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Hiring a limousine usually warrants some engagement. Whether you are hiring a limousine for a business meeting or a stretch limousine for a wedding in Orlando, there are a few suggestions so that you will have the best Limousine Experience.
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The great thing about the limo chauffeur and the guests treating each other this way is that both parties will make it a great experience. In most cases, the limousine service will go above and beyond to make your trip a great one.
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Your limo driver can be extremely helpful if you are new to the area. The driver can tell you where all of the Orlando attractions are, what the cost is and the operating hours. Looking for a restaurant in the area, that serves Italian food? Your driver can help you with that. Looking for a nightclub for you and your friends to go dancing in the Orlando area? Your Orlando transportation can tell you where the best clubs are located.
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2009 Reader Poll: Evans' Mendrisio moment biggest of the year
Cavendish and Haussler's Sanremo scramble second
2009 was another great year for road racing and you voted Cadel Evans' superb win in the World Championship road race as the biggest moment of the year. In second place was the thrilling finale between Mark Cavendish and Heinrich Haussler as they threw their bikes towards the line in Milan-Sanremo.
2009 Reader Poll: Cobbles continue to capture readers' imagination
2009 Reader Poll: SRAM's off-road range a favourite
2009 Reader Poll: Twice is nice for Pendleton
2009 Reader Poll: Despite injury, Sir Chris Hoy tops track poll
2009 Reader Poll: Cervélo top-dog in team bike tally
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2009 Reader Poll: Columbia crushes competition as Best Team
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2009 Reader Poll: Capturing triumph and tragedy in pictures
2009 Reader Poll: Armstrong too strong
Closing out the top three was Lance Armstrong's gripping tactical battle with Alberto Contador on the road to La Grande-Motte at the Tour de France.
However, it was Evans' opportunistic attack at the foot of the final climb in Medrisio that captured your approval with 40 per cent of the vote. Evans came into the event on the back of a mediocre year. He had briefly shone in the spring with a sprinkling of strong performances up-to-and-including the Dauphine.
But the Australian bombed dramatically at the Tour de France and despite finishing third at the Vuelta, many saw it as another lost opportunity after a poor wheel change during a mountain stage cost him vital seconds and a chance of overall success.
Lining up in Medrisio he was an outsider who, if reports are to be believed, didn't have the full support of his teammates. Yet when the chips were down it was Evans who showed to the World what they'd been missing at the Tour. He attacked from a select bunch to silence the critics who claimed he didn't attack enough in races.
It was a perfectly timed move to. Within a group controlled by an Armada of Spanish riders the Australian countered the acceleration of Joaquin Rodriguez before dropping the Spaniard and soloing away as Fabian Cancellara was forced to chase frantically from behind.
The final few kilometres were gripping viewing and, as Evans reached the final hill-top, he had a small but defendable leader over the chasing pack. It was a classic comeback performance from a rider so many people had discounted as a genuine contender.
Cyclingnews 2009 Reader Poll results – Biggest moment of the year
Cadel Evans wins the World Championship road race: 5608
Mark Cavendish and Heinrich Haussler sprint against each other at Milano-Sanremo: 2898
Lance Armstrong drops Contador on the windy stage to La Grande-Motte in the Tour de France: 2349
Denis Menchov falls during the final time trial stage of the Giro d'Italia: 1872
CONI bans Alejandro Valverde from competing on Italian soil: 290
Tom Boonen is busted for cocaine for a second (later revealed as third) time: 288
Nino Schurter outpaces Julien Absalon at the MTB World Championships: 253
Kenny Van Hummel battles for the Lanterne Rouge: 205
Theo Bos is involved in a controversial sprint at the Presidential Tour of Turkey: 184
Pedro Horrillo crashes in the Giro d'Italia: 123
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17-12m 2/3 Element Delta Loop (Heavy Duty)
A 2/3 Element Dual-Band Heavy Duty Delta Loop Antenna for 17 and 12m
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A 2/3 element Dual-Band Delta Loop Antenna for 17 and 12 meters from the Vortex Antenna Systems 'Heavy Duty' range.
Manufactured from lightweight but extremely strong construction grade 6082-T6 Aluminium stock with a heavy duty boom. This antenna has 4 sections of aluminium tubing for the vertical section for 17m as standard, and 3 sections for the 12m loops. The antenna includes 6.35mm Diameter Wide Multiplate Element Brackets, H/Duty Polyamide Element Clamps and comes complete with M10 Stainless Hardware. Antenna is supplied with all hardware except boom to mast mount (see below).
The top wires on each loop are manufactured from copper-clad steel (in essence copper coated stainless steel) which is extremely strong and robust. The breaking strain of this alone is over 250kgs. This wire is the secured using marine-grade (316 stainless) hardware and Vortex's unique "Cable Strain Relief Mechanism" which pretty well eliminates a top-wire failure. Download our TOP-WIRE info sheet. The antenna is supplied with all hardware except boom to mast mount (see below).
All VORTEX Antennas can be shipped WITHOUT any boom to mast mounting plates. Select this option from the drop-down menu when purchasing. Other options include the choice of mounting plates and complete mounting solutions with U-Bolts and Brackets.
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Boom Length: 5.5m
Active Elements: 2 on 17m, 3 on 12m
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Front to Back Ratio: 25.53db (17m), 35.20db (12m)
Feed: Coax via SO239 sockets x2
Matching: Vortex Gamma Match x2 (PTFE dialectric)
Rating: 3.5kw
Element Clamps: Stauff (Germany) – heavy duty polyamide series
Loop Top Wire: 2mm copper clad steel
Antenna Weight: 37kg
Optional High Wind Element Support Kit: More info here
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When you visit google dot com and search go-go gadget arms, Giannis Antetokounmpo is the second basketball player you'll find listed. The recently retired, and surefire first-ballot Hall-of-Famer Kevin Garnett is the first. Basketball fans in Minnesota hope they have their next KG in Karl-Anthony Towns (#NBAVote), but the player who embodies the positionless basketball that Garnett helped usher in is, of course, the Greek Freak.
On Friday the 13th, Giannis took an outlet pass from Tony Snell and started the fast break. Antetokuonmpo is third in the league in transition scoring, behind only Russell Westbrook and LeBron James, so the Heat knew they were probably in trouble. They probably weren't expecting what actually did transpire, though.
Giannis picked up his dribble and gathered way out here:
The gather was a little awkward and he actually took three steps to the hoop but what kinda narc would want to ruin this play. Anyway, he gets airborne and ducks under Rodney McGruder (yes, actually), leaving him in this position:
Then his go-go gadget arms extend and he dunks it. He made it look routine; the man is incredible. Brock delved more into his freaky numbers but just enjoy the play in all its glory.
