the criteria were somewhat at odds with each other in that if we designed to meet one requirement, issues surfaced with the other criteria," says Matthew Lambros, structural engineer for WR&A. "This was largely due to the fact that a number of properties affecting the camel, such as volumes and densities, can vary and must be considered to establish precise flotation calculations."
Working with CA, WR&A developed a design that comprises five composite structures, or modules, that are assembled on site to build the 25 ft by 9 ft by 11.5 ft (7.6m by 2.7m by 3.5m) camel. CA president Scott Reeve says the two largest modules, the upper and lower main boxes, are stacked (see photos). Two others, called wing walls, are installed on each side of the stack, and a third module is front mounted to provide the surface that faces the submarine. Attached to this front surface are the rubber fenders that contact the submarine. On the backside of the camel, a series of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene rubbing strips provide a contact surface where the camel meets the fixed dock structure.
The modules are made by assembling and bonding composite panels. Most panels have a sandwich construction, featuring 3.5-inch/89-mm thick TYCOR foam core (Milliken & Co., Spartanburg, S.C.) faced and edged with 0.3-inch/7.62-mm thick layers of uniaxial and triaxial glass fiber fabric from V2 Composites (Auburn, Ala.). This structure is hand layed, vacuum bagged and infused with Hetron 992 or Derakane 610 vinyl ester resin, supplied by Ashland Performance Materials (Dublin, Ohio). The foam core incorporates fiberglass shear webs, spaced at 1.5 inch/38.1 mm intervals. Where the panels are subjected to biaxial bending or significant shear forces, a bidirectional core is used. This consists of unidirectional core that is cut into short lengths (perpendicular to the shear webs) and wrapped in additional fiberglass fabric, thus providing shear webs in both directions.
Reeve says some of the camel's primary contact points — those that see the most physical and mechanical stress — are designed for impact resistance as 1.5-inch/38.1-mm thick solid laminates. Each module and, later, the entire camel structure, is bonded together with an adhesive provided by SCIGRIP (Durham, N.C.).
The goal was to put the camel's center of gravity as far as possible below the waterline to maintain rotational stability — easier said than done.
Structural analysis of the camel included a 3-D finite element analysis (FEA) of the entire structure, using RISA-3D FEA modeling software developed by RISA Technologies (Foothill Ranch, Calif.). The model consisted primarily of a series of meshed plate elements; the material and section properties of the plate elements were input manually to match the properties of the composite sandwich panels. Berthing, mooring and lifting (gravity) loads were applied to the model, and the resulting forces were used for panel and connection design. The submarine berthing energy absorbed by the marine fenders was converted to a force using charts and tables provided by marine fender manufacturers. The contact points from the camel to the mooring structure were modeled using compression-only lateral supports.
The panel properties were determined through an extensive testing program developed specifically for the camel design. For each failure mechanism identified in the structural analysis, the panel properties from the testing program were compared to the results of the analysis to determine the factor of safety against failure. Reeve says the calculated factors of safety were discussed with the owner, engineer and fabricator to ensure there was a consensus regarding their acceptability. Where possible, the safety factors also were compared to industry standards. For safety factors that were determined to be insufficient, changes to the design or fabrication methods were made as required.
Fabricating for flotation
After the camel's design was finalized and manufacturing began, Reeve says another challenge presented itself: buoyancy management. Almost all of a camel rests below waterline, but the composite camels are inherently too buoyant for the application. The goal, then, was to put the camel's center of gravity as far as possible below the waterline to maintain rotational stability — easier said than done.
Reeve says calculating the center of buoyancy and center of gravity included the tedious process of determining the relative position and density of each camel component, including panels, flotation foam, marine fenders and connection angles and hardware. Increasing the ballast weight to achieve the required freeboard, for example, would impact the angle of flotation. The final solution had to achieve a balance among all the design criteria.
Ultimately, says Reeve, CA determined that ballast must be added to submerge the camel and keep it trim against the submarine. This is done in three ways. First, after the 70,000-lb/31,751-kg camel is assembled, 35,000 lb/15,876 kg of concrete is poured into the center box. Second, a series of movable steel plates are installed over the ballast; they are adjusted from side to side in the box after the camel is floated for the first time to bring the entire structure trim. Third, holes are drilled in the box sides to allow them to fill with water. "The water helps keep the structure stabilized," says Reeve. "It doesn't bob or move as much."
CA's first camel was assembled on site at Naval Submarine Base New London (Groton, Conn.) in October 2010 and installed a month later for a flotation test. Since then, the Navy has installed two more camels, and CA is now manufacturing another for Naval Station Norfolk (Norfolk, Va.). "Feedback from Navy facilities engineers and port operations is very favorable," says CA vice president Andy Loff. "Elimination of recurring maintenance is a major operational benefit, and multiple bases are now looking at the composite camels for future use."
Reeve says the Navy is installing about two composite camels per year and is looking at other camel-like applications for the material, despite the fact that the CA camels cost 40 to 50 percent more than the old metal and wood versions. He lauds the unusual foresight: "The Navy basically said, 'I'd much rather pay a little more up front than pay a lot more over a 10-year period.'" And with camels now expected to last 25 years or longer, the savings will live on. Mission accomplished.
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