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2012 Acting and Musical Theatre Senior Showcase candidates.
Each year, Point Park's top acting, cinema, dance and musical theatre seniors are selected to participate in the Conservatory of Performing Arts annual showcases to help launch their careers.
This year's showcase season begins with the department of dance May 9 at Point Park, followed by acting and musical theatre May 14 in New York City and May 23 in Los Angeles. The cinema showcase concludes the season on May 21 in Los Angeles.
"Showcase participants represent some of the Conservatory's top talent and promising new artists of tomorrow. Our showcases provide industry professionals with an opportunity to meet and view the work of our gifted new alumni for the purpose of future employment," said Joe McGoldrick, director of artistic recruitment.
In addition to the student showcases, Conservatory alumni in New York City and Los Angeles are invited to attend the annual reunions. McGoldrick said the goal of the reunions is to promote networking.
"The reunions have become a tradition that is looked forward to each year by many of our graduates. The events work to create a bond between the graduate and the Alumni Association as well as the University," he said. "We hope some day to have chapters in both cities that will carry on activities throughout the year promoting the University and helping in the Conservatory recruitment process."
May 9 - 11, Point Park University
This is the third year for the dance showcase. Select artistic directors, choreographers and agents travel to Pittsburgh May 9 - 11 to attend a performance featuring the senior dance majors. Dance professionals will teach technique classes and repertoire as part of the audition process.
Industry professionals in attendance include:
• Maria Caruso, Bodiography
• Stephanie Pizzo, Eisenhowser Dance Ensemble
• John Lehrer, Lehrer Dance
• Sidra Bell
• Alan Obuzar
• Gerard Holt, Mid-Atlantic Contemporary Ballet
• Greer Reed, August Wilson Contemporary Dance Ensemble
May 14, Five Angels Theatre, New York City
May 23 (Acting), Greenway Court Theatre, Los Angeles
This is the ninth year for the New York Showcase, and the fifth year for the Los Angeles Showcase.
The students auditioned and 12 seniors were selected by a panel of distinguished faculty and local industry professionals. The students took a showcase class at Point Park twice a week to prepare. This year's showcases were directed by Point Park faculty John Shepard and Jack Allison.
The students will perform for casting directors, talent agents, managers and other industry professionals.
May 14, The Manhattan Club at Rosie O'Gradys, New York
Join fellow alumni on Monday, May 14 at The Manhattan Club at Rosie O'Gradys, 7 - 10 p.m. Visit with old friends and teachers from the conservatory as well as Point Park University President Paul Hennigan as you enjoy an entertaining evening, courtesy of your alma mater. Feel free to bring a guest.
• RSVP online at pointpark.edu/alumni
May 21, The Directors Guild of America Building, Theater 2, Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m.
This is the second year for the Cinema Showcase. The Department of Cinema and Digital Arts sponsors and takes students to the Los Angeles showcase, where they meet with a select group of industry professionals and alumni for a screening of student work. During this four-day event, students also meet with managers, agents, professional writers and production companies, as well as visit television stages, studios and visual effects and post houses.
The department also produces an annual showcase DVD that features the best student productions of the year. The showcase DVD is distributed to production companies, agencies and industry professionals in Los Angeles, New York City and regionally.
Selected Films:
• Requited
• Oneironauts
• Turnaround
• Thomas's Promises
• On and off Again
Alumni Reunion, Directors Guild of America, 7 - 10 p.m.
Be our guest at the annual celebration for conservatory alumni in Los Angeles. Visit with old friends and teachers from the conservatory as you enjoy an entertaining evening, and view short films produced by the 2012 Cinema and Digital Arts class. Feel free to bring a guest.
For more information, contact Joe McGoldrick at 412-392-3452 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
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OAKLAND — At least 18 suspected members and associates of a violent Oakland gang believed responsible for crimes including murder and robbery were arrested Friday by more than 200 local, state and federal officers at two dozen sites in Oakland and other Bay Area cities.
Oakland police Chief Howard Jordan said the raids resulted from the suspects' failure to adhere to the terms of the Operation Ceasefire program to stop their violent lifestyles. The chief said the arrests fulfill a promise he made last year "to use every legal means possible" to bring such offenders to justice.
Those arrested are members or associates of the Case Boys gang, based mostly in East Oakland, police said. Raids were carried out in Oakland, Antioch, Brentwood and Pacifica starting about 5 a.m. and lasting for two hours. Names of those arrested, including some women, were not released. Police said they ranged in age from 18 to the mid-30s.
Those arrested Friday were booked on suspicion of a variety of crimes, including conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, assault on a police officer, conspiracy to commit robbery and pimping and pandering. Elevenguns were seized.
Some of the more violent crimes they are suspected of involve a long-standing feud with another gang known as Money Team, police said.
Jordan, who called Case Boys "probably the most violent group of young people" he has seen in his career, said their rivalry with Money Team "wasn't for money, wasn't for turf. They hated the other gang and anyone associated with them."
Lt. Tony Jones, who commanded the six-week investigation that was headed by Officers Anthony Tedesco and Kathryn Jones, said Case Boys is an offshoot of another gang known as Nut Case. Over a six-week spree in 2002, the Nut Case gang was responsible for at least five murders and scores of robberies, police said.
Before Friday, police said, they had already arrested at least 44 people with ties to the two gangs, primarily Money Team members. Violence between the groups had escalated late last year and at least one shooting in early January resulted in a Money Team member being killed.
Police said members of the two gangs were among many individuals warned last October through Operation Ceasefire, one of Jordan's strategies to reduce crime in Oakland, to change their violent behavior or be brought to justice.
Jordan said there was a brief cessation of violence between the groups, but when it picked up again later in the year, police made them top enforcement priorities. As part of the investigation into Case Boys, some of its members had been followed by police around the clock, seven days a week.
The raids involved Oakland police and other local, state and federal agencies, including agents from the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Administration; Internal Revenue Service; California Highway Patrol; Alameda County Sheriff's Office; and the state Department of Justice.
The news conference drew top officials from around the Bay Area, along with state Attorney General Kamala Harris.
Such raids "benefit those who desire to live in a city free of violence, free of crime," Harris said.
She described the Case Boys group as a "gang roaming the streets of Oakland terrorizing good and hardworking people."
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley, whose office will prosecute those arrested, said the raids were an example of "fighting violent crime to bring it to an end. The show of force you saw is a testament to the strength of law enforcement."
Mayor Jean Quan said she hoped the arrests will "have a lasting impact on the peace of neighborhoods" and that despite the Police Department's low staffing numbers, "by working with (other agencies) we still have the resources to focus on those creating the most violence."
One of the community members present was the Rev. George Cummings, senior pastor of Imani Community Church, who chairs the Ceasefire program.
"We bring a moral voice and a moral conviction to this," he said.
The message sent by Ceasefire, which was obvious Friday, he said, is, "We want the violence to stop, the shootings to stop and put down your guns or face the consequences."

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Welcoming a Regional Ethics Commission
We take great satisfaction in learning that the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments has approved the creation of a Regional Ethics Commission. This a proposal that The Day has editorially supported for several years now. Its adoption once again demonstrates that our regional COG, consisting of the chief executives of all the towns and cities in southeastern Connecticut, is a state leader among councils of government. Our local COG has once more demonstrated a willingness to move beyond paying lip service to regionalism by moving into the realm of genuine action.