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As a veteran Cattlemen's Beef Board (CBB) director and leader, I have read Troy Marshall's recent commentary on the beef checkoff with great interest and want to comment on some of the recent controversy. While the path we have traveled to get to this point has been rough, I believe we are now positioned to have a constructive industry-wide debate on the future of the beef checkoff and what roles and responsibilities the CBB, the Policy and Federation divisions of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), the state beef councils, other contractors and industry organizations, and individual cattlemen should have in that future.
I hope all stakeholders will become well informed and I encourage everyone to make their wishes known to their CBB directors either individually or through organizations that represent them. I also hope that everyone – cattlemen, organizations and media – keeps the discourse civil and focused on the important issues.
I appreciate the concerns of those who have called for negotiations and/or mediation between the CBB and NCBA leaders. I know they have good intentions and that some of the minor differences might be resolved. However, I believe the major underlying issues will only be resolved once consensus within the entire industry on these roles and responsibilities is reached through public debate.
I also want to reassure everyone that as a member of the Beef Promotion Operating Committee (BPOC) and vice-chairman of a program committee I have seen little if any evidence that the conflicts over governance roles and responsibilities have spread to checkoff programs. They are still hard at work building demand for beef. That is possible because of the dedication and professionalism of the staff and volunteer leaders working on our behalf.
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In Grade 12, Kok – who is from Kokstad in KwaZulu-Natal, played for the SA U18 team at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games Africa Qualifier tournament in Zambia earlier this year and the strenuous game of Hockey Fives, which includes the goalkeeper, on a field the size of between the 23-metre areas and the full width of a conventional pitch, was the format.
"After first having to adapt to a new country we then had to work on mastering the Fives format and it certainly gives you more space, and the smaller numbers forces you to make decisions because you are in the game so much," the modest Kok tells SA School Sports Mag over coffee in the College Shoppe above the Barnes grass and Pape's Astro hockey pitches. "I still prefer the normal 11-a-side, though."
The first time I saw Kok play was as a little primary schoolboy at the SA U13 Interprovincial Tournament (IPT) on College's Pape's Astro five or six years ago and it was immediately obvious that here was an exceptional player in the making.
So it's over to his Inland U13 coach, Eston Primary sports co-ordinator Paul Gonlag, the KZN Inland U12 and U13 boys' coach since 2007, who was Kok's mentor a few years ago.
He says: "I first met Tevin in 2009 at the primary schools KZN Inland trials and he immediately caught my eye. He was a natural-born talent who had a great passion for the game. After a couple of practices I noticed that he had great vision on the field and coupled with very quick hands, he would be a great striker. He was very motivated and hardworking as a youngster and I knew he could reach the highest accolades. I am so proud of what he has achieved and know he will go very far in SA hockey."
Praise indeed.
"He was one of the outstanding players at the U13 IPT in 2009. Inland had a very strong team that year and Tevin was our 'dynamite' upfront. He didn't score as many goals as he wanted to but his hunger for goalscoring started at that IPT and it is evident in the player he is today. Tevin had a very supportive family who also have a great knowledge of the game, which helped him develop in his younger years.
"It was an absolute privilege coaching Tevin at U13 and I'm extremely proud of what he has achieved," Gonlag added.
I learnt the game at home in Kokstad with my brothers in the back garden," says Kok. "Aidan is 30 and Hedley 28 so I guess I was the laat-lammetjie."
And competition they provided for the youngest of the Kok brothers. Hedley captained College first and played SA U18 and Eastern Province men in his day. Aidan played SA U18 and Eastern Province men.
Tevin made the SA U17 squad last year and this is his second year in the KZN Inland U18 side that is preparing for IPT in the July holidays.
Kok is from a hockey family all down the line, from Granny, to Mom and Dad plus brothers. "Lots of people in my family play hockey and my Mom would travel from Kokstad to Maritzburg on Saturdays for her club hockey, that's a four-hour trip," Kok says. "My Dad played for Kokstad club in the South Natal league with matches at Scottburgh and Port Shepstone.
"My whole inspiration has been my family; I wanted to do what they were doing."
Whether at College or elsewhere in KZN, the Kok family come and support Tevin at matches en masse.
His formative years were spent at Kokstad Primary where Kok came under the wing of Elodie Pienaar, a competent provincial player who moved to East London when her parents bought a farm in the Kokstad region. "We used to play on a very bumpy grass field and I guess that is where I learned to control the ball on my stick, as you really had to concentrate, focus on it," says Tevin.
"When I played on Astro it was so much easier after that experience on grass and I followed my brothers to Maritzburg college because of Mr Bechet [the legendary former College first team coach Mike Bechet]," says Kok.
Now in his third year in the first team, Kok made the SA U16s aged just 15 but didn't make it the following year. "Mr Bechet helped me then, he said I must just keep on going and not lose heart."
Let's hear what Bechet, whoproduced 15 SA senior players since he started out coaching the first team in 1982, and 67 SA U18 players, has to say. There is no one better qualified to assess Kok than Bechet, whose win percentage as first XI hockey coach was nearly 80% over those 30-plus years, and whose teams only lost an average one match in every 10. Bechet has seen some outstanding talents in his time.
"Tevin Kok has a good work ethic, a work rate like Wayne Rooney, great hands and is an excellent striker of the ball, both forehand and backhand, while he has blistering pace with the ball and a good understanding of any role given him to execute," says Bechet.
"He is my type of player, has a big heart coupled with innate talent. He is a quiet, unassuming lad whom I believe could go all the way if he gets into the right environment post-school."
Kok is enjoying playing under successful new College first team coach Devon van der Merwe this year. "It's working well for us with Mr van der Merwe," says Kok.
Let's hear former SA U21 Junior World Cup 2005 player Van der Merwe, also a College product, on Kok.
"Tevin has the ability to eliminate players, win penalty corners and score field goals."
So what does he need to work on that does not quite measure up to these qualities. "Apart from his obvious talent, Tevin needs to look at improving his communication skills and decision making on and off the ball," says Van der Merwe.
"He a team player, and is working hard on and off the field to achieve his goal. He is focused. He has a very bright future ahead of him if he continues in this vain, the sky is the limit. He is committed to continuing gaining an education after school and pursuing his hockey aspirations. He must avoid the dangers that every young man needs to avoid, that bring about ill-discipline and negative lifestyle habits."
So where to now for Tevin Kok, as schooldays are nearing an end? "I would like to make the SA team for the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China in August this year and I would also like to play overseas at some stage and get more hockey experience. I have applied to study at Varsity College [in Durban North], as well as Maties [Stellenbosch], UJ [University of Johannesburg] and UKZN [University of KwaZulu-Natal] in Durban."
