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Inspired by the agricultural tools of rural England, this massive oak table is awash in hand-worked details.
By Don Weber
Pages: 60-65
From the February 2009 issue #174
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As a young fellow growing up in the countryside of Wales, I clambered over many a farm wagon, climbed into many a loft in barns that were jointed and pegged, and tripped over many a hay rake on my adventures.
I have always appreciated the simple, utilitarian, yet pleasing design of the vernacular woodworking of the countryside. My inspiration for furniture forms has always been the work of the wheelwright and coach maker. And the inspiration for how to build things came in part from Sidney Barnsley and Ernest Gimson.
Barnsley and Gimson were men of the Cotswolds school of craft architects. They were part of a group of London architects who moved to the countryside in the 19th century and set up what is known today as the English Arts & Crafts movement (along with William Morris at Kelmscott Manor).
These free thinkers broke away from convention and began to design not only the buildings, but the furnishings as well. And they turned to the rural countryside for their inspiration.
The hay rake table built for Rodmarton Manor was an example of how Gimson and Barnsley adopted details from farm wagons, carts and farming implements that were still in use in the Cotswolds.
The wagons of the farming community had many details a layman would not be aware of – the dish of the wheel, the complex undercarriage, the chamfering of braces for both decorative and structural intent. Adzed surfaces and chamfered edges added visual appeal and reduced weight in a farm wagon. The hay rake shape of the stretcher was an element found in common used farm equipment.
This table is made from Valley Oak (Quercus lobata), a gift from a friend who worked for a vineyard in Northern California. I milled the 8/4 planks eight years ago and carried them to their present location in Paint Lick, Ky., with the intent of building this very table. At last!
How to Build a Farmhouse Table Like This
The top of the table was made from two flitch-cut planks of oak that were 24″ wide and 2″ thick. There was some sap wood to remove, so the overall width of the tabletop finished at 40″ with a finished thickness 1-7/8″.
The original design called for butterfly splines to join the planks at their edges, but I decided to dowel the edges together with 1/2″-diameter osage orange dowels. No biscuit joiner here! After assembly, I used a scrub plane to level the glued-up planks to a reasonably flat surface.
The breadboard ends on the top not only cover the end grain but also keep the top from warping. First I cut the tenons on each end. The tenons are 2″ long and 5/8″ thick. I cut them with a backsaw and rebate plane (which is called a rabbet plane on this side of the Atlantic). I then sawed out the spaces between the tenons (leaving a short stub between each tenon) and cleaned things up with a chisel.
For the 3-1/4″-wide end boards, I cut a groove with a plow plane to receive the stub, and I cut the deep mortises with a drill and chisel to receive the tenons. A router and mortising machine would, of course, also do the job.
To secure the breadboard ends, I bored 1/4″-diameter holes through the end boards and tenons – then I pegged the joints with ebony pegs. Be sure to make the holes in the tenons elongated so that the top does not split when it moves with the seasons.
I beveled the underside of the tabletop only slightly to leave nearly the full thickness showing. In the end, after trimming and cutting mistakes, the table began to look rather thick. This is no delicate table; let the Vikings roar!
I added butterfly inlay to the top that measured 3/8″ x 1-3/4″ x 5-1/2″. I cut the recesses in the top using a chisel and a router plane. Then I did the fine fitting of the inlay with a chisel.
The Base: Legs and Mortises
I glued up the legs for this table from 8/4 stock. I would have preferred to use a single thick piece of wood for each leg, but I wanted to use as much of the timber from the vineyard as possible. When making square legs, it is best to use slash grain (sometimes called bastard grain), where the annular rings run diagonally across the end grain, from corner to corner. This gives you a uniform grain pattern on all four faces of the leg.
The legs have broad chamfers on all four long edges. I cut the 1″-wide chamfers the complete length of each leg with the table saw.
Each leg has a through-mortise that begins 5″ up from the floor to receive a hay rake stretcher. Before drilling the waste holes for these mortises, score the final boundaries of each mortise with a marking knife to ensure there will be no tear-out when drilling out the waste.
These through-mortises were bored out with a 5/8″-diameter brad-point bit. Then I dressed the through-mortises out to 3/4″ wide by 2-1/2″ long with a mortise chisel and a 2″-wide firmer chisel.
The old fellow I learned woodworking from insisted that I should always see the reflection of my scribe line in the back of the chisel when chopping out waste. Seeing the reflection of the scribe line ensured that I'd stay inside my lines when chopping. If you chisel directly on the scribe line, the bevel of the chisel has a tendency to push the cut outside the width of the mortise.
Building the Hay Rake
The beauty of this table is its hay rake stretcher. Its shape is taken from a heel rake, named because it follows close behind your heels. Heel rakes were used for raking hay into winnows and for the final clearing of the fields. It is a utilitarian implement, yet strong and pleasing to the eye.
Building the hay rake stretcher truly is a mortise-and-tenon exersise. The tenons on the stretcher are cut on a table saw with a stacked dado blade. I then cleaned them up with a Stanley No. 10 carriage maker's plane.
All the remaining mortises are drilled and chiseled. The angled ones are bored with the work secured horizontally in a bench vise. I've tried to do these on a drill press using an angled platform, but the drill press's pillar got in the way. So back to the old ways again!
To clean up the angled mortises, I used the waste block from the end of a tenon to act as a chisel guide. All the joints here are through-mortises, except the mortises in the center stretcher.
All the through-tenons are double-wedged from the outside; the blind mortises are pinned. All the joints are drawbored, just like in timber framing, to draw the tenon into the mortise with a mechanical lock.
All the edges of the hay rake stretcher have stop-chamfers. The distinctive stop-chamfers on agricultural implements were employed mostly to reduce weight without reducing strength, according to Richard Harrison, the wheelwright in Barnsley's village. (This comes from Mary Greensted's book about the Barnsleys.)
In furniture design, chamfering remained a useful technique that required skill and thought to soften sharp edges and anticipate wear. Many of the chamfers on Barnsley's pieces were done with a drawknife alone – no spokeshave or sandpaper. I have cut the stopped part of the chamfer with a drawknife, then used a circular saw to remove the waste and used a smoothing plane to dress the surface.
Barnsley often chip-carved the edges of his furniture, but I've left off this detail.
Bridle Joints at the Top of the Base
The legs are bridle jointed to a cross bar with a 2-1/4″ x 3/4″ tenon centered in the top of the leg. See the drawing below for details. This cross bar has its ends cut in a scroll and shaped with a #3 sweep gouge.
I attached the top to the leg frame with buttons of iron. I'd made wooden buttons out of locust, but they looked weak with the mass of this table. So it was into the smithy for me. I searched for some time for the right size stock, but nothing showed up until I found a box of old railroad spikes. So I heated them up in the forge, flattened the sides, cut them to 1″ in height and forged a dimple in the top to receive the screw.
There are simpler methods, and wooden buttons would probably work fine, but I'm a blacksmith and the table could handle their forged appearance. (Even if you have to lie on your back on the floor to view them.) The ends of the buttons are set into grooves in the cross bar, 4″ in from the legs and 3/4″ down from the tabletop.
For a finish I used an oil and varnish blend that was tinted with a bit of aniline dye to bring this American oak to the rich brown tone of English oak. Hand rubbed and polished with furniture wax, it brought up the texture of the tools used in the construction of this piece.
The dimensions of this table were determined by the material I had on hand and the special nature of it. This table can be constructed from conventional lumber – 2″ x 12″ oak for the top, 4″ x 4″ oak for the legs and 2″ x 4″ material for the rest. Conventional woodworking machinery can do a speedy job of it, but I'm a hand woodworker; the feel and texture tell me all I need to know. And I do believe Barnsley would approve. PW
Don is a chairmaker and blacksmith in Paint Lick, Ky. You can see more of his work and learn about the classes he teaches at handcraftwoodworks.com.
For a PDF of this article including the cutlist and illustrations, download the file below: BarnsleyTable
For a slideshow of extra pictures of the Hay Rake Table, click here for a PDF.
To view and download the SketchUp 3d model of the Hay Rake Table, click here.
For more on making tables of all sorts, get "Furniture Fundamentals: Making Tables; 17 Projects for all Skill Levels"
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Why use ordinary spoons to prepare food if you can use new and improved Supoon? It is both practical and well designed. Perfect choice for modern kitchen.
Spoon Supoon has unique bent handle which keeps your tables and counter clean. Spoon tip doesn't touch table surface when put down. No germs in your food, no oily table surfaces. At the end of the handle there is a hole so you can hang Supoon on the rack.
The tip of the spoon is flat, therefore it's perfect for scraping everything from the pan or any other dish. It's made from silicone and is safe to use on non-stick cookware. Perfect for stirring, mixing, scooping and even serving food.
With Supoon you can follow the recipes easily because the tip is graded in 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon measures.
Supoon is double-colored: black handle and colorful tip.
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With product names like Smood and Membo, it's clear that Dreamfarm is unlike other kitchen supply companies. Founded in Canberra, Australia in 2003 by then-22-year-old Alexander Gransbury, Dreamfarm is dedicated to creating products that respond to as-yet-unsolved problems. The result is a collection of unique, stunningly clever items, ranging from the Oni – a multi-purpose knife that includes a razor-sharp chef's blade, a spreader and a plastic wrap cutter – to the Scizza – a scissor-like pizza-cutter that combines two ultra-sharp blades with a bottom-blade spatula. The brand's Clongs, click-lock tongs that have bent stainless steel arms in order to keep countertops clean, won a prestigious Red Dot Design Award in 2010.