Our regional COG benefits from the veteran leadership of Executive Director James S. Butler. Heading into the tricky and potentially controversial territory of ethical misconduct is not a convenient place to go for an agency trying to keep the leaders of the 20 participating cities, towns and boroughs happy. Yet to his credit, Mr. Butler recognized in his memorandum to the COG Executive Committee that "the time is ripe for the SCCOG to form a Regional Ethics Commission."
Mr. Butler noted that COG members have "indicated they wanted it to be the 'go to' regional agency on a number of issues. I view the formation of a Regional Ethics Commission as one example of the SCCOG stepping up to effectuate that goal."
There are a number of reasons a Regional Ethics Commission makes sense. Southeastern Connecticut is a place of small towns and cities. The number of people who become involved in public policy, from elected officials to those serving on appointed boards and commissions, is smaller still. In our communities the odds are great that an individual who faces an ethics complaint or raises an ethical question will have some personal or professional connection with individuals on the local ethics commission. Turning to a regional commission greatly reduces, if not eliminates, these potential conflicts.
In many smaller communities there are not enough ethical complaints or questions to keep a board busy. This has led to ethics commission failing to meet regularly, with members becoming inactive and vacancies left unfilled, and when needed unprepared to act.
A regional commission will create a standard code of ethics that towns and cities throughout the region can adopt, providing a universal understanding of appropriate ethical standards and clear codes of conduct, assuring that when questionable actions involve officials or employees in multiple towns, all will be playing by the same rules.
Under the proposal adopted last week, the COG will form a 5- to 7-member commission. No mayors or first selectmen will sit on the commission. It will contract with a retired police investigator, retired attorney or other appropriately trained individual to assist it in investigations. Participating towns will share the cost of retaining an investigator and a town referring a complaint to the commission will pay the hourly cost for investigative work.
Towns that do not have an ethics panel can, by ordinance, give that authority to the regional panel. Towns and cities that want to retain their own ethics commission could ask the regional commission to undertake a review should they confront a matter that because of some inherent conflict is best reviewed by a non-local panel.
Any decision by the Regional Ethics Commission would come in the form of an advisory ruling to the legislative body or other appropriate board or individual in the town from which the complaint or question originated. The appropriate agency or department within the municipality would be responsible for any enforcement or disciplinary action against a respondent. Given that the advisory ruling would come from an impartial, regional commission we would expect local authorities to show deference to its conclusions.
Ultimately, we would like to see the Regional Ethics Commission have the authority to impose its decisions, not simply advise, but we understand that would take enabling state legislation and likely acquiescence from member towns. In the meantime, creation of this regional commission is an important first step. We strongly urge member towns to cooperate with and fully utilize this new commission.
The Day editorial board meets regularly with political, business and community leaders and convenes weekly to formulate editorial viewpoints. It is composed of President and Publisher Tim Dwyer, Editorial Page Editor Paul Choiniere, retired Day editor Lisa McGinley, Managing Editor Tim Cotter and Staff Writer Julia Bergman. However, only the publisher and editorial page editor are responsible for developing the editorial opinions. The board operates independently from the Day newsroom.
Regional ethics commission aims to serve towns when conflicts exist
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A World Series championship banner will fly above Dodger Stadium on March 31. No, I'm not delusional; I sadly recall the Dodgers' miserable finish last season.
The banner proclaiming the Giants World Series victory will be streamed overhead by an airplane as the Blue Crew takes the field against San Francisco on opening day. The flyover is the malicious brainchild of Bay Area fans who never miss an opportunity to stick it to the L.A. faithful.
The stunt is reminiscent of something the late Bill Veeck might have pulled. Veeck (as in "wreck") was owner and general manager of several major league ball teams from the 1940s through the late '70s and was renowned for hokey promotions. Given the quality of the teams he owned, Veeck's showmanship was necessary to put fans in the stands.
He built the first exploding scoreboard, complete with fireworks, pinwheels and sound effects, and started fan appreciation day, giving away everything from bats to live animals, cupcakes and, on one occasion, raffled off an oil well. Putting player's names on their uniforms was a Veeck idea, as was ivy on the walls of Wrigley Field and Harry Carey singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at White Sox games.
Jerome Joseph, owner of the Brand Bookstore and a St. Louis Browns stockholder at the time, fondly recalls sitting in the stands on Aug. 19, 1951, when Veeck pulled his most outlandish stunt — sending 3-foot-7 Eddie Gaedel to bat for the Browns. A professional entertainer, Eddie wore elf shoes and a Browns uniform with the number "1/8" on his back. His strike zone, when in a crouch, was estimated to be about 11/2 inches.
Joseph remarked that "everyone thought it was a gag." The crowd laughed and then became subdued when the somewhat bewildered home plate umpire ordered the pitcher to proceed. Holding a kiddie bat, which did not move off his shoulder, Gaedel walked on four straight pitches. After strolling to first base, a pinch runner was sent in and Eddie proudly crossed the diamond to the cheers of the fans.
The league office went bonkers, threatening to add a minimum height requirement to the rule book and unsuccessfully attempting to have the at-bat stricken from the record book. But Veeck had been careful to comply with league rules, signing Gaedel to a legitimate big league contract if only for one at bat.
Veeck's baseball career began as a teenage popcorn vendor at Cub's games and progressed to owner and general manager of major league teams. During World War II, he served with the Marines in the Pacific, suffering the loss of a leg.
His efforts to attract fans to the ballpark overshadowed his many positive contributions to opening the game up to all and allowing players a chance to escape the onerous contracts which existed until the 1950s. He was the only owner to support eliminating the reserve clause and allowing free agency.
Years before Branch Ricky brought Jackie Robinson up to the Dodgers, Veeck made an offer to buy the Philadelphia Phillies and staff the team with star Negro League players. Aware of Veeck's plans, the league sold the club out from under him. In 1947, he recruited the first African-American to play in the American League: Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians. A year later, he added the legendary 42-year-old rookie Satchel Paige.
Veeck offered to put an American League team in Southern California at the same time Walter O'Malley was moving the Dodgers to L.A. Realizing what a promotional genius Veeck was, O'Malley pulled out all the stops to prevent Veeck from getting a franchise, which would compete in what he claimed was his geographic market.
So on opening day, Veeck will undoubtedly be ribbing O'Malley as those San Francisco fans put the needle to our boys in blue.
PAT GRANT has lived in Glendale for more than 30 years and was formerly a marketing manager for an insurance company. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Jayson needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 644 designs submitted by 152 freelance designers.
We need a logo for our new company formation division "Get A Company". The product will be aimed at individuals starting a business for the first time and small businesses. The clients are unlikely to be familiar with how to start a business and we want to present the product and company in a friendly but reassuring and trustworthy way.
Get A Company
Get A Company will offer company registration services in a number of countries.
The target market will be people starting businesses for the first time, or small business owners looking for a different business structure
Because the target customers are not sophisticated the product will be kept as simple as possible and will be priced at lower end of company registration services.
The logo should convey emotives including getting a fresh start, springing into action, opportunity, prosperity
- Text "get a company" or "GET A COMPANY".
- Logo should be friendly, modern and disarming but also instill that we are trustworthy, professional and experienced.
- Preferred colouring is yellow, with blacks or browns.
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- Logo must be vector based, and be able to be suitable for use at a range of sizes and mediums including print and web.