Kok's ultimate ambition is to play for South Africa at an Olympic Games and a World Cup, but for now he is applying his mind and efforts on the training pitch with the aim of being selected for the SA U18 team after SA U18 IPT on his home turf on Pape's Astro in July – and with it a crack at the Australia Schoolboys' team that will cross swords with the SA U18s at Maritzburg College and Kearsney College during the SA U16 boys' and girls' IPTs at these schools, which take place directly after the U18 IPTs end.
Best wishes to a thoroughly likeable young man.
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This statement was released by Dr. William Thompson through his attorney just now.
It is being spun by both sides because it is a mixed bag, with some dog bones for the pro-vaccine set, such as a sudden, oddly placed lecture on how much Dr. Thompson believes in vaccines in general.
It seems to me, bottom line, the point of it is this: CDC manipulated data around MMR and autism in a critical study.
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"I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed."
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Tomorrow morning I leave for a "real" vacation. No DH, no kids, just me and my two sisters; one older by 18 months, and one younger by about 12 months (my mother was insane). My older sister has a vacation condo in the Smokey Mountains in South Carolina, near the Georgia and North Carolina border. We should be well inland from Earl.
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I received this back in 1998 when I was a AOL member,, but it still fits!! I do not know who the author is.
A woman who was near death, insisted that she be buried with her fabric stash. While her children thought the request was a bit foolish, they complied and the lady's coffin was filled with her favorite fabrics.
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Hi folks, I hope you are all doing well! I have been super busy this summer, seems to be pretty much the norm around here anymore! I have been working on my sister in law's quilt and am now two thirds of the way done. Yahoo! I'm sure you have worked on several that you will be glad to see the end of. I like it a lot, heck I like them all but I am ready for a new project. I have not yet reached the point that I can work on more than one quilti at a time. I mean the actual quilting part, I do…Continue
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Well, here she is, don't have a name for her yet, but the newest addition to my "collection" which consists of Pfaff 7570, Viking #1 Plus, Sears Kenmore circa 1970, Singer full size, circa 1950s. I am open to suggestions for names, although none of my other machines have a name, but this one seems to be screaming for one...so my friends, suggestions welcome. I still can't believe I have her!…
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Or maybe I shoud say Quilt monkey???? I finally decided to put my Double heart bargello in the local fair and spent almost an hour hunched over it picking off little pieces of thread from all the seams. I "thought" I had cleaned it for the machine quilter, but with all the unsewing and resewing of the top, there were all these little bitty bits of thread poking out. I folded it accordian style on the dining room table to work on each section. I felt like a momma gorilla cleaning her…Continue
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Hey! It seems like a very long time ago that I blogged. Sorry, I have been packing for the big move across the street. I used to be able to get a house packed in about a week. Not anymore! This time, it seems to be taking me forever! So, bear with me on the book. I am on a deadline here and really have to keep at it...
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Global Studies 9 ® & AR) & 10 ® & AR) A two year course covering global history in a chronological order. This approach allows students to study world history from Ancient Times, in ninth grade, to Modern Times, in tenth grade. The curriculum is based around the New York State Social Standards---History, Geography, Economics, Civics, Citizenship and Government.
Social Studies 11R & AR) This course offers a study in United States History and Government from the Colonial Period to modern times, with discussions surrounding the social, political, economic, religious, and moral issues of the times. Students enrolled in this course will learn to analyze, organize, process and communicate accurate social studies information and ideas. Successful completion of this course requires passing the United States History and Government Regents examination given in June.
Advanced Placement American History This course enables students that have a particular interest or aptitude to study U.S. History. The Advanced Placement Course in U.S. History is designed to provide students with the analytic skill and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in U.S. History. Students should learn to assess historical materials- their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance- and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship.
This Advanced Placement American History course is equivalent to a full year introductory college survey course in American History. Successful completion of this course will enable the student to take and fulfill the A.P. exam requirements for college credit given in May. The remaining class time will be spent studying and reviewing for the New York State Regents Exam given in June.
Any student who is successfully participating in Regents Social Studies is eligible to be considered for the Advanced Placement program. Student selection will be based on the recommendation of the Social Studies Department and the submission of a required essay. The essay must be turned in by the end of May of the previous school year.
Economics R & AR) This is a required course that is designed to make students more aware of modern economic conditions. Some of the units covered are---Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Consumer Economics, and International Economics. Current events and local news are also discussed to make the curriculum more relevant to the students' lives.
Government R & AR) A required course based on a study of our government installations, the three branches, checks and balances, veto and following of certain bills from committee through passage. Periodicals including "Time", "Newsweek" and the "National Observer" are used.
Criminology I & II By studying criminology, the course emphasizes three important phases: (1) to discuss the relationship of crime as a problem to our unique culture; (2) to show the futility of viewing crime wholly as a manifestation of individual traits; and (3) to show that different agencies within our society as responsible in suppressing crime (police), apprehending and trying criminals (court), and dealing with those convicted (prisons).


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Rigol 1052E to 1102D Conversion
Hi. Here i'm seeking help due to problem i encountered during an (brave/stupid) attempt to convert my Rigol Oscilloscope 1052E to 1102D. due to encouragement from few forums:
1) http://www.eevblog.com/2010/03/31/ee...00mhz-ds1102e/
2) https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...663958&page=58
3) http://hackaday.com/2010/03/10/50mhz...pe-conversion/
i've managed to convert my 1052E to 1102D, but with not so smooth process, in the end, my rigol exhibit a few problem mainly on vertical system. and i'm still unable to prove that my 1052e now is indeed a 1102D, coz when i hit the LA button, it still showing "Function not available" and i dont have a Logic Head to test.
the story begin when EEVBlog forum #1 above is published, i followed the step and successfully convert to 1102E. but i think, why not i just dierctly upgrade to LA version, 1102D using same method? is it possible? after hours of reading 58 pages of forum #2 and possibility of upgrading 1052D to 1102D is suggested in forum #3, there is still no concrete evidence that 1052E->1102D has been done. so i think, what the hell, let me give it a try and report it to the world.
as an introductory, here is pics of my converted 1052E to 1102D:
before i continue with my problem, let me give a summary of what i think that should be done to convert:
1) upgrade your firmware to DS1000D version 02.02.02 sp2 (available at RCGroup forum #2). rename it from DS1000DUpdate.RGL to DS1000EUpdate.RGL,
put in your USB Drive root. put it in your DSO, it should automatically detect and press ok to upgrade (if you already have firmware 02.02.02.sp2 it will ask to upgrade to the same version, just click ok. we are using D (LA) version remember?)