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- June 12, 2014
How Better Measurement Can Bring More Brand Advertising to Digital
When it comes to measuring viewability, two of the most frequent questions are:
- What percentage of my ads were seen?
- Given this number, is there a benchmark to see how my ads are performing?
At Comscore, we've gathered the data to help address some of the questions that advertisers, agencies and publishers want answered.
This presentation explores viewability, provides benchmarks for different product categories, and covers best practices to outline the objectives of a campaign, set expectations and eliminate the painful post-campaign re-negotiations.


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* '''inkscape --without-gui --actions="export-id-only; export-id:Triangle; export-filename:action_triangle.png; export-do; export-id:Path; export-filename:action_path.png" export_test.svg'''
* '''inkscape --without-gui --actions="export-id-only; export-id:Triangle; export-filename:action_triangle.png; export-do; export-id:Path; export-filename:action_path.png" export_test.svg'''
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: Exports the objects Triangle and Path to different files.
== Changes from 0.92 ==
== Changes from 0.92 ==
Revision as of 22:34, 26 November 2018
This is a Work in Progress.
Starting after the release of the 0.92.x series, Inkscape's code is undergoing a major rewrite with the dual goals of making it more powerful and flexible for the user while making it easier for the developer. This is a long term process and it will be awhile before we see the full benefits.
As a first step, we've started to use the latest Gtk 3 application code for Inkscape 1.0 which has resulted in some changes in how the command line works.
For the command line parameters for Inkscape versions up to 0.92.x, please check the corresponding output of
inkscape --help on the command line.
What can you do with the command line?
This is (not yet) a complete list.
Print out information
- Help (list of command line options): inkscape --help or inkscape -?
- Inkscape version: inkscape --version
- Extension directory: inkscape --extensions-directory
- List of available verbs (very long): inkscape --verb-list
- List of available actions: inkscape --action-list
Query geometry information
- Find the x position of a set of objects: inkscape --query-id="MyTriangle,MySquare" --query-x my_file.svg
- This will return, for example:
- 200,300
- Query the geometry of all objects: inkscape --query-all
- This will return, for example (id,x,y,width,height):
- MySvg,0,0,600,600
- MyGroup,100,100,300,300
- MyTriangle,120,120,100,80
- MySquare,150,150,50,50
Export files
Via export options
Use of export options will suppress the GUI. All files listed on the command line will be opened, processed according to export options. and then be closed.
Some options are exclusive.
- If both --export-filename and --export-type are given, the file name extension must match the type.
- Only one of --export-area, --export-area-page, -export-area-drawing, --export-use-hints will be used to determine the export area. (Which one?)
- Simple export of a PNG: inkscape --export-type="png" my_file.svg
- This will produce a PNG with a name my_file.png
- Export one object from the file to a PNG: inkscape --export-type="png" --export-id="MyTriangle" my_file.svg
- This will produce a PNG with a file name my_file_MyTriangle.png which tightly wraps the object. Objects that extend into the exported area will be shown.
- Export one object from the file to a PNG, hiding all other objects: inkscape --export-type="png" --export-id="MyTriangle" --export-id-only my_file.svg
- This will produce a PNG with a file name my_file_MyTriangle.png which tightly wraps the object. Only the triangle is shown.
- Export more than one object at a time to PNG files: inkscape --export-type="png" --export-id="MyTriangle,MyRectangle" my_file.svg
- This will produce two PNG files, one tightly wrapping the triangle, the other the rectangle.
- Export more than one object to SVG files: inkscape --export-type="svg" --export-id="MyTriangle,MyRectangle" --export-id-only my_file.svg CRASH: FIXME
- This will produce two SVG files, one with just the triangle, the other with just the rectangle.
Via actions
Use of export options and actions can be mixed. (How?) All export options have matching actions (remove the '--' in front of the option and replace '=' with ':'). If only actions are used, the use of the GUI must explicitly be turned off (--without-gui). All files on the command line will be opened, processed according to actions options, and then closed. Export can be forced at any point with the export-do action. This allows one to do multiple exports on a single file.
- inkscape --without-gui --actions="export-id:MyTriangle; export-id-only; export-background:purple; export-filename:triangle_purple.png; export-do; export-background:red; export-filename:triangle_red.png" my_file.svg
- This will export the object with the id MyTriangle with a purple background to the file triangle_purple.png and with a red background to the file triangle_red.png. (Note: there is an implicit file export at the end.
- inkscape --without-gui --actions="export-id-only; export-id:Triangle; export-filename:action_triangle.png; export-do; export-id:Path; export-filename:action_path.png" export_test.svg
- Exports the objects Triangle and Path to different files.
Modify files
- inkscape --actions="select:Triangle; ObjectFlipVertically; export-filename:flipped-triangle.svg; export-do; EditUndo; select:Path; ObjectFlipHorizontally; export-filename: flipped-path.svg; export-do; EditUndo; FileClose" export_test.svg
- Flip the triangle, save the result. Undo the flip, then flip the path, save the result. Undo the flip and close the file. (At the moment, one must undo any changes to avoid popping up a dialog warning about unsaved changes.)
Changes from 0.92
- Each command-line argument can be used only once.
- In 0.92, command-line arguments can be repeated and are processed in the order they appear:
- inkscape --select=MyStar --verb ObjectFlipVertically --verb FileSave --verb FileClose MyStar.svg
- will open the file MyStar.svg, select the object with id MyStar, flip the object vertically, save the file and then close it.
- Post 0.92, command-line arguments cannot be repeated and the order does not effect processing. Instead, some arguments, e.g. --verbs, can have a semicolon separated list of values:
- inkscape --select=MyStar --verb "ObjectFlipVertically;FileSave;FileClose" MyStar.svg
- xverbs are not supported. They are (will be) replaced by actions.
- The command-line option --verb is deprecated, use --actions instead:
- inkscape --select=MyStar --actions="ObjectFlipVertically;FileSave;FileClose" MyStar.svg
- Eventually all verbs will be replaced by actions. Temporarily, any verb can be used as an action.
- The --export-id argument now supports a semicolon separated list of objects, each one will be exported separately.
- The --query-id argument now supports a comma separated list of objects. Any geometry query (e.g. ---query-x) will return a comma separated list of values corresponding to the list of objects in --query-id.