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- A logo that is cluttered or overly complicated.
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So I think most of you have some awareness of Harlies story (those that do can skip to the last 4 paragraphs or so if your interested) but for those who dont then I believe she was less than a year old when we got her. I don't know her entire background but I know she was fed a standard cockatiel mix, lived in a cage I wouldn't keep a budgie in and lived with two childen who violently shook her cage, screamed at her and poked anything that would fit through the bars at her.
I know that when I brought her home she was so terrified of people that she threw herself around her cage blindly if I so much as walked in the same room. This went on for a long time, even though I spoke to her before entering the room to try to avoid startling her, I only went near her cage to do essential jobs and I would always tell her exactly what I was doing next.
If I remember right it took around 6 months before she stopped freaking when I came in the room and sat down as far as possible away from her, I started to move my chair closer, inch by inch but it would always mean she freaked out again and I had to start again at the furthest point. By the time we had her a year she wasn't alot better for all the time I spent talking to her at a distance. It was 1 step forward and 5 back which was so disheartening as I felt like I was failing, the taming methods I used had worked with every single other bird I had in the past but the only real improvement with Harlie was I could get in the same room as her at a distance without her trying to break her neck.
So feeling like a complete failure I considered all sorts of other options such as flooding, leaving her to her wild ways and alot more besides, I was getting desperate to make her happy and secure again. I even considered rehoming her since I had come to the conclusion that I blatently didn't know what I was doing... I had failed to tame her, failed to convert her onto healthier foods etc. Only I was far too scared of what might happen to her if I abandoned her so I perservered. I continued the cycle of 1 step forward and 5 back but gradually over the next few months every now and again we would only take 4 steps back and the length of time until she was ready to take that one step forward again was decreasing little by little.
Eventually my little girl was brave enough to let me sit right outside her cage, every time she would climb right to the back of her cage then sometimes after a few minutes climb forward again until she was sat at the front. At this point I started offering her treats, usually she would hiss and not take them, other times she would. I started using food management techniques so she would be a little hungry but this didn't really help much to start with. Sometimes she would sit right at the back and shake but fairly soon she was coming down to see me most times even if she wouldn't take the food. That is where the progress stalled though, the next few yeas were spent with her going back several stages every time I asked her to do a teeny bit more, then I would have to work to get back to the point she would come to see me every single time.
Finally I found this website, I was originally looking for harness training advice for Ollie but then he got sick and constant medications made him scared of me too, despite me trying to keep it all nice and positive so the reward for excepting the bad things were greater. I couldn't get him back in his cage, I even had to move him into a smaller cage just to be able to catch and medicate him as no matter what I offered him he wouldn't come to me. The meds finished but our bond was broken, thats when I really started looking at this site and I started traiing Ollie to target (and then other things) in a bid to build the trust again. Seeing how well this was going with Ollie I decided target training Harlie may be the way to go.
At this point I set about introducing Harlie to the target stick, pretty much in the same way I got her used to my presence, I started far away and gradually moved closer. All went well until the point I was outside her cage with it and she flipped, I went back a few stages, I hid more of it in my hand etc but nothing was really helping. Now I wasn't going to have another few years of the stepping forward and back game so I abandoned the idea and went back to sitting outside her cage. She accepted this again very very quickly, in fact she even started climbing outside the cage on the perch which was there to get her seeds, at which point the progress stopped again- and she decided she no longer wanted to come onto the perch again.
I carried on regardless and eventually she not only started coming out onto the perch but occasionally she chose to climb onto my arm and would come and sit on my shoulder for a while. We still had several more backward steps but this past year the oare coming thick and fast in comparison to previous years. We even had a few occassions where she has tried to get to me herself which has resulted in some very awkward crash landings from which I have had to rescue her. This is to be expected though, she has never really flown before this year.
Then she got sick (about 5 months ago or so?) and needed meds, obviously I was most concerened about getting her better but I seriously feared for the progress we had made. By this point I had managed to change her onto a primarily pellet based diet but she still wouldn't touch damp foods, besides which she wasn't actually eating much, leaving me no choice but to go with the twice a day catching her thing...
To my suprise she dealt with this really really well, dont get me wrong she wasnt happy about it but neither did it do much damage to our relationship. She kept coming out her cage and allowing me to feed her but she stopped flying and climbing on me, she would also disappear back into her cage if I came near the cage.
Anyway from there more progress has been made and we are suffering fewer and fewer setbacks. Last night we had pretty much the best night yet, she flew over to us, then she was walking about, climbing over us quite confidently and responding very well to step up training.
up to 6 whole years on- to think I had almost given up on the idea she would ever tame, been in tears over her (several times) and feared for her. Dont get me wrong, we still have progress to make and I wish it hadn't taken so long but I have much higher hopes for her future now.
By the way I re-read through this and it does make her sound like she was cagebound until recently, this is not the case as since she was tame enough for me to go up to her cage without her freaking she has always had the opportunity to come out as we left her door open and walked away but until recently she never was brave enough to come out.


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pssjm3 brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 97 Designs von 25 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We need a funky logo for our new health coaching company, MonkeyBox, LLC.
Health what? Ah...read on.
We need a logo that is funky interpretation of "Monkey" and "Box." Even better if there is a subtle message about being healthy.This logo will appear on everything (web, letterhead, business cards, labels, fitness equipment).
So who are we? We are a "health coaching" company. We help companies lower their health care costs by improving the fitness and diet of their employees. No, we don't get people to act like Monkeys or play in boxes. We don't do interpretative dance, sing Kumbaya, or forms circles of trust. We offer a solid program based on principles in exercise and nutritional science delivered by folk trained in behavior change techniques. We know - the name is goofy. Most people told us it sounded silly and we should have picked a name like "Health Coaching Partners" or "Business Wellness and Productivity" but that's too boring. It's our way of saying that we do things unlike any other health coaching service—unconventionally and with a little humor and wit.
- Your interpretation of "Monkey" and "Box" as a relatively simple and easily reproducible logo.
- "Monkey" and "Box" don't need to be represented literally
- The words "MonkeyBox" should appear in full, but just "MB" is also ok.
- Simple, bold, eye catching.
- Ambiguity ok.
- Can be a little cheeky.
- Nothing new agey - no rainbows, swirlyness, mystical or spritual.
- Nothing smutty or with sexual innuendo. Cheeky is ok.
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Don't blame the band for the late arrival of this brilliant new tune on Dangerous Minds, blame me (though they could have picked a better time to put this out than on December 26th when I'm on my hols, ferchrisakes.)
By far the best of the 'Britpop' bunch, you'll probably be aware that Pulp got back together again, after a ten year absence, for a string of live dates last year.
Well they didn't just tour. They also went into the studio with none other than LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, and laid down a brand new tune called "After You," a power-disco-pop gem that fits snugly into the band's canon of modern classics. It leans towards the band's more uptight-funk sound—it's even got a bongo breakdown—but as ever is carried along by Jarvis Cocker's caustic with, and a delivery that combines hard-nosed snark with pure sexiness.
Here's to more brand new Pulp tracks in 2013!
Pulp "After You"
BONUS! After the jump, the entire, two hour Pulp headline set from the 2011 Reading Festival.


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The East Central University women's basketball team fell to Northwestern Oklahoma State, 47-54, at the Kerr Activities Center in Great American Conference action.