2) follow the step as shown in EEVBlog forum #1 above except:
:INFO:SERIAL DS1EAxxx (ALT 010)
3) restart your DSO and calibrate.
i screwed up when i followed the HackADay forum #3 suggesting 3x linefeed, ie hitting (ALT010) 3 times. my rigol hanged, when i restarted, nothing changed, i'm still in DS1102E model (remember, i made this attempt after i successfully convert to 1102E). when nothing happened, i retype the command using 1x linefeed, exactly as EEVBlog suggest. i restarted, and i succesfully converted it. but when i look carefully, my serial has changed, instead of 114 (at the end), it showed 112 (i dont know whether something screwed it or my careless during the typing). i'm not happy, i retype again, i got screwed up again. after doing *IDN? and :INFO:MODEL 1102D command, dont know what happened, i restarted the rigol, and the graph line (Channel1 and 2) dissapeared, when i checked the info, my model and serial is gone (blank). so there recovery took place and problem start to emerge. i managed to recover my model and serial number by typing :INFO:MODEL 1052E and :INFO SERIAL DS1EDxxx and reconvert by :INFO:MODEL 1102D and :INFO:SERIAL DS1EAxxx method and only 1x linefeed, but the osc graph still dissapear. i managed to get the dancing graph back on line by doing calibration, but now they are dancing differently (more below).
so if anyone dare to try, please dont screw up like i am and do the above step/command in one go, no single mistake is permitted. and if anyone found out the above method is not working, please let me/us know.
and dont blame me if your DSO explodes, do it at your own risk.
please let me know if it is working if done in one go.
Last edited by shafri; Apr 03, 2010 at 12:02 PM.
The Problem
Now the real problem. I think i broke the vertical system. Even after several times re-calibration, the vertical system/axis not showing the right value. Even if i revert to model 1052E and re-calibrate, this problem still exist and not reversible (i have no way going back anymore, hence i stick and reconvert to 1102D).The horizontal system is doing fine. Testing is done at 10X attenuation. 1X exhibits similar behaviour.
Pic 3.jpg showing the graph i've made when measuring known voltages and the resulting reading from the DSO. 0V means the probe is opened or shorted, 3.3V means the probe is connected to 3.3V source and the same with 5V and 12V. dash "-" means its not being tested due to off the graph result. from the table in 3.jpg, it showed wrong reading and 2V/div and 100V/div are totally broken. when i connected 12V source to the probe, the DSO reads 7V at 5V/div setting. at 2V/div setting no matter what voltages you connect it to, it still showing -2.5V reading.
Pic 4.jpg showing reading when connected to 12V source at 5V/div setting.
Pic 5.jpg showing reading when probes 1&2 not connected to anything at 2V/div setting.
Pic 6.jpg showing reading of 4V at 5V/div when connected to 6V Lead-Acid Battery.
Pic 7.jpg showing reading of -2.5V at 2V/div when connected to 6V Lead-Acid Battery.
Pic 8.jpg showing compensating probe. 2V peak-peak? very funny!
Hi, Shafri.
I'm not sure I'm following all the issues you been having since your conversion. Or that there's any need to do so. But I can help you out with some information...
> when i hit the LA button, it still showing "Function not available" and i dont have a Logic Head to test. <
It wouldn't matter if you did have a Logic Head to test with (and the special ribbon cable). Which, BTW, together cost over $400. Even if you opened the front access port and added the internal ribbon cable.
You'd still be missing one vital component, which is not available separately, which is a daughtercard for the LA functions, which contains a 2nd Altera Cyclone chip, along with another 1 MB RAM buffer. It was recently discovered that the 40-pin header on the Rigol mainboard does NOT connect to the front panel, but rather that is where the daughtercard plugs in.
So I'd say the non-LA Rigols are not user-upgradable to LA-models, as some (including myself, at one point) had speculated they might potentially be.
- Mark
> Now the real problem. I think i broke the vertical system. Even after several times re-calibration, the vertical system/axis not showing the right value. <
That could be due to having the D-series firmware loaded.
> Even if i revert to model 1052E and re-calibrate, this problem still exist and not reversible (i have no way going back anymore, hence i stick and reconvert to 1102D). <
I'm not sure I understand why you "can't go back"? Have you tried reloading the E-series firmware? That would be where I would start, since the D-firmware isn't going to do you any good.
- Mark
Frequency test
For the frequency test. I dont have any wave generator, a step down transformer also nowhere to be found, so the easiest way is i tried to program my existing pic10f202 to output digital pulses (0-5V). As i said (for the test that i've done ranging 12Hz - 200KHz++), horizontal system/axis having no problem and showing the correct timeline. Except the vertical system, showing the wrong value, its like the voltage is being attentuated to a smaller value.
During the frequency test, i found another strange behaviour.ie at lower frequency (around 100Hz and lower), digital pulse from pic10f202 (and any other mcu by right i think) should be "square shaped", right? but no, the converted rigol showing different shapes, curved and trapezoidal shape, depending and the frequency, you can see what i means in pics 12-15.jpg
And again, i think the vertical system is the culprit here.
Noise Dancing
i should have asked 1st b4 the attempt. . now mr Mark proved that its not worth a dime to convert E to D model.
Anyway, another report is at lower timescale, less than around 20ns, i have the graph more dancing up and down more frequently, i dont know what happened. for larger timescale, this behaviour is not really apparent (similar to my previous non-converted rigol). 20-22.jpg.
Pics 23,24.jpg to show you some of my equipment to do the rest of testing. please dont laugh , i know its crude, and trust me, i can live with it. I'm not EE person, just a simple hobbiest try to make something small. thats why i'm doing this thread to ask from EE gurus, pros and master technician if anything i can do about my rigol.
The Post Mortem
So, ok, finish with the report. Now the problem arised, i tried to go back, i cant. So how to deal with this? I think my rigol is still usable for most of my digital design (mcu signal monitoring etc), but for analog design (which i seldomly do, but sometime i will), i think this rigol is unreliable anymore, in term of giving the correct voltages. So to repair this, i made a thought for several minutes, maybe the cause is either software or hardware or both. I tried to re-open and disassembled the main board, but i cannot find any sign of explosion, or burnt components. So i divide the possibility to two major parts:
1) Software:
a) is it maybe that some parameter used for calibration burnt/stored in flash or those cpld/fpga accidentally corrupted?
b) is it maybe the rigol company purposedly put a safety program to corrupt itself when a conversion atttempt is detected?
c) or anything that cause the program not working properly?
2) Hardware:
a) Can the components be damaged when the calibration is done and i forgot to unplug my Serial cable connecting PC to rigol? this is happened during the conversion process.
b) Can the conversion process generate a voltage/current spike that cause damage to components?
c) Which part in the mainboard most likely be damaged? (relating to vertical system?
> and the daughter card? yeah, thats my worst nightmare. i cannot find complete description on that before. <
Yes, that's something we just discovered about a week (?) ago, on the EEVBlog forum. So it's very recent knowledge.
You mentioned that you did perform the Calibration process after reloading the firmware, but did you make sure you had no probes plugged in at the time? That can mess things up.