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Dear Dr. Jürgen Radomski*,
Dear Dr. Radomski,
Room *** No.** Lane****
Siping Road, Shanghai, P. R. China
Post Code: 2000**
Tel: +86 (21) 650***67
Mobile phone: 138*****998
E-mail: [email protected]
Date: Oct 17th, 2004
Siemens Business Communication Systems Ltd.
931 Ning Qiao Rd. Pu Dong Jin Qiao Export Processing Zone, Shanghai, P. R. China
Post Code: 201206
Tel: +86 (21) 6101 3000
Fax: +86 (21) 6101 3606
E-mail: [email protected]
Dear Dr. Jürgen Radomski*,
Re: Domestic Purchaser Position
I am writing to express my interest in your recently advertised position for a Domestic Purchaser in your Shanghai Offices, which published on the website (http://www.51job.com). Enclosed with this letter is my resume, which further details my previous work experience and qualifications.
I am a fresh man that will graduate from Shanghai University, who is majored in International Trade, in June 2005. My personality is well suited to working as a Domestic Purchaser. I am an ambitious, creative, hardworking, and flexible person, although I am a new fresh man and lack of experience, I can fit the environment and grasp all the relative knowledge from daily work quickly. This position must be a challenge that could give me chance to apply my expertise and realize my personal value. As we all know, SBCS was established in 1993 and is part of Siemens information and Communication Networks (ICN). ICN is represented in more than 160 countries, so I am keen on joining your company and becoming one member of the creative team sincerely.
Thank you for considering my application and I am looking forward to meeting you. I can be reached at 13816428998.
Faithfully yours
Kate Han
Kate Han
Gender: female
Date of birth: 24th February 1984
Nationality: Chinese
Room *** No.** Lane****
Siping Road, Shanghai, P. R. China
Post Code: 2000**
Tel: +86 (21) 650***67
Mobile phone: 138*****998
E-mail: [email protected]
OBJECTIVE: Seeking a position within Domestic Purchaser where a proven record of success will be utilized and further developed.
Sydney Institute of Language and Commerce (SILC), Shanghai University, Shanghai, China 2002-Present
BS in International Business
Got Scholarship in 2002-2003 semester.
Professional Experience:
Bashi Ltd. Shanghai, China
Intern Summer 2004
l Managed financial documents in Finance Department
l Translated materials both in English and Chinese
Summary of Qualification:
Good knowledge of interpersonal communication
Computer literate: Microsoft Office, FoxPro, and C++
Native Chinese speaker with satisfactory English speaking, listening, writing and reading skills
Got the Certificate for State College English Test (CET)- Band 4 in September 2003
Dear Dr. Jürgen Radomski*,
Dear Dr. Radomski,
Seeking a position within Domestic Purchaser
I'd say 'seeking a position with a Domestic Purchaser', but I'm not sure about the use of Domestic here.
Perhaps Domestic here means localOriginally Posted by tdol
I'd use 'local' or maybe 'national'if you want a Chinese company.


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By: Nicole Pelletiere
Stumped on preparing your holiday shopping list? To help parents find the perfect gifts for their kids, Toys "R" Us has provided New Parent with a list of this year's "must-have" toys for the holiday season. From active to imaginative play, these items range appropriately for children ages 2 through 4.
Good luck and happy shopping!
Bounce Bounce Tigger from Just Play™
"The wonderful thing about Tiggers" is that they bounce! And, kids will love hopping along with this animatronic version of the classic Winnie the Pooh character as he uses his tail – just like a spring – while singing "Bounce Bounce." Playtime with Tigger continues as he giggles when his foot is touched, sways in sync to music and "wiggity-wiggity-wiggles" to his own silly tune. 4 "AA" batteries required (included). Ages 3 years and up.
Doc McStuffins "Time For Your Check Up" doll from Just Play™
Future physicians can bring home this dolled-up version of their favorite play doctor. Based on the Disney Jr. show Doc McStuffins, kids will love singing along to the "check up" song as they nurture their own toys. Doc can speak more than ten phrases straight from her hit show and can also bring her included stuffed friend Lambie to life with the touch of her stethoscope. 7 "AG13" button cell batteries required (included). Ages 3 years and up.
MAGFORCE Command Center from Toys"R"Us®
Kids can get the job done on their very own multi-level construction site using the power of magnetic forces. With two magnetic figurines, children can activate the worksite equipment – making the included crane and dump truck come to life. Traveling via elevator and completing tasks, such as opening the garage, moving beams, rocks and logs, is all accomplished without pushing a button. No batteries required. Ages 3 and up.
Lalaloopsy™ Silly Hair Stars Harmony B. Sharp™ from MGA Entertainment®
This show-stopping Lalaloopsy is the first in the line to talk, sing and have "dancing" hair. Harmony B. Sharp is always prepared to perform for fans and loves to be the center of attention. To get her to sing a new tune, kids can simply change her hairstyle with one of five included snap-on accessories and hats. And, kids will love the included tiny kitty that chimes in as Harmony B. Sharp sings songs, tells jokes and plays games. 4 "AA" batteries required (included). Ages 4 years and up.
Minnie's Flipping Fun Kitchen from Just Play™
Minnie Mouse fans will adore this fun-filled, talking kitchen, sure to stimulate imaginative play as they prepare pretend meals on the stovetop while hearing realistic cooking sounds and Minnie phrases. Kids can flip the sink to reveal a hidden cutting board, spin the recipe card holder to reveal Minnie's favorite recipes, or lift the dish rack to reveal a hidden Milkshake Maker. A spinning Lazy Susan, play stove and refrigerator with rack, along with 13 accessories, including a flipping frying pan, play pancake and much more, completes this adorable Minnie Mouse kitchen. 2 "AA" batteries required (not included). Ages 3 years and up.
Jake and the Never Land Pirates Jake's Musical Pirate Ship Bucky from Fisher-Price®
Sailing out of the hit Disney Jr. animated television series, this vessel based on Bucky the boat is ready to take junior swashbucklers on a Neverland adventure. Rocking and rolling when pushed along any surface, Bucky can bring Jake, along with his parrot Skully, to their next battle with Captain Hook. Kids can really live a pirate's life through multiple pirate-themed phrases and songs, while firing fire "water" out of the ship's cannon or staging a surprise attack from Tick Tock Crock. 3 "AA" batteries required (not included). Ages 3 years and up.
Peppa Pig™ Peek 'n Surprise Playhouse from Fisher-Price®
Kids can now have a playdate with Peppa! This Toys"R"Us exclusive playset, based on Peppa's house from the hit Nick Jr. show, is filled with 15 play pieces and lots of fun features. Peppa's house opens to reveal four rooms of play and fun transforming furniture, including a sink that switches from messy to clean and a kitchen table that can get ready for dinnertime. Peppa and George figures are included too. Designed for easy portability, the playhouse folds closed and includes a carry handle, so kids can take Peppa with them wherever they go. No batteries required. Ages 3 years and up.
Pillow Pets® Dream Lites from Ontel Products Corporation®
With the push of a button on these cozy characters, little ones can create starry skies in their own rooms. These plush pets come in various styles, including a dog, unicorn, penguin, butterfly and giraffe that illuminate ceilings with stars and glow as a comforting night-light to help create a peaceful bedtime environment. And, a 20-minute sleep-timer mode is included so children can fall asleep under the stars. 3 "AAA" batteries required (not included). Ages 3 years and up.
The Original Big Wheel™ Racer from Kids Only, a division of JAKKS Pacific®
Spinning out of 1969, classic three-wheel racer has a giant 16-inch front wheel, making it perfect for cruising any neighborhood. Recreated in its original red, blue and yellow look, kids can use the three-position "Grow with Me Seat" to comfortably continue riding as they get older. No batteries required. Ages 3 to 8 years.
Toys"R"Us, Inc. is the world's leading dedicated toy and juvenile products retailer, offering a differentiated shopping experience through its family of brands. Merchandise is sold in 875 Toys"R"Us and Babies"R"Us stores in the United States and Puerto Rico, and in more than 625 international stores and over 140 licensed stores in 35 countries and jurisdictions. In addition, it exclusively operates the legendary FAO Schwarz® brand and sells extraordinary toys in the brand's flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City.


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VeriSign has warned workers of the theft of a laptop that contained their personal information.
The laptop was stolen from a car parked in the garage of a California worker sometime on the night of 12 July. The laptop contained personal information - name, Social Security number, date of birth, salary information, telephone numbers, and home addresses - of an unknown number of VeriSign employees. Bank account numbers or password information were not stored on the machine.
Data on the machine was not encrypted, in contravention of VeriSign policies, raising ID theft concerns. The unnamed worker involved has left VeriSign while the web security firm has responded by promising to tighten up its security policies.
In a letter to workers, VeriSign said the laptop was probably stolen in a random burglary. Nonetheless, the security infrastructure firm is offering to pay a year's credit watch monitoring subscription to those potentially affected.
Reports of the breach first surfaced on Wizbang on Friday. Prompted by our follow-up questions, Verisign issued a statement explaining its response to the breach.
VeriSign is taking the recent laptop theft very seriously. The Company initiated an investigation as soon as the theft was discovered. We have no reason to believe that the thief or thieves acted with the intent to extract and use this information. The local police have said the theft may be tied to a series of neighborhood burglaries. We disabled any access by the employee's computer to the VeriSign network. The employee involved in this incident has since left VeriSign.
The Company has a policy on how to manage laptops that contain sensitive information and company data - which in this case was not followed. That policy includes not leaving laptops in vehicles in plain view, keeping the amount of confidential and sensitive data stored on laptops to a minimum, and using data encryption tools to protect those sets of data that absolutely must be stored on a laptop. Going forward, we will continue to review our security procedures to prevent future human errors of this type.
VeriSign specialises in marketing the digital certificates and other elements of the infrastructure that underpin secure web transactions, so any kind of security breach is embarrassing.
It's far from alone in having problems with lost or stolen laptops containing sensitive information, however.
Similar thefts have sparked security flaps at Marks & Spencer, Nationwide Building Society, the Metropolitan Police, the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and others. ®