The Lady Tigers (17-6, 12-5 GAC) were led by junior Alycea Price, who tallied her second double-double of the season with a career-best 16 points and 10 rebounds. Sophomore Erin Walling added 10 points and seven rebounds. Sophomore Dilan Webster garnered nine points and three blocks, which counted for her 90th career block. The 90 blocks set a new ECU career blocks record, taking over from the 89 garnered by Gina Farmer (1995-97).
The game was close throughout the first stanza, with two lead changes and six tie scores. The Lady Tigers were the first team to earn more than a two-point lead in the game, using a 3-0 run over a 1:30 span to go up 14-10. The Lady Rangers (6-16, 5-11 GAC) tied the game again at 22 and took a 22-24 lead with 1:43 left on the clock. Both teams then went cold shooting and that was the way the half ended.
The teams continued the fight in the beginning of the second half, forcing the seventh tie of the game at 26 in the first minute of the half. Northwestern then took control and used a 6-0 run to garner an eight-point lead (26-34), with just over 15 minutes to play. The Lady Rangers kept pushing and increased the lead to as many as 11 before earning the 47-54 win.
While the Lady Tigers earned a 45-36 lead in the rebounding column, they allowed Northwestern to score too many points with the clock stopped. The Lady Rangers went 15-of-18 from the charity stripe, while ECU was 9-of-16.
The Lady Tigers will wrap up the 2012-13 home games, Thursday, Feb. 21 when they host Southern Nazarene at 5:30 p.m. The game is slated as the annual Senior Night, where ECU will honor its three seniors; Regan Brown, Lindsay McCown and Kodi Morrison.


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Simon has a new blog! It's a challenge blog! We hope you'll stop by and mostly, that you will participate! Check out the wonderful Simon Says Stamp blog candy stamp sets! Cats and Dogs Best of Friends and You Make the Flowers Smile!
Lorraine is the manager of the Simon Says Challenge blog, here is a note from her! CLICK HERE TO visit the new challenge blog!
Simon offers over 100,000 items in our store. The challenge blog will not be exclusive to any brand. Some of the brands we sell and hope to feature are: Hero Arts, Penny Black, Magnolia, Whiff of Joy Stamps, Hanna Stamps, Craft Secrets Stamps, Simon Says Stamps, Stampabilities, House Mouse, Prima, Fiskars, Maya Road, Sassafras Lass, Inkadinkado, Tim Holtz, Heidi Swapp, Basic Grey, Happy Hoppers, and even more! Stay tuned! We hope to share inspirations and fabulous candies with all of you ;)
"We will be posting the 1st challenge next Wednesday, 1st April. I hope you will all stick a 'post-it-note' in your crafty area so you don't forget to come back and join in the fun.
Ok now for the candy :-) Heidi has very generously offered 2 sets of simonsaysstamp exclusive sets so I think we should have 2 winners, spread Simons slobbery love ha ha ( did you see his cute photo, he is our official blog mascot ) :-)
The winners will be able to choose the set they like, you don't have to have the ones I chose to show!
The DT is allowed to enter this candy too, it is open to you all though the challenge prizes won't be !! :-)
OK the rules:-
Post a link on your blog to this candy telling people about our new challenge and if you also become a follower of this blog you will get a 2nd entry. Just leave a comment letting me know.
Thats all. The blog candy will be drawn on Thursday the 2nd April so you have until Wednesday 1st 8pm CET to enter.(7pm UK time)
good luck to everyone :-)
Lorraine x
p.s someone left a comment in the comments ! that said that she would like to win the stamps so that she could take part in the challenge, I just want to point out that this challenge is open to everyone you do not have to use simonsaysstamp's own set of stamps to participate :-)"
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Why stop at 20 buy them all Rhombaaad.
I ordered both the volumes. Damn you, Griff!
And when you buy 14, you better buy them all the way to 20 too
Haha, I'll get 'em all eventually.
That's the spirit, and it's not like there's any rush since there's such a layoff between new volumes now. Let us know if you want any more recommendations on which volumes to order together at a time.
Will do! I'll follow your guide above for the next several volumes.
Wise choice listening to Griff.
Yeah it's definitely possible to change the beherits. What would be a good equivalent though?
How about some katanas or sloggos? Show your bloodthirst!
Hahahaha these could make for good Inshun emotes.
I would still like a Ito emote kind of like the badass emote of SK.
Well, here's an attempt at just that, same size as the Beherits:There's very little difference between those two examples obviously, so tell which "feels" more right for now.
Actually this is a pretty good idea Rhombaad & Griff. Although I think the higher the post rate for the member there should be a different face of Musashi, like the beherits. What do you guys think?
That'd be pretty cool. For each additional Mushi, the faces could change.
Im afraid that's not an option. It has to be a repeated image.
Sorry for the confusion, I meant that once you move up to the next beherit/mushi/star that all of the icons change. For example, you start out with Mushi sad face, then when you get two icons both change to Mushi tongue, etc.
However, I should note that it's never been attempted, so don't get your hopes up.
A rough gif prototype implemented to the left. Shall I continue down this path?
Looks pretty nice


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It's quite fun being picked up by a prime minister. Not literally of course. Unless you happen to be a baby seized from your mother's arms during an election campaign, in which case it must be rather exciting, and quite possibly the highlight of the day. No, I mean being picked up in print.
In a recent Washington Post op-ed, former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and current United Nations' Special Envoy for Global Education, cited a Let's Talk Development blog post of mine asking whether inequality should be reflected in the new international development goals. Toward the end of the post I presented some rather shocking numbers showing how – in a large number of developing countries – the poorest 40% have made slower progress toward key MDG health targets than the richest 60%. Although I didn't actually offer any evidence on education, I argued: "If inequalities in education and health outcomes across the income distribution matter, and if we want to see "prosperity" in its broadest sense shared, it looks like we really do need an explicit goal that captures inequality."
Brown cited the health data, and concurred with my conclusion, writing: "While the public justification for all our efforts is to offer the most help to the poorest and most vulnerable, setting a universal goal without targeting the most disadvantaged is a recipe for them to be left behind. And when the next set of Millennium Development Goals – with more ambitious universal targets for learning outputs and secondary education – raise the ceiling before we have put the floor in place, then they will continue to lose out."
Since Brown's op-ed, current UK Prime Minister, David Cameron – along with co-chairs of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia – has thrown his weight behind the idea that without explicit targets for them, poor children will be left behind. In their recently-published report, Cameron and his fellow panelists wrote: "We propose targets that deliberately build in efforts to tackle inequality and which can only be met with a specific focus on the most excluded and vulnerable groups. For example, we believe that many targets should be monitored using data broken down by income quintiles and other groups. Targets will only be considered achieved if they are met for all relevant income and social groups."
As I read all this, I felt I needed to some dotting of i's and crossing of t's. Yes, we know that poor children were left behind by the health MDGs. But were they actually also left behind by the education MDGs?
The basics
The task of completing the picture on the progress among the poor for the education and health MDGs isn't an arduous one. My education colleagues in the World Bank have already produced the necessary data. They have computed quintile-specific data for key education indicators – attendance and completion of primary and secondary education, and years of schooling among young people aged 15-19 – for a large number of countries, often for several years. It's just a few steps from these data to average annual rates of growth for the poorest 40% and richest 60% for each country, and maps of the results.