> digital pulse from pic10f202 (and any other mcu by right i think) should be "square shaped", right? <
Theoretically, yes. Though since you adjusted your probe compensation, and the tops of the 1 kHz square waves were flat, it's harder to see how the Rigol could be introducing this anomaly. In other words, they might actually have this shape.
One final comment is that if you're using a PC-type power supply for voltage reference signals, they don't always work very well without having a load applied.
I'll let you finish your descriptions before adding more.
- Mark
> Which part in the mainboard most likely be damaged? (relating to vertical system?) <
One thing you'll want to do is check and see if BOTH vertical channels are behaving the same way. If they're not, possibly something is physically damaged. But if they're both the same, it's likely a soft cal setting that's affecting things.
- Mark
So here i'm asking help from EE gurus, pros, hardcorer, software and hardware hackers, and master techicians who really familiar with DSO design. How i'm going to repair it? Which part is more likely to be damaged?
i know just minutes ago (Marks reply) that i should not be doing this. I know my rigol is broken. I know i cannot send it to rigol service, i've voided the warranty, its far away in china and postage cost will be like half the price of this 1052e.
But i need to know, is anybody out there that possibly know what to do? what to replace? i'm begging your assistance on this. My main concern are:
1) Which hardware that most likely be damaged? and where it is located so i can concentrate on those area to check and troubleshoot?
2) if its software. How do i hack into the chips software to see if any bytes are broken and out of order? as i understand, there is blackfin, altera and some eeprom flash inside the 1052e. Any datasheet and instruction set or hardware programmer i need to know?
In the mean time, i'll be searching on this besides continue with my other works. there is no need for me to rush on this, things already happened. I know somehow, even though its not perfect anymore, i trust i will manage to get it to work esp on my mcu digital/software design. And i'll find a way to make it work when it come to analog design.
But pleaseeeeeee help me! Esp people who have been contributing to the hacking of Rigol DSO and EE Knowledge on the net (thank you for your contribution), i dont ask to rush, but at least, dont ignore me, thank you.
"PC-type power supply for voltage reference signals, they don't always work"
i measured before using 1052e, its ok, no false reading. i also tried 12V and 6V lead acid battery, now 1102D (converted) reads only 8V and 4V respectively. and 2V/div and 100V/div is totally broken (no reading at all), graph visibly will jump for a moment and then goes back to -2.5V and -130V reading.
"it's harder to see how the Rigol could be introducing this anomaly"
i have programmed a PWM signal coming out of my arduino mega at 30Hz, DSO showing square wave before, i will retest the signal, but i need time as my arduino already tucked inside my toy car.
"if BOTH vertical channels are behaving the same way"
YES! both behaving the same way except at slightly different value. I showed in the pics that Channel1 has an offset of -2.5V, whereas Channel 2 has -1.8V offset (not connected probe, 10X, at 2V/div), i attached the pic (thought it not that important, sorry). Both are dead at 2V/div and 100V/div (no useful reading)
"but did you make sure you had no probes plugged in at the time"
Yes. i did as instructed in the service manual. its just i forgot to disconnect the serial cable during the calibration, is it possible to damage if serial is connected?
p/s:i'm converting back my rigol to 1102E model and 1000E firmware, very funny! what a wasteful effort! a daughter card and a logic head might cost me at least another 100++ bucks!
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Have you ever dropped a glass on a hard surface floor? It breaks! Carpet provides a buffer between your subfloor and drop areas, so expect less broken items from dropping in a carpeted area.
5. Carpet is #1 in Color Choice
When it comes to most hardwoods and laminate floors, the color that you can choose is really, well limited. You can't really buy a kiwi green in hardwood flooring, well not that I have seen that wasn't a custom paint job. If you want a true red color for a modern room, you will still have many options to choose from.


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Magpie is a seven-minute short comedy.
Logline: When threatened by her boss for her mismatched socks, a demure young woman tests her boundaries by finding new and fabulous forms of self expression in her wardrobe.
We are casting for the role of Linda (boss) and looking for a volunteer actor (preferably late 20s to mid 30s) to play a condescending authority figure who likes to think she is friends with her staff. Linda implements workplace rules, but doesn't take responsibility for unfair decisions. She is very black and white, for fear of the grey area. Linda is not a great problem solver, but manages people in a way she finds reassuring in terms of her own position. She represents what Maggie will leave behind.
This is an unpaid role on a student production.
Shooting dates: Thursday 11 and Friday 12 June.
Please send your showreel link to Brigitte (Director) at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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This was a sponsored post written by me on behalf of BROOKSIDE Chocolate for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.
The holidays are quickly barreling down on us and I'm doing my absolute best to stay ahead of it. One way that I'm doing this is by creating fun gifts like these Rudolph Jar Gifts using one of my favorite chocolates as the filler. Who can resist cuteness with chocolate?
Rudolph Jar Gifts
The supplies you'll need are:
Your Favorite Brookside Dark Chocolate
Hot Glue Gun & Hot Glue Sticks
I certainly cannot resist chocolate. Especially when it is Brookside Dark Chocolates that come in the flavors Acai & Blueberry, Goji & Raspberry, Whole Cranberries, and Crunchy Cluster Berry Medley. They are all just so good! The best part is that Brookside Chocolate is running a contest right now for 100 lbs. of BROOKSIDE. Could you imagine? Who would you share with? I'm pretty sure I'd have to make one of these adorable Rudolph Jar Gifts for every single one of the neighbors that live in my development. It would only be fair, right? You can be entered in the contest by going to their site or via social media and following the instructions on how to win the 100 lbs. of BROOKSIDE.
In order to create these adorable Rudolph Jar Gifts, you'll just need to hot glue everything in place. For a step by step tutorial on how to create the curvature of the antlers check here. They truly are a cinch and creating a couple hundred for the neighborhood is totally doable!


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World Information Architecture Day set the goal for 2014 to show how Information Architecture can make life easier for end users. With D200 we showed that some things can be made more efficient as long as you really want it.
This year we wanted to offer a more practical approach so we didn't limit ourselves just to a simple what-if scenario. Therefore, our team redefined the way contributors fill in the D200 income declaration.
The Challenge
At this moment, the form is hard to follow, a format nightmare and full of explications that are difficult to understand, unless you are an expert accountant. Moreover, it doesn't matter how many solutions we think for the user, we cannot change the legislation or procedures so we needed an approach that handles the limitations.
Technically, we want to offer the possibility to complete the form using smart and concise explications, but on the same time – generate the form using the required format ready to be signed and delivered.
This is what we want, but what about the users?