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"We see it as a process, not a triggering event; not something that just happens and then it's all done," Richard Dragotta, a branch manager for LPL Financial, said of succession planning. "Most folks start thinking about it too late, as an event happens."
"What they don't realize is the smarter or more successful succession plans have been thought about" for some time, he told ThinkAdvisor on Friday. "Retention is the key to succession. In terms of making that succession planning apparent to your clients, the introductions, the subtleties and the discussions about that need to happen as rapport is built over many years."
That means that "the guys that decide to retire and say, 'I've figured out who's a successor' and one month later they're gone, the success of that succession plan is going to be poor," Dragotta said.
The succession planning process begins with "first coming to the conclusion and buying into the idea that the inevitable is going to happen," Dragotta said. Whether it's a voluntary retirement or due to a disability, eventually everyone stops working.
However, once advisors accept the inevitable, they can plan for it in a way that they'll be satisfied with the outcome.
"Some advisors want to slowly sell and stay involved," Dragotta said. "Others want completely out, so you have to have a sit-down with yourself or with your other partners."
Dragotta expects many advisors will opt to stay involved in some way with the business they've worked so hard to build.
"I think most advisors believe it's a finale, and for some of them that may be the case," he said. "What I find is that if you have a great practice and you love what you're doing — which, most of the advisors that are still in the business at the ages that they are, they must love what they're doing — that it doesn't have to be that."
He continued, "There's a way that you can monetize your business so that you and your family or your beneficiaries [can benefit] without having to completely leave it."
Some ways to do that, he said, include ESOP programs or stock options. "We see a lot of folks saying, 'We've agreed upon a price. We're going to do a work-out over so many years, so I'm collecting a good chunk of that money up front,'" he said. That helps advisors answer the question of "how can they get pension-like income themselves? How can they have ongoing residuals?"
As advisors leave the business, there are plenty of opportunities for other advisors who are willing to develop the expertise they need to serve older clients. The demand for advisors who are experts in specialties like Medicare and Social Security "has never been greater as the baby boomers continue to demand this advice," Dragotta said. "Yet what's happening is simple economics — supply and demand."
He added that demand is only going to get stronger in the next 10 years, while the supply of advisors will "contract quickly." He said, "I saw a statistic where a third of advisors plan to leave or retire in the next 10 years — $2.3 trillion in assets. Advisors 60 years old or older control $2.3 trillion."
As for clients, they want to know what your plans are for leaving the business. "Believe it or not, clients ask," Dragotta said. "At least my observation is if it's not a topic they've asked about, they sure are thinking about it."
He said that the succession planning topic comes up a lot when advisors start a new relationship, however, "the folks that are going to leave in the next 10 years, their clients have been with them forever. They were both 30 or 40 or 45 when they started, so maybe those conversations back then didn't come up."
That's why it's so important to make succession planning a process. Dragotta said that if a succession plan has been implemented correctly, advisors will have "slowly integrated a person and their role. They've sat on meetings and it's almost a matter of fact. It's not a stranger, it's not someone they met six months ago."
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I´m presently carryng out a molecular study with some plant species of the Family Lauracea (Persea mostly).
Presently, the DNA extraction is being carried out using Quiagen DNA extraction kit, with which I have had good results in the past with other plant species. Nevertheless, with several species of the Persea genus things are quite different.
I grind the plant material with liquid nitrogen and soon after I add the AP1 buffer (lyses buffer), a very viscous, mucus like substance results. If I carry on the protocol as recomended by Quiagen and add the AP2 buffer (precipitation buffer), centrifuge and after which I atempt to recover the supernatant, in several cases there is no supernatant to recovery. Just a block of a mucus in the tube.
Whenever any supernatant is recovered, it is translucent, although quite viscous. Carriyng out the extraction untill the end, in most cases there is no DNA obtained from the extraction, as evidenced by the absence of bands in a electrophoresis.
I have tried altering the procedure recomended by Quiagen in an atempt to obtain DNA, but untill now with little or no success. The alterations are mostly related to alterations in the volume of AP1 and/or AP2 used during the extraction.
Does anyone have similar experience in situations similar to this one and can you please give me some guidance on how to obtain DNA from plants that produce very viscous substances?
PS: I have tried extracting DNA from these species using CTAB. The very viscous substance also forms and in general the sucess of the DNA extraction in very low.
Thank you in advance for your possible interest and help in solving this issue.
Best wishes
Carlos Lobo
I would suspect either too much proteins or saccharides. Did you try to add some proteins hydrolyzing them?
Do Lauracea produce some secondary metabolite? Maybe the wax or some polyphenoles?


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Facebook Contest Finds 10 Best Shots of New York City [PICS]
Love NYC Photo Contest
The City of New York asked city dwellers to submit their best snapshots of the Big Apple in its first Facebook photo contest, #lovenyc.
Now the city has released its top 10 photo choices — and wants you to vote for your favorite photo by April 15.
Mashable got an early look at the 10 images in the above gallery, which were chosen by a panel of judges.
"We already knew New Yorkers were incredibly creative and expressive, but we could never have imagined how beautiful the body of submissions was," says Rachel Sterne, City of New York chief digital officer and #lovenyc contest judge. "The photos show what New Yorkers love about the city, from an inside perspective."
Sterne estimates half of the photos submitted were shot by professional or conventional cameras and half were shot by smartphones (some of which were edited with apps). The contest encouraged photographers to filter their photos with tools such as Instagram and Hipstamatic.
The photo contest is the first crowdsourced social media initiative from the recently launched NYC Gov channels, which aggregate content from the city's roughly 250 social media accounts. Sterne hopes the contest will provide a template for what will be monthly digital initiatives designed to increase community engagement.
Other cities have expressed interest in replicating the #lovenyc photo contest, Sterne says, though they are yet to be announced.
In addition to Sterne, the judges included Spencer Tucker, director of the mayor's City Hall photography unit; Willy Wong, chief creative officer at NYC & Company; Jen Bekman, founder and CEO of 20x200; and Mal Sherlock, Instagram photographer @fashion.
There's a fun prize at stake for the winner — a day as NYC's official Instagrammer — which will include covering an event with Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The winning photo will also be displayed on a Times Square billboard and be featured on the NYC Gov Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts.
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Ayers Field Station
Dr. John Ayers pursued his dream of a Greenville University Science Center in Colorado. Today, the legacy continues here at the John & Martha Ayers Science Field Station. John and Marty had a strong commitment to provide space, facilities, and funding for science students to have opportunities for environmental field experiences. John and Marty dreamed of a center where intensive, personalized learning could occur in a Christian context. The White Environmental Education Center serves as a focal point in the development of the 140-acre Ayers Science Field Station, alongside the Winslow Observatory, which was previously dedicated in the spring of 2001. Both facilities were designed and constructed by Greenville University science faculty and volunteers.
Learn more about the Ayers Field Station through the video (below) created by a group of Greenville University students enrolled in COR during the Fall 2013 semester:
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Directions from Campus:
-West on College Ave to IL 127/140 intersection.
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-North on Hazel Dell Road about 1 mile to Ayers Road
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AltaMed Health Services—a Southern California non-profit health care organization—sponsored HIV prevention for on-site testing at Macedonia Baptist Church in Watts last Sunday March 3.
Macedonia Baptist hosted a day of prayer and healing for residents of the Watts community who have been affected by HIV/AIDS and encouraged all church individuals from the community to receive testing.
"HIV/AIDS has been taboo in the Black Church for far too long. It is the Church's responsibility to inform and inspire people to live better lives and one of the ways we do that is through information and education," said lead pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church Shane Scott. "HIV/AIDS is here to stay, but it doesn't mean we have to keep carrying it and dying from it! Macedonia is committed to supporting those infected and affected by this epidemic."
Pastor Scott, who took a test during the morning's service, invited AltaMed to provide the testing and encouraged congregants to get tested themselves. After the service, congregation members were able to meet with the AltaMed representatives and receive their own, free HIV test.
"There is an alarming disparity in the rising HIV infection rates among communities of color," said Castulo de la Rocha, AltaMed's president and CEO. "Our organization believes that de-stigmatizing testing, and making it a part of routine health care for all individuals will help us identify and treat the disease early, allowing patients to live long, healthy, productive lives."
While serving communities throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties for more than 40 years, AltaMed Health Services is a non-profit community health provider that is introducing the organization to the South Los Angeles Community.
Beginning in 2014, AltaMed is scheduled to open a senior care site at 1776 East Century Boulevard, the organization is connecting with local partners to meet members of the community.
The site will care for frail, elderly residents who are eligible for nursing home care, but will remain in their homes thanks to this new site. Enrolled participants will receive adult day care, dentistry, laboratory, diagnostic services, meals, and physical and occupational therapies. Transportation, home care, hospital and nursing home care are coordinated as necessary.
Residents interested in learning more about the new site can call AltaMed's Community Access Point at 1-877-462-2582.