The first set of maps below show whether progress on primary and secondary attendance and completion has been slower (red) or faster (green) among the poorest 40% than the richest 60%. There's quite a lot of green, which is encouraging and shouldn't be forgotten. But there's also quite a lot of red. So, yes, it is true that in education – as in health – poor children haven't always made as fast progress as the better off toward the MDG goals.
To allow some comparisons with health, the second set of maps show "excess growth" among the poorest 40% for four of the health MDG indicators. There's actually slightly more red in these maps. So if Brown is right to raise the alarm for education, his health counterpart at the UN would be at least as right – if not more so – to raise the alarm for health.
More countries and a more demanding education indicator
Unfortunately far fewer countries have trend data on primary school completion (28) than on primary school enrollment (50). So there are lots of countries that have a pro-poor growth of primary school enrollment for which we don't know whether their growth of primary completion is also pro-poor. The secondary attendance data help here, but only so far – a lot of children drop out of school after primary school. And in any case, as Brown argues, the primary completion target isn't terribly ambitious.
Years of schooling among young people aged 15-19 is an indicator that has been computed for 50 countries, and is a more demanding indicator than primary completion. The map below shows that is a sizeable fraction of countries (one third) the poorest 40% have seen slower progress in years of schooling than the richest 60%. That's quite a sobering statistic.
Next stop UN General Assembly
The maps above suggest I wasn't barking up the wrong tree in urging the devisors of the post-2015 targets to think about explicit human development targets for the poorest. So it's good we have a couple of prime ministers and a large group of eminent persons now making that case.
All eyes are now on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. At the end of September he is expected to present his vision for post-2015 development agenda at the UN General Assembly. The world's poor will be watching closely.
Thanks for this nice analysis
Thanks for this nice analysis. But I don't really understand why this result is shocking or alarming. Let's take the exmple of primary school completion. Assume an (I would say realistic) situation where children don't complete primary school due to factors correlated with income, and family income needs to be above some threshold for children to complete school. In this case, if income is rising equally among all quintiles, you would expect the richer students to have higher growth in completion rates, as they are closer to the threshold. This of course only holds for families that start below the threshold, but in countries that start with very low education rates, this could mean large growth among students in the upper quintiles. If this effect is driving the patterns above in some countries, it doesn't really seem like something that needs to be fixed.
Sorry, Adam, but in answer to
Sorry, Adam, but in answer to the title question of your blog, you and Gordon Brown were wrong on this one. The evidence shows clearly that the poorest children showed far greater gains for both enrollment in and completion of primary education than the wealthier children (weighting the per-country analysis by population will show the trend even more strongly). I also don't agree with your suggestion that years of schooling for 15-19 year-old children is a better measure of MDG progress, since the MDGs focused on primary completion, and children entering school in 2001 wouldn't be showing up yet in the 15-19 age group data. I do nonetheless agree that the forthcoming goals should explicitly address equity concerns, because while virtually all development partners are already building a poverty focus into their programs, they should be doing more. They should now pay attention to the transition to secondary, and they should pay attention to categories of marginalization that currently get little attention--children with disabilities, children from ethnic and linguistic minorities, children living in extreme poverty, working children... But I'm worried at the suggestion implied in Gordon Brown's comment that it could be seen as further penalizing poor children to address learning issues and transition to secondary ("raising the bar")even before all poor children have access to school. There's plenty of reason to believe that poor children will be the first to drop out when quality is low--and dropout is one of the major factors keeping us from achieving the access goals...So yes, more attention to equity is a great idea, but no, poor children weren't left behind by the MDGs.
Bob, thanks for taking the
Let's look at the data. The unweighted data show that 84% of the 50 countries for which we have trend data achieved propoor growth on net primary attendance. In the case of attendance, your hunch was right: weighting the data by population pushes the figure up – to 92%. But on primary completion, the figure is bleaker, and your hunch was wrong. The unweighted percentage for the 28 countries for which we have trend data is 68%, and the population-weighted percentage is just 59%. So a full 40% of the developing world's children live in a country where the poorest 40% of children have made slower progress toward the primary completion MDG.
Forgive me, but given me these numbers, how can you say so categorically: "Adam, you're wrong – poor children weren't left behind by the MDGs."? Especially as what I actually said was: "So, yes, it is true that in education – as in health – poor children haven't always made as fast progress as the better off toward the MDG goals." If I'm guilty of anything, it's understatement!
On the years of schooling variable, this variable will pick up post-2000 increases in primary completion in surveys fielded after 2003 (15-year olds in 2003 would have been 12 in 2000). For some reason, EdStats doesn't seem to have the latest DHS and MICS surveys, so in practice you're right: insofar as it reflects increases in primary completion rates, my last chart will reflect increases that occurred prior to 2000.
Does that make the chart irrelevant? I don't think so. If you look at MDGs 1, 4 and 5, the MDG baseline is explicitly 1990 not 2000. For MDG 6, it's not explicitly so, but progress on TB is measured using 1990 as the reference. MDG 7 in general doesn't have an explicit start date, except 7c which also explicitly uses 1990 as the baseline.
So my question is – what's special about education? What's wrong with assessing progress using 1990 as the baseline, as almost all the other MDGs do?
Reflecting the analysis of
Reflecting the analysis of Universal Primary Education here in Nigeria. As a Video advocacy producer researching on the accomplishment of UN MDG in Nigeria. I was opportuned to be consulted by the office of senior special adviser to the president of Nigeria on MDGS. We went round the country researching and shooting documentaries of MDG successes in Nigeria. I agree with your figure that the wealthy children are more in school than the poor children but their enrolment is not as a result of the MDGs. Here in Nigeria, Educational projects implimented under the MDGs are automatically sited in remote villages where primary school enrolment is low. The statistics of poor children enroled as a result of the MDGs is higher than the statistics of wealthy children that enroled in primary school as a result of the MDGs. This details is as a result of my field works and interviews of direct beneficiaries. Thank You.


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Alumni Steve King '97 and Mike Baker '00 were joined by Mike's wife Kristen to celebrate WABASH Day with a day of service at Stepping Stones Center. Stepping Stones is an organization with a mission to increase independence, improve lives and promote inclusion for children and adults with disabilities.
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Advice: Why has my boyfriend quit looking for a new job?
Hi, Carolyn!
My boyfriend and I live together and have decided to spend our lives together. We both are unhappy in our current jobs and want to live in a different area to have a different kind of lifestyle. He has a much more specific, highly educated/trained skill set that pays a great deal more than my career field. We both agreed that he would look for a new job and once he found one, we would move together and I would find a job in that area.
The problem is that he's had two job possibilities fall through after many rounds of interviews and now he's lost all motivation to keep searching. He's unhappier than ever in his current job and calls things "hopeless," but he's stopped all efforts to look for a new job.
I have a background in human resources and have tried to give him some suggestions, but he's just not doing them and I'm not sure why.
I'm trying to be supportive, understanding and patient because I know it's a lot of pressure for him, but I'm just as unhappy and am getting frustrated that he's not even trying. Is there anything I can say to him that will express my frustration in our holding pattern without making him feel bad about himself and resenting me?
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By your account, you're saying plenty. What you don't specify is what you're doing on the "supportive, understanding and patient" front. Do you genuinely understand his frustration, or support the break he's taking?
You are in a difficult spot, as is anyone whose happiness is pegged to the actions of others. The way out of that spot, though, is rarely to find just the right way to goose the person who holds the reins.