We identified several issues, but from our point of view. The questions still remains – do the users feel the same? Or is just our curse of knowledge? Without hesitation we went on a research mission. We talked with inspectors, accountants and other experienced professionals. We launched an online questionnaire to see if we can gather even more valuable information. As expected from a rigid system we received no encouragement from the local officials. They showed us the door or refused to add any other comments (we looked like a bunch of scouts selling butterscotch cookies).
Despite these slight speed-bumps we managed to gather a sufficient amount of quantitative and qualitative data summarized in three simple conclusions:
– lack of of clear and contextual explications (specific to each field to be completed)
– a document format that hardens the reading process
– the most difficult sections to fill are "calculating the net income" and "redirecting the 2% from the tax"
Ready to rumble
Based on the data we gathered around and through sessions of brainstorming we generated ideas after ideas: it didn't matter if they were good or bad, our focus was to check each possible angle. For those ideas to work we defined two personas to validate them with. Meet Vasile Ograda and Sanziana Dumitrescu.
Vasile is 39 years old, he is married and father of two children. He lives in Braila, finished Bucharest Agriculture Highschool and he is his own boss (has over 1250 acres of land). He is a hard working man with a lot of patience and seriousness. He drives a Dacia Duster and uses a Nokia N72. To make his business roll he needs exact and precise deadlines when he has to declare/fill in a form, deadlines and responsabilites he can find without waiting or making phone calls.
Sanziana is 27 and she is single. She lives in Cluj (rent) and works as a web designer freelancer. She graduated Arts and Design University. She works by her own schedule and spends her free time with friends. Recently she bought the latest Pegas bicycle model. She wishes she can manage by herself all financial aspects of her freelance business, but she finds hard to find all the necessary information she needs.
Having these personas in mind we passed them through a series of customer journey maps: to summarize – users visit the website, create an account, access the form, complete all the sections, generate the pdf file, sign it, go to the counter office, leave it there and walk happily ever after. Initially we started with the idea of having your own account, but for the current version it isn't worth it. For extra functionalities like statistics or form history an account might be a required solution, but not for now.
Moving forward, based on the journeys, we created the user flows matching each user's action. It's our way of assuring ourselves we don't omit something. For the user flows we used the Signal-V-Noise format.
Having things covered we sketched the main screens using the flows. As you can see all parts of the process are connected with each other. We sketched and sketched until we had to stop: "Yes. this is the direction we will take!"
Once the sketches were finalized we forwarded them to the development team to build the projects core functionalities. During this time the design team continued to work defining the visual style.
To achieve this we created style tiles to help us experiment with shapes, colors, typography without investing a large amount of time in PSD files. We chose to work collaboratively so that we can respect our planned schedule.
The result
D200.grapefruit.ro has a main page (from where the user can launch the online form), an about page and a resource page full with valuable information (ToDo's, deadlines and official ANAF links).
The online form is structured in steps (accessible from the left progress bar) in order to be easy to navigate and keep everything above the fold. We tried as much as possible to reduce the scroll effect. To offer support for the users, each input placeholder offers an example to guide them. Moreover, the most difficult fields have a set of toggle activated hints. We also added subtle elements of gamification to make the form more interactive: for instance, the first hint on the form is already active so that the user can be aware of its advantage (just like a tutorial).
The form was designed to be dynamic and the user is not obligated to go through all the fields. Based on previous choices the sections change their content. For example, if you select "coin transaction operations" you will only have to fill the net gain/loss inputs – we hide the expenses fields to avoid confusion.
If you have multiple incomes, you can attach several appendixes – this helps you calculate the taxes for each additional income. The form also comes with multiple suggestions for redirecting the 2%.
The project was sketched to be available on mobile devices. Even so, we are talking about sensitive data (documents, official papers etc) so our recommendation is to avoid filling the forms on a phone. To keep a level of confidence, we do not save any data what so ever and you don't need an account.
The team behind the project had three designers and two web developers working on it: Alecsandru Grigoriu, Bogdan Cernat, Ciprian Boiciuc, Dan Negrut and Eddie Vlagea.
What's next
While receiving feedback at WIAD, we made several refinements. For example we added a Uservoice feedback module and added new organizations to support donating the 2%. Practically, we continue to gather feedback to make this an enjoyable and useful experience. In addition to this, we intend to launch a visual guide to help those who can't submit the form. There is a chance the inspectors might not approve the generated file (it depends from one county to another). Worst case the users have a backup of all the explanations and hints.
With D200 we wanted to show that some things can be made more efficient as long as you really want it. Just add some sugar, spice and a bit of user experience, information architecture, content strategy and common sense.
If you like our work and have an interesting digital project send us a message and let's get in touch.


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Welcome to Engadget's back to school guide! Today we're talking gaming gear. Head to the back to school hub to see the rest of the product guides as they're added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back; in early September, we'll be giving away a ton of gear, including some of the picks in our guides.
You probably shouldn't be playing video games in school, y'all. A certain back to school guide writer had his Game Boy and copy of Pokémon confiscated by a certain English professor in high school and, needless to say, it was a rough year. Thankfully, today your tablets and smartphones are often part of the educational experience -- all we had was Oregon Trail and Karateka. Oh man, Karateka! But back to the goods: head below for our back to school gaming suggestions -- if you convince your parents to pick this stuff up ahead of the first bell, perhaps seek out a career in law?


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- Uva Ursi. Arcostaphylos Uva-Ursi. 460 MG Per Capsule. Whole Leaf. NON-GMO. 100% Vegan.
- Native to Europe, Uva Ursi, also sometimes referred to as Bearberry, is a small shrub with evergreen leaves and edible red berries. Uva Ursi has a long history of use throughout the world dating back to the 2nd century. Uva Ursi leaf may provide nutritive support for normal, healthy urinary tract function.
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The American Legion National Executive Committee passed Resolution 64 during the 2012 Fall Meetings, charging the Legion's Internal Affairs Commission and Membership & Post Activities Committee to establish a five-year strategic plan to help the organization reach a record in total membership by 2019, the Legion's centennial. That five-year strategic plan for sustained membership growth was laid out today during Spring Meetings by Denise Rohan, chairman of the Legion's National Membership & Post Activities Committee.
"We want to encourage all members, all members all the way down to the post level, to be a part of this plan," Rohan said. "It needs to be a grass-roots effort. We have to tell The American Legion story to our nation's military and emphasize to them that they are veterans, even though they are still wearing the uniform. They are eligible to be members of The American Legion."
Each Legion department will be expected to draft a comprehensive plan for membership growth that can be utilized at all Legion levels and submit it to the membership committee prior to June 14. Then, during the National Membership Workshop, from Aug. 2-4, each newly elected department commander will discuss how his or her respective department is going to implement the five-year membership plan. The 2013-2014 elected national commander and national vice commanders will receive an update during the 2013 Fall Meetings on how each department is succeeding on its path to membership growth.