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My invisible tattoo, my fragrance, Mon Guerlain.
Mon Guerlain, the House's new fragrance, is a tribute to today's femininity –
a strong, free and sensual femininity, as inspired by Angelina Jolie.
The fresh oriental fragrance enhances exceptional raw materials: Carla Lavender from Provence, Sambac Jasmine from India, Album Sandalwood from Australia and Vanilla Tahitensis from Papua New Guinea. Mon Guerlain expresses the quintessence of a story replete with experiences, nourished by success, expertise and generosity, all infused with the same passion since 1828 by the Guerlain perfumer.
Your fragrance Mon Guerlain in its "quadrilobe" bottle : created in 1908, the bottle established itself as one of Guerlain's iconic bottles. Simple and graphic, it echoes an alchemist's bottle and owes its name to its stopper, which is crafted from one piece to obtain a shape resembling four lobes. A century later, beautifully enhanced by a luxurious glass weight and a golden adornment, this bottle offers a contrast between strong taut lines and sensual curves, expressing contemporary femininity.
Carla Lavender, an exceptional variety grown in Provence, contrasts with the sensual and enveloping Vanilla Tahitensis by infusing it with audacity and freshness. Sambac Jasmine, gathered at sunrise, gives the Mon Guerlain fragrance all its finesse. Album Sandalwood gives strength to Guerlain's new fragrance and preserves its mystery.
For five generations, the Guerlain perfumer has explored the planet in search of precious raw materials. Behind all Guerlain creations, there are amazing people who cultivate, extract and distill. The emotions shared and experienced – from the field to the laboratory – become the notes of our new women's perfume Mon Guerlain, a concentration of real human relationships and authentic know-how.


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Situated directly in the centre of Bad Gastein, the elegant 4-star deluxe Hotel Elisabethpark features a thermal pool and offers free transfers from and to the train station. Rooms at the Elisabethpark Hotel either have a balcony and face the park, or feature a large window with panoramic views of the valley. Facilities include satellite TV, a minibar, a free safe, and a bathroom with a hairdryer and a make-up mirror. For stays of 5 nights or longer, guests receive bathrobes free of charge. Austrian and international cuisine for the half-board arrangement is served as a buffet in the Panorama restaurant, which offers direct mountain and valley views. The elegant à la carte restaurant Prälatur features its own wine and beer bar. The spacious spa area stretches over 2 floors and features a thermal indoor pool, a Finnish sauna, a steam bath, and a relaxation room with a free tea and water bar. A wide range of spa and beauty treatments is offered in the exclusive Babor Spa & Beauty Center. Hotel Elisabethpark also features a billiard lounge and a hotel bar, as well a children's play room. In winter, Hotel Elisabethpark offers a free ski shuttle. Ski passes are available at the reception. Every afternoon, guests can enjoy free mulled wine.


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Wells enjoys pitching debut
CHICAGO -- When Casper Wells went down to the bullpen on Friday evening to warm up for his Major League pitching debut, bullpen coach Bobby Thigpen looked at him and asked, "What do you got?"
Thigpen was surprised when the outfielder started listing off his pitches. He was not surprised that Wells had those pitches, but more surprised that Wells was getting ready to throw and not just delivering a message to the bullpen.
"I didn't really have too much time to ... think about it," Wells said. "I tried to take it as seriously as I could. I didn't want to walk anyone. I wanted to go out there and be efficient, and just kind of throw strikes and really see what happens.
"I've had experience pitching in my lifetime. The last time I pitched off the mound was probably eight years ago, when I was at Towson University. But it was cool. It was fun. I tried to have fun with it and still stay competitive."
Wells posted an 8-5 collegiate record with a 5.61 ERA over 35 games during three years at Towson. He hit as high as 93 mph with his fastball according to MLB.com Gameday and struck out Asdrubal Cabrera as part of a scoreless ninth during Cleveland's 19-10 Game 1 victory.
That pitching outing was the first by a White Sox position player since Dewayne Wise threw a scoreless frame on Sept. 4, 2012, during an 18-9 loss to the Twins. Wells was also cognizant of not overthrowing and hitting someone in the process.
"There was one I tried throwing kind of hard and came up and in a little on Drew Stubbs. And I was like, 'That's the last thing I want to do is hit someone,'" Wells said. "It's nice that I had lefties, so I don't have to worry about yanking one.
"Just from my hitting experience, I know that a moving ball is harder to hit than something thrown straight. So, I just was throwing all two-seamers. Just trying to throw it [down the] middle and let the movement work. See what happens."
Dave Martinez, Steve Lyons, Mike Squires and Wayne Nordhagen are the other four position players to have pitched for the White Sox. According to Elias, Wells became the first player since Minnesota's Dan Gladden on May 7, 1989, to pitch in one game of a doubleheader and start the other game in the field.


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Curtis Harding Shares Danger Mouse And Sam Cohen Produced Song "Wednesday Morning Atonement"
Curtis Harding shares the kaleidoscopic Danger Mouse and Sam Cohen produced single "Wednesday Morning Atonement" and announces his new album Face Your Fear out October 27 on Anti-.
In The FADER's premiere they praise the track as "[quote]". New York Magazine already named the forthcoming album one of their most anticipated fall releases lauding Harding's "scorching voice" while Clash UK hails recent new track "On and On" as "a blistering slice of dancefloor soul that recalls prime Curtis Mayfield and late 60s Motown." The new album follows 2014's Soul Power, on which Rolling Stone called Harding an "artist you need to know."
Watch "Wednesday Morning Atonement" at The Fader: http://www.thefader.com/2017/08/29/curtis-harding-wednesday-morning-atonement-face-your-fear
Harding fuels his psychedelic sound with the essence of Soul but isn't bound by it. Instead, the 12 songs on the new album convey an eclectic blend of genres leaping from the many musical lives he has lived from following his evangelical Gospel-singing mother on tour as a child in Michigan to rapping in Atlanta, forming a garage band with The Black Lips' Cole Alexander to singing back-up for Cee Lo Green. Through these experiences he fully embraces life's darkest intricacies conjuring dynamic, addictive melodies.
Face Your Fear features production by Harding, Sam Cohen, and Danger Mouse and was recorded in New York at Danger Mouse's 30th Century Studio.
Find Harding's 2017 tour dates below.
Listen to:
"Wednesday Morning Atonement" – http://www.thefader.com/2017/08/29/curtis-harding-wednesday-morning-atonement-face-your-fear
"On and On": http://bit.ly/2sl1b4d
Curtis Harding 2017 Tour Dates:
9/5 - London, UK @ Moth Club
9/7 - Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
9/8 - Hastiere, BE @ Deep in the Woods
9/9 - Paris, FR @ Jazz à la Villette
9/10 - Madrid, ES @ El Sol
9/13 - Berlin, DE @ TBA
9/14 - Geneva, CH @ la Batie Festival de Geneve
11/1 - Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live
11/2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
11/4 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
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11/19 - Hamburg, DE @ Mojo Club
11/20 - Berlin, DE @ Columbia Theater
11/21 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
11/22 - Luxembourg, LU @ Rotondes
11/24 - Zurich, CH @ Plaza
11/26 - Milan, IT @ Circolo Magnolia
11/27 - Frankfurt, DE @ Main Zoom
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Mass. moves to revoke license of firm tied to meningitis outbreak
BOSTONMassachusetts state officials say they found unclean conditions including visible black specks of fungus in steroids made by a pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis.
Gov. Deval Patrick said Tuesday the state has moved to revoke the license of the New England Compounding Center and three pharmacists. The state also said it is launching a criminal investigation into the company that is identified as the source of a 17-state meningitis outbreak.
State officials say a preliminary investigation found drugs were sent out before tests results on their sterility could be returned. They also said the company operated as a drug manufacturer by producing drugs for broader use, rather than filling out specific prescriptions for specific doctors, which is all its license allowed.
CBS Evening News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook reports a lack of basic laboratory standards at the specialty pharmacy as revealed by the investigation. He notes the lab had dirty floor mats, a leaky boiler, did not adequately sterilize medications, and did not properly test its laboratory equipment.
Nearly 310 people have been sickened nationwide and 23 have died. All had received contaminated steroid injections, mostly for back pain. Four of the cases may be fungal joint infections from patients who received shots in the knees, hips, and shoulders, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
The company says it's cooperating with investigators.
Federal health officials matched the shots produced by the company to the outbreak after finding a deadly fungus in more than 50 unopened vials there but have not said how the shots were contaminated.
The fungus, called Exserohilum rostratum, is common in the environment but has never before been identified as a cause of meningitis, according to the CDC.
The contaminated lots of methylprednisolone acetate were sent to 76 facilities in 23 states. Federal officials estimated up to 14,000 patients may have received the injections -- 97 percent of those patients have been contacted, the CDC said.
A congressional committee on Monday sought a decade's worth of records from the company as new state documents detailed problems an outside firm hired to do an assessment found there in 2006.
The state documents obtained by CBS News say investigators in 2006 found inadequate contamination control and no written standard operating procedures for using equipment, among other problems, at the New England Compounding Center. The problems were corrected that year, and a state inspection in May 2011 as the company prepared to update its facilities found no such issues.
- FDA confirms Mass. firm's link to meningitis outbreak
- Meningitis-linked pharmacy has history of problems, documents show
- Ex-workers: Company linked to meningitis outbreak had questionable practices
In a letter sent Monday to a lawyer for NECC, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce seeks nearly 10 years of documents about safety and quality issues at the company. It indicates that as far back as 2002 and 2003 officials from the Food and Drug Administration and the state conducted joint probes of the company after receiving a report about a steroid shot. Those probes preceded a 2004 joint investigation of the center by FDA and the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy.
In January 2006, based on several complaints, the company signed with state regulators a consent agreement in which it agreed to a full inspection of its drug compounding practices by investigators.
The company's encounters with regulators have been reported since the outbreak began, but state pharmacy board documents released Monday offer a new level of detail. They show the inspection by Illinois-based Pharmaceutical Systems Inc. found "significant gaps" in procedures and a lack of required documentation at the NECC facility in Framingham, just west of Boston.
NECC spokesman Andrew Paven said he hadn't seen the committee's letter but the company continues to cooperate with the ongoing investigation.
"NECC worked cooperatively with the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy to resolve to the Board's satisfaction any issues brought to the company's attention," he said by email.
NECC attorney Paul Cirel told CBS News in a statement Tuesday evening, "It has always been the company's practice to provide the Board with full and complete access to its facility and its records. As is standard practice in the health care industry, the Board had numerous opportunities, including as recently as last summer, to make first-hand observations of the NECC's facilities and operations."
"Based on that history, it is hard to imagine that the Board has not been fully apprised of both the manner and scale of the company's operations," Cirel said. "NECC's transparency in dealing with the Board since inception in 1998 demonstrates its good faith intention to operate in compliance with the requirements of its license. Furthermore, the company's intention and best efforts at compliance are equally applicable in every other state in which it has been licensed."