Instead, your good humor and his, and possibly your affection for each other, depend on your finding something you can do independently to advance your collective cause.
The first thing is giving your boyfriend a chance to say he changed his mind on the move, or is torn. It happens.
Second thing: Give him the break he's apparently taking whether you give your blessing or not. As in, "Those interviews wiped you out; I get that now. I was trying to find ways to help your job hunt, but suspending it for a month, completely, might make more sense. What do you think?"
If he's going to quit trying, then the break might as well be restorative -- and it won't be if inaction chooses him, or if guilt dogs him throughout. (Or if "quit trying" is his default when presented with adversity -- but that's a different problem.)
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During the FanExpo Canada, Colin Baker was asked to recite the Doctor's speech from 'The Rings of Akahaten', below is a video of this speech edited into the scene from the episode.
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Colin Baker Recites 'The Rings of Akahaten' Speech
By Tom at 13:00
Labels: colin baker , convention , Doctor who convention , fan Made Video , series 7 , The Rings of Akhaten , video , videos
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he is good and he has a lovely voice
- 27 August 2013 at 00:04
- gbollard said...
Colin is a natural for this.
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It's been a long day here in my corner of Kotaku, so let's wind things down with this video of Meysi, a teeny tiny polish terrier that may well be the world's smallest dog. If Tina gets to post her cat videos, I get to post my dogs from time to time.
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Anyone know the charge rate for a standard 120V/30A RV outlet?
Anyone know the charge rate for a standard 120V/30A RV outlet?
Upgrade to a 240V/50A and use it for both your Tesla and RV. My guess is you will only get about 10 miles of range per hour of charge on the high side. You are only charging at 3.6KW (120V X 30A) vs 9.6kW (240V X 40A max amperage without HPWC) so you will get about 3 times more range per hour than what you currently have.
On any plug, you normally should charge at 80% of the breaker rating, so a 30a connection should be limited to 24a charging. And that is what Tesla plug adapters do, limit charge rate to 80% of breaker rating. However, Tesla does not provide a TT-30 adapter (which is what a 30A RV plug is), so you would have to make your own adapter. Also the Tesla UMC for some unknown reason restricts any charging at 120v to a maximum of 20 amps. So, with a home made adapter, you would end up with a charge rate of about 6 rated miles per hour of charging.
I would strongly recommend getting an electrician to install a Nema 14-50 240v plug instead.
120V 30A does not sound correct. Are you sure it's not 220V 30A? The formula though is straightforward.
Standard wall outlet 120V 15 amp. About 4 miles per hour
120V 30A = 8 (Double the amps, double the power)
240V 15A = 8 (Double the voltage, double the power)
240V 30A = 16 (Double both, and it's times 4)
The formula is approximately; Charging Time = Volts x Amps
When Volts = 120 and Amps = 15, charging time in hours = 4
"When Volts = 120 and Amps = 15, charging time in hours = 4"
I don't think so. That's about 60mi/hr.
jbunn, he is correct. It is 120V/30amp. It is aTT30 plug for smaller RVs like travel trailers and small motorhomes.
@jbunn - you can only draw 80% of the circuit's current on a continuous load. The formula you want is:
V * A * .86 / 308Wh/mi = rated miles per hour charge rate
Ie, 120V * 20A * .86 / 308Wh/mi = 6.7 rated mi/hr
(as shop points out, the UMC limits 120V charging to 20A)
Having to share an outlet seems pretty painful to me - the convenience of just keeping things plugged in would be worth the small cost of adding an outlet.
Short answer - call in an electrician.
@shop "Also the Tesla UMC for some unknown reason restricts any charging at 120v to a maximum of 20 amps. So, with a home made adapter, you would end up with a charge rate of about 6 rated miles per hour of charging."
If the OP used a NEMA 14-50 adapter, and then a NEMA TT-30P RV Plug to 14-50R Adapter like that found on EVSEadapters.com (http://www.evseadapters.com/adapters-for-tesla-model-s.php), would the UMC still limit the current to 20 amps, or could he dial it to 24 amps?
I agree with you that it is still better to add a 240V outlet.
Just a note, the Model S itself, not the UMC, restricts 120V charging to 20A. Perhaps if they release a TT-30 adapter they will also update the S's software to accept 24A from the TT-30 but for now we are stuck at a max of 20A at 120V regardless what you can provide the car.
@DouglasR, Yes, even in your scenario, you would be restricted to 20A. It kinda sucks, but then again, Tesla isn't supposed to support home made adapters. It would be really nice if Tesla came out with a TT-30 adapter, but considering they never made one for the Roadster (which still has a much large adapter selection), I would guess the importance of a TT-30 adapter is somewhere below that of the styling of the bolt heads holding the battery to the car.
Does anyone have real world experience charging at a 30A RV outlets? I am planning a trip next week, and they only have these available. What can I expect for a charging rate?
No real world experience, but I think the UMC would limit you to 16 amps. AFAIK there are only two 120v adapters for the UMC - one for 15 amp circuits (NEMA 5-15) that comes with the UMC, and one for 20amp circuits (NEMA 5-20) that is available for purchase. The UMC limits to 80% of circuit capacity, os you would be limited to 12 or 16 amps depending on which adapter you have. You would still need an adapter to connect the 5-15 or 5-20 plug on the UMC to the 30amp plug.
I actually bought a TT-30 to NEMA 14-50 adapter from an RV Parts store. The NEMA 14-50 adapter is on the end of your UMC plug, and would plug into the 14-50 to TT-30 adapter. I checked the wiring of this adapter, and they split the single 120 VAC line on the TT-30 plug end of the adapter to both hot wires on the 14-50 "recepticle" end of the adapter. While I have not actually needed to charge with this adapter, I assume that since the Tesla would see 120 VAC on both hot wires of the 14-50 UMC adapter, it would assume it was operating with a full 50-Amp circuit. The TT-30 adapter, however, is only rated for 30-Amps, so you would most likely need to dial down the current manually to 24-Amps (i.e. 12 amps per line, and most likely a setting of 12-Amps on the "Tesla Charging Panel"). This should give you around 6-mi/Hr of charging. Probably well worth a call to the Tesla Customer service guys to have them check with engineering and make sure.
tes-s, lammersc, please, you have both posted incorrect info - read on. And crazybrit, if you truly only have access to a 30A RV connection (hopefully only for overnight charging? You'll get about 5 or 6 hours of rated charge/hour), then I hope you realize you need to buy or build a special TT-30 adapter since Tesla does not make one?
The TT-30 to NEMA 14-50 adapters you find in RV and camping stores WILL NOT work for Tesla charging without modification. As you correctly pointed out, lammersc, they wire the single 120V hot from the TT-30 to both NEMA 14-50 hots. This results in the Tesla seeing 0V across the hots and thus won't charge.
To use a TT-30 adapter, you must rewire it so that it connects the 120V TT-30 hot to only one of the NEMA 14-50 hots, and then neutral to the other hot. It matters which hot gets the 120V (the UMC cares about that). This is documented in this document:
Or you can buy a ready made, properly rewired TT-30 adapter from here:
When using such an adapter, you start with the Tesla supplied NEMA 14-50 UMC adapter. So the Tesla thinks it can charge at 40A, and thus you must dial down your amperage to 24A. Tesla has a built in limitation, however, that it only allows charging at a maximum of 20A when you have a 120V connection.