Each department will adhere to the following five strategies and tactics when developing a membership plan:
1. Brand awareness
• Create and promote a tagline that best describes the Legion.
• Develop a comprehensive marketing plan to increase clarity of brand awareness of the Legion as the premiere veterans service organization.
• Encourage new corporate partnerships with veteran friendly organizations that have the same values as the Legion, all in an effort to increase the benefits of being a member.
2. Communication
• Develop a media relations team within each department.
• Communicate the Legion's story to the nation's military components, with emphasis on eligibility.
• Collect all members' email addresses to disseminate information on any calls to action.
• Increase public service announcements in local media channels.
• Increase presence in social media.
3. Training, education and leadership development
• Develop membership training teams and long-term plans for membership growth.
• Encourage growth of the Leadership Education and Development program, The American Legion Extension Institute and department Legion colleges.
4. Post creation, development and revitalization
• Conduct post evaluations to identify areas that may need post revitalization, consolidation or new post development.
• Improve community awareness of posts by being active in the community.
• Welcome all members and guests.
• Use the proper membership tools at all levels to achieve growth, like "Why You Should Belong" and "How We Help" brochures, Post Officer Guide and Public Relations Toolkit.
5. Membership recruiting and retention
• Establish membership teams at all levels; retention must be the first priority.
• Develop and implement a strategy for transferring members from the department headquarters' post into traditional posts.
• Evaluate current reward and incentive programs at all levels and make recommendations for change if necessary.
• Develop a working relationship with military senior leaders to offer an opportunity to join the Legion to all eligible members of the active military, National Guard and reserve. "Don't just walk in the door and start recruiting," Rohan said. "Walk in the doors and find out how we can help them and once they see what we are doing, they will want to join."
• Make all new members feel welcome.
• Offer participants in the Legion programs, and their families, the opportunity to support such programs through membership in The American Legion family, if eligible.
Overall, "we need to improve our community awareness," Rohan said. "We need our community to know that we are not just a bar — that we are about service to our veterans, their families and our communities. We need to be seen as service first, and we must always be aware of our image.
"We need to continue to work with our Auxiliary and Sons of The American Legion (members) to welcome them into our complete American Legion Family. And with their help, we will welcome our veterans and their families into this great organization."


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Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection (2005)
Bill and Ted have barely a brain between them and speak in brilliantly realized Surferese: they're that guy you know who still snickers at the double entendres in Van Halen album titles.
Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection:Director: Peter Hewitt
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Joss Ackland, George Carlin
MPAA rating: PG
Studio: MGM
Display Artist: Stephen Herek/Peter Hewitt
First date: 1988/1991
US DVD Release Date: 2005-07-12
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The best classified ad I ever saw read as follows: "Jimi Hendrix tribute band forming. Lead guitarist needed."
Straight up. If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'.
What makes this the best ad I ever saw, rather than simply the funniest, is the sentiment behind it. Beyond the mental image of two guys in a basement with bass and drums, thumping their way through the bottom end of the Hendrix catalogue, lies the beautiful notion of those guys being so in love with Jimi's music that they have to play it even though they lack the talent to do so. Man, that's just so rock 'n roll it hurts.
In this post-Napster, Clear Channel-dominated era of corporate-driven musical mediocrity, there yet exists, incredibly, a segment of the population who clings to the idea that rock music will rise again to straighten our spines, shatter our chains, and save our sterile souls. The loving arms of the God of Rawk await us all in a paradise of bitchin' tunes if only we could find that one anthem, replete with a blistering solo, to deliver us. The Guitar Hero with a Thousand Faces -- Clapton, Frampton, the Nuge, Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie J. Malmsteen (pick your era) -- will guide us to some nebulous salvation, if only we believe.
It is this idea, writ large and ridiculous, that drives the Bill & Ted movies. Minor cultural phenomena when they came out -- it's nigh-impossible to find someone in his 30s who can't quote at least half a dozen lines of dialogue from them, they're now re-released as a boxed set with a third disc of bonus material. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey comprise the epic saga of a pair of SoCal boneheads whose light-metal garage band will end global warming, wipe out poverty, and bring about world peace. And all without Bob Geldof.
Excellent Adventure introduces us to Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Ted "Theodore" Logan (Keanu Reeves), goofy 16-year-olds from sleepy San Dimas, California, who comprise the sublimely misspelled "Wyld Stallyns," who will be a most triumphant band as soon as they get a rhythm section and, you know, learn how to play. Unfortunately, it's not just talent the boys lack; they're about to flunk out of high school, and Ted's dad has already signed him up for military school. Unless Bill and Ted somehow pass history with a miraculous final report, due the next day, Wyld Stallyns will die in utero.
Enter Rufus (ubercool George Carlin), emissary from a future where Bill and Ted's music is the foundation of all civilization, who gives them a phone booth-shaped time machine and sends them back in time to observe historical events firsthand. When a mishap brings Napoleon (Terry Camilleri) back with them to 1988, they seize on the idea of collecting historical figures to use as visual aids. They impress Socrates with their philosophical insights ("All we are... is dust in the wind"), back Billy the Kid in a saloon brawl, meet a pair of beautiful medieval princesses, and cram Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, Sigmund Freud, Beethoven, and Abraham Lincoln into the phone booth. After the famous fish out of water run amok in the San Dimas mall and are arrested, there follows the requisite race for Bill and Ted to rescue them in time for their report.
What makes all this fluff worthwhile is Winter and Reeves' ongoing goon show. Bill and Ted have barely a brain between them and speak in brilliantly realized Surferese -- they're that guy you know who still snickers at the double entendres in Van Halen album titles -- but they're funny and it's impossible not to like them. Director Stephen Herek identifies what he calls "the puppy factor" in their performances: they play Bill and Ted as a pair of human Labrador Retrievers, ignorant and joyful.
Bogus Journey is the rare sequel that's better than the first film, with a bigger budget, a more complex plot, and a perfect foil for Bill and Ted. Wyld Stallyns -- Bill, Ted, and the princesses from the first film on keyboards and drums -- are on the verge of playing a Battle of the Bands which, unbeknownst to them, will be the catalyst that sets all future events in motion. Determined to prevent Bill and Ted from creating their peaceful Utopia, the rebel De Nomolos (Joss Ackland) sends a pair of robot duplicates of Bill and Ted into the past to kill the boys. Indestructible and gleefully evil, the robots succeed handily.