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Gallup agrees to pay $10.5M to settle allegations
The Justice Department said Monday the Gallup Organization has agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle allegations that the polling and market research firm improperly inflated prices for proposed contracts with the U.S. Mint and State Department.
The settlement also resolves allegations that Gallup engaged in improper employment negotiations with an official from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in order to obtain a FEMA subcontract at an inflated price.
In January, the former FEMA official, Timothy W. Cannon, pleaded guilty to negotiating a job for himself at the Gallup Organization while supervising the firm's FEMA contract.
Cannon's conduct came to light in a lawsuit a fired Gallup employee brought alleging that Gallup filed false claims on contracts with the U.S. Mint, the State Department, FEMA and the Office of Personnel Management.
In a statement, Gallup said that by ending this civil action with no admission of wrongdoing, Gallup can avoid further distraction and focus on serving its customers. The company said it continues its dedication to the highest standard of ethics in business.


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Figure A: House Outlet Wiring
Use an existing outdoor outlet as the power source for the light and outlet.
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Say you need a bright yard light way out in your yard or a remote outlet to power a pond pump or electric tools. By far the best way to get electrical power right where you need it is to run underground 'line' voltage (120-volt household current). All it takes is a little electrical moxie and a willingness to dig a shallow trench.
In this article, we show the easiest, quickest and cheapest method to safely run electricity outdoors. Our method involves directly burying UF (underground feeder) plastic shielded cable 12 in. below ground level. We'll also show you a no-sweat way to run the line under a walkway and how to hook up the wiring at both ends.
For this project, you should have the fundamental wiring skills it takes to make proper connections and the basic electrical and carpentry tools. While they're not crucial, a trench shovel, a mattock and a sledgehammer (Photos 1 and 2) will make the trench work easier and faster. Allow about a day to complete this project, assuming you collect all the parts in advance.
In our project, we run a line from an existing outdoor outlet on the house to a light and receptacle at the edge of a garden path. It incorporates a combination light switch/outlet (Photo 11). The outlet is always hot, and the switch controls only the light. If you don't have an outdoor box to tap in to, consider installing one on your house.
You can expand the project to include additional outlets, switches and lights. The techniques for running the wire and mounting electrical boxes are the same. However, make sure not to overload the circuit.
While we enclosed the electrical boxes inside a hollow post, you can simply mount a weatherproof box on the side of a 4×4, as long as you protect the cable by running it in conduit from the trench bottom to the box (Figure A).
Use an existing outdoor outlet as the power source for the light and outlet.
Get started by determining where you want the electrical post positioned and then find the nearest existing outlet to supply the power. That outlet must be GFCI protected. We used the closest outlet on the house, but garage outlets are also good candidates. By code, those outlets should be GFCI protected. To make sure the "feeder" outlet you choose is protected, look for the characteristic GFCI buttons, or if it's a standard outlet, check it with a GFCI tester. Standard outlets still may be GFCI protected by being linked to another GFCI outlet elsewhere in the house. If yours isn't protected, simply replace the standard outlet with a new GFCI outlet using the techniques we show in Photo 13 and Figure A. Another option is to cut in, mount and wire a new outside GFCI outlet, feeding it from an outlet mounted on an inside wall in the house. Sometimes that's easier than digging a long trench to a more distant power source.
You also have to make sure the new outlet/light won't overload the circuit you tie into, and that the box is big enough to handle the additional wire. To determine whether the circuit you want to use can handle the additional electrical demand, first shut off the circuit in the main panel. Then go through the house turning on lights and other electrical items. Add up the wattage of everything that stays off (the items on the circuit). Then add on the wattage of the post light plus the wattage of items continuously powered by the outlet. We recommend a maximum connected load of 1,440 watts for a 15-amp circuit and 1,920 watts for a 20-amp circuit (the amperage is stamped on the breaker or fuse). If the total wattage exceeds these amounts, find a different circuit. If you're not sure, call in a licensed electrician to help with this part.
To figure the minimum box size required by the National Electrical Code, add: 1 for each hot and neutral wire entering the box, 1 for all the ground wires combined, 1 for all the clamps combined and 2 for each device (switch, receptacle or combination device) installed in the box. Multiply this figure by 2 for 14-gauge wire and 2.25 for 12-gauge wire to get the minimum box volume in cubic inches. Plastic boxes have the volume stamped inside.
Once you've selected a power source, choose the easiest path for a 12-in. deep trench for the new cable. Give trees a wide berth to avoid chopping through roots. Approach sidewalks or paths at right angles for easier tunneling and make sure to plan a 3-ft. long straight section of trench on one side of the walkway. That's so you'll have room for driving the conduit beneath it (Photo 2). Mark the route with paint and then call the utility companies to mark any underground lines. (Don't forget the telephone and cable company if those lines are underground.) Last you'll need to get an electrical permit. Your local building inspections department either grants those or will direct you to a state office. The inspector will want to see the trench with the cable in place before you fill it back in, and then again for a final inspection after the project is finished.
Call 811 to have your local utility locate and mark buried lines before you dig.
The best digging tools to use for the trench itself are a mattock and a trenching shovel (Photo 1). That way you'll be able to dig a fairly narrow trench to avoid moving the mountains of dirt you would with a conventional shovel.
Pile the dirt on a strip of plastic next to the trench. That keeps dirt out of the grass and/or makes cleanup on adjoining patios much easier. Dig trenches that approach walkways a few inches deeper to allow for driving the conduit (Photo 2). After the trench is finished, dig a posthole at the end of the trench about 2 ft. deeper than the trench to receive the light pole post.
Drive 1/2-in. rigid metal conduit under the walkway with a sledgehammer. Protect the ends with fittings and lay wood blocks in the trench to keep the conduit clear of the trench bottom.
Replace the conduit fittings with plastic bushings. Lay the UF cable in the bottom of the trench and push the cable through the conduit. Cut it to length, leaving 3 ft. of extra cable at the post hole and at the outlet.
Turn off the circuit breaker to the house outlet, test it to make sure it's dead and disconnect it. Cut to length and dry-fit the PVC parts (Figure B), then glue up the assembly.
Get wire under walkways by driving a length of "rigid metal" conduit beneath the surface. (Never use "thin wall" conduit, which corrodes quickly, or plastic conduit, which is too weak.) Then push the cable through the pipe for short runs up to 6 ft. or so, or pull it through with a "fish tape" for longer runs. Use a length of 1/2-in. rigid conduit that's at least a foot or so longer than the walkway's width. Screw couplings onto both ends and then screw plugs into the couplings (Detail, Photo 2). One of the plugs works as a tunneling point and the other protects the pipe from sledgehammer damage. Prop the conduit up on a couple of blocks to keep the end clear of the trench bottom for driving (Photo 2). Make sure the pipe is level and directed toward the middle of the trench on the far side of the walkway so it'll emerge at the right spot.
For longer runs, like under driveways, drive a section up to the end of the trench, then remove the plug and screw on another section into the coupling and start driving again. (The hardware store or home center will cut and thread custom lengths for an additional charge.) Ease of driving depends on soil conditions; it can be a challenge tunneling through even 3 ft. of clay or stony soil, but you can easily drive 20 ft. or even more through sand.
To run the cable, follow Photos 3, 4 and 8 and Figure A. Adding an extension to the box ensures that the extra wires won't overfill it. If you run directly into an existing exterior box, make sure it has adequate volume.
Our light post is partially preassembled before it's wired. That's so you can stick it in the ground and have full access to the interior for stapling wires and making the hookups. The boxes and the cable are protected by a wooden housing, so standard metal or plastic electrical boxes and cable are all you need once the wire enters the protection of the box. It's a different matter at the house hookup. There you'll need to use weatherproof boxes and run the cable through conduit that's coupled directly to the box with adapters (Photo 4). If you're simply mounting an outlet on a bare 4×4, you'll have to protect the wire within conduit right up to the box the same way as the house connection and use an exterior-rated box.
There are no height requirements for lights or outlets; build the posts as high or low as you wish. Likewise, pick outlet and light mounting heights to suit you. But make sure that the light fixtures you choose are rated for "wet location." You'll find that designation on the fixture box. Pick up your light fixture before starting the post. You'll need a fixture with a base no more than 7 in. wide or it will project beyond the post edges. If you have your heart set on one that's wider, build a wider post just by using wider boards. But you'll have to rework the post details. Test-fit the fixture on the post before cutting the hole for the round electrical box to make sure it clears all of the trim.
This is what the wiring inside the post should look like.
Cut a 4-in. tall x1/2-in. deep notch in the 4×4 x 60-in. post. Nail two sides and a 1-1/2 x 2-in. nailer to the post as shown (see Figure C). With a jigsaw, cut the hole for the round electrical box in the second 1×8 and nail it to the post assembly. (See next photo.)
Trace and cut the hole for the outlet box in the second 1×6. Tack the 1×6 to the sides, then slip the box through the hole and screw it to the notch. Shim out the box if needed, and then remove the 1×6.
It only takes a couple of hours to build the post. See Photos 6 and 7 and use the dimensions given in Figure C for cutting and assembling the parts. You can do it all with a jigsaw and a circular saw, but table and miter saws will simplify several cuts.
To have adequate wire volume, we chose a 3 x 2 x 3-1/2 in. metal box. Carefully trace the rectangular electrical box and then cut for a close fit. After you've cut out the opening, dry-fit that board and mark the 4×4 for the top and bottom of the 1/2-in. deep notch that receives the box. Leave that board off and set the post. Then you can do all of the wiring on the exposed inside of the post and assemble the rest of the post later.
Refer to Figure C to build the post.
Install the light box and run a cable from it to the outlet box. Insert both cables and fasten them to the outlet box with cable clamps.
Finish the wood trim on the post and hook up the light fixture following the manufacturer's directions.
Connect the switch/outlet with 6-in. 'pigtails' for the neutral and ground, using Figure B as a guide.
With any outdoor outlet it's important to include outdoor electrical box covers. Mount the gaskets and screw special weatherproof covers over the switch/outlet for this project.
Connect the hot and neutral wires leading to the post to the "load" terminals on the GFCI. Connect the house wiring to the "line" terminals.
Electrical connection tips
Have the necessary tools for this DIY project lined up before you start—you'll save time and frustration.
Avoid last-minute shopping trips by having all your materials ready ahead of time. Here's a list.