And yes, I've used a TT-30 in the past. As I said, a slow but steady 5-6 miles per hour of charge...
I am making my own adapter from these instructions http://cosmacelf.net/Home%20Made%20Adapters.pdf. I understand the off-the-shelf adapters don't work. However I am looking for folks who have real world experience with the charging rate. There is a lot of speculation on this thread, and I have searched the forum and can't find anything.
Put in a 50 amp RV. You will be much happier.
Roamer, I think you are responding to the OP. I need to know the answer for a road trip
+1 @ Shop. I tried the adapter from an RV store and it did not work.
I have the adapter from evseadapters and it does work. If you only have the single charger it can only charge at half the 40A because you are only supplying power to one side of the charger.
@shop I sthe expert here and I defer to him. However, I have experience plugging in to several standard 120V wall outlet and to a 30ARV outlet at a marina. Charging rates in our experience for 120 range from 4-6 mph, none higher. A 240V 1450 is cheap and quick. Even an HPWC is fairly cheap given what we pay for these cars, and gives the advantage of always being at the ready (no coiling and uncoiling the UMC).
Thanks Shop. You answered my question. Our postings crossed in the ether.
Thanks for the info shop - you can buy a third party adapter to plug the 240v 14-50 Tesla plug into a 30amp 120v outlet.
I've bought the TT-30 adapter from http://www.evseadapters.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=57&prod... and it works fine.
I did not experienced any limitation to 20 amps as sometime reported. Maybe it was the case with previous software versions (I am using 5.9). Set to 24 amps, I get a solid 14 km/h charge (8,75 miles/hour).
Hmmm. _thierrY, what version of 5.9 are you on? I'm on 5.9 (1.51.94) and I just tried it and I only got 20A, even though I had set my max amps to 24A. Maybe there are different car charger versions as well. Where are you located, what country?
thierr & shop.. If you don't have dual chargers the max you can get is 20A on 120V. Half the capacity of a single charger.
I have dual charger and I'm in Canada. I own my car since 3 weeks... so I guess I have the most recent software and hardware.
I've been using my RV TT-30 plug many time since and it always worked fine at 24 Amps. Yesterday, I plugged at 16h45 and it charged fine until this morning at 7h30. I got 200 rated-km charged.
OMG, maybe the difference is dual chargers versus single chargers. I honestly never thought that would be the case. I do only have a single charger.
Now why would a car charger only charge at 20A with 120V? Each charger has got to handle 40A since that's what I push through it with my single charger - 40A at 240V.
Can anyone else with dual chargers charge at 24A on 120V? This is the first time I've seen it confirmed anywhere on these forums.
The way I look at it is half as much in = half as much out of each charger.
Wow, this would be one of the oldest solved mysteries I've seen on this forum if this turns out to be the answer.
I've emailed ownership about this, we'll see if we get back anything interesting.
Here's my theory. There is a software limit per charger of 20A at 120V (simply due to an over protective programmer, ie. the limit isn't needed). In dual charger cars, the current gets split between the two chargers - which actually makes sense, it would be hard to do otherwise. So in dual charger cars, the software sees each charger getting 12A at 120V and all is fine.
Anyways, it seems that we've found yet another use case for dual chargers - it give you an extra 4A of charging at 120V. And if you are charging at 120V, every little bit extra helps!
I think MS limits charge current to 20A on TT-30, even though it supports 30A
It's still faster than 15-20A from some 120V TM adapters, but still, veeeery slow
You'd be lucky to get anything above 7mph
AndreyATC, please read a few posts up - with dual car chargers, it seems you can get 8-9 miles/hour charge at 24A.
@_thierrY, what version of 5.9 do you have? Press the Tesla logo and there should be subversion in parenthesis (like 1.51.94).
@_thierrY - also, can you take a picture of your car's charging screen at 120V, 24A? No one else has been able to replicate this, even folks with dual chargers on the latest software version (.94).
How does that theory handle HPWCs? 2 x 40 = 80. On good days.
Brian, this artificially programmed limit only comes up with 120V. For HPWC, they're using 240V, so it doesn't seem to come up.
@shop : I'll come back with pictures of my screen tomorrow. How can I post picture on this forum?
Here is my setup.
A) I have a VR TT-30 plug with ground slot up (as per NEMA standars). http://go.pq.org/bQn
B) I used the http://www.evseadapters.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=57&prod... adapter and it fits well with ground pin up. http://go.pq.org/bQp
C) I have V5.9 (1.51.94) software installed http://go.pq.org/bQw. (However, I believe it was working before the upgrade.)
D) I have a dual charger
Now here are the results. For you guys, I used theses awkward units you have down there (you know, like the one were waters freezes at 32 and boils at 212…)
1) At 24A, I got a steady 8 mi/hr charge rate. http://go.pq.org/bQr
It was a cool day thought : 32F as you can see. On a warmer day, I got 14 km/hr (that is almost 9 mi/hr).
2) I went over the 20% safety margin in the name of science. The MS let me go up to 30A (I did not tried to go higher and I came back at lower rates after a couple of seconds.) http://go.pq.org/bQs
Et voilà!
Great post _thierrY, nice pics. Well, we have a puzzle on our hands. I personally don't have dual chargers, and it doesn't work for me. A person over a TMC does have dual chargers but he couldn't get it past 20A.
I've always known Canadians were special :-)
Actually, _thierrY, I think you guessed right in your first post on this thread - the dual charger person who wasn't able to charge at 24A has an early model S, and yours, of course, is the latest hardware only being 3 weeks old. My car is fairly old too. So it is possible that they made a hardware change somewhere along the way.
If anyone reading this thread has a relatively high VIN (recent) Model S and wants to try it out, please do so and let us know if you can charge at 24A on a 120V circuit (like a TT-30). I suspect it would work whether you had a single or dual charger.
My 85KWH MS was built in March 2014. Now running 5.9 (1.51.106) software. Single charger. I can charge continuously at 24A at 120V. I wired an adapter to go from the Tesla 6-50 plug to a 120 volt source. It only works with the neutral connected to one side of the 6-50. If it is connected to the other side, it gives an error message & will not charge. For test purposes, I briefly increased the current to 30 amps. It looked as though the car's software would allow up to 40 amps at 120 volts. I didn't try over 30 amps. Don't try this unless you know what you are doing.
My MS was pulling only 20A from TT-30
I was hoping for 24A, but oh well...
@AndreyATC : was was the software version of your MS when you tried to get to 24A. We are trying to find out if its a software or hardware issue.
@ MN_Bob If you have a single charger I question that you got more than 20 amps of actual charge.
I have a TT-30 outlet at my house and the evse adapter. I can set the charge rate to 40amps but the actual charging amps never goes above 20amps. I have a single charger and am at release V5.9 (1.51.106) had the same charge rate results at two previous release levels. I also have an NEMA 14-50 in my garage and a NEMA 6-50 in my shop.
In theory you can get 2.4KW of charge on 120v 20amp charge or about 7.75 rated miles per hr. The most I have seen has been 6 rated miles per hr. but my voltage drops to 117v on my TT-30 outlet when charging.
It seems that relatively recent model cars ( say 2014 onwards), can in fact charge 120v at greater than 20A. Doesn't have anything to do with single or dual chargers. This is based on info from these forums.
shop, that may be true but I would like to see photographic evidence of it.