Now ghosts, Bill and Ted are confronted by the Grim Reaper ("How's it hangin', Death?"), played by William Sadler, doing a dead-on impersonation of Bengt Ekerot in The Seventh Seal (1957). Before the Reaper can collect them, however, Bill and Ted give him a titanic wedgie and run for their afterlives. Unable to make contact with the living to warn them about the evil robots -- a scene where Ted possesses his dad (Hal Landon, Jr.) is pretty damn funny for Landon's killer Keanu Reeves impression -- the boys are accidentally exorcised by some New Agers and banished to Hell. (This sequence is the darkest in the film and disturbed my kids, so be warned.) The only avenue out of the Inferno is to challenge Death to a game and win, which they do, in Battleship, Clue, and Twister (Death, as it turns out, is a sore loser). Returned from the dead, Bill and Ted, with the Reaper in tow, set off to stop the robots, rescue the princesses, and save the world.
But the real hero of this film is Sadler. A character actor who tends to the intense or psychotic (The Shawshank Redemption [1994], The Green Mile [1999]), his comic turn here is brilliant. That said, the Reaper also creates the biggest plot problem in a movie filled with them: once Death is on Bill and Ted's side, how is anyone in danger anymore? One is well-advised to treat this flick's cosmological aspirations with the same indulgence one gives a stoner buddy when he realizes that our universe might be a tiny atom in a giant's fingernail. Just smile and say "whoa."
Bill & Ted's Non-Bogus Disc, a collection of special features assembled for the boxed set, is a bit bogus. It offers no revelations to enhance the films, though a conversation between writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon about how Bill and Ted evolved from a recurring improv bit to movie heroes is entertaining enough. The requisite making-of featurette reveals the sheer affection the directors, writers, and Winter retain for the films, but the absence of Reeves in a retrospective of the character that put him on the map is unfortunate. Other features -- the first episode of the execrable Bill & Ted Saturday morning cartoon, a pointless glossary of their colloquialisms, and an interview with Steve Vai about lending his soulless guitar sound to Wyld Stallyns (the future is inspired by Vai's solos; no wonder it's so sterile) -- seem filler. Inconsistent with the movies' labor of goofy love, it is definitely not rock n' roll.


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A huge congratulations to Breaks Alumni Erin Good for winning Best Director at St Kilda Film Festival for The Wonderful. The short film also took out the award for Best Original Score by Tiernan Cross.
In addition to her St Kilda success, Erin is celebrating the online release of her new short film RED. Written and directed by Erin and produced by Chloe Lawrence-Hartcher (also Breaks alumni), RED is an intense drama about four teenage girls and the issues that plague them.
"I'm so excited to finally be releasing RED online," said Erin."I hope it finds an audience."
Well done Erin!
RED – full film from Erin Good on Vimeo.


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1964 Chevrolet Truck Hot Rod Project-Rat
Price: - Item location: Piedmont, Missouri, United States
- Condition: Used
- Make: Chevrolet
- Model: C-10
- Type: Standard Cab Pickup
- Trim: Step side
- Year: 1964
- Mileage: 10,876
- Color: Red
- Engine size: 235 six cylinder
- Number of cylinders: 6
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: Manual
- Drive type: RWD
- Interior color: Gray
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!
1964 Chevrolet C-10Selling this 1964 Chevy stepside pickup. The bed is just setting on the frame and is not fastened. I have strapped it down for transport.
Cool patina, local name and farm on the door. Fix it or get it running, bolt things back up and drive it.
235 six cylinder engine that turns over but hasn't been started. engine seems complete and turns over, strong clutch, transmission is 3 speed on the column and looks good. The seat has been change to 2 bucket seats. The truck has rust low on it, but the frame is good, as is the side glass and rear window. Windshield has a break in it. It is complete, except for passenger side front fender id missing. It was probably pretty rusty by the looks of the other one. Good title! Located in Piedmont, Missouri call first. Come take a look !
Great project, restoration, rat rod, street machine, who knows? Maybe sell the 16 foot trailer its on too. It pulls great and straight.
Extra truck is 1964 Chevrolet Short fleetside- not in this auction but needs to sell.Three 14- Six 1 eight- twenty three 14.


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The Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations [JCAHO] August 2002 media alert stated that, "Nursing shortage puts lives at risk: Joint Commission expert panel issues urgent call to action." Why has JCAHO issued this urgent alert? Because "patient care is suffering from a dramatic shortage of nurses, who are the front line of care and support for patients . . . too few nurses results in increased deaths, complications and other undesirable patient outcomes." Although Annex Legal is one of the many legal nurse consultancy firms, the nursing shortage makes it hard for attorneys to correctly assess complex injury claims.
Attorneys are facing the effects of the nursing shortage in their cases. It has affected the complexion and complexity of injury claims and compounds the case analysis. What should have been a fairly straightforward PI case becomes a complex medical malpractice case, presenting difficult liability and causation issues. Further, the already complicated medical malpractice case becomes a veritable maze because understaffing in a hospital setting leads to system-wide failures resulting in multiple negligent omissions or commissions during a single hospitalization.
Nurses are the eyes and ears of the doctors and hospital and have the most contact with patients on a routine basis. If the ability to monitor and observe patients is reduced, a critical link in the system is weakened. Nurses are being required to work longer hours and attend to more patients. With the increased demand on nurses to do more with less, the function of the nurse as a checkpoint in the process to assure appropriate treatment is compromised.
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found a 31% increased risk of death at hospitals where there is understaffing of nurses involved in patient care. The JCAHO is studying the issue and is expected to publish mandated nurse staffing levels. Through legislation, California has already mandated safe nurse/patient ratios.
When the attorney suspects substandard hospital care, a detailed review of the records, including nursing notes, is required. The attorney should look for continuity of care. For example, if a physician orders monitoring of a patient's vital signs at 15-minute intervals, the nursing notes should reflect this pattern. If the pattern varies widely, with vitals signs checked at 15 then 30 then 60 minutes, this could be indicative of the lack of appropriate monitoring and other negligent omissions.
Documentation other than the patient's medical record is important to substantiate a claim that understaffing has affected a patient's outcome. The attorney should request nurse staffing records and patient census reports. These should be analyzed for nurse/patient ratios, patient acuity levels (how sick they were and, therefore, how labor intensive were their care needs), and compared to hospital Policies and Protocols on nurse/patient ratios.
Nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections occur at a significantly increased rate at understaffed hospitals. A simple procedure can turn into a complicated infectious disease process, increasing costs, prolonging hospitalizations, worsening outcomes and complicating prognoses. Understaffing contributes to the infection rates by cutting corners and reducing important monitoring tasks. Statistics regarding the hospital's infection rate should be obtained. The hospital's Policy and Protocol manuals should be reviewed for evidence of how the institution should identify, track and resolve nosocomial infections. If the patient underwent surgery, culture records from the surgical suite and equipment should be scrutinized for common links to the patient's illness.
The issues presented here are only the beginning. If the trial lawyer suspects understaffing of nurses has lead to complications during a hospitalization, please call or contact us to discuss the additional areas to be analyzed with a car accident lawyer in Queens.