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Michael Donahue
Bulger Shot And Killed Innocent Bystander, According To Investigators
Michael Donahue, a Boston native and truck driver, had just finished dining out with a friend when James "Whitey" Bulger and a masked man shot him in the head, investigators say. Donahue died immediately.
The father of three did not have a criminal record and planned to give his neighborhood friend, Edward Brian Halloran, former White Hill gang member, a ride home from Anthony's Pier 4 Restaurant. According to court testimony, Bulger planned on killing Halloran because of Halloran's relationship with the FBI, former White Hill gang hit man Kevin Weeks testified.
Bulger had no premeditated plans to kill Donahue. When Bulger and a masked gunman attacked the car Donahue and Halloran were in, Donahue was hit in the head by a bullet and died immediately.
Donahue's son Tommy was 8 years old when his father was killed. Tommy Donahue said he remembers he planned to go fishing with his father the day after Donahue was killed.
"I was 8 years old, and I had just made my first Holy Communion at St. Mark's, and my dad was going to take me fishing, to celebrate. That's why he was down the waterfront that day. He was getting stuff so we could go fishing," Tommy Donahue said.
Tommy Donahue was present in the courtroom when Bulger was indicted and expressed his respect for Judge Reginald Lindsay, who told the US Justice Department that its agents were partly responsible for Donahue's death.
"The government has been so bad in all this. Just delay and delay and delay ... When that judge spoke like that, it felt like justice. After all these years, it felt like justice," Tommy Donahue said.
Although the Donahue family is glad Bulger is in custody awaiting trial, they feel nothing can make up for what happened to Michael Donahue that day.
"I would have paid anything to have my father growing up," Tommy Donahue said.


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Hunter's decisive RBI lifts Tigers over Blue Jays
Torii Hunter drove in the tiebreaking run with a two-out infield single in the eighth inning, and the Detroit Tigers rallied from a 4-0 deficit to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-6 on Tuesday.
Hunter had four singles and Miguel Cabrera hit a three-run home run, his 26th, as the Tigers snapped a three-game losing streak.
Colby Rasmus homered and drove in four runs for the Blue Jays, who failed to extend their seven-game home winning streak.
Omar Infante singled off Neil Wagner (1-3) to begin the eighth, moving to second on Alex Avila's sacrifice bunt and taking third on Austin Jackson's deep fly ball. Hunter followed with a comebacker that bounced off Wagner and rolled to shortstop Jose Reyes, whose throw to first was too late to get Hunter.
Al Alburquerque (1-1) worked one inning for the win, just the second for Detroit in its past eight games.
Drew Smyly pitched the eighth and Joaquin Benoit finished in the ninth for his sixth save in as many chances.
Cabrera, who came in with a major league-leading .369 batting average, went 1 for 3 with three RBIs and two walks, one intentional. With 26 homers, he's second in the majors behind Baltimore's Chris Davis.
The Blue Jays reached Tigers starter Doug Fister for a four-run, bat-around first. Jose Bautista hit an RBI single, Rasmus followed with a two-run double and Josh Thole drove in a run with an infield hit.
The Tigers responded with a six-run second, sending 11 men to the plate. Infante doubled home a run, Alex Avila had a two-run double and Cabrera homered.
For the second straight start, Toronto's Chien-Ming Wang failed to make it out of the second. Wang allowed base hits to the first four batters and was replaced after Victor Martinez singled for the seventh hit of the inning.
Making his fifth start for the Blue Jays, Wang allowed six runs and eight hits in 1 2-3 innings, walked one and struck out one. He gave up seven runs and six hits over 1 2-3 in a loss at Boston last week.
Detroit's lead was short-lived. Bautista drew a two-out walk in the bottom half and Rasmus followed with a tying homer to center field, his 15th.
Fister settled down after that, retiring 13 of the next 14 batters and surrendering just a leadoff single to Bautista in the fifth.
Fister matched a season high by allowing six runs and seven hits in six innings. The right-hander, who has won just once in his past nine starts, walked one and struck out four.
Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was ejected in the ninth for arguing with plate umpire Alan Porter, his fourth ejection of the season.
NOTES: Detroit RHP Anibal Sanchez is expected to come off the disabled list Saturday to start at Cleveland. Sanchez has been out since June 16 with a sore right shoulder. ... Toronto's Edwin Encarnacion (left hamstring) and Adam Lind (back) were held out of the lineup for the second straight game. Munenori Kawasaki started at DH. ... Toronto 3B Brett Lawrie (left ankle) was supposed to play a rehab game with Class-A Dunedin on Tuesday, but it was rained out. Instead, Lawrie will play for Class-A Lansing on Thursday. ... Blue Jays RHP Brandon Morrow (forearm) is pain-free and throwing on flat ground, GM Alex Anthopoulos said. Morrow has been out since June 1 and is not expected back until late July or early August.