There is photographic evidence - just search here or TMC. I remember seeing the picture.
I discovered that I can charge at 40 amps at 112 volts. After letting it charge for an hour or so, it showed 13 MPH. Details on car & software above a few postings.
Picture: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=50634&d=14015...
Link to the thread where I posted the jpg:http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/20312-Post-A-Picture-Of-Yo...
Look for post #427, dated 5-31-2014
I am sorry I goofed up the second link. Here is another attempt to make the 2nd link work:
Link to the thread where I posted the jpg:
Look for post #427, dated 5-31-2014
Thanks MN_Bob - when did you buy your Model S - ie. how new is it?
Shop, my 85KWH MS was built in March 2014. Single charger.


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Truth and Lies of a Government "Shutdown"
Introduction from Rinotracker editor Chris Adamo:
I wrote this piece four years ago. It is infuriating that the principles which inspired it back then are still in play today. As a matter of fact, the Republican unwillingness to deal with things in 2011 (and in 1995 before that) by squarely facing a government "shutdown" and confronting the leftist strategy that precipitated it, have essentially ensured that despite any Republican numbers in Congress, the political left remains completely in control. Are we to believe that if the magical day ever arrives when the GOP?has veto proof majorities in both Houses, along with a Republican president, they will suddenly find their moral footing and their collective voice to turn the?tide on the liberal onslaught against America? Such a notion is akin to the GOP promising America "If you win the war, we'll join the battle!" That's hardly an inspiring campaign slogan, and it's not leadership. Clearly, what's needed is for America to begin brooming the RINOs and electing true soldiers for conservatism now, and in every ensuing election.
By: Christopher G. Adamo, March 24 2011
In broad daylight, after having won a landslide victory last November, congressional Republicans are engineering the most embarrassing surrender since Napoleon at Waterloo. And the greatest outrage of it is that such a debacle need not ever take place. To this day, the GOP remains in a prime position to devastate its Democrat opposition and strike a fatal blow to the liberal juggernaut that threatens financial ruin for this country. But, having accepted the standard media diatribe that engaging in such a contest might be politically costly, Republican leaders are instead opting to backtrack and capitulate.
The issue at stake is the ongoing budget battle, which Democrats dropped on the GOP in anticipation of the massive turnover of seats to the right in the November 2010 mid-term elections. Rather than passing a budget of their own, which would have made their outrageous spending spree a front-page campaign topic on the eve of the election, they punted, and thereby left the nation's treasury in ruins, while forcing the Republicans to pick up the pieces.
Ironically, incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R.-OH) could conceivably have accomplished just that, being in a prime position to make real cuts in the bloated and wasteful spending of the Democrats, while positioning himself and his party for even bigger gains in 2012. Yet the Democrats expected that he would not rise to this occasion, but would instead acquiesce in hopes of circumventing a "government shutdown" and avoiding the inevitable media attacks that would surely follow. At this point it appears that the Democrats' gamble may well pay off.
Beltway Republicans live in acute fear of a government shutdown, and have bought into the deception that is relentlessly repeated regarding the infamous budget impasse that occurred in the fall of 1995. Shrouded in myth and misrepresentation, it is regularly wielded like a mace to bludgeon those cowering GOP Senators and Representatives. As a result, they have become paralyzed by the dread of any recurrence, even to the point of total capitulation on budgetary issues. It is an appalling situation indeed, and only proves the old axiom that a big lie, if repeated often enough, will eventually be believed.
In the first place, the 1995 government shutdown was not initiated by congressional Republicans, then under the leadership of Newt Gingrich in the House, and Bob Dole in the Senate. Rather, it was Bill Clinton's veto of the budget they passed in both houses, and submitted to him, that brought Washington to its much trumpeted and hysterically overplayed "standstill." The initial stalemate lasted a mere five days, from November 14 to November 19, 1995, before the Congress passed another continuing resolution budgetary band-aid.
With Clinton completely unwilling to rein in social spending, the situation came to a head again in December lasting this time for nearly three weeks. In early January of 1996, Bob Dole waved the white flag, offering his infamous "Enough is enough!" capitulation.
Since that time, we have been told that the entire budget battle was, from the beginning, a public-relations fiasco for the Republicans, contributing to their losses in the 1996 elections and nullifying any momentum they had previously acquired. Consequently, Republicans have not only been unwilling to seriously confront budget problems, they have even gone so far as to engage in their own indefensible spending binges. But theirs has been an unnecessary political and philosophical collapse.
Prior to Dole's total capitulation, Bill Clinton's popularity was plummeting. In fact, according to then Representative Joe Scarborough of Florida, Clinton's job approval had reached its absolute lowest point at the precise time of the GOP surrender. Subsequent to that however, his image rebounded while that of Dole and Gingrich hit the skids. In short, it was not the stoppage of government that cost the Republicans, but their willingness to restart it on terms dictated by Clinton and the Democrats.
Likewise, the inconsequential Republican congressional losses in the following year's elections were in no way a reflection of lingering public anger over the brief pause of government "services" during the previous year. A much more plausible explanation would be simply that the 1996 Republican presidential candidate was none other than Bob Dole, who was also the chief architect of his party's budgetary defeat. Losing to Clinton by a significant margin, the negative effect of his political "coat tails" took its toll on a handful of close races for members of his party in the House.
It is ludicrous to suggest that the situation represented a major "win" for Clinton. He did indeed remain in office, but accomplished this with less than fifty percent of one of the lowest voter turnouts in decades. In other words, while he and his leftist agenda were hardly popular with the American people, Bob Dole's weakness and willingness to abandon principle found even less favor on Mainstreet.
It is a lesson that Speaker Boehner and the other Beltway Republicans would do well to learn. The nation's finances are in a meltdown, with deficits in the hundreds of billions accumulating with each passing month. No greater opportunity has existed in nearly two decades for true conservatives to contrast themselves against this criminal abuse of taxpayer dollars. Yet they opt to make deals with the Democrats, while loudly trumpeting their meager spending "cuts" as the salvation of America.
"We the people" are ready to take on those in Washington who squander the nation's prosperity in service to special interests that feed at the public trough. The results of last fall's elections cannot be interpreted in any other way. And if the current crop of "Republicans" chooses to ignore the message, they can likewise be replaced in the next cycle.


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"This is a Catholic country" doesn't seem like a good reason to kill someone, but then if you're pro-life perhaps you will disagree.
Savita Halappanavar (31), a dentist, presented with back pain at the hospital on October 21st, was found to be miscarrying, and died of septicaemia a week later.
Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar… asked for a medical termination.
This was refused, he says, because the foetal heartbeat was still present and they were told, "this is a Catholic country".
She spent a further 2½ days "in agony" until the foetal heartbeat stopped.
In perhaps related news that pro-life people are only pro-life until you are born:
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco launched a Global Turnaway Study this year to explore the potential social and economic implications of denying women access to legal abortion. And after documenting the experiences of the women who seek to terminate a pregnancy but are turned away from abortion services, the UCSF researchers found that those women were three times more likely than the women who successfully obtained abortions to fall below the poverty line within the subsequent two years.
Perhaps I'm being unfair about the pro-life movement, but I doubt it. If this sort of thing worries you that is good. The pro-life movement are adopting tactic used in the US to intimidate people, for example protesting outside abortion clinics. Their success would mean the exportation of this suffering. The stakes are high, be worried.
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