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Air Force firefighter pleads guilty to assault, multiple child porn charges
By ERIN PRATER | The (Colorado Springs, Colo.) Gazette | Published: January 22, 2014
A Peterson Air Force Base airman pleaded guilty Tuesday to distributing pornographic pictures of toddlers, having cybersex with a teenage girl and attempting to strangle his wife.
A military judge accepted the plea of Senior Airman Czachery Rike, a firefighter with the 21st Civil Engineer Squadron, in an on-base courtroom.
Rike faces up to 102 years and six months of confinement but will likely serve less because of a pretrial agreement. The sentencing hearing is expected to continue Wednesday.
On Tuesday morning, Rike, 30, entered his plea to three of four charges brought against him, including exposing his genitals via electronic communications technology to a child under the age of 16, possessing and distributing child pornography, and assaulting his wife.
The incidents took place between 2009 and 2013, according to prosecutors.
The fourth charge -- committing forcible sodomy against an adult without consent -- was dropped per the pretrial agreement.
The firefighter has been held at the Teller County jail since May 31, when a commander ordered him into pretrial confinement for violating court orders not to use a computer or have contact with minors.
On Tuesday, Rike explained his actions to the judge.
Rike said he has viewed adult pornography for much of his life but started viewing child pornography in recent years after striking up an online conversation with a woman who provided him with incest-related porn.
"There is absolutely no excuse for what I did," Rike said tearfully.
Rike was arrested by the Colorado Springs Police Department in January of last year on suspicion of sexual exploitation of a child. His arrest was one of 12 made by Colorado Springs Police after an eight-month multiagency investigation into online child pornography.
Rike was released four days later from the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center on $10,000 bond.
Charges were initially filed in civilian court but dismissed after it was agreed that the Air Force would exercise jurisdiction in the case.
Rike was ordered not to use computers or have contact with minors, the military judge said Tuesday.
From February to March of last year, Rike underwent 28 days of in-patient treatment at The Meadows, a Wickenburg, Ariz., center specializing in the treatment of sex addiction. That treatment was paid for by the Air Force, the judge said Tuesday.
Upon his return to Colorado Springs, Rike violated court orders by purchasing a tablet computer at Best Buy and contacting a teenage girl, despite continuing to receive treatment on base. He was subsequently ordered into pretrial confinement, the judge said.
From 2012 to 2013, Rike acquired more than 400 child porn images, some of which showed toddlers engaged in sexual activity. The FBI and The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children assisted in the identification of the children, some of whom are currently as young as 4. The children are scattered throughout the U.S. and Europe, the judge said.
During that time, Rike also engaged in an online sexual relationship with a Georgia girl whom he knew to be 13 or 14 at the time. He sent sexually explicit pictures of himself to her, including a picture of himself in his firefighter uniform with his genitals exposed. He asked her to send pictures of herself masturbating, he said Tuesday.
Pornography use had often been a point of contention in his marriage, and he sometimes responded violently when his wife confronted him about it, Rike told the judge Tuesday.
On various occasions he grabbed his wife's arm, slapped her in the face, strangled her, and dragged her across the kitchen floor by her ankle, he said.
"I had no reason to be mad at my wife during any of the incidents," Rike told the judge Tuesday. "I know that I was mad at myself and took my anger out on her."


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RBC I The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation has approved pioneering new groundwater protection rules considered among the strongest in the country. The new regulations mark another innovative step in Colorado's pacesetting regulation of this important industry.
The new groundwater protection rules require that operators sample nearby water wells both before and after drilling activities as a way to provide assurance that water supplies are not affected by energy development and identify potential problems in the very rare instances of impact. Only two other states have mandatory groundwater programs in place and no other state in the country requires operators to take post-drilling water samples.
"This new set of groundwater monitoring rules once again puts Colorado in the forefront of thoughtful and progressive regulatory oversight of energy development," said Matt Lepore, director of the commission. "We worked earnestly with many stakeholders to develop a groundwater rule that provides strong protections and that we believe strikes the right balance among many interested parties."
Approval of the rule follows months of stakeholder discussions designed to craft a rule that protects well owners and the industry. These rules will generate the necessary data to help regulators determine whether oil and gas activities have impacted drinking water or whether other factors could be affecting groundwater. The new rules follow a successful year-long voluntary sampling program designed by operators and regulators.
"Our commission has worked hard to arrive at an effective and reasoned place in developing this groundbreaking new rule," said commission chairman Tom Compton. "We have listened carefully and considered the views of many parties, including many citizens, and we believe this rule gets us to a result that rigorously protects the environment while addressing and incorporating the varied concerns of numerous interests."
"This rule represents a strong, proactive step to monitor and protect our groundwater and is right for Colorado," said commissioner Andy Spielman. "We have once again set the bar high in our assertive and judicious regulatory approach to oil and gas development."
Colorado's rules will require sampling up to four water wells within one-half mile of a new oil and gas well prior to drilling, and two more samples of each well between six and 12 months and again between five and six years, a requirement unprecedented among other states.
The commission has long amassed considerable data on water wells adjacent to oil and gas wells, and the agency's database already contains well over 6,000 such samples — a data set that will grow substantially with the new rule. In the fall, the commission took another important step by moving its water quality database on-line so that the public can review the same sampling data accessed by commission regulators.


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Firewood in Bolsover
Looking for the best quality logs in Bolsover? First think about quality.
We believe kiln dried logs are the best for your wood burning stoves.
Why burn logs with high moisture when kiln dried logs generate more heat, are friendlier to your chimneys, and are always clearly more cost effective. Kiln dried logs should have a moisture content of 15% or less. Seasoned fire wood will typically have a moisture content of 25%.
Whilst "free" wood like off cuts from DIY projects like decking may seem obvious to burn but they can cause damage to your chimney / flue and provide much less heat.
In Bolsover - Derbyshire Kiln dried wood supplies are ideal for: Wood burning stoves, Multi fuel stoves, Open fires, Chimineas, Pizza ovens.
Is it harmful to burn treated wood?
Let us make this 100% clear. Do not use treated wood in your log fire such as peices of decking boards. Treated wood means it has been treated with chemicals and burning it releases dangerous toxin chemical such as arsenic. It's also not good for your chimney / flue. Just google "Is it harmful to burn treated wood" if you don't believe us. Enough said.
Kindling in Bolsover
Whilst we recommend quality kiln dried kindling there are other alternatives such as: tightly rolled up newspaper, tree bark, pine cones, firelighters – preferably eco friendly ones.
Replacement Stove Glass in Bolsover
You might expect to find fire stove glass locally but the reality is there are over 2,000 different shapes of glass, many rectanglular, many shaped. These need to precision cut on a laser bed.
Visit www.directstoveglass.co.uk where you will find over 1,300 preset glass sizes by stove manufacturer and model.
If you don't know the model then all that is needed is the measurements X x Y in mm if rectangular, or ig shaped a template sent to us as per instructions on the Contact Us page.
All glass cut is sent out for next day delivery by courier.
Wood & Multi Fuel Stoves in Bolsover
Visit www.stovesavings.co.uk for a range of low cost but quality stoves for the home. Most products Defra approved and most are multi-fuel.


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Students use their emerging writing skills to write shopping lists. They work within a budget, use problem-solving skills to create lists, and buy their favorite treats at the class store.
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Students celebrate the birth of English logician, philosopher, and creator of the Venn Diagram by building community within the classroom by comparing and contrasting likes, dislikes, and characteristics about one another.
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Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.
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After reading two math-related books, students investigate their home and school environments to find examples of objects that come in sets and then create their own books on sets.
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is the Danish node of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, and performs basic and translational research in brain and the nervous system.
Groups at DANDRITE encompass ambitious research programs that include:
Below you see the list of researchers at DANDRITE affiliated with the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.
DANDRITE (Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